Excerpt from The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, From the Earliest Period to the Present Times, Vol. 2

Ireland apparently peaceful in the early part of 1641 - Causes of latent discontent -disloyalty of the Romish ele1gy - The Irish Massacre sudden and horrible All the English and Scottish settlers to be extirpated - Instances of wholesale cruelty - Sufl'erings of the established clergy - Treatment of the Bible - Number of persons massacred - Romish attempts to deny the massacre - The massacre amply attested by oficial documents - Owen o'connolly's testimony in the beginning corroborated by subsequent events - Absurd fabrications relative to Island Magee - Incidents relating to Archbishop Ussher and other Protestant prelates - The ease of Bishop bedeli - Swiney, Romish bishop of Kilmore Imprisonment and funeral of Bedell - Iesson to be learned from the me of Bedell - The Ultramontane Papists the most cruel - Kindness of some of the Roman Catholics - Cruelties of Protestants in retaliation - Coote; St. John, and the Lords Justices - Scottish troops arrive in Ulster - Esta'blishment of a Pres bytery at Carrickfergus - Presbyterian 'congregations erected in Down and Antrim - The Solemn League and Covenant administered in Ulster - The Covenant taken by many with great enthusiasm No compulsion used as to the taking of the Covenant - Episcopal ministers 'join the Presbytery and take the Covenant - Dr. Hoyle of Dublin College, and Sir John Clotworthy, members of the Westminster Assembly - Spread of Presbyterianism in Ulster.

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