EBBA 36810
British Library - Book of Fortune
| A Dreadful Relation, of the Cruel, Bloudy, and most Inhumane Mas- / sacre and Butchery, committed on the poor Protestants, in the Dominions of the Duke of Savoy, / by his Souldiers, with some French and bloudy Irish joyned together: Where they destroyed / thousands, both men, women and children, without mercy; tearing little sucking infants limb / from limb before their mothers faces, and dashing their brains out against the rocks; and after- / wards ripping up the bowels of the mothers, cutting off their breasts, and turning women with / childe, and some lying in, out of dores, in the midst of winter in frost and snow, who perished by / cold in the Mountains. Cutting off the ears, then the nose, fingers and toes; then the legs, arms / and privie members of men, some being aged above fourscore years, and so torturing them to / death, because they would not forsake their Religion and turn Papists: the like cruelties were ne- / ver known nor heard of before. The truth of this sad story was sent to his Highness the Lord / Protector, who appointed a general Fast throughout this Nation, and ordered relief to be gathe- / red, and sent to those that escaped the hands of these bloudy wretches, and are ready to perish for / want, in the mountains. | |
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| Date Published | 1654-1663 ? |
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| Imprint | LONDON: Printed for Iohn Andrews, at the White Lyon in the Old-Bayly. 1655. |
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| Collection | British Library - Book of Fortune |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.20.f.14.(20.) |
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| Part 1 | |
| Title | A Dreadful Relation, of the Cruel, Bloudy, and most Inhumane Mas- / sacre and Butchery, committed on the poor Protestants, in the Dominions of the Duke of Savoy, / by his Souldiers, with some French and bloudy Irish joyned together: Where they destroyed / thousands, both men, women and children, without mercy; tearing little sucking infants limb / from limb before their mothers faces, and dashing their brains out against the rocks; and after- / wards ripping up the bowels of the mothers, cutting off their breasts, and turning women with / childe, and some lying in, out of dores, in the midst of winter in frost and snow, who perished by / cold in the Mountains. Cutting off the ears, then the nose, fingers and toes; then the legs, arms / and privie members of men, some being aged above fourscore years, and so torturing them to / death, because they would not forsake their Religion and turn Papists: the like cruelties were ne- / ver known nor heard of before. The truth of this sad story was sent to his Highness the Lord / Protector, who appointed a general Fast throughout this Nation, and ordered relief to be gathe- / red, and sent to those that escaped the hands of these bloudy wretches, and are ready to perish for / want, in the mountains. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, The Bleeding Heart. |
| First Lines | WIth bleeding heart & mournful tear / I am enforced to declare: |
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