228 Horrors recorded after the Rebellion. 



only hope it was produced by the pencil of ex- 

 aggerated prejudice. " Now because I have 

 often made mention of destroy ing rebels, come ; 

 and using all means to famish them, let me by 

 two or three examples show the miserable state 

 to which the rebels were thrown thereby : six 

 of their chieftains, Sir Richard Moryson and 

 others, commanders of the forces, sent against 

 Brian M'Art; assured on their return home- 

 wards, they saw a most horrible spectacle of 

 three children (whereof the eldest was not 

 above two years old) eating and knawing with 

 their teeth the entrails of their dead mother, 

 upon whose flesh they had fed for twenty 

 days past ; and having eaten up from the feet 

 upwards to the bare bones, roasting it conti- 

 nually by a slow fire, were now become to the 

 eating of the said entrails, in like sort roasted, 

 yet not divided from the body, being as yet raw. 



" Formerly mention has been made in the 

 Lord Deputy's letters, of carcasses scattered in 

 many places ; and no doubt the former was so 

 great, as the rebel soldiers taking all the com- 

 mon people had to feed upon, and hardly leav- 

 ing them any thing (so as they besides fed not 

 only upon haws, kites, and unsavory birds of 

 prey, but on horse-flesh, and other things unfit 

 for man's feeding). The common sort of the 



