Identifier: illustratedchris1854spar (find matches)
Title: The illustrated Christian martyrology : being an authentic and genuine historical acount of the principal persecutions against the church of Christ, in different parts of the world
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Sparry, C
Subjects: Persecution Martyrs Torture
Publisher: Philadelphia : Leary & Getz
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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re on condition of having fairquarter ; but no sooner had that base villaingot possession of the place, than he order-ed his followers to murder the people,which was immediately done with the great-est cruelty. Many others were put to deaths of themost horrid nature, and such as could havebeen invented only by demons instead ofmen. Some of them were laid with the centreof their backs on the axle-tree of a car-riage, with their legs resting on the groundon one side, and their arms and head onthe other. In this position one of the sar-ages scourged the wretched object on thethighs, legs, &c, while another set on fu-rious dogs, who tore to pieces the armsand upper parts of the body ; and in thisdreadful manner were they deprived of theirexistence. Great numbers were fastenedto horses tails, and the beasts being set onfull gallop by their riders, the wretched vic-tims were dragged along till they expired. Others were hung on lofty gibbets, anda fire being kindled under them, they fin-
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SCENES IX THE IRISH MASSACRE. Pa<*e 233. ft ■ THE CHRISTIAN MARTYROLOGY. 235 islied their lives, partly by hanging, and 5 such as attempted to reach the shore were !partly by suffocation. Nor did the more tender sex escape the knocked on the head. In the same part of the country, at least \ least particle of cruelty that could be pro- \ four thousand persons were drowned injected by their merciless and furious perse- ? different places. The inhuman papists, af-cutors. Many women, of all ages, were \ ter first stripping them, drove them likeput to deaths of the most cruel nature. ? beasts to the spot fixed on for their destruc-Some in particular were fastened with their \ tion ; and if any, through fatigue, or natu-backs to strong posts, and being stripped \ ral infirmities, were slack in their pace, theyto their waists, the inhuman monsters cut \ pricked them with their swords and pikes ;off their right breasts with shears, which, \ and to strike a further terror on the multi-of

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