...on the head; and every tenth man of the soldiers killed; and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. ' ' "I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment...have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood. ' ' 1 Carlyle, Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, 1 : 196. And he concludes this letter: "And...

...man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. — I am perswaded," adds he, " that this is a righteous judgment of God Upon these...innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the * Borlase's History of the execrable Irish Rebellion, p. 222. fo). Load. 1680. » Id. p. 22*. out among...

...John Field, printer to the Parliament of England, 1649. Having given these details, Cromwell adds, " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God, upon these barbarous wretches who have embrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood...

...John FieM, printer to the Parliament of England, 1649. Having given these details, Cromwell adds, " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God, upon these barbarous wretches who have embrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it -will tend to prevent the effusion of blood...

...confessed he was a friar ; but that did not save him."* Having given these details, Cromwell adds, " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of...that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future — which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions •which otherwise cannot but...

...confessed he was a friar; but that did not 'save him."* Having given these details, Cromwell adds, " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of...that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future — which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions which otherwise cannot but work...

...and every tenth man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. I am prrsuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will teud to prevent the effusion of blood...

...In a subsequent letter on the same subject indeed he confesses this. " I am persuaded," he says, " that this is a righteous judgment of God, upon these barbarous wretches who have embrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the t'ffusion of blood...

...in the other Tower were all spared, as to their lives only ; and shipped likewise for the Barbadoes. I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of...that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work...

...source of these ferocities is sufficiently obvious, from the Lord Lieutenant's own account. Hear him : " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon those barbarous wretches who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend...