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honors of a grave, which, to their slaughtered chap.companions, had been denied by the inhuman lv.barbarians 17 . l641 *

By some computations, those, who perishedby all these cruelties, are supposed to be a hun-dred and fifty, or two hundred thousand : . Eythe most moderate, and probably the most rea-sonable account, they are made to amount to40,000 ; if this estimation itself be not, as is usuaiin such cases, somewhat exaggerated.

The justices ordered to Dublin all the bodiesof the army, which were not surrounded by therebels; and they assembled a force of 1500veterans.

They soon inlisted, and armed from the maga-zines above 4000 men more. They dispatched abody of 600 men to throw relief into Tredah,besieged by the Irish. But these troops, attackedby the enemy, were seized with a panic, andwere most of them put to the sword. Theirarms, falling into the hands of the Irish, suppliedthem with what they most wanted The jus-tices, willing to foment the rebellion, in a viewof profiting by the multiplied forfeitures, hence-forth thought of nothing more than providing for.their own present security and that of the capital.

The earl of Ormond , their general, remonstrat-ed against such timid, not to say, base and in-terested counsels; but was obliged to submit toauthority.

The English of the pale, who probably were

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5 * Nelson, vol. ii. p. 90;.P 4

Temple * p. 45. 62.