...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...

...Irish Rebellion, p. 222. fol. Lond. 1680. » Id. p. 234. out among the soldiers and adventurers of the effusion of blood for the future; which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which, otherwise, cannot but work remorse and regret*." This is saying the most for the justification...

...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...

...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...

...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...which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions •which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret. And now give me leave to say how it comes to...

...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...

...and it is implied in the expression employed by Cromwell in his letter to the Speaker, where he says that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. In short, his object was to set such an example of military execution as would terrify other garrisons...

...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...

...taking of Drogheda, he says, * Fonter'i Life of Cromwell. Lardncr'i Cyclopajdia, vol. i., p. 270-1. " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of...that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood far the future ; which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions as cannot otherwise but work remorse...