...more to do with Cromwell's deeds in Ireland than cruelty of disposition. " I am persuaded," he says, " that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...to prevent the effusion of blood for the future." No one can help seeing in these words a revengeful justice excited by the Popish massacres of 1641,...

...thing had been done by Alva and other generals on the Catholic side. Cromwell says in his despatch : " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent...

...thing had been done by Alta and other generals on the Catholic side. Cromwell says in his despatch : ' I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood • and that it will tend to prevent...

...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...which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret. The officers and soldiers of this Garrison were the flower of their army. And their great expectation...

...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...which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret. The officers and soldiers of this Garrison were the flower of their army. And their great expectation...

...made two years before, between Lord Clanrickarde and the Leinster ' I am persuaded,' wrote Cromwell, ' that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise could not but work remorse and regret." History, ever eloquent in favour of the losing cause — history,...

...believe this bitterness will save much effusion of blood, through the goodness of God." And again : "I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment...for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds of such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and reyrct." It was late at night before the...

...Nicholas Whyte's Castle of Leixleap, several of those that survived " I am persuaded," wrote Cromwell, " that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood in the future, which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise could not but work...

...the remainder were sent to the penal settlement at Baebadoes. " ' I am persuaded,' wrote Cromwell, ' that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend to provent the effusion of blood for the future, which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which...

...their hands in so much (innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the | effusion of blood in the future, which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise could not but work remorse and regret." l History, ever eloquent in favor of the losing cause — history,...