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The Irish Massacre in 1642: men are being hanged, beaten and dragged by their feet behind horses while a woman has her nipples cut off with large scissors. Etching by Stothard.
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The Irish Massacre in 1642: men are being hanged, beaten and dragged by their feet behind horses while a woman has her nipples cut off with large scissors. Etching by Stothard.

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Lettering: Engraved for the Revd. Dr. Southwell's New Book of Martyrs. Representation of the principal scenes in the bloody Irish Massacre in 1642 wherein 40000 protestants were inhumanly sacrificed by Papists. Stothard delin.

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