Lord Cork prepared 1,100 indictments against men of property in his province, which he sent to the speaker of the Long Parliament, with an urgent request that they might be returned to him, with authority to proceed against the parties named as outlaws.

In Leinster, 4,000 similar indictments were found in the course of two days by the free use of the rack with witnesses.

Sir John Read, an officer of the king's bedchamber, and Mr.Barnwall of Kilbrue, a gentleman of threescore and six, were among those who underwent the torture.

When these were the proceedings of the tribunals in peaceable cities, we may imagine what must have been the excesses of the soldiery in the open country.

In the south, Sir William St.Leger directed a series of murderous raids upon the peasantry of Cork, which at length produced their natural effect.