But the beings slaughtered were men and women and children--Christians found unarmed and defenceless in their dwellings.

Let the English imagine such a war carried on in Kent or Yorkshire, by Irish invaders, killing in the name of the Pope.

The Irish Annalists say that Pelham and Ormond killed the blind and the aged, women and children, sick and idiots, sparing none.
The English, as usual, had help from an Irish chief in the work of destruction.

Ormond had in his train M'Carthymore, 'who, believing Desmond's day to be done, hoped, by making himself useful, to secure a share of the plunder.' Dividing their forces, Pelham marched on to Dingle, 'destroying as he went, with Ormond parallel to him on the opposite side of the bay, the two parties watching each other's course at night across the water by the flames of the burning cottages!' The fleet was waiting at Dingle.

There was a merry meeting of the officers.