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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E.

CHAPTER LV
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** Temple, p.

62.
**** Temple, p.

43, 62.
By some computations, those who perished by all these cruelties are supposed to be a hundred and fifty or two hundred thousand: by the most moderate, and probably the most reasonable account, they are made to amount to forty thousand; if this estimation itself be not, as is usual in such cases, somewhat exaggerated.
The justices ordered to Dublin all the bodies of the army which were not surrounded by the rebels; and they assembled a force of one thousand five hundred veterans.

They soon enlisted and armed from the magazines above four thousand men more.

They despatched a body of six hundred men to throw relief into Tredah, besieged by the Irish.


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