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No Quarter.

After the execution of Charles 1., Jones, the Parliamentary general, proceeded to Drogheda, but was encountered by Lord Inchiquin and defeated. The Royalists beinjr now in possession of the town, the 3rd r : September, 1649, Cromwell appeared undei l!' - "nils. He waited a week, expecting t.i. : Ormond would attempt a diversion, and give him an opportunity of forcing an action in the field. Ormond, trusting to Ashton's promise,did not move. The English guns were placed in position. On M onday , 9th of September, they opened fire, and a summons was sent in to the governor to deliver over the town to the Parliament. No answer was returned. The guns having broken a way on Tuesday at Jive in the afternoon the Parliament troops advanced to the assault. The garrison fought . with extreme courage. Twice, after forcing their way into the town, the storming parties were beaten back through the breach. The third time, as the light was waning, Cromwell led them up in person, forced Ashton under his inner line?, stormed those lines in turn, and before night fell was master of Drogheda. The summons to surrender having been refused, the order was to put every man found in arms to the sword. It was almost literally obeyed. A fevv score held out till the morning in two detached towers, and then surrendered ab discretion. Every tenth man was shot ; the remainder were sent to the penal settlement at Barbadoes. The details of this siege are given by DAlton at great length. He tells how Cromwell beat down the tower of St. Mary's Church, thundering on the tower for some hours, and being repulsed two or three times by the garrison ; how the Carmelites, devoting themselves to the aid of the military, displayed the most heroic intrepidity, combined with such skill in the management of defensive operations as might not only do honour to more experienced soldiers, but actually struck the mind of Cromwell with doubt as to the successful issue of his hostilities. The Irish histories say there was "an indiscriminate slaughter of men, women, and children." " The scene that ensued," says Mr DAlton, "paralysed all Ireland, and can never be mentioned without a thrill of horror. The clergy, mingled with soldiery, as they fled before the ferocious conqueror, perished indiscriminately with them. — Cassell's "Our Own Country."

A preacher was complaining of the listlessness and inattention of his congregation, when an old deacon spoke up and said : " Hungry sheep will look up to the rack if there is hay in it."

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Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 3

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No Quarter. Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 3

No Quarter. Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 3

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