 | Thomas Carlyle - 1884 - 536 pages
...and divers considerable Officers being there, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat...in arms in the Town : and, I think, that night they put to the sword about 2,000 men; — divers of the officers and soldiers being fled over the Bridge... | |
 | 1900 - 906 pages
...summons was refused. For two days ous Puritans pressed on and a terrible slaughter followed. Cromwell forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town, and they put to the sword over 2,000 men. Nearly 1,000 were killed in the great Church of St. Peter's.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1888 - 312 pages
...and divers considerable Officers being there, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat...in arms in the Town : and, I think, that night they put to the sword about 2,000 men ; — divers of the officers and soldiers being fled over the Bridge... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1888 - 248 pages
...64 of ours. Ashton, the governor, killed, none spared." It is also certain that quarter was refused. "I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town." It is expressly told us that all officers and all priests taken were killed. From the days of Clarendon... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1889 - 946 pages
...Mill-Mount. " Our men getting up to them," ran Cromwell's terrible despatch, " were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat...were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to death about two thousand men." A few fled to St. Peter's church, "whereupon I ordered the steeple... | |
 | Theodore Ayrault Dodge - 1890 - 468 pages
...finds an answer to the charge of barbarity which will suffice for that era, if not for our days. " I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town," explains Cromwell's rule, and war is not a gentle art. From a religious standpoint, as the "rooting... | |
 | 1892 - 534 pages
...Arthur Ashton, and divers considerable officers, ' our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat...in arms in the town : and I think that night they put to the sword about 2000 men.' ' The next day the other two Towers were summoned ; in one of which... | |
 | Samuel Harden Church - 1894 - 564 pages
...and divers considerable officers being there, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat...in arms in the town : and, I think, that night they put to the sword about 3,000 men ; divers of the officers and soldiers being fled over the bridge into... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - 1894 - 502 pages
...and divers considerable Officers being there, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat...in arms in the Town-: and, I think, that night they put to the sword about 2,000 men ; — divers of the officers and soldiers being fled over the Bridge... | |
 | 1900 - 576 pages
...and divers considerable Officers being there, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat...of action, I forbade them to spare any that were in armes in the Town, and I think, that night, they put to the sword about 2000 men : — divers of the... | |
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I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the Town : and, I think, that night they put to the sword about 2,000 men... 
