Byron cavalry forced a group of local men to surrender inside Barthomley church then killed twelve of them after they had given up; Byron reportedly said he had slain them because he had found no mercy for the King; the massacre horrified both sides and was used as propaganda by Parliament against Royalist Irish troops.
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