John Trapp on Matthew 24:19

Verse 19. Woe to them that are with childe, &c.] By the laws of Nations, women with childe, babes and sucklings, maids and old folk should be spared. But the bloudy sword oft knows no [illegible: 1 word], as Hos. 10. 14. the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children, Hos. 13. 16. their infants were dashed in pieces, and their women with childe ript up. So at the sack of Magdeburg by Charles the fifth, and of Merindol in France by Minerius, where the paps of many women were cut off, and their children, looking Act. and Mon. sol. 868. for suck at their mothers brest, being dead before, died also for hunger. Many such barbarous but cheries have been acted lately in Ireland, and begin to be also now in England (poor England, now an Ireland!) as at Bolton in Lancashire lately. Help, Lord, or thy servant perisheth.