first entire give in the names of all and every the aforesaid Souldiers to the Clearke of the Cheque to bee entred in his booke and from time to time shall certifie the deaths and alterations of the same to the Lord Deputy and Cleark of the Checque in convenient time as the same may reasonably be done having regard to the distance of the place and as other Captaines of the army are bound to doe Item the said Iustice Saxey shall have for his stipend yearely one hundred pounds sterling and the said Iames Gold assistant or second Iustice one hundred markes sterling and the said Clark of the Councel twenty pounds sterling and which stipends and wages shall be payed quarterly by the hands of the Treasurer at warres or Vice-treasurer here of this Realme of Ireland And if the said Iustice or assistant and secondary Iustice shall depart out of the Limits of the Commission aforesaid without the speciall licence of the said Lord President or having leave shall tarry longer out then the time granted then without reasonable cause of excuse the said Lord President shall deduct and defalke out of their said severall entertainments so much as the said wages of so many dayes doth amount unto to the use of her Majestie towards her other charges to be extraordinarily sustained in the execution of their Commission at the discretion of The said Lord President Item for further reputation and honour of the same Office the said Lord President shall have continually attending upon him a Serjeant at Armes who shall beare the Mace of the Queenes Majesties Armes before him in such manner as the Serjeant at Armes doth beare the Mace before the President in Wales which Serjeant may at all times be sent by the said Lord President and Councell for th'apprehending and bringing in of any disobedient person receiving of every such person being of the degree of a Gentleman so commonly knowen and having yearely liuelihood by any meanes of tenne pounds for his arrest ten shillings and for the arrest of every particular person six shillings eight pence and six shillings eight pence for every dayes travell and not aboue Hee shall also haue his dyet in the Household of the said Lord President and towards his maintenance the ordinary wages of one of the thirtie Horsemen And forasmuch as there must bee of necessitie one Officer to whom all offenders and malefactors are to bee committed during the time of their Imprisonment it is thought meet that the said Lord President shall appoint one Porter to haue charge of the Goale who shall haue his dyet in the househould of the said Lord President and bee accounted as one of the twentie Footmen and receiue the wages due for the same and also such other profits upon every prisoner as ensueth viz. for the entry of every prisoner so to him committed having liuelihood of tenne pounds by the yeare three shillings foure pence and twelue pence by the day for his dyet during his abode in prison and for every other person of inferiour condition two shillings for his entry and six pence by the day for his dyet Item the said Lord President and Councell if oportunitie may serue monethly or once every two moneths at the least advertise us the Lo. Deputie and Councell here of the State of the Country within their Commission or oftner if they shall see cause And where the said Lo President and Councell shal haue by their Commission sufficient authoritie to heare and determine by their discretions all manner of complaints within any part of the province of Mounster as well guildeable as franchise yet they shall haue good regard that except great necessitie or other matters of conscience conceived upon the complaint shall moue him they shall not hinder nor impeach the good course and usage of the common Lawes of the Realme but shall to their power further the execution thereof nor shall without evident cause interrupt such Liberties and Franchises as haue lawfull commencement and continuance by the warrants of the Law other wayes then where any speciall complaint shall be made unto them of any manifest wrong or delay of Iustice done or used by the owners Officers or Ministers of the said Franchises or Liberties In which cases the said Lord President and Councell shall examine the said defaults so alledged by way of complaint to be counted in the Franchises and shall send for the Officers against whom complaint shall be made and finding the same to be true they shall not only heare and determine the particular principall causes of the parties complaints but shall also reforme punish according to their discretions the defaults of the said owners and Ministers of the said Liberties and if the matter shall so serue upon due information to be made to us of the abuses of the said Franchises and Liberties so as the same may be done by order according to the lawes tryed and upon just causes the Liberties resumed into the Queenes Majesties hands Item where the said Lo President and Councell shall haue Commission power and authoritie by Letters Patents under the Great Seale of this Realme of Ireland and of Oyer Determiner and Goale deliverie in as large and ample manner as any such Commission or Authoritie is graunted to any Commissioners for that purpose within the Realmes of England or Ireland Wee the said Lord Deputie and Councell doe earnestly require and charge the said Lord President and Councell that hee and they doe diligently and often severely and justly sit heare and determine by vertue of the same such causes as shall bee brought before them in such severall places as best may agree with the necessitie of the cause and the commoditie of the people Item where also the said Lord President hath full power and authoritie by Letters patents under the great Seale of this realme to execute the Martiall law when necessitie shall require in as large and ample manner as to any other it hath beene accustomed to bee graunted within this realme of Ireland The said Lord President shall haue good regard thereunto that no use be made of the Martiall lawe but when meere necessitie shall require for the exercise thereof is onely to bee allowed where other ordinarie administration of Iustice cannot take place foreseeing alwayes that no person having fiue pound of Freehold or goods to the value of tenne pound shall not bee tried by the order of the Martiall Law but by order of the common Law And yet if necessitie for service and terrour to others shall at any time require the Martiall Lawe to be executed vpon any one person or moe being of greater value in lands or goods then aboue is expressed the President in such speciall causes may use his discretion and thereof and of the causes that mooved him shall make us the Lord Deputie and Councell privie Item
Talis erat vultu sed linguâ menteÌ„ manuque Qualis erat qui vult discere scripta legat Consulat aut famam qui linguâ menteÌ„ manuû̄ Vinceret hunc famâ iudiceÌ„ rarus erat VOERST FEâ— Hir Scepter sweet hir sword was seldomeÌ„ sharp Yet reâ—câ— subiects and invading foes It quaid repelling theis reclayming those Such cure did set in tune the farring Harp To this last Act of hir exploits glory A Plauaite reviveth by this story MAde bright and glorious by Afflictions flame Forth from a Prison to a Crowne she came Attempting and effecting harder things Then haue been reached by the greatest Kings Of all her Causes Religion was the prime Which shee reformed in a dangerous time And though her neighbouring Princes thereat stormed Did all her life defend what she reformed As watchfull in the State-Affaires was shee And oft from civill broyles her Realmes did free From Ireland shee the Spanish 〈◊〉 expeld And all the rude rebellious Irish queld In Scotland shee did marre the Frenchmens hope Shee fooled all the projects of the Pope And though his Bulls did roare in ev'ry place Turn'd all his thundrings to his owne disgrace Spaines furie without feare shee did oppose And gaue their Forces famous overthrowes Yea shee the huge Armado over came Which of Invincible usurp'd the name And though shee had at home great works to do Shee ayded France and saved Belgia too Her Coyneâ—hee â—hee to just values did reduce Her wholsome Lawes redressed much abuse By Trades abroad shee Riches did encrease By Providence at home establish'd Peace Then having till the fortie fifth yeere raign'd And to the seventieth of her age attain'd Shee dyed and lefâ— behind her such a Fame As shall be lov'd while England hath a Name G. W. Printed for Robert Milbourne 1633. PACATA HIBERNIA IRELAND APPEASED AND REDVCED OR AN HISTORIE OF THE LATE Warres of IRELAND especially within the Province of MOVNSTER vnder the Government of Sir George Carew Knight then Lord President of that Province and afterwards Lord CAREVV of CLOPTON and Earle of TOTNES c. Wherein the Siedge of Kinsale the Defeat of the Earle of TYRONE and his Armie The Expulsion and sending home of Don Iuan de Aguila the Spanish Generall with his Forces and many other remarkeable passages of that time are related Illustrated with Seventeene severall MAPPES for the better understanding of the Storie IUVENAL SAT. 10. Bellorum Exuviae truncis affixa trophaeis Lorica fractâ de Casside buccula pendens Humanis majora bonis creduntur LONDON Printed by AVG MATHEVVES for ROBERT MILBOVRNE at the Signe of the Grey-hound in Pauls Church-yard 1633. TO HIS MOST SACRED MAIESTIE SIR THE great Actions of worthie and eminent Persons haue ever been esteemed so powerfull for the instruction of succeeding times that all Civill States haue made it their principall care to preserue and transmit them to Posteritie for their Example and Imitation The Meanes by which this is done is HISTORY a powerfull suggester and Recorder of Gods providence in publike Blessings and Iudgements the Mother of Experience the Nurse of Truth the common bond and ligature which unites present times with all ages past and makes them one To manifest this if othâ—r Arguments fayle the Examples of the greatest Emperors and Generalls were sufficient who in the midst of their Conquests thought their publike dutie not discharged if they imployed not some time to leaue the immortall memory of their owne actions by writing to Posteritie The omission of this hath bin a great defect of some ages foregoing ours being the Middle times betweene learned Antiquitie and this latter age wherein Language Arts and Elegancie haue revived and flourished In those times though there haue been many Qui fecerunt scribenda yet there were few qui describerent facta I dare not say that this our Age and Nation are guiltie of the like errour or negligence in deciphering to the life the occurrences of our owne times and affayres by such as best knew and faithfully would relate them A want of which many haue complained but few haue laboured to supply That which I now in all humilitie present is your Majesties by many Titles First from the subject matter being the finall Dispersion of that cloud of Rebellion which hath so long hung over that Kingdome of Ireland which by undoubted title and lawfull succession is descended to your Majestie and that performed by the prudent fortitude of the English Nation which your Majestie now so happily governes Next from your Majesties late faithfull Servant the Earle of Totnes whose Actions are not the least part of the Argument of this Historie hee being at that time chiefe Governour of the Province of Mounster which was the Stage whereon the last and greatest Scene of that Tragedie was acted and since advanced by your Majesties Royall Father and your selfe to many Honourable Titles and Imployments of State And lastly from the Publisher through whose hands nothing can passe which to your Majestie is not justly due both by common All geance and particular Service Pardon gracious Soveraigne this presumption in aspiring to so high a Patronage and graciously accept this poore Tribute of Dutie and thankefulnesse from him who hath eternally bound himselfe Your Sacred Majesties most faithfully devoted Subject and Servant THO STAFFORD TO THE READER OVT of a necessitie imposed by powerfull Custome somewhat must bee sayd to you Reader both to prevent mistakings touching the publishing of this VVorke and to prepare you with some unprejudicate affection to the reading thereof The large space of time thirtie yeeres and upwards betweene the matters Acted Written and now published may beget some wonder in what obscure corner this Worke hath lyen all this while without notice given or taken or if knowne why so long kept from publike view For answere heereto understand indifferent Reader that it was composed while the Actions were fresh in the memories of men by the Direction and appoyntment of the Right Honourable Earle of Totnes late deceased then Lord President of Mounster so often mentioned in this Historie The Collection made was by him first reserved for his owne private Information Secondly preserved for the furtherance of a Generall Historie of that Kingdome of Ireland when it should please God to raise up some industrious Writer to undertake a compleat Description of those Affayres And lastly out of his retyred Modestie the rather by him held backe from the Stage of Publication lest himselfe being a principall Actor in many of the particulars might be perhaps thought under the Narration of publike proceedings to giue vent and utterance to his private merit and Services howsoever justly memorable He leaving the world left it among his Papers where it was found by the now Publisher thereof to whom they were bequeathed and by whom it hath beene offered to the view and censure of divers learned and judicious persons By them it hath been esteemed worthy the view
penall Statutes as also of obligations and Recognizances taken made or acknowledged before the said L President and Councell or any of them within the limits of their authorities and Commission for apparance or for the peace or good abearing or by reason of any speciall Statute whatsoever then made or to be made And shall also have authority to cesse reasonable fines for any offences whereof any person shall happen to bee convicted before the said Lord President and Councell and such Summes of mony as shall grow or come by reason of any such compositions or Fines they shall cause it to bee entred into a booke subscribed with the hands of the said Lord President and Councell or two of them at the least whereof the Lord President to bee one To the end the Queenes Majestie may be answered of the same accordingly And also upon such compositions made of Fine or Fines set as aforesaid shall have authority to cancell or make voyde all such Obligations and Bonds And also the said Lord President shall cause as much as in him lyeth all Writts or Processes sent or to bee sent to any person or persons inhabiting or being within the precinct of his Commission out of the Kings Bench Chaunceâ—â—e or Exchequer or any other Court of Record diligently to bee observed and effectually to bee obeyed according to the tenor of the same And if hee shall find negligence slacknesse or willfull omission in any Officer or other Minister to whom the delivery or serving of such Processe doth appertaine Hee shall punish the same severely according to the greatnesse and qualitie of the offence And it shall bee lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell or any three of them whereof the Lord President to bee one after examination in the causes necessary upon vehement suspition and presumption of any great offence in any partie committed against the Queenes Majestie to put the said partie so suspected to tortures as they thinke convenient and as the cause shall require and also to respitt Iudgement of death upon any person convicted or attainted before him and that Councell for any treason murder or any other felony Or after Iudgement given to stay execution untill such time as hee shall certifie us the Lord Deputie and Councell of his doings and consideration of the same and receiue answere from us thereof Provided alwayes that the same certificate bee made to us the Lo Deputie and Councell within the space of 21 dayes after such thing is done Also if any Inquest within the precinct of their Commission within Liberties or without being sworne and charged upon triall of any fellonie murder or any like offender whatsoever hee bee having good and pregnant evidence for sufficient proofe of the matter whereof the said offendor shall bee accused indicted or arraigned doe utterly acquite such offendor contrary to the said evidence that then the said Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall examine such perjuries as well by deposition of witnesses as by all other kinde of proofes by their discretions and if the said Inquest bee convicted before the said Lord President and Councell or three of them at the least wherof the Lord President to be one the said Lord President and Councell may and shall proceed to the punishment of such offence by fine imprisonment or wearing of papers or standing on the pillorie as by their discretions shall seeme meet Also wee the said Lord Deputie and Councell doe earnestly require and straightly charge the said Lord President and Councell that they at all times and in all places where any great assembly shall bee made before them doe perswade the people by all good meanes and wayes to them seeming good and especially by their owne examples in observing all Orders for Divine Service and other things appertaining to Christian Religion and to embrace forlow and devoutly to obserue the Order and Service of the Church established in the Realme by Parliament or otherwayes by lawfull authoritie and earnestly to call upon and admonish all Bishops and Ordinaries within the precinct of their Commission diligently fervently and often to doe the same And if the Lord President and Councell shall finde them negligent and unwilling or unable to doe the same That then they shall advertise the Lord Deputie and Councell thereof and they shall call earnestly upon the Bishops severely to proceed according to the censuring of the church against all notorious Advowterers and such as without lawfull divorce doe leaue their Wiues or whilest that their lawfull Wife liveth doe marry with any other and the Sentence pronounced by the Bishop or Ordinarie upon the offendor The said Lo President and Councell shall endeavour themselues to the uttermost that they conveniently may to cause the same Sentence to bee put in execution according to the Lawes And if they shall finde the Ordinarie slacke or remisse in this duetie and not doing according to his Office they shall punish or cause to bee punished the same Bishop or Ordinary according to their discretions Also the Lord President and Councell shall examine the decay of all parish Churches and through whose defaults the same be decayed and to proceed to the procuring or informing of such as ought to repaire any Church or Churches with all convenient speed according to their discretions And in cases where her Majestie shall bee after due and advised inquisition found by reason of her possessions bound to repaire the same Churches In those cases advertisement shall bee given to us the Lord Deputie c. Or if they shall know of any that shall spoyle rob or deface any Church they shall with all sincerity proceed to the punishment of the Offenders according to the Lawes Statutes and Ordinances of this Realme or according to their discretions They shall assist and defend all Arch-Bishops Bishops and all other ecclesiastical Ministers in the ministery of their function and in the quiet possessing of their Landes rents services and hereditaments and shall punish the with-holders intruders and usurpers of the same according to their discretions and the quality of the offence They shall also giue earnest charge for the observation of all Lawes and Statutes or Ordinances made or to be made for the benefit of the Common-wealth and punishment of malefactors and especially the Statute for the Hue and crie for Night-watches and for Weights and Measures to be diligently considered and severely put in execution Also the said Lord President shall haue and retaine one Chaplin or Minister that shall and can preach and reade the Homilies who shall bee allowed his Dyet in the Houshold of the sayd Lord President and shall receiue his entertainment to bee payed out of the Fines growing in that Province to whom the Lo President shall cause due reverence to be given in respect of the Office that he shall haue for the Service of God Also the said Lo Deputie and
hee weekely present to the Lord President and Councell to be considered And because her Maiestie meaneth principally to benefit her Subiects not onely with the fruites of Iustice but with the delivery of them from all unnecessary burdens The Lord President and Councell shall foresee that no manner of extraordinary or excessiue charge bee put and layed upon any person against their Wils and Agreements by finding or sustaining of any Horsman or Footman or Horse-boy or Horse belonging of the said Lord President or any of the said Councell on any belonging to them And in the like manner shall see that the Subiects bee not oppressed with the like by any other contrary to the Lawes of the Realme for such causes provided Item considering the Queenes Maiestie hath title and right to no small quantity of possessions within Mounster aswell of auncient revenew of the Crowne and of other Seigniories devolued to the Crowne And also of the dissolved Monasteries and other Houses of religion the which are not duely answered to her Maiestie as reason would The said Lord President and Councell shall from time to time imploy their Labours by all their good discretions to procure that her Maiesties Officers or Farmors appointed for that purpose may peaceably and fully from time to time possesse and receiue the profits of the same The Oath to bee ministred by the Lord President to such as shall be admitted to bee of the Councell of Mounster being not already sworne of her Majesties Privie Councell in Ireland as well the oath provided in the Statute for swearing of Officers as also this heereunder written viz. You shall sweare to the uttermost of your power will and cunning you shall be true and faithfull to the Queenes Majestie our Soveraigne Lady and to her Heires and Successors You shall not know nor heare any thing that may in any wise be prejudiciall to her Highnes or the Commonwealth peace and quiet of this her Hignesse Realme but you shall with all diligence reveale and disclose the same to her Highnesse or to such other person or persons of her Majesties Privie Councell in Ireland as you shall thinke may and will soonest convey and bring it to her Highnesse knowledge You shall serue her Maiestie truely and faithfully in the roome and place of her Maiesties Councell in Mounster You shall in all things that bee moved treated and debated in any Councell faithfully and truely declare your mind and opinion according to your heart and conscience In no wise forbearing so to doe for any respect of Favour Meade Dreade Displeasure or corruption Yee shall faithfully and unrightly to the best of your power cause Iustice to bee duely and indifferently ministred to the Queenes Maiesties Subiects that shall haue cause to sue for the same according to equity and order of Lawes Finally you shall bee vigilant diligent and circumspect in all your doings and proceedings touching the Queenes Maiestie and her affaires All which points and Articles before expressed with all other Articles signed with the hands of the Lord Deputie and Councell of this Realme and delivered to mee the Lord President of her Highnesse Councell established in these parts You shall faithfully obserue keepe and fulfill to the uttermost of your Power Wit Will and cunning so helpe you God and the contents of this Booke THE NAMES OF THE COVNCELLORS TO BEE ASSISTANT to the Lord President of Mounster as they are directed under the hand of the Lord Deputie The Earle of Ormond The Earle of Kildare The Earle of Thomond The Vice-Co Barry The Lordâ—Audley The Bishop of Corke The Bishop of Limer Sir Nicholas Welsh Iustice Saxey Sir Francis Barkley Sir George Thornton Iustice Golde The Queenes Sergeant The Q. Attorney generall The Q. Solicitor Sir Charles Wilmot Garret Comerford Esquire Hugh Cuffe Esquire Adam Dublin Thom. Midens George Cary. Rich. Wingfield Anth. St leger George Bourcher Geof Fenton â—ra Stafford CHAP. II. The Earle of Tyrone in Mounster and his Actions there The White Knight Tyrones prisoner Florence Mac Carti made Mac Carti More and Donell Mac Carti displaced The Lord Barry spoyled Tyrones letter to the Lord Barry with the Lord Barry's answere Sir Warham Saint leger and Mac Guyre slaine Tyrones returne into Vlster A Little before the landing of the Lord Deputie in Ireland as is said the Arch-traytor Tyrone to unite the Rebels of Mounster and especially to conferre with Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle of Desmond and Florence Mac Cartie at whose intreatie he made a journey into Mounster Those whom hee found obstinate in rebellion hee incouraged from such as hee held doubtfull hee tooke pledges or detained prisoners of which last sort was the White Knight and his sonne in law Donogh Mac Cormocke Cartie whom in hand-lockes he carried away with him And whereas Donell Mac Cartie the Earle of Clancares base sonne had been by the Mac Carties of Desmond advanced to the Stile title and authoritie of Mac Cartie More Him hee displaced and in his roome Florence Mac Cartie was surrogated being a man as hee conceived of farre more use then Donell Such as were or reputed good Subjects these hee prosecuted with sword and fire Amongst others which felt his heavie hand the Lord Barry was one upon whom when hee could not worke his desire to draw him into actuall rebellion by the perswasion of the Provinciall rebells him hee preyed burned and spoyled to make it manifest that hee was sollicited to enter into Rebellion both the Letters of Tyrone and the Lord Barries Answere are heere truly set downe the tenors whereof doe ensue Tyrones Letter to the Lord Barrie MY Lord Barry your impietie to God crueltie to your soule and body tyrannie ingratitude both to your followers and country are inexcusable intolerable You separated your selfe from the unitie of Christs mysticall Bodie the Catholike Church You know the Sword of Extirpation hangeth over your head as well as ours if things fall out other wayes then well you are the cause why all the Nobilitie of the South from the East part to the West you being linked unto each one of them either in affinitie or consanguinitie are not linked together to shake off the cruell yoake of Heresie and Tyrannie with which our Soules and Bodies are opprest All those aforesaid depending of your resolution and relying to your Iudgement in this common cause of our Religion and Countrey you might forsooth with their helpe and the rest that are combyned in this holy Action not onely defend your selfe from the incursion and invasion of the English but also by Gods assistance who miraculously and aboue all expectation gaue good successe to the cause principally undertaken for his glorie exaltation of religion next for the restauration of the ruines and preservation of the Countrey expell them and deliver them and us from most miserable and cruell exaction and subjection enjoy your religion safetie of Wife and children life lands
side there was but one man slaine not aboue fiue hurt whereof Pierce Butler a kinseman of the Earles was one who behaved himselfe valiantly and about foureteene taken Prisoners and of the Enemy was one slaine and a few hurt the Prisoners were taken by their owne negligence who were grazing their horses The taking of this great Lord breeds unsetled humors in these parts for all the Gentlemen of the countrey whereof some of them were his true followers for want of a Defender are wavering others which in their owne dispositions were naught and contained themselues as Subiects but for feare of his power are now at liberty and we feare will shortly declare themselues To keepe them from present uproares I the President did immediately send for sixe hundred Foote of the Mounster Companies which were at Watterford the hundred Horse which were in the countrey to the Towne of Kilkenny which hath wrought good effect and staied the unsetled humors besides thereby it did assure the Lady of Ormond and her daughter which otherwise had beene subiect to many dangers so sorrowfull a Lady in all our liues vvee haue not seene and doe beleeue that if it had not pleased God that we at that time had beene there she would hardly haue undergone those griefes that did oppresse her For besides the losse of her husband in being Prisoner with those rogues she beheld the apparant ruine of her selfe and her daughter and no lesse danger of both their liues the Guard vvhereof she committed unto us not being assured of those that serue her for there is divers that pretend to bee the Earles Heires First Sir Edmond Butler his second Brother which Sir Walter Butler the Earles Nephew whose blood is not attainted vvill not yeeld unto because his Vncle Sir Edmond is not restored in blood And the Vicount Mountgarret thinks that he ought to be Earle of Ormond for many reasons vvhich he pretends This controversie could not but breed great danger to the Countesse and her daughter for that either of those vvould bee glad to possesse themselues in the Earles houses and the doubt vvho is to succeede him breeds unsetled humors in the Gentlemen of the countrey that bee follovvers to the Earle every one addicting himselfe to the partie they affect vvhereby there is a generall distraction vvhich vvould haue broken out into a dangerous Rebellion if the Forces and vve had not beene heere to keepe them in awe Besides we did not neglect to send for all the Lords and Gentlemen in the countrie that are of the best quality and haue temporized with them So as we hope the dangers which were like to ensue will be for a time well appeased Also understanding that Balliragget a house of the Lord Mountgarets in the which there is a Warde for the Queene kept as a Pledge for his loialty that the same was attempted to be wonne by the Vicecounts sonnes who are in rebellion And immediately upon the Earles taking lay before it in hope to starue the Souldiers for their last daies victuals was spent I the President did take up in Kilkenny upon my credit victuals and with a strong convoy of Horse and Foote haue revictualled it for sixe weekes whereof the Lord Deputy is advertised praying him to be carefull before that victuall be spent And because that all things might be continued in good order We thought good to remaine in Kilkenny untill the Lord Deputy should determine of some course so to hold it for her Maiesties benefit the countries good and the Countesse and her daughters safetie wherein we were enforced to make large disbursements of our small stores for dieting in that time of the horse and foote Troopes whereof I the Earle defrayed the charges of my owne Company of two hundred Foote and I the President of all the rest during our abode there which was eight dayes In this meane time wee understanding that Mountgarrets sonnes which are in rebellion did come to spoile the countrie neere to Kilkenny We sent out some part of our Troopes who lighted upon some of their men And amongst them which they slew there was one of the Butlers a neere kinsman to Mountgarret and a Leader slaine and the Traitors driven to their Woods being enforced to leaue their enterprize The sixteenth of this present Sir George Bourchier and Sir Christopher St Lawrence sent from the Lord Deputie came to Kilkenny Sir George for chiefe Commander of her Majesties Forces there and to take charge of the Countesse her Daughter and the Earles Houses and Sir Christopher to bee directed by him The Forces there left is two hundred Foote of the Earles other two hundred Foote of Sir Christophers thirtie Foot left in a ward in Mountgarretts house called Balliraggett eightie fiue Horse whereof fiftie of the Earles fiue and twentie of St Lawrences and tenne of Sir George Bourchiers Since the Earles taking wee kept the Rebells from doing any hurt in the Countrey neither as yet is there any in rebellion in the same but Mountgarrets sonnes whose force is not such but in our opinions without they call strangers to assist them her Majesties Forces there is much too strong for them The seventeenth wee left Kilkenny and came to this Cittie leaving Sir George Bourcheir as aforesaid This accident hath withheld mee the President from my peculiar charge more then I purposed but therein I hope your Lordships will hold mee excused being other wayes so necessarily imployed in these causes of so great importance whereof I humbly beseech your Lordshipps in your wisedomes to haue due consideration To morrow wee proceed in our Iourney towards Corke from whence with the rest of the Councell there wee will advertize your Lordships in what estate wee finde the Province not being able heere to certifie your Honours so particularly as then wee may So wee humbly take our leaues From Waterford the eighteenth of Aprill 1600. Strange it was to consider how much this misfortune distracted the minds of sundrie that before were inclined to subjection and greatly animated the Traitors to persevere in their wicked enterprises which might evidently be seene in Pierce Lacy a wise and malicious Traytor who being but few dayes before upon the Earles protection promising great loyaltie and much service did presently relapse and became a more dangerous Rebell then at any time before But now leaving farther discourse of former occurrents we will betake our selues wholly to prosecute the relation of such things as happened in Mounster after the Lord President came to Waterford which was the sixteenth of Aprill For the prosecution of the Service in which Province by order out of England the List as aforesayd for Mounster was established to be three thousand Foot and two hundred and fiftie Horse After his repaire thither Intelligence came unto him that the Titularie Earle of Desmond with the greatest part of his Forces was remaining not farre from Yoghall about Drumâ—inin with intent to giue impediment
best Commanders amongst the Irish rebels By meanes whereof he had now the command of foureteene hundred men in his owne Bonaght and besides that might strike a great stroke with the other being by Tyrone at his departure out of Mounster ordained chiefe Commander of them all This man did the President make choise to deale withall for these reasons First because hee knew that the said Dermond being a meere Mercenary and serving in Mounster onely for pay might be induced by large Summes of monie to serue the Queene aswell as the rebels Secondly hee had a very fit Instrument whereby the more easily to worke him to his will namely his Wife who being brought up some part of her time amongst the English had not only learned the language but stood reasonably well affected to the English governement and likely it was that shee would use all her industry to advance the service in hope that if it succeeded well it would proue a good step or Ladder to procure the liberty of her Brother Iames Fits Gerald Sonne and Heire to Gerald Earle of Desmond slaine now Prisoner in the Tower and to raise his fortunes Lastly it was publikely knowen that the Sugan Earle would never doe service upon the Bownoghs except he might haue both the title and possessions of the Earle of Desmond confirmed unto him which her Maiestie would never condiscend unto Vpon these grounds in very secret manner hee provided and sent a fit agent to sound the inclination of the Lady Margaret for so was Dermonds Wife named and finding her fit to bee wrought upon the Conditions should be propounded viz. That if her husband would take Desmond Prisoner and deliver him into the hands of the President he should incontinently receiue one thousand pound sterling and that he should haue a Company of men in pay from the Queene and other conditions of satisfaction to her selfe and her Brother The Messenger was â—o sooner sent about these important affaires but that another occasion offered it selfe unto the President of no lesse moment then the former to aduance the service for immediately hereupon one Iohn Nugent sometimes servant to Sir Thomas Norris late President of Mounster pretending some wrongs and iniuries to be offered unto him by the State ioyned with the Rebels and became to his power the most malitious and bloody Traitor in all these parts At last having as it should seeme spit his poyson and spent his Venome sought to Sir Warham Saint Leger and Sir Henry Power the Commissioners to be received into protection who more for feare of the hurt that hee might doe then hope of the good that hee would doe granted the same untill the Lord Presidents pleasure who was now ready to depart from Dublin towards Mounster were further knowen At this time therefore Nugent came to make his submission to the President and to desire pardon for his faults committed Answer was made that for so much as his crimes and offences had beene extraordinary hee could not hope to bee reconciled unto the State except hee would deserue it by extraordinary service which saith the President if you shall performe you may deserue not onely Pardon for your faults committed heretofore but also some store of Crownes to releeue your wants hereafter Hee presently promised not to bee wanting in any thing that lay in the power of one man to accomplish and in private made offer to the President that if he might bee well recompenced hee would ruine within a short space either the Sugan Earle or Iohn Fits Thomas his Brother And indeed very likely hee was both to attempt and performe as much as he spake To attempt because hee was so valiant and daring as that he did not feare any thing and to execute because by reason of his many outrages before committed the chiefe Rebels did repose great confidence in him The President having contrived a plot for Iames Fits Thomas as is before shewed gaue him in charge to undertake Iohn his Brother But because the matter might be caried without any suspition upon the next morrow the Councell being set and a great concourse of people assembled Nugent renueth his suite for the continuance of his protection But the President rehearsing in publike audience a Catalogue of his mischievous outrages lately committed told the Councell that having farther enquired and better considered of Man and Matter for his part hee thought it an action of very ill example to receiue unto mercy such a notorious Malefactor the Councell were all of the same opinion who reviling him with many biting and bitter speeches and assuring him that if it were not for a religious regard that was holden of the Queenes word hee should pay a deare price for his former misdemeanor and so with publike disgrace was he dismissed their presence The promised submission of the white Knight the jealousie which the rebels conceived of Florence Mac Carty by his comming to the President and the Presidents Iourney being now blazed through the Province it caused Pierce Lacy who all the time of the Warres untill now had kept a ward in the Castle of the Brough three miles from Kilmallocke despayring to hold the same against her Majesties Forces And knowing it was a convenient place for a Garrison pluckt downe some part of the Castle burnt the rest and by the light thereof ran into the Woods Redmond Burke also with fiue hundred Bonoghs about this time which was in the beginning of May withdrew out of Connillogh and kept himselfe for a little time about the borders of Ownhy where being pressed with want of Victuals he intended to leaue the Province The Sugan Earle Pierce Lacy and some other hearing of this sudden departure dispatched Messengers unto him with earnest entreaties and large promises for increasing his Bonnoght if hee would returne but to no purpose The cause of this his unexpected departure was a trafficke betweene him and the President who did uphold him in certaine faint hopes about the obtaining of the Barronie of Lettrim which he claimed as his inheritance For this is most true that not long before this time one Richard Burke Vncle to the said Redmond wrote unto the President that his Nephew would be very glad of his Lordships favour that he would withdraw both himselfe and his Bownoghs out of Mounster so that hee would not send any Forces to molest him in Connaght Whereunto was answered that it became nor a Governour no not a private Subject to make any such agreement with a man in his condition And farther that hee might assure himselfe that by strong hand he could never invest himselfe in the Barrony of Lettrim nor be in secure possession of his Fathers Lands But if he would reclaime himselfe and doe service to her Majestie the President would use the best friends that hee had either in England or Ireland that his cause might bee respected with all favour according to the equity thereof Not
long after the receit of this Letter hee left the Countie of Limericke severed himselfe from the Mounster Rebells and setled in Ormond and Tirrell stayed not long behinde inwardly doubting some practise upon himselfe but publikely pretending the cause of his departure for a mislike betweene him and Dermond O Conner The President had given foorth ever since his first comming to Corke that his Armie should bee on foot in the way to Limerick by the sixth of May his intention not being to rise untill the twentieth the bruit thereof caused the Rebells greatest strength to assemble together who by the day assigned had united their Forces in the great Wood called Kilmore betweene Moyallo and Kilmallock neere the place of Ballihawre through the which the Armie was to march There they continued the space of tenne dayes attending continually and hearkening daily for the Presidents comming but finding that hee stirred not in all this time imagining that he durst not take the field at all they dispersed their Companies and departed every one into his owne Countrey Heereupon some thought that the President had altered his determination for going to Limerick and intended to begin the prosecution in some other place others supposed that hee would not venture out of Corke untill hee had received new Supplies which were daily expected out of England But both the one and other were besides the marke for by this stay which from the beginning he determined hee saw divers commodious opportunities might accrue unto him as that heereby hee should receiue certaine advertisement of the strength of the enemy that was to confront him and also that it was impossible for them any long time to hold together for divers wants which of necessitie must accompany such an undisciplined and disordered multitude by meanes whereof they would bee constrained to breake with their owne weight wherein he nothing failed of his expectation for within a few dayes following they were all divided into so many places and those so farre distant that they could not speedily be reassembled Vpon the sixteenth of May the President was advertised by Sir Richard Percie who was Governour at 〈◊〉 that by his Horsemen in Kinalmekagh whom he had sent to forrage that Country ten of the Bownoghs were slaine and a farre greater slaughter had beene made of them if Florence Mac Cartie had not had some intelligence out of Kinsale of his intention who gaue the Bownoghs warning of their comming whereupon they fled and dispersed themselues Vpon the seventeenth of May Iames fits Thomas the usurping Earle of Desmond wrote a Letter to Florence Mac Cartie praying the ayde of his Forces the Copie whereof is here inserted A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie AFter my very heartie Commendations Having received Intelgence of your happie escape out of Corke it was very joyfull to mee and many other your Cosens and adherents heere the fruit of your conference with the President and the rest I hope shall purchase ripe experience and harvest of further knowledge to cut off the cruell yoke of bloody enemies who daily studie to worke our perpetuall destruction and exile I am given to understand that they pretend a journey towards the Countie of Limerick I am gathering the best force and rising out of these parts to resist their wicked desires Redmond Burke is bordering on the Confines of Ormond expecting to heare from me if occasion of important service should require I haue the other day received his Letters signifying his constant service to be ready whensoever I shall send to him what news you haue with your best advice in all causes tending to our generall Service I expect to heare and if the President doe rise out as it is thought I pray you good Cosen slacke not time with your best Force Provision of victuals to prosecute him freshly in the Reareward as you respect me the exaltation of the Catholike faith and the ease of our countrey I looke no excuse at your hands which I pray to lay apart wherein you shall further the service and bind me with all my Forces to second you at your need I haue retained Dermond Oconner in Kerry two hundred Souldiers this quarter besides the Clanshihies and other Bonoghs with the rising out of my country so as I think I shall make up sixteen or seventeene hundred strong well appointed together with the Force of Redmond Burke Thus for lacke of farther Novelties I commit you to the blessed guiding of God From Crome the seventeenth of May 1600. I am credibly informed that fiue Spanish ships are landed in the North with Treasure Munition and great Ordinance with a competent number of three thousand Souldiers Pioners and religious persons I expect every day advertisement in writing and the comming up of Captaine Terrell with the Munition sent me by Oneyle I appointed your Cosen Maurice Oge Fits Maurice Gerald to haue the charge of Kierrycorrie I pray you afford him your lawfull favour Your most assured Cosen Iames Desmond The same day Captaine Gawen Harvy who then had in her Majesties pay a man of Warre wherein for the payment of the Armie there was three thousand pound in monie Munition Victuals and Souldiers apparrell set saile with direction for the River of Shenan to meete the Lord President at Limericke The President the twentie one of May left Corke and with his Armie incamped that night within three miles of Moyallo The twentie two they lodged within fiue miles of Kilmallocke the twentie three the Armie came within a mile of Kilmallocke where the white Knight according to his former promises made his humble submission unto the President whereby the Faggot began to unloose which combined the Rebellion in Mounster but let us a little looke backeward CHAP. VI. Cahir Castle surprized by Iames Galdie Butler A letter from Iames Galdie Butler to the Lord President The rendring of the Castle of Loghguyrre Nugents attempt upon Iohn fits Thomas â—lanwilliam spâ—yled and burnt by the Armie THe President being at Yoghall in his journey to Corke sent Sir Iohn Dowâ—all an ancient Captaine in Ireland to Cahir Castle as well to see the same provided of a sufficient Ward out of Captaine George Blunts Companie as to take order for the furnishing of them with Victuall Munition and other warlike Provision there hee left the eighth or ninth of May a Sergeant with nine and twenty Souldiers and all necessary Provision for two moneths who notwithstanding upon the three and twentieth of the same were surprized by Iames Galdie alias Butler brother to the Lord of Cahir and as it was suspected by many pregnant presumptions not without the consent and working of the Lord himselfe which in after times proved to be true The carelesse securitie of the Warders together with the treachery of an Irish-man who was placed sentinell upon the top of the Castle were the causes of this Surprize Iames Galdie had no
this high benefit which hee receiveth together with the orderly course which we intend shall bee observed in the raysing and disposing his Fortune doeth make us lesse doubtfull of that mischiefe then wee are for the present of some other scorne which we shall receiue if by our sending him over and your resolution to restore him no such effect should follow as might be answerable to that which is expected In which consideration although we know there are many of Opinion that the way to draw greatest things by him were to raise him high at first because it will make those cleaue to him the faster yet will we follow therein Our owne resolution which is rather to proceed in such a case by degrees then in any suddaine without reasonable caution and reservation For the first step therefore wee haue now sent him over by Captaine Price a trustie and discreet Person to deliver him safely into your hands whereas wee know the keeping of him in any state of a Prisoner would wholly overthrow the worke and multiply the jealousies of those who judge all others by themselues So in respect that you are in place where all circumstances are clearest knowen and that the change of causes altereth Councels Know this from Vs That we shall never disallow it if you in your discretion finde it necessarie at any time that you doe abridge him of any libertie or any favour now afforded him For as wee haue much the rather assented to send him over and place him there because you haue had your part in the Counsell So doe wee referre the managing of him to your discretion for his maintenance during his abode there there are but two wayes the one to bestow Lands vpon him with an habitation the other to maintaine him out of our owne purse with a pension In the first there must be time to consider where to seat him for the second because it is a thing that must be done and that he must be maintained with a convenient attendance that they may not scorne him and that hee hath one or two sisters whom we had rather should depend vpon himselfe then bee matched with any other that were ill affected whereof many there bee that would bee glad to fortifie themselues by them Wee doe heereby giue you order to peruse the Numbers you haue and where you finde any unprofitable Captaine that hath a weake band that you doe presently cashiere the same and to imploy part of that charge which was formerly bestowed in that Band towards the maintenance of him and his as you shall see requisite without further charging vs and the same to continue vntill wee may see how to resolue of some convenient Habitation for him that they may see hee is to bee seated amongst them with a competent portion of living where he may be a stay to Our service And now because wee know the Countrey will thinke him unlikely to stead them that shall follow him if they bee not assured that hee shall haue the Title which is a matter they doe so much affect to follow Wee haue heerewith sent you a Patent of his Earledome to the intent that you may assure all that are diffident of our performance and yet Wee can be content they plainely doe understand also that if they shall not actually and substantially performe those Services which may deserue this extraordinarie clemencie and giue us cause to consummate the rest Wee both can and will quickly recall all that is hitherto performed for which purpose wee doe heereby commaund you to advertise Vs what is effected for him by this demonstratiue acte of Ours and then to receiue our pleasure before the Patent bee delivered out of your handes although for the present you may let it bee shewed to any such persons as you shall see cause to assure by viewe of the same and thereby make them perceiue how vnjustly Wee haue beene slaundered by those that should possesse the world that Wee haue no desire or end but to extirpate as well the Innocent as the contrary of that Nation seeing Wee are contented to rayse the Sonne of that Father that had committed so notorious crimes For as much as Wee doe hold it convenient that the Archbishopp of Cassell should not bee in any sort kept in extremitie Wee would haue you convert tenne dead payes of Foote to his use parcell of that hundred which is appoynted to bee cashiered for the maintenance of Iames Fits Gerald Wherein likewise Wee would haue consideration helde of poore and some maintenance for the wife of Dermond O Conner All these allowances to bee borne by the Cashiering of that Companie and to bee ordered according to your discretion because Wee would not haue apparant penury to surprize any of these that haue entered so deepely although the fruites are yet ungathered which is the time when they must bee further rewarded Wee haue likewise given order to the Deputie to make an allowance of fortie shillings a weeke to the Archbishop in nature of Dead Payes to Preachers in lieu whereof hee may stay the pension of some other who is not so necessarie to be provided for Having now assented to doe that you haue advised Wee leaue it to be ordered accordingly to your discretion assuring you that wee are still of opinion if you use not this Patent well that they will bee lesse greedy to dispatch any businesse for Vs then they would haue beene if we had not gone on so hastily with theirs But wee repose such trust in you as we thinke our Honour and safetie of that Province in safe hands for so much as faith and discretion can secure to whom wee render condigne thankes for the good proofe you haue hitherto made of them both The Bishop is not vnfit to frequent the young Gentleman and therefore that credit which is fit let him haue and let your proofe of his zeale excuse other of his indiscretions Given at our Mannor of Otlands the first of October 1600. Ro. Cecill Her Majesties Letters Patents for Iames fits Gerald to bee Earle of Desmond ELIZABETH Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Archiepiscopis Ducibus Marchionibus Comitibus Vicecomitibus Episcopis Baronibus Iusticiarijs prepositis Ballivis Ministris omnibus alijs fidelibus suis salutem Cum non ita pridem Gerot nuper Comes Desmondae Cuius proavos ob praeclaras suas erga Rempublicam res gestas progenitores nostri Regij Comitum titulo or narunt infandi in nobis Coronamque nostram perduellionis attinctus generis sanguinisque sui nobilitatem viciauerit totumque illud dignitatis nomen penitus aboleverit Ea tamen semper fuit nostra ad clementiam propensitas atque ad ignoscendum Regia facilitas vt in tota imperij nostri moderatione in hujusmodi proditor ' posteros non modo non summo jure vsi sumus sed etiam eos meritis suis non obstantibus ijsdem quibus
a Protestant was the onely cause that bred this coynesse in them all for if hee had been a Romish Catholike the hearts and knees of all degrees in the Province would haue bowed unto him Besides his comming was not well liked by the Vndertakers who were in some jealousie that in after times he might be restored to his Fathers Inheritances and thereby become their Lord and their Rents now payed to the Crowne would in time be conferred upon him These considerations assured the President that his personall being in Mounster would produce small effects but onely to make tryall what power hee had CHAP. XV. The juggling of Florence Mac Cartie Supplies of Men and Apparell sent into Mounster The submission of Florence Mac Cartie A skirmish betweene the Mac Carties and the Oleries Olery slaine A Letter from Redmond Burke to the Lord President THE President attempted by his meanes the getting of Castle Mange a Castle of her Majesties in the which before and at the beginning of the Warre shee had a Ward surprised by the supposed Desmond and left by him in the custodie of Thomas Oge as aforesaid which by his negotiation with the said Constable was at last rendred unto him together with Pierce Lacie his two sonnes which were kept as pledges therein and this was all the service that hee did or could doe during his abode in Ireland And that worke of his Florence Mac Cartie used all his wit and policie to prevent and overthrow for at the very instant when Thomas Oge who had the keeping of Castle Mange and Pierce Lacies sonnes as pledges therein had faithfully assured the yeelding up thereof and of the aforesaid Pledges to the Lord President Florence being then entertained by the President in his house at Moyallo and as fast bound unto him by many benefits and favours as Florence was by the strongest oathes and vowes that any Christian could be obliged by gott some secret hint that Castle Mange was by Thomas Oge to be yeelded up to her Majestie who well foreseeing what reputation it would bring to Desmond and how much it would make up towards the hastening of his owne ruine if that Fort were once regained and an English Garrison placed there he presumed and that in the Presidents owne house where he was so graciously used and entertained to write his effectuall and earnest Letters to the said Thomas Oge assuring him that Redmond Burke and Captaine Tirrell were on their way with great Forces to set Mounster on fire againe disswading him from keeping his promise with the President and the young Earle of Desmond promising and binding his promises with damnable oathes that he would presently revictuall the Ward of Castle Mange for three moneths pay them the Arrear of all their vvages and that he would giue Thomas Oge and his Heires for ever six Plowlands of his owne Inheritance so he would not deliver up Castle Mange And these Letters were by the watchfulnesse of Master Boyle intercepted and delivered to the President And from thenceforward after Florence knew his Letters were intercepted and his treacheries more and more discovered But all this while it was a world to see how Florence plaied fast and loose betweene the President and the Governour of Kerry For when the President sent to haue him come to him then he answered that he was within few dayes to meete with the Governour of Kerry by a former appointment if Sir Charles sent for him then he was shortly to repaire to the President and so deluding both he would come to neither His stay was as we haue shewed because he purposed to stand out and for that cause had the last Moneth before planted as it was reported some number of Bownoghs in his Countrey but the governors people upon one side and these his Bownoghs on the other side had by this time so harried and consumed his Countrey as he found the same unable longer to maintaine his Mercenaries and therefore delayed with good words to gaine longer time for it was commonly spoken among the Protectees and Captaine Taffe wrote so much to the President from Kilkenny that Redmond Burke and Captaine Tirrell with all the Forces they could gather in Connaght and Linster would make an other incursion into Mounster so soone as the Lord Deputie should returne from the North which was expected very shortly because the time of the yeare would breed many difficulties and inconveniences in his longer stay Whether it were this bruite or the hearking after a Ship to arriue in those parts which might transport him beyond Seas that occasioned his delatory excuses I know not But sure I am that they proceeded not from any loyall or dutifull mind The beggerly Earle in the meane time lurked in the Woods with some two or three in his Company sometimes in Arlogh sometimes in Drumfinnin but most in the Countie of Typperrarie where hee had much kindred by his Mothers side The President had intelligence every day where hee lodged the night before but never untill he was departed and had left the place not but that the Countrey could haue reported aswell where he is as where he had beene but they were possessed with such a superstitious folly so terrified with the Priests Thunderbolts of Excommunication as they adjudged him unavoidably damned that should ruinate such a principall Piller of the Catholike action And Fits Maurice was in little better case for although since his returne into Mounster himselfe with the Knight of the Glyn had assembled some fower score in the Faâ—tnesse of Clanmorris who guarded their Corne that should maintaine them for the yeere following Yet Sir Charles Wilmot marching twelue miles through their Woods being directed by a trusty Guid came suddenly upon them and slew sixtie of them the two Principals escaping very narrowly After the killing ended they scowâ—ed the Woods and finding great store of Corne therein they burnt the same and returned with the Armes of all the dispersed Kerne Pierce Lacy had so well bestirred himselfe in his negotiation with those of Ormond and Ossery that of the Ormond and Ossery men with the Purcels Omaghers he had reinforced himselfe with fiue hundred men and being now joyned with Redmond Burke who had one thousand Foote and sixtie Horse as was credibly informed drew their Forces into O Carrels Countrey threatning daily to invade the small Countie of Limerick which bordered upon them but their stay as was reported depended upon the returne of Iohn of Desmond who was expected with Forces out of the North. But Tyrone was so well set a worke by the honourable painefull and prosperous proceedings of the Lord Deputie as hee had enough to doe in defending his owne Countrey much lesse could he spare any Forces for other parts In September last mention is made that the Lords of the Councell had promised to send unto the President sixe hundred Foote for the supplying of his Armie which accordingly arrived at Corke
Majestie professing to doe service such as should merit favour Humbly besought him not desiring any protection that hee might remaine with his Lordship The President granted his request and withall sent him a Protection which in an other Letter unto Richard Boyle the Clarke of the Councell hee besought The reason which moved the President to grant his request was the absence of the Earle of Thomond then in England that during the same the County of Clare might bee freed from Bonfires but now for a time we must leaue the President in Cork returne to Florence Mac Carty You heard before that Florence had a cutting as they call it upon Carberry towards his charges in the pretended journey for England but employed all the same and whatsoever more hee could procure to another end for about this time he provided a Barke which hee fraught with Hides Tallow and such commodities committing the care and trust thereof to some of Kinsale by whom the same merchandize should bee transported beyond the Seas and in liew thereof munition and abilliments of warre should be returned and and delivered unto him in the Harbour of Valentia Moreover about the same time hee did earnestly sollicit aide from the neighbour Provinces to resist Her Majesties forces and for the same purpose wrote a Letter in Irish which was read by Iames Welsh by whose relation I received this light unto one in Ormond called Cahir Mac Shane Glasse Omulrian desiring that he would leavy for him sixe hundred Foote in Linster which if hee could not then to procure Redmond Burke to come with so many to his aide and if hee failed likewise herein to deale with Captaine Terrill to the same effect and hee would pay them upon the Countrey of Desmond Lastly Donoghe Mac Cormuck called Mac Donoghe his Agent with Tyrone laboured so much at his hands and that so earnestly as he procured a Letter from Tyrone the Contents whereof were as followeth And thus translated out of the Irish. A Letter from Tyrone to Florence Mac Carty OVr commendations to yoâ— Mac Carty More I send shortly unto you according to our trust of you that you will doe a stout and hopefull thing against the pagan beast and thereupon our Armie is to goe into Mounster and with the will of God we consent unto you and will that you beleeue not any word from us for ever before wee write againe unto you for you shall see trouble enough in England by English men it selfe so as there shall be easinesse of suffering their warres at May next in respect of that it is now And since this cause of Mounster was left to you next under God let no weaknesse or imbecillitie bee found in you and the time of helpe is neere you and all the rest From Dongannon the sixth of February 1601. Stilo Novo Oneale The Armie mentioned in this Letter was the same which now you heard of taking their journey by the way of Connaght which as may appeare both by the examination of Iames Welsh and the Contents of those Letters were solicited and sent principally by the meanes promises and procurement of Florence he being then and before under protection the breach whereof hee nothing esteemed But surceasing farther to rake in the filthy Channels of his malicious practises like maladies immedicable lest it should be loathsome to the Reader I will leade him abroad into the open Aire to behold the hunting rousing and fall of a great Stag which was after sent into England to Her Majestie and by her received as a most acceptable Present although it was not Gods will that shee should liue to reward the chiefe Ranger About the middest of May the Lord President received a Letter from the Lords of the Councell in England which bare date the eight and twentieth of Aprill which for the Readers better vnderstanding how the Affaires of Mounster did sute with the Directions and Counsels in England I thinke it meet to be inserted A Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President AFter our very heartie Commendations to your Lordship Although we haue before this time acquainted you with her Majesties gracious acceptation of your service because wee know you had no greater object then to deserue her Majesties grace and favour yet now vve vvill forbeare to touch it at this time because her Majestie giues you notice of it with her owne hand and for the present onely let you know what care vvee haue taken to satisfie all your demaunds for her Majesties service because it may appeare unto you seeing you doe orderly and carefully giue us account of your proceedings that wee will in no sort neglect such things as you in your discretion hold fit or necessary Wee haue therefore first by her Majesties Commandement sent you a supply of Munitions according to your request We haue likewise given order for Victuals in good proportion although it seemeth to us by the Certificate of the Victualler that you were better stored at your writing then you knew for Wee haue also given order for Oates to be presently sent you and because you haue so good use of a Ship for transporting of Victualls to and fro besides the service shee may doe in mastering those Barques and Boats which offend the Coast wee haue sent Captaine Harvie with a good Ship for that purpose And now that you may know what Letters wee haue intercepted out of Spaine concerning those bruits which wee perceiue are spread of Spanish succours you shall receiue the Copies of three Letters whereof wee haue the Originall which were committed to the charge of Peter Strong of Watterford whose Ship and Goods were taken in Famouth where they were put in by storme One of them comes from the Governour of the Groyne and another from a Fryer that resideth with him the third from one Sennock who as it seemeth being unwilling to haue Tyrone deceived sheweth him truely how little reason they haue to trust to any of the Spanish Succours as they expect of these you may make such use as you thinke good As concerning your desire to know what shall become of the Lady Ioane of Desmond wee thinke you should doe well to set her at libertie againe as shee was before referring the care of her well doing to some of her Sisters that may haue an eye over her We doe also require you still to foresee that her Majesties Forces being now so much diminished may not bee spent in maintaining private mens Castles and houses but where those places are of use for her Majesties service Lastly concerning the Fine imposed on the Major of Limrick for which we finde you had so just occasion wee wish you in no wise to remit it but rather to bestow it upon the repaire of her Majesties Castle there which as it seemeth will serue to so good purpose for her Maâ—esties service And so wee bid your Lordship very heartily farewell From the Court
vpon the same which they would not doe vpon a Countrey not lying vpon the Sea You shall receiue what Newes of Spaniards came to these parts by Iohn fits Thomas and Donogh Mac Cormock and whatsoever they brought with them we impart with you and doe provide for the same men to send unto you if they may be had Our Commendations to Patrick Condon and to the rest of our friends in those parts Your very assured Friend Hugh Odonnell The Earle of Thomond at the request of the Lord President sent a Priest called Teg Mac Gillipatrick as a Spie into Vlster to learne what newes hee could get among the Rebels there returned the one and twentieth of February 1600 and came to the Lord President at Moyallo reporting that at his being at Donegall in the Christmas Holy dayes Tirone Odonnell and most of the Northerne Captaines being there present made a new combination to continue the Rebellion at which assembly the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin was present then ready to depart for Spaine with sixteene Irish Priests in his company for the better assurance of their confederacie the Sacrament was solemnely received by them all At the same time Teg Mac Gillipatrick the Priest aforesaid did see a Letter of Florence Mac Carties lately sent to Tirone by a Messenger of his owne which hee heard read openly the Contents whereof was That hee protested hee was not fallen from them but had made a peace with the Lo President of Mounster untill May next and that then he was at libertie One Dermond Mac Cartie a kinsman and dependanâ— upon Florence and by him as is supposed was sent into Spaine where hee continued his Intelligencer many yeeres and by the Spanyards called Don Dermutio Cartie wrote a Letter unto his Master Florence dated at the Groyne the ninth of March 1600. A long letter in Spanish the materiall poynts whereof are thus abstracted and Englished That hee was glad to heare that his Lordship upon the fiftâ—enth of December last was landed at Corke after his eleven yeeres restraint in England whereof three of them in the Tower of London that his Imprisonment was not for marrying of the Earle of Clan Cares daughter without leaue as was pretended but upon suspition which the State had of his loyaltie which he understood by Letters written from the Lord Deputie and Treasurer of Ireland to the Queene which was intercepted and brought into Spaine wherein it was suggested that hee having so many kinsmen friends and followers and himselfe who was knowne to beare affection to Spanyards it were fit hee were restrayned and that this onely was the cause of his eleven yeeres restraint Wherefore hee advised him not to put any confidence in the English for if they once againe lay hold upon him they would never enlarge him Hee advised him to certifie his Majestie how much hee was his Servant what Townes and places hee could put into his handes what number of men of warre hee could serue him withall and if he could surprize Corke he should bee well supplyed by the King of Spaine That hee might send his Letters written to the King unto Don Diego Brochero who is a great favourer of the Irish Nation and in great credit with the King by which meanes they would bee safely delivered as also his Letters unto him for the solicitation of his businesse That within three dayes hee might send him answere from the Groyne which hee could not doe unto Oneale and O Donnell who were so farre off in the North of the Kingdome and advised him to write unto them that they in like manner should direct their Letters to Don Diego Brochero but if he would not write unto him hee would advise with Don Diego and repaire himselfe unto him into Ireland Lastly hee hoped that the King of Spaine would the next Spring send an Armie into Ireland It would bee too tedious to set downe at large all the manifest proofes of Florâ—â—ce his juggling Treasons wherefore I will for brevitie sake relate but a few more Abstracts of Letters and Examinations which heere ensue The thirteenth of May 1600. Florence received Letters from Tyrone wherein hee prayeth him that hee would constantly presevere in the Catholike cause as hee had promised that aide should come unto him from the North by Lammas next That he had written in his favour to the King of Spaine commended his service and prayed the King to giue him assistance Tyrone wrote unto both the Osulevans requiring them to giue obedience unto Florence for hee had complained of them Tyrone threatning the said Osâ—levans that if they did not obey him as they ought hee would with his forces come into Mounster to destroy them Dated the thirtieth of October 1599. Tyrone to Florence dated the seventeenth of Aprill 1600. that according to the trust and confidence he had in him and his Confederats in Mounster they should fight valiantly against the English whereunto they were bound in conscience and for their Countries good Another from Tyrone to Florence Mac Cartie dated the second of May 1600. wherein hee signifieth unto him of the arrivall of the Popes Archbishop of Dublin And of present aides from Spaine he thanked God that the Earle of Ormond is taken hee incited him to entertaine as many Bonoghs as heâ— can against their enemies that hee hath acquainted the King of Spaine of his service unto whom hee hath sent his Sonne Henry Oneale and that hee would shortly send him aide Garret Liston of Skehanaghe in the County of Limerick Gentleman being examined upon oath said that Florence Mac Cartie met with Iames fits Thomas at Belaghafenan two miles from Castle Mayne where Iames challenged him for not comming unto him with his forces to fight with the Lord President as he had promised whom after hee had with smooth language pacified hee protested solemnly and tooke his oath in the presence of Iames fits Thomas Mac Awlife Thomas Oge Muriertaghe Mac Shihie Iohn Vlicke and this Examinat that hee would continue with Iames fits Thomas in this action And although Iames should giue over the rebellion which hee termed a just warte yet hee himselfe would keepe life in it so long as hee could get any to follow him c. This examination was taken by the Lord President the twentieth of August 1600. Another from Oâ—eâ—le to Florence dated the sixth of February 1600. wherein hee exhorteth him to serue valiantly against the Pagan Beast That before hee did write unto him againe hee should see trouble enough in England it selfe and that yeaâ—e May ensuing the warres of Irâ—land would bee easie And for that the cause of Mounster was left unto him hee wished that no imbecillity should bee found in him and that the time of helpe was neere Florence Mac Carties wife told Sir Charles Wilmot that her husbands heart was malitious to the State and that hee would never come in but upon necessitie
by all the best and speediest meanes that may be Wee haue thought it good in regard of the great knowledge and experience wee haue had and found in your faith and valour and in respect of the speciall trust confidence and sufficiencie wee repose in you Wee haue thought it good to grant and commit unto you during our pleasure the command and authority by the power granted us by her Majestie over the Castles of Baltimore and Castlehaven and the whole Countrey of Carbery and over all the Countries territories or places of Collemore Collibeg Ivagh Mounterbarry Slewghteagibane Slewghteage Roe Cloncahill Clondermot Clonloghten and Coshmore and over all the other Countries territories places by what name or names soever they bee called from the Towne of Rosse to the hither parts of the Meares and bounds of Beere and Bantry and so in compasse Northwards to Muskery And we doe giue you power and authority over the Queenes people and her Subjects and Inhabitants in all or any the said Countries appoynting and authorising you hereby to prosecute with fire and sword all Rebels Traytors or other capitall Offenders and all their Ayders Releevers Maintayners Receivers and Abettors or any other Offenders whatsoever that are not ameanable to her Majesties Lawes or haue combined or adhered themselues to any her Majesties enemies or to any now in actuall rebellion against her Highnesse and to make ceasure of all their goods and chattles to her Majesties use And for the better effecting of this her Highnesse service and the speciall trust reposed in you wee doe hereby giue unto you liberty to employ or send among the Enemies or Rebels now in action such Messengers and Espialls as you sâ—all thinke fit to use and to write to parley conferre or treate with them or any of them and to receiue Messengers or Letters from them and to keepe any of them in your company fourteene dayes to procure the doing of service or to gaine intelligences from them and upon assurance and good hopes that any of the said Rebels will doe service to her Majestie Wee doe hereby authorize you to safeconduct them by warrant under your hand for the like space of fourteene dayes so as in the meane time you send them unto us or to the chiefe Governour of the Province for the time being which your safeconduct shall bee duly observed to all those you grant it unto And for the better and speedier clensing and purging the Countrey from Rebels and Malefactors Wee doe hereby giue and commit unto you full power and authority to execute by Marshall Law all notable and apparant Offenders and Malefactors that can neither dispend fourtie shillings in Lands per Annum nor are worth ten pounds in goods and as for such Rebels and Malefactors as are not within compasse of Martiall Law them to apprehend and commit to the Sheere Goale there to remaine and attend their trials by due course of her Majesties common Lawes And for the better advancement of her Majesties service wee doe hereby authorise you to goe aboard any Ship Barque or other Vessell that shall bee or arriue in those parts and to make search in them for Traytors Iesuits Seminaries Letters or prohibited wares and to make stay of them if just occasion so require and to presse and take up any the Boats or Vessels that are or shall bee within the compasse of your command and them to send and employ to such place or places as her Majesties service shall giue you occasion or otherwise to use and dispose of them as you in your discretion shall thinke meetest And this our authority and Commission to you granted to haue continuance during the pleasure of us the Lord Deputie and if wee shall not recull the same during our aboad in this Province then the same to bee in force during the pleasure of the Lord President and no longer And therefore wee doe hereby straightly charge and command all her Majesties Officers Ministers and loving Subjects to be unto you in the due execution of the premisses aiding obedient and assisting at their uttermost perils and for such your whole doings herein These shall bee unto you sufficient warrant and discharge Giuen under her Majesties privie Signet at the Campe before Kinsale the seventh day of Ianuary 1601. George Carew Richard Wingfield George Bourchier To our well beloved Captaine Roger Harvy The eleaventh the Lord President had intelligence from England that Iames the late restored Earle of Desmond was dead and that eighteene hundred quarters of Oates were sent into Mounster for the releefe of our horses CHAP. XXV Don Iuan his request to the Lord Deputie A resolution in Councell to erect certaine Forts in Mounster The request of the Inhabitants of Kinsale to the Lord President Certaine Companies cashiered A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie The Examination of Richard Owen Richard Owen his Message from Tyrone to the Lord Deputie Instructions for Captaine George Blunt THE fourteenth Don Iuan wrote to the Lord Deputie to pray his Lordship that expedition might be made in taking up of shipping for his transportation and that his Lordship would commiserate the poore Spanish Prisoners in Corke who were like to perish for want of food During the siege there had beene taken at Rincorran Castle Ny Parke in sallyes and in the overthrow of Tyrone together with some runawayes that voluntary came unto us about two hundred rather more then lesse whereof some of them had been sent into ENGLAND About this time the Lord Deputie and the Lord President went by Boate to an Iland in the River of Corke called Halbolin sixe or seven miles from the Citie which upon view they thought fit to bee fortified being so seated as that no shipping of any burthen can passe the same but under the commaund thereof Whereupon direction was given to Paul Ive an Ingeneere to raise a Fortification there and also another at Castle Ny Parke to command the Haven at Kinsale Furthermore it was resolved in Councell that Forts should haue beene erected at Baltimore and Beere-haven as also Cittadells at Corke Limrick and Waterford to keepe the Citizens in some awe but none of these workes were performed saue onely the Forts at Halbolyn and Castle Ny Parke aforesayd From the fourteenth of Ianuary unto the last of the same no matter of any consequence hapned all which time was spent in civill causes in sending of dispatches into England as occasions did result in discharging of Companies which were growen weake whereof two thousand in List were casheerd in hastning away of the Spaniards and in setling of Garisons in the East part of Mounster among other private dispatches which the Lord President sent into England hee wrote this Letter unto her Majestie A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie SACRED MAIESTIE NOw that it hath pleased the omnipotent Director of all things to blesse you with a happie Victory over the mâ—licious
order ready to fight then the President drew his owne and the Earle of Thomonds regiments to the boats not twelue score from them which the Rebels preceiving and too late finding their error in a disordered manner made towards our landing place but before they could compasse the fret or cleft rocky ground as aforesaid all our Army was landed Neverthelesse they came on brauely but our falcons made them hault our Vanguard made towards them and a good skirmish ensued which continued untill the other Regiments came up but then they brake and ran faster then wee could follow vpon the place eight and twentie of them was slaine whereof two were officers and thirtie wounded whereof Captaine Tirrell was one shot in the body but not deepe enough There was onely two prisoners taken and presently hanged whereof a servant of Iames Archer the infamous Iesuit was one and with him his masters sword and portace And if the Iesuit himselfe had not beene a light footed Priest hee had fallen into our hands and yet as nimble as hee was hee escaped with much difficulâ—ie and besides him great numbers of them would haue passed the edge of the sword had not they had a boggie Wood at hand wherein they were sheltered The losse of our side was onely the hurting of seven men but none of marke the skirmish being ended wee lodged that night upon the same ground neere unto Castle Dermond CHAP. VII The Spanish ship which arrived neere Ardea broâ—ght Passengers Munition and Money to â—he Rebels The distribâ—ters and distribution of same of the money A Letter from Owen Mac Eggan unto Richard Mac Goghagan at Donbay A Letter from Iames Archer Iesuit to Dominick Collins Iesuit at Donboy A Letter from Iohn Anias to Dominick at Donboy A Letter from Iohn Anias to the Barrâ—n of Lixnaâ— a little before hiâ— execution WITHIN two houres after the skirmish aforesaid was ended the Rebels had intelligence that there was a Spanish patach landed the night before at the haven of Kilmokilloc not farre from Ardea in the Bay of Camnarra shee was purposely sent from Spaine to know the estate of the Castle of Donboy whether it held still for the King of Spaine some Irish passengers was in her namely a Fryer Iames Nelane a Thomond man belonging to Sir Tirlogh Obrian who had the charge of the treasure Owen Mac Eggan the Popes Bishop of Rosse and his vicarius Apostolicus with Letters to sundry Rebels and twelue thousand pounds as the President was credibly informed by one called Moylmurry Mac Edmond Boy Mac Swyny then a Rebell who saw it besides munition which did put such a fresh spirit into the Rebels who formerly were advising rather to breake and disperse then to endure a siege as they solemnly vowed to persevere in the defence of the Castle assuring the Messenger which they confirmed by their Letters that they would hold the same until Michaelmas within which time they prayed aid which the Messenger confidently promised for said hee two thousand men were drawen to the Groyne before I departed thence And the next morning being the fifteenth hee set saile for Spaine carrying with him Brian Okelly and Donnagh Mac Mahon Obrian The distribution of the money by appointment in Spaine as Moylemurry aforesaid affirmed was left principally to the disposition of Donnell Oulevan Beare Owen Mac Eggan Iames Archer and some others and Ellen Cartie wife to Owen Osulevan then a prisoner with Donnell Osulevan Beare did see some part of that treasure disbursed in manner following To Donnell Osulevan Beare 1500. li. To Iames Archer Iesuit 0150 To Donoghe Moyle Mac Cartie 0160 To Finnin Mac Cartie To Dermond Moyle Florence his Brother 0300. li. To Odonevan 0200 To Sir Finnin Odrischall and Conner his Son 0500 To Conner Mac Nemarra 0100 To Richard Blake To the Lord of Lixnaw 0100 To Iohn fits Thomas 0200 To O Conner Kerry 0100 To the Knight of the Valley To Donnell Mac Cartie the Baâ—t 0400 Â Summ. 3710. li. And likewise the said Moilmurry saw foure great Boat loads of wine munition and money taken out of the patach and caried on shore by Osulevan Beare into the Castle of Ardea but how much munition was brought he did not know part thereof was presently sent to Donboy to encourage the Rebels in the Castle Owen Mac Eggan wrote a Letter to Richard Mac Goghagan which is here ensuing truely related and an other written by Archer the Iesuit to Dominick Collins the Fryer and a third from Iohn Anias who conceived himselfe to be a good Ingeniere All which Letters doe here ensue A Letter from Owen Mac Eggan to Richard Mac Goghagan at Donboy MAster Richard I commend mee unto you being very glad of the good report I heare of you whereby I cannot but expect much with God his assistance in that lawfull and godly cause of you I am sorry but it was my lucke to conferre with you and with the rest of your company and informe you of all the State of the matters of Spaine but upon my credit and conscience there is no peece of service now in hand in all Christendome for the King of Spaine then the same that yee haue How great it is to God and necessary for our Countrey affaires you know Moreover within few dayes you shall haue releefe of men come to helpe you thither out of Spaine the great Army of fourteene thousand men are forth comming you shall all be aswell recompensed both by God and by the Kings Majestie as any Ward that is in all the world againe haue me I pray commended to all and especially to father Dominick and bid him bee of good courage there comes with the Army a father of the company an Italian for the Pope his Nuncius in whose company I came from Rome to the Court of Spaine and there hee expects the Armies comming hither hee shall giue all a benediction yea I hope within your Castle there spite of all the devils in hell From the Catholike Campe this present Wednesday 1602. Your assured Friend Owen Hegaine In my sacrifice and other poore prayers I will not faile but commend you and your good cause to God our shippe did arriue three dayes agon and our Letters is come to the King by this time Nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem c. A Letter from Iames Archer Iesuite to Dominick Collins Iesuite at Donboy YOur Letters of Thursday last came to our hands but our disagreeing in some matters makes to bee slacke in performing your desire yet you must take better order for the premises in the meane while how ever becomes of our delayes or insufficiencies bee yee of heroicall minds for of such consequence is the keeping of that Caâ—tle that every one there shall surpasse in deserts any of us here and for Noble valiant Souldiers shall passe immortall throughout all ages to come for the better incouraging let these words be read in their hearing Out
such Land If any of them heereafter be disobedient to her Lawes or breake foorth in Rebellion shee may when they shall bee more divided ruine them more easily for example unto others and if it be thought fit may plant English or other Irish in their Countreyes For although there ever haue beene and hereafter may bee small eruptions in some places which at the first may easily bee suppressed yet the suffering them to grow to that generall head and combination did questionlesse proceed from great errour in the judgement heere and may be easily as I thinke prevented hereafter And further it may please her Majestie to ground her resolution for the time and numbers of the next abatement of the List of her Armie somewhat upon our poore advise from hence and to beleeue that wee will not so farre corrupt our Iudgements with any private respects and without necessitie to continue her Charge seeing wee doe throughly conceiue how grievous it is unto her Estate and that wee may not bee precisely tyed to an Establishment that shall conclude the payments of the Treasure since it hath ever been thought fit to bee otherwise till the comming over of the Earle of Essex and some such extraordinarie Occasions may fall out that it will bee dangerous to attend your Lordships Resolutions and when it will bee safe to diminish the Armie heere that there may bee some course thought of by some other Employment to disburthen this Countrey of the idle Sword-men in whom I finde an inclination apt enough to bee carried elsewhere either by some of this Countrey of best reputation among them or in Companies as now they stand under English Captaines who may bee reinforced with the greatest part of Irish That it may bee left to our discretion to make Passages and Bridges into Countreyes otherwise unaccessable and to build little Pyles of stone in such Garrisons as shall bee thought fittest to bee continuall Bridles upon the people by the commoditie of which wee may at any time drawe the greatest part of the Armie together to make a Head against any part that shall first breake out and yet reserue the places onely with a Ward to put in greater Forces as occasion shall require which I am perswaded will prooue great Pledges upon this Countrey that upon any urgent cause the Queene may safely draw the greatest part of her Armie heere out of the Kingdome to bee employed at least for a time elsewhere wherein I beseech your Lordships to consider what a strength so many experienced Captaines and Souldiers would bee to any Armie of new men erected in England against an Invasion or sent abroad in any offensiue warre But untill these places bee built I cannot conceiue how her Majestie with any safetie can make any great diminution of her Armie Lastly I doe humbly desire your Lordships to receiue the further explanation of my meaning and confirmation of my reasons that doe induce mee unto these propositions for the Lord President of Mounster who as he hath been a very worthy Actor in the reducement and defence of this Kingdome so doe I thinke him to be the best able to giue you through account of the present Estate and future providence for the preservation thereof wherein it may please your Lordships to require his opinion of the hazard this Kingdome is like to runne in if it should by any mightie Power be invaded and how hard it will bee for us in any measure to provide for the present defence if any such bee intended and withall to goe on with the suppression of these that are left in rebellion so that wee must either adventure the kindling of this fire that is almost extinguished or intending onely that leaue the other to exceeding perill And thus having remembred to your Lordships the most materiall poynts as I conceiue that are fittest for the present to bee considered of I doe humbly recommend my selfe and them to your Lordships favour From her Majesties Castle of Dublin the sixe and twentieth of February 1602. After the Lord Deputie departed by reason of Easterly winds the President was stayed aboue three weekes in Dublin during which time every day Posts were emploied betweene them untill the twentieth of March which was the day the Lord President set saile for England the day following hee arrived at Bewmarris at his comming to Chester hee met with the lamentable newes of the decease of his good and gracious Mistresse Queene Elizabeth for whom as he had good cause he extreamely mourned But two dayes following being at Lichfield he assisted the Major in the proclaiming of King Iames which gaue him new life whom I beseech God long to preserue and continue his Posteritie for ever over his triumphant Monarchy of Great Brittaine and Ireland Although my VVorke bee finished yet according to the course I haue held in the end of the two former Bookes I may not omit to recount to the Reader the most memorable Services and accidents which hapned in this yeere 1602. In the Catalogue whereof I must first begin with the forces sent into Carbery with the Earle of Thomond The sending of Sir Charles Wilmot with his Regiment into Kerry The Lord Presidents departure from Corke with the Armie towards Donboy His long abode at Carew Castle expecting Munition and Victuals The difficulty he had in his approaching towards Donboy The defeat given to the Rebels The arrivall of a Spanish Caravell in Beare with Letters of Comfort Money and Munition from Spaine The siege of Donboy the winning and rasing of it The Presidents returne to Corke and Sir Charles Wilmots into Kerry The flight of Iames Archer the Iesuite and Connor Odrischall into Spaine The relapse of Sir Owen Mac Carties Sonnes The Spanish Hostages returned into Spaine The restraint of Cormock Lord of Muskery His escape and reduction The winning of the Castle of Mocrumpe The defeat of Tirrell and his Bonnoghs in Muskery The sending of Sir Samuell Bagnall with fifteene hundred men to the Lord Deputie The Service done upon the Knight of Kerry The flight of Tirrell with his Bonoghs out of the Province The defeat of the Rebells in Glangarne The flight of William Burke with his Bonoghs Osulevan Beare and Connor Kerry out of Mounster The overthrow of the Cartyes in Carbery And the killing of the Popes Apostolique Vicar Owen Mac Egan The sending of a Regiment with Munition and Victualls for the service in Connaght The defeat of the Lord of Lixnaw The finall Reduction of Mounster The appointing of Sir Charles Wilmot and Sir George Thornton joynt Commissioners for the Government of Mounster And the departure of the Lord President into ENGLAND FINIS 1599. Devoreux Butler Roche Blunt Carew The landing of the Lord Deputie and Lord President in Ireland St. Lawrence Carew The Warrant for the passing of letters Patents to the Lo. President Norris Carew Blunt Carew Norris Norris Norris Cary. The Lo. Presidents Letters Patents Norris Carew Carew Blunt Carew