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A76449	The whole proceedings of the siege of Drogheda in Ireland, vvith a thankfull remembrance for its wonderfull delivery. Raised with Gods speciall assistance by the prayers, and sole valour of the besieged, with a relation of such memorable passages as have falne out there, and in the parts neer adjoyning since this late rebellion. Written by Nicholas Bernard, Deane of Ardagh in Ireland.	Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1642 (1642)	Wing B2020; Thomason E110_1; ESTC R11178	79,934	118

resolutions they thought fit to visit by the way and where they supposed there had not beene a man they found so intrenched and fortefied that it proved more difficult then was expected yet our men drew up boldly to them within pistoll shot and though it was not the intent of that dayes worke yet being provoked bestowed thousands of bullets amongst them to the death of many of the Rebels in their Trenches but by the ill shots of our Gunners who still missed the house with the fall and continuance of abundance of raine whereby their matches were washed out they were compelled to retreate and so came dropping wet home yet by Church-time to give God thankes for their great preservation who though continuing so long in that imminent danger which they dreamed not of at their going out yet was there not a man lost in the place onely some of slight wounds by poysoned bullets and want of good medicines miscarryed a long time afterwards and in the meane time some were sent to the next village of Colpe where they loaded themselves with their Corne and returned without any opposition And not many dayes after upon the hearing of our preparation for a reply the Rebels in the aforesaid Castle of Stanime abandoned it of themselves and so it fell into our hands without bestowing one shot more And here it hath beene reckoned as a thing very observable that in all these onsets invasions and Sallies out howsoever multitudes have dyed of the famine divers unarmed pillagers met with abroad have beene taken and butchered some dyed of wounds by the unskilfulnesse of the Chirurgion and the like there hath not hitherto beene killed of armed men upon the place in fight as I have beene enformed above twelve of ours and not one Officer and of those there was but one man that was not fetcht off from them and that is accounted the due of his too much presumption who at the assault of a house charged and discharged his musket twice or thrice against the very doore where there were many playing at him from within and so stood as a marke for them without so much as stirring a foote of his ground but of the Rebels how many hundreds if not thousands have beene killed may easily be summed up in the reading This wonderfull preservation was I beleeve the occasion of that false rumour raised by them as if some of ours had sold their Soules to the Devill to be shot-free and yet at other times to encourage their Souldiers who were continually upon their flight they would upon most Sallies perswade them of hundreds of ours slaine with many Commanders of whom some had dyed often in their reports when there was not one nay scarce would they suffer them to beleeve their owne senses that any were killed of theirs Howsoever those of the soberer sort were much convinced of the cause by the event apparently seeing that God was with us After one dayes rest March the first my Lord Moore and the Governour went out againe the same way with a competent number of Horse and Foote when after the securing in of at least two hundred pounds worth of Corne by foure Companyes under the command of Sir John Borlace and the burning of such of their lodgings as had remained of the former dayes work at Colpe they advanced further their first resistance was two Companies of the Rebels stealing along the side of a Ditch who being discovered Captaine Billinsley was sent with 80. Musketteers and comming as unexpectedly upon them as they had entended upon us were soone routed A Lieutenant with thirteene Souldiers were slaine and a Captaine of the O Neales taken prisoner the rest escaped into the Castle of Stanime by the helpe of a Bogge which stopped the horse in their chase the Castle of Colpe after much hazard of such as first entred it by the Pikes and stones throwne of those within whereby they were three or foure times beaten downe the narrow staires at length was taken where they killed them every one to the number of twenty sixe persons and yet neither then nor all that day was one of ours lost With the Captain taken prisoner wee found many Petitions two Letters superscribed to Sir Phelemy O Neile with the title of Earle of Tyrone and Generall of Ireland But yet the foundation upon which those airy honours were built was the condition of his taking this Towne but that day his Excellency was much humbled who unknowne to us had stole over the river onely with five men and by our unexpected approach being cut off from securing himselfe where he intended crept into a furbush and so lay like a trembling Hare in his Forme till the evening where being so neare us he had good lucke he was not started up by so many hunters which needs must have beene the best sport that day Some rough abusive greetings past and repast from each side the river which parted them from any other then such a tongue combate ours giving them lawfull warning of a visit shortly and that not by a cowardly creeping in the darke according to their custome under our wals but at noone day when we might be visible asked for their drunken Generall in derision of whom some of our Trumpeters gave some scornefull musicke and for one Pistoll of theirs discharged in defiance we returned them ten and for one Musquet twenty and thus our Souldiers in their retreat stretching their throats to be heard with such kinde of language they made up a merry end of that dayes skirmish Some English now as at other times tooke the opportunity to get from under their thraldome and enformed us of some advantages whom commonly they put in Trowses to be taken for Irish and in the front to be first killed yet they usually scaped from these we understood by what lying practises they had kept their Souldiers from running away lately March the third some other forces marched out under the command of Lieutenant Colonell Waineman early in the morning who advanced as farre as Marlingtowne about three miles from us where by the former frights they found the Towne abandoned so that their whole worke that day was to reape what was left for which all sorts were permitted to goe forth for pillage the lanes were so thickned with all sorts of graine that the Spring seemed to be Harvest and the Vernall equinoctiall to be mistaken for the Autumnall such loads of Corne were mounted upon horses that upon the hils they looked like moving haggards by which our great extremity was turned presently into plenty and whereas our chiefest want was Malt the whole Towne having drunke nothing but water for a weeke were now set a brewing againe and for expression of joy there wanted no Bonefires of three or foure Townes together whereby a cleare day grew dusky by the smoake A faire house of one Draicots who by the Rebels was newly created Viscount Marlington for his merit in the cause

in the Country is fled leaving his Wife and Family with about fifty Musketteeres to defend it This howsoever the first time it was denyed my Lord Moore and the Governour as it had beene before to my Lord of Ormond who demanded the surrender of it in the Kings name yet the second time hearing of our pieces of battery approaching gave it up upon Composition and so we have a Garrison there also by which our Towne is securely Flanked on both sides the River After this by the escaping of many poore English from their servitude we had evident assurances of the treacherous messages and plots of our Popish Inhabitants for the betraying this Towne unto them some who never were here before could name us the men describe ●he places by the nearenesse to such a Tower designe the time all which agreeing with our former informations and suspition was a sure testimony How many Letters in the midst of these forlorne hopes have I yet seene of theirs in a vaine comforting themselves with an assurance to use their owne words that the Almighty would doubtlesse favour their just and innocent cause and their holy intentions Another I have seene of O Relies to my Lord Moore that he had no newes but that powder was in making every where to use his owne words thankes be to God and our good King c. But we knew at the same time he was falne sicke upon the newes of Sir Phelemies late routing at Tallagh-hallan To relate what a change presently there was in this Towne from that extremity of scarcenesse and deernesse to what a plenty and cheapnesse things were come would be incredible egges which during this Siege one was a rich present worthy of thankes from the chiefest were now fifteene a penny Hens at two pence milch Cowes at five shillings Horses which before the Siege were rated at three or foure pounds sold for twelve pence nay commonly passed among friends for a quart of Beere The finest Wheate in the Market for eight shillings a Barrell Fish to which we had beene altogether strangers multiplyed abundantly though such a glut in reason cannot be imagined to hold many moneths by the burning so many thousand barrels of Corne further from us which they could not bring in Many bloody murthers were committed upon the English Protestants in revenge of this late defeate At Atherdee they killed all that were remaining there the next night neere Slane an old Gentlewoman with her Daughter and Grandchilde had their throates cut in their beds in divers other places they drowned Men Women and Children The Earle of Ormond Lieutenant Generall was now not farre from us with 3000. Foote and 500. Horse burning the County of Meath and on the eleventh of March attended with divers Colonels and Captaines did us the honour of a visit and dined herewith my Lord Moore at Droghedah who began to recover some competent ability of giving such a troope some entertainement Many at the sight of the weakenesse of our Wals fell into admiration of the possibility of our holding out so long against such a multitude His Lordships intention of being the raiser of our Siege thus unexpectedly prevented God giving that honour before his approach to the feeble strength of the besieged yet was very zealous to take the faire opportunity now given him of the full routing of the Rebels so newly disperst by a present quicke prosecution of them before they could get any head againe Which by my Lord Moore and Sir Henry Tichborne our Governours relation finding very seasonable and of little difficulty called a Councell of Warre viz. the Lord Moore and our Governour Sir Thomas Lucas Sir Simon Harcourt Sir Robert Ferrald with others These upon mature deliberation finding good grounds to consent with his Lordship and conceiving great hopes of a good and speedy successe even to the clearing of those Northerne parts wrote to the Lords Justices very earnestly to enlarge his Lordships Commission which before was so straitned that in the literall sense it could scarce stand with a liberty of relieving us if there had beene need being commanded not to passe over the River of the Boyne beyond which the greater part of our Towne is seated alledging many reasons to enforce it preventing an Objection in the want of victuals by a provision undertaken by my Lord Moore from his owne Lands neere adjoyning And indeed such a confidence was apprehended of prevailing in this motion that our Governour had picked out tenne Companies of our best men fittest for that service and my Lord of Ormond designed the like number of lesse experienced Souldiers for our guard in their roome my Lord Moore as the best guide in those parts and Lieutenant Colonell Weyneman chosen by the said Councell of Warre to be Commanders of them All were ready for their march and appointed to meete his Lordship at Slane five miles off But the Lords Justices proving still constant to their former injunction and renewing a stricter command for his present retreate to Dublin that designe so desired by our Governour as an assured meanes of an instant reducing the whole County of Louth was put to a stand and thereupon our scattered rebellious route who before were in a trembling fit now tooke heart againe and gathered at Atherdee and Dondalke whither as we heard daily posted thousands out of Meath and Louth as to their safest receptacles and presumed not long after to threaten us with another visit The Earle of Ormond submitting in this to the wisdome of the State as presuming some other important affaires were in hand which might justly necessitate that command retreated accordingly onely in answer to our Governours request sent him backe foure companies of Foote and two troopes of Horse with two pieces of Battery Upon the receipt of which my Lord Moore and our Governour who in all things have proceeded very unanimously for the prevention of a further multiplication of Rebels which a longer delay might have produced resolved to adventure upon the same Designe themselves which they were willing others might have beene honoured with and so upon the one and twentieth of March with one thousand Foote and two hundred horse they marched that way ward first finished what they had left undone at Slane in burning the Towne and some villages in the way In the Castle there was returned againe a Garrison of twelve men who by the presumption of the strength of it had a good minde to hold out but assoone as they saw our pieces of battery yeelded and had quarter onely one of our Souldiers formerly runne away from us there taken was hanged about three miles off some bodies of the Rebels appearing a party of Horse was sent out killed forty of them and so pursued them till the rest were employed in burning the Country after them and so continued that day and the next The three and twentieth day of March they marched with fire and smoke towards A●herdee about a

mercy but six of them were hanged one of them confessed expresly that his charge was only to ●obbe the Clergie which he was taught was not so much as a veniall sinne and which hee performed accordingly to the ●ndoing of some three or foure many Fryers and Priests were busy in posting 〈◊〉 and fro till they were stopped some upon the pretence that they wan●●d vi●tualls craved leave to departe and were officious in giving the Rebells their Benidictions who had a quarter of a yeare before enioyned the vulgar one fasting day extraordinary each weeke for the good successe of some speciall designe for the Catholique cause which we dreamed not of and yet their want appeared evidently to be but feigned by the charity of the townes-people to the meanest Prisoners whom they not only pittied and publickly cryed out against our hard usage of such poore harmlesse people but were so charitable in releeving them with meat and cloathes that they make little suit to be released then whom it may easily be beleeved their Priests and Fryers were of much more value Two severall nights I must not forget the Relation of when upon no light grounds we had good cause to be suspitious of some traps laid for us one night dangerous speeches were given out which might beare the exposition of some Massacre one of no meane qualitie was heard to say to his neighbour This night will be our opportunity another in Irish to his fellow in the street Now will be the time or never which when he suspected an English Protestant over-hearing and understanding him charged him instantly with silence somewhat was in it that one of the chiefe of the Towne who seemed to love me truly wisht me not to lodge within my owne house that night but to accept of his About Fleven a clocke as we were expecting some mischiefe it fell so out that a Post from Dublin brought us the newes that the ●ewry was taken againe by the Scots which being so confidently affirmed and instantly rumoured through the Towne I verily beleeve did us good service though it proved but like the surmised noyse of a great hoast in the Syians eares which broke up the siege of Samaria howsoever the present beleefe o● it tooke that effect that the Countenances of the Towns-men were apparently altered The next morning in their courteous carriage to the C●ptaines and Officers to whom the day before they could not dissemble a good look● But when upon inqui●●e they had found this newes to be but Counterfeit ●●yne they returned againe to the Designe of another night worke when a Lord● Sonne and a noted Papist being then by his turne with the Towne Armes and his owne standing Company Captaine of the Watch there was some further attempt given as being the last night of any hope knowing that a thousand men were upo● their much within eight miles of us and would not ●a●l● to be with us the next At a house over against the main Guard where his owne men were hee tooke some small oceasion to quarrell and with base language to abuse my Lord Moore who wisely bauked it as conceiving tha● time of the night not to be seasonable for an uproare Comm●nded the Rebels mainta●ned that they were not Rebels and the like Nay proceeded so farre as twice to aske his Lievtenant being a Protestant What side hee would be of if there were any Commotion In fine it was so apprehended by all the Commanders in the roome that they presently stood upon their Guards with their Pistols spanned under their cloakes expecting some Watch-word from him either to the main● Guard or to some other confederate unknowne else-where And for prevention some strucke betwixt him and the Window towards the street My Lord Moores horse were privately drawne up ten stood alwayes before the doore and the rest in severall divisions guarded the streets to keepe all within The Protestant English Souldiers to the number of Sevenscore were silently called up also which when he perceived he did his best to make up things againe but they had gone too farre to be so easily cured and there were other circumstances not long before which made the suspition smell the stronger as his changing many of his foot Company from Protestants to Papists and those to be of his owne servants and Tenants Most nights when he and the Towne had the Watch the Peeces mounted upon the Gates were found stopped with Garlicke of purpose to breake them that whole day was he continually passing from one Fryerie to another whether for B●nedictions or Consultations wee wot not and that very night he went his first round as Captaine of the Watch which then was only for the North side and might have beene dispatched in halfe an houre he was above three houres before his returne altogether confirming our jealousie● in his being now laying the tr●un● and disposing of all things for the perfe●tion of some Treacherie But doubtlesse had the Enemie kept his houre and according as was threatned and expected approched the wals that night things had not beene so concluded But thanks be to God who tooke of the wheels of their resolutions that the mischiefe that they had devised they had not the courage to drive on to any perfection In the midst of these distractions whereas others with good cause were deserted of their Pastors I was deserted of my Congregation most of the better sort fled to Sea and with very affectionate expressions entreated me to the like presuming by the barbarous cruell usage of others of the Clergie my danger to exceed theirs those who could not flie came about mee for the contrary I was soon resolved as indeed never admitting any other inclination not to leave them in their misery but to live and die with them remembring that of our Saviour that the Shepherd should hazard his life for his sheep as that of Saint Ambrose to Iustina the Empresse when he was commanded either to receive the Arrians or to leave Millain answered Non prodam lupis gregem mihi commissum hic occide si libet But one of the chiefest cares that lay upon me even more then my life was that great treasure of my Lord Primates Library which I had the happinesse to be trusted with in his absence Wee heard of the daily rudenesse of the vulgar in burning and cutting in pieces the papers and books of such of the Clergy already made a prey of as in especiall the Bishop of Meaths and the Lord Conways Library the Manuscripts howsoever invaluable yet by their mean clothing likely to be least respected by such illiterate hands No Barques left in the harbour to remove them the best course which the misery and necessity of that time would afford was not neglected but none could promise safety At length God who useth to be then most seen in helping when al sence faileth allaid much of this and our other feares by sending us a competent strength of a

of the flourishing their naked swords on the top of the Castle gave notice of being their owne Upon the possession of this all were revived and tooke themselves Masters of the Towne already we quenched the fires that had annoyed the former Tenants and manned it with thirty good Musquetteeres who being within halfe Musket shot played so thicke into the Towne that not a man could stirre in the streetes we drew up our pieces of Ordnance against the inward Gate and with some ten Wooll packes found in the Castle very opportunely made a kind of a Bullwarke for our Musqueteers both to save them from their Cannon and that they might play over them without danger of any other shot though assoone as they perceived this secure approach they troubled us with neither but left their pieces there loaden Our men for distinction sake against the entry of the Towne put every one a white paper upon his hat The Governour tooke one Division with a party of Horse and drew by the backe part of the Towne towards the North-gate out of which they upon the Castle had discerned the f●ight of multitudes of them killed forty in his way Sir Phelemy O Neile who not long before had made such bragges confidently assured his men of the death of so many of our Commanders and as an evidence of it brought forth his owne cloathes into the Market place all bloodyed as if they had beene ours stripped by him now seeing us thus encompassing the Towne and himselfe like to be taken in the net also stole away over the River in which divers in that haste were drowned accompanyed with divers others who as they were going were heard to lament their destiny and curse that Fatall day scarse knowing whither to retreate with any welcome At a by Gate the Governour entered first shortned some of their journey whom he met there posting out and instantly sent a Sergeant to my Lord Moore to signifie to him the Towne was deserted and that he might securely move forwards which as soone as by the second message of a Captaine with some Musqueteers he received a confirmation of he marched on and accordingly found the event beating open the Gates tooke possession of two Brasse pieces and another with the Market place and so about seven a clocke at night they took the Towne without any further resistance The night thus drawing on and the full tyde secured Sir Phelemy in his flight from our prosecution of him The number of the slaine is uncertaine but about a hundred of them were killed at and after the taking of it and of ours about foureteene which were lost upon that unlucky Castle onely Sir Phelemy after he had gone two miles off in a shew of what revenge he could make burnt some part of a faire Castle of my Lord Moores called B●llymaskomlin sentencing him all the while to be a Traytour to God and the King The poore English Protestants to the number of six-score who had received the sentence of death within themselves by this sudden entry of their friends being set at liberty were almost beside themselves for joy Pillage of all sorts was here found in abundance as being of late the Treasury of the County of Lough for the share of which each Captaine tooke the fortune of his Quarter The Souldiers feasted themselves with all sorts of provision which they found dressed to their hands Turkies and Hens were of no value with them that as I have beene told within foure dayes there were about 4000. eaten it was ordinary at one Table to see ten or twenty couple of them in Ranke and File cut off in an instant Sir Henry Tichburne our Governour behaved himselfe throughout the whole very valiantly in the hazard of his person with the meanest Souldier my Lord Moore is accordingly by all applauded as needing rather a b●idle then a spurre in those attempts each Captaine hath gained himselfe much honour and every Souldier deserves encouragement who shrunke not an inch from what they were commanded The glad newes of which we were here saluted with in the streetes the next day being Sunday just as we were comming from Church in the afternoone where we had beene praying for that blessing upon them This victory the breaknecke of the Rebellion North-ward and with which I may conclude as compleating our Siege delivery is by all attributed unto Gods owne handy-worke which succeeded beyond our thoughts or expectation The number of our men by the so many staying behind at Atherdee and stealing backe hither with their pillage upon Muster that morning were found to be but seven hundred and fifty Foote and two hundred Horse and there were then neere three thousand of the Rebels within the Towne able to have beate us out being entered For brasse pieces and other such Artillery they exceeded us also besides the defence which nature had given the place as well as industry This poore Towne of Drogheda when they were the besiegers there were as hath beene since confessed by some of their chiefe sixteene thousand sometimes besetting us the famine pressing us very sore so that what with death and sicknesse we had not above one thousand fighting men yet by Gods goodnesse held out foure moneths and notwithstanding the homebred treacheries their mighty onsets and Alarmes at last with a few were routed Now that this strong Towne of Dundalke every way so well provided with men Ammunition and Victuals thus to be taken with such a small number and in so short a time as one day who can but acknowledge it to be Gods speciall worke indeed putting an evident distinction betweene them that seeke him aright and such as seeke after superstitious vanities That seeing they have boasted Religion to be the cause God hath declared by the event with which he is pleased in supporting ours so fraudulently undermined by theirs in giving us so many wonderfull if not miraculous preservations for which to him onely be raised a monument of everlasting praise and thankesgiving from us and ours from one Generation to another Not unto us but to the King eternall immortall invisible and onely wise God be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen AN APPENDIX OF Some other Occurrences fallen out since in the prosecuting of our victory and further discovery of divers particulars touched upon in the former Relation UPon this quick and seasonable regaining of Dundalke the Key of the North the State thought fit to continue Sir Henry Tichburne there with such an encrease of strength as was necessary and committed the present Government of this Towne to the Lord Viscount Moore of Drogheda who as he hath his honour from hence so his Lands lie about it by which double interest none can be imagined to be more carefull of our preservation About this time we received some Prisoners late Inhabitants of this Towne very luckily escaped from the Rebels taken at the Skirries a little before Christmas last upon their