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A large and particular relation of the affairs of Ireland in a letter to a person of honour / from a gentleman at Chester who came from Dublin, June 26, and arrived here July 1, 1689.
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J. M.
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A Large and Particular RELATION OF THE Affairs of Ireland In a LETTER to a Person of Honour from a Gentleman at Chester who came from Dublin June 26 and arrived here July 1 1689. Licensed and Entred according to Order Chester July 1. 1689. SIR THIS is to acquaint you that I am safely arrived here having run thro' many hazards and dangers but being resolved to attempt the getting away from Dublin notwithstanding all Difficulties in order to inform the Government here of the present posture of Affairs in Ireland on Tuesday last at ten of the Clock at Night my self and four more persons came to the Point of Dawky an Island toward Bray having order'd a small Wherry and two Boat-men to stay our coming under a great Rock there being a whole Regiment placed along the shore between Dublin and Bray to avoid being seen we went down the great Rock to the Boat but not so privately but the next Watch made towards us about thirty in number we made haste and got into the Boat they following called to us and swore they would fire if we did not come back notwithstanding which we put to Sea knowing it was no less than hanging matter if we return'd the Souldiers we believe wanted Match so that there was no shots made We landed in Wales near Mossom on Thursday last having but two Boat-men and three Oars one being lost getting off from the Rock My Brother M was Pilate but neither he nor any of us had ever been on the English shore before I here send you the following Relation in short how it is with our Friends in poor Ireland There has of late been a constant Correspondence between several Persons of note in Lancashire with the late King in order to raise an Army in England who made several Voyages in the Custom-house Boat which I understand has been taken lately at Denby but B c. was not then in her They are now fitting out some other Boats for the same purpose and a Yatch likewise a Privateer of 14 Guns and 60 Men one Bennett is Captain of her I was on board her and saw how she is provided and went to drink with Bennett who swore he would take and burn all the Vessels on the Welsh Coast in 14 days he sets to Sea this Week There was a design to have had two Camps one on each side of Dublin in sight of the Harbour about a Month since but at that time Enniskilling sending forth 400 Horse they went up as far as the Counties of Leitrim and Longford thro' Westmeath and part of Meath and Cavan and brought back from the Irish above 6000 head of Cattel Difarming several Companies in their way which made the late King resolve to bend all his Force against that place to reduce it and accordingly Gen. Rose march'd to Trim where he rendevouz'd 8000 Horse and Foot But at that time an Express being brought to the late King and French Embassadour who lives in Sir John Davys House That Collnel Kirk had Sail'd to the Relief of Derry and that Derry had made a vigorous Sally and killed many of their Men General Rose and his Army were forthwith order'd against Derry with the whole Flower of the Army and to leave Enniskilling until Derry were taken which they were daily in expectation of for the late K. said on Munday last The Garrison did at that time live on Horse-flesh and were in a starving Condition but still continue to make brave Sallies and as the Irish own have killed near 3000 in two late Sallies There is but two Regiments in Dublin and very few Forces in Munster and Leinster all are in the North about Belfast Carrick-Fergus Lisburn Antrim and Colrain the latter whereof they are fortifying and erecting in it great Stores of Provisions c. to supply the Army Enniskilling has taken several parcels of their Provisions and Ammunition going to Derry and have defeated many Parties of the Irish Coll. Kirk had not gotten into Derry when I came away but they expected daily to hear he had attempted it It is believ'd that no less then 10000 have been kill'd before Derry And Will. Dopping Brother to James Dopping the Attorney has exceedingly contributed to the preservation of that Place in his careful and wary distribution of the Provisions c. being Clerk of the Stores He is extreamly rated at by the Irish and admired by the Garrison The late K. sent his Wife and Children to him with a Pardon and great Promises but he rejected all and sent her back again The King refuses to let Mr. Price come away until Nugent be first sent over and 10000 l. which he saith Mr. Price owes him Money is very scarce there for the French Ambassador will not part with any Money until the Irish Army be landed in Scotland or England thinking to get many Friends by their punctual Payment there At present they have coined Copper Money which passes for 6 d. tho' not worth half a Farthing and doth oblige the People to take them but will take none of it in his Revenue which is one way to get all the Money in the Country into their own hands They design likewise to make half Crowns and Crown pieces of the same sort The Parliament go on and the Royal Assent is given to the following Acts viz. 1. Twenty Thousand Pound per Month for 13 Months to the King. 2. Repealing the Act of Settlement and Restoring old Proprietors 3. Liberty of Conscience 4. Taking off Penal Laws and Oaths 5. Taking off all Writs of Error and Appeals to England 6. Taking off Valuation Money and other Rights from the Clergy 7. Repealing the Act of the 23 Octob. 8. No benefit of Clergy for Two Years 9. All Patents for Offices void 10. Ireland to be independant of England They have seized on all Protestants Goods and Estates that are come away and are daily doing the like to them that stay under colour of Plots or some Design or other I hope in God they will hasten Forces to relieve those People which have suffer'd so much Tyrconnel still keeps at Chappel-Lizard being out of favour The Protestant Lords have entred their Protest against the Parliament Proceedings and among the rest the young Lord of Hoath is very brisk I have since my Arrival met with some of our Irish Gentlemen that are said in Ireland to be managers against their K. and Country having the Honour to be much talked of there and yet are wanting Employment here which is ill luck on both hands They have seized on all c. I am SIR Your humble Servant J.M. Advertisement THE History of the late Revolution in England With the Causes and Means by which it was Accomplished Together with the Settlement there of under their most Serene Majesties King William and Queen Mary by the Lords and Commons Assembled in this present Parliament Printed for Tho. Salisbury at the Sign of the Temple near Temple-bar in Fleetstreet 1689. London Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1689.