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A80935	A letter from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to the Honorable William Lenthall Esq; Speaker of the Parliament of England, relating the several successes it hath pleased God lately to give the Parliaments forces there. Together with the several transactions about the surrender of Kilkenny, and the articles agreed thereupon. Die Sabbathi, 13 Aprilis, 1650. Ordered by the Parliament, that the letter of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, ... be forthwith printed and published; ... Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1649-1650 : Cromwell); Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1650 (1650)	Wing C7103; Thomason E598_2; ESTC R205065	10,773	22

promised the Soldiery that if we should take it by storm the Inhabitants shall give them a reasonable gratuity in money in lieu of the Pillages and so made it death for any man to Plunder which I shall still keep them to by Gods help although we should be put to make an entry by force unless I shall finde the Inhabitants engaging still with the Governor and Soldiery to make resistance you may see also the way I chose for reducing the place was such as tended most to save the Inhabitants from Pillage and from perishing promiscuously the innocent with the guilty viz. by attempting places which being possest might bring it to a Surrender rather then to enter the city it self by force If what is here exprest may beget resolution in you which would occasion your safety and be consistent with the end of my coming hither I shall be glad and rest Your Friend March 26th 1650. SIR Although I may not doubt with Gods help to maintain this place as I have formerly written yet I do send you the Bearer to let you know that I am content to Treat with you of Propositions to be made of either side so there be a cessation of Arms and all acts of Hostility during that Treaty so expecting your answer I rest Sir Your Servant WA BUTLER Kilkenny the 25th of March 1650. A Copy of my Lords Letter to the Governor of Kilkenny SIR Except the condition were much bettered and we in a worse posture and capacity to reduce you then before the last Letters I sent you I cannot imagine whence these high Demands of yours arise I hope in God before it be long you may have occasion to think other thoughts to which I leave you I shall not so much as Treat with you upon these Propositions You desire some Articles for Honors sake which out of honesty I do deny viz. That of Marching in the Equipage you mention I tell you my business is to reduce you from Arms and the Country to quietness and their due subjection to put an end to War and not to lengthen it wishing if it may stand with the will of God this people may live as happily as they did before the bloody Massacre and their troubles and better too if you and the company with you be of those who resolve to continue to hinder this we know who is able to reach you and I believe will For the Inhabitants of the Town of whom you seem to have a care you know your retreat to be better then theirs and therefore it s not impolitickly done to speak for them and to engage them to keep us as long from you as you can If they be willing to expose themselves to ruine for you you are much beholding unto them As for your Clergy-men as you call them in case you agree for a Surrender they shall march away safely with their Goods and what belongs to them but if they fall otherwise into my hands I believe they know what to expect from me If upon what I proposed formerly with this addition concerning them you expect things to be cleared I am content to have Commissioners for that purpose I rest Sir Your Servant O. C. March 26. 1650. A Letter from the Governor of Kilkenny SIR In Answer of your Letter If you be pleased to appoint Officers for a Treaty for the surrender of the Castle and City upon Soldier-like conditions I will appoint also Officers of such quality as are in the Garison provided that Hostages of equality be sent on both sides and a cessation of Arms be also granted during the Treaty assuring a performance on my side of all that will be agreed upon I rest Sir Your Servant Wa Butler Kilkenny 26 March 1650. I desire to know what 's become of my Trumpeter whom I imployed two days ago Wa Butler For General Cromwel The Lord Lieutenants Answer to the Governor of Kilkenny SIR That no extremity may happen for want of a right understanding I am content that Commissioners on each part do meet in the Leagure at the Southside of the city authorized to treat and conclude for which purpose if you shall speedily send me the names and qualities of the Commissioners you will send out I shall appoint the like number on my part authorized as aforesaid to meet with them and shall send in a safe conduct for the coming out and return of yours as for Hostages I conceive it needless and dilatory I expect that the Treaty begin by Eight of the clock this evening and end by twelve during which time onely I shall agree to a cessation expecting your speedy Answer March 26. For the Governor of Kilkenny A Letter from the Governor of Kilkenny SIR Yours of this instant I received and do hold the time appointed for the Treaty and cessation of Arms to be too short Major John Comerford Captain David Turnball James Cowley Esq Recorder of this city and Edward Rothe Merchant are the Commissioners appointed by me who will meet such Commissioners as you fix on at the place by you appointed by six of the clock to morrow morning or sooner if you please so as Hostages be sent to me for their safe return for without Hostages to Gentlemen will not go The reason that I conceive the time to be short is because your Trumpeter came not hither till nine of the clock this night so as I conceive the business cannot be ended in so short a time I have commanded mine to forbear acts of Hostility during this Treaty and I desire that you do the like I rest Sir Your Servant Wa Butler Kilkenny 26 March 1650. A Copy of my Lord Lieutenants Answer to the Governor of Kilkenny SIR The reason of the so late coming of my Answer to you was because my Trumpet was refused to be received at the North end of the Town and where he was admitted was kept long upon the Guard I have sent you a safe conduct for the four Commissioners named by you and if they be such as are unwilling to take my word I shall not to humor them agree to Hostages I am willing to a Treaty for four hours provided it begin by twelve of the clock this morning but for a cessation the time last appointed being past I shall not agree unto it to hinder my own proceedings March 27. 1650. Your Servant O. Cromwel By both the Governors of the City Castle of Kilkenny I Do here appoint and authorize Major John Comerford Captain David Turnbal James Cowly Recorder of Kilkenny and Edward Roth Merchant to treat and agree with the Lord General Cromwel or such as he shall appoint touching the yielding up to the said Lord General this city and castle of Kilkenny and the conditions whereupon they shall be given up as witness our hands this Twenty sixth of March 1650. Wa Butler Ja Welsh A Warrant from the Governors of Kilkenny to the Commissioners to treat Articles of Agreement between the Commissioners appointed by his Excellency the Lord Cromwel Lord Lieutenant General of Ireland for and on behalf of his Excellency of the one part And those appointed Commissioners by the respective Governors of the City and Castle of Kilkenny of the other party March 27. 1650. I. THat the respective Governors of the City and Castle of Kilkenny shall deliver unto his Excellency the Lord Cromwel the Lord Lieutenent General of Ireland for the use of the State of England the said City and Castle with all Arms Ammunition and Provisions of publique Stores therein without imbezlement Except what is hereafter excepted at or before nine of the clock to morrow morning II. That all the Inhabitants of the said City of Kilkenny and all others therein shall be defended in their persons goods and estates from the violence of the Soldiery and that such as shall desire to remove thence elsewhere shall have liberty so to do with their goods within three moneths after the date of these Articles III. That the said Governors with all the Officers and Soldiers under their respective commands in the said City and Castle none excepted and all others who shall be so pleased shall march away at or before nine of the clock to morrow morning with Bag and Baggage the Officers with their Attendants with their Arms and with their Horses not exceeding the number of One hundred fifty horses their Foot Soldiers to march out of the Town two miles distant with their Arms and with Drums beating Colours flying Matches lighted and Ball in bouch and then and there to deliver up the said Arms to such as shall be appointed for receiving them excepting One hundred Muskets and One hundred Pikes allowed them for their defence against the Tories IV. That the said Officers and Soldiers shall have from his Excellency a safe Conduct six miles from the City of Kilkenny and from thence-forward a Pass for their security out of his Excellencies quarters The said Pass to be in force for six days from the date of these presents they marching at least ten miles each day and doing no prejudice to the quarters V. That the City of Kilkenny shall pay Two thousand pounds as a Gratuity to his Excellencies Army whereof one thousand pounds to be paid on the Thirteth of this Moneth and the other thousand pounds on the first day of May next following to such as shall be by his Excellency thereunto appointed VI. That Major John Comerford and Mr. Edward Roth shall remain Hostages under the power of his Excellency for performance of the said Articles on the party of the said City and Garison of Kilkenny VII Lastly for performance of all and singular the premises the Parties hereunto have interchangeably put their hands the day and year first above-written Ia Cowley Edward Roth. Iohn Comerford David Turnbal FINIS

A LETTER FROM The Lord Lieutenant of IRELAND TO The Honorable William Lenthall Esq Speaker of the Parliament of England Relating the several Successes it hath pleased God lately to give the Parliaments Forces there Together with the several Transactions about the Surrender of KILKENNY And the ARTICLES agreed thereupon Die Sabbathi 13 Aprilis 1650. ORdered by the Parliament That the Letter of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the several Papers and Transactions therein inclosed be forthwith printed and published and that the consideration of the said Letter be referred to the Councel of State Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by Edward Husband and John Field Printers to the Parliament of England 1650. For the Honorable William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the Parliament of England Mr. Speaker I Think the last Letter I troubled you with was about the taking of Cahiz since which time there was taken by beating up their quarters two Colonels a Lieutenant Colonel Major and divers Captains all of Horse Colonel Johnson Lieutenant Colonel Longhorn and Major Simes were shot to death as having served under the Parliament but now taken up Arms with the Enemy Hearing that Castlehaven and Lieutenant General Farrald were about Kilkenny with their Army lying there quartered and about Carlo and Loughlin-Bridge and hearing also that Colonel Hewson with a good party from Dublin was come as far as Ballisannon and had taken it we thought fit to send an Express to him to march up towards us for a conjunction And because we doubted the sufficiency of his party to march with that security which were to be wished Colonel Shilbourn was ordered to go with some Troops of Horse out of the county of Wexford which was his station to meet him And because the Enemy was possessed of the fittest places upon the Barrow for our conjunction we sent a party of seven or eight hundred Horse and Dragoons and about five hundred Foot to attempt upon Castlehaven in the Rere if he should have endeavored to have defended the places against Colonel Hewson Our party being a light nimble party was at the Barrow side before Col Hewson could be heard of and possessed a House by the Grage They marched towards Loughlin and faced Castlehaven at a pretty distance but he shewed no forwardness to engage Our party not being able to hear of Colonel Hewson came back as far as Thomas-town a small walled Town and a Pass upon the Nur between Kilkenny and Ross which our men attempting to take the Enemy made no great resistance but by the advantage of the Bridge quitted the Town and fled to a Castle about half a mile distant off which they had formerly possessed That night the President of Munster and my self came up to the party we Summoned the said Castle and after two days it was surrendred to us the Enemy leaving their Arms Drums Colours and Ammunition behinde them and engaging never to bear Arms more against the Parliament of England We lay still after this about two or three days The President went back to Fetherd to bring up some great Guns with a purpose to attempt upon the Granno and some Castles thereabouts for the better blocking up of Waterford and to cause to advance up to us some more of our Foot In the end we had advertisement that Colonel Hewson was come to Loughlin where was a very strong Castle and Pass over the Barrow I sent him word that he should attempt it which he did and after some dispute reduced it By which means we have a good Pass over the Barrow and entercourse between Munster and Lemster I sent Colonel Hewson word That he should march up to me and we advancing likewise with our party met near by Goran a populous town where the Enemy had a very strong Castle under the command of Colonel Hamond a Kentishman who was a principal actor in the Kentish Insurrection and did manage the Lord Capels business at his Tryal I sent him a civil Invitation to deliver up the Castle unto me to which he returned me a very resolute answer and full of height We planted our Artillery and before we had made a breach considerable the Enemy beat a parley for a Treaty which I having offered so fairly before to him refused but sent him in positive conditions that the Soldiers should have their lives and the Commission Officers to be disposed of as should be thought fit which in the end was submitted to The next day the Colonel the Major and the rest of the Commission Officers were shot to death all but one who being a very earnest instrument to have the Castle delivered was pardoned In the same Castle also we took a Popish Priest who was Chaplain to the Catholiques in this Regiment who was caused to be hanged I trouble you with this the rather because this Regiment was the Lord of Ormonds own Regiment In this Castle was good store of Provisions for the Army After the taking of this Castle it was agreed amongst us to march to the city of Kilkenny which we did upon Friday the 22th of March and coming with our body within a mile of the Town we advanced with some Horse very near unto it and that evening I sent Sir Walter Butler and the Corporation a Letter a copy whereof is here inclosed From whom the next day I received this Answer We took the best view we could where to plant our Batteries and upon Monday the 25th our Battery consisting of three Guns began to play After near a hundred shot we made a breach as we hoped stormable Our men were drawn out ready for the attempt and Colonel Ewers ordered with about One thousand Foot to endeavor to possess the Irish Town much about the time of our storming which he accordingly did with the loss of not above three or four men Our men upon the Signal fell on upon the breach which indeed was not performed with usual courage nor success but were beaten off with the loss of one Captain and about twenty or thirty men killed and wounded The Enemy had made two retrenchments or counter-works which they had strongly pallizado'd and both of them did so command our breach that indeed it was a mercy to us we did not farther contend for an entrance there it being probable that if we had it would have cost us very dear Having possessed the Irish Town and there being another walled Town on the other side of the River eight Companies of Foot were sent over the River to possess that which accordingly was effected and not above the like number lost that were in possessing the Irish Town The Officer that commanded this party in chief attempting to pass over the Bridge into the city and to fire the gate which indeed was done with good resolution but lying too open to the Enemy-shot he had forty or fifty men killed and wounded which was a sore blow to us We made our preparations for a second

evils what may the Principals then expect by this free dealing you see I intice you not to a compliance you may have Terms may save you in your lives liberties and estates according to what will be fitting for me to grant and you to receive if you choose for the worst blame your selves In confidence of the gracious blessing and presence of God with his own Cause which this is by many testimonies I shall hope for a good issue upon my endeavors expecting a return from you I rest Your Servant O. C. 23 Martii 1649. The Answer of the Governor of Kilkenny to my Lord Lieutenants Summons SIR Your Letter I have received and in Answer thereof I am commanded to maintain this City for His Majesty which by the power of God I am resolved to do So I rest Sir Your Servant Wa Butler Kilkenny 23 Martii 1649. For General Cromwel A Letter from the Mayor of Kilkenny RIght Honorable we know by experience and have it by your Honors Letters that you desire not the spilling of blood nor the spoiling of Cities and Towns And though I doubt not but your Honor would easily agree to good and profitable conditions for the City and the Citizens yet we having a Governor of the City and another of the Castle who commands us also if befitting Honorable conditions be not given unto the Military part the City and Citizens do stand in danger of ruine as well from our own party as from that of your Honors This in the name of the City and Citizens I humbly offer to your Honors gracious wise consideration and desire your favorable remedy therein and rest Sir Your Servant Ja Archdekin Mayor of Kilkenny For the Right Honorable the Lord Cromwel For General Cromwel SIR Your last Letter I received and in Answer I have such confidence in God to maintain this place as I will not lose it upon such terms as you offer but will sooner lose my life and the lives of all that are here rather then submit to such dishonorable conditions So I rest Sir Your Servant Wa Butler Kilkenny 25 Martii 1650. My Lords Letter to the Governor of Kilkenny SIR If you had been as clear I was in my last I might perhaps have understood you so as to give you some further Answer but you expressing nothing particularly what you except against in mine I have nothing more to return save this That for some Reasons I cannot let your Trumpeter suddenly come back but have sent you this by a Drummer of my own I rest Your Servant O. C. 25 Martii 1650. For the Governor of Kilkenny A Letter from the Governor of Kilkenny SIR Yours of this instant I received the particulars which you would have me express are these That the Major and Citizens and all other the Inhabitants and others now resident in this City and the Liberties thereof with their servants shall be secured of their lives liberties estates and goods and live in their own habitations with all freedom And that our Clergy-men and all others here residing of what degree condition or quality soever that shall be minded to depart shall be permitted to depart safely hence with their goods and whatsoever they have to what place soever they please within this Realm and in their departure shall be safely conveyed and that the said Inhabitants shall have free Trade and Traffick with all places under the Parliament of Englands command and elsewhere And that the foresaid Inhabitants shall have their Arms Ammunition and Artillery for their own defence the Town and Liberties thereof paying such reasonable contribution as shall be agreed upon and not to be otherwise charged And that the Governors Commanders Officers and Soldiers both Horse and Foot now Garisoned as well in the Castle as in the City without exception of any of them shall safely march herehence with their Arms Ammunition Artillery Bag and Baggage and whatsoever else belongs to them with their Drums beating Colours flying Matches burning and Bullet in bouch and that they shall have competent time for their departure and carrying away their goods with a sufficient and safe convoy And that Major Nicholas Wale and all other Commanders Officers and Soldiers who came out of the English Quarters now residing here shall have the benefit of this Agreement without which I am resolved to maintain this place with Gods help Thus expecting your Answer to this Letter and that during this Treaty there shall be a cessation of Arms and all other acts of Hostility of both sides I rest Sir Your Servant Wa Butler Kilkenny 25 March 1650. For General Cromwel The Lord Lieutenants Answer to the Mayor of Kilkenny SIR Though I could have wished you and the Citizens had been indeed more sensible of your own Interest and concernments yet since you are minded to involve it so much with that of the Soldiers I am glad to understand you which will be some direction to me what to think and what to do I rest Your Friend O. Cromwel March 26. 1650. A Letter from the Mayor of Kilkenny RIght Honorable I received your Honors Letter in answer of mine which I wrote unto your Honor in pursuance of the Propositions sent by our Governor unto your Honor for obtaining of the said conditions which seemed unto us almost befitting to be granted The military part having exposed themselves for our defence which obligeth us not to accept of any Conditions but such as may be befitting them I desire your Honor to grant a Cessation of Arms and that Hostages on both sides be sent and Commissioners appointed to Treat of the Conditions I rest Your Honors Servant Ja Archdekin Mayor of Kilkenny Kilkenny the 26th of March 1650. For the Right Honorable General Cromwel SIr Those whom God hath brought to a sense of his hand upon them and to amend submitting thereto and to the Power to which he hath subjected them I cannot but pity and tender and so far as that effect appears in you and your fellow Citizens I shall be ready without capitulation to do more and better for you and them upon that ground then upon the high Demands of your Governor or his capitulations for you I suppose he hath acquainted you with what I briefly offered yesterday in relation to your self and the Inhabitants otherwise he hath done you the more wrong and hath the more to answer for to God and man And notwithstanding the advantages as to the commanding and entring the Town which God hath given us since that offer more then we were possessed of before yet I am still willing upon Surrender to make good the same to the city and that with advantage now in regard of that temper which appears amongst you by your Letter though I shall not engage for more upon the Governors Demands for you whose power I conceive is now greater to prejudice and endanger the city then to protect it To save it from Plundering or Pillage I