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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

drove of Cattell fired thirty or forty of their lodgings and all without the hurt of one man As at Dundalke to whom we still beare an affectionate relation the like we heare of daily very usually thus giving notice one to another by such kinde of fires like Beacons on the tops of hils against a common enemy Much of the like good service is daily done by our Garrisons especially by my Lord Moores foote company at Mellifont under the command of Captaine Constable and at Bewly by some of Captaine Gibsons company under the command of Lieutenant Greeneham who let few dayes passe without reaping some of the Rebels heads Many who were taken Prisoners were so desperate that being threatned to be hanged made such haste that they took ropes hung themselves or being upon the Ladder threw themselves off Not long agone Sir Henry Tichburne went with a party about foure miles from thence encompassed a Wood where he was told Coll. Mac Bryan had lodged with some hundreds of his men the night before killed about one hundred and fifty burnt the Countrey neere and without any dammage March the 25. my Lord Moore being certified of 1300. gathered to the Na●●●n under the Lord Gormans●ownes command and there fortifying the Towne tenne miles from us marched very early with two hundred horse and some Dragoneers and Musquetteers mounted on Garrons for the quicker march onely to take a view of their strength tooke a Scoute with the Lord Gormanstownes owne saddle-horse drew up to the Gates within halfe Pistoll shot killed twenty of them fired the Countrey under their noses and all the way hitherwards returned with abundance of Cowes and sixe hundred Sheepe and yet those who boast so much of the cause of God and Religion and take themselves to die in the happiest estate of Martyrdome had not so much faith or courage to make out upon us and for many that had adventured out elsewhere were found by some Charmes * It is certaine that at the taking of the Newry a Rebell being appointed to be shot upon the Bridge and stript sta●k naked notwithstanding the Musquetteer stood within two yards of him and shot him in the middle of the backe yet the Bullet ent●ed not nor did him any more hurt then leave a little blacke spot behinde it This many hundreds were eye-witnesses of one of which of good trust hath related it to me Divers of the like have I beene confidently assured of who have beene provided of such diabolicall charmes as follow thrust-free as they call it who being knockt downe the point of a sword put upon their naked breasts it could not be made to enter or draw the least bloud which howsoever I was alwayes slow of beleeving such fables yet hearing it so often protested unto me by some Officers upon their owne experi●nce I could not but listen to it And for paper Charmes their Religion yeelds plenty of that fruit and commends the confidence in them as great evidences of devotion some of which have come to my hands one being lately taken with some of those Rebels at Dundalke and given me I have here inserted the true Copie of though I beleeve it deceived him who put his trust in it and by the lookes it seemed to have beene much worne in the carriage JESVS MARIA ✚ ▿ This is the measure of the wound of the side of our Lord Jesus Christ which was brought from Constantinople unto the Emperour Charles within a Chest of Gold as a Relique most precious to that effect that no envie might him take and it hath such vertue that hee or shee that shall readit or heare it read or will beare it about them that neither Fire Water Tempest Knife Launce Sword neither yet the Devill shall hurt them And also any woman with child the day that shee seeth the said measure of the wound of our Lord shee shall not die any sudden death in the time of her burthen but shall be delivered with lesse paine and whatsoever they be that desire this about them in the way of Devotion they shall not die any sudden death and by the fight of meditation on this wound they shall gaine victory over their enemies and further care shall not dammage them and moreover the day that he or shee shall read it or heare it read they shall not die any evill death And having thus stumbled upon these delusions I shall give thee a view of one or two more taken at the same place both as the former delivered me by one of their owne profession IHS The measure of our Blessed Ladies Foote Whosoever shall kisse it three times and say three Ave maries devoutly in honour and reverence of her gaineth seventy yeares of pardon and be delivered of many perils Indulgences granted to the sacred graine of Saint Joan being a name of the third order of our blessed Father Saint Frances and was a most godly and vertuous Abbesse you must make no small account of them for the Pope did grant very many Indulgences unto them and to other graines and medals They containe the vertue of that graine carried by the Angel-keeper of Saint Joan unto Heaven as hereafter you shall note by the testimony of our Saviour They have speciall power against Devils for they are forced to flie out of the bodies of men and whosoever carrieth the said graine about him needs not to feare no evill They containe a most powerfull vertue against Wild-fire against the tempest of the Sea and against all manner of infirmities incident to the soule and the body of man and especially against the Feaver Pestilence the Scabbe the tentation of the Devill and of Heresies for they have the vertue of the Agnus Dei. These ensuing Indulgences were granted to these blessed graines by our Saviour and our blessed Lady by the intercession of Saint Joan who did impart the same unto the rest of her Sisters at the houre of her death First say one Pater noster and one Ave Maria and you merit as many Indulgences as Rome affords that day After your Confession and Remission say tenne Pater nosters and tenne Ave Marias in remembrance of the most precious bloud of our Saviour and you are as innocent from sinne as when you came out of the Stone i. e. the Font and if you say them for any soule in Purgatory his sinnes are forgiven him Our holy Father Pope Adrian the third and Pope Gregory the seventh did grant unto the graine these Indulgences following Say one Pater noster one Ave Maria Anima Chri. and Sal. Regina you redeeme three soules out of Purgatory say the prayer of the Crosse with one Creed and you bring a soule out of Purgatory say two Creeds when the Priest knocketh his brest at Masse and you bring a soule out of Purgatory Adore the Crucifix thirty three times and you get remission of sinnes to thirty three soules say the Creed thirty three times and you merit

pretence of endangering the favour of a faire quarter which they expected if the Towne were taken yet a Lievtenant of one of the Troops though a Papist and protesting his constancy in that Religion upbraided them to their faces that they could be no good Subjects in their refuall And here it was not unobserved as a just judgment of God upon some of the Souldiers for their perjury who having taken the Oath and a night or two afterwards stealing over the walls to the Rebells one brake his back and another his neck and others much bruised themselves lying there as examples to others that should doe the like which was the more observable in that before that Oath many had climbed over and had no hurt The Rebels finding that neither their faire pretences nor bloudy threatnings to prevaile so far as to gain us to any composition for giving up the Towne they put their resolutions into action and so Saint Thomas his Eye was the night appointed with one consent to give us an on-set on all sides at once which as wee had notice of by our Spyes so towards the Evening wee might see them our selves drawing nigh in severall bodies of six or seven thousand which by their owne relation is twice doubled and lately hath been confessed by one of their chiefe to have beene sixteen thousand the issue of which was as followeth The on-set given by the Rebels with their whole strength December the twentieth being Saint Thomas his Eve THat afternoon there came certain information of that being the fatall night pitched upon by all their forces for our ruine who made no other account but of swallowing us up quick and with it very good grounds to assure us of some assistance promised them by the Towne who at such an houre and at such an allarme were to fall upon us and to open a P●rt upon which the Governour instantly disarmed the Town-forces of such Muskets and Pikes as he had intrusted them with caused a search to be made for any other Armes and to be gathered all that could be found into one roome Commanded all the Townsmen within doores upon pain of death and about that houre set for the mutiny within whereby the Enemy might the securer assault us without hee was once for triall sake thinking to have set forty Musketiers to have shot powder one against another and so to make a confused noyse as if the Towne had beene in an uprore and falne upon us indeed but for feare of some unexpected mistakes which might have hapned by such as could not have knowne the mystery hee desisted and rested in the beliefe of that which evidently declared it self afterwards The whole Garrison of Foot and Horse consisting of eighteene hundred stood to their Arms all that night every Company being appointed to their severall Guards unto which there was added another of Volunteers out of the able and sufficient housholders of the Towne to the number of fourscore who proffered themselves and had presently a Captaine and Officers appointed them of whom seven were of the Clergie all sorts without exception thinking it high time now to stand for their lives The streets were well beset with Candles The Crescets in the dark night being lighted our Governour continually rounding the Towne to see all things in order and to prevent our Popish Inhabitants and the Enemies concurrence at the set houre by discerning how the night went caused the clock to be set back two houres All things being in a readinesse great expectation was there of our greeting At length about one a clock they began to give some warning shot which was deemed to be rather directed to the Townsmen then to us which being at that distance our Souldiers daigned not to take notice of Not long after at a watch-word given and about the hour prefixed they all approched the wals and according to their use gave such a terrible shout round about the Towne such as I remember never to have heard the like The end of it was believed either to scar and confound our forces or to invite the Town to make good their promise for the furthering of which some were heard to cry out of their windows that the Town was lost but neither had their issue That tumultuous cry at one gate was instantly so well answered by the dolefull Echo of a Cannon from the Mount that we soon heard them quite of another tune as being the slaughter of multitudes of them for three or foure houres was this musicall discord continued till by the mistake of the clock the day breaking suddenly before they were aware they took themselves to slight and every one invited the other to all possible speed after whom being now fully discovered were posted all sorts of shot from all quarters which caused many who by turning their backs had no mind to see their own deaths to drop by the way some of them by their clothes and faire horses were deemed Commanders scaling Ladders were multiplyed in the rumour which came often to our eares before but wee saw none now neither was indeed the time come for their use The numbers of their slaine is not certaine only such as were sent out that morning upon a view found all the fields bedewed with bloud here and there some limbes scattered from their bodies many cart loads of their dead were seen driving away abundance left behind in ditches which in their hast they had forgotten whose stolne clothes and linnes proved a better booty to their strippers then was expected many being the very provant Clothes taken from ours at the Bridge as with one of them whose head was brought in was found the very armour of one of our Officers slain there For ours such was Gods protection of us that there was not one man slain nor so much as hurt notwithstanding at Saint Iohns Gate which was the most naked and where Captain Moris commanded there was the hottest work good language past on both sides ours called them the Kings Traytors they ours the Queens some of our Popish Souldiers who had run away were their Guides and were so bold as to call their severall Captains by their names as they discerned them by their voyces some of ours by this continued acquaintance at length grew so courteous that when they found the Enemy slow in giving fire deeming it might be for want of Powder offered to throw them a Bag if they would but fetch it wagers were laid commonly amongst the Musketiers who should take of such Commander appearing more gallantly mounted and clothed then the rest and indeed seldome missed but one w●n the Set. Thus this night made choice of according to their proverb in hope or Saint Thomas his blessing turned the contrary much of their bloud was spilt and by Gods especiall goodnes none of ours which that morning as soon as the storm was over we failed not in the Church solemnly and publickly to acknowledge and to

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

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