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A12824	Pacata Hibernia Ireland appeased and reduced· Or, an historie of the late vvarres of Ireland, especially within the province of Mounster, 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. VVherein 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.	Stafford, Thomas, Sir, fl. 1633.; Totnes, George Carew, Earl of, 1555-1629, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 23132; ESTC S117453	356,720	417

entreth betweene the great Iland before mentioned and the Maine or Countrey called Beere or Osullevans Countrey At the entrance of the Harbour it is not above a Musket shot over I meane from the Castle of Dunboy to the great Iland being entred the Tydes are slack good Anchorage and convenient places to bring ships on ground smooth water five fadomes deepe at low water marke towards the North ende it groweth much larger at the least a league over and of capacitie sufficient to containe all the Ships of Europe The great Iland and the Maine as aforesaid makes the Haven which Iland is seven miles in length at the South end whereof it joy●eth with the Bay of Bantry When Donboy was unruined it commaunded this spacious and goodly Haven which affords no small profit to Osulevan ●eare whilest his Castle was standing for the coast yeelds such abundance of Sea fish as few places in Christendome doe the like and many Ships whereunto at the season of the yeare I meane at the fishing time there was such a resort of Fishermen of all Nations as Communibu● A●nis although the duties which they payed unto osulevan was very little yet at the least it was worth unto him fiue hundred pounds yearely The second of these Harbours nominated is Baltimore called by the Spaniards Valentimore which is likewise caused by an Iland called Innisherkan two leagues to the Eastward of Cape-cleere the Havens mouth at the South end of the Iland aforesaid ten fathome at low water but exceeding narrow by reason of a great Rock that lyeth in the same alwayes aboue water which being within halfe Calliver shot of the better shoare giv●●h good opportunity to secure the port after you are entered there is a poole about halfe a league over where infinit numbers of ships may ride having small tides deepe water and a good place to Carene ships at the other end of this Iland with good pilotage a ship of two hundred Tunne by day may safely come in but by reason of many ●uncke Rocks that lye in this enterance it is not possible for the best Pilot in the world by night to assure his entrance The President for the safetie thereof thought it meere to erect Blockhouse● there which undoubtedly hee would haue done if he had continued any longtime in Mounster being so exceeding dangero●s to fall into the hands of a powerfull Enemy as it would bee a worke of much difficulty after it were once fortified to displant him besides an Enemy there seated would command the best part of Carbery the soile whereof is good whereby hee might furnish himselfe with victuals at easie rates The last and indeed the least of these three Havens is Castlehaven by the Irish called Glanbaraghan renowned for that memorable Sea fight lately acted there by Sir Richard Lewson against Pedro de Zubiaur commonly called Suryag● the Spanish Admirall the passage into the Harbour is so narrow that a ship of great burden especially in a storme cannot safely enter and being entered there is no great space for any number of ships to ride in but for all other commodities like to the Havens before mentioned for there is eight faddomes at low water marke the Castle aptly commands every part of the Harbour but the grounds round about it so commands the Castle as it can by no reasonable charge bee made teneable against the Cannon but to proceed When the composition was made with Don Iohn de Aguila for the rendring of Kinsale among other Articles it was agreed that the Spanyards should be shipped away in English or Irish Bottomes and for the safe returne of the Ships into Ireland there was three Spanish Captaines as is formerly declared left in Corke as Hostages The Spanyards being all safely arrived at the Groyne and the Shippes returned the Lord President according to the Composition set the Pledges at libertie and having provided a Barque for their transportation he wrote unto Don Iohn de Aguila which letter Englished was as followeth A Letter from the Lord President to Don Iuan de Aguila ACcording to the agreements made at Kinsale betweene the Lord Deputie and your Lordship these two Captaines Pedro Suaço and Diego Gonzales Sigler which remained in Corke Pledges for the securitie of the Ships and the Subjects of the Queene my Mistresse which transported the Spanyards to the Groyne are now in this passage in a Ship called the Marie of Corke returned into Spaine The third Pledge Don Pedro Morijon went with the Lord Deputie to the Citie of Dublin from whence as I understand hee is departed into his owne Countrey Now the agreements which were made betweene the Lord Deputie and your Lordship is on either part fully accomplished your Lordships Letter of the second of Aprill I haue received but the Wine and Fruits came not to my hands Neverthelesse I acknowledge my selfe much obliged and render your Lordship humble thankes for your favours and especially in that I am retained in your memorie the occasion I did not receiue them was my being at that time at the siege of the Castle of Beerehaven which I thanke God is taken as also many others possest and held by the Rebels and the Defendants of them chastised as appertaineth to Traitors Your Lordships Present unto mee was delivered by the Messenger to the Lord Deputie hee conceiving that it had beene directed to his Lordship whereof I am extreame glad and am as well satisfied with it as if it had come to my owne hands for the loue I beare unto his Lordship is no lesse then unto my selfe I am much grieved and at nothing more then to see that this Countrey produces not any thing worthy to bee presented to your Lordship that I might in some proportion manifest in what esteeme I holde the favour of a man of your qualitie Honour and Merit If Ireland may yeeld any thing which may bee to your Lordships liking you may bee assured that your Lordship hath power at your pleasure to commaund both it and mee So being ready to doe your Lordship all the possible service I may the differences betweene our Soveraignes reserved in the which both your Lordship and all the world shall evermore finde mee to bee a true Englishman and a faithfull servant to my Queene and Mistresse I recommend your Lordship to God b●seeching him to preserue you Corke the thirteenth of Iuly 1602. Muy Illustre Sennior Beso las Manos de V. S. Su Servidor GEORGE CAREVV CHAP. XI The taking of the Castle of Dunboy was the cause that the Army prepared in Spaine for Ireland was stayed Two thousand supplyes of foote were sent out of England for Mo●●ster Iohn fits Thomas his practise to deceiue the Lord President but failed A false rumour of a Spanish fleete on the Coast of Mounster Sir Samuell Bagnall with his Regiment commanded to stay in Mounster THE President daily received advertisement aswell by some of the Countrey that had

Army dislodged from Carew Castle The Regiments transported into the great Iland Teg Keugh Mac Maghon slaine The Castle of Donm●n●s surprised A Spanish ship arrived The conf●rence be●●eene the Earle of 〈◊〉 and Richard Mac-Goghagan The Lord President rides to the place where the forces were to land The vigilant care of the L●rd President Two Regiments directed to land in the little Iland the other two to make to the Maine The Rebels deceaved The Rebel defeated and Captaine Terrell 〈◊〉 THE one and thirtieth the weather grew faire and wee tooke advantage thereof and drew forth which day our Army dislodged from Carew Castle leaving our sicke men which were many with a strong guard in the Iland of Whyddy and marched to Kilnamenoghe on the Sea side in Mountervarry where we encamped that night The first of Iune the Earle of Thomond and his Regiment were embarqued for the great Iland as also Sir Charles Wilmo●s and his Regiment after whose departure the Lord President remooved his campe to a head-land three parts whereof were invironed with the Sea and the rest was intrenched The second Sir Richard Percie and his Regiment followed the other two and lastly the Lord President with his landed in the great Iland where the other Regiments were formerly arrived The Lord President being wearied with his long stay there spending the time without advancing the service for that the Hoy wherin the Peeces of Battery was could not so well 〈◊〉 to windward as the rest without which hee could effect no●hing of his intended service sent Captaine Slingsby aboard who had before been conversant in Sea-affaires to use his best diligence in getting those vessells to the great Iland neere to the Castle of Donboy which with towing the Hoy at the S●erne of the Trinitie of Waterford and other diligence used hee effected the service and arrived at the great Iland The third T●g Ke●gh Ma● Maghon a principall Rebell in an Iland adjoyning to the Dorseys was casually shot through the body by his owne sonne whereof he dyed the third day following The fourth Owen Osulevan and two of his brothers with a partie of men went to the Castle of Donmanu● which was held and guarded by the Rebells which they surprized and kept the same killed foure of the Guard and tooke the prey and spoyle of the Towne The fifth a Spanish ship arrived at the Bay of Camnarra neere Ardea in Desmond And the same day Richard Mac Goghagan being the Constable of Dunboy came into the great Iland and spake with the Earle of Thomond but whether he were sent by the Presidents intreatie to see whether he could perswade with Mac Goghagan vpon promise of reward to render the Castle to the Queene or whether Richard Mac Goghagan did intreat the Earle that he might haue a Safe-conduct to speake with him I am uncertaine but of this I am sure that the Earles meeting with him was not without the Presidents knowledge and allowance All the Eloquence and artifice which the Earle could use avayled nothing for Mac Goghagan was resolved to persevere in his wayes and in the great loue which he pretended to beare unto the Earle hee advised him not to hazard his life in landing upon the Mayne for I know sayd hee you must land at yonder Sandy Bay where before your comming the place will bee so trenched and gabioned as you must runne upon assured death The Earle disdayning both his obstinacie and his vaine-glorious advice brake off speech telling Mac Goghagan that ere many dayes passed hee would repent that hee had not followed his counsell The sixth being Sunday a foule and stormie morning the Lord President very early taking but one Footman with him rode two or three miles from the Campe to the place where the Boats were assembled to passe the Army which that day was to rise over into the Maine The cause which moved him to be stirring so timely was to view the landing place which was lesse then halfe a mile from the place of the embarquing from whence hee might easily discerne a low sandy Bay betweene high ground of a very little capacitie where the discent was to bee made which was entrenched and barricad●ed with gabions of earth in the which trench and behind the gabions the enemies had placed there Muskettiers and their grosse at hand to giue them seconds But not contented with a view so farre off the Queenes Pinnace the Merlin riding not farre from him hee commanded Captaine Flemming to passe him over into a little Iland called Donghe Irish which lay betweene the great Iland and the Maine and some part of it not twelue score from the sandy Bay aforesaid When hee came into the said Iland and taking an exact view of the landing place and how the rebels Army lodged to forbid our descent and the apparant danger hee saw would ensue in the attempt hee rounded all the small Iland and at last hee found a convenient place to land in the Maine and the same by reason of a rising ground in the middest thereof was out of the sight of the sandy Bay presently hee commanded Captaine Fleming to land out of his Pinnace in the Iland two falcons of brasse and hailed them upon their trunks to a place naturally formed like a platforme and parrapetted with an old ditch as if it had beene fashioned to that purpose In this place the Peeces were planted from it to the Maine land it was not aboue one hundred paces and although the distance from the sandy Bay to this place was not foure and twenty score yet to come unto it was more then halfe a mile by reason of a Gurt or cleft Rock made by the Sea which ran up farre into the land which the Enemy must compasse before hee could come unto it By that time that the President had performed as much as hee intended in the small Iland the Presidents and the Earle of Thomonds regiments were embarqued and under saile whom the President when they came neere unto him caused to land where hee stood in the small Iland and drawing them to that end of the same which faced the sandy Bay to amuse the rebels being not distant from them as is said a Musket shot hee formed them into a battallion and so stood firme confronting the Enemy as if from thence hee would passe them into the Maine Sir Richard Percy and Sir Charles Wilmot with the reare Regiments by this time were likewise embarqued For you must understand that wee had not Boats sufficient to transport all our Regiments at once and they likewise made to the small Iland but in steed of landing in the same the President directed them to passe by the end of it when hee had placed the faulcons and to land directly in the Maine before the Rebels found themselues deceived the two reare Regiments were landed and formed into

the finishing of the Fort of Castle ny Parke That her Majestie was pleased at the Presidents request that a faire and strong house should be built for the President where hee thought it convenient to bee defrayed upon the fines and casualties of the Province That the fort of Haleboling should be presently finished Lastly thankes in her Majesties name for his services liking well of his proceedings with Cormock Mac Dermond and for the courses he had taken in his returne from Donboy and of the well disposing of the Garrisons and his raysing and making of fortifications c. By this Letter it appeares that the President was directed to redeliver unto the Burgesses of Kinsale their Charter and other their Ensignes of Magistracie among the which there was a faire large Standard of Damaske with the Armes of England in it This Standard aforesaid was first delivered unto them by the commandement of King Henry the eight by Sir George Carew the Lord Presidents cosen german when hee arrived at Kinsale who not long before the siege of Bollogne was Admirall of some of the Kings ships Into the hands of Sir George it was left in safe keeping when the Spaniards arrived there and by the same Sir George Carew by Queene Elizabeths commandement it was as is said redelivered unto them againe although this petty note may seeme to some scarce worth the relating yet for the rarenesse of the accident I thought it meet to bee remembred And that the Reader may also understand what a fatall place Kinsale hath beene unto the Spaniards in former times as well as now I thinke it not impertinent to relate what hapned unto them in that port in Anno 1380. and the fourth yeare of the Raigne of King Richard the second My Author is Thomas of Walsingham who lived in those dayes and thus Englished in Hollinshed IN this meane while that the Earle of Buckingham was passing through the Realme of France the French and Spanish gallies did much mischiefe on the Coast of England but about the later end of Iune by a flecte of Englishmen of the West Countries part of them were forced to retire and take harbour in an haven in Ireland called Kinsale where being assailed by the Englishmen and Irishmen they were vanquished so that to the number of foure hundred were slaine and their chiefe Captaines taken as Gonzales de vorse and his brother Martin de Motrigo Turgo Lord of Morrans Also the Lord of Reath Peers Martin of Vermew Iohn Moditt of Vermew the Seneschall of Wargarie the Seneschall of Saint Andrewes Cornellis of Saint Sebastiano Paschale de Biskaya Iohn Martinez Sopogorge of Saint Sebastiano and divers others There were taken foure of their Barges with a Ballenger and one and twenty English vessels recovered which they had robbed and taken away from their Owners There escaped yet foure of their notable Captaines from the hands of our men Martin Grantz Iohn Perez Mantago Iohn Husce Gitario and one Garcia of Sebastiano Thus farre Hollingshed ●raving the Readers patience for to some this old story may seeme to bee a needlesse curiositie but to proceed The President to make the speedier prosecution and expedition in the affaires of the Province caused the Rising out of the Countrey to bee assembled to the number of sixteene hundred at their owne charges under the conduct of the Lord Barry These Provinciall Forces were not prepared for any great need that was of their service it was thought meet to draw as many hands together as conveniently might bee who according to their manner for spoyles sake would not spare their dearest friends And also it was thought no ill policie to make the Irish draw bloud one upon another whereby their private quarrels might advance the publike service The President had first determined himselfe in person with fiue hundred English joyned to the Provincials to haue taken the field but his intentions were casually diverted by Letters from the Lord Deputie who signifying that his Lordship purposed to bee at Galway about the two and twentieth of December required him all other businesse set apart immediatly to repayre thither to consult about certaine affaires much importing the service of the State by reason whereof the President appointed Sir George Thornton with 500. English Souldiers Inhabitants as Vndertakers in Mounster to accompany the Lord Barry with the Provincialls and all these to meet together about the twentyeth of this present at Donkerran which was the place of their rendevous In this meane time the Rebell Tirrell not liking to stay any longer in the Aire of Mounster wherein hee had runne many dangers bethought himselfe of a retreat out of the Province hoping that the President would condiscend to any composition rather then to bee troubled with his company whereupon he sent his inward servant Laghlin Odallye afore mentioned in this discourse unto Corke who comming to the President told him that his Captaine meaning Tirrell would bee content to leaue the Province and would heereafter this so as hee might haue a Pardon a Pension and a Company of Foot in her Majesties pay serue the Queene and deserue the reward demaunded by his future services The President knowing that for want of food hee would be forced ere the spring of the yeare to depart And also assuring himselfe within that time to get some good draught to bee drawen upon him by some of the Provinciall Rebells who now being heart-broken would doe any thing for their Pardons or for a little money not onely sleightly rejected his offers but bid Odalley tell him That although hee were never so warie yet hee doubted not before it were long to haue his head sent unto him in a bag willing him to forbeare to send any more unto him While these forces aforesaid were gathering according to the directions afore-recited the Governor of Kerry losing no opportunity and forbearing no labour had the like fortune upon the Knight of Kerry as Sir Samuel Bagnall had upon Tirrell for being conducted to his Quarter in the night killed fortie of his men and tooke from him all his whole substance which consisted of fiue hundred cowes two hundred garrans and two moneths provision of Meale and Butter for his Souldiers which small spoyle was a great losse to the poore Knight for thereby hee being disfurnished of all his provision disabled to minister entertainment to his followers and having no Castle whereunto he might safely retreat was constrained like a Wolfe to shelter himselfe in waste woods and desolate mountaines untill he could worke meanes with Sir Charles to accept his humble submission which incontinently upon his defeat hee earnestly solicited by the meanes of Osulevan More And surely this Service was of good consequence for the setling of Kerry for Thomas Oge induced by the example of the Knight and likewise Donnell Osulevan Son to the said Osulevan More did all joyntly submit themselues and her Majesties