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enemy_n	advance_v	army_n	great_a	1,374	5	3.0767	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B22618	A letter from Sir Maurice Eustace Knight, His Maiesties serjeant at law in the kingome of Ireland, and speaker of the House of Commons, in Parliament there being a perfect relation of the last true newes from Ireland.	Eustace, Maurice, Sir, ca. 1590-1661.	1642 (1642)	Wing E3427	6,594	8

and horse to make good the Towne untill his Lordships returne and the next day came to Marriborrow and releeved the sort there which is a place of very great consequence and seated amongst ill and dangerous neighbours Upon Saturday his Lordship was taken with a burning feaver which together with a great Flux held him untill Tuesday the one did abate the violence and rage of the other that Saturday Sir Charles Coot and Sir Thomas Lucas with some troupes of horse releeved Ballynekill and the Burris and killed divers of the Rebells which lay before Ballynekill to the number of 80. and returned that night to Marriborow upon the Sunday being Easter day Sir Charles Coot and Sir Thomas Lucas went with 250 horse and releeved Birr and some other places which were much distressed The horse had of this a very hard service being to passe through woods Boggs and great fastnesse and in their way had many skirmishes with the Rebells but alwayes had the good fortune to beat them many horses were lost this journey and it is Gods great goodnesse that we did not suffer in this more then vve did Whilst these things were in acting the Rebells did gather together from the Counties formerly mentioned and upon Easter Sunday displayed above forty Colours within two miles of Athy on the further side of the Burrow in the Queenes County whereof Colonell Crafforde gave notice unto my Lord of Ormond by letters and thereupon his Lordship returned back to Athy upon Wednesday and rested there with the Army upon Thursday That Thursday his Lordship sent to Sir Patrick Weames and Captaine Armes-strong who were quartered at Grangomelan on this side of the river of the Barrow and in a direct line opposite to the place on the other side of the river where the enemy was encamped to discover their number and strength whereupon they sent out ten of their horse to informe them of the truth hereof which being perceived by the enemy they sent 30. Horsemen over the river and each Horseman had a Musquetier behind him vvith an intention to cut off those ten Horsemen of ours but this being discovered by Sir Patrike Weames and Captaine Armestrong they sallyed forth vvith some horse cut off of the Musketiers killed two of the horse-men and the rest did in their haste misse the ford and swimmed over the river where some of them were drowned Sir Patricke Weames had his Horse killed under him in that service This being notified to the Earle of Ormond his Lordship came thither with some Troopes of H●rse to view the enemy who appeared on the other side of the River of the Barrow at a place called Tankerdstowne right over against Grangemellam and as his Lordship and the rest of the Commanders who were then with him could judge they could be no lesse then six or seven thousand foot besides 300. horse His Lordship thus satisfied by his owne eye returned to Athy and gave out that the next day h● would draw out of the Towne and advance thither to fight with them but his resolution was to march away the next day in regard that he had done the business● he went for not to sight upon such oddes if that he might avoyd it But this was not so secretly carried but the enemy had notice thereof which made ●●● to dislodge that night and to passe over the River by the Bridge of Moygame and prepare themselves for a pursuit Upon Friday morning about seven of the clocke our Army did rise and began their march and kept the high and neerest way coward this City but they were not halfe a mile on their way when they discovered their bels marching wide of them on the right hand in another rode way and it 〈…〉 that there was a bog which was three quarters of a mile in bredth betweene both the Armies which ranne betweene them for three or foure miles and so they marched in view of each other all that way with their Colours flying and Drums bearing when our Army halted they likewise halted and when ours did move they did move and so they kept this posture untill both waies did meet by which time the vantgard of the Rebels was within 3 furlongs of our van And at the meeting of both the waies there was a narrow passage through which our Army was to passe where it was thought the enemy did intend to charge our reare and cut off our men which if we had advanced forward they might have done with much ease it being a place of very great advantage for the enemy which the Earle of Ormond perceiving he caused Sir Charles Coote who commanded in chiefe under his Lordship and the rest of the Commanders and Officers of the field together and told them that before he went any further he would fight with the enemy though all the Rebels in Ireland we●e there together to which they all most cheerfully and willing assented and his Lordship further told them that they had God and a good curse on their side and that that day should be his and he doubted not but that God would fight for them and thereupon drew up his battell in that s●rt as did best sort with the ground where it was pitched and the enemy did the like in another great field which was opposite to the place where our Army was But the battell of the enemy was much sooner in order then ours by reason that they had nothing to hinder the drawing up of their men and that our Carriages which were very many so divided the Van from the Reare that it tooke up some time to bring them together so as if the enemy had fallen upon us as soone as they were ready we should have beene in some hazzard but they stood still where they pitched their battell and did not move forward whereupon my Lord of Ormond gave order to Sir Charles Coote and the rest of the Commanders and Officers according to their severall charge to advance forward which they most couragiously did and came up to the field where the enemy stood in battell array and the ditches being levelled by our Pioners our Field-peeces were drawn up and order given that they should play upon the enemy which was done but with little or no losse unto them onely the noise with which they were not much acquainted did seeme so to amaze them as they stood like so many statues without life or motion After this our Musketiers did their part and soone after by direction from my Lord of Ormond Sir Thomas Lucas Sir Richard Greenowill Sir Patricke Weames Captaine Garnyer Captaine Armestrong and the rest of the Captaines of Horse did in an instant and so gallantly charge the Rebels that upon the sudden they routed them and had the execution of them for two or three miles onely there was a great body of 2000. led by the Lord Vicecount Mountgarret and Generall Hugh Birne which wheeled about and thought to possesse themselves of