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A66995	A true account of the present state of Ireland giving a full relation of the new establishment made by the late King James, as it was presented to the right honble [sic] the Earl of Shrewsbury, His Majesties most honourable Privy Council : with an account of what sums of money, arms, and number of officers arrived there from France : together with the state of Derry and Enniskilling and several other affairs relating to that kingdom, particularly of the proceedings of their Parliament there / by a person that with great difficulty left Dublin, June the 8th 1689.	Walker, George, 1645?-1690.	1689 (1689)	Wing W349; ESTC R18114	11,874	38

25. All Incumbrances or Judgments due on Forfeiting Persons and Entred before the 22th of May 1689 And where he Forfeited to be Reprized 26. Transplanters Proprietors their Reprizals or Ancient Estate to be liable to the same Incumbrances and Conditions as the former Estate 27. Lessees to continue in case it be not the Mansion-House or Demesn-Lands not exceeding One and twenty years or Three Lives 28. Whose Husbands died out of Possession Widows to be Dowable 29. The Lord Clanrickard c. That all Deeds c. be good saving to all old Mortgagees A LETTER FROM Colonel Walker GIVING A Full Account of the Treachery of the late Governour of Londonderry WHen the Lord M y left the Garrison of Londonderry He gave private Orders to the Colonel he left Commander in Chief That he should punctually observe whatsoever Directions he should receive from him from France Now such were the Circumstances of that unfortunate Lord that being suspected by the late King James and lookt upon as the Betrayer of that Kingdom He had no other way of insinuating into his Favour and regaining his lost Reputation with him but by promising to make Colonel L an Instrument to break and ruin the Protestants and render them incapable of opposing any Army that should March against them The deluded Protestants in Derry and all over the North were extremely overjoy'd that they had so good a Souldier for their Head One whom they really believ'd to be of their own Religion and who seem'd to be so zealously and warmly Affected to Their Interest and therefore they entirely relied and depended upon his Courage and Fidelity and submitted themselves to his Conduct and Management never entertaining the least Suspicion of him till it was too late thô it was Whisper'd in every Corner of the Garrison That he had said He would heartily Fight against Tyrconnel but not against King James At length a formidable and regular Army of the Irish March'd down towards the North Our Forces then having not the least Intimation of their Approach till they came almost to the Towns where our Men were Garrison'd which they were forced to quit in great disorder and confusion The Colonel in the mean time sat quietly at home neither made any provision for the Frontier Garrisons nor gave any Orders to Fortifie and Secure them and oppose the Enemy before they were Blooded and Animated with Success Soon after without any opposition they overrun the two great Counties of Doun and Antrim And then the Colonel sent Letter after Letter to the Lord K n at Sligoe where there was good store of Provisions and Forage to come and joyn his Horse at last with the Lagan Forces The Lord sent him word That if the Horse came away the Foot would not be perswaded to continue there and that he feared there was not such plenty of Provision for their Horse and Men in the Lagan as they had at Sligoe Upon this Answer the Colonel sends an Express to my Lord That both his Horse and Foot should quit Sligoe and March immediately to the assistance of Derry My Lord wearied with these Importunities and not in the least mistrusting the Integrity of the Colonel advances with his Forces and was followed by all the Inhabitants of the Town But no sooner were they come to Ballishanon 20 Miles from Sligoe but they receiv'd a Message from the Colonel That there was not Forage for the Horse in the Lagan The Enemy by this time had possest themselves of Sligoe so that they were forc'd to stay at Ballyshanon where both their Horse and Men were exposed to the greatest Necessities and were almost destroy'd for want of Provisions All this while the Towns of Eniskilling and Ballyshanon had no Ammunition sent them from him thô he had at the same time above 500 Barrels of Powder in the Pullir Store-house at Derry neither could he be perswaded by any Arguments to get Forage into Derry thô the Neighbouring Country round about him had great quantities of Hay and Oats and made a voluntary offer of them for the service of the Garrison Besides as if he had along design'd the Ruin of that Place and consequently of the Protestant Interest in Ireland he still gave Passes to every Man that ask'd them He endeavour'd to possess them that were the most Bold and Resolute with strange apprehensions of their Danger and where this succeeded not out of the abundance of his Affection he courted and invited others to accept of Passes Afterwards when the Enemy made their approaches nearer Derry He drew out a Body of 7000 Men pretending he would fight them at a Pass they were to come over But as soon as ever Colonel Shelden with his Horse advanc'd He gave him the Sign to come over and ran away Swearing a great Oath and saying Gentlemen I see you will not Fight Thô at the same time they were in all appearance very zealous and willing to Engage From thence he immediately fled to the City and then shut the Gates upon Thousands of Souls pretending scarcity of Provisions who all either perished for Hunger or were left as a Prey and Sacrifice to the rage and fury of their insulting Enemies Soon after Colonel C and R with two Regiments came to the assistance of Derry whom he discouraged from staying declaring That they had Provision but for a very few Days and that the People who were in the City were but a Rabble However all the Transactions in their Council of War as they called it thô none were admitted to it but the Colonels own Creatures were managed with the greatest Secrecy and the better to delude the Garrison it was given out That the Forces would forthwith Land. And of this they were so fully perswaded that many went Aboard the Ships that were in the Harbour to caress and congratulate the Souldiers safe Arrival who were not suffered to return again but against their Inclinations were brought into England C next Day when on Board and as it was agreed betwixt him and the Confederate Colonel sends him a Letter That he had discovered some Ships at a distance which must needs be further Succours design'd for the relief of Derry that he would fall down to the Harbours Mouth and return again with the rest of the Fleet. This Letter was handed up and down Derry to pacifie the People though generally they began to apprehend they were sold and betrayed And in this their Suspicion they were confirmed by a Lady Related to the Colonel who had forgot her Cue and unwarily told a Lieutenant in the Garrison That C did not design to Land and that his Letter was a meer Sham. After this C set Sail and hover'd at a little distance expecting the Colonel who had promis'd him to make his Escape and go with him for England but the Colonel not coming according to the time appointed he pursued his Voyage and left us under the Apprehensions of immediate Destruction But blessed be GOD We have hitherto made some tolerable Defence for our selves and still hope to give a good account of the Place I am Yours G. WALKER FINIS

of Horse in the Town of Cavan until all the Army were marched away to see that no injury might be done to the common people He likewise says they drove along with them about four or five thousand head of Cattel that had lately been taken from the English As for the State of Enniskilling it is said that they are in a very good Condition for Provision and all other Necessaries as yet and that there are there and at Ballyshannon eight hundred able Horse besides Foot who are brave resolute Men Most of them being Gentlemen out of Munster and Connaught that fled thither who are resolved to loose their Lives and sacrifice all rather than yield On June the First there marched from Dublin Sir Michael Creagh the present Lord-Mayor with his Regiment Sir John Fitz Gerald from Rathcoole and Lucan with his Regiment with several others from other parts towards Trim twenty Miles from Dublin the place appointed for the General Rendevouz of the Army that are sent against Enniskilling Coll. Sarsfield from Sligoe is to joyn them and so to march to Enniskilling to attacque it with a Resolution to bear it down All Sir Michael Creagh's Regiment raised in Dublin Sir John Fitz-Gerald's from Munster and most that are gone down there are all raw Fellows not knowing how to fire a Gun. There are gone from Dublin General La Rose General La Roy Count D' Estrades and several other of the General Officers of France towards Enniskilling with four Field-Pieces They have sent before-hand to buy up all the Corn in East and West Meath to be brought to Kells twenty-seven Miles from Dublin and forty from Enniskilling which is the place appointed for their Store for beyond that there is no manner of Provision to be had so that in all probability they will meet with the same Penury and Want that they have had these two Months past before London-Derry Now for the State of London-Derry it is said this morning at the Castle they have surrounded it within half Cannon-shot and taken the Wind-Mill-Hill which the Town quitted and had thrown up their Trenches and drawn up all their Army on Friday last and so modeled and divided them into two Bodies to compass the Town placing them in their several Posts Monsieur Pontee was to have Bomb'd it before but he found when he came to examine that the Fusees of the Bombs did not fit some being to little others to big which he having new moulded and worked up did as he himself said intend to begin to Bomb on Sunday the second instant They hear that there are Ships in the River which they believe will endeavour to Succour London-Derry but by the help of Culmore Fort with other Batteries they have raised together with the Chain and Bomb they have fixt a-cross the River they hope to prevent them There is an Account sent up from the Camp of the Names and Behaviour of the several Officers there with which they make themselves sport at the Castle particularly the Lord Galmoy running himself into a Ditch of Briars Lord Kingsland getting into a Bush of Furrs together with the Valour of Sir Gregory Birne and Sir Luke Dowdall c. A Dragoon that was shot into the Shoulder and came up to his Friends near Dublin to get Cure said that abundance were lost for want of care being taken of them that he himself had ended his days if he had staid that he left 400 lying of their Wounds in the Church of Culmore that they had lost near 7 or 8000 by the Sword and Sickness since they sat down before Derry The Duke of Barwick James Fitz James and Lord George Howard are said to be in Brook-hall at Sir Matthew Bridge his House near Kilmore a curing of their Wounds They likewise give out they are in great want of Provision in the Town and are so crouded that they are very noisom and full of Vermine for that several who have been taken and killed are found to be so But in truth as to the State of their own Army they have lost as many for want of Conveniencies as have been killed For the Bloody-Flux Small-pox Feavers and Agues being among them they die extreamly fast in the Irish Camp the generality of their Sustenance being nothing else but Oatmeal and Water with some raw lean Beef insomuch that the spirits of the men are mighty low and very weak There are gone down to them abundance of French Officers that are to be prefered as Commands fall with great resolution what they will do when they come there They did not carry any of their great Guns or Bombs over the River but they lie on the other side and so play over the Water at London-Derry Since there sending the Army towards Enniskilling the People of East and West-Meath have raised the price of Corn extreamly The Kerry Forces are drawn to the Shannon to fortifie all places on it as Lymerick Athlone c. All the best of the Forces are clearly drawn out of Munster except the Major-General's Regiment which is now Commanded by one Monsieur Boysloe a most tyrannical French-man who with his Regiment is now at Cork where he exercises an absolute Authority that no manner of Complaint against him will be heard though he thrust out one of the Protestant Sheriff of Cork's eyes and swore he would make no more of blowing up all the Protestants in their Churches than of a Child in a Cradle He threatens to Hang any that shall be taken going away and if four Protestants be together he looks on it as a Conspiracy and sends them to Goal They have likewise imployed Spies about Dublin to see if any Protestants meet or talk together and are mightily incensed at the Imbargo in England because they cannot have a free Correspondence with their Friends there June the Fifth the late King declared He expected in a Week's time if the Wind served a great Fleet from France and a numerous Army of Land-men that the Fleet after landing their Men would repair to the Downs to find out and fall on the English Fleet. Some of his Council advise him to Scotland others to Chester with his French and Irish Forces as soon as Derry is taken They have lately imprisoned several persons in Dublin on a pretence for Plotting and Corresponding with the Rebels in the North and England c. and in searching for Treasonable Papers and Arms they took away whatever Money they could find in the Houses of the several persons They likewise threaten another Search for Arms very suddenly when it is not questioned but they will take all Money and Plate away for they are erecting a Mint for the Coyning of Money One thing more is to be observed That the Popish Clergy has ordered all their People not to pay one Farthing to any Protestant but to stand it out to the uttermost till they are compelled by Law the Design being visible that they would utterly

A TRUE ACCOUNT Of the Present STATE OF IRELAND c. A TRUE ACCOUNT Of the Present STATE OF IRELAND GIVING A full Relation of the New Establishment made by the late King James as it was presented to the Right Hon ble the Earl of Shrewsbury His Majesties Principal Secretary of State and others of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council With an account of what Sums of Money Arms and Number of Officers arrived there from France Together with the State of Derry and Enniskilling and several other Affairs relating to that Kingdom particularly of the Proceedings of their Parliament there By a Person that with great difficulty left Dublin June the 8th 1689. Licensed and Entred according to Order Printed by Edw. Jones for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Pauls Church-yard MDCLXXXIX A TRUE ACCOUNT Of the Present STATE OF IRELAND GIVING A full Relation of the New Establishment made by the late King James c. DURING my stay at Dublin which with much difficulty and hazard I left on June the 8th I made it a great part of my Business to be well inform'd of the State of Affairs in Ireland and of the most remarkable matters that past there which I had the opportunity of doing as well by my own Observation as by what I received from Persons of Credit that I frequently conversed with that thereby I might be enabled to give such an Account as might be serviceable to the Government here upon my Arrival to be acquainted with which in the following Narrative I have endeavoured to do with all possible Sincerity and Impartiality The Revenue of Ireland is quite sunk no Money being raised but by the Excize that for this Year and half past there has not been paid one Penny of the Civil List and now the late King has been forced to make a new Establishment and gives only Half Pay which he calls Subsistance They grumble at it and are ready to Mutiny To the Foot Three pence per day and for the Officers 't is no matter he makes them Content The Dragoons have Five pence fa●thing and the Horse Six pence per day He proposeth this One half Money and the other Forrage The Horse Granadiers Fifty in each Troop Seven Regiments of Horse 2750. Men Seven Regiments of Dragoons 3800 Men The Royal Regiment of Foot Twenty two Companies 1980 Men. Forty two Regiments of Foot more 33852 Men. The total is 42432. Of this Army there are about 17000 drawn Northwards against Londonderry and Enniskilling which are of the best both of Horse and Foot and have been so harassed that within these ten days past they were not in any condition of Service there are Five thousand more gone after these towards Enniskilling and more on their March so that there are near Twenty five thousand gone against Londonderry and Enniskilling Besides this they designed two Camps by Dublin which Camps were to consist of 14000 Men the first Grand Camp was to be at Rath●arnam betwixt that and Rathmines on the South of Dublin in the view of the Harbor The next Camp was to be under the Hill of Dunsink near the Cabaragh North-West of Dublin and in view of the Bay also Colonel Sarsefield lies at Sligoe with his Own Regiment and some Dragoons and has received several Rubbs from the People of Enniskilling It is said there came One hundred and fifty thousand pound with the late King from France to Ireland and Three hundred thousand pound with the Fleet that arrived at Bantry but by as near a computation as possibly can be made we cannot find that there came above One hundred and fifty thousand pound in all the first being Sixty thousand pounds and the last Ninety thousand pounds and about Nine hundred French English Scotch and Irish Officers came this last time with the Fleet all which receive the same allowance with the Officers of the Army proportionable to their Stations and Qualities The French Ambassador influences all Affairs both Civil and Military and 't is discoursed amongst themselves what a prejudice he has against his present Majesty having formerly been Ambassador in Holland he often presses for severity to be used against the Protestants No violence whatever that is acted by any of the French dares be complained of but it is stifled immediately and he that complains is frowned on He has influenced the passing the Bill for destroying the Act of Settlement insomuch that he has said that he would go again to France if it were not done to tell his Master Monsieur Boysloe the Governor of Cork's Letter to the French Ambassador was the occasion of the Imbargo at Dublin on Saturday May 18. last past The late King is wholly at their Discretion and Tyrconnel is mightily discomposed both in Body and Mind since the King came For the French Ambassador said If any one had served his Master as he did about Londonderry in taking away the Lord Mountjoy's Regiments he would have lost his Head. The Ambassador Commands the Treasury and not one farthing is paid out without his leave for he views the Muster Rolls before he suffers any payments to be made so that the Design is plain French and to bring this Kingdom wholly under them that thereby they may divert England from annoying France But now they are become obnoxious to the People of Ireland who see all that is for the French so that great discontent is upon the Spirits of the Irish on the account of the French being put into Imployments for they generally say and allow that Ireland is given to the French King in consideration of the Charges he shall be at in helping the late King James towards the regaining of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland Monsieur Boysloe at Cork seizes the Merchants Goods Drinks their Wines and in short takes away from them whatever he has a mind to without making them any satisfaction and says it is a shame that any Correspondence should be held with the Rebels of England The Enniskilling People have rummaged the Countrey for near thirty Miles round about them and brought in all the Cattle and Forrage they could find and have disarmed several Companies of the new raised Irish and 't is talked of by the late K. and the Castle that the Garrison of Enniskilling were so resolute that they would attempt the raising of the Siege of Derry the fear of which does somewhat alarm them for about the latter end of May they came near to Kells thirty Miles from Dublin and Westward as far as Finnah burning Luke Reily High-Sheriff of the County of Cavan's House with the Houses of other considerable Papists who were in Arms against them killing only three Soldiers at a place call'd Drum because they refused to quit their Arms and as one Brady who is a Papist and an Inhabitant there declares That they were the fairest Enemy that ever came into a Country not injuring any person that lived peaceably leaving a Troop