and happy Peace that was designed them But though in deference to the Nuncio the business was delayed a day or two and debated again yet every body perceiving that a Peace made at Rome could be of little use to them in Ireland since it would infallibly disoblige all the Protestants with whom they were to unite it was after many Expostulations at length resolved by the Assembly to conclude the Peace and it being likewise resolved rather to trust Ecclesiastical Matters Beling 25. to the secret Concessions they expected from the King than to mention them at all in the Articles with the Limitations agreed on Consentientibus etiam Catholicis qui omnes peâ—e aderant regni â—raelatis Ib. 26. lest the positive Stipulation might exclude farther hopes the Vote for the Peace passed unanimously even amongst the Prelates themselves Hereupon the Nuncio finding it in vain to oppose the Peace directly he endeavoured by â—â—veral artifices and indirect means to elude it and first he put in * * They are at large Beâ— 27. Propositions in writing containing Reasons why they should defer the publishing or ratification of the Peace though in effect they amounted to no more than he had formerly offered viz. That a more advantageous Agreement was making for them at Rome and therefore they ought to delay the Publication of this Peace in expectation of that And although every body perceived the vanity and fallacy of these Propositions Pontificis etiam umbrae â—atenus cultores Beling 31. yet the Irish have so great a Veneration even for the Shadow of the Pope that they could not deny Respect to his Nuncio especially when his Request was only for a little time and so upon this impertinent motion the Peace was delayed till the 28th day of March and in the mean time Chester was taken from the King for want of the Succors promised from Ireland But whilst these things were doing the King on December 2. wrote to the Marquis of Ormond to stop the Peace with the Irish because he was in hopes of an Accommodation with the Parliament but that Expectation failing he did on the 19th of January send new Orders to the Lord Lieutenant to proceed in the Treaty but adds That he would rather have a Cessation than a Peace unless he can be sure that 10000 Irish should be sent to his Assistance in England to which Ormond answers That he deals with such People that he can be sure of nothing from them but believes that they are able to send 6000 Men and that it is their interest to do it and that he will not make Peace with them but upon that Condition But on the 8th of February the Earl of Glamorgan wrote to the Lord Lieutenant That it is impossible to make the Irish Nation do any notable Service for the King against the hair and contrary to the Nuncio ' s Satisfaction Nevertheless that Earl was busie in hastening the Irish Forces designed for the Relief of Chester and in order to it he hired Ships and was frequently at Waterford where we leave him and that Affair until we come to treat of the year 1646. In Munster we left the Lord of Insiquin in daily expectation of Supplies from England which came so slowly that he was not able to draw out more than 1000 Horse and 1500 Foot into the Field however he ventured with the Foot to besiege Ballymartyr and to put Imokilly and Barrymore under Contribution whilst the Lord of Broghill with the Horse posted near Castle-Lions and covered his Camp from the Enemy which under the Command of the Earl of Castlehaven was then entered into the County of Cork to the number of 5000 Foot and 1000 Horse and upwards Castlehaven had rendevouzed near Clonmell and on the 5th of April marched to Cappoquin which he took as also Drumanna and Knockmone and it is observable that Sir Richard Osborne who owned this last Castle and was in it when it was taken had all along obeyed the Cesstâ—on and did not joyn with Insiquin nevertheless Castlehaven denyed him the benefit of the Cessation but took his Castle by force and therefore the Lord Lieutenant did by his Letters of the 25th of April write to the Lord Muskry and the rest of the Supreme Council for its Restitution But to proceed This General of the Confederate Army having received a Repulse at Lismore marched to Mitchelstown which he burnt and then it was that Lieut. Gen. Purcell with the Irish Horse advanced beyond Formoy towards Castle-Lions and it happened luckily that the Lord Broghill who went the night before to suppress a Mutiny at Yoghall returned that morning before the Fight It will be easily believed That he was amazed to find the Lieutenant Colonels Ridgway and Banister whom he knew to be sober men so drunk that they were not able to give a pertinent Answer to any Question he asked them nevertheless it so happened to them by the Knavery of an Irish Sutler who purposely brought to the Camp a Cask of Drink made of Rilea which has that intoxicating Quality However the Lord Broghill as his fashion was encouraged his Men and assured them That by the help of God he would beat the Enemy and bid them not to be discouraged at the Flight of any of their Fellows because what would happen of that kind would be done by his order upon Design and accordingly he did command Major Peisley to keep the Road and after his Squadron of 80 Horse had fired their Carbines to fly and rally again in the Rear of him and so he drew up a quarter of a mile farther from the Enemy and according to his expectation the Irish came boldly up to Peisly and upon his flight they pursued with great violence and disorder and 800 Foot followed them to the expected Execution Battel of Castle-Lions May 10. 1645. This was some advantage to the English who were drawn up in Battalia nevertheless the Irish with the help of their Foot maintained the Fight with great bravery so that one Troop of the English Horse ran away to Ballymaâ—tir with the news of the supposed Defeat but those that stayed behind bestirred themselves so effectually that they gained a noble Victory and if they had had 1000 Foot they might have destroyed Castlehaven's Army and would have attempted it as it was but for a stout Sergeant and 40 Musquetiers who kept in a Wood through which they were to pass and shot so often that the Lord Broghill suspected the whole Irish Army was posted there The consequence of this Victory was the taking of Ballymartir and Rostilion and then this small Army returned to Cork and because Rostilion was not tenable Colonel Henry O Bryan the Lord Inâ—iquin's Brother and Colonel Courtny were sent to demolish it but the Earl of Castlehaven having taken Mallow Doneraile Liscarroll and Milltown marched to Rostilion and took it and in it the aforesaid two Colonels whom he made
And so having wasted that Country he marched into Tyrone where he took and burnt the Castle of Dungannon and preyed and burnt all the Country thereabouts But the Citizens of Dublin had not so good luck for a Company of them thinking that the very Name of the King's Forces could obtain Victories over the Irish made an Incursion into Imaly but being as we say Fresh-Water Soldiers upon the Slaughter of a few of them the rest were frightned back to their Shops The Winter this Year was exceeding Cold and the Ice strong enough to bear all manner of Carriages which is very unusual in Ireland And this Winter Queen Mary was born whose Superstitious Zeal proved as extream Hot as the Weather was Cold. The Fortune and Victories of the Lord Deputy influenced the Irish to be quiet this Year and the Reputation of the Government was somewhat augmented by the Honourable Peace which the King made with the French 1518. in September which was afterwards proclaimed in Dublin In the mean time Ware 54. places this Anno 1597. but is mistaken great were the Dissentions in Ireland between Sir James Ormond a Man of great Courage and Reputation and Sir Pierce Butler a valiant Gentleman about the Earldom of Ormond the former was a Natural Son of John by some called Earl of Ormond elder Brother of Thomas the last Earl and the other was Son of Sir James Butler Son of Sir Edmund Son of Sir Richard Butler who was Brother to James the Fifth Earl of Ormond so that Pierce his Grandfather Sir Edmond was Cozen German to the Deceased Earl Thomas Hereby it appears that the Right to that Earldom was in Sir Pierce who had married the Lady Margaret Fitz-Girald the Lord Deputies Sister nevertheless Sir James having formerly been Lord Treasurer and a very popular Man and probably the Manager of this Estate for his Unkle Thomas who always resided in England by the help of the Tenants got into possession and by the same assistance and his own vigor he kept what he had got without allowing any thing to the right Heir towards his maintenance whereby that Noble Pair Sir Pierce and his Wife were reduced to great extremity It is scarce credible that Persons of that Quality and so well allied should be forced to lurk in Woods and want a Bottle of Wine for their Refreshment Holingsh 84. and yet Stanyhurst reports a formal Story That the Lady Margaret Fitz-Girald Wife of Sir Pierce Butler being great with Child complained to her Husband and their Servant James White that she could no longer live on Milk and therefore earnestly desired them to get her some Wine whereto Sir Pierce replied That she should have Wine enough within twenty four hours or feed alone on Milk for him and immediately he went away with his Page to lie in wait for his Competitor whom he met the next day riding with six Horsemen Attendants between Drumore and Kilkenny March 17. and upon a sudden Sir Pierce rushed in upon him and kill'd him with his Spear and thenceforward enjoyed the Estate in quiet This Year Rokeby Archbishop of Dublin who was likewise Lord Chancellor held a Provincial Synod at Dublin the Canons whereof are to be found in the Registry of the Bishop of Clogker And this Year or the next Art O Neal invaded and wasted O Dogherty's Island of Inisowen in the County of Donegal The Enemies of the Earl of Kildare had the last year done what they could underhand to disgrace him in England but he had so well defended himself by his Friends there 1519. that their Design was ineffectual wherefore they address'd themselves to Cardinal Wolsey and by his means procur'd Kildare to be recalled to answer Articles exhibited against him for Male-administration First Ware 98. That he had enriched himself and Followers by the King's Revenue and Land Secondly That he had Alliance and Correspondence with several Irish he had the King's Leave to substitute a Deputy so he appointed Sir Thomas Fitz-Girald of Lackagh a Knight of his own Family Lord Justice in the mean time Kildare marries in England with Elizabeth Grey Daughter of the Marquess of Dorset by whose means he got favour in England and was dismiss'd but Cardinal Wolsey suggesting the King had neglected Ireland too long and that some worthy man ought to be sent over that was impartial to any Faction or Party and was able to keep them not only more peaceable amongst themselves but also more serviceable to the King to the end that the Blood and Vigor which else would be spent in their Civil Dissentions might be opposed to the common Enemy he procured to be sent into Ireland Thomas Howard Earl of Surrey Lord Admiral of England Wales and Ireland Knight of the Garter Lord Lieutenant 1520. he came over the Wednesday before Whitsontide with an hundred of the Guards and a thousand others Horse and Foot by this the Cardinal obtained a double Advantage first In disappointing his Enemy the Earl of Kildare of the Government of Ireland and secondly In removing the Earl of Surry from the Court of England where he was a great Favourite On Whitsunday the Lord Lieutenant was alarum'd with a Report That Con Buckah O Neal who by Popular Election succeeded his Brother Art had invaded Meath with four thousand Horse and twelve thousand Foot says Paulus Jovius but falsly Surry was in haste to encounter the Rebel not doubting but that the Victory would be an honourable and happy Omen of his future Government and therefore adding to his small Army such of the Militia called The Risings out of City and Country as he could get on so short warning he marched to Slane but O Neal was frightned with the Name of this General and retir'd so fast that the Lord Lieutenant could neither find him nor his Army but not long after O Neal sent Letters to implore Pardon which was granted him on promise of future Obedience On the sixth of September the Lord Lieutenant wrote to the Cardinal That some Soldiers had seized on a Boat with design to be Pyrates but being prevented and apprehended they continued in Gaol because they could not be capitally punished by the Common Law and he had no Clause of Martial Law in his Commission as indeed he had not nor of conferring Knighthood which is strange and the better to ingratiate with the Cardinal he added That the Earl of Kildare will be found guilty of sending Letters to O Carol to raise a Rebellion and that if Kildare should be suffered to come to Ireland the whole Kingdom will be undone and he concludes That there is so great a Scarcity and Dearth in Ireland that the Soldier cannot live on four pence a day and therefore desires that a penny a day may be added to their Pay In October Lib. CCC the King wrote to the Lord Lieutenant That there will never be a thorough Reformation in Ireland until all
Place to none of them That his Ancestors were Kings of Ulster That he won Ulster by the Sword and would keep it by the Sword Which for some time he performed but he kept it not long The Queen sent Sir Francis Knolls her Vice-Chamberlain to confer with the Deputy about the Suppression of O Neal He arrived at Dublin the seventh day of May and they resolved the Service should be performed the following Winter and that necessary Preparations should be made for it against that time In the mean time O Neal Rendezvouz'd at his House six Mile from Dundalk and Mustered four thousand Foot and seven hundred Horse with which he besieged Dundalk but the Garrison so valiantly defended it that he was forced shamefully to raise his Siege nor had he better Success at Whites-Castle nevertheless he made Inroads and Incursions into the Pale and did much mischief though a small Brigade appointed to watch his Proceedings did so gall and incommode him that he was forced to return with shame and loss But we must look back to July 1565 Davis 63. at which time the Army did not exceed twelve hundred Men until Colonel Randolph with seven hundred Souldiers was sent from England to Derry and there they intrenched and kept themselves safe until the Lord Deputy Sydny came to them and having staid there six days and put things in as good order as was possible he left them fifty Horse under Captain Harvy and seven hundred Foot under Captain Cornwal and a competent quantity of Ammunition Victuals and other Necessaries and so returned through Tyrconnel and Connaught to Dublin But O Neal very well knew that he should not be quiet in Vlster if he suffered that Garrison at Derry and therefore in October 1585. he incamped within two Mile of Derry with two thousand five hundred Foot and three hundred Horse and made many Bravadoes to entice and draw them out from their Garrison and accordingly it hapned but with other Success than O Neal expected For Colonel Randolph sallied out with three hundred Foot and fifty Horse and having made an Halt on the Ground where he designed to fight he there received the Enemies Charge and then fell upon them so suriously that he soon put the Rebels to flight and made them leave four hundred of their Companions dead on the Place without the loss of one Man on the English side except only the Colonel himself who was there slain Colonel Saintlow succeeded him in the Command of the Garrison and lived as quietly as could be desired for the Rebels were so daunted by the former Defeaâ— that they did not dare to make any new Attempt 1566. but unluckily on the twenty fourth day of April the Ammunition took Fire and blew up both the Town and the Fort of Derry whereby twenty Men were killed and all the Victuals and Provisions were destroyed and no possibility left of getting more so that the Soldiers were necessitated to imbark for Dublin only Captain George Harvy and his Troop being loth to kill their Horses took a resolution to march round through Tyrconnel and Connaught and valiantly performed it and although they were forced to march four days through an Enemies Country and were all that time pursued by a multitude of Rebels yet they got safe to Dublin to the great admiration of the Lord Deputy and Council But Mr. Sullevan makes a pleasant Story of this Sullevan 84. and tells us That Saint Columbus or Columkille the Founder and Tutelar Saint of Derry was impatient at the Prophanation of his Church and Cell by the Hereticks the one being made the Repository of the Ammunition and the other being used for their Lutheran Worship and therefore to be revenged on the English for this Sacrilege the Saint assumed the shape of a Wolf and came out from an adjacent Wood and passing by a Smith's Forge he took his Mouth full of red hot coals and ran with it to the Magazine and fiercely spit the Fire into the Room where the Ammunition lay and so set all on fire and forced the Hereticks to seek for new Quarters It seems that Shane O Neal had desired to have a Conference with the L. Deputy near Dundalk to which the L. Deputy consented and came accordingly on the 6th day of May and staid five days but whether Shane O Neal's Mind was altered by this Accident at Derry Irish Stat. 234. or what other Impediment he met with I cannot find but it is certain that he did not come and that he gave the Lord Deputy a second Disappointment in July following But whilst the Lord Deputy was hastning his Preparations to force O Neal to his Duty he received alarms from Munster That the Earl of Desmond was in the Field with two thousand Men and that he designed to joyn O Neal or give the Lord Deputy a Diversion in Munster and it was true that the Earl of Desmond was in the Field with that Force but his Design was to revenge private Injuries which he pretended to have received from the Earl of Ormond the Lords Barry Roch and others and therefore on the Lord Deputy's Summons he appeared at Dublin and together with the Lords Dunboyne and Poer he did according to Order bring up one hundred Horse and accompanied Sir Warham Saintleger to guard the Borders of the Pale whilst the Lord Deputy made the following Expedition to Vlster The Lord Deputy accompanied with the Earl of Kildare 1566. and such others as he thought fit did set out from Tredagh on the seventeenth day of September and encamped that Night at Rosskeath and so marched through Vlster to Galway where he established Sir Edward Fitton President of Connaught and he also took the Castle of Roscommon and left Thomas Lestrange and twenty Horsemen to garrison it and then marched to Athlone where he came on the twenty sixth of October and there discharged the Army and gave Order to build the Bridge of Athlone Hooker 116. In this Journey the Rebels never appeared except once by a Wood near Clogher where they had a small Skirmish wherein several were hurt but never an Englishman slain Contra Cam. as also they appeared with a great Body of Men near Turlogh Lynogh's Castle called the Salmon Eliz. 105. but made no attack The Deputy in this Journey restored O Donel to the Possession of his Country and particularly to the Castles of Ballyshanon and Donegal and received his Homage by Indenture and Oath reserving two hundred Marks per annum to the Queen and a number of Men to every general Hosting in Vlster He also received the Submissions of several that were weary of the Tyranny of O Neal and restored Rosscommon Castle which had been one hundred and forty Years in the Rebels Possession and took O Counot Sligo's Submission and O Connor Dun's Offlyn's c. all which yielded to pay Rent c. And so he retrieved to the Crown a County eighty
Superstition that the Irish Priests who are the most ignorant Clerks in the World could lead these Noblemen by the Nose into the greatest Folly Ingratitude and Disloyalty that ever was known so that henceforward we must expect to find these English Lords in open Rebellion with the Irish against the Crown of England The victorious Malby encamped that night by the Abby of Monaster Neva and after two or three days removed to Rakele and encamped there a Party of the Earl of Desmond's came confidently within a Mile of the Camp but were well beaten for their pains and some that were taken Prisoners discovered many of Desmond's Designs and that he had been in the Field ever since the Battel of Monaster Neva but they needed not to be so nice in their Examinations for that very Night put the Matter out of doubt and Desmond and his Brother did personally assault the English Camp but came off as they used to do with Loss and Disgrace however the Marshal thought it necessary to remove to Askeaton having first setled a Garrison at Rakeal and he performed what he designed although the Enemy did frequently skirmish with him in his March and then having notice of the Deputy's Death he placed Sir William Stanly and Captain Carew at Adare and sent the rest of the Army to other Garrisons Hereupon the Rebels insulted at a great Rate bragging that they would take all the Garrisons and Sir John of Desmond with four hundred Foot and fifty Horse actually besieg'd Adare so that the Garrison durst not peep abroad till their victuals failed them and then Necessity whetted their Courage and made their Swords as sharp as their Stomachs so that Sir John was forced to retire The English had but one small Cot which would hold about eight Men and by help of it an hundred and twenty Men of the Garrison of Adare were wafted over the River Hooker 162 into the Knight of the Glinns Country and being unexpected there they did great Execution but they staid so long that the Knight of the Glin and Sir John Desmond had got together thirty Horse and four hundred Foot some Irish and some Spaniards and overtook them and entertain'd a brisk Skirmish for about eight hours nevertheless the English made good their Retreat without any considerable Loss and killed about fifty of the Enemy Sir William Pelham Lord Justice was chosen by the Council 1579. and sworn in Christ-Church Dublin on the eleventh of October and immediately he Knighted the Lord Chancelor Gerard and youg Edward Fitton After Dinner Cambd. Eliz. 239. the Council sate and directed Letters to all the considerable Irishmen to confirm them in their Loyalty particularly to Pheagh Mac Hugh Sir Hugh O Reily Sir Hugh Macguire Turlogh Lynogh c. and they also appointed the Earl of Ormond to be Governor of Munster and Sir Warham Saint-Leger to be Provost Marshal thereof and ordered Desmond's Son to be conveyed to the Castle of Dublin to be safely kept The Lord Justice having dispatched the Chancellor to England to inform her Majesty how Matters stood in Ireland and having committed the Care of the North-Borders to the Earl of Kildare marched into Munster taking with him the three Bands lately brought from Berwick by the Captains Walter Case and Pikeman he came to Kilkenny the nineteenth of October and kept Sessions two Days and sate in Person insomuch that Edmond Mac Neil and other notable Traytors were then executed and he also reconciled the Earl of Ormond and the Lord of Upper Ossory At Cashel the Earl of Ormond came to him with two hundred and thirty Men and hence his Excellency sent Letters to the Earl of Desmond to repair to him that he might reconcile him and Sir Nicholas Malby thence he went to Limerick where he was well received and the Mayor Presented him with a thousand Armed Citizens here also he was met by Malby and the Army and the next day he went to a Village called Fannings where he gave Orders for a General Hosting or Rising out and thither came the Countess of Desmond with Letters from her Husband Hereupon the Earl of Ormond was sent to expostulate with Desmond upon sundry Articles whereto he returned a trifling Answer on the the thirtieth of October complaining of old Injuries c. Wherefore other Letters were sent from Crome where the Lord Justice then was but to no purpose for though Desmond protested Loyalty yet he would not come to the Camp nay he was known to act rebelliously even while he was writing his Protestation for the Lord Justice being removed to Rakeal was allarm'd by some Rebels whereof four being killed one was found to be Desmond's Butler and himself was not far off wherefore he was Proclaimed Traytor in the Camp the second day of November 1579. unless he should surrender himself in twenty days and immediately the Army proceeded to destroy his Country with Fire and Sword And it must not be omitted that the Lords of Gormanstown and Delvin who were of the Council and attended the Lord Justice in this Expedition were so tainted and corrupted with Popery that they refused to sign the Proclamation against Desmond for which they were afterwards severely reprimanded by a Letter from the Lords of the Council in England On the third of November the Lord Justice removed to Puble O Bryan and Mustered the Army and so leaving two hundred and fifty Horse and eight Ensigns of Foot with the Earl of Ormond he returned to Limerick The Earl of Desmond thought to divert the Army from farther prosecution in Conilogh by making an Incursion into Imokilly and being there at the request of the Seneschal of Imokilly he attack'd Youghal and finding small resistance he easily took and afterwards plundered that Town whereupon the Earl of Ormond sent Captain White and a Company of Soldiers in a Ship from Waterford and they valiantly entred into the Town by the Water-gate but being over-powered by the numerous Forces of the Seneschal's White and most of his Men were slain and the rest with great difficulty escaped to their Ship Hereupon Desmond grew so insolent November 20. 1579. that he wrote an arrogant Letter to the Lord Justice importing that he and his Brethren were entred into the Defence of the Catholick Faith under the Protection of the Pope and the King of Spain and advised the Lord Justice to joyn with him and nine days after he wrote Circular Letters to such of the Lords and Gentlemen of Leinster as he thought to be rebelliously inclined the Form of which Letters may be seen in the following Letter which he sent to Pheagh Mac Hugh MY well beloved Friend I commend me to you It is so that I and my Brother are entred into the Defence of the Catholick Faith and the overthrow of our Country by English Men which had overthrown the Holy Church and go about to over-run our Country and make it their own and to make us
their Bond men wherein we are to desire you to take part with us according at you are bound by Conscience and by Nature to defend your Country And if you be afraid we should shrink from you after you should enter this Cause you shall understand that we took this Matter in hand with great Authority both from the Popes Holiness and from King Philip who do undertake to further us in our Affairs as we shall need Wherefore you shall not need to fear to take one part of it and be assured we will never agree with none of your Adversaries without your Consent and this our Letter shall be a sufficient Warrant for the same Newcastle Novemb. 29. 1579. Besides the Nonsence and Illiterature appearing in this Letter is it not prodigious that Fitz-Girald an English Man should rail against his own Nation and think that to be the worst of Faults which was most inseparable from him the Foundation of his greatness viz. his extraction or that he who held his Estate by English Laws and Patents should so insist upon his Possession as to forget his Title and by a stupid Contradiction look upon the English as Usurpers whilst he himself had no other Right But he who could fancy that any Authority in Ireland could be derived from King Philip might swallow impossibilities and without fear or wit run into destruction as he did In the mean time the Lord General Ormond invaded Connilogh December to which Place Desmond was again returned but did not at all expect that Attack so that most of the Inhabitants were surprized and either killed or taken Prisoners and the Villages were either plundered or burnt the Earl was like to be surprized at Newcastle and very narrowly escaped And not long after Ormond had a Brush with the Seneschal of Connilogh and though Ormond got the better yet he lost many of his Soldiers and therefore in revenge he burnt all the Country about Lefinnen and then marched to Cork and in the way he took a Prey of fifteen hundred Cows and brought them thither At Cork Ormond disposed of his Army into Garrisons and then went to Cashel having by the way taken the Mayor of Youghal who had formerly refused a Garrison and undertook to defend the Town against the Rebels and yet when Desmond attacked it the Mayor delivered it up almost without Blows and therefore to appease the Queen who was mightily troubled at the scandalous Loss of Youghal the Mayor was deservedly executed before his own Door and it is observable that Youghal was wholly deserted so that there was not one Soul left in it except one Fryar who was spared for the Humanity he had shewed to the Corps of Henry Davels which he carefully buried but the old Inhabitants were by Proclamation of the first day of February invited to return and to encourage them thereunto a Garrison of three hundred Foot was left in the Town under the Command of the Captains Morgan and Pierce In the mean time Ibid. Ormond made great Preparations to recover the Castle of Sangically from the Spaniards from whom he expected stout and obstinate Resistance but on the contrary they deserted the Castle upon view of the Army and fled over the Water but were so hotly pursued that most of them were slain and a Garrison was put into the Castle Ormond's Head Quarters were at Adare and it being usual for the Soldiers to range abroad for Forage or Plunder Desmond placed an Ambush so luckily that it once intercepted them but being stout and well disciplin'd Men they made good their Retreat without any Disadvantage In the mean time the Lord Justice whom we left at Limerick marched into Thomond where the Earl and his Son and two Servants very ill mounted met his Lordship and waited on him to Galway and there the Lord Justice confirm'd the Priviledges of that Town 1579. and thence marched through Athenry Ballinislow and Athlone to Dublin and there he found William Norris and an hundred and fifty brave Horse all in a Livery of Red Coats and Yellow Lace newly arrived from England which were immediately sent to Quarter at the Newry where Norris died on Christmas Day Captain Casy's Company that was left in Galway was forced to hire a House for the Soldiers and the Queen paid the Rent of it and on the twenty eighth of November a Custodiam of the Bishoprick of Ross was granted to Robert Drury for three Years and on the 3d. of Dec. the L. Justice kept Sessions at Trim and caused 16 Malefactors to be executed and on the 10th of Dec. Sir Hugh O Reily made his Submission at Drogheda and the same day 5000 l. in Money arrived out of England On the eighteenth of January the Lord Justice left Dublin and came by the Sea-coast to Wexford where he kept Sessions and sate personally in the Court thence by Tintern he came to Waterford where he was nobly received and the Mayor carried the Sword before him The Earl of Ormond met him at Waterford and upon Advertisement that the Rebels drew near Dungarvan and Youghal Captain Zouch was sent with four hundred Foot and an hundred Horse to oppose them On the Eleventh of February a Commission of Martial Law was sent to Sir Warham Saint-Leger Hooker 166. and then the Lord Justice having stayed three Weeks at Waterford removed to Clonmel where Ormond met him again and thence he marched to Limerick and had his Baggage carried a great part of the way on Mens Shoulders for want of Carriage-Horses or because of the badness of the Way or both at Limerick the Chancellor of that Diocess was found guilty of Treason for corresponding with Desmond but he made Shift to get a Pardon whilst the Bishop of Limerick who was shrewdly suspected was confined to his House On the Tenth of March the Lord Justice and Ormond met at Rakele and the next day they passed over the Bridge of Adare and returned at Night and then they divided their Forces and invaded Conniloe burning and spoiling the Country and incamped within one Mile of Kilcolman where they had News that Lieutenant Parker five Horse and three Foot coming from Limerick were set upon by an hundred Rebels near Rakele but they so behaved themselves that they slew the Commander and five or six more of the Enemy and came off with small Loss the same day a Soldier of the Marshal's encountred two lusty Kerns and having slain one he compell'd the other to carry his Fellow's Head to the Camp where he was likewise slain On the twelfth of March the Army being divided Preyed and burnt the Country to Slevelogher as they did likewise the next day and slew above four hundred Men whereupon the Lord Lixnaw was humbled and made his Submission The Lord Justice having marched as far as Slewemiss beyond Traley and not being able to pass farther resolved to besiege Carrigifoyl which was Desmond's chief strength and it was Garrisoned
Barryescourt and the Seneschall of Imokelly placed an Ambush for him at Corabby which Captain Raleigh manfully Encountred and Defeated or at least broke through them so that he came safe to Corke On the 25th of July one Eve Published Seditious Letters at Waterford importing that the Pope and the King of Spain and Duke of Florence had made a League to assist the Irish with Ten thousand Foot and a thousand Horse of the Popes Fifteen thousand Foot and a thousand five hundred Horse of the Spaniards and Eight thousand Foot and an hundred Horse of the Florentines and that the Irish should Elect a King of their own Nation and reject Elizabeth as a Bastard and a Heretick and republish the Bulls of Pius Quintus against her c. And it was true that the Prince of Conde brought such a League to the Queen which he said was made at Rome the 20th of February 1580. About the same time the Lord Baltinglass wrote an Answer to the Earl of Ormond assuring his Lordship that he had but two Councellors one that said Fear not those that can kill the Body only c. and the other bids us obey the higher Power for he that resisteth it resisteth God seeing then the highest Power upon Earth Commands us to take the Sword and to Fight and Defend our selves against Traytors and Rebels which do seek only the Murdering of our Souls he is no Christian that will not obey Questionless it is a great want of Knowledge and more of Grace to believe that a Woman Incapax of Holy Orders should be the Supream Governour of Christ's Church a Term that Christ did not grant to his own Mother You should consider that if Thomas of Becket Bishop of Canterbury had never suffered Death in the defence of the Church tho Butler alias Becket had never been Earl of Ormond c. and about the same time he wrote to a Merchant of Waterford to provide him Ammunition and Arms for which he would pay him to content In the mean time Captain Zouch who lay at Dingle lost a great many of his Men by sickness nevertheless when he understood that the Earl of Desmond and David Barry had assembled three thousand Men near Ahado in Kerry he Marched with the Remainder of his small Brigade to Castlemange and upon a sudden surprized them so that the Earl was fain to fly in his Shirt and shift for himself as well as he could he fled to Herlow-wood a very great fastness but being Necessitated to pass near Killmallock the Garrison there under Bourcher Dowdall Macworth and Norris pursued them into the Wood and were like to take the Earl but did take a great Pery and some of his Carriages and killed a great many of his Followers About the same time Fitzgirald commonly called Seneschaâ— of Imokilly preyed the Country about Lissmore and slew twenty five of the Garrison that sallied to recover the Prey The Lord Deputy appointed Archbishop Loftus and the Earl of Kildare Governours of the Pale during his intended Progress and they had a General Rendevouz at the Hill of Taragh in July and then the Earl with two hundred Horse and seven hundred Foot by the order of the Council went to Parly with the Lord of Baltinglass but to no purpose and thereupon the Earl unadvisedly returned to Dublin and the Enemy taking advantage of his Retreat Burnt Newcastle in the County of Wicklow 1581. In the mean time the Lord Deputy Marched to Munster and made Captain Zouch Governour of that Province and then returned to Dublin by the way of Connaugh Zouch kept his head Quarters at Corke and had Intelligencil that there was a great Feud between David Barry and the Seneschall of Imokelly and that they both lay on Dunfrinâ—en side of the Blackwater and that the Earl of Desmond and his Brother John lay on the other side of the River in Condens Country and that they were very active by their Messengers to procure a Reconcillation between Barry and the Seneschall but were hindred by the great Floods from Negotiating it personally as they designed whereupon Captain Dowdall sent one Richard Mac-James to the Irish Camp as a Spy to whom one of the Desmonds Messengers not mistrusting him discovered that Sir John Desmond designed to come and reconcile the aforesaid Parties the next Morning but I know not by what Artifice the Spy perswaded the Messenger to go to Corke and tell his own Story but 't is certain thereupon Zouch and Dowdall leaving the Government of Corke to Captain Raleigh Marcht on Hooker 175 pretending for Lymerick and by break of Day they got to Castlelyons and so Marching forwards to an Wood and placing some Shot between the Wood and Sâ—â—anâ—cally adjacent Bogg they met two Gentlemen in the Wood who happened to be Sir John of Desmond and James Fitz John of 〈◊〉 both which they took and Executed and which is most strange as Mr. Sullivane tells the Story 〈◊〉 great Hero was so daunted at the sight of the English Sullivan 99 that he was not able to mount his Horse tho at other times he was an active man But Zouch not contented herewith but remembring that David Barry and Gorin Mac Swiny had lately prayed Carbery and passing by Bantry had encountred the Garrison which Sallyed and kill'd every one of them but one was now resolved to revenge it and therefore fell upon their Army and routed them and this Defeat reduced Barry to the necessity of begging pardon which at length he obtain'd And so Munster being pretty quiet and no news of the Earl of Desmond the Munster Forces were reduced to four hundred Foot and fifty Horse But the Lord of Lixnaw and his Son pretending injuries from the Governour took advantage of the reducement of the Army and boldly went into Rebellion again and his beginning was very successful for he slew Captain Achin and the Garrison of Adare except some few that saved themselves in the Abby and recovered that Fortress also he took the strong Castle of Lisconnell by Stratagem and threw the Garrison over the Walls and tho he fall'd in his cunning design on the Castle of Adnagh yet he ranged over the Countries of Ormond Tipperary and Waterford without resistance Wherefore Zouch not able to endure these affronts with his small Army of four hundred Men March'd into Kerry and came to Adare which the Lord Lixnaw had forsaken and thence he March'd to Lisconnell Wood where he met the Baron with about 700 Men who upon the first Charge â—led and left their Goods and Cattle behind them Thence the Army March'd to Glyn Castle where Sir Henry Wallopps and Captain Norris's Companies being 200 men came to them from the Lord Deputy hence the Governour went to Lymerick leaving Captain Powdall to pursue the Baron who soon met with him near Glanflisk and defeated his Forces again Hooker 177. killing â—n hundred and forty of them and taking a Prey of 800
flight The Establishment for this year from Feb. 1599. to February 1600. came to 222961 l. 4s 8d ½ and on the 24th of March 1599. the Army consisted of 1200 Horse and 14000 Foot But the Strength of the Rebels lying in their Fastnesses the Lord Lieutenant resolved to make War upon them with Garisons and small flying Army and accordingly he placed in Dundalk 100 Horse and 650 Foot in Ardee 50 Horse and 700 Foot in Kells 50 Horse and 400 Foot in Newry 50 Horse and 1000 Foot in Carlingford 100 Foot and 100 Horse and 1000 Foot were appointed for Leinster to invade Leix and Offaly and victual Philipstown which Sir Oliver Lambert with much Gallantry performed about the 15th of April though he met with brisk Attacks from Owen mac Rory In the mean time the Rebels being disheartened with this manner of proceeding and Tyrone's flight from Munster grew every day in worse condition and suffered many Losses the Garison of the Naas took a Prey and kill'd many Rebels and Sir Francis Shane defeated 140 of them whereof 45 were slain on the place of which number fourteen were kill'd by himself so that many of the Rebels offered to submit which was the less regarded because it was known that even those that had not yet entered into Rebellion were hindered more by a sense of their Danger than their Duty and that they waited only for a safe opportunity to declare themselves insomuch that O Sullevan assures us Sullevan 177. that before the Battel of Kingsale the Papists in the Queen's Army had promised to revolt and that many did so by two or three or ten at a time and that if they had all done so then there had been an end of the English for ever The Lord Lieutenant march'd toward Vlster the fifth of May he passed the Moyry on Whitsunday Morning and came to Newry where he was inform'd that O Neal had raz'd Blackwater Fort burnt Armagh and was retired into the Fastness of Logh lurken whereupon Montjoy on the 15th of May drew out towards Armagh with 1500 Foot and 200 Horse but hearing that the Earl of Southampton and Sir Oliver Lambert were coming to him with recruits on the 17th of May he sent Captain Blany with 500 Foot and 50 Horse to conduct them who accordingly came to Faghard near Dundalk and thence all together marched toward the Newry but were attacked briskly at the Pass of the Moyry by Tyrone and 1200 Foot and 220 Horse but Montjoy who foresaw this design came seasonably to their Relief so that they passed the Moyry in spight of the Rebels with a small Loss to themselves and very considerable Loss to the Enemy in a brisk Fight they had there In the mean time a Garison was planted at Loghfoile by Sir Henry Dokwra and they took Newcastle and spoil'd all O Dogharty's Countrey took a good Prey of Cows and killed many Rebels they also fortified at Derry which frightened many of the Irish into the Islands of Scotland and forced some of them to Submission About the middle of June Montjoy return'd to Dublin by the way of Carlingford O Neal being retired into his Fastnesses At Dublin the Lord Lieutenant met many and great Clamours that in his absence the Rebels had invaded preyed and burnt the Pale but the Loss was not half so great as the Noise As to Munster The President with 900 Foot and 100 Horse came to Youghall the 21st of April where he receiv'd an account that Florence Mac Carty and others of Carbry on Tyrone's encouragements were in actual Rebellion wherefore Captain Flower was sent into Carbry with 1200 Foot and 100 Horse Pacata Hib. 30. and burnt and preyed as far as Ross but in their return at Awnebuy they fell into an Ambush of 2000 men which Florence Mac Carty and Dermond O Connor had laid there for them however the English behaved themselves so well that they slew Carbry O Connor and 100 Rebels and wounded as many more without the loss of any Person of note on their side and about the same time the Garison of Killmallock took a good Prey from the Brough On April the 24th the President came to Cork where he had an account of the miserable condition of the Province which was all in Rebellion except some few Lords and Gentlemen whose followers and near relations were likewise in Action so that there could be no great confidence placed in themselves the very Cities and Towns were staggering and so frighted by the Threats and Excommunications of the Clergy that there could be no Trust reposed in them But all this did not discourage the President On the 25th of April John Mac Thomas took a Prey of 300 Cows and 10 Horses from Castlelions and the next day Redmond Burk invaded O Dwyres's Countrey to his loss of 120 Men to revenge which Redmond soon after return'd thither and on the Sixth of May slew all the Men Women and Children and took all their Cattel and burnt all that Country On the 29th of April the Garison of Killmallock took the Prey of Loghgwir and soon after Banet Condon and the White Knight submitted to the President On the Third of May Florence Mac Carty on promise of safe return came to Cork and submitted to the President and promised Neutrality and Dermond O Connor was dealt with for a considerable reward to sieze upon the Sugan Earl of Desmond and one Nugent a relapsed Rebel for Pardon and reward promised to find means to ruine John Fitz Thomas Desmond's brother which he attempted to doe by pistolling him but was prevented in the very nick and the next day was hanged Likewise Redmond Burk who commanded 500 Banaughs was wheedled by the President in hopes of the Barony of Letrim to withdraw out of Munster and was soon followed by Tyrrel Hempon Peirce Laâ—y finding himself unable to defend his Castle of Brough burnt it and in July after â—â—ed to Vlster The President had given out that he design'd to march to Lymerick the Sixth of May whereupon the Rebels met in great numbers at Ballyhawra and continued together ten days and then partly for want of Victuals and partly because they believed the President would not or durst not come that way they separated The same day Sir Richard Piercy Governour of Kingsale slew 10 Bonaughs in Kynalmeky and had surprized them effectually but that Florence Mac Carty gave them intelligence of the Design On the 21st of May the President marcht from Cork to near Mallow and the next night near Killmallock the 24th to Brough where he left a Garison and the 25th he came to Lymerick On the 23d James Galdy Brother to the Lord Cahir and with his privity by the Treachery of an Irish Centinel surprised the Castle of Cahir but in lieu of that the Governour of Loghguir-Castle Owen Grone delivered it up to the President for a Summe of money not exceeding 60 l. On the 28th of May the President
Parsons by Owen O Conally an Irishman but bred a Protestant by Sir John Clotworthy and he being drunk told his Story so odly and delivered this surprizing Information so incoherently that small regard was had to what he said and therefore he was dismissed with Directions to make farther Discoveries if he could Nevertheless the Lord Parsons went to his Collegue Burlace at Chichester-house to communicate Conally's Intelligence unto him and whilst the Lord Justice Burlace was fretting that Conally should be so slightly dismiss'd Vide his Examination Append 2. behold about Ten a Clock at Night he came again and confirm'd his former Story Whereupon several of the Conspirators were that Night apprehended and tho' James Warren and Paul Neale found means to escape out of Custody yet the Lord Macguire in whose Lodgings were found many Hatchets Skeins and Hammers and Mac Mahon were taken and kept safe until their Execution It was about Five a Clock in the Morning 23d of October when Mac Mahon was Examined and Confessed That on that very day all the Forts and strong Places in Ireland would be taken that he with the Lord Macguire Hugh Brine Captain Bryan O Neale and several other Irish Gentlemen were come expresly to surprize the Castle of Dablin and that Twenty men out of each County were to be here to joyn with them That all the Papist Lords and Gentlemen in the Kingdom were engaged in this Plot That what was to be done in other parts of the Country was so far advanced by that time as it was impossible for the Wit of Man to prevent it that they had him in their Power and might use him as they pleased but he was sure be should be revenged And it is observable that Mac Mahon's Fancy was so full of the Bloody Tragedy which was to be Acted that day that during Owen O Conallies Examination as he walked in Chichester-Hall he drew with Chalk several postures of Men some on Gibbets and some groveling on the Ground so much was he delighted with what he thought or rather knew would soon be the Condition of the miserable English Nor is it to be omitted that Sir William Cole upon the Information of John Cormuck and Flagharty Mac Hugh that the Irish did design to seize on the Castle of Dublin and murder the Lords Justices and Council and the Protestants there did on the 21. of October send Letters with an Account of that Matter to the Lords Justices but how they mis carried is not known but it is certain those Letters never came to hand On this First day of the Rebellion the Irish surprized the Lord Blaney's House his Wife and Children and seized the Newry and the Magazine there See it Burlace 22. wherein were Seventy Barrels of Powder they also took Dungannon Fort Mountjoy Charlemont Tonrage Carrickmacross Cloghouter in the County of Cavan and Castlemonaghan and committed many Murders and the Lords Justices issued a Proclamation to encourage the English to defend themselves which were immediately Printed and sent to several places by Expresses and from this time forward there was not a day and scarce an hour wherein the dismal Tidings of some new Outrage or Barbarity did not arrive On the 24th the Alarms and Fears were so great at Dublin that the Castle Drawbridge was once let down and some of the State went to the Platform of the Castle to view the Irish Army which was falsly said to be approaching The Lords Justices being in this deplorable Condition did turn themselves to all the Methods of preserving the Kingdom which so great a Danger did require and their small Materials would allow but tho' their Industry was great their means were inconsiderable the whole standing Army did not exceed Two thousand ninety seven Foot and Nine hundred Horse Officers included and these were scattered in Single Troops and Companies or small Parties into places remote from Dublin and far distant from one another so that some of them were cut off by the Enemy and more of them being Irish Papists did revolt to the Rebels however they did send Potents for as many as they thought could safely March and particularly for the Earl of Ormond's Troop which came with himself to Dublin on the Second day of December and they made Sir Francis Willoughby Commander of the Castle These Letters are at large Temple 25. and Sir Charles Coot Governour of the City and on the 25th of October sent Owen O Conally with Letters to the Lord Lieutenant and Sir Henry Spotswood with an Express to the King But their main hope was that the Papists of the Pale who were of English Extraction and had signalized their Loyalty in all former Rebellions would also stand firm to the Crown in This and therefore the Lords Justices and Council sent Letters to the Sheriffs of those five Counties to make their best defence against the Rebels and to do all that was necessary for their own Preservation And to encourage as well as enable those Papists that the State had a good Opinion of the Lords Justices dispersed Seventeen hundred Arms to the Lords of Fingall Gormanstown Dunsany Slane Netervill Merion Hoath and other Roman Catholick Gentlemen for the Guard of the Pale and Arms were likewise sent to the Towns of Waterford Wexford and Trim with a Licence to import more they issued also Commissions of Martial Law for the more speedy Execution of the Rebels and thereby the more Expeditious Suppressing of the Rebellion Temple 55. and these Commissions were directed to Papists viz. to Henry Talbot for the County of Dublin John Bellew Esquire for the County of Louth Richard Dalton and James Tuit in Westmeath and James Talbot in the County of Cavan They also gave Commissions of Government of the respective Counties to several Roman Catholicks viz. the Lords Mountgarret Gormanstown Mayo Costilo Walter Bagnall Sir James Dillon Sir Robert Talbot Sir Christopher Bellew Sir Thomas Nugent and Mr. Nicholas Barnewall and by these Commissions these Lords and Gentlemen in their respective Districts had power to Levy and raise Forces to Arm and Array and conduct them and to prosecute the Rebels with Fire and Sword to use Martial Law and to Pardon and receive into his Majesties mercy as they should think fit as may be seen more at large in the Lord Gormanstowns Commission Postea Appendix 8. But the Lords and Gentlemen of the Pale were deeper in this General Conspiracy than the Lords Justices suspected and therefore were so far from being wrought upon by these Kindnesses and the Confidence the State placed in them that on the contrary from the very beginning they industriously sought for Pretences to break out into Action Their first Essay was on the 27th day of October at which time they picked a Quarrel at the words Irish Papists in the Proclamation against the Rebels as being Terms so General and Comprehensive that themselves might seem included and tho' they being Old English
ordering the Country People to bring in their Corn to Market or else that their Haggards should be put under Military Execution by which means the Market was pretty well supplied And on the last day of December Sir Symon Harcourt with his Regiment of Twelve hundred Foot from England landed at Dublin But whilst these things were doing Sir Thomas Carey and Doctor Câ—le a Sorbonist offered from the Rebels some Propositions whereupon a Treaty for Peace might be founded viz. 1. Toleration of Religion 2. That Papists shall have admittance to all Employments as well as Protestants 3. The Wrongs of Plantations since 1610. to be repair'd 4. The Titles of Rebels and Traitors should be taken off the File by Proclamation But these Terms were too dishonorable and therefore were rejected Nevertheless some Popish Priests that pretended to more Moderation and Humanity than the rest were permitted to Treat with the Rebels and Doctor Cale obtain'd a Commission from the State to do so and promis'd great Success of his Negotiation But the Rebels were elevated with their Fortune insomuch that Sir Philemy O Neal refused to Treat unless Macgulre and Macmahon were set at Liberty and so that Affair determined And now Sir Simon Harcourt being made Governor of Dublin Sir Charles Coot on the Tenth of January was sent abroad to remove the Enemy from Swords a Village Six Miles from the City The Irish had barricadoed the Avenues to the Town and did what they could to defend themselves but Coot despising their weak Opposition valiantly forced the Passage and routed the Party with the slaughter of Two hundred of them and returned to Dublin with little or no Loss except that of Sir Lorenzo Cary who was killed in this Action On the Eleventh of January the Parliament was by Proclamation prorogued to the Twenty first of June 1642. But the Speakers declared to both Houses ☜ That notwithstanding the Prorogation it was not His Majesty's Intention to depart from or wave any thing he had formerly promis'd for the Confirmation of their Estates to such of his Subjects as should continue Loyal On the Fourteenth of January the Lords Justices and Council issued a severe Proclamation against Pillagers and Vagrants that were not Listed under any Commander and on the Eighteenth published another Proclamation prohibiting Soldiers from returning to England without Licence on pain of Death And on the Twenty fourth of January there landed at Dublin the Lord Lieutenant's Regiment of Foot under Lieutenant Colonel Monk afterward Duke of Albemarle Sir Michael Earnly's and Colonel Cromwell's Regiments likewise of Foot and the Lord Lisle's and Sir Richard Greeâ—vill's Regiments of Horse which enabled the Lieutenant-General Ormond with Two thousand Foot and Three hundred Horse to march out into the Country where he burnt Newcastle and Lyons and got a cosiderable Booty at the Naas and by this Joâ—â—ny removed the Enemy farther off See this Proclamation Burlace Append 6. and on the Eighth of February the Government issued a Proclamation against the Rebels prizing Sir Philemy O Neal's Head at a thousand Pounds and the rest at proportionable Rates against which the Lords of the Pale framed a false and scandalous Protestation But it is time to return to Tredagh which by the importunity of those of the Pale was become the Rebels chief Aim and next to Dublin the chief Care of the State It was the principal Scene of Action during the Months of December January and February and therefore I have preserved the Relation of that Siege intire without mixing it with other Affairs Tredagh in Irish Drogheda in Latin Pontana is an ancient Walled Town situate on both sides the River Boyne and united by a Stone Bridge from which the Town derives its Name It is about two Miles in Circuit and about three Miles distant from the Sea It had neither Bulwark nor Rampire nor any other Fortification than an ordinary Ditch and the old Wall The Haven is not good the Entrance being very narrow and difficult by reason of a Bar in the Mouth of the Harbor which is not passable but at Full Sea and then especially on Spring-tides a Ship of Sixty Tuns may sail to the Key of Tredagh Finally This Town is Governed by a Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffs and is a County of it self and stands in a plain open fruitful and Champion Country To this Town came the Lord Moor with his Troop of Horse from his House at Mellefont upon the first notice of the Irish Rebellion even on the Twenty third of October about Midnight and being alarm'd by the dismal Stories of some which had escaped the Cruelties of the Rebels he caused the Mayor and Aldermen to be awakened and excited them to a speedy and vigorous Preparation for their Defence They promised fairly but acted slowly insomuch that altho' many hundreds of the Townsmen well armed used to appear on Muster-days yet now they could not get above Forty Men together and those but very ill armed but afterwards the Number encreased to Two hundred However this Noble Lord was not discouraged but having got some old Guns out of a Dungeon and Four more and some Powder out of a Ship in the Harbor he scowred the Ditch and repaired the Walls and mounted his Artillery and reviewed Captain Nettervill's and Captain Rockby's half Companies each consisting of Forty four Men of the Standing Army and did every thing else in his power that was necessary for the Defence of the Place Nevertheless finding that all this would not do without farther Succour he went to Dublin in a dark Night and effectually represented to the Government the Weakness and Importance of Drogheda and offered to augment his own Troop of Sixty to a hundred and to raise a hundred Foot at his own Charge But what he obtained was a Promise That Succours should be speedily sent And in the mean time Captain Seafoul Gibson had a Commission and Arms for a hundred and twenty Men which he raised in Tredagh in two Hours time and that very Night they were set on the Watch and were kept to so hard Duty that this Captain and the Lord Moor did watch Ten Nights together in their own Persons which was the more troublesom to them because they were frequently on every day especially at Church-time disturb'd with Alarms purposely made by the Popish Inhabitants to distract them And altho' the Lord Moor had the good Success in several Sallies and Excursions to kill Two hundred of the Rebels and to take Eighty Prisoners whereof Six only were hang'd yet the Popish Townsmen finding that no Supply was come to the Town nor as they thought likely to come and that on the contrary the Rebels had taken Dundalk and Drâ—miskin formed several Contrivances to give up the Town One Night when they design'd it they were prevented by a Rumour That the Protestants had re-taken Newry and another Night Captain Nattervill who had form'd his half Company to his mind and was in
English Pikes were longer than the Rebels Pikes they charged home and the Lord Moor coming in seasonably with 15 Horse only they put the Rebels to flight and beat them quite out of the Town with the Slaughter of above 200 of them and some of their best Officers nor must it be forgotten that the Popish Houses in the Town were marked with Chalk that so the Rebels if they had prevailed might distinguish them from those they intended to murder Neither will I pretermit a Stratagem used by the Garison in placing some Pipers upon the Walls to play and others to toss up their Caps and cry The Town is our own make hast in and the like by which means many of the Rebels that still waited to have a Gate opened for them ran hastily into the Town and were made Prisoners The Pinnace that came with the first Relief hapned unfortunately to run aground and was briskly attackt by the Rebels who desperately came with Pickaxes and Iron Barrs even to her very Stern but Captain Stutfield threw some Granadoes amongst them and by that means got rid of them with much ado and killed above Threescore of the Irish But after a while Necessities and Diseases began to return upon the Garison so that many dyed daily in the Town and therefore a diligent Search was made for Provisions and the Fryers contrary to their Vow of Poverty were found to have great Quantities of Money Plate and other Treasure which they not owning most of it probably belonging to the Rebels it was divided amongst the Soldiers but that was no Relief to a hungry Belly when Victuals could not be had for Money and therefore the Governor made a hard shift to send a Boat to Dublin to hasten Supplies And tho' the Governor did by frequent Sallies incommode the Enemy and sometimes recover a little Provisions yet that did not so recruit the Garison but that they were reduced to the greatest Extremities even to the eating of Horses Dogs and Cats when on the Thirteenth of February they Sallied and took from the Rebels a considerable Booty of 80 Cows and 200 Sheep and the Twentieth day being Sunday at four a Clock in the Morning Sir Philemy O Neal with all his Strength made so bold an Attempt as to apply Scaling Ladders to the Wall and the Sentinel's Gun missing Fire they made good Progress before the Garison took the Alarm but as soon as the Soldiers came to the Walls they did such Execution upon the Irish that their Officers could by no means oblige the Soldiers to return to the Assault And the same day two Pinnaces and several other Vessels notwithstanding the Boom at Tredagh which broke the day before came up to the Town with a plentiful Supply of all Necessaries Encouraged by this Recruit and these Successes the Governor of Tredagh with 220 Foot and 120 Horse Sallied to Beaubeck on the Twenty sixth of February and secured some Corn and Hay for the Garison and then advanced to Smiths Town where they defeated a Party of Rebels and slew 300 And about the same time Major Fortescue had good Success near Gellingston against Colonel Preston in the same Field the English had formerly suffered a Defeat and to follow the Blow the Lord Moor with 600 Foot and 120 Horse and two Field-Pieces Sallied out the Twenty eighth of February and assailed Stainime but finding it fortified they took some Corn at Colp and returned On the First of March the Lord Moor and Sir John Burlace made another Sally and took the Castle of Colp and killed many of the Rebels And on the Second of March Colonel Wainman made another Sally as far as Marlengton burned Mr. Draicot's House and some other considerable places and return'd home with good store of Corn and on the Fourth the brave Lord Moor made another Sally towards Tullagh-hallon amongst his traiterous and ungrateful Tenants and routed the Rebels killing seven Captains and 400 Soldiers and took Capt. Mac Mahon and Barnwell of Rahasket Prisoners and got good store of Arms whereby the Siege of Tredagh was raised and the Garison was at leisure to visit the Enemies Quarters and soon forced Darcy of Platten his Servants to surrender his House and obliged some of the Lord of the Pale to write Letters of Excuse to the State and to desire to know upon what Terms they might come in but the Lords Justices despis'd that Insolence and the case being alter'd did not think fit without new Orders to prostitute His Majesties Mercy to such as had no other sense of their Duty than that was taught them by necessity But whilst some of them desired to be pardoned others of them committed barbarous Crimes that were unpardonable and murdered all the Protestants at Atherdee to be revenged for their Losses before Tredagh and it ought never to be forgotten as an especial Providence of God that during this long Siege and in all these Sallies there were but Twelve Protestants that fell by the Sword or were slain which nevertheless is very believable because the like hath lately hapned in proportion at the famous Siege of Londonderry On Munday the Seventh of March the Earl of Ormond with Three thousand Foot and Five hundred Horse marched out of Dublin to relieve Tredagh not knowing the Siege was rais'd and having burned Feildstown Kilsalan and Ratooth and several Houses in the County of Meath he came to Tredagh on the Eleventh and having recruited the Governor and the Lord Moor with Four hundred Foot and Two Troops of Horse and burnt and pillaged great part of the Pale he return'd to Dublin on Business of Importance by the special Order of the Lords Justices Nevertheless the Lord Moor and Sir Henry Tichburne on the Twenty first of the same Month marched out with One thousand Foot and Two hundred Horse and having burnt the Country about Slane on the Twenty third advanced to Atherdee and having discovered the Enemy to the number of near Fifteen hundred they sent out their Forlorn which stumbled on an Irish Ambuscade and drove them to the Main Body of whom they killed about Four hundred At the Foot of the Bridge the Irish did again make some Resistance but some of the English found a Passage over the River and galled them in the 〈◊〉 and forced them to abandon that Post and then forced their way into the Town In this Skirmish one Irish Lieutenant-Colonel and five Captains were slain besides what fell of the Common Soldiers The English encourag'd with this Success advanc'd to Dundalk on the Twenty sixth of March and tho' the Town was fortified with a double Wall and a double Ditch and had a Bog on the one side and the Sea on the other yet a Party of the English led by Lieutenant-Colonel Wainmâ—â— forced the Gate with Pickaxes and entred the Town with their Horse and pursued the Enemy on a full Gallop but at the turn of a Street were warmly received by Five hundred
came undiscovered very near the Enemy who were gazing at the rest that march'd in the High-way and at the first Volley kill'd Sixteen Men whereupon all the Irish fled and being light of Foot and the Horse not come up no farther Execution was done at this famous Battel of Knockagarane As for Cork it was blocked up on the South-side by General Barry and the Lord Muskery who expected the Lord Roch and others to do the like on the North-side but to prevent that the Lord President sent the Lord Insiquin and Colonel Jepson with the Two English Troops newly arrived from England into Roch's Country and Orrery where they had the good Fortune to relieve Rathgogan and to take Ballyha and to kill Two hundred Rebels on the Twenty seventh of February And the Lord President being reinforced by Sir Charles Vavasor's Regiment likewise newly arrived from England did on the second of March draw out a Party with which he burnt Tallow visited Lismore and took Dungarvan by Surrender and left Lieutenant Rossington and Forty Men in it from whom the Irish afterwards surpriz'd it and so having kill'd Three hundred Rebels in this Journy he returned safely to Cork But on the Thirteenth of April the Irish beat the English Scouts into the Suburbs of Cork whereupon the Lord Insiquin and Colonel Vavasor issued out with Three hundred Musquetiers and Two Troops of Horse and not only beat that Party but also routed the whole Army and took the Lord Muskery's Armor Tent and Baggage and killed Captain Sugane and above Two hundred of the Rebels without the Loss of a Man And as to Youghall the Irish did plant Three Pieces of Ordnance on the other side of the River to block up the Harbor but that did not hinder the safe Arrival of Sir Charles Vavasor and his Regiment in that Port on the Twenty fifth day of February 1641. as aforesaid As to Connaught the Lord Ranelagh was Lord President of that Province and being at Dublin when the Rebellion broke out he went to his Government the beginning of November and found the Counties of Mayo Letrim Roscomon and Sleigo in open Rebellion At first he thought to reclaim them by Mildness and the Acquaintance he had amongst them but he was quickly baffled in that Expectation as every body else will be that thinks an Irish Rebel will prefer the Interests or Solicitations of a Protestant Friend before those of a Popish Priest On the contrary to manifest their Sincerity to their Religion per aliquod facinus dignum they are most severe to their Protestant Friends and the Lord Ranelagh fared as bad as others being besieged in the Castle of Athlone all this Winter and many Towns in his Province and particularly Roscomon and Elphin were burned by the Rebels and some Castles of the Earl of Clanrickard's in the County of Galway were by them likewise surprized tho' generally that County was by the Conduct and Loyalty of the Earl of Clanrickard kept in pretty good order And it is to be noted That Commissions of Government and Martial Law were likewise sent to the Roman Catholicks of this Province viz. to the Lord of Mayo c. that nothing might be omitted to keep them quiet if they were so inclin'd but they despising the weak Forces of this Province were more forward than others to plunge themselves into this Common and Universal Rebellion and kept the Lord President besieged in the Castle of Athlone all this Winter In January the Irish to the number of Twelve hundred besieged young Sir Charles-Coot in Castle-Coot but he valiantly raised the Siege within a Week and not long after defeated Hugh O Connor and his Forces and on the Second of March encountred Con O Rourk and his Followers who came to fetch the Prey of Roscomon and took himself Prisoner and killed most of his Party Afterwards the Rebels under the Conduct of Colonel Walsh formed a Camp at Kregs but young Sir Charles Coot and the Garison of Castle-Coot sallied out upon them and gave them a total Defeat and took all their Baggage and Provisions and not long after he got a considerable Prey from about Ballynislow and in Easter-week relieved Athloane with some Provisions and other Necessaries Nor did the Governors and Garisons of Roscoman Tulsk Elphin Knockvicar Abbyboyle Carrigdrumrusk and Bealanfad behave themselves less bravely tho' at length this latter Place was lost for want of Water As to Ulster because the Rebellion began there I have already mentioned several passages in that Province so that I have only to add that on the Twenty third of October Cormock O Hagan surpriz'd the strong Castle of Monymore belonging to the Company of Drapers in London Whereupon a Rumour was immediately noised about the Country that the Irish were in Rebellion which coming to the Ears of Mr. William Rowly who had been an active Man against the Irish he presently posted to Colerain where he brought the first notice of the Insurrection about Eight a Clock on Sunday Morning which was soon after confirmed by multitudes of pillaged People that flockt into the Town that day It was wonderful to see the Scots so deluded with the wheedling of the Irish that they sate still as Newters till the English were destroy'd and particularly There was one Mr. William Stewart of the Irry who had Married the Earl of Tyrones Grand-Daughter he had Six hundred Scots together and might have preserved that Country but being assur'd by some of his Irish Relations that no harm was design'd to his Country-men he dismist his Followers to their respective Dwellings and that very Night most of them were murdered and this was the first Action that Alarm'd the Scots amongst whom the Irish from that time forward made a sad Slaughter and the Scots in due time did not fail to Pay them in their own Coyn and particularly at the 〈◊〉 of Magee within few Weeks after At Colerain Colonel Edward Rowly rased a Regiment of Foot and a Troop of Horse and Colonel Cozens raised a Regiment of Foot but the former marched into the Country and for some time kept in an open Village called Garvaghy but at length the Irish to a very great number whereof many were his own Tenants fell upon him and kill'd all his Men but Eight and barbarously murdered himself after they had given him Quarter and then burnt and plundered to the Gates of Colerain Mr. Hugh Rowly who is still living assures me he saw them burn Desertmartin Maghara Vintners Town Drapers Town and Maghrafelt and he saw them take a Poor Scotchman and knock him in the Head with stones and he also saw them take Mr. Matchet a Minister out of Lieutenant Thurbye's House and murder him and he also likewise saw the Lord of Antrim and Sir Philemy O Neal meet at the same place But in March Archibald Steward marched out of Colerain with Six hundred Scots and Three hundred English and had the misfortune to meet with
and attacked them so briskly that they quickly fled but by reason of the adjacent Bog and the harrass'd Condition of the English Horse there was not much Execution done the number of the Slain not exceeding Five hundred amongst which were the Lord Dunboyn's Brother the Lord Ikerin's Son and Colonel â—â—vâ—nagh and on the English side not above Twenty killed and Forty wounded However it was an entire Victory all their Powder and Amunition the Generals Waggon drawn with Eight Oxen his and the Lords of Ikerin's Sumptures and Twenty Colours being taken and for this great Service the Lieutenant General had a Letter of thanks from the Parliament of England and a Jewel worth 500 l. Soon after arrived at Dublin Philip Lord Lisle Lieutenant General of the Horse and his first Essay was to relieve the Castle of Geashill which with Three hundred Horse and One hundred and twenty Foot he easily effected he was accompanied by old Sir Charles Coot in this Action who at a Council of War told the rest that if they made haste they might easily pass the Defiles and Causeways before the Enemy could get together to oppose them whereto another reply'd that perhaps that might be so but when the Countrey was Alarm'd how should they get back I protest said Sir Charles Coot I never thought of that in my Life I always considered how to do my business and when that was done I got home again as well as I could and hitherto I have not mist of forcing my way and accordingly they went and their march was so swift that they came unexpectedly to Phillipstowne and took it and on their return they followed some of the Popish Lords of the Pale to Trim and forced that place likewise and by Coot's advice resolved to make it a Garison and therefore in order to settle this Affair with the Lords Justices the Lord Lisle guarded by some of the Horse went to Dublin but the next night after he was gone the Irish to the number of Three thousand came in the dead of the night to surprise Trim but the Centinel gave the Alarm and thereupon Sir Charles Coot with all the Horse he could get being not above Seventeen issued out of the Gate and was followed by others as fast as they could get ready The Success was answerable to so generous an Undertaking and the Irish were routed without any other considerable Loss on the English Side except that of Sir Charles Coot himself who was shot dead but whether by the Enemy or one of his own Troopers is variously reported Upon his Death the Government of Dublin was given to the Lord Lambert on the Twelfth of May and tho' in July Colonel Monk had it by the Lord Lieutenant's Order yet as soon as the King was informed that it had been predisposed to the Lord Lambert Monk was removed and the Lord Lambert was confirmed And on the Twenty third of May the Marquis of Ormond publish'd a Proclamation against the Exorbitances of the Soldiers and to supply their Necessities the Lords Justices gave them Custodiums on the Villages in the Irish Quarters which produced good Effects both in relieving the Soldiers and in annoying the Rebels On the first of June came over some Regiments under the Conduct of Sir Foulk Hunks and Lieutenant Colonel Kirke whereupon the Earl of Ormond with Four thousand five hundred Foot and Six hundred Horse marched to the Relief of Athlone and in his way took in the Castles of Knocklinch Trimletstown and Kinkelfe and beat Five hundred Rebels from Ballynecurr but upon his approach the Rebels burnt Molingar and Bullymore and Sir James Dillon and the Irish Army thought fit to withdraw so that the Lord President of Connaught with Fifty Horse and Two hundred Foot met the Marquis of Ormond Five Miles from Athlone and received from him Two Regiments of Foot and Two Troops of Horse and then both these Lords return'd the one to Athlone and the other to Dublin About the same time viz. in June Colonel Monk marching to reinforce the Lieutenant-General took Castleknock and killed Eighty Rebels besides some that he hanged and a while after he took the Castles of Rathroffy and Clongowswood in the County of Kildare and did good Execution upon the Enemy and of Seventy which he had taken Prisoners most of them being murdering Rebels were afterwards executed at Dublin And on the Twentieth of the same Month Colonel Gibson made a prosperous Incursion into Wicklow and killed many of the Confederates and brought home a considerable Prey But on the Twenty first of June the Irish Parliament sat according to the Prorogation and the Lower House voted That the Oath of Supremacy should be tendred to all their Members that so the Rotten ones may be cut off and new ones chosen in their room and to that purpose a Bill was prepar'd and sent into England and it seems that they did proceed to chuse new Members for the Corporations and Counties within their power in stead of those that were in actual Rebellion which was one of the Grievances the Confederates afterwards complain'd of And it is worthy Observation The Proclamation Burlace Append. p. 57. That the Lords Justices and Council finding the Rebellion to be so general that all Degrees and Conditions of the Irish had with hateful and bloody obstinacy either publickly or privately contributed to the Destruction and Extirpation of the Protestants and that those under Protection abused that Favour to murder and rob the English the more slily and securely they did by their Order of the Nineteenth of August revoke repeal and annul all Protections that had been given to any Rebel before that time which was one of the wisest Acts that was done in the whole War for nothing is more experimentally true than this That the English never or very seldom suffered by the Irish at open Defiance but have been often destroyed by their Perfidiousness and Treachery But to proceed In August the Lord Moor Sir John Burlace junior and Colonel Gibson with Fifteen hundred Men two Pieces of Battery and two Field-pieces marched into the Counties of Louth and Meath and took the strong Castle of Sedan with the Slaughter of Five hundred Rebels whereat the Lords Gormanstown and Nettervill were so frightned that the former quitted the Fort of Nabar and the other deserted the Castle of Newtown whereby those Counties of Louth and Meath were cleared of the Enemy And this good Success was followed by more of the same sort for the Captains Piggot and Grimâ—s defeated a Party of Eight hundred Rebels near Athy and killed Two hundred of them and the Lord Lisle in the midst of September marched without controul through West-Meath and Cavan and destroyed the Country burnt the Earl of Fingall's House and his Town of Virginia and at last sat down before Carrickmacross which after one days Battery was deserted by the Cowardly Ward But in October the Rebels to the number of Two
thousand did again besiege it and tho' Captain Vaughan with One hundred Foot and Fifty Horse did kill Forty of the Enemy and raise the Siege yet the Place being so remote could not at all times be relieved and therefore by Order of Council was demolished But the Parliament of England were desirous to manage the War of Ireland by a Committee at least till the Lord Lieutenant should go over but the King opposed that as needless because the Lord Lieutenant was just then ready for the Voyage But whether it was thought that he would not be propitious to the Cessation and Peace with the Irish which were then in design or for what other Reasons he was delay'd it is hard to determine but this is certain That tho' he was always going yet he never went And indeed the Differences between the King and the Parliament were grown to that heighth that each Side prepared for War and at length it came to a Battel at Edge-hill that very day Twelve-month on which the Irish Rebellion broke out viz. 23 October 1642. And in this Fight the Loss seem'd equal and each Party boasted of the Victory whilst both of them were thereby hindred from sending necessary Relief to Ireland and so the unfortunate English suffered every where and were destroy'd by one another in the Civil War in England and by the Common Enemy in that of Ireland However the Parliament did not totally neglect Ireland but on the Fourteenth of October sent over Mr. Robert Godwin and Mr. Robert Reynolds Husbands's Collections 2 part 249. Two Parliament-men and one Captain Tucker from the City of London to inquire into the Condition of the Army and the State of the Kingdom and to see how their Money was disposed of They brought with them Twenty thousand Pounds in Money and some Ammunition and arrived safe on the Twenty ninth of October and on the Second of November presented themselves to the State and being received with Respect were placed on a Form behind the Council and sate covered They did good Service in Ireland and particularly gave great satisfaction to the Army that Care was taken for Pay and Supplies They also made a Book which contained a Subscription of most of the Officers in the Army to take Debentures on the Forfeited Lands for a certain Proportion of their Pay as believing they would fight the better and end the War the sooner if they were interested in the Fruits of the Victory as well as in the Quarrel But the King disliked that Course because it might take up so much of the Rebels Lands that would hinder all Hopes of a peace with them which His Majesty began to have some Hopes of and therefore several Officers well enough inclined to the Proposal omitted to subscribe and some that had subscribed desired to retract So that at length these Commissioners were so sharply threatned that they delivered up the Book to be cancelled Nevertheless they promoted the March of the Army to enlarge their Quarters which afterwards produced the Battel of Ross but some of the Cavalier-party looking upon these Commissioners as Spies procured a Reprimand to the Lords Justices for suffering them to sit covered in the Council-chamber and the King 's positive Orders for their Return which was performed the Twenty seventh of February to the very great prejudice of the Affairs of Ireland and to the great disgust of the Parliament of England In the mean time the Irish under their General Preston had besieged Ballynakill and Colonel Monk with Six hundred Foot and Two Troops of Horse was sent to relieve it He marched out of Dublin the Fifth day of December and upon his approach the Enemy withdrew from the Siege and politickly marched to a Place of Advantage between the English Army and Dublin Battel of Tymachoo to intercept them in their Return But the Rebels had not so much Courage as Cunning for tho' they were Fourteen hundred Foot and Three hundred Horse yet upon the loss of about Threescore that were slain upon the first Volley they basely ran away and left the Road open for Monk to march to Dublin In like manner Sir Richard Greenvill with Two hundred Horse and One thousand Foot on the Twentieth of January marched to raise the Siege of Athloan and carry Supplies to that Garison both which he effected but in his Return he was encountred by Three thousand four hundred Foot Battel of Raconell and Six Troops of Horse at Raconell in a place of great disadvantage to him Nevertheless he had the good fortune to defeat the Rebels with the slaughter of Two hundred and fifty of their Men and to take the General Preston's eldest Son and some other Prisoners But that which rendred this Victory the more valuable was an ancient Prophecy That whoever won the Battel of Raconell should gain all Ireland therefore this Victory troubled and discouraged the Superstitious Irish exceedingly But we must return to the Lords Justices who in November 1642. transmitted to His Majesty a Petition from the Confederates by the Name of The Roman Catholicks of Ireland desiring His Majesty to appoint Commissioners to hear their Grievances And accordingly a Commission was brought over by Thomas Burk one of the first Rebels and by him confidently delivered at the Council-Board to the admiration of the State It impowered the Marquis of Ormond the Earls of Clanrickard and Roscomon Sir Maurice Eustace and others to hear and report their Complaints and in order to it the Three last went to Trim where the Lord Gormanstown Sir Lucas Dillon Sir Robert Talbot and John Walsh the Confederates Agents on the Seventeenth of March 1642. presented a Remonstrance of Grievances which one truly calls an Infamous Pamphlet and contains so much false Reasoning and Arguments ex post facto and downright Untruths as clearly manifests That the Irish first resolved to rebel and then set their Lawyers and Divines on work to fish for Arguments to justifie or at least excuse it But there was an Answer printed 1644. entitled An Answer to the false and scandalous Remonstrance of the inhuman and bloody Rebels of Ireland which sufficiently confuted all their vain Pretences and both of them being essentially necessary to this History are in substance added Appendix 5 6. But this Remonstrance met with better Fortune in the Irish Parliament which sat the Ninth of April for the English were then unluckily dividing into the Factions of Protestant and Puritan and some of the former very unwisely to back their Arguments against that Remonstrance compared it with the Scots Covenant which engendred such Heats in the House that the Parliament was prorogued to the Sixth of May 1643. However the Protestant Army did not neglect to sollicit their Affairs in England but by their Agents Sir James Mongomery Sir Hardress Waller Colonel Hill and Colonel Mervin they Addressed first to the Parliament to whom the King had committed the Care of Ireland and afterwards
agreed against the Common Enemy and in their Abhorrence and Mistrust of the Irish so that the Privy Council represented to his Excellency That they had deserved as well of the King as Subjects possibly could either by Doing or Suffering and therefore they hoped he would not expose them to the Mercy of their cruel and hereditary Enemies ☞ who by their late Perfidiousness had made themselves incapable of Trust and therefore they desired him again to Treat with the Parliaments Commissioners who would at least perform the Conditions they promise which could not be relied on from the Irish And it is said That his Excellency did rather incline to this Advice because he knew that the Design of many in this Irish Rebellion was intirely to alienate the Kingdom of Ireland from the Crown of England P. W. Remonstrance 583. and to extirpate not only the Protestants but also all the English tho' Catholicks That the Nuncio-Party design'd to separate it from England and to put Ireland under the Protection of some Foreign Prince unless they could advance one of the Old Irish Families to the Throne And accordingly Mr. Anthony Martin in the last General Assembly did propose to call in some Foreign Prince for Protection And so the Lord Lieutenant and Council being reduced to so great straits that they had but Seventeen Barrels of Powder leâ—t and no Magazins either of Stores or Victuals nor any Money either to buy more or to pay the Army did agree to resign the Kingdom to the Parliament for these Reasons 1. It was observed ☜ That no Exercise of the Protestant Religion was so much as tolerated where the Confederates had the Command and that if all the Churches in His Majesty's Quarters should be given or suffered to be taken to the Use of the Romish Religion it would too much countenance the Reproaches of His Majesty's Inclinations to Popery and might be dangerously applied by those who had His Majesty's Life in their Power 2. That it could not be for His Majesty's Honor to have those Subjects and Servants who had stuck to His Cause after all besides was lost in His Three Kingdoms to be at last subjected to the Tyranny of those who then ruled among the Irish whose Persidy was so manifest and their Malice so great as to give Rest to the Parliament Forces and to unite all their Power against those only who had carried Peace to their very Doors Lastly It was known how many Agents the Irish had employed abroad and what Publick Ministers had Reception with them as from the Pope the Kings of France and Spain That if the Garisons now held were put into the Hands of the Two Houses of Parliament they would revert by Treaty or otherwise whenever His Majesty should in England recover His Rights but if either given or left to these Confederates there was little hopes of Restitution while any Foreign Prince should think his Affairs secured or advanced by consuming the Blood and Treasure of England in this Dispute And so on the Fifth of February they made an Act of Council which recites their sad Condition and impowers the Lord Lieutenant to renew the Treaty with the Parliament for the Surrender of Dublin and quitting the Government And accordingly his Excellency did the next day write to Wharton and Salway two of the Parliament Commissioners That he was now satisfied in the Point he scrupled at viz. the King's Orders and therefore was willing to surrender the Government on the Terms formerly propos'd and desir'd that Succors might be sent immediately Hereupon the Parliament did order 3 March That if Ormond would give one of his Sons Hostage for Performance together with the Earl of Roscomon Colonel Chichester and Sir James Ware that then Coot's Regiment of Horse and Monroe's and Fenwick's Regiments of Foot at that time in Ulster should march to his Assistance and that the Lords of Insiquin and Ardes should give the Enemy Diversion And accordingly the Lord Richard Butler afterwards Earl of Arran was sent Hostage to Chester and the aforesaid Three Regiments were received in Ormond's Garisons and the Lord Insiquin sent his Excellency Twenty Barrels of Powder and half a Tun of Match and on the Seventeenth of March the Earl of Roscomon Colonel Arthur Chichester and Sir James Ware were sent to the Committee at Derby-house to be Hostages for Performance of the Agreement with the Parliament and to solicit That Papists always adhering to the King and Papists that got out of the Rebels Quarters as soon as they could and Papists remaining in the Rebels Quarters that have shewed constant good Affections c. may be indemnified That Ormond may have leave to wait on the King and that the other Lords and Gentlemen may have Posses to go through England That Ormond may have leave to transport as many Papists to foreign Service as will go with him for which Liberty he will remit Ten thousand Pound That no Oaths other than those of Fidelity may be imposed on any Protestant and that the Common Prayer and their respective Imployments may be continued to them But they were told by the English Committee That they were Hostages and not Commissioners And on the same 17th day of March the Parliament of Ireland which had before made an Address to the Parliament of England for Protection quod vide Burlace 178 did remonstrate their Gratitude to the Marquiss of Ormond in the following Address signed by the Speakers of both Houses The Remonstrance of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled declaring the Acknowledgment of their hearty Thankfulness to the most Honourable James Marquiss of Ormond Lord Lieutenant General of Ireland His Excellency VVE the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament in Our whole Body do present Our selves before your Lordship acknowledging with great Sense and feeling your Lordships singular Goodness to Us the PROTESTANT PARTY and those who have faithfully and constantly adhered unto them who have been preserved to this day under God by your Excellencies Providence and Pious Care which has not been without a vast Expence out of your own Estate as also to the hazarding of your Person in great and dangerous Difficulties And when your Lordship found your Self with the Strength remaining with you to be too weak to resist an insolent and upon all Advantages perfidious and bloody Enemy rather than we should Perish You have in your Care transferred Us into their hands that are both able and willing to preserve Us and that not by a bare casting Us off but by complying so far with Us that you have not denied our Desires of Hostages and amongst them of one of your most dear Sons All which being such a free Earnest of your Excellencies Love to our Religion Nation and both Houses do incite Us here to come unto you with Hearts filled with your Love and Tongues declaring how much We are obliged to your Excellency
March that way he also went to Graig and thence ordered his Forces to march forward to Ross whilst himself went to Duncannon to view that considerable Fort and the same night he came to the Army to Ross and from thence sent the Lord of Castlehaven to conduct a Regiment into Wexford which he accomplished as hath been related but that Recruit not being enough Ormond himself marched to the Ferry on the North side of Wexford and sent in Sir Edmond Butler with more Supplies as hath been said And having notice that Lieutenant-General Jones lay about Iniscorfy to intercept him in his return he marched round through the Mountains of Wicklow and came to Leighlinbridge where Lieutenant-Collonel William Butler brought him the News of the loss of Wexford Hereupon his Excellency leaving the Horse to refresh themselves in the Counties of Carlow and Kilkenny ordered the Foot to march to the Banks of the River over-against Ross and went himself with his Life-guard to Duncannon where he left them under Collonel Edward Wogan whom he made Co-ordinate with the former Governour Roch believing that Cromwell's next attempt would be upon one of these two places And accordingly Cromwell did march from Wexford to Ross whereupon the Marquess of Ormond sent in Major-General Taaf and 1500 Men into the Town in view of the English Army who by reason of the River could give no opposition thereunto But before this Governor would take charge of the Town he desired an Order from the Lord-Lieutenant To Surrender the Place whenever he and his Officers should judge it could be no longer Defended And it was granted him and although he was a Papist and a principal Man amongst the Confederates yet did the Popish Clergy afterwards make this one of their Complaints That Ormond gave the Governour Orders to Surrender the Town And it is certain that he could not have made a less considerable Resistance if he had had such Orders for as soon as the Great Guns began to play the Governor began to Capitulate and having amongst other things desired Liberty of Conscience for such as should stay He was answered by Cromwell That he medled with no Man's Conscience but if by Liberty of Conscience he meant a Liberty to exercise the Mass he judg'd it best to use plain dealing and to let him know that where the Parliament of England had power that would not be allowed And so the Governour finding he could get no better Conditions was content to march out with Bag and Baggage carrying with him 1500 Men over the River to Kilkenny and the other 600 staid behind and took pay under Cromwell Upon this prodigious Success without fighting Cromwell sent a strong Detachment to attempt Duncannon but that place being well provided made a vigorous Defence so that it was thought fit to raise that Siege and return to Ross where Cromwell was busie building a Bridge of Boats over the Barrow with design to march into the County of Kilkenny and he perform'd it to the Admiration of the Irish who never had heard of such a thing before and soon after it was finished Collonel Abbot with a Party of Horse and Dragoons took Enisteig a small walled Corporation which was deserted by the Irish upon his approach to the Gates and the whole Army marched thither leaving Cromwell sick at Ross and finding that Ormond was retired to Kilkenny they detach'd Collonel Reynolds with twelve Troops of Horse and three of Dragoons to attack Carrick which succeeded to their mind for he divided his Detachment into two parts and whilst he amused the Garrison with one party the other entred at another Gate and took the Town and in it a hundred Officers and Souldiers and the rest made their escape over the River In the mean time the Marquess of Ormond being joyn'd with the Lord of Insiquin who was again return'd from Munster was pretty strong in Horse but exceeding weak in Foot However he propos'd to fight the Enemy but there was one good reason and one ill accident that diverted that design the reason is that Lieutenant-General Farrell with some Regiments of Owen Roe's Foot was daily expected and the accident was that Sir Luke Fitz Girald sent them word that a Party of Cromwell's sick Men were marching from Dublin to Wexford whereupon it was resolv'd by the Council of War and the Commissioners of Trust that Insiquin should march with 1500 Horse to attack them and accordingly he overtook them on Wexford-strand but was received so warmly that his Irish Horse ran away after the first Charge and though the rest staid to a second Assault yet having lost many Officers and Men they also thought fit to retreat to the Marquess of Ormond who was then at Thomastown And if there were any opportunity of fighting Cromwell since his arrival it was at this time when his Army was near Thomastown but even then no wise General would have atempted it first because there was no right understanding between the Protestants and Papists in the Royal Army Secondly because the Horse were lately baffled and much harass'd And thirdly because Lieutenant-General Farrell and his Foot were not yet come up But there was a greater reason than all this which was That Ormond had intelligence that Cromwell designed for Kilkenny and therefore he retired thither to save the City and to joyn Farrell who came to him there and then it was unanimously resolv'd to fight the Enemy And altho' no more then seven days Victuals could be got together yet the Lord-Lieutenant with that slender Provision march'd out of Kilkenny to find out Cromwell but that General had upon notice of the taking of Carrick a 22 October march'd thither and had passed over the Shure to the Siege of Waterford whereupon it was resolved that the Lords of Insiquin and Taaf should storm Carrick and the Lord-Lieutenant should conduct Lieutenant-General Farrell and 1500 Ulster-men and put them into the City of Waterford And this latter was done but the former miscarried for want of Spades Pickaxes and other Materials so that above 1000 Men were b 24 Octob. slain under the Walls of Carrick by Collonel Reynolds and the small Party he had there in Garrison being but 150 Foot six Troops of Horse and a Troop of Dragoons Nevertheless the Marquess of Ormond once more attempted the Relief of Waterford and brought some of his Forces on the North-side of the Shure opposite to the City whereupon Cromwell who had c 25 Octob. taken Passage-Fort finding that he had lost more Men by Sickness in this Winter's Siege than he could well spare drew off his Army towards Dungarvan And though Ormond ferried over to Waterford and courted that City to send Boats to waft over his Men to fall upon Cromwell's Rear yet the Citizens being afraid they would make that place their Winter-quarters refused to admit any more then some few more of the Ulster-men into that City And it is observable that though
Cromwell's Army was much harassed and but very small perhaps not exceeding 5000 Foot 2000 Horse and 500 Dragoons when he came before Waterford yet the fame of this General had so frightned the Irish that the Mayor and Governour of Waterford hearing of his approach did on the 28th of October send a Letter to the Marquess of Ormond to consult about the Terms to be insisted on at the Rendition of the City But Ormond the next day by his Letter chid them for their forwardness to Parly with the Enemy before any Battery was begun and assured them that if they did their Duty Cromwell should be baffled before that place as indeed it happened for he lost a 1000 Men with Sickness before it and went away without it And it was about this time in the Month of October that Mr. Seymour arrived in Ireland and brought with him the Garter to the Marquess of Ormond And it was by him that Ormond gave the following Account to his Majesty 30 Octob from Clonmell viz. That Ireland cannot be preserved without Succours that no People in the World are more easily drawn by Reward or forced by Fear than the Irish That he could not draw into the Field above 5000 Foot and 1300 Horse nor keep them long together for want of Necessaries That nevertheless there is no want of Men but of Maintenance for them that the Plague is in Conaught that the Irish and English in his Army cannot agree That no Trust can be put in Owen Roe's Army longer than their own Interest obliges them And therefore if his Majesty comes he ought to bring Ammunition and Money with him and land them at Galway And soon after from Waterford on the 15th of November his Lordship wrote again to his Majesty That the Irish are so fickle that for Trade's sake they will correspond with the Towns in the Rebels possession That the Irish Clergy are mutinous and by means of the Lord of Antrim will probably do some foolish and fatal thing From Waterford Cromwell marched to Dungarvan which he took and there on the 18th of November died Michael Jones Lieutenant-General of the Army a Man of clear Valour and excellent as well as fortunate Conduct and not inferiour to any body in a sincere passion for the good of his Country In the mean time the Towns of the Country of Cork being inhabited and garrison'd with English-men could not endure the thoughts of joyning with the Irish against their own Country-men they considered how the Lord-Lieutenant was not only limited in his Authority by the Commissioners of Trust and was but partially and precatiously obeyed by the Irish They knew the Irish aim'd at their Destruction in the end and continued the War to that purpose Finally they remembred the reasons of surrendring Dublin to the Parliament two Years before and they thought they had the same motive to submit now and therefore by the means of the Lord Broghill Collonel Countny Sir Percy Smith and the Collonels Townsend Jeffor'd and Warden they revolted all at once and about 2500 Men were drawn out of those Garrisons and they met Cromwell at Whitechurch not far from Dungarvan This Revolution dissolved all confidence between the English and Irish and as well for that reason as in other respects proved advantagious to Cromwell for otherwise he must have been forced to endure a long and dangerous March to Dublin or to have embark'd his Men on board the Fleet that coasted all along as he marched to attend him but by this Revolt he got excellent Winter-quarters in Cork Bandon Kinsale and Youghall which last place was made his Head-quarters and there we will leave him and enquire into the Motions of the Marquess of Ormond For although the Motions of that Lord could not be very considerable as well because of the Season of the Year and his want of Money and all other Necessaries as also because his Men did daily desert him in such numbers as that of all the Conaught Horse he had but nine and thirty left with him yet he so struggled with all these Difficulties that he still kept some Forces together hovering between Clonmell and Waterford And it hapned one day that he ferried over to Waterford with about fifty Horse in hopes to perswade that City to all that was necessary for its own preservation and the common good but when he came there he found that the Governor Lieutenant-General Farrel and Collonel Wogan from Duncannon had formed a design upon Passage-Fort and though Ormond much doubted the success yet it was not fit for him at that time to disswade the Attempt And so Farrell marched out but he was not long gone before a Party of the Enemies Horse was discovered to march towards Passage whereupon Ormond desired the Mayor to permit a Regiment or two of his Horse which were on the other side of the River to be wafted over and to march through the City but all his Commands and Intreaties were in vain although the Citizens saw the danger their Souldiers were in and the necessity of the proposed Relief However the Marquess marched out with his fifty Horse such as they were and met Farrell's Foot flying towards Waterford and Collonel Zankey's Horse in pursuit of them hereupon he drew up in a place of advantage and the Enemy thinking he had a greater Body of Horse with him than in truth he had lessened their pace till by advanced Parties they should discover the truth but Ormond pickeer'd so long with them that the remainder of the Foot being about one half had time to escape which else had been cut in pieces or taken Prisoners as their Companions were This very Accident shewed the necessity of the retaking Passage-Fort which else would be a continual Nusance to the City of Waterford and therefore the Lord-Lieutenant propos'd that he would transport his Forces over the River to accomplish that Undertaking if the City would permit his Army to Quarter in Huts under their Walls where they should be no ways burdensom but should have Pay and Provisions from the Country But the Citizens were so far from consenting to this that it was moved by one in the City-Council That they should seize on Ormond ' s person and fall on those that belonged to him as Enemies So that it was time for the Marquess to depart and because the principal Towns like so many petty Republicks stood so stifly upon their pretended Priviledges that they paid no farther Obedience to the Lord-Lieutenant than they thought fit and refused to receive his Army into Garrisons he was forced to disperse his Forces to provide for themselves as they could Luke Taaf went to Conaught and Insiquin into the County of Clare and the Lord Dillon into Westmeath only Major-General Hugh O Neil and 1600 Ulster-men were admitted into Clonmell and his Excellency return'd to Kilkenny And it was from hence that by his Letter of the 24th of December he acquainted his
and Excursions in the Winter they were ready to take the Field early But the main design being against Limerick it was necessary to get into the Province of Conaught which was entirely in the Irish hands and in order to this Sir Charles Coot with 2000 Horse and as many choice Foot marched to Sligo and when he had amused the Irish as though he would attempt that place he slipt by them over the Curlew Mountains and came to Athlone which he quickly took as he did also Portumna soon after so that they had two good Passes over the Shenin and in the mean time Ireton with the main Body of the Army forced Killalow-pass and then marched down to Limerick and there he entrenched his Army and laid a formal and regular Siege to that City And it is strange that a Town that was so obstinate and wilful that it refused to receive the Lord-Deputy Clanrickard and good part of his Forces into their Walls for their Defence as it did the Lord-Lieutenant heretofore was nevertheless so pusillanimous and cowardly to talk of surrendring as soon as the Enemy appeared before it so that almost every day Letters were intercepted importing That if they were not speedily relieved the Commonalty would force them to Capitulate And at last they did give it up at a time of Year that of itself would have raised the Siege if they had had patience and they also did it upon the hardest Conditions of any City in the Kingdom however we must do that right to the Governour and most part of the Garrison to own that they were no way guilty of that Baseness but bravely rejected the favourable Offers that were made to them by the Enemy at the beginning of the Siege About the first of July Ireton took the Castle on the Weare which the Warders deserted and betook themselves to the River but finding they were continually shot at by the English they came on shore in two parties the one to the West side where Colonels Tuthil's Regiment was a Captain whereof promised them Quarter nevertheless they were by Tuthil's order stript and knockt in the head whereat Ireton was so enraged that he caused Tuthil to be tried by a Council of War and though he excused it by his Opinion That an Inferiour Officer had no power to give Quarter whilst his Superiour was upon the place Yet both he and his Ensign were Cashier'd And when Ireton understood that the other party of the Irish that landed on the East side in Colonel Ingolsby's Quarters had been kindly used and not so much as stript he dismist them Graâ—is without Exchange or Ransom and sent them into the City with a handsome Message expressing his Detestation of breach of Faith and offering what farther Satisfaction they desired but they were very well pleased with the Justice he had so generously done them and so that matter ended But Ireton prest on the Siege with great dilligence and vigour and the Governour as valiantly defended the City so that when Ireton had taken the Bridge that Conquest was made unuseful to him by breaking down two Arches at the other end whereupon Ireton endeavoured to possess the Island and provided eleven Boats and a float to that purpose but it did not succeed according to his design for the Float proved too short so that all the Men but seven that landed out of the first five Boats were slain or drowned before any of their Companions could come to assist them However Ireton resolved to take the Town and was in hopes that want of Victuals might force it to surrender in time but the danger was that the Irish might relieve it before he could reduce it to Extremity and therefore to prevent that he form'd an Army Volant under the Lord of Broghill out of his Ingolsby's Cromwell's and Henry Cromwell's Regiments of Horse and twenty six Companies of Foot and though that Lord desired to have none but Horse and Dragoons for Expedition sake yet Ireton obliged him to take Foot also because of the Woods and Fastnesses the Enemy might lurk in And because Reputation ought highly to be considered at all times but more especially in the beginning of Military Actions the Lord Broghill did proceed with all the Briskness and Expedition that a brave and a vigilant Captain was capable of and in few days came so near the Enemy that they could perceive each other Fires they being three Mile on the South and he three Mile on the North side of the Black-water The Irish Army were double his number of Horse and thrice as many Foot as the English nevertheless Broghill passed the River early in the morning and met with some Irish Gentlemen that were under Protection and told him they came thither out of Curiosity because of a Prophecy amongst them That the last Battle in Ireland should be at Knocknaclashy and they supposed if ever it would happen it would be now since both Armies were so near Whereupon the Lord Broghill asked them Who was to have the Victory by their Prophecy they shook their heads and said The English Hereupon that Lord marched to Knocknaclashy and the Enemy retiring he marched back again over it towards the place where he intended to Quarter And then the Irish fell upon his Rear so that the Battle did at last happen in that very place the Irish-men spoke of in the morning It was very strange that it should so fall out that the Budge-Barrels of both Armies were accidentally burnt at the beginning of the Fight but it seems that this did not discourage either Party but that they fought stoutly Horse-head to Horse-head hacking and hewing with their Swords when they had spent their Shot In fine the Lord Broghill in the right Wing routed the left Wing of the Enemy whilst Major Wallis in the left Wing valiantly made good his ground but a fresh party of the Irish had like to put the Victory in dispute till Broghill bid his Men cry They run they run Whereupon the first Rank of the Irish lookt back and those behind seeing their faces thought they were running indeed and so all that party fled Nevertheless the Irish once again bid fair to recover the day by means of a stand of Pikes which stood so firm that it was a long time before they could be broken but at last they were forced in their Angles and the whole Army was routed and very many of them killed by reason of a fierce and vigorous Pursuit which lasted till night There are many things observable of this Battle besides what is already mentioned 1. That it was the last Battle that was fought in that War according to the Irish-mens Prophecy 2. It was as fair a day both before and after the Fight as ever was known but during all the time of the Conflict there was as great a Storm of Thunder Lightning and Rain as had hapned in many Years before 3. That amongst the Baggage were taken a
discourage the Transportation of Bullion the King shall have twelve Pence Custome out of every Ounce Upon his Return to England the Lord Lieutenant accused the Earl of Ormond of Treason Burlace 78. before the Duke of Bedford Constable of England in the Marshal's Couâ—t but the King abolished the Accusation Richard Talbot 1447. Archbishop of Dublin Lord Deputy he wrote a Tract de Abusu Regiminis Jacobi Comitis Ormondiae dum Hiberniae esset locum tenens Caâ—ton chron And it seems Thomas Fitz-Thomas Prior of Kilmainham was on the Archbishops side for he accused the Earl of Ormond of Treason and the Combat was appointed between them at Smithfield in London but the King did interpose and prevent it Hitherto the English had made but a bordering War in Ireland and that it self but very unluckily and the small Army that was kept on foot was ill paid and therefore more hurtful to the Subject by their Oppression than to the Enemy by their Valour so that it was necessary to send some great Man thither and no Body so fit for it as Richard Duke of York Earl of Vlster March Rutland and Cork Lord of Conagh Clare Trim and Meath for besides his Quality and Valour he had a great Estate in that Kingdom and it answered another Design of the Cardinal of Winchester who did then in effect govern England which was to remove this Duke from the Regency of France to make room for the Duke of Somerset and so he was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1449. and landed at Hoath the fifth of July 1449. But the Duke of York who fathomed their Designs and had other Intrigues of his own would not accept of the Government of Ireland Davis 51. but upon very advantagious Conditions which were reduced to Writing by Indenture betwixt the King and him and are recorded by Act of Parliament in Ireland and were to this effect I. That he should be the King's Lieutenant in Ireland for ten Years II. That to support the Charge of that Country he should receive the whole Revenue certain and casual without Account III. That he should be supplied with Treasure out of England in this manner viz. four thousand Marks the first year whereof he should be imprested two thousand Pounds before-hand and for the other nine years he should receive two thousand Pounds per annum IV. That he might let the Kings Lands to Farm and place and displace all Officers at his Pleasure V. That he might Levy and Wage what Number of Souldiers he thought fit VI. That he might make a Deputy and return at his Pleasure I do not find that this Lord brought over any considerable Forces with him or that he was able to keep any such on foot here not only because his Allowance was but small but also because that small Allowance was ill paid as appears by his passionate Letter to his Brother-in Law the Earl of Salisbury which is to be found Registred by Mr. Campion pag. 99. At his first coming 1450. the Irish were very insolent but he won upon them strangely Lib. M. partly by force and partly by their own Art of Wheedling He held a Parliament at Dublin in October Friday before S. Lukes Day and the Bishops of Leighlin Ossory Down and Limerick were fined for not coming to it This Parliament Enacted many good Laws viz. 1. That no Marcher or other keep more Horsemen or Foot than they can maintain and will answer for and that they give in a List of their Names to the Sheriff c. 2. It suppresseth Coynees Rep. 11. Car. 1. c. 6. Cuddies and Night-suppers and well sets forth the Grievances of those Times 3. That the Accuser shall give Security to pay the Damages of the Defendant if the Impeachment be found untrue 4. That every man may kill Robbers and notorious Thieves and shall have a Penny out of every Plow-land and a Farthing from every Cottage for his Reward 5. That the great Officers of the Kingdom shall not give Protections to any other than their Menial Officers and Attendants This Lord Lieutenant also held another Parliament at Drogheda in April on Friday before S. Mark 's Day which Enacted 1. That if the Remembrancer issue Process against any body that is discharg'd on Record in the Exchequer he shall forfeit his Office and treble Damage 2. That the Chancellor Treasurer and Judges or one of them be present at all Commissions of Oyer and Terminer in the Counties of Dublin Kildare Meath and Vriel 3. That no body shall sell Liquor but by Sealed Measures It seems that some of these Statutes were occasioned by a doleful Letter sent from Cork which the Irish Historians place in the Reign of Henry the Fourth and yet direct it to the Earl of Rutland and Cork and therefore it will be more properly applied to this Time when he was Lord Lieutenant and follows in haec Verba IT may please your Wisdoms to have pity of us Camp 94. the Kings poor Subjects within the County of Cork or else we be cast away for ever for where there was in this County these Lords by Name besides Knights Esquires Gentlemen and Yeomen to a great number that might dispend yearly eight hundred pounds six hundred pounds four hundred pounds two hundred pounds one hundred pounds one hundred Marks twenty pounds twenty Marks ten pounds some more some less to a great number besides these Lords following First The Lord Marquess Carew his yearly Revenues were besides Dorsey-Haven and other Creeks two thousand two hundred pounds sterling The Lord Barnewale of Bear-haven his yearly Revenues were besides Bear-haven and other Creeks sixteen hundred pounds sterling The Lord Uggan of the great Castle his yearly Revenues were besides Havens and Creeks one thousand three hundred pounds sterling The Lord Balram of Emforle his yearly Revenues were besides Havens and Creeks one thousand three hundred pounds sterling The Lord Courcy of Kilbreton his yearly Revenues besides Havens and Creeks one thousand five hundred pounds sterling The Lord Mandevil of Barnhely his yearly Revenues besides Havens and Creeks one thousand two hundred pounds sterling The Lord Arundel of the Strand his yearly Revenues besides Havens and Creeks one thousand five hundred pounds sterling The Lord Baron of the Guard his yearly Revenues besides Havens and Creeks one thousand one hundred pounds sterling The Lord Sleynie of Baltimore his yearly Revenue besides Havens and Creekss eight hundred pounds sterling The Lord Roche of Pool Castle his yearly Revenues besides Havens and Creeks one thousand pounds sterling The Kings Majesty hath the Lands of the late young Barry by Forfeiture the yearly Revenues whereof besides two Rivers and Creeks and all other Casualties is one thousand eight hundred pounds sterling And at the end of this Parliament your Lordship with the Kings most Noble Counsel may come to Cork and call before you all these Lords and other Irishmen and bind them in
Commission to the Earl of Ormond and him to Govern the County of Kilkenny of the same Tenor as Appendix 8. they thought to colour their Proceedings thereby and therefore invited him to be their General And it seems his Lordship was ready to embrace the Offer for in the latter end of January he came with Fifteen Companies to Cashell and being assisted by Purcell Titular Baron of Loghmore to whom likewise the Lords Justices had sent Arms and by the Lords of Ikerin Dunboyn Cahir and Castleconell they took Ballyowen and blockt up Gowlin and Knockordan and then marched to Kilmallock and so towards Mallow but near the Mountain above Donerayl the Lord president faced the Rebels He had with him the Lords Barymore Dungarvan and Broghill Sir Hardress Waller Sir Edward Denny Sir John Brown Major Searle and Captain Kingsmill and about Six hundred Foot and Three hundred Horse Whilst he staid there the Rebels did not dare to advance but his Presence being necessary at Cork he was after eight days stay thereabouts obliged to retire to that City whereupon the Irish advanc'd to Mallow and took the short Castle there upon Articles which they did not perform At Mallow there arose a Difference amongst the Irish about the Supreme Command of the Army The Lord Roch and others of Munster thought they ought to have a General of their own Province and to avoid Competition amongst the Lords they pitch'd upon Garret Barry and appointed the Lord Muskery and other Great Men to be the Council of War Hereupon the Lord Mountgarret return'd to Typerary where he met the News That the Men which were in Gowlin Castle had escaped into the Mountains where most of them were murdered by James Butler of Ruskagh for which Fact he was tried before Colonel Sanky Anno 1653. and afterwards hang'd and that the Women and Children left in the Castle were likewise inhumanly butcher'd by the Irish for which Barbarity Peirce Butler and his Son Thomas James Butler of Boyton-Rath and Thomas Kent were likewise tried condemned and executed Anno 1653. As for the County of Cork which by the noble Plantations made by the Earl of that Name became the best inhabited with English of any County in that Kingdom it was in a great measure preserv'd by the Generosity and Diligence of that Earl who was then newly return'd out of England he rais'd Two Troops of Horse under his Sons the Lords of Kinalmeky and Broghil and Four hundred Foot all which he maintained for some Months as his own Charge and sent a hundred of them to Asketon a hundred to Lismore and kept Two hundred with himself at Youghall Nevertheless that County was not without its share of Disturbance tho' it was the last County wherein the Rebellion broke out and they began it as elsewhere by robbing and plundring bare-fac'd and at Noon-day and in Multitudes and afterwards committed some Murders but not so many as in other Places because the English were powerful in this County and therefore the Rebels were in more fear to be called to account for their Exorbitances However at Glandore they gagg'd several English to death and in another place they ty'd an Englishman's Guts to the Post and made him dance round it till he died they broil'd a piece of a Scotch Minister's Breech and made him eat it they hang'd Robert Scot of Newcestown and his two Daughters in Muskery tho' he went voluntarily there to a Friend for Protection and in like manner John Burrows was serv'd at Ballynorohur by his Landlord Mac-ni-crimin who was tried and executed for it afterwards at Bandon They hang'd Andrew a Servant of Mr. Hazell's and which was worse than all he rest Mr. Linscomb Sovereign of Cloghnikilty having much Intimacy with the Irish staid behind his Neighbors in confidence of Protection but contrary to his Expectation and their Promises they first made him drunk till he vomited and then made him eat it up and immediately hang'd him at his own Door and having by Promises of sending her safe to Kinsale persuaded his Wife to discover 120 l. in Money she had hid at Muckrus as soon as they got it they threw her and her Sister into a deep Pit and there they left them till they were starved And altho' there were not many downright Murthers committed in this County yet by reason of the universal Robbing and Plundring and the great Want and Hardships this Insurrection exposed the miserable English to many thousands of them perished and particularly in the Town of Bandon there died above a Thousand in the first Year of this Rebellion and great Numbers likewise met with the same Fate at Cork Kinsale and Youghall To stop this Torrent the Lord President raised a Regiment of Foot and Two Troops of Horse and did what he could to prepare for his Defence And it was but needful to do so for the Rebels being extraordinary numerous thought themselves able to besiege Cork Kinsale and Bandon at the same time In order to this Mr. Long High Sheriff of the County of Cork form'd a Camp at Belgooly about Two Miles from Kinsale and to him came Mac-Finin's Brother called Captain Sugane and march'd from Kerry through Muskery and Carbery to the Camp and Dermond ni Glack of Littergorman with another Party march'd down to Kilgoban-Castle on the River of Bandon and surprized it This Camp at Belgooly continued the rest of this Winter and was supplied with Ammunition and other Necessaries even from some of the Popish Inhabitants of Kinsale but at length half the Lord Baltinglass his Company being Forty five Men arrived by Sea at Kinsale on the Fifth of April and brought with them Eight Barrels of Powder whereof Six were the next day sent to Bandon guarded by the Bandon Troop which fell into an Ambuscade but the Kinsale Troop just then parted from them return'd seasonably to their Succour and between them they kill'd Eighty of the Rebels and then each Troop return'd safe to their respective Garisons and the next day the Camp at Belgooly was dissolv'd and most of the Soldiers went to reinforce the Blockade at Cork And about the same time viz. in February Mac Carthy Riagh who had dissembled the Matter and pretended Loyalty and that he would side with the English until he got some Arms from the Lord Viscount Kinalmeky and then declared the very next day with about Three thousand raw Men and ill armed came to besiege the Town of Bandon But the valiant Bandonians scorned to be pent up by such a pitiful Rabble and therefore having form'd themselves into Four Companies under the Captains Watkins Woodhouse Jefford and Hooper and One Troop Battel of Knockagarane under their Governor the Lord Kinalmeky they sallied out and whilst the Foot marched up the direct Road to Cloghnakilty the Horse went round by Castlemahon so to fall on the Rear but the Foot came up first and one Company led by Captain Watkins within-side the Ditch
to return to their own Homes or Houses III. Catholick Commanders instanced by the Commissioners of Trust according to the Pacification and hereupon by his Excellency's Commission receiving their Commands in the Army as Col. Patrick Purcel Major General of the Army and Col. Pierce Fitz-Gerald alias Mac. Thomas Commissary of the Horse were removed without the consent of the said Commissioners and by no demerit of the Gentlemen and the said Places that of Major General given to Daniel O-Neal Esq a Protestant and that of Commissary of the Horse to Sir William Vaughan Kt. and after the said Sir William's Death to Sir Thomas Armstrong Kt. both Protestants IV. A Judicature and legal way of administring Justice promised by the Articles of Peace was not performed but all Process and Proceedings done by Paper Petitions and thereby private Clerks and other corrupt Ministers inrich'd the Subject ruined and no Justice done V. The Navigation the great Support of Ireland quite beaten down his Excellency disheartning the Adventures Undertakers and Owners as Capt. Antonio and others favouring Hollanders and other Aliens by reversing of Judgments legally given and definitively concluded before his Commissioners Authority By which depressing of Maritime Affairs and not providing for an orderly and good Tribunal of Admiralty we have hardly a Bottom left to transmit a Letter to his Majesty or any other Prince VI. The Church of Cloyne in our possession at the time of making the Peace violently taken from us by the Lord of Inchiquin contrary to the Articles of Peace no Justice nor Redress was made upon Application or Complaint VII That Oblations Book-monies Interments and other Obventions in the Counties of Cork Waterford and Kerry were taken from the Catholick Priests and Pastors by the Ministers without any Redress or Restitution VIII That the Catholick Subjects of Munster lived in Slavery under the Presidency of the Lord of Inchiquin these being their Judges that before were their Enemies and none of the Catholick Nobility or Gentry admitted to be of the Tribunal IX The Conduct of the Army was improvident and unfortunate Nothing hapned in Christianity more shameful than the Disaster of Rathmines near Dublin where his Excellency as it seemed to Ancient Travellers and Men of Experience who viewed all kept rather a Mart of Wares a Tribunal of Pleadings or a great Inn of Play Drinking and Pleasure than a well-ordered Camp of Souldiers Drogheda unrelieved was lost by Storm with much Bloodshed and the loss of the Flower of Leinster Weâ—ford lost much by the unskilfulness of a Governor a young Man vain and unadvised Ross given up and that by his Excellency's Order without any Dispute by Col. Luke Taaffe having within near upon 2500 Souldiers desirous to fight After that the Enemy made a Bridg over the River of Ross a Wonder to all Men and understood by no Man without any Let or Interruption our Forces being within seven or eight Miles to the Place wherein 200 Musqueteers at Rossberkine being timely ordered had interrupted this stupendious Bridg and made the Enemy weary of the Town Carrig being betrayed by the Protestant Ward there our Army afterwards appearing before the Place the Souldiers were commanded to fight against the Walls and Armed Men without great Guns Ladders Petards Shovels Spades Pickaxes or other Necessaries there being killed upon the place above 500 Souldiers valiantly fighting yet near Thomas-Town our Souldiers being of tryed Foot two to one and well resolved were forbidden to fight in the open Field having advantage of Ground against the Enemy to the utter disheartning of the Souldiers and People After this the Enemy came like a Deluge upon Calan Feathard Cashell Kilmallock and other Corporations within the Provinces of Leinster and Munster and the Country about rendred Tributary Then followed the taking of Laghlin and Kilkenny then that of Clonmell where the Enemy met with Gallantry Loss and Resistance Lastly Tecrohan and Catherlough two great Pillars of Leinster shaken down that of Tecrohan to speak nothing for the present of all other Places was given up by Orders Waterford block'd up is in a sad Condition Duncannon the Key of the Kingdom unrelieved since the first of December is like to be given up and lost X. That the Prelates after the numerous Congregation at Cloanmacnoise where they made Declarations for the King 's great advantage after printed and after many other laborious Meetings and Consultations with the Expressions of their sincerity and earnestness were not allowed by his Excellency to have employed their Power and best diligence towards advancing the King's Interest but rather suspected and blamed as may appear by his own Letter to the Prelates then at James-Town written Aug. 2. And words were heard to fall from him dangerous as to the Persons of some Prelates XI That his Excellency represented to his Majesty some parts of this Kingdom disobedient which absolutely deny any such disobedience by them committed and thereby procured from his Majesty a Letter to withdraw his own Person and the Royal Authority if such Disobediences were multiplied and to leave the People without the benefit of the Peace This was the Reward his Excellency out of his Envy to a Catholick Loyal Nation prepared for our Loyalty and Obedience sealed by the shedding of our Blood and the loss of our Substance XII That his Excellency and the Lord of Inchiquin when Enemies to the Catholicks being very active in unnatural Executions against us and shedding the Blood of poor Priests and Churchmen have shewed little of Action since this Peace but for many Months kept themselves in Connaught and Thomond where no Danger or the Enemy appeared spending their time as most Men observed in Play Pleasure and great Merriment while the other parts of the Kingdom were bleeding under the Sword of the Enemy This was no great Argument of Sense or Grief in them to see a Kingdom lost to his Majesty XIII That his Excellency when prospering put no Trust of Places taken in into the Hands of Catholicks as that of Drogheda Dundalk Trim c. And by this his Diffidence in Catholicks and by other his Actions and Expressions the Catholick Army had no Heart to â—ight or to be under his Command and feared greatly if he had mastered the Enemy and with them the Commissioners of Trust or the greater part of them and many thousands of the Kingdom also feared he would have brought the Catholick Subjects and their Religion to the old Slavery XIV We will not speak of many Corruptions and Abuses as passing of a Custodium upon the Abby of Killbegain worth in past Years to the Confederates well nigh 400 l. per Annum to Secretary Lane for 40 l. or thereabouts per Annum nor of many other such like to Daniel O Neil and others at an undervalue to the great Prejudice of the Publick XV. We do also notify to the Catholicks of the Kingdom most of the above Grievances and Breaches of the Peace being