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A27391	A true and impartial account of the most material passages in Ireland since December, 1688 with a particular relation of the forces of Londonderry / being taken from the notes of a gentleman who was eyewitness to most of the actions mention'd therein during his residing there, and now being in England is desired to publish the same for the further satisfaction of this nation ; to which is added a description and map of Londonderry as he took it upon the place.	Bennet, Joseph.	1689 (1689)	Wing B1885A; ESTC R17776	23,851	33

LONDONDERRY the New fortified Spur Prnited for Iohn Amery at the Sign of the Peacock in Fleet street A True and Impartial ACCOUNT Of the most Material PASSAGES in IRELAND Since December 1688. WITH A PARTICULAR RELATION OF THE Forces of Londonderry BEING Taken from the Notes of a Gentleman who was Eye-Witness to most of the Actions mention'd therein during his Residing there and now being in England is desired to Publish the same for the further satisfaction of this Nation To which is added a Description and Map of LONDONDERRRY as he took it upon the Place Licens'd July 22. 1689. J. Fraser LONDON Printed for John Amery at the Peacock against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1689. A True and Impartial ACCOUNT OF The most Remarkable Passages in IRELAND c. IN December last the Protestants of Ireland had very great expectation of an Army suddenly to be sent over into that Kingdom for their Relief and were privately arming themselves and securing what Ammunition they could to prepare to join with the English Forces assoon as they should land and to make the People more earnest to put themselves in a posture of defence in case the Earl of Tyrconnel the then Lord Deputy should offer any violence to them there was by way of Letter a Relation given from some Persons of Note in the North to two or three Lords in Dublin and to several Persons of Quality throughout the Kingdom that the Irish were generally to rise on the 9th of December with intent to massacre and totally destory the whole Body of English and all of the Protestant Religion in that Kingdom These Letters did so run about the Nation that in few days all the Protestants were upon their defence and every private man making his House a Garrison by keeping great and strong Guards in the Night-time insomuch that if their nearest Relations had come to visit after night they were answered out of Casements Spike-holes or Windows with Blunder busses on Guns at their breasts to know their business And particularly on the 9th of December as is mention'd before it was credibly reported that there was not a Protestant in the whole Kingdom but was on his Guard that whole Night in his own respective Dwelling or joined with some Neighbours in some sort of strength The Earl Tyrconnel finding the whole Kingdom in this great Consternation sent to some of the Gentlemen in Dublin who had received this Advice and assured them with Oaths and Execrations That there was no such thing intended against the Protestants but being doubtful that the English of that Nation had but very small regard to his Oaths did call a grand Council in order to propose some way to appease the people The result of which was That a Proclamation should be immediately issued out commanding all people to repair to their respective Dwellings assuring them that no injury was intended against them making it penal for any man afterward to desert his own House or associate himself with any riotous people in any Garrison-Town or strong Houses But notwithstanding all these fair Promises and Threats the people were so universally alarmed by these Circular Letters whether true or false that they daily joined themselves in greater Numbers and many of them went into England Scotland and the Isle of Man for safety carrying with them what they conveniently could The Earl of Tyrconnel observing the humour of the people and how apprehensive they were of the Irish Cruelty and likewise being informed of the vast number of people daily leaving Dublin and many considerable Merchants and House-keepers lying at Rings-End for a Wind to carry them off sent the Earl of Roscommon and the Lord Mountjoy to Rings-End to discourse to the people and endeavour to prevail with them to return to their own Dwellings and follow their Employments but what they said either at Rings-End or elsewhere made no greater impression on the minds of the people than the former Proclamations he had issued out which occasioned his Excellency to redouble his Oaths and burn some Hats and Wigs that being his accustomed way of appeasing his rage and passion during all this time the people having advice of the great Success of his present Majesty against the late King James's Forces were encouraged to appear more bare-fac'd and they appeared in greater Bodies than formerly in Munster Connaght and Vlster and the Protestants of Leinster daily made their Escapes into the North leaving all their Substance to the disposal of the insatiable ravenous Irish who would impudently in the day-time drive Horses and Cows with thousands of Sheep from the Owners thereof before their faces who dared not to ask them what they did and the Protestants of the Counties of Dublin East-Meath West-Meath Longford Lowth and the upper part of the County of Cavan being the greatest Sufferers repaired with this great loss quietly to the North esteeming it the Mercy of God that they escaped with their lives The very great Success of his present Majesty and the Late King 's abdicating his Kingdom so much encouraged the Protestants that then they began to appear in great Bodies of Horse and Foot and take possession of Towns and Forts and declare their design And now being Londonderry and Iniskilling were the first that shut their Gates against the Irish it 's necessary that I give an account of them before I proceed to speak of other places of the same Country The News of his present Majesty's design in landing an Army in England did so alarm the Earl of Tyrconnel that he very speedily put what Forces was then in Arms into such Garrisons as he thought fit but it seems upon some Orders from the Late King James two Regiments of Foot and one of Dragoons were to be forthwith sent into England whereupon his Excellency gave Directions for the Regiment of Foot quartered in Londonderry belonging to the Lord Mountjoy to march up to Dublin in order for their embarquing for England which was accordingly marcht to Dublin and a new Regiment belonging to the Earl of Antrim newly raised was ordered to march into Londonderry to secure that Garrison the same being left to the Government of the Townsmen and Inhabitants of that place but whether it was that these new Levies looked so dreadfully starved or the Townsmen had an inclination to keep Popery out they shut the Gates of the Town on the appearance of this new Regiment and utterly denied them entrance but some of the Officers being desirous to go into the Town the Inhabitants allowed them that priviledge and upon some debate the Inhabitants declared they would secure the Garrison for the King and their own Preservation and sent the Gentlemen out with this Answer to the Earl of Antrim This coming by an Express to his Excellency and considering how indiscreetly he had commanded the whole Regiment to march out of the Garrison before others were ordered to possess that place he burned another Wigg and

threatned to have their Throats cut by the Papists in the said Goal who was exceedingly troubled at it but dared not to send any Forces into that Countrey lest they would be served with the same sauce as Sir Gerrard Irwin was So that he did only send some Troops of Horse and Dragoons to Navan and Kells in order to prevent Captain Sanderson's Motion to Dublin with his Horse being by this time alarm'd on the other side of his Head by the Lord Mount Alexander my Lord Blany Sir Arthur Rawdon and several other Persons of Quality being all up in Arms in the Counties of Downe Antrim c. and having the Standing Army but in a very bad Condition at that time the best whereof being sent for England on the Prince's Landing and few or no New Men raised seemed to be so apprehensive of the Scotch Army marching to Dublin that he had Scouts for Fifty or Threescore Miles together to observe the Motion of the Rebels in the North as he termed them And it is most certain that if some Troops had marcht up towards Dublin the Earl of Tyrconnel would certainly either have fled or surrendred the Castle not having above Ten Companies of Foot and some few Horse in Dublin and these being all new rais'd raw Men. But the Gentlemen of the North although they were in an indifferent Condition and had a great Desire to effect this yet were unwilling to appear any otherwise than in their own Defence until Commissions should come out of England The Earl of Tyrconnel considering how numerous the Scotch in the North were and how weak and insignificant the Standing Army was and how useless the Rabble of the Irish would be to him very cunningly engag'd the Lord Mountjoy to send Letters to his Friends in the North to be very careful of Affairs assuring them that no Forces should be sent into the North or any New Levies made or Soldiers quartered upon private Houses and that all things would be very well to their own satisfaction for that he was going into France to receive Orders from King James to make Tyrconnel lay down the Sword. This so much pleased the People that all things began to grow pretty still and quiet again in which time the Earl of Tyrconnel was raising Men and sending Arms privately into the Countrey to such as he had given Commission and in a very short time notwithstanding his Promises to the Lord Mountjoy had Raised and Armed several Regiments of Dragoons and Foot and secured the Town of Newry being a great Pass and very disadvantageous to the Protestants in the Norths The Irish having secured this Pass of Newry the Earl of Tyrconnel thought himself very safe and then daily sent down Arms to all that Countrey and secured the Towns of Drogheda and Dundalke by leaving great Parties both of Horse and Foot in them So that the Protestants had no manner of Correspondence that way and likewise had taken care that all other By-Passes cunningly should be secured which was the only mischief the Protestants met with for by this means the Earl of Tyrconnel could march down his Army against them when he pleased and at his own leisure and they never have the least Account of their Motion which has proved too true as you shall hear hereafter The Irish having got this Considerable Strength as I have mentioned before then it was their Business and indeed the positive Commands from the Respective Parish-Priests and under the Danger of a Curse too That they should endeavour to secure and seize all strong Castles or Gentlemens Houses of any Strength as soon as possible they could which indeed they effected with much Integrity either by cunningly stealing into them by Nights or setting Fire to their Gates While the Earl of Tyrconnel was fortifying the Newry and re-enforcing several other Garrisons there were several Odd Companies of Foot and Troops of Dragoons quartered about the Countrey who indeed were willing to be gone from amongst the Scotch Army and amongst the rest I cannot pass by giving you an Account of the Troop of Dragoons quartered in Armagh it seems Lieutenant Aspoll commanding in Chief in that Town perceiving how vastly numerous the Protestants were in that Countrey and how vigorously they armed themselves was apprehensive of some Danger therefore gave private Orders to all the Men to be ready against a certain Hour and march out of the Garrison with all the Privacy imaginable But this was not so secretly managed but it took Wind in the Town and the very morning the Dragoons were to march away the Townsmen surprized the Officers in their Chambers and secured all the Horses and Arms they could find and there being about Ten of the Dragoons on the Guard that Night posted themselves in the Session-House and endeavoured to secure that Place but the Townsmen were so forward and resolute that they came up to the Doors of the House fireing on both sides very smartly But at last the Dragoons surrendered after a Serjeant was shot in the Arm and they with the rest of the Troop all sent Prisoners to the Church after having lost both Horse and Arms which were distributed amongst the Men who performed this Service and the Dragoons after some Days Confinement Discharg'd who upon their March in the County of Lowth got near the value of all their Horse and Arms at Captain Blany's House having taken all his best Horses and Houshold-Goods to a very considerable Value This late Action at Armagh much stir'd up his Excellency's Passion insomuch that he swore he would send down a very powerful Army against the North but being awed by a considerable Force under the Lord Inchiqueen in Munster and by another under the Lord Kingston in Connaught durst not send so great an Army as he would and therefore for some time rested quiet The Northern Gentlemen understanding that the Earl of Tyrconnel did not intend an Army to divert them so soon as expected were willing to give themselves some Recreation and the taking of Carrickfergus where the Earl of Antrim was Governour and Mark Talbot Natural Son to the Earl of Tyrconnel Commander of the Forces there was the Subject and it was reported on all hands That if there had not been a Mis-management in the Matter the Design had taken Effect but since it did not I shall not trouble the Reader with a Relation of the manner of besieging that Town or how they left it After the Forces were drawn back which went against the Town of Carrickfergus the Council at Hilburragh thought convenient to send some Forces to secure the Pass at Loghbricklan and other places thereabouts lying within some few Miles of Newry where the Irish had made a considerable Strength both by manning the Bridge and intrenching the Town and at Armagh the Lord Blany with about a Regiment of Horse and a Regiment of Foot secured that Pass in case the Enemy should move that way Things being