Mackarty Moor was in the Duke's Kitchen in the Camp which the Duke smiled at and did not invite him to Dinner saying If he had staid like a Soldier with his Men he would have sent to him but if he would go and eat with Servants in a Kitchen let him be doing When we took possession of the Stores the Irish had but one Barrel of Powder left tho some say they threw several more into the Sea to save their Credit The Irish march out On Wednesday the 28th of August about Ten a Clock the Irish marched out and had Sir William Russel a Captain in Collonel Coy's Regiment with a Party of Horse appointed for their Guard but the Countrey people were so inveterate against them remembring how they had served them some few days before that they stript most part of the Women and forced a great many Arms from the Men and took it very ill that the Duke did not order them all to be put to Death notwithstanding the Articles But he knew better things and so rude were the Irish Scots that the Duke was forced to ride in among them with his Pistol in his hand to keep the Irish from being murdered The poor Irish were forced to fly to the Soldiers for protection else the Countrey people would certainly have used them most severely so angry were they one at another tho they live all in a Countrey However this was laid at the General 's Door by the great Officers in the Irish Army and they would say That he had lost his Honour by engaging in so ill a Cause The Governour of the Town was Mackarty Moor but Owen Mackarty had a great Ascendent over both him and the Garison The Garison consisted of two Regiments of Foot lusty strong Fellows but ill clad and to give them their due they did not behave themselves ill in that Siege The number of the Dead on both sides They had about One Hundred and Fifty killed and wounded in Town and we had near that number killed and about Sixty wounded The Town it self is not very strong but the Castle is considerable it stands upon a Rock and has its Name from Fergus the first King of Scots who first brought the Irish into Britain and was drowned in this Bay as Camden tells you However it 's one of the most important Places in the North of Ireland and the taking of it gave an hopeful prospect of future success The General returns to Bellfast The Duke put Sir Henry Inglesby's Regiment into Carigfergus and on Wednesday the 28 th and the day following the Army marched to Belfast where they Encamped about a mile beyond the Town On Friday Duke Schonberg's Regiment of French Horse consisting of 500 men came to the Camp and on Saturday the last of August the Army was mustered being as follows Horse my Lord Devonshire's Regiment my Lord Delamere's Coll. Coys Duke Schonberg's and Coll. Levison's Dragoons Foot One Battalion of Blew Dutch Carlesoon's White Dutch Coll. Beaumont Coll. Wharton Lord Drogheda Lord Lisburn Lord Meath Lord Roscomon Lord Lovelace Lord Kingston Duke of Norfolk Coll. Herbert Sir Edward Deering Sir Tho. Gower Coll. Earle La Millioneir Du Cambon La Callimott month September September 1. A Letter sent from the D. of Berwick Whilst the Duke staid at Belfast there came a Letter to him by a Trumpet from the Duke of Berwick but 't was return'd un-open'd because it was directed only For Count Schonberg the Duke saying That his Master the King of England had honoured him with the Title of a Duke and therefore the Letter was not to him This is a piece of State that has been often practised amongst Great Men for when King Edward the III d. sate down before Tournay in France he sent to the French King whom he saluted only by the name of Philip of Valoys challenging him to fight a single Combat to prevent Bloodshed or with 100 men each and if those methods did not please then within ten days to join Battel with all their Forces near Tournay To which Philip made no direct Answer alledging That the Letters were not sent to him The King of France but barely to Philip of Valoys yet he brought his Army within sight of the English and by the Mediation of King Philip's Mother and two Cardinals a Peace was concluded till the Midsummer following But to return Our Train sent by Sea to Carlingford Our Artillery-Horses were most of them as yet at Chester and therefore the Duke gave Orders for greatest part of the Train to be Shipt and the Fleet to sail with those and all Necessaries for the Army to Carlinford-Bay within Eight miles of Dundalk And then on Monday the second of September we marched beyond Lisburn this is one of the prettiest In-land Towns in the North of Ireland and one of the most English-like places in the Kingdom the Irish name is Lishnegarvah which they tell me signifies the Gamesters-Mount for a little to the North-East of the Town there is a Mount moated about and another to the South-West these were formerly surrounded with a great Wood and thither resorted all the Irish Out-laws to play at Cards and Dice one of the most considerable amongst them having lost all even his Cloaths went in a Passion in the middle of the night to the House of a Nobleman in that Countrey who before had set a considerable Sum on his head and in this mood he surrendred himself his Prisoner which the other considering of pardon'd him and afterwards this Town was built when the knot of these Rogues was broke which was done chiefly by the help of this one man the Town is so modern however that Cambden takes no notice of it On Tuesday the 3 d. we marched through Hilsborough a place where the Enemy before our coming had kept a Garison near which on the High-way side were two of our men hanged for Deserting We Encamp at Drummore that night we encampt at Drummore the place where Lieutenant-General Hamilton routed the Northern Protestants the Inhabitants had all or most of them left the Town and there was not so much as a Sheep or a Cow to be seen our small marching Train came up with us here from Belfast and here the General had an account That the Duke of Berwick was at Newry with about 1700 Foot and Dragoons and two Troops of Horse designing to defend that Pass At Lough Britland Wednesday the 4 th we march'd to Loughbritland where we encamped in two Lines as from the beginning upon the side of a Hill beyond the Town the Inhabitants had deserted this place also and what little Corn there was some lay reapt and not bound up and the rest was spoiled for want of management As our Army was marching up I went Three miles beyond the Camp where I met with the Iniskillin Horse and Dragoons whom the Duke had ordered to be an Advance-Guard to his
goes to Athlone Lieut. Gen. Douglas and his party Encamped that Night nigh Chappel-Issard and next day at Manouth Friday we Encampt at Glencurry about five miles further and we had not got this length till we begun to plunder though the General gave strict Orders to the contrary Saturday the 12th we marched to Clenard Bridge here we staid all Sunday and Lieutenant-General Douglas took an account of every Man in his party that he might have Bread provided accordingly the Soldiers went abroad and took several things from the Irish who had staid upon the Kings Declaration and frequent complaints came already to the General but Plundering went on still especially amongst the Northern Men who are very dextrous at that sport Sunday morning Captain Aughmouty of Colonel Woolsley's Regiment went with a party of Horse towards the County of Longford And Munday the 14th they met the Army at Mullingar whither we marched and several of the Irish came in for Protections though when they had them they were of little force to secure their Goods or themselves Two Spies taken The party that was sent out brought in a great prey of Cattle from the Enemies Quarters and took two Spies with Letters from Athlone one was to Advise one Tute to Defend an Island nigh Mullingar in which he had store of Horses and several things of value Another Letter was from an Officer at Athlone to his Father in the Country telling him that my Lord Tyrconnel the Duke of Berwick and several more great Officers were come to Limerick with a good Body of Horse and that all their Army would be there in two or three days so that they would make either a Hog or a Dog on 't as he exprest it That the Dauphin was landed in England with a great Army that the French had beat the English and Dutch Fleets that Duke Schonberg was dead and it was said the Prince of Orange was so too that their King was gone for France but it was no great matter he said where he was for they were better without him Then he advised his Father not to take a Protection because those that did were lookt upon as Enemies And after his Letter was sealed he had writ on the out-side Just now we have an Account by a Gentleman that 's come to us from Dublin that Orange is certainly dead so that all will be well again Such were their Hopes and Expectations at that time But though they believed most of those things yet they did not certainly know what to make on 't for they had no good opinion of the late King as may appear by a great many instances for Sarcefield sometime afterward speaking of the Action at the Boyn swore if we would change Kings they would fight it over again and beat us For certainly the Courage and Countenance of the Chief Commander in Armies is a material Point in the success of the Action and especially in Kings for he that has a Genius to the War has Advantages above other Men that makes his Gentry Nobility and Officers strive to imitate his Example by which he is better served and commonly more fortunate The 15th we remained Encamped at Mullingar and about 500 Creights came from the County of Longford with their Wives Children Cattle and every thing that they could bring away their business was to procure the Generals Protection which was granted them and they moved homewards as the Army marched forwards but were most of them plundered afterwards There had been a Friery at Mullingar during the late Kings Reign but the Friday before we got thither the Fathers thought fit to go a Pilgrimage into Conaught This Evening a party of Col. Russel's Horse went towards Athlone and came within three miles of the place but did no feats worth the mentioning next day we marcht to Ballimoor where stands a strong House at the side of a Lough which the Enemy has since fortified Athlone Besieged And Thursday July 17th we came before Athlone and encamped within a quarter of a mile of the Town the Enemy playing their great Guns upon us as we marched but did us little dammage The General sent a Drum to Summons the Town but old Colonel Grace the Governor fired a Pistol at him and sent word those were the Terms he was for The Town it self stands on a narrow Neck of Land between two Bogs one on either side the Shannon and you cannot come to it much less pass the River any where up or down within six or eight miles except at the Town through the midst of which the River Shannon runs and is both very broad and deep being by much the greatest in these three Kingdoms Ptolomy calls this River Senus Giraldus Flumen Senense but the Irish call it Shannon that is the Ancient River It arises out of Theru Hills in the County of Letrim and running through an excellent Country and several Towns particularly Limerick and Athlone it falls into the Sea beyond Knock-Patrick a Mountain upon which St. Patrick conjured all the Venomous Creatures in Ireland and threw them into the Sea insomuch that nothing of that kind has appeared or will live in that Kingdom ever since if you 'll believe what the Irish do however this River is Navigable for above twenty Leagues That part of Athlone standing on the South-side the Shannon is called the English Town and that on the other the Irish Town where stands a very strong Castle Athlone is the head Town in the County of Roscommon and was formerly the Barony of the O Kelly's There is a very good Stone-Bridge between the two Towns which was Built by Sir Henry Sidney in Queen Elizabeth's time and because this is commonly accounted the Center of Ireland that Queen once designed to make it the Residence of the Lords Justices The English Town not being so easie to defend the Irish Burnt it the day before our coming and broke down the Bridge They had several very convenient opportunities to disturb us in our march to the Town because of the Bogs Woods and Passes that lay very advantageous for that purpose but they retired over the River to defend the other side about 200 Yards above the Town they had raised some Breast-works on the River side nigh the end of the Bridge they had cast up several Redoubts and other Works and had planted two Batteries of two Guns a piece besides what were in the Castle Friday we spent in contriving our Batteries and our Works and on Saturday we planted two Field-Pieces which did the Enemies Guns some damage then one hundred and fifty Men out of each Regiment were ordered to make and carry Fascines and in two days more we had a Battery of six Guns finished nigh the Bridge-end which plaid upon the Castle and made a small Breach to wards the top On Sunday the 20th the General sent a Detachment of Horse commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Barry and 150 Granadeers mounted
commanded by Major Morgison and Captain Carlile towards Lanesbrough Pass but they returned the next day without doing any thing that was Remarkable the Enemy having a Fort well mann'd towards the Bridge and four Companies of Foot in the Town That day one Captain Mackgill a Voluntier was kill'd at our Battery with a Canon-shot from the Castle Our Train at Athlone was only two twelve Pounders ten lesser Guns and two small Field Mortars which when planted against the Castle did it little or no damage This was a misfortune that Lieutenant-General Douglas found Athlone stronger than he expected for it 's said he had what Guns and Men he desired to reduce it withal The firing continued however on both sides and on Tuesday one Mr. Nelson our best Gunner was killed with a small Shot On Wednesday we had news that Sarcefield with 15000 Men was coming to raise the Siege which made the General send all his sick and wounded Men towards Mullingar Next Morning early the Besieged hung out a Bloody Flag which occasion'd smart firing and in the Evening the General called all the Colonels to a Council of War where he told them the necessity of Removing from the Town for we had very little Bread all the while and there was some reason to believe the Irish Army would cut off our Communication from Dublin So that we had Orders to be ready to march at twelve a Clock that Night we begun at the time appointed to send away our Baggage and at break of Day or a little after we marcht off the Enemy not so much as firing one Gun at us Reasons why it was not taken I know that whilst we lay here there were some that profferr'd to pass the River at a Ford a little above the Bridge and so beat the Irish out of their Works but this was sooner said than done for the Ford is naturally very deep and dangerous besides the Irish had fortified the other side with Breast-works two Batteries and a considerable Fort And then if we had forced our way over and could not have taken the Castle in a small time we must have been obliged to fight the greatest part of the Irish Army which was then drawing down upon us Nay if we had been Masters of the Town and Castle the Irish might so have ordered it as to have cut off our Communication from Dublin and so starved us for we were already glad of a very small Allowance of Bread Colonel Grace the Governor had been very active on the Irish side in the last Wars but was now very old and this was the third time that he had burnt that Town the Enemy had in it three Regiments of Foot nine Troops of Dragoons and two of Horse and more lay encamped not far off During our stay here which was from Thursday the 17th to Friday the 25th the Country People of all Perswasions begun to think us troublesome This must be said for Lieutenant-General Douglas that both whilst he staid here and all along on his march he constantly gave out very strict Orders against Plundering or Stragling from the Army But it were better that good Rules were not made than when they are so they should not be observed and the breakers escape punishment For some Peoples taking liberty to break Rules encourage others to lose their Reverence to them Example always goes further than Precept and most Men see better than they understand so that whatever Rules are made in an Army by a General they are to be observed by every one else with what justice can one be punished for the breach of those Orders which others make no Conscience in obeying What Men lost there We lost in this Expedition not above thirty Men before the Town and the Enemy very few but in our march too and again what with sickness hard marching the Rapperees surprising as they straggled and several other disadvantages we fell short of our Number three or four hundred though before we got to the Kings Army we killed and took Prisoners a great many thousands but more of these had four Feet than two All the poor Protestants thereabouts were now in a worse condition than before for they had enjoyed the benefit of the Irish Protections till our coming thither and then shewing themselves Friends to us put them under a necessity of retreating with us which a great many did leaving all their Harvest at that time ready to cut down c. and yet were hardly used by our own Men. On our first Days march backwards the General received an Express from the King some say it was to draw off and joyn the Army and that he had positive Orders before not to pass the Shannon at all And at the same time we had an Account of a Conspiracy in England against the Queen and that some French were Landed there having burnt some Towns on the Coast And it was reported also that the late King was Landed in that Kingdom We marched back that Day to Ballimore where we staid four Days on one of which there hap'ned the greatest Thunder and Lightning that has been heard of in those parts And about this time several of the Irish that had taken Protections when they could not have the benefit of them began to turn Rapperees stripping and sometimes killing our Men that they found straggling Lieutenant General Douglas marches to joyn the Kings Army On the 30 of July Colonel Babington's Regiment marched from Ballimore towards Dublin and the same day Leiutenant-General Douglas marched with all the rest of his party to Stony-Cross which is out of all publick Rodes from Dublin and so were most of our future marches till we joyn'd the Kings Army which was one reason why we had little or no Bread for almost four days together and after that but a very slender allowance From this place we marched to Balliboy and as we went a long the General ordered one of his own men to be Shot immediately for Morodeing as they called it The General had given out orders that none should stir out of their Ranks on pain of Death however this poor Fellow and four more were not so observant of their duty as they ought to be which the General espying caused them to be seized immediately and throw Dice for their lives month August We had an Account at Ballyboy that the Enemy was at Banoher Bridge with a very strong party to disturb our march which made us next day strike to the left to Roscreaugh instead of going to Bur as we designed for that way was full of Woods and narrow Passes where the Enemy had great Advantage of us We stayed at Roscreaugh the second of August and on the third in the Morning came twelve Troopers from the Kings Army who lay then at Goulden Bridge to hasten our march for the King exprest himself to be in trouble lest the Enemy should be too many for us in that place
Carlow where he met with some Accounts from England upon which he exprest himself doubtful whether to go over or return to the Army However he went on as far as Chappel Izard and there he was employed for about Three days in hearing Petitions some of which related to the violation of Protections and the Outrages committed by Lieutenant General Douglas's Party As also others about Abuses and Inconveniences from the late Commission and several Complaints were made against Col. Trelawney's Regiment then in Dublin Here the King gave Orders that Count Sehomberg's Horse Col. Mathews's Dragoons Col. Hasting's and Col. Trelawney's Foot with one Troop of Guards should be shipt for England A second Declaration and on the first of August published a Second Declaration not only confirming and strengthning the former but also adding That if any Foreigners in Arms against Him would submit they should have Passes to go into their own Countries or whither they pleased And another Proclamation came out dated July 31. Commanding all the Papists to deliver up their Arms and those who did not were to be look'd upon as Rebels and Traytors and abandoned to the discretion of the Soldiers A Proclamation for a Fast And at the same time was likewise published a Proclamation for a General Fast to be kept constantly every Friday during the War in all parts of the Kingdom under his Majesty's Obedience for asking God's Pardon for our Sins and imploring a Blessing upon Their Majesties Forces by Sea and Land At this time also Mr. Poyne Mr. Reves and Mr. Rothford Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal began to act and received Instructions from the King how to proceed And now the King received a further account from England that my Lord Torrington and several more were secured and that several wicked Designs were discovered and prevented That the Loss at Sea was not so great as was at first reported and that the French had only burnt a small Village in the West of England and gone off again month August so that the danger of this being partly over His Majesty resolved to The King returns to the Army return to the Army he lessened his Baggage and Retinue giving his spare Horses to the Train and then on the 2 d of August went back towards his Army which he found then at Goulden Bridge on which day a Soldier was hang'd for mutining Here the King stay'd a day or two and had Accounts from several Deserters of the Preparations the Enemy was making for their own defence and safety On the 6 th the King with his Army march'd to Sallywood having the day before sent a Party of Horse towards Limerick And on the 7 th his Majesty march'd to Carigallis within five miles of Limerick Upon our approach thither the Enemy burnt and levell'd all the Suburbs as also set fire to all the Houses in the Country between us and the Town A Party sent toward Limerick On the the 8 th of August early in the Morning my Lord Portland and Brigadeer Stuart were sent towards Limerick with about Eleven hundred Horse and Foot who advanced within Cannon shot of the Town but met with little opposition from the Enemy and before they returned his Majesty went out with about Three hundred Horse being accompanied with Prince George the Heer Overkirk Major General Ginkle and several other great Officers When these went nigh the Town a Party of the Enemies Horse advanced toward them But Captain Selby of my Lord of Oxford's Regiment having the Advance Guard drew towards them with a design to charge them which they perceiving thought fit to draw homewards their Cannon firing from the Town several times Then in the Evening Lieutenant General Douglass with his Party join'd the Kings Army The 9 th of August in the morning early the King sends three Squadrons of Horse and Dragoons with a Detachment of One Thousand Foot commanded by Sir Henry Bellasis as Brigadeer my Lord Drogheda and Colonel Earle as an Advance Guard to make the first approach The whole Army make their Approach and all the Army both Horse and Foot followed in order About six a Clock our Advance Party discovered some of the Enemy upon the top of an Hill three Miles on this side the Town our Men drew up and then marched slowly forwards and as we proceeded the Enemy disappear'd by degrees till they were all gone off the Hill We drew forwards and about half a mile further we cou'd see a great part of the Town from a rising ground but could not discover the ways to it nor who were between us and it because of a great many thick Inclosures and Lanes in one of which the Enemy appeared again Our Men halted a little till the Pioneers had cut â—…wn the Hedges to the right and left which done they advanced and the Enemy drew back This took some time a doing and therefore the Front of our Army both of Horse and Foot came up The King was here at first riding from one place to another to order Matters as his Custom always was We cut the Hedges in a great many places and went forwards and the Enemy they drew homewards till they came to a narrow Pass between two Bogs within half a Mile of the Town The Neck of Land between these Bogs is not above 150 Yards over and this full of Hedges with a large Orchard a Stone Wall and also the Ruines of a great House upon the Lane-side which the Irish had burnt the Day before But there were Three Lanes that led this way towards the Town the middlemost being the broadest the Irish Horse stood in it on the Pass beyond this old House and whilst our Pioneers were at work the Front of our Horse went up so close that there were several little Firings but not much damage done on either side To the Right and Left of the Irish Horse the Hedges were all lined with Musqueteers of whom our Foot were got now within less than two hundred Yards The Pioneers laboured at the Hedges all this while and the Army made their Approaches in excellent Order The Detached Party of Foot was upon the Advance towards the Centre the Horse a little to the Right of them followed by the Earl of Drogheda's Regiment and Lieutenant General Douglas at the Head of them my Lord Drogheda himself being upon the Advance Guard The Danes were towards the Left led on by the Prince of Wirtemberg and Major General Kirk The Blue Dutch and several English Regiments were upon the Right All those were lined with Horse and these supported again with more Foot So that all Men that understood it said it was a most curious sight for though the Hedges were very thick and troublesome yet it was so ordered that the Front kept all on a Line except the advance Party who went always some distance before Whilst things were going on thus the King ordered Two Field-Pieces to be
AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF THE AFFAIRS of IRELAND DURING The Two Last YEARS WHITE-HALL APRIL 30. 1691. LET this be Printed by Order of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount SYDNEY one of Their Majesties Principal Secretaries of State W. BRIDGEMAN A TRUE and IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF The Most Material Occurrences IN THE Kingdom of Ireland DURING The Two Last YEARS WITH The Present State of Both ARMIES PUBLISHED To prevent Mistakes and to give the World a Prospect of the future Success of Their MAJESTIES Arms in That NATION Written by an Eye-witness to the most Remarkable PASSAGES LONDON Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard MDCXCI TO The RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES LORD VISCOUNT MORPETH AND The RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Sr WILLIAM LEVISON GOWER Bar t. Both MEMBERS Of the Honourable House of Commons These PAPERS About the AFFAIRS of IRELAND ARE HUMBLY DEDICATED THE PREFACE THese Papers were not designed to be published till after the surrender of the City of Mons to the French for since there are some and those too calling themselves Protestants who upon all occasions make it their business to advance the Conquests of that King and at the same time to lessen the Conduct and Success of His Present Majesty representing his Affairs to be in such a Condition at Home and his Army so inconsiderable in Ireland that they presently from thence expect such a Turn of State as if it should happen would certainly prove unfortunate and destructive to themselves as well as other people tho they have no mind or at least do not seem to see it I do not pretend nor do I think it possible to make such men sensible of the folly of their unaccountable Behaviour at this Juncture only I think it a good Opportunity to let Them and the World know the impartial Truth of the most material Passages of the Two last Campaigns in Ireland with the true State of both Armies as it stood in January last which possibly may serve to mortifie all their Expectations from their Friends in that Kingdom And as to the Matters of Fact I defie all the Enemies of our Government and Religion to contradict me tho at the same time I assure them That I have done their Side all the Right that the thing it self will bear and have concealed nothing that I think could make any way for their Advantage But before I come to this I will take the liberty to speak out since I am to treat of an Affair that concerns all that value either the publick Safety Honour or Peace of their Native Countrey it being every day more apparent than other that we are designed as a Prey to that Nation to whom we nor our Fathers were never yet in Bondage This is no vain and groundless Fear or Pretention but the Reasons for it are many Amongst the rest take only these few First The Late King by his unhappy Management has given up the Cudgels to the French whom it 's not to be doubted he had rather should govern the Nation than those who at present do by this means placing his own Interest and that of all English Protestants in a diametrical opposition to one another since it 's plain that unfortunate Prince has been made instrumental and is so still by the Zealots of the Church of Rome to advance their Religion on the one hand and by his most Christian Majesty on the other to promote his Glory All the Care and Pains that has been taken of late by the Priests in a Business of the greatest moment was not to propagate King James's Family but his and their own Religion for they value not tho He and His Name perish if their Work go but on And suppose the P. of W. really what our Adversaries would have him who can ever imagine that a Successor that there was so much pains taken about will either be bred a Protestant or made serviceable to that Interest especially since he is taken out of the Kingdom and put into the hands of the greatest Enemy to our Nation And as to the French King's part can any one think that he does all this out of a Principle of Honour and Love for the re-establishing of King James All people know that his Generosity extends no further than his Interest Those that will not believe this let them only look back upon his treatment of the same individual Prince some years ago for it 's plain that he has no other Prospect nor regard to Men and Things but his own Greatness and Ambition not spearing even those of his own Perswasion when they stand in his way Every one sees that hsi Brother of Constantinople and he agree much better than his Holy Father at Rome and he ever did or are like to do because the former is more favourable to his Designs than the other If then he falls out with him whom his own Religion obliges to pay all Deferrence and Respect to and honour as a Father what can Protestants nay even English Papists themselves expect but to submit to his Yoke if they once give way for his Admission When the Late King appear'd all on a sudden last Summer in France after the Defeat at the Boyn it was observable that tho the French King was surprized at his Presence yet he received him with all the seeming joy in the World thinking it not fit to discourage a Prince whom he had still further occasion for This has already been seen into by some great Officers even in the Irish Army who begin to be at a stand how to manage since they can have no other Prospect from the success of their own present Affairs but future Ruin to their Countrey Secondly Suppose the War already ended and the Late King sent into England with all the Grandeur that France could afford him and received here by the consent of every Body Yet the French King has a very large Bill to bring in which he 'll certainly pretend cannot be discharged with the Possâ—ssion of Ireland what then can be more rationally intended than that one day or other England may be brought to a severe account for those vast Expences and the non-repayment of them shall be a sufficient Pretence for a War when he finds an Opportunity tho King James himself sate at the Helm For how easy a thing it is to break all Rules whatever when a man has the Power in his own hand is known to most men Those then who favour him most will only have the honour to be last devoured and even those of his own Persuasion will have cause to wish themselves rather under a Protestant Prince than a Popish Tyrant We see further that His Present Majesty has not declared it a War of Religion but is linked in a Confederacy with a great many Princes of the Romish Church that have all the same reason to dread the growing-Power of France who neither spares Protestant when he has an
them by Captain James Hambleton and all the World knows they behaved themselves very well month April April 13. Succors sent to Derry On the 13th of April Collonel Richards and Collonel Cunningham were sent to their relief with two Regiments who came into the Lough but returned without doing any thing and were broke for their pains Maj. General Kirk in the Lough Then went Major General Kirk with his own Sir John Hanmer's and Brigadeer Stuart's Regiments of Foot the Winds were cross and the Irish fortified the River that it was difficult to relieve the Town and our Ships laid at least two Months in the Lough the poor Soldiers as well in Town as on Board endured great hardships all this while But the Dartmouth Frigat at length forced her way month July July 31. Siege Raised and the Siege was raised on the last of July Some condemn the Irish Politicks mightily in sitting down before this Town whenas if they had let it alone the people would either have submitted of themselves or however they had been at leisure to have sent a part of their Army into Scotland which was an easy thing as then to do and would no doubt have hindered any Succours going over that year from England but Providence orders all things and rules the Actions and disposes of the Councels of men accordingly Mackarty taken Prisoner The day before the Siege of Derry was raised the Iniskilliners hearing of a Body of about Six Thousand of the Irish Army Commanded by Major General Mackarty that was marching towards them they very boldly and bravely met them nigh twenty miles from the Town of Iniskillin and at a place call'd Newtowne Buttler fought and routed them taking Mackarty Prisoner killing and drowning nigh Three Thousand there being of the Iniskillin-men in all both Horse and Foot not above Two thousand losing not above Twenty and having about Fifty wounded This Story seem'd to me at first very Incredible but I was told it partly hapned by a Fatal Mistake in the Word of Command amongst the Irish for the Iniskillin-men charged the Irish Right Wing very smartly which Mackarty perceiving ordered some of his Men to face to the Right and march to relieve their Friends the Officer that received the Orders mistook and commanded the men instead of facing to the Right to face to the Right about and so march the Irish in the Reer seeing their Front look with their Faces towards them and move thought they had been running and so without more ado threw down their own Arms and run away the rest seeing their men run in the Reer run after them for company and were most of them cut off or drowned in Boggs and Loughs so unhappy may a small thing prove to a great Body of men and at other times a little thing in appearance proves very advantageous For we read of a Roman at plough who stood with his Ox-yoke in a Gap and stopt the Soldiers that were running away this made them face about and win the Field though I believe in that Action of the Iniskilliners as well as Derry there was a great deal due to their Valour and more to the Providence of God Forces raised in England During these Transactions in Ireland the King gives out Commissions in England to raise 18 Regiments of Foot and four or five of Horse for the Service of Ireland Most of those had their Commissions dated the 8th of March 1688 9 and the Levies went on with all imaginable speed for greatest part of them were raised armed and cloathed in less than Six weeks I was in the Armories at the Tower when the Arms were to be delivered out to the new Levies but there was not half so many there as would do it for the Arms were most squandred away or lost in the late hurry of Affairs and though several Proclamations were sent abroad to bring them in yet His Majesty was forc'd to have most of his Arms out of Holland which was both expensive and troublesome March to Chester This Army was mustered and disciplin'd as well as the time would allow My Lord Devonshire and the honble Mr Wharton being appointed Commissioners to view them in their several Quarters and in July most of them were commanded to Chester in order to be ship'd for Ireland I am a Stranger to the Reasons of State why they went no soonner yet that that seems considerable to me was that my Lord Dundee had left the Convention at Edenbrough raising a powerful Faction for the Late King in the North of Scotland and the Castle of Edenbrough was not as yet surrendered by the Duke of Gordon it might not therefore be thought prudent to part with an Army out of our own Kingdom till the Danger were over from that Quarter so that it was the beginning of August before our Army got to Chester month August August 8. Encamp at Neston and then embarque Most of them encampt about a Week at Neston and then on Thursday the 8th of August about Six a Clock in the Morning His Grace Duke Sconberg General of all Their Majesties Forces Count Solmes General of the Foot and several great Officers more with not Ten Thousand Foot and Horse embarqued at Highlake for Ireland The Winds being cross they lay on Board till Monday the 12th when at Four a Clock in the morning the Wind being S. S. E. and S. E. the Bonaventure Frigat Captain Hobson Commander fired a Gun and put his Light in the Main Top-mast Shrouds that being the Sign for sailing There was also The Antilope the James Galley c. The Cleaveland and the Monmouth Yats with between 80 and 90 Vessels more who all were under sale at Six a Clock and at Eight the Bonaventure put out an Ensign in the Mizen-shrouds for all the Captains and Masters to come on board which done they received Orders to sail directly to Carigfergus-Bay in Ireland In case of bad weather so that they could not reach thither to sail for Loureau in Galloway in Scotland and if they fell short of that Ramsey Bay in the Isle of Man to be the place of Rendezvouz Tuesday the 13th at break of day the greatest part of the Fleet was up with the Mountains of Dundrum in the County of Downe these are commonly called the Mountains of Mourne and are said to be the highest in Ireland on the top of one of the highest stood a famous Monastery in time of old About Three that Afternoon the Fleet came up the Lough within a mile and a half of Carigfergus at Four they came to an Anchor in Bangor Bay and immediately the General ordered his Flag to be put out at the Yats Main-yard-Arm that being the Sign for landing our men which was done accordingly Land in Ireland and they encamped that night in Fields adjoining to the Shoar they lay upon their Arms all night having frequent Allarms of the Enemies
time though I believe his thoughts were at work how to repulse the Enemy if they should attack him Lieutenant-General Douglass came to the Camp and all the Soldiers with the greatest joy in the World stood to their Arms several that had not stirr'd out of their Tents for a Week before now got up their Musquets and all were glad to think that they had an opportunity of beating their Enemy for they never supposed the contrary and so to march forwards from that sad place which they begun already to be very weary of But refused by the Duke We stood looking upon one another for some time and most people desired that they might march through the Town and have a fair Tryal for it but the Duke had no such thoughts and therefore he did not so much as send for his Horse home besides he knew that the Enemy could not easily force our Camp without a great deal of hazard to themselves and that he believed they would scarce be brought to And therefore about two a Clock when the Enemy begun to draw off the General sent orders for the Soldiers to return to their Tents My Lord Lisburne and Collonel Woolsley made some proffers to beat the Enemy back or with one thousand men to beat up their Guards that night but this was not so easy a Task as they made it and the Duke refused it considering if they did it the Honour was theirs but if they miscarried the disadvantage was his As the Enemy retired a Party of Collonel Levison's Dragoons killed about four or five of them and some of the Iniskillin-men stript themselves and pursued the Enemy killing two or three more tho some of themselves fell in the attempt but the Action of that day was very inconsiderable for neither could they come at us nor we go to them without such disadvantages as are to be well considered of in such cases And that the General acted this day as well as before and after according to the Rules of Art and Prudence and that too for the best may partly appear towards the latter end of the Campaign I had almost forgot to tell you that the Late King was at the head of his Army that day having come to the Camp some days before The Officers commanded to exercise their men The Orders were that Night That none should forage nor stir out of the Camp next day and that the Brigades that did not mount the Guards should be exercised at firing at a Mark when it was Fair weather as 't was very seldom for the Duke knew most of his men had never been in service and therefore he would have them taught as much as could be Part of the Irish Army remove Next day being Sunday we had news that the Enemy was removed towards Drogheda and had burnt their Camp this was partly true for they removed some of their Army and formed a Camp hard by Ardee to the East nigh the side of a Bog My Lord Hewett's Horse and Sir Henry Inglesby's Foot came this day to the Camp the latter being relieved at Carigfergus by Collonel Gustavus Hambleton from Chester and two French Granadeers were apprehended as they were going to the Enemy A Plot discover'd But next Morning there was a further discovery made And first Four Soldiers and a Drummer then Sixteen more apprehended several Letters were found about some of those as one to Monsieur d'Avaux and as they say one to the Late King those it seems were writ by one Du Plessey who served as a private Soldier in M. Cambon's Regiment and had for some time kept a Correspondence with the Enemy Enquiry being made into the thing about Two hundred men all Papists in Callimot's Cumbon's and La. Millineir's French Regiments were secured disarmed and sent with a Guard on Shipboard and so for England but what became of them afterwards I know not Monday morning the Enemy came and burnt all the Forage that was left between our Camp and theirs the General would not send out a party for fear of an Ambuscade and the Soldiers seemed to be pleased with it because they said they could not get leave to fight them The Weather for two or three days proved pretty fair and the Soldiers were exercised with firing at Marks but it was observable that a great many of the new men who had Match-Locks had so little skill in placing of their Matches true that scarce one of them in four could fire their Pieces off and those that did thought they had done a feat if the Gun fired never minding what they shot at Tuesday Two Granadeers of Coll. Beaumont's Regiment were Hanged for deserting and there was a Council of War designed between Major-General Kirk and Sir Henry Inglesby about the business of Derry the latter saying That Derry might easily have been relieved much sooner with a great deal more to that purpose but it came to nothing and was no more talk'd of On the 25th the Army was Mustered and several Regiments were grown pretty thin by reason of the distempers then beginning to seize our Men. Six Frenchmen Hanged On the 26th Six of the principal Conspirators amongst the French were Hanged upon a pair of Gallows built for that purpose near the High-way as we went from the Camp to the Town They all died Papists and confessed their design to take over as many to King James as they could and that this was their intentions when they first Listed themselves and that if we had engaged the Enemy the Saturday before they were to have put our Army into Confusion by firing in the Rear and so deserting They prayed for Ring William and Queen Mary and ask'd Their Pardons for their Treachery Du Plessey the chief of them had been formerly a Captain of Horse in France from whence they say he fled for a Murder but hearing what Regiments were to be raised in England he came thither under the notion of a poor Refugee and for what Service he proposed to do the Late King he both expected his Pardon from the King of France and the Command of a Regiment in Ireland He served as a Private Centinal the better to carry on his design He was certainly one that knew his business and amongst other things was a good Engineer and the more to blind the World he went often in the Trenches at Carigfergus and being wounded he would needs stay and encourage the Pioneers so difficult it is to find the bottom of mens hearts except by Chance or rather Providence The French before were very insolent which made them hated at all hands but this Treachery of their Countrey-men made them so odious that the Soldiers wanted only some body to begin and then they were ready to punish all for the faults of some Collonel Woolsley some time before this had sent a Spy to Dublin who had brought him a particular Account of all Affairs there amongst other things
day so much to their advantage for not to say worse of them then they deserve it was in good order so far as we could see them I mean with the Horse and French Foot whatsoever they did afterwards but I could hear of none in particular only Lieutenant Gen. Hambleton says it was my Lord Gilmoy who is not thought an extraordinary Souldier but this is certain that the French were towards the left of their Army that day and so did little or no service except it was in the retreat whereas if they had posted them instead of the Irish Foot at the Pass we had found warmer work of it But Providence orders all things and amongst those the Counsels of the greatest The night after the Battle we lay upon our Arms at Duleck and next morning were sent a Party back out of every Regiment to fetch up our Tents and Baggage from beyond the Boyn As likewise Brigadeer La Millinier was sent with a Party of a thousand Horse and Dragoons about three hundred Foot and eight peice of Canon to summon Drogheda Drogheda surrendred The Governour received the first Summons very indifferently but then he had word sent that if he forced the Canon to be fired on them they should have no quarter The Governor at length considered better of it and believing the Irish Army to be totally routed he surrendred upon Condition to be conducted to the next Garrison which was Athlone And the next day about 1300. of them marched out without their Arms having a Convoy according to Agreement Colonel Cuts's Men took possession of the Place where they found good store of wine and other things that were considerable and took great care to preserve the Town from any violence of the Souldiers This Town is one of the best in Ireland unto which King Edward the Second for Theobald Verdens sake granted License for a Market and Fair and succeeding Kings confirmed many and great Priviledges to it amongst others that of a Mint Cromwel at his first landing in Ireland took it by Storm and put above 2000. men to the Sword in it The River Boyn runs thro' the Town which takes its name from swift running for Boin both in Irish and Brittish signifies Swift as the Learned say It s a great and rapid River and whatever it has been formerly it will be famous in succeeding Ages for this Action I have shewn the spot of ground to some who design to erect a Pillar where the King escaped so narrowly to perpetuate so memorable an Action Near the ground where we encampt stands Mellifont-Abby founded in the year 1168. by Donald King of Uriel and is much praised by St. Bernard it was given afterwards by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Edward More of Kent for his good service in the Wars both at home and abroad and is now the Seat of the Earl of Drogheda But this I 'm afraid will be thought a little out of my present rode and therefore Wednesdy the 2 of July we marched not above a mile to convenient Ground and there pitched our Tents I remember we had a kind of Alarm that afternoon and some say it was five Troops of Horse and three Regiments of Foot that came from Munster to joyn King James's Army who appeared in the flank of us but sending two Spies to discover who we were they were taken and hanged tho the Party marched off untouched Mounsieur Cambon had almost set his own and my Lord Drogheda's Regiment by the Ears by ordering a Detachment of his men to take away by force the Grass from the Rear of the other Regiment The matter came so high that both Parties were charging their Peeces but my Lord Drogheda ordered his men to their Tents and Lieut. Gen. Douglas ordered Mounsieur Cambon to desist from his pretensions this might have been of dangerous consequence and yet my Lord was so kind to Mounsieur Cambdon as not to acquaint the King with it King William marches toward Dublin On Thursday the 3. of July his Maiesty marched forwards with his Army to a place called Bally Brighan and there encamped on his march he had an account by one Mr. Sanders whom the Bishop of Meath Dr. King Captain Fitz Gerald and other Protestants that had taken upon them the protection of the City had sent for that purpose that the Irish had left Dublin towards which the Duke of Ormond marched with 1000 Horse and found Captain Farlow Governour who two days before had been a Prisoner The Dutch Guards were sent also who took possession of the Castle as the Duke of Ormond did of the out Guards of the Town with his Horse next day we lay Encamped and above 300 Citizens came out from Dublin to wait upon the King and to welcome our Army and abundance of people flocked from all places to see our Camp The Country all hereabouts is most of it Inhabited with old English and is called Fingal that is a Nation of Foreigners It s scarce worth the Relating what is writ in the Irish Annals of a Country man nigh this place that in the year 1341 found a pair of Gloves in drawing on of which he Barked like a Dog and from that present the Elder in that Country Barked like big Dogs and the young ones like Whelps and this continued with some for eighteen dayes with others a month and with some for two years and entred also into several other places and they tell you likewise of the men in the County of Tipperarys being turn'd into Wolves at a certain time of the year but these are trifles for they are commonly Dogs or Wolves in their Nature but no otherways Encamps at Finglass Saturday the 5 of July we marched to Finglass two miles wide of Dublin his Majesty did not go to the City but staid in the Field with his Army yet next day being Sunday he went to St. Patricks Church and returned on Horseback to the Camp to dinner A Description of Dublin This City of Dublin is by much the Largest and Best in all Ireland and inferiour to none in England except London most of the Houses and Streets are very Regular and Modern and the people as Fashionable as any where It s called by Ptolomy Eblana the Irish call it Bala Cleigh that is the Town upon Hurdles because they say it was built upon a Fenny Boggy place but whatever it has been the Ground about it is now very sound and the Air wholsome it was much afflicted in the Danish Wars and afterwards came under subjection of Edgar King of England then the Norvegians possessed themselves of it and we read that Harold of Norway after he had subdued the greatest part of Ireland built Develin And hither King Hen. 2. after he had gain'd a great interest in this Kingdom sent over a Collony of Bristow men who were the first English Inhabitants of this City In the year 1220. was the Castle of Dublin
opportunity nor a Papist when he can gain by it And yet if we look narrowly into the thing the present War of Ireland is both more difficult and expensive for him to support than it is for England both as to the distance of place and multiplicity of other Diversions for tho he 's a great Prince yet his Power is not without limits Thirdly It neither was nor is the Interest of Their present Majesties only that we are struggling for but under them for the Liberties of England and that against the most dangerous Enemy that our Nation ever had this most men think themselves obliged to do tho the King 's natural Life should end to morrow which God forbid since for his own sake all that have had the honour to be Eye-witnesses of those Noble and Heroick Personal Actions of His Majesty in pursuance of what he so generously undertook at first dare and will serve him even to death it self what he pleases to command them for the Quarrel is not Whether the Late King or the Present shall Rule in England but whether the French King shall have our Countrey or we keep it to our selves Neither is it only the King and Queen's Quarrel that we spend so much Treasure in and lose those Men as is frequently objected but it 's the King that makes himself a Drudge for ours if I may so express it running all Hazards and suffering all Hardships possible upon that Account He was a Rich and Great Prince before and wanted neither Glory nor Power to have lived happy and magnificent nor is it likely he had any Design to provide for his Posterity in what he did since we are as yet deprived of so great a Blessing And whatever may be called unnatural in this War is for the Father of his Country to endeavour the depriving both his Natural and Legal Children of what God and Nature have made them Heirs to Fourthly King James might have been one of the greatest and happiest Princes in Europe notwithstanding his Religion and the Roman-Catholicks enjoyed the same Privilege as to the exercise of theirs that other Dissenters do at this day if that would but have pleased them but it was an odd thing to all men of thought that the hundredth part of a Nation as the Papists are no more at best should think to bring all the rest over to their Side and that against both their Humours and Interests but it 's now plain that the Affairs of England and Rome cannot be reconciled And I would fain ask any Protestant Whether in King James's time he would not have been willing with all his heart to have been secured from the approaching Danger Or whether he thinks it pâ—ssible this could have been done more easily or more to the satisfaction of the Nation in general than it was But this is the mischief of it we all would be out of harms way but then every man must do it as he himself thinks fit or else it all stands for nothing If King William had made his entry through a Sea of Blood this had pleased some People better and made others more afraid the Easiness of the thing was the greatest Providence in it and yet by our fickle Factious Humours we begin to make it both more expensive and hazardous but let us take heed lest if we tread in the Steps of our Forefathers in Divisions and homebred Jarrings we also run the same fate in being subject to a Nation of Foreigners and yet it 's to be feared that the real ground of some Peoples Discontents is not that they at first disliked the Present Government but that they were disappointed in their hopes of some Preferment that they thought themselves best deserved and yet God be thanked I cannot see any great Injury that those People can do to the Present Establishment since the King Parliament and People are all of a side and as for the Malecontents they are neither Popular nor Considerable There is a Story in Josephus something parallel to our Case that was The Jews were commonly very strict in the observance of the Sabbath and amongst other Tenets of that nature they held it unlawful so much as to defend themselves tho attackt by the Enemy on that Day this their Enemies came to the knowledge of and put them upon the trial cutting a great many to pieces which made the rest grant that it was lawful to stand upon their own defence but not to press upon the Enemy and they met with a second Disadvantage upon that score but finding to their Cost the folly of such Conceits it came at last to this That when they were undertaken a third time out of hopes of like success they not only defended themselves but defeated their Adversaries most effectually This Story I apply thus That notwithstanding of late we have mixt Matters of Religion and Policy too much and advanced the Arbitrary Power of Princes by stretching the Doctrine of Passive Obedience beyond its due limits yet let not our Adversaries believe that we want either Hearts or Hands to opppose a Foreign or Vnlimited Power and that too without either departing from the Principles of Religion or so much as wavering in our Profession Let those then then that will be fond of the Garlick and Onions of Egypt for my own part I cannot see how we can make one step backwards without the danger of being poisoned by them For certainly there are several Questions now in hand not to be resolved by the Rules of our Church but by our Legal Constitution which in some Cases binds the Ecclesiastical it self And for all that specious Objection which some People make That our Laws as well as our Religion are against the Deposing Doctrine Yet it will endure no serious thought That God has made so many Millions of People to be subject to the Humour or Interest of any one particular Man For whatever has been said to the contrary of late it 's both agreeable to the Principles of Reason and Religion that Salus populi suprema Lex Government no doubt is Jure Divino of which if we were destitute nil sane brutis amantibus praestaremur says Melanction but then it 's not necessary to have it terminated in this or that Individual for tho it 's an undoubted Truth that any private person had better suffer Injuries than hazard the publick Peace of his Country by endeavouring to redress the same and it cannot be lawful for every one to fly in the face of Authority when he 's injured or at least thinks himself so yet neither the Laws of Nature Reason or Religion oblige us to sit still and see the Fundamental Constitutions of our Country overturned without any indeavour of ours to obstruct it And tho there may be danger in endeavouring to stem such a Tide yet I may go further and say That those People do not deserve good Laws but rather are the Betrayers of them
the Popish Part in England was by much the least of Three things were so well managed on that Side as to make the Protestants fall foul upon one another not only with hard Names and Characters of Reproach but in other Actions that seem'd more severe by which means the Interest of both Parties was not only considerably weakned but that of the Papists incredibly strengthned Then what by the dexterous management of the Presbyterian Plot and some improvements made of that by the Observator by which the Popish Party obtain'd a great Reputation and people begun to think that the Devil was not so black as he is painted in the height of which when they say some measures were thought of to reduce the D. of Tork and his Favourites King Charles died King James proclaimed The Duke of York was proclaimed King by the universal consent of all People and afterwards as generously assisted in the West as the Circumstances of the Nation would allow But then when the Parliament came to address his Majesty and beseech him That for the satisfaction of the Nation the Popish Officers and others might be removed from Places of Trust and have competent Pensions allowed them he gave a very positive Answer which was in effect That they were his best Friends and he would not be without them After this things grew every day worse than other for then all mens eyes were opened and every body could discern the Storm approaching Ruines his own Interest Accordingly the Rain came and beat violently upon the House but it being founded upon a stock thanks be to God has stood And as God often brings Light out of Darkness and can by ways unthought of or not look'd into by men turn things contrary to what they design or intend them P. of Orange comes so in the midst of our Necessities he rais'd up an Instrument who by his Virtue and Wisdom contrived and by his Valour put our Deliverance in execution How prosperously this succeeded in England is known to all the World for besides the natural Inclinatiof the people to Variety their general aversion to Popery made the thing at that Juncture very easy tho the Prince was then in a manner a Stranger to the Nation in general The State of Ireland at that time But tho all things succeeded so happily for the Protestant Interest in England yet there was a Cloud in Ireland that seem'd to threaten us if due care was not taken in time to disperse it My Lord Tyrconnel during the Late King's Reign had been framing and modelling an Irish Army that might be ready to serve the Popish Interest on all occasions part of which was sent over into England some time before the Prince Landed and after his being proclaimed King my Lord Tyrconnel having still a considerable Body of men in Arms refuses to deliver up the Sword Some say that it was not demanded from him and more That he had been easily forced to it at first or at least there might have been a Method taken to have persuaded him But the management of this was entrusted to Major General Hambleton a profest Papist Lieut. Gener. Hambleton sent over and so well did my Lord Tyrconnell and he with some other play their Cards that they got Hambleton sent over against the advice of most that understood the Affairs of that Kingdom by which means Succours were delayed and Hambleton as soon as he was safe in Ireland was so far from persuading my Lord Tyrconnell to yield that he ordered all the Horses that were left in Protestant hands and fit for Service to be seiz'd for the Late King's use and treated those whom he believed King William's best Friends at Dublin very harshly for which Service he was made Leutenant-General of the Irish Army The State of England at that Juncture But the Affairs of England did not admit of present Succours to be sent to the Protestants in Ireland who now were groaning under several Afflictions for a great part of the old Army was disbanded or sent into Holland the Dutch were sent home and it 's thought some unseasonable Disputes and Heats about Matters of Religion did no small disservice to the Publick There was also a hot Report about that time at London and indeed all over England that King James was dead which Report was only spread abroad by his own Party and several other such little Artifices were used on purpose to make others more secure month March King James lands in Ireland March 12. 1689. for shortly after we had a certain Account that he landed from France at Kingsale in the West of Ireland having about 1800. men with him This was on the 12. of March and after some small time he came to Dublin where he was received with all the Demonstrations of joy imaginable by my Lord Tyrconnell and all the Popish Party who look'd upon him as their only Support Champion and Deliverer tho several of them have since changed their minds A little before this the Protestants in Ireland were in daily expectation of Arms Ammunition Commissions and some Forces from England and it 's more than probable that if they had got them or not hop'd for them the Business had cost neither so much Blood or Treasure as since it has yet some advised not to make any shew of discontent till they had an Opportunity and were in a condition to make their party good by the arrival of Succours from England But the greater part impatient of delays begin to list Men and with what Arms they could get to make a shew of forming an Army Rout at Drummore March 14. Against those in the North Lieutenant-General Hambleton marched with about One Thousand of the Standing Army and nigh twice as many Rapparees in a distinct Body they met at Drummore in the County of Down and on the 14 of March the Protestants were routed with no great difficulty and no wonder for they were very indifferently provided with Arms Ammunition and Commanders nor was their Discipline any better This was called afterwards The Break of Drummore a Word common amongst the Irish Scots for a Rout At the same rate were some others served shortly after at a place called Killeleigh under one Hunter and those that resisted had the same Fate at several other places In the mean time Major-General Macarty by the same measures and some little Artifices brought the Protestants of Munster under the same Circumstances This gave occasion to King James and my Lord Tyrconnell to take the Arms and Horses from all the Protestants of that Kingdom except those that fled to Londonderry and some few that went towards Iniskilling but a great many that could get away for either England or Scotland made what haste they could and in some few Weeks after those that went that way were actually shut up in Derry On the 25th of March they had Arms and Ammunition brought
the Irish had great hopes of the French revolting to them this he acquainted the Duke withal but he would not believe it till it discovered it self so good an opinion had he of those people who for all this were not so grateful to him as they ought to have been Coll. Lloyd defeats a Party of the Irish Friday the 27th We had News That two days before Collonel Lloyd with about 1000 Iniskilliners had defeated a Body of the Irish that were going towards Sligo consisting of about 5000 and had killed 700 of them taken O Kelly their Commander and 40 more Officers Prisoners with a great booty of about 8000 Cattel with the loss only of 14 Men upon which News the General ordered all the Iniskillin Horse and Foot that were in the Camp to Draw out and Complemented them so far as to Ride all along their Line with his Hat off then he ordered the Dutch-Guards and the Iniskillin-Foot to Draw into a Line to the Right of our Works at the West-end of the Town where they made three Running-fires which were answered by the Iniskillin-Horse from their Camp and by the Great Guns upon our Works as also from our Ships that lay in the mouth of the River The Enemy admired what all this rejoycing should be for and were in some trouble at first suspecting we had got some extraordinary News from England or that there was an Army landed in the West of Ireland which they themselves must have known before us but when they understood the occasion they were not much concerned The 28th The Officers were acquainted it was the King's positive Orders that the Soldiers should not be wronged in their Pay nor neglected and whosoever was careless of his Company should be broke without Ceremony that was I suppose without a Court Martial Care was likewise commanded to be taken of the Sick at Carlingford An Officer was sent out of every Regiment to look after them and see them paid but for all this a great many of them died miserably and several Officers did not take the care that was necessary nor was there either Drugs or indeed Chyrurgeons to look after the Sick All Officers that had any Baggage on Shipboard were commanded to take it off because the Ships were said to go into Scotland for the Danes though at that time they were in Denmark All Papists commanded to discover themselves All that were Papists in the Army were commanded to discover it on pain of Death there were very few found but amongst the French who were put again under a Guard and sent to Carlingford there being the Afternoon before two more French-men taken one who had a List of all the Army and the Officers Names in most Regiments as also a Scheme of our Camp this was the occasion of the former Orders And also that the next night it was ordered That a List should be given in from every Regiment of the Officers Names and where they were with the Names of those that were absent and all those that had not received the Sacrament since they had their Commissions were to prepare against the Sunday following which was that day Seven-night Next day Lieutenant-General Douglas exercised the Regiments of the first Line teaching them how to fire by platoons and then made Speeches to them about their pay which pleased the Soldiers mightily but not so well the Officers month October Brandy delivered to the Men. About the first of October there was a good quantity of Brandy delivered out to every Regiment and Orders were again repeated That the Officers should be careful of their men the weather was then exceeding bad and we who lay on wet low ground had leave to remove our Tents a little higher which we did and after some time built our selves Huts according to former Orders And because the French were yet so forward as to go out and either buy oâ— take the Provisions that were coming to the Market then exacting from the English at least as much more as the thing was worth this was the occasion why the French were put upon the Guard whenever they could not give a good account of themselves upon which the General ordered that no French should be stopt any more than English but that none should pass the Out-Guards after Sunset nor buy any thing upon pain of death till it come into Town to the open Market And because it was observed that several Countrey people went between our Camp and the Enemies giving Intelligence of our Condition it was ordered That all Countrey-men that were stopt at or beyond the Out-Guards and could not give a reasonable account of their business they should be brought before the General Ships come to Dundalk Several of our Ships to the number of about 27 were now come to Dundalk and anchored nigh the Shore to the South-west of the Town but when the Tide was out it was easie for the Enemy to come down on that side and ruin them therefore the General ordered a Guard of a 100 men to go on Ship-board and to be relieved every 24 hours he took all imaginable care likewise that the Sick should be well lookt after and that those that were well should have Bread Cheese Brandy Beef Pease and Money as also That an Officer of a Company should go out with a Party and fetch in Fern for the Soldiers to lye upon for a great many began now to be sick by reason of the extreme bad weather and most of them were so lazy that they would starve rather than fetch Fern or any thing else to keep themselves dry and clean withal which certainly was the greatest occasion of Distempers Sickness and Death it self and many of them when they were dead were incredibly Lousie This occasioned the General to say one day when he came to the Camp and found that the Soldiers had not Hutted according to Orders That we English-men will Fight but we do not love to work for he used to call himself an English-man for all he loved the French so well About this time there was a Captain and Fifty men sent to Moyery Castle some Two miles behind our Camp as well to secure what Provisions were coming thither as to keep the Rappâ—…ees in awe and prevent our men that were going backwards and forwards from being murdered as several had been for a day or two before this I saw a poor Soldier lying towards the mountains who had his Head cut off and laid between his Legs and one of his Arms likewise which lay at a distance from him so cruel are those Wretches where they have an Opportunity or advantage On the 1 st of October Coll. Lloyd possest himself of James-town a small place near the Shannon where the Enemy had a Garison of 80 men that they had sent thither a little time before The Irish Army removes to Ardee and on the 5 th we had news That the Enemies
Foot began to march at one a Clock in the morning and their Horse followed in the Rear burning their Camp at the Bridg of Fane and removing to Ardee We had also an account That the Duke of Berwick with a considerable Body of Horse was gone towards Iniskillin to rescue Major General Maccarty upon which a Detatchment of the Iniskillin Horse and Foot Coll. Russels Horse and Eight Grenadeers out of every Regiment mounted on Horse-back were sent on the 8 th to keep a Pass between us and Sligo On the 9 th the General had an Account from one Hempson and Johnston with four more who came from Dublin in an open Boat on the 7 th and landed at Carlingford That King James had given Orders to victual that place for his Winter-Quarters and that the discourse was there of dividing the Army in order to quit the Field because they thought it was impossible for us to attempt any thing that Winter as indeed it was That night a Party of 100 Horse were sent out towards Ardee but coming near an old Castle where the Enemy had posted themselves they fired upon our men which occasioned some of the French Horse to retreat but all the harm that was done was one of the Troopers had his Thigh bruised An Honourable Quarrel About this time there hapned a Quarrel between two French Officers belonging to Duke Sconberg's Regiment of Horse they were afraid to fight nigh our Camp lest the General should have notice of it and so try them by a Court-martial therefore they agreed to ride out towards the Enemies Camp where they fought with Sword and Pistol and being both wounded they told at their return that it was the Enemy had done it Both Forage and Firing grew now very scarce and the Weather was mighty bad so that Mr. Shales had Orders to deliver out two Tuns of Coals to each Regiment About the 8 th or 9 th Sir John Lanier's Colonel Langston's Horse and Colonel Hefford's Dragoons with Colonel Hasting's Foot landed at Carlingford from Scotland We had an account that there were more landed with them and that when they joined us we should march forwards but now it was too late and they did not come to the Camp but were ordered to Armagh Clownish and Places thereabouts The General gave Orders that no Colonel or any one whatever should give Passes for any to go from the Camp and that the Officers should visit the Souldiers Tents night and morning to see what they wanted The Sick order'd on Board On the 13 th it was ordered that all the Sick should be sent on Board and that the Officers took care to see that those who were well should have Hutts made and the Quarter-masters were ordered to fetch Shoes Bread Cheese Brandy and Coals And all the Surgeons in the Army were appointed to meet Dr. Lawrence next day at 10 a Clock to consult I suppose what Methods could be taken to prevent the Flux and Feaver which then were very violent The General Count Solmes Lieut. Gen. Douglas Maj. Gen. Kirk and M. G. Scravenmore or some of them were out every day either to observe the Enemy or view our own Camp And on the 15 th we were told by three or four Deserters that the Enemy had entrenched themselves at Ardee and designed to continue there for some time but the first was a Mistake for it was the Town that they were fortifying whilst they lay there that they might leave a Garison in it when the Army went off to Quarters A Colonel was ordered to go the Rounds every night and a Brigadier once in three nights And we had at this time about 105 Ships at Carlingford besides those at Dundalk Our Horse encamp at Carlingford The 16 th all our Horse except the French the Inniskillin and Col. Levison's Dragoons march'd towards Carlingford for the conveniency of Forage That day Capt. Ralph Gore was buried in Dundalk-Church and the day following Col. Deering as had been several Officers before Sir Edward was very much lamented in the Army by all that knew him He left a good Fortune in England purely to serve the King in this Expedition as did three more of his Brothers one of which viz. Capt. John Deering died since at Taudrogee being a very ingenious young Gentleman On the 17 th a Party of Inniskillin Horse and some of Levison's Dragoons were got so nigh the Enemy that a Party of twenty Horse came behind them thinking to keep a Pass whilst others charged them in the Front Four Irish Men killed but our Men discovering their Error faced about and charged those in the Rear whereof they killed four and took six Prisoners A Priest hanged for a Spy The same day a Priest was hanged who came from the Enemy as a Deserter but proved a Spy he served then in station of a Captain And to be even with us they caught a Spy of ours some days after in Priests habit and hanged him The 20 th Capt. Withers of Maj. Gen. Kirk's Regiment was made Adjutant-General of Foot and next day it was again ordered that all our Sick should be sent on board at Dundalk and Carlingford though those Orders were not executed till a fortnight after We remove our Camp beyond the Town However we removed our Camps some beyond the Town and some towards the Artillery leaving the Huts that we had made full of sick Men. I know not the distinct number of the Sick in every Regiment at that time but besides what were dead and gone to Carlingford before as also some in the Town we had 67 that were not able to march about twice twelve score to fresh ground whom we put into those Huts leaving the Surgeon with an Officer and twelve Men purposely to attend them The Chaplain likewise went to see them once a day but always at his going found some dead Those that were alive seemed very sorry when the others were to be buried not that they were dead for they were the hardest-hearted one to another in the World but whilst they had them in their Huts they either served to lay between them and the cold Wind or at least were serviceable to sit or lie upon And since the Enemy were now drawn off the Guards were taken from the Ships and from Mortimer's Castle leaving only a Sergeant and twelve Men at the Gate that leads to Bedloes Castle and because some Companies were so thin that there were scarce twelve healthful Men in them it was therefore ordered that every Company should do Duty according to strength Tuesday the 22 d great part of the Army were marched beyond the Town and encamp'd some towards Bedloe's-Castle and some down towards the Shipping in so much that those that went over were ordered to do Duty as three Brigades and those that staid as one the Chirurgeon of each Regiment was ordered to see the Sick on Board An Officer was sent to take
Charlemont was surrendered Col. Woolsely went with a Party of 1200 Men to a Castle called Bellingargy in which the Enemy had a Garison of above 200 Men. This was seated in a great Water so that our Men must wade up to the middle to come at it Col. Foulks commanded the Foot and marched at the Head of them through the Water The Enemy fired and killed us several Men however they saw we were resolved to have it and so after several Fascins brought to fill up the Ditches and smart firings on both sides they hung out their white Flag and agreed to march away without their Arms. Col. Woolsely going down to encourage the Men was shot in the Scrotum but soon recovered We had 17 Men killed 43 wounded besides two Captains and an Ensign killed Three Gentlemen come from Dublin with an exact Account of the Posture of Affairs there About the middle of May came one Capt. King Mr. Wingfield a Lawyer and Mr. Trench a Clergy-men with five or six more from Dublin in an open Boat and gave the Duke a more exact Account than any he had formerly how all things went with the Irish As to the Civil Affairs the Government was in the hands of Five viz. my Lord Tyrconnel Sir Stephen Rice Lord Chief Baron Lord Chief Justice Nugent Bruno Talbot Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir William Ellis All Business in Matters Civil was done by them and if a Protestant petitioned the late King it was referred to those and never any answer given except it was indorsed on the Back this solicited by such an One who must be some eminent Papist and then perhaps it was answered These Men ordered all the Protestants Goods to be seized that were fit for Traffick and sent to France The late King pretended to pay them the half value in Brass Mony but that was scarce ever got and often if a Man was known to have Mony he was sent to Goal under pretence of High-Treason Col. Simon Lutteril was Governor of Dublin As to the Churches the late King seemed to incline to continue Protestants in them but what endeavours he made to restore Churches in the Country they were frustrated sometimes under pretence that the King had no Power in those Matters and some say he never design'd they should and therefore his Orders were not to be obeyed or else his Clergy had not so easily disswaded him from performing what he had promised except in the Business about the Church of Limerick wherein he observed that when it was for the purpose of the Papists to have the Protestants turned out of Town then they were very numerous and consequently dangerous but when the contrary answered their Ends as in the Instance of desiring the Church of Limerick then the Protestants were made very few which he took notice of and the Protestants at Limerick keep the Cathedral all this while They gave an account also that our Churches were generally shut up upon any Alarm from Sea or Report from the Army and the Protestants imprisoned As to the Military Affairs they gave an Account that the French about 5000. Men came to Dublin some-time after their landing being well armed and clothed Soon after the possession of the Town and Castle were given to Lauzun whom the French acknowledged to serve and not K. James and they were generally at free Quarter upon the Protestants nor would Monsieur Lauzun set his Guards in Town till he had possession of the Castle That all care was taken to provide Clothes for the Army by obliging the Clothiers to make so many Yards of Cloth a Month the Hatters Hats the Shoemakers Shoes c. And that they had considerable Stores of Corn and other Provisions at Drogheda Trim Navan Dublin Cork Waterford Kilkenny Athlone and Limerick The Method they proposed to deal with K. William's Army was to make good the Pâ—sses upon the Neury Mountains and at Dundalk to spin out the War as by Order from France and dispute their Ground without a general Battel till they came to the Boyne and there to defend the Pass but still without a Battel if they could help it they hoping in a small time to hear some extraordinary thing from a Party for K. James in England and from the French Fleet. Those and several other things they gave an Account of first to the Duke and afterwards to the King Towards the latter end of May we had several small Parties that went abroad one to Finnah and another to Kells bringing off Horses Cattel and some Prisoners And the 6 th of June Count Schonberg came to Belfast At the same time arrived our Train some Arms Ammunition and 200 Carpenters and other Artificers for the Service of the Army month June The King arrives in Ireland And now the general talk and expectation was of the King 's coming over who left Kensington the 4 th of June took Shipping at Highlake the 12 th and on the 14 being Saturday he landed at Carickfergus about four a Clock in the Afternoon His Majesty went through part of the Town and viewed it and notice being given immediately to the General who had prepared Sir William Franklin's House at Belfast for his Majesty's Reception and was there attending his Landing his Grace went in his Coach with all speed to wait on the King Maj. Gen. Kirk and several Officers that were there expecting the King's landing attended the Duke his Majesty was met by them near the White-House and received them all very kindly coming in the Duke's Coach to Belfast he was met also without the Town by a great Concourse of People who at first could do nothing but stare never having seen a King before in that part of the World but after a while some of them beginning to Huzzah the rest all took it as Hounds do a scent and followed the Coach through several Regiments of Foot that were drawn up in Town towards his Majesty's Lodgings and happy were they that could but get a sight of him That Evening his Highness Prince George the Duke of Ormond my Lord of Oxford my Lord Scarborough my Lord Manchester the Honourable Mr. Boyle and a great many Persons of Quality landed only Maj. Gen. Scravenmore staid at Chester till all things were come over who has taken a great deal of pains in our Irish Expedition There came also some Mony a-shore but exceedingly short of what was hoped for Next day the King heard a Sermon preached by Dr. Loyse on Heb. 6. 11. Through Faith they subdued Kingdoms and the same day came several of the Nobility Officers Gentry and Clergy to wait on his Majesty And on Munday Lieut. Gen. Douglass came from Hambleton's Ban where he had been Encamped for nigh a Fortnight and Dr. Walker with a great many more of the Episcopal Clergy presented his Majesty with an Address being introduced by Duke Schonberg and the Duke of Ormond To the King 's most Excellent Majesty
Ground at Duleek and thereabouts will say that it 's scarce possible to make an orderly pursuit at such a place for whilst an Enemy continues in a Body there 's no going after them as if Men were a Fox-hunting since nothing encourages even a flying Enemy more to rally and fight again than to see a disorderly pursuit of them The Passes therefore were so narrow and troublesome that before we could get over a Body of Men sufficient to attack the Enemy they were got a mile or two before us and new difficulties between us and them nor was the case the same with them for they got over any where as well as they could except the Rear who kept their order as far as we could see them As for his Majesty himself he chose the Field drew up his Army gave his General Orders to his Officers and the best Orders wherever he was in Person but the greatest Captain that ever was or will be is not nor can be of himself sufficient to redress all Disorders or lay hold on all Advantages in an instant when Armies are once ingaged And further his Majesty having committed a considerable part of his Orders to the care of his General the death of him must needs be a disadvantage to the whole Army Another thing they pretend to find fault with was in not sending ten thousand Men immediately from the Boyne towards Athlone and Limerick since we were as nigh those places here as at Dublin and if we had gone behind them Limerick and Galloway would certainly have yielded for it was at least a fortnight before any number of their Army got thither and then they say the Irish Army must either have fought again in the Field or else submitted since Dublin is not to be kept by those that are not Masters of the Field But there are very good reasons why this was not done for his Majesty knew at this time that the French Fleet was hovering nigh the English Coast and therefore would not divide his Army nor draw them from the Sea nor did his Majesty know as yet whether the Irish would not stay for him between that and Dublin and so fight again And before he was assur'd of it the News of the French Fleets success at Sea altered both his and the Irish Peoples measures for this put them into heart again especially when it came with a report spread a broad I suppose on purpose that King William was dead as well as Duke Schonberg and that the Dauphin of France was landed with an Army in England But though there was little of Truth in these reports yet they animated the Irish who of all men living are the soonest discouraged but up again with the least hopes and to work they went in making provisions to defend their Towns especially beyond the Shannon but this I 'm afraid will be thought impertinent at least it 's out of order and therefore to return King James's Carriage at the Battle and after King James during part of the Action at the Boyn stood at the little old Church upon the Hill called Dunore but when he saw how things were like to go he marched off to Duleek and from thence towards Dublin the first news that went to that place was That K. James had got the day our General killed and the Prince of Orange as they call'd him taken prisoner this was very afflicting to the poor Protestants who were shut up in Prisons all over the Town but towards night they observed several Officers come to Town in great confusion some wounded and others looking very dull upon the matter which they thought were no sings of Victory and then begun to hope better things About nine a Clock King James came to Dublin with about two hundred Horse with him all in disorder My Lady Tyrconnel met him at the Castle-gate and after he was up-stairs her Ladyship askt him what he would have for Supper who then gave her an Account of what a Breakfast he had got which made him have but little stomach to his Supper He staid all Night in the Castle and next Morning sending for the Lord Mayor and some others he told them That in England he had an Army which durst have fought but they proved false and deserted him and that here he had an Army which was Loyal enough but would not stand by him he was now necessitated to provide for his Safety and that they should make the best Terms for themselves that they could and not to burn or injure the Town and immediately after took Horse and with about twelve in Company went towards Bray and so to Waterford where he took Shipping for France The Irish Horse came most of them into Dublin that Night and most of the Foot next Morning And before Night on Wednesday they were all gone taking the City Militia along who were all Papists but they released all the Prisoners not out of love to them but for fear lest we had been at their Heels Some say that K. James sent Sir Patrick Trant and another Gentleman towards Waterford to provide Shipping for him before-hand for fear of the worst but I have not heard the certainty of it However this was not the way that Heroes used formerly to take in England for the Romans burnt their Ships when they landed there that their Men might have no hopes of a Retreat but to conquer or die And so did the Duke of Normandy who soon after got the name of Conquerour King Williams But King William gave his Army better proofs of his Courage and Conduct nor can I pretend to be able to give his Majesty the just commendation his merit forces from his very Enemies only this I am sure of that he dare do any thing and has not a Soul subject to fear or any thing that 's below a Prince never had an Army a better opinion of a King than ours of him their only fear was that he would expose himself too far and whatever difference happens between him and them can be only this that they desire to stand between his Majesty and all danger But he alwayes has a mind to put himself between them and it may we long therefore have such a General in a King and he not only Souldiers but Subjects of all professions that love him as well Prince George accompanied his Majesty in most of his dangers and in the greatest of them was always near him and nothing but the bravery of such a King could hinder him of the greatest Charracter in this Account As to our English Forces there were few of them that had an opportunity at this place to shew themselves but those that had acquitted themselves very well the French and Iniskilliners did good service and to give the Dutch Guards their due they deserve immortal honour for what they did that day I enquired at several who they were that managed the retreat the Irish made that
And hereabouts were the first English planted in Ireland they were a Colony of West-Country men and retain their old English Tone and Customs to this day I am credibly informed that every day about one or two a Clock in Summer they go to Bed the whole Country round nay the very Hens fly up and the Sheep go to Fold as orderly as it were night The Duke of Ormond goes with a party to Killkenny The Army rested a day at Castle Dermot and the next day marched beyond Carlow sending forwards a party of Horse under the Command of the Duke of Ormond to take possession of Kill Kenny and to secure the Protestants and other Inhabitants in the Country about from being Plundred by the Enemy for by this time some of them adventured to look behind them and to return to take along what they had not time nor conveniency to carry off at first here the Army staid a day also and the next day marched to a place called Kells two miles beyond Loughlind Bridge and the day following to Bennets Bridge three miles to the Northest of Kill-Kenny upon the same River The 19. his Majesty dined with the Duke of Ormond at his Castle of Kill Kenny this House was preserved by the Count de Lauzun with all the Goods and Furniture and left in a good Condition not without the Cellars well furnished with what they had not time to drink at their going off Killkenny signifies the Cell or Church of Canick who for the Sanctimony of his Solitary Life in this Country was highly Renowned this was one of the best Inland Towns in Ireland the Irish Town has in it the said Canick's Church now the Cathedral of the Bishop of Ossory The English Town was built by Randolph the third Earl of Chester and fortified with a Wall on the West side by Robert Talbot a Nobleman and this Castle by the Buttlers Ancestors to the present Duke of Ormond On Sunday the 20 th They marched six Miles farther and Encamp'd at a Place called Rossed-Narrow upon the Estate of one Mr. Read where the King had an Account of one Fitz Morrice Sheriff of the Queens County that was under Protection and afterwards went off in the Night with his Family and all his Stock the King had also News that the Enemy had quitted Clonmel whither Count Schomberg marched with â— Body of Horse This is one of the strongest Towns in Ireland and cost Oliver Cromwel at least 2000 Men in taking it the Irish made some Pretensions to hold it out now in order to which they levelled all the Suburbs and Hedges but all they did was to make the Inhabitants pay them 300 l. to save the Town from being burnt or plundred it stands upon the River Sure in a pleasant and fruitful Country Here my Lord George Howard and some more came in and submitted who had Protections The Army goes to Carruck Monday the 21 st The Army marched to Carruck situate upon a Rocky Ground whence it took its Name being called from Carruck Mack Griffin the Habitation formerly of the Earls of Ormond which together with the Honour of Earl of Carruck King Edw. II. Granted unto Edward Boteler or Buttler whose Posterity the present D. of Ormond still enjoy it There the King received an Account of the State of Waterford by some that escaped from thence and of the Resolution of the Garison to hold out There also the King had some Intelligence of the Condition of the City of Cork and that County with great Sollicitations from the Inhabitants to hasten to their Relief which at that time they represented as a thing very easie On the 22 d. Major General Kirk with his own Regiment and Colonel Brewers as also a Party of Horse went towards Waterford more Forces designing to follow Waterford summon'd The Major General sent a Trumpet to Summon the Town who at first refused to surrender there being Two Regiments then in Garison their Refusal however was in such civil Terms that we easily understood their Inclinations for soon after they sent out again to know what Terms they might have which were the same with Drogheda but not liking those they proposed some of their own which were That they might enjoy their Estates The Liberty of their Religion A safe Convoy to the next Garrison with their Arms and proper Goods those would not be Granted and then the heavy Cannon were drawn down that way and some more Forces ordered to march And Surrendred but the Irish understanding this sent to ask Liberty to march out with their Arms and to have a safe Convoy which was granted them and accordingly on the 25 th they marched out with their Arms and Baggage being conducted to Mallow In the mean time the Fort of * This Fort was also given John Talbot Earl of Shrewsburry but afterwards by Act of Parliament it was annexed to the Crown for ever Duncanon Seven Miles below Waterford was summon'd This is a Strong and Regular Fortification being at that time Commanded by one Captain Burk and well furnished with Guns and all other Necessaries the Governour required Seven days to Consider of it which being denied him he said he would take so much time but upon the approach of our Forces and the appearing of some Ships before it he surrendered upon the same Terms with Waterford The day that Waterford Surrendred the King himself went to see it and took great care that no Persons should be disturbed in their Houses or Goods Here we found my Lord Dover who was admitted to a more particular Protection he having formerly applyed himself when the King was at Hillsborough by a Leter to Major General Kirk to desire a Pass for himself and Family into Flanders The City of Waterford was built first by certain Pyrates of Norway and afterwards won from the Irish by Richard Earl of Pembrook The Citizens hereof had large Privileges granted them by King Hen. 7. for demeaning themselves Loyally against Perkin Warbeck It was Granted by Patent from King Hen. 6. to John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury and his Heirs who by the same Patent were to be Senescals of Ireland But this City afterwards was annexed to the Crown The King speaks of going for England At the King 's returning to the Camp His Majesty held a Council wherein he declares his Resolution to go for England In the mean time our Horse Encamped between Carruck and Clonmell and the Earl of Granard came to wait on His Majesty he receiving at the same time an Express from Lieutenant General Douglass who gave but an indifferent Account of that Expedition On the 27 th the King left the Camp at Carruck and went towards Dublin in order for England which occasioned various Conjectures and some Apprehensions that the Affairs of England were in no pleasing Posture Count Solmes left General His Majesty left Count Solmes Commander in Chief and went that night to
planted towards the Left where they could bear upon the Enemies Horse These fired several times and the Enemy soon quitted that Post Our English Foot were so little concern'd that though they knew the Enemy to be in the next Hedges yet whilst the Pioneers were at work they would sit them down and ask one another whether they thought they should have any Bread to day for they began to want their Breakfasts though some few of them went to the next World for it The Danes to the Left stood with all the Care and Circumspection in the World but observing the Posture of some of our Men and hearing what they said they believed we had no mind to fight yet no sooner were the Hedges down and our Front advancing in a narrow Field but the Irish fired a whole Volley upon them from the Neighbouring Hedges which our Men seeing some of them cry'd aloud Ah ye Toads are ye there we 'll be with you presently And being led on by my Lord Drogheda and Colonel Earle they ran along the Field directly towards the Hedges where the Irish were planted which the others seeing immediately quitted and then our Men fired upon them as they retreated to the next Hedges and so beat them from one Hedge to another even to the very end of the Suburbs which then were all burnt and levelled During this Action the Danes advanced in the Left and the Blue Dutch with the English on the Right the Horse coming on in the Centre So that in less than half an hour from the first Volley the Irish were driven under their very Walls nor did we lose a Dozen Men in all this Action When as if the Irish had managed this Advantage of Ground and fortified the Pass as well as Ireton's Fort on the Right of it which was built by Ireton on his first coming before Limerick It stands on a Rising Ground and over-looks the Pass on one side and the Town on the other This we commonly called Cromwel's Fort they might have kept us some Days from approaching the Town at least they might have kill'd us a great many Men But the truth is they had not time for all this They had drawn up however several Companies of Men in the Fort but when they saw us coming on they retreated towards the Town without ever firing a Shot The Cannon play We were not as yet saluted with one Great Gun from the Town because their own Men had been between them and us but as soon as they retreated under the Walls they let fly amain amongst us and kill'd several as they marched in amongst others a French Captain had both his Legs shot off and died presently We drew Four Field-Pieces immediately to Cromwel's Fort playing them upon the Town and the Out-works and before Five a Clock in the Afternoon all our Army was marched in and most of them encampt within Cannon-shot In a Siege the first two things that are to be regarded is the safe encamping our Men and the drawing the Line of Countervallation to prevent the Enemy from Sallying but the latter of these we did not much mind because I suppose we did not much fear any desperate Sallies and the former was in some measure prevented by the situation of our Camp The Danes encampt to the Left where they found an Old Fort built by their Ancestors which they were very proud of and from thence they fired Three or Four Field-Pieces upon the Irish that lay entrenched between them and the Town The Detached Party kept an Advance Post till they were relieved about Nine a Clock and the Lord Drogheda's Regiment was placed next the Town nigh Cromwel's Fort where they were to stop the Enemies Career if they attempted a Sally The Town Summon'd As soon as our Army was posted the King ordered a Trumpet to be sent with a Summons to the Town and as we understood since a great part of the Garrison were for Capitulating but Monsieur Boiseleau the Governour the Duke of Berwick and Colonel Sarsfield opposed it with a great deal of Heat telling them that there were great Divisions and Insurrections in England That the Dauphin was landed there with Fifty Thousand Men and that the Prince of Orange would be obliged soon to draw home his Army into England The Trumpeter was sent back from Monsieur Boiseleau with a Letter directed to Sir Robert Southwell Secretary of State not sending directly to the King because he would avoid I suppose giving him the Title of Majesty The Answer That he was surprised at the Summons and that he thought the best way to gain the Prince of Orange's Good Opinion was by a vigorous defence of that Town which his Master had entrusted him withal That Evening a Party of Dragoons was sent to view the Pass at Annaghbegg Three Miles above Limerick where Six of the Enemies Regiments of Foot Three of Horse and Two of Dragoons were posted on the other side of the River where there stood a large New House with a great many Brick Walls about it and several convenient Hedges were adjoyning to the River They fired from thence upon our Men but did little or no Execution and that Night they marched off to the Town The Cannon play'd on both sides till it grew dark A Party pass the River and next Morning early being Sunday the 10 th the King sent Eight Squadrons of Horse and Dragoons Commanded by Lieutenant General Ginkle and Three Regiments of Foot under Major General Kirk who passed the River without any opposition and immediately His Majesty went thither Himself The Stream was very rapid and dangerous though the River has not been known to be so low these many Years The King at his Return left Major General Kirk with his own Brigadeer Stuart's and my Lord Meath's Regiments who encampt one beyond the Ford and two on this side having a Party of Horse relieved every Twenty Four Hours to support them A Cornet this Morning deserted the Enemy who told the King That a great many in Town were for surrendring but prevented by Sarsfield and Boiseleau That Count Lauzun with the French were encampt nigh Galloway the Irish refusing to receive them into Town because themselves had done so with the Irish some time before at Limerick That my Lord Tyrconnel with most of the Irish Horse and some Foot were encamped on the other side about Six or Eight Miles from Limerick That there were Fourteen Regiments of Foot with Three of Horse and Two of Dragoons then in Town The King sent that Afternoon a small Party of Horse to discover my Lord Tyrconnel but 〈◊〉 was then removed about Ten Miles further off towards Galloway The Town described But it will be convenient that I here give as good a Description of the City and its Situation as I can of a Place that I had not the liberty to go into though I have been sometimes very near it It 's
was taken exactly next day In Lieutenant General Douglas's Regiment Wounded Sir Charles Fielding Capt. Rose mortally wounded Capt. Guy Capt. Trevor Capt. Rose junior Capt. Wainsbrough Lieut. Wild mortally wounded Lieut. Wybrants Lieut. Lacock Lieut. Rapine Lieut. Lloyd Ensign Goodwin Ensign Burk Kill'd Major Hambleton Lieut. Ennis Lieut. Morison Ensign Tapp Ensign Pinsent In Colonel Cutts's Regiment Wounded Colonel Cutts Capt. Newton Capt. Foxon Capt. Massham Lieut. Levis Lieut. Barrock Lieut. Cary. Lieut. Trenchard The Adjutant Mr. How 's a Voluntier Kill'd Capt. Hudson Ensign Mead. In the Earl of Meath's Regiment Wounded The Earl of Meath L. C. Newcomb mort wounded Lieut. Blakeney Lieut. Hubblethorn Kill'd Lieut. Latham Ensign Smith In Brigadier Stuart's Regiment Wounded Brigadier Stuart Major Cornwall Capt. Pallferey Capt. Galbreth Capt. Stuart Capt. Casseen Lieut. Stuart Lieut. Cornwall Lieut. Cary. Ensign Stuart Kill'd Capt. Lindon Capt. Farlow Lieut. Russell In my Lord Lisburn's Regiment Wounded Major Allen. Capt. Adair Capt. Holdrich Capt. Hubbart Lieut. Hillton Lieut. Goodwin Ensign Hook Kill'd Capt. Wallace Capt. West Ensign Ogle These make in all Fifty nine whereof Fifteen were killed upon the Spot and several dyed afterwards of their Wounds the Granadeers are not here included and they had the hottest Service Nor are there any of the Forreigners who lost full as many as the English so that I 'm afraid this did more then countervail the loss that the Irish had during the whole Seige at least in the numher of Men. Next day the King sent a Drummer in order to a Truce that the Dead might be buried but the Irish had no mind to it and now the Soldiers were in hopes that the King would make a second Attack and seem'd resolv'd to have the Town or dye every Man But this was too great a hazard to run at one Place and they did not know how scarce our Ammunition was it being very much wasted the day before this day however we continued Battering the Wall and it begun to Rain and next day it was very Cloudy all about and Rain'd very fast so that every Body began to dread the Consequences of it The King therefore calls a Council of War wherein it was Resolv'd to quit the Town and Raise the Siege which as the Case stood then with us was no doubt the most prudent thing that could be done The Siege Raised We drew off therefore our heavy Cannon from the Batteries by degrees And on Saturday August the 30. we marched greatest part of them as far as Cariganliss the Guard being the Earl of Drogheda's and Brigedeer Stuart's Regiments The Rain which had already fallen had softned the ways and we found some difficulty in getting off our Guns especially since for the most part we were obliged to draw them with Oxen a part of our Train Horses being disposed of to the Enemies use before and this was one main Reason for Raising the Siege for if we had not granting the Weather to continue bad we must either have taken the Town or of necessity have lost our Cannon because that part of the Country lies very low and the Ways are deep Therefore on Sunday the last of August all the Army drew off having a good Body of Horse in the Rear As soon as the Irish perceived we had quitted our Trenches they took Possession of them with great Joy and were in a small time after over all the Ground whereon we had Encamped two days before we Raised the Siege a great many Waggons and Carriages were sent towards Cashell and Clonmel with sick and wounded Men which was the Reason that we were forced to leave a great many Bombs Hand Granades and other things behind which we buried in the Artillery Ground but with a Train to blow them up so that when it took Fire the Irish were mightily afraid and thought we were beginning a new Seige from under Ground But yet they dug up most of our dead Officers and Soldiers only to get their Shirts and Shrowds month September The Army removes The Army Encamped that day at Cariganliss and then the Artillery marched forwards to Cullen whither the Army followed the day after but as soon as the Protestants that dwelt in that Country understood that the Army was drawing off they prepared to march along with Bag and Baggage which most of them did and lookt something like the Children of Israel with their Cattle and all their Stuff footing it from Aegypt though most of those poor People had no Promised Land to retire to but were driven into a Wilderness of Confusion for I saw a great many both Men and Women of very good Fashion who had lived plentifully before yet now knew not which way to steer their Course but went along with the Croud whither Providence should direct them In a day or two after we were removed from before Limerick Monsieur Boisleau the Governour made a Speech and told the Irish Monsieur Boiseleau's Speech to the Irish That with much ado he had perswaded them to defend the Town which with Gods help they had done but assured them it was not Fear but Prudence and Policy that had made the Enemy quit the Siege as might appear by their slow Marches and withal he told them his Opinion that the next time the Enemy came they would have it Which said he took leave and went to the French Forces then at Galloway and designing for France His Majesty goes for England His Majesty that day we Raised the Siege went to Cullen and so to Clonmel from thence to Waterford in order to take shipping for England accompanied with the Prince the Duke of Ormond and several of the Nobility From Waterford His Majesty sent back the Right Honourable Henry Lord Viscount Sidney and Tho. Conyngsby Esq to the Camp Lords Justices Appointed they with Sir Charles Porter having a Commission to be Lords Justices of Ireland The King set Sail with a fair Wind for England where he was received with an universal rejoicing and the Two Lords Justices on the Fourth of September came to the Camp then at Cullen where they staid till the Sixth in which two days they and the General Count Solmes ordered all Affairs relating to the Army And here we received Money which was very acceptable for it had been very scarce all the Campaign both with the Officers and Soldiers and yet every body were content and our Wants were no Obstruction to our Duties as His Majesty was pleased to take notice afterwards in His Speech to the Parliament From Cullen we marched on the Sixth to Tipperary blowing up a strong Castle when we Decamped and the two Lords Justices took their Journey towards Dublin in order to enter upon their Government Some that are Men already prejudiced will pretend to be Judges in this Affair though they never saw the Place or the Country and affirm that the Irish made never a false step but one during this whole
Siege and that was in not Fortifying the Pass and Cromwell's Fort without as also in not drawing a large Trench from the River towards the East and then runing it round that part of the Town on which they might have raised several Forts and Breast-works from whence they might have retarded our Approaches but indeed they had not time for all this though they had done something of that kind towards the West where they keept Men Encampt all the while we lay before the Town and they had made also some Forts towards the East but they could not put Courage in their Men to defend them especially when Walls were so near to fly to Objections against the Siege at Limerick What Objections they make against us were these that we ought to have divided our Army and sent a part beyond the River as also to have broke down the two Bridges one between the two Towns and the other on the County of Clare side by which means we had prevented the Irish Communication between the two Towns and also from without the greatest hazard that we could run being to Attack a Town that had one side open to bring in what Men and things they pleas'd All these and a great many more inconveniencies were seen into at that Instant but the dividing the Army was impracticable because that when one Part had been over the River they must have marched several Miles to the Right and then down again before they could come nigh the other side of the Town by reason of a vast Bog that runs from the Town a great way cross the Country and then it was no easie thing to bring Provision to those and besides if the Rains had fallen as it often threatned us that part of the Army which had gone over must have run the hazard either of starving or fighting their whole Army or both for the Shanon rises all on a sudden and the least swelling in the World would have made it impassible for the Army since it was with great difficulty that single Regiments could get over as it was and it never has been seen so low in many years Nor had we Men enough to make what Works were convenient to secure both Parts of the Army from Sallies or Assaults from without if we had been divided We know Caesar at the Siege of Alexia shut in Eighty thousand Guals made a Line of Countervallation of Eleven Miles Circumference and one of Circumvallation that was Fourteen Fortifying both these with Sharp Stakes and vast Holes in the Ground slightly covered over by which he both reduced that great Army within to his Mercy and kept off a much greater that design'd to Raise the Siege But his Army were Men of Fatigue and Labour as well as Courage and his Numbers six times as great as ours And though we were Commanded by a Prince of as great Courage and Resolution as ever Caesar was and he had Men that were as willing yet several of them were beginning to be sick and were not able to endure the Fatigue except both our Time had been longer and the Season better and though Kings are Gods in Wisdom as well as Power yet there is one in Heaven that limits them Lieutenant General Douglass Decamps September the 7 th Lieutenant General Douglas with his own Regiment Brigadeer Stuart's Sir Henry Ballasyse's Lord George Hambilton's a Derry Regiment the Third Troop of Guards Colonel Russel's Horse and Guinn's Dragoons marched from Tipperary towards the North to Winter-Quarters and the rest lay encamped September the 8 th my Lord Lisburne with a Party of Foot being about Four Hundred and Monsieur La Forest with a Party of Five hundred Horse were sent to Killmallock a Place between Cork and Limerick where the Enemy had a Garrison of about two hundred Men who when they saw our Party and Four Field-Pieces which they brought along they yeilded upon the first Summons and had Conditions to march out with their Arms and Baggage From the 8 th to the 13 th nothing of Moment hapned except the General 's sending out several Parties unto all the little Towns and Castles thereabouts having Engineers along to see what could be done in order to their Defence on which account Dr. Davis Dean of Ross was very serviceable who understood the Countrey thereabouts very well And Major General Kirk with the rest of the English This took up time till the 13 th when Major General Kirk with Seven Foot Regiments viz. Kirk Hanmer Meath Cutts Lisburne Earle and Drogheda's and Sir John Lanier with his own Lord of Oxford's Langston's Byerley's Horse Levison's Dragoons and part of Cunningham's marched towards Bi r Which way we heard that Sarsfield was making being then with a Body of about Five Thousand Horse Foot and Dragoons at a place called Banohar-Bridge not Eight Miles from Bir. The same Day Major General Scravemore and Major General Tatteau with Twelve hundred Horse and Dragoons as also Two Regiments of Danish Foot went towards Mallow in order to go to Cork where we had a Report that my Lord Marlborough designed to land There were some Deserters also that came from the Enemy that gave us an Account that my Lord Tyrconnel Count Lauzun Monsieur Boiseleau with all the French Forces were gone from Galloway towards France for hearing of my Lord Marlborough's Fleet coming abroad they made more haste than they designed and so left several of their Men sick at Galloway They brought an excellent Field-Train in the Spring out of France which they took along with them when they returned The rest of the Army remove to Cashel September the 14 th the rest of the Army removed to Cashel and from thence were dispersed to Quarters part of the Danes and Dutch went towards Waterford some to Clonmell and others staid at Cashel The French went towards the County of Carlow And so the Army was dispersed Count Solmes commanded the Army from His Majesties Departure till the Camp broke up and then he went to Dublin in order to go for England On the Day following a Captain of Colonel Levison's Dragoons with his Troop routed a Body of Irish Rabble that were got together and a Party of Horse were sent after a Company of Rapparees that had kill'd some of our Men as they were a forraging Lieutenant General Ginkle was now Commander in Chief of the Army and went towards his Head Quarters at Killkenny Sarsfield besieges Bar. At Major General Kirk's coming to Roscreagh he understood that Sarsfield â—nd his Party had besieged the Castle at Bi r in which was only a Company of Colonel Tiffin's Regiment The Enemy had brought several Pieces of Cannon one of which was an Eighteen Pounder with which they did the Castle some damage but however the besieged defended it stoutly and killed them several Men. Relieved by Major General Kirk Tuesday the 16 th Major General Kirk and his Foot marched from Roscreagh
time And further the French are retired and it 's to be supposed without design of returning else they would not have gone away Suppose therefore the Irish fortifie all those Places in their possession and have Arms and Ammunition with whatever else is needful from France yet all this will neither put Courage into them to defend those Places nor is it altogether in the power of France to supply them with necessary Provisions And lastly Of our own But Secondly As to our own Army I doubt not but we have several that are indifferent whether the War be quickly at an end or not for they find the Irish to be an easie sort of Enemy and if the War were done here they must expect hotter Service somewhere else They look upon it however as an Enemies Country which is the reason that great Spoils are made and Outrages committed nay which is worst of all no Distinction made of Papist or Protestant This it 's to be fear'd may bring a Famine and then all Peoples Condition in that Kingdom will be very severe For tho' there be Plenty enough in England yet the People of Ireland being poor no body will be at the pains to carry their Goods into a Country where there is nothing to be got in return of them But then whatsoever pains the Irish take in fortifying their Towns we take as much in carrying things to beat them out of them for there is a vast quantity of Bombs of the largest size with all things convenient for such a Design daily brought to Dublin And as to our Army our Numbers are the same as last Year except Two Regiments that are broke they are also much healthfuller and better acquainted both with the Country and their Arms and to encourage us the more the Parliament has granted His Majesty a considerable Fund to carry on the War as also to Equip His Fleet which we were in both defective last Summer Besides we have now at least Twelve thousand of the Militia in good order either to defend our Garrisons behind us or assist in our Army upon occasion for one should think that there is no body so fit to fight for their own Country or indeed to be entrusted with it as those People whose Concern it is And more than all this we shall have a great many Protestant Rapparees from the North and other Places that we can at least set against theirs for the Northern People are most of them arm'd either from our Men that died last Year or by some means or other so that I hope we shall have no want of Men. If therefore we have a mind to retrive our Losses we must encourage such as do well and reward them for their Valour and Conduct but punish Offenders though their Station be the greater And as to the Arrears of the Army they are not so very great as some People make them for though we have not had our Accounts stated for some time yet we have still received Money upon Account and the Soldiers have constantly been supplied with Bread and other Provisions But it 's usual with a great many that when they can have no other Excuse for their Extravagancies then they 'll say the King owes them so much but say not a word of what they have received And as to what the present Irish War both has cost and is like to do both as to Men and Money it is not to be named with that in Cromwell's time which any may see that will but read Burlace's History Nor can there be any Comparison between the present Government and that for then both Law and Religion were trampled upon but now they run in their due Channel But after all the Reason why Ireland was not reduc'd last Year was our late taking the Field and the Occasion of that was because the Affairs of the Army could not be put in a compleat Posture any sooner For England has a long time been used to Peace and Ease and therefore unprovided of those things that are absolutely necessary in time of War which were to come from abroad The King did as much as was possible in the time as any who have seen the Country may know for if Ireland were as well Peopled and Mann'd as the Soil it self will bear it may defie all the World besides You cannot see a Town or a small Castle but where there 's either a Bog or a River or both all Places being fortified as well by Nature as Art And in War there 's no doubt but time must be allow'd to regulate such Mistakes as may happen since no Man is infallible in that Art Nor was there a sufficient Fund of Money the Year past to supply the real Necessities of so great a Work which Inconveniency being now removed a fair Conclusion may be rationally hoped for As to the Charge of maintaining a competent Army there when Ireland is reduced the Country will night do that of it self since the Customs in that part of the Kingdom now in our possession amounted to Sixty seven thousand five hundred twenty six pound for the Six Months last past and what must the whole Kingdom come to in Times of Peace and a setled Establishment I have only this to add That when our Armies go out to defie our Enemies and yet at the same time in their Practice defie the Living God or if we should stay at home and fast and pray for their good Success never so heartily yet God will neither hear us nor help them if we are negligent in our Duty towards him If therefore we desire that our Armies and Fleets may make a considerable Figure in the World let us not grudge at and censure every thing our Betters do but be careful to do our Duty to God and Man then after the enduring for a Season the Inconveniencies of War we may hope to be happy in a lasting Peace Amen FINIS ADVERTISEMENT WHereas there are some mistakes occasioned by the Printer's oversight which the Author being suddenly call'd to his Post in Ireland had neither leisure nor opportunity to Correct the Reader may if he pleases supply such Defects Books lately printed for Richard Chiswell A New History of the Succession of the Crown of England and more particularly from the Time of King Egbert till King Henry the VIII Collected from those Historians who wrote of their own Times A Discourse concerning the unreasonableness of a New Separation on account of the Oaths With an Answer to the History of Passive Obedience so far as relates to Them A Vindication of the said Discourse concerning the Unreasonableness of a New Separation from the Exceptions made against it in a Tract called A Brief Answer to the said Discourse c. 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