G. George Flower Captaine 198 Sir George Bourcheir sent to Kilkenny 27 Sir George Bourchier comes to Corke 199 Sir George Thornton joynes with the Lord Barry 360 George Kingesmill maymed at Donboy 314 George Blunt 41 Glancoyne castle surprized by Sir Francis Barkley 84 Glin castle besieged and taken 63 64 Gregory Castle taken 297 Geoffrey Galway Major of Limricke fined imprisoned 110 And a new Major elected 111 H. Henrie Skipwith Captaine 15 315 Henry Malbie slaine 365 Sir Henry Folliot 233 Husseyes Report of the Rebellion in Mounster 146 Hopton dyed of a hurt 214 Hostages delivered by Don Iuan and their Names 247 Hugh Mostian 128 Sir Henrie Power 31 253 I. Iames Fits Thomas apprehended by Dermond O Conner 54 Iohn Power 55 Iohn Bostocke 30 Instructions for the Lord President of Mounster 6 Iames Archer Iesuite 26 InstructioÌ„s to the Earle of Thomond 287 Instructions for Capt. George Blunt 256 Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle taken prisoner 135 His Examination 174 His Relation to the Lord President 139 Iames fits Thomas Dermond Mac Gragh make a narrow escape 106 Don Iuan de Aguila his Declaration at Kinsale 200 His Request to the Lord Deputie for shipping 252 Intelligence of the Spanish Invasion 188 Irish in Mounster revolted to the Spaniards 224 Irish fled into Spaine with their Names 237 Iames Gold second Iustice of Mounster 6 Iohn fits Thomas his practice to deceiâ—e the Lord President 328 Iames fits Thomas the young Earle of Desmond commeth into Ireland 85 Returneth into England 122 Iames Grace 217 K. Kinsale summoned and Don Iuans Answere 219 Kinsale Burgesses desire their Charter 252 Kinsale receiues their Ensignes of Magistracie 359 Kilcow castle taken by Capt. Flower 383 Knight of Kerry protected 299 Defeated by Sir Charles Wilmâ—t 361 Makes his submission ibidem Kilcrey Castle and Abbey rendred 334 Kirton a Lieutenant hurt at Donboy 318 L. Lowghguyrre taken by the Rebells and recovered againe from them 45 Listoell Castle besieged and taken 97 List of the Captaines of the Spanish armie 191 List of the Army in Mounster 290 382 Lixnaw castle taken by coÌ„position 296 Leamâ—con castle taken 321 Lettertinlesse castle taken burnt ibid. Laghlin O Dallic 360 Lord of Lixnaw defeated by Captaine Boys 383 Letters Patents for Sir George Carew to be Lord President of Mounster 3 A Letter from the Lord President and the Earle of Thomond to the Lords of the Councell 24 A Letter from Iames Galde Butler to the Lord President 42 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 40 A Letter from the Mounster Rebells to O Dâ—nnell 58 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 62 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 70 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 48 Two Letters from William Burke and Moroghe ni Moe O Flartie to the Lord President 60 61 A Letter from her Majestie to the Lo President 86 A Letter from Redmond Burke to the Lord President 96 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 80 Letters Patents for Iames fits Gerald to be Earle of Desmond 89 A Letter from Cormock Mac Dermond vnto Tyrone 100 A Letter from the Earle of Clanrickard to Theobald ne long Burke 103 A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Iames fits Thomas 111 A Letter from her Majestie to the Lord Deputie 116 A Letter from the Lord President to the Lord Deputie 119 A Letter from Redmond Burke to the L. President with his Answers 128 A Letter from Tyrone to Florence Mac Cartie 132 A Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President 132 A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie 141 Two Letters from Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle to the K. of Spaine 154 A Letter from her Majestie to the Lord President touching base Monies 147 A Letter from Thomas Shelton to Florence Mac Cartie 169 A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Florence Mac Cartie 170 A Letter from Tirone Iames fits Thomas Florence Mac Cartie and Mac Donogh to the Pope 175 A Letter from Mr. Secretary Cecill to the Lord President with Spanish Intelligence 182 A Letter from the Lord Deputie to the Lord President 185 A Letter from the Lord Deputie satisfactory to the Lord President 186 A Letter from Donnell O Sulevan Beare to the King of Spaine 228 A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to the Archbishop of Dublin 260 A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila 260 A Letter from the Secretary Ybarra to Don Iuan de Aguila 261 A Letter from the Secretary Franquesa to Don Iuan de Aguila ibid. A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila 262 A Letter from the King of Spaine to Don Iuan de Aguila 263 A Letter from the L. Deputy and Councell to the Lords in England 264 A Letter from O Sulevan Beare to the King of Spaine 269 A Letter from Owen Mac Eggan to Richard Mac Goghagan 307 A Letter from Iohn Anias to the Lord of Lixnaw 309 A Letter from Iohn Anias to Dominicke Collins ibid. A Letter from Iames Archer to Dominicke Collins 308 A Letter from Donnell O Sulevan Beare to the Earle of Carazena 27â— A Letâ—er from Donnell O Sulevan Beare to Don Pedro Zubiaur 272 A Letter from the Lo. President to the Spanish Cannoniers in Donboy 294 A Letâ—er from Don Iuan de Aguila to Câ—ptaine Iuan de Albornos Y Andrada 227 A â—etter from her Majestie to the Lo. Pâ—esident 209 A Letter from her Maiestie to the Lord President 339 A Letter from Don Iuan de Aguila to Tirone and O Donnell 227 A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie 253 A Letter from the Lord President to Don Iuan de Aguila 326 A Letter from Tege Mac Cormock Cartie to the Lord President 330 A Letter from the Lords of the Councell in England to the Lord President 336 A â—etter from her Majestie to the Lord Pâ—esident 339 A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie ibid. A Letter from Captaine Roger Harvie to Pedro Lopez de Soto 340 A Letter from Don Iuan de Aguila to the Lord President 344 A Letter from the Lord President to Don Iuan de Aguila 345 A Letter from O Donnell to O Conner Kerry 343 A letter from her Majestie to the Lord President concerning the Earle of Clanrikard 378 A Letter from Iohn Burke to the Lord President 379 A Letter from Iohn Burke to Sir George Thornton 380 A Letter from the Lord Deputie to the Lords in England 384 M. Maurice Stack sent into Kerry 67 Treacherously murthered 79 O Mulrians Countrey spoyled 47 Mac Awley spoyled by Sir Francis Barkley 108 Mocrumpe Castle besieged 334 Taken 351 Muskrey-quirke and Arloghe spoyled by the armie 106 Mounster in what state after the Siedge of Kinsale 283 Malachias the Popish Bishop of Kilmakow 380 N. Names of the Councellors of Mounster 19 Sir Nicholas
vpon the same which they would not doe vpon a Countrey not lying vpon the Sea You shall receiue what Newes of Spaniards came to these parts by Iohn fits Thomas and Donogh Mac Cormock and whatsoever they brought with them we impart with you and doe provide for the same men to send unto you if they may be had Our Commendations to Patrick Condon and to the rest of our friends in those parts Your very assured Friend Hugh Odonnell The Earle of Thomond at the request of the Lord President sent a Priest called Teg Mac Gillipatrick as a Spie into Vlster to learne what newes hee could get among the Rebels there returned the one and twentieth of February 1600 and came to the Lord President at Moyallo reporting that at his being at Donegall in the Christmas Holy dayes Tirone Odonnell and most of the Northerne Captaines being there present made a new combination to continue the Rebellion at which assembly the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin was present then ready to depart for Spaine with sixteene Irish Priests in his company for the better assurance of their confederacie the Sacrament was solemnely received by them all At the same time Teg Mac Gillipatrick the Priest aforesaid did see a Letter of Florence Mac Carties lately sent to Tirone by a Messenger of his owne which hee heard read openly the Contents whereof was That hee protested hee was not fallen from them but had made a peace with the Lo President of Mounster untill May next and that then he was at libertie One Dermond Mac Cartie a kinsman and dependanâ— upon Florence and by him as is supposed was sent into Spaine where hee continued his Intelligencer many yeeres and by the Spanyards called Don Dermutio Cartie wrote a Letter unto his Master Florence dated at the Groyne the ninth of March 1600. A long letter in Spanish the materiall poynts whereof are thus abstracted and Englished That hee was glad to heare that his Lordship upon the fiftâ—enth of December last was landed at Corke after his eleven yeeres restraint in England whereof three of them in the Tower of London that his Imprisonment was not for marrying of the Earle of Clan Cares daughter without leaue as was pretended but upon suspition which the State had of his loyaltie which he understood by Letters written from the Lord Deputie and Treasurer of Ireland to the Queene which was intercepted and brought into Spaine wherein it was suggested that hee having so many kinsmen friends and followers and himselfe who was knowne to beare affection to Spanyards it were fit hee were restrayned and that this onely was the cause of his eleven yeeres restraint Wherefore hee advised him not to put any confidence in the English for if they once againe lay hold upon him they would never enlarge him Hee advised him to certifie his Majestie how much hee was his Servant what Townes and places hee could put into his handes what number of men of warre hee could serue him withall and if he could surprize Corke he should bee well supplyed by the King of Spaine That hee might send his Letters written to the King unto Don Diego Brochero who is a great favourer of the Irish Nation and in great credit with the King by which meanes they would bee safely delivered as also his Letters unto him for the solicitation of his businesse That within three dayes hee might send him answere from the Groyne which hee could not doe unto Oneale and O Donnell who were so farre off in the North of the Kingdome and advised him to write unto them that they in like manner should direct their Letters to Don Diego Brochero but if he would not write unto him hee would advise with Don Diego and repaire himselfe unto him into Ireland Lastly hee hoped that the King of Spaine would the next Spring send an Armie into Ireland It would bee too tedious to set downe at large all the manifest proofes of Florâ—â—ce his juggling Treasons wherefore I will for brevitie sake relate but a few more Abstracts of Letters and Examinations which heere ensue The thirteenth of May 1600. Florence received Letters from Tyrone wherein hee prayeth him that hee would constantly presevere in the Catholike cause as hee had promised that aide should come unto him from the North by Lammas next That he had written in his favour to the King of Spaine commended his service and prayed the King to giue him assistance Tyrone wrote unto both the Osulevans requiring them to giue obedience unto Florence for hee had complained of them Tyrone threatning the said Osâ—levans that if they did not obey him as they ought hee would with his forces come into Mounster to destroy them Dated the thirtieth of October 1599. Tyrone to Florence dated the seventeenth of Aprill 1600. that according to the trust and confidence he had in him and his Confederats in Mounster they should fight valiantly against the English whereunto they were bound in conscience and for their Countries good Another from Tyrone to Florence Mac Cartie dated the second of May 1600. wherein hee signifieth unto him of the arrivall of the Popes Archbishop of Dublin And of present aides from Spaine he thanked God that the Earle of Ormond is taken hee incited him to entertaine as many Bonoghs as heâ— can against their enemies that hee hath acquainted the King of Spaine of his service unto whom hee hath sent his Sonne Henry Oneale and that hee would shortly send him aide Garret Liston of Skehanaghe in the County of Limerick Gentleman being examined upon oath said that Florence Mac Cartie met with Iames fits Thomas at Belaghafenan two miles from Castle Mayne where Iames challenged him for not comming unto him with his forces to fight with the Lord President as he had promised whom after hee had with smooth language pacified hee protested solemnly and tooke his oath in the presence of Iames fits Thomas Mac Awlife Thomas Oge Muriertaghe Mac Shihie Iohn Vlicke and this Examinat that hee would continue with Iames fits Thomas in this action And although Iames should giue over the rebellion which hee termed a just warte yet hee himselfe would keepe life in it so long as hee could get any to follow him c. This examination was taken by the Lord President the twentieth of August 1600. Another from Oâ—eâ—le to Florence dated the sixth of February 1600. wherein hee exhorteth him to serue valiantly against the Pagan Beast That before hee did write unto him againe hee should see trouble enough in England it selfe and that yeaâ—e May ensuing the warres of Irâ—land would bee easie And for that the cause of Mounster was left unto him hee wished that no imbecillity should bee found in him and that the time of helpe was neere Florence Mac Carties wife told Sir Charles Wilmot that her husbands heart was malitious to the State and that hee would never come in but upon necessitie
de Soto hath written and by the comming of the Earle Odonnell who is now in the Groyne wee haue understood of the overthrow of the Earles and from thence is gathered that all the forces are now bent against you and that your onely valour and wisedome hath beene able to resist them and let the great estimation his Majestie holdeth of you mitigate the care which this businesse may bring you his Majestie hath commanded me speedily to prepare gallant succours both by Land and Sea which is done and shall bee presently dispatched and this ship is onely sent to advertise you thereof to the end that you may with the more courage defend your selfe and to bring a true report in what state you stand which may more particularly appeare unto you by his Majesties Letter which with this you shall receiue whereunto hee hath commanded me to add this that hee hath in his favour made you one of his Councellers of his councell at warres which I congratulate with you assuring you on his part that God willing hee will conferre greater favours upon you wherefore proceed cheerefully as both now and heretofore in the course of your life you haue done taking every occasion to strengthen your selfe in this siege and to endammage the Enemy that hee may not hinder you and to assure the Army no man living hath received greater rewards from his Majestie then you shall I take upon my selfe the care of it and I pray you to write me such good newes as I desire whereof I hope in God In Manâ—illa the thirtieth of Ianuary 1602. El Duque de Lerma Marques de Denia God is my witnesse I neither eate nor sleepe with lesse care then any one of them that are with you and I would willingly be in the perill of every one of you and if the shedding of my blood might be advantageous I would readily giue it for you all that haue such need Doe your endeavours for presently succours shall be sent unto you To Don Iuan de Aguila Master of the Campe Generall of the men of warre in Ireland A Letter from the King of Spaine to Don Iuan de Aguila EL REY DOn Iuan de Aguila Master of the Campe Generall of my Army in Ireland by that which Pedro de Zubiare and Pedro Lopez de Soto haue written unto me I haue understood of the defeat of the Earles Oneale and Odonnell and likewise I now see that all your hopes remaines in your valour and wisedome wherein I haue such confidence that I hope in the middest of so many dangers and labours wherewith you are inuironed that you will preserue the Army untill more succours of shipping men armes and munitions be sent unto you which are with al possible expedition in preparing and shall bee speedily dispatched You may make vse of them and take reuenge of the Enemy and untill they come which shall be as I haue said with celerity preserue your selfe I doe not advise you of any particulars because I assure my selfe of your judgement and experience that knowes how to make your advantage of such occasions as the Enemy shall giue for the benefit of the siege And your selfe and the Army which is with you shall haue good testimony of my bounty thankfulnesse and honour I will doe unto you all and so much doe you signifie unto the Army from me The Duke of Lerma shall write more unto you from Manâ—illa the one and thirtie of Ianuary 1602. Yo El Rey. To Don Iuan de Aguila Master of the Campe Generall of our Army in Ireland Don Pedro Franquesa Not long after most of the Spaniards were imbarqued in Kinsale onely a few remayning which were to passe with Don Iohn the day before his departure the Lord Deputie shewed him the copie of the Letters saying that they were sent unto him out of Vlsterby a Priest who was his spy about Tyrone unto whom the Letters had beene caried Don Iuan taking this for good payment thanked the Lord Deputie for his favourable care All the while Don Iuan was at Corke every day the President and hee had familiar discourse together but for the most part their passages in speech was betweene jest and earnest somewhat sharpe and especially when they spake of religion their Soveraignes or the Nations But it seemes that hee caried a good respect of the President as by writing and presents sent which shall in its due place appeare The fifteenth the Lord Deputie and the President having acquainted the rest of the Councell with the effect of the Spanish Letters intercepted as aforesaid though not with the manner how they were gotten they thought it meete to write unto the Lords of the Councell in England this ensuing Letter whereby they might understand how things stood for the present as also to provide for the future since by the intercepted Letters it appeared that the King of Spaine had set his heart upon the warre of Ireland A Letter from the Lord Deputie and Councell to the Lords in England MAy it please your Lordships The fourteenth of this Moneth we dispatched Sir Richard Morison with our Letters to your Lordships from this place and the nine and twentieth we wrote againe by Captaine Butler yet to this day the wind hath continued still so westerly as since the departure of Sir Richard no shipping is come to us either out of England from your Lordships as we desired or from Waterford Wexford and those parts as we directed to carry away the Spanyards hence nor yet untill Sunday the seventh hereof could those ships stirre that lay ready at Kinsale to be sent to Baltimore Castle-haven and Beere-haven but now they are gone Wee hope that the Service to bee done by them which is the possessing of the Castles and sending away of the Spaniards in them will bee presently accomplished although the winde hath served them so scantly as we feare they will hardly recover all the places whereunto they are directed There is onely one Scottish ship gone from Kinsale for Spaine which carried one hundred and sixtie Spaniards with part of the Artillerie but there lies now readie at the Harbour for the first winde so much shipping as will carrie away fifteene hundred more so as there will bee yet remaining in Kinsale aboue one thousand more which with the first shipping that comes from the other Ports shall be 〈◊〉 Don Iuan stayes to goe last It appeareth by some Letters intercepted which wee send her eâ—ithall unto your Lordships that the King of Spaine purposeth in send a larger supply hither with all expedition Don Iuan assâ—res 〈◊〉 to doe the best â—ee can to stay them and if he arriue first in Spainâ— hec makes no doubt to disswade their comming but if they should come before his 〈◊〉 hee promiseth to returne them according to his Covenant in the 〈…〉 if they doe not come under the command of some other that hath a 〈…〉 from his from the King
conference with Owen Mao Eggan as also by Merchants and their Agents out of Spaine which did all agree in one that succours being prepared and ready to embarque for Ireland understanding the losse which the Rebels had received in Beere and the Castle of Dunboy rased where they purposed to secure their landing new directions were brought from the Court of Spaine to the Earle of Carraâ—ena Governour of the Groyne to stay their proceedings in the voyage till the Kings pleasure were father knowen but yet the Army was not dissolved the examinations sent by the Lord President into England to the Lords were found to agree with the intelligence which was sent to her Majestie out of Spaine wherefore to prevent what danger hereby might ensue it pleased her Majestie to take present order that the fleete of ships some her owne and some Merchants that had beene upon the Coast of Spaine the most part of all the Summer should bee revictualled and lye off and on in the height of Cape-finister till towards Michaelmas that if they proceeded in the intended invasion either they might fight with them at Sea or at least follow them to such Harbours of Ireland where they should arriue and there distresse them but he happy successe in the siege of Dunboy altered the Spanish Councels for now they had no place in Ireland that held for them Neverthelesse the comming of new forces from Spaine for Ireland being still doubted there was sent from England two thousand foote for the supplying of the List. By this time Sir Charles Wilmot as hee was directed was come out of Kerry and all the Subjects with their goods and Cattle were drawen on this side the Mountaine of Slewlogher whereby the Bonnoghs that had lived these fiue moneths principally upon Osulevan Beare and by that meanes eaten him up began to consult about leaving of the Province there being no man now in action that was able for the Carties in Carbery had beene so much wasted and impoverished by the two Harvies as though their hearts were good yet their meanes failed them to uphold a warre or any long time to hold them together Therefore Iohn of Desmond brother to the Sugan Earle prisoner in the Tower of London laboured Terrill very instantly to take Bonnaght of them in Connilogh and for that purpose had inveighled Morris fits Thomas called the Lord of the Clenlis to deliver unto him the strong Castle of Glancoyne the custodie whereof to saue her Majesties charge had beene committed to him the yeare before and because no suspition might be conceived of the said Iohn fits Thomas practise hee now became a sutor by Iames Walsh who had beene his brothers Secretary for a protection desiring as hee pretended to become a Subject upon these conditions First if his brother Iames the titulary Earle might bee set at libertie hee would bee content to become a Pledge for him either in the Castle of Dublin or else where the State should appoynt which being refused and rejected hee offered to doe service so that hee might haue his pardon and some meanes to releeue him in the future But as the President would not bee drawen to accept any of these conditions so it was thought hee would haue flyen backe if they had been accepted But all this Negotiation was but to colour his practise laid for Glancoyne which Castle and the Fastnesse neere adjoyning would haue commaunded a great part of that Countrey But all these Iuglings were discovered by one V. B. whom the President without suspition maintained amongst them Wherefore hee sent Philip Northcot the Sherife of the Countie of Limericke with private Instructions to surprise both Maurice fits Thomas and the sayd Castle but either to take both at one instant or to meddle with neither The Sherife watching many opportunities and not speeding of his purpose the President to prevent future danger committed the custodie of the said Castle to Sir Francis Barkley and so disappointed the Rebels of that hope About the latter end of this moneth of August a rumour was generally divulged through the Province that the Spanyards were upon the coast and that certaine Ships were discovered from the olde Head of Kinsale and presently after that foure and twentie sayle were arrived at Bearehauen and hereupon you might see Horsemen galloping this way and that way to and fro with such signes of gladnes apparant joy as though the day of their deliverance were neere at hand but as it fell out this was but a false allarme the Ships that were discryed being a Fleet of Easterlings bound to the Southward The President heereby discerning with what assured hopes they apprehended their comming and with what glad hearts they should be welcome being come he became an earnest humble suitor to the Lord Deputie That Sir Samuel Bagnals Regiment lately called out of Mounster by his Lordships Command might with his favour bee returned againe The Lord Deputie taking an honourable care of that Province finding by his owne intelligence that the Spanyards were purposed to make their discent either in Mounster or in the parts of Connaght not far dis-joyned condiscended unto the Presidents request whereupon the said Colonell with his Regiment were directed to Limrick there to remaine in Garison During the siege of Kinsale there was a young Gentleman of the Carties called Teg Mac Cormock sonne to that well deserving Gentleman Sir Cormock Mac Teg who being of the Presidents Troope of Horse through the inticements of the Rebells and promises of the Spanyards was induced to combine with the Enemie and stealing away his Horse and Hackney entred into action But the successe of his Confederates not prooving so fortunate as they hoped hee grew weary of the Rebellion and made himselfe a Suitor to the President to be received to mercy as may appeare by his Letter here ensuing CHAP. XII A Letter from Teg Mac Cormock Cartie to the Lord President intreating the remission of his offences Cormock Mac Dermond Cartie accused of sundry treasons Cormock Mac Dermond committed The Castle of Blarny in the custody of Captaine Taffe The Castle and Abbey of Killâ—rey rendred to the Lord President Mocrumpe besieged Cormocks Wife and Children imprisoned Cormock Mac Dermond plotted his escape A Letter from Teg Mac Cormock Cartie to the Lord President intreating the remission of his Offences RIght Honourable my dutie most humbly remembred Having long forborne though thereby disquieted in mind and ashamed of my selfe to send unto your Honour Yet presuming upon her Majesties mercie and your favour I haue made bold to become a Petitioner to your Honour that it may please you to admit me therunto and to forgiue and forget my faults considering they were not malicious but youthfull and not of pretence to hurt her Majestie or her Subjects but in hope to recover against my Cosen Cormock Mac Dermody some meanes to maintaine my decayed estate and still likely to be suppressed by
wherewith wee are of long time opprest by the English Nation Their government is such as Pharaoh himselfe never vsed the like for they content not themselues with all temporall superiority but by cruelty desire our blood and perpetuall destruction to blot out the whole remembrance of our posterity as also our old Catholike Religion and to sweare that the Queene of England is Supreame of the Church I referre the consideration hereof to your Majesties high judgement for that Nero in his time was farre inferior to that Queene in cruelty Wherefore and for the respects thereof high mighty Potentate my selfe with my Followers and Retainers And being also requested by the Bishops Prelates and religious men of my Countrey haue drawen my sword and proclaimed warres against them for the recovery first of Christs Catholike religion and next for the maintenancâ— of my owne right which of long time hath beene wrongfully derained from mee and my father who by right succession was lawfull Heire to the Earledome of Desmond â—or hee was eldest Sonne to Iames my Grandfather who was Earle of Desmond and for that my Vncle Gerald being the younger brother tooke part with the wicked proceedings of the Queene of England to farther the unlawfull claime of supremacie vsurped the name of Earle of Desmond in my fathers true title yet notwithstanding hee had not long enjoyed his name of Earle when the wicked English annoyed him and prosecuted wars that hee with the most part of those that held of his side was slaine and his Countrey thereby planted with Englishmen And now by the just judgement and providence of God I haue utterly rooted those malepart bowes out of the Orchard of my Countrey and haue profited so much in my proceedings that my daâ—â—erly enemies dare not shew their faces in any parâ— of my Countrey but having taken my Townes and Cities for their refuge and strength where they doe remaine as yet were Prisonerâ— for want of meanes to assaile them as Cannon and Powder which my Countrey doth not yeeld Having these wants most noble Potentate I haue presumed with all humility to addresse these my Letters to your High Majestie craving the same of your graâ—ious clemencie and goodnesse to assist mee in this godly enterprise with some helpe of such necessaries for the warres as your Majestie shall thinke requisit and after the quiet of my Countrey satisfaction shall bee truely made for the same and my selfe in person with all my forces shall bee ready to serue your Highnesse in any Countrey your Majestie shall command me And iâ— your Majestie will vouchsaâ—e to send me a competent number of Souldiers I will place them in some of my Townes and Cities to remaine in your gratious disposition till such time as my ability shall make good what your Majestie shall lend me in money and munition and also your Majesties high Commission under the broad Seale for leading and conducting of these Souldiers according to the prescript order and articles of martiall discipline as your Majestie shall appoint me and as the service of the Land shall require I praise the Almighty God I haue done by his goodnesse more then all my Predecessors for I haue reclaimed all the Nobility of this part under the dutifull obedience of Christs Church and mine owne authority and accordingly haue taken pledges and corporall oathes never to swarue from the same and would haue sent them to your Majestie by this Bearer but that the Ship was not of sufficiencie and strength to carry so noble personages and will send them whensoever your Highnesse please So there resteth nothing to quiet this part of the world but your Majesties assistance which I daily expect Thus most mighty Monarch I humbly take my leaue and doe kisse your Royall hands beseeching the Almighty of your Majesties health and happinesse From my Campe the fourteenth day of March 1599. Your Majesties most humble at all command Iames Desmond An other Letter from Iames Fits Thomas to the King of Spaine YOur Majestie shall understand that the bearer hereof Captaine Andrew Roche hath beene alwayes in the seruice of the Queene of England and hath performed her manifold services at Sea whereby he had great preferment and credit and being of late time conversant with Catholikes and teachers of divine Instructions that were sory for his lewd life made knowen unto him the danger wherein his soule was so that by their godly perswasions hee was at that time reclaimed and subverted to bee a good Catholike and to spend the residue of his life in the defence and service of the Church since which time of reconcilement hee was to repaire to your Majestie with his Ship and Goods as is well knowen to your Highnesse Councell who confiscated that Ship to your Majesties use himselfe being at that time strucken with extreame sicknesse that hee was not able to proceed in the voyage and when his Company returned into Ireland they reported that the Lantado wished rather his person then the Ship which made him fearefull ever since to repaire thither till hee should deserue his freedome by some worthy service to your Majestie The Heire apparant to the Crowne of England had beene caried by him to your Highnesse but that he was bewrayed by some of his owne men and thereby was intercepted and himselfe taken Prisoner where he remained of long till by the Providence of God and the helpe of good friends hee was conveyed into Ireland to mee in a small Boat and leaving these occasions to your Imperiall Majesty and being assured of his trust faith and confidence towards mee haue committed this charge into his hands the rather for that I understand your Royall Fleete is directed for England this yeare to the end he may be a Leader and Conductor to them in the Coast of England and Ireland being very expert in the knowledge thereof and in the whole art of Navigation And thus with all humility I commit your Highnesse to the Almighty From my Campe the fourteenth of March 1599 Your Majesties most humble at all command Iames Desmond Consider I beseech thee gentle Reader into what proud arrogancie and audacious insolency this Arch-traytor was elevated like a Vapor in a Sunshine day when blind fortune laught upon him the Queene a Tyrant the English all cowards the Cities and walled Townes all his and the Mounster Nobilitie subdued under his authority was there ever Rebell so farre transported with ambitious presumption beyond the limits of reason was it not sufficient for him like cursed Shimei or blacke mouthed railing Rabshakeh to revile the Lords annoynted but he must challenge her territories her Cities her People and her Nobilitie whom shee and her ancestors had created to be his owne who had no portion nor inheritance in any part thereof being the Impe of a borne Bastard But surely I must perswade my selfe all this was permitted by the unsearchable sapience of the alseeing Deity who even as hee caused proud Lucifer
it fit to giue you particular notice of this our purpose and to require you to use all your authoritie and your judgement likewise tâ—ward our people there as well of the Townes as others to make this new course pleasing and well liking to them vpon such reasons as are contained in our Proclamation publishing the same and as you may gather touching the same out of such other matters as haue passed from vs to our Deputie and Councell there or betweene vs and our Treasurer of Ireland concerning this matter whereof wee haue given order that herewith Copies shall bee sent vnto you by which you will be sufficiently instructed of apparant reasons to leade vs to doe it although it be a matter which wee need not make gracious with any reason at all being meerely dependant of our Prerogatiue to alter the Standerd of our Moneys at our pleasure Wherefore though wee nothing doubt of your forwardnesse to further whatsoever wee finde reason to command Yet we require you in this thing as a matter which wee would haue well founded in the first establishing to giue all attention of it as well by your owne actions as by assisting Our Treasurer and his Deputies in the uttering of these newe Moneyes and bringing in all others according to the course of Our Exchange which by Our Proclamation you may perceiue that wee haue instituted to make the matter better accepted of Our people Given vnder Our Signet at Our Mannour of Greenwitch this sixteenth day of May one thousand sixe hundred and one in the three and fourtieth yeere of Our Raigne The Copie of the Proclamation for publishing the new Money for Ireland THe Queenes most excellent Majestie finding by the Records of both her Realmes of England and Ireland that in the times of divers her Progenitors Kings of England and Ireland it hath beene accustomed as a thing by them found convenient for the good of the loyall Subjects of both Realmes that there should bee a difference betweene the Standerds of the monies allowed to bee currant in each of her said Realmes and knowing by many Lawes of this her Realme of England and namely by one made in the third yeare and another in the nineteenth yeare of Her Majesties Grandfather of famous memory King Henry the seventh that the tranâ—portation of monies of the Coyne and Standard of England into that his Realme of Ireland is severely forbidden under great penaltieâ— perceiving also by experience in some part heretofore but more fully and apparantly now of late yeares since the last Rebellions which haue caused Her Majestie to send great summes of money into that Realme for the paiment of her Armie for other services that a great part of such monies into that Realme sent doe either come into the hands of the Rebels by divers slights and cunnings of theirs who by the use and meanes thereof trafficking in forraine Countâ—ies doe releeue themselues with such warlicke provisions as they need as with Powder Lead Match Armour and Weapons of all sorts and with Wines Cloath and other necessaries without which they could not possibly so long subsist in their treasonable courses and bring so huge Calamities to the rest of her good Subjects and waste the whole Realme or else the said sterling monies aswell in respect of their goodnesse being better then the monies of other Countries is also for want of merchandize wherein to employ them which that Countrey now specially since the Rebellion doth not yeeld are partly by Merchants Strangers and partly by the naturall Merchants of the Countrey vsing trade in forraine Countâ—ies transported from thence into the said Countries to the inestimable losse and impoverishment aswell of that Realme of Ireland as also chiefely of this Her Majesties Realme of England Hath therefore in Her Majesties princely wisedome entered into consideration with the advice of her Privie Councell how these great inconveniences might be avoyded and found after long and serious debating that the readiest way to prevent the same is to reduce the State of her Monies and Coynes to the ancient course of her Progenitors that is to a difference in finenes betweene the monies of this Realme of England and that her Realme of Ireland And for that purpose hath caused great quantities of moneys according to the ancient Standard which was in use for that Realme in the dayes of Her Majesties Father Brother and Sister to bee coyned here into severall peeces of shillings sixpences and peeces of threepence stamped with Her Highnesse Armes crowned and inscription of her vsuall stile on the one side and on the other with the Harpe crowned being the Armes of that her Kingdome of Ireland with the inscription Posui deum Adjutorem meum and also certaine peeces of small moneyes of meere Copper of pence halfepence and farthings for the use of the poorer sort stamped on each side as the other And the same moneyes so coyned hath sent into her said Realme of Ireland there to bee established as the lawfull and currant moneyes of that Realme and so to bee uttered and issued aswell to the Armies and Officers in payments to them as also to all other her Subjects of that Realme and others there abiding or thither resorting for trafficke and intercourse of buying selling and all other manner of trading amongst themselues which sayd Coynes as well of Silver of three ounces fine as also of meere Copper for small Moneyes her Majestie doeth hereby publish and make knowne to all men to bee from thencefoorth immediately after the publishing of this Proâ—lamation her Coyne of Moneys established and authorised to bee lawfull and currant within that her Realme of Ireland and proper to that Kingdome and doth expressely will and command the same to bee so used reputed and taken of all her subjects of that Realme and of all others conversing there And doth expressely charge and command that they nor any of them shall not after the day of the publishing heereof refuse reject or denie to receiue in payment of Wages Fees Stipend or in payment of Debts or in Bargaine or for any other matter of Trade Commerce or dealing betweene Man and Man any of the said Moneys of either kind either mixt of Silver or pure Copper but that they shall receiue and accept the same at such values and rates as they are coyned for viz. shillings for shillings pieces of sixpence for sixpence and so of all other the severall kinds of that Coyne respectiuely Denouncing hereby to all such as shall be found wilfully and obstinately to refuse the said Moneyes of this New Standerd being tendâ—ed unto them in payments or in any dealings betweene partie and partie that they shall for that their contempt receiue such punishment as by her Majesties Prerogatiue Royall may be inâ—licted upon persons contemning puâ—lique Orders established for the universall good of that her Realme And to the end the said Moneyes may the better haue their due course and passage among
notorious inconvenience aforesaid cannot bee prevented without there bee a due observation of such Lawes of this Realme of England as heretofore haue beene made restrayning the transporting of the monies currant in England into that Realme of Ireland in Specie wherein great disorder hath beene of late yeares committed and thereby great inconveniences ensued Her Majestie doth straightly charge and command all Magistrates and Officers to whom it shall appertaine to see severe execution of such Lawes as doe prohibit the transportation of her Coyne of England into Ireland and namely one Statute made in the nineteenth yeare of the raigne of Her Majesties Grandfather of famous memory King Henry the seventh Her Majesties purpose being by this Proclamation to admonish all her Subjects of both her Realmes and all others trading in her Realme of Ireland that they shall from henceforth forbeare all transportation of monies of England into Ireland for that Her Majestie will cause the former Lawes prohibiting the said transportation of money to be so straightly looked into and executed as the penalties thereof shall fall heavy upon the Offenders against the same without any hope of remission The Copie of certaine Articles contained in the Indentures betweene Her Majestie and Sir George Cary Treasurer of Ireland touching the Exchange established upon the alteration of Monies ITem the said Sir George Cary doth covenant c. That hee shall and will mainetaine for the better exercise of the said Exchange according to her Majesties princely meaning three Officers at the least within the Cities of London Bristoll and Westchester or so many and in such convenient places as hee shall thinke meete discreete persons to be there continually residing by themselues or their sufficient deputies to attend the said Exchange and to performe the same according to the establishment And other officers also in other parts of this her Majesties Realme of England if cause shall require and likewise to place and mainetaine at fower severall port Townes within her Majesties Realme of Ireland viz. Dublin Corke Galway and Carâ—igfergus or at such of them as shall bee found requisit other officers who shall be there continually resident by themselues or their sufficient deputies to attend her Majesties subjects for the exchange of their monies according to the establishment and if cause shall require other officers also or under ministers in other places of the said Realme of Ireland for the ease of her Majesties subjects Item the said Sir George Carie doth covenant c. to discharge and acquite her Majestie of all Fees Allowances and wages needfull for any of the sayd Officers or Vnder-ministers aboue mentioned and them to maintaine entertaine and wage at his owne costs and charges for and in consideration of a summe of two thousand pounds of the Moneys of this new Standerd of Ireland mentioned in another Article of this Indenture to bee by her Majestie allowed unto him for the Fee of himselfe and all other Officers necessarie to bee had and used for and about this Exchange as well in England as in Ireland The sayd allowance of two thousand pound per annum to take beginning and to bee due unto him from the first day of May now next ensuing the date hereof and to continue during the time of the Exchange And the Queenes Majestie our said Soveraigne Lady doth covenant and agree to and with the sayd Sir George Carey that hee as 〈…〉 of her Highnesse sayd Exchange shall haue full power authoritie and libertie to make choyce of all Officers and under officers needfull to bee had and imployed for and about the exercise and maintenance of his Exchange as well within this her Highnesse Realme of England as in Ireland and them and every of them to nominate and place and to them to assigne such Fees and entertainments as hee shall thinke convenient and all and every the sayd Officers to remooue alter or displace as often as to him shall be thought good and others in their places and roomes to substitute without any interruption of her Highnesse in or concerning the same Item our said Soveraigne Lady doth covenant and agree to aâ—d with the sayd Sir George Carey and by these presents doth giue him power and authoritie in and for performance of one breach of her Highnesse Proclamation aboue specified whereby all persons are invited to bring in all manner of sterling Moneys or of any other Standerds or like finenesse or better into her Exchange in Ireland that hee the sayd Sir George Carey shall and may allow to all bringers in of such Money Plate or Bullion aboue the just and true value thereof the â—umme of eighteene pence currant money of England upon every pound weight or sixpence upon every twentie shillings by tale the â—ame to bee taken defaulked and allowed by the sayd Sir George Carey out of such profits as doe arise unto her Highâ—esse upon this Exchange And our Soveraigne Lady doeth covenant and agree to and with the sayd Sir George Carey and by these presents doeth warrant and authorise him that to all her subjects of her Realmes of England and Ireland and to all Strangers Merchants or others being subjects of such Princes or States as are in amitie with her Highnesse which shall bring to any place for the Exchange appoynted within the Realme of Ireland any Moneyes of this new Standerd of Ireland and desire to receiue for the same moneyes currant of England heere within this Realme of England That the sayd Sir George Carey may deliver unto them and every of them here in England moneys currant of this her Realme by tale for tale viâ— twentie shillings sterling for every twentie shillings of her new Coyne detaining only and rebating to her Highnesse use twelue pence sterling upon every twentie shillings so to bee delivered for twentie shillings of her sayd new Coyne and after the same rate for more or lesse in quantitiâ— Item our sayd Soveraigne Lady doeth covenant and agree c. That hee shall and may to all persons which within her Highnesse realme of Ireland shall at any of the places for the Exchange appoynted deliver to him or his Deputies the value of twenty shillings sterling in money plate or bullion and desire to receiue for the same moneys Irish of this new coyne for every value of twenty shillings the summe of one and twenty shillings eight pence Irish by tale and after the same rate for more or lesse in quantitie And our Soveraigne Ladie c. That hee or his Assignes shall or may to all and every persons which at any of the places for the Exchange appoynted heere within this Realme of England shall deliver any Moneys Plate or Bullion of the Standerd of England to the end to receiue for the same within the Realme of Ireland moneyes of the new Coyne of that Realme pay or deliver unto them for the value of euery twenty shillings sterling one and twenty shillings Irish by the tale and
divulged in the Citie of Corke In answere whereof Don Iuan de Aquila assoone as it came to his eares did likewise Proclaime this Declaration or Apologie in Kinsale and dispersed Copies thereof into sundry places the tenour whereof ensueth Don Iuan de Aquila his Declaration in answere of a Proclamation published by the Lord Deputie and Councell translated out of the Latine DOn Iuan de Aquila Generall of the Warre and the Catholique King of Spaines chiefe Commander in Gods warre which is made in Ireland for defence of the Faith To all the Irish Catholiques living in Kinsale the Citie of Corke and in all other Villages Cities and Castles wisheth health in him who is the true happinesse There is come unto our eares a Proclamation or certaine Libell made in the Citie of Corke in the Name of the Deputie which because it conteineth many untruths and such things as offend the eares of honest men lest they may leade and seduce the mindes of simple men into errours and turne them from the truth I am compelled to shew their falsehood to lay open the trueth and in fewe words to signifie the pretence and intention of our most Excellent King Philip in this Warre which is with the Apostolique Authoritie to be administred by us and to speake the truth I could very easily retort vpon them those reproaches which they object to us and make them lose the pleasure which they haue taken in ill speaking by hearing of the like Notwithstanding we will not like unto weake and unarmed women goe to reproachings but setting these things aside answer to those that are objected with sound truth and Christian modestie First of all yee faine that wee would leade away the pretended Subjects of the Queene of England from their obedience to bring them under our yoke which is a very untruth for wee endeavour not to perswade any body that hee should deny due obedience according to the word of God to his Prince But yee know well that for many yeares since Elizabeth was deprived of her kingdome and all her Subjects absolved from thâ—ir fidelity by the Pope unto whom hee that raigneth in the heavens the King of Kings hath committed all power that hee should roote up destroy plant and build in such sort that hee may punish temporall Kings if it shall be good for the spirituall building even to their deposing which thing hath beene done in the kingdomes of England and Ireland by many Popes viz. by Pius quintus Gregory the thirteenth and now by Clement the eighth as it is well knowen Whose Buls are extant amongst us I speake to Catholikes not to froward Heretikes who haue fallen from the faith of the Romane Church seeing they are blind Leaders of the blind and such as know not the grounds of the truth it is no marvell that they doe also disagree from us in this thing But our brethren the Catholikes walking in the purenesse of the faith and yeelding to the Catholike Church which is the very Pillar of the truth will easily understand all those things Therefore it remayneth that the Irish which adhere to us doe worke with us nothing that is against Gods Lawes or their due obedience nay that which they doe is according to Gods word and the obedience which they owe the Pope Secondly yee affirme that wee Spaniards goe about to winne the Irish with allurements and 〈…〉 which is a thing farre from our nature and that wee doe it but for a while that after wee haue drawen the minds of simple men unto us wee might afterwards exercising our truelty towards them shew our bloody nature O the immortall God! who doth not wonder at your bitter and unexpressible cruelty your boldnesse shewed in these words For who is it that doth not know the great cruelty which you English haue exercised and cease not to exercise towards the miserable Irish You I say goe about to take from their soules the Catholike faith which their fathers held in which consists eternall life truely you are farre more cruell then Beares and Lyons which take away the temporall life for you would depriue them of the eternall and spirituall life Who is it that hath demolished all the temporalities of this most flourishing kingdome except the English looke upon this and bee ashamed whereas on the other side wee commiserating the condition of the Catholikes here haue left our most sweet and happy Countrey Spaine that is replenished with all good things and being stirred with their cryes which pierce the heavens having reached to the eares of the Pope and our King Philip They haue being moved with pitie at last resolved to send unto you Souldiers Silver Gold and Armes with a most liberall hand not to the end they might according as they faine exercise cruelty towards you O Irish Catholikes but that you may bee happily reduced being snatched out of the jawes of the divell and free from their tyranny unto your owne pristine ingenuitie and that you may freely professe the Catholike faith Therefore my most beloved seeing that which you haue so many yeares before desired and begged for with prayers and teares and that now even now the Pope Christs Vicar on earth doth command you to take Armes for the defence of your faith I admonish exhort and beseech you all all I say unto whom these Letters shall come that as soone as possibly you can you come to us with your friends and weapons whosoever shall doe this shall find us prepared and wee will communicate unto them those things which wee possesse And whosoever shall despising our wholesome councell doe otherwise and remaine in the obedience of the English wee will persecute him as an Heretike and a hatefull Enemy of the Church even unto death The Army nose and marched within halfe a mile of Kinsale where they encamped under a hill having not meanes to entrench called Knock Robbin Captaine Morgan came out of England and Iolly the Master â—unner from Waterford whither some shipping was come from Dublin with part of the provisions but enforced to stay there the wind being Southerly some few shot offered to disquiet the Campe but were soone beaten backe with very little disturbance The Army lay still there many places viewed to sit downe fitly before the Towne but the Artillery not yet come no place was agreed upon An other offer made by the Enemy to disturbe the Campe that night much greater then the former but being readily answered were soone repelled without hurt on our side Wee lay still there expecting the Provisions some slight skirmishes in viewing of the Towne Sir Iohn Barkley was this night appointed to giue an Allarme to the Towne who beat in all the guards without the Towne into their trenches This night one thousand of the Spanyards or as some that came from them say fifteene hundred were come to the top of the Hill neere the Campe to cut off some of the Scouts
And concerning the second question it is most certaine that all those Catholikes doe sinne mortally which doe follow the English Standard against the foresaid Prince neither can they obtaine eternall salvation nor bee absolved of their sinnes by any Priest except they first repent and forsake the English Army and the same is to be censured of those which in this warre favour the English either with Armes or Victuals or giue them any thing of like condition besides those accustomed tributes which it is lawfull for them by vertue of the Popes indulgence and permission to pay unto the Kings of England or their officers so long as Catholike religion shall flourish in the same This assertion is confirmed by this most manifest reason because it is sufficiently proved by the Letters of the high Bishop that the English make unjust warre against the said Oneale and those that favour him For seeing that the Pope doth declare that the English doe fight against the Catholike Religion and that they should bee resisted as much as if they were Turkes and that hee doth bestow the same graces upon those which doe resist them who doubteth the warre which the English make against the Catholike Army to be altogether unjust But it is not lawfull for any to favour an unjust warre or to be present thereat under the paine of eternall damnation The Catholikes doe therefore most grievously offend which doe beare Armes in the Campes of Heretikes against the foresaid Prince in a warre so apparantly impious and unjust and all those which doe assist the said warre with Armes Victuals or by any other meanes which of themselues doe further the proceedings of the warre and cannot giue account of their indifferent obedience neither doth it any thing availe them to scandall the Apostolicall Letters of Surreption for Surreption cannot happen where no petition of them is declared in whose favour they were dispatched But the high Bishop doth openly teach in those Letters that hee and his Predicessors had exhorted the Irish Princes and all faithfull men to make that warre and to provoke them the more thereto hee doth enrich them with great favours and indulgences How may it then bee that those Letters were surreptiue which only containe in them an exhortation strengthned with many great favours for such as did fulfill them neither therefore can the Catholikes which assist the English defend themselues by the reasons alleaged in the second question for no mortall sinne is to bee committed although either life or goods stand thereupon but those things which further and helpe to execute an unjust warre are manifestly deadly sinnes It is permitted likewise to the Catholikes to performe such kind of obedience to the Queene as doth not oppugne Catholike religion neither ever was or could it bee the meaning of the Pope to allow them to use that obedience towards the Queene which doth manifestly disagree with the end and scope which hee had to spread the Catholike faith and religion in Ireland but that it was his meaning and scope his Letters doe manifestly declare By all which it remayneth sufficiently apparant that the most famous Prince Hugh Oneale and other Catholikes of Ireland making warre against an hereticall Queene who opposeth her selfe against the true faith and no Rebels at all neither doe deny due obedience nor vsurpe unjustly the Queenes Dominions but rather that they doe revenge themselues and their Countrey from impious and wicked tyrannie by a most just warre and defend and mainetaine the holy and right faith with all their power as becommeth Catholikes and Christians All and every of which wee underwritten doe judge and approue as most certaine and true Salamanca the seventh of March 1602. I Iohn of Segvensa Professor of divinitie in the Colledge of the society of Iesus of this famous Citie of Salamanca doe so censure I Emanuell of Royas Professor of divinitie in the said Colledge of Iesus doe agree in the same And I Gaspar of Mena Professor of divinity and holy Scripture in the said Colledge doe hold with the opinion of these Fathers as being altogether true I Peter Osorius Expounder for the sacred Canons in the same Colledge of the society of Iesu am altogether of the same opinion with the foresaid Fathers The President as is said being returned to Corke after a few dayes began to recover and finding his strength encreased and consequently his health began to apply himselfe to his busines But before I speake farther oâ— his progressions I must looke a little backe to say somewhat of things past CHAP. II. The Earle of Thomond directed to march with an Army into Carbery and his Instructions The Castle of Donboy fortified by the Rebels The Earle of Thomond having placed convenient Garrisons in the West returned to Corke The Lord President resolved to besiege the Castle of Donboy The List of the Army in Mounster The Lord President advised not to enterprise the winning of the Castle of Donboy and the reasons why The Lord President perseueres in his resolution and caâ—seth the Army to march towards Donboy TO make tryall whether the Rebels in the Countrey of Carbery would submit themselues upon the sight of an Army having beene lately wasted and spoyled by the Garrisons at Baltimore Castle-haven and Bantry upon the ninth of March which was the day the Lord Deputie departed from Corke the President directed the Earle of Thomond with two thousand and fiue hundred Foote in List which were by the Pole but twelue hundred Foote and fiftie Horse to march into Carbery and from thence into Beare thereto view in what manner the Castle of Donboy was fortified of the incredible strength whereof much was noysed many other directions hee had which for the better satisfaction of the Reader I doe here insert the instructions themselues Instructions given to the Earle of Thomond the nineth of March 1601. FIrst assoone as possible you may your Lordship is to assemble your forces together consisting of two thousand and fiue hundred foote in List and fiftie Horse and because they lye dispersed for the more expeditions sake to take them in your way Westward as they are garrised The service you are to performe is to doe all your endeavour to burne the rebels Corne in Carbery Beare and Bantry take their Cowes and to use all hostile prosecution upon the persons of the people as in such cases of rebellion is accustomed Those that are in subjection or lately protected as Odrischall Odonevan and Sir Owen Mac Carties Sonnes to afford them all kind and mild vsage When you are in Beare if you may without any apparant perill your Lordship shall doe well to take a view of the Castle of Dunboy whereby wee may be the better instructed how to proceed for the taking of it when time convenient shall be afforded Captaine Flower as I thinke is now in Bantry very weakely accompanied for his reliefe you are to hasten towards him and for your
Letter bare date the seventh of August and arrived at Corke the second of September following whereby the Reader may see that the King of Spaines eyes were yet still notwithstanding the rowt at Kinsale the dishonour hee received in the returnes of his troopes and the losse of Dunboy whereby his footing in Ireland was meerely loâ—t open upon that kingdome Although Queene Elizabeth of happie memory was dead before Lieutenant Edney returned yet I hold it not impertinent in this place to 〈◊〉 his sucâ—esses When hee was landed at the Groynt hee understood that Don Iohn de Aguila by the accusation of the Irish Fugitiues was in disgrace confined to his house where of griefe shortly after hee dyed His Letters and Pasports were taken from him by the Earle of Carazena and sent to the Court and himselfe stayed untill the Kings pleasure was knowen The Irish Traytors inveighed much against him â—aying That under pretext of Trade and bringing of Presents hee came as a Spie Neverthelesse he was well intreated and had the libertie of the Towne and to weare his Sword with allowance from the King of a Duccat per diem for his dyet His goods were solde for the best advantage and his Barque returned into Ireland But the Presidents present to Don Iohn the Earle of Carazena detayned to his owne use And after nine moneths restraint Edney was enlarged and returned into England in Iuly 1603. A little before this time Sir Robert Cecill her Majesties principall Secretary wrote unto the Lord Deputie the Newes of Spaine a branch of which hee also sent to the President dated upon the seventh of August and received the second of September I hold meet to insert wherby the Reader may understand that the King of Spaine had still his eyes open upon Ireland One great cause of my writing this private Letter is this that where I see how much it doth distract your mind to thinke of Spaine behinde you and of the North before you fearing to bee diverted from the conclusion of your labours you may perceiue in what estate the preparations of Spaine are now as I am certainly advertised by one of mine owne who is newly arrived from the Port of Lisbone where he tooke shipping the 21 of Iuly There are two great Ships each of them of a thousand Tunnes one called the Andrew the other which shall be the Viceadmirall the name forgotten Besides there are twelue ships of two hundred tunnes and downeward in which it is resolved to send some fifteene hundred men to haue releeved the siege at Bearehaven the Newes of the taking whereof was first knowen by a Ship from Waterford to Lisbon and not before Of the fifteene hundred men eight hundred came from the Groyne being part of those which were transported out of Ireland In the Groyne remaineth Odonnell and there is onely the great Saint Philip with ten small Barques with which he mightily importuned to be sent to the North. If these had been sent unto Beerehaven in Mounster hoping upon his arrivall with some fifteene hundred men to haue raised the siege possessed some parts and made a beginning of a plantation heereof great benefit must needs haue growen to the Rebels for as those small numbers which should haue been landed at Mounster with the bruite of the rest to follow which is alwayes multiplied would haue made a distraction of the Vlster prosecution c. Lastly in the said Letter he prayed the President to set downe his opinion what course were best to be taken in a Defensiue warre if the King of Spaine did invade Ireland with a Royall Armie The next passage to giue Master Secretarie satisfaction the Lord President wrote unto him a long Letter but because many private things were handled in the same I will onely relate so much of it as concernes his opinion touching a defensiue warre in Ireland The Lord Presidents Opinion sent to Master Secretary of a Defensiue Warre in Ireland GRanting that the Enemie will come no lesse powerfull then is reported and that the Irish will joyne with them whereof there is no doubt then consideration is to bee had what in such a Sea of troubles is meetest to bee done that may best preserue the Queenes army with lest charge and the way to weary the enemy and the countrey Because my opinion may perchance differ from other men whose Authority Greatnesse and better iudgement in the worldes opinion beares more sway I will forbeare to deale in so waightie a businesse any farther then to your selfe vsing the libertie you haue euer giuen me to say what I conceiue to be the best Counsaile if the army of Spaine be so great as is both reported by those that come from thence and expected heere let us make no doubt but he will bee Master of the field for the present and will so hold himselfe except the Armie of Ireland bee reenforced to a farre higher Liâ—t the charge whereof will make if I bee not deceived both England and Ireland to groane Wherefore the best way in my conceit to moderate such huge Expences is for the present to be carelesse of the Countreys generally throughout the kingdome for in seeking both to defend them and to make head against the Enemy will be too heavie a burden The principall regard which we ought to haue is of the Cities in every of which I doe wish a strong Garison both of Horse and foot able to defend a siege when the Enemie shall see that wee are dispersed into Garrisons either hee will presently in his best strength goe to besiege one of those places or else disperse because hee hath the Countrey to friend as wee doe if he attempt the besieging of any of our places aforesaid there is no doubt but in such a businesse he will unite all his forces in one then may wee be bold to draw all our forces from their severall Garrisons to a head to releeue that place and with Gods favour make no doubt but to enforce the Enemy to rise if hee disperse then those Garrisons will be able to master the Countries about them and leaue no habitation to releeue either Spanyard or Irish and upon occasion two or more of these Garrisons may assemble and meet to effect greater services then otherwise can bee done This fashion of a warre will in a short time destroy all the Countrey make the Irish to curse the Spaniard and themselues for drawing them hither driue the King to an inestimable charge and hazard by Sea to victuall and releeue his Army which otherwise will perish ease the Queenes charge and secure the chiefe Townes which is chiefely and aboue all other things to be respected Supposing the Army would land in Mounster in it I would haue principall regard of Corke Limerick and Waterford in either of which Cities I doe wish there might be a strong Garrison of three thousand foote and three hundred horses one thousand foote more to be dispersed
the finishing of the Fort of Castle ny Parke That her Majestie was pleased at the Presidents request that a faire and strong house should be built for the President where hee thought it convenient to bee defrayed upon the fines and casualties of the Province That the fort of Haleboling should be presently finished Lastly thankes in her Majesties name for his services liking well of his proceedings with Cormock Mac Dermond and for the courses he had taken in his returne from Donboy and of the well disposing of the Garrisons and his raysing and making of fortifications c. By this Letter it appeares that the President was directed to redeliver unto the Burgesses of Kinsale their Charter and other their Ensignes of Magistracie among the which there was a faire large Standard of Damaske with the Armes of England in it This Standard aforesaid was first delivered unto them by the commandement of King Henry the eight by Sir George Carew the Lord Presidents cosen german when hee arrived at Kinsale who not long before the siege of Bollogne was Admirall of some of the Kings ships Into the hands of Sir George it was left in safe keeping when the Spaniards arrived there and by the same Sir George Carew by Queene Elizabeths commandement it was as is said redelivered unto them againe although this petty note may seeme to some scarce worth the relating yet for the rarenesse of the accident I thought it meet to bee remembred And that the Reader may also understand what a fatall place Kinsale hath beene unto the Spaniards in former times as well as now I thinke it not impertinent to relate what hapned unto them in that port in Anno 1380. and the fourth yeare of the Raigne of King Richard the second My Author is Thomas of Walsingham who lived in those dayes and thus Englished in Hollinshed IN this meane while that the Earle of Buckingham was passing through the Realme of France the French and Spanish gallies did much mischiefe on the Coast of England but about the later end of Iune by a flecte of Englishmen of the West Countries part of them were forced to retire and take harbour in an haven in Ireland called Kinsale where being assailed by the Englishmen and Irishmen they were vanquished so that to the number of foure hundred were slaine and their chiefe Captaines taken as Gonzales de vorse and his brother Martin de Motrigo Turgo Lord of Morrans Also the Lord of Reath Peers Martin of Vermew Iohn Moditt of Vermew the Seneschall of Wargarie the Seneschall of Saint Andrewes Cornellis of Saint Sebastiano Paschale de Biskaya Iohn Martinez Sopogorge of Saint Sebastiano and divers others There were taken foure of their Barges with a Ballenger and one and twenty English vessels recovered which they had robbed and taken away from their Owners There escaped yet foure of their notable Captaines from the hands of our men Martin Grantz Iohn Perez Mantago Iohn Husce Gitario and one Garcia of Sebastiano Thus farre Hollingshed â—raving the Readers patience for to some this old story may seeme to bee a needlesse curiositie but to proceed The President to make the speedier prosecution and expedition in the affaires of the Province caused the Rising out of the Countrey to bee assembled to the number of sixteene hundred at their owne charges under the conduct of the Lord Barry These Provinciall Forces were not prepared for any great need that was of their service it was thought meet to draw as many hands together as conveniently might bee who according to their manner for spoyles sake would not spare their dearest friends And also it was thought no ill policie to make the Irish draw bloud one upon another whereby their private quarrels might advance the publike service The President had first determined himselfe in person with fiue hundred English joyned to the Provincials to haue taken the field but his intentions were casually diverted by Letters from the Lord Deputie who signifying that his Lordship purposed to bee at Galway about the two and twentieth of December required him all other businesse set apart immediatly to repayre thither to consult about certaine affaires much importing the service of the State by reason whereof the President appointed Sir George Thornton with 500. English Souldiers Inhabitants as Vndertakers in Mounster to accompany the Lord Barry with the Provincialls and all these to meet together about the twentyeth of this present at Donkerran which was the place of their rendevous In this meane time the Rebell Tirrell not liking to stay any longer in the Aire of Mounster wherein hee had runne many dangers bethought himselfe of a retreat out of the Province hoping that the President would condiscend to any composition rather then to bee troubled with his company whereupon he sent his inward servant Laghlin Odallye afore mentioned in this discourse unto Corke who comming to the President told him that his Captaine meaning Tirrell would bee content to leaue the Province and would heereafter this so as hee might haue a Pardon a Pension and a Company of Foot in her Majesties pay serue the Queene and deserue the reward demaunded by his future services The President knowing that for want of food hee would be forced ere the spring of the yeare to depart And also assuring himselfe within that time to get some good draught to bee drawen upon him by some of the Provinciall Rebells who now being heart-broken would doe any thing for their Pardons or for a little money not onely sleightly rejected his offers but bid Odalley tell him That although hee were never so warie yet hee doubted not before it were long to haue his head sent unto him in a bag willing him to forbeare to send any more unto him While these forces aforesaid were gathering according to the directions afore-recited the Governor of Kerry losing no opportunity and forbearing no labour had the like fortune upon the Knight of Kerry as Sir Samuel Bagnall had upon Tirrell for being conducted to his Quarter in the night killed fortie of his men and tooke from him all his whole substance which consisted of fiue hundred cowes two hundred garrans and two moneths provision of Meale and Butter for his Souldiers which small spoyle was a great losse to the poore Knight for thereby hee being disfurnished of all his provision disabled to minister entertainment to his followers and having no Castle whereunto he might safely retreat was constrained like a Wolfe to shelter himselfe in waste woods and desolate mountaines untill he could worke meanes with Sir Charles to accept his humble submission which incontinently upon his defeat hee earnestly solicited by the meanes of Osulevan More And surely this Service was of good consequence for the setling of Kerry for Thomas Oge induced by the example of the Knight and likewise Donnell Osulevan Son to the said Osulevan More did all joyntly submit themselues and her Majesties
of the motion but meaneth nothing lesse and the use he made of it 13. Ianuary The President adverti seth into England of the intended invasion of the Spaniards 〈…〉 munition victuals The Lord Deputie to pardon all such as hee should noâ—minate Certain persons excepted uncapable of Pardon 25. Ianuary Victuals and money arrived at Corke 30. Ianuary 1000. foot 50. horse to be sent out of Mounster to the Lord Deputie 2. February The Companies sent for by the L. Deputy stayed by his directions An abstract of the Lord Presidents Letter to the Lords of the Councell 6. March 22. March 1601. March Connaght Vlster men drawn to a head to invade Mounster A Regiment sent by the L. President into Connaght to assist Sir Ioh. Barkley 29. March Walt. Burke and Teg O-Brien slaine The Lo. President with the remainder of his forces came to Limricke The rising out of the Countrey drawen neere to Limricke and coÌ„manded by the L. Barry The Rebels distressed for want of victualls The Rebels defeated Donoghe Mac Cormock Carty slaine 21. Aprilis The Lord Presidents aâ—â—wer Intelligence of Spanish invasion Intelligence of Spanish invasion 26. Aprill The escape of Teg Obrien brother to the Earle of Thomond His submission Florence his preparation for Munition and men May 28. The report of Derm Mac Awlie touching the comming of Vlster men into Mounster Iames fiâ—s Thomas the titulary Earle of Desmond taken by the White Knight and brought to the Lord President 29. May. 29. May. Iames fits Thomas kept Prisoner in the Lord Presidents house Iames fits Thomas arraigned and condemned 3. Iunij A Relation presented to the Lord President by Iames fits Thomas and sent into England 3. Iune The causes of the rebellion in Mounster as Iames fits Thomas alleaged Husseys report of the causes of the rebellion in Mounster A Proclamation concerniâ—g base moneys Artiâ—les betweene her Majestie and the Treasurer at warres for Ireland concerning base Monies A Regiment sent by the L. President into Connaght Intelligence of the Spaniards coÌ„ming for Ireland brought the Lo. Presiâ—ent sundry wayes Iam. fits Thoâ—â— his â—eport of Flo. Mac Carty The report which Dermond Mac Awley made of the Councell held in Vlster about the fittest place for the Spaniards landing in Ireland Meaning Florence Mac Carty Florence Mac Carty by the Lord President committed to prison Here followeth a briefe collection of Flor. Mac Carties treasons and practises with the Rebels and continueth unto the end of the chapter not touching anything formerly related The examination of Iohn Anias Collections out of the examination of Owen Osulevan Florence assumed the title of Mac Carty More Owen Osulevan preyed He joyneth with Tirone and is confirmed by him Mac Carty More A letter from Florence to Donogh Moâ—le Mac Carty He fought with her Majesties forces He gaue intelligence unto Iames fits Thomas His farther practises related by Owen Osulevan His malicious speeches He instituted a Sherife of his owne making in Desmond The examination of Donnell Ferrers The examination of Iames Welsh The message he sent by mistris Mac Donogh He practised a mâ—riage for Iames fits Thomas His practise to hinder the rendring of Castlemange 〈◊〉 Lacies children to her Majesty The examination of Thomas Oge He recals his Son that should haue beene his pledge upon advertisements from Tyrone He writeth Letters to the Traytors in Vlster Hâ— wrâ—te to O Dâ—nnell The examinatioÌ„ of Teg Maâ— Gillipatrick A letter abstracted wâ—itten out of Spaine froÌ„ Dermond Mac Carty unto FloreÌ„ce Tirone wrote to Florence Tyrone wrote to the Osulevans to obey Flor. Tyrone to Florence Tyrone to Florence The examination of Garret Liston Tyrone to Flâ—rence His wifes report to Sir Charles Wilmot His Sisters report of the Lord President The examination of Thomas Oge The examination of Iames fits Thomas The examination of Gillernow Okelly Tyrâ—ne Ia. fits Thâ—m Flor. Mac Cartie Dermond Mac Owen Cartie Dermond Mac Owen Teg Mac Dermond Moil Mo Omaghon arrested Dermond Moil Mac Cartie fled The answer of Dermond Mac Owen to the Lord President 9. August The services which the Mounster Regiment performed in Connaght under the conduct of Sir Francis Barkley Sixe thousand men demanded by the Lo. President to be sent into Mounster to withstand the intended invasion from Spaine The Lo. Presidents opinion sent to the Lords of the Councell of the likeliest place which the Spaniards would attempt to land their forces The effect of the Lords of the Councels answer to the Lord President A branch of the L. Presidents Letter to M. Secretary Câ—cill The intelligence M. Secretary Cecill had of the Spanish fleete comming for Ireland and by him sent to tâ—e Lord President A branch of M. Secretarie Cecils Letter to the Lord President dated the 12. of August 1601. The crosse accident which hapned to make the Lord Deputie to be offended with the Lord President A List of the Captaines of the Spanish Army Stilo novo Don Iuan his Certificate into Spaine after his landing in Kinsale Tyrone Odonnell Second Letters from Sir Charles Wilmot of the arrivall of the Spaniards at Kinsale It was debated in Councell upon the receit of the Letters aforesaid what was meetest for the Lord Deputy to doe The Lord President differs in opinion from the rest The Lord Deputy assented to the Lâ— Presidents advise The providence of the Loâ—d President 24. Sept. A dispatch into England of the Spaniards arrivall The Lord Deputy goeth with the Lord Prsident into Mounster 26. Sept. Not any of the Provincials of Mounster adhered to the Spaniards at the first landing 28. Sept. The report of the master of a Scottish barque concerning the strength of the Spaniards 28. Sept. Captaine Flower sent to view Kinsale where he skirmished with the Spaniards The Corne neere adioyning to Kinsale burnt by direction Stilâ— novo 29 Septemb. The Lo. Deputy c. went to view the Towne of Kinsale 3. October 8. Octob. 9. Octob. 10. Octob. 11. Octob. 12. Octob. 13. Octob. 14. 15. Octob. 16. Octob. The Lo. Deputy with the army marched toward Kinsale The L. President required the towns of Mounster to send CoÌ„panies oâ— foot to the Camp 17. Oct. The Army encamped at Knock-robin neere Kinsale 18. Octob. 19. Octob. 20. Octob. The enemie attempted to disturbe our quarter but were repulsed 21. Octob. A skirmish betweene vs and the Spaniards 22. Octob. Capt. Button arrived with munition victuall 23. Octob. More Munition and victuall arrived 24. Octob. 25. Octob. A skirmish in the night wherin 20 of the Spaniards were slaine 26. Octob. The Armie encaÌ„ped close to Kinsale A prey of Kiâ—â— taken from the Spaniards 27. Octob. The castle of Rincorran guarded by the Spaniards 28. Octob. 29. Octob. The Spaniards repulsed 30. Octob. The Castle of Rincorran besieged The Spaniards repulsed by Sir Richard Percy 31. Octob. The castle of Rancorran battered by the Lo. President A faire escape A remarkable skirmish betweene vs and the Spaniards that