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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01404	The true exemplary, and remarkable history of the Earle of Tirone vvherein the manner of his first presumption, affrighting both England and Ireland with his owne and the King of Spaines forces, and the misery of his ensuing deiection, downefall, and vtter banishment is truely related: not from the report of others, or collection of authors, but by him who was an eye witnesse of his fearefull wretchednes, and finall extirpation. Written by T.G. Esquire.	Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?	1619 (1619)	STC 11524; ESTC S121075	36,786	60

this Interim assaulted Black-water Fort but therein commanded that industrious Captaine Th. Williams who at the same instant by meere valour and resolution propulsed them and many times after by patience and constancy endured all those mischiefes where by a Souldier is put to the test and enemy maketh demonstration of his hate and policy For when the Irish found themselues vncapable of such a businesse by way of expugnation or assault they tooke another course by intercepting the passages to famish them which when the English vnderstood they were as resolute to affront all mischances as the enemy was violent in contriuing displeasures and so with noble stedfastnesse bare vp a head against the streame of sicknesse and wants eating Horses and Weedes and if it had beene possible the very durt and stones In this time the gouernment of Ireland was in the hands of the Earle of Ormond as Lieutenant Generall of the Army the Lord Chancelor and Sir Robert Gardner Iustices to whom the Earle of Tyrone by many dilatory Letters did lay open all his grieuances touching sparingly his breach of promise with Sir Iohn Norris and all the effectuall points of his disobedience and refractary courses To these Letters hee receiued answere which hee interpreted displeasing rather then satisfactory and so accordingly entred into further Rebellious actions pressing Black-water Fort again with a more dangerous siedge against whom the Lord Lieutenant and Iustices aforesaid sent Sir Henry Bagnoll the Marshall his only reputed aduersary with sixteene Companies of Foot and foure troops of Horse who aduancing forward more malicious then fortunate as ouerwrought by a predestinated wilfulnesse came to blowes and according to the slippery footing of Warre fel to a dangerous Skirmish in which Tyrone shouldred him with all his strength nigh vnto Armagh determining as it were to punish his Enuy and supposed abuses against him wherein it should seeme the Mistrisse of successe as we abuse Gods prouidence by the Character of Fortune was coadiutrix and displayed all the maligne circumstances of reuenge against vs. For ere night decided the controuersy hee triumphed with a notorious victory whereby in one houre the Marshall ended his brauery life and enmity nor could the Irish euer boast of a more conspicuous triumph since the Conquest or if you had rather haue it so since we first curb'd their immanity For we lost fifteene Captaines and 1500. Souldiers ouer whom the manner of insulting was more barbarous then the accident tyrannous Presently followed the surrendring of Black-water Fort when the besieged saw all reliefe debarred them and heard how Tyrone was proclaymed the deliuerer of his Countrey and Protector of the Catholique cause seeming the very darling of prosperity and delight of Bellona wherein he proceeded accordingly making all the Kingdome witnesse his glory and renowne For hee presently sent Ouny-Mac Roory Oge and Tirrill into Munster with foure thousand Rebels against whom the Lord President Sir Iohn Norris hauing lost his brother by sicknesse or as some suppose a disastrous Melancholy with reasonable equipage and orderly attendance set nobly forward but the enemy not appearing he retired to Corck and diuiding his Army into seuerall Garrisons gaue them liberty to take aduantage of our wearisomnesse and impatience For presently they proceeded to all hatefull courses of sauage outrage and after Iames Fitz-Thomas a Rebell of that House was proclaymed Earle of Desmond who thereupon acknowledged Oneale his benefactor and superior they returned with ambitious alacrity and cheerefulnesse and sent word into Spayne of their admirable successes wherein Tyrone behaued himselfe so audaciously that he interdicted the peace of England as if there had beene a way opened vnto an easy conquest of the same and the first steppe into Ireland would helpe them vp the degrees of a more illustrious glorie to which purpose the King of Spayne should not onely bee assured of the Popes blessing but Oneales Fortunes and assistance yea the whole power of the Kingdome This was the lamentable estate of Ireland when her Maiesty taking pitty of her Orphan Countrey substituted Robert Earle of Essex whom the successe of Cales voyage and many other memorable designes and prosecutions had worthily renowned her Lieutenant Generall of Ireland But how hee had formerly wound himselfe into the good opinion of his Countrey how England looked vpon him as a glorious sonne of comlinesse and honour how his forces Treasure and Fauours were extraordinary in this proiect of Ireland how hee proceeded in this military race how the applause of the people and the greatest part of the nobilitie attended him How a sudden storme as if some ominous signe from Heauen presaged misfortune intercepted his iollity euen at his first setting out of London how landed in Ireland hee beganne his businesse as preposterously How that braue Sir Coniers Clifford was abused by presumption and ouer-credulous opinion that his bosome friend O Roorck would not haue prooued such a Traytor and so not only lost his life at the Curlews a boggy Mountaine by the Abby of Aborle but was inhumanely after the skirmish mangled and with great immanity cut in peeces How the Earle of Ormond and Sir Henry Harington were surprized and taken prisoners by Harry Oge Owny mac Roory and the sonnes of Feff mac-Heugh rebells vnited against the peace and flourishing prosperity of Lemster How hee came to a priuate parley with Tyrone and was much affected by the Irish How her Maiesty rebuked him and from incensed indignation challenged both his loyalty and the wisedome of the Councell of Ireland for a contrarious and vntoward method of gouernment and prosecutions in the North How his glorious celebrating the feast of Saint George in the City of Dubline considering the times and turmoyles of the kingdome was imputed rather an ostentous brauery then a necessary honour How contrary to expectation hee comes into England after a priuate prohibition by her Maiesties owne Letters How hee was commanded to his owne House and his Offices dispensed withall How his sorrows multiplied How the peoples loue encreased eyther from a generall commiserating of such men in distresse or particular apprehension of his greatnesse and worth How his fortunes and Life ended I will leaue to a Story of it selfe yea if I might say so to many Stories in which such infinite obseruations might bee folded that if a man durst or might spread them abroad all the passages should be laid open and exposed to publique ouerlooking of the fauour and disfauor of Princes the dangers of men insatiable of glory the condition of Councellours emulous of one anothers greatnesse the mutability and inconstancy of popularitie the perill wherein men plunge themselues that dare presume to perpetrate vniustifiable actions and the misery which an vntimely death bringeth to a man projecting high matters to himselfe But to our Irish businesse againe When my Lord of Essex troubles were published abroad and divulged in Ireland the Earle of Tirone with great indignation brake the