direct you what course you should steer To which they replied Go home and make fair Weather You took this Advice and being come my Lord of Antrim and my Lady Dutchess of Buckingham soon followed and you were very well pleased with so good Company to spend your Provisions But in a short time the Irish came and drove away great part of your stock to a village near It being night you desired me to take your Servants and endeavour the recovery Which I did bringing with me two or three of the chiefest Conductors of this Rabble This enrag'd the Irish so much as you conceiv'd I was not safe there and therefore sent me to Dublin to attend the Justices Orders and assure them of your readiness to return on a Call they sending a Convoy Which they promis'd to do as occasion required When I went from you you thought it necessary that I should take with me all the poor English that were saved and to let them go with the Carts which were loaden with Wool for Dublin leaving only one of them who was a Sadler then my Lord of Antrims servant In the passage neer Rath-Cool the Rebels fell upon them and barbarously killed some and wounded others my self and one more escaping by the goodness of our Horses But a Servant of mine governing the Carts and being an English-man they took And whilst they were preparing to hang him Sir John Dungans Eldest Son Watt Dungan came forth of his Fathers house with a Party and rescued him with the rest of those that were left alive and brought them safe to Dublin where I was gotten The Sadler that I had left in my Lord of Antrims Service some time after met me complaining that coming for Dublin he had been taken by the Rebells by means of a Boy that served your Lordship and if I would not give him forty Shillings being he was damnified in so much he would complain I told him that the Boy he mentioned was no Servant of yours but kept out of Charity and to whip the Dogs out of doors being blind of an Eye and lame of a Leg. He replied that although he were blind and lame he had a Note from my Lord of Antrim to have him apprehended by those that were neither blind nor lame which he gave to them who took him Prisoner and carried him to the Garrison of Leixlipp kept by the Rebels I bad him do what he pleased for I would not give him one Farthing The next I heard of it was that he had complained and that your Lordship was Indicted of high Treason Vpon which I made my addresses to the Lords Justices again to let them know that they had not kept their Words with me in suffering this Clandestine proceeding against my Brother but however I would go and fetch you and to that purpose desired them to let me have a party of Horse But that they refused I then came down to you with some of my Friends and acquainted you with what had past You answered that you knew nothing of it and went immediately with me to Dublin where you addressed your self to my Lord of Ormond as I did my self in your behalf to the Lord Justices and Council to acquaint them that you were come They replied that they could say nothing to it till you appeared before them Which you did the next day and then they Ordered you to come the day following At which time without calling you in they committed you to Mr. Woodcocks House one of the Sheriffs of Dublin Now I seeing this rigorous usage towards you and being refused a Pass for my self to go for England made a shift to get away in a small boat and go directly to the King at York and Petition him that you might be sent for over to be Tried here by your Peers But his Majesties answer was that he had left all the Affairs of Ireland to the Parliament Vpon which I went to London and Petitioned the Parliament to the same effect Their answer was that they could do nothing without the King of which I gave you an account by Letter This was the last Correspondence I had with you being after that continually serving his Majesty in England But the King coming from Newark to Oxford he sent me with Dispatches to my Lord Lieutenant and Ordered me to go to you and use my endeavours to persuade you to hasten a Peace You received the Commission as very agreeable saying that from the beginning of the War you had always laboured for a Peace and that you hoped it would soon be done Before I returned I saw it proclaimed and it goes by the name of the Peace of 46. London the 17th of May. 1680. Now that you have seen what my Brother writes of the occasion of my longer stay in Ireland so much contrary to the design of my going thether I will hence forth in my own Method go on with the Story of my own adventures in that Kingdom But to this end I must once more place myself in Madenstown whether as you see in my Brothers Letter I was first retired by advice of the Lords Justices I continued there some five or six Moneths after in peace and quietness and for the greatest part of the time in so noble and excellent company as that of the Dutchess of Buckingham and the Lord Marquess of Antrim her Husband who did me that very great honour In the mean while Parties were sent out by the Justices from Dublin and the Towns adjacent to kill and destroy the Rebels and the like was done through all parts of the Kingdom But the Officers and Soldiers did not take care enough to distinguish between Rebels and Subjects but killed in many places promiscuously On which partly and partly on other provocations that preceeded and some too that followed the whole Nation finding themselves concerned took to Arms for their own defence and particularly the Lords of the Pale did so who yet at the same time desired the Justices to send their Petition to the King Which was refused And for their farther discouragement Sir John Read his Majesties Sworn Servant a stranger to the Country un-engag'd and an eye-witness of their proceedings then upon his journey to England prevailed with by them to carry their Remonstrance to his Majesty the late King of ever Blessed Memory and to beg his pardon for what they had done coming to Dublin and not concealing his Message was put to the Rack for his good will The said Lords having Tried this and other ways to acquaint the King with their Grievances and all failing an open War broke forth generally throughout the Kingdom and very unfortunately for me One Encounter happened in the sight of my House between my Lord of Ormond commanding the English and my Lord Richard Vicount of Mount-Garret the Irish The latter was defeated This Encounter goes by the name of the Battel of Kill-Rush and was fought the 15 th of April
I did only keep up a Bussel till the King and Cromwel had decided their Quarrel He therefore again sate down before Limbrick with a powerful Army on the County of Limbrick side I with what Force could be drawn together March'd to Killalow and there Encamped He kept a Guard on his side the River as I did against him at Bryans-Bridge and Castle Conel We lay in this manner a long time he attempting nothing either on the Town or River which was not yet for deable in any place My Lord Deputy being at Galway sent me a Letter in all hast to come to him On my Arrival he told me that the Abbot of St. Katherine was in the Harbour and in his Company many Officers with a quantity of Arms Ammunition and other Materials for War That they were sent by the Duke of Lorrain who pretended by some agreement to be Protector Royal of the Kingdom of Ireland with Power over all our Forces and Places And that he was to continue that Title and Dominion till after the War ended he were reimburst all his Expences and his Damages satisfied I was much startled at this News For though I strugled to keep up a Bussel I never intended to buy it so dear as to give Footing or colour of Pretence or Title to any Foreign Prince And having heard my Lord all out I took the boldness to ask him how far he was concerned in this matter He protested before God and upon his Honour that he never gave Commission for any such Treaty and as to the thing he knew no more than what he had told me other then that the General Assembly then sitting in the Town were in great joy for this Succour and prest him earnestly for the reception But I found him entirely against it Being thus satisfied I desired him to leave the matter to me and let me deal with the Assembly Immediately therefore I went and found them on the Debate To which in my time I spake and with much Detestation of the thing declared all Traytors that were for receiving this succour on those terms and that I would not sit more to hear of this Stuff but return to my Forces knowing what I had to do My Lord Deputy was much pleased with this round Discourse and publickly approved it So the Abbot with what he had returned from whence he came At my return which was without delay to Killalow I found all quiet And whether Ireton had Information of this Passage I know not but by a Trumpet I received from him a long Letter four sides of Paper close written in a small hand The drift was to set forth the justness of the Parliaments proceedings their great Power how short a time I could subsist what ill Company I was with and threw what durt he could on the King I served but concluded with great value of my person pitying my Condition and offering me that if I would retire and live in England privately I should not only enjoy my Estate but remain in safety with the esteem and favour of the Parliament I immediately shewed this Letter to Father Peter Walsh my then Ghostly Father whom I had always found faithful to the King and a lover of his Country With his advice by the same Trumpet I answered all his Points and rejected his proposition concerning my own person desiring him withal to send no more Trumpets with such Errands if perhaps he would not have the Messenger ill Treated From this time there was an end of all Messages and Letters between us Now Ireton remained still and quiet without any action or attempt expecting the coming of Sir Charles Coot on my back or the fall of the River Both came together and besides that a third unlucky accident For now some days I had kept Guards towards Conaught when Ireton by Treachery of the Officer one Captain Kelly made himself Master of Bryans-Bridge 'T is called so though there be no Bridge Whilst I was hastening with some Troops to oppose having left the defence of the Pass at Killalow to Colonel Fennel he cowardly or Treacherously quitted it and with all his Party fled into Limbrick Where upon the rendition of the Town which was not long after Ireton with more than his ordinary justice hanged him Some say he was carried to Cork and that it was done there He pleaded for his Defence not only this Service but how he had betrayed me before Toughal But his Judges would not hear him on his Merit but bid him clear himself of the Murders laid to his charge Now receiving Letters from my Lord Deputy of Sir Charles Coots approach I hastened to him with what Troops I had left viz. about three hundred Horse and found him drawn into Loghreah with his Forces not being able to keep the Field against Coot who was twice his number The Enemy did not think fit to attempt him and were gone by before my coming About this time Athlone gave up to them and so did Limbrick to Ireton some few Months after In the mean while my Lord Deputy and my self with what Troops we had retired towards Jerchonnoght under the Covert of the River that runs by Galway and so shifted up and down till Sir Charles Coot came before the Town on Loghreahs side and had taken a Castle a little above on the River Then we retired into Galway Where we had not long been before we heard of the Kings Defeat at Worcester A man now would think that this Noble Lord had discharged his part Yet his Zeal carried him farther He dispatch'd me for France to the King by the way of Iniss-bofin for the River of Galway was full of Parliament Ships with orders to set out the ill state of his Majesties Affairs in that Kingdom And that nevertheless to serve his Majesty he intended after Galway should be lost to make a Mountain War and give the Enemy trouble for some time if his Majesty would but send him five hundred Barrels of Powder with Match and Bullets proportionable and some Arms and appointed me to return with them to Iniss-bofin a fit place for our Magazine it being a large Island lying of Jerchonnoght three Miles into the Sea in which we had a strong Garison 'T is surrounded with Rocks and has but one entrance where there is a pretty good Harbour for Frigats and small Men of War I here Shipped my self and landed at Brest ordering the Frigate that brought me to expect my orders The Captain was Antonio Vandersipp of Brugis We had a sharp fight with an English Ship that we met in the way but foul weather parted us No great hurt was done other than that the Bishop of Down was Killed in the Cabbin 't is thought by the Wind of the Bullet or Fear for he had not the least sign of any hurt and lived near a quarter of an hour Being Landed I took post for St. Germains where I found the King Queen-Mother and my
Errata PAge 33. l. 24. Charge that defeated read Charge defeated p 35. l. 16. understood r I understood p. 62. l. 16. use r. used p. 64. l. 10. places r. place p. 97. l. 21. after that r after that p. 99. l 9. remembred r. remember p. 100. l. 3. forceâ—s r. forces p. 106. l. 10. note r. a note p. 124. l. 24. forceable r. foordable p. 115. l. 13. speak r. spake THE MEMOIR'S OF JAMES Lord AVDLEY Earl of CASTLEHAVEN HIS Engagement and Carriage IN The WARS OF IRELAND From the Year 1642 to the Year 1651. Written by himself LONDON Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1680. TO THE KING SIR I Lay at your Majesties feet these my Memoir's and if your time may permit that you will read them they are contracted in so little a Volume the more to invite you to it I am persuaded that your Majesty will find amongst them some thing new though many years past The Stile is plain and simple otherwise it could not be mine But the Truth may make amends For I pass them on my Word not to contain a Lie or mistake to my Knowledge Your Majesties most faithful Subject and dutiful Servant Castlehaven Audley To the Reader I Being one day in S. Pauls Church-yard amongst the Stationers some Books fell into my hands lately set forth Histories of the Rebellion begun in Ireland in the year 1641. with the Wars and transactions that followed on that occasion and finding my self in many places cited acting as a confederate Catholick which in plain English is as a Rebel I thought fit to publish something setting forth my own story not to excuse the Rebellion for all the water of the Sea cannot wash it off that Nation it having been begun most bloodily on the English in that Kingdom in a time of setled peace without the least occasion given but what I write is chiefly to draw from the world some compassion my case being singular as I hope the Memoires will make out I take God to witness I never bad the least hint of the Rebellion till being one night at Supper with my Lord of Kery at his House in that County his Lordship being a Privy-Counsellor shewed me a Letter which he then received from the Justices setting forth the attempt on the Castle of Dublin and the Rebellion in the North from whence sprung that unjustifiable War in which I was unfortunately engaged But on my repentance purused by my actings to bring on the first Cessations and the Peace of 46. I had many testimonies from the late King of Blessed memory and his Lieutenant the now Duke of Ormond that my faults were forgiven me Since I have always purused my duty in faithfully serving the King and after his death his Majesty that now reigns for which though most unworthy I have received many marks of his favours and since his happy Restoration for my better security hath given me his gracious Pardon by virtue of which I have sate in the Parliament of Ireland as being a Peer of that Kingdom Now to gratifie the Reader for the trouble given by these Memoires and to induce him to a favourable construction I shall God willing e're long by the help of a Friend annex to this little Book an Appendix representing in short the state of Ireland from the year of the World 1756. to the year of Christ 1652. where among other things he shall find the true original causes of the late Rebellion throughly discovered Castle-Haven Audley James Lord Audley Earl of Castlehaven HIS MEMOIR'S SECT I. The occasion and Motives of his engaging in those Wars His being in Ireland in his way to France when the Rebellion brake out His Service proffer'd to the Lords Justices but rejected His retirement to his Country-house Indictment of Treason and Commitment to Sheriff Woodcocks at Dublin Sir John Read put to the Torture of the Rack The memory of the Earl of Strafford's Death The Kings answer at York to Colonel Mervin Tuchet His escape out of Dublin and flight to Kilkenny The Model of Government and Oath of Association WHat induced me to write these Memoires is to answer a wonder that reasonably may be made how I being a Peer of England and an English-man both by Birth and Descent on all sides should engage my self amongst the Irish in their Wars not speaking a word of their Language and having little in their Kingdom I say then that I never designed it but fell into those Troubles by chance and much against my will The Story thus I was newly come from my Travels abroad where my Genius leading me to see whatever was to be seen in Armies I went of purpose to the Siege of Turain in Italy After my return I attended the King at Berwick till the first Pacification with the Scots And then hearing that the Prince Cardinal Governor of the Spanish Netherlands was preparing to March towards the relief of Arras besieged at that time by the French I pass'd over again to Flanders and Artois and saw an end of that expedition and Arras yielded to the Besiegers In short my Inclinations were to War and so intended to make it my Trade by putting my self into the Service of some Foreign Prince To this effect having settled my Affairs in England I made as I thought a step into Ireland to do the like there But it proved a longer stay The occasion take out of the ensuing Letter to me from my Brother Colonel Mervin Tuchet HEaring your Lordship is writing a Narrative of your concerns in Ireland during the late War how you came to be engaged I having been at that time with you may possibly mind you of some Passages more in my knowledge than yours When the Rebellion broke forth in the North you were in Mounster and on the News you immediately repaired to Dublin to the Lords Justices Sir William Parsons and Sir John Burlace where you acquainted them with your willingness to serve the King against the Rebels as your Ancestors had formerly done in Ireland on like occasions To which they replyed your Religion was an Obstacle There being then a Parliament in that Kingdom sitting you were resolved to see the Event sending me to your House at Madingstown in the County of Kildare to secure and defend it in case there were any Rising in those parts Vpon my coming I found many poor English stript whom I took into the House and relieved defending them in the best manner I could Some time after the Parliament being dissolved you desired of the Justices a Pass to go for England But they refusing you acquainted them that your Estate there was not in a condition to maintain you in Dublin and desired that you might be supplied with some mony for your subsistance until such time that you could apply your self to the Parliament in England for a Pass to bring you over which they denied You prest them then to
know did pretend large Commissions from the King But of his Treating a Peace it was so secret that I never knew it though I was at that time of the Suprcam Council till that after the Archbishop of Tuam was killed the Peace made with him was known at Dublin it being found in the Archbishops Pocket and the benefit of it earnestly pretended by the Nuntio and his Party but as resolutely refused and rejected by my Lord Lieutenant This Peace goes by the name of Glamorgans Peace However the Nuntio having this colour improves it and by his Emissaries of the Clergy insinuates to the People his threats of excommunicating those that should accept of Ormonds Peace as they called it This broke and divided the Catholicks extremely Which the Nuncio perceiving followed it with a Thundring Excommunication to that effect Now let the failour of this Peace lie at whose door it will 't is no rashness to say That Story mentions not any one thing that had so fatal a consequence For if this Peace had gone on the King had presently been supplyed with great forces from Ireland both of English and Irish and so probably might have been prevented the ensuing mischiefs that shortly after happen'd both to him and all his Loyal Subjects throughout his Dominions But the Irish had a more particular ill Fate than the rest by this breach of Faith For albeit they discovering their Error did not long after mightily endeavour to make amends the best they could by a second and very solemn Agreement which their Commissioners signed and themselves confirmed and Sealed it with the blood of more than twenty Thousand of their best men who lost their lives to maintain it refusing in the mean while all offers of Peace and that even to the very last from the Parliament yet since his Majesties happy Restauration their Estates are by the Acts of Settlement given away some very few excepted As if all the Confederate Catholicks of Ireland had been as guilty as those who begun the Rebellion of the North or as those that were the only Authors of breaking the Peace of 46. SECT VII Private Treaties 'twixt Inchiquin and Taaf Agents sent to Paris from the Confederates Ormond return'd and the Peace of 48. concluded By it Castlehaven made General of the Horse With 5000 Foot and a 1000 Horse he regains Mary-Borough Athy and all Leix from Owen O Neals people Lord Lieutenant Marches to Dublin Some difference happen'd in point of Command makes Castlehaven withdraw The uproar at Kilkenny suppress'd by him THe Marquess of Ormond having perform'd Agreements with the Parliament left Ireland and after some time spent in England went to France At St. Germains he attended the Queen and Prince of Wales It was not long before my Lord of Inchiquin having some discontent given him by the Parliament entred into secret Treaties with the Lord Taaf since made Earl of Carlingford and other General or Principal Leaders amongst the Irish who since the rejection of the Peace having lost two great Battels the one at Dungan's-Hill alias Linch's Knock under General Preston the other at Knock na Noss under my Lord Taaf albeit this Nobleman had never been either of Owen O Neal's Party or the Nuncio's and then had fought against the Parliament considering also they had lost in both those Battels eight Thousand men at least kill'd down right besides Prisoners and looking on these great losses of their side as heavy judgments of Heaven to punish the late unparallel'd breach of Publick Faith begun to be as weary of the Nuncio as my Lord of Inchiquin was of the Parliament Wherefore they concluded to contrive the Marquess of Ormond's return and when he was come to declare for the King To this end Agents are sent from the Confederates to France viz. the Marquess of Antrim the Lord Viscount Muskry and Jeffrey Brown Esq Upon their offers the Queen and Prince of Wales dispatch'd my Lord Lieutenant to Ireland Accordingly he shipt at Haver-de-Grace in a States Man of War and Landed at Cork my self and many others attending him My Lord of Inchiquin was then with the Army in the Field but soon came to him I went before to Kilkenny Where without delay but not before his Excellency also was come thither a new Treaty was set on Foot between him and the Irish an Assembly of them sitting at that time in the Town After many disputes and reasonings which is not my business to relate a Peace was concluded called since the Peace of Forty eight What Agreement there was between my Lord Lieutenant and my Lord of Inchiquin I know not But am sure that my Lord of Inchiquin demanded of my Lord Lieutenant all Mounster for the recruiting and strengthening his Army and had it By which the Irish standing Regiments of that Province came to little or nothing But to introduce my own Story I am to tell you That in the Peace of Forty six there was an Article by which it was left to the Confederate Catholicks to name certain persons for General Officers to whom my Lord Lieutenant was to give Commissions Now I having served them long as has been seen by the Story and the same Article being confirmed in this Peace they named me as they had done in the former to be General of the Horse of the Kingdom of Ireland Which his Excellency approved and accordingly gave me a Commission and soon after sent me into the Queens County with five Thousand Foot a Thousand Horse and some Cannon to reduce the Fort of Lease otherwise called Mary-Borough Athy and other Garisons possest by O Neals people These Troops for the most part were Commanded by Sir Tho. Armstrong Colonel Treswel and other English Officers men that had always followed my Lord Lieutenants fortune and had been recruited and reinforced out of their Winter-Quarters as Kilkenny and some Counties about With them having well executed my Order without any considerable resistance I Marched to Laughlin-Bridge and Encamped giving an account to his Excellency what had pass'd and that I would there expect his farther Orders But 't was not many days before my Lord Lieutenant the Lord of Inchiquin Lieutenant General of the Army the Lord Taaf Master of the Ordnance Mr. Daniel O Neal Governour of his Excellencies Guards of Horse with other Generals and the whole Army of my Lord Inchiquin and some Irish Regiments joyned us So with a goodly Train of Artillery we passed the River Barrow and that night Encamped in the County of Catherloe Where something pass'd in point of Command that gave me ground to judge my self wronged Besides I was harassed by my Marches and Labours in the Queens County In consideration of which his Excellency at my request gave me leave to retire for the refreshing my self and his Excellency Marched on and invested Dublin But being returned to Kilkenny I found the City in an uprore The occasion and issue of it take as followeth One Father Caron
went to my Lord Lieutenant in the County of Clare Where I rendred him an account how I had been failed to the end he might do as he thought fit SECT IX Made Commander in Chief of Mounster and Limbrick receiving him Ireton raises his Siege that night Transports 2000 men by Boats into Kerry Persuades Clanrickard to accept of the Government Sends Orders to the several Provinces which are not obeyed Passes with 1000 Horse through Limbrick to the Silver Mines and how this design failed Hinders the General Assembly from Agreeing with the Parliament Relieves Tecrochan and Fox hang'd Ireton sitting down again before Limmerick he defends the Pass at Killaloe Sent for to Galway hinders the agreement with the Duke of Lorrain Return'd to Killaloe receives Letters from Ireton and answers them but is betray'd at Bryan's Bridge by Captain Kelly and at Killaloe by Colonel Fennel Athlone given up and Galway besieged he is sent from Clanrickard to the King The Kings Answer and Orders to Clanrickard On which Castlehaven takes Service under the Prince of Conde Reflections I Had not been long there attending his Excellency before Ireton sate down before Limbrick on the County of Limbrick side leaving Tomond's side open His Excellency repaired thither and being come near the end of the Bridge sent to the Mayor to let him know that he was there with some Troops and ready to enter with them for the defence of the place The Mayor having consulted his Brethren made excuse as if they had no need of relief Several Messages pass to and fro till at length his Excellency losing all patience declared unto them that if they would not receive and obey him he would leave the Kingdom All would not do And so turning aside he called me to him and told me that he was in good earnest and would be gone but Commanded me to stay and keep up a Bussel as long as I could it being the Kings Service I was very unwilling to remain behind seeing he took with him my Lord of Inchiquin my Lord Taaf Colonel Daniel O Neal and other his friends But the sound of the Kings Service so Charmed me that I abandon'd my own Judgment and submitted to what his Excellency should Order He then gave me a Commission to be Commander in chief of the Province of Mounster and the County of Clare having before that of Leinster Thus qualified together with my being General of the Horse of the Kingdom his Excellency gave me Possession of his Troops there standing in their Arms together with his Life-Guard to serve me as they had done him and as I counted they were in all about two Thousand Foot and a Thousand Horse His Excellency for my better encouragement assured me that he would leave a Commission for my Lord of Clanrickard to be Lord Deputy Now my Lord being gone and not suffering me to accompany him more than a Mile I went into the Town addressing to the Mayor and Aldermen I told them how I was left and ask'd them whether they were pleased with it and would obey me They took no long time to consult but submitted themselves to my pleasure On which I immediately visited their Walls and at the same time took a view of the Enemy whom I judged to be very loose and exposed if vigorously assaulted On which I resolved in the first of the night to draw my Troops into the Town and a little before day to make a sharp Sally On what Intelligence I know not but Ireton raised his Siege and marched off in the night This done I returned my Troops to their Quarters and remained my self in the Town till I had sent my Orders to all Officers commanding in the several Provinces and particularly to my Lord of Muskry then in Kerry ordering him to make himself so strong as he could and that I would soon be with him to encrease his Forces Which I performed passing the Shanon about twelve miles below Limbrick with two thousand men And though the River was full of Parliament Ships and two miles over yet I had not the least loss 'T is true I took the night and landing in Kerry near Drombeg I marcht till I came to my Lord of Muskry at Tralie Having acquainted him with what had past and ordered what I would have done particularly in raising of Forces I left my men with him and returned to Iniss my Residence in the County of Clare Where being come and a little refresh'd I went to Portumne to visit the Marquess of Clanrickard and came there before Dinner He bad me very Welcome After Dinner I desired to retire my self for an hour or two He brought me to my Chamber and asked Whether it would not be troublesome that he took a Pipe of Tobacco by me I said no but the contrary yet shewed my self melancholy He did what he could to divert it but I pretended withal not to be very well and spake to a Servant of his that stood at the Door to bring me a Glass of Sack My Lord was much pleased with that and called for a Bottle Now my Point was to get him to take the Government by accepting the Commission left by my Lord Lieutenant yet I speak nothing of it hoping he would begin which he did The passages on this subject are too long to relate here But before we parted I got him to send to the Commissioners of Trust these were men named by the Confederates and agreed to by my Lord of Ormond to see the performance of the Articles of Peace then sitting at Loghreah requiring them to send him his Commission for he would take upon him the Government And to lose no time I gave him the best account I could of the Forces in the Kingdom as well Friends as Foes For he during the War had been no more than a Spectator beloved and respected of all and might have so continued had not his great Loyalty drawn him to take up this Commission which was little less than to Sacrifice himself and his only to give the King time to trie his fortune with Cromwell their Armies being near Sterling in Scotland Encamped near together as the Kings Letters to us imported brought by Deane King an Express newly come We agreed at this meeting that his Lordship should immediately raise a thousand Horse as an addition to the Standing Forces of Conaught and that I should march with my thousand Horse out of the County of Clare to the Silver Mines in the County of Tipperary passing through Limbrick in the night and be at such a day and hour at the Rendevous and there I should meet fifteen hundred Foot that he would send with a good Officer His Part was little more than crossing the Shanon at his door and marching four or five miles no Enemy in those Parts I complied punctually with my Order and the Mayor of Limbrick as I marched through the City on demand gave me a hundred Foot The Alarm of