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A43206	A chronicle of the late intestine war in the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland with the intervening affairs of treaties and other occurrences relating thereunto : as also the several usurpations, forreign wars, differences and interests depending upon it, to the happy restitution of our sacred soveraign, K. Charles II : in four parts, viz. the commons war, democracie, protectorate, restitution / by James Heath ... ; to which is added a continuation to this present year 1675 : being a brief account of the most memorable transactions in England, Scotland and Ireland, and forreign parts / by J.P.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.; Phillips, John. A brief account of the most memorable transactions in England, Scotland and Ireland, and forein parts, from the year 1662 to the year 1675.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1321; ESTC R31529	921,693	648

and to carve to the Grandees the spoils of the Kingdom which were to be secured by these misunderstandings But against these Writers there appeared a Champion of Loyalty Judge Ienkins who out of the Parliaments Wrath with the Earl of Cleveland Sir Lewis Dives Sir Iohn Stawel and others Royalists was Committed to the Tower and being brought to the Chancery-Bar refused to own the Court and the Authority thereof and so was remanded in Order to a Tryal at the Kings-Bench where in the me●n while he fully Answered all those Cavils against the King by Reason Law and from the Parliaments own words and Declarations ridling their nice time-serving distinction of the Kings Person and Authority his Politick and Natural Capacity to be a meer Fiction never heard of before and that their as bold assumption of the Kings Vertual presence in the two Houses was also and alike Treasonable as he cited in the Case of the two Spencers in the 7 of Edward the 2. from their own Oracle Sir Edward Coke in the 7 part of his Reports fol. 11. He then runs over the whole Case and state of the Question and Dispute betwixt the Royalists and Parliamentarians which being published incredible it is how greedily they were bought up and how many honest people undeceived so that His Majesties Cause was every where under the nose of the Faction well spoken of We will for the honour of that Noble person give this short and summary account of it as a Sea-mark to Posterity First The Royalists have aided the King in this War contrary to the Parliaments Negative Oath and Votes warranted by the Statute of 25 Ed. 2. ch 2. They have maintained the Commission of Array by the Kings Command against their Votes by the Statute of the 5 Hen. 4.3 They have maintained Arch-bishops Bishops c. from Magna Charta and many other Statutes 4. They have maintained the Book of Common prayer warranted by five Acts of Parliament in Edw. 6. Queen Eliz. for Libels against which and Church-Government some have been Executed 5. They maintained the Militia of the Kingdom to belong to the King from the Statute of the 7 Edw. 1. and many Statutes since 6. They maintained the Counterfeiting of the Kings Great Seal to be High Treason as likewise the usurpation of the Kings Forts Ports and Shipping c. from the said Statute of 25 Ed. 3. and divers others since and the practice of all times 7. They maintain that the King is the only Supreme Governour in all Cases the Parliament that his Majestie is to be governed by them The former's warrant is the Statute of Queen Eliz. c. 8. They maintain that the King is King by an inherent Birth-right by Nature by Gods Law and by the law of the Land These say that his Kingly Right is an Office upon Trust. Their warrant is the Statute of the 1 of King James and the 5 of Queen Eliz. 9. They maintain that the politick capacity is not to be severed from the natural vide Coke as before their Oracle who hath declared to posterity that it is Damnable Detestable and Execrable Treason 10. They maintain that who aids the King at home or abroad ought not to be molested or questioned for the same These practice the contrary Their warrant is the Statute of 11 Hen. 7. 11. They maintain that the King hath power to disassent to any Bill agreed by the two Houses which these deny Their warrant is the Statute of 2 Hen. 5. the practice of all times the 1 Car. ch 7. and 1 Jam. ch 1. 12. They maintain that Parliaments ought to be holden in grave and peaceable manner without Tumults These abet and keep guards of armed men to wait upon them Their warrant is the Statute of 7 Edw. 2. 13. They maintain that there is no State within this Kingdom but the Kings Majesty and that to adhere to any other State within this Kingdom is High Treason Their warrant is the 3 of King Jam. and 23 Eliz. 14. They maintain that to levy a War to remove Counsellours to alter Religion or any Law established is High Treason These hold to the contrary Their warrant is the resolution of the Iudges Queen Elizabeth and Sir Edward Coke 15. They maintain that no man should be imprisoned put out of his lands but by due Course of Law and that no man ought to be adjudged to Death but by the Law established These have practised the contrary in London Bristol and Kent Their warrant is Magna Charta ch 29. The Petition of Right 3 Car. and divers others 16. They believe what the Laws say that the King can do no wrong that He is Gods Lieutenant and not able to do an unjust thing These charge Him with the spoil and blood of His Subjects which false imputation was like the rest of their actions contrary to all Law Reason Christianity or Humanity This eye-salve made the wilfully blinde more peevish and fuller of smart and anguish so that they were resolved to have hanged him but he had so hedged up their way to it by upbraiding them with their former Illegal and Tyrannical Cruelty that they only kept him in a strict duress which was enlarged by degrees till the time of Restitution 1660 when he was in health and at perfect freedom He was a great stickler likewise in the Feud betwixt the Presbyterian and Independent siding with the Army and doctrinating them with the Principles of Allegiance which they pretended to and animating them against the Parliament by perswading them that all their Ordinances made for their Indemnity and Arrears were insignificant and invalid and were but so many blinds for the present and that their security and satisfaction depended wholly upon the King which designe of his in that juncture of time did operate successfully until the cause of the contention ceasing Cromwel having mastered and surmounted all the rubs to his designe the effect the ruine of both likewise failed Miserable now were the complaints from several parts of the Kingdom by reason of the burden of Free-quarter In the third year of King Charles upon the Expedition for the Isle of Rhee the Lords and Commons in their Petition of Right when not above 2 or 3000 Souldiers were thinly Quartered upon the people but for a Month or two complained thereof to his Majesty as a great grievance contrary to the Laws and Customs of the Realm and humbly prayed as their right according to the Law of the Land that he would remove it which his Majesty presently granted Yet now though the Country was ten times more oppressed no remedy could be had the Army under pretence of Lodging Fire and Candle taking all other necessaries for which if at any time they pretended to offer money yet durst none take it for fear of greater damage the spoiler being only triable by a Council of War This the Souldiers were taught likewise by their Adjutators to

Levies and Aids those mighty preparations for the Invading of a Kingdom settled in a posture of War and well forewarned of his intentions amounted not above the number of six or seven hundred at the most strangers and all The Common Souldiers which adventured over with him most of them Holsteyners or Hamburgers He had sent him by the Queen of Sweden for the arming of such Gentlemen as should upon his arrival betake themselves to his Party as before 1500 Arms compleat for Horse Back Brest Head-piece Carbines Pistols and Swords all which after his defeat in Cathnes were taken untouch'd With this small preparation it was a desperate action to attempt so mighty a business And although his touching first upon the Island did encrease his number and gave him almost the beginning of an Army yet were those barbarous people so raw and unacquainted with Discipline that they proved in a manner useless and unserviceable 'T is true the Inhabitants of those Isles were a people in former times very fierce and warlike and have under their own Captains made many great Impressions into the very heart of the Kingdom But whether it was the policie of the late Kings to leave them untrained of purpose to break their natural fierceness or because their own Captains being quelled or cut off they cared not much to engage under any other certain it is that Kingdom for 200 years last past hath not made less use of any they had under their Jurisdiction nor have they at this present less opinion of any Scots for Military courage and valour And this may be alledged as a great cause of their remissness and unweildiness whilst they were in the Marquesses Service I told you a little before of Montross's whole strength which did accompany him from Germany whereof two ships with near upon a third part were sent before but by storm of weather which is both frequent and dangerous amongst those Northern Islands they were lost with all the men and Arms nothing saved This was another check and as it were a warning and a forerunner of the sad event which followed But the business being fatal he must needs contribute his own endeavours towards that destruction which his cruel fortune had provided for him For he being nothing terrified with this success sends out a second party which making a more prosperous Voyage landed at Orkney and entred the Island without any resistance there being at that time no Garrison or defence placed in any of those Islands by the States of Scotland together with these he sent several Commissions for levying Horse and Foot Immediately there were several dispatched to Scotland and the Islands adjacent for that purpose the people of the Country being in no condition to resist these Officers endeavoured in hopes of favour as much as they could to further the designe And those who were not so earnest were by their own neighbours favourers of the Cause and these violent Commissioners forced to take up Arms. Not long after landed the Marquess himself with the rest of his Company together with those Gentlemen which were resolved to partake of his fortune amongst whom were several persons of note Colonel Hurry was there a man who had engaged in all Quarrels but never prospered in any the Lord Frendraught for his Kinsman the Lord Napier was left in Holland Colonel Iohnson a resolute man and an old Souldier Colonel Gray a German Souldier Harry Graham his own natural Brother Colonel Iames Hay of Naughton Sir Francis Hay of Dalgety George Drummond of Ballach For he had employed as was thought Colonel Sibbalds his Companion heretofore as his Agent in Scotland but he was apprehended at Musselburgh and did accompany his General in death upon the same Scaffold The Marquess continued a considerable time in Orkney raising of Forces and strengthning himself with such Recruits as the place would afford Neither was there any preparation at all made in Scotland to dispossess him of these Islands either because it might be thought a difficult business to assail him within those places naturally guarded with a rough and dangerous Sea or because they knowing his strength expected a better opportunity of him as they found indeed within the Country After this poor rabble of silly creatures was amassed he resolved at last to Embarque and to that purpose gathers all the Boats he could finde ships his men and in a short space Lands them all upon the point of Cathnes which is the farthest land to the North-west of Scotland The people having some experience of the carriage of his former souldiery and now far more dreading the name of Forrainers partly by the terrible reports which were constantly given out of him fled away in heaps many of them not stopping till they came to the chief City Edenborough and there gave the terrible Alarm to the Parliament then sitting The Commanders were immediately summoned and charged with all possible hast to get the standing Forces in readiness and a Rendezvouze in order to the States Command was hereupon presently enjoyned at Brechin Northward Colonel Straughan who was then in high esteem with the great ones for his Valour lately expressed in the English service and his Zeal to the Presbyterian Cause much extol'd at that time had an ample and particular Commission granted to him by the Parliament to command a choice party of Horse which should not be subject to David Lesly's Orders but might Engage and Fight with the Enemy at his best advantage With these being not above 300 he advanced before the Army David Lesley with the rest of the Horse and Holborne with the Foot marching after him In the mean time the Marquess advanced but very slowly and that he might not be mistaken since all the world was much astonished at this Invasion now whilst the King was upon a Treaty he published a second Declaration wherein he laboured to clear himself of any aspersion of sinister ends That his intention was onely against some particular persons who had against the Laws of the Kingdom raised and maintained a War against the Kings Father and did now by their subtile practises endeavour to destroy the Son also That he intended nothing against the Generality of the Kingdom Lastly Exhorting all Subjects of that Nation to endeavour to free themselves from the Tyranny of those who for the present ruled the State and the oppression of the Ministry But the Country for several Causes did not come to second him as he expected For the Earl of Sunderland a potent man in those parts his Lands being next to the place where the Marquess then was raised a great power of his Tenants and Friends and did his best to terrifie and hinder all that were willing to joyn with him And though he found himself unable to deal with the Marquess's Forces yet did he stop all intercourse betwixt him and his Friends And those Gentlemen who had heretofore

entailing his Estate upon his Grand-son as divining what his Son with whom he died in feud would come to General Blake was yet in the Streights demanding satisfaction of the Algier-Pirates for the depredations committed on the English and required the delivery of the Captives of our Nation whose number was very great but neither of these would be hearkned to whereupon Blake sent in a threatning Message to which they returned in scorn and contempt this Answer Here are our Castles of Guletto and Castles of Porta Ferino do what you can do ye think we fear the shew of your Fleet A Council of War being called upon this daring affront it was resolved to Burn those ships in Ferino in defiance of their Stone-line Forts and Castles well furnished with Ordinance and manned with the whole Country adjacent On the 4 of April the attempt was made Blake and the greater ships with their seconds coming within Musquet-shot of the Castle and Line which in two hours time they rendred defenceless dismounting all the Great Guns and clattering the Stones so about their Ears that the Enemy abandoned them having seen their nine Ships and Frigats burning in the mean time which was done by Boats from every ship during this hot service atchieved in this honourable manner Blake set sail again to the same place and renewed his Demand and was Answered in another strain that not Ours but now Those were the Castles and ships of the Grand Seigniour who would be sure to require an account of them In conclusion they came to Treat and did what they were beaten to for else they saw their Thieving Trade would be short Nathaniel Fiennes second Son to the Lord Say and the once-famous Governour of Bristol was made Cromwel's Lord Privy-Seal Recorder Steel a growing Favourite for his Speeches Lord Chief-Baron and Lambert yet above-board Lord-Warden of the Cinque Ports and soon after Serjeant Glyn was made Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Parker and Vnton Crook the Father made Serjeants For Military Commanders Colonel Reynolds was ●ow Knighted and ordered to carry it with him to grace Henry Cromwel then preparing ●or his journey into Ireland to be inaugurated Lord-Lieutenant in place of Fleetwood where he arrived in the middle of Iuly and Captain Vnton Crook was rewarded for his late service with 200 l. per annum The Sco●c● Council was nominated and dispatched also viz. General Monke Lord Broughill President Colonel Howard now Earl of Carlisle Colonel Adrian Scroop Colonel Cooper Colonel Wetham Mr. Desborough Colonel Lockhart Laird Swinton and Downing Secretary It was omitted that Sir Gilbert Pickering was entituled Lord-Chamberlain to Oliver and that he had a Guard of Halberdiers in Grey-coats Welted with Black-Velvet in the same manner and custom as the Kings of England used them but this Satellitium and Band of Bailiffs was rather out of fear than in regard to the honour of their Attendance Sir William Constable one of the Kings Judges Governour of Gloucester and the last of his Name which rots in his dust died now and was buried in the Military way in Henry the 7th's Chappel lighted into his Tomb with a terrible Fire in the opposite Town of Lambeth A new Plot was now started and most of the Nobility and Gentlemen of England secured Sir Geoffrey Palmer Lord Willoughby of Parham Lord Lovelace Earl of Lindsey Lord Newport and Sir Richard Wingfield Lords Maynard Petre Lucas and Faulkland Sir Frederick Cornwallis c. and this done by Manning whose Villany was not yet discovered though to render an entire account of him his death was before related County-Troops were now also established for security to his Highness such Trooper 8 l. a year pay and more in case of service a Captain 100 l. and Officers proportionably and as these new Forces were raised here so were other old ones disbanded in Scotland and Ireland in which last place the Disbanded were yet to be the same kinde of standing Militia they being setled in the Rebel Forfeited Lands their Tenure being their service and thus that Kingdom was re-peopled An Agent that had come hither from Ragotski Prince of Transilvania now departed the Conspiracy betwixt whom and the King of Sweden and the Swede and Cromwel was just ripe for Execution For the terrible news came that Carolus Gustavus with an Army of 20000 Swedes was landed in Pomerania and fallen into Poland and that the Palatinate of Posen had submitted and the Vice-Chancellor Radzikousky was come in and complied with that King and little doubt was made of his over-running that Kingdom the like Treachery and other divisions among the discontented Nobility opening him a way Cromwel's reach in this War was to divert the Emperour who was arming apace in aid of the King of Spain and defence of the House of Austria against the French as foreseeing also the rupture of the Peace with the Spaniard by Cromwel in the Low-Countries and a Peace once by this ballance effected to espouse the quarrel of our King to the same purpose the Transilvanian was engaged who like a stormy Cloud hung over the Imperial Dominions so that no assistance could be had from this part of the World This highly disappointed the Spaniard and retarded those hopes of our King in order to his Restitution by Arms. He was yet at Colen and caressed by several Princes who Honoured his Privacy among many others the Landtgrave of Hessen gave him an honourable Visit and Prince Rupert returned from the Emperour gave him his due attendance to evidence that the Relation of a King in some such cases may be without a Kingdome or Subjects A Swedish Embassador Named Christian Bond arrived here neer the same time and was in great State received according to the Amplitude of his Highness and Rolt a Bed-chamber-man of this Altess was sent recipocrally to the King of Sweden but was neer quitting the Cost of his Journey by a terrible Storm About the time the news came of his getting ashore in safety Hannum a most notorious Thief suspected of the Robbery of the King at Colen in which parts he was no stranger broke Prison and escaped likewise From the noble Exploit of Porta Ferino Blake sailed to Cadiz and those parts of Spain where he found that the Armada of Spain was at Sea to look after the arrival of their India-Fleet and it fell out that the English and Spaniards met together in those Seas the Spaniards being 32 ships in all but no quarrel happened for neither had Commission to right The same indifferent but more cowardly temper at the same instant in August made the Iamaica-Fleet returning home suffer the longed-for Plate-Fleet to pass untought when discovered in the Gulf of Florida upon their Voyage to Spain so that none of the Fates were wanting to make this the most unglorious undertaking of the English Upon a resolution taken by a Council of War at Iamaica the greatest

ways remedy being constrained to humor and comply with that party as being a people so ticklish and unsteady that if disgusted might probably either side with Iones or retiring to their own Garrisons compel the Army to withdraw from Dublin by declaring themselves for the Parliament of which Grudge slightly hinted before Sir Thomas Armstronge and the Lord Moor being come in to the Lord Inchiqueen Colonel Mark Trevors that was but newly declared for the King having got notice of a choice party of O Neals sent to Dundalke to convey thence such Arms and Ammunition as Monke had undertaken to supply him withal invited the Lord Inchiqueen to intercept them who came so opportunely thither that he gained O Neals supply of Ammunition with the utter de●eat of his Party whereupon soon after the gaining of Drogheda which ensued immediately upon O Neales defeat Dundalke it self being summoned the Souldiers compelled Monke to a Surrender and themselves took Arms for the King Immediately after this defeat of his Party O Neale hastneth towards the Relief of Derry which was the onely Town in that Province untaken all the rest being already reduced by the Lord of Ards Sir George Monr● and Colonel Trevors who were now hindered onely by O Neales Army and the Siege of Derry from bringing up a considerable Body of Horse and Foot to the Leaguer of Dublin Where may be observed how great a prejudice the Faction of those men who desiring out of animosities and ends of their own to stave off O Neal and his party from the benefit of the Peace stood chaffering with him about his Command of 4000 or 6000 men and other trifles have done to the Kings service and to the whole Kingdom in depriving themselves thereby not onely of the forementioned assistance of the Scots but also of the possession of London-Derry together with so considerable an addition of Forces as O Neal could then have brought whereby not onely the whole Province of Vlster would have been secured to the King but Dublin it self either reduced or so strongly surrounded that it would have been impossible either for Iones to relieve himself or Cromwel to invade the Kingdom Which notwithstanding all these forementioned disadvantages was upon the matter even gained already and would have been entirely without any manner of question if it had fortuned that His Majesty had seasonably come thither himself in Person which by all parties was desired with infinite passion but especially by those whose prudence made them best able to Judge how effectual his presence would be not onely for the animating of his own Loyal Party but also suppressing of all Factious humours and uniting all Interests chearfully and unanimously to go on against the common Enemy which must soon have put a period to that War and made his Authority absolute in that Kingdom without dispute for as upon his arrival His Majesty should have found Munster entirely in the Irish and the Lord In●hiqueens possession Vlster all reduced but the Fort of Culmore and Derry into the Hands of the Scots Connaght by the Marquess of Clanricards fortunate gaining the strong Fort of Slego with what else the Enemy had then remaining in that Province wholly cleared In Leinster nothing left for Rebellion to nestle in but Dublin and Ballisannon both which were so well attended upon that the Defendants had but little pleasure to air themselves without the circuit of their Works so by his coming he would undoubtedly have diverted Owen O Neal who would immediately have submitted unto the person of the King from relieving London-Derry and thereby have secured both that Town and Province with Dublin also as it is thought for they that had reason to know Iones's minde apprehended that his leaving the Kings party did proceed from a Pique ●●●her against the Lord-Lieutenant or Sir Robert Byron about a Lieutenant-Colonels place which was conferr'd over his head upon another and that then the Scene being altered in England and his old Friends out of Authority there his new terms with the Independents also yet unmade he himself would come over if the King had been there in person or if not yet his Party would have all deserted him and the work have been done one way or other that Kingdom wholly reduced without a blow all Factions as I said before extinguisht and his Majesty had had an Army of above 20000 men to have employed where he pleased After the taking in of Trim which followed soon upon the surrender of Dundalke the Lord Inchiqueen brings up his Forces now much improved in number to the Army before Dublin whereupon his Exellency leaving a part of his Army at Castleknock under the command of the Lord Dillon of Costelo a person of much Gallantry to keep them in on that side the Water removes his Camp to the other side the Town to distress the Enemy that way also Which whilst they are endeavouring to do upon intelligence that Cromwel was ready with an Army to Embark himself for Ireland and that he intended to land in Munster the Lord Inchiqueen thought if fit that he should with a good party of Horse go down into those parts to secure his Garrisons and provide for the worst His Lordship was no sooner gone but the Lord-Lieutenant designing to shut up the Enemy within his Works and quite impede as well their getting in Hay as the Grasing of their Cattel without their Line gave order to Patrick Purcell Major-General of the Irish Foot to march with a sufficient Party of men and an Engineer to Baggot-Rath there to possess himself of that place immediately and cast up such a Work as had been already designed Sir Wiliam Vaughan Commissary-General of the Horse had order likewise to draw together most part of the Troops that were on that side the Water and to keep them in a Body upon a large plowed Field looking towards the Castle of Dublin there to countenance the Foot while the Works were finishing and to secure them in case the Enemy out of the Town should attempt to interrupt them These were the Orders given but not executed for notwithstanding it did not much exceed a mile whither the Foot were to go yet through the ignorance or negligence of the Officers that were to conduct them many hours were spent ere they came at the place whither when they were come they found the Work so wretchlesly advanced by Master Welsh the Engineer and to help all themselves kept such negligent Guards that many judged it was done on purpose and that these neglects proceeded from those lurking seeds of discord between the Kings and the Nuntio's Parties For it is certain that about that time upon an apprehension that things went on too prosperously with the Lord Lieutenant there were Letters written to Owen O Neal about broaching a New War in case Dublin had been taken Whatever the grounds of these failings were the Enemy never stood to examine but

being troubled to see a Fort designing there where with so much ease they might not onely be kept from all Forrage and succour by Land but intercourse with the Sea also and perceiving the posture they were in destitute of Horse to Guard them resolved upon a desperate Sally to disturb this Work which they happened to make about eight of the clock in the morning when his Excellency who had been on horse-back most part of the night as his constant custom was since his coming neer Dublin was newly laid him down in his Tent to take his rest however the Westminster-Scandals of those days did asperse him The Enemy found the new Fortification so slight and the resistance there so weak that they soon became Masters of the place from whence seeing the Irish fly in such fright and disorder contrary to their first intentions they pursued them up to the Avenues of their Camp where finding the Souldiers also that were in Guard with great security and unconcernment looking on they laid hold on the advantage Charging briskly in and in a trice beat them off their Posts which if they had defended as a far less number might very easily have done the Camp being no way accessible towards the Town excepting by those few Avenews which there purposely had been left open nay some of them thrown open contrary to orders for the conveniency of the Souldiers they could possibly have run no hazard But these Passes being thus lost and abandoned and more men coming out of the Town to re-inforce those that were alr●ady so successful the whole Army in the greatest t●rrour and confusion that might be falls a running every one a several way and in this condition were all things brought before the Lord Taafe then General of the Ordnance had awaked the Lord-Lieut●nant who presently taking Horse together with the Lord Castlehaven who was now returned back to his Command and Colonel Milo Power made towards the Enemy taking all such along with them as they could either by force or fair means perswade to face about with intention to beat them back or at least by making head a while to stop their progress till some considerable part of the Army could be Rail●●d and brought up again to oppose them But by that time they came neer the Enemy their followers were g●own so thin that his Excellency after the having exposed himself to much danger and rec●ived a shot upon his Arms in a brisk Charge that he made upon ●●e foremost of the Enemies T●oops was fain to retire at last and s●ek to recover his Army that was gone before Sir William Vaughan being already ki●led his Brother Colonel Richard Butler taken and the whol● Camp in effect abandoned except by those that could not get them ready o● wanted means o● flyi●g This was ●o●ght on the second of August Thus besides the slaughter that was made and the Prisoners that were taken one of which was the lot of mo●● o● the English that were under the Command of Colonel Wogan whose b●●●viou● that day deserves much commondation who having gotten tog●●●●r 〈…〉 Body defended themselves so gallantly and with so much r●s●●●●ion against the whole power of the Enemy as at last after a great slaughter th● 〈◊〉 made Conditions ●or themselves before they could be in●orced to yield or lay down th●ir Arms. The total plunder of the Camp with all the Ar●il●ery T●n●s and Baggage fell into the Enemies hands Most of the Lord Inchiqueens Foot that at first made some resistance seeing the day lost upon this disaster changed sides and revolted to the Enemy All this was done in so short a space and with so little noise that the Lord Di●●on and the res● of the Forces that were on the other side the River of the I●iffy knew nothing of what was done till the business was over and some runaways brought him word of it the Irish making such hast every one towards his home and with such distraction that it was impossible for the Lord-Lieutenant to draw any Body of them together and therefore having met with the news of the Surrender of Ballisannon that very day into the hands of his Forces that lay before it he rested at Caterlo that night and went the next day to confer with the Commissioners of Trust and the Lord Inchiqueen at Kilkenny When this great disaster is well considered scarce any other ●ound reason can be given for so sad a misfortune but the good pleasure of Almighty God who if it be lawful to look so far into the Judgements of Heaven knowing the ill int●ntions and designes that were in the Hearts of many both of the Irish and English there in case Dublin had been taken saw them unworthy of that Blessing and took that time for their punishment and humiliation not onely this but a torrent of other crosses following in the neck one upon another for besides this mischance before Dublin to the ruine of so great an Army about which same time O Neal Relieves Coot in London-Derry to the immediate loss of that Province and the future scourge of his own followers Not long before likewise the Plague was brought by a Ship out of Spain into Galloway and besides the havock it made in that Town so disperst it self over all the Province of Connaught that the Lord Marquess of Clanrickard being deprived through the Calamities that were upon that Town and Country both of Money and Means to march withal could not for many Months draw his Army together either to act any thing alone or joyn with any other for fear lest by that means the Plague that had made such spoil while they were asunder should Mow them down now when they were all together This rout at Dublin the Relief of Derry and the Plague might be thought competent afflictions to be cast upon a people so impoverished and a Kingdom so wasted b●fore yet this sufficeth not there are heavier losses yet to follow and a worse Pestilence to land shortly at Dublin that will sweep away their Men and Towns together But here you may justly interrupt me and say that though it must be confessed that whatsoever befals us in this Vale of misery is to be attributed to the Hand of Heaven or the permission at least of the Divine Providence into the Reasons of whose secret and hidden Counsels our weak capacities are unable to search yet nevertheless those visible causes whereby we draw misfortunes upon our selves by such who through neglect of their Duty and disobedience to their Superiours are apparently the Authors thereof ought not to pass unpunished and therefore you see no reason why those were not called to an account that deserved it both by their cowardise and so shameful omission of their Duty as could admit of no excuse But when you shall be pleased to reflect upon what I said before that the Lord-Lieutenant Commanded this Army and indeed the Kingdom