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A51585 A journal of the three months royal campaign of His Majesty in Ireland together, with a true and perfect diary of the siege of Lymerick / by Samuel Mullenaux. Mullenaux, Samuel. 1690 (1690) Wing M3058; ESTC R212 30,044 26

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if they had been alive from the Dead the Streets were fill'd with Crowds and Shouts and the Roman Catholicks now lay in the same terrors as they had done some few days before At Eight this Night one Troop of Dragoons came as a Guard to an Officer that came to take charge of the Stores It was impossible the King himself coming after this could be welcom d with equal joy as this one Troop the Protestants hung about the Horses and were ready to pull t●e Men off them as they march'd up to the Castle Next Morning b ing Fryday the 4th the Duke of Ormond and Monsieur Overkirke came in with Nine Troops of Horse and the King being encamped by Finglass came on Sunday to St. Patricks Church and heard a Sermon preach d by Dr. King concerning the Power of God Of which that which seem'd to us greatest on Earth mighty Armies was a faint shadow The King went back to his Camp to dinner not suffering any Soldiers to come into the City except a few for Guards By some Persons in our Army that have viewed the Dead at the Boyne I am told that there were not above sixteen hundred killed on both sides though perhaps you may hear of greater Numbers in England which is a wonderful thing that so small a loss should disperse the whole Irish Army who seemed to be blown away only by a Wind from God July 5. The Town of Wexford declared for his Majesty the manner or it was thus Collonel Butler Lord Lieutenant of the County hearing that the late late King James was gone by on Wedn●sday last he posted after him and from Duncannon wrote to his Son to come to him and to follow the late King James to France He wrote also another Letter to Captain Kelly to come away with his Company and set the Castle of Wexford on Fire which was under his command but this Letter falling into the hands of an English Merchant where Collonel Butter was quartered he did not deliver it but told the Captain how he was sent for concealing that part of the Letter about burning the Castle and so soon as he and his Company were gone the Protestants there rose disarmed the Papists and seized the Castle and at their humble Request by two Messengers His Majesty sent some few days after a Regiment with Arms and Ammunition to secure them we continued in our Camp to refresh our selves till July 9. At which time early in the Morning his Majesty caused us to decamp from Finglass to a place called Cromlin three Miles on the South side of Dublin This Day was Published at the Camp Their Majesties Declaration which follows The Declaration of William and Mary King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland To all the People of the Kingdom of Ireland to whom it may concern William Rex AS it hath pleas'd Almighty God to bless our Arms in this Kingdom with a late Victory over our Enemies at the Boyne and with the Possession of our Capital City of Dublin and with the general Dispertion of all that did oppose Vs We are now in so happy a Prospect of our Affairs and of extinguishing the Rebellion of this Kingdom That we hold it reasonable to think of Mercy and to have Compassion upon those whom We judge to have been seduced wherefore We do hereby Declare We shall take into our Royal Protection all poor Labourers Common Souldiers Country Farmers Plough men and Cottiers whatsoever as also all Citizens Townsmen Tradesmen and Artificers who either remained at home or having fled from their dwellings shall by the the First day of August next repair to their usual Places of Abode Surrendering what Arms they have to such Justices of Peace as are or shall be appointed by Vs not only to receive the same but also to Register the Appearance of such of the said Persons as shall come in and submit to Our Authority For Our Royal Intention is and We do hereby Declare That we will not only Pardon all those poor People as to their Lives and Liberties who shall come in by the time aforesaid for all Violences they have done or committed by the Command of their Leaders during the War but We do promise to secure them in their Goods their Stocks of Cattle and all their Chattels personal whatsoever Willing and Requiring them to come in and where they were Tenants there to preserve the Harvest of Grass and Corn for the supply of Winter But forasmuch as many of them had a Legal Right to the Tenancy of several Lands some holden from Protestants and some from Popish Proprietors who have been concerned in the Rebellion against Vs Our Will and Pleasure is That all those Tenants who held from our good Protestant Subjects do pay their Rents to their respective Landlords And that the Tenants of all those who have been concerned in the present Rebellion against Vs do keep their Rent in their Hands until they have notice from the Commissioners of Our Revenue unto whom they are to account for the same And as We do hereby strickly forbid all Violence Rapine and Molestation to any who shall thus come in and remain Obedient to Vs so for those of this or any other Rank or Quality who are already in Our Quarters and within our Power and Obedient to Vs We do hereby charge and require That they be not molested in any sort without Our special Command For the desperate Leaders of the present Rebellion who have violated those Laws by which this Kingdom is united and inseparably annexed to the Imperial Crown of England who have called in the French who have Authorized all Violences and Depredations against the Protestants and who rejected the Gracious Pardon We offered them in our Proclamation of the 22th of Feb. 1688. s We are now by God s great Favour in condition to make them sensible of their Errors so are We resolv'd to leave them to the event of War unless by great and manifest demonstrations We shall be convinced they deserve our Mercy which We shall never refuse to those that are truly Penitent Given at our Royal Camp at Finglass near Dublin the 7th day of July 1690. In the Second Year of Our Reign July 11th We continued in our Camp at Cromlin till this Morning When the King set out to Kilkenny with a part of the Army General Douglass with another Part went some days before towards Wexford July 14th His Majesty Encamped at Inchiqueen 21 Miles from Dublin where News was brought to the Camp that Cavan and Sligo had Voluntarily Surrendred and that the Irish Villains called Raparees had burnt Longford and the Lord Longfords House July 15th His Majesty with the Army Encamped at Castle Dermote On the 1 6th We Marched to Caterlough which was but five Miles On the 1 7th We Encamped about Kelly leaving the Road to Kilkenny that City being above four Miles out of our way here by some Deserters come