all but Writing-Clerks Fees 6. Whereas these present Wars have drawn great Violences upon both Parties and if Leave were given to the bringing of all sorts of private Actions the Animosities would probably continue that have been so long on foot and the publick Disturbances last for the quieting and settling therefore of the Kingdom and the avoiding those Inconveniences which would be the necessary consequence of the contrary no Person or Persons whatsoever comprized in the foregoing Articles shall be sued molested or impleaded at the Suit of any Party or Parties whatsoever for any Trespasses by them committed or for any Arms Horses Moneys Goods Chattels Merchandizes or Provisions whatsoever by them seized or taken during the Time of the War and no Person or Persons whatsoever in the Second or Third Articles comprized shall be sued or made accountable for the Rents or Rates of any Lands Tenements or Houses by him or them reserved or enjoyed in this Kingdom since the beginning of the present War to the Day of the Date hereof nor for any Waste or Trespass by him or them committed in any such Lands Tenements or Houses And it is also agreed that this Article shall be mutual and reciprocal on both sides 7. Every Nobleman and Gentleman comprized in the Second and Third Articles shall have Liberty to ride with a Sword and Case of Pistols if they think fit and keep a Gun in their Houses for the Defence of the same or Fowling 8. The Inhabitants and Residents of the City of Lymerick and other Garrisons shall be permitted to remove their Goods Chattels and Provisions out of the same without being viewed or search'd or paying any manner of Duties and shall not be compelled to leave their Houses or Lodgings they now have therein for the space of six Weeks next ensuing the Date hereof 9. The Oath to be administred to such Roman Catholicks as submit to Their Majesties Government shall be the Oath afore-said and no other 10. No Person or Persons who shall at any time hereafter break these Articles or any of them shall thereby make or cause any other Person or Persons to forfeit or lose the Benefit of the same 11. The Lords Justices and General do promise to use their utmost Endeavours that all Persons comprehended in the above-mentioned Articles shall be protected and defended from all Arrests and Executions for Debt or Damage for the space of eight Months next ensuing the Date hereof 12. Lastly The Lords Justices and the General do undertake That Their Majesties will ratifie these Articles within the space of three Months or sooner and use their utmost Endeavours that the same shall be ratified and confirmed in the Parliament 13. * * Q. Whether it be conform to the Laws of War that one and the same Person should be included in Articles of Surrender of three distinct places as was Col. J. Browne And whereas Col. John Browne stood indebted unto several Protestants by Judgments of Record which appearing to the late Government the Lords Tyrconnel and Lucan took away the Effects the said John Browne had to answer the said Debts which Effects were taken for the publick Use of the Irish and their Army for freeing the said Lord Lucan of his said Engagement past upon their publick Account for payment of the said Protestants for preventing the Ruine of the said John Browne and for satisfaction of his said Creditors at the instance of the said Lord Lucan and the rest of the persons aforesaid it is agreed That the said Lords Justices and Lieut. General Ginckel shall interpose with the King and Parliament to have the Estates secured to Roman Catholicks by Articles and Capitulations in this Kingdom charged with and equally liable to the payment of so much of the said Debts as the said Lord Lucan upon stating Accounts with the said John Browne shall certifie under his hand that the Effects taken from the said John Browne amount unto Account is to be stated and the Balance certified by the said Lord Lucan in 21 Days after the Date hereof For the true performance whereof we have hereunto set our Hands Present Scravemore H. Mackay T. Talmash Charles Porter Tho. Conyngesby Baron De Ginckel AND whereas the said City of Lymerick hath been since in pursuance of the said Articles surrendered unto Vs Now know ye That We having considered of the said Articles are graciously pleased hereby to declare that We do for Vs our Heirs and Successors as far as in Vs lies ratifie and confirm the same and every Clause Matter and Thing therein contained And as to such parts thereof for which an Act of Parliament shall be found to be necessary We shall recommend the same to be made good by Parliament and shall give Our Royal Assent to any Bill or Bills that shall be passed by Our Two Houses of Parliament to that purpose And whereas it appears unto Vs that it was agreed between the Parties to the said Articles that after the Words Lymerick Clare Cerry Cork Mayo or any of them in the second of the said Articles the Words following viz. And all such as are under their Protection in the said Counties should be inserted and be part of the said Articles which Words haivng been casually omitted by the Writer the omission was not discovered till after the said Articles were signed but was taken notice of before the second Town was surrendered And that Our said Justices and General or one of them did promise that the said Clause should be made good it being within the Intention of the Capitulation and inserted in the foul Draught thereof Our further Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby ratifie and confirm the said Words viz. And all such as are under their Protection in the said Counties hereby for Vs our Heirs and Successors ordaining and declaring that all and every Person and Persons therein concerned shall and may have receive and enjoy the Benefit thereof in such and the same manner as if the Words had been inserted in their proper place in the said second Article any omission defect or mistake in the said second Article in any ways notwithstanding Provided always and Our Will and Pleasure is that these our Letters-Patents shall be enrolled in our Court of Chancery in our said Kingdom of Ireland within the space of one Year next ensuing In witness c. Witness Our selâ— at Westminster the Twenty fourth Day of February Anno Regni Regis Reginae Gulielmi Mariae quarto per breve de privato sigillo Nos autem tenorem praemissor praedict ad requisitionem Attornat General Domini Regis Dominae Reginae pro Regno Hiberniae duximus exemplificandum per praesentes In Cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Testibus nobis ipsis apud Westmon quinto die Aprilis Annoque Regni eorum quarto Bridges Examinat per Nos S. Keck Lacon W. Child in Cancel Magistros Our
went in quest of the French-man but could not meet with him My Lord Kinsale leaves the Enemy and comes to Kinsale and seven Rapparees were killed at a place called Montervary in the County of Cork Croneen Devane and Sexton three noted Rogues were killed and one Murphey taken near Macroomp by Major Fenwick August the 16th some Irish Souldiers that escaped at the Battel of Aghrim and afterwards set up for themselves took a Prey of Cattle near Kinsale and drove it fifteen Miles but being pursued by a Party of the Militia four of them were killed and the Prey recovered Nigh the same time a Dutch Vessel loaden with Wine and Salt came into Bantry Bay and some of O Donevan's Men surprized her at Anchor but Col. Beecher with four Boats manned with a Party of his Militia came about from the Island of Shartin and retook the Ship forced twelve of the Irish into the Sea who were drowned and took twenty four more of them that had got into their Boats August the 17th one hundred and forty Commission-Officers taken at Ballymore Athlone and Aghrim were sent on board several Ships with a Guard of Dublin Militia conducted by the Monmouth Yatch and to be delivered to the Governour of Chester Capt. Darby of the Leap kills eight Rapparees in an Island near Birr And August the 20th Capt. Dunbar was sent by Sir Henry Bellasis Governour of Galway to take possession of the Island and Garison of Buffin which he had obliged to submit upon the following Articles Articles and Capitulations agreed upon by Sir Henry Bellasis Governour of Galway and Colonel Timothy Royrdan Governour of Buffin concerning the Surrender of the said Island and Garison First That the said Island of Buffin and the Fort thereof and the adjacent Islands belonging to the Earl of Clanrickard shall be surrendred to such Officers as shall be appointed by the Governour of Galway with all the Stores Ammunition Provisions and Magazines of all sorts without Imbezelment so soon as the Governour of Galway shall think fit to send thither after Captain Nicholas Blake's return from thence Secondly In Consideration of the Surrender as aforesaid the Garison shall march forth with flying Colours Drums beating Match lighted Bullet in Mouth and as much Ammunition as each Officer and Souldier can carry with him Thirdly That the Governour Officers and Souldiers of the said Garison the Lord Atheery Lieutenant Colonel John Kelly and all the Inhabitants of the said Islands shall possess and enjoy their Estates Real and Personal as they held or ought to have held under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation or otherways by the Laws of this Kingdom freely discharged from all Crown-Rents Quit-Rents and all other Charges to the Date hereof And that Col. John Brown his being in Buffin shall not bar him from the Capitulations of Galway and that if the said Colonel John Brown shall desire to go to Limerick the Governour of Galway promises that he shall be safely conducted thither with his Horses Servants and Arms. Fourthly That the Governour Officers and Souldiers and other the Inhabitants thereof by any Grant of King James the Second before his Abdication or any of his Ancestors shall have a general Pardon of all Attainders Outlawries Treasons Felonies Premunires and other Offences committed since the said K. James's Reign to the Date hereof Fifthly That the Garison Officers and Souldiers shall be transported from thence either to Galway or the River Shannon in order to go to Limerick or otherways march over Land with safe Conduct as to the Governour shall seem fittest with Arms Bag and Baggage as aforesaid Sixthly That the Governour of Buffin shall be furnished if need be with necessary Horses to carry his Equipage to Limerick Seventhly That any of the Inhabitants of the said Island that shall desire it may go or be transported to Limerick with their Goods along with the Garison and be as safely conducted as they and that if they shall march by Galway the said Souldiers if they shall need it shall be furnished with four Days Provision of Bread for their march to Limerick Eighthly That Capt. Michael Cormack and Capt. Dominick Brown if they will may stay and remain in the said Island and enjoy their Stock Corn and other Goods under safe Protection with their Servants and Families And that if any of the Garison Officers or Souldiers or any of the Inhabitants shall desire to stay they may with the like Advantage and one Priest That if any Ships shall happen to be at Buffin at the time of the Surrender they shall have free liberty to go out of that Harbour and that the said Capt. Michael Cormuck and Captain Dominick Brown may go to any place in the County of Mayo where their Concerns are and there remain with their Corn Goods and Stock as aforesaid Ninthly That for the due perfecting of these Articles Captain Nicholas Blake is immediately to repair to Buffin to have them signed by Colonel Royrdan the Governour of that Place and in eight Days to return with them so Signed And for assurance of his return he hath given Lieut. Col. John Kelly and Capt. Richard Martin as Security Tenthly The Governour of Galway promises that the General shall have these Articles and Capitulations ratified after such manner and within such time as the Articles of Galway shall be That for due performance of these Articles and Capitulations the Governour of Galway and the Governour of Buffin have interchangeably Signed and Sealed them the 19th Day of August 1691. Signed and Sealed in the presence of Tim. Royrdan Geo. Dunbar Anthony Tellett This and the Isle of Arran lie some Leagues to Sea from the Mouth of the Bay of Galway in the former of which there is a strong Fort with about a dozen Guns in both which Islands there always have been Garisons kept Nigh this time three of the Militia were killed in the Bog of Allen by Mackabe's Party and two days after four of the Rapparees were kill'd and Mackabe himself narrowly escaped with the loss of two more of his Men himself being forced to strip and run cross the Bog The Militia now were very active about the Bog of Allen and killed five more at one time and ten in a few days after amongst whom was the White Serjeant which occasioned ten more of the Crew to come in and submit We had now an Account that our Fleet was at Torbay and the French Fleet at Brest but that ours had Orders to put to Sea again in ten Days August the 25th a thousand Militia Foot under Colonel Rorger Moore and five hundred Horse and Dragoons with three Field-pieces march'd from Dublin towards Sligoe making with Detachments from other Counties in all five thousand Men to be commanded by the Earl of Granard to whose Conduct the reducing of that troublesome Fort was now committed And towards the latter end of August some Rapparees stealing Cows nigh Cork six of them were kill'd and
Generalis Domini Regis Dominae Reginae pro Regno Hyberniae duximus exemplificandum per praesentes In Cujus rei Testimonium has litteras nostras fieri facimus patentes Testibus nobis ipsis apud Westmonasterium quinto die Aprilis Anno Regni eorum quarto Bridges Examinat per nos S. Keck Lacon W. Child In Cancell Magistros This Town with a good Garison in it might have July 169â— given us more trouble and so have postponed the Siege of Limerick yet considering their present Circumstances they did not manage ill in procuring for themselves those Terms which they had tho' the General might safely condescend to grant any thing included in the Lords Justices Declaration which both the Articles of Gallway and Limerick are At the same time that Gallway was Capitulating there came a Drum from Limerick which put us in hopes that all was over and that they had a mind to make Terms not only for Gallway but for the Irish Nation in general but it was only about the exchange or releasing of some Prisoners which at that time could not be granted or rather it was to understand what became of Gallway that so the others might take their measures accordingly THE TOWN OF GALLOWAY Besieged the 19th of Iuly and surrendred the 14th 1692. About ten a Clock my Lord Dillon marched out with the Irish Garison being not above two thousand three hundred men and those but indifferently armed and worse cloathed they had six pieces of Cannon according to the Capitulation four of which were Iron and drawn by six Teams of our Horses having a Guard of Horse and Dragoons from our Camp to conduct them to Limerick At twelve a Clock the General himself went into Town being attended after his entrance by the Mayor and Aldermen the Recorder making a Speech to wish him Joy In the Evening one Captain Brain O Neal with most of his Company deserted from the Enemy as did also several others and taking the Oath of fidelity to their Majesties were either dismist to their several Habitations or else were entertained in our Army as their fancy led them We found several Guns in Town unmounted and two or three very fine Brass Guns which they had not planted in any place to be made use of there was also good store of Ammunition left besides eight hundred Hogs-heads of Meal and other things of value July the 27th That part of the Army encampt beyond the River under Lieutenant General Mackay marcht through the Town and our men were set to work in improving the Fort which the Irish had formerly begun towards the South-East Corner of the Wall six of our Guns were likewise sent into Town since we had furnished the Irish with Draught-horses for so many of theirs then we levelled all the Batteries and other Works that we had begun against the place and all sick Souldiers that were not able to march were ordered to be taken care of by the Governor except such as were sent in Waggons towards Athlone The 28th we marched back to Athenree and as the Army were in motion Captain Coal with nine Men of The Army removes War and eighteen other Ships appeared in the Bay of Gallway to whom the General sent Orders to sail immediately for the Shannon the twenty ninth we marched to Lougbreagh and the next day proving very rainy the Army rested The 31th the Army marched A Squadron of Ships come into the Bay towards Airs Court a well improved place and a good Country all about but upon occasion of the Waters being swelled by the former days rain or else through the mistake of Orders the Army encamped that night in three several places which had been a good opportunity for a vigorous Enemy to endeavour the retrieving of their Losses but the Truth of it was they were at too great a distance for any such Attempt And since we have brought the Army to the end of A Brief Account of what hapned in other places of the Kingdom this month let us leave them a while on their march towards Limerick and briefly give an account of what hapned much about this time in several other parts of the Kingdom July the 1st Lieutenant Colonel Dawson marcht with a Party of the Militia towards the Comorra Mountains not far from Waterford where he killed three Rapparees and Major Stroud being one of the Officers appointed by the Government to Command the Militia in the County of Cork killed ten Rapparees near Baly-Cleugh and in ten days there were sixty more killed in that part of the Countrey adjoyning to Bandon by Lieutenant Colonel More and others of the Militia and Colonel Blunt killed five near Cashell In the beginning of April one Duppine obtained Letters Patents for the setting up a Linnen Manufacture in Ireland this was very taking at first and a great many of the Chief men in the Kingdom had shares in it On the 8th of July the Lords Justices with several of the Nobility and Judges met at the Tholsâ—ll in Dublin and there admitted several new Members of the said Corporation but what this project will come to in this Kingdom is as yet uncertain The same day our Smirna Fleet came into the Harbour of Kinsale and we had an account that our Grand Fleet was then nigh Cape-Clere About this time five and twenty Rapparees were killed near Mount Melick and part of the Militia of Roscreagh go towards Nenagh upon an expedition for black Cattle and killed ten Rapparees one Captain Warren killed nine also in the County of Killkenny On the 17th ten Ships with Mortars Bombs Ammunition c. came from Dublin to Kinsale being part of those convoyed afterwards by Captain Coale to Limerick and then our Fleet convoyed the Smirna-Fleet from Kinsale towards England Ships also came to Waterford with one hundred Recruits for the Brandenburg Regiment who suffered much in the former Siege of Limerick and some few also for the Danes John Weaver Esq High Sheriff of the County of Westmeath by Order from the Government gives Protections to several Rapparees and those discover a knot of Rogues twenty three of whom were killed by the Militia and three Gun-smiths also who were at work for them on a Forge built in the midst of a great Wood. July the 20th a Party of the Irish Army appear nigh Cashell but marched off again without attempting any thing And Colonel James Barry with a Party of the Militia killed five and thirty Rapparees near Tallough but being way-laid by the Enemy most of his Party were killed or taken Prisoners and himself carried to Limerick where he remained a Prisoner till the Town was surrendred The 22 d. three Rapparees were killed near Cork and four more towards Cahir The 23 d. Lieutenant Colonel Ramsey Captain Kingsly and other Officers with one hundred Souldiers out of Colonel Venner's Regiment formerly Sir Edward Deering's joyned with four hundred of the Militia marched towards
detached a Party towards a Bridge about half a mile from the Place thinking to maintain that Pass till his Men might march safely off towards Limerick but at his coming to the Bridge perceiving our Men marching to the Right and Left to incompass him after some few shots he retreated to Nenagh setting the small part of the Town that was left on fire which was soon Nenagh deserted by the Irish quenched by some English Prisoners that had been kept there but now released when the Irish made towards Limerick when our Men got to Nenagh Major VVood was ordered with a Party to pursue the Irish which he did almost to Cariganlis taking most of their Baggage and about four hundred large Cattle which the Irish were in too great haste to carry off The Third our Army marched to Bi r but the passage over the Bridge at Banoher being exceeding troublesom it was late before the Guns and Carriages could be got up and therefore we rested on the Fourth And now we found that notwithstanding all the supplies of Horses that we had out of England yet there still wanted a great many for the use of the heavy Cannon and therefore it was proposed to bring them down from Athlone to Limerick by Water but that being found impracticable the General sent to Dublin where most of the Nobility and Gentry furnished him with their Coach Horses but all those not being sufficient a great many more were pressed by an Order from the Government The Fifth we marched to Burasicane where there had been a pretty English Plantation but burnt down the former Winter by the Garrison of Bi r because they did not desire to have the Rapparees in so near a Neighbourhood The Sixth we marched to Ninagh where we stayed four dayes for want of Bread and other Necessaries The Army march thither it being no small difficulty to furnish an Army with constant Supplies in a desolate Country when they are still upon their march and where every thing must he carried upon the Axletree Friday the Seventh The Lord Justice Coningesby came to the Camp where he staid nigh a Fortnight And Saturday the Eighth a Party of Horse and Dragoons with several Pioneers went towards the Silver Mines to mend the Roads for our heavy Carriages Another Party at the same time marching towards Killalow Pass who brought in seven or eight Prisoners A Brigadier of the Guards and two more Horsemen desert the Enemy and inform us that they were encamped nigh Cariganlis and making what preparations they could to withstand us forcing all the Irish into Arms that were within their Jurisdiction and arming their Foot anew out of the Stores at Limerick and that they talked of giving us Battle again before we should approach the Town The same day one Mr. Richards came A Treaty with Balderock O Donel. from Balderock O Donel to our Camp where he stayed two or three dayes and then went towards Dublin in order to wait upon his Majesty who was then in Flanders His business was to assure the General of Balderooks affections to their Majesties Service and that if he might have the Men he brought over with him admitted into pay in order to serve his Majesty in Flanders or elsewhere himself made Earl of Tyrconnel to which he pretended a Title from his Ancestors and have two thousand pounds given him for his expences he would then come over to us and bring a considerable Body of the Irish along with him The General therefore considering that it was no ill policy to get the Irish to draw bloud one of another consented to some of O Donnels proposals and the business was shortly after compleated tho' Balderock complained heavily that the thing should be made publick to the great hinderance August 169â— of the Numbers of Men he designed to bring off and almost to the hazard of his own life for this Treaty was first in the Dublin Intelligence and then in the London Gazette dated August the 13th which was before the thing was really compleated but those that have seen Balderock will believe that it was partly his own fault There was also an Officer sent at the same time by Sir Teague O Regan from Sligo about the surrender of that place the Articles being in a manner agreed to but this business was afterwards delayed and the Government obliged to be at the expence and trouble of sending a Body of men from Dublin and other parts of the Kingdom to reduce it by force and it s confidently averred that this hapned meerly by the covetousness of one of our Colonels who had the Secreet of this Affair committed to his management August the 9th Lieutenant Colonel Oxborough of Colonel Lutterill's Horse his Lieutenant and their Attendance desert and come to our camp and a Foot Officer with eleven Musquiteers and their Arms came in also A Man and a Woman were this day hanged in the Camp the Man for robbing Tents and the Woman for being accessary to the Murther of one of our Souldiers nigh Gallway The time limited in the Lords Justices Proclamation dated July the 7th being now expired and the General willing still to use all fair means possible to bring in the Irish without the effusion of more Blood he therefore orders the following Declaration to be prepared By Lieutenant General Ginckell Commander in Chief of Their Majesties Forces August 1691. THE Enemies of Their Majesties Government A Declaration from the General to the Irish and the Disturbers of the Quiet of this Kingdom having been very industrious to conceal the Grace and Favour which has been offered to such as should return to their Duty To take away all manner of excuse for the future from those that still continue in Arms I have thought fit to publish that tho' the Term prescribed by the Lords Justices in their Proclamation of the seventh of July is expired so that no man can lay claim to the Condiscentions therein made yet if within ten days from the date hereof any Person or Persons shall do the Services therein mentioned I promise with the Consent of the Lords Justices who are thereunto impowered by Their Majesties that they shall have a full and free Pardon of all Treasons Crimes and Offences by them committed against Their Majesties Government and be restored to their Estates forfeited by the said Treasons c. And to shew their Majesties Bounty and Confidence in them that leave the Enemy and have a mind to testifie their Zeal and Affection to Their Majesties Service I do hereby engage that all such Officers and Souldiers as come off from the Irish with a Body of Men or surrender any Town or strong Castle into our Hands within the abovesaid ten days shall have if they desire it the same or better Post or Employment in the Army then they left and a Reward suitable to the Merit of the Service they perform as those have already had
Balderock with a thousand Men was ordered to attack it This Place they say is very strong and at that time commanded by one of the O Connors who upon Sight of the Artillery surrendred upon Condition to march with his Party and Baggage towards Sligoe This done my Lord Granard marches to Sligoe having Advice that Colonel Mitchelburn's Regiment and some of the Militia under Lieutenant Colonel Caulfield had forced old Sir Teague and his Crew from several Out-works and Ditches and obliged them to retire into the Fort. The Earl of Granard and his Party were hard put to it in their March thither over the Curlew Mountains for their Draught-Horses being none of the best and several of them tiring the Men themselves were forced to draw the Cannon and that for several Miles which they performed very chearfully That Afternoon the Enemy beat a Parley but we found it was only to gain Time and therefore in the Evening we began to fire with great and small Shot and so continued most part of the Night without any further Loss on our Side but of an Ensign who had his Head shot off with a great Shot But the Enemy seeing a great many Carriages with my Lord Granard's Party they were perswaded that they had brought heavy Cannon with Mortars Bombs Carcasses c. So that they beat another Parley and after some time they consented to surrender the Sligoe surrendred to my Ld Granard Town upon the Articles that were agreed to on the 6th of August viz. Their Party to march to Limerick with Arms and Baggage and that all the little Garisons thereabouts in the Hands of the Irish should have the Benefit of the Capitulation The Fort was surrendred on the sixteenth being made of Turf and having in it six hundred Men and sixteen Guns and Colonel Mitchelburn was left Governour In former times the Castle of Sligoe was a good Fortification being built by Maurice Fitz-Gerald Lord Justice in the Year 1242. September the 17th the Dublin Militia return Conquerors home again having not lost one Man in their whole March and those of the North march towards Ballynewton and Castle-burk to have them surrendred according to the Articles of Sligoe many Robberies and Murders being committed in that Countrey particularly on Dr. Brooks an eminent Physician and three more the Rapparees first wounding them in several Places and then for security cutting their Throats September the 12th the Irish take a good Prey near Tallough and the Militia to be even with them take another Prey and kill one of my Lord Merion's Troopers with two Rapparees Captain Orfeur of Colonel Hastings's Regiment going out with a Party of the said Regiment and some of the Militia he killed twenty of the Rapparees near Lismore which so terrified the rest that the Countrey thereabouts was pretty quiet for some time On the 12th of August John Mackabe the notorious Rapparee who so much infested the Bog of Allen was brought with four of his Companions by Lieutenant Sheilds and Lieutenant Courtney to Dublin and on the 19th they were hanged up in Chains at the Naas This Fellow and another called the White Serjeant had been both in the Irish Army but broke there for some Rogueries and after a great deal of Mischief done to the Countrey they both got what they deserved the one being killed and the other hanged About this time one of the Militia was killed and several wounded by the Rapparees near Caperquin but in requital the Militia kill five of them Towards the latter End of September two Lieutenants of the Irish Army having deserted and got our General 's Pass to go home they were met withal by Hogan and his Party and stripp'd of what they had but neither himself nor any of his Crew could read the Pass else it 's probable they would have sent them the way they sometimes did our Militia when they fell into their Power Two Rapparees of one Higgins's Party are taken and himself desires a Protection Six more are killed near Mountmelick And on the 26th one Caloghan a great Rapparee and some of his Party come in under Protection at Edenderry for now they began to be sensible how things were like to go on their side and October 1691. therefore when they were afraid to lose the Power of doing Mischief they came in and not before And to conclude the Month Hogan and his Party meeting with some of our Militia Dragoons near Roscreagh murder seven of them and the eighth hardly escaped One Tiercy was seized and hanged And one Purcell after the Rope had broke with him promising to make a Discovery was saved and detected four more And nigh the End of this Month our Packets brought us an account of the Death of Lieutenant General Dowglass in Flanders CHAP. IX The Lords Justices come to the Camp The Irish General Officers come to the General 's Tent. Articles signed The Articles at large both Military and Civil with their Majesties Confirmation to both We take possession of the Irish Town A Lieutenant Colonel imprisoned for denying to go to France A Declaration from the General My Lord Lucan perswades the Irish to go into France Their Foot drawn out and put to the trial The Lords Justices return towards Dublin Our Army decamps from Limerick Some of the Irish march out OCtober the first upon a Complaint from Lieut. Gen. Sarsfield that some of our Men begun to plunder and strip theirs as they found Opportunities the General gave Orders that the Souldiers should not go beyond our own Works And now the Irish begin to make Hutts in the King's Island and draw several Regiments out of the Town thither keeping all their Gates fast-lock'd lest their Men should run away from them upon the news of going for France for how fond soever they might be of K. James's Service yet few of the common People have any stomach for travelling That Evening about nine a Clock the Lords Justices came to the Camp which being The Lords Justices come to the Camp signified to the Irish Officers on the 2 d about 3 a Clock in the Afternoon came Sarsfield Waughup and all the other Great Men of the Irish Nation Civil Military The Irish Great Officers come to the General 's Tent. and some Ecclesiastical only 't was observable that the French Lieutenant Generals kept in Town and pretended Indisposition tho they signed the Articles and yet the Matter was not great as to us whether they had or not tho it was material to the Irish as bringing them under the same Circumstances with themselves But tho things were in a manner adjusted before yet there arose new Debates about the Rapparees and other things that lasted till 12 a Clock at Night Then the Articles were ordered to be engrossed and the Irish return into Town My Lord Merion and my Lord Brittas were also now come from Kerry and their Party included in the Articles The 3 d most
c. But this is no difficult Business to resolve since they had the publick Faith of the French and Irish Officers which is seldom or never violated in such Cases but all Men during a Cessation are commonly treated with the greatest Civility imaginable Besides which my Lord Lucan and Major General Waughop gave the following Engagement under their Hands as did also the two French Lieut. Generals D'Vssone and De Tessee another in French to the same purpose giving also Hostages for the better performance of all Conditions We the Earl of Lucan and Major General VVauhop whose Names are under-written do hereby promise 1. THat all the Ships that have been furnished by My Lord Lucan and Major-General Wauhop's Engagement for the Shipping Lieut. General Ginckel and that are to transport Troops from Ireland to France â— according to the late Capitulation shall be sent back and return to Cork Kinsale or Waterford without any hinderance or prejudice to the said Ships by any Men of War Privateers or other Ships belonging to the French King or having his Commission 2. That assoon as the said Ships shall have Landed the Irish Troops in France they shall have full liberty to go back for Ireland when they think fit without being hindered upon any pretence whatsoever 3. That if the said Ships do want some Provisions for their Return here into Ireland they shall be supplied with all such as they shall have occasion for at the same Rates they were furnished in Ireland to the Irish Troops for their Transportation into France and what they amount to shall be deducted out of the Money that shall be due for the Provisions that were put on Board the Ships for the said Troops 4. That the Rates of the Provisions that shall be furnished for Transportation of the said Troops shall be paid immediately after their Landing in France or in Bills of Exchange payable at London at 15 days sight And if the Contents of this present Agreement should not be put in execution in all its Particulars or in any one part besides Col. Hugh Mac Mahon Col. Robert Arthur Col. O Gara c. that shall be left in Ireland for Hostages we do engage our Words and Honour that we shall surrender our selves Prisoners of War three months after our Landing in case of Contravention at Whitehall in the Hands of the Secretaries of State In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hands this 14th Day of October 1691. Jo. Wauhop Lucan The 16th my Lord Lucan went from Lymerick towards Cork to see things in a readiness for the Irish Transportation and the same day Sir Maurice Eustace 's Major General Talbot's Lord Bedloe 's Prince of Wales 's my Lore Clanrichard 's and Col. Bremingham 's Regiments being joyned they march'd out and made in all only 618 Men. As they march'd through the Irish-Town their men run away by dozens having the way open for them nor could their Officers prevent it by all their Care for they kept the Gates always fast lock'd and yet several from within the Town made their Escapes by swimming the River The 17th my Lord Iniskillin 's Regiment that had been for some time in the County of Clare was mustered beyond the Town and so were some others of them on the 18th and 19th During which time our men were employed in making clean the Irish Town Major General Talmash going often amongst them himself to encourage them to work CHAP. X. The Campaign ended Irish Prisoners of War released some Rapparees lay down their Arms. Proclamations of Pardon to the rest The Ulster-Irish return home with their Cattle The French Fleet arrives in the Shannon Sir Ralph Delaval with a Squadron in those Seas Two Letters from the General to him Some Objections against the Articles of Limerick answered The last of the Irish quit the English Town 120 of them drowned Their Horse ship off at Cork The General goes to Dublin The Recorder's Speech to him Orders for mustering our Army Major-General Talmash leaves Limerick Orders for the Danes to ship off Fortifications at Mullingar and Ballymore demolished A Proclamation The General goes for England The Transport-Ships return from France The late King's Letter to the Irish at their landing Their Reception in France Several desert that were not as yet shipp'd off My Lord Lucan 's Release to the General All the Irish go off except the Hostages The Irish that staid very unruly in their Quarters Orders and Instructions for breaking of them The Oaths taken according to the New Act of Parliament An Order to turn out all Irish Papists from our Regiments Arms and Ammunition sent for England The French Hostages go for France Lieutenant-General Ruvigny lands in Ireland A Proclamation declaring the War of Ireland ended ANd now the Campaign being ended so that no continued Thread of Affairs can be drawn from the Army any thing that has happen'd since may possibly not be so acceptable yet I hope it may not be amiss to give you some slender account how things have gone in that Kingdom since the Siege of Limerick to the time of the Proclamation for the War 's being ended though before I proceed further it will be necessary to look back and bring the Actions done in several other parts of the Kingdom up to the Armies removing from Limerick which indeed may be told in few Words since little of moment cou'd be expected in any other place but where the Seat of War was fixed In the beginning of October Sollicitor-General Levinge and Sir Richard Reves being appointed Judges for the Connaught-Circuit because the Countrey was very indifferently inhabited and not as yet throughly settled Assizes were appointed to be held for this Province only at Mullingar Roscommon and Galway which was done accordingly About 20 Rapparees were killed in the Counties of Waterford and Cork by some small Parties of the Militia and one Whitney with 4 more in his Company were set upon and murdered by a Party of Rapparees as they were going towards the Queen's County though they killed two and wounded others before they were seized And now those loose Fellows seeing how it was like to go with their Party several of them come in under Protection and desire to serve their Majesties abroad when they were out of hopes to plunder their Subjects any longer at home All the Irish Prisoners of War that were in Waterford-Gaol Irish Prisoners of War released being upwards of 200 were set at liberty as they were afterwards at several other Places particularly at Carigfergus where 15 Officers and about 60 private Men had been Prisoners ever since the Rout at Cavan and at Lambay where the Prisoners taken at Ballymore were kept most of this Summer but now were all discharged according to the Capitulation And as the Irish grew weary of their former Courses on that side of the Country towards Dublin or rather being forced to it when they could no longer carry it on so
Souldiers in order according to their Lists they first carried all the Men on Board and many of the Women at the second return of the Boat for the Officers catching hold to be carried on Board were dragged off and through fearfulness losing their hold were drowned but others who held faster had their fingers cut off and so perished in sight of their Husbands or Relations tho' those of them that did get over wou'd make but a sad Figure if they were admitted to go to the late Queen's Court at St. Germaine The Sheriffs for the several Counties in Ireland were prick'd and the same day all the Irish Prisoners that were in Newgate in Dublin were released and my Lord Lucan finding that he had Ships enough for all the Irish that were like to go with him the Number that went before and these Shipt at this time being according to the best computation about 12000 of all sorts he Signs the following Releasement WHereas by the Articles of Limerick Lieutenant My Lord Lucan 's Release to the General General Ginckell Commander in Chief of the English Army did engage himself to furnish ten thousand Tun of Shipping for the Transporting of such of the Irish Forces to France as were willing to go thither and to facilitate their passage to add four thousand Tun more in case the French Fleet did not come to this Kingdom to take off part of those Forces and whereas the French Fleet has been upon the Coast and carried away some of the said Forces and the Lieutenant General has provided Ships for as many of the rest as are willing to go as aforesaid I do hereby delare that the said Lieutenant General is released from any Obligation he lay under from the said Articles to provide Vessels for that purpose and do quit and renounce all farther Claim and Pretension on this Account c. Witness my Hand this 8th of December 1691. Witnesses Lucan Mark Talbot F. H. de la Forest Susannel December the 20th Colonel Langston's and Colonel Monopouillon's Horse and the Prince of Hess's Foot Shipp'd at Dublin for England and Colonel Neuhewson's Horse and the Brandeuburgh Foot march'd into Dublin The 22 d my Lord Lucan and the rest of the Irish Great Officers went on Board the Transport Ships leaving Hostages at Cork for the return of the said All the Irish go off except the Hostages Ships And at the same time Colonel Hasting's Sir David Collier's Colonel Brewer's and Colonel Herbert's Regiments were Shipp'd for England the Government taking all possible Care to Discharge the Kingdom of both Armies who had already brought it into a very low Condition December the 24th an Order was given out to the Comissary General of the Musters or his Deputies to An Order for Mustering all the Irish that came over to us take an exact Muster of all the Irish Forces now in Arms that had come over to our side since the beginning of the Truce at Limerick and they had Quarters allotted them in several places of the Kingdom but behaved themselves after their usual rate for tho' they had Changed their King yet not their Customs for they Taxed the People where they Quartered as they pleased themselves Imprison'd several and Released others as they saw good forced The Irish very unruly in their Quarters the Markets and did a great many other Illegal Tricks Insomuch that Complaint being made to the Lords Justices of those Disorders they writ a Letter to my Lord Kingston December 31. Desiring his Lordship to do them the Country and His Majesty what Service he cou'd in suppressing those Irregularities and to have the Court Martials that were Ordered in several Places put in Execution January the 6th there being no further use of a Marching Hospital in this Kingdom and the same The Marching-Hospital broke being expensive to the Government an Order was given out for the discharging several Physicians and others that attended on the same And now Their Majesties Pleasure being known about the Irish Orders and Instructions were directed to Colonel Foulk Colonel St. Johns and Brigadeer Villers to view and discharge all the Irish Forces except 1400 Choice Men the form of their Commissions for it ran thus By the Lords Justices of Ireland WHEREAS Their Majesties are pleased to Direct Orders and Instructions for breaking the Irish Forces that there be an immediate Regulation of such of the Regiments whether Horse Foot or Dragoons of the late Irish Army as came in and submitted to Their Obedience And We being well assured of the Care Diligence and Circumspection as well as of the Loyalty and Readiness of Colonel John Foulks to do Their Majesties good and faithful Service do hereby appoint him to make the said Regulation and Reform c. The Irish being by the said Instrument commanded January 1692. to obey him and our own Troops and Militia to observe his Directions in their Marching from place to place as he saw occasion The said Colonel Foulk and the other Officers aforesaid had Directions to assure the Irish both Officers and Souldiers of Their Majesties Gracious Disposition towards them tho' the present State of their Affairs wou'd not admit of any more than 1400 Men to be employed at this time and those to be divided into two Battalions Commanded by Colonel Wilson and Balderock O Donnel And that the Officers that were not willing to go home might attend those two Battalions where they wou'd have Subsistance till better provided for As for those that returned to their Habitations and desired to live peaceably at home if they were Souldiers and had their Arms nine Shillings a piece was ordered them but if without Arms they had six Shillings The Officers had a Fortnights Subsistence each to bear their Charges home These Orders and Instructions bore Date the 11th and 12th of January pursuant to which as soon as it cou'd conveniently be done Colonel Wilson's Colonel O Ryley's Colonel Nugent's Lord Iveigh's Lord Dillon's Colonel Cormack Oneal's Colonel Foelix Oneal's Colonel Geoghagan's Colonel O Donnel's Colonel Rourk's Colonel Oxborough's Colonel Lutteril's Horse Colonel Tho. Burk's Troop of Horse Sir Colonel John Burk's Troop Briggadier Clifford's Draggoons Colonel Mackgenni's Draggons were all broke by Colonel Foulk In Munster also Colonel Corbet's Horse were broke by Brigadier Villers And Colonel Mackdermot's Foot Colonel Bryan Oneal's Colonel Rob. Purcel's and Lieutenant Colonel Cahan's were broke by Colonel St. Johns only two Battalions being drawn out of the whole as is said and had Quarters assigned them in the Barrony of Muskerry These Irish had the Name of a great many January 1692. Regiments but scarce an hundred Men in each one with another for they were thin at best and several of them were gone into France having the Names of Regiments there also But after some time all the Irish not laying down their Arms an Order was directed to Sir Francis Hambleton Governour of Donegal to break
some of O Donnel's Men then in that Country which was done accordingly There hapned about this time two Violent Flashes of Lightning and Claps of Thunder at Kinsale by the latter of which the Portsmouth Frigatt suffered great damage having her Main To and Main Yard broke to pieces and the Main Mast split for twelve foot downwards breaking throw the Larboard side of the Ship twelve foot in length and did some other mischief tho only one Man was hurt by it Nigh the same time the Officers belonging to the Train of Artillery The Waggoners and others of that Society were broke as being no farther useful in this Kingdom And January 23 being the first day of the Term the The Oaths taken according to the new Act of Parliament Lords Justices came to the Court of King's-Bench and there took the Oaths to Their Majesties and Subscribed the Declaration required by the late Act of Parliament in England as did also several of the Nobility Whence the Lord Chancellor returned to his High Court of Chancery where the Judges of the several Courts Masters of Chancery King's Councel the Lawyers and several other Persons of different Qualities and Imployments took the prescribed Oaths c. For the Act of Parliament being Reprinted at Dublin and spread abroad by the Lords Justices Order and requiring all Persons whatever in any Imployment within Thirty Miles of that City to take the said Oath and subscribe the Declaration before the end of Hillary Term January 1692. and no exception being made or excuse allowed for Men's being Sick or otherwise disabled several were brought up to Town with great difficulty and the Courts daily throng'd 'till the Term was over Great quantities of Wheat and other Grain were ordered from Cork and Kingsale to furnish the Stores of Limerick that part of the Countrey being now very much put to it for want of Bread as being the seat of War this two years past The 25th Colonel Mathew's Dragoons were Shipp'd at Belfast as Sir John Lanier's Horse had been some time before and on the 27th my Lord Portland's Horse were Shipp'd at Passage near Waterford A Declaration was Publish'd by the Lords Justices A Declaration forbidding the buying Debenters or Arrears forbidding any Officer Clerk or other Person whatever belonging to imploy'd in or depending on their Majesties Treasury either by himself or any other directly or indirectly to buy any Arrears or Debenters due to any Officer or Souldier or any other Persons who have been imploy'd in Their Majesties Service during this present War upon pain of losing the benefit of such Contract or Agreement as also of being dismissed their Imployments and of being declared uncapable of being Imployed in the Treasury for the future The buying of such Debenters being adjudged dishonourable to Their Majesties Service and Government and to the loss of the persons to whom the same are payable And nigh the same time another Order was sent Another Order to turn out all the Irish Papists out of our Regiments out Commanding all Colonels and others in Their Majesties Army who had entertain'd any Irish in their respective Regiments Troops or Companies forthwith to dismiss them and not to keep any one Irish Papist under their Command upon pain of having January 1692. such Regiments broke where any such were found A great Frost began January the 19th and is now so violent that Multitudes of the poor People and especially of the Irish perish for Cold The Lords Justices and Council very Charitably order all the Poor then in and about the City of Dublin to be taken up and put into sveral Convenient Houses being in all 640 odd who were provided for with Meat and Fire without which Care several hundreds must have perished in the Streets And yet a great many of them had been so used to that Trade of Begging that the being provided for with Necessaries and Confin'd to a Place was uneasie to them so that several stole out and fell to Begging again But this Charitable Care was not taken in other parts of the Kingdom so that a Man might every where see a great many Objects of Pity and Misery and they continue so to this very day Some time before this the Danes were Shipp'd as is said having four Men of War and 46 other Vessels to Transport them but being driven back by contrary Winds and kept in the Harbour by stress of weather a new supply of Provisions was Ordered them Two Proclamations were Publish'd at Dublin one Commanding all Persons that were not qualified by the Articles of Limerick and Galway which were Noble-Men and Gentlemen who were House-keepers and have Estates of Freehold of one Hundred Pounds a year which by the said Proclamation was declared to be the qualification of the Persons Compriz'd in the said Articles to deliver up their Arms of all sorts before the Tenth of March and if they failed therein to be prosecuted with the utmost severity of Law And whosoever shou'd discover any Fire Arms so detain'd after the 10th of March shou'd have Ten Shillings Reward February 1692. and Five Shillings for every discovery of other Arms to be paid him by the Sheriff of the City or Justice of the Peace to whom such Discovery shou'd be made the same to be repaid by the Sheriff of the County and allowed in his Accounts in the Exchequer And the Persons in whose Custody such Arms are found shall lose the benefit of the said Articles and be bound over to the next Assizes or Sessions which shall first happen And all Persons who had Arms before the first day of November last being not qualified to keep them and shall not give a satisfactory Account how they have disposed of them shall be look'd upon as guilty of a Contempt against the said Proclamation And the Sheriffs of the respective Counties were to give an Account from time to time of what Arms were brought in to the Clerk of the Council or his Deputy And that all Persons that were qualify'd to keep Arms might wear the same without being affronted or have the same taken from them on any pretence each Person was to apply himself to the Lords Justices for a License for that purpose which was to be granted without any Fee or Reward whatever Which Proclamation was to be publish'd three Market-days successsively in each Town in Ireland and then affixed Dated the 4th of February 1691 2. The other Proclamation was to forbid all Justices of the Peace Mayors Sheriffs and other Magistrates whatever to presume so far upon their Authority as to meddle with the Property Right Title or Possession of the Estate or Goods of any of Their Majesties Subjects other than as by due Course of Law they are required or can justifie By which Proclamation some of the Irish that had been wronged were set to rights and satisfied tho' they were not so forward in obeying February 1692. the former in
delivering up their Arms a very small return being made through the whole Kingdom they keeping as yet some thousands of all sorts of Arms still concealed which I hope will effectually be taken care of in time The weather was now so violent that the Adventure of London was cast away going to Dublin and several other Ships lost in and about that Bay And the Swallow one of Their Majesties Ships was forced a ground nigh Charles-Fort at Kingsale and there foundred tho' all the Men were saved except two February the 12th John Stone Esq being dead and Captain South imployed elsewhere in the Army a new Commission was granted putting in their Places Colonel Foulks and William Palmer Esquires Commissioners for stating the Accounts of the Army And nigh the same time the Commissary General was sent into England with all the Muster Rolls February 16. the weather breaking up part of my Lord Oxford's Horse driven back by stress of weather Lieutenant General Ginckel's and Major General Ruvigney's Horse with the Princess Anns Foot were all Shipp'd for England The same day Lieutenant General Scravemore went on Board as did Brigadier Leveson in a day or two after Colonel Coy's Horse also are Shipp'd off at Belfast and the Garison of Athlone that had been very uneasie to the Officers and Souldiers all Winter by reason they had no shelter except some small Hutts of their own making was now relieved February the 20th the Commissioners of the Ordnance Arms and Ammunition sent for England had an Order directed to them to send all the Stores of Amunition and other Stores of War that cou'd be spared out of the Magazines for England to be employed elsewhere in Their Majesties Service and accordingly March 1692. a vast quantity of Arms and other Utensils of War were Shipt off February 28 Captain Townsend of the Earl of Meath's Regiment took eight or ten French Men Prisoners who had come a Shoar from a Privateer nigh Castle-Haven and we had an Account from England that His Majesty had Created Lieutenant General Ginckel Baron of Aghrim and Earl of Athlone February 26 An Order was directed to Colonel Foulk to break my Lord George Hambleton's Regiment which was done accordingly in some days after 150 ' of the Men being sent for England and the rest entertained in the Earl of Drogheda's Brigadier Stuart's Sir Henry Ballasis and Colonel Foulk's Regiments March the first a Pass was given out for a Ship to The Hostages go from Cork to France go to France with the Hostages left at Cork and other sick Officers and Souldiers according to the Articles of Limerick And on the third another Order was granted to Colonel Foulk for the raising five Companies of 100 Men in each of the Irish all the subaltern Officers to be of those Reformed in Colonel Wilson's and O Donnel's Battalions and the whole to be commanded by my Lord Iveigh and employed in the Emperor's Service And March the fifth an Order was directed to Mr. Foliot Sherigly chief Deputy Commissary to Disband the Troop of Provoes which was done accordingly March the 17th Lieutenant-General Ruvigny Landed Lieutenant General Ruvigny lands in Ireland from England being made Commander in chief of the Army left in Ireland and Created by his Majesty Lord Viscount Galway and two days after his Lordship and the Lord Viscount Blessington were Sworn of Their Majesties Privy Council as the Bishop of Kildare had been some time before And March the 23 d. the following Proclamation was Published declaring the War of Ireland to be at an end 1692 WILLIAM REX WHEREAS by An Act made in Our Parliament A Proclamation declaring the Wars of Ireland ended at Westminster in the First Year of Our Reign Intituled An Act for the better Security and Relief of Their Majesties Protestant Subjects of Ireland it was among other things Enacted that all and every Person and Persons whatsoever of the Protestant Religion should be absolutely Discharged and Acquitted of and from the Payment of all Quit-Rents Crown-Rents Composition-Rents Hearth-Money Twentieth Parts Payments and other Chief Rents arising or Payable out of any Houses Lands Tenements Hereditaments Rectories Tyths or Church-Livings incurring or becoming due to us at any time after the Five and Twentieth Day of December in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty Eight until the said Kingdom of Ireland shou'd be by us declared to be reduced and the War and Rebellion there ended We have now pursuant to the said Act of Parliament thought fit by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council to Issue this Our Royal Proclamation hereby Declaring that the said Kingdom of Ireland is reduced to Our Obedience and the War and Rebellion there ended And We do hereby Will and Require that all and Singular such Rents and Payments and all other Duties payable to the Crown which shall henceforth grow incur and become due be duely answered and payed to us in such manner and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as if the said Act had not been made Given at Our Court at Kensington the Third Day of March 1691 2. in the Fourth Year of Our Reign God save the King and Queen After which time little of moment happened save March 1692. that the Lords Justices by Directions from Their Majesties appointed a time for those that pretended to the Benefit of the Articles of Limerick or Galway to give in their Names and make good their claims by the 20th of February which time was by Proclamation enlarged to the first of April and afterwards to the 15th Wednesday the sixth of April was appointed the first Day to begin upon those Claims all those concerned being to enter their Names sometime before with the Clerk of the Council which Names were to be posted up at least ten Days before their Cause was to be heard their Claims being to be made out by at least three Credible Witnesses one of which was to be a Protestant Accordingly on the sixth of April the Council met upon this Affair and continued every Monday Wednesday and Friday so to do which was a much easier way and more to the Interest and Advantage of the Irish than any Court of Claims erected only for that purpose cou'd have been CHAP. XI A brief Account of the former and present Circumstances of Ireland The Division of it into Provinces and Counties Bishopricks and Parishes The Soil of Ireland Sir John Davis his Reasons why Ireland was so long in being entirely subjâ—cted to the Crown of England What Tanistry is This a reason why the Irish did not improve their Country Of Fosterings and Cosherings A Brief Estimate of the Expence of the former Wars of Ireland An Essay towards the reckoning the Charge of this last The former evils still remain The Interest of the King and People of England in general to advance the Power and Trade of the English in Ireland The Interest also of the Roman Catholicks