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A90475	A perfect narrative of the battell of Knocknones, within the county of Cork and province of Munster, on Saturday, the thirteenth of November, betwixt the Parliaments forces under the command of the Lord Inchiquin, Lord President of Munster; and the forces of the Irish rebells under the Lord Taaff, / set downe by an officer of the Parliaments army, present and acting at the fight. Directed to an honorable Member of the House of Commons.	Officer of the Parliaments army.	1647 (1647)	Wing P1501; Thomason E418_10; ESTC R7371	7,090	15

A Perfect NARRATIVE OF THE BATTELL OF Knocknones WITHIN THE COVNTY Of Cork and Province of Munster on Saturday the Thirteenth of November betwixt the Parliaments Forces under the Command of the Lord INCHIQUIN Lord President of Munster AND The forces of the Irish Rebells under the Lord Taaff set downe by an Officer of the Parliaments Army present and acting at the Fight Directed to an Honorable Member of the House of COMMONS LONDON Printed for Robert Bostock in Pauls Church-yeard at the signe of the Kings Head 1647. A Narrative of the Battell of KNOCKNONES IT was now a season as unapt for Action to the naked English as opportune for the Jrish better inured and accommodated to the hardships of that Country when the Lord Taff Generall for the Irish advanced towards the English Quarters with a Designe to block up or distress them in their Garrisons wherein it being discerned that hee might prevalently proceed to their destruction if a seasonable opposition were not given It was at a Counsell of Warre summoned by the Presedent long debated whether to issue forth of our Garrisons to encounter this approaching Torrent or not and at length after an earnest endeavour of divers to the contrary resolved to be more consistent with our safeties to make head against the Rebells in the field then to suffer them to come within our Quarters and so disable us either to joyne together in an offencive or subsist together in a defensive posture In pursuance of which resolution The Army being by the generall vote and the Presidents Orders drawne together at Moyallo marchched on the Twelfth of this Instant after a due discharge of those pious invocations and exercises of addresses to the Divine Providence which the President had injoyned to a place called Gariduff in English Blask-gardens the Rebells encamping at Knocknones within two miles of us but the day so far spent as that it was not held fit to make any attempt then upon them About the evening came a Trumpet from the Lord Taff with a Letter to the President in these words My Lord THe delay of my not sending to you a returne of your last Letter by your Trumpet was occasioned by my stay for my Artillery which being come I tell your Lordship That Captaine Courtepp very much magnifying the Excellency of your Foot I offered more for recreation then with a suspition that it might breake your Army That a Thousand or two of mine should when ever you made an indifferent appointment sight with a like number of yours which I am now ready to performe in this place And if you please to draw the Remaine of your Army hither I will look upon you and certainly neither of our Parties will want the gallantry of seconding their ingaged friends Our quartell is to preserve the Kings Interests which all of us with the hazard of our lives will maintaine against my opposition And when I consider that by the destruction of your party I may be in the more unmolested Condition to serve him be certaine your invitation to battell is neceptably received by me I know that in your Lordships Army there are a great many Gentlemen which have been very faithfull to their King and 〈…〉 is your Lordships practise to abuse them by 〈◊〉 them in a service to destructive to His Majesties Rights And pray my Lord doe not delude them by detracting this Army who are unalterably and without any hope of perticular benefit determined to loose themselves or restore as much as in them lies the King to His former greatnesse This is truth and it proceeds cordially from Knocknones 12. Novem. 27. Your Lordships Servant TAFF To which the Lord President returned MY LORD I have received your Letter by your Trumpeter and your Lordship might before this have perceived that I was not ignorant where your Army lay had not the approach of night scanted me of time to march up unto you And being you have performed as much as I desire in bringing your Army hither I shall not desire you to loose any advantage you have in numbers of men being your offer was onely made for Recreation You are pleased to say your quarrell is chiefly to preserve the Kings Interest and because I beleeve it will little avail me to offer Reasons to convince you of the contray I shall deferre the dispute untill wee meet in the morning when I beleeve these Gentlemen whom yee suppose to bee deluded by me will by Gods help use Rhetorick that will better conduce to that end to which I shall refer your Lordship for satisfaction being resolved to contribute there in to the endeavours of Your Servant 〈◊〉 This night wee lodged in a wood which equally affoarded both security and convenience unto the souldiers The word was to the Foot Pray to the House Prevaile and this night some 〈…〉 was observed in the nature of 〈◊〉 early in the mornning we began to prepare the light giving us now a clear manifestation of what was to be done the enemy was drawn up upon a hil about two Myles of called Knoknones which being of great advantage to them The Lord President if possible to withdraw them from it sent this Letter to the Rebels Gene all My Lord Here is a very faire piece of ground betwixt your Lordships Army and ours one this side the brooke whether if you please to advance we will do the like we do not so much doubt the gallantry of your resolution as to thinke you will not come but give you this notice to the end you may see wee do stand upon no advantage of ground and are willing to dispute our Qaurrel upon indifferent tearms being consident that the justnesse of our Cause wil be this day made manifest by the Lord and that your Lordships judgment will be rectified concerning Novem. 13. 1647. Your servant Inchiquin To which the Lord Taaff returned verball answer that hee was not so little a souldier as not to improve any advantage he had of ground or otherwise which he doubted not the President would doe in like ease The reason as we learned afterwards by some of their men taken prisoners besides the advantage of ground being a steep hill why the Lord Taaff so pertinaciously stuck to that place was this There was a certaine old blind Prophesie running amongst the Irish which converted into English rymes like their old bard speakes thus Mac Donogh future age shall see A man of thy posterity By whom the English Lord shall fall Bloud shall ascend to the legges small The place wee Knoknones doe call Which was by the Lord Taaff applyed to himself for that the hill whereon he stood was called Knocknones and his Ancestors had the lands of Mack Donagh given by the Kings of Enland in reward of their service performed against he Rebells here their Leuiftenant Generall Sr. Alexander Mac Donnell known vulgarly by the name of Colkitta was unwilling to have the fight performed on that day

upon a superstious observation for that he was exceedingly afraid of Saturns malevolent influence that day being to him criticall the former name of this place was antiquated almost this last age the name of it now being Englishmans hill as it proved upon this happy and successefull day The Lord Taaff therefore resolving obstinately to adhere to his chosen ground the Lord President calling a Counsell of War to advise whether it were expedient to assault them on such a disadvantageous place the wind freinding them likewise and their numbers almost doubling ours but the sence of our present condition quickly resolved this scruple it being to no purpose to have advanced hitherto if wee should proceed no further and for the success to put our selves upon the mercy of God It is not to be forgotten here that before the Counsell the Lord President commanded that God should be sought by prayer for our direction in this needful time of trouble The word given on our side was Victory the mark a branch of new broome in our hats wherewith our Quarters then abounded The enemies mark was a strawen rope about their hats their Word was God and St. Paterick they having forgotten how lately their contry St. had failed them for that was the word when we put them to the sword at Cashel their numbers consisted as themselves gave out 9000. Foote and a 1000. Horse but by list found afterwardes in the Leiuftenant Generals pocket they were mustred in the field 7464 foot and 1076 horse besides Officers our Army was neere 4000 Foote and 1200 horse the enimie ranging their battell in a plain front all along the hill that so they might ingage all their force together their foot were drawn into nine divisions of which the greater part by much was Pike wing'd with three bodies of Horse on each side beside reserves our foot whose number was by half the lesse were marshald into three devisions whereof two parts of three were Muskets the right and left Wing of Horse were made of 13 bodies of Horse 7 on the right wing and 6 on the left with their Reserves Both Armies thus drawn up The Rebels held firmly their first resolution not to parte with their station but that we should either not fight at all or do it upon these unequall tearms the wind was for the Rebells the Lord President whose Rivall no man can be in this piece of glory it being indeed in all mens judgements under God the gaining of the day on our side throughly weighing their numbred ground and Comodity of the place above us all which he considered of too much moment they might be to turn the Seale in the Ballance of War thought of a way of forcing them to that which they would not willingly be drawn to to leave the ground and discompose their present forme that so we might have the advantage in that disorder to assault them and this he effected thus He drew the left wing of his battle from the ground wherein he at first placed them making them move into a place of fallow ground more leftward as if he would get upon the enemies backs on that side and Commanded his right wing to wave a little that way too as if he went with all his Force to assail them in that one place The Rebels carefull enough to support their own designe had a watchfull eye upon all our motions and by this last imagining they might be charged in the Rear or surcharged with the multitudes of our men at one place the train of the Lord Presidents Plot immediately took for they breaking their first form parted with their stands Likewise drawing most of their Forces to succour their right wing by varying the scene of their ground we got these advantages The wind was made an indifferent arbiter the ascent of the hill not so steep and onely the Sunne was now a neuter to ripen the Fruit of this Design quite which was now more then green The Lord President commanded two pieces of Artillery to be drawn to play on their right wing and if any disorder thereby hapned our Horse and Foot were in that nick to fall on our right wing having observed the left of theirs made thin with some confusion likewise in sending relief to their friends had command to resume their first stations and to incline further to the right hand as our left wing had done before to the left as if they likewise intended to surprise the Rebels on the back to prevent which the Rebels resolved immediatdly to fall on to this end they advanced with their Horse before their Foot to charge but that errour being soon espied by ours our shot were commanded presently to advance under the shelter of a Ditch that parted them and us who poured such showers of hail upon them that it proving a funerall peall to many the rest retired foul and routed their own Foot This their neighbours espying followed their example and so their main body of Foot and left wing of Horse ran clean way and our Horse followed after them in the chase But God willing to mingle a little gall with the sweet cup he had before given us that so we might be contented to receive every thing at his hand was pleased that part of ground which was assigned for our left wing was not so convenient for horse yet to be accepted where there was no choice of better but very defenceable by Foote by reason of some inclosures and ditches and a lane near adjacent there the Lord President made the bounds of his Foot but they by their vallour if not rashnesse rather fancying to themselves some imaginary advantage prest further and so clouded us a little with the smoake of their shot that the right wing of the Rebels Army which was led by Sir Alexander Mack-Donnel alias Colkitto the Rebels Lieutenant generall on whom our guns playing fiercely to prevent that danger and performe some notable service as he had promised with his Red-shankes came thundring downe without the least sence of danger even the Rebels horse on their right winge advancing with those foot were charged by their opposite horse on our left wing and routed who following hard upon them the Rebels foot slipt in undecerned of them upon our foot whose forwardnesse seeing the enemies horse routed had left their defensive stage which they might with ease and safely have maintained and rouling downe like a Torrent impetuously on our foot routed our forlorne hope by which meanes our foot being our numbred the Enemy began to have the execution of them possest two of our guns and one of them being loaded discharged it against us and so tearing down all before them got to our waggons and there fel a plundering had it not bin for this disaster without doubt we had bought a most perfect glorious victory at the easiest rate that might be without the losse as is imagined of ten men but this cost some

fifty of our common men their lives and divers of out galantest Commanders not being able to stay their men nor willing to run along with them there gloriously sacrificed their lives rather chusing to die though almost deserted of all then to give the least ground back to so barbarous and cruell Rebels The Lord President was but newly parted from the left wing being on the right where he ioyfully saw a Victory on the nick of gaining by the totall discomfiture of that part of the Enemy but looking towards our left wing there his eyes were presented with the rufull spectacle of his mens slaughters and the Rebels overturning all before them even to our wagons he immediately posted down som Regiments of Foot and a troop or two of Horse which had been there for Reserves and not come upon the charge These coming down fell upon the Rebels in their return from our Baggage where they made there lives pay the price of their insolent attempt by putting the greatest part of them to the sword amongst whom fell Sir Alexander Mack Donnell and his Lievtenant Colonel And thus by Gods help and the wisdome and vallour of our Generall Commanders and Souldiers a glorious victory was gained over the Rebels the chase was followed every way by our Foot and Horse but Horse especially for they were too light for our footmen all over the Countrey till night hindred the further prosecution when a retreat being sounded for that time the Lord President and his Officers in the field with their Souldiers gave thanks to God for his extraordinary great mercy and deliverance The slaughter was not made an end with that day for the next day our Horse ranged the Countrey and found divers and the foot hunted the woods and bogs and by that means found many of the enemy which were put to the sword upon the place The storm fell sore upon their foot the Country who should know best report five thousand to be slaine there could not be lesse then foure thousand we recovered neer 6000 Armes 38 Collours of Foote with some Cornets of Horse wee also recovered their Waggons and all their Ammunition tooke the Lord Taaff's their Generals tent field bed and Cabinet wherein are papers of concernment importing much of this service of Ireland which is to be delivered into the House In it was found likewise his Commission from the Supreame Councell for being Generall of the Forces of Munster so that by the losse of his Army he wants Men to command and of his Commission power to command men On our part were slaine in that unhappy rout of our left wing some noble and gallant Officers Sir William Bridges Collonell of Horse Collonell Gray Major Browne Sir Robert Travers the Judge-Advocate was killed at our Baggage a Captaine or two Reformades and some other Officers of inferiour rank when the sword had sufficiently quenched his thirst of bloud then in a cooler vaine mercy began to take place and these Persons undermentioned were taken Prisoners A List of the Prisoners taken Collonel Randal Mack-Donnel Lieuten Col. Mac-Namarrow Major John Fealane Captain Garret-fitz-Morris Captain Pursell Captain Hugh Kely Captain Edmond Bourke Captain Peirce Wealsh Captain Robert Supple Captain Lieutenant Nugent Captain Gully Reagh Captain Bryan Captain Mack nee Marra Captain Lieuten Stephenson Captain Donnogh O Bryen Capt. Daniel Mack nee Marra Capt. Lieute Kenedy O Bryen Captain Florence Mack Carthy Captain Donnogh Mack Carthy Captain John Mack nee Marra Captain Richard Ferrester Captain William Butler Captain Theobald Butler Captain Ro. Mack Domrohugh Captain Alexander Jamson Captain Mlaghlame Captain William O Dudie Captain Farriah O Donnell Captain Eneas O Doniell Captain John O Donnell Captain Arthur Lyncie Captain Marcus Nestor Captain Hugh O Conner Captain Doniell O Sulavan Lieutenants Lieutenant Thomas Hellihed Lieutenant Patrick Hogane Lieutenant Conner Mack Nanamarra Lieutenant Conner O Bryen Lieutenant Edmond Swine Lieutenant Manus Mack Donnogh Lieutenant John Bourke Lieutenant Noll Dignume Lieutenant Thomas Butler Lieutenant William Kelly Lieutenant Eneas O Duly Lieutenant Teige O Donnoghue Lieutenant Dwyer Lieutenant Dolton Ensignes Thomas fitz Morris Ensigne Mack Namarra Ensigne Hanraghane Ensigne Lyllice Ensigne Edmond Bourke Cornet Purcell Ensigne Edmond O Grady Ensign Donnoh Mack Maghane Ensigne Doniell O Nelane Ensigne Daniel Mac Cady Ensigne Loghin Kelly Ensigne William Hodnet Ensigne Donnogh O Broe Ensigne John Mack Doniell Carthy Ensigne Francis Gordian Ensigne Daniell Bourke Ensigne John Corcrew Coronet John fitz Gerrald Quartermaster Richard Segerson Ensigne Lacy Troopers 14 Serieants 9 Corporalls 7 Souldiers 22 Chirurgions 6 Gentlemen of the Countrey Master Purtell Master Stephen Brown Master John Novy Master Christopher Oge Purtel Afterwards found out with the Souldiers Lieutenant Bryen Mack Cragh Ensigne Barret Ensigne John Bourke William Lee Quartermaster Divers other Captaines and Officers were made prisoners who remaining yet in the Souldiers hands unbrought in could not be inrold in this list on our part were taken prisoners Lieutenant Collonell Crispe who is now releast and with us for an Officer of theirs of like quality besides one Lieutenant more here to give you just accompt what every Officer and Soldier performed except that small party which unfortunately fled would swell this relation too much and inquire the actors modesty who desire the glory should be ascribed to God themselves being but imployed as instruments For the Officers amongst the forwardest of them Collonel Temple who had seen them performe this dayes service would have thought them worthy of a better reward then having conquered all their enemies abroad to go home and be conquered themselves by their owne wants each Souldier honoured God by his vallour and none dishonoured themselves The Lord President has not yet made an end of his victory for he is prosecuting it vigorously by reducing all the Country into Contribution where he marches notwithstanding the violence of the weather and the practises of some to draw the Souldier to a mutinous crying out Home Home it being now a deepe snow and his men almost naked that so the Province may be subdued and the Rebells disabled to draw suddenly to a head againe which if it please the Divine Providence to assist us with seasonable supplies we shall use all possible and effectuall meanes to prevent A brief of the slain and taken Taken of the Enemies Horse 200 Slain of the Foot 4000 Gentlemen Officers taken Prisoners 68 Gentlemen of the Countrey 6 More common Officers 4 Colours of Foot 38 Cornets of Horse 3 Of Ammunition wagons 4 Of Armes 6000 The Lievetenant Generall slain FINIS