G. George Flower Captaine 198 Sir George Bourcheir sent to Kilkenny 27 Sir George Bourchier comes to Corke 199 Sir George Thornton joynes with the Lord Barry 360 George Kingesmill maymed at Donboy 314 George Blunt 41 Glancoyne castle surprized by Sir Francis Barkley 84 Glin castle besieged and taken 63 64 Gregory Castle taken 297 Geoffrey Galway Major of Limricke fined imprisoned 110 And a new Major elected 111 H. Henrie Skipwith Captaine 15 315 Henry Malbie slaine 365 Sir Henry Folliot 233 Husseyes Report of the Rebellion in Mounster 146 Hopton dyed of a hurt 214 Hostages delivered by Don Iuan and their Names 247 Hugh Mostian 128 Sir Henrie Power 31 253 I. Iames Fits Thomas apprehended by Dermond O Conner 54 Iohn Power 55 Iohn Bostocke 30 Instructions for the Lord President of Mounster 6 Iames Archer Iesuite 26 InstructioÌ„s to the Earle of Thomond 287 Instructions for Capt. George Blunt 256 Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle taken prisoner 135 His Examination 174 His Relation to the Lord President 139 Iames fits Thomas Dermond Mac Gragh make a narrow escape 106 Don Iuan de Aguila his Declaration at Kinsale 200 His Request to the Lord Deputie for shipping 252 Intelligence of the Spanish Invasion 188 Irish in Mounster revolted to the Spaniards 224 Irish fled into Spaine with their Names 237 Iames Gold second Iustice of Mounster 6 Iohn fits Thomas his practice to deceiâ—e the Lord President 328 Iames fits Thomas the young Earle of Desmond commeth into Ireland 85 Returneth into England 122 Iames Grace 217 K. Kinsale summoned and Don Iuans Answere 219 Kinsale Burgesses desire their Charter 252 Kinsale receiues their Ensignes of Magistracie 359 Kilcow castle taken by Capt. Flower 383 Knight of Kerry protected 299 Defeated by Sir Charles Wilmâ—t 361 Makes his submission ibidem Kilcrey Castle and Abbey rendred 334 Kirton a Lieutenant hurt at Donboy 318 L. Lowghguyrre taken by the Rebells and recovered againe from them 45 Listoell Castle besieged and taken 97 List of the Captaines of the Spanish armie 191 List of the Army in Mounster 290 382 Lixnaw castle taken by coÌ„position 296 Leamâ—con castle taken 321 Lettertinlesse castle taken burnt ibid. Laghlin O Dallic 360 Lord of Lixnaw defeated by Captaine Boys 383 Letters Patents for Sir George Carew to be Lord President of Mounster 3 A Letter from the Lord President and the Earle of Thomond to the Lords of the Councell 24 A Letter from Iames Galde Butler to the Lord President 42 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 40 A Letter from the Mounster Rebells to O Dâ—nnell 58 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 62 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 70 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 48 Two Letters from William Burke and Moroghe ni Moe O Flartie to the Lord President 60 61 A Letter from her Majestie to the Lo President 86 A Letter from Redmond Burke to the Lord President 96 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 80 Letters Patents for Iames fits Gerald to be Earle of Desmond 89 A Letter from Cormock Mac Dermond vnto Tyrone 100 A Letter from the Earle of Clanrickard to Theobald ne long Burke 103 A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Iames fits Thomas 111 A Letter from her Majestie to the Lord Deputie 116 A Letter from the Lord President to the Lord Deputie 119 A Letter from Redmond Burke to the L. President with his Answers 128 A Letter from Tyrone to Florence Mac Cartie 132 A Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President 132 A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie 141 Two Letters from Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle to the K. of Spaine 154 A Letter from her Majestie to the Lord President touching base Monies 147 A Letter from Thomas Shelton to Florence Mac Cartie 169 A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Florence Mac Cartie 170 A Letter from Tirone Iames fits Thomas Florence Mac Cartie and Mac Donogh to the Pope 175 A Letter from Mr. Secretary Cecill to the Lord President with Spanish Intelligence 182 A Letter from the Lord Deputie to the Lord President 185 A Letter from the Lord Deputie satisfactory to the Lord President 186 A Letter from Donnell O Sulevan Beare to the King of Spaine 228 A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to the Archbishop of Dublin 260 A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila 260 A Letter from the Secretary Ybarra to Don Iuan de Aguila 261 A Letter from the Secretary Franquesa to Don Iuan de Aguila ibid. A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila 262 A Letter from the King of Spaine to Don Iuan de Aguila 263 A Letter from the L. Deputy and Councell to the Lords in England 264 A Letter from O Sulevan Beare to the King of Spaine 269 A Letter from Owen Mac Eggan to Richard Mac Goghagan 307 A Letter from Iohn Anias to the Lord of Lixnaw 309 A Letter from Iohn Anias to Dominicke Collins ibid. A Letter from Iames Archer to Dominicke Collins 308 A Letter from Donnell O Sulevan Beare to the Earle of Carazena 27â— A Letâ—er from Donnell O Sulevan Beare to Don Pedro Zubiaur 272 A Letter from the Lo. President to the Spanish Cannoniers in Donboy 294 A Letâ—er from Don Iuan de Aguila to Câ—ptaine Iuan de Albornos Y Andrada 227 A â—etter from her Majestie to the Lo. Pâ—esident 209 A Letter from her Maiestie to the Lord President 339 A Letter from Don Iuan de Aguila to Tirone and O Donnell 227 A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie 253 A Letter from the Lord President to Don Iuan de Aguila 326 A Letter from Tege Mac Cormock Cartie to the Lord President 330 A Letter from the Lords of the Councell in England to the Lord President 336 A â—etter from her Majestie to the Lord Pâ—esident 339 A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie ibid. A Letter from Captaine Roger Harvie to Pedro Lopez de Soto 340 A Letter from Don Iuan de Aguila to the Lord President 344 A Letter from the Lord President to Don Iuan de Aguila 345 A Letter from O Donnell to O Conner Kerry 343 A letter from her Majestie to the Lord President concerning the Earle of Clanrikard 378 A Letter from Iohn Burke to the Lord President 379 A Letter from Iohn Burke to Sir George Thornton 380 A Letter from the Lord Deputie to the Lords in England 384 M. Maurice Stack sent into Kerry 67 Treacherously murthered 79 O Mulrians Countrey spoyled 47 Mac Awley spoyled by Sir Francis Barkley 108 Mocrumpe Castle besieged 334 Taken 351 Muskrey-quirke and Arloghe spoyled by the armie 106 Mounster in what state after the Siedge of Kinsale 283 Malachias the Popish Bishop of Kilmakow 380 N. Names of the Councellors of Mounster 19 Sir Nicholas
necessary for the sustenance of our Troopes because there came not such a quantitie of Bisquet as his Majestie commanded and was not more then for two Moneths or little more It is likewise convenient that there come a great summe of monie for it imports much to pay well for want whereof there rise no disorders that of friends wee gaine not enemies That others may come in the place of the Accounter and overseer that brought us to the Groyne It is convenient to send two Doctors because there is none in the regiment of Spaniards Likewise that an Auditor Generall bee sent to serue here because there is none It behooveth also to send Carpenters and Smiths or Farriers being very necessary And that his Majestie bee served that there might remaine here three or foâ—re ships to giue advise of whatsoever shall succeed there being none left here at this present The next day after Don Iuan was landed Sir Charles Wilmot sent Captaine Francis Slingesby with his â—oote Company and Sir Anthony Cooks Horse with directions to take the best view hee could of their fleete and forces who at his comming thither found them possessed both of the Towne of Kinsale and of the Castle of Rincorran neere adjoyning unto it and to bid him welcome they drew forth a Company or two of Foote and a skirmish for a little space was entertayned wherein there were some hurt but none slaine Captaine Slingsby having performed his directions returned to Corke CHAP. XI Second Letters from Sir Charles Wilmot of the arrivall of the Spaniards in Kinsale Debate in Councell what wâ—â— meetest for the Lord Deputy to doe The Lord Deputy assented to the Lord Presidents advise The Lord Presidents providence A dispatch into England of the Spaniards arrivall The Lord Deputy goeth with the Lord President into Mounster None of the Provincials of Mounster did adhere to the Spaniards as their first landing The report of a Master of a Scottish Barque concerning the strength of the Spaniard Captaine Flower sent to view Kinsale Direction given for the burning of the Corne neere Kinsale A Letter from the Archbishop of Dublin and Don Iuan de Aquila unto Tyrone and O Donnell The Lord Deputy and Lord President c. went to view the Towne of Kinsale The Lord Deputy with the Army marched towards Kinsale AT the instant when Sir Charles Wilmots Letters of the Spaniards arrivall came to Kilkenny which was upon the three and twentieth of September as afore mentioned the Lord Deputie the Earle of Ormond the Lord President Sir Richard Wingfielde Marshall of the Army of Ireland and Sir Robert Gardiner the chiefe Iustice were in Councell advising what course was fittest to take if the Spaniards should land But now Sir Charles Wilmots Letters gaue them cause to advise what should be done they being landed to confirme the same while they were in Councell second Letters came from Sir Charles Wilmot and the Major of Corke that the Spaniards had quitted the harbour of Corke and were all at an Anchor in the haven of Kinsale The question was then what the Lord Deputy should doe The Earle of Ormond the Marshall and the chiefe Iustice were of opinion that hee should doe well to hasten to Dublin and there to assemble his forces together and whilest they were drawing to a head to giue order for supplyes of victuals and munitions to bee sent to Corke and that the President should presently bee dispatched into the Province to defend the Citie of Corke untill the Lord Deputie came to his reliefe wherein all expedition was to bee vsed for their reasons were that if the Lord Deputie presented himselfe in the Province with small forces it would encourage the Enemy and put distrust and feare in the Provincials which were either well affected or neutrals The Presidents advise was opposite to theirs beseeching the Lord Deputy to goe presently into Mounster although hee had no more then his Page with him for said he if the Provincials shall see that you turne your backe towards them they will conceiue it proceeds of want of force and then undoubtedly a generall revolt will ensue but when they shall see you personally amongst them that doubt will be removed and besides the Armie now dispersed will make more haste after you then they would doe if you attended their comming to Dublin The Lord Deputy inclined to the Presidents Councell but said he what should I doe there not being able to mainetaine the Armie with victuals for the space of a weeke nor to furnish it with munitions of both which there is no remaine in the Magazines in Dublin The President willed him to take no care for those wants for hee would furnish him and the whole Armie for two or three moneths which indeed hee was able to doe for hee had spared the expence of victuals not consuming so much as a Bisquet for more then sixe moneths giving the Souldiers money and having beene evermore confident of the Spaniards arrivall had procured good supplyes of munitions which were frugally and sparingly issued The Lord Deputy like unto one that was overjoyed with such unexpected provisions rose from his Chaire embraced the President and said that if hee had not beene more then provident that himselfe did not know what to haue done and that his honour had beene indangered and ascribed to him what hee well deserved In conclusion the foure and twentieth the Marshall Sir Henry Davers and Sir Iohn Barkley were dispatched into Linster and to Armaghe to assemble the Army and to bring it withall possible expedition into Mounster and Letters were dispatched to Sir Charles Wilmot to bee well upon his guard and dispatches sent into England by Captaine Iohn Roberts of the Spaniards arrivall All things being thus ordered doubt was made how the Lord Deputy could be conveyed safely to Corke being attended by no other then his household servants in that dangerous time which was satisfied by the President who had then with him there one hundred Horse and for the furnishing of the Lord Deputies house at Corke with stuffe and vtensils hee undertooke the care The same day the Lord Deputy and President Sir Robert Gardiner departed from Kilkenny and the same night they lodged at Kilkenan the Lord Dunboynes house the next night at Clonmell the sixe and twentieth at Glanogher the Lord Roches house and the next day following they came to Corke Now are wee come to siege of Kinsale a place ordayned wherein the honour and safetie of Queene Elizabeth the reputation of the English nation the cause of Religion and the Crowne of Ireland must bee by Armes disputed for upon the successes of this siege as these great and important consequences depended And here the malice of Rome and Spaine if they had prevailed would not haue ceased for their purposes did extend it selfe Ireland having beene conquered to make it their bridge to haue invaded England the
better understanding to know in what state hee is to send presently unto him and accordingly to proceed There is direction to the Victualler to send three moneths Victuals for fiue hundred Foot to Baltimore and the like proportion for Beare and to the Master of the Ordnance to send to either of those places one Last of Powder with Lead and Match proportionably your Lordship is to call upon the Ministers of those Offices to see the same presently sent away The Powder and Victuall sent for Beare is directed to Baltimore there to stay untill the place bee 〈◊〉 where Captaine Flower resteth and from thenâ—e to bee 〈◊〉 â—â—â—rected by your Lordship When your Lordship hath met with Captaine Flower 〈…〉 from him you are to leaue with him fiue hundred Foot or more if in your judgement you shall thinke it requisite and likewise the like proportion of strength to Captaine Harvie more or lesse as in your opinion shall be thought meet If the Abbey of Bantrey bee the place found fittest for Captaine Flower to remaine in and that the same bee so ruined as of necessity for the safe and well keeping of the Victualls and Munitions cost must be bestowed whatsoever your Lordship shall lay out for the repairing of it upon your bill of disbursements it shall be forthwith repaied unto you alwayes praying you to use as little charge as possible you may money to intelligencers and messengers is likewise allowed For the Garrison at Kinsale Victualls is likewise ordained to bee sent whereof the Victualler must be remembred The capitall Rebells that are to resist you is Osulevan and Tirrell your Lordship must leaue no meanes unassayed to get them aliue or dead the way in my judgement how that service may bee effected I haue already made knowne to your Lordship wherein I pray you to use your best indeavours â—iue all the comfort you may to Owen Osulevan by whose meanes you know the affaires of those parts will be best composed Dermond Moyle Mac Cartie is most assâ—sted by the Ocrawlyes haue a speciall care to prosecuâ—e and plagâ—e him and his assistants and if you can finde any good meanes to worke upon him spare not your endeavour Sir Owen Mac Carties sonnes if they bee well handled will proue the best meanes knowing as you doe that hee stands betweene them and the Lord of the Countrey If Tâ—g Onâ—rsies Castle and Rannell Dâ—ffes shall in your opinion bee meet for the Service doe you take them into your hands and leaue wards in them but let not youâ— intent bee discovered untill you be possessed of them The like you are to doe with 〈◊〉 Sir Fâ—nnin Odrischalls house in the which of necessiâ—ie I thinke the store of Victuals and Munitions for the garrison of Baltimore must be layed for the Castle of Donnelong where Roger 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 too little for that purpose Lastly I pray your Lordship of all your proceedings in giue me as often advertisement as you may and haue 〈◊〉 with Sir Charles Wilmot for betweene your two Forces all the Moâ—nster Rebels remaine The Earle being gone with his Armie 〈…〉 the Abbey of Bantrie about threescore miles 〈◊〉 â—orke and there had notice that Donnell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and his people by the 〈◊〉 of two Spanyards an Italian and a Fryer called 〈…〉 did still continue their workes about the Castle of Dunboy the Barbican whereof being a stone wall of siâ—teene foot in height they faced with soddes intermingled with wood and faggots aboue foure and twenty foot thick for a defence against the Cannon â— they had also sunke a low Plat-forme to plant their 〈◊〉 for a counter-battery and left nothing undone either within or without the Castle that in their opinions was meet for defence But when it came to tryall it appeared that their Iudgeâ—â—â—â—â—â—aylâ—d as after you shall heare For the Barbican was not aboue six or eight foot distant from the Castle the height whereof 〈◊〉 â—â—ceeding high not remembring that the ruines thereof would quickly fill the voyd space betweene them and make a faire assault when a 〈…〉 whereby all their earth and sodd workes prooved vainâ— and 〈◊〉 not so much as one Cannon shott being bestowed upon them but as neere as the Cannoniâ—rs could take their ayâ—â—â— aboue it â—s the President had directed Tirrell in this meane time with the other â—ownoghs had so well placed themselues in the mounâ—aines of Beare that hee could not with his Armie passe any farther withouâ— apparant danger Heereupon the Earle left with Captaine George Flower besides his owne Company the Companies of Sir Iohn Doâ—dall the Lord Barry Captaine Francis Kingsmill Captaine 〈◊〉 and Captaine Bradbury which were seven hundred 〈◊〉 in List in the Whiddy an Iland lying within the Bay of Bantrie very â—onvenient for the Service and himselfe with the rest of his Forces â—â—â—â—â—ned to Corke where having made relation of the particâ—lars of 〈◊〉 journey it was found necessary that the President without any protracâ—ions or delay should drâ—w all the Forces in the Province to a â—ead against them And altâ—ough the time of the yeere was noâ— so convenient the Spring being newly begun yet present order was taken for all the Armie to repaire unto Corke except those which Sir Charles Wilmott did imploy for the reduction of Kâ—rry Vpon a longâ—r delay a double inconvenience depended First her Majestie should be burthened with a greater charge and secondly though the Spaniards had an intention of sending another Army yet if they might bee certified that the Castle of Donboy was taken which was the onely possession which they had in Ireland and the Countrey reduced to her Majesties Obedience before they were put to Sea it might peradventure perswade them to new Councels and alter the former Determinations But before I proceed any farther it is pertinent to set downe the Forces which the Lord Deputy leâ—t for the prosecution of the warre in Mounster which as they stood in List but very weake by the Pole was as followeth of Horse The Lord President 100 The Earle of Thomond 100 Sir Charles Wilmot 25 Sir Anthony Cooke 50 Captaine William Taâ—â—e 50 Of Foot ☞ The Lord President 200 ☞ The Earle of Thomond 200 The Lord Barry 100 ☞ The Lord Audley 150 ☞ Sir Richard Percy 150 ☞ Sir Charles Wilmoâ— 150 Sir George Thornton 100 Sir Gerard Harvie 150 Sir Franciâ— Barkley 150 Sir Iohn Dowdall 150 Sir Samuell Bagnall 150 Sir Anthony Cooke 150 Sir Alexander Clifford 150 Sir Arthur Savage 150 The White Knight 100 Captaine Roger Harvie 150 Captaine George Flower 150 Captaine William Saxey 100 Captaine Francis Slingsby 100 Captaine Henry Skipwith 100 Captaine Francis Hobby 100 Captaine Francis Kingsmill 100 Captaine William Power 100 Captaine George Kingsmill 100 Captaine Robert Collome 100 Captaine Iohn Bostock 100 Captaine Gawen Harvie 100 Captaine Charles Cooke 100 Captaine William Stafford 100 Captaine Iohn Owsley 100 Captaine George Blundell 100 Captaine Edward Dodington 100
conference with Owen Mao Eggan as also by Merchants and their Agents out of Spaine which did all agree in one that succours being prepared and ready to embarque for Ireland understanding the losse which the Rebels had received in Beere and the Castle of Dunboy rased where they purposed to secure their landing new directions were brought from the Court of Spaine to the Earle of Carraâ—ena Governour of the Groyne to stay their proceedings in the voyage till the Kings pleasure were father knowen but yet the Army was not dissolved the examinations sent by the Lord President into England to the Lords were found to agree with the intelligence which was sent to her Majestie out of Spaine wherefore to prevent what danger hereby might ensue it pleased her Majestie to take present order that the fleete of ships some her owne and some Merchants that had beene upon the Coast of Spaine the most part of all the Summer should bee revictualled and lye off and on in the height of Cape-finister till towards Michaelmas that if they proceeded in the intended invasion either they might fight with them at Sea or at least follow them to such Harbours of Ireland where they should arriue and there distresse them but he happy successe in the siege of Dunboy altered the Spanish Councels for now they had no place in Ireland that held for them Neverthelesse the comming of new forces from Spaine for Ireland being still doubted there was sent from England two thousand foote for the supplying of the List. By this time Sir Charles Wilmot as hee was directed was come out of Kerry and all the Subjects with their goods and Cattle were drawen on this side the Mountaine of Slewlogher whereby the Bonnoghs that had lived these fiue moneths principally upon Osulevan Beare and by that meanes eaten him up began to consult about leaving of the Province there being no man now in action that was able for the Carties in Carbery had beene so much wasted and impoverished by the two Harvies as though their hearts were good yet their meanes failed them to uphold a warre or any long time to hold them together Therefore Iohn of Desmond brother to the Sugan Earle prisoner in the Tower of London laboured Terrill very instantly to take Bonnaght of them in Connilogh and for that purpose had inveighled Morris fits Thomas called the Lord of the Clenlis to deliver unto him the strong Castle of Glancoyne the custodie whereof to saue her Majesties charge had beene committed to him the yeare before and because no suspition might be conceived of the said Iohn fits Thomas practise hee now became a sutor by Iames Walsh who had beene his brothers Secretary for a protection desiring as hee pretended to become a Subject upon these conditions First if his brother Iames the titulary Earle might bee set at libertie hee would bee content to become a Pledge for him either in the Castle of Dublin or else where the State should appoynt which being refused and rejected hee offered to doe service so that hee might haue his pardon and some meanes to releeue him in the future But as the President would not bee drawen to accept any of these conditions so it was thought hee would haue flyen backe if they had been accepted But all this Negotiation was but to colour his practise laid for Glancoyne which Castle and the Fastnesse neere adjoyning would haue commaunded a great part of that Countrey But all these Iuglings were discovered by one V. B. whom the President without suspition maintained amongst them Wherefore hee sent Philip Northcot the Sherife of the Countie of Limericke with private Instructions to surprise both Maurice fits Thomas and the sayd Castle but either to take both at one instant or to meddle with neither The Sherife watching many opportunities and not speeding of his purpose the President to prevent future danger committed the custodie of the said Castle to Sir Francis Barkley and so disappointed the Rebels of that hope About the latter end of this moneth of August a rumour was generally divulged through the Province that the Spanyards were upon the coast and that certaine Ships were discovered from the olde Head of Kinsale and presently after that foure and twentie sayle were arrived at Bearehauen and hereupon you might see Horsemen galloping this way and that way to and fro with such signes of gladnes apparant joy as though the day of their deliverance were neere at hand but as it fell out this was but a false allarme the Ships that were discryed being a Fleet of Easterlings bound to the Southward The President heereby discerning with what assured hopes they apprehended their comming and with what glad hearts they should be welcome being come he became an earnest humble suitor to the Lord Deputie That Sir Samuel Bagnals Regiment lately called out of Mounster by his Lordships Command might with his favour bee returned againe The Lord Deputie taking an honourable care of that Province finding by his owne intelligence that the Spanyards were purposed to make their discent either in Mounster or in the parts of Connaght not far dis-joyned condiscended unto the Presidents request whereupon the said Colonell with his Regiment were directed to Limrick there to remaine in Garison During the siege of Kinsale there was a young Gentleman of the Carties called Teg Mac Cormock sonne to that well deserving Gentleman Sir Cormock Mac Teg who being of the Presidents Troope of Horse through the inticements of the Rebells and promises of the Spanyards was induced to combine with the Enemie and stealing away his Horse and Hackney entred into action But the successe of his Confederates not prooving so fortunate as they hoped hee grew weary of the Rebellion and made himselfe a Suitor to the President to be received to mercy as may appeare by his Letter here ensuing CHAP. XII A Letter from Teg Mac Cormock Cartie to the Lord President intreating the remission of his offences Cormock Mac Dermond Cartie accused of sundry treasons Cormock Mac Dermond committed The Castle of Blarny in the custody of Captaine Taffe The Castle and Abbey of Killâ—rey rendred to the Lord President Mocrumpe besieged Cormocks Wife and Children imprisoned Cormock Mac Dermond plotted his escape A Letter from Teg Mac Cormock Cartie to the Lord President intreating the remission of his Offences RIght Honourable my dutie most humbly remembred Having long forborne though thereby disquieted in mind and ashamed of my selfe to send unto your Honour Yet presuming upon her Majesties mercie and your favour I haue made bold to become a Petitioner to your Honour that it may please you to admit me therunto and to forgiue and forget my faults considering they were not malicious but youthfull and not of pretence to hurt her Majestie or her Subjects but in hope to recover against my Cosen Cormock Mac Dermody some meanes to maintaine my decayed estate and still likely to be suppressed by
Letter bare date the seventh of August and arrived at Corke the second of September following whereby the Reader may see that the King of Spaines eyes were yet still notwithstanding the rowt at Kinsale the dishonour hee received in the returnes of his troopes and the losse of Dunboy whereby his footing in Ireland was meerely loâ—t open upon that kingdome Although Queene Elizabeth of happie memory was dead before Lieutenant Edney returned yet I hold it not impertinent in this place to 〈◊〉 his sucâ—esses When hee was landed at the Groynt hee understood that Don Iohn de Aguila by the accusation of the Irish Fugitiues was in disgrace confined to his house where of griefe shortly after hee dyed His Letters and Pasports were taken from him by the Earle of Carazena and sent to the Court and himselfe stayed untill the Kings pleasure was knowen The Irish Traytors inveighed much against him â—aying That under pretext of Trade and bringing of Presents hee came as a Spie Neverthelesse he was well intreated and had the libertie of the Towne and to weare his Sword with allowance from the King of a Duccat per diem for his dyet His goods were solde for the best advantage and his Barque returned into Ireland But the Presidents present to Don Iohn the Earle of Carazena detayned to his owne use And after nine moneths restraint Edney was enlarged and returned into England in Iuly 1603. A little before this time Sir Robert Cecill her Majesties principall Secretary wrote unto the Lord Deputie the Newes of Spaine a branch of which hee also sent to the President dated upon the seventh of August and received the second of September I hold meet to insert wherby the Reader may understand that the King of Spaine had still his eyes open upon Ireland One great cause of my writing this private Letter is this that where I see how much it doth distract your mind to thinke of Spaine behinde you and of the North before you fearing to bee diverted from the conclusion of your labours you may perceiue in what estate the preparations of Spaine are now as I am certainly advertised by one of mine owne who is newly arrived from the Port of Lisbone where he tooke shipping the 21 of Iuly There are two great Ships each of them of a thousand Tunnes one called the Andrew the other which shall be the Viceadmirall the name forgotten Besides there are twelue ships of two hundred tunnes and downeward in which it is resolved to send some fifteene hundred men to haue releeved the siege at Bearehaven the Newes of the taking whereof was first knowen by a Ship from Waterford to Lisbon and not before Of the fifteene hundred men eight hundred came from the Groyne being part of those which were transported out of Ireland In the Groyne remaineth Odonnell and there is onely the great Saint Philip with ten small Barques with which he mightily importuned to be sent to the North. If these had been sent unto Beerehaven in Mounster hoping upon his arrivall with some fifteene hundred men to haue raised the siege possessed some parts and made a beginning of a plantation heereof great benefit must needs haue growen to the Rebels for as those small numbers which should haue been landed at Mounster with the bruite of the rest to follow which is alwayes multiplied would haue made a distraction of the Vlster prosecution c. Lastly in the said Letter he prayed the President to set downe his opinion what course were best to be taken in a Defensiue warre if the King of Spaine did invade Ireland with a Royall Armie The next passage to giue Master Secretarie satisfaction the Lord President wrote unto him a long Letter but because many private things were handled in the same I will onely relate so much of it as concernes his opinion touching a defensiue warre in Ireland The Lord Presidents Opinion sent to Master Secretary of a Defensiue Warre in Ireland GRanting that the Enemie will come no lesse powerfull then is reported and that the Irish will joyne with them whereof there is no doubt then consideration is to bee had what in such a Sea of troubles is meetest to bee done that may best preserue the Queenes army with lest charge and the way to weary the enemy and the countrey Because my opinion may perchance differ from other men whose Authority Greatnesse and better iudgement in the worldes opinion beares more sway I will forbeare to deale in so waightie a businesse any farther then to your selfe vsing the libertie you haue euer giuen me to say what I conceiue to be the best Counsaile if the army of Spaine be so great as is both reported by those that come from thence and expected heere let us make no doubt but he will bee Master of the field for the present and will so hold himselfe except the Armie of Ireland bee reenforced to a farre higher Liâ—t the charge whereof will make if I bee not deceived both England and Ireland to groane Wherefore the best way in my conceit to moderate such huge Expences is for the present to be carelesse of the Countreys generally throughout the kingdome for in seeking both to defend them and to make head against the Enemy will be too heavie a burden The principall regard which we ought to haue is of the Cities in every of which I doe wish a strong Garison both of Horse and foot able to defend a siege when the Enemie shall see that wee are dispersed into Garrisons either hee will presently in his best strength goe to besiege one of those places or else disperse because hee hath the Countrey to friend as wee doe if he attempt the besieging of any of our places aforesaid there is no doubt but in such a businesse he will unite all his forces in one then may wee be bold to draw all our forces from their severall Garrisons to a head to releeue that place and with Gods favour make no doubt but to enforce the Enemy to rise if hee disperse then those Garrisons will be able to master the Countries about them and leaue no habitation to releeue either Spanyard or Irish and upon occasion two or more of these Garrisons may assemble and meet to effect greater services then otherwise can bee done This fashion of a warre will in a short time destroy all the Countrey make the Irish to curse the Spaniard and themselues for drawing them hither driue the King to an inestimable charge and hazard by Sea to victuall and releeue his Army which otherwise will perish ease the Queenes charge and secure the chiefe Townes which is chiefely and aboue all other things to be respected Supposing the Army would land in Mounster in it I would haue principall regard of Corke Limerick and Waterford in either of which Cities I doe wish there might be a strong Garrison of three thousand foote and three hundred horses one thousand foote more to be dispersed
verumque Sacramentum sumi constanter teneo purgatorium esse animasque ibi detentas fidelium suffragijs iuvari similiter et sanctos unà cum Christo regnantes venerandos atque invocandos esse eosque orationes Deo pro nobis offerre atque eoruÌ„ reliquias esse venerandos firmissimè assero imagines Christi et Deiparae semper Virginis nec non aliorum SanctoruÌ„ habendas et retinendas esse ac eis debitum honorem venerationem esse impartiendum Indulgentiarum etiam potestatem Christo in Ecclesia relictam fuisse illarumque usum Christiano populo unanimi salutarem esse affirmo sanctam Catholicam et Apostolicam Romanam Ecclesiam omnium Ecclesiarum Matrem et magnam agnosco Romano Pontifici beati Petri Apostolorum principis successori ac Iesu Christi Vicario veram obedientiam spondeo ac Iuro Caetera item omnia à sacris Canonibus Oecumenicis Consilijs ac praecipuè â— Sacrosanctâ Tridentina Synodo tradita definita declarata indubitanter recipio profiteor simulque contraria omnia atque Haereses quascunque ab Ecclesia damnatas anathematizatas ego pariter damno rejicio anathematizo Hanc veram Catholicam Fidem extra quam nemo salvus esse potest quam in praesenti sponte profiteor veraciter teneo eandem integram et inviolatam vsque ad extremum vitae spiritum constantissimè Deo adjutante retinere confiteri atque à meis subditis vel illis quorum cura in munere meo spectabit teneri doceri praedicari quantum in me erit curaturum Ego idem Eugenius spondeo voueo juro sic me Deus adjuvet haec sancta Dei Evangelia Dat' Romae apud Sanctum Petrum Anno Incarnationis Domini 1595. Pridie Calend. Novemb ' pontificatus nostri Anno quarto Let the understanding Reader now surcease to marvell that the Bishop of Rome doth striue and struggle to depose Princes and to animate and incourage Subjects to heathenish and inhumane murders and rebellions since hee dareth like the ancient Gyants to attempt and assault Heaven it selfe and to displant and displace from the Throne of his Majestie Christ Iesus himselfe who is God to be blessed for evermore what is it else but to make the Precepts and Traditions of men equivalent with the doctrine and Commandements of God what is it else but to usurpe an absolute and universall power and authoritie over the flocke of Christ as his Lieutenant and Vicar for the warrant whereof hee hath no Commission nor was hee called thereunto as Aaron was Lastly what is it else but to remooue and pull downe the Son of God from his triumphant glory where he sitteth at the right hand of his Father and where he must abide the holy Apostle bearing witnesse till all his enemies be subdued under his feet and to bring backe his glorified body and Deified soule at the becke and word of every hedge Priest into their sacrilegious Sacrament of the Altar Surely a man need go no further for testimony seeing the Antichristian lowing of this prophane Bull doth liuely delineate and plainely demonstrate that purple Harlot which hath made all nations drunke with the dregs of her fornication having seated her selfe upon the seven hils of Rome I should be over troublesome to the Reader to shake up all the trumpery and rake in all the durt contayned in his Buls belly yet one thing more I cannot passe over with silence namely for as much as the Pope perceiveth that his kingdome cannot long stand but that Babell must fall and Antichrist must be consumed with the breath of the Lords mouth therefore with prudent care and politicke circumspection hee suffereth none to bee initiated into his holy Sacrament of orders nor preferred to any Ecclesiasticall promotion but hee is first bound by his hand word and corporall oath to mainetaine and defend the pompe honour priviledges prerogatiues and doctrines of the Sea of Rome especially and namely such as are contradictorily repugnant to the written word of God And that they shall persecute and impugne all those whether Prince or people that shall bee adjudged Heretikes or Schismatikes in the Popes consistory Consider therefore I beseech thee gentle Reader whether any Priest that taketh this oath for they all take it can bee accounted a good Subject to the Crowne of England but to proceed Many of the Traytors being put to the sword the strangers banished and the Provincials protected as you haue heard there were still remayning in action within Mounster left for example to perdition Fits Maurice the Lord of Lixnaw Iohn fits Thomas the brother of Iames the late titulary Earle the Knight of the Glynn and Thomas Oge a Geraldine all which with their forces joyned in one were not able to make two hundred men lurking about the Mountaine of Slewlugher and in the Fastnesse of Clanmorris CHAP. XIX False rumors divulged of the State of Mounster The Lord President sent one thousand foote munitioned and victâ—aâ—â—ed to the Lord Deputy A Letter from her Mâ—jesty tâ— the Lord President concerning the Earle of Clanricard A Letter from Iohn Burke to the Lord President A Letter from Iohn Burke to Sir George Thornton A Certificate from a Popish Bishop in the behalfe of Iohn Burke The Lord Deputy having occasion to employ more forces into Connaght hee with the Councell of estate upon the eightâ—eâ—th of Ianuary wrote unto the President to pray and require him to spare out of his List of Mounster if hee might conveniently doe it one Regiment of one thousand foote with a competent proportion of victuals which not many dayes after was accomplished Also about this time the President received a Letter from her Majestie which although it doth concerne the Earle of Clanricard in his pâ—rticular yet that the Reader may informe himselfe how much that noble gentleman was esteemed and that worthily of his Soveraigne Mistris I doe thinke it meet to be related A Letter from her Majesty to the Lord President concerning the Earle of Clanrickard Your most assured constantly affected Soveraigne E. R. RIGHT trusty and well beloved Wee greete you well wee need not use many arguments to you when wee resolue to recommend either man or matter seeing you haue made so good demonstration of your obedience and entire affection to performe our will and pleasure much lesse then the person or causes of this nobleman our cosen Clanriccard whose carriage here doth challenge our extraordinary good opinion as his merite there procured your owne plentifull testimony of the same even when all trees à id shew what fruits they bare His comming over was to doe his duty to us where hee was desirous as other Noble-men haue done to haue stayed some time unlesse some occasion for our seruice should necessarily require his returne Of which kind because the one hath presented it selfe by the going of our Deputy into that Province where his possessions lye and that the weake estate of his
Talis erat vultu sed linguâ menteÌ„ manuque Qualis erat qui vult discere scripta legat Consulat aut famam qui linguâ menteÌ„ manuû̄ Vinceret hunc famâ iudiceÌ„ rarus erat VOERST FEâ— Hir Scepter sweet hir sword was seldomeÌ„ sharp Yet reâ—câ— subiects and invading foes It quaid repelling theis reclayming those Such cure did set in tune the farring Harp To this last Act of hir exploits glory A Plauaite reviveth by this story MAde bright and glorious by Afflictions flame Forth from a Prison to a Crowne she came Attempting and effecting harder things Then haue been reached by the greatest Kings Of all her Causes Religion was the prime Which shee reformed in a dangerous time And though her neighbouring Princes thereat stormed Did all her life defend what she reformed As watchfull in the State-Affaires was shee And oft from civill broyles her Realmes did free From Ireland shee the Spanish 〈◊〉 expeld And all the rude rebellious Irish queld In Scotland shee did marre the Frenchmens hope Shee fooled all the projects of the Pope And though his Bulls did roare in ev'ry place Turn'd all his thundrings to his owne disgrace Spaines furie without feare shee did oppose And gaue their Forces famous overthrowes Yea shee the huge Armado over came Which of Invincible usurp'd the name And though shee had at home great works to do Shee ayded France and saved Belgia too Her Coyneâ—hee â—hee to just values did reduce Her wholsome Lawes redressed much abuse By Trades abroad shee Riches did encrease By Providence at home establish'd Peace Then having till the fortie fifth yeere raign'd And to the seventieth of her age attain'd Shee dyed and lefâ— behind her such a Fame As shall be lov'd while England hath a Name G. W. Printed for Robert Milbourne 1633. PACATA HIBERNIA IRELAND APPEASED AND REDVCED OR AN HISTORIE OF THE LATE Warres of IRELAND especially within the Province of MOVNSTER vnder the Government of Sir George Carew Knight then Lord President of that Province and afterwards Lord CAREVV of CLOPTON and Earle of TOTNES c. Wherein the Siedge of Kinsale the Defeat of the Earle of TYRONE and his Armie The Expulsion and sending home of Don Iuan de Aguila the Spanish Generall with his Forces and many other remarkeable passages of that time are related Illustrated with Seventeene severall MAPPES for the better understanding of the Storie IUVENAL SAT. 10. Bellorum Exuviae truncis affixa trophaeis Lorica fractâ de Casside buccula pendens Humanis majora bonis creduntur LONDON Printed by AVG MATHEVVES for ROBERT MILBOVRNE at the Signe of the Grey-hound in Pauls Church-yard 1633. TO HIS MOST SACRED MAIESTIE SIR THE great Actions of worthie and eminent Persons haue ever been esteemed so powerfull for the instruction of succeeding times that all Civill States haue made it their principall care to preserue and transmit them to Posteritie for their Example and Imitation The Meanes by which this is done is HISTORY a powerfull suggester and Recorder of Gods providence in publike Blessings and Iudgements the Mother of Experience the Nurse of Truth the common bond and ligature which unites present times with all ages past and makes them one To manifest this if othâ—r Arguments fayle the Examples of the greatest Emperors and Generalls were sufficient who in the midst of their Conquests thought their publike dutie not discharged if they imployed not some time to leaue the immortall memory of their owne actions by writing to Posteritie The omission of this hath bin a great defect of some ages foregoing ours being the Middle times betweene learned Antiquitie and this latter age wherein Language Arts and Elegancie haue revived and flourished In those times though there haue been many Qui fecerunt scribenda yet there were few qui describerent facta I dare not say that this our Age and Nation are guiltie of the like errour or negligence in deciphering to the life the occurrences of our owne times and affayres by such as best knew and faithfully would relate them A want of which many haue complained but few haue laboured to supply That which I now in all humilitie present is your Majesties by many Titles First from the subject matter being the finall Dispersion of that cloud of Rebellion which hath so long hung over that Kingdome of Ireland which by undoubted title and lawfull succession is descended to your Majestie and that performed by the prudent fortitude of the English Nation which your Majestie now so happily governes Next from your Majesties late faithfull Servant the Earle of Totnes whose Actions are not the least part of the Argument of this Historie hee being at that time chiefe Governour of the Province of Mounster which was the Stage whereon the last and greatest Scene of that Tragedie was acted and since advanced by your Majesties Royall Father and your selfe to many Honourable Titles and Imployments of State And lastly from the Publisher through whose hands nothing can passe which to your Majestie is not justly due both by common All geance and particular Service Pardon gracious Soveraigne this presumption in aspiring to so high a Patronage and graciously accept this poore Tribute of Dutie and thankefulnesse from him who hath eternally bound himselfe Your Sacred Majesties most faithfully devoted Subject and Servant THO STAFFORD TO THE READER OVT of a necessitie imposed by powerfull Custome somewhat must bee sayd to you Reader both to prevent mistakings touching the publishing of this VVorke and to prepare you with some unprejudicate affection to the reading thereof The large space of time thirtie yeeres and upwards betweene the matters Acted Written and now published may beget some wonder in what obscure corner this Worke hath lyen all this while without notice given or taken or if knowne why so long kept from publike view For answere heereto understand indifferent Reader that it was composed while the Actions were fresh in the memories of men by the Direction and appoyntment of the Right Honourable Earle of Totnes late deceased then Lord President of Mounster so often mentioned in this Historie The Collection made was by him first reserved for his owne private Information Secondly preserved for the furtherance of a Generall Historie of that Kingdome of Ireland when it should please God to raise up some industrious Writer to undertake a compleat Description of those Affayres And lastly out of his retyred Modestie the rather by him held backe from the Stage of Publication lest himselfe being a principall Actor in many of the particulars might be perhaps thought under the Narration of publike proceedings to giue vent and utterance to his private merit and Services howsoever justly memorable He leaving the world left it among his Papers where it was found by the now Publisher thereof to whom they were bequeathed and by whom it hath beene offered to the view and censure of divers learned and judicious persons By them it hath been esteemed worthy the view
Walsh 199 O Earle of Ormond taken prisoner 24 O Sulevan repaires with Tirrell into Muskrey 352 Remaines in Beare 392 O Sulevan More sent by the Lord Deputie to the Lord President 84 Prisoner by the practice of Florence Mac Cartie 49 Olerie slaine 95 Owen Mac Eggan the Popes Viccar slaine 366 His qualitie and condition 367 P. Lord Presidents Letters Patents 3 His letter to Iames fits Thomas 51 Sent against O Donnell 210 Surprised with a Feaver 280 His opinion of a defensiue Warre in Ireland 348 Sends 1000. foot to the Lord Deputie 377 Meets the Earle of Ormond at Clonmell 105 Proclamation for publishing the new Money for Ireland 149 Principall men in Tyrones and O Donnells armie 212 Propositions made by Don Iuan. 241 Patrick fits Morris L. of Lixnaw died 71 Preyes taken from the enemy 293 R. Roger Harvey 29 Sir Richard Masterson 29 Sir Robert Gardiner 199 Sir Richard Levison his service at Castlehaven 225 Sir Richard Greame 232 Roger Harvey died of sorrow 257 Richard Power 43 Regiment sent by the L. President into Connaght 159 Reply of Don Iuan to the propositions of the Lo. Deputie 241 Reasons mooving the Lo. Deputie and Councell to a Composition 244 Sir Richard Percie 40 His Service 111 Robert Tent. 30 Rincorran Castle battered by the Lord President 206 Yeelded and the Spanyards received to mercie 208 Lo. Roche coÌ„mended for his loyalty 377 Andrew Roche 144 Richard Ailward knighted 279 Rancoliskey Castle taken 324 Rathmore Castle rendred 68 Rahane taken 297 Ratho Abbey burnt by Sir Charles Wilmot 101 Redmond Burke defeated by O Dwyre 33 Richard Owen comes to Corke with a Message from Tyrone 254 Sir Richard Wingfield 199 S. Spanish Fleet discovered at sea by Captaine Lâ—ue. 189 Spaniards land at Kinsale 190 Spaniards make severall fallies 230 Spaniards make a great sally 221 Spaniards beateÌ„ out of their treÌ„ches 219 Spaniards landed at Castlehaven 223 Spaniards how many transported out of Ireland 248 Spaniards imbarqued at Kinsale 268 Spanish letters intercepted 258 Spanish Hostages licensed to depart 326 Spaniards make three sallies 236 Spaniards defeated at Kinsale in the time of Richard the second 359 Spanish ship arrived neere Ardea 306 Spanish money distributed amongst the Rebells ibid. Shandon Castle 333 Sessions held at Limerick Cashell and Clonmell 105 Selby a Lieutenant 363 Supplies of 1000 foot from England 323 T. Tirlogh Roâ— Mac Swiny 318 Tyrone comes into Mounster 20 Tyrone writes to the Lord Barry 20 Returnes into Vlster 23 Sir Thomas Norris 2 Townes of Mounster required to send Companies of foot to the campe 200 Earle of Thomond commands the Garison at Askeiton 75 Comes with supplies to the camp 216 Marches with an army into Carbry 287 Returned to Corke 289 Thomond spoyled by O Donnell 55 Sir George Thornton left a Commissioner of Mounster 383 Tirrell desires a Parley with the Earle of Thomond and fayles 307 His men executed at Donboy 320 Flies out of the Province 362 Tho. Taylor hangd in chaines at Cork 320 Tho. Oge makes his Submission 361 William Taffe Captaine 29 His Service against the Rebels in Carbery 366 V. Victuals delivered to Don Iuan. 248 Victuals money arrived at Corke 118 W. Warrant for the L. Presidents Patent 3 Sir Warham Saint Leger slaine by Mac Gwyre 〈◊〉 William Saxey Chiefe Iustice of Mounster 6 William Power Captaine his Service at Donboy 318 A Catalogue of the severall MAPPES contained in this HISTORIE In the first Booke 1 A Map of Mounster Page 1. 2 A Map of the Earle of Ormond taken prisoner between pa. 24. 25. 3 A Map of Cahir Castle betweene pag 42 and 43. 4 A Map of Askeiton Castle page 52 and 53. 5 A Map of Glin Castle page 62 and 63. 6 A Map of Carigfoyle Castle page 66 and 67. 7 A Map of Castle Mange page 96 and 97. 8 A Mapp of Limerick Castle pag 108 and 109. In the second Booke 9 A Map of the Siege of Kinsale betweene page 188 and 189. 10 A Map of the Fort of Hallibolyn pag. 252 and 253. In the third Booke 11. A Map of the Army in Beare betweene page 292 and 293. 12. A Map of the Siege of Dunboy page 310 and 311. 13 A Map of Muskrey page 330 and 331. 14 A Map of Castle-nigh-parke page 352 and 353. 15 A Map of Limerick page 362 and 363. 16 A Map of Yough-hall page 376 and 377. 17 A Map of Corke page 382 and 383. PACATA HIBERNIA THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE WARRES IN IRELAND CHAP. I. The Lord Deputie and the Lord Presidents landing in Ireland The Warrant for passing the Lord Presidents Patent The Patent The Lord Deputie and Councells Instructions to the Lord President THE Warres of Ireland having received their originall foundation in the North proceeded like unto a strong poyson which having infected one member without speedie prevention doth spred the contagion over the whole bodie for the Irish perceiving the prosperous successe of those first Rebels even beyond all expectation and hope of those that were ill affected and that her Majesties Forces had sustained many disasters which were never feared untill they happened the neighbour Provinces of Connaght and Leinster following the current of the present time begin to dismaske themselues of that cloake of subjection which before they pretended and to shew themselues partakers in that wicked action and furtherers of the rebellion And these being united in a strict Combination did verily perswade themselues that it would bee a matter very feasible to enable them to shake off the English Government and to make themselues absolute Commanders of all Ireland if the chiefe Lords of Mounster with their friends and followers would joyne with them to banish the English out of that Province They did account that Province to bee the key of the Kingdome both by reason of the Cities and walled Townes which are more then in all the Island besides the fruitfulnesse of the Country being reputed the garden of Ireland and the commodious Harbors lying open both to France and Spaine They devised many plots cast many projects and used many perswasions to animate the Provincials to begin to enterprise But currenti quid opus est calcaribus they were not so ready to yeeld reasons as those were to heare and their eares no more open to heare then their hearts to consent and their hands nothing backward in the execution thereof The Earle of Essex at his being in Ireland with his Army made a journey into Mounster in hope to compose the troubles thereof all that he performed at that time was the taking of Cahir Castle and receiving the Lord of Cahir and the Lord Roche with some others into protection Who after his departure did either openly partake or secretly combine with the rebells againe Her Majestie being resolved to send a new Lord Deputy into Ireland made choise of a worthy and noble Gentleman endued with excellent parts as well of body as
it is and shall bee lawfull for the Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one to prosecute and oppresse any rebell or rebells with sword and with fire and for the doing of the same to leavie in warlike manner and array and with the same to march such and so many of the Queenes Subjects as to his discretion shall seeme convenient And if that any Castle Pile or House bee with force kept against them it shall bee lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell or two of them whereof the Lord President to be one to bring before any such Castle Pile or House so to bee kept against them any of the Queenes Majesties Ordnance and great artillery remaining within the limits of the Commission And with the same or by some other meanes or Ingine any such Castle Pile or House to batter mine or overthrow as to their discretions shall seeme best Streightly charging and commanding all Archbishops Earles Bishops Vicounts Barons and Baronets Knights Majors Sheriffs Iustices and Ministers of peace and all other Gentlemen and Commons being her Majesties Subjects to helpe aid and assist the said Lord President and Councell in such sort and at such time as by the said Lord President and Councel or two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one they shall bee commanded upon such paines as for the nature and of the defaults shall bee thought meet to the said Lo President and Councell to limit and assesse And it is ordered by us the said Lord Deputy and Councell that if any person complaine to the said Lord President and Councell and that they shall thinke their Complainants worth the hearing that the persons so complained upon shall be sent for by a Letter missive under the Queenes Signet to appeare before the Lord President and Councel at a day and place by them to be appointed there to answer to such things as shall bee laid to their charges and further to be ordered as shall stand with right justice equity and conscience and for lacke of apparance upon such Letters they shall send foorth Letters of alleageance Proclamations or other Processe to bee made directed and awarded by their discretions to the Sheriffe Constable or other Minister whereby the partie complained upon may bee called to come to his answer as appertaineth and if by the obstinacy of the partie complained upon the case so require to sequester his or their lands or goods or either of them by their discretions And furthermore if in case any person or persons having habitation or dwelling or any lands or tenemeÌ„ts by lease or otherwise within the limits of the Commission aforesaid shall by covin fraud or dâ—ceit or otherwise absent himselfe or goe out of the limits of the said Commission That then Letters missive signed with the Queenes Signet shall be delivered at his House Lands or Tenements and the copies of the same shall bee left there so that by most likelyhood the same may come to his knowledge being so sent for And if within a certaine time after limited by their discretion the person or persons so sent for will make default of apparance the said Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall as well proceede to other Processe as to the hearing and determining of the matter or cause in variance according to the Lawes Statues Ordinances made therein or otherwise at their discretions And if in case any Letters missive be sent and addressed from the Lord President and Councel to any person or persons of what estate or degree soever they be to appeare before them at a day appointed the same Letters being delivered to him or them or otherwise left at his or their house as is above specifyed the said Lord President and Councel or any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall cause him or them so contemning or disobeying to be punished by imprisonment and reasonable fine or shall other wayes proceed according to their discretions In which sayd causes if any of the parties commit any resistance or disobedience either of their appearance or contrary to the Commaundements direction decree or determination made or to be made and decreed by the said Lord President and Councell That then the said Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lord President to be one shall or may command the Sherife Major Serjeant at Armes Constable Bailife or other Officer or Minister to whom it shall appertaine to attach very person so offending contemning or disobeying and to send him or them to the Lord Deputie in ward together with Certificate of his contempt or disobedience or else by their discretions to cause the parties so attached to bee committed to ward there to remaine in safe custodie until the time that the pleasure of us the Lord Deputie and Councell be knowen in the premisses or that the same person or persons assent fulfill and agree to the determination of the said Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lo President to be one And the said Lord President and Councell shall haue full power and authoritie by these presents diligently to heare and determine and trie all and all manner of extortions maintenance imbracery and oppressions Conspiracies rescues escapes corruptions falsehoods and all manner evill doings defaults misdemeanours of all Sheriffes Iustices of peace Majors Soveraignes Portriffes Bailiffes Stewards Lieâ—tenants Excheators Coroners Goalers Clarkes and other Officers and Ministers of Iustice and other Deputies as well within all the Counties and Countries within the Province of Mounster as within the supposed Liberties of Typperarij and Kerrij and in all Cities other townes corporate within the limits of their said Commission of what degree soever they be and punish the same according to the quality and quantity of their said offences by their discretions leaving neverthelesse to the Lord and owners of all lawfull Liberties such profits as they lawfully claime And it shall be lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell or any three of them whereof the Lord President to bee one to conceave make and cause to be proclaimed in her Highnesse name any thing or matter tending to the better order of her Majesties Subjects within the precincts of their Commission and the repressing of malefactors and misorders after such tenour and forme as they shall thinke convenient and to punish the Offenders then according to their discretions And also wee the said Lord Deputie and Councell have thought meete that the said Lord President and Councell or any three of them whereof the said Lord President to bee one shall and may compound upon reasonable causes by their discretion with any person for all forfeitures growing or comming or that shall grow or come as well by all and singular
hee weekely present to the Lord President and Councell to be considered And because her Maiestie meaneth principally to benefit her Subiects not onely with the fruites of Iustice but with the delivery of them from all unnecessary burdens The Lord President and Councell shall foresee that no manner of extraordinary or excessiue charge bee put and layed upon any person against their Wils and Agreements by finding or sustaining of any Horsman or Footman or Horse-boy or Horse belonging of the said Lord President or any of the said Councell on any belonging to them And in the like manner shall see that the Subiects bee not oppressed with the like by any other contrary to the Lawes of the Realme for such causes provided Item considering the Queenes Maiestie hath title and right to no small quantity of possessions within Mounster aswell of auncient revenew of the Crowne and of other Seigniories devolued to the Crowne And also of the dissolved Monasteries and other Houses of religion the which are not duely answered to her Maiestie as reason would The said Lord President and Councell shall from time to time imploy their Labours by all their good discretions to procure that her Maiesties Officers or Farmors appointed for that purpose may peaceably and fully from time to time possesse and receiue the profits of the same The Oath to bee ministred by the Lord President to such as shall be admitted to bee of the Councell of Mounster being not already sworne of her Majesties Privie Councell in Ireland as well the oath provided in the Statute for swearing of Officers as also this heereunder written viz. You shall sweare to the uttermost of your power will and cunning you shall be true and faithfull to the Queenes Majestie our Soveraigne Lady and to her Heires and Successors You shall not know nor heare any thing that may in any wise be prejudiciall to her Highnes or the Commonwealth peace and quiet of this her Hignesse Realme but you shall with all diligence reveale and disclose the same to her Highnesse or to such other person or persons of her Majesties Privie Councell in Ireland as you shall thinke may and will soonest convey and bring it to her Highnesse knowledge You shall serue her Maiestie truely and faithfully in the roome and place of her Maiesties Councell in Mounster You shall in all things that bee moved treated and debated in any Councell faithfully and truely declare your mind and opinion according to your heart and conscience In no wise forbearing so to doe for any respect of Favour Meade Dreade Displeasure or corruption Yee shall faithfully and unrightly to the best of your power cause Iustice to bee duely and indifferently ministred to the Queenes Maiesties Subiects that shall haue cause to sue for the same according to equity and order of Lawes Finally you shall bee vigilant diligent and circumspect in all your doings and proceedings touching the Queenes Maiestie and her affaires All which points and Articles before expressed with all other Articles signed with the hands of the Lord Deputie and Councell of this Realme and delivered to mee the Lord President of her Highnesse Councell established in these parts You shall faithfully obserue keepe and fulfill to the uttermost of your Power Wit Will and cunning so helpe you God and the contents of this Booke THE NAMES OF THE COVNCELLORS TO BEE ASSISTANT to the Lord President of Mounster as they are directed under the hand of the Lord Deputie The Earle of Ormond The Earle of Kildare The Earle of Thomond The Vice-Co Barry The Lordâ—Audley The Bishop of Corke The Bishop of Limer Sir Nicholas Welsh Iustice Saxey Sir Francis Barkley Sir George Thornton Iustice Golde The Queenes Sergeant The Q. Attorney generall The Q. Solicitor Sir Charles Wilmot Garret Comerford Esquire Hugh Cuffe Esquire Adam Dublin Thom. Midens George Cary. Rich. Wingfield Anth. St leger George Bourcher Geof Fenton â—ra Stafford CHAP. II. The Earle of Tyrone in Mounster and his Actions there The White Knight Tyrones prisoner Florence Mac Carti made Mac Carti More and Donell Mac Carti displaced The Lord Barry spoyled Tyrones letter to the Lord Barry with the Lord Barry's answere Sir Warham Saint leger and Mac Guyre slaine Tyrones returne into Vlster A Little before the landing of the Lord Deputie in Ireland as is said the Arch-traytor Tyrone to unite the Rebels of Mounster and especially to conferre with Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle of Desmond and Florence Mac Cartie at whose intreatie he made a journey into Mounster Those whom hee found obstinate in rebellion hee incouraged from such as hee held doubtfull hee tooke pledges or detained prisoners of which last sort was the White Knight and his sonne in law Donogh Mac Cormocke Cartie whom in hand-lockes he carried away with him And whereas Donell Mac Cartie the Earle of Clancares base sonne had been by the Mac Carties of Desmond advanced to the Stile title and authoritie of Mac Cartie More Him hee displaced and in his roome Florence Mac Cartie was surrogated being a man as hee conceived of farre more use then Donell Such as were or reputed good Subjects these hee prosecuted with sword and fire Amongst others which felt his heavie hand the Lord Barry was one upon whom when hee could not worke his desire to draw him into actuall rebellion by the perswasion of the Provinciall rebells him hee preyed burned and spoyled to make it manifest that hee was sollicited to enter into Rebellion both the Letters of Tyrone and the Lord Barries Answere are heere truly set downe the tenors whereof doe ensue Tyrones Letter to the Lord Barrie MY Lord Barry your impietie to God crueltie to your soule and body tyrannie ingratitude both to your followers and country are inexcusable intolerable You separated your selfe from the unitie of Christs mysticall Bodie the Catholike Church You know the Sword of Extirpation hangeth over your head as well as ours if things fall out other wayes then well you are the cause why all the Nobilitie of the South from the East part to the West you being linked unto each one of them either in affinitie or consanguinitie are not linked together to shake off the cruell yoake of Heresie and Tyrannie with which our Soules and Bodies are opprest All those aforesaid depending of your resolution and relying to your Iudgement in this common cause of our Religion and Countrey you might forsooth with their helpe and the rest that are combyned in this holy Action not onely defend your selfe from the incursion and invasion of the English but also by Gods assistance who miraculously and aboue all expectation gaue good successe to the cause principally undertaken for his glorie exaltation of religion next for the restauration of the ruines and preservation of the Countrey expell them and deliver them and us from most miserable and cruell exaction and subjection enjoy your religion safetie of Wife and children life lands
and goods which all are in hazard through your folly and want of due consideration Enter I beseech you into the closet of your Conscience and like a wise man weigh seriously the end of your actions and take advise of those that â—an instruct you and informe you better then your owne private judgement can leade you unto Consider and reade with attention and setled minde this Discourse I sende you that it may please God to set open your eyes and graunâ— you a better minde From the Campe this instant Tuesday the fixt of March according to the new Computation I pray you to send mee the Papers I sent you assoone as your Honour shall reade the same O Neale The Lord Barries Answer to Tyrone YOur Letters I received and if I had answered the same as rightfully they might be answered you should haue as little like therof as I should mislike or feare any thing by you threatned against me which manner of Answere leaving to the construction and consideration of all those that are fully possessed with the knowledge of the Law of duetie to God and Man You may understand hereby briefly my mind to your obiections in this manner How I am undoubtedly perswaded in my conscience that by the Law of God and his true religion I am bound to hold with her Maiestie Her Highnesse hath never restrained me for matters of religion and as I felt her Maiesties indifferencie and clemencie therein I haue not spared to releeue poore Catholikes with duetifull succour which well considered may assure any well disposed mind that if duety had not as it doth yet kindnesse and courtesie should bind me to remember and requite to my power the benefits by me received at her Maiesties hands You shall further understand that I hold my Lordships and Lands immediately under God of her Maiestie and her most noble Progenitors by corporall service and of none other by very ancient Tenour which Service and Tenour none may dispence withall but the true Possessor of the Crowne of England being now our Soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth And though yee by some over weening imaginations haue declined from your dutifull allegeance unto her Highnesse Yet I haue setled my selfe never to forsake Her Let fortune never so much rage against me shee being my annointed Prince and would to God you had not so farre ran to such desperate and erronious wayes offending God and her Maiestie who hath so well deserved of you and I would pray you to enter into consideration thereof and with penitent hearts to reclaime your selues hoping that her Highnesse of her accustomed clemency would be gracious to you wherein I leaue you to your owne compunction and consideration And this much I must challenge you for breach of your word in your Letter by implication inserted that your forces haue spoiled part of my countrey and preyed them to the number of foure thousand Kine and three thousand Mares and Gerrans and taken some of my followers Prisoners within the time by you assigned unto mee to come unto you by your said word if yee regarde it I require restitution of my spoile and Prisoners and after unlesse you bee better advised for your Loyalty use your discretions against mee and mine and spare not if you please for I doubt not with the helpe of God and my Prince to bee quit with some of you hereafter though now not able to use resistance And so wishing you to become true and faithfull Subiects to God and your Prince I end at Barry Court this twenty sixe of February 1599. While Tyrone was in Mounster a disasterous action hapned upon the day of February Tyrone with his Hell-hounds being not farre from Corke Sir Warham St Ledger and Sir Henry Power who after the death of Sir Thomas Norris Lord President of Mounster in the vacancie of a President had beene established Commissioners for the government of the Province riding out of the Citie for recreation to take the aire accompanied with sundry Captaines and Gentlemen with a few Horse for their Guard not dreaming of an enemie neere at hand carelesly riding every one as he thought good within a mile of the Towne or little more Sir Warham St leger and one of his servants a little stragling from his companie was in a narrow way suddenly charged by Mac Guire who with some Horse likewise dispersed had spread a good circuit of ground in hope either to get some bootie or to haue the killing of some Subjects they charged each other Sir Warham discharged his Pistoll and shot the Traytor and hee was strucken with the others Horsemans staffe in the head of which wounds either of them dyed but none else on either side was slaine Tyrone having dispatched his busines in Mounster turned his face towards Vlster The Earle of Ormond the Lord Lieuetenant generall of Her Maiesties Forces with a competent Army was before him with a purpose to fight with him in his retreat But by what accident hee missed of his intention I know not being a hard matter to fight with an enemy that is not disposed to put any thing in hazard He went through Ormond and stayed not untill he had passed through a part of Westmeth betweene Mollingar and Athlone The Lord Deputie on the 5. of March had intelligence that hee meant to passe through Westmeth Whereupon with all the force hee could presently aâ—â—emble hee marched from Dublin but his endeavour was fruitlesse for Tirone was past before his comming CHAP. III. The Lord President leâ—â—t Dublin The Earle of Ormond taken prisoner by Owny Mac Rory Omore A joynt Letter from the Lord President and the Earle of Thomond to the Lords of the Councell in England The manner of the Earle of Ormonds taking prisoner The narrow escape of the Lord President and wounding of the Earle of Thomond The order taken for the 〈◊〉 of the Countâ—ey after the Earle of Ormonds disaster The submission of Tho Fitz Iames and Tho Power THE Lord President having attended long at Dublin about his dispatches afore mentioned wherein he lost no time upon the seventh of Aprill being accompanied with the Earle of Thomond the Lo Audley Captaine Roger Harvy Captaine Thomas Browne Captaine Garret Dillon and some other Captaines and Gentlemen with seven hundred Foote and one hundred Horse Hee tooke his leaue of the Lord Deputie who with all the Councellors and Captaines then in the Citie to doe him honour rode with him about two miles out of the Towne and that night he lodged at the Naas the next night at Catherlogh and the day following hee came to Kilkenny to visit the Earle of Ormond being a noble man whom he much respected aswell for the honorable parts that were in him as for the long and familiar acquaintance which had beene betweene them After salutations and complements were past the Earle told the President that the next day hee was to parlie with the Rebell Owny Mac Rory
Omore at a place about eight miles from Kilkenny and hee was desirous that the President would goe with him whereunto he easily assented the next morning being the tenth of Aprill according to the appointment the Earle parlied with the Traitor and was there taken Prisoner To the end the Reader may truely understand the manner of that dayes misfortune behold the Letter which the President and the Earle of Thomond sent to the Lords of the Councell in England wherein the same is fully related A Ioint Letter from the Lord President and the Earle of Thomond to the Lords of the Councell IT may please your Lordships Although I the President haue by my Letters advertised the Lord Deputie the manner in what sort the Earle of Ormond was taken which I thinke is by his Lordship sent unto you yet wee thinke it our dueties to make relation thereof unto your Lordships and to make knowen unto your Honours how accidentally we were witnesses of his misfortune On Munday the seventh of Aprill wee departed from Dublin and upon Wednesday at night wee came to Kilkenny where wee found the Earle of Ormond In our company we had one hundred Horse dispersed in the Countrey ten or twelue miles distant from us by the Earles Officers as soone as we came unto him he acquainted us that he had appointed the next day to parlie with Owny Mac Rory vvee told his Lordship that vve vvould attend him And I the President desired his Lordship that my one hundred Horse might be sent for to goe vvith us for his Lordships better guard vvhich he refused thanking me for my offer saying that he had no need of them The next day being the tenth of this present after Dinner his Lordship not having in his company aboue the number of seventeene Horsemen of his followers armed and not little aboue the like number of all sorts whereof wee were part and the rest Lavvyers Merchants and others upon Hacknies with no other Weapons then our Swordes roade out to the place of meeting eight long Miles from Kilkenny called Corronneduffe upon the Borders of Ydough Leaving his Lordships owne Company of two hundred Footemen short of the place of Parlie assigned aboue two English Miles The place vvhere vvee met with the rebells was upon a Heath ground descending towards a narrow straight having on either side of us a lowe shrubbie boggie wood within three pikes length at the farthest from the place where wee parlyed and the like distance from the straight aforesaid the choyce whereof wee much misliked Owny Mac Rorye when hee came unto us brought with him a Troupe of choise Pikes leaving in a little plaine beyond the straight within halfe Culvering shot of us in our sight all his grosse beeing in all to the number as Redmond Keting one of the rebells did sweare unto mee the President fiue hundred Foot strong and twentie Horse whereof three hundred were Bonoughes the best furnished men for the warre and the best appoynted that wee haue seene in this Kingdome At our first meeting and so during the parley which was appoynted for some good causes best knowen to his Lordship they stood as they might every one trayling his Pike and holding the cheeke thereof in his hand ready to push The Earle himselfe was upon a little weake Hackney unarmed as all wee were that were about him standing so neere with the side of his Hackney to the rebells as they touched him After an hower and more was idly spent and nothing concluded wee and others did pray his Lordship to depart But hee desirous to see that infamous Iesuite Archer did cause him to bee sent for assoone as hee came the Earle and hee fell into an Argument wherein hee called Archer Traytor and reprooved him for sending under pretext of Religion her Majesties Subjects into rebellion In this meane time the grosse of the rebells had left their standing in the plaine and some crept into the shrubbes aforesayd and others did so mingle themselues among us that wee were environed and stood as if wee had been in a Faire whereof divers did advertise his Lordship And at last I the Earle of Thomond willed Ownye to put backe his men And I the President desired his Lordshipp to bee gone for that I did not like their mingling with us wherewith as his Lordship was turning his Horse at an instant they seised upon him and us two His Lordship was in a moment drawen from his Horse we had more hanging upon us then is credibly to bee beleeved but our horses were strong and by that meanes did breake through them in tumbling downe on all sides those that were before and behinde us and thankes be to God we escaped the push of their pikes which they freely bestowed and the flinging of their Skeines without any hurt saving that I the Earle of Thomond received with a Pike a wound in the back The Earles Horsemen which were armed were farre from us for every one was dispersed and talking with particular rebells about the bordering businesse so as wee doe protest unto your Lordships in all wee were not aboue tenne unarmed men neere unto him and assoone as the Allarme was raised every man of his followers came away without â—ooking behind him After wee had cleered our selues within a Butt length at the most wee made hault and called for the Trumpet and cried upon the Earles men for a Charge but none stood by us but Captaine Harvy Captaine Browne Master Comerford a Lawyer and three of our Servants which was all the company that we had then and all of us without Armour or other Weapon then our Swords so as for want of more company vvee were enforced by the Enemies shott to leaue them the ground But we doe assure your Lordships the place wherein we parlied was of such advantage to the Enemy that 500 Foote would not haue cared for 500 Horse and therefore his Lordship having no Foote with him it was unpossible to doe the Enemy any harme with Horse this treachery for so wee must terme it in respect of his Lordships confidence in the valour of his owne men and also in his opinion that the Enemy durst not shew him this foule measure was contrived by that Villaine Archer and none was made acquainted with it but Owny Mac Rory two Leinster men and fower Bonnaghes for if more had beene trusted there is no doubt but his Lordship should haue had knowledge of it Owny Mac Rory laid his hands on mee the President as they report and next unto God I must thanke the Earle of Thomond for my escape who thrust his Horse upon him and at my backe a Rebell newly protected at my suite called Brien Mac Donoghe Kevanaghe being a foote did me good service and wounded one of the Traitors that laid hands on the Earle of Ormond for the rest I must thanke my Horse whose strength bare downe all about him On our
side there was but one man slaine not aboue fiue hurt whereof Pierce Butler a kinseman of the Earles was one who behaved himselfe valiantly and about foureteene taken Prisoners and of the Enemy was one slaine and a few hurt the Prisoners were taken by their owne negligence who were grazing their horses The taking of this great Lord breeds unsetled humors in these parts for all the Gentlemen of the countrey whereof some of them were his true followers for want of a Defender are wavering others which in their owne dispositions were naught and contained themselues as Subiects but for feare of his power are now at liberty and we feare will shortly declare themselues To keepe them from present uproares I the President did immediately send for sixe hundred Foote of the Mounster Companies which were at Watterford the hundred Horse which were in the countrey to the Towne of Kilkenny which hath wrought good effect and staied the unsetled humors besides thereby it did assure the Lady of Ormond and her daughter which otherwise had beene subiect to many dangers so sorrowfull a Lady in all our liues vvee haue not seene and doe beleeue that if it had not pleased God that we at that time had beene there she would hardly haue undergone those griefes that did oppresse her For besides the losse of her husband in being Prisoner with those rogues she beheld the apparant ruine of her selfe and her daughter and no lesse danger of both their liues the Guard vvhereof she committed unto us not being assured of those that serue her for there is divers that pretend to bee the Earles Heires First Sir Edmond Butler his second Brother which Sir Walter Butler the Earles Nephew whose blood is not attainted vvill not yeeld unto because his Vncle Sir Edmond is not restored in blood And the Vicount Mountgarret thinks that he ought to be Earle of Ormond for many reasons vvhich he pretends This controversie could not but breed great danger to the Countesse and her daughter for that either of those vvould bee glad to possesse themselues in the Earles houses and the doubt vvho is to succeede him breeds unsetled humors in the Gentlemen of the countrey that bee follovvers to the Earle every one addicting himselfe to the partie they affect vvhereby there is a generall distraction vvhich vvould haue broken out into a dangerous Rebellion if the Forces and vve had not beene heere to keepe them in awe Besides we did not neglect to send for all the Lords and Gentlemen in the countrie that are of the best quality and haue temporized with them So as we hope the dangers which were like to ensue will be for a time well appeased Also understanding that Balliragget a house of the Lord Mountgarets in the which there is a Warde for the Queene kept as a Pledge for his loialty that the same was attempted to be wonne by the Vicecounts sonnes who are in rebellion And immediately upon the Earles taking lay before it in hope to starue the Souldiers for their last daies victuals was spent I the President did take up in Kilkenny upon my credit victuals and with a strong convoy of Horse and Foote haue revictualled it for sixe weekes whereof the Lord Deputy is advertised praying him to be carefull before that victuall be spent And because that all things might be continued in good order We thought good to remaine in Kilkenny untill the Lord Deputy should determine of some course so to hold it for her Maiesties benefit the countries good and the Countesse and her daughters safetie wherein we were enforced to make large disbursements of our small stores for dieting in that time of the horse and foote Troopes whereof I the Earle defrayed the charges of my owne Company of two hundred Foote and I the President of all the rest during our abode there which was eight dayes In this meane time wee understanding that Mountgarrets sonnes which are in rebellion did come to spoile the countrie neere to Kilkenny We sent out some part of our Troopes who lighted upon some of their men And amongst them which they slew there was one of the Butlers a neere kinsman to Mountgarret and a Leader slaine and the Traitors driven to their Woods being enforced to leaue their enterprize The sixteenth of this present Sir George Bourchier and Sir Christopher St Lawrence sent from the Lord Deputie came to Kilkenny Sir George for chiefe Commander of her Majesties Forces there and to take charge of the Countesse her Daughter and the Earles Houses and Sir Christopher to bee directed by him The Forces there left is two hundred Foote of the Earles other two hundred Foote of Sir Christophers thirtie Foot left in a ward in Mountgarretts house called Balliraggett eightie fiue Horse whereof fiftie of the Earles fiue and twentie of St Lawrences and tenne of Sir George Bourchiers Since the Earles taking wee kept the Rebells from doing any hurt in the Countrey neither as yet is there any in rebellion in the same but Mountgarrets sonnes whose force is not such but in our opinions without they call strangers to assist them her Majesties Forces there is much too strong for them The seventeenth wee left Kilkenny and came to this Cittie leaving Sir George Bourcheir as aforesaid This accident hath withheld mee the President from my peculiar charge more then I purposed but therein I hope your Lordships will hold mee excused being other wayes so necessarily imployed in these causes of so great importance whereof I humbly beseech your Lordshipps in your wisedomes to haue due consideration To morrow wee proceed in our Iourney towards Corke from whence with the rest of the Councell there wee will advertize your Lordships in what estate wee finde the Province not being able heere to certifie your Honours so particularly as then wee may So wee humbly take our leaues From Waterford the eighteenth of Aprill 1600. Strange it was to consider how much this misfortune distracted the minds of sundrie that before were inclined to subjection and greatly animated the Traitors to persevere in their wicked enterprises which might evidently be seene in Pierce Lacy a wise and malicious Traytor who being but few dayes before upon the Earles protection promising great loyaltie and much service did presently relapse and became a more dangerous Rebell then at any time before But now leaving farther discourse of former occurrents we will betake our selues wholly to prosecute the relation of such things as happened in Mounster after the Lord President came to Waterford which was the sixteenth of Aprill For the prosecution of the Service in which Province by order out of England the List as aforesayd for Mounster was established to be three thousand Foot and two hundred and fiftie Horse After his repaire thither Intelligence came unto him that the Titularie Earle of Desmond with the greatest part of his Forces was remaining not farre from Yoghall about Drumâ—inin with intent to giue impediment
unto him and such Companies as hee had with him Thomas fits Iames Bastard sonne of Sir Iames fits Gerrald late Lord of the Decies and Thomas Power the Lord Powers Cosen Ierman the chiefe Rebels in the Countie of Waterford receiving advertisement that the President was in Waterford fearing peradventure lest some draught might bee drawen upon them and that themselues or followers might receiue some great prejudice by meanes of the Presidents Forces made great instance by the Lord Power and Sir Nicholas Welsh to be received into her Majesties protection promising and protesting not onely that they would reclaime themselues and their followers from committing any outrage against her Majesties Subjects but further that they would indeavour to recompense and requite their former defaults by some acceptable service The Lord President considering that the receiving of them and their Dependants into protection would bee a meanes both to weaken the Traitour Desmond of some part of his strength and to secure and open the passage betwixt Waterford and Yoghall which before was so kept especially by them that there was no way to send but by Sea Vpon the best assurance that could bee gotten for their future loyalties accepted their submissions and graunted protection both to themselues and their followers since which time they haue been good and loyall Subjects CHAP. IV. The encounter of her Majesties Forces with Florence Mac Carty The prey of the Brough taken The state of the Province of Mounster when the Lora President came into it The Lord Barry preyed Redmond Burke defeated by Odwyre Odwyres Countrey harrassed by Redmond Burke THE twentieth of Aprill the Lord President accompanied with the Earle of Thomond the Lord Audâ—â—y the Lo Power the Lord of the Decies Sir Nicholas Welsh Sir Anthonie Cooke Sir Richard Masterson Captaine Roger Harvie Captaine William Taffe Captaine Richard Greame Captaine Fleming Captaine Gifford Captaine Dillon Captaine Oreilly and divers other private Gentlemen with eight hundred Foot and one hundred Horse came that night to Dongarvan where hee found Sir George Cary the Treasurer his Company which the next morning hee tooke along with him to Yoghall The two and twentieth hee received advertisement of an incounter betweene Captaine Flower Serjeant Major of that Province and Florence Mac Carty the performance whereof was as followeth Florence Mac Carty notwithstanding the infinite favours and bounties which hee had received from her Maiestie being wholly Spaniolized had possessed the minds of those in Carbry Desmond with a strange opinion of his worthinesse and having combined with Tyrone and the other Rebels at his late being in Mounster did shew himselfe in open action against her Maiestie Whereupon the Commissioners Sir Warham Saint Leger and Sir Henry Power sent Captaine Flower and Captaine Bostocke into Carbery with twelue hundred foote and one hundred horse which Flower commanded in chiefe to make prosecution against the Rebels of those parts in their way towards Rosse they burned and spoiled the Countrie as they passed they got the heads of thirty seven notorious rebels besides others of lesse note Florence gathered together of the Provincials and Bownoghs for so they call their waged men to the number of two thousand or thereabouts Dermond Oconner as Generall for so they termed him of the Bownoghs These being gathered to a head attended their opportunity to giue some blow to our Forces yet never did encounter them untill they were in their returne within fiue Miles of Corke In the mid way betwixt that Citie and Kinsale there is a foord a bridge over the river called Awneboy Here the rebels lay close in an ambush on the North side of the river in a glynn between two hils and also on the South side in a scrubbie Wood neere the river The Companies comming on not thinking there to expect an Enemy marched scarce orderly and but a few maches burning Captaine Iohn Bostocke riding a good pretty distance before them and past the bridge espied the Morians of some of the suncke ambush in the Glinn presently retiring backe gaue notice of the Enemy and willed them to prepare themselues The rebels finding that they were discovered presently rose and charged our men before they were well ordered Captaine Flower the Commander finding himselfe opprest with numbers drew to the wals of an old ruinous Castle to the Eastward neere halfe a mile distant for his safety in which retrait they being upon the point of routing were charged home both with Horse and Foote Flower to prevent the danger directed Lieuetenant Lane officer to Sir Iohn Barkley to lie in ambush under an old ditch with a squadron of Musketiers Carbry Oconner brother to Dermond aforesaid came on with his Company following the execution of some of our men untill hee fell into the ambush where hearing a volley of shot delivered upon them Carbry with other Gentlemen were slaine At which accident the rebels being amazed the Horse tooke the opportunity and chardged them with such resolution as instantly they rowted and our men fell upon the execution of them In which Charge I cannot but particularly commend Robert Tent Sir Anthony Cooks Cornet who did behaue himselfe with extraordinary valour besides Carbry Oconner ninetie eight were slaine in the place and neere that number hurt whereof divers afterwards died On our part none of note hurt but Greame brother to Captaine Richard Greame and eight Souldiers Captaine Flower who did that day admirably well had two Horses slaine under him and received sundrie wounds both with sword and pike and it was his fortune to encounter with Dermond O Conner at whom hee discharged his Pistoll which lighted upon his Targett whereby he received no hurt That night they marched into Kinelmekagh and encamped beyond the Bridge of Balline Coursie where they stayed with their hurt men two nights the third day in the evening they dispersed their Companies to those Countries where they had Bonaught The same day Captaine Francis Slingsby Commaunder of the Lord Presidents Foot Companie and garrison at Kilmallock where there was the Lord Presidents two hundred Foot Captaine Clares one hundred and fiftie twentie fiue of Sir Anthony Cooke his Troope and twelue of Sir George Thorntons Horse drew foorth in the night part of that garrison to take the prey of the Brough a Castle of Pierce Lacies but three miles from Kilmallocke to expect the comming foorth of the prey to grase which accordingly about an hower after day light came foorth and they tooke it Then presently the crie being raised three hundred Foot and fiftie Horse led by Pierce Lacie skirmished with them for the space of sixe howers but seeing they could not prevaile they gaue over the pursuite There was slaine of our men but one Horseman of Sir George Thorntons Troope and foure or fiue of the Lord Presidents Foote hurt their losses were more whereof Con Oneale Tyrones base sonne was hurt The three and twentieth at night the Lord
chiefe of small Countreyes submitted themselues to her Majesties mercie But the principall marke which the Lord President aymed at before his entrance into the Field with his Armie was to reclaime if possible it might be Florence Mac Cartie before spoken of from further pursuing those hatefull and ingratefull courses which unadvisedly he had entred into This hee desired for divers reasons First and especially for the service which he foresaw might receiue some good countenance by his subjection Secondly because if hee continued in action of necessitie hee must bee constrained to imploy a great part of his Forces which hee thought both inconvenient and dangerous to bee divided to follow the prosecution of him and his Complices And lastly a good opinion which some his honourable friends in England and himselfe also had conceived of him For these causes was the President moved earnestly to desire that this Florence might bee stayed from further persisting in those exorbitant courses and the rather because the said Florence had written Letters unto him which upon his way into Mounster hee received that assoone as hee should come to Corke hee would present himselfe personally to him aud doe all his endeavours to advance the Service All which being made knowen by the Lord President to the Earle of Thomond he intreated the said Earle and Sir Nicholas Welsh to joyne with Iohn fits Edmonds Florence his Godfather a man very famous in those parts for his learning and liberall hospitalitie in entertaining of strangers to send a Messenger to signifie to Florence Mac Cartie that they were very desirous to conferre with him about certaine particularities concerning his owne good By his Letter remised in answer of this message hee appoynted both a time and place for their meeting which was accordingly performed After more then two houres spent and many Oathes passed as well by the Earle as Sir Nicholas Welsh that the President had promised his safe returne with fearefull guiltinesse hee came to Corke and from thence to Shandon Castle upon the third of May 1600 where the Lord President remained at that time before whom when hee had presented himselfe hee made his submission upon his knees with many protestations of the sinceritie of his Heart and the true loyaltie which hee alwayes bare towards her Majestie desiring that hee might bee received into her Majesties favour and hee would serue her as faithfully and unfainedly as any man in Mounster The Lord President reprooved him very sharply for his trayterous behaviours laying before him the odiousnesse and foulnesse of his faults and the monstrous ingratitude towards her Majestie from whom hee had received many great benefits and gracious favours These speeches finished the President bade him to stand up when as both hee and the Earle of Thomond Sir Nicholas Welsh and Iohn fits Edmund did every of them very feelingly preach Obedience unto him His answer being very generall carried great shew of loyaltie and obedience at that time Vpon the next morrow hee was called before the President and Councell who was againe urged by them all in generall not onely to desist from proceeding in evill but with alacritie of minde to doe some such service as might merit reward for assurance and performance whereof the President demaunded his eldest sonne in pledge for the avoydance whereof hee used many colourable reasons viz. That it would cause the Bonnoghs to forsake him yea and to driue him out of his Countrey erecting his wiues base Brother in his place That he had of long time tasted of miseries and wants That hee had lately recovered his Countrey of Desmond with great travell and charges and therefore like the burnt child hee feared to run into any such inconvenience as might cause his friends to relapse from him Adding moreover that it was needlesse in them to exact any such thing at hishands who was in his soule wholly addicted devoted to her Majesties service The weaknesse of these reasons were both wisely discovered and effectually answered but all that could bee said was no more pleasing to him then is delightfull musicke to deafe eares which being discerned the President betooke himselfe to a new devise for now hee vehemently threatned that leaving for a time all other services a sharpe prosecution of Hostilitie with fire and sword against himselfe his tenants and followers should speedily overtake him upon his returne into Desmond Much was hee amazed with this denunciation and therefore hauing made a short pawse answered thus Since my needlesse pledge is so earnestly desired I am content to leaue my eldest sonne in Corke upon these conditions That her Majestie would passe unto mee the Countrey of Desmond in as large and ample manner as before it was conveyed unto my Father in law the Earle of Clancare Secondly that shee would giue unto mee the Name and Title of Mac Cartie More or Earle of Clancare Thirdly that shee would giue unto mee three hundred men in pay for assuring my Countrey from all that would offend it These hyperbolicall demands were no sooner propounded but absolutely rejected Therefore he desired that Licence might bee graunted unto him to write to his honourable friends in England to worke for him the afore recited Conditions which without any great difficultie was permitted Lastly the President questioned with him what hee intended to doe if these his desires were not satisfied thereupon hee sware upon a Booke that hee would never beare Armes against her Majesties Forces except hee were assaulted in Desmond and that his followers should likewise abstaine from actuall rebellion and further that he would send him intelligence from time to time of the Rebells proceedings and doe him the best underhand-service that possibly hee could Now had the President effected a great part of his desires namely that by Florence his remaining in Neutralitie his Forces might be wholly imployed against Iames fits Thomas who being once slaine or banished it would bee an easie matter to teach him to speake in a more submissiue language and forget to capitulate either for Lands Title or Charge Florence is now departed towards his Countrey of Desmond where leaving him in suspence betwixt doubt and feare wee will proceed in the accidents of Corke Now the President discerning this Warre in Mounster to be like a Monster with many Heads or a Servant that must obey divers Masters did thinke thus that if the Heads themselues might bee set at variance they would proue the most fit Instruments to ruine one another The two chiefe Heads were the Sugan Earle for so they called Desmond Commander of the Provincials and Dermond O Conner Generall of the Bownoghs before mentioned This Dermond O Conner was a poore man in the beginning of his fortune and not Owner of two Plough Lands in Connaght his natiue Countrie his reputation grew partly by his wife who was daughter to the old Earle of Desmond and partly by his valour being reputed one of the most valiant Leaders and
the beginning of Iune was most convenient to lie in Campe whereas if the Service should bee deferred untill Winter the Companies would bee weakened both by death and sicknesse and more difficulties should they find in the fowlnesse of the weather and deepnesse of the way then in the sword of the Enemy whom now they did ardently desire to encounter withall yea many there were that ceased not confidently to utter that they did now plainely perceiue that though her Majesties charges was greatly inhaunsed by increasing the List in Mounster yet her Service was likely to be no better followed then in the yeare last past But that the true ground of this action may bee discovered wee must haue recourse to the prosecution of the stratagem that all this while had beene in working with Dermond O Conner for after his Wife the Lady Margaret had acquainted him both with the Enterprize and Conditions which was not untill the Armie was at Kilmallock aforesaid hee shewed a good inclination to effect it were it not for three difficulties that seemed to interpose themselues First the President being altogether unknowen to him he demanded sufficient Pledges to be put into his hands there to remaine untill the conditions promised should be performed Secondly he wanted some shew of reason or colourable cause to satisfie his Copartners in excuse of his action And lastly he alleaged that no opportunitie could bee found for the execution of the Designe so long as Iames Fits Thomas remained with all the force hee could possible make sixe miles from the Campe to confront the Presidents Armie in his passage to Askeiton For assurance of the conditions the President was content to deliver into his hands foure Pledges which yet notwithstanding must bee in such sort delivered by the one and received by the other as no suspition might arise The Hostages agreed upon were Redmond and Brian Sonnes of Milerius Mac Craghe Archbishop of Cashell who himselfe had before beene a Principall Actor in the busines and Captaine William Power and Iohn Power his elder Brother who likewise had been imployed in the Action These were made choice of because they might be free from the violence of Dermond O Conners men The Powers being foster brethren to the Lady Margaret and the Archbishop himselfe borne in Vlster a naturall Follower unto the Arch-Traitor Tyrone Therefore that these fower should make a Iournie from Kilmallocke towards Kinsale where Captaine Poore his Companie were then in Garrison and the time of their going being made knowen to Dermond O Conner he should lye with some of his Forces in the pace of Ballihowre to intercept Passengers where these foure should as it were by chance fall into his Ambush and so they did where Dermond O Conner although for the reasons before mentioned saved their liues yet he could not restraine the furie of his men that knew nothing of his purpose but that they were stripped of their clothes and left almost naked These being in this manner taken the eleaventh day of Iune they were presently caried to Castle Lyshin seated in the great Wood called Kilmore seven miles from Kilmallock where the Lady Margaret his Wife then remained and there straightly kept in Irons untill the Ransome were discharged which was given forth to be no lesse then two thousand pound sterling Assoone as they were taken Iames Fits Thomas repaired to Castlelishin and instantly requested Dermond that he might haue the two Powers executed for unto them hee was an ancient Enemy which Dermond would not assent unto as well in respect of the great ransoms which hee pretended to expect from them as for giving of offence unto his Wife unto whose Brother then in the Tower of London they were foster Brothers then the which in Ireland there is no greater Obligations of loue The first Impediment being thus removed care was taken to devise some shew of reason to excuse this action to the Bonoghs if they should be discontented after the execution thereof which was disguised by a Letter as written by the Sugan Earle from the President which forasmuch as the Contents thereof doe manifest the invention I haue thought not unfit to bee inserted in this present relation The Lord Presidents Letter to Iames Fits Thomas SIr your last Letters I haue received and am exceeding glad to see your constant resolution of returne to subjection and to leaue the rebellious courses wherein you haue long persevered You may rest assured that promises shall bee kept and you shall no sooner bring Dermond O Conner to me aliue or dead and banish his Bownoghs out of the Countrie but that you shall haue your demand satisfied which I thanke God I am both able and willing to performe Beleeue me you haue no better way to recover your desperate estate then by this good service which you haue proffred and therefore I cannot but commend your Iudgement in choosing the same to redeeme your former faults And I doe the rather beleeue the performance of it by your late action touching Loghguire wherein your Brother and your selfe haue well merited and as I promised you shall finde mee so just as no Creature living shall ever know that either of you did assent to the surrender of it all your Letters I haue received as also the joynt Letter from your Brother and your selfe I pray loose no time for delayes in great Actions are subject to many dangers Now that the Queenes Armie is in the field you may worke your determination with most securitie being ready to releeue you upon a dayes warning So praying God to assist you in this meritorious Enterprize I doe leaue you to his protection this twentie nineth of May 1600. This Letter was sent to Dermond O Conner which when time should serue hee might shew as intercepted by him and therefore what he did was imposed upon him by necessitie except hee would suffer himselfe wittingly and willingly to be betraied These things thus contrived there remained nothing but to separate the reputed Earle from his strength that no resistance might be made by the Provincialls when hee should bee apprehended This was not likely to bee effected unlesse the President would divide his Forces and bestow them in severall Garrisons as though they should leaue the field for that Summer whereupon was judged that the Rebels would likewise disperse themselues and even so it came to passe for they understanding that the English Armie was now garrison'd nothing suspecting that he would adventure to send a Garrison to Askeiton without the countenance of an Armie separated themselues into divers Companies The President had no sooner advertisement hereof but hee sent foorthwith under the conduct of Sir Francis Barkley fiue hundred Foot from Limricke by water to goe to Askeiton which they might easily effect in a fewe howers too short a time for them to assemble their Forces to impeach their landing By these meanes were they setled in Garrison without any
the meane time hee would keepe him in safetie and accomodate all things for the more assurance in the effecting of the busines To Kilmallock he came the next Morrow the twentieth of Iune with one thousand Foote and two Troopes of Horse for a good part of his Armie was at that time gone into Thomond to secure the same from Odonnell who was come farre up into the Countrey and had taken many preyes there CHAP. VIII The Countrey of Thâ—mond harassed and spoyled by O Donnell Forces sent into Thâ—mond Iames fits Thomas set at Liberty Dermond O Conners Letter to the Lord President A Letter from the Mounster Rebels to O Donnell Dermond O Conner and the Rebels agreed and reconciled The Castle of Crome taken by the Armie A Ioyns Letter from William Burke and Morrogheny Moe O Flagharly to the Lord President A Letter from Morrogheny Moe O Flagharly to the Lord President A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Carty THIS suddaine comming of Odonnell for Thomond was so secretly caried as the Earle of Thomond had no notice of it untill he was come to the Borders thereof hee then being at Limerick with the President prayed him to lend him part of his Armie to make Head against the Rebels Whereupon his Lordship commanded the Sergeant Major Captaine Flower and with eight hundred Foote and sixtie Horse to attend the Earle Odonnell entred the Countrey and Harassed all Thomond even as farre as Loopthead and tooke all the Preyes of the Countrey Neverthelesse he went not away scot free For the Noble Earle fought often with his Forces slew many of them and never left them untill he had recovered a great part of the Cattle which Odonnell had taken And upon Mid-somer day chased him out of Thomond This suddaine and unexpected comming of Odonnell with such great Forces as attended him could never haue beene undiscovered if the next Neighbours to Thomond the Inhabitants of Clanrickard had done their dueties through which Countrey Odonnell passed and returned without doing of any hurt that ever I heard of And so leaving with this Digression it is time to speake of the Successe of the vsurping Earles apprehension By this time it was suspected and publikely noised abroad that the Sugan Earle should bee delivered to the President which Rumour began first to bee bruited in Limerick and Kilmallock and as it alwayes hapneth in that Kingdome from the Townes the rumour is speedily conveied into the Countrey which being no sooner heard then beleeved by the Rebels as well Provincials as others they all combined themselues Iohn fits Thomas Pierce Lacy and William Burke being the Triumviri of this League to set the Prisoner at Libertie With this determination they had gathered together of Dermonds Bonoghs and Provincials some foure thousand men nee re Castle Leshin in the great Fastnesse of Conniloe for there was this Castle seated with intent both to blocke up the way that the President should take in comming thither and to constraine the Ward to deliver the Earle The President being at Kilmallock as aforesaid hourely expecting the comming of the Lady Margaret stayed there from the twentieth to the twentie sixth day and in all that time he never heard from her or her Husband Vpon the twentie sixth the Lady Margaret came to him shee related that Castlelishin was besieged by the Rebels her cause of stay was the danger of the way Immediately the President notwithstanding the rest of his Forces were not returned out of Thomond purposed to raise the Siedge and the Armie being drawen forth before they had marched an English mile upon the way they met a Messenger who delivered unto them for certaine that Iames fits Thomas was rescued that morning and himselfe did see him out of the Castle In Castlelishin where Iames fits Thomas was prisoner Dermond O Conner with the Ward had left a Priest whose perswasions prevailed so much with O Conners men as they delivered the reputed Earle as aforesaid but upon Caution as may appeare by Dermond O Conners Letters to the President as followeth Dermond O Conners Letter to the Lo. President MY good Lord it is so that contrary to my directions and without my privitie my Ward at Castlelishin was hardly set unto by the Enemy after the breach of the Castle were constrained to yeeld to the surrender of the Earle of Desmond upon Composition viz. to receiue as pledges from the said Earle his sonne and his Receiver one Gerald fits Nicholas and the chiefe of the Walles or Faltaghs of Downmoylin and Iohn fits Thomas Brother of the said Earle to bee delivered into the hands of Mac Cartie More or some other indifferent man his hands as the said Earle and I shall agree heereof I thought good to certifie your Honour assuring the same upon my credit that this Composition was made without my privitie as your Honour shall understand manifestly heereafter to the end your Honour might bee advised not to send the Armie for feare of any mischance in respect of the greatnesse of the Enemies forces and fastnesse of their strengths the Earle being inlarged all which I hope to bring to a worse case then they were in and that in a short time if I be well furthered by your Lordship the manner whereof I am ready to declare to your Honour as occasion shall serue for speedy effecting whereof I pray your Lordship to send me your best advice by Captaine Power the which expecting forthwith I humbly take my leaue Balliallinan this 26. of Iune 1600. Your Honours to command Dermond O Conner The reason which I conceiue mooved Dermond that hee did not presently render him to the President was partly his feare that his money would bee detained from him when the prisoner was once delivered and therefore hee would bee first sure of the same partly his over much confidence in his men whom hee thought that they would not for a world haue betrayed him as they did but especially I conceiue that the danger of the way was the occasion of the protraction for undoubtedly the man did meane to performe his promise sincerely and if the Lady could haue come sooner to Kilmallocke the titularie Earle had been brought from Castlelishin without any difficultie Vpon the seven and twentieth Dermond O Conner wrote to the President praying to bee excused that hee did not come unto him for the wayes were too dangerous for him to passe untill his Brother who was in Desmond with foure hundred men did come unto him or that the Enemy did scatter or the President with his Armie should draw into those parts and in the meane while he would remaine in the Castle where hee was and besought the President to send him a safeguard for himselfe his followers and goods protesting his loyaltie to her Majestie and promising to bee directed by the President in whatsoever it should please him to commaund Within a few dayes after the delivery
of Feilâ— the third of Iuly 1600. Your Friends to use during your Friendship William Burke Moroghe ni Moe O Flarty A Letter from Morogh ni Moe O Flaghertie to the Lord President MY dutie remembred I commend mee unto your Lordship Whereas about May last I came hither in my Galley out of Connaght to draw home my people souldiers and followers into my natiue soyle there to liue quiet and under her Majesties subjection whereupon I haue had her Highnesse protection and Passeport for my selfe and them and all other out of Connaght that shall accompany me Whereby ever since my selfe and souldiers haue been so crossed and troubled by this Countrey people as they did not suffer me to depart from the Earle of Desmond I have thought good therefore in respect it is a thing belonging to the advancement of her Majesties service to bring the number of one thousand persons souldiers and tenants to peace to pray and desire your Lordship to graunt mee and all such as I shall bring with mee your Passeport and Safe-conduct through all your Garrisons and her Majesties Subjects as well in this Countrey as in Thomâ—nd And in so doing wee shall pray c. And so I humbly take leaue Clanmorishkerry this third of Iuly 1600. Her Majesties true Subject if your Lordship please Moroghe ni Moe O Flartie Vnto these Letters the President deferred to returne any present Answer as well because they should know that they who had attempted and performed so many outrages and rebellious practises against her Majestie and her Subjects should not so presently and so easily receiue favour from the State as also they might haue imagined if hee had instantly condiscended unto theâ—e their demaunds that he stood in feare of them which might haue made them more bold in attempting some enterprise upon his Armie And lastly he conceived a hope that to effect their longing desire of returning into Connaght they would at the last be glad to doe service one upon another remising therefore onely this Answer that he despised their Forces and he knew they durst not interrupt his passage Neverthelesse at further leasure hee would consider of their demands At this time Iames fits Thomas wrote a Letter to Florence Mac Cartie which in this place I thinke good to insert A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie MY very good Lord I was driven through the treacherous dealings of Dermond O Conner to let the President and the English Armie passe into Glenne without any resistance and yet they are but thirteene hundred Foote and one hundred fiftie Horse Dermond O Conner did undertake that the Connaght men should not medle with them nor take our parts being the only encouragement of the English to venter this Enterprize But now God be praysed I am joyning my Forces with them and doe pray you to assist mee with your Forces for now is the time to shew our selues upon the Enemy for they are but very few in number and destitute of all reliefe either by Sea or Land If your Lordship bee not well at ease your selfe let your Brother Dermond and the Chiefe Gentlemen of your Forces come without any delay assuring your Lordship that I will and am ready to shew you the like against your need Beseeching your Lordship once againe not to faile as you tender the overthrow of our Action Even so committing your Lordship to the tuition of God Almighty I end Portrinad the fifth of Iuly 1600. Your Honours most assured Friend and Cosen Iames Desmond CHAP. IX The Armie sate downe before Glyn-Castle The Knight of the Valley upon safe Conduct spake with the Earle of Thomond The Constable of Glyn-Castle his Advise to the Earle of Thomond for his safetie A Breach made and assaulted A Sally made by the Rebels The Constable c. slaine The Castle of the Glyn wonne and the Rebels put to the Sword The seventh the Knight of the Valley by a Messenger from him to the Earle of Thomond prayed a safe conduct to the Campe which was granted He told the Earle that he desired to conferre with the President which he refused without absolute submission to her Majesties mercy whereunto he would not yeeld but stood upon conditions whereupon hee was commanded to depart He saw the Cannon already planted and his Sonne then a child in the Presidents hands ready at his will to bee executed being by himselfe formerly put in pledge for his Loyaltie then hee desired to speake with the Earle of Thomond againe which was granted But the Earle found his obstinacie to be such as he disdained to haue any long conference with him And so being safely conveied out of the Campe he returned to his fellow Traitors who were on the top of an Hill not farre of where they might see the successe of the Castle When he was gone the same day towards the Evening the Constable of the Castle who was a Thomond man borne sent a Messenger to the Earle of Thomond praying his Lordship to get a safe conduct from the President that he might come to speake with him which being granted in his discourse to the Earle my Lord said he in the loue I beare you being your naturall Follower I desired to speake with you to the end that you may avoid the perill that you are in for the Earle of Desmond and the Connaght men lodge not two miles from this place they are three thousand strong at least and the Lord President may bee assured that they will giue upon his campe for so they are resolved and in all likelihood you will bee there put to the Sword or driven into the River of Shenan The Earle deriding these threats advised him to render up the Castle to the President whereby his life and his fellowes might be secured which he with vaine glorious obstinacie refused and returned to the Castle for a Farewell the President sent him word that since he had refused the Earle of Thomonds favourable offer that he was in hope before two dayes were spent to haue his Head set upon a Stake which proved true as you shall heare before the Castle was taken The next day when wee looked that the cannon should begin to play the Cannonniere found the Peece to be cloyed all the art and skill which either the Smith or himselfe could or did use prevailed nothing The President who is a man that knowes well to mannage great Artillery commanded that the peece upon her carryage as she was should be abased at the tayle and elevated at the musle as high as it might bee then hee willed the Gunner to giue her a full charge of powder roule a shott after it and to giue fire at the mouth whereby the touch-hole was presently cleared to the great rejoycing of the Armie which of necessitie in attempting the Castle without the favour of the Cannon must haue endured great losse This particular I thought good not to
speed towards Kerry and set forward the three and twentieth of Iuly But whereas by reason of continuall raine that had lately fallen in great abundance it was thought that the mountaine of Sleulogher was impassible for carriages was constrained to take the way of Thoâ—ond The forces which hee carried with him were in list â—050 Foot and 75 Horse These therefore marched to Kilrush a place in Thomond opposite to Carrigofoile and by the eight and twentieth of the same all the Foot the Troopes and baggage were transported which in respect of the breadth of the River in that place being at least one league and a halfe was expedited beyond all expectation In the speedy dispatch whereof much was attributed and that worthily to the Earle of Thomond who provided Boats and such other necessaries as his Countrey could afford The beginning of August Iames fits Thomas wrote unto Florence Mac Cartie a Letter the true Copie whereof followeth A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie COusen yesterday I came over the Mountaine and brought with mee the Bonnaghs of Conelloe the residue and force of the Countrey I haue left to keepe their Crets I understand since my comming that Sir Charles Wilmott with six hundred Foot and fiftie Horse are come to Clanmorris and this night pretend to bee at Tralee I haue sent to the Knight and all the Countrey presently to meet mee to morrow to resist their determination And for your better furtherance and accomplishment of our action I am to intreat your Lordship as you regard your owne quiet and exaltation of the Service to make what haste and force you may and speedily to yeeld us your helping assistance for which wee will rest thankfull and most readie to answere your Lordship at your need And thus referring the consideration hereof to your Lordship I commit you to God Primo Augusti 1600. Your Lordships very loving Cousen Iames Desmond CHAP. XI The Lord President at Carrigfoyle The Castles of Lixnaw Rathowin and Tralce surprised by Sir Charles Wilmot The Bonoghs defeated by Sir Charles Wilmot The death of Patrick Fits Maurice Lo. of Lixnaw Florence mac Cartie sent for by the Lord President but refuseth to come A marriage practised by Florence for Iames fits Thomas Letters and messages betweene Florence and Tyrone An encounter betweene Captaine Harvie and the White Knights sonne The White Knights sonne defeated The Knight of Kerry and the Lord of Lixnaw sue for protection The Earle of Thomond left to command the garrison at Askeyton Florence Mac Cartie continueth his practise with Tyrone Lands given by Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Carrie Donnell Mac Cartie taken in upon protection THE President being come to Carrigofoyle advertisement was brought that the Rebells hastened to ruine their Castles in Kerrie Wherefore the nine and twentieth hee sent Sir Charles Wilmot a very valiant and understanding Gentleman with the Forces aforesaid into Clanmorris who without much difficultie by reason of his sudden and unexpected comming recovered the chiefe House of the Lord Fits Maurice called Lixnaw being formerly by him sapped and underset with props of Timber to the end that whensoever any English Forces should come into the Countrey that at an instant fire being set unto them the Castle should bee ruined which hee rather wished then that a Garrison of Souldiers should bee lodged in it But the sudden comming of Sir Charles prevented his intention Hee surprized also in the same manner the Castle of Rathowine belonging to the Bishop of Kerry into both which being very convenient for service hee put sufficient Guards and then rode with fiftie Horse to view Tralee which was Sir Edward Dennies House Iames fits Thomas had appoynted one hundred and fiftie Bownoghs for the ruining hereof who having almost fully finished their taske as they were busily imployed about the undermining of certaine vaults remaining after the rest unruined Sir Charles Wilmott with his fiftie Horse as they came suddenly so they ranne violently like a Whirlewinde in faire weather upon those Rebels killed two and thirtie of them dead in the place and recovered the Armes of one hundred who by the meanes and favour of a Bog and Mountaine neere adjoyning escaped with their liues being frâ—ghted almost out of their wits The second of August Sir Charles Wilmott with his Troopes returned to Carrigfoile In this meane time the President was advertised that the victualls which hee expected from Corke was arrived at Carrighowlogh in Thomond almost opposite to the River of Cassan in Kerry from whence in Boats they were transported up the Cassan to Lixnaw foure miles into the Countrey which service was performed by the ayde of the Earle of Thomonds Boats The Lord Fits Maurice whose name was Patricks and father to Thomas Lord Fits Maurice now living an obstinate Rebell hearing of our being at Carrigfoyle fearing our Neighbourhood brake his Castle of the Beaulieu seated upon the Shenan two miles distant from Carrigfoyle when hee saw his chiefe House possessed by our Forces tooke such an inward griefe as the twelfth of this instant hee gaue up the ghost The Countie of Kerry at this time was the best inhabited Countrey of all Mounster but whosoever tooke the most paines in sowing certaine it is that the Garrisons as they vvere shortly after placed reaped all the profite of that Harvest The Iland of Kerry an ancient and chiefe house of the Earles of Desmond and of late belonging to Sir William Harbert as an Vndertaker together with many other Castles in those parts are by the rebels absolutely ruined neere upon the first bruit of the Armies approch which was an evident argument of their obstinacies The President upon his first comming into Kerry hearing that Florence Mac Cartie was not then aboue ten miles distant from him about a Parlie with Iames fits Thomas wrote for him to come and speake with him at Carrigofoile but he remising nothing but oathes and delatory excuses came not Whereupon second Letters together with a safe guard were dispatched unto him but unto those he returned no answer at all This delaying conferred with the report of some Protectees that averred Florence to haue entred into a new Combination with Iames fits Thomas and that hee had sent in this Moneth of August Owen Mac Eggan a Traitorly Priest into Spaine made the President not doubtfull only of his former promises to him made but almost out of doubt that he would shew himselfe againe in open action Which would bring to passe that his Labours like those of Hercules should daily bee renewed new Heads still growing upon this rebellious Hydra for the Septs of the Carties themselues with their Followers and Dependants were knowen to bee no lesse then three thousand able men and to the intent that all these might more firmely vnite themselues with the rest which were no lesse then foure thousand and fiue hundred strong
against Her Majestie This Florence was now busie in working of a Mariage betweene the Sugan Earle and the sister of Cormacke Mac Dormond Lord of Muskerry a populous a rich and a fast Countrey The President having received advertisement thereof left Sir Charles Wilmot to prosecute the service in Kerry and himselfe hasted his returne towards Corke there to worke some meanes for the overthrowing the proceedings of this dangerous Complot The President being returned so farre as Limerick certaine notice was brought him that Florence had lately imployed a Messenger to Tyrone as he pretended for the releafe of Osulevan Moke his Brother in Law but as the truth was to procure aide from the North to support the Rebellion in Mounster Tyrone by the said Messenger sent Letters of Comfort and Encouragement aswell to Florences as to the rest of the Lords in that Province assuring them not only of succours from himselfe but farther that the Spanish Forces would land in Mounster before Michaelmas next These exorbitant courses of Florence gaue a great impediment to the service for the President as he would often say did see him like a darke Cloud over his Head threatning a Storme to hinder and disturbe his proceedings But wee will leaue Florence for a while busily employed in devising meanes how to procure aide either from Spaine or from the North or from both and betake our selues to such other occurrents as hapned about this time Vpon the sixteenth of August the Lord President came to Limericke The eighteenth Pierce Lacy wrote unto the President humbly beseeching him that he might bee received into Her Majesties gratious protection promising ever afterwards to remaine a loyall Subject but withall hee made certaine demands which were so much disliked by the President as his suite was rejected for the President insisted upon a Rule which hee never brake that hee would not giue care to any Traitor that did capitulate The twentieth he came to Kilmallock remayning there but one day to take assurance of certaine Gentlemen and Freeholders that had lately submitted themselues The day following at Kilmallock the White Knight being there to attend the President newes was brought unto him that divers of his people and Followers were slaine by the Garrison of Moyallo commanded by Captaine Roger Harvy The President carefull to giue him contentment being under her Majesties protection in his owne presence examined the matter and there it was found that Captaine Harvy having intelligence by a Spy that was his Guide of a notable Traitor called Iohn Mac Redmond and certaine other Traitors and their goods which were reported to bee neere unto Sir Walter Raleigh his Lands adjoyning to the White Knights Countrey with seventie Foote and foure and twentie Horse marched that night one and twentie miles from Moyallo and at the breake of day our men thinking that they had beene brought upon an Enemies Towne set fier to a House having some few people therein But an old Souldier knowing the place told the Captaine that it was the White Knights Towne Whereupon he commanded his Company to forbeare committing any outrage either upon the people or any of their Goods But the White Knights younger Sonne Iohn fits Gibbon having suddenly gathered to himselfe one hundred and sixty Foote and eighteene Horse overtooke Captaine Haruy who began to excuse the matter telling him as the truth was that the Guid whom he had there with him to answer the Fact had brought him unwillingly upon that place and therefore for the hurt done ignorantly he would make a large satisfaction But the young man following the advise of one Garret Mac Shane who had lately beene a notable Traitor thinking it not possible for so small a Company to resist his great Force without returning any answer began presently to chardge our men whom they supposed without any great resistance to haue at their mercie and came up close to our Foote who nothing dismaied stood firme expecting their Chardge But they not comming on Captaine Harvy advanced towards them and brake them instantly In this Conflict were slaine and hurt aboue sixtie of their partie and among them Garret Mac Shane the Leader and Procurer of the fight of our men some foure were hurt but none killed Captaine Harvy received a shot on his Murrian a blow with a pike upon his back but escaped danger by the goodnesse of his Buffe Coat and had his Horse slaine under him The White Knight upon dew knowledge hereof condemned both his Sonne and people for their folly to enforce a fight having no harme intended them and confessed they were well lost But yet for his better satisfaction the treacherous Guid who did upon a set purposed malice draw this Draught was by the Presidents appointment delivered over to the Marshall and presently hanged The three and twentieth the Lord President returned to Corke Sir Charles Wilmot having made his entrance into Kerry as already you haue heard and there proceeded so farre as Lixnaw made knowen to the President that the Rebells were exceeding strong in that Countrey The Arch-Rebell Iames fits Thomas beeing attended with fiue hundred Bownoghs besides the Forces that the Knight of Kerry Thomas Oge and the Gentlemen of the Countrey could make Heereupon the President knowing that those parts were alwayes affectionately addicted to the Earles of Desmond caused a Foot-man of the young Earles who was shortly afterwards to come into Ireland as the manner is having his Masters Armes upon his coate before and behinde to shew himselfe in most places of the Countrey that thereby they might bee the better perswaded of his comming and bee a meanes to alienate their hearts from the counterfeit Desmond The vigilant care that Sir Charles Wilmot used within his charge having taken divers preyes and killed some of the Rebels together with this Invention caused most of the Free-holders of that Countrey to submitt themselues and seeke unto the Governour for her Majesties protection the principall amongst these was William fits Gerald commonly called The Knight of Kerry who by Messengers signified the great desire that hee conceived to live a Subiect and had present occasion to shew some proofe thereof for the Sugan Earle comming about this time to the Dingle the said Knight would by no meanes receiue him into his Castle whereupon hee ruined all the houses that were standing in the Towne and so tooke his journey unto Castle Mange Thomas fits Maurice the pretended Baron of Lixnaw also now newly come to his Barronie by the death of his father sought by meanes of his wife who was Sister to the Earle of Thomond for the Presidents favour and her Majesties protection Both were promised upon condition hee would performe such service as might in some good sort deserue the same but this hee absolutely refused because forsooth it stood not with his Conscience nor with his Honour for these were his owne words in a Letter that hee wrote
to my Lord of Thomond and upon this Answere the President rejected both the man and his suit The affaires of Kerry succeeding so well with the Governour it was supposed that the reputed Earle of Desmond would not long remaine in these parts lest the Protectees might offer him some false measure which if it should happen most likely it was that hee would passe the Mountaine and shelter himselfe in the Fastnes of Conniloe and therefore the Lord President intreated the Earle of Thomond to stay with the Garrison at Askeiton both to doe service upon such Rebels as should lurke in those woods as also to secure the goods of those that were newly become Subjects for as the manner of the Irish had they lost but twentie Cowes or tenne Garrans they would haue held it sufficient cause to haue relapsed againe My Lord of Thomond therefore lying there in Garrison received advertisement by certaine espialls whom hee used that Florence Mac Cartie had assuredly made a new combination with the Arch-Rebell Desmond and had sent second Letters to Tyrone about O Sulevan More his enlargement but in trueth the effect thereof was to implore ayde of that Egyptian Reed to underprop their ruinous and almost rotten Building Of this new and late combination the Lord President was also advertised by the Lord Barrie That Iames Mac Thomas to assure Florence unto him did giue him these Lands and Rents following viz. the Querinie Killaha the rents of Beare and Bantrie the Beoves of Carbry Carrigroaghan and Ballinry neere unto Corke all which Florence accepted and their place of meeting where this Agreement was made was at Rahinemroeg bordering upon Slewlogher Vpon this Intelligence the Governour of Kerry by direction from the President received into protection Donnell Mac Carty naturall sonne to the late Earle of Clancare and Brother to Florence his wife whom the Countrey in the beginning of this Rebellion saluted Mac Cartie More or chiefe Lord of Desmond But at Tyrone his late being in the Province he was deprived of that promotion and both the Title and Lands by him conferred upon the said Florence wherefore they thought this man to be a speciall fit Instrument of whom there might bee very good use when the President should beginne his prosecutions against Florence CHAP. XII The Castle of Mayne in Connologh taken Omaghon and the O Crowlyes protected Cahir Castle rendred Supplyes of Horses and Money sent for Mounster Dermond Mac Owen O Keefe and Mac Awley make suite to bee received as subjects The submission of the Knight of Kerry Iames fits Thomas and Pierce Lacie defeated by the Knight of Kerry THE Rebell that next bordered upon this Garrison of Askeiton was Garret fits Nicholas and some few Kerne that followed him whom Sir Francis Barkley so haunted and hunted that hee got from them all their prey their owne riding Horses and at last the Castle of Mayne held by them vvherein there was provision of Corne for all that yeare The President having disposed of his Garrisons in such sort that they were lodged either in the Rebels Countries or very neere thereunto sent unto them severall Letters willing the Commanders to imploy their Companies at this time especially about the standing Corne now ready for the Harvest to gather in for their owne vses what lay most conveniently for them and the rest to destroy with Man and Horse which was performed accordingly and this no doubt was one principall cause that they were unable to hold up their Heads the next yeare for presently hereupon Omaghon and the O Crowlies in Carbery sought to Sir Richard Percy lying at Kinsale that hee would bee a meanes to the Lord President for Her Majesties protection which being granted they remained Loyall Subjects with their Tenants and Followers untill the landing of the Spaniards In this interim the Lord President laboured with Cormuck Mac Dermond partly by promises and partly by menaces to frustrate the intended Mariage betweene Iames fits Thomas and his Sister which at last with some difficultie was frustrated by câ—using the said Cormuck to undertake for his Sisters apparance whensoever he or the Councell should call for her Towards the later end of this Moneth of August the Lord Deputy writing to the President about some other oâ—casions it pleased him to remember Cahir Castle which was lost as before you haue heard signifying that hee much desired to haue that Castle recovered from the Rebels the rather because the great Ordnance a Cannon and a Culverin being left there by the Earle of Essex were now possessed by the Rebels This Item from the Lord Deputie spurred on the President without further delay to take order therein and therefore presently by his Letters sent for the Lord of Cahir to repaire unto him who as before you haue heard was vehemently suspected to haue some hand both in the taking and keeping thereof The Barron of Cahir being come the Councell perswaded him to deale with Iames Butler nicknamed Iames Galde his Brother about the redelivering thereof to Her Majesties use but his Answer was that so little interest had hee in his Brother as the meanest Follower in all his Countrie might prevaile more with him then himselfe for hee was unwilling to haue the Castle regained by the State except it might againe be left wholly to him as it was before the first winning thereof which the President surmising told him that if it might speedily be yeelded up unto him he would become an humble Suiter to the Lord Deputie in his behalfe for the repossessing thereof otherwayes hee would presently march with his whole Armie into those parts and taking the same by force he would ruine and raze it to the very foundation and this he bound with no small protestations Hereupon Iustice Comerford being dispatched away with the Lord of Cahir they prevailed so farre with young Butler that the Castle upon the twentie nineth following was delivered to the State as also all the Munitions and the great Ordnance conveied to Clonmell and from thence to Watterford The nine and twentieth the Lord President among other things in his dispatch made for England advertised the Lords of the Councell that there was lately arrived at Limerick tenne thousand pounds in monie for the Armie in Mounster and that also at Corke thirtie sixe Horse for the supply of his Horse Troopes were landed at Corke for the which hee gaue their Lordships humble thankes The Horse sent were fourtie but the Conductor delivered no more then aforesaid While these things were in handling it hapned that a French Barke arrived at Dingle laden with Wine and some Munition which they sold to the Rebels and thereby ministred unto them no small reliefe being before in great want thereof Whereupon the President wrote his Letters to the Lords of Her Majesties Privie Councell intreating that it would please them to procure Her Majesties Letters to be directed to her
owne home leaving the Earle to a desperate fortune who now perceived that the Provincials submitted themselues daily to the President and the strangers returned into their severall Countries and that no aide approached either from the South or North by Sea nor Land was compelled together with Iohn his Brother Maurice Mac Thomas Pierce Lacy and the Knight of the Glyn to leaue the Countrie of Corke and to fly into Tipperary and Ormond and from thence Iohn fits Thomas hasteth to Vlster CHAP. XIIII Supplies of Foote sent from England Osulevan More sent by the Lord Deputie to the Lord President The Castle of Glancoyne surprised by Sir Francis Barkley Florence Mac Carties Wife and Followers perswaded him to goe to the Lord President The young Earle of Desmond arrived at Yoghall A Letter from Her Majestie to the Lord President Her Maiesties Letters Patents for Iames Fitz-Gerald to be Earle of Desmond THE Lords of the Councell of England by their Letters bearing Date the twentie seventh advertised the President that there was sixe hundred Foote in a readinesse to be sent to Corke to supply the Armie and for that many Souldiers daily arrived in England by Passeports from their Captaines onely They gaue the President a straite Charge to take order with all the Maritime Townes that no Souldier should be transported out of any of them without a Passe under his owne Hand and Seale and the last of the same he had directions from their Lordships that good Bands with Sureties should be taken upon all Merchants of Ireland which traded with Spaine or France not only for their owne good behaviours and loyalties when they were beyond the Seas but to all such Passengers as they should carry with them which was presently put into execution Dermond O Conner at his late being in Mounster had caused Osulevan More a man aboue sixtie yeares of age and yet never knowen to be in action against Her Majestie neither in Iames fits Maurice his Warres nor in the old Earle of Desmonds nor in this last Rebellion This man I say Dermond O Conner had taken Prisoner not without Consent and Councell of Florence Mac Cartie because he refused to pay Bonnaght unto the Connaght men Captaine Tirrell by force or fraud I know not whether tooke the Prisoner from him and caried him into the North who escaped out of the Vlster mens hands was taken by Sir Theobald Dillon of Connaght and presented to the Lord Deputie by whom hee is committed to the Castle of Dublin untill his estate should be further knowen and not long after he sent him to the Earle of Ormond to be sent by him to the President to be disposed of according to his discretion He being about this time come to Corke raileth bitterly against Florence ascribing both the beginning and continuance of his troubles to him and relating to the Councell such intelligence as hee had learned in those parts where he had beene detained returneth into his owne Countrey The Arch-rebels Iames fits Thomas Fits Maurice and the Knight of the Glyn not finding as it should seeme the entertainement they expected in my Lord of Ormonds countrey or rather notintending at the first to make any long stay there but onely that thereby the President might thinke them quite gone and so make no further inquirie after them did in the beginning of this Moneth of October steale backe into the Countie of Limerick yet not so privily but the President had intelligence thereof for it was signified unto him the fourth of this instant that Desmond was about Arlogh having not aboue fiue in his Company and two of them came lately from the Pope with promise of Succours which came too late for his turne as hereafter shall be shewed In the meane time our Garrisons prospered so well that Sir Francis Barkley got the Castle of Glancoyne in Connilogh burning and spoyling great store of Corne in those parts and Sir Charles Wilmot in Kerry prevailed so farre that Castlemange held by Thomas Oge and Listoell defended by Fits Maurice were the only two Castles held against her Majestie which were both regained within short time and Captaine Flower at Lysmore wrought miracles against the Rebels in those parts as Sir Richard Aylward wrote to the President But Florence Mac Cartie notwithstanding his manifold Letters stuffed with abominable oathes came not as yet to the President nor indeed minded he to come as it was reported had not his Wife and some of his Countrey in a manner compelled him thereunto for she refused to come to his Bed untill he had reconciled himselfe to Her Majestie saying that she knew in what manner her Father had that Earledome from her Highnesse and though she be not pleased to bestow the same wholly upon her yet she doubted not to obtaine some part thereof but if neither of these could bee gotten yet was not she minded to goe a begging either unto Vlster nor into Spaine and to confirme this report it was certainely knowen that she with the helpe of her friends kept the Castle of the Lough in Desmond by force from him Her Majestie having evermore had a determination to send Iames fits Gerald Sonne unto the late Earle of Desmond attainted in Ireland and having found by experience that the attempt which Dermond O Conner made in the apprehension of Iames fits Thomas was at his Wifes suite in hope thereby to obtaine the restitution of her Brother to his old Title of Earle of Desmond and also unto some state of Inheritance for his maintenance did now resolue to put her determination in effect hoping that his presence in Ireland would draw the ancient Followers of the Earle of Desmond his Father from Iames fits Thomas the supposed Earle and therefore releasing him out of the Tower where from his infancie he had beene Prisoner shee not onely admitted him to her presence but stiled him Earle of Desmond and sent him conducted into Ireland by Captaine Price a sober discreet Gentleman and an ancient Commander in the Warres who landed with his charge at Youghall the fourteenth day of October from thence he brought him to Moyallo to the President upon the eighteenth where from Her Majestie he presented to his Lordship the young Earle Her Majesties Letters and Letters Pattents under the great Seale of England for his restitution in blood and Honour both which Letter and Letters Pattens I thinke it not unnecessary to set downe the true Copies which were as followeth A Letter from her Maiestie to the Lord President ELIZAB. R. TRustie and Welbeloved wee greet you well Wee haue now at the last resolved to send over Iames fits Gerald into Mounster after long debate with Our selfe what accidents might follow thereupon wherein although there might be many doubts to what hee may bee inveagled in times to come yet that opinion which wee conceiue of his owne good nature and disposition to gratefulnesse for
reliquos subditos nostros favoribus praemijs affecerimus Eaque de causa nos sumptibus nostris properijs Iacobum fits Gerald filium prefati Gerot natu maximum aluimus omnique apparatus educationis genere homine tam nobili orto non indigno institui cur avimus Non ferentes delicta mala meriti patris in bono indolis filio castigari Et quoniam idem Iacobus ita vere virtutis nobilitatis insignijs preditus est vt merito illum nobis Coronae nostrae omni fidelitate inseruitur ac Patriae suae summo futurum ornamento speremus si honoribus dignitatisque titulis per patrem nuper amissis insigniretun Sciatis igitur quod nos de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris prefatum lacobum fits Gerald in Comitem Desmoniae in Regno nostro Hiberniae ereximas perfecimus creavimus Ac per presentes erigimus perficimus creamus Et ei nomen statum stilum titulum honorem et dignitatem Comitis Desmoniae Loro suffragio in Parliamentis nostris in praedicto Regno nostro Hiberniae tenendum sicut eodem modo quo praedictus Gerot jam ultimus Comes aliquo tempore ante attinctur am suam praedictam habuit seu habere debuit seu consuevit Cum omnibus alijs singulis preheminencijs honoribus ceterisque quibuscunque huiusmodi statui dignitati Comitis Desmoniae temporibus retroactis pertinent ' seu spectant ' damus concedimus per presentes Ipsumque statu stilo honore dignitate Comitis Desmoniae per Cincturam gladij insignimus realiter nobilitamus Habendum tenendum nomen statum titulum honorem Dignitatem Comitis Desmoniae praedict ' Cum omnibus singulis preheminencijs honoribus suffragijs ceteris premissis quibuscunque praefato Iacobo fits Gerald Heredibus masculis de corpore suo legitime procreatis procreandis imperpetum Quoniam autem Comitis Dignitat ' convenire putamus vt qui ejusdem dignisat ' à patre out alio parente successionem proximam expectet aliquo inferioris dignitatis titulo decoretur proinde de vberiori gratia nostra volumus concedimus pro nobis Heredibus Successoribus nostris quòd quilibet Heres masculus de corpore dicti Iacobi fits Gerald legitime procreat ' qui successionem in dict' Comitate velut proximiore gradu expectet pro Hered ' apparente juxta tenorem huius concessionis nostrae â—aâ—eatur Baro de Inchequin in Comitatu Corke in dicto Regno nostro Hibernae durante ejus vita qui praedict ' dignitat ' Com' obtinet perpetuis futuris temporibus vocetur appelletur ac nomine stilo statu dignitat ' preheminencijs Baronis de Inchequin eodem pro tempore gandeat vtetur Et hoc absque fine seu feodo solvend ' in hamperio nostro seu alibi ad vsum nostrum quoquo modo Eo quod expressa mentio de certitudine premissorum five eorum alicuius aut de alijs donâ—s fiue concessionibus per nos seuper aliquem Progenitorum nostrorum praefato Iacabo fits Gerald ante haec tempora fact ' in presentibus minime fact ' existit aut aliquo Statuto Actu Ordinatione Provisione siue Restrictione in Contrarium inde antehac habit ' fact ' edict ' ordinat ' sine provisâ— hand aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obstante In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste me ipsae apud Otlands primo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri Quadragesimo secundo Peripsam Reginam It was thought by all men that the comming of this young Lord into Ireland would haue bred a great alteration in the Province and an absolute revolt of all the old Followers of the House of Desmond from Iames fits Thomas but it proved of no such consequence For the President to make triall of the disposition and affection of the young Earles kindred and Followers at his desire consented that hee should make a Iourney from Moyallo into the Countie of Limerick accompanied with the Archbishop of Cashell and Master Boyle Clearke of the Councell a person whom the Lord President did repose much trust and confidence in and with whom he then communicated and advised about his most secret and serious affaires of that Government And to Master Boyle his Lordship gaue secret charge aswell to obserue the Earles waies and cariage as what men of quality or others made their addresse unto him with what respects and behaviour they caried themselues towards the Earle who came to Kilmallock upon a Saturday in the Evening and by the way and at their entry into the Towne there was a mighty concourse of people insomuch as all the Streets Doores and Windowes yea the very Gutters and tops of the Houses were so filled with them as if they came to see him whom God had sent to bee that Comfort and Delight their foules and hearts most desired and they welcomed him with all the expressions and signes of Ioy every one throwing upon him Wheat and Salt an ancient Ceremony vsed in that Province upon the Election of their new Majors and Officers as a Prediction of future peace and plenty That night the Earle was invâ—ted to 〈◊〉 to Sir George Thorntons who then kept his House in the 〈…〉 and although the Earle had a Coâ—ard of Souldiers which made a Lane from his lodgings to Sir George Thornetons 〈◊〉 yet the confluence of people that flockt thither to see him was so great as in halfe an houre he could not make his passage thorough the crowd and after Supper he had the like encountere at his returne to his lodging The next day being Sunday the Earle went to Church to heare divine Service and all the way his Countrey people vsed loud rude dehortations to keepe him from Church unto which he lent a dease eare but after Service and the Sermon was ended the Earle comming forth of the church was railed at spet upon by those that before his going to Church were so desirous to see and salute him Insomuch as after that publike expression of his Religion the Towne was cleered of that multitude of strangers and the Earle from thence forward might walke as quietly and freely in the Towne as little in effect followed or regarded as any other private Gentleman This true relation I the rather make that all men may obserue how hatefull our Religion and the Professors thereof are to the ruder and ignorant sort of people in that Kingdome For from thence forward none of his Fathers followers except some few of the meaner sort of Free-holders resorted unto him and the other great Lords in Mounster who had evermore beene overshadowed by the greatnesse of Desmond did rather feare then wish the advancement of the young Lord But the trueth is his Religion being
as appeareth by the Presidents Letters written to then Lordships dated the fiue and twentieth of this Moneth of October and with them three hundred and fiftie Winter suites of apparell But to returne againe to Florence Mac Cartie after all the tergiversations before mentioned and many other too tedious to be inserted finding all his Neighbours to haue submitted themselues and his owne Followers so much impoverished by the Warres desirous to doe the like was contented Tandem aliquando to repaire to the President lying at Moyallo bringing some forty Horse in his Company and himselfe in the middest of his Troope like the great Turke amongst his Ianisaries drew towards the House the nine and twentieth of October like 〈◊〉 higher by the head and shoulders then any of his Followers upon his submission the President as having forgotten all former matters gaue him kind entertainement being indeed heartily glad of his preâ—ence as hoping thereby thaâ— these Warres of Mounster were brought to a finall end to secure him therefore to the State the President demanded his Eldest Sonne in pledge who being unable to take so long a Iournie by the indisposition of his body as Florence protested he left two others the one his base Brother who had spent many yeeres in France Spaine and Hungary and the other his foster Brother both which he had in very precious esteeme Florence requested that those pledges might suffice for the O Sulevans the O Donoghes the O Crowlieâ— and Omaghon Carbry But hereunto the President would by no perswasion bee drawen to condiscend and that especially for two causes the one was that hereby he might draw from Florence this great rabble of Dependants and the second was because every of these being compelled to put in pledges for themselues the Queene might haue the stronger assurance of these wavering and slippery Subjects The Province being reduced to this passe as you haue heard the Irish having now no other Enemy to oppugne beginne to goe together by the eares amongst themselues for certaine of Donoghe Moyle Mac Cartie sonne to Sir Owen Mac Cartie Reughe his people following the track of some Cowes that had beene stollen from them into Muskerry the Oleries assembled themselues to the number of one hundred or thereabouts and following the Carties who were by this time returned into Carbery at last overtooke them and without many words gaue the On-set the other stoutly resisted betweene whom there passed a short but a sharpe skirmish wherein were slaine Olerie the Head of that Sept and ten other the chiefe of his family with some more of lesse note and of the Carties Finin Mac Owen his Brother dangerously wounded with some few slaine of his part Cormock Mac Dermond Lord of Muskery much grieved with the slaughter of the Oleries his Followers was an earnest Sutor to the Councell that he might be permitted to revenge this losse upon the Carties in Carbery some there were that thought it not unfit to accord unto his demands because which party soever should prevaile yet could not the Queene loose a good Subject But the President would by no meanes yeeld thereunto lest the hot prosecution of these particular grievances might kindle the coales of some further mischiefe in giving occasion of distast to the now reconciled Subjects Redmond Burke being weary of his vagabond life living like a Woolfe upon every one from whence he could take any thing or rather wittingly foreseeing the ruine and destruction of those his Confederats which were in rebellion of whose fortunes he was in all likelihood to be a Partaker wrote a Letter to the President dated the thirtieth of October which because it is but short I doe here insert A Letter from Redmond Burke to the Lord President RIght Honourable I doubt not the detestable and apparant wrong that the Earle of Clanrickard hath done mee is manifestly knowen to your Lordship already as I need not larger to expresse it but this I am sure that the tolleration thereof and that I would not otherwayes bin caused to runne this course and if there were any hope of redresse that I would long ere this be a Subject and will now shew my selfe worthy to be accepted if I be entertained and my Fathers Lands seized into your Honours hands till my Title be tryed This Countrey of Ely being in your Honours Province is a parcell to whom I make claime wherein I would expect your Honour to right me first And thus requesting your Honour to accept my service and favour my right I take leaue From Ely the thirtieth of October 1600. Your Honours as you please Redmond Letrim The President much misliking the tenour of his Letter as vvell for other reasons as for capitulating for the Countrey of Ely O Carrell before he had by his service merited any favour and lastly for the slight subscription Your Honours as you please returned him no Answer in writing utterly refusing any further traffique with him it being his custome not to deale with Traitors upon Conditions CHAP. XVI The Lord President sueth for a generall Pardon for the Provincialls The Submission of Thomas Oge Fits Gerald and the rendring of Castle Mâ—nge The Castle of â—â—stoell besieged and taken The Castle of the Dingle rendred In the beginning of November a strong castle in Connilogh which was held by Iames fits Thomas was surprized by our Forces so as hee had no other Castle at his devotion left but Castle Mange The fourth of November Thomas Oge fits Gerald Constable of Castle Mange for Iames fits Thomas having evermore had a better affection unto the young Earle of Desmond Iames lately sent by her Majestie into Ireland as hath been declared upon the Earles intreatie and perswasions came to Kilmallock and there made tender of the said Castle unto the Earle for her Majesties use The Earle the next day brought him to Moyallo to the President where hee made his submission and direction was sent to Sir Charles Wilmot for the receit of the said Castle Sir Charles Wilmott knowing that Fits Maurice the Lord of Lixnaw had onely one Castle called Listoell wherein to shelter himselfe finding no other meanes to compasse the same determined to besiedge it and intimated so much to the President by his Letters requesting his advice and allowance therein who returned answer That hee desired nothing more then to haue that Castle gotten for the Queene and for the manner left the managing thereof wholly to his discretion He sate downe before it upon the fifth of November attempting to get it by a Myne in the which after hee had wrought fiue or sixe dayes and brought it underneath the Castle wall being ready to make a bed for the placing of the powder suddainly the spring brake foorth in such abundance as that worke became fruitlesse thereupon new ground was sought which proved good the foundation of the Castle was undermined as farre as the middest of the Seller which
neweâ— of these parts are that the Sonne of Geralt the late Earle is arrived unto whom his Fathers old Followers doe much resort hee is an Heretike yet neverthelesse by the helpe of the English he will doe us great harme The right Earle of Desmond is forsaken of all men and not able to make Head and the lesse hope of his rising againe by the comming of young Iames who is the Queenes Earle and hath a Patent for his Earledome I pray your speedy Answer in the meane time I will dissemble with the President who deales sharpely with us the Letter which you sent with these to Mac Carty More I haue sent unto him by a Messenger of my owne who is lately agreed with the President and so we are deceived in him and therefore he is not to be firmely trusted with the commandement of all the Clan Carties Cormocke Cartie Sir Charles Wilmot in the meane time maâ—ching to an Abbey in Kerry called Ratho neere unto Lixnaw assoone as his Colours were descried was fired by the Enemy that lodged there from thence with his Horse onely he marched â—o Tralie where hee found one hundred Bonoghs of the Oâ—â—â—llies among whom was Moriertagh Mac Shighie and three or foure more of the lurking Earles chiefest Followers on horsebacke our Horse charged them the Horsemen by flight saved themselues but of the â—ooâ—e there was slaine about fourtie dead in the place the rest by the â—avour of a neighboâ—ring bogge and the Mountaine at hand escaped but all their Armes were left to our shares The perpetuall juggling which Florencâ— Mac Cartie continued towards the Lord President I haue so often touched as it needs no other proofe but for the better Testimonie of his ill â—ffection to the State even now when the Sugan Earle was in the estate of a fugitiue hiding himselfe from the sight of men Florence as the Lord President was advertised from Sir Charles Wilmot had raysed one thousand Bownoghs to bee placed upon Desmond foure hundred uâ—on Kerry and sixe hundred upon Carbry and concludes with these words Viz. assuredly hee purposeth to bee a Villaine though hee could be contented to liue in neutralitie as he doth if he could cary it cleanely Also at that time the Baron of Lixnaw who was banished Kerry was by him relieved in Desmond but obserue well I beseech you this wavering and unsetled companion who not knowing which way either to be a Subject or Rebell not many dayes afterwards as shall bee said came to the President with a smooth countenance full of Loyaltie but inwardly the same man hee had ever beene Nothing was more common now in Mounster then a bruite of the strangers from Connaght and Vlster comming to invade the Province with two thousand men and hereof the President received daily advertisement from the Earle of Thomond the Lord Barry Iustice Comerford and others and to verifie the same Pierce Lacy was come into the borders of Kilquig and had preyed Glanogre a Towne belonging to Sir George Bourchier Master of the Ordnance being a parcell of his Signiory and then in farme to Alexander Fitton this caused the President to assemble the greatest part of his Forces to Kilmallock attending there to behold what should become of this Cloud which threatned such a dangerous Tempest which at length vanished without any great disturbance for about the midst of this Moneth they withdâ—â—w themselues into Ormond within the Libertie of Tipperarie the cause why they departed before they had made any Bonfiers in Mounster which was their arrand as I haue since learned was two fould First because Redmond Burke could by no meanes bee drawen into the Province being in expectation of great favour from the President as appeareth by his Letters sent about this time which because it is but short and yet apparantly declareth this truth I thought not unfit here to bee recited in his owne words RIght Honourable I would long ere this be a Subject and will now shew my selfe worthy to be accepted if I be entertained and my Fathers Lands seized into your Honours hands till my Title bee tried this Countrey of Ely O Carrell being in your Honours Province is a parcell whereto I make claime wherein I would expect your Honour to right me first and thus requesting your Honour to accept my service and favour my right I take leaue this ninth of November 1600. Your Honours as you please Redmond Letrim The President to hold Redmond as I conceiue in some hope that hee might not joyne with the Northerne Forces then expected to come into Mounster returned him answer to this effect That his Demaunds seemed to bee somewhat reasonable and that hee was very sorry that it was not fully in his power to accomplish his request Notwithstanding there was no doubt but upon his Letters already dispatched to the Councell of England and to the Lord Deputie in his behalfe such order should bee taken as hee should hold himselfe well satisfied and surely whether the President dealt plainely and bona fide vvith the said Redmond or whether hee fed him vvith good vvords onely like a Courtier to serue his owne turne I know not but if I might deliver my poore opinion I thinke him to haue received some hard measure I meane in respect of his Fathers Lands upon whomsoever the fault lyeth but to returne This Redmond commanding the greatest part of the Forces now assembled depending this much upon the Presidents favour as by his Letter appeareth could by no allurements of these Mounster Rebels bee inticed to commit any outrage within that Province An other cause why these Rebels thus assembled came no further up into Mounster was because the wandring Earle Iames fits Thomas who should haue given them Bonnaght in the Province knowing that Lixnaw Redmond Burke Pierce Lacie and all of them were growen wearie of the Rebellion and that the President had commerce with all those durst not commit himselfe into their power they being so strong and hee so poore and weake fearing left they should haue delivered him being the marke the President chiefly aymed at to worke their owne peace Dermond O Conner having now heard that the young Earle of Desmond his Brother in law was arrived in Mounster according to the Presidents promise to him made that he should come was desirous that hee should repaire thither with intent to doe some acceptable service for her Majestie which being made knowen by the Lady Margaret his wife the Lord President sent him a Safe-conduct for himselfe and his followers and procured the like from Sir Arthur Saâ—age the chiefe Commissioner in Connaght and also from the Earle of Clanrickard to secure his passage through his Countrey and for his better safetie he sent an hundred Foot to guard him as soone as hee should enter into Thomond Hee being now past Clanrickard and comming to Oshafnesses Countrey within seventeene or eighteene miles of Limerick Theobald ne Long Burke who
had a Company of an hundred Foot in her Majesties pay notwithstanding all his Safe-guards assaulted him who for his safetie retired into an olde Church burnt it over his head and in comming foorth of the same hee killed about fourtie of his men and tooke him prisoner and the morning following cut off his head which being done Theobald sent to the Earle of Clanrickard for a protection pretending that what he did was done in revâ—nge of his Cousen the Lord Burkes death But the Earle misliking the Action in stead of a Protection returned him this Letter insuing A Letter from the Earle of Clanrickard to Theobald ne Long Burke I Doe understand that you haue yesternight assaulted Dermond O Conner and his Company which is both a very mighty impeachment of Her Majesties word in respect the Gentleman had her gratious Protection and safe Conduct from the Lord President of Mounster and the Governour of this Province for his safe passing and a perpetuall slaunder and abuse unto me and my posteritie considering the Gentleman was ceased in my Countrie and had my word at my very good Lord the Lord President of Mounsters request and the Governour of this Provinces direction which I little expected to bee by you resisted but rather imagined your comming into the Countrie to doe better service upon Her Majesties enemies which are daily threatning to come for us on all sides But if in lieu thereof your service bee to murther a Gentleman that is drawen for good considerations tending the advanâ—ement of Her Majesties service contemne her gratious protection which he hath and offer the Lord President of Mounster the Governour of this Province and my selfe the mightiest wrong and abuse that may be I take it such a coruse as I doe not doubt your selfe and your house to bee thereby ever overthrowne and everlastingly liue hopelesse of any favour 〈◊〉 kindnesse of me except you take such apt and present course as to send the Gentleman unto me released and all the rest of his people as many as you haue in hand of them with a full restitution of their goods otherwayes thinke of me as the greatest Enemy you haue in this world which with the permission of God I will make you and yours feele if you urge me thereunto and so expecting to see the Gentleman from you with expedition without hurt I leaue Doiehoway the foure and twentieth of October 1600. Your very loving Kinseman if you will Vlick Clanrickard Whilest Dermond was in Rebellion hee received no prejudice by Theobald ne Long but now being as hee knew a man fast lincked to the State and able to performe extraordinary service he is treacherously murdered to the great dishonour of Her Majestie in violating Her word solemnely and advisedly given The Lord President was exceedingly incensed against the Actors Abettors and Procurers of this murder writing his Letter both to the Lords of Her Majesties privie Councell in England and also to the Lord Deputie and Councell of Ireland signifying how much Her Majesties honour was blemished and the Service hindred by this malitious and hatefull murther who considering of the fact besides sharpe rebukes and reprehensions the Lord Deputie was commanded presently to casheere and discharge him both of his Command and Entertainement CHAP. XVIII Sessions held at Limericke Cassell and Clonmell The Lord President and the Earle of Ormond meete at Clonmell Muskry Quirk and Arlogh burnt and spoyled by the Armie The submission of the Burkes and the Obryens The narrow escape of Iames fits Thomas and Dermond Mac Craghe the Popes Bishop of Corke In what good estate the Province of Mounster stood Mac Awley preyed by Sir Francis Barkley A Mariage practised betweene the Lady Ione Fitz Gerald and O Donnell but prevented by the Lord President NOtwithstanding the retiring of these Rebels as you haue heard yet the President thought it meete to spend some time in those parts before his Armie should be reduced In consideration whereof finding it expedient for furtherance of her Majesties service that Sessions of Gaole delivery should bee held as often as conveniently they might that the Course of civill Iustice might againe bee renewed whereunto of late yeeres they had not beene accustomed the eighteenth of November his Lordship left Kilmallock and marched to Limerick where hee kept Sessions from thence to Cashell and so to Clonmell in both which places he did the like doing exemplary iustice upon such Rebels as had afore beene apprehended thereabouts During the Sessions holden at Limerick as aforesaid the President sent a message to the Earle of Ormond signifying unto him his purposed comming to Clonmell wherein also hee besought his Lordship that if it might stand with his leasure and good liking it would please him to make a Iourney that way to the intent that upon their meeting some conference might be had about divers particularities concerning the service The Earle accorded both to time and place which was at Clonmell The sixe and twentieth of November amongst other matters there consulted betwixt them the President moved the Earle about some present order to be taken for the prosecution of those Rebels that had now for a good space remayned without impeachment in the borders of Ormond in Typperarie and for so much as his Lordship peradventure had not sufficient Forces to displant them he offered his owne service with such Companies as he had there assembled being the greatest part of the Armie of Mounster The Earle either unwilling to haue the President set foote within his Liberty or else desirous himselfe to haue the sole honour of that service did entreate the President to satisfie himselfe concerning that busines for he would undertake it and that within few dayes to make them repent that ever they set foote within his Libertie which I thinke had immediately beene performed had not the immature death of his most vertuous and honorable Lady the lamentable tydings whereof were now brought him to Clonmell oppressing his aged heart with immeasurable sorrow caused the same for a time to be deferred This service therefore thus undertaken by the Earle the President having received certaine information that the Mounster Fugitiues were harbored in those parts having before burned all the Houses and Corne and taken great preyes in Owny Omulrian and Kilquig a strong and fast Countrey not farre from Limerick diverted his Forces into East Clanwilliam Muskry-quirke where Pierce Lacy had lately beene succoured and harrasing the Countrey killed all mankind that were found therein for a terrour to those as should giue Reliefe to runnagate Traitors thence we came into Arloghe Woods where wee did the like not leaving behind us man or beast Corne or Cattle except such as had beene conveied into Castles The prosecution of this Service was committed to the care of Captaine Francis Slingesby who had under his Command fiue hundred foote whereupon the Burkes and Briens that inhabited those places came all
upon their knees beseeching to bee received into Her Majesties gratious Protection and promising to doe service upon any Rebels that should hide themselues in those Woods who putting in their pledges were received to mercy In this Iourney it chanced there was a youth taken Prisoner who had lately before beene servant to the imagined Earle who being brought to the President and examined tooke upon him to bring our Forces to the place where his Master was The Earle of Thomond Sir George Thornton and Captaine Roger Harvy with their Companies following the direction of this Guid were conducted to Lisbarry a parcell of Drumfinnim woods no sooner were they entred into the Faâ—tnesse but presently the Sentinells which were placed in the skirt of the wood raised the crie which as it should seeme rowsed the counterfeit Earle of Desmond and Dermond Mac Craghe the Popes Bishop of Corke who were lodged there in a poore ragged Cabbin Desmond fled away bare-foot having no leasure to pull on his shooes and was not discovered but Mac Craghe was met by some of the Souldiers cloathed in a simple mantle and torne trowses like an aged Churle and they neglecting so poore a creature not able to carry weapon suffered him to passe unregarded upon the end of this journey by the wiâ—e and painefull proceedings of the President Gods blessing alwayes accompanying the same it came to passe that there was not one Castle in Mounster held out against the Queene Nay which was more it was not knowen that there were fiue Rebells in a companie throughout the Province nor any one of note except these fiue lost sheepe the children of perdition Iames fits Thomas and his Brother Lixnaw Pierce Lacie and the Knight of the Glinne who lay lurking in desart uncouth and unknowen places yet notwithstanding there were divers vagabonds and loose people dispersed in sundry corners for whom no man would undertake that lived by stealth and badroagues disquieting the good Subjects being the reliques of the rebellion The President by his Letters dated the fifteenth signified unto the Lords of the Councell that now the Province was so much over-awed by her Majesties Forces that unlesse Northern Rebels came to infest it or that the Spaniards did invade it he was well able to containe the Provincials in obedience and although fiue hundred of his List was already cashier'd he would at any time lend the Lo. Deputie one thousand Foot to serue in Linster but with this caution for countenance sake that they might bee evermore in estimation of the List of Mounster which if the Reader doe well obserue he shall finde that the prosecution of the service in that Province had successes beyond expectation for in May last when the President first tooke the field the Rebels were no lesse then seven thousand strong and now the Subjects Cattle day and night lay abroad in the fields no Bodie of Rebels united and not one castle in all the province that did withstand her Majestie This was the vvorke of God and unto him onely it must be attributed Her Majestie as hath been said did by her Letters to the President command that one Companie of one hundred Foot should bee cashier'd for the sustentation of the young Earle of Desmond and of others vvhich vvere mentioned in that Letter The Lords of the Councell likewise by their Letters bearing date the tenth of November required the President to see the same performed which being done accordingly as was directed the President by his Letters of the twentieth of this December made an account how the partition was made Now you must understand that although one hundred Foot was discharged for the maintenance of the Earle and the rest yet her Majesties meaning was not that more should bee turned to that use then the ready money which was payed to the Companie yearely for their Lendings for their apparell was saved unto her Majestie the yearely lendings of one hundred men amounts unto no more then seven hundred eightie two pound two shillings and ten pence The Archbishop of Cassell who was a principall Agent in stirring up Dermond Oâ—Conner to make the attempt he did upon the titulary Earle had for his share one hundred twentie one pound thirteene shillings and three pence Iohn Power who was one of the Hostages as hath been related had thirtie sixe pound ten shillings the Lady Ellis sister to the Earle had thirtie three pound sixe shillings eight pence which was as much as her other sisters formerly had in pension from her Majestie the Lady Margaret the Earles sister also and wife to Dermond O Conner in regard of her forwardnesse to haue done the Queene service had an hundred pound and the remainder which was fiue hundred fortie pound twelue shillings ten pence was to the Earles owne use About the eighteenth of the same Sir Francis Barkley finding good cause and fitt opportunitie to plague Mac Awley and his Tenants who under protection relieved the heart-broken Rebells with the Garrison which hee commanded at Askeiton he harrassed all the Countrey of Clanowlie and tooke from thence one thousand Cowes two hundred Garrans besides Sheepe and other spoyle and had the killing of many Traitours which harboured themselues in the bogs and woods thereof CHAP. XIX The Maior of Limerick fined and imprisoned and a new Maior elected A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Iames fits Thomas The Sâ—eriffes men slaine by Florence Mac Cartie The Lord President perswadeth Florence to goe into England Florence seemeth to like of the motion and the use he made of it THE Countrey being now reduced to that outward obedience and conformitie as you haue heard the President and Councell returned unto Moyallo the thirteenth of December where they had some leasure to looke in the Corporate Townes whom they found to be principall ayders abettors and upholders of this unnaturall Rebellion which proceeded partly out of malice to the State for matters of Religion but principally for their owne benefit for in these turbulent times the greatest part of the Queenes Treasure sent over into this Kingdome is expended by the Captaines and Souldiers amongst them Againe they issue their Marchandise to the Rebells underhand at very excessiue rates and buy the Countrey Commodities at their owne prizes by reason whereof it was probably conjectured upon good grounds that the Townes of Mounster were more inritched within these three yeares of Warre then they were before almost in twentie yeares of peace Another thing also at this time was noted in the Townes namely that all the chiefe Cities made choyse of professed Lawyers to be their Maâ—ors Magistrates and chiefe Officers and such as before were Ring leaders of their Corporations These prepensed Elections whether they vvere made for feare left they should bee called to account for their former faults both in assisting the Rebells and resisting the Souldiers or to maintaine the Townes in obstinate superstition which before was much
aâ—gmented by these Instruments or for some other hidden cause knowen onely to themselues I cannot certainely determine but sure I am it proceedeth not from any loyall or dutifull disposition Amongst these lawlesse Lawyers thus elected there was one Geoffrey Gallway Major of Limerick a man that had spent many yeares in England in studying of the Common Lawes and returning into Ireland about three yeares since did so pervert that Citie by his malicious counsell and perjurious example that hee withdrew the Major Aldermen and generally the whole Citie from comming to the Church which before they sometimes frequented Moreover about a yeare since there happened an affray in Limricke betweene the Souldiers and some of the Towne at what time this Gallway came to the then Major advising him to dis-arme all the Souldiers and told him that all their liues were in the Majors hands and at his mercy whereby a gapp was most apparantly opened by him to haue induced a wicked and barbarous massacre upon her Majesties Forces With this man therefore did the President take occasion to enter into the Lists upon a manifest contempt offered unto his Office and Government as followeth It came to passe that a Souldier of the Earle of Thomonds Company was imprisoned by the said Major for a supposed Pettie Larceny of a Hatchet The President being upon his journey against the Rebells that were now reported to haue invaded the Province required to haue the said Souldier delivered unto him that hee might receiue a present tryall and punishment for his default if hee were found guiltie or else to repayre to his Colours and to goe the journey The Major before hee would deliver the Prisoner desired that hee might conferre with his Brethren This being graunted hee returned answer that it was not thought fit by the Corporation to release the prisoner except his Lordshipp would make a Warrant enjoyning and commaunding them so to doe The President and Councell being assembled a Warrant was framed signed and directed to the Major but this Warrant was deemed unsufficient and therefore desired to haue the same amended in certaine particulars which without difficultie was yeelded unto and a second and a third framed according to the Majors owne directions and thus did hee dally untill hee saw the President ready to leaue the Towne some part of the Armie being already upon their March at which time the Major came to the President and utterly rejected all those Warrants affirming that the Authoritie given them by the Charter did sufficiently exempt them from the Iurisdiction and Commaund of the President and Councell The President much scorning to bee thus deluded and dallyed withall told the Major that hee would shortly find a time to call him to an account for his contempt offered not against his Person but against her Majestie and her Government established in the Province Who being now returned from the Service as you haue heard and abiding at Moyallo directed his Warrant to the said Gallway commaunding him upon his Alleageance that hee should immediately appeare before him and the Councell at a day assigned at Moyallo to answer unto such things as should bee objected against him on her Majesties behalfe where making his appearance hee was censured to liue as a prisoner in a Castle in the Countrey and not to come into the Citie of Limricke untill hee had payed a fine to her Majestie of foure hundred pound sterling which was designed for the reparation of Her Majesties Castle there which summe was imployed afterward to that use and lastly that a new Major should be placed in his roome The Townsemen presently sent an Agent as their manner is to make suite unto the Councell of England seeking to abuse their Lordships with counterfeit humility and false suggestions to get abatement either in whole or in part of this fine aforesaid but therein they failed of their expectation and having received a check for their proud contumacie against the President they were commanded from the Court. The one and twentieth of this Moneth of December Sir Richard Percy sent sixty of his Garison at Kinsale into Kinalmekaghe Omaghons Countrie to get the prey of the same whereunto he was encouraged by one who promised to guide them so as they should not misse of all the Cowes in the same Dermond Moyle Mac Cartâ—e Florence his Brother and Moylmo Omaghon the chiefe of his Sept having some intelligence of their comming with three hundred Foote and some Horse assailed them not doubting but to haue cut all their throats for the space of two houres a good skirmish was maintained but the Rebels not finding the Defendants to be Chikins to be afraid at the sight of every cloud or kite with some losse of slaine and hurt men soberly retreated of the Garison of Kinsaile onely two private men were hurt yet they returned ill pleased for that they missed of the booty expected About this time the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin wrote unto the lurking ritulary Earle of Desmond the Copie whereof I doe here verbatim relate translated out of Latine A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Iames fits Thomas MY most Honourable good Lord having long desired a fit oportunity to write unto you the same iâ— now offered by M â— Iohn whereof I am very glad that by such a most sure and faithfull Messenger I might open my mind to your Lordship as also to shew that most certaine and undoubted hope of aide is shortly to come I would most willingly haue come unto your Lordships presence which lately I haue assayed and doubtlesse would haue done unlesse I had beene hindred by these Lords which told mee that present and imminent dangers were to be feared in my Iourney unlesse I had an Armie of souldiers to conduct me and now but that there is a necessitie of my returning into Spaine I would haue come to you in the company of Master Iohn But I hope that most speedily and most fortunately I shall returne unto you againe In the meane time I haue pretermitted nothing which might tend to your profit aswell to our Catholike Master as any other whosoever which now also in Spaine I will performe I would therefore intreate your excellencie that you would be of a good courage together with all other of your faction and that you would fight constantly and valiantly for the faith and the libertie of your Countrey knowing and firmely hoping that the helpe of my Lord the Catholike King is now comming which when it cometh all things shall bee prosperous and will place you in your former liberty and securitie that ye may possesse your desired peace and tranquillity The Almighty conserue your Lordship in safety long to continue From Donegall the thirteenth of Ianuary 1601. The Province of Mounster standing now in these good tearmes of Obedience and Conformitie as you haue heard the President thought good for the diminution of Her Majesties charge to spare some
for the service of Linster one thousand Foote whereof the Companies of Sir Iohn Barkley and Sir Garret Harvies to bee part and with them Sir Richard Greames troope of Horse According to this direction he assembled them at Clonmell and gaue the Command of them unto the Lord Awdley and as they were ready to march hee received advertisement from the Earle of Thomond that a body of more then three thousand men of Vlster and Connaght were presently to enter into the Province whereupon hee wrote unto the Lord Deputie this ensuing Letter making stay of the Lord Awdley untill he should receiue answer thereof A Letter from the Lord President to the Lord Deputie IT may please your Lordship I am so infinitly distracted betweene the earnest desire I haue to satisfie your Lordships commandements and the present dangers which I see hangs over this Province if I should obserue them as that I stand amazed what Councell to take being in my selfe wholly addicted to obedience and by necessitie in a manner enforced to pause upon the same untill I may receiue your Lordships answer to these and then without farther protraction I will bee ready accordingly to obserue your commandements wherein I humbly pray your Lordship deliberatly to advise being as I take it especially materiall for the furtherance of Her Majesties service The next day after I received your Lordships Letter of the seven and twentieth of Ianuary being the thirtieth of the same for the better expediting of your directions I addressed severall warrants unto the Captaines residing neerest unto me commanding every of them to meete at the Townes of Clonmell and Fetherd by the sixth of this Moneth there to receiue such further directions as the Lord Awdley who I haue appointed to command them should direct The List consists of one thousand and fiftie Foote and Sir Richard Greames Horse Sir Garret Harvie lyes so farre remote in Kerry as I could not conveniently in so short a time draw them to the rest Wherefore for that particular I humbly pray to be excused and for Sir Iohn Barklies Company who are part of the List aboue-said I haue directed them by warrant according to your Lordships former pleasure signified unto me before the receipt of your Lordships last letters to repaire into Connaght but haue now countermanded them and doe hope they are not yet past Thus your Lordship may see my willingnesse to obey your directions which I did as gladly and affectionatly as your Lordship can desire But since having this day received these inclosed Letters from the Earle of Thomond and Master Comerford I doe make humbly bold to present the consideration of them unto your Lordships wisedome before I doe throughly accomplish your Commandements wherein my hope is that your Lordship will both giue me thankes and hold me excuâ—ed because the publike service doth violently urge me unto it In my judgement I am perswaded that this intelligence is true drawne thereunto by many and sundry the like advertisements from all parts and persons lately reconciled whereof I could send your Lordship bundels of papers of divers mens relations and now confirmed in the same by these inclosed Letters which as your Lordship sees threatens the present disturbance of this Province not yet well setled Yet neverthelesse that it may appeare unto your Lordship that I am not backward to accomplish any thing which your Lordship shall require I do yet continue though not without some hazard to this Province if these Northern Forces should presently invade us to send the Companies aforesaid to the Rendevous before mentioned with directions to remaine there until your Lordship shall returne me your pleasure in answer of these and then what you shall prescribe unto me I will dutifully and carefully effect assuring my selfe that your Lordship will haue such a speciall regard to the State of this Province as that you will not withdraw them but upon certaine knowledge of the untruth of these intelligence But as a Councellor to speake my opinion if your Lordship can other wayes follow the prosecution in Linâ—ter without calling Forces from hence it were very expedient to forbeare the same untill this Cloud be overpast which cannot long hold in suspence for all the danger is betweene this and the end of the next Moneth after which time untill the Cattle be strong and giue milke there is little doubt All which humbly referring to your Lordships better consideration I rest Moyallo the second of February 1600. G. C. Not many dayes after the Lord Deputie by his Letters so well approoved of the reasons why the President stayed the Lord Audley as hee thanked him for it and willed him to make Head against the Rebels descent and hereafter when they might be better spared then he prayed him to send them unto him The effect of the Lords of the Councells Letters to the Lord President IAnuary 28. the Lord President received Letters of great comfort from the Lords in England saying That they were exceeding glad to see that in so short a time hee had reduced the Province to such tearmes as that he could indure the cashiering of fiue hundred Foot and spare the Lord Deputie one thousand more of his List which was an evident demonstration of his Labours well spent in the Service and that his holding of Assises and Sessions so long dis-used was a manifest signe of a new life in the Province That they had written to the Lord Deputie to call Theobald ne Long Burke in question for the murdering of Dermond O Conner and had required him to see it punished That notwithstanding her Majesties pleasure was signified unto him that Iames fits Thomas his Brother Iohn the Baron of Lixnaw the Knight of the Valley and Pierce Lacie should not be received to mercie upon any condition but to be left as children of perdition unto destruction yet considering how long Rebells may continue by underhand friendships in Ireland shee was pleased that the Lord President should haue power if he saw cause to induce him thereunto to accept of the last three but with this caution That they should be pardoned for life onely and that not untill they had performed some signall services which might merit such gracious favour Lastly they admonished the President to carrie a strict hand upon the Commissaries of the Musters for by Certificate from Dublin they understood that they were very slacke in their duties The President knowing that it was a matter of no lesse moment to retaine and keepe the Provincialls in subjection and good order then it was at first to reduce them hereunto imployed now a great part of his time in devising such courses as might secure them from a future revolt and therefore first resumed into his owne hands all power of protecting and then protested never to renew any protections already granted whereby they were constrained to use all celerity and haste for the obtaining their Pardons In so much that
obserue secret trafficke held betweene the Lord President and Redmond Burke the pretended Barron of Letrim Burkes ends was to haue the President to assist him for the recovering of his Fathers lands against his Vncle the Earle of Clanrickard and the President held him on with good words and messages for two respects the one for keeping him from joyning with the rest of the Bownoghs in Mounster the other to procure him if he might possibly worke him unto it to doe some signall service upon the Rebels Redmond still pursuing his desires when Captaine Flower was in Connaght with the Mounster forces as aforesaid writes this Letter here inserted to the President and the answer unto it was as followeth Redmond Burkes Letter to the Lo. President HOnourable Lord having heretofore complained to your Lordship of the inestimable wrongs that are offered mee which seeing your Honour cannot redresse heere I would request your Honour in respect that I specially meane not to disturbe any place under your Lordships or the Earle of Thomonds Iurisdiction not to be a meanes to stop me from demaunding my right or pursuing it in this sort seeing by right or Law the State pleaseth not to satisfie mee and assure your Honour if your selfe had any power to minister Equitie betwixt her Majesties Subjects the fame of the honourable worth and equitie your Lordship doth carry would not only alien me to loath this kind of life but also very many unspecified others And thus requesting your Lordship to draw your Forces for the defence of your Lordships Charge which otherwise might suddenly revolt if they had any ayd by Sea or Land as very many they expect which if your Lordship wrong me not I will stop to my best endeavour I betake your Honour to God From the Campe the twelfth of Aprill 1601. Your Honours loving Friend Redmond Letrim The Lord Presidents Answere I Haue received your Letter on the twelfth of this instant and am glad to finde by the â—ame that the life you now leade is odious unto you I doe wish that the feeling of your dutie may increase in that manner in you as that you would make your selfe capable of the Queenes mercie which is farre more infinite then your transgression hitherto hath been Of which Royall disposition of hers the examples of the offenders in this Kingdome are plentifull and apparant The pretence you make in your continuance in action is the wrongs done unto you by your Vnckle and to enable him farther to suppresse you utterly you adde heere to that Arch-Traytor Tyrone and forsake your duetie to your Soveraigne refusing her Lawes by the which you may bee righted with opinion to be repossessed by the strength of his sword your Youth may somewhat excuse your errour but beleeue mee you shall neither bee Barron of Letrim or possesse your Fathers Inheritance by the ayde of that perfidious Traytour which I know hath not the power any long time to support this Rebellion and if he had yet your selfe and all the English race of Ireland birth is as odious unto him as now we are that are naturall English If his power were able to make him Monarch of Ireland the Burkes with all of English descent must looke for no other then assured extirpation I am sure you are of discretion sufficient to conceiue as much as I write wherefore I need insist no longer upon the same To be short if you will follow the way which I doe by this Messenger prescribe you you may make your selfe capable of the Queenes mercie and find both meanes and friends to obtaine Iustice The request you make unto me to forbeare sending of Forces to annoy you and in so doing that you will spare Mounster and keepe others from harming the Province If I were but an ordinary Subject and not an Officer to the Queene I neither might or would make any such contract with you and therefore much lesse may I hearken to any such motion being an Officer of that qualitie as I am and doe marvell that you would require mee to juggle with my Prince whom I wish that you did serue with the like faith and dutie as I doe I doe wish that your estate were such that I might shew you friendship If you persevere in rebellion I hold you lost and in condition with them who haue made themselues unreconcileable What I leaue unwritten I referre to this Bearer Limrick this fourteenth of Aprill 1601. Your loving Friend when you are an obedient Subject G. C. This Answer of the Presidents could not be very pleasing to Râ—dmond for it plainely manifested that his purpose was not to doe him any courtesies untill hee had done somewhat that might deserue his friendship and Her Majesties grace Neverthelesse it seemes that there was some hopes for him to feede upon in the messages sent which he did not write or else Burke could not haue beene contained from harming of Mounster as hitherto hee was To conclude he fed him with faire language and threats and sure I am that the President made his advantage by it CHAP. II. Intelligence of Spanish Invasion The escape of Teg O Brien brother to the Earle of Thomond Florence his preparations for munition and men A Letter from Tyrone to Florence A Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President The report of Dermond Mac Awley touching the comming of Vlster men into Mounster I Must desire the Reader to excuse me if I doe a little breake the rule of the progresse of this Storie in looking backe some few dayes for that which proceedeth of the accidents of Captaine Flowers Service in Connaght did so necessarily depend one after the other as that I was inforced to continue that Relation untill this returne to Limericke which made mee forbeare to speake of Sir Henry Dockwray who upon the seventh of this instant Aprill wrote to the Lord Deputie as his Lordship advertised the President that Hugh Boy who was a man of good estimation and very in ward with O Donnell assured him that the Spaniards would this yeare invade Ireland with sixe thousand men and would land in some part of Mounster and that three of the chiefe Townes which must bee Corke Limerick and Waterford for they were the chiefest had promised to receiue them and that Florence Mac Cartie by the necessitie of the time onely had submitted himselfe to the President but upon the Spaniards landing he would assuredly come unto them with all the force hee could make The sixe and twentieth of Aprill the President leaving at Limerick and neere unto it twelue hundred Foote and fifty Horse for the Guard of those borders returned towards Corke and the seven and twentieth the next day following hee heard that Teg Obrien brother to the Earle of Thomond having beene a long time Prisoner in Limerick by the corruption of his Keeper made an escape Immediatly hee wrote unto the President protesting his loyaltie to Her
at Whitehall the 28 of Aprill 1601. Your Lordships very loving Friends Thomaâ— Egerton C. Tho. Buckhurst W. Knowles Ro. Cecill Ioh. Fortescue I. Herbert The eight and twentieth day Dermond Mac Awlie who was lately come out of Vlster and daily conversant with the Traytors of Mounster and acquainted with all their proceedings and Councell by mediation of friends made his repaire to the President and being examined whether they intended to come againe with new forces into the Province hee affirmed that at his departure from them they were ready to come away and did particularize what Munitions and Money every one of them was furnished withall by Tyrone viz. The Lo. of Lixnaw Calievers 40. Powder Barrells 02. Lead one Sow 01 Match faddoms 120 Money 14. pound Iohn fits Thomas Calievers 25. Powder Barrels 01. Lead Sowes ½ Match faddoms  Money 10. li. Pierce Lacie Calievers 20. Powder Barrels 01. Lead Sowes ½ Match faddoms  Money 8. li. Mac Donogh Calievers 25. Powder Barrels 01. Lead Sowes â— Match  Money 12. li. Redmond Burke Calievers 150. Powder Barrels 10. Lead Sowes 05. Match  Money 500. li. Teg Orwrke Calievers 150. Powder Barrels 10. Lead Sowes 05. Match  Money 500. li. From Odonnell to Teg Kewgh Calievers 12 Powder Barrels 02 Lead Sowes ½ Match Fathomes  Money 40. li. CHAP. III. Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle of Desmond taken Prisoner Iames fits Thomas kept Prisoner in the Lord Presidents house His 〈◊〉 and condemnation His relation presented to the Lord President The Lord Presidents Letter to Her Majesty Two Letters from Iames fits Thomas to the King of Spaine The causes of the Rebellion in Mounster as Iames fits Thomas alleaged Hussies report of the causes of the Rebellion in Mounster THere was no man of account in all Mounster whom the President had not oftentimes laboured about the taking of the reputed Earle still lurking secretly within this Province promising very bountifull and liberall rewards to all or any such as would draw such a draught whereby he might be gotten aliue or dead every man entertained these proffers as being resolute in performing the same service although they never conceived any such thought but at last it hapned after this manner The Lord Barry having one hundred men in pay from the Queene employed them many times about such service as either the President should command or himselfe thought requisit and namely about the fourteenth of May knowing that one Dermond Odogan a Harper dwelling at Garryduffe vsed to harbour this Arch-rebell or else upon occasion of some stealth that had beene made in his Countrey the thieues making towards this Fastnesse his Souldiers pursued them into this Wood where by good fortune this supposed Earle with two of the Baldones and this Dermond were gathered together being almost ready to goe to supper but having discovered these Souldiers they left their meate and made haste to shift for themselues they were no sooner gone out of the Cabbin but the Souldiers were come in and finding this provision and a Mantle which they knew belonged to Iames fits Thomas they followed the chase of the Stag now roused By this time the Harper had convaied the Sugan Earle into the thickest part of the Fastnesse and himselfe with his two other Companions of purpose discovered themselues to the Souldiers and left the Wood with the Lapwings policie that they being busied in pursuite of them the other might remaine secure within that Fastnesse and so indeed it fell out for the Souldiers supposing that Iames fits Thomas had beene of that Company made after them till Evening by what time they had recovered the White Knights Countrey where being past hope of any farther service they returned to Barry-court and informed the Lord Barry of all those accidents On the next morning the Lord Barry glad of so good a cause of complaint against the White Knight whom hee hated hasteth to the President and relating unto him all these particulars signifieth what a narrow escape the Arch-traytor had made and that if the White Knights people had assisted his Souldiers hee could not possibly haue escaped their hands Hereupon the White Knight was presently sent for who being called before the President was rebuked with sharpe words and bitter reprehensions for the negligence of his Countrey in so important a busines and was menaced that for so much as hee had undertaken for his whole Countrey therefore hee was answerable both with life and lands for any default by them made The White Knight receiving these threatnings to heart humbly intreated the President to suspend his judgement for a few dayes vowing upon his soule that if the said Desmond were now in his Countrey as was averted or should hereafter repaire thither hee would giue the President a good account of him aliue or dead otherwise he was contented that both his Lands and Goods should remaine at the Queenes mercy and with these protestations he departed And presently repairing to Sir George Thornton hee recounted unto him the sharpe reproofes which from the President hee had received Sir George finding him thus well netled tooke hold of the occasion never left urging him to performe the service untill he had taken his corporall oath upon a booke that he would employ all his endeavours to effect the same Assoone as he was returned to his house he made the like moane unto some of his faithfullest Followers as hee had done to Sir George Thornton and to stirre up their minds to helpe him in the perill hee stood hee promised him that could bring unto him word where Iames fits Thomas was he would giue him fiftie pound in money the inheritance of a Plough land to him and his Heires for ever with many immunities and freedomes One of his Followers which loved him dearely compassionating the perplexity hee was in but would you indeed said he lay hands upon Iames fits Thomas if you knew where to find him the Knight confirmed it with protestations then follow me said he and I will bring you where he is The White Knight and hee with sixe or seven more whereof Redmond Burke of Muskry-quirke was one presently upon the nine and twentie nineth of May tooke horse and were guided to a Caue in the Mountaine of Slewgort which had but a narrow mouth yet deepe in the ground where the Caytiffe Earle accompanied onely with one of his foster brothers called Thomas Opheghie was then lurking The White Knight called Iames fits Thomas requiring him to come out and render himselfe his Prisoner But contrariwise hee presuming upon the greatnes of his quality comming to the Caues mouth required Redmond â—urke and the rest to lay hands upon the Knight for both hee and they were his naturall Followers but the vvheele of his fortune being turned vvith their swords drawen they entred the Caue and without resistance disarming him and his foster Brother they delivered them bound to the White Knight
who caried him to his Castle of Kilvenny and presently dispatched a Messenger to Sir George Thornton to pray him to send some of the Garison of Kilmallock to take the charge of him which employment was committed to the care of Captaine Francis Slingesby who marching with his Company to Kilvenny had the Prisoner delivered unto him and from thence with as much expedition as might bee the White Knight Sir George Thornton and Captaine Slingesby brought them unto the President then residing at Shandon Castle adjoyning to Corke But how the White Knight performed his promise to his Servant it may bee doubted though he had one thousand pound given him from Her Majestie for the service The President having thus gotten his long desired prey not adventuring to haue him kept in the Towne appointed him lodging and a Keeper within Shandon Castle where himselfe then remayned and there held him in Irons untill he was sent into England which was yet deferred for the President being informed by the Queenes learned Councell that if he should dye before his arraignement the Queene could not be interressed in his Lands but by act of Parliament and also his Brother Iohn was not debarred by the Law from the title which this Pretender holdeth to be good in the Earledome of Desmond When the White Knight had delivered his Prisoner Iames fits Thomas into Captaine Slingesbyes custody he told him now the house is yours take care and charge of him And in conference with Captaine Slingesby told him how much it grieved him that the Lord President should suspect him to bee a Releever of Iames fits Thomas contrary to his protestation of service to Her Majestie and to him and to make it the better appeare what infinite prejudice hee had received by his meanes For first at the comming of Tyrone into Mounster Iames fits Thomas having some jealousie and not without cause that the White Knight would quit the confederacie and humbly seeke Her Majesties gratious favour acquainted Tyrone with it who thereupon apprehended him and willed him either to put in his Sonne Iohn as Pledge of his perseverance or else hee must detaine him Prisoner which the White Knight being neither able nor willing to performe committed him to the custody of Redmond Burke who caried him out of the countrey making him lackie it by his horse side on foote like a common Horse-boy and that in his absence his Countrey being thus distracted for want of a Head the Earle of Ormond came with some forces preying burning and spoyling most part of his Countrey and that he was forced to pay unto Redmond Burke two hundred pound ransome after three moneths imprisonment with this ill vsage concluding that it might well be beleeved hee had small cause to doe those favours to Iames fits Thomas which were suspected considering hee had received those harmes and losses from him who was never able to repayr him of the least part thereof But it may well be conceived that the White Knight had not untill he was so pressed by the President made any diligent inquity after him and that if he had more timely sought it he might sooner haue effected it Captaine Slingesby having now the Prisoner and the whole house and keyes committed over to his charge and keeping setting his Guards and Sentinels both within the house and without as was fitting for the Guard of so welcome a Prisoner went to where the said Iames was to be his Watch that night and judging a man in his case not capable of any favour from Her Majestie as being the principall cause of all the rebellion of Mounster though otherwise none of the bloodiest enemies could take no comfort in discourse was silent by him not willing to grieue him with discoursing on that which hee thought could not bee pleasing unto him untill Iames fits Thomas himselfe first ministred occasion who having had some notice what Captaine Slingesby was after some complements began in fome sort to extenuate though not to excuse his former faults to Her Majestie how he was inforced to take that title upon him otherwise his brother Iohn would not haue beene so nice in the accepting and that hee never shed any English blood in the first insurrection nor suffered any to doe it that hee could withhold though many of his Followers did not so piously obserue it but with the best respect of humanity did cause them to be sent out of the Countrey to the next coast Townes with the least offence that might be and therefore hoped Her Majestie who had extended her clemencie to farre greater crimes though it was his hard fortune to bee so eminent a man in that action she would now retract nothing of Her wonted goodnesse and mercy Intimating withall his Father to bee elder brother to Gerrot Earle of Desmond who by the power of his Mother a second wife was disinherited and her sonne though a younger received and acknowledged for Earle of Desmond With these and other discourses they spent the whole night untill it was day when they made ready to goe to Corke to the Lord President to deliver the Prisoner Vpon these reasons the Prisoner at a Sessions holden in Corke for that purpose was indicted arraigned convicted and adjudged to bee executed as a notorious Traytor which being done the President advertised all the proceedings into England and desired that he might be sent to the Tower of London and there to remaine in prison humbly praying that his life might bee spared in policie of State for whilest hee lived his brother Iohn could not make any pretext to the Earledome whereas to the contrary he being dead it was very probable that the Rebels would set him up for a new Idoll in his place whereof what inconveniences might ensue was apparant These reasons although they are subject to every mans understanding that hath common sense and therefore no marvell that the Lord President should light upon them Behold here what the Captiue Earle himselfe doth say concerning that point who being Prisoner in the Presidents house having the favour to haue Paper and Inke upon the third of Iune one thousand sixe hundred and one wrote this which insueth humbly intreating the President to send it to Her Majestie or to the Lords of her Councell in England which hee performed in his next dispatch The Relation of Iames of Desmond to the Right Honourable Sir George Carew Lord President of Mounster most humbly beseeching your Honour to certifie Her Majesty and the Lords of her most Honourable Councell of the same Hoping in the Almighty that Her Highnesse of her accustomed clemencie and mercy by your intercession will take most gratious and mercifull consideration thereof to the end that Her Majesties Realme of Ireland shall be the better planted and maintained in good government by his release The third of Iune 1601. FIrst it may please your Honour to consider that this action at the beginning was never
in February last leaving great store of plate and other riches for a pledge behind him And being farther examined concerning Florence Mac Carty hee answered that the said Florence did ever by sight or otherwise acquaint him with what the President wrote unto him and did continually sweare protest and giue all outward assurance never to desist in this action but to persevere therein to the end and that the Spaniards and Rebels of Vlster did build their principall hopes of Mounster upon himselfe and Florence Mac Carty all this was also verified by certaine intelligences which the Lord Barry received from Dermond Mac Awley lately come from the North the effect whereof was thus much When the Spanish Arch-bishop was to returne into Spaine in February last there was a Councell holden in Vlster by Tyrone Odonnell the said Bishop and all the chiefe Traytors of those parts Iohn of Desmond Lixnaw Pierce Lacy Donoghe Mac Cormock and this Dâ—rmond Mac Awley being called thereupon the chiefest matter debated in this consultation was what place of Ireland was the most convenient where the Spanish forces should make their arrivall It was without much difficulty or gainesaying resolved for all respects Mounster was the fittest Province to be invaded then it remayned to consider what place in that Province they should first attempt and concerning this point the Mounster men were required to deliver their opinions Pierce Lacy began and urged certaine reasons why hee thought it most requisit for them first to gaine Limerick and plant there because the Provinces of Connaght and Linster were neere at hand to minister aide to the Spanish Armie and Vlster was not farre distant being also the place most remote from England especially for shipping All the rest being induced by these reasons to subscribe unto his opinion Donoghe Mac Cormock stood up and withstood this Councell saying that Mac Cartie More from whose mouth he said he spake it upon mature deliberation did advise their comming to Corke for the taking of that place would bee of most importance as well for the countenancing of the action where the President most resided as the magazins of victuals and munitions were placed there and also it being a farre better outlet then the River of Limerick the Citie weaker and sooner forced And lastly in landing there they should border upon Barry Roche Cormock Mac Dermond and Mac Carty Reughe all which for feare of their estates were partially affected to the English and by that meanes either constraine them to conjoyne with them in the action or else to make their Countrey and people a prey unto the Army After long disputation the Councell of Florence delivered by Donoghe Mac Cormock was most applauded and so they concluded to land the Spanish Armie in the River of Corke CHAP. VI. Florence Mac Cartie is by the Lord President committed to prison A briefe Collection of Florence Mac Carties treasons and practises with the Rebels not touching any thing formerly related VPON these and many other reasons that shall hereafter be alleaged the President thought that he could not possibly accomplish a service more acceptable to her Majestie nor profitable for the State and more availeable to divert the Spanish preparations then to commit unto prison and safe custody the body of this Florence which was accordingly effected about the beginning of Iune one thousand sixe hundred and one a man so pernitious and dangerous to the State which had sundry wayes broken his severall protections upon his apprehension which was in Corke the President tooke present order that search should bee made in the Pallace his chiefe house in Desmond and other places of his aboad for all such Letters and writings as could therein bee found whereby was discovered such a Sea of rebellious and traiterous practises as her Majestie and her hoâ—ourable Councell being acquainted therewith thought good that hee should be sent into England with the Arch-traytortitulary Earle of Desmond Iames fits Thomas The conduction of these two firebrands of Mounster upon the fourteenth of August 1601. was committed to the charge of Sir Anthony Cooke who brought them to the Tower of London where they yet remaine But for as much as this Florence hath sithence his commitment insisted upon his Iustification complayning of hard measure offered him by her Majestie and her Officers I am therefore constrained though much against my will for satisfaction of all indifferent men Welwillers and confutation of all malitious Cavillers to lay open briefely as I may his whole cariage and conversation since his late landing within this kingdome forbearing to insist upon such poynts as haue already bin touched in this relation Thou maiest bee pleased therefore to understand gentle Reader that the rebels of Mounster being growne to such an exceeding strength as you haue heard and amongst these Donnell Mac Cartie Florence his base brother in Law one of the chiefe her Majestie thought good to diminish their forces with sparing as much blood and expending as little treasure as conveniently might bee and therefore knowing that Florence Mac Cartie was better beloved in the Countrey then Donnell having made many solemne vowes and taken many voluntary oathes for his continued loyaltie was dispatched into Ireland in the moneth of May 1599. and to the end hee might bee the more encouraged and better enabled to doe her Highnesse service it pleased her Majestie to direct her favourable Letters to Robert Earle of Essex then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland authorising him to giue order for Letters Patents to bee made containing an effectuall graunt to the said Florence Mac Cartie and Ellen his wife and to the Heires males of their bodies lawfully begotten of all the Countrey of Desmond and such other Lands whereof hee had any estate of inheritance but withall authorising the said Lord Lieutenant and Councell to stay those Letters Pattents in the Hamper or deliver them according as they should see cause in the proofe they should make of the behaviour of the said Florence Now that yee may see in what dutifull manner hee requiâ—ed this trust in what gratefull manner this kindnesse and in what religious manner these oathes I will recite a part of the examination of Iohn Anias taken before Sir Nicholas Welsh and Iustice Comerford which may explaine the same the thirteenth of October 1600. He saith that in May last Florence Mac Cartie sent one Maur. More to him wishing him to repaire to his Lodging at Corke and that Florence was desirous to be acquainted with him whereupon hee came to Florence and in Florence his Chamber hee the said Florence and none other but they two being present said that he understood that this Examinate was an Enginer and one that had skill in devising and erecting of Fortifications and that he would willingly imploy him in the like Anias demanding of Florence what or where hee would haue his Workes raysed Hee answered at Dunkerran wherein hee might upon any
to the King and gaue it to Tyrone to bee sent into Spaine And also tooke his corporall oath to performe his promises whereupon Tyrone stiled and confirmed him Mac Carty More hee also told the said Thomas Oge that if the Spaniards did not land by May next hee would goe into the North and from thence into Spaine And after that Iames fits Thomas was broken hee told this examinat that if Iames could get Forces out of Vlster the said Florence would joyne with him Farther Florence intised Connocke Mac Dermond to enter into rebellion and marry his Sister to Iames fits Thomas who should giue unto him Kerry whereby that his eldest Sonne should marry Cormocks Daughter and Cormocks eldest Sonne to marry his daughter who in mariage with her would giue Carrigenesse with twelue Plow-lands which mariage hee proposed for their firmer vnion in their rebellious enterprise And that hee had loaden a Barque with Irish commodities to bee sent beyond the Seas which should returne him munition c. Many other treasonable actions and traitorly speeches acted and spoken by the said Florence the same Thomas Oge related unto the Lord President which for brevities sake I haue omitted which was taken at Moyallo by the President in Ianuary 1600. The President not holding himselfe sufficiently assured of Florence with his two pledges his base brother and kinsman still importuned the bringing of his eldest Sonne according to his promise upon his first protection hee having no pretext for his longer stay sent to Owen Mac Teg Mergagh in Desmond to carry his said Sonne to Corke there to bee left as a pledge for him within a few dayes after this message sent Florence receiving advertisement from Tyrone of certaine Spaniards landed in the North and hearing continuall rumors of Northern forces to infest the Province dispatched a Messenger to the said Owen Mac Teg mergagh to make stay of his Sonne for a longer time viz. untill hee might perceiue what would bee the issue of those preparations but before the Messenger could come the said Owen was with the child upon his way and come to Corke before the said Messenger overtooke him but had not as yet delivered the child out of his owne custody wherefore receiving this countermand hee secretly conveyed the child out of the Citie and returned with him againe into Desmond where he was kept as before untill Florence had seene that there was neither Irish nor Spaniards appeared to his aide succour and comfort In the Moneth following namely in Ianuary hee sent divers Letters to Tyrone and other his fellow traytors in the North and from them received severall answers whereof some part chanced to come to our hands which wee will here insert and first there doth offer it selfe one Letter written by Donogh Mac Cormock to the King of Spaine in the name of Florence Mac Cartie the tenor whereof was as followeth A Letter from Donoghe Mac Cormock in the name of Florence to the King of Spaine HAving received direction from the Earle of Clan-Care I would not omit this opportunity at the departure of the Archbishop of Dublin and Don Martin de La Cerda to make knowen to your Majestie how the said Earle hath written to your Majestie by two or three wayes but understanding that these Letters came not to your Royall hands hee hath now againe written by me to your Majestie making offer as well of his person and lands as of his vassals and Subjects to your Royall service humbly beseeching your Majestie to receiue favour and aide him with your power and liberall hand seeing there is no other that can and will assist us better against these Heretikes in this holy Enterprise From Donegall the fift of Ianuary 1601. Your Majesties loyall Vassall to kisse your Royall hands Donoghe Cartie This Letter as it should seeme was originally written and the Copie sent to Florence by one Thomas Shelton who wrote herewith other Letters unto him of his owne as followeth A Letter from Shelton to Florence Mac Carty MY honourable Lord by direction of the Lord Archbishop of Dublin and at the request of Mac Donogh your agent here I did write a Letter addressed to the King of Spaine subscribed by him In which was signified â—ow by your directiâ—â— hee had made offer of your service to his Majestie the Copie of which Letter goâ—th here inclosed what the newes and hopes of Spaine are the bearer will fully informe you This only rests that as I haue ever desired to serue your Lordship so finding now the opportunity of this Bearer I would not omit so fit an occasion to kisse your honourable hands and signifie that respect I haue ever borne towards you God preserue and assist yoâ— in all your designes that wee may liue to see accomplished by you these things whereof your noble beginnings giue an assured hope Donegall Iâ—â—â—ary the sixth sub Your most affectionate Friend Thomas Shelton Hee received also at the same time other Letters in Spanish thus Englished from the said Archbishop subscribed To the most Excellent Earle Florence Mac Cartie A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Florence Mac Cartie RIght Honourable Lord God is my witnesse that after my arivall in Ireland having knowledge of your Lordships valour and learning I had an extreame desire to see communicate and conferre with so principall a personage but the danger of the way would not permit mee I am now departing into Spaine with griefe that I haue not visited those parts but I hope shortly to returne into this Kingdome and into those parts to your satisfaction and be assured that I will performe with his Maiestie the office that a Brother ought to doe that he should send from Spaine Because by letter I cannot speake any more I leaue the rest untill sight The Lord haue your Lordship in his keeping according to my desire From Donegall the sixteenth of Ianuary 1601. Yo Mateo Arçobispo de Dublin After all this namely in February next following the said false-hearted Florence wrote certaine Letters to O Doâ—â—â—ll the contents whereof may be gathered by the answer that the said O Donell remised in Irish therevnto and therefore I haue thought good to remember the same translated in this place O Donnels Answer OVr commendations to you Mac Cartie We haue received the Letter you sent the fourteenth of October and we sweare by our word that you are no lesse grieved for that you see us not then we our selues and it was not more your minde to haue ayd then ours to send vnto you if wee could for the great trouble it would bee to our selues to intend you and by your hand there was not many in Ireland more of the minde then mine owne person to haue gone to visit you had not the strangers neighboured upon my Countrey and as you know my Countrey lying on the Sea and they having the secrecie thereof to doe their endeavours to conquer what they may
vpon the same which they would not doe vpon a Countrey not lying vpon the Sea You shall receiue what Newes of Spaniards came to these parts by Iohn fits Thomas and Donogh Mac Cormock and whatsoever they brought with them we impart with you and doe provide for the same men to send unto you if they may be had Our Commendations to Patrick Condon and to the rest of our friends in those parts Your very assured Friend Hugh Odonnell The Earle of Thomond at the request of the Lord President sent a Priest called Teg Mac Gillipatrick as a Spie into Vlster to learne what newes hee could get among the Rebels there returned the one and twentieth of February 1600 and came to the Lord President at Moyallo reporting that at his being at Donegall in the Christmas Holy dayes Tirone Odonnell and most of the Northerne Captaines being there present made a new combination to continue the Rebellion at which assembly the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin was present then ready to depart for Spaine with sixteene Irish Priests in his company for the better assurance of their confederacie the Sacrament was solemnely received by them all At the same time Teg Mac Gillipatrick the Priest aforesaid did see a Letter of Florence Mac Carties lately sent to Tirone by a Messenger of his owne which hee heard read openly the Contents whereof was That hee protested hee was not fallen from them but had made a peace with the Lo President of Mounster untill May next and that then he was at libertie One Dermond Mac Cartie a kinsman and dependanâ— upon Florence and by him as is supposed was sent into Spaine where hee continued his Intelligencer many yeeres and by the Spanyards called Don Dermutio Cartie wrote a Letter unto his Master Florence dated at the Groyne the ninth of March 1600. A long letter in Spanish the materiall poynts whereof are thus abstracted and Englished That hee was glad to heare that his Lordship upon the fiftâ—enth of December last was landed at Corke after his eleven yeeres restraint in England whereof three of them in the Tower of London that his Imprisonment was not for marrying of the Earle of Clan Cares daughter without leaue as was pretended but upon suspition which the State had of his loyaltie which he understood by Letters written from the Lord Deputie and Treasurer of Ireland to the Queene which was intercepted and brought into Spaine wherein it was suggested that hee having so many kinsmen friends and followers and himselfe who was knowne to beare affection to Spanyards it were fit hee were restrayned and that this onely was the cause of his eleven yeeres restraint Wherefore hee advised him not to put any confidence in the English for if they once againe lay hold upon him they would never enlarge him Hee advised him to certifie his Majestie how much hee was his Servant what Townes and places hee could put into his handes what number of men of warre hee could serue him withall and if he could surprize Corke he should bee well supplyed by the King of Spaine That hee might send his Letters written to the King unto Don Diego Brochero who is a great favourer of the Irish Nation and in great credit with the King by which meanes they would bee safely delivered as also his Letters unto him for the solicitation of his businesse That within three dayes hee might send him answere from the Groyne which hee could not doe unto Oneale and O Donnell who were so farre off in the North of the Kingdome and advised him to write unto them that they in like manner should direct their Letters to Don Diego Brochero but if he would not write unto him hee would advise with Don Diego and repaire himselfe unto him into Ireland Lastly hee hoped that the King of Spaine would the next Spring send an Armie into Ireland It would bee too tedious to set downe at large all the manifest proofes of Florâ—â—ce his juggling Treasons wherefore I will for brevitie sake relate but a few more Abstracts of Letters and Examinations which heere ensue The thirteenth of May 1600. Florence received Letters from Tyrone wherein hee prayeth him that hee would constantly presevere in the Catholike cause as hee had promised that aide should come unto him from the North by Lammas next That he had written in his favour to the King of Spaine commended his service and prayed the King to giue him assistance Tyrone wrote unto both the Osulevans requiring them to giue obedience unto Florence for hee had complained of them Tyrone threatning the said Osâ—levans that if they did not obey him as they ought hee would with his forces come into Mounster to destroy them Dated the thirtieth of October 1599. Tyrone to Florence dated the seventeenth of Aprill 1600. that according to the trust and confidence he had in him and his Confederats in Mounster they should fight valiantly against the English whereunto they were bound in conscience and for their Countries good Another from Tyrone to Florence Mac Cartie dated the second of May 1600. wherein hee signifieth unto him of the arrivall of the Popes Archbishop of Dublin And of present aides from Spaine he thanked God that the Earle of Ormond is taken hee incited him to entertaine as many Bonoghs as heâ— can against their enemies that hee hath acquainted the King of Spaine of his service unto whom hee hath sent his Sonne Henry Oneale and that hee would shortly send him aide Garret Liston of Skehanaghe in the County of Limerick Gentleman being examined upon oath said that Florence Mac Cartie met with Iames fits Thomas at Belaghafenan two miles from Castle Mayne where Iames challenged him for not comming unto him with his forces to fight with the Lord President as he had promised whom after hee had with smooth language pacified hee protested solemnly and tooke his oath in the presence of Iames fits Thomas Mac Awlife Thomas Oge Muriertaghe Mac Shihie Iohn Vlicke and this Examinat that hee would continue with Iames fits Thomas in this action And although Iames should giue over the rebellion which hee termed a just warte yet hee himselfe would keepe life in it so long as hee could get any to follow him c. This examination was taken by the Lord President the twentieth of August 1600. Another from Oâ—eâ—le to Florence dated the sixth of February 1600. wherein hee exhorteth him to serue valiantly against the Pagan Beast That before hee did write unto him againe hee should see trouble enough in England it selfe and that yeaâ—e May ensuing the warres of Irâ—land would bee easie And for that the cause of Mounster was left unto him hee wished that no imbecillity should bee found in him and that the time of helpe was neere Florence Mac Carties wife told Sir Charles Wilmot that her husbands heart was malitious to the State and that hee would never come in but upon necessitie
by reason whereof but with great disadvantage no probable attempt of good successe could bee made upon them being lodged as they were in a strong Fastnesse of Bogg and Wood which was on every quarter plashed For avoyding of confusion I must aske some pardon of the Reader to continue the Discourse of the Presidents Iourney untill I speake any more of the siege at Kinsale Odonnell on the other side fearing our forces which were encreased by a Regiment of Foot and some Horse which Sir Christopher Saint-Lawrence brought with him durst not enter farther into the Countrey because hee could not avoyd us and at that time hee had no other way to passe for the Mountaine of Slewphelim which in Summer time is a good ground to passe over was by reason of great raines so wett and boggye as that no Carriage or Horse could passe it This Mountaine is in the county of Typperarie towards the Shenan and from thence to come into the county of Limerick the passage is through a straight neere to the Abbey of Ownâ—y which Abbey from the place where Odonnell incamped in Omaghers Countrey is at the least twentie Irish miles having as wee thought by lodging where wee did prevented his passage there hapned a great frost the like whereof hath beene seldome seene in Ireland and the Enemy being desirous to avoid us taking the advantage of the time rose in the night and marched over the Mountaine aforesaid whereof as soone as wee were advertised wee likewise rose from Cassell whither wee were drawen mistrusting that they would take the advantage of the frost fower houres before day in hope to crosse him before hee should passe the Abbey of Ownhy supposing that it had not beene possible for him to haue marched farther with his cariage without resting The next morning by eleaven of the clock wee were hard by the Abbey but then wee understood that Odonnell made no stay there but hastned to a house of the Countesse of Kildares called Crome twelue miles from the Abby of Ownhy so as his march from Omaghers Countrey to Crome by the way which hee tooke without any rest was aboue two and thirtie Irish miles the greatest march with cariage whereof hee left much upon the way that hath beene heard of To overtake him wee marched the same day from Cashell to Kilmallock more then twentie Irish miles but our labour was lost The morning following Odonnell with all his forces rose from Crome and lodged that night in the straight of Conneloghe where hee rested a few dayes to refresh his tired and surbated Troopes The President seeing that this lightâ—ooted Generall could not bee overtaken thought it meet to hasten to the Campe at Kinsale to prevent his comming thither wherein wee vsed such expedition as if he had done his uttermost we were sure to be there before him or inforce him to fight with us for wee tooke the next direct way and he for his safety to avoid us marched a farther way about through Dowalla and Muskry which was very troublesome to passe with Horse and Baggage the time of our returne to the Campe was the fiue and twentieth of the same Moneth In our retreat towards Kinsale betweene Kilmallock and Moyallo we overtooke the Earle of Clanricard with his Regiment marching towards the Campe and also betweene Moyallo and Corke wee met with the Earle of Thomond who was sent by the Lord Deputy with his Troope of Horse to follow the President There came into Mounster with Odonnell these principall Gentlemen of Vlster and Connaght viz. Orwrke Mac Swiny ne Doa Odogherty Oboyle the two Mac Donoghes Mac Dermond Okellie Obirne O Conner Roes two sonnes Odonnels two brothers Donnell O Conner Sligoes brother the two Oflares William Burke brother to Redmond and Hughe Mostian besides of Mounster men the Lord of Lixnaw Iohn fits Thomas brother to the counterfeit Earle of Desmond the Knight of the Valley Dermond moyle Mac Cartie brother to Florence and many others his whole number consisted neere unto foure thousand Foote and three hundred Horse this was related unto the President by one Iames Welsh who was with Odonnell when he fled the incountering of the Presidents forces hee also affirmed that Tyrone had in his Armie Mac Genis Mac Guire Mac Maghon Randell Mac Lorly Oneale and all the chiefes of Vlster with their forces CHAP. XV. A part of Don Dermuâ—io his Examination concerning a practise for the taking or killing of the Lord President A Sally made by the enemy in Kinsale A Spanish Captaine slaine Master Hopton dyed of a â—urt The Earle of Thomâ—nd landed at Castlehaven with supplies of Horse and Fâ—â—t Supplies of Horse and Foot landed at Waterford The Queeâ—es Fleet and supplies of Foot with munitions c. arrived at Corke Castle Ny Parke attemptâ—d to be taken by vs but the Enterprise fayled A Coâ—ncell of Warre called by the Lord Deputie THE dangerous hazard which the President was in in this journey I may not omit to relate aswell for the perill hee ranne as for his temper in not seeming to see that which hee perfectly knew and despising it for Dâ—rmond Mac Cartie called by the Spaniards Don Dermutio taken as you haue heard at the siege of Rincorran being examined by the Councell confessed to them that Cormuck Mac Dermond Lord of Muskery had intelligence with Don Iohn and certaine presents had beene mutually given and received and that the said Cormuck had undertaken and faithfully promised to deliver up the President to Don Iohn aliue or dead the President was himselfe present at this examination which notwithstanding hee tooke the said Cormuck and ten Horsemen his Followers along with him rode with him eate and dranke with him and many times had private conference with him not seeming to take notice of any treacherous intent besides his Army consisting of three thousand or there abouts what with Countrey risings out and under Captaines in pay two thousand of these were of Irish birth no lesse affected to the Rebels then to themselues and I can well assure the Reader upon good grounds that if our forces had received any disaster they would all haue turned Turkes and cut the throats of their owne Commanders The eighth certaine Ships to the number of thirteene were discovered passing by Kinsale to the Westward but afterward it prooved to bee the Supplyes sent out of ENGLAND with the Earle of Thomond The Spanyard by that time had gotten knowledge of the departure of a good part of our Forces and thereupon supposing us to be much weakened as it cannot be denyed but we were and inferior to them in the Towne in bodies of men they drew out about noone the most part of their Forces and anon after sent some threescore Shott and Pike to the foot of the hill close by our Campe leaving their Trenches very well lyned for their seconds Some of ours were presently drawen out to
entertaine the skirmish with those that came up and another strong party was sent out towards Rincorran who from the Bushie hill played in flancke upon their trenches and beate them from the same so as they that were first sent out close to our Campe being beaten backe by our shot and thinking to find the seconds they left behind them were disappoynted by the quitting of their trenches and by that meanes driven to follow the rest to the succour of the Towne our men following them with much furie hurt and killed divers amongst whom they brought off the body of a Sergeant and possessed the enemies trenches the which the Enemy being re-enforced made many attempts to regaine but were repulsed and beaten backe into the Towne we heard by divers that Don Iohn committed the Sergeant Major who commanded then in chiefe presently after the fight and threatned to take off his head commended highly the valor of our men and cryed shame upon the cowardise of his owne who he said had beene the terror of all nations but now had lost that reputation and he gaue straight commandement upon paine of death which hee caused to be set upon the Towne gates that from thenceforth no man should come off from any service untill hee should be fetcht off by his Officer though his powder were spent or his Peece broken but make good his place with his sword Captaine Soto one of their best Commanders was that day slaine for whom they made very great moane and some twentie more besides were hurt which could not but bee many on our side onely some ten hurt and three killed among whom Master Hopton a Gentleman of the Lord Deputies was sore hurt and since dyed thereof If this skirmish had not bin readily and resolutely answered on our part the Spaniards had then discovered the smalnesse of our numbers and would no doubt haue so plyed us with continuall sallies as wee should hardly haue beene able to continue the siege The same day wee had Newes of the Earle of Thomonds landing at Castlehaven with one hundred horse and one thousand foot of Supplies out of England in thirteene Ships which by violence of foule weather had beene driven to the westermost part of Ireland and with great difficultie recovered Castlehaven aforesaid from whence the fifth day following hee came with Horse and Foot to the Campe at Kinsale The next day being the eleventh wee were advertised that Sir Anthonie Cooke and Patrick Arthur were landed at Waterford with two thousand foot and some horse The twelfth Sir Richard Levison Admirall and Sir Amias Preston Vice-Admirall of the Queenes Fleet for Ireland with ten Shippes of Warre arrived at Corke with two thousand Foot besides Munitions Cannoniers Carpenters Wheele-wrights Smithes c. presently the Lord Deputie sent them direction to come for Kinsale The thirteenth nothing was done either by us or the enemy The Queenes Ships with much difficultie recovered the harbour of Kinsale the Admirall Sir Richard Levison and the Vice-Admirall Sir Amias Preston came to the Lord Deputies Campe That day and the next day the two thousand Land-forces were put on shoare and before that wee had certaine newes of the arrivall of the other Forces from Barstable and Bristoll at Waterford and Castlehaven but they were not then come to the Campe nor in many dayes after The Lord Deputie comming from aboard the Ships a great shott was made at him from the Towne from whence they might discerne him in the head of a Troupe and yet missed him very little Some of the Queenes Ships having direction began to play upon a Castle in the Iland called Castle Ny Parke held fit next to bee taken to invest the Towne on that side they brake off some part of the top but finding that they did it no greater hurt they left shooting and the rather because that day and the two next prooved so extreame stormie and foule as the Ordnance could not bee landed nor any thing else well done yet out of an extraordinary desire to effect somewhat the seventeenth being the most happy day of her Majesties Coronation which wee meant to haue solemnized with some extraordinary Adventure if the weather would haue suffered us to looke abroad wee sent at night when the storme was somewhat appeased the Sergeant Major and Captaine Bodly with some foure hundred Foot to discover the ground of Castle Ny Parke and to see whether it might be carried with the Pickaxe which was accordingly attempted but the Engine wee had gotten to defend our men while they were at worke being not so strong as it should haue beene they within the Castle hauing store of very great stones on the top tumbled them downe so fast as brake it so as they returned with the losse of two men and proceeded no further in that course The same day the Lord Deputie called a Councell of warre wherein it was propounded that now that her Majestie had plentifully furnished us with men munition and victuals we wereto consider of our owne strength and the best way either to attempt the Towne or to continue the siege we were also to consider of the force of the Enemy within Kinsale and what aides they were like to haue out of the Countrey and of all other commodities or incommodities that were to happen on either side The conclusion and resolution was that wee should invest the Towne with all celerity to keepe it short of reliefe and before the making of a breach to breake their houses that they might find no safetie in them and thereby to bee exposed to the like incommoditie of cold and raine as wee felt in the Campe in doing whereof it was conceived that many would bee slaine and indanger the destroying their magazines of powder and victuals for if presently we should make a breach and attempt it by assault there was no difference betweene a weake place stored with bodies of men and a strong fortified Towne besides the Enemy had ground sufficient if a breach were made to cast up new earth workes which would put us to more toyle and losse of men then an old stone wall and in the opinion of all the chiefest of the Armie it was concluded that wee could not doe the Enemy a greater pleasure or unto our selues a greater disadvantage then to seeke to carie it by a breach before the forces in the Towne either by sword or sicknesse were weakned CHAP. XVI The Earle of Thomond with his supplyes came to the Campe. Castle ny Parke rendred by the Spaniards A Spanish Captaine wounded whereof he dyed A braue Act of a private Souldier Approaches made neerer to the Towne The Lord President with the Earles of Thomond and Clanricard returned to the Campe. A sally made by the Spaniards THE Earle of Thomond also with one thousand Foote and one hundred Horse having beene by force of weather driven farre
Earle of Thomonds Quarter who stood in guard without the Trenches The Enemie sallyed about eight of the clocke in the night being extreame darke and raynie with about two thousand men and first gaue slightly towards the new Trenches upon the West side and presently after with a great grosse upon the trench of the Cannon continuing their resolution to force it with exceeding fury having brought with them tooles of divers sorts to pull downe the Gabions and Trenches and Spikes to cloy the Artillery The Allarme being taken in the Camp the Marshall with Sir Iohn Barkley and Sir William Fortescue Sir Francis Rush and Captaine Roe with some fiue or sixe hundred sallyed presently towards the Cannon for their seconds and Sir Benjamin Berry fell out with some hundred directly towards the Port of the Towne next to the Campe to whose seconds the Lord Deputie sent Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn Vpon the arrivall of the Marshall with his Forces the enemy brake and our men did execution upon them Sir Benjamin Berry fell directly upon the Enemies seconds whom he presently charged and brake killed many of them and tooke the Commander of that body being an ancient Captaine of chiefe account with the enemy At the same time the enemy gaue upon our new Trenches and continued the attempt a long time with great fury till Captaine Flower sallying out and beating backe part of their forces the enemy entred before his returne and were possessed of the Trenches in which time Sir William Godolphin gaue many charges for the seconding of our men which continued fight in the field untill the Earle of Clanricard being sent for their second with Captaine Shipwith Captaine Slingsby Captaine Clare Captaine Boise and Captaine Thomas Burke with some sixtie men for the rest of his Regiment was not advanced so farre charged a grosse of the Enemies without the sort brake them and did execution upon them towards the Towne and returning entered the fort againe which the Enemy abandoned with little resistance and made it good till hee was releeved In this sally the Enemy left behind them aboue sixscore dead bodies besides such as were killed neere the Towne and wee tooke nine prisoners of whom there was a Captaine a Sergeant and a Drum but since wee heard out of the Towne that they lost dead aboue two hundred of their best men and two Captaines and two Alfeeroes and the Sergeant Major being the second Commander to Don Iohn and Don Carloes Carty and aboue two hundred hurt of our part were hurt Captaine Flower Captaine Shipwith slightly in the face the Earle of Clanricards Lieutenant Captaine Dillon killed Captaine Spencer Captaine Flowers Lieutenant and some fiue and twentie private Souldiers the Enemy at the Cannon cloyed a Demy Culvering which being a little crased was left without the fort but the next morning it was made serviceable againe There were some of them killed upon the Cannon and upon the powder and the trenches in some places filled with their dead bodies and in that attempt of the Cannon onely seventy two dead bodies were left in the place of the best men the Spaniards had whereof many of them were found with Spikes and Hammers to cloy the Cannon The Captaines Officers and Souldiers that defended the Cannon acquitted themselues singularly well CHAP. XVIII A supply of Spaniards landed at Castle-haven A Councell of warre held Good service done by a Scottish man Odonnell joyned with the Spaniards at Castle-haven All the Irish in the West of Mounster and some of the English race revolted and adhered to the Spaniards Sundry Castles rendred by the Irish into the Spaniards hands Divers of the Irish had Companies in pay given them by Don Iuan. The Castle of Carigfotle taken and the Ward murdered Tyrones Army discovered neere to our Campe. INtelligence sent to the Lord Deputie that sixe Spanish ships were put into Castle-haven and that sixe more were sent with them from the Groyne but in comming were severed by tempest and no certainetie what is become of them in these were said to bee two thousand Spaniards come with great store of Ordnance and munition and that two thousand more were comming presently after A confirmation of the Spaniards being at Castlehaven and that they were landed whereupon it was resolved in Councell that our Campe should bee strengthned and the Artillery better intrenched and guarded and to leaue battering the other Campe to rise and sit downe close by the Towne betweene the North and the West gate adding one Regiment more to it and all the Horse to be drawen into our Campe a Drum was sent to Don Iohn to offer him to bury his dead bodies which hee tooke thankfully praying that we would bury them and that hee would doe the like for any of ours if they hapned in his power And this day Sir Charles Wilmot with his Regiment was commanded for the better strengthning of the Earle of Thomonds quarter to rise out of the Lord Deputies Campe and lodge there Sir Richard Levison with a good part of the Fleete with towing got out of the harbour to seeke the Spanish fleete at Castle-haven to take them if hee could or otherwise to distresse them as much as hee might A Scottishman that had some eightie of those Spaniards aboard put into Kinsale harbour in the morning and getting a boat acquainted Sir Amias Preston the Viceadmirall therewith and put them into his hands whereupon the said Scottishman and foure of the chiefe Spaniards being Officers were brought to the Lord Deputy and examined before his Lordship the Lord President and divers others of the Councell their examinations were sent into England the Ships were heard to be in fight that day This day our Ordnance was drawen from the old platformes into our Campe the better to intend the service of the Field and to place them more commodiously towards the West side of the Towne if wee should see cause Newes came this Evening that Odonnell was joyned with the Spaniards landed at Castle-haven and that Tirone with his Force was very neere vs. The same day the Ditches and Trenches of the Lord Deputies Campe and the Earle of Thomonds Quarter were cast deeper and higher and it was resolved that two small Forts should bee raysed betweene the Earle of Thomonds Quarter and the water side so that the Towne might bee wholly invested to forbid any accesse to or from it Vntill this time none of the Provincialls of Mounster that had beene either protected or pardoned relapsed but now upon the comming of these seconds to Castlehaven Sir Finnin Odriscall and all the Odriscalls Sir Owen Mac Carties sonnes and almost all the Carties in Carbrie Donnell Osulevan Beare Osulevans Mores eldest son Donnell Mac Cartie the Earle of Clan-Cares base sonne with all the Carties of Desmond Iohn O Conner Kerry the Knight of Kerry all the protected and pardoned men in Kerry
and Desmond and all else from Kinsale and Limericke westwards joyned with Odonnell and the Spaniards whereat little wonder is to bee made considering what power Religion and Gold hath in the hearts of men both which the Spaniards brought with them into Ireland The supplies of Spaniards were but seven hundred but more were promised to follow which mooved the wavering Irish to conceiue that now the time was come for their deliverance from the English Government whereupon they cast themselues into the Spanyards armes and for testimonie of their truths Donogh Odrischall delivered unto them his Castle at Castle-haven which commanded the Harbour Sir Finnin Odrischall who never in the course of his whole life had beene tainted with the least spot of disloyaltie rendred unto them his Castle of Donneshed at Baltimore and his Castle of Donnelong in the Iland of Inisherkan betweene which Castles all entrances into that Haven was debarred and Donnell Osulevan surrendred unto them his strong Castle of Dunboy which absolutely commaunds Beare Haven these three Harbours beeing without all exception the best in the West of Mounster For the guard of those places Don Iohn assigned that one hundred of the late supplies should remaine at Castle-haven with a Magazine of Victualls and Munition and eight Peeces of Ordnance unto Donneshed and Donnelong hee sent one hundred Foot fiftie for each of the Castles and two Peeces of Artillerie and unto Dunboy hee also sent one hundred Foot and ten great Peeces And to confirme these revolters by liberality unto his Master the King of Spaine hee bestowed upon Donnell Osulevan two hundred foote in the Kings pay unto Donoghe Moyle Mac Cartie sonne to Sir Owen Mac Cartie Reughe one hundred upon Finin Mac Cartie his brother one hundred and twentie and upon Phelim Mac Cartie one hundred and to Odonevan one hundred in all sixe hundred and twentie in the Kings entertainement and upon others hee bestowed certaine summes of money About this time also not many dayes after this defection Iohn O Conner Kerry found the meanes to betray the Castle of Carrigfoyle which was his and then guarded for her Majestie by a Sergeant and twelue Souldiers of Captaine Saxies company The other Campe strengthned their trenches and a resolution to make two small forts beyond the Campe Westward wholly to invest the Towne the forts and the Campe one to flancke another The Artillery was planted in severall places of the Campe for the best defence thereof and a fort almost made neere the Towne a slight skirmish towards night wherein Sir Francis Barklies Ancient and some other were hurt In the evening the rebels Horse were descried about two miles off and after supper all the Army drawen into Armes upon notice given us by the skout that the rebels were discovered CHAP. XIX A briefe report of the good service done by Sir Richard Levison upon the Spanish fleete at Castle haven A Letter from Don â—uan de Aquila to Tyrone and Odonnell A Letter from Don Iuan to Captaine Iuan de Albornes y Andrada A Letter from Odonnell Osulevan Beare to the King of Spaine THIS night late Sir Richard Levison returned into the harbour of Kinsale and the next day came to the Lord Deputie unto whom hee imparted that the sixth day with the Warrespit the Defiance the Swiftsure the Marlin one Merchant and a Carvill he arrived at Castle-haven about ten of the clock in the forenoone before foure a clock the same day one ship of the Enemy was suncke the Spanish Admirall with nine foote water in hold droue to the shore upon the rocks the Viceadmirall with two others droue likewise a ground most of the Spaniards quitting their ships the seventh of December the wind being extreamely at South-east hee rode still at Castle-haven the night following with wind at West South-west hee warped out with the ships the eighth at night hee returned as aforesaid Since wee are informed by the Lord Coursie that they are all sunck but one ship and great harme done both to their provisions and men The Spaniards after their comming to Castle-haven understanding the Queenes fleete was at Kinsale expecting their comming thither to make themselues as strong as they could landed fiue Peeces of Ordnance which they planted close by the water side for the securing the harbour but Sir Richard Levison did so ply the shipping that hee suncke and driue a shore as is related and having effected as much as might be done by Sea was willing to haue left the harbour and returne to Kinsale but the wind being contrary hee was not able to get forth but was forced to ride foure and twentie houres within the play of those fiue Peeces of Ordnance and received in that time aboue three hundred shot through Hulke Mast and Tackle being by no industry able to avoid it untill some calmer weather came where by the helpe of some warpes layed forth by their boats not without great danger and some losse hee came to set saile and returned for Kinsale All the shot were made particularly at his ship except some few at a Pinnace of the Queenes wherein Captaine Flemming was Commander All the time spent upon the nine ten and eleaven was in erecting the two forts formerly resolved upon also in casting up of trenches betweene the Earle of Thomonds quarter and the said forts being more then thirtie score in length and making of trenches neere to the Lord Deputies Campe The Spaniards as well to interrupt as to view our workes made certaine light sallies but they were easily beaten backe without any hurt on our side The twelfth the Enemy sallied againe but altogether fruitlesse The thirteenth the weather fell out to be extreame fowle and stormy and because of Tyrones drawing neere with all his forces it was thought meet not to attempt any thing of great moment more then the removing of some Peeces of Ordnance to a new platforme made on the West side of the Towne close unto it to play upon the Castles which might most hinder our workes when wee should resolue to make a breach The fourteenth fowle weather wherein nothing was performed The fifteenth our Artillery on the West side of the Towne did much annoy the enemy in breaking downe the houses wherein many were slaine The sixteenth the Ordnance played into the Towne as the day before The seventeenth fowle and stormy weather neverthelesse at night the Enemy sallied and brake downe a new platforme which wee had made The eighteenth the Cannon as in former dayes played into the Towne and annoyed the Enemy very much And the same day a Letter was intercepted written from Don Iohn to Tyrone and Odonnell which is here inserted And also a Letter to Captaine Iuan de Albornoz y Andrada both which were thus translated A Letter from Don Iuan de Aquila to Tyrone and Odonnell I Was confident your Excellencies would haue come upon
to bee done in the Earle of Thomonds quarter and that from thence they should draw out three hundred choise men betweene that quarter and the Fort built upon the West hill neere a Barricado made crosse a high way to stop the Enemies suddaine passage in the night and himselfe accompanied with the President and the Marshall advanced forwards towards the scout and having given direction to Sir Henry Davers who commanded the Horse under the Marshall for the ordering of the Troopes sent the Marshall to take view of the Enemy who brought him word that Horse and Foote of theirs were advanced whereupon the Lord Deputie with Sir Oliver Lambert rid to view a peece of ground betweene that and the Towne which had on the backe of it a Trench drawen from the Earle of Thomonds quarter to the West for t on the front a boggish Glyn and passable with Horse onely at one ford which before hee had intrenched the ground whereupon the Enemy must haue drawen in grosse to force the passage was flankerd from the Earles quarter by the Cannon it was resolved to make that ground good being of greater advantage for Horse and Foote both to bee imbattled and to fight upon view whereof the Lord Deputie sent the Marshall word that on that place hee was resolved to giue the Enemy battaile and sent the Sergeant Major Sir Iohn Barkley to draw out Sir Henry Folliots and Sir Oliver Saint-Iohns Regiments to that place O Campo that commanded all the Spaniards that came last out of Spaine desired Tyrone that hee might imbattle his men and presently giue on to joyne that way with Don Iuan for their purpose was at that time by that meanes to haue put into the Towne all the Spaniards with Tirrell and eight hundred of their chiefe men and the next night from the Towne and their Army to haue forced both our quarters of the successe whereof they were so confident that they reckoned us already theirs and were in contention whose prisoners the Lord Deputie should bee and whose the President and so of the rest But Tyrone discovering the Marshall and Sir Henry Davers to bee advanced with all the Horse and Sir Henry Powers squadron of Foote retired beyond a ford at the foote of that hill with purpose as he fained till his whole Army were drawen more close instantly the Marshall sent the Lord Deputie word by Sir Francis Rush that the Enemy retired in some disorder whereupon the Lord Deputie came up unto him and gaue order that all the Foote should follow when we were advanced to the Ford but our Foote not wholly come to us the Enemy drew off in three great bodies of foot and all their horse in the reare The Lord Deputie asked of some that understood the Countrey whether beyond that ford there were neere any ground of strength for the Enemy to make advantage of but being answered that there was none but a faire Champion he drew after the Enemy and then desired the Lord President to returne from thence and secure the Campe and attend the sallies of Don Iuan which hee did with whom the Lord Deputie sent the Earle of Thomonds Horse Sir Anthony Cookes and Sir Oliver Lamberts and only tooke with him betweene three or foure hundred Horse and under twelue hundred Foote but being drawen out some mile farther we might perceiue the Enemy to stand firme upon a ground of very good advantage for them having a bog betweene us and a deepe ford to passe and in all apparance with a resolution to fight the Marshall being advanced with the Horse neere unto the Ford sent unto the Lord Deputie that hee perceived the Enemy in some disorder and that if hee would giue him leaue to charge hee hoped to giue a very good account of it the Lord Deputie left it to his discretion to doe as he should find present occasion out of the disposition of the Enemy whereupon the Earle of Clanrickard that was with the Marshall importuned him exceedingly to fight and the Lord Deputie sent to draw up the Foote with all expedition close together who marched as fast as it was possible for them to keepe their orders the Marshall assoone as a wing of the Foote of the Vaunt-guard was come up unto him and Sir Henry Power with his Regiment drawen over the Ford advanced with some hundred Horse accompanied with the Earle of Clanrickard and gaue occasion of skirmish upon the bog side with some hundred hargubisheers the Enemy thereupon put out some of their loose shot from their battle and entertayned the fight their three battalions standing firme on the other side of the bog at the first our shot were put close to the Horse but with a second they beat the enemies loose shot into their battle and withall the Marshall with the Earle of Clanrickard and Sir Richard Greame offered a charge on a battle of one thousand Foote and finding them to stand firme wheeled a little about by this time Sir William Godolphin with the Lord Deputies Horse and Captaine Mynshall with the Lord Presidents Horse who were appointed to keepe still in grosse to answer all accidents was come up and Sir Iohn Barkley with two of our three bodies of Foote whereupon the Marshall with the Earle of Clanrickard vnited themselues with Sir Henry Davers Captaine Taffe and Captaine Fleming charged againe the Horse and the reare of the same battle who presently thereupon both Horse and Foote fell into disorder and brake All this while the Vantgard of the Enemies in which was Terrill and all the Spaniards stood firme upon a Bog on the right hand unto whom within Calievers shotthe Lord Deputie had drawen up our Reare upon a little hill and willed them to stand firme till they received direction from him but perceiving the grosse drawing betweene our men that were following the execution and the other Bodies of foot he drew up that squadron commanded by Captaine Roe to charge them in Flanck whereupon they presently drew off and in a great grosse marched to the top of the next hill and there for a little time made a stand the Reare of the Enemy beeing in â—heir retreat the Van went off with few slaine but with the losse of many of their Armes their Battell being the greatest Body was put all to the sword and not aboue some sixtie escaped The Vantguard who went last off were broken on the top of the hill the Irish for the most part quit the Spanyards who making a stand were broken by the Lord Deputies Troopes and most of them killed O Campo the chiefe Commaunder taken prisoner by the Cornet Iohn Pykman two Captaines 7. Alferoes and 40. Souldiers taken prisoners by such as followed the execution which continued a mile a halfe and left there onely tyred with killing There were of the Irish rebells twelue hundred dead bodies left in the place and as we heard from themselues about eight hundred hurt whereof many
of them dyed that night they lost aboue two thousand Armes their Powder Drummes and nine Ensignes which was more then ever they had together before of Captaines besides other men of marke foureteene were slaine and on our side onely Sir Richard Greames Cornett was killed Sir Henrie Davers hurt with a sword slightly Sir William Godolphin a little rased on the thigh with a Halbert Captaine Crofts the Scout-Master with a shot in the backe and not aboue fiue or sixe common Souldiers hurt many of our horses killed and more hurt The Earle of Clanricard had many faire escapes being shot through his Garments and no man did bloody his sword more then his Lordship that day and would not suffer any man to take any of the Irish prisoners but bad them kill the Rebells After the Retreit was sounded the Lord Deputie did giue the Order of Knighthood to the Earle of Clanricard in the field in the midst of the dead bodies and returning backe to the Campe drew out the whole Armie and gaue God thankes for this Victorie with their prayers At the ending whereof and a volley of shott for joy discharged Don Iuan who was attentiue to heare of the Spanyards approach hearing the volley and conceiving that his Ayds were in fight with us made a salley out of the Towne but when hee perceived the Spanish Colours to be carried by Englishmen in triumph he made a speedy retreit The Enemies Armie as Alonso de o Campo doth assure us was sixe thousand Foote and fiue hundred Horse there were some of the Irish taken Prisoners that offered great ransomes but presently upon their bringing to the Campe they were hanged Although no man is lesse credulous then my selfe is of idle Prophesies the most whereof are coyned after things are done yet I make bold to relate this which succeeds for long before the thing I speake of was brought to light my selfe was an eye witnesse when it was reported in concealing it I should wrong the trueth which makes mee bold to remember it Many times I did heare the Earle of Thomond tell the Lord President that in an old Booke of Irish prophesies which hee had seene it was reported that towards the latter dayes there should bee a battell fought betweene the English and the Irish in a place which the Booke nameth neere unto Kinsale The Earle of Thomond comming out of England landing first at Castle-haven and after at Kinsale as aforesaid in the time of the siege my selfe and divers others heard him againe report the Prophesie to the President and named the place where according to the Prophesie the field should bee fought the day whereupon the victorie was obtained the Lord President and the Earle rode out to see the dead bodies of the vanquished and the President asked some that were there present by what name that ground was called they not knowing to what end hee did demand it told him the true name thereof which was the same which the Earle so often before had reported to the President I beseech the Reader to beleeue mee for I deliver nothing but trueth but as one Swallow makes no Summer so shall not this one true Prophesie increase my credulitie in old Predictions of that kinde The fiue and twentieth in the afternoone the Spanyards made a sally but they were enforced to retreat into the Towne at nine in the night they sallyed againe to hinder our workes in the Trenches the skirmish continued two houres in the end they were repulsed on our side the Ensignes of Captaine Roper and Captaine Ghâ—st were hurt what harme they received we know not The sixe and twentieth in the night they gaue againe upon our Trenches and enforced a Lieutenant with his Guard to quit them and from thence they went to a little Fort of ours on the west side of the Towne but there they found so good resistance as they were enforced to retreat with the loose of foure men slaine and eight hurt The seven and twentieth nothing was done and that whole day was by the Lord Deputie the Lord President and the rest of the Councell then in the Campe spent in making of Dispatches into ENGLAND CHAP. XXII Zubiaur arrived at Castlehaven and immediatly returned O Donnell Redmond Burke c. imbarqued for Spaine The names of such of the Irish as fled into Spaine The losse which the Rebells had in passing through Mounster after the battell of Kinsale THE eight and twentieth intelligence was brought to the Lord President who related it to the Lord Deputy that Pedro Zubiaur who was as is said a great Commander in the Spanish fleete that came to Kinsale was lately landed at Castlehaven and hearing of Tyrones overthrow hee made no stay but set saile for Spaine carrying with him O Donnell Redmond Burke Hugh Mostian with others of their traine whose names I will omit but for the better satisfaction of the Reader I thinke it meet to set downe the names of sundry other Mounster men who not long after fled into Spaine whose names ensue A List of the names of such of the Irish as haue shipped themselues for Spaine out of Mounster besides divers others which attended these and whose names are not knowen all which set saile since December 1601. From Castlehaven in December 1601. Odonnell Redmond Burke Hugh Mostian and their trayne In a Pinnace of advice that brought the Kings Letters which were intercepted by the President in February 1601. Osulevan Beares sonnes and with him one Trant of Dingle Donnell Sonne to Sir Finin Odrischall From Ardea in a Patache the seventh of Iune 1602. Donoghe Bastard brother to Florence Mac Cartie Donoghe Mac Maghon Obrien Mac Enaspicke Brian Okelly From Kinsale with Don Iuan de Aquila in March 1601. Teg Mac Donnell ne Contie William Mac Shane the Seneschals Sonne of Imokillie Dermond Mac Conoghor Odrischall of Castlehaven together with his Brother and Sonnes Thomas Omoroghoe alias Thomas Keughe Mac Edmond of Muskry Richard Meaghe Sonne and Heire to Iames Meaghe of Kinsale Dominicke White of Kinsale a Capenters Sonne Melaghlen More of Kinsale borne in Connaght Conoghor Omonowe of Kinsale and there borne Edmond Mac Shane of Kinsale Dermond Mac Shane of Kinsale Donoghe Deasoghe of Kinsale Andrew Butler a kerne borne at Galway William Butler a kerne Brothers Maghon Mac Donogh Olery under Barry Oge Dermond Mac Owen David fits Garret Barry and his wife and children dwelling at Rincorran Garrot Barry Nicholas Barry Iohn Barry David oge Barry sonnes to David â—its Garrot aforesaid William Hartilige of Rincorran Iohn Hartelige son to William aforesaid Dermond oge Osulevan of Rincorran Dermond Ogriffien of Rincorran Iohn Mac Donnell Kedie of Rincorran Dermond Mac Donell Kedie Brothers Maurice Roch fits Iohn of Ellinfinchstowne in Kinalâ—y Iohn fits Iohn Roche Brothers Conoghor Mag Donogh of Rathmore in Kinaley Donogh Gowe a Connaght man dwelling at Rathmore in Kinaley Hugo Ohellie a
by all the best and speediest meanes that may be Wee haue thought it good in regard of the great knowledge and experience wee haue had and found in your faith and valour and in respect of the speciall trust confidence and sufficiencie wee repose in you Wee haue thought it good to grant and commit unto you during our pleasure the command and authority by the power granted us by her Majestie over the Castles of Baltimore and Castlehaven and the whole Countrey of Carbery and over all the Countries territories or places of Collemore Collibeg Ivagh Mounterbarry Slewghteagibane Slewghteage Roe Cloncahill Clondermot Clonloghten and Coshmore and over all the other Countries territories places by what name or names soever they bee called from the Towne of Rosse to the hither parts of the Meares and bounds of Beere and Bantry and so in compasse Northwards to Muskery And we doe giue you power and authority over the Queenes people and her Subjects and Inhabitants in all or any the said Countries appoynting and authorising you hereby to prosecute with fire and sword all Rebels Traytors or other capitall Offenders and all their Ayders Releevers Maintayners Receivers and Abettors or any other Offenders whatsoever that are not ameanable to her Majesties Lawes or haue combined or adhered themselues to any her Majesties enemies or to any now in actuall rebellion against her Highnesse and to make ceasure of all their goods and chattles to her Majesties use And for the better effecting of this her Highnesse service and the speciall trust reposed in you wee doe hereby giue unto you liberty to employ or send among the Enemies or Rebels now in action such Messengers and Espialls as you sâ—all thinke fit to use and to write to parley conferre or treate with them or any of them and to receiue Messengers or Letters from them and to keepe any of them in your company fourteene dayes to procure the doing of service or to gaine intelligences from them and upon assurance and good hopes that any of the said Rebels will doe service to her Majestie Wee doe hereby authorize you to safeconduct them by warrant under your hand for the like space of fourteene dayes so as in the meane time you send them unto us or to the chiefe Governour of the Province for the time being which your safeconduct shall bee duly observed to all those you grant it unto And for the better and speedier clensing and purging the Countrey from Rebels and Malefactors Wee doe hereby giue and commit unto you full power and authority to execute by Marshall Law all notable and apparant Offenders and Malefactors that can neither dispend fourtie shillings in Lands per Annum nor are worth ten pounds in goods and as for such Rebels and Malefactors as are not within compasse of Martiall Law them to apprehend and commit to the Sheere Goale there to remaine and attend their trials by due course of her Majesties common Lawes And for the better advancement of her Majesties service wee doe hereby authorise you to goe aboard any Ship Barque or other Vessell that shall bee or arriue in those parts and to make search in them for Traytors Iesuits Seminaries Letters or prohibited wares and to make stay of them if just occasion so require and to presse and take up any the Boats or Vessels that are or shall bee within the compasse of your command and them to send and employ to such place or places as her Majesties service shall giue you occasion or otherwise to use and dispose of them as you in your discretion shall thinke meetest And this our authority and Commission to you granted to haue continuance during the pleasure of us the Lord Deputie and if wee shall not recull the same during our aboad in this Province then the same to bee in force during the pleasure of the Lord President and no longer And therefore wee doe hereby straightly charge and command all her Majesties Officers Ministers and loving Subjects to be unto you in the due execution of the premisses aiding obedient and assisting at their uttermost perils and for such your whole doings herein These shall bee unto you sufficient warrant and discharge Giuen under her Majesties privie Signet at the Campe before Kinsale the seventh day of Ianuary 1601. George Carew Richard Wingfield George Bourchier To our well beloved Captaine Roger Harvy The eleaventh the Lord President had intelligence from England that Iames the late restored Earle of Desmond was dead and that eighteene hundred quarters of Oates were sent into Mounster for the releefe of our horses CHAP. XXV Don Iuan his request to the Lord Deputie A resolution in Councell to erect certaine Forts in Mounster The request of the Inhabitants of Kinsale to the Lord President Certaine Companies cashiered A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie The Examination of Richard Owen Richard Owen his Message from Tyrone to the Lord Deputie Instructions for Captaine George Blunt THE fourteenth Don Iuan wrote to the Lord Deputie to pray his Lordship that expedition might be made in taking up of shipping for his transportation and that his Lordship would commiserate the poore Spanish Prisoners in Corke who were like to perish for want of food During the siege there had beene taken at Rincorran Castle Ny Parke in sallyes and in the overthrow of Tyrone together with some runawayes that voluntary came unto us about two hundred rather more then lesse whereof some of them had been sent into ENGLAND About this time the Lord Deputie and the Lord President went by Boate to an Iland in the River of Corke called Halbolin sixe or seven miles from the Citie which upon view they thought fit to bee fortified being so seated as that no shipping of any burthen can passe the same but under the commaund thereof Whereupon direction was given to Paul Ive an Ingeneere to raise a Fortification there and also another at Castle Ny Parke to command the Haven at Kinsale Furthermore it was resolved in Councell that Forts should haue beene erected at Baltimore and Beere-haven as also Cittadells at Corke Limrick and Waterford to keepe the Citizens in some awe but none of these workes were performed saue onely the Forts at Halbolyn and Castle Ny Parke aforesayd From the fourteenth of Ianuary unto the last of the same no matter of any consequence hapned all which time was spent in civill causes in sending of dispatches into England as occasions did result in discharging of Companies which were growen weake whereof two thousand in List were casheerd in hastning away of the Spaniards and in setling of Garisons in the East part of Mounster among other private dispatches which the Lord President sent into England hee wrote this Letter unto her Majestie A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie SACRED MAIESTIE NOw that it hath pleased the omnipotent Director of all things to blesse you with a happie Victory over the mâ—licious
foote The same day that Captaine Harvie came to Castle-haven the Odrischals who had the inheritance of the same by a slight got into the Castle and had made themselues masters of it the Spaniards to recover it againe assaulted it and were undermining the same when Captaine Harvie was entering into the Haven but upon the sight of his ships the Irish by composition to depart in safetie rendered it to the Spaniard who had lost two of their Souldiers in the attempt The one and twentieth Captaine Harvie having in his Company the Veador and some other Spaniards set saile for Baltimore whereupon the three and twentieth they went on land and were feasted in the Castle of Donelong by the Governour thereof called Andreas de Aervy and the next day by the direction of the Veador their Ordnance being seven in number in the Castle were shipped And the sixe and twentieth the said Castle and the Castle of Donneshed were with Spanish gravitie rendered to her Majesties use The second of March following they were all embarqued and set saile for Spaine while these things were in doing Captaine Roger Harvie sent a partie of men to Cape-Cleere the Castle whereof was guarded by Captaine Terrils men which they could not gaine but they pillaged the Iland and brought from thence three Boats and the second day following the Rebels not liking the neighbourhood of the English quitted the Castle wherein Captaine Harvie placed a Guard at this time Sir Finnin Odrischall came to Captaine Harvie and submitted himselfe The tenth of the same Moneth the Lord Barry Captaine Taffe and Captaine Iohn Barry chanced to light upon Donoghe Moyle Mac Carties men and slew eighteene of the best of them From Baltimore Captaine George Flower was shipped in a Hoy of one hundred and twentie Tuns with two Companies of two hundred in list but weake by pole to receiue from the Spaniards the Castle of Dunboy but doe all hee could by reason of fowle weather and contrary winds hee could never although hee was at the mouth of the Haven of Beere recover the Land and so enforced to returne effecting nothing in this short Navigation fiftie of his Souldiers by infection dyed and but seven of the Saylers living CHAP. XXVIII The Spanyards imbarqued at Kinsale The Spanyards dispossessed of Doxboy by Osulevan Beare A Letter from Osulevan Beare to the King of Spaine A Letter from Osulevan Beare to the Earle of Carazeâ—a A Letter from Osulevan Beare to Don Pedro de Zubeaur THE twentieth of Februarie twentie Spanish Captaines with one thousand three hundred seventie foure Souldiers set sayle from Kinsale for Spaine The Composition which Don Iuan did make when he surrendred Kinsale did infinitely grieue and offend the Irish and especially those who had voluntarily delivered into his hands their Castles but especially Donnell Osulevan who considering that if his Castle of Donboy should bee in the possession of the English hee was like to be banished his Countrey not having any hope of favour from her Majestie unto whose Crowne and Dignitie hee had manifested himselfe to bee a malicious Traytor resolved to set up his rest in regaining of it out of the Spanyards hands and afterwards to defend it against her Majesties Forces as well as hee might For accomplishing whereof they watched a fit opportunitie and surprized it in this sort Although the Spaniards were the Masters of the Castle yet evermore he had recourse into it lodged therein with such of his men as hee thought good In the dead time of the night when the Spanyards were soundly sleeping and the key of the Castle in the Captaines custody Osulevan caused his men amongst the which there were some Masons to breake a hole in the wall wherein fourescore of his men entered for by appoyntment he had drawne that night close unto the Castle Archer the Iesuite with another Priest Thomas fits Maurice the Lord of Lixnaâ— Donnell Mac Cartie Captaine Richard Tirrell and Captaine William Burke with a thousand men When day appeared Archer prayed Francesco de Saaredra the Spanish Captaine to goe with him to Osulevans chamber unto whom hee made relation that his men were entred the Castle that he meant no personall hurt either unto him or to any of his and that he would keepe the same for the King of Spaines use and also told him that hee had one thousand Foot within Harquebusse shott of the Castle The Captaine seeing himselfe surprized made no resistance and willed his men to doe the like But the Spanyards in furie discharged a few Musket shott amongst the Irish and slew three of them and hurt one but by the mediation of Osulevan and Francesco de Saavedra the Captaine all was pacified Osulevan being very carefull that no hurt might bee done to the Spanyards Afterward Osulevan disarmed them all kept the Captaine and a few of the better sort with three or foure Gunners in the nature of Prisoners and the rest hee sent to Baltimore to be imbarqued into Spaine He also seazed upon all the Spanish Ordnance Munitions and Victualls which was there in store The Captaine not long after was set at libertie and returned with the Veador from Baltimore into Spaine and with him the other souldiers which were detained but the Cannoniers Osulevan reserved When report was brought to Don Iohn de Aguila then in Corke of the surprize of Dunboy he tooke it for a great affront and would presently haue drawen from Kinsale the Spanish Companies there yet remayning and march to Dunboy to regaine it by force and to deliver it according to the Composition into her Majesties hands But the Lord Deputie and the President who were desirous to see his heeles towards Ireland wished him not to trouble himselfe with that businesse and when hee was gone the President should take order for the reducing of it into his hands the Castle of Dunboy was surprized as beforesayd in this moneth of February 1601 and held by Osulevan to the use of the King of Spaine but yet to excuse himselfe unto the King and to make it appeare unto him how much hee was his servant hee wrote unto him to the Earle of Carazena and to Pedro de Zubiare there being at that present in Beerehaven the Spanish Pinnace which brought the Pacquet from Spaine intercepted betweene Kinsale and Corke as aforesaid A Letter from Osulevan Beare to the King of Spaine My Lord and my King OVt of his loue to your kingly greatnesse your humble stedfast servant Donnell Osulevan Beare enforced through perill and constraint doth make bold to enforme unto your greatnesse that upon the landing in Castle-haven in the West of Ireland your Generall Pedro de Zubiar and Pedro Lopez de Soto with a fleet and men from your Greatnesse according to the inward conceit of mind I alwayes held which I manifested in my young yeares and would haue still followed unlesse disability had constrayned mee to the contrary finding a happy
ships shall meet with this English ship either outward or homeward bound they shall permit her to passe without any detention it being convenient for his Majesties service so to doe Written at Baltimore the nineth of March 1602. Pedro Lopez de Soto Pedro Lopez de Soto his Letter to Captaine Roger Harvie ALthough you be an Englishman and my selfe a Spaniard neverthelesse finding you to bee as it appeares unto mee a man of honour in all your actions I cannot but assure you that I am extreamely affectioned unto you and the cause that moues me to desire your friendship and correspondence is the just respect I haue to the good proceedings of the Lord Deputie and the Lord President and their Ministers towards the King my Master as also of you and the rest in the service of your Prince which hath obliged us to a good correspondence The Pasport which I left with you shall bee alwayes faithfully accomplished when occasion shall serue and of the same you may be confident for wee will fully obserue it And so God keepe you From the Groyne the nineth of Aprill 1602. Pedro Lopez de Soto To Captaine Roger Harvie Governour of Castle-haven and Baltimore CHAP. XXX Don Iuan imbarqued at Kinsale The Lord Deputie departed from Corke towards Dublin A Letter from the Lord Deputie and Councell to the Lords in England The Lord Deputie sickned in his Iournie to Dublin The Lord President surprised with a Feaver in his returne to Mounster THE eighth of March Don Iuan being at Kinsale hourely expecting a wind to bee gone and finding a flattering gale went aboard The Lord Deputie on the other side as desirous to bee at his worke in Vlster for the prosecution of Tyrone the day following hee began his Iourney towards Dublin on whom the Lord President attended untill hee had brought him out of the Province But Don Iohn for want of a faire wind departed not from Kinsale untill the sixteenth of the same Moneth The day before the Lord Deputies departure or the same day I know not whether his Lordship being mindfull of the sufficiencie blood and valour of Sir Richard Percy caused him to bee sworne a Councellor of the Province of Mounster and the night that he left Corke hee lodged at Clone a Towne and Mannor house sometimes belonging to the Bishop of that Sea but now passed in Fee farme to Master Iohn Fits Edmonds who gaue cheerefull and plentifull entertaynment to his Lordship and all such of the Nobilitie Captaines Gentlemen and others as attended upon him The Deputie as well to requiâ—e his perpetuall loyaltie to the Crowne of England as also to encourage others in the like at his departure did honour him with the Order of Knighthood and then continued his iourney towards Waterford where he bestowed the like honour vpon Edward Gough and Richard Aylward two ancient and well deseruing Citizens The President having attended the Lord Deputie to Kilkenny where they lodged in the Earle of Ormonds house and all things considered of which concerned the State of the Kingdome upon the foure and twentieth of March the last day of the yeare 1601 the Lord Deputie and Councell made a Dispatch into ENGLAND which heere ensues A Letter from the Lord Deputie and Councell to the Lords in England IT may please your Lordships having certaine intelligence since our comming to this place that Don Iuan and all the rest of the Spaniards departed from Kinsale on Tuesday the sixteenth hereof and that the wind since that time hath served them so well as wee assure our selues by this they are neeâ—e the Coast of Spaine wee thought fit hereby to giue your Lordships notice thereof that you may know that wee are free now of them all Since our being â—ere there hath beene brâ—ught in a notorious Rebell one William Mac Hubbard lately taken in Vpperossery who of late hath done great spoyles and murders in these parts more then any other so as wee haue caused him to bee executed in this Towne to the great terror of many About the same time that hee was executed a Sonne of Garret Mac Mortaghes named Moris Mac Garret dyed of a hurt lately given him in fight who was a most dangerous young man like to trouble all the Countrey The death of these two Rebels as also of a notorious Rebell by birth of Mounster lately slaine called Dermot Mac Awley who was an inward man and a great practising instrument with Tyrone will greatly quiet these parts and your Lordships can hardly thinke what a great change wee find already by their â—o happy timely cutting off As for Sir Finnin Odrisâ—hall 〈◊〉 and the two Sonnes of Sir Owen Mac Cartie they and their Followers since their comming in are growne very odious to the Rebels of those parts and are so well divided in factions amongst themselues as they are fallen to preying and killing one an other which we conceiue will much availe to the quieting of these parts I the Deputie am this day going towards Dublin from whence your Lordships shall heare from mee according to the directions given mee by your Lordships And I the President am returning into Mounster to attend my charge there Wee haue beene much importuned by the Army in generall touching an abatement of halfe a pound of Beefe upon every flesh day from every particular Souldier and of two Herrings every fish day and the Horse troopes likewise find themselues agrieved that the Victualler chargeth them with two shillings sixe pence increase in the issuing of every Barrell of Oates without any other Warrant then a private Letter from Master Wade Clerke of the Councell which although we conceiue Master Wade hath signified over upon such purpose of your Lordships or other good ground yet in regard of importunities of the Captaines and to prevent a generall mutiny of the Army in regard the Souldiers are weake and much infeebled by the last siege of Kinsale and that the prices of all things are increased aboue all measure by reason of the new standard Coyne and that the Countrey is generally much harried and wasted and thereby great scarcitie and wants grow here wee hold it meet and accordingly gaue direction to the Commissary of the victuals to issue Oats as formerly at six shillings the barrel and allow the Souldier two pound of Beefe and eight Herrings a day according as it was formerly accustomed till your Lordships resolution were returned in that behalfe which wee humbly pray and expect And so having no other matter at this time worthy the presenting to your Lordships wee most humbly take leaue The same day after this Letter was signed the Lord Deputie tooke his Iourney towards Dublin but being surprised with an ill disposition of health which so increased upon him as that the next day he was enforced to bee caried in his Horse litter and so continued untill hee arrived there And the President the aforesaid day returned
And concerning the second question it is most certaine that all those Catholikes doe sinne mortally which doe follow the English Standard against the foresaid Prince neither can they obtaine eternall salvation nor bee absolved of their sinnes by any Priest except they first repent and forsake the English Army and the same is to be censured of those which in this warre favour the English either with Armes or Victuals or giue them any thing of like condition besides those accustomed tributes which it is lawfull for them by vertue of the Popes indulgence and permission to pay unto the Kings of England or their officers so long as Catholike religion shall flourish in the same This assertion is confirmed by this most manifest reason because it is sufficiently proved by the Letters of the high Bishop that the English make unjust warre against the said Oneale and those that favour him For seeing that the Pope doth declare that the English doe fight against the Catholike Religion and that they should bee resisted as much as if they were Turkes and that hee doth bestow the same graces upon those which doe resist them who doubteth the warre which the English make against the Catholike Army to be altogether unjust But it is not lawfull for any to favour an unjust warre or to be present thereat under the paine of eternall damnation The Catholikes doe therefore most grievously offend which doe beare Armes in the Campes of Heretikes against the foresaid Prince in a warre so apparantly impious and unjust and all those which doe assist the said warre with Armes Victuals or by any other meanes which of themselues doe further the proceedings of the warre and cannot giue account of their indifferent obedience neither doth it any thing availe them to scandall the Apostolicall Letters of Surreption for Surreption cannot happen where no petition of them is declared in whose favour they were dispatched But the high Bishop doth openly teach in those Letters that hee and his Predicessors had exhorted the Irish Princes and all faithfull men to make that warre and to provoke them the more thereto hee doth enrich them with great favours and indulgences How may it then bee that those Letters were surreptiue which only containe in them an exhortation strengthned with many great favours for such as did fulfill them neither therefore can the Catholikes which assist the English defend themselues by the reasons alleaged in the second question for no mortall sinne is to bee committed although either life or goods stand thereupon but those things which further and helpe to execute an unjust warre are manifestly deadly sinnes It is permitted likewise to the Catholikes to performe such kind of obedience to the Queene as doth not oppugne Catholike religion neither ever was or could it bee the meaning of the Pope to allow them to use that obedience towards the Queene which doth manifestly disagree with the end and scope which hee had to spread the Catholike faith and religion in Ireland but that it was his meaning and scope his Letters doe manifestly declare By all which it remayneth sufficiently apparant that the most famous Prince Hugh Oneale and other Catholikes of Ireland making warre against an hereticall Queene who opposeth her selfe against the true faith and no Rebels at all neither doe deny due obedience nor vsurpe unjustly the Queenes Dominions but rather that they doe revenge themselues and their Countrey from impious and wicked tyrannie by a most just warre and defend and mainetaine the holy and right faith with all their power as becommeth Catholikes and Christians All and every of which wee underwritten doe judge and approue as most certaine and true Salamanca the seventh of March 1602. I Iohn of Segvensa Professor of divinitie in the Colledge of the society of Iesus of this famous Citie of Salamanca doe so censure I Emanuell of Royas Professor of divinitie in the said Colledge of Iesus doe agree in the same And I Gaspar of Mena Professor of divinity and holy Scripture in the said Colledge doe hold with the opinion of these Fathers as being altogether true I Peter Osorius Expounder for the sacred Canons in the same Colledge of the society of Iesu am altogether of the same opinion with the foresaid Fathers The President as is said being returned to Corke after a few dayes began to recover and finding his strength encreased and consequently his health began to apply himselfe to his busines But before I speake farther oâ— his progressions I must looke a little backe to say somewhat of things past CHAP. II. The Earle of Thomond directed to march with an Army into Carbery and his Instructions The Castle of Donboy fortified by the Rebels The Earle of Thomond having placed convenient Garrisons in the West returned to Corke The Lord President resolved to besiege the Castle of Donboy The List of the Army in Mounster The Lord President advised not to enterprise the winning of the Castle of Donboy and the reasons why The Lord President perseueres in his resolution and caâ—seth the Army to march towards Donboy TO make tryall whether the Rebels in the Countrey of Carbery would submit themselues upon the sight of an Army having beene lately wasted and spoyled by the Garrisons at Baltimore Castle-haven and Bantry upon the ninth of March which was the day the Lord Deputie departed from Corke the President directed the Earle of Thomond with two thousand and fiue hundred Foote in List which were by the Pole but twelue hundred Foote and fiftie Horse to march into Carbery and from thence into Beare thereto view in what manner the Castle of Donboy was fortified of the incredible strength whereof much was noysed many other directions hee had which for the better satisfaction of the Reader I doe here insert the instructions themselues Instructions given to the Earle of Thomond the nineth of March 1601. FIrst assoone as possible you may your Lordship is to assemble your forces together consisting of two thousand and fiue hundred foote in List and fiftie Horse and because they lye dispersed for the more expeditions sake to take them in your way Westward as they are garrised The service you are to performe is to doe all your endeavour to burne the rebels Corne in Carbery Beare and Bantry take their Cowes and to use all hostile prosecution upon the persons of the people as in such cases of rebellion is accustomed Those that are in subjection or lately protected as Odrischall Odonevan and Sir Owen Mac Carties Sonnes to afford them all kind and mild vsage When you are in Beare if you may without any apparant perill your Lordship shall doe well to take a view of the Castle of Dunboy whereby wee may be the better instructed how to proceed for the taking of it when time convenient shall be afforded Captaine Flower as I thinke is now in Bantry very weakely accompanied for his reliefe you are to hasten towards him and for your
Captaine Ralfe Sidley 100 Captaine Thomas Bois 100 Captaine Holcroft 100 In all Horse 325 Foot 4400 The enterprise of the siege of Donboy was by the best Subjects of the land and by the Presidents particular friends disswaded the one in regard of the publique and the other in the loue they bare him and also out of England had hee advice that hee should be very wary how hee proceeded leâ—t hee should â—aile in the enterprise whereby the Queene and State should undergoe a fruitlesse charge and scorne for by all men it was thought that the place was impregnable by reason of the situation of it Whereunto no approach by land forces could be made neerer then the Bay of Bantry being short of Donboy foure and twenty miles the wayes being in many places so impassable for horse and cariages and in some places such straights and craggie rocks as it was impossible for men to march but in file whereby one hundred that were to make defence might forbid an Army to passe if hee purposed to transport his Army by Sea that hee should find no landing place for his Ordnance neere unto it and being landed the wit of man was not able without an infinite number of Pioners to draw them unto the Castle for all the grounds neere unto it were either bog or rocks and also that there was no conveniencie of ground to encampe in no good water neere not wood for necessary use or gabion stuffe within three miles of it The Eaâ—â—â— of Ormond in his loue boâ—h â—o the service and to the President â—rote unto him a disswâ—ding 〈◊〉 for the causes afore recited 〈◊〉 therefore advised him to 〈◊〉 the Enterprise But the Presideâ—t â—oreseeing the importance of the service and prophsying as it fâ—ll out that the wiâ—â—ing of that place would discourage the Spaniâ—rds from any new invasion gaue but a 〈◊〉 eare to all perswasions â—oping that hee should find â—he difficulties lesse then they were beleâ—â—â—d or related unto him The well affected Irish fearing the evâ—â—t solicited him vehemently not to atâ—empt it his answers were that bogs nor rocks should forbid the draught of the Cannon the 〈◊〉 hee would make passable by Faggots and Timber the other hee would breake and smooth with pyoners tooles and with this constaâ—t resolution hee caused the Army to bee assembled which at Corke was in list neere three thousand but by pole not exceeding fifteene hundred by reason the Companies had beene extreamely weakned by the long cold and hungry winter siege The President though feeble and weake in his owne estate of health drew forth of Corke the three and twentieth of Aprill 1602. and encamped that night at Owneboy being the very place where Tyrone lodged at such â—ime as hee received the great overthrow neere Kinsale The foure aâ—d twentieth wee rose and marched to Tymolegge where the Army lodged and three Rebels that were taken and 〈◊〉 before the Lord President were executed The fiue and twentieth wee drew to Roscarbry where our Army lodged The sixe and twentieth wee departed Rosse over the Leape to Glanbarahan neere Castle-haven where the Army encamped and the Lord President went to Castle-haven to view the Castle and harbour not removing Captaine Gaâ—en Harvie his Company who had the guard thereof from thence The seven and twentieth the Army dislodged and the Lord President with his Regiment drew to Baltimore and the Earle of Thomond and Sir Richard Percy with their Regiments drew to a Castle called the Ould court three miles from Baltimore where by reason of revictualling of the Army we lodged two nights in which time the Lord President tooke view of the Harbour thereof and was ferried over into the Iland of 〈◊〉 where hee likewise tooke view thereof and sent to the Iland of Cleere and the Sound betweene them not removing Captaine Roger Harvies Company thence they being divided to guard the Castles of Donneshed Donnelonge and Cape-Cleere The thirtieth the Army dislodged and drew to Carew Castle built in ancient time by the Lord Presidents Ancestors and by the Irish called Downe-marke or the Marques his house being two miles distant from the Abbey of Bantry where wee sate downe aswell to giue annoyance to the Rebels as to tarry the comming of the shipping with victuals munition and Ordnance at which place Captaine George Flower with his Garrison left there by the Earle of Thomond fâ—ll in unto us Câ—AP III. Divers spoylâ—s done to the Enemy A Letter from the Lord President to the Spanish Cannoâ—iers in Donboy Captaine Bostock and Captaine Bâ—rry sent to Sir Charles Wilmoâ— A Digression of Sir Charles Wilmots proceedings in Kerry Divers Rebels slaine A traitorly Souldier hanged A Ward put into Câ—rigâ—oile The Castle of Lixnâ—w taken by composition The Castle of Balliâ—ow taken and the Knight of Kerry defeated Castle Gregory and Rahane taken THE first of May Captaine Taffes troope of Horse with certaine light foote were sent from the Campe who returned with three hundred Cowes many Sheepe and a 〈◊〉 number of Garrans they got from the Rebels The second Captaine Iohn Barry brought into the Campe fiue hundred Cowes three hundred Sheepe three hundred Garrans and had the killing of fiue Rebels and the same day wee proâ—ured skirmish in the edge of their Fastnesse with the rebels but no hurt of our part The third Owen Osulevan and his Brothers Sonnes to Sir Owen Osulevan who stand firme and deserved well of her Majestie being Competitours with Osulevan Beare brought some fiftie Cowes and some sheepe from the Enemy into the Campe. The fourth Odalie was convented before the Lord President and Councell and in regard it was proved that hee came from the rebels with messages and offers to Owen Osulevan to adhere and combine with the Enemy which the said Owen did first reveale to Captaine Flower Sergeant Major of the Army and after publikely justified it to Odalies face the said Odaly was committed to attend his tryall at the next Sessions This Odalies Ancestor had the county of Moynterbary given unto him by the Lord Presidents Ancestor many hundred yeares past at which time Carew had to his inheritance the moity of the whole kingdome of Corke which was first given by King Henry the second unto Robert â—its Stephen the service which Odaly and his Progenie were to doe for so large a proportion of Lands unto Carew and his successors was according to the custome of that time to bee their Rimers or Chroniclers of their actions The fift and sixt the weather was so tempestuous that we could not stirre out of the quarter The seventh the Lord President understanding that the Spanish Cannoniers were still in Donboy as well in regard they were strangers but especially to depriue the Enemy of their service hee wrote a Letter in Spanish unto them to perswade them to relinquish the Rebells assuring them that they should not onely
Army dislodged from Carew Castle The Regiments transported into the great Iland Teg Keugh Mac Maghon slaine The Castle of Donmâ—nâ—s surprised A Spanish ship arrived The confâ—rence beâ—â—eene the Earle of 〈◊〉 and Richard Mac-Goghagan The Lord President rides to the place where the forces were to land The vigilant care of the Lâ—rd President Two Regiments directed to land in the little Iland the other two to make to the Maine The Rebels deceaved The Rebel defeated and Captaine Terrell 〈◊〉 THE one and thirtieth the weather grew faire and wee tooke advantage thereof and drew forth which day our Army dislodged from Carew Castle leaving our sicke men which were many with a strong guard in the Iland of Whyddy and marched to Kilnamenoghe on the Sea side in Mountervarry where we encamped that night The first of Iune the Earle of Thomond and his Regiment were embarqued for the great Iland as also Sir Charles Wilmoâ—s and his Regiment after whose departure the Lord President remooved his campe to a head-land three parts whereof were invironed with the Sea and the rest was intrenched The second Sir Richard Percie and his Regiment followed the other two and lastly the Lord President with his landed in the great Iland where the other Regiments were formerly arrived The Lord President being wearied with his long stay there spending the time without advancing the service for that the Hoy wherin the Peeces of Battery was could not so well 〈◊〉 to windward as the rest without which hee could effect noâ—hing of his intended service sent Captaine Slingsby aboard who had before been conversant in Sea-affaires to use his best diligence in getting those vessells to the great Iland neere to the Castle of Donboy which with towing the Hoy at the Sâ—erne of the Trinitie of Waterford and other diligence used hee effected the service and arrived at the great Iland The third Tâ—g Keâ—gh Maâ— Maghon a principall Rebell in an Iland adjoyning to the Dorseys was casually shot through the body by his owne sonne whereof he dyed the third day following The fourth Owen Osulevan and two of his brothers with a partie of men went to the Castle of Donmanuâ— which was held and guarded by the Rebells which they surprized and kept the same killed foure of the Guard and tooke the prey and spoyle of the Towne The fifth a Spanish ship arrived at the Bay of Camnarra neere Ardea in Desmond And the same day Richard Mac Goghagan being the Constable of Dunboy came into the great Iland and spake with the Earle of Thomond but whether he were sent by the Presidents intreatie to see whether he could perswade with Mac Goghagan vpon promise of reward to render the Castle to the Queene or whether Richard Mac Goghagan did intreat the Earle that he might haue a Safe-conduct to speake with him I am uncertaine but of this I am sure that the Earles meeting with him was not without the Presidents knowledge and allowance All the Eloquence and artifice which the Earle could use avayled nothing for Mac Goghagan was resolved to persevere in his wayes and in the great loue which he pretended to beare unto the Earle hee advised him not to hazard his life in landing upon the Mayne for I know sayd hee you must land at yonder Sandy Bay where before your comming the place will bee so trenched and gabioned as you must runne upon assured death The Earle disdayning both his obstinacie and his vaine-glorious advice brake off speech telling Mac Goghagan that ere many dayes passed hee would repent that hee had not followed his counsell The sixth being Sunday a foule and stormie morning the Lord President very early taking but one Footman with him rode two or three miles from the Campe to the place where the Boats were assembled to passe the Army which that day was to rise over into the Maine The cause which moved him to be stirring so timely was to view the landing place which was lesse then halfe a mile from the place of the embarquing from whence hee might easily discerne a low sandy Bay betweene high ground of a very little capacitie where the discent was to bee made which was entrenched and barricadâ—ed with gabions of earth in the which trench and behind the gabions the enemies had placed there Muskettiers and their grosse at hand to giue them seconds But not contented with a view so farre off the Queenes Pinnace the Merlin riding not farre from him hee commanded Captaine Flemming to passe him over into a little Iland called Donghe Irish which lay betweene the great Iland and the Maine and some part of it not twelue score from the sandy Bay aforesaid When hee came into the said Iland and taking an exact view of the landing place and how the rebels Army lodged to forbid our descent and the apparant danger hee saw would ensue in the attempt hee rounded all the small Iland and at last hee found a convenient place to land in the Maine and the same by reason of a rising ground in the middest thereof was out of the sight of the sandy Bay presently hee commanded Captaine Fleming to land out of his Pinnace in the Iland two falcons of brasse and hailed them upon their trunks to a place naturally formed like a platforme and parrapetted with an old ditch as if it had beene fashioned to that purpose In this place the Peeces were planted from it to the Maine land it was not aboue one hundred paces and although the distance from the sandy Bay to this place was not foure and twenty score yet to come unto it was more then halfe a mile by reason of a Gurt or cleft Rock made by the Sea which ran up farre into the land which the Enemy must compasse before hee could come unto it By that time that the President had performed as much as hee intended in the small Iland the Presidents and the Earle of Thomonds regiments were embarqued and under saile whom the President when they came neere unto him caused to land where hee stood in the small Iland and drawing them to that end of the same which faced the sandy Bay to amuse the rebels being not distant from them as is said a Musket shot hee formed them into a battallion and so stood firme confronting the Enemy as if from thence hee would passe them into the Maine Sir Richard Percy and Sir Charles Wilmot with the reare Regiments by this time were likewise embarqued For you must understand that wee had not Boats sufficient to transport all our Regiments at once and they likewise made to the small Iland but in steed of landing in the same the President directed them to passe by the end of it when hee had placed the faulcons and to land directly in the Maine before the Rebels found themselues deceived the two reare Regiments were landed and formed into
ready to come forth and Sir George Thornton the Sergeant Major Captaine Roger Harvie Captaine Power and others entering the Vault to receiue them Captaine Power found the said Richard Mac Goghegan lying there mortally wounded as before and perceiving Taylor and the rest ready to render themselues raised himselfe from the ground snatching a light Candle and staggering therewith to a barrell of powder which for that purpose was unheaded offering to cast it into the same Captaine Power tooke him and held him in his armes with intent to make him prisoner untill he was by our men who perceived his intent instantly killed and then Taylor and the rest were brought prisoners to the Campe. The same day fiftie eight were executed in the Market place but the Fryer Taylor and one Tirlagh Roe Mac Swiny a follower unto Sir Tirlagh O Brian and twelue more of Tirrels chiefe men the Lord President reserved aliue to trie whether he could draw them to doe some more acceptable service theÌ„ their liues were worth The whole number of the Ward consisted of one hundred fortie three selected fighting men being the best choice of all their Forces of the which no one man escaped but were either slaine executed or buried in the ruines and so obstinate and resolved a defence hath not bin seene within this kingdome On our part we lost in the place Thomas Smith Captaine Francis Slingsbies Lieutenant and some others many of our men were burnt with Powder and Fire-works which the enemie cast amongst them as they were in fight Men of note hurt Captaine Dodington shot with two Bullets in the body but not mortall his Lieutenant Francis Kirton shot in the arme and thigh divers 〈…〉 CHAP. IX 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 hee would never upon which answer this twelve Men before respited two dayes after were executed The cause wherfore he so suddainly swarâ—ed from his first promise of service was the hopes which hee received by Owen Mac Egan the Popes Bishop of Rosse lately arrived at Ardea in the Bay as aforesaid of Claâ—marrah The President therefore perceiving that they conceived great hope of Spaniards advised the day following with the chiefes of the Army what course was best to bee taken with the Castle of Dunboy halfe ruined who were all of opinion that a Garrison which should be left there could not defend themselves or give any great annoyance to the Spaniard if they should fortune to land there for being so remote from all Seconds and succours were unavoydably left to ruine And besides though the Spaniards came not the service that they could doe in that Countrey would not countervaile Her Majesties charge in maintayning them Therefore they resolved to bestow the Powder which was recovered in the Castle to blow up the same committed to the charge of Captaine Slingsbie The two and twentyeth the Castle of Dunboy was accordingly blowne up with Powder the out-Workes and Fortifications utterly destroyed and the same day Lieutenant Downings with our men and Boates returned from the Dorses to the Campe as also twelve of Terrills chiefe men formerly spoken of were executed But Taylor and Dominicke Collins the Fryer were carryed Prisoners to Corke where being found by due proofe that Taylor was one of the principall murderers of his Captaine George Bingham at Sâ—igo besides an infinite number of other foule and traytorly 〈◊〉 he was shortly after without the City of Corke not farre from the North Gate hanged in chaines and the Fryer in whom no penitence appeared for his detestable treasons nor yet would endeavour to merite his life either by discovering the Rebells intentions which was in his power or by doing of some service that might deserve favour was hanged at Youghall the Towne wherein he was borne The same day also all our carriage and baggage layed aboard at the enterance into our boats because wee were not able to carie the Cowes Horses and Mares which wee had taken being at least sixe or seven hundred heads the President commanded they should bee killed which was performed The three and twentieth wee shipped our whole Army backe from Dunboy who all arrived that day in the great Iland and from thence the Earle of Thomond and Sir Charles Wilmot and both their Regiments were transported by shipping to Killaminog being the place wee encamped in as wee went in Mainterbaie The same day the Lord President was advertised by Lieutenant Saunders that hee had taken a great boat belonging to Teg Mac Connor Odriscall brother to Connor Oge Odriscall of the Downings wherein there was slaine Dary Mac Connor his brother and three more of his best men and that two dayes after hee tooke the strong place of the Downings which is seated upon a high rock in the Sea disioyned from the land so as there is no comming unto it but over a little draw bridge of wood resembling the seat of Dunluce in Vlster The foure and twentieth the Lord President and Sir Richard Percy with their Regiments were embarqued aâ—d they arrived in the evening at the Iland of Whiddy where wee had no meanes for want of boats to unship our men and the night approaching were enforced to leaue our two Regiments a shipboard and the Lord President lay that night in the Iland The fiue and twentieth the Earle and Sir Charles with their Regiments marched by land from Killaminog to the old camping place at Carew Castle whither when the boats came to us wee unshipt the remayne of the Army and there wee encamped all that night The sixe and twentieth the Companies required by the Lord Deputie were assigned and commanded to prepare themselues and attend Sir Samuell Bagâ—all till hee brought them to his Lordship and the same day the Castle of Leamâ—con neere Crooke haven which the rebels warded was recovered from them by an officer and party of men of Captaine Roger Harvies Company The seven and twentieth the Earle of Thomond and Sir George Thornton were embarqued in the Queenes Pinnace to goe for England and the Army dislodged from Carew Castle and marched to a place in the Mountaine called Becarien Eltagh where wee encamped that night The eight and twentieth the Lord President departed thence taking the Captaines and Officers of those companies that were to goe into Vlster along with him that they might perclose their accounts and dispatch all things at Corke against their Companies should come thither and by the way the Castle of Lettertinlesse belonging to Conogher Sir Finnin Odriscals Sonne where the Enemy had a ward of seventeene men after some defence made and shot discharged when they saw the Army drawe before the Castle they sued for their liues which granted them they yeelded it up and after the Souldiers had made pillage of the goods wee burned and destroyed the Castle and stone hall and rod thence to Tymolagg leaving the Army behind us
fidei dâ—sertores in maximo vitae bonorum quae hereditario jure non sine multorum praesertim Catholicorum commendo vtilitate adhuc possidet terras peterâ— alienas eo animi decreto vt aliquandò in propriam reversus patriam patriae miles decus esse possit Proindè vos omnes pietatis et verae religionis a natores Cathol cum Regem Philippum Dominum Matheum supra dictos caeterosque cujuscunque nationuÌ„ conditionisue sitis quos vnafides vnum baptisma vnus spiritus adjunxit Oramus obsecramus obtestamur in Christi visceribus vt eum praedictum Iohannem Burke omni fide omni auxilio omni farore dignissinum Catholicum de repub ' optimè meritum accipiatis benigneque tractetis In cujus rei fidem testimonium Sigillum ac Chirographium apposui c. Malaâ—hias Duac ' Episcopus Another that calleth himselfe Fryer Simon de S. S â—â— hath these words writing to the said supposed Archbishop of Dublin A Certificate from a Popish Priest in the behalfe of Iohn Burke NOtum tibi facio vt hoc invictissimo Regi notum facere cures harum Latorem Iohannem Burke relictis bonis paternis te adire quo illi ad Regem aditum praebeas sui temporis opportunitatem ad peragenda negotia maximi ponderis momenti quae vnanimis hujus regionis saluti conducunt c. If then as in the former Letter hee tooke upon him this Iourney to make himselfe an expert Souldier whereby hee might proue in time a Champion and ornament to his Countrey or if the allegation of the later may bee credited namely that hee hath busines with the King of Spaine about affaires of great moment and consequence for the good of this nation then are his owne pretexts of religion vowes and pilgrimages devised onely for a blinder to conceale his trayterous complots To prevent therefore such mischiefes as might grow unto the State from his solicitations in Spaine the President was content that Sir George Thornton should send a messenger unto him being then in the Rebels Campe to revoke and recall him if it were possible from this irreligious expedition which at last was effected by the perswasions which his mother wife and friends vsed unto him CHAP. XX. The Lord Deputie sent to the Lord Pâ—esidâ—nâ— for men and munition and himselfe to 〈◊〉 unto him The List of her Majesties forcâ—s in Mounster Sir Edward Wingfield sent by the Lord President with fiue hundred foote into Câ—â—â—aght The Lord of Lixâ—aw defeated by Captaine Boys The Castle of Kilco tâ—kâ—n by Caâ—taine Flower The Castle of Berengary taken by Sir Charles Wilmot Sir Charles Wilmot and Sir George Thornton left by the Lord President Ioynt Commissioners for the government of Mounster A Letter sent by the Lord President from the Lord Deputy to the Lords of the Councell THE Lord Deputie understanding now in what state the Province of Mounster stood directed his Letters to the President requiring of him that if necessary occasions of present service did not forbid he would fend to Athlone for the warre of Connaght certaine foote Companies and a proportion of victuals from Limerick so much as forth of her Majesties store there might conveniently be spared and withall to repaire himselfe unto Dublin from whence hee was to take his Iourney into England The list of Mounster consisting at that time of Horse and Foote as followeth The List of Mounster as it stood Of Horse Lord President 100. Earle of Thomond 50. Captaine William Taffe 50. 200. Of Foot Lord President 200. Earle of Thomond 200. Lord Audley 150. Sir Charles Wilmot 150. Sir Richard Percye 150. Sir Francis Barâ—â—ley 150. Sir George Thornton 100. Captaine Francis Kingsmill 100. Captainâ— George Kingsmill 100. Captaine George Flower 100. Captaine Charles Câ—ote 100. Captaine Gawen Harâ—â—e 100. Captaine Thomas Boyce 100. Captaine Francis Slingsby 100. Captaine VVilliam Stafford 100. 1900. Although there was never weary Marriner in a violent and tempestuous storme more desired to arriue into his wished Harbour nor a virgin Bride after a lingering and desperate loue more longing for the celebration of her nuptiall then the Lord President was to goe for England yet was hee content to deferre his private affections in regard of the publike charge committed unto him and therefore first hee sent for Sir Charles Wilmot out of Kerry acquainting onely him with that Iourney because his purpose was having before hand had good experience of his sufficiencie to leaue him in speciall trust with the government in his absence Then hee tooke order for the satisfying of the Lord Deputie his demands and therefore appointed Sir Edward Wingfield with fiue hundred foote the three and twentieth of February to take his Iourney into Connaght And lastly having taken order how the other forces should be disposed he tooke his Iourney from Corke towards Dublin about the beginning of February being newly come to Dublin hee received Letters from Sir Charles Wilmot that the Lord of Lixnaw having assembled some two hundred foote and twenty horse in his Fastnesse neere Listall Captaine Thomas Bois left by Sir Charles to command the Garrisons in Kerry drew upon his quarter in the night killed eighty of his men tooke all his substance of Cowes Hacknies Garrans and all his provisions of Wheate Oatemell and Butter so that although his Company was not all slaine yet were they for ever after unable to assemble together in any number about the same time also Captaine George Flower tooke in the Castle of Kilcow being a place of great strength and the onely Castle in Carbery that held out in rebellion presently after this defeate Captaine Bois was advertised that the Lord of Lixnaw his brother Garret Roe Stack and some other Provinciall rebels were in the Castle of Berengary whereupon that night hee blocked up the Castle with a sufficient guard of men that none should issue forth untill the Governour his Collonell might be acquainted therewith Sir Charles receiving intelligence hereof being then holding the Sessions at Limerick instantly left the Citie and taking with him by Sea two small Peeces of Ordnance presented himselfe before the said Castle the Warders and the rest within perceiving no possible meanes to escape yeelded themselues to her Majesties mercy But the advertisement concerning the Lord of Lixnaw himselfe failed the remainder were all taken the principals presently executed and the rest were pardoned by the Lord Lieutenant at his comming to Corke The Lord President having thus left Mounster reestablished in a firme and vniuersall peace by the assent of the Lord Deputy having appoynted Sir Charles Wilmot and Sir George Thornton Ioynt Commissioners for governing the Province prepared himselfe for England but before his departure hee made an ample relation to the Lord Deputy and Councell in what estate he had left his Province and the Lord Deputy and Councell having likewise declared unto him the present estate of
such Land If any of them heereafter be disobedient to her Lawes or breake foorth in Rebellion shee may when they shall bee more divided ruine them more easily for example unto others and if it be thought fit may plant English or other Irish in their Countreyes For although there ever haue beene and hereafter may bee small eruptions in some places which at the first may easily bee suppressed yet the suffering them to grow to that generall head and combination did questionlesse proceed from great errour in the judgement heere and may be easily as I thinke prevented hereafter And further it may please her Majestie to ground her resolution for the time and numbers of the next abatement of the List of her Armie somewhat upon our poore advise from hence and to beleeue that wee will not so farre corrupt our Iudgements with any private respects and without necessitie to continue her Charge seeing wee doe throughly conceiue how grievous it is unto her Estate and that wee may not bee precisely tyed to an Establishment that shall conclude the payments of the Treasure since it hath ever been thought fit to bee otherwise till the comming over of the Earle of Essex and some such extraordinarie Occasions may fall out that it will bee dangerous to attend your Lordships Resolutions and when it will bee safe to diminish the Armie heere that there may bee some course thought of by some other Employment to disburthen this Countrey of the idle Sword-men in whom I finde an inclination apt enough to bee carried elsewhere either by some of this Countrey of best reputation among them or in Companies as now they stand under English Captaines who may bee reinforced with the greatest part of Irish That it may bee left to our discretion to make Passages and Bridges into Countreyes otherwise unaccessable and to build little Pyles of stone in such Garrisons as shall bee thought fittest to bee continuall Bridles upon the people by the commoditie of which wee may at any time drawe the greatest part of the Armie together to make a Head against any part that shall first breake out and yet reserue the places onely with a Ward to put in greater Forces as occasion shall require which I am perswaded will prooue great Pledges upon this Countrey that upon any urgent cause the Queene may safely draw the greatest part of her Armie heere out of the Kingdome to bee employed at least for a time elsewhere wherein I beseech your Lordships to consider what a strength so many experienced Captaines and Souldiers would bee to any Armie of new men erected in England against an Invasion or sent abroad in any offensiue warre But untill these places bee built I cannot conceiue how her Majestie with any safetie can make any great diminution of her Armie Lastly I doe humbly desire your Lordships to receiue the further explanation of my meaning and confirmation of my reasons that doe induce mee unto these propositions for the Lord President of Mounster who as he hath been a very worthy Actor in the reducement and defence of this Kingdome so doe I thinke him to be the best able to giue you through account of the present Estate and future providence for the preservation thereof wherein it may please your Lordships to require his opinion of the hazard this Kingdome is like to runne in if it should by any mightie Power be invaded and how hard it will bee for us in any measure to provide for the present defence if any such bee intended and withall to goe on with the suppression of these that are left in rebellion so that wee must either adventure the kindling of this fire that is almost extinguished or intending onely that leaue the other to exceeding perill And thus having remembred to your Lordships the most materiall poynts as I conceiue that are fittest for the present to bee considered of I doe humbly recommend my selfe and them to your Lordships favour From her Majesties Castle of Dublin the sixe and twentieth of February 1602. After the Lord Deputie departed by reason of Easterly winds the President was stayed aboue three weekes in Dublin during which time every day Posts were emploied betweene them untill the twentieth of March which was the day the Lord President set saile for England the day following hee arrived at Bewmarris at his comming to Chester hee met with the lamentable newes of the decease of his good and gracious Mistresse Queene Elizabeth for whom as he had good cause he extreamely mourned But two dayes following being at Lichfield he assisted the Major in the proclaiming of King Iames which gaue him new life whom I beseech God long to preserue and continue his Posteritie for ever over his triumphant Monarchy of Great Brittaine and Ireland Although my VVorke bee finished yet according to the course I haue held in the end of the two former Bookes I may not omit to recount to the Reader the most memorable Services and accidents which hapned in this yeere 1602. In the Catalogue whereof I must first begin with the forces sent into Carbery with the Earle of Thomond The sending of Sir Charles Wilmot with his Regiment into Kerry The Lord Presidents departure from Corke with the Armie towards Donboy His long abode at Carew Castle expecting Munition and Victuals The difficulty he had in his approaching towards Donboy The defeat given to the Rebels The arrivall of a Spanish Caravell in Beare with Letters of Comfort Money and Munition from Spaine The siege of Donboy the winning and rasing of it The Presidents returne to Corke and Sir Charles Wilmots into Kerry The flight of Iames Archer the Iesuite and Connor Odrischall into Spaine The relapse of Sir Owen Mac Carties Sonnes The Spanish Hostages returned into Spaine The restraint of Cormock Lord of Muskery His escape and reduction The winning of the Castle of Mocrumpe The defeat of Tirrell and his Bonnoghs in Muskery The sending of Sir Samuell Bagnall with fifteene hundred men to the Lord Deputie The Service done upon the Knight of Kerry The flight of Tirrell with his Bonoghs out of the Province The defeat of the Rebells in Glangarne The flight of William Burke with his Bonoghs Osulevan Beare and Connor Kerry out of Mounster The overthrow of the Cartyes in Carbery And the killing of the Popes Apostolique Vicar Owen Mac Egan The sending of a Regiment with Munition and Victualls for the service in Connaght The defeat of the Lord of Lixnaw The finall Reduction of Mounster The appointing of Sir Charles Wilmot and Sir George Thornton joynt Commissioners for the Government of Mounster And the departure of the Lord President into ENGLAND FINIS 1599. Devoreux Butler Roche Blunt Carew The landing of the Lord Deputie and Lord President in Ireland St. Lawrence Carew The Warrant for the passing of letters Patents to the Lo. President Norris Carew Blunt Carew Norris Norris Norris Cary. The Lo. Presidents Letters Patents Norris Carew Carew Blunt Carew
Carew Norris Norris Carew Carew Norris Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew 6 Martij Blunt The Lo Deputie and Councels instructions to the Lo. President Carew 7. Martij Carew Carew Carew Saxâ—y Gold Carew Carew Carew Carew Saxey Gold Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Carew Blunt Blunt Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Carew The Earle of Tyrone in MouÌ„ster his actions there The White Knight Tyrones prisoner FloreÌ„ce Mac Carty made Mac Cartie More and Donell Mac Carty displaced The L. Barry preyed and spoiled Sir Warham St leger and Mac Guire slaine 1600. Tyrones returne into Vâ—ster The PresideÌ„t left Dublin 7. April 10. Aprilis The Earle of Ormond taken prisoner by Owny mac Rory Oâ—more The manner of the Earle of Ormonds taking The narrow escape of the Lord President The Earle of Thomond wounded The order which was taken for the setling of the countrie after the Earle of Ormonds disaster 18. April The submissions of Tho. fits Iames Tho. Power 20. April 22. April The encounter of her Majesties forces with Flor. Mac Cartie The prey of the Brough taken 23. Aprill The state of the Province of Mounster when the Lo. President came into it The Lord Barry preyed 26. April Redmond Burke defeated by Odwire Odwires couÌ„try harrassed by Redmond Burke 29. April Loghguire preyed The submission of Barret and Condon 3. Maâ—â— The submission of Flor. Mac Carty Flor. Mac Carties demands The submission of Nugent The Brough burnt by Pierce Lacy. Redmond Burke departed out of Connologhe May. 16. Tenne of the Bownoghs slaine by Sir Richard Percy May. 17. 21. Maij. The Armie set out from Corke towards Limricke 23. Maij. The submission of the White Knight Cahir Castle surprised by Iames Galdie Butler 24. Maij. 25 Maij. Therendring of the Castle of Loghguire Nugents attempt upon Iohn fits Thomas Clanwilliam spoiled and burnt by the Armie 29. Maij. The submission of Iohn Burke The castle of Ballitrarsnie taken O Mulrians Countries burnt and spoiled by the Army O Sulevan More detained prisoner by the practise of Flor Mac Cartie The plot contrived by the Lo. President for the apprehension of Ia. fits Thomas Iune 11. Iunij 500 men sent to lye in garrison at Askeiton Supplies of money munition victuals c. The apprehension of Iames Fits Thomas by Dermond O Conner 19. Iunij 20. Iunij The Countrey of Thomond harassed and spoyled by O Donnell Forces sent into Thomond Iames fits Thomas set at liberty 26. Iunij 28. Iunij 29. Iunij Dermond O Conner and the Rebels agreed and reconciled The Castle of Crome taken by the Armie 30. Iunij 4. Iuly 7. Iulij The Knight of the Valley upâ—â—â—f conduct spake with the Earle of Thomond The Constable of Glyn Castle hiâ— advice to the Earle of Thomond for hiâ— safetie 8. Iulij A Breach made The breach assaulted A sally made by the rebels The Constable c. slaine 9. Iulij The Castle wonne and the rebels put to the sword AWard put into the castle of Glin by the L. President Carrigfoile rendred by Oconner Kerry Maurice Stacke sent into Kerry The Bonoghs obtained the Lord Presidents Passeport to depart the Province Sixty of the Bonoghs slaine by the Lo. Burke The Lord Presidents returne to Limerick The Castle of Corgrage rendred A Garrison left in Askeiton 15. Iulij The Castle of Kathmore rendred A Garrison placed at Kilmallock 16. Iulij The Rebels enforced to rise from the siege of Liskaghan Flor. Mac Carties perswasions unto the Ward to quit Liskaghan Florence Mac Carty attempted to câ—rrupt the Constable of Liskaghan 23. Iulij 28. Iulij Fits Gerald Knight of Kerry The L. President come to Carrigofoile 29. Iulij The Castles of Lixnaw Rathowine and Tralee surprized by Sir Charles Wilmot The Bonoghs defeated by Sir Gharles Wilmot 2. August The death of Patricke fits Maurice L. of Lixnaw Florence Mac Cartie being sent for would not come unto the L. President A Mariage practised by Florence for Iames fits Thomas Letters and Messages betweene Florence and Tyrone 16. Aug. Aug. 18. Aug. 20. 21. Aug. An Encounter betweene Captaine Harvie and the White Knights Sonne The White Knights Sonne defeated 23. Aug. The Knight of Kerry the Lord of Lixnaw made suite to be protected The Earle of ThomoÌ„d left to command the garrison at Askeiton Florence coÌ„tinueth his practise with Tyrone Lands given by Iames fits Thomas to Flor. Mac Cartie Donnel Mac Carty taken in upon protection The Castle of Mayne in Connologh taken Omaghon and the O Crowlies protected The intended Mariage of Iames fits Thomas frustrated Cahir Castle rendred 29 August Supplies of Horses and Monie sent for Mounster 26. August Dermond Mac Owen O keefe and Mac Awly made suite to be received as Subjects The submission of the Knight of Kerry Ia. fits Tho. and Pierce Lacy defeated by the Knight of Kerry The castle of Ardart taken by Sir Ch. Wilmot Maurice Stacke murdrâ—d treacherously Septemb. The Prey of Kilkoe taken by Sir Richard Percy Iames fits Tho defeated by the garrison of Kilmallocke 16. Sept. Supplies of Foote sent out of England Osulev an More sent by the Lord Deputie to the Lord President October 4. Octbe The Castle of Glan Coyne surprised by Sir Francis Barkley Florence Mac Carties wife and followers perswaded him to goe to the Lord President The young Earle of Desmond arrived at Yoghall 14. Octob. 18. Octob. The Inggling of Florence Mac Cartie Supplies of men apparell sent into Mounster The submission of Florence Mac Cartie Octob. 29. A skirmish betweene the Carties and the Oleries Olerie slaine 4. Novemb. The submission of Thomas Oge fits Gerald and the rendring of Castle Mange The Câ—stle of 〈◊〉 besieged and taken 5. Novemb. A prey taken in Kinalmekagh The Castle of the Dingle rendred The Abbey of Ratho burned and fourtie of the Bownoghs slaine by Sir Charles Wilmot A thousand Bownoghs levied by Florence Mac Carty Connaght and Vlster men being ready to invade Mounster suddenly brake their resolution and the cause why Dermond O Conner murdered by Theobald ne Long Burke 18. Nov. Sessions held at Limerick Cassell and Clonmell 26. Nov. The Lord President the Earle of Ormond meet at Clonmell December Muskry-quirke and Arloghe burnt preyed and spoyled by the Army The submission of the Burkes and Obriens The narrow escape of Iames fits Thomas and Dermond Mac Craghe the Popes Bishop of Corke In what good estate the province of Mounster was 15. Decemb. 20. Decemb. Mac Awly preyed upon by Sir Fra Barkley The Major of Limerick fined and imprisoned and a new Major elected 21. Decem. Kinalmâ—kaghe preyed by Sir Richard Percy He mâ—aneth Iohn fits Thomas brother to the titulary Earle Ianuary The Sheriffs men slaine by Flor. Mac Gartie Florence his excuses received for truths The L. President perswadeth Florence to goe into England Florence seemeth to like
of the motion but meaneth nothing lesse and the use he made of it 13. Ianuary The President adverti seth into England of the intended invasion of the Spaniards 〈…〉 munition victuals The Lord Deputie to pardon all such as hee should noâ—minate Certain persons excepted uncapable of Pardon 25. Ianuary Victuals and money arrived at Corke 30. Ianuary 1000. foot 50. horse to be sent out of Mounster to the Lord Deputie 2. February The Companies sent for by the L. Deputy stayed by his directions An abstract of the Lord Presidents Letter to the Lords of the Councell 6. March 22. March 1601. March Connaght Vlster men drawn to a head to invade Mounster A Regiment sent by the L. President into Connaght to assist Sir Ioh. Barkley 29. March Walt. Burke and Teg O-Brien slaine The Lo. President with the remainder of his forces came to Limricke The rising out of the Countrey drawen neere to Limricke and coÌ„manded by the L. Barry The Rebels distressed for want of victualls The Rebels defeated Donoghe Mac Cormock Carty slaine 21. Aprilis The Lord Presidents aâ—â—wer Intelligence of Spanish invasion Intelligence of Spanish invasion 26. Aprill The escape of Teg Obrien brother to the Earle of Thomond His submission Florence his preparation for Munition and men May 28. The report of Derm Mac Awlie touching the comming of Vlster men into Mounster Iames fiâ—s Thomas the titulary Earle of Desmond taken by the White Knight and brought to the Lord President 29. May. 29. May. Iames fits Thomas kept Prisoner in the Lord Presidents house Iames fits Thomas arraigned and condemned 3. Iunij A Relation presented to the Lord President by Iames fits Thomas and sent into England 3. Iune The causes of the rebellion in Mounster as Iames fits Thomas alleaged Husseys report of the causes of the rebellion in Mounster A Proclamation concerniâ—g base moneys Artiâ—les betweene her Majestie and the Treasurer at warres for Ireland concerning base Monies A Regiment sent by the L. President into Connaght Intelligence of the Spaniards coÌ„ming for Ireland brought the Lo. Presiâ—ent sundry wayes Iam. fits Thoâ—â— his â—eport of Flo. Mac Carty The report which Dermond Mac Awley made of the Councell held in Vlster about the fittest place for the Spaniards landing in Ireland Meaning Florence Mac Carty Florence Mac Carty by the Lord President committed to prison Here followeth a briefe collection of Flor. Mac Carties treasons and practises with the Rebels and continueth unto the end of the chapter not touching anything formerly related The examination of Iohn Anias Collections out of the examination of Owen Osulevan Florence assumed the title of Mac Carty More Owen Osulevan preyed He joyneth with Tirone and is confirmed by him Mac Carty More A letter from Florence to Donogh Moâ—le Mac Carty He fought with her Majesties forces He gaue intelligence unto Iames fits Thomas His farther practises related by Owen Osulevan His malicious speeches He instituted a Sherife of his owne making in Desmond The examination of Donnell Ferrers The examination of Iames Welsh The message he sent by mistris Mac Donogh He practised a mâ—riage for Iames fits Thomas His practise to hinder the rendring of Castlemange 〈◊〉 Lacies children to her Majesty The examination of Thomas Oge He recals his Son that should haue beene his pledge upon advertisements from Tyrone He writeth Letters to the Traytors in Vlster Hâ— wrâ—te to O Dâ—nnell The examinatioÌ„ of Teg Maâ— Gillipatrick A letter abstracted wâ—itten out of Spaine froÌ„ Dermond Mac Carty unto FloreÌ„ce Tirone wrote to Florence Tyrone wrote to the Osulevans to obey Flor. Tyrone to Florence Tyrone to Florence The examination of Garret Liston Tyrone to Flâ—rence His wifes report to Sir Charles Wilmot His Sisters report of the Lord President The examination of Thomas Oge The examination of Iames fits Thomas The examination of Gillernow Okelly Tyrâ—ne Ia. fits Thâ—m Flor. Mac Cartie Dermond Mac Owen Cartie Dermond Mac Owen Teg Mac Dermond Moil Mo Omaghon arrested Dermond Moil Mac Cartie fled The answer of Dermond Mac Owen to the Lord President 9. August The services which the Mounster Regiment performed in Connaght under the conduct of Sir Francis Barkley Sixe thousand men demanded by the Lo. President to be sent into Mounster to withstand the intended invasion from Spaine The Lo. Presidents opinion sent to the Lords of the Councell of the likeliest place which the Spaniards would attempt to land their forces The effect of the Lords of the Councels answer to the Lord President A branch of the L. Presidents Letter to M. Secretary Câ—cill The intelligence M. Secretary Cecill had of the Spanish fleete comming for Ireland and by him sent to tâ—e Lord President A branch of M. Secretarie Cecils Letter to the Lord President dated the 12. of August 1601. The crosse accident which hapned to make the Lord Deputie to be offended with the Lord President A List of the Captaines of the Spanish Army Stilo novo Don Iuan his Certificate into Spaine after his landing in Kinsale Tyrone Odonnell Second Letters from Sir Charles Wilmot of the arrivall of the Spaniards at Kinsale It was debated in Councell upon the receit of the Letters aforesaid what was meetest for the Lord Deputy to doe The Lord President differs in opinion from the rest The Lord Deputy assented to the Lâ— Presidents advise The providence of the Loâ—d President 24. Sept. A dispatch into England of the Spaniards arrivall The Lord Deputy goeth with the Lord Prsident into Mounster 26. Sept. Not any of the Provincials of Mounster adhered to the Spaniards at the first landing 28. Sept. The report of the master of a Scottish barque concerning the strength of the Spaniards 28. Sept. Captaine Flower sent to view Kinsale where he skirmished with the Spaniards The Corne neere adioyning to Kinsale burnt by direction Stilâ— novo 29 Septemb. The Lo. Deputy c. went to view the Towne of Kinsale 3. October 8. Octob. 9. Octob. 10. Octob. 11. Octob. 12. Octob. 13. Octob. 14. 15. Octob. 16. Octob. The Lo. Deputy with the army marched toward Kinsale The L. President required the towns of Mounster to send CoÌ„panies oâ— foot to the Camp 17. Oct. The Army encamped at Knock-robin neere Kinsale 18. Octob. 19. Octob. 20. Octob. The enemie attempted to disturbe our quarter but were repulsed 21. Octob. A skirmish betweene vs and the Spaniards 22. Octob. Capt. Button arrived with munition victuall 23. Octob. More Munition and victuall arrived 24. Octob. 25. Octob. A skirmish in the night wherin 20 of the Spaniards were slaine 26. Octob. The Armie encaÌ„ped close to Kinsale A prey of Kiâ—â— taken from the Spaniards 27. Octob. The castle of Rincorran guarded by the Spaniards 28. Octob. 29. Octob. The Spaniards repulsed 30. Octob. The Castle of Rincorran besieged The Spaniards repulsed by Sir Richard Percy 31. Octob. The castle of Rancorran battered by the Lo. President A faire escape A remarkable skirmish betweene vs and the Spaniards that
to the Westward and with much difficultie had recovered Castle-haven came thence by Sea to the port of Kinsale The Lord Deputie to refresh his men and horses sent them to Corke for in their healths they were impaired and that evening some Spaniards fled from Kinsale and voluntarily came to our Campe. A Demy Cannon was unshipped assoone as it was calme and placed on this side the water which played most part of that day upon that Castle and brake many places but made no breach that was assaultable In the night they of the Towne attempted to releeue the Castle by boat but were repelled by Captaine Tolkern and Captaine Ward who lay with their Pinnaces betweene the Iland and the Towne The Demy Cannon played againe and a Cannon then landed and placed by it with some Ordnance also out of the Ship though they served to small purpose about noone one hundred men were sent with Captaine Yorke and Captaine Smith to view if the breach were assaultable and though they found it was not yet the Spanyards within being no longer able to endure the fury of the shot hung out a signe for parley upon the first shew of our men and yeelded themselues and the Castle upon promise of their liues onely which being accepted they brought them presently to the Campe being in number seventeene Before the Castle was yeelded the Spanyards in the Towne made divers shot at Captaine Tolkernes Pinnace with a piece of Ordnance which they mounted a day or two before close to the gate of the Towne but did no hurt at all unto her the Pinnace warping neerer to the other side under the hill and at last rode safely without danger of the shott The same day a Platforme was made upon a ground of advantage not farre from the Campe that commanded one part of the Towne that under the favour thereof wee might the better make our neerer Approaches which at that time wee could hardly haue done by reason of the great extreame frost and a Demy-cannon mounted vpon it with which some shot was made at the Towne and a Sentinell taken anon after affirmed that the first Piece shot off went through the house that Don Iohn was in and did otherwise great hurt An other Cannon was brought up and planted by the Demy-cannon which the night before was brought from the Ship and this day the Lord Deputie went over into the Iland to view how from thence the Towne might be best annoyed and invested Also the Prisoners which were taken at Castle Parke were sent to Corke with direction to the Major to send them and all the former prisoners into England the Sergeant Major and the Commanders of Rincorran and Castle Ny Parke excepted and this day a great number of Irish women and children were put out of Kinsale to trie their fortunes in the Countrey Foure other Peeces were planted by the Cannon and Demy Cannon which altogether played into the Towne one of those short killed foure men in the Market place and strucke off a Captaines legge called Don Iohn de Saint-Iohn who is since dead of the hurt That Evening one Iames Grace an Irishman ran out of Kinsale assuring the Lo. Deputie that Don Iohn at his landing was fiue thousand men and that hee was yet three thousand strong that hee had foure Peeces of Ordnance well mounted that the Irish which were with him were so much affrighted with our Artillery as Don Iohn had much to doe to hold them whose departure if it should happen would be a great want unto him for by them hee received ease and comfort and that Don Iohns house where hee lodged had been shot through with a great shot The sixe Peeces began againe about ten a clocke to batter upon the Towne and so continued till night in which time and in all mens judgements as by report of the Prisoners wee tooke they did great hurt to the Towne This day while the Lord Deputie the Marshall and the Sergeant Major were viewing the ground where the Approaches were intended a private Souldiour of Sir Francis Barkleyes in the face of the Guards attempting to steale as hee had done divers times before a Spanish Sentinell who was seconded with foure that hee saw not fought with them all fiue whereof one of them was the Sergeant Major whom he had almost taken and when he had found he could doe no good upon them all hee came off without other hurt then the cutting of his hand a little with the breaking of a thrust which one of them made at him and hurt the Sergeant Major The Lord Deputie this night began to make his approaches neerer the towne and for that purpose caused some 1000 Foot to be drawne out by Sir Iohn Barkley Sir Benjamin Berry and Captaine Bodley who continued the worke all night and although the ground were extreame hard by reason of the frost and the night very light yet they brought the worke to very good perfection the Enemy played all the night upon them with great Volleyes but hurt but three men neither in the Trenches nor in divers Sallies they made in the one whereof a Squadron of our new men beat them backe to the gates In the Euening his Lordship sent direction to Sir Richard Levison to land three Culverings this night and to plant them in the Iland about Castle Ny Parke that from thence they might likewise make Battery upon the Towne and Sir Richard drewe in the Admirall and Vice-Admirall betweene the Towne and the Iland from whence they did great hurt in the Towne the next day All the Artillery still played but because the shot from the ships did but little hurt saue onely upon the base Towne the Lord Deputie gaue direction to make very few shot except it were at the high Towne In the afternoone the Lord President the Earles of Thomond and Clanricard Sir Thomas Burke and divers others returned to the Campe Odonnell with his force being stollen by them This night direction was given to haue a Plat-forme made for the Artillery upon the trench which was made on Munday night somewhat after midnight the Spaniards made a sudden salley with purpose to force that trench but were quickly repelled by Sir Francis Barkley who commanded there that night The Companies that went with the Lord President returned and with them two other Regiments of the Earle of Clanricards and Sir Christopher Saint-Lawrence the Regiments were that night quartered by themselues upon the West side of Kinsale to invest the Towne and keepe the Spaniards and Odonnell from joyning This night the three Culverings from the Iland were planted on the poynt of the hil neere the water on this side behind the last trenches This morning the Spaniards played with a Demy Cannon from the Towne upon the Admirall which was twice shot and the Viceadmirall once they riding both close by the Towne and