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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74645	A continuation of the diurnall passages in Ireland declared in tvvo letters. The one being sent from the Lord Antrim in Ireland, to the right honourable the Earle of Rutland, dated February 25 1641. The other was sent to Sir Robert King knight, bearing date the 27 of February, 1641.	Antrim, Randal MacDonnell, Earl of, 1609-1683.; Loftus, Edward, 17th cent.	1641 (1641)	Thomason E137_28	2,722	8

Numb 2. A CONTINUATION OF THE DIURNALL PASSAGES IN IRELAND DECLARED IN TVVO LETTERS THE ONE Being sent from the Lord Antrim in Jreland to the right honourable the Earle of Rutland dated February 25. 1641. THE OTHER Was sent to Sir Robert King Knight bearing date the 27 of February 1641. LONDON Printed for F. Coules and T. Banks 1641. A Coppy of a Letter from the Lord Antrim in Jreland sent to the Right Honourable the Earle of Rutland dated the 25. of February 1641. My Honourable Lord HAving nothing of that weight and consequence that befits me to accommodate your Honour withall worthy of your Lordships acceptation I am inforced to present your Honour with what I can as a small signe of the great observance in many respects I owe to your Lordship for the noble favour I have had the honour formerly to receive from your Lordship and the mutuall correspondencie that have bin between your Honour and my selfe which when opportunity may permit I shall with humble thankfullnesse acknowledge My Lord It is a great sorrow to me my name and Honour should be so much defamed and scandalized by false and scandalous reports nay permitted to be published in Print that I have revolted from my King and turned Rebell the very name wounds me sore which never had the left thought of Treason against my Soveraigne or disloyalty to my Country I am so farre from such imagination that I will rather perish at his Majesties feet and suffer any punishment whatever shall be thought requisite to bring a period to my selfe my life and fortunes then live stained with a horrid denomination as Traytor and am so farre incensed against these reports that I vow to God I will to the utmost of my power maintaine the rightfull power and prerogatives of his sacred Majestie to whom I approve my selfe an obedient subject and servant and his Government as the undoubted and lawfull King over his Majesties Kingdomes of England Scotland and Jreland I desire not to be disobedient to any the Laws and Ordinances of his Majesties Parliament for the good government of his Kingdomes that may not abridge or restraine the free exercise of the Roman Religion which I am devoted to and am ingaged to maintaine in duty to God and respect of my future happinesse and salvation Her Majesty my gracious Queene I will to my power indeavour to obey and her rightfull Raigne in his Majesties Dominions under his government endeavour to uphold and maintaine to the utmost of my life and fortune and such respect and honour I owe to my Lady whom my prayers are daily for and to whom I recommend my dearest affections that she may be confident I will intermeddle with any affaires that may I hope not prove destructive to my selfe or Family or in defamation of mine or her honour which I humbly desire your honour to certify Her and to present his Majesty with my unchangeable and dutifull intentions My LORD Some passages of the affaires here in Jreland I thought good to present you withall which is necessary to be taken notice of There was a great Battaile fought before the City of Lemster where there was slaine 4000 English and Scots and Sir Edward Denny one of our Captaines with his Forces of 400 Souldiers hath slaine Thomas Bland Esquire with 500 more of his Souldiers and put all the rest besides some Prisoners taken to flight that is the greatest overthrow to the English that hath yet bin And Sir Edward Denny having the victory on the next morning being by his Souldiers saluted in a most noble manner for their beter encouragement gave to every Souldier 5 li. and in vindication of his reputation made a royall Feast to entertaine his Souldiers in a deriding and scoffing manner to the English There was also another Skirmish on Saterday last which continued some 8 houres between the Forces under command of the Lord Osmond Netterfield and others and the Forces under command of Sir Simond Harcourt Sir William Cootes Mr. Moore of the English the Lord Douglas Sir Charles Bland Mr. Henry Steward and oters of the Scots where was sl●ine 2000 Irish and about 100 of the Scots and English the rest of the Irish forced to retire and great spoyles were left by them as a prey for the English of Amunition and provision of victualls sufficient to maintaine 500 men for 6 months which was a great weakening to the Catholique party And thus having no more newes at this present I will not be troublesome to your Honour but humbly take my leave Your Honovrs in all due observance Antrime Ioyfull Newes from IRELAND Or a true Relation of the great overthrow which the English gave the Rebels before Drogheda c. Noble Sir IN my last to you I signified to you the difficulties which were like to befall us by the relieving of Drogheda but God by his infinite mercy hath freed us I may say miraculously from that hazard for when our men there were driven to that extremity to eat Horse-flesh Sir Henry Tichbourne sallied out of the Town with only fourty Musketiers and fourty Horse and beat off foure hundred of the Enemies killed above threescore of them recovered fourescore Cowes and Oxen and two hundred Sheep burned foure Townes and brought home two of their Colours Besides I must relate unto you Gods abundant goodnesse unto us in that the night before the reliefe and succours which we sent by Sea from Dublin to them should have entred into the Harbour of Drogheda which was strongly fenced over with a Chair and severall Boates there happened a storme which broke their chainer and gave our men so free a passage as with little difficulty they came safely to the Towne The Rebels were gathered at Kilshalgham within seven miles of Dublin above two thousand men where they were settled in a very strong wood My Lord of Ormond carryed out part of our Army and beat them out of that great strength for they would not come into the Champaine and killed above a hundred of them without any considerable losse of our side only Captaine James Rochfort a most gallant and couragious Gentleman This was an act of great bravery wherin Sir Charles Coote did as he doth alwayes beyond expectation exposing his person to as much danger as any man living could and in truth he is a gallant man full of courage and good affections and deserves great incouragement from that side Our Souldiers are in great want of Money which causes a generall want of all other necessaries yet notwithstanding God hath infused such courage into them for undoubtedly it is his work that they think ther is no danger so great but they may attempt it Colonell Munke is arrived here with my Lord Lievtenants Regiment of fifteen hundred foot and Sir Richard Greevill with neere foure hundred Horse which puts much heart into us and makes us looke big upon our neighbours yet we grieve we cannot be able to relieve our friends in other parts but I hope when our full succours shall come we shall not only defend this place but adde comfort to our poore distressed friends abroad The enemy though their numbers be very great even beyond beliefe yet their hearts begin to faint and I beleeve they repent their furious madnesse If my Brother be in London I pray you impart this Letter to him I would have written to him but that I thought he was at Chester or on his way thither By the next he shall heare from me at large and I shall likewise trouble you I must now only tell you that I thanke you for your care of those things which concerne me and that I am Sir Feb. 27. 1641. your most affectionate Servant ED. LOFTUS Martii 7 mo 'T is this day Ordered forthwith that this Letter be put in Print H. Elsing Cler. P. D. Com. FINIS