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A74843	The Marquesse of Ormond's letter to His Majestie concerning the late fight betwixt the forces under his command, and the garrison of Dublin. : The copie whereof was taken out of His Majesties letter, and sent from S. Germain en Laye, bearing date the 25. of this instant, (new style) to an eminent person of this kingdome. : Together with the most considerable occurrences in relation to the appeasing of that kingdome, and embracing the princes interest.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1643-1647 : Ormonde); Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1649 (1649)	Thomason E571_21	4,390	8

The Marquesse of ORMOND'S LETTER TO HIS MAJESTIE Concerning the late Fight betwixt the Forces under his Command and the Garrison of Dublin The Copie whereof was taken out of His Majesties Letter and sent from S. Germain en Laye bearing date the 25. of this instant new style to an Eminent Person of this Kingdome Together with the most considerable Occurrences in relation to the appeasing of that Kingdome and embracing the Princes Interest Printed in the Yeare 1649. The Marquesse of ORMONDS Letter to His MAJESTY c. May it please your Majesty THe Rebels are possessed with such an admirable dexterity of spreading abroad petty defeats for Glorious Victories and use such an extraordinary vigilance to Intercept and Bury all those Letters which may present the Truth without disguise That though the last Action upon August the second be scarcely worth the Royall notice yet their swelling Relations may convey it to your Majesties knowledge in such a multiplying Glasse as to deliver a Camisadoe for a Battell and the trifling successe of it for a memorably compleat Victory I shall therefore deliver your Majesty a most exact accompt of that dayes emergencies in which I had rather exceed to the Rebells advantage then by an unseasonable flattering your Majesty with a pretended Prosperity divert your Princely thoughts and care from strengthning our hands with such Forraign strength as may be procured to your Majesties Service It being an undoubted Maxim that the securing this Kingdome will by Gods blessing speedily reduce the other two out of the Jawes of those Barbarous Rebells to your most Just and naturall Obedience On Wednesday at night August the first it was Resolved by a Councell of Warre the Results whereof Sir Robert Welch is to present your Majesty in Duplicate That Baggohrath should immediately be Possessed and Fortified The accomplishment whereof could not but extreamly strengthen the Rebells in their Provision who though by the Addition of Force out of England they were growne something Numerous yet in our apprehensions were become capable of hastning the Famine to its full groweth amongst them Nor did their number so much adde to our feares as it wasted from their owne Provision To the acceleration of which wast the possession of this place would have been considerable since by thus Pin-folding them up their Horse and Cattell must have been totally deprived of all imaginable subsistance The consequents arising from the Fortifying of this place the Rebels apprehended to be of no lesse danger to them then we decreed it of advantage to us and therefore Sallyed out with all the strength of Horse and Foot they could possibly make to beat us thence To facilitate the which and the more to amuse us a Report was spread in my Army through their artifice That Cromwell himselfe was Landed in the Night and that the whole English Power of the transported Rebells would that day be upon our Shoulders Which though I looked upon as a Lie a leisure to have searched would quickly have discovered the Author yet I could not undeceive the Souldiery who were wholly possessed with it more especially those I had sent to Baggohrath upon the eruption of the necessitated Rebel did conclude it for a Truth indisputable This proposition of their Mindes being extream prejudiciall upon the instant of Engagement the better part of the Army Commanded to other places or not come up The Lord Inchiquin himselfe being gone into Munster with a considerable Body of the Horse and twelve thousand I expected from Clanrickard and the Lord of Ards not yet come up I resolved to call those Commanded Forces off from Baggohrath and in order thereunto gave Command to the Earl of Fingall Sir William Vaughan and my Brother to bring them off without engaging at all the Enemy But the Rebels advancing with an extraordinary expedition enforced by necessity and now encouraged by our declining the engagement fell with a confident speed upon our Rear where Sir William Vaughan and Sir Edmund Varney making a vigorous resistance had the honour to Sacrifice their Lives in your Majesties Quarrell My Lord of Fingall and my Brother over-venturously voluntiering it after some Wounds were enforced to become their Prisoners the rest of the Commanded Party full of amazement and prepossession defended themselves rather out of despaire of Life then hope of Victory which being perceived by the Rebell highly animated with a prosperous beginning all or most of the Commanded Foot being in number about twelve hundred were either slain or taken The Horse with inconsiderable losse drew off to their advancing seconds This was performed with such speed that the Seconds I had sent forth after necessity of Engagement were not able to come up to their Relief and the Violent Rebell was so flushed with this Victory that growing eager to pursue his Fortune he would needs charge those succours which by the signall Valour and Bravery of the two Lords Castle-haven and Taffe turned so little to their advantage that about 500. of their Horse left their triumphant Riders upon the place and the rest making a swift Retreat with their Foot into the City of my 200. Men before taken Prisoners were recovered which with eight of their Horse-Colours taken may very well serve to bring the Victory to a new Dispute what ever they may hereupon write to the contrary to haule Cromwells unwilling Souldiery to the relief of their loud Necessities At the present Sir We will not any more commit any thing to Fortune by attempting to Block them up otherwise then on this side till a full conjuncture with the Forces which Clanrickard Inchiquin and Ards are Marching up with towards us which we resolve upon so much the rather as resting assuredly confident that Providence hath designed this particular place for the seat of Warre in this Kingdome in regard Cromwell with the remaining division of his Army the treacherously intended delivery of Corke being happily prevented cannot be of any considerable power to Land in any other part to our disadvantage In this Paper Sir I have given your Majesty an entire and exact account of every thing worth your Princely knowledge which may have passed in the late Action of August the second Of which though the Rebells who reckon Deliveries for Conquest may peradventure unseasonably triumph in the Gazets They have no other true Ground then what is included in this Narration The Bearer whereof Sir Robert Welch hath in Commission to satisfie all such Scruples as may appear justly questionable who furthermore is to assure your Majesty that the Army under my Command hath recovered so much Spirit and Ardour against the most Barbarous Rebell That Cromwell at his arrivall will find an Enemy fully possessed with a generous desire of Revenge Honour and Liberty of a more high and noble Courage then his mercenary Souldiery can ever be Principled into whose Conscience clogged with a guilty violation of all Lawes both Divine and Humane must at one

instant drive him into a Cowardly despaire and infuse a glorious confidence of Victory into all the honest Soules of your Majesties Party in Generall And particularly Sir into the Bosome of Your Majesties most obedient Subject and obliged Servant ORMOND Finglai August the 4. 1649. The indorsment was to HIS MAJESTY Resolved in a Councell of War held at Finglasie AUGUST 1. 1649. REsolved That a Party of twelve hundred Foot and five hundred Horse be drawn out of His Excellencies Army to possesse themselves of Baggohrath and Fortifie it Resolved That eight hundred of the prepared Pioneers be commanded to attend the said Party that the place may be Fortified with all Expedition Resolved That the Foot of this Party be commanded by Adjutant Generall Searle and the Horse by Col Matthewes who are to attend His Excellency for Orders Resolved That the Earl of Castle-haven and the Lord Taff draw out two thousand selected Horse with Lieu. Colonell Gerards Fuiseers of His Excellencies Life-guard to second the said Party in case the Rebells attempt to interrupt them Resolved That the Castle being made good a running Trench be drawn from thence to the Water-side to disturb all future Landing Resolved That the running Trench being perfected a Fort shall be raised at the end thereof and six Peeces of Ordnance mounted thereupon to Command the water passages Resolved That a Coppy of these Results be recommended to his Highnesse Prince Rupert who is Humbly desired by the Councell of Warre to furnish out two of the nimblest sort of his Frigots which may serve for Avisoes and give seasonable Intelligence to his Excllency accordingly of the Rebells Course upon the Marine Jo Percivall Secretary to His Excel and Councell of War This is an exact Copy My Lord THe Gentleman who hath vouchsafed the delivery of this Letter to your Hands Professeth himselfe a great Servant of your Lordships and highly addicted to the advance of the Royall Interest and though his unfortunate weaknesse heretofore had made him so clouded to the eyes of his understanding as to render him Incapable of perceiving those artifices by which the Grandees of the Present Faction have ascended to their Noone of Greatnesse yet that Philme being at Present taken off he with great detestation abhors the very Memory of their actions and to shew himselfe willing to satisfie for former mistakes offers to undeergoe any Hazard to testifie the sincerity of his Conversion By him therefore as by a Person lesse abnoxious to suspicion I have chosen to send you my Lord of Ormonds Letter to his Majestie about the Late fight betwixt Colonel Jones and him and take leave to assure your Lordship that it is a most Perfect Copie August the 22 stylo novo Sir Robert Welih came to Saint Germins from his Excellency with an exact Narrative of that action and since that Time severall expresses are come to his Majestie and other Great ones of the Court from the Earle of Castle-Haven the Lord Tasse and the Lord Byron all which render his Excellencies relation so full of exactnesse truth and Ingenuity That his Majestie is so absolutely confirmed in the relation That all the Tempests of your Pamphlets and Thunder of Thanksgiving cannot shake us from an acquiescence in that Narrative The French Kings magnificent reception into Paris hath I doubt not more filled your gazets then the returne of Provence to his most Christian Majesties obedience or the Possibility of an utter Ruine to the Rebells of Burdeaux by the Gallant D'Espernon Or the hopefull spring of a Peace at Cambray easily to be collected from the Duke de Longevills this Letters That which more Particulary acceeds to the English Interest is the Visit of the Lord de Hante-Rive from his Eminency Da Mazarini The substance of whose Message though all be here Buried in a deep gulf of silence yet by observing a more then usuall Gayetie in the aspects of the Greatest Privadoes gives us of the next Orbe just occasion to hope that a Tempest is preparing here which may in no long series of time humble all your Grandees at Westminster and make your counsell of State apprehend White-Hall subject to Earthquakes One thing I am obliged to tell you though something our of order of time which is when the Prince de Conde came to Present his Baise-mains to his Majestie my curiosity drawing neerer unperceived then their Privacies might have allowed me gave me the opportunitie of hearing these words at their departure fall from the Prince of Conde to his Majestie Sire Consolez vous ●●●royez pour chose asseuree que quant a vos enemis nous leur Marcherons sur le Ventre tous deuz ensemble ilsne nous eschapperent pas Le Roy l'a dit son Altisse Royale l'a Promis Sir Comfort your selfe and believe it for a thing assured that for what concernes your Enemies we two together wil March over their Bellies they shall not escape us the King has said it His Royall Highnesse has promised it Whether Montrosse is designed to strengthen Ormond in Ireland or to fall upon the North of Scotland is not knowne Counsels are more obscure here then at Westminster But by an expresse dated the first of August from Lubeck we are Certified That eighteen hundred of his Horse are shipped at Lubeck the Foot are to be Received from Denmarke in number Ten thousand I shall give your Lordship a more particular accompt with the next Conveniency His Majestie hath expressed himselfe very favourable in the Reception of Mr. G. and Mr. Ar. upon your Recommendation and omits no opportunity to testifie what high esteeme you retaine in his Opinion Your Lordship will be Pleased to Pardon my abrupt ending I am at the instant called away and have onely the Leisure to Tell your Lordship that I am in all numbers of gratitude My Lord The Faithfullest and most Humble of your Servants St. Germain en Laye Aug. 28. 18. 1649. FINIS