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A76449	The whole proceedings of the siege of Drogheda in Ireland, vvith a thankfull remembrance for its wonderfull delivery. Raised with Gods speciall assistance by the prayers, and sole valour of the besieged, with a relation of such memorable passages as have falne out there, and in the parts neer adjoyning since this late rebellion. Written by Nicholas Bernard, Deane of Ardagh in Ireland.	Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1642 (1642)	Wing B2020; Thomason E110_1; ESTC R11178	79,934	118

taking their Ensignes and no losse of ours p. 51. The wofull extremity of famine after the Towne had been sifted and all possible reliefe neer hand adventured for p. 36. Our reliefe the second time February 20. wherein Gods speciall hand was evident in divers particulars pag. 57. The same day the Rebels beaten off from our wals when they had mounted many of their scaling ladders pag. 59. Divers horrible cruell acts committed upon the English Protestants neer us pag. 20. The killing of three hundred of the Rebels at the bridge of Gillingstone in revenge of the like number of ours at the same place p. 62. The burning of Morlenton and Colpe with divers of the like and routing them on the South side p. 64. March the 5th Their routing on the North side at Tallagh-holland when seven of their Captains with three hundred others were slaine p. ●7 The taking possession of foure of their Castles on each side of the River Of the taking of Atherdee about eight miles from us with the battle there when foure hundred of them were killed p. 74. The admirable providence of God in the quicke taking of Dundalke about 16 miles from us March 26. with which we accounted our Siege fully raised pag. 75. An Appendix of some other occurrences in the prosecution of our victory since which give some light to the former pag. 80. The Names of the severall Captains as they came in for our defence at DROGHEDAH Octob. 26. 1641. THe Lord Viscount Moore of Droghedah with his troope of Horse consisting of sixty six Sir Iohn Nettervill Captain With their two half standing Companies Rockley Captain Seafowle Gibson Captain His Company of the English Inhabitants and other Protestants were to the number of six score Novemb. the fourth 1642. Sir Henry Tichburne Colonell and Governour of the Town his Company of Foot Sir Iohn Borlase Captain These three though having beene before Officers of the field yet out of their zeal to the present service came as private Captains L. Colonel Byron Captain L. Colonell VVenmond Capt. Iacob Lovel Serjeant Major who died in the Siege Captain Chichester Fortescue Captain Will. Willoughby Captain Edw. Billingsley Captain Lewis Owens Captain Iohn Morris The Troops of Horse Iohn Sloughter Captaine Lievtenant to Sir Thomas Lucas Commissary Generall Thomas Greymes Lievtenant to Sir Adam Loftus Novemb. the tenth Captain Henry Bryan Captain Patrick Trevor Captain Foulke Martin November the two and twentieth Christopher Roper Serjeant Major These 3 Captains escaped very defective in their Companies from the defeat at the bridge of Gellingston Captain William Cadowgan Captain Charles Sownsley Fifty Horse under the command of Sir Patrick Weymes Captaine Lievtenant to the Earle of Ormond February the twentieth with our second relief Captain Richard Borrows Captain Edward Trevor Captain William Hamilton When all the aforesaid Captains excepting the Regiment of Sir Henry Tichburne were appointed to be under my Lord Moores command WEE whose names are here underwritten who have been and continued Captains within the Towne of Droghedah during the Siege and so eye-witnesses of most things which have falne out in it Having duly and diligently read over this Book entituled The Siege of Droghedah doe hereby according to the severall times of our comming thither and according to our best remembrance confirme this following Narration to be wholly truth and do testifie it to be in each particular very impartially and fully related As witnesse our hands this 11 of Iune 1642. Seaf Gibson Io. Sloughter Rob. Byron Rich. Borrows Phil. Wenman P. Wemys The Lord Viscount Moore of Droghedah his Confirmation of the truth of this following Narration HOwsoever the knowne integrity of the Authour is a sufficient testimony of it selfe yet having the second time read over this Booke entituled The Siege of Droghedah where I have beene an eye-witnesse of what hath been done from the beginning of it I doe hereby according to the attestation of the six other Captains and in answer to the desire of such as have conceived it necessary confirme this following Relation to be wholly truth and in each particular to be fully and very impartially written onely declining throughout such passages as may concern my self As Witnesse my hand th●s 22 of Iune 1642. MOORE THE Siege of Drogheda in IRELAND OR A Relation of such memorable passages as have faln out here and the Townes neere adjoyning from the beginning of this late REBELLION THe 23 of October 1641 was the fatall Day pitched upon by the Papists of this Kingdome of Ireland with one consent for the utter ruine of the Protestants and the true Religion professed by them here and doubtlesse had taken effect accordingly had not the speciall providence of God prevented it in a timely discovery at the root which was to have surprized the Castle of Dublin undertaken by the Lord Mac-Guire and as they say cast upon him by some sacred Lot but that morning he was taken himselfe and committed close prisoner where hee had in his thoughts provided the like lodgings for others The fact was horrid in the ayme desperat in the attempt crafty in the project bloudy in the fruits close in the carriage undiscryed till the very Eye of the morning for execution generall in the extent being a Catholike Cast indeed like those Romanists for the whole Coat of our Saviour at the ruine of the whole State at once This though thus stopped at the head yet wrought not so full a cure but that it broke out in deadly issues through most parts of the Body of the Kingdome into which it is not now my purpose to range leaving it to the severall relations of others The chiefe intent of this discourse is to give thee a true account of what hath f●lne out within this besieged Town of Drogheda wherein I have be●● 〈◊〉 this ●hole Winter my selfe The news of the foresaid discovery posting from Dublin hither was met with the same night by much of the like Nature out of the North The trea●herous surp●●●all of Castle Bl●●y Newry Carrick Charlemom Monahan with others came in thick like Iobs ●essengers one upon another all confidently assured by their Surprizers that Dublin was taken already These reports howsoever cred●bl● enough by the conditions of such who were the Actors yet the suddennesse of them bred not at first a full perswasion till wee received a double and treble Confirmation by the flight of many to us stripped and wounded in whom wee began then to apprehend the draught of our owne Picture next but whether by some Skeen abroad or Sword at home or both lay in an even ballance for each man to conjecture Our first succour was my Lord Viscount Moore being then at Mellifont about three miles from us who by the sad news of his sister the Lady Blany and her childrens imprisonment had a warning piece given him of their affection towards himself came with some part of his Troop hither at midnight knockt up the Major

THE Whole Proceedings of the Siege of Drogheda in IRELAND VVith a thankfull Remembrance for its wonderfull delivery Raised with GODS speciall assistance by the Prayers and sole valour of the besieged With a Relation of such memorable passages as have falne out there and in the parts neer adjoyning since this late Rebellion Written by Nicholas Bernard Deane of Ardagh in Ireland This shall be written for those that come after and the people which shall be born shall praise the Lord Psal 102. 18. So that men shall speak of the might of thy marvellous acts and I will also tell of his greatnesse Psal 1456. LONDON Printed by A. N. for VVilliam Bladen 1642. IT is ordered this fourteenth day of July 1642 by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parlament concerning printing that this Book intituled the siege of Drogheda in Ireland c. be forthwith Printed and that the same be printed by W. Bladen and that this Booke be not printed nor reprinted by any other without his consent John White To the honorable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the house of Commons now assembled in Parliament in England NAture teacheth every thing to affect its owne preservation and Reason for the same end compels this Book under your Honourable Patronage whether it tends as to its proper Centre in the maturity of whose wise and pious resolutions rests terrour and dread to the Rebels and the only hope of reliefe to our miserable distresses in the Kingdom of Ireland and to be a Isa 58. 12. the Repayrer of the Breach and the Restorer of Paths to dwell in is so Honourable a Title that there can be no greater invitation That application of * Vid. Melchior ●●●●dast 〈…〉 Pap● Ba●onius in his exhortative to Paul the fifth of those two commands given to Saint Peter b Iob. ●1 17 Feed my sheep c 〈…〉 11. 17. kill and eat i. e. saith he preserve the Catholicks and kill the Hereticks have been in their interpretation the summe of the popish bloudy Conspiracie for this Kingdome for the extirpation of which Idolatrous rout howsoever wee finde there needs no farther incitement then your own Religious zealous inclinations yet wee cannot but humbly declare our affections to it also they like a viperous seed having endeavoured to eat out the hearts of such as nourished them That wee would in a faire medicinall way have healed Babylon cannot be gain said but proving such a fretting gangreen what help is there but an amputation What charitable acts courteous carriage friendly informations we have over-flowed with to them and what ill fruits have been produced from them towards us needs no further witnesse so that for the most moderate of them at least a compelle intrare can be their onely favourable expectation Which howsoever Saint d M●a primitus Sententia erat neminem ad unitatem Christi cogendum non dum enim expertus eram quantum mali eorum viz Donatistarum auderet impunitas At haec opinio mea demonstrantium superabatur exemplis nam prinio appohebatur mihi civitas mea quae cum tota esset in parte Donati ad unitatem Catholicam Timo●e Legum Impertalium conversa est quem nune videmus ita hujus vestrae animositatis perniciem detestare ut in ea nunquam fuisse credatur multas alias civitates c. August Epist 48. ad Vincentium Videlicet ibidem gratulationes gratiarum actiones eorum qui ab Haresi timore l●g●m redierunt Objectiones solvuntur Epist 50. ad Bonifactum lib. 2. contra Petil●●num c. 8● Lab. 1. contra Gandentium cap. 9. 24. L●b 1. contra Parmen cap. 10 lib. de Vnitate Ecclesiae cap. 20. Augustine had bin once against yet upon the experience of that good issue it had in cleering his own Citie Hippo of Heresie and other parts he changed his mind in urging it This e Sent. August num Heterodoxi metu poenarum ad sidem Catholicam cogi possunt collect● a Matth. Merula vide cap. 7. in conclusione cum cohortatione ad Zelum contra Sectarios hujus temporis Merula indeed applyes to us and by the example of this Father exhorts the Emperour and Princes of Germanie to alter their course in a present suppressing the Religion of the Reformed Churches But Becanus the lesuit proceedeth further to move them without any more adoe to the killing of us whom he asperseth with the blot of Heresie after the example of Moses so condemning the worshippers of the golden Calfe the hanging up the heads of the people at Baal peor by Elias Iehu in slaying the priests of Baal And after the applying to us those mortall precepts in the Law against f 〈◊〉 24. 16 Blasphemers g D●●t 17. 12. Disobeyers of the chief Priest and h D●ut 13. 14. enticers to serve other gods and answers of all pleas that might be alleaged for our toleration concludes i ●●●etici 〈◊〉 per●●bant pa●em Christianam quam ho●icidae ●●res ●t hi puniuntur ●oenacapitis ●●go multo m●gis illi qui sunt pernitiosiores Nam cum pax Christiana sit duplex Ecclesiastica Politica Homicidae ●●●es tantum perturbant politicam Haretici utramque Mart. Becan c●p 15. de paenis Haereticorum quaest ● Wee ought to be slain rather then thieves or murtherers as being far more pernicious to Church and Common-wealth Nay Scioppius in his Classicum Belli sacri charges the Emperour with it as his duty to slay our very k S●ul hujusmodi mandatum acce●●t Percute Amaleck interfice a viro usque ad muherem parvulum lacta●●em Nota infantes Hareticorum Deus occidi jubeat ne adultio●●s facti patrum scelete impli●●●tur in ò Deut. cap. 13. 9. 15. STA●IM percuti●s c. Non audias neq●e par●●● ei oculus tuus ut miscrearis sic Imperator interficere debes ●uemcunque c. idque statim ut David in Psal 101. ●n m●●●●in● interficrebam hoc est ut ex●rti fuerant disperderem ● e ●● nullus inveniretur p. 12. 18 19 79. 83. Children and infants after the example of Sauls command for Amaleck and the Israelites for the Cananites that he should not spare neither his eye have pitie l Nulla r●gravi●s Deum offendere potest Caesar quam ●arcendo ●●reticis bello captis exemplo Sau●●● 1 Sam. 15. ●● Ergo 〈◊〉 etiam atque etiam Imperator ut si quando t●●s Dei perduelles d●vin● humano jure mori jussos in potestatem t●am ●edeg●●is ●●e●s 〈◊〉 gladium in vindictam malorum ubi d●tum s●c feri●tu●● ger●● si●itiore quam Saul paena afficiaris saltem ut quod Regi A●h●b s●●ilem ob●a●sam Deus cominatus fuerit in te tu●sq●e 〈◊〉 u●ndo ●●●tias ●e●ic him est pag. 80. 78. Terreat te Imperator 〈…〉 R●gi ●cles●ph●t cla●s●s ●urique Ind●c● jactura terreat te illa 〈…〉 2. c●p ●0

upon some pretended Treaties whom howsoever for some reasons according to a Commission for that purpose it was not thought amisse to protract things by such like parleys yet we gave little heed to any thing they said being perswaded which way so ever they looked they rowed another The subject of much of their discourse was a desire to doe the Town good service which might be the more credible in regard of some estates they had in it Their extraordinary affection to my Lord Moore and his Family inviting him for his safety to retreat to Mellifont againe or if that were not sure enough a stronger Castle was offered him as divers letters to that purpose I have often seen from many remembring him of the security his Father lived in at that same place during all Tyron's Rebellion and therefore his sonne who had deserved better of them could not but be confident of the same Nay proffered to make him Generall at least of all Meath and Louth That what ever losses himselfe or tenants had sustained should ●ll bee repaid to a peny which was often seconded by divers other Agents But the depth of all as the following fruits declare was but to have made a prey of him and his and so to have weakned the Towne of an active and zealous supporter who still as before was very forward to give the life to every designe for its ' preparation ' which had appeared in giving a stop to many of their crafty Plots by the way here Before this Regiment came to us at the earnest request of the said Sheriffe of Louth the State was so farre moved as to send down three hundred Arms for the defence of that County who had not then declared themselves with about fourty more for the Guard of Dundalke but the suspition of their treachery senting stronger here then possibly it might 20 miles further were by my Lord Moore stopped in their passage The Lords Justices having likewise about a fortnight before sent five hundred Armes to the Lord Gormanstones house about five miles from us at his Petition for the arming of Meath upon whose fidelity they still presumed according to the patterne of their Ancestors yet now receiving an intimation of some plot of the Rebels to surprise them were under the care of Lord Colonell Wamman safely conveyed hither with whom there ●ame also a Fortnights Pay for the Regiment but was not supplyed with any more money in twenty two weekes after which as the former offer of the state aggravates the falshood of the Rebels so this later advanceth the honour of this service here in their so zealous continuing their unanimous defence of this Towne notwithstanding so little encouragement The Parliament time now drawing on my Lord Moore was necessitated to a second journey to Dublin where as he was not backward in a free and full declaring himselfe against some Excusers of this Rebellion so was he not unmindfull of this Towne and Countrey adjoyning But propounded a second motion exceeding the former viz. that seeing Sir Henry Tichburnes Regiment consisting but of one thousand Foot and one hundred Horse was not of that number and strength as to secure the Towne and to issue farre out for the prevention of any further approach of the Enemy Hee offered to raise sixe hundred men more at his owne charges to cloath them and give them pay till a supply of moneys should be sent out of England conditionally that the foure Compantes in the Towne over and above the former and not yet affixed to any Regiment might be added to his Command to make up a thousand By which Dundalke Atherdee and the whole County of Louth might possibly have beene secured But it was not so readily accepted as it merited Thus by this forward and Noble offer his affection to the cause being fully discovered and being as I have been enformed the only Lord in the Pale excepting the Earle of Kildare and the Lord of Hoath who was a Protestant the malice of the Rebels was further inraged and presently tooke the advantage of his absence to draw up to his house of Mellifont to the utter spoyling and piliaging of it as will appeare by the Relation following which disaster hee hath beene since assured by them was the fruit of his former motions as being done the next day after his returne Of the Rebels Plundering the House of Mellifont and their cruell Barbarous dealings there Novemb. 25. 1641. UPon the one and twentieth of Novemb. being Sunday as we were going to Church in the morning there came a rumour to our Governour of the Rebels intention to beset Mellifont about three miles from us Whereupon he presently was sending o●t to the former strength there a further supply of two hundred Foot and a troope of Horse But as the Drums were beating there marched downe the hill of Tallihascot about two miles from us Northward a thousand men as they seemed giving many shot as they came This gave a stop to the issuing out of the former forces as interpreting by that and other Circumstances their aime was rather to surprise the Towne but by the issue it appeared the plot was only to divert us there being at that same instant about Fifteene hundred from other parts drawing towards Mellifont The force left there to defend it against some Pilferers besides a few servants of the house was only twenty foure Musquettiers and fifteene Horse two Scouts they had abroad one of whom was cut off the other pursued to the very Gates about an houre before their comming Mac-Maghon sent a note which I saw to the Warders of the house as hee stiled them that if they would give it up they should have quarter and withall a Bullet for a token The quarter-master of the Troope returned a short answer they would all dye rather then yeeld and a bold Scotch-man standing by bid the messenger to advise his Master to make his Bullets bigger Many messengers were with all expedition dispatched hither with letters fowed up in their cloathes for the safer conveyance but we heard not of them All wayes being thus stopped and finding no hope of any further reliefe they prepared themselves for their owne defence for any promise of quarter by the experience of their falshoods to others they gave little credit to They accounted themselves but dead men and so were resolved to sell their lives at as deare a rate as they could shooke hands and incouraged one another The Enemies Horse and Pike were placed upon the top of the hill amongst whom is confessed were some who not many dayes before professed the quite contrary Their Foote marched over the Garden sides in multitudes whom these few of ours so received that they fell all backe about fourty yards and so accordingly retreated foure or five times In briefe they killed sevenscore of them and had made them up so many hundreds but for want of Powder having at the most but Sixe shot some but

in the Country is fled leaving his Wife and Family with about fifty Musketteeres to defend it This howsoever the first time it was denyed my Lord Moore and the Governour as it had beene before to my Lord of Ormond who demanded the surrender of it in the Kings name yet the second time hearing of our pieces of battery approaching gave it up upon Composition and so we have a Garrison there also by which our Towne is securely Flanked on both sides the River After this by the escaping of many poore English from their servitude we had evident assurances of the treacherous messages and plots of our Popish Inhabitants for the betraying this Towne unto them some who never were here before could name us the men describe ●he places by the nearenesse to such a Tower designe the time all which agreeing with our former informations and suspition was a sure testimony How many Letters in the midst of these forlorne hopes have I yet seene of theirs in a vaine comforting themselves with an assurance to use their owne words that the Almighty would doubtlesse favour their just and innocent cause and their holy intentions Another I have seene of O Relies to my Lord Moore that he had no newes but that powder was in making every where to use his owne words thankes be to God and our good King c. But we knew at the same time he was falne sicke upon the newes of Sir Phelemies late routing at Tallagh-hallan To relate what a change presently there was in this Towne from that extremity of scarcenesse and deernesse to what a plenty and cheapnesse things were come would be incredible egges which during this Siege one was a rich present worthy of thankes from the chiefest were now fifteene a penny Hens at two pence milch Cowes at five shillings Horses which before the Siege were rated at three or foure pounds sold for twelve pence nay commonly passed among friends for a quart of Beere The finest Wheate in the Market for eight shillings a Barrell Fish to which we had beene altogether strangers multiplyed abundantly though such a glut in reason cannot be imagined to hold many moneths by the burning so many thousand barrels of Corne further from us which they could not bring in Many bloody murthers were committed upon the English Protestants in revenge of this late defeate At Atherdee they killed all that were remaining there the next night neere Slane an old Gentlewoman with her Daughter and Grandchilde had their throates cut in their beds in divers other places they drowned Men Women and Children The Earle of Ormond Lieutenant Generall was now not farre from us with 3000. Foote and 500. Horse burning the County of Meath and on the eleventh of March attended with divers Colonels and Captaines did us the honour of a visit and dined herewith my Lord Moore at Droghedah who began to recover some competent ability of giving such a troope some entertainement Many at the sight of the weakenesse of our Wals fell into admiration of the possibility of our holding out so long against such a multitude His Lordships intention of being the raiser of our Siege thus unexpectedly prevented God giving that honour before his approach to the feeble strength of the besieged yet was very zealous to take the faire opportunity now given him of the full routing of the Rebels so newly disperst by a present quicke prosecution of them before they could get any head againe Which by my Lord Moore and Sir Henry Tichborne our Governours relation finding very seasonable and of little difficulty called a Councell of Warre viz. the Lord Moore and our Governour Sir Thomas Lucas Sir Simon Harcourt Sir Robert Ferrald with others These upon mature deliberation finding good grounds to consent with his Lordship and conceiving great hopes of a good and speedy successe even to the clearing of those Northerne parts wrote to the Lords Justices very earnestly to enlarge his Lordships Commission which before was so straitned that in the literall sense it could scarce stand with a liberty of relieving us if there had beene need being commanded not to passe over the River of the Boyne beyond which the greater part of our Towne is seated alledging many reasons to enforce it preventing an Objection in the want of victuals by a provision undertaken by my Lord Moore from his owne Lands neere adjoyning And indeed such a confidence was apprehended of prevailing in this motion that our Governour had picked out tenne Companies of our best men fittest for that service and my Lord of Ormond designed the like number of lesse experienced Souldiers for our guard in their roome my Lord Moore as the best guide in those parts and Lieutenant Colonell Weyneman chosen by the said Councell of Warre to be Commanders of them All were ready for their march and appointed to meete his Lordship at Slane five miles off But the Lords Justices proving still constant to their former injunction and renewing a stricter command for his present retreate to Dublin that designe so desired by our Governour as an assured meanes of an instant reducing the whole County of Louth was put to a stand and thereupon our scattered rebellious route who before were in a trembling fit now tooke heart againe and gathered at Atherdee and Dondalke whither as we heard daily posted thousands out of Meath and Louth as to their safest receptacles and presumed not long after to threaten us with another visit The Earle of Ormond submitting in this to the wisdome of the State as presuming some other important affaires were in hand which might justly necessitate that command retreated accordingly onely in answer to our Governours request sent him backe foure companies of Foote and two troopes of Horse with two pieces of Battery Upon the receipt of which my Lord Moore and our Governour who in all things have proceeded very unanimously for the prevention of a further multiplication of Rebels which a longer delay might have produced resolved to adventure upon the same Designe themselves which they were willing others might have beene honoured with and so upon the one and twentieth of March with one thousand Foote and two hundred horse they marched that way ward first finished what they had left undone at Slane in burning the Towne and some villages in the way In the Castle there was returned againe a Garrison of twelve men who by the presumption of the strength of it had a good minde to hold out but assoone as they saw our pieces of battery yeelded and had quarter onely one of our Souldiers formerly runne away from us there taken was hanged about three miles off some bodies of the Rebels appearing a party of Horse was sent out killed forty of them and so pursued them till the rest were employed in burning the Country after them and so continued that day and the next The three and twentieth day of March they marched with fire and smoke towards A●herdee about a