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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