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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87206	A letter from the Lord Deputy-General of Ireland, unto the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Parliament of England; concerning the rendition of the city of Limerick: together with the articles formerly offered, and the articles upon which the same was surrendred: as also a particular of the persons excepted, the ammunition and ordnance in the town delivered upon the surrender of the said city. Friday the 28th of November, 1651. Ordered by the Parliament, that the letter from the Deputy-General of Ireland, and articles, together with the particulars inclosed, be forthwith printed and published; and read by the ministers on the day appointed for thanks to be given in the several congregations. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1650 : Ireton); Ireton, Henry, 1611-1651.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1651 (1651)	Wing I1032; Thomason E647_9; ESTC R202610	11,132	24

A LETTER FROM The Lord Deputy-General OF IRELAND Unto the Honorable William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the PARLIAMENT of ENGLAND Concerning the Rendition of the City of LIMERICK Together with the Articles formerly offered and the Articles upon which the same was Surrendred As also a Particular of the persons excepted the Ammunition and Ordnance in the Town delivered upon the Surrender of the said CITY Friday the 28th of November 1651. ORdered by the Parliament That the Letter from the Deputy-General of Ireland and Articles together with the Particulars inclosed be forthwith Printed and Published and read by the Ministers on the day appointed for Thanks to be given in the several Congregations Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by John Field Printer to the Parliament of ENGLAND 1651. For the most Honorable Willian Lenthal Esq Speaker of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of ENGLAND Mr. Speaker IT was no small Blessing in order to your Affairs here nor without manifest appearances of the Power and Providence of God That your Forces entrusted with me got a Passage over the River Shanon so early in the Summer But that for the matter of it to such as neither saw nor can have a clear Relation of the maner and Circumstances wherein God appeared being rather but the making way for further progress in your Businesses then a thing of visible effect in it self and nothing since then considerable having been effected by that part of your Forces with me save the taking of some few small Castles in Thomond and possessing of others that were of advantage and consequence for you with Garisons and those things of the like or other nature wherein God hath blest the rest of your Forces and Parties in other Parts having I suppose come to your knowledge more immediately from the several persons commanding them I have forborn to trouble you with any immediate account from my self of what hath been done But God who having onely given some Testimonies of his continuing Favor to your Cause and presence with your Servants here in the beginning of this Summers Service in the giving of such a seasonable and easie Passage to us over the Shanon and therewith in a few days more the Possession or Command of almost all the Passes over it when before we had not any hath since seen it good to deny us thus long any further considerable effect in any thing and to exercise our Faith and Patience with divers small Losses in the surprize of several small Garisons and Parties by the lurching Enemy mixt with the smaller Successes he hath given to any of your Forces having now vouchsafed to Crown the Summers Service in the close of it with giving into your hands a place of such Strength Value and Importance as the City of Limerick I thought it my duty hereby to give you an account of it and present to your view the Conditions on which it is Surrendred to you wherewith I thought it not amiss to send also a Copy of the Conditions which about the end of June and beginning of July last were thought fit by advice of your Councel of War here with me to be tendered to the Soldiery and people within if they would have Surrendred then but were rejected by both which being compared together as you will see them in inclosed Papers you may finde how far God suffered them to be hardened then to their own loss in the issue and hath made their Obstinacy then and since serve to your greater advantage at last not onely in point of Freedom for prosecution of Justice one of the great Ends and best Grounds before God and men of the War you have maintained here and in point of safety to English Planters and the setling and securing of the Commonwealths Interest in this Nation but also in respect of valuable benefit to the State which in the value of Arms and Ammunition with some Goods of excepted persons and of the Houses and Lands of the rest by the first Conditions tendered in great part to have been granted away but by these at last reserved clearly in your Power may be some considerable Compensation for your charge in the Four moneths longer Siege For the length whereof and detaining so great a part of your Forces from any other work considerable in all this Summer past I can at this distance give onely this account at present That it pleased God after that loss he left us to in the attempt upon the Island which had it succeeded had given us an easie way and visible advantage for a speedy attempt of the City by way of Force that hath since been fully provided against by their industrious working not to incline the hearts of our Officers at any of the Councels of War held since for that purpose to think a way of present force against the place advisable but onely to provide by way of Siege to starve them until of late after we had largely provided both for security and subsistence of a sufficient part of the Army through Gods blessing to have attended the Siege unto a far longer issue of extremity finding the supposition of their sudden falling into want which was conceived would have been in two Moneths or three at the most and so have given us some competent season for the work remaining to fail us and finding also some hopeful advantage for an attempt by way of Battery at a place we had little observed before God having as it were till very lately hid the advantage of it from our eyes we resolved at last to try that way whether it would please God by the apprehensions of present danger to them in the way of force added to the foresight of more certain extremity by Famine at last though the other should fail so to work upon their hearts within as might induce a present Surrender before extremity of Winter and so save your sickly Army from the hazards and hardships of a Winters Siege And since this Resolution taken sending to several places as speedily as we could for some more Battering-Guns to recruit our Train in lieu of those so carelesly lost at Clare as I suppose you have heard so soon as we had a number of them competent for such a work we began our Approaches in one night and finished our Batteries and planted our Guns the second and next morning began to Batter whereupon they presently sent out to give us assurance they would accept our Conditions for the matter which upon an overture of Treaty about three weeks ago we had tendred them and about which they had sent out Commissioners since from time to time still continuing or renuing the Treaty but with no effect and that day sending out Commissioners to us again in the evening to have the Articles perfected in Circumstances we came to a conclusion upon them by the next morning we cannot tell whether the danger of present Force or foresight of want did more incline