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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88058	Letters from Ireland, relating the several great successes it hath pleased God to give unto the Parliaments forces there, in the taking of Drogheda, Trym, Dundalk, Carlingford, and the Nury. Together with a list of the chief commanders, and the number of the officers and soldiers slain in Drogheda. Die Martis, 2 Octobr. 1649. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that the several letters from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, together with so much of Colonel Venables letter as concerns the successes in Ireland, be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1649-1650 : Cromwell); Venables, Robert, 1612?-1687.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1649 (1649)	Wing L1778; Thomason E575_7; ESTC R202725	6,013	15

LETTERS FROM IRELAND Relating the several great Successes it hath pleased God to give unto the Parliaments Forces there in the Taking of Drogheda Trym Dundalk Carlingford and the Nury Together with a LIST of the Chief Commanders and the Number of the Officers and Soldiers slain in Drogheda Die Martis 2 Octobr. 1649. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That the several Letters from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland together with so much of Colonel Venables Letter as concerns the Successes in Ireland be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by John Field for Edward Husband Printer to the Parliament of England 1649. For the Honorable William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the Parliament of England SIR YOur Army being safely arrived at Dublin and the Enemy endeavoring to draw all his Forces together about Trym and Tecroghan as my Intelligence gave me from whence endeavors were used by the Marquis of Ormond to draw Owen Roe O Neal with his Forces to his Assistance but with what success I cannot yet learn I resolved after some refreshment taken for our weather beaten Men and Horses and accommodations for a march to take the Field and accordingly upon Friday the Thirtieth of August last Rendezvouzed with Eight Regiments of Foot and Six of Horse and some Troops of Dragoons three miles on the Northside of Dublin the Design was To endeavor the Regaining of Drogheda or tempting the Enemy upon his hazard of the loss of that place to fight Your Army came before the Town upon Munday following where having pitched as speedy course as could be was taken to frame our Batteries which took up the more time because divers of the Battering Guns were on Ship board Upon Munday the Ninth of this instant the Batteries began to play whereupon I sent Sir Arthur Ashton the then Governor a Summons To deliver the Town to the use of the Parliament of England to the which I received no satisfactory Answer but proceeded that day to beat down the Steeple of the Church on the Southside of the Town and to beat down a Tower not far from the same place which you will discern by the Card enclosed Our Guns not being able to do much that day It was resolved to endeavor to do our utmost the next day to make Breaches assaultable and by the help of God to Storm them The places pitched upon were that part of the Town wall next a Church called St. Maries which was the rather chosen because we did hope that if we did enter and possess that Church we should be the better able to keep it against their Horse and Foot until we could make way for the entrance of our Horse which we did not conceive that any part of the Town would afford the like advantage for that purpose with this The Batteries planted were two one was for that part of the Wall against the East end of the said Church the other against the Wall on the Southside being somewhat long in Battering the Enemy made six Retrenchments three of them from the said Church to Duleek Gate and three from the East end of the Church to the Town wall and so backward The Guns after some two or three hundred shot beat down the Corner Tower and opened two reasonable good Breaches in the East and South wall Upon Tuesday the Tenth of this instant about five of the clock in the evening we begun the Storm and after some hot Dispute we entred about Seven or Eight hundred men the Enemy disputing it very stifly with us and indeed through the advantages of the place and the courage God was pleased to give the Defenders our men were forced to retreat quite our of the Breach not without some considerable loss Colonel Cassel being there shot in the Head whereof he presently dyed and divers Soldiers and Officers doing their duty killed and wounded There was a Tenalia to flanker the South-wall of the Town between Duleek Gate and the Corner Tower before mentioned which our men entred wherein they found some forty or fifty of the Enemy which they put to the sword and this they held but it being without the Wall and the Sally part through the Wall into that Tenalia being choaked up with some of the Enemy which were killed in it it proved of no use for our entrance into the Town that way Although our men that stormed the Breaches were forced to recoil as before is expressed yet being encouraged to recover their loss they made a second attempt wherein God was pleased to animate them that they got ground of the Enemy and by the goodness of God forced him to quit his Entrenchments and after a very hot dispute the Enemy having both Horse and Foot and we onely Foot with●n the Wall the Enemy gave ground and our men became masters but of their Retrenchments and the Church which indeed although they made our entrance the more difficult yet they proved of excellent use to us so that the Enemy could not annoy us with their Horse but thereby we had advantage to make good the ground that so we might let in our own Horse which accordingly was done though with much difficulty the Enemy retreated divers of them into the Mill-Mount a place very strong and of difficult access being exceeding high having a good graft and strongly Pallisadoed the Governor Sir Arthur Ashton and divers considerable Officers being there our men getting up to them were ordered by me to put them all to the Sword and indeed being in the heat of action I forbade them to spare any that were in Arms in the Town and I think that night they put to the sword about two thousand men divers of the Officers and Soldiers being fled over the Bridge into the other part of the Town where about One hundred of them possessed St. Peters Church Steeple some the West Gate and others a round strong Tower next the Gate called St. Sundays These being summoned to yield to mercy refused whereupon I ordered the Steeple of St. Peters Church to be fired where one of them was heard to say in the midst of the flames God damn me God confound me I burn I burn the next day the other two Towers were summoned in one of which was about six or seven score but they refused to yield themselves and we knowing that hunger must compel them set onely good Guards to secure them from running away until their stomacks were come down from one of the said Towers notwithstanding their condition they killed and wounded some of our men when they submitted their Officers were knockt on the head and every tenth man of the Soldiers killed and the rest Shipped for the Barbadoes the Soldiers in the other Town were all spared as to their lives onely and Shipped likewise for the Barbadoes I am perswaded that this is a righteous Judgement of God upon these Barbarous wretches who have imbrued their hands in so much