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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

37. pag 86. Denounceth a judgement upon him and his if hee should so much as give any Quarter to the chiefest of us by the warning of Sauls rejection for reserving Agag and Ahabs threatning that his life should goe for dismissing of Benhadad m Cum Turcis Mahumetanis Ethnicis Hebraeis faedus tibi facere Imperator licet ut Deut. 20. 5. Cum civitatibus quae a te valde procul sunt foedus inire poteris c. non autem cum haereticis qui vicini sunt qui pleraque nobiscum habeant communia de his praecepit Deus ut nullum omnino permittes vivere occidatis omnem animam viventem c. pag. 81. 82 83. Gasp Scioppii consiliarii Regii Classicum belli sacri sive Heldus redivivus hoc est ad Carolum q●in●um Imperatorem suasoria approbat authoritat super ut omne lectiore memoria dignum omnibus perutile With Turks and Heathens hee allows him to make a peace but for us that partake with them in some common principles no plea can be admitted to reprieve us from a present slaughter of old and young not saving alive any that breathes whom els where he terms * Gasp Sciopii Scorpiacum i. e. remedium adversus haereses ab ipsis Protestantibus Scorpionibus petitum Scorpions and therefore to be kild assoon as we are born Which horrid Counsell is justified by n Haeresis cum alte radices egit non nisi ustionibus sectionibus seu bellorum vi impetu ac violentia exs●indi debet Praecipitar Deut. 17. ut qui sacerdotis Imperio de Religionis controversiis se non submiserit interficiatur An●mitius tractabimus eos qui corr●●c●nte Christi Evangelio a Catholica fide deficiunt Quid nos facere convenit nisi ut Zelum imitantes Regum veteris Testamenti eos mature emedio tollamus Hac enim laude Helias Iehu alii celebrantur Non esse crudelitatem occidere Ha●●ticos sed pietatem saeva est clementia parcere c. I●a● Paul Windeck deliberatio de extirpandis haeresibus Antidot 10. 11. Windeck in the like application and exhorcation to the burning killing and all other violent course of war for our extirpation by the Presidents of zealous Kings and Magistrates in the old Testament whom such as are Christians he saith ought to exceed accordingly as Heresie under the Gospell is the more damnable concluding all clemencie to us to be cruelty and that which might seeme cruelty to be piety This with much of the like is the sentence they have decreed against us in their Schools published in their Books exhorted Princes to in their Doctrines and accordingly made this Kingdom the bloudy stage wherein they have acted it to the full in murthering and drowning without distinction of sex or age Now whether these evill servants may not be justly judged out of their owne mouthes whose Religion hath bin long agon by the Bishops of this Kingdome decreed to be Hereticall and Apostaticall or recompenced according to their own works upon us which have been so horrid and barbarous as all Heathen and Turkish story are to seek for presidents I leave it to your Honorable wisdoms to determine onely I am sure no stricter bonds can be taken of them to secure us for the future then those which they have broken at this present even that treble obligation of nature oaths and favour wherein they are stil supported by their Clergy as if they did God good service And indeed what hopes can there be of peace where a Kingdome is not at one in Religion which as our wofull experience sheweth it so reason is sufficient to evince it and I am willing to give a Iesuite leave to speak it for me o Nulla unquam familia fuit in qua dissentiens Religio pacem non turbavit exemplo sit discordia inter Isaac Ishmaelem inter Iacob Laban inter Mosen uxorem Sephoram quomodo ergo in toto Regno pax concordia sperari potest ubi Religionis fidei fumma est discordia Qui olim conjunctiores quam Judaei Israelit●● At postquam altare contra altare templum contra templum erectum est mox inexplabili dissidio dissecti dissociati sunt Becanus de poems Haereticorum Quaest 6. What family saith he was there ever where a difference in Religion made not a breach see it in Isaac and Ismael Iacob and Laban Moses and his wife Zipporah and if so what concord can be expected in a whole Kingdome where there is much more disagreement who were neerer a kin then Israel and Iudah but assoone as Altar was erected against Altar they were soone divided in an irreconcileable war The argument mee thinks is probable onely let the application bee to themselves and the endeavours to this Honorable Parliament so to fan and throughly purge the floore of this our Church that there be no such Cananites left in the Land to be thorns and pricks in the e●es of our posterity hereafter of whose Idolatrous falshood and murderous projects wee in this late besieged Towne of Drogheda so thirsted for by them have had too much experience wherein the service that hath beene performed in the unanimous defence of it by my Lord Viscount Moore whose laborious vigilancy and large expences in the want of supplyes elswhere deserves a speciall remembrance Sir Henry Tichburn our valiant Governour with the rest of our couragious Captains and Commanders may merit a prime place in your honorable favour A Collection of some passages in which being by many desired as seasonable for the present and profitable for the future I have in the midst of other distractions and employments presumed in this rude forme to present to this Honourable House whose paternall bowels wee find already have yearned upon us and in the continuance of whose indulgent care with an Application to his Majestie all our hopes are deposited And I doubt not but this poore and meane offering shall the rather gaine acceptance in that it is derived from such who have these many moneths liv'd the next doore to Martyrdome GOD in his goodnesse prosper all your designes for for the reducing of this Kingdom to due obedience refining and enlarging of our Church and the returning of a more setled peace to this disjoynted Island which must be the daily prayers and is the beliefe of Your Honours most humble and devoted Servant N. BARNARD Droghedah May 25. 1642. To the Reader THou hast here the earnest of a succeeding bloudy History which by some other hand hereafter may be perfected and may well be entitled the Martyrologue of Ireland for the present thou mayst apprehend this Relation as an abridgment of the whole wherein each of their parts have been in some measure acted and by the touch of this pulse onely in this one member thou mayst give the righter judgment of the malignity in the body This town was for a long time

of the flourishing their naked swords on the top of the Castle gave notice of being their owne Upon the possession of this all were revived and tooke themselves Masters of the Towne already we quenched the fires that had annoyed the former Tenants and manned it with thirty good Musquetteeres who being within halfe Musket shot played so thicke into the Towne that not a man could stirre in the streetes we drew up our pieces of Ordnance against the inward Gate and with some ten Wooll packes found in the Castle very opportunely made a kind of a Bullwarke for our Musqueteers both to save them from their Cannon and that they might play over them without danger of any other shot though assoone as they perceived this secure approach they troubled us with neither but left their pieces there loaden Our men for distinction sake against the entry of the Towne put every one a white paper upon his hat The Governour tooke one Division with a party of Horse and drew by the backe part of the Towne towards the North-gate out of which they upon the Castle had discerned the f●ight of multitudes of them killed forty in his way Sir Phelemy O Neile who not long before had made such bragges confidently assured his men of the death of so many of our Commanders and as an evidence of it brought forth his owne cloathes into the Market place all bloodyed as if they had beene ours stripped by him now seeing us thus encompassing the Towne and himselfe like to be taken in the net also stole away over the River in which divers in that haste were drowned accompanyed with divers others who as they were going were heard to lament their destiny and curse that Fatall day scarse knowing whither to retreate with any welcome At a by Gate the Governour entered first shortned some of their journey whom he met there posting out and instantly sent a Sergeant to my Lord Moore to signifie to him the Towne was deserted and that he might securely move forwards which as soone as by the second message of a Captaine with some Musqueteers he received a confirmation of he marched on and accordingly found the event beating open the Gates tooke possession of two Brasse pieces and another with the Market place and so about seven a clocke at night they took the Towne without any further resistance The night thus drawing on and the full tyde secured Sir Phelemy in his flight from our prosecution of him The number of the slaine is uncertaine but about a hundred of them were killed at and after the taking of it and of ours about foureteene which were lost upon that unlucky Castle onely Sir Phelemy after he had gone two miles off in a shew of what revenge he could make burnt some part of a faire Castle of my Lord Moores called B●llymaskomlin sentencing him all the while to be a Traytour to God and the King The poore English Protestants to the number of six-score who had received the sentence of death within themselves by this sudden entry of their friends being set at liberty were almost beside themselves for joy Pillage of all sorts was here found in abundance as being of late the Treasury of the County of Lough for the share of which each Captaine tooke the fortune of his Quarter The Souldiers feasted themselves with all sorts of provision which they found dressed to their hands Turkies and Hens were of no value with them that as I have beene told within foure dayes there were about 4000. eaten it was ordinary at one Table to see ten or twenty couple of them in Ranke and File cut off in an instant Sir Henry Tichburne our Governour behaved himselfe throughout the whole very valiantly in the hazard of his person with the meanest Souldier my Lord Moore is accordingly by all applauded as needing rather a b●idle then a spurre in those attempts each Captaine hath gained himselfe much honour and every Souldier deserves encouragement who shrunke not an inch from what they were commanded The glad newes of which we were here saluted with in the streetes the next day being Sunday just as we were comming from Church in the afternoone where we had beene praying for that blessing upon them This victory the breaknecke of the Rebellion North-ward and with which I may conclude as compleating our Siege delivery is by all attributed unto Gods owne handy-worke which succeeded beyond our thoughts or expectation The number of our men by the so many staying behind at Atherdee and stealing backe hither with their pillage upon Muster that morning were found to be but seven hundred and fifty Foote and two hundred Horse and there were then neere three thousand of the Rebels within the Towne able to have beate us out being entered For brasse pieces and other such Artillery they exceeded us also besides the defence which nature had given the place as well as industry This poore Towne of Drogheda when they were the besiegers there were as hath beene since confessed by some of their chiefe sixteene thousand sometimes besetting us the famine pressing us very sore so that what with death and sicknesse we had not above one thousand fighting men yet by Gods goodnesse held out foure moneths and notwithstanding the homebred treacheries their mighty onsets and Alarmes at last with a few were routed Now that this strong Towne of Dundalke every way so well provided with men Ammunition and Victuals thus to be taken with such a small number and in so short a time as one day who can but acknowledge it to be Gods speciall worke indeed putting an evident distinction betweene them that seeke him aright and such as seeke after superstitious vanities That seeing they have boasted Religion to be the cause God hath declared by the event with which he is pleased in supporting ours so fraudulently undermined by theirs in giving us so many wonderfull if not miraculous preservations for which to him onely be raised a monument of everlasting praise and thankesgiving from us and ours from one Generation to another Not unto us but to the King eternall immortall invisible and onely wise God be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen AN APPENDIX OF Some other Occurrences fallen out since in the prosecuting of our victory and further discovery of divers particulars touched upon in the former Relation UPon this quick and seasonable regaining of Dundalke the Key of the North the State thought fit to continue Sir Henry Tichburne there with such an encrease of strength as was necessary and committed the present Government of this Towne to the Lord Viscount Moore of Drogheda who as he hath his honour from hence so his Lands lie about it by which double interest none can be imagined to be more carefull of our preservation About this time we received some Prisoners late Inhabitants of this Towne very luckily escaped from the Rebels taken at the Skirries a little before Christmas last upon their