of the world that those of present and future times who desire not to be strangers to what hath passed and been acted at home may receiue true Information heereby In confidence whereof I presume that whether you bee English or Irish that shall reade this Historie you shall finde much matter of contentment to advance the Honour of both Nations If English behold the most dangerous and overgrowne Rebellion that ever was since the Kings of this Land were Lords of that Isle suppressed by the puissant valour of thy victorious Countreymen and a powerfull Invasion of a braue and warlike Nation repulsed and sent home to their Natiue Land Or if you bee of that other Nation you may obserue the loyall fidelitie of the greater part to their lawfull Prince though animated to disloyaltie by the strongest perswasions of their supreme Spirituall Pastor with promises of heavenly reward Heere also you may behold a fatall period given to the Rebellious Insurrections under whose burthen that Countrey hath groaned some hundreds of yeeres and a firme and assured Peace established to the comfort of them and their posteritie And whether English or Irish forget not next after the right hand of the most High bringing miâ—htie things to passe to acknowledge the Prudence Courage and Felicitie of that late Soveraigne who in her deepe and declining age did seale up the rest of all her worthy Actes with this accomplishment as if shee had thought that her taske would bee unfinished and Tombe unfurnished if there could not be deservedly engraven thereon PACATA HIBERNIA The lot whereof was cast and fell happily on our side by the prosperous successe of those Preparations and Encounters which befell this short time of about three yeeres recounted by way of Annalls and Iournalls in this present Narration whereto thou must adde the like acknowledgement of the Wisedome care and provision taken by our late Soveraigne of blessed memory King Iames in the establishment not onely of Peace but also of good Lawes and Iustice there flourishing and continued by the Providence and Piety of our present Soveraigne King CHARLES the true Inheritor of his renowned Fathers Vertues as well as Kingdomes For the storie it selfe it was collected not out of flying rumours and popular tales but as the Title promiseth out of the carefull and diligent Observations of the principall Actors in the services there related And for the truth of their Reports I hope it shall receiue the Approbation of many Honourable and Worthy Persons yet living who may justly challenge a large portion of the honour atchieved in those Warres But I will detaine you no longer Iudicious Reader but leaue you to the use of what is heere presented commending it and my selfe to your favourable censure T. S. A TABLE ALPHABETICALL A LOrd Audley Fol. 83 Ardart Castle taken 78 Sir Anthonie Cooke 31 319 Articles betweene the Queene and Sir George Carie Treasurer of Ireland â—54 Allen Appesley 248 Advertisements of the Spanyards arrivall 195 Armie encamped before Kinsale 205 Articles of Composition betweene Don Iuan de Aguila and the Lord Deputy and Councell 245 Ardea Castle rendred 365 Archer the lesuite flies into Spaine 324 Army lodged before Donboy 311 B. Tege â— Bryen slaine 126 Ballitrarsnie Castle taken 47 Balliragget 27 Batâ—ell of Kinsale 232 c. Berengary Castle taken 383 Lord Barry joynes with Sir Charles Wilmâ—t 363 Lord Barry commands the Rising out of the Countrey 360 Captaine Iohn Barry 295 Captaine Tho. Button his service 204 Tege â— Brien makes an enscape 131 Iohn Burke makes his submission 47 Intends a journey to Rome and Saint Iames of Compostella 329 Walter Burke slaine 126 Sir Thomas Burke 365 William Burke flyes out of the Province 364 Ballihow Castle taken 297 Sir Iohn Barkley his services 126 127 199 233 Sir Francis Barkeley sâ—nt into Connaght Fol. 159 Brough burnt by Piers Lacie 38 Beare and Bantry spoyled 365 Sir Samuel Bagnall commaunded to stay with his Regiment in Mounsteâ— 329 Blarnie Castle rendered to the custody of Captaine Taffe 126 His service against Tirrell in Mâ—skerry 355 Baltimore described 325 Bearehaven described 324 C. Carbrie O Conner 30 Cahir Castle rendred 76 Carigfoyle taken by Iohn O Conner 225 rendred by him 66 Castle ni Parke rendered by the Spaniards 216 Castles delivered by the Irish into the Spanyards hands 224 Certificate of Doâ— Iuan de Aguila into Spaine after his landing 192 Commission to Roger Harvey for the government of Carbry 250 Carties of Carbry submit theÌ„ selues 367 Clanwilliam spoyled by the army 46 O Conner Kerry flyes out of the Province 364 Cloghan Castle rendred 358 Castle-haven described 325 Cape Cleere castle taken 324 Carriknesse castle rendred 365 Cape Cleere castle guaâ—ded by Captain Harvey 267 Lord of Cahir 377 Câ—rmock Maâ— Dermond serues against the Spanyards 203 Accused of sundry Treasons 331 Committed to prison 332 Plotted his escape 334 Makes an escape 351 Makes his submission 353 His service 377 Campe entrenched approaches made before Donboy 311 Sir Charles Wilmot commands the forces in the Lo. Presidents absence 362 Sir Charles Wilmot sent into Kerry 323 Clement VIII Pope his Bull for spirituall livings to Owen mac Egan 371 His Letter or Breve to Tirone and the Irish Rebells 369 His Indulgence to the Irish in Rebellion 368 D. Dermond Moyle mac Garty slaine 300 Dermond O Conner murdred by Theobald ne long Burke 103 Discourse betweene Capt. Reger Harvy and Pedro Lopez de Sâ—to 274 Lord Deputie raised his siege and came to Corke 249 Sickned in his journey to Dublin 280 Sends for the Lord President with men c. 382 Doctors of Salamanca allow the warre of Ireland to be lawfull 284 Donghe Irish'an Island 304 Dingle Castle rendred 99 Sir Henry Danvers 199 233 Downings a Lieutenant at Dorsies 313 Downings 363 Donogh Mac Cormock Cartie slaine 128 Doneshed and Donelong Castles rendred by the Spaniards 267 Dodington a Captaine short at Donboy 318 Donboy taken from the Spanyards by Osulevan Beare 268 Donboy fortified by the Rebels 289 Viewed by the Lo. President 310 Besieged 315 Battered 315 O Donnels hastie march 211 Ioyned with the Spaniards 224 Shipped for Spaine with others 237 His landing reception in Spain 266 Dyed in Spaine 354 Donnegall Castle in Carbry taken 324 Downings castle in Carbry taken 321 Donmanus castle in Carbry taken 303 Dillon a Captaine 82 Dorsies Island taken 313 Connor O Drischal flies into Spaine 324 E. Walter Ednie goeth into Spaine 346 Edward Gough knighted 279 Sir Edward Wingfield sent with 500 foot into Connaght 383 F. Florence Mac Cartie made by Tyrone Mac Cartie More 20 Fights with her Majesties forces 29 Makes a submission to the Lord President 35 His demands ibid. Perswaded to goe into England 114 Makes another submission 94 His jugling 93 Franciâ— Slingsby 82 False rumours of a Spanish Fleet. 328 False rumours of the state of Mounster 376 Forces sent into Thomond 56 Forts to be erected in Mounster 252
within lesse then two Moneths namely before the end of February the President had recommended aboue foure thousand by name unto the Lord Deputie for Pardons who had all put in such pledges or other Caution as by the State of the Province was thought convenient which indeed was such and so warily taken as no Governour in former times had ever done the like All which notwithstanding the President could not satisfie himselfe in the safetie of the one and so consequently in the securitie of the other so long as their pledges were remayning in the Cities of Corke and Limerick the places of their custodie not being of sufficient strength the Keepers many times negligent or corrupt in their charge and the Citizens so partiall as they had rather helpe to convey them into the Countrey then to retaine them within the Citie for prevention whereof the President became an humble Suitor to the Lords of the Councell of England that they would be pleased to giue commandement that the Pledges of greatest moment might by an order from them bee commanded to the Castle of Dublin which should not be any thing chargeable to Her Majestie and yet very profitable for the State As also that they would be pleased to giue Commandement to all such Vndertakers as hold land within the Province that they should make their immediate repaire unto their Signiories that thereby the Countrey might bee the better furnished with English upon any occasion As also that Her Majestie might from them receiue their rents in some part of that immeasurable treasure which was expended in these Warres And lastly being fully assured of a Spanish Invasion in all his dispatches for England He evermore put the Lords in mind of it sending unto them the intelligences hee had and for that he would not be taken unprovided hee continually in all his Letters besought supplies of Victuals and Munition And for that in his last dispatch he had intreated a large proportion of Victuals now in this of the sixth of March hee forbare the same requesting onely fiue Laste of powder and foure hundred quarters of Oates The young Earle of Desmond having beene tenderly brought up in England and not well agreeing with the manner and customes of Ireland and also seeing how much he was deceived in his hopes supposing that al his Fathers Followers would haue relied upon him and obeyed his directions whereof finding little or no appearance desired the Lord President to giue him leaue to goe into England whereunto for the reasons afore mentioned the President easily assented for in all the time of his being in Ireland no one Rebell did for his sake submit himselfe to Her Majestie Thomas Oge of Kerry onely excepted who at his request submitted himselfe and rendered Castle-mange whereof he was Constable by Iames fits Thomas his assignement into Her Majesties hands as formerly hath beene declared But it may be truely supposed that wit and necessitie did perswade him to submit and render the Castle as he did for Sir Charles Wilmot had so blockt him up with Garisons as at that present he was in feare of starving and if he had not taken the opportunity offered upon the Earles motion he was in danger to haue lost both his life and it This I write not to upbraid the Earle or to lessen him in any thing for I must confesse he was too good to liue amongst such traitorly Followers and no man living had a more willing desire to serue Her Majestie then himselfe but the truth is that this was all the service which hee did or could doe during his aboad in Mounster from whence he embarqued the two and twentieth of March and landed at Miniade in Somerset-shire and so to the Court of England where after a few Moneths he died The Letters Pattents which Her Majestie had granted for his restoration the President never delivered unto him where in my opinion he did discreetly and according to his directions for they were sent unto him by Her Majestie with caution not to deliver them except he saw sufficient cause so to doe and that his services or services done for his fake should merit the same of both which there was but weake and slender performance In this first Booke the Reader may behold in what a confused estate the Province of Mounster was in when the L. President entred into his government in the first yeare whereof these memorable accidents hapned the unfortunate death of Sir Warham St Ledger the departure of Tyrone out of Mounster The taking of the Earle of Ormond by the rebels The defeat of Florence Mac Cartie the losse and recovery of Cahir castle the submission of the White Knight the recovery of the Iland and castle of Loghgier the bold attempt of Nugent and the effects which followed therof the burning and spoiling of West Clanwilliam Omulrians countrey the taking and escape of Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle of Desmond the siege and winning of the Castle of the Glinn the freeing of the Province of 2500 Bownoghs Odonnels harrasing of Thomond the encounter betwixt Captaine Roger Harvy and the White Knights sonne the planting of garrisons in Kerry the perpetuall juglings of Flo. Mac Cartie the taking of the Castle of Listoell in Kerry the defeat by the garrison of Kilmallock given to the Sugan Earle the poore and distressed estate he was driven unto the submission of Dermond Mac Owen L. of Dowalla and sundry others the comming into Mounster of the young Earle of Desmond the submission of Flor. Mac Cartie the rendring of Castle Mange the murdring of Dermond O Conner the burning and spoyling of East Clanwilliam and Arlogh the quiet setling of the Province and the restoring the civill government Whosoever with indifferencie will consider how much was done in such short time must acknowledge it to bee beyond expectation and say that God fought for vs and directed our Counsels otherwise it was not to bee hoped for And had not the comming of the Spaniards given new interruptions the worke of Mounster had beene throughly finished The Province fully reduced to a setled peace and in all likelihood so to haue continued The end of the first Booke PACATA HIBERNIA THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE WARRES IN IRELAND Whereby that Countrey was reduced to Subjection and Obedience CHAP. I. Connaght and Vlster men drawen to a head to invade Mounster A Regiment sent by the Lord President into Connaght to assist Sir Iohn Barkley Walter Burke and Teg O Bryen slaine The Lord President with the remainder of the Army come to Limrick The rising out of the Countrey commanded by the Lo. Barry drawne neere to Limericke The Rebels distressed for want of victualls and defeated Donogh Mac Cormocke Cartie slaine Redmond Burkes letter to the Lo. President with the Lord Presidents answer THE prosperous Successes of the last yeere did promise faire hopes that the malice of the Warre was spent and that the Province would within
To all Admirals Viâ—eadmirals Governours Magistrates and Officers and to all other her Majesties loyall and obedient Subjects unto whom this shall or may appertaine A Letter from Odonnell to O Connor Kerry VVHat newes are here the Doctor and Dermond Odrischal may largely report unto you but of this one thing you may bee fully assured that the King will not omit the winning of Ireland if it cost him the most part of Spaine His Majestie doth send you money and munition I pray let our enformation of you bee found true and your service encoâ—rage our King to further merit you I pray you send mee the relation of the newes of our Countrey in such sort as if there be any bad it be concealed from the Spaniards and knowen to me where the Deputie with the Queenes forces are occupied or where they are in â—arrison At the Groyne the foure and twentieth of May 1602. Your loving Friend Hugh Odonnell To his loving Friend O Connor Kerry these giue in Ireland At the same time when Pedro Lopez de Soto the Veador wrote to Captaine Harvie Don Iohn de Aguila did write unto the Lord President and sent him a present of wines Lymmons Orenges c. And to doe him a farther curtesie hee gaue him assurance that his Passeports should bee sufficient for any man that hee would employ into Spaine if hee had any cause to send thither This Letter the President sent to the Lords of the Councell in England who authorised him both to write unto him and to returne him a Present if he were so disposed The copie of Don Iohns Letter and the Presidents unto him translated out of the Spanish doe here enâ—ue A Letter from Don Iuan de Aguila to the Lord President MVy illustre Sennor To say the truth I am very glad that I am in Spaine and that the passage was good which I was to make I confesse unto your Lordship that I am so much obliged for the honourable and good tearmes which the Lord Deputy and your Lordship vsed there in the service of your Prince in all things which concerned me that I desire some apt occasion to manifest my selfe to be a good Paymaster as I ought for those curtesies and for the assurance thereof your Lordship may send securely to me to command any thing you please for your service And that your Ship and Passeport shall bee friendly received And for that in this Countrey there is no fruit of more estimation then Wines of Ripadavia Limmons and Orenges these few are sent to make a proofe thereof and the willingnesse I haue to serue your Lordships whom I commend to God From the Groyne the second of Aprill 1602. Muy illustre Sennor Beso las manos a V. S. Su Servidor Don Iuan de Aguila A Letter from the Lord President to Don Iuan de Aguila MVy illustre Sennor I doubt not but that your Lordship hath received my Letters of the thirteenth of Iuly sent in answer of yours of the second of Aprill by the Captaines Suaço and Sigler and I rest so well satisfied of the good tearmes wherein wee stand as I am desirous to doe your Lordship some agreeable service at that time there was no occasion for mee to make use of the Passeport and offer your Lordship made me for security of that man or ship which I should send into those parts But now this bearer Captaine Walter Edney whose Sonne served Captaine Pedro Enriques de Tejada lately deceased having prayed mee to giue him licence and my Passeport to see his Sonne To supply him of his necessary wants I beseech your Lordship that he may according to your promise safely and securely passe and returne which favour I shall thankfully acknowledge And whensoever your Lordship shall haue occasion to send any of yours into these parts hee shall bee vsed with the like courtesie I haue received profit by the booke of fortification which your Lordship left mee at your departure and hold it as a Relique in memory of you and as a good Scholler I haue put some things in practise whereof your Lordship at your returne hither againe which I hope in God will be never may be a witnesse whether I haue committed any error in the art oâ— no. My greatest defect hath beene the want of the helpe of so great a Master as your Lordship is of whom I am desirous to learne not onely that art but in all else concerning military profession in the which I doe giue your Lordship the preheminence To conclude I rest in all I may my dutie reserved to the Queene my mistresse affectionatly ready at your Lordships service and so kissing your hands I beseech God to preserue you with many happy yeares From Corke the seventeenth of September 1602. Muy illustre Signior Beso las manos a V. S. su Serridor GEORGE CAREVV Although here is nothing to be had worthy the presenting unto your Lordship yet I make bold to present you with an ambling Hackney The man whom the Lord President made choise of to carry these Letters to Pedro Lopez de Soto and to Don Iohn de Aguila was Walter Edney Lieutenant unto Captaine Harvie who was an ingenious man of good discretion and well experienced aswell in Land as Sea service and the better to disguise his employment hee had a Sonne in Spaine a Page unto Captaine Pedro Enrique who after rendering of Kinsale the Captaine aforesaid casting an affection to the boy moved Don Iohn to entreate the President that hee might haue the youth to serue him which was granted and within a few moneths after the Spaniards returne the Captaine dyed and to put a farther maske upon his employment the President fraighted a small Barke loaden with Irish commodities and in it a choise Irish horse with a rich pad and furniture and some other trifles which hee sent to Don Iohn de Aguila and for his safetie hee had two Passeports with him the one from Captaine Harvie the other from the President the Presidents Passeport ensueth By the Lord President of Mounster in Ireland I Sir GEORGE CAREVV Lieutenant generall of the Artillery for her Sacred Majestie the Queene of England in that her kingdome and her Highnesse Lord President for the Province of Mounster in Ireland doe certifie that I haue licensed Captaine Walter Edney to goe into Spaine to visit his Sonne remayning there and to returne hither within two moneths after the date hereof this being agreeable with the allowance and power which Don Iohn de Aguila did giue me at his being here the coppy whereof is heereunto annexed Giuen at Corke the seventeenth of September 1602. G. C. Of these dispatches for Spaine enough being said it is time to reâ—â—â—ne to the passages in Mounster but first I must relate unto you the newes from Spaine sent in a Letter from Sir Robert Cecill unto the Lord Deputie and the same transcripted by master Secretaries direction unto the President the
G. George Flower Captaine 198 Sir George Bourcheir sent to Kilkenny 27 Sir George Bourchier comes to Corke 199 Sir George Thornton joynes with the Lord Barry 360 George Kingesmill maymed at Donboy 314 George Blunt 41 Glancoyne castle surprized by Sir Francis Barkley 84 Glin castle besieged and taken 63 64 Gregory Castle taken 297 Geoffrey Galway Major of Limricke fined imprisoned 110 And a new Major elected 111 H. Henrie Skipwith Captaine 15 315 Henry Malbie slaine 365 Sir Henry Folliot 233 Husseyes Report of the Rebellion in Mounster 146 Hopton dyed of a hurt 214 Hostages delivered by Don Iuan and their Names 247 Hugh Mostian 128 Sir Henrie Power 31 253 I. Iames Fits Thomas apprehended by Dermond O Conner 54 Iohn Power 55 Iohn Bostocke 30 Instructions for the Lord President of Mounster 6 Iames Archer Iesuite 26 InstructioÌ„s to the Earle of Thomond 287 Instructions for Capt. George Blunt 256 Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle taken prisoner 135 His Examination 174 His Relation to the Lord President 139 Iames fits Thomas Dermond Mac Gragh make a narrow escape 106 Don Iuan de Aguila his Declaration at Kinsale 200 His Request to the Lord Deputie for shipping 252 Intelligence of the Spanish Invasion 188 Irish in Mounster revolted to the Spaniards 224 Irish fled into Spaine with their Names 237 Iames Gold second Iustice of Mounster 6 Iohn fits Thomas his practice to deceiâ—e the Lord President 328 Iames fits Thomas the young Earle of Desmond commeth into Ireland 85 Returneth into England 122 Iames Grace 217 K. Kinsale summoned and Don Iuans Answere 219 Kinsale Burgesses desire their Charter 252 Kinsale receiues their Ensignes of Magistracie 359 Kilcow castle taken by Capt. Flower 383 Knight of Kerry protected 299 Defeated by Sir Charles Wilmâ—t 361 Makes his submission ibidem Kilcrey Castle and Abbey rendred 334 Kirton a Lieutenant hurt at Donboy 318 L. Lowghguyrre taken by the Rebells and recovered againe from them 45 Listoell Castle besieged and taken 97 List of the Captaines of the Spanish armie 191 List of the Army in Mounster 290 382 Lixnaw castle taken by coÌ„position 296 Leamâ—con castle taken 321 Lettertinlesse castle taken burnt ibid. Laghlin O Dallic 360 Lord of Lixnaw defeated by Captaine Boys 383 Letters Patents for Sir George Carew to be Lord President of Mounster 3 A Letter from the Lord President and the Earle of Thomond to the Lords of the Councell 24 A Letter from Iames Galde Butler to the Lord President 42 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 40 A Letter from the Mounster Rebells to O Dâ—nnell 58 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 62 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 70 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 48 Two Letters from William Burke and Moroghe ni Moe O Flartie to the Lord President 60 61 A Letter from her Majestie to the Lo President 86 A Letter from Redmond Burke to the Lord President 96 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 80 Letters Patents for Iames fits Gerald to be Earle of Desmond 89 A Letter from Cormock Mac Dermond vnto Tyrone 100 A Letter from the Earle of Clanrickard to Theobald ne long Burke 103 A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Iames fits Thomas 111 A Letter from her Majestie to the Lord Deputie 116 A Letter from the Lord President to the Lord Deputie 119 A Letter from Redmond Burke to the L. President with his Answers 128 A Letter from Tyrone to Florence Mac Cartie 132 A Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President 132 A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie 141 Two Letters from Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle to the K. of Spaine 154 A Letter from her Majestie to the Lord President touching base Monies 147 A Letter from Thomas Shelton to Florence Mac Cartie 169 A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Florence Mac Cartie 170 A Letter from Tirone Iames fits Thomas Florence Mac Cartie and Mac Donogh to the Pope 175 A Letter from Mr. Secretary Cecill to the Lord President with Spanish Intelligence 182 A Letter from the Lord Deputie to the Lord President 185 A Letter from the Lord Deputie satisfactory to the Lord President 186 A Letter from Donnell O Sulevan Beare to the King of Spaine 228 A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to the Archbishop of Dublin 260 A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila 260 A Letter from the Secretary Ybarra to Don Iuan de Aguila 261 A Letter from the Secretary Franquesa to Don Iuan de Aguila ibid. A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila 262 A Letter from the King of Spaine to Don Iuan de Aguila 263 A Letter from the L. Deputy and Councell to the Lords in England 264 A Letter from O Sulevan Beare to the King of Spaine 269 A Letter from Owen Mac Eggan to Richard Mac Goghagan 307 A Letter from Iohn Anias to the Lord of Lixnaw 309 A Letter from Iohn Anias to Dominicke Collins ibid. A Letter from Iames Archer to Dominicke Collins 308 A Letter from Donnell O Sulevan Beare to the Earle of Carazena 27â— A Letâ—er from Donnell O Sulevan Beare to Don Pedro Zubiaur 272 A Letter from the Lo. President to the Spanish Cannoniers in Donboy 294 A Letâ—er from Don Iuan de Aguila to Câ—ptaine Iuan de Albornos Y Andrada 227 A â—etter from her Majestie to the Lo. Pâ—esident 209 A Letter from her Maiestie to the Lord President 339 A Letter from Don Iuan de Aguila to Tirone and O Donnell 227 A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie 253 A Letter from the Lord President to Don Iuan de Aguila 326 A Letter from Tege Mac Cormock Cartie to the Lord President 330 A Letter from the Lords of the Councell in England to the Lord President 336 A â—etter from her Majestie to the Lord Pâ—esident 339 A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie ibid. A Letter from Captaine Roger Harvie to Pedro Lopez de Soto 340 A Letter from Don Iuan de Aguila to the Lord President 344 A Letter from the Lord President to Don Iuan de Aguila 345 A Letter from O Donnell to O Conner Kerry 343 A letter from her Majestie to the Lord President concerning the Earle of Clanrikard 378 A Letter from Iohn Burke to the Lord President 379 A Letter from Iohn Burke to Sir George Thornton 380 A Letter from the Lord Deputie to the Lords in England 384 M. Maurice Stack sent into Kerry 67 Treacherously murthered 79 O Mulrians Countrey spoyled 47 Mac Awley spoyled by Sir Francis Barkley 108 Mocrumpe Castle besieged 334 Taken 351 Muskrey-quirke and Arloghe spoyled by the armie 106 Mounster in what state after the Siedge of Kinsale 283 Malachias the Popish Bishop of Kilmakow 380 N. Names of the Councellors of Mounster 19 Sir Nicholas
owne home leaving the Earle to a desperate fortune who now perceived that the Provincials submitted themselues daily to the President and the strangers returned into their severall Countries and that no aide approached either from the South or North by Sea nor Land was compelled together with Iohn his Brother Maurice Mac Thomas Pierce Lacy and the Knight of the Glyn to leaue the Countrie of Corke and to fly into Tipperary and Ormond and from thence Iohn fits Thomas hasteth to Vlster CHAP. XIIII Supplies of Foote sent from England Osulevan More sent by the Lord Deputie to the Lord President The Castle of Glancoyne surprised by Sir Francis Barkley Florence Mac Carties Wife and Followers perswaded him to goe to the Lord President The young Earle of Desmond arrived at Yoghall A Letter from Her Majestie to the Lord President Her Maiesties Letters Patents for Iames Fitz-Gerald to be Earle of Desmond THE Lords of the Councell of England by their Letters bearing Date the twentie seventh advertised the President that there was sixe hundred Foote in a readinesse to be sent to Corke to supply the Armie and for that many Souldiers daily arrived in England by Passeports from their Captaines onely They gaue the President a straite Charge to take order with all the Maritime Townes that no Souldier should be transported out of any of them without a Passe under his owne Hand and Seale and the last of the same he had directions from their Lordships that good Bands with Sureties should be taken upon all Merchants of Ireland which traded with Spaine or France not only for their owne good behaviours and loyalties when they were beyond the Seas but to all such Passengers as they should carry with them which was presently put into execution Dermond O Conner at his late being in Mounster had caused Osulevan More a man aboue sixtie yeares of age and yet never knowen to be in action against Her Majestie neither in Iames fits Maurice his Warres nor in the old Earle of Desmonds nor in this last Rebellion This man I say Dermond O Conner had taken Prisoner not without Consent and Councell of Florence Mac Cartie because he refused to pay Bonnaght unto the Connaght men Captaine Tirrell by force or fraud I know not whether tooke the Prisoner from him and caried him into the North who escaped out of the Vlster mens hands was taken by Sir Theobald Dillon of Connaght and presented to the Lord Deputie by whom hee is committed to the Castle of Dublin untill his estate should be further knowen and not long after he sent him to the Earle of Ormond to be sent by him to the President to be disposed of according to his discretion He being about this time come to Corke raileth bitterly against Florence ascribing both the beginning and continuance of his troubles to him and relating to the Councell such intelligence as hee had learned in those parts where he had beene detained returneth into his owne Countrey The Arch-rebels Iames fits Thomas Fits Maurice and the Knight of the Glyn not finding as it should seeme the entertainement they expected in my Lord of Ormonds countrey or rather notintending at the first to make any long stay there but onely that thereby the President might thinke them quite gone and so make no further inquirie after them did in the beginning of this Moneth of October steale backe into the Countie of Limerick yet not so privily but the President had intelligence thereof for it was signified unto him the fourth of this instant that Desmond was about Arlogh having not aboue fiue in his Company and two of them came lately from the Pope with promise of Succours which came too late for his turne as hereafter shall be shewed In the meane time our Garrisons prospered so well that Sir Francis Barkley got the Castle of Glancoyne in Connilogh burning and spoyling great store of Corne in those parts and Sir Charles Wilmot in Kerry prevailed so farre that Castlemange held by Thomas Oge and Listoell defended by Fits Maurice were the only two Castles held against her Majestie which were both regained within short time and Captaine Flower at Lysmore wrought miracles against the Rebels in those parts as Sir Richard Aylward wrote to the President But Florence Mac Cartie notwithstanding his manifold Letters stuffed with abominable oathes came not as yet to the President nor indeed minded he to come as it was reported had not his Wife and some of his Countrey in a manner compelled him thereunto for she refused to come to his Bed untill he had reconciled himselfe to Her Majestie saying that she knew in what manner her Father had that Earledome from her Highnesse and though she be not pleased to bestow the same wholly upon her yet she doubted not to obtaine some part thereof but if neither of these could bee gotten yet was not she minded to goe a begging either unto Vlster nor into Spaine and to confirme this report it was certainely knowen that she with the helpe of her friends kept the Castle of the Lough in Desmond by force from him Her Majestie having evermore had a determination to send Iames fits Gerald Sonne unto the late Earle of Desmond attainted in Ireland and having found by experience that the attempt which Dermond O Conner made in the apprehension of Iames fits Thomas was at his Wifes suite in hope thereby to obtaine the restitution of her Brother to his old Title of Earle of Desmond and also unto some state of Inheritance for his maintenance did now resolue to put her determination in effect hoping that his presence in Ireland would draw the ancient Followers of the Earle of Desmond his Father from Iames fits Thomas the supposed Earle and therefore releasing him out of the Tower where from his infancie he had beene Prisoner shee not onely admitted him to her presence but stiled him Earle of Desmond and sent him conducted into Ireland by Captaine Price a sober discreet Gentleman and an ancient Commander in the Warres who landed with his charge at Youghall the fourteenth day of October from thence he brought him to Moyallo to the President upon the eighteenth where from Her Majestie he presented to his Lordship the young Earle Her Majesties Letters and Letters Pattents under the great Seale of England for his restitution in blood and Honour both which Letter and Letters Pattens I thinke it not unnecessary to set downe the true Copies which were as followeth A Letter from her Maiestie to the Lord President ELIZAB. R. TRustie and Welbeloved wee greet you well Wee haue now at the last resolved to send over Iames fits Gerald into Mounster after long debate with Our selfe what accidents might follow thereupon wherein although there might be many doubts to what hee may bee inveagled in times to come yet that opinion which wee conceiue of his owne good nature and disposition to gratefulnesse for
part of those Forces which at first were allotted unto him for this service and therefore besides those fiue hundred which were of late cashiered by direction from the Lord Deputie he was contented to spare one thousand more to bee disposed for the warres of Linster or other places neere adjoyning conditionally that they might remaine upon the List of Mounster aswell to countenance his proceedings as also that he might call them backe upon any occasion if new broyles should bee raised and so in effect reduced the Armie of that Province to fifteene hundred Foote and two hundred Horse You heare before that the Earle of Ormond upon conference with the President undertooke to driue Redmond Burke and the other Rebels his associats out of his libertie of Ormond within the liberty of Tipperary which although he oftentimes assaied to effect yet it sorted not to his desired end untill the beginning of this Moneth of Ianuary at which time he employed the Lord of Dunboyne Sir Walter Butler his Nephew and Captaine Marberry with such forces as he had of Her Majesties and the Countrey to so good purpose that besides fourty fighting men that were presently slaine and amongst them Thomas Burke brother to the said Redmond and the Armes of thirtie more gotten they forced Redmond and all his Company into the river of Nore being at that time very high and there drowned seventie of his men with their armes besides divers Churles and all their baggage certaine persons were also taken in this service amongst whom was Iohn Burke brother to the said Redmond who was shortly after executed in Kilkenny and William Burke an other of his brethren grievously wounded But to returne to the Presidents actions who desirous that the Countrey might grow acquainted with the civill governement whereunto of late it had beene a stranger thought it convenient that the Sherifes being necessary officers for the State should looke into the Countrey aswell to finde out such ill disposed Malefactors and idle Vagabonds as were pernitious to the government as also to levie at reasonable rates such provisions as the Countrey yeeldeth and the Garisons wanted for this cause Iohn Barry the Sheriffe of the County of Corke made a Iourney unto some of Florence Mac Cartie his lands who no sooner entered into his Countrie as hee termed it but presently he was resisted and before he could make his retreate some of his men were murthered the like measure was also offered to some of the Garison of Kerry who had no sooner set foote beyond the Mang a River that parteth Kerry and Desmond but they were instantly assaulted by Florence his Followers and two of his souldiers slaine The President receiving Advertisement of these malicious and traytourly practises of Florence still continued was exceeding desirous according unto directions sent him out of England to get him into his hands if it might bee effected without putting the Queene to a further charge which without some temporizing could not as yet conveniently be performed For Florence finding himselfe to haue notoriously incurred â—everall breaches of his former protection wrote divers Letters unto the President in excuse of these facts the same being stuffed as his phrase was with damnable oathes and execrable blasphemies that himselfe was never acquainted with the former slaughters and that his people were strangely overseene therein who mistaking the Souldiers for the Sheriffes men and the Sheriffes men for Traytors committed those offences at unawares Answere was remissed by the President that the State was well perswaded of his loyaltie and innocencie touching these disorders and therefore requested him very earnestly to make his repaire unto him that hee might by his presence and advice the better finde out and punish those malefactors but by no meanes or wayes could he be drawen foorth of his strong Countrey of Desmond before hee had gotten his protection to be renewed a plaine demonstration of his guiltie conscience Not long after upon his repaire to the President he mooved him to goe for England laying before his Iudgement divers commodities that might thereby accrew unto him First he should prooue these suggestions to be untrue which some of his Enemies had buzzed into the eares of the Councell of England That hee was a vowed enemy to the English Government and a devoted friend in his heart to the Spanish King Secondly that by his owne presence with the Councell he might get that Countrey of Desmond confirmed unto him which hee now held rather by courtesie then by right And lastly that the Queenes Majestie might understand out of his mouth the present estate of that Province to whose relation as he verily thought shee would giue attentiue eare and credit All this was urged to the end that the Province might be rid of so dangerous a member who vvas most likely to breed nevv commotions This Gentleman smelling the Presidents drift pretended himselfe to bee most willing and for that purpose would returne into Desmond and when his necessaries were provided hee would speedily proceed in his Iourney for England Within certaine dayes after he sent Messengers to the President signifying unto him that the Countrey of Desmond was so poore and beggerly as it could not possibly affoord him meanes for such necessaries as hee needed for his Iourney and therefore requested his Lordships Letters unto the chiefe Gentlemen of Carbery that they would bee contributors unto him in a businesse that did so neerely concerne him All this being graunted and effected hee neither went forward nor did he purpose at all to goe as the sequell of his doings manifestly declared CHAP. XX. The Lord President advertiseth into England of the intended invasion of the Spaniards Demaunds made by the Lord President for Money Munition Victuals A Letter from Her Majestie to the Lord Deputy of Ireland to pardon all such as the Lord President should nominate certaine persons excepted as uncapable of pardon A certaine branch of the Lords of the Councels Letters to the Lord President THE President having as is said reduced Mounster to good tearmes of obedience and had promised to lend the Lord Deputie at any time one thousand 〈◊〉 for the service of Linster yet he still insisted that they might remaine as part of the List of Mounster 〈◊〉 to that end upon the thirteenth of Ianuary hee wrote unto the Lords of the Councell in England Also hee advertised their Lordships that undoubtedly the Spaniards would invade Ireland for testimonie whereof he sent unto them many advertisements which came unto him out of Spaine and that many Romish Priests and Fryers which are the forerunners of mischiefes in this Countrey were lately come into Ireland to no other end then to withdraw the hearts of Her Majesties naturall Subjects from Her to the Spaniard Also for prevention of future mischiefes that hee might not bee unprovided if the kingdome were invaded although he should haue no more then fifteene hundred Foote left in
for the service of Linster one thousand Foote whereof the Companies of Sir Iohn Barkley and Sir Garret Harvies to bee part and with them Sir Richard Greames troope of Horse According to this direction he assembled them at Clonmell and gaue the Command of them unto the Lord Awdley and as they were ready to march hee received advertisement from the Earle of Thomond that a body of more then three thousand men of Vlster and Connaght were presently to enter into the Province whereupon hee wrote unto the Lord Deputie this ensuing Letter making stay of the Lord Awdley untill he should receiue answer thereof A Letter from the Lord President to the Lord Deputie IT may please your Lordship I am so infinitly distracted betweene the earnest desire I haue to satisfie your Lordships commandements and the present dangers which I see hangs over this Province if I should obserue them as that I stand amazed what Councell to take being in my selfe wholly addicted to obedience and by necessitie in a manner enforced to pause upon the same untill I may receiue your Lordships answer to these and then without farther protraction I will bee ready accordingly to obserue your commandements wherein I humbly pray your Lordship deliberatly to advise being as I take it especially materiall for the furtherance of Her Majesties service The next day after I received your Lordships Letter of the seven and twentieth of Ianuary being the thirtieth of the same for the better expediting of your directions I addressed severall warrants unto the Captaines residing neerest unto me commanding every of them to meete at the Townes of Clonmell and Fetherd by the sixth of this Moneth there to receiue such further directions as the Lord Awdley who I haue appointed to command them should direct The List consists of one thousand and fiftie Foote and Sir Richard Greames Horse Sir Garret Harvie lyes so farre remote in Kerry as I could not conveniently in so short a time draw them to the rest Wherefore for that particular I humbly pray to be excused and for Sir Iohn Barklies Company who are part of the List aboue-said I haue directed them by warrant according to your Lordships former pleasure signified unto me before the receipt of your Lordships last letters to repaire into Connaght but haue now countermanded them and doe hope they are not yet past Thus your Lordship may see my willingnesse to obey your directions which I did as gladly and affectionatly as your Lordship can desire But since having this day received these inclosed Letters from the Earle of Thomond and Master Comerford I doe make humbly bold to present the consideration of them unto your Lordships wisedome before I doe throughly accomplish your Commandements wherein my hope is that your Lordship will both giue me thankes and hold me excuâ—ed because the publike service doth violently urge me unto it In my judgement I am perswaded that this intelligence is true drawne thereunto by many and sundry the like advertisements from all parts and persons lately reconciled whereof I could send your Lordship bundels of papers of divers mens relations and now confirmed in the same by these inclosed Letters which as your Lordship sees threatens the present disturbance of this Province not yet well setled Yet neverthelesse that it may appeare unto your Lordship that I am not backward to accomplish any thing which your Lordship shall require I do yet continue though not without some hazard to this Province if these Northern Forces should presently invade us to send the Companies aforesaid to the Rendevous before mentioned with directions to remaine there until your Lordship shall returne me your pleasure in answer of these and then what you shall prescribe unto me I will dutifully and carefully effect assuring my selfe that your Lordship will haue such a speciall regard to the State of this Province as that you will not withdraw them but upon certaine knowledge of the untruth of these intelligence But as a Councellor to speake my opinion if your Lordship can other wayes follow the prosecution in Linâ—ter without calling Forces from hence it were very expedient to forbeare the same untill this Cloud be overpast which cannot long hold in suspence for all the danger is betweene this and the end of the next Moneth after which time untill the Cattle be strong and giue milke there is little doubt All which humbly referring to your Lordships better consideration I rest Moyallo the second of February 1600. G. C. Not many dayes after the Lord Deputie by his Letters so well approoved of the reasons why the President stayed the Lord Audley as hee thanked him for it and willed him to make Head against the Rebels descent and hereafter when they might be better spared then he prayed him to send them unto him The effect of the Lords of the Councells Letters to the Lord President IAnuary 28. the Lord President received Letters of great comfort from the Lords in England saying That they were exceeding glad to see that in so short a time hee had reduced the Province to such tearmes as that he could indure the cashiering of fiue hundred Foot and spare the Lord Deputie one thousand more of his List which was an evident demonstration of his Labours well spent in the Service and that his holding of Assises and Sessions so long dis-used was a manifest signe of a new life in the Province That they had written to the Lord Deputie to call Theobald ne Long Burke in question for the murdering of Dermond O Conner and had required him to see it punished That notwithstanding her Majesties pleasure was signified unto him that Iames fits Thomas his Brother Iohn the Baron of Lixnaw the Knight of the Valley and Pierce Lacie should not be received to mercie upon any condition but to be left as children of perdition unto destruction yet considering how long Rebells may continue by underhand friendships in Ireland shee was pleased that the Lord President should haue power if he saw cause to induce him thereunto to accept of the last three but with this caution That they should be pardoned for life onely and that not untill they had performed some signall services which might merit such gracious favour Lastly they admonished the President to carrie a strict hand upon the Commissaries of the Musters for by Certificate from Dublin they understood that they were very slacke in their duties The President knowing that it was a matter of no lesse moment to retaine and keepe the Provincialls in subjection and good order then it was at first to reduce them hereunto imployed now a great part of his time in devising such courses as might secure them from a future revolt and therefore first resumed into his owne hands all power of protecting and then protested never to renew any protections already granted whereby they were constrained to use all celerity and haste for the obtaining their Pardons In so much that
necessary for the sustenance of our Troopes because there came not such a quantitie of Bisquet as his Majestie commanded and was not more then for two Moneths or little more It is likewise convenient that there come a great summe of monie for it imports much to pay well for want whereof there rise no disorders that of friends wee gaine not enemies That others may come in the place of the Accounter and overseer that brought us to the Groyne It is convenient to send two Doctors because there is none in the regiment of Spaniards Likewise that an Auditor Generall bee sent to serue here because there is none It behooveth also to send Carpenters and Smiths or Farriers being very necessary And that his Majestie bee served that there might remaine here three or foâ—re ships to giue advise of whatsoever shall succeed there being none left here at this present The next day after Don Iuan was landed Sir Charles Wilmot sent Captaine Francis Slingesby with his â—oote Company and Sir Anthony Cooks Horse with directions to take the best view hee could of their fleete and forces who at his comming thither found them possessed both of the Towne of Kinsale and of the Castle of Rincorran neere adjoyning unto it and to bid him welcome they drew forth a Company or two of Foote and a skirmish for a little space was entertayned wherein there were some hurt but none slaine Captaine Slingsby having performed his directions returned to Corke CHAP. XI Second Letters from Sir Charles Wilmot of the arrivall of the Spaniards in Kinsale Debate in Councell what wâ—â— meetest for the Lord Deputy to doe The Lord Deputy assented to the Lord Presidents advise The Lord Presidents providence A dispatch into England of the Spaniards arrivall The Lord Deputy goeth with the Lord President into Mounster None of the Provincials of Mounster did adhere to the Spaniards as their first landing The report of a Master of a Scottish Barque concerning the strength of the Spaniard Captaine Flower sent to view Kinsale Direction given for the burning of the Corne neere Kinsale A Letter from the Archbishop of Dublin and Don Iuan de Aquila unto Tyrone and O Donnell The Lord Deputy and Lord President c. went to view the Towne of Kinsale The Lord Deputy with the Army marched towards Kinsale AT the instant when Sir Charles Wilmots Letters of the Spaniards arrivall came to Kilkenny which was upon the three and twentieth of September as afore mentioned the Lord Deputie the Earle of Ormond the Lord President Sir Richard Wingfielde Marshall of the Army of Ireland and Sir Robert Gardiner the chiefe Iustice were in Councell advising what course was fittest to take if the Spaniards should land But now Sir Charles Wilmots Letters gaue them cause to advise what should be done they being landed to confirme the same while they were in Councell second Letters came from Sir Charles Wilmot and the Major of Corke that the Spaniards had quitted the harbour of Corke and were all at an Anchor in the haven of Kinsale The question was then what the Lord Deputy should doe The Earle of Ormond the Marshall and the chiefe Iustice were of opinion that hee should doe well to hasten to Dublin and there to assemble his forces together and whilest they were drawing to a head to giue order for supplyes of victuals and munitions to bee sent to Corke and that the President should presently bee dispatched into the Province to defend the Citie of Corke untill the Lord Deputie came to his reliefe wherein all expedition was to bee vsed for their reasons were that if the Lord Deputie presented himselfe in the Province with small forces it would encourage the Enemy and put distrust and feare in the Provincials which were either well affected or neutrals The Presidents advise was opposite to theirs beseeching the Lord Deputy to goe presently into Mounster although hee had no more then his Page with him for said he if the Provincials shall see that you turne your backe towards them they will conceiue it proceeds of want of force and then undoubtedly a generall revolt will ensue but when they shall see you personally amongst them that doubt will be removed and besides the Armie now dispersed will make more haste after you then they would doe if you attended their comming to Dublin The Lord Deputy inclined to the Presidents Councell but said he what should I doe there not being able to mainetaine the Armie with victuals for the space of a weeke nor to furnish it with munitions of both which there is no remaine in the Magazines in Dublin The President willed him to take no care for those wants for hee would furnish him and the whole Armie for two or three moneths which indeed hee was able to doe for hee had spared the expence of victuals not consuming so much as a Bisquet for more then sixe moneths giving the Souldiers money and having beene evermore confident of the Spaniards arrivall had procured good supplyes of munitions which were frugally and sparingly issued The Lord Deputy like unto one that was overjoyed with such unexpected provisions rose from his Chaire embraced the President and said that if hee had not beene more then provident that himselfe did not know what to haue done and that his honour had beene indangered and ascribed to him what hee well deserved In conclusion the foure and twentieth the Marshall Sir Henry Davers and Sir Iohn Barkley were dispatched into Linster and to Armaghe to assemble the Army and to bring it withall possible expedition into Mounster and Letters were dispatched to Sir Charles Wilmot to bee well upon his guard and dispatches sent into England by Captaine Iohn Roberts of the Spaniards arrivall All things being thus ordered doubt was made how the Lord Deputy could be conveyed safely to Corke being attended by no other then his household servants in that dangerous time which was satisfied by the President who had then with him there one hundred Horse and for the furnishing of the Lord Deputies house at Corke with stuffe and vtensils hee undertooke the care The same day the Lord Deputy and President Sir Robert Gardiner departed from Kilkenny and the same night they lodged at Kilkenan the Lord Dunboynes house the next night at Clonmell the sixe and twentieth at Glanogher the Lord Roches house and the next day following they came to Corke Now are wee come to siege of Kinsale a place ordayned wherein the honour and safetie of Queene Elizabeth the reputation of the English nation the cause of Religion and the Crowne of Ireland must bee by Armes disputed for upon the successes of this siege as these great and important consequences depended And here the malice of Rome and Spaine if they had prevailed would not haue ceased for their purposes did extend it selfe Ireland having beene conquered to make it their bridge to haue invaded England the
shot being made from those ships they dismounted the Spaniards Peece within and hurt their chiefe Gunner so as it played no more Betimes in the morning those three Peeces from the poynt of the Hill neere the water played upon the Towne doing great hurt by reason they were so neere planted but because the day fell out extreame windy and rainy they were enforced to leaue and spent the rest of the day in drawing downe some other Peeces that were planted upon the first platforme CHAP. XVII The Towne of Kinsale summoned and Don Iuan his Answer The Spaniards beaten out of their trenches The Marshall went to view the Towne to discover a fit place to batter A skirmish entertayned for the viewing of the breach An intrenchment made on the West side of the Towne A bold attempt of a Sergeant of ours wherein he was slaine A Souldier slaine standing betweene the Lord Depâ—â—y and Lord President The great sally made by the Enemy with a furious charge both upon the plat forme where the battery was placed and upon a new entrenchment on the West side of the towne the Enemy repulsed and beaten The Enemy gained our entrenchment on the West-side of the towne The entrenchment recovered from the Enemy The losse on the Enemies part and on our part IN the morning a Trumpeter was sent to summon Kinsale who was not suffered to enter into the Towne but receiving his answer at the Gate viz. that they held the Towne first for Christ and next for the King of Spaine so would defend it Contra tutti inimici upon his returne with this answer the Lord Deputie gaue direction to beginne the battery with all the Artillery who continued in shooting upon the Gate till towards night and brake a great part thereof during the time the Ordnance played Sir Christopher Saint-Laurence drew out from the other Campe some Foote and gaue upon the Spaniards trenches which they possessed with great numbers at the other end of the Towne being enforced to goe thereunto through the furie of the shot which they could not endure in that part of the Towne where the Ordnance played at his first giving upon them hee beate them out of the trenches following them to the very Gate of the Towne and killed some of them returning without losse on our side saue onely some hurt All the Artillery still played and brake downe most part of the Gate and some part of a new worke made before the Gate The Marshall taking some fiftie shot went to the wall of the Towne to view which was the best place to make a breach and found the wall close to the Gate on the right hand to bee the fittest after he had taken view and made a slight skirmish with the Spaniards hee returned without any losse saving some three hurt and caused the Artillery to beate upon that place who played upon it without any intermission and brake downe before night a very great part of the wall which the Enemy attempted to make up in the night but were beaten from it by our Guards who played upon them most part of the night A Spaniard ran away this day from Kinsale who reported to the Lord Deputie that our Artillery had killed divers Captaines in the Towne besides private Souldiers Resolved in Councell and by the Councell of warre that some Foote should be drawen out of the Campe to giue the Spaniards a bravadoe and to view whether the breach was assaultable and to cause the Spaniards to shew themselues that our Artillery might the better play upon them whereupon two thousand Foote commanded by Sir Iohn Barkley and Captaine Blaynie were presently put in Armes and drawen neere the wals of the Towne who entertayned a very hot skirmish with the Spaniards that had lodged themselues in a trench close to the breach without the Towne during the continuance of this skirmish our Artillery played upon those that shewed themselues either on the breach or in the trench and killed many of them besides such as were killed and hurt by our small shot after an houres fight or thereabouts when full view was taken in what manner the breach was and found not to bee assaultable our men were drawen off with little or no hurt on our side saving some three hurt and Captaine Guests horse killed under him who before killed two or three with his owne hands This night the Marshall Sir Iohn Barkley Captaine Blaynie and Captaine Bodly the Lord Deputie leaving the President in the Campe being almost all night present drew out fiue and twentie of every Company and intrenched themselues on a Hill on the West side of the Towne within lesse then halfe Callivers shot of the same and cast up a small fort to lodge some Foote to serue as seconds for the Artillery that was to be planted not farre from it our men being at worke the Spaniards about midnight began to play upon them from the wals and from a trench they possessed close to the West gate and so continued very hotly till the morning our men that guarded the Pioners playing likewise upon them and divers hurt and killed on either side Our men continued still in that worke and brought the same before night to very good perfection though the Spanyards from their high Castles and other places of the Towne sought to annoy them what they could While our men were thus at worke a Sergeant of Captaine Blaynies drew out some seven or eight shott and suddenly fell into a trench that the Spaniards possessed close to the towne wherein were some nine or ten Spaniards of which the Sergeant killed two with his owne hands and the rest every man one Not being contented therewith he attempted to giue upon another Trench possessed by the Spanyards some good distance from it but in going on the Sergeant was shott through the body and his company in bringing him off had two hurt and returned without any more losse The same day the Lord Deputie and the Lord President came to see the new Worke and as they were discoursing very neere together a Musket shot from the Towne passed betweene them and brake the backe bone of a Souldier that stood close by them whereof hee dyed This night the Trenches where the Cannon was planted being manned with the Lord Deputies Company commanded by Captaine Iames Blunt Sir Thomas Burkes commaunded by his Lieutâ—nant Sir Benjamin Berries commanded by his Lieutenant Captain Rotheram himselfe and Captaine Hobbie Captaine Muses commanded by his Lieutenant and Captaine Roger Harvie commanding in chiefe being Captaine of the Watch in a fort on the West neere the Towne betweene the two Campes that was made the morning before being manned by Captaine Flower with Sir Arthur Savages Company Sir Iohn Dowdalls Company Captaine Dillon Captaine Spencer Captaine Mastersons Lieutenant and Sir William Warrens Lieutenant with certaine Squadrons out of the
Earle of Thomonds Quarter who stood in guard without the Trenches The Enemie sallyed about eight of the clocke in the night being extreame darke and raynie with about two thousand men and first gaue slightly towards the new Trenches upon the West side and presently after with a great grosse upon the trench of the Cannon continuing their resolution to force it with exceeding fury having brought with them tooles of divers sorts to pull downe the Gabions and Trenches and Spikes to cloy the Artillery The Allarme being taken in the Camp the Marshall with Sir Iohn Barkley and Sir William Fortescue Sir Francis Rush and Captaine Roe with some fiue or sixe hundred sallyed presently towards the Cannon for their seconds and Sir Benjamin Berry fell out with some hundred directly towards the Port of the Towne next to the Campe to whose seconds the Lord Deputie sent Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn Vpon the arrivall of the Marshall with his Forces the enemy brake and our men did execution upon them Sir Benjamin Berry fell directly upon the Enemies seconds whom he presently charged and brake killed many of them and tooke the Commander of that body being an ancient Captaine of chiefe account with the enemy At the same time the enemy gaue upon our new Trenches and continued the attempt a long time with great fury till Captaine Flower sallying out and beating backe part of their forces the enemy entred before his returne and were possessed of the Trenches in which time Sir William Godolphin gaue many charges for the seconding of our men which continued fight in the field untill the Earle of Clanricard being sent for their second with Captaine Shipwith Captaine Slingsby Captaine Clare Captaine Boise and Captaine Thomas Burke with some sixtie men for the rest of his Regiment was not advanced so farre charged a grosse of the Enemies without the sort brake them and did execution upon them towards the Towne and returning entered the fort againe which the Enemy abandoned with little resistance and made it good till hee was releeved In this sally the Enemy left behind them aboue sixscore dead bodies besides such as were killed neere the Towne and wee tooke nine prisoners of whom there was a Captaine a Sergeant and a Drum but since wee heard out of the Towne that they lost dead aboue two hundred of their best men and two Captaines and two Alfeeroes and the Sergeant Major being the second Commander to Don Iohn and Don Carloes Carty and aboue two hundred hurt of our part were hurt Captaine Flower Captaine Shipwith slightly in the face the Earle of Clanricards Lieutenant Captaine Dillon killed Captaine Spencer Captaine Flowers Lieutenant and some fiue and twentie private Souldiers the Enemy at the Cannon cloyed a Demy Culvering which being a little crased was left without the fort but the next morning it was made serviceable againe There were some of them killed upon the Cannon and upon the powder and the trenches in some places filled with their dead bodies and in that attempt of the Cannon onely seventy two dead bodies were left in the place of the best men the Spaniards had whereof many of them were found with Spikes and Hammers to cloy the Cannon The Captaines Officers and Souldiers that defended the Cannon acquitted themselues singularly well CHAP. XVIII A supply of Spaniards landed at Castle-haven A Councell of warre held Good service done by a Scottish man Odonnell joyned with the Spaniards at Castle-haven All the Irish in the West of Mounster and some of the English race revolted and adhered to the Spaniards Sundry Castles rendred by the Irish into the Spaniards hands Divers of the Irish had Companies in pay given them by Don Iuan. The Castle of Carigfotle taken and the Ward murdered Tyrones Army discovered neere to our Campe. INtelligence sent to the Lord Deputie that sixe Spanish ships were put into Castle-haven and that sixe more were sent with them from the Groyne but in comming were severed by tempest and no certainetie what is become of them in these were said to bee two thousand Spaniards come with great store of Ordnance and munition and that two thousand more were comming presently after A confirmation of the Spaniards being at Castlehaven and that they were landed whereupon it was resolved in Councell that our Campe should bee strengthned and the Artillery better intrenched and guarded and to leaue battering the other Campe to rise and sit downe close by the Towne betweene the North and the West gate adding one Regiment more to it and all the Horse to be drawen into our Campe a Drum was sent to Don Iohn to offer him to bury his dead bodies which hee tooke thankfully praying that we would bury them and that hee would doe the like for any of ours if they hapned in his power And this day Sir Charles Wilmot with his Regiment was commanded for the better strengthning of the Earle of Thomonds quarter to rise out of the Lord Deputies Campe and lodge there Sir Richard Levison with a good part of the Fleete with towing got out of the harbour to seeke the Spanish fleete at Castle-haven to take them if hee could or otherwise to distresse them as much as hee might A Scottishman that had some eightie of those Spaniards aboard put into Kinsale harbour in the morning and getting a boat acquainted Sir Amias Preston the Viceadmirall therewith and put them into his hands whereupon the said Scottishman and foure of the chiefe Spaniards being Officers were brought to the Lord Deputy and examined before his Lordship the Lord President and divers others of the Councell their examinations were sent into England the Ships were heard to be in fight that day This day our Ordnance was drawen from the old platformes into our Campe the better to intend the service of the Field and to place them more commodiously towards the West side of the Towne if wee should see cause Newes came this Evening that Odonnell was joyned with the Spaniards landed at Castle-haven and that Tirone with his Force was very neere vs. The same day the Ditches and Trenches of the Lord Deputies Campe and the Earle of Thomonds Quarter were cast deeper and higher and it was resolved that two small Forts should bee raysed betweene the Earle of Thomonds Quarter and the water side so that the Towne might bee wholly invested to forbid any accesse to or from it Vntill this time none of the Provincialls of Mounster that had beene either protected or pardoned relapsed but now upon the comming of these seconds to Castlehaven Sir Finnin Odriscall and all the Odriscalls Sir Owen Mac Carties sonnes and almost all the Carties in Carbrie Donnell Osulevan Beare Osulevans Mores eldest son Donnell Mac Cartie the Earle of Clan-Cares base sonne with all the Carties of Desmond Iohn O Conner Kerry the Knight of Kerry all the protected and pardoned men in Kerry
better understanding to know in what state hee is to send presently unto him and accordingly to proceed There is direction to the Victualler to send three moneths Victuals for fiue hundred Foot to Baltimore and the like proportion for Beare and to the Master of the Ordnance to send to either of those places one Last of Powder with Lead and Match proportionably your Lordship is to call upon the Ministers of those Offices to see the same presently sent away The Powder and Victuall sent for Beare is directed to Baltimore there to stay untill the place bee 〈◊〉 where Captaine Flower resteth and from thenâ—e to bee 〈◊〉 â—â—â—rected by your Lordship When your Lordship hath met with Captaine Flower 〈…〉 from him you are to leaue with him fiue hundred Foot or more if in your judgement you shall thinke it requisite and likewise the like proportion of strength to Captaine Harvie more or lesse as in your opinion shall be thought meet If the Abbey of Bantrey bee the place found fittest for Captaine Flower to remaine in and that the same bee so ruined as of necessity for the safe and well keeping of the Victualls and Munitions cost must be bestowed whatsoever your Lordship shall lay out for the repairing of it upon your bill of disbursements it shall be forthwith repaied unto you alwayes praying you to use as little charge as possible you may money to intelligencers and messengers is likewise allowed For the Garrison at Kinsale Victualls is likewise ordained to bee sent whereof the Victualler must be remembred The capitall Rebells that are to resist you is Osulevan and Tirrell your Lordship must leaue no meanes unassayed to get them aliue or dead the way in my judgement how that service may bee effected I haue already made knowne to your Lordship wherein I pray you to use your best indeavours â—iue all the comfort you may to Owen Osulevan by whose meanes you know the affaires of those parts will be best composed Dermond Moyle Mac Cartie is most assâ—sted by the Ocrawlyes haue a speciall care to prosecuâ—e and plagâ—e him and his assistants and if you can finde any good meanes to worke upon him spare not your endeavour Sir Owen Mac Carties sonnes if they bee well handled will proue the best meanes knowing as you doe that hee stands betweene them and the Lord of the Countrey If Tâ—g Onâ—rsies Castle and Rannell Dâ—ffes shall in your opinion bee meet for the Service doe you take them into your hands and leaue wards in them but let not youâ— intent bee discovered untill you be possessed of them The like you are to doe with 〈◊〉 Sir Fâ—nnin Odrischalls house in the which of necessiâ—ie I thinke the store of Victuals and Munitions for the garrison of Baltimore must be layed for the Castle of Donnelong where Roger 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 too little for that purpose Lastly I pray your Lordship of all your proceedings in giue me as often advertisement as you may and haue 〈◊〉 with Sir Charles Wilmot for betweene your two Forces all the Moâ—nster Rebels remaine The Earle being gone with his Armie 〈…〉 the Abbey of Bantrie about threescore miles 〈◊〉 â—orke and there had notice that Donnell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and his people by the 〈◊〉 of two Spanyards an Italian and a Fryer called 〈…〉 did still continue their workes about the Castle of Dunboy the Barbican whereof being a stone wall of siâ—teene foot in height they faced with soddes intermingled with wood and faggots aboue foure and twenty foot thick for a defence against the Cannon â— they had also sunke a low Plat-forme to plant their 〈◊〉 for a counter-battery and left nothing undone either within or without the Castle that in their opinions was meet for defence But when it came to tryall it appeared that their Iudgeâ—â—â—â—â—â—aylâ—d as after you shall heare For the Barbican was not aboue six or eight foot distant from the Castle the height whereof 〈◊〉 â—â—ceeding high not remembring that the ruines thereof would quickly fill the voyd space betweene them and make a faire assault when a 〈…〉 whereby all their earth and sodd workes prooved vainâ— and 〈◊〉 not so much as one Cannon shott being bestowed upon them but as neere as the Cannoniâ—rs could take their ayâ—â—â— aboue it â—s the President had directed Tirrell in this meane time with the other â—ownoghs had so well placed themselues in the mounâ—aines of Beare that hee could not with his Armie passe any farther withouâ— apparant danger Heereupon the Earle left with Captaine George Flower besides his owne Company the Companies of Sir Iohn Doâ—dall the Lord Barry Captaine Francis Kingsmill Captaine 〈◊〉 and Captaine Bradbury which were seven hundred 〈◊〉 in List in the Whiddy an Iland lying within the Bay of Bantrie very â—onvenient for the Service and himselfe with the rest of his Forces â—â—â—â—â—ned to Corke where having made relation of the particâ—lars of 〈◊〉 journey it was found necessary that the President without any protracâ—ions or delay should drâ—w all the Forces in the Province to a â—ead against them And altâ—ough the time of the yeere was noâ— so convenient the Spring being newly begun yet present order was taken for all the Armie to repaire unto Corke except those which Sir Charles Wilmott did imploy for the reduction of Kâ—rry Vpon a longâ—r delay a double inconvenience depended First her Majestie should be burthened with a greater charge and secondly though the Spaniards had an intention of sending another Army yet if they might bee certified that the Castle of Donboy was taken which was the onely possession which they had in Ireland and the Countrey reduced to her Majesties Obedience before they were put to Sea it might peradventure perswade them to new Councels and alter the former Determinations But before I proceed any farther it is pertinent to set downe the Forces which the Lord Deputy leâ—t for the prosecution of the warre in Mounster which as they stood in List but very weake by the Pole was as followeth of Horse The Lord President 100 The Earle of Thomond 100 Sir Charles Wilmot 25 Sir Anthony Cooke 50 Captaine William Taâ—â—e 50 Of Foot ☞ The Lord President 200 ☞ The Earle of Thomond 200 The Lord Barry 100 ☞ The Lord Audley 150 ☞ Sir Richard Percy 150 ☞ Sir Charles Wilmoâ— 150 Sir George Thornton 100 Sir Gerard Harvie 150 Sir Franciâ— Barkley 150 Sir Iohn Dowdall 150 Sir Samuell Bagnall 150 Sir Anthony Cooke 150 Sir Alexander Clifford 150 Sir Arthur Savage 150 The White Knight 100 Captaine Roger Harvie 150 Captaine George Flower 150 Captaine William Saxey 100 Captaine Francis Slingsby 100 Captaine Henry Skipwith 100 Captaine Francis Hobby 100 Captaine Francis Kingsmill 100 Captaine William Power 100 Captaine George Kingsmill 100 Captaine Robert Collome 100 Captaine Iohn Bostock 100 Captaine Gawen Harvie 100 Captaine Charles Cooke 100 Captaine William Stafford 100 Captaine Iohn Owsley 100 Captaine George Blundell 100 Captaine Edward Dodington 100
Letter bare date the seventh of August and arrived at Corke the second of September following whereby the Reader may see that the King of Spaines eyes were yet still notwithstanding the rowt at Kinsale the dishonour hee received in the returnes of his troopes and the losse of Dunboy whereby his footing in Ireland was meerely loâ—t open upon that kingdome Although Queene Elizabeth of happie memory was dead before Lieutenant Edney returned yet I hold it not impertinent in this place to 〈◊〉 his sucâ—esses When hee was landed at the Groynt hee understood that Don Iohn de Aguila by the accusation of the Irish Fugitiues was in disgrace confined to his house where of griefe shortly after hee dyed His Letters and Pasports were taken from him by the Earle of Carazena and sent to the Court and himselfe stayed untill the Kings pleasure was knowen The Irish Traytors inveighed much against him â—aying That under pretext of Trade and bringing of Presents hee came as a Spie Neverthelesse he was well intreated and had the libertie of the Towne and to weare his Sword with allowance from the King of a Duccat per diem for his dyet His goods were solde for the best advantage and his Barque returned into Ireland But the Presidents present to Don Iohn the Earle of Carazena detayned to his owne use And after nine moneths restraint Edney was enlarged and returned into England in Iuly 1603. A little before this time Sir Robert Cecill her Majesties principall Secretary wrote unto the Lord Deputie the Newes of Spaine a branch of which hee also sent to the President dated upon the seventh of August and received the second of September I hold meet to insert wherby the Reader may understand that the King of Spaine had still his eyes open upon Ireland One great cause of my writing this private Letter is this that where I see how much it doth distract your mind to thinke of Spaine behinde you and of the North before you fearing to bee diverted from the conclusion of your labours you may perceiue in what estate the preparations of Spaine are now as I am certainly advertised by one of mine owne who is newly arrived from the Port of Lisbone where he tooke shipping the 21 of Iuly There are two great Ships each of them of a thousand Tunnes one called the Andrew the other which shall be the Viceadmirall the name forgotten Besides there are twelue ships of two hundred tunnes and downeward in which it is resolved to send some fifteene hundred men to haue releeved the siege at Bearehaven the Newes of the taking whereof was first knowen by a Ship from Waterford to Lisbon and not before Of the fifteene hundred men eight hundred came from the Groyne being part of those which were transported out of Ireland In the Groyne remaineth Odonnell and there is onely the great Saint Philip with ten small Barques with which he mightily importuned to be sent to the North. If these had been sent unto Beerehaven in Mounster hoping upon his arrivall with some fifteene hundred men to haue raised the siege possessed some parts and made a beginning of a plantation heereof great benefit must needs haue growen to the Rebels for as those small numbers which should haue been landed at Mounster with the bruite of the rest to follow which is alwayes multiplied would haue made a distraction of the Vlster prosecution c. Lastly in the said Letter he prayed the President to set downe his opinion what course were best to be taken in a Defensiue warre if the King of Spaine did invade Ireland with a Royall Armie The next passage to giue Master Secretarie satisfaction the Lord President wrote unto him a long Letter but because many private things were handled in the same I will onely relate so much of it as concernes his opinion touching a defensiue warre in Ireland The Lord Presidents Opinion sent to Master Secretary of a Defensiue Warre in Ireland GRanting that the Enemie will come no lesse powerfull then is reported and that the Irish will joyne with them whereof there is no doubt then consideration is to bee had what in such a Sea of troubles is meetest to bee done that may best preserue the Queenes army with lest charge and the way to weary the enemy and the countrey Because my opinion may perchance differ from other men whose Authority Greatnesse and better iudgement in the worldes opinion beares more sway I will forbeare to deale in so waightie a businesse any farther then to your selfe vsing the libertie you haue euer giuen me to say what I conceiue to be the best Counsaile if the army of Spaine be so great as is both reported by those that come from thence and expected heere let us make no doubt but he will bee Master of the field for the present and will so hold himselfe except the Armie of Ireland bee reenforced to a farre higher Liâ—t the charge whereof will make if I bee not deceived both England and Ireland to groane Wherefore the best way in my conceit to moderate such huge Expences is for the present to be carelesse of the Countreys generally throughout the kingdome for in seeking both to defend them and to make head against the Enemy will be too heavie a burden The principall regard which we ought to haue is of the Cities in every of which I doe wish a strong Garison both of Horse and foot able to defend a siege when the Enemie shall see that wee are dispersed into Garrisons either hee will presently in his best strength goe to besiege one of those places or else disperse because hee hath the Countrey to friend as wee doe if he attempt the besieging of any of our places aforesaid there is no doubt but in such a businesse he will unite all his forces in one then may wee be bold to draw all our forces from their severall Garrisons to a head to releeue that place and with Gods favour make no doubt but to enforce the Enemy to rise if hee disperse then those Garrisons will be able to master the Countries about them and leaue no habitation to releeue either Spanyard or Irish and upon occasion two or more of these Garrisons may assemble and meet to effect greater services then otherwise can bee done This fashion of a warre will in a short time destroy all the Countrey make the Irish to curse the Spaniard and themselues for drawing them hither driue the King to an inestimable charge and hazard by Sea to victuall and releeue his Army which otherwise will perish ease the Queenes charge and secure the chiefe Townes which is chiefely and aboue all other things to be respected Supposing the Army would land in Mounster in it I would haue principall regard of Corke Limerick and Waterford in either of which Cities I doe wish there might be a strong Garrison of three thousand foote and three hundred horses one thousand foote more to be dispersed
verumque Sacramentum sumi constanter teneo purgatorium esse animasque ibi detentas fidelium suffragijs iuvari similiter et sanctos unà cum Christo regnantes venerandos atque invocandos esse eosque orationes Deo pro nobis offerre atque eoruÌ„ reliquias esse venerandos firmissimè assero imagines Christi et Deiparae semper Virginis nec non aliorum SanctoruÌ„ habendas et retinendas esse ac eis debitum honorem venerationem esse impartiendum Indulgentiarum etiam potestatem Christo in Ecclesia relictam fuisse illarumque usum Christiano populo unanimi salutarem esse affirmo sanctam Catholicam et Apostolicam Romanam Ecclesiam omnium Ecclesiarum Matrem et magnam agnosco Romano Pontifici beati Petri Apostolorum principis successori ac Iesu Christi Vicario veram obedientiam spondeo ac Iuro Caetera item omnia à sacris Canonibus Oecumenicis Consilijs ac praecipuè â— Sacrosanctâ Tridentina Synodo tradita definita declarata indubitanter recipio profiteor simulque contraria omnia atque Haereses quascunque ab Ecclesia damnatas anathematizatas ego pariter damno rejicio anathematizo Hanc veram Catholicam Fidem extra quam nemo salvus esse potest quam in praesenti sponte profiteor veraciter teneo eandem integram et inviolatam vsque ad extremum vitae spiritum constantissimè Deo adjutante retinere confiteri atque à meis subditis vel illis quorum cura in munere meo spectabit teneri doceri praedicari quantum in me erit curaturum Ego idem Eugenius spondeo voueo juro sic me Deus adjuvet haec sancta Dei Evangelia Dat' Romae apud Sanctum Petrum Anno Incarnationis Domini 1595. Pridie Calend. Novemb ' pontificatus nostri Anno quarto Let the understanding Reader now surcease to marvell that the Bishop of Rome doth striue and struggle to depose Princes and to animate and incourage Subjects to heathenish and inhumane murders and rebellions since hee dareth like the ancient Gyants to attempt and assault Heaven it selfe and to displant and displace from the Throne of his Majestie Christ Iesus himselfe who is God to be blessed for evermore what is it else but to make the Precepts and Traditions of men equivalent with the doctrine and Commandements of God what is it else but to usurpe an absolute and universall power and authoritie over the flocke of Christ as his Lieutenant and Vicar for the warrant whereof hee hath no Commission nor was hee called thereunto as Aaron was Lastly what is it else but to remooue and pull downe the Son of God from his triumphant glory where he sitteth at the right hand of his Father and where he must abide the holy Apostle bearing witnesse till all his enemies be subdued under his feet and to bring backe his glorified body and Deified soule at the becke and word of every hedge Priest into their sacrilegious Sacrament of the Altar Surely a man need go no further for testimony seeing the Antichristian lowing of this prophane Bull doth liuely delineate and plainely demonstrate that purple Harlot which hath made all nations drunke with the dregs of her fornication having seated her selfe upon the seven hils of Rome I should be over troublesome to the Reader to shake up all the trumpery and rake in all the durt contayned in his Buls belly yet one thing more I cannot passe over with silence namely for as much as the Pope perceiveth that his kingdome cannot long stand but that Babell must fall and Antichrist must be consumed with the breath of the Lords mouth therefore with prudent care and politicke circumspection hee suffereth none to bee initiated into his holy Sacrament of orders nor preferred to any Ecclesiasticall promotion but hee is first bound by his hand word and corporall oath to mainetaine and defend the pompe honour priviledges prerogatiues and doctrines of the Sea of Rome especially and namely such as are contradictorily repugnant to the written word of God And that they shall persecute and impugne all those whether Prince or people that shall bee adjudged Heretikes or Schismatikes in the Popes consistory Consider therefore I beseech thee gentle Reader whether any Priest that taketh this oath for they all take it can bee accounted a good Subject to the Crowne of England but to proceed Many of the Traytors being put to the sword the strangers banished and the Provincials protected as you haue heard there were still remayning in action within Mounster left for example to perdition Fits Maurice the Lord of Lixnaw Iohn fits Thomas the brother of Iames the late titulary Earle the Knight of the Glynn and Thomas Oge a Geraldine all which with their forces joyned in one were not able to make two hundred men lurking about the Mountaine of Slewlugher and in the Fastnesse of Clanmorris CHAP. XIX False rumors divulged of the State of Mounster The Lord President sent one thousand foote munitioned and victâ—aâ—â—ed to the Lord Deputy A Letter from her Mâ—jesty tâ— the Lord President concerning the Earle of Clanricard A Letter from Iohn Burke to the Lord President A Letter from Iohn Burke to Sir George Thornton A Certificate from a Popish Bishop in the behalfe of Iohn Burke The Lord Deputy having occasion to employ more forces into Connaght hee with the Councell of estate upon the eightâ—eâ—th of Ianuary wrote unto the President to pray and require him to spare out of his List of Mounster if hee might conveniently doe it one Regiment of one thousand foote with a competent proportion of victuals which not many dayes after was accomplished Also about this time the President received a Letter from her Majestie which although it doth concerne the Earle of Clanricard in his pâ—rticular yet that the Reader may informe himselfe how much that noble gentleman was esteemed and that worthily of his Soveraigne Mistris I doe thinke it meet to be related A Letter from her Majesty to the Lord President concerning the Earle of Clanrickard Your most assured constantly affected Soveraigne E. R. RIGHT trusty and well beloved Wee greete you well wee need not use many arguments to you when wee resolue to recommend either man or matter seeing you haue made so good demonstration of your obedience and entire affection to performe our will and pleasure much lesse then the person or causes of this nobleman our cosen Clanriccard whose carriage here doth challenge our extraordinary good opinion as his merite there procured your owne plentifull testimony of the same even when all trees à id shew what fruits they bare His comming over was to doe his duty to us where hee was desirous as other Noble-men haue done to haue stayed some time unlesse some occasion for our seruice should necessarily require his returne Of which kind because the one hath presented it selfe by the going of our Deputy into that Province where his possessions lye and that the weake estate of his
mother likewise falleth out to bee such as if Almighty God should call her before the same were better setled many inconveniences might fall to the house by his absence hee is now returned backe with as much expedition as hee can And therefore wee doe as to one of our principall Councellors in that state recommend him to you to be furthered and assisted in all his occasions wherein as we know that publicke triall which hee hath made of himselfe to the honour of the Nobility of that kingdome whereof so many scandalous rumours haue beene spred onely to invite our Enemies under that opinion of their ill affection both hath and will invite you to loue him so wee doe thinke that wee haue missed our markes in George if hee shall not haue the best fruits which either your publike credit or private friendship may afford whosoeuer wee shall recommend as now wee doe this Noble-man besides his publike desert for many other constant professions of his humble and reverent affections towards our selfe Let this therefore suffice for him and for your selfe of whom wee can say no more then heretofore wee haue done either of our good opinion of you or of our gratious thankes for all your great and honest services Given under our Signet at our Pallace of Westminster the seventeenth of December 1602. in the fiue and fourtieth yeare of our Raigne Now although the present estate of this Province did promise a present reduction and future quiet yet to make it appeare that the false hearts of the superstitious Irish were no way addicted and inclined thereunto omitting many instances that I might remember I will recite onely certaine particulars concerning Iohn Burke a gentleman of the county of Limerick of whom wee haue spoken before in the beginning of the first booke who much grieved as it should seeme that their expectations had beene frustrated concerning Spanish hopes this last Summer would therefore take a Iourney to the Court of Spaine as a generall Agent to sollicit the King for supplyes against the next spring And therefore suddenly leaving his wife which was one of Sir George Thorntons daughters and family aboâ—â— the middest of December last fled to the râ—bâ—ls Campe not doubtinâ— but from them to bee furnished with all necessaries for this his employment at his departure hee left certaine Lâ—tters with his wife to bee delivered to the President and Sir George Tâ—ornton his Father in law declaring his intention for a Iourney into Spaine but to disgâ—iâ—â— his reasons hee made Religion a maske by preâ—â—nding a â—â—lgrimage to Saint-Iames of Compostella and Rome but because his dissembling may the better appeare I will 〈◊〉 downe the wordâ— of his own Letters written to the Lord President and Sir George A Letter from Iohn Burke to the Lord President IF you remember Right Honourable and my very good Lord the 〈◊〉 time I met your honour how desirous I was to forsake 〈◊〉 world and to follow the service of God from which determination I was 〈…〉 weaknesse of my spirit restrayned by the simple 〈…〉 my friends sithence which time I haue beene so inamoured with the 〈◊〉 that I did not spare to walke in all the wayes where hee lead me either of envie malice deceit flatterie or falshood as I doubt not but your Lordship in some degree noted when through envie and hatred I haue for to procure their deaths accused the Lord Burke and otheâ—s 〈…〉 of treason and now being 〈◊〉 to satisfaction 〈…〉 speaking euill of my 〈…〉 with the world so that by seeking to make my selâ—e a 〈◊〉 vnto thâ— world I was thereby made an enemy vnto God 〈…〉 â—â—pentance by the especiall grace of God I 〈…〉 of Rome and Saint Iames and doe assure unto 〈…〉 carry alwayes as faithfull 〈…〉 wish all honour dignity and prosperity as any other of my calling 〈…〉 desire your Lordship not to beleeue any thing which should be said to the contrary I haue left the little Landâ— and goods I had 〈…〉 and doe desire your Lordship to mainetaine her in the same untill my comming I would neuer come amongst these fellowes but for feare my friendâ— would pâ—â—swade your Lordship not to grant mee your Passeport for to goe 〈…〉 seeing it hath pleased your Lordship to grant mee her Majesties protection I will remoue from this company desiring your Lordship to send mee your Passeport for to goe to this pilgrimage the which I will expect neere Corke And now taking my leaue with your Lordship I rest Your Lordships loving Friend Iohn Burke A Letter from Iohn Burke to Sir George Thornton RIght Worshipfull and my very loving Father for that I know you would bee much troubled in mind to thinke what should moue mee to depart thus from my wife friends and lands I thought good to tell you the very truth which I desire you without any scruple to beleeue I haue taken upon mee to be a Pilgrim for the space of two yeares First I must visit Saint Iago in Spaine and from thence to Rome I haue sought the Letters of favour from certaine Priests in this Countrey to their fellowes beyond the Seas You nor my Lord President may not thinke that I goe to procure any mischiefe to the English State to whom I should be more willing to doe good then able to doe harme I doe not now speake unto you in the spirit of flattery or feare falshood or deceit or for any worldly pollicie I speake before God and God knoweth that I speake the truth I doe not goe with any intent to harme any person but onely to doe judgement upon my selfe for a satisfaction unto God for my sinnes the little living I haue I doe leaue with my wife the which and her selfe I doe leaue to your fatherly care And so I rest Your Sonne Iohn Burke Some man peradventure giving credit to these colourable protestations would perswade himselfe that this professed Pilgrimage was the true and onely end of this his journey and so should I were not these vizards dismasked and these frauds detected by certaine Letters from sundry Priests and Popish Clergie men found and convaied to the President I will not trouble the Reader with needlesse transcripts of these severall Letters I will onely relate one or two which may apparantly convince his deepe dissembling written from a Popish Bishop A Certificate from a Popish Bishop in the behalfe of Iohn Burke NOs Mallachias Dei et Apostolicae Sedis gratia Duacensis in Hiberniâ Episcopus notum facimus Catholico ac invictissimo Hispaniarum Regi Philippo Domino Matheo de Oviedo Archiepisâ—opo Dublinensi et Metropolitano Hiberniae Omnibusque Christi fidelibus tam spiritualibus sive regularibus quà m secularibus personis ac si proprio nomine nominare Horum Latorem Iohannem Burk NobileÌ„ praestant ' virtutis virum propugnatoreÌ„ Haereticae pravitatis acerrimuÌ„ refugium ac defensor ' religiosarum personarum esse ob id versari inter Anglos verae
President lodged at Barriscourt the Lord Barries house and the foure and twentieth he came to Corke upon the way being mett by Sir Henry Power the Commissioner of the Province and the Captaines that there were garrisoned The first thing that the President intended after hee was come to Corke was throughly to understand the state of the Province as then it stood the greatest part whereof although it was knowen to him before yet hee calling the Councell of that Province together desired to bee certified by them in the particulars thereof to the intent that hee might addresse his actions accordingly Sir Henrie Power being sole Commissioner since the death of Sir Warham St Leger reported the same much after this manner I know not how more fitly to describe unto your Honour the estate of this Province then by comparing the same to a man that is diseased of a languishing and almost incurable sicknesse the Head so sore and the Heart so sicke that every member refuseth his naturall Office in so much that I dare boldly affirme that since the Conquest of Ireland this Province of Mounster was never more distempered then now it is for all the inhabitans of the countrey are in open and actuall rebellion except some few of the better sort who though themselues in their owne persons attend the state yet all their Tenants Friends and Followers yea and for the most part either their Sonnes or Brothers publikely professed in the devilish action as for example the Lord of Cahir Cormocke Mac Dermond Lord of Muskry Gerald Fits Iames Lord of the Decies Mac Carty Keugh The computation and number of the rebels how many they are especially of the Province by reason that they are dispersed in so many severall countries and commanded by so many heads we can giue no certaine iudgement but for strangers meaning Connaght men that receiue bonnaght amongst them we are certainely advertised from divers that are well acquainted with their affaires that they are in List fiue thousand men which strength added to the Rebells of the Province doeth make them absolutely Masters of the field and her Majesties Forces heere garrisoned in Cities and walled Townes for their safetie by reason of their weaknesse before your comming were in condition little better then besieged Furthermore all this might seeme more tollerable if the Cities and walled Townes were in these times of extremitie a safe and well assured retreat for them but all of them are so besotted and bewitched with the Popish Priestes Iesuites and Seminaries that for feare of their Cursings and Excommunications they are ready upon everie small occasion to rise in Armes against them and minister all underhand ayde and succour unto the Rebells so that considering the generalitie of the Inhabitants that are in open rebellion the infidelitie of those that pretend subjection the multitude of Connaght men that defend the Action and the little confidence that may be reposed in Cities by reason of their contrary religion wee may very well conclude that the estate of this Province is like a man sicke of a most dangerous and desperate disease The Lord President having heard by his former advertisements concerning the same matter thus confirmed He told the Councell that hee much doubted of any good successe that could suddenly bee expected and the rather because his Forces were farre inferior to the rebels being in list but three thousand Foote and two hundred and fiftie Horse Yet remembring the old Proverbe that Ardua virtutis est via and relying upon the iustnesse of the Warre more then upon the number of his Forces resolved to try the uttermost of his witt and cunning without committing the matter to the hazard of fortune to quench the fire that now raged with such extreeme fury The same day Iohn Fits Thomas accompanied with one hundred Kerne or thereabouts came into the Lord Barry his countrie neere Castell Lyons and there tooke from him and his Tenants a prey of three hundred Cowes and ten Horses The morrow following being the twentie sixth intelligence was brought from Cormocke Oge Carty called by the English Charles Carty Sonne to Sir Cormocke Mac Teg that the Arch-traitor Tyrone had sent Letters to Florence Mac Carty to encourage both him and his adherents to persist in the action Assuring them that within one moneth namely in May next hee would bee with them againe in Mounster and for that Iourney his Munition Victuals c. were already prepared The twnety seventh as Dermond Odwire informed the President by his Letters Redmond Burke with six hundred men entred into his countrie to burne and prey the same which to effect he divided his Forces into three sundry parts Odwire having assembled as many men as that short warning would permit fell upon one of the Divisions afore mentioned which consisted of two hundred Foot of them he slew one hundred and twenty and many hurt In revenge wherof Redmond Burke upon the sixth of May following having gotten as many men as hee could assemble entred the second time into the aforesaid countrie where he slew Man Woman and Child burnt all the houses Castles excepted and droue away all the Cattle of the countrie CHAP. V. Loghguyre preyed The submission of Barrett and Condon The submission of Florence Mac Cartie Florence Mac Cartie's demaunds The submission of Nugent The Broughe burnt by Pierce Lacie Redmond Burke departed out of Cownologhe Tenne of the Bonoughs slaine by Sir Richard Percy A Letter from Iames Fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie The Army set out from Corke toward Limericke The submission of the white Knight THE twentie ninth Captaine Francis Slingsby drew forth one hundred and fiftie Foot and twenty Horse of the Garrizon of Kilmallocke in the night to take the prey of Loghguire fiue miles distant from his Garrizon a place which much anoyed the passage betweene Kilmallocke and Limericke in the morning when the Cattle were put forth to grase hee tooke it the Warde to recover it sallied but after a short skirmish being hopelesse to doe any good with some losse returned About this time also the Lord president began to giue forth speeches of a Iourney that he speedily intended towards Limricke with a purpose to burne and spoile all the Rebels Houses and Corne and to take the prey of the countrie neere adioyning through which his Armie should passe whether it were the bruite of this Iournie or the hard measure that hee had lately received at the hands of the Arch-traitors Tyrone and Desmond the white Knight whose countrie lay neere to the way as the Armie should march sought by the meanes of Sir George Thornton to bee received into protection promising to repaire and recover the credit hee had lost by his lewd and disloyall courses which afterwards he performed accordingly as shall be shewed in its due place About this time also William Barrett of Ballencolly and Mac Mawghe Condon both
more in his Companie then sixty men and comming to the Wall of the Bawne of the Castle undiscovered by the helpe of Ladders and some Masons that brake holes in some part of the Wall where it was weake got in and entered the Hall before they were perceived the Sergeant named Thomas Quayle which had the charge of the Castle made some little resistance and was wounded Three of the Warde were slaine the rest upon promise of their liues rendered their Armes and were sent to Clonmell Of this Surprize the Lord President had notice when he was at Kilmallocke whereupon hee sent direction for their imprisonment in Clonmell untill hee might haue leasure to try the delinquents by a Marshals Court Vpon the fourth day following Iames Butler who tooke the Castle wrote a large Letter to the President to excuse himselfe of his traitorly Act wherein there was not so many lines as lyes and written by the underhand working of the Lord of Cahir his Brother they conceiving it to bee the next way to haue the Castle restored to the Baron The copie of which Letter here ensueth A Letter from Iames Galdie Butler to the Lord President RIght Honourable hither came unto me yesterday my Lord my Brother accompanied with Mr. Patricke White and Nicholas White of Clonmell Gent. and M. Geonge Lea of Waterford who treated with me as they said by your Honors Commission what might be the causes why I should attempt the surprising of the castle of Cahir being kept as a garrison for her Majestie And albeit my good Lo I may not nor will not justifie what hath been done therein yet will I signifie the truth the which graciously being 〈…〉 mercie I doubt not to excuse whatsoever hath beene 〈◊〉 And therefore my Lord first your Lordship shall vnde◠〈…〉 where heretofore by youthfull instigation and as I must 〈…〉 together without the privitie of my Lord my Brother aforesaid I kept the said Castle untill the same was besieged by her Majesties Forces and battery layd thereunto the which I made choise rather to forsake then stand to the defence thereof which action my good Lord was so much raised to my contempt with the mouthes of her Highnesse enemies whom I then of force obeyed as they imagined nothing else would raise credit but the gaining thereof againe The next that mooved mee to enterprise the same was that publike report was made in the name of the Archbishop of Cassell who is well knowen to bee a professed enemy of my House to haue the keeping of the said Castle Thirdly that it was also reported that the Souldiers of late left in garrison therein purposed for want to sell the same for a piece of money unto Iohn of Desmond whom the Countrey knoweth not to bee my friend for the late killing of many of his men for which service my Lord of Dunboyne had only the thankes being no more assistant thereunto then your Lordship and last my good Lord when I considered the apparant wrongs as I thought proffered unto both my Brethren that your Honour and the State would countenance their knowen and vowed Enemies against them and to make their griefes the more corrosiue to bestow upon them the chiefe and dwelling Castle of the one of them being Cnocknamma to my Lo of Dunboyne which makes my poore brother to goe in a manner a begging and my Eldest Brothers Castle of Dorenlare upon Richard Power These being the principall causes that moveth this my desperate attempt I pray may be construed as if your Lordship or any other Gentleman were in my case and doe also request that your Honour and all others doe suspend to condemne me of my Disloyaltie in mind howsoever my youthfull actions doe deserue And that by example the same may the better appeare consider that having wonne the Castle aforesaid that unlesse it be such as by mischance were slaine I suffered not the blood of any other nor any part of their apparell to bee spilt or taken but send them conducted to the next incorporate Towne And for her Majesties Ordinance that here hath beene left I could wish your Lordship had them only that I know they must be removed by the force of many men the which I dare not adventure to trust as now I stand But let your Honor be well assured they shall be as safely kept as formerly they were for her Majestie Vnlesse your Honour or the State doe driue me to doe that I shall be unwilling Forasmuch therefore my good Lord as not only these but many else the causes of the rebellion of this Province haue hitherto and are well knowen to bee for want of considerate Iustice and clemencie of your Predecessors Governors sheweth liberally the benefit of her Majesties Proclamations and gratious authoritie given you And let the first example thereof be to withdraw the Castles of Darenlare and Cnocknamma aforesaid from the possession of such as the world doe know of pretended malice to haue sought them and to be bestowed wheresoever your Lordship doe thinke fit in Iustice they shall bee given And this much my very good Lord in excuse and as the simple truth of the Premises I am bold to signifie and now it resteth I must complaine against my Lord and Brother who as I suppose ought to maintaine both me and the rest whose wrongs hitherto proffered I will not forgiue nor forget having so sufficient a distresse as now I haue in possession the which I purpose to keepe untill our controversie be decided by friends or your Lordship or the State doe determine betweene us Holding the same with most assured safetie to her Majesties use and no hurt unto my countrey and to your Honours good liking and not otherwise all the premises concluded and considered it resteth now onely how I shall be maintained which my good Lord is to be supplied by that gratious entertainement that her Majestie hath and doeth bestovv upon lesse faithfull more unable to doe her service and not so vvilling as my selfe The vvhich in company vvith the rest I leaue to your favourable consideration Yet all these shall not satisfie me but that it may please your Lordship to forgiue and forget if in ignorance I haue either spoken or vvritten any thing that might giue you cause to be offended And so vvith my humble Duetie I take leaue Caher the tvventie seventh of May 1600. Your Lordships very assured to command Iames Butler The foure and twentieth the Armie encamped at the Brough where the President left a Ward partly to offend the Rebels of Loghguire three miles distant from thence and partly to open the way betwixt Kilmallocke and Limerick which for two yeares space had been impassible for any subject The fiue and twentieth the army passing neere Loghguire which was as yet held by the Rebels the President attended with a Troope of Horse rode to take a particular view of the strength and scituation thereof as also by what way
hee might most conveniently bring the Cannon to annoy the same Hee found it to bee a place of exceeding strength by reason that it was an Iland encompassed with a deepe Lough the breadth thereof being in the narrowest place a Calievers shot over upon one side thereof standeth a verie strong Castle which at this time was manned with a good Garrison for there was within the Iland Iohn fits Thomas with two hundred men at the least which shewed themselues prepared to defend the place The President being approached within shot to discover the ground they discharged some twentie Muskets at him and his company but without any hurt done and having effected as much as hee intended at that time they casting foorth some reviling speeches he left the place That night the President came to Limerick the Armie incamped within little more then a mile thereof The three dayes next following wee bestowed in providing things necessary for the mounting and drawing of the Cannon the Citie being altogether destitute of necessaries thereunto which at last with many difficulties was effected Wherein the President shewed himselfe to bee a Master in that facultie for Canonier or other Artificer skilfull in the mountures of Ordnance he had none the Smiths and Carpenters were onely directed by him according to the proportion hee gaue they wrought and in the end a demie-Cannon vvas mounted and drawen towards the gate of the Cittie that leadeth to the Iland of Loghguire before named The Rebels within the Castle receiving intelligence thereof one Owen Grome a stranger of the North to whose charge Iohn fits Thomas had committed the custodie of the Castle sent vvord That for his pardon and a competent summe of money hee vvould deliver it up unto her Majesties use The President considering that many impediments would arise if hee should attempt the taking of it by force and that it must needs bee chargeable to the Queene cost the liues of many his men and a great delay for the prosecution of other services which he intended accorded to his demaunds and received the Castle the monie which was threescore pounds being paied by the Presidents order by one Rowlye who lost the fame to the Rebels Whilest these things were in handling Nugent whose Promises to the President before we recited intending no longer to deferre the Enterprize attempted the execution in this sort The President being past Loghguire Iohn Fits Thomas riding forth of the Iland towards the fastnes of Arloghe where most of his men remained with one other called Iohn Coppinger whom hee had acquainted with the Enterprize and as hee thought made sure unto him attended this great Captaine and being now passed a certaine distance from all Companie permitted Iohn Fits Thomas to ride a little before him minding his backe being turned to shoote him through with his Pistoll Which for the purpose was well charged with two bullets the opportunitie offered the Pistoll bent both heart and hand ready to doe the deed when Coppinger at the instant snatched the Pistoll from him crying Treason wherewith Iohn fits Thomas turning himselfe about perceived his intent Nugent thinking to escape by the goodnesse of his Horse spurred hard the horse stumbled and hee taken and the next day after examination and confession of his intent hanged This plot a though it attained not fully the desired successe yet it prooved to bee of great consequence For now was Iohn fits Thomas possessed with such a jealous suspition of every one that he durst not remaine long at Loghguire for feare of some other like attempt that might be wrought against him and therefore leaving the Castle in the custodie of the said Owen Grome who as before kept it a very short time after departed suddenly unto his Brothers Campe. Nugent in his Examination freely confessed his whole intent which was as hee then said to haue dispatched Iohn fits Thomas and immediately to haue poasted unto the Sugan Earle to carry the first newes thereof intending to call him aside in secret manner to relate the particulars of his Brothers murther and then to execute as much upon him also Adding moreover that although they take away his life which he would not intreat them to spare yet was their owne safetie never the more assured for there were many others which himselfe perfectly knew to haue sollemnly sworne unto the President to effect as much as hee intended This confession being sealed with his death did strike such a fearefull terrour into the two Brethren that Iames Fits Thomas himselfe afterwards unto the President acknowledged they never durst lodge together in one place or ever serue in the Heads of their Troopes for feare to be shot by some of their owne men Loghguire being now possessed for the Queene and the Armie well refreshed the President marched into Clan-William a countrie of the Burks Whereupon one of the principall Freeholders then in rebellion called Iohn Burke halfe Brother to Pierce Lacy desired to come unto the President but no eare would be given to his request untill he had first testified his humble submission whereof hee made scruple alleaging that his conscience would not suffer him so to doe having before beene taught by his Instructers that it was sinfull and damnable personally to submit himselfe unto her Majestie His answer was much disdained and he plainely told that he should never hope to be accepted for a Subject and receiue the benefit thereof except hee would absolutely disclaime that rebellious opinion which hee absolutely refusing was sent away with this Proviso That although himselfe did fly into the Woods yet his Castles Townes and Corne which hee could not carry with him should be the next morrow destroyed which was not vainely meant but truely performed for by the Noone of the next day being the twentie nineth of May the Armie came upon his Lands many of his Houses some of his Corne and one of his Castles fired When a second Messenger came to intreate that he might bee admitted to make his submission whether it were that some Popish Priest had granted him a Dispensation or that he would undertake himselfe to dispence with his conscience rather then see himselfe ruin'd is to me uncertaine But sure I am that this alteration was now wrought in him Very unwilling was the President to accept him to mercy which the day before hee so unadvisedly refused Yet being much importuned by his Mother and others who with weeping eyes intreated for him and the rather that he had maried one of Sir George Thorntons Daughters was inclined to admit him to his presence CHAP. VII The submission of Iohn Burke The Castle of 〈◊〉 Omulrians 〈◊〉 burnt and spoyled by the Armie A Letter from Iames Fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie O Sulevan More detained Prisoner by the practise of Flo Mac Cartie The plot contriâ—â—d by the Lord President for the apprehension of Iames Fits Thomas The Lo. Presidents Letter to Iames fits
other difficultie then a light Skirmish the number of the Rebells to giue them resistance not exceeding two or three hundred at the most which otherwise could not haue beene effected without much blood I must here craue a little leaue to looke backe to time past as well to relate by what meanes the Armie in Mounster was from time to time enabled to subsist in this prosecution as to shew the actes and the progresse in the same No man is ignorant that Armies of mens bodies cannot subsist unlesse they bee continually supplyed with Money Munition and Victualls and especially in such a Kingdome as Ireland is which was exhausted of all meanes of those natures by the continuance of the Rebellion and particularly in Mounster before the President came thither so as unlesse hee had beene carefully supplyed of them out of England no service could haue beene performed and heerein I cannot but commend his care in demaunding as the Lords of the Councells readinesse to effect the same At his departure from the Court of England hee humbly prayed that against his comming into the Province for as you haue heard hee went by the way of Dublin some proportions of Money Munition and Victualls might bee sent thither whereof their Lordships were not unmindfull as by their Letters dated the eight and twentieth of March last past may appeare wherein they certified the President that they had sent for the Province of Mounster nine thousand pound in money three moneths victualls for three thousand Foot and two hundred and fiftie Horse which was the List of his Armie and as hee desired the one halfe of it was sent to Corke and the other moitie to Limricke Also fiue Lasts of Powder with Lead and Match proportionably with two hundred sixtie nine Quarters of Oates All which arrived in May following the Oates excepted which came to Corke in Aprill Moreover in the same moneth the Souldiers Summer Suites arrived at Corke Further as by their Lordshipps Letters to the President dated the seventeenth of Iune they had sent for the supply of the Province fiue Lasts more of Powder with Match and Lead And that shortly afterward there should bee sent unto him tenne thousand pound in Money and two moneths victualls for the Armie the one moitie to land at Corke the other at Limricke as hee had demaunded And for that they had heere certified that the Souldiers having had by her Majesties favour their Powder given unto them without any defalkation upon their entertainments made unnecessary use of the same and sometimes sold it to the Irish Merchants and others they required the President to let them know and to take order accordingly that they should not be allowed any expence of Powder but in dayes of trayning or service onely But to returne to Dermond O Conner who now perceiving that it was a fit time for his Designe sent a Messenger to the Earle of Desmond for so he called Iames Fits Thomas desiring him to meete him at a place of parlie upon the eighteenth of Iune to conferre about certaine matters concerning the Warres Iames Fits Thomas as hee since confessed to the President had received some secret intelligence of Dermond his intent which although he did not absolutely credit yet did it worke some jealousie in him and therefore brought with him to the Parlie some two hundred of his Foote Dermond O Conner brought one hundred and fiftie Bownoghs After some speech passed among the chiefe at last a Controversie did arise betweene Moroghe Mac Shihy Marshall to Iames Fits Thomas and the Marshall of Dermond about such Hides as were or should bee killed in the Armie the one deriving his authoritie from Tyrone the other from the Earle of Desmond in contention they grew warme and Dermond so blew the Coale that the kerne of the one and the Bonoghs of the other were ready to passe from words to blowes much did the Sugan Earle labour to quiet this Mutiny which could not bee throughly appeased untill the Companies on either part were severed and dispersed Iames Fits Thomas willing to giue all satisfaction to Dermond and the Bownoghs made offer to dismisse his owne men which was willingly accepted of the other and so sent them into the Countrie neere adjoyning They being departed and the Principals setled againe to parlie about the deciding of this controversie the Bownoghs by Dermonds appointment drew neere unto them Then Dermond O Conner layed hold upon Iames Fits Thomas and said My Lord you are in hand in hand answered he for whom or for what cause I haue taken you for Oneale saith he and I purpose to detaine you untill I bee certified of his pleasure for your selfe haue combined with the English and promised to the President to deliver me either aliue or dead into his hands and for Proofe thereof behold saith he Letters which were intercepted and brought to mee under the Presidents hand to confirme the same and therewithall produced them This colourable Pretence gaue a good satisfaction to the Companies for the present and yet for the better content hee gaue Thomas Oge of Kerry and two of the Clanshyhies Brethren whom he tooke also at the same time unto the chiefest of his Captaines to be reserved for their Ransomes Now Iames Fits Thomas and the other Prisoners being mounted upon poore Garrans are conveied through the Fastnesse in Connilogh to Castle Lyshin where they were no sooner bestowed but Dermond O Conner went presently to another Castle called Balliallinan belonging to Rory Mac Shihy Father to the two brethren of the Mac Shihies before mentioned which he also tooke and therein setled himselfe and sent with all speed to Castle Lishin for his Wife and the English Pledges which were there in Handlocks Leaving some sixteene Warders to guard the Prisoners these hee removed from thence either because they might more conveniently send some one of them with the relation of his doings to the Lord President or for feare lest the Friends and Followers of the Arch-Traitor Desmond reuniting themselues and his owne Bonoghs of whom hee was very uncertaine taking part with them they might joyne their Forces and at one push both rescue the Prisoners that he had taken and also take himselfe Prisoner and the fower English Pledges To the intent therefore that he might not adventure all his substance in one Shippe he divided them as before you haue heard These businesses thus contrived Dermond O Conner upon the nineteenth of Iune sent Iohn Power one of the Pledges before spoken of in all hast to the President at Limerick with a Message tending to this purpose That if the Lord President would instantly gather all the Forces he could make and draw to Kilmallock where the Lady Margaret should meete him for the receiving of one thousand pound which was promised him upon the delivery of the Prisoner praying withall that the President would not moue out of Kilmallock untill she were come unto him in
and himselfe to liue upon in Thomond which was a better Pledge upon him then any he could giue Neverthelesse after the Spaniards landing in Ireland this perfidious Traitor relapsed as hereafter you shall heare Whilest these things were in doing the President to the end the Rebels might be set on worke in many places at once imployed one Maurice Stack a servant of his owne into Kerry a Natiue of that Countrey a man of small stature but of invincible courage with fiftie men who confidently undertaking no more then he valiantly performed surprised by scale a Castle in the Heart of the Countrie called Liscaghan appertaining to Master Edward Gray an Vndertaker put the Ward to the Sword burnt Ardart and other Townes tooke some Preies for the maintenance of himselfe and his Companie and made good the place untill hee was seconded by the comming of Sir Charles Wilmott as after you shall heare From the beginning of the Warre untill this undertaking of Maurice Stacke none of her Majesties Forces had beene seene in Kerrie the Countrie was strong in men and full of victuals yet this undaunted Spirit of Stacke would with a handfull of men attempt the Enterprize Still did the Bownoghs seeing their hopes in Mounster to be frustrated importune the President by Letters and Messages for his Pasport to safe conduct them into Connaght promising there to liue under her Majesties Lawes as should become Loyall and Duetifull Subjects which at last upon mature deliberation was granted unto them The Lord Burke being either ignorant of what was done or would not take knowledge of it in revenge of his two Elder Brothers deaths who were slaine by them with the helpe of Limerick men set upon their Reare in Clanwilliam as they were passing the Shenan and slew sixtie of them besides divers that were drowned and tooke some part of their Prey In this skirmish an Alderman of Limericke called Dominicke Roche and a Protestant was dangerously wounded with a Musket Bullet among these Bownoghs Dermond O Conner passed into Connaght Whilest these things were thus in handling the President still remained at Carrigofoile expecting daily and hourely a Ship of Victuals which had bin comming from Corke thither since the beginning of Iune upon arrivall whereof hee purposed with the greatest part of his Forces to haue passed further into Kerry and to haue setled that part of the Province But the Victuals by reason of contrary Winds not being as yet come into the River of Shenan the thirteenth of this Moneth hee was constrained for want thereof to returne to Limericke againe In which returne we having marched through exceeding strong Fastnesse incamped the first night before the Castle of Corgrage seated upon the Shenan belonging to Master Trenchard the Vndertaker and of strength sufficient to hold out against any Force except the Cannon But the example of the Glynne was so fearefull unto the Rebels that upon the first summons they yeelded the same with safetie of their liues And the President gaue the Custody of it unto Oliver Stephenson The next day the Armie marched twelue miles unto Adare a Mannor House belonging to the Earles of Kildaâ—e wholy ruined by Pierce Lacy from thence the President sent seven hundred Foote and seventie fiue Horse to Askeiton there to remaine in Garrison The fifteenth advertisement being given that the Castle of Rathmore three miles out of the way to Limerick was still held by the Rebels we came before it which the Ward instantly delivered unto the President from whence he sent foure hundred and fiftie Foote and fiftie Horse unto Kilmallock for it was well found that the greatest hope of the Arch-traitor Desmond did consist in Conniloe which by reason of the fertility of the Soile the strength of the Countrey and the Inhabitants being all his Naturall borne Followers did yeeld him more Command and Reliefe then any part of the Province besides These two Garrisons therefore were placed at Askeiton and Kilmallock that did so infest the Rebels that resided in those parts as before the next Winter was ended they vvere utterly wasted The sixteenth the President with the rest of the Armie came to Limerick which was no sooner dispersed and disposed in the manner aforesaid but the Enemy drew their Forces to Liscaghan surprised as you haue heard by Maurice Stacke and by him still possessed in despight of the Rebels This Castle therefore they besiege and placed an Engine well knowen in this Countrey called a Sovv to the Wals thereof to supp the same But the Defendants did so vvell acquit themselues in a Sally as they tare the Sovv in peeces made her to cast her Pigs and slevv tvventie seven of them dead in the place finding therefore that Force would not prevaile to effect their attempt they betake themselues to fraud For the more cunning conveiance whereof Florence Mac Cartie was imployed as a principall Instrument by Fits Maurice who then with two hundred Foote and twentie Horse lay at Ardart not halfe a mile distant from the Castle within a few dayes after the former Salley the said Florence came to speake vvith the Ward commanded by Walter Talbot in the absence of Maurice Stacke about some particulars concerning their ovvne good vvho amongst other conference assured them that the President vvas gone to Corke that most of his Troopes vvere defeated and that it vvas impossible for them to expect aide before the next Spring All which notwithstanding for the loue he bare to the President he would be glad to saue their liues and if they would deliver up the place to him hee would undertake to convey them in safetie to Carrigofoile Much did this smoth report distract some of the Wards for they well understood that he had not shewed himselfe in any overt action against her Majestie since the President came into his government and although he did converse with the Rebels yet it might bee that it was either to doe some service upon them or else to draw them into subjection But others misdoubting Anguis in hâ—rba resolutely answered that they would make good that place against all Ireland untill a second might come unto them Then he began to â—ertifie them with the strength of the Enemy and weakenesse of her Majesties Forces reporting the one to be at the least seven thousand and the other at the most two thousand and fiue hundred But finding that this last attempt prevailed no more then the first assault with some threatning speeches hee departed to the Lord of Lixnaw The next morning Florence attempted the Ward againe but they made answer as the day before then he proffered Walter Talbot if hee would render the place unto him hee would giue him sixtie men in wages and a good Horse but all his offers being rejected he went his way Notice heereof being brought unto the President then residing at Limericke he addressed himselfe in all
a Protestant was the onely cause that bred this coynesse in them all for if hee had been a Romish Catholike the hearts and knees of all degrees in the Province would haue bowed unto him Besides his comming was not well liked by the Vndertakers who were in some jealousie that in after times he might be restored to his Fathers Inheritances and thereby become their Lord and their Rents now payed to the Crowne would in time be conferred upon him These considerations assured the President that his personall being in Mounster would produce small effects but onely to make tryall what power hee had CHAP. XV. The juggling of Florence Mac Cartie Supplies of Men and Apparell sent into Mounster The submission of Florence Mac Cartie A skirmish betweene the Mac Carties and the Oleries Olery slaine A Letter from Redmond Burke to the Lord President THE President attempted by his meanes the getting of Castle Mange a Castle of her Majesties in the which before and at the beginning of the Warre shee had a Ward surprised by the supposed Desmond and left by him in the custodie of Thomas Oge as aforesaid which by his negotiation with the said Constable was at last rendred unto him together with Pierce Lacie his two sonnes which were kept as pledges therein and this was all the service that hee did or could doe during his abode in Ireland And that worke of his Florence Mac Cartie used all his wit and policie to prevent and overthrow for at the very instant when Thomas Oge who had the keeping of Castle Mange and Pierce Lacies sonnes as pledges therein had faithfully assured the yeelding up thereof and of the aforesaid Pledges to the Lord President Florence being then entertained by the President in his house at Moyallo and as fast bound unto him by many benefits and favours as Florence was by the strongest oathes and vowes that any Christian could be obliged by gott some secret hint that Castle Mange was by Thomas Oge to be yeelded up to her Majestie who well foreseeing what reputation it would bring to Desmond and how much it would make up towards the hastening of his owne ruine if that Fort were once regained and an English Garrison placed there he presumed and that in the Presidents owne house where he was so graciously used and entertained to write his effectuall and earnest Letters to the said Thomas Oge assuring him that Redmond Burke and Captaine Tirrell were on their way with great Forces to set Mounster on fire againe disswading him from keeping his promise with the President and the young Earle of Desmond promising and binding his promises with damnable oathes that he would presently revictuall the Ward of Castle Mange for three moneths pay them the Arrear of all their vvages and that he would giue Thomas Oge and his Heires for ever six Plowlands of his owne Inheritance so he would not deliver up Castle Mange And these Letters were by the watchfulnesse of Master Boyle intercepted and delivered to the President And from thenceforward after Florence knew his Letters were intercepted and his treacheries more and more discovered But all this while it was a world to see how Florence plaied fast and loose betweene the President and the Governour of Kerry For when the President sent to haue him come to him then he answered that he was within few dayes to meete with the Governour of Kerry by a former appointment if Sir Charles sent for him then he was shortly to repaire to the President and so deluding both he would come to neither His stay was as we haue shewed because he purposed to stand out and for that cause had the last Moneth before planted as it was reported some number of Bownoghs in his Countrey but the governors people upon one side and these his Bownoghs on the other side had by this time so harried and consumed his Countrey as he found the same unable longer to maintaine his Mercenaries and therefore delayed with good words to gaine longer time for it was commonly spoken among the Protectees and Captaine Taffe wrote so much to the President from Kilkenny that Redmond Burke and Captaine Tirrell with all the Forces they could gather in Connaght and Linster would make an other incursion into Mounster so soone as the Lord Deputie should returne from the North which was expected very shortly because the time of the yeare would breed many difficulties and inconveniences in his longer stay Whether it were this bruite or the hearking after a Ship to arriue in those parts which might transport him beyond Seas that occasioned his delatory excuses I know not But sure I am that they proceeded not from any loyall or dutifull mind The beggerly Earle in the meane time lurked in the Woods with some two or three in his Company sometimes in Arlogh sometimes in Drumfinnin but most in the Countie of Typperrarie where hee had much kindred by his Mothers side The President had intelligence every day where hee lodged the night before but never untill he was departed and had left the place not but that the Countrey could haue reported aswell where he is as where he had beene but they were possessed with such a superstitious folly so terrified with the Priests Thunderbolts of Excommunication as they adjudged him unavoidably damned that should ruinate such a principall Piller of the Catholike action And Fits Maurice was in little better case for although since his returne into Mounster himselfe with the Knight of the Glyn had assembled some fower score in the Faâ—tnesse of Clanmorris who guarded their Corne that should maintaine them for the yeere following Yet Sir Charles Wilmot marching twelue miles through their Woods being directed by a trusty Guid came suddenly upon them and slew sixtie of them the two Principals escaping very narrowly After the killing ended they scowâ—ed the Woods and finding great store of Corne therein they burnt the same and returned with the Armes of all the dispersed Kerne Pierce Lacy had so well bestirred himselfe in his negotiation with those of Ormond and Ossery that of the Ormond and Ossery men with the Purcels Omaghers he had reinforced himselfe with fiue hundred men and being now joyned with Redmond Burke who had one thousand Foote and sixtie Horse as was credibly informed drew their Forces into O Carrels Countrey threatning daily to invade the small Countie of Limerick which bordered upon them but their stay as was reported depended upon the returne of Iohn of Desmond who was expected with Forces out of the North. But Tyrone was so well set a worke by the honourable painefull and prosperous proceedings of the Lord Deputie as hee had enough to doe in defending his owne Countrey much lesse could he spare any Forces for other parts In September last mention is made that the Lords of the Councell had promised to send unto the President sixe hundred Foote for the supplying of his Armie which accordingly arrived at Corke
pretended intended nor drawen by me nor my consent but by my Brother Iohn and Pierce Lacy having the oathes and promises of divers Noblemen and Gentlemen of this Province to maintaine the same and not ever consented unto by mee untill Sir Thomas Norris left Kilmallock and the Irish forces camped at Rekeloe in Connologh where they stayed fine or sixe dayes the most part of the Countrey combining and adjoyning with them and undertooke to hold with my Brother Iohn if I had not come to them the next Sessions before these proceedings at Corke Sir Thomas Norris arrested me in person therefore my Brother he being then suspected by him and intended to keepe me in perpetuall prison for him untill I made my escape by this the intent of Sir Thomas Norris being knowen the feare and terrification thereof drew me into this action and had I beene assured of my libeâ—ty and not clapt up in prison for my Brothers offence I had never entred into this action Further I was bordered with most English neighbours of the Gentlemen of this Province I defie any English that can charge me with hindring of them either in body or goods but as many as ever came in my presence I conveyed them away from time to time Also it is to bee expected that the Spanish Forces are to come into Ireland this Summer and Oneale will send up the strongest Army of Northren men into Mounster with my Brother Iohn the Lord of Lixnaw and Pierce Lacy and when they are footed in Mounster the most part of the Countrey will joyne with them Preventing this and many other circumstances of service the saving of my life is more beneficiall for Her Majestie then my death For if it may please Her Majestie to be gratious unto me I will reclaime my Brother the Lord of Lixnaw and Pierce Lacy if it please Her Majesty to bee gratious unto them or else so diligently worke against them with Her Majesties forces and your directions that they shall not be able to make head or stirre in Mounster at all for by the saving of my life Her Highnesse will winne the hearts in generall of all her Subjects and people in Ireland my owne service and continuance of my alliance in dutifull sort all the dayes of their liues Farther I most humbly beseech your Honour to foresee that there are three others of my Sept and race aliue the one is in England my Vncle Garrets Sonne Iames set at liberty by Her Majestie and in hope to obtaine Her Majesties favour my Brother in Vlster and my Cosen Maurice fits Iohn in Spaine wherewith it may be expected that either of these if I were gone by Her Majesties favour might be brought in credit and restored to the House It may therefore please Her Majestie to bee gratious unto me assuring to God and the world that I will bee true and faithfull to Her Majestie during life By which meanes Her Majesties government may bee the better setled my selfe and all others my Alliance for ever bound to pray for Her Majesties life long to continue But afterward being examined by the President and the Provinciall Councell He added some other reasons for his taking of Armes against her Majestie which in its due place shall bee mentioned In the dispatch which the President made into England upon his apprehension he wrote a Letter to her Majestie as followeth The Lord Presidents Letter to Her Majestie SACRED AND DREAD SOVERAIGNE TO my vnspeakeable Ioy I haue received your Majesties Letters signed with your Royall hand and blessed with an extraordinariâ— addition to the same which although it cannot inâ—rease my faith and zeale in your Majesties Serâ—ice which from my 〈◊〉 I thanke â—od for it was ingraffed in my Heart yet it infinitely multiplies my comforts in the same and wherein my 〈…〉 may bee since my time of banishment in this rebellious Kingdome for better then a banishment I cannot esteeme my fortune that depriues mee from beholding your Majesties Person although I haue not done as much as I desire in the charge I undergoe yet to make it appeare that I haue not been idle I thanke God for it I haue now at length bu the meanes of the White Knight gotten into my hands the bodie of Iames fits Thomas that Arch-traytour and usurping Earle whom for a present with the best conveniencie and safetie which I may finde I will by some trustie Gentleman send unto your Majestie whereby I hope this Province is made sure from any present defection And now that my taske is ended I doe in all humilitie beseech that in your Princely commiseration my exile may end protesting the same to bee a greater affliction to mee then I can well indure for as my faith is undivided and onely professed as by divine and humane Lawes the same is bound in vassalage to your Majestie so doth my heart covet nothing so much as to bee overmore attendant on your sacred Person accounting it a happinesse unto mee to dye at your feet not doubting but that your Majestie out of your princely and royall bountie will enable me by some meanes or other to sustaine the rest of my dayes in your service and that my fortune shall not be the worse in that I am not any importune ate craver Or yet in not using other arguments to mooue your Majestie thereunto then this Assai dimanda qui ben serve e face So most humbly beseeching your Majesties pardon in troubling you with these Lines unworthy your divine eyes doe kisse the shadowes of your Royall feet From your Majesties Citie of Corke this third of Iune 1601. I may well tearme him a notorious Traytour because hee was within one yeare before his apprehension the most mightie and potent Geraldine that had been of any the Earles of Desmond his predecessors For it is certainly reported that he had eight thousand men well armed under his commaund at one time all which hee imployed against his lawfull Soveraigne and secondly a notorious Traytour because hee sought to bring a most infamous slaunder upon a most vertuous and renowned Prince his Queene and Mistresse with his false suggestions unto forraine Princes and notwithstanding that her Name was eternized with the shrill sounding Trumpet of triumphant Fame for the meekest and mildest Prince that ever raigned yet was not hee ashamed so farre had the rancour of malice corrupted his venemous heart to inculcate into the Eares of the Pope and Spanish King that shee was more tyrannicall then Pharaoh and more blood-thirstie then Nero But because I may bee thought to faine these allegations to aggravate his treasons I will therefore for satisfaction of the Reader set downe the very words of two his Letters bearing one date which hee sent to the King of Spaine A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to the King of Spaine MOst mighty Monarch I humbly salute your imperiall Majesty giving your Highnesse to understand of our great misery and violent order
to the Westward and with much difficultie had recovered Castle-haven came thence by Sea to the port of Kinsale The Lord Deputie to refresh his men and horses sent them to Corke for in their healths they were impaired and that evening some Spaniards fled from Kinsale and voluntarily came to our Campe. A Demy Cannon was unshipped assoone as it was calme and placed on this side the water which played most part of that day upon that Castle and brake many places but made no breach that was assaultable In the night they of the Towne attempted to releeue the Castle by boat but were repelled by Captaine Tolkern and Captaine Ward who lay with their Pinnaces betweene the Iland and the Towne The Demy Cannon played againe and a Cannon then landed and placed by it with some Ordnance also out of the Ship though they served to small purpose about noone one hundred men were sent with Captaine Yorke and Captaine Smith to view if the breach were assaultable and though they found it was not yet the Spanyards within being no longer able to endure the fury of the shot hung out a signe for parley upon the first shew of our men and yeelded themselues and the Castle upon promise of their liues onely which being accepted they brought them presently to the Campe being in number seventeene Before the Castle was yeelded the Spanyards in the Towne made divers shot at Captaine Tolkernes Pinnace with a piece of Ordnance which they mounted a day or two before close to the gate of the Towne but did no hurt at all unto her the Pinnace warping neerer to the other side under the hill and at last rode safely without danger of the shott The same day a Platforme was made upon a ground of advantage not farre from the Campe that commanded one part of the Towne that under the favour thereof wee might the better make our neerer Approaches which at that time wee could hardly haue done by reason of the great extreame frost and a Demy-cannon mounted vpon it with which some shot was made at the Towne and a Sentinell taken anon after affirmed that the first Piece shot off went through the house that Don Iohn was in and did otherwise great hurt An other Cannon was brought up and planted by the Demy-cannon which the night before was brought from the Ship and this day the Lord Deputie went over into the Iland to view how from thence the Towne might be best annoyed and invested Also the Prisoners which were taken at Castle Parke were sent to Corke with direction to the Major to send them and all the former prisoners into England the Sergeant Major and the Commanders of Rincorran and Castle Ny Parke excepted and this day a great number of Irish women and children were put out of Kinsale to trie their fortunes in the Countrey Foure other Peeces were planted by the Cannon and Demy Cannon which altogether played into the Towne one of those short killed foure men in the Market place and strucke off a Captaines legge called Don Iohn de Saint-Iohn who is since dead of the hurt That Evening one Iames Grace an Irishman ran out of Kinsale assuring the Lo. Deputie that Don Iohn at his landing was fiue thousand men and that hee was yet three thousand strong that hee had foure Peeces of Ordnance well mounted that the Irish which were with him were so much affrighted with our Artillery as Don Iohn had much to doe to hold them whose departure if it should happen would be a great want unto him for by them hee received ease and comfort and that Don Iohns house where hee lodged had been shot through with a great shot The sixe Peeces began againe about ten a clocke to batter upon the Towne and so continued till night in which time and in all mens judgements as by report of the Prisoners wee tooke they did great hurt to the Towne This day while the Lord Deputie the Marshall and the Sergeant Major were viewing the ground where the Approaches were intended a private Souldiour of Sir Francis Barkleyes in the face of the Guards attempting to steale as hee had done divers times before a Spanish Sentinell who was seconded with foure that hee saw not fought with them all fiue whereof one of them was the Sergeant Major whom he had almost taken and when he had found he could doe no good upon them all hee came off without other hurt then the cutting of his hand a little with the breaking of a thrust which one of them made at him and hurt the Sergeant Major The Lord Deputie this night began to make his approaches neerer the towne and for that purpose caused some 1000 Foot to be drawne out by Sir Iohn Barkley Sir Benjamin Berry and Captaine Bodley who continued the worke all night and although the ground were extreame hard by reason of the frost and the night very light yet they brought the worke to very good perfection the Enemy played all the night upon them with great Volleyes but hurt but three men neither in the Trenches nor in divers Sallies they made in the one whereof a Squadron of our new men beat them backe to the gates In the Euening his Lordship sent direction to Sir Richard Levison to land three Culverings this night and to plant them in the Iland about Castle Ny Parke that from thence they might likewise make Battery upon the Towne and Sir Richard drewe in the Admirall and Vice-Admirall betweene the Towne and the Iland from whence they did great hurt in the Towne the next day All the Artillery still played but because the shot from the ships did but little hurt saue onely upon the base Towne the Lord Deputie gaue direction to make very few shot except it were at the high Towne In the afternoone the Lord President the Earles of Thomond and Clanricard Sir Thomas Burke and divers others returned to the Campe Odonnell with his force being stollen by them This night direction was given to haue a Plat-forme made for the Artillery upon the trench which was made on Munday night somewhat after midnight the Spaniards made a sudden salley with purpose to force that trench but were quickly repelled by Sir Francis Barkley who commanded there that night The Companies that went with the Lord President returned and with them two other Regiments of the Earle of Clanricards and Sir Christopher Saint-Lawrence the Regiments were that night quartered by themselues upon the West side of Kinsale to invest the Towne and keepe the Spaniards and Odonnell from joyning This night the three Culverings from the Iland were planted on the poynt of the hil neere the water on this side behind the last trenches This morning the Spaniards played with a Demy Cannon from the Towne upon the Admirall which was twice shot and the Viceadmirall once they riding both close by the Towne and
Connaght man Donogh Moel mac Enessis Dermond Moel mac Carties man Owen mac Donogh mac Finnin Cartie of Curowrane Donel oge Mac Donel Carty brother to Don Carlos slaine at Kinsale Finnin oge Cartie an other brother to Don Carlos Brothers Conoghor o Cullenan of Rathmore in Kinalley Donell Ogriffien of the same William mac Cormock a Connaght man Dermond mac Shane a Connaght man â—dmond Olavien William Mac Ricard Cormocke Olanahie all Connaght men Dermond Deaserghe a Connaght man Dermond Olongie of Muskry Richard Cogan fits Philip of Barnehelly in Kerry-wherie Finin Mac Donoghe Cartie a Cosen to Don Carlos Dermond Mac Finin Cartie of Skeaghe in Carbry Donnell Mac Finin Cartie of the same Donnell Mac Teg Cartie of the same David Skemnehan of Rincorran Iohn Mac Dermond Mac Shane a Connaght man Cormocke the Lord Presidents Footeman of the Birnes in Leinster William Mac Shane of Rathmore in the County of Limerick Donnell Mac Shane O Cullenan of Rathmore in Kinaley Iohn Oge Olenssie a Connaght man Teg Welsh alias Teg Brenaghe Cormocke Mac Donoghe ne Mroen Oriardane Dermond Mac Donoghe ne Mroen Oriardane Owen Mac Donoghe ne Mroen Oriardane of Muskry brothers Donnell Mac Shane Oriardane of Muskry Iohn Feild fits Maurice of Tracten Abbie Iohn Roe Mac William of the County of Limericke Donnell O Sissuane of Kinsale Teg O Sissuane Sonne to Donnell aforesaid Hugo Lacy. Walter Ley of Kilkenny Richard Stacboll One Master Fits Iames a Pensioner These came out of Spaine with Don Iuan and returned with him From Ardea with Connor Odrischall and Archer the seventh of Iuly 1602. Conner Odrischall eldest Sonne to Sir Finin Odrischall Iames Archer Iesuite Collie Mac Swine Mac Edmond of the Mac Swines of Carbry his Sonne was hanged at Donboy in Iune 1602. Cormocke Mac Donoghe vic' Donnell Rabaghe one of the Carties Donoghe Mac Conner of Castlehaven and owner of it Donnell Mac Connor vic' Dermond Odrischall brothers Mac Con Mac Iffie Odrischall Teg Mac Iffie Odrischall Morriertaghe Mac Iffie Odrischall Brothers Dermond Mac Conner of Kilkoe Dermond Oge of the same of the Carties brothers Shane Mac Dermond Iholonghane of Bantrie Shane Mac Gillicuddie Iholoughane of Beare Teg Oge ne Mockloghe Owen Mac Teg ne Mocklogâ—e of the Carties brothers Finnin mac Browne of the Odrischals Conner Omaghon of Lemâ—on one of the Omaghons of Ivagh One of the sonnes of Gilliduff of Cleere and one of the Odrischals Dermond Oge mac Dermond Odrischall Conner mac Finnin Roe of Bonnanie in Bantrie Tirlogh sonne to Teg Reugh mac Maghon of Thomond who slew his Father when Donboy was besieged his lands her Majestie hath given to the Earle of Thomonds brother Dowaltagh mac Morogh Icorromanie foster-brother to Odonnell Elline ny Donogh late wife to Dermond Moel mac Cartie brother to Florence Finnin Kearigh of the Fioll one of the Carties Dermond mac Shannaganie a Rimer Gilliduff a Thomond man Two Souldiers of Thomond which served Conner Odrischall David mac Shane of the Dingle servant to Iames Archer the Iesuite Shane mac Dermond vic' Donogh Oge o Cullenan Archers boy Conner Oge Odrischall heire to Conner Sir Finnins sonne nine yeares of age Thomas son and heire to the Knight of the Valley 14 yeares old Donnell Omaghon a Marriner that came in company with Owen mac Eggan Fiue Frenchmen that were taken by Teg Reughe when they tooke the Ship and Merchant of Gallway The nine and twentieth the Lord Deputy and the Lord President from sundry persons and divers wayes were advertised that Tyrone in passing the broad water lost many of his Carriages and one hundred and fortie of his men drowned those which tooke their way through Connologh for they brake into many parts had also losse of men and Carriages in the river of May and the like at the Abbey of Ownhy in Omulrians Countrey so as they lost of all sorts aboue two hundred The Footmen wearied in the flight to goe the lighter cast away their Armes and their hurt men carried upon weake and tyred garrans were by their fellowes left upon the way where they dyed their tyred horses were slaine by their Masters and the Countrey Inhabitants for spoyles sake upon advantages would not spare to take some of their heads but not in that proportion as they might haue done if they had been sound Subjects Lastly it was reported but how true it is I am somewhat doubtfull that Tyrone himselfe and Mac Mahon were both hurt in the battell and carryed away on Litters To conclude never men were more dismayed with extremitie of feare then these light-footed Traytors were CHAP. XXIII A Parley desired by Don Iuan and granted by the Lord Deputie Don Iuan his Prâ—positions with their Answeres and his Reply The Reasons which mooved the Lord Deputie and Councell to yeeld to a Composition The Articles of the Composition THE last of December Don Iuan offered a parley sending the Drum Major out of the Towne with a sealed Letter to the Lord Deputie by an Alfeeres by which he required as by the Copie thereof conveyed in the dispatch by Sir Richard Morison into England may appeare that some Gentleman of speciall trust and sufficiencie might bee sent into the Towne from his Lordship to conferre with him whom he would acquaint with such conditions as hee then stood upon which being granted by his Lordship Sir William Godolphin was employed in that negotiation which in what sort it was carried because it importeth much in respect of many particularities of speciall moment to bee considered it is thought necessary it should bee here more largely delivered his first conference with Sir William Godolphin tendeth to this That having found the Lord Deputie whom he termeth the Viceroy although a sharpe and powerfull Opposito yet an honourable Enemy and the Irish not onely weake and barbarous but as hee feared perfidious friends hee was so farre in his affection reconciled to the one and distasted with the other as did invite him to make an overture of such a composition as might bee safe and profitable for the State of England with lesse prejudice to the Crowne of Spaine by delivering into the Viceroyes power the Towne of Kinsale with all other places in Ireland held by the Spanish so as they might depart upon honourable termes fitting such men of warre as are not by necessitie enforced to receiue conditions but willingly enduced for just respects to disengage themselues and to relinquish a people by whom their King and Master had beene so notoriously abused if not betrayed That if the Viceroy liked to entertaine further parly touching this poynt he would first be pleased to understand them rightly and to make his propositions such as might bee sutable to men throughly resolved rather to bury themselues aliue and to endure a thousand deaths then that to giue way to one Article of accord that should tast of basenes or dishonour being so confident of their present strength and the Royall
Traytors and for raine enemies which endeavored with all their forces to draw from your Imperiall Crowne this Realme of Ireland in the which by your Majesties expresse Commandement I haue been though farre unworthie imployed in a Charge wherein â—y weaknesse doth too much appeare yet since out of your Princely favour your Majestie hath beene pleased to accept of those poore services which by your Forces I haue formerly performed and with your royall hand to my unspeakeable comfort unto my selfe haue witnessed the same I am emboldened under the assurance of your gracious Pardon to present before your gracious eyes these unworthy Lines unworthy of your view as well in regard of him that writes them as the forme wherein they are written Since the victorie aforesaid the face of this Kingdome is strangely altered The Rebell formerly proud is now become a dismayed fugitiue the neutrall Subject which stood at a gaze better confirmed and the Spanyard which promised unto himselfe no lesse then a Conquest is glad to intreat Composition to depart This wonderfull worke of God for unto him it is wholly to bee ascribed hath brought this Realme so farre out of order in a fayrer way of reduction then ever I knew it When your Majestie employed me in this Service I then feared it was as now I understand it to bee a secret punishment from God for my sinnes for unto my selfe I had propoâ—â—ded that happinesse which others haue never to be farre distant from the comfort of your royall eyes which addes fulnesse of joy with admiration to the beholders Wherefore gracious Soveraigne commiserate my exile and let mee your poore Servant rich in faith and loyaltie unto you bee partaker of others happinesse that the remainder of my life therein may be blessed But if I be not capable of such abundant grace in so great measure which my Soule desires yet let my humble suite thus farre prevaile that in your Princely favour you will be pleased to giue mee leaue for a few moneths to behold that Majestie which is envyed but not equalled by any earthly Prince From your Majesties Citie of Corke the nineteenth of Ianuary 1601. Your Sacred Majesties vassall and creature GEORGE CAREVV The fourth of February one Richard Owen an ancient and inward Servant of Tyrones came unto Corke with a message from his Master unto the Lord Deputie but before I speake of his Negotiation I thinke it convenient to fall backe to the sixth of Ianuary at which time hee made meanes to haue accesse unto the President for you must understand hee had been with Don Iohn in Kinsale The President acquainting the Lord Deputy with it he was called before them both and was examined by them whereunto hee made answer as followeth He saith hee went out of Ireland with Sir William Stanley and was employed by him in the rendering of Deventer to Taxis Hee left Sir William upon a discontentment about fower yeares after being then a Lieutenant because Sir William did advance the English and not the Irish to charges and then put himselfe into the Kings pay as a Pensioner and there remayned in the Low-countries and France untill about three yeares since he came over into Ireland by the way of Scotland and landed at Dunluce with purpose to serue Oneale whose kinsman hee is by his mother and remayned with Tyrone untill by him hee was employed to carie his Sonne into Spaine Hee had Letters from Tyrone and Odonnell to the King and from Tyrone unto Don Iuan Idiaques the Duke of Lerma to Fray Gaspar de Cordoua the Kings Confessor the Secretarie Prado and to the Secretarie Estevan de y barra The contents of the Letters were to pray Aides to subsist the warre according to the promise made by the old King if the aides were sent for Vlster then Tyrone required but fower or fiue thousand men if the King did purpose to send an Army into Mounster then he should send strongly because neither Tyronâ— nor Odonnell could come to helpe them Hee saith that Fray Matheo de Oviedo the Archbishop of Dublin out of an ancient knowledge which hee had in this kingdome having beene before in this Realme in Iames fits Maurice his rebellion did solicit the sending of forces hither and came into the North purposely to see and understand the state of the Countrey Hee also saith that Tyrone sent his Sonne into Spaine to bee there brought up not being demanded of the King as a Pledgâ— Hee saith that all the Kings Councell were very forward to thrust on the invasion and for his owne particular he advised that the Spanish forces should land at Carlingâ—ord and if that Councell did not like them then hee perswaded that the forces should land at Galway or Sligo Hee saith that Oneales Sonne hath two hundred duckets pension of the King per mensem Hee saith that when the Army came for Ireland out of a desire to establish religion and to procure to the Irish Lords some greater government in the Realme he came voluntary hither without pay but protests that hee never wished that the Crowne of Ireland should be taken from the Queene Hee saith hee never heard of any of Ireland that by Letters did sollicit this invasion but Iames Mac Sorley who as hee heard writ to the King that Florence did write unto the King hee knowes not but Tyrone did write unto this Examinat that Florence would bee in Armes with him against her Majestie Hee saith that hee thinketh that if the Spaniards had prevailed in this Enterprise that their meaning was not to possesse themselues of Ireland but from hence to haue invaded England and to haue entertayned the Irish Nation in that enterprise Being demanded if the English had beene beaten out of Ireland what government should haue beene here established and who should haue governed hee answered that therein he is wholly ignorant but when Tyrone did write for aide he saith that hee thinketh that when the English were banished and expelled that then hee would submit himselfe to bee dealt withall as pleased the King Hee saith that in March next hee thinketh that supplyes should haue beene sent to Don Iuan but now hee is of opinion that never any more will bee sent into Ireland Hee saith that the reason that now hee desired the President to bring him to the Lord Deputie was because he was altogether weary to serue with the Irish and also commanded so to doe by Tyrone after his overthrow Hee was commanded by Tyrone the next morning after the overthrow to repaire to the Lord Deputie and to tell his Lordship that hee was willing and desirous to become a Subject if hee may bee received and justly dealt withall and to redeeme his errors past hee professed to doe all possible service to her Majestie but that he would not leaue his Sonne hostage for him Hee saith that hee thinketh upon his conscience that Odonnell went into Spaine without any advise of Tyrones and
de Soto hath written and by the comming of the Earle Odonnell who is now in the Groyne wee haue understood of the overthrow of the Earles and from thence is gathered that all the forces are now bent against you and that your onely valour and wisedome hath beene able to resist them and let the great estimation his Majestie holdeth of you mitigate the care which this businesse may bring you his Majestie hath commanded me speedily to prepare gallant succours both by Land and Sea which is done and shall bee presently dispatched and this ship is onely sent to advertise you thereof to the end that you may with the more courage defend your selfe and to bring a true report in what state you stand which may more particularly appeare unto you by his Majesties Letter which with this you shall receiue whereunto hee hath commanded me to add this that hee hath in his favour made you one of his Councellers of his councell at warres which I congratulate with you assuring you on his part that God willing hee will conferre greater favours upon you wherefore proceed cheerefully as both now and heretofore in the course of your life you haue done taking every occasion to strengthen your selfe in this siege and to endammage the Enemy that hee may not hinder you and to assure the Army no man living hath received greater rewards from his Majestie then you shall I take upon my selfe the care of it and I pray you to write me such good newes as I desire whereof I hope in God In Manâ—illa the thirtieth of Ianuary 1602. El Duque de Lerma Marques de Denia God is my witnesse I neither eate nor sleepe with lesse care then any one of them that are with you and I would willingly be in the perill of every one of you and if the shedding of my blood might be advantageous I would readily giue it for you all that haue such need Doe your endeavours for presently succours shall be sent unto you To Don Iuan de Aguila Master of the Campe Generall of the men of warre in Ireland A Letter from the King of Spaine to Don Iuan de Aguila EL REY DOn Iuan de Aguila Master of the Campe Generall of my Army in Ireland by that which Pedro de Zubiare and Pedro Lopez de Soto haue written unto me I haue understood of the defeat of the Earles Oneale and Odonnell and likewise I now see that all your hopes remaines in your valour and wisedome wherein I haue such confidence that I hope in the middest of so many dangers and labours wherewith you are inuironed that you will preserue the Army untill more succours of shipping men armes and munitions be sent unto you which are with al possible expedition in preparing and shall bee speedily dispatched You may make vse of them and take reuenge of the Enemy and untill they come which shall be as I haue said with celerity preserue your selfe I doe not advise you of any particulars because I assure my selfe of your judgement and experience that knowes how to make your advantage of such occasions as the Enemy shall giue for the benefit of the siege And your selfe and the Army which is with you shall haue good testimony of my bounty thankfulnesse and honour I will doe unto you all and so much doe you signifie unto the Army from me The Duke of Lerma shall write more unto you from Manâ—illa the one and thirtie of Ianuary 1602. Yo El Rey. To Don Iuan de Aguila Master of the Campe Generall of our Army in Ireland Don Pedro Franquesa Not long after most of the Spaniards were imbarqued in Kinsale onely a few remayning which were to passe with Don Iohn the day before his departure the Lord Deputie shewed him the copie of the Letters saying that they were sent unto him out of Vlsterby a Priest who was his spy about Tyrone unto whom the Letters had beene caried Don Iuan taking this for good payment thanked the Lord Deputie for his favourable care All the while Don Iuan was at Corke every day the President and hee had familiar discourse together but for the most part their passages in speech was betweene jest and earnest somewhat sharpe and especially when they spake of religion their Soveraignes or the Nations But it seemes that hee caried a good respect of the President as by writing and presents sent which shall in its due place appeare The fifteenth the Lord Deputie and the President having acquainted the rest of the Councell with the effect of the Spanish Letters intercepted as aforesaid though not with the manner how they were gotten they thought it meete to write unto the Lords of the Councell in England this ensuing Letter whereby they might understand how things stood for the present as also to provide for the future since by the intercepted Letters it appeared that the King of Spaine had set his heart upon the warre of Ireland A Letter from the Lord Deputie and Councell to the Lords in England MAy it please your Lordships The fourteenth of this Moneth we dispatched Sir Richard Morison with our Letters to your Lordships from this place and the nine and twentieth we wrote againe by Captaine Butler yet to this day the wind hath continued still so westerly as since the departure of Sir Richard no shipping is come to us either out of England from your Lordships as we desired or from Waterford Wexford and those parts as we directed to carry away the Spanyards hence nor yet untill Sunday the seventh hereof could those ships stirre that lay ready at Kinsale to be sent to Baltimore Castle-haven and Beere-haven but now they are gone Wee hope that the Service to bee done by them which is the possessing of the Castles and sending away of the Spaniards in them will bee presently accomplished although the winde hath served them so scantly as we feare they will hardly recover all the places whereunto they are directed There is onely one Scottish ship gone from Kinsale for Spaine which carried one hundred and sixtie Spaniards with part of the Artillerie but there lies now readie at the Harbour for the first winde so much shipping as will carrie away fifteene hundred more so as there will bee yet remaining in Kinsale aboue one thousand more which with the first shipping that comes from the other Ports shall be 〈◊〉 Don Iuan stayes to goe last It appeareth by some Letters intercepted which wee send her eâ—ithall unto your Lordships that the King of Spaine purposeth in send a larger supply hither with all expedition Don Iuan assâ—res 〈◊〉 to doe the best â—ee can to stay them and if he arriue first in Spainâ— hec makes no doubt to disswade their comming but if they should come before his 〈◊〉 hee promiseth to returne them according to his Covenant in the 〈…〉 if they doe not come under the command of some other that hath a 〈…〉 from his from the King
ships shall meet with this English ship either outward or homeward bound they shall permit her to passe without any detention it being convenient for his Majesties service so to doe Written at Baltimore the nineth of March 1602. Pedro Lopez de Soto Pedro Lopez de Soto his Letter to Captaine Roger Harvie ALthough you be an Englishman and my selfe a Spaniard neverthelesse finding you to bee as it appeares unto mee a man of honour in all your actions I cannot but assure you that I am extreamely affectioned unto you and the cause that moues me to desire your friendship and correspondence is the just respect I haue to the good proceedings of the Lord Deputie and the Lord President and their Ministers towards the King my Master as also of you and the rest in the service of your Prince which hath obliged us to a good correspondence The Pasport which I left with you shall bee alwayes faithfully accomplished when occasion shall serue and of the same you may be confident for wee will fully obserue it And so God keepe you From the Groyne the nineth of Aprill 1602. Pedro Lopez de Soto To Captaine Roger Harvie Governour of Castle-haven and Baltimore CHAP. XXX Don Iuan imbarqued at Kinsale The Lord Deputie departed from Corke towards Dublin A Letter from the Lord Deputie and Councell to the Lords in England The Lord Deputie sickned in his Iournie to Dublin The Lord President surprised with a Feaver in his returne to Mounster THE eighth of March Don Iuan being at Kinsale hourely expecting a wind to bee gone and finding a flattering gale went aboard The Lord Deputie on the other side as desirous to bee at his worke in Vlster for the prosecution of Tyrone the day following hee began his Iourney towards Dublin on whom the Lord President attended untill hee had brought him out of the Province But Don Iohn for want of a faire wind departed not from Kinsale untill the sixteenth of the same Moneth The day before the Lord Deputies departure or the same day I know not whether his Lordship being mindfull of the sufficiencie blood and valour of Sir Richard Percy caused him to bee sworne a Councellor of the Province of Mounster and the night that he left Corke hee lodged at Clone a Towne and Mannor house sometimes belonging to the Bishop of that Sea but now passed in Fee farme to Master Iohn Fits Edmonds who gaue cheerefull and plentifull entertaynment to his Lordship and all such of the Nobilitie Captaines Gentlemen and others as attended upon him The Deputie as well to requiâ—e his perpetuall loyaltie to the Crowne of England as also to encourage others in the like at his departure did honour him with the Order of Knighthood and then continued his iourney towards Waterford where he bestowed the like honour vpon Edward Gough and Richard Aylward two ancient and well deseruing Citizens The President having attended the Lord Deputie to Kilkenny where they lodged in the Earle of Ormonds house and all things considered of which concerned the State of the Kingdome upon the foure and twentieth of March the last day of the yeare 1601 the Lord Deputie and Councell made a Dispatch into ENGLAND which heere ensues A Letter from the Lord Deputie and Councell to the Lords in England IT may please your Lordships having certaine intelligence since our comming to this place that Don Iuan and all the rest of the Spaniards departed from Kinsale on Tuesday the sixteenth hereof and that the wind since that time hath served them so well as wee assure our selues by this they are neeâ—e the Coast of Spaine wee thought fit hereby to giue your Lordships notice thereof that you may know that wee are free now of them all Since our being â—ere there hath beene brâ—ught in a notorious Rebell one William Mac Hubbard lately taken in Vpperossery who of late hath done great spoyles and murders in these parts more then any other so as wee haue caused him to bee executed in this Towne to the great terror of many About the same time that hee was executed a Sonne of Garret Mac Mortaghes named Moris Mac Garret dyed of a hurt lately given him in fight who was a most dangerous young man like to trouble all the Countrey The death of these two Rebels as also of a notorious Rebell by birth of Mounster lately slaine called Dermot Mac Awley who was an inward man and a great practising instrument with Tyrone will greatly quiet these parts and your Lordships can hardly thinke what a great change wee find already by their â—o happy timely cutting off As for Sir Finnin Odrisâ—hall 〈◊〉 and the two Sonnes of Sir Owen Mac Cartie they and their Followers since their comming in are growne very odious to the Rebels of those parts and are so well divided in factions amongst themselues as they are fallen to preying and killing one an other which we conceiue will much availe to the quieting of these parts I the Deputie am this day going towards Dublin from whence your Lordships shall heare from mee according to the directions given mee by your Lordships And I the President am returning into Mounster to attend my charge there Wee haue beene much importuned by the Army in generall touching an abatement of halfe a pound of Beefe upon every flesh day from every particular Souldier and of two Herrings every fish day and the Horse troopes likewise find themselues agrieved that the Victualler chargeth them with two shillings sixe pence increase in the issuing of every Barrell of Oates without any other Warrant then a private Letter from Master Wade Clerke of the Councell which although we conceiue Master Wade hath signified over upon such purpose of your Lordships or other good ground yet in regard of importunities of the Captaines and to prevent a generall mutiny of the Army in regard the Souldiers are weake and much infeebled by the last siege of Kinsale and that the prices of all things are increased aboue all measure by reason of the new standard Coyne and that the Countrey is generally much harried and wasted and thereby great scarcitie and wants grow here wee hold it meet and accordingly gaue direction to the Commissary of the victuals to issue Oats as formerly at six shillings the barrel and allow the Souldier two pound of Beefe and eight Herrings a day according as it was formerly accustomed till your Lordships resolution were returned in that behalfe which wee humbly pray and expect And so having no other matter at this time worthy the presenting to your Lordships wee most humbly take leaue The same day after this Letter was signed the Lord Deputie tooke his Iourney towards Dublin but being surprised with an ill disposition of health which so increased upon him as that the next day he was enforced to bee caried in his Horse litter and so continued untill hee arrived there And the President the aforesaid day returned
of Spaine we are in a vehement expectation and for Powder Lead and Money furnished Now to come to more particular matters vnderstand that there are but two wayes to attempt you that is scaling with ladders or Battery for scaling I doubt not but your owne wits needs no direction and for Batteâ—y you may make up the breach by night The higher you rayse your workes every way the better but let it bee thicke and substantiall raise of a greater height that worke Captaine Tirrell made betwixt the house and the cornell make plaine the broken house on the South side For fire-worke direction doe this prime the holes and stop in the balls with powder mixt through the materiall well and some powder vppermost that shall take fire the rest you know as you haue heard mee declare there by all meanes possible send me one Ball and the rest of the Saltpeeter This in haste till better leasure Campe this Thursday Your loving Cousen IAMES ARCHER To Father Dominicke Collins these in haste A Letter from Iohn Anias to Dominick Collins Iesuite at Donboy BE carefull of your fortifying continually with a most speciall care rayse in â—eight the West side of your Port fill your Chambers on the South and North side with Hides and earth what battery is made suddenly repayre it like valiant Souldiers make plaine in the South side the remnant of the broken houses make wayes out of the Hall to scower and cast stones upon the Port and if the Enemy would attempt the like dig deepe that place wee first begun and a trench aboue to defend the same as I haue sayd unto you Although wee expect speedie reliefe out of Spaine yet bee you wise to preserue the store of Victualls discreetly Devise your selues all the Invention possible to hold out this siege which is the greatest honour in this Kingdome with the next I shall prepare shooes for you send mee the corâ— or long line and the rest of the Saltpeter withall the yron borriers 〈◊〉 peeces in all Salute in my name Richard Maghoghegane praying God to haue of his speciall Grace that care of your successe From the Campe the 〈◊〉 of Iune 1602. Your loving Cousen Iohn Anias To Father Dominick Beere-haven these In November following this Iohn Anias who in October was taken prisoner by Iohn Berry the Constable of Caâ—tle Mange was executed by Martiall Law Whether he was a Priest or no it was held doubtfull The day before his execution â—e wrote this ensuing Letter to the Lord of Lixnaw A Letter from Iohn Anias to the Baron of Lixnâ—â— a little before his execution IN trust is treason So Wingfield betrayed me my dâ—ath satisfies former suspitions and giues occasion heereafter to remember mee and as â—â—er I aspire to immortallize my name upon the earth so I would request you by vertue of that ardent affection I had toward you in my life you would honour my death in making mention of my name in the Register of your countrey Let not my servant Cormock want as a faithfull â—ervant unto mee let my Funerall and Service of the Catholique Church bee observed for the Soule Heere I send you the Passe and Letter of that faithlesse Wingfield having charged the Bearer upon his duetie to God to deliver this unto your hands Osulevan was strange to mee but inures himselfe to want me Commend mee to Captaine Tirrell Oconnor your siâ—ter Gerode Oge This the night before my execution the eight day of November 1602. and upon this sudden I cannot write largely Your loving Bedfellow sometimes Ismarito CHAP. VIII The Lo. President vieweth the Castle of Donboy The Lord President finds good ground to â—ncampe in and to plant the battrey contrary to all mens opinions Two Espials of the Rebels hanged The Artillery landed The Campe entrenched and the Artillery drawen into the Market place Our Approaches begun The Iland of the Dâ—rsies taken and in it divers Rebels slaine and taken prisoners besides Artillery Munition and much other spoyle The Rebels taken in the Dorsies executed and the fort rased Captaine Kingsmill maymed with a shot An attempt of the Rebels given on our Campe. Sir Samuell Bagnall brings Letters to the Lord President from the Lord Deputy and from Don Iuan de Aguila A faire escape The Artillery planted before Donboy Donboy battered and a breach made The breach assaulted Divers of the Rebels slaine in seeking to escape by a salley Others slaine in the water The Lord Presidents colours placed on the top of the Castle but the Vault stâ—â— mainetayned by the Rebels Sundry Rebels voluntarily yeelded themselues The remaynder made election of a new Captaine whose resolution was extraordinary A battery made upon the Vaâ—lt The restrendered themselues A desperate resolution of Richard Mac Goghagan Eight and fifty Rebels executed the rest reserved for a time The whole number of the Ward in Donboy The losse wee received in the siege Captaines men of quality and others wounded Artillery Munition and spoyles gotten in the Castle The eighth wee planted two Falcons taken â—ut of the Queenes Pinnace upon a poynt of land on the North side of 〈…〉 hard by our Campe which beate upon the Eâ—emy who were then carying of turffe and earth to advance theiâ— workes And the same day the Hoy was brought a ground and â—wo Culverings unâ—â—hipt and put into boats and two spies sent by the Enemy into our Campe were taken and hanged 〈…〉 The Ordnance was not possible to bee 〈◊〉 from the place where wee landed unto the place where wee made our Quaâ—â—er but there was a small Creeke very neere unto the Castle of Dâ—â—boy which being once entred into they might ride in safetie bâ—ing then covered with a hill betweene them and the Castle but all the way of their comming thither was open to the play of the Ordnance of the Castle untill they were within that Creeke whose mouth was not aboue fortie yards distant from the Castle The President commanded the Ordnance to bee shipped into Boats and to carry them into that Creeke which by the helpe of darke nights and still rowing was effected undiscovered But the Cannon and Culverings were of that weight that no Boat there could carry them and none durst adventure in the Hoy to carry them by night In this difficulty Captaine Slingsby did desire the President that hee would commit that to his charge and giue him but thirtie Shott and he would by Gods grace carry that Ordnance by day light into that Creeke or sinke by the way if his Lordship would please to adventure the Ordnance which was accepted and performed the same day without the losse of any man though many shot were made from the Castle for hee had placed all his Shot in the hold upon the Ballast so that the Decke was breast high aboue them so that they had onely their Peeces and head and shoulders aboue the decke to play with their small shot and he that steered the
entreth betweene the great Iland before mentioned and the Maine or Countrey called Beere or Osullevans Countrey At the entrance of the Harbour it is not above a Musket shot over I meane from the Castle of Dunboy to the great Iland being entred the Tydes are slack good Anchorage and convenient places to bring ships on ground smooth water five fadomes deepe at low water marke towards the North ende it groweth much larger at the least a league over and of capacitie sufficient to containe all the Ships of Europe The great Iland and the Maine as aforesaid makes the Haven which Iland is seven miles in length at the South end whereof it joyâ—eth with the Bay of Bantry When Donboy was unruined it commaunded this spacious and goodly Haven which affords no small profit to Osulevan â—eare whilest his Castle was standing for the coast yeelds such abundance of Sea fish as few places in Christendome doe the like and many Ships whereunto at the season of the yeare I meane at the fishing time there was such a resort of Fishermen of all Nations as Communibuâ— Aâ—nis although the duties which they payed unto osulevan was very little yet at the least it was worth unto him fiue hundred pounds yearely The second of these Harbours nominated is Baltimore called by the Spaniards Valentimore which is likewise caused by an Iland called Innisherkan two leagues to the Eastward of Cape-cleere the Havens mouth at the South end of the Iland aforesaid ten fathome at low water but exceeding narrow by reason of a great Rock that lyeth in the same alwayes aboue water which being within halfe Calliver shot of the better shoare givâ—â—h good opportunity to secure the port after you are entered there is a poole about halfe a league over where infinit numbers of ships may ride having small tides deepe water and a good place to Carene ships at the other end of this Iland with good pilotage a ship of two hundred Tunne by day may safely come in but by reason of many â—uncke Rocks that lye in this enterance it is not possible for the best Pilot in the world by night to assure his entrance The President for the safetie thereof thought it meere to erect Blockhouseâ— there which undoubtedly hee would haue done if he had continued any longtime in Mounster being so exceeding dangeroâ—s to fall into the hands of a powerfull Enemy as it would bee a worke of much difficulty after it were once fortified to displant him besides an Enemy there seated would command the best part of Carbery the soile whereof is good whereby hee might furnish himselfe with victuals at easie rates The last and indeed the least of these three Havens is Castlehaven by the Irish called Glanbaraghan renowned for that memorable Sea fight lately acted there by Sir Richard Lewson against Pedro de Zubiaur commonly called Suryagâ— the Spanish Admirall the passage into the Harbour is so narrow that a ship of great burden especially in a storme cannot safely enter and being entered there is no great space for any number of ships to ride in but for all other commodities like to the Havens before mentioned for there is eight faddomes at low water marke the Castle aptly commands every part of the Harbour but the grounds round about it so commands the Castle as it can by no reasonable charge bee made teneable against the Cannon but to proceed When the composition was made with Don Iohn de Aguila for the rendring of Kinsale among other Articles it was agreed that the Spanyards should be shipped away in English or Irish Bottomes and for the safe returne of the Ships into Ireland there was three Spanish Captaines as is formerly declared left in Corke as Hostages The Spanyards being all safely arrived at the Groyne and the Shippes returned the Lord President according to the Composition set the Pledges at libertie and having provided a Barque for their transportation he wrote unto Don Iohn de Aguila which letter Englished was as followeth A Letter from the Lord President to Don Iuan de Aguila ACcording to the agreements made at Kinsale betweene the Lord Deputie and your Lordship these two Captaines Pedro Suaço and Diego Gonzales Sigler which remained in Corke Pledges for the securitie of the Ships and the Subjects of the Queene my Mistresse which transported the Spanyards to the Groyne are now in this passage in a Ship called the Marie of Corke returned into Spaine The third Pledge Don Pedro Morijon went with the Lord Deputie to the Citie of Dublin from whence as I understand hee is departed into his owne Countrey Now the agreements which were made betweene the Lord Deputie and your Lordship is on either part fully accomplished your Lordships Letter of the second of Aprill I haue received but the Wine and Fruits came not to my hands Neverthelesse I acknowledge my selfe much obliged and render your Lordship humble thankes for your favours and especially in that I am retained in your memorie the occasion I did not receiue them was my being at that time at the siege of the Castle of Beerehaven which I thanke God is taken as also many others possest and held by the Rebels and the Defendants of them chastised as appertaineth to Traitors Your Lordships Present unto mee was delivered by the Messenger to the Lord Deputie hee conceiving that it had beene directed to his Lordship whereof I am extreame glad and am as well satisfied with it as if it had come to my owne hands for the loue I beare unto his Lordship is no lesse then unto my selfe I am much grieved and at nothing more then to see that this Countrey produces not any thing worthy to bee presented to your Lordship that I might in some proportion manifest in what esteeme I holde the favour of a man of your qualitie Honour and Merit If Ireland may yeeld any thing which may bee to your Lordships liking you may bee assured that your Lordship hath power at your pleasure to commaund both it and mee So being ready to doe your Lordship all the possible service I may the differences betweene our Soveraignes reserved in the which both your Lordship and all the world shall evermore finde mee to bee a true Englishman and a faithfull servant to my Queene and Mistresse I recommend your Lordship to God bâ—seeching him to preserue you Corke the thirteenth of Iuly 1602. Muy Illustre Sennior Beso las Manos de V. S. Su Servidor GEORGE CAREVV CHAP. XI The taking of the Castle of Dunboy was the cause that the Army prepared in Spaine for Ireland was stayed Two thousand supplyes of foote were sent out of England for Moâ—â—ster Iohn fits Thomas his practise to deceiue the Lord President but failed A false rumour of a Spanish fleete on the Coast of Mounster Sir Samuell Bagnall with his Regiment commanded to stay in Mounster THE President daily received advertisement aswell by some of the Countrey that had
conference with Owen Mao Eggan as also by Merchants and their Agents out of Spaine which did all agree in one that succours being prepared and ready to embarque for Ireland understanding the losse which the Rebels had received in Beere and the Castle of Dunboy rased where they purposed to secure their landing new directions were brought from the Court of Spaine to the Earle of Carraâ—ena Governour of the Groyne to stay their proceedings in the voyage till the Kings pleasure were father knowen but yet the Army was not dissolved the examinations sent by the Lord President into England to the Lords were found to agree with the intelligence which was sent to her Majestie out of Spaine wherefore to prevent what danger hereby might ensue it pleased her Majestie to take present order that the fleete of ships some her owne and some Merchants that had beene upon the Coast of Spaine the most part of all the Summer should bee revictualled and lye off and on in the height of Cape-finister till towards Michaelmas that if they proceeded in the intended invasion either they might fight with them at Sea or at least follow them to such Harbours of Ireland where they should arriue and there distresse them but he happy successe in the siege of Dunboy altered the Spanish Councels for now they had no place in Ireland that held for them Neverthelesse the comming of new forces from Spaine for Ireland being still doubted there was sent from England two thousand foote for the supplying of the List. By this time Sir Charles Wilmot as hee was directed was come out of Kerry and all the Subjects with their goods and Cattle were drawen on this side the Mountaine of Slewlogher whereby the Bonnoghs that had lived these fiue moneths principally upon Osulevan Beare and by that meanes eaten him up began to consult about leaving of the Province there being no man now in action that was able for the Carties in Carbery had beene so much wasted and impoverished by the two Harvies as though their hearts were good yet their meanes failed them to uphold a warre or any long time to hold them together Therefore Iohn of Desmond brother to the Sugan Earle prisoner in the Tower of London laboured Terrill very instantly to take Bonnaght of them in Connilogh and for that purpose had inveighled Morris fits Thomas called the Lord of the Clenlis to deliver unto him the strong Castle of Glancoyne the custodie whereof to saue her Majesties charge had beene committed to him the yeare before and because no suspition might be conceived of the said Iohn fits Thomas practise hee now became a sutor by Iames Walsh who had beene his brothers Secretary for a protection desiring as hee pretended to become a Subject upon these conditions First if his brother Iames the titulary Earle might bee set at libertie hee would bee content to become a Pledge for him either in the Castle of Dublin or else where the State should appoynt which being refused and rejected hee offered to doe service so that hee might haue his pardon and some meanes to releeue him in the future But as the President would not bee drawen to accept any of these conditions so it was thought hee would haue flyen backe if they had been accepted But all this Negotiation was but to colour his practise laid for Glancoyne which Castle and the Fastnesse neere adjoyning would haue commaunded a great part of that Countrey But all these Iuglings were discovered by one V. B. whom the President without suspition maintained amongst them Wherefore hee sent Philip Northcot the Sherife of the Countie of Limericke with private Instructions to surprise both Maurice fits Thomas and the sayd Castle but either to take both at one instant or to meddle with neither The Sherife watching many opportunities and not speeding of his purpose the President to prevent future danger committed the custodie of the said Castle to Sir Francis Barkley and so disappointed the Rebels of that hope About the latter end of this moneth of August a rumour was generally divulged through the Province that the Spanyards were upon the coast and that certaine Ships were discovered from the olde Head of Kinsale and presently after that foure and twentie sayle were arrived at Bearehauen and hereupon you might see Horsemen galloping this way and that way to and fro with such signes of gladnes apparant joy as though the day of their deliverance were neere at hand but as it fell out this was but a false allarme the Ships that were discryed being a Fleet of Easterlings bound to the Southward The President heereby discerning with what assured hopes they apprehended their comming and with what glad hearts they should be welcome being come he became an earnest humble suitor to the Lord Deputie That Sir Samuel Bagnals Regiment lately called out of Mounster by his Lordships Command might with his favour bee returned againe The Lord Deputie taking an honourable care of that Province finding by his owne intelligence that the Spanyards were purposed to make their discent either in Mounster or in the parts of Connaght not far dis-joyned condiscended unto the Presidents request whereupon the said Colonell with his Regiment were directed to Limrick there to remaine in Garison During the siege of Kinsale there was a young Gentleman of the Carties called Teg Mac Cormock sonne to that well deserving Gentleman Sir Cormock Mac Teg who being of the Presidents Troope of Horse through the inticements of the Rebells and promises of the Spanyards was induced to combine with the Enemie and stealing away his Horse and Hackney entred into action But the successe of his Confederates not prooving so fortunate as they hoped hee grew weary of the Rebellion and made himselfe a Suitor to the President to be received to mercy as may appeare by his Letter here ensuing CHAP. XII A Letter from Teg Mac Cormock Cartie to the Lord President intreating the remission of his offences Cormock Mac Dermond Cartie accused of sundry treasons Cormock Mac Dermond committed The Castle of Blarny in the custody of Captaine Taffe The Castle and Abbey of Killâ—rey rendred to the Lord President Mocrumpe besieged Cormocks Wife and Children imprisoned Cormock Mac Dermond plotted his escape A Letter from Teg Mac Cormock Cartie to the Lord President intreating the remission of his Offences RIght Honourable my dutie most humbly remembred Having long forborne though thereby disquieted in mind and ashamed of my selfe to send unto your Honour Yet presuming upon her Majesties mercie and your favour I haue made bold to become a Petitioner to your Honour that it may please you to admit me therunto and to forgiue and forget my faults considering they were not malicious but youthfull and not of pretence to hurt her Majestie or her Subjects but in hope to recover against my Cosen Cormock Mac Dermody some meanes to maintaine my decayed estate and still likely to be suppressed by
not such a charge And therefore if you doe continue in the minde that Baltimore is like to bee of greatest use to the Enemie both in regard of the Haven it selfe and of the Countrey adjoyning and that some such Fortification may bee raysed as may commaund the Haven without any great charge her Maiestie is content that you doe proceed Otherwise if you doe thinke that whensoever any forces shall descend that the place so fortified cannot hold out for any time then her Maiestie doeth like it better both there and elsewhere that those Castles which you doe winne from the Irish seated upon the Sea bee utterly demolished rather then to bee left for the Rebells to nestle in at their first arrivall and easier to be furnished by them for their great advantage In which poynt of Fortifications because you may â—ee the temper of her Maiesties mind that useth meane in all things and knoweth when to spend and when to spare in both which never Prince was so little subiect to private â—umour either one way or other further then stood with the safetie of her state and people over which her care is rather to bee admired then matched Wee doe send you an extract of her owne Letter to the Lord Deputie how hee should governe himselfe in that poynt whereof wee feare you haue not yet had notice in respect that the distance betweene you and him is well neere the longitude of Ireland For the Artillery which you haue taken if you finde them necessarie for that Kingdome shee is well pleased that they bee detayned as well to serue for a scourge to them that brought them if againe they renew their attempt as to prevent the inconveniencie and charge of their transportation hither But if you finde them not necessary for that place but that Iron may doe as good service you may transport them in some of the Victuallers when they doe returne from that Province And so wee doe commit you to Gods protection From the Court at Greenwich this eighteenth of Iuly 1602. Your very loving Friends Thomas Egerton C. S. Notingham Robert Cecill Thomas Buchurst Iohn Stanhope Iohn Fortescue At the same time also he received a gracious Letter written by her Majestie with her owne hands which multiplied his comforts thinking all his laborious endeavours to bee fully recompensed in that they were so graciously accepted A Letter written by her Majesties owne hand to the Lord President Your Soveraigne E. R. MY Faithfull George how joyed Wee are that so good event hath followed so toylesome endeavors laborious cares and heedfull travells you may guesse but Wee can best witnesse and doe protest that your safetie hath equalled the most thereof And so God ever blesse you in all your actions Not many dayes after the receit of this gracious Letter the President in his next dispatch into England wrote vnto her Majestie this Letter following A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie SACRED MAIESTIE IF I could sufficiently expresse the Ioy which my heart conceived when I beheld a Letter written by your Royall hand and directed unto mee who in your service haue merited little though in zeale faith and loyaltie equall to any your Maiestie would not in your more then abounding Charitie mislike your paines having thereby â—aysed the deiected spirit of a poore Creature exiled from that blessing which others enioy in beholding your Royall Person whose beautie adornes the world and whose wisedome is the myracle of our age Gracious Soveraigne three yeares are now almost fully expired since my imploiment into this kingdome tooke his beginning during which time rest in body and minde hath been a stranger unto mee and overwearied in both I doe most humbly beseech your Maiestie if this Realme bee not invaded from Spaine whereof in a few dayes true Iudgement may be made to graunt mee leaue but onely for two moneths this Winter to attend you in your Court which small time of respiring and at that time of the yeare can bee no hinderance to the Service and yet sufficient to releeue my minde and enable my body which now is not so strong as I could wish to doâ— your Maiestie that service I ought Ireland is destitute of learned men of English birth and with Irish Physicians knowing the good will they beare mâ—â— if they were learned I dare not adventure The longer I am without remedy the lesse and the lesse time I shall bee able to serue you But as I am your Majesties Creature so I doe submit the consideration of my humble and just suite to your Princely consideration at whose Royall feete and in whose Service I am howerly ready to sacrifice my life From your Maiesties Citie of Corke the nine and twentieth of September 1602. Your Sacred Majesties most humble Vassall and Servant GEORGE CAREVV After the President had received their Lordships instructions in their Letters afore mentioned hee framed an answer for Captaine Harvie written in French to the Veador and also a French Passeport the copies whereof Englished I thinke it meete to relate and with them the Letter from Odonnell formerly touched by their Lordships A Letter from Captaine Harvie to Pedro Lopez de Soto the Spanish Veador SIr after your departure it pleased God to visit mee with such extreame sicknesse as all my thoughts were fixed upon another life supposing that my dayes had beene determined By reason whereof together with my feeblenesse and absence I had not the meanes to acquaint the Lord President with the passages betwixt us untill now that the time prefixed in your Passeport is almost expired which I could not by any meanes remedy Sir I haue of late received a Letter from you dated the ninth of Aprill 1602. by the which I perceiue that you are desirous that I should send a Messenger to giue you a taste as I conceiue concerning the discourse which passed betweene us which truely I would willingly haue done if I had not beene visited with sicknesse But now finding by the opinion of all men that his Majestie is resolved to continue the warre against the Sacred person of my Soveraigne Although in my heart as a Christian I wish a firme vnity betweene their Majesties the which by their Ancestors hath beene so long time to the comfort of their Subjects religiously continued Yet now understanding of the great preparations which the King is in making for the invasion of her Majesties Dominions I confesse I am not so passionate for the peace as I was and I haue no reason to make any overture of your discourse to the Lord President there being so little probability of a peace to ensue Wherefore if you thinke it good that the matter we speake of should be set on foote because you were the first mover of it wherein you manifest your zeale I pray you to write unto mee that I may understand whether his Majestie will giue eare to a peace or no whereof you need not be scrupulous to