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A91764	The true state and condition of the kingdom of Ireland, sent to the House of Commons from their committee there; whose names are signed thereto, viz. Robert Reynolds, Robert Goodwyn, both members of the said House. Also the true relation of the great victory the Protestants in that kingdom, lately had against the rebels there; sent in a letter by Sir Richard Greenvill, to the said committee, who hath since commended it to the House of Commons. Together with a letter from Sir John Chicester, of great consequence, to Sir John Clotworthy a member of the said House. All which are appointed by the House of Commons to be printed to prevent false copies; and for the true satisfaction of all His Majesties loving subjects. Ordered by the Commons, that these letters, and relation, be forthwith printed and published. Hen. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	Reynolds, Robert, ca. 1601-1661?; Goodwin, Robert, ca. 1601-ca. 1681.; Chichester, John, Sir, 1623-1667.; Greenville, Richard, Sir, 1600-1658.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1643 (1643)	Wing T3103; Wing R1322; Thomason E246_31; ESTC R19051	8,146	7

being stopt and the service continuing violent on all sides for two hours time with a doubtfull successe Sir Richard sent forth all the remainder of the Foot to assist those at the Passe during which Skirmish Lievtenant Rogers did at severall times very earnestly desire Sir Richard to give him leave to attempt to force a way thorow that Passe with the Horse that he commanded whereto at last Sir Richard gave him leave and wisht him good speed whereat he willingly departed and hasted to finde his way And being come at the Banck and ditch of the Passe found no possible means there of getting thorow whereat Major Morris called unto Lievtenant Rogers saying He had found a place for his Horse to passe thorow then that Troop hasted unto it which Edward Roscarrocke of the said Troop first rid thorow the Lievtenant and the rest of the Troop closely followed and being gotten over the forlorn hope Troop led by Cornet Dixsay followed them and then presently did those our Ho●…se charge the enemies Horse that were before them who being not willing to receive them began all to run away in the pursuit whereof Lievtenant Rogers with the Troop he commanded chanced to follow a Troop in whose Rear was taken prisoner Colonell Anthony Preston the eldest son of Generall Preston and also there were slain many others of the said Troop At the same time Cornet Dixsay commanding the forlorn hope pursued another Horse Troop killed many of them and found the dead body of Captain Bryan who was lately fled from Sir Thomas Lucas Troop whose head was there cut off and brought away by Cornet Dixsey our Foot having been at least two hours before at handy blows and throwing stones with the enemy our men with one accord cheerfully came on upon those that manned the Trenches which made them also resolutely run away which sudden change drew after them all the rest of Our Forces and being possest of their works and hill Sir Richard gave charge unto Sir John Sherlocke That he with all convement speed should draw and keep together his men in good order upon that ground and furnish all his men with Munition while he himself with the Horse pursued the Longford men flying away and then presently did Sir Richard Captain Vaughan and Lievtenant Rogers with about 40 or 50 Horse pursue them wherein it chanced That Captain Vaughan with a part of those Horse taking another way was guided by Noble Sir Charles Coct that wayward that the enemy was escaped and at last overtook the greatest part of them and there killed as by them all is believed at least 200 of them so that we verily believe there were killed in all nigh 250 During which pursuit our Foot remaining about the enemies Castle searching as they usually do all holes found in the Castle 8 Ensignes of the Rebells and also Captain Betagh Captain Dowdall and Lievtenant Elmore and three other of their Ensigns were found abroad among the dead bodies In this conflict of our men was killed in that place but onely three souldiers and about twenty Officers and Souldiers hurt whereof Serjeant Major Shipman who then shewed himself a very valiant Souldier was shot about two Inches deep nigh the breast and yet his Doublet not broken Captain Verney shot on his breast and yet not wounded Captain Loftus had the Tip of his Ear a little hurt with a shot Lievtenant Oliver shot in the breast and not wounded Lievtenant Moal shot in the forehead and but slightly hurt Lievtenant Bingham shot in the back and his skin not hurt which done our forces marched thence and lodged that night at Masistown and in the field before the forces were drawn into their quarters Sir Richard caused a Minister in the head of all the Troops publikely to give God thanks every man kneeling for the victory publikely saying That it was the work onely of God and not of men which every man seemed thankfully to acknowledge This night we understood there was slain in the fight Colonell Patrick Plunckot Captain Bryan and Sir Thomas Nugents onely sonne and heir Captain John Nugent of Balliniscarry Captain Adam Cusack a Parliament man Captain Marcas Geoghagan Captain Roger Darcy of Rattin Also the names of the Enemies Commanders that were at the battle are Serjeant Major Generall James Preston Colonell Anthony Preston Colonell Mac Thomas Fitz-Gerald Colonell Peïrce Fitz-Gerald Sir Luke Fitz-Gerald Colonell Roger Moore Colonell Terrell Colonell Walter Nugent Colonell Mulmore ô Realy Colonell Brian Farrell Sir Thomas Nugent the Lord of Trimelston Likewise the names of the superiour Officers of our Army are these The Lord Viscount Rannelaugh Sir Richard Greenvile Colonell Sir Michael Earnely Colonell Sir John Sherlock Lievtenant Colonell Gibbs Serjeant Major Sir Abraham Shipmaen Serjeant Major Ashly Serjeant Major Morris Serjeant Major Fortescue Captain Honywood Captain Lucas Captain Verney Captain Sands Captain Loftus Captain Nichols Captain Palmer Sir William Bronkett Captain Vaughan Captain Banger Captain Gee Lievtenant Oliver Also for the Horse Captain Vaughan Lievtenant Hatcher and for Dragooners Captain Pate All which Officers did excellently perform their services as did all the inferiour Officers excepting onely Ensign Lake That night Sir Richard Greenvile in giving out his orders for the watch gave out for that nights watch-word the word Revenge and also for the field the word Justice which was correspondent to Gods blessing in the Victory Wednesday the 8 we lodged at Masistowne Thursday the 9 all forces quartered about Tryme from whence they marched the next day into their former Garrisons My dear Brother We are at length come out if our miserable imprisonment where the sufferings of our Ears and Eyes Did not a little adde to what we also felt in a great proportion by seeing and hearing the miserall Spectacles and sad cryes of our distressed poor Souldiers God be thanked All that were left of us are come hither in much safety and by a course much better then if we had not incountred with such difficulties For when we were come a mile on this side Mullingar at Reconnell where the enemy had made himself very strong in good works They there being 6000 foot and 10 or 12 Troops kept the passage against our men whose number were not above a thousand foot besides my Lord Presidents men be brought from Connaught with them and whose good fortune it was to have the Van and give the defeat Herein Colonell Greenvill hath behaved himself very well We have killed of the enemy 500 on the place amongst whom is the great Commander Plunker and another Colonell We have taken Prestons Sonne who was also a Colonell Prisoner and Bryan that was sent from you hither and proved Appostate hath lost his head in the skirmish We have many Captains and other inferiour Officers Prisoners also have brought home nine Ensignes If it is be prosecuted effectually as I hope it will The power and courage of that Rebellious breed must be exceedingly lessened But alas Brother our extremities for want of victuall is beyond Imagination And if present remedy be not provided effectually all the Officers will over to the King quit the Kingdom and the whole Design must be lost Now we are through the concurrance of most evident manifestations of Gods goodnesse in a probable way of reducing these mis-creants for ever but if we are lost as we must be by pretermitting this present supply ten times over the expence If both bloud and Treasure which will now in appearance finish the work will not then put us in the State we are now possest off You cannot imagine to what heights all sorts of people are come unto being made desperate by the sufferings they have undergone and little hopes of being relieved as bad as things goe My Lord Lisle with Colonell Monck and Cromwell having 1500 foot and 300 horse some great and field Peeces Bend their course towards Athy which will induce Preston either to fight with them or quit Kilkenny At the same time my Lord More and Titchbourn intend to go forth with all their forces to East and West Meath and Cavan God send us his countenance and favour whilst we are in such neglects from man The King hath sent expresse order That your honest Committees shall not be admitted to the Counsell Table as formerly and I fear they intend to go hence immediately God knows what inconveniency will arise by their coming away though I must confesse They have but poor incouragement to stay We bear you have had good successe lately in Killultagh and at Enneskellen but withall That your want of Victuall is like to put a soon end unto all controversies I am sure you hear from thence more particularly then we can When you represent your own necessities fail not to remember ours and God put you into the Posture to minister help unto us otherwise let 's know immediately That we may not dye in a ditch and starve which is the condition threatning us all I shall be more particular in my next if God continue us a being but now can adde no more onely my most humble Service to my deer Sister and that I am Your faithfull Servant and affectionate Brother John Chicester Dublin the 14 of Feb. 1642. I forgot to tell you that Captain Vaughan who brought this news was Knighted by the Justices upon the report of it And that my Lord hath left sufficient strength in the Castles of Athlone Rosconian and the Boil of the old Souldiers who so long as their victuall can last will certainly give a good accompt of those strengths For Sir John Clotworthy Knight in Castle-yard in Holborne FINIS

Sir BY our four former addresses of the 2 of November 13 of December 17 of January and 2 of February we gave you faithfull accompt of the state of affairs here as they then stood and by our last Letter of the 2 of February we informed you of the Commission sent to the Lord Marquesse and others to meet with the chiefest of the Rebels and to hear and receive in writing what they could say or propound before the coming over of this Commission many ill Symptomes did appear but now things are grown to an evident cleernesse For upon Munday last a Letter was read at the Board from His Majesty without any Secretaries name subscribed the effect whereof was to this purpose That His Majesty took notice that they the Lords Justices and Councell without His consent or Privity had admitted us to be present at their debates and did require them not to suffer us to be present with them any more as formerly we had been The Lords Justices and Councell thereupon resolved to do accordingly And on Tuesday morning sent Sir Paul Davis to our lodging to acquaint us both with the Letter and the resolution they had taken upon it But because the words of the Message were not full enough as we conceived We desired their Lordships to expresse themselves cleerly whither we should be admitted or not For we were but servants to the Parliament and must give a strict accompt of our Actions to those which sent us thither Thereupon Sir Paul Davis returned to the Board and acquainted their Lordships herewith And after an hour came to us with a second Message which we immediately put down in writing viz. That the Lords Justices and Councell had formerly acquainted us by him with a Letter they had received from His Majesty That they were resolved to obey His Majesties commands and therefore they could not admit us any more to be present as a Committee Sir you will easily imagine that affairs are steered here by the Court Compasse and if the design be to make peace with the Rebels that so this Army may be applicable elsewhere Our presence any longer at the Board will not further that design however The time we have there spent and the experience gained by that will perhaps be serviceable to you at our return which we now hasten as becomes us all we can And resolve to depart hence this week being retarded only to see the Lord Lisle in a good Posture for his hopefull Expedition be being resolved to march on Tuesday next We conceive it very necessary to send a Ship of strength and trust to ride in Bullock-Road before Dublyn and another of lesse burthen to ride before Drogheda Sir We have to the utmost of our weak Abilities indeavoured to wade through the dangers and difficulties which on all sides do attend our imployment here but that which does exceedingly astonish us is That we have not been honoured with one Letter since our coming over We had almost forgot to tell you That the labour is on both sides the Sea to make the Rebels appear strong and considerable and to put difficulties and impediments upon our Military proceedings the better to bring on a most horrid pernitious peace which all goodmen here do abhorre and are resolved to abandon the Kingdom rather then to be exposed to an utter extirpation upon the next opportunity which those bloudy but inconsiderable vi●…ains can l●…y ●… You may see their in-nate valour by our late victory over them upon Tuesday the seventh of February an exact relation whereof made by Sir Richard Greenvell who commanded in chief we send you here inclosed and you may see their inveterate malice who a week after this Commission came over and the day appointed for to hear their Complaints Did combine to make slaughter of a Convoy that passed by them without offering them any violence But were shamefully defeated of their expectation and hath so disheartned them that we are confident my Lord Lisle shall march where he pleases with his 2000 foot and 300 horse and what Religion or to the Crown of England do those shew that advise His Majesty to a dishonourable peace which those miscreants which will are long if you do not exceedingly neglect this service disband starve and cut-throats among themselves Thus with our most humble and hearty Prayers to the Almighty for an honourable and speedy Accommodation we humbly take our leaves and remain Your humble and faithfull Servants Robert Reynolds Robert Goodwyn Dublin the 15 of February 1642. A Relation concerning the Fight that happenned at RATHCONNELL BY command from the Lord Marquesse of Ormond certain Forces of both Horse and Foot were sent unto Trym for the relief of Athlone with a direction unto Sir Richard Greenvill to have the chief Command thereof which Forces arrived at Trym on Thursday 26 January and on Friday morning then following Sir Richard marched thence toward Athlone with about 900 Foot and also about 200 Horse and that night all lodged at Athboy Saturday the 28 being come nigh unto Ballinacur being a very strong passe we found the Enemy possessing it with 300 men having cut off there a Bridge whereat Sir Richard commanded certain Dragooners to force that Passe and also sent a Party of Horse to second them which the enemy opposed untill some of the Horse found a place there by where they leapt over a deep ditch of water which put them all to slight over a Bogge there by In which escape divers of the Rebells were slain and as it is said also one of their Commanders That night we lodged at and about Killeenan Sunday the 29 marching forwards 4 of our Horse Scouts espyed 4 Horse Scouts of the Rebells on the top of a hill before them who seeing our Scouts hastning towards them withstood them being Country Gentlemen of good quality and being but 4 to 4 they encountred each other a while fairly with onely their swords untill one of the Rebells had both given and received a wound and was seized on by one of our Scouts whereat the rest being very well mounted escaped away leaving their confort to be slain in the place And being come nigh Tobbercormick where we lay that night some of our Horse took a Gentlewoman of some quality prisoner who stood on a hill there by guarded with some Muskettiers Munday the 30 being come within 5 miles of Athlone we took one M. Richard Dillon prisoner who informed Sir Richard That Generall Preston was sending all the Forces he could make to hinder our coming to Athlone and therefore wished us to make all the haste thither we could Presently thereon a Horse-man of our forlorn hope came back and informed Sir Richard That seven Colours of the enemies Forces were then marching towards us Sir Richard then presently commanded forth more of his Horse to hasten to second the fore-Troop which in that Intrim charged the enemy who retreated to a Bog where most

of them might have been out off had not the care of the Safe-Conduct of the provisions appointed for the relief of Athlone forbidden it That night we all came safe at Athlone where we all stayed the next day following Wednesday the 31 Sir Richard sent all our Horse and Foot to quarter at Kilkenny-West four miles thence untill such time as 300 of the Lord Rannelaugh's Regiment and three hundred of Sir Michael Earnlyes Regiment could be drawn thither from their out-Garrisons to march back with us And when our Horse approached nigh unto Kilkenny they discovered that it was strongly manned by Sir James Dillons Forces Captain Thomas his Troop and Colonell Farrell's Regiment of the County of Longford whereat Captain Vaughan with some of our Horse fell into their Quarters and killed a Captain and some other Officers and also about 50 of their Souldiers and took many of their Arms and possest their Quarters untill Saturday Saturday the 4 of Febr we all quartered at and about a place called The Moat at which time the 600 of the Lord Rannelaugh's and Sir Michael Earnlyes Regiments were lodged with ours where Captain Vaughan found in his Quarters an English mans wife who told him that the generall report of the Countrey was That the Irish had gathered all the Forces they could get together and were confident to compasse us in on every side and to cut us all off resolving and vowing not to leave a man of us alive saying also That if we should get the Victory the heart of their Wars would be broken for that there was an ancient Prophesie much talked of among the Irish That that side which should win the Battell at Rathconnell should be Conquerers of the Kingdom it being a Tradition superstitiously held amongst the Native Irish On Munday the 5 and 6 we marched towards Trym meeting with no opposition but very foul weather and wayes which greatly disheartned the Souldiers and killed divers of them in which time we took severall of the Countrey people who all confirmed the former reports of the enemies Forces and intentions Sir Richard Greenvill notwithstanding said He was resolved not to march a foot out of his way were the enemy never so strong Tuesday the 7 proceeding in our March we understood of divers Troops of Horse and Foot that daily had followed our Rear which then was guarded by a Troop of Horse commanded by Lievtenant Hatcher who charged certain Forces of the enemy which were advanced somewhat nigh him and then cut off about twenty of them Afterwards about 11 of the clock the same day being come nigh Mollingar we took a prisoner who told us that the Irish Forces possest our Passe of Rathconnell a mile before us being very strong in number of men and the prime Officers and Gentry of of the Countrey Whereupon Sir Richard hastened the advance of his Forces towards the foresaid Passe and being come nigh in view of it saw the Passe to be somewhat narrow and that it was out off by a broad and deep Trench being compast in on each side with great Boges and having adjoyning to it on a very steep hill a strong Castle and divers other Works well manned by which there appeared no passage for either Horse or Foot Then did Sir Richard draw all his Forces into Battell-Order before it which consisted of a forlorn hope of 50 Muskettiers commanded by Lievtenant Dikes and two Wings of sixty shot more commanded by two Ensignes one of them a coward the forlorn hope being seconded with a Division of 200 Muskettiers which was commanded by Sir John Sherlecke which was the Van-Guard of our little Army whereof the first Division was led by Captain Vern●y and Lievtenant Oliver and the second Division of it by Lievtenant Williams and also the third Division by Major Morris The rest of the Forces consisted of three Divisions of Pikes flanckt with shot which were for the Battell of the Army each containing about 300 men whereof the first was led by Captain Honywood the second by Major Sir Abraham Shipman the third by Sir Michael Earnely after which followed another Division of 200 Muskettiers commanded by Major Fortelcue which was for the Rear-Guard whose Rear was guarded by a forlorn hope of 50 Muskettiers commanded by Likewise those Foot were flanckt with three Divisions of Horse whereof Captain Vanghan commanded the Van-Guard Lievtenant Rogers the Battell and Lievtenant Hatcher the Rear-Guard Likewise before the Van-Guard of the Feet marched the Lord Rannelaugh leading a Troop of Voluntiers Likewise for the forlorn hope of the Rear Captain Pate commanded 40 Dragooners which were also assisted with 20 Fire-locks which done seeing not onely a strong enemy of above 2000 Foot and six Horse Troops before us and others at least 600 on our right hand and 600 more of Longford men at a distance on our left hand upon the Boggs not farre off from which were hastning up to second their as it is said 800 of the Realies and then unknown to us there was waiting upon our Rear 500 more which then newly possest Mollingar about half a mile behinde us to hinder our Retreat Then for to begin the Play the forlorn hope of 50 Shot advanced on right towards the Passe and so likewise did the left Wing of Shot to slank that the right Wing staying behinde contrary to command whose ground notwithstanding was made good by others Those together being advanced as farre as they could were seconded by severall Divisions drawn out of the Van-Guard which also disputing it with the enemy without any apparent good successe Sir Richard was enforced before the front of the rest of the Forces to say There was no other remedy now but we must resolve to tarry it or die because he saw great numbers of men approaching towards our right hand and likewise as many towards our left hand which if they should come to joyn with those before us would be too strong for us therefore now of necessity all must use their best endeavours to force thorow the Passe upon the enemy and by so doing of it resolutely there was no doubt of good successe Whereunto all men seemed very willing and so accordingly the three Divisions of the Battell advanced cheerfully with their Colours flying to force their way Sir Richard keeping upon reserve 250 Muskettiers which three last Divisions being come at push of Pike with the Rebells that defended that Passe and Sir Michael Earnly espying the advance of the Longford men on our left hand marched towards them and then presently received a Charge by the Horse that Captain Brian commanded which by our Shot was repulsed and Brian himself shot dead and that gave a stop to the Longford men In the Interim of this Conflict many of the Forces from off the Castle were running speedily to charge our right Wing of Shot which Sir Richard repulsed by sending amongst them more Shot from out of his last reserve Which sudden fury