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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50781	An Account of the transactions in the north of Ireland, anno domini 1691, and of many other remarkable passages during our last years successful campaign in that kingdom with a particular relation of the manner of beseiging and taking the town of Sligoe by storm by the Honourable Collonel John Michelburne, Governor of London-derry, and sometimes Governour of the town and fort of Sligoe, the commander in chief of their Majesties forces in the province of Ulster,	Michelborne, John, 1647-1721.; J. H.	1692 (1692)	Wing M1965; ESTC R29529	69,993	133

AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRANSACTIONS IN THE North of Ireland Anno Domini 1691. AND Of many other Remarkable Passages during our last Years Successful Campaign in that Kingdom With a Particular Relation Of the Manner of Besieging and Taking the Town of Sligoe by Storm by the Honourable Collonel JOHN MICHELBVRNE Governor of London-Derry and sometimes Governour of the Town and Fort of Sligoe then Commander in Chief of Their MAJESTIES Forces in the Province of Vlster LONDON Printed in the Year 1692. To His Excellency GODART Earl of Athlone Viscount Aghrim Baron of Barronasloe and Bar de Ginkell Commander in Chief of Their Majesties Forces in the Kingdom of IRELAND My Lord THIS following Treatise is a Subject that lies so wholly whithin Your own Province of Honour that it pretends a kind of Right to lay it self at Your Excellencies Feet For though in general it relates the happy Managery of the last Years Successes in the North of Ireland yet since that cannot be done without publishing some just Testimonials of the Courage Fidelity and Services of my Worthy Friend Collonel John Michelburn methinks it is a piece of Duty as the Pendant always attends the Flag to usher his Bannoret under Your Standard And truly there 's some farther Plea for my presumption in this Dedication viz. That I may justly avow that Collonel's Early Endeavours in the Kingdom of Ireland were at least the Phosphore to Your Excellencies brighter Sun His forward Hand gave the first fair Earnest for the Irish Successes when in his Exemplary Northern Services his Preservation of London-derry I may properly say like a true Forlorn Hope he held the Enemy in play till Your Excellencies heavier Mass of Glory could come up to sweep the intire Victory A Victory indeed in which the World must do You this publick Justice that the whole last Years Renown was entirely Your own For whilst in all the other Scenes of War as Germany Flanders Savoy c. Fortune in a manner kept wholly neuter and the rest of the Neighbouring Heroes only stood at a Bay Your Excellencies more Active Arme held the most prevailing Sword and only play'd the Conquering Game whilst an entire Victory follow'd no Chariot but Your own And as long as the Compleat Reduction of Ireland fills so large a Page in the English Annals Your Excellencies never dying Merit must stand Chronicled with so fair a Character that they must give You this peculiar Renown That you made not War a Trade You felt the Cause You fought and in the Service of England consulted the Interest of Christendom whilst the Expedition of Your Triumph is possibly the brightest of Your Lawrels But alas 'T is not my Province to be Your Excellencies Herauld or Historian there 's no occasion for my poor Pen to attempt what all Tongues are already full of 'T is enough that with the Fame You have all the Vertues of a Conquerour and as such this Gentleman's Cause can not come before an Abler or Properer Judge the Assurance of which Justice is the occasion of this Confidence from My Honoured Lord Your Excellencies most Obedient tho' Unkown Humble Servant and Admirer J. H. TO THE READER THough this following Discourse as it contains a perfect Series of the most important Affairs that were transacted in the North of Ireland the last Campaigne and consequently relates the Success of our English Arms in that Kingdom so much conduceing to the happiness of our own cannot but be an entertaining Subject to every honest Reader yet the publishing this ensuing Narrative is not altogether on that design The Vindication of a private Cause of the Honourable Coll. John Michelburne a Person so eminently Instrumental in the Recovery of Ireland has in some measure been the Motive that engag'd this present Pen to be drawn in his Defence Vertue does not always meet with Justice from the Mouth of ill tongu'd Fame Her Enemies are often so successful Detraction and Envy still striking at the noblest Merit that in the false Game they play the Honest side is commonly on the Loosing hand and the Innocent receives its fall from the Treacherous stab of envious Malice and successful Villany Now it being the Misfortune of the Honourable Person I have mention'd to be unworthily a Sufferer in this kind you will find that whilst this Treatise I am writing gives you an exact Relation from day to day of the manner and means he us'd to reduce Sligoe which was taken by him commanding there in chief it will not only satisfie the curiosity of those that are pleased to look nicely into those Affairs in general but will do a particular Justice to his Honour whose Services have deserv'd a much Kinder Treatment than hitherto they have met with by unloading him of those notorious Injuries that most unjustly ill-minded Men had thrown upon him Coll. Michelburne being impower'd by the Lords Justices and the General to command all the Forces of the Province of Vlster after he had made his second Attack against the Garrison he lay before without that Success he expected which was occasioned by some of the Militia's cowardly deserting him a very hard and untrue Character of his Management in that Affair by what means transmitted we know not was sent over to Her Majesty which represented him so faulty that the Queen immediately sent particular Orders to the L. Justices of Ireland to take the matter into their Judiciary Cognizance and Examination I having the good fortune to be an Intimate Acquaintance of his was much surpriz'd and troubled to hear the rumour of those unwelcome Untruths as I conceiv'd 'em that seem'd to blacken so my Friends unspotted Honour My respect therefore for a Person who was so early a Defender of His Majesty's Interest in the Kingdom of Ireland to whose Vigilancy Courage Conduct and Fidelity the most happy Success we met with at London-derry next under God ought chiefly to be attributed woud not suffer me to joyn with the unthinking Populace in that Cry against him But on the contrary I was resolved to continue the same Honourable Opinion of him that his former actions had establish'd in me believing it impossible for a Person that had so lately signalized himself cou'd ever deviate from the Paths of his innate Vertue and unshaken Loyalty being firm in this Belief and zealous for my Friends ' Honour I could not forbear enquiring by a Letter from him what effects this Calumny might have on his Affairs in Ireland and whither as yet he had healed his wounded Reputation-before the Lords Justices I soon received a very satisfactory Answer with a Copy of a Letter from General Ginkell to him which you will find inserted hereafter in its proper place so much applauding the Collonel's signal Services that it rejoyc'd me to know that the malice of his ill-minded Enemies cou'd not divert his Excellency from conceiving the same fair Character of him that all just Men ought But what pleas'd me most