Conduct that day After the Battel our Army lay upon their Arms all night at Duleek having left our Tents all standing beyond the Boyne And next morning his Majesty sent Brigadier La Mellionere with One thousand Horse and Dragoons a Party of Foot and Eight Pieces of Cannon to summons Drogheda wherein the Irish had a Garison of about 1300 men commanded by my Lord Iveagh who surrendred the Town upon Condition That his Garison should have leave to march out without their Arms and be conducted to Athlone Tho their Barbarity in tying the Protestants in Town back to back and placing them where they expected our Guns to play ought not to be forgot This is a Town of no great strength only a Mount whereon are planted Ten Guns on the South-side the River seems capable of Defence Thursday the 3 d. of July his Majesty had an Account That the Irish had left Dublin and were making what haste they could towards the Shannon upon which the Duke of Ormond marched to that City with One thousand Horse and found Captain Farlow Governor of the Castle who two days before had been a Prisoner his Grace took possession of all the Out-Guards of the Town with his Horse and the Dutch Blue Guards were sent to the Castle The 5th His Majesty with his Army marches to Dublin our Army marched to Finglass a little Village two miles to the North-west of Dublin where we lay encamped for several days The 6th being Sunday his Majesty went to St. Patrick's Church in Dublin and next day towards the evening the Bishop of Meath the Bishop of Limerick Dr. King and all the Clergy then about Dublin except the Lord Primate who sent his Excuse to his Majesty by reason of his great Age and Infirmness waited upon the King at his Camp where the Bishop of Meath made an excellent Congratulatory Speech for his Majesty's happy Victory and their Deliverance Whereunto his Majesty gave a Gracious Answer And the Bishop of Limâ—rick desired they might appoint a Day of Publick Thanksgiving and have leave to Compose a Form of Prayer suitable to the occasion which was granted The same day his Majesty signed a Declaration His Majesty's Declaration to the Irish wherein he promised Protection to all poor Labourers common Soldiers Countrey-Farmers Plow-men and Coltiers as also to all Citizens Tradesmen Townsmen and Artificers who either remained at home or having fled from their Dwellings should return by the first of August following c. leaving all others to the Event of War unless by great and manifest demonstrations they would convince his Majesty that they deserved his Mercy which he promised never to refusâ— to those who were truly penitent A great many of the Irish Officers complained The Irish Objections against the Declaration That this Declaration was too narrow in excluding them from any Advantage by it and that they were obliged afterwards to stick together as being their only safety but this Declaration was narrower than his Majesty's Royal Intentions on purpose to comply with the English Proprietors of that Countrey And as to the Irish Officers this was only a pretence for when it was enlarged afterwards by his Majesty and the Government the year succeeding made them all the reasonable Proffers that could be hoped or wished for yet most of them continued obstinate till they could not help it But tho his Majesty was very careful to have this and his other Declaration that succeeded it observed yet some Officers and Soldiers were apt to forget the King's Honour with that of our Countrey and Religion too when they stood in competion with their own Profit and Advantage That day and the next his Majesty took a view of his Army by distinct Regiments nor did the inconveniency of the bad Weather which fell out at Our Army mustered that time prevent him from observing each Regiment very nicely the whole number of Horse Foot and Dragoons that marched in the Ranks was 30330 besides 483 Reformed Officers as also all the Officers and Serjeants in the Army and Four Regiments in Garison so that the compleat Number of our whole Army was at least 36000 as is said before Nor will it be improper to gâ—ve here a List of our General Officers who commanded this Campaign under his Majesty and were employed in his Service but we must take it from the beginning since his Grace Duke Schonberg was killed ere this A LIST of the General Officers of Their Majesties Army 1690. FRederick Duke of Schonberg Captain-General A List of their Majesties Army 1690. The Duke of Wirtenbergh General of the Danes Count Solmes General of the Foot Count Schonberg General of the Horse Lieutenant-General Douglass Lord Overkirk Maistres Generals des Camp Earl of Portland Maistres Generals des Camp Henry Lord Viscount Sidney Major-Generals of Foot Count Nassau Major-Generals of Foot Major-General Kirk Major-Generals of Foot Major-General Tetteau Major-Generals of Foot Monsieur Screvenmore Major-Generals of Horse Maj. Gen. La Forrest Major-Generals of Horse Sir John Lanier Major-Generals of Horse Monsieur Du Cambon Quarter-master-General Brigadier Trelawney Brigadiers of Foot Sir Henry Bellasis Brigadiers of Foot Sir John Hanmer Brigadiers of Foot Brigadier Stuart Brigadiers of Foot Brigad La Mellionere Brigadiers of Foot Brigad Villars Brigadiers of Horse Brigad Eppinger Brigadiers of Horse Brigad Schack Brigadiers of Horse Sir Robert Southwell Secretary of State Thomas Coningesby Esq now Lord Coningesby and Charles Fox Esq Pay-masters-General Sir John Topham Advocate-General Henry Wythers Adjutant-General of Foot Francis Russel Adjutant-General of Horse George Clark Esq Secretary at War Monsieur Perara Commissary-General of the Provisions Abraham Yarner Esq Muster-master-General Dr. Lawrence Physician-General Charles Thompson Esq Chyrurgion-General A CATALOGUE of the General Officers A List of the Irish General Officers and others in King Jams's Army taken out of the Muster-Rolls June the 2 d 1690. DUKE of Tyrconnel Captain-General Duke of Berwick Lieutenant-Generals Richard Hambleton Lieutenant-Generals Count Lauzune General of the French Monsieur Leary alias Geraldine Lieutenant-General Dominick Sheldon Lieutenant-General of the Horse Patrick Sarsfield Major-Generals Anthony Hambleton Major-Generals Monsieur Boiseleau Major-Generals Thomas Maxwell Brigadeers John Hambleton Brigadeers William Dorrington Brigadeers Solomon Slater Muster-master-General Robert Fitz-Gerald Comptroler of the Musters Sir Richard Neagle Secretary at War Sir Henry Bond Receivers General Louis Doe Receivers General Sir Michael Creagh Pay-master General Foelix Oneil Advocate General Dr. Archbold Physician to the State Patrick Archbold Chyrurgeon General The Irish had at that time in their Army Two Troops of Horse-Guards with another of Horse-Granadiers Eight Regiments of Horse Seven Regiments of Dragoons a Regiment of Foot Guards of Twenty two Companies and Ninety men in a Company Forty four other Regiments of Foot Thirteen Companies in a Regiment and Sixty men in a Company which with the Five thousand French Foot made their Army according to their own Computation
delivering up their Arms a very small return being made through the whole Kingdom they keeping as yet some thousands of all sorts of Arms still concealed which I hope will effectually be taken care of in time The weather was now so violent that the Adventure of London was cast away going to Dublin and several other Ships lost in and about that Bay And the Swallow one of Their Majesties Ships was forced a ground nigh Charles-Fort at Kingsale and there foundred tho' all the Men were saved except two February the 12th John Stone Esq being dead and Captain South imployed elsewhere in the Army a new Commission was granted putting in their Places Colonel Foulks and William Palmer Esquires Commissioners for stating the Accounts of the Army And nigh the same time the Commissary General was sent into England with all the Muster Rolls February 16. the weather breaking up part of my Lord Oxford's Horse driven back by stress of weather Lieutenant General Ginckel's and Major General Ruvigney's Horse with the Princess Anns Foot were all Shipp'd for England The same day Lieutenant General Scravemore went on Board as did Brigadier Leveson in a day or two after Colonel Coy's Horse also are Shipp'd off at Belfast and the Garison of Athlone that had been very uneasie to the Officers and Souldiers all Winter by reason they had no shelter except some small Hutts of their own making was now relieved February the 20th the Commissioners of the Ordnance Arms and Ammunition sent for England had an Order directed to them to send all the Stores of Amunition and other Stores of War that cou'd be spared out of the Magazines for England to be employed elsewhere in Their Majesties Service and accordingly March 1692. a vast quantity of Arms and other Utensils of War were Shipt off February 28 Captain Townsend of the Earl of Meath's Regiment took eight or ten French Men Prisoners who had come a Shoar from a Privateer nigh Castle-Haven and we had an Account from England that His Majesty had Created Lieutenant General Ginckel Baron of Aghrim and Earl of Athlone February 26 An Order was directed to Colonel Foulk to break my Lord George Hambleton's Regiment which was done accordingly in some days after 150 ' of the Men being sent for England and the rest entertained in the Earl of Drogheda's Brigadier Stuart's Sir Henry Ballasis and Colonel Foulk's Regiments March the first a Pass was given out for a Ship to The Hostages go from Cork to France go to France with the Hostages left at Cork and other sick Officers and Souldiers according to the Articles of Limerick And on the third another Order was granted to Colonel Foulk for the raising five Companies of 100 Men in each of the Irish all the subaltern Officers to be of those Reformed in Colonel Wilson's and O Donnel's Battalions and the whole to be commanded by my Lord Iveigh and employed in the Emperor's Service And March the fifth an Order was directed to Mr. Foliot Sherigly chief Deputy Commissary to Disband the Troop of Provoes which was done accordingly March the 17th Lieutenant-General Ruvigny Landed Lieutenant General Ruvigny lands in Ireland from England being made Commander in chief of the Army left in Ireland and Created by his Majesty Lord Viscount Galway and two days after his Lordship and the Lord Viscount Blessington were Sworn of Their Majesties Privy Council as the Bishop of Kildare had been some time before And March the 23 d. the following Proclamation was Published declaring the War of Ireland to be at an end 1692 WILLIAM REX WHEREAS by An Act made in Our Parliament A Proclamation declaring the Wars of Ireland ended at Westminster in the First Year of Our Reign Intituled An Act for the better Security and Relief of Their Majesties Protestant Subjects of Ireland it was among other things Enacted that all and every Person and Persons whatsoever of the Protestant Religion should be absolutely Discharged and Acquitted of and from the Payment of all Quit-Rents Crown-Rents Composition-Rents Hearth-Money Twentieth Parts Payments and other Chief Rents arising or Payable out of any Houses Lands Tenements Hereditaments Rectories Tyths or Church-Livings incurring or becoming due to us at any time after the Five and Twentieth Day of December in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty Eight until the said Kingdom of Ireland shou'd be by us declared to be reduced and the War and Rebellion there ended We have now pursuant to the said Act of Parliament thought fit by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council to Issue this Our Royal Proclamation hereby Declaring that the said Kingdom of Ireland is reduced to Our Obedience and the War and Rebellion there ended And We do hereby Will and Require that all and Singular such Rents and Payments and all other Duties payable to the Crown which shall henceforth grow incur and become due be duely answered and payed to us in such manner and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as if the said Act had not been made Given at Our Court at Kensington the Third Day of March 1691 2. in the Fourth Year of Our Reign God save the King and Queen After which time little of moment happened save March 1692. that the Lords Justices by Directions from Their Majesties appointed a time for those that pretended to the Benefit of the Articles of Limerick or Galway to give in their Names and make good their claims by the 20th of February which time was by Proclamation enlarged to the first of April and afterwards to the 15th Wednesday the sixth of April was appointed the first Day to begin upon those Claims all those concerned being to enter their Names sometime before with the Clerk of the Council which Names were to be posted up at least ten Days before their Cause was to be heard their Claims being to be made out by at least three Credible Witnesses one of which was to be a Protestant Accordingly on the sixth of April the Council met upon this Affair and continued every Monday Wednesday and Friday so to do which was a much easier way and more to the Interest and Advantage of the Irish than any Court of Claims erected only for that purpose cou'd have been CHAP. XI A brief Account of the former and present Circumstances of Ireland The Division of it into Provinces and Counties Bishopricks and Parishes The Soil of Ireland Sir John Davis his Reasons why Ireland was so long in being entirely subjâ—cted to the Crown of England What Tanistry is This a reason why the Irish did not improve their Country Of Fosterings and Cosherings A Brief Estimate of the Expence of the former Wars of Ireland An Essay towards the reckoning the Charge of this last The former evils still remain The Interest of the King and People of England in general to advance the Power and Trade of the English in Ireland The Interest also of the Roman Catholicks
get out again And the second Week in May several English a Brandenburg and Three Dutch Regiments landed By which time also all our Recruits were compleated and the Regiments Cloathed so that we had now an Excellent Army all over-joyed with the Assurance that His Majesty in person designed to make that Campaign in Ireland A part of our Army also begin to take the Field and Encamp almost round Charlemont Cannon and Mortars were sent up that way too in order to force old Teague O Regan the Governour from his Nest if he would not quit it otherways but their Provisions being spent and no hopes of Relief appearing on the 12th of May the Governour desired a Parley and after some time it was agreed That his Garison should march out with their Arms and Baggage which they did Charlemont surrendred on the 14th being about Eight hundred besides two hundred Women and Children four Companies of Collonel Babington's Regiment taking possession of the Place We found Seventeen Pieces of Cannon one large Mortar Eighty three Barrels of Powder with some Fire Arms and other useful Materials in the Castle The same day that Charlemont was surrendred Collonel Woolsley and Collonel Foulks with Twelve hundred men went to a Castle called Bellynacargy in which the Enemy had Two hundred men this was scituate in a small Lough so that our men were forced to march up to their middles in water to make their Approaches the Enemy fired smartly upon us killed us Two Captains an Ensign and Seventeen men and wounded Forty three but when they saw us resolved to have the Place they hung out their White Flag and agreed to march away without their Arms. A Ground Plot of the STRONG FORT of CHARLEMONT in IRELAND With the Town River Marshes Boggs places adjacent ct CHAP. II. His Majesty lands in Ireland Our Army takes the Field The King marches towards the Boyn His Majesty's narrow Escape the day before the Battel The Battel of the Boyn The number of the Dead The Late King quits Ireland Our Army marches to Dublin His Majesty's Declaration to the Irish A List of our General Officers and of those belonging to the Irish Army The number of men in both Armies Our Army divides Lieutenant-General Douglass marches with a Party towards Athlone A Commission granted by the King to secure forfeited Goods Wexford secured Clonmell quitted Waterford and Dungannon-Fort surrendred to His Majesty The King intends for England and sends some Forces thither But returns to the Camp Limerick Besieged Some of our Guns surprized A Fort taken An Attack upon the Town Our men draw off His Majesty raises the Siege and returns to England ALL People were now big with hopes of His Majesty's coming for Ireland who left Kensington the Fourth of June 1690. took Shipping at Hylake His Majesty Lands in Ireland on the 12th and on the 14th being Saturday he landed about Four in the Afternoon at Carigfergus from whence being upon the Road to Belfast he was met by the General Major-General Kirk and a great many more Officers of the Army that were there expecting His Majesty's Landing And that Evening landed his Highness Prince George the Duke of Ormond Earl of Oxford Earl of Portland Earl of Scarborough Earl of Manchester my Lord Overkirk my Lord Sidney with a great many other Persons of Quality some of them Officers in the Army and others Voluntiers The two following days His Majesty was attended by most of the Nobily Clergy and other Gentlemen inhabiting that part of the Kingdom He was presented also with an Address from the Episcopal Clergy and another from several Presbyterian Ministers both which His Majesty received very graciously The King stayed at Belfast till Thursday the 19th and having set out a Proclamation to encourage all People of what Persuasion soever to live peaceably at home His Majesty went to Hilsburrough giving Ordes for his Army to take the Field And on the All our Army takes the Field 22th His Majesty Encampt at Loughbritland with that part of the Army which had their Rendezvouz there and never laid out of the Camp except upon his Journey from Caruck to Dublin after that during his stay in Ireland That Morning a Party of Two hundred Foot and Dragoons going from Newry towards Dundalk to discover the Enemy who ere this had taken the Field and then lay encamped there our men fell into an Ambuscade of about Four hundred of the Irish at a narrow Pass upon a Bog nigh a place called the Four-mile House by which we lost Twenty two of our Party and Captain Farlow with another Officer were taken Prisoners but the Enemy did not gain much by this Attempt for they lost more in number than we did Captain Farlow was the first who gave the Late King a certain Account of King William's being in Ireland for till then he would not believe it June the 27th our whole Army joined at Dundalk making in all about Thirty six thousand though the World called us at least a third part more The Irish at our approach hither had removed to the Boyn And on Sunday the 29th our Army marched beyond Ardee which the Enemy had fortified much after the same manner as they had done Dundalk and early next morning our whole Army moved toward the The Army marches to the Boyn Boyne making their Approaches very finely After some time His Majesty sent down small Parties of Horse to discover the Ways and then rid towards the Pass at Old Bridge having a full view of the Enemy's Camp as he went along His Majesty stopt some time at Old Bridge to observe the Enemy's Posture and then going a little further His Majesty alighted to refresh himself and sate nigh an hour upon the Grass during which time the Enemy brought down two Field-pieces under Covert of a small Party of Horse and planted them at the Corner of a Hedge undiscovered and when His Majesty the Prince and the rest were mounted again and riding softly the same way back their Cannonier let fly and at the second Shot was so near the killing His Majesty His Majesty's narrow Escape from a Great Shot as that the Bullet slanted upon his Right Shoulder took away a piece of his Coat and struck off the Skin which might have been a fatal Blow to his Army and Kingdoms too if the Great Creator of the World who orders and governs all things had not been at his Right Hand where he always is and I hope will be as well for the defence of His Majesty's Sacred Person as the good of those he has undertaken to protect The Enemy then fired those two Pieces as fast as they could charge and discharge doing some damage amongst our Horse that were drawing up before them which made the King give Orders for his Horse to rein a little backwards and have the advantage of a Rising Ground between them and the Cannon About Three a Clock
he admitted my Lord Dover to a more particular Protection than ordinary because he had applied himself formerly by a Letter to Major-General Kirk to desire a Pass for himself and Family to go into Flanders His Majesty at his return to the Camp declared The King intends for England his Resolution to go for England and leaving Count Solmes Commander in Chief he went as far as Chappel-Izard nigh Dublin with that Intention ordering one Troop of Guards Count Sconberg's Horse formerly my Lord Devonshires Collonel Matthews's Dragoons Brigadier Trelawny's and Collonel Hastings's And sends some Forces thither Foot to be shipt off for that Kingdom And on the first of August His Majesty published a Second Declaration not only confirming and strengthening the former but also adding That if any Foreigners then in Arms against him in that Kingdom would submit they should have Passes to go into their own Countries or whither else they pleased A Proclamation was also published for all the Irish in the Countrey to deliver up their Arms and those who refused or neglected to be abandoned to the Discretion of the Soldiers As also another Proclamation for a Weekly Fâ—st And then His Majesty appointed Richard Pine Esq Sir Richard Reves and Robert Rochfort Esq Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal who began now to act accordingly But the King received a further Account from England But returns to the Camp That the loss at Sea was not so considerable as it was at first given out and that there was no danger of any more French Forces landing in that Kingdom they having already burnt only a small Village and so were gone off without doing any further damage The danger of that being therefore over His Majesty returned to the Army which he found encamped at Golden Bridge nigh Cashell and about seventeen miles from Limrick where His Majesty had intelligence of the Posture of the Enemy in and about that City August the 8th Lieutenant-General Douglas and his Limerick Besieged Party from Athlone joined the King's Army at Cariganlis And on the 9th the whole Army approached that strong Hold of Limerick without any considerable loss the greatest part of their Army being Encampt beyond the River in the County of Clare His Majesty as soon as his Army was posted sent a Summons to the Town which was refused to be obeyed by Monsieur Boiseleau the Duke of Berwick Sarsfield and some more though a great part of their Army were even then willing to Capitulate Next Morning early the King sent a Party of Horse and Foot under Major-General Ginckell and Major-General Kirk to pass the River which they did near Sir Samuel Foxon's House about two miles above the Town The same day some Deserters from the Enemy gave his Majesty an account of their Circumstances and one of our own Gunners did as much for us who informed the Enemy of our Posture in the Camp as also of Eight Pieces of Cannon with Ammunition Provisions the Tin-Boats and several other Necessaries then upon the Road which Sarsfield with a Party of Horse and Dragoons had the luck to surprize two Some of our â—â—ns surprized days after at a little old Castle called Ballynedy within seven miles of our Camp killing about Sixty of the Soldiers and Waggoners and then marched off with little or no opposition tho his Majesty had given Orders for a Party of Horse to go from the Camp and meet the Guns the night before Tuesday the 12th Brigadier Stuart went with a Party Castle Connel taken and four Field-Pieces to Castle-Connel a Strong-hold upon the Shannon four miles from Limerick the besieged being 126 under one Captain Barnwell after some time submitted and were brought Prisoners to the Camp Sunday the 17th at night we opened our Trenches Our Trenches opened which were mounted by Seven Battalions under the Duke of Wirtenbergh Major-General Kirk Major-General Tetteau and Sir Henry Bellasts beating the Irish out of a Fort nigh two old Chimneys where about Twenty were killed and next night our Works were relieved by Lieutenant General Douglas my Lord Sidney Count Nassau and Brigadier Stuart with the like number and the day following we planted some new Batteries which his Majesty going to view as he was riding towards Ireton's Fort he stopt his Horse on a sudden to speak to an Officer a Four and twenty pound Ball the very moment grazing on the side of the Gap where his Majesty was going to enter which certainly must have dash'd him to pieces had not the commanding God of Heaven prevented it who still reserves him for greater matters This I saw being then upon the Fort as I did that other Accident at the Boyne before Wednesday the 20th we attack'd a Fort of the Enemies A Fort taken nigh the South East Corner of the Wall which we soon took and killed 50 taking a Captain and twelve men Prisoners and about an hour after the Enemy sallyed with great Bravery thinking to regain the Fort but were beat in with loss there being killed in the Fort and the Sally about Three hundred though we lost Captain Needham Captain Lacy and about Eighty private men A PROSPECT of LIMERICK BEARING DUE WEST Exactly shewing the Approaches Batteries Breach ct Sold by R. Chiswell in St. Pauls churchyard Next day the Soldiers were in hopes that his Majesty would give orders for a second Attack and seemed resolved to have the Town or lose all their lives but this was too great a risque to run at one place and they did not know how our Ammunition was sunk especially by the former day's work we continued however our Batteries and then a storm of Rain and other bad weather begun to threaten us which fell out on Friday the 29th in good earnest upon which his Majesty calling a Council of War it was concluded the safest way was to quit the Siege without which we could not have secured our heavy Cannon which we drew off from the Batteries by degrees and found much difficulty in marching them five miles next day Sunday the last of August all our His Majesty raised the Siege Army drew off most of the Protestants that lived in that part of the Countrey taking that opportunity of removing further into the Countrey with the Army and would rather leave their Estates and all their Substance in the Enemies hands than trust their persons any more in their power His Majesty seeing the Campaign nigh an end went towards Waterford where he appointed Henry Lord Viscount Sidney Sir Charles Porter and Tho. Conningsby Esq Lords Justices of Ireland and then setting And returns to England sail with a fair Wind for England his Majesty was welcomed thither with all the Joy and Satisfaction imaginable CHAP. III. September 1690. The French Forces quit Ireland Birr besieg'd by the Irish who draw off towards Banoher Bridge Count Solms 's Answer to the Duke of Berwick 's Letter Lieutenant-General
Ginckel made Commander in Chief of the Army Lords Justices begin their Government The Earl of Marlborough sent with a Fleet into Ireland Cork and Kinsale taken The Irish make Attempts upon our Frontiers Part of our Army move towards the Shannon Rapparees in the Bog of Allen Those People serviceable to the Irish Interest and how My Lord Tyrconnel returns from France Sarsfield made Earl of Lucan The Irish defeated at the Mote of Greenoge Several Adventures with the Rapparees and Parlies of the Irish Army Some of our Regiments take the Field at Mullingar ON the sixth of September our Army marched to Tipperary about fourteen Miles from Limerick where they begun to disperse towards their respective Quarters And we had an Account by some Deserters that my Lord Tyrconnel and all the French Forces were Ship'd off at The French leave Ireland Gallway for France The reason of this was also enquired after by a great many that the French shou'd absolutely quit Ireland at a time when we had raised our Siege which might have given them hopes of re-gaining the next Year what they lost this at least to defend the Province of Connaught against us and so protract the War beyond what they cou'd have hoped for if the Town had been taken and that if the want of Provisions was an Objection it was easier to carry those to the Men than bring the Men to their Provisions But the reason that I have heard given for their departure was That the late King appearing very unexpectedly in France at a time when all People were over-joyed with the News of the Battel of Flerus won at Land and a Victory also gained at Sea to palliate matters therefore as to himself he laid all the blame upon the Irish that they wou'd not fight but many of them laid down their Arms in such order as if they had been Exercising which indeed some of them did Upon which the Fr. K. concluding that all was lost in that Kingdom he sent Orders to Count Lauzun to make the best of a bad Market and so come off for France as well as he could with all his Men. But the Irish taking heart of grace at our Fleets and the Dutch Armies misfortunes they held out beyond expectation And those Orders of the French Kings not coming till after His Majesty had raised the Siege of Limerick Count Lauzun waited about twelve Days for a Countermand but that not appearing he set sail for France tho' he met with contrary Orders at Sea but then it was too late For His Majesty had been a Fortnight at London before they heard at Paris that the Siege of Limerick was raised which shewed that whatever good Intelligence they might have from England or Ireland at other times they wanted it now but whether the Wind was cross or what else was the reason I am uncertain About the fourteenth we heard that Sarsfield with a part of the Irish Army had marched over the Shannon at Banoher-Bridge and besieged the Castle of Birr wherein Birr besieged by the Irish was only a Company of Colonel Tiffin's Foot who stoutly defended the Castle the only temble place but Major-General Kirk marching thither with a part of our Army the Enemy quitted the Siege and marched off At this time Count Solms who commanded in Chief was at Cashel where he received a Letter by a Trumpeter from the Duke of Berwick then at Limerick complaining that they heard of a Design of ours to send all those Prisoners we had taken at several places to be Slaves in the Foreign Plantations and withal threatning ours with the French Gallies But this was only a trick of the Irish Officers themselves to prevent their Soldiers from deserting making them believe there was a Contract to sell them all to Monsieur Perara the Jew for so much Bread which made the name of the Jew very terrible to the Irish But this was a mere Story of their own framing and therefore Count Solms sent the following Answer to the Duke's Letter Henry Count de Solms General of Their Majesties Army in their Kingdom of Ireland HAving never before heard of a Design to send those Numbers Count Solms's Answer to the Duke of Berwick's Letter of your Men we have Prisoners to the Foreign Plantations we detained your Trumpeter here for some Days in hopes we might have been able to trace this Report which you send us word is spread about of such our Intentions but no enquiry we have made giving us the least light therein we have reason to think that neither those Prisoners we have of yours need fear so long a Voyage nor those few of ours in your hands be apprehensive of yielding a small Recruit to the French King's Gallies However we think fit to declare that your Men shall severely feel the effects of any ill usage you shall offer to ours for which they may reckon themselves obliged to their Generals Given at our Head-Quarters at Cashel the 21st Day of September 1690. To the Duke of Berwick or the Officer in Chief commanding the Enemies Forces Soon after this Count Solms went for England and the Lieutenant-General Ginckel made Commander in Chief Baron de Ginckel was made Lieutenant-General and Commander in Chief of the Army who went to his Head-Quarters at Kilkenny Towards the middle of September Henry Lord Viscount Sidney and Thomas Coningesby Esquire two of the Lords-Justices went to Dublin where they took the usual Oaths of Chief Governors of that Kingdom before the Commissioners of the Great Seal and immediately begun their The Lords-Justices go to Dublin work of putting the Country in as good a condition of Safety as the nature of the times would bear Whilst the King was imployed in the Field with his Army against the Town of Limerick it was first proposed by the Earl of Nottingham to my Lord Marlborough and afterwards approved of in Councel as very Advantageous to Their Majesties Affairs to send a Party from England who joyning with a Detachment from the King's Army might reduce those two important Garrisons of Cork and Kinsale and provisions were made accordingly But not being ready so soon as was designed His Majesty upon His return for England sent the Earl of Marlborough with his own Regiment of Fusiliers Brigadier Trelawny's Princess Ann's Earl of Marlborough sent into Ireland Colonel Hastings's Colonel Hales's Sir David Collier's Colonel Fitz-Patrick's one hundred of the Duke of Bolton's and two hundred of the Earl of Monmouth's with my Lord Torrington's and Lord Pembrook's Marine Regiments CORK CITY After the taking of those two Towns the Irish that lay October 1690. in the County of Kerry made several Incursions and burnt some small Villages in the County of Cork and near the same time another Party burnt Balliboy a Village 8 miles The Irish make some attempts upon our Quarters from Birr wherein there was then six Companies of the Earl of
appoint on Sunday Morning next by six of the Clock together with all the Stores of Ammunition and Provision and Magazines of all sorts without Embezlement and that immediately upon the signing these Articles such Persons as the General shall appoint have leave to inspect them II. That all Deserters that are in the Town shall be given up III. That immediately after the signing these Articles all the Outworks of the Town shall be delivered to such Officers as the General shall appoint to take Possession of the same and that the General shall withdraw all the Cannon from the Wall IV. That till the Town is surrendred as aforesaid the General may order such Works and Batteries to be made as he shall judge convenient provided he doth not bring them within three yards of the Wall nor the Guns within ten yards of the Batteries and that in the Town they shall not proceed to work to fortifie the same any further V. In Consideration of the said Rendition his Excellency gives leave to Lieutenant General d'Vssone Monsieur Metlet Commissary of War and the rest of the French Officers and Souldiers and others of that Nation now in Gallway to go to Limerick with their Arms Bag and Bagage whether they shall be safely conducted the nearest way and in case that the said Lieutenant General d'Vssone shall want Horses to carry his Equipage thither the General will furnish him with them VI. That such of the Garison as desire it may remain in Town or go to their respective homes and enjoy the benefit of this Capitulation and the rest shall march to Limerick with their Arms six pieces of Cannon Drums beating Colours flying Match lighted Bullet in mouth and as much Ammunition and Provisions as each Officer and Souldier can carry with him and that they shall be furnished with Draught-Horses and Harnesses for their Guns if they want them which said Guns they shall have liberty to choose provided they take none above twelve Pounders VII That the wounded and sick Officers may stay in Town till they are cured and that then they shall be sent to Limerick with a safe Conduct and in the mean time shall be provided in Town with necessaries for their Cure and Subsistance VIII That the Governor Constable Mayor She riffs Aldermen Burgesses Freemen and Natives of Gallway and the Inhabitants thereof or the reputed ones by any former Charter of King James the II. granted before his Abdication or any of his Ancestors shall have a general Pardon of all Attainders Outlawries Treasons Fellonies Premunires and all manner oâ— Offences committed since the beginning of the said King James's Reign to the date hereof IX That all and every of the Garison Officers Governor Constable Mayor Sheriffs Aldermen Burgesses Freemen and Inhabitants aforesaid shall enjoy and possess their Estates real and personal and all other Liberties and Immunities as they held or ought to have held under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation or other-ways by the Laws of this Kingdom freely discharged from all Crown-rents quit-rents and all other Charges to the date hereof X. That the Names of the Roman Catholick Clergy of the Town of Gallway be given to the General on or before Tuesday next and that they as well as the Laity of the said Town shall have the private Exercise of their Religion without being prosecuted on any Penal Laws for the same and that the said Clergy shall be protected in their Persons and Goods XI That the Gentlemen of Estates now belonging to the Town and Garison of Gallway shall have liberty to keep a Gun in their Houses for the defence of the same and wear a Sword and Case of Pistols if they think fit XII That all the Roman Catholick Lawyers of the said Town shall have the free liberty of Practice that they had in King Charles the Second's time XIII That such of the Officers belonging to any of the Regiments that are now in Gallway and not present at the signing of these Capitulations shall have the benefit of the same provided they shall submit within three Weeks to the Governor of Gallway for the time being who shall be appointed by the General or that they shall have a safe Conduct to go to Limerick in the same manner as the said Garison has XIV That such other Persons now in Town as desire to go out with the Garison or such part thereof as goes to Limerick shall have liberty to do so and carry their Families and Goods along with them and that such Officers Wives belonging to the said Garison as are there or in any other part of Conaught may at the same time depart with their Goods or at any other convenient time afterwards particularly Colonel Edmund Reily's Wife Mother and Family the Lady Jvaugh and her Daughter and Lieutenant Colonel Luke Reily his Brother Philip Reily their Wives and Families XV. That immediately all Acts of Hospitality shall cease on both sides and that if it shall happen that any provoking Language shall pass between the Souldiers they shall be punished by their respective Officers for the same and not permitted to fire on one another XVI That for the due performance of these Articles the Governor shall immediately give the Persons undernamed for Hostages Earl of Clanrickard Colonel Dominick Brown Lord of Iniskillin Major Dillon Lieutenant Col. Bodkin Lastly The General promises to have these Capitulations ratified by Their Majesties within the space of three Months from the date hereof or sooner if possible Signed and Sealed the day above-mention'd by the Commander in Chief of Their Majesties Forces and the Constable and Governor of the said Town interchangeably Dillon Clanrickard Iniskillin Signed and Sealed in the presence of Dominick Brown John Bodkin Thomas Dillon James Skelton James O Brian Hugh Dogherty John Stephenson Oliver O Gara William Bourke Anthony O Dogherty Robert Linch Bryan O Neile Hugh O Neile John Dogherty And whereas the said Town of Gallway hath been since in pursuance of the said Articles surrendred to us Know ye that we having considered of the said Articles are graciously pleased hereby to declare that we do as far as in us lies ratifie and confirm the same and every Clause Matter and Thing therein contained And as to such part thereof for which An Act of Parliament shall be found to be necessary we shall recommend the same to be made good by Parliament And shall give our Royal Assent to any Bill or Bills that shall be passed by our two Houses of Parliament for that purpose Provided always and our Will and Pleasure is that these our Lettees Pattents shall be enrolled in our Court of Chancery in our said Kingdom of Ireland within one year next ensuing In witness c. Witness our self at Westminster the Seventeenth Day of February Anno Regni Regis Regina Guillielmi Mariae quarto per bene de privato Sigillo Nos autem tenorem praemissorum praedict ac requisitionem Atturnati
AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF THE Wars of Ireland Let this be Printed March 2. 1692 3. Charnock Heron. A CONTINUATION OF THE IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF THE Wars of Ireland From the Time that Duke Schonberg Landed with an Army in that Kingdom to the 23 d. of March 1691 2. when Their Majesties Proclamation was published declaring the War to be ended Illustrated with Copper Sculptures describing the most Important Places of Action Together with Some REMARKS upon the Present State of that Kingdom By GEORGE STORY Chaplain to the Regiment formerly Sir Tho. Gower's now the Earl of Drogheda's LONDON Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCXCIII TO THE KING's Most Excellent Majesty Great SIR THO I 'm no Soldier my self yet four years Conversation with men of that Profession has emboldened me to Address Your Sacred Majesty not for Your Royal Protection against the future Attacks of those who will call the Account I have given of their management in Ireland A new making War upon them Nor to ask Your Majesty's Patronage to a Work so imperfect which would be a Presumption impardonable But with the deepest sense of Duty and humblest Submission to beg Your Majesty's Pardon for adventuring formerly to publish some part of Your Majesty's Generous Actions and Hazardous Vndertakings in that Kingdom and now for my Ambition in repeating the same which will always be a Subject far beyond the reach of so mean a Pen as mine I have nothing to value my self upon but the honour of being imployed in Your Majesty's Service ever since Your Majesty's happy Accession to the Throne encouraged thereunto for those Reasons amongst many more That all English-men who have a pretension to the Title of being Brave never had a more happy opportunity of recovering and maintaining the Ancient Glory of this once most renowned Kingdom than under the Auspicious Conduct of Your Sacred Majesty by whose Great Example many of those whose very Constitutions were of late softned with Ease and Pleasure are now invited to Feats of Arms worthy the Off-spring of their Ancestors And what greater Comfort and Satisfaction can Men of any other Profession receive than in seeing Your Majesty still so zealous in the defence of that Interest which themselves have so great a share in May Your Majesty therefore and Your Royal Consort be as happy in Dutiful and Obedient Subjects as we are under Your most Prudent and Gracious Government to which no man can bear a greater Zeal nor pray more heartily for Your Majesties long Life Health constant Prosperity and Glory than Your MAJESTY's Most Loyal most Dutiful and most Obedient Subject GEORGE STORY THE PREFACE HE that endeavours to give an Account of so many mens behaviour as must needs be concerned in three Active Campaigns is sure to want neither Envy nor Detraction some finding fault with one thing and some with another so that it is impossible to expect or hope for the pleasing of all Parties nor indeed is it fit to endeavour it The Reputations of men however are tender things and therefore every prudent man when he has occasion to touch them will be careful to do it very nicely And yet it happens often to those that write that either through heedlesness they disoblige some that do not deserve it or out of rashness provoke others that may make them repent it in which Cases there sometimes needs an excuse for Offences given even where they never were intended Those and a great many other Considerations have not frighted me from medling with a Subject wherein not a few of the most eminent Persons of our Age have born a part and the rather because I find it has laid all this while neglected and not any one as yet besides my self has undertaken it except in some small Collections out of our publick News I endeavoured two years ago to give the World a true Account of the Matter of Fact as it happened the two first Campaigns and how Matters then stood with both the Armies And this bore the name of An Impartial History of the Affairs of Ireland the Two last Years wherein I was desirous to make the Book it self answer its Title and also to shew the great hopes there was then in gaining the whole Kingdom in a short time after which I am next about to shew you how it fell out so far as I have been able to make an enquiry into it But since it 's probable that the First Part has not reached so many Hands as this may I have here repeated some of the most material Passages from the beginning and added some few things that I have been informed of since I writ the other tho my main Design is to be as particular in the last Campaign as I have been formerly in the other two which was done by way of Journal as this is also when you come to the end of the Abridgment In all which put together you have the Principal Occurrences from Duke Sconberg's landing in that Kingdom till Their Majesties Proclamation dated at Kensington March the 3 d 1691 2. Declaring that War to be ended with some further Observations about the past and present Circumstances of that Nation The Blood spilt and Treasure spent in this unhappy War has doubtless been a sufficient Grievance to both Kingdoms yet we have no great reason to be out of humour at it now there being at that time an apparent necessity for it by which the War is also removed to a greater distance till we can gain a Firm Honourable and Lasting Peace from abroad that so Their Majesties may be at leisure to free their own Dominions from the Vices and Corruptions of a Licentious Age. But I am no Politician and therefore what I have to offer in behalf of this Undertaking of mine is only this That it was the honour I had for the Memory of that Great Man Duke Sconberg and a desire to set the World right at that time in their Judgments how Matters stood with both Armies which put me first upon the Design And the favourable Acceptance that my first endeavours met with in Ireland has encouraged me to continue them though I must be so grateful as to own the kind Resentments of some in my own Countrey also and particularly those of my Lord Bishop of Salisbury who has been pleased not only to commend the Undertaking but to honour me with the Correction of some of my Papers with his own Hand and also with an Account of the reasons for some Particulars that before I was in the dark for want of I hate to clog Truth with any Artifice nor is there any occasion for such an endeavour supposel had an inclination or skill to do it for whilst things are fresh in every ones memory if a man should be guilty of any notable and wilful Mistake that way there are a great many able to find it out I have done the Subject therefore no
Place where their black Battery was the Year before The Enemy had cast up a Blind to prevent our beating down Balls-Bridg but as our Battery was planted the Blind was ineffectual though we did not mind the Bridg much on that Side A great many Bombs and Carcasses were thrown into Town which set it on fire and we understood afterwards that several People were killed in the indeavouring to quench it That Morning all the empty Casks in the Army were ordered to be taken up and carried to the Artillery where they were to be made use of when there was occasion for Floats The Enemy that Afternoon made a Pretence of sallying and some of them came out to secure a Ditch not far from our Battery but were soon repulsed and several of them killed with the Loss of one Granadeer on our Side There was also a Work begun close to the River-Side adjoining to the Island but the Spring-Tide over-flow'd it next Day Though several Woolsacks were carried down in order to make an Attack Some thoughts of storming it upon the Island and from thence upon the Breach but this being found difficult the Woolsacks were left with a Sentinel upon them at Night which the Irish perceiving some of them came over the River in the Night in Cots and burnt several of the Woolsacks the Sentinel looking on and alledging for an Excuse That he had no Orders to fire The General gave Command to draw off the Guns from Mackay's Fort to some more convenient Place But Colonel Wythers Adjutant General informing him what Execution some that were planted there did in the Town the Year before he ordered them to continue firing which they did to very good purpose Sept. 10. There was an Order for a Pinnace and its Crew to attend Francis Burton Esq who made several Journeys into the County of Clare and had so ordered the Matter that Clare-Castle was to be delivered up to us though for some Reasons the General neglected the Opportunity till it was included in the General Capitulation In the Morning one Capt. Dobbin a Quartermaster and Serjeant desert the Enemy and told us that the Bombs did great Execution in the Town and had killed several Our Guns fire very hard all that Day and in the Evening a Bomb fell into a store of Wine Brandy Oats and Bisket spoiling a great part of it The Town was also set on fire in several Places which burnt great part of the Night And that Evening two Mortars were brought from on Board and planted at Mackay's Fort being managed by Lieutenant Brown Lieutenant Lieuten Brown our best Bombardeer to Capt. Pitts Miners who did more Execution than all the rest firing three for one of theirs and throwing the Bombs very exact he neither made use of Sand upon the Bomb nor fired the Fuse but putting it into the Mortar with the Fuse down the Flash of the Powder kindled the Fuse as it was discharged from the Mortar Colonel Wythers was sent by Sea and Robert Powley Esq by Land to hasten up our Fleet which we understood was at Cork the General having some Accounts that the French designed to relieve the Town On the 11th the Breach was widened at least forty Paces and Floats being prepared there were great Debates amongst the chief Officers whether it should be attempted by Storm tho most say it was only designed at first for the more conveniency of battering the Town Deserters telling us of a great Ditch without the Wall always full of Water and well pallisado'd besides several Works within which would have rendred the Attempt very hazardous but afterwards we found little Truth in this though indeed we could not do the Enemy a greater Pleasure nor our selves a greater Prejudice in all Probability than in seeking to carry the Town by a Breach before those within were more humbled either by Sword or Sickness for we understood certainly that they had as many Men within as we without besides the Hazard in getting into or keeping the King's Island where there stood a most excellent Fort with a double Line of Communication from thence to the Town mann'd for the most part by the best of their Dragoons dismounted Part of the Guns however were drawn off from Ireton's Fort to a new Battery which was to the Right of the great one and some planted nigh St. Thomas's Island to cut off the Irish Communication Guns planted near St. Thomas's Island by a large Causey that led that way towards the Town Five Deserters came off who tell us of some Officers killed upon the Key by a Bomb that they had only two Tuns of Powder in Town and that their Stores were a great part of them buried in Ruines Some of Sir Albert Cunningham's Officers gave the General an Account from Lieutenant Colonel Ecklin that Sir Albert was killed by a Party of the Irish at Colloony nigh Sligoe where they surprized him in the Morning early most of his Dragoons shifting for themselves and Balderock O Donnel who then had joined him very hardly making his Escape But the English Pacquets brought us better News of the Turkish Army's being defeated in Hungary and a great many Thousands slain The 12th most of our Guns and Bombs are directed The Cannon and Bombs fire at the Cathedral towards the great Church in the midst of the English Town because we understood that it was made their principal Store and four Deserters tell us what great Damage was already done in all Places of the Town But the Irish continuing obstinate and the indeavouring to reduce the Town by Force with such a little Army as we had seeming dangerous considering the very great Strength of their Works which were still intire though the Town was much shattered those and other Reasons were like to render it a Work of longer time than at first we hoped for and the Winter now drawing on apace therefore Orders were given to fit up Killmallock for a Place of Stores And On the 13th the General sent Colonel Earl into England Col. Earl sent into England to acquaint her Majesty with the present Circumstances of Affairs that if we should not take the Town this Season it would be absolutely necessary to send more Frigats in order to block up the River Shannon since Capt. Cole that commanded and other Marine Officers then in the River had given it under their Hands that they could post twenty Frigats so advantageously towards the Mouth of the River under some Islands that they should be able to live all Winter and keep off twice the Number if any Attempt should be made by the French towards the Relief of the Town and that in the mean time the Army was to make as nigh a Blockade as they could This was but melancholy News to both Officers and Souldiers who were all willing to undergo any Hardships rather than go away without being Masters of the Place The 14th some Dragoons