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
Norris Knight our late President of the sayd province at the time of his death had or ought to haue The said allowances and entertainments to begin from the date of our said Letters And the said Authoritie and Entertainment to continue during our pleasure And where the said George Carew Knight in respect of our service in other places may haue occasion to bee absent out of the said Province of Mounster and that in such his absence our pleasure is that some meet person may bee substituted to governe that Province as Vice-president Wee doe therefore by these presents by the assent of our Deputie aforesaid and according to the intent of our sayd Letters giue full power and authoritie to the said George Carew Knight to appoynt choose and substitute in his absence such a meet and sufficient person for whom the said George Carew Knight will answer to bee Vice-president of the said Province and the said person so appointed chosen or substituted We doe by these presents authorize to governe and rule the said Province in the absence of the said George Carew Knight to all respects and purposes as if the said George were personally present and might rule and governe by the authority aforesaid And if the said person so chosen appointed and substituted shall chance to dye or shall not governe himselfe to the liking of the said George Carew Knight That then the said George Carew Knight shall from time to time by vertue of these presents during his authority and government aforesaid choose appoint and substitute a Vice-president as aforesaid to governe and rule the said Province as aforesaid And our further pleasure is that the said George Carew Knight shall from time to time certifie our said Deputie or other Governour generall of this our Realme for the time being the name and names of such Vice-president or Vice-presidents as shall bee by him appoynted named or substituted as aforesaid Willing and straightly commaunding all our Officers as well â—ivill as martiall as all and all manner our loving Subjects to bee respectively aiding assistant and obedient in and to the said George Carew Knight or any authorized by and under him as aforesaid in the exercise and execution of the said Office as they will answer to the contrary at their porills Although no expresse mention of the true yearely value or certaintie of the premises or any part thereof or of any other gifts or graunts made by us or any our noble Progenitours to the said George Carew Knight before the date hereof be not expressed in these presents Any Statute act provision restraint proclamation Law vse or custome to the contrary hereof heretofore made ordayned enacted provided used or proclaimed or any other cause thing or matter to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding In witnesse whereof wee have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witnes our Deputie generall at Dublin the sixth day of March in the two and fortieth yeare of our Raigne Instructions given by vs the Lord Deputie and Councell to our right trustie and welbeloved Sir George Carew Knight Lord President of her Maiesties Councell established in the Province of Mounster to bee communicated by him to her Maiesties Councell of the same Province and to be observed by them and every of them according as the same are particularly declared in these severall Articles following dated at Dublin 7. Martij 1599. FIrst the said Lord President shall at all times when he shall think fit for the service of the Queenes Majestie call together all such as bee or that hereafter shall be appoynted to bee of that Councell And shall with the advice of such of the Councell as shall bee by these Instructions appoynted to assist him with Councell by Letters and Precepts commaund all and every person of the said Councell at all convenient times to doe such things as shall be meet for the service of the Queenes Majestie in administration of Iustice maintenance of the same amongst all her subjects residing or comming into the parts of the Iurisdiction of the said Commission And in his commandements and directions to the sayd Councell he shall haue such regard to their Estates Vocations and other Conditions as the credits and severall estimations of the same Councellours may be in their due actions and well-doings preserved and maintained for the furtherance of her Majesties service And on the other part her Majestie willeth chargeth and commandeth that all and euery of her Majesties said Councellors shall exhibit and vse to the saide Lord President all such Honour reverence and obedience as to their duties appertaineth and to the person having the principall place in the Councell is due and shall receiue and execute in such sort all the precepts and commandements to them to bee addressed in any Processe to be done or served in her Majesties name and shall giue at all times such advice and counsell as appertaineth to the duties of trustie Servants and Councellors to her Majestie and according to their corporall oath And because it shall be convenient that some number shall be continually abiding with the said Lord President or such as shall supply his place with whom he may consult in hearing such matters as may bee exhibited unto him for the better expedition of the same Wee the sayd Lord Deputie and Councell by these presents doe ordaine That William Saxey Esquire Chiefe Iustice and Iames Golde second Iustice of the sayd province of Mounster being of speciall trust appoynted to be of the sayd Councell shall giue their continuall attendance at the sayd Couneell and shall not depart at any time without the speciall Licence of the sayd Lord President Likewise Clarke of the Councell shall make his like attendance upon the Lord President and Councell c. And the said Lord President shall have in consideration of his continuall attendance and great paines to be taken in that Office the wages and entertainments of one hundred thirty three pounds sixe shillings eight pence sterling by the yeare for himselfe and for that the Countreys aforesaid being in such disorder and the people in the same in such disobedience as partly they are whereby it shall be needfull for him to have continually about him some competent number of Souldiers whereby his decrees and orders justly taken and made may the more effectually bee executed It is considered and ordained that the said Lord President shall have for his guard and retinue thirtie horsemen and twentie footmen and two shillings by the day for a petty Captaine and for a Trumpeter and Guydon two shillings each of them the entertainment and daily wages of all which Officers and Martiall men shall runne in the course and pay appointed for the Queenes Majesties ordinary Garisons resident in this Realme Provided always that the said Lord President shall at the
of Feilâ— the third of Iuly 1600. Your Friends to use during your Friendship William Burke Moroghe ni Moe O Flarty A Letter from Morogh ni Moe O Flaghertie to the Lord President MY dutie remembred I commend mee unto your Lordship Whereas about May last I came hither in my Galley out of Connaght to draw home my people souldiers and followers into my natiue soyle there to liue quiet and under her Majesties subjection whereupon I haue had her Highnesse protection and Passeport for my selfe and them and all other out of Connaght that shall accompany me Whereby ever since my selfe and souldiers haue been so crossed and troubled by this Countrey people as they did not suffer me to depart from the Earle of Desmond I have thought good therefore in respect it is a thing belonging to the advancement of her Majesties service to bring the number of one thousand persons souldiers and tenants to peace to pray and desire your Lordship to graunt mee and all such as I shall bring with mee your Passeport and Safe-conduct through all your Garrisons and her Majesties Subjects as well in this Countrey as in Thomâ—nd And in so doing wee shall pray c. And so I humbly take leaue Clanmorishkerry this third of Iuly 1600. Her Majesties true Subject if your Lordship please Moroghe ni Moe O Flartie Vnto these Letters the President deferred to returne any present Answer as well because they should know that they who had attempted and performed so many outrages and rebellious practises against her Majestie and her Subjects should not so presently and so easily receiue favour from the State as also they might haue imagined if hee had instantly condiscended unto theâ—e their demaunds that he stood in feare of them which might haue made them more bold in attempting some enterprise upon his Armie And lastly he conceived a hope that to effect their longing desire of returning into Connaght they would at the last be glad to doe service one upon another remising therefore onely this Answer that he despised their Forces and he knew they durst not interrupt his passage Neverthelesse at further leasure hee would consider of their demands At this time Iames fits Thomas wrote a Letter to Florence Mac Cartie which in this place I thinke good to insert A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie MY very good Lord I was driven through the treacherous dealings of Dermond O Conner to let the President and the English Armie passe into Glenne without any resistance and yet they are but thirteene hundred Foote and one hundred fiftie Horse Dermond O Conner did undertake that the Connaght men should not medle with them nor take our parts being the only encouragement of the English to venter this Enterprize But now God be praysed I am joyning my Forces with them and doe pray you to assist mee with your Forces for now is the time to shew our selues upon the Enemy for they are but very few in number and destitute of all reliefe either by Sea or Land If your Lordship bee not well at ease your selfe let your Brother Dermond and the Chiefe Gentlemen of your Forces come without any delay assuring your Lordship that I will and am ready to shew you the like against your need Beseeching your Lordship once againe not to faile as you tender the overthrow of our Action Even so committing your Lordship to the tuition of God Almighty I end Portrinad the fifth of Iuly 1600. Your Honours most assured Friend and Cosen Iames Desmond CHAP. IX The Armie sate downe before Glyn-Castle The Knight of the Valley upon safe Conduct spake with the Earle of Thomond The Constable of Glyn-Castle his Advise to the Earle of Thomond for his safetie A Breach made and assaulted A Sally made by the Rebels The Constable c. slaine The Castle of the Glyn wonne and the Rebels put to the Sword The seventh the Knight of the Valley by a Messenger from him to the Earle of Thomond prayed a safe conduct to the Campe which was granted He told the Earle that he desired to conferre with the President which he refused without absolute submission to her Majesties mercy whereunto he would not yeeld but stood upon conditions whereupon hee was commanded to depart He saw the Cannon already planted and his Sonne then a child in the Presidents hands ready at his will to bee executed being by himselfe formerly put in pledge for his Loyaltie then hee desired to speake with the Earle of Thomond againe which was granted But the Earle found his obstinacie to be such as he disdained to haue any long conference with him And so being safely conveied out of the Campe he returned to his fellow Traitors who were on the top of an Hill not farre of where they might see the successe of the Castle When he was gone the same day towards the Evening the Constable of the Castle who was a Thomond man borne sent a Messenger to the Earle of Thomond praying his Lordship to get a safe conduct from the President that he might come to speake with him which being granted in his discourse to the Earle my Lord said he in the loue I beare you being your naturall Follower I desired to speake with you to the end that you may avoid the perill that you are in for the Earle of Desmond and the Connaght men lodge not two miles from this place they are three thousand strong at least and the Lord President may bee assured that they will giue upon his campe for so they are resolved and in all likelihood you will bee there put to the Sword or driven into the River of Shenan The Earle deriding these threats advised him to render up the Castle to the President whereby his life and his fellowes might be secured which he with vaine glorious obstinacie refused and returned to the Castle for a Farewell the President sent him word that since he had refused the Earle of Thomonds favourable offer that he was in hope before two dayes were spent to haue his Head set upon a Stake which proved true as you shall heare before the Castle was taken The next day when wee looked that the cannon should begin to play the Cannonniere found the Peece to be cloyed all the art and skill which either the Smith or himselfe could or did use prevailed nothing The President who is a man that knowes well to mannage great Artillery commanded that the peece upon her carryage as she was should be abased at the tayle and elevated at the musle as high as it might bee then hee willed the Gunner to giue her a full charge of powder roule a shott after it and to giue fire at the mouth whereby the touch-hole was presently cleared to the great rejoycing of the Armie which of necessitie in attempting the Castle without the favour of the Cannon must haue endured great losse This particular I thought good not to
omitt because it may bee an Instruction to others whensoever the like accident should happen The Peece being thus cleared the President having the Knight of the Valleyes eldest sonne a childe of sixe yeares olde in his hands to terrifie the Warders hee caused the child to be set upon the topp of one of the Gabions sending them word That they should haue a faire marke to bestow their small shott upon The Constable returned answere That the feare of his life should not make them to forbeare to direct their Volleyes of shot to the batterie for said he in undecent termes not fit for me to write the place is open where he was borne and the Knight may haue more sonnes The President not intending as hee seemed caused the Infant to bee taken downe from the Gabion knowing that the discharging of the Cannon would haue shaken the poore childes bones in sunder and then presently hee commanded the battery to begin and the small shott did so incessantly burne powder as the Warders durst not stand to their fight untill a breach was made assaultable into the Seller under the great Hall of the castle all this was done with the losse of one onely man a Cannoniere Then was Captaine Flower commaunded by the President with certaine Companies assigned vnto him to enter the breach which hee valiantly performed and gained the Hall and enforced the Ward to returne into a Castle close adjoyning unto it where from out of a Spike they slewe foure of our men then hee ascended a paire of staires to gaine two turrets over the Hall in which attempt Captaine Bostocks Ensigne was slaine by the winning whereof they were in better securitie then before and there were our Colours placed and because it was by this time within night Captaine Slings by who was there with the Presidents Companie was commaunded to make it good till the morning during which time some whiles on either side small shott played but little or no harme done about midnight the Constable seeing no possibilitie to resist long and no hope of mercy left thought by the favour of the night in a sally to escape but the Guards were so vigilant as they slew him and some others neverthelesse two escaped the rest which were unslaine returned into the Castle and the Constables head was as the President formerly had told him put on a stake Early in the morning the Ward was gotten into the Tower of the Castle wherunto there was no comming unto them but up a narrow stayre which was so strait as no more then one at once might ascend and at the staire foot a strong wooden doore which being burnt the smoke in the staires was such as for two howers there was no ascending without hazard of stifling when the extremitie of the smoake was past one of the Rebels presented himselfe and said in the behalfe of himselfe and his fellowes That if their liues might be saved they would render but before any answere was made he voluntarily put himselfe into our hands The smoake being vanished a Muskettier and to his second a Halbardier Then Captaine Flower and Captaine Slingsbie Lieutenant Power Lieutenant to Sir Henrie Power Ensigne Power Sir Henry Powers Ensigne Lieutenant Nevill Lieutenant to Sir Garratt Harvie which was after killed in Connaght seconded by others ascended the staires in file where they found no resistance nor yet in the upper roomes for the Rebels were all gone to the Battlements of the Castle with resolution to sell their liues as deare as they could Our men purâ—ued the way to the Battlements whereunto there was but one Doore Captaine Flower entred upon one hand and Captaine Slingsbâ—e upon the other the gutters were very narrow betweene the Roofe of the Castle and the Battlements In conclusion some were slaine in the place and others leapt from the top of the Castle into the water underneath it where our Guards killed them In this Service eleven Souldiers were slaine whereof one was an Ensigne and one and twentie hurt of which number the Serjeant Major who served admirably well was one hee received three or foure wounds but none of them mortall there was also the Lieutenants of the Earle of Thomond and Sir Henry Powers hurt of the enemy of all sorts were slaine 80 or thereabouts whereof 23 were naturall borne followers to the Knight of the Valley in whom hee reposed greatest confidence The reasons which mooved the Knight thus obstinately to persist was partly the strength of the Castle which hee ignorantly thought defensible against the Cannon and also 〈◊〉 â—anifold oathes and protestations made unto him by his fellow Rebells that with their whole Forces they would giue reliefe and raise the Siege but how much hee fayled in expectation of the one and they in the protestation of the other yee haue already heard whereof if the protesters had had any feeling of their promised faith the provocation they had was great for they were eye-witnesses when the Castle was assaulted and wonne This Castle is a place of great importance and ever since the beginning of the rebellion one Anthony Arthur a Merchant of Limricke lay in it as a generall Factor for the citie to vent commodities to the Rebels CHAP. X. A Ward put into the Castle of Glynne by the Lord President Carrigfoyle rendred by O Conner Kerry Victuals and Munition sent out of England into Mounster Maurice Stacke sent into Kerry The Bâ—noghs obtained the Lord Presidents Passeport to depart the Province Sixty of the Bonnoghs slayne by the Lord Burke The Lord Presidents returne to Limericke The Castle of Corgrage rendred A garrison left in Aâ—keiton The Castle of Rathmore rendred A garrison placed at Kilmallock The Rebels enforced to rise from the siege of Lyskaghan Florence Mac Carrie's perswasions to the Ward to quit Lyskaghan Florence attempts againe to corrupt the Constable of Lyskaghan A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie THE President was constrained to stay heere fiue dayes after the taking of the Castle to place a Guard therein which was left to the charge of Captaine Nicholas Mordant with one and twentie Souldiers and to repayre the breach and ruines made by the Cannon which being finished hee intended to draw the Cannon to Carrigfoyle fiue miles distant from the Glinne which Castle was held then against her Majestie as it was in anno 1580 and wonne by Sir William Pelham the Lord Iustice under whom at that time the President was a Captaine of Foot But O Conner Kerry being advertised hereof desired a protection and for assurance of his future loyaltie offered to surrender his sayd Castle to bee kept unto her Majesties use His profer the Lord President accepted and a Ward of Sir Charles Wilmot his Company was placed therein The Earle of Thomond in his good affection to the service gaue unto Iohn O Conner during the Warres a Castle and thirteene Plow Lands for his Tenants
to my Lord of Thomond and upon this Answere the President rejected both the man and his suit The affaires of Kerry succeeding so well with the Governour it was supposed that the reputed Earle of Desmond would not long remaine in these parts lest the Protectees might offer him some false measure which if it should happen most likely it was that hee would passe the Mountaine and shelter himselfe in the Fastnes of Conniloe and therefore the Lord President intreated the Earle of Thomond to stay with the Garrison at Askeiton both to doe service upon such Rebels as should lurke in those woods as also to secure the goods of those that were newly become Subjects for as the manner of the Irish had they lost but twentie Cowes or tenne Garrans they would haue held it sufficient cause to haue relapsed againe My Lord of Thomond therefore lying there in Garrison received advertisement by certaine espialls whom hee used that Florence Mac Cartie had assuredly made a new combination with the Arch-Rebell Desmond and had sent second Letters to Tyrone about O Sulevan More his enlargement but in trueth the effect thereof was to implore ayde of that Egyptian Reed to underprop their ruinous and almost rotten Building Of this new and late combination the Lord President was also advertised by the Lord Barrie That Iames Mac Thomas to assure Florence unto him did giue him these Lands and Rents following viz. the Querinie Killaha the rents of Beare and Bantrie the Beoves of Carbry Carrigroaghan and Ballinry neere unto Corke all which Florence accepted and their place of meeting where this Agreement was made was at Rahinemroeg bordering upon Slewlogher Vpon this Intelligence the Governour of Kerry by direction from the President received into protection Donnell Mac Carty naturall sonne to the late Earle of Clancare and Brother to Florence his wife whom the Countrey in the beginning of this Rebellion saluted Mac Cartie More or chiefe Lord of Desmond But at Tyrone his late being in the Province he was deprived of that promotion and both the Title and Lands by him conferred upon the said Florence wherefore they thought this man to be a speciall fit Instrument of whom there might bee very good use when the President should beginne his prosecutions against Florence CHAP. XII The Castle of Mayne in Connologh taken Omaghon and the O Crowlyes protected Cahir Castle rendred Supplyes of Horses and Money sent for Mounster Dermond Mac Owen O Keefe and Mac Awley make suite to bee received as subjects The submission of the Knight of Kerry Iames fits Thomas and Pierce Lacie defeated by the Knight of Kerry THE Rebell that next bordered upon this Garrison of Askeiton was Garret fits Nicholas and some few Kerne that followed him whom Sir Francis Barkley so haunted and hunted that hee got from them all their prey their owne riding Horses and at last the Castle of Mayne held by them vvherein there was provision of Corne for all that yeare The President having disposed of his Garrisons in such sort that they were lodged either in the Rebels Countries or very neere thereunto sent unto them severall Letters willing the Commanders to imploy their Companies at this time especially about the standing Corne now ready for the Harvest to gather in for their owne vses what lay most conveniently for them and the rest to destroy with Man and Horse which was performed accordingly and this no doubt was one principall cause that they were unable to hold up their Heads the next yeare for presently hereupon Omaghon and the O Crowlies in Carbery sought to Sir Richard Percy lying at Kinsale that hee would bee a meanes to the Lord President for Her Majesties protection which being granted they remained Loyall Subjects with their Tenants and Followers untill the landing of the Spaniards In this interim the Lord President laboured with Cormuck Mac Dermond partly by promises and partly by menaces to frustrate the intended Mariage betweene Iames fits Thomas and his Sister which at last with some difficultie was frustrated by câ—using the said Cormuck to undertake for his Sisters apparance whensoever he or the Councell should call for her Towards the later end of this Moneth of August the Lord Deputy writing to the President about some other oâ—casions it pleased him to remember Cahir Castle which was lost as before you haue heard signifying that hee much desired to haue that Castle recovered from the Rebels the rather because the great Ordnance a Cannon and a Culverin being left there by the Earle of Essex were now possessed by the Rebels This Item from the Lord Deputie spurred on the President without further delay to take order therein and therefore presently by his Letters sent for the Lord of Cahir to repaire unto him who as before you haue heard was vehemently suspected to haue some hand both in the taking and keeping thereof The Barron of Cahir being come the Councell perswaded him to deale with Iames Butler nicknamed Iames Galde his Brother about the redelivering thereof to Her Majesties use but his Answer was that so little interest had hee in his Brother as the meanest Follower in all his Countrie might prevaile more with him then himselfe for hee was unwilling to haue the Castle regained by the State except it might againe be left wholly to him as it was before the first winning thereof which the President surmising told him that if it might speedily be yeelded up unto him he would become an humble Suiter to the Lord Deputie in his behalfe for the repossessing thereof otherwayes hee would presently march with his whole Armie into those parts and taking the same by force he would ruine and raze it to the very foundation and this he bound with no small protestations Hereupon Iustice Comerford being dispatched away with the Lord of Cahir they prevailed so farre with young Butler that the Castle upon the twentie nineth following was delivered to the State as also all the Munitions and the great Ordnance conveied to Clonmell and from thence to Watterford The nine and twentieth the Lord President among other things in his dispatch made for England advertised the Lords of the Councell that there was lately arrived at Limerick tenne thousand pounds in monie for the Armie in Mounster and that also at Corke thirtie sixe Horse for the supply of his Horse Troopes were landed at Corke for the which hee gaue their Lordships humble thankes The Horse sent were fourtie but the Conductor delivered no more then aforesaid While these things were in handling it hapned that a French Barke arrived at Dingle laden with Wine and some Munition which they sold to the Rebels and thereby ministred unto them no small reliefe being before in great want thereof Whereupon the President wrote his Letters to the Lords of Her Majesties Privie Councell intreating that it would please them to procure Her Majesties Letters to be directed to her
Ambassadour Leger in France to deale with the King for preventing such further mischiefes as might arise by his Subjects merchandizing with the Rebels The sixe and twentieth of this Moneth Dermond Mac Owen Lord of the Countrey called Dowalla a man for wit and courage nothing inferior to any of the Mounster Rebels by his Letters directed to Captaine Roger Harvy bearing Date the twentie sixeth aforesaid made humble suite unto the President that himselfe Mac Awly and O keefe with all their followers might be received into Her Majesties gratious protection promising both for himselfe and them from thence forward to continue and remaine loyall and obedient Subjects and for the performance of the same they would put in sufficient securitie which humble suite the President not long after granted Neere unto the day before mentioned William fits Gerald the Knight of Kerry in a very penitent manner submitted himselfe to Sir Charles Wilmott and received her Majesties gracious protection protesting with many vowes his future loyaltie whereof Sir Charles advertised the President praying the confirmation of the same which was upon sight of his Letters graunted Foure or fiue dayes afterwards as Sir Charles lay with his Force before Ardart in Kerry Iames fits Thomas and Pierce Lacie with all the Force they could make entred by night into the Knight of Kerries Countrey with a full intention either to surprise his person or to spoyle burne his townes and corne to his utter ruine The Knight having some little foreknowledge of the storme at hand assoone as they were entred into his Countrey hee fought with them slew two of their chiefe Leaders of the Bownoghs the one called Teg O Kelly the other Walter Mac Castelogh and with them sixteene others The Invaders finding so ill a vvelcome returned not having gained so much as one Cowe CHAP. XIII The Castle of Ardart taken by Sir Charles Wilmot Maurice Stacke treacherously murdered The prey of Kilkoe taken by Sir Richard Percie A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie Iames fits Thomas defeated by the garison of Kilmallock ARdart for some nine dayes made good defence and had burned with Fire-workes such Boardes and Timber as Sir Charles had placed against the wall of the Castle for his mens safetie as they undermined But at the last Sir Charles sent for a Saker out of an English mans Ship which one Hill the Master lent him with a purpose onely to breake open the doore of the Castle for the walls were too strong for so small a Peece to offend The Rebells at the sight of the Saker yeelded Sir Charles hanged the Constable the rest of the Ward vvhich vvas but eight with the vvomen and children vvere spared Towards the latter end of August Maurice Stack the braue undertaker before spoken of was by Honore ny Brien wife to the Lord of Lixnaw invited to dine with her in her Husbands Castle of Beaulieu in Kerry at which time Donnell Obrien Brother both to her and the Earle of Thomond was then with his Sister Dinner being ended the young Lady desired to speake with the said Stacke privately in her Chamber where after a little time spent and disagreeing about the matter then in speech the Lady cryed out unto Dermon'd Kewghe Mac Corman William Odonichan and Edmond Oheher being at the Chamber doore doe you not heare him misuse mee in words Whereupon with their skenes they instantly murdered him in the place Assoone as hee was slaine shee sent unto her Husband and willed the Murtherers to repaire unto him of this barbarous and inhumane Act some say that this Lady was the principall Agent though some of her friends haue since sought to excuse her The Earle of Thomond upon the knowledge of it was so infinitly grieved and for the same held his Sister in such deteâ—tation as from that day forwards to the day of her death which was not many Moneths after as I thinke he never did see her nor could not abide the memory of her name But howsoever this worthy Subject more worthy then whom there was no one of Ireland birth of his quality was thus shamefully butchered as you haue heard The Lord of Lixnaw not satiated with his blood traitrously shamefully shed the next day after he hanged Thomas Encally Stack the Brother of the said Maurice Stack whom he had held Prisoner a long time before About the beginning of this Moneth of September the Garrison of Kinsale was droven into the field and marched so farre as Rosse Carbery being commanded by Sir Richard Percy and guided by Walter Coppinger of Corke upon hope of doing service thereabout but being disappointed thereof they marched beyond the Leape and comming suddenly to Kilcoe they tooke there a Prey of three hundred Cowes which they brought in safetie without any losse to Littertinlis and from thence they returned againe to their Garrison The Garrison of Kerry had by this time so galled the Forces of the vsurping Desmond as he found himselfe unable long to subsist except Florence Mac Cartie who had long played the Machiavillian Ambodexter betwixt him and the L President would now at the last joyne with him in defence and supportation of the Action this did he importune by divers Letters but especially by one which because it containeth his estate at this time together with other particularities fit to bee understood I haue thought good to insert the very words of his owne Letter as followeth A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie MY Lord your Letters I haue received and the present time of Service is now at hand which by Letters nor any excuse so effectuall ought to bee delayed And whereas you write that you intend to conferre with the President and the Earle of Thomond I marvell that one of your Lordships acquaintance with their proceedings doeth not yet know their inticing bayts and humours to intrap us all within the nets of their pollicies Your vow to God and this action for the maintenance of the Church and defence of our owne right should not for any respect bee unregarded you know that of long time your Lordship hath been suitor to the Queene and Councell and could not at any time prevaile nor get any likelihood of your settlement and now being duly placed by the assent of the Church and us the Nobilitie of this Action your Lordship should worke all meanes possible for to maintaine the same You know the ancient and generall malice that heretofore they bare to all Irish Birth and much more they raue at this present so as it is very bootlesse for any of us all to seeke their favours or countenance which were but a meane to worke our totall subversion Write to mee effectually your Lordships minde and what resolution you purpose to follow whereby I may proceed accordingly This Armie is but very slender for they are but sixe hundred Foot and eightie Horse I am my selfe
and Fits Maurice sixe hundred Foot and some Horse Wee expect your Lordships assistance which wee heartily desire and not any further to deferre us with Letters as you respect us and the service and whereas you write you haue no force your owne presence and the bruite of your comming will much further the Service and dismay the enenemy c. 2. Septemb. 1600. Your loving Cousen Iames Desmond Notwithstanding the importunitie of these Letters together with his owne inclination yet Florence finding that this their divided Kingdome could not long stand hee would not in person joyne with them but sent word to the white Knight by his daughter Donogh Mac Cormock his wife that rather then the Action should fall to the ground hee would himselfe make a journey into Spaine to intreat ayd and assistance from the Pope and Spanish King but in the meane time the supposed Earle being still pursued by Sir Charles is constrained to abandon Kerry to goe to Conniloe and so to Arlogh in which passage hee sustained such a losse as shall bee said which prooved to him irrecoverable There was not left any man of esteeme likely to defend the Action but Florence Mac Cartie lately spoken of who having temporized all this while to see this Summers prosecution was growne by other mens examples to bee more wise then honest became now an Intercessor to the President with frequent Letters and damnable oathes that he was in his heart and intentions sincerely devoted to her Majesties service The concurrence of this fortunate successe did promise a present reduction of the Province and an establishment thereof in a setled quiet and so no doubt it would haue prooved if the Protectees had meant in their hearts as they professed with their tongues but it was farre otherwayes for the President did at this time receiue certaine advertisement that the titularie Earle being driven to great extremitie and eagerly prosecuted in all corners by the consent in common Counsell of his associates whereof some of them had never beene in actuall rebellion and others lately protected and seeming to forsake him notwithstanding their pledges in her Majesties hands haue advised him partly for his safetie but especially to make triall what ayd hee could procure out of Connaght and Vlster to depart from thence with confident promises that whensoever hee should returne with new Forces that then they would as constantly stand for him as heeretofore Whence by the way may bee discerned the cankred disposition of their malicious hearts towards the English Government who nothing regard the disease of their Persons the losse of their Goods the hazzard of their Liues and danger of their perjured Soules so that they may bee able to continue in action against her Majestie hoping thereby that at the length shee would growe wearie of her extreame charges and by that meanes bee driven to condescend to their owne Conditions and Libertie of conscience wherein although they were not disturbed at this time yet can they not be satisfied without publike allowance and Exercise thereof under the Romish Authoritie which they striue to haue supreame and what kind of subjection can bee expected at the hands of any such Papists may appeare for that some of great qualitie in Mounster did about the middest of this moneth purposely send certaine Priests to Rome to purchase absolution from the Pope for the sinne that they Committed in not entring into publike Hostilitie with the rest and because they saw that the Queene could not bee violently dispossessed of Ireland did likewise intreat a dispensation from overt action but yet to live unchangeably in the Catholike Religion and to be permitted in outward temporall obedience her Majesties Subjects Consider therefore I say the dutifull Alleagiance of these men whose obedience depends upon the Popes allowance Sir George Thornton had in garrison at Kilmallock Captaine Francis Slingsby with the Presidents Company Paul Arundle with the Lord Audleys Captaine Dillon and Captaine O Reilly with their Foot Companies and Captaine Greame with his Troope of Horse to whom intelligence was brought upon Tuesday being the sixteenth of September that the Rebells Iames fits Thomas and his complices were that day to passe from Conniloe to the huge Fastnesse of Arlogh Whereupon Captaine Greame instantly drew forth with his Troope towards the said Fastnesse Order being likewise taken that the Foot should hasten after with all possible speed Captaine Greame making extraordinary haste suddenly espied their Forces somewhat neere the wood but before they could recover the same hee gaue them a Charge and at the very first possessed himselfe of their Carriage and killed all those that guarded the same Heereupon the Rebells having foure Colours in defence of their Carriage drew towards him and gaue him a charge which hee answered with his Horse and by this time a Sergeant of Captaine Dillons with some light shott were come up and delivered a Volley in their teeth which killed divers of them and slewe Pierce Lacie his horse under him Hereupon Captaine Greame charged their Battalion home to the Colours which they resisted but at his second charge he brake cleane through them and they betooke themselues to running and our men to killing and surely had not our Horse been over-wearied with their long forrey before they came to fight and our Foot tyred and out of breath to come up there had not one man escaped aliue But as it was there were slaine at this skirmish of the Rebells at least one hundred and twentie whereof one halfe were of their best men amongst whom was Desmonds base sonne Tâ—g O Kelly and Hugh O Kelly Captaines of the Bownoghs whose heads were the next day presented to the President at Moyallo There were besides these aboue fourescore dangerously wounded wee tooke from them one hundred and fiftie Pikes and Peeces besides many Swords Targets and Skeines we got fourtâ—e Horses and Hackneys and at least three hundred Garrans laden with baggage to the value as was reported of fiue hundred pound together with all their prey of sheepe and covves except some few that ranne into the woods being feared with the crie of the people and noise of the shot and drummes The greatest losse that wee sustained was in Horse for Captaine Greame lost sixteene Horse the Lord Audley had a Serjeant slaine and there were sixe more wounded but not mortally one of Captaine Greames troope took the Archtraytor Desmonds Ensigne which the Captaine perceiving he stooped downe to reach the Colours but at an instant receiving a blowe with a Peece upon the reines of his backe vvas not able to recover them being rescued with sixe Pike-men This Disaster proved so fatall to the vsurping Earle that although of the sixe hundred Foote hee brought with him foure hundred did still remaine able to fight yet could hee never afterward gather one hundred of these to a Head for some gat into Connaght some into Vlster and in fine every man to his
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
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
had a Company of an hundred Foot in her Majesties pay notwithstanding all his Safe-guards assaulted him who for his safetie retired into an olde Church burnt it over his head and in comming foorth of the same hee killed about fourtie of his men and tooke him prisoner and the morning following cut off his head which being done Theobald sent to the Earle of Clanrickard for a protection pretending that what he did was done in revâ—nge of his Cousen the Lord Burkes death But the Earle misliking the Action in stead of a Protection returned him this Letter insuing A Letter from the Earle of Clanrickard to Theobald ne Long Burke I Doe understand that you haue yesternight assaulted Dermond O Conner and his Company which is both a very mighty impeachment of Her Majesties word in respect the Gentleman had her gratious Protection and safe Conduct from the Lord President of Mounster and the Governour of this Province for his safe passing and a perpetuall slaunder and abuse unto me and my posteritie considering the Gentleman was ceased in my Countrie and had my word at my very good Lord the Lord President of Mounsters request and the Governour of this Provinces direction which I little expected to bee by you resisted but rather imagined your comming into the Countrie to doe better service upon Her Majesties enemies which are daily threatning to come for us on all sides But if in lieu thereof your service bee to murther a Gentleman that is drawen for good considerations tending the advanâ—ement of Her Majesties service contemne her gratious protection which he hath and offer the Lord President of Mounster the Governour of this Province and my selfe the mightiest wrong and abuse that may be I take it such a coruse as I doe not doubt your selfe and your house to bee thereby ever overthrowne and everlastingly liue hopelesse of any favour 〈◊〉 kindnesse of me except you take such apt and present course as to send the Gentleman unto me released and all the rest of his people as many as you haue in hand of them with a full restitution of their goods otherwayes thinke of me as the greatest Enemy you haue in this world which with the permission of God I will make you and yours feele if you urge me thereunto and so expecting to see the Gentleman from you with expedition without hurt I leaue Doiehoway the foure and twentieth of October 1600. Your very loving Kinseman if you will Vlick Clanrickard Whilest Dermond was in Rebellion hee received no prejudice by Theobald ne Long but now being as hee knew a man fast lincked to the State and able to performe extraordinary service he is treacherously murdered to the great dishonour of Her Majestie in violating Her word solemnely and advisedly given The Lord President was exceedingly incensed against the Actors Abettors and Procurers of this murder writing his Letter both to the Lords of Her Majesties privie Councell in England and also to the Lord Deputie and Councell of Ireland signifying how much Her Majesties honour was blemished and the Service hindred by this malitious and hatefull murther who considering of the fact besides sharpe rebukes and reprehensions the Lord Deputie was commanded presently to casheere and discharge him both of his Command and Entertainement CHAP. XVIII Sessions held at Limericke Cassell and Clonmell The Lord President and the Earle of Ormond meete at Clonmell Muskry Quirk and Arlogh burnt and spoyled by the Armie The submission of the Burkes and the Obryens The narrow escape of Iames fits Thomas and Dermond Mac Craghe the Popes Bishop of Corke In what good estate the Province of Mounster stood Mac Awley preyed by Sir Francis Barkley A Mariage practised betweene the Lady Ione Fitz Gerald and O Donnell but prevented by the Lord President NOtwithstanding the retiring of these Rebels as you haue heard yet the President thought it meete to spend some time in those parts before his Armie should be reduced In consideration whereof finding it expedient for furtherance of her Majesties service that Sessions of Gaole delivery should bee held as often as conveniently they might that the Course of civill Iustice might againe bee renewed whereunto of late yeeres they had not beene accustomed the eighteenth of November his Lordship left Kilmallock and marched to Limerick where hee kept Sessions from thence to Cashell and so to Clonmell in both which places he did the like doing exemplary iustice upon such Rebels as had afore beene apprehended thereabouts During the Sessions holden at Limerick as aforesaid the President sent a message to the Earle of Ormond signifying unto him his purposed comming to Clonmell wherein also hee besought his Lordship that if it might stand with his leasure and good liking it would please him to make a Iourney that way to the intent that upon their meeting some conference might be had about divers particularities concerning the service The Earle accorded both to time and place which was at Clonmell The sixe and twentieth of November amongst other matters there consulted betwixt them the President moved the Earle about some present order to be taken for the prosecution of those Rebels that had now for a good space remayned without impeachment in the borders of Ormond in Typperarie and for so much as his Lordship peradventure had not sufficient Forces to displant them he offered his owne service with such Companies as he had there assembled being the greatest part of the Armie of Mounster The Earle either unwilling to haue the President set foote within his Liberty or else desirous himselfe to haue the sole honour of that service did entreate the President to satisfie himselfe concerning that busines for he would undertake it and that within few dayes to make them repent that ever they set foote within his Libertie which I thinke had immediately beene performed had not the immature death of his most vertuous and honorable Lady the lamentable tydings whereof were now brought him to Clonmell oppressing his aged heart with immeasurable sorrow caused the same for a time to be deferred This service therefore thus undertaken by the Earle the President having received certaine information that the Mounster Fugitiues were harbored in those parts having before burned all the Houses and Corne and taken great preyes in Owny Omulrian and Kilquig a strong and fast Countrey not farre from Limerick diverted his Forces into East Clanwilliam Muskry-quirke where Pierce Lacy had lately beene succoured and harrasing the Countrey killed all mankind that were found therein for a terrour to those as should giue Reliefe to runnagate Traitors thence we came into Arloghe Woods where wee did the like not leaving behind us man or beast Corne or Cattle except such as had beene conveied into Castles The prosecution of this Service was committed to the care of Captaine Francis Slingesby who had under his Command fiue hundred foote whereupon the Burkes and Briens that inhabited those places came all
upon their knees beseeching to bee received into Her Majesties gratious Protection and promising to doe service upon any Rebels that should hide themselues in those Woods who putting in their pledges were received to mercy In this Iourney it chanced there was a youth taken Prisoner who had lately before beene servant to the imagined Earle who being brought to the President and examined tooke upon him to bring our Forces to the place where his Master was The Earle of Thomond Sir George Thornton and Captaine Roger Harvy with their Companies following the direction of this Guid were conducted to Lisbarry a parcell of Drumfinnim woods no sooner were they entred into the Faâ—tnesse but presently the Sentinells which were placed in the skirt of the wood raised the crie which as it should seeme rowsed the counterfeit Earle of Desmond and Dermond Mac Craghe the Popes Bishop of Corke who were lodged there in a poore ragged Cabbin Desmond fled away bare-foot having no leasure to pull on his shooes and was not discovered but Mac Craghe was met by some of the Souldiers cloathed in a simple mantle and torne trowses like an aged Churle and they neglecting so poore a creature not able to carry weapon suffered him to passe unregarded upon the end of this journey by the wiâ—e and painefull proceedings of the President Gods blessing alwayes accompanying the same it came to passe that there was not one Castle in Mounster held out against the Queene Nay which was more it was not knowen that there were fiue Rebells in a companie throughout the Province nor any one of note except these fiue lost sheepe the children of perdition Iames fits Thomas and his Brother Lixnaw Pierce Lacie and the Knight of the Glinne who lay lurking in desart uncouth and unknowen places yet notwithstanding there were divers vagabonds and loose people dispersed in sundry corners for whom no man would undertake that lived by stealth and badroagues disquieting the good Subjects being the reliques of the rebellion The President by his Letters dated the fifteenth signified unto the Lords of the Councell that now the Province was so much over-awed by her Majesties Forces that unlesse Northern Rebels came to infest it or that the Spaniards did invade it he was well able to containe the Provincials in obedience and although fiue hundred of his List was already cashier'd he would at any time lend the Lo. Deputie one thousand Foot to serue in Linster but with this caution for countenance sake that they might bee evermore in estimation of the List of Mounster which if the Reader doe well obserue he shall finde that the prosecution of the service in that Province had successes beyond expectation for in May last when the President first tooke the field the Rebels were no lesse then seven thousand strong and now the Subjects Cattle day and night lay abroad in the fields no Bodie of Rebels united and not one castle in all the province that did withstand her Majestie This was the vvorke of God and unto him onely it must be attributed Her Majestie as hath been said did by her Letters to the President command that one Companie of one hundred Foot should bee cashier'd for the sustentation of the young Earle of Desmond and of others vvhich vvere mentioned in that Letter The Lords of the Councell likewise by their Letters bearing date the tenth of November required the President to see the same performed which being done accordingly as was directed the President by his Letters of the twentieth of this December made an account how the partition was made Now you must understand that although one hundred Foot was discharged for the maintenance of the Earle and the rest yet her Majesties meaning was not that more should bee turned to that use then the ready money which was payed to the Companie yearely for their Lendings for their apparell was saved unto her Majestie the yearely lendings of one hundred men amounts unto no more then seven hundred eightie two pound two shillings and ten pence The Archbishop of Cassell who was a principall Agent in stirring up Dermond Oâ—Conner to make the attempt he did upon the titulary Earle had for his share one hundred twentie one pound thirteene shillings and three pence Iohn Power who was one of the Hostages as hath been related had thirtie sixe pound ten shillings the Lady Ellis sister to the Earle had thirtie three pound sixe shillings eight pence which was as much as her other sisters formerly had in pension from her Majestie the Lady Margaret the Earles sister also and wife to Dermond O Conner in regard of her forwardnesse to haue done the Queene service had an hundred pound and the remainder which was fiue hundred fortie pound twelue shillings ten pence was to the Earles owne use About the eighteenth of the same Sir Francis Barkley finding good cause and fitt opportunitie to plague Mac Awley and his Tenants who under protection relieved the heart-broken Rebells with the Garrison which hee commanded at Askeiton he harrassed all the Countrey of Clanowlie and tooke from thence one thousand Cowes two hundred Garrans besides Sheepe and other spoyle and had the killing of many Traitours which harboured themselues in the bogs and woods thereof CHAP. XIX The Maior of Limerick fined and imprisoned and a new Maior elected A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Iames fits Thomas The Sâ—eriffes men slaine by Florence Mac Cartie The Lord President perswadeth Florence to goe into England Florence seemeth to like of the motion and the use he made of it THE Countrey being now reduced to that outward obedience and conformitie as you haue heard the President and Councell returned unto Moyallo the thirteenth of December where they had some leasure to looke in the Corporate Townes whom they found to be principall ayders abettors and upholders of this unnaturall Rebellion which proceeded partly out of malice to the State for matters of Religion but principally for their owne benefit for in these turbulent times the greatest part of the Queenes Treasure sent over into this Kingdome is expended by the Captaines and Souldiers amongst them Againe they issue their Marchandise to the Rebells underhand at very excessiue rates and buy the Countrey Commodities at their owne prizes by reason whereof it was probably conjectured upon good grounds that the Townes of Mounster were more inritched within these three yeares of Warre then they were before almost in twentie yeares of peace Another thing also at this time was noted in the Townes namely that all the chiefe Cities made choyse of professed Lawyers to be their Maâ—ors Magistrates and chiefe Officers and such as before were Ring leaders of their Corporations These prepensed Elections whether they vvere made for feare left they should bee called to account for their former faults both in assisting the Rebells and resisting the Souldiers or to maintaine the Townes in obstinate superstition which before was much
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
the Province when he had sent the one thousand promised to the Lord Deputie yet he humbly desired the Lords that they would bee pleased untill Michaelmas next following to continue the victuals to bee sent for Mounster as formerly was accustomed that is for three thousand two hundred and fiftie and for the same reason of innovation he besought them to send unto him fiue Lasts of powder with match and lead two thousand shovels and spades fiue hundred pickaxes and fiftie Crowes of Iron and lastly that they would be pleased to send a competent sâ—mme of money for the souldiers to liue upon for untill the expectation of the comming of Spaniards were past hee would preserue his victuals untoucht I formerly recounted unto you that the President by his Letters of the second of November humbly besought their Lordships that a generall pardon might be granted for the reasons then alleged which as it seemeth had good acceptance in England as by Her Majesties Letter to the Lord Deputie dated the one and twentieth of December may appeare which came to the Presidents hands the nineteenth of Ianuary the true Copie of which Letter is here inserted And also for the Lord Deputies farther discharge a draught of a Warrant to bee passed under the Great Seale of Ireland was sent unto him by Her Majestie A Letter from her Maiestie to the Lord Deputie of Ireland ELIZABETH R. RIght Trustie and Welbeloved We greet you well Wee understand by such advertisements as wee haue received from Our President of Our Province of Mounster that it will bee very expedient for the reducing of Our Subjects dwelling in that Our Province to a setled obedience to graunt unto them our generall and gracious Pardon thereby to remooue from them all suspition of impeachment for their former offences whereunto the greatest part of them haue beene violently carried rather by the power of the arch-traytours then by any wilfull defection in their loyaltie Wee being therefore in Our princely Clemencie graciously pleased to accept the humble submission of such our Subjects within that Province as haue not out of their desperate and disloyall hearts entred into this horrible action of Rebellion against Vs doe thinke meet and hereby doe will and authorise you that from time to time you cause such generall and particular pardons to be passed in due forme of Law under our great Seale of that our Realme to all and everie the Inhabitants of that province of what condition or estate soever they bee either by ample words of our generall Pardon as wee understand hath beene graunted to some Counties in Connaght upon like occasion or by particular Names of peculiar persons as by Our said President and Councell or two of them with the President shall be desired of you excepting out of every pardon such persons and inserting such Conditions and Limitations for our service as by our said President and two of our Councell shall bee thought requisite And to the ende our people wasted with the miserie of these warres may not bee pardoned with expences in the obtaining their pardons or putting in Securitie for our peace in Causes where it may be needfull Our gracious pleasure is That the Fees of our Seale and all other Officers Fees in these cases of our affayres shall bee either wholly remitted or so moderated by you and Our Councell there that our Subjects may haue cause the more dutifully and gladly to imbrace our princely Clemency and Bountie in this our gracious and free Pardon Neverthelesse such is Our detestation of the Treasons and horrible Murders committed in this Rebellion that for a perpetuall memorie in every such pardon either generall or speciall there shall bee an expresse exception that the same extend not to pardon Iames Fits Thomas usurping the Title of Earle of Desmond Iohn his Brother Pierce Lacie the Knight of the Valley nor Thomas Fits Maurice sonne to the late Barron of Lixnaw who are knowen to haue beene the ringleaders to many monstrous and unnaturall outrages Neither shall our pardon bee availeable to any of the servants and followers of the persons so excepted unlesse those servants and followers shall fully and absolutely submit themselues to our President and Councell of that Province or to some of them to bee bound with Sureties for their future Loyaltie within twentie dayes after publique proclamation made of this Our gracious Pardon And for the doing heereof these Our Letters shall bee your sufficient Warrant and Discharge Given vnder Our Signet at Our Pallace of Westminster this one and twentieth of December one thousand sixe hundred in the three and fourtieth yeare of Our Reigne And at that time he received a Letter from the Lords of the Councell agreeing in substance with that of her Majesties to the Lord Deputie Wherefore I hold it needlesse to set it downe at large onely I will recite the first part of it whereby it is manifested how agreeable the Presidents proceeding was as well to her Majesties liking as to their Lordships A Branch of the Lords of the Councels Letters to the Lord President AFter our very heartie Commendations to your Lordship We haue received your Letters bearing date the second of November whereby you haue made us an orderly Relation of the state of that Province whereof wee haue informed her Majestie who hath commaunded us to giue you notice of her most gracious acceptation of your Endeavors in the whole course of your proceedings as that which hath prooved greatly to her Honour and the advancement of her Service wherein as wee haue beene alwayes ready to performe the best offices in respect of your discreet proceedings towards us in all things so it doth not a little content us for the loue wee beare you to bee messengers of her Majesties favour tovvards you then which wee know you can receiue no greater comfort c. From the Court at Whitehall the foureteenth of December 1600. CHAP. XXI Victuals and money arrived at Corke One thousand Foote and fiftie Horse to bee sent out of Mounster to the Lord Deputy A Letter from the Lord Presiâ—ent to the Lord Deputy The Companies sent for by the Lord Deputie and staied by his directions The effect of the Lords of the Councels Letters to the Lord President with an Abstract of his Letter to the Lords of the Councell THE fiue and twentieth the President advertised the Lords that there was arrived out of England at Corke a proportion of victuals and money and in the same dispatch he humbly besought their Lordships for that the Province was in a manner by the long warre throughly wasted and that the Horse having nothing but grasse to sustaine them grew weake and unserviceable That they would be pleased to send with the best expedition foure hundred quarters of Oates which should bee defalked upon the Horsemens entertainements Vpon the thirtieth the President received Letters from the Lord Deputie praying him to send
Majestie professing to doe service such as should merit favour Humbly besought him not desiring any protection that hee might remaine with his Lordship The President granted his request and withall sent him a Protection which in an other Letter unto Richard Boyle the Clarke of the Councell hee besought The reason which moved the President to grant his request was the absence of the Earle of Thomond then in England that during the same the County of Clare might bee freed from Bonfires but now for a time we must leaue the President in Cork returne to Florence Mac Carty You heard before that Florence had a cutting as they call it upon Carberry towards his charges in the pretended journey for England but employed all the same and whatsoever more hee could procure to another end for about this time he provided a Barke which hee fraught with Hides Tallow and such commodities committing the care and trust thereof to some of Kinsale by whom the same merchandize should bee transported beyond the Seas and in liew thereof munition and abilliments of warre should be returned and and delivered unto him in the Harbour of Valentia Moreover about the same time hee did earnestly sollicit aide from the neighbour Provinces to resist Her Majesties forces and for the same purpose wrote a Letter in Irish which was read by Iames Welsh by whose relation I received this light unto one in Ormond called Cahir Mac Shane Glasse Omulrian desiring that he would leavy for him sixe hundred Foote in Linster which if hee could not then to procure Redmond Burke to come with so many to his aide and if hee failed likewise herein to deale with Captaine Terrill to the same effect and hee would pay them upon the Countrey of Desmond Lastly Donoghe Mac Cormuck called Mac Donoghe his Agent with Tyrone laboured so much at his hands and that so earnestly as he procured a Letter from Tyrone the Contents whereof were as followeth And thus translated out of the Irish. A Letter from Tyrone to Florence Mac Carty OVr commendations to yoâ— Mac Carty More I send shortly unto you according to our trust of you that you will doe a stout and hopefull thing against the pagan beast and thereupon our Armie is to goe into Mounster and with the will of God we consent unto you and will that you beleeue not any word from us for ever before wee write againe unto you for you shall see trouble enough in England by English men it selfe so as there shall be easinesse of suffering their warres at May next in respect of that it is now And since this cause of Mounster was left to you next under God let no weaknesse or imbecillitie bee found in you and the time of helpe is neere you and all the rest From Dongannon the sixth of February 1601. Stilo Novo Oneale The Armie mentioned in this Letter was the same which now you heard of taking their journey by the way of Connaght which as may appeare both by the examination of Iames Welsh and the Contents of those Letters were solicited and sent principally by the meanes promises and procurement of Florence he being then and before under protection the breach whereof hee nothing esteemed But surceasing farther to rake in the filthy Channels of his malicious practises like maladies immedicable lest it should be loathsome to the Reader I will leade him abroad into the open Aire to behold the hunting rousing and fall of a great Stag which was after sent into England to Her Majestie and by her received as a most acceptable Present although it was not Gods will that shee should liue to reward the chiefe Ranger About the middest of May the Lord President received a Letter from the Lords of the Councell in England which bare date the eight and twentieth of Aprill which for the Readers better vnderstanding how the Affaires of Mounster did sute with the Directions and Counsels in England I thinke it meet to be inserted A Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President AFter our very heartie Commendations to your Lordship Although we haue before this time acquainted you with her Majesties gracious acceptation of your service because wee know you had no greater object then to deserue her Majesties grace and favour yet now vve vvill forbeare to touch it at this time because her Majestie giues you notice of it with her owne hand and for the present onely let you know what care vvee haue taken to satisfie all your demaunds for her Majesties service because it may appeare unto you seeing you doe orderly and carefully giue us account of your proceedings that wee will in no sort neglect such things as you in your discretion hold fit or necessary Wee haue therefore first by her Majesties Commandement sent you a supply of Munitions according to your request We haue likewise given order for Victuals in good proportion although it seemeth to us by the Certificate of the Victualler that you were better stored at your writing then you knew for Wee haue also given order for Oates to be presently sent you and because you haue so good use of a Ship for transporting of Victualls to and fro besides the service shee may doe in mastering those Barques and Boats which offend the Coast wee haue sent Captaine Harvie with a good Ship for that purpose And now that you may know what Letters wee haue intercepted out of Spaine concerning those bruits which wee perceiue are spread of Spanish succours you shall receiue the Copies of three Letters whereof wee haue the Originall which were committed to the charge of Peter Strong of Watterford whose Ship and Goods were taken in Famouth where they were put in by storme One of them comes from the Governour of the Groyne and another from a Fryer that resideth with him the third from one Sennock who as it seemeth being unwilling to haue Tyrone deceived sheweth him truely how little reason they haue to trust to any of the Spanish Succours as they expect of these you may make such use as you thinke good As concerning your desire to know what shall become of the Lady Ioane of Desmond wee thinke you should doe well to set her at libertie againe as shee was before referring the care of her well doing to some of her Sisters that may haue an eye over her We doe also require you still to foresee that her Majesties Forces being now so much diminished may not bee spent in maintaining private mens Castles and houses but where those places are of use for her Majesties service Lastly concerning the Fine imposed on the Major of Limrick for which we finde you had so just occasion wee wish you in no wise to remit it but rather to bestow it upon the repaire of her Majesties Castle there which as it seemeth will serue to so good purpose for her Maâ—esties service And so wee bid your Lordship very heartily farewell From the Court
at Whitehall the 28 of Aprill 1601. Your Lordships very loving Friends Thomaâ— Egerton C. Tho. Buckhurst W. Knowles Ro. Cecill Ioh. Fortescue I. Herbert The eight and twentieth day Dermond Mac Awlie who was lately come out of Vlster and daily conversant with the Traytors of Mounster and acquainted with all their proceedings and Councell by mediation of friends made his repaire to the President and being examined whether they intended to come againe with new forces into the Province hee affirmed that at his departure from them they were ready to come away and did particularize what Munitions and Money every one of them was furnished withall by Tyrone viz. The Lo. of Lixnaw Calievers 40. Powder Barrells 02. Lead one Sow 01 Match faddoms 120 Money 14. pound Iohn fits Thomas Calievers 25. Powder Barrels 01. Lead Sowes ½ Match faddoms  Money 10. li. Pierce Lacie Calievers 20. Powder Barrels 01. Lead Sowes ½ Match faddoms  Money 8. li. Mac Donogh Calievers 25. Powder Barrels 01. Lead Sowes â— Match  Money 12. li. Redmond Burke Calievers 150. Powder Barrels 10. Lead Sowes 05. Match  Money 500. li. Teg Orwrke Calievers 150. Powder Barrels 10. Lead Sowes 05. Match  Money 500. li. From Odonnell to Teg Kewgh Calievers 12 Powder Barrels 02 Lead Sowes ½ Match Fathomes  Money 40. li. CHAP. III. Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle of Desmond taken Prisoner Iames fits Thomas kept Prisoner in the Lord Presidents house His 〈◊〉 and condemnation His relation presented to the Lord President The Lord Presidents Letter to Her Majesty Two Letters from Iames fits Thomas to the King of Spaine The causes of the Rebellion in Mounster as Iames fits Thomas alleaged Hussies report of the causes of the Rebellion in Mounster THere was no man of account in all Mounster whom the President had not oftentimes laboured about the taking of the reputed Earle still lurking secretly within this Province promising very bountifull and liberall rewards to all or any such as would draw such a draught whereby he might be gotten aliue or dead every man entertained these proffers as being resolute in performing the same service although they never conceived any such thought but at last it hapned after this manner The Lord Barry having one hundred men in pay from the Queene employed them many times about such service as either the President should command or himselfe thought requisit and namely about the fourteenth of May knowing that one Dermond Odogan a Harper dwelling at Garryduffe vsed to harbour this Arch-rebell or else upon occasion of some stealth that had beene made in his Countrey the thieues making towards this Fastnesse his Souldiers pursued them into this Wood where by good fortune this supposed Earle with two of the Baldones and this Dermond were gathered together being almost ready to goe to supper but having discovered these Souldiers they left their meate and made haste to shift for themselues they were no sooner gone out of the Cabbin but the Souldiers were come in and finding this provision and a Mantle which they knew belonged to Iames fits Thomas they followed the chase of the Stag now roused By this time the Harper had convaied the Sugan Earle into the thickest part of the Fastnesse and himselfe with his two other Companions of purpose discovered themselues to the Souldiers and left the Wood with the Lapwings policie that they being busied in pursuite of them the other might remaine secure within that Fastnesse and so indeed it fell out for the Souldiers supposing that Iames fits Thomas had beene of that Company made after them till Evening by what time they had recovered the White Knights Countrey where being past hope of any farther service they returned to Barry-court and informed the Lord Barry of all those accidents On the next morning the Lord Barry glad of so good a cause of complaint against the White Knight whom hee hated hasteth to the President and relating unto him all these particulars signifieth what a narrow escape the Arch-traytor had made and that if the White Knights people had assisted his Souldiers hee could not possibly haue escaped their hands Hereupon the White Knight was presently sent for who being called before the President was rebuked with sharpe words and bitter reprehensions for the negligence of his Countrey in so important a busines and was menaced that for so much as hee had undertaken for his whole Countrey therefore hee was answerable both with life and lands for any default by them made The White Knight receiving these threatnings to heart humbly intreated the President to suspend his judgement for a few dayes vowing upon his soule that if the said Desmond were now in his Countrey as was averted or should hereafter repaire thither hee would giue the President a good account of him aliue or dead otherwise he was contented that both his Lands and Goods should remaine at the Queenes mercy and with these protestations he departed And presently repairing to Sir George Thornton hee recounted unto him the sharpe reproofes which from the President hee had received Sir George finding him thus well netled tooke hold of the occasion never left urging him to performe the service untill he had taken his corporall oath upon a booke that he would employ all his endeavours to effect the same Assoone as he was returned to his house he made the like moane unto some of his faithfullest Followers as hee had done to Sir George Thornton and to stirre up their minds to helpe him in the perill hee stood hee promised him that could bring unto him word where Iames fits Thomas was he would giue him fiftie pound in money the inheritance of a Plough land to him and his Heires for ever with many immunities and freedomes One of his Followers which loved him dearely compassionating the perplexity hee was in but would you indeed said he lay hands upon Iames fits Thomas if you knew where to find him the Knight confirmed it with protestations then follow me said he and I will bring you where he is The White Knight and hee with sixe or seven more whereof Redmond Burke of Muskry-quirke was one presently upon the nine and twentie nineth of May tooke horse and were guided to a Caue in the Mountaine of Slewgort which had but a narrow mouth yet deepe in the ground where the Caytiffe Earle accompanied onely with one of his foster brothers called Thomas Opheghie was then lurking The White Knight called Iames fits Thomas requiring him to come out and render himselfe his Prisoner But contrariwise hee presuming upon the greatnes of his quality comming to the Caues mouth required Redmond â—urke and the rest to lay hands upon the Knight for both hee and they were his naturall Followers but the vvheele of his fortune being turned vvith their swords drawen they entred the Caue and without resistance disarming him and his foster Brother they delivered them bound to the White Knight
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 bee throne from the Chaire of highest Majestie whereunto hee presumed into the lowest Dungeon of darke obscurity for ever to bee tormented so did hee suffer this aspiring Absolon to magnifie himselfe in the height of vaine glory Vt lapsu graviore ruat that being throwen headlong downe from the Pinnacle of ambition he might for ever bee poynted at as an exemplary mirror for all insolent Traytors Whilest hee remayned Prisoner in Shandon the President thought good to send for him oftentimes before himselfe and the Councell and there to examine him upon such particulars as they thought most materiall for the advancement of the present service And amongst the rest they questioned him concerning the originall causes and principall motiues that induced this late rebellion in Mounster hee answered that the foundation principally was religion then the Vndertakers encroaching upon Gentlemens lands the feare of English Iuries passing upon Irish mens liues the taking notice of slight evidence upon such arraignements the generall feare conceived of the safetie of their liues by the example of the execution of Redmond fits Gerald and Donoghe Mac Craghe and the great charge which was yeerely exacted for Her Majestie out of every Plough-land within the Province called the composition rent and because these his pretences doe not much vary from the allegations 〈◊〉 by Oliver Hussie a Schoole-master a most pernitious member in this traiterous combination I haue thought fit to interpose the same in this place This Hussie therefore examined upon the same Interrogatories answered as followeth First the Countrey was much against their wils driven to pay composition to the Queene for three yeares upon certaine Covenants These Covenants were not observed on Her Majesties part nor yet the composition ceased at the determination of the said tearme Wherefore they thought the Composition would not only bee continued but also augmented from time to time at the pleasure of their Superiors till they should bee weary of their Lands Many new and extraordinary wayes were sought out in concealements and such like to the great discomfort and feare of Landlordâ— and Freeholders The extortions and unlawfull dealings of Sherifs and other like officers to rob the Countrey-men of their goods for they did use to keepe many Courts for gaine and not for Iustice they did use to bring many Writs from Dublin for very small causes they did use to buy old caveling titles to receiue bribes for not going to poore Gentlemens houses and other like inconveniences The continuall vexation by Processes from the spirituall Court where by Fines and Bribes to saue mens consciences they were greatly grieved and specially by the High Commission The manner of execution of Donogâ—e Mac Craghe and Redmond fits Gerald and seeking of Thomas fits Maurice his blood did greatly discomfort them fearing that every of their liues were in like danger The severall examinations of these two being both deepely ingaged in the action â— haue therefore inserted into this present relation First that the world may bee satisfied upon what weake pretexts and imaginary supposed conjectures the Rebellion was grounded And therefore the former scandalous suggestions which Hell had devised and the Popes damned Legat had forged against Her Majestie were the more abominable And secondly that those Officers that should succeed in governing this kingdome might carefully shun and warily avoid all Bribery Corruption and Partiality that the exclayming mouths of these discontented people may bee either altogether shut or else opening the same they may spue out nothing but their owne shame But to proceed About the beginning of this Moneth of Iune the President received gratious Letters from Her sacred Majestie wherein she acknowledging her thankfulnesse for his services and signified her pleasure unto him concerning base monies and withall shee sent the Proclamation and the Articles betweene her and Sir George Cary Knight Treasurer of Ireland touching the exchange for the alteration of the said monies all which doe here ensue CHAP. IIII. A Letter from Her Majesty to the Lord President concerning base Monies A Proclamation concerning base Monies Articles betweene Her Majestie and the Treasurer at Warres for Ireland concerning base Monies A Letter from her Maiestie to the Lord President concerning base Moneys Your loving Soveraigne ELIZABETH R. TRustie and welbeloved Wee greet you well Although We haue forborne when we intended to haue made knowen vnto you by some expresse testimonie from Our selfe Our acceptation of your Services yet We haue given particular charge to Our Councell that they should in Our Name make you perceiue our liking of your proceedings in such sort as you might not conceiue that either the report of them came not to our eares or that you served a Prince not willing to acknowledge the good merits of her Servants But now that cause is ministred vnto vs to giue charge vnto you of other matters specially concerning our service We thought it convenient to incourage you to that which followeth by thankes-giving for that which is past and by assuring you by our owne Letters that as you haue not deceived our expectation of your sufficiencie or our trust reposed in your faith So will not wee be wanting on our part to manifest how acceptable these things are vnto vs whensoever Wee finde them in any one whom Wee haue conferred trust in imployment The matter that now Wee thinke meet to acquaint you with is that having found by long experience that the vsing of sterling moneys in the payment of our Aâ—mie there and for our other Services doeth bring marveilous inconveniences both to that Realme and to this And that the wisedome of all our Progenitors for the most part did maintaine a difference betweene the Coynes of both Realmes that in Ireland being ever inferiour in goodnesse to that of this Realme howsoever by errour of late crept in it hath beene otherwise tollerated to the infinite losse of this Kingdome Our Moneyes being out of that Realme transported into forraine Countreyes for lacke of Marchandise We haue thought it reason to reviue the ancient course of our Progenitors in that matter of Moneyes and haue caused a Coine proper for that Our realme of Ireland to be stamped heere of such a Standard as Wee finde to haue beene in use for the same and doe now send a great quantitie thereof thither by Our Treasurer at Warres to bee imployed for the payment of Our armie and for other vses and the same doe authorise by Our Proclamation and decrie all other Moneys In the establishing of which course as we doubt not but Our Deputie and Councell there will as they are by Vs commanded proceed according to such directions as wee haue given them So because the Province whereof you haue charge is a place of most Traffique of any other of that Kingdome and therefore in it it is most likely that Marchants at the first shew of such an Innovation will for private respects â—ee most opposite Wee haue thought
and that all hee did intend or make shew of to the President was but to gaine time Shilie wife to Osulevan More and Sister to Florence Mac Cartie in September 1600. speaking with the Lord President exclaimed upon her Brother as the cause of her Husbands imprisonment with the Rebels and praying his advise and helpe for his inlargement hee told her there was no way to obtaine his liberty but to giue his oath and promise to enter into action of rebellion and perswaded her to giue him that advise Thomas Oge being examined said that Florence Mac Cartie told him upon the delivery of his first pledge that if all the children living were in her Majesties hands for his loyaltie or any other Follower hee would loose no opportunity if Tyrone were able to assist his enterprise with any sufficient forces or if Spaniards did â—and Iames fits Thomas upon the eighteenth of Iune 1601. being examined by the Lord President said that Florence Mac Carty did evermore acquaint him with all that passed betweene him and the President and did continually sweare and protest that hee would persevere in the action to the end and that the principall hopes of the Spaniards and Vlster Rebels were built upon the helpe succour of himselfe and Florence Mac Carty And to what purposes hee employed himselfe in the times immediatly following untill the time of his imprisonment may bee gathered aswell by that which hath heretofore beene delivered as by the examination of one Gillernow Okelly a Connaght man taken by Sir Francis Barkley who being deposed said that Florence Mac Carty sent his Letter and promise to Tyrone to giue Bonnogh to Redmond Burke and sixe hundred men upon Desmond and Carbery and himselfe with one thousand more of his owne would meete the said Redmond Burke in Arloghe and at the same time hee saw foure and twentie Letters written by Tyrone directed to Florence and the Traytors in Mounster You haue already perceived that this cunning hypocriticall Traytor hath written Letters to the Arch-traytors Iames fits Thomas Tyrone and Odonnell and besides hath sent or at the least procured Letters to bee sent to the King of Spaine moving and intreating him to invade her Majesties kingdome And now for a perclose of all you shall behold Ne quid desit ad summam impudentiam that hee might equall if not exceed the most impudent and barbarous Traytor his Letters sent to his holy Father the Pope the contents whereof are as followeth A Letter from Tyrone Iames fits Thomas Florence Mac Carty and Mac Donogh to the Pope SAnctissime Pater cum superioribus annis Dei summi nutu voluntate excitati ad recuperandum Hoc regnum ab Anglorum graâ—issimo jugo qui Religionem Regionem vi tyrannide multis seculis occupaâ—ere id nunctandem post multa pericula exantlata pro majore parte excussimus sanctitati vestrae exponimus quod prima nobis praecipua fuit cura perpetuoque erit statum Ecclesiae hîc fere extinctum in integrum restituere collapsum redintegrare ita apud nos judicantes nostrarum partium esse vitam ipsam omnemque substantiam nostram in eo augendo impendere id quod libentiori animo praestare conamur ut non dicamus cogimur quia nisi tempestive communi malo in utroque statu occurserimus nobiscum deterius longe actum fuisset quam Turcae solent agere cum sibi subditis Christianis adeo ut vel fugae esset consulend ' vel hic mors obeunda Rebus itaque in angustias has redactis ad quem majore spe jureque accedere cujusque opem implorare possumus ac dobemus quà m ad te Pater spirituum in terris ut filijs spiritualibus miserè adhue afflictis jugoque longe graviore crudeliore quà m Pharaonico attritis adsis Quod nos speramus à pietate tua consecuturos exemplo omnium afflictorum qui ad sedem tuam in talibus aerumnis accedentes opem atque desider atiorem exitum fuerunt consecuti Ad te igitur communem omnium afflictorum praesertim fidei causa laborantium pium bene volum Patrem tanquam aâ— unicum nostrum refugium tutissimum asylum confugimus fusisque lachrimis humiliter petimus ut nostros gemitus audiat vota suscipiat ac postulatus concedat ut eorum ora obstruantur franganturque vires qui oderunt Sion ac impediunt diruta Ierusalem denuo reaedificari Maenia ubi si nobis credere dignetur tua Sanctitas Nunquam antecessores nostri ex tempore quo Regnum hoc in manus Anglorum devenerat adjutores fuerant quà m nos sumus ad fidem à nostro Apostolo Sancto Patricio traditam suscipiendum ad eamque proh dolor in his partibus fere eâ—tinctam hactenus pene sepultam excusso jam pro parte Anglorum jugo exsuscitandam promovendam augendam amplificandam Quia nihil aliud in his votis habemus quà m videre Dei gloriam sidei orthodoxae propugnationem annuere itaque dignetur vestra sanctitas nostris petitionibus qui spretis honoribus commodis quibuscunque diem ulteriorem vivere non desideramus quà m videre Dei Ecclesiam toto orbe â—â—orentem petimus autem inprimis ut ad majora fidei incrementa illis sedibus vacantibus in hoc Regno ij qui vita moribus literatura sunt conspicui quique in negotio fidei promovendo plurimum nobiscum laborant praeficiantur quosque nobiscum Reverendissimus Corcagen ' ac Cloanen ' Episcopus nominavit ac commâ—ndavit tanquam idonei Pastores ad Dei gregem verbo et exemplo instruendum ne indignis qui sine ordine fortasse summâ— cum authoritate ambitione sese animarum curae ingererent nisi occurreretur aditus pateat Quod ut petamus movemur propter summam animarum jacturam quam ob Pastorum paucitatem in vtraque Monioniae provincia qui undecim Episcâ—patus sub Metropoli Cassilensi complectitur excipimus enim Reverend ' Corcagen ' Cloaneum qui senio labore jam penâ— est confectus nostri potiuntur hoc eo confidentius petimus quia qui electi consecrati ad nos dimissi fuerunt à vestra sacrosancta sede ad vacuas hijs in partibus sedes occupandas à nobis pro viribus in ijsdem Deigracia defendantur ut gregibus sibi Commissis tuto invigilare queant Insuper desideramus ut quemadmodum felicis recordationis Pius Quintus Pontifex Maximus contra Reginam Angliae ejusque fautores Bullam excommunicationis ediderat Necnon Gregorius 13. eandem continuaverat ac vim habere in bello Giraldinarum indicavit similem quoque sententiam ad hoc bellum promovendum ad felicem exitum deducendum Sanctitas vestra emittere dignetur ac generatim sanctitati vestrae affectu quo possumus maximo regnum hoc vestrum à te solo post Deum dependens nosque humiles tuos
subditos una cum procuratoribus praesentium latoribus quos pro nobis nostro nomine deputamus quique fuse veraciter omnia quae in hoc bello gessimus adjuti eorum opera doctrina viva voce aperient plenius Deprecantes ut Sancta vestra indubiam illis fidem dignetur adhibere eidem committimus commendamus Dat' in Castris nostris Catholicis 30. Martij 1600. Sanctitatis vestrae Obedientissimi filij fidelissmi subditi Oneale Iames Desmond Mac Cartie More Dermond Mac Cartie alias Mac Donogh I will not trouble the understanding Reader with any long Commentary upon this plaine Text but onely will demand one question whether that man which shall suggest that her Majesties Subjects are in worse case then the Christians under the Turks that her Majesties government is more tyrannicall then that of the Egyptian Pharaoh that shall prefer a supplication into the Court of Rome to haue his annoynted Prince excommunicated as an Heretike and deposed as an Vsurper whether this man may bee adjudged to carie a loyall heart to that Prince or deemed worthy to liue in that Common wealth For my owne part I cannot suppose his leprosie like that of Naaman which may bee cleansed with washing seven times in Iordan but like that of Gehezi which will sticke to him and his posterity for ever and that hee may ingeniously confesse with ever-cursed Cain Peccata mea majora sunt quam condonari queant my sinnes are greater then can be forgiven but fearing lest this digression will be as over tedious to thee in reading as it hath bin unpleasant to me in writing I will now proceed in my purposed relation CHAP. VII Dermond Mac Owen Teg Mac Dermond and Moyle Mo Omaghon arrested Dermond Mac Owens answer to the Lord President The services which the Mounster Regiment performed in Connaght under the conduct of Sir Francis Baâ—kley THE Lord President notwithstanding all these intelligences of Spanish succours had conceived a good hope that so soone as the present State of the Province should bee knowen in Spaine namely that the Chieftains were apprehended and the rest generally appeased it would bee a good meanes to divert the intended preparations and yet farther to secure the Provincials so farre as the wit of man could devise he called a generall Sessions of Goale delivery in Corke to bee holden about the eight and twentieth of Iuly whither all the Freeholders in that Countrey were to make their repaire where hee intended to lay hold of all such persons as had beene most pernitious in the former warres and likely to proue most dangerous in after times these were principally foure Dermond Mac Owen Cartie alias Mac Donoghe that was a Partaker in the petition to the Popes sanctitie an other Teg Mac Dermond Cartie brother to Cormuck Lord of Muskerry the third Moil Mo Omaghon chiefe of that Sept of the Omaghons in Kinalmekeghe and the fourth and last was Dermond Moil Mac Cartie brother to Florence Mac Cartie so much spoken of The three former making their apparance at the Sessions were apprehended and committed Prisoners to the gentleman Porter the fourth knowing himselfe guilty of many treacherous practises plotted by his brother Florence durst not adventure himselfe within the Citie wals but kept aloofe in Carbery till hee heard how the other sped and then conveyed himselfe into the North amongst his fellow Rebels I may not here omit to relate unto you a passage which passed betweene Dermond Mac Owen aforesaid the first of the foure aforementioned and the Lord President when he was first taken in upon protection did sweare and protest that he would remaine a good Subject but said the President what if the Spaniards invade Ireland what would you doe then your Lordship puts mee said he to a hard question for if that should happen let not then your Lordship trust me or the Lords Barry and Roche or any other whatsoever that you haue best conceit of for if you doe you will bee deceived this was plaine dealing and in divers it proved true as hereafter you shall heare Vpon the determination of these Sessions aforesaid namely in the beginning of August the President dispatched his Letters to the Lord Deputie and the Councell at Dublin signifying the restraint of these men and the reasons inducing him thereunto for they all being men of turbulent spirits discontented minds and ill affected to the English government could not but proue very dangerous to the State in these doubtfull times forraine invasions being daily expected and although they had lately submitted themselues yet was it sufficiently made knowen unto him aswell by the confeâ—â—ion of the condemned titulary Earle as from other of good credit that it proceeded not from any loyall or dutifull disposition but by the necessitie of the time being constrained and by the Popish Priests being licensed they were contented for a time to liue in subjection being no longer able to hold out in rebellion But yet notwithstanding hee determined to proceed either in the retayning or releasing of them as hee should be directed by their graver wisedomes The Lord Deputie and Councell approved of his proceedings referring the farther pursuite of these affaires together with all other matters within his government to his owne discretion You haue formerly heard how Sir Francis Barkley was sent with Regiment into Connaght and although I doe confine my selfe to speake chiefely of the services of Mounster yet this Regiment being still upon the List of Mounster I doe not thinke that I shall erre in setting downe of any accident of note which it performed The nineth of August Sir Francis with his Troopes lodged at Alphine in the County of Roscoman the morning following was darke and misty Odonnell Orwrkâ— Tirrell and the traytorly Confederats being fifteene hundred Foote and three hundred Horse quartering not farre from us presented themselues close to our Campe Sir Francis Barkley finding that his store of munition was but weake resolved not to fight but the Enemy growing bold upon our slacknesse pressed so boldly upon us as we were forced to draw out for two houres there was a hot skirmish wherein our men served exceeding well forcing them to retire to their quarter Of our side there was lost a Gentleman of Captaine Kingsmils Company and foure and twentie hurt Of the Enemy not so few as eightie slaine and hurt CHAP. VIII Sixe thousand men demanded by the Lord President to bee sent into Mounster to withstand the intended invasion of Spaine The Lord Presidents opinion sent to the Lords of the Councell of the likeliest place where the Spaniards would attempt to land their Forces in Ireland The effect of the Lords of the Councels answer to the Lord President A branch of the Lord Presidents Letter tâ— Master Secretary Cecill A Letter from Master Secretary Cecill tâ— the Lord President The intelligence had of the Spanish fleete comming for Ireland and by him sent tâ— the Lâ—rd President A branch of Master Secretary Cecils Letter tâ— the Lord President THE Lord President from time to time certified aswell the Lords of her Majesties privie
Councell in England as the Lord Deputie and Councell at Dublin of all such intelligences as hee received and probabilities as hee conceived of the Spanish preparations yet long it was before hee could induce them to conceit any such thing But now at the last even as a vehement and violent Tempest sometimes resoundeth in the aire for a good space before it falleth and the neerer it approacheth the more palpably and senseably is perceived such was this tempestuous storme of the Spaniards intended invasion which was now so vniuersally seconded from all places that it was generally expected both in England and Ireland and for this cause the President did earnestly sollicit the Councell of England that sixe thousand men might bee levied for this service whereof two thousand to bee sent presently for Waterford and the rest to bee in a readinesse at an houres warning to make speedy repaire to the Sea-coast upon the first notice of this invasion The President also thought fit to deliver his opinion to the Lords of the Councell what places within the Province were most likely for the Spanyards to attempt most necessary for her Majestie both in pollicie and honour to defend for to prevent their descent in any place where themselues thought meete was by him deemed impossible But it was to bee presumed that they would attempt such a place as should bee honourable for them to gaine and disadvantagious for her Majestie to loose And therefore hee thought that their discent most likely would be at Limerick Waterford or Corke as for the other Townes they were neither worth their labour to winne â—nor her Majesties charges to defend Limericke was farre seated within the land neither could they disimboge from thence without an Easterly winde which beeing rare it was not likely that they would hazzard their Fleet upon such disadvantage Waterford though weake and commodious for them it was so neere to England and especially lying so conveniently for her Majesties Forces within that Kingdome the Deputie on the one side and the President on the other being so neere at hand as it was not likely that they would land there Corke therefore hee supposed to bee most convenient for them to assaile and most necessary for her Majestie to defend for these reasons First because those that had beene the greatest dealers about this Invasion in Spaine namely one Dermond Mac Cartie a neere kinsman to Florence called by the Spaniards Don Dermutio did advise as aforesaid Florence by Letters which were intercepted to surprise Corke Secondly the said Florence did advise the Spanish Archbishop by his Agent Donogh Mac Cormock as you haue heard that Corke was the fittest place for this designe Whereunto both Tyrone and all the Northerne Rebels did subscribe Lastly her Majesties Magazines of Victualls Munition and Treasure residing there in great quantities could not without infinite trouble and great danger be remooved for besides if they should be removed either to Limrick or Waterford neither of those were altogether secure yet it would give an apparant testimony of feare conceived of their comming which would not onely amaze the best affected subjects through the Province but give occasion to the rest generally to revolt upon these reasons the President thought fit to assemble all the forces within the Province which was then but 1300 Foote and 200 Horse in List unto Corke or the places neere adjoyning for the manning and making good of that Citie which in it selfe by the naturall situation thereof was very weake and of small defence The Lords by his Letteâ—s understanding his resolution by their Letters dated the twentieth of Iuly which hee received in August following wrote unto him to this effect that they would presently send unto him 2000 Foote for his supply That they would not direct him what he should doe if the Spaniards landed leaving it to his owne judgement as occasion should be offered saying farther that where by his own Letters they perceived whereunto al mens judgement did agree with him that Corke was a weake towne not tenible against a powerfull enemy they thought fit to give him this generall rule that in case he should see such forces arrive applying themselves to a place of weake defence which in his judgemeÌ„t must in the end be carried that nothing can be more pernitious to her Majesties cause and therefore he should not doe well to venture his small Forces where they with Her Majesties provisions were sure to be lost howsoever he might peradventure thinke to dispute it for some few dayes But the President to make good his resolution answered their Lordships and maintaining the same as by his Letters of the sixth of August may appeare wherewith the Lords rested satisfied and left him to his owne judgement wherein it seemes hee did not erre for their intention of landing at Corke prooved true as hereafter shall appeare whereof for farther testimony of the same all the Letters which were sent from Spaine to Don Ioan de Aquila after his landing in Ireland were directed to Corke which is an evident argument that Corke was their designe and that in Spaine it was conceived that Don Iuan was possessed of it and also at the same time he wrote to M. Secretarie Cecill upon the same subject his very words were as followeth The resolution I held I still hold which is to defend and keepe Corke the reasons in my Letters to the Lords I have at large discoursed if Her Majestie shall relinquish any of her walled Cities as I am advised to doe all will be lost and a generall revolt will insue wherfore it were better to put somwhat in hazard then apparantly to lose all The towne I know to be infinite weake but many handes is a strong defence and when the 2000 aides shall come the enemy shall find it a tough piece of worke â—o gaine it To remoove the Queenes Magazines of victualls Munition and treasure as some doe advise into the Countrey I know no place capable of it nor yet is there any meanes of carriage especially in this Harvest time to convey it away betweene this and Michaelmas and to send it by sea must be either to Waterford or Limricke which as farre as I know may proue no lesse dangerous then at Corke no man certainely knowing where the Enemy will make his discent But if the worst should happen that the Towne must bee losâ— the treasure at least shall be saved and the rest the Enemy shall never enjoy The rasing of Shandon is to no purpose for every Hill and Ditch neere the Towne commands the Citie no lesse then it the defences of earth which by my directions are in making are onely made to winne time and I haue so provided that the charge of the workemen
is borne by the Towne and Countrey the Queenes expences is no more but the use of her Shovels Spades Pickaxes and Whildebarrowes c. Now wee may see how true a Prophet the President was that the Spaniards would invade Ireland but like unto Cassandra untill this time could never bee beleeved which proceeded out of the defects which both the Lords in England and the Lord Deputie of Ireland had of good intelligence whereof the President was better stored then either of them of the undoubted likelihood of their comming Sir Robert Cecill her Majesties Secretary wrote to the President as followeth A Letter from Master Secretary Cecill to the Lord President SIr George Carew on Wednesday last certaine Pinnaces of her Majesties met with a fleete of Spaniards to the number of fiftie saile whereof seventeene are men of warre the rest are transporting Ships as by this Note inclosed doth appeare which my Intelligencer sent me at their going out These Ships cannot bee but for Ireland from which Coast the storme kept them unlesse it should bee said that the King will land them in the Low-countries which I will never beleeue hee durst adventure knowing how long wee haue expected them and haue fourteene good ships out which if you compare with the note inclosed of his you shall find that wee might be ashamed to suffer his Fleete to land so quietly and our Fleete in the taile of them but which is more certaine to confirme my opinion ever for Ireland this proportion is fit for Ireland there it may worke mischiefe and besides that they which met them saw them set their course from the mouth of the sleeue where they were on wednesday just for Ireland and as I verily thinke they will fall for Limerick for in Spaine it was advertised me that their Rendezvous was for the Blaskys which you know is on that Coast about the Dingle or the Ventrey Lastly if they had meant to haue come hither they would haue beene here before this time being on wednesday at Silley and the wind having beene South-west since faire If therefore they bee not in Ireland they are certainely put Roomer with Spaine againe but that I dare not hope Now Sir what my Lord Deputy and you shall doe there is not our parts to tell you onely wee desire you to propound us possible things and then shall you haue them two thousand wee haue sent already into Mounster at least the want of wind hinders them in the imbarquing Ports if we know once where they are landed then must you also tell us where you will haue us second you for if you looke for our supplyes to come to you in the West side of Mounster or South parts then can we put them by Sea more properly and land neerer the parts of Accon then to send them to Dublin or to Corke but all this to you must bee referred to whom I wish as great happinesse as I wish to my owne heart And so I end from the Court at Windsore this twelfth of August 1601. Your loving and assured Friend Robert Cecill From Lisbona the fiue and twentieth of Iuly 1601. Here at Lisbon there are stayed about two hundred Sailes of Ships out of which number fiue and fourtie onely are selected for transportation of Souldiers The number of Souldiers are sixe thousand whereof three thousand are here kept aboard the ships left they should runne away the other three thousand are a comming from Andaluzia and those parts in a fleete of ships and gallies under the conduct of the Adâ—lâ—ntados sonne unto Lisbon The ships which carie the Souldiers are of the burthen of one hundred one hundred and fiftie and not aboue two hundred Tuns The Spaniards doe refuse greater ships of the East Countries which are stayed at Lisbon and make choise of the smallest Vessels they haue for their purpose Of their fiue and fourtie Saile of ships seventeene saile onely are fitted for men of warre whereof eleaven of them are but small ships the other sixe are Gallions the Saint Paul the Saint Peter the Saint Andrew and three smaller Gallions of the Kings whose names I know not For the manning of their ships fifteene hundred Sailors were sent hither out of Biskay The Marques of S. ta Croce goeth Admirall in the Saint Paul Sibiero alias Seriago Viceadmirall in the Saint Peter they make account to bee ready by the last of Iuly and ride with their yards a Crosse. The two ships of Dunkerke which haue remayned long at Lisbon doe make ready to come away with the Fleete By this Letter it appeares that they in England now were awake and confident of the Spanish invasion untill which time notwithstanding the Presidents daily calling upon them for Men Munition and Victuals they gaue a deafe eare also hee received an other of the same date a fragment whereof I thinke it not unnecessary to relate aswell to shew the assurance which was held in England of the invasion as the tender care her Majesties principall Secretary had of the President and of the deare affection he bare him My deere George now will I omit all the petty particulars of many things because the great storme which I presume is fallen upon Mounster drownes all my petty cares and wounds my soule for care of you of whom I know not what to expect but as a lost child for though I know you are not so mad as to runne to the enemies mouthes with a dozen persons in comparison yet I am desperatly affraid that the Provincials should betray you even those I meane that must or will seeme to be principally about you c. CHAP. IX The crosse Accidents which hapned to make the Lord Deputy to be offended with the Lord President The Lord Deputies Letter to the Lord President A satisfactory Letter from the Lord Deputy to the Lord President AS is formerly related Sir Francis Barkley being in the Province of Connaght with one thousand Foote and fiftie Horse of the List of Mounster when the President sent him thither among other instructions which hee gaue unto Sir Francis was that hee should not upon any direction goe out of that Province untill hee first heard from him the reason which moved him to insert this clause into his instructions was the confident assurance hee had of the Spanish invasion But yet to prevent the worst left the Lord Deputie might peradventure command him to march into Vlster or Linster hee presently dispatched a Letter to the Lord Deputie signifying unto him what direction hee had given unto Barkley and the reasons that moved him unto it beseeching his Lordship to allow thereof But see the mischiefe before the Presidents Letters came to the Lord Deputies hands hee had sent Captaine Henry Cosby with a peremptory commandement to Sir Francis Barkley to march to Ballisheman in Vlster Sir Francis being perplext what course to take at last resolved to obey his instructions hoping that the Lord
there were three and twentie Spaniards taken and of this Countrey birth a great multitude of Churles women and children there was likewise slaine of the Spaniards towards thirtie all this while the Enemy shot not a shot but as men amazed lay still of the Irish there was not a man taken that bare weapon all of them being good Guids escaped onely one Dermond Mac Cartie by them called Don Dermutio was taken who was then a pensioner to the King of Spaine and heretofore a servant to Florence Mac Cartie A good while before day the Lord Deputie sent Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn to the President to signifie his pleasure unto him which was if they would render themselues hee should accept of their offer excepting the Irish not long after Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn was departed that no error might bee committed towards the morning the Lord President went to the Lord Deputie to make relation of that nights proceeding and upon deliberation it was thought convenient if the Spaniards would quit their Armes and render the place with promise of life onely to bee sent into Spaine that they should bee received to mercy the consideration whereof grew upon these reasons the one because in forcing a breach it was likely many good men should bee lost and also to intice others that are in Kinsale to leaue the place wherein they felt misery by the example of this mercifull dealing with those of Rincorran but especially because expedition in the taking of this Castle had many important consequences About one houre after day the Commander sent word to the Lord President that hee would render the place and quit all their Armes so as they might bee sent to Kinsale which being refused hee intreated onely that himselfe might hold his Armes and bee sent to Kinsale which also being denyed hee resolutely determined to bury himselfe in the Castle and not to yeeld his Company seeing his obstinacie did threaten him to cast him out of the breach so as they might bee received to mercy in the end it was concluded that all his people should bee disarmed in the house which was done by Captaine Roger Harvie Captaine of the Guards that night and himselfe to weare his sword untill hee came to the President and then render it unto him which being performed upon his knees they were brought prisoners into the Campe and from thence immediatly sent unto Corke The last of October the President received a gratious Letter from her Majestie all written with her owne hand it was short but yet therein is liuely expressed in what a thankefull sort his service was accepted the true Copie whereof here ensueth CHAP. XIIII Her Majesties Letter to the Lord President A supply of Munition and victuals A resolution in Councell that Forces should be sent to encounter O Donnell The Lord President of a contrary opinioâ— and his reasons The reasons why this service was imposed upon the Lord President The Lord President marcheth towards O Donnell O Donnell lodgeth neere the Holy Crosse and the strength of his Quarter O Donnell by the meanes of a great Frost pâ—ssed over the Mountaine of Shewphelim whereby hee escaped from fighting with the Lord President O Donnels hastie March The principall men that were in O Donnels Army The principall men in Tyrones Armie Her Maiesties Letter unto the Lo. President MY faithfull George if ever more service of worth were performed in shorter space then you haue done Wee are deceived among many eye-witnesses Wee haue received the fruit thereof and bid you faithfully credit that what so Witt Courage or Care may doe Wee truely finde they haue beene all truely acted in all your Charge and for the same beleeue that it shall neither bee vnremembred nor vnrewarded And in meane while beleeue my Helpe nor Prayers shall never faile you Your Soveraigne that best regards you ELIZ. R. The second of November the Ordnance was drawne from Rincorran to the Campe. The third the Spanish Sergeant Major which had been taken prisoner upon the last of October and the Alferes which rendred himselfe upon condition of life at Rincorran obtained licence to write to Don Iuan and one of our Drummeâ— was sent to carry their Letters The fifth foure Barques with Munitions and Victuals from Dublin arrived in the Haven of Kinsale The sixth upon certaine knowledge that Tyrone and O donnell were drawing towards Mounster the trenches of the Campe were made deeper and higher The seventh the Lord Deputie having Intelligence that O donnell with a great part of the Northren Forces was advanced neere unto the Province to joyne with the Spanyards and that Tyrone was but a fewe dayes journeyes short of him it was debated in Councell whether it were necessary that Forces should bee sent towards him to divert his intention It was agreed by the greater part that two or three Regiments of Foot and some Horse should be employed in that service The President was of a contrary opinion alledging for instance that Tyrone at his late being in Mounster at whose returne the Earle of Ormond having good Especials and very desirous to fight with him yet could never haue sight of him or of any of his company and the reasons sayd he are very apparant for they are sure to haue the Countrey to friend to giue them howerly intelligence of our lodging and marches and they are so light footed as if they once get the start of us be it never so little wee shall hardly or never overtake them Notwithstanding these reasons it was concluded that Forces should be sent and for so much as the Countrey would bee more willing to giue assistance to the Lord President then to any other as also because hee was best acquainted with the passages and places of advantage to giue Odonnell impediment Hee was commaunded with his owne Regiment and Sir Charles Wilmots which were in List two thousand one hundred and fiftie but not by pole aboue one thousand and three hundred and fiftie Horse in List which were by pole two hundred and fiftie to undertake the Service and for his better strength Sir Christopher Saint-Laurence who with his Regiment was comming into Mounster and was to meet him upon the way should joyne with him and also the Rising out of the Countrey The President in Obedience though without hope to meete with an Enemy that hath no will to hazard his Troupes in fight for so hee conceived of Odonnell the seventh of November left the Campe and never ceased travelling untill with long and weary Marches hee came to Ardmaile in the Countie of Tipperary Odonnell with his sharking Troupes lodging not farre from the Holy Crosse their Campes not being distant the one from the other aboue foure miles But the Countrey stood so partially affected to the Traytors as by no promise of reward or other satisfaction could they bee induced to drawe any draught upon them
by all the best and speediest meanes that may be Wee haue thought it good in regard of the great knowledge and experience wee haue had and found in your faith and valour and in respect of the speciall trust confidence and sufficiencie wee repose in you Wee haue thought it good to grant and commit unto you during our pleasure the command and authority by the power granted us by her Majestie over the Castles of Baltimore and Castlehaven and the whole Countrey of Carbery and over all the Countries territories or places of Collemore Collibeg Ivagh Mounterbarry Slewghteagibane Slewghteage Roe Cloncahill Clondermot Clonloghten and Coshmore and over all the other Countries territories places by what name or names soever they bee called from the Towne of Rosse to the hither parts of the Meares and bounds of Beere and Bantry and so in compasse Northwards to Muskery And we doe giue you power and authority over the Queenes people and her Subjects and Inhabitants in all or any the said Countries appoynting and authorising you hereby to prosecute with fire and sword all Rebels Traytors or other capitall Offenders and all their Ayders Releevers Maintayners Receivers and Abettors or any other Offenders whatsoever that are not ameanable to her Majesties Lawes or haue combined or adhered themselues to any her Majesties enemies or to any now in actuall rebellion against her Highnesse and to make ceasure of all their goods and chattles to her Majesties use And for the better effecting of this her Highnesse service and the speciall trust reposed in you wee doe hereby giue unto you liberty to employ or send among the Enemies or Rebels now in action such Messengers and Espialls as you sâ—all thinke fit to use and to write to parley conferre or treate with them or any of them and to receiue Messengers or Letters from them and to keepe any of them in your company fourteene dayes to procure the doing of service or to gaine intelligences from them and upon assurance and good hopes that any of the said Rebels will doe service to her Majestie Wee doe hereby authorize you to safeconduct them by warrant under your hand for the like space of fourteene dayes so as in the meane time you send them unto us or to the chiefe Governour of the Province for the time being which your safeconduct shall bee duly observed to all those you grant it unto And for the better and speedier clensing and purging the Countrey from Rebels and Malefactors Wee doe hereby giue and commit unto you full power and authority to execute by Marshall Law all notable and apparant Offenders and Malefactors that can neither dispend fourtie shillings in Lands per Annum nor are worth ten pounds in goods and as for such Rebels and Malefactors as are not within compasse of Martiall Law them to apprehend and commit to the Sheere Goale there to remaine and attend their trials by due course of her Majesties common Lawes And for the better advancement of her Majesties service wee doe hereby authorise you to goe aboard any Ship Barque or other Vessell that shall bee or arriue in those parts and to make search in them for Traytors Iesuits Seminaries Letters or prohibited wares and to make stay of them if just occasion so require and to presse and take up any the Boats or Vessels that are or shall bee within the compasse of your command and them to send and employ to such place or places as her Majesties service shall giue you occasion or otherwise to use and dispose of them as you in your discretion shall thinke meetest And this our authority and Commission to you granted to haue continuance during the pleasure of us the Lord Deputie and if wee shall not recull the same during our aboad in this Province then the same to bee in force during the pleasure of the Lord President and no longer And therefore wee doe hereby straightly charge and command all her Majesties Officers Ministers and loving Subjects to be unto you in the due execution of the premisses aiding obedient and assisting at their uttermost perils and for such your whole doings herein These shall bee unto you sufficient warrant and discharge Giuen under her Majesties privie Signet at the Campe before Kinsale the seventh day of Ianuary 1601. George Carew Richard Wingfield George Bourchier To our well beloved Captaine Roger Harvy The eleaventh the Lord President had intelligence from England that Iames the late restored Earle of Desmond was dead and that eighteene hundred quarters of Oates were sent into Mounster for the releefe of our horses CHAP. XXV Don Iuan his request to the Lord Deputie A resolution in Councell to erect certaine Forts in Mounster The request of the Inhabitants of Kinsale to the Lord President Certaine Companies cashiered A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie The Examination of Richard Owen Richard Owen his Message from Tyrone to the Lord Deputie Instructions for Captaine George Blunt THE fourteenth Don Iuan wrote to the Lord Deputie to pray his Lordship that expedition might be made in taking up of shipping for his transportation and that his Lordship would commiserate the poore Spanish Prisoners in Corke who were like to perish for want of food During the siege there had beene taken at Rincorran Castle Ny Parke in sallyes and in the overthrow of Tyrone together with some runawayes that voluntary came unto us about two hundred rather more then lesse whereof some of them had been sent into ENGLAND About this time the Lord Deputie and the Lord President went by Boate to an Iland in the River of Corke called Halbolin sixe or seven miles from the Citie which upon view they thought fit to bee fortified being so seated as that no shipping of any burthen can passe the same but under the commaund thereof Whereupon direction was given to Paul Ive an Ingeneere to raise a Fortification there and also another at Castle Ny Parke to command the Haven at Kinsale Furthermore it was resolved in Councell that Forts should haue beene erected at Baltimore and Beere-haven as also Cittadells at Corke Limrick and Waterford to keepe the Citizens in some awe but none of these workes were performed saue onely the Forts at Halbolyn and Castle Ny Parke aforesayd From the fourteenth of Ianuary unto the last of the same no matter of any consequence hapned all which time was spent in civill causes in sending of dispatches into England as occasions did result in discharging of Companies which were growen weake whereof two thousand in List were casheerd in hastning away of the Spaniards and in setling of Garisons in the East part of Mounster among other private dispatches which the Lord President sent into England hee wrote this Letter unto her Majestie A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie SACRED MAIESTIE NOw that it hath pleased the omnipotent Director of all things to blesse you with a happie Victory over the mâ—licious
that Redmond Burke and Captaine Mostian went likewise without his consent Which done being sorry as he protested of his traytorly life hee humbly craved her Majesties gracious protection promising to merit the same with future loyall service which being graunted hee departed Vpon the fourth of this moneth as aforesayd having beene in the meane time with Tyrone hee made his second addreffe to the President the Lord Deputie then being in Corke and being called before the Lord Deputie and the President he dlivered unto them a Message from Tyrone the effect whereof was that he would be glad to be received into her Majesties mercie being heartily sorry that hee had given her so just a cause of offence and likewise grieved in his soule that hee had been the cause of the effusion of so much blood the exhausting of her Majesties Treasures and the ruine of his natiue Countrey Neverthelesse this pretended griefe and humilitie was farced with some exorbitant conditions unmeet for him to demaund from his Soveraigne whom hee had highly offended or for a Monarch to graunt to a vassall Notwithstanding it was thought good to take hold of the occasion for although it should not worke the end desired which was to settle the Kingdome in tranquillitie yet a motion onely of submission proceeding from the capitall Rebell would worke in the mindes of the inferiour Traytors a mistrust of their estates and seeke by his Example to sue for grace while there was time wherein they might hope to obtaine it Vpon these considerations the Lord Deputie was willing after hee had shewed his dislike to the Conditions to embrace the motion And because that he might be assured to haue a true report returned Captaine George Blunt who had been a familiar and inward friend unto Tyrone when hee was a Subject was imployed in this businesse and for his manner of treating with him hee had these Instructions following subscribed by the Lord Deputie and the Lord President When you speake with Tyrone you shall tell him that you understand that Richard Owen came from him to the Lord Deputie with Commission from him to tell his Lordship that hee desired to bee received into the Queenes mercy if his life might be secured Whereupon you finding in him such conformitie out of your ancient loue which in former time you bare him were glad of the alteration and therefore as his friend did now undertake this long Iourney to perswade him to those courses which might best answer his dutie to his Prince and repayre his estate which in your opinion is desperate If you find him desirous to bee received to mercie you shall giue him hope of it and promise him furtherance for the effecting of it upon these conditions That he shall in token of his penitency and according to the dutie of a Subject to his Naturall Prince first under his hand write a letter of submission to the Lord Deputie humbly craving in the same her Majesties mercy with promise to redeeme his errours past by his future service That likewise he shall write a publique Submission to her Majestie imploring at her hands forgiuenesse of his faults and likewise promise amendment of his life with a willing desire to doe her some acceptable service in recompence of his transgression in the same protesting to serue her Majestie against all men either of Ireland or Forreiners that shall endeavour the disturbance of this Countrey That he shall put into her Majesties hands his eldest Sonne for the assurance of his future loyaltie and foure principall Gentlemen of his blood as he formerly promised That hee shall at his charge finde workmen to build such Forts in the Countrey of Tyrone and in such places as the Lord Deputy shall thinke fit That he shall permit throughout Tyrone her Majesties Officers of Iustice as the Sheriffes and others to haue free liberty to execute their Offices as is accustomed in other Provinces and Counties of the Realme and answer all other duties formerly promised That hee shall onely undertake for himselfe and his Pledges to lye for no more then those that dwell upon that land onely that is contayned in his Letters Patents not any way undertaking for the rest of Tyrone as Tirlogh Brassiloes sonnes Mac Maghon O Canâ— Mac Guire Mac Genis the two Clandeboyes and all of the East side of Ban. That if any of his neighbours shall continue in rebellion none of their people shall be harboured in Tyrone and likewise that none of Tyrone shall by his consent or knowledge succour any Rebell or giue assistance to them and if any such offendor shall happen to be discovered either by himselfe or any other her Majesties Officers upon knowledge thereof that hee shall doe his best endeavour to prosecute the parties offending and either take them whereby they may be tryed by the Lawes of the Realme or kill them if they may not otherwise bee had and shall assist her Majesties Officers in taking to her use the goods and chattells of the Offenders and their retinues That he shall not onely truely pay all her Majesties Rents and Duties from this time forward due unto her out of Tyrone but also pay the Arrerages that for many yeares haue been by him detayned That in respect of the great charges that hee hath put her Majestie unto although it bee not the thousand part of her disbursements In nomine paenae which in all such great offences is accustomed towards the victualling of her Majesties Garisons hee shall pay two thousand Cowes within sixe moneths That the Countrey of Tyrone may bee limited and no more by him to be possessed then is contayned in his Letters Pattents That the territory of Tyrone might bee divided into shieres and haue Goales as hee hath formerly desired That hee put at liberty the Sonnes of Shane Oneale and all other prisoners English and Irish These things you shall only propound as from your selfe yet as conceiving that they will be demanded at his hands if hee be received and to draw as large an overture from him of what hee will agree unto as you can perswade him telling him that the greater assurance he doth giue the estate of his loyaltie the greater will bee his safetie for wee shall conster his good meaning by his free offer thereof and after wee shall haue the lesse reason to bee jealous of him Mountioye George Carew CHAP. XXVI The King of Spaines Letters intercepted A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to the Archbishop of Dublin A Letter from the Secretary Ybarra to Don Iuan de Aguila A Letter from the Secretary Fragursa to Don Iuan de Aguila A Letter from the King of Spaiâ—e to Don Iuan de Aguila ABout the tenth of February Dou Iuan de Aguila residing in Corke whilest his Troopes were preparing to bee embarqued for Spaine In this interim a Spanish Pinnace landed in the Westermost
come safe and remaine safely with him but that hee would embarque them for Spaine This Letter by the meanes of Owen Osulevan was delivered unto them but as it appeared they little deserved the favour proffered for if they had pleased they might haue made an escape but at last when the Castle was taken they payed the price of their inconsiderate obstinacie The Letter Englished was thus A Letter from the Lord President to the Spanish Cannoniers in Dunboy â—Hen Don Iuan de Aguila Generall for the Spanish Armie for his Majestie in Ireland departed from the Citie of Corke having a care of your safeties requested mee to favour you saying That contrary to your willes the Traytor Donnell Osulevan by force held you in his Castle of Dunboy there to serue him as Cannoniers I now calling to mind his desire in the loue I beare him being so great a Captaine and so honourable a Person as he is and in consideration of the promise I made him doe write this Letter unto you promising for the reasons before mentioned that when I shall sit downe with my forces before the castle where you are if then you will quitt the same and come unto mee I will by the faith of a Gentleman and a Christian make good my promise to Don Iuan de Aguila not onely to secure you in comming to me and in the like safetie to bee with mee but also to relieue and supply your wants and likewise at your pleasure to accommodate you with a Ship and my Pasport safely to passe into Spaine in such manner as hath been already accomplished to the rest of the Spanyards that are returned to their Countrey This aboue written I am obliged by my promise to Don Iohn to fulfill But if you haue a desire to finde or receiue further favours at my hands you may with facilitie deserue it that is when you leaue the Castle to cloy the Ordnance or mayme their Carriages that when they shall haue need of them they may prooue uselesse for the which I will forthwith liberally recompense you answerable to the qualitie of your merit Lastly if there bee in your companies any strangers English and Irish excepted which are likewise by force held as you are these my letters shall be sufficient to secure their repaire to me and also to depart as hath beene before mentioned conditionally that you and they present your selues unto mee before our Ordnance shall begin to batter the Castle of Donboy aforesayd But if on your part default be made I holde my selfe clearely acquitted of my promise made to Don Iohn and to bee free from breach of faith on my part and you ever after incapable of this favour of my promised offer Returne me your Answer by this Bearer in writing or by some other in whom you haue more confidence From the Campe neere Bantrie the seventh of May 1602. To the Spanyards held by force in the Castle of Dunboy The eighth the Lord President sent foorth three hundred light Footmen secretly by night through the Enemies Fastnesse under the commaund of Captaine Iohn Bostock and Iohn Barry with commaundement that they should make their repayre to Ardentully Mac Fiâ—nees house and there joyne those Forces with Sir Charles Wilmotts Regiment who being united Terrill and the rest of the Irish Rebells who before had vaunted that they would keepe our Armie from joyning together and lay in a place of advantage fit for that purpose were so discomforted as they did quit the strength they possest and sought onely to avoyd our Forces but no way to resist or interrupt them But now leaving the progression towards Donboy for a while expecting faire weather and prosperous winds to bring our provisions from Corke by Sea Wee will by way of digression say somewhat of Sir Charles Wilmots proceedings in Kerry before his comming into our Campe It may therefore please the Reader to understand that the Army being risen from before Kinsale the Irish defeated the composition made with the Spanish Generall and the forces returned to Corke The Lord President about the beginning of February dispaâ—ched Sir Charles Wilmot with a Regiment of one thousand and seven hundred â—oote in list but by pole very weake and a troope of Horse into his former government of Kerry not doubting but hee which had the skill to cure the former rebellious diseases oâ— that Countrey could also recure the residuation thereof In his passage betweene Askeiton and the Glen Hugh Mac Sâ—â—ne with the Oconners and Oneales possessed a place through which hee must necessarily passe whereof being advertised hee lodged short of the Wood an English mile and rising before day light hee assayled thâ—m in their quarter where hee slew tâ—elue of their men tooke all their baggage and horses with fiftie of their Armes and chased them three miles but they were too swift of fooâ—e had it not beene for a Connaght man of the White Knights company who purposely discharged his Peece to giue them warning whereat they tooke an alarme they had beene as it was afterward confessed all to the number of two hundred surprised sleeping The Traytor as he well deserved was hanged for his labour The Castle of Carrigfoyle hee found empty and ruined neverthelesse bee left a Ward in it and gaue the charge thereof unto Captaine Collum when hee came to the river of Cassan which he passed the same day with some difficultie being enforced to swim his horses At which time Iohn fits Thomas young Captaine Tirrell Hugh Mac Swyne Owen Omaylie Roriâ— Oconnor Phelim O Connor and Gerald fits Maurice Brother to Fits Maurice the Barron of Lixnaw with fiue hundred foote and a few horse assembled at Lixnaw neere unto it to haue stopped his passage over the Cassan Fits Maurice himselfe being then gone into Desmond to perswade Donell Mac Cartie Donell Osuleâ—an and William Burkâ— to draw to the rest to hinder his passage as aforesaid but before they had knowledge of his being neere unto them hee made such expedition as hee was gotten over the River And within a few dayes after hearing that the Lord of Lixnaw was in Lixnaw Castle hee marched thither and ere hee was â—et downe before it Fits Morris fearing to bee shut up in his Castle although hee had a strong Guard of fiue and fourtie good men well victualled in it leaving his Brother for his Constable he posted into Desmond to procure aids from Osulevan Beaâ—e for the releefe of the same The Castle stands close to the rivers side there being but a Pikes length of ground betweene them which made the Ward negligent to haue any store of water aforehand thinking they might fetch it at their pleasure Sir Charles having knowledge thereof by a woman which came from them hee found the meanes to place a choise part of men upon that little plot of ground whereby the Ward could get â—o water in which attempt Lieutenant Russell who served
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
his greatnesse who will by no meanes giue me a portion of Land to liue upon as was promised upon the delivery up of Kilcrey by your Honour wherein as of the rest I doe againe humbly beseech your favour and so as with a repentant and penitent transgressor of the Lawes I doe humbly submit my selfe to her Majesties grace and will endeavour my selfe hereafter by my good deeds and services to wipe out the memory of my former follies Expecting your favourable Answer I most humbly take my leaue From Carrigifuky this ninth of Iune 1602. Your Honours most humble to commaund Teg Mac Cormock Cartie The combination lately by Cormocke contracted with the Priest Owen Mac Eggan being manifestly prooved by severall witnesses subject to no Exceptions the Gentleman Porter called Master Raph Hammon was commaunded to bring the Prisoner before the President and Councâ—ll which were assembled at Shandon Castle who making his apparance was charged with the severall Treasons afore recited who insisted very much upon his Iustification pretending that those accusations were injuriously devised and slanderously suggested by his Enemies especially for the last Article concerning the Conspiracie with the Priest Mac Eggan which indeed was so cunningly and secretly caryed as he supposed that it was rather presumed then prooved against him Hee renounced all favour and pardon if it would bee justified by lawfull testimony The President replyed that this was the onely matter of substance that he was charged withall the former being pardoned since the perpetrating thereof being onely inducements and presumptions whereby they were the rather mooved to giue â—are and credit to the latter accusation But hee still persisting in his Innocencie was at last urged with this Dilemma namely that either hee should confesse his fault and so intreat her Majesties mercy or else in token of his loyall and guiltlesse heart he should deliver unto the State his Castle of Blarney upon condition that if the fact whereof he was charged were not evidently prooved against him the sayd Castle should be redelivered to him or his assignes by a day appoynted At first hee seemed very inclinable to the motion but in processe it was perceived that hee intended nothing but jugling and devices wherefore a Warrant from the whole Body of the Councell was directed to the sayd Gentleman Porter straightly charging and commanding that he should be kept in yrons closer then before untill he should demeane himselfe in more dutifull conformitie And besides they appoynted Captaine Taffe in whom Cormock reposed much trust to perswade him to surrender the sayd Castle into the Presidents hands undertaking upon his credit to retaine the same and all the goods in it or neere thereunto belonging either to himselfe or his followers from losse and danger either by Subject or Rebell Cormocke at last finding that the President was resolved either to make him bend or breake caused his Constable though much against his will to yeeld the said Castle to Captaine Taffe so that no other whatsoever might haue the charge or custodie thereof The Prisoner besides the Castle of Blarney had two places kept by his Dependants of good importance to commaund the Countrey the one an Abbey called Kilcrey distant from Corke sixe myles and the other a Castle called Mocrumpe sixteene miles distant from Corke the former scituated upon the South and the latter upon the North side of the River of Lee. The Castle and Abbey of Kilcrey was rendred to Captaine Francis Slingsbie sent thither by the President But Mocrumpe seated in the heart of Muskrey and invironed round about with woods and bogges could not be gotten without the countenance of an Armie therefore the President sent first Captaine Flower and afterwards Sir Charles Wilmott with competent numbers of Foot and Horse to lye before it untill such time as they might gaine it by Sapp or Myne or by some other stratageme as time and occasion should minister opportunity During this siege the President cast about for his wife and children and having gotten them likewise into his hands confined them within the walles of Corke These things thus accomplished the President dispatched Letters both to the Lords of her Majesties Privie Councell of England and also to the Lord Deputie and Councell of Ireland relating unto them the apprehension of Cormocke and the reasons inducing him thereunto desiring also to receiue their Lordships pleasures for his further proceedings in this businesse but before answere could bee returned an unfortunate accident unexpected altered the whole platforme of this intended service For Cormocks followers had plotted his escape and likewise to procure Cormock Oge his eldest sonne who was then a Student in Oxford to bee convayed secretly out of the Vniversitie and to be brought into Ireland or as some thought to bee sent into Spaine for effecting whereof Iohn O Healy one of Cormocks old theeues was the next passage to be sent into England Advertisement hereof was brought to the President who for preventing of both these Designes first sent for the Gentleman Porter delivered unto him at large the great prejudice that should arise to her Majesties Service if the prisoner should escape that the Queenes charge and his owne paines and laborious travell were all frustrated yea if the Spaniards should arriue as they were expeâ—â—ed the whole kingdome of Ireland should receiue hazard and prejudice by it Wherefore he charged him upon his duty to the State his allegeance to her Majestie and in the loue he bare unto himselfe that hee would bee no lesse carefull of his safe keeping then of his owne life which in some sort depended thereon Answer was made by Hammon that his Lordship should not need to trouble his minde with any such imaginary doubts for if shackles of yron walles of stone and force of men for hee had certaine Souldiers allowed him for a Guard could make him sure then should the Prisoner bee forth-comming whensoever the State should bee pleased to call for him and for Iohn O Healy the President held a watchfull eye over him but it was not thought good to make stay of him untill he should be aboard the ship that such Instructions and Letters as should bee sent by him might with himselfe bee apprehended whereby the whole circumstance of these plots and the chiefe Agents therein might bee discovered to make short the wind was faire the Master hasteth aboard the Marriners and Passengers purposing to set saile the next tyde amongst the rest Iohn O Healy unregarded as hee thought is also on shipboard but hee was much deceived in his opinion for presently a Messenger sent from the State found him in the hold when he began to search him for his Letters he making shew to deliver them willingly upon a suddaine threw both his Letters and money into the Sea which although it did plainely demonstrate apparant guiltinesse yet could hee never afterwards bee wrought to confesse either the contents of the one or
the summe of the other pretending ignorance in both whereupon hee was committed to the common Goale But let us leaue Cormock for a while with the Gentleman Porter and his man in the Goale and speake of other accidents and matters of State which at this time were handled Vpon the second of September the Lord President received Letters from the Lords of the Councell wherein they signified unto him how well her Majestie and themselues liked of his services performed in Mounster with many other things worthy to be remembred which importeth me in this place to relate the true copie of the originall Letter CHAP. XIII A Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President Instructions for Captaine Harvie to write into Spaine A Letter written by her Majesties owne hand to the Lord President A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie A Letter from Captaine Harvie to Pedro Lopez de Soto the Sâ—anish Veador A Letter from O Donnell to O Connor Kerry A Letter from Don Iuan de Aguila to the Lord President A Letter from the Lord President to Don Iuan de Aguila Captaine Harvies Passeport sent to the Veadâ—r The Lord Presidents Passeport for Captaine Edny into Spaine Spanish intelligence sent from Master Secretary Cecill to the Lord President The Lord Presidents opinion sent to Master Secretary of a defensiue warre in Ireland A Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President AFTER our very hearty Commendations Wee haue according to our dueties imparted to her Majestie your dispatch of the seven and twentieth of Iuly who hath conceived so great liking of your proceedings as she hath commanded us to take notice of the same in the most gratious tearmes that our owne heart could wish being likewise most desirous that the Army under you as well in generall as those Gentlemen and Officers in particular who haue so valiantly exposed themselues to danger as appeareth by your particular relation may know that they haue ventured their liues for a Prince who holdeth them so deare as if shee could preserue her estate and them without the losse and hazard of them there is nothing which she possesseth of her owne which she would spare to redeeme their trouble and danger It remayneth now that wee acquaint what is done by her Majestie to prevent the purposes of the King of Spaine wherein wee cannot but much commend the apprehension you take of those advertisements you haue and the judgement you use in applying the same for the safetie of that Province the defection whereof as wee are sorry to find by so understanding a person as you are So doe wee hope when it shall appeare as it doth daily in all parts of Ireland that God doth blesse her Majesties Army against the Rebels and that the King of Spaine shall find himselfe not so at ease as to employ any Army there in haste that that lacke of duety and ingratitude which doth now liue in them will either dye in it selfe and turne to the contrary or else that God will as hee hath begun confound them in their owne malitious inventions It is very true that her Majesties owne advertisements doe confirme that a Pinnace of fiftie Tunne was sent with some of Odonnels Followers and some trâ—asure to assure the Rebels of an Army to come into Ireland which Pinnace being once put to Sea was forced backe againe to Vinera but they parted thence againe within three or fower dayes after which is the same that landed at Ardea whereof your Letters make mention Wee haue also assured advertisements that her Majesties fleete being kept on the Coast hath much hindered the Spanish deâ—ignes not that they were fully ready to come forth but because the fleete kept their preparations from drawing to a head for this next moneth is the time which is the fittest for them to put to Sea if her Majesties fleete doe not hinder them For which purpose though now most of her ships being long at Sea and come in with the carrick yet they are going out againe with all possible speed You shall further understand that her Majestie hath beene acquainted of the Letters of complements betweene Don Iohn and you the Copies being sent over by the Deputie by Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn whereof you now send the originall At which time hee sent her Majestie his owne and kept no counsell that â—ee had intercepted your great bribe wee haue also seene the Letter of Soto to Captaine Harvie and the Passeport of whose conference from which Passeport also proceeded her Majesty conceiveth that you may make some good use for her service in this forme following Where it doth appeare by Odonnels Letter to O Connor Kerry out of Spaine that hee is desirous to understand the State of Ireland but so as if thee bee any bad it may bee concealed from the Spaniards Captaine Harvie may in requitall of the Veadors curtesie towards him use this freedome of a Gentleman though an enemy to let him see how much the King of Spaine is abused by the Rebels who seeke to engage him upon false hopes and conceale just causes of doubts for which purpose hee shall send him Odonnels owne Letter which hee cannot deny and withall in any case it being well overâ—eene by you make him a relation of the successes of her Majesties Army now if it may bee said that they will thinke this Letter is aposted and take this to be a finenesse in Harvie the worst that can come is that this good may ensue That under colour of sending that to him there may some person goe in the ship who may discover what preparations there is in that place for the better colouring whereof hee may reply that where hee hath sent him a Passeport for the safe conduct of any person whatsoever hee should send to negotiate in the matter which passed betweene them in conference that he looked rather to haue received from him who was the Propounder of the same with so great affection some such overture from that side as might haue given him foundation to breake with the Deputy or your selfe to send over to her Majesty about it for which purpose he may offer him as good a Passeport for any of his Messengers as he hath sent to himselfe it being very great reason that such a motion should prooceed from that side rather which hath opened it selfe with greatest violence then from any of her Majesties ministers who haue in steed of their malitious attempt performed all offices of honour and humanity And so much for answer of that poynt For your opinion concerning such places as are fit to bee fortified her Majestie doeth very well approoue the reasous whereupon the same is grounded being such indeed as ought to sway her Maiesties Iudgements either one way or other for as it is true that charge is well forborne which draweth with it perill so it is a double danger to spend in any place where safetie followeth
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
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
Irish spoyles some remnants of Velvet Holland Gold and silver Lace English apparell of Satten and Velvet and some quantity of Spanish coyn amongst the rest there was a Portmantua found by the Souldiers wherein Tirrels Spanish money was confessed to haue bin but they that got it had more wit then to proclaime it in the market place But whosoever sweetned their mouthes with these Spanish drugs sure I am that the Souldiers came all with good courage well pleased to Corke except only seventeene which were hurâ— in the skiâ—mish all our Captaines and Commanders deserved well and particularly Captaine Minshaw who had his horse slaine under him and himselfe wounded with a Piâ—e Tirrell finding himselfe to haue sustayned this irrecoverable losse of men money clothes and armes and hearing withall that Cormock was with the President at Corke imagining that this plot had beene contrived by him in revenge of this defeate wreaked his anger upon divers Churles and poore people in those Fastnesse First burning their corne and cabbines and afterwards put them to the sword wherein hee little offended the State these being onely â—uch as had fled from the Garrisons into those Fastnesse because they would not be subject to Law and this was towards the latter end of October Tirrell having found by this wofull experience that the â—astnesse of Muskery could not secure him from the pursâ—â—t of the English retired himselfe into his old lurking dens in Beare and Desmond not fearing but that hee might quietly spend the remainder of this winter in those desolate parts and the rather because he committed no outrage upon the Subjects adjoyning The President perceiving their resolution being now freed from the cloud he formerly conceived of forraine Invasion and knowing them to be much discouraged and out of heart by reason of their late overthrow which now was past hope to bee recovered either by Spaine or Cormocke thought it a fit time in these respects to make a speedy prosecution foreseeing that the former good fortune effectually pursued might strike a good stroke to breake the heart of the Rebellion in Mounster towards the effecting whereof he incontinently resolved to inviron them with Garrisons but the difficulties that did incounter him in this businesse were many and great the long wayes being neere fourescore miles English from Corke to Beare the Plaines so deepe and boggie the Mountaines so â—ough and craggie and the carriage Garrans that are never strong were not able to travell sixe miles a day and besides Eâ—sterly winds are so seldome upon this coast as it would aske a long time to transport their Victualls and Munitions by Sea Notwithstanding wading through all those inconveniences with industrious travell and laborious diligence hee had planted Sir Charles 〈◊〉 with one Regiment at Donkerran Sir Richard Percie at Kinsale Captaine George Flower the Sergeant Major at Bantry and Captaine Roger Harvie at Baltimore But the present service received no small prejudice by meanes of the untimely departure of Captaine Roger Harvie whose heart being overwhelmed with an inundation of sorrowes and discontentments taken though in my Conscience not willingly given by one that had been his honourable Friend as his heart blowen like a bladder as the Surgeons reported was no longer able to minister heate to the vitall parts and therefore yeelded to that irresiâ—table fate which at last overtaketh all mortall creatures The untimely death of this young Gentleman was no small occasion of griefe to the Lord President not onely that Nature had conjoyned them in the neerest degrees of Consanguinitie but because his timely beginnings gaue apparant demonstration that his continuall proceedings would haue given comfort to his Friends profit to his Countrey and a deserved Advancement of his owne Fortunes Great were the services which these Garrisons performed for Sir Richard 〈…〉 George Flower with their Troupes left neither Corne nor 〈…〉 house unburnt betweene Kinsale and Rosse Captaine 〈…〉 who had with him his brother Captaine 〈…〉 Francis Slingsbie Captaine William Stafford with their Companies and also the Companies of the Lord Barry and the Treasurer with the Presidents Horse did the like betweene Rosse and Baâ—â—ry Not many dayes after the death of Captaine Roger Harvie Captaine George Flower having the charge of Baltimore and the commanding of the Garrisons thereabouts which formerly was under Harvies direction understanding that the Castle of Cloghan was guarded by the Rebells and that in the same there was a Romish Priest lately come from Rome taking with him Captaine Francis Slingsbie and Captaine William Stafford with their Companies of Foot besides his owne he marched unto it in hope to gaine it the rather because he had in his hands one called Donnell Dorrogh a traytor brother to the Constable that had the charge thereof Vpon his summons they refused to yeeld then hee told the Ward that if the Constable did not presently render the Castle unto him that hee would hang his brother in their sight they said the Constable was gone abroad but therein they said untruely as afterward it was proved in conclusion to saue the Priest whose life they tendered they perâ—evered obstinatly not to yeeld whereupon Captaine Flower in their sight hanged the Constables brother Neverthelesse within fower dayes afterward the Priest being shifted away in safetie the Constable sued for a Protection and rendered the Castle to Captaine Flower I doe relate this accident to the end the Reader may the more cleerely see in what reverence and estimation these ignorant superstitious Irish doe hold a Popish Priest in regard of whose safetie the Constable was content to suffer his brother to perish CHAP. XVI A Branch of a Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President The Ensignes of Magistracy redelivered to the Corporation of Kinsale Of Spanyards defeated at Kinsale in the time of King Richard the second The Rising out of the Country committed to the charge of the Lord Barry The Lord Deputy requires the Lord President to meet him at Galway Sir George Thornton appoynted to joyne with the Lâ— Barry A Messenger from the Rebell Tirell to the Lord President and his Answere The Knight of Kerry defeated The Knight of Kerry Thomas Oge and Osulevan Mores Sonne make their submission A foule murther committed by Osulevan Mores Sonne THE Lords of the Councell by the Letters dated the sixteenth of December signified their pleasures unto the President that in regard Florence Mac Cartie was a prisoner in the Tower his children to avoyd her Majesties charges should bee set at libertie and also the children pledges of others except the President saw cause to the contrary to bee enlarged That her Majestie was pleased that the President should deliver unto the Corporation of Kinsale their Charter and other Ensignes of Magistracie and to impose upon them in stead stead of a fine the reedifying of their wals at their owne charges and certaine workemen towards
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
fidei dâ—sertores in maximo vitae bonorum quae hereditario jure non sine multorum praesertim Catholicorum commendo vtilitate adhuc possidet terras peterâ— alienas eo animi decreto vt aliquandò in propriam reversus patriam patriae miles decus esse possit Proindè vos omnes pietatis et verae religionis a natores Cathol cum Regem Philippum Dominum Matheum supra dictos caeterosque cujuscunque nationuÌ„ conditionisue sitis quos vnafides vnum baptisma vnus spiritus adjunxit Oramus obsecramus obtestamur in Christi visceribus vt eum praedictum Iohannem Burke omni fide omni auxilio omni farore dignissinum Catholicum de repub ' optimè meritum accipiatis benigneque tractetis In cujus rei fidem testimonium Sigillum ac Chirographium apposui c. Malaâ—hias Duac ' Episcopus Another that calleth himselfe Fryer Simon de S. S â—â— hath these words writing to the said supposed Archbishop of Dublin A Certificate from a Popish Priest in the behalfe of Iohn Burke NOtum tibi facio vt hoc invictissimo Regi notum facere cures harum Latorem Iohannem Burke relictis bonis paternis te adire quo illi ad Regem aditum praebeas sui temporis opportunitatem ad peragenda negotia maximi ponderis momenti quae vnanimis hujus regionis saluti conducunt c. If then as in the former Letter hee tooke upon him this Iourney to make himselfe an expert Souldier whereby hee might proue in time a Champion and ornament to his Countrey or if the allegation of the later may bee credited namely that hee hath busines with the King of Spaine about affaires of great moment and consequence for the good of this nation then are his owne pretexts of religion vowes and pilgrimages devised onely for a blinder to conceale his trayterous complots To prevent therefore such mischiefes as might grow unto the State from his solicitations in Spaine the President was content that Sir George Thornton should send a messenger unto him being then in the Rebels Campe to revoke and recall him if it were possible from this irreligious expedition which at last was effected by the perswasions which his mother wife and friends vsed unto him CHAP. XX. The Lord Deputie sent to the Lord Pâ—esidâ—nâ— for men and munition and himselfe to 〈◊〉 unto him The List of her Majesties forcâ—s in Mounster Sir Edward Wingfield sent by the Lord President with fiue hundred foote into Câ—â—â—aght The Lord of Lixâ—aw defeated by Captaine Boys The Castle of Kilco tâ—kâ—n by Caâ—taine Flower The Castle of Berengary taken by Sir Charles Wilmot Sir Charles Wilmot and Sir George Thornton left by the Lord President Ioynt Commissioners for the government of Mounster A Letter sent by the Lord President from the Lord Deputy to the Lords of the Councell THE Lord Deputie understanding now in what state the Province of Mounster stood directed his Letters to the President requiring of him that if necessary occasions of present service did not forbid he would fend to Athlone for the warre of Connaght certaine foote Companies and a proportion of victuals from Limerick so much as forth of her Majesties store there might conveniently be spared and withall to repaire himselfe unto Dublin from whence hee was to take his Iourney into England The list of Mounster consisting at that time of Horse and Foote as followeth The List of Mounster as it stood Of Horse Lord President 100. Earle of Thomond 50. Captaine William Taffe 50. 200. Of Foot Lord President 200. Earle of Thomond 200. Lord Audley 150. Sir Charles Wilmot 150. Sir Richard Percye 150. Sir Francis Barâ—â—ley 150. Sir George Thornton 100. Captaine Francis Kingsmill 100. Captainâ— George Kingsmill 100. Captaine George Flower 100. Captaine Charles Câ—ote 100. Captaine Gawen Harâ—â—e 100. Captaine Thomas Boyce 100. Captaine Francis Slingsby 100. Captaine VVilliam Stafford 100. 1900. Although there was never weary Marriner in a violent and tempestuous storme more desired to arriue into his wished Harbour nor a virgin Bride after a lingering and desperate loue more longing for the celebration of her nuptiall then the Lord President was to goe for England yet was hee content to deferre his private affections in regard of the publike charge committed unto him and therefore first hee sent for Sir Charles Wilmot out of Kerry acquainting onely him with that Iourney because his purpose was having before hand had good experience of his sufficiencie to leaue him in speciall trust with the government in his absence Then hee tooke order for the satisfying of the Lord Deputie his demands and therefore appointed Sir Edward Wingfield with fiue hundred foote the three and twentieth of February to take his Iourney into Connaght And lastly having taken order how the other forces should be disposed he tooke his Iourney from Corke towards Dublin about the beginning of February being newly come to Dublin hee received Letters from Sir Charles Wilmot that the Lord of Lixnaw having assembled some two hundred foote and twenty horse in his Fastnesse neere Listall Captaine Thomas Bois left by Sir Charles to command the Garrisons in Kerry drew upon his quarter in the night killed eighty of his men tooke all his substance of Cowes Hacknies Garrans and all his provisions of Wheate Oatemell and Butter so that although his Company was not all slaine yet were they for ever after unable to assemble together in any number about the same time also Captaine George Flower tooke in the Castle of Kilcow being a place of great strength and the onely Castle in Carbery that held out in rebellion presently after this defeate Captaine Bois was advertised that the Lord of Lixnaw his brother Garret Roe Stack and some other Provinciall rebels were in the Castle of Berengary whereupon that night hee blocked up the Castle with a sufficient guard of men that none should issue forth untill the Governour his Collonell might be acquainted therewith Sir Charles receiving intelligence hereof being then holding the Sessions at Limerick instantly left the Citie and taking with him by Sea two small Peeces of Ordnance presented himselfe before the said Castle the Warders and the rest within perceiving no possible meanes to escape yeelded themselues to her Majesties mercy But the advertisement concerning the Lord of Lixnaw himselfe failed the remainder were all taken the principals presently executed and the rest were pardoned by the Lord Lieutenant at his comming to Corke The Lord President having thus left Mounster reestablished in a firme and vniuersall peace by the assent of the Lord Deputy having appoynted Sir Charles Wilmot and Sir George Thornton Ioynt Commissioners for governing the Province prepared himselfe for England but before his departure hee made an ample relation to the Lord Deputy and Councell in what estate he had left his Province and the Lord Deputy and Councell having likewise declared unto him the present estate of
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
minde Sir Charles Blunt Lord Mountioy And at that time the Presidencie of Mounster being voyd by the unfortunate death of Sir Thomas Norris lately slaine by the rebels shee made election of Sir George Carew Knight who was by his former services experienced in the Irish warres to be the Lord President of that Province The 23 of Februarie these Lords embarqued at Beaumarris and upon the day following they landed at the head of Hothe lodging that night at the Lord of Hothes house and the next day they rode to Dublin where by the relation of the Councell they found a miserable torne state utterly ruined by the Warre and the rebels swollen with pride by reason of their manifest victories which almost in all encounters they had lately obtayned The President although hee much desired to employ himselfe in his government yet he was enforced to make a long stay in Dublin as well to assemble the Forces allotted unto him by order out of England to bee in list 3000 Foot and 250 Horse which were dispersed in sundry remote Garrisons as to procure the dispatch of his Instructions from the State which is usuall and of sundry Commissions under the great Seale of Ireland which of custome is graunted to every President but especially the passing of his Office by vertue of her Majesties Warrant under the great Seale of that Realme the Copies of which Warrant Letters Pattents and Instructions I doe heere insert as ensueth Her Maiesties Warrant RIght Trustie and Welbeloved wee greet you well Our Province of Mounster in that our Realme of Ireland being without a principall Officer to governe it ever since the death of Thomas Norris Knight late President there And the tumultuous state of that Province requiring the government of a person of Iudgement and Experience Wee haue made choise of our servant Sir George Carew Knight Lieutenant of our Ordnance heere To commit to him the charge of that part of our Realme as one whom we know besides his faithfull and diligent endeavours informer services to bee well acquainted with the estate of that our Realme where he is a Councellor and with the condition and nature of that Province Wherefore we require you immediatly upon the taking of our Sword and chiefe charge of that our Realme of Ireland as our Deputie according to our Commission graunted to you To cause a Commission to bee made out vnder our great Seale of that our Realme of Ireland to the said Sir George Carew of the Office and Charge of President of our Province of Mounster in such manner and forme as Iohn and Thomas Norris Knights or any other our Presidents of that Province haue used to haue or with any such other clauses as you shall thinke that the present State of our affaires there doth require Giving him thereby power to rule and governe our people in that Province with the advice of our Councell there according to such Instructions and Directions as haue been given by us or our Councell heere or our Deputies of that our Realme or shall heereafter bee directed to him for the government of that Province The same his power to continue during our pleasure And our further will and pleasure is that he receiue towards his charges all such Allowances Fees Profits and Entertainments of Horse and Foot as Sir Thomas Norris Knight our late President at the time of his death had The same to begin from the day of the date hereof and to continue during our pleasure And these shall be to you and to our Treasurer for the payment thereof sufficient warrant and discharge Given under our Signet at our Mannour of Richmond the seven and twentieth day of Ianuary in the two and fortieth yeare of our raigne c. The Letters Patents ELIZABETH by the grace of God Queene of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all men to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas our Province of Mounster in that our Realme of Ireland being without a principall Officer to governe it ever sithence the death of Sir Thomas Norris Knight late President there And the tumultuous State of that Province requiring the government of a person of Iudgement and Experience Wee haue made choice of our trustie and welbeloved Servant Sir George Carew Knight Lieutenant of our Ordnance in our Realme of England and one of our Privie Councell of our sayd Realme of Ireland and to commit to him the charge and government of that part of our realme as one whom wee know besides his faithfull and diligent endeavours in former services to bee well acquainted with the State of that our realme and with the condition and nature of that Province Knowye that wee reposing our trust in the Wisedome Valour Dexteritie Fidelitie and Circumspection of the sayd Sir George Carew Knight of our especiall grace certaine knowledge and meere motion and according to the tenor and effect of our Letters on that behalfe directed to our right trustie and right welbeloved Councellor Charles Lord Mountioy Knight of the most noble Order of our Garter and our Deputie generall of our realme of Ireland dated at Richmond the seven and twentieth day of Ianuarie in the two and fourtieth yeere of our raigne Haue given and graunted and by these presents doe giue and graunt to our said Servant George Carew Knight the Office of our Lord President of our said province of Mounster And the said George Carew Knâ—ght our Lord President and Governour of the said province by these presents doe make ordaine and constitute and to the said George the government of the said Province and of our people there resident doe commit And further wee doe giue and graunt by these presents to the said George Carew Knight in and for the exercise and execution of the said Office all such Authorities Iurisdictions Preheminences Dignities Wages Fees Allowances and profits whatsoever which Iohn Norris Knight or the said Thomas Norris Knight or any other President of that province haue used to haue And with such other clauses or articles of Authoritie as our said Deputie shall thinke that the present state of our affaires there doth require to bee further graunted unto him the said George Carew Knight Giving him heereby full power and authoritie to rule and governe our people under that province with the advice of our Councell there according to such Instructions and Directions as hath been given by us or our Councell heere or our Deputies of that our realme or shall hereafter bee directed to him for the government of that Province To haue exercise and enjoy the said Office to and by the said George Carew Knight with other the premises and all Authorities preheminences wages fees entertainments and profits to the sayd Office belonging and all such allowances profits entertainments of Horse and Foot as the said Thomas
first entire give in the names of all and every the aforesaid Souldiers to the Clearke of the Cheque to bee entred in his booke and from time to time shall certifie the deaths and alterations of the same to the Lord Deputy and Cleark of the Checque in convenient time as the same may reasonably be done having regard to the distance of the place and as other Captaines of the army are bound to doe Item the said Iustice Saxey shall have for his stipend yearely one hundred pounds sterling and the said Iames Gold assistant or second Iustice one hundred markes sterling and the said Clark of the Councel twenty pounds sterling and which stipends and wages shall be payed quarterly by the hands of the Treasurer at warres or Vice-treasurer here of this Realme of Ireland And if the said Iustice or assistant and secondary Iustice shall depart out of the Limits of the Commission aforesaid without the speciall licence of the said Lord President or having leave shall tarry longer out then the time granted then without reasonable cause of excuse the said Lord President shall deduct and defalke out of their said severall entertainments so much as the said wages of so many dayes doth amount unto to the use of her Majestie towards her other charges to be extraordinarily sustained in the execution of their Commission at the discretion of The said Lord President Item for further reputation and honour of the same Office the said Lord President shall have continually attending upon him a Serjeant at Armes who shall beare the Mace of the Queenes Majesties Armes before him in such manner as the Serjeant at Armes doth beare the Mace before the President in Wales which Serjeant may at all times be sent by the said Lord President and Councell for th'apprehending and bringing in of any disobedient person receiving of every such person being of the degree of a Gentleman so commonly knowen and having yearely liuelihood by any meanes of tenne pounds for his arrest ten shillings and for the arrest of every particular person six shillings eight pence and six shillings eight pence for every dayes travell and not aboue Hee shall also haue his dyet in the Household of the said Lord President and towards his maintenance the ordinary wages of one of the thirtie Horsemen And forasmuch as there must bee of necessitie one Officer to whom all offenders and malefactors are to bee committed during the time of their Imprisonment it is thought meet that the said Lord President shall appoint one Porter to haue charge of the Goale who shall haue his dyet in the househould of the said Lord President and bee accounted as one of the twentie Footmen and receiue the wages due for the same and also such other profits upon every prisoner as ensueth viz. for the entry of every prisoner so to him committed having liuelihood of tenne pounds by the yeare three shillings foure pence and twelue pence by the day for his dyet during his abode in prison and for every other person of inferiour condition two shillings for his entry and six pence by the day for his dyet Item the said Lord President and Councell if oportunitie may serue monethly or once every two moneths at the least advertise us the Lo. Deputie and Councell here of the State of the Country within their Commission or oftner if they shall see cause And where the said Lo President and Councell shal haue by their Commission sufficient authoritie to heare and determine by their discretions all manner of complaints within any part of the province of Mounster as well guildeable as franchise yet they shall haue good regard that except great necessitie or other matters of conscience conceived upon the complaint shall moue him they shall not hinder nor impeach the good course and usage of the common Lawes of the Realme but shall to their power further the execution thereof nor shall without evident cause interrupt such Liberties and Franchises as haue lawfull commencement and continuance by the warrants of the Law other wayes then where any speciall complaint shall be made unto them of any manifest wrong or delay of Iustice done or used by the owners Officers or Ministers of the said Franchises or Liberties In which cases the said Lord President and Councell shall examine the said defaults so alledged by way of complaint to be counted in the Franchises and shall send for the Officers against whom complaint shall be made and finding the same to be true they shall not only heare and determine the particular principall causes of the parties complaints but shall also reforme punish according to their discretions the defaults of the said owners and Ministers of the said Liberties and if the matter shall so serue upon due information to be made to us of the abuses of the said Franchises and Liberties so as the same may be done by order according to the lawes tryed and upon just causes the Liberties resumed into the Queenes Majesties hands Item where the said Lo President and Councell shall haue Commission power and authoritie by Letters Patents under the Great Seale of this Realme of Ireland and of Oyer Determiner and Goale deliverie in as large and ample manner as any such Commission or Authoritie is graunted to any Commissioners for that purpose within the Realmes of England or Ireland Wee the said Lord Deputie and Councell doe earnestly require and charge the said Lord President and Councell that hee and they doe diligently and often severely and justly sit heare and determine by vertue of the same such causes as shall bee brought before them in such severall places as best may agree with the necessitie of the cause and the commoditie of the people Item where also the said Lord President hath full power and authoritie by Letters patents under the great Seale of this realme to execute the Martiall law when necessitie shall require in as large and ample manner as to any other it hath beene accustomed to bee graunted within this realme of Ireland The said Lord President shall haue good regard thereunto that no use be made of the Martiall lawe but when meere necessitie shall require for the exercise thereof is onely to bee allowed where other ordinarie administration of Iustice cannot take place foreseeing alwayes that no person having fiue pound of Freehold or goods to the value of tenne pound shall not bee tried by the order of the Martiall Law but by order of the common Law And yet if necessitie for service and terrour to others shall at any time require the Martiall Lawe to be executed vpon any one person or moe being of greater value in lands or goods then aboue is expressed the President in such speciall causes may use his discretion and thereof and of the causes that mooved him shall make us the Lord Deputie and Councell privie Item
it is and shall bee lawfull for the Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one to prosecute and oppresse any rebell or rebells with sword and with fire and for the doing of the same to leavie in warlike manner and array and with the same to march such and so many of the Queenes Subjects as to his discretion shall seeme convenient And if that any Castle Pile or House bee with force kept against them it shall bee lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell or two of them whereof the Lord President to be one to bring before any such Castle Pile or House so to bee kept against them any of the Queenes Majesties Ordnance and great artillery remaining within the limits of the Commission And with the same or by some other meanes or Ingine any such Castle Pile or House to batter mine or overthrow as to their discretions shall seeme best Streightly charging and commanding all Archbishops Earles Bishops Vicounts Barons and Baronets Knights Majors Sheriffs Iustices and Ministers of peace and all other Gentlemen and Commons being her Majesties Subjects to helpe aid and assist the said Lord President and Councell in such sort and at such time as by the said Lord President and Councel or two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one they shall bee commanded upon such paines as for the nature and of the defaults shall bee thought meet to the said Lo President and Councell to limit and assesse And it is ordered by us the said Lord Deputy and Councell that if any person complaine to the said Lord President and Councell and that they shall thinke their Complainants worth the hearing that the persons so complained upon shall be sent for by a Letter missive under the Queenes Signet to appeare before the Lord President and Councel at a day and place by them to be appointed there to answer to such things as shall bee laid to their charges and further to be ordered as shall stand with right justice equity and conscience and for lacke of apparance upon such Letters they shall send foorth Letters of alleageance Proclamations or other Processe to bee made directed and awarded by their discretions to the Sheriffe Constable or other Minister whereby the partie complained upon may bee called to come to his answer as appertaineth and if by the obstinacy of the partie complained upon the case so require to sequester his or their lands or goods or either of them by their discretions And furthermore if in case any person or persons having habitation or dwelling or any lands or tenemeÌ„ts by lease or otherwise within the limits of the Commission aforesaid shall by covin fraud or dâ—ceit or otherwise absent himselfe or goe out of the limits of the said Commission That then Letters missive signed with the Queenes Signet shall be delivered at his House Lands or Tenements and the copies of the same shall bee left there so that by most likelyhood the same may come to his knowledge being so sent for And if within a certaine time after limited by their discretion the person or persons so sent for will make default of apparance the said Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall as well proceede to other Processe as to the hearing and determining of the matter or cause in variance according to the Lawes Statues Ordinances made therein or otherwise at their discretions And if in case any Letters missive be sent and addressed from the Lord President and Councel to any person or persons of what estate or degree soever they be to appeare before them at a day appointed the same Letters being delivered to him or them or otherwise left at his or their house as is above specifyed the said Lord President and Councel or any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall cause him or them so contemning or disobeying to be punished by imprisonment and reasonable fine or shall other wayes proceed according to their discretions In which sayd causes if any of the parties commit any resistance or disobedience either of their appearance or contrary to the Commaundements direction decree or determination made or to be made and decreed by the said Lord President and Councell That then the said Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lord President to be one shall or may command the Sherife Major Serjeant at Armes Constable Bailife or other Officer or Minister to whom it shall appertaine to attach very person so offending contemning or disobeying and to send him or them to the Lord Deputie in ward together with Certificate of his contempt or disobedience or else by their discretions to cause the parties so attached to bee committed to ward there to remaine in safe custodie until the time that the pleasure of us the Lord Deputie and Councell be knowen in the premisses or that the same person or persons assent fulfill and agree to the determination of the said Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lo President to be one And the said Lord President and Councell shall haue full power and authoritie by these presents diligently to heare and determine and trie all and all manner of extortions maintenance imbracery and oppressions Conspiracies rescues escapes corruptions falsehoods and all manner evill doings defaults misdemeanours of all Sheriffes Iustices of peace Majors Soveraignes Portriffes Bailiffes Stewards Lieâ—tenants Excheators Coroners Goalers Clarkes and other Officers and Ministers of Iustice and other Deputies as well within all the Counties and Countries within the Province of Mounster as within the supposed Liberties of Typperarij and Kerrij and in all Cities other townes corporate within the limits of their said Commission of what degree soever they be and punish the same according to the quality and quantity of their said offences by their discretions leaving neverthelesse to the Lord and owners of all lawfull Liberties such profits as they lawfully claime And it shall be lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell or any three of them whereof the Lord President to bee one to conceave make and cause to be proclaimed in her Highnesse name any thing or matter tending to the better order of her Majesties Subjects within the precincts of their Commission and the repressing of malefactors and misorders after such tenour and forme as they shall thinke convenient and to punish the Offenders then according to their discretions And also wee the said Lord Deputie and Councell have thought meete that the said Lord President and Councell or any three of them whereof the said Lord President to bee one shall and may compound upon reasonable causes by their discretion with any person for all forfeitures growing or comming or that shall grow or come as well by all and singular
penall Statutes as also of obligations and Recognizances taken made or acknowledged before the said L President and Councell or any of them within the limits of their authorities and Commission for apparance or for the peace or good abearing or by reason of any speciall Statute whatsoever then made or to be made And shall also have authority to cesse reasonable fines for any offences whereof any person shall happen to bee convicted before the said Lord President and Councell and such Summes of mony as shall grow or come by reason of any such compositions or Fines they shall cause it to bee entred into a booke subscribed with the hands of the said Lord President and Councell or two of them at the least whereof the Lord President to bee one To the end the Queenes Majestie may be answered of the same accordingly And also upon such compositions made of Fine or Fines set as aforesaid shall have authority to cancell or make voyde all such Obligations and Bonds And also the said Lord President shall cause as much as in him lyeth all Writts or Processes sent or to bee sent to any person or persons inhabiting or being within the precinct of his Commission out of the Kings Bench Chaunceâ—â—e or Exchequer or any other Court of Record diligently to bee observed and effectually to bee obeyed according to the tenor of the same And if hee shall find negligence slacknesse or willfull omission in any Officer or other Minister to whom the delivery or serving of such Processe doth appertaine Hee shall punish the same severely according to the greatnesse and qualitie of the offence And it shall bee lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell or any three of them whereof the Lord President to bee one after examination in the causes necessary upon vehement suspition and presumption of any great offence in any partie committed against the Queenes Majestie to put the said partie so suspected to tortures as they thinke convenient and as the cause shall require and also to respitt Iudgement of death upon any person convicted or attainted before him and that Councell for any treason murder or any other felony Or after Iudgement given to stay execution untill such time as hee shall certifie us the Lord Deputie and Councell of his doings and consideration of the same and receiue answere from us thereof Provided alwayes that the same certificate bee made to us the Lo Deputie and Councell within the space of 21 dayes after such thing is done Also if any Inquest within the precinct of their Commission within Liberties or without being sworne and charged upon triall of any fellonie murder or any like offender whatsoever hee bee having good and pregnant evidence for sufficient proofe of the matter whereof the said offendor shall bee accused indicted or arraigned doe utterly acquite such offendor contrary to the said evidence that then the said Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall examine such perjuries as well by deposition of witnesses as by all other kinde of proofes by their discretions and if the said Inquest bee convicted before the said Lord President and Councell or three of them at the least wherof the Lord President to be one the said Lord President and Councell may and shall proceed to the punishment of such offence by fine imprisonment or wearing of papers or standing on the pillorie as by their discretions shall seeme meet Also wee the said Lord Deputie and Councell doe earnestly require and straightly charge the said Lord President and Councell that they at all times and in all places where any great assembly shall bee made before them doe perswade the people by all good meanes and wayes to them seeming good and especially by their owne examples in observing all Orders for Divine Service and other things appertaining to Christian Religion and to embrace forlow and devoutly to obserue the Order and Service of the Church established in the Realme by Parliament or otherwayes by lawfull authoritie and earnestly to call upon and admonish all Bishops and Ordinaries within the precinct of their Commission diligently fervently and often to doe the same And if the Lord President and Councell shall finde them negligent and unwilling or unable to doe the same That then they shall advertise the Lord Deputie and Councell thereof and they shall call earnestly upon the Bishops severely to proceed according to the censuring of the church against all notorious Advowterers and such as without lawfull divorce doe leaue their Wiues or whilest that their lawfull Wife liveth doe marry with any other and the Sentence pronounced by the Bishop or Ordinarie upon the offendor The said Lo President and Councell shall endeavour themselues to the uttermost that they conveniently may to cause the same Sentence to bee put in execution according to the Lawes And if they shall finde the Ordinarie slacke or remisse in this duetie and not doing according to his Office they shall punish or cause to bee punished the same Bishop or Ordinary according to their discretions Also the Lord President and Councell shall examine the decay of all parish Churches and through whose defaults the same be decayed and to proceed to the procuring or informing of such as ought to repaire any Church or Churches with all convenient speed according to their discretions And in cases where her Majestie shall bee after due and advised inquisition found by reason of her possessions bound to repaire the same Churches In those cases advertisement shall bee given to us the Lord Deputie c. Or if they shall know of any that shall spoyle rob or deface any Church they shall with all sincerity proceed to the punishment of the Offenders according to the Lawes Statutes and Ordinances of this Realme or according to their discretions They shall assist and defend all Arch-Bishops Bishops and all other ecclesiastical Ministers in the ministery of their function and in the quiet possessing of their Landes rents services and hereditaments and shall punish the with-holders intruders and usurpers of the same according to their discretions and the quality of the offence They shall also giue earnest charge for the observation of all Lawes and Statutes or Ordinances made or to be made for the benefit of the Common-wealth and punishment of malefactors and especially the Statute for the Hue and crie for Night-watches and for Weights and Measures to be diligently considered and severely put in execution Also the said Lord President shall haue and retaine one Chaplin or Minister that shall and can preach and reade the Homilies who shall bee allowed his Dyet in the Houshold of the sayd Lord President and shall receiue his entertainment to bee payed out of the Fines growing in that Province to whom the Lo President shall cause due reverence to be given in respect of the Office that he shall haue for the Service of God Also the said Lo Deputie and
Councell will that the sayd Lord President and Councell or two of them at least whereof the Lord President to bee one shall endeavour themselues to execute as well all and all manner Statues of this Realme Proclamâ—tions and to doe and execute all other Lawes and Statutes of this Realme and other Ordinances as to punish the transgressors of the same according to the said Statutes Ordinances and Proclamations And to leavie or cause to be leavied all and all manner of forfeitures contained in the same according to the order limitted by the sayd Lawes And if cause so require shall compound for reasonable causes for all and singular such forfeitureâ— and paines by their discretions Having therein regarde not to diminish the â—ines specially limited by the Lawes without great necessitie of the poverty of the parties to be ioyned with repentance and disposition of amendment in the partie for otherwise it is perâ—llous to giue example in weakening the iust terror of good Lawes Also the Lord President and Councell or two of them wherof the Lord President to be one shall and may assesse and taxe Costs and dammages aswell to the Plaintiffe as to the Defendant and shall awarde Executions for their doings Decrees and Orders And shall punish the Breakers of the same being parties therevnto by their discretions And the said Lord President and Councell shall immediately upon their repaire to some convenient place where they meane to reside within the Limits of their Commission appointing two sufficient men to bee Clearkes oâ— Attornies to that Councell for the making of Bils Answers and Proceses for all manner of Subiects and thâ—râ—n not multiply such Officers leâ—t also they be occasioÌ„ to multiply unnecessary suites and some trusty wise persons to examine witnesses betweene partie and partie which of necessitie would be chosen with good advise foreseeing expresly and charitably that no excessiue fees be by any of them taken of the Subiects but that their fees bee assessed by the Lord President and Councell and the same faire written upon a Table and fixed upon some publike place where the same may be seene and understood of all Suitors and that in the beginning the Fees may appeare and be meane and reasonable So as in no wise the prosecution of releefe by way of Iustice bee not so chargeable as the poore oppressed sort bee thereby discouraged to make their complaints And because it shall bee convenient that a Register bee daily kept for all the doings orders decrees and proceedings which from time to time shall passe by the said Lo. President and Councell The Lord Deputie and Councells pleasure is that the Clarke of the sayd Councell for the time being having reasonable allowance for the same of the parties having an interest thereby shall diligently execute and performe this charge without any further expences then shall bee specially directed unto him by the said Lord President to be sustained by her Majesties Subjects for enteries of Actes and Orders c. Also the said Lord Deputie and Councell haue thought it convenient that there shall bee one honest and sufficient man appointed to bee Clarke and receiver of the Fines at the nomination of the sayd Lord President who shall diligently and orderly keepe a Booke of all such Fines as shall bee taxed upon any person the fine to bee alwayes entred by the hand of the Lord President and shall haue full power to send out Processe for any person upon whom any such fine shal be so seased and to receiue all such fines and in every Michaelmasâ— Terme thereof to make a true and perfect account before the Barons and other Officers of the Queenes Majesties Exchequer for the time being to the end we may be assertained what fines haue bin acquired to the Queenes Majestie and how the same haue been imployed Provided alwayes and it shall be lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell to imploy of the said Fines reasonable summes for reward of Messengers and repairing the Queenes castles and houses and in building and reedifying Goales within each Countie in the precinct of their Commission where by Lawes of the Realme no other persons are thereto bound and chargeable and also for furnishing of necessary utensils for the houshold as to the said L. President and Councell or to any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall seeme neâ—dfull and convenient In all which the said Lord President shall haue regard to moderate those allowances as of the Fines assessed and levied the Queenes Maiestie may be answered some reasonable yeerely Sommes towards her great chardges in maintaining of this Councell the same being to the Crowne of England a new chardge and any warrantmeÌ„t signed by the said Lord President or any one of the Councell for any such Somme or Soms shall be a sufficient dischardge to the said Clearke our Receiver of the said Fines for the issuing of the said Sommes And the said Clearke or Receiver shall haue full power for the sending out of Processe against any person upon whom any such Fine shall be cessed and to haue his Processe gratis from the Clearke of the Signet and hee to haue his diet in the house of the said Lord President and to bee accounted one of the number of this Horsemen and to receiue the wages and entertainement due for the same Also the said Lord Deputie and Councell haue thought meete there shall be a continuall housholde kept within the precinct and limits of the Commission aforesaid in such place as to the Lord President shall seeme most convenient All servants necessary for which houshold shall be at the Nomination of the said Lord President In which house each Councellor bound to continuall attendance and attending shall bee allowed their diets and the clearke of the Councell and every other Councellor being either sent for or comming for any needfull busines for the Queene or countrey shall be allowed during their aboad there their diet And for the more honourable porte of the said Houshold there shall be allowed unto the said Lord President and Councell after the rate of ten pounds sterling by the weeke to bee imployed upon the Table chardges of the said Household halfe yeerely to bee received at the hands of the Vice-treasurer and generall Receiver of the Queenes Maiesties revenewes of this Realme for payment of which there shall remaine in the hands of the said Vice-treasurer who is also Treasurer for the Warres as Warrant dormant whereby the said Vice-treasurer shall be authorized to pay to the said Lord President one halfe yeeres allowance alwayes before hand towards the making his necessary provision out of the revenew Or if he shall not haue sufficient Treasure then out of any other Treasure the said Lord President shall nominate and appoint one discreete and sufficient man of his servants to bee Steward or clearke of the same Houshold who shall weekely write and summe the chardges thereof and the same also shall
hee weekely present to the Lord President and Councell to be considered And because her Maiestie meaneth principally to benefit her Subiects not onely with the fruites of Iustice but with the delivery of them from all unnecessary burdens The Lord President and Councell shall foresee that no manner of extraordinary or excessiue charge bee put and layed upon any person against their Wils and Agreements by finding or sustaining of any Horsman or Footman or Horse-boy or Horse belonging of the said Lord President or any of the said Councell on any belonging to them And in the like manner shall see that the Subiects bee not oppressed with the like by any other contrary to the Lawes of the Realme for such causes provided Item considering the Queenes Maiestie hath title and right to no small quantity of possessions within Mounster aswell of auncient revenew of the Crowne and of other Seigniories devolued to the Crowne And also of the dissolved Monasteries and other Houses of religion the which are not duely answered to her Maiestie as reason would The said Lord President and Councell shall from time to time imploy their Labours by all their good discretions to procure that her Maiesties Officers or Farmors appointed for that purpose may peaceably and fully from time to time possesse and receiue the profits of the same The Oath to bee ministred by the Lord President to such as shall be admitted to bee of the Councell of Mounster being not already sworne of her Majesties Privie Councell in Ireland as well the oath provided in the Statute for swearing of Officers as also this heereunder written viz. You shall sweare to the uttermost of your power will and cunning you shall be true and faithfull to the Queenes Majestie our Soveraigne Lady and to her Heires and Successors You shall not know nor heare any thing that may in any wise be prejudiciall to her Highnes or the Commonwealth peace and quiet of this her Hignesse Realme but you shall with all diligence reveale and disclose the same to her Highnesse or to such other person or persons of her Majesties Privie Councell in Ireland as you shall thinke may and will soonest convey and bring it to her Highnesse knowledge You shall serue her Maiestie truely and faithfully in the roome and place of her Maiesties Councell in Mounster You shall in all things that bee moved treated and debated in any Councell faithfully and truely declare your mind and opinion according to your heart and conscience In no wise forbearing so to doe for any respect of Favour Meade Dreade Displeasure or corruption Yee shall faithfully and unrightly to the best of your power cause Iustice to bee duely and indifferently ministred to the Queenes Maiesties Subiects that shall haue cause to sue for the same according to equity and order of Lawes Finally you shall bee vigilant diligent and circumspect in all your doings and proceedings touching the Queenes Maiestie and her affaires All which points and Articles before expressed with all other Articles signed with the hands of the Lord Deputie and Councell of this Realme and delivered to mee the Lord President of her Highnesse Councell established in these parts You shall faithfully obserue keepe and fulfill to the uttermost of your Power Wit Will and cunning so helpe you God and the contents of this Booke THE NAMES OF THE COVNCELLORS TO BEE ASSISTANT to the Lord President of Mounster as they are directed under the hand of the Lord Deputie The Earle of Ormond The Earle of Kildare The Earle of Thomond The Vice-Co Barry The Lordâ—Audley The Bishop of Corke The Bishop of Limer Sir Nicholas Welsh Iustice Saxey Sir Francis Barkley Sir George Thornton Iustice Golde The Queenes Sergeant The Q. Attorney generall The Q. Solicitor Sir Charles Wilmot Garret Comerford Esquire Hugh Cuffe Esquire Adam Dublin Thom. Midens George Cary. Rich. Wingfield Anth. St leger George Bourcher Geof Fenton â—ra Stafford CHAP. II. The Earle of Tyrone in Mounster and his Actions there The White Knight Tyrones prisoner Florence Mac Carti made Mac Carti More and Donell Mac Carti displaced The Lord Barry spoyled Tyrones letter to the Lord Barry with the Lord Barry's answere Sir Warham Saint leger and Mac Guyre slaine Tyrones returne into Vlster A Little before the landing of the Lord Deputie in Ireland as is said the Arch-traytor Tyrone to unite the Rebels of Mounster and especially to conferre with Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle of Desmond and Florence Mac Cartie at whose intreatie he made a journey into Mounster Those whom hee found obstinate in rebellion hee incouraged from such as hee held doubtfull hee tooke pledges or detained prisoners of which last sort was the White Knight and his sonne in law Donogh Mac Cormocke Cartie whom in hand-lockes he carried away with him And whereas Donell Mac Cartie the Earle of Clancares base sonne had been by the Mac Carties of Desmond advanced to the Stile title and authoritie of Mac Cartie More Him hee displaced and in his roome Florence Mac Cartie was surrogated being a man as hee conceived of farre more use then Donell Such as were or reputed good Subjects these hee prosecuted with sword and fire Amongst others which felt his heavie hand the Lord Barry was one upon whom when hee could not worke his desire to draw him into actuall rebellion by the perswasion of the Provinciall rebells him hee preyed burned and spoyled to make it manifest that hee was sollicited to enter into Rebellion both the Letters of Tyrone and the Lord Barries Answere are heere truly set downe the tenors whereof doe ensue Tyrones Letter to the Lord Barrie MY Lord Barry your impietie to God crueltie to your soule and body tyrannie ingratitude both to your followers and country are inexcusable intolerable You separated your selfe from the unitie of Christs mysticall Bodie the Catholike Church You know the Sword of Extirpation hangeth over your head as well as ours if things fall out other wayes then well you are the cause why all the Nobilitie of the South from the East part to the West you being linked unto each one of them either in affinitie or consanguinitie are not linked together to shake off the cruell yoake of Heresie and Tyrannie with which our Soules and Bodies are opprest All those aforesaid depending of your resolution and relying to your Iudgement in this common cause of our Religion and Countrey you might forsooth with their helpe and the rest that are combyned in this holy Action not onely defend your selfe from the incursion and invasion of the English but also by Gods assistance who miraculously and aboue all expectation gaue good successe to the cause principally undertaken for his glorie exaltation of religion next for the restauration of the ruines and preservation of the Countrey expell them and deliver them and us from most miserable and cruell exaction and subjection enjoy your religion safetie of Wife and children life lands
unto him and such Companies as hee had with him Thomas fits Iames Bastard sonne of Sir Iames fits Gerrald late Lord of the Decies and Thomas Power the Lord Powers Cosen Ierman the chiefe Rebels in the Countie of Waterford receiving advertisement that the President was in Waterford fearing peradventure lest some draught might bee drawen upon them and that themselues or followers might receiue some great prejudice by meanes of the Presidents Forces made great instance by the Lord Power and Sir Nicholas Welsh to be received into her Majesties protection promising and protesting not onely that they would reclaime themselues and their followers from committing any outrage against her Majesties Subjects but further that they would indeavour to recompense and requite their former defaults by some acceptable service The Lord President considering that the receiving of them and their Dependants into protection would bee a meanes both to weaken the Traitour Desmond of some part of his strength and to secure and open the passage betwixt Waterford and Yoghall which before was so kept especially by them that there was no way to send but by Sea Vpon the best assurance that could bee gotten for their future loyalties accepted their submissions and graunted protection both to themselues and their followers since which time they haue been good and loyall Subjects CHAP. IV. The encounter of her Majesties Forces with Florence Mac Carty The prey of the Brough taken The state of the Province of Mounster when the Lora President came into it The Lord Barry preyed Redmond Burke defeated by Odwyre Odwyres Countrey harrassed by Redmond Burke THE twentieth of Aprill the Lord President accompanied with the Earle of Thomond the Lord Audâ—â—y the Lo Power the Lord of the Decies Sir Nicholas Welsh Sir Anthonie Cooke Sir Richard Masterson Captaine Roger Harvie Captaine William Taffe Captaine Richard Greame Captaine Fleming Captaine Gifford Captaine Dillon Captaine Oreilly and divers other private Gentlemen with eight hundred Foot and one hundred Horse came that night to Dongarvan where hee found Sir George Cary the Treasurer his Company which the next morning hee tooke along with him to Yoghall The two and twentieth hee received advertisement of an incounter betweene Captaine Flower Serjeant Major of that Province and Florence Mac Carty the performance whereof was as followeth Florence Mac Carty notwithstanding the infinite favours and bounties which hee had received from her Maiestie being wholly Spaniolized had possessed the minds of those in Carbry Desmond with a strange opinion of his worthinesse and having combined with Tyrone and the other Rebels at his late being in Mounster did shew himselfe in open action against her Maiestie Whereupon the Commissioners Sir Warham Saint Leger and Sir Henry Power sent Captaine Flower and Captaine Bostocke into Carbery with twelue hundred foote and one hundred horse which Flower commanded in chiefe to make prosecution against the Rebels of those parts in their way towards Rosse they burned and spoiled the Countrie as they passed they got the heads of thirty seven notorious rebels besides others of lesse note Florence gathered together of the Provincials and Bownoghs for so they call their waged men to the number of two thousand or thereabouts Dermond Oconner as Generall for so they termed him of the Bownoghs These being gathered to a head attended their opportunity to giue some blow to our Forces yet never did encounter them untill they were in their returne within fiue Miles of Corke In the mid way betwixt that Citie and Kinsale there is a foord a bridge over the river called Awneboy Here the rebels lay close in an ambush on the North side of the river in a glynn between two hils and also on the South side in a scrubbie Wood neere the river The Companies comming on not thinking there to expect an Enemy marched scarce orderly and but a few maches burning Captaine Iohn Bostocke riding a good pretty distance before them and past the bridge espied the Morians of some of the suncke ambush in the Glinn presently retiring backe gaue notice of the Enemy and willed them to prepare themselues The rebels finding that they were discovered presently rose and charged our men before they were well ordered Captaine Flower the Commander finding himselfe opprest with numbers drew to the wals of an old ruinous Castle to the Eastward neere halfe a mile distant for his safety in which retrait they being upon the point of routing were charged home both with Horse and Foote Flower to prevent the danger directed Lieuetenant Lane officer to Sir Iohn Barkley to lie in ambush under an old ditch with a squadron of Musketiers Carbry Oconner brother to Dermond aforesaid came on with his Company following the execution of some of our men untill hee fell into the ambush where hearing a volley of shot delivered upon them Carbry with other Gentlemen were slaine At which accident the rebels being amazed the Horse tooke the opportunity and chardged them with such resolution as instantly they rowted and our men fell upon the execution of them In which Charge I cannot but particularly commend Robert Tent Sir Anthony Cooks Cornet who did behaue himselfe with extraordinary valour besides Carbry Oconner ninetie eight were slaine in the place and neere that number hurt whereof divers afterwards died On our part none of note hurt but Greame brother to Captaine Richard Greame and eight Souldiers Captaine Flower who did that day admirably well had two Horses slaine under him and received sundrie wounds both with sword and pike and it was his fortune to encounter with Dermond O Conner at whom hee discharged his Pistoll which lighted upon his Targett whereby he received no hurt That night they marched into Kinelmekagh and encamped beyond the Bridge of Balline Coursie where they stayed with their hurt men two nights the third day in the evening they dispersed their Companies to those Countries where they had Bonaught The same day Captaine Francis Slingsby Commaunder of the Lord Presidents Foot Companie and garrison at Kilmallock where there was the Lord Presidents two hundred Foot Captaine Clares one hundred and fiftie twentie fiue of Sir Anthony Cooke his Troope and twelue of Sir George Thorntons Horse drew foorth in the night part of that garrison to take the prey of the Brough a Castle of Pierce Lacies but three miles from Kilmallocke to expect the comming foorth of the prey to grase which accordingly about an hower after day light came foorth and they tooke it Then presently the crie being raised three hundred Foot and fiftie Horse led by Pierce Lacie skirmished with them for the space of sixe howers but seeing they could not prevaile they gaue over the pursuite There was slaine of our men but one Horseman of Sir George Thorntons Troope and foure or fiue of the Lord Presidents Foote hurt their losses were more whereof Con Oneale Tyrones base sonne was hurt The three and twentieth at night the Lord
chiefe of small Countreyes submitted themselues to her Majesties mercie But the principall marke which the Lord President aymed at before his entrance into the Field with his Armie was to reclaime if possible it might be Florence Mac Cartie before spoken of from further pursuing those hatefull and ingratefull courses which unadvisedly he had entred into This hee desired for divers reasons First and especially for the service which he foresaw might receiue some good countenance by his subjection Secondly because if hee continued in action of necessitie hee must bee constrained to imploy a great part of his Forces which hee thought both inconvenient and dangerous to bee divided to follow the prosecution of him and his Complices And lastly a good opinion which some his honourable friends in England and himselfe also had conceived of him For these causes was the President moved earnestly to desire that this Florence might bee stayed from further persisting in those exorbitant courses and the rather because the said Florence had written Letters unto him which upon his way into Mounster hee received that assoone as hee should come to Corke hee would present himselfe personally to him aud doe all his endeavours to advance the Service All which being made knowen by the Lord President to the Earle of Thomond he intreated the said Earle and Sir Nicholas Welsh to joyne with Iohn fits Edmonds Florence his Godfather a man very famous in those parts for his learning and liberall hospitalitie in entertaining of strangers to send a Messenger to signifie to Florence Mac Cartie that they were very desirous to conferre with him about certaine particularities concerning his owne good By his Letter remised in answer of this message hee appoynted both a time and place for their meeting which was accordingly performed After more then two houres spent and many Oathes passed as well by the Earle as Sir Nicholas Welsh that the President had promised his safe returne with fearefull guiltinesse hee came to Corke and from thence to Shandon Castle upon the third of May 1600 where the Lord President remained at that time before whom when hee had presented himselfe hee made his submission upon his knees with many protestations of the sinceritie of his Heart and the true loyaltie which hee alwayes bare towards her Majestie desiring that hee might bee received into her Majesties favour and hee would serue her as faithfully and unfainedly as any man in Mounster The Lord President reprooved him very sharply for his trayterous behaviours laying before him the odiousnesse and foulnesse of his faults and the monstrous ingratitude towards her Majestie from whom hee had received many great benefits and gracious favours These speeches finished the President bade him to stand up when as both hee and the Earle of Thomond Sir Nicholas Welsh and Iohn fits Edmund did every of them very feelingly preach Obedience unto him His answer being very generall carried great shew of loyaltie and obedience at that time Vpon the next morrow hee was called before the President and Councell who was againe urged by them all in generall not onely to desist from proceeding in evill but with alacritie of minde to doe some such service as might merit reward for assurance and performance whereof the President demaunded his eldest sonne in pledge for the avoydance whereof hee used many colourable reasons viz. That it would cause the Bonnoghs to forsake him yea and to driue him out of his Countrey erecting his wiues base Brother in his place That he had of long time tasted of miseries and wants That hee had lately recovered his Countrey of Desmond with great travell and charges and therefore like the burnt child hee feared to run into any such inconvenience as might cause his friends to relapse from him Adding moreover that it was needlesse in them to exact any such thing at hishands who was in his soule wholly addicted devoted to her Majesties service The weaknesse of these reasons were both wisely discovered and effectually answered but all that could bee said was no more pleasing to him then is delightfull musicke to deafe eares which being discerned the President betooke himselfe to a new devise for now hee vehemently threatned that leaving for a time all other services a sharpe prosecution of Hostilitie with fire and sword against himselfe his tenants and followers should speedily overtake him upon his returne into Desmond Much was hee amazed with this denunciation and therefore hauing made a short pawse answered thus Since my needlesse pledge is so earnestly desired I am content to leaue my eldest sonne in Corke upon these conditions That her Majestie would passe unto mee the Countrey of Desmond in as large and ample manner as before it was conveyed unto my Father in law the Earle of Clancare Secondly that shee would giue unto mee the Name and Title of Mac Cartie More or Earle of Clancare Thirdly that shee would giue unto mee three hundred men in pay for assuring my Countrey from all that would offend it These hyperbolicall demands were no sooner propounded but absolutely rejected Therefore he desired that Licence might bee graunted unto him to write to his honourable friends in England to worke for him the afore recited Conditions which without any great difficultie was permitted Lastly the President questioned with him what hee intended to doe if these his desires were not satisfied thereupon hee sware upon a Booke that hee would never beare Armes against her Majesties Forces except hee were assaulted in Desmond and that his followers should likewise abstaine from actuall rebellion and further that he would send him intelligence from time to time of the Rebells proceedings and doe him the best underhand-service that possibly hee could Now had the President effected a great part of his desires namely that by Florence his remaining in Neutralitie his Forces might be wholly imployed against Iames fits Thomas who being once slaine or banished it would bee an easie matter to teach him to speake in a more submissiue language and forget to capitulate either for Lands Title or Charge Florence is now departed towards his Countrey of Desmond where leaving him in suspence betwixt doubt and feare wee will proceed in the accidents of Corke Now the President discerning this Warre in Mounster to be like a Monster with many Heads or a Servant that must obey divers Masters did thinke thus that if the Heads themselues might bee set at variance they would proue the most fit Instruments to ruine one another The two chiefe Heads were the Sugan Earle for so they called Desmond Commander of the Provincials and Dermond O Conner Generall of the Bownoghs before mentioned This Dermond O Conner was a poore man in the beginning of his fortune and not Owner of two Plough Lands in Connaght his natiue Countrie his reputation grew partly by his wife who was daughter to the old Earle of Desmond and partly by his valour being reputed one of the most valiant Leaders and
long after the receit of this Letter hee left the Countie of Limericke severed himselfe from the Mounster Rebells and setled in Ormond and Tirrell stayed not long behinde inwardly doubting some practise upon himselfe but publikely pretending the cause of his departure for a mislike betweene him and Dermond O Conner The President had given foorth ever since his first comming to Corke that his Armie should bee on foot in the way to Limerick by the sixth of May his intention not being to rise untill the twentieth the bruit thereof caused the Rebells greatest strength to assemble together who by the day assigned had united their Forces in the great Wood called Kilmore betweene Moyallo and Kilmallock neere the place of Ballihawre through the which the Armie was to march There they continued the space of tenne dayes attending continually and hearkening daily for the Presidents comming but finding that hee stirred not in all this time imagining that he durst not take the field at all they dispersed their Companies and departed every one into his owne Countrey Heereupon some thought that the President had altered his determination for going to Limerick and intended to begin the prosecution in some other place others supposed that hee would not venture out of Corke untill hee had received new Supplies which were daily expected out of England But both the one and other were besides the marke for by this stay which from the beginning he determined hee saw divers commodious opportunities might accrue unto him as that heereby hee should receiue certaine advertisement of the strength of the enemy that was to confront him and also that it was impossible for them any long time to hold together for divers wants which of necessitie must accompany such an undisciplined and disordered multitude by meanes whereof they would bee constrained to breake with their owne weight wherein he nothing failed of his expectation for within a few dayes following they were all divided into so many places and those so farre distant that they could not speedily be reassembled Vpon the sixteenth of May the President was advertised by Sir Richard Percie who was Governour at 〈◊〉 that by his Horsemen in Kinalmekagh whom he had sent to forrage that Country ten of the Bownoghs were slaine and a farre greater slaughter had beene made of them if Florence Mac Cartie had not had some intelligence out of Kinsale of his intention who gaue the Bownoghs warning of their comming whereupon they fled and dispersed themselues Vpon the seventeenth of May Iames fits Thomas the usurping Earle of Desmond wrote a Letter to Florence Mac Cartie praying the ayde of his Forces the Copie whereof is here inserted A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie AFter my very heartie Commendations Having received Intelgence of your happie escape out of Corke it was very joyfull to mee and many other your Cosens and adherents heere the fruit of your conference with the President and the rest I hope shall purchase ripe experience and harvest of further knowledge to cut off the cruell yoke of bloody enemies who daily studie to worke our perpetuall destruction and exile I am given to understand that they pretend a journey towards the Countie of Limerick I am gathering the best force and rising out of these parts to resist their wicked desires Redmond Burke is bordering on the Confines of Ormond expecting to heare from me if occasion of important service should require I haue the other day received his Letters signifying his constant service to be ready whensoever I shall send to him what news you haue with your best advice in all causes tending to our generall Service I expect to heare and if the President doe rise out as it is thought I pray you good Cosen slacke not time with your best Force Provision of victuals to prosecute him freshly in the Reareward as you respect me the exaltation of the Catholike faith and the ease of our countrey I looke no excuse at your hands which I pray to lay apart wherein you shall further the service and bind me with all my Forces to second you at your need I haue retained Dermond Oconner in Kerry two hundred Souldiers this quarter besides the Clanshihies and other Bonoghs with the rising out of my country so as I think I shall make up sixteen or seventeene hundred strong well appointed together with the Force of Redmond Burke Thus for lacke of farther Novelties I commit you to the blessed guiding of God From Crome the seventeenth of May 1600. I am credibly informed that fiue Spanish ships are landed in the North with Treasure Munition and great Ordinance with a competent number of three thousand Souldiers Pioners and religious persons I expect every day advertisement in writing and the comming up of Captaine Terrell with the Munition sent me by Oneyle I appointed your Cosen Maurice Oge Fits Maurice Gerald to haue the charge of Kierrycorrie I pray you afford him your lawfull favour Your most assured Cosen Iames Desmond The same day Captaine Gawen Harvy who then had in her Majesties pay a man of Warre wherein for the payment of the Armie there was three thousand pound in monie Munition Victuals and Souldiers apparrell set saile with direction for the River of Shenan to meete the Lord President at Limericke The President the twentie one of May left Corke and with his Armie incamped that night within three miles of Moyallo The twentie two they lodged within fiue miles of Kilmallocke the twentie three the Armie came within a mile of Kilmallocke where the white Knight according to his former promises made his humble submission unto the President whereby the Faggot began to unloose which combined the Rebellion in Mounster but let us a little looke backeward CHAP. VI. Cahir Castle surprized by Iames Galdie Butler A letter from Iames Galdie Butler to the Lord President The rendring of the Castle of Loghguyrre Nugents attempt upon Iohn fits Thomas â—lanwilliam spâ—yled and burnt by the Armie THe President being at Yoghall in his journey to Corke sent Sir Iohn Dowâ—all an ancient Captaine in Ireland to Cahir Castle as well to see the same provided of a sufficient Ward out of Captaine George Blunts Companie as to take order for the furnishing of them with Victuall Munition and other warlike Provision there hee left the eighth or ninth of May a Sergeant with nine and twenty Souldiers and all necessary Provision for two moneths who notwithstanding upon the three and twentieth of the same were surprized by Iames Galdie alias Butler brother to the Lord of Cahir and as it was suspected by many pregnant presumptions not without the consent and working of the Lord himselfe which in after times proved to be true The carelesse securitie of the Warders together with the treachery of an Irish-man who was placed sentinell upon the top of the Castle were the causes of this Surprize Iames Galdie had no
of the Sugan Earle as aforesaid the Earle of Thomond having intercepted a Letter sent by the Rebells of Mounster to O Donnell and his Associates did send the same unto the President whereby it may appeare how much the taking of Iames fits Thomas did grieue them at the heart which is the reason I doe in this place insert the same A Letter from the Mounster Rebels to O Donnell ALL heartie Commendations from Mac Maurice and the rest undernamed to O Donnell and the rest of the Lords and Gentlemen that are with him Letting you to understand that Dermond O Conner hath played a lewd part amongst us heere Hee hath taken the Earle of Desmond Thomas Oge and the two sonnes of Rory Mac Shihy together with their Townes and Castles claiming in right of his wife the Earledome of Desmond The Earle is as yet upon his hands and the Countrey is all preyed and destroyed and Rory Mac Shihy who is olde and blinde is banished out of his Towne leaving him bare without any thing and his sonnes bound very safe and sure which Act being considered by Con Oneale and others the Gentlemen of Connaght who were in the said Dermonds company to proceed of treachery and falsehood by the said Dermond whereupon the said Con Oneale and the rest of those Connaght men eaâ—â—e unto us bringing with them the said Roriâ— his sonnes for which wee rest very thankfull to them and therefore we desire you to shew them thanks likewiâ—e and that you should write unto the said Dermond touching the inlargement of the Earle and that hee should take good pledges of the Earle to bee put upon the hands of the Clergie or some indifferent temporall personâ—s and he to â—et 〈◊〉 the like and your Order and the Order of the Clergie to puâ—â—e betweene them and we desire your preseâ—t helpe To that purpose Dermond is drawign the English â—word to â—word the Estate with them we and the Gentlemen of Connaght heere are 〈◊〉 the Castle where the Earle lyeth and seeing that the River of Shanen is passable if it had been your pleasure to come to helpe us we would bee very glad thereof and yet if wee can rescue the Earle and it to be your pleasure we will draw towards you hereupon send us present word Castlelishine the 24. of Iune 1600. Your trustie Friends Iohn Gerald. Thomas fits Maurice Edmond Valley M. fits Thomas Patricke Lixnawe William fits Gerald. Dierby Mac Cartie Pierce Lacie Mac Shihy The President being out of hope to get this Haggard into his hands by these Limetwigs intending the prosecution which was to take in the Castles of the Glynne and Carrigfoile the one belonging to the Knight of the Valley the other to Iohn O Conner commonly called O Conner Kerry both being seated upon the River of Limerick and so to passe the Mountaine into Kerry The President having taken order for all such necessaries as should be requisit in his Iournie on the twentie eighth marched to Limericke the twentie nineth upon a Letter which hee received from Dermond O Conner into the Hart of Conniloe and incamped at a Towne called Ballingery foureteene miles from Limerick being by him requested who was now besieged by the Enemy in the Castle of Balliallinan to releeue him with her Majesties Forces The President being advanced within three miles of the Castle where Dermond O Conner was besieged the Rebels understanding thereof and fearing to bee assailed by him and loath that Dermond O Conner should fall into his hands to be imployed in service against them whose credit with the Bownoghs was such as that hee could perswade them to what he listed they resolved to treate with Dermond and upon his oath of future faith to take him againe into their societie and to restore him to his former Command Dermond as it should seeme fearing that Reliefe would not come unto him in convenient time accepted the offer and rendered the Castle and himselfe into their hands But yet I could never heare that Dermond afterwards was had in any great estimation amongst them This busines being thus composed they presently dislodged with intent to giue impediment to the Armie in their passage towards the Glynne His Lordship being advertised of the reconcilement directed his March to the Glynne and understanding that the Castle of Crome the Earle of Kildares inheritance which was not much out of his way and held by a Ward left therein by Pierce Lacy which gaue great Annoiance to the Subjects thereabouts and comfort to the Rebels being seated at the entrance into Conniloe tooke it in his way upon the sight of the Armie the Warders quitted the Castle and the President possessed himselfe thereof together with some store of Corne and other Provision that was found therein The last of Iune the Armie marched through Kerry a safe Countrey unto Askeiton where it remained foure dayes in expectation of Victuals that should come thither from Limerick by Water The fourth of Iuly the Armie rose from thence and marched to Ballintare upon the Mountaine of Sleughlogher twelue miles from Askeiton the Enemy to the number of three thousand marching all that day in our view Now did the President assure himselfe that this Armie of the Rebels did onely attend the opportunitie for some place of advantage where they might conveniently attempt our Forces and no doubt so they would haue done if the fore conceived Iealousie and distrust betweene the Provincials and Bonoghs confirmed in them by the bones of Dissention that the President had cast forth amongst them had not wrought in either of them a desire of nothing more then to be freed from the danger reciprocally apprehended each of the other as might well appeare by two Letters which this night were brought to the President from the Principall of the Connaght men the true Copies whereof I haue thought not unfit to be inâ—erted in this present Relation A Ioynt Letter from William Burke and Moroghe ny Moe O Flaghertie to the Lord President COmmendations to your Honour For as much as we thinke your Honour willing to further and augment your credit in doing your Princesse service we thought to make you acquainted that wee are here in Campe two thousand and fiue hundred Connaght men Yet we let your Honour to understand that we will not set upon you in any way nor molest you in your Iourney so that your Honour consider us with a peece of money and giue us your Passe and safe Conduct to depart this Countrey not that wee feare you or any other but that wee meane to doe you no harme so your Honour shew us the like favour You may well accept of this our proffer for it is a thing that others of your Calling sought for and could not obtaine although very desirous for the obtayning of it Thus troubling your Honour no further onely expecting your speedy resolution we commit you to God From the Abbey
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
against Her Majestie This Florence was now busie in working of a Mariage betweene the Sugan Earle and the sister of Cormacke Mac Dormond Lord of Muskerry a populous a rich and a fast Countrey The President having received advertisement thereof left Sir Charles Wilmot to prosecute the service in Kerry and himselfe hasted his returne towards Corke there to worke some meanes for the overthrowing the proceedings of this dangerous Complot The President being returned so farre as Limerick certaine notice was brought him that Florence had lately imployed a Messenger to Tyrone as he pretended for the releafe of Osulevan Moke his Brother in Law but as the truth was to procure aide from the North to support the Rebellion in Mounster Tyrone by the said Messenger sent Letters of Comfort and Encouragement aswell to Florences as to the rest of the Lords in that Province assuring them not only of succours from himselfe but farther that the Spanish Forces would land in Mounster before Michaelmas next These exorbitant courses of Florence gaue a great impediment to the service for the President as he would often say did see him like a darke Cloud over his Head threatning a Storme to hinder and disturbe his proceedings But wee will leaue Florence for a while busily employed in devising meanes how to procure aide either from Spaine or from the North or from both and betake our selues to such other occurrents as hapned about this time Vpon the sixteenth of August the Lord President came to Limericke The eighteenth Pierce Lacy wrote unto the President humbly beseeching him that he might bee received into Her Majesties gratious protection promising ever afterwards to remaine a loyall Subject but withall hee made certaine demands which were so much disliked by the President as his suite was rejected for the President insisted upon a Rule which hee never brake that hee would not giue care to any Traitor that did capitulate The twentieth he came to Kilmallock remayning there but one day to take assurance of certaine Gentlemen and Freeholders that had lately submitted themselues The day following at Kilmallock the White Knight being there to attend the President newes was brought unto him that divers of his people and Followers were slaine by the Garrison of Moyallo commanded by Captaine Roger Harvy The President carefull to giue him contentment being under her Majesties protection in his owne presence examined the matter and there it was found that Captaine Harvy having intelligence by a Spy that was his Guide of a notable Traitor called Iohn Mac Redmond and certaine other Traitors and their goods which were reported to bee neere unto Sir Walter Raleigh his Lands adjoyning to the White Knights Countrey with seventie Foote and foure and twentie Horse marched that night one and twentie miles from Moyallo and at the breake of day our men thinking that they had beene brought upon an Enemies Towne set fier to a House having some few people therein But an old Souldier knowing the place told the Captaine that it was the White Knights Towne Whereupon he commanded his Company to forbeare committing any outrage either upon the people or any of their Goods But the White Knights younger Sonne Iohn fits Gibbon having suddenly gathered to himselfe one hundred and sixty Foote and eighteene Horse overtooke Captaine Haruy who began to excuse the matter telling him as the truth was that the Guid whom he had there with him to answer the Fact had brought him unwillingly upon that place and therefore for the hurt done ignorantly he would make a large satisfaction But the young man following the advise of one Garret Mac Shane who had lately beene a notable Traitor thinking it not possible for so small a Company to resist his great Force without returning any answer began presently to chardge our men whom they supposed without any great resistance to haue at their mercie and came up close to our Foote who nothing dismaied stood firme expecting their Chardge But they not comming on Captaine Harvy advanced towards them and brake them instantly In this Conflict were slaine and hurt aboue sixtie of their partie and among them Garret Mac Shane the Leader and Procurer of the fight of our men some foure were hurt but none killed Captaine Harvy received a shot on his Murrian a blow with a pike upon his back but escaped danger by the goodnesse of his Buffe Coat and had his Horse slaine under him The White Knight upon dew knowledge hereof condemned both his Sonne and people for their folly to enforce a fight having no harme intended them and confessed they were well lost But yet for his better satisfaction the treacherous Guid who did upon a set purposed malice draw this Draught was by the Presidents appointment delivered over to the Marshall and presently hanged The three and twentieth the Lord President returned to Corke Sir Charles Wilmot having made his entrance into Kerry as already you haue heard and there proceeded so farre as Lixnaw made knowen to the President that the Rebells were exceeding strong in that Countrey The Arch-Rebell Iames fits Thomas beeing attended with fiue hundred Bownoghs besides the Forces that the Knight of Kerry Thomas Oge and the Gentlemen of the Countrey could make Heereupon the President knowing that those parts were alwayes affectionately addicted to the Earles of Desmond caused a Foot-man of the young Earles who was shortly afterwards to come into Ireland as the manner is having his Masters Armes upon his coate before and behinde to shew himselfe in most places of the Countrey that thereby they might bee the better perswaded of his comming and bee a meanes to alienate their hearts from the counterfeit Desmond The vigilant care that Sir Charles Wilmot used within his charge having taken divers preyes and killed some of the Rebels together with this Invention caused most of the Free-holders of that Countrey to submitt themselues and seeke unto the Governour for her Majesties protection the principall amongst these was William fits Gerald commonly called The Knight of Kerry who by Messengers signified the great desire that hee conceived to live a Subiect and had present occasion to shew some proofe thereof for the Sugan Earle comming about this time to the Dingle the said Knight would by no meanes receiue him into his Castle whereupon hee ruined all the houses that were standing in the Towne and so tooke his journey unto Castle Mange Thomas fits Maurice the pretended Baron of Lixnaw also now newly come to his Barronie by the death of his father sought by meanes of his wife who was Sister to the Earle of Thomond for the Presidents favour and her Majesties protection Both were promised upon condition hee would performe such service as might in some good sort deserue the same but this hee absolutely refused because forsooth it stood not with his Conscience nor with his Honour for these were his owne words in a Letter that hee wrote
as appeareth by the Presidents Letters written to then Lordships dated the fiue and twentieth of this Moneth of October and with them three hundred and fiftie Winter suites of apparell But to returne againe to Florence Mac Cartie after all the tergiversations before mentioned and many other too tedious to be inserted finding all his Neighbours to haue submitted themselues and his owne Followers so much impoverished by the Warres desirous to doe the like was contented Tandem aliquando to repaire to the President lying at Moyallo bringing some forty Horse in his Company and himselfe in the middest of his Troope like the great Turke amongst his Ianisaries drew towards the House the nine and twentieth of October like 〈◊〉 higher by the head and shoulders then any of his Followers upon his submission the President as having forgotten all former matters gaue him kind entertainement being indeed heartily glad of his preâ—ence as hoping thereby thaâ— these Warres of Mounster were brought to a finall end to secure him therefore to the State the President demanded his Eldest Sonne in pledge who being unable to take so long a Iournie by the indisposition of his body as Florence protested he left two others the one his base Brother who had spent many yeeres in France Spaine and Hungary and the other his foster Brother both which he had in very precious esteeme Florence requested that those pledges might suffice for the O Sulevans the O Donoghes the O Crowlieâ— and Omaghon Carbry But hereunto the President would by no perswasion bee drawen to condiscend and that especially for two causes the one was that hereby he might draw from Florence this great rabble of Dependants and the second was because every of these being compelled to put in pledges for themselues the Queene might haue the stronger assurance of these wavering and slippery Subjects The Province being reduced to this passe as you haue heard the Irish having now no other Enemy to oppugne beginne to goe together by the eares amongst themselues for certaine of Donoghe Moyle Mac Cartie sonne to Sir Owen Mac Cartie Reughe his people following the track of some Cowes that had beene stollen from them into Muskerry the Oleries assembled themselues to the number of one hundred or thereabouts and following the Carties who were by this time returned into Carbery at last overtooke them and without many words gaue the On-set the other stoutly resisted betweene whom there passed a short but a sharpe skirmish wherein were slaine Olerie the Head of that Sept and ten other the chiefe of his family with some more of lesse note and of the Carties Finin Mac Owen his Brother dangerously wounded with some few slaine of his part Cormock Mac Dermond Lord of Muskery much grieved with the slaughter of the Oleries his Followers was an earnest Sutor to the Councell that he might be permitted to revenge this losse upon the Carties in Carbery some there were that thought it not unfit to accord unto his demands because which party soever should prevaile yet could not the Queene loose a good Subject But the President would by no meanes yeeld thereunto lest the hot prosecution of these particular grievances might kindle the coales of some further mischiefe in giving occasion of distast to the now reconciled Subjects Redmond Burke being weary of his vagabond life living like a Woolfe upon every one from whence he could take any thing or rather wittingly foreseeing the ruine and destruction of those his Confederats which were in rebellion of whose fortunes he was in all likelihood to be a Partaker wrote a Letter to the President dated the thirtieth of October which because it is but short I doe here insert A Letter from Redmond Burke to the Lord President RIght Honourable I doubt not the detestable and apparant wrong that the Earle of Clanrickard hath done mee is manifestly knowen to your Lordship already as I need not larger to expresse it but this I am sure that the tolleration thereof and that I would not otherwayes bin caused to runne this course and if there were any hope of redresse that I would long ere this be a Subject and will now shew my selfe worthy to be accepted if I be entertained and my Fathers Lands seized into your Honours hands till my Title be tryed This Countrey of Ely being in your Honours Province is a parcell to whom I make claime wherein I would expect your Honour to right me first And thus requesting your Honour to accept my service and favour my right I take leaue From Ely the thirtieth of October 1600. Your Honours as you please Redmond Letrim The President much misliking the tenour of his Letter as vvell for other reasons as for capitulating for the Countrey of Ely O Carrell before he had by his service merited any favour and lastly for the slight subscription Your Honours as you please returned him no Answer in writing utterly refusing any further traffique with him it being his custome not to deale with Traitors upon Conditions CHAP. XVI The Lord President sueth for a generall Pardon for the Provincialls The Submission of Thomas Oge Fits Gerald and the rendring of Castle Mâ—nge The Castle of â—â—stoell besieged and taken The Castle of the Dingle rendred In the beginning of November a strong castle in Connilogh which was held by Iames fits Thomas was surprized by our Forces so as hee had no other Castle at his devotion left but Castle Mange The fourth of November Thomas Oge fits Gerald Constable of Castle Mange for Iames fits Thomas having evermore had a better affection unto the young Earle of Desmond Iames lately sent by her Majestie into Ireland as hath been declared upon the Earles intreatie and perswasions came to Kilmallock and there made tender of the said Castle unto the Earle for her Majesties use The Earle the next day brought him to Moyallo to the President where hee made his submission and direction was sent to Sir Charles Wilmot for the receit of the said Castle Sir Charles Wilmott knowing that Fits Maurice the Lord of Lixnaw had onely one Castle called Listoell wherein to shelter himselfe finding no other meanes to compasse the same determined to besiedge it and intimated so much to the President by his Letters requesting his advice and allowance therein who returned answer That hee desired nothing more then to haue that Castle gotten for the Queene and for the manner left the managing thereof wholly to his discretion He sate downe before it upon the fifth of November attempting to get it by a Myne in the which after hee had wrought fiue or sixe dayes and brought it underneath the Castle wall being ready to make a bed for the placing of the powder suddainly the spring brake foorth in such abundance as that worke became fruitlesse thereupon new ground was sought which proved good the foundation of the Castle was undermined as farre as the middest of the Seller which
neweâ— of these parts are that the Sonne of Geralt the late Earle is arrived unto whom his Fathers old Followers doe much resort hee is an Heretike yet neverthelesse by the helpe of the English he will doe us great harme The right Earle of Desmond is forsaken of all men and not able to make Head and the lesse hope of his rising againe by the comming of young Iames who is the Queenes Earle and hath a Patent for his Earledome I pray your speedy Answer in the meane time I will dissemble with the President who deales sharpely with us the Letter which you sent with these to Mac Carty More I haue sent unto him by a Messenger of my owne who is lately agreed with the President and so we are deceived in him and therefore he is not to be firmely trusted with the commandement of all the Clan Carties Cormocke Cartie Sir Charles Wilmot in the meane time maâ—ching to an Abbey in Kerry called Ratho neere unto Lixnaw assoone as his Colours were descried was fired by the Enemy that lodged there from thence with his Horse onely he marched â—o Tralie where hee found one hundred Bonoghs of the Oâ—â—â—llies among whom was Moriertagh Mac Shighie and three or foure more of the lurking Earles chiefest Followers on horsebacke our Horse charged them the Horsemen by flight saved themselues but of the â—ooâ—e there was slaine about fourtie dead in the place the rest by the â—avour of a neighboâ—ring bogge and the Mountaine at hand escaped but all their Armes were left to our shares The perpetuall juggling which Florencâ— Mac Cartie continued towards the Lord President I haue so often touched as it needs no other proofe but for the better Testimonie of his ill â—ffection to the State even now when the Sugan Earle was in the estate of a fugitiue hiding himselfe from the sight of men Florence as the Lord President was advertised from Sir Charles Wilmot had raysed one thousand Bownoghs to bee placed upon Desmond foure hundred uâ—on Kerry and sixe hundred upon Carbry and concludes with these words Viz. assuredly hee purposeth to bee a Villaine though hee could be contented to liue in neutralitie as he doth if he could cary it cleanely Also at that time the Baron of Lixnaw who was banished Kerry was by him relieved in Desmond but obserue well I beseech you this wavering and unsetled companion who not knowing which way either to be a Subject or Rebell not many dayes afterwards as shall bee said came to the President with a smooth countenance full of Loyaltie but inwardly the same man hee had ever beene Nothing was more common now in Mounster then a bruite of the strangers from Connaght and Vlster comming to invade the Province with two thousand men and hereof the President received daily advertisement from the Earle of Thomond the Lord Barry Iustice Comerford and others and to verifie the same Pierce Lacy was come into the borders of Kilquig and had preyed Glanogre a Towne belonging to Sir George Bourchier Master of the Ordnance being a parcell of his Signiory and then in farme to Alexander Fitton this caused the President to assemble the greatest part of his Forces to Kilmallock attending there to behold what should become of this Cloud which threatned such a dangerous Tempest which at length vanished without any great disturbance for about the midst of this Moneth they withdâ—â—w themselues into Ormond within the Libertie of Tipperarie the cause why they departed before they had made any Bonfiers in Mounster which was their arrand as I haue since learned was two fould First because Redmond Burke could by no meanes bee drawen into the Province being in expectation of great favour from the President as appeareth by his Letters sent about this time which because it is but short and yet apparantly declareth this truth I thought not unfit here to bee recited in his owne words RIght Honourable I would long ere this be a Subject and will now shew my selfe worthy to be accepted if I be entertained and my Fathers Lands seized into your Honours hands till my Title bee tried this Countrey of Ely O Carrell being in your Honours Province is a parcell whereto I make claime wherein I would expect your Honour to right me first and thus requesting your Honour to accept my service and favour my right I take leaue this ninth of November 1600. Your Honours as you please Redmond Letrim The President to hold Redmond as I conceiue in some hope that hee might not joyne with the Northerne Forces then expected to come into Mounster returned him answer to this effect That his Demaunds seemed to bee somewhat reasonable and that hee was very sorry that it was not fully in his power to accomplish his request Notwithstanding there was no doubt but upon his Letters already dispatched to the Councell of England and to the Lord Deputie in his behalfe such order should bee taken as hee should hold himselfe well satisfied and surely whether the President dealt plainely and bona fide vvith the said Redmond or whether hee fed him vvith good vvords onely like a Courtier to serue his owne turne I know not but if I might deliver my poore opinion I thinke him to haue received some hard measure I meane in respect of his Fathers Lands upon whomsoever the fault lyeth but to returne This Redmond commanding the greatest part of the Forces now assembled depending this much upon the Presidents favour as by his Letter appeareth could by no allurements of these Mounster Rebels bee inticed to commit any outrage within that Province An other cause why these Rebels thus assembled came no further up into Mounster was because the wandring Earle Iames fits Thomas who should haue given them Bonnaght in the Province knowing that Lixnaw Redmond Burke Pierce Lacie and all of them were growen wearie of the Rebellion and that the President had commerce with all those durst not commit himselfe into their power they being so strong and hee so poore and weake fearing left they should haue delivered him being the marke the President chiefly aymed at to worke their owne peace Dermond O Conner having now heard that the young Earle of Desmond his Brother in law was arrived in Mounster according to the Presidents promise to him made that he should come was desirous that hee should repaire thither with intent to doe some acceptable service for her Majestie which being made knowen by the Lady Margaret his wife the Lord President sent him a Safe-conduct for himselfe and his followers and procured the like from Sir Arthur Saâ—age the chiefe Commissioner in Connaght and also from the Earle of Clanrickard to secure his passage through his Countrey and for his better safetie he sent an hundred Foot to guard him as soone as hee should enter into Thomond Hee being now past Clanrickard and comming to Oshafnesses Countrey within seventeene or eighteene miles of Limerick Theobald ne Long Burke who
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
who caried him to his Castle of Kilvenny and presently dispatched a Messenger to Sir George Thornton to pray him to send some of the Garison of Kilmallock to take the charge of him which employment was committed to the care of Captaine Francis Slingesby who marching with his Company to Kilvenny had the Prisoner delivered unto him and from thence with as much expedition as might bee the White Knight Sir George Thornton and Captaine Slingesby brought them unto the President then residing at Shandon Castle adjoyning to Corke But how the White Knight performed his promise to his Servant it may bee doubted though he had one thousand pound given him from Her Majestie for the service The President having thus gotten his long desired prey not adventuring to haue him kept in the Towne appointed him lodging and a Keeper within Shandon Castle where himselfe then remayned and there held him in Irons untill he was sent into England which was yet deferred for the President being informed by the Queenes learned Councell that if he should dye before his arraignement the Queene could not be interressed in his Lands but by act of Parliament and also his Brother Iohn was not debarred by the Law from the title which this Pretender holdeth to be good in the Earledome of Desmond When the White Knight had delivered his Prisoner Iames fits Thomas into Captaine Slingesbyes custody he told him now the house is yours take care and charge of him And in conference with Captaine Slingesby told him how much it grieved him that the Lord President should suspect him to bee a Releever of Iames fits Thomas contrary to his protestation of service to Her Majestie and to him and to make it the better appeare what infinite prejudice hee had received by his meanes For first at the comming of Tyrone into Mounster Iames fits Thomas having some jealousie and not without cause that the White Knight would quit the confederacie and humbly seeke Her Majesties gratious favour acquainted Tyrone with it who thereupon apprehended him and willed him either to put in his Sonne Iohn as Pledge of his perseverance or else hee must detaine him Prisoner which the White Knight being neither able nor willing to performe committed him to the custody of Redmond Burke who caried him out of the countrey making him lackie it by his horse side on foote like a common Horse-boy and that in his absence his Countrey being thus distracted for want of a Head the Earle of Ormond came with some forces preying burning and spoyling most part of his Countrey and that he was forced to pay unto Redmond Burke two hundred pound ransome after three moneths imprisonment with this ill vsage concluding that it might well be beleeved hee had small cause to doe those favours to Iames fits Thomas which were suspected considering hee had received those harmes and losses from him who was never able to repayr him of the least part thereof But it may well be conceived that the White Knight had not untill he was so pressed by the President made any diligent inquity after him and that if he had more timely sought it he might sooner haue effected it Captaine Slingesby having now the Prisoner and the whole house and keyes committed over to his charge and keeping setting his Guards and Sentinels both within the house and without as was fitting for the Guard of so welcome a Prisoner went to where the said Iames was to be his Watch that night and judging a man in his case not capable of any favour from Her Majestie as being the principall cause of all the rebellion of Mounster though otherwise none of the bloodiest enemies could take no comfort in discourse was silent by him not willing to grieue him with discoursing on that which hee thought could not bee pleasing unto him untill Iames fits Thomas himselfe first ministred occasion who having had some notice what Captaine Slingesby was after some complements began in fome sort to extenuate though not to excuse his former faults to Her Majestie how he was inforced to take that title upon him otherwise his brother Iohn would not haue beene so nice in the accepting and that hee never shed any English blood in the first insurrection nor suffered any to doe it that hee could withhold though many of his Followers did not so piously obserue it but with the best respect of humanity did cause them to be sent out of the Countrey to the next coast Townes with the least offence that might be and therefore hoped Her Majestie who had extended her clemencie to farre greater crimes though it was his hard fortune to bee so eminent a man in that action she would now retract nothing of Her wonted goodnesse and mercy Intimating withall his Father to bee elder brother to Gerrot Earle of Desmond who by the power of his Mother a second wife was disinherited and her sonne though a younger received and acknowledged for Earle of Desmond With these and other discourses they spent the whole night untill it was day when they made ready to goe to Corke to the Lord President to deliver the Prisoner Vpon these reasons the Prisoner at a Sessions holden in Corke for that purpose was indicted arraigned convicted and adjudged to bee executed as a notorious Traytor which being done the President advertised all the proceedings into England and desired that he might be sent to the Tower of London and there to remaine in prison humbly praying that his life might bee spared in policie of State for whilest hee lived his brother Iohn could not make any pretext to the Earledome whereas to the contrary he being dead it was very probable that the Rebels would set him up for a new Idoll in his place whereof what inconveniences might ensue was apparant These reasons although they are subject to every mans understanding that hath common sense and therefore no marvell that the Lord President should light upon them Behold here what the Captiue Earle himselfe doth say concerning that point who being Prisoner in the Presidents house having the favour to haue Paper and Inke upon the third of Iune one thousand sixe hundred and one wrote this which insueth humbly intreating the President to send it to Her Majestie or to the Lords of her Councell in England which hee performed in his next dispatch The Relation of Iames of Desmond to the Right Honourable Sir George Carew Lord President of Mounster most humbly beseeching your Honour to certifie Her Majesty and the Lords of her most Honourable Councell of the same Hoping in the Almighty that Her Highnesse of her accustomed clemencie and mercy by your intercession will take most gratious and mercifull consideration thereof to the end that Her Majesties Realme of Ireland shall be the better planted and maintained in good government by his release The third of Iune 1601. FIrst it may please your Honour to consider that this action at the beginning was never
after that rate for more or lesse in quantitie Item our said Soveraigne Lady c. That hee shall and may to all and every persons bringing into any place for the exchange appointed in Ireland monies of base allay heretofore currant or now vsed within the Realme deliver by himselfe or his deputies like quantities by weight of the monies of this new Coyne as he or his deputies shall receiue of any such old base monies by weight Item our said Soveraigne Lady doth c. That she wil allow unto the said Sir Gâ—o Cary or his Assignes for the charges of transportation of the monies of this new Coyne from her Tower of London into her Majesties said Realme of Ireland aswell to the Citie of Dublin as to any other places where Exchanges are to be established or payments to bee made for her service after the rate of twentie pounds of this new Standard upon every thousand pound of the same coyne the same to bee allowed unto him upon his account as her Majesties Treasurer at warres in Ireland Item our said Soveraigne Lady doth c. That whensoever and as often as any of the monies of this new Standard of Ireland after their first uttering in payment to her Highnesse Armie there being brought backe againe to the Exchange to be converted in sterling or otherwise shall by her Majesties commandement bee 〈◊〉 againe for her Highnesse service in payment of her Armie or otherwise That so often her Highnesse will allow to the said Sir George Cary or his Assignes after the 〈◊〉 of ten pounds of this new Standard upon every thousand pounds of the same coyne by tale the same to bee allowed unto him upon his account as Treasurer of her Highnesse warres in Ireland Item our said Soveraigne Lady doth c. That shee will allow unto the said Sir George Cary for all such summes of money as shall by her Highnesse from time to â—ime beâ— sent or delivered out of her Exchequer for the furnishing mâ—intenance of this Exchange after the rate of 〈…〉 â—pon every thousand pounds by â—ale The said Sir George Câ—â—y taking upon him the charges and expence of conveying her Majesties said Treasure unto the placâ—s where the same shall bee vsed for the exchange Item our said Soveraigne Lady doth c. That all hazard and danger hapning in the transportation of this her Majesties monies out of her Realme of England into Ireland either by wrecke of Sea or tempest or by violence of enemies shall bee at the only perill of our said Soveraigne Lady her Heires and Successors as heretofore it hath beene in like cases the said Sir George Cary making proofe that hee his deputies or Assignes having charge of the said transportation haue vsed all such care heed and diligence for the safe conveyance thereof as they would or might haue done for the assurance of their owne goods or as heedfull provident men use to doe for the safetie of their goods in like adventures Item our sayd Soveraigne Lady doth c. That shee shall and will from time to time furnish and deliver to the said Sir George Carey or his Assignes all such summes of money as shall bee requisite and needfull for Exchanging and converting of this new Irish Coyne into moneys of the Standerd of England according to her Majesties Proclamation after the rate of one fourth part at the least of such quantities of this Irish moneys as her Majestie shall cause to be coyned from time to time or after a greater rate if it shall appeare by experience that a greater portion then a fourth part of the same shal be returned to the Exchange Item our sayd Soveraigne Ladie doth c. That if at any time heereafter her Majestie shall thinke good to cease the Exchange and not to continue the converting of Irish moneys into sterling and that it shall happen that at such time there shall bee remaining in the hands of the sayd Sir George Carey any quantities of Irish Monies great or small not issued for her Majesties service that in such case her Highnesse will accept and allow unto the said Sir George Cary upon his account all such summes of money at such raâ—e and valew as the same were delivered unto him to bee issued in payment for her service And further her Majestie doth covenant c. That for the defraying of all Wages Fees and Stipends as well to him the said Sir George Cary as 〈…〉 of the Exchanges as also to all other Officers needfull to bee established for the exercise of the same either within the Realme of England or in Ireland wheresoever her Highnesse doth and will allow unto the said Sir George Cary the summe of two thousand pounds of the monies of this new Standard by the yeare to bee taken unto him and stayed in his owne hands out of such profits as upon the exchange doth arise unto her Majestie The said allowance of two thousand pounds per annum to take beginning the first day of May now next ensuing the date hereof and to continue during all the time that the Exchange shall be upheld CHAP. V. A Regiment sent by the Lord President into Connaght Intelligence of the Spanyards comming for Ireland brought to the Lord President sundry wayes Iames fits Thomas his report of Florence Mac Cartie Dermond Mac Awlies report of the Counsell held in Vlster for the Spanyards landing THE Affayres of Mounster thus digested the President according to the Lord Deputies directions expedited with munition and victuals one thousand Foot into Connaght under the command of Sir Francis Barkley The List of the Captaines and Companies were as followeth viz. Sir Francis Barkley 100. Foot Sir Richard Percie 150. Sir Gerrard Harvie 150. Sir Edward fits Gerald 100. Sir Iohn Dowdall 100. Captaine Iohn Bostocke 100. Captaine George Kingsmill 100. Captaine George Blunt 100. Captaine William Power 100. Besides fiftie Horse under the command of Captaine Richard Greame which Regiment was sent to giue countenance unto the service of Ballishanon intended by Sir Henry Docwray although the President was very loath to spare them at this time for the rumour of Spanish preparations for Ireland which had been secretly whispered all this Spring was now strongly conceited and confidently beleeved by all the Irish And moreover certaine Advertisment hereof was daily brought unto the President from the Irish Merchants Factors in Spaine from the Priests in Italy to the Irish Lords from the English in France to their private friends all of them agreeing in one adde heereunto the constant Asseverations of Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle then a condemned prisoner who after his apprehension and condemnation being often examined was still confident of the Spanyards comming and being demaunded his cause of knowledge answered That the Spanish Fryer Don Matheo de Oviedo whom they call Archbishop of Dublin did assure him of the Kings pleasure therein and to hasten the same hee tooke his journey from Spaine
to the King and gaue it to Tyrone to bee sent into Spaine And also tooke his corporall oath to performe his promises whereupon Tyrone stiled and confirmed him Mac Carty More hee also told the said Thomas Oge that if the Spaniards did not land by May next hee would goe into the North and from thence into Spaine And after that Iames fits Thomas was broken hee told this examinat that if Iames could get Forces out of Vlster the said Florence would joyne with him Farther Florence intised Connocke Mac Dermond to enter into rebellion and marry his Sister to Iames fits Thomas who should giue unto him Kerry whereby that his eldest Sonne should marry Cormocks Daughter and Cormocks eldest Sonne to marry his daughter who in mariage with her would giue Carrigenesse with twelue Plow-lands which mariage hee proposed for their firmer vnion in their rebellious enterprise And that hee had loaden a Barque with Irish commodities to bee sent beyond the Seas which should returne him munition c. Many other treasonable actions and traitorly speeches acted and spoken by the said Florence the same Thomas Oge related unto the Lord President which for brevities sake I haue omitted which was taken at Moyallo by the President in Ianuary 1600. The President not holding himselfe sufficiently assured of Florence with his two pledges his base brother and kinsman still importuned the bringing of his eldest Sonne according to his promise upon his first protection hee having no pretext for his longer stay sent to Owen Mac Teg Mergagh in Desmond to carry his said Sonne to Corke there to bee left as a pledge for him within a few dayes after this message sent Florence receiving advertisement from Tyrone of certaine Spaniards landed in the North and hearing continuall rumors of Northern forces to infest the Province dispatched a Messenger to the said Owen Mac Teg mergagh to make stay of his Sonne for a longer time viz. untill hee might perceiue what would bee the issue of those preparations but before the Messenger could come the said Owen was with the child upon his way and come to Corke before the said Messenger overtooke him but had not as yet delivered the child out of his owne custody wherefore receiving this countermand hee secretly conveyed the child out of the Citie and returned with him againe into Desmond where he was kept as before untill Florence had seene that there was neither Irish nor Spaniards appeared to his aide succour and comfort In the Moneth following namely in Ianuary hee sent divers Letters to Tyrone and other his fellow traytors in the North and from them received severall answers whereof some part chanced to come to our hands which wee will here insert and first there doth offer it selfe one Letter written by Donogh Mac Cormock to the King of Spaine in the name of Florence Mac Cartie the tenor whereof was as followeth A Letter from Donoghe Mac Cormock in the name of Florence to the King of Spaine HAving received direction from the Earle of Clan-Care I would not omit this opportunity at the departure of the Archbishop of Dublin and Don Martin de La Cerda to make knowen to your Majestie how the said Earle hath written to your Majestie by two or three wayes but understanding that these Letters came not to your Royall hands hee hath now againe written by me to your Majestie making offer as well of his person and lands as of his vassals and Subjects to your Royall service humbly beseeching your Majestie to receiue favour and aide him with your power and liberall hand seeing there is no other that can and will assist us better against these Heretikes in this holy Enterprise From Donegall the fift of Ianuary 1601. Your Majesties loyall Vassall to kisse your Royall hands Donoghe Cartie This Letter as it should seeme was originally written and the Copie sent to Florence by one Thomas Shelton who wrote herewith other Letters unto him of his owne as followeth A Letter from Shelton to Florence Mac Carty MY honourable Lord by direction of the Lord Archbishop of Dublin and at the request of Mac Donogh your agent here I did write a Letter addressed to the King of Spaine subscribed by him In which was signified â—ow by your directiâ—â— hee had made offer of your service to his Majestie the Copie of which Letter goâ—th here inclosed what the newes and hopes of Spaine are the bearer will fully informe you This only rests that as I haue ever desired to serue your Lordship so finding now the opportunity of this Bearer I would not omit so fit an occasion to kisse your honourable hands and signifie that respect I haue ever borne towards you God preserue and assist yoâ— in all your designes that wee may liue to see accomplished by you these things whereof your noble beginnings giue an assured hope Donegall Iâ—â—â—ary the sixth sub Your most affectionate Friend Thomas Shelton Hee received also at the same time other Letters in Spanish thus Englished from the said Archbishop subscribed To the most Excellent Earle Florence Mac Cartie A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Florence Mac Cartie RIght Honourable Lord God is my witnesse that after my arivall in Ireland having knowledge of your Lordships valour and learning I had an extreame desire to see communicate and conferre with so principall a personage but the danger of the way would not permit mee I am now departing into Spaine with griefe that I haue not visited those parts but I hope shortly to returne into this Kingdome and into those parts to your satisfaction and be assured that I will performe with his Maiestie the office that a Brother ought to doe that he should send from Spaine Because by letter I cannot speake any more I leaue the rest untill sight The Lord haue your Lordship in his keeping according to my desire From Donegall the sixteenth of Ianuary 1601. Yo Mateo Arçobispo de Dublin After all this namely in February next following the said false-hearted Florence wrote certaine Letters to O Doâ—â—â—ll the contents whereof may be gathered by the answer that the said O Donell remised in Irish therevnto and therefore I haue thought good to remember the same translated in this place O Donnels Answer OVr commendations to you Mac Cartie We haue received the Letter you sent the fourteenth of October and we sweare by our word that you are no lesse grieved for that you see us not then we our selues and it was not more your minde to haue ayd then ours to send vnto you if wee could for the great trouble it would bee to our selues to intend you and by your hand there was not many in Ireland more of the minde then mine owne person to haue gone to visit you had not the strangers neighboured upon my Countrey and as you know my Countrey lying on the Sea and they having the secrecie thereof to doe their endeavours to conquer what they may
fiftie Souldiers whom hee promised to releeue if they were assayled or bring them off in boats The two Culverings were landed and all meanes vsed to mount them but it could not bee done till the next day so ill was every thing fitted by reason there had beene no use of them of a long time These two Peeces were mounted and all things put in a readinesse to batter the next day the Spaniards in the Towne discovering our purpose did that night assay to releeue the Castle by Boats and were valiantly repelled by Captaine Button with shot out of his ship The two Culverings began to play upon the Castle of Rincorran but within two or three shot the cariage of the better Culvering brake and about two of the clock in the afternoone the other received a flawe and by that meanes made unserviceable so all that could bee done that day was to mount the whole Culvering upon her cariage The same day they gaue an Alarme to our Campe drawing Artillery out of the Towne and with it played into our Campe kild two neere the Lord Deputies tent with a Demy Cannon shot and through the next tent to it brake two Hogsheads of the Lord Deputies beere and every shot that was made fell still in the Lord Deputies quarter neere his owne tent Don Iuan de Aquila perceiving the Castle would bee distressed attempted to releeue it by Boats but Sir Richard Percy beate them off who had the command of the Lord Presidents regiment that this night was appointed to guard The Culvering in the morning began to play and about nine of the clock the Demy Culvering was mounted which after a few shot brake her Axeltree before three she was remounted and by that time a Cannon likewise planted and all the three Peeces without intermission played The Lord President misliking the manner of the making of the battery not being constantly made upon one place but upon the Spikes of the Castle requested the Lord Deputie to leaue that service to his care whereunto he easily assented To shew that hee was well experienced in the profession of a Cannonier wherein hee had beene by reason of his imployments long practised he performed the office of a Master-gunner making some shot and that the Artillery might play as well by night as day himselfe did take and score out his ground-markes and with his Quadrant tooke the true levell so as the want of day-light was no hindrance but in doing thereof hee fairely escaped two Musket shott for as hee was standing at the Breech of a Cannon busie about his worke the one lighted upon the muzzle of the Peece the other upon the Carriage close to the Trunnions While wee were busie attending the Battery fiue hundred of the principall men drew out of Kinsale with shew to goe to relieue Rincorran by land toward a guard wee kept betweene Rincorran and the Towne leaving a great grosse for the seconds under the walles and under that colour to gaine a safe passage for their Boates thither whereupon out of the Regiments being then in Armes in the Campe divers broken Companies drew that way among which Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn sent Captaine Roe his Lieutenant Colonell and Sir Arthur Savages Lieutenant with one hundred men and seeing them likely to draw on a round Skirmish tooke thirtie Shott of his owne Company and went up to them where hee found Captaine Roe and Carbery Lieutenant to Captaine Thomas Butler skirmishing with Shot the Enemy being hard by them with some two hundred men and another grosse neere towards the Towne to second them The Lord Audley who drew some of his Regiment out of the Campe was then comming up assoone as Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn came where the skirmish was hee saw the Enemies drawing up to giue a charge comming close with their Pikes whom they presently encountred and beat them backe towards their seconds and made them retreat apace Notwithstanding they played upon them with their small shott out of every house in that quarter of the Towne being full of Towers and Castles In this Charge Sir Oliver received on his Target and Body divers thrusts with the Pike whereof one gaue him a very small hurt in the thigh he killed a Leader and one other with his owne hands The Lord Audley comming up to the charge was shot through the thigh Sir Garret Harvie hurt in the hand and his horse killed under him Captaine Butlers Lieutenant was slaine and foure other Sir Arthur Savages Lieutenant shot through the Body and thirtie other hurt the Enemy left ten or eleuen dead in the place besides those that were hurt which in all likelihood were many by reason of the neernesse of the shot and as one reporteth that came the next day from Kinsale and had bin in the Ghesthouse amongst them 70 were brought thither hurt whereof eight dyed that night In this skirmish was taken prisoner Iuan Hortensio de Contreras that had been Sergeant Major of the forces in Brittany and divers very good Armes and Rapiers gotten from the Spaniards All this while the three Peeces played upon the Castle untill sixe of the clock at night at which time they in the Castle founded the Drum and prayed admission of parley which the Lord President whom the Lord Deputie had left there himselfe returning to take care of the Campe accepted there came with their Drum an Irish man borne in Corke who prayed in the name of the rest that they might bee licensed to depart to Kinsale with their Armes bag and baggage this being denyed by the Lord President who would not conclude with any but the Commander of the place hee returned the Messenger willing him to tell the Commander that no other but himselfe should bee heard and that hee had no commission to grant them any other composition then to yeeld to her Majesties mercy Then immediatly they sent the Drum againe and with him a Sergeant called Pedro de Herodiay çuaçola whom the Lord President refused to speake withall upon whose returne the Commander himselfe called Bartholomeo Paez de Clavijo an Alfero came to the Lord President but not agreeing upon the conditions for hee still insisted to depart with their Armes to Kinsale being put safe into the Castle the battery began afresh and the Defendants bestowed thicker vollies of shot then at any time before at length about two of the clock when they found the weake estate the Castle was growen into by furie of the battery they sounded againe their Drumme for an other parley which not being accepted many of them endeavored to escape under the Rocke close to the water side which being espied by us our men ran presently close to the Castle wals and if the Lord President had not forbidden them although the breach was not sufficiently assaultable they would haue entered the house of those which attempted to escape
necessary deductions could not bee but very neere wasted and that little remainder more fit for a prey to the poore Souldiers after this tedious travell then for a clause in the Composition Furthermore how needfull it was to embrace this accord may clearely bee seene by whosoever considereth the state of our Armie almost utterly tyred how full of danger and difficultie it was to attempt a Breach defended by so many hands how long time it might haue cost us if wee had lodged in the Breach before wee could haue carried the Towne being full of strong Castles how her Majesties Ships and others being in the Harbour should haue beene forced speedily to forsake us for want of victualls how our selues were not provided for aboue six dayes at the time of this parley that wee had neither Munition nor Artillerie but for one Battery in one place at once fiue of our Peeces being before crazed And finally that if wee had missed of our purpose the whole Countrey had been hazarded Furthermore that which seemed of greatest consequence to enduce his Lordship to this agreement was that the Spanyards in Baltemore Castlehaven and Beerehaven by vertue of this Contract were likewise to surrender those places and depart the Countrey which how hard a matter it would haue prooved and how long and dangerous a war it would haue drawn on to root them out they being strongly fortified and well stored with victuals Munition and Artillery may easily bee conjectured for that of necessitie the Armie for some space must haue rested and in the end haue been constrained after a new supply of necessaries to her Majesties intollerable charges to transport themselues thither by Sea the way by land being unpassable in which time their Succours out of Spaine in all likelihood would haue been come unto them the King being so farre engaged in his Honour to second his enterprise and wee barred of that prosecution of the Rebells which now by this Agreement wee may wholly intend For which considerations the Lo Deputie and Councell thought it in their wisdomes meet to condescend to more indifferent conditions which beeing propounded and agreed upon by Don Iuan these Articles ensuing were signed and sealed on both parts The Articles of Composition betweene the Lord Deputie and Councell and Don Iuan de Aquila Mountjoy In the Towne of Kinsale in the Kingdome of Ireland the second day of the Moneth of Ianuary 1601 betweene the Noble Lords the Lord Mountjoy Lord Deputie and Generall in the Kingdome of Ireland and Don Iuan de equild Captaâ—ne and Camp-master Generall and Governour of the Armie of his Majestie the King of Spaine the said Lord Deputie being enâ—amped and besieging the said town and the said Don Iuan within 〈…〉 respects and to avoyd shedding of blood these Condiâ—ions following were made betweene the said Lords Generalls and their Campes with the Articles that follow FIrst That the said Don Iuan de Aquila shall quit the places which hee holds in this Kingdome as well of the Towne of Kinsale as those which are held by the Souldiers under his command in Castlehaven Baltimore and the Castle of Beere-haven and other parts to the said Lord Deputie or to whom he shall appoynt giving him safe transportation and sufficient for the said people of ships and victualls with the which the said Don Iuan with them may go for Spaine if he can at one time if not in two shippings Item That the Souldiers at this present being under the command of Don Iuan in this Kingdome shall not beare Armes against her Majestie the Queene of England wheresoever supplyes shall come from Spaine till the said Souldiers be unshipâ—ed in some of the Ports of Spaine being dispatched as soone as may be by the Lord Deputy as he promiseth upon his Faith and Honour Item For the accomplishing whereof the Lord Deputie offereth to giue free pasport to the said Don Iuan and his Army aswell Spaniards as other nations whatsoever that are under his command and that hee may depart with all the things hee hath Armes Munitions Money Ensignes displayed Artillery and other whatsoever provisions of warre and any kind of stuffe aswell that which is in Castlehaven as Kinsale and other parts Item That they shall haue ships and victuals sufficient for their money according and at the prices which here they use to giue that all the people and the said things may bee shipped if it be possible at one time if not at two and that to bee within the time aboue named Item That if by contrary winds or by any other occasions there shall arriue at any Port of these kingdomes of Ireland or England any ships of these in which the said men goe they bee intreated as friends and may ride safely in the Harbour and bee victualled for their money and haue moreover things which they shall need to furnish them to their voyage Item During the time that they shall stay for shipping victuals shall be given to Don Iuans people at just and reasonable rates Item That of both parts shall be cessation of Armes and security that no wrong be offered any one Item That the ships in which they shall goe for Spaine may passe safely by any other ships whatsoever of her Majesties the Queene of England and so shall they of the said Queene and her Subjects by those that shall goe from hence and the said ships being arrived in Spaine shall returne assoone as they haue unshipped their men without any impediment given them by his Majestie or any other person in his name but rather they shall shew them favour and helpe them if they need any thing and for security of this they shall giue into the Lord Deputie hands three Captaines such as hee shall choose For the securitie of the performance of the Articles Don Iuan offereth that he wil confirme and sweare to accomplish this agreement And likewise some of the Captaines of his Charge shall sweare and confirme the same in a severall writing Item that hee in person shall abide in this Kingdome where the Lord Deputie shall appoynt till the last shipping upon his Lordships word And if it happen that his people be shipped all at once the said Don Iuan shall goe in the same Fleet without any impediment given him But rather the Lord Deputy shall giue a good ship in which hee may goe and if his said men be sent in two shippings then he shall goe in the last And in like sort the said Lord Deputie shall sweare and confirme and giue his word in the behalfe of her Majestie the Queene and his owne to keepe and accomplish this agreement and joyntly the Lord President the Lo. Marshall of the Campe and the other of the Councell of State and the Earles of Thomond and Clanricard shall sweare and confirme the same in a severall writing I doe promise and sweare to accomplish and keepe these Articles of Agreement and promise the same likewise
foote The same day that Captaine Harvie came to Castle-haven the Odrischals who had the inheritance of the same by a slight got into the Castle and had made themselues masters of it the Spaniards to recover it againe assaulted it and were undermining the same when Captaine Harvie was entering into the Haven but upon the sight of his ships the Irish by composition to depart in safetie rendered it to the Spaniard who had lost two of their Souldiers in the attempt The one and twentieth Captaine Harvie having in his Company the Veador and some other Spaniards set saile for Baltimore whereupon the three and twentieth they went on land and were feasted in the Castle of Donelong by the Governour thereof called Andreas de Aervy and the next day by the direction of the Veador their Ordnance being seven in number in the Castle were shipped And the sixe and twentieth the said Castle and the Castle of Donneshed were with Spanish gravitie rendered to her Majesties use The second of March following they were all embarqued and set saile for Spaine while these things were in doing Captaine Roger Harvie sent a partie of men to Cape-Cleere the Castle whereof was guarded by Captaine Terrils men which they could not gaine but they pillaged the Iland and brought from thence three Boats and the second day following the Rebels not liking the neighbourhood of the English quitted the Castle wherein Captaine Harvie placed a Guard at this time Sir Finnin Odrischall came to Captaine Harvie and submitted himselfe The tenth of the same Moneth the Lord Barry Captaine Taffe and Captaine Iohn Barry chanced to light upon Donoghe Moyle Mac Carties men and slew eighteene of the best of them From Baltimore Captaine George Flower was shipped in a Hoy of one hundred and twentie Tuns with two Companies of two hundred in list but weake by pole to receiue from the Spaniards the Castle of Dunboy but doe all hee could by reason of fowle weather and contrary winds hee could never although hee was at the mouth of the Haven of Beere recover the Land and so enforced to returne effecting nothing in this short Navigation fiftie of his Souldiers by infection dyed and but seven of the Saylers living CHAP. XXVIII The Spanyards imbarqued at Kinsale The Spanyards dispossessed of Doxboy by Osulevan Beare A Letter from Osulevan Beare to the King of Spaine A Letter from Osulevan Beare to the Earle of Carazeâ—a A Letter from Osulevan Beare to Don Pedro de Zubeaur THE twentieth of Februarie twentie Spanish Captaines with one thousand three hundred seventie foure Souldiers set sayle from Kinsale for Spaine The Composition which Don Iuan did make when he surrendred Kinsale did infinitely grieue and offend the Irish and especially those who had voluntarily delivered into his hands their Castles but especially Donnell Osulevan who considering that if his Castle of Donboy should bee in the possession of the English hee was like to be banished his Countrey not having any hope of favour from her Majestie unto whose Crowne and Dignitie hee had manifested himselfe to bee a malicious Traytor resolved to set up his rest in regaining of it out of the Spanyards hands and afterwards to defend it against her Majesties Forces as well as hee might For accomplishing whereof they watched a fit opportunitie and surprized it in this sort Although the Spaniards were the Masters of the Castle yet evermore he had recourse into it lodged therein with such of his men as hee thought good In the dead time of the night when the Spanyards were soundly sleeping and the key of the Castle in the Captaines custody Osulevan caused his men amongst the which there were some Masons to breake a hole in the wall wherein fourescore of his men entered for by appoyntment he had drawne that night close unto the Castle Archer the Iesuite with another Priest Thomas fits Maurice the Lord of Lixnaâ— Donnell Mac Cartie Captaine Richard Tirrell and Captaine William Burke with a thousand men When day appeared Archer prayed Francesco de Saaredra the Spanish Captaine to goe with him to Osulevans chamber unto whom hee made relation that his men were entred the Castle that he meant no personall hurt either unto him or to any of his and that he would keepe the same for the King of Spaines use and also told him that hee had one thousand Foot within Harquebusse shott of the Castle The Captaine seeing himselfe surprized made no resistance and willed his men to doe the like But the Spanyards in furie discharged a few Musket shott amongst the Irish and slew three of them and hurt one but by the mediation of Osulevan and Francesco de Saavedra the Captaine all was pacified Osulevan being very carefull that no hurt might bee done to the Spanyards Afterward Osulevan disarmed them all kept the Captaine and a few of the better sort with three or foure Gunners in the nature of Prisoners and the rest hee sent to Baltimore to be imbarqued into Spaine He also seazed upon all the Spanish Ordnance Munitions and Victualls which was there in store The Captaine not long after was set at libertie and returned with the Veador from Baltimore into Spaine and with him the other souldiers which were detained but the Cannoniers Osulevan reserved When report was brought to Don Iohn de Aguila then in Corke of the surprize of Dunboy he tooke it for a great affront and would presently haue drawen from Kinsale the Spanish Companies there yet remayning and march to Dunboy to regaine it by force and to deliver it according to the Composition into her Majesties hands But the Lord Deputie and the President who were desirous to see his heeles towards Ireland wished him not to trouble himselfe with that businesse and when hee was gone the President should take order for the reducing of it into his hands the Castle of Dunboy was surprized as beforesayd in this moneth of February 1601 and held by Osulevan to the use of the King of Spaine but yet to excuse himselfe unto the King and to make it appeare unto him how much hee was his servant hee wrote unto him to the Earle of Carazena and to Pedro de Zubiare there being at that present in Beerehaven the Spanish Pinnace which brought the Pacquet from Spaine intercepted betweene Kinsale and Corke as aforesaid A Letter from Osulevan Beare to the King of Spaine My Lord and my King OVt of his loue to your kingly greatnesse your humble stedfast servant Donnell Osulevan Beare enforced through perill and constraint doth make bold to enforme unto your greatnesse that upon the landing in Castle-haven in the West of Ireland your Generall Pedro de Zubiar and Pedro Lopez de Soto with a fleet and men from your Greatnesse according to the inward conceit of mind I alwayes held which I manifested in my young yeares and would haue still followed unlesse disability had constrayned mee to the contrary finding a happy
and good opportunity as I imagined I I came to their presence tendering my obeysance unto them in the name of your Highnesse and being with foure hundred men at my owne cost towards your service I yeelded out of my meere loue and goodwill without compulsion or composition into their hands in the name of your Majestie not onely my Castle and Haven called Beerehaven but also my Wife my Children my Countrey Lordships and all my possessions for ever to be disposed of at your pleasure They received mee in that manner and promised as from your Highnesse to keepe and saue the said Castle and Haven during the service of your grace Notwithstanding my gratious Lord conclusions of peace were assuredly agreed upon betwixt Don Iuan de Aguila and the English a fact pittifull and according to my judgement against all right and humane conscience Among other places whereof your greatnesse was dispossessed in that manner which were neither yeelded nor taken to the end they should bee delivered to the English Don Iuan tyed himselfe to deliver my Castle and Haven the onely key of mine inheritance whereupon the living of many thousand persons doth rest that liue some twentie leagues upon the Sea Coast into the hands of my cruell cursed misbeleeving Enemies a thing I feare in respect of the execrablenesse inhumanity and ingratefulnesse of the fact if it take effect as it was plotted that will giue cause to other men not to trust any Spaniard hereafter with their bodies or goods upon these causes My Lord in that I judge this dishonourable act to be against your honour and pleasure as I understand by your last Letters that came into Ireland considering the harme that might ensue to the service of your Majestie and the ever lasting overthrow that might happen to mee and my poore people such as might escape the sword of our Enemy if any should I haue taken upon mee with the helpe of God to offer to keepe my Castle and Haven from the hands of mine Enemies untill further newes and order come from your Highnesse I haue sent my Sonne and Heire being of the age of fiue yeares as a Pledge for accomplishing your will in this behalfe and for the performing of my promise past unto your Greatnesse I would not omit my selfe in person to come and visit your Highnesse but that I feare our warres here would grow weake in respect of my absence for which cause my selfe and the rest of our men of worth haue sent in haste with Intelligence vnto your Greatnesse our loving Friend Dermond Odrischall in respect of our confidence in him our knowledge of him and the continuall endeavors wee see in him towards this Catholique Warre as from vs all And for as much as wee could not conveniently write all that wee wish vnto you wee humbly beseech that hee may bee heard as from vs all as if our selues were present and to hasten helping Newes that shall rejoyce vs and our people and afterwards to speed your gracious helpe vnto vs for the sooner the better whilest our enemies are not in readinesse and vntill the comming of newes from your grace vnto vs I will haue in a readinesse where the service shall require the number of one thousand men and I will upon my knees pray the mercifull God to giue vnto your Grace long life with health of body and soule and all happinesse and so doe commit you to the safeguard of the Omnipotent Donboy viz. Beere-haven the twentieth day of February 1602. Donnell Osulevan Beare A Letter from Osulevan Beare to the Earle of Caraçena MY dutie remembred It may please your Lordship to understand that according to my former Letters it hath manifestly appeared heere the resolution of Don Iuan de Aguila to haue been by his composition with the English to yeeld unto the Enemies hands all the Forts and Havens voluntarily delivered by the Lords and Gentlemen of this Land for his Majesties service which will bee to the dishonour of the King the prevention of his most godly attempt and the utter ruine and destruction of thousands of this Countrey Gentlemen and Catholiques who without compulsion entred into this Action All which having considered I haue of meere affection to my Religion his Highnesse service and loue to my people and Countrey so endeavored the recovery of my Castle as I did draw into the same some hundred of my followers whom although the Spanyards haue attempted to resist and killed three of my best Gentlemen yet durst none of my people kill any of them but without harme forced them out of my said Castle saving their Captaine with fiue or sixe unto whom I haue allowed certaine roomes in my House to looke to the Kings Munition and Artillerie which Castle and Haven I doe detaine and will evermore for his Majesties Service to defend untill his Highnesse pleasure and your Lordships resolution unto mee shall bee further knowen And for manifestation of my loyaltie and faithfulnesse to his Majestie I haue sent my Sonne and Heyre thither whom I hope ere this time is present before your Lordship and haue cessâ—d all the Captaines Company upon my owne people and charges humbly beseeching it may please your Honour to bee a meane unto his most Catholique Majestie that hee may vouchsafe speedily to releeue this place where many of his Royall Shipps in time of service may bee kept in safetie Or otherwayes to send some small Ship towards this coast for to receiue mee and the rest of my Family and Children for to bee carryed into Spaine for the saving of our liues out of the hands of these mercilesse Hereticall Enemies making choyce rather to forsake my ancient Inheritance Friends Followers and Goods then any way to trust to their most gracelesse Pardon or Promise Thus much I hope your godly charitable Nature will draw you to doe for such a one as I am who hazarded Life Lands Goods and Followers for the Catholique Faith and the Kings Majesties Service All which leaving to your Honourable Discretion through whose vertuous meanes I chiefely hope to receiue comfort I humbly take leaue From Beare-haven Castle the last of February 1602. Your most Faithfull and bounden Donnell Osulevan Beare To the Earle of Caraçena Governor and Captaine Generall for his Majestie in the kingdome of Galitia A Letter from Osulevan Beare to Don Pedro Zubiaur MY honorable good friend your kind letters I haue of late received for your carefull furtherance I cannot but rest beholden and thankfull as before Our state sithence your departing notwithstanding many crosses was reasonable well partly because of the weaknesse of the English forces untill a brute came unto us credibly that Don Iuan de Aguila did not onely agree and compound to yeeld the Towne of Kinsale but also the other Castles and Havens delivered voluntarily by the owners unto you and the Veador to the King his use during the occasion of service which notwithstanding being
speake freely since you see by experience that when your designe did giue us cause of revenge we did intreat you with honour and humanity when I shall know your answer I will deale effectâ—ally with the Lord President with whom aswell in kindred as in affection I haue such interest as you haue heard and of whose worth and sufficiencie you haue bin well informed assuring you that if hee will put his hand unto it it will much advance the busines I am not in despaire of his inclination to a peace if by your answer hee may perceiue that you proceed roundly I marvell much that his Majestie and the Lords of his Councell lends their eares so much unto this traitorly barbarous nation who from their Cradles haue beene nourished in falsehood and treasons masking of late their actions under the vaile of religion whereof the truth is that in their hearts they haue neither feare of God nor faith to men And that from henceforth you may not bee blinded and see their fraud wherewith they beguile his Majestie unto whom they protest sincerity I doe send you here inclosed a Letter signed by the hand of the Traytor Odonnell written to a friend of his in this Province of Mounster called O Connor Kâ—rry which was found in the Castle of Beerehaven the which by her Majesties forces under the conduct of the President in person was within the space of seven dayes taken and razed and the Rebels put to the sword their Companions with all their forces lodging neere unto them but according to their custome they durst not second nor aid them but left them to destruction By the which Letter you shall see as cleere as the day how this Traytor Odonnell onely tempers a baite to deceiue the King your Master like unto all the rest of this nation who doe but temporize to worke their advantage by it To relate unto you truely in what estate these Rebels liue at this present howsoever they may protest and dissemble their affaires or write from hence I protest upon my soule that Tironâ— workes all he may to bee received into the favour and mercy of our Soveraigne and that all the Lords and Chiefs of the North that followed him on the day of the rowt at Kinsale and others of those parts haue submitted themselues to the Lord Deputie and for securitie haue put in their Pledges for their future loyalties And Tirone with his weake Troupes haue beene so sharply prosecuted that as a fugitiue being enforced to quit his owne Countrey hee seekes out Coverts Bogges and Woods The Lord Deputie without impeachment passes from place to place and holds all Vlster in subjection The other Provinces of Leinster and Connaght are reduced to obedience and the Province of Munster where I remaine is so much at the commandement of the Lo. President as if he would receiue to mercy all the Traytors that seeke to bee received and promise to liue as good subjects there would bee no rebels left And amongst others Osulevan who hath given you the best assurance and of whom as I think you haue most confidence doth daily make suit to be restored to the Queens favour and this I assure you from the mouth of the Lo. President Moreover as the vulgar can informe you the President absolutely commands in this Province and the traitors whose requests he rejects are so few and so weake as they liue like unto wolues and foxes flying from one place to another onely to assure their liues which kind of life cannot long endure But if the King your Master will persevere to ayd these poore traitors you shall see us when you shall enterprise it in better point then wee were it not being in your power to surprise any Port or place of importance and if it be your chance to come hither in person you shall find it to be true whereof in my particular in regard of the honor I beare you I should be exceeding sorry The Bearer hereof Walter Edney my Lieutenant whom you know by sight in his fatherly loue to his dearest Son whom he placed in the service of Captaine Pedro Enriques de Tejada lately deceased hath intreated the Lord President to licence him to see his sonne to the end that he might supply his necessary wants for default wherof he may otherwise perish which occasion I willingly embraced whereby I might write unto you by that meanes receiue your answer beseeching you to extend your favour unto him during his abode in Spaine I will doe the like for all such as depend upon you if they shall happen to arriue in this Kingdome And to the end that I might the more fully know your answere and haue the better meanes to treat the more effectually in these affayres which are of such consequence I pray you to send one from you well instructed that I may bring him to the Lo. President which will much advance the businesse you desire And as you haue given mee a Pasport for such as I should send unto you whereof by reason of my sicknes I could make no use I doe send you the like here inclosed which shal be of force untill the end of February 1602 Even so Sir being ever ready my allegiance to my Soveraigne excepted to doe you all friendship service I pray God to preserue you in health according to your own desire From Corke the 17 of September 1602. Yours affectionatly to doe you Service Roger Harvie A Monsieur Monsieur Pedro Lopez de Soto Veador generall for his Majestie of Spaine deliver these at the Groyne Sir I had forgotten one thing which is to pray you to affoord your favour to my Lieutenant that hee may vent his Merchandises transported thither and returne others which he carries onely by the meanes of Traffique for the defraying of his charges I will doe the like for any of yours that you shall send hither Roger Harvye A Passeport of Captaine Harvies sent to the Veador I Roger Harvie Captaine of a foote Company and Governour for her Majesty of Castle-haven and Baltimore c. For certaine causes concerning her Majesties service I doe giue this free Passeport to such ship and Messenger as Don Pedro Lopez de Soto Veador generall for the King of Spaine shall send into this Province of Mounster in Ireland betweene the date of this present and the last of February 1602. And if it shall happen that any of her Majesties ships or any other of her Subjects shall meete with the said Ship or that by force of wind they shall be enforced upon the Coast of England or into any part within the Realme of Ireland In her Majesties name I pray and require every of tbem that they may bee friendly entreated and that the Messenger without any impediment may bâ—â— permitted to haue free recourse unto me and to vent their merchand iâ—e being requiâ—ite for the Queenes service Dated at Corke the seventeenth of September 1602. Roger Harvie
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
for some poorer places meet to be kept so as the Queenes forces should consist of ten thousand foote and one thousand horse the rest of the kingdome where the Spaniards are not may bee held in awe with some Garrisons upon them as now they are This manner of warre in my conceit would little or nothing increase the charge the Queene is now at and in a short time weary both the Spaniard and the Irish. To make it appeare more probable unto you that these Garrisons will be able to ruine all the Countrey at their pleasures although the Enemy bee never so strong it cannot bee denyed but sixe thousaâ—d foote and sixe hundred horse may bee drawen from the Garrisons and yet those left against the Irish and Townesmen sufficiently guarded with such a light Army the Commander may goe where hee list and lodge as neere the Spaniard without harme as hee thinkes good for wee haue the same advantage upon them as the Irish in lightnesse haue of us and with such an Army of the Irish there is no doubt to bee made then it followes that wee shall be able to goe into every part of the Province and retreat at our pleasures To the contrary if the Spaniard be strong and wee in his strength doe fight with him the event of battels being dangerous and uncertaine as they are the losse of one field or one dayes disaster would absolutely loose the kingdome if hee come with like numbers as he did the last yeare which I cannot beleeue because the example hath taught him more wit yet I doe not wish that wee should doe as wee did presently besiege him for Kinsale was bought at so deare a rate as while I liue I will protest against a winter siege if it may be avoided I doe speake within my compasse I doe verily beleeue that at that siege and after the sicknesse there gotten we lost aboue sixe thousand men that dyed Thus may your honour see what a fashioned warre I doe conceiue to bee least in charge and most of use but for a farther helpe it will be needfull for some of the Queenes ships to bee evermore upon the coast to keepe the Spaniard from reliefe of victuals and then there is an apparant hope that a Spanish Army cannot any long time subsist in Ireland for betweene us and them and the swarmes of Irishâ—ie that will draw into Mounster the Province will be so harassed as neither the Spaniards or Rebels can avoid starving I protest unto your Honour I doe not project this manner of a warre for any particular respect unto my selfe hoping thereby to haue the managing of it being unmeet for the Lieutenant of the Kingdome to bee where there is not a royall Armie in the field to confront an Enemie and therefore lest I may bee mistaken if the motion bee liked of let it not bee mine But the Reason that leads mee to that opinion is because I am sure it is the easiest warre for charge the surest from hazard and in the end must prevaile Dat' 11. August 1602. G. C. CHAP. XIIII Cormock Mac Dermond makes escape The Castle of Mocrumpe taken and most of the Ward put to the sword Osulevan aâ—d Tirrell repayre with their forces into Muskrey Cormock Mac Dermond makes meanes to bee received to her Majesties mercy The Reasons that mooved thâ— Lord President to accept of Cormocks submission COrmock Mac Dermond being all this time in the Gentleman Porters custodie and his intended escape as hath been said made knowen to the Lo. President the same also came after to the eares of the Lo. Bishop of Corke who according to his duty both of a subject a Councellor acquainted the Lord President with it who made answer that himselfe heretofore having Intelligence thereof and had seriously admonished the Gentleman Porter to take an extraordinary care of his Prisoner Yet because that could not be too often repeated that can never be too sufficiently learned he intreated the Bishop that he also for Abundans cautela non nocet would call for Hammon and giue him warning to bee vigilant and circumspect in his charge knowing how much it concerned both himselfe and the State The Bishop having performed grauely and pathetically the Presidents desire left the execution thereof to his future care Lastly Dominicke Sarsfield the Queenes Atturney for that Province came to the President upon the same errand agreeing in all Circustances with the former Intelligence whereupon the sayd Officer was againe called the practise revealed unto him and for a perclose commaunded to keepe him close prisoner in an Hand-locke either with his owne Servant or some Souldier of especiall trust Notwithstanding all these repetitions and reiterations of warnings within two dayes this last caution given namely upon Michaelmas day betweene seven and eight of the clock at night Cormock having no other attendant but his trusty Servant Maghon Oge Olyne who had broken up a window that looked into the Streete stripping himselfe forth of his clothes creepeth in his shirt out of the window where were divers mantlemen wayting of purpose to receiue him an English woman comming alongst the street in the very instant while he was â—â—eeping forth perceived his white shirt and thereupon raysed the cry they within the house hearing the cry looked for the Prisoner and finding the window open and Chamber empty follow the pursuit but all in vaine for he having the darke night the Towne and Countrey to friend was convaied over the Citie wals and so escaped The President although infinitly grieved with this unfortunate accident yet thought it more necessary to prevent future dangers then to lament passed disasters and therefore wrote presently first to Sir Charles Wilmot being still before Mocrumpe that if he could not gaine the Castle that night hee should raise his siege and retreat with his forces the next morning for nothing was more certaine that now Cormock being escaped all his Followers and Dependants who did infinitly loue him would presently turne Rebels which if they should and joyne with Tirrell and Donnell Osulevan as most likely they would intercept the places and passages twixt him and Corke that he should not bee able to retire without great danger and losse These being sent away by a Horseman other Letters were instantly written to the Lord Barry and the Lord Roch that they should make stay of all Cormocks Followers and goods that were as yet residing in their Countries not suffering either the one or the other to start aside till from himselfe they should receiue farther directions Secondly it was well weighed what a helpe and courage his combination would haue afforded to the Rebels if hee had obstinately run a rebellious course for hee was at that time the strongest man of Followers of any one of the Irish in that Province and his Countrey in strength and fastnesse equall with the worst part of the same and that which required no lesse respect was the
the whole kingdome and also they gaue him large instructions to negotiate with her Majesty and the Lords touching the affaires of Ireland which done the Lord Deputy upon the sixe and twentieth day of February tooke his Iourney towards Drogheda to parley with Tyrone and to receiue his submission as hee promised and performed and at his taking of his leaue with the President hee delivered unto him this Letter directed to the Lords of the Councell A Letter sent by the Lord President from the Lord Deputy to the Lords of the Councell in England MAy it please your Lordships Although I am unwilling to informe you often of the present estate of this kingdome or of any particular accidents or services because the one is subject to so much alteration and the other lightly delivered unto all that are not present with such uncertaintie and that I am loath to make any project unto your Lordships either of my requests to you or my owne resolutions heere since so many things fall suddenly out which may alter the grounds of either yet since I doe write now by one that can so sufficiently supply the defects of a Letter I haue presumed at this time to impart unto your Lordships that I thinke fit to bee remembred or doe determine on most humbly desiring your Lordships that if I erre in the one or hereafter alter the other you will not impute it to my want of sinceritie or constancie but to the nature of the subject whereof I must treat or of the matter whereon I worke And first to present unto your Lordships the outward face of the foure Provinces and after to guesse as neere as I can at their dispositions Mounster by the good government and industry of the Lord President is cleare of any force in rebellion except some few unable to make any forcible head In Leinster there is not one declared Rebell In Connaght there is none but in Orwrks Countrey In Vlster none but Tyrone and Bryan Mac Art who was never Lord of any country and now doth with a Body of loose men some Creaghts continue in Glancomkynes or neere the Borders thereof Cohonoght Macguyre sometimes Lord of Fermannagh is banished out of the country who liues with Orwrke and at this time Connor Roe Macguire is possessed of it by the Queene and holds it for her I beleeue that generally the Lords of the Countreyes that are reclaimed desire a peace though they will be wavering till their Lands and Estates are assured unto them from her Majestie and as long as they see a partie in rebellion to subsist that is of power to ruine them if they continue Subjects or otherwise shall be doubtfull of our defence All that are out doe seeke for mercy except Orwrke and Osulevan who is now with Orwrke and these are obstinate only out of their diffidence to bee safe in any forgiuenesse The loose men and such as are onely Captaines of Bonnaghts as Tirrell and Brian Mac Art will nourish the warre as long as they see any possibilitie to subsist and like ill humours haue recourse to any part that is unfound The Nobilitie Townes and English Irish are for the most part as weary of the warre as any but unwilling to haue it ended generally for feare that upon a peace will ensue a severe reformation of Religion and in particular many bordering Gentlemen that were made poore by their owne faults or by Rebels incursions continue their Spleene to them now they are become subjects and having used to helpe themselues by stealths did never more use them nor better prevailed in them then now that these Submittees haue layed aside their owne defence and betaken themselues to the protection and justice of the State and many of them haue tasted so much sweet in Entertainments that they rather deâ—ire a warre to continue them then a quiet Harvest that might arise out of their owne honest labour so that I doe finde none more pernicious Instruments of a new warre then some of these In the meane time Tyrone while hee shall liue will blow every sparke of discontent or new hopes that shall lye hid in a corner of the Kingdome and before hee shall be utterly extinguished make many blazes and sometimes set on fire or consume the next subjects unto him I am perswaded that his combination is already broken and it is apparant that his meanes to subsist in any power is overthrowne but how long hee may liue as a wood-kerne and what new accidents may fall out while he doth live I know not If it bee imputed to my fault that notwithstanding her Majesties great Forces hee doth still liue I beseech your Lordships to remember how securely the Banditoes of Italy doe liue betweene the power of the King of Spaine and the Pope How many men of all Countreyes of severall times haue in such sort preserved themselues long from the great power of Princes but especially in this Countrey where there are so many difficulties to carry an Armie in most places so many unaccessable strengths for them to flye unto and then to bee pleased to consider the great worke that first I had to breake this maine Rebellion to defend the Kingdome from a dangerous Invasion of a mightie forraine Prince with so strong a partie in the Countrey and now the difficultie to root out scattered Troopes that had so many unaccessable Dennes to lurke in which as they are by Nature of extreame strength and perill to bee attempted so it is unpossible for any people Naturally and by Art to make greater use of them And though with infinite dangers wee doe beat them out of one yet is there no possibilitie for us to follow them with such agilitie as they will flye to another And it is most sure that never Traytor knew better how to keepe his owne head then this nor any Subjects haue a more dreadfull awe to lay violent hands on their sacred Prince then these people haue to touch the person of their Oneales and hee that hath as pestilent a judgement as ever any had to nourish and to spread his owne infection hath the ancient swelling and desire of liberty in a conquered Nation to worke upon their feare to bee rooted out or to haue their old faults punished upon all particular discontents and generally over all the kingdome the feare of a persecution for religion the debasing of the Coyne which is grievous unto all sorts and a dearth and famine which is already begun and must of necessity grow shortly to extremity the least of which alone haue beene many times sufficient motiues to driue the best and most quiet estates into suddaine confusion These will keepe all spirits from setling breed new combinations and I feare even stirre the Townes themselues to solicit forraine aid with promise to cast themselues into their protection And although it bee true that if it had pleased her Majesty to haue longer continued her Army in greater
such Land If any of them heereafter be disobedient to her Lawes or breake foorth in Rebellion shee may when they shall bee more divided ruine them more easily for example unto others and if it be thought fit may plant English or other Irish in their Countreyes For although there ever haue beene and hereafter may bee small eruptions in some places which at the first may easily bee suppressed yet the suffering them to grow to that generall head and combination did questionlesse proceed from great errour in the judgement heere and may be easily as I thinke prevented hereafter And further it may please her Majestie to ground her resolution for the time and numbers of the next abatement of the List of her Armie somewhat upon our poore advise from hence and to beleeue that wee will not so farre corrupt our Iudgements with any private respects and without necessitie to continue her Charge seeing wee doe throughly conceiue how grievous it is unto her Estate and that wee may not bee precisely tyed to an Establishment that shall conclude the payments of the Treasure since it hath ever been thought fit to bee otherwise till the comming over of the Earle of Essex and some such extraordinarie Occasions may fall out that it will bee dangerous to attend your Lordships Resolutions and when it will bee safe to diminish the Armie heere that there may bee some course thought of by some other Employment to disburthen this Countrey of the idle Sword-men in whom I finde an inclination apt enough to bee carried elsewhere either by some of this Countrey of best reputation among them or in Companies as now they stand under English Captaines who may bee reinforced with the greatest part of Irish That it may bee left to our discretion to make Passages and Bridges into Countreyes otherwise unaccessable and to build little Pyles of stone in such Garrisons as shall bee thought fittest to bee continuall Bridles upon the people by the commoditie of which wee may at any time drawe the greatest part of the Armie together to make a Head against any part that shall first breake out and yet reserue the places onely with a Ward to put in greater Forces as occasion shall require which I am perswaded will prooue great Pledges upon this Countrey that upon any urgent cause the Queene may safely draw the greatest part of her Armie heere out of the Kingdome to bee employed at least for a time elsewhere wherein I beseech your Lordships to consider what a strength so many experienced Captaines and Souldiers would bee to any Armie of new men erected in England against an Invasion or sent abroad in any offensiue warre But untill these places bee built I cannot conceiue how her Majestie with any safetie can make any great diminution of her Armie Lastly I doe humbly desire your Lordships to receiue the further explanation of my meaning and confirmation of my reasons that doe induce mee unto these propositions for the Lord President of Mounster who as he hath been a very worthy Actor in the reducement and defence of this Kingdome so doe I thinke him to be the best able to giue you through account of the present Estate and future providence for the preservation thereof wherein it may please your Lordships to require his opinion of the hazard this Kingdome is like to runne in if it should by any mightie Power be invaded and how hard it will bee for us in any measure to provide for the present defence if any such bee intended and withall to goe on with the suppression of these that are left in rebellion so that wee must either adventure the kindling of this fire that is almost extinguished or intending onely that leaue the other to exceeding perill And thus having remembred to your Lordships the most materiall poynts as I conceiue that are fittest for the present to bee considered of I doe humbly recommend my selfe and them to your Lordships favour From her Majesties Castle of Dublin the sixe and twentieth of February 1602. After the Lord Deputie departed by reason of Easterly winds the President was stayed aboue three weekes in Dublin during which time every day Posts were emploied betweene them untill the twentieth of March which was the day the Lord President set saile for England the day following hee arrived at Bewmarris at his comming to Chester hee met with the lamentable newes of the decease of his good and gracious Mistresse Queene Elizabeth for whom as he had good cause he extreamely mourned But two dayes following being at Lichfield he assisted the Major in the proclaiming of King Iames which gaue him new life whom I beseech God long to preserue and continue his Posteritie for ever over his triumphant Monarchy of Great Brittaine and Ireland Although my VVorke bee finished yet according to the course I haue held in the end of the two former Bookes I may not omit to recount to the Reader the most memorable Services and accidents which hapned in this yeere 1602. In the Catalogue whereof I must first begin with the forces sent into Carbery with the Earle of Thomond The sending of Sir Charles Wilmot with his Regiment into Kerry The Lord Presidents departure from Corke with the Armie towards Donboy His long abode at Carew Castle expecting Munition and Victuals The difficulty he had in his approaching towards Donboy The defeat given to the Rebels The arrivall of a Spanish Caravell in Beare with Letters of Comfort Money and Munition from Spaine The siege of Donboy the winning and rasing of it The Presidents returne to Corke and Sir Charles Wilmots into Kerry The flight of Iames Archer the Iesuite and Connor Odrischall into Spaine The relapse of Sir Owen Mac Carties Sonnes The Spanish Hostages returned into Spaine The restraint of Cormock Lord of Muskery His escape and reduction The winning of the Castle of Mocrumpe The defeat of Tirrell and his Bonnoghs in Muskery The sending of Sir Samuell Bagnall with fifteene hundred men to the Lord Deputie The Service done upon the Knight of Kerry The flight of Tirrell with his Bonoghs out of the Province The defeat of the Rebells in Glangarne The flight of William Burke with his Bonoghs Osulevan Beare and Connor Kerry out of Mounster The overthrow of the Cartyes in Carbery And the killing of the Popes Apostolique Vicar Owen Mac Egan The sending of a Regiment with Munition and Victualls for the service in Connaght The defeat of the Lord of Lixnaw The finall Reduction of Mounster The appointing of Sir Charles Wilmot and Sir George Thornton joynt Commissioners for the Government of Mounster And the departure of the Lord President into ENGLAND FINIS 1599. Devoreux Butler Roche Blunt Carew The landing of the Lord Deputie and Lord President in Ireland St. Lawrence Carew The Warrant for the passing of letters Patents to the Lo. President Norris Carew Blunt Carew Norris Norris Norris Cary. The Lo. Presidents Letters Patents Norris Carew Carew Blunt Carew
of the motion but meaneth nothing lesse and the use he made of it 13. Ianuary The President adverti seth into England of the intended invasion of the Spaniards 〈…〉 munition victuals The Lord Deputie to pardon all such as hee should noâ—minate Certain persons excepted uncapable of Pardon 25. Ianuary Victuals and money arrived at Corke 30. Ianuary 1000. foot 50. horse to be sent out of Mounster to the Lord Deputie 2. February The Companies sent for by the L. Deputy stayed by his directions An abstract of the Lord Presidents Letter to the Lords of the Councell 6. March 22. March 1601. March Connaght Vlster men drawn to a head to invade Mounster A Regiment sent by the L. President into Connaght to assist Sir Ioh. Barkley 29. March Walt. Burke and Teg O-Brien slaine The Lo. President with the remainder of his forces came to Limricke The rising out of the Countrey drawen neere to Limricke and coÌ„manded by the L. Barry The Rebels distressed for want of victualls The Rebels defeated Donoghe Mac Cormock Carty slaine 21. Aprilis The Lord Presidents aâ—â—wer Intelligence of Spanish invasion Intelligence of Spanish invasion 26. Aprill The escape of Teg Obrien brother to the Earle of Thomond His submission Florence his preparation for Munition and men May 28. The report of Derm Mac Awlie touching the comming of Vlster men into Mounster Iames fiâ—s Thomas the titulary Earle of Desmond taken by the White Knight and brought to the Lord President 29. May. 29. May. Iames fits Thomas kept Prisoner in the Lord Presidents house Iames fits Thomas arraigned and condemned 3. Iunij A Relation presented to the Lord President by Iames fits Thomas and sent into England 3. Iune The causes of the rebellion in Mounster as Iames fits Thomas alleaged Husseys report of the causes of the rebellion in Mounster A Proclamation concerniâ—g base moneys Artiâ—les betweene her Majestie and the Treasurer at warres for Ireland concerning base Monies A Regiment sent by the L. President into Connaght Intelligence of the Spaniards coÌ„ming for Ireland brought the Lo. Presiâ—ent sundry wayes Iam. fits Thoâ—â— his â—eport of Flo. Mac Carty The report which Dermond Mac Awley made of the Councell held in Vlster about the fittest place for the Spaniards landing in Ireland Meaning Florence Mac Carty Florence Mac Carty by the Lord President committed to prison Here followeth a briefe collection of Flor. Mac Carties treasons and practises with the Rebels and continueth unto the end of the chapter not touching anything formerly related The examination of Iohn Anias Collections out of the examination of Owen Osulevan Florence assumed the title of Mac Carty More Owen Osulevan preyed He joyneth with Tirone and is confirmed by him Mac Carty More A letter from Florence to Donogh Moâ—le Mac Carty He fought with her Majesties forces He gaue intelligence unto Iames fits Thomas His farther practises related by Owen Osulevan His malicious speeches He instituted a Sherife of his owne making in Desmond The examination of Donnell Ferrers The examination of Iames Welsh The message he sent by mistris Mac Donogh He practised a mâ—riage for Iames fits Thomas His practise to hinder the rendring of Castlemange 〈◊〉 Lacies children to her Majesty The examination of Thomas Oge He recals his Son that should haue beene his pledge upon advertisements from Tyrone He writeth Letters to the Traytors in Vlster Hâ— wrâ—te to O Dâ—nnell The examinatioÌ„ of Teg Maâ— Gillipatrick A letter abstracted wâ—itten out of Spaine froÌ„ Dermond Mac Carty unto FloreÌ„ce Tirone wrote to Florence Tyrone wrote to the Osulevans to obey Flor. Tyrone to Florence Tyrone to Florence The examination of Garret Liston Tyrone to Flâ—rence His wifes report to Sir Charles Wilmot His Sisters report of the Lord President The examination of Thomas Oge The examination of Iames fits Thomas The examination of Gillernow Okelly Tyrâ—ne Ia. fits Thâ—m Flor. Mac Cartie Dermond Mac Owen Cartie Dermond Mac Owen Teg Mac Dermond Moil Mo Omaghon arrested Dermond Moil Mac Cartie fled The answer of Dermond Mac Owen to the Lord President 9. August The services which the Mounster Regiment performed in Connaght under the conduct of Sir Francis Barkley Sixe thousand men demanded by the Lo. President to be sent into Mounster to withstand the intended invasion from Spaine The Lo. Presidents opinion sent to the Lords of the Councell of the likeliest place which the Spaniards would attempt to land their forces The effect of the Lords of the Councels answer to the Lord President A branch of the L. Presidents Letter to M. Secretary Câ—cill The intelligence M. Secretary Cecill had of the Spanish fleete comming for Ireland and by him sent to tâ—e Lord President A branch of M. Secretarie Cecils Letter to the Lord President dated the 12. of August 1601. The crosse accident which hapned to make the Lord Deputie to be offended with the Lord President A List of the Captaines of the Spanish Army Stilo novo Don Iuan his Certificate into Spaine after his landing in Kinsale Tyrone Odonnell Second Letters from Sir Charles Wilmot of the arrivall of the Spaniards at Kinsale It was debated in Councell upon the receit of the Letters aforesaid what was meetest for the Lord Deputy to doe The Lord President differs in opinion from the rest The Lord Deputy assented to the Lâ— Presidents advise The providence of the Loâ—d President 24. Sept. A dispatch into England of the Spaniards arrivall The Lord Deputy goeth with the Lord Prsident into Mounster 26. Sept. Not any of the Provincials of Mounster adhered to the Spaniards at the first landing 28. Sept. The report of the master of a Scottish barque concerning the strength of the Spaniards 28. Sept. Captaine Flower sent to view Kinsale where he skirmished with the Spaniards The Corne neere adioyning to Kinsale burnt by direction Stilâ— novo 29 Septemb. The Lo. Deputy c. went to view the Towne of Kinsale 3. October 8. Octob. 9. Octob. 10. Octob. 11. Octob. 12. Octob. 13. Octob. 14. 15. Octob. 16. Octob. The Lo. Deputy with the army marched toward Kinsale The L. President required the towns of Mounster to send CoÌ„panies oâ— foot to the Camp 17. Oct. The Army encamped at Knock-robin neere Kinsale 18. Octob. 19. Octob. 20. Octob. The enemie attempted to disturbe our quarter but were repulsed 21. Octob. A skirmish betweene vs and the Spaniards 22. Octob. Capt. Button arrived with munition victuall 23. Octob. More Munition and victuall arrived 24. Octob. 25. Octob. A skirmish in the night wherin 20 of the Spaniards were slaine 26. Octob. The Armie encaÌ„ped close to Kinsale A prey of Kiâ—â— taken from the Spaniards 27. Octob. The castle of Rincorran guarded by the Spaniards 28. Octob. 29. Octob. The Spaniards repulsed 30. Octob. The Castle of Rincorran besieged The Spaniards repulsed by Sir Richard Percy 31. Octob. The castle of Rancorran battered by the Lo. President A faire escape A remarkable skirmish betweene vs and the Spaniards that
surprised with a feaver in his returne to Mounster 1602 In what estate the province of Mounster was in after the siege of Kinsal The warre of Ireland censured to bee lawfully maintained by the rebels in the opinion of the learned men in Spaine The names of the Doctors of Salamanca who ceâ—sured the lawfulnesse of the rebellion in Ireland The Earle of Thomond directed to march with an Army into Carbery His Instructions The castle of Dunboy fortified by the Rebells The Earle of ThomoÌ„d having placed convenient garisons in the West returned to Corke The L. President resolued to besiege the Castle of Doâ—boy A List of the Armie in Mounster Note that the names thus ☞ marked were Colonels of foot Regiments The L. President was advised not to enterprise the winning of the Castle of Donboy and the reasons why The L. President perseveres in his resolution 23. Aprill the Army began to march towards Donboy 24. Aprill 25. Aprill 26. Aprill 27. April 30. Aprill 1. May. Preyes taken from the Enemy 2. May. An other prey 3. May. A third preyâ— 4. May. 5. May. 7. May 8. May. Cap. Bostock and Captaine Barry sent to Sir Charles Wilmot A digression of Sir Char Wilmots proceedings in Kerry Divers rebels slaine by Sir Charles Wilmot A traâ—torly Souldier hanged A Ward put into Carigfoyle The castle of Lixnaw taken by Composition The Castle of Ballihow taken and the Knight of Kerry defeated Castle Gregory and Rahane taken The forces which the rebels had in Kerry in bonaght The Lord of Lixnaw banished out of Kerry The voluntary submission of Donnell Mac Cartie Sir Charles Wilmot required by the Lo. President to come to the Campe at Carew Castle A great prey taken from Osulevan More his sonne The Knight of Kerry upon humble sute protected 9. May. 11. May. Sir Charles Wilmot with the forces of Kerry the munition and victuals froÌ„ Corke arrived at the camp remaining then at Carew castle 12. May. Munition victuall sent by the Lord President to the Lor. Deputie 13. May. Dermond Moyleâ— Mac Carty brother to Florence slaine It was resolved in Councell that the army should be traÌ„sported by sea to the great Iland froÌ„ thence to the Maâ—n 15. May. The rebell Tirrell desired a parlâ—y with the Lo. President All our horse were sent froÌ„ the campe certaine foot to guard Kinsale 16. May. 17. May. Tirrel fayled twise to parley with the Earle of Thomond the cause why 26. May. Aprey taken 27. May. 31. May. The Army dislodged froÌ„ Carew Castle 1. Iune The Regiments transported into the great Iland 2. Iune 3. Iune Teg Keâ—gh mac Maghon slaine 4. Iune The castle of Donmanus surprized 5. Iune A Spanish ship arrived A conference betweene the Ear. of Thomond Ric. Mac Goghagan 6. Iune The L. President rode to view the place where the forces wâ—re to land Donghe Irish. The vigilant care of the Lord President Two RegimeÌ„ts landed in the little Iland The two 〈◊〉 ther Regiments landed in the Maine The Rebels deceived The Rebels defeated and Captaine Tirrell wounded The Spanish ship which arrived neer to Ardea brought passengers munition and money to the Rebels The distributers and the distribution of some of the mony Postscript 8. Iunij Two Espials of the Rebels hanged 11. Iunij The Campe entrenched and the Artillery drawen into the market place The approaches were begun to bee made 12. Iunij The Iland of the Dorsies taken and in it divers rebels slaine and taken prisoners besides munition artillery and much other spoyle 16. Iune The artillery plaÌ„ted befâ—â—e Donboy 17. Iune Donboy battered A breach made The breach assaulted Diuers of the rebels slaine in seeking to escape by a Salley Others that recouered the river were slaine in the water He which pulled the Ear of Ormond froÌ„ his horse wheÌ„ he was takeÌ„ prisoner was slaine The L. Presidents Colors placed on the top of the castle but the vault was stil maintained by the rebels 18. Iune Sundry of the rebels voluntarily yeeld themselues The remainder of them made election of a new captaine whose resolution was extraordinary A Battery made upon the vault For feare of bâ—ing buried in the ruines of the vault the rest of the rebels reÌ„dred themselues A desperate resolution of Mac Goghegan 58. executed the rest of the Rebels 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 The services propounded to Tirrell he refuseth The reasons of his refusal 22 Iunij The Castle of Donboy blowne up with powder Tirrells men which were respited executed 23. Iunij The Army shipped and transported into the great Iland The Downings taken 24. Iunij 25. Iunij 26. Iunij Leaâ—-â—on Castle takeÌ„ 27. Iunij 28. Iunâ—j The Castle of Lettertinlesse taken and burnt 29. Iunij The Lord President returned â—o Corke 30. Iune The Companies sent for by the Lord Deputie delivered over to Sir Samuell Bagnall 1. Iulij The confidence which the Irish had of supplyes from Spaine made them obstinate Supplyes of a thousand foote from England for Monster Sir Charles Wilmot with his Regiment sent into Kerry 5. Iul. Iames Archer and Conner Odriscall fled into Spaine Sir Owâ—n Mac Carties sonnes revolt 10. Iuly Divers Castles taken in Carbery by the Garrisons The description of Bear-haven The description of the haven of Baltimore The description of Castle haven The Spanish Hostages licensed to depart The taking of Donboy was the cause that the Army which was prepared in Spaine for Ireland was stayâ—d 2000. Supplies of Foot for MouÌ„ster Ioh. fits Thomas his practise to deceiue the Lo. President but failed in the same A false rumour of the Spanish fleet on the coast of Mounster Sir Samuell â—agnal with his RegimeÌ„t commanded to stay in Mounster The Castle of Blarney in the custoâ—y of Captaine Taffe The Castle and Abbey of Kilcrey rendred to the Lo. President but the Castle of Mocrumpe was detayned from him Mocrumpe besieged Cormocks wife children imprisoned Cormock Mac Dermond plotted his escape 2. Septemb. Instructions for Captaine Harvie to write into Spaine The Lord Presidents Passeport for Captaine Edâ—ie into Spaine Spanish intelligence sent from Master Secretary Cecill to the Lord President 29. Septemb. Cormocke Mac Dermond made an escape out of prison The L. President offers the L. Deputie to send him of his liâ—t one or two regimeÌ„ts He advertiseth of Odonnels death 22. Octob. Tirrels quarter assayled by Sir muell Sagnall The losse on the Rebels part Tirrell rageth in fury against the inhabitants of Muskery He retireth into Beare Desmond The death of Cap Harvie Cap. Flower succeeded Capt. Harvy in his government The Castle of Cloghan summoned The Constables brother hanged The castle of Cloghan rendred A branch of a Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President The Ensignes of Magistracy redelivered to the Corporation of Kinsale The Spaniards defeated at Kinsale in King Richard the seconds time The Rising out of the country committed to the Lord Barries charge The L. Deputy requires the L. President to meete him at Galway Sir George Thornton appointed to joyne with the L. Barry A message froÌ„ the rebell Tirrel to the L. President and his answere The Knight of Kerry defeated by Sir Ch. Wilmot The Knight of Kerry Th. Oge Osulevan Mores sonne make their submissions A foule murder committed by Osulevan Mores sonne 27. Decem. 30. Decem. The Lord Barry and Sir George Thornton joyne their forces with Sir Charles Wilmot A skirmish 31. Decem. A prey taken from the rebels out of their Fastnesse Divers Rebels submit themselues William Burke Iohn O Connâ—r Kerry and Osulevan Beare with their Bonnoghs fled out of the Province The losses which they sustayned in their passage through the County of Corke The hard shift they made to passe over the Shenan The good service done upon them by the Sherife of the county of Tipperary Captaine Henry Malby slaine 4. Ianuarij Beare Bantry and the Dorsies spoâ—eled and left wast The Castles of Ardea and Carricknesse rendered 6. Ia. Cap. Taffe employed against the Rebels in Carbry The Popes Vicar slaine and the Rebels defeated The Carties of Carby submitted themselues to the Lord President The Lord President sent one thousand foote munitioned and victualled to the Lord Deputy The Lo. Deputy sent to the Lo. President for men munition and himselfe to repaire unto him The List of her Majesties Forces in Mounâ—â—er Sir Edward Wingfield sent by the Lord President with fiue hundred foote into Connaght 23. Febr. The Lord of Lixnaw defeated by Capt. Bois The Castle of Kilcow takeÌ„ by Captaine Flower The Castle of Berengary taken by Sir Charles Wilmot Sir Charles Wilmoâ— and Sir George Thornton left by the Lo. PresideÌ„t Ioynt Commissioners for the government of Mounster 26. Febr.
side there was but one man slaine not aboue fiue hurt whereof Pierce Butler a kinseman of the Earles was one who behaved himselfe valiantly and about foureteene taken Prisoners and of the Enemy was one slaine and a few hurt the Prisoners were taken by their owne negligence who were grazing their horses The taking of this great Lord breeds unsetled humors in these parts for all the Gentlemen of the countrey whereof some of them were his true followers for want of a Defender are wavering others which in their owne dispositions were naught and contained themselues as Subiects but for feare of his power are now at liberty and we feare will shortly declare themselues To keepe them from present uproares I the President did immediately send for sixe hundred Foote of the Mounster Companies which were at Watterford the hundred Horse which were in the countrey to the Towne of Kilkenny which hath wrought good effect and staied the unsetled humors besides thereby it did assure the Lady of Ormond and her daughter which otherwise had beene subiect to many dangers so sorrowfull a Lady in all our liues vvee haue not seene and doe beleeue that if it had not pleased God that we at that time had beene there she would hardly haue undergone those griefes that did oppresse her For besides the losse of her husband in being Prisoner with those rogues she beheld the apparant ruine of her selfe and her daughter and no lesse danger of both their liues the Guard vvhereof she committed unto us not being assured of those that serue her for there is divers that pretend to bee the Earles Heires First Sir Edmond Butler his second Brother which Sir Walter Butler the Earles Nephew whose blood is not attainted vvill not yeeld unto because his Vncle Sir Edmond is not restored in blood And the Vicount Mountgarret thinks that he ought to be Earle of Ormond for many reasons vvhich he pretends This controversie could not but breed great danger to the Countesse and her daughter for that either of those vvould bee glad to possesse themselues in the Earles houses and the doubt vvho is to succeede him breeds unsetled humors in the Gentlemen of the countrey that bee follovvers to the Earle every one addicting himselfe to the partie they affect vvhereby there is a generall distraction vvhich vvould haue broken out into a dangerous Rebellion if the Forces and vve had not beene heere to keepe them in awe Besides we did not neglect to send for all the Lords and Gentlemen in the countrie that are of the best quality and haue temporized with them So as we hope the dangers which were like to ensue will be for a time well appeased Also understanding that Balliragget a house of the Lord Mountgarets in the which there is a Warde for the Queene kept as a Pledge for his loialty that the same was attempted to be wonne by the Vicecounts sonnes who are in rebellion And immediately upon the Earles taking lay before it in hope to starue the Souldiers for their last daies victuals was spent I the President did take up in Kilkenny upon my credit victuals and with a strong convoy of Horse and Foote haue revictualled it for sixe weekes whereof the Lord Deputy is advertised praying him to be carefull before that victuall be spent And because that all things might be continued in good order We thought good to remaine in Kilkenny untill the Lord Deputy should determine of some course so to hold it for her Maiesties benefit the countries good and the Countesse and her daughters safetie wherein we were enforced to make large disbursements of our small stores for dieting in that time of the horse and foote Troopes whereof I the Earle defrayed the charges of my owne Company of two hundred Foote and I the President of all the rest during our abode there which was eight dayes In this meane time wee understanding that Mountgarrets sonnes which are in rebellion did come to spoile the countrie neere to Kilkenny We sent out some part of our Troopes who lighted upon some of their men And amongst them which they slew there was one of the Butlers a neere kinsman to Mountgarret and a Leader slaine and the Traitors driven to their Woods being enforced to leaue their enterprize The sixteenth of this present Sir George Bourchier and Sir Christopher St Lawrence sent from the Lord Deputie came to Kilkenny Sir George for chiefe Commander of her Majesties Forces there and to take charge of the Countesse her Daughter and the Earles Houses and Sir Christopher to bee directed by him The Forces there left is two hundred Foote of the Earles other two hundred Foote of Sir Christophers thirtie Foot left in a ward in Mountgarretts house called Balliraggett eightie fiue Horse whereof fiftie of the Earles fiue and twentie of St Lawrences and tenne of Sir George Bourchiers Since the Earles taking wee kept the Rebells from doing any hurt in the Countrey neither as yet is there any in rebellion in the same but Mountgarrets sonnes whose force is not such but in our opinions without they call strangers to assist them her Majesties Forces there is much too strong for them The seventeenth wee left Kilkenny and came to this Cittie leaving Sir George Bourcheir as aforesaid This accident hath withheld mee the President from my peculiar charge more then I purposed but therein I hope your Lordships will hold mee excused being other wayes so necessarily imployed in these causes of so great importance whereof I humbly beseech your Lordshipps in your wisedomes to haue due consideration To morrow wee proceed in our Iourney towards Corke from whence with the rest of the Councell there wee will advertize your Lordships in what estate wee finde the Province not being able heere to certifie your Honours so particularly as then wee may So wee humbly take our leaues From Waterford the eighteenth of Aprill 1600. Strange it was to consider how much this misfortune distracted the minds of sundrie that before were inclined to subjection and greatly animated the Traitors to persevere in their wicked enterprises which might evidently be seene in Pierce Lacy a wise and malicious Traytor who being but few dayes before upon the Earles protection promising great loyaltie and much service did presently relapse and became a more dangerous Rebell then at any time before But now leaving farther discourse of former occurrents we will betake our selues wholly to prosecute the relation of such things as happened in Mounster after the Lord President came to Waterford which was the sixteenth of Aprill For the prosecution of the Service in which Province by order out of England the List as aforesayd for Mounster was established to be three thousand Foot and two hundred and fiftie Horse After his repaire thither Intelligence came unto him that the Titularie Earle of Desmond with the greatest part of his Forces was remaining not farre from Yoghall about Drumâ—inin with intent to giue impediment
best Commanders amongst the Irish rebels By meanes whereof he had now the command of foureteene hundred men in his owne Bonaght and besides that might strike a great stroke with the other being by Tyrone at his departure out of Mounster ordained chiefe Commander of them all This man did the President make choise to deale withall for these reasons First because hee knew that the said Dermond being a meere Mercenary and serving in Mounster onely for pay might be induced by large Summes of monie to serue the Queene aswell as the rebels Secondly hee had a very fit Instrument whereby the more easily to worke him to his will namely his Wife who being brought up some part of her time amongst the English had not only learned the language but stood reasonably well affected to the English governement and likely it was that shee would use all her industry to advance the service in hope that if it succeeded well it would proue a good step or Ladder to procure the liberty of her Brother Iames Fits Gerald Sonne and Heire to Gerald Earle of Desmond slaine now Prisoner in the Tower and to raise his fortunes Lastly it was publikely knowen that the Sugan Earle would never doe service upon the Bownoghs except he might haue both the title and possessions of the Earle of Desmond confirmed unto him which her Maiestie would never condiscend unto Vpon these grounds in very secret manner hee provided and sent a fit agent to sound the inclination of the Lady Margaret for so was Dermonds Wife named and finding her fit to bee wrought upon the Conditions should be propounded viz. That if her husband would take Desmond Prisoner and deliver him into the hands of the President he should incontinently receiue one thousand pound sterling and that he should haue a Company of men in pay from the Queene and other conditions of satisfaction to her selfe and her Brother The Messenger was â—o sooner sent about these important affaires but that another occasion offered it selfe unto the President of no lesse moment then the former to aduance the service for immediately hereupon one Iohn Nugent sometimes servant to Sir Thomas Norris late President of Mounster pretending some wrongs and iniuries to be offered unto him by the State ioyned with the Rebels and became to his power the most malitious and bloody Traitor in all these parts At last having as it should seeme spit his poyson and spent his Venome sought to Sir Warham Saint Leger and Sir Henry Power the Commissioners to be received into protection who more for feare of the hurt that hee might doe then hope of the good that hee would doe granted the same untill the Lord Presidents pleasure who was now ready to depart from Dublin towards Mounster were further knowen At this time therefore Nugent came to make his submission to the President and to desire pardon for his faults committed Answer was made that for so much as his crimes and offences had beene extraordinary hee could not hope to bee reconciled unto the State except hee would deserue it by extraordinary service which saith the President if you shall performe you may deserue not onely Pardon for your faults committed heretofore but also some store of Crownes to releeue your wants hereafter Hee presently promised not to bee wanting in any thing that lay in the power of one man to accomplish and in private made offer to the President that if he might bee well recompenced hee would ruine within a short space either the Sugan Earle or Iohn Fits Thomas his Brother And indeed very likely hee was both to attempt and performe as much as he spake To attempt because hee was so valiant and daring as that he did not feare any thing and to execute because by reason of his many outrages before committed the chiefe Rebels did repose great confidence in him The President having contrived a plot for Iames Fits Thomas as is before shewed gaue him in charge to undertake Iohn his Brother But because the matter might be caried without any suspition upon the next morrow the Councell being set and a great concourse of people assembled Nugent renueth his suite for the continuance of his protection But the President rehearsing in publike audience a Catalogue of his mischievous outrages lately committed told the Councell that having farther enquired and better considered of Man and Matter for his part hee thought it an action of very ill example to receiue unto mercy such a notorious Malefactor the Councell were all of the same opinion who reviling him with many biting and bitter speeches and assuring him that if it were not for a religious regard that was holden of the Queenes word hee should pay a deare price for his former misdemeanor and so with publike disgrace was he dismissed their presence The promised submission of the white Knight the jealousie which the rebels conceived of Florence Mac Carty by his comming to the President and the Presidents Iourney being now blazed through the Province it caused Pierce Lacy who all the time of the Warres untill now had kept a ward in the Castle of the Brough three miles from Kilmallocke despayring to hold the same against her Majesties Forces And knowing it was a convenient place for a Garrison pluckt downe some part of the Castle burnt the rest and by the light thereof ran into the Woods Redmond Burke also with fiue hundred Bonoghs about this time which was in the beginning of May withdrew out of Connillogh and kept himselfe for a little time about the borders of Ownhy where being pressed with want of Victuals he intended to leaue the Province The Sugan Earle Pierce Lacy and some other hearing of this sudden departure dispatched Messengers unto him with earnest entreaties and large promises for increasing his Bonnoght if hee would returne but to no purpose The cause of this his unexpected departure was a trafficke betweene him and the President who did uphold him in certaine faint hopes about the obtaining of the Barronie of Lettrim which he claimed as his inheritance For this is most true that not long before this time one Richard Burke Vncle to the said Redmond wrote unto the President that his Nephew would be very glad of his Lordships favour that he would withdraw both himselfe and his Bownoghs out of Mounster so that hee would not send any Forces to molest him in Connaght Whereunto was answered that it became nor a Governour no not a private Subject to make any such agreement with a man in his condition And farther that hee might assure himselfe that by strong hand he could never invest himselfe in the Barrony of Lettrim nor be in secure possession of his Fathers Lands But if he would reclaime himselfe and doe service to her Majestie the President would use the best friends that hee had either in England or Ireland that his cause might bee respected with all favour according to the equity thereof Not
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
the meane time hee would keepe him in safetie and accomodate all things for the more assurance in the effecting of the busines To Kilmallock he came the next Morrow the twentieth of Iune with one thousand Foote and two Troopes of Horse for a good part of his Armie was at that time gone into Thomond to secure the same from Odonnell who was come farre up into the Countrey and had taken many preyes there CHAP. VIII The Countrey of Thâ—mond harassed and spoyled by O Donnell Forces sent into Thâ—mond Iames fits Thomas set at Liberty Dermond O Conners Letter to the Lord President A Letter from the Mounster Rebels to O Donnell Dermond O Conner and the Rebels agreed and reconciled The Castle of Crome taken by the Armie A Ioyns Letter from William Burke and Morrogheny Moe O Flagharly to the Lord President A Letter from Morrogheny Moe O Flagharly to the Lord President A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Carty THIS suddaine comming of Odonnell for Thomond was so secretly caried as the Earle of Thomond had no notice of it untill he was come to the Borders thereof hee then being at Limerick with the President prayed him to lend him part of his Armie to make Head against the Rebels Whereupon his Lordship commanded the Sergeant Major Captaine Flower and with eight hundred Foote and sixtie Horse to attend the Earle Odonnell entred the Countrey and Harassed all Thomond even as farre as Loopthead and tooke all the Preyes of the Countrey Neverthelesse he went not away scot free For the Noble Earle fought often with his Forces slew many of them and never left them untill he had recovered a great part of the Cattle which Odonnell had taken And upon Mid-somer day chased him out of Thomond This suddaine and unexpected comming of Odonnell with such great Forces as attended him could never haue beene undiscovered if the next Neighbours to Thomond the Inhabitants of Clanrickard had done their dueties through which Countrey Odonnell passed and returned without doing of any hurt that ever I heard of And so leaving with this Digression it is time to speake of the Successe of the vsurping Earles apprehension By this time it was suspected and publikely noised abroad that the Sugan Earle should bee delivered to the President which Rumour began first to bee bruited in Limerick and Kilmallock and as it alwayes hapneth in that Kingdome from the Townes the rumour is speedily conveied into the Countrey which being no sooner heard then beleeved by the Rebels as well Provincials as others they all combined themselues Iohn fits Thomas Pierce Lacy and William Burke being the Triumviri of this League to set the Prisoner at Libertie With this determination they had gathered together of Dermonds Bonoghs and Provincials some foure thousand men nee re Castle Leshin in the great Fastnesse of Conniloe for there was this Castle seated with intent both to blocke up the way that the President should take in comming thither and to constraine the Ward to deliver the Earle The President being at Kilmallock as aforesaid hourely expecting the comming of the Lady Margaret stayed there from the twentieth to the twentie sixth day and in all that time he never heard from her or her Husband Vpon the twentie sixth the Lady Margaret came to him shee related that Castlelishin was besieged by the Rebels her cause of stay was the danger of the way Immediately the President notwithstanding the rest of his Forces were not returned out of Thomond purposed to raise the Siedge and the Armie being drawen forth before they had marched an English mile upon the way they met a Messenger who delivered unto them for certaine that Iames fits Thomas was rescued that morning and himselfe did see him out of the Castle In Castlelishin where Iames fits Thomas was prisoner Dermond O Conner with the Ward had left a Priest whose perswasions prevailed so much with O Conners men as they delivered the reputed Earle as aforesaid but upon Caution as may appeare by Dermond O Conners Letters to the President as followeth Dermond O Conners Letter to the Lo. President MY good Lord it is so that contrary to my directions and without my privitie my Ward at Castlelishin was hardly set unto by the Enemy after the breach of the Castle were constrained to yeeld to the surrender of the Earle of Desmond upon Composition viz. to receiue as pledges from the said Earle his sonne and his Receiver one Gerald fits Nicholas and the chiefe of the Walles or Faltaghs of Downmoylin and Iohn fits Thomas Brother of the said Earle to bee delivered into the hands of Mac Cartie More or some other indifferent man his hands as the said Earle and I shall agree heereof I thought good to certifie your Honour assuring the same upon my credit that this Composition was made without my privitie as your Honour shall understand manifestly heereafter to the end your Honour might bee advised not to send the Armie for feare of any mischance in respect of the greatnesse of the Enemies forces and fastnesse of their strengths the Earle being inlarged all which I hope to bring to a worse case then they were in and that in a short time if I be well furthered by your Lordship the manner whereof I am ready to declare to your Honour as occasion shall serue for speedy effecting whereof I pray your Lordship to send me your best advice by Captaine Power the which expecting forthwith I humbly take my leaue Balliallinan this 26. of Iune 1600. Your Honours to command Dermond O Conner The reason which I conceiue mooved Dermond that hee did not presently render him to the President was partly his feare that his money would bee detained from him when the prisoner was once delivered and therefore hee would bee first sure of the same partly his over much confidence in his men whom hee thought that they would not for a world haue betrayed him as they did but especially I conceiue that the danger of the way was the occasion of the protraction for undoubtedly the man did meane to performe his promise sincerely and if the Lady could haue come sooner to Kilmallocke the titularie Earle had been brought from Castlelishin without any difficultie Vpon the seven and twentieth Dermond O Conner wrote to the President praying to bee excused that hee did not come unto him for the wayes were too dangerous for him to passe untill his Brother who was in Desmond with foure hundred men did come unto him or that the Enemy did scatter or the President with his Armie should draw into those parts and in the meane while he would remaine in the Castle where hee was and besought the President to send him a safeguard for himselfe his followers and goods protesting his loyaltie to her Majestie and promising to bee directed by the President in whatsoever it should please him to commaund Within a few dayes after the delivery
aâ—gmented by these Instruments or for some other hidden cause knowen onely to themselues I cannot certainely determine but sure I am it proceedeth not from any loyall or dutifull disposition Amongst these lawlesse Lawyers thus elected there was one Geoffrey Gallway Major of Limerick a man that had spent many yeares in England in studying of the Common Lawes and returning into Ireland about three yeares since did so pervert that Citie by his malicious counsell and perjurious example that hee withdrew the Major Aldermen and generally the whole Citie from comming to the Church which before they sometimes frequented Moreover about a yeare since there happened an affray in Limricke betweene the Souldiers and some of the Towne at what time this Gallway came to the then Major advising him to dis-arme all the Souldiers and told him that all their liues were in the Majors hands and at his mercy whereby a gapp was most apparantly opened by him to haue induced a wicked and barbarous massacre upon her Majesties Forces With this man therefore did the President take occasion to enter into the Lists upon a manifest contempt offered unto his Office and Government as followeth It came to passe that a Souldier of the Earle of Thomonds Company was imprisoned by the said Major for a supposed Pettie Larceny of a Hatchet The President being upon his journey against the Rebells that were now reported to haue invaded the Province required to haue the said Souldier delivered unto him that hee might receiue a present tryall and punishment for his default if hee were found guiltie or else to repayre to his Colours and to goe the journey The Major before hee would deliver the Prisoner desired that hee might conferre with his Brethren This being graunted hee returned answer that it was not thought fit by the Corporation to release the prisoner except his Lordshipp would make a Warrant enjoyning and commaunding them so to doe The President and Councell being assembled a Warrant was framed signed and directed to the Major but this Warrant was deemed unsufficient and therefore desired to haue the same amended in certaine particulars which without difficultie was yeelded unto and a second and a third framed according to the Majors owne directions and thus did hee dally untill hee saw the President ready to leaue the Towne some part of the Armie being already upon their March at which time the Major came to the President and utterly rejected all those Warrants affirming that the Authoritie given them by the Charter did sufficiently exempt them from the Iurisdiction and Commaund of the President and Councell The President much scorning to bee thus deluded and dallyed withall told the Major that hee would shortly find a time to call him to an account for his contempt offered not against his Person but against her Majestie and her Government established in the Province Who being now returned from the Service as you haue heard and abiding at Moyallo directed his Warrant to the said Gallway commaunding him upon his Alleageance that hee should immediately appeare before him and the Councell at a day assigned at Moyallo to answer unto such things as should bee objected against him on her Majesties behalfe where making his appearance hee was censured to liue as a prisoner in a Castle in the Countrey and not to come into the Citie of Limricke untill hee had payed a fine to her Majestie of foure hundred pound sterling which was designed for the reparation of Her Majesties Castle there which summe was imployed afterward to that use and lastly that a new Major should be placed in his roome The Townsemen presently sent an Agent as their manner is to make suite unto the Councell of England seeking to abuse their Lordships with counterfeit humility and false suggestions to get abatement either in whole or in part of this fine aforesaid but therein they failed of their expectation and having received a check for their proud contumacie against the President they were commanded from the Court. The one and twentieth of this Moneth of December Sir Richard Percy sent sixty of his Garison at Kinsale into Kinalmekaghe Omaghons Countrie to get the prey of the same whereunto he was encouraged by one who promised to guide them so as they should not misse of all the Cowes in the same Dermond Moyle Mac Cartâ—e Florence his Brother and Moylmo Omaghon the chiefe of his Sept having some intelligence of their comming with three hundred Foote and some Horse assailed them not doubting but to haue cut all their throats for the space of two houres a good skirmish was maintained but the Rebels not finding the Defendants to be Chikins to be afraid at the sight of every cloud or kite with some losse of slaine and hurt men soberly retreated of the Garison of Kinsaile onely two private men were hurt yet they returned ill pleased for that they missed of the booty expected About this time the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin wrote unto the lurking ritulary Earle of Desmond the Copie whereof I doe here verbatim relate translated out of Latine A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Iames fits Thomas MY most Honourable good Lord having long desired a fit oportunity to write unto you the same iâ— now offered by M â— Iohn whereof I am very glad that by such a most sure and faithfull Messenger I might open my mind to your Lordship as also to shew that most certaine and undoubted hope of aide is shortly to come I would most willingly haue come unto your Lordships presence which lately I haue assayed and doubtlesse would haue done unlesse I had beene hindred by these Lords which told mee that present and imminent dangers were to be feared in my Iourney unlesse I had an Armie of souldiers to conduct me and now but that there is a necessitie of my returning into Spaine I would haue come to you in the company of Master Iohn But I hope that most speedily and most fortunately I shall returne unto you againe In the meane time I haue pretermitted nothing which might tend to your profit aswell to our Catholike Master as any other whosoever which now also in Spaine I will performe I would therefore intreate your excellencie that you would be of a good courage together with all other of your faction and that you would fight constantly and valiantly for the faith and the libertie of your Countrey knowing and firmely hoping that the helpe of my Lord the Catholike King is now comming which when it cometh all things shall bee prosperous and will place you in your former liberty and securitie that ye may possesse your desired peace and tranquillity The Almighty conserue your Lordship in safety long to continue From Donegall the thirteenth of Ianuary 1601. The Province of Mounster standing now in these good tearmes of Obedience and Conformitie as you haue heard the President thought good for the diminution of Her Majesties charge to spare some
short time bee reduced to a setled conformitie but the malicious practises of the Irish Papists had so farre inraged the Pope and the King of Spaine against our Soveraigne Mistresse and her good Subjects the Professors of the true Religion whom the Romanists falsely tearme Heretiques as in this yeare of 1601 the Province of Mounster was not onely set in a raging flame but the whole Kingdome was indangered to bee torne from the Crowne of England But God in his great mercie fought for his servants and made this intended mischiefe to bee the breake-necke of the Rebellion throughout the Kingdome and consequently the peace and tranquillitie which by the goodnesse of God wee enjoy About the latter end of March 1601 Intelligences were brought to the Lord President and Letters intercepted whereby it probably appeared that Forces from Vlster and Connaght were in preparing by the way of Thomond to passe into Mounster under the conduct of Redmond Burke Captaine Hugh Mostian and Con Oneale Tyrones base sonne with about two thousand men besides Mounsters fugitiues to releeue the lurking Earle but although the circumstances of that Relation prooved to bee untrue both in the Leaders and number of men yet that smoake did arise from some fire for presently heereupon Redmond Burke and Hugh Mostian with eight hundred Connaght men and Teg Orwrk Iohn fits Thomas Donogh Mac Cormocke and Pierce Lacie with seven hundred of the North came through Connaght Sir Iohn Barkley Governour in the absence of Sir Arthur Savage being constrained to giue way to their greater force Likewise the Barron of Lixnaw and Teg Kewgh Mac Maghon were busie in providing Gallies to come by Sea and the O-Maylies and O Flagherties had a purpose with sixe hundred men which they had already furnished to invade Kerry The President having received certaine Intelligence of all those preparations principally set on foot to disturbe his Government first dispatched away one thousand Foot under the command of Captaine George Flower Sergeant Major of that Province with direction to march forward in all haste into Connaght to joyne with Sir Iohn Barkley that they might doe some good service upon the Rebels at their passage over the Shenan which of necessitie they must hazzard before they could come into Mounster The nine and twentieth of March Captaine Flower rose out of Limerick and that night lodged at Quyn in Thomond had notice that the enemy was aduanced into Thomond to spoyle the same having the assistance of Teg Sonne and Heire to Sir Tirloghe Obrien who went into action not aboue three dayes before The Sergeant Major discovering their Forces came up close unto them and when hee began to fight they began to runne whom notwithstanding he so well pursued with my Lord of Thomonds Company that they â—lew and hurt divers of them and amongst the rest Walter Burke Sonne to the blind Abbot was slaine and Teg Obrien now mentioned received a mortall wound whereof within three dayes after he died besides these Forces by land the President also made certaine provisions by Sea for preventing of Fits Maurice with his Omaylies and Oflagherties from coming into Kerry upon which occasion there was a tall Merchant lately come with provent apparell for the Armie into the river of Limerick together with certaine small boats well victualled and manned commanded to attend about the mouth of Shenan to doe service upon such Rebels as should appeare upon that Coast all which being notified in the Countrey the Enemy finding his purpose frustrate of transporting his Armie into Kerry that way they retyred themselues into a strong Fastnesse in Tough-kynalehin betwixt Clanrickard and Thomond Her Majesties forces lodging so neere them as possible they might The President also himselfe with all the rest of his forces except the Garisons of Kerry followed as farre as Limerick aswell to giue countenance to the other Companies that attended the Rebels as also to bee ready upon the first allarum to intercept or interrupt them If by any devise or chance they might escape the forces in Connaght and because the Enemy should bee desperate of any helpe and assured of strong resistance in the Province the President tooke order that all the Chiefes of every Countrey should assemble themselues at Galbally in the County of Limerick and to bring with them the best forces they could make of Horse and Foote together with victuals for ten dayes to attend such directions as they should bee commanded by the Lord Barry who was appointed Generall of the Provincials What service they would haue done if occasion had beene offered I know not But sure I am although they did somewhat exceede the time limited before they were assembled yet at last there was gathered thirteene hundred Foote and one hundred and twenty Horse of the County of Corke only with great alacrity as seemed of doing some acceptable service In the meane time Sir Iohn Barkley layeth so hardly to the Rebels still keeping within their Fastnesse that they could not possibly get any prey of the Countrey but were constraind from the thirtieth of March to the thirteenth of Aprill to feede upon garrans flesh and such unsavory meate Afterwards being halfe starved and altogether past hope of O Donnels coming to their reliefe with more forces they stole away in the night and drew into Omaddins Countrey out men perceiving their rising pursued them and held them fighting all night and in the morning found that wee had slaine many of them yet by breake of the day they had recovered another strong Fastnesse wherein Sir Iohn Barkley though often assaying could not annoy them after two dayes being distressed with like want as before they were inforced to dislodge againe in the night our forces pursued them at the heeles and coming close up unto them put them to route and forced them over the Sucke a deepe River wherein they lost two hundred men with the most part of their munition and baggage In this service there was lost and hurt of our men and twentie but not any of note except Nevile Sir Gerrard Harvy his Lieuetenant onely The Rebels were so terrified in this prosecution that such as escaped the River sought not to vnite themselues againe Teg Orwrke retired into his Countrey Redmond Burke went to O Donnell Iohn fits Thomas to Tyrone and the meaner sort dispersed into sundry places and Hughe Mostian with his Company rested himselfe in O Conner Roes Countrey In one of the aforesaid skirmishes in Oshafnes Countrey upon the seven and twentieth of March Donoghe Mac Cormock afore mentioned was slaine being lately inlarged by Tyrone to set a fire in Mounster These affaires thus accomplished with good successe although not fully so good as was both promised and expected Captaine Flower with his Regiment returned the one and twentieth of Aprill to Limerick Ever since the Presidents first coming into Mounster there had beene as formerly you may
wherewith wee are of long time opprest by the English Nation Their government is such as Pharaoh himselfe never vsed the like for they content not themselues with all temporall superiority but by cruelty desire our blood and perpetuall destruction to blot out the whole remembrance of our posterity as also our old Catholike Religion and to sweare that the Queene of England is Supreame of the Church I referre the consideration hereof to your Majesties high judgement for that Nero in his time was farre inferior to that Queene in cruelty Wherefore and for the respects thereof high mighty Potentate my selfe with my Followers and Retainers And being also requested by the Bishops Prelates and religious men of my Countrey haue drawen my sword and proclaimed warres against them for the recovery first of Christs Catholike religion and next for the maintenancâ— of my owne right which of long time hath beene wrongfully derained from mee and my father who by right succession was lawfull Heire to the Earledome of Desmond â—or hee was eldest Sonne to Iames my Grandfather who was Earle of Desmond and for that my Vncle Gerald being the younger brother tooke part with the wicked proceedings of the Queene of England to farther the unlawfull claime of supremacie vsurped the name of Earle of Desmond in my fathers true title yet notwithstanding hee had not long enjoyed his name of Earle when the wicked English annoyed him and prosecuted wars that hee with the most part of those that held of his side was slaine and his Countrey thereby planted with Englishmen And now by the just judgement and providence of God I haue utterly rooted those malepart bowes out of the Orchard of my Countrey and haue profited so much in my proceedings that my daâ—â—erly enemies dare not shew their faces in any parâ— of my Countrey but having taken my Townes and Cities for their refuge and strength where they doe remaine as yet were Prisonerâ— for want of meanes to assaile them as Cannon and Powder which my Countrey doth not yeeld Having these wants most noble Potentate I haue presumed with all humility to addresse these my Letters to your High Majestie craving the same of your graâ—ious clemencie and goodnesse to assist mee in this godly enterprise with some helpe of such necessaries for the warres as your Majestie shall thinke requisit and after the quiet of my Countrey satisfaction shall bee truely made for the same and my selfe in person with all my forces shall bee ready to serue your Highnesse in any Countrey your Majestie shall command me And iâ— your Majestie will vouchsaâ—e to send me a competent number of Souldiers I will place them in some of my Townes and Cities to remaine in your gratious disposition till such time as my ability shall make good what your Majestie shall lend me in money and munition and also your Majesties high Commission under the broad Seale for leading and conducting of these Souldiers according to the prescript order and articles of martiall discipline as your Majestie shall appoint me and as the service of the Land shall require I praise the Almighty God I haue done by his goodnesse more then all my Predecessors for I haue reclaimed all the Nobility of this part under the dutifull obedience of Christs Church and mine owne authority and accordingly haue taken pledges and corporall oathes never to swarue from the same and would haue sent them to your Majestie by this Bearer but that the Ship was not of sufficiencie and strength to carry so noble personages and will send them whensoever your Highnesse please So there resteth nothing to quiet this part of the world but your Majesties assistance which I daily expect Thus most mighty Monarch I humbly take my leaue and doe kisse your Royall hands beseeching the Almighty of your Majesties health and happinesse From my Campe the fourteenth day of March 1599. Your Majesties most humble at all command Iames Desmond An other Letter from Iames Fits Thomas to the King of Spaine YOur Majestie shall understand that the bearer hereof Captaine Andrew Roche hath beene alwayes in the seruice of the Queene of England and hath performed her manifold services at Sea whereby he had great preferment and credit and being of late time conversant with Catholikes and teachers of divine Instructions that were sory for his lewd life made knowen unto him the danger wherein his soule was so that by their godly perswasions hee was at that time reclaimed and subverted to bee a good Catholike and to spend the residue of his life in the defence and service of the Church since which time of reconcilement hee was to repaire to your Majestie with his Ship and Goods as is well knowen to your Highnesse Councell who confiscated that Ship to your Majesties use himselfe being at that time strucken with extreame sicknesse that hee was not able to proceed in the voyage and when his Company returned into Ireland they reported that the Lantado wished rather his person then the Ship which made him fearefull ever since to repaire thither till hee should deserue his freedome by some worthy service to your Majestie The Heire apparant to the Crowne of England had beene caried by him to your Highnesse but that he was bewrayed by some of his owne men and thereby was intercepted and himselfe taken Prisoner where he remained of long till by the Providence of God and the helpe of good friends hee was conveyed into Ireland to mee in a small Boat and leaving these occasions to your Imperiall Majesty and being assured of his trust faith and confidence towards mee haue committed this charge into his hands the rather for that I understand your Royall Fleete is directed for England this yeare to the end he may be a Leader and Conductor to them in the Coast of England and Ireland being very expert in the knowledge thereof and in the whole art of Navigation And thus with all humility I commit your Highnesse to the Almighty From my Campe the fourteenth of March 1599 Your Majesties most humble at all command Iames Desmond Consider I beseech thee gentle Reader into what proud arrogancie and audacious insolency this Arch-traytor was elevated like a Vapor in a Sunshine day when blind fortune laught upon him the Queene a Tyrant the English all cowards the Cities and walled Townes all his and the Mounster Nobilitie subdued under his authority was there ever Rebell so farre transported with ambitious presumption beyond the limits of reason was it not sufficient for him like cursed Shimei or blacke mouthed railing Rabshakeh to revile the Lords annoynted but he must challenge her territories her Cities her People and her Nobilitie whom shee and her ancestors had created to be his owne who had no portion nor inheritance in any part thereof being the Impe of a borne Bastard But surely I must perswade my selfe all this was permitted by the unsearchable sapience of the alseeing Deity who even as hee caused proud Lucifer
in February last leaving great store of plate and other riches for a pledge behind him And being farther examined concerning Florence Mac Carty hee answered that the said Florence did ever by sight or otherwise acquaint him with what the President wrote unto him and did continually sweare protest and giue all outward assurance never to desist in this action but to persevere therein to the end and that the Spaniards and Rebels of Vlster did build their principall hopes of Mounster upon himselfe and Florence Mac Carty all this was also verified by certaine intelligences which the Lord Barry received from Dermond Mac Awley lately come from the North the effect whereof was thus much When the Spanish Arch-bishop was to returne into Spaine in February last there was a Councell holden in Vlster by Tyrone Odonnell the said Bishop and all the chiefe Traytors of those parts Iohn of Desmond Lixnaw Pierce Lacy Donoghe Mac Cormock and this Dâ—rmond Mac Awley being called thereupon the chiefest matter debated in this consultation was what place of Ireland was the most convenient where the Spanish forces should make their arrivall It was without much difficulty or gainesaying resolved for all respects Mounster was the fittest Province to be invaded then it remayned to consider what place in that Province they should first attempt and concerning this point the Mounster men were required to deliver their opinions Pierce Lacy began and urged certaine reasons why hee thought it most requisit for them first to gaine Limerick and plant there because the Provinces of Connaght and Linster were neere at hand to minister aide to the Spanish Armie and Vlster was not farre distant being also the place most remote from England especially for shipping All the rest being induced by these reasons to subscribe unto his opinion Donoghe Mac Cormock stood up and withstood this Councell saying that Mac Cartie More from whose mouth he said he spake it upon mature deliberation did advise their comming to Corke for the taking of that place would bee of most importance as well for the countenancing of the action where the President most resided as the magazins of victuals and munitions were placed there and also it being a farre better outlet then the River of Limerick the Citie weaker and sooner forced And lastly in landing there they should border upon Barry Roche Cormock Mac Dermond and Mac Carty Reughe all which for feare of their estates were partially affected to the English and by that meanes either constraine them to conjoyne with them in the action or else to make their Countrey and people a prey unto the Army After long disputation the Councell of Florence delivered by Donoghe Mac Cormock was most applauded and so they concluded to land the Spanish Armie in the River of Corke CHAP. VI. Florence Mac Cartie is by the Lord President committed to prison A briefe Collection of Florence Mac Carties treasons and practises with the Rebels not touching any thing formerly related VPON these and many other reasons that shall hereafter be alleaged the President thought that he could not possibly accomplish a service more acceptable to her Majestie nor profitable for the State and more availeable to divert the Spanish preparations then to commit unto prison and safe custody the body of this Florence which was accordingly effected about the beginning of Iune one thousand sixe hundred and one a man so pernitious and dangerous to the State which had sundry wayes broken his severall protections upon his apprehension which was in Corke the President tooke present order that search should bee made in the Pallace his chiefe house in Desmond and other places of his aboad for all such Letters and writings as could therein bee found whereby was discovered such a Sea of rebellious and traiterous practises as her Majestie and her hoâ—ourable Councell being acquainted therewith thought good that hee should be sent into England with the Arch-traytortitulary Earle of Desmond Iames fits Thomas The conduction of these two firebrands of Mounster upon the fourteenth of August 1601. was committed to the charge of Sir Anthony Cooke who brought them to the Tower of London where they yet remaine But for as much as this Florence hath sithence his commitment insisted upon his Iustification complayning of hard measure offered him by her Majestie and her Officers I am therefore constrained though much against my will for satisfaction of all indifferent men Welwillers and confutation of all malitious Cavillers to lay open briefely as I may his whole cariage and conversation since his late landing within this kingdome forbearing to insist upon such poynts as haue already bin touched in this relation Thou maiest bee pleased therefore to understand gentle Reader that the rebels of Mounster being growne to such an exceeding strength as you haue heard and amongst these Donnell Mac Cartie Florence his base brother in Law one of the chiefe her Majestie thought good to diminish their forces with sparing as much blood and expending as little treasure as conveniently might bee and therefore knowing that Florence Mac Cartie was better beloved in the Countrey then Donnell having made many solemne vowes and taken many voluntary oathes for his continued loyaltie was dispatched into Ireland in the moneth of May 1599. and to the end hee might bee the more encouraged and better enabled to doe her Highnesse service it pleased her Majestie to direct her favourable Letters to Robert Earle of Essex then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland authorising him to giue order for Letters Patents to bee made containing an effectuall graunt to the said Florence Mac Cartie and Ellen his wife and to the Heires males of their bodies lawfully begotten of all the Countrey of Desmond and such other Lands whereof hee had any estate of inheritance but withall authorising the said Lord Lieutenant and Councell to stay those Letters Pattents in the Hamper or deliver them according as they should see cause in the proofe they should make of the behaviour of the said Florence Now that yee may see in what dutifull manner hee requiâ—ed this trust in what gratefull manner this kindnesse and in what religious manner these oathes I will recite a part of the examination of Iohn Anias taken before Sir Nicholas Welsh and Iustice Comerford which may explaine the same the thirteenth of October 1600. He saith that in May last Florence Mac Cartie sent one Maur. More to him wishing him to repaire to his Lodging at Corke and that Florence was desirous to be acquainted with him whereupon hee came to Florence and in Florence his Chamber hee the said Florence and none other but they two being present said that he understood that this Examinate was an Enginer and one that had skill in devising and erecting of Fortifications and that he would willingly imploy him in the like Anias demanding of Florence what or where hee would haue his Workes raysed Hee answered at Dunkerran wherein hee might upon any
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
part of the Province and in her there was a Messenger sent from the King to Don Iuan de Aguila with a packet of Letters The President having knowledge thereof told the Lord Deputie that if hee had a desire to know the King of Spaines intentions there was a good occasion offered the Lord Deputies heart itching to haue the Letters in his hands prayed the President to intercept them if hee could handsomely doe it the President to undertooke it and having notice that the next morning the Messenger would come from Kinsale to Corke and knowing that there was but two wayes by the which hee might passe called Captaine William Nuce unto him who commanded his foote Company to make choise of such men as hee could trust to lie upon those passages and when they saw such a Spaniard whom hee had described unto him to seaze upon him and as thieues to rob him both of his Letters horses and money not to hurt his person but to leaue him and his Guid bound that hee might make no swift pursuit after them and when they had delivered him the Letters to runne away Captaine Nuce so well followed his instructions as the Spaniard was taken in a little Wood and the Letters brought at dinner time Don Iuan if I doe not mistake that very day dyning with him who instantly caried them to the Lord Deputie where at good leasure the packets were opened and read which doen the President went to his house leaving the Letters with the Lord Deputie the same evening the Spanish Messenger having beene unbound by passengers came to Don Iuan de Aguila relating his misfortuÌ„ne in being robbed not fiue miles from the Towne Don Iuan de Aguila went immediatly to the Lord Deputie grievously complayning that the Messenger was robbed by Souldiers as hee alleaged The Lord Deputie seemed no lesse sorry but said he it is a common thing in all Armies to haue debaucht Souldiers but hee thought it to bee rather done by some of the Countrey thieues but if the fact was committed by Souldiers it was most like to bee done by some Irish men who thought it to bee a good purchase as well as the money to get the Letters to shew them unto their friends in rebellion that they might the better understand in what estate they were in Don Iuan not being satisfied with this answer desired the Lord Deputie to enquire of the Lord President for of his intercepting of them he had a vehement suspition whether hee had any knowledge of the matter and so they departed The next morning the Lord Deputy related to the President the complaint and his answers Don Iuan eager in the pursuite of his Letters came to know of the Lord Deputie what the President answered The Lord Deputie answered him upon his fayth that hee was sure that the President had them not which hee might well doe for they were in his owne possession In conclusion a Proclamation was made and a reward in the same promised for him that could discover the Theeues and a pardon for their liues graunted that committed the fact if they would come in and confesse it with this Don Iuan rested satisfied How much the intercepting of these Letters did import her Majesties Service not one Spanyard being then imbarked but remaining in a Body at Kinsale may appeare by these ensuing Letters Englished taken at that time unto although it bee not the thousand part of her disbursements In nomine paenae which in all such great offences is accustomed towards the victualling of her Majesties Garisons hee shall pay two thousand Cowes within sixe moneths That the Countrey of Tyrone may bee limited and no more by him to be possessed then is contayned in his Letters Pattents That the territory of Tyrone might bee divided into shieres and haue Goales as hee hath formerly desired That hee put at liberty the Sonnes of Shane Oneale and all other prisoners English and Irish These things you shall only propound as from your selfe yet as conceiving that they will be demanded at his hands if hee be received and to draw as large an overture from him of what hee will agree unto as you can perswade him telling him that the greater assurance he doth giue the estate of his loyaltie the greater will bee his safetie for wee shall conster his good meaning by his free offer thereof and after wee shall haue the lesse reason to bee jealous of him Mountioye George Carew CHAP. XXVI The King of Spaines Letters inâ—ercepted A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to the Archbishop of Dublin A Letter from the Secretary Ybarra to Don Iuan de Aguila A Letter from the Secretary Fragursa to Don Iuan de Aguila A Letter from the King of Spaiâ—e to Don Iuan de Aguila ABout the tenth of February Doâ— Iuan de Aguila residing in Corke whilest his Troopes were preparing to bee embarqued for Spaine In this interim a Spanish Pinnace landed in the Westermost part of the Province and in her there was a Messenger sent from the King to Don Iuan de Aguila with a packet of Letters The President having knowledge thereof told the Lord Deputie that if hee had a desire to know the King of Spaines intentions there was a good occasion offered the Lord Deputies heart itching to haue the Letters in his hands prayed the President to intercept them if hee could hansomely doe it the President undertooke it and having notice that the next morning the Messenger would come from Kinsale to Corke and knowing that there was but two wayes by the which hee might passe called Captaine William Nuce unto him who commanded his foote Company to make choise of such men as hee could trust to lie upon those pâ—ssages and when they saw such a Spaniard whom hee had described unto him to seaze upon him and as thieues to rob him both of his Letters horses and money not to hurt his person but to leaue him and his Guid bound that hee might make no swift pursuit after them and when they had delivered him the Letters to runne away Captaine Nuce so well followed his instructions as the Spaniard was taken in a little Wood and the Letters brought at dinner time Don Iuan if I doe not mistake that very day dyning with him who instantly caried them to the Lord Deputie where at good leasure the packets were opened and read which done the President went to his house leaving the Letters with the Lord Deputie the same evening the Spanish Messenger having beene unbound by passengers came to Don Iuan de Aguila relating his misfortune in being robbed not fiue miles from the Towne Don Iuan de Aguila went immediatly to the Lord Deputie grievously complayning that the Messenger was robbed by Souldiers as hee alleaged The Lord Deputie seemed no lesse sorry but said he it is a common thing in all Armies to haue debaucht Souldiers but hee
thought it to bee rather done by some of the Countrey thieues but if the fact was committed by Souldiers it was most like to bee done by some Irish men who thought it to bee a good purchase as well as the money to get the Letters to shew them unto their friends in rebellion that they might the better understand in what estate they were in Don Iuan not being satisfied with this answer desired the Lord Deputie to enquire of the Lord President for of his intercepting of them he had a vehement suspition whether hee had any knowledge of the matter and so they departed The next morning the Lord Deputy related to the President the complaint and his answers Don Iuan eager in the pursuite of his Letters came to know of the Lord Deputie what the President answered The Lord Deputie answered him upon his fayth that hee was sure that the President had them not which hee might well doe for they were in his owne possession In conclusion a Proclamation was made and a reward in the same promised for him that could discover the Theeues and a pardon for their liues graunted that committed the fact if they would come in and confesse it with this Don Iuan rested satisfied How much the intercepting of these Letters did import her Majesties Service not one Spanyard being then imbarked but remaining in a Body at Kinsale may appeare by these ensuing Letters Englished taken at that time A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila NOt many dayes past I wrote unto you and now I make answere to those which I received from you the thirteenth of the last October assuring you that his Majesty puts great confidence in your care and valour As touching the men and other things which you demaund there is dispatched a good quantitie and more is in preparing and make you no doubt but still more shall bee in sending as much as may bee for his Majestie hath it before his eyes and I haue taken in hand the solliciting thereof Wherefore you may bee assured that you shall not want any thing which may bee sent that is needfull There is now in readinesse 150 Launces which shall be presently embarqued and more men are in levying with expedition with whom Money shall be sent And so referring my selfe for the rest to his Majesties Dispatch I will say no more but to assure you that in all things which may concerne you esteeme mee ever to bee your Sollicitor God keepe you Valladolid the fourth of December 1601. El Duque de Lerma Marques de Denia To Don Iuan de Aguila Master of the Campe Generall of the men of Warre in Ireland A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to the Archbishop of Dublin I Haue received your Lordships Letters giving thanks to God for the successe of your journey for by it it appeares that there is a way and doore open for many good purposes for his service and his Majestie hath much confidence of the care zeale which your Lordship hath for the progression in the same Now we send you a good Body of men with such things as is necessary and more shall be prepared and so continue sending as much as wee may whereof you need not doubt for his Majestie whom God preserue holds it before his eyes forasmuch as the most important thing appertaining to this businesse is the joyning of the Earles with Don Iuan de Aguila his Majestie commandeth your Lordship to doe in it your uttermost endevour according to the confidence hee hath in your zeale God preserue your Lordship From Valladolid the fifth of December 1601. El Duque de Lerma Marques de Denia Let not your Lordship be weâ—ried with your travells I hope in God they will be full of good successes Al Arâ—obispo de Dublin A Letter from the Secretary Ybarra to Don Iuan de Aguila BY Captaine Albornoz I wrote unto your Lordship and I wish that this dispatch may overtake him at the Groyne according to the desire I hold that it and that which goes with it were with your Lordship certifying you that as much is done as may be for your supply in all things I wrote unto your Lordship that there were two Companies of Horse ready to be sent unto you but now I say there is three and in them two hundred and twenty Souldiers well armed and horsed and it please God they shall be all embarqued in this Moneth God in his divine mercy guid them There is men levied in all Castile and Portugall and shipping embargâ—d to transport them victuals and other necessaries in providing and now at this instant there is embarqued in Lisborne in the Groyne and Saint Ander a more then sixe thousand Hanegas of Wheat and three hundred pipes of Wine and some Beanes and Rice and sixe hundred Arrobas of Oyle and moreover besides this which I say is embarqued there are Commissaries taking of more up and no care shall be wanting to â—asten them away I haue spoken with Captaine Moreles and of that which hee hath told mee of the seat of the place and of the small number of men your Lordship hath I feele my selfe grieved but when I call to mind what a person Don Iuan de Aguila is the way is open unto me to expect great matters and I hope God will grant the same according to the worth of your Lordship against your wicked enemies Let your Lordship hasten the joyning of the Earles with you for of all things that is most important which being done before the Queene can reenforce her Army all is accomplished I am desirous to heare that the excellent good Horsemen were with your Lordship that with them your Lordship may winne honour in the field c. From Valladolid this seventh of December 1601. Estevan de Ybarra To Don Iuan de Aguila Generall Master of the Campe. A Letter from the Secretary Franquesa to Don Iuan de Aguila HIs Majestie is much satisfied of the good government in those occasions of your Army and I hope in God that with the succors which now shall bee sent unto you it will bee bettered in such sort that you will not onely bee able to defend your selfe from the Enemies but also to chastise them the meanes to effect the same is for you to hold your selfe as you are untill the succours aforesaid doe â—ome in the meane time the more you are pressed upon the more will be your reward and recompence which his Majestie will conferre upon you the which I will thrust on as occasion shall offer it selfe and bee alwayes vigilant in these things which shall concerne your Lordship as I haue beene God preserue your Lordship according to my desire From Manâ—illa the thirteenth of Ianuary 1602. To Don Iuan de Aguila Master of the Campe Generall of his Majesties Army in Ireland A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila BY that which Zubiare and Pedro Lopez
the finishing of the Fort of Castle ny Parke That her Majestie was pleased at the Presidents request that a faire and strong house should be built for the President where hee thought it convenient to bee defrayed upon the fines and casualties of the Province That the fort of Haleboling should be presently finished Lastly thankes in her Majesties name for his services liking well of his proceedings with Cormock Mac Dermond and for the courses he had taken in his returne from Donboy and of the well disposing of the Garrisons and his raysing and making of fortifications c. By this Letter it appeares that the President was directed to redeliver unto the Burgesses of Kinsale their Charter and other their Ensignes of Magistracie among the which there was a faire large Standard of Damaske with the Armes of England in it This Standard aforesaid was first delivered unto them by the commandement of King Henry the eight by Sir George Carew the Lord Presidents cosen german when hee arrived at Kinsale who not long before the siege of Bollogne was Admirall of some of the Kings ships Into the hands of Sir George it was left in safe keeping when the Spaniards arrived there and by the same Sir George Carew by Queene Elizabeths commandement it was as is said redelivered unto them againe although this petty note may seeme to some scarce worth the relating yet for the rarenesse of the accident I thought it meet to bee remembred And that the Reader may also understand what a fatall place Kinsale hath beene unto the Spaniards in former times as well as now I thinke it not impertinent to relate what hapned unto them in that port in Anno 1380. and the fourth yeare of the Raigne of King Richard the second My Author is Thomas of Walsingham who lived in those dayes and thus Englished in Hollinshed IN this meane while that the Earle of Buckingham was passing through the Realme of France the French and Spanish gallies did much mischiefe on the Coast of England but about the later end of Iune by a flecte of Englishmen of the West Countries part of them were forced to retire and take harbour in an haven in Ireland called Kinsale where being assailed by the Englishmen and Irishmen they were vanquished so that to the number of foure hundred were slaine and their chiefe Captaines taken as Gonzales de vorse and his brother Martin de Motrigo Turgo Lord of Morrans Also the Lord of Reath Peers Martin of Vermew Iohn Moditt of Vermew the Seneschall of Wargarie the Seneschall of Saint Andrewes Cornellis of Saint Sebastiano Paschale de Biskaya Iohn Martinez Sopogorge of Saint Sebastiano and divers others There were taken foure of their Barges with a Ballenger and one and twenty English vessels recovered which they had robbed and taken away from their Owners There escaped yet foure of their notable Captaines from the hands of our men Martin Grantz Iohn Perez Mantago Iohn Husce Gitario and one Garcia of Sebastiano Thus farre Hollingshed â—raving the Readers patience for to some this old story may seeme to bee a needlesse curiositie but to proceed The President to make the speedier prosecution and expedition in the affaires of the Province caused the Rising out of the Countrey to bee assembled to the number of sixteene hundred at their owne charges under the conduct of the Lord Barry These Provinciall Forces were not prepared for any great need that was of their service it was thought meet to draw as many hands together as conveniently might bee who according to their manner for spoyles sake would not spare their dearest friends And also it was thought no ill policie to make the Irish draw bloud one upon another whereby their private quarrels might advance the publike service The President had first determined himselfe in person with fiue hundred English joyned to the Provincials to haue taken the field but his intentions were casually diverted by Letters from the Lord Deputie who signifying that his Lordship purposed to bee at Galway about the two and twentieth of December required him all other businesse set apart immediatly to repayre thither to consult about certaine affaires much importing the service of the State by reason whereof the President appointed Sir George Thornton with 500. English Souldiers Inhabitants as Vndertakers in Mounster to accompany the Lord Barry with the Provincialls and all these to meet together about the twentyeth of this present at Donkerran which was the place of their rendevous In this meane time the Rebell Tirrell not liking to stay any longer in the Aire of Mounster wherein hee had runne many dangers bethought himselfe of a retreat out of the Province hoping that the President would condiscend to any composition rather then to bee troubled with his company whereupon he sent his inward servant Laghlin Odallye afore mentioned in this discourse unto Corke who comming to the President told him that his Captaine meaning Tirrell would bee content to leaue the Province and would heereafter this so as hee might haue a Pardon a Pension and a Company of Foot in her Majesties pay serue the Queene and deserue the reward demaunded by his future services The President knowing that for want of food hee would be forced ere the spring of the yeare to depart And also assuring himselfe within that time to get some good draught to bee drawen upon him by some of the Provinciall Rebells who now being heart-broken would doe any thing for their Pardons or for a little money not onely sleightly rejected his offers but bid Odalley tell him That although hee were never so warie yet hee doubted not before it were long to haue his head sent unto him in a bag willing him to forbeare to send any more unto him While these forces aforesaid were gathering according to the directions afore-recited the Governor of Kerry losing no opportunity and forbearing no labour had the like fortune upon the Knight of Kerry as Sir Samuel Bagnall had upon Tirrell for being conducted to his Quarter in the night killed fortie of his men and tooke from him all his whole substance which consisted of fiue hundred cowes two hundred garrans and two moneths provision of Meale and Butter for his Souldiers which small spoyle was a great losse to the poore Knight for thereby hee being disfurnished of all his provision disabled to minister entertainment to his followers and having no Castle whereunto he might safely retreat was constrained like a Wolfe to shelter himselfe in waste woods and desolate mountaines untill he could worke meanes with Sir Charles to accept his humble submission which incontinently upon his defeat hee earnestly solicited by the meanes of Osulevan More And surely this Service was of good consequence for the setling of Kerry for Thomas Oge induced by the example of the Knight and likewise Donnell Osulevan Son to the said Osulevan More did all joyntly submit themselues and her Majesties