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 âivill 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
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 tenemeÌts by lease or otherwise within the limits of the Commission aforesaid shall by covin fraud or dâceit 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 Lieâtenants 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
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 Drumâinin with intent to giue impediment
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 Audâây 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
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 purâued the way to the Battlements whereunto there was but one Doore Captaine Flower entred upon one hand and Captaine Slingsbâe 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 ãâã âanifold 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 Bânoghs 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 Aâkeiton 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 câusing 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 oâcasions 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
owne home leaving the Earle to a desperate fortune who now perceived that the Provincials submitted themselues daily to the President and the strangers returned into their severall Countries and that no aide approached either from the South or North by Sea nor Land was compelled together with Iohn his Brother Maurice Mac Thomas Pierce Lacy and the Knight of the Glyn to leaue the Countrie of Corke and to fly into Tipperary and Ormond and from thence Iohn fits Thomas hasteth to Vlster CHAP. XIIII Supplies of Foote sent from England Osulevan More sent by the Lord Deputie to the Lord President The Castle of Glancoyne surprised by Sir Francis Barkley Florence Mac Carties Wife and Followers perswaded him to goe to the Lord President The young Earle of Desmond arrived at Yoghall A Letter from Her Majestie to the Lord President Her Maiesties Letters Patents for Iames Fitz-Gerald to be Earle of Desmond THE Lords of the Councell of England by their Letters bearing Date the twentie seventh advertised the President that there was sixe hundred Foote in a readinesse to be sent to Corke to supply the Armie and for that many Souldiers daily arrived in England by Passeports from their Captaines onely They gaue the President a straite Charge to take order with all the Maritime Townes that no Souldier should be transported out of any of them without a Passe under his owne Hand and Seale and the last of the same he had directions from their Lordships that good Bands with Sureties should be taken upon all Merchants of Ireland which traded with Spaine or France not only for their owne good behaviours and loyalties when they were beyond the Seas but to all such Passengers as they should carry with them which was presently put into execution Dermond O Conner at his late being in Mounster had caused Osulevan More a man aboue sixtie yeares of age and yet never knowen to be in action against Her Majestie neither in Iames fits Maurice his Warres nor in the old Earle of Desmonds nor in this last Rebellion This man I say Dermond O Conner had taken Prisoner not without Consent and Councell of Florence Mac Cartie because he refused to pay Bonnaght unto the Connaght men Captaine Tirrell by force or fraud I know not whether tooke the Prisoner from him and caried him into the North who escaped out of the Vlster mens hands was taken by Sir Theobald Dillon of Connaght and presented to the Lord Deputie by whom hee is committed to the Castle of Dublin untill his estate should be further knowen and not long after he sent him to the Earle of Ormond to be sent by him to the President to be disposed of according to his discretion He being about this time come to Corke raileth bitterly against Florence ascribing both the beginning and continuance of his troubles to him and relating to the Councell such intelligence as hee had learned in those parts where he had beene detained returneth into his owne Countrey The Arch-rebels Iames fits Thomas Fits Maurice and the Knight of the Glyn not finding as it should seeme the entertainement they expected in my Lord of Ormonds countrey or rather notintending at the first to make any long stay there but onely that thereby the President might thinke them quite gone and so make no further inquirie after them did in the beginning of this Moneth of October steale backe into the Countie of Limerick yet not so privily but the President had intelligence thereof for it was signified unto him the fourth of this instant that Desmond was about Arlogh having not aboue fiue in his Company and two of them came lately from the Pope with promise of Succours which came too late for his turne as hereafter shall be shewed In the meane time our Garrisons prospered so well that Sir Francis Barkley got the Castle of Glancoyne in Connilogh burning and spoyling great store of Corne in those parts and Sir Charles Wilmot in Kerry prevailed so farre that Castlemange held by Thomas Oge and Listoell defended by Fits Maurice were the only two Castles held against her Majestie which were both regained within short time and Captaine Flower at Lysmore wrought miracles against the Rebels in those parts as Sir Richard Aylward wrote to the President But Florence Mac Cartie notwithstanding his manifold Letters stuffed with abominable oathes came not as yet to the President nor indeed minded he to come as it was reported had not his Wife and some of his Countrey in a manner compelled him thereunto for she refused to come to his Bed untill he had reconciled himselfe to Her Majestie saying that she knew in what manner her Father had that Earledome from her Highnesse and though she be not pleased to bestow the same wholly upon her yet she doubted not to obtaine some part thereof but if neither of these could bee gotten yet was not she minded to goe a begging either unto Vlster nor into Spaine and to confirme this report it was certainely knowen that she with the helpe of her friends kept the Castle of the Lough in Desmond by force from him Her Majestie having evermore had a determination to send Iames fits Gerald Sonne unto the late Earle of Desmond attainted in Ireland and having found by experience that the attempt which Dermond O Conner made in the apprehension of Iames fits Thomas was at his Wifes suite in hope thereby to obtaine the restitution of her Brother to his old Title of Earle of Desmond and also unto some state of Inheritance for his maintenance did now resolue to put her determination in effect hoping that his presence in Ireland would draw the ancient Followers of the Earle of Desmond his Father from Iames fits Thomas the supposed Earle and therefore releasing him out of the Tower where from his infancie he had beene Prisoner shee not onely admitted him to her presence but stiled him Earle of Desmond and sent him conducted into Ireland by Captaine Price a sober discreet Gentleman and an ancient Commander in the Warres who landed with his charge at Youghall the fourteenth day of October from thence he brought him to Moyallo to the President upon the eighteenth where from Her Majestie he presented to his Lordship the young Earle Her Majesties Letters and Letters Pattents under the great Seale of England for his restitution in blood and Honour both which Letter and Letters Pattens I thinke it not unnecessary to set downe the true Copies which were as followeth A Letter from her Maiestie to the Lord President ELIZAB. R. TRustie and Welbeloved wee greet you well Wee haue now at the last resolved to send over Iames fits Gerald into Mounster after long debate with Our selfe what accidents might follow thereupon wherein although there might be many doubts to what hee may bee inveagled in times to come yet that opinion which wee conceiue of his owne good nature and disposition to gratefulnesse for
part of those Forces which at first were allotted unto him for this service and therefore besides those fiue hundred which were of late cashiered by direction from the Lord Deputie he was contented to spare one thousand more to bee disposed for the warres of Linster or other places neere adjoyning conditionally that they might remaine upon the List of Mounster aswell to countenance his proceedings as also that he might call them backe upon any occasion if new broyles should bee raised and so in effect reduced the Armie of that Province to fifteene hundred Foote and two hundred Horse You heare before that the Earle of Ormond upon conference with the President undertooke to driue Redmond Burke and the other Rebels his associats out of his libertie of Ormond within the liberty of Tipperary which although he oftentimes assaied to effect yet it sorted not to his desired end untill the beginning of this Moneth of Ianuary at which time he employed the Lord of Dunboyne Sir Walter Butler his Nephew and Captaine Marberry with such forces as he had of Her Majesties and the Countrey to so good purpose that besides fourty fighting men that were presently slaine and amongst them Thomas Burke brother to the said Redmond and the Armes of thirtie more gotten they forced Redmond and all his Company into the river of Nore being at that time very high and there drowned seventie of his men with their armes besides divers Churles and all their baggage certaine persons were also taken in this service amongst whom was Iohn Burke brother to the said Redmond who was shortly after executed in Kilkenny and William Burke an other of his brethren grievously wounded But to returne to the Presidents actions who desirous that the Countrey might grow acquainted with the civill governement whereunto of late it had beene a stranger thought it convenient that the Sherifes being necessary officers for the State should looke into the Countrey aswell to finde out such ill disposed Malefactors and idle Vagabonds as were pernitious to the government as also to levie at reasonable rates such provisions as the Countrey yeeldeth and the Garisons wanted for this cause Iohn Barry the Sheriffe of the County of Corke made a Iourney unto some of Florence Mac Cartie his lands who no sooner entered into his Countrie as hee termed it but presently he was resisted and before he could make his retreate some of his men were murthered the like measure was also offered to some of the Garison of Kerry who had no sooner set foote beyond the Mang a River that parteth Kerry and Desmond but they were instantly assaulted by Florence his Followers and two of his souldiers slaine The President receiving Advertisement of these malicious and traytourly practises of Florence still continued was exceeding desirous according unto directions sent him out of England to get him into his hands if it might bee effected without putting the Queene to a further charge which without some temporizing could not as yet conveniently be performed For Florence finding himselfe to haue notoriously incurred âeverall 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 ãâã for the service of Linster yet he still insisted that they might remaine as part of the List of Mounster ãâã 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
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
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 ãâã 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 Donogâe 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 Aâmie 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 âee most opposite Wee haue thought
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 Adâlântados 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
Hoy might bee in safetie which much concerned the effecting of that service by his safe conducting hee placed him in the hold and ordered it so that with two takles bee might steere the Hoy either to Starboard or to Port as hee was willed aboue by the Captaine who stood aloft by the Misen Maste to order her course as he saw cause but it was so fine and fresh a gale of winde that though they sayled aboue halfe a league in play of the Ordnance and small shot of the Castle yet shee made that way that they could not aboue twice discharge and lade their Ordnance before shee attained the Creeke where she was then in securitie from any further annoyance of the Castle The eleventh wee entrenched our Campe mounted our Ordnance and drew them all into the market place and the same day about eight of the clock in the evening the Lord President gaue direction to haue a Demy Culvering drawen within shot of the Castle which made but two shot that night and was withdrawen The Spanish Cannoniers finding the shot willed the Irish to be of good courage for that Peece would doe them no harme Hee also caused two Minnions to bee landed out of the Queenes ship and placed them upon a poynt of ground on the Northwest side of the Castle which overlooked it to annoy the Rebels whilest we were about our worke the same night wee began our approaches the care whereof the President imposed upon Captaine Francis Slingsby a discreete and dexterous Gentleman making him Trench-master who performed with commendations the charge which was layed upon him having all the day before employed a great partie of men to the Wood which was a long mile and halfe distant from the Campe to fetch more wattle to make Gabions and was constrained to send a strong guard with them for their defence This day the Enemy out of the Wood made a salley upon some of our guards but were immediatly repulsed The tâelfth of the same understanding that the Enemy had fortified the Iland of the Dorsies and caried thither three Peeces of Spanish Ordnance and placed a strong Ward of fouââie choise men in the same reseâving that as their last and surest refuge The Lord President made speciall choise of Captaine Iohn Bostock and sent him with ãâ¦ã to Sir Francis Barkley and gaue them as also to Captaine Thomas Fleming who had command of her Majesties Pinnace secretly in charge that now whilest their Army was occupied in besieging Dunboy and making their trenches and approaches and the Enemy secure from any suspition that wee would giue any attempt else where that they should presently take her Majesties Pinnace and foure boats and put into them one hundred and sixtie foote men and set saile for the Iland of the Dorsies which charge they affected accordingly and arrived there with the forces early the next day in the morning and being on land drew to the North poynt of the Iland where they found the wals of a ruined Chappell Captaine Bostocke under the safetie thereof lodged Lieutenant Downings and a partie of men and then returned aboard the Queenes Pinnace to giue direction what hee would haue done and thence tooke the Boat of the Pinnace and âowed about the Iland to discover a fit landing place for himselfe and the rest of his Souldiers then comming backe to the Pinnace so soone as the tide served caused the Pinnace to warpe up neerer the place and appoynted thirtie Souldiers and a Sergeant to attend her and sent unto Lieutenant Downings a shore advising him that at the very instant that hee should land in the East part of the sort that hee should giue an attempt on the North side Then hee divided his men into three Boats and the Pinnace beating upon the âort with her Ordnance hee and Lieutenant Downings at the other two places first agreed upon assayled the uttermost fort which after a good defence made their resolution and valour caried it and there they possest themselues of three Iron Peeces of the Spanish Ordnance and forced the Rebels into their second fort where they entertayned a good fight for the space of two howers But our men being encouraged with their first good fortune gaue on them so eagerly as the Enemy amazed rendered themselues and presently all the weaponed men came forth and delivered him possession of the fort which earth upon them The President glad to see them past danger laughing sayd That if they had been as good Mechanicall Cannoniers as they were Commaunders they would haue stood firme as hee did Also this day a whole Culvering was drawne out of the Campe and certaine shot was made the Bullets being found the Gunners liked it not and began to feare their successe The day following the whole Culvering having been formerly withdrawne certaine shott was made out of the Demy-culvering aforesaid Vpon sight of the shot they much rejoyced supposing that our Culvering had received some mischance and scorned at any offence wee could doe them The sixteenth the Gabions Trenches and Platformes were finished and in the night the Demy-Cannon and the two Culverings were drawen downe and planted against the Castle within 140 yards The seventeenth about fiue of the clocke in the morning our Battery consisting of one Demie-cannon two whole Culverings and one Demy-culvering began to play which continued without intermission till towards nine in the forenoone at which time a Turret annexed to the Castle on the Southwest part thereof was beaten downe in which there was a Falcon of yron placed upon the top of the Vault that continually played at our Artillery which also tumbled downe with the fall of that Tower many of the Rebels were buried therein That being ruinated the Ordnance played on the west front of the Castle which by one of the clocke in the afternoone was also forced downe Vpon the fall whereof the Enemy sent out a Messenger offering to surrender the place if they might haue their liues and depart with their Armes and a Pledge given for the assurance thereof Neverthelesse they continued shooting all the while the Messenger was comming betweene them and us whose Message being delivered the Lord President turned him over to the Marshall by whose direction hee was executed And then the Breach being in our apparance assaultable the Lord President gaue commandement to haue it entred Whereupon the Captaines of the Lord Presidents Regiments which were commanded by Captaine Henrie Skipwith Lieutenant Collonell thereof who were to giue the assault and cast the Dice for the poynt and who should giue seconds and it fell to Captaine Dodingtons chance and to be seconded by Sir Anth. Cooke their Lieutenants Francis Kirton and Thomas Mewtas to giue on first the rest of the Regiment to second them The Earle of Thomonds Regiment was to second the Lo. Presidents and during the assault the two Regiments of Sir Richard Percy
To all Admirals Viâeadmirals 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 encoârage 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 âarrison 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 enâue 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 reâââne to the passages in Mounster but first I must relate unto you the newes from Spaine sent in a Letter from Sir Robert Cecill unto the Lord Deputie and the same transcripted by master Secretaries direction unto the President the
G. George Flower Captaine 198 Sir George Bourcheir sent to Kilkenny 27 Sir George Bourchier comes to Corke 199 Sir George Thornton joynes with the Lord Barry 360 George Kingesmill maymed at Donboy 314 George Blunt 41 Glancoyne castle surprized by Sir Francis Barkley 84 Glin castle besieged and taken 63 64 Gregory Castle taken 297 Geoffrey Galway Major of Limricke fined imprisoned 110 And a new Major elected 111 H. Henrie Skipwith Captaine 15 315 Henry Malbie slaine 365 Sir Henry Folliot 233 Husseyes Report of the Rebellion in Mounster 146 Hopton dyed of a hurt 214 Hostages delivered by Don Iuan and their Names 247 Hugh Mostian 128 Sir Henrie Power 31 253 I. Iames Fits Thomas apprehended by Dermond O Conner 54 Iohn Power 55 Iohn Bostocke 30 Instructions for the Lord President of Mounster 6 Iames Archer Iesuite 26 InstructioÌs 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 deceiâe 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 Wilmât 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 coÌposition 296 Leamâcon 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 Dânnell 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 Letâer from Donnell O Sulevan Beare to Don Pedro Zubiaur 272 A Letter from the Lo. President to the Spanish Cannoniers in Donboy 294 A Letâer from Don Iuan de Aguila to Câptaine Iuan de Albornos Y Andrada 227 A âetter from her Majestie to the Lo. Pâesident 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 âetter from her Majestie to the Lord Pâesident 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
Walsh 199 O Earle of Ormond taken prisoner 24 O Sulevan repaires with Tirrell into Muskrey 352 Remaines in Beare 392 O Sulevan More sent by the Lord Deputie to the Lord President 84 Prisoner by the practice of Florence Mac Cartie 49 Olerie slaine 95 Owen Mac Eggan the Popes Viccar slaine 366 His qualitie and condition 367 P. Lord Presidents Letters Patents 3 His letter to Iames fits Thomas 51 Sent against O Donnell 210 Surprised with a Feaver 280 His opinion of a defensiue Warre in Ireland 348 Sends 1000. foot to the Lord Deputie 377 Meets the Earle of Ormond at Clonmell 105 Proclamation for publishing the new Money for Ireland 149 Principall men in Tyrones and O Donnells armie 212 Propositions made by Don Iuan. 241 Patrick fits Morris L. of Lixnaw died 71 Preyes taken from the enemy 293 R. Roger Harvey 29 Sir Richard Masterson 29 Sir Robert Gardiner 199 Sir Richard Levison his service at Castlehaven 225 Sir Richard Greame 232 Roger Harvey died of sorrow 257 Richard Power 43 Regiment sent by the L. President into Connaght 159 Reply of Don Iuan to the propositions of the Lo. Deputie 241 Reasons mooving the Lo. Deputie and Councell to a Composition 244 Sir Richard Percie 40 His Service 111 Robert Tent. 30 Rincorran Castle battered by the Lord President 206 Yeelded and the Spanyards received to mercie 208 Lo. Roche coÌmended for his loyalty 377 Andrew Roche 144 Richard Ailward knighted 279 Rancoliskey Castle taken 324 Rathmore Castle rendred 68 Rahane taken 297 Ratho Abbey burnt by Sir Charles Wilmot 101 Redmond Burke defeated by O Dwyre 33 Richard Owen comes to Corke with a Message from Tyrone 254 Sir Richard Wingfield 199 S. Spanish Fleet discovered at sea by Captaine Lâue. 189 Spaniards land at Kinsale 190 Spaniards make severall fallies 230 Spaniards make a great sally 221 Spaniards beateÌ out of their treÌches 219 Spaniards landed at Castlehaven 223 Spaniards how many transported out of Ireland 248 Spaniards imbarqued at Kinsale 268 Spanish letters intercepted 258 Spanish Hostages licensed to depart 326 Spaniards make three sallies 236 Spaniards defeated at Kinsale in the time of Richard the second 359 Spanish ship arrived neere Ardea 306 Spanish money distributed amongst the Rebells ibid. Shandon Castle 333 Sessions held at Limerick Cashell and Clonmell 105 Selby a Lieutenant 363 Supplies of 1000 foot from England 323 T. Tirlogh Roâ Mac Swiny 318 Tyrone comes into Mounster 20 Tyrone writes to the Lord Barry 20 Returnes into Vlster 23 Sir Thomas Norris 2 Townes of Mounster required to send Companies of foot to the campe 200 Earle of Thomond commands the Garison at Askeiton 75 Comes with supplies to the camp 216 Marches with an army into Carbry 287 Returned to Corke 289 Thomond spoyled by O Donnell 55 Sir George Thornton left a Commissioner of Mounster 383 Tirrell desires a Parley with the Earle of Thomond and fayles 307 His men executed at Donboy 320 Flies out of the Province 362 Tho. Taylor hangd in chaines at Cork 320 Tho. Oge makes his Submission 361 William Taffe Captaine 29 His Service against the Rebels in Carbery 366 V. Victuals delivered to Don Iuan. 248 Victuals money arrived at Corke 118 W. Warrant for the L. Presidents Patent 3 Sir Warham Saint Leger slaine by Mac Gwyre ãâã William Saxey Chiefe Iustice of Mounster 6 William Power Captaine his Service at Donboy 318 A Catalogue of the severall MAPPES contained in this HISTORIE In the first Booke 1 A Map of Mounster Page 1. 2 A Map of the Earle of Ormond taken prisoner between pa. 24. 25. 3 A Map of Cahir Castle betweene pag 42 and 43. 4 A Map of Askeiton Castle page 52 and 53. 5 A Map of Glin Castle page 62 and 63. 6 A Map of Carigfoyle Castle page 66 and 67. 7 A Map of Castle Mange page 96 and 97. 8 A Mapp of Limerick Castle pag 108 and 109. In the second Booke 9 A Map of the Siege of Kinsale betweene page 188 and 189. 10 A Map of the Fort of Hallibolyn pag. 252 and 253. In the third Booke 11. A Map of the Army in Beare betweene page 292 and 293. 12. A Map of the Siege of Dunboy page 310 and 311. 13 A Map of Muskrey page 330 and 331. 14 A Map of Castle-nigh-parke page 352 and 353. 15 A Map of Limerick page 362 and 363. 16 A Map of Yough-hall page 376 and 377. 17 A Map of Corke page 382 and 383. PACATA HIBERNIA THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE WARRES IN IRELAND CHAP. I. The Lord Deputie and the Lord Presidents landing in Ireland The Warrant for passing the Lord Presidents Patent The Patent The Lord Deputie and Councells Instructions to the Lord President THE Warres of Ireland having received their originall foundation in the North proceeded like unto a strong poyson which having infected one member without speedie prevention doth spred the contagion over the whole bodie for the Irish perceiving the prosperous successe of those first Rebels even beyond all expectation and hope of those that were ill affected and that her Majesties Forces had sustained many disasters which were never feared untill they happened the neighbour Provinces of Connaght and Leinster following the current of the present time begin to dismaske themselues of that cloake of subjection which before they pretended and to shew themselues partakers in that wicked action and furtherers of the rebellion And these being united in a strict Combination did verily perswade themselues that it would bee a matter very feasible to enable them to shake off the English Government and to make themselues absolute Commanders of all Ireland if the chiefe Lords of Mounster with their friends and followers would joyne with them to banish the English out of that Province They did account that Province to bee the key of the Kingdome both by reason of the Cities and walled Townes which are more then in all the Island besides the fruitfulnesse of the Country being reputed the garden of Ireland and the commodious Harbors lying open both to France and Spaine They devised many plots cast many projects and used many perswasions to animate the Provincials to begin to enterprise But currenti quid opus est calcaribus they were not so ready to yeeld reasons as those were to heare and their eares no more open to heare then their hearts to consent and their hands nothing backward in the execution thereof The Earle of Essex at his being in Ireland with his Army made a journey into Mounster in hope to compose the troubles thereof all that he performed at that time was the taking of Cahir Castle and receiving the Lord of Cahir and the Lord Roche with some others into protection Who after his departure did either openly partake or secretly combine with the rebells againe Her Majestie being resolved to send a new Lord Deputy into Ireland made choise of a worthy and noble Gentleman endued with excellent parts as well of body as
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
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 Chaunceââe 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 Proclamâtions 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 âines 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 perâllous 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 thârân not multiply such Officers leât 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 neâdfull 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 warrantmeÌt 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 LordâAudley 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 âra 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
and goods which all are in hazard through your folly and want of due consideration Enter I beseech you into the closet of your Conscience and like a wise man weigh seriously the end of your actions and take advise of those that âan instruct you and informe you better then your owne private judgement can leade you unto Consider and reade with attention and setled minde this Discourse I sende you that it may please God to set open your eyes and graunâ you a better minde From the Campe this instant Tuesday the fixt of March according to the new Computation I pray you to send mee the Papers I sent you assoone as your Honour shall reade the same O Neale The Lord Barries Answer to Tyrone YOur Letters I received and if I had answered the same as rightfully they might be answered you should haue as little like therof as I should mislike or feare any thing by you threatned against me which manner of Answere leaving to the construction and consideration of all those that are fully possessed with the knowledge of the Law of duetie to God and Man You may understand hereby briefly my mind to your obiections in this manner How I am undoubtedly perswaded in my conscience that by the Law of God and his true religion I am bound to hold with her Maiestie Her Highnesse hath never restrained me for matters of religion and as I felt her Maiesties indifferencie and clemencie therein I haue not spared to releeue poore Catholikes with duetifull succour which well considered may assure any well disposed mind that if duety had not as it doth yet kindnesse and courtesie should bind me to remember and requite to my power the benefits by me received at her Maiesties hands You shall further understand that I hold my Lordships and Lands immediately under God of her Maiestie and her most noble Progenitors by corporall service and of none other by very ancient Tenour which Service and Tenour none may dispence withall but the true Possessor of the Crowne of England being now our Soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth And though yee by some over weening imaginations haue declined from your dutifull allegeance unto her Highnesse Yet I haue setled my selfe never to forsake Her Let fortune never so much rage against me shee being my annointed Prince and would to God you had not so farre ran to such desperate and erronious wayes offending God and her Maiestie who hath so well deserved of you and I would pray you to enter into consideration thereof and with penitent hearts to reclaime your selues hoping that her Highnesse of her accustomed clemency would be gracious to you wherein I leaue you to your owne compunction and consideration And this much I must challenge you for breach of your word in your Letter by implication inserted that your forces haue spoiled part of my countrey and preyed them to the number of foure thousand Kine and three thousand Mares and Gerrans and taken some of my followers Prisoners within the time by you assigned unto mee to come unto you by your said word if yee regarde it I require restitution of my spoile and Prisoners and after unlesse you bee better advised for your Loyalty use your discretions against mee and mine and spare not if you please for I doubt not with the helpe of God and my Prince to bee quit with some of you hereafter though now not able to use resistance And so wishing you to become true and faithfull Subiects to God and your Prince I end at Barry Court this twenty sixe of February 1599. While Tyrone was in Mounster a disasterous action hapned upon the day of February Tyrone with his Hell-hounds being not farre from Corke Sir Warham St Ledger and Sir Henry Power who after the death of Sir Thomas Norris Lord President of Mounster in the vacancie of a President had beene established Commissioners for the government of the Province riding out of the Citie for recreation to take the aire accompanied with sundry Captaines and Gentlemen with a few Horse for their Guard not dreaming of an enemie neere at hand carelesly riding every one as he thought good within a mile of the Towne or little more Sir Warham St leger and one of his servants a little stragling from his companie was in a narrow way suddenly charged by Mac Guire who with some Horse likewise dispersed had spread a good circuit of ground in hope either to get some bootie or to haue the killing of some Subjects they charged each other Sir Warham discharged his Pistoll and shot the Traytor and hee was strucken with the others Horsemans staffe in the head of which wounds either of them dyed but none else on either side was slaine Tyrone having dispatched his busines in Mounster turned his face towards Vlster The Earle of Ormond the Lord Lieuetenant generall of Her Maiesties Forces with a competent Army was before him with a purpose to fight with him in his retreat But by what accident hee missed of his intention I know not being a hard matter to fight with an enemy that is not disposed to put any thing in hazard He went through Ormond and stayed not untill he had passed through a part of Westmeth betweene Mollingar and Athlone The Lord Deputie on the 5. of March had intelligence that hee meant to passe through Westmeth Whereupon with all the force hee could presently aââemble hee marched from Dublin but his endeavour was fruitlesse for Tirone was past before his comming CHAP. III. The Lord President leâât Dublin The Earle of Ormond taken prisoner by Owny Mac Rory Omore A joynt Letter from the Lord President and the Earle of Thomond to the Lords of the Councell in England The manner of the Earle of Ormonds taking prisoner The narrow escape of the Lord President and wounding of the Earle of Thomond The order taken for the ãâã of the Countâey after the Earle of Ormonds disaster The submission of Tho Fitz Iames and Tho Power THE Lord President having attended long at Dublin about his dispatches afore mentioned wherein he lost no time upon the seventh of Aprill being accompanied with the Earle of Thomond the Lo Audley Captaine Roger Harvy Captaine Thomas Browne Captaine Garret Dillon and some other Captaines and Gentlemen with seven hundred Foote and one hundred Horse Hee tooke his leaue of the Lord Deputie who with all the Councellors and Captaines then in the Citie to doe him honour rode with him about two miles out of the Towne and that night he lodged at the Naas the next night at Catherlogh and the day following hee came to Kilkenny to visit the Earle of Ormond being a noble man whom he much respected aswell for the honorable parts that were in him as for the long and familiar acquaintance which had beene betweene them After salutations and complements were past the Earle told the President that the next day hee was to parlie with the Rebell Owny Mac Rory
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
more in his Companie then sixty men and comming to the Wall of the Bawne of the Castle undiscovered by the helpe of Ladders and some Masons that brake holes in some part of the Wall where it was weake got in and entered the Hall before they were perceived the Sergeant named Thomas Quayle which had the charge of the Castle made some little resistance and was wounded Three of the Warde were slaine the rest upon promise of their liues rendered their Armes and were sent to Clonmell Of this Surprize the Lord President had notice when he was at Kilmallocke whereupon hee sent direction for their imprisonment in Clonmell untill hee might haue leasure to try the delinquents by a Marshals Court Vpon the fourth day following Iames Butler who tooke the Castle wrote a large Letter to the President to excuse himselfe of his traitorly Act wherein there was not so many lines as lyes and written by the underhand working of the Lord of Cahir his Brother they conceiving it to bee the next way to haue the Castle restored to the Baron The copie of which Letter here ensueth A Letter from Iames Galdie Butler to the Lord President RIght Honourable hither came unto me yesterday my Lord my Brother accompanied with Mr. Patricke White and Nicholas White of Clonmell Gent. and M. Geonge Lea of Waterford who treated with me as they said by your Honors Commission what might be the causes why I should attempt the surprising of the castle of Cahir being kept as a garrison for her Majestie And albeit my good Lo I may not nor will not justifie what hath been done therein yet will I signifie the truth the which graciously being ãâ¦ã mercie I doubt not to excuse whatsoever hath beene ãâã And therefore my Lord first your Lordship shall vndeâ ãâ¦ã where heretofore by youthfull instigation and as I must ãâ¦ã together without the privitie of my Lord my Brother aforesaid I kept the said Castle untill the same was besieged by her Majesties Forces and battery layd thereunto the which I made choise rather to forsake then stand to the defence thereof which action my good Lord was so much raised to my contempt with the mouthes of her Highnesse enemies whom I then of force obeyed as they imagined nothing else would raise credit but the gaining thereof againe The next that mooved mee to enterprise the same was that publike report was made in the name of the Archbishop of Cassell who is well knowen to bee a professed enemy of my House to haue the keeping of the said Castle Thirdly that it was also reported that the Souldiers of late left in garrison therein purposed for want to sell the same for a piece of money unto Iohn of Desmond whom the Countrey knoweth not to bee my friend for the late killing of many of his men for which service my Lord of Dunboyne had only the thankes being no more assistant thereunto then your Lordship and last my good Lord when I considered the apparant wrongs as I thought proffered unto both my Brethren that your Honour and the State would countenance their knowen and vowed Enemies against them and to make their griefes the more corrosiue to bestow upon them the chiefe and dwelling Castle of the one of them being Cnocknamma to my Lo of Dunboyne which makes my poore brother to goe in a manner a begging and my Eldest Brothers Castle of Dorenlare upon Richard Power These being the principall causes that moveth this my desperate attempt I pray may be construed as if your Lordship or any other Gentleman were in my case and doe also request that your Honour and all others doe suspend to condemne me of my Disloyaltie in mind howsoever my youthfull actions doe deserue And that by example the same may the better appeare consider that having wonne the Castle aforesaid that unlesse it be such as by mischance were slaine I suffered not the blood of any other nor any part of their apparell to bee spilt or taken but send them conducted to the next incorporate Towne And for her Majesties Ordinance that here hath beene left I could wish your Lordship had them only that I know they must be removed by the force of many men the which I dare not adventure to trust as now I stand But let your Honor be well assured they shall be as safely kept as formerly they were for her Majestie Vnlesse your Honour or the State doe driue me to doe that I shall be unwilling Forasmuch therefore my good Lord as not only these but many else the causes of the rebellion of this Province haue hitherto and are well knowen to bee for want of considerate Iustice and clemencie of your Predecessors Governors sheweth liberally the benefit of her Majesties Proclamations and gratious authoritie given you And let the first example thereof be to withdraw the Castles of Darenlare and Cnocknamma aforesaid from the possession of such as the world doe know of pretended malice to haue sought them and to be bestowed wheresoever your Lordship doe thinke fit in Iustice they shall bee given And this much my very good Lord in excuse and as the simple truth of the Premises I am bold to signifie and now it resteth I must complaine against my Lord and Brother who as I suppose ought to maintaine both me and the rest whose wrongs hitherto proffered I will not forgiue nor forget having so sufficient a distresse as now I haue in possession the which I purpose to keepe untill our controversie be decided by friends or your Lordship or the State doe determine betweene us Holding the same with most assured safetie to her Majesties use and no hurt unto my countrey and to your Honours good liking and not otherwise all the premises concluded and considered it resteth now onely how I shall be maintained which my good Lord is to be supplied by that gratious entertainement that her Majestie hath and doeth bestovv upon lesse faithfull more unable to doe her service and not so vvilling as my selfe The vvhich in company vvith the rest I leaue to your favourable consideration Yet all these shall not satisfie me but that it may please your Lordship to forgiue and forget if in ignorance I haue either spoken or vvritten any thing that might giue you cause to be offended And so vvith my humble Duetie I take leaue Caher the tvventie seventh of May 1600. Your Lordships very assured to command Iames Butler The foure and twentieth the Armie encamped at the Brough where the President left a Ward partly to offend the Rebels of Loghguire three miles distant from thence and partly to open the way betwixt Kilmallocke and Limerick which for two yeares space had been impassible for any subject The fiue and twentieth the army passing neere Loghguire which was as yet held by the Rebels the President attended with a Troope of Horse rode to take a particular view of the strength and scituation thereof as also by what way
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 Thomând 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 theâe 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
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
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 Faâtnesse 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 scowâed 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 revânge 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 advanâement 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 ãâã 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 Faâtnesse 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 wiâe 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 OâConner 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 Sâeriffes 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 Maâors 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
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 sâmme 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 Presiâent 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
for the service of Linster one thousand Foote whereof the Companies of Sir Iohn Barkley and Sir Garret Harvies to bee part and with them Sir Richard Greames troope of Horse According to this direction he assembled them at Clonmell and gaue the Command of them unto the Lord Awdley and as they were ready to march hee received advertisement from the Earle of Thomond that a body of more then three thousand men of Vlster and Connaght were presently to enter into the Province whereupon hee wrote unto the Lord Deputie this ensuing Letter making stay of the Lord Awdley untill he should receiue answer thereof A Letter from the Lord President to the Lord Deputie IT may please your Lordship I am so infinitly distracted betweene the earnest desire I haue to satisfie your Lordships commandements and the present dangers which I see hangs over this Province if I should obserue them as that I stand amazed what Councell to take being in my selfe wholly addicted to obedience and by necessitie in a manner enforced to pause upon the same untill I may receiue your Lordships answer to these and then without farther protraction I will bee ready accordingly to obserue your commandements wherein I humbly pray your Lordship deliberatly to advise being as I take it especially materiall for the furtherance of Her Majesties service The next day after I received your Lordships Letter of the seven and twentieth of Ianuary being the thirtieth of the same for the better expediting of your directions I addressed severall warrants unto the Captaines residing neerest unto me commanding every of them to meete at the Townes of Clonmell and Fetherd by the sixth of this Moneth there to receiue such further directions as the Lord Awdley who I haue appointed to command them should direct The List consists of one thousand and fiftie Foote and Sir Richard Greames Horse Sir Garret Harvie lyes so farre remote in Kerry as I could not conveniently in so short a time draw them to the rest Wherefore for that particular I humbly pray to be excused and for Sir Iohn Barklies Company who are part of the List aboue-said I haue directed them by warrant according to your Lordships former pleasure signified unto me before the receipt of your Lordships last letters to repaire into Connaght but haue now countermanded them and doe hope they are not yet past Thus your Lordship may see my willingnesse to obey your directions which I did as gladly and affectionatly as your Lordship can desire But since having this day received these inclosed Letters from the Earle of Thomond and Master Comerford I doe make humbly bold to present the consideration of them unto your Lordships wisedome before I doe throughly accomplish your Commandements wherein my hope is that your Lordship will both giue me thankes and hold me excuâed because the publike service doth violently urge me unto it In my judgement I am perswaded that this intelligence is true drawne thereunto by many and sundry the like advertisements from all parts and persons lately reconciled whereof I could send your Lordship bundels of papers of divers mens relations and now confirmed in the same by these inclosed Letters which as your Lordship sees threatens the present disturbance of this Province not yet well setled Yet neverthelesse that it may appeare unto your Lordship that I am not backward to accomplish any thing which your Lordship shall require I do yet continue though not without some hazard to this Province if these Northern Forces should presently invade us to send the Companies aforesaid to the Rendevous before mentioned with directions to remaine there until your Lordship shall returne me your pleasure in answer of these and then what you shall prescribe unto me I will dutifully and carefully effect assuring my selfe that your Lordship will haue such a speciall regard to the State of this Province as that you will not withdraw them but upon certaine knowledge of the untruth of these intelligence But as a Councellor to speake my opinion if your Lordship can other wayes follow the prosecution in Linâter without calling Forces from hence it were very expedient to forbeare the same untill this Cloud be overpast which cannot long hold in suspence for all the danger is betweene this and the end of the next Moneth after which time untill the Cattle be strong and giue milke there is little doubt All which humbly referring to your Lordships better consideration I rest Moyallo the second of February 1600. G. C. Not many dayes after the Lord Deputie by his Letters so well approoved of the reasons why the President stayed the Lord Audley as hee thanked him for it and willed him to make Head against the Rebels descent and hereafter when they might be better spared then he prayed him to send them unto him The effect of the Lords of the Councells Letters to the Lord President IAnuary 28. the Lord President received Letters of great comfort from the Lords in England saying That they were exceeding glad to see that in so short a time hee had reduced the Province to such tearmes as that he could indure the cashiering of fiue hundred Foot and spare the Lord Deputie one thousand more of his List which was an evident demonstration of his Labours well spent in the Service and that his holding of Assises and Sessions so long dis-used was a manifest signe of a new life in the Province That they had written to the Lord Deputie to call Theobald ne Long Burke in question for the murdering of Dermond O Conner and had required him to see it punished That notwithstanding her Majesties pleasure was signified unto him that Iames fits Thomas his Brother Iohn the Baron of Lixnaw the Knight of the Valley and Pierce Lacie should not be received to mercie upon any condition but to be left as children of perdition unto destruction yet considering how long Rebells may continue by underhand friendships in Ireland shee was pleased that the Lord President should haue power if he saw cause to induce him thereunto to accept of the last three but with this caution That they should be pardoned for life onely and that not untill they had performed some signall services which might merit such gracious favour Lastly they admonished the President to carrie a strict hand upon the Commissaries of the Musters for by Certificate from Dublin they understood that they were very slacke in their duties The President knowing that it was a matter of no lesse moment to retaine and keepe the Provincialls in subjection and good order then it was at first to reduce them hereunto imployed now a great part of his time in devising such courses as might secure them from a future revolt and therefore first resumed into his owne hands all power of protecting and then protested never to renew any protections already granted whereby they were constrained to use all celerity and haste for the obtaining their Pardons In so much that
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
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 Maâesties 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 ãâã 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 âurke 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 libeâty 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 inârease my faith and zeale in your Majesties Serâice which from my ãâã I thanke âod for it was ingraffed in my Heart yet it infinitely multiplies my comforts in the same and wherein my ãâ¦ã 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
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 Dârmond 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 hoâourable 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 requiâed 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
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 âow by your directiââ hee had made offer of your service to his Majestie the Copie of which Letter goâth 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 Iâââary 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 Doâââll 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
tâ the Lârd 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 ânor 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 Letteâs 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 judgemeÌt 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 âo 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
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
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 pâssed 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
entertaine the skirmish with those that came up and another strong party was sent out towards Rincorran who from the Bushie hill played in flancke upon their trenches and beate them from the same so as they that were first sent out close to our Campe being beaten backe by our shot and thinking to find the seconds they left behind them were disappoynted by the quitting of their trenches and by that meanes driven to follow the rest to the succour of the Towne our men following them with much furie hurt and killed divers amongst whom they brought off the body of a Sergeant and possessed the enemies trenches the which the Enemy being re-enforced made many attempts to regaine but were repulsed and beaten backe into the Towne we heard by divers that Don Iohn committed the Sergeant Major who commanded then in chiefe presently after the fight and threatned to take off his head commended highly the valor of our men and cryed shame upon the cowardise of his owne who he said had beene the terror of all nations but now had lost that reputation and he gaue straight commandement upon paine of death which hee caused to be set upon the Towne gates that from thenceforth no man should come off from any service untill hee should be fetcht off by his Officer though his powder were spent or his Peece broken but make good his place with his sword Captaine Soto one of their best Commanders was that day slaine for whom they made very great moane and some twentie more besides were hurt which could not but bee many on our side onely some ten hurt and three killed among whom Master Hopton a Gentleman of the Lord Deputies was sore hurt and since dyed thereof If this skirmish had not bin readily and resolutely answered on our part the Spaniards had then discovered the smalnesse of our numbers and would no doubt haue so plyed us with continuall sallies as wee should hardly haue beene able to continue the siege The same day wee had Newes of the Earle of Thomonds landing at Castlehaven with one hundred horse and one thousand foot of Supplies out of England in thirteene Ships which by violence of foule weather had beene driven to the westermost part of Ireland and with great difficultie recovered Castlehaven aforesaid from whence the fifth day following hee came with Horse and Foot to the Campe at Kinsale The next day being the eleventh wee were advertised that Sir Anthonie Cooke and Patrick Arthur were landed at Waterford with two thousand foot and some horse The twelfth Sir Richard Levison Admirall and Sir Amias Preston Vice-Admirall of the Queenes Fleet for Ireland with ten Shippes of Warre arrived at Corke with two thousand Foot besides Munitions Cannoniers Carpenters Wheele-wrights Smithes c. presently the Lord Deputie sent them direction to come for Kinsale The thirteenth nothing was done either by us or the enemy The Queenes Ships with much difficultie recovered the harbour of Kinsale the Admirall Sir Richard Levison and the Vice-Admirall Sir Amias Preston came to the Lord Deputies Campe That day and the next day the two thousand Land-forces were put on shoare and before that wee had certaine newes of the arrivall of the other Forces from Barstable and Bristoll at Waterford and Castlehaven but they were not then come to the Campe nor in many dayes after The Lord Deputie comming from aboard the Ships a great shott was made at him from the Towne from whence they might discerne him in the head of a Troupe and yet missed him very little Some of the Queenes Ships having direction began to play upon a Castle in the Iland called Castle Ny Parke held fit next to bee taken to invest the Towne on that side they brake off some part of the top but finding that they did it no greater hurt they left shooting and the rather because that day and the two next prooved so extreame stormie and foule as the Ordnance could not bee landed nor any thing else well done yet out of an extraordinary desire to effect somewhat the seventeenth being the most happy day of her Majesties Coronation which wee meant to haue solemnized with some extraordinary Adventure if the weather would haue suffered us to looke abroad wee sent at night when the storme was somewhat appeased the Sergeant Major and Captaine Bodly with some foure hundred Foot to discover the ground of Castle Ny Parke and to see whether it might be carried with the Pickaxe which was accordingly attempted but the Engine wee had gotten to defend our men while they were at worke being not so strong as it should haue beene they within the Castle hauing store of very great stones on the top tumbled them downe so fast as brake it so as they returned with the losse of two men and proceeded no further in that course The same day the Lord Deputie called a Councell of warre wherein it was propounded that now that her Majestie had plentifully furnished us with men munition and victuals we wereto consider of our owne strength and the best way either to attempt the Towne or to continue the siege we were also to consider of the force of the Enemy within Kinsale and what aides they were like to haue out of the Countrey and of all other commodities or incommodities that were to happen on either side The conclusion and resolution was that wee should invest the Towne with all celerity to keepe it short of reliefe and before the making of a breach to breake their houses that they might find no safetie in them and thereby to bee exposed to the like incommoditie of cold and raine as wee felt in the Campe in doing whereof it was conceived that many would bee slaine and indanger the destroying their magazines of powder and victuals for if presently we should make a breach and attempt it by assault there was no difference betweene a weake place stored with bodies of men and a strong fortified Towne besides the Enemy had ground sufficient if a breach were made to cast up new earth workes which would put us to more toyle and losse of men then an old stone wall and in the opinion of all the chiefest of the Armie it was concluded that wee could not doe the Enemy a greater pleasure or unto our selues a greater disadvantage then to seeke to carie it by a breach before the forces in the Towne either by sword or sicknesse were weakned CHAP. XVI The Earle of Thomond with his supplyes came to the Campe. Castle ny Parke rendred by the Spaniards A Spanish Captaine wounded whereof he dyed A braue Act of a private Souldier Approaches made neerer to the Towne The Lord President with the Earles of Thomond and Clanricard returned to the Campe. A sally made by the Spaniards THE Earle of Thomond also with one thousand Foote and one hundred Horse having beene by force of weather driven farre
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 Captaâne and Camp-master Generall and Governour of the Armie of his Majestie the King of Spaine the said Lord Deputie being enâamped and besieging the said town and the said Don Iuan within ãâ¦ã respects and to avoyd shedding of blood these Condiâions 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 unshipâed 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
on the behalfe of his Majestie Catholique the King my Master George Carew Thomond Clanricard Richard Wingfield Robert Gardiner George Bourchier Richard Levison Don Iuan de Aguila CHAP. XXIIII The names of the Hostages delivered by Don Iuan. Don Iuan his demand of victuals for the transporâation of his men The victuals which was delivered to Don Iuan and their rates The number of Spaniards which were transported out of Ireland The Lord Deputie brake up his siege and returned to Corke Captaine Harvies Commission for his government THE day the Articles were Signed Don Iuan dined with the Lord Deputie and the next day after the Lord President having Sir Richard Levison and Sir William Godolphin in his company was sent into the Towne of Kinsale where he dyned with Don Iuan to treate with him about such shipping and victuals as hee would demand for the transportation of his men and at what rates for the which ready money was to bee payed And also to demand of him the three Captaines which the Lord Deputie had made choise of which were Don Pedro Morijon Captaine Pedro Suaco and Captaine Diego Gonzales Sigler to remaine Pledges untill the returne of the ships The demands hee made of victuals and tonnage for the victualling and transporting of three thousand and two hundred men remayning in Kinsale Castlehaven Baltimore and Donboy whereof two thousand and sixe hundred in Kinsale and sixe hundred at the places aforesaid were as followeth First his demands was sixe weekes victuals in forme following For every weeke foure dayes flesh three dayes fish For every flesh day bread foure and twenty ownces for a man and sixe of Beefe For every fish day foure and twenty ounces of Bread sixe ounces of fish and one ounce of Butter For every hundred men one Pipe of wine besides water For shipping for every three men two Tuns and hee to giue fourtie shillings le Tun and his men to bee landed at the first Port they can touch in Spaine For the expediting of these demands the Lord Deputie gaue present direction to all the Ports within the Province for the taking up of shipping and warrant to Allen Apsley the Commissary for the victuals in Mounster to issue out of the Queenes store according to the demands made These quantities of victuals ensuing for the which hee should receiue money of Don Iuan whereby the Magazine might bee supplyed Towards the accomplishing whereof the Comissary of the victuals delivered this ensuing proportion viz. Bisquet 186052 li. 2067 4 8 Butter 6304 157 12 3 Flesh 47394 789 18 00 Fish 18339 305 13 00 Ryce 1235 30 17 6 Â Summa tot 3351 5 5 Which being with all possible conveniencie despatcht haste was made for their Embarquing at two sundry times There was shipped at Kinsale the care whereof was committed to Captaine Francis Slingsbye 2070 at Baltimore and at Castlehaven by Captaine Roger Harvie 415 in all 3025 besides Captaines inferior Officers Priests and religious men and a great Company of Irish. The fourth of Ianuary a Spanish ship appeared by the old Head of Kinsale hovering before the Harbor mouth The Lord Deputie having concluded the Composition with Don Iohn for the rendring of the Towne of Kinsale sent a Boat with some men in her to let them know that Don Iohn and hee were good friends and therefore hee might safely come in without any danger in which Boat was one Thomas Foster a Nephew to Sir Anthony Cooke which message assoone as it was delivered the Captaine of the ship tooke in all the men hoysed sayle and stood away with all speed for Spaine This might seeme to be an action performed with no good approbation in putting those men into their power but whether it be justifiable or no the successe prooved it to bee of very great consequence for though the newes of the defeat of the Irish Armie were come into Spaine by O Donnell and those with him yet Don Iohn stood firme in Kinsale without danger to be much pressed by the Deputy soliciting new forces hoping thereby to repaire their former losses to reunite their dispersed Companies and to overthrow the English forces being much spent and sore weakened by their Winter siege Before the arrivall of O Donnell Seconds were in preparing and after his arrivall both increased and much hastened as may appeare by the Letters intercepted which came out of Spaine to Don Iohn when hee was at Corke both from the King of Spaine the Duke of Lerma the Secretary Ibarra and others But when they understood by those men that Don Iohn had compounded for the rendering of Kinsale and for their returning into Spaine it then put them to a stand for their proceedings and at last concluded to giue over the attempt finding so little assistance either in the power or courage of the Irish And if this had not fallen out thus and that those seconds had come and landed in Ireland it might haue beene much doubted or rather positiuely beleeved the contrary that those Spanyards would not haue been bound by Don Iohns Articles but haue taken their best opportunitie of their force and power in kindling a new flame and making that Kingdome againe in as desperate an estate as ever heretofore it hath been if not worse These things being thus ordered and no cause appearing of longer stay in the Campe the ninth of Ianuary the Lord Deputy rose and the same day he rode to Corke having in his company Don Iuan de Aguila and many of the Spanish Captaines the grosse of his companies being left in Kinsale The Lord Deputie lodged in the Bishop of Corkes house Don Iuan in the Citie and the President at Shandon Castle The day following the Captaines received directions to repayre to sundry Townes in Mounster appoynted for their Garrisons And the same day Captaine Roger Harvie and Captaine George Flower were dispatched with certaine Companies to goe by Sea to receiue the Castles of Castle-haven Donneshed and Donnelong at Baltimore and Dunboy at Beerehaven in the West all which were then in the possession of the Spanyards Also the sayd Captaine Harvie had a Commission graunted unto him for the government of all the Countreyes betweene Rosse in Carbery and the Bay of Bantrye as followeth A Commission from the Lord Deputie and Councell unto Captaine Roger Harvy for the government of Carbry Mountioye VVEe greete you well Whereas wee haue thought it very expedient for the furtherance of her Majesties service and the drawing and setling the Inhabitants of the Westerne parts of the Province of Mounster which lately revolted into her Majestie allegiance againe which in regard that divers the Rebels which were vnited to Tyrone and the Spaniards upon the overthrow given them made escape and are drawen to Baltimore Castlehaven and those other Westerne parts For the better prosecution cutting off and apprehension of those and of all other Rebels Traytors Fellons and other capitall Offenders
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 sâall 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 mâlicious
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 ây 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 propoââded 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 Carlingâord 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
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 Spaiâe 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
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 cessâd 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
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 âHen 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 Fiânees 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 dispaâched Sir Charles Wilmot with a Regiment of one thousand and seven hundred âoote 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 Sââne 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 thâm in their quarter where hee slew tâelue 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 fooâe 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 Osuleâan 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 âet 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 Beaâe 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 âo water in which attempt Lieutenant Russell who served
that night in Rosse The nine and twentieth the Lord President went to Kinsale and tooke view of the fortifications at Castle-Parke and gaue order and direction for the better forwarding and ending of the workes there and thence rode that night to Corke appoynting the Companies that were to depart the Province to march the shortest way and to lodge at Downdanyer Donnell Mac Cartie Reughes Castle and the rest to come to Kinsale The thirtieth those Companies which were to goe with Sir Samuell Bagnall came to Corke and had their supplyes delivered them with order for their present departure The first of Iuly the Captaines that were to goe along with Sir Samuell Bagnall spent the day in staying for their sicke men which were comming after and preparing themselues for their journey and the day following they arose all from Corke and marched thitherwards The President in his returne from Dunboy as is said passing through Carberry where many were still in action not doubting but now they would haue submitted themselues seeing their supposed impregnable Cittadell was destroyed and Dermond Moyle Mac Cartie their Ante-âignane slaine hee found it much otherwise for those which before offered to doe service for their pardons stood aloofe and those which before were distracted and prepared to fly either to Spaine or Vlster had received new life and made fast combinations to hold out till their expected aids from Spaine should arriue yea and some also who before were Subjects and forward to giue the best intelligence did now palpably bewray both by their countenance their words and their actions that their hearts were otherwise affected All which alteration did arise from the arrivall of Owen Mac Eggan so often mentioned who not onely bestowed the Spanish treasure which hee brought with him bountifully amongst them but put them in hope of more with full assurance of a fresh Army to come to their succours his credit the feeling of a few duckets and his perswasions so prevailed as they verily beleeved that they should within a few moneths bee so reinforced with Spanish aids as to bee enabled to driue the English our of Ireland CHAP. X. Supplyes of a thousand Foote sent out of England for Mounster Sir Charles Wilmot with his Regiment sent into Kerry Iames Archer and Conâor Odriscall fled into Spaine Sir Owen Mac Carties sonnes revolt Divers Castlâs taken in Carbery by the Garrisons there The description of Beareâhaven The description of Baltimore-haven The description of Castle haven The Spanish hostages licensed to depart A Letter from the Lord President to Don Iuan de Aguila THE President being come to Corke he found Sir Edward Wing field with a thousand supplyes lately come forth of England all which were disposed in the weake Companies that came from Dunboy in the taking whereof and the marching thither with the returne ten weekes were consumed many men lost by the way and by sicknesse very much weakned Notwithstanding so many of the Army as were aboue the old List of Mounster were presently sent to the Lord Deputie by Sir Samuell Bagnall who came for them as aforesaid whilst the President was at the âiege of Dunboy Sir Charles Wilmot with his Regiment was sent againe into Kerry which Countrey having therein great store of Corne and Cattle would otherwise haue beene left open to the Rebels reliefe with direction to remoue all the Inhabitants with their goods and cattle over the Mountaine into the small county of Limerick and such Corne as could not be presently reaped and convaied as aforesaid hee was commanded to burne and spoyle the same the reason whereof was forthat the President having occasion of service neere the heart of the Countrey as you shall hereafter heare and also receiving daily intelligence of a great Army provided in Spaine did not thinke it safe nor convenient to empoly so great a part of his forces in places so remoâe considering that good and strong Garrisons were needfull in the chiefe Cities of the Province which otherwise would bee open to the Enemy that should attempt them But in effecting hereof the Governour found great difficulty for the harvest by reason of that winterlike summer was very backward and besides the Irish the Bishop of Kerry and certaine English families which had of late planted themselues there whose whole estate consisted in that Summers profit importunatly solicited some longer stay The President being acquainted herewith unwilling to giue any just occasion of grievance to the Irish and losse to the English consented to tollerate their stay for the present requiring the Governour in the meane while to put in execution such services upon the Rebels as occasion might minister The fifth of Iuly Iames Archer the Iesuit and Connor Odriscall the eldest Sonne of Sir Finnin Odriscall having gotten a small Brake fled into Spaine The two Captaine Harvies were leât at their old Garrisons in Carberie Captaine Roger at Baltimore the Lord Presidents Horse there Captaine Gawin at Castlehaven the Lord Barries Company at Litterâonlesse the Treasurers Company at the Abbey of Strory Captaine Stafford at Old Court Captaine Slingesby at the Church of Shadone where they wasted and forraged the Countrey as in a small time it was not able to giue the Rebels any reliefe having spoiled and brought into their garisons the most part of their corne being newly reaped from whom the President was certified that the Carties of that Countrey did dayly relapse insomuch as Donâaâ Moyle Mac Cartie and Finnie his Brother with their followers who atâended the President at the Siedge of Dunboy had received three hundred pounds Impresse from Owen Mac Eggan commonly called the A postolicall Vicar in the name of the King of Spaine They I say upon the tenth of Iuly 1602 joyned with the Rebells but in the end they could not greatly vaunt of their winnings for Captaine Roger Harvy got severall Draughts upon them whereby hee tooke their preyes and had the killing of many of their men besides hee tooke from them diverse Castles strongly seated neere unto the Sea where Ships might safely ride and fit places fot an Enemy to hold as namely the Castle of Donmanies Leam-con Donnegall the Downings Rancoliskey and Cape Cleere and in a word all that stood upon the Sea cost betweene Dunboy and Castlehaven except onely the Castles of Kilkoe and Cloghan But because we have had often occasions in this relation to speake of the three famous Harbours of Beerehaven Baltemore and Castlehaven it seemes to mee necessary in this place to speake something more particularly thereof according to an exact view taken by the Lord President and by him remised to the Lords of Her Majesties Privy Counsell First therefore the Haven of Beere is fituated twelve Miles to the Northward of that Promontory or fore-land so well knowne by the name of Mysâenhead or Caronhead That which wee properly call Beere-haven is the Sea which
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 Carraâena 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 Killârey 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 Councâll 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 âare 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 expeââed 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 Sâanish 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 Veadâr 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 trâasure 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 deâignes 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 âee 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 overâeene 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 âee 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 âumour 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 âaysed 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 mââ 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
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 skiâmish all our Captaines and Commanders deserved well and particularly Captaine Minshaw who had his horse slaine under him and himselfe wounded with a Piâe 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 âuch 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 âastnesse of Muskery could not secure him from the pursâât 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 âough and craggie and the carriage Garrans that are never strong were not able to travell sixe miles a day and besides Eâsterly 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 ãâã 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 irresiâtable 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 ãâ¦ã George Flower with their Troupes left neither Corne nor ãâ¦ã house unburnt betweene Kinsale and Rosse Captaine ãâ¦ã who had with him his brother Captaine ãâ¦ã 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 Baââry 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 perâevered 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 victâaââed to the Lord Deputy A Letter from her Mâjesty 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 eightâeâth 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 pârticular 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 dâsertores 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. Malaâhias Duac ' Episcopus Another that calleth himselfe Fryer Simon de S. S ââ 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 Pâesidânâ for men and munition and himselfe to ãâã unto him The List of her Majesties forcâs in Mounster Sir Edward Wingfield sent by the Lord President with fiue hundred foote into Câââaght The Lord of Lixâaw defeated by Captaine Boys The Castle of Kilco tâkân by Caâtaine 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 Barââley 150. Sir George Thornton 100. Captaine Francis Kingsmill 100. Captainâ George Kingsmill 100. Captaine George Flower 100. Captaine Charles Câote 100. Captaine Gawen Harââe 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
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 deâire 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
strength I should the better haue provided for what these clouds doe threaten and sooner and more easily either haue made this Countrey a rased Table wherein shee might haue written her owne Lawes or haue tyed the ill disposed and rebellious hands till I had surely planted such a Government as would haue overgrowne and killed any weeds that should haue risen under it Yet since the necessitie of the State doeth so urge a diminution of this great expence I will not despayre to goe on with this worke through all these difficulties if wee be not interrupted by forraine Forces although perchance wee may be encountred with some new irruptions and by often adventuring with some disasters and it may bee your Lordships shall sometimes heare of some spoiles done upon the Subjects from the which it is impossible to preserue them in all places with farre greater forces then ever yet were kept in this Kingdome And although it hath beene seldome heard that an Armie hath beene carried on with so continuall Action and enduring without any intermission of Winter breathings and that the difficulties at this time to keepe any Forces in the place where wee must make the Warre but especially our Horse are almost beyond any hope to prevent yet with the favour of God and her Majesties Fortune I doe determine my selfe to drawe into the Field assoone as I haue received her Majesties Commaundements by the Commissioners who it hath pleased her to send over and in the meane time I hope by mine owne presence or Directions to set every partie on worke that doth adjoyne or may bee drawne against any force that now doth remaine in rebellion In which Iourney the successe must bee in the hands of GOD but I will confidently promise to omit nothing that is possible by us to bee done to giue the last blow unto the Rebellion But as all paine and anguish impatient of the present doeth use change for a remedie so will it bee impossible for us to settle the minds of these people unto a Peace or reduce them unto Order while they feele the smart of these sensible griefes and apparant feares which I haue remembred to your Lordships without some hope of redresse or securitie Therefore I will presume how unworthie soever I haue been since it concernes the Province her Majestie hath given mee with all humblenesse to lay before your graue Iudgements some few things which I thinke necessary to bee considered of And first whereas the alteration of the Coyne and taking away of the exchange in such measure as it was first promised hath bred a generall grievance unto men of all qualities and so many incommodities to all sorts that it is beyond the Iudgement of any that I can heare to prevent a conâusion in this Estate by the continuance thereof that at the least it would please your Lordships to put this people in some certaine hope that upon the end of the warre this newe Standard shall bee abolished or eased And that in the meane time the Armie may bee favourably dealt with in the Exchange since by the last Proclamation your Lordships sent over they doe conceiue their case will bee more hard then any others for if they haue allowed them nothing but indefinitely as much as they shall meerely gaine out of their Entertainments that will prooue nothing to the greater part For the onely possibilitie to make them to liue upon their Entertainment will bee to allowe them Exchange for the greatest part thereof since now they doe not onely pay excessiue prizes for all things but can hardly get any thing for this Money And although wee haue presumed to alter in shew though not in effect the Proclamation in that poynt by retayning a power in our selues to proportion their allowance for Exchange yet was it with a minde to conforme our proceedings therein according to your Lordships next directions and therefore doe humbly desire to know your pleasures therein For our opinions of the last project it pleased your Lordships to send us I doe humbly leaue it to our generall Letters Only as for my selfe I made overture to the Councell in the other you sent directly onely to my selfe and because I found them generally to concurre that it would prooue as dangerous as the first I did not thinke it fit any otherwise to declare your Lordships pleasure therein And whereas it pleased your Lordships in your last Letters to command us to deale moderately in the great matter of Religion I had before the receipt of your Lordships Letters presumed to advise such as dealt in it for a time to hold a more restraynt hand therein and wee were both thinking our selues what course to take in the Revocation of what was already done with least incouragement to them and others since the feare that this course begun in Dublin would fall upon the rest was apprehended over all the Kingdome So that I thinke your Lordships Direction was to great purpose and the other course might haue overthrowne the meanes to our owne end of Reformation of Religion Not that I thinke too great precisenesse can bee used in the reforming of our selues the abuses of our owne Clergie Church-livings or Discipline nor that the trueth of the Gospell can with too great vehemencie or industrie bee set forward in all places and by all orâinarie meanes most proper unto it selfe that was first set foorth and spread in meeknesse not that I thinke any corporall prosecution or punishment can bee too severe for such as shall bee found seditious Instruments of âorraine or inward practises not that I thinke it fit that any principall Magistrates should bee chosen without taking the Oath of Obedience nor tollerated in absenting themselues from publique Divine Service but that wee may bee advised how wee doe punish in their bodies or goods any such onely for Religion as doe professe to bee faithfull Subjects to her Majestie and against whom the contrary cannot bee prooved And âince if the Irish were utterly rooted out there was much lesse likelihood that this Countrey could bee thereby in any time planted by the English since they are so farre from inhabiting well any part of that they haue already that more than is likely to be inhabited may be easily chosen out and reserved in such places by the sea side or upon great Rivers as may bee planted to great purpose for a future absolute reducement of this Countrey I thinke it would as much avayle the speedy setling of this Countrey as any thing that it would please her Majestie to deale liberally with the Irish Lords of Countreyes or such as are now of great reputation among them in the distribution of such Lands as they haue formerly possessed or the State heere can make little use of for her Majestie If they continue as they ought to doe and yeeld the Queene as much commoditie as shee may otherwise expect shee hath made a good purchase of such Subjects for
Carew Norris Norris Carew Carew Norris Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew 6 Martij Blunt The Lo Deputie and Councels instructions to the Lo. President Carew 7. Martij Carew Carew Carew Saxây Gold Carew Carew Carew Carew Saxey Gold Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Carew Blunt Blunt Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Carew The Earle of Tyrone in MouÌster his actions there The White Knight Tyrones prisoner FloreÌce Mac Carty made Mac Cartie More and Donell Mac Carty displaced The L. Barry preyed and spoiled Sir Warham St leger and Mac Guire slaine 1600. Tyrones returne into Vâster The PresideÌt left Dublin 7. April 10. Aprilis The Earle of Ormond taken prisoner by Owny mac Rory Oâmore The manner of the Earle of Ormonds taking The narrow escape of the Lord President The Earle of Thomond wounded The order which was taken for the setling of the countrie after the Earle of Ormonds disaster 18. April The submissions of Tho. fits Iames Tho. Power 20. April 22. April The encounter of her Majesties forces with Flor. Mac Cartie The prey of the Brough taken 23. Aprill The state of the Province of Mounster when the Lo. President came into it The Lord Barry preyed 26. April Redmond Burke defeated by Odwire Odwires couÌtry harrassed by Redmond Burke 29. April Loghguire preyed The submission of Barret and Condon 3. Maââ The submission of Flor. Mac Carty Flor. Mac Carties demands The submission of Nugent The Brough burnt by Pierce Lacy. Redmond Burke departed out of Connologhe May. 16. Tenne of the Bownoghs slaine by Sir Richard Percy May. 17. 21. Maij. The Armie set out from Corke towards Limricke 23. Maij. The submission of the White Knight Cahir Castle surprised by Iames Galdie Butler 24. Maij. 25 Maij. Therendring of the Castle of Loghguire Nugents attempt upon Iohn fits Thomas Clanwilliam spoiled and burnt by the Armie 29. Maij. The submission of Iohn Burke The castle of Ballitrarsnie taken O Mulrians Countries burnt and spoiled by the Army O Sulevan More detained prisoner by the practise of Flor Mac Cartie The plot contrived by the Lo. President for the apprehension of Ia. fits Thomas Iune 11. Iunij 500 men sent to lye in garrison at Askeiton Supplies of money munition victuals c. The apprehension of Iames Fits Thomas by Dermond O Conner 19. Iunij 20. Iunij The Countrey of Thomond harassed and spoyled by O Donnell Forces sent into Thomond Iames fits Thomas set at liberty 26. Iunij 28. Iunij 29. Iunij Dermond O Conner and the Rebels agreed and reconciled The Castle of Crome taken by the Armie 30. Iunij 4. Iuly 7. Iulij The Knight of the Valley upâââf conduct spake with the Earle of Thomond The Constable of Glyn Castle hiâ advice to the Earle of Thomond for hiâ safetie 8. Iulij A Breach made The breach assaulted A sally made by the rebels The Constable c. slaine 9. Iulij The Castle wonne and the rebels put to the sword AWard put into the castle of Glin by the L. President Carrigfoile rendred by Oconner Kerry Maurice Stacke sent into Kerry The Bonoghs obtained the Lord Presidents Passeport to depart the Province Sixty of the Bonoghs slaine by the Lo. Burke The Lord Presidents returne to Limerick The Castle of Corgrage rendred A Garrison left in Askeiton 15. Iulij The Castle of Kathmore rendred A Garrison placed at Kilmallock 16. Iulij The Rebels enforced to rise from the siege of Liskaghan Flor. Mac Carties perswasions unto the Ward to quit Liskaghan Florence Mac Carty attempted to cârrupt the Constable of Liskaghan 23. Iulij 28. Iulij Fits Gerald Knight of Kerry The L. President come to Carrigofoile 29. Iulij The Castles of Lixnaw Rathowine and Tralee surprized by Sir Charles Wilmot The Bonoghs defeated by Sir Gharles Wilmot 2. August The death of Patricke fits Maurice L. of Lixnaw Florence Mac Cartie being sent for would not come unto the L. President A Mariage practised by Florence for Iames fits Thomas Letters and Messages betweene Florence and Tyrone 16. Aug. Aug. 18. Aug. 20. 21. Aug. An Encounter betweene Captaine Harvie and the White Knights Sonne The White Knights Sonne defeated 23. Aug. The Knight of Kerry the Lord of Lixnaw made suite to be protected The Earle of ThomoÌd left to command the garrison at Askeiton Florence coÌtinueth his practise with Tyrone Lands given by Iames fits Thomas to Flor. Mac Cartie Donnel Mac Carty taken in upon protection The Castle of Mayne in Connologh taken Omaghon and the O Crowlies protected The intended Mariage of Iames fits Thomas frustrated Cahir Castle rendred 29 August Supplies of Horses and Monie sent for Mounster 26. August Dermond Mac Owen O keefe and Mac Awly made suite to be received as Subjects The submission of the Knight of Kerry Ia. fits Tho. and Pierce Lacy defeated by the Knight of Kerry The castle of Ardart taken by Sir Ch. Wilmot Maurice Stacke murdrâd treacherously Septemb. The Prey of Kilkoe taken by Sir Richard Percy Iames fits Tho defeated by the garrison of Kilmallocke 16. Sept. Supplies of Foote sent out of England Osulev an More sent by the Lord Deputie to the Lord President October 4. Octbe The Castle of Glan Coyne 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 14. Octob. 18. Octob. The Inggling of Florence Mac Cartie Supplies of men apparell sent into Mounster The submission of Florence Mac Cartie Octob. 29. A skirmish betweene the Carties and the Oleries Olerie slaine 4. Novemb. The submission of Thomas Oge fits Gerald and the rendring of Castle Mange The Câstle of ãâã besieged and taken 5. Novemb. A prey taken in Kinalmekagh The Castle of the Dingle rendred The Abbey of Ratho burned and fourtie of the Bownoghs slaine by Sir Charles Wilmot A thousand Bownoghs levied by Florence Mac Carty Connaght and Vlster men being ready to invade Mounster suddenly brake their resolution and the cause why Dermond O Conner murdered by Theobald ne Long Burke 18. Nov. Sessions held at Limerick Cassell and Clonmell 26. Nov. The Lord President the Earle of Ormond meet at Clonmell December Muskry-quirke and Arloghe burnt preyed and spoyled by the Army The submission of the Burkes and Obriens The narrow escape of Iames fits Thomas and Dermond Mac Craghe the Popes Bishop of Corke In what good estate the province of Mounster was 15. Decemb. 20. Decemb. Mac Awly preyed upon by Sir Fra Barkley The Major of Limerick fined and imprisoned and a new Major elected 21. Decem. Kinalmâkaghe preyed by Sir Richard Percy He mâaneth Iohn fits Thomas brother to the titulary Earle Ianuary The Sheriffs men slaine by Flor. Mac Gartie Florence his excuses received for truths The L. President perswadeth Florence to goe into England Florence seemeth to like
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 ãâ¦ã munition victuals The Lord Deputie to pardon all such as hee should noâminate 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 coÌmanded by the L. Barry The Rebels distressed for want of victualls The Rebels defeated Donoghe Mac Cormock Carty slaine 21. Aprilis The Lord Presidents aââwer 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 fiâs 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 concerniâg base moneys Artiâles 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 coÌming for Ireland brought the Lo. Presiâent sundry wayes Iam. fits Thoââ his âeport 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 Moâle 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 mâriage for Iames fits Thomas His practise to hinder the rendring of Castlemange ãâã 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 wrâte to O Dânnell The examinatioÌ of Teg Maâ Gillipatrick A letter abstracted wâitten out of Spaine froÌ Dermond Mac Carty unto FloreÌce 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 Flârence 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 Tyrâne Ia. fits Thâm 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 Câcill The intelligence M. Secretary Cecill had of the Spanish fleete comming for Ireland and by him sent to tâe 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 Loâd 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 CoÌpanies 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 encaÌped close to Kinsale A prey of Kiââ 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 ceâsured 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 ThomoÌd having placed convenient garisons in the West returned to Corke The L. President resolued to besiege the Castle of Doâboy A List of the Armie in Mounster Note that the names thus â 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 traâtorly 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 traÌsported by sea to the great Iland froÌ thence to the Maân 15. May. The rebell Tirrell desired a parlây 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 Keâgh 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 wâre to land Donghe Irish. The vigilant care of the Lord President Two RegimeÌts landed in the little Iland The two ãâã 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 plaÌted befââe 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 bâing buried in the ruines of the vault the rest of the rebels reÌdred 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-âon Castle takeÌ 27. Iunij 28. Iunâj The Castle of Lettertinlesse taken and burnt 29. Iunij The Lord President returned âo 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 Owân 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 stayâd 2000. Supplies of Foot for MouÌster 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 âagnal with his RegimeÌt commanded to stay in Mounster The Castle of Blarney in the custoây 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 Edâie 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 liât one or two regimeÌts 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 Connâr 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 spoâeled 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 Mounââer 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. PresideÌt Ioynt Commissioners for the government of Mounster 26. Febr.
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 Baâkley 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 confeââion 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