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A21067	A letter from a souldier of good place in Ireland, to his friend in London touching the notable victorie of her Maiesties forces there, against the Spaniards, and Irish rebels: and of the yeelding vp of Kynsale, and other places there held by the Spanyards.	I. E., fl. 1602.	1602 (1602)	STC 7434; ESTC S117585	13,991	28

af our thrée bodies of foote vnder sir Iohn Barkeley Seriant maior of the Campe. Wherevpon the Marshall and Earle of Clanrickard seeing a second at hand vniting themselues with Sir Henrie Dauers hauing with him Captaine Taffe Captaine Flemming and other companies of horse charged againe the Enemies horse who not abiding the shocke fledde At the sight whereof the battell dismaying our menne thought it better to charge againe vpon them then to follow the horse and so coragiously doing vtterly brake them The rereward of the Enemie in which was Tyrrell and all the Spaniards stoode firme vpon the bogge on the right hand vnto whom within caliuer shot the Lorde Deputie had drawne vp our Rere which was Sir Oliuer Saint Iohns 3. companies commanded by Captaine Roe in absence of sir Oliuer dispatched few dayes before by the Lord Deputie and Counsaile for speciall affaires to her Maiesty charging him first not to stir till he receiued direction from him But séeing Tirrell and the Spaniards drawing betwéene our horse béeing on the execution and the bodies of our foote his Lo. hauing hitherto by direction set al other mēs swords on work himselfe now in the head of our said Rere where he had before resolued to fight charged the Enemy in flancke and put them to a disorderly retreite after their fellows to the toppe of the next hill where they made stand a little while But the Irish quiting the Spaniards the Spaniardes in short time were broken by the Lord Deputies horse commaunded by sir William Godolphin and most of them slaine The vantgarde of the Enemy with all the loose wings which were many séeing what happened threw away their armes and all our men being otherwise busie escaped The chiefe Commaunder of the Spaniards Don Alonso d'Ocampo was taken prisoner with three Captaines sixe Alferrez and fortie souldiers Tirone and Odonell with the rest of the Irish Lords ran apace and saued themselues Those of the battell were almost all slaine and there were of the Irish Rebelles onely found dead in the place about twelue hundred bodies and about eight hundred were hurt whereof many dyed that night and the chace continuing almost two miles was left off our men being tyred with killing The Enemy lost two thousand Armes brought to reckning besides great numbers imbezeled al their powder and drummes and ix ensigns whereof 6. Spanish Those of the Irish that were taken prisoners being brought to the Campe though they offered ransome were all hanged On our side onely one man was slaine the Cornet of sir Richard Greame Sir Henry Dauers was hurt with a sword slightly sir William Godolphin a little raced on the thigh with a holbert Captaine Crofts the skowt-Skowt-master with a shot in the back not aboue sixe moe common souldiers hurt Many of our horses were killed and moe hurt And thus were they vtterly ouerthrowne who but the very night before were so braue and confident of their owne good successe as that they reckoned vs already theirs and as wée since haue vnderstoode were in contention whose prisoner the Lord Deputy should be whose the the Lorde President and so of the rest The Earle of Clanrickard carried himselfe this day very valiantly and after the retreite sounded was Knighted by the Lorde Deputy in the field amongst the dead bodies So did all the rest of the Captaines Officers and Souldiers named and vnnamed and especially the Lo. Deputy himselfe who brake in person vpon the floure of the army the Spaniards and omitted no duety of a wise diligent Conductor and valiant souldier Vpon the fight ended he presently called together the Army and with prayers gaue God thankes for the victorie A victorie indéede giuen by the God of Hostes and maruellous in our eyes if all circumstances be duely considered and of such consequence for the preseruation and assuraunce to her Maiestie of this déepely endangered kingdome as I leaue to wiser consideration contenting my selfe with this that I sée the God of power and might disposed to protect the iust cause of his seruaunt our gratious Quéene Elizabeth against the pride malice and powerful disdain of the greatest potentates hir enemies To him be the glorie After this glorious victorie thus valiantly atchieued the Lord Deputy the same day hasted to his campe lest any thing in his absence might happely haue béene attempted there But not finding the Ennemy to haue made any sally which indéede had béene but vaine for him considering the small fruit he reaped by them heretofore euery one that he made hitherto redounding stil to his owne detriment and losse and euery place of our Camp at this time being so wel and sufficiently strengthened and prouided for against him as is sayd before The next day his Lordship commaunded Captayne Bodlegh Trench-maister generall of the Campe who as well in the fight as in the workes had deserued speciall commendation to sée the formerly begunne Forte and platforms to be vndertaken againe and néerer approches to be cast out towardes the towne But after fiue or sixe dayes labour Don Iohn d' lAquila captaine of the Towne and Forces within offered a parlée sending the Drumme maior of the Towne with a sealed letter to the Lord Deputy by which he required that some gentleman of speciall trust and sufficiencie might be sent into the towne from his Lordship to conferre with him whom he would acquaint with such conditions as hée then stoode vpon His Request being assented vnto by his Lordship sir William Godolphin was imployed in the negotiation which was carried in this forte word for word as it is taken out of the originalls here viz. Don Iohn tolde sir William that hauing found the Lord Deputy whome he termed the Viceroy although a sharpe and powerfull yet an honorable Enemy and the Irish not onely weake and barbarous but as hée feared perfidious friendes he was so farre in his affections reconciled to the one and distasted with the other as did inuite him to make an ouerture of such a composition as might be safe and profitable for the State of England with least preiudice to the Crowne of Spaine by deliuering into the Viceroy his power the Towne of Kynsale with all other places in Ireland held by the Spanish so as they might depart on honorable termes fitting such men of warre as are not by necessity inforced to receiue conditions but willingly induced for iust respects to dis-ingage themselues and to relinquish a people by whom their King and Master had bene so notoriously abused if not betrayed That if the Viceroy liked to entertaine further parley touching this point he would first be pleased to vnderstand them rightly to make his propositions such as might be sutable to men thorowly resolued rather to bury themselues aliue and to endure a thousand deaths then to giue way to one Article of accord that shuld taste of basenes or dishonour being so confident of their present strength and the royall Second of Spaine that they should

make no doubt of yéelding good accompt of themselues and their Interest in this Kingdome but that a iust disdaine and spléene conceiued against the nation disswaded them from being further engaged for it then of force they must Sir Wil. Godolphin being commaunded by the L. Deputie onely to receiue Don Iohns propositions and demamaunds Hauing made his L. and Counsel this Relation was by them returned with the answere following That howbeit the Lord Deputie hauing lately defeated their succours didde so well vnderstand his owne strength and their weakenesse as made him nothing doubt of forcing them within a short time whom he did know to be pressed with vnresistable difficulties how much soeuer they laboured to couer and conceale the same yet knowing that her sacred Maiestie out of her gracious and mercifull disposition would esteeme the glory of her victory to be blemished by a voluntary effusion and an obstinate expence of Christian bloud was content to entertaine this offer of agréement so as it might be concluded vnder such honorable articles for her highnes as the aduauntage she had against them gaue reason to demaund being the same which are sette downe in the Articles of agréement following signed by the Lord Deputie and Don Iohn others sauing that there was in them besides the leauing of his treasure munition artillery and the Quéenes naturall Subiects to her disposicion all which points hée did peremptorely refuse with cōstant asseueracion that both he and all his would rather indure the last of misery then be found guilty of so foule a Treason against the honour of his Prince and the reputaciō of his profession though hée should find himselfe vnable to subsiste much more now when hée might not onely hope to sustaine the burden of the warre for a time but with patience and constancie in the end to ouercome it That he tooke it so ill to bée misunderstood in hauing Articles of that nature propounded vnto him as were they but once againe remembred in the Capitulacion the Viceroy should from thencefoorth vse the aduantage of his sword and not the benefite of his former offers adding that the Viceroy might rather thinke to haue made a good and profitable purchase for the Crowne of England if with the expence of 200000 Duckats hée had procured Don Iohn to quite his interest and footing but in Baltymore alone to say nothing of Kynsale Castell-hauen and Beerehauen for said he suppose that all we with the rest of our places here had perished yet would that Pen Insula beyng strong in it owne nature bettered by our arte and industrie prouided as it is of victuals munition and good store of Artillerie preserue vnto the King of Spaine a safe and commodious port for the arriuall of his Fléete and be able to mayntaine it selfe against á land Armie of ten thousand vntill Spaine being so déepely engaged did in honour reléeue thē which would drawe on a more powerfull inuasion then the first being vndertaken vpon false groundes at the instance of a base and barbarous people who in discouering their weakenes and want of power haue armed the King my Master to relie vpon his owne strength beyng tied in honour to reléeue his people that are engaged and to cancell the memory of our former disaster But this was spoken said he in case the Viceroy were able to force this town as I assure my selfe he cannot hauing vpon mine Honour within these wals at this instant aboue two thousand fighting men that are strong and able besides those which hauing béen sicke and hurt recouer dayly the greatest part of these composed of old Souldiers which fall not but by the sword and those that were new beyng now both trayned to their Armes growne acquainted with the Climate are more able to endure then at the firste our meanes as good as they haue béene any times these two monethes such as the Spaniardes can well away withall and therof to suffize vs for thrée moneths more We lodge in good warme houses haue store of munition and which is best of all stand well assured that our succours wil bée shortly here To bée playne wée preserue our men and reserue our strength the best wée may hoping to front you in a breach which if our harts fayle vs not we haue hands and breasts enough to stop against treble your forces though I will giue the Viceroy this right That his men are passing good but spent and tyred out with the misery of a Winter siege which he hath obstinatly maintayned beyond my expectacion but with such caution and vpon so good guard as hauing nicely watched all aduauntages I could neuer fasten a Sallie yet vpon him but with losse to my selfe wherein I muste acknowledge my hopes deceaued that grounding on some errour in his approches promised my self the defeate of at least a thousand men at one blowe But when wée méete on the breach I am confident on good reason to lay fiue hundred of your best men on the earth and rest hopeful that the losse of those will make a great hole in an Armie that hath already suffred so much extremitie But to cōclude our businesse the king my Master sent me to assist the Condées Oneale Odonnell presuming on their promise that I should haue ioined with them within few daies of the arriuall of his forces I expected long in vaine sustained the Viceroyes Armie saw them drawne to the greatest head they could possibly make lodged within two myles of Kynsale reenforced with certaine companies of Spanyards euery houre promising to releeue vs and beeing ioyned together to force your campes sawe them at last broken with a handfull of men blowne asunder into diuers parts of the world O Donnell into Spaine Oneale to the furthest of the North so as now I finde no such Condées in rerum natura for those were the very wordes hee vsed as I came to ioyne withall and therefore haue moued this accord the rather to disingage the King my Maister from assisting a people so vnable in themselues that the whole burden of the warre must lie vpon him and so perfidious as perhaps might bee induced in acquitall of his fauour at last to betray him Vpon relation made by Sir VVilliam Godolphin to the Lord Deputie and Councell of these offers of Don Iohn which at seuerall conferences had beene brought to such heads as are spoken of before it was thought good for diuerse important reasons to procéed roundly to the agréement For whereas in the propositions by him made there was not any thing that admitted exceptions on our part but onely that he required to carrie with him his ordinance munition and treasure that beeing no way preiudiciall to the maine scope or drift of our Treatie which chéefely respected the common good and safetie of the kingdome deserued not almost to be thought vpon Besides that the Treasure béeing at the first but a hundred thousand Duckats with foure monethes payment of