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A35238	The history of the kingdom of Ireland being an account of all the battles, sieges and other considerable transactions both civil and military, during the late wars there, till the entire reduction of that countrey by the victorious arms of our most gracious soveraign, King William : to which is prefixed, a brief relation of the ancient inhabitants, and first conquest of that nation by King Henry II, and of all the remarkable passages in the reign of every king to this time, particularly the horrid rebellion and massacre in 1641, with the popish and arbitrary designs that were carried on there, in the last reigns / by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1693 (1693)	Wing C7335; ESTC R21153	121,039	194

6 Officers to a wood near the place where the Ca●non were taken and soon after they came back again on Horse-back and he fired his Pisto●●on those that guarded the Cannon upon which 7 or 8 Soldiers who before thought them Friends fired their Musquets at him and killed his Horse wounding hi● in several places and then to put him out of is pain one of the Soldiers Club'd his Musquet to have knockt out his Brains upon which one of his Company Cryed out hold your hand it is General Mackarty Whereupon Captain Cooper coming up gave him and the rest quarter and asking him why he so rashly hazarded his Life when he might have escaped He replyed That he now found the Kingdom like to be lost his Army being the best for Number that K. James had unless those before Derry who were then much broken and that he came with a Design to loose his Life and was sorry he had mist of his End being unwilling to out-live that Day This was a most Remarkable Victory obtained under the Command of the Valiant Collonel Woolsey the Irish were reckoned 5000 and the English not above 2000 the Enemy confest that 3000 of their Men were wanting they lost 7 Cannon 14 Barrels of Powder a great quantity of Cannon and Musquet Ball and all their Drums and Colours the English loft not above 20 Men and 40 or 50 wounded and hereby the Siege of Inniskillin was prevented which by a Letter found about Mackarty was designed to have been Besieged in a few Days by this Party who were to be joyned with another Detachment under the D. or Berwick It has been since published that this great Defeat partly happened by a fatal mistake in the Word of Command among the Irish for the Inniskillin Men charged the Irish Right Wing very smartly which Mackarty perceiving Ordered some of his Men to face to the Right and March to Relieve their Friends the Officer that received the Orders mistook and Commanding the Men in stead of Facing to the Right to Face to the Right about and so March The Irish in the Reer seeing their Front look with their Faces towards them and move thought they had been Running and so without more adoe threw down their Arms and run away The rest seeing their Men run in the Reer run after them for Company and were most of them Cut off or drowned in the Beggs and Loughs so unhappy may a small thing prove to a great Body of Men and at other times a little thing in appearance proves very Advantagious For we read of a Roman at Plough who stood with his Ox-Yoak in in a Gap and stopt the Soldiers that were running away this made them face about and gain the Field though all Men must acknowledge in that Action of the Inniskilliners as well as at London-Derry there was a great deal to be Attributed to their Valour but more to the providence of God Another Remarkable Passage is Related That before the Fight about an hour and half after Sun-set the People of Inniskillin saw from thence a great Light in the Air above Newtown Butler where Mackarty then lay with his Army which coutinued for some hours so that they concluded the Irish had set that Town and all the Country about on Fire or raised some Fire in the Country to give notice to Lieutenant General Sarsfield to joyn with them but after the fight was over upon inquiry into the matter they found there was no fire that Night raised among them This is the more observable because the like was seen at Glaslough before the Action they had there with the Irish of the Garrison of Charlemont whom they Defcated March 13. before killing their Leader and about 200 of his Men. with the loss only of one Captain about a week before this happened at 11 a Clock in a very dark Night several Pillars of fire appeared in the Air pointed from towards Charlemont which were so light they might have read by them and continued thus 2 hours to the Observation of all People there The like account we have from Dr. Robert Maxwell late Bishop of Kilmore of what happened in the Rebellion of 1641. who relates that 56 Protestants Men Women and Children were taken out of his House and Drowned by the Irish at Curbridg and that 3 or 4 Nights before in the dark of the Moon about one a Clock in the Night a Light was observed in manner of a long Pillar to shine for a great way through the Air and refracted upon the North Gabel of his House it gave so great a light about an hour together that divers of the Watch Read both Letters and Books of a very small Character thereby which the Doctor believed did presage that Bloody Massacre which insued It is difficult to enter into the reason of these things but this is only matter of Fact and every Man is left to his own Conjectures in them During these Transactions in Ireland K. William gives out Commissions in England to Raise 18 Regiments of Foot and 4 or 5 of Horse and the Leavies went on with such speed that the greatest part were Raised Armed and Clothed in 6 Weeks and August 12. they were Imbarqued at High-Lake near Chester for Ireland being about 10000 Foot and Horse and 3 Days after they Landed near Carrickfergus incamping in the Fields that Night the Garrison Apprehending a Siege burnt their Suburbs and prepared for their Defence Whereupon Duke Schomberg General of all their Majesties Forces sent 5 Regiments to incamp before the Town and more the next day which Surrounded it whereupon they desired a Parley and required time to send to K. James for Succors which the General absolutely refused and with his Mortars and Cannon played upon the Town Four days after they beat another Parley desiring to March out with their Drums beating c. but this was denyed During the Parley the Duke visited all the Trenches and opserwed the Walls of the Castle and a poor Dutchman was shot from the Walls making his returns to Reproaches against K. William saying That their King was a Tinker King and had nothing but brass Mony He was not nimble enough at getting off when the Parley was over and so lost his Life for his Jest 's sake Aug. 25. The Guns play'd furiously and made a great Breach in the Walls which the Irish seeing and fearing our Men would enter they got a great number of Cattel together and drove them all as near the top of the Breach as they could force them to go keeping themselves close behind them several of the Cattel were killed by the shot and as they fell the Irish threw Earth Stones and Wood upon them but this they thought would not hold long and so desired a third Parley and at length it was agreed that they should March out with their Arms and some Baggage which they did accordingly and the English Forces took possession of Carickfergus as they

afforded none at all for a long time though the Fryars in their white Habits went in Solemn Procession and threw Holy Water therein It would be almost endless to give a particular account of all the Detestable Cruelties and Murders acted by these incarnate Devils upon the Innocent English of whom they destroyed near three Hundred Thousand in a few Months being chiefly Animated thereto by their Villainous Priests upon the account of their Religion and therefore they often declared their Despight to the Bible as being directly contrary to their Cursed Principles and Practices In one place they burnt two English Bibles saying It was Hell Fire they burnt They laid another in a puddle of Water and then stamping on it said a Plague on it This Bible hath bred all the quarrel A Rebel perswaded a Man and his Wife to joyn with them in the Massacre who protested that rather than they would forsake their Religion they would dye upon the Sword 's point he would then have had the Woman burn her Bible but she refused saying she would rather dye than do it Whereupon they were both cruelly Murthered they Murthered Mr. Bingham a Famous Minister and cutting off his Head put a Gag in his Mouth and laying the leaf of a Bible before him bid him Preach saying his Mouth was open and wide enough During these horrid Barbarities there were several Indications of Divine Displeasure apparent in divers places the truth of which was sworn to and affirmed by Witnesses of Credit and Reputation As in the Province of Munster near the Silver Works where while the Rebels were Massacring a great number of Protestant Men Women and Children on the Lords Day Afternoon a most Loud and Dreadful Noise and Storm of Thunder Lightning Wind Hailstones and Rain happened though it was fair all the Day before which much affrighted the Murtherers themselves who confess it to be a sign of Gods Anger against them for their Bloody Cruelty At Portnedown Bridge where so many thousand Protestants were drowned the remaining Inhabitants were so Terrified with the noise of Spirits and Visions for Revenge that they durst not continue thereabout and some of the Rebels themselves said to others that the Blood of some of those that were knockt on the Head and afterward drowned in this River remained on the Bridge and could not be washt away There appeared sometimes Men sometimes Women Breast high in the River with Hands lifted up crying out with fearful Schreicks and Voices Revenge Revenge Revenge and it was not long ere Divine Justice overtook them Many thousands of the most Notorious Murtherers who perished by the Sword and Plague that followed it so that it was computed that in a few years scarce any of these Miscreants remained alive but were sent to their own place to give an account of their Tremendous Brutalities The King having made a Truce with the Scots who were entred with an Army into England to demand the Redress of their Grievances and the Forces on both sides being Disbanded he made a Journey into Scotland in the beginning of August 1641. and continued there till the latter end of October when this Horrid Rebellion happened Owen O Covally the first Discoverer of the Plot brought the first Letters to London and received as a Reward 500 l. in Money and an Annuity of 200 l. a year and presently the Parliament provided for the Relief of Ireland and the Lords of the Council and the Lords Justices there had with the Arms that were in Dublin Armed many well-affected Gentlemen and several Active Commanders were sent out of the City to defend the adjoyning Places from the Approach of the Rebels at which time the Parliament sent over Twenty Thousand Pounds for a present supply but could not relieve them with any Forces till December following when Sir Simon Harcourt Arrived with Seasonable Supplies of men and money and Raised the Seige of Drogheda which had been much straitned by Sir Phelim O Neal and the Rebels and the English recovered Dundalk Neury and several other Towns and Castles out of their Hands But though the Rebellion brake out in October 23. Yet the King who was now returned from Scotland did not proclaim them Rebels till Jan. 1. following and then gave strict Command that only 40 Proclamations should be printed and that none of them should be Published without the Kings Express Order which the Parliament among other things afterwards Taxed him with Who Replyed thereto That he was unwilling to make the Irish Desperate and utterly undoe his Protestant Subjects who were then too weak to withstand so Potent a Rebellion and that the Lords Justices of Ireland required only 20 as many of themselves well knew Yet this proceeding unhappily increased the Jealousies that began to arise between the King and his English Parliament because it was publickly discourst that it had not been done at all but that some Worthy Protestant Lords had earnestly advised him to proclaim them speedily that a better course might be taken against them and to wash off that foul Stain from himself by prosecuting severely those wicked Villains who reported every where That they had Authority from the King to Seise upon the Holds of the English Protestants that they were the Queens Souldiers and rise to maintain the Kings Prerogative against the Puritan Parliament of England That they told the poor Protestants it was for no purpose to fly for safety into England for that Kingdom would be as much distrest as theirs and that the King intended to forsake his Parliament in England and make War against them and that then they would come over having done their their Work in Ireland and help the King against his English Parliament The Lords therefore advised him by all means to purge himself of these Accusations than which there could not be greater on Earth Soon after the Earl of Leicester was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland the Earl of Strafford being Beheaded some time before at Tower Hill But the Relief of that Bleeding Kingdom was much obstructed by the wide Breaches which daily happened between the King and the Parliament particularly upon his going Jan. 4. Attended with 300 Armed Gentlemen into the H. of Commons and Demanding 5 Members to be delivered him which the Parliament declared to be An High Breach of their Priviledges a great Scandal to the King and his Government a Seditious Act manifestly tending to the Subversion of the Peace and an Injury and Dishonour to the said Members there being no Legal charge or accusation against them and that there could be no Vindication of those Priviledges unless his Majesty would discover the Names of those who advised him to such unlawful Courses After this the Parliament considered of a Bill for Pressing Souldiers to be sent out of Scotland to Ireland as being near but the King excepted against it while it lay in the House of Lords as a Diminution to his Prerogative Whereupon the Parliament in