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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