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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64078	A letter from Monsieur Tyrconnel from Limerick in Ireland to the late Queen at St. Germans in France	Tyrconnel, Richard Talbot, Earl of, 1630-1691.	1690 (1690)	Wing T3576; ESTC R37912	3,853	5

A LETTER FROM Monsieur Tyrconnel FROM LIMERICK in IRELAND TO The Late QUEEN AT St. Germans in France Licensed Sept. 2. 1690. Most Transcendent Madam WHen with a Veneration due to your Greatness I presume to consider the Happiness of those Blessed Climates that are under the Benignity of your Aspect and Influence when I contemplate the smiling Posture of all Things and Persons under the Cherishing and Reviving Rays of your All Enlivening Eyes Pardon me Madam if I say it in some measure fills me with Emulation in the midst of all my Triumphs that the Acquests of my Sword must be vanquish'd and Out-shone by the Conquests of your more powerful Beauty It was this Mighty Princess that first set the Courts of Italy agogg when the Attraction of your Early Charms made them pay Homage to the Growing Glory of the House of Modena This made the most Wise Monarch of France recommend your Highness as the fittest Person in the World to take the upper Hand of the Dutchess of Portsmouth and fill the Envied Throne of that Kingdom with such an Awful and Viraginous Majesty as no Female besides could pretend to And the Power of the same Magnetick hath compell'd him to court your Royal Presence which alone brings with it an Excellence and Perfection surmounting all the other Glories of his Palace Nor can it be thought that your Majesty is one Ace behind that great Monarch in point of Complement when it shall be considered you have preferred the felicity of an Entertainment at St. Germans above the Throne of England and three Kingdoms to pay you Homage The Romancers of your Italy make their Knights and Champions in the heat of their Encounters Catching a Glance a Smile or Innuendo from the fair Eyes of their Saints or Mistresses which hath Elevated their Courage to such a degree that Wo be to him that is the Assailant for presently you hear of Armour chopt to pieces a Combatant Chined at one Blow or a Horse beheaded or some very dead-doing Exploit Who then can doubt of that happy Reverse of Fortune that must attend my great Master when he shall return with fresh Vigour to persue his Conquests here When he shall come with a Zeal Enflamed Valour Exalted Indignation Whetted Courage Pointed and so All-over-influenced with your Powerful Aspect That if all the Hereticks had but one Head and that were entring the Gates of Limerick his derived Force would be sufficient to dispatch him at one Blow You see Madam how the Hearts of your humble Votaries are supported to what a pitch of Expectation they are lifted and their Hopes raised with the assurance of your Virtue For if you do not condescend to Pity and Redress our Woes all our Hopes must give up and Expire 'T is therefore to your Shrine who are our living Saint that we bring our humble Devotions for as for our dead Guardians and Tutelar Friends nay even St. Patrick himself we have called upon them till our Throats are sore and our Hearts ake again and cannot make them hear a word whether the Enemies Cannon have deafned them or whether they are afraid it is the same Army that was last before these Walls I know not but they are all as mute as Fishes So that we are not only obliged to supplicate your Personal Assistance but that your Majesty will use your powerful Intercession with the Saints of your Country and endeavour to prevail with your old Friend and Patroness Our Lady of L●re●to and your great Benefactress St. Winefryd to put their helping Hands for be Shaint Patrick Madam there will be a great deal of very much need of every bodies help indeed All the last Winter the Duke of Schomberg and those never-to be-forgiven Furies of Ineskillin kept us out of the N●●●● and as soon as their King came we ●…ntly Retreated over the Boyne not without leaving of Harrows and Crows Feet in the River to have tamed their Horfe-heets that they might not persue us too fast but notwithstanding the Depth of the Water the Opposition on our side the Difficulty of Landing and the Danger of the Bottom their Troops came over as sound as Roaches or as if they had participated of the Nature of those Amphibious Creatures to whom the Land and Water are alike Dublin we Abandoned because it was not Tenable if we had not wanted Bravery but our Valour is so near kin to that of Louis the Great that it thinks it self not safe unless it be Walled in But no sooner had we quitted Dublin but the Hereticks took Heart seized upon all their own Arms which they found in the hands of our Friends took the Castle and declared for their King William and Queen Mary Waterford and other places did the like 〈◊〉 that it was high time for my Sacred ●aster to think of taking Sanctuary under ●he same propitious Roof with your Royal ●elf and the Illustrious Off-spring of Lo●tto's Favour It was time to betake ●imself to Your Majesty for new Courage ●nd the Potent Louis for fresh Forces What incessant and indefatigable ●ains were afterwards taken by Monsieur ●auzun Monsieur Sarfield and my self to ●●e● Our Tatter'd Troops together and to make those last Efforts of despair which were put in most Catholick Execution when We fell upon the Gunners Wives ●nd Children and a small party that Guarded the Train with a detacht Body of Our Army These Madam Phope without ●anity I may presume to call Undenia●le proof of Our Fidelity to your Royal Cause and inestimable Persons and I must further take leave to add that in ●hese Enterpri●es the Young Duke of Ber●●ick hath behaved himself with a Gallan●ry becoming the Son of his Father and the half Brother of the Excellent Prince of Wales But what doth the most accomplished Resolution and the greatest French-Assurance imaginable signifie when they shall meet with a Magnanimity that Triumphs over Difficulties and Glories in attacking the Greatest Opposition When Heaven it self shall like St. Peter's Successor take ●●art with Hereticks and the Flood of Shunnon which is rarely known to be fordable shall like the Red-Sea make way for the People to pass thorow There needs no less than an Obduracy like that of Pharaoh to be Impenitrable unden such severe Dispensations That you have heard of Our Inimitable Valour and that from the Fire-works Statues and Medals of the Mighty Louis all Europe hath been Advertised of Our Celebrated Prowess is apparent Mighty Princess from the Invidious Remarks the English and Dutch Gazettes and Pamphlets have made thereon But whatever impertinent Reflections they have made There is no doubt but Posterity will pay a just Acknowledgment to our Courage in Ireland as well as to the Vnpresidented Conduct of Our Great and August Patron of Versailes Since it is impossible that the Glory of his Vndertakings can be mentioned without Reflections on the Affairs of Ireland Nor is it reasonable to despair of a proportionable Success of

that Vnbounded Monarchs Enterprizes in England and the other parts of Europe Since His Majesties Vnaccountable Vndertakings are founded not only on the Direction of his Absolute Power but on Ancient and Vndeniable Prediction It having been long since entred in the Book of Fate That He that will Old-England win Must first with Ireland begin So that it is plain howsoever Providence may be enclined Fate is plain and directly for Us And there is no fear of Our coming off with Victory in Our other Attempts since We have so Prosperously begun Our Acquirements here Madam I have not only sent you what Treasure it was possible for me to Rap from this Country to support the Grandure of your Figure at the Court of France but have also sent the most Inestimable of my Own Treasures my Countess to bear up Your Majesties Train and to pay her best Devoires to your Growing Prince But I earnestly implore Your Majesty that to prevent heats betwixt her and the Marchioness of Powess Your Majesty will command them to Cast a●ce for Precedence Whilst I am writing this the Enemies Cannon are Thundering down the Walls of this City and their Bombs have almost Ruined all the Streets and yet such is the intrepid Heedlesness of your poor Vassal and my Irish Troops that I esteem Limerick too mean a Sacrifice to Your Majesties Interest to whom Three Kingdoms are but a small Oblation It was but in the Year 1641. 200000 Hereticks fell Victims to the Holy Cause in this Island and were I Master of as many Islands They should all be Offer'd up a Tribute to Your Majesties Shrine such is the profound Zeal and Veneration I have for Your Majesties Interest and Resolutions I have read amongst the Legends of Our Saints That when the Famous Patron of Our Nation St. Patrick had reaped Immortal Glory by the Exploits of his Sword and render'd himself the most accomplisht Champion of his Age Big with Fame and loaden with the Renown of his past Actions He walled himself in between Four Walls from the Society and Disturbance of the rest of Mankind and because nothing should Interrupt his Devotions he left access for neither Visitants nor Victuals and so after the Fatigue of a Life full of Turmoils he separated himself from Men first and soon after from Life Expiring in a lonely Calmness and Privacy which he chose rather than to be knockt on the head or burnt alive I must confess that Our being Immured here within the Walls of Limerick looks very 〈◊〉 after the manner of a Sepulchre and as if we were to make Our Exits like that Champion and Confessor Only in this 〈◊〉 differ that Our Immurement is not so ●…luntary and Our Inclosure is every 〈◊〉 battering and burning down about 〈◊〉 Ears However if Your Majesty please Consult the Archbishop of Paris whether be not the same thing in the Origin● and as useful to the Purposes of H●● Church If we are burnt or starved to Dea●● and whether We may not have the h●nour to be Matriculated amongst the Sai●● of this dear Country this will be of gre●● Confirmation and Satisfastion in these E●tremities I am only to Crave Your Majesties Pa●don for the Presumption of this lo●● Letter tho' a Volume would not conta●● what I have to say on this Dismal Occ●sion And to pray your Clemency Th●● what Succors can be spared be immediat●● dispatched to Vs otherwise not only n●● Great Masters must lose all footing in th●● Kingdom but that Unhappy Rhime whi●● was at the Compiling a Thanksgiving f●● the Conception of a Prince of Wales say that Unhappy Ballad is in danger 〈◊〉 become a Prophesie Viz. When her comes out a double Clout May cover his whole Dominion This as it would be the Dread a●● Confusion of all good Catholicks and the Faithful Adherents shall be Zealous● Constantly and Bigot-like opposed wi●● the last drop of Blood of Your Majesties Limerick Septemb. the 1st 1690. Devoted Talbot TYRCONNEL London Printed for A. Turner 1690.