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A61688	A continuation of the impartial history of the wars of Ireland from the time that Duke Schonberg landed with an army in that Kingdom, to the 23d of March, 1691/2, when Their Majesties proclamation was published, declaring the war to be ended : illustrated with copper sculptures describing the most important places of action : together with some remarks upon the present state of that kingdom / by George Story ...	Story, George Warter, d. 1721.	1693 (1693)	Wing S5748; ESTC R17507	203,647	351

who have surrendred themselves But in case the Persons invited by this Declaration should neglect in time prescribed to lay hold on the same they must never more expect the like Advantageous Terms and Condiscentions Given at the Camp by Nenah the Eleventh Day of August 1691. in the Third Year of Their Majesties Regin Bar. De Ginckell The Army that day marched to a place called Shalley in a wild and desolate Country nigh the Silver-Mines where in the former Wars about seventeen of Sir George Hambleton's Followers were slain by the Kenedies and here Major General Trelawyng's Regiment joined us the 12th we marched to a place called Tulla where we halted next day and our Advance Guards brought in one of the Enemies Outscouts a Prisoner Several Deserters also come off to us amongst whom were two of the Horse Guards who inform the General that the Irish Foot were drawn into Limerick and their Horse having burnt several places that escaped their fury last year were retired likewse near the Town we understand also that my Lord Tyrconnell was taken suddenly very ill and there were several disorders amongst the Chief Officers in Limerick some of them being suspected to incline to our side From hence the General sent a Spy who took several of the Declarations in order to disperse them in Town The 14th we marched to Cariganliss and the General The Army go to Cariganliss with the rest of our Great Officers went with a Party within two Miles of Limerick near which three of the Enemies Scouts being posted upon the top of a round Hill towards our left two of them deserted to us as our Party drew off The 15th in the Morning early fifteen hundred A Party go towards Limerick Horse and Dragoons commanded by Major General Ruvigny and one thousand detached Foot as a reserve in case of danger commanded by the Prince of Hess with six Field-peeces were ordered to march towards Limerick with whom went the General and all the Chief Officers in order to view the Town The Enemy had lined the Hedges in several places with Foot and there appeared two Squadrons of Horse and a Party of a Dragoons about a Mile on this side the Town who fronted our Men for some time but when they saw our Advance Party resolved to push them they retired nearer home and afterwards their Foot fired several Small-shot but without any harm to us tho' about seven of the Enemy were killed by our Dragoons We stayed several hours within less then Cannon-shot of the Town upon the Ground where we encamped the year before we could see that they had repaired Ireton's Fort and built another some distance to the Right where formerly stood an Old Church and a third was begun also with a Line of Communication from one to the other but not as yet finished they had then two Field-peeces in Ireton's Fort but did not fire them and drew them off to the Town next day Whilst we staid there first a Drummer and then one Hagan a Captain came off to us who informed the General that my Lord Tyrconnell died the day before some say of Grief because things went My Lord Tyrconnell dies at Limerick not according to his desire and that after all his Endeavours and good Services to promote the Catholick Cause he was slighted to that Degree that whilst their Camp lay by Athlone one Lieutenant Colonel Conner came to my Lord's Tent and bid him be gone from the Camp else he would cut his Tent-Cords My Lord Tyrconnell knowing that he durst not be so impudent without a considerable Faction to support him went next Morning early towards Limerick where he remained till his death which some say was not without suspition of foul play in being poisoned with a Cup of Rattafeau this is nothing but Apricock-stones bruised and infused in Brandy which gives it a pleasant Relish some of which my Lord Tyrconnell had given him at an Entertainment and falling ill upon it he often repeated the word Rattafeau which made several believe that he had received Poyson in that Liquor because he would not comply with the prevailing Faction then in Town But most People say that he died of a Fever However it was he certainly had managed the Affairs of that Kingdom from his entrance upon publick Business to his dying day with as much dexterity and zeal for the Interest he * As to his encouraging one J●nes to Assassinate King William in the year 1690. proved by Original Letters under his own hand I leave others hereafter to give a more particular account of pretended to serve as any man could have done At the General 's return from viewing the Town he found a considerable quantity of Bread-Waggons come to the Camp under the Convoy of the Militia Horse and Dragoons of the County of Tipperary whom the General viewed and sent home again We had now a Train of nine 24 Pounders nine 18 Pounders and three Mortars with Ammunition and other Utensils of War proportionable which left Athlone on the 12th under the care of Col. Lloyd's Regiment and a Party the Militia who were met upon the Road by the Earl of Drogheda's and Colonel Venner's Foot Regiments with a small Party of Horse but the General remembring what hapned to our Train the year before and that the same People were still as industrious as formerly Major General la Forrest with a good Detachment of Horse and Dragoons was sent on the 16th to meet our Cannon The same day a Captain and a Lieutenant desert from the Enemy and confirm the Report of the death of my Lord Tyrconnell and withal that Francis Plowden Esq one of the Commissioners of the Revenue in the late King's time had brought over a Commission from the late King out of France appointing Sir Alexander Fitton Sir Richard Neagle and the said Francis Plowden Esq to be Lords Justices of Ireland which Commission lay dorment till my Lord Tyrconnel's death by which it appeared that his Adversaries were like to prove too many for him if he had lived and that tho he had promoted the late King's desires tho' not his real Interest to the utmost and was of the same Religion too with himself yet he was in a fair way of being served as Some of the Irish Officers suspected for holding a Corre●pondence with our Ar others had been before him We understood also that Colonel Henry Lutterill was not only suspected to hold a Correspondence with our Army but was taken into Custody and tried for his life in that he with some others had consulted about the surrender of the Town for which they designed to put him to death but that they either wanted clear Proof or else waited for Advice from France about it but the occasion of Colonel Lutteril's confinment was upon the account of a Letter brought him by a Trumpeter from some great Officer in our Army when the Garison of Gallway was conveyed

they submitted apace in all the Corners of the Kingdom On the 14th one whom they termed Colonel Some Rapparees lay down thei Arms. Burk a popular Man amongst the Rapparees with a great many of his Followers came in and submitted at Loughrea in the County of Galway On the same Day the Irish Horse and some Foot March from Cashell towards Cork the Prince of Hesse going along as well to prevent the Irish from plundering the Countrey as to hinder any little Quarrels that might happen between them and our own Men as they met accidentally upon the March On the 14th Two Proclamations were Published by the Proclamations of Pardon to the rest Lords Justices and Council one reciting a former Proclamation Dated the 18th of September promising Pardon and Protection to all Robbers Thieves and Rapparees who within a Month should surrender up their Arms to any Justice of the Peace and take the Oath of Fidelity to Their Majesties mentioned in the Articles of Limerick requiring the Justices of the Peace to make a return under their Hands of their Names places of Abode their Qualities and Arms but forbidding all protected Persons and others to relieve conceal or harbour the said Robbers who would not submit upon pain of forfeiting their own Protections and being prosecuted with the utmost severity of Law for such offence Promising also a Reward of Forty Shillings to any one that would bring in the heads of any such Rogues as would not lay hold on this fair opportunity By this Proclamation the time for their coming in was protracted till the Fifth of November The other Proclamation was to forbid all Officers and Souldiers of the Army or others to do any harm or injury to any of the Irish or make any distinction of Nations every one that takes the Oath to be esteemed a Subject and equally entitled to the Benefit of Their Majesties Laws with the rest c. By which means all things became so Calm on a sudden as if there had been no Storm at all in that Kingdom Our Army are now on their March to their respective Winter Quarters and those of the Irish that came over to us had Subsistence and Quarters assigned them till Their Majesties pleasure was further known On the 19th Hogan and most of his Crew came in at Roscreagh and had the benefit of the Proclamation being afterwards allow'd Twenty Four Men by the General to suppress other Rapparees upon occasion tho' this was fatal to him for some of that sort of People Murdered him afterwards All the Roads and other places leading The Vlster Irish return home with their Cattle from the Counties of Kerry and Clare towards the North are now full of nothing but Creights and vast stocks of Cattle driving homewards which was a little odd to see that they would rather hazzard the loss of their Cattle by a long March into Vlster where they had formerly robb'd and plundered the Protestants and were like to be called to an Account for it at least they could expect no great encouragement in those places for the future nor any assurance of their being received as Tenants to their old Farms at their return thither One would have thought I say these things considered that they would rather have endeavoured to stay in the Counties of Kerry Clare and Limerick where there was Land enough for them and at easie Rates than to run all hazards by going down into the North but the reason of this is plain for there is so great an Antipathy between the Vlster Irish and those in other parts of the Kingdom as nothing can be more and the Feuds amongst them greater than between either and their injured Protestant Neighbours whose favour they had hopes of gaining sooner than the friendship of one another neither Party trusting other or ever desiring it to be otherways my Lord Merion Brigadeer Clifford Colonel Henry Lutterill Baron Purcell and a great many more of the Irish Nobility and Gentry go towards Dublin By the Articles of Limerick you may see that the The French Fleet arrives in the Shannon French General Officers expected the coming of their Fleet and what was only a report before is now confirm'd that they really did come being Eighteen Men of War Four Fireships and Twenty Ships of Burden under Monsieur Shalterneau of which Monsieur D'Vssone gives notice to Major General Talmash and it was agreed to keep a friendly Correspondence till all matters relating to the Articles were settled The French releasing some of our Ships that they had taken before they heard of the Cessation And nigh the same time the Plimouth Adventure and Centurion Three of our Frigats came into Kinsale having brought under their Convoy Two large Pinks with Powder and Ball for that Fort and said they left Sir Ralph Delaval with a Squadron of Thirty Men Sir Ralph Delaval with a Squadron in these Seas of War under his Command about Twenty Five Leagues from thence Which the General having notice of at Kilkenny he writes a Letter to him dated October 25th giving him an account of the French Fleet 's arrival in the Shannon and desiring him to Sail that way And the Day after having received some Accounts how high the French The General writes Two Letters to him carried themselves and how many Scruples the Irish great Officers made since their coming he sent away another Express with the following Letter Kilkenny October the 26th 1691. SIR SInce the Letter I sent you last Night I find it more To Sir Ralph Delaval and more necessary that your Squadron should come round to the Shannon for the French Generals make so many difficulties since the coming of their Fleet that they seem to design nothing but delaying of time I must therefore again press you to Sail to the River as soon as possible and place your self so that Captain Coale and the Ships he has with him may join you to the end that if the French break the Articles we have made we may be in a Condition to do our selves right I am informed there are several Frigats at Cork and Kinsale which you 'll please to make use of if you think you shall have occasion for them The French Fleet is now at Scatterey But whether the Wind would not serve our Fleet 's coming about to the Shannon or what other reasons there might be I am a stranger to tho' all that the French and Irish Officers insisted on after the coming of their Fleet was only to have a Clause confirmed that was casually omitted in the Articles which the General promised them and Their Majesties were pleased afterwards to Condescend to For it being late at Night when the Articles were agreed to and they Engrossed in haste this Clause And all such as are under their protection in the said Counties was omitted by the Engrosser tho' it was certainly inserted in the foul Draught This was what the Irish

ten Granadiers who are to take to the Left and clear the Rampart of the Enemy 5. After these fifty Work-men whereof Twenty-five are to follow the Lieutenant-Colonel to the Right and Twenty-five to go after the Major to the Left with Hatchets Pick-Axes Shovels and Hammers 6. After them shall follow the two Battalions of Stuart and Prince Frederick whereof Stuart is to go to the Right and Prince Frederick to the Left and the Officers are to take care that the Men do not press on too fast but cover themselves from the Enemies Fire as soon as they can 7. After these two Battalions two hundred Foot to carry Fascines and each of them to carry Tools along with them 8. After these shall follow the Regiments of Brewer to sustain Stuart and Count Nassau to sustain Prince Frederick 9. The Work-men are to open as soon as possible the two Gates of the Town that the Horse and Foot may come in that way 10. The Lieutenant-Colonels or Major or both that shall come first to the Ford on the left of the Bridge is to take care to prevent the Enemies Sallying that way and also that their Men do not fire one upon another 11. All these foregoing Detachments are to be Commanded by Major-General Mackay and the Brigadiers Stuart and Vittinghoff To sustain all these a good Body of Horse were got ready and a Lieutenant of Colonel Cambon's Regiment according to Orders having the Advance Party of thirty Men went under Covert of certain Hills within a hundred and fifty Yards of the Breach then Advanced upon the Plain before his Men and the rest of the Detachments following the Enemy fired upon us very smartly but our Men went on and kept their fire till they were at the Breach which the French Lieutenant first mounted throwing his Granade and firing his Piece ordering his Men to do the like and with great bravery encouraged his Party though he lost his Life in the Action Our Granades so galled the Enemy and the Men pressed so fast upon the Breach that the other quit their Works and run towards the Bridge whither we pursued them and even to the foot of the Draw-Bridge the The English-Town taken Irish in their hurrying over the Bridge crowded forwards so fast that several were crushed to death and not a few forced over the sides of the Bridge who were either kill'd or sore bruised When our Men had possession of the Town they rung the Bell and covered themselves at the Bridge foot We lost not above twenty men and had about double the number Wounded the Enemy had about sixty killed and more wounded Brigadier Stuart was Wounded in this Action and one Captain with three private men of the Enemies taken Lieutenant-Colonel Kirk of Brigadier Viller's Regiment was unfortunately killed by a great Shot from the Town as he lay viewing the Action upon the side of an Hill That Evening our three Guns were drawn off from the Ford and nine Guns from the Battery into the Town June the 21st several Detachments of Horse were Batteries planted against the Irish-Town sent abroad one Commanded by Colonel Woolsley went towards Ballymore to meet the eleven Guns and three Mortars that were upon the Road and also to hasten the Pontoons This Evening a Battery was begun at the foot of the Bridge to the Right for five Twenty-four Pounders and a Floor made for six Mortars The 22d about five in the Morning our Batteries were finished and by six the Cannon and Mortars begun to play very briskly on the North-East side of the Castle where it was weakest and by seven in the Evening a large Breach appear'd in the Wall In the Afternoon a French Lieutenant-Colonel was brought off by our Men who had laid under the Bridge since the Attack he was sore bruised and his Back almost broke but seemed not to be so much afflicted with his own private Misfortune as in being engaged with a People who were like to prove but very indifferent defenders of his Master the French King's Interest in that Kingdom The 23d our Guns and Mortars continued firing all Night with that success that by five in the Morning the whole side of the Castle was beaten down and our Bombs had that effect upon it as to make it very unserviceable to the Enemy who were now forced to make an Hole on the West-side of the Wall to get out and in though in a day or two they had no business there at all About two that The Tin Boats come up Afternoon our Tin Boats Floats and other Materials came to the Camp with Colonel Byerley's and my Lord of Oxford's Regiments and a great many People were set to work to repair those Boats that were spoiled the Year before nigh Limerick for there being more New ones expected from England than really came and what we had being judged too few those Old Boats were brought out of a place where they had been thrown by and so were fitted up to lay next the Shore which occasion'd a Report that they were concealed on purpose by the Store-keeper but the thing was as it is here related The same Afternoon a Prisoner was taken nigh the Bridge who gave an Account that Sixty-four Men were in a Mill upon the Bridge which being fired by our Granades and those within not being able to quench it nor get thence they were all consumed with the Fire except the Prisoner and one more that escaped by leaping into the Water A Drummer comes to the General from the Town with an Answer of his Letter sent the Day before about the exchange of Prisoners The 24th was spent in raising three Batteries one below the Bridge another above it and a third without the Town-Wall by the River-side opposite to a Bastion the Enemy had made on the other side the River That Evening one of my Lord Lisburn's Men going under the Bridge to see for Plunder found a pair of Colours amongst the dead Men and tho' the Enemy fired a great many Shot at him yet he brought them off flying and presented them to the General who rewarded the Soldier with five Guinnea's We begin now to contrive Methods of passing the River and a Lieutenant of Horse was commanded with a Party to a Ford towards Lanesborough where the General was informed there might be an easie and undiscovered Passage for most of our Army whilst our Cannon amused the Enemy at the Town This Party went and found the Pass according to Information but tho' he was positively ordered to return as soon as he had passed the River yet such are the powerful Charms of Black Cattle to some sorts of People that the Lieutenant espying a Prey some distance from him on the other side must needs be scampering after them by which means our Design was discovered and the Enemy immediately provided against it by throwing up strong Works on the other side The Lieutenant I beard was afterwards try'd and