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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

Conduct that day After the Battel our Army lay upon their Arms all night at Duleek having left our Tents all standing beyond the Boyne And next morning his Majesty sent Brigadier La Mellionere with One thousand Horse and Dragoons a Party of Foot and Eight Pieces of Cannon to summons Drogheda wherein the Irish had a Garison of about 1300 men commanded by my Lord Iveagh who surrendred the Town upon Condition That his Garison should have leave to march out without their Arms and be conducted to Athlone Tho their Barbarity in tying the Protestants in Town back to back and placing them where they expected our Guns to play ought not to be forgot This is a Town of no great strength only a Mount whereon are planted Ten Guns on the South-side the River seems capable of Defence Thursday the 3 d. of July his Majesty had an Account That the Irish had left Dublin and were making what haste they could towards the Shannon upon which the Duke of Ormond marched to that City with One thousand Horse and found Captain Farlow Governor of the Castle who two days before had been a Prisoner his Grace took possession of all the Out-Guards of the Town with his Horse and the Dutch Blue Guards were sent to the Castle The 5th His Majesty with his Army marches to Dublin our Army marched to Finglass a little Village two miles to the North-west of Dublin where we lay encamped for several days The 6th being Sunday his Majesty went to St. Patrick's Church in Dublin and next day towards the evening the Bishop of Meath the Bishop of Limerick Dr. King and all the Clergy then about Dublin except the Lord Primate who sent his Excuse to his Majesty by reason of his great Age and Infirmness waited upon the King at his Camp where the Bishop of Meath made an excellent Congratulatory Speech for his Majesty's happy Victory and their Deliverance Whereunto his Majesty gave a Gracious Answer And the Bishop of Lim●rick desired they might appoint a Day of Publick Thanksgiving and have leave to Compose a Form of Prayer suitable to the occasion which was granted The same day his Majesty signed a Declaration His Majesty's Declaration to the Irish wherein he promised Protection to all poor Labourers common Soldiers Countrey-Farmers Plow-men and Coltiers as also to all Citizens Tradesmen Townsmen and Artificers who either remained at home or having fled from their Dwellings should return by the first of August following c. leaving all others to the Event of War unless by great and manifest demonstrations they would convince his Majesty that they deserved his Mercy which he promised never to refus● to those who were truly penitent A great many of the Irish Officers complained The Irish Objections against the Declaration That this Declaration was too narrow in excluding them from any Advantage by it and that they were obliged afterwards to stick together as being their only safety but this Declaration was narrower than his Majesty's Royal Intentions on purpose to comply with the English Proprietors of that Countrey And as to the Irish Officers this was only a pretence for when it was enlarged afterwards by his Majesty and the Government the year succeeding made them all the reasonable Proffers that could be hoped or wished for yet most of them continued obstinate till they could not help it But tho his Majesty was very careful to have this and his other Declaration that succeeded it observed yet some Officers and Soldiers were apt to forget the King's Honour with that of our Countrey and Religion too when they stood in competion with their own Profit and Advantage That day and the next his Majesty took a view of his Army by distinct Regiments nor did the inconveniency of the bad Weather which fell out at Our Army mustered that time prevent him from observing each Regiment very nicely the whole number of Horse Foot and Dragoons that marched in the Ranks was 30330 besides 483 Reformed Officers as also all the Officers and Serjeants in the Army and Four Regiments in Garison so that the compleat Number of our whole Army was at least 36000 as is said before Nor will it be improper to g●ve here a List of our General Officers who commanded this Campaign under his Majesty and were employed in his Service but we must take it from the beginning since his Grace Duke Schonberg was killed ere this A LIST of the General Officers of Their Majesties Army 1690. FRederick Duke of Schonberg Captain-General A List of their Majesties Army 1690. The Duke of Wirtenbergh General of the Danes Count Solmes General of the Foot Count Schonberg General of the Horse Lieutenant-General Douglass Lord Overkirk Maistres Generals des Camp Earl of Portland Maistres Generals des Camp Henry Lord Viscount Sidney Major-Generals of Foot Count Nassau Major-Generals of Foot Major-General Kirk Major-Generals of Foot Major-General Tetteau Major-Generals of Foot Monsieur Screvenmore Major-Generals of Horse Maj. Gen. La Forrest Major-Generals of Horse Sir John Lanier Major-Generals of Horse Monsieur Du Cambon Quarter-master-General Brigadier Trelawney Brigadiers of Foot Sir Henry Bellasis Brigadiers of Foot Sir John Hanmer Brigadiers of Foot Brigadier Stuart Brigadiers of Foot Brigad La Mellionere Brigadiers of Foot Brigad Villars Brigadiers of Horse Brigad Eppinger Brigadiers of Horse Brigad Schack Brigadiers of Horse Sir Robert Southwell Secretary of State Thomas Coningesby Esq now Lord Coningesby and Charles Fox Esq Pay-masters-General Sir John Topham Advocate-General Henry Wythers Adjutant-General of Foot Francis Russel Adjutant-General of Horse George Clark Esq Secretary at War Monsieur Perara Commissary-General of the Provisions Abraham Yarner Esq Muster-master-General Dr. Lawrence Physician-General Charles Thompson Esq Chyrurgion-General A CATALOGUE of the General Officers A List of the Irish General Officers and others in King Jams's Army taken out of the Muster-Rolls June the 2 d 1690. DUKE of Tyrconnel Captain-General Duke of Berwick Lieutenant-Generals Richard Hambleton Lieutenant-Generals Count Lauzune General of the French Monsieur Leary alias Geraldine Lieutenant-General Dominick Sheldon Lieutenant-General of the Horse Patrick Sarsfield Major-Generals Anthony Hambleton Major-Generals Monsieur Boiseleau Major-Generals Thomas Maxwell Brigadeers John Hambleton Brigadeers William Dorrington Brigadeers Solomon Slater Muster-master-General Robert Fitz-Gerald Comptroler of the Musters Sir Richard Neagle Secretary at War Sir Henry Bond Receivers General Louis Doe Receivers General Sir Michael Creagh Pay-master General Foelix Oneil Advocate General Dr. Archbold Physician to the State Patrick Archbold Chyrurgeon General The Irish had at that time in their Army Two Troops of Horse-Guards with another of Horse-Granadiers Eight Regiments of Horse Seven Regiments of Dragoons a Regiment of Foot Guards of Twenty two Companies and Ninety men in a Company Forty four other Regiments of Foot Thirteen Companies in a Regiment and Sixty men in a Company which with the Five thousand French Foot made their Army according to their own Computation

such a Pass or Wood precisely at such a time o' th' night or day as it stood with their conveniency and tho' you could not see a Man over night yet exactly at their hour you might find three or four hundred more or less as they had occasion all well Armed and ready for what design they had formerly projected but if they hapned to be discovered or over-powered they presently dispersed having before-hand appointed another place of Rendezous ten or twelve miles it may be from the place they then were at by which means our Men could never fix any close Engagement upon them during the Winter so that if they could have held out another year the Rapparees would have continued still very prejudicial to our Army as well by killing our Men privately as stealing our Horses and intercepting our Provisions But after all least the next Age may not be of the same humour with this and the name of a Rapparees may possibly be thought a finer thing than it really is I do assure you that in my Stile they never can be reputed other than Tories Robbers Thieves and Bogg-trotters The Insolence of those People however in the Bogg of Allen was curbed by Colonel Foulks and Colonel Piper before their return who killed one Gibney a Captain and several others About which time the King disposed of all January 1691. the vacant Bishopricks and other Ecclesiastical Preferments void in Ireland since the death of King Charles the Second On the 14th of January about sixty of the Garrison of A Party of ours march beyond the Shannon Castle-Forbes in the County of Longford with some of the Militia passed the River Shannon and burnt several places on the other side bringing off a good Booty without any loss And seventeen Transport Ships with two Men of War were ordered from the Bay of Dublin towards Kinsale to carry the Earl of Marlborough's and Colonel Fitz-Patrick's Regiments into Flanders together with the Prisoners taken at Cork and Kinsale these having joyned some other Vessels suffered much in their Voyage to Flanders by reason of bad Weather and some of them forced upon the Coast of England one or two Ships being lost And nigh the same time the Dover Frigat brought into Kinsale a French Privateer of 22 Guns and 10 Pettereroes belonging to St. Maloes Several Prisoners are now taken in scampering Parties and some Deserters come in who all give an account of the extraordinary scarcity of Provisions and other Necessaries amongst the Irish tho' this was only true in part for Prisoners will stretch to gain favour and Deserters are commonly prejudiced so that they make things as they would have it or speak by hear-say few of them telling any thing of their own knowledge for before a Man deserts any side he commonly converses with those that are most disaffected and consequently least trusted he comes off partial however so that no extraordinary stress is usually to be laid upon such Informations Nigh this time several Ships arriv'd at Gallway from France My Lord Tyrconnel returns from France and brought over my Lord Tyrconnel Sir Richard Neagle and Sir Stephen Rice with about only 8000 l. in Money which was a great disappointment to the Irish who had a small distribution by way of Donative but not as pay There came also some Soldiers-Coats and Caps but such sorry ones that the Irish themselves could easily see in what esteem their Master of France had them A Party of the Militia of Bandon advance into the Enemies Quarters and killing some few stranglers brought off a good Prey according to the custom of the Country But afterwards about 1500 of the Enemy pass the Black-Water A Party of the Irish besiege Fermoy near Fermoy where there was some of the Danes posted in a Fort which the Irish pretended to Attack upon their near approach our Men fired and the Irish seemed resolute for some time but sixteen of them being killed with a French Officer the rest were presently a little more calm and then they made an attempt on the other side on Fermoy-Bridge but were beat back with two small Field-Pieces which they had Intelligence were removed and six of them killed at that place but by this time part of Colonel Donep's Horse were come to Castle Leons and fifty of them with 30 Militia Dragoons engaged a greater Number of the Irish and killed sixty pursuing the rest nigh two Miles till they came towards their main Body which was commanded by Brigadier Carol who was obliged to retire without what he came for Richard Pyne Esquire formerly one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal is now made Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas And Jan. 26 some Recruits are sent from Dublin to re-inforce the Garrison of Ki●meague in the Isle of Allen and other places in the County of Kildare And now to satisfie both the Army and Country as much as could be comes out a Proclamation That all Persons who had given subsistence of Provisions c. to the Army should receive satisfaction for the same according to the Rates made publick in the beginning of Winter And that all Arrears of Pay due to Officers or Soldiers who died were killed or removed from Their Majesties Service should be paid to their Relations In order to which there were certain Commissioners appointed to state the Accompts of the Army February 1691. These Commissioners were William Robinson John Stone Edward Corker John South and Edward Molineux Commissioners appointed to state the Accompts of the Army Esquires who some of them here sate every Day for many Months together upon this Affair Jan. 29. A Ship belonging to Chester-Water was cast away in the Bay of Dublin Ball the owner and all the Passengers being lost The same Day upwards of 200 Prisoners were put on Board there and sent to Cork with Orders to be transported to Flanders A Detachment of the Garrison of Cork being two hundred Foot and 300 Dragoons march towards Church-Town and Buttafant two of the Enemies Frontier-Towns in that County where they had a Party of Horse and Foot but they withdrew at our approach leaving the Places to be burnt by our Men which was done accordingly The beginning of February a Party of the Army with some of the Militia march'd from Clonmell within ten Miles of Limerick meeting with little opposition killed only about twelve stragling Rapparees and burnt what Cabbins and other places of shelter for the Irish they met withal returning with a prey of Cattle and three or four Prisoners February the 4th A Declaration was published at Dublin A Declaration from the General to the Irish by Lieutenant-General Ginckel setting forth That Their Majesties had no design to Oppress their Roman-Catholick Subjects of this Kingdom in either their Religion or their Properties but had given him Authority to grant reasonable Terms to all such as would come in and submit according to their Duty But