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A12824	Pacata Hibernia Ireland appeased and reduced· Or, an historie of the late vvarres of Ireland, especially within the province of Mounster, vnder the government of Sir George Carew, Knight, then Lord President of that province, and afterwards Lord Carevv of Clopton, and Earle of Totnes, &c. VVherein the siedge of Kinsale, the defeat of the Earle of Tyrone, and his armie; the expulsion and sending home of Don Iuan de Aguila, the Spanish generall, with his forces; and many other remarkeable passages of that time are related. Illustrated with seventeene severall mappes, for the better understanding of the storie.	Stafford, Thomas, Sir, fl. 1633.; Totnes, George Carew, Earl of, 1555-1629, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 23132; ESTC S117453	356,720	417

minde Sir Charles Blunt Lord Mountioy And at that time the Presidencie of Mounster being voyd by the unfortunate death of Sir Thomas Norris lately slaine by the rebels shee made election of Sir George Carew Knight who was by his former services experienced in the Irish warres to be the Lord President of that Province The 23 of Februarie these Lords embarqued at Beaumarris and upon the day following they landed at the head of Hothe lodging that night at the Lord of Hothes house and the next day they rode to Dublin where by the relation of the Councell they found a miserable torne state utterly ruined by the Warre and the rebels swollen with pride by reason of their manifest victories which almost in all encounters they had lately obtayned The President although hee much desired to employ himselfe in his government yet he was enforced to make a long stay in Dublin as well to assemble the Forces allotted unto him by order out of England to bee in list 3000 Foot and 250 Horse which were dispersed in sundry remote Garrisons as to procure the dispatch of his Instructions from the State which is usuall and of sundry Commissions under the great Seale of Ireland which of custome is graunted to every President but especially the passing of his Office by vertue of her Majesties Warrant under the great Seale of that Realme the Copies of which Warrant Letters Pattents and Instructions I doe heere insert as ensueth Her Maiesties Warrant RIght Trustie and Welbeloved wee greet you well Our Province of Mounster in that our Realme of Ireland being without a principall Officer to governe it ever since the death of Thomas Norris Knight late President there And the tumultuous state of that Province requiring the government of a person of Iudgement and Experience Wee haue made choise of our servant Sir George Carew Knight Lieutenant of our Ordnance heere To commit to him the charge of that part of our Realme as one whom we know besides his faithfull and diligent endeavours informer services to bee well acquainted with the estate of that our Realme where he is a Councellor and with the condition and nature of that Province Wherefore we require you immediatly upon the taking of our Sword and chiefe charge of that our Realme of Ireland as our Deputie according to our Commission graunted to you To cause a Commission to bee made out vnder our great Seale of that our Realme of Ireland to the said Sir George Carew of the Office and Charge of President of our Province of Mounster in such manner and forme as Iohn and Thomas Norris Knights or any other our Presidents of that Province haue used to haue or with any such other clauses as you shall thinke that the present State of our affaires there doth require Giving him thereby power to rule and governe our people in that Province with the advice of our Councell there according to such Instructions and Directions as haue been given by us or our Councell heere or our Deputies of that our Realme or shall heereafter bee directed to him for the government of that Province The same his power to continue during our pleasure And our further will and pleasure is that he receiue towards his charges all such Allowances Fees Profits and Entertainments of Horse and Foot as Sir Thomas Norris Knight our late President at the time of his death had The same to begin from the day of the date hereof and to continue during our pleasure And these shall be to you and to our Treasurer for the payment thereof sufficient warrant and discharge Given under our Signet at our Mannour of Richmond the seven and twentieth day of Ianuary in the two and fortieth yeare of our raigne c. The Letters Patents ELIZABETH by the grace of God Queene of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all men to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas our Province of Mounster in that our Realme of Ireland being without a principall Officer to governe it ever sithence the death of Sir Thomas Norris Knight late President there And the tumultuous State of that Province requiring the government of a person of Iudgement and Experience Wee haue made choice of our trustie and welbeloved Servant Sir George Carew Knight Lieutenant of our Ordnance in our Realme of England and one of our Privie Councell of our sayd Realme of Ireland and to commit to him the charge and government of that part of our realme as one whom wee know besides his faithfull and diligent endeavours in former services to bee well acquainted with the State of that our realme and with the condition and nature of that Province Knowye that wee reposing our trust in the Wisedome Valour Dexteritie Fidelitie and Circumspection of the sayd Sir George Carew Knight of our especiall grace certaine knowledge and meere motion and according to the tenor and effect of our Letters on that behalfe directed to our right trustie and right welbeloved Councellor Charles Lord Mountioy Knight of the most noble Order of our Garter and our Deputie generall of our realme of Ireland dated at Richmond the seven and twentieth day of Ianuarie in the two and fourtieth yeere of our raigne Haue given and graunted and by these presents doe giue and graunt to our said Servant George Carew Knight the Office of our Lord President of our said province of Mounster And the said George Carew Kn●ght our Lord President and Governour of the said province by these presents doe make ordaine and constitute and to the said George the government of the said Province and of our people there resident doe commit And further wee doe giue and graunt by these presents to the said George Carew Knight in and for the exercise and execution of the said Office all such Authorities Iurisdictions Preheminences Dignities Wages Fees Allowances and profits whatsoever which Iohn Norris Knight or the said Thomas Norris Knight or any other President of that province haue used to haue And with such other clauses or articles of Authoritie as our said Deputie shall thinke that the present state of our affaires there doth require to bee further graunted unto him the said George Carew Knight Giving him heereby full power and authoritie to rule and governe our people under that province with the advice of our Councell there according to such Instructions and Directions as hath been given by us or our Councell heere or our Deputies of that our realme or shall hereafter bee directed to him for the government of that Province To haue exercise and enjoy the said Office to and by the said George Carew Knight with other the premises and all Authorities preheminences wages fees entertainments and profits to the sayd Office belonging and all such allowances profits entertainments of Horse and Foot as the said Thomas

at the Pallace heard him say that hee had almost as willingly die as come under the English government and perswaded all those he spake with to be obstinate in action telling him how long Ireland had beene tyrannically governed by English men All which Osulevan aforesaid did relate unto the President and thereto tooke his corporall oath the one and twentieth of March 1600. In Iuly hee taking upon him regall authority within Desmond as Mac Cartie More sent first to ne Donnell F●rrers to bee Sherife of that Countrey perswading him that it would be very beneficiall unto him which the said Donnell refused answering that hee would not take that authority upon him except hee could shew him a warrant from the President authorising him to make such election as hee knew the like heretofore graunted to the Earle of Clancare in the times of trouble whereupon he appointed another named Muriertagh Mac Teg to the same office Ex Examinatione Donnell F●rrers In August Sir Charles Wilmot first planted his Garisons in Kerry and how glad this dissembling hypocrit was of his neighbourhood besides his owne manifold Letters sent to Sir Charles full of God damme him if he were not heartily glad of his good successe here you shall perceiue partly by the examination of the said Ferrers in haec verba When the President in August 1600. setled Garisons in Kerry Florence caused the Castle of Killorglan appertayning to Master Ienkin Conway an Vndertaker to bee burned fearing lest Sir Charles Wilmot should plant himselfe there and when as the Governour afterward placed this Examinat therein hee sent some of his kerne and tooke all his prey threatning to pull them all out by the heeles having no other quarrell against him but onely because hee repaired the same Castle Hee also releeved the Knight of the Valley at his house of the Pallace And after the said Florence was protected by the President hee releeved likewise Thomas fits Maurice the Barron of Lixnaw and ceassed his Bonoghs in Desmond but more plainely by examination of Iames Welsh taken the tenth of May 1601. as followeth When Iames fits Thomas was in Kerry in September last Florence Mac Cartie perswaded him to remaine there promising him all the aide that hee could giue him and being in his departure towards Arlogh hee sent Thomas Oge after him praying him to returne and hee would bring him to the killing of Sir Charles Wilmot and the Garison of Traley that was with him c. And when hee saw that Iames fits Thomas would not follow his Councell but would needs goe to take Arlogh Mountaines for his refuge hee wrote a Letter in Irish which the said Iames Welsh read directed unto Cahir Mac Shane Glasse Omulrian in Ormond desiring him to levie for him in those parts sixe hundred Foote which if hee could not doe then to procure Redmond Burke to get so many for him and if hee failed then to deale with Captaine Tirrell and that hee would pay them upon Desmond About this time also hee sent a traiterous message to the White Knight by his daughter Mac Donoghes wife together with a cunning Letter written in Irish and translated as followeth A Letter from Florence to the White Knight DAmnation I cannot 〈◊〉 ●●●mend mee heartily unto you as bad as tho● art and doe also most heartily commend m●e to your wife and to your two Sonnes I would bee very glad to speake with you for your good and because I cannot speake with you my selfe yet I would ha●● 〈◊〉 in any wi●e credit your daughter Mistris Mac Donoghe concerning me and to beleeue from me whom shee sends or what shee sends you word of by a trusty Messenger I would haue you to determine about Pierce Oge and that I may speake with you I meane about Gor●●et●berd or Tullylease send word to Pierce and Dermond of the day with him and send mee word and I will come without all faile In the meane time I leaue you to God Pallace this seven and twentieth of August 1600. Your assured loving Friend Florence Mac Cartie This Letter was delivered and expounded to the President by the White Knight Pierce Oge before mentioned was Pierce Lucy the message which hee sent by Mac Donoghs wife was to reproue him for his submission to the Queene and to incite him to enter againe into rebellion and if hee would not bee advised by him and himselfe not able to mainetaine the action that hee purposed to agree with Donell Mac Cartie his brother in Law and to leaue the County of Desmond and the Followers in his hands and to imbarke himselfe into Spaine to procure and hasten the long expected aide In October after many and infinite delatory excuses and protracted delayes he submitted himselfe to the President putting in such pledges as before you haue heard and received a Protection for ten dayes before the expiration whereof hee earnestly laboured Cormock Mac Dermond about the mariage betwixt the Arch-rebell Iames fits Thomas and his Sister promising to the said Cormock all the Lands that hee had in Carbery and undertaking that the said Earle should giue farther unto him such portions of Lands as should bee to his owne content so that he would consent to this mariage and joyne in this wicked combination The next Moneth divers meanes were made to Thomas Oge Constable of Castlemange by the Governor of Kerry and the young Earle of Desmond lately come out of England about the delivery of that Cast●e to her Majesties use Florence receiving notice hereof made many journies to the said Thomas Oge urging him with forcible perswasions not to relinquish the said Castle to the English promising that hee would undertake upon his owne charge and perill to see him furnished with victuals and all other necessaries from time to time whereof hee should stand in need and when hee perceived an inclination in the said Thomas Oge notwithstanding his perswasions to yeeld the Castle hee assayed by a craftie wile to haue conveyed away the two Sonnes of Pierce Lacy which were held as pledges for Ia●es fits Thomas within that Castle but the plot being frustrate by meere accident the children and Castle were within short time after delivered to the State When Sir Charles Wilmot came into Kerry with her Majesties forces Florence Mac Cartie as Thomas Oge upon his examination confessed intreated Iames fits Thomas to make the warre there whereunto hee assented But Iames could not perswade the Bonoghs unto it Also after that Dermond O Conner had enterprised the taking of Iames fits Thomas hee did then promise him to enter into open action of Rebellion and to that end he solicited Dermond Mac Owen Mac Awley Okeefe Mac Finnin Owen Mac Teg Carty and others And when Tyrone was in Mounster Florence desired him to make it knowen to the King of Spaine that hee would serue him faithfully for the assurance whereof the said Florence wrote a Letter

owne home leaving the Earle to a desperate fortune who now perceived that the Provincials submitted themselues daily to the President and the strangers returned into their severall Countries and that no aide approached either from the South or North by Sea nor Land was compelled together with Iohn his Brother Maurice Mac Thomas Pierce Lacy and the Knight of the Glyn to leaue the Countrie of Corke and to fly into Tipperary and Ormond and from thence Iohn fits Thomas hasteth to Vlster CHAP. XIIII Supplies of Foote sent from England Osulevan More sent by the Lord Deputie to the Lord President The Castle of Glancoyne surprised by Sir Francis Barkley Florence Mac Carties Wife and Followers perswaded him to goe to the Lord President The young Earle of Desmond arrived at Yoghall A Letter from Her Majestie to the Lord President Her Maiesties Letters Patents for Iames Fitz-Gerald to be Earle of Desmond THE Lords of the Councell of England by their Letters bearing Date the twentie seventh advertised the President that there was sixe hundred Foote in a readinesse to be sent to Corke to supply the Armie and for that many Souldiers daily arrived in England by Passeports from their Captaines onely They gaue the President a straite Charge to take order with all the Maritime Townes that no Souldier should be transported out of any of them without a Passe under his owne Hand and Seale and the last of the same he had directions from their Lordships that good Bands with Sureties should be taken upon all Merchants of Ireland which traded with Spaine or France not only for their owne good behaviours and loyalties when they were beyond the Seas but to all such Passengers as they should carry with them which was presently put into execution Dermond O Conner at his late being in Mounster had caused Osulevan More a man aboue sixtie yeares of age and yet never knowen to be in action against Her Majestie neither in Iames fits Maurice his Warres nor in the old Earle of Desmonds nor in this last Rebellion This man I say Dermond O Conner had taken Prisoner not without Consent and Councell of Florence Mac Cartie because he refused to pay Bonnaght unto the Connaght men Captaine Tirrell by force or fraud I know not whether tooke the Prisoner from him and caried him into the North who escaped out of the Vlster mens hands was taken by Sir Theobald Dillon of Connaght and presented to the Lord Deputie by whom hee is committed to the Castle of Dublin untill his estate should be further knowen and not long after he sent him to the Earle of Ormond to be sent by him to the President to be disposed of according to his discretion He being about this time come to Corke raileth bitterly against Florence ascribing both the beginning and continuance of his troubles to him and relating to the Councell such intelligence as hee had learned in those parts where he had beene detained returneth into his owne Countrey The Arch-rebels Iames fits Thomas Fits Maurice and the Knight of the Glyn not finding as it should seeme the entertainement they expected in my Lord of Ormonds countrey or rather notintending at the first to make any long stay there but onely that thereby the President might thinke them quite gone and so make no further inquirie after them did in the beginning of this Moneth of October steale backe into the Countie of Limerick yet not so privily but the President had intelligence thereof for it was signified unto him the fourth of this instant that Desmond was about Arlogh having not aboue fiue in his Company and two of them came lately from the Pope with promise of Succours which came too late for his turne as hereafter shall be shewed In the meane time our Garrisons prospered so well that Sir Francis Barkley got the Castle of Glancoyne in Connilogh burning and spoyling great store of Corne in those parts and Sir Charles Wilmot in Kerry prevailed so farre that Castlemange held by Thomas Oge and Listoell defended by Fits Maurice were the only two Castles held against her Majestie which were both regained within short time and Captaine Flower at Lysmore wrought miracles against the Rebels in those parts as Sir Richard Aylward wrote to the President But Florence Mac Cartie notwithstanding his manifold Letters stuffed with abominable oathes came not as yet to the President nor indeed minded he to come as it was reported had not his Wife and some of his Countrey in a manner compelled him thereunto for she refused to come to his Bed untill he had reconciled himselfe to Her Majestie saying that she knew in what manner her Father had that Earledome from her Highnesse and though she be not pleased to bestow the same wholly upon her yet she doubted not to obtaine some part thereof but if neither of these could bee gotten yet was not she minded to goe a begging either unto Vlster nor into Spaine and to confirme this report it was certainely knowen that she with the helpe of her friends kept the Castle of the Lough in Desmond by force from him Her Majestie having evermore had a determination to send Iames fits Gerald Sonne unto the late Earle of Desmond attainted in Ireland and having found by experience that the attempt which Dermond O Conner made in the apprehension of Iames fits Thomas was at his Wifes suite in hope thereby to obtaine the restitution of her Brother to his old Title of Earle of Desmond and also unto some state of Inheritance for his maintenance did now resolue to put her determination in effect hoping that his presence in Ireland would draw the ancient Followers of the Earle of Desmond his Father from Iames fits Thomas the supposed Earle and therefore releasing him out of the Tower where from his infancie he had beene Prisoner shee not onely admitted him to her presence but stiled him Earle of Desmond and sent him conducted into Ireland by Captaine Price a sober discreet Gentleman and an ancient Commander in the Warres who landed with his charge at Youghall the fourteenth day of October from thence he brought him to Moyallo to the President upon the eighteenth where from Her Majestie he presented to his Lordship the young Earle Her Majesties Letters and Letters Pattents under the great Seale of England for his restitution in blood and Honour both which Letter and Letters Pattens I thinke it not unnecessary to set downe the true Copies which were as followeth A Letter from her Maiestie to the Lord President ELIZAB. R. TRustie and Welbeloved wee greet you well Wee haue now at the last resolved to send over Iames fits Gerald into Mounster after long debate with Our selfe what accidents might follow thereupon wherein although there might be many doubts to what hee may bee inveagled in times to come yet that opinion which wee conceiue of his owne good nature and disposition to gratefulnesse for

upon their knees beseeching to bee received into Her Majesties gratious Protection and promising to doe service upon any Rebels that should hide themselues in those Woods who putting in their pledges were received to mercy In this Iourney it chanced there was a youth taken Prisoner who had lately before beene servant to the imagined Earle who being brought to the President and examined tooke upon him to bring our Forces to the place where his Master was The Earle of Thomond Sir George Thornton and Captaine Roger Harvy with their Companies following the direction of this Guid were conducted to Lisbarry a parcell of Drumfinnim woods no sooner were they entred into the Fa●tnesse but presently the Sentinells which were placed in the skirt of the wood raised the crie which as it should seeme rowsed the counterfeit Earle of Desmond and Dermond Mac Craghe the Popes Bishop of Corke who were lodged there in a poore ragged Cabbin Desmond fled away bare-foot having no leasure to pull on his shooes and was not discovered but Mac Craghe was met by some of the Souldiers cloathed in a simple mantle and torne trowses like an aged Churle and they neglecting so poore a creature not able to carry weapon suffered him to passe unregarded upon the end of this journey by the wi●e and painefull proceedings of the President Gods blessing alwayes accompanying the same it came to passe that there was not one Castle in Mounster held out against the Queene Nay which was more it was not knowen that there were fiue Rebells in a companie throughout the Province nor any one of note except these fiue lost sheepe the children of perdition Iames fits Thomas and his Brother Lixnaw Pierce Lacie and the Knight of the Glinne who lay lurking in desart uncouth and unknowen places yet notwithstanding there were divers vagabonds and loose people dispersed in sundry corners for whom no man would undertake that lived by stealth and badroagues disquieting the good Subjects being the reliques of the rebellion The President by his Letters dated the fifteenth signified unto the Lords of the Councell that now the Province was so much over-awed by her Majesties Forces that unlesse Northern Rebels came to infest it or that the Spaniards did invade it he was well able to containe the Provincials in obedience and although fiue hundred of his List was already cashier'd he would at any time lend the Lo. Deputie one thousand Foot to serue in Linster but with this caution for countenance sake that they might bee evermore in estimation of the List of Mounster which if the Reader doe well obserue he shall finde that the prosecution of the service in that Province had successes beyond expectation for in May last when the President first tooke the field the Rebels were no lesse then seven thousand strong and now the Subjects Cattle day and night lay abroad in the fields no Bodie of Rebels united and not one castle in all the province that did withstand her Majestie This was the vvorke of God and unto him onely it must be attributed Her Majestie as hath been said did by her Letters to the President command that one Companie of one hundred Foot should bee cashier'd for the sustentation of the young Earle of Desmond and of others vvhich vvere mentioned in that Letter The Lords of the Councell likewise by their Letters bearing date the tenth of November required the President to see the same performed which being done accordingly as was directed the President by his Letters of the twentieth of this December made an account how the partition was made Now you must understand that although one hundred Foot was discharged for the maintenance of the Earle and the rest yet her Majesties meaning was not that more should bee turned to that use then the ready money which was payed to the Companie yearely for their Lendings for their apparell was saved unto her Majestie the yearely lendings of one hundred men amounts unto no more then seven hundred eightie two pound two shillings and ten pence The Archbishop of Cassell who was a principall Agent in stirring up Dermond O●Conner to make the attempt he did upon the titulary Earle had for his share one hundred twentie one pound thirteene shillings and three pence Iohn Power who was one of the Hostages as hath been related had thirtie sixe pound ten shillings the Lady Ellis sister to the Earle had thirtie three pound sixe shillings eight pence which was as much as her other sisters formerly had in pension from her Majestie the Lady Margaret the Earles sister also and wife to Dermond O Conner in regard of her forwardnesse to haue done the Queene service had an hundred pound and the remainder which was fiue hundred fortie pound twelue shillings ten pence was to the Earles owne use About the eighteenth of the same Sir Francis Barkley finding good cause and fitt opportunitie to plague Mac Awley and his Tenants who under protection relieved the heart-broken Rebells with the Garrison which hee commanded at Askeiton he harrassed all the Countrey of Clanowlie and tooke from thence one thousand Cowes two hundred Garrans besides Sheepe and other spoyle and had the killing of many Traitours which harboured themselues in the bogs and woods thereof CHAP. XIX The Maior of Limerick fined and imprisoned and a new Maior elected A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Iames fits Thomas The S●eriffes men slaine by Florence Mac Cartie The Lord President perswadeth Florence to goe into England Florence seemeth to like of the motion and the use he made of it THE Countrey being now reduced to that outward obedience and conformitie as you haue heard the President and Councell returned unto Moyallo the thirteenth of December where they had some leasure to looke in the Corporate Townes whom they found to be principall ayders abettors and upholders of this unnaturall Rebellion which proceeded partly out of malice to the State for matters of Religion but principally for their owne benefit for in these turbulent times the greatest part of the Queenes Treasure sent over into this Kingdome is expended by the Captaines and Souldiers amongst them Againe they issue their Marchandise to the Rebells underhand at very excessiue rates and buy the Countrey Commodities at their owne prizes by reason whereof it was probably conjectured upon good grounds that the Townes of Mounster were more inritched within these three yeares of Warre then they were before almost in twentie yeares of peace Another thing also at this time was noted in the Townes namely that all the chiefe Cities made choyse of professed Lawyers to be their Ma●ors Magistrates and chiefe Officers and such as before were Ring leaders of their Corporations These prepensed Elections whether they vvere made for feare left they should bee called to account for their former faults both in assisting the Rebells and resisting the Souldiers or to maintaine the Townes in obstinate superstition which before was much

The next morning being the fourth of Ianuary 1602. Sir Charles comming to seeke the Enemy in their Campe hee entered into their quarter without resistance where hee found nothing but hurt and sicke men whose paines and liues by the Souldiers were both determined The governour sent the Lord Barry with some of his light foote after them but all in vaine for they flew so swift with the wings of feare as passing by many preyes directly in the way as they passed yet they never made so much stay as to molest either the Cattle or their Keepers Heereupon Sir Charles with the English Regiments overran all Beare and Bantry destroying all that they could find meet for the reliefe of men so as that country was wholly wasted He sent also Captaine Flemming with his Pinnace and certaine Souldiers into Osulevans Iland Hee tooke there certaine Boars and an English Barke which Osulevan had gotten and kept for his transportation into Spaine when he should be enforced thereunto they tooke also from thence certaine Cowes and Sheepe which were reserved there as in a sure storehouse and put the Churles to the sword that inhabited therein The Warders of the Castles of Ardea and Carricknesse on the sixth of the same moneth dispayring of their Master Osulevans returne rendered both their Castles and their liues to the Queenes mercy so that although hee should haue Animum revertendi he had neither place of safetie whereunto hee might retyre nor Corne or Cattell to feed himselfe much lesse to uphold or renew any warre against the State The sharpnesse of this Winter journey did exceedingly weaken our Companies for the Mountaines of Beare being at that time quite covered with snow tasted the strong bodies whereby many returned sicke and some unable to endure the extreamity dyed standing centinell But whilest this service was in prosecution in Beare the President on his journey towards the Lord Deputie chanced to meet with some of the Countrey risings out to the number of foure hundred foote or thereabouts that came short of the rest that were under the commands of the Lord Barry and Sir George Thornton And understanding that the Sonnes of Sir Owen Mac Cartie and Donnogh Keugh brother to Florence Mac Cartie were retyred with their Creats and Followers into the strengths of Carbery his Lordship commanded Captaine Taffe with the said risings out fourtie of Sir Edward Wingfields Company and his owne troope of Horse to draw into those parts and to endeavour the best service hee could upon them Whilest the rest were busied by the Governour of Kerry in Desmond as aforesaid wherein it pleased God to giue him good successe for on the fifth of Ianuary his foote entering their Fastnesse tooke a prey of two or three hundred Cowes and Garrans the Rebels in pursuit of their Cattle gaue them so braue a charge as they were disordered whereby some of them were slaine which Captaine Taffe perceiving being in the head of his Horse troope in the skirt of the Fastnesse and espying some of their Horsemen to doe much hurt upon our foote charged them into the wood slew foure of their Horsemen and put all the rest to rout wherewith our men being encouraged pursued them Owen Mac Eggan the Popes Apostolike Vicar so often before mentioned to put fresh heart into his Company with his sword drawne in one hand and his portius and beades in the other with one hundred men led by himselfe he came boldly up to the sword and mainetayned a hot skirmish untill hee was slaine with a shot whereupon his men together with a fresh charge of our horse were so amazed and terrified partly by his death and partly by their owne danger that they brake instantly and for better expedition throwing away their Armes leaped into the river Bandon hoping by that meanes to escape but that little availed them for they all for the most part were either killed or drowned in the river there were slaine in this service besides Owen Mac Eggan who was of more worth then all the rest aboue one hundred and twenty Rebels and of the Provinciall rising out of our part a good number lost their liues and many of Captaine Taffes horses hurt wee got the Armes of 100. and fourtie and all their horses cowes sheepe and garrans that were in the Countrey neere adjoyning There was also taken a Papist Priest being as it seemed a Chaplaine to Mac Eggan whom the President shortly after caused to be executed in Corke Vpon this discomfiture the Carties who formerly had beene Petitioners to the President for protection but denyed became suitors to Captaine Taffe in the like who not knowing of the good successe that the Governour had against the other Rebels according to direction before given him by the President that hee should accept their submission after a blow given them if it were humbly sought did grant protection to them and their Followers and upon the Presidents returne from Galway Captaine Taffe having then in his company upon the high way not farre from Moyallo presented them to his Lordship who with great shew of unfayned penitence desired his allowance and acceptation of their submission who to gratifie the service of Captaine Taffe and to ratifie his promise assented thereunto whereby all Carbery a very large and spacious Countrey was wholly reduced to subjection no one open Traytor remayning therein A principall meanes of this suddaine and vniuersall reduction was the death of that traitorly Priest Owen Mac Eggan which doubtlesse was more beneficiall to the State then to haue gotten the head of the most capitall Rebell in Mounster for the respect that was borne unto him by reason of his authority from the Pope and the credit which hee had obtayned in Spaine was so great as his power was in a manner absolute over them all and he onely was the meanes of their obdurate obstinacie his dignity in being the Popes Vicarius Apostolicus did hold them in vassalage unto him and the livings given him in Mounster by the Popes grant were to be valued if hee might quietly haue enjoyed them at three thousand pounds per Annum And farther to ingage the Popish Clergy of Ireland unto him hee had power to dispose at his pleasure of all the spirituall livings in the Province of Mounster by which authority together with the credit he had gotten with the King of Spaine well testified by the trust committed to him in transporting and disposing the Spanish money last brought into Ireland he had obtayned in a manner all power both over the temporality and spirituality of Mounster and to depaint him in his true colours a more malitious Traytor against the State and Crowne of England never breathed which well appeared by the barbarous tyranny hee exercised upon his owne Countriemen for assoone as any prisoners were taken though of his owne Countrey birth and religion yet if they had served the Queene he caused them first

mother likewise falleth out to bee such as if Almighty God should call her before the same were better setled many inconveniences might fall to the house by his absence hee is now returned backe with as much expedition as hee can And therefore wee doe as to one of our principall Councellors in that state recommend him to you to be furthered and assisted in all his occasions wherein as we know that publicke triall which hee hath made of himselfe to the honour of the Nobility of that kingdome whereof so many scandalous rumours haue beene spred onely to invite our Enemies under that opinion of their ill affection both hath and will invite you to loue him so wee doe thinke that wee haue missed our markes in George if hee shall not haue the best fruits which either your publike credit or private friendship may afford whosoeuer wee shall recommend as now wee doe this Noble-man besides his publike desert for many other constant professions of his humble and reverent affections towards our selfe Let this therefore suffice for him and for your selfe of whom wee can say no more then heretofore wee haue done either of our good opinion of you or of our gratious thankes for all your great and honest services Given under our Signet at our Pallace of Westminster the seventeenth of December 1602. in the fiue and fourtieth yeare of our Raigne Now although the present estate of this Province did promise a present reduction and future quiet yet to make it appeare that the false hearts of the superstitious Irish were no way addicted and inclined thereunto omitting many instances that I might remember I will recite onely certaine particulars concerning Iohn Burke a gentleman of the county of Limerick of whom wee haue spoken before in the beginning of the first booke who much grieved as it should seeme that their expectations had beene frustrated concerning Spanish hopes this last Summer would therefore take a Iourney to the Court of Spaine as a generall Agent to sollicit the King for supplyes against the next spring And therefore suddenly leaving his wife which was one of Sir George Thorntons daughters and family abo●● the middest of December last fled to the r●b●ls Campe not doubtin● but from them to bee furnished with all necessaries for this his employment at his departure hee left certaine L●tters with his wife to bee delivered to the President and Sir George T●ornton his Father in law declaring his intention for a Iourney into Spaine but to disg●i●● his reasons hee made Religion a maske by pre●●nding a ●●lgrimage to Saint-Iames of Compostella and Rome but because his dissembling may the better appeare I will 〈◊〉 downe the word● of his own Letters written to the Lord President and Sir George A Letter from Iohn Burke to the Lord President IF you remember Right Honourable and my very good Lord the 〈◊〉 time I met your honour how desirous I was to forsake 〈◊〉 world and to follow the service of God from which determination I was 〈…〉 weaknesse of my spirit restrayned by the simple 〈…〉 my friends sithence which time I haue beene so inamoured with the 〈◊〉 that I did not spare to walke in all the wayes where hee lead me either of envie malice deceit flatterie or falshood as I doubt not but your Lordship in some degree noted when through envie and hatred I haue for to procure their deaths accused the Lord Burke and othe●s 〈…〉 of treason and now being 〈◊〉 to satisfaction 〈…〉 speaking euill of my 〈…〉 with the world so that by seeking to make my sel●e a 〈◊〉 vnto th● world I was thereby made an enemy vnto God 〈…〉 ●●pentance by the especiall grace of God I 〈…〉 of Rome and Saint Iames and doe assure unto 〈…〉 carry alwayes as faithfull 〈…〉 wish all honour dignity and prosperity as any other of my calling 〈…〉 desire your Lordship not to beleeue any thing which should be said to the contrary I haue left the little Land● and goods I had 〈…〉 and doe desire your Lordship to mainetaine her in the same untill my comming I would neuer come amongst these fellowes but for feare my friend● would p●●swade your Lordship not to grant mee your Passeport for to goe 〈…〉 seeing it hath pleased your Lordship to grant mee her Majesties protection I will remoue from this company desiring your Lordship to send mee your Passeport for to goe to this pilgrimage the which I will expect neere Corke And now taking my leaue with your Lordship I rest Your Lordships loving Friend Iohn Burke A Letter from Iohn Burke to Sir George Thornton RIght Worshipfull and my very loving Father for that I know you would bee much troubled in mind to thinke what should moue mee to depart thus from my wife friends and lands I thought good to tell you the very truth which I desire you without any scruple to beleeue I haue taken upon mee to be a Pilgrim for the space of two yeares First I must visit Saint Iago in Spaine and from thence to Rome I haue sought the Letters of favour from certaine Priests in this Countrey to their fellowes beyond the Seas You nor my Lord President may not thinke that I goe to procure any mischiefe to the English State to whom I should be more willing to doe good then able to doe harme I doe not now speake unto you in the spirit of flattery or feare falshood or deceit or for any worldly pollicie I speake before God and God knoweth that I speake the truth I doe not goe with any intent to harme any person but onely to doe judgement upon my selfe for a satisfaction unto God for my sinnes the little living I haue I doe leaue with my wife the which and her selfe I doe leaue to your fatherly care And so I rest Your Sonne Iohn Burke Some man peradventure giving credit to these colourable protestations would perswade himselfe that this professed Pilgrimage was the true and onely end of this his journey and so should I were not these vizards dismasked and these frauds detected by certaine Letters from sundry Priests and Popish Clergie men found and convaied to the President I will not trouble the Reader with needlesse transcripts of these severall Letters I will onely relate one or two which may apparantly convince his deepe dissembling written from a Popish Bishop A Certificate from a Popish Bishop in the behalfe of Iohn Burke NOs Mallachias Dei et Apostolicae Sedis gratia Duacensis in Hiberniâ Episcopus notum facimus Catholico ac invictissimo Hispaniarum Regi Philippo Domino Matheo de Oviedo Archiepis●opo Dublinensi et Metropolitano Hiberniae Omnibusque Christi fidelibus tam spiritualibus sive regularibus quàm secularibus personis ac si proprio nomine nominare Horum Latorem Iohannem Burk Nobilē praestant ' virtutis virum propugnatorē Haereticae pravitatis acerrimū refugium ac defensor ' religiosarum personarum esse ob id versari inter Anglos verae