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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

divulged in the Citie of Corke In answere whereof Don Iuan de Aquila assoone as it came to his eares did likewise Proclaime this Declaration or Apologie in Kinsale and dispersed Copies thereof into sundry places the tenour whereof ensueth Don Iuan de Aquila his Declaration in answere of a Proclamation published by the Lord Deputie and Councell translated out of the Latine DOn Iuan de Aquila Generall of the Warre and the Catholique King of Spaines chiefe Commander in Gods warre which is made in Ireland for defence of the Faith To all the Irish Catholiques living in Kinsale the Citie of Corke and in all other Villages Cities and Castles wisheth health in him who is the true happinesse There is come unto our eares a Proclamation or certaine Libell made in the Citie of Corke in the Name of the Deputie which because it conteineth many untruths and such things as offend the eares of honest men lest they may leade and seduce the mindes of simple men into errours and turne them from the truth I am compelled to shew their falsehood to lay open the trueth and in fewe words to signifie the pretence and intention of our most Excellent King Philip in this Warre which is with the Apostolique Authoritie to be administred by us and to speake the truth I could very easily retort vpon them those reproaches which they object to us and make them lose the pleasure which they haue taken in ill speaking by hearing of the like Notwithstanding we will not like unto weake and unarmed women goe to reproachings but setting these things aside answer to those that are objected with sound truth and Christian modestie First of all yee faine that wee would leade away the pretended Subjects of the Queene of England from their obedience to bring them under our yoke which is a very untruth for wee endeavour not to perswade any body that hee should deny due obedience according to the word of God to his Prince But yee know well that for many yeares since Elizabeth was deprived of her kingdome and all her Subjects absolved from th●ir fidelity by the Pope unto whom hee that raigneth in the heavens the King of Kings hath committed all power that hee should roote up destroy plant and build in such sort that hee may punish temporall Kings if it shall be good for the spirituall building even to their deposing which thing hath beene done in the kingdomes of England and Ireland by many Popes viz. by Pius quintus Gregory the thirteenth and now by Clement the eighth as it is well knowen Whose Buls are extant amongst us I speake to Catholikes not to froward Heretikes who haue fallen from the faith of the Romane Church seeing they are blind Leaders of the blind and such as know not the grounds of the truth it is no marvell that they doe also disagree from us in this thing But our brethren the Catholikes walking in the purenesse of the faith and yeelding to the Catholike Church which is the very Pillar of the truth will easily understand all those things Therefore it remayneth that the Irish which adhere to us doe worke with us nothing that is against Gods Lawes or their due obedience nay that which they doe is according to Gods word and the obedience which they owe the Pope Secondly yee affirme that wee Spaniards goe about to winne the Irish with allurements and 〈…〉 which is a thing farre from our nature and that wee doe it but for a while that after wee haue drawen the minds of simple men unto us wee might afterwards exercising our truelty towards them shew our bloody nature O the immortall God! who doth not wonder at your bitter and unexpressible cruelty your boldnesse shewed in these words For who is it that doth not know the great cruelty which you English haue exercised and cease not to exercise towards the miserable Irish You I say goe about to take from their soules the Catholike faith which their fathers held in which consists eternall life truely you are farre more cruell then Beares and Lyons which take away the temporall life for you would depriue them of the eternall and spirituall life Who is it that hath demolished all the temporalities of this most flourishing kingdome except the English looke upon this and bee ashamed whereas on the other side wee commiserating the condition of the Catholikes here haue left our most sweet and happy Countrey Spaine that is replenished with all good things and being stirred with their cryes which pierce the heavens having reached to the eares of the Pope and our King Philip They haue being moved with pitie at last resolved to send unto you Souldiers Silver Gold and Armes with a most liberall hand not to the end they might according as they faine exercise cruelty towards you O Irish Catholikes but that you may bee happily reduced being snatched out of the jawes of the divell and free from their tyranny unto your owne pristine ingenuitie and that you may freely professe the Catholike faith Therefore my most beloved seeing that which you haue so many yeares before desired and begged for with prayers and teares and that now even now the Pope Christs Vicar on earth doth command you to take Armes for the defence of your faith I admonish exhort and beseech you all all I say unto whom these Letters shall come that as soone as possibly you can you come to us with your friends and weapons whosoever shall doe this shall find us prepared and wee will communicate unto them those things which wee possesse And whosoever shall despising our wholesome councell doe otherwise and remaine in the obedience of the English wee will persecute him as an Heretike and a hatefull Enemy of the Church even unto death The Army nose and marched within halfe a mile of Kinsale where they encamped under a hill having not meanes to entrench called Knock Robbin Captaine Morgan came out of England and Iolly the Master ●unner from Waterford whither some shipping was come from Dublin with part of the provisions but enforced to stay there the wind being Southerly some few shot offered to disquiet the Campe but were soone beaten backe with very little disturbance The Army lay still there many places viewed to sit downe fitly before the Towne but the Artillery not yet come no place was agreed upon An other offer made by the Enemy to disturbe the Campe that night much greater then the former but being readily answered were soone repelled without hurt on our side Wee lay still there expecting the Provisions some slight skirmishes in viewing of the Towne Sir Iohn Barkley was this night appointed to giue an Allarme to the Towne who beat in all the guards without the Towne into their trenches This night one thousand of the Spanyards or as some that came from them say fifteene hundred were come to the top of the Hill neere the Campe to cut off some of the Scouts

newe● of these parts are that the Sonne of Geralt the late Earle is arrived unto whom his Fathers old Followers doe much resort hee is an Heretike yet neverthelesse by the helpe of the English he will doe us great harme The right Earle of Desmond is forsaken of all men and not able to make Head and the lesse hope of his rising againe by the comming of young Iames who is the Queenes Earle and hath a Patent for his Earledome I pray your speedy Answer in the meane time I will dissemble with the President who deales sharpely with us the Letter which you sent with these to Mac Carty More I haue sent unto him by a Messenger of my owne who is lately agreed with the President and so we are deceived in him and therefore he is not to be firmely trusted with the commandement of all the Clan Carties Cormocke Cartie Sir Charles Wilmot in the meane time ma●ching to an Abbey in Kerry called Ratho neere unto Lixnaw assoone as his Colours were descried was fired by the Enemy that lodged there from thence with his Horse onely he marched ●o Tralie where hee found one hundred Bonoghs of the O●●●llies among whom was Moriertagh Mac Shighie and three or foure more of the lurking Earles chiefest Followers on horsebacke our Horse charged them the Horsemen by flight saved themselues but of the ●oo●e there was slaine about fourtie dead in the place the rest by the ●avour of a neighbo●ring bogge and the Mountaine at hand escaped but all their Armes were left to our shares The perpetuall juggling which Florenc● Mac Cartie continued towards the Lord President I haue so often touched as it needs no other proofe but for the better Testimonie of his ill ●ffection to the State even now when the Sugan Earle was in the estate of a fugitiue hiding himselfe from the sight of men Florence as the Lord President was advertised from Sir Charles Wilmot had raysed one thousand Bownoghs to bee placed upon Desmond foure hundred u●on Kerry and sixe hundred upon Carbry and concludes with these words Viz. assuredly hee purposeth to bee a Villaine though hee could be contented to liue in neutralitie as he doth if he could cary it cleanely Also at that time the Baron of Lixnaw who was banished Kerry was by him relieved in Desmond but obserue well I beseech you this wavering and unsetled companion who not knowing which way either to be a Subject or Rebell not many dayes afterwards as shall bee said came to the President with a smooth countenance full of Loyaltie but inwardly the same man hee had ever beene Nothing was more common now in Mounster then a bruite of the strangers from Connaght and Vlster comming to invade the Province with two thousand men and hereof the President received daily advertisement from the Earle of Thomond the Lord Barry Iustice Comerford and others and to verifie the same Pierce Lacy was come into the borders of Kilquig and had preyed Glanogre a Towne belonging to Sir George Bourchier Master of the Ordnance being a parcell of his Signiory and then in farme to Alexander Fitton this caused the President to assemble the greatest part of his Forces to Kilmallock attending there to behold what should become of this Cloud which threatned such a dangerous Tempest which at length vanished without any great disturbance for about the midst of this Moneth they withd●●w themselues into Ormond within the Libertie of Tipperarie the cause why they departed before they had made any Bonfiers in Mounster which was their arrand as I haue since learned was two fould First because Redmond Burke could by no meanes bee drawen into the Province being in expectation of great favour from the President as appeareth by his Letters sent about this time which because it is but short and yet apparantly declareth this truth I thought not unfit here to bee recited in his owne words RIght Honourable I would long ere this be a Subject and will now shew my selfe worthy to be accepted if I be entertained and my Fathers Lands seized into your Honours hands till my Title bee tried this Countrey of Ely O Carrell being in your Honours Province is a parcell whereto I make claime wherein I would expect your Honour to right me first and thus requesting your Honour to accept my service and favour my right I take leaue this ninth of November 1600. Your Honours as you please Redmond Letrim The President to hold Redmond as I conceiue in some hope that hee might not joyne with the Northerne Forces then expected to come into Mounster returned him answer to this effect That his Demaunds seemed to bee somewhat reasonable and that hee was very sorry that it was not fully in his power to accomplish his request Notwithstanding there was no doubt but upon his Letters already dispatched to the Councell of England and to the Lord Deputie in his behalfe such order should bee taken as hee should hold himselfe well satisfied and surely whether the President dealt plainely and bona fide vvith the said Redmond or whether hee fed him vvith good vvords onely like a Courtier to serue his owne turne I know not but if I might deliver my poore opinion I thinke him to haue received some hard measure I meane in respect of his Fathers Lands upon whomsoever the fault lyeth but to returne This Redmond commanding the greatest part of the Forces now assembled depending this much upon the Presidents favour as by his Letter appeareth could by no allurements of these Mounster Rebels bee inticed to commit any outrage within that Province An other cause why these Rebels thus assembled came no further up into Mounster was because the wandring Earle Iames fits Thomas who should haue given them Bonnaght in the Province knowing that Lixnaw Redmond Burke Pierce Lacie and all of them were growen wearie of the Rebellion and that the President had commerce with all those durst not commit himselfe into their power they being so strong and hee so poore and weake fearing left they should haue delivered him being the marke the President chiefly aymed at to worke their owne peace Dermond O Conner having now heard that the young Earle of Desmond his Brother in law was arrived in Mounster according to the Presidents promise to him made that he should come was desirous that hee should repaire thither with intent to doe some acceptable service for her Majestie which being made knowen by the Lady Margaret his wife the Lord President sent him a Safe-conduct for himselfe and his followers and procured the like from Sir Arthur Sa●age the chiefe Commissioner in Connaght and also from the Earle of Clanrickard to secure his passage through his Countrey and for his better safetie he sent an hundred Foot to guard him as soone as hee should enter into Thomond Hee being now past Clanrickard and comming to Oshafnesses Countrey within seventeene or eighteene miles of Limerick Theobald ne Long Burke who

part of those Forces which at first were allotted unto him for this service and therefore besides those fiue hundred which were of late cashiered by direction from the Lord Deputie he was contented to spare one thousand more to bee disposed for the warres of Linster or other places neere adjoyning conditionally that they might remaine upon the List of Mounster aswell to countenance his proceedings as also that he might call them backe upon any occasion if new broyles should bee raised and so in effect reduced the Armie of that Province to fifteene hundred Foote and two hundred Horse You heare before that the Earle of Ormond upon conference with the President undertooke to driue Redmond Burke and the other Rebels his associats out of his libertie of Ormond within the liberty of Tipperary which although he oftentimes assaied to effect yet it sorted not to his desired end untill the beginning of this Moneth of Ianuary at which time he employed the Lord of Dunboyne Sir Walter Butler his Nephew and Captaine Marberry with such forces as he had of Her Majesties and the Countrey to so good purpose that besides fourty fighting men that were presently slaine and amongst them Thomas Burke brother to the said Redmond and the Armes of thirtie more gotten they forced Redmond and all his Company into the river of Nore being at that time very high and there drowned seventie of his men with their armes besides divers Churles and all their baggage certaine persons were also taken in this service amongst whom was Iohn Burke brother to the said Redmond who was shortly after executed in Kilkenny and William Burke an other of his brethren grievously wounded But to returne to the Presidents actions who desirous that the Countrey might grow acquainted with the civill governement whereunto of late it had beene a stranger thought it convenient that the Sherifes being necessary officers for the State should looke into the Countrey aswell to finde out such ill disposed Malefactors and idle Vagabonds as were pernitious to the government as also to levie at reasonable rates such provisions as the Countrey yeeldeth and the Garisons wanted for this cause Iohn Barry the Sheriffe of the County of Corke made a Iourney unto some of Florence Mac Cartie his lands who no sooner entered into his Countrie as hee termed it but presently he was resisted and before he could make his retreate some of his men were murthered the like measure was also offered to some of the Garison of Kerry who had no sooner set foote beyond the Mang a River that parteth Kerry and Desmond but they were instantly assaulted by Florence his Followers and two of his souldiers slaine The President receiving Advertisement of these malicious and traytourly practises of Florence still continued was exceeding desirous according unto directions sent him out of England to get him into his hands if it might bee effected without putting the Queene to a further charge which without some temporizing could not as yet conveniently be performed For Florence finding himselfe to haue notoriously incurred ●everall breaches of his former protection wrote divers Letters unto the President in excuse of these facts the same being stuffed as his phrase was with damnable oathes and execrable blasphemies that himselfe was never acquainted with the former slaughters and that his people were strangely overseene therein who mistaking the Souldiers for the Sheriffes men and the Sheriffes men for Traytors committed those offences at unawares Answere was remissed by the President that the State was well perswaded of his loyaltie and innocencie touching these disorders and therefore requested him very earnestly to make his repaire unto him that hee might by his presence and advice the better finde out and punish those malefactors but by no meanes or wayes could he be drawen foorth of his strong Countrey of Desmond before hee had gotten his protection to be renewed a plaine demonstration of his guiltie conscience Not long after upon his repaire to the President he mooved him to goe for England laying before his Iudgement divers commodities that might thereby accrew unto him First he should prooue these suggestions to be untrue which some of his Enemies had buzzed into the eares of the Councell of England That hee was a vowed enemy to the English Government and a devoted friend in his heart to the Spanish King Secondly that by his owne presence with the Councell he might get that Countrey of Desmond confirmed unto him which hee now held rather by courtesie then by right And lastly that the Queenes Majestie might understand out of his mouth the present estate of that Province to whose relation as he verily thought shee would giue attentiue eare and credit All this was urged to the end that the Province might be rid of so dangerous a member who vvas most likely to breed nevv commotions This Gentleman smelling the Presidents drift pretended himselfe to bee most willing and for that purpose would returne into Desmond and when his necessaries were provided hee would speedily proceed in his Iourney for England Within certaine dayes after he sent Messengers to the President signifying unto him that the Countrey of Desmond was so poore and beggerly as it could not possibly affoord him meanes for such necessaries as hee needed for his Iourney and therefore requested his Lordships Letters unto the chiefe Gentlemen of Carbery that they would bee contributors unto him in a businesse that did so neerely concerne him All this being graunted and effected hee neither went forward nor did he purpose at all to goe as the sequell of his doings manifestly declared CHAP. XX. The Lord President advertiseth into England of the intended invasion of the Spaniards Demaunds made by the Lord President for Money Munition Victuals A Letter from Her Majestie to the Lord Deputy of Ireland to pardon all such as the Lord President should nominate certaine persons excepted as uncapable of pardon A certaine branch of the Lords of the Councels Letters to the Lord President THE President having as is said reduced Mounster to good tearmes of obedience and had promised to lend the Lord Deputie at any time one thousand 〈◊〉 for the service of Linster yet he still insisted that they might remaine as part of the List of Mounster 〈◊〉 to that end upon the thirteenth of Ianuary hee wrote unto the Lords of the Councell in England Also hee advertised their Lordships that undoubtedly the Spaniards would invade Ireland for testimonie whereof he sent unto them many advertisements which came unto him out of Spaine and that many Romish Priests and Fryers which are the forerunners of mischiefes in this Countrey were lately come into Ireland to no other end then to withdraw the hearts of Her Majesties naturall Subjects from Her to the Spaniard Also for prevention of future mischiefes that hee might not bee unprovided if the kingdome were invaded although he should haue no more then fifteene hundred Foote left in