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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>An Order of Parliament, FOR A THANKS-GIVING: Together with a DECLARATION OF The <HI>Grounds</HI> and <HI>Rea&s;ons</HI> of it.</HEAD>
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<P>_EVer &s;ince that Wonderful and unexpected Victory, which the Lord was plea&s;ed the la&s;t Summer to give unto a &s;mall Party of the Parliaments Forces then in <HI>Dublin,</HI> again&s;t that numerous and potent Army under <HI>Ormond,</HI> which was a Door of Hope to the Parliament, and their Army then on their way for <HI>Ireland,</HI> That the Lord, who had made &s;o open a way for them, would vouch&s;afe his Pre&s;ence with them, to carry on and perfect that Work which him&s;elf had &s;o eminently begun in that admirable Providence, wherein he had, as it were, by a Worm thre&s;hed the Mountains: The &s;ame gracious Hand hath gone along from time to time with his Servants there, vouch&s;afing them many Victories, giving in many &s;trong Cities, Towns, Ca&s;tles and Gari&s;ons into their hands, rai&s;ing up their Spirits, overcoming great Difficulties, furni&s;hing &s;ea&s;onable Supplies, and di&s;maying the hearts of the Enemies, and that in &s;uch a Series of continued Suc|ce&s;&s;es, as is ju&s;t matter of high Admiration, and perpetual Thankfulne&s;s in all that truly fear the Lord, and love his Cau&s;e and People. And &s;eeing every Addition of Mercy, is a further Obligation to Thankfulne&s;s and Duty; and that the Lord hath been plea&s;ed, as a further Manife&s;tation of his Goodne&s;s, to give up into the hands of the Parliament Forces there, <HI>Carlo,</HI> a Gari&s;on of much Strength and Importance; <HI>Waterford,</HI> a great and populous Town, and the mo&s;t con&s;iderable Harbor in all <HI>Ireland,</HI> upon Saturday the Tenth of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> in&s;tant; together with the &s;trong Ca&s;tle of <HI>Duncannon,</HI> &s;ince likewi&s;e Sur|rendred upon Articles: The Parliament of <HI>England</HI> have thought fit not to let &s;uch great Mercies pa&s;s, without an e&s;pecial return of Thankfulne&s;s, but to publi&s;h the Narrative thereof, as it comes to us in a Letter from the Deputy General of <HI>Ireland; (viz.)</HI> The effect whereof is as followeth: The Deputy having received at the late Leaguer before <HI>Catherlagh,</HI> &s;everal Alarms of great Forces of the Enemies ri&s;ing and appearing within the Counties of <HI>Cork, Kerry, Limrick</HI> and <HI>Tipperary,</HI> to the di&s;tre&s;&s;ing and endangering of our Parties and Gari&s;ons in tho&s;e parts; where the Enemy threatned to de&s;troy our Quarters, and probably de&s;igned a conjunction of their mo&s;t con&s;iderable Forces, in order to the Relief of <HI>Waterford,</HI> and an Attempt upon that &s;mall party that was left to Block it up; after he had di&s;po&s;ed divers of his Forces to &s;ecure <HI>Carrick,</HI> to repel and oppo&s;e the Enemy in <HI>Carbery,</HI> and the We&s;tern parts, and to march to the Relief of our Forces in <HI>Kerry</HI> and <HI>Limrick,</HI> leaving Sir <HI>Hardre&s;s Waller</HI> with the Body of the Army, to carry on the bu&s;ine&s;s about <HI>Catherlagh,</HI> did him&s;elf draw down with a &s;mall party of Foot towards <HI>Waterford,</HI> to Beleaguer it more &s;traitly: Coming before <HI>Waterford</HI> with tho&s;e Foot, and &s;ome &s;mall parties left there before, to Block it up at a di&s;tance, applied him&s;elf to a clo&s;er Siege of it, making two Quarters within &s;hot of their Walls, which with our Foot at the Abbey on the other &s;ide of the Water, kept them clo&s;e within the Town on every &s;ide; and then trying them with a Summons, the Enemy within &s;o de&s;pi&s;ed our &s;mall Numbers, as that they made an offer, as if they dur&s;t &s;et open one of their Gates, and let in all our Foot to make the be&s;t of it: And to that being an&s;wered, It was but a vain Brag, and they dur&s;t not make it good; they in Reply, for their Honors &s;ake, &s;eemed to adhere to their former Vanity, but with &s;uch conditions and cautions, as they might be &s;ure would not be accepted: But that the Power of God might appear in our de&s;pi&s;ed Weakne&s;s again&s;t this Pride of Man, The&s;e Sons of Honor, as they would be thought, did even in both the &s;ame Let|ters, unequally &s;ubjoyn to the&s;e high Vapors, an offer of Treaty for Surrender: During which time, News came from <HI>Catherlagh,</HI> That it had plea&s;ed God, beyond, or much before Expectation, upon our Mens Battering, and then taking by Storm (without Lo&s;s on our part) a &s;mall Tower on their Bridge over the <HI>Barrow,</HI> to bring down the Enemies hearts to a Treaty, and Surrender of that &s;trong and important Place. Hereupon the Deputy conceiving <HI>Waterford</HI> to be attemptible by force in one or two places, though otherwi&s;e exceedingly fortified: while preparations were made for that Attempt, the Lord wrought upon the hearts of the Enemy to de&s;ire a Treaty, without their terms of Honor, which formerly they in&s;i&s;ted on; by which, after high Demands, rejected on our part with Indignation, they were on Tue&s;day the Sixth of this in&s;tant <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> brought to Surrender upon Articles, which was performed on Saturday following; At which time there marched out about Seven hundred men well armed, the Town&s;men more numerous then before was believed, and the Town better Fortified in all parts, and more difficult to be attempted then our Forces conceived, there being many private Stores, &s;ufficient to have maintained them a long time: whereby we may &s;ee the Hand of God, in over-powering the hearts of the Enemy, which was the onely cau&s;e of their pre&s;ent Surrender. By this of <HI>Waterford</HI> and <HI>Catherlagh,</HI> God was plea&s;ed to extend his Hand toward <HI>Duncannon,</HI> the Enemy there (though a Prie&s;t were Governor) having on the &s;ame Saturday, with Colonel <HI>Cooks</HI> leave, &s;ent one to <HI>Waterford,</HI> to &s;ee whether it were Surrendred, did on the Eleventh of this Moneth de&s;ire a Treaty, which produced, through the &s;ame Divine Mercy, a Surrender of the &s;ame Ca&s;tle of <HI>Duncannon,</HI> upon Articles, on Saturday the &s;eventeenth of this Moneth; &s;ince which time, the &s;trong Gari&s;on and Ca&s;tle of <HI>Charlemount</HI> is likewi&s;e Surrendred, whereby the whole Province of <HI>Ul&s;ter</HI> is now intirely in the Power of the Parliament.</P>
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<P><HI>FOr all which great Mercies, the Parliament doth Order and Appoint, That all Mini&s;ters of the &s;e|veral Congregations within the Cities of </HI>London<HI> and </HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,<HI> and the late Lines of Communica|tion, and Weekly Bills of Mortality, do in their re&s;pective Churches and Chappels return humble Thanks unto Almighty God, on the next Lords-Day, being the Fir&s;t day of </HI>September<HI> next: And all Mini&s;ters of all other Churches and Chappels within </HI>England, Wales,<HI> and Town of </HI>Berwick<HI> upon </HI>Tweed,<HI> do upon that day Fortnight, being the Fifteenth day of the &s;aid Moneth of </HI>September,<HI> render Thanks to God for the &s;ame. And that upon the &s;aid re&s;pective days, all and every the &s;aid Mini&s;ters do Reade this Or|der and Narrative in their &s;aid Congregations, immediately after the P&s;alm before the Sermon, for the better &s;tirring up of the hearts of the People to prai&s;e God for the &s;ame.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>Die Veneris, 30^o Augu&s;ti, 1650.</DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Parliament, That this Order and Declaration be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Edward Husband</HI> and <HI>John Field,</HI> Printers to the Parliament of <HI>England.</HI> 1650.</P>
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