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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<P>THE COPPIE OF A LETTER WRITTEN FROM the Lo. Vi&s;count of <HI>Gorman&s;ton</HI> unto <HI>Sir Phelim &ocirc; Neale.</HI></P>
<P>Which Letter is all written by the Lord <HI>Gorman&s;ton's</HI> own hand, and was found in Sir <HI>Phelim &ocirc; Neale's</HI> Cloak-bag, when on the 16. of Iune 1642. the &s;aid Sir <HI>Phelim, Rory mac Gwyre,</HI> &s;ome of the <HI>mac Mahownes,</HI> the <HI>mac Geni&s;es,</HI> and <HI>mac Car|tan,</HI> the <HI>&ocirc; Cahans, Coll Kittagh, mac Donells</HI> &s;ons, and the re&s;t of the Rebells gathered from the &s;everall Counties of <HI>Tirone, Antrim, Armagh, Downe, Fer|managh and Donegall.</HI> And al&s;o &s;ome out of the En|gli&s;h Pale, being in all 6000. foot and 500. hor&s;e were defeated in battle by Sir <HI>William Stewart,</HI> and by Sir <HI>Robert Stewart</HI> with part of their two Regiments, 300. of Colonell <HI>Gore's</HI> Regiment, foure Companies from the Derry, and Capt. <HI>Dudly Phillips</HI> with his Troope of 60. hor&s;e, in all not exceeding 2000. foot and 300. hor&s;e.</P>
<P>Whereunto is added Sir <HI>Robert Stewarts</HI> Letter to the Right Honourable Sir <HI>Iohn Borla&s;e</HI> Knight, one of the Lords Iu&s;tices for the Govern|ment of the Kingdome of <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<P><HI>DVBLIN:</HI> Printed by <HI>VVilliam Bladen.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>Lo. Vi&s;count GORMANSTON'S LETTER TO <HI>Sir Phelim &ocirc; Neale.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">VVritten by his own hand, and was found in Sir <HI>Phelim &ocirc; Neale's</HI> Cloak-bagge on the 16. day of Iune. 1642.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Noble Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IF I had received but the lea&s;t notice or hope that you would have come to the meeting place; I had &s;tayed longer to ex|pect you, though I did not part thence, till &s;uch time as I feared
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to be benighted by the way, and &s;hall be ready upon all occa&s;ions to waite on you. I am very &s;orry to heare of the Arrivall of more Enemies, We having already more then We can &s;uppre&s;&s;e, and doe pre&s;ume to offer to your Con&s;ideration what in|couragement it will be to our di&s;animated Enemies in tho&s;e parts, and di&s;courage|ment to Ours; if they &s;hall overthrow your forces at the fir&s;t Encounter. Where|fore you will doe well to meete them with as &s;trong forces as you can, thereby to defeate them, which will make them the more fearefull thenceforth. I have con|ferr'd with your Brother whom I have acquainted with what I know, to who&s;e relation I referre you.</P>
<P>Our forces here &s;hall be ready to a&s;si&s;t you on the lea&s;t notice, which may be don from hence, for all places about Ardee are &s;o con&s;umed with fire, that there can be no meate had for the Souldiers, for want whereof they will doubtle&s;&s;e di&s;per&s;e, they are &s;o prompt thereunto upon the lea&s;t
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occa&s;ion. Thus praying God to give us better &s;ucce&s;&s;e then hitherto, I re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your a&s;&s;ured loving Kin&s;man and Servant, Gormanston.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Navan <DATE>this 15. of Aprill. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE>
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<P>I can write you no Newes from about Dublin, but that Ours have burned a &s;treet in the Suburbs, and have good &s;tore of for|ces about the Engli&s;h Army that is gone forth, I pray &s;pare me &s;ome powder, for I prote&s;t we have not ten &s;hots a peece.</P>
<P><HI>Directed thus on the back&s;ide,</HI><LB>
For his Noble and much re&s;pected Kin&s;man Sir <HI>Phelim &ocirc; Neale,</HI> Generall of the forces of Vl&s;ter. The&s;e</P>
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<HEAD>THE COPPIE OF A LETTER VVRITTEN BY <HI>Sir</HI> ROBERT STEWART <HI>Knight:</HI> And directed To the Right Honourable <HI>Sir</HI> IOHN BORLASE <HI>Knight;</HI> One of the Lords Iu&s;tices for the Go|vernment of the Kingdome of IRELAND.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourble and my very good Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I <HI>Pre&s;ume I need not informe your Lord|&s;hip of the &s;everall Encounters the&s;e Re|giments have had with the Rebells, how in a place of the greate&s;t advantage for the Re|bells, of any in &V;lster, after relief of the Ca&s;tles of Donegall, Balli&s;hanon
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and Ca&s;tlerachan, and bringing off Sir</HI> Ralph Gore, <HI>his hou&s;e being no place of Strength, in our returne we were a&s;&s;aulted in the middle of a wood growing upon &s;teep Mountaines on every &s;ide, at a very &s;trait pa&s;&s;e, by neer two thou&s;and Rebells, our forces not exceeding much twelve hundred, we forced the pa&s;sage, and &s;o beate them in their own known choi&s;e grou~d, brought off all, after a skirmi&s;h conti|nued five houres, and made a &s;afe re|treate, with little or no lo&s;se at all, ha|ving killed above a hundred of the Rebells. I pre&s;ume al&s;o that your Lord&s;hip hath heard of our marching to</HI> &ocirc; Cahan's <HI>Countrey, where with &s;ome eighteen hundred, my own, Sir</HI> VVilliam Stewart, <HI>and Sir</HI> Ralph Gore's <HI>Regiments, a&s;sisted with &s;ome</HI>
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<HI>foure Companies out of Derry, we did encounter two thou&s;and foure hundred rebells beat them, killing two hundred, took nine or ten Colours, &amp; took in the Ca&s;tle of Dungiven, taking pri&s;oner one of the chiefe&s;t of the Sept of the</HI> &ocirc; Cahans, <HI>releeved Colrane, and vi|ctualled the two Ca&s;tles of Limavad|dy and Ballica&s;tell, yet defended by the Britti&s;h, and &s;o having killed &s;ome three hundred more, which we found in &s;cattered Companies, by twenties and thirties at a place, called Macgillegin, we retired home with very little or no lo&s;&s;e at all, as al&s;o how Sir</HI> Phelim &ocirc; Neale <HI>with &s;ome foure thou&s;and coming &s;trong to a&s;|&s;ault us the 25. of Aprill, was beat, &amp; put to the flight by &s;ome two thou|&s;and of ours, having lost one hundred
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men, we were &s;topt from pro&s;ecuting the victory, and pur&s;uing the Rebells, by rea&s;on of the boggs, impa&s;&s;able for our hor&s;es, That which now I would impart to your Lord&s;hip, is a late conflict which befell on the 16. day of this moneth of June, The Rebells being gathered from all quarters, cha&s;ed by the Engli&s;h and Scots forces, from the &s;everall Counties of Tirone, Antrim, Armagh, Downe, Fermanagh and Donegall, under the Comand of Sir</HI> Phelim &ocirc; Neale <HI>him|&s;elf, Collonell</HI> a Caen, <HI>lately arrived from Spain, after twenty yeers travells abroad, a&s;sisted by</HI> Coll Kittaghs <HI>&s;ons two Scots High-landers, with many high-landers more, making up in all &s;ix thou&s;and foot and five hundred hor&s;e, the former night having &s;tood in armes at a halfe a mile and le&s;&s;e di&s;tance all the night, that morning about &s;un-ri&s;|ing
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our forces being drawn up in num|ber not exceeding much two thou&s;and foot and three hundred hor&s;e, after we had &s;ent out &s;ome comanded Mu&s;quet|tiers, and hor&s;e, to view the rebells more neere, who being drawn up very orderly, upon the approach of our Commanded men from a hill oppo&s;ite to us, where they lay the night preceding, and were then drawn up in two brigades, judging that our body &s;hould have faln down, to have &s;econded them, came on with a furious and &s;wift March, making a terrible out-cry in their march according to their maner, but our men having received or|ders to retire to the body, if they were a&s;&s;aulted, did retire accordingly, and in retiring gave fire, the Rebells appre|hending that retreat to be a flight, marcht &s;treight clo&s;e together in two brigades towards ours, which after we
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had perceived, having obtained our end, in drawing them towards that litle hill, where we were &s;cituat, we began to march &s;lowly, they &s;till advancing,</HI> Coll Kittaghs <HI>&s;ons (cryed up for their va|lor as invincible Champions) with their high-landers and &s;ome others a&s;saulted my brigade fiercely, in&s;omuch that they were not far from coming to pu&s;h of pike but &s;eeing the re&s;olution and constancy of our men advancing &s;till, and not loo&s;|ing ground, galling them with continual &s;hot, finding their reare to &s;hrink back first, and then to flie at la&s;t, after a quarter of an houres &s;tand, they turned faces, and &s;o did all that Brigade flie, which that which was oppo&s;ite to Sir</HI> William Stewart <HI>&s;eeing, did beare their Countrey-men Company, and &s;o fled confu&s;edly, their troops (never &s;o much as offering once to draw near, far le&s;&s;e to charge) took the &s;ame cour&s;e the
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foot took, we had the cha&s;e and execu|tion of them for &s;ix or &s;even miles, killed as is thought five hundred, tooke &s;ome Colours, and gained divers Armes and Drums, be&s;ides the dead, many we heare are dangerou&s;ly, if not mortally wounded, This is now the &s;econd time that the titular Generall Sir</HI> Phelim, <HI>with his farre greater forces hath been beaten in the field by us, with an happy &s;ucce&s;se, which I pray the Lord of Ho&s;ts to continue to ours, and all other Brit|ti&s;h forces in Ireland, that at la&s;t we may &s;ee our de&s;ire upon our Enemies, and the Crown of this Monarchy flouri&s;h upon our Kings head in peace.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Culmore <DATE>21 Iunij. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Lo.^p^s mo&s;t humble faithfull and obedient Servant Robert Stewart.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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