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<P>Exceeding good NEVVES FROM IRELAND BEING A perfect Relation of the relieving of the City of <HI>Dublin&punc;</HI> by the Regiments belonging to Sir <HI>Iohn Clotworthy,</HI> Col. <HI>Hill,</HI> and Col. <HI>Conway,</HI> who fell upon the Rebels at <HI>Carric-Mac-Ro&s;&s;e</HI> in <HI>Leim&s;ter,</HI> putting them all to flight.</P>
<P>ALSO, Their taking <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">00&punc; Hor&s;e. 800 Gowes&punc; &s;ome &s;heepe, and divers pri&s;oners; be&s;ides a great number of the Rebels &s;laine.</P>
<P>Certified by a Letter from <HI>Ul&s;ter,</HI> to one of the Brittt&s;h Officers here in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Publi&s;hed the <HI>30.</HI> of May, <HI>1647</HI></P>
<P>London, Printed by <HI>B. A. May</HI> 30&punc; 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>More Gallant NEWES FROM IRELAND</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Upon the order &s;ent hither, from the Committee for the affaires of <HI>Ire|land,</HI> directing, that wee &s;hould make the &s;tronge&s;t diver&s;ions we could, to entertain
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the Rebels, that they might not have ley|&s;ure to prejudice the Garri&s;ons under the Lord of <HI>Ormond,</HI> and upon his Lord&s;hips de&s;ire, that we &s;hould allarm them, by &s;en|ding out parties into their quarters, tho our &s;ouldiers are naked, and the Officers mi&s;erably poor, and de&s;titute of all means, y<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t rather then any inconveniency &s;hould ari&s;e to the publique, it was re&s;olved by &s;ome of the Officers of the Britti&s;h Forces to &s;end out 2 parties &s;everall wayes, wher|in &s;ome of us only could be drawn to this &s;ervice, and of the forces in the Counties of <HI>Down</HI> and <HI>Antrim,</HI> there marched out in this party, under the command of Colonel <HI>Conway,</HI> &s;on of the Lord <HI>Clanboyes,</HI> Sir <HI>John Clotworthies,</HI> and Col. <HI>Conwayes</HI> Regiments of Foot, with the hor&s;e of Col. <HI>Hills</HI> Regi|ments, and tho&s;e belonging to the 3 Regi|ments, and &s;ome other of the troopes con&s;i|&s;ting in all of about 800. Hor&s;e and Foot. who having no meanes for carrying of victuall, or victuall for any continuance, the Foot tooke ten dayes meale on their backs, and marched as far as the County of
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<HI>Meath</HI> in <HI>Leim&s;ter,</HI> the Counties of <HI>Mona|ghau</HI> and <HI>Cavan</HI> on the Borders of <HI>Ul&s;ter,</HI> and fell on a party of the Rebels beyond <HI>Carric-Mac Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> being five Foot Compa|nies, and two troops of Hor&s;e, who were &s;o &s;uddenly &s;urprized, that they made very &s;mall re&s;i&s;tance, but quit their po&s;ts, &amp; be|took them&s;elves to their heeles, and in the pur&s;uit divers were killed; but they being fre&s;h, &amp; acquainted with the bogs &amp; pa&s;&s;es in tho&s;e parts, and our men weak &amp; weary, could not performe any great executions upon them, but took and brought away 7 or 800 lean Cowes, and 200 &s;mall Garons, and &s;ome &s;heep, of which our hungry &s;ol|diers &s;oone made havock of, whereof they could not in rea&s;on be re&s;trained, having no other meanes to give them the lea&s;t &s;a|tisfaction in, but the remainder of our pur|cha&s;e, which being di&s;tributed among&s;t the &s;ouldiers and officers that were abroad, was a very &s;ea&s;onable relief to them; but tho&s;e at home in their quarters will be nece&s;&s;i|tated to fall on the Cowes of the Country, their &s;tock of the la&s;t years Harve&s;t being
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quite &s;pent and devoured, and the inhabi|tants them&s;elves will grow &s;o de&s;perate, that &s;eing all is like to be gone, they think it but rea&s;on to take a &s;hare of their owne. They have wayted with much patience on the effect of our Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;olicitati|on in hope to be ea&s;ed of their extreame oppre&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>But what we have labouted to &s;pare them in, our fellow Souldiers of the Scots Army are taking from them: for it &s;eemes here being reports &s;pread, of the di&s;mi&s;&s;ion of that Army, their Officers are exacting 3 Months a&s;&s;e&s;ment together, which is &s;o in|&s;upportable a burden, that they are weary of their lives.</P>
<P>And indeed&punc; it is a mo&s;t compendious way to bring our mi&s;eries to an end, for we mu&s;t quit the Country for ought <HI>I</HI> &s;ee after all the mi&s;eries we have endured, in pre&s;erving of it from the Rebels, who will be found trouble&s;ome to <HI>England.</HI> Gods will be done, we cannot make brick with|out &s;traw, though we would undergo any burdens, &s;o we may be rendred &s;erviceable
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to this cau&s;e. We have heard nothing yet of our other party of the <HI>Lagan</HI> Forces, who are marched out under Col. <HI>Mervin,</HI> about the time ours went abroad from the&s;e quarters, and have bin 14 dayes abroad bu|&s;ied in <HI>Conaught,</HI> as we have bin towards <HI>Dublin,</HI> and after a &s;hort refre&s;hment, our Officers are re&s;olved upon another march, with a &s;tronger party, which we hope wil prove a good means of &s;ecurity to the <HI>Lem|&s;ter Garri&s;ons,</HI> though it be a great wa&s;ting to our poor &s;ouldiers, who want &s;hooes and all other nece&s;&s;ary accommadation for &s;uch &s;ervice, which gives them as mvch di&s;cou|ragement, as the <HI>Rebels</HI> are lifted up, to &s;ee &s;upplies of men and money come over &s;o &s;lowly, being informed, that the Divi&s;ions in <HI>England,</HI> are greater then they have been at any time &s;ince the&s;e troubles.</P>
<P>The Pyrates <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;o bu&s;ie in our Northerne Coa&s;ts, and about the I&s;les of <HI>Scotland,</HI> that our Fi&s;hermen and Barkes are like to be in great danger to be taken (as &s;ome have been already)
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unle&s;&s;e &s;ome of the Parliament &s;mall &s;hips be appointed to lye on the&s;e Coa&s;ts, to prevent the dayly intercour&s;e betwixt the Rebels of <HI>Ireland</HI> and th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e of <HI>Scotland. Thus having given you a &s;hort account of our affaires, I re&s;t</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your affectionate friend and &s;ervant, H. J.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Belfast, <DATE>10. May, 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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