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<HEAD>AN ACCOUNT Of the TOWN and CASTLE of CHARLEMONT IN IRELAND, Be&s;ieg'd by a Detached Body of the Duke of <HI>Schomberg</HI>'s Army, under the Com|mand of Lieutenant General <HI>Douglas.</HI></HEAD>
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<P>Licen&s;ed,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>November <HI>5th.</HI> 1689.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>J. Frai&s;er.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>SInce the Landing of their Maje&s;ties Forces, under the Command of his Grace the Duke of <HI>Schomberg</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> almo&s;t the whole Province of <HI>&V;l&s;ter,</HI> and part of <HI>Connought,</HI> have been effectually Subdu'd and brought to Submi&s;&s;ion, the only place remaining Ob&s;tinate and Unconquer'd, being the Ca&s;tle and Garri&s;on of <HI>Char|lemont</HI> and becau&s;e the &s;aid place hath been heretofore Famous for enduring a Siege of &s;ome Weeks again&s;t <HI>Oliver Cromwell;</HI> who&s;e Fortune over-run in few Days many places of more &s;eeming Importance, it may not be thought ami&s;s here to give a &s;mall De&s;cription of the Natural and Artificial Strength and Scituation of both the Town and Ca&s;tle, as al&s;o of the Garri&s;on now in it, how Defended and Provided; as al&s;o an Account of the Forces Detach'd by our General, in order to Reduce it: The Town and Ca&s;tle of <HI>Charlemont</HI> was part of the Inheritance of the Lord <HI>Cawfield,</HI> Baron of <HI>Charlemont,</HI> and lies &s;cituate in the County of <HI>Ardmagh,</HI> within Five Miles of <HI>Ardmagh;</HI> from <HI>Dublin</HI> it lies Norwe&s;t, and is about Sixty Seven Miles di&s;tance from the &s;ame, and from <HI>Dundalk</HI> where the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> lay Encamp'd, &s;ome what above 'Thirty Miles, the Ca&s;tle is &s;cituate on a &s;teep Hill, and on one &s;ide, near the foot of the &s;ame, lies a Lough, call'd the <HI>Black Water,</HI> it had formerly &s;ome Advantages of Art which King <HI>Charles</HI> the Second thought worthy to be Improv'd, and having fir&s;t bought off the Entail of the Hou&s;e and Land from the late Lord <HI>Charlemont,</HI> gave Commandment to Mr. <HI>Robin&s;on</HI> his Surveyor General of that Kingdom, to rai&s;e &s;ome Additional Fortifications, who accordingly rais'd &s;everal Ba&s;tions, and a Demi|lune, or Half-Moon, about it; and &s;urrounded it with a double Trench, each of which is One and Twenty Foot broad, and Pali&s;ado'd, be&s;ides &s;everal Pieces of Cannon well mounted, &s;o that it is look'd upon as one of the mo&s;t Regular Works in <HI>Ireland:</HI> The Lord <HI>Tyrconnell</HI> upon the &s;en&s;e of his mi&s;take in di&s;mantling <HI>Derry.</HI> and &s;everal other Garri&s;ons in the North, about the beginning of our late happy Revo|lutions, took &s;peedy Care to Plant a &s;ufficient Guard therein, and pre&s;ently &s;ent 4 Com|panies of Foot, and Two of Hor&s;e, under the Command of Major <HI>Teague O Regan,</HI> Storing it pretty well with Ammunition and Provi&s;ion. His Grace the Duke of <HI>Schomberg</HI> upon his Advance to <HI>Dundalk,</HI> being inform'd how unea&s;ie a Neighbour that Garri&s;on might probably prove to the adjacent Country, as al&s;o being unwilling to leave the lea&s;t appearance of an Enemy behind his Back, thought fit to Detach three Regiments, <HI>viz.</HI> under the Command of Lieutenant-General <HI>Dowglas</HI>'s. Col|lonel <HI>Ha&s;tings,</HI> and Collonel <HI>Hamilton</HI>'s, who by Letters of <HI>October</HI> the <HI>24th</HI> are &s;aid to have Actually Be&s;iged it; and con&s;idering they are wholly de&s;titute of the lea&s;t hopes of Relief, and that we have the advantage of Bombs and Granado's, which <HI>Cromwell</HI> very much wanted, we may mode&s;tly hope in a &s;hort time to have a very good Account of the Place. The Town it &s;elf is of &s;mall Importance, having &s;carce Twenty Hou&s;es in it; the Ca&s;tle is of the Old Fa&s;hon'd Buildings, with large wide Windows, and of little Strength; and but for the Old Fortification, which have &s;ince been well Improv'd, was Famous for little but the Noble and Antient Family to whom it appertain'd.</P>
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<P>Re-Printed at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> in the Year <HI>1689.</HI></P>
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