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<HEAD>ANOTHER EXTRACT of more LETTERS &s;ent out of <HI>IRELAND,</HI> Informing the condition of the Kingdome as it now &s;tands.</HEAD>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_SIthence my la&s;t to you, that is to &s;ay, the 23. of <HI>June,</HI> the Marque&s;&s;e went to meete the Rebels at <HI>Ca&s;tle-marten</HI> neare <HI>Killcullen</HI> Bridge, where for the Rebels, there met for the Province of <HI>Lein&s;ter,</HI> the Lord Vi&s;|count <HI>Gormon&s;ton,</HI> and Sir <HI>Robert Talbot;</HI> for the Pro|vince of <HI>Mun&s;ter,</HI> the Lord Vi&s;count <HI>Muskerry,</HI> and <HI>John Wel&s;h</HI> the Lawyer; for the Province of <HI>Con|naught,</HI> Sir <HI>Lucas Dillon,</HI> and <HI>Ieffery Browne</HI> the Law|yer; for the Province of <HI>&V;l&s;ter, Tirlogh &ocirc; Neale,</HI> Sir <HI>Philem &ocirc; Neales</HI> Brother, and <HI>Ever,</HI> M. <HI>Gennys</HI> of <HI>Killwarlin.</HI> There went with the Mar|que&s;&s;e, the Earle of <HI>Ro&s;common,</HI> the Lord <HI>Moore,</HI> Sir <HI>Francis Willoughby,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Lucas,</HI> Sir <HI>Iames Ware,</HI> Serjeant <HI>Eu&s;tace,</HI> Colonell <HI>Muncke,</HI> Colonell <HI>Gib&s;on,</HI> and many others; Our Commi&s;&s;ioners and others were in &s;everall Chambers, and as I heare, Treated by writing, onely &s;ome|times Me&s;&s;engers went betweene them: The Lord <HI>Taaffe</HI> was at that place and very bu&s;ie, they continued there till the fir&s;t of <HI>Iuly,</HI> and appointed the 18. of <HI>Iuly</HI> to meete againe, but being better advized upon the unrea&s;onablene&s;&s;e of the Rebels demands, they met no more but brake off the Treaty, as 'tis reported, and are now preparing with all &s;peed to take the Field.</P>
<P>In my la&s;t Letters that mi&s;carried at Sea, I wrote you word of a great overthrow given by Sir <HI>Robert Stewart,</HI> Sir <HI>William Stewart</HI> and Sir <HI>William Coles</HI> Forces, again&s;t <HI>Owen Roe &ocirc; Neale</HI> the Rebels Generall of <HI>&V;lster,</HI> where after a long fight they beate them, and killed 1000. of them as is reported, tooke a very great prey of Cattell, above 6000. Cowes as it is &s;aid, many pri&s;oners of note taken, and <HI>Owen Roe &ocirc; Neale</HI> e&s;caped very narrowly, &s;o-that in <HI>&V;l&s;ter</HI> appeares no Army of the Rebels, and tho&s;e <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> which are left there, are eating up of one another through famine.</P>
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<P>About a weeke before the Treaty for a Ce&s;&s;ation, here was a report that <HI>Pre&s;ton</HI> the Rebels Generall with &s;ome Souldiers was come into <HI>Meath,</HI> about <HI>Tecrohan</HI> and tho&s;e parts, but with how many, and for what cau&s;e, we had not &s;o good intelligence as to know yet, Colonell <HI>Muncke</HI> then ready to goe for <HI>England,</HI> was intreated by the State to goe out to|wards him with a party of men, who yeelded to it; he &s;hould have had 1500 Foote at the fir&s;t, and 3 or 400 Hor&s;e, but they were &s;o &s;cattered here and there, up and downe in the Countrey, that he had but 1200 Foote, and about 150 Hor&s;es, he relieved Ca&s;tle <HI>Iordan,</HI> and &s;ome other parts thereabouts, and comming homeward by <HI>Clancarry,</HI> about 15 miles from <HI>Dublin, Pre&s;ton</HI> meets him with about 6000 Foote, and 600 Hor&s;e, &s;ome that were pre&s;ent there and had &s;eene all the Armies on both &s;ides &s;ince the Rebellion fir&s;t began, doe affirme, that this of <HI>Pre&s;tons</HI> was the greate&s;t; both &s;ides did &s;trive for a &s;traight pa&s;&s;age which <HI>Muncke</HI> was of nece&s;&s;ity to goe over, for which they di&s;puted the matter a good while, but Colonell <HI>Munck</HI> gained it; then they encountred and fought a good while, till <HI>Preston</HI> and his Army very &s;toutly ranne away, having lo&s;t about 150 of his men killed in the place, as 'twas reported to me, and tooke many of their Armes, and &s;ome Colours; and of our &s;ide not one man killed, onely one man &s;hot but not dead; thus God yet pre&s;erves us miraculou&s;ly, and why we &s;hould di&s;tru&s;t him who deales thus for us I know not.</P>
<P>It is thought by &s;ome, that <HI>Pre&s;ton</HI> had a de&s;igne upon <HI>Dublin,</HI> comming &s;o neare it with &s;uch an Army, and having no Enemy, or other place to looke for thereabouts.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dublin,</HI> <DATE>July 5, 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Written againe from thence by the &s;ame hand, being a man of credit and worth in the City of <HI>Dublin.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Wrote in my la&s;t how Colonell <HI>Muncke</HI> had beaten <HI>Preston,</HI> but not being able to pur&s;ue him, he having &s;o &s;mall a party and wanting meanes, he marched into the Counties of <HI>Wickloe</HI> and <HI>Wexford,</HI> and as he returned burnt mo&s;t of the Towne of <HI>Arckloe,</HI> but the Ca&s;tle there was too well fortified for him to deale with, he returned home to <HI>Dublin</HI> the la&s;t Munday, and brought with him about 500 Cowes, which he gave among&s;t the Souldiers: In the meane time <HI>Pre&s;ton</HI> tooke in <HI>Crohan</HI> and <HI>Edenderry</HI> in the Kings County, and is now marching againe towards Ca&s;tle <HI>Iordan</HI> to be&s;iege it.</P>
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<P>Though Captaine <HI>Bartlet</HI> came to us the la&s;t weeke with that provi&s;ion which the Parliament &s;ent us, yet our Commanders &s;ay, they cannot &s;tirre without 5 or 6000^l^b. to provide for their traine of Artillery, for Carria|ges, for Shooes for the Souldiers, and &s;uch like nece&s;&s;aries, which money when and how it will be gotten here none knowes, the Prote&s;tants e&s;pe|cially are &s;o drained, that they have little or nothing left, and the Papi&s;ts will lend nothing.</P>
<P>The Rebels agree well together, &s;o doe not we, and if we &s;pend time about private differences one with another, and &s;eeking to charge and un|dermine our &s;elves, what mu&s;t become of the publike.</P>
<P>It is &s;till confirmed, that there are no Rebels to be &s;eene in <HI>&V;l&s;ter,</HI> and that the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> that are there, are &s;o mi&s;erable that they eate their chil|dren, and one another, a ju&s;t judgement of God upon them for their cru|elties.</P>
<P><HI>Owen Roe &ocirc; Neale</HI> their Generall in that Province, with all his men are &s;aid to be gone into <HI>Connaught,</HI> and that the <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Army is gone after him, but I heare of no me&s;&s;age &s;ent by them to our State here of it, &s;o that what they will doe we know not, onely of this I am &s;ure, if things were now well followed by them, as they might be, and that we had but &s;ome money for the Officers, Victuall and Ammunition, and that well ordered and governed as it &s;hould be, we might by Gods help breake the heart of this Warre in a very &s;hort time.</P>
<P><HI>Bartlet</HI> came in a ble&s;&s;ed time, for in that time upon a &s;trickt &s;earch in <HI>Dublin,</HI> there was but 400 Barrels of Corne found in the whole City for all the Army and Inhabitants here, multitudes of the poore <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> come &s;till from <HI>&V;l&s;ter</HI> and other parts, as they get from the Rebels, which fills us with famine.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dublin,</HI> <DATE>12 July, 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>From the &s;ame hand.</HEAD>
<P>THat provi&s;ion of Victuals brought by <HI>Bartlet</HI> was a meanes of keeping us from a de&s;olation which then was falling upon us; but that is al|mo&s;t &s;pent, and we &s;hall &s;uddenly fall into the &s;ame ca&s;e againe, if we be not &s;upplied; and if we &s;hall be &s;upplied in time with nece&s;&s;aries, there is no doubt but by Gods ble&s;&s;ing we may have a quick end of the Warre for the maine of it; for <HI>&V;l&s;ter</HI> is already upon the matter conquered, and no Rebels in a body to be now &s;eene there. The <HI>Pale</HI> is &s;o wa&s;ted, that &s;carce a Cow, Garron or Man is to be &s;eene in many miles together,
<PB N="4" REF="3">and the eares of the Corne which is now growing in many of the&s;e parts, is &s;o generally cut off now before it is ripe, by the hunger-&s;tarved Rebels, that very little of it will be reaped, &s;o that if we could have rea&s;onable &s;up|plies for the pre&s;ent, that we might be able to take away this harve&s;t from them, and de&s;troy that which we could not take, a great part of this Warre would be ended this Winter, which otherwi&s;e may long trouble us.</P>
<P>You mu&s;t know, that Souldiers which &s;erve in a Countrey onely for their pay, and have no intere&s;t in it, will not care &s;o much what becomes of it, and will exclaime more for the want of their pay if it be wanting, then tho&s;e who are intere&s;&s;ed in it, and have hopes to recover their antient po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions and rights, of which &s;ort I would we had more here.</P>
<P>Doe not forget what I now write, that the &s;ending of help to us now in time, will be more, then ten times &s;o much when it is late, and when matters are brought to that exigent, that we &s;hll be like to tho&s;e in a deepe con&s;umption which cannot be recovered.</P>
<P><HI>Brent</HI> the Popi&s;h Lawyer is &s;uddenly expected here from <HI>Oxford;</HI> and at his comming &s;ome alterations and changes among&s;t us here to follow.</P>
<P><HI>Pre&s;ton</HI> we heare is about <HI>Tecrohan,</HI> threatens the Gari&s;on at <HI>Trim,</HI> our Army is gone that way, my Lord Marque&s;&s;e in per&s;on is to follow pre|&s;ently, God ble&s;&s;e and pro&s;per him.</P>
<P>You will &s;ell good bargaines of our Cities and Townes here certainely when they &s;hall be gained. I doe not thinke it will be two yeares pur|cha&s;e&punc; and I thinke if things may goe on roundly, before this &s;ummer is &s;pent, the worke would ea&s;ily by Gods help be done, but if you loo&s;e time a little longer, in&s;tead of getting any thing, both you and we &s;hall be &s;ure to loo&s;e all, two Moneths more of &s;uch times as we have had the two la&s;t Moneths pa&s;t, will doe much to bring us into a hecticke Fever, which Phi&s;itians &s;ay is irrecoverable.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dublin,</HI> <DATE>July 19, 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>From another good hand from <HI>Dublin.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WE know not how to live, there are now here &s;uch an infinite num|ber of poore people come to this Towne, which have bin &s;ent by the Rogues from the Garri&s;one which they have taken from us, that it would grieve the heart of any Chri&s;tian to &s;ee them lye in the &s;treetes &s;tar|ving, and no means to help them. Our Army is now going forth, God pre|&s;per them. Our Souldiers are in great di&s;tre&s;&s;e, not having either Meate, Money, Cloathes or Shoos to their feet, it is a lamentable thing to &s;ee what di&s;tre&s;&s;e they are in. The North is cleared, I wi&s;h their Forces were with us.</P>
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<HEAD>Rea&s;ons delivered in <HI>Ireland,</HI> again&s;t the Ce&s;&s;ation of Armes there &s;o much pre&s;&s;ed by the Rebels, the Treaty now broken off.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>1.</HI> WHereas a Ce&s;&s;ation is treated of, and the only rea&s;on thereof, becau&s;e by that we mu&s;t &s;ecke our &s;ub&s;i&s;tence; This mu&s;t infallibly &s;tarve us and the Army, Now there being many hands and active wits in &s;everall places, who doe often get &s;omething by force and &s;o live, then they must take nothing, but mu&s;t only tru&s;t to the dole of the fal&s;e Rebels who them&s;elves are poore and warning.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2.</HI> Now our Souldiers grow in martial exerci&s;es and action, then they &s;hall grow dull, &s;ick and idle to their de&s;truction, &s;ell their Armes not cared for by their Officers, who doe &s;o ill looke to them now as they lo&s;e them and embe&s;le them daily.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3.</HI> The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Souldiers will runne away into <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> will be taken in their roomes, all will be <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> in a yeares &s;pace, which is the time of Ce&s;|&s;ation, especially a peace being expected, and &s;o we &s;hall have no Army <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Hor&s;e or Foote, whereby we &s;hall be altogether at the will of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> as is de&s;i|red, or el&s;e the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> will &s;traggle to their old dwellings, and &s;o be murthered here and there.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4.</HI> The Churles &s;hall murther us in every corner, and the prime men not &s;eene in it, where &s;hall we have remedy, their being no judge nor party an&s;werable, the Law not current, the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> faithle&s;&s;e and really tyed to nothing.</P>
<P N="5"><HI>5.</HI> The Garri&s;ons in &s;ever all places have neither Corne nor Cattell, they must take none by force, how &s;hall they live? the contribution cannot or will not come in, what remedy? The Rebels will have all the Corne this harve&s;t, we must buy it of them, and are not able for want of money, how then?</P>
<P N="6"><HI>6.</HI> The Rebell is now in great want of Corne, Ammunition, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> this harve&s;t and a whole yeares time, by the Sea will provide them of all things, and &s;o if we &s;hall have men to fight with them (which we may well doubt) they will by this furni&s;h and enable them&s;elves for <HI>2</HI> or <HI>3</HI> Yeares further at least, and &s;o tire us and <HI>England,</HI> whereas it were our wi&s;edome to lo&s;e no time.</P>
<P N="7"><HI>7.</HI> The <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> will come into <HI>Dublin,</HI> and very likely &s;urpri&s;e us, if not, they will &s;ue us for any thing we owe, if we &s;ue them, there is no Law nor Officers to execute judgements, and if they doe not &s;urprize us or pinch us with &s;uites, they will &s;tarve us.</P>
<P N="8"><HI>8.</HI> Our little Ammunition we have will be spent before winter in ordinary watches, we have nothing to acquire more, &s;o that if <HI>England</HI> helpe us not one wayes or other, this next winter we &s;hall be at the will of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> as is de&s;ired.</P>
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<P N="9"><HI>9.</HI> Now they &s;ee our Army and <HI>Dublin</HI> only &s;tands in the way, the&s;e two mu&s;t by this devi&s;e unfallibly be de&s;troyed by what is above &s;aid, So no helpe but a new conque&s;t upon mo&s;t extreame di&s;advantages if not impo&s;&s;ible.</P>
<P><HI>10.</HI> The Ce&s;&s;ation is for a long time, and able to give &s;cope to all manner of practi&s;es wherein they will never &s;leepe, and we by authority or inherent neg|ligence utterly lull a&s;leepe; The blood of &s;o many innocent <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> now in the heate of action being almo&s;t growne cold, by this devi&s;e a whole yeare will be given to wrap it into more oblivion, and &s;o the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> &s;hall have their will both in Religion and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of our goods and Lands.</P>
<P><HI>11.</HI> When our Army by this long idlene&s;&s;e is made <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> or un&s;erviceable, if it be &s;aid we will have new Armies, and not tru&s;t the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> Then must we fight with raw Souldiers again&s;t experienced and better armed men, which will be dangerous, be&s;ides the great increa&s;e of the charge more then now it would be.</P>
<P><HI>12.</HI> Can any man expect that the Rebels who&s;e onely aime is to extirpate the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and Religion, will keepe better faith with us now, when the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> are wonderfull few and di&s;abled, then they did when the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> were in all parts, the governement &s;trong, and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> inhabitants rich and in vigour.</P>
<P><HI>13.</HI> The advantage is apparently now on our &s;ide, the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> are every where beaten, they are di&s;tre&s;&s;ed in Victuals and Ammunition, they have no For|raine aides, they feare our Armies every where, and undoubtedly by a little &s;ub|&s;i&s;tence out of <HI>England,</HI> we are able to con&s;ume them, but by this devi&s;e all will be turned the other way.</P>
<P><HI>14.</HI> If a peace &s;hould en&s;ue this prologue, which is certainely expected, then the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> are certainely de&s;troyed, for the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> continuing in their full mul|titudes and fully armed, will be ma&s;ters both of governement and intere&s;t both of King and Subject, the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> cannot inhabit here.</P>
<P><HI>15.</HI> This Ce&s;&s;ation cannot give us Corne till harve&s;t, in the meane time wee &s;tarve, though they &s;trive to &s;end us in Cattell, which is much doubted they can very hardly doe.</P>
<P><HI>16.</HI> The Ce&s;&s;ation will provide onely for the Army, and that in a &s;cant mea|&s;ure, not enough to &s;erve halfe the yeare, what &s;hall the poore <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> robbed &s;ub|jects doe, they have neither money nor meanes to buy foode, but the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> mu&s;t all be gone, which is the principall labour of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> and of tho&s;e that have pro|moted this Ce&s;&s;ation.</P>
<P><HI>17.</HI> If all the Armes of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> mighe have bin delivered up, and the Towns rendered to us, we might perhaps have had a little breathing, but no &s;ecurity, &s;o long as &s;uch huge numbers of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> remaine, and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> in &s;uch paucity and weakene&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>18.</HI> This Ce&s;&s;ation will utterly deface our Religion, and &s;et up Popery in the full height.</P>
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<P><HI>19.</HI> The harve&s;t &s;aved to them and lo&s;t to us, will be of much greater value to them for the &s;ub&s;istence and advantage, then all that they can give us can be to us, be&s;ides the lengthening of the warre for many yeares.</P>
<P><HI>20.</HI> Their malice is now more and their power more then at the beginning, can we thinke they will hold longer with us then they &s;ee their time.</P>
<P><HI>21.</HI> This Ce&s;&s;ation leades to a peace, and being as is principally pret&egrave;nded by rea&s;on of our extreame nece&s;&s;ities and the failer of the Parliament, even to &s;ave our lives: whereas in truth our lives are not worth the di&s;honour and detriment it will bring to the Crowne and <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation, and it must worke to ba&s;e ends, even to give the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> all the Lands, and for ever keepe out the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> which is the thing mainely affected, and to worke the di&s;&s;olving of the Act for the Adventurers, and to &s;mother all the cruelties, murthers and rapines committed by the <HI>Iri&s;h.</HI></P>
<P><HI>22.</HI> It doth utterly di&s;courage all the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and makes them for&s;ake the Kingdome all they can which will &s;oone be done.</P>
<P><HI>23.</HI> The Rogues of this Rebellion (though not &s;eemingly countenanced by the great ones) being needy and in want, will steale all our Cowes, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> from our gari&s;ons and no remedy.</P>
<P><HI>24.</HI> The Ce&s;&s;ation hath in pretence an aime at our &s;ub&s;i&s;tence, and to be foun|ded only on our nece&s;&s;ities, which truly is a dangerous ground of peace, among&s;t &s;o per&s;idious a people: but the inward meaning is the pre&s;ervation and re&s;titution of the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> and keeping out the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> governement, neither doth it &s;eeme to be a thing &s;o re&s;olutely commanded by the King, for it hath bin &s;aid openly, if we would lend <HI>10000^l^b.</HI> there &s;hould be no Ce&s;&s;ation, and yet the King &s;hould be &s;atisfied, or if we would propound any other way for maintenance, the like &s;hould be done.</P>
<P><HI>25.</HI> It is a certaine way to lo&s;e <HI>Ul&s;ter,</HI> which is now in a manner intirely in our hands, and we in a faire way to <HI>Connaught.</HI></P>
<P><HI>26.</HI> New the Cattell which we gaine though they be &s;old deare here, yet our Souldiers have the money who spend it among&s;t us, but if the Ce&s;&s;ation proceed, then we mu&s;t buy Corne and Cattell from the Rebels who will have all our money.</P>
<P><HI>27.</HI> La&s;tly, Although we are truely in a mo&s;t mi&s;erable ca&s;e for &s;ub&s;i&s;tence, ga&s;ping daily for the la&s;t breath by &s;amine or our owne enemies Sword, &s;eeming for a time to be left by the Parliament through the intemperate exclamations of a wanting Army, and our Soveraigne Lord the King not able at the pre&s;ent to helpe us, Yet doubtle&s;&s;e it is le&s;&s;e di&s;honourable and &s;hall render us le&s;&s;e &s;candalous to po&s;terity to die with our Swords in our hands, yet expecting Gods mercy, then by a craved Ce&s;&s;ation and in a certaine de&s;truction, to tye up our hands now hel|ping us a little, and yeild up our &s;elves and the Kingdome again&s;t his Maje&s;ty
<PB N="8" REF="5">and the Crowne of England, into the hands of barbarous Rebells, who thir&s;t only to riot in the blood of innocent <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and the utter abolition of the Protestant Religion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The new Oath made by the &s;upreame Councell of the Rebels of <HI>IRELAND</HI> at <HI>Kilkenny.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHereas the Romi&s;h Catholiques of this Kingdome of <HI>Ireland</HI> have bin enforced to take Armes, for the nece&s;&s;ary defence and pre&s;ervation as well of the Religion plotted, and by manifold practi&s;es endeavoured to be quite &s;uppre&s;&s;ed by the Puritan faction, as likewi&s;e the lives, e&s;tates and liberties, as al&s;o for the defence and &s;afeguard of his Ma|je&s;ties regall Powers, ju&s;t Prerogatives, Honours, E&s;tates and Rights in|vaded upon, And for that it is requi&s;ite that there &s;hould be an unani|mous con&s;ent and reall union between all the Catholiques of this Realme, to maintaine the premi&s;es, and &s;trengthen them again&s;t the Adver&s;aries; It is thought fit that they and who&s;oever &s;hall adhere to their parties as a confederate, &s;hould for the better a&s;&s;urance of the adhering fidelity and con&s;tancy for the publike cau&s;e take this en&s;uing Oath.</P>
<Q><HI>I A. B.</HI> Doe promi&s;e, &s;weare and prote&s;t before God and his Saints and Angels, that I will beare faith and Allegiance to our Soveraigne Lord <HI>Charles,</HI> by the grace of God, King of Great-<HI>Brittany, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and to his Pleyres and lawfull Succe&s;&s;ors, and that I will to my power during my life, de|fend, uphold and maintaine all his and their ju&s;t Prerogatives, E&s;tates and Rights, the Power and Priviledge of the Parliament of this Realme, the fundamentall Lawes of <HI>Ireland,</HI> the free exerci&s;e of the Catholique Romi&s;h Faith and Reli|gion throughout this Land, and the Lives, ju&s;t Liberties, Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, E&s;tates and Rights of all tho&s;e that have taken or &s;hall take this Oath, and performe the contents thereof: And that I will obey and rati&s;ie all the Orders and Decrees made and to be made by the &s;uprcame Councell of the confederate Catholiques of this Kingdome concerning the publike cau&s;e. And that I will not &s;eeke or re|ceive directly or indirectly, any pardon or protection for any act done or to be done touching this generall cau&s;e, without the con&s;ent of the major part of the &s;aid Councell: And that I will not directly or indirectly doe any act or acts that &s;hall prejudice the &s;aid Cau&s;e, but will to the hazard of my life and e&s;tate, a&s;&s;i&s;t, pro&s;ecute and maintaine the &s;ame. So helpe me God and his holy Go&s;pell.</Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="9" REF="5">
<HEAD>Killmore Ca&s;tle in <HI>Ireland,</HI> Iune <HI>23, 1643.</HI> A Letter from Sir <HI>Robert Stewart</HI> Knight and Colonell to the Earle of <HI>Eglington.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable, and my very Noble Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOur Lord&s;hips I received the very &s;ame day before Sir <HI>William Stow|art</HI> and I, with the re&s;t of the Forces here, tooke our march upon a late expedition to the Counties of <HI>Monoghan</HI> and <HI>Tirone,</HI> for the which and all your Lord&s;hips kind expre&s;&s;ions unto me, I give your Lord&s;hip ma|ny hearty thanks, and am your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t humble &s;ervant; and for what happened in the &s;ame expedition, your Lord&s;hip &s;hall have the true Relation of it as followeth; and fir&s;t when Sir <HI>William Stewarts</HI> Regi|ment, Colonell <HI>Mervins,</HI> and mine owne, with five Companies out of <HI>Derry</HI> had marched a day or two together, we had intelligence that <HI>Owen Mac Art &ocirc; Neale</HI> the Rebels great titulary Generall had drawn all the For|ces in <HI>&V;l&s;ter</HI> together, with their whole Cowes, and was upon their march for <HI>Connoght,</HI> of purpo&s;e as we were informed to leave his weake people there and all their Cattell, and to returne him&s;elfe with a &s;trong Army to a&s;&s;ault us and the re&s;t of the <HI>Britti&s;h</HI> Army in <HI>&V;l&s;ter,</HI> upon which intelli|gence we ha&s;tned our march to a place where we heard that he was to march through, a place called <HI>Clownys</HI> in the County of <HI>Monnoghan,</HI> be|ing upon the roade way from <HI>Tirone</HI> to <HI>Connaught,</HI> and about &s;ome 25 miles di&s;tant from <HI>Charlemount,</HI> and through Gods providence it fell out, that upon the 13 of this in&s;tant <HI>June,</HI> a Scout of Hor&s;e which I &s;ent out (I having the Van that day) di&s;covered the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Army, upon the which I gave order that our Army in regard of their hard march formerly, &s;hould refre&s;h them&s;elves with one houre or two's re&s;t, which was done accor|dingly, and &s;o we &s;trengthened our Porlorne guard, and &s;o continued our march towards them; whenas we advanced neare unto them, we di&s;co|vered their Hor&s;e drawne up upon a peece of ground of advantage, and from them were commanded out a party of their be&s;t Hor&s;e very well mounted, which in a daring in&s;ulting way came up and charged &s;ome of my Troope, which they received very re&s;olutely, and after a whiles di&s;|pute they were put to a retreate, in this interim, a party of the Rebels Foote had drawne up into a place where was a narrow &s;tone cau&s;ey and &s;traight pa&s;&s;e, where they thought to keepe up our Hor&s;e, but was put from it by our commanded men, and &s;o the pa&s;&s;e was cleered, and my Troope being &s;econded by Sir <HI>William Stewarts</HI> Troope and Sir <HI>William Belfores,</HI> advanced forward upon their Hor&s;es, and our commanded men on both &s;ides gave very good fire upon one another, the way where the re&s;t of our Army marched was very narrow, &s;o that none of them came to doe &s;er|vice,
<PB N="10" REF="6">exce~pt only the &s;ir&s;t divi&s;ion of my Regiment, which I led on my &s;elfe, and before ever the &s;econd divi&s;ion came to my &s;ervice, notwith|&s;tanding that there was 11 Colours of the Rebels upon &s;ervice all the while, the Rebels was routed both Foote and Hor&s;e, and our light wings and Cannons did very good &s;ervice, and many of the chiefe&s;t and be&s;t of their Forraigne Officers were either killed in the filds or taken pri&s;oners, for our Hor&s;e had the killing of them for 8 or 9 miles together upon all hands, and our Foote for 5 miles or thereabouts, where was done great execution upon the be&s;t of their men, <HI>Owen Mac Art &ocirc; Neale</HI> him&s;elfe very narrowly e&s;caped, for the Captaine of my Troope was in gripes with him, but his Hor&s;e &s;tumbled and he was hurt with a &s;hot, and <HI>Owen Mac Art</HI> was releeved by one of his Captaines. One <HI>&ocirc; Mellane</HI> who is now pri|&s;oned with me, &s;everall other pri&s;oners I have, as one Colonell <HI>Brother,</HI> &s;onne to <HI>Owen Mac Art</HI> and bred a Souldier, borne in <HI>Bru&s;&s;els,</HI> another Lieutenanr Colonell who hath bin an Officer abroad this 24 Yeares, cal-<HI>Shane &ocirc; Neale,</HI> 3 Captaines, Named <HI>Art &ocirc; Neale, Shane &ocirc; Neale</HI> and <HI>Pat|tick &ocirc; Mullin,</HI> and 3 Gentlemen of quality, Named <HI>William &ocirc; Clenton, Manns &ocirc; Sheale,</HI> and <HI>Con &ocirc; Neale,</HI> great &s;tore of Armes we had both for Hor&s;e and Foote, and I beleeve they carried few with them, for my Re|giment had 300 Muskets for their &s;hare, be&s;ides many Swords, Petro|nels and Pi&s;tolls, be&s;ides all that the re&s;t of the Regiments had. That night <HI>Owen Mac Art</HI> him&s;elfe betooke him to a Wood, where was a Friery within 7 or 8 miles to <HI>Charlemount,</HI> where he lodged that night with &s;ix only in his company, as I was informed by a party of mine which I &s;ent out the next morning to that &s;ame Wood, but before they came they were unfortunately e&s;caped, and my men burnt the Friery and brought away a great prey of Cowes with them, and &s;o &s;pent 7 or 8 dayes in ran|ging the Countrey, good numbers every day of &s;cattered Roagues we killed in woods, Boggs and Mountaines, the &s;trength of the Rebels Army was neere 3000 good men, by relation of &s;ome of them&s;elves who now are Pri&s;oners, be&s;ides tho&s;e that were with the Cowes, thus giving glory to God Almighty in who&s;e power it is with few to defeate a great many, this being the true Relation, wi&s;hing your Lord&s;hip all health and hap|pine&s;&s;e, I re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips loving and obedient &s;ervant <HI>Robert Stewart.</HI></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P>They had 32 Colours, with 3000 Foote, and 300 Hor&s;e.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="11" REF="6">
<HEAD>A Letter written by <HI>Owen Mac Art &ocirc; Neale</HI> the day after they lo&s;t this Batell, unto Sir <HI>Robert Stewart.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Should intreate you to be plea&s;ed for to certifie unto me by this bearer what pri&s;oners you have taken or have in re&s;traint of ours &s;ince the other day, together with your demands, whether you will exchange them for any Pri&s;oners wee have, or if for Ran&s;ome, how much, wherein you &s;hall doe me a curte&s;ie, and to your &s;elfe no hurt, for now though Fortune be favourable unto you, it may chance fall out hereafter, that your kind|ne&s;&s;e and favour therein may be requited, if ever it comes in the way of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your a&s;&s;ured Friend as I find you <HI>Owen &ocirc; Neale.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From our Campe <DATE>the 16 of <HI>June,</HI> 1643.</DATE></DATELINE>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P>This Campe was only him&s;elfe and 5 or 6 more.</P>
<P>I pray let this bearer &s;ee the pri&s;oners.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>By a Letter dated the <HI>20</HI> of <HI>June, 1643.</HI> From <HI>London-derry</HI> it is thus written by Captaine <HI>Henry Finch</HI> of the &s;aid City.</HEAD>
<P>THat upon the twelfth of the &s;aid <HI>June,</HI> 600 cho&s;en men out of that City, and 60 Hor&s;e joyned with Regunents of Sir <HI>Robert</HI> and Sir <HI>William Stewart,</HI> and Colonell <HI>Audley Mervin,</HI> who met with <HI>Art Mac &ocirc; Neale</HI> the Generall of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Forces in <HI>&V;l&s;ter,</HI> and all his &s;trength, neare a Towne called <HI>Clownes,</HI> about 50 miles from our &s;aid City of <HI>Lon|don-derry,</HI> where but a part of our Army being drawne up had a glorious day, &s;lew 500 of the Rebles in the place, whereof 150 Commanders and Gentlemen of their prime, who fought couragiou&s;ly for their lives: We tooke pri&s;oners who are now in our Jayle, <HI>Hugh &ocirc; Neale</HI> Colonell, <HI>Shane &ocirc; Neale,</HI> Lieutenant Colonell,
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Art &ocirc; Neale,</HI> Captaines.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Shane &ocirc; Neale,</HI> Captaines.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Pattrick &ocirc; Mullin,</HI> Captaines.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William O clinton</HI> Lieutenant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Manus &ocirc; Sheile,</HI> Gentlemen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Con &ocirc; Neale,</HI> Gentlemen.</ITEM>
</LIST> All men of prime note and very con&s;iderable, we lo&s;t only 6 or 8 Troo|pers, but many dangerou&s;ly hurt, where of Sir <HI>William Stewarts</HI> &s;ome was
<PB N="12" REF="7">and Captaine <HI>Garthconte,</HI> Captaine of Sir <HI>Roberts</HI> Troope, and other men who came bravely on that day: It was a great Victory, and neere a breake-neck to the <HI>Northerne</HI> Forces of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebels, It was Gods doing, 500 of our men did not fight for it, the greate&s;t part of our Ar|my not &s;o much as &s;eeing the Enemy but upon the flight, and dead, we had the cha&s;e 6 or 8 miles in good ground, in the march out and home we killed above 500 more of the Rebels. We have now no con&s;iderable Ene|my within 40 or 50 miles of us, but we are &s;o &s;traightned for provi&s;ion Victuals and Match, Pouder and all other Ammunition, that we cannot keepe the Fields long, had our Army bin there or provided, we had clee|red <HI>Tyrone</HI> before our returne, but we had no bread in three dayes, and our Match, Pouder and other provi&s;ions were &s;pent; &s;o again&s;t our wills, for want thereof, were forced to returne home. We have made &s;o many mar|ches this Summer into <HI>Donagale, Tyrone</HI> and <HI>London-derry,</HI> that there is lit|tle or no provi&s;ions left in the Countrey, and few or no Rogues to be &s;een, all either killed or fled into <HI>Connought,</HI> but great &s;tore of women and chil|dren, whereof few Cabbins in our march was empty, in &s;ome 5, in &s;ome 10 and in &s;ome 20 found dead in a Cabbin, part of them eaten by the li|ving, it is a mo&s;t lamentable ca&s;e they have brought them&s;elves unto.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>Dublin 12 July,</HI> From another hand.</HEAD>
<P>I Have bin out with the Army this 5 Weekes, or els I had written unto you before now: whiles we were abroad we tooke the Lord <HI>Demp&s;yes</HI> Ca&s;tle, and blew it up. which was a very &s;trong hold and nur&s;erie of Re|bels, and one <HI>Fitz Garrets</HI> Ca&s;tle of <HI>Clorboly</HI> we tooke and blew up, and one other of the <HI>Fitz Garrets</HI> yeelded his upon quarter, and had halfe his Armes, and as much goods as he could carry away, we got above 2000 Cowes in <HI>Wickloe,</HI> the Lord <HI>Moore</HI> hath gotten 7000 Cowes another way, the poore Rogues are &s;tarving, for they have nothing in mo&s;t parts hereabours, but Hor&s;es and Weedes to live on.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>A Letter from <HI>Dublin</HI> of the <HI>12</HI> of <HI>July, 1643.</HI> from a man of worth to his Friend in London; Concerning the Earle of <HI>Ormends</HI> carriage in the matter of Ce&s;&s;ation de&s;ired by the Rebels.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>SOme Letters of yours I have received, but divers I beleeve have mi&s;|carried, through the Sea Captaine Mr. <HI>Plunkets</HI> mi&s;take, or knowing,
<PB N="13" REF="7">for to both he is very &s;ubject. I am &s;hrewdly tempted to tell you, that mine to you have runne the &s;ame fortune, but the truth is, this is the fir&s;t I could find time or rea&s;on to write &s;ince you went, I know you have heard gallant things of the Lord Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Ormond</HI> there touching a Treaty he had with the Rebels about a Ce&s;&s;ation of Armes; and I make no doubt he is &s;et forth from hence in the true &s;hape and colour of a Rebell, or at lea&s;t a lover of Rebels, there is no man to whom he hath more cleere|ly decared him&s;elfe, touching his thoughts of, and intentions towards them, then my &s;elfe: And beleeve me, hee is ju&s;t where you left him, nothing changed, either in good will or bitterne&s;&s;e towards them, when he went to Treate with them, he had by the favour of the Lords Ju&s;tices and Coun&s;ell, &s;ome of the Board to goe with him, and he de&s;ired &s;ome chiefe Officers of the Army with them, to be witne&s;&s;es of his carriage through the whole matter, which what ever end it take, I beleeve it will be printed, when fir&s;t &s;ome of his good friends here, have written their conjectures of it; in the meane time, the maine matter that is like to be &s;ugge&s;ted to his prejudice, is, that this Treaty was not only performed, but de&s;ired and wholy gained from the King by his meanes and advice: His Lord&s;hip hath learnt by Sir <HI>Benjamin Rudyards</HI> &s;peech, about the be|ginning of this Parliament, how unhan&s;ome it is to ju&s;tifie unplea&s;ing things, by putting them upon the King, and therefore I &s;hould &s;ay no|thing of that in his behalfe, but that to you, I de&s;ire to give &s;atisfaction, that there is nothing fal&s;er, except him that &s;hall write it, and having &s;aid this, I &s;hall trouble you no more in that point.</P>
<P>One other thing is &s;o much talked of here, that I owe his Lord&s;hip the right, and you who are my friend the &s;atisfaction; To acquaint you with his carriage in it. Very &s;oon after your departure hence, the Captaine of the Swallow and others of that company came a&s;hoare, among&s;t the re&s;t the Ma&s;ter, who &s;tayed late at the Globe Taverne, &s;o late, that the Ma&s;ter of the hou&s;e again&s;t his owne profit, de&s;ired him and his company to de|part, which when they refu&s;ed, he likewi&s;e refu&s;ed to give them wine, and at length being de&s;irous to be quit of them, he &s;ent for a guard to take them away, which accordingly was done, and the Ma&s;ter &s;ent to the Main-guard, where the Captaine being in like di&s;order, as I heare, not only mi&s;u&s;ed the man, but &s;pake di&s;gracefully of the Parliament, the Earles of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> and <HI>Warwick</HI> as is alledged, now his Lord&s;hips &s;hare of the matter is as followes, the Captaine came to him and complained of this u&s;age, and when his Lord&s;hip told him he was ready to doe him ju&s;tice as &s;oone as the matter would give him ground for it by petitioning, he &s;aid he tooke it to be the better way to pa&s;&s;e it over, &s;ithence he found the Officers
<PB N="14" REF="8" MS="y">were generally &s;o di&s;contened, as that the &s;tirring of this might prove the occa&s;ion of more di&s;order, and be a meanes to &s;pread the matter further then hee de&s;ired, to that his Lord&s;hip an&s;wered, that hee knew be&s;t what hee had to doe, but that hee was ready upon complaint as afore-&s;aid to doe his part towards the vindication of the ju&s;tice of this place, and of any per&s;on injured here, but approved of his m|clinations to &s;mother a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of that unplea&s;ing nature, this di&s;cour&s;e pa&s;t betweene his Lord&s;hip and him in my hearing, when it was ended he went away as I thought, re&s;olved to &s;ay no more of the matter, but a little before his going hence, when he had taken other advice, he prefer|red an Information into the Martiall Court again&s;t him who was the Cap|taine of the watch night, but there left it without any man to follow it, where it &s;till remaines ready for further &s;canning, when any man &s;hall call upon it, and &s;o much for that. If I &s;hould take upon me to an&s;wer all the lies rai&s;ed on his Lord&s;hip here, by the father of lies and his hopefull i&s;&s;ue, I &s;hould become the greate&s;t writer of this age, and therefore I leave them to the &s;hame I know will one day overtake them, re&s;ting</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t faithfull friend and humble &s;ervant <HI>I B.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Another Letter from the &s;ame man from <HI>Dublin, 20 July, 1643.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Have according to my improvident cu&s;tome, de&s;erted writing till this la&s;t minute of time, haveing bin for &s;ome dayes imployed in &s;etting on a pre&s;ent march, which hath bin infinitely retarded and di&s;tracted through the mi&s;erable want of all things, now at length the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e hath pro|ceeded, that together with &s;ome Forces appointed to meete from <HI>Drog|heda, Trim</HI> and <HI>Dundalke,</HI> and a party &s;ent hence afore, there will be about 4000 &s;ighting men, Hor&s;e and Foote, the latter pittifull poore, but as they are, I hope they will &s;top <HI>Pre&s;ton</HI> in the cour&s;e of his proceeding again&s;t our Garri&s;ons, whereof he hath po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed him&s;elfe of one, which was de|&s;erted by the men and burnt, other places where there were wards be|longing to private per&s;ons, were rendered without re&s;i&s;tance, as <HI>Eden|derry</HI> and <HI>Techrohan,</HI> and now Ca&s;tle <HI>Jordan</HI> and another place is in danger, which to prevent, my Lord Marque&s;&s;e doth goe after the Army to mor|row, but his proportion of victuall not being for many weekes, he is tyed to a very &s;hort time for the worke which his Lord&s;hip will attempt, and
<PB N="15" REF="8">leave the &s;ucce&s;&s;e to God, this I tell you, that your expectation be not rai&s;ed above what is po&s;&s;ible to be effected: two packquets from hence were taken by the <HI>Wexford men,</HI> wherein they boa&s;t to have found great mi|&s;eries; and I feare by tho&s;e Letters they have found too much of divi&s;ion among&s;t us, for calumnies, complaints and accu&s;ations are &s;o frequent Theames of &s;ome di&s;patches thether, which may incourage the Rebels, and di&s;po&s;e them to unite in much the wor&s;er cau&s;e, for even now I have adveri&s;ement that <HI>Pre&s;ton</HI> hath po&s;&s;e&s;t him&s;elfe of all the pa&s;&s;ages into that fa&s;t Countrey, except what lyeth behind him, whereto I feare his Lord&s;hip &s;hall want bread to march, nor were it fit to leave him neerer this Towne then our &s;elves, the condition of the inhabitants duly con&s;idered, and Ca&s;tle <HI>Jordan</HI> for <HI>Dublin</HI> being but a bad exchange, &s;o that upon the whole matter, hard are the tearmes his Lord&s;hip goes upon and in this harder then any mans, in that the good &s;hall be imputed to others, if it plea&s;e God to ble&s;&s;e the Army with &s;ucce&s;&s;e, and if any mi&s;chance hap|pens (which is not impo&s;&s;ible) his Lord&s;hip I feare mu&s;t beare it, with|all the malitious con&s;tructions that can be made, the&s;e have bin his Lord|&s;hips incouragements &s;ince he had the honour to &s;erve the King in the&s;e imployments, but I can a&s;&s;ure you that doth not di&s;courage him, nor will any thing el&s;e, that can be rai&s;e or done here or there, I am</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your very faithfull friend and &s;ervant <HI>I. B.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Another Letter from a very good hand in <HI>Dublin,</HI> dated <HI>19, July, 1633.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOur Letter lately received here and &s;ome &s;mall quantity of victuals &s;ent hither, per&s;wades me, that we are not wholly de&s;erted by the Par|liament, though I mu&s;t tell you, &s;o barely and coldly remembred, that if a better and ferventer regard be not timely had of us, nothing in humane rea&s;on can be expected but ab&s;olute ruine, and de&s;truction of the be&s;t parts of the Kingdome.</P>
<P><HI>Pre&s;ton</HI> with his Forces of 7000 Foote and 800 Hor&s;e, &s;uperiour unto us in Cavelry, and Armes doubling our &s;trength that is here, or that can conveniently be drawn together from or neere&s;t Garri&s;ons: is now in the County of <HI>Meath,</HI> hath taken Sir <HI>William Coolies</HI> Ca&s;tle, and &s;everall other holds, have endeavoured to block up Ca&s;tle <HI>Jordan,</HI> and is quartered at this time about <HI>Tecrohan,</HI> Sir <HI>Lucas Fitz Gerralds,</HI> with intention, as our intelligence brings us to take in <HI>Trim, Manooth,</HI> or both of them, per|adventure va&s;ter purpo&s;es.</P>
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<P>Ten dayes we have travelled in all the faire and foule wayes that can be invented to rai&s;e a &s;mall &s;umme of money to &s;et forth our Army, but are not yet at the end of our journey, two dayes more I hope will fini&s;h it, and then my Lord Marque&s;&s;e goes forth in per&s;on, I pray God pro&s;per him.</P>
<P>The harve&s;t is now beginning, but before the &s;ickle comes to the Corne, mo&s;t of it is devoured by the &s;tarving people, and that in truth is the be&s;t expedient to end this Warre, and &s;oone will doe it, if our Army, and the &s;mall remnant of our Nation remaining here may be a&s;certained of food from <HI>England;</HI> and Pouder and Armes are all mo&s;t as nece&s;&s;ary; labour the&s;e two as you love the peace of <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> &s;uch is the &s;ute and de&s;ire of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your humble &s;ervant <HI>T. H.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A true Relation of the manner of our Col|lonell Sir <HI>Frederick Hamiltons</HI> returne from <HI>London-derry</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> being 60 miles from his Ca&s;tle and Garri&s;on, where he was at the beginning and breaking out of this Re|bellion, with the particular &s;ervices performed by the <HI>Hor&s;e and Foote Companies which he commandes</HI> garri&s;on'd at <HI>Manor Hamilton</HI> in the County of <HI>Leinim</HI> in the Province of <HI>Connaught.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Iron workes called the Garri&s;on within &s;ix miles to <HI>Hamil|ton</HI> Ca&s;tle,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">tober <HI>24</HI></NOTE> was by the <HI>O flannygans,</HI> of the County of <HI>Fermannagh,</HI> and the <HI>Mac Laughlins</HI> and <HI>Mac Murrayes,</HI> of the the County of <HI>Leytrim,</HI> &s;et on &s;ire and all burned.</P>
<P>Seven or eight &s;core men,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ober <HI>24</HI></NOTE> women and children, mo&s;t of them <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> belonging to tho&s;e Iron workes, were divers of them &s;ore wounded, all of them robbed, came flying for reliefe to Ca&s;tle <HI>Hamilton,</HI> where the Col|lonels Lady charitably received them, him&s;elfe and his two &s;onnes at that time being at <HI>London-derry.</HI></P>
<P>This newes coming this day fortunately by a me&s;&s;enger from his Lady,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ober</NOTE> he de&s;perately adventured homewards with 10 or 12 Hor&s;e of his owne &s;ervants, pa&s;&s;ing over <HI>Barne&s;more</HI> in the night time with every Hor&s;e|man his Calliver and his Match light at both ends, with &s;ound of Trumpet
<PB N="17" REF="9">mo&s;t part of the night as we marched, making a great &s;hew and a noy&s;e as if an Army had followed us. Thus it plea&s;ed Gos we pa&s;&s;ed 30 miles of our way that night, coming to <HI>Donegall</HI> the next morning.</P>
<P>At <HI>Donegall</HI> we found Sir <HI>Raph Gore,</HI> Mr. <HI>Brooke,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Octobr <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></NOTE> and all the Britti&s;h of that part of the County, robbed of their Cattell, &s;hortly expecting them|&s;elves to be de&s;troyed, much admiring if we had bin 500 men, how we dur&s;t have pa&s;t <HI>Barne&s;more,</HI> advi&s;ing our Colonell to adventure no further homewards, <HI>Bally&s;hannon</HI> Ca&s;tle in his way homewards being block't up with a great many <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> in it, and that Towne bruned.</P>
<P>That night neverthele&s;&s;e did we pa&s;&s;e with a Convoy only of 20 <HI>Scot|ti&s;h</HI> Hor&s;emen to <HI>Bally&s;hannon,</HI> relieving that Ca&s;tle, pre&s;ently calling out Captaine <HI>Follyot</HI> with &s;ome few men for our guides, went a hunting for the Rogues, who had beene lately about the Ca&s;tle, where that night ere we lighted we killed &s;ome of them, and brought home 22 Pri&s;oners. That night out Colonell di&s;patched a me&s;&s;enger to his Lady being 12 miles. It plea&s;ed God &s;o to ble&s;&s;e his me&s;&s;enger, that the next morning by day his Lady &s;ent him a good guard of his owne Souldiers and &s;ervants, before the Countrey could heare of our being upon the way, which otherwi&s;e it had bin impo&s;&s;ible for us to pa&s;&s;e, having the borders of 3 Counties to march through, and that the mo&s;t dangerous way in <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<P>Our Colonell is vi&s;ited by <HI>Connour &ocirc; Rourke</HI> the High Sheriff of the County of <HI>Leytrim,</HI> congratulating his &s;afe returne beyond expectation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Octobe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>31.</HI></NOTE> then profe&s;&s;ing much loyalty and neighbourly love which not long la&s;ted.</P>
<P>Came from <HI>Dublin</HI> with the Lords Ju&s;tices pa&s;&s;e &s;ix of our Colonells Souldiers from <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> who miraculou&s;ly pa&s;&s;ed without lo&s;&s;e of Armes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nove<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>6.</HI></NOTE> Cleathes or what el&s;e they carried, to our Colonells great joy and com|fort, being &s;ive <HI>Scotch</HI>-men and one <HI>Iri&s;h</HI>-man good Musketeeres bred with him&s;elfe.</P>
<P>The Colonell makes up among&s;t his &s;ervants and Tenants,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nove<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>7.</HI></NOTE> a Troope of 50 good Hor&s;es, which doe duty day and night about the Garri&s;on and Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>It is di&s;coved to the Colonell, that one <HI>Conouroge Mac Shant,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Nove<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>9.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Cla&s;&s;e Mac Laughlin</HI> a mo&s;t dangerous active man, and the chiefe of that name, was drawing of a Boate 8 miles over mountaines, thinking to have man|ned an I&s;land in the <HI>Lough</HI> of great con&s;equence, being in a great glynne called <HI>Glevedin,</HI> which I&s;land in former Rebellions had much galled the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Forces, it lying convenient for the bordering Rebels both of <HI>&V;l|ster</HI> and <HI>Connaught;</HI> Vpon this information a party of able Foote-men were &s;ent out, who met with the &s;aid <HI>Connour</HI> upon the top of a great
<PB N="18" REF="10" MS="y">Mountaine, with a many Hor&s;e and Foote, drawing of his Boate, where him&s;elfe was taken Pri&s;oner, and his Boate broken all in pecces upon the Mountaine.</P>
<P>The Colonell received two Letters,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">emb: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> one from <HI>O Connour</HI> of <HI>Sligo,</HI> the other from <HI>Ballagh &ocirc; Rourke,</HI> both profe&s;&s;ing much loyalty, excu&s;ing their not waiting upon him, and congratulating his late and unexpected re|turne from the <HI>Derry.</HI> The&s;e Letters were kindly an&s;wered, with encou|ragement from the Colonell to per&s;evere in their loyalty, though he little expected it, as it afterwards came to pa&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Con Mac Ternan bane &ocirc; Rourck,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">emb: <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></NOTE> the mo&s;t active and mo&s;t dangerous man of that name: It is informed that he and others had lately robbed an <HI>Endli&s;h</HI>-Mini&s;ter called Mr. <HI>Bu&s;he</HI> apprehended by the Colonells order.</P>
<P><HI>Bryan &ocirc; Rourke</HI> another prime Gentleman of that name,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">emb: 6</NOTE> and Brther in law to the fore-&s;aid <HI>Con &ocirc; Rourke,</HI> was likewi&s;e apprehended upon In|formation that he had rob'd another <HI>Engli&s;h</HI>-man, <HI>William Browne.</HI></P>
<P>Being informed that many of the Rebels of <HI>Donegall</HI> all <HI>Firmannagh,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">emb: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">0</NOTE> had their daily tandevous at an Ale-hou&s;e kept 6 miles from our Colonels Ca&s;tle neare the borders of <HI>Fermannagh:</HI> A party was &s;ent thither in the night, where the Ale-hou&s;e keeper <HI>Cahir Mac Caba</HI> with &s;ix Rogues more were apprehended and brought to our Colonell, with 60 Beeves from the County, who were all in Rebellion as all the other Counties a|bout us, only the two <HI>Barronyes</HI> neare to our Colonels, where his owne <HI>Jri&s;h</HI> Tenants lived, made &s;hew of loyalty, hoping thereby to have gotten greater advantage afterwards.</P>
<P>A Court was to have beene held by the Colonells Sene&s;ehall,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">emb:</NOTE> expecting his <HI>Iri&s;h</HI>-Tenants &s;hould have made their appearance, as till that day they duly did, hee u&s;ing all the meanes he could to pre&s;erve his owne in their Ioyalties, as many times they faithfully promi&s;ed, but that day ab&s;enting them&s;elves, he perceived them all traitors.</P>
<P><HI>Hugh Mac Cahill Mac Murry</HI> the chiefe <HI>Iri&s;h</HI>-Tenant upon the Colo|nele Land,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="6 letters">mb: <HI>30</HI></NOTE> who had jugled with his <HI>Britti&s;h</HI>-Tenants, making them believe he was a guard for their Cattell, in pre&s;erving and recovering &s;ome of them which had beene &s;tolne by the neighbouring Rebels, did this day joyne him&s;elfe with the <HI>Cavan</HI> Rebels, who in a great body march't with Drumme and Colours within two miles of our Ca&s;tle, drawing with them a many of the <HI>Britti&s;h</HI>-Tenants Cattell, and taking with them one <HI>Engli&s;h</HI>-man whom they hanged.</P>
<P>The Colonell now perceiving their generall trecheries,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="5 letters">b: <HI>4</HI></NOTE> leaves off any more to tru&s;t them, and &s;eeing no order for reliefe either from the Lord Ju&s;tices, or the Lord Pre&s;ident: They having received adverti&s;ement from
<PB N="19" REF="10">our Colonell not onely of the &s;tate of his owne Ca&s;tle, but al&s;o of the Towne and Garri&s;on of <HI>Sligo,</HI> where a part of the Lord Pre&s;idents owne Company lay, with a many <HI>Britti&s;h,</HI> who were mi&s;erably murthered at the taking in of that Towne, being promi&s;ed daily reliefe by the Lord Pre|&s;ident, which promi&s;e and encouragement as &s;ome of them&s;elves &s;ay, help't to de&s;troy them, otherwi&s;e they could have joyned with us before the Rebellion there brake out in that height. This day by our Colonells command, a Gallowes was erected upon the top of an hill neare the Ca&s;tle, and having about 24 Pri&s;oners in the Ca&s;tle, he cau&s;ed 8 of them to be hanged up, which had beene at the burning of <HI>Bally&s;hannon</HI> in the County of <HI>Donegall,</HI> and at the burning of the Iron workes in the County of <HI>Fermannagh.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;ame day our Hor&s;e-men &s;couring the &s;ields, tooke two of the Rogues Centries, who were brought home and hanged.</P>
<P>A party was &s;ent in the night to &s;coure <HI>Glansfarne</HI> Woods,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Decem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></NOTE> upon intelli|gence that <HI>Hugh Mac Cahill</HI> the righleader of the Colonells traiterous Tenants kept in tho&s;e Woods, where indeed they were met withall, 3 of them killed, divers wounded, and their great leader narrowly e&s;caping in the Woods through the darkne&s;&s;e of the night.</P>
<P>Our Hor&s;e-men &s;couring the fields,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Decem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>14.</HI></NOTE> met with another of the Rebels Centries, who was brought to the Ca&s;tle and hanged.</P>
<P>One <HI>Thomas Abercromy</HI> being mi&s;led by a treacherous Je&s;uiticall kin&s;|man of his owne, this day did for &s;ake his owne hou&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Decem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>15.</HI></NOTE> being a pretty &s;tone Hou&s;e with a Barne, within a mile of our Colonells Ca&s;tle, tran&s;ports him&s;elfe, his Wife and Children to the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Con &ocirc; Rourk,</HI> apparently by this time in Rebellion, leaving in his owne hou&s;e his &s;aid Rapi&s;ticall kin&s;man, married to an <HI>Iri&s;h</HI>-woman, with &s;ome of the &s;aid <HI>Con &ocirc; Rourks Iri&s;h</HI> Rogues, for maintaining of that hou&s;e, which our Colonell held no good neighouthood; He many times neighbourly and kindly inviting the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Abercromy</HI> with his wife and children to take &s;hare with him in his Ca&s;tle, and not to &s;hame and di&s;honour him&s;elfe and his Nation in &s;uch a kind: who&s;e an&s;wer was, he was fully pre&s;waded of the de|&s;truction of this Ca&s;tle and all in it, for it was &s;o re&s;olved, as he was credibly a&s;&s;ured, not only by tho&s;e of this County, but of all the bordering Counties neare it, and that he was promi&s;ed by the favour of the &s;aid <HI>Con &ocirc; Rourke,</HI> to have his owne life with his wife and childrens pre&s;erved untill they were el&s;e-where tran&s;ported.</P>
<P>Complaint was made to the Colonell,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Decem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>16.</HI></NOTE> that &s;ome of this <HI>Con &ocirc; Rourkes</HI> Rogues had robbed &s;ome of his Tenants, &s;ervants and gardens, who &s;en|ding after them, had &s;ome of the Rogues apprehended; where little <HI>Tho|mas
<PB N="20" REF="11" MS="y">Abercromy</HI> the Papi&s;t pre&s;umed to interpo&s;e him&s;elfe for the re&s;cuing of tho&s;e Rogues, as they were brought by the hou&s;e his Co&s;en left him in, upon this Information our Colonell cau&s;ed him to be apprehended as a dangerous In&s;trument there,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> the Rogues in the hou&s;e with him running away, the hou&s;e is demoli&s;hed and made un&s;erviceable.</P>
<P>A party in the night time was &s;ent abroad towards <HI>Sligoe,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">mb: <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">0</HI></NOTE> where we met with a number of Rogues, hurt divers, killed three, brought home thcirheads to our Colonell with a lu&s;ty Pri&s;oner, who was hanged next day.</P>
<P><HI>Owne &ocirc; Rourke,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ary <HI>6.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Bryan Ballagh</HI> his Brother, with the greate&s;t &s;trength of this County of <HI>Cavan,</HI> made a great &s;hew this day, being about a 1000 or 1200 men,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>e</HI></NOTE> marcht with Musket &s;hot to us, (where from the Ca&s;tle we &s;hot one of them dead,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>6</HI></NOTE> being a &s;igne of good luck, making them march further off,) This night they encamped at <HI>Larganboye,</HI> where <HI>Abercro|myes</HI> hou&s;e was lately de&s;troyed, being di&s;appointed of what they expe|cted for there,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> their chiefe Commanders marching a mile further for their quarters to <HI>Con &ocirc; Rourke</HI> the then Sheriffe, who till that day had not pub|likely declared him&s;elfe; there they found <HI>Thomas Aberoromy</HI> with his wife and children; The Rogues continued with their Campe at <HI>Lar|ganboy,</HI> within a mile to us, and their chiefe Officers at <HI>Con &ocirc; Rourkes,</HI> from Thur&s;day till Tue&s;day following, daily drawing out their men to the hills about us, every day multiplying, making great &s;hewes, thinking thereby to have &s;cared us out of the Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>This morning the Sheriffe <HI>Con &ocirc; Rourke</HI> in the head of Rebels,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">ary <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></NOTE> marcht in a full body within halfe a mile to the Ca&s;tle, as if he meant pre&s;ently to have a&s;&s;aulted us, which the Colonell perceiving, drawes forth in per&s;on as &s;trong as he could make, both Hor&s;e and Foote, being farre &s;hort of the &s;ixth man of their number, yet made offer there to have fought with them, which the Rogues perceiving make a halt upon a Hill a River di|viding us, they calling to us that we were Rebels to the King and not they; Our Colonell wi&s;hing them, &s;ince their quarrell was &s;o good and their number &s;o much greater then ours, they would try it with us: In the meane time while we were thus parleying, men were &s;ent out by the Colonell in &s;everall quarters behind us, to &s;et fire on a many goodly Hou&s;es and haggards belonging to his owne Tenants, lea&s;t the Rogues with their multitudes &s;hould have quartered them&s;elves mo&s;t convcniently round about him, which &s;odaine fire the Rogues perceiving, pre&s;ently imagined aide was come to us; The fires being up we advanct with grea|ter confidence, whereupon they retreated in di&s;order, and di&s;pear&s;t them|&s;elves pre&s;ently, &s;ome of our Hor&s;e-men imployed in the burning, appre|hended
<PB N="21" REF="11">two of the Rogues, which were brought to the Colonell as we drew home to the Ca&s;tle, which by his orders were that night hanged.</P>
<P>A party of Hor&s;e and Foote were &s;ent towards the Sheriffe <HI>Con &ocirc; Rourkes</HI> Ca&s;tle, to requite his kind vi&s;it towards ours the day before,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ianu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> <HI>12.</HI></NOTE> where we found him&s;elfe, with his wife, children and family &s;led that night, leaving <HI>Thomas Abercromy</HI> with his wife and children in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of his Ca&s;tle, whom our Souldiers turned out, victualling them&s;elves with &s;tore of Poudred-Beefe, Butter, Meale and &s;uch like commodities, what they were able to carry away; afterwards &s;etting fire in the Ca&s;tle, and in many other thatched hou&s;es about it, burning all.</P>
<P>A party is &s;ent towards the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Drommahere,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ianua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>13.</HI></NOTE> where their great Colonell <HI>Owen &ocirc; Rourke</HI> with all his &s;trength lay; yet we burned many goodly hou&s;es and haggards of Corne within a mile of the Ca&s;tle, burning all within five miles forwards.</P>
<P>Our party marcht We&s;twards 6 miles towards <HI>Sligo,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ianua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>14.</HI></NOTE> burning many goodly hou&s;es and haggards that way, and among&s;t them the hou&s;e and haggards of <HI>Bryan ballagh &ocirc; Rourke,</HI> Brother to the fore-&s;aid <HI>Con &ocirc; Rourke.</HI></P>
<P>A party of Hor&s;e were &s;ent North-we&s;tward 6 miles towards the bor|ders of <HI>Sligo,</HI> where we burned a &s;trong &s;tone hou&s;e &s;lated with a bawne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ianua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>15.</HI></NOTE> built by Sir <HI>Roger Iones,</HI> called <HI>&V;nloanes Foart;</HI> This day we al&s;o burned many other <HI>Iri&s;h</HI>-hou&s;es and haggards, and in our retreat, we encountred among&s;t the Woods a prime Rebell called <HI>Ternan oge Mac Art &ocirc; Rourke,</HI> who&s;e head was brought to the Ca&s;tle that night.</P>
<P>A party of Foote are &s;ent 6 miles Northwards towards the borders of the County of <HI>Fermannagh,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ianua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>16.</HI></NOTE> burning all that way many hou&s;es and haggards belonging to the <HI>&ocirc; Menghons, Thomas Mac Loans,</HI> and the <HI>&ocirc; Frciles</HI> of <HI>Ro&s;&s;enner:</HI> The party marching homewards was betrayed by their guide, and were layed for in their march by above 300 of the Rogues, our par|ty not being 60, five of our men were killed, and 8 of the Rebels, &s;o this march concluded the burning of all hou&s;es and Corne within 6 miles round about our Ca&s;tle, not &s;o much left as a Cabbin to campe in.</P>
<P>This day the greate&s;t &s;trength of the Conty with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Lord <HI>Taffes</HI> &s;onne, and Captaine <HI>Bryan Mac Donnoghy,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ianua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>25.</HI></NOTE> from the County of <HI>Sligoe,</HI> the <HI>Mac Gawrans</HI> from the County of <HI>Cavan,</HI> to the number of 1200, or 1400 men, encamped them&s;elves at the old place <HI>Largenboy,</HI> where they lay in the Fields that night, and the next morning drave away all our Colonells Cowes to the number of 4 or 5 hundred.</P>
<P>Having gotten our Cowes, they who tooke them came this day againe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ianua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>26.</HI></NOTE> and encamped them&s;elves at two hou&s;es, which our Colonell was per|&s;waded
<PB N="22" REF="12" MS="y">by his Licutenant to leave unburnt, within halfe a mile to the Ca&s;tle, where was &s;tore of Corne at one of the hou&s;es, belonging to the Lieutenant him&s;elfe, which Corne the Rogues fell a burning, which much vexed us, but they lying in that manner, burning of our Corne from Sun|day till Tue&s;day, our Colonell then with a party of Hor&s;e and Foote, did beate them from their quarters, killed 8 of them, and cha&s;ed the re&s;t being five times our number.</P>
<P>This day <HI>Owen &ograve; Rourke,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">ary <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of Colonell <HI>Con Mac Donnell &ocirc; Rourke</HI> and his Regiment from <HI>Iames</HI> Towne, with the <HI>&ocirc; Con|nors</HI> and <HI>Mac Gawrans</HI> from the Counties of <HI>Sligo</HI> and <HI>Cavan,</HI> to the number of 1500 or 1600 men burnt our Towne and Mills of <HI>Mannour Hamilton,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">&s;&s;&s;ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> which day upon the Rogues retreat from that good &s;ervice, our Colonell not being provided otherwi&s;e to entertaine them, endeavou|ring the &s;afety of his people, which that day God pre&s;erved within his Ca&s;tle and bawne, yet cau&s;ed he to be hanged upon the gallowes in their view, <HI>Con &ocirc; Rourke,</HI> Brother to their great Colonell <HI>Owen,</HI> and <HI>Connor Mac Laughlin</HI> chiefe of that Name, two of the able&s;t and mo&s;t dangerous men in this County.</P>
<P><HI>Owen &ocirc; Rourke</HI> with his Brother <HI>Bryan Ballagh,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">uary</NOTE> and the <HI>Mac Glanna|hans</HI> to the number of 600 or 700 men from the <HI>Darty,</HI> encamped them|&s;elves againe in the former place at our Lieutenants and <HI>Iohn Murrayes</HI> hou&s;es and haggards, falling to their old worke of burning, and &s;ending a|way of our Corne: The next day with a party of Hor&s;e and Foote, we againe fell upon them as before, killing divers of them, their great Co|lonell being &s;hot through the hat and through the Pike neare his hand; we brought home to the Ca&s;tle 3 of their able&s;t mens heads,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> The wives and boyes of our Souldiers loading them&s;elves with the burnt Corne and pillage, we burnt tho&s;e hou&s;es, and what Corne in the haggards we were not able to carry with us, to prevent their further company there, they be|ing too farre ma&s;ters of the Field.</P>
<P>Our hor&s;emen &s;couring the Fields apprehended two of the Rogues Cen|tries,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">uary</NOTE> <HI>Owen Mac Thomas Mac Murray,</HI> and <HI>Ferries Mac Kegan,</HI> two lu&s;ty able Rogues, which were the next day hanged.</P>
<P>Our Colonell being informed that M^r. <HI>Parke</HI> at <HI>New-Towne</HI> within 6 miles of our Ca&s;tle,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">uary</NOTE> and 12 miles from <HI>Sligo</HI> was &s;trongly blockt up with a Campe about him in his Ca&s;tle, &s;ent a party of Hor&s;e and Foote under the command of our Lieutenant, with orders to view their &s;trength, and if po&s;&s;ible to relieve and &s;peake with Mr. <HI>Parke;</HI> As we marcht to|wards <HI>New-Towne,</HI> we &s;aw little danger, onely &s;ome &s;couting Rogues from hill to hill. But coming to M^r. <HI>Parke,</HI> he tould our Lieutenant that
<PB N="23" REF="12">he wi&s;ht us all home againe, holding us all lo&s;t men, as if he had beene ac|quainted with the plot; Our Lieutenant amazed at his &s;peeches, percei|ving no &s;uch &s;igne, upon his march admiring M^r. <HI>Parkes</HI> intelligence, finding him&s;elfe and his Ca&s;tle free, de&s;ired M^r. <HI>Parke,</HI> &s;ince for his re|liefe our Colonell had &s;eut us thither, that he would therefore lend him 20 or 30 of his men for the &s;trengthening of his party homewards, which M^r. <HI>Parke</HI> would by no meanes doe, though per&s;waded thereunto by his owne Officers, and divers of his men, who told him it was &s;hame for him and them all, he leaving men enough be&s;ides to defend him in his Ca&s;tle, who&s;e an&s;wer was, it was well for him if he could defend him|&s;elfe and his till aide come, without Provoking or doing any thing to draw the County upon him: Our Colonell having in per&s;on upon his intreaty lately vi&s;ited him with a &s;mall party of Hor&s;e, where &s;ince it is &s;aid, <HI>New-Towne</HI> &s;hould have beene the trap to have catcht us all for our kindne&s;&s;e to it. On our march homewards we were be&s;et from all quar|ters with neere a 1000 men, who within 3 miles to our Colonels Ca&s;tle, gave us a mo&s;t fierce charge in a mo&s;t dangerous rocky place, where our Hor&s;es could make no play, yet did our men &s;o bravely behave them&s;elves being in&s;tantly ingaged upon pu&s;h of Pike, our Mu&s;quetieres once having given fire in their bo&s;omes, were &s;o plyed with their &s;tones wherewith they had provided them&s;elves, and had &s;uch dexterity in throwing them, as we got not leave to charge againe; but we falling upon them pell mell with the but ends of our Mu&s;|kets did &s;o clo&s;ely &s;tand to it, as having by Gods great mercy and power broake through, di&s;ordered and routed them, killing a number, cha&s;ing them like doggs with our Hor&s;e and Foote from hill to hill; In the meane time our Souldies boyes &s;tirpped neere 30 of their be&s;t men of the Counties of <HI>Sligo</HI> and <HI>Leitrim,</HI> of which number was <HI>Mulmurry Mac Ternan</HI> (chiefe of that name) a Ju&s;tice of the Peace who had beene Sheriffe of this County, who with his elde&s;t Sonne and heire, and his Sonne in law <HI>Carery &ocirc; Trower</HI> chiefe of that name, <HI>Cormack Mac Murray, Farli&s;&s;e &ocirc; Deganan, Bryan &ocirc; Rourke,</HI> and <HI>John &ocirc; Crean,</HI> all of them that are named being prime Gentlemen of the&s;e two Counties, be|&s;ides a many of their common Souldiers were killed, wherof is made &s;mall reckoning among&s;t them; It is thought that we cut off that day of all &s;orts above three&s;core of them: Our party not con&s;i&s;ting of 80 Hor&s;e and Foote, of which we lo&s;t in that &s;ervice only one Pike man and one Mu&s;|quitiere, though many of us were &s;ore brui&s;ed with &s;tones, and &s;leight cu|rable wounds with pu&s;h of Pike, the Rogues afterwards acknowledging that day they &s;aw God was again&s;t them, they being ten times our num|ber,
<PB N="24" REF="13">and mo&s;t confident to have de&s;troyed us all, yet it plea&s;ed God thus to pre&s;erve us from this great dammage which we were ingaged in, for that ungrate man Mr. <HI>Parke</HI> his &s;ake, we brought home with us abun|dance of the Rogues Armes and Apparrell, which was a good &s;upply to our Souldiers.</P>
<P>This day <HI>&ocirc; Connour Sligoe</HI> &s;hewes him&s;elfe from that County with his Regiment,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">uary</NOTE> drawing to a Mountaine not much above halfe a mile from our Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>O Connour</HI> with his Regiment encamp'd them&s;elves in <HI>Cornestacke</HI>-Woods,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ch <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> upon the &s;ide of a boggie Mountaine not much above halfe a mile from our Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Owen &ocirc; Rourke</HI> with his Regiment and the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the County,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ch <HI>4.</HI></NOTE> en|camp'd them&s;elves on the right-hand of <HI>O Connours</HI> Regiment, in the &s;ame Woods neare together; <HI>O Connour</HI> &s;ends a &s;eeming friendly Letter by a Boy of 6 or 7 yeares old, advi&s;ing our Colonell to yeeld to &s;ome Trea|ties with them, and to prevent the eminent ruine was threatned to|wards his Ca&s;tle and all in it, which Letter was an&s;wered with con|tempt and di&s;daine by our Colonell, who &s;corned any Treaty with Rebels and Traitors.</P>
<P><HI>Owen &ocirc; Rourke,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ch <HI>8.</HI></NOTE> <HI>O Connour Sligoe,</HI> and all they could then command, being a great multitude, marched towards our Ca&s;tle from their Campe, as if that day they would have done great matters, but having &s;hewed them&s;elves, and marching about us, keeping without Musket-&s;hot of our walls, they drew back to their quarters.</P>
<P>They againe that morning,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ch</HI> 9.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></NOTE> being &s;upplied the night before with Colo|nell <HI>Con Mac Donnels</HI> Regiment, which as the day before with neere 2000 men, &s;iring &s;ome Cabbins, and &s;heltring them&s;elves as they &s;et fire in the ditches of the Orchard, where of from the Ca&s;tle walls our Colo|nell &s;hot two of them with his owne hands, which they carried off retrea|ting to their old quarters.</P>
<P>Being their Patron S^t. <HI>Patricks</HI> day,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ch <HI>17.</HI></NOTE> and the day they had prefixed for the de&s;truction of our Ca&s;tle and all in it, Our Colonell that morning with Trumpet, Drumme and Colours, marched out with Hor&s;e and Foote towards their unacce&s;&s;ible Campe with his &s;mall number, chal|lenging them that day to draw neare for performance of their great braggs, where we parlied and made &s;ome &s;port with them a while, a Ri|ver and a bogge dividing us; Our Colonell &s;ending for one of his Pri&s;o|ners, the Rogues being drawne up in a body right before us, we called to them &s;ince they dur&s;t not come to performe their promi&s;e and take the Ca&s;tle, they would re&s;cue their Country-man who was there to be han|ged
<PB N="25" REF="13" MS="y">in honour of S^t. <HI>Pattrick,</HI> which Pri&s;oner being hanged and pro|ving but an old &s;ack of &s;traw, long &s;tockings being &s;owed to it, as it was throwne over the gallowes, our Hang-man &s;itting on the gallowes, calling to them if they had charity in them to &s;end the poore pri&s;o|ner a Prie&s;t, they imagining that &s;ack to be a man, fell all on their knees in our view praying for the Pri&s;oners &s;oule.</P>
<P>Till this day our Campers lay quiet,<NOTE PLACE="marg">April <HI>2</HI></NOTE> our Colonell daily cau&s;ing the Plough to goe in de&s;pight of them till this night, that all our plough-Hor&s;es through negligence of our Centries are &s;tolne from us, they thin|king by that meanes they had overthrowne our ploughing, and the next morning we falling to geere our Ploughes our Colonell cau&s;eth his Troope-Hor&s;es which had beene kept in the hou&s;e, to be made ready and fall to plowing and &s;owing with them fa&s;ter then formerly, and ploweth and &s;oweth neere foure&s;core Barrells of Corne, the Rogues not daring for all their &s;trength to plow or &s;ow for them&s;elves within two or three miles of his Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>By this time the Rogues grew &s;o con&s;ident of their &s;ecurities in their Campe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">April <HI>7</HI></NOTE> that the Colonell <HI>&ocirc; Rourke</HI> brought his Cattell to graze upon &s;ome wa&s;t land within two miles of us, wherewith our Colonell being acquainted, that night &s;ent out a party of Hor&s;e and Foote, and &s;eized upon all their Cattell, driving them homewards by breake of day, where|upon they rai&s;ing their Camp, brake out upon us, thinking to have de&s;troy|ed us and re&s;cued their Colonels cattell; but it plea&s;ed God we &s;o paid them, that we not only made good our prey, but killed a number of their able&s;t men, bringing with us to the Ca&s;tle, 6 of their chiefe Officers heads, of which number was <HI>James Murrah Mac Glannaghy</HI> the chiefe man of that name, cha&s;ing all the re&s;t to their Campe, where we found 3 &s;tand of Pike-mens Armes, 2 Drummes, 6 Muskets with Bandaliers, 2 Serjeants Halberts, with a many Pikes and Skeanes, mo&s;t of tho&s;e Armes formerly belonging to the Lord Pre&s;ident of <HI>Connaughts</HI> Officers and Souldiers, having layne in Garri&s;on at <HI>Sligo</HI> till it was lo&s;t and they cut off; Thus we de&s;troyed their great Campe, where our Souldiers wives and boyes plentifully victualled them&s;elves, bringing from the Rogues a many great Iron-crowes and &s;uch like in&s;truments, made and marked with the &s;igne of the Cro&s;&s;e, making their poore churles beleeve, that with tho&s;e Irons they were to pull downe our Colonels Ca&s;tle and Bawne.</P>
<P>A party of Foote was this night &s;ent to <HI>Glenden,</HI> &s;ome 5 or 6 miles off,<NOTE PLACE="marg">April <HI>9</HI></NOTE> where we kil'd and burned in their hou&s;es neere 20 Rogues, bringing home a number of Cowes and Goates, and burning a many of <HI>Iri&s;h</HI>-hou&s;es.</P>
<P>Our Colonell this night in per&s;on,<NOTE PLACE="marg">April <HI>18</HI></NOTE> marched forth with a party of Hor&s;e
<PB N="26" REF="14" MS="y">and Foote into the County of <HI>Sligo,</HI> where within two miles of the Towne, he burnes of &s;ome Villages called <HI>Belfather,</HI> and other hou&s;es there, killed &s;ome Rogues, he returnes by M^r. <HI>Parkes</HI> Ca&s;tle of the <HI>New-Towne,</HI> finding that Towne and Ca&s;tle untoucht or troubled, being in the bo&s;ome of the Rogues, where our Colonell being informed the Rogues were daily relieved by that Towne and Ca&s;tle, their Cowes having gra|zed peaceably about the Ca&s;tle all the while their Campe lay about <HI>Man|nour Hamilton,</HI> M^r. <HI>Parke</HI> never permitting a man of his either to meddle with their cattell or them&s;elves, as they went and came with their provi|&s;ions from <HI>Sligo</HI> to their Campe, he having in his Ca&s;tle neare 60 able men, which might have done good &s;ervice if M. <HI>Parke</HI> and the <HI>&ocirc; Rourkes</HI> had not &s;o made their bargaines, that untill our Colonels Ca&s;tle were de&s;troyed, he &s;hould not be medled withall, &s;o as he made them no in|terruption while&s;t they were encampt about us; In the meane time M^r. <HI>Parke</HI> cau&s;ing his Weaver to weave 40 yards of broad-cloath for the u&s;e of M^r. <HI>Bryan Ballagh &ocirc; Rourke,</HI> whil&s;t he and his Brother <HI>Owen</HI> were lying in campe about us; And the next day after we had beate them from their campe, M^r. <HI>Parke</HI> not only &s;uffered them to carry away their cattell, which all that while they grazed neare to his Ca&s;tle gates with|out any guard &s;ave one coward, as al&s;o that day lent <HI>Bryan Ballagh</HI> the cloath-weaver in his Ca&s;tle, with divers &s;uch like informations proved by M^r. <HI>Parkes</HI> owne &s;ervants, whereupon our Colonell thought fit pre&s;ently to burne that Towne which &s;o long had relieved and &s;heltred the Rogues, and killed &s;ome of them at that in&s;tant in the Towne.</P>
<P>Our Hor&s;e men this morning &s;couring the fields,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">il <HI>21.</HI></NOTE> killed one of the Rogues centryes bringing his head home to the Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>This night a party was &s;ent towards <HI>Dromahere,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> 23.</NOTE> where we killed above 40 of the Rogues, burnt many good hou&s;es, brought home 7 or 8 &s;core cowes, with many Hor&s;es, Sheepe and Goates, by this march we diverted another great gathering intended to have encampt about us the next day.</P>
<P>A party of Foote is &s;ent into a Wood-land Mountaine countrey 10 mile from our Ca&s;tle,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI> May 1.</HI></NOTE> where by the dawning of the day we fell upon &s;ome hou&s;es belonging to the great Lord of that Countrey <HI>Mac A Nawe,</HI> where we burnt and killed in the hou&s;es upwards of 3 &s;core per&s;ons, taking <HI>Mac A Nawe</HI> him&s;elfe, with his two Daughters, and a Kin&s;-man Pri|&s;oner, his Wife being killed unknowne to the Souldiers, among&s;t the re&s;t we brought home our Pri&s;oners with 8 or 9 &s;core cowes, and neere 200 Sheepe and Goates.</P>
<P>That night a party of Hor&s;e and Foote are &s;ent into the countrey of <HI>Sligoe,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>May 10.</HI></NOTE> where we burnt the hou&s;es of <HI>Teig Mac Phelomy &ocirc; Connour, Teig
<PB N="27" REF="14" MS="y">bog &ocirc; Connour,</HI> neere Cozens and Captaines in <HI>O Connours</HI> Regiment, whil&s;t he lay about us we kil'd &s;ome 10 or 12 of the Rogues them&s;elves, being then at <HI>Sligo,</HI> mo&s;t of the people of the <HI>Barrony</HI> being &s;led to the Towne for feare of our men; That Country being almo&s;t wa&s;t, we brought home onely a prey of Sheepe.</P>
<P>This night we marcht into the County of <HI>Fermannagh,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">May <HI>13</HI></NOTE> where we kild the Wife of <HI>Donnogha Mac Flagherty Mac Gwire,</HI> with about 40 more, whom we &s;urpri&s;ed in hou&s;es before day, and brought with us 9 &s;core Cowes, above 200 Sheepe and Goates, and 47 Hor&s;es and Mares, 30 Swine, and 5 Pri&s;oners which we hanged.</P>
<P>Intending towards the Fryers of <HI>Crewly,</HI> we found that hou&s;e unco|vered,<NOTE PLACE="marg">May <HI>18</HI></NOTE> and the Fryers fled; This morning we encountred a number of <HI>Owen &ocirc; Rourkes</HI> men neare to the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dromahere,</HI> where we killed above 20 of them, our Souldiers got good Pillage in their Cabbins, brought home above an 100, mo&s;t of them <HI>Scotch</HI> and <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Cowes, 7 or 8 &s;core Sheepe, &s;ome lu&s;ty Mares and Hor&s;es, with a many Pikes, and the Lord Pre&s;ident of <HI>Connaughts</HI> Halbert, his Serjeant being taken when they left <HI>Sligo.</HI></P>
<P>This morning our Ca&s;tle is attempted to be taken by 4 or 5 handred Rogues from the <HI>Dartey</HI> or <HI>Ro&s;enver,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">May <HI>20</HI></NOTE> but our Centries timely giving us the Alarmes, they are re&s;cued, and the Rogues retyred to the Moun|taines.</P>
<P>In hope this night to meete the Rebels who attempted our Ca&s;tle,<NOTE PLACE="marg">May <HI>21</HI></NOTE> a party is &s;ent towards <HI>Glon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">an</HI> 6 miles from the Ca&s;tle, where we found a many faire <HI>Iri&s;h</HI>-hou&s;es, neither man nor bea&s;t neare them, all which we burnt, and marching homeward we perceived before Sun-ri&s;ing a many Rebels at <HI>Largenboy,</HI> within le&s;&s;e then a mile to our Ca&s;tle, coming from the County of <HI>Sligo,</HI> with intention that morning to a&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ile our Ca|&s;tle: Our party perceiving them, notwith&s;tanding their &s;ore cha&s;e in re&s;|cuing the Ca&s;tle the day before, and their hard march that night, yet did we advance towards them with Hor&s;e and Foote within &s;peech of them, our Colonell calling to them from a hill, asked if their errand were for the Ca&s;tle, for the re&s;cuing their Lord <HI>Mac A Nawe</HI> and his Daughters, or was it Cowes they were &s;eeking, they &s;hould have a venture for both, our Colonell cau&s;ing a Pri&s;oner to be brought out, told them it was <HI>Mac A Nawe,</HI> to be hanged for their welcome to their ould Campe, which Pri|&s;oner was immediately hanged in their owne view, the gallowes &s;tan|ding on the top of a hill, within le&s;&s;e then two Musket-&s;hots, where the Rogues were drawne up, as the Pri&s;oner was throwne over the ladder, we could perceive the Rogues upon their knees, thinking we had hanged
<PB N="28" REF="15"><HI>Mac a Nawe;</HI> After this our Colonell gives order pre&s;ently to drive above two hundred milch Cowes towards them, telling them there was the cowes we had lately taken from their deare friend Colonell <HI>Owen &ocirc; Rourke,</HI> when they were la&s;t beaten from their campe, hoping this would have put more mettall in them, &s;ince they dur&s;t not fight for re&s;cu|ing their friend, they being five times our number, and we unable to reach them as they &s;tood on tho&s;e wooddy boggs, keeping a mo&s;&s;e and a River betwixt us and them: Whil&s;t our Colonell parlied with them, his Lady from the ca&s;tle came to us (where we were drawne up over again&s;t the Rogues) furni&s;hing us with good &s;tore of meate and drinke, which much refre&s;hed us, having beene upon &s;ervice two nights together, yet were our &s;tomacks &s;harper &s;et to have beene at the Rogues, then either to meate or &s;leepe; but &s;eeing the Rogues &s;o unwilling to come on, we were commanded on a &s;udden to draw towards the ca&s;tle, which the Rogues perceiving fell to &s;tripping them&s;elves, and with a great noy&s;e and a cry come running towards us, and over the River unto the middle of a mo&s;&s;e &s;carce Musket &s;hot from the ca&s;tle, as if they would have gotten betwixt us and home; which our Colonell perceiving, gives order to the Officers, commanding the Foote to wheele about upon them, which the Rogues no &s;ooner perceiving, but they pre&s;ently fell a running over the River, throwing one another into it; as they cro&s;t, our Musketeeres getting ground of them, gave &s;ire among&s;t the thicke&s;t of them, killed diveis, hurt many, cha&s;t the re&s;t neare 3 miles over Mountaines towards <HI>Sligo,</HI> bringing home their chiefe Commander at that time his head, our Soul|diers being furni&s;hed with above an 100 of their Mantles, coates and cloakes, 2 Drummes, a many of their Armes, and good &s;tore of Meale and other commodities which their Wives and boyes found in their campe, we being tould by 2 Pri&s;oners that all the neghbouring Coun|ties had &s;et up their re&s;ts with a re&s;olution that night to have met, never to have given us over untill they had &s;tarved us or taken us out of our ca|&s;tle, but God of his wonted mercy thus di&s;appointed that damnable plot, without the lo&s;&s;e of a man to us, to his everla&s;ting glory and all our comforts.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding our &s;everall &s;ore marches the Weeke pa&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ay <HI>22.</HI></NOTE> we were encouraged by the word of a Pri&s;oner in hope of a &s;peciall peece of &s;ervice, this night to venture upon a fre&s;h march, where we were conducted neare 14 or 16 miles into the County of <HI>Sligo,</HI> guiding us among&s;t mo&s;t dangerous Rocks and glinns, intending to have betrayed us, as afterwards he confe&s;t; neverthele&s;&s;e it plea&s;ed God to give us &s;uch &s;trength and cou|rage, and &s;ent us &s;uch a meeting with them, as we killed above 30 in three
<PB N="29" REF="15" MS="y">cabbins, brought home a fre&s;h Pri&s;oner, above an 100 cowes, and neere &s;o many Sheepe; the crye and Countrey being up in all parts about us, yet never dur&s;t &s;o much as venture to re&s;cue the cattle; At our comming home we hanged our guide, who died a mo&s;t de&s;perate obdurate villaine.</P>
<P>A party of Foote was &s;ent towards <HI>Mounter Kenny,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">May <HI>27</HI></NOTE> that night we kil|led 10 or 12 in their cabbins among&s;t the Woods, brought home with us neere 200 cowes an 100 Sheepe, and in our returne we were &s;et upon by <HI>Owen &ocirc; Rourke,</HI> and the &s;onnes of <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">c Nawe,</HI> being neere 300 men, where it plea&s;ed God we not only defended our &s;elves and our prey, but al|&s;o killed and &s;tript a many of their be&s;t men, bringing home a Pri&s;oner with a many of their Armes.</P>
<P>This night a party of Hor&s;e and Foote are &s;ent towards &s;ome Lands of <HI>Owen &ocirc; Rourkes</HI> called <HI>Cilko&s;h,</HI> where we kided 15 or 16 of his men,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iune <HI>4.</HI></NOTE> brought home a Pri&s;oner, with &s;ome few Cowes, Hor&s;es, Sheepe and Goates.</P>
<P>A party of Foote is &s;ent towards our Colonels Woods of <HI>Glan&s;arne,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iune <HI>12</HI></NOTE> where we killed 15 or 16 in tho&s;e Woods, and brought home 4 Pri&s;oners, with &s;ome foure-&s;core cowes, and neere &s;ix-&s;core Sheepe.</P>
<P>Our Colonell having by vertue of a Commi&s;&s;ion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inne <HI>23</HI></NOTE> made u&s;e of &s;ome 20 of M^r. <HI>Parkes</HI> men in pro&s;ecution of Rebels, not thinking him to be &s;o ba&s;e a Traitour in corre&s;pondency with them as afterwards was proved. This night our Colonell &s;ends his party with 20 Beeves for the &s;upply and relieving <HI>Parke</HI> and his ca&s;tle, with orders that <HI>Parkes</HI> 20 men &s;hould returne with our party, there being twice more men with him within his ca&s;tle then was requi&s;ite for the defence thereof: But <HI>Parke</HI> recei|ving the Beeves, and getting his 20 men within his ca&s;tle, would not &s;uf|fer a man of them notwith&s;tanding our Colonels commi&s;&s;ion and orders to that purpo&s;e to returne with us.</P>
<P>Our Colonell much re&s;enting <HI>Parkes</HI> pre&s;umption the day before,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iune <HI>24.</HI></NOTE> this day &s;ends his Lieutenant with a party of Hor&s;e and Foote, reque&s;ting <HI>Parke</HI> by vertue of our Colonels commi&s;&s;ion from the Lords Ju&s;tices and Coun&s;ell, to draw forth and mu&s;ter what &s;trength that ca&s;tle could make, leaving a competent number within it &s;elfe for making good the walls; Our Lieutenant orders being that &s;o many &s;hould be left within the ca|&s;tle as his judgement &s;hould thinke fit, and the re&s;t to march along with our party upon &s;ome &s;peciall &s;peedy peece of &s;ervice intended, wherein Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> and his Regiment had &s;everall times denied us a&s;&s;i&s;tance; This motion <HI>Parke</HI> denied to mu&s;ter his men untill he per&s;waded our Lieu|tenant to come within his ca&s;tle, where &s;hutting the gates, he mu&s;tered neere 60 able men, whereof our Lieutenant demanded 30, which <HI>Parke</HI>
<PB N="30" REF="16" MS="y">denied, not &s;uffering a man of his to come within the ca&s;tle untill ours marcht away.<NOTE PLACE="marg">July <HI>11.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P>This night with Hor&s;e and Foote our Colonell thinkes fit in per&s;on to vi&s;it M^r. <HI>Parke,</HI> who had &s;o bea&s;tly neglected his Officers in contempt of the Lords Ju&s;tices and Conn&s;ells commi&s;&s;ion, fearing <HI>Parke</HI> was incli|ning rather to &s;ubmit him&s;elfe and his ca&s;tle into the hands of the Rogues whom he held the &s;tronger party, and daily corre&s;ponded with them, which to prevent, we marcht this night about midnight to his Ca&s;tle walls, requiring <HI>Parke</HI> if he were a &s;ubject, that upon his Allegiance he would come forth and &s;peake with out Colonell, who after &s;ome &s;huf|&s;ling excu&s;es and delayes opens his gate, our Colonell commands him &s;peedily to draw forth what men he had within the ca&s;tle, and making choi&s;e of &s;ome 20 of them which he joyned to his owne party, cau&s;ed pre|&s;ently to apprehend <HI>Parke</HI> upon &s;trong pre&s;umption of his di&s;loyalty and his former contempts; Our Colonell pre&s;ently puts in an Officer of his owne with the charge of that Ca&s;tle and all in it, which being done, our Colonell marches &s;traight towards the Towne of <HI>Sligo, Parkes</HI> ca&s;tle being within 4 miles of it, none of us that followed him imagining that with &s;o &s;mall a party he would have anned at &s;uch a march, but coming neare to the Towne, our Colonell commanding a halt to be made, and the party to be drawne up in abody, u&s;ing &s;ome comfortable encouraging &s;peeches, asking if our &s;tomacks did &s;erve us as his did, to attempt the burning of the Towne now &s;o neare it, which maintained &s;o many Re|bellious enemies, who had joyned in the burning our poore garri&s;on, and &s;o many times encampt about us and &s;ought our de&s;truction; This motion was no &s;ooner made by our Colonell then cherefully embraced by us all, &s;o recommending our &s;elves to his divine mercy, who had many times a&s;&s;i&s;ted and delivered us, on we marcht towards the dawning of the day, our Colonell having no other Officers to a&s;&s;i&s;t him in this &s;ervice, but his Serjeant <HI>Iavi&s;ton,</HI> his Lieutenant and En&s;igne being mo&s;t part of this yeare di&s;ea&s;ed and un&s;erviceable, our Colonell coming at the Bridge gives orders to the Foote chearefully to follow their Serjeant with what &s;ilence and &s;peed they were able, and once entring the Towne, no man pre&s;ume upon paine of death to enter any hon&s;e for plunder, but with &s;ire and &s;word to de&s;troy all we could come at, calling all the &s;treete if any <HI>Britti&s;h</HI> Pri&s;oners were among&s;t them they &s;hould draw to us, as divers did, Our Colonell with his Hor&s;e falling upon a many good hou&s;es full of people on this &s;ide of the Bridge, where he burned and de&s;troyed all, ap|pointing his Randevowes with the Foote at the South-we&s;t end of the Towne, where he cro&s;t a Foard which brought him clo&s;e to the Friery,
<PB N="31" REF="16" MS="y">where the foote met and fired their brave ma&s;&s;e hou&s;e and Fryery, where it is &s;aid, we burnt a many good things, which people had given in kee|ping for &s;afety to the Fryars, and all their &s;uper&s;titious trumperies belon|ging to their Ma&s;&s;e: It was thought &s;ome of the Fryers them&s;elves were likewi&s;e burnt, two of them running out were killed in their habits: As we fini&s;hed this worke, and giving God the prai&s;e for our &s;ucce&s;&s;e, we were tould by &s;ome Pri&s;oners that <HI>O Connour Sligo</HI> with what &s;trength he could make in that County, was that night marcht to meete <HI>Owen &ocirc; Rourke</HI> and the re&s;t of his old comrades from the County of <HI>Cavan,</HI> for the laying of a new campe about our Colonels ca&s;tle, and the carrying away of our new &s;upply of Cowes; upon which newes our Colonell held it fit to ha&s;t homewards, as we marcht hourely expecting to be in|countred; when we came within 3 miles of our Colonels ca&s;tle, we de&s;cerned our Colonels Hor&s;e pa&s;&s;iage &s;trongly to be be&s;et (being a &s;traight pa&s;&s;iage) with a number of men, having a Rocky-wood on our right-hand, and a great bogge on the left, &s;o that our Hor&s;e-men by our Colonels or|ders are forced to try another way, where many of them were bogged their Hor&s;es breaking from them; In the meane-time our Foote-men couragiou&s;ly charged a great body of them neere 300 which were layed for us that way; Tho&s;e who had be&s;et our Hor&s;e-pa&s;&s;ages, ob&s;erving our Hor&s;e-men bogg'd, and our Foote engaged with 3 times our number, marcht hard after our Hor&s;e-men, where our Colonell among&s;t the re&s;t was 3 times unhor&s;t, that day the Rogues playing hard upon him, being well knowne by his Hor&s;e and habit, as &s;ome of their Pri&s;oners afterwards confe&s;t; neverthele&s;&s;e, it plea&s;ed God out of his wonted fatherly mercy, not only to deliver us &s;afe out of their hands being a &s;mall handfull, not above 7 &s;core Hor&s;e and Foote, who fought our &s;elves with neere a 1000 of them from &s;everall quarters, &s;till skirmi&s;hing with us untill we came neare our Colonels ca&s;tle, our Muskiteeres killing a many of them, with the le&s;&s;e only of 3, and &s;ome few hurt; Notwith&s;tanding our weari&s;ome march and hot &s;ervice that night in burning of the Towne of <HI>Sligo,</HI> where it is confe&s;t by them&s;elves we de&s;troyed that night neere 3 hundred &s;oules by fire, &s;word and drowning, to Gods everla&s;ting great honour and glory and our comforts.</P>
<P><HI>James Wether&s;om</HI> a <HI>Scotch</HI>-man, married to an <HI>Iri&s;h</HI>-woman, being at <HI>Sli|go,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iuly <HI>7</HI></NOTE> and confe&s;&s;ing, him&s;elfe to have beene one of <HI>O Connours</HI> Souldiers, was this day hanged.</P>
<P>A party of Hor&s;e and Foote was this night &s;ent towards <HI>Killargy,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iuly 10.</NOTE> where the Rogues were &s;trongly encampt within 4 miles to our Colo|nels ca&s;tle; we falling on them before day, there we kild and &s;tript
<PB N="32" REF="17">above 20 of them, brought home above 8 &s;core of their cowes, were &s;et upon by a number of them, who thought to have re&s;eued the cowes, gave us a mo&s;t de&s;perate charge, but we kil'd 7 or 8 more of them, and brought home our prey with a many of their Armes, we lo&s;t one of our be&s;t Muskiteeres in this &s;ervice.</P>
<P>Our Colonell being advertized from the County of <HI>Fermanagh,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>25.</HI></NOTE> that Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> had lately taken in upon protection above an 100 <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rogues, allowing them a Captaine of their owne Nation over them, quartering them neare to the way where our me&s;&s;engers u&s;ed to pa&s;&s;e towards <HI>Eniskillen,</HI> which much troubled our Colonell, &s;uch a thing &s;hould be done by Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> with whom he daily corre&s;ponded, without acquainting him with his warrant or rea&s;ons for that act: here|upon out Colonell fearing lea&s;t that &s;uch like neighbours &s;hould be put up|on him by Sir <HI>William Cole,</HI> this night &s;ends a party towards the borders of <HI>Fermanagh,</HI> where a many goodly <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> hou&s;es with an Iron worke were &s;tanding among&s;t the Woods, all which our Colonell this night cau|&s;ed to be burned; In &s;couring tho&s;e Woods we found a few cowes and a Pri&s;oners.</P>
<P>Our Colonell having divers times by Letters adverti&s;ed Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> while&s;t the Rogues lay encampt about him,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>26.</HI></NOTE> de&s;iring &s;ome aide from Sit <HI>William</HI> Regiment being mo&s;t part <HI>Scotch</HI>-men, whom our Colonell had advi&s;ed to &s;ubmit to his command, being of that County which he lived in, yet Sir <HI>William</HI> did never &s;ince the beginning of the&s;e troubles, venture &s;o much as one me&s;&s;enger to &s;ee what was become of us, for all our Colonell con&s;tantly twice or thrice a Moneth did adventure me&s;&s;en|gers to him, who was neere 10 times our number: And we being ad|vertized from Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> him&s;elfe by our me&s;&s;engers, that &s;ome Pouder and Ammunition was &s;ent from <HI>Dublin</HI> and <HI>London-derry</HI> to <HI>Do|negall,</HI> for the &s;upply of <HI>Eniskillen</HI> and us both, Sir <HI>William</HI> promi&s;ing by his meanes and his &s;tronger party, that &s;ome cour&s;e &s;hould be taken for the bringing our Ammunition from <HI>Donegall</HI> as for his owne, which our Colonell relyed upon: yet neverthele&s;&s;e Sir <HI>William</HI> did make that meanes that his owne was brought to <HI>Balli&s;hannon</HI> within 12 miles to our Co|lonels ca&s;tle, and unknowne to our Colonell &s;ends a party of 4 or 5 hundred to <HI>Balli&s;hannon</HI> for his Ammunition, where he was well &s;upplied with Salt, and marched at this time with this party neare to the borders of our Colonels Land, within 6 miles to his ca&s;tle, where our &s;mall party might have conveniently met them, and have beene &s;upplied as they were, if their intention and wi&s;hes had beene as neighbourcly towards us, as we were really towards them, who by this and other after carria|ges
<PB N="33" REF="17">appeared rather to envy then to pitty our extremities whereof they were fully informed; yet hearing by our la&s;t me&s;&s;enger how God had ble&s;t and enabled us to doe for our &s;elves, and that &s;tore of cowes were to be had in our county of <HI>Leytrim,</HI> whereof they heard that we got dai|ly &s;tore: This newes it &s;eemes did more invite our neighbour Regi|ment then any &s;tomack they had to relieve us in our &s;everall di&s;tre&s;&s;es un|till this day; A party of neere 400 Hor&s;e and Foote are &s;ent with Sit <HI>William Coles</HI> Letters to our Colonell, congratulating his &s;everall good &s;ervices, expre&s;&s;ing he had now in accompli&s;hment of our Colonels for|mer de&s;ires &s;ent the&s;e Gentlemen and Souldiers, to be imployed in &s;cou|ring of the Countrey, and &s;uch other &s;ervices as by our Colonell &s;hould be thought fit, without limitation of time or other end mentioned in his Letter; upon reading whereof our Colonell bids their Lieutenant Colo|nell <HI>Ache&s;on</HI> with the re&s;t of their Captaines heartily welcome, there being in their company M^r. <HI>Deane Barkeley,</HI> who had marired Sir <HI>William Coles</HI> Daughter, and had lately beene relieved by Sir <HI>William</HI> from the Rogues, in exchange of divers arch-Rebels, Prie&s;ts, Captaines and others of great con&s;equence; This M^r. <HI>Deane</HI> &s;o behaved him&s;elfe at a conference betwixt our Colonell and their Officers, as if he had come with ab&s;olute power from his Father in law over this party, Officers and Souldiers, their Lieutenant Colonell alledging they were &s;ent thither by Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> upon information of our me&s;&s;enger, that we were blockt up with a &s;trong campe about the Ca&s;tle, and that his orders were to &s;tay no longer with out Colonell then the next day, allowing them perempto|rily 48 houres and no longer to be from their Garri&s;on, they having in that time 40 long miles march through Woods and Mountaines to per|forme, let any man judge what &s;ervice in the re&s;t of that time was fit to be ventured on: upon this our COlonell advized them, &s;ince their private orders were &s;uch, contrary to the contents of Sir <HI>Williams</HI> Letters to him, that their be&s;t cour&s;e was for that night, Commanders and Officer to refre&s;h them&s;elves with him in his Ca&s;tle, taking order that their Soul|diers &s;hould be quartered and provided for among&s;t his Souldiers in their cabbins, which their Officers would not yeeld to, much urging and op|portuning our Colonell, that &s;ince they were come to him, and that they found the Fields cleare about him, as they had beene neere 3 Moneths before that, which they knew well enough what&s;oever they pretended; that he &s;hould imploy them upon &s;ome peece of &s;ervice under his com|mand before they returned: Our Colonell telling them, God had hither|to mercifully ble&s;t his undertakings with his owne handfull, that he was unwilling to engage the honour of what further &s;ervice he intended up|on
<PB N="34" REF="18">&s;uch &s;trict orders, the &s;ucce&s;&s;e and event not fit to be limited with their time; Their Officers &s;till importuning that night to be imployed, whereupon upon their importunities, our Colonell re&s;olved to try with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of their &s;trength, the taking of the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Drumahere,</HI> wherein was Colonell <HI>Owen &ocirc; Rourke,</HI> with divers of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebels of this County, hoping by that &s;ervice to have relieved Sir <HI>Robert Han|ney</HI> with his Lady and children, who had beene long Pri&s;oners in that ca&s;tle, thinking Sir <HI>William Coles</HI> men being &s;o earne&s;t, and once en|gaged in the hopes of compa&s;&s;ing &s;o honourable a peece of &s;ervice, they would not for &s;hame have left it, and carried them&s;elves &s;o meanely whil&s;t we were upon the &s;ervice as unworthily they did: Our Colo|nell not only in hopes, but full of confidence and probable rea&s;ons, mar|ches in per&s;on with his Hor&s;e and Foote, leading them on neare the Ca|&s;tle walls, where he entered his Ma&s;ons, Carpenters and other worke|men with their in&s;truments, who in &s;hort time did make a breach, where he placed &s;ome few Muskiteeres; The Rebels countermanding our work; play &s;o hot upon our Muskiteeres as one of them were killed, another deadly &s;hot the re&s;t were beaten from the worke, our Colonels men being wearied out, and having no &s;econding or a&s;&s;i&s;tance from Sir <HI>Wil|liam Coles</HI> great number, their Lieutenant Colonell having no power to command them to relieve our men, whil&s;t we were &s;pending our lives and bloods in compa&s;&s;ing this &s;ervice; <HI>Deane Barkeley</HI> is publikely di&s;|couraging the Officers and Souldiers of Sir <HI>William Coles</HI> party, tel|ling them they were not &s;ent by their Colonell and Governour to take in Ca&s;tles, and that their time limited by their orders was come, wi&s;hing them at their perils to draw homewards: Our Colonell much grieved and a&s;hamed to be thus engaged with the hopes of their helpe; advi&s;ed the <HI>Deane</HI> not to meddle with what was out of his Element, de&s;iring to di&s;pute the condition of our e&s;tate with the Lieutenant Colonell and other Officers of the Regiment. The <HI>Deane</HI> replyed the Water was none of his Element, and yet he could &s;wimme; and who&s;oever &s;hould com|mand that party further, &s;hould &s;peake to him. Our Colonell thus di&s;|contented, contented, ob&s;erving the unworthy carriage of their Souldiers, who whil&s;t we were upon &s;ervice, their Hor&s;e-men were rambling the Coun|trey, driving in Hor&s;es and Cowes, their Foote-men running after Mut|tons, catching, killing and wa&s;ting under every bu&s;h; Our Colonell en|deavouring after the le&s;&s;e of his men to pel&s;wade them only to lye that night about the Ca&s;tle, knowing by the information of Pri&s;oners, they could not po&s;&s;ibly have held out 2 dayes, if they had not yeelded that night, as &s;ince we are informed they intended, and did that night, after
<PB N="35" REF="18">our Colonell marcht from thence, all of them leave the ca&s;tle, leaving Sir <HI>Robert Hanney</HI> with his Lady and children lock't in a roome all alone, till the next day we were not likely to come any more, and that out <HI>Fermannagh</HI> friend had left us in &s;uch di&s;order, who intended to have carried with them not onely what Cowes and Hor&s;es they had gathered in the fore-mentioned manner whil&s;t we wore upon &s;ervice, but al&s;o thought to have &s;tolne with them divers of our Colonells cattell that morning they wero to part; wherewith our Colonell being acquainted, perceived that their intended kindne&s;&s;e and vi&s;it to him, was only to have made u&s;e of his per&s;on and &s;trength to have prey'd our Countrey for them, which he held no &s;itting imployment for his per&s;onall &s;ervice, con&s;idering how unworthily they had carried them&s;elves towards him in the time of our di&s;tre&s;&s;e, and particularly in this laft &s;ervice; where|upon order was given by our Colonell, that not only his owne, cattell &s;hould be re&s;cued from them, but what el&s;e they had taken whil&s;t he was in the Fields, telling their Captaines it was &s;hame for them, they being 6 times our number, to offer to take any thing from us, &s;ince they have made us the wor&s;e and not the better for them: This much vexed <HI>Deane Barkeley,</HI> who pretended a Hor&s;e to be taken from him, which he had catch't him&s;elfe whil&s;t we were upon &s;ervice about the ca&s;tle, our Colonell telling him, &s;ince he had de&s;erved no better among&s;t us, he &s;hould carry no Hor&s;e from thence to bragge of; wi&s;hing the be&s;t 2 Hor&s;es on his &s;table, with 500 punds in money had beene &s;ent his Father in law and him&s;elfe to <HI>Eniskillen,</HI> &s;o that the Deane had not come to this march, who carried him&s;elfe more like a Devill then a Deane: For the. Captaines and Officers being a&s;hamed of them&s;elves, and ob|&s;erving our Souldiers to be but a few, and daily imployed, were per&s;wa|ded by our Colonell for his Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, and as a &s;mall &s;upply for the &s;afety of our ca&s;tle and Garri&s;on, to lend our Colonell for &s;ome time 5 men out of every one of their Companies, making up 30 men to him, and having received the&s;e men from the &s;everall Captaines, our Lieute|nant is commanded by the Colonell for the better grace and credit of their party, to march a part of their way with our Hor&s;e and Foote, and as our Lieutenant and they were a parting, <HI>Deane 'Barkley</HI> had like to have rai&s;ed a mutiny, and have &s;et their party and ours by the eares, threat|ning tho&s;e men left with their Colonell by the Captaines con&s;ents, &s;o as halfe of them at that in&s;tant pre&s;ently ranne away from us with this un|worthy carriage of Sir <HI>William Coles</HI> party by the Deane of <HI>Cloghers,</HI> meanes. Our Colonell acquaints Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> by a Letter, hoping he would have re&s;ented his Sonne in lawes arrogant and pre&s;uptuous
<PB N="36" REF="19">carriage, and have &s;ent us &s;ome &s;upply of more men, but farre other|wi&s;e then we expected, Sir <HI>William</HI> in his an&s;wer, rather ju&s;tified his Sonne in lawes actions, condemning and cen&s;uring his Captaines for the few men they had lent our Colonell, denying the former, and ac|knowledging in this Letter for what he &s;ent his party, de&s;iring that tho&s;e few men which had not runne away with the re&s;t by his Sonne in lawes threatnings, &s;hould be &s;peedily returned him, and accordingly they were: And after this unworthy u&s;age of Sir <HI>William Cole,</HI> our Colonels Soul|dier ob&s;erving the liberty and di&s;orderly governement and di&s;cipline of tho&s;e <HI>Eniskillen</HI> Souldiers, begun daily to runne away to <HI>Eniskillon,</HI> where they found &s;helter and imployment among&s;t their Captaines, to the great di&s;comfort of our Colonell, and the hazard of us all.</P>
<P>A party of Foote is &s;ent to the County of <HI>Cavan,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">gu&s;t <HI>8.</HI></NOTE> where we kil'd above 20 Rogues, bringing home 2 Pri&s;oners, and 7 or 8 &s;core cowes, and above 200 Sheepe and Goates.</P>
<P>A party is &s;ent towards <HI>Bally&s;hannon</HI> in the County of <HI>Donegall,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">gu&s;t <HI>22</HI></NOTE> where we kil'd 17 Rogues, and burned many hou&s;es in that Countrey, and brought home a few cowes.</P>
<P>Our Colonell being advertized that &s;ome 2 miles on this &s;ide <HI>Sligo,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">gu&s;t <HI>25</HI></NOTE> a guard of Hor&s;e-men did daily come forth with their Reapers of corne, and hoping to meete with them, this night a party of Hor&s;e and Foote was &s;ent with &s;ome guides to lye in ambu&s;h for them, where having layne till noone, none appearing, that day our orders were to burne and prey what we could in that countrey, where we burned of &s;everall Vil|liages, as <HI>Donoly, Formorley, Collrey</HI> and <HI>Li&s;duff,</HI> with a many other &s;trag|ling hou&s;es in the countrey, where we met with 3 or 4 &s;core cowes, and above an 100 Sheepe. By this time the countrey gathers, thinking to have re&s;cued our prey and have beaten us, but it plea&s;ed the Lord &s;o in his wonted mercy to &s;tand for us, as that day we kil'd above 40 of their be&s;t men, &s;tript them all, brought home a Pri&s;oner, re|relieved the ca&s;tle of the <HI>New-Towne</HI> with a &s;hare of our cowes and Sheepe, divers of their be&s;t Gentry, the <HI>&ocirc; Connours,</HI> and the <HI>&ocirc; Harts</HI> being thus killed; We marcht Hor&s;e and Foote towards the <HI>Ro&s;&s;e</HI> in the coun|ty of <HI>Sligo,</HI> whence we brought a prey of neere 6 or 7 &s;core cowes, and above 300 Sheepe and Goates, where in our retreat we were &s;et up|on by the greate&s;t &s;trength of the county, who were gotten into a great head to the Towne of <HI>Sligo,</HI> with intention that day to have layed a new C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">npe about our Ca&s;tle, which this encounter diverted, we killing as was afterwards acknowledged by Pri&s;oners neere 60 of their able&s;t men, with two of their famous Prie&s;ts, <HI>Connour &ocirc; Hart,</HI> and <HI>Donnell &ocirc; Lynch,</HI>
<PB N="37" REF="19" MS="y">bringing home 7 Pri&s;oners, 5 whereof were hanged the next day, one of them called Captaine <HI>Con&ocirc; Connour</HI> and the other <HI>Cormack &ocirc; Hoy</HI> who had beene a Mini&s;ter among&s;t our Colonels Pari&s;hes, who &s;ince this Rebellion profe&s;&s;ed much loyalty, though a kindly traitour, his Father being Viccar generall in the county of <HI>Sligo,</HI> was &s;om: yeares agoe quar|tered in the Towne of <HI>Sligo</HI> for trea&s;onable &s;peeches again&s;t the King and State.</P>
<P>The Colonell this day heares divers &s;hot of Ordinance towards <HI>Sligo,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Septem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> <HI>10.</HI></NOTE> which put him in &s;ome hopes of &s;ome Army towards that place, or reliefe towards us.</P>
<P>This night a party of Hor&s;e and Foote was &s;ent towards the Sea-coa&s;t to &s;earch for a Pri&s;oner,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Septem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> <HI>11.</HI></NOTE> for intelligence what &s;hooting it was we heard the day before, where we fell on, there the countrey gathered together to oppo&s;e the landing of men, where 2 Ships lay within the harbour of <HI>Sligo;</HI> we gave the Rogues the Alarme, who fled all to a &s;trength of an old Ca&s;tle neare the Sea-coa&s;t, we brought home one Pri&s;oner, of whom we learned that &s;ome of the <HI>O Donnells</HI> and <HI>O Galloghers</HI> from <HI>&V;l&s;ter</HI> were joyned with the county of <HI>Sligo</HI> Rebels to the number of 4 or 500 thinking tho&s;e Ships carried men, Moncy, Victuals and Ammuni|tion for out relie&s;e, but it &s;eemed their greater errand thither, was to &s;ee for a Barque which the Merchants of <HI>Sligo</HI> had loaded with &s;everall com|modities with corne and cattell from the <HI>Oy&s;ter-I&s;land,</HI> where they landed &s;ome men, and burned divers hou&s;es, going to Sea afterwards, and as yet unknowne to us what they were.</P>
<P>This night we marcht againe into the County of <HI>Sligo,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">September <HI>27.</HI></NOTE> where within a little more then a mile to that Towne, we burnt a great village, <HI>Ennagh</HI> belonging to <HI>Andrew Crean</HI> the late Sheriffs of that County, we kild a number of Corne-reapers, and brought with us a Pri&s;oner.</P>
<P>By rea&s;on of our daily &s;ervice,<NOTE PLACE="marg">October <HI>2</HI></NOTE> never any wayes &s;upplied or relieved now almo&s;t a yeare &s;ince the Rebellion begunne, our Colonell in this extremity, thinkes fit this night to &s;end the mo&s;t part of his men towards <HI>Eniskillen,</HI> for &s;ome Armes and Ammunition which was &s;ent thither by the conveniency of Sir <HI>Robert Stewarts,</HI> guarding the <HI>Eniskillen</HI> party from the <HI>Derry,</HI> wherewith Sir <HI>Robert</HI> worthily and lovingly adverti|zed our Colonell from <HI>Eniskillen</HI> with what was left for him there with Sir <HI>William Cole,</HI> who had promi&s;ed to give his be&s;t a&s;&s;i&s;tance for the &s;peedy conveying and guarding of tho&s;e nece&s;&s;aries to us: But our party coming to <HI>Eniskillen,</HI> relying upon the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of Sir <HI>William Coles</HI> Re|giment, not only for the guarding of our Armes and Ammunition, but
<PB N="38" REF="20" MS="y">al&s;o for the re&s;toring and returning our runne-awayes which had beene unlawfully &s;heltered and employed among&s;t them. Our Officer deman|ding a guard for both tho&s;e purpo&s;es, is offered the Armes and Ammu|nition if without a guard we would venture on them, our runne-awayes are &s;o concealed and di&s;per&s;ed among&s;t them, as no helpe is made for us for them at all where there were 14 or 15 of them, Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> never appearing among&s;t us, but his gates &s;hut again&s;t us, and his bridge drawne up as if we had beene Rebels come to take in his Ca&s;tle, not offering us or our Officers &s;o much as one bit of Bread, or cup of &s;mall Beere in his Ca&s;tle or Garri&s;on, our Colonell having formerly enter|tained 500 of his plentifully two nights though they wronged him; Thus not daring without a guard to venture upon the Kings Armes and Ammunition with &s;o weake a party &s;o farre a march through Woods and Mountaines, we were forced with no &s;mall hazard to make what &s;peede we could from whence we came; Our Colonell being advertized before our coming that the Countrey was &s;trongly gathered toge|ther to have layed for us in our coming home, but we mi&s;&s;ed of our errand.</P>
<P>Mo&s;t of this Weeke was imployed by us Men, Women and Boyes, in fetching in of Corne from the Rebels, from the bordering counties of <HI>Sligo</HI> and <HI>Fermannagh,</HI> with what was neare us in our own countrey, whereof it plea&s;ed God we had a good &s;upply without the le&s;&s;e of a man, woman or child, though daily threatned with great bravadoes, yet they dur&s;t not cut any graine for them&s;elves &s;carce on this &s;ide <HI>Sligo</HI> bridge, where abundance of Wheate, Rye and Barley rotted upon the ground for want of meanes and helpe for us to bring it from thence, which <HI>Fer|mannagh</HI> men might conveniently have done both for their owne &s;upply and ours.</P>
<P>Seven of our Colonels men left at <HI>New-Towne</HI> for a guard within 4 miles of <HI>Sligo,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ctober <HI>9.</HI></NOTE> upon little Naggs chardged 50 or 60 reaping Corne neare <HI>Sligo,</HI> where they killed 4 of them, cha&s;ed the re&s;t, brought home a Pri&s;oner, with 18 or 20 Hor&s;es and Carrs the Rogues had beene draw|ing corne withall; The Pri&s;oner being brought to our Colonell, informes him that 2 Congans of the <HI>&V;l&s;ter</HI> Rogues, under the command of Cap|taine <HI>Manus Mac Egnahan &ocirc; Donnell,</HI> and Captaine <HI>Ferdinando &ocirc; Gal|logher</HI> were joyned with Captaine <HI>Teig Mac Phelomy &ocirc; Connour,</HI> who lay at a Towne of <HI>&ocirc; Connors</HI> called <HI>Broad Culline,</HI> &s;ome 12 miles from us, with intention &s;hortly to have a &s;ling at our Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>Upon this intelligence,<NOTE PLACE="marg">October <HI>21.</HI></NOTE> our Colonell thinkes fit this night to &s;end a party of Hor&s;e and Foote to prevent the&s;e Gentlemens vi&s;it, where we
<PB N="39" REF="20">met with them in the place our Pri&s;oner informed us, having good &s;port with them for a while in killing neere 60 of them with all their 3 Cap|taines, &amp; Captain <HI>Teig &ocirc; Connours</HI> Wife, his Brother having been formerly a Captaine, and brought hither Pri&s;oner was hanged, we brought home this day neere 200 cowes with a Pri&s;oner, burning the Towne of <HI>Broad Cul|line</HI> belonging to <HI>&ocirc; Connour,</HI> with divers other &s;mall Villiages neare it.</P>
<P>Our Colonell in expectation Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> and his Captaines would now have u&s;ed &s;ome meanes to have guarded his Armes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Octob<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>1</HI></NOTE> Ammunition and runne-awayes, as partly they promi&s;ed within a weeke or 10 dayes of our la&s;t being with them, whereof &s;eeing no performance, and our for|mer &s;tore in that kind, as al&s;o our &s;alt being almo&s;t quite &s;pent, and un|der&s;tanding that Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> had lately beene &s;upplied from <HI>Balli|&s;hannon:</HI> In this extremity mo&s;t of our company is againe commanded in a party to <HI>Eniskillen,</HI> with Letters to Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> mentioning our extremities, &s;ending money by our Lieutenant for what &s;alt could be had at any rate, either for love or money, which orders of Sir <HI>William</HI> inten|ded no better to us then in our la&s;t march to that purpo&s;e, that we &s;hould our &s;elves venture upon the Armes and Ammunition, we were at a &s;tand every way, and leaving it to God and better times, to judge and revenge our u&s;age upon the&s;e la&s;t Letters, our Armes and Ammunition are deli|vered us with a Letter to our Colonell, but no guard nor &s;upply of &s;alt to be had; Thus it plea&s;ed God to bring us &s;afe home with what we recei|ved, &s;till deteyning our run-awayes, making u&s;e of them.</P>
<P>Our Souldiers being weary after their &s;ore march for our Ammunition,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Novem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> <HI>10.</HI></NOTE> the weather being faire, all the Women and Boyes are &s;ent towards <HI>Dro|mahere</HI> to looke for corne, where with a &s;mall guard of Hor&s;e and &s;ome fire-locks, they marched where they met with &s;tore of corne, coming all loaden home in &s;pight of many Rogues that appeared to them upon &s;eve|rall hills.</P>
<P>We are this day likely to be &s;urprized by neere a 1000 Rogues from the counties of <HI>Fermannagh</HI> and <HI>Cavan,</HI> under the command of Serjeant Major <HI>Hugh Mac Bryan Mac Gwire;</HI> thinking to have carried away all our cattell, pre&s;uming on their multitudes again&s;t our handfull, which they thought had not recovered their la&s;t &s;ore march from <HI>Eniskillen,</HI> and having layen in ambu&s;h all night, expecting the drawing out of our cat|tell in the morning; but finding them&s;elves di&s;covered by 2 of our Hor&s;e|men who &s;coured the Fields before our cattell, the&s;e two men were &s;o engaged among&s;t the Rogues that they were both killed, we taking the Alarme, re&s;cued our Cattell, where we had a &s;ound encounter with the Rogues, who vvere neere 10 times our number, thinking to have &s;vval|lowed
<PB N="40" REF="21">us up; they giving the be&s;t fire, and coming the fiercelie&s;t for one charge, of mo&s;t that we met withall this yeare: but after charge we did pepper them both with Hor&s;e and Foote, as that they made both a&s;peedy and di&s;orderly retreat, we breaking the legge of the only be&s;t Souldier and Captaine among&s;t them called <HI>Charles Mac Gwier</HI> who had long &s;er|ved the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI> and led on &s;ome 4 &s;core of their Musketeeres mo&s;t de&s;perately, and for his good &s;ervice our Colonell to cure him, cau|&s;ed him to be carried on a barrow to the gallowes, where he rayled at us all for that he could not obtaine a Souldiers death, to be &s;hot at a po&s;t, having formerly beene twice ran&s;omed in two Kings &s;ervices, <HI>Spaine</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> and this morning commanding 300 proper men, not thinking that night to dye like a Dogge on <HI>Mannour Hamiltons</HI> gallowes, &s;aying, he ob&s;erved now God was again&s;t them, acknowledging them&s;elves to be 10 times our number, and that it was the Devill brought him from his former honourable &s;ervice to this ba&s;e and mi&s;erable end. In this dayes &s;ervice, we killed divers of the be&s;t men of both Counties, brin|ging home the heads of <HI>Shane Roe Mac Gwire,</HI> which Col: <HI>Conaught Mac Flagherty Mac Huc,</HI> &s;onne in law to <HI>Mac A Nawe</HI> who had beene long our Colonels Pri&s;oner till this day, he was hanged for company with the Captaine and his &s;onne in lawes kind vi&s;it to him: We brought home Pri&s;oners, <HI>Phelomy Mac Peirce Mac Gwire,</HI> who had beene Ser|jeant to the Serjeant Majors company, who &s;caped very narrowly, him|&s;elfe being enforced to quit his Hor&s;e, and to goe away &s;ore wounded by the benefit of a boggie Wood neere by him. Thus it plea&s;ed God to en|able us to deale with the&s;e Rogues.</P>
<P>A party is &s;ent towards the borders of <HI>Monter Kenny,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ember</NOTE> where we killed 14 or 15 Rogues, burnt a many of hou&s;es, brought home a Pri&s;oner with neere a 100 cowes.</P>
<P>Being in great di&s;tre&s;&s;e and want of Salt,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ember</NOTE> Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> having u&s;ed us as before is mentioned, our Colonell re&s;olves this night to adventure a party towards <HI>Balli&s;hannon</HI> in hope there to be &s;upplied: Our party marching in the night-time, is by the Rogues centryes di&s;covered: Ne|verthele&s;&s;e we marcht freely to <HI>Balli&s;hannon</HI> before day, where Captaine <HI>Folliot</HI> hearing our Colonels trumpet and our Lieutenant, &s;ends out the Boate for our Lieutenant, who delivering our Colonels Letter, de&s;iring to be &s;upplied with &s;ome &s;alt, Captaine <HI>Folliot</HI> wi&s;hing he had &s;ooner known our Colonels wants either of &s;alt or Ammunition, there being 2 Barrels of Pouder with Match and Lead proportionable &s;ent from <HI>Derry</HI> to <HI>Do|negall</HI> for our Colonels u&s;e, with the like proportion for Sir <HI>William Cole,</HI> who acquainted our Colonell therewith by his Letter, promi&s;ing the
<PB N="41" REF="21">like care &s;hould be taken by him for bringing our Ammunition from <HI>Do|negall</HI> as of his owne, which Captaine <HI>Folliot</HI> &s;aid might as well, as ea&s;ily have beene done if Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> had but writ &s;o much to him, when by <HI>Folliots</HI> meanes his was brought to <HI>Balli&s;hannon,</HI> from thence by Sir <HI>William Coles</HI> party to <HI>Eniskillen;</HI> In which march they came within 6 miles of our Colonels ca&s;tle, &s;o it is ea&s;ie to be judged what comfortable neighbourhood or a&s;&s;i&s;tance, either for his Maje&s;ties &s;ervice or our &s;afety we have had from <HI>Eniskillen:</HI> After di&s;puting this particular with Cap|taine <HI>Felliot</HI> he &s;hewes our Lieutenant what &s;alt Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> had left him, being not above 4 Barrels, whereof he &s;ent our Colonell two, who expected 20, &s;ending money and Hor&s;es to that purpo&s;e with our party<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> by this occa&s;ion we brought with us for our Ladies u&s;e a good woman called <HI>&V;nye Hale;</HI> As we marched homewards, we could perceive as we came within 6 miles to our Garri&s;on, the fields fowle on all quarters, which &s;et us the better upon our guard, not daring to di&s;per&s;e our &s;elves in gathering of Cattell which we ob&s;erved to be driven in our wayes, thinking to have tempted us for the greater advantage again&s;t us, we ha|ving gotten neere 3 &s;core which we drave before us till we came neare the borders of our Colonels land, where on a &s;uddaine we were engaged among&s;t the Regues, who had laid a &s;trong ambu&s;h for us being within little more then pu&s;h of Pike before we could perceive them, &s;o as we were pre&s;ently engaged to pu&s;h of Pike before our Muskiteeres could give fire, which afterwads they did over our Pike-mens &s;houlders, the Rogues &s;tan|dingmo&s;t de&s;perately to it for almo&s;t half an houre, they being a pickt party of the be&s;t and able&s;t men that were of the borders of <HI>Fermanagh</HI> and <HI>Ley|trim,</HI> mo&s;t of them <HI>O Flannigans, Mac Gwires</HI> and <HI>Mac Caffries,</HI> from the Barrony of <HI>Towro,</HI> with the <HI>Mac Glannaghies, Mac Glanghlins &ocirc; Freiles,</HI> and <HI>&ocirc; Meaghens</HI> of the <HI>Dartrye,</HI> and <HI>Ro&s;&s;onter,</HI> whereof we kil|led neere 3 &s;core of their propere&s;t and be&s;t men, with their chiefe Com|mander, who had beene a <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Souldier, called <HI>Bryan Durrogh &ocirc; Tre&s;|&s;ey,</HI> with divers others of their Gentlemen whom our boyes &s;tript, bringing home a number of their cloathes and Armes; This glorious victory broke the hearts of the mo&s;t daring dangerous men of both tho&s;e Counties, to Gods holy name be the prai&s;e and honour, who thus mercifully deli|vered us without the lo&s;&s;e of a man, though a many hurt with pu&s;h of Pike and darts; The &s;ervice was performed upon S. <HI>Andrewes</HI> day, for the credit of our <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI>-Patron.</P>
<P>A party is &s;ent to &s;coure the Woods of <HI>Ro&s;&s;ender,</HI> and to &s;earch for corne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dece<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> <HI>15.</HI></NOTE> whence we brought above an 100 Cowes, our women and boyes being well loaden with good &s;tore of burnt corne, where we kild 3 Rogues and brought home a pri&s;oner.</P>
<PB N="42" REF="22">
<P>This night our Colonell intends a party of his Chri&s;tians to be kept at <HI>Ballymote,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">mber</NOTE> where he hopes to burne of that Towne, not doubting by Gods former favour and mercy the performance thereof, had not a many of his Souliers beene &s;educed to a mo&s;t damnable plot, to have runne away to Sir <HI>William Cole,</HI> being incouraged thereto by the report of a me&s;&s;enger our Colonell had lately come from thence, informing what liberty his Souldiers had there, who would not be commanded by Captaine or Officer, which damnable plot had &s;o taken among&s;t a many of the party, that being marched but a &s;mall way, they pretend &s;uch faintne&s;&s;e and wearine&s;&s;e, that the like was never ob&s;erved among&s;t them; not knowing what the mi&s;tery could meane, our Lieutenant is found contrary to his orders to march back againe, by this meanes was this &s;ervice overthrowne, for which our Colonell thankes <HI>Eniskillen,</HI> on which retreat we encountred &s;ome Rogues, whereof we kil'd 6 or 7, and brought home neere 3 &s;ecre Cowes, which were no very welcome pre&s;ent to our Colonell, in compari&s;on of what &s;ervice that night he ex|pected to have beene done: This party no &s;ooner came home, but our Co|lonell di&s;covered the whole plot, where he tooke &s;uch cour&s;e with them as he found the whole cau&s;e proceeded from <HI>Eniskillen,</HI> and the countenance was given his run-awayes there.</P>
<P>A party is &s;ent towards <HI>Clanlogh</HI> on the borders of <HI>Mounter Kenny,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>9.</HI></NOTE> where we kil'd divers Rogues, bringing home 2 Pri&s;oners, above 200 Cowes, burnt a many hou&s;es in the Countrey, our women and boyes to a great number coming home loaded with &s;tore of burnt Corne.</P>
<P>We marcht into the County of <HI>Cavan,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> where in the <HI>Laragane</HI> we burnt &s;ome hou&s;es, kil'd &s;ome few Rogues, brought home a pri&s;oner, and neere 9 &s;core Cowes.</P>
<P>We were guided by a Pri&s;oner to the County of <HI>Cavan,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></NOTE> where on our march through <HI>Glan&s;arne,</HI> we apprehended a mo&s;t Arch-rogue, called <HI>Cormack &ocirc; Quillan,</HI> who had all that yeere &s;tolne a many of our Colonels Hor&s;es; from the County of <HI>Cavan</HI> we brought this night neere 200 very faire Cowes, mo&s;t of them as fat as if it had beene at <HI>Michaelmas;</HI> Thus we retreated through <HI>Glan&s;erne,</HI> killing &s;ome 5 Rogues, our women and boyes being loaded with Corne.</P>
<P>We marcht towards <HI>Mounter Kenny,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></NOTE> where this night we kil'd &s;ome Rogues, tooke Pri&s;oner the Wife of <HI>Owen oge Mac Murray,</HI> the chiefe man of that name, him&s;elfe &s;caping narrowly, we brought home 3 &s;core Beeves a many of them very fat.</P>
<P>We marcht towards <HI>Dromahere,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> 17.</NOTE> hearing a great gathering was there making ready for a new Campe again&s;t us, where on our march through
<PB N="43" REF="22">a Wood within le&s;&s;e then a mile to <HI>Dromahere,</HI> where their new Campe lay over again&s;t it at <HI>Crewly,</HI> we brought from tho&s;e Woods &s;ome 3 or 4 &s;core principall Beeves, killed &s;ome Rogues, and brought home 2 Pri|&s;oners, returning one of them being a wench of &s;ome 10 or 12 yeares old with a Letter of our Colonels <HI>Iri&s;h</HI>-Souldiers to their Countrymen in Campe, neare the Abbey of <HI>Crewley,</HI> the coppy of which Letter here fol|loweth.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>To the mo&s;t unworthy cowardly Colonels, Captaines, and &s;uch like ragged Regiment now gazing for our Colonels <HI>Easter</HI> Provi&s;ion neare <HI>Dromahere</HI> and <HI>Crewley.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MOst di&s;loyall, di&s;honourable and unworthy Countrymen, we are much a&s;ha|med of your ba&s;e cowardline&s;&s;e, that makes us &s;o long expect your threat|ning to &s;teale away our Colonels Cowes. If you had followed the coun&s;ell of that perjured dastard <HI>Owen Mac a Bryan</HI> you had made more ha&s;t, who thought it time to runne away him&s;elfe after we found him in a bu&s;h, whil&s;t we were upon &s;ervice again&s;t the Rogues your friends of <HI>Fermannagh,</HI> but if you make no great ha&s;t, our Cowes are few enough to eate till tho&s;e be fat you now Herd for us neare <HI>Cromahere,</HI> where you lye de&s;troying your owne poore Churles, and devi&s;ing lyes to keepe them in heart, your &s;elves keeping the Ca&s;tle untill wee rou&s;e you up as we did the la&s;t morning, whilst wee gave you a vi&s;it looking for our breake fa&s;t. Tell <HI>Teig</HI> and <HI>Turlogh Mac A Nawe</HI> with their Nephew <HI>Hugh</HI> that would be <HI>&ocirc; Rourke,</HI> that their Sister his neece feares there to Beeve in the Lent time, is like to bring their two Si&s;ters to their Father, and when|&s;oever they came within &s;ight of his Ca&s;tle, where the &s;igne &s;teale <HI>Mac A Nawe</HI> two Daughters upon <HI>Mannour Hamiltons</HI> Gallowes, which wor&s;hip may be timely challenged by the Brothers and Gr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d-child. Commend us to that Low|&s;ie Lords Sonne <HI>Luke Taffe,</HI> and <HI>Bryan Mac Donnoghy</HI> his ba&s;e Brother in law, who the la&s;t yeare lo&s;t their owne County, to helpe to &s;teale our Colonels Cowes, which many a lu&s;ty lad and poore Churle with their Cowes and Sheepe of that County hath well paid for &s;ince, though they be wi&s;e enough to keepe them|&s;elves from danger untill their turne come to doe &s;acrifice to our Gallowes, which hath well flouri&s;hed &s;ince they were here with their friends and Country-men in hope to doe them&s;elves &s;ervice at la&s;t; The Country cry out they will complaine to <HI>Owen Roe &ocirc; Neale</HI> for your carele&s;&s;e blowing away your Pouder, ble&s;t and &s;ent by the Pope to other purpo&s;e then to &s;hoote at our Colonels Castle from the top of <HI>Benbowe,</HI> thinking your braggs will carry it here as in other places, where you are not &s;o well tryed or knowne; So wi&s;hing your &s;peedy conver&s;ion
<PB N="44" REF="23">which is downefall, but rather confu&s;ion, who have beene the actors and instru|ments in this abhominable, barbarous and dete&s;table Rebellion, advi&s;ing your poore ignorant Country-men churles, to for&s;ake longer following &s;uch lying and &s;educing leaders, and tru&s;t to our meanes for ever, &s;o once more fare-well-and be hanged,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>You loyall di&s;affected Country-men</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Shane Roe Mac Roy,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hugh &ocirc; Fellan,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cormack &ocirc; Clery,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edmond &ocirc; Kelly,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bryan &ocirc; Fellan,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Conner &ocirc; Fynny,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cum ceteris in</HI> Culnia.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Ca&s;tle Hamilton</HI> <DATE>this <HI>17</HI> of <HI>February, 1643.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>THis day being Wedne&s;day before <HI>Ea&s;ter,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">rch <HI>29.</HI></NOTE> having &s;ent no party abroad &s;ince the 17^t^h. of <HI>Feb:</HI> in expectation of Sir <HI>William Coles</HI> men from <HI>Eniskillen,</HI> who our Colonell was informed were in great di&s;tre&s;&s;e there, both for Corne and Cattell, neither being to be had for venturing in that County, wherefore our Colonell adverti&s;ed Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> and his Cap|taines, that here was faire hopes to be &s;upplied, if they would with their party of 4 or 500 men, &s;ecretly ha&s;t to us, who &s;hould be ready to joyne with them for falling upon the Rogues campe, who lay neare and about the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dremahere,</HI> 6 miles from us, where the Rogues were plen|tifully provided in the Campe, both from the County of <HI>Sligo</HI> and this County, having above 7 or 8000 Cowes about this time grazing a|bout them, and that countrey full of Corne, whereof both <HI>Eniskillen</HI> and we at this time &s;tand in great need. The Captaines of <HI>Eniskillen</HI> in their an&s;wer, acknowledge the extremity of their wants and our Colonels in|vitation, but are in &s;uch confu&s;ion and di&s;order among&s;t them&s;elves, as they neither denied to come or promi&s;e any thing plainely, when we deferring, all this while unwilling to feare their Campe, or venture our handfull again&s;t 10 or 12 Companies commanded by Colonell <HI>Lucas Taffe,</HI> and his Lieutenant Colonell <HI>Bryan Mac Donnoghye,</HI> with the a&s;&s;i|&s;tance of Colonell <HI>Owen &ocirc; Rourke,</HI> who lyes in the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Drom here,</HI> but now &s;eeing no appearance of <HI>Eniskillen</HI> men, and our owne Cowes and provi&s;ion growne very &s;hort again&s;t <HI>Ea&s;ter,</HI> our Colonell is nece&s;&s;ita|ted to venture with his owne &s;mall party, which adventure it plea&s;ed the Lord this day &s;o to ble&s;&s;e, as to enable us to bring from the very Ca&s;tle walls of <HI>Dromahere</HI> neere 400 Cowes, with pretty &s;tore of Sheeps, Goates and Mares, with &s;ome &s;mall &s;upply of Butter and Meale, fighting our &s;elvs through a great body of the Rogues, where we kild divers, hurt above 40, as appeares by one of their Officers Letters found in their Lieutenant Col: pocket, being kild by us 3 dayes after, cha&s;t the re&s;t into Woods and
<PB N="45" REF="23">boggs, bringing home our prey, and 3 Pri&s;oners without the lo&s;&s;e of a man, one Muskiteere only hurt on the &s;houlder, &s;o that if <HI>Eniskillen</HI> men had beene advi&s;ed by our Colonell, we had undoubtedly had a faire pull of at lea&s;t 7 or 8000 Cowes, with abundance of Wheate and other corne be&s;ides: what good &s;ervice might have beene done upon the Rogues, how they can an&s;wer the neglect of this and other &s;uch like &s;ervice, whereunto they have &s;everall times beene invited and advertized by our Colonell, both for his Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, the common good, and their owne partcular relife, as more clearely it &s;hall appeare hereafter, God &s;ending us aide and indifferent Judges to heare us both.</P>
<P>Being <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI>-eve,<NOTE PLACE="marg">April <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> our Hay for Hor&s;es growing &s;hort by rea&s;on of the number we and our Colonell kept within the Ca&s;tle all Winter, he is forced to venture 24 of his trow&s;e Geraldmes to graze neare 2 miles from the Ca&s;tles, with a guard of neere 50 of his men to take charge of his Plow-hor&s;es and his Cowes, hoping till after Ea&s;ter the Rogues being &s;o lately beaten by us, they would not have ventured, as this day they did, a great body of them appeare within a &s;hort mile to our Ca&s;tle, before our Centries de&s;cried them; We taking the Alarme, mo&s;t of our be&s;t Hor&s;e and be&s;t Pike-men being &s;o farre from us, divers others of our Soul|diers being imployed about fire-wood and &s;uch like nece&s;&s;aires, &s;o as we are not able in this extremity to make up above 50 fighting men, if &s;o many, with which number we were commanded to endeavour the re&s;|cuing of the re&s;t, guarding our Hor&s;es and Cattell, having no other way or meanes to &s;ave all or loo&s;e all; where it plea&s;ed the Lord &s;o to direct us boldly to march towards the Rogues as they were advancing towards our Geldings and Cattell, perceiving our &s;mall number &s;traglingly draw together, they with &s;peed advance towards us, marching in 3 divi&s;ions, their fir&s;t divi&s;ion being led-on by their Lieutenant Colonell <HI>Bryan Mac Donnoghy,</HI> and on the head of his owne Company Captaine <HI>Francis Taffe,</HI> and Captaine <HI>Cormaok &ocirc; Hawes</HI> Company, which divi&s;ion con&s;i&s;ts of 44 Muskiteeres be&s;ides Pike-men, the &s;econd divi&s;ion is led only by their Serjeant Major <HI>Teigreagh &ocirc; Dowde;</HI> In the head of his owne Com|pany Captaine <HI>David &ocirc; Dowde,</HI> and Captaine <HI>Bryan &ocirc; Hares</HI> Company con&s;i&s;ting of 42 Muskiteeres; The third divi&s;ion lead-on by Captaine <HI>William Tyrrell,</HI> on the head of his owne Company Captaine <HI>Bryan Mac Swyne,</HI> and Captaine <HI>Roger &ocirc; Conners</HI> Company Con&s;i&s;ting of 45 Mu&s;|kiteeres be&s;ides Pike-men, which multitude thinking to have &s;wallowed up our handfull, perceiving us draw up without Hor&s;e-men, thinking to cut tho&s;e off before we joyne with the re&s;t, their Lieutenant Colonell leading on mo&s;t fariou&s;ly along a Bridge, over a River, at the foote of the
<PB N="46" REF="24">hill where our men were drawne up, we perceiving them all cro&s;&s;e the River, marching in a loo&s;e body towards us, giving fire upon us, we &s;eeme a little to retreat, where we got the benefit of a ditch for all our Muskiteeres to play out of, whereupon the Rogues imagining we had taken the retreat, did with great &s;houtes crye out as if they had already beaten us; but our Muskiteeres did from that ditch &s;o pepper them, that it is not to be beleeved what a &s;udden alteration our handfull made a|mong&s;t their multitude, our Pike-men flying in upon them, where one M^r. <HI>John Connigham</HI> him&s;elfe was deadly &s;hot with a Mukit bullet in the body, who lived 2 dayes after; Thus having kil'd their Lieutenant Co|lonell, who fought mo&s;t de&s;perately as ever man did, divers being with &s;hot and Pike beaten to the ground, yet did he fight upon his knees, pit|ty &s;o great courage &s;hould have beene in &s;o Arch a Traitour, who was thought, to have beene one of the greate&s;t fire-brands of <HI>Connaght</HI> in this Rebellion, and the bloudie&s;t tyrant agani&s;t our Clergy-men, having cau|&s;ed 3 of them to be murthered, M^r. <HI>Thowas Fullerton,</HI> M^r. <HI>William Li|stowne,</HI> and <HI>Pattrick Dromond,</HI> who were bloudily kil'd by his orders, when they fir&s;t lay about this Ca&s;tle; Yet ble&s;&s;ed be God this day who enabled us &s;o to deale with them, as we put the Rogues after killing their Lieutenant Colonell, to &s;uch a di&s;orderly and confu&s;ed retreat over the River, where numbers of them threw one another into it, &s;o as it is al|mo&s;t incredible to &s;peake or write what number of proper per&s;onable men as any <HI>Ireland</HI> affords, were kil'd that day by our weake handfull, to God alone be the glory. The next day our Colonell &s;ending forth to &s;earch the Fields, to &s;ee if the Rogues had dar'd in the night time to carry off any of their dead bodies, but it did not appeare they dur&s;t meddle with any; whereupon order was given for burying of them all, which was 2 dayes labour for 20 men, there being neere 3 &s;core found and buried, be&s;ides divers which had beene carried away by the River, there being then a great &s;lood in it. Thus it plea&s;ed God to continue his former fa|vours and mercy towards us, with this great and miraculous victory with|out the lo&s;&s;e of a man of ours, other then M^r. <HI>Conningham,</HI> our Women and Boyes coming home loaden with Muskets, Pikes, Swords and Skeanes, enough to Arme 7 or 8 &s;core men, and in hope to get more that were drowned in the River. And thus God hath done for us without the help of <HI>Eniskillen,</HI> whom we long waited for to have contributed for their &s;up|ply and reliefe, and all the&s;e men that were found kil'd, within Musket &s;hot of our Ca&s;tle.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letters">
<PB N="47" REF="24">
<HEAD>A copy of &s;uch Letters and Papers as were found in the Lieutenant Colonels <HI>Bryan Mac Donnoghy</HI> his Pockets, being killed neare <HI>Mannour Hamilton</HI> Ca&s;tle, on Saturday, <HI>April 1, 1643.</HI></HEAD>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Beleeve you have heard of the great lo&s;&s;e we have &s;u&s;tained this mor|ning by <HI>Mannour Hamiltons</HI> Souldiers, I pray you to morrow come away your &s;elfe and di&s;patch provi&s;ion for my Company, who mu&s;t fa&s;t this night; your owne Company is extreame weake here; therefore have all the re&s;t &s;ent for &s;peedily, that they may be compleat to morrow to march. This is all for the pre&s;ent, I re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From the Campe at <HI>Crewly,</HI> <DATE><HI>March</HI> 29, 1643.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your loving Brother Co: <HI>Lucas Taffe.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<P>NOble Sir, we are &s;traitly commanded by our Colonell to have all our Company to the full number here this night, and e&s;pecially he doth de&s;ire your owne &s;peedy repaire hither; and without you &s;end for all your men upon &s;ight hereof, and give them &s;trait charge to be here this night with us, you will otherwi&s;e be a&s;hamed for ever, &s;eeing we are called upon &s;peedy &s;ervice: For my owne part, I thought you did regard the lo&s;&s;e of me more then thus, to leave me here all this while unappoin|ted with Souldiers and Ammunition; for without Gods great helpe, I had never come off alive from the la&s;t mornings &s;ervice we had with <HI>Mannour Hamiltons</HI> Souldiers: I pray you as you love your owne cre|dit and my life, &s;end me the re&s;t of the Souldiers; otherwi&s;e, if you will let me goe upon &s;ervice without them, by Chri&s;t I will never be an Offi|cer under your command more. We have not a pound of Pouder among&s;t us all left: Your 8 Musketeeres played their parts mo&s;t gallantly, and di&s;charged more &s;hot then halfe of the Regiment; but our Pike-men plaid the jade with us. <HI>Hugh &ocirc; Hara</HI> is &s;hot in the Foote, and 40 more of our Regiment wounded, 2 only killed, none of them yours: This is the hurt we received ye&s;terday morning; &s;o leaving all to your be&s;t care and di&s;cretion, I re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From the Campe of <HI>Crewly,</HI> <DATE>the 30^t^h. of <HI>March.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your obedient Lieutenant <HI>Cormack Mac Donnogh,</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<PB N="48" REF="25">
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Shall de&s;ire that you march towards the falling in of night, with all the Companies on this &s;ide of the water, where I &s;hall meete you: you are to leave one Pike-man out of every Company, to guard the Baggage left at <HI>Crewly,</HI> who you are to require to keepe good watch upon &s;uch things as &s;hall be left with them, and not to &s;poile any thing belonging to the Abby, as they &s;hall an&s;wer it at their perils; &s;o till meeting I re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours Co: <HI>Lucas Taffe.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Drumahere,</HI> <DATE>March 31.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD><HI>Belli&s;edera</HI> the 12^t^h. of <HI>March,</HI> 1642.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas feverall grievous complaints are daily exhibited unto us, that the under-named per&s;ons doe daily commit &s;everall incur|&s;ions, ma&s;&s;acres, robberies, outrages and many other enormities and pil|lages within the County of <HI>Sligo,</HI> contrary to his Maje&s;ties Lawes, the &s;everall acts of the &s;upreame Provinciall and County Coun&s;ell to the con|trary provided and enacted; The&s;e are therefore in his Maje&s;ties name, to will and require you Lieutenant Colonell <HI>Bryan Mac Connagh</HI> and Serjeant Major <HI>Teig Reagh &ocirc; Dowda,</HI> to attach the bodies of the under|named per&s;ons, and to that purpo&s;e, to command &s;uch of the Forces of the County of <HI>Sligo</HI> as they &s;hall thinke fit; wherein all the Captaines, Officers and private Souldiers of the Forces of the &s;aid County, are here|by required and authorized; &s;uch of them as &s;hall be hereto required, to be aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting unto the&s;e, Lieutenant Colonell and Serjeant Major <HI>Teig Reagh &ocirc; Dowda,</HI> as they &s;hall receive directions; and in ca&s;e that the under-named per&s;ons &s;hall not willingly &s;uffer them&s;elves to be ap|prehended; then the &s;aid Lieutenant Colonell and Serjeant Major are to deale with them like common enemies, as well by death as otherwi&s;e; And the&s;e Lieutenant Colonell and Serjeant Major <HI>Teig Reagh &ocirc; Dowda,</HI> are likewi&s;e requited to commit the bodies of the under-named per&s;ons, being &s;o attached, unto the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Ballynefada,</HI> and there to leave them in &s;afe cu&s;tody, untill they receive further directions from us: And the Captaines, Warriours and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the &s;aid Lieutenant Colonell and Serjeant Major <HI>Teig Reagh &ocirc; Dowda</HI> in the execution of the premi&s;es as
<PB N="49" REF="25">they &s;hall receive directions, whereof you and every of you may not faile at your extreate perils, <HI>Dat' Anno &s;uperiore dicto.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Capt: <HI>Charles &ocirc; Connour,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Capt: <HI>Hugh &ocirc; Connour</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Owen Mac Roe &ocirc; Connour,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Redagh Mac Beryan &ocirc; Hart,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Donnell Mac Rory &ocirc; Connor,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Owen &ocirc; Connour,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cahill duff Mac Teigh,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Boy &ocirc; Connour,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Shane &ocirc; Hart,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Teig &ocirc; Hart,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rore &ocirc; Hort,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gilpatrick &ocirc; Hart,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robe &ocirc; Binningham,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Teig &ocirc; Connour Sligo,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Farrall &ocirc; Gara,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nony &ocirc; Hara,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Andrew Crean,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Phelemy &ocirc; Connour.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOu may perceive by the Lieutenant Generalls Letter, how I am com|manded to waite in the&s;e parts, God knowes how long; but no lon|ger then after I know the di&s;tribution of this Army; If greater occa&s;ion then now appeares unto us require it not: though loath I was to be a &s;ui|ter in my owne behalfe for my repairing thither. Truely I have done in that particular more then behoved me, therefore the managing of that Regiment untill further directions is left to your care to di&s;po&s;e of, to u&s;e and imploy them in all manner of defence or offence, as it to you &s;hall &s;eeme mo&s;t advantagious to his Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, and the pre&s;ervation of the Countrey. I &s;hall al&s;o de&s;ire you to addre&s;&s;e your &s;elfe to the Coun|&s;ell of the County, as well to participate of &s;uch occurrants as I tran&s;|mitted unto them, as al&s;o to forward the execution of &s;ome particulers concerning the maintenance of your Forces, and the &s;peedy levying there|of, imploying in your ab&s;ence Serjeant Major <HI>Dowda</HI> to over-&s;ee and command the Regiment, and to expedite all Country affaires: I hold it requi&s;ite that one well armed Captaine &s;hould alwayes re&s;ide within the County. I pray Sir adverti&s;e me by the bearer, how or in what re&s;traint, <HI>O|liver &ocirc; Hara</HI> was kept by the Sheriffe &s;ince my coming away, It did expect that by this he would cry <HI>mea Culpa:</HI> but &s;eeing he &s;tands &s;o &s;tifly upon his ju&s;tification, I promi&s;e him that I &s;hall de&s;ire Ju&s;tice again&s;t him, as al&s;o again&s;t the Sheriffe, if he have not gone according to his dire|ctions. I pray cau&s;e Serjeant Major <HI>Dowda</HI> to be paid for his Pouder, according to my promi&s;e unto him, and let me heare at large from you, whether any man offers di&s;obedience among&s;t you, that we might take cour&s;e with them: I hope you will not forget to rid poore <HI>Carberry</HI> of the in&s;olent power of the Northerne, in which ca&s;e I pray you be advi|&s;ed
<PB N="50" REF="26">by your County Coun&s;ell: The enclo&s;ed of the Lord of <HI>Elphin,</HI> I pray you endeavour if your occa&s;ion will admit you the lea&s;ure to accom|pli&s;h his de&s;ires therein; This being all for the pre&s;ent, I am</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your faithfull Brother <HI>Lucas Taffe.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Tuam</HI> <DATE>the 26^t^h. of <HI>Feb:</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>For my worthy Friend <HI>Mulmurry Mac Ternan</HI> E&s;quire, Found in his Pocket being kil'd and &s;tript.</HEAD>
<P>KInd Go&s;&s;ip, the only thing that keepes me from you, is the report that Sir <HI>Frederick Hamilton</HI> promi&s;ed to come la&s;t night, or this day to &s;ee me at this Ca&s;tle, which report hath made me and all mine to watch all night: I pray you have a care if you heare any &s;uch thing, to march hi|ther with all po&s;t-ha&s;t with your Company; And &s;o I bid you farewell, and re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dromahere</HI> Ca&s;tle, <DATE><HI>Feb.</HI> 21, 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your owne faithfull Go&s;&s;ip <HI>Owen &ocirc; Rourke.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>A Copy of &s;uch Letters as were &s;ent by the Rebels to our Colonel and to his Lady, thinking to have terrified her; and a Copy of other Papers and Writings found in the Pockets of their Prie&s;ts, Friers and Captaines, being killed and &s;tript.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Madam,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Am &s;ory it was never my fortune to be acquainted with your Ladi&s;hip, though much de&s;ired: Now out of the re&s;pects I beare unto your Ladi|&s;hips family, I cannot but be grieved to thinke on the trouble that is like &s;oone to fall on you. We have here 23 Companies that are now ready to march towards you, and 15 Companies more upon their much from the uppermo&s;t part of this County, and the County of <HI>Maio.</HI> I have for your Ladi&s;hips &s;ake intreated the Captaines of the Army to write unto Sir <HI>Fre|derick,</HI> I &s;hould be right glad that he would imbrace the conditions &s;ent him, for there are many re&s;olved to loo&s;e all their lives, or they will have Sir <HI>Fredericks</HI> head, notwith&s;tanding their friends he hath pri&s;oners. For the Army doth prote&s;t and &s;weare, they will have Sir <HI>Frederick</HI> and <HI>Mannour Hamilton</HI> Ca&s;tle, though it co&s;t the lives of thou&s;ands, and the lives of his Pri&s;oners, rather then to &s;uffer him longer to remaine within their bo&s;omes, e&s;pecially carrying him&s;elfe as he hath done towards them, It is but in vaine to &s;trive again&s;t the &s;traeme.
<PB N="51" REF="26">If I had not been well a&s;&s;ured that the Army now in Armes and ready to march, are too &s;trong again&s;t any powers this Kingdome can make, or rea|dily come to helpe you, and that which incourageth us mo&s;t to take Armes, is the Ju&s;tne&s;&s;e of our cau&s;e, which is for the maintenance of his Maje&s;ties Prerogatives, our Liberties and Religion, which is &s;o much trod|den under-foote, that mo&s;t of all this Kingdome are re&s;olved to &s;acrifice their lives in defence thereof; And if we get not our demands of Sir <HI>Fre|derick,</HI> take it on my word he will &s;oone repent it: I &s;hould be very &s;orry that any hurt &s;hould come to your Ladi&s;hip. I make no doubt but you know how neere a kinne, which you will by the bearer, if you doe not, however I will remaine</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From our Campe at <HI>Sligo.</HI> <DATE><HI>December</HI> 13, 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your loving Co&s;en and &s;ervant <HI>Patrick Flunkett.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>This Paper was found in <HI>Mulmurry Mac Tervans</HI> Pocket.</HEAD>
<P>WE have agreed, that a &s;upply of 200 Souldiers &s;hall be pre&s;ently pre&s;t and taken up in the Barrony of <HI>Dromahere,</HI> for the &s;ervice now in hand again&s;t <HI>Mannor Hamilton</HI> Ca&s;tle, according to the divi&s;ion hereafter expre&s;&s;ed, witne&s;&s;e our hands, this la&s;t of <HI>January.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Owen O Rowrke.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P>THe two &s;epts of <HI>Chlamloghins</HI> and <HI>Clanmurrayes</HI> are to maintain fou c|&s;core &s;ouldiers, <HI>Monuterkenny</HI> and <HI>Ballymackenagh</HI> thirty &s;ouldiers, <HI>Killargy</HI> and <HI>Killimurry</HI> are to maintain fifty &s;ouldiers, <HI>Leeland</HI> and the pa|ri&s;h of <HI>Dromla&s;&s;e</HI> are to maintain fourty &s;ouldiers.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>This Paper was found in a Prie&s;ts pocket, being killed and &s;tript.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas we are certified that the unexpected in&s;urrection did ari&s;e in defence of our good faith, and holy Mother, the Catholick <HI>Ra|mane</HI> Church, and of his Maje&s;ties prerogative Royall, both which be|ing lately intended by the Prote&s;tants of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> to be abo|ment wherefore I <HI>Teig O Connour Sligo,</HI> Collonell of the <HI>Jri&s;h</HI> Regi|ment for the county of <HI>Sligo,</HI> doe hereby command all the inhabitants of the pari&s;h of <HI>Cadbry,</HI> as you are naturally obliged to obey the <HI>Romane</HI> Chuch, to pay or cau&s;e to be payed unto father <HI>Connor O Hary</HI> Pa&s;tour of the &s;aid pari&s;h, all &s;uch tithes and other duties as he can &s;ind out were unpayed to the former Mini&s;ter of the &s;aid pari&s;h, and in failing hereof I promi&s;e to a&s;&s;i&s;t him as I be&s;t can, as witne&s;&s;e my hand this 17 of <HI>January.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="52" REF="27">
<P>NOble Sir <HI>Frederick Hamilton,</HI> I cannot forget that in times pa&s;t there was a mutual corre&s;pondency of love, and affectionate friend&s;hip between my father, and your &s;elf, which on your part hath been approved by &s;everall of your favourable courte&s;ies, which hath left &s;uch an obligation upon me his &s;onne and heire, as I cannot but wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">h your happine&s;&s;e before your hurt. Though the generall matter now in hand requires the contrary. I am pre&s;waded you cannot but know or imagine, as true it is, that there is &s;o fa&s;t an union made and concluded a mong&s;t us all the <HI>Romane</HI> Catho|licks, as members of one body, we have vowed to help one another, &s;o that if one member receiveth hurt, the other mu&s;t apply his be&s;t endevours for the cure, all tending to the defence of our Chri&s;tian Religion, and the pre|&s;ervation of his Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Royall power &amp; prerogatives, being the chief rea&s;ons of this our mo&s;t Chri&s;tian quarrell: Therefore, when I &s;aw the mo&s;t mi&s;erable di&s;tractions &amp; afflictions which my mo&s;t neare Cou&s;ins, and Neighbours of this county &s;uffered under this pretence by your cruel|ty and meanes, my heart could not for the brotherly Chri&s;tian charity I own unto them, be&s;ides the &s;everall invitations and per&s;wa&s;ions of many of my friends and alliance, but make this pre&s;ent expedition. I have here with me lying about me, be&s;ides a many more drawing towards you for the places to &s;eek redre&s;&s;e and revenge of the&s;e great mi&s;eries and calamities you have put upon them, which I wi&s;h to have in the gentle&s;t &s;ort I may. Wherefore, I thought fit to acquaint you more for your own good, then any end of mine, That I am here &s;trong enough from the county of <HI>Sligo,</HI> having all the be&s;t, and chiefe&s;t men of that county about me, be&s;ides the &s;trength of the county of <HI>Leytrim</HI> under the command of my Cou&s;ins, the <HI>O Rourkes</HI> whom you have much harmed, who have procured by their friends from the county of <HI>Maio</HI> the&s;e gre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">t &s;upplies, daily drawing to|wards us, &s;o that you will find it impo&s;&s;ible for you to re&s;i&s;t, wherefore out of my unfeigned good will do advi&s;e you that before we go to extremity, you will take the be&s;t cour&s;e for your own &s;afety and relief, which great Potentates and Nobles are not a&s;hamed to doe, when they are in the like extremities as we hold you to be, in de&s;iring that you and we may agree upon quatters &amp; a Ce&s;&s;ation of Arms, untill Articles propounded upon ei|ther &s;ide may be agreed upon, I de&s;ire to be free from giving way to &s;hed your bloud, if otherwi&s;e I may compa&s;&s;e my pretences: If you will not make u&s;e of this friendly offer in&s;tantly without delay, and before the county of <HI>Maio</HI> Gentlemen joyn with me, I feare they being &s;o near and great in numbers; I &s;hall hardly &s;tay their hands from &s;ee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">king revenge for killing and hanging &s;o many of their kin&s;men, the <HI>O Rourkes,</HI> and o|thers of their friends of this County, whom you have de&s;troyed, herein I
<PB N="53" REF="27">will expect your pre&s;ent an&s;wer, and de&s;ire that our me&s;&s;engers on both &s;ides may freel pa&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> without harm or danger, as is u&s;uall in all leaguers, Meane time I &s;hall remain</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From our Camp near <HI>Mannor Hamilton,</HI> <DATE><HI>March</HI> the 15 1641</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Yours at plea&s;ure and hearts de&s;ire <HI>Teig O Connour Sligo</HI> Collonell.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>This Letter an&s;wered thus.</HEAD>
<P>YOur loyalty to your King, your faith to your friends once broke, ne|ver more to be tru&s;ted by me, but revenged as God &s;hall enable the hands of him who was loving to your loyall Predece&s;&s;ours, who&s;e cur&s;e will contribute to your de&s;truction, for extingi&s;hing the memory of their loyalties, Thus I re&s;t with contempt and &s;corn to all your ba&s;e bragges.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your &s;courge if I can. <HI>F. H.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letters">
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>For <HI>Captain John O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">crean,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>March</HI> 1 1641.</NOTE> Allowed to him&s;elf and company nineteen quarters of Land, in the pari&s;h of Collroy.</HEAD>
<P>BY the con&s;ent of the Collonell <HI>Teig O Connour Sligo,</HI> who appointed us to allot unto every Captain of his Regimont, that are now encamp|ed about <HI>Mannor Hamilton,</HI> and to &s;top the incur&s;ions of that Garri&s;on we hold and think fit, that every Captain to this purpo&s;e &s;hall levy, and take up in every quarter of Land that is allowed for his &s;hare fourty nine quar|ters of meale unpre&s;t, and twelve pence of money every week, for the relief of their companies, and for &s;o doing this &s;hall be their &s;ufficient warrant, as witne&s;&s;e our hands, the day and y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">are above written.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Andrew Crean, Teig boy O Connour Connor O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ge O hart</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>The&s;e la&s;t two killed, and the&s;e Papers found as they were &s;tript.</P>
<P>We did beat them from their Camp finding this Paper in one of their dead mens pockets.<NOTE PLACE="marg">April <HI>1</HI></NOTE></P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<P>VVHereas there hath &s;everall-warrants i&s;&s;ued for the levying of thre|&s;core quarters of meal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, in every quarter of land of a third levy,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Comita<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> Sligo.</NOTE> which three &s;everall l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">vies is within the Barronny of <HI>Carbery,</HI> for the maintaining of the &s;ouldiers out of the &s;aid Barronny now encamped about <HI>Mannor Hamilton,</HI> out of which every &s;ouldier is to have for his meanes
<PB N="54" REF="28">whil&s;t he is there fourteen quarts in meale, and twelve pence in money for every week and more. And in as much as we find that there is meale already allotted as is well able to maintain the &s;aid Army till the 15 of <HI>May</HI> next. We doe therefore hereby require all Captaines, Collectours to &s;urcea&s;e and keep their hands from collecting any more meale or money then what was allotted in every quarter for the &s;aid three levies, whereof the &s;everall Collectours and Captains according to a former warrant, are to meet by a day to give up an exact account thereof. Dated at <HI>Sligo,</HI> the 4 of <HI>April,</HI> 1642.</P>
</LETTER>
<P><HI>Teig O Connor Sligo, Andrew Crean</HI> Captain <HI>Conn O C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nnor</HI> &s;ince hanged there.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>For the Lieutenant Collonell <HI>Brian</HI> Mr. <HI>Donnogh</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Hope you have taken cour&s;e in my ab&s;ence to keep &s;ome of your forces in action here, lea&s;t tergiver&s;ation being ill con&s;truct by the gentry of this County, not onely having deprived them of your own aid, but &s;uch a&s;&s;i&s;tance as they expected from <HI>Maio,</HI> or thus delaying will produce no better effect then ruine and de&s;truction, being now nearer unto it, then ever it hath been formerly. The County of <HI>Galway</HI> Gentlemen have of late petitioned to the Earl of <HI>Clanrickard</HI> again&s;t the Lord <HI>Forbus,</HI> who hath already committed &s;everall acts of ho&s;tility, that his Lord&s;hip might per&s;wade him to part quietly with his forces, or to give them leave to &s;tand for their own defence, the an&s;wer of which was transferred to this day at <HI>Longreagh,</HI> where <HI>Clanrickard</HI> my Lord Pre&s;ident, and the chief of that county meet, and from thence my Lord Pre&s;ident goeth to <HI>Galloway.</HI> Sir, what their re&s;olution will be I cannot yet imagine, but feare much &s;o generall a meeting will produce a &s;trange i&s;&s;ue tending to our de&s;erved ru|ine, which I commit to a higher power to prevent, then any commi&s;&s;ion that comes from Parliament. The County of <HI>Maio forces</HI> is gathered to <HI>Se|thruell</HI> and intend to camp upon the confines of that County. My Lord of <HI>Maio</HI> &s;ent to us for aide, being well known to his Lord&s;hip how able we are to &s;pare any, he was plea&s;ed to write plainly if we had not in retributi|on of their lo&s;&s;e &s;u&s;teined in the&s;e parts parralelled his courte&s;ies, that we &s;hould expect no more aid from thence. A fair excu&s;e, or a fit denyall, &s;ure the &s;mall forces we have here are in greater danger, then that County which needeth, not feare any forraigne inva&s;ion: we are I prote&s;t unto you not above three hundred in number, not like henceforth to be at any re&s;t or quietne&s;&s;e. The Powder be&s;towed upon <HI>Connaught,</HI> is brought partly
<PB N="55" REF="28">to the county of <HI>Maio,</HI> and &s;ome to the County of <HI>Galloway,</HI> re&s;olved up|on not to be touched, untill our Provinciall County di&s;tribute it as they think fitte&s;t, when the Coun&s;ell is held. I cannot well a&s;&s;ure you, the re|port of the arriving of &s;hipping at <HI>Sligo</HI> give we no little occa&s;ion of feare which I pray with expedition to certifie me. And if my own repair, be a|ny whit nece&s;&s;ary upon the landing any new &s;upplies, I will not fail to po&s;t night and day unto you. I hope your Coun&s;ell have agreed to meet often, being very nece&s;&s;ary, e&s;pecially now, I doubt not they will be &s;oon called upon to meet when ever I receive intelligence of the full &amp; true re|&s;olutions of the county of <HI>Galloway,</HI> I have &s;een late intelligence of <HI>England</HI> of <HI>July</HI> date, concerning the King &amp; Parliament, who are at great di&s;tance, the Lord of heaven continue them &s;o, untill I &s;end them an ab&s;olution. The powder made at <HI>Laughlin</HI> is as good as any is in <HI>Ireland,</HI> we &s;hall want no more of that commoditie, &s;o we be furni&s;hed with all other nece&s;&s;aries. I pray Sir, let my mother u&s;e all the ha&s;t &s;he can to have the ditch wholly &s;cowred about <HI>Ballymote</HI> Ca&s;tle, before the bad weather overtakes it, I pray that I may have every &s;econd day what occurrents tho&s;e parts affoord you. In the intervall I pre&s;ent my &s;ervice to our friends and re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Ca&s;tle <HI>Keagh</HI> <DATE>the 18 of <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your loving Collonell <HI>Lucas Taffe.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P><HI>This letter was found in a Prie&s;ts pocket that day we kild above</HI> 80 <HI>in the County of Sligo.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="executions" TYPE="list">
<HEAD>The names of &s;uch as have been hanged at Mannor Hamilton by Martiall Law, &s;ince the beginning of this Rebellion</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><LABEL>Decemb <HI>3.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Turlogh mac Clevor.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Neale Mac Cluan.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mann<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> O Gallogher</ITEM>
<ITEM>Manns O Hoy</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Decem. <HI>12.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Phelomy Duff Mac Cob</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Decemb. <HI>18</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Gelpatrick O Kan</ITEM>
<ITEM>Brian O Moriice</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Decemb. <HI>20.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Turlogh O Cally.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Ianuary <HI>2.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Brian O Cannan.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Con O Rourk <HI>the Collonells brother</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Ianuary <HI>8.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Connour mac. Shane Gla&s;se</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mac Laugblin <HI>the chief of his name.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Aug. <HI>23.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Owen Mac Garraghy.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cormack O Cornan.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Augu&s;t <HI>31</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Shane Mac Skerrie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Spence.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Septemb. <HI>10.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Captain</HI> Con O Connour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Credough Mac Derno.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cor Mac O Hay <HI>had been a Mini&s;ter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Teig Mac Goane.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Septemb. <HI>4</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Brian Mac Diffet.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Septem. <HI>17.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Donnogh O D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">wde.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Septem. <HI>19</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Grany O Dowgan.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Patrick O Neale.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Febru. <HI>2</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>ohn Wyther&s;pin.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Febru. <HI>11.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Donnogh boy O Bane.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mewe Mac Laughlin.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Feb. <HI>22.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Owen Mac Thomas Murray.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Febru. <HI>26.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Ferrall Mac Kegan.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Mar. <HI>15</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Turmultagh Mac Garraghy: Sub&s;heriffe <HI>deputy of</HI> Donegall.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cormack O Hoyes <HI>wife.</HI>
<PB N="56" REF="29"><HI>neare kin&s;woman to</HI> O Conn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ur.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>8.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hugh O Hart</ITEM>
<ITEM>Donnell O Hart.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Grany ny K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">we.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ph<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">lomy mack A Naw</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gilpattrick O Mullane</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span">.</LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Laughlin O Degannian</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span">.</LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Call boy mac Garty.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Donnogh O Hart</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span">.</LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hugh O Flin.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iames Roch <HI>the chief Murcherer, of the</HI> Briti&s;h <HI>at</HI> Sligo.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Donnell O Clery.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hugh O Cullen.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Glany O Regan.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iames Wyther&s;pin.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Iuly <HI>12</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Iames halfpenny.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Iuly <HI>26</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hugh O Fey</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Novem. <HI>4.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Garrat mac A Na<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>chief of his name.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Nov. <HI>14.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Cap. Charles mac Gwire</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Nov. <HI>16.</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Phelomy Mac Pierce.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Decem. <HI>22</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>in Gwyre.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Ianuary <HI>7</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Edmond Mac Gawran.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Turlogh Reagh O Mor|telan.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Brian O Cuer.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>February <HI>3</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Cormack O Cuer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cormack O Quillan.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Februar <HI>18</HI></LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Ka<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ill mack Kan.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Donnel mac Glannag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">y,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William mac Roregan.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Sir Robert Hannay his Letter and others being Pri&s;oners at Sligo and &s;ent to Domahere Ca&s;tle.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Honourable Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>VVE the undernamed per&s;ons having &s;uffered in all our whole e&s;tates and being upon our bani&s;hment out of this Kingdome, under the &s;afe conduct of Mr. <HI>Edmond Bourk Ragagh,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Walter Bourk</HI> of <HI>Ar|dagh</HI> towards the North, but mo&s;t oppo&s;ed at Ca&s;tle <HI>Connour Enni&s;cromne E&s;cagh</HI> bridge, <HI>Dawne Neale, Arnagle&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>Tomler</HI> go by &s;everall bands of armed m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n purpo&s;ely &s;et for our lives, were not their extream violence &s;uppre&s;&s;ed by the di&s;cretion, worth and care of tho&s;e two Gentlemen, and we taken pri&s;oners by the <HI>mac Swines,</HI> brought before <HI>O Connour Sligo,</HI> where we now remain, and intended to be &s;ent unto the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dro|maheere</HI> to be kept untill you Sir deliver &s;uch pri&s;oners of the <HI>O Rourkes,</HI> and others as you have in your cu&s;todie, or to be dealt with, as you doe unto them, Sir, you are nobly di&s;po&s;ed, &s;o that in honour we hope the meanes of relief, being now in your &s;elf, you will not &s;uffer us to peri&s;h, who will ever remain, Sir,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours truly obliged to &s;erve you <HI>Robert Hannay, Andrew Adare, Alexander Montgomery. William Li&s;ton, Thomas Fullerton.</HI></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P>THe&s;e be the names and number of Pri&s;oners, Sir <HI>Robert Hannay,</HI> his Lady, his two daughters, two boyes, two men, and a Gentlewoman
<PB N="57" REF="29">Mr. <HI>Andrew Adare,</HI> and his wife and &s;i&s;ters &s;onne, Mr. <HI>Alexander Mont|gomery</HI> his wife and elde&s;t &s;onne, Mr. <HI>William Liston</HI> his wife and daugh|ter, Mr. <HI>Thomas Fullerton</HI> and his wife, <HI>Patrick Deomond,</HI> Mr. <HI>Adares</HI> man.</P>
<P>Sir after the writing of this Letter we are brought to <HI>Dromaherre,</HI> and order left by the Captaines to bring us unto the Camp at <HI>Mannor Hamilton,</HI> where we mu&s;t &s;uffer death, if tho&s;e Pri&s;oners with you Sir, be not deli|vered.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Sir Fredrick Hamiltons an&s;wer to the Letter afore-mentioned.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Have received your Letter, whereby I am given to under&s;tand of your treacherous &s;urpri&s;all, notwith&s;tanding of your &s;afe conduct promi&s;ed, for the which I am very &s;orry, but &s;uch is the treacherous fal&s;hood of tho&s;e di&s;loyall tray tours generlly throughout this whole Kingdome, that hath made me vow and &s;weare in the pre&s;ence of Almighty God, that I will never give nor take quarter with them, or any of them, yea though my own &s;ons who have de&s;cended from my own Loins, were in your e&s;tate, I had rather they &s;hould die gloriou&s;ly for the cau&s;e of Chri&s;t, then I &s;hould &s;o a|ba&s;e my &s;elf as to deal with &s;uch traitours to God and his Maje&s;ty. Thus be&s;eeching God Almighty to &s;trengthen and encourage you, that you may continue con&s;tant till it &s;hall plea&s;e God to give you deliverance either by life or death. In the meane time I am per&s;waded that they will u&s;e you with no wor&s;e mea&s;ure, then their Pri&s;oners, who were apprehended by me in the action of Rebellion are u&s;ed: So recommending you to God, I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Ca&s;tle <HI>Hamilton</HI> <DATE><HI>January</HI> 19. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your very loving friend <HI>F. H.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>By Letters from <HI>Dublin</HI> dated <HI>26</HI> of <HI>July</HI> and <HI>2</HI> of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> from a good hand.</HEAD>
<P>THe Lord Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Ormond</HI> as I heare, hath now writ to the State here, to &s;end him Bread and Chee&s;e for 5000 men, for that he hath no victualls for his Army, and yet we hoped here, that tho&s;e Countries would have afforded plenty of victuals, and the&s;e &s;ending &s;till abroad, we being in &s;uch want at home, makes our nece&s;&s;ities de&s;perate. There came lately to Towne here, Lieutenant Colonell <HI>Sentleger,</HI> &s;onne unto the late Pre&s;ident of <HI>Mun&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">er,</HI> who came through <HI>Kilkenny,</HI> having a pa&s;&s;e
<PB N="58" REF="30">for his &s;afety from the Vi&s;count <HI>Muskerry;</HI> he &s;aith that at <HI>Kilkenny</HI> he &s;aw and dined with the Popes Nuntio who is come thither, and hath brought to the Rebels 80000^l^b. This is likewi&s;e reported by others, who &s;ay they &s;aw him there; and it is much belceved here, <HI>Sentlegers</HI> bu&s;ine&s;&s;e hether as I heare was about the Ce&s;&s;ation, to know by what authority it is to be done, and how farre procceeded in; what will be the i&s;&s;ue of tha bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e is not yet knowne.</P>
<P>Our Ammunition here growes very &s;carce, and if we be not &s;uddainely relieved from <HI>England,</HI> it will be an unan&s;werable rea&s;on for a Ce&s;&s;ation; and then we mu&s;t either &s;ubmit to the mercile&s;&s;e mercies of the&s;e cruell Rebels, and to their treachery, or el&s;e come for <HI>England,</HI> and indure tho&s;e mi&s;eries and afflictions there which God &s;hall plea&s;e to lay upon us.</P>
<P>Romember this, that that pretious thing time; if it be over-pa&s;t but a lit|tle before reliefe comes to us, the Kingdome is not like to continue in his Maje&s;ties lgovernement as it now is, but as the Rebels will plea&s;e to have it: we now heare that <HI>Pre&s;ton</HI> hath di&s;per&s;ed his Army, and lodged his Ordinance at Sir <HI>Luke fitz Geralds</HI> at <HI>Tecrohon</HI> in <HI>Meath,</HI> that he wants Carriages and Ammunition, &s;o that if we could pro&s;ecute this Warre, and had provi&s;ions before <HI>Pre&s;ton</HI> had againe furni&s;hed him&s;elfe, there would be good hopes of putting a &s;peedy end to this Warre, which other|wi&s;e will prove long, tedious, and of exce&s;&s;ive charge, and weary out all the <HI>Engli&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>We now begin to de&s;paire of any help from the Parliament, hearing how unable the Parliament is to &s;end any, and that his Maje&s;ty &s;o farre pro&s;pers, that we are in hope to have help only from him. We are now like a Candle burnt out, and the &s;nuffe in the &s;ocket giving a little light &s;ome times, but ready every moment to peri&s;h for want of a new &s;upply of oyle.</P>
<P>Upon Sunday morning about one of the clock, there was a great Alarum here in <HI>Dublin,</HI> the Rebels had got into New-&s;treete, and came up as farre as the pottle, and had pillaged divers hou&s;es before we could make re&s;i&s;tance, and &s;et &s;ome thatch hou&s;es on fire, &s;ome 20 one and other, the certainty is not &s;o well knowne though we dwell here, as I can a&s;&s;ure you of it: the Rebels were as &s;ome fay who &s;aw them 300 Hor&s;e, a great Company of Foote, but how many we know not, (God be ble&s;|&s;ed) they were beaten out, and about 20 of them killed, and &s;ome 6 or 7 of ours, they pre&s;ently after burnt a great deale of Hay made up in Cocks about <HI>Ragarr</HI> and <HI>Ra&s;arnam,</HI> and a night or two after about <HI>Donna brooke,</HI> our Army being abroad we could not follow them, but thought our &s;elves well that the City was kept fafe, being much afraid of and &s;u&s;pitious the
<PB N="59" REF="30">Papi&s;ts within us, though I cannot heare of any proofe again&s;t any in par|ticular.</P>
<P>The victualls which were brought us by <HI>Bartlet,</HI> are long &s;ithence &s;pent, and we are now againe in as ill ca&s;e for want as ever, our Army be|ing the greate&s;t that ever we &s;ent out &s;ince this rebellion; they went neere <HI>Edenderry</HI> which was given up to us, but all pillaged, and the <HI>Crohan</HI> which likewi&s;e they had taken, they left and burnt it, &s;ince which time our Army without doing any thing more, came back to <HI>Killcock,</HI> where they have &s;ince been for &s;ome dayes pa&s;t in great nece&s;&s;ities, and very ma|ny of our Souldiers dying in the Fields for hunger, &s;o that we feare it will con&s;ume in a &s;hort time to a &s;mall number, though in the&s;e nece&s;&s;itous times we account them as though their numbers were full: The Mar|que&s;&s;e came the la&s;t Thur&s;day from them to <HI>Dublin,</HI> and ye&s;terday went back to them againe; and as it is &s;aid here, the Army for a great part of them &s;hall be placed in out Gari&s;ons, and the re&s;t come to <HI>Dublin.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Brent</HI> is come over againe with &s;ome Letters out of <HI>England,</HI> which were as I heare delivered ye&s;terday, the Vicetrea&s;urer, and Sir <HI>John Temple,</HI> and Sir <HI>Robert Meridith</HI> were committed to the Ca&s;tle, and the Ma&s;ter of the Wards as I heare, &s;hould al&s;o have bin &s;o committed but that he is &s;ick, and &s;o his committall re&s;pited till he recover his health. So I re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your very loving Friend <HI>S. M.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>To my worthy Friend <HI>William Lenthall</HI> E&s;quire, Speaker of the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons in <HI>England,</HI> to be &s;peedily communicated to the Hou&s;e.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Ma&s;ter Speaker,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THere is now &s;ome &s;hort time e&s;&s;l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ed &s;ithence here began a great ru|mour to be &s;pread among&s;t us (and much fomented in the mouthes and ears of all &s;orts of people) of a treaty for a Ce&s;&s;ation of Armes to be concluded on betwixt the forces &s;etled in and about Dublin, and the Lyn|&s;ter Rebels, and that the &s;ame was agitated and &s;et on foot by vertue and force of &s;everall Letters from his Maje&s;tie to the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Ormond,</HI> and that the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e hath been in a great probability to take effect untill of late &s;ome appearance of a breach hath fallen out betwixt them; what the &s;ub&s;tance or &s;ucce&s;&s;e of that treaty may be, we in the&s;e parts have been kept utterly ignorant, and &s;o far from being (to our knowledge) compre|hended therein, or concluded thereby, as that we have not had the lea&s;t notice thereof, but by the hands of the Rebels, to whom in that, or any
<PB N="60" REF="31">other particular, we have little rea&s;on to give credit, &s;ave that at a late parley, which was held betwixt me and the principall Officers of this Army, and the Lord of <HI>Muskery</HI> (who pretended to communicate unto us matter tending to the publique good;) we made &s;uch advantage there|of, as to obtain leave to &s;end a Gentleman of our own to the place, where this treaty was related to be in agitation, who &s;uddenly returned unto us, with a&s;&s;urance that upon &s;undry &s;pecious overtures made by the Rebels &s;uch a Treaty had been entred into, but that the &s;ame by the appearance of their delu&s;ive irreality was broken off at pre&s;ent, and that the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Ormond</HI> was then marched into the field with a good &s;trength to pro|&s;ecute the Lyn&s;ter Rebels. And as we are of opinion that extreme nece&s;|&s;ity did compell tho&s;e of the Lyn&s;ter Army to harken to &s;uch a Treaty, &s;o we cannot but avouch our owne wants and generall di&s;tre&s;&s;es to be equall to, if not &s;urpa&s;&s;ing, the &s;uffrings of any other part of the Kingdome, And indeed albeit we are mo&s;t faithfully zealous and de&s;irous to be&s;tow our lives and fortunes on this cau&s;e and &s;ervice; yet will our generall de|fects and nece&s;&s;ities di&s;able us to admini&s;ter any advantage unto it, being altogether unfurni&s;hed of &s;uch meanes, as might make our per&s;ons and endeavours availeable, or con&s;iderable: And although we have lately re|ceived a &s;hip laden with Provi&s;ions, furni&s;hed out by the care and provi|dence of that Honourable Hou&s;e (for which we are de&s;irous that you would returne them our humble and thankfull acknowledgement of their great favour therein:) yet when the &s;ame fell out to be divided among&s;t out whole Army, it amounted not to above ten dayes provi&s;ion for the common &s;ouldiers, &s;o as I am again inforced to lay the &s;ouldiers upon the wretched inhabitants of our &s;everall Garri&s;ons, who were altogether un|able to &s;ind either them&s;elves or the &s;ouldiers a &s;ub&s;i&s;tance, if &s;ome private Merchants had not been endueed to bring in provi&s;ions upon their own account; which were &s;old out to the poor people, and may make them &s;ub&s;i&s;t untill the harve&s;t draw on upon us, that we may expect to gain &s;omething abroad, which then neverthele&s;&s;e we cannot hope to doe, or to be able to look out of our Garri&s;ons, for the e&s;peciall want of powder and Munition, which is &s;uch as that our whole &s;tores will be utterly ex|hau&s;ted, and &s;pent in meer watching without other &s;ervice, in one moneth or &s;ix weeks, having not for all our Garri&s;ons and men above thirty Barrels of Powder, and Match in no &s;ort proportionable to it; So that I &s;hall humbly de&s;ire that in the fir&s;t place we may receive at the lea&s;t 200 Bar|rels of Powder with Match and lead proportionable, if any &s;ervice be ex|pected at our hands.</P>
<P>In the next place, there is ca&s;t upon me a mo&s;t heavie and in&s;upportable
<PB N="61" REF="31">burthen of &s;atisfying and giving contentment to the Officers, who having now neither money or Cloathes (meat being as &s;carce and dainty with them as either) doe daily importune me for leave to for&s;ake the &s;ervice, which I could not refu&s;e to &s;ome few whom I had no meanes to relieve, nor can, but with reluctancy, deny unto the re&s;t, &s;eeing the contemptible and wretched condition they live in, beneath the qualitie of Gentlemen, or indeed common &s;ouldiers in other parts, and therefore I am enforced to deale with them by per&s;wa&s;ions, wherein I have hitherto proved &s;o &s;ucce&s;&s;efull, and have found them &s;o faithfully devoted to this &s;ervice, as that they are content at my entreaty to wait for, and expect the order and direction of that Honourable A&s;&s;embly, how they &s;hall be di&s;po&s;ed of, or provided for: And hereupon have I prevailed with the Admirall (whom we are all exceedingly obliged to, for his care and willingne&s;&s;e to advance this &s;ervice) to employ this Pinnace expre&s;&s;ely with this di&s;patch to be communicated unto the Hou&s;e. And &s;hall earne&s;tly be&s;eech you, as you tender the good and pre&s;ervation of this con&s;iderable and important Pro|vince and Army, that you would effectually repre&s;ent the &s;ub&s;tance of this my Letter unto that Honourable A&s;&s;embly, and obtaine and returne unto me &s;uch full and ample directions and adverti&s;ements, what &s;upply we are to expect, or depend upon, or what other cour&s;e we &s;hall apply our &s;elves unto, as that we may (according to our generall de&s;ire) &s;o di&s;po&s;e of our &s;elves as may be&s;t &s;uit with the liking and approbation of that A&s;&s;embly, being confident that they will only Order and Command us &s;uch things as may be fezible, at lea&s;t po&s;&s;ible for us to ob&s;erve: And now that we may not in the <HI>interim</HI> peri&s;h before any &s;upplies or directions can overtake us, or returne unto us, (which we &s;hall be in great danger of) if we receive not a &s;udden re&s;olution. I &s;hall make humble &s;uit that this Pinnace may be di&s;patched back with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed. And &s;eeing we have already re|ceived good benefit by the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Admirall; I &s;hall al&s;o humbly de&s;ire that a cour&s;e may be conceived to continue him upon this Coa&s;t, and that he may be directed to comply with me in all occa&s;ions of &s;ervice, for that it is very probable we may by his help, when we &s;hall have &s;up|plyes, take in divers of the &s;ea Towns, which had been performed ere this time, if ever we had been in a condition (&s;ince his coming to us) fit to March into the field. The enemie advancing lately to the &s;iege of <HI>Capper|quin</HI> and <HI>Ly&s;more,</HI> which places (in regard I was unable to draw forth the whole Army, through meere want of all kind of nece&s;&s;aries) I did en|devour to &s;treng then with men, and provi&s;ions, and to that purpo&s;e mar|ched with a good party of foot, and &s;ome hor&s;e to <HI>Tallow</HI> within two miles of their Campe, and there lay to face them, and attempt the putting
<PB N="62" REF="32">in of provi&s;ions into the &s;aid &s;everall places: I had there an opportunity to have a perfect view of their whole Forces, and did finde as well by my e&s;pyals, as by my particular &s;urvay, that their &s;trength of hor&s;e did at the lea&s;t treble ours (although ours according to their &s;everall numbers, were indifferently full) and that they were very competently armed, which gave me then occa&s;ion and re&s;olution to de&s;ire you would repre&s;ent unto that Honourable A&s;&s;embly how that Sir <HI>Iohn Pawlet,</HI> Knight, having by his indu&s;try and earne&s;t de&s;ire to advance this &s;ervice, gotten a con&s;idera|ble number of &s;erviceable men, well mounted together, who have on all occa&s;ions been employed, and &s;hewed them&s;elves active and able in the performance of &s;everall &s;ervices, I have for their incouragement and for the keeping of them together, and for the &s;trengthening of our Hor&s;e i&s;&s;ued &s;ome &s;mall quantity of Tobaccoes unto them, to keep them alive, and promi&s;ed to u&s;e my endeavours to gaine them an entertainment; I &s;hall therefore earne&s;tly de&s;ire you to repre&s;ent unto the Hou&s;e, that if they will vouch&s;afe to &s;upply Sir <HI>Iohn Pawlet</HI> with a &s;mall &s;um of money, and &s;ome Arms to recruite and compleat them (which are the only thing they want) and to give me Order to enter them into pay and entertain|ment under his Command, that there will be a very &s;erviceable and con&s;i|derable Troope rai&s;ed for the publique &s;ervice, and &s;uch an one as will bring a good addition of &s;trength to this Army. I have formerly of late directed mo&s;t of my di&s;patches unto Serjeant Major <HI>Jeph&s;on,</HI> a Member of the Hou&s;e, and an indu&s;trious &s;olicitour for the Province (to avoyd your too much trouble) but now I mu&s;t de&s;ire your favours and furtherance in the returne of this di&s;patch, (he being probably come thence) in atten|dance whereon I remain</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Cork</HI> <DATE>7. <HI>Aug.</HI> 1643.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your affectionate friend and &s;ervant <HI>INSIQUIN.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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