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<P>A BLOODY FIGHT AT <HI>BLACK-WATER</HI> IN IRELAND: WHERE Almo&s;t 5000. Prote&s;tants are put to the &s;word by the Rebels. With a Li&s;t of the particulars; A Relation of the manner; and the Names of the chiefe.</P>
<P>And a <HI>Declaration</HI> concerning the <HI>Arch-bi&s;hop</HI> of <HI>Yorke,</HI> and Divers Gentlemen, and others, that de&s;erted the King, prote&s;ting again&s;t the Proceedings of the <HI>Parliaments</HI> Enemies.</P>
<P>And how Major-Generall MITTON hath taken from the Lord BYRON two Demi-Culverins, two Murdering-Pieces, 200. Armes, killed &s;ome, and taken divers Pri&s;oners, and good &s;tore of Provi&s;ions and Ammunition.</P>
<P>Printed by the Originall Papers, and Entred into the Regi&s;ter Booke, and publi&s;hed according to Order.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed by <HI>Iane Coe, Iune</HI> the 15. 1646.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dispatch">
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<P>NO Iri&s;h Rebels are yet come into Wales. Major Generall Monro of the Scots forces had a Randez|voves on Wedne&s;day Iune 3. at Blaces of 500. Hor&s;e and Foote, and marched the next day towards Banburb, where <HI>Owen-Ro-On<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ale Mac-Art</HI> was quartered with a|bout 9000. Hor&s;e and Foote, On Fryday Iune 5. he fa|ced the Rebels neere the black-water, and charged them that evening with our hor&s;e they amber&s;caded the woods; but we beat them away, and pur&s;ued them to their Bo|dy: That night was a very bloody fight: but the Re|bels exceeding the number of the Briti&s;h, and being well armed and mounted they routed fir&s;t our Hor&s;e, then our Foote, though with &s;ome lo&s;&s;e on their part, Monro came to Belfa&s;t with onely 6. Hor&s;e: The Lord Con|wayes &s;onne e&s;caped and &s;ome others, but mo&s;t were lo&s;t. There is great neede to ha&s;ten &s;upplyes lea&s;t Ireland be totally routed. Let not England quarrel with friends (be|cau&s;e &s;ome Clergy would &s;et the Kingdome in a new flame) but cherri&s;h tho&s;e who act for our Peace.</P>
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<HEAD>H List of that bloody fight at Black-Water in Ireland, Iune the 5. 1646. by the Iri&s;h Rebels againt&s;t Major Generall Monro:</HEAD>
<ITEM>7. Piece of Ordnance taken, 2. of them &s;mall.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5000. Armes, All they had almo&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4000. Foote, and upward, killed taken and Routed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>600. Hor&s;e routed: &s;ome killed and taken.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord Mount-gomery,, Lord Ards killed or taken.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord Blany &s;ore wounded, and taken, and dead.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Almo&s;t all the Foot Officers and Souldiers put to the &s;word.</ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="declaration against Parliament's enemies">
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<P>_AMong&s;t the many wonderfull wayes and workes of Gods providence of late for the incouragement of his Servants, daunting the adver&s;aries, and carrying on his own great Worke again&s;t the malice and mul|titude of the Enemies, it &s;hould &s;e|cure none of the lea&s;t, but rather mo&s;t remarkable, which hath been done of late in North-Wales by that poore, and two much neglected and de&s;pi&s;ed power, under that valient, active, and &s;elfe-de|nying Gentleman, Collonel <HI>Thomas Mytton,</HI> Major Ge|nerall for tho&s;e Counties; who as hee was by the wi&s;e|dome of the Parliament thought fit and cho&s;en out, and de&s;igned to that Service, &s;o do many &s;inguler qualifications and indeede all the pa&s;&s;ages of Gods providence in his Service &s;eeme to proclame him a man appointed by God him&s;elfe al&s;o for that imployment, and to have your Jo&s;huas promi&s;e made him, hat no Enemy &s;hall be able to &s;tand before him; to in&s;tance onely in this late bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of <HI>Carnarven</HI> concerning which (that God may have his due pray&s;e) the&s;e perticulors &s;eeme remarkable.</P>
<P N="1"><PB REF="3"> 1. The di&s;couragements which might have hindre his advance, if he had con&s;ulted with fle&s;h and blood, as namely the great work he had newly undertaken at <HI>Denbigh,</HI> the be&s;ieging whereof required his full &s;trength that might be &s;parred for his other Sieges.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Regiments being neere to <HI>Carnarven</HI> 30. miles from any place of Retraite, and Conway a Garri&s;on of the enemies in the mid-way betwixt him and his mayne Body.</P>
<P N="3">3. The number of the Enemies again&s;t whom he was to march being 250. Foote, and 50. Hor&s;e, be&s;ide Gentle|men as was reported.</P>
<P N="4">4. The quality of their Souldiers being <HI>Lathamites Bee&s;toniers,</HI> and &s;uch expert and active Souldiers as the L. <HI>Byron</HI> could procure, or <HI>England,</HI> or <HI>Ireland</HI> would af|ford</P>
<P N="5">5. The de&s;perate condition of their Feild Mar&s;hall Ge|neral the Lord <HI>Byron,</HI> who therefore being by the Honou|rable Parliament exempted in all lykelihood would fight it out to the la&s;t man.</P>
<P N="6">6. The want of pay for his poore Souldiers who (notwith&s;tanding) the voate of the Honourable Hou&s;es, and divers Letters from the Committee of the Kingdoms have received little pay for many Moneths by-gone, the good hand of God carrying him above all difficulties, and making way for his march ray&s;ing up the Spirit both of frineds and foes, in a wonderfull manner to contribute ayd unto his enterprize, for God had pre&s;erved one princi|pall In&s;trument. viz. Mr. <HI>Thomas Glyn</HI> who in all the&s;e tryalls appeared Parliament prooffe, who having great power, in tho&s;e parts did by his invitation prevaile much for the Generalls advance. 2 God incline the hearts of &s;ome who had been Commi&s;&s;ioners of Array, and ac|cordingly yeeld to promi&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;tance to his work. 3. But principally the confidence the Generall had of helpe from
<PB N="3" REF="3">Heaven, &amp; this a&s;&s;urance gayned out of former experien|ces which cau&s;eth him cheerefully to &s;et upon the worke as followeth.</P>
<P>He drew out his Leagure at <HI>Denbigh</HI> a party of about 300. Hor&s;e and Foote, and led them in his own per&s;on advancing neere <HI>Conway</HI> a &s;trong hold of the Enemies, neere which place they tooke 11. pri&s;oners marching, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Yea my Lord of <HI>Yorke,</HI> was very zealous to promote this worke, keepeing his hou&s;e <HI>Penryne</HI> a Gari&s;on again&s;t the Lord <HI>Byron</HI> for which he &s;uffered many bitter inve|ctives from the &s;aid Lord, Sir <HI>William Williams</HI> al&s;o was very forward to afford to afford the Generall all accom|modations fortifying al&s;o his hou&s;e again&s;t the Lord <HI>By|ron,</HI> marching from <HI>Abary&s;twidd</HI> with a pa&s;&s;e to <HI>Carnar|ven</HI> but fal&s;ifying the &s;ame they went for Conway, two whereof were Iri&s;h which the Generall cau&s;ed to be hanged immediatly according to the Ordinance in that kinde.</P>
<P>From thence they advanced towards Penrin, where the Generall and Officers were kindley entertained and fea&s;ted, (being Wednesday the 29. of Aprill) where the enemy was ready to entertaine them, having lined their hedges, ditches, to ob&s;truct their pa&s;&s;age, and furni&s;hed the Subburbs with a great &s;trength both of Hor&s;e, and Foote, the General having viewed their condition, di|vided his Body into a parts, leading one of them him&s;elfe towards the high Rock, and the Subburbs on the North-&s;ide of the Towne, where the chief &s;trength of the enemy lay, but the di&s;pute continved not long; for though the enemy came out furiou&s;ly, yet the gallant be|haviour of that &s;mall party which the General (wherein the <HI>Lanca&s;hire</HI> forces under Captain <HI>A&s;pin<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">al</HI> and captain <HI>Birch</HI> mu&s;t not lo&s;e their due prai&s;e) &s;peedily forced them from the hedges to the hou&s;es, and from the hou&s;es with|out
<PB N="4" REF="4">out the walls to the Town within, not permitting them to fini&s;h their Fire-works, about which they very bu&s;ily &s;et them&s;elves in their retreat, <HI>viz.</HI> to fire all the hou&s;es with|out the walls.</P>
<P N="1">1 Gods powerfull pre&s;ence in the di&s;po&s;ition and pre|&s;ervation of the Leagure, for the Scituation of the Ca&s;tle was &s;uch, as forced the divi&s;ion of the Generals &s;mall &s;trength, <HI>viz.</HI> The Land forces on the North &s;ide the water in the Suburbs, and the Generals men on the other &s;ide the River at <HI>Godallen,</HI> by which means there was neere two miles (the ordinary way) to each others Guard, &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">herfore could admit no reliefe in ca&s;e either parties &s;hould be en|gaged.</P>
<P N="2">2 Though the Enemy took the advantage of this di&s;|union, and made two de&s;perate &s;allyes upon the Generals men: the former the 2. of May: the latter the 7. yet was then God &s;een in the Mount, for in the former toward day break they i&s;&s;ued out at a low water (for that was their only opportunity) 80 Foot, and 40 Hor&s;e; but &s;uch was the vigilancie of the Officers, or rather the care of I&s;|raels Watch-men, that they were ready to entertain them forced them back, took three Souldiers, and one Captaine <HI>Birkit,</HI> being Captain-Lieutenant to the Lord <HI>Byron,</HI> and the con&s;iderable&s;t Captain in his Garai&s;on. In the &s;econd fall Hor&s;e in the day time, with a re&s;olution to cut off all that &s;mall party but God &s;o &s;trengthned the hearts and hands of his Servants Captaine <HI>Evans</HI> and Cornet <HI>Toung</HI> with their men that within the &s;pace of halfe an houre they forced their retraite having 5. &s;laine on the ground, whereof one was a Lieutenant, and another an En&s;igne, and 16. pri&s;oners, among whom were 3. Iri&s;h, &amp; therefore hanged according to the Ordinance.</P>
<P N="3"><PB N="5" REF="4"> 3. That although (for prevention of their reliefe by fre&s;h water, or other provi&s;ion by Sea) the Generall was forced to erect a Sconce upon the Sea Banke, and draw trenches down to the Sea, out of which his men might fire &s;ecurely; yet God did &s;o wonderfully guard his men that neither Souldier nor Pioneer (though working night and day for divers weeks together) lo&s;t a drop of blood.</P>
<P N="4">4. God marvellou&s;ly changing the hearts of the Peo|ple in tho&s;e parts, where was wont to be the Kings re|cruiting place, but now a marvellous compliance of the Countrey with the Generall, who&s;e affections he hath gained by his faire deportment towards them, and his ten|der care over them, lea&s;t violence &s;hould be offered to their per&s;ons or goods; of which complyance the Enemy in the Ca&s;tle took &s;pecial notice, and &s;cornfully &s;tiled them Bumpkins, and many times would (from the walls) rayle again&s;t the Bumpkins, and damme them&s;elves, &s;aying, if the Bumpkins had been as true to them, as they proved to <HI>Mitton,</HI> he had never come to be&s;iege them.</P>
<P>Their affections further are ob&s;erved by their rai&s;ing a compleat Company of able men, and pre&s;enting them to the Generall, and are now under the Command of Cap|tain <HI>Daw&s;on,</HI> with addition to his Forces, gave liberty to &s;ome of his own to draw off from the Leagure, and lye a|bout <HI>Abber</HI> to re&s;train the in&s;olency of the <HI>Conway</HI> youths who did raven and &s;poyle all the Countrey over; and this occa&s;ioneth an Expre&s;&s;e of Gods goodne&s;&s;e further to the Generals forces, there being about 30 hor&s;e commanded by Cornet <HI>Graunt,</HI> belonging to Colonell <HI>Michael Iones,</HI> the noble Governour of <HI>Che&s;ter.</HI> On Thur&s;day the Fourth of this in&s;tant June, about one of the clock in the morning the principall &s;trength of Hor&s;e and Foot out of <HI>Convay</HI> were di&s;covered to have gathered all the Cattell and hor|&s;es about <HI>Abber,</HI> and ha&s;ting with them towards their Den, which the Cornet having notice of, be<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">urred him&s;elf
<PB N="6" REF="5">very faithfully and gallantly, fell &s;o fiercely on the Ene|mies hor&s;e, that he put them to a retreat, and pur&s;ued them to the walls of <HI>Conway,</HI> and in his return re&s;cued the Cat|tell and Goods, and 42 Souldiers, and brought them pri|&s;oner to <HI>Bangor.</HI></P>
<P>Herein la&s;tly God was &s;een in this work that although the town and ca&s;tle were impregnable, the Enemy therein &s;o con&s;iderable, having &s;tore of Provi&s;ion and ammuniti|on for 3 Months longer, yet God forced them to &s;toop &amp; yeeld up the town and ca&s;tle to the hands of the Generall for the &s;ervice of the Parliament upon Saturday the 6 of this in&s;tant Iune, upon the Articles for that purpo&s;e. Where in the Ca&s;tle or Towne were found two Demi|culverins, two murthering Pieces. 200. Armes, and great &s;toro of Ammunition, and Provi&s;ion as above &s;aid, and a|mong&s;t their booties we mu&s;t not mi&s;&s;e the Lanca&s;hire Bear-ward and his great beare who had a Petition from the Lord Byron and little for free puarter for him&s;elf and his bea&s;t, very forme<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> drawne in Parchment.</P>
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