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<P>A LETTER FROM S^R. LEVVIS DYVE to the Lord <HI>Marquis of New-Ca&s;tle</HI> gi|veing his Lordship an account of the whole Conduct of the KINGS <HI>affaires</HI> in <HI>Irland,</HI> &s;ince the time of the Lord <HI>Marquis of Ormond,</HI> His <HI>Excellencies</HI> ar|rivall there out of <HI>France</HI> in <HI>Septem.</HI> 1648. Until <HI>S^r. Lewis</HI> his departure out of that Kingdome, In <HI>June</HI> 1650.</P>
<P>Together with the annexed Coppies of &s;undry Letters mentioned by S^R. LEWIS DYVE as relating to the Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e He treats of <HI>From the</HI> Hague 10./20. July 1650.</P>
<P>HAGVE, Printed by SAMUELL BROUN, English Booke&s;eller. 1650.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>MY LORD,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>NOt long after my arrivall at the <HI>Hague,</HI> intimation was given me by a noble freind (upon &s;ome ca&s;uall di&s;cour&s;e with him of the affaires of <HI>Ireland)</HI> that your <HI>Lordship</HI> had a great de&s;ire to be &s;atisfied as well in &s;ome particulars touching the conduct of that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e &s;ince my <HI>L^d. Leiu^t.</HI> la&s;t went thither, as in what condition the <HI>Kingdom</HI> &s;tood at the time when I came from thence; Wher|upon not knowing whether the nece&s;&s;itie of my occa&s;ions, (or indeed the u&s;uall thwartne&s;&s;e of my fortune in what I mo&s;t covet) would allow me &s;o great a hapine&s;s as per&s;onally to waite upon you before I left this country, I held it my duty in that ca&s;e to leave &s;ome te&s;timony behind me of my obedience, and readine&s;&s;e to &s;erve you, wherin rather then faile, I have adventured to ingage my &s;elfe in this relation, though cons|cious of mine owne di&s;ability to performe it in &s;uch &s;ort as the &s;ubject requires, the unpollished rudene&s;&s;e of &s;o plaine and cour&s;e a &s;tile, affording no lu&s;tre of ornament, or beauty that may render it worthy to be pre&s;ented to a per&s;on of your eminency; which may the ea&s;ier in my behalfe admit of ex|cu&s;e, who&s;e profe&s;&s;ion, and practice hath all wayes bin ac|cu&s;tomed rather to u&s;e a &s;word then a pen: the only plea I have therfore to offer to your Lordship for this pre&s;umption is the candor, and integrity where with it is written, which I have
<PB N="4" REF="3"> religiou&s;ly ob&s;erved through the whole body of the di&s;cour&s;e, endeavouring to vindicate truth, which I find highly &s;uffering by the world, either through the malice, and malignity of the&s;e unhappy times, or for want of cleare, and impartiall in|formation: which I am confident your Lordship, and all who rightly know me, will expect from my hands, and which &s;ince|rely I promi&s;e to afford, without &s;uffering the Bia&s;&s;e of any pa&s;|&s;ion, or privat re&s;pect, or intere&s;t what&s;oever to &s;way me in the lea&s;t circum&s;tance contrary to truth; unle&s;&s;e by mi&s;apre|hen&s;ion, and want of judgment, or by the mi&s;repre&s;entation of the able&s;t, and be&s;t knowing per&s;ons, I may unhappily have bin mi&s;led. But, that I may the better do it, it will be nece&s;&s;ary a little to look back, and take a short view of the de&s;perate time, wherein his <HI>Ex^c^y.</HI> the <HI>Marque&s;&s;e of Ormond,</HI> under tooke this worke; and to reflect upon the &s;ad face that was then upon <HI>His</HI> MAjESTIES <HI>affaires</HI> in all his three Kingdomes.</P>
<P>In <HI>England</HI> as your Lordship may well remember, the <HI>King</HI> was not only made a clo&s;e pri&s;oner, his Crowne, his life, and the &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of his po&s;terity declared again&s;t, but al&s;o all tho&s;e parties that &s;tood for him there, or had declared in his behalfe, and taken armes for his re&s;cue, were wholy di&s;per&s;ed, and &s;ubdued: yea and all other men, who&s;e parts, hone&s;ty, or pu|blique intere&s;t made them worthy of a &s;u&s;pition, either im|pri&s;oned, banisht, or utterly di&s;armed.</P>
<P>In <HI>Scotland</HI> the army rai&s;ed for the freedome, and re&s;taura|tion of the King, having bin unfortunatly lo&s;t (under the leading of <HI>Duke Hamilton</HI> in <HI>Lankashire,)</HI> all that acted by the <HI>Kings</HI> com|mi&s;&s;ion were not only compelld to lay downe armes, but after being declared incapable to &s;it any more in <HI>Parliament,</HI> or to have any share in Government, &s;om of them pro&s;cribed, and
<PB N="5" REF="3"> expelled the land: whil&s;t <HI>Cromwell</HI> for having countenanced them in the&s;e proceedings, was &s;aluted at <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> Pre&s;ervator of the nation; thus you &s;ee there are two Kingdoms, wherin is neither Garri&s;on, nor army left at the <HI>Kings</HI> devotion; nor any per&s;on &s;carce at liberty, that dur&s;t owne either <HI>him</HI> or his quarrell.</P>
<P><HI>Ireland</HI> only remaines to be con&s;idered, and that God knowes a wofull &s;pectacle, cantonized into &s;everall &s;undry factions, drawing all divers waies, and driueing on &s;everall intere&s;ts; there was <HI>Iones, Monke,</HI> and <HI>Coote</HI> playing an <HI>Independant</HI> game as eagerly as might be; there were the <HI>Scots</HI> Patronizinge the <HI>Covenant,</HI> and <HI>Presbitery;</HI> there was <HI>O Neale,</HI> and the <HI>Nuntiated</HI> party of the <HI>Cleargy,</HI> that with might, and maine (under the colour of Religion,) were promoteing a <HI>forraigne intere&s;t,</HI> in ca&s;e they could not make a <HI>Prince</HI> at home; there was the <HI>coun&s;ell of the confederats,</HI> together with all the auntient <HI>English,</HI> and &s;ome of the <HI>Irish</HI> their adherents (who being more moderat, and aver&s;e to &s;uch de&s;perat cour&s;es, awakened al&s;o with the mi&s;e|ries that oppre&s;t them already, &amp; the ruin that menaced them out of <HI>England)</HI> made fresh applications into <HI>France,</HI> unto the <HI>Queene,</HI> and the <HI>Prince his highne&s;&s;e,</HI> that my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> and the <HI>Kings Authority</HI> might againe be &s;ent among&s;t them; wherupon the&s;e two factions grew to &s;o great a fewde, that the latter were all <HI>excomunicated</HI> by the fir&s;t; and the fir&s;t proclaimed <HI>Traytors</HI> by the latter.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides all the&s;e, there was <HI>Inchiquin,</HI> who having recol|lected him&s;elfe at la&s;t, &amp; di&s;likeing the revolutions in <HI>England,</HI> had prevailed with his party, to declare for the <HI>King.</HI> Wher|upon he made a <HI>ce&s;&s;ation</HI> with the <HI>coun&s;ell of the confederats,</HI> in ex|pectation of my <HI>Lord Leiu^t^s,</HI> coming over; which <HI>ce&s;&s;ation</HI> being
<PB N="6" REF="4"> violently oppo&s;ed, both by the &s;pirituall, and temporall &s;word of the <HI>Nuntio,</HI> and <HI>O Neale,</HI> induced finally my Lord <HI>Marque&s;s of Clanricard,</HI> (who from the time of my <HI>Lord Leiu^n^t^s.</HI> going to &s;ea from <HI>Dublin,</HI> had retired him&s;elfe, and his family to a place convenient to ship away: a&s;&s;oone as he should de&s;paire of being able to &s;erve the <HI>King</HI> by his further &s;tay) to take armes, and drawe together his army to countenance the <HI>ce&s;&s;ation,</HI> and to make way for my Lord <HI>Marque&s;s of Ormond</HI> with the <HI>Kings Au|thority;</HI> to which he did highly contribute, by awing, and curbing the towne of <HI>Galloway,</HI> at that time the &s;eat of the <HI>Nuntio,</HI> and the principall receptacle of the mo&s;t factious people in the Kingdome; as al&s;o by his &s;uccesfull reduceing of <HI>Fort|faukland, Athlone, Iames towne,</HI> and the greate&s;t part of the Pro|vince into his power; But to the end that you may &s;ee with what &s;teadine&s;&s;e that <HI>Honorable Per&s;on</HI> in the depth of all the&s;e <HI>revolutions</HI> hath &s;till adhered unto the &s;ervice of the <HI>King</HI> and the Intere&s;ts, of the <HI>Crown</HI> even again&s;t tho&s;e that couloured al their de&s;ignes and practi&s;es over, with the artificialle&s;t and mo&s;t deludeing pretences of <HI>Religion</HI> (&s;ince it is an example fit to be recommended to po&s;terity and truly worthy your lordships knowledge) you may plea&s;e to read the particular conduct of this his undertakeing in the Coppy of a Letter (I &s;end you herewithall) writ from the <HI>Marquis</HI> him&s;elfe to <HI>M^r. Wal|&s;ingham</HI> then in <HI>France.</HI></P>
<P>In this po&s;ture was <HI>Ireland</HI> when my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> came againe upon the &s;tage; with his hands in effect empty of armes, and his pur&s;e of money, without the countenance, or a&s;&s;i&s;tance of any <HI>foraigne &s;tate,</HI> wherby to unite this di&s;tracted people, and re|cover unto His MAjESTIE this devided Kingdome; before <HI>Cromwell</HI> were at lea&s;ure, to make an expedition thither, which
<PB N="7" REF="4"> as yet either the <HI>murder</HI> of the <HI>King</HI> not yet perpetrated, or the un&s;ettlement of that <HI>mishapen cub</HI> of his <HI>new common wealth</HI> detained him from.</P>
<P>Yet notwith&s;tanding all the&s;e di&s;advantages of having neither armes wherwith to awe, or money wherwith to buy men into their duty, or any party ready to imbrace him (my Lord of <HI>Clanricard</HI> only excepted) but upon the racke of &s;crewed con|ditions; yet at length by Gods ble&s;&s;ing and his owne prudent management of affaires, ioyned with the great intere&s;t he had in that people, he ordered matters &s;o, as in few months to &s;owlder mo&s;t of the&s;e factions together; and make <HI>a peace,</HI> wher|unto all but <HI>O Neale,</HI> and the <HI>Independant</HI> party did willingly &s;ubmit. <HI>O Neale</HI> complained that the conditions were neither &s;afe, nor large enough, as to the concernments of Religion, and the Province of <HI>Vl&s;ter:</HI> and the <HI>Independant</HI> party exclaimed that the <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> Religion, and the <HI>English intere&s;t</HI> for&s;ooth were both betrayed by it: &s;o opo&s;ite were, then, the&s;e two par|ties in their publique quarrells, about the peace, who you shall &s;ee not long after shake hands behind the curtaine again&s;t the <HI>Kings Authority,</HI> which indeed is the blocke they both &s;tumble at; for as to the pretence of <HI>Religion</HI> in the fir&s;t, it is manife&s;t how vaine it was, for you shall find that party embrace the peace herafter upon the very &s;ame conditions; And as to their <HI>Provinciall</HI> concernments, they were even then well enough &s;atisfied that my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> could in no &s;ort be blamed, he being put upon the choi&s;e whether he would accept of the re&s;t of the <HI>confederats,</HI> and the <HI>English</HI> party in <HI>Mon&s;ter</HI> upon the termes in the printed articles, without any further conce&s;&s;ions unto <HI>Owen O Neale,</HI> and the <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> army: or el&s;e in yeelding to their demaunds, loo&s;e both the other two; which may &s;uf|fice
<PB N="8" REF="5"> to ju&s;tify my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> in that peace again&s;t their com|plaints. The invectives of <HI>Co^l^l. Jones,</HI> &amp; his party were urged with far greater arte, and fallacies, which being indu&s;triou&s;ly published in <HI>print,</HI> were received, I feare, with too much ap|plau&s;e by many of the people of <HI>England,</HI> that either were un|willing, or unable to judge a right; and being fortified by a <HI>na|tionall animo&s;itie,</HI> had too great an influence, even in <HI>Ireland</HI> it &s;elfe, upon the <HI>English</HI> army under the comand of my Lord <HI>Inchiquin;</HI> wherin &s;undry of the principall Officers were &s;o aver&s;e to a conjunction with the <HI>Irish,</HI> that dureing the time of the <HI>treaty</HI> they con&s;pired to have &s;urprized both my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> and the <HI>Lord Pre&s;ident,</HI> &amp; to have delivered them up to the <HI>Parliament:</HI> which in all probabillity had then taken effect, had it not bien acci|dentally prevented by their unexpected departure from <HI>Caricke,</HI> upon a petition, or repre&s;entation from the coun&s;ell of the <HI>con|federat Catholiques</HI> to <HI>His Ex^c^y.</HI> that he would remove thence to his owne hou&s;e at <HI>Kilkeny;</HI> as a place more fit for the conclu|&s;ion of the <HI>treaty:</HI> Now whether tho&s;e &s;ons of <HI>Zerviah</HI> were &s;o &s;trong, and powerfull in the <HI>army</HI> that they could not be called to an account, or whether it was conceived more conducible for the advancement of <HI>His</HI> MAjESTIES <HI>affaires</HI> to reduce them with time, and gentlene&s;&s;e to a right under&s;tanding, then to loo&s;e &s;o many per&s;ons of abillity, and authority, I know not, only I feare their impunity was either the &s;ole, or concurrent cau&s;e of the generall revolt, and apo&s;tacy of tho&s;e garri&s;ons &s;ince. But for a full, and &s;atisfactory an&s;wer to all objections, that can be made by either of the parties upon that &s;ubject, I have taken the bouldne&s;&s;e to &s;end your <HI>Lordship</HI> together with this, the copy of a letter (I found lying by me) that was writ by <HI>M^r. Wal&s;ingham,</HI> in returne to the la&s;t of <HI>Jones</HI> his printed papers,
<PB N="9" REF="5"> (after it was thought fit by my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> to reply no more as from him&s;elfe) which &s;peaks &s;o much truth, and rea&s;on, that though it came to <HI>Jones</HI> his hands, he was well content to give over his paper war; in that letter your <HI>Lordship</HI> may find the peace &s;o firmely a&s;&s;erted, and both the ju&s;tice, and nece&s;&s;ity of what was don &s;o well demon&s;trated, as wauing all arguments of mine owne in that behalfe I refer you <HI>Lordship</HI> thither for an en|tire &s;atisfaction.</P>
<P>Only I shall take leave to tell your <HI>Lordship</HI> this, that his <HI>Ex^c^y.</HI> in a&s;&s;ociating the <HI>Irish</HI> and my Lord of <HI>Inchiquin</HI> together, and in making up of this <HI>peace,</HI> hath what in conditions to the one, and to the other, &s;o bound up him&s;elfe, as he may well be &s;aid to be <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> but upon curte&s;y, untill the time of <HI>Parliament;</HI> having granted unto my Lord <HI>Inchiquin</HI> the &s;ole co|mand, and ordering of tho&s;e forces, and garri&s;ons he brought with him to the <HI>Kings</HI> obedience; and having oblidged him|&s;elfe unto the confederats to authorize only tho&s;e Officers, and to march in the head of that army which their <HI>Commi&s;sioners</HI> should pre&s;ent unto him. By this your <HI>Lordship</HI> may perceive the nece&s;&s;ity unto which His <HI>Ex^c^y.</HI> was brought, but it could not be avoided, either the&s;e thinges mu&s;t be a&s;&s;ented unto by him, or the <HI>peace</HI> mu&s;t not be made.</P>
<P>And in this &s;ort my <HI>Lord Liu^n^ts.</HI> hands were manacled in ef|fect as to the <HI>militia,</HI> he having no more to do, but only to go in, &amp; out before an army of &s;everall <HI>factions,</HI> &amp; <HI>religions</HI> much aver&s;e to one another: the Officers wherof though never &s;o much di&s;liked by him he could not but admit of; if either the one party, or the other in&s;i&s;ted upon their conditions; it cannot therfore &s;eeme &s;trange, (when rightly con&s;idered,) that <HI>Inchiquins,</HI> and the <HI>Irish</HI> forces were never incorporated together,
<PB N="10" REF="6"> nor indifferently intermingled in all the garri&s;ons; neither why the army was either &s;o ill di&s;ciplined, and officerd, (as in truth it was,) &s;ince what hath bin &s;aid is a full an&s;wer, as I conceive, to that objection.</P>
<P>The difficulties His <HI>Ex^c^y.</HI> al&s;o had, to make the&s;e &s;everall <HI>Factions</HI> under&s;tand either him, or one another, were very great; witnes the printed <HI>Declaration</HI> the <HI>Moun&s;ter</HI> forces ex|torted from him before the conclu&s;ion of the <HI>peace,</HI> and tho&s;e many diffidences, and demurs the <HI>Irish</HI> made therupon; both which parties he mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity humor, and comply with, or el&s;e mutinies, and defections could not be avoided. The ca&s;e being &s;uch, your <HI>Lordship</HI> (who have commanded great ar|mies, and had experience in &s;ome mea&s;ure of the&s;e inconve|niences) very well knowes, that the skill mu&s;t needs be great in a <HI>Generall</HI> &s;o to devide him&s;elfe among&s;t them, as to keep them in obedience, and contented. My <HI>Lord Lieu^t.</HI> by the gentlene&s;&s;e, and affabilitie of his di&s;po&s;ition, and his great pru|dence in fore&s;eeing, &amp; preuenting evils, wre&s;tled a long time &s;uccesfully, with all the&s;e inconveniences, tuneing all the&s;e di&s;cords into harmony; and at length a&s;&s;oone as money could be got to move withall, or the ground affoorded gra&s;&s;e for their hor&s;e, a part of the army is drawn together under the com|mand of the <HI>Earle of Ca&s;tle-haven</HI> (generall of the hor&s;e) who&s;e prevaileing again&s;t &s;everall of <HI>O Neales,</HI> &amp; <HI>Jones</HI> his garri&s;ons joyned to the voluntary coming in of many of their &s;ouldiers, and &s;urrender of their holds, gave very much credit, and repu|tation to the <HI>Kings army.</HI></P>
<P>All the time that this is in doing my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> was bu&s;ied in treating with, and courting <HI>Jones,</HI> &amp; <HI>Owen O Neale</HI> unto the <HI>Kings</HI> obedience; the fir&s;t of which (being as is beleived)
<PB N="11" REF="6"> corrupted by <HI>Cromwells</HI> bribes, &amp; large promi&s;es, po&s;itively de|clines my <HI>Lord Leiu^t^s.</HI> favour, as apeares by their <HI>printed</HI> let|ters: the latter having at la&s;t waued all things concerning re|ligion, more then what was granted in the <HI>peace,</HI> in&s;i&s;ts finally upon the comand of 6000. foot, and 800. hor&s;e, together with tho&s;e other conditions that &s;ince were granted him; the <HI>Commi&s;|&s;ioners</HI> will permit my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> to allow him no more but 4000. foot &amp; 600. hor&s;e, which number they ob&s;tinatly refu&s;ed to ex|ceed; denying him al&s;o &s;everal other of his le&s;&s;er demaunds, wherupon <HI>O Neale</HI> &s;eeing them willing either to leave him quite out, or to have him come in upon &s;uch termes as he judged incon&s;iderable, (they peradventure thinking them&s;elves able to do the worke without him) makes pre&s;ent application unto <HI>Monk,</HI> and <HI>Jones,</HI> either to be revenged, upon the <HI>Commi&s;sioners,</HI> my Lord of <HI>Inchiquin,</HI> the <HI>Scots,</HI> and all the re&s;t, that he con|ceived to oppo&s;e him, or el&s;e, as he afterwards &s;aid, to make him&s;elfe more con&s;iderable, and therby facilitate his condi|tions with them.</P>
<P>What&s;oever his motive was, at la&s;t <HI>Monke</HI> makes an agreement with him, in the name of the <HI>Parliament;)</HI> though they very tamely upon <HI>Cromwells</HI> motion did afterwards thinke fit to di&s;claime him) upon which &s;core, how&s;oever, he a&s;&s;i&s;ted them all he could, undertaking the releife of <HI>Derry,</HI> which he after|wards effected; and notwith&s;tanding that his <HI>Ex^c^y.</HI> dureing all this time was very &s;encible of the great con&s;equence of <HI>Owen O Neales</HI> comming in, or &s;tanding out, in order to the &s;ervice, or di&s;&s;ervice of the <HI>King,</HI> and that he looked upon the di&s;pute of denying him the comand of 6000. men, when they were content to entru&s;t him with 4000. as a &s;trange kind of over&s;ight in the <HI>Commi&s;sioners,</HI> &amp; the re&s;t concurring with them, the rather,
<PB N="12" REF="7"> becau&s;e he knew that by his &s;tanding out, that accur&s;ed quarrell betweene the <HI>Kings,</HI> and the <HI>Nuntios</HI> party, (not unlike that of the <HI>Guelphs,</HI> and <HI>Gibbelines</HI> in <HI>Italy)</HI> was kept on foot, the re|fractory Cleargy were countenanced, &amp; upheld in credit with the people, and the great <HI>Cityes</HI> were animated to refu&s;e guar|ri&s;ons, to deny the payment of impo&s;itions, and to di&s;re&s;pect both the <HI>Lord Leiu^t,</HI> and the <HI>Commi&s;sioners:</HI> yet was it not in his power to helpe it by any meanes; unle&s;&s;e he would have broken conditions with them, which no con&s;ideration of any advantage, how great &s;oever, could induce him to do, &s;o tender hath he bin ever of his faith and engagements given: The bu&s;ines being grown pa&s;t remedy, he gives the treaty over, and the &s;ea&s;on inviteing him to take the field, his army being drawen together, he bends his thoughts wholy now upon the reduction of <HI>Dublin,</HI> yet meetes with a very unexpected rub in the beginning of his march, for the <HI>English</HI> forces of <HI>Moun&s;ter</HI> would not move, neither would the <HI>Vl&s;ter Scots</HI> unanimou&s;ly &s;ub|mit before my Lord <HI>Inchiquin</HI> be declared <HI>Leiu^t. Generall</HI> of the ar|my: which comand had bin imediatly upon the <HI>peace</HI> conferd on my Lord Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Clanricard</HI> (now upon his march towards <HI>Slego)</HI> but this demur was al&s;o overcom by his Lordships being content, to part with <HI>that comand,</HI> rather then the <HI>Kings</HI> &s;ervice should &s;uffer through any concernment of his: &s;oon after my Lord of <HI>Ca&s;tle-haven,</HI> upon my Lord of <HI>Inchiquins</HI> hor&s;e refu&s;eing to obey his orders, quits the feild in di&s;ta&s;te, and re|tires to <HI>Kilkeny;</HI> which his <HI>Ex^c^y.</HI> &s;eemed willing for avoiding greater inconveniences to &s;uffer, giving the Earle of <HI>Ca&s;tle|haven</HI> the charge of &s;eing the contributions brought in, and the Comand of the country in his ab&s;ence.</P>
<P>The&s;e difficulties overcome, His <HI>Ex^c^y.</HI> makes directly for
<PB N="13" REF="7"> <HI>Dublin,</HI> all the garri&s;ons in his way (but <HI>Balli&s;onan)</HI> by force, or faire meanes &s;urrendring to him, yet is he &s;et forth &s;o &s;lenderly provided with money, that neare <HI>Kildare</HI> the army is ready to mutiny, &amp; fall to peeces for want of a very &s;mall &s;umm, had not a worthy per&s;on (that was there but accidentally) &s;upplied them in that extremity; this &s;traight al&s;o being overpa&s;t, &amp; my Lord of <HI>Inchiquins</HI> forces being come wholy up, they hold on for <HI>Dublin,</HI> and compell <HI>Jones</HI> that was drawne out as far as the <HI>Naas</HI> with what &s;trength he could make to interupt them, to re|tire into the towne; whither being come at la&s;t, and finding it competently well fortified, and plentifullie man'd both with hor&s;e, and foot, in &s;o much that it was judged no waies fit to hazard the army upon a de&s;perat a&s;&s;ault, and being not as yet a number able to inve&s;t the place, e&s;pecially whil&s;t <HI>O Neale,</HI> and <HI>Monke,</HI> together with the garri&s;ons of <HI>Drogheda,</HI> and <HI>Trim</HI> lay &s;o convenient to attempt upon them; it was re&s;olved that my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> should with the greate&s;t part of his army encampe at <HI>Fingla&s;&s;e,</HI> from thence to awe, &amp; di&s;tre&s;&s;e the towne, and be ready to countenance any &s;tirs, or revolts within, whil&s;t my Lord of <HI>Inchiquin</HI> with a great body of hor&s;e, and above 2000 foot endevours to take in <HI>Trim,</HI> and <HI>Drogheda;</HI> al this time <HI>His Ex^c^y.</HI> found great <HI>wants</HI> to encounter with, his provi&s;ions, and contributions coming in &s;o &s;lowly, and di&s;proportionably to the nece&s;&s;ities of his army; and many <HI>factions</HI> to compo&s;e, and temper, the <HI>Moun&s;ter,</HI> and the re&s;t of the <HI>English</HI> forces mur|muring again&s;t the liberty the <HI>Irish</HI> had there in the exerci&s;e of their religion, &amp; the <HI>Irish</HI> againe repining to &s;ee them&s;elves mur|mured at; but more e&s;pecially to &s;ee the <HI>English Moun&s;ter</HI> forces (though they were fewer in number, and had contributions of their owne) to &s;wallow up both their pay, and provi&s;ions al&s;o;
<PB N="14" REF="8"> which though the re&s;t of the army did petition again&s;t, <HI>His Ex^c^y.</HI> could in no waies remedy, being con&s;trained to humor, and comply with that party, as being a people &s;o ticklish, and un|&s;teady, that, if di&s;gu&s;ted, might probably either &s;ide with <HI>Jones,</HI> or retireing to their own garri&s;ons, compell the army to with draw, from <HI>Dublin</HI> by declaring them&s;elves for the <HI>Parlia|ment.</HI></P>
<P><HI>S^r. Tho. Arm&s;tronge,</HI> and my <HI>Lord Moore</HI> being come in to my Lord <HI>Inchiquin; Co^l^l. Mark Treuors</HI> (that was but newly de|clared for the <HI>King)</HI> having got notice of a choice party of <HI>O Neales,</HI> &s;ent to <HI>Dundalke</HI> to convay thence &s;uch armes, and amu|nition as <HI>Monk</HI> had undertaken to &s;uply him withall, invites my Lord <HI>Inchiquin</HI> to intercept them, who came &s;o oportunely thither, that he gained <HI>O Neals</HI> &s;uplie of amunition, with the utter defeat of his party; wherupon &s;oon after the gaining of <HI>Drogedah,</HI> which en&s;ued imediatly upon <HI>O Neales</HI> defeat; <HI>Dun|dalke</HI> it &s;elfe being &s;ummoned, the &s;ouldiers compelled <HI>Monk</HI> to a &s;urrender, and them&s;elves took armes for the <HI>King.</HI></P>
<P>Imediatly after this defeat of his party, <HI>O Neale</HI> ha&s;tneth towards the releife of <HI>Derry</HI> which was the only towne in that <HI>Province</HI> untaken, all the re&s;t being already reduced by the Lord of <HI>Ards, S^r. George Monro,</HI> and <HI>Co^l^l. Treuors,</HI> who were now hindered only by <HI>O Neales</HI> army, and the Siedg of <HI>Derry,</HI> from bringing up a con&s;iderable body of hor&s;e, and foot to the leaguer of <HI>Dublin.</HI> Where may be ob&s;erved how great a preju|dice the faction of tho&s;e men (who de&s;ireing out of animo&s;ities, &amp; ends of their owne, to &s;taue of <HI>O Neal</HI> &amp; his party from the benefit of the peace; &s;tood chaffering with him about his com|mande of 4000, or 6000. men, and other trifles) have don to the <HI>Kinges</HI> &s;ervice, and to the whole <HI>Kingdomes</HI> in deprivinge
<PB N="15" REF="8"> them&s;elves therby, not only of the forementioned a&s;&s;i&s;tan|ce of the <HI>Scots,</HI> but al&s;o of the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of <HI>London Derry,</HI> together with &s;o con&s;iderable an addition of forces as <HI>O Neale</HI> could then have brought; wherby not only the whole Province of <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> would have bin &s;ecured to the <HI>King;</HI> but <HI>Dublin</HI> it &s;elfe either reduced, or &s;o &s;trongly furrounded, that it would have bin impo&s;&s;ible either for <HI>Jones</HI> to releive him&s;elfe, or <HI>Cromwell</HI> to invade the Kingdom: which, notwith&s;tanding all the&s;e fore mentioned di&s;advantages, was, upon the matter, even gained already, and would have bin entirely, without any manner of que&s;tion, if it had fortuned that His MAjESTIE had fea&s;onably come thither him&s;elfe in per&s;on, which by all parties was de&s;ired with infinit pa&s;&s;ion, but e&s;pecially by tho&s;e who&s;e prudence made them be&s;t able to judge how effectuall his pre&s;ence would be, not only for the animating of his own loiall party, but al&s;o &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of all factious humors, and uniteing all intere&s;ts chearfully, &amp; unanimou&s;ly to go on again&s;t the <HI>common enemy:</HI> which mu&s;t &s;oon have put a period to that warr, and made his authority ab&s;olut in that <HI>Kingdom,</HI> without di&s;pute; for as upon his arrivall His MAjESTIE should have found <HI>Moun&s;ter</HI> enti|rely in the <HI>Irish,</HI> and my Lord of <HI>Inchiquins</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> all reduced, but the fort of <HI>Culmore,</HI> and <HI>Derry</HI> into the hands of the <HI>Scots; Conaght</HI> by the Marque&s;s of <HI>Clanrieards</HI> fortunate gaining the &s;trong fort of <HI>Slego</HI> (with what el&s;e the enemy had then remaining in that <HI>Province)</HI> wholy cleared: in <HI>Lein&s;ter</HI> nothing left for <HI>rebellion</HI> to ne&s;tle in, but <HI>Dublin</HI> &amp; <HI>Balli&s;onnan;</HI> both which were &s;o well attended upon, that the defendants had but little plea&s;ure to ayre them&s;elves without the circuit of their workes; &s;o by his coming he would undoubtedly have diverted <HI>Owen O Neale</HI> (who would imediatly have &s;ubmitted unto the per&s;on
<PB N="16" REF="9"> of the <HI>King</HI> from releiving <HI>London Derry,</HI> and therby have &s;e|cured both that town, and Province, with <HI>Dublin</HI> al&s;o as it is thought) for they that had rea&s;on to know <HI>Jones</HI> his mind apprehended that his leaving the <HI>Kings</HI> party did proceede from a <HI>Pique</HI> either again&s;t my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> or <HI>S^r. Robert Byron</HI> about a <HI>Leiu^t. Co^l^l^s.</HI> place, which was conferd over his head upon an other; and that then the &s;cene being altered in <HI>England,</HI> &amp; his old freinds out of authority there, his new termes with the <HI>Independents</HI> al&s;o yet unmade, he had him&s;elfe come over, if the <HI>King</HI> had bin there in per&s;on; or if not, yet his <HI>party</HI> would have all de&s;erted him; and the worke had bin don one way, or other; that <HI>Kingdom</HI> wholy reduced without ablow; all factions, as I &s;aid before extinguisht; and His MAjESTIE had an army of above 20000. men to have emploied where he plea&s;ed.</P>
<P>However, thitherto you &s;ee my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> (having ce|mented together &s;o many differing parties, &amp; ma&s;tered almo&s;t incredible difficulties) hath with prudence, and &s;ucce&s;&s;e con|ducted the bu&s;ines, and is hindered only by the wilfulnes, and faction of &s;ome of his owne party from compleating the worke. After the taking in of <HI>Trim</HI> (which followed &s;oon upon the &s;urrender of <HI>Dundalke,)</HI> my Lord of <HI>Inchiquin</HI> brings up his forces, now much improved in number, to the army before <HI>Dublin</HI> wherupon His <HI>Ex^c^y.</HI> leaving a part of his army at <HI>Ca&s;tle|knock</HI> under the Command of my Lord <HI>Dillon</HI> of <HI>Co&s;telo</HI> (a per|&s;on of much gallantry) to keepe them in on that &s;ide the water, removes his <HI>Campe</HI> to the other &s;ide the towne, to di&s;tre&s;&s;e the enemy that way al&s;o, which, whil&s;t they are endevouring to do, (upon intelligence that <HI>Cromwell</HI> was ready with an army to em|barke him&s;elfe for <HI>Ireland,</HI> and that he intended to land in <HI>Moun&s;ter)</HI> my Lord of <HI>Inchiquin</HI> thought it fit that he should
<PB N="17" REF="9"> with a good party of hor&s;e go down into tho&s;e parts to &s;ecure his garri&s;ons and provide for the wor&s;t.</P>
<P>His <HI>Lordship</HI> was no &s;ooner gone, but my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> de&s;igning to shut up the enemy within his workes, and quite impede as well their getting in of hay, as the gra&s;eing of their cattle with|out their line; gave order to <HI>Patrick Purcell,</HI> Major Generall of the foot, to march with a &s;ufficient party of men, and an Engineer to <HI>Baggot-Rath</HI> there to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e him&s;elfe of that place immediatly, &amp; ca&s;t up &s;uch a worke as had been already de|&s;igned: <HI>S^r. William Vaughan</HI> Commi&s;&s;ary Generall of the hor&s;e, had order likewi&s;e to draw together mo&s;t part of the troopes that were on that &s;ide the water and to keepe them in a body upon a large plowed field looking towards the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin,</HI> there to countenance the foot whil&s;t the workes were finishing, and to &s;ecure them in ca&s;e the enemy out of the towne should attempt to interrupt them. The&s;e (my <HI>Lord)</HI> were the orders given, but not executed, for notwith&s;tanding it did not much exceed a mile, whither the foot were to go, yet through the ignorance, or negligence of the Officers, that were to conduct them many houres were &s;pent, ere they came at the place: Whither when they were come they found the worke &s;o wretchle&s;ly advanced by <HI>M^r. Welsh</HI> the Engineer, (and to helpe all) them&s;elves kept &s;uch negligent guards, that many judged it was done on purpo&s;e; &amp; that the&s;e neglects proceeded from tho&s;e lurking &s;eedes of di&s;cord betwene the <HI>Kings</HI> and the <HI>Nuntios</HI> parties: for it is certaine that about that time upon an apprehen&s;ion that thinges went on too pro&s;perou&s;ly with my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> there were Letters written to <HI>Owen O Neale,</HI> about broaching a new warr, in ca&s;e <HI>Dublin</HI> had bin taken; what ever the grounds of the&s;e faileings were, the enemy never &s;tood to
<PB N="18" REF="10"> examin, but being much troubled to &s;ee <HI>a fort</HI> de&s;igning there, (where, with &s;o much ea&s;e they might not only be kept, from all forrage, and &s;uccour by land, but entercour&s;e with the &s;ea al&s;o:) and perceiving the po&s;ture they were in, de&s;titute of hor&s;e, to guard them, re&s;olues upon a de&s;perat &s;ally to di&s;turb this worke, which they hapned to make about eight of the clock in the morning, when His <HI>Ex^c^y.</HI> who had bin on hor&s;eback mo&s;t part of the night (as his con&s;tant cu&s;tome was &s;ince his coming neare <HI>Dublin)</HI> was newly laide him down in his tent to take his re&s;t.</P>
<P>The enemy found the new fortification &s;o &s;light, and the re|&s;i&s;tance there &s;o weake, that they &s;oon became ma&s;ters of the place, from whence &s;eeing the <HI>Irish</HI> flie in &s;uch fright &amp; di&s;order, (contrary to their fir&s;t intentions,) they pur&s;ued them up to the avenewes of their <HI>Campe,</HI> where finding the &s;ouldiers al&s;o that were in gard with great &s;ecuritie, and unconcernment looking on, they laid hold on the advantage, charging briskly in, and in a trice beat them of their po&s;ts, which if they had de|fended (as a far le&s;s number then they were, might very ea&s;ily have don) the <HI>Campe</HI> being no way acce&s;&s;ible towards the towne, (excepting by tho&s;e few avenewes which there purpo|&s;ely had been left open, nay &s;ome of them thrown open con|trary to orders for the conveniency of the &s;oldiers) could po&s;&s;ibly have run no hazard.</P>
<P>But the&s;e pa&s;&s;es being thus lo&s;t, &amp; abandoned, &amp; more men coming out of the towne to reinforce tho&s;e that were alredy &s;o &s;uccesfull, the whole army in the greate&s;t terror, and confu|&s;ion that might be, falls a running every one a &s;everall way, &amp; in this condition were all things brought before my Lord <HI>Taaffe</HI> then Generall of the <HI>Ordinance</HI> had awaked my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.,</HI> who
<PB N="19" REF="10"> pre&s;ently takeing hor&s;e together with my Lord of <HI>Ca&s;tle-haven</HI> (who was now returned backe to his command) &amp; <HI>Co^l^l. Milo Power;</HI> made towards the enemy taking all &s;uch a long with them as they could either by force, or faire meanes per&s;wade to face about, with intention to beat them backe, or at lea&s;t, by making head a while, to &s;top their progre&s;&s;e till &s;om con&s;ide|rable part of the army could be rallied, and brought up againe, to oppo&s;e them: but by that time they came neare the enemy, their followers were grown &s;o thin, that <HI>His Ex^c^y.</HI> (after the having expo&s;ed him&s;elfe to much danger, and received a shot upon his armes in a brusk charge that he made upon the fore|mo&s;t of the enemies troopes,) was faine to retire at la&s;t, and &s;eeke to recover his army that was gone before; <HI>S^r. William Vaughan</HI> being already killed, his brother <HI>Co^l^l. Richard Butler</HI> ta|ken, and the whole campe in effect abandoned except by tho&s;e that could not get them ready, or wanted meanes of flyinge.</P>
<P>Thus be&s;ides the &s;laughter that was made, and the pri&s;oners that were taken, one of which was the lot of mo&s;t of the <HI>English</HI> that were under the command of <HI>Co^l^l. Woogan</HI> (who&s;e behaviour that day de&s;erves much commendation) who having gotten together into a &s;mall body defended them&s;elves &s;o gallantly and with &s;o much re&s;olution again&s;t the whole power of the enemy, as at la&s;t, after a great &s;laughter, the re&s;t made conditions for themfelves before they could be inforced to yeeld, or lay downe armes:) the totall plunder of the campe, with all the artillery, tents, and baggage fell into the enemies hands, mo&s;t of my Lord of <HI>Inchiquins</HI> foot, that at fir&s;t made &s;ome re&s;i&s;tance, &s;eing the day lo&s;t, upon this di&s;a&s;ter changed &s;ides, and revolted to the enemy. All this was don in &s;o short a &s;pace, and with &s;o little noi&s;e, that my Lord <HI>Dillon,</HI>
<PB N="20" REF="11"> and the re&s;t of the forces that were on the other &s;ide the river of the <HI>Liffy,</HI> knew nothing of what was don till the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e was over, and &s;ome &s;cattering runawaies brought him word of it; the <HI>Irish</HI> that got of, made &s;uch ha&s;t every one towards his home, and with &s;uch di&s;traction, that it was impo&s;&s;ible for my Lord <HI>Leiu^t.</HI> to draw any body of them together; and therfore (having met with the newes of the &s;urrender of <HI>Balli&s;annon</HI> that very day into the hands of his forces that lay before it) he re&s;ted at <HI>Caterlo</HI> that night, and went the next day to confer with the <HI>Commi&s;sioners of tru&s;t,</HI> and my Lord <HI>Inchiquin</HI> at <HI>Kilkeny.</HI></P>
<P>When this great di&s;a&s;ter is well con&s;idered, &s;carce any other &s;ound rea&s;on can be given for &s;o &s;ad a misfortune, but the good plea&s;ure of <HI>Almightie God.</HI> who (if it be lawfull to look &s;o far into the judgments of heaven,) knowing the ill intentions and de&s;ignes that were in the harts of many both of the <HI>Irish</HI> and <HI>English</HI> there, in ca&s;e <HI>Dublin</HI> had bin taken, &s;aw them un|worthy of that ble&s;&s;ing, and tooke that time, for their punish|ment, and humiliation; not only in this but a torrent of other cro&s;&s;es following in the necke one of another; for be&s;ides this mi&s;chance before <HI>Dublin,</HI> to the ruin of &s;o great an army, about the &s;ame time <HI>O Neale</HI> releives <HI>Coot</HI> in <HI>London Derry,</HI> to the immediat lo&s;&s;e of that <HI>Province,</HI> &amp; the future &s;courge of his owne followers; not long before likewi&s;e the <HI>plague</HI> was brought by a ship out of <HI>Spaine</HI> into <HI>Gallway,</HI> and be&s;ides the havock it made in that towne, &s;o di&s;per&s;t it &s;elfe over all the <HI>Province</HI> of <HI>Conaught,</HI> that my Lord <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Clanricard;</HI> being deprived thorough the Calamities that were upon that towne, &amp; coun|try both of money, and meanes, to march withall, could not for many months draw his army together, either to act any thing alone, or joine with any other, for feare lea&s;t by that meanes the <HI>plague,</HI> that made &s;uch &s;poile while they were a&s;un|der, should mow them down when they were all together.</P>
<PB N="21" REF="11">
<P>This Route at <HI>Dublin,</HI> the releife of <HI>Derry,</HI> and the <HI>plague</HI> might be thought competent afflictions to be ca&s;t upon a people &s;o impoverished, &amp; a Kingdom &s;o wa&s;ted before; yet this &s;ufficeth not, there are heavier lo&s;&s;es yet to follow, and a wor&s;e <HI>pe&s;tilence</HI> to land shortly at <HI>Dublin,</HI> that will &s;weep away their men, and townes together; but here your <HI>Lordship</HI> may ju&s;tly interrupt me, and &s;ay, that though it mu&s;t be confe&s;&s;ed, that what&s;oever befalls us in this vale of mi&s;ery is to be attri|buted to the hand of heaven, or the permi&s;&s;ion at lea&s;t of the devine providence, (into the rea&s;ons of who&s;e &s;ecret, and hidden coun&s;ells, our weake capacities are unable to &s;earch) yet neverthele&s;&s;e tho&s;e vi&s;ible cau&s;es, wherby we draw mis|fortunes upon our &s;elves, by &s;uch, who through neglect of their duty, &amp; di&s;obedience to their &s;uperiours, are apparently the authors therof, ought not to pa&s;&s;e unpunished, and ther|fore you &s;ee no rea&s;on why tho&s;e were not called to an account that de&s;erved it both by their cowardice, and &s;o shamfull omi&s;|&s;ion of their duty, as could admit of no excu&s;e.</P>
<P>But when your <HI>Lordship</HI> shall be plea&s;ed to reflect upon what I &s;aid before, that my <HI>L^d. Leiu^t.</HI> comands this army, &amp; indeed the <HI>Kingdom</HI> but as it were upon <HI>courte&s;y,</HI> all his authority in effect con|&s;i&s;ting in the aweing one faction with another, the be&s;t of which he found to be on &s;o uncertaine, &amp; un&s;etled, termes; that you will I doubt not when you reflect upo~ it ea&s;ily grant, that my <HI>L^d. Leiu^t.</HI> could not in prudence do an act that was likely to give &s;o great, &amp; generall a di&s;ta&s;te as indeede to have proceded again&s;t the <HI>Ma|jor Generall</HI> would have bin to the <HI>confederats,</HI> among&s;t whom he had &s;o many alliances, &amp; freinds: &amp; the running away of the re&s;t was &s;o univer&s;all a fault, that it was hard to di&s;cover who de&s;erved pu|nishme~t mo&s;t; &amp; harder to find a Court of warr to cen&s;ure them.</P>
<P>Dureing this short re&s;idence at <HI>Kilkeny,</HI> His <HI>Ex.^c^y:</HI> have|ing taken order with the Lord <HI>Inchiquin</HI> to bring up what
<PB N="22" REF="12"> forces he could po&s;&s;ibly make, and with the Commi&s;&s;ioners for the recruteing, drawing together, &amp; arming, their di&s;per&s;ed forces a&s;&s;oon as could be, to the end they might be &s;ent after him, who &s;peeds away him&s;elfe in the company only of 20 or 30 hor&s;e towards <HI>Trim,</HI> and <HI>Drogheda,</HI> as the places both neare&s;t the enemies attempts, and likelie&s;t to totter backe, if not &s;e|cured in time: at <HI>Tecroghan</HI> (a hou&s;e of <HI>S^r. Luke Fitzgarretts)</HI> he makes a &s;tay, till tho&s;e &s;everall bodies that he then expected were com up, and upon notice of their coming removes to <HI>Trim;</HI> where he meets with newes of <HI>Jones</HI> his being before <HI>Drogheda,</HI> who &s;oon after, upon intelligence that my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> was at <HI>Trim,</HI> and &s;upo&s;eing his forces, to be greater then indeed they were, drew of in the night, &amp; returned Ime|diatly to <HI>Dublin.</HI></P>
<P>The next day His <HI>Ex^c^y.</HI> went through to <HI>Drogheda,</HI> where a party of the <HI>Scotch</HI> hor&s;e, and foot under the Command of the Lord of <HI>Ards,</HI> and the Lord <HI>Clanbrazill.</HI> Came up unto him, but, whil&s;t they are con&s;ulting what to do, they receive a&s;&s;urance of <HI>Cromwells</HI> landing with very con&s;iderable forces: Wherupon concludeing that towne nece&s;&s;ary to be kept to entertaine the enemy before whil&s;t they made up their army, as they hoped to do very con&s;iderably, &amp; &s;oone enough to come to the releife of the place; of which if they should faile, no que&s;tion was made, but after the gaining of time, which was then pretious, they in the town should be able to make honorable conditions for them&s;elves; whil&s;t <HI>Cromwell</HI> is refreshing his own men in <HI>Dublin</HI> and reducing <HI>Jones's,</HI> there is put into <HI>Drogheda</HI> a garri&s;on of 2500 foot, and 300 hor&s;e, which was thought &s;ufficient: &amp; &s;o having furnisht it with provi&s;ions, as well as that short time would give them leave, His <HI>Ex^c^y.</HI> commits the charge of that
<PB N="23" REF="12"> place to <HI>S^r. Arthur A&s;ton,</HI> as a per&s;on who&s;e experience, courage, &amp; approued fidelity did worthily de&s;erve the highe&s;t tru&s;t. The&s;e things thus ordered His <HI>Ex^c^y.</HI> returnes to <HI>Trim,</HI> and from thence he di&s;patched away <HI>Co^l^l. Daniell O Neale</HI> then Governor of that place, (with a Commi&s;&s;ion to &s;et on foot the <HI>treaty</HI> againe with <HI>Owen O Neale,</HI> if it were po&s;&s;ible, &amp; to endea|vour the reduceing of the <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> army even upon any condi|tions;) a per&s;on e&s;teemed by all, be&s;t qualified for that im|ployment, as well in regard of his &s;ingular abillitye, and approued fidelitie to the <HI>King</HI> as the great intere&s;t he was &s;uppo|&s;ed to have in his Unckle, who managed the bu&s;ines with that dexteritye, as he won his Unckle to harken againe, unto an agreement; wherupon. <HI>S^r. Richard Barnewell,</HI> and <HI>S^r. Nicholas Plunkett</HI> are &s;ent after to make an ab&s;olute conclu&s;ion with him, though by the way this may not be unworthy of ob&s;ervation, that tho&s;e per&s;ons who were formerly mo&s;t oppo&s;it to this agreement, were now become the greate&s;t &s;ticklers to pro|mote it with His <HI>Ex^c^y,</HI> being growne &s;encible of the immi|nent, and aproaching danger that now threatned them.</P>
<P><HI>Tecroghan</HI> is the next &s;tage His <HI>Ex^c^y.</HI> removes unto, (where I had the honor fir&s;t to ki&s;&s;e his hand after my arrivall in <HI>Ireland,)</HI> here he makes a &s;tand, as being the mo&s;t opportune place to draw his army together in, and lyeing mo&s;t convenient after that was don, to releive <HI>Drogheda,</HI> or make any other attempt upon the enemy: Where be&s;ids the remains of the <HI>Irish</HI> army, already &s;om what recruited, there joyned unto him a good re|giment of my Lord <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Clanricards</HI> of above 1000 foot, together vvith 300 hor&s;e; likevvi&s;e that party of the <HI>Scots</HI> be|fore mentioned; <HI>S^r. Thomas Arm&s;trong,</HI> and <HI>Co^l^l. Treuors,</HI> to|gether vvith vvhat forces my Lord <HI>Inchiquin</HI> could bring out of
<PB N="24" REF="13"> his precincts; the&s;e being got together, and daily additions being &s;till expected to the making them up a more con&s;ide|rable body, then they were at <HI>Dublin;</HI> my <HI>Lord Leiu^t.</HI> re|ceaved &s;everall advices from <HI>S^r. Arthur A&s;ton</HI> to precipitate nothing: for he doubted not of finding <HI>Cromwell</HI> play a while, as certainly he had done had not <HI>Co^l^l. Walls</HI> regiment after the enemy had bin twice bravely repul&s;ed; upon the unfortunat lo&s;&s;e of their Collonell in the third a&s;&s;ault bin &s;o unhappily dis|maide, as to li&s;ten before they had neede unto the enemy of|fering them quarter; and admitted them in upon the&s;e termes; therby betraying both them&s;elves, &amp; all their fellow &s;ouldiers to the &s;laughter; for <HI>Cromwell</HI> being ma&s;ter of the towne, &amp; told by <HI>Jones</HI> that he had now in his hands the flower of the <HI>Irish</HI> ar|my, gave order to have all that were in armes put to the &s;word: Where be&s;ides the gallant Governour <HI>S^r. Arthur A&s;ton, S^r. Edmond Varney, Co^l^l. Warren, Co^l^l. Fleminge,</HI> and <HI>Co^l^l. Birn, Leiu^t. Co^l^l. Fingla&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Major Tempe&s;t,</HI> together with many other excellent Officers, and Gentlemen, there were butchered neare 3000 &s;ouldiers, and tho&s;e truly reputed the be&s;t that <HI>Kingdom</HI> affoorded: in who&s;e fall, there is &s;adly ob|&s;ervable, how great a number of them were guilty of the un|lucky breach of that &s;olemne agreement, made about two yeares before betweene the Lord <HI>Marque&s;&s;e</HI> of <HI>Clanricard</HI> and the <HI>Lein&s;ter</HI> army at <HI>S^r. Nicholas Whites Ca&s;tle</HI> of <HI>Lexleap;</HI> &s;e|verall of tho&s;e that &s;urvived having perisht &s;ince; and few, or none of them e&s;caped &s;ome remarkable affliction, or other. This ma&s;&s;acre at <HI>Drogheda</HI> having lopt of a principall limbe of my <HI>Lord Leiu^t^s.</HI> army; and the lo&s;&s;e of that towne, letting the enemy loo&s;e, cau&s;ed his <HI>Ex^c^y</HI> to remove his army from <HI>Ca&s;tle Jordan</HI> down towards the Counties of <HI>Wexford,</HI> and <HI>Kilkeny,</HI>
<PB N="25" REF="13"> there not only to lye &s;ecure, till Generall <HI>O Neales</HI> army came up unto them (with whom now at la&s;t he having bin rejected by the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and the <HI>Commi&s;sioners</HI> whipt to rea&s;on with ad|ver&s;ity, there was an agreement made, and he &s;ubmitted to the Kings Authority) but al&s;o ready to be drawne into either <HI>Wex|ford,</HI> or <HI>Kilkeny,</HI> as there should be occa&s;ion, for upon one of tho&s;e places after the enemies retreat from <HI>Drogheda</HI> to <HI>Dublin,</HI> it was concluded they would fall next. For which rea&s;on His <HI>Ex^c^y.</HI> for many daies courts the towne of <HI>Wexford</HI> to take in a Gar|ri&s;on, <HI>Kilkeny</HI> having received one already, but they (affirm|ing they were able to defend their towne them&s;elves) would never be brought to admit of one till the enemy was at the Walls, and then tumultuarily <HI>S^r. Edmond Butler</HI> with neare 1500 men was receaved in, as Governour; whome to rein|force, after the enemy was now &s;et down before it my <HI>Lord Leiu^n^t</HI> comes with new &s;upplies with in &s;ight of the towne, &amp; had put them in, to the infallible pre&s;ervation of the place, if <HI>James Stafford</HI> then Governour of the Ca&s;tle had not upon termes of advantage to him&s;elfe before His <HI>Ex^c^i^e^s</HI> eies shamefully be|trayed it, and the town into the hands of a mo&s;t cruell, &amp; faith|le&s;&s;e <HI>enemy,</HI> who butchered there al&s;o after they were admitted in, above 2000 more.</P>
<P>There was nothing now remainning to be done, the <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> army being not yet come up, and &s;everall troopes of my Lord <HI>Inchiquins</HI> being &s;ince the &s;eidge of <HI>Drogheda</HI> run away to the enemy) but put a Garri&s;on into <HI>Ro&s;&s;e</HI> which was &s;ent in under the Command of <HI>Luke Taaffe</HI> with orders (for the place was judged &s;carce tenable again&s;t &s;o powerfull an enemy) to make conditions when they &s;aw them&s;elves able to re&s;i&s;t no longer, as at la&s;t they did when the breach was made, and the enemy
<PB N="26" REF="14"> ready to give an a&s;&s;ault, haveing termes to march away with their armes.</P>
<P>About <HI>Graigge</HI> and <HI>Thomas Town</HI> His <HI>Excellency</HI> houered with his hor&s;e, and the &s;mall remainder of his foot, untill the come|ing up of the <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> army. Vnder the Command of <HI>Leiutenant Generall Farrell,</HI> (the <HI>Generall</HI> him&s;elfe lying then a dying:) This new Conjunction with <HI>Owen O Neale,</HI> and &s;o great an acce&s;&s;ion of Forces bringes my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> into a Condition not only of putting a &s;top upon <HI>Cromwells</HI> ha&s;ty progre&s;&s;e, but even of gaining ground upon him, as que&s;tionle&s;&s;e he would have done, had not another misfortune greater then any of the former interveened to fru&s;trate all; which was this, my Lord of <HI>Inchequin</HI> having as I &s;aid before conditioned to have the order|ing of tho&s;e Garri&s;ons, and forces that he brought in with him to the <HI>Kings</HI> obedience left wholy to him&s;elfe out of de&s;ire (as is beleeved) to keep him&s;elfe &s;till con&s;iderable upon a bottome of his owne; would never hearken unto any Propo&s;ition of ad|mitting a proportion of <HI>Irish</HI> into any of his townes, King|&s;ale onely excepted into which place at the importunity of <HI>Prince Rupert</HI> he at la&s;t admitted &s;ome: Being confident that the <HI>English</HI> forces under his command having &s;erved under him &s;o &s;o long upon &s;everall &s;cores; all, or the mo&s;t of the Officers where of being either Creatures of his owne, or men obliged, and indeared unto him upon a long account, would never &s;e|perate them&s;elves from his fortune, or abandon his &s;ervice. But his <HI>Lordship</HI> it &s;eemes tooke wrong mea&s;ures, for the mo&s;t part of them being &s;teared wholy by &s;elfe intere&s;t, and knowing the way already, how for advantage to &s;erve again&s;t the <HI>King</HI> (who&s;e bu&s;ine&s;s they &s;aw &s;o much declining, that no more was likely to be got that way) whil&s;t <HI>Cromwell</HI> was full of mony,
<PB N="27" REF="14"> and &s;ucce&s;&s;e; Con&s;pired together how to po&s;&s;e&s;s them&s;elves of my Lord of <HI>Inchiquins</HI> per&s;on, together with the townes under his Command, that they might make a &s;urrender of all at once unto the enemy: <HI>Youghall</HI> begins the dance, and taking occa|&s;ion to mutiny again&s;t the <HI>English Cavaliers</HI> under <HI>Woogans</HI> Com|mand that were quartered there, impri&s;oned, &amp; di&s;armd them all, and afterwards &s;tood upon their guard.</P>
<P>Whil&s;t my Lord of <HI>Iuchiquin</HI> is by all Gentle meanes en|deavouring to reclayme back this towne, &s;everall of his Offi|cers combine to &s;eize upon him, (then lying &s;ecure at <HI>Leiute|nant Generall Barries</HI> hou&s;e of <HI>Ca&s;tle Lyons)</HI> but they, and their de&s;igne being di&s;covered to his Lordship by one of their owne complices, were &s;o farr prevented as to be &s;eized all upon them|&s;elves. Wherupon the towne of <HI>Youghall</HI> &s;eing <HI>Cromwell</HI> yet at too great a di&s;tance, &amp; the time of his coming into <HI>Moun&s;ter</HI> uncer|taine, offered to &s;ubmit upon a&s;&s;urance of <HI>indemnity,</HI> the relea&s;e of the <HI>impri&s;oned Officers,</HI> and removall of the <HI>Cavaliers;</HI> which his Lordship either wanting the meanes to compell them, or being willing with kindne&s;&s;e, and faire meanes to vvin upon them, &amp; keep them in order a&s;&s;ented unto. After which, having vi&s;ited his Garri&s;ons, and beleeving all things &s;o &s;ecure, as not to re|quire either his further &s;tay there, or the bringing any propor|tion of the <HI>Irish</HI> into tho&s;e other townes, he returnes unto his charge in the army. And novv <HI>Cromwell</HI> having nevvly received an affront before <HI>Duncannon,</HI> through the courage &amp; gallantry of <HI>Wogan</HI> vvirh tho&s;e <HI>English</HI> Gentlemen, that vvere put in vvith him upon that occa&s;ion, vvas retired back to <HI>Ro&s;&s;e</HI> there under the Protection of the town to make a <HI>Floting Bridge</HI> over the river to the end that by having a pa&s;&s;age to the other &s;ide, he might at his plea&s;ure either compell His <HI>Ex^c^y</HI> to devide his army, to
<PB N="28" REF="15"> attend upon his motions and &s;o give him an opportunity of &s;etting upon one part, or other of it; Or, at lea&s;t, if it kept to|gether, of getting a Pa&s;&s;age into <HI>Moun&s;ter,</HI> where he expected, to find a generall Revolt of tho&s;e Garri&s;ons under my Lord of <HI>Inchiquins</HI> Commands, as it afterwards happened.</P>
<P>My Lord <HI>Taaffe</HI> was &s;ent with a part of the army to hinder the worke; But what through want of powder, (and indeed all &s;ortes of ammunition) which was now grown exceeding &s;carce, extremity of foule weather, di&s;tempers among&s;t his men, and other ill concurring accidents, he was not able to effect it. My <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> through <HI>Cromwells</HI> &s;uddain retreating in the night, from before <HI>Dun Cannon,</HI> having lo&s;t the oppor|tunity of fighting him, (as he was then re&s;olved finding his army cherfully de&s;ire the occa&s;ion) had nothing left him now to do, but vvaite upon the enemies motion, and endeavour to cut of his provi&s;ions, (vvhich the country people allured by the orderline&s;&s;e of his &s;ouldiers, who had mony to pay for vvhat they tooke, and command it &s;eemes to do &s;o) brought them in as fa&s;t as could be; vvhil&s;t His <HI>Excellency</HI> having no mony to pay his army, nor indeed a competence of bread to give them, vvas con&s;trained to let them take their &s;u&s;tenance vvhere they could find it.</P>
<P>During this intermi&s;&s;ion of action, <HI>Corke, Youghall,</HI> and all the <HI>English</HI> townes of <HI>Moun&s;ter</HI> (even through the incitation of tho&s;e Officers, that were but lately relea&s;ed) being openly re|volted, and the Lord <HI>Broghall</HI> with &s;ome men landed in tho&s;e parts; Very many of my Lord <HI>Inchiquins</HI> party, both hor&s;e, and foote de&s;erted my <HI>Lord Leiutenant,</HI> and ran daily over to the enemy: In &s;o much that both the Commanders, and &s;ouldiers of the <HI>Irish</HI> (not without rea&s;on) grew very jealous of the re&s;t
<PB N="29" REF="15"> that remained behind, fearing that if ever they came to en|gage again&s;t the enemy, they would turne upon them, and be|tray them, there wanted not diver&s;e al&s;o (though doubtle&s;s very unju&s;tly) that extended their jealou&s;ies unto my Lord of <HI>In|chiquin</HI> him&s;elfe grounding their accu&s;ations upon his <HI>Lordships</HI> not punishing the <HI>Con&s;pirators</HI> when he had them in his power, upon &s;o faire a warning, and ju&s;t an occa&s;ion, as then was gi|ven him, his not putting <HI>Irish</HI> into his Garri&s;ons; Upon his wife, his family, plate, and goods being &s;ent him &s;afely out of <HI>Corke</HI> into the <HI>Irish</HI> quartars, upon his not con&s;enting to the dis|mounting, and di&s;arming, of the re&s;t of his men, when &s;ome of the <HI>Commi&s;sioners</HI> pre&s;t the doing of it, upon his delivering his advice in <HI>Councell</HI> (as they heard for his <HI>Excellencies</HI> coming to conditions with <HI>Cromwell,</HI> and making this an argument for it, that his men would fight no longer; and la&s;tly upon an imper|tinent accu&s;ation without head, or taile (appeared when he came to be examined in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e) brought again&s;t him by the Marques of <HI>Antrim,</HI> for holding corre&s;pondence, and having made conditions under hand with the enemy.</P>
<P>Upon the&s;e foundations, and &s;uch as the&s;e, did many of the <HI>Irish</HI> repre&s;ent unto my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> the nece&s;&s;ity of di&s;charg|ing my Lord <HI>Inchiquin</HI> of his Command, &amp; &s;ecuring his per&s;on; which his <HI>Excellency</HI> being more tender of the Kings honour, and his owne, then upon bare &s;urmi&s;es, and &s;u&s;pitions to deale in that manner with a per&s;on that had but lately <HI>de&s;erved &s;o well</HI> both of the <HI>King,</HI> and <HI>him;</HI> would not be brought unto: Choos|ing rather to run any adventure, then to be guilty of breach of conditions with him, which he mu&s;t needs have been, if before a conviction of apparent treachery he should upon the &s;core of my Lord of <HI>Inchiquins</HI> over&s;ights, or the uncertain jealou|&s;ies
<PB N="30" REF="16"> of the <HI>Irish;</HI> have conde&s;cended unto either of the things propo&s;ed.</P>
<P>This temper and ju&s;tice in my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> (in not &s;uffer|ing him&s;elfe to be led by the clamors and importunity of the people, and &s;oldiers) involues him al&s;o at la&s;t under their di&s;plea&s;ure, and mi&s;tru&s;t: &s;o that out of want of confidence in their cheife Commanders, and out of diffidence in one another, the army was now falln into a very unfit condition of hazarding a battaile with the enemy, if an occa&s;ion should offer it &s;elfe: and to make it wor&s;e the <HI>Scots</HI> that were there (being tired out with the nece&s;&s;ities, the whole army &s;uffered, and receiving newes of the enemies prevalence in their Country) de&s;ired leave to returne into the North which after great importunity at la&s;t being granted them, they immediately with drew their forces, and ha&s;ted homewards; where they were no &s;ooner come, and <HI>S^r. George Monro</HI> joynd unto them, but they re|ceived &s;o &s;ore a blow from <HI>Coote</HI> with &s;o much lo&s;&s;e, and di&s;per|&s;ion of their men that they were never able to make head in <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> &s;ince.</P>
<P><HI>Cromwell</HI> now finding the army &s;o much weakened, by the de&s;ertion of &s;o many of my Lord <HI>Inchiquins</HI> men, and the depar|ture of the <HI>Scots,</HI> and likewi&s;e knowing that it was in &s;uch di&s;or|der through the di&s;tru&s;t, &amp; animo&s;ities that were among&s;t them, &s;o that in rea&s;on he was like to have much the advantage if they should fight him, adventures over his bridge at <HI>Ro&s;&s;e</HI> into the County of <HI>Kilkenny;</HI> where by facing my Lord <HI>Leiutenants</HI> army, and mouing after it up, and down, he amuzed the <HI>Irish;</HI> whil&s;t <HI>Jones,</HI> his <HI>Leintenant Generall,</HI> with parties tooke in the Ca&s;tles of the Country, &amp; had <HI>Carrick</HI> given into his hands wretchedly by <HI>Martin</HI> that Commanded there; Upon notice where of
<PB N="31" REF="16"> <HI>Cromwell</HI> ha&s;tens thither, to pa&s;&s;e his army over into <HI>Moun&s;ter,</HI> which was now his bu&s;ine&s;s; for notwith&s;tanding his pur&s;e to buy provi&s;ions of the Country, and his ships that wherever he went waited continually upon him, his army through the un|&s;ea&s;onablene&s;&s;e of the weather, and want of quarters, was &s;o much hara&s;&s;ed, and wa&s;ted; many of his men falling &s;ick, and dying daily, that if he did not ha&s;ten to his Winter quarters, he would in probability have perished without a blow, which ne|verthele&s;&s;e, to make &s;ure worke, my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> (who&s;e army al&s;o was quite tired out with wants, &s;ufferings, and con|tinuall marches) hearing that he was gone towards <HI>Carrick</HI> in|tended to be&s;tow upon him before nece&s;&s;ity forced him to dis|per&s;e his men, and to that end his <HI>Excellency</HI> marcht &s;peedily af|ter the enemy with de&s;igne to &s;et upon him whil&s;t he was either engaged before <HI>Carrick,</HI> or el&s;e incumbred at &s;ome other pa&s;&s;e upon the river; but after all this diligence when my <HI>Lord</HI> came near the towne he then learnt that the place was lo&s;t before, and that <HI>Cromwell</HI> leaving a competent Garri&s;on therin, had only pa&s;t his army over, and was gone towards <HI>Waterford,</HI> which town during <HI>Cromwells</HI> Re&s;idence at <HI>Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> though the per&s;ua|&s;ion (as it is &s;aid) of <HI>Geoffry Baron,</HI> and <HI>Hugh Rochford</HI> had un|derhand begun a treaty with him, for the delivery of the town unto him; Which treaty only &s;tuck upon the free exerci&s;e of their Religion, and the Churches denyed unto them by <HI>Cromwell.</HI></P>
<P>The knowledge of this cau&s;ed my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> now to ha&s;ten thither, with no &s;mall danger to his per&s;on to pre&s;&s;e them to admit of a Garri&s;on, which being a long time denyed, &amp; my Lord of <HI>Ca&s;tlehaven,</HI> with diver&s;e others, that his <HI>Excellency</HI> propounded, being utterly rejected by them; yet at la&s;t they
<PB N="32" REF="17"> were content to admit of <HI>Farrell,</HI> and the <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> men, who ac|cordingly were &s;ent immediately unto them. After <HI>Farrells</HI> ad|mittance, he upon notice of the enemies motion that way, fear|ing &s;ome commotion in the towne, and thinking him&s;elfe not &s;trong enough to re&s;i&s;t the enemy without, and ma&s;ter them within writes unto his <HI>Excellency</HI> for a &s;upply of men; And the&s;e his <HI>Excellency</HI> (&s;eing <HI>Cromwell</HI> &s;o unexpectedly got over into <HI>Moun&s;ter</HI> through the treachery of the Garri&s;on of <HI>Carrick)</HI> in|tends now to conduct him&s;elfe out of hand into <HI>Waterford,</HI> be|fore which the enemy was &s;uppo&s;ed to bee; Therupon &s;ome Principall Officers of the army de&s;ired leave that they might in the Interim attempt the regaining of <HI>Carrick,</HI> again&s;t whom his <HI>Excellency</HI> objecting the want of materialls nece&s;&s;ary for &s;uch an enterprize, was a&s;&s;ured they had enough to &s;erve their turne for that worke, yea, and &s;ome of them po&s;itively under|tooke the taking of the place that night; Wherfore leaving them to their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e my <HI>Lord</HI> bends his Cour&s;e for <HI>Water|ford,</HI> where he arrived when it was late; upon notice where of <HI>Cromwell</HI> de&s;pairing of doing any good upon that town, and finding many of his men fall &s;ick, and dy of the fluxe, which then raged among&s;t them, drawes of in the night, and ha&s;tens towards his Winter quarters at <HI>Corke</HI> and <HI>Youghall,</HI> in which march as he gaind <HI>Dungarvan,</HI> &s;o he lo&s;t <HI>Jones</HI> his Leiutenant Generall.</P>
<P>During my <HI>Lord Leiutenants</HI> ab&s;ence, the army at <HI>Carrick</HI> a&s;|&s;aults the place, the foot falling on with extraordinary galan|try, and re&s;olution, where after the lo&s;&s;e of many of them, they faild of carrying the place only for want of a few pickaxes, and &s;pades which being calld for were no where to be found, which nece&s;&s;itated the poore foot, after having done &s;o hand|&s;omely,
<PB N="33" REF="17"> and &s;tood under the walls &s;ome houres, to quit the bu|&s;ine&s;s, and draw of; when extreame want of food (they having eaten nothing almo&s;t for two daies) enforced them to march away towards <HI>Clonmell,</HI> all the Country betvixt <HI>Carrick,</HI> and <HI>Kilkenny</HI> Being totally &s;poild already.</P>
<P>The remouall of the army hence without &s;ending notice of it to my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> had like to have put his <HI>Excellency</HI> into the enemies hands, for he making full account of the regaining of <HI>Carrick</HI> upon the former a&s;&s;urance that was given him, was upon his way directly thither, (where the enemy had 300 hor&s;e, &amp; he not forty in his Company) when Colonell <HI>Milo Power</HI> by good fortune found him out, and told him of the ill &s;ucce&s;s of the enterprize, and the motion of the army thence, wherupon he altered his Cour&s;e another way. And then con|&s;idering that the enemy was now retired into his Garri&s;ons, that the weather was bitter, and unfit for action, the Winter being now come on, or if it were not &s;o that he had neither meat, nor mony wherwith to keep his men any longer toge|ther, having &s;ince the revolt of <HI>Moun&s;ter</HI> (which deprived him of the greate&s;t share of his Contributions, and Provi&s;ions) been along time already forced to live upon the &s;poile of the re&s;t of the Country; he concluded upon di&s;per&s;ing his army into quarters al&s;o, which (becau&s;e the Principall townes refu&s;ed to admit them in) he was fain to &s;catter over all the Kingdom. The greate&s;t part of the <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> forces were &s;ent into their own Province there to Choo&s;e a new <HI>Generall</HI> according as their conditions allowed them. <HI>Luke Taaffe,</HI> and <HI>Morogh, O Flahartye</HI> with their men were &s;ent back into <HI>Connaght</HI> to my Lord of <HI>Clanricard;</HI> my Lord of <HI>Inchiquin</HI> with the remainder of &s;uch as belonged unto him, went over into the County of <HI>Clare;</HI> my
<PB N="34" REF="18"> Lord <HI>Dillon</HI> with his, into <HI>Meath,</HI> and towards <HI>Athlone,</HI> all the re&s;t were &s;cattered &s;everall wayes; Only Major Generall <HI>Hugh O Neale</HI> was admitted with about 1500 <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> men into <HI>Clonmell</HI> as Governour, and <HI>Kilkenny</HI> received al&s;o a Competent Gar|ri&s;on to &s;ecure them again&s;t &s;o ill neighbours as <HI>Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Carrick</HI> were.</P>
<P>Here your Lordship beholds a &s;ummary of what pa&s;t in the feild, &s;ince the army fir&s;t &s;et forth untill their going to their Winter quarters; in all which time how ill &s;oever the &s;ucce&s;&s;e hath been, nothing can with any colour of rea&s;on be laid to my <HI>Lord Leiutenants</HI> charge, except the not punishing tho&s;e many <HI>failings, treacheries,</HI> and <HI>di&s;orders</HI> that were committed during this Summers expedition: Yet as to the di&s;obedience, &amp; neglects in the &s;eidge of <HI>Dublin</HI> I gave you rea&s;ons why that was pa&s;t over before; And tho&s;e that were committed &s;ince were for the mo&s;t part by men of that condition, &amp; Intere&s;t, that it was neither &s;afe, nor fit (all things con&s;idered) to call them to an account; as for treacheries, mo&s;t of the authors of them tooke care to &s;ecure them&s;elves and in time get out of reach; Only <HI>Crosby</HI> that betraid <HI>King&s;ale,</HI> after he was de&s;igned to dy, by my <HI>Lord Leiutenant,</HI> upon my Lord of <HI>Inchiquins</HI> coming to towne, was, I know not for what con&s;iderations, repreived and &s;aved; The want of mony to pay the &s;oldiers, and the exigences they were for the mo&s;t part in, after the mi&s;chance at <HI>Dublin,</HI> did &s;o much authorize their di&s;orders in the Country that if they had not been pa&s;t by, and connived at, there had been no meanes of keeping them together. There was no Officer in all that army, that will not likewi&s;e confe&s;&s;e that my Lord of <HI>Ormond</HI> did too often, and too freely expo&s;e him&s;elfe to danger by going upon every litle expedition; and that he did take more
<PB N="35" REF="18"> toile, and paines then became a <HI>Generall,</HI> by de&s;cending fre|quently to play the <HI>Major Generall,</HI> the <HI>Quarter-Ma&s;ter,</HI> the <HI>Pro|vo&s;t Marshall,</HI> or any thing; which yet the unremediable negli|gence, and in&s;ufficiency of many of his Officers obliged him unto.</P>
<P>Out of all which it is very evident that it was neither want of conduct, courage, or vigilancy in <HI>him</HI> that brought tho&s;e &s;ad &s;ucce&s;&s;es upon the <HI>Irish,</HI> but (next after the immediate hand of God) tho&s;e <HI>factions,</HI> that hee had neither power, nor meanes of ma&s;tering, tho&s;e <HI>treacheries,</HI> which no mans Prudence could prevent, and tho&s;e <HI>wants,</HI> that his empty pur&s;e and deep en|gaged fortune could not &s;upply. For I dare boldy &s;ay, that had it not been for the aver&s;ion of the Commi&s;&s;ioners, my Lord of <HI>Ca&s;tlehaven,</HI> my Lord of <HI>Inchiquin,</HI> &amp; the <HI>Scots,</HI> to <HI>Owen O Neale,</HI> he had been reduced in time; Both <HI>Derry,</HI> and <HI>Dublin</HI> would have fallen into my <HI>Lord Leiuteuants</HI> hands, &amp; no landing place have been left for <HI>Cromwell</HI> un&s;ecured: Nay, I have many rea&s;ons to beleeve, that notwith&s;tanding the defeat at <HI>Dublin,</HI> and &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e upon <HI>Drogheda, Cromwell</HI> with all his great army, his fleet, and &s;tore of mony, had been lo&s;t, and &s;unke to nothing, if the Ca&s;tles of <HI>Wexford,</HI> and <HI>Carrick</HI> had not been &s;o fowly betrayed; Nay, and after that too, if tho&s;e townes, and forces in <HI>Moun&s;ter</HI> had not &s;o treacherou&s;ly revolted.</P>
<P>But how innocent &s;oever his <HI>Excellency</HI> were, by this time, &s;ome leaders of the <HI>factious</HI> part of the <HI>Cleargy,</HI> and people (thinking now they had got a faire occa&s;ion of lifting him out of the &s;addle, and therby of &s;lipping their own necks out of the collar of obedience again,) begin to exclaime aloud again&s;t my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> for their ill &s;ucce&s;&s;es; they blame his con|duct of the army, as if he had mi&s;guided it on purpo&s;e; his
<PB N="36" REF="19"> di&s;po&s;ing of their contributions, as if he had defrauded them; his Kindne&s;&s;e, &amp; Countenance to the <HI>English</HI> Gentlemen, was a &s;igne he wisht our Nation, better then his owne; and an infe|rence of his not being fit to be tru&s;ted longer by them; for to confirme which they coined a thou&s;and arguments, and &s;cat|tered indu&s;triou&s;ly among&s;t the people opinions, that my Lord of <HI>Ormond</HI> was guilty of the greate&s;t treacheries, and mi&s;carriages that had been committed. To make which pro|bable, they called to mind afresh the &s;urrender of <HI>Dublin</HI> to the <HI>Parliament,</HI> rather then to <HI>them,</HI> They in&s;tanced al&s;o his pre&s;ent &s;upporting my Lord of <HI>Inchiquin,</HI> though &s;u&s;pected &s;o deeply by every one; Nay, out of his &s;tanding &s;o hard with them in all pa&s;t <HI>treaties</HI> upon conce&s;&s;ions of Religion, and out of his &s;teadine&s;&s;e in his own Profe&s;&s;ion, they framed arguments of his unfaithfullne&s;s to them, and aver&s;ion to theirs: So that now you could &s;peake with few among&s;t the common &s;oul|diers, or the pea&s;ants that would not either &s;ay, they could not looke to pro&s;per under the Command of a <HI>Prote&s;tant,</HI> or el&s;e tell you, that it was no wonder their armies were beaten, and their townes were lo&s;t, &s;ince their cheife leaders betraid them.</P>
<P>Thus did the knavery, and malice of a few &s;teale away the hearts of the generallity of that undi&s;cerning &s;imple people from my <HI>Lord Leiutenant,</HI> few of them being able to judge at all of the Prudence and integrity of his conduct; or to con&s;ider that the army that was in the feild the foregoing Summer would have required foure times the Contribution that was rai&s;ed, without leaving any &s;urplus either to be hoarded up, or &s;ent beyond &s;eas: From which his <HI>Excellency</HI> was &s;o farr, that on the other &s;ide, he frequently offered to engage at a very
<PB N="37" REF="19"> low rate all that remained unmorgaged of his Princely e&s;tate for the &s;upport of the army.</P>
<P>The&s;e people could not reflect how much right, and honour he did their Nation in his Civillities, &amp; Noblene&s;&s;e to tho&s;e <HI>English Gentlemen,</HI> that were in want, and Bannishment only for their faith unto the <HI>King,</HI> and who, if ever the <HI>Royall Intere&s;t</HI> recovered, were many of them like to become &s;o capeable of acknowledging tho&s;e favours with advantages back unto them; wherfore his <HI>Excellency,</HI> as well out of their common con|cernments, as his own goodne&s;&s;e, bewayled nothing more, then that his own private, and the Kingdomes publique nece&s;|&s;ities limitted his bounty; and that the ill nature, and indi&s;cre|tion that raigned among&s;t many of the <HI>Irish</HI> would not &s;uffer them to hide their repininges, at his favour towards the&s;e Gentlemen.</P>
<P>The &s;urrender of <HI>Dublin</HI> truly had been made unto the people of <HI>Ireland</HI> by the arts of tho&s;e, that were at that time in Government among&s;t them, a mo&s;t odious thing; though tho&s;e very per&s;ons knew well enough, it was them&s;elves and not my <HI>Lord Leiutenant,</HI> that was in the fault; by twice fowly violating their <HI>publique faith</HI> with him, fir&s;t in breaking a <HI>peace</HI> made, and &s;olemnly published both at <HI>Dublin,</HI> and <HI>Kilkenny,</HI> (the re&s;pective &s;eates of the <HI>Kings Leiutenant</HI> and the <HI>Councell</HI> of the <HI>Confederates)</HI> &amp; in &s;econding that act (after having impri|&s;oned the <HI>Lord Muskerij, S^r. Robert Talbott, S^r. Lucas Dillon, M^r. Brown, M^r. Belings,</HI> and the re&s;t of their <HI>Supream Councell,</HI> that had made the peace, and &s;till &s;tood hone&s;tly to what they had done) with bringing their armies before <HI>Dublin,</HI> where having cau&s;ed the burning, and de&s;truction of tho&s;e quarters, the town it &s;elfe mu&s;t have been lo&s;t unto them, if upon over|tures
<PB N="38" REF="20"> of a treaty with the <HI>Parliament</HI> they had not &s;ent men and &s;upplies to re&s;cue it. And next in the breach of that &s;olemn <HI>engagement</HI> made between them, and the Marque&s;s of <HI>Clanricard,</HI> as &s;oone as (upon beleife of their re&s;olution to return unto their duty) the treaty was broke of, and the forces of the <HI>Parliament</HI> &s;ent home again; Could it be expected, that after two &s;uch acts as the&s;e any wi&s;e man would tru&s;t, or treat with the <HI>Irish</HI> any more, whil&s;t the Government was &s;till in the &s;ame mens hands; Who after all this wrought the whole <HI>A&s;|&s;embly</HI> to declare they would never have any <HI>Prote&s;tant Governour</HI> more, and namely not my Lord <HI>Leiutenant;</HI> and who were not ashamed at the &s;ame time, both to anull the <HI>Peace,</HI> and yet acknowledge that the forementiond <HI>Gentlemen</HI> that had been makers of it, and &s;uffered in ju&s;tification of it, had neither ex|ceeded their in&s;tructions, nor done any thing misbecoming hone&s;t men.</P>
<P>The&s;e kind of proceedings at <HI>Kilkenny</HI> joynd to a new expe|dition de&s;igned again&s;t <HI>Dublin,</HI> as &s;oon as the &s;ea&s;on of the yeare would &s;uffer them to march, were, it mu&s;t needs bee Con|fe&s;&s;ed Provocations &s;ufficient to have ju&s;tified my Lord <HI>Leiu|tenant</HI> (if he had received no &s;uch in&s;tructions from the <HI>King</HI> as he did) finding him&s;elf unable to keep the place any longer, in the &s;urrender of it: (rather then to &s;o faithle&s;&s;e a people, as tho&s;e were, that then &s;waied there, and who were driving on a forraign Intere&s;ts with might and main) into the hands of the <HI>Parliament</HI> (who were at that time in treaty with the <HI>King)</HI> upon conditions of giving him free acce&s;&s;e to <HI>His</HI> MAjESTY, and of repaying unto him tho&s;e monies, which hee during the troubles of his Government (the <HI>Kings Exchequer</HI> failing) had out of his own pur&s;e lent unto the army. Whether His <HI>Excel|lency</HI>
<PB N="39" REF="20"> did in this ca&s;e like a man of honour, and as became him, let the late Generall <HI>O Neale</HI> be judge, who (if he be not much wrongd) did affirme unto a confident freind of his, that if he had been intru&s;ted from the <HI>English</HI> Nation, and with the Intere&s;ts of the <HI>Crown of England</HI> there, as my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> was, he would have done ju&s;t &s;o, as His <HI>Excellency</HI> then did.</P>
<P>His &s;upporting my Lord <HI>Inchiquin</HI> then &s;inking in the Gene|rall opinion, if it had been duly waighd, should have been an argument of much comfort, and &s;atisfaction to this <HI>jealous people</HI> to &s;ee his <HI>Excellency</HI> &s;o tender of the <HI>Kings</HI> honour, and his own word; &s;o ju&s;t in his freindships, and &s;o exactly carefull to ob|&s;erve conditions; Out of his warine&s;s in all his treaties with them, they might al&s;o have plea&s;ed to infer (rather, then what they did) the&s;e two things; fir&s;t that like a faithfull &s;ervant, he endeavoured to make as good a bargain as he could for the <HI>King</HI> his ma&s;ter; &amp; &s;econdly that without de&s;ignes of cheating them into their duty (like tho&s;e, that &s;ome others had) he was re&s;olud to a&s;&s;ent unto nothing, but what His MAjESTY, and <HI>he</HI> might ju&s;tly own, and &s;afely make good unto them: Finally his &s;teadine&s;&s;e in a religion, that from very tender yeares he had been imbued with, and his firmne&s;&s;e in his loialty, in having &s;tood for many yeares all tho&s;e batteries, that either with ar|guments or incredible offers of advantage, they had often made to win him to their party; in &s;o much, that they might &s;ee that nothing but the hand of <HI>God</HI> and the convinceing of his judgement could alter him in the fir&s;t, nor any thing in the world corrupt, or shake him in the latter, might at lea&s;t have been an a&s;&s;urance to them, that he would never become a <HI>Pro&s;elite</HI> to a Religion far le&s;&s;e rationall, and alluring, then theirs was (I mean <HI>Independancy)</HI> and that having refu&s;ed to become their
<PB N="40" REF="21"> <HI>Prince,</HI> he would not betray &s;o eminent a loyalty, his Country, his freinds, and &s;o noble a fortune as his is, only to become a <HI>Va&s;&s;all</HI> unto <HI>Cromwell;</HI> from whom he could not po&s;&s;ibly promi&s;e to him&s;elfe (if a &s;ecurity for the performance, or permanence of it could be given him) any thing of honour, or advantage equall to what he did already enioy, and might hereafter ju&s;tly promi&s;e to him&s;elfe from the <HI>King.</HI></P>
<P>Thus went tho&s;e kind of <HI>Spiders</HI> about making poi&s;on out of every thing, where with having now either allienated, or in|fected farr the greater part of the Kingdom, by abu&s;ing them at home, they have attempted al&s;o to do the &s;ame abroad, and mo&s;t particularly at <HI>Court,</HI> by their letters, and &s;neaking <HI>emi&s;|&s;aries</HI> &s;uch as <HI>Hugh Rochford</HI> and <HI>Fitzmorris,</HI> who, under pre|tence of great devotion to the <HI>King,</HI> by impudent corner <HI>&s;ug|ge&s;tions,</HI> and malicious <HI>whi&s;pers,</HI> have laid all the foregoing ac|cu&s;ations to His <HI>Excellencyes</HI> Charge, &amp; endeavoured &s;o to bla&s;t him there, that his MAjESTY might have been enduced to remove him from the Government, which on my &s;oule if he had done, or should do, whil&s;t the&s;e <HI>di&s;tractions</HI> continue, it were the ready way to ruine all his Intere&s;ts in that Kingdom; for my Lord of <HI>Clanricard</HI> wauing it, as (e&s;pecially upon that &s;core, and &s;uch a conjuncture) without doubt he would have done, <HI>Irland</HI> afforded not another per&s;on, who for all re&s;pects was able, and fit for that tru&s;t; and no <HI>&s;tranger</HI> could have been &s;ent, who&s;e want of knowledge in that Nation, and want of intere&s;t among&s;t them, should not have laid him open to &s;o great di&s;advantages, as he should have done nothing el&s;e but loo&s;e him&s;elfe, and the <HI>Kings</HI> bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. Which is the Reall end, which the&s;e ba&s;e informers, and their abettors driue at, and the lurch they ly at for the broaching of a new Rebellion;
<PB N="41" REF="21"> the impo&s;&s;ibility of &s;etting which on foot, whil&s;t &s;o wi&s;e, and experienced a per&s;on, and one of &s;o great an alliance, and in|tere&s;t in the Kingdom is at the helme: and their utter de&s;paire of ever being able to bring my Lord of <HI>Ormond</HI> to their bent, are the only true rea&s;ons of all their per&s;ecutions of, and aver|&s;ions to him.</P>
<P>Whom, as I remember, (before this long, yet nece&s;&s;ary digre&s;&s;ion) I left at <HI>Kilkenny,</HI> where having in vain endeavoured to qualify the univer&s;all di&s;contents, and ob&s;erving how fa&s;t (notwith&s;tanding the admonitory Declaration of all the <HI>Bishops</HI> from <HI>Clonmaeno&s;&s;e</HI> to the contrary) the people being alienated with the rauaging, and di&s;order of their own armies, and al|lured with the &s;ucce&s;&s;es, and &s;mooth invitations of <HI>Cromwell,</HI> ran headlong into him for Protection, and vnder Contribution; as al&s;o, how great numbers of the <HI>Irish</HI> &s;ouldiers, &s;ome frighted with the <HI>plague,</HI> which now began to &s;pread into the other Pro|vinces of the Kingdom, and others for want of livelyhood, as having neither meat, nor pay, flockt in unto the enemy. He goes into <HI>Conaght</HI> to confer about carrying on of the publicke bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and the remedy of the&s;e di&s;orders with the Marquis of <HI>Clanricarde</HI> at his Ca&s;tle of <HI>Portumna</HI> about the end of Chri&s;t|mas; who being a per&s;on of that eminent merit towards our <HI>King,</HI> and <HI>Nation,</HI> &amp; de&s;erving &s;o much honour from all hone&s;t men; I shall, I beleive, do a thing very plea&s;ing to your <HI>Lordship</HI> to give you a breife Character of him.</P>
<P>The Story of his <HI>Charity,</HI> and <HI>Protection</HI> to &s;uch multitudes of di&s;tre&s;st <HI>English,</HI> and <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> in the time of tho&s;e <HI>Tragicall Ma&s;&s;acres,</HI> and <HI>Rapines,</HI> that at the beginning of the warr were acted in <HI>Irland;</HI> &amp; his <HI>Civillities,</HI> &amp; <HI>Noblene&s;&s;e</HI> to tho&s;e of our Na|tion, who&s;e hone&s;ty de&s;erved his favour ever &s;ince hath &s;o many
<PB N="42" REF="22"> <HI>Liveing Relators,</HI> that I need not medle with it; likewi&s;e for me to give a particular account with what <HI>integrity,</HI> and <HI>wi&s;dome</HI> he hath pre&s;ervd his <HI>Loyalty,</HI> through all tho&s;e <HI>&s;traits,</HI> &amp; <HI>troubles</HI> that have hedgd him in, free from the guilt of the lea&s;t com|pliance with either the <HI>Parliament,</HI> or <HI>Confederates,</HI> though me|naced, and courted incredibly by all, not only the <HI>Nuntio</HI> and <HI>O Neale,</HI> but even by <HI>Sultan Cromwell</HI> him&s;elfe (as looking upon his <HI>Lordship</HI> for the per&s;on likelie&s;t now to give him the greate&s;t oppo&s;ition, and to contribute mo&s;t to the pre&s;ervation of what was left) all which a&s;&s;aults he hath &s;tood out with the greate&s;t <HI>con&s;tancy,</HI> and <HI>mode&s;ty</HI> in the world, would make me too tedious upon this occa&s;ion.</P>
<P>Wherfore I shall content my &s;elfe to tell your Lordship in short, that he hath conducted his own, and that share he hath had of the <HI>Kings</HI> bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, with the greate&s;t <HI>prudence,</HI> &amp; <HI>hone&s;ty</HI> the free&s;t from <HI>faction,</HI> or <HI>ambition,</HI> and with the cleare&s;t neglect of <HI>&s;elfe intere&s;t,</HI> &amp; <HI>private advantages,</HI> that hath ever yet falln under my ob&s;ervation; in fine I will a&s;&s;ure you, he is a <HI>&s;ubject</HI> as well worthy of a <HI>Princes favour,</HI> and as fit for his <HI>Coun&s;ells,</HI> that he is as reall, and hearty in his <HI>freindships,</HI> and hath a &s;oule as full of <HI>ju&s;tice,</HI> and <HI>honour</HI> as is any where to be found.</P>
<P>Upon his coming to <HI>Portumna,</HI> my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> meets with <HI>S^r. George Monro,</HI> who was po&s;ted thither out of the north to make &s;ome Propo&s;alls in order to the reduction of <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> to His <HI>Excellency</HI> &amp; my Lord of <HI>Clanricard,</HI> (who had the Summer before a&s;&s;i&s;ted him towards his <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> expedition with a Re|giment of foot 100 hor&s;e, and 1000 pounds in mony out of the Province of <HI>Conaght;)</HI> &amp; in ca&s;e tho&s;e overtures of his were not approved of, to demand his pa&s;&s;e, that he might leave the <HI>Kingdome;</HI> But what he propounded, was &s;o plau&s;ible, that
<PB N="43" REF="22"> in ca&s;e mony, and armes could be had in time, and in propor|tion to what he demanded, (as the infection of <HI>Galloway</HI> out of which towne cheifly both were to be had, made it very difficult) they judged it a very likely expedition; Wherupon my Lord of <HI>Clanricard,</HI> de&s;irous to keep &s;o able a commander as <HI>S^r. George</HI> in the Kingdom, furnisheth him with what mony he could at the pre&s;ent, and &s;ends him Northward to lay, and pre|pare the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e before; promi&s;ing to do his uttermo&s;t en|deavours to procure him tho&s;e &s;upplies of mony, ammunition, and armes by the time appointed; as al&s;o to bring his army up as farr as <HI>Sligo,</HI> there to countenance <HI>S^r. George</HI> in his under|takings, and be ready for any fair occa&s;ion, that should pre&s;ent it &s;elfe for the ma&s;tering of the Country.</P>
<P>After four, or five daies &s;tay at the mo&s;t, His <HI>Excellency</HI> tooke his leave, and ha&s;tened towards <HI>Kilkenny,</HI> obligeing my Lord of <HI>Clanricard</HI> to come after him, to be pre&s;ent at a meeting he had appointed there, for the procuring of a good under&s;tand|ing between the <HI>Clergy, the</HI> Commi&s;&s;ioners, and him&s;elfe, and for taking the be&s;t order they could for the rai&s;ing, and main|tayning an army again&s;t the next &s;pring: But though they met, nothing at that time could be done, or agreed upon; Wherfore my Lord of <HI>Clanricard</HI> returnes into <HI>Connaght</HI> to take order for his <HI>Northren</HI> expedition; which out of the great dif|ficulties of getting his men together, ari&s;ing out of the uni|ver&s;all di&s;tractions, that were then in the Kingdom, the hard &s;ea&s;on of the yeare, the Pe&s;tilence, the want of monies, and provi&s;ions; he could not po&s;&s;ibly go through with, again&s;t <HI>February</HI> which was the time de&s;igned; Nor even then, when he did, without very great nece&s;&s;ities, and inconveniences to him&s;elfe, and his army, as I can well witne&s;&s;e, having
<PB N="44" REF="23"> had the honour to waite upon him mo&s;t part of that journey.</P>
<P>This failing in Point of time, and a great part of the monies promi&s;ed him, (which neverthele&s;&s;e as things &s;tood no mans Indu&s;try could have remedied) <HI>S^r. George Monro</HI> complained very much of, affirming that their opportunity was lo&s;t ther|by; e&s;pecially now they being come, the army was able to move no further, through extream want of Provi&s;ions (kept from them by foule &amp; contrary weather) for which, &amp; the re&s;idue of the mony, together with hopes of an accord between my <HI>Lord Leiutenant;</HI> and the <HI>Commi&s;sioners</HI> &s;ome daies were &s;pent in Ex|pectation, but nothing coming in the end, except only a letter from my Lord of <HI>Ormond</HI> &s;ummoning my Lord of <HI>Clanricard,</HI> &s;uddainly away; his <HI>Lordship</HI> was forced to leave his army, and the Northren bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to the hazard, and return back to meet my <HI>Lord Leiutenant,</HI> and the <HI>Commi&s;sioncrs</HI> at <HI>Loghreogh:</HI> Wher|upon <HI>Sr. George Monro</HI> beleiving now that my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> would leave the Kingdom, &s;eing the divi&s;ions among&s;t the <HI>Irish</HI> grow daily greater, and giving all for lo&s;t, and la&s;tly find|ing the impatience of his own party to treat with the enemy, (as he had often before publiquely declared he would) retires him&s;elfe to <HI>Eniskillin,</HI> and having made Conditions for him|&s;elfe, the remainder of his Party, and his Officers that were in pri&s;on, gave up that place to the enemy, &amp; departed the King|dom. Very &s;oone after who&s;e retirement, my Lord of <HI>Clanricards</HI> army for extremity of want was forced to returne from <HI>Sligo</HI> back towards the <HI>County</HI> of <HI>Galway.</HI></P>
<P>Where I will leave it, and come back unto his <HI>Excellency,</HI> who being left by my Lord <HI>Clanricard</HI> lately in <HI>Kilkenny,</HI> after having cau&s;ed Captain <HI>Tickle</HI> to be executed for a de&s;ign he had of be|traying that town unto <HI>Cromwell;</HI> was by the breach growing
<PB N="45" REF="23"> daily wider between him, &amp; the Kingdom, and through the encrea&s;e of the &s;ickne&s;s now come thither, at the joynt reque&s;t of the <HI>Commi&s;sioners,</HI> and <HI>Officers,</HI> induced to remove towards <HI>Lymerick,</HI> where being negligently received without the ac|cu&s;tomed re&s;pect u&s;ed to the <HI>Kings Leiutenant,</HI> he after a short &s;tay departed thence into the County of <HI>Clare.</HI> Immediately therupon, the enemy having refreshd his men, and encrea&s;ed his army, with a great acce&s;&s;ion of old &s;ouldiers, that had for|merly &s;erved under my <HI>Lord Inchiquin</HI> and my <HI>Lord Leiutenant,</HI> takes the feild, and falls a &s;ummoning Ca&s;tles, and bringing the Country under Contribution, wherin he had a generall &s;ucce&s;s, mo&s;t of the Ca&s;tles &s;urrendring upon appearance of a party of hor&s;e, except <HI>Kiltenan,</HI> which gave him &s;ome re&s;i&s;tance.</P>
<P>His <HI>Excellencies</HI> army through the forementioned ob&s;tinacy, and di&s;obedience of the townes again&s;t receiving Garri&s;ons, was &s;o farr di&s;per&s;ed, that there was no meanes of drawing them together; Neither, if that were done, of keeping them in a body, for the Country was de&s;troyed, and wa&s;t, &s;o that it could not &s;upply him; be&s;ides during the&s;e di&s;agrements between my <HI>Lord Leiutenant,</HI> the <HI>Clergy,</HI> and the <HI>Commi&s;sioners</HI> there were few, or none of the <HI>Irish</HI> &s;ouldiers (if there had been Provi&s;ions for them) that would obey his <HI>Excellencies</HI> Orders. Of all which <HI>Cromwell</HI> was well aware, and therfore went &s;ecurely, and with confidence to work, carrying all before him: A mong&s;t other of his &s;ucce&s;&s;es, <HI>Balli&s;onan</HI> is &s;old unto him, and <HI>Cahir Ca&s;tle</HI> (then the dwelling hou&s;e of <HI>Ma&s;ter Mathewes</HI> a yong youth, and halfe Brother to my <HI>Lord Leiutenant)</HI> given him contrary to tho&s;e &s;trict orders left by his <HI>Excellency</HI> with <HI>Ma&s;ter Mathewes</HI> for the keeping of it; who was &s;o con&s;cious of his own mi&s;doing in the act, that he refu&s;ed upon &s;everall &s;ummons, and invitations
<PB N="46" REF="24"> to appear before my <HI>Lord,</HI> &amp; &s;taied &s;till in the enemies quarters to &s;ecure him&s;elfe from His <HI>Excellencies</HI> indignation. But ne|verthele&s;&s;e this act of <HI>M^r. Matthewes</HI> is made aground of new &s;u&s;pitions, and fresh clamours again&s;t my <HI>Lord</HI> him&s;elfe by the <HI>Irish,</HI> who all this while run on in their extravagancies, intent only upon their di&s;putes in hand, as if there were no &s;uch man as <HI>Cromwell</HI> in the Kingdom; in &s;o much, that &s;eing &s;o many &s;e|verall meetings a&s;&s;igned, and &s;o much time &s;pent to &s;o litle purpo&s;e, His <HI>Excellency</HI> concludes that tho&s;e people would ne|ver be brought into order by <HI>him,</HI> and therfore re&s;olves to withdraw him&s;elfe from the Government, if not to depart the Kingdom, and to commit the mannagement of all unto the Marquis of <HI>Clanricard,</HI> which was the rea&s;on of his Lordships being &s;ent for back from <HI>Sligo.</HI></P>
<P>The enemy in the meane time having the Ca&s;tles of <HI>Gowran,</HI> and <HI>Laghlin,</HI> together with the Officers commanding in them delivered into his hands by the common &s;ouldiers, &s;ets at la&s;t upon <HI>Kilkenny;</HI> Whence a while before the Earle of <HI>Ca&s;tle-haven,</HI> (who was now left with cheife command in <HI>Lein&s;ter)</HI> was drawn out with his forces, by rea&s;on the &s;ickne&s;&s;e raged &s;o, leaving <HI>S^r. Walter Butler,</HI> and <HI>Major Walsh</HI> with about 50 hor&s;e, and &s;ome 400 foot in the place, where a breach being made, and the enemy a&s;&s;aulting, they were bravely repul&s;ed, leaving 600 armes behind them; after which check, they re&s;olved, to march of, and are &s;ending their artillery away &s;ilently before, whil&s;t the town&s;men conuay a drummer privately over the wall, and upon I know not what accord, let the enemy in, unknown to the &s;ouldiers, who were then forced to retire to the Ca&s;tle, &amp; make their termes, which being granted them, they march away.</P>
<P><HI>Kilkenny</HI> being gained by him, let us leaue <HI>Cromwell</HI> at <HI>Cashell</HI>
<PB N="47" REF="24"> for a while among&s;t his <HI>Committee</HI> men, &amp; returne into <HI>Connaght,</HI> where the <HI>Cleargy,</HI> and <HI>Commi&s;sioners</HI> &s;eing that my Lord of <HI>Clanricard</HI> having refu&s;ed to take the Government upon him was re&s;olved in ca&s;e, they continued di&s;obedient unto my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> (lea&s;t the <HI>Kings Authority</HI> should bee expo&s;ed to further di&s;obedience &amp; contempt) to leave the Kingdom toge|ther with His <HI>Excellency,</HI> &amp; con&s;idering what a certain ruine their departure would be unto them all; are now courting my <HI>Lord Leiuteuant</HI> to &s;tay, and offer to come to compo&s;ition with him: who demands a&s;&s;urance from them that the re&s;pective towns of <HI>Lymerick,</HI> and <HI>Gallway</HI> shall receive &s;ufficient Guarri&s;ons, and that them&s;elves with all the &s;oldiers, &amp; people shall hereafter readily obay him; Which they undertake unto him, upon condition that all the <HI>English</HI> what &s;oever under his <HI>Excellencies</HI> command might be disbanded, and &s;ent away; that the <HI>Bishops</HI> of the Kingdom might have a share in Councell, and the mannagement of things; that the Receiver Generall (which was <HI>S^r. George Hamilton</HI> Brother in law to my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> a per&s;on of great parts, ho|nour, and merit) might give in his accounts; all which his <HI>Ex|cellency,</HI> out of his great de&s;ire to &s;atisfy, and unite the people therby to pre&s;erve the <HI>Country,</HI> and the <HI>Kings Intere&s;t</HI> (if it were po&s;&s;ible) at la&s;t a&s;&s;ents unto.</P>
<P>This agreement being made, the <HI>English</HI> were accordingly (to free the <HI>Irish</HI> of their jealou&s;ies, who either were, or would &s;eem to be equally &s;u&s;pitious of the Cavaliers, as of tho&s;e, that had &s;erved the <HI>Parliament</HI> before) disbanded, and &s;ince there was no further employment for them, nor meanes of getting away by &s;ea, they had leave to make their conditions with <HI>Cromwell,</HI> to pa&s;&s;e through his quarters out of the Kingdom, which being granted by him, all the &s;mall remainder of my Lord of <HI>Inchiquins</HI>
<PB N="48" REF="25"> men, (except a few that Colonell <HI>Buller</HI> was to Carry for <HI>Scil|ly)</HI> went under the conduct of Colonell <HI>John Daniell</HI> into the enemies quarters; &s;o did my Lord of <HI>Ardes,</HI> and after him, <HI>S^r. Thomas Arm&s;trong,</HI> with whom went al&s;o <HI>M^r. Daniell O Neille</HI> upon the Score of carying a Regiment into Spaine, There remained none behind, that was permitted to beare any charge, but Leiutenant <HI>Colonell Tre&s;well,</HI> at my Lord of <HI>Ormonds</HI> particular in&s;tance to command his Guards of <HI>hor&s;e;</HI> only my Brother <HI>John Digby, Colonell Henry Warren,</HI> &amp; <HI>Colonell Hugh Butler</HI> &s;taid to waite upon his <HI>Excellencies</HI> Per&s;on, and beare him company in his ad|ventures.</P>
<P>But before I go on, I mu&s;t not omit to tell you, how <HI>Dean Boile,</HI> who was &s;ent to treat with <HI>Cromwell</HI> for the <HI>English,</HI> that were disbanded, being offered it, as he &s;aies, by <HI>Cromwell,</HI> and imagining, as him&s;elfe affirmes, to do a &s;ervice to my <HI>Lord Leiu|tenant,</HI> &amp; my Lord <HI>Inchiquin,</HI> in it, adventured of his own head to take <HI>pa&s;&s;es</HI> from him, for their departure out of the King|dom; Wherof, a&s;&s;oon as ever <HI>Dean Boile</HI> was gone, he makes u&s;e to debaush the <HI>Irish</HI> Garri&s;ons, to take conditions from him, a&s;&s;uring them my Lord <HI>Leiutenant</HI> had received his pa&s;&s;e to de|part the Kingdom, as appeares by a letter that the Governour of <HI>Ro&s;&s;e</HI> writ (it &s;eemes by <HI>Cromwells</HI> order) unto Generall <HI>Pre|&s;ton</HI> commanding in <HI>Waterford;</HI> the Copy of which Letter, with that of <HI>Cromwells</HI> pa&s;&s;e, &amp; three of <HI>Dean Boiles</HI> Letters concern|ing it, together with his <HI>Excellencies</HI> to <HI>Cromwell,</HI> when he &s;ent him back his pa&s;&s;e by a trumpet of my Lord <HI>Clanricards,</HI> (having procured them for my own &s;atisfaction) I herewithall &s;end your <HI>Lordship,</HI> that you may &s;ee how ab&s;olutely without my <HI>Lord Leiutenants</HI> privity, or licen&s;e the&s;e pa&s;&s;es were accepted, &amp; with what indignation re&s;ented. <HI>Emer Mac Mahon Bishop</HI> of <HI>Cloghor,</HI>
<PB N="49" REF="25"> who had been cho&s;en Generall of the <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> army, having a good while &s;ince received his commi&s;&s;ion from my <HI>Lord Leiutenant,</HI> was now gathering together his army, which in ad short time af|ter (before my leaving the Kingdom) he had made up to be about 6000 men, wherewith having taken &s;everall little Ca&s;tles in his way, he was marched up into the <HI>Claneboyes,</HI> and become ma&s;ter of the feild.</P>
<P>The next enterprize <HI>Cromwell</HI> went in hand with, was, to take <HI>Clonmell</HI> which was kept by Major Generall <HI>Hugh O Neale,</HI> who behaved him&s;elfe &s;o di&s;creetly, &amp; gallantly in defending it, that <HI>Cromwell</HI> lo&s;t neer upon 2500 men before it, &amp; had notwith|&s;tanding gone away without it, if they within had had &s;tore of powder; but their &s;mall proportion being &s;pent, the Governour with his &s;ouldiers was fain to go out of the town on the other &s;ide of the river by night towards <HI>Waterford,</HI> &amp; leave the townes|men to make conditions for them&s;elves; which they did the next morning, the enemy not knowing but the Garri&s;on was &s;till in towne, till the conditions were &s;igned. Thus the lo&s;&s;e of this place, &amp; &s;everall other Garri&s;ons, for want of ammunition, was another effect of the di&s;obedience of the townes; In &s;o much, that had it not been for a little magazine, that my Lord of <HI>Clanricard</HI> had providently made before hand, &amp; wherewith, &s;ince the lo&s;&s;e of <HI>Drogheda,</HI> his <HI>Excellencies</HI> army, the <HI>Scots,</HI> the <HI>Vl&s;ters,</HI> &amp; mo&s;t of the Garri&s;ons were &s;urnished; All might have gone to an irrecoverable ruine, whil&s;t the walld townes like free States lookt on, as unconcernd, denying to afford it to them.</P>
<P>This being true, no body that hath heard of any injuries, or inju&s;tice in point of trade, or prizes here, can blame the <HI>King,</HI> or my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> for it, neither of whom they did obey, further then they plea&s;d them&s;elves, but now having received Garri&s;ons, (as I make no que&s;tion they have) I dare be bold to a&s;&s;ure any body, that trafficks that way, of all equity, &amp; ju&s;tice
<PB N="50" REF="26"> from my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> hands. About the time of the &s;eidge of <HI>Clonmell, David Roch</HI> having rai&s;ed above 2000 men in the Counties of <HI>Corke,</HI> &amp; <HI>Kerry,</HI> and beginning to make head with them, received a &s;mall brush from my Lord of <HI>Broghall,</HI> which only di&s;per&s;ed his men for a few daies, his lo&s;&s;e being not con|&s;iderable for any thing, but the <HI>Bishop</HI> of <HI>Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> who being taken was hanged with two other <HI>Prie&s;ts</HI> by <HI>Cromwell,</HI> for being found in armes (as they &s;aid) again&s;t the <HI>Right worshipfull</HI> the <HI>State</HI> of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Soone after the gaining of <HI>Clonwell, Cromwell,</HI> upon letters out of <HI>England,</HI> inviting him thither, goes to &s;ea, and leaves <HI>Ireton</HI> in cheife command behind him, to &s;ubdue the re&s;t of that mi&s;e|rable wa&s;ted Kingdom, whil&s;t him&s;elfe went about the conque&s;t of new <HI>Empires,</HI> more worthy of his pre&s;ence; But &s;ince he is gone, I cannot but here ob&s;erve, that of all tho&s;e <HI>thou&s;ands,</HI> that either came with him thither, or were &s;ent after, there are now few <HI>hundreds</HI> &s;urviving, either to reap the benefit, or report the &s;tories of their Victories; his army upon his departure being &s;unke to a very incon&s;iderable number, e&s;pecially in foot, and neer three parts of tho&s;e con&s;i&s;ting of either <HI>Irish, Jones,</HI> or my Lord of <HI>Inchiquins</HI> men, who only are able to undergo the wofull incommodities of that Country, now groning under a univer|&s;all <HI>plague famine,</HI> and <HI>de&s;olation,</HI> to that degree, that if they knew but halfe the mi&s;ery that expects them there, I am confident that no threats, nor flatteries, could per&s;wade men out of <HI>England</HI> thither, in hopes of reaping the fruites of their fellowes labours in that de&s;troyed Kingdom. Which, as low as tis brought, may chance to co&s;t <HI>Cromwell</HI> a &s;econd expedition, and another army, and yet go without it.</P>
<P>For they have <HI>Waterford, Galloway,</HI> and <HI>Limrick</HI> three of the &s;tronge&s;t, and mo&s;t con&s;iderable townes of the Kingdom &s;till untaken, any of which, if they be well Garri&s;ond (as que&s;tionle&s;s
<PB N="51" REF="26"> now they are) will be neare a &s;ummers work to reduce; The forts of <HI>Duncannon,</HI> &amp; <HI>Silgo,</HI> the Ca&s;tles of <HI>Caterlo, Athlone, Charlemont</HI> &amp; <HI>Neauagh</HI> are not ea&s;y puacha&s;es; the <HI>Province</HI> of <HI>Connaght</HI> is &s;till pre&s;erved intire by my Lord of <HI>Clanricard,</HI> who will be able to bring 4000 men of his own into the feild, now that <HI>Galloway</HI> &amp; his Country is &s;omewhat cleard from the infection of the plague; which begins to rage greatly in the enemies quarters, as <HI>Cork Youghall, Wexford,</HI> and <HI>Dublin</HI> it &s;elfe; <HI>Kilkenuy, Clonmell,</HI> with &s;everall places there abouts being left de&s;olate with it. The County of <HI>Clare</HI> in <HI>Moun&s;ter</HI> brought unto my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> at a <HI>Rendezvous</HI> ju&s;t upon my coming away, above 2000 men wher|with his <HI>Excellency</HI> being invited by the Magi&s;trates was ready to march into <HI>Limrick</HI> for to Garri&s;on the place, and to make it his re&s;idence</P>
<P>What Forces the <HI>Irish</HI> had in <HI>Vl&s;ter,</HI> &amp; towards <HI>Kerry,</HI> I have already told you, as likewi&s;e what <HI>Connaght,</HI> and the County of <HI>Clare</HI> afforded: I mu&s;t add that <HI>Hugh Mac Phelim</HI> had in <HI>Wicklow,</HI> &amp; towards <HI>Wexford,</HI> hard upon 2000 men, &amp; at <HI>Waterford.</HI> Generall <HI>Pre&s;ton</HI> and <HI>Hugh O Neale</HI> had litle le&s;&s;e; to conclude be&s;ides all this the <HI>Lord Ca&s;tlehaven,</HI> the <HI>Lord Dillon,</HI> and the <HI>Bishop</HI> of <HI>Drum|more,</HI> made account they should draw together a con&s;iderable body in <HI>Meath,</HI> and the re&s;t of <HI>Lein&s;ter</HI> to joyne with the Marquis of <HI>Clanricard</HI> towards, the releife of <HI>Tecroghan,</HI> then be&s;eidged by Colonell <HI>Reynolds.</HI> Thus your Lordship may &s;ee that (provided they bee united among&s;t them&s;elves) (as truly I left them) and that meanes can be found of keeping them in bodies together, there are men enough in armes yet to di&s;pute the bu&s;ine&s;s with an enemy, that is not halfe their number, &amp; who&s;e quarters are pe&s;tered likewi&s;e with the plague, and famine, as well as theirs, e&s;pecially the&s;e having &s;uch &s;trengths, and fa&s;tne&s;&s;es, &s;till in their hands, as are almo&s;t inacce&s;&s;ible to <HI>Cromwells</HI> &s;ouldiers. Who after having ma&s;tered the greate&s;t part of <HI>Moun&s;ter,</HI> and
<PB N="52" REF="27"> <HI>Lein&s;ter,</HI> and their &s;upplies from <HI>England</HI> coming in but &s;lowly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> have made bold at la&s;t with the people they flattered with be|fore, &amp; altered their manner of proceedings, taking from them by force what they plea&s;ed, and violating their protections gi|ven; making not nice to tell them, they &s;uffered them to po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;e their e&s;tates but during plea&s;ure, and till they could have <HI>planters</HI> to put into their roomes; by which kind of clear dealing they have &s;o lo&s;t, &amp; made de&s;perate the natives, that lamenting their former too ready compliance with the enemy, they now call for my <HI>Lord Leiutenant</HI> again, &amp; taking armes in their hande begin to ri&s;e in all quarters of the Kingdom, &s;o that it is impo&s;|&s;ible for a greater power then <HI>Ireton</HI> has there to attend to the &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of them all.</P>
<P>In this po&s;ture left I that Kingdom, it being very probable, that if the enemies recruites, and provi&s;ions out of <HI>England</HI> did faile through any other diver&s;ion, and the <HI>Irish</HI> receive but any moderate &s;upplies from abroad, they would not only make good all that was left them, But al&s;o recouer upon the enemy con&s;iderably this Summer, which really I wish with all my &s;oule they may, Principally for His MAjESTIES &s;ake, and the pre&s;ent engagement of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> to both which the pre|&s;ervation of what is left, or the regaining of what is lo&s;t in <HI>Irland,</HI> mu&s;t needs be, if well con&s;idered, of high concernment; And in the next place for the &s;ake of many worthy families among&s;t them, &s;ome of which were never involved in the a&s;&s;ociation, nor had any hand in the warr, and many of the re&s;t, through the menaces &amp; &s;trange kind of proceedings of the <HI>Parliament</HI> again&s;t the whole Nation upon the In&s;urrection, &amp; the villanous prac|ti&s;es of <HI>Par&s;ons,</HI> &amp; <HI>Burlacy,</HI> the then Lords <HI>Ju&s;tices</HI> who de&s;ired to make them all forfeit their e&s;tates, were frighted &amp; forced into Rebellion. All which are now to &s;uffer equally, and by <HI>Cromwell</HI> with out di&s;tinction de&s;igned for ruine, together with tho&s;e, that
<PB N="53" REF="27"> were the <HI>Originall</HI> authors of the fir&s;t Rebellion, and tho&s;e ugly ma&s;&s;acres, that were committed: which indeed de&s;erves commi|&s;eration, &s;ince very many of the Nobility, &amp; gentry, with the body of the people wish the <HI>King</HI> as well, &amp; have as great di&s;po|&s;itions to his &s;ervice, as can be de&s;ired, having been abu&s;ed who<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> into tho&s;e offences they have committed, by a few malicious ill affected per&s;ons, craftier then mo&s;t of the re&s;t; Who ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> with great art, and indu&s;try acquired unto them&s;elves the opi|nion of wi&s;e, religious, and hone&s;t men: Wherby they mi&s;lea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that credulous, and for the mo&s;t part unwi&s;e Nation, upon pre|tence of the advancement of their <HI>Roman Religion,</HI> and pre|&s;ervation of their Country, to what they plea&s;e.</P>
<P>Having been able to per&s;wade them, that all the&s;e afflictions, &amp; misfortunes they &s;uffer under, are come upon them for their admitting of a <HI>ce&s;&s;ation,</HI> &amp; a <HI>peace</HI> indi&s;obedience to the <HI>Nuntio,</HI> &amp; for their joyning with <HI>Heretiques;</HI> Not &s;uffering them to con|&s;ider rightly, that it is their di&s;obedience to the lawfull <HI>King,</HI> &amp; the blood, and murther they are guilty of that, makes them &s;o unfortunate, that is their breaches of publike faith in compliance with the <HI>Nuntio,</HI> the rapine, and want of ju&s;tice, that raignes among&s;t them, that hath brought upon them the&s;e heavy pu|nishments, &amp; given them over to be &s;courged by the hand of &s;o <HI>faithle&s;s,</HI> &amp; <HI>Bloody an enemy.</HI> And &s;urely who&s;oever shall recollect how fir&s;t, after the double breach of the former peace, they were immediately punished with the defeat of two con&s;iderable armies, one after another; with the de&s;olation of the flourishing|e&s;t part of their Country; upon which a famine en&s;ued, that de|voured neer 20000 &s;oules, then how the plague, that hath &s;ince over &s;pread the Kingdom, began fir&s;t at <HI>Galloway</HI> the place that did mo&s;t, &amp; longe&s;t countenance tho&s;e ill proceedings of the <HI>Nuntio,</HI> &amp; <HI>O Neale,</HI> of any other in the Kingdom; where it &s;wept away about 5000 &s;oules, &amp; tho&s;e only of the common, and
<PB N="54" REF="28"> meane&s;t &s;ort of people, who were they, that contrary to the in|clinations of the principall per&s;ons (being mo&s;t of them mode|rate, &amp; well di&s;po&s;ed men) carried all things their violent way.</P>
<P>Next how the <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> army, which I heare have received a great defeat &s;ince my coming away) who were the beginners of the rebellion, the breakers of the fir&s;t Peace, the oppo&s;ers of the &s;econd, &amp; the releivers of <HI>Derry,</HI> are now come to fall under the hands of <HI>Coote,</HI> &amp; tho&s;e men, who, if it had not been for them, had certainly been de&s;troyed; And la&s;tly how the <HI>Bishops</HI> of <HI>Tuam,</HI> &amp; <HI>Cloghor,</HI> who had &s;o deep hands in the contrivance of the warr, &amp; were guilty of &s;o much blood, have both fallen (if the printed relation concerning the la&s;t of them be true) upon the edge of the &s;worde, together with their armies The <HI>Bishops</HI> of <HI>Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> &amp; <HI>Downe</HI> al&s;o, (the fir&s;t of which had, not many weekes before his own mi&s;carriage, appeared very unhand&s;omely in the per&s;ecution of the <HI>Prote&s;tant Lord Bishop</HI> of <HI>London Derry,</HI> a per&s;on of great worth, moderation, and prudence, &amp; one; Who, as he had meritted highly from the <HI>King</HI> for his loyalty, and con&s;tant &s;ervices, &s;o, al&s;o was he very farr to my knowledge, from de&s;erving ill from that Kingdom; The &s;econd, one, who had ever cherished &s;tirrs &amp; factions, &amp; both of them notoriou&s;ly aver&s;e to peace, &amp; to the Government, coming to perish igno|miniou&s;ly in the hands of tho&s;e enemies, (that by &s;taving off a timely &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to the <HI>Kings</HI> Authority, &amp; hindering the &s;ettle|ment of the Country) they may be &s;aid, after a &s;ort, to have brought into the Kingdom. He mu&s;t needs, as I do, admire the order of <HI>Gods Cha&s;ti&s;ements,</HI> with &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion acknowledging that he is ju&s;t, and that his judgements are right.</P>
<P>Through who&s;e fault, or through what mi&s;carriage, <HI>Tecroghan</HI> is lo&s;t after it hath been &s;o long and gallantly defended by <HI>S^r. Robert Talbot,</HI> and the lady <HI>Fitz-Garret,</HI> and the <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> army de|feated, I cannot undertake to &s;ay, &s;ince they are accidents after
<PB N="55" REF="28"> my coming to &s;ea, Though I do much feare that the fir&s;t was occa&s;ioned principally through the reliques of tho&s;e unhappy <HI>emulations</HI> &amp; <HI>backwardne&s;&s;es</HI> that dwelt in &s;ome of the great ones again&s;t others who were like to reap too much honour and ad|vantage from the enterprize in ca&s;e that place had been re|leived and pre&s;erved.</P>
<P>What ever the matter were I confe&s;s tho&s;e mi&s;chances have much altered the ca&s;e from what it was, but yet I de&s;paire not of the bu&s;ine&s;s in giving all for gone, but hope <HI>Gods ju&s;tice</HI> having been in &s;ome mea&s;ure &s;atisfied, &amp; the people being be|come more humble, &amp; more united, that by <HI>Gods</HI> ble&s;&s;ing they may weather this &s;torm, &amp; pre&s;erve them&s;elves with that King|dom to the <HI>King.</HI> However I am confident this late defeat of the <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> army under the conduct of the <HI>Bishop</HI> of <HI>Cloghor</HI> by &s;o &s;mall a party will convince the people, that the&s;e misfortunes are not entailed unto either my <HI>Lord</HI> of <HI>Ormonds</HI> per&s;on, or reli|gion, &amp; conduce much to &s;atisfy them, that his <HI>Excellency</HI> hath neither betraied the <HI>Kings</HI> Intere&s;t, nor them into this low con|dition they are brought into; Of which being once per&s;waded, they will turn their hearts, &amp; fixe their hopes wholy upon the <HI>Kings Leiutenant;</HI> Who, beleeve me my <HI>Lord,</HI> is as <HI>Wi&s;e,</HI> as <HI>Honou|rable,</HI> &amp; <HI>Gallant a Per&s;on</HI> as is any where to be found, &amp; as <HI>excellent a &s;ubject,</HI> as any <HI>Prince</HI> in the world can boa&s;t of; Yea and one who, I a&s;&s;ure your Lordship, (if ever he shall thinke it fit to give the world an account of his actions) is able with <HI>mode&s;ty,</HI> &amp; <HI>truth</HI> to &s;ay &s;o much for him&s;elfe, and for what he hath done, as will wring a confe&s;&s;ion out of the mouth of <HI>enuy</HI> her&s;elfe, that hee hath behaved him&s;elfe &s;o <HI>prudently,</HI> &amp; &s;o <HI>uprightly</HI> in the place he now holds notwith&s;tanding all the&s;e forementioned <HI>misfor|tunes,</HI> that no man hath ever out gone him in <HI>loyalty</HI> to, or <HI>merit</HI> from the <HI>Crowne</HI> and <HI>Royall hou&s;e</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> of which a better ar|gument needs not be given then that mo&s;t <HI>Excellent Speech</HI> (for
<PB N="56" REF="29"> the eloquence, and &s;ubject of it de&s;erving an <HI>Eternall Memory)</HI> delivered by his own mouth unto the <HI>Generall A&s;&s;embly</HI> of the <HI>Confederates</HI> upon the conclu&s;ion of the <HI>Peace</HI> wherin you will find the <HI>Principles</HI> he goes upon, &s;o <HI>Loyall,</HI> and &s;o <HI>Vnbya&s;&s;ed;</HI> The <HI>Trea&s;ons, Defections,</HI> and <HI>Impaciencies</HI> of the people that have faln out &s;ince, through the nationall <HI>animo&s;ities</HI> particular <HI>factions</HI> and <HI>pre&s;&s;ures</HI> of the warr &s;o prudently <HI>fore&s;een,</HI> &amp; &s;o <HI>Prophetically foretold,</HI> that tho&s;e per&s;ons (of what Nation &s;oever they bee) mu&s;t be as <HI>blind</HI> as they are <HI>Malicious</HI> that shall attribute any of tho&s;e mis|fortuns that have en&s;ued, either to want of <HI>Abilities</HI> or <HI>Fidelity</HI> in my <HI>Lord Leiutenant.</HI></P>
<P>Wherfore I <HI>Lordship</HI> (if any where it &s;eeme le&s;&s;e clear, and &s;atisfactory, then you could wish) not to looke upon this short account I have given, as upon all that might have been &s;aid upon the &s;ubject, for the&s;e being only reflections of my own, and delivered in &s;uch ha&s;t, it is no wonder, if &s;ome things be mistaken, and more forgot, by him that is with all the duty and affection in the world:</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Noble&s;t Lord</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your <HI>Lordships</HI> mo&s;t devoted humble &s;ervant LEWIS DYVE.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From the <HI>Hague</HI> <DATE>Iuly the 10. 1650. 20.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letters">
<PB N="1" REF="29">
<HEAD>THE COPIES. Of the &s;everall LETTERS Mentioned by S^R. LEVVIS DYVE In the foregoing Di&s;cour&s;e.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>A Letter of the <HI>Marquis</HI> of <HI>Clanricard</HI> to <HI>M^r. Wal&s;ingham</HI> Secretary to my Brother the <HI>Lord Digby</HI> concerning his <HI>Lordships taking armes In defence of the Ce&s;&s;ation-mentioned.</HI> PAG. 6.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>WORTHY COVSEN,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THough at a late houre, accept of my thankfull acknowledgements for the frequent intelligences and advi&s;es I have received from you; though the ob&s;tructions they mett within their Pa&s;&s;age to mee, and their finding mee engaged in the remote&s;t parts of the Kingdome, did not afford me opportunity to keep the like Corre&s;pondence with you, nor reap the full benefit of your adverti&s;ements: which a more quick and &s;ea&s;onable convayance might have produced. But now, not knowing what, or whe|ther any right information hath gone from hence of our pa&s;t proceedings, I hold it not impertinent (having met with &s;o &s;ure a me&s;&s;enger) to enter|taine you with &s;ome breife notions of them, Conceiving your friend&s;hip and re&s;pect to mee, will take of the Scandall of any vanity or o&s;tenta|tion
<PB N="2" REF="30"> in mee to bee the true relator of my own &s;tory unto you in the&s;e di&s;a|&s;trous times.</P>
<P>Vpon my <HI>Lord Lieutenants</HI> and my <HI>Lord Digbyes</HI> departure (having deve|&s;ted my &s;elfe of that &s;mall power then remaining with mee, and &s;eque&s;tred my thoughts from ingageing in any bu&s;ine&s;&s;e) I retired to &s;ome Ca&s;tles of mine near the &s;ea &s;ide, with an intention together with my family to &s;hip for <HI>France;</HI> but not &s;o &s;etled in that re&s;olution as not to bee inclined to weather out the &s;torme, as long as I could di&s;cerne any probability of &s;afety in that &s;olytary retirement, in which I remained untill my Lord of <HI>Inchiquin</HI> declared for the <HI>King,</HI> and that intelligence was brought mee of my <HI>Lord Lieutenants</HI> arrivall in <HI>France;</HI> and the probability of his returne hither in his former Command.</P>
<P>Then upon Con&s;ideration of the Condition of affaires in order to the <HI>Kings</HI> &s;ervice, (though the di&s;temper of this mi&s;erable age could not afford me &s;uch authorities as might &s;ecure my undertaking) I thought it a &s;ea&s;ona|ble and becoming duty in mee to appear abroad, and make &s;ome tryall how the people &s;tood affected towards a &s;etlement: Whereupon finding many friends well di&s;po&s;ed, and willing to run any hazard with mee rather then admitt of my departure out of the <HI>Kingdome:</HI> I put on a re&s;olution to appear in armes in oppo&s;ition to <HI>Generall O Neales,</HI> and the <HI>Nuntios faction,</HI> who were then grown very &s;trong and re&s;olved both to breake the pre&s;ent government, and overthrow all overtures towards a peace.</P>
<P>In breife after I had framed and publi&s;hed a declaration (which I am confi|dent you have &s;een ere this, and therein ob&s;erved the &s;treights I was put unto to keep my &s;elfe within due limits, and to make it likewi&s;e &s;atisfactory to tho&s;e parties who&s;e a&s;si&s;tance was nece&s;&s;ary for mee.) I procured my Lord <HI>Taaffe</HI> and a party of my Lord of <HI>Inchiquins</HI> to come and joyn them&s;elves unto tho&s;e forces I had rai&s;ed; whereupon wee advanced towards <HI>Owen O Neale</HI> then at <HI>Athlone,</HI> who though he exceeded us in number marcht away through the counties of <HI>Ro&s;common</HI> and <HI>Letrim</HI> cleerly out of <HI>Conaght:</HI> Whereby I recove|red the &s;trong ca&s;tle of <HI>Athlone</HI> (formerly as you know &s;o de&s;tructively and &s;o un&s;ea&s;onably lo&s;t) <HI>Iames Town</HI> a very con&s;iderable place, the <HI>Mote, Elphin,</HI> &amp; &s;everall other holds of &s;trength and con&s;equence; by which meanes, and by the committall of &s;ome principall factions per&s;ons, having &s;etled the lower parts of the province. I returned homewards; where &s;ome rebellious per&s;ons and others of the county of <HI>Mayo</HI> a&s;&s;ociated with the town of <HI>Galway,</HI> and ta|king the advantage of my ab&s;ence had &s;urprized &s;ome Ca&s;tles of mine, and &s;topt the armes and ammunition I had contracted for at <HI>Galway.</HI> But after ha|ving blockt up that town I brought them to a &s;ubmi&s;sion within three weekes, and to pay a con&s;iderable &s;um of mony: Be&s;ides all which J would have for|ced them to take in a <HI>Gurri&s;on</HI> but that I was nece&s;sitated to ha&s;ten away, and attend <HI>Owen O Neales</HI> motions; who having fetcht a great compa&s;&s;e was gotten
<PB N="3" REF="30"> into <HI>Ormond,</HI> and had &s;urprized the <HI>Neanagh</HI> (a &s;trong Ca&s;tle of my <HI>Lord Lieu|tenants</HI> tenanted by young <HI>Sr. George Hamilton)</HI> after which he tooke the <HI>Birr</HI> in the <HI>Kings County,</HI> and then <HI>Fort falkland;</HI> a fort of the <HI>Kings</HI> which had a dange|rous Pro&s;pect towards mee; giving him pa&s;&s;age over the River within &s;eaven miles of <HI>Portumna.</HI></P>
<P>But by the time I was drawn of from <HI>Galway</HI> and gotten home, I received in|telligence from my <HI>Lord</HI> of <HI>Inchiquin</HI> that he was in pur&s;uite of <HI>Oneile</HI> and had by &s;torm regained the <HI>Neanagh,</HI> and likewi&s;e <HI>Birr;</HI> And finding him de&s;irous of the a&s;si&s;tance of my forces to attempt <HI>Fort falkland,</HI> I repaired immediately unto him, with a con&s;iderable party of hor&s;e and foot: When being ready at la&s;t to fall upon the fort, my Lords Officers tired with foule weather, and long Marches after <HI>Oneile</HI> would not be per&s;uaded to &s;tay: But whil&s;t this was in di&s;pute (mo&s;t luckily as it fell out) <HI>Owen O Neale</HI> with 7000. foot, and 500. hor&s;e clapt down hard by us in a&s;treight of <HI>Bogge</HI> and <HI>woode</HI> and therby utterly ob&s;tructed our pa&s;&s;age back; &s;o that our army being forced to &s;tay I prevaild that my men with my <HI>Lords Battery</HI> &s;hould attend upon the fort, whil&s;t my Lords army did face <HI>Owen O Neale:</HI> Whereby after a day or two battering, the <HI>fort</HI> was &s;urrendred to us; &amp; <HI>O Neale</HI> who thought <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;tarve us had that lot him|&s;elfe, being, forced to &s;teal away in the night; and then I having plentifully &s;upplyed the army by boate out of the county of <HI>Galway)</HI> his Lord&s;hip had a free pa&s;&s;age back, leaving me in the po&s;&s;e&s;sion of the <HI>fort</HI> much to my advantage and &s;ecurity. Soon after which to perfect our Good Succe&s;&s;e, we received certain notice of my <HI>Lord Lieutenants</HI> being landed at <HI>Cork,</HI> which concludes this &s;tory.</P>
<P>I &s;hall not need to enlarge my &s;elfe upon the happy concluding of the <HI>peace,</HI> and the great difficulties we overcame; they will come fully repre&s;ented unto you by &s;everall wayes. J &s;hall only expre&s;&s;e my confidence that wee are now &s;ecured from any &s;econd revolutions among&s;t the&s;e people, though the <HI>Marquis of Antrim</HI> &amp; <HI>Owen O Neale</HI> have not yet &s;ubmitted, for I conceive they are not &s;o con&s;iderable but they will be &s;oon &s;uppre&s;t if they continue ob&s;tinate. I judge it likewi&s;e very po&s;sible that this &s;ummer <HI>Dublin</HI> may (if God &s;o plea&s;e) be recovered either by force or treaty. And now beleeving I have tired you with this tedious imperfect relation, I &s;hall with brevity and much truth give you a&s;&s;urance that you &s;hall con&s;tantly find mee.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your very affectionate Cou&s;en CLANRICARDE.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Kilkenny Ca&s;tle</HI> <DATE>the 26. of <HI>Ianuary</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="4" REF="31" MS="y">
<HEAD>A Letter of <HI>Mr. Wal&s;inghams</HI> to Colonell <HI>Jones</HI> Gover|nour of <HI>Dublin</HI> in ju&s;tification of <HI>the peace of Yrland, and in reply to his &s;econd</HI> an&s;wer to my <HI>Lord Lieutenant.</HI> Men|tioned, PAG. 8.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SR.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>HAvinge been at la&s;t &s;o much beholdinge to your vanity, as &s;ome da&icirc;es &s;ince to meete with tho&s;e papers in printe that I long before heard were tran&s;mitted betweene my <HI>Lord Lieutenant</HI> and your &s;elfe; which I perceive his <HI>Excellencies</HI> mode&s;ty &amp; &s;corne would have &s;till concealed, had not your itch to have your confidence, and clearke&s;hip known, tran&s;ported you &s;o far beyond di&s;cretion as to &s;natch at the occa&s;ion of publi&s;hing my <HI>Lord Lieutenants</HI> letters (though &s;uch indeed as if your care and prudence in manageing the cau&s;e you plead for, were not far inferior to your owne vaineglory you would indu&s;triou&s;ly have &s;mothered) to the end you might not want &s;ome pretence to intrude upon the world together with them, tho&s;e manife&s;t Ca|vills, and leane di&s;cour&s;es of yours that are &s;tuft with nothing &s;ingular but in&s;olence, and malice. And finding that his <HI>Excellency</HI> with a generous neg|lect both of your per&s;on and impertinence (with whom his publicke zeale, and duty to the <HI>King</HI> and Kingdome had enduced him to take thy paines, and de&s;cend &s;o low) had now as one unworthy of &s;o much honor, and incapable of &s;o much rea&s;on as was pre&s;t upon you, given you over.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding as well for ju&s;tice &s;ake that you might not want the right of an encounter from a more equall hand then my <HI>Lord Lieutenant,</HI> as al&s;o for that po&s;sibly there may be (as I beleive there are) &s;ome men &s;o weake and &s;o willing to be deceived, that your impudence and fallacies &s;hall pa&s;&s;e for rea|&s;ons with them if not replied unto; I thought it fit that your la&s;t voluminous and peremptory Letter be not let pa&s;&s;e un&s;cand, and brought unto the te&s;t by a more familiar pen; that may with decency deale roundly with you, &amp; give you (what you cannot receive from his <HI>Excellencie)</HI> the confu&s;ion of an <HI>foyle.</HI></P>
<P>Though for man to thinke either with rea&s;on or language to contribute to the &s;atisfaction of any di&s;creet unprejudiced per&s;on, much le&s;&s;e to the recti|fieing your mi&s;takes after my Lord of <HI>Ormond</HI> hath gone before: is a &s;otti&s;h|ne&s;&s;e as great as yours, who after two addre&s;&s;es from his <HI>Excellencie</HI> &s;o civill, &s;o full of prudence, &amp; unan&s;werable truth, had the face to tell him you were no|thing
<PB N="5" REF="31"> &s;atisfied therewithall, nor any way convinced in judgement thereby.</P>
<P>By which affirmation of how much impudence and malice you are convic|ted by your &s;elfe, I leave you and the world to gather out of what I &s;hall here|after &s;ay; which I am confident will convince other men a&s;well as you (that know it well enough already) that your judgment was drownd in ambitious, and &s;elfe intere&s;ts &s;o ab&s;urd, and &s;o ill bya&s;&s;ed, that &s;ince rea&s;on and ju&s;tice were incon&s;i&s;tent with them, you had no will to be rectified.</P>
<P>For if you had, &s;urely you would never have produced arguments to cou|lor your per&s;i&s;ting withall; that well examined per&s;wad point blanck again&s;t, and may be returned with a double force upon you; (unle&s;&s;e you did it out of &s;o invincible a &s;implicity (as to deale painely with you) is not compatible with that hipocri&s;y &amp; &s;ophi&s;try your <HI>unmannerly</HI> epi&s;tle &s;wels withall; as I now come ro in&s;tance particaliarly unto you.</P>
<P>In the fir&s;t place you hold forth the <HI>prote&s;tant religion</HI> for a <HI>baby</HI> to the people, and alas good man your compa&s;sion and care of it is very great, a&s;well beco|mes the &s;onne unto a <HI>Bi&s;hop,</HI> and one imbued both by education and many yeares profe&s;sion with it, you &s;ay you &s;ee not how it can be advanced by an army of <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> nor how it can be &s;ecured in the peace no provi&s;ion being made for it therin: yet that tis no &s;uch miracle (they being &s;ecured of their owne libertie of con&s;cience) that an army of <HI>Catholiques,</HI> &s;ubjects to <HI>a prote|&s;tant King,</HI> and lead by a <HI>prote&s;tant Generall,</HI> may in order to the re&s;toreing their opre&s;&s;ed &s;overaigne, and to the &s;upre&s;sion of &s;uch a <HI>Turco Iudai&s;me</HI> as is now on foot be induced unto it; and that it is no new thing in the world for men to be ingaged &s;o, nay (where they have no tyes of duty, nor other &s;uch powerfull motives as the&s;e men have) directly again&s;t the intere&s;t of their owne religion, you neede but looke into the, <HI>Othoman</HI> armies where you &s;hall find thou&s;ands of <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> fighting daily again&s;t <HI>Chri&s;tianity</HI> it &s;elfe, and under the en&s;ignes of <HI>France</HI> &amp; <HI>Spaine</HI> many regiments of <HI>prote&s;tants</HI> fighting in quarrells if you will beleive the <HI>princes</HI> them&s;elves purpo&s;ely &s;et on foot for the advancement of the <HI>Roman Catholique</HI> faith: which if waighed makes it nei|ther impo&s;sible nor &s;trange that the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> &s;hould be content to concur with any body, and almo&s;t upon any termes to the de&s;truction of that <HI>Wild Bore</HI> who having already rooted up and overturned all government and religion in <HI>En|gland,</HI> is now preparing to do the like in <HI>Irland.</HI></P>
<P>Now as for the provi&s;ion the you find unmade for the <HI>prote&s;tant religion</HI> in the <HI>peace,</HI> I beleive you urge that only to &s;hew your owne dexteritye in finding out objections: for you are rationall enough to know where his <HI>Maje&s;ties authoritie</HI> is once re&s;tored his lawes returne to their vigor; and you &s;hould be <HI>lawyer</HI> e|nough to know that there are lawes enough provided in this la&s;t foure&s;core yeares for the &s;ecuritye of the <HI>prote&s;tant</HI> religion, all which the <HI>Roman Catholi|ques</HI> will willingly &s;ubmit unto except &s;uch <HI>penal &s;tatutes</HI> as deprive them of the
<PB N="6" REF="32"> free exerci&s;e of their religion, that are indeed by the <HI>peace</HI> to betaken a way, and which being laide a&s;ide, take not any thing from the &s;ecurity of the <HI>pro|te&s;tant.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Roman Catholiques</HI> are not the <HI>givers</HI> but the <HI>cravers</HI> here; they de&s;ire only to &s;ecure their owne, not to u&s;urpe upon the liberty of othermens con|&s;ciences; as is evident both by their daily profe&s;sions, and the whole trans|actions of the <HI>peace,</HI> what ab&s;urdnes then it is for any one to thinke a new pro|vi&s;ion nece&s;&s;ary; or to expect it in this ca&s;e, that very condition for that <HI>ar|my</HI> of &s;ixteen thou&s;and foot, and two thou&s;and five hundred hor&s;e, with the deputation of tho&s;e <HI>Tru&s;tees</HI> for to &s;ecure them of pardon for their pa&s;t of|fences, and of liberty of con&s;cience, with tho&s;e other promi&s;ed graces and immunities again&s;t the &s;everitie of the lawes in force, untill all were confirmed in <HI>Parliament:</HI> to any man endued with but Comon &s;en&s;e is a &s;ufficient argu|ment; to &s;ay nothing of the apprehen&s;ions (though vaine) &s;till among&s;t them that they are yet not for all this &s;ecure enough.</P>
<P>And what cau&s;e they had to in&s;i&s;t upon this <HI>army</HI> and the&s;e <HI>commi&s;sioners,</HI> do you but looke into your owne Con&s;cience and laying your hand upon your hart imagin &s;o well of your &s;elfe as that it were your owne ca&s;e, and J am &s;ure you will tacitely confe&s;&s;e it is a provi&s;ion but very rea&s;onable. Nay let a loo|ker on con&s;ider the time the&s;e men tooke to &s;ubmit to his <HI>Maje&s;ties authority,</HI> when he had neither meanes to puni&s;h, nor protect them left; and he will certainly commend their duty, and be far from di&s;commending either the <HI>king</HI> or my <HI>Lord Lieutenant</HI> for any thing that in the <HI>peace</HI> is granted unto them; not excepting again&s;t either the number of that <HI>army,</HI> or power of tho&s;e <HI>Comi&s;sioners</HI> you make your &s;elfe &s;o &s;candalized withall.</P>
<P>His <HI>Excellencie</HI> hath been already plea&s;ed to tell you that as to the <HI>army</HI> the &s;u|preme comand thereof is in the <HI>Kings Lieutenant;</HI> the ordering of which, and di&s;po&s;ing of all future commands wherin &s;o it con&s;i&s;t of, and be to <HI>Roman Catholiques</HI> will in effect be left to him; now that there are very many of that <HI>Re|ligion</HI> in&s;eparable from their duty to the <HI>King,</HI> both the <HI>confederats</HI> and the <HI>Par|liament</HI> have to their great co&s;t and trouble had a plentifull experience; wit|ne&s;&s;e the prudent and generous <HI>Marque&s;&s;e</HI> of <HI>Clanricard,</HI> Who&s;e eminent piety and con&s;tancy in his <HI>profe&s;sion,</HI> joynd to his irreprehen&s;ible allegiance to the <HI>King</HI> will remaine to the glory of his <HI>Nation</HI> and <HI>Religion</HI> a great and la&s;ting <HI>exam|ple</HI> to future times of a firm and <HI>united Loyalty</HI> both to divine and humane <HI>Ma|je&s;ty;</HI> as it hath &s;erud the pre&s;ent already for a pattern unto &s;everall Other con&s;iderable per&s;ons in <HI>Ireland</HI> to follow. And you have no rea&s;on but to thin|ke there are a good number of tho&s;e in this army which will &s;omwhat le&s;&s;en the groundles danger you fancie to your &s;elfe: e&s;pecially if you take al&s;o into con&s;ideration the frequent wayes and di&s;pen&s;ations that have bin found for entertaining very many <HI>prote&s;tants</HI> into &s;everall imployments in this army; and
<PB N="7" REF="32"> how both the&s;e parties (to &s;ay nothing of tho&s;e in <HI>the north</HI> that have &s;ubmit|ted to the <HI>Kings</HI> authoritie) added to that <HI>remnant army</HI> as you call them in <HI>moun&s;ter</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of about &s;ix thou&s;and men, led by an able and &s;uccesful com|mander (who being undeceived at la&s;t by the publike villanies in <HI>England</HI> have betraid them&s;elves (it you will have it &s;o) againe into their duty will ballance any thing of ill that may be pretended in the ca&s;e, I leave it to any one that is but capable to judge in &s;uch a matter.</P>
<P>This dangerous argument being once removed how litle remaines of hazard in that other of the power of the <HI>commi&s;sioners,</HI> is very evident by the articles of <HI>peace;</HI> where it is plain that their power is ab&s;olute in nothing but the <HI>levies</HI> to be made upon their owne and that part of the peoples <HI>free holds</HI> which formerly acknowledged their <HI>Iuri&s;diction,</HI> and who now had entru&s;ted them&s;elves into <HI>their hands:</HI> whil&s;t in all the other ca&s;es &s;o indu&s;triou&s;ly quoted by you (though to no other end but take up paper, and amuze the readers) they limit him as litle as formerly the <HI>coun&s;el table</HI> did; He being able to determin nothing without their <HI>advi&s;e</HI> or <HI>Con&s;ent,</HI> nor they to actuate any thing without his <HI>Commi&s;sion</HI> &amp; <HI>authority:</HI> which circum&s;cription &s;hould you &s;till affirme to bee too much, would entirely vani&s;h &s;hould his <HI>Maje&s;tie</HI> com in per&s;on hither (as tis both hoped and beleived he will) there being no condition in the peace that li|mits him.</P>
<P>But &s;uppo&s;e the hazard &amp; preiudice of the <HI>prote&s;tant religion</HI> by the peace were as great as you affirm it is, whether mu&s;t be in fault the <HI>King,</HI> or tho&s;e men that pre&s;t him to that extremity that he was only left to choo&s;e whether he would drown, or take hold of a <HI>brier</HI> to &s;ave him&s;elfe; whether he would utterly abandon his intere&s;t in all his <HI>Kingdoms</HI> to tho&s;e that were <HI>rebells</HI> again&s;t his <HI>per&s;on,</HI> his <HI>po&s;terity</HI> and <HI>Kingly</HI> power, or by giving the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> who&s;e <HI>rebellion</HI> could in the nature of it beare nothing &s;o ill a Con&s;truction tho&s;e not much unrea&s;onable conditions they &s;o po&s;itively in&s;i&s;ted upon) repo&s;&s;e&s;&s;e him&s;elfe of one of his three <HI>Kingdoms</HI> again, and therby becom enabled to di&s;pute for the other two.</P>
<P>Thus far have I di&s;cour&s;ed for the &s;atisfaction of other men, with your &s;elfe I might deale more breifly, and tell you it is gro&s;&s;e <HI>hipocri&s;y</HI> for you to pretend &s;o much &s;ollicitude for the &s;ecurity and advantage of the <HI>prote&s;tant reli|gion</HI> on this &s;ide; and yet can find them both &s;ufficiently provided for by an <HI>army of Sectaries</HI> on the other &s;ide (without any <HI>prote&s;tant &s;uperiour</HI> to moderate them as the&s;e have) that have not only quite puld down the whole building of that <HI>Religion</HI> but almo&s;t leveld the walls of <HI>Chri&s;tianitie</HI> it &s;elfe? by providing a <HI>libertie for all opinions</HI> and religions in the world the <HI>Catholique</HI> and <HI>prote&s;tant</HI> alone excepted becau&s;e they conceive them for&s;ooth to be more de&s;tructive to the great ends of their <HI>republique</HI> then any other, the <HI>fir&s;t,</HI> as being too <HI>Mo|narchique,</HI> too full of <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> &amp; pleading <HI>pre&s;cription</HI> among&s;t Chri&s;tians, with too
<PB N="8" REF="33"> much <HI>authority;</HI> and therefore likely to gain overmuch ground upon them in a time when all order &amp; religion were of the <HI>hinges,</HI> &amp; the people &s;o much at a <HI>gaze;</HI> and the <HI>&s;econd</HI> as being for decency &amp; order not only <HI>overpopish</HI> but al&s;o from its <HI>birth</HI> too much interwouen with the intere&s;ts, of this <HI>Crown</HI> and <HI>royal familie.</HI></P>
<P>Can any thing be more ridiculous then, that you who derive your power from the Commanders and Commi&s;sioners of this <HI>army of &s;aints,</HI> and who are by your <HI>Commi&s;sion</HI> (if I be not mi&s;taken) incorporated into it, having likewi&s;e &s;et a&s;ide the profe&s;sion, and exerci&s;e of this <HI>prote&s;tant religion</HI> (mi&s;conceive me not) that Religion which for near a <HI>Century</HI> of yeares hath been practi&s;ed &amp; e&s;tabli&s;hed in the <HI>church of England,</HI> &amp; accommodated your &s;elfe clearly to <HI>Mr. Cromwells Cut</HI> (though &s;uch a one as you or &s;carce him&s;elfe if <HI>Cathechized</HI> can give an account either of the tenents or con&s;titutions of) &s;hould becom &s;o great a patron of, and &s;o much concerned in, the intere&s;ts of a religion that either out of <HI>Change</HI> of <HI>judgment,</HI> or out of <HI>endes</HI> (no matter which in this ca&s;e) is a|bandoned by your &s;elfe already.</P>
<P>After the <HI>prote&s;tant religion</HI> comes the <HI>English intere&s;t;</HI> a con&s;ideration indeed if urged to a per&s;on who&s;e tru&s;t from, and concernment in it were &s;omwhat le&s;&s;e then my <HI>Lord Lieutenants,</HI> fit for you that are of <HI>English blood,</HI> and who&s;e &s;word &amp; pen are both by nature, and the lawes obliged to the &s;ervice of that <HI>crowne</HI> (in which onely, and the colonies of <HI>English</HI> here, the <HI>English intere&s;t</HI> of this King|dome is included) but what this <HI>English Intere&s;t</HI> is when we &s;hall have once exa|mined your fright concerning it will &s;oon be over; it appears to me to be no|thing el&s;e but that the right and authority of the <HI>crown of England</HI> over them &s;hould be acknowledged by all the <HI>&s;ubjects</HI> of this Kingdom; and tho&s;e <HI>Colonies</HI> of <HI>English,</HI> a&s;well as the <HI>native Irish,</HI> be therby protected and &s;ecured in the po&s;&s;e&s;sion of &s;uch fortunes, and e&s;tates, as either by the <HI>&s;word,</HI> the <HI>roiall gift,</HI> or <HI>purcha&s;e</HI> have bin lawfully acquired unto them. Beyond this the <HI>English Inte|re&s;t</HI> is an unknown-land to me; and how far this <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> thus &s;tated is &s;ecured by, or Con&s;i&s;tent with that <HI>peace</HI> you blame &s;o, I leave it to any third <HI>unpreiu|diced</HI> per&s;on to determin.</P>
<P>Who I am certaine will find them &s;quare &s;o well together, that he &s;hall have rea&s;on to beleive the <HI>Engli&s;h intere&s;t</HI> taken in your &s;en&s;e infers an obedience to you, and your <HI>independant ma&s;ters</HI> ab&s;tract from all relation to the <HI>crown:</HI> an e&s;ta|bli&s;hment of your <HI>Tetrarchy</HI> here, till your ambition were wearied out, and you with your corrupt and hungry <HI>family</HI> had ungratefully glutted your&s;elves in the <HI>blood and fortunes</HI> of tho&s;e <HI>noble per&s;ons</HI> who&s;e &s;miles and patronage in your mercenarie <HI>pleading daies</HI> were the top of your <HI>ambition;</HI> that &s;o by this con&s;e|quence, the lives and e&s;tates of all that have been here in armes, may beleft a <HI>prey</HI> to wor&s;e <HI>rebells</HI> then the wor&s;t of the&s;e have ever been.</P>
<P>This is an <HI>English intere&s;t</HI> indeed that the <HI>peace</HI> &s;ecurs not, and which I cannot blame you for pleading for with &s;o much pa&s;sion as to affirme, that <HI>were there
<PB N="9" REF="33"> neither king nor parliament you would maintaine it;</HI> neither for averring that my <HI>Lord Lieutenants</HI> tran&s;porting a con&s;iderable part of the <HI>English army</HI> hence, was de|&s;tructive unto: but as to the true <HI>English Intere&s;t</HI> I mentioned before, it was very &s;uteable to that, that my <HI>Lord Lieutenant</HI> &s;hould without di&s;pute <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">omply with the <HI>Kings</HI> commands: from whom only he had his <HI>commi&s;sion</HI> and derived his <HI>authoritie,</HI> and whom both him&s;elfe and that <HI>army</HI> in all relations both of ho|nor and duty were obliged to obey. Be&s;ides his <HI>Excellency</HI> knows well enough how much he was concerned in the &s;upport of that <HI>cron<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne</HI> that gave him and all the <HI>English</HI> in this Kingdome the title to what they po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed here; nothing of which could be long &s;ecure unto them, and the <HI>crowne</HI> at home in danger.</P>
<P>In the next place I do not know whether the <HI>Parlement</HI> is more beholding to you for a&s;&s;erting their <HI>infringed authoriti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">;</HI> or the <HI>Irish</HI> them&s;elves in your being &s;o generous as to let them &s;ee the invalidity of this <HI>peace</HI> they are abu|&s;ed withall: for to prove both which you bring nowor&s;e an argument then an <HI>English act</HI> of <HI>Parliament;</HI> which underfavour your own <HI>skil in the</HI> lawe (if you have not forgot it) will tell you can be of no force here, untill received by a <HI>Parliament</HI> in <HI>Irland:</HI> which a&s;&s;erts a power as ju&s;t and ab&s;olute to it &s;elfe, as the <HI>Parliament</HI> of <HI>England</HI> can; el&s;e &s;hould the <HI>ancient conquerors</HI> of this King|dome, and their <HI>free po&s;terity,</HI> unju&s;tly undergoe the <HI>dominion</HI> of tho&s;e, to whom neither <HI>Intere&s;t,</HI> nor <HI>merit</HI> hath given any <HI>right</HI> or <HI>footing</HI> here, or <HI>priviledge</HI> over them.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides you &s;hall have others which will tell you, and make it good, that a <HI>Prince</HI> cannot give a way the <HI>Iuri&s;diction of his people</HI> to one that hath no title to it (as the <HI>Parlement of England</HI> hath none to <HI>Irland)</HI> without their own con&s;ent: yet grant for argument &s;ake that <HI>the&s;e people</HI> by taking armes unlawfully had put them&s;elves into that condition that might a&s;well <HI>enable</HI> as <HI>induce</HI> the late <HI>King</HI> of ever glorious memory to inve&s;t the <HI>Parliament of England</HI> with &s;uch a po|wer over them as <HI>that act</HI> involues; yet can it not be beleived that the <HI>King</HI> ever intended to tru&s;t them with managing the war of <HI>Irland</HI> again&s;t him&s;elfe: as by what they have don in <HI>England</HI> tis evident they would have done; but let us al&s;o &s;uppo&s;e it po&s;sible that the <HI>royall power</HI> can be &s;o convayed unto another, as that contrary to the intention of the <HI>King</HI> it may be converted to his own de&s;truction (which is a po&s;sition I am &s;ure that no <HI>Sophi&s;ter</HI> le&s;&s;e accute, and le|arned then your &s;elfe will be able to make good) yet mu&s;t this <HI>power</HI> &s;urely needs revert to its firfl originall the <HI>crown:</HI> through the death both of the <HI>King</HI> that gave it, of the <HI>Parliament</HI> it was conferd upon, and that (&s;ince that the <HI>Kings</HI> death is out of di&s;pute) this <HI>Parlement</HI> hath for this &s;eaven yeares at lea&s;t wanted both a <HI>King</HI> and <HI>freedome</HI> which being the <HI>head</HI> and <HI>hart</HI> of that body are two things mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary to the <HI>life</HI> and <HI>e&s;&s;ence</HI> of it, nay that, that breathle&s;&s;e headles <HI>carca&s;&s;</HI> of a <HI>Parliament,</HI> hath by tho&s;e <HI>Independant vermine</HI> that bred out of the putrifacton of it; been anatomiz'd and quite di&s;membred &s;ince, there is
<PB N="10" REF="34"> no man that is not <HI>deafe</HI> and <HI>blind</HI> that can be uninformd.</P>
<P>Now that &s;uch a <HI>martird mooncalfe</HI> can&s;til be a living <HI>Parliament</HI> I am &s;ure there is no man <HI>wakes</HI> that can be &s;o per&s;waded; e&s;peciallie the King that calld it being dead, which both the <HI>law</HI> &amp; <HI>cu&s;tom</HI> tells you, that a <HI>Parliament</HI> could neuer yet &s;urvi|ve: upon which conclu&s;ion you mu&s;t needs grant that his pre&s;ent <HI>Maje&s;tie</HI> (who hath already confirmed by <HI>his;</HI> both my <HI>Lord Lieutenant,</HI> and all that his <HI>Excel|lency</HI> hath don by his <HI>Royal fathers Commi&s;sion)</HI> hath now indi&s;putably reverted to him the power to manage a war, and conclude or con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">irme a <HI>peace</HI> in <HI>Irland</HI> except that you will &s;till maintain&eacute; that the authoritie of the late <HI>Parliament</HI> is by I know not what <HI>legierdemain</HI> tran&s;lated into tho&s;e <HI>u&s;urpers,</HI> that have not only de&s;trojed that <HI>Parliament</HI> but al&s;o declared that they intend there &s;hall never be any more; and this <HI>non con&s;equence</HI> if you &s;till in&s;i&s;t upon, I will conclude you are <HI>crackt</HI> as was that <HI>Spanish gallant</HI> and leave you in your que&s;t of <HI>Windmills.</HI></P>
<P>But if you can prevayle with your &s;elfe to be &s;o <HI>ingenuous</HI> as acknowledg the <HI>preceding</HI> truths, I will hold on &s;till, and endevour to remove out of your <HI>ten|der con&s;cience</HI> your la&s;t and greate&s;t difficult of <HI>breach of tru&s;t:</HI> indeed a &s;cruple very &s;uitable to a man of honour &s;uch as I would willinglie take you for; and to be|gin the worke I mu&s;t tell you that the premi&s;&s;es are very convinceing that in your compliance with my <HI>Lord Lieutenant</HI> there is no tru&s;t broken either with <HI>God,</HI> or <HI>King,</HI> or <HI>Parliament</HI> (who are all you can pretend to owe a faith unto) by de&s;erting tho&s;e <HI>villanous impo&s;tors,</HI> who have &s;upplanted <HI>religion</HI> &s;ubverted <HI>Mo|narchy,</HI> murthered the <HI>King,</HI> violated the <HI>Parliament</HI> annihilated the <HI>lawes,</HI> tram|pled upon <HI>learning</HI> and <HI>nobility,</HI> and left neither <HI>worth</HI> nor <HI>ju&s;tice</HI> unoppre&s;t within their reach; which kind of perfidious people &s;urely to deceive right <HI>rea&s;on</HI> it &s;elfe tells you there is no deceipt.</P>
<P>Yet had you no &s;uch a&s;&s;urance I &s;hould thinke it &s;trange, that you who have &s;tretcht your <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> &s;o <HI>often</HI> &amp; &s;o <HI>far</HI> already, as fir&s;t to <HI>breake your tru&s;t</HI> with the <HI>King</HI> when by &s;everall oathes both as a <HI>gowne man</HI> &amp; a <HI>&s;wordman</HI> you had oblidged your faith unto him; then with <HI>religion</HI> which con&s;idered with your education, parents, and a long profe&s;sion, we may &s;ay (&amp; not improperly) that it was e|ven by nature convayed into you; after, with that <HI>late carca&s;e of a Parliament</HI> from whom you tooke both <HI>Commi&s;sions</HI> and <HI>employment;</HI> and la&s;tly with that <HI>presbyte|rian Senate</HI> that preferd you hither as a <HI>pro&s;elite</HI> of theirs, &s;hould I &s;ay now make a &s;cruple of breaking with <HI>the&s;e wretches,</HI> to whom you can pretend no other tye, but a <HI>Confraternity in treacherie and mi&s;cheife.</HI></P>
<P>It is not your repetition of <HI>Rebells</HI> and <HI>bloody Rebells</HI> will &s;erve for your excu&s;e, &s;ince that you your &s;elfe are ingaged with tho&s;e <HI>rebells</HI> that have waded dee|per into <HI>blood,</HI> and committed <HI>murther</HI> even with the <HI>&s;word of Iu&s;tice</HI> upon not only innocent but <HI>Royall blood;</HI> more impudently, and more in humanly then any people how barbarous &s;oever that as yet have breathed under the face of heaven.</P>
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<P>'Tis true there hath been much <HI>barbarity</HI> and <HI>cruelty</HI> acted in this Kingdom &s;ince the&s;e <HI>unhappy tumults</HI> in the mid&s;t of <HI>confu&s;ion</HI> and <HI>di&s;order,</HI> but nothing done under the forme of a <HI>mi&s;cheivous law</HI> or the colour of <HI>abu&s;ed Iu&s;tice,</HI> again&s;t any body; much le&s;&s;e again&s;t the life, or per&s;on of a <HI>King,</HI> and the <HI>best of Kings,</HI> &s;uch as tho&s;e whom you will needes profe&s;s a faith unto have butchered on a <HI>&s;caffold,</HI> with a hitherto unequalld villany, which without all doubt heaven to convince the world that there is a <HI>divinity</HI> and <HI>ju&s;tice</HI> there, will certainly when his indignation towards us is in &s;ome mea&s;ure &s;atisfied, at la&s;t &s;ee <HI>Notoriou&s;ly punished</HI> upon them, and all their <HI>abettors</HI> with &s;courges as much tran&s;cending ours, as do their crimes.</P>
<P>And in order to this <HI>ju&s;t revenge</HI> it wil be vertue in the <HI>King</HI> and my <HI>Lord Lieu|tenant</HI> (which as your &s;elfe confe&s;&s;es will be a &s;in in you circum&s;tances con&s;ide|red) not onely to forgive but court <HI>Father Reyley</HI> (&amp; if there be any others of his party le&s;&s;e pardonable and le&s;&s;e avowable then hee) unto their <HI>duty</HI> whom you can pretend to do nothing with in your <HI>Intrigues</HI> but either confirme them in their <HI>pre&s;ent,</HI> or ingage them in a <HI>new rebellion</HI> wor&s;e and more malitious then that they are alreadie plunged in, and which they (being a <HI>trampled</HI> and <HI>a|bu&s;ed people,</HI> of another <HI>nation</HI> and <HI>religion</HI> from their <HI>Soveraigne)</HI> leapt at fir&s;t into, out of a general feare, and &s;en&s;e of their particular wrongs from, and aver|&s;ions to tho&s;e, who frequently mi&s;u&s;ed upon them both their <HI>own power</HI> and the <HI>Kings authoritie.</HI></P>
<P>For the re&s;titution of who&s;e <HI>ju&s;t Soveraignty,</HI> and the pre&s;ervation of <HI>who&s;e life,</HI> my <HI>Lord Lieutenant</HI> (whom you expres a &s;hamle&s;&s;e impudencie to accu&s;e with any guilt of his de&s;truction hath run greater <HI>adventures in his per&s;on,</HI> made more <HI>prudent e&s;&s;aies,</HI> and under went the <HI>hazard of a better fortune</HI> then any &s;ubject in the three Kingdoms had to loo&s;e be&s;ides; again&s;t whom your inference is very &s;tran|ge, that becau&s;e by the <HI>Kings</HI> own <HI>direction</HI> &amp; <HI>Commi&s;sion</HI> he endevoured to &s;et on foot the <HI>Royall intere&s;t</HI> again, he mu&s;ts need be guilty of, what was acted by tho&s;e that (before he left <HI>France,</HI> or appeard the &s;econd time here about it) had al|ready robd <HI>the King</HI> of his <HI>libertie,</HI> and actually declared again&s;t his <HI>life.</HI></P>
<P>But they having &s;ince <HI>ravisht</HI> from his <HI>Maje&s;tie</HI> his <HI>life</HI> a&s;well as <HI>liberty,</HI> and ta|ken away both his <HI>Crowne</HI> and <HI>Royall head</HI> together, &s;o contrarie to your then declared opinion (delivered as your &s;elfe confe&s;&s;es to my <HI>Lord Lieutenant</HI> when the <HI>army</HI> fir&s;t Seized on the <HI>per&s;on of the King</HI> who as you there profe&s;&s;ed to belei|ve intended nothing el&s;e but to &s;ecure him from <HI>attempts</HI> &amp; <HI>danger)</HI> mu&s;t needs be a motive &s;ufficient either to <HI>Convert</HI> you from adhering longer unto them, or an argument at lea&s;t to <HI>convince</HI> me and all the world, that you both approved of, and con&s;ented to, what ever they have done: how forraine &s;oever you &s;eeme to make it to your <HI>charge,</HI> in a <HI>Citty</HI> where, and at a <HI>time</HI> when, if you &s;hould own it you might well feare to pull the indignation of the people, and a certain de&s;truction upon your own head.</P>
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<P>Yet &s;urely you would much more have plaid the man of honor to have laide a&s;ide the&s;e <HI>gro&s;&s;er cheats</HI> &amp; <HI>Mummeries,</HI> &amp; dealing plainly to haue avowed the <HI>bare faced Truth</HI> (as your <HI>great ma&s;ters</HI> in <HI>England</HI> have found the courage and the confi|dence to do) that it is neither your care of the <HI>prote&s;tant Religion,</HI> or <HI>English In|tere&s;t,</HI> neither your <HI>duty to the Parliament,</HI> nor <HI>tendernes in breach of tru&s;t,</HI> that holds you from &s;ubmitting to the <HI>King</HI> &amp; my <HI>Lord Lieutenant</HI> but your over con&s;ciou&s;|ne&s;&s;e of your own pa&s;t <HI>unfaithfulnes and ingratitude</HI> to tho&s;e you had &s;o many ties unto, your <HI>de&s;paire</HI> of a full and free forgivenes, your ob&s;ervation that <HI>villany</HI> now a daies is only pro&s;perous, and your conception that the cour&s;e you are in &s;utes more with your <HI>mi&s;taken Intere&s;t &amp; wild ambitions</HI> then returning to your duty would; la&s;tly your de&s;ire to continue <HI>your&s;elfe</HI> and <HI>that Sr. Politicke,</HI> your mo&s;t reverend brother, there <HI>A Mo&s;es and Aron</HI> to the <HI>Irish I&s;ralites</HI> to conduct them &s;afe out of the <HI>boggs and woods</HI> of their <HI>fortunes</HI> and <HI>e&s;tates</HI> through the <HI>de&s;erts of delinqnency;</HI> untill they &s;tript of all tho&s;e cumber&s;om impediments were rea|dy for the <HI>land</HI> of <HI>promi&s;e,</HI> and you laden with their <HI>Egiptian &s;poiles,</HI> and a good old age were fit to be tran&s;planted from <HI>Dublin</HI> to the government of the <HI>new Ieru&s;alem.</HI></P>
<P>But let me now at la&s;t before it be too late prevayle with you &s;o far as to per&s;wade your &s;elfe that it is never too late to <HI>mend,</HI> that both the <HI>King</HI> and my <HI>Lord Lieutenant</HI> have mercy and genero&s;ity enough to <HI>forgive</HI> and <HI>forget</HI> all your pa&s;t tran&s;gre&s;sions, that <HI>fortune</HI> (how hopefully &s;oever &s;he &s;eem to looke upon you) hath neither lea&s;ed out her wheeles unto your <HI>Chariot,</HI> nor <HI>victory</HI> intailed her &s;elfe unto you <HI>En&s;ignes</HI> &s;o, as to encourage you to that confidence and pre|&s;umption you do put on; forgetting that <HI>God Almightie</HI> doth frequently lull in &s;ecurity and be&s;ot with their pa&s;t and pre&s;ent pro&s;perities tho&s;e that are de|&s;igned for a <HI>headlong de&s;truction:</HI> and la&s;tly that (how &s;uccesfull &s;oever it may be for a time) there is a <HI>fulnes of iniquity</HI> which men being once arrived unto, <HI>Gods judgments</HI> are never long behind. Which <HI>exuberance of &s;in</HI> if any people ever attai|ned unto, &s;urely it is they that have been either <HI>actors</HI> in, or <HI>abettors</HI> of, the <HI>murther of the King:</HI> of the guilt of which horrid crime, that you may cleare your &s;elfe, and prevent the hevy judgment that infallibly attends it by a &s;ea|&s;onable <HI>&s;ubmi&s;sion</HI> and returning to your <HI>duty,</HI> is all that he aimes at, who hath dealt thus freely with you; and who on <HI>that &s;core</HI> will be mo&s;t really.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Sr.</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your very humble &s;ervaunt. EDWARD WALSINGHAM.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Ro&s;coman Ca&s;tle <DATE>Iune the 14. 1849.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letters">
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<HEAD>The &s;everall <HI>Papers</HI> concerning <HI>Cromwells Pa&s;&s;e</HI> to my <HI>Lord Lieutenant.</HI> Mentioned PAG. 48.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>Dean Boyles,</HI> Letter to my <HI>Lord Lieutenant</HI> touching the tran&s;actions with <HI>Cromwell</HI> in behalfe of the disbanded <HI>English.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your <HI>Excellency</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>BEing now returned from the enemies quarters, I am bold to give your <HI>Lordship</HI> an account of what we have done there; we were two dayes held in &s;u&s;pence by Generall <HI>Cronwell</HI> whether he would de&s;cend to any capitula|tion upon tho&s;e articles we delivered him, dureing which time, his argu|ments were few, but his per&s;wa&s;ions many, to come in upon a Cleare &s;core without any articling for conditions, and that he &s;ayd would put the whole party into a Condition of being tru&s;ted by the Parliament, which their in&s;i|&s;ting upon articles would deprive them of; But we, wholy waving the force of his per&s;wa&s;ions, told him that we were limited by in&s;tructions, and to de|cline them in any particular, were very unfaithfull, and beyond our <HI>Com|mi&s;sion,</HI> we therefore de&s;ired his po&s;itive re&s;olution, whether he would a&s;cer|taine them of their &s;ecurities, or the like, or no, that &s;o we might returne with an account to them that &s;ent us, whereupon <HI>ireton</HI> objected that by tho&s;e propo&s;als, which wee gave in to them, our de&s;ign might be to contract for the Lord <HI>Inchiquint</HI> e&s;tate, a&s;well as others, he being under your <HI>Excellencies</HI> command, to which I made him this an&s;wer, that indeed it was much the de|&s;ires of the Officers to &s;erve him in that particular, but that I had peremptory directions from his <HI>Lordship</HI> to &s;ignify unto them that it was not your <HI>Excellen|cies</HI> intent, or his <HI>Lordships</HI> to Capitulate with then at all, or to be comprized under any general Conditions, whereuphn <HI>Cromwell</HI> then made an&s;wer, that if that were our purpo&s;e he would not a jot the more decline the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e; There were many houres wa&s;ted in debate. before we came to any i&s;&s;ue, at la&s;t the re&s;ult of all determined in the&s;e inclo&s;ed conditions, wherin your <HI>Excellency</HI> may he plea&s;ed to ob&s;erve, that there lyes no obligation at all on our partes, but all on theirs, &s;o that your <HI>Excellency</HI> may di&s;po&s;e of your men, or any number of them, as you &s;hall thinke fitting, notwith&s;tanding any enga|gements
<PB N="14" REF="36"> from us, only thus much we are obliged to, that our party under the couert of tho&s;e articles, do not prejudice them in the &s;urpri&s;al of any of their guarri&s;ons, or the like, which emboldens me to be&s;eech your <HI>Excellency,</HI> that <HI>Sr. Thomas Arm&s;trong</HI> may take notice of it, and &s;end his engagement hi|ther, for <HI>Sr. Robert Sterlings,</HI> and <HI>Lieutenant Collonel Daniells</HI> &s;ecurity, and <HI>mine,</HI> this inclo&s;ed to him I held it my duty to pre&s;ent open to your Excellencie, be|fore I &s;ent it to him&s;elfe. My <HI>Lord</HI> Dureing my being there, I had many oppor|tunities, and hints given me by Generall <HI>Cromwell,</HI> and <HI>Ireton</HI> whereby I might plainly under&s;tand that if I would move any thing from your <HI>Excellency,</HI> or the Lord <HI>Inchiquin</HI> they would willingly hearken to it, but I waved them all &s;o far that they at la&s;t in <HI>plain English</HI> asked mee what <HI>your Lordship</HI> intended to doe, if this party came of: I &s;aid I was not acquainted with your re&s;olutions, But that I beleeud you would endeavour to forme the army there into a con&s;ide|rable body, if upon the comeing off of the <HI>English</HI> party, you did not find their behaviours to be &s;uch, as might give you no great confidence of them, &amp; &s;o enforce you to de&s;ert them, if you were not nece&s;sitated to tarry with them for want of convenient tran&s;portation; to which they in&s;inuated unto me, that I might have a <HI>Pa&s;&s;e</HI> for your &s;afe going of, if you had a mind to it, &amp; that I de&s;ired it; my reply was that I had no commi&s;sion to that purpo&s;e, but on the contrary had po&s;itive directions not to aske any thing in your <HI>Lordship,</HI> or the <HI>Lord Inchiquins</HI> behalfe, yet if they would deliver me any &s;uch pa&s;&s;es for your <HI>Excellency,</HI> and the <HI>Lord Inchiquin,</HI> I would re&s;erve them by mee, and if I had any opportunity, make u&s;e of them; the <HI>Pa&s;&s;es</HI> I have here to di&s;po&s;e of as your <HI>Excellency</HI> &s;hall appoint My Lord <HI>Inchiquin</HI> doth exceedingly di&s;like my bringing them at all, and the rather, be cau&s;e there is not included in them a liberty for the &s;hip it &s;elfe, and all others to goe with you, that have an in|tent to wayte upon you: But J find if your Excellency have any inclination to make u&s;e of &s;uch a <HI>Pa&s;&s;e,</HI> it might ea&s;ily be gayned for any, that &s;hall de&s;i|re it, either for my Lord <HI>Muskery;</HI> or my Lord <HI>Taaffe,</HI> or any other officer of quality; They &s;ay they are very much concerned for the Marquis of <HI>Clan|ricard</HI> and if he would but de&s;ire any thing that lyes in their power to &s;erve him, he &s;hould find that the State of <HI>England</HI> would not be unmindfull of tho&s;e many good offices (they were informed) he had done for the <HI>poor Prote&s;tants</HI> in that country. They gave me likewi&s;e a hint concerning <HI>Sr. Georg Hamilton,</HI> and the <HI>Ca&s;tle</HI> of <HI>Nenagh,</HI> but I took no notice of it. Vpon di&s;cour&s;e with <HI>Gene|rall Cromwell,</HI> he &s;ayd that he had no intere&s;t at all in your e&s;tate, nor any de|&s;igne upon it: he pretends to be a great &s;ervant of <HI>your ladies,</HI> and much to pitty her condition, the e&s;tate which &s;he brought your Lord&s;hip, they openly profe&s;&s;e, &s;hall not be given to any from her. The day before I came from thence, there came a pacquet, which gave them &s;ome &s;eeming di&s;turbance, upon the ob&s;ervance whereof, I u&s;ed meanes by one of their own party to di&s;|cour&s;e
<PB N="15" REF="36"> with the captaine that brought it, who certifyed him that the news was very bad, and that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was landed, or certainly did intend to land in <HI>Ir|land,</HI> with 12000. men, &s;omething of con&s;equence there is in it, but whether this be the Certainty thereof, or no, it is not yet known. I mu&s;t beg your Ex|cellencies pardon for this tedious, and rude diver&s;ion, which I could very much lengthen by &s;everall other pa&s;&s;ages, but I fear I have tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed too farr already, which &s;ubmitting to your <HI>Excellencies</HI> Charitable interpretation, I remain.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your <HI>Excellencies</HI> mo&s;t faithfull and mo&s;t humble &s;ervant, M. BOYLE.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Clare <DATE>30. A|pril 1650.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>Cromwells</HI> Pa&s;&s;e unto my <HI>Lord Lieutenant.</HI></HEAD>
<BYLINE>By the <HI>Lord Lieutenant</HI> of <HI>Irland,</HI></BYLINE>
<P>THe&s;e are to require you, and every of you, to permit and &s;uffer his <HI>Ex|cellency</HI> the Lord Marquis of <HI>Ormond,</HI> and his family (not exceeding the number of twenty per&s;ons) with three hor&s;es, and al&s;o their clothes, hou|&s;hold &s;tuffe, and other goods (not being merchandize) quietly, and &s;afely to take &s;hipping at any place within the river of <HI>Shannon,</HI> or at <HI>Galloway,</HI> or to Pa&s;&s;e to <HI>Kin&s;ale,</HI> and take &s;hipping there, and from &s;uch place of their &s;hipping to be tran&s;ported to any parts beyond the &s;eas, (except to <HI>England, Wales</HI> or <HI>Scotland)</HI> without any violence, injury or mole&s;tation, as you will an&s;wer the Contrary at your perills. <HI>Provided</HI> they take &s;hipping, and depart from <HI>Irland</HI> within the &s;pace of two monthes after the date hereof, and that in the mean time they, or any of them do not act any thing to the prejudice of the Parlia|ment, or <HI>Commonwealth</HI> of <HI>England. Given</HI> under my hand, and &s;eale the &s;eaventh day of <HI>May,</HI> Anno Dom. 1650.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>O. CROMWEL.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>To all <HI>Officers</HI> &s;ouldiers and others under my command, &amp; to all <HI>Captaines</HI> &amp; com|manders of any of the <HI>shipping</HI> under the obedience of the <HI>Parliament.</HI></TRAILER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="16" REF="37">
<HEAD><HI>Dean Boyles</HI> &s;econd Letter to my <HI>Lord Lieutenant</HI> to ju&s;tify him&s;elfe concerning the fore mentioned <HI>Pa&s;&s;e,</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your <HI>Excellency.</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>REflecting upon the pre&s;ent &s;ad Condition of tho&s;e, who have adhered unto his <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> &s;ervice, I a&s;&s;umed to my &s;elfe very much &s;atisfaction (above many others) in the Clearne&s;&s;e of my deportments therein, which hitherto hath alwayes ju&s;tified me in the opinion of tho&s;e, who have been en|tru&s;ted in the mannagement of his affaires; But I find by &s;ome Letters of your <HI>Excellencies</HI> to my Lord <HI>Inchiquin</HI> that I now ly under &s;ome hazard of being bla&s;ted in your <HI>Excellencies</HI> e&s;teeme, by a &s;evere charge layd on my di&s;cretion, and a greater wound upon my integrity, as if I had exceeded the limits of my <HI>Commi&s;sion,</HI> in this la&s;t, (and I may ju&s;tly call it unfortunat) tran&s;action: <HI>My Lord,</HI> my pretence is &s;o &s;lender to the fir&s;t of the&s;e, that I can very ea&s;ily di&s;ge&s;t any thing, that is objected me on that &s;core, being much more &s;en&s;i|ble of my own weaknes, then any other man can bee, though J cannot yet con|vince my &s;elfe of any &s;in again&s;t the rules of rea&s;on: for apprehending When I left your <HI>Excellency,</HI> that it was your re&s;olution to depart the Kingdome, and finding the intentions of the enemy to block up that Harbour, by their &s;hip|ping, from whence you purpo&s;ed your departure, I e&s;teemed it a &s;peciall peice of providence for the pre&s;ervation of your <HI>per&s;on,</HI> and your <HI>honour,</HI> that they by an accidental di&s;cour&s;e &s;hould offer that of them&s;elves, which I &s;u&s;pected you might have been nece&s;sitated to make &s;uite for; As for that clau&s;e in the <HI>Pa&s;&s;e</HI> obligeing you not to act any thing to their di&s;advantage, during your re|mainder here, though I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e that to be no way &s;uitable to your Excel|lencies condition, yet I conceive it may ju&s;tly excu&s;e my acceptance of it, I not making it at all my bu&s;ines to &s;eeke it, and might therefore appear imper|tinent, and indeed injurious to your <HI>Excellency</HI> to except again&s;t it, which I the rather pa&s;t over out of an opinion that your <HI>Excellency</HI> would have declined the &s;ervice here, by the time of my returne out of their quarters. But for this par|ticular as it intrencheth onely upon (that which I cannot own) di&s;cretion; I &s;ubmit it wholy to your <HI>Excellencies</HI> better di&s;qui&s;ition, having this &s;anctuary at la&s;t to be my refuge, that if I have tran&s;gre&s;&s;d therein, it had no other de|&s;ign in it, but your <HI>Excellencies</HI> pre&s;ervation, and honour. But as to the other particular of exceeding, my <HI>Commi&s;sion,</HI> I mu&s;t be&s;eech your <HI>Excellencies</HI> leave a litle to ju&s;tify my integrity, the rather in that I look upon my &s;elfe out of any Capacity to &s;erve you hereafter, whil&s;t I ly under the ju&s;tice of that reproofe,
<PB N="17" REF="37"> di&s;hone&s;ty being an offence which J abhominate towards the mo&s;t ordinary per&s;on, much more towards your <HI>Excellency,</HI> who have layd &s;o many obliga|tions upon me; I had nothing in Charge from your <HI>Excellency</HI> in the tran&s;action of that bu&s;ines, but to declare your refu&s;all of comeing to any conditions with them at all, or of having any inclinations there unto, which I did oftentimes not privately, or to the meane&s;t of them, but publiquely, to the cheife&s;t among&s;t them, <HI>Cromwell</HI> and <HI>Ireton.</HI> Which I conceive to he a perfect di&s;charge of what was intru&s;ted to me by your <HI>Excellency,</HI> and as for my bare reception of the <HI>Pa&s;&s;e,</HI> as it proceeded not at all from my demand, &s;o it cannot certainly, without very much &s;everity, be interpreted a breach of my <HI>Commi&s;sion.</HI></P>
<P>This poor party being very &s;uddainly to be di&s;per&s;ed to their &s;everall de&s;ti|nies, I know not what providence intends mee for the future, but for the pre&s;ent I am like to be nece&s;sitated to the &s;ame misfortune with them, and by this great mi&s;take of my e&s;&s;ayes for their &s;ervice, to be inforced to de&s;ert the per&s;ons whom I honour, and to retire among&s;t tho&s;e, who are, and have been my mo&s;t profe&s;&s;ed enemies. I know not when I &s;hall have the opportu|nity to wayte next upon your <HI>Excellency,</HI> and have therefore a&s;&s;umed the con|fidence of giving your <HI>Excellency</HI> the trouble of this my ju&s;t excu&s;e; if it may prevayle to ree&s;tabli&s;h me in your <HI>Excellencies</HI> good opinion, it wil afford mee many peacefull thoughts, while I continue in my bani&s;hment. However, as I was your <HI>Excellencies</HI> mo&s;t faithfull &s;ervant, before you placed and of your favours on mee, &s;o no mi&s;interpretation of my actions &s;hall make me a whitt decline my unalterable re&s;olution of avowing my &s;elfe.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your Excellencies <HI>mo&s;t obedient and hum|ble &s;ervant.</HI> M, BOYLE.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Cloenraud <DATE>May 9. 1650.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The <HI>Governour</HI> of <HI>Ro&s;&s;e</HI> his Letter to <HI>Generall Pre&s;ton</HI> com|manding in <HI>Waterford.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>HAving had experience of your <HI>Lordships</HI> honour, and civility, and con&s;i|dering the condition of the place under your command, what by con|tagicu&s;nes
<PB N="18" REF="38"> within your citty, and the &s;word about it, and the regardles inconfiderablenes of your party for your releife, induces me to &s;ympathize with your <HI>Lordship,</HI> J haveing now a &s;ea&s;onable opportunity to offer &s;uch conditions to your Lord&s;hip, as may befit &s;uch a per&s;on of honour to accept hereof, and blemi&s;hes; and objections being removed, you have no le&s;&s;e <HI>pre&s;idents</HI> then the Lord of <HI>Ormond,</HI> and the Lord of <HI>Inchiquin;</HI> Their <HI>Commi&s;|&s;ioners,</HI> and the Lord Lieutenant Generall <HI>Cromwell</HI> for each, and in behalfe of both parties have concluded for their Comming in to the Lord Lieutenant Generall <HI>Cromwell,</HI> and to take up armes that will, others to goe beyond &s;eas, with their equipage within two monthes. This was confirmd, and ratifyed la&s;t <HI>Friday</HI> at <HI>Fetherd.</HI> And I would not tell you a fal&s;e thing for <HI>Rockes</HI> of <HI>pearle;</HI> If you plea&s;e to be &s;o fortunate to your <HI>&s;elfe,</HI> and <HI>family,</HI> as to adhere to this offer here inclo&s;ed they &s;hall be confirmd under the Lord <HI>Cromwells</HI> hand, and &s;eale, upon the capitulation, and agreement betwixt your Lord&s;hip, and my &s;elfe, for the &s;urrender of the <HI>Citty</HI> to the u&s;e of the <HI>&s;tate</HI> of <HI>England;</HI> If you plea&s;e, I &s;hall meet you for a per&s;onall treaty, where you &s;hall appoint for better &s;atisfaction, and during our meeting, or going from it, no acts of ho|&s;tility to be comitted on either &s;ide, of which I a&s;&s;ure to your Lord&s;hip if your Lord&s;hip promi&s;e the like to mee; And for the Citizens they &s;hall have the &s;ame conditions, as <HI>Ro&s;&s;e</HI> had, which is now a <HI>Flouri&s;hing</HI> place. In tendernes to your <HI>Lordship,</HI> and the <HI>Citty,</HI> that both may be pre&s;erved, and in a happy con|dition, I did prevayle to make the&s;e overtures, and negotiation, de&s;iring your <HI>Lordships</HI> an&s;wer I remain.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your <HI>Lordships</HI> humble &s;ervant. D, AXTEL.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Ro&s;&s;e <DATE>April 30. 1650.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>Dean Boyles</HI> Letter to <HI>Cromwell</HI> about the <HI>Pa&s;&s;es</HI> he recei|ved from him.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I pre&s;ume your <HI>Lordship</HI> remembers upon what &s;core the <HI>Pa&s;&s;es</HI> for the <HI>Lord Lieutenant,</HI> and Lord <HI>Inchiquin</HI> were received by mee from your <HI>Lordship</HI>
<PB N="19" REF="38"> upon a &s;u&s;picion I had there might fall out &s;ome unhand&s;ome cariage towards them, upon the departure of the&s;e <HI>English</HI> out of the quarters; which oppor|tunity of &s;erving them, I was not very unwilling to imbrace, conceiving it an honourable expedient for their &s;ecurity, in ca&s;e they &s;hould be nece&s;sitated thereunto. But I find His <HI>Excellency</HI> it not at all &s;atisfyed with me therin, I having no <HI>Commi&s;sion</HI> to that purpo&s;e, and upon intimation &s;ent his <HI>Lordship</HI> that I had &s;uch a thing, he commanded me to returne it with civility to your <HI>Lordship;</HI> But finding by the Copy of a Letter to the Governor of <HI>Waterford</HI> (which I here inclo&s;e) that there is &s;ome u&s;e indeavoured to be made thereof to his exceeding preiudice, and di&s;honour, <HI>he</HI> hath commanded meto&s;end it to him&s;elfe lea&s;t the <HI>returne</HI> of it &s;hould be perverted to his prejudice, as the <HI>ac|ceptance</HI> was; I have hereby returned your <HI>Lordship</HI> the <HI>Pa&s;&s;e</HI> for the Lord <HI>Inchi|quin,</HI> and from both have received very &s;lender thankes for bringing them. Your Lord&s;hip knows I made no engagement for any thing no either of their behalfes, but on the contrary in the di&s;cu&s;sion of tho&s;e propo&s;aIls, which I pre&s;ented to your <HI>Lordship</HI> from the Officers, did declare, that I had po&s;itive commands to except the Lord Marquis of <HI>Ormond,</HI> and Lord of <HI>Iuchiquin,</HI> from having any benefit of, or relation unto any thing, that was comprized in that <HI>treaty,</HI> &s;o that the &s;ugge&s;tions of <HI>M. Axtell</HI> to the Governor of <HI>Waterford,</HI> though they are nothing a greable to the conditions we received from your Lord&s;hip, yet they give a very great di&s;&s;atisfaction to many here of my integrity, as pre|&s;uming me to act &s;ome thing under hand, either by de&s;ign, or beyond Com|mi&s;sion wherein if your <HI>Excellency,</HI> would be plea&s;ed to afford me the ju&s;tice of &s;ome kind of vindication, it would extremly oblige me in a very gratefull re&s;entiment.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your <HI>Excellencies</HI> humble &s;ervant. M. BOYLE.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Cloneraud <DATE>May 3. 1656.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="20" REF="39">
<HEAD><HI>My</HI> Lord Lieutenants <HI>Letter to</HI> Cromwell <HI>when he &s;ent him Back his</HI> Pa&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SR.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>DEan Boyle</HI> having brought me a <HI>Paper</HI> &s;igned, and &s;ealed by you, &s;eeming to be a <HI>Pa&s;&s;e</HI> for me to tran&s;port my &s;elfe beyond &s;eas; I did much wonder from whence, or for what rea&s;on it was, that you either gave, or he accepted it; &s;ince he was directed to declare to you (if it came in que&s;tion) that I had no intention to treat with you for <HI>a Pa&s;&s;e,</HI> or any other thing; And though I am yet to &s;eek a rea&s;on for his part of that tran&s;action, yet yours appeares to me in <HI>Axtells</HI> Letter to <HI>Generall Pre&s;ton;</HI> I have by this Trumpetter returned you your <HI>Paper,</HI> and for your un&s;ought courte&s;y do a&s;&s;ure you, that when you shall de&s;ire a <HI>Pa&s;&s;e</HI> from me, and I <HI>thinke fit</HI> to grant it, I shall not make u&s;e of it to corrupt any that commands under you, I remain.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your humble &s;ervant. ORMONDE.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Kogh reogh <DATE>the 17, May 1650.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="speech">
<PB N="21" REF="39">
<HEAD>The <HI>Speech</HI> of his Excellency the <HI>Marquis of Ormond</HI> unto the <HI>Generall A&s;&s;embly</HI> of the <HI>confederates</HI> in <HI>Irland</HI> upon the &s;igning of the <HI>peace,</HI> in an&s;wer to the <HI>Oration</HI> of <HI>Sr. Richard Blake</HI> Chairman of the <HI>A&s;&s;embly.</HI> Men|tioned. PAG. 55.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lords and Gentlemen.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Shall not &s;peake to tho&s;e expre&s;sions of <HI>duty</HI> and <HI>Loyalty,</HI> &s;o eloquently di|ge&s;ted into a Di&s;cour&s;e, by the Gentleman appointed by you to deliver your &s;en&s;e, you will pre&s;ently have in your hands greater and more &s;olid Ar|guments of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> gratious acceptance of them, then I can <HI>enumerate,</HI> or then perhaps, you your &s;elves <HI>di&s;cerne,</HI> for, be&s;ides the provi&s;ion made again&s;t your remote&s;t feares of the &s;everity of certaine <HI>Lawes,</HI> and be&s;ides many other freedomes, and bounties conveighed to you, and your po&s;terity, by the&s;e <HI>Articles,</HI> There is a doore, and that a large one, not left, but &s;ett open to give you entrance, by your future merits, to what&s;oever of <HI>honour,</HI> or other <HI>ad|vantage,</HI> you can rea&s;onably wi&s;h, &s;o that you have in pre&s;ent fruition what may abundantly &s;atisfye, and yet there are no bounds &s;et to your <HI>hopes</HI> but you are rather invited, or, (according to a new Phra&s;e, but to an old &amp; better pur|po&s;e) You &s;eeme to <HI>have a Call from Heaven,</HI> to excerci&s;e your Armes and utter|mo&s;t fortitude, in the <HI>noble&s;t,</HI> and <HI>ju&s;te&s;t Cau&s;e</HI> the world hath knowen; for let all the Circum&s;tances, incident to a great &amp; good Cau&s;e of warr, be examined, and they will befound Comprehended in that which you are now called war|rantably to defende; <HI>Religion,</HI> not in the narrow circum&s;cribed definition of it, <HI>under</HI> this, or that late found out <HI>di&s;tinction,</HI> but <HI>Chri&s;tian Religion,</HI> is our Quarrell, which certainly is as much and as fatally &s;truck at (I may &s;ay more) by the <HI>bla&s;phemous Lycence</HI> of this Age, then ever it was by the rude&s;t Incur&s;ions of the mo&s;t barbarous and mo&s;t avowed Enemys to <HI>Chri&s;tianity.</HI> The <HI>venerable Lawes,</HI> and fundamentall Con&s;titutions are trodden under impious, and, for
<PB N="22" REF="40"> the mo&s;t, part <HI>Mechanique feete.</HI> <NOTE N="a" PLACE="foot">Iudg reader if the&s;e be the words of one that intends to betray the <HI>Kingdome</HI> and <HI>Kings</HI> intere&s;t to <HI>Cromwell.</HI></NOTE> The <HI>&s;acred per&s;on</HI> of the <HI>King</HI> (the life of tho&s;e <HI>Lawes)</HI> under an ignominious impri&s;onment, &amp; his life threatned to be taken away by the <HI>Sacrilegious hands</HI> of the <HI>ba&s;e&s;t</HI> of the People that owe Him obediences, And, to endeare the Quarrell to you, the <HI>fountaine</HI> of all the benefits you have but now acknowledged, and of what you may further hope for by this Peace, and your owne merits, is now in danger to be ob&s;tructed by the <HI>execrable mur|ther</HI> of the <HI>worthje&s;t Prince</HI> that ever ruld the&s;e <HI>I&s;lands.</HI> In &s;hort, <HI>Hell</HI> can adde no|thing to the de&s;perate <HI>Mi&s;cheife</HI> now openly projected.</P>
<P>And now judge, if a greater, or a more <HI>glorious feild</HI> was ever &s;et open to action; and then prepare your&s;elves to enter into it, And receive the&s;e few Advices from <HI>one</HI> throughly embarqued with you in the <HI>Adventure.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t.</HI> Let me recommend unto you, that to this, as to all other <HI>holy Actions,</HI> you would prepare your&s;elves with <HI>perfect Charity,</HI> a <HI>Charity</HI> that may obliterate what&s;oever <NOTE N="b" PLACE="foot">Are not here the <HI>factions.</HI></NOTE> of <HI>Rancours</HI> a long continued <HI>Civill warr</HI> may have contracted in you again&s;t any that &s;hall now cooperate with you in &s;o ble&s;&s;ed a <HI>worke,</HI> &amp; let his engagement with you, (who ever he is) <HI>be,</HI> as it ought to be, a <HI>Bond</HI> of <HI>Unity,</HI> of <HI>Love,</HI> of <HI>Concord,</HI> &s;tronger then the <HI>neare&s;t tye</HI> of nature.</P>
<P>In the <HI>next</HI> place, <HI>marke,</HI> and <HI>beware</HI> of tho&s;e that &s;hall goe about to <HI>renew,</HI> or <HI>create</HI> <NOTE N="c" PLACE="foot">Iealou&s;ies.</NOTE> <HI>Iealou&s;ies</HI> in you, under what preten&s;e, &s;oever, &amp; accompt &s;uch as <HI>infernal Mini&s;ters,</HI> imployed to promote the <HI>black De&s;igne</HI> on foote, to &s;ubvert <HI>Monarchy,</HI> &amp; to make us all <HI>&s;laves</HI> to tho&s;e that are &s;o to theire owne <HI>avaritious Lu&s;ts.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Away,</HI> a&s;&s;oone &amp; as much as po&s;sibly may be, with tho&s;e <HI>di&s;tinctions</HI> <NOTE N="d" PLACE="foot">And <HI>nationall animo&s;ities</HI> fore &s;een &amp; forelold that &s;ince have ruind all.</NOTE> <HI>of Na|tions,</HI> and of <HI>Partys,</HI> which are the feilds where in the &s;eede of tho&s;e <HI>Rankor weeds</HI> are &s;owen by the great <HI>Enemy</HI> of our <HI>Peace.</HI></P>
<P>In the <HI>la&s;t</HI> place, Lett us all dive&s;t our&s;elves of that <HI>prepo&s;terous,</HI> that <HI>ridiculous Ambition,</HI> and &s;elfe <HI>Intere&s;t,</HI> which rather leads to our threatned generall <HI>Ruine,</HI> then to the <HI>enjoyment</HI> of <HI>Advantages</HI> un&s;ea&s;onably de&s;ired.</P>
<P>And if at any time you &s;hall thinke your&s;elves <HI>pincht</HI> to neare the <HI>bone</HI> by tho&s;e <HI>Taxes,</HI> &amp; <HI>Leavyes</HI> that may be impo&s;ed on you for your <HI>defen&s;e,</HI> Con&s;ider then, how <HI>vaine,</HI> how <HI>foolish</HI> a thing it will be, to &s;tarve a <HI>Righteous Cau&s;e</HI> for want of <HI>nece&s;&s;ary &s;up|port;</HI> to pre&s;erve your&s;elves <HI>fat &amp; guilded &s;acrificies</HI> to the rapine of a <HI>mercile&s;&s;e Enemy.</HI></P>
<P>And if wee come thus well prepared to a <HI>Contention,</HI> &s;o <HI>ju&s;t,</HI> on our part, God will either ble&s;&s;e our Endeavours with <HI>&s;ucce&s;&s;e</HI> &amp; <HI>victory,</HI> or <NOTE N="f" PLACE="foot">Were there ever nobler or more generous expre&s;sions of <HI>loyalty</HI> then the&s;e.</NOTE> <HI>Crowne</HI> our &s;uffe|rings with <HI>honour,</HI> &amp; <HI>patience;</HI> for what <HI>honour</HI> will it not be, if God have &s;o de|termined of us) to peri&s;hwith a <HI>long glorious Monarchy?</HI> And who can wante <HI>pa|tience</HI> <NOTE N="e" PLACE="foot">The people of <HI>Irland</HI> have found the truth of this by a <HI>lamentable experience.</HI></NOTE>
<PB N="23" REF="40"> to &s;uffer with <HI>oppre&s;t Princes?</HI> But as our <HI>Endeavours,</HI> &s;o let our <HI>prayers</HI> be, vigorous, that <HI>they</HI> may be delivered from a more <HI>unnatural Rebellion</HI> then is mentioned by any <HI>&s;tory,</HI> now rai&s;ed to the <HI>highe&s;t pitch of &s;ucce&s;se</HI> again&s;t <HI>them.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hould now &s;ay &s;omething to you for <HI>my &s;elfe,</HI> in returne to the advanta|gious mention made of <HI>me,</HI> <NOTE N="g" PLACE="foot">Or greater mode&s;ty.</NOTE> &amp; my <HI>Endeavours</HI> to bring this <HI>&s;ettlement</HI> to pa&s;&s;e; but I confe&s;&s;e my thoughts were wholy taken up with tho&s;e much <HI>greater Concerne|ments;</HI> Let it &s;uffice, that as I wi&s;h to be continued in your good <HI>e&s;teeme</HI> &amp; <HI>affec|tion,</HI> &s;o I &s;hall freely adventure upon any <HI>hazard,</HI> and e&s;teeme no <HI>trouble</HI> a <HI>diffi|culty</HI> too great to encounter, if I may manife&s;t my <HI>zeale</HI> to this <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> and di&s;|charge &s;ome part of the <HI>obligations</HI> that are upon me to &s;erve <HI>this Kingdome.</HI></P>
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<P>PAg. 6. l. 7. for <HI>Intere&s;ts, of the crown</HI> read <HI>Intere&s;ts of the crown,</HI> P. 7. l. 28. for <HI>Mon|&s;ter</HI> read <HI>Moun&s;ter.</HI> P. 9. l. 22. for <HI>prece</HI> read <HI>peace.</HI> P. 24. l. 17. after <HI>Col. Birne,</HI> read <HI>The famous Pud&s;ey with the poleaxe, Colonell Walton, Gri&s;&s;ith Cavanagh, &amp;c.</HI> P. 29. l. 16. for <HI>appeared</HI> read <HI>as appeared.</HI> P. 49. l. 3. for <HI>ad</HI> read <HI>a.</HI> P. 50, l. 10. <HI>Clonwell</HI> read <HI>Clonmell.</HI> P 51. l. 3. for <HI>Neavagh</HI> read <HI>Neanagh.</HI> ibid. for <HI>Puacha&s;es</HI> read <HI>Pur|cha&s;es.</HI> P. 52. for <HI>hande</HI> read <HI>handes.</HI> P. 53. for <HI>that is their</HI> read <HI>that it is their.</HI> P. 56. for <HI>I have given</HI> read I <HI>have here given.</HI> Erratas in the Letters. P. 4. l. 19. for <HI>take thy paines</HI> read <HI>take this Paines</HI> ibid. for <HI>an foyle</HI> read <HI>an unglorious foyle.</HI> P. 6. l. 42. for <HI>it</HI> read <HI>is.</HI> P. 12. l. 1. for <HI>to laide</HI> ad <HI>to have laide</HI> ibid. l. 27. for <HI>is fulne&s;se</HI> read <HI>is a fulne&s;&s;e.</HI> P. 3. l. 8. for <HI>Cronwell</HI> read <HI>Cromwell.</HI></P>
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