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<P>JULY 18. 1642.</P>
<P>A perfect Diurnall OF All the proceedings of the Engli&s;h and Scotch Armies IN IRELAND, From the 14 of <HI>June</HI> to this pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>Sent over from Ma&s;ter Godwin, Ma&s;ter of the Ordnance in the Engli&s;h Army, TO A Merchant now dwelling in LONDON.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Jo. Raworth.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A perfect Diurnall of all the pro|ceedings of the Engli&s;h and Scotch Armies in IRELAND, From the Fourteenth of <HI>June,</HI> to this pre&s;ent.</HEAD>
<P>_TUe&s;day the Armie marched forth, be|ing about 5500 hor&s;e and foot, and 8 Field Peices, under the conduct of the Lord Lieutenant Generall, with a de&s;igne of &s;upply to relieve the Lord Pre&s;ident of <HI>Connaught,</HI> the fir&s;t night we quartered at <HI>Pierstowne,</HI> where we had notice that Sir <HI>Richard Greenfield</HI> had be&s;ett certaine Rebells in a &s;trong Ca&s;tle, having lo&s;t many men before it, but for want of Ordnance could not take it, whereupon was &s;ent him 3 of our be&s;t Field-peices for his a&s;&s;i&s;tance.</P>
<P>On Weden&s;day the 15, we came within 2 miles of <HI>Trym,</HI> in the&s;e two dayes march we pa&s;&s;ed through an even Champion and rich &s;oile, by many plea&s;ant &s;eates, too good for &s;o barbarons and wretched a people as in|habited it. June the 16. our men having made a breach in the Ca&s;tle, a&s;&s;aulted it, but found the Enemie de&s;|perately re&s;olute, reviling and calling them Engli&s;h doggs, Parliament Rebells, Puritan rogues, and holding up &s;ome of their be&s;t apparell and linnen at their &s;word points, and topps of Pikes, and &s;etting fire unto them burnt them in our &s;ight, &s;aying, look you here you pil|laging Ra&s;cals there is pillage for you, and when our Gunners &s;hot, they cryed &s;hoot home you rogues, Cap|tain
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<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 line"> granadoes, part of the hou&s;e took fire, which &s;ome of them &s;eeing, re&s;olutely burnt their armes goods, and and fa&s;tly them&s;elves therein, others cryed for quarter, but none being granted but to the women and children, they re&s;olutely defended them&s;elves, and kept our men almo&s;t two houres at the breach at pu&s;h of pike, throw|ing &s;tones, &s;lates, and hot liquor, in great abundance on them, &s;poyling many, yet our men encouraged by the example of Captain <HI>Statu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">,</HI> &s;econded him and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;t|antly forced an entrance, killing many in the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 word">, and found many that had bin killed by our &s;hot, drawn into &s;everall corners, the re&s;t crying out, and begging for quarter, were brought out and &s;tripped by our men and immediatly &s;lain, being gue&s;&s;ed in the totall at 140 per&s;ons, be&s;ides the women and children who had their liberty, we lo&s;t about 30 men, and many wounded, a|mong whom Lieutenant Colonell <HI>Kirk</HI> is chief, of who&s;e recovery there is great doubt; la&s;tly, having burnt the Ca&s;tle, we le&s;t it, and on Thur&s;day marched through <HI>Trym</HI> a walled Town, &s;tanding prea&s;antly on the Boyn, now fortified by Sir <HI>Richard Greenfield</HI> the Governour; thence we marched five miles to a &s;trong and plea&s;ant Town called <HI>Athboy,</HI> burnt, and for&s;aken by the enemy, that might we lay about <HI>Del<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">in</HI> Ca&s;tle, likewi&s;e for&s;a|ken by the enemy: about this part of the country wee recovered good &s;tore of cattle, and other booties. On Saturday the 18 day, we marched to <HI>Rathconnell</HI> twelve miles; on Sunday the 19 day we marched through <HI>Mol|lingar,</HI> burnt and for&s;aken by the enemie, in it we found beer, corn, and wooll, hid under ground; this day a foot|man met us with a Letter from the Lord Pre&s;ident, that
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night wee came to <HI>Ballimere</HI> 12 miles, 9 miles from <HI>Athlone,</HI> we found the Town and Church newly burnt, and a very &s;trong Fort which the enemy had made, for|&s;aken, to our no &s;mall wonder at their cowardi&s;e; the next day our Generall went to <HI>Athlone,</HI> accompanied with divers Commanders, taking with him a Convoy and the &s;uccours for the Lord Pre&s;ident, being 18 com|panies of foot, and one troop of hor&s;e, with two Field|pieces, and &s;tore of Ammunition: there met him yong Sir <HI>Church Coot,</HI> who&s;e wi&s;dom and courage, by Gods mercifull ble&s;&s;ing, had been the pre&s;ervation of the En|gli&s;h in that part of the country, as his decea&s;ed Fathers indu&s;try and valour had bin in this; great was the joy the Town&s;men were in upon the arrivall of our &s;uccour. In our return another way, we found two dangerous pa&s;&s;a|ges fortified and for&s;aken, the enemy &s;uppo&s;ing that we would have come that way from <HI>Dublin;</HI> for though they &s;eemed to have Intelligence of our de&s;ign and for|ces, as they often have had, yet they knew not but we would march the u&s;uall and direct rode way, which if we had done, it had co&s;t us the lives of many of our be&s;t men, they having placed their forts and redoubts accor|dingly, &s;ometimes they came out of the Bogs, and &s;lew the &s;traglers in the Reare, and many of our men were in this journey lo&s;t by marching di&s;orderly, and &s;tragling to pillage, the enemie &s;till watching his advantages. The 24. being Friday, we came to <HI>Kilcock;</HI> 12 miles from <HI>Dublin,</HI> from which place a troop being &s;ent with &s;ome carriage to quarter at <HI>Menooth,</HI> a mile from the army, pa&s;&s;ing through the narrow pace in the wood, cer|tain companies of the enemie &s;et upon them, &s;lew one or two men, wounded divers hor&s;e, put the re&s;t to flight
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and took the carriage, which they conveyed to <HI>Wel&s;hes</HI> Ca&s;tle their place of retreat, where we hope &s;hortly to find them to their co&s;t. The 25. we pa&s;&s;ed through <HI>Me|nooth,</HI> in which &s;tood a mo&s;t &s;tately hou&s;e of the Earl of <HI>Kildares</HI> lately burnt, the Garri&s;on placed therein, ha|ving their Sentinell &s;tabb'd, the hou&s;e betrayed by the Earls Bailiff an Iri&s;h man, who &s;uddenly &s;et fire on it and let in the Enemy, but Lieutenant <HI>Boughton</HI> with the Garri&s;on of 34. Mu&s;quetiers beat them out, and &s;eeing the roof falling over his head, made a de&s;perate &s;ally, and valiantly retreated, maugre their continuall a&s;|&s;aults and skirmi&s;hes; to the next Garri&s;on 4 miles off at <HI>Le&s;lipp,</HI> on Saturday night we arrived &s;afely (ble&s;&s;ed be God) at <HI>Dublin,</HI> though the Papi&s;ts there had rai&s;ed reports back'd with particulars, that we were all cutt off and defeated, we are preparing for another Journey for the performance of &s;ome great de&s;igne, (if want of mo|ney here and Union in <HI>England</HI> hinder not) on which I doubt not you will pray with us, that God will plea&s;e to continue his gratious ble&s;&s;ings, and pro&s;per it. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>For other Intelligence there is little at pre&s;ent, onely that Sir <HI>Francis Hambleton</HI> and the Ladie <HI>Craig</HI> having kept their ca&s;tles as long as they were able, through want of victualls and Ammunition were compelled to take quarter of <HI>Phel. O Relly,</HI> all that were with them being about 800. Per&s;ons, being according to the agreement &s;afely conveyed to the next Engli&s;h Garri&s;on, &s;ome of them being arrived here.</P>
<P>We are &s;ending &s;ome <HI>Culverin</HI> and other nece&s;&s;aries for war as is &s;aid for <HI>Munster,</HI> but I &s;uppo&s;e to meet our Armie at <HI>Wexford;</HI> we have a report that the Iri&s;h in
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the North have had a great defeat by our forces, and al|&s;o in <HI>Munster,</HI> and that the Lord of <HI>Ikerins</HI> is &s;laine, the fir&s;t is confirmed that S. <HI>Robert Steward</HI> fought with 600 two houres and defeated them, &s;laying 5000. at the lea&s;t: this is now written for certaine.</P>
<P>A Partie of 1500. went hence, took in 3 Ca&s;tles, &s;lew 400. men, brought 70. pri&s;oners, this done chief|ly by meanes of the Ordnance, not without the lo&s;&s;e of &s;ome 30. of our men. This we e&s;teme very good &s;er|vice.</P>
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