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<P>The Victorious proceedings of the Prote&s;tants in IRELAND; from the beginning of <HI>March</HI> to this pre&s;ent, being the 22. of the &s;ame month. With a Letter &s;ent from Ma&s;ter <HI>Brian Smith,</HI> Mini&s;ter in his Maje&s;ties Ship called the <HI>Banaventure,</HI> riding before <HI>King&s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">le,</HI> which was read in the Honourable Hou&s;e of Com|mons, on Monday the 21. of <HI>March,</HI> 1642. Declaring how the Lord Pre&s;ident of <HI>Mun&s;ter,</HI> Sir <HI>William</HI> St. <HI>Leger,</HI> gave Battell to the Rebels neere <HI>Durgarven,</HI> kil'd 2000 men, tooke &s;ome of their Commanders pri|&s;oners, and &s;lew ten with his owne hands.</P>
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<P>Printed at London for <HI>Iohn Wright,</HI> in the Old-baily. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>The victorious proceedings <HI>of</HI> the Prote&s;tants in <HI>Irelaud,</HI> from the begining of Maech to this pre&s;ent being the 22 of the &s;ame moneth.</HEAD>
<P>ON the 27 of February, came all our boates and &s;hips &s;afely into <HI>Dublin</HI> Harbour, that had beene relieving <HI>Tredah</HI> and thus they declare their voyage, that the two fir&s;t dayes&punc; they &s;pent in firing &s;ome &s;mall towns by the &s;hor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">-&s;ide, about the 19 and 20 day, came fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">th before the mouth of <HI>Tredath</HI> Harbour, our ve&s;&s;els being all that caryed provi&s;ion, and more to defend them, the enemy had chained up the H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rbour with a mo&s;t &s;trong chaine, which our men knowing the wind and tide being faire on the 20 day, man'd out a &s;halop with in&s;truments to breake the chaine, and the &s;hips to follow in, but the labour of the breaking the chaine, God had prevented, and by that wind and tide that camed our men &s;afely in, as could be thouht the &s;ame wind and tide brake the chaine before our &s;hips, even as the &s;halop come, the enemy notwith&s;tanding with three or more peeces and many other men &s;hot at our &s;hips with all &s;pit, but our men got well with the lo&s;&s;e onely of &s;ome five or &s;ix men, but many of the enemy lo&s;t, but to the great comfort of the City, w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o had beene in great di&s;tre&s;&s;e, and not &s;o much when o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r provi&s;ion come as before, in that the Noble Governour Sir <HI>Alen Tich|borne</HI> had being in di&s;tre&s;&s;e, gone out againe the enemy and ta|ken many Cowes and &s;heep from them, and lo&s;t but few of his men, a great terrour is he to the enemy as Sir <HI>Charles Coot</HI> is here, that th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ir very names makes the enemy &s;hake, and ma|ny times have they run at their names them&s;elves being not neere. But our &s;hips have unladen their provi&s;ion, and com|ming <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o <HI>Dubli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> the enemy laboured all could be to &s;poile our m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n and &s;hips by them &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">elets at land, and a &s;hip of theirs for that purpo&s;e at Sea, but our men burnt their &s;hip, and to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ke tooke two peeces, a bra&s;&s;e and iron one from them, and are
<PB N="2" REF="3"> the day above named come home to us, having victualled <HI>Tre|dath</HI> for &s;ix moneths, but are going againe: we have &s;ome men come from <HI>England</HI> but no money, in&s;omuch that our City is unrea&s;onable burdened, to the utter undoing of mo&s;t part of the City, for few hou&s;es have le&s;&s;e then 11 12 &s;ome 30 Soul|diers in them, and they to pay them money weekely, and &s;ome not able to find their owne families with bread, but all complaint gives them no relent, which makes great mi&s;ery for the pre&s;ent, and will be more, in that all their goods being ta|ken out of the&s;e poore peoples hou&s;es by the Souldiers, they being not able to give them mony, and &s;old by the&s;e Souldiers, at not the &s;even part what they are wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">th, &s;o that little they have is con&s;umed, the&s;e people left to beggery and heare no|thing but &s;ad complaints, and this is more on the Prote&s;tants then Papi&s;ts the Prote&s;tants being more poore, what the cau&s;e of the&s;e things are, God knows, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut &s;ure none knowes the mi&s;ery of warre but tho&s;e that &s;ee it, and &s;ure none will de&s;ire it, if cary<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d as here. But for <HI>Tredath</HI> Sir <HI>Henry Tichburne</HI> hath turned all or mo&s;t of the Papi&s;ts out of the City there, for as in <HI>Dublin</HI> the enemy is &s;ometimes, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ay alwayes in &s;ome &s;ix miles of us, &s;ome times more nearer, ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> men have not gone out &s;ince the la&s;t I writ to you, but I thinke will as this night goe out to a place where the enemy is very &s;trong, God keep them, I thinke we are ind<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">fferent without danger of their taking us by forces, but fraud which is very much, but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">amine and &s;ickene&s;&s;e are like to be our greate&s;t enemies, in the City publikely is much threatning, they &s;end to us indeed the Rebels increa&s;e &s;till daily, that not any place in <HI>Ireland,</HI> but all are out in great bodies, e&s;pecially in <HI>Mun&s;ter</HI> which was la&s;t out, they are now mo&s;t &s;trong, the heads of them being Lord <HI>Mu&s;ey</HI> and Lord <HI>Roch,</HI> they have among them our Generals Counte&s;&s;e pri&s;oner and all his children, which is much griefe to him &s;o brave a man. We have report that Sir <HI>Philimon O Neale</HI> was &s;o vexed, that he could not &s;o pre&s;ently take <HI>Tredath,</HI> that for &s;pite hee went home and killed all his pri&s;oners, being not le&s;&s;e then 4000 but we hope this is not yet true, but certaine w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> are, that the Lord <HI>Cranfield</HI> that was pri&s;oner to him; he hath cau&s;ed to
<PB N="3" REF="3"> be &s;laine ba&s;ely on a &s;udden. Here is like to be much mi&s;ery befall in this Kingdome before this warre is at an end, &s;ome powder is thought is come out of <HI>Spain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> to the Reb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ls, el&s;e could they have not &s;o much as they have, more then at tru&s;t. Since the third of March &s;ome &s;hipping hath gone out from us and hath relieved a place called <HI>Wicklow</HI> Ca&s;tle be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ieged by the Rebels, and is go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e to relieve another place called <HI>Duncannon,</HI> for our men i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Dublin</HI> wee have had no great bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e hapned, onely ye&s;terday part of our men went out for the field 3000 foot and 500 hor&s;e, and intend to &s;tay out &s;ome time, wee have not heard any thing f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">om them, I beleeve they have an intent to burne mo&s;t part of the Countrey within 20 miles of <HI>Dublin,</HI> on the We&s;t and North &s;ide&punc; wee have in|telligence that tho&s;e Rebels increa&s;e &s;till, &s;o that nothing can be expected but a tedious warre; we have intelligence, that <HI>Galloway</HI> is revolted, but there is a Fort po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by &s;ome of ours, that can command the Towne, but this Port is neare <HI>Spaine,</HI> as neare as <HI>Dublin England,</HI> and reliefe may be feared to come from <HI>Spaine</HI> that way as &s;ome have thought, but &s;mall corne by <HI>Wexford.</HI> But we have newes, that &s;ome of your &s;hips are come to our coa&s;tes to keepe the Seas which will be well if &s;o, for much need is ofit: wee have intelligence but &s;omething doubtfu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l it is that with &s;ome 150<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the Engli&s;h landed in <HI>Munster</HI> the Noble Pre&s;ident of <HI>Mun&s;ter</HI> being before di&s;tre&s;|&s;ed by the Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">els, but joyning with the&s;e 1500 from <HI>England,</HI> went again&s;t the Rebels, being a great multitude l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d by thd Lord <HI>Mountgarr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t,</HI> our men pur&s;ued the Rebels killed no le&s;&s;e then 2000 of them, but little lo&s;&s;e on our &s;ide, and &s;ome thinke the Lord <HI>Montgarret</HI> him&s;elfe is killed, but this is &s;omething doubtfully reported, but mo&s;t &s;ay its tru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, that are of account, but &s;ure Iam, that all is like to be very low brought are they are better, and this like to be a tedious warre. We have newes out of the North, but &s;omewhat uncertaine, that the Scots have give a defeat to the Rebels there, and killed no le&s;&s;e then 1500.</P>
<P>We have newes al&s;o from <HI>Tredath,</HI> that Sir <HI>Henry Tich<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">orne</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="4"> i&s;&s;ued out, and beat upon part of the enemies Can<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pe, on that part where one Collonell <HI>Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Brians</HI> Quarter was a Collonell of the enemy, but with a 1000 men, Sir <HI>Henry</HI> entred battle, the enemy being 3000, &s;ome &s;ay 4000, but Sir <HI>Henry</HI> rooted them all, killed foure hundred, tooke two hundred pri&s;oners, and the re&s;t fled away, &s;o now for the pre&s;ent hee is not &s;o hard be&s;ieged, and hee hath burned 20 townes about him.</P>
<P>THe &s;econd of <HI>March</HI> we arrived at <HI>King&s;aile,</HI> where we under&s;tand that in the whole Province of <HI>Mun|&s;ter</HI> (which was lea&s;t &s;u&s;pected) the Iri&s;h are all revolted. They have &s;wept away all the Engli&s;h Cattell, and &s;trip|ped them of all naked; in one we<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ke they kil'd 55000. Engli&s;h &s;heepe, and doe vow they will not leave an Engli&s;h mans Foot, but will quite extripate man bea&s;t. What they doe about <HI>Dublin,</HI> and in the North we heare not, Colo|nell <HI>Barry</HI> is made Generall of their Forces in <HI>Mun&s;ter;</HI> they have be&s;ieged the City of <HI>Corke</HI> already, and the Town of <HI>King&s;aile,</HI> expected to &s;urprized every houre, if the Kings Ships (which keepe them in awe) leave them in har|bour, the Fort of <HI>King&s;aile</HI> is made a &s;trong place, but they want Men, Money, and Ammunion; on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ly the Admirall here hath &s;upplyed it with victuals and armes for a 100 men for &s;ix weekes, but the workes there will require above 500. men, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o make it good again&s;t an Army; I con|ceive it is a place of the greate&s;t con&s;equ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nce in the Pro|vincce&punc; It is lamentable to con&s;ider the want and mi&s;ery and feare the poore Engli&s;h live in at this time; they have betaken them&s;elvee to &s;ome places of refuge, as to Ca&s;tle|haven, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rook-haven, Baltmore. Bandonbridge is furn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hed with 1000. men for &s;ix moneths, <HI>Corke</HI> for a longer time, <HI>Youghall</HI> is of little &s;trength, the Fort of <HI>Dunca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">on</HI> is for the King, with a little provi&s;ion for a few day<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, but if they have not &s;peedy reliefe, they mu&s;t peri&s;h either by Famine
<PB N="5" REF="4"> or Sword. It were endle&s;&s;e to relate what &s;avage and bar|barous acts are done by the Iri&s;h, e&s;pecially agin&s;t Mini|&s;ters; <HI>I</HI> will but in&s;tance in one.</P>
<P>There 17 more&punc; of them came to a Min<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rs hou&s;e, they &s;tript him and his wife naked, bound them backe to b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ck<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> cut off his privy members, then one after ano<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">her did <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a|vi&s;h her upon her husband backe, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n cut both their throats.</P>
<P>The Lord <HI>Mackerly,</HI> the Lord <HI>Mu&s;croe,</HI> the Lord <HI>Roch</HI> &amp;c. after promi&s;e and prote&s;tation of their fidelity to the King, and thereupon were furni&s;hed with &s;ome Armes and pow|der, are all turn'd Rebels; there is &s;carce one Iri&s;h man but is a Rebell.</P>
<P>The Lord Pre&s;ident of <HI>Mun&s;ter</HI> Sir <HI>William</HI> Saint <HI>Leger</HI> went out lately again&s;t the R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bells with &s;o many hor&s;e and foot, that his force and Sir Charles <HI>Vava&s;ers</HI> Regiment joy|ning together, made 5 or 600 hor&s;e and 3000 foot, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y gave battle to the Rebels neare <HI>Dungarven,</HI> killed neare 2000 men, tooke &s;ome of the Commanders pri&s;oners; after that they marched to <HI>Dungarven</HI> Ca&s;tle. and tooke it from the Rebels, where was good booty for his Souldiers, where he hath left a Garri&s;on, and &s;ome Gunnes to keepe it, and now is approaching <HI>Corke</HI> (if he can) to rai&s;e that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">iege. They burne and &s;poile, and ra&s;e all as they goe.</P>
<P>My Lord Pre&s;ident is very valiant and zealous, it is &s;aid he killed ten men with his owne hands. The Iri&s;h wants Armes as yet, I pray God our be&s;t endeavours may pre|vent them. We are all in good health aboard the <HI>Bonadven|ture.</HI> So with my love to your &s;elfe, and to one and all of my friends, in ha&s;te I re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your very loving brother Brian Smith.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>From a board his Maje&s;ties &s;hip the</HI> Bonadventure <HI>riding before</HI> King|&s;ale
<DATE><HI>March</HI> 7. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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