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<NAME>Kate Allen</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Relation of what pa&s;&s;ed in Con|naught between His Maje&s;ties Forces under the Command of Brigadier Sarsfield, and the Re|bels Led by the Lord VVey|er, the Collonels Floyd, Ru&s;&s;el, &amp;c. upon the Army Decamping from Allard&s;town.</HEAD>
<P><HI>OGaras</HI>'s Regiment of Foot, Collonel <HI>Luttrell</HI>'s of Hor&s;e, Sir <HI>N.</HI> &ocirc; <HI>Neil</HI>'s of Dragoons were ordered to march under the Command of Brigadier <HI>Sarsfield,</HI> upon intelligence brought to <HI>His Maje&s;ty</HI> that <HI>Schomberg</HI> had &s;ent a <HI>Party</HI> to &s;trengthen the Rebels in the <HI>Province of Connaught,</HI> which they by that time had almo&s;t over-run. The Brigadier had likewi&s;e <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> to joyn to His Body &s;uch of the <HI>King's Troops</HI> as lay mo&s;t convenient in his <HI>March.</HI> With this Strength he ventur'd to make &s;everal <HI>De|tachments,</HI> one of two hundred <HI>Foot</HI> to aid the Gentle|men of the Countrey, who with the new rai&s;ed <HI>Mo|bile</HI> had Block'd up <HI>James-town</HI> then in the enemies hands. Upon <HI>his Arrival</HI> at <HI>Athlone,</HI> the <HI>Key of that Province,</HI> he &s;ent another Party to take po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of another <HI>Pa&s;s</HI> betwixt <HI>Boile</HI> and <HI>Sligoe,</HI> upon the <HI>Curlew Mountain,</HI> to cut of all communication from the Garri&s;ons of <HI>James-Town</HI> and <HI>Boyle,</HI> with that of <HI>Sligoe,</HI> he then advanced into the Countrey, and from <HI>Ro&s;common</HI> &s;ent another Party of 90 <HI>Hor&s;e,</HI> and 80 <HI>Dragoons,</HI> under the <HI>Command of Collonel Henry L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">trell,</HI>
<PB N="2" REF="2">to prevent the Enemies <HI>burning or de&s;troying</HI> all places they &s;hould think fit to abandon upon his approach. <HI>In their March</HI> they <HI>overtook, and put to</HI> flight a party of two hundred Hor&s;e of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="4 letters">y, with a prey they had taken of a thou&s;and head of Cattel. <HI>Lut|trell</HI> pur&s;ued them fourteen miles&punc; obliging them to quit their Prey, and run back in full &s;peed to the <HI>Boile,</HI> and endeavoured yet further th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> night <HI>towards Slygo,</HI> but were prevented by Major <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="4 letters">k Bourke,</HI> who Commanded the <HI>Detachment</HI> &s;ent by <HI>Sarsfield</HI> to &s;ecure that <HI>Pa&s;s.</HI> The Lord <HI>Weyer</HI> who commanded that party of the <HI>Enemy,</HI> and above fifteen of his men were killed, and &s;everal wounded <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ndeavouring to force it. The day before Collonel <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">loyd</HI> from <HI>Sligo,</HI> with a party of Rebels attempted to come up to <HI>Boile,</HI> but was two &s;everal times beaten back with lo&s;s. The party commanded by <HI>Weyer,</HI> prevented in their de|&s;ign of going to <HI>Sligo,</HI> retired &s;trait to <HI>Ja<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">-town,</HI> and joyned the Enemies Garri&s;on. The next morning they all abandoned that place, and marched towards the County of <HI>Cavan,</HI> either to joyn <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">homberg</HI>'s at <HI>Dundalk,</HI> or make their way thorough to <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="6 letters">illen.</HI> But tho&s;e of ours that blocked up <HI>Jamestown</HI> having timely notice pur&s;ued them &s;o clo&s;e that they were Forced like Hard Hunted deer to take &s;oyl and &s;wim three Rivers in which there were 80 drowned and &s;everal killed, nor do we finde of 400 <HI>Hor&s;e</HI> and <HI>Dragoones</HI> of which number that party consi&s;ted, ten got Home together, <HI>Sarsfield</HI> &s;till continued his March to <HI>Boyle,</HI> and thence to <HI>Sligoe,</HI> when he had reach'd <HI>Collooney</HI> &s;ix miles &s;hort of the end of his March finding that the Enemy had broke the Bridg of <HI>Bally&s;edare</HI> a mile and a half on the other &s;ide of <HI>Coloony,</HI> and being well inform'd of the Country he &s;ent a detatchment of three hundred Foot, &s;eventy Hor&s;e and one hundred Dragoones under the Com|mand of <HI>Collonel Lutterell</HI> a private way about by the Mountain Foot in order to cut off tho&s;e that &s;u&s;tain|ed the Bridge, and at the &s;ame time advanced to it
<PB N="3" REF="2">with his Party to amu&s;e The Enemy, whil&s;t <HI>Luttrell</HI> came round, at which time Mr. <HI>Talan|dier</HI> Lieutenant Coll. to Sir <HI>N: &ocirc; N.</HI> was wounded in <HI>the</HI> Groin <HI>Luttrells</HI> guide carried him nearer <HI>Sligoe</HI> then <HI>Sarsfield</HI> designed, where he met with a Party com|ing from <HI>Sligoe</HI> under the command of Coll. <HI>Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> and at the &s;ame time tho&s;e at the Bridge finding that <HI>Lutrell</HI> was got round, Return'd under the Command of Coll. <HI>Lloyd,</HI> &s;o that they were both in the Rear and Front of <HI>Luttrell</HI> who&s;e <HI>Dragoones</HI> and <HI>Foot</HI> were not yet got quite up to him by rea&s;on of a long Defile, upon which he divided what <HI>Hor&s;e</HI> he had, making half of them Face tho&s;e in their Rear, and with the other half he him&s;elf charged tho&s;e in his Front, and upon the fir&s;t On&s;et broke both the Parties, killing Fifty upon the place the re&s;t he pur&s;ued in sight of <HI>Sligoe,</HI> at the &s;ame time <HI>Sarsfield</HI> made up the Bridge the Enemy had abandon'd with <HI>Ioyces</HI> and <HI>Planks</HI> he had provided for that purpo&s;e and Marched with all dilligence to Relieve <HI>Luttrell</HI> who had before he could get up to him, beaten the Enemy again that had rallied at the <HI>Barriers</HI> of the <HI>Town,</HI> which <HI>were</HI> well maintained by &s;om <HI>French Foot,</HI> By this time <HI>Sarsfield</HI> was come up and all the <HI>Hor&s;e</HI> and <HI>Foot</HI> that were in the Town Ran away with <HI>Lloyd</HI> and <HI>Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> except &s;ome four or 500 that &s;hut them&s;elves up within a Fort in the further end of the Town which immediatly was Blocked up and <HI>Trenches</HI> being opened in five days before it, on the 5th they Capitulated to march to <HI>Inniskillen,</HI> which was Granted by <HI>Sarsfield</HI> his men being &s;pent by a long march, in bad way and ill weather, which con|tinued while they lay in the Trenches. As &s;oon as <HI>Sarsfield</HI> became Ma&s;ter of the Town, he Ordered it imediatly to be Fortifyed and the Fortificati|ons are already &s;o far advanced and the place <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o capable of being made &s;trong, that the whole Pro|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ince is hereby &s;ecured under His <HI>Maje&s;ties Obedience.</HI></P>
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<P>Will. Talbott.</P>
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