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<P>A LETTER From an Officer of quallitie of the Par|liaments ARMY in <HI>Mun&s;ter,</HI> to an Honourable Mem|ber of the Hou&s;e of Commons.</P>
<P>VVherein is &s;hewed the late further great Victories God hath given to the LORD INCHIQVIN again&s;t the Rebells in that Province.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>T. Paine,</HI> Augu&s;t 26. 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER of quality of the Parliaments Army in <HI>Mun&s;ter,</HI> to an honurable Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_YOur con&s;tant friend&s;hip ingages me to give you &s;ome account of our proceedings of late in this Pro|vince, we have kept the field ever &s;ince <HI>Mid&s;ommer,</HI> in pur&s;uit of the Rebells, and not being able to draw them to an incounter, which my Lord Pr&s;ident de&s;ign+ed, we took divers Ca&s;tles in the County of <HI>Lymrick,</HI> and his Lord&s;hip placed competent Wards in two of them, <HI>viz. Ballingarry</HI> and <HI>Ca&s;tlematras,</HI> and de&s;troyed the re&s;t</P>
<P>Soone after this, his Lord&s;hip withdrew into the County of <HI>Corke,</HI> in expectation to ingage the Rebells Army before them, which hapned accordingly, for that the Rebells laid &s;eidge to <HI>Ballingary</HI> Whereupon my Lord Pre&s;ident marchcd with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed to the reliefe of the place, but he that had the command of the Ca&s;tle gave it up upon a &s;ummons, within the time
<PB N="4" REF="4"> prefixed by my Lord, by his letter for his reliefe, being no way nece&s;&s;itated thereunto, for which he is now in que&s;tion. Being di&s;appointed of our engageme~t expected with the Army of the Rebels, the L. Pre&s;ident march'd towards tho&s;e parts where he was mo&s;t like to find them. He fir&s;t met with an entire company commanded by Capt. <HI>Den,</HI> of whom he &s;lew 23. and took the Captaine, Lievtenant, En&s;igne, and 27. common Soldiers Pri&s;o|ners, with 80. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">oare Armes.</P>
<P>From hence his Lord&s;hip ordered his march towards the Rebells, neer the River of <HI>Shanon,</HI> upon the River of <HI>Moylkerne,</HI> 4. or 5. miles above <HI>Lymrick,</HI> where with 1300. Hor&s;e, and 2000. foot, expecting the re&s;t of their Army, the Rebells intended to &s;ecure them&s;elves from fighting with us, untill they could get an advan|tage, that Country being a very fa&s;t Country by rea&s;on of great Rivers, Woods and, Bogs.</P>
<P>After 3. houres di&s;pute we gained the pa&s;&s;e with Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance, on the third day of this month, and ha|ving beaten of and routed their forces, pur&s;ued them as farre as we could, kild 100. upon the place, wounded many, whereof &s;ome are &s;ince dead, took 200. &s;ervicea|ble Hor&s;es, their Riders for&s;aking them, and kild and wounded many others, who at the fir&s;t pre&s;&s;ed hard up|on our foot, here we got 200. C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">wes about the Lord <HI>Bourck</HI> of <HI>Ca&s;tleconels,</HI> and Sir <HI>Edmond Wal&s;hes.</HI> That night we marched to <HI>New Ca&s;tle,</HI> a Garri&s;on of the Re|bells, within half a mile of the City of <HI>Lymrick,</HI> which was &s;urrendred upon &s;ummons, and quarter only for their lives, upon relation of the defeat given to their Ar|my. And here we re&s;ted the remainder of that night, Some of our troops pur&s;ued the Rebells over the River of
<PB N="5" REF="4"> <HI>Shanon,</HI> (which is very &s;eldome pa&s;&s;able thereabouts) into the County of <HI>Clare</HI> or <HI>Thomond,,</HI> whither mo&s;t of the Cattle about <HI>Lymrick</HI> (on this &s;ide) were driven over <HI>Lymerick bridge.</HI> The Lord Pre&s;ident &s;ecured the &s;ick and wounded Soldiers, with the baggage &amp; carriages with a good guard at another Ca&s;tle lately taken in, and mar|ched with the Army homewards 2, or 3. miles, and in the evening faced about and commanded a party of 600. Musqueteers, and as many Hor&s;e to march away and pa&s;&s;e the River, and drew up the re&s;t of the Army pre|&s;ently after to &s;ecure them, again&s;t any attempt.</P>
<P>The party that got over were di&s;po&s;ed into &s;everal di|vi&s;ions and commanded &s;everall wayes under tho&s;e Offi|cers that be&s;t knew the Country, Leivtenant <HI>Mathew Con&s;iden</HI> commanded one divi&s;ion towards <HI>Killallow,</HI> and having taken a pri&s;oner in his march, hee (to &s;ave his life) di&s;covreed where &s;ome Officers of quality were, upon the Lord Pre&s;idents Land called Bryens Bridge in <HI>Thomond,</HI> 6 myles from <HI>Lymrick</HI> wherupon he de&s;i&s;ted from &s;eeking after his prey, and early in the morning &s;urrounded the place where they were, &s;ome of the Offi|cers made &s;hift to get on hor&s;e back, but finding no po&s;|&s;ibility of e&s;caping, &s;ubmitted them&s;elves; Among tho&s;e Officers was a brother of the Lord Pre&s;idents, a Leiv|tenant Colonell of hor&s;e who being in <HI>France</HI> at the be|gining of the Rebellion, was thence inveigl'd by the Re|bells for their a&s;&s;i&s;tance; and his Lord&s;hip de&s;ires to &s;end him to the Parliament, the re&s;t of the party gained a prey of 8000 head of Cattell and at lea&s;t 5000 &s;heepe (the mo&s;t part of them upon the Lands belonging to Briens bridge,) with good plunder. The &s;heepe could not pa&s;&s;e the River, and many of the Cattell by rea&s;on
<PB N="6" REF="5"> of the Woods thereabout, and their wildne&s;&s;e by the lo&s;&s;e of their Calves got away, but our Soldiers fea&s;ted them&s;elves thereabouts, and brought away to our Gar|ri&s;ons neer two thou&s;and head of Cattell, which is a great reliefe unto them, our unexpected getting over the <HI>Shannon</HI> &s;trook &s;uch a terror into the Rebels of <HI>Thomond,</HI> that they burnt the Earle of <HI>Thomonds</HI> Ca&s;tle of <HI>Bun|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">atty,</HI> which they had garri&s;on'd.</P>
<P>The Lord Pre&s;ident with the Army is now returned for a few dayes to refre&s;h the Soldiers, who are gene|rally barefoot and extreame naked, and he intends to march pre&s;ently out againe towards the County of <HI>Tip|perary,</HI> and the borders of <HI>Lem&s;ter,</HI> whereof Col. <HI>Iones</HI> hath the command, which is conceived to be of much more advantage to the &s;ervice then any other cour&s;e, a&s;|well in &s;poyling the enemies quarters, as in diverting <HI>Pre&s;tons</HI> forces, which we heare are very &s;trong in tho&s;e parts towards <HI>Dublin.</HI></P>
<P>In this &s;ix weeckes abiding in the field, the Soldiers had but &s;ix pound of bi&s;quet and one pound of chee&s;e for e|very Soldier that marched, but have made &s;hift to live on what could be got in the Rebells quarters, where what we could not &s;ave, the Lo: Pre&s;ident cau&s;ed to bee burned, with many good Ca&s;tles and all hou&s;es gene|rally; (e&s;pecially for &s;ome myles about the City <HI>Lyme|ruk</HI>) to their great lo&s;&s;e and dammage, computed by us at 80000 pound at the lea&s;t, whereby they are much di&s;|abled from rai&s;ing and &s;upporting an Army, which they can very hardly make, unle&s;&s;e they can procure <HI>Owen Roe Neale</HI> to come to their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, which they give out they have obtain'd, &s;uppo&s;eing Pre&s;ton wilbe able to an&s;|wer all occa&s;ions in <HI>Lem&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Vl&s;ter,</HI> and the Conaught Rebells
<PB N="7" REF="5"> to defend them&s;elves, they are to have a con&s;ultation &s;hortly at Ca&s;hell (as we heare) about this affaire, which my Lord pre&s;ident is re&s;olved to u&s;e all dilligence to in|terupt, In the meane time the forces in the Garri&s;ons of <HI>Dungarvon,</HI> and <HI>Cappaquin</HI> with <HI>Li&s;more</HI> &amp; <HI>Tallow</HI> which we gained in <HI>May</HI> la&s;t have marched under Leiv. Col. <HI>Michaell Byrne</HI> into <HI>Butlers</HI> Country in <HI>Typerary</HI> by order of the Lord Pre&s;ident to make a diver&s;ion, and taken the Lord of Cahers Ca&s;tle called Grace Ca&s;tle; &s;tormed it, put the rogues to the &s;word &amp; got a good prey of 1800 head of Cattell and Garrans or Hor&s;es with &s;ome &s;tore of &s;heepe and though many of them were lo&s;t and Em|beziled, they brought home the mo&s;t part of them to their Gari&s;ons with &s;ome good plunder, I cannot omit to acquaint you, in the County of <HI>Lymrick,</HI> we &s;tormed &amp; burned the Abby of <HI>Adare</HI> held by the Rebells where four friers were burned and three taken Pri&s;oners, and al&s;o the Garri&s;on of <HI>Owney</HI> belonging to the heires of Sr. <HI>Edmond Wal&s;h,</HI> with a Ca&s;tle belonging to one Mr. <HI>Fox</HI> where all that were within &s;uffered death, &s;ave Fox him&s;elfe, who was let down by a rope from the Battle|ments who is kept pri&s;oner, and one de&s;perate Rogue who leapt from the battlements, (which few would have attempted) hopeing to make an e&s;cape, but was Knock|ed on the head by our Soldiers: Thus God hath ble&s;&s;ed us exceedingly in the field &s;ervice, and had my Lord &s;ome more foote, with &s;ome money to encourage the Soldiers, and carriages which are extreamely wanting, and clothes and &s;hooes, for the Souldiers, who are many of them almo&s;t naked, he would doubt|le&s;&s;e give the Parliament an account of this province beyond their expectation before this Winter pa&s;&s;e,
<PB N="8" REF="6"> no man can do more then he doth, with the meanes he has, &s;hould he take any great and con&s;iderable Towns, it will requre &s;o many men to Gari&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> them, that our forces re|maining, would not be, &s;ufficient to keep us ma&s;ters of the field, &amp; they are &s;uch and &s;o built, and lying on &s;uch Rivers that they ought to be kept when they are taken for the good of the &s;er|vice; and cannot ea&s;ily be demoli&s;ht, if we would, and therefore we hope God wil put it into the hearts of the parliament, to &s;end over &s;ome nece&s;&s;ary &s;upplyes &s;peedily to encourage us to pro|ceed in the fin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hing of their work here, which no man can w^t^h more valour vigilance and fidelity intend, nor with more &s;ati&s;|faction to the whole Army then the Lord <HI>Pre&s;ident</HI> doth who it hath plea&s;'d the Lord to make a happy in&s;trume~t in this &s;ervice. I crave your pardon for being thus prolix, and yet I have many things to acquaint you with, that all true Engli&s;h men that are lovers of their Country cannot be but well &s;atisfied to heare &s;ee|ing God workes &s;o graciou&s;ly for them, again&s;t the&s;e barba|rous Rebells even when they can lea&s;t attend it.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dated at Cork</HI>
<DATE><HI>the</HI> 12. <HI>of Augu&s;t</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Pri&s;oners taken.</HI>
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<ITEM><HI>Lievtenant Col. Christopher Bryen.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Adiutant Generall Mac. Grath.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Captain Bryen, Mac. Bryen Arra his &s;onne.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lievtenant Tirrelagh Bryen.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Captain Harbert.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Captain Fox.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lievtenant Colonell &ocirc; Callaghan.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lievtenant Bourke.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Captaine Mac. Grath taken but dyed of his Wounds.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Liev. Col. Ryan &s;laine and divers others of quallitie who&s;e number or names are not yet knowne.</HI></ITEM>
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<P><HI>Among&s;t the rest I may not omit the Lord of</HI> Muskerys <HI>page, who was taken with his Lords cloake in the pur&s;uit.</HI></P>
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