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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>AN ACCOUNT Of CAPTAIN Tho. HAMILTONS SEIZING ARGILES SHIPS, And takeing from Him a Ca|&s;tle with Four hundred Barrells of Powder, and &s;everal peices of Cannon in Three letters from two &s;e|veral Per&s;ons of Honour in the North of Ireland to their friends in Dublin.</P>
<P><HI>Dublin,</HI> printed 1685.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>Balimenagh <DATE>15 June 1685.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
<SALUTE>Sir.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>LA&s;t Night arrived here a &s;on of Mr. <HI>Rowans</HI> from <HI>Scotland,</HI> and brings an account that this For might pa&s;t, he has been at <HI>Air,</HI> and was a board the <HI>Fi&s;her;</HI> Commanded by Captain <HI>Hamilton</HI> near <HI>Argile,</HI> and went with 10 men in a &s;mall Boat to <HI>Loghead</HI> la&s;t week, and returned very &s;oon to <HI>Air. Argyle</HI> has 26 <HI>Birlings</HI> at Sea, together with the Ve&s;&s;ells he brought from <HI>Holland</HI> with him: which he has man'd with about 3000 men; that the Kings Shipping have &s;urrounded him, betwixt <HI>Boot Cowell</HI> and I&s;land <HI>Magery.</HI></P>
<P>That on Friday la&s;t there were many Guns heard, and 'tis thought they have engaged at Sea: <HI>Charles Cam|bell, Argyle</HI>'s Son is in <HI>Kintyre</HI> with 5000 men, <HI>Athol</HI> is in <HI>Jnerera</HI> with 6000 men, the late Marquels of <HI>Huntly</HI> now Duke of <HI>Gordon,</HI> was to joyn him la&s;t week with a thou&s;and men, and the <HI>Mac Lanes</HI> with Four thou&s;and, there are about Five hundred <HI>Whiggs</HI> got together in <HI>Galaway,</HI> and other Rebellious parts there abouts: head+ed by two gentlmen Capt. <HI>Stranger,</HI> and Capt. <HI>Welcome;</HI> again&s;t whom, there are Fourteen hundred of the Kings Forces gone; it is though tho&s;e in <HI>Scotlantd,</HI> will not require any of the Army from hence, for they have now m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n and hor&s;e more then they can finde provi&s;ion for.</P>
<P>Sir, <HI>John Coghran</HI> went la&s;t week to <HI>Grenock,</HI> dined there, and took thence forty or fifty Bowes of meal; it &s;eems two Troops of the Militia commanded by two Nephews of <HI>Sr, John Coghrans</HI> being informed that <HI>Ar|gyles</HI> men were taking away Meal &amp;c. Repaired to the
<PB N="4" REF="3">&s;hore, but were &s;oon beaten off with the Guns from a|board.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Rowan</HI> &s;aw <HI>Sir John Edgworth</HI> la&s;t Thur&s;day night at <HI>Air,</HI> from whence he parted next day to <HI>Edin|borough,</HI> &s;ince the writing of this, I hear there is an Ex|pre&s;s come from <HI>Scotland</HI> that <HI>Argyle</HI> was &s;urpri&s;ed in his Fort, by Capt. <HI>Hamilton</HI> in the Fi&s;her, that mo&s;t of his men were killed, and taken pri&s;oners, him&s;elf e&s;cap|ed narrowly, di&s;gui&s;ed in a livery Coat, that <HI>Atholl</HI> &amp;c. are now pur&s;uing his remaining Forces.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>Sea Coa&s;t <DATE>June 16th. 1685.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
<SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Ye&s;terday looking on <HI>Scotland,</HI> and thinking of the unhapine&s;s, <HI>Argiles</HI> fate had hurryed him&s;elf into; I received the account I now &s;end you, that intending to the main from <HI>Boot</HI> at the mouth of the River <HI>Clyde,</HI> he &s;truck of into an Arm of the Sea, which ran &s;ome few miles into the Country, thinking from tho&s;e places there abouts, to rai&s;e more men, but, before he could get back he was &s;urrounded with Twelve thou&s;and of the Kings Army, and in his pa&s;&s;age out into the Sea, being very narrow, was blockt up by Capt. <HI>Tho: Hamilton,</HI> in the Kings <HI>Fi&s;her</HI> riding about that Coa&s;t, (which I my &s;elf &s;aw on Sunday la&s;t) <HI>Argile</HI> finding him&s;elf be&s;et, fortified him&s;elf in a &s;trong Ca&s;tle that is within a &s;mal I&s;land, in an Arm of the Sea, where he now is, and his Four Ships were with him, the Channel was too narrow for any of our Ships to enter in, being thus &s;ecured the Kings Army &s;ent to the Privy Coun&s;ell of <HI>Scotland</HI> to know, if they &s;hould immediately proceed to batter
<PB N="5" REF="3">down the place where he was, which by taking down &s;ome Gunns from the Kings Ships, they could ea&s;ily do from the main Land; his mad &s;on <HI>Charles</HI> is with him, his Forces do not con&s;i&s;t of above Three thou&s;and men, many having le&s;t him, his Son burnt the Bi&s;hops hou&s;e in <HI>Boot,</HI> and had &s;et Fire to the Ca&s;tle, which his Father quenched and chid him for his violent Temper.</P>
<P>Tho many preparations are making here for the waf|ting over of our Iri&s;h Army thither: yet I do not believe (tho the Fox were not yet in the toile) we &s;hould go for I know that tho&s;e Country men are too proud, to ad|mit of any Aid from abroad; having a great way to fend to the po&s;t. I conclude,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips Faihfull J. B.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>Sea coa&s;t <DATE>June the 18th. 1685.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
<SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IMmediately after my la&s;t to you was di&s;patcht, I re|ceived this following Account, that ye&s;terday morning, Capt. <HI>Tho: Hamilton</HI> that Commanded the Kings <HI>Fi&s;h|er,</HI> Attacqued <HI>Argiles</HI> Fortification, and that the Can|non plaid &s;o &s;trongly that his men were force to quit it after having left matches and traines of powder to blow up the Ca&s;tle, which Capt. <HI>Hamilton</HI> prevented by &s;end|ing men on &s;hore in the very nick of time, he has taken in the Ca&s;tle Four hundred Barrells of Powder, and &s;eve|ral Peices of Cannon he has be&s;ides taken all his Ships, and Capt, <HI>Hamilton</HI> is actually in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Ca|&s;tle, the Marqui&s;s of <HI>Atholl</HI> is now in pur&s;uit of <HI>Argile,</HI> and Capt. <HI>Hamiltons</HI> Letter &s;ayes that he Que&s;tions not but his next news wil be of <HI>Argiles</HI> utter de&s;truction.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips Faithfull, <HI>J. B.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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