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<P>A LETTER FROM Sir Maurice Eu&s;tace Knight, His Maie&s;ties Serjeant at Law in the Kingdome of IRELAND, and Speaker of the <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons,</HI> in <HI>Parliament</HI> there.</P>
<P>Being a perfect Relation of the la&s;t true Newes from IRELAND.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>E. G.</HI> for <HI>I. Wright.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<P>_I Might have taken occa&s;ion many times &s;ince, you went from hence to have written unto you, concerning the Earle of <HI>Ormond,</HI> for in this great and generall apo&s;tacie, which hath happened in this Kingdome, no man of either Nation hath &s;tood more firme to the Crowne of England, nor ventured his owne per&s;on further for the &s;up|pre&s;&s;ing of the pre&s;ent rebellion then his Lord&s;hip hath done. I could write much to demon&s;trate this, if there were any doubt to be made thereof: But this being a truth, which cannot but be acknowledged by all, I pa&s;&s;e it over, &amp; will only give you account of his Lord&s;hips la&s;t journey, into our parts of the province of <HI>Lein&s;ter,</HI> where in a pitcht field upon fryday la&s;t in the afternoone, betweene th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ures of two and three; his Lord&s;hip gave in a field betweene <HI>Kelru&s;h,</HI> and <HI>Rathemoore,</HI> a great overthrow to the whole power of the coun|ties o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Wick<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">w, Wexford, Cathercaghe, Kildare,</HI> Queenes County, <HI>Kilkenny, Tip|perarie</HI> and &s;ome <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">orces which were drawne out of the County of <HI>We&s;tmeathe.</HI> And in this Battaile, he had to deale with his great Uncle, the Lord Vi&s;count <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">untgarret,</HI> his owne brother Mr. <HI>Richard Butler,</HI> the Lord of <HI>Iker|ni<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> marryed to his Aunt, and the Lord of <HI>Dunboyne,</HI> his neere kin&s;man, <HI>Tib|bet Funcell</HI> commonly knowne by the name of Baron <HI>Locher,</HI> who is marryed to his Lord&s;hips Aunt, and who&s;e Sonne and heire, is marryed to his Lord&s;hips Si&s;ter; you<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">g <HI>Bagnau</HI> who is Cou&s;in German to his Lord&s;hip; <HI>Philip O darre,</HI> Mr. <HI>Walter,</HI> and mo&s;t of the Gentry of our Counties of <HI>Kilkenny,</HI> and <HI>Tippera|rie;</HI> Generall <HI>Hugh Birne,</HI> Sir <HI>Morgan Cavenaugh,</HI> Colonell <HI>Fitz Gerrald</HI> of Bal|ly&s;oran, Colonell <HI>Talbot,</HI> Colonell <HI>Moore,</HI> Colonell <HI>Sutton,</HI> Mr. <HI>Rob. Ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">pole,</HI> Mr. <HI>Thomas Davills;</HI> and many more of great rank and condition, who were all beaten, and put to a mo&s;t &s;hamefull flight by his Lord&s;hip, who in the time of that battell, did like <HI>Levy</HI> forget father &amp; mother, neither did acknowledge his owne brethren, nor neere&s;t kin&s;men, but pur&s;ued them to the death. A &s;er|vice never to be forgotten, but to be had in remembrance, to his everla&s;ting honour. I give you this in gro&s;e at fir&s;t, becau&s;e I would not keepe the be&s;t newes, which hitherto wee have had long from you. And now having &s;atis|fied you to the full, give me leave to dige&s;t it further unto you, wherein I will faithfully and truly &s;et forth unto you every dayes &s;ervice.</P>
<P>Upon Saturday the &s;econd of this moneth, the Earle of <HI>Ormond</HI> did march from this City of <HI>Dublin</HI> towards the <HI>Naas,</HI> with 3000. Foot, and 500. Hor&s;e, and did encampe that night at <HI>Rathecoole,</HI> which is &s;ix miles from this City; his Lord&s;hip was not above two miles on his way, when a po&s;t was &s;ent after him, to let his Lord&s;hip know, that his Counte&s;&s;e &amp; Children, were landed at the Rings end, which many did think would have brought him&s;elfe back that
<PB REF="3" MS="y">night; But his mind was &s;o intent upon the great bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of the Kingdome about which he was then &s;ent, that though he had not &s;eene his Counte&s;&s;e nor Children in &s;ix moneths before, and could not a&s;&s;ure him&s;elfe that hee &s;hould live to &s;ee them, if that he omitted that opportunity, yet neither this nor any other con&s;ideration could bring him back from the Army, but lodged with them in the fields that night, as if the &s;pirit of that great warryer <HI>Vriah</HI> had beene in him, who &s;aid, The &s;ervants of my Lord are encamped in the open field, &s;hall I then goe to my hou&s;e to eate and to drinke, and to lie with my wife, I will not doe this thing.</P>
<P>Upon Sunday his Lord&s;hip marched from thence, the mountaine way to the <HI>Naas,</HI> and burned all that part of the Country, and encamped there that night; there was no oppo&s;ition given by the enemy all that way, only at <HI>Tip|per,</HI> which is within one mile of the <HI>Naas,</HI> there was &s;ome &s;hot made at &s;ome of our men, who went thither out of the Ca&s;tle by &s;ome of the Rebells; there we lo&s;t a trumpeter, and foure of our Souldi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, be&s;ides &s;ix which were hurt, which &s;o inraged our men, that they &s;ent for a barrell of powder to the <HI>Naas,</HI> and having made their approach unto it blew it up, and all who were in it, except <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hree men, who were taken and hanged, there was in the Ca&s;tle a Fri|ar, unckle to <HI>Sutton</HI> of <HI>Tipper,</HI> a fit incendiary to be blown up among&s;t the re&s;t, for it is &s;uch fiery &s;pirits, which have put this poore and mi&s;erable Kingdom into that flame, wherein now it is: upon Munday, the hurt Souldiers were &s;ent from the <HI>Naas</HI> to this City upon Carres, with a convoy of twelve hor&s;e, but the&s;e being &s;et upon betweene <HI>Rathecoole,</HI> and this City by &s;ome of the Re|bells, they were forced to leave the wounded men, to the cruelty of the Re|bells, who mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly and cruelly murthered them, and the poore in|nocent Car men, who it may be did wi&s;h them better then our &s;ide.</P>
<P>This accident thus happening, it &s;topped all intercour&s;e, betweene our Ar|my and the &s;tate, neither being able to &s;paire that &s;trength, which might pa&s;&s;e with &s;afetie betweene them, which kept us and them in ignorance, untill their returne to us, we not knowing how the Army did move, nor the army hearing from us, which was a mighty advantage unto the rebells, and a very great di&s;advantage unto our de&s;ignes.</P>
<P>Upon Tue&s;day at night, our Army came to <HI>Athye</HI> and rai&s;ed that Seidge, but the Towne, smen not knowing of the approach of our Army, and being hard &s;et to by the Rebells the night before fired mo&s;t part of the out Towne not being able to keep it, which was &s;ome di&s;appointment to our army vvhen they came to quarter there.</P>
<P>Upon Wedne&s;day, his Lord&s;hip re&s;ted there with the Army, but &s;ent Sir <HI>Patrick Weames</HI> Captaine of his owne troup, Captaine <HI>Arme&s;trong,</HI> and Cap|taine <HI>Harman</HI> to <HI>Catherlagh,</HI> to releeve the Ca&s;tle there, which for a long time had beene beleagured by the Rebells, but their Scouts di&s;covering our troups
<PB REF="3">gave notice thereof to the Rebells, and thereupon they fired the towne and betooke them&s;elves to flight, which our hor&s;e perceiving, made what ha&s;te they could after them and killed of them in the cha&s;e, 70. men, and had done execution upon the re&s;t, but that they betooke them&s;elves to a Bogg, where our hor&s;e could not &s;erve upon them; But they releeved the Ca&s;tle, and like|wi&s;e the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Clogh grevan,</HI> and returned that night to the Army. There was 700. of the Rebells in the Towne of <HI>Catherlagh,</HI> when our hor&s;e made their approach thither. The &s;ame day was the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Ballylivan</HI> likewi&s;e releeved by &s;ome hor&s;e, which his Lord&s;hip &s;ent thither.</P>
<P>Upon Thur&s;day his Lord&s;hip marched to <HI>Stradebally;</HI> where hee encamped that night, but left Colonell <HI>Crafforde</HI> at <HI>Athy,</HI> with &s;ome foot and hor&s;e to make good the Towne untill his Lord&s;hips returne; and the next day came to <HI>Marriborrow,</HI> and releeved the &s;ort there, which is a place of very great con|&s;equence; and &s;eated among&s;t ill and dangerous neighbours.</P>
<P>Upon Saturday his Lord&s;hip was taken with a burning feaver, which toge|ther with a great Flux, held him untill Tue&s;day; the one did abate the vio|lence and rage of the other; that Saturday Sir <HI>Charles Coot,</HI> and Sir <HI>Thomas Lucas,</HI> with &s;ome troupes of hor&s;e releeved <HI>Ballynekill,</HI> and the Burris, and killed divers of the Rebells, which lay before <HI>Ballynekill</HI> to the number of 80. and returned that night to <HI>Marriborow</HI> upon the Sunday being Ea&s;ter day, Sir <HI>Charles Coot,</HI> and Sir <HI>Thomas Lucas</HI> went with 250 hor&s;e, and releeved <HI>Birr</HI> and &s;ome other places, which were much di&s;tre&s;&s;ed: The hor&s;e had of this a very hard &s;ervice, being to pa&s;&s;e through woods, Boggs, and great fa&s;tne&s;&s;e, and in their way, had many skirmi&s;hes with the Rebells, but alwayes had the good fortune to beat them, many hor&s;es were lo&s;t this journey, and it is Gods great goodne&s;&s;e, that we did not &s;uffer in this more then vve did.</P>
<P>Whil&s;t the&s;e things were in acting, the Rebells did gather together from the Counties formerly mentioned; and upon Ea&s;ter Sunday di&s;played a|bove forty Colours, within two miles of <HI>Athy,</HI> on the further &s;ide of the Bur|row in the Queenes County; whereof Colonell <HI>Crafforde</HI> gave notice unto my Lord of <HI>Ormond</HI> by letters, and thereupon his Lord&s;hip returned back to <HI>Athy</HI> upon Wedne&s;day, and re&s;ted there with the Army upon Thur&s;day.</P>
<P>That Thur&s;day, his Lord&s;hip &s;ent to Sir <HI>Patrick Weames,</HI> and Captaine <HI>Armes-&s;trong,</HI> who were quartered at <HI>Grangomelan</HI> on this &s;ide of the river of the Barrow, and in a direct line oppo&s;ite to the place on the other &s;ide of the river, where the enemy was encamped to di&s;cover their number and &s;trength, whereupon they &s;ent out ten of their hor&s;e to informe them of the truth here|of, which being perceived by the enemy, they &s;ent 30. Hor&s;emen over the ri|ver, and each Hor&s;eman had a Mu&s;quetier behind him, vvith an intention to cut off tho&s;e ten Hor&s;emen of ours, but this being di&s;covered by Sir <HI>Patrike Weames,</HI> and Captaine <HI>Arme&s;trong,</HI> they &s;allyed forth vvith &s;ome hor&s;e, cut off
<PB REF="4">of the Musketiers, killed two of the hor&s;e-men, and the re&s;t did in their ha&s;te mi&s;&s;e the ford, and &s;wimmed over the river, where &s;ome of them were drow|ned. Sir <HI>Patricke Weames</HI> had his Hor&s;e killed under him in that &s;ervice.</P>
<P>This being notified to the Earle of <HI>Ormond,</HI> his Lord&s;hip came thither with &s;ome Troopes of H<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;e to view the enemy, who appeared on the other &s;ide of the River of the <HI>Barrow</HI> at a place called <HI>Tankerd&s;towne</HI> right over again&s;t <HI>Grangemellam,</HI> and as his Lord&s;hip and the re&s;t of the Commanders who were then with him could judge, they could be no le&s;&s;e then &s;ix or &s;even thou|&s;and foot, be&s;ides 300. hor&s;e. His Lord&s;hip thus &s;atisfied by his owne eye, returned to <HI>Athy,</HI> and gave out that the next day h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> would draw out of the Towne and advance thither to fight with them, but his re&s;olution was to march away the next day, &amp; in regard that he had done the bu&s;ine&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, he went for, not to &s;ight upon &s;uch oddes, if that he might avoyd it. But this was not &s;o &s;ecretly carried, but the enemy had notice thereof, which made <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> to di&s;lodge that night, and to pa&s;&s;e over the River by the Bridge of <HI>Moygame,</HI> and prepare them&s;elves for a pur&s;uit.</P>
<P>Upon Friday morning about &s;even of the clocke our Army did ri&s;e, and began their march, and kept the high and neere&s;t way coward this City, but they were not halfe a mile on their way, when they di&s;covered their bels marching wide of them on the right hand in another rode way, and it <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> that there was a bog which was three quarters of a mile in bredth betweene both the Armies, which ranne betweene them for three or foure miles; and &s;o they marched in view of each other all that way, with their Colours flying and Drums bearing; when our Army halted they likewi&s;e halted, and when ours did move they did move, and &s;o they kept this po&s;ture untill both waies did meet, by which time the vantgard of the Rebels was within 3 furlongs of our van. And at the meeting of both the waies there was a narrow pa&s;&s;age through which our Army was to pa&s;&s;e, where it was thought the enemy did intend to charge our reare, and cut off our men, which if we had advanced forward, they might have done with much ea&s;e, it being a place of very great advantage for the enemy, which the Earle of <HI>Ormond</HI> perceiving, he cau&s;ed Sir <HI>Charles Coote</HI> who commanded in chiefe under his Lord&s;hip, and the re&s;t of the Commanders and Officers of the field together, and told them that before he went any further he would fight with the enemy, though all the Rebels in <HI>Ireland</HI> we<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e there together, to which they all mo&s;t cheerfully and willing a&s;&s;ented and his Lord&s;hip further told them that they had God and a good cur&s;e on their &s;ide, and that that day &s;hould be his, and he doubted not but that God would fight for them; and thereupon drew up his battell in that &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rt as did be&s;t &s;ort with the ground where it was pitched, and the enemy did the like in another great field which was oppo&s;ite to the place where our Army was. But the battell of the enemy was much &s;ooner in order then ours
<PB REF="4">by rea&s;on that they had nothing to hinder the drawing up of their men, and that our Carriages which were very many, &s;o divided the Van from the Reare that it tooke up &s;ome time to bring them together, &s;o as if the enemy had fallen upon us as &s;oone as they were ready, we &s;hould have beene in &s;ome hazzard, but they &s;tood &s;till where they pitched their battell, and did not move forward: whereupon my Lord of <HI>Ormond</HI> gave order to Sir <HI>Charles Coote</HI> and the re&s;t of the Commanders and Officers according to their &s;everall charge to advance forward, which they mo&s;t couragiou&s;ly did, and came up to the field, where the enemy &s;tood in battell array; and the ditches being levelled by our Pioners our Field-peeces were drawn up, and order given that they &s;hould play upon the enemy, which was done, but with little or no lo&s;&s;e unto them, onely the noi&s;e with which they were not much acquainted did &s;eeme &s;o to amaze them as they &s;tood like &s;o many &s;tatues without life or motion. After this our Musketiers did their part, and &s;oone after by di|rection from my Lord of <HI>Ormond,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Lucas,</HI> Sir <HI>Richard Greenowill,</HI> Sir <HI>Patricke Weames,</HI> Captaine <HI>Garnyer,</HI> Captaine <HI>Arme&s;trong,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Captaines of Hor&s;e did in an in&s;tant and &s;o gallantly charge the Rebels that upon the &s;udden they routed them, and had the execution of them for two or three miles, onely there was a great body of 2000. led by the Lord Vice|count <HI>Mountgarret</HI> and Generall <HI>Hugh Birne</HI> which wheeled about and thought to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them&s;elves of our Ordinance, Carriage, and Amunition, which my Lord of <HI>Ormond</HI> perceiving, he drew out one of his divi&s;ions to at|tend that great body, and with them and &s;ome few volunteere Hor&s;e, to the number of thirty, which were then with his Lord&s;hip (for all the re&s;t were following the excution) he faced that body, and within a &s;hort time did like|wi&s;e breake them and put them to rout. There were &s;ix or &s;even hundred of them killed in the place, and very many wounded; and if our Hor&s;e had not been harrowed by their journey to <HI>Birne</HI> the execution had been very great, but that &amp; the evening drawing on, and a great bog vvhich was neere, where|unto they did runne, did pre&s;erve very many of them, vvho otherwi&s;e had been cut off: divers vvho have been in the battell, have a&s;&s;ured me that the bog vvas all over blacke vvith them like a field in &s;eed-time vvith Rookes. They lo&s;t twenty Colours, and many Drums, all their Powder and Amuni|tion, the Lord Vicecount <HI>Montgarrets</HI> Waine drawn vvith eight Oxen, where all his provi&s;ion vvas, his Sumpture, and the Lord of <HI>Ikernies</HI> Sumpture. There vvere many of note and quality &s;laine and vvounded in battell who were not knovvn, and only the heads of the Lord of <HI>Dunboyns</HI> brother, the Lord of <HI>Ikernis</HI> &s;onne, and Colonell <HI>Cavenaghe,</HI> brought by &s;ome of the &s;ouldiers hi|ther. We did not loo&s;e one of our Foot in this conflict, and very fevv of our Hor&s;e.</P>
<P>This victory mu&s;t be attributed vvholy to God, for we were not above two
<PB REF="5">thou&s;and Foot &s;trong, and 500. Hor&s;e, in regard that very many of the Army vvhich went forth were &s;ick, and divers of them left in garri&s;on in the places which vvere releeved; and the enemy was at lea&s;t 300. Hor&s;e, and 7000. Foot vvell appointed, be&s;ides 2 or 3 thou&s;and more who were not &s;o wel appointed but attended to doe execution if they had broken upon our men. They had likewi&s;e all the advantages that they could de&s;ire, for our men and hor&s;e were harrowed vvith long and continuall marches, but there men vvere fre&s;h and vigorous, and all the day before ha&s;tning to the fight like Lyons to the prey, <HI>parturiunt montes,</HI> &amp;c. They had the advantage of the ground being upon a hill, and our men forced to march up unto them, and they had likewi&s;e the Wind of us. But the Lord of Ho&s;ts vvas on our &s;ide and tooke away their former &s;pirits and re&s;olutions from them, having neither hearts nor re&s;olu|tions to fight, onely in the flight many of them&s;elves did kill one another, and &s;ome of them vvho e&s;caped the battell, being afterward asked how they lo&s;t the field, they &s;aid that no rea&s;on could be given for it, but that God vvas on our &s;ide: The night before the battell, they vvere &s;o confident of the victory, that they laid downe rules to vvhom quarter &s;hould be given, and to vvhom not, and how the Wagons and &s;poiles &s;hould be divided, and that after the defeate they &s;hould march to this City of <HI>Dublin</HI> vvith our Colours, and fall upon it. If vve had lo&s;t the day, the Kingdome certainely had been in great hazzard, and if that vve doe vvell con&s;ider it, we &s;hall finde this victory to be of as great honour to our &s;ide, and of as much con&s;equence, all things con|&s;idered, as that vvhich was given at <HI>Kin&s;ale,</HI> The Lord make us thankfull. Friday is appointed for a &s;olemne day of due publike thanks in our Churches for this victory vvhich vvas got the la&s;t Friday, vvhich is the day of our pub|lique fa&s;t and humiliation. And &s;ure vve vvere then in our Churches &s;triving with God like <HI>Moy&s;es</HI> in prayer at the time of the battell, and God heard us.</P>
<P>As &s;oon as this victory was thus miraculou&s;ly gained, and a retreat &s;ounded, the Earle of <HI>Ormond</HI> called together all the Commanders, Captaines, and Souldiers, and in the &s;ame place vvhere God &s;hewed him&s;elf &s;o gloriou&s;ly for them they did give God &s;olemne thanks, herein imitating <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and the chil|dren of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> vvho being pur&s;ued by their enemies, and delivered from them, &s;ung this &s;ong unto the Lord, and &s;pake &s;aying, <HI>I will &s;ing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriou&s;ly, the Hor&s;e and his rider he hath thrown downe, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>I dare not venture to &s;et forth the particular acts of every Commander and valiant &s;ouldier in this battell, but &s;ure every mans valour was &s;uch that he who did be&s;t might envy his companion, every man &s;triving to out-goe each other in this common cau&s;e. I have tyred my &s;elfe, and I doe beleeve that by this time I have tyred you, and yet I doe wi&s;h that the like &s;ubject may often fall out for me to write, and you to read; I commit you to God, and remaine,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your faithfull friend, and &s;ervant, <HI>Mau. Eu&s;tace.</HI></SIGNED>
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