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<P>A REMONSTRANCE OF The beginnings and proceedings of the Rebellion in the County of <HI>Cavan,</HI> within the Province of ULSTER in IRELAND, From the 23. of <HI>October,</HI> 1641. untill the 15. of <HI>June,</HI> 1642. Whereof hitherto nothing hath been reported.</P>
<P>Whereunto is added, The Acts, and twenty nine Conclu&s;ions of that great and generall Congregation OF Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, and others, All of the Romi&s;h Clergy in IRELAND, met in the City of <HI>Kilkenny</HI> in that Kingdom, on the 10. 11. and 13. of <HI>May</HI> 1642.</P>
<P>Concerning the pre&s;ent State of the Warre in IRELAND, and for the ordering of matters appertaining to the &s;ame, both there, and by Negotiation with forraign Princes.</P>
<P>Written, &s;et forth, and pre&s;ented to the mo&s;t Honourable the Hou&s;es of Parliament, By <HI>Henry Iones,</HI> D D.</P>
<P>There is al&s;o added a Letter written from <HI>Dublin, Augu&s;t</HI> 4. 1642. Containing &s;ome late and very remarkable pa&s;&s;ages in IRELAND.</P>
<P><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 11. <HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Godfrey Emer&s;on.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>The Copy of a Letter from <HI>Dublin,</HI> dated <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> 4. 1642.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Loving Brother,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Have been lately at <HI>Droghedah,</HI> about a Lievtenants place that was promi&s;ed me; between that and <HI>Dub|lin,</HI> the Rebels did fight with us; there were of ours, but &s;even of Captain <HI>Marows</HI> Troop, who were &s;ent as a Convoy for my Lord <HI>Blaney</HI> his &s;onne, Some of their follow|ers, and my &s;elf: The enemy was above four&s;core Hor&s;e; we charged them four &s;everall times, and made them flee; We have two &s;everall Armies gone out of <HI>Dublin,</HI> one towards <HI>Kells,</HI> be|ing the way to the County of <HI>Cavan;</HI> The other to the County of <HI>Kildare:</HI> They have taken &s;everall Ca&s;tles, and left Gari&s;ons in them. The Rebels dare not give our men battell; But we hear, That they are very &s;trong in <HI>Mun&s;ter,</HI> And mo&s;t of their forces of <HI>Meath, Monaghan, Tyrone, Fermanagh,</HI> and <HI>Armagh,</HI> are in the County of <HI>Cavan,</HI> where is their whole &s;trength that can look upon the&s;e parts, and there are they &s;trongly fortified. They have burnt all the Towns a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d Ca&s;tles, not &s;paring their own dwel|lings, in the Counties of <HI>Monaghan,</HI> and <HI>Armagh.</HI> Here may appear how &s;mall their confidence is, while they burn their holds. The Scotch Army is within three miles of <HI>Dundalk,</HI> and hath given the enemy many overthrows, So as they dare not meet them any more. The <HI>Scots</HI> have taken from the Rebels about <HI>6000.</HI> Cows, and as many Hor&s;es of all &s;orts. There were <HI>2500.</HI> Cows by the enemy, driven away from the <HI>Scots,</HI> which fell among the Engli&s;h Army; So that what doth e&s;cape the one, the other doth
<PB N="4" REF="3"> take. They would be quickly &s;ubdued, if all things were right in <HI>England.</HI> Here is great want of money, whereby the Souldiers are ready to mutine. There is one Captain <HI>Vaughan</HI> commanding a Troop of Hor&s;e, who is Gari&s;on'd in <HI>Dundalk;</HI> he with forty Musketti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs, and his Hor&s;e, did this la&s;t week go forth in the night to Scot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">, and pillage abroad; being about three miles from <HI>Dun|dalk,</HI> he met an Iri&s;h woman, whom he threatned to kill, if &s;he told him not whence &s;he came; She promi&s;ed, &s;o her life were &s;pa|red, to do good &s;ervice, and enformed him that about &s;even miles thence, there was a very &s;trong Ca&s;tle, wherein were <HI>300.</HI> men well provided, and the place well &s;tored with pillage; and that con&s;tantly, about one hour before day, the chiefe&s;t man among them went out to his devotions in a clo&s;e adjoyning to the Ca&s;tle, having the Keyes of the Ca&s;tle about him. The Captain laid for him, and found to to be according to his intelligence; he &s;uddenly laid hold on the man, whom having made &s;ure, he opened the Ca&s;tle Gate, and with his Muskettiers entred, where the Rebels being &s;urpri&s;ed, they were all put to the &s;word, not one man of ours being lo&s;t. Here they found good &s;tore of good pillage. This is all the News I have for the pre&s;ent, &amp;c.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your loving Brother <HI>Hugh Culme.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>The Beginning and Progre&s;&s;e of the REBELLION In the County of CAVAN, in the Pro|vince of ULSTER in IRELAND,</HI> From <HI>OCTOBER 23. 1641.</HI> unto <HI>JUNE 15. 1642.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe County of <HI>Cavan,</HI> whereinto no part of our Forces hath hitherto made any the lea&s;t impre&s;&s;ion, is at this time the Receptacle of all the Rebellious <HI>Lords, Gentlemen,</HI> and other their Adherents, who have been for|ced out of the Counties of <HI>Dublin, Meath, Louth, Monaghan, Fermanagh,</HI> and el&s;|where thereabout, where <HI>our Armies</HI> have, by Gods power, victoriou&s;ly marched. From hence were &s;ent out the fir&s;t of that Rebellious rout, who dur&s;t a&s;|&s;ume the boldne&s;&s;e, by leaving their own &s;eats, to make incur&s;ions upon us, over-running the <HI>County</HI> of <HI>Meath,</HI> and &s;urpri&s;ing the <HI>Towns</HI> of <HI>Trim, Kelles, Navan, Ardbraccan, Athboy,</HI> and thence proceeding to the <HI>&s;iege</HI> of <HI>Drogheda:</HI> And from <HI>this place,</HI> it is feared, they may again &s;hew them&s;elves, to our di&s;advantage, if it be any longer, as it hath been hitherto, neglected. Which, that it may not, I have herein offered a brief Di&s;cour&s;e of the &s;trength and proceedings of the <HI>Rebel</HI> in <HI>that part,</HI> from the 23. of <HI>October,</HI> 1641. untill the 15. of <HI>June,</HI> 1642. purpo&s;ing further to inlarge it in many remarkable pa&s;&s;ages in the <HI>generall Treati&s;e,</HI> that &s;hall hereafter (God willing) be &s;et forth, of the <HI>whole progre&s;&s;e of that War throughout the whole Kingdom,</HI> as <HI>lea&s;ure</HI> and <HI>encouragement</HI> &s;hall be thereunto afforded.</P>
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<P>The 23. of <HI>October,</HI> 1461. was the <HI>Day</HI> &s;et down by the <HI>Con&s;pi|rators,</HI> for the <HI>generall undertaking and practice of that mo&s;t horrid Rebellion;</HI> yet did it not, notwith&s;tanding, in all places appear at once; partly out of the backwardne&s;&s;e of &s;ome, who would fir&s;t in the proceedings of others, &s;ee how far, and with what &s;ecurity they might put them&s;elves upon that work; partly by a fore-laid com|pact, that <HI>&s;ome</HI> (they e&s;pecially of the Iri<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="2 letters"> Lords, and others in the Counties of <HI>Dublin, Meath, Louth,</HI> and &s;ome other parts of <HI>Lein|&s;ter</HI>) pretending to joyn for the publike &s;ervice again&s;t the <HI>&V;l&s;ter</HI> Rebells, as did their Ance&s;tors in the former Rebellions, they might procure <HI>Arms</HI> out of the <HI>&s;tore at Dublin,</HI> which they wanted, and w^c^h might after be imployed again&s;t us. This &s;ome obtained, though but &s;paringly; for the Lords Ju&s;tices and Councel finding their own weakne&s;&s;e for the pre&s;ent conceived it not expedient, by di&s;covering of &s;u&s;pition, to give them occa&s;ion at that time to break out, again&s;t whom we might after if they did, be better prepared. Some al&s;o were the longer kept off from declaring them&s;elves, by their failing in the fir&s;t and main <HI>Act,</HI> the &s;urpri&s;ing of the <HI>Ca&s;tle of Dublin;</HI> and others being for &s;ome while &s;tartled at the Re&s;olution of the <HI>Hono|rable hou&s;es of Parliament in England,</HI> for the &s;ending into <HI>Ireland</HI> great and &s;peedy &s;upplies of men and money.</P>
<P>Yet if any were backward, the <HI>&V;l&s;ter Rebels</HI> were not; and among them, none more forward then the Iri&s;h in the <HI>County of Cavan,</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of the <HI>Septs,</HI> of the <HI>Reilys</HI> in chief, and the <HI>mac Gawzans, Bradys, Siridens, mac Karvans,</HI> and <HI>Macabes,</HI> with others of infe|riour note. Of <HI>the&s;e, Philip mac Hugh mac Shane O Rely</HI> was cho|&s;en for chief Commander, he being head of the <HI>Sept</HI> of the <HI>O Rely's,</HI> and in <HI>Parliament</HI> appearing as <HI>Knight of the Shire</HI> for that <HI>County.</HI></P>
<P>But <HI>he</HI> who fir&s;t appeared as <HI>head</HI> in this Action, was the then <HI>high-Sheriff</HI> of <HI>that County,</HI> formerly writing him&s;elf <HI>Miles Reily,</HI> but having with the &s;haking off of his Obedience to the <HI>Engli&s;h Government,</HI> ca&s;t off what might in his <HI>Name</HI> &s;ound <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> he is now known by the Name of <HI>Mulmore mac Edmond O Reily.</HI></P>
<P>This de&s;perate <HI>yong man</HI> fir&s;t lead the way; and on the <HI>Saturday</HI> in the afternoon being the 23. of <HI>October,</HI> 1641. by vertue of <HI>his Office</HI> he rai&s;ed the <HI>Po&s;&s;e comitatus,</HI> pretending that &s;ome Rebells were either already, or ready to break in upon the Country from the adjoyning Counties; his fir&s;t work was upon this pretence, and
<PB N="3" REF="4"> for the publike &s;ervice, to gather in what Arms were in the hands of the Briti&s;h who dwelt &s;catteringly, they ther<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">by &s;o wanting the ad|vice and a&s;&s;i&s;tance of each other. All this was in that part of the country where he dwelt, done almo&s;t in a moment by his Bailiffs &amp; Agents to that end di&s;po&s;ed in all plac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s; he him&s;elf going about wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re he conceived his pre&s;ence was mo&s;t requi&s;ite for this work; whereby all that part of the country was &s;uddenly di&s;armed, exce|pting &s;uch places of &s;trength, and per&s;ons of note, whom he would not acquaint with this pretence, le&s;t they might find out the feat. All this was done without any &s;hew of violenee o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> injury to any, either in word or action; many offering up their arms, and applauding the care and diligence of the Sheriff for the defence of the country, o|thers not yet medled withall, nothing doubting their own &s;ecurity, while they &s;aw others no way (as they did conceive) damnified.</P>
<P>Bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> this Rebell had &s;oon unmasked him&s;elf, when within a few hours, the &s;ame day, he fir&s;t entred the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Farnam,</HI> within one mile of the Town of <HI>Cavan,</HI> and thence took out Arms, Pikes, and Mu&s;qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ts, but none fixed &s;o many as might arm more then 50 men; and forthwith with his rabble of followers po&s;ted to <HI>Cloghouter,</HI> 3 miles thence, where, under colour of accu&s;tomed friend&s;hip, he im|braced, but there taking pri&s;oner <HI>Arthur Culme</HI> E&s;quire, Captain of his Maje&s;ties fort of <HI>Cloghouter</HI> (a fort of great &s;trength, environed with a deep water, and di&s;tant from &s;hore more then Mu&s;quet &s;hot) The Captain he laid up in the <HI>oa&s;tle,</HI> committing both to the charge of <HI>Owen &ocirc; Rely,</HI> w^t^h the title of <HI>Con&s;table of the ca&s;tle of Cloghouter.</HI> Next day being the 24, this <HI>Sheriff</HI> with what forces he could rai&s;e on the &s;udden in that part of the County, proceeded to meet with <HI>Philip mac Hugh O Reyly,</HI> the chief Comander, and with his forces preparing to make their approaches to <HI>Belturbet;</HI> which, though it were not the <HI>County Town,</HI> yet was it the mo&s;t populous, and of all others the be&s;t <HI>Engli&s;h Plantation</HI> in that County, there being &s;up|po&s;ed to have been at that time about 1500 of all &s;orts, of all which 4 or 500 were men for &s;ervice, were th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y armed accordingly.</P>
<P>This was by the Rebels conceived to be fir&s;t &s;ecured, le&s;t di&s;cover|ing their intent they might make head, and &s;o hinder their proceed|ings el&s;where; yet could they not come &s;o &s;oon, neither did they carry the matter with a pretext &s;o fair, but that they were found out; for be&s;ides the report of taking <HI>Captain Culme</HI> pri&s;oner, and
<PB N="4" REF="5"> &s;ecuring the fort for them&s;elves, which no way forted with what at fir&s;t they had given out, they were fully di&s;covered by many pil|laged and &s;tript <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> who out of the neighbour-County of <HI>Fer|managh</HI> had e&s;caped the fury of that mon&s;ter of men, <HI>Roury mac Guyre,</HI> brother to the Lord <HI>mac Guyre,</HI> and head of the Rebells in that County, who had the &s;ame time been on the &s;ame work that were the&s;e in the County of <HI>Cavan.</HI> To which al&s;o was added, that Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton</HI> Knight and Baronet, having received intelli|gence of the&s;e proceedings, had &s;ent unto <HI>Belturbet,</HI> and <HI>Cavan,</HI> de&s;iring they would &s;tand upon their guard, and not be deluded with pretences, as were others. After &s;ending particularly unto <HI>Ca|ptain Robert Baily,</HI> who commanded a <HI>foot company</HI> in the Town of <HI>Cavan,</HI> and to <HI>Captain Richard Ryves,</HI> commanding Sir <HI>John Borla&s;es troop,</HI> and garri&s;on'd in <HI>Belturbet;</HI> that they would draw to him towards <HI>Keilay</HI> a place of &s;trength, that joyning to them the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> about <HI>Belturbet, Cavan,</HI> and el&s;where, they might in an <HI>uni|ted body</HI> make <HI>head</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Rebell;</HI> had this cour&s;e been taken, there might have been made up a body of 1000 men, if perhaps that number would not rather have doubled by the coming unto them of &s;uch Briti&s;h as fled to the County from <HI>Fermanagh</HI> in very great multitudes; hereby might the proceedings of that Rebell have been at a &s;top, if not wholly defeated, and they kept in work at home, &s;o as they &s;hould not (as they did after) intend the &s;ending of forces to <HI>Droghedah,</HI> which they could not have &s;pared. But why this did not take, I cannot an&s;wer. If it be not attributed to the &s;udden confu&s;ion of all things, the time admitting no delibera|tion, and this propo&s;ition from Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton</HI> being words at di&s;tance, wanting the pre&s;ence of &s;uch as might give them a full di&s;cu&s;&s;ion, and an&s;wer the objections that might be brought unto them. Captain <HI>Ryves</HI> upon the fir&s;t hearing of the&s;e tumults made ready of his Troop as many as were not di&s;per&s;ed in the Country; for the pre&s;ent making up the number of 30. then did he call upon the <HI>Town&s;men</HI> of <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lturbet</HI> to &s;tand upon their defence, which they prepared with all forwardne&s;&s;e to do; untill that <HI>Philip mac Hugh O Reily,</HI> and other heads of the Rebels had &s;ent to <HI>Belturbet,</HI> profe&s;&s;ing them&s;elves ready for their defence again&s;t the incur&s;ions of <HI>Roury mac Guyre</HI> in the next County, who threatned (as they gave out) to break in upon them, they promi&s;ing to put a Guard in|to
<PB N="5" REF="5"> the Town for their &s;ecurity, without the lea&s;t prejudice to any of the Inhabitants, either in per&s;on or goods; the Town al&s;o &s;ending out &s;ome to treat with the Rebels, whom they found to intend more then was pretended; but doubting their own &s;trength for oppo&s;i|tion, the place being not defencible, the Church being all the guard it had, and hearing the Rebels to be about 4000 &s;trong: Here upon <HI>Captain Ryves</HI> conceiving it time for him to provide for his &s;ecu|rity with tho&s;e few men he could on the &s;udden get together, po&s;ted towards <HI>Cavan,</HI> the Country and time of the yeer being not for <HI>&s;er|vice of hor&s;e,</HI> and knowing the aim of the enemy to be chiefly for &s;urpri&s;ing him and his <HI>arms.</HI> From <HI>Cavan</HI> after &s;ome little &s;tay, he &s;et forward by <HI>Dalys bridge,</HI> and &s;o recovered <HI>Ardbraccan,</HI> a &s;trong Ca&s;tle of the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Meaths,</HI> 22 miles from <HI>Dublin,</HI> where, by command from the Lords Ju&s;tices he remained for &s;ecuring that part of the Country; he being thereby re&s;erved for tho&s;e Honorable &s;ervices which &s;ince that time he hath done, in them much de&s;er|ving of the publike.</P>
<P>The treaty between the <HI>Town&s;men</HI> of <HI>Belturbet</HI> and the <HI>Rebels</HI> had now proceeded &s;o far that they put them&s;elves into the prote|ction, and under that guard placed there by <HI>Philip O Reyly,</HI> having fir&s;t given up their <HI>Arms,</HI> &s;o as now they re&s;ted wholly at their mercie, yet violence for that time not being offered unto any.</P>
<P><HI>Belturbet</HI> being thus &s;ecured for their own, they did next look towards <HI>Cavan,</HI> the <HI>County Town,</HI> and 7 miles from <HI>Belturbet;</HI> the place was not defencible, the mo&s;t part of the Inhabitants al&s;o being Iri&s;h and Papi&s;ts; &s;o that <HI>Captain Bayly</HI> was enforced to be|take him&s;elf unto the <HI>County Gaol,</HI> the place of greate&s;t &s;trength that was there, yet indeed of no &s;trength to oppo&s;e an enemy. His company at the full was but 50. of which many were then ab|&s;ent, and the mo&s;t of tho&s;e that were pre&s;ent were Iri&s;h, upon whom he could not relye: be&s;ides, that he wanted powder, having no more, or not much more then his Bandeleers to tru&s;t unto. The enemy came in with 3000 men, be&s;ides a confu&s;ed multitude of others, followers of the Army, again&s;t whom the Town could make no re&s;i&s;tance, and the <HI>Ca&s;tle</HI> was by them &s;ummoned, but all partly rejected by the Captain, thereby more to make triall of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> re&s;olutions, and to finde out the proceedings of the enemy, then out of any confidence he had of any re&s;i&s;tance that by him could be
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<PB N="6" REF="7"> made. <Q>The &s;ame countenance he held that 25. and the following 26. of <HI>October</HI> untill &s;eeming to be overcome with the importunity of &s;ome friends, &s;ent to treat with him, rather then out of any diffi|dence of his own condition, the parly was entertained the 27 day, &amp; the place yeelded on compo&s;ition that the Arms of the company &s;hould pa&s;&s;e away, and be in the Captains cu&s;tody within his own hou&s;e, about one mile di&s;tant from the <HI>Cavan,</HI> and that the Capt in &s;hould neither &s;end them, nor joyn him&s;elf with Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton</HI> at <HI>Keilagh,</HI> Sir <HI>James Craig</HI> at <HI>Crohan,</HI> both not far off, neither with any other Briti&s;h within the County, neither that the Arms &s;hould be carryed out of the County.</Q></P>
<P>On the 29. the <HI>Sheriff</HI> with 3000 men pa&s;&s;ing by the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Belanenagh,</HI> where I then lived, and which I did maintain from the 23. untill then, did require the &s;urrender of the place, which not being to be maintained, in many re&s;pects was yeelded, I being with mine committed to the charge of <HI>Philip mac Mulmore O Reily, &V;ncle</HI> to the <HI>Sheriff,</HI> living about a mile thence, and a Garri|&s;on placed in my Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>Thus the whole County was taken in, within le&s;&s;e then a week, excepting the <HI>Ca&s;tles</HI> of <HI>Keilagh,</HI> belonging to Sir <HI>Francis Hamil|t n,</HI> and of <HI>Crohan,</HI> wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re Sir <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ames Craig</HI> lived, the&s;e being out of the way; being al&s;o very &s;trong for defence, well manned, and well &s;tored with Arms, the Rebels re&s;erved for their better lea&s;ure to look after.</P>
<P>Now did the time fitly &s;erve to declare them&s;elves; now were all the Engli&s;h who&s;e dwellings were di&s;per&s;ed in the Country, and had bin hitherto &s;pared turned out of doors, robb'd of all, and &s;tript naked; now did they fall upon the Engli&s;h at the <HI>Cavan,</HI> who till then, though living there in fear, yet not expelled; now began they to look again upon <HI>Belturbet,</HI> the Captains giving way to the Gar|ri&s;on to oppre&s;&s;e the Inhabitants; they complaining of breach of the treaty, were by the <HI>Chief</HI> an&s;wered, that it was not in their power to re&s;train the rude Souldier, who would not be under any command, and therefore advi&s;ed them rather to prepare for their leaving the place, and to retire whither they plea&s;ed, which they might (&s;aid they) do with all &s;ecurity, taking with them of their own what they pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;ed, promi&s;ing them a &s;afe Convoy out of the County.</P>
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<P>This was by mo&s;t conceived to be a motion not to be refu&s;ed, for they found the place weary of them, and that to &s;tay, were but to give them&s;elves up to &s;poil; e&s;pecially &s;eeing that contrary to the Quarter unto them given, their Shops were broken up, and the be&s;t of their goods already in the hands of their enemies, pretending by making up an Inventory of them, and putting them into the cu|&s;tody of re&s;pon&s;ible men, they might be &s;ecured from the rapine and &s;poil of the rude Souldier.</P>
<P>They therefore prepared for their journey, relying (&s;hall I &s;ay) on the publike Faith given unto them by the chief Commander, and the re&s;t of the Captains, whereby many found them&s;elves, as in other re&s;pects, &s;o in this deceived, that upon promi&s;e they might &s;afely car<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y away what conveniently they might of the choice of their goods (a policie u&s;ed by the enemy for po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing them&s;elves of what had been hidden) &s;ome did dig up what they had buried, and packed up what was mo&s;t e&s;teemed of them. Thus did the <HI>Lady Butler</HI> with her family, and about 1500 &s;ouls, men, wo|men and c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ildren, &s;et forth together, leaving the Town, and put|ting them&s;elves under the Convoy of a number no way con&s;idera|ble for their &s;ecu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ity.</P>
<P>Their way lay through the Town of the <HI>Cavan,</HI> where was a Garri&s;on of the Rebels, with whom, in all probability, this their treacherous Guard had held corre&s;pondencie: for (pa&s;&s;ing by ma|ny hard u&s;ages of the&s;e poor creatures, from their leaving <HI>Belturbet</HI> till then) as they had a little pa&s;&s;ed the Town of <HI>Cavan,</HI> they were be&s;et and rifled, their Convoy &s;eeming at fir&s;t to be overborn with number, but they with the re&s;t fell to the &s;ame work; whereby &s;ome were killed, all &s;tripped, &s;ome almo&s;t, others altogether naked, not re&s;pecting women and &s;ucking infants; the <HI>Lady Butler</HI> faring herein as did others. Of the&s;e mi&s;erable creatures, many peri&s;hed by famine, and oold, travelling naked through fro&s;t and &s;now, the re&s;t recovering <HI>Dublin,</HI> where now many of them are among o|thers, in the &s;ame di&s;tre&s;&s;e for bread and cloaths.</P>
<P>The whole County being now, for the mo&s;t part, in their own power, they &s;pent the time in appointing Officers, mu&s;tering, and exerci&s;ing their men; in the mean time con&s;ulting how to put a fair glo&s;&s;e (if it were po&s;&s;ible) upon all that had been done.</P>
<P>To this purpo&s;e an <HI>Humble Remon&s;trance</HI> (for &s;o were they plea|&s;ed
<PB N="8" REF="8"> to entitle it) was drawn up, &s;etting forth the grievances of that County, and of the whole Kingdom, the pretended cau&s;es of their ri&s;ing up in Arms; de&s;iring the <HI>Lords Justices and Councell</HI> (unto whom it was to be pre&s;ented) that from their Lord&s;hips they might be recommend<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d to His Maj<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tie; That &s;atisfaction to tho&s;e their de&s;ires being given, they promi&s;ed reparation to all the di&s;&s;poiled Briti&s;h, by a generall contribution over the Kingdom, if their own <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">tates &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d not thereunto; profe&s;&s;ing much dete&s;tation of the cruelties and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">obberies exerci&s;ed by the rude multitude, whom (&s;aid they) they could not rule. All which was &s;ub&s;cribed by <HI>Philip mac Hugh</HI> their Generall, with others their prime Commanders, and Gentry of that County.</P>
<P>Their next con&s;ideration was, whom they &s;hould imploy in that &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rvice; for none of their own had confidence &s;ufficient to appear in that cau&s;e. They had fir&s;t fixed upon <HI>Doctor Bedell Bi&s;hop of Kil|more;</HI> but he f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">irly excu&s;ed him&s;elf, fir&s;t by his Age, whereby he was unwieldy, and not fit for that expedition which they expected in that Action; then, that many of the poor Engli&s;h of <HI>Belturbet,</HI> who had retired to him, and depended upon what &s;ecurity and &s;ub|&s;i&s;tence he could give them, would by his ab&s;ence be expo&s;ed to want and other injuries. This they interpreted as a put off; yet did the gravity and re&s;pect which his pre&s;ence did command, re&s;train <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hem from what &s;ome in their Councell had before propounded, in ca&s;e he &s;hould give out, and decline that &s;ervice for them. I was next in their eye, being in their hands, and de&s;igned and command|ed upon this imployment. I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e, it was &s;uch as was in every re&s;pect improper for me to undergo; but weighing fir&s;t what a deniall might produce, by what was threatned to another, where|of he hath &s;ince found the effects: but chiefly con&s;idering, that thereby I might gain the opportunity of laying open to the Lords, what I had ob&s;erved in the proceedings of that County, which might very much conduce to the publike, and which by Letters could not &s;o &s;afely be delivered; I did therefore accept of that im|ployment, and after ten dayes &s;tay in <HI>Dublin,</HI> returned with an An|&s;wer. Return I mu&s;t, my wife and children remaining for ho&s;ta|ges. The <HI>An&s;wer,</HI> was fair; but generall and dilatory, &s;utable to the weak condition of affairs in <HI>Dublin,</HI> the &s;afety whereof wholly de|pending on the gain of time.</P>
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<P>I do a&s;&s;ure my &s;elf <HI>The&s;e Remom&s;trants</HI> did not exp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ct any other An&s;wer; and it may be would have been very unwilling to receive that &s;atisfaction they did pretend to be contented withall; their hopes alrea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ring at an higher pitch: and very probable it is, That their &s;aid Remon&s;trance tended rather to winne upon the peo|ple, who&s;e cau&s;e they pleaded, then to give any rea&s;onable accompt or &s;atisfaction to the Lords, concerning th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ir proce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dings. If here|unto this be not al&s;o added, That all this was but to lull all them in <HI>Dublin</HI> in &s;ecurity, with a treaty of peace, while they intending nothing le&s;&s;e, were even then preparing for Warre, and ready to &s;et forward for <HI>Dublin,</HI> where they had overtaken me, had I &s;taid but ten dayes more, as may appear by the &s;equell.</P>
<P>For no &s;ooner was I returned into the County of <HI>Cavan,</HI> but that I found all in Arms, and Proclamation to have been made, that all from the A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e of &s;ixteen to &s;ixty &s;hould appear on Munday after as <HI>Virginia,</HI> a place di&s;tant from <HI>Cavan</HI> twelve miles, and in the way to <HI>Dublin.</HI> It being already highway-news, that out of that mul|titude, they purpo&s;ed to frame the Body of an Army of about 3000, who joyning with proportionable numbers out of the Coun|ties of <HI>Fermanagh</HI> and <HI>Monaghan,</HI> were to advance forthwith to|wards <HI>Dublin.</HI></P>
<P>Being al&s;o alighted at the Hou&s;e of <HI>Philip mac Mulmore &ocirc; Reyly,</HI> whereunto I had been confined; I found one every way appointed as a Trooper, calling him&s;elf by the name of <HI>Dowdall,</HI> but being a Fryar; who came thither from <HI>Dublin,</HI> and was &s;ent (as he al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed) from thence to ha&s;ten their marching away, a&s;&s;uring them of a &s;trong party in that City; be&s;ides tho&s;e in that Gari&s;on (f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r &s;o it was ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">her to be e&s;teemed then an Army) for defence of <HI>Dublin;</HI> whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">in were many of the Iri&s;h li&s;ted, and &s;uch as would revolt unto them with with their Arms.</P>
<P>I &s;aw how contrary this their proceeding was to that p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ofe&s;&s;ion of theirs in their Remon&s;trance, and the promi&s;e made to m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> upon the undertaking that &s;ervice for them, a&s;&s;uring me, and d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;iring I &s;hould a&s;&s;ure the Lords from them, That there &s;hould be a ce&s;&s;ation of all thing<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, untill the return of their Lord&s;hips An&s;wer. I found how dangerous in the&s;e re&s;pects, this &s;udden undertaking might be to the Lords, who might be &s;urpri&s;ed, fearing no &s;uch da<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ger from
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<PB N="18" REF="10"> tho&s;e parts among all others. I knew by what I had ob&s;erved, how unprovided both for men and victualls <HI>Dublin</HI> was at that time, whereby &s;hould the enemy advance according to his de&s;igne, all might have run an apparant hazard. And that which added to all this That neither had I any &s;ure hand by whom to &s;end, neither could I give any t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mely notice of the&s;e Councels, my coming into the County being on Saturday in the afternoon, and th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y &s;etting for|ward on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Munday morning next following. And la&s;tly, that in all this, I wanted a &s;econd with whom to advice hereupon.</P>
<P>But taking H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;e, I poa&s;ted to <HI>Cavet</HI> a place with<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n one mile of me, where dwelt the <HI>Sheriff,</HI> one of the chiefe&s;t Rebels, at who&s;e h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;e, at that very in&s;tant, their grand Councell was met. That which I propounded to my &s;elf, was to end<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">avour all the means I c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">d for <HI>diverting them from Dublin,</HI> by putting them on upon &s;ome o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">her &s;ervi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e more ea&s;ie, and of little le&s;&s;e con&s; quence: That al&s;o <HI>time might <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> by either de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aying them &s;ome while in the Coun|ty, while I pret<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed the giving in an accompt of my Agency at a g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nerall meeting of the Gentleman, when and where I &s;hould be appointed, or otherwi&s;e by finding them work &s;ome other way, without ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ching ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">right towards <HI>Dublin.</HI></P>
<P>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ving alighted at the Sheriffs door, he took me a&s;ide into his Garden, from whom I &s;oon un <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tood how little re&s;pect would be given to the An&s;wer I was to deliver; no part w ereof I would impart to him untill I were pub ikely called upon to declare my &s;elf, only for the generall, that it was as good as he could expect from the Lords in <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<P>Therefore declining that, I laboured fir&s;t to make my return unto them a ground of that confidence they might repo&s;e in me That for th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ir advantage, I had ob&s;erved the condition of affairs, in and about <HI>Dublin,</HI> which compared with what I found to be now in hand in that County (for then it was no &s;ecret,) I thought it my part to offer one and the o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">her to him, that he might order his cour&s;e in a way mo&s;t for his &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">curity. That be&s;ides the g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eat &s;upplyes concluded in the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> to be &s;ent into <HI>Ireland,</HI> which were daily expected: The Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin</HI> was provided of a Gari&s;on of 300. men and victualled for &s;ix moneths. T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a in <HI>Dublin</HI> the forces were greater then I could beleeve they could have been; So
<PB N="19" REF="10"> as if by their late humble Remon&s;trance they had not prevented it, there had before then a &s;trong power been &s;ent again&s;t them, which I de&s;ired the Lords might be kept back untill a return, of what eff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cts their An&s;wer might produce, were given in unto them. That it was farre from all policy for them to eng<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ge their fir&s;t &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tting forth upon that which would be of greate&s;t oppo&s;ition. That to receive the lea&s;t &s;hew of a defeat in the beginning of their work, were at once to di&s;hearten their own men, and to keep of others that would according to their &s;ucce&s;&s;e d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">clare them&s;elves, for, or again&s;t them. That it might be conceived, That the attempting fir&s;t of <HI>Droghedab,</HI> though le&s;&s;e honorable, compared with the other, yet could be the ea&s;ier, and every way conducing to the intent of their proceedings. That as that place was &s;trong &s;o was it with little or no d fficulty to be taken in, con&s;idering the party they had there, and the weakne&s;&s;e of the Gari&s;on, being none other then the Lord <HI>Moores</HI> Troop; That by attaining that place, as it would be an hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tning to his men; &s;o would it open the way for the Northern forces to come up and joyn in any attempt upon <HI>Dublin,</HI> whereas now it did lye as a &s;top in their way. That therein they had a place for a &s;afe retreat on any occa&s;ion; whereof they could not readily be di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed. That whether he attempted the one, or the other of tho&s;e two places, it were wi&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">om to &s;pend and &s;pin out &s;ome part of the time about <HI>Kells,</HI> or other parts in <HI>Meath,</HI> untill the other forces of <HI>Fermanagh</HI> and <HI>Monaghan</HI> came up unto him; lea&s;t by ad|vancing two farre upon his own &s;trength, he might be encountred apart by the power of <HI>Dublin;</HI> and &s;o by too much forwardne&s;&s;e endanger the whole. This la&s;t was added, that thereby, either by Letters from me, or by the appearing of the Enemy, and not march|ing forward, notice might be given at <HI>Dublin</HI> of their proceed|ings.</P>
<P>I could not conclude of any thing I had gained upon him in all t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is di&s;cou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e, either by his ge&s;ture or words, his countenance was compo&s;ed to an unwanted gravity; keeping I &s;uppo&s;e, the di&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nce, and that &s;tate which his a&s;&s;umed greatne&s;&s;e had ca&s;t upon him: And although I &s;pake much, that he daigned me no an&s;wer to any part
<PB N="20" REF="11"> hereof, but drew me off to another matter, and &s;oon after parted from me, yet with re&s;pects.</P>
<P>There was one intimate with them, and whom upon promi&s;e of pardon and great rewards, I had more then half moulded before to my purpo&s;e, and whom I found in many particulars before, to co|operate with me, by keeping in with th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m to give me Intelligence of their d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ignes. Having brought him along with me thither, I left him there to be pre&s;ent in their Councell, and thereof to give me an accompt with all &s;ecrecy and &s;peed, I retiring to my Lodging whence I came.</P>
<P>By the return which was made unto me about three hours after (and then it began to be late) I found that they h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d been divided in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> opinions: &s;ome were for a direct marching to <HI>Dublin,</HI> and gi|ving the On &s;et upon the place, grounding upon the information given <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m by the Frier: others doubting what a repul&s;e might pro|duce, conceived it the &s;afe&s;t and be&s;t cour&s;e to quarter about <HI>Dublin,</HI> at &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me di&s;tance, thereby to hinder the going in of Provi&s;ion; to exp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ct a conv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nient time of a&s;&s;aulting it, if it were found fit to at|t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mpt it; to gather all that would joyn with them thereabouts, wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">reby they would &s;oon grow to a con&s;iderable Body for any en|te p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">; and that in the mean time they might divert the water that from <HI>Templenge</HI> did furni&s;h one part of the City, by which al&s;o the Mills were kept on work; ei h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r of the&s;e might have proved mo&s;t pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">illous: but the third was wholly for <HI>Drogheda,</HI> for the rea&s;ons afore&s;aid, which &s;eemed to weigh down the other two (it may be) be|cau&s;e the Sheriff was the propounder, and i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">clined thereunto, yet was it not re&s;olved, untill their meeting at <HI>Kells,</HI> whether of the&s;e to fix upon: to which time and place it was deferred.</P>
<P>Thereupon I made ready my Letters, and dealt with mine Intelli|gencer for the delivery of them into who&s;e hands I mu&s;t therein pu+mine own, and the lives of mine. He mu&s;t have been of nece&s;&s;ity on <HI>Monday</HI> morning at the generall meeting at <HI>Virginia,</HI> whence &s;hould he have ab&s;ented him&s;elf, be&s;ides what was threatened to any that made default, both of us might have been drawn into &s;u&s;pition;
<PB N="21" REF="11"> and by his pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ence among them, I might further under&s;tand of their cou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;es: I ob<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aine<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">efore thus much of him, That he would d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">li|ver my Letter to a Gen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n dwelling within Nine miles, or there|abouts, from <HI>Arbraccan,</HI> whom, in my Letter to him, I de&s;ired to deliver the enclo&s;ed with &s;peed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Captain <HI>Ryves, at Arbrac|can,</HI> which he did, yet not with that &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d that I de&s;ired, and which the cau&s;e required, but I thought it not &s;ale to acquaint them with the occa&s;ion. In my Letter to Captain <HI>Ryves,</HI> I declared a d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e the enemy had upon him, purpo&s;ing to be with him the <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> fol|lowing, and by a Drove of Cattell that &s;hould pa&s;&s;e by him to d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aw him out of his &s;trength, of which I gave him notice, leaving the re&s;t to him&s;elf, de&s;iring that with all &s;peed the enclo&s;ed to the Lords Ju&s;tic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uld be di&s;patched upon &s;ight, being of the greate&s;t con|cernment. The&s;e Letters being peru&s;ed by the Lord, they &s;ent their Commands to Captain <HI>Ryves</HI> to retire, which he did, therein pre|venting the enemy, who the night following took up his quarters. I did al&s;o certifie their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ord&s;hips of the whole conceits of the enemies, leaving to their Wi&s;edoms to provide both for <HI>Drogbeda</HI> and <HI>Dublin;</HI> for as they were ea&s;ily drawn off from <HI>Dublin,</HI> to think of <HI>Drogheda,</HI> &s;o might they as readily, alter that re&s;olution again: wherein their Lord&s;hips were not wanting; for while the enemy was &s;pending time about <HI>Kells, Trim, Atbboy,</HI> &amp; <HI>Navan,</HI> we gained the opportunity of or|dering matters to the be&s;t advantage, both for <HI>Dublin</HI> and <HI>Drogheda,</HI> yet &s;o as by &s;ome mi&s;carriage (I cannot yet &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> who&s;e) the enemy met with 600 of our men, &s;ent for a further &s;upply to <HI>Drogheda,</HI> whom they defeated, and after much mi&s;chief thereabouts, &s;etled them|&s;elves to the Siege of that Town; where, by the Wi&s;edom and Va|lour of the Governour, that place had found them work, to the pre|&s;ervation (in all probability) of <HI>Dublin,</HI> and therein, of the whole Kingdom.</P>
<P>As for mine own Particular, Having many weeks after continued in the hou&s;e of my Bondage, I conceived it high time to &s;tudy my coming off, by all means; which by Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance was &s;trangely effected: till then, my &s;tay was not altogether again&s;t my will, while I found my &s;elf enabled by Intelligence to promote the &s;ervice of my
<PB N="22" REF="12"> Countrey. But finding him who was my chief Agent, from a Neu|ter, to f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll wholly to them; That al&s;o &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me of mine own &s;ervants em|ployed by me, was with the enemy at <HI>Drogbeda;</HI> and that the Gen|tleman, the d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">live<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er of that my Let<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er to Captain <HI>Ryves</HI> at <HI>Arbrac|c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n,</HI> was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">allen away, I could not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">x<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ect, in my &s;tay here, to do any more good, but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">reby might rather pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">judice my &s; lf in the highe&s;t d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gree, w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> di&s;covered. And it was by many conceived &s;trange, that in all that time I was not found out by their means: but as I do in the fir&s;t place make the work to be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ods, So do I next attribute it to the ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing their hands in the work with me, &s;o as they could not b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;uffer with me.</P>
<P>Hith<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rto hath been declared the &s;tate of matters in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at County, from the 23 <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>Oc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ober,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nto the 11 of <HI>Decem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er:</HI> all being reduced into the h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">s o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bels, excepting the two Ca&s;tles of <HI>Kylagb</HI> and <HI>Cro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">an,</HI> m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">intained again&s;t them by Sir <HI>Francis Hammilton,</HI> Knight <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Baronet, and Sir <HI>James Craig</HI> Knight.</P>
<P>The&s;e two Noble Knights, upon th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> fir&s;t noi&s;e of the Rebellion, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d both awak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;ecurity of others about them, and provided &s;o their own defence. Their Ca&s;tles were &s;trong and d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fen&s;ible, which they furni&s;hed with men and victualls. Sir <HI>Francis Hammilton</HI> had armed two hundred and fifty Foot, and thirty &s;ix Hor&s;e, mo&s;t of his own Tenants; be was &s;tored with three Barrells of Powder, and laid in Provi&s;ion for &s;ix months, which yet f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll &s;hort of that time, by receiving into his Ca&s;tle of about Seven hundred other un&s;er|viceable per&s;ons, men, women, and children almo&s;t &s;tripped naked, and &s;lying th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">her from the fury of the Rebells. In Sir <HI>James Craigs</HI> Ca&s;tle at <HI>Croban,</HI> there were One hundred and twenty, be&s;ides un&s;erviceable per&s;ons, who in like manner were fled thither for re|fuge, to a g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eat number.</P>
<P>I have before &s;et forth the honourable quarter given unto Captain <HI>Bayly,</HI> up n the &s;urrender of (what he could n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t keep) his weak H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ld at th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Cavan,</HI> it being conditioned that he &s;hould have in his own keeping the Arms for his Company of 50 men with which they
<PB N="23" REF="12"> &s;uffered him to pa&s;&s;e, and accordingly he pa&s;&s;ed them without mole|&s;tation. But it being con&s;idered that he was limited to a place of laying th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m up, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that onely in his own hou&s;e, being co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed with th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tch, and &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ea&s;ily commanded at their plea&s;ure; he al&s;o wanting men for guarding of them, for mo&s;t of his Company were revo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ted, we have rea&s;on to conceive that all this in them was rather <HI>a not yet breaking,</HI> rather then <HI>a keeping of quarter;</HI> that under a &s;hew of fair dealing, they might draw others who held out, with greater confi|dence to put them&s;elves into their hands.</P>
<P>This was apparant in their preparation made for their marching towards <HI>Drogbedah;</HI> at which t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> they concluded the taking into their hands tho&s;e Arms, which at their plea&s;ure they might ea&s;ily do, and which till then they had forborn to do.</P>
<P>Hereof Sir <HI>Francis Hammilton</HI> rec<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iving adverti&s;ement, the night bef<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re this &s;hould have been put in execution, he &s;ent out 30 Hor&s;e, and 20 Foot, under the leading of M. <HI>Malcolme H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">milton,</HI> M. <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vid Cre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ghton,</HI> and <HI>James S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mervile,</HI> (Gentlemen approved for many &s;er|vices then and after) at the Bridge of <HI>Ballihillian</HI> (ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">led the black Bridge) they left their Foot to make good their Retreat, the Hor&s;e p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ing forward to the Captains hou&s;e, whom having mounted, they brought him away together with his <HI>En&s;igne, S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rgeant, Colours,</HI> and what of the <HI>Arms</HI> they could po&s;&s;ibly carry with them; a Service as con&s;iderable, as it was to the undertakers dangerous: For had the Ala<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m, being given time enough to the enemy, being 3000, and ly|i g within le&s;&s;e then two miles, and the pa&s;&s;age of the <HI>Blackbridge</HI> taken from them, they could not h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ve e&s;caped; and a miracle it was almo&s;t, that in the riding of 6 miles (&s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rce any by place wanting an Iri&s;h Cottage) yet they &s;hould &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> pa&s;&s;e undi&s;covered, untill th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y were out of all danger, the enemy af<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erwards hotly pur&s;uing, but in vain. Some Pikes the enemy had after found in the Captains hou&s;e, which could not in ha&s;te by our men be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ither carried away, or made un&s;er|viceable; and &s;ome Piec<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s of Armour were taken up here and there &s;catt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">red in the way, being fallen from th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m; &s;o that now the Rebels cond<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d the keeping of that Quarter &s;o long, and that they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ad
<PB N="24" REF="13"> before &s;ecured th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t pa&s;&s;age, as &s;ince <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat time they did, both by cutting the Bridge, being or wood, and placing there a &s;trong Guard be&s;ides.</P>
<P>This, and other incur&s;ions out of the&s;e two Ca&s;tles made upon the Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">els remaining in that County, whi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e their fellows were at the &s;iege of <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">og<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">b,</HI> occa&s;ioned the &s;ending back from the <HI>Siege, Edmund &eacute; Reyly,</HI> father to the <HI>Sheri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f,</HI> with command with what forces he could rai&s;e, to take in <HI>the&s;e places;</HI> that &s;o they might without any di&s;tracti|on int<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd their great de&s;igne ab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oad.</P>
<P>For effecting hereof, To tho&s;e rai&s;ed in that County were joyned, oth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs called <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rom the neighbour County of <HI>Le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">im,</HI> both making u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">000, w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">om <HI>Edmund</HI> their Commander conceived more th <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;uffici<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt for that &s;ervice, purpo&s;ing to be&s;iege both Ca&s;tles at once, which he might ea&s;ily and conveniently have done. For they were w thin little more then a mile of each other, being on the one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;hut in with water, over which at that time there could be for the be&s;ieg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d, no pa&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ge; other parts being compa&s;&s;ed with Woods, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the enemies pu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">po&s;e, wherein they might &s;o have placed them|&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lves, as their could be no getting off that way. In the mid&s;t be|tween b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th Ca&s;tles, did &s;tand the <HI>Town of K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;handra,</HI> belonging to Sir <HI>Francis Hammilton,</HI> convenient for the enemies quarters, an&s;wering to both places, and &s;ufficient with all conveniency of good hou&s;es to lodge the whole Army; &s;o that t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ere wanted nothing to advantage the be&s;ieges, or to di&s;tre&s;&s;e the be&s;ieg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d.</P>
<P>Upon Intelligence received of their approaching (for the Scouts were the only Intelligencers.) Sir <HI>Francis Hammilton</HI> &s;ent out a party of Hor&s;e and Foot, burning all places about, beginning with his own Town of <HI>Killi&s;handra,</HI> by him&s;elf built and planted, that it mig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t not &s;tand the enemy in &s;teed; &s;o al&s;o did Sir <HI>James Craig,</HI> about him; whereby the Rebell was di&s;appointed of his quarters; without which he could not &s;ub&s;i&s;t in t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at cold &s;ea&s;on of Fro&s;t and S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ow; finding it more then he was well able to do, to &s;tay there, only two nights.</P>
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<P>That time of his being there was &s;pent in drawing up towards Sir <HI>Iames Craigs</HI> Ca&s;tle of <HI>Crohan;</HI> whence they were beaten backe with their lo&s;&s;e of 14 men, and the taking pri&s;oners of <HI>Laghlyn O Rourke,</HI> and <HI>Brian O Rourke,</HI> eminent per&s;ons among them, and prime leaders of the <HI>Letrim rebels,</HI> the&s;e were after exchanged by Sir <HI>James Craig</HI> for <HI>Dr. Bedell Bi&s;hop of Kilmore</HI> and &s;ome others; yet contrary to this agreement did they againe lay hold on <HI>that Reverend Per&s;on,</HI> only affording him a being, where they might at their plea&s;ure com|mand him, where he after died: being one of the brighte&s;t lights of that Church, both for learning and a &s;hining conver&s;ation, and in his con&s;tant diligence in the worke of the mini&s;try a patterne to o|thers.</P>
<P>The Enemy &s;oone weary of his bad lodging, and wor&s;e enter|tainment, though his lo&s;&s;e were not great, His offers of faire quarter being reiected, prepared to be gone: yet not without doing &s;omething an&s;werable to the greatne&s;&s;e of his preparations and the expectation every where had of them: which was, the &s;tealing away of &s;ome few &s;tragling cattle about the Ca&s;tles; I &s;ay <HI>&s;tealing</HI> them away, for he dur&s;t not advance within &s;ight or command of musket &s;hot of either, and with tho&s;e great &s;poyles did he returne in triumph, &s;upplying what he wanted of doing, with menaces and promi&s;es, of what he would doe.</P>
<P>About a fortnight after, it being given out that they meant to re|turne; Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton</HI> &s;ent abroad 12 hor&s;es to burne all with|in three or foure miles about him: in doing whereof, they di&s;covered the Enemy drawing towards them, being about three hundred, of which having &s;ent &s;peedy notice to Sir <HI>Francis</HI> (which al&s;o he com|manded they &s;hould doe) who to an&s;wer any &s;uch occa&s;ion, had in readine&s;&s;e other twelve hor&s;es and &s;ixty foot, with whom he march|ed, ea&s;ily directing his cour&s;e by the fires his men before &s;ent forth had made, for they according to their directions &s;o avoyded the Ene|my, that yet they &s;til kept them in play, coa&s;ting from place to place neere about, and firing what they came neer, expecting the comming up of their &s;econds: Sir <HI>Francis</HI> had in a convenient place for his owne retreit, and for di&s;tre&s;&s;ing the Enemy &s;hould they follow him, laid forty five of his foot: and with fifteene of the able&s;t of them drew up, with whom and his twenty foure hor&s;es, he &s;et upon the
<PB N="26" REF="14"> Rebels, at the fir&s;t volly killing &s;ix of them, of whom <HI>Fr. O rourke</HI> a <HI>Fryar</HI> was one, who in the Habit of his Order did lead the Com|pany, at the next there fell nine, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Enemy &s;tanding to it while mo&s;t of our Bandileeres were &s;pent, but being broken by the Hor&s;e they fled and were pur&s;ued about two miles: thirty &s;eaven of them were &s;laine, the comming on of the night, and the di&s;advantage of the wayes for hor&s;e, in re&s;pect of their foot, &s;aving the re&s;t. There were taken pri&s;oners, <HI>Owen O ourke</HI> their Commander, one of great e|&s;teeme; and <HI>Philip O reyly</HI> Vnkle to <HI>Philip Mac Hugh O reyly,</HI> Colonel (as they call him) of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t whole County.</P>
<P>All meanes were u&s;ed by Treaties, and threatnings, for getting off the&s;e pri&s;oners; concerning whom Sir <HI>Francis</HI> was &s;olicited by fre|quent Letters from <HI>Edmund O reyly,</HI> but in vaine: the&s;e being re&s;erved (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s per&s;ons of the be&s;t re&s;pects) to an&s;wer any the like occa&s;ion that might befall the be&s;t of ours.</P>
<P>In &s;uch Services &s;tood matters in tho&s;e parts, untill the <HI>fir&s;t of Fe|bruary,</HI> at which time there was great expectation of what &s;hould be done again&s;t the&s;e two Ca&s;tles by <HI>Mulmore O reyly</HI> the Sheriffe; for &s;o I mu&s;t &s;till call him, he calling him&s;elfe &s;o, notwith&s;tanding he had been already di&s;charged, but chiefly to di&s;tingui&s;h him from others of the &s;ame name, and of le&s;&s;e note, he being in their e&s;teem the &s;econd in that County.</P>
<P>As the &s;everall lo&s;&s;es the country received from the&s;e few <HI>Britti&s;h,</HI> had before drawne <HI>Edmund O reyly</HI> with &s;ome of his men from before <HI>Droghedah,</HI> &s;o their proceeding in the &s;ame cour&s;e notwith&s;tanding, &amp; principally the &s;aid <HI>Edmunds</HI> late repul&s;e, with all tho&s;e forces, and the taking and keeping of their late pri&s;oners, called home from that &s;iege <HI>Mulmore O reyly,</HI> for doing what his father <HI>Edmund</HI> could not.</P>
<P>Wherein we may finde of what con&s;equence the&s;e &s;eeming &s;leight &s;ervices have been to hinder the proceedings of the Enemy abroad, for be&s;ides the re&s;erving a con&s;iderable number at the fir&s;t at home &s;o as they could not goe forth with their full power; it did dayly dimini&s;h their Army before <HI>Droghedah:</HI> fir&s;t, in the comming away of <HI>Edmund,</HI> then of this <HI>Mulmore O reyly,</HI> who though they returned without any great numbers, yet &s;ome they had; and tho&s;e under their command left behind &s;oone after followed them notwith&s;tanding any com|mand
<PB N="27" REF="14"> to the contrary, weighing the greatne&s;&s;e of the &s;ervice in the County of <HI>Cavan,</HI> by the eminency of the per&s;ons &s;ent about it; and judging their labour better &s;pent in ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ntaining at home what was their own, then lo&s;ing that and them&s;elves in looking after that they never had and never were likely to have: &s;o that of 3000 men that went out of that <HI>County</HI> to the &s;iege of <HI>Droghedah</HI> there re|mmained not 700 with <HI>Philip mac Hugh o Reyly</HI> their chiefe Com|mander: and the mo&s;t de&s;perate attempts that have been m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">de ei|ther again&s;t that Towne, or for hin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ring the &s;upplies &s;ent to it by &s;ea, were done by tho&s;e of this County. Hereby al&s;o might appeare, could any Forces at that time have been &s;pared about <HI>Dublin</HI> and &s;ent in this County what &s;ervice they might have done for rai&s;ing the &s;iege of <HI>Droghedah;</HI> for the Town was blocked up on that part that lay towards <HI>Dublin</HI> if not onely yet chiefly by the <HI>Cavan</HI> Forces, whom we &s;ee drawn home by an handfull of men. Hereby la&s;tly we may &s;ee of what con&s;equence it had been to have &s;ince the &s;iege of <HI>Droghedah,</HI> &s;ent &s;ome Forces into that part for re|lieving the&s;e two Ca&s;tles, whereby the enemy might &s;till have been kept on worke, other places in the &s;ame County furni&s;hed with the like gari&s;ons, and by burning the re&s;t, not &s;uffering it to be (as now it is) the harbour of tho&s;e, who, if not prevented, may make the latter end with us wor&s;e than the beginning.</P>
<P>But leaving this nece&s;&s;ary digre&s;&s;ion, for which I doe intend the whole di&s;cour&s;e, I return where I left.</P>
<P><HI>Mulmore o Reyly</HI> being returned from before <HI>Droghedah,</HI> where he left <HI>Philip mac Hugh o Reyly,</HI> he began to gather up his men not doubting to make but one, and that no long worke of what he came about: therein al&s;o ambitious of the glory of doing that wherein others had failed. Of &s;uch as came along with him, that followed after him, that he found in the Country, and whom he called in out of the Countrey of <HI>Letrim,</HI> he framed the body of an army of 2700. and that it might not be &s;hort in number of that with which he hoped at his fir&s;t &s;etting out to take <HI>Dublin</HI> it &s;elfe, he &s;ent for <HI>Robert Nugent</HI> of <HI>Carleu&s;ton</HI> in the County of <HI>We&s;tmeath,</HI> a Gentleman of 1500 l. <HI>per annum,</HI> who upon promi&s;e of the Armes in both Ca&s;tles (the que&s;tion not being of taking the places, but for dividing the &s;poyle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">) came in per&s;on with 300 choice men.</P>
<PB N="28" REF="15">
<P>With this Army of three thou&s;and men, be&s;ides a multitude of others who followed to behold the &s;port (for no otherwi&s;e did they conceive of it) <HI>Mulmore</HI> did quarter about five miles over night in the places next the Ca&s;tles which had not been burnt, pur|po&s;ing to begin the next day &amp; with the day to take all before him.</P>
<P>The newes hereof did no way di&s;may tho&s;e who were to receive them, they being &s;o farre from immuring them&s;elves up in their Forts, there to expect them, that Sir <HI>Francis Hammilton</HI> drew up his &s;mall number into the field, placing in the lane being the high way leading from <HI>Killi&s;handra</HI> to his Ca&s;tle of <HI>Kylagh</HI> 150 men, &s;ome few Mu&s;queteeres being here and there left in places of great|e&s;t advantage. And that the enemy might not by making a neerer way to this Ca&s;tle (which he might do) finde him worke in many places at once, he commanded thirty hor&s;e to guard the Wind|mill-Hill joyning to the highway towards <HI>Killi&s;handra</HI> by which the enemy mu&s;t march, being al&s;o &s;o neere to his Ca&s;tle, that they might heare and under&s;tand one another &s;peaking aloud. Behind the hor&s;e, he ca&s;t up a &s;mall &s;conce of Earth guarded with &s;ixteen Musketeeres, to whom the hor&s;e might retire, and both of them to make good that pa&s;&s;age. It was al&s;o &s;o ordered, that tho&s;e &s;cat|tered Musketeeres that were furthe&s;t off having given fire and done their parts there, &s;hould retire to the next, and they united doing their duty, to fall together back to the next, doing in like manner, untill being forced to give ground they might make a faire and or|derly retreat for defence of the Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>The enemy now in &s;ight, put forth &s;ome hor&s;e to skirmi&s;h with ours on the Windmill-hill. Of theirs three fell, and the re&s;t fell off, untill by the comming on of the whole body, our hor&s;e fell backe under the command of the Musketeeres; who giving fire, the enemy was forced to keepe him&s;elfe to the high-way leading to <HI>Killi&s;handra,</HI> making in the &s;treet a &s;tand to con&s;ider of his cour&s;e.</P>
<P>His intent was not now, as theirs before, to <HI>be&s;iege.</HI> The dull proceedings of his father &s;uited not with the waies of this heady yong man: he is wholly for the <HI>a&s;&s;ault.</HI> Neither will he begin with <HI>Crohan</HI> as did the other, but re&s;olveth to fall upon that which of the two was the &s;tronge&s;t and the be&s;t provided place, and to
<PB N="29" REF="15"> keepe his fir&s;t man, Sir <HI>Francis Hammilton</HI> by whom he was mo&s;t injured. For at that in&s;tant one of the Musketeers placed in the lane tooke aime, and, though at very great di&s;tance, knockt downe a|mong the company one <HI>Fitz-Simonds</HI> an <HI>En&s;igne-bearer,</HI> at who&s;e fall there was a great cry.</P>
<P>Whereupon a hundred commanded Musketeeres of the enemy fell in within the ditches on both &s;ides the lane, to beate upon ours within the lane, while their maine body came directly forward. Both one and the other of them were &s;ufficiently galled by our &s;hot; who performed well, and ob&s;erved their commands. For the fir&s;t loo&s;e &s;hot having di&s;charged their parts retired, and with tho&s;e unto whom they put them&s;elves made good their ground, till by degrees retreating, they did altogether bet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ke them&s;elves to tho&s;e places and duties appointed them for the defence of the Ca&s;tle. Some onely charging of muskets, others di&s;charging them from the flankers, windows, and batlements.</P>
<P>For now was the enemy appro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ched; having fir&s;t pre&s;ented the defendants with a great Peece upon carriages, planted on Wind|mill-hill, after our men had for&s;aken it, with which a battery was threatned, if they yeelded not. But as it could not &s;peake for it &s;elfe, being but counterfeit, and made of wood; &s;o did it worke nothing upon them in the Ca&s;tle, who were wholly intent upon tho&s;e who were now &s;o neer that they were under the command of their Muskets.</P>
<P>The enemy finding many of their men to fall, retired under a ri&s;ing of ground where we could not hurt them. Thence they &s;ent and fi|red a &s;table, barne, other out-hou&s;es, and &s;ome &s;tacks of Corne, that they might march un&s;een under a cloud of &s;moake which the wind did to their great advantage drive upon the Ca&s;tle. Some of them with &s;heaves of Oats, and &s;traw burning, on the tops of their pikes ran to the Flankers, thru&s;ting them into tho&s;e places whence the musketeers plaied upon them, by the fire and &s;moake to force them out; one of them adventurou&s;ly laid hold of a musket in one of the &s;pike-holes ready to be di&s;charged. Thus came they on in a mo&s;t de&s;perate manner, being before made, to that end, more then halfe drunke with their <HI>Aquavitae,</HI> continuing in that headlong cour&s;e about three quarters of an houre without gaining any thing upon
<PB N="30" REF="16"> us (wanting &s;caling ladders) but lo&s;ing them&s;elves, their bodies beeing laid open to our &s;hot from all parts, as the breaking up of the &s;moke gave way to di&s;cover them. Neither did their &s;hot a|gain&s;t our walls, windowes, or batlements, of which they were not &s;paring out of &s;uch places of advantage whence we could not com|mand them, do us any hurt. Thus having wearied them&s;elves out in vaine, and being at length &s;encible of their de&s;perate un|dertakings, they now cake care how to get off with lea&s;t prejudice, they being no more to be gotten on by all that could be &s;aid or don by their <HI>Commanders,</HI> I cannot &s;ay their <HI>Leaders;</HI> for none of their Officers would come up in all this &s;ervice: which being ob|jected to them while they urged a &s;econd a&s;&s;ault, one of the Cap|taines to &s;hew his forwardne&s;&s;e above others would go on, and turning about to his Souldiers he was met with a bullet which pa&s;|&s;ed through both his cheekes, which was to him, and all his fellowes, and followers a &s;ufficient &s;top, from proceeding any further,</P>
<P>Whereupon they altogether retreated; now applying them|&s;elves to what they are more skilfull in, the gathering together and taking away all the cattell that were without the Ca&s;tle, which they did, doing the like through all the way they went back, for &s;ix miles together, le&s;t any &s;hould fall in the power of our men for their &s;upply.</P>
<P>The &s;hot in this fight was heard in the <HI>Ca&s;tle Cloghouter</HI> two miles off by water, and the Pri&s;oners therein, &s;eeing the fire and &s;moke, conceived Sir <HI>Francis</HI> his Ca&s;tle had been burnt.</P>
<P>In all this it could not be but very many of the enemy mu&s;t have beene killed, yet could we under&s;tand of no more then 167, few of tho&s;e that were hurt ever recovering. One of ours was &s;hot through a &s;pikehole, another had his Armor and dublet &s;hot through, without further harme, who &s;eeing the pa&s;&s;age it had made, hee told his fellow that it could not be but that he was a dead man, though he felt no hurt, neither could be per&s;waded till unbrac|ing him&s;elfe the bullet was found between his doublet and shirt. It is ob&s;erved that in the whole &s;ervice from the 23. of <HI>October</HI> ti l the 15 of <HI>June,</HI> &s;etting a&s;ide &s;uch as were cut off in &s;tragling, there were lo&s;t in fight, no more then <HI>five</HI> men belonging to this Ca&s;tle,
<PB N="31" REF="16"> one of them being <HI>Robert Mac Lalan</HI> a <HI>Sergeant,</HI> who being taken at an advantage, was barbarou&s;ly mangled having thirty &s;ix wounds.</P>
<P>Thus have we &s;eene the end of this great undertaking, neither dur&s;t the Enamy make another like approch for three moneths after; conceiving him&s;elfe to have donne &s;ufficiently in placing guards upon Bridges, and pa&s;&s;es, many miles off, not thereby to make his way upon us, but to hinder our incur&s;ions (which he feard) upon his.</P>
<P>Yet could not this be any &s;top to Sir <HI>Francis Hammilton,</HI> who within two dayes after, breaking into the parts of the County of <HI>Letrim</HI> to him adjoyning, with 20 Hor&s;e and 100 Foote, having kil|led &s;ome &s;tragglers (for others he met none) returned with 40 Cowes and 200 Sheep.</P>
<P>De&s;irous al&s;o to try the countenance of his Neighbours pla|ced by him (the Enemies guards about <HI>Bradies</HI> Bridge, and the Bridge of <HI>Ballihillian</HI>) and thence to bring in &s;ome Corne for his &s;upply, he &s;ent out 60 musketeeres with &s;ome woman and youths, to carry away the Corne being burnt out of the eare (as the fa&s;hion there is, when they want time to thra&s;h) the&s;e being de|fended by the Souldiers. The enemy being not far off appeard to the number of 200, yet dur&s;t they not deale with our men who had placed them &s;elves for their advantage, expecting the com|ming of Sir <HI>Francis</HI> who prepared for to &s;econd them, and after a while drew neere with forty Foote, and forty Hor&s;e, whereof ten belonged to Sir <HI>Iames Craig.</HI> Vpon approach of the&s;e the fir&s;t who had before faced the Rebels with a great &s;houte brake out upon them, and Sir <HI>Francis</HI> falling on, they fled, and being a lit|tle way pur&s;ued, ours retreated e&s;teeming it &s;ufficient to have di&s;|engaged their fellowes, and &s;ecured that &s;mall quantity of Corn that was carried away. Our backs being turned, the enemy came on with a mo&s;t terrible cry, as if we fled. Whereupon Sir <HI>Francis</HI> making a &s;tand, he mounted forty Musketeeres behind his Hor&s;e|men and galloped after them, hoping to gaine a place of &s;trength which lay betweene them and the Bridge, and &s;o to en|gage them betweene his men. But they finding his intent, made from him thitherward, and having po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed them&s;elves there|of
<PB N="32" REF="17"> made them&s;elves for re&s;i&s;tance, of which we having killed one man, retired without being any further pur&s;ued, in the returne, bur|ning all before us.</P>
<P>About this time, the bloody Sheriffe thus di&s;appointed of his cruelty, and for revenging on &s;ome what he &s;uffered from others, commanded tho&s;e poore Britti&s;h that were left in the Towne of <HI>Belturbet</HI> and not able to follow the re&s;t, to be forced from off the Bridge into the deep river, where they were all to the number of 60. &s;wallowed up and peri&s;hed.</P>
<P>This being reported to them at <HI>Kylagh</HI> and <HI>Crohan,</HI> Sir <HI>Francis Hammilton,</HI> and Sir <HI>Iames Craig</HI> re&s;olved on revenge, they going forth in &s;everall parties.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Francis</HI> with 30 Hor&s;e and 100 Foote, drew to a place called <HI>Derewily</HI> bordering on the County of <HI>Letrim,</HI> having intelligence of 60 rebels lying in a wood. To the place he came without di&s;co|very about the dawning of the day, &s;urpri&s;ing them in their cabbins and beds; of whom 27 he &s;lew, taking 14 pri&s;oners, the Souldiers being unwilling to repreeve any; the&s;e he after hanged, the re&s;t e&s;|caping by rea&s;on of the wood. But 50 of Sir <HI>Iames Craigs</HI> Foote being by Sir <HI>Francis Hammilton</HI> appointed to attend any &s;uch oc|ca&s;ion on the other &s;ide of the water (for a river was betweene them) they who e&s;caped the one, fell into the handes of the o|ther, of whom they &s;lew ten and hang'd foure. Thus were all of the rebells u&s;ed who after that time fell within their power.</P>
<P>About the middle of <HI>March</HI> the &s;tore in both Ca&s;tles fell &s;hort, by feeding &s;o many mouthes: &s;o that thenceforth they mu&s;t fight for what they mu&s;t eate; which they commonly did thrice a week, with very great hazard, for there were placed 200 rebells to guard the pa&s;&s;ages in Sir <HI>Iames Craigs</HI> woods; 200 under Captaine <HI>Iohn O Reyly</HI> at <HI>Bradys</HI> Bridge, and <HI>Mulmore</HI> the great Sherife was now content him&s;elfe to quarter in a Cottadge with 300 men about him at the Bridge of <HI>Ballihillan,</HI> to keepe our men from looking abroad.</P>
<P>On the 8 of <HI>April</HI> died Sir <HI>Iames Craig.</HI> A Gentleman of &s;in|gular and the be&s;t Abilities; well de&s;erving of his Country both in peace and War: of whom I &s;ay the le&s;&s;e becau&s;e I cannot write enough.</P>
<PB N="33" REF="17">
<P>The lo&s;&s;e of this worthy per&s;on, as it could not but be of exceed|ing great di&s;advantage to the &s;ervice; So did it double the pains, care, and charge of Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton,</HI> upon whom the over&s;ight and ordering of matters in both Ca&s;tles was now ca&s;t. For at this time was the Lady <HI>Craig</HI> faln &s;ick &amp; the company in the Ca&s;tle wa&s;ted by a mortall and infectious &s;icknes, whereof there died 160, and the forces then remayning not &s;ufficing for the guard of place. Wherby Sir <HI>Fran+cis</HI> was enforced to &s;end of his own for &s;ecuring it: a Squadron being daily from his Ca&s;tle of <HI>Kylagh,</HI> &s;ent to <HI>Crohan,</HI> doing duty by turns, for no one would be per&s;waded to contiue there, in re&s;pect of the in|fection, the&s;e were lead out and brought off, by a &s;trong Guard to that purpo&s;e, &s;ent twice each day, placing the like number in <HI>Crohan,</HI> as they took out.</P>
<P>Nece&s;&s;ity would not &s;uffer them to be idle, therefore about the 22 of <HI>April,</HI> did Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton,</HI> with 210 foot and 40 hor&s;e, taken out of both Ca&s;tles goe forth to forrage; and &s;trong hee mu&s;t goe, all places being &s;trongly laid again&s;t him. Hee tooke his way towards <HI>Tullagha,</HI> and under the covert of a Wood laid an ambu&s;h of 150 men, &s;ending the other, divided into two Companies, together with women and boyes, to gather in and drive away what cattle could thereabouts be met withall, commanding them if &s;et upon by more then they could ma&s;ter, to make their retreat, and draw on the ene|my, within the danger of the ambu&s;cado, which &s;orted accordingly for the&s;e Forragers, were pur&s;ued by three hundred of the ene|my, who followed them untill falling into the trap prepared for them: they being &s;et upon fell into the Wood, whither our foot followed them, and as they &s;ought their wayes out from the foot, the hor&s;e that guarded the pa&s;&s;ages, beat them back into the Wood, in which hunting-chace there were &s;lain of them 45. of whom 14 were of the Sect of the <HI>Macgawrans,</HI> all landed men. Few of the re&s;t could have e&s;caped, had not our men been called off by a di&s;covery made by our Scouts of another Enemy approching Sir <HI>Francis</HI> having ordered his men for a &s;econd &s;ervice, the Rebels though farre exceeding in number, were content to &s;uffer him to pa&s;&s;e without any interrupti|on, bringing off with him &s;ixty Cows, which were divided between both Ca&s;tles,</P>
<PB N="34" REF="18">
<P>In the&s;e and &s;uch daily and light &s;ervices was the time taken up untill the four<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h day of <HI>May.</HI> For now the Enemy finding that by their Guards at di&s;tance they were but lo&s;ers, as often as their loo&s;e Companies encountred ours; and that therein they attained not their ends, which was the &s;hutting us up from provi&s;ion; being al&s;o en|formed, that for want of victuals the Ca&s;tles could not hold out ten days; which was related to them by one <HI>Barlow</HI> a Fugitive, out of Sir <HI>Francis</HI> his Ca&s;tle, where till then he &amp; his had bin relieved. They did therefore once more re&s;olve to engage them&s;elves upon it, and to make it their la&s;t worke, concluding not to de&s;i&s;t, or rai&s;e their &s;iege till all were theirs.</P>
<P>To this end they drew up into <HI>Killi&s;handra,</HI> and all the places a|bout, being at their fir&s;t quartering about two thou&s;and, which was &s;oone after made three thou&s;and, and that number doubled by the comming into the County of <HI>Cavan,</HI> of all tho&s;e Lords, Gentle|men, and others who had been by our Armies forced out of <HI>Meath,</HI> and other parts, be&s;ides the return of <HI>Philip Mac Hugh O Rely,</HI> with his men from <HI>Droghedah</HI> whence he was beaten off.</P>
<P>Thus were the&s;e two Ca&s;tles &s;hut up at once without any inter|cour&s;e. As for that of <HI>Crohan,</HI> be&s;ides their other wants the be&s;ieged had their water without them, which the Rebels laboured to take away from them by &s;hutting them up, &s;o as they &s;hould not without lo&s;&s;e look out at the Ca&s;tle gates. To this purpo&s;e, they had in the night in a place of advantage ca&s;t up &s;ome works within le&s;&s;e then half a Musket &s;hot from the gate out of which by the valour of the Defendants, they were more then once removed with lo&s;&s;e, and their Trenches ca&s;t down, yet did they, as oft repo&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them&s;elves of them in the night, and rebuilt with &s;ome further Fortifications, what had been before demoli&s;hed. By this means the di&s;tre&s;&s;e for water was great within, not having any but what by women or &s;ome others who in the night dur&s;t adventure forth, was brought in and &s;old to them at four pence the quart. But to make it wholly un&s;erviceable, the Rebels fir&s;t ca&s;t into the Well a dead Dog; and after the carca&s;&s;e of a man that had long been unburied. So that they were enforced to dig within the Walls where they found water, but muddy and unwhol&s;om<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></P>
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<P>In Sir <HI>Francis Hamiltons</HI> Ca&s;tle provi&s;ion of victuals was &s;hort, no bread was eaten there a fortnight before the &s;urrender. Their milch Cows re&s;erved for giving milk to the &s;ick were fir&s;t killed; then mo&s;t of their hor&s;es, after their dogs; and la&s;tly, they eat the Hydes of Bea&s;ts &s;lain many moneths before. The Souldiers in the&s;e their &s;ufferings began to mutine, &s;ix or &s;even having run away with their arms to the Enemy; the &s;ickne&s;&s;e of Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton</HI> occa&s;ioned by extraordinary pains, care, watching, and hard fare, adding to the&s;e di&s;couragements.</P>
<P>The&s;e extremities thus &s;uffered from the fourth of <HI>May,</HI> untill the fourth of <HI>Iune;</HI> all &s;upplyes from <HI>Dublin</HI> being in vaine expected more then &s;even moneths; there being al&s;o no hope left of any further &s;ub&s;i&s;tence where they were; Sir <HI>Francis</HI> now forcing him&s;elf out of his bed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gan to entertaine that Treaty for Quarter, which by the enemy had been daily offered, and till then was refu&s;ed.</P>
<P>He de&s;ired in the fir&s;t place that Ma&s;ter <HI>Thomas Price</HI> Archdeacon of <HI>Kilmore,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Ambro&s;e Bedell,</HI> chiefe in the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Cro|han,</HI> might be admitted with &s;afety to conferre with him, that by their advice he might capitulate for both Ca&s;tles, which after much debate and &s;ome difficultie was conde&s;cended unto. From whom he having under&s;tood that the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Crohan</HI> was in no condition for longer re&s;i&s;ting it was concluded that the <HI>Treaty for &s;urrender</HI> &s;hould pro|ceed.</P>
<P>On the one part appeared <HI>Philip Mac Hugh O Reley,</HI> the Colonel with <HI>Mulmore O Reyly</HI> the Sheriffe, and foure other Captains. On the other was Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton,</HI> Sir <HI>Arthur Forbes</HI> Baronet (a Gentleman about &s;eventeen, yet one in all &s;ervices) with two other Gentlemen for the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Kylagh;</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Price,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Bedell</HI> for <HI>Crohan,</HI> between the&s;e certain Articles were agreed upon as followeth.</P>
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<HEAD>Articles of agreement concluded and agreed upon, the quarter give by <HI>Philip Mac Hugh Mac Shan</HI> rely, and the rest of the Gentlemen here under named to &s;ir <HI>Francis Hamilton</HI> concerning the Ca&s;tles of <HI>Kylagh</HI> and <HI>Crohan,</HI> in manner and forme following, bearing date the fourth day of <HI>Iune 1642.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>INprimis,</HI> It is agreed by and between the&s;e parties following, <HI>viz.</HI> Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton</HI> Knight and Baronet, in the be|halfe of the Lady <HI>Mary Craige,</HI> him&s;elfe, the Gentlemen, Gen|tlewomen, Souldiers, and all others both men, women and children, of what degree condition, or quality what&s;oever, belonging unto, or being in either of both Ca&s;tles, <HI>viz. Kylagh</HI> and <HI>Crohan,</HI> &s;hall have &s;afe quarter from <HI>Philip Mac Hugh Relie, Edmond Re|lie, Philip mac Mulmore relie, Mulmore mac Edmond Relie, Hugh buii Relie, Iohn mac Philip Relie, Philip roe Relie, Iames Neu|gent, R. A. Owen Rourke</HI> E&s;quires, <HI>Edmond mac Owen Relie, Ferall oge Relie, Charles mac Gauran, Daniel mac Gauran, Iohn mac Kernan, Conner Relie, Relie,</HI> and <HI>Tirlagh, Cahil Relie,</HI> to bee convoyed to <HI>Droghedah</HI> with &s;aftie of their lives, and of their bag and baggage, which they &s;hall carry with them and that &s;uch per&s;ons above named as are herein mentioned by particular name, viz. <HI>Philip mac Hugh Relie, Philip mac Mulmore Relie, Mulmore mac Edmond Relie, Phi|lip roe Relie, Iohn mac Philip Relie,</HI> with &s;uch companie as they &s;hall thinke fit, &s;hall goe in per&s;on to guard us that are above mentioned, together with &s;uch a competent number of &s;ouldiers, a Li&s;t being de|livered unto Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton</HI> of their names as &s;hall be &s;ufficient to defend us from the danger or hurt of any that may a&s;&s;aile us with any intention to hurt us, or any of us before mentioned in our lives or goods; and it is likewi&s;e conditioned by the &s;aid <HI>Philip</HI> and the re&s;t of the Gentlemen above named, that they &s;hall not leave us, untill we be &s;afely delivered over unto the hands of &s;uch a guard,
<PB N="37" REF="19"> or convoy, as &s;hall be &s;ent to receive us by the Governour of <HI>Drog|heda,</HI> and that we may be delivered over unto the hands of the &s;aid guard in love and amitie, and depart &s;o each from the other.</P>
<P N="2">2. We &s;hall have with us the Kings Maje&s;ties armes, together with all Carrabins, Petronels, Pi&s;tols, Hor&s;mens-Peeces, Bandeliers, Swords, Rapiers, Daggers, Hor&s;es, with all the Hor&s;e furniture be|longing to them, parti&s;ans, Holberts, and that the Souldiers belong|ing to Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton</HI> &s;hall march away with Drums beating, Colours flying, and Bullets in their mouthes.</P>
<P N="3">3. Thirdly, we are to have provi&s;ion provided for us, upon our way, which we are to march through for our ready moneys, the guard mentioned are to goe upon their owne charge.</P>
<P N="4">4. Fourthly, we will be ready to depart by Wedne&s;day the 15. of June 1642. and in the meane time Hor&s;es and carriage is to be pro|vided for us for tran&s;porting of our baggage and &s;icke people, if any &s;hall happen to be at that time, either to be bought or hired for our ready money.</P>
<P N="5">5. Fiftly, that Ma&s;ter <HI>William Bedell</HI> and his wife, <HI>Alexander Clo|gie,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Bag&s;haw</HI> and his Familie, <HI>Robert Iohn&s;on,</HI> together with all &s;uch Britti&s;h as are remaining within the County of <HI>Cavan,</HI> &s;hall be &s;ent hither to goe along with the &s;aid Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton,</HI> and that they may have liberty to carry with them all &s;uch bag or bag|gage as they have to carry.</P>
<P N="6">6. Sixthly, that &s;uch poore men and women that are not able to goe along with us, &s;hall have a &s;afe quarter to &s;tay and remaine in the Countrey, and that provi&s;ion &s;hall be made for them, which un|to Chri&s;tianitie appertaineth.</P>
<P N="7">7. Seaventhly, that after both Ca&s;tles, <HI>viz. Kylagh</HI> and <HI>Crohan</HI> &s;hall be &s;urrendred, that then <HI>Philip mac Hugh Relie,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Gentlemen fir&s;t named, &s;hall take care that the &s;aid Ca&s;tles &s;hall
<PB N="38" REF="20"> not be defaced, burnt, or demoli&s;hed, but pre&s;erved for the Kings Maje&s;ties u&s;e, and for the u&s;e of the right owners thereof, and that the like care &s;hall be had for pre&s;erving the Gardens and Or|chards belonging to both Ca&s;tles.</P>
<P N="8">8. Eighthly, that &s;uch people in both Ca&s;tles, that &s;hall de&s;ire to travell to any part of this Kingdome, &s;hall be allowed &s;o to doe, and &s;hall have Pa&s;&s;es given them for their &s;afe travelling from one or other of authoritie within this Countie, and in the &s;aid Pa&s;&s;es it may be de&s;ired, that the Gentlemen of &s;uch Counties in which they are to pa&s;&s;e through may give them Pa&s;&s;es for their &s;afe travelling unto &s;uch places as they &s;hall de&s;ire to re&s;t and remaine in.</P>
<P N="9">9. Ninthly, it is further agreed upon betweene both parties, that an authenticke Copie of this agreement &s;ealed and &s;igned by the &s;aid <HI>Philip mac Hugh, Mac Shan Relie,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Gentle|men fir&s;t named, &s;hall be &s;ent to <HI>Droghedah</HI> to the Governour or chiefe Commander there, to the end the &s;aid Governour may &s;end a Certifcate under his hand and &s;eale, to be delivered unto Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton,</HI> and the re&s;t of his Companie ten or twelve miles from <HI>Droghed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> for the &s;ecuritie of both parties, and the due performance of this agreement, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t there may be a certaine place appointed by the &s;aid Governour, where the &s;aid Sir <HI>Francis</HI> and his Companie &s;hall be received without any danger or affront unto &s;uch as &s;hall convoy them.</P>
<P N="10">10, La&s;tly, for the due and true performance of this agreement, and every point therein contained, both parties &s;hall make choyce of the mo&s;t principall Gentlemen on either &s;ide to &s;weare that they will truly and faithfully performe according to this agreement and every point therein contained, and likewi&s;e &s;et their hands and &s;eales the day and yeere above written,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Philip Relie, Edmond Rely, Philip Rely, Mulmore O Rely, Hugh Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">n Rely, Philip Rely, Iames Neugent, R. A. Owen Rou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ke, Ed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nd Rely, Ferall Rely, Charles mac Gauran, Daniel mac Gauran, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">c Ker<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">an, Conner Rely, Mulmore Relie, Turlagh Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">el.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="39" REF="20">
<P>The&s;e Articles being &s;igned, &s;ealed, and &s;worne unto by the &s;ub|&s;cribers, upon the 15. of <HI>June,</HI> there came out of the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Ky|lagh,</HI> Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton</HI> with about 800. men, women and chil|dren, of whom there were two hundred and thirtie fighting men. Out of <HI>Crohan</HI> with the Lady <HI>Craig</HI> there came about foure hundred of all &s;orts, and of them, one hundred being &s;erviceable men, and with the&s;e there were ten Mini&s;ters, among whom Ma&s;ter <HI>Price,</HI> one of good abilities, diligent in his Calling and forward in that &s;er|vice, doth merit e&s;peciall re&s;pects, be&s;ides tho&s;e that came out of tho&s;e Ca&s;tles, there were 140. others, who from other parts of the Coun|trey joyned them&s;elves unto them according as in the Articles Sir <HI>Francis</HI> had provided for them.</P>
<P>The&s;e marched away according to the Agreement with matches burning, Bandelleres full, Drums beating, and Colours flying; bringing with them Armes for 95. men. Sir <HI>Francis</HI> had in a Trunke one firkin of Powder which was not di&s;covered, leaving with the enemy only 20. pounds for to colour it. In both Ca&s;tles there were left about ninetie Peeces great and &s;mall, and many Pikes, mo&s;t whereof had beene recovered from the Enemy.</P>
<P>The&s;e 1340 of all &s;orts were by <HI>Philip Mac Hugh Rely,</HI> with the re&s;t of the mentioned in the Articles for &s;o doing, and a Guard of &s;e|ven hundred Souldiers conducted towards <HI>Droghedah,</HI> they made an Halt about fourteen miles from the Town, expecting an an&s;wer from the Governour Sir <HI>Henry Tichburn<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> who about a mile from <HI>Slane,</HI> and eight miles from <HI>Droghedah</HI> met them with two Troops, and three hundred Foot, the gro&s;&s;e of both par<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">s kept aloof, there being an hundred cho&s;en out of each for to deliver and receive: all which was punctually ob&s;erved on both &s;ides.</P>
<P>From <HI>Droghedah,</HI> the &s;aid ten Mini&s;ters, and above 1000 poore be&s;ides the poore Souldiers, repaired to <HI>Dublin</HI> where now they are expecting conveniency of pa&s;&s;age into <HI>England,</HI> if they may not be relieved there.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Francis Hamilton,</HI> the <HI>Lords Iu&s;tices, and Councell of Ireland,</HI> have recommended to the <HI>right Honourable the Lords Commi&s;sioners for the Iri&s;h affaires,</HI> having for the pre&s;ent li&s;ted 100 of his own men under his command in the Army: Hee de&s;erving all encouragement
<PB N="40" REF="21"> and re&s;pects both for his prudence and forwardne&s;&s;e in the publicke &s;ervice, and his charity to the poor de&s;poiled <HI>Britti&s;h,</HI> whom not only he relieved in his Ca&s;tle, but laid out great &s;ummes for clothing and feeding them in their going away.</P>
<P>This is the &s;ub&s;tance of all the chief pa&s;&s;ages of the Rebellion in the County of <HI>Cavan,</HI> from the 23 of <HI>October</HI> 1641, untill <HI>June</HI> 15, 1642, pa&s;&s;ing by Captain <HI>Culmes</HI> attempt for recovering the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Cloghouter,</HI> with other pa&s;&s;ages, which with a more full di&s;cour&s;e of what hath been formerly but briefly &s;et forth, and the continuati|on thereof, I refer to what I &s;hall hereafter (God willing) &s;et forth of <HI>the proceedings of the whole warre in</HI> Ireland.</P>
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<OPENER>In the name of the holy Trinitie, the Father, Son, and the holy Gho&s;t, <HI>Amen.</HI></OPENER>
<HEAD>Acts agreed upon, ordained, and concluded in the generall Congregation held at <HI>Kilkenny,</HI> the <HI>10.11.</HI> and <HI>13.</HI> dayes of May, <HI>1642.</HI> by tho&s;e Prelates who&s;e names are &s;ub&s;cribed; The Proctors of &s;uch other Pre|lates as then were ab&s;ent, being pre&s;ent together with the Superiours of the Regulars, and many other dignitaries and learned men, a&s;well in di|vine, as al&s;o in the common law, with divers Pa&s;tors and others of the Catholique Clergie of all <HI>Ireland,</HI> who&s;e names are likewi&s;e hereafter &s;et downe.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. WHereas the Warre which now in <HI>Ireland,</HI> the Catho|liques doe maintaine again&s;t Sectaries, and chiefly a|gain&s;t Puritans, for the defence of the Catholique Re|ligion, for the maintenance of the Prerogative and Royall rights of our gracious King <HI>Charles</HI> for our gracious Queene, &s;o unworthily abu&s;ed by the Puritans, for the honour, &s;afetie, and health of their royall i&s;&s;ue, for to avert and refraine the injuries done unto them, for the con&s;ervation of the ju&s;t, and lawfull &s;afegards, liberties and rights of <HI>Ireland</HI> and la&s;tly for the defence of their owne lives, for|tunes lands and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions. Whereas I &s;aid this warre is by the
<PB N="41" REF="21"> Catholiques undertaken for the afore&s;aid cau&s;es again&s;t unlawfull u&s;urpers, oppre&s;&s;ors and their enemies, chiefly Puritans. And that hereof we are enformed a&s;well by divers and true Remon&s;trances of divers Provinces, Counties and Noblemen, as al&s;o by the unani|mous con&s;ent and agreement of almo&s;t the whole Kingdome in this warre and union. We therefore declare that warre openly Cotho|lique to be lawfull and ju&s;t, in which warre, if &s;ome of the Catho|liques be found to proceed out of &s;ome particular and unju&s;t title, covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, cruelty, revenge or hatred, or any &s;uch unlawfull pri|vate intentions. We declare them therein grievou&s;ly to &s;inne, and therefore worthy to be puni&s;hed and refrained with Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall cen&s;ures (if advi&s;ed thereof) they doe not amend.</P>
<P N="2">2. Whereas the adver&s;aries doe &s;pread divers rumours, doe write divers Letters, and under the Kings name doe print Proclamations, which are not the Kings, by which meanes divers plots and dangers may en&s;ue unto our Nation; Wee therefore to &s;top the way of un|truth and forgeries of the Politicall adver&s;aries doe will and com|mand, that no &s;uch rumours, Letters, or Proclamations may have place, or beliefe, untill it be knowne in a Nationall Councell, whe|ther they truly proceeded from the King, left to his owne freedome, and untill the Agents of this Kingdome hereafter to be appointed by a Nationall Councell, have free pa&s;&s;age to his Maje&s;tie, whereby the Kingdome may be certainly enformed of his Maje&s;ties intention and will.</P>
<P N="3">3. Whereas no Family, Citie, Common-wealth, much le&s;&s;e any Kingdome may &s;tand without union and concord, without which this Kingdome for the pre&s;ent &s;tandeth in mo&s;t danger. We thinke it therefore nece&s;&s;ary that all Iri&s;h Peeres, Magi&s;trates, Noblemen, Cities and Provinces, may be tyed together with the holy bond of Vnion and Concord, and that they frame an oath of Vnion and a|greement which they &s;hall devoutly and Chri&s;tianly take, and faith|fully ob&s;erve. And for the con&s;ervation and exerci&s;e of this Vnion, We have thought fit to ordaine the en&s;uing points.</P>
<P N="4">4. We &s;traightly command all our inferiour, a&s;well Churchmen as Laymen to make no di&s;tinction at all between the old and ancient Iri&s;h, and no Alienation compari&s;on or differences between Provin|ces, Cities, Towns, or Families, and la&s;tly, not to begin, or forward
<PB N="34" REF="22"> any emulations or compari&s;ons what&s;oever.</P>
<P N="5">5. That in every Province of <HI>Ireland</HI> there be a Councell made up, both of Clergy and Nobility in which Councell &s;hall bee &s;o many per&s;ons, at lea&s;t as are Counties in the Province, and out of every City or notable Towne two per&s;ons.</P>
<P N="6">6. Let one generall Councell of the whole Kingdome be made, both of the Clergy Nobility, Cities, and notable Townes in which Councell there &s;hall be three out of every Province, and out of every City one, or where Cities are not, out of the chiefe&s;t Townes. To this Councell the Provinciall Councells &s;hall have &s;ubordination, and from thence to it may be appealed, untill this Nationall Coun|cell have opportunity to &s;it together; Againe, if any thing of great importance doe occurre, or be conceived in one Province, which by a negative Vote is rejected in the Councell of one Province. Let it be &s;ent to the Councels of other Provinces; except it be &s;uch a matter as cannot be delayed, and which doth not pertaine to the Weale publick of the other Provinces.</P>
<P N="7">7. Emba&s;&s;age &s;ent from one Province to forraigne Nations &s;hall be held as made from the re&s;t of the Provinces, and the fruit or be|nefit thereof &s;hall be imparted, and divided between the Provinces and Cities which have more need thereof, chiefly &s;uch helpes and fruits, as proceed from the bountifull liberalitie of forraigne Princes &s;tates. Prelates or others what&s;oever, provided alwayes that the charges and damage be proportionably recompenced.</P>
<P N="8">8. If there be any Province which may not conveniently &s;end Emba&s;&s;age from it &s;elfe unto forraigne Nations, let it &s;ignifie it to another Province, which may conveniently &s;upply it, and ought in regard of their union to &s;upply it according to the in&s;tructions &s;ent from the other Provinces concerning the place, and Princes to which they would have their Emba&s;&s;age employed.</P>
<P N="9">9. Let a faithfull Inventory be made in every Province of the murthers, burnings, and other cruelties, which are committed by the Puritan enemies with a cotation of the place, day, cau&s;e, man|ner and per&s;ons, and other circum&s;tances &s;ub&s;cribed by one of pub|lick authority.</P>
<P N="10">10. In every Pari&s;h, let a faithfull and &s;worne Me&s;&s;enger be ap|pointed, whereby &s;uch cruel<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="2 letters">es, and other affaires may bee written
<PB N="35" REF="22"> and &s;ent to the neighbouring places, and likewi&s;e from one Province to another; Let &s;uch things be written for the comfort, in&s;truction, and caref<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lne&s;&s;e of the People.</P>
<P N="11">11. Great men taken pri&s;oners in one Province, may not be &s;et at liberty for any price, prayers, or exchange, without the con&s;ent of the Prelats and Nobility of the other Province united, and let every Province be carefull of the Liberties of &s;uch Pri&s;oners as are from the other Provinces, as farre as it conveniently may.</P>
<P N="12">12. If any one &s;tubborne or dangerous be found in one Province, County or Towne, Let him be &s;ent to another Province, County or Towne where he may be &s;afely kept, and (with le&s;&s;e danger, or lo&s;&s;e of others) remaine.</P>
<P N="13">13. Who&s;oever &s;hall be declared in one County or Province, ad|ver&s;ary or traytour of this cau&s;e and country &s;hall likewi&s;e be held, and puni&s;hed in other Counties and Provinces where he &s;hall bee found, and &s;uch as receive or favour him, or be his me&s;&s;engers, know|ing his mi&s;demeanour &s;hall be lyable to &s;uch puni&s;hment as the traytour him&s;elfe.</P>
<P N="14">14. Wee command and ordaine as a maine point pertaining to this Vnion that no Province, County, City, Towne or per&s;on what|&s;oever &s;hall demand peace, or &s;ubmit him&s;elfe to the enemies with|out the con&s;ent of the generall Councell of the whole Kingdome, and that ender paine of Excommunication to be incurred <HI>ip&s;o facto,</HI> and for further force of this Statute to be ob&s;erved; Wee will that in every Province a firme oath be taken by the Peeres, Nobility, Corporations, and commonalty of every Province, and thereupon a Publicke and authenticall In&s;trument be made; And that every Pro|vince doe &s;end into every other Province, an In&s;trument &s;ub&s;cribed, with the proper hands of &s;uch as have taken this oath, for the a&s;&s;u|rance of their oaths and who&s;oever &s;hall refu&s;e to take this oath, let him bee held as adver&s;ary of the common cau&s;e, and of the King|dome, and let him be puni&s;hed, as &s;uch as hereafter &s;hall be declared, except he be excu&s;ed for the rea&s;ons hereafter to be &s;et downe.</P>
<P N="15">15. The ordinaries of every place, The preachers confe&s;&s;ors pa|&s;h pri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ts and other Churchmen &s;hall indeavour to &s;ee perfect peace and charity ob&s;erved betweene Provinces, Counties, Cities, and families, as the obligation of this vnion requireth</P>
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<P N="16"><PB N="44" REF="24">16. Such goods a&s;well moveable as vnmoveable pertaining to Catholiques as were recovered from the enemyes by this pre&s;ent war &s;hall be re&s;tored to their former owners, Provided that &s;uch ne|ce&s;&s;ary and re&s;onable charges &s;hall be paid, as the next generall or Provinciall Councell or Committees of the County where the par|ties dwell, &s;hall decree.</P>
<P N="17">17. Whereas diver&s;e per&s;ons doe diver&s;ly carry them&s;elves to|wards t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is cau&s;e, &s;ome with helpe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and &s;upplies doe a&s;&s;i&s;t the ad|ver&s;aries others with victualls and armes, others with their advice and authority &s;upporting as it weare the contrary cau&s;e, &s;ome al&s;o as n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ers behaving them&s;elve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, and others la&s;tly neglecting their oath d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e for&s;ake the Catholiq<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> unio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d cau&s;e. Wee doe therefore declare and iudge all and every &s;uch as for&s;ake this union, doe fight for our enemies accompany them in warr, defend or in any other way a&s;&s;i&s;t them as giving them weapons, victuals, councell, or fa|vour to be excomunicated and by the&s;e pre&s;ents doe excomunicate them; Provided that this pre&s;ent Decree &s;hall be fir&s;t publi&s;hed in eve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y Dioce&s;&s;e re&s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ctively, and having rec<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ived admonition before hand whic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;hall &s;upply the treble admonition otherwi&s;e requi&s;ite, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> wee doe hereby declare, &s;o it be made in a place where it may ea&s;ily come to the knowledge of tho&s;e whom it toucheth, but as touching the iudgement and puni&s;hment of the Newters wee leave it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o the ordinaries of every place re&s;pectively, &s;o that the ordinaries them&s;elues be not contrary to the iudgement and opinion of this Congregation, in which cau&s;e, we Commit power to the Metropo|litans or Archbi&s;hops to proceed again&s;t &s;uch ordinaries according to the common cour&s;e of law wherein they are to be very carefull and &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">edy, and if the Metropolitans be found heerein carele&s;&s;e or guil|ty, let them be lyable to &s;uch puni&s;hment as is ordained by the holy Canons and let them be accu&s;ed to the Sea Apo&s;tolique.</P>
<P N="18">18. Wee ordaine and Decree that all and every &s;uch as from the begining of this pre&s;ent warr have invaded the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of goods a&s;well moveable as unmoveable, &s;pirituall, or temporall of any Catholique whether Iri&s;h or Engli&s;h, or al&s;o of any Iri&s;h Pro|te&s;tant being not adver&s;arie of this cau&s;e. And doe detaine any &s;uch goods &s;hall be Excomunicated as by this pre&s;ent Decree wee doe excomunicate them if admoni&s;hed they doe not amend and with
<PB N="45" REF="24"> the like cen&s;ure wee doe bind &s;uch as henceforward &s;hall invade or detaine &s;uch goodes, and not only them, but al&s;o all and every &s;uch <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;hall ke<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pe lands or po&s;e&s;&s;ions again&s;t publique authority as al&s;o &s;uch as favour or as&s;i&s;t them therein. And we declare involued in this cen&s;ure all and every of them who directly or indirectly hir|der or for<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">id to pay their due rents unto &s;uch as have po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed the &s;aid lands from the begining of this warr and &s;uch likewi&s;e as with out the Lycen&s;e of &s;uch po&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ors doe take or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">x<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ort rents or equi|valent p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">yment from the tenants of &s;uch po&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ors under colour of paying &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uldiers therewith or otherwi&s;e</P>
<P N="19">19. We command all and every Churchmen a&s;well &s;ecular as regular not to heare the Conffeffions of the afore&s;aid excom|municated per&s;ons, nor to admini&s;ter unto them the holy Sacra|ments under paine of Excommunication <HI>ip&s;o facto.</HI></P>
<P N="20">20. We will and declare all tho&s;e that murther, di&s;member, or grievou&s;lly &s;trike, all theeves, unlawfull &s;poylers, robbers of any goods, extortors, together with all &s;uch as favour, receive, or any wayes a&s;&s;i&s;t them, to be excommunicated, and &s;o to remaine, untill they compleatly amend and &s;atisfie no le&s;&s;e then if they were, name|ly proclaimed, excommunicated, and for &s;atisfaction of &s;uch crimes hitherto committed to be enjoyned, wee leave to the di&s;cretion of the ordinaries and confe&s;&s;ors, how to ab&s;olve them.</P>
<P N="21">21. Trade&s;men for making weapons or powder brought into this Countrey, or hereafter to be brought in, &s;hall be free from all taxa|tions and cu&s;tomes; as al&s;o all Merchants, as &s;hall tran&s;port into this Countrey, &s;uch wares as are profitable for the Catholique cau&s;e, as Armes and Powder, may lawfully traffique without paying any Cu&s;tome, for commodities brought out of this Kingdome, or tran&s;|ported hither of that kind, and let this be proclaimed in all Provin|ces, Cities and Townes.</P>
<P N="22">22. Wee thinke it convenient, that in the next naturall Congre|gation, &s;ome be appointed out of the Nobility, and Clergy as Em|ba&s;&s;adours to be &s;ent in the behalfe of the whole Kingdome, unto the Kings of <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Spaine,</HI> to the Emperour and his Holine&s;&s;e, and tho&s;e to be of the Church Prelats, or one of the Nobility and a Lawyer.</P>
<P N="23">23. Wee will and ordaine, that Ordinaries, Dignitaries, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd
<PB N="38" REF="25"> other Proprietors of Church livings, with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Col|lonel, or &s;ome other prime Gentleman of the County, Barony, or Par<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Ordinarie, and Dignitaries, or Proprietors &s;hall ap|point, doe &s;et unto Tenants, the lands, hou&s;es, tenements, and tithes, and other Church livings, and let competent means be appointed for the maintenance of the &s;aid O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dinaries, Dignataries and Proprietors, and the re&s;t to be appointed for the &s;ouldiers untill it bee otherwi&s;e ordained.</P>
<P N="24">24. Collectors and receivers of the Rents of Church-livings, &s;hall be appointed by the Ordinaries, with the con&s;ent of the Pro|prietors in the pre&s;ence of the chiefe&s;t Gentlemen of every County, Baronry, or Pari&s;h r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pectively.</P>
<P N="25">25. The ordinaries and other proprietors of Church livings may take unto them&s;elves the hou&s;es, tenements and other Church Goods pertaining unto their re&s;pective titles, with obligations to pay propor|tionable rent unto the Souldiers as afore&s;aid, or his payment of their owne competent maintenance and lett the hou&s;es, tenements, and other Church goodes be taken from the Catholiques, who heretofore had them as tenements or otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P N="26">26. It is Committed to the will and di&s;po&s;ition of the ordinarie whether and when to enter into the Churches and celebrate Ma&s;&s;es therein we commande all and every the generall Colonells, Captains and other officers of our Catholique army to whom it appertaineth that they &s;everally puni&s;h all tran&s;gre&s;&s;ers of our afore&s;aid Command touching Murtherers, Maymers, Strikers, Theeves, Robbers, and if they faile therein we command the pari&s;h Prie&s;ts, Curats or Chap|lines, re&s;pectively to declare them iterdicted and that they &s;hall be excomunicated if they cau&s;e not due &s;atisfaction to bee made unto the Common-wealth, and the party offended. And this the Pari&s;h Prie&s;ts or Chaplaines &s;hall ob&s;erve under paine of Excommunica|tion of &s;entence given <HI>ip&s;o facto.</HI></P>
<P N="27">27. To the end that the&s;e Acts Propo&s;itions, and Ordinances may have more happy &s;ucce&s;&s;e; We thought it fitting to have recour&s;e un|to God Almighty by Prayers, Fa&s;tings and Alms We therefore will pray and as far as it is needfull do co~mand that every Prie&s;t as well Secular, as Regular doe celebrate one Ma&s;&s;e a week, and that all Lay men doe fa&s;t upon Wedne&s;day, Friday, and Saturday in one weeke,
<PB N="39" REF="25"> and thence forward one day a week, and that upon Wedne&s;day, or Saturday, as long as the Ordinary &s;hall plea&s;e, and that they pray heartily unto God for the pro&s;perous &s;ucce&s;&s;e of this our Catholike War, for which they &s;hall gain &s;o many dayes indulgences, as every Prelate &s;hall publi&s;h in your &s;everall Dioce&s;&s;e re&s;pectively after t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Fa&s;t of the afore&s;aid three days in one Weeke, having fir&s;t confe&s;&s;ed, and received the ble&s;&s;ed Sacrament, and be&s;towed &s;ome almes to this effect.</P>
<P N="28">28 In every Regiment of Souldiers Let there be appointed at lea&s;t two Confe&s;&s;ors, and one Preacher, to be named by the Ordinaries and by the Superiours of the Regulars, who&s;e competent maynte|nance we commend and command to every Colonell, in their re&s;pe|ctive Regiments. And to the end that all tho&s;e Ordinances and Sta|tutes may effectually be put in execution, we will and decree that all Arch-bi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, Apo&s;tolicall Vicars and Regular Superiours, a&s;well here pre&s;ent as ab&s;ent, may be very &s;erious and carefull of the execution of the afore&s;aid, as they tender not to incur di&s;plea&s;ure, wrath, and revenge, and herewith we charge their Con&s;ciences.</P>
<P N="29">29 Moreover, We pray and require, all Noblemen, Magi&s;trates, and all other Mar&s;hall Commanders, that with their helps and Se|cular forces, they a&s;&s;i&s;t and &s;et forward in execution, the afore&s;aid Statutes in their &s;everall Precincts re&s;pectively as often as it &s;hall be needfull; If in any of the afore&s;aid Statutes any doubt or difficulty may by chance ari&s;e, the explication thereof wee re&s;erve to the Me|tropolitans in every Province re&s;pectively, and to the Bi&s;hops in eve|ry their Dioce&s;&s;e, &s;uch of them as are no way contrary to this cau&s;e, no other per&s;on may pre&s;ume to expound the afore&s;aid difficulties.</P>
<CLOSER>Haec dicta, acta ordinata &amp; &s;tatuta, &s;ub&s;cripta erant nominibus &s;e|quentium Praelatorum. All tho&s;e Judgments, Sayings, Acts, and Covenants, We &s;ubmit to the judgment of the See Apo&s;tolick.
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Hugo Archiepi&s;copus Armachanus.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Archiepi&s;copus Ca&s;&s;elen&s;is.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Malachius Archiepi&s;copus Guamenum.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM><HI>David Epi&s;copus O&s;orenum.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frater Batius Epi&s;copus Elphynenum.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frater Patricius Epi&s;copus Woterferden. &amp; Ly&s;moren.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frater Rochus Epi&s;copus Kildaren.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ioannes Electus <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">luanfarten.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Emerus Electus Dunen. &amp; Conoren,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frater Io&s;ephus Everard, Procurator Archiepi&s;copi Dublinen&s;.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Doctor Ioannes Creagh Procurator Ep&s;icopus Lymeriten.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>David Bourck &amp; Willielmus O Connell Procurator Epi&s;copi Imolacen.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Donotus O Tearnan Procurator Epi&s;copi Laonen.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Doctor Diony&s;ius Hartii Decanus Laonen&s;is.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Doctor Michael Hacket Vicom. gener. Waterforden.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gulielmus Devocer Vic. gener. Ferne&s;en.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Roch Vicar. Generalis O&s;&s;oren.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frater Lucas Archer Abbas Sanctae Crucis.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frater Anthonius de Ro&s;ario Ord. praed. Vicar. pro Provincial.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robertus Nugent &s;ocietat Ie&s;u in Heb.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frater Thadeus Connoldus Aug. Provinc.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ioannes Warenige Decanus Lymlicem.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frater Patricius Darcye Guardianum Dubliuen&s;.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frater Thomas Strange Guardianum Waterford.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frater Jo&s;eph Lancton, Prior Kilkenny.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frater Tho. Tearnon Guard. de Dundalk.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frater Joannes Reyly Guard Kilkennige.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frater Boetius Eganus Guard Buttevant.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jordanus Boork Archiedecanus Lymericen&s;is.</HI></ITEM>
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