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A12824	Pacata Hibernia Ireland appeased and reduced· Or, an historie of the late vvarres of Ireland, especially within the province of Mounster, vnder the government of Sir George Carew, Knight, then Lord President of that province, and afterwards Lord Carevv of Clopton, and Earle of Totnes, &c. VVherein the siedge of Kinsale, the defeat of the Earle of Tyrone, and his armie; the expulsion and sending home of Don Iuan de Aguila, the Spanish generall, with his forces; and many other remarkeable passages of that time are related. Illustrated with seventeene severall mappes, for the better understanding of the storie.	Stafford, Thomas, Sir, fl. 1633.; Totnes, George Carew, Earl of, 1555-1629, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 23132; ESTC S117453	356,720	417

wherewith wee are of long time opprest by the English Nation Their government is such as Pharaoh himselfe never vsed the like for they content not themselues with all temporall superiority but by cruelty desire our blood and perpetuall destruction to blot out the whole remembrance of our posterity as also our old Catholike Religion and to sweare that the Queene of England is Supreame of the Church I referre the consideration hereof to your Majesties high judgement for that Nero in his time was farre inferior to that Queene in cruelty Wherefore and for the respects thereof high mighty Potentate my selfe with my Followers and Retainers And being also requested by the Bishops Prelates and religious men of my Countrey haue drawen my sword and proclaimed warres against them for the recovery first of Christs Catholike religion and next for the maintenanc● of my owne right which of long time hath beene wrongfully derained from mee and my father who by right succession was lawfull Heire to the Earledome of Desmond ●or hee was eldest Sonne to Iames my Grandfather who was Earle of Desmond and for that my Vncle Gerald being the younger brother tooke part with the wicked proceedings of the Queene of England to farther the unlawfull claime of supremacie vsurped the name of Earle of Desmond in my fathers true title yet notwithstanding hee had not long enjoyed his name of Earle when the wicked English annoyed him and prosecuted wars that hee with the most part of those that held of his side was slaine and his Countrey thereby planted with Englishmen And now by the just judgement and providence of God I haue utterly rooted those malepart bowes out of the Orchard of my Countrey and haue profited so much in my proceedings that my da●●erly enemies dare not shew their faces in any par● of my Countrey but having taken my Townes and Cities for their refuge and strength where they doe remaine as yet were Prisoner● for want of meanes to assaile them as Cannon and Powder which my Countrey doth not yeeld Having these wants most noble Potentate I haue presumed with all humility to addresse these my Letters to your High Majestie craving the same of your gra●ious clemencie and goodnesse to assist mee in this godly enterprise with some helpe of such necessaries for the warres as your Majestie shall thinke requisit and after the quiet of my Countrey satisfaction shall bee truely made for the same and my selfe in person with all my forces shall bee ready to serue your Highnesse in any Countrey your Majestie shall command me And i● your Majestie will vouchsa●e to send me a competent number of Souldiers I will place them in some of my Townes and Cities to remaine in your gratious disposition till such time as my ability shall make good what your Majestie shall lend me in money and munition and also your Majesties high Commission under the broad Seale for leading and conducting of these Souldiers according to the prescript order and articles of martiall discipline as your Majestie shall appoint me and as the service of the Land shall require I praise the Almighty God I haue done by his goodnesse more then all my Predecessors for I haue reclaimed all the Nobility of this part under the dutifull obedience of Christs Church and mine owne authority and accordingly haue taken pledges and corporall oathes never to swarue from the same and would haue sent them to your Majestie by this Bearer but that the Ship was not of sufficiencie and strength to carry so noble personages and will send them whensoever your Highnesse please So there resteth nothing to quiet this part of the world but your Majesties assistance which I daily expect Thus most mighty Monarch I humbly take my leaue and doe kisse your Royall hands beseeching the Almighty of your Majesties health and happinesse From my Campe the fourteenth day of March 1599. Your Majesties most humble at all command Iames Desmond An other Letter from Iames Fits Thomas to the King of Spaine YOur Majestie shall understand that the bearer hereof Captaine Andrew Roche hath beene alwayes in the seruice of the Queene of England and hath performed her manifold services at Sea whereby he had great preferment and credit and being of late time conversant with Catholikes and teachers of divine Instructions that were sory for his lewd life made knowen unto him the danger wherein his soule was so that by their godly perswasions hee was at that time reclaimed and subverted to bee a good Catholike and to spend the residue of his life in the defence and service of the Church since which time of reconcilement hee was to repaire to your Majestie with his Ship and Goods as is well knowen to your Highnesse Councell who confiscated that Ship to your Majesties use himselfe being at that time strucken with extreame sicknesse that hee was not able to proceed in the voyage and when his Company returned into Ireland they reported that the Lantado wished rather his person then the Ship which made him fearefull ever since to repaire thither till hee should deserue his freedome by some worthy service to your Majestie The Heire apparant to the Crowne of England had beene caried by him to your Highnesse but that he was bewrayed by some of his owne men and thereby was intercepted and himselfe taken Prisoner where he remained of long till by the Providence of God and the helpe of good friends hee was conveyed into Ireland to mee in a small Boat and leaving these occasions to your Imperiall Majesty and being assured of his trust faith and confidence towards mee haue committed this charge into his hands the rather for that I understand your Royall Fleete is directed for England this yeare to the end he may be a Leader and Conductor to them in the Coast of England and Ireland being very expert in the knowledge thereof and in the whole art of Navigation And thus with all humility I commit your Highnesse to the Almighty From my Campe the fourteenth of March 1599 Your Majesties most humble at all command Iames Desmond Consider I beseech thee gentle Reader into what proud arrogancie and audacious insolency this Arch-traytor was elevated like a Vapor in a Sunshine day when blind fortune laught upon him the Queene a Tyrant the English all cowards the Cities and walled Townes all his and the Mounster Nobilitie subdued under his authority was there ever Rebell so farre transported with ambitious presumption beyond the limits of reason was it not sufficient for him like cursed Shimei or blacke mouthed railing Rabshakeh to revile the Lords annoynted but he must challenge her territories her Cities her People and her Nobilitie whom shee and her ancestors had created to be his owne who had no portion nor inheritance in any part thereof being the Impe of a borne Bastard But surely I must perswade my selfe all this was permitted by the unsearchable sapience of the alseeing Deity who even as hee caused proud Lucifer

and goods which all are in hazard through your folly and want of due consideration Enter I beseech you into the closet of your Conscience and like a wise man weigh seriously the end of your actions and take advise of those that ●an instruct you and informe you better then your owne private judgement can leade you unto Consider and reade with attention and setled minde this Discourse I sende you that it may please God to set open your eyes and graun● you a better minde From the Campe this instant Tuesday the fixt of March according to the new Computation I pray you to send mee the Papers I sent you assoone as your Honour shall reade the same O Neale The Lord Barries Answer to Tyrone YOur Letters I received and if I had answered the same as rightfully they might be answered you should haue as little like therof as I should mislike or feare any thing by you threatned against me which manner of Answere leaving to the construction and consideration of all those that are fully possessed with the knowledge of the Law of duetie to God and Man You may understand hereby briefly my mind to your obiections in this manner How I am undoubtedly perswaded in my conscience that by the Law of God and his true religion I am bound to hold with her Maiestie Her Highnesse hath never restrained me for matters of religion and as I felt her Maiesties indifferencie and clemencie therein I haue not spared to releeue poore Catholikes with duetifull succour which well considered may assure any well disposed mind that if duety had not as it doth yet kindnesse and courtesie should bind me to remember and requite to my power the benefits by me received at her Maiesties hands You shall further understand that I hold my Lordships and Lands immediately under God of her Maiestie and her most noble Progenitors by corporall service and of none other by very ancient Tenour which Service and Tenour none may dispence withall but the true Possessor of the Crowne of England being now our Soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth And though yee by some over weening imaginations haue declined from your dutifull allegeance unto her Highnesse Yet I haue setled my selfe never to forsake Her Let fortune never so much rage against me shee being my annointed Prince and would to God you had not so farre ran to such desperate and erronious wayes offending God and her Maiestie who hath so well deserved of you and I would pray you to enter into consideration thereof and with penitent hearts to reclaime your selues hoping that her Highnesse of her accustomed clemency would be gracious to you wherein I leaue you to your owne compunction and consideration And this much I must challenge you for breach of your word in your Letter by implication inserted that your forces haue spoiled part of my countrey and preyed them to the number of foure thousand Kine and three thousand Mares and Gerrans and taken some of my followers Prisoners within the time by you assigned unto mee to come unto you by your said word if yee regarde it I require restitution of my spoile and Prisoners and after unlesse you bee better advised for your Loyalty use your discretions against mee and mine and spare not if you please for I doubt not with the helpe of God and my Prince to bee quit with some of you hereafter though now not able to use resistance And so wishing you to become true and faithfull Subiects to God and your Prince I end at Barry Court this twenty sixe of February 1599. While Tyrone was in Mounster a disasterous action hapned upon the day of February Tyrone with his Hell-hounds being not farre from Corke Sir Warham St Ledger and Sir Henry Power who after the death of Sir Thomas Norris Lord President of Mounster in the vacancie of a President had beene established Commissioners for the government of the Province riding out of the Citie for recreation to take the aire accompanied with sundry Captaines and Gentlemen with a few Horse for their Guard not dreaming of an enemie neere at hand carelesly riding every one as he thought good within a mile of the Towne or little more Sir Warham St leger and one of his servants a little stragling from his companie was in a narrow way suddenly charged by Mac Guire who with some Horse likewise dispersed had spread a good circuit of ground in hope either to get some bootie or to haue the killing of some Subjects they charged each other Sir Warham discharged his Pistoll and shot the Traytor and hee was strucken with the others Horsemans staffe in the head of which wounds either of them dyed but none else on either side was slaine Tyrone having dispatched his busines in Mounster turned his face towards Vlster The Earle of Ormond the Lord Lieuetenant generall of Her Maiesties Forces with a competent Army was before him with a purpose to fight with him in his retreat But by what accident hee missed of his intention I know not being a hard matter to fight with an enemy that is not disposed to put any thing in hazard He went through Ormond and stayed not untill he had passed through a part of Westmeth betweene Mollingar and Athlone The Lord Deputie on the 5. of March had intelligence that hee meant to passe through Westmeth Whereupon with all the force hee could presently a●●emble hee marched from Dublin but his endeavour was fruitlesse for Tirone was past before his comming CHAP. III. The Lord President le●●t Dublin The Earle of Ormond taken prisoner by Owny Mac Rory Omore A joynt Letter from the Lord President and the Earle of Thomond to the Lords of the Councell in England The manner of the Earle of Ormonds taking prisoner The narrow escape of the Lord President and wounding of the Earle of Thomond The order taken for the 〈◊〉 of the Count●ey after the Earle of Ormonds disaster The submission of Tho Fitz Iames and Tho Power THE Lord President having attended long at Dublin about his dispatches afore mentioned wherein he lost no time upon the seventh of Aprill being accompanied with the Earle of Thomond the Lo Audley Captaine Roger Harvy Captaine Thomas Browne Captaine Garret Dillon and some other Captaines and Gentlemen with seven hundred Foote and one hundred Horse Hee tooke his leaue of the Lord Deputie who with all the Councellors and Captaines then in the Citie to doe him honour rode with him about two miles out of the Towne and that night he lodged at the Naas the next night at Catherlogh and the day following hee came to Kilkenny to visit the Earle of Ormond being a noble man whom he much respected aswell for the honorable parts that were in him as for the long and familiar acquaintance which had beene betweene them After salutations and complements were past the Earle told the President that the next day hee was to parlie with the Rebell Owny Mac Rory

President would bee able to make his peace with the Lord Deputie but so slow and negligent was the Presidents Messenger which afterwards was excused by sicknesse as the Lord Deputie had received Sir Francis Barklies refusall before hee had knowledge of the Presidents Letters whereupon hee stormed at the President and dispatched presently his Letters to the Lords of the Councell complayning of the President not sparing to tell them that rather then hee would undergoe so great an indignity by any man that served underneath him hee would quit his government And at the same time it fell out so crossely that another accident did no lesse moue the Deputie to bee enraged then the former for of the two thousand supplyes which were to come into Mounster the President to giue contentment to many worthy men that without charge had followed him in the former services had obtayned from the Lords in England that sixe hundred of them should bee bestowed upon such as he should make choice of to bee their Captaines this added to that aforementioned did so much increase his Lordships indignation to the President whereunto many ill disposed to increase the flame gaue fuell as his Lordship wrote this ensuing Letter to the President The Lord Deputies Letter to the Lord President MY Lord as I haue hitherto borne you as much affection and as truely as ever I did professe it unto you and I protest rejoyced in all your good successes as mine owne so must you giue mee leaue since I presume I haue so just cause to challenge you of unkindnesse and wrong in writing into England that in preferring your Followers Sir Henry Dockwray hath had more power from me then your selfe and consequently to sollicit the Queene to haue the nomination of some Captaines in this kingdome for the first I could haue wished you would haue beene better advised because upon mine honour hee never without my speciall warrant did ap●oint but one who I after displaced and I doe not remember that ever since our comming over I haue denyed any thing which you haue recommended unto me with the marke of your owne desire to obtaine it and in your Province I haue not given any place as I thinke but at your instance For the other I thinke it is the first example that ever any under an other Generall desired or obtained the like sui●e And although I will not speake injuriously of your deserts nor immodestly of mine owne yet this disgrace cannot make me beleeue that I haue deserved worse then any that haue beene Generals before me But since it is the Queenes pleasure I must endure it and you choose a fit time to obtaine that or anything else against me Yet I will concurre with you in the service as long as it shall please her Majestie to employ us here but afterward I doubt not but to giue you satisfaction that I am not worthy of this wrong The Councell and my selfe upon occasion of extraordinary consequence sent for some of the Companies of Mounster out of Connaght when wee heard you were to be supplyed with two thousand out of England but wee received from them a flat deniall to come and the copie of your Letter to warrant them therein If you haue any authority from the Queene to countermand mine you may very well justifie it but it is more then you haue vowed to me to haue when I before my comming over protested unto you that if you had I would rather serue the Queene in prison then here My Lord these are great disgraces to me and so conceived and I thinke justly by all that know it which is and will be very shortly all Ireland My allegeance and owne honour are now engaged with all my burthens to goe on in this worke otherwayes no feare should make mee suffer thus much and what I doe it is onely loue doth moue me unto it For I know you are deare to one whom I am bound to respect with extraordinary affection And so my Lord I wish you well and will omit nothing while I am in this kingdome to giue you the best contentment I can and continue as Your assured Friend Mountioye In this meane time before these stormes came to the Presidents knowledge for yet hee had not received the Lord Deputies sharpe Letter hoping that the time of the Spaniards comming would admit Sir Francis his Regiment some longer absence sent him word to march to Ballishenan or elsewhere as it pleased the Deputie and withall by his Letters he acquainted his Lordship of his directions and beseeched his Lordship to haue a care of Mounster which hee was no way able his places of Garison guarded with his small forces remayning to confront Terrill and the Vlster aides then ready to enter into it much lesse to defend the Cities of Corke Limerick and Water●ord against the Spaniards whose arrival hee daily expected After this second dispatch to the Lord Deputie the President received his Lordships thundering Letters but when the Lord Deputie by his answer saw how much hee was mistaken and had well considered upon what good ground the Presidents instructions were given to Sir Francis Barkley and also that he had retrenched the same before hee knew that his Lordship had sent for them And that although hee had gotten the favour to bestow sixe of the Companies that came out of England hee knew that they could stand no longer then hee pleased and so left them to be disposed of at his will he not onely blamed himselfe but wrote a satisfactory kindly unto him which to shew the good nature of that Noble-man I thinke I should doe him wrong if I did not relate it A satisfactory Letter from the Lord Deputie to the Lord President MY Lord if my Letter did expresse some more then ordinary passion I will now desire you if you haue any opinion of my judgement or honesty to beleeue mee that at that time I had so much reason to bee so moved as I presume when I next speake with you I shall induce you to confesse that my expostulation did neither proceed from undervaluing you or overvaluing my selfe private respect to my owne ends vanity in desire of preheminences nor lightnesse or evill nature in quitting slightly so worthy a friend and if I can farther perswade you by the effect it tooke with me I protest the miserable tragedie of those I held here my dearest friends the unkindnesse I tooke by their shewing themselues my most mortall enemies the danger that I knew they brought my fortune into nor any thing which hath beene much that hath hapned to me since my comming into this kingdome did ever so much moue me as this and the circumstances that did accompany it the which being unfit to be trusted either to paper or at the least to this passage I will reserue for my owne defence till I speake with you or may send a more safe and assured Messenger unto you and so leaue my case