Letter bare date the seventh of August and arrived at Corke the second of September following whereby the Reader may see that the King of Spaines eyes were yet still notwithstanding the rowt at Kinsale the dishonour hee received in the returnes of his troopes and the losse of Dunboy whereby his footing in Ireland was meerely loâ—t open upon that kingdome Although Queene Elizabeth of happie memory was dead before Lieutenant Edney returned yet I hold it not impertinent in this place to 〈◊〉 his sucâ—esses When hee was landed at the Groynt hee understood that Don Iohn de Aguila by the accusation of the Irish Fugitiues was in disgrace confined to his house where of griefe shortly after hee dyed His Letters and Pasports were taken from him by the Earle of Carazena and sent to the Court and himselfe stayed untill the Kings pleasure was knowen The Irish Traytors inveighed much against him â—aying That under pretext of Trade and bringing of Presents hee came as a Spie Neverthelesse he was well intreated and had the libertie of the Towne and to weare his Sword with allowance from the King of a Duccat per diem for his dyet His goods were solde for the best advantage and his Barque returned into Ireland But the Presidents present to Don Iohn the Earle of Carazena detayned to his owne use And after nine moneths restraint Edney was enlarged and returned into England in Iuly 1603. A little before this time Sir Robert Cecill her Majesties principall Secretary wrote unto the Lord Deputie the Newes of Spaine a branch of which hee also sent to the President dated upon the seventh of August and received the second of September I hold meet to insert wherby the Reader may understand that the King of Spaine had still his eyes open upon Ireland One great cause of my writing this private Letter is this that where I see how much it doth distract your mind to thinke of Spaine behinde you and of the North before you fearing to bee diverted from the conclusion of your labours you may perceiue in what estate the preparations of Spaine are now as I am certainly advertised by one of mine owne who is newly arrived from the Port of Lisbone where he tooke shipping the 21 of Iuly There are two great Ships each of them of a thousand Tunnes one called the Andrew the other which shall be the Viceadmirall the name forgotten Besides there are twelue ships of two hundred tunnes and downeward in which it is resolved to send some fifteene hundred men to haue releeved the siege at Bearehaven the Newes of the taking whereof was first knowen by a Ship from Waterford to Lisbon and not before Of the fifteene hundred men eight hundred came from the Groyne being part of those which were transported out of Ireland In the Groyne remaineth Odonnell and there is onely the great Saint Philip with ten small Barques with which he mightily importuned to be sent to the North. If these had been sent unto Beerehaven in Mounster hoping upon his arrivall with some fifteene hundred men to haue raised the siege possessed some parts and made a beginning of a plantation heereof great benefit must needs haue growen to the Rebels for as those small numbers which should haue been landed at Mounster with the bruite of the rest to follow which is alwayes multiplied would haue made a distraction of the Vlster prosecution c. Lastly in the said Letter he prayed the President to set downe his opinion what course were best to be taken in a Defensiue warre if the King of Spaine did invade Ireland with a Royall Armie The next passage to giue Master Secretarie satisfaction the Lord President wrote unto him a long Letter but because many private things were handled in the same I will onely relate so much of it as concernes his opinion touching a defensiue warre in Ireland The Lord Presidents Opinion sent to Master Secretary of a Defensiue Warre in Ireland GRanting that the Enemie will come no lesse powerfull then is reported and that the Irish will joyne with them whereof there is no doubt then consideration is to bee had what in such a Sea of troubles is meetest to bee done that may best preserue the Queenes army with lest charge and the way to weary the enemy and the countrey Because my opinion may perchance differ from other men whose Authority Greatnesse and better iudgement in the worldes opinion beares more sway I will forbeare to deale in so waightie a businesse any farther then to your selfe vsing the libertie you haue euer giuen me to say what I conceiue to be the best Counsaile if the army of Spaine be so great as is both reported by those that come from thence and expected heere let us make no doubt but he will bee Master of the field for the present and will so hold himselfe except the Armie of Ireland bee reenforced to a farre higher Liâ—t the charge whereof will make if I bee not deceived both England and Ireland to groane Wherefore the best way in my conceit to moderate such huge Expences is for the present to be carelesse of the Countreys generally throughout the kingdome for in seeking both to defend them and to make head against the Enemy will be too heavie a burden The principall regard which we ought to haue is of the Cities in every of which I doe wish a strong Garison both of Horse and foot able to defend a siege when the Enemie shall see that wee are dispersed into Garrisons either hee will presently in his best strength goe to besiege one of those places or else disperse because hee hath the Countrey to friend as wee doe if he attempt the besieging of any of our places aforesaid there is no doubt but in such a businesse he will unite all his forces in one then may wee be bold to draw all our forces from their severall Garrisons to a head to releeue that place and with Gods favour make no doubt but to enforce the Enemy to rise if hee disperse then those Garrisons will be able to master the Countries about them and leaue no habitation to releeue either Spanyard or Irish and upon occasion two or more of these Garrisons may assemble and meet to effect greater services then otherwise can bee done This fashion of a warre will in a short time destroy all the Countrey make the Irish to curse the Spaniard and themselues for drawing them hither driue the King to an inestimable charge and hazard by Sea to victuall and releeue his Army which otherwise will perish ease the Queenes charge and secure the chiefe Townes which is chiefely and aboue all other things to be respected Supposing the Army would land in Mounster in it I would haue principall regard of Corke Limerick and Waterford in either of which Cities I doe wish there might be a strong Garrison of three thousand foote and three hundred horses one thousand foote more to be dispersed
conference with Owen Mao Eggan as also by Merchants and their Agents out of Spaine which did all agree in one that succours being prepared and ready to embarque for Ireland understanding the losse which the Rebels had received in Beere and the Castle of Dunboy rased where they purposed to secure their landing new directions were brought from the Court of Spaine to the Earle of Carraâ—ena Governour of the Groyne to stay their proceedings in the voyage till the Kings pleasure were father knowen but yet the Army was not dissolved the examinations sent by the Lord President into England to the Lords were found to agree with the intelligence which was sent to her Majestie out of Spaine wherefore to prevent what danger hereby might ensue it pleased her Majestie to take present order that the fleete of ships some her owne and some Merchants that had beene upon the Coast of Spaine the most part of all the Summer should bee revictualled and lye off and on in the height of Cape-finister till towards Michaelmas that if they proceeded in the intended invasion either they might fight with them at Sea or at least follow them to such Harbours of Ireland where they should arriue and there distresse them but he happy successe in the siege of Dunboy altered the Spanish Councels for now they had no place in Ireland that held for them Neverthelesse the comming of new forces from Spaine for Ireland being still doubted there was sent from England two thousand foote for the supplying of the List. By this time Sir Charles Wilmot as hee was directed was come out of Kerry and all the Subjects with their goods and Cattle were drawen on this side the Mountaine of Slewlogher whereby the Bonnoghs that had lived these fiue moneths principally upon Osulevan Beare and by that meanes eaten him up began to consult about leaving of the Province there being no man now in action that was able for the Carties in Carbery had beene so much wasted and impoverished by the two Harvies as though their hearts were good yet their meanes failed them to uphold a warre or any long time to hold them together Therefore Iohn of Desmond brother to the Sugan Earle prisoner in the Tower of London laboured Terrill very instantly to take Bonnaght of them in Connilogh and for that purpose had inveighled Morris fits Thomas called the Lord of the Clenlis to deliver unto him the strong Castle of Glancoyne the custodie whereof to saue her Majesties charge had beene committed to him the yeare before and because no suspition might be conceived of the said Iohn fits Thomas practise hee now became a sutor by Iames Walsh who had beene his brothers Secretary for a protection desiring as hee pretended to become a Subject upon these conditions First if his brother Iames the titulary Earle might bee set at libertie hee would bee content to become a Pledge for him either in the Castle of Dublin or else where the State should appoynt which being refused and rejected hee offered to doe service so that hee might haue his pardon and some meanes to releeue him in the future But as the President would not bee drawen to accept any of these conditions so it was thought hee would haue flyen backe if they had been accepted But all this Negotiation was but to colour his practise laid for Glancoyne which Castle and the Fastnesse neere adjoyning would haue commaunded a great part of that Countrey But all these Iuglings were discovered by one V. B. whom the President without suspition maintained amongst them Wherefore hee sent Philip Northcot the Sherife of the Countie of Limericke with private Instructions to surprise both Maurice fits Thomas and the sayd Castle but either to take both at one instant or to meddle with neither The Sherife watching many opportunities and not speeding of his purpose the President to prevent future danger committed the custodie of the said Castle to Sir Francis Barkley and so disappointed the Rebels of that hope About the latter end of this moneth of August a rumour was generally divulged through the Province that the Spanyards were upon the coast and that certaine Ships were discovered from the olde Head of Kinsale and presently after that foure and twentie sayle were arrived at Bearehauen and hereupon you might see Horsemen galloping this way and that way to and fro with such signes of gladnes apparant joy as though the day of their deliverance were neere at hand but as it fell out this was but a false allarme the Ships that were discryed being a Fleet of Easterlings bound to the Southward The President heereby discerning with what assured hopes they apprehended their comming and with what glad hearts they should be welcome being come he became an earnest humble suitor to the Lord Deputie That Sir Samuel Bagnals Regiment lately called out of Mounster by his Lordships Command might with his favour bee returned againe The Lord Deputie taking an honourable care of that Province finding by his owne intelligence that the Spanyards were purposed to make their discent either in Mounster or in the parts of Connaght not far dis-joyned condiscended unto the Presidents request whereupon the said Colonell with his Regiment were directed to Limrick there to remaine in Garison During the siege of Kinsale there was a young Gentleman of the Carties called Teg Mac Cormock sonne to that well deserving Gentleman Sir Cormock Mac Teg who being of the Presidents Troope of Horse through the inticements of the Rebells and promises of the Spanyards was induced to combine with the Enemie and stealing away his Horse and Hackney entred into action But the successe of his Confederates not prooving so fortunate as they hoped hee grew weary of the Rebellion and made himselfe a Suitor to the President to be received to mercy as may appeare by his Letter here ensuing CHAP. XII A Letter from Teg Mac Cormock Cartie to the Lord President intreating the remission of his offences Cormock Mac Dermond Cartie accused of sundry treasons Cormock Mac Dermond committed The Castle of Blarny in the custody of Captaine Taffe The Castle and Abbey of Killâ—rey rendred to the Lord President Mocrumpe besieged Cormocks Wife and Children imprisoned Cormock Mac Dermond plotted his escape A Letter from Teg Mac Cormock Cartie to the Lord President intreating the remission of his Offences RIght Honourable my dutie most humbly remembred Having long forborne though thereby disquieted in mind and ashamed of my selfe to send unto your Honour Yet presuming upon her Majesties mercie and your favour I haue made bold to become a Petitioner to your Honour that it may please you to admit me therunto and to forgiue and forget my faults considering they were not malicious but youthfull and not of pretence to hurt her Majestie or her Subjects but in hope to recover against my Cosen Cormock Mac Dermody some meanes to maintaine my decayed estate and still likely to be suppressed by
the finishing of the Fort of Castle ny Parke That her Majestie was pleased at the Presidents request that a faire and strong house should be built for the President where hee thought it convenient to bee defrayed upon the fines and casualties of the Province That the fort of Haleboling should be presently finished Lastly thankes in her Majesties name for his services liking well of his proceedings with Cormock Mac Dermond and for the courses he had taken in his returne from Donboy and of the well disposing of the Garrisons and his raysing and making of fortifications c. By this Letter it appeares that the President was directed to redeliver unto the Burgesses of Kinsale their Charter and other their Ensignes of Magistracie among the which there was a faire large Standard of Damaske with the Armes of England in it This Standard aforesaid was first delivered unto them by the commandement of King Henry the eight by Sir George Carew the Lord Presidents cosen german when hee arrived at Kinsale who not long before the siege of Bollogne was Admirall of some of the Kings ships Into the hands of Sir George it was left in safe keeping when the Spaniards arrived there and by the same Sir George Carew by Queene Elizabeths commandement it was as is said redelivered unto them againe although this petty note may seeme to some scarce worth the relating yet for the rarenesse of the accident I thought it meet to bee remembred And that the Reader may also understand what a fatall place Kinsale hath beene unto the Spaniards in former times as well as now I thinke it not impertinent to relate what hapned unto them in that port in Anno 1380. and the fourth yeare of the Raigne of King Richard the second My Author is Thomas of Walsingham who lived in those dayes and thus Englished in Hollinshed IN this meane while that the Earle of Buckingham was passing through the Realme of France the French and Spanish gallies did much mischiefe on the Coast of England but about the later end of Iune by a flecte of Englishmen of the West Countries part of them were forced to retire and take harbour in an haven in Ireland called Kinsale where being assailed by the Englishmen and Irishmen they were vanquished so that to the number of foure hundred were slaine and their chiefe Captaines taken as Gonzales de vorse and his brother Martin de Motrigo Turgo Lord of Morrans Also the Lord of Reath Peers Martin of Vermew Iohn Moditt of Vermew the Seneschall of Wargarie the Seneschall of Saint Andrewes Cornellis of Saint Sebastiano Paschale de Biskaya Iohn Martinez Sopogorge of Saint Sebastiano and divers others There were taken foure of their Barges with a Ballenger and one and twenty English vessels recovered which they had robbed and taken away from their Owners There escaped yet foure of their notable Captaines from the hands of our men Martin Grantz Iohn Perez Mantago Iohn Husce Gitario and one Garcia of Sebastiano Thus farre Hollingshed â—raving the Readers patience for to some this old story may seeme to bee a needlesse curiositie but to proceed The President to make the speedier prosecution and expedition in the affaires of the Province caused the Rising out of the Countrey to bee assembled to the number of sixteene hundred at their owne charges under the conduct of the Lord Barry These Provinciall Forces were not prepared for any great need that was of their service it was thought meet to draw as many hands together as conveniently might bee who according to their manner for spoyles sake would not spare their dearest friends And also it was thought no ill policie to make the Irish draw bloud one upon another whereby their private quarrels might advance the publike service The President had first determined himselfe in person with fiue hundred English joyned to the Provincials to haue taken the field but his intentions were casually diverted by Letters from the Lord Deputie who signifying that his Lordship purposed to bee at Galway about the two and twentieth of December required him all other businesse set apart immediatly to repayre thither to consult about certaine affaires much importing the service of the State by reason whereof the President appointed Sir George Thornton with 500. English Souldiers Inhabitants as Vndertakers in Mounster to accompany the Lord Barry with the Provincialls and all these to meet together about the twentyeth of this present at Donkerran which was the place of their rendevous In this meane time the Rebell Tirrell not liking to stay any longer in the Aire of Mounster wherein hee had runne many dangers bethought himselfe of a retreat out of the Province hoping that the President would condiscend to any composition rather then to bee troubled with his company whereupon he sent his inward servant Laghlin Odallye afore mentioned in this discourse unto Corke who comming to the President told him that his Captaine meaning Tirrell would bee content to leaue the Province and would heereafter this so as hee might haue a Pardon a Pension and a Company of Foot in her Majesties pay serue the Queene and deserue the reward demaunded by his future services The President knowing that for want of food hee would be forced ere the spring of the yeare to depart And also assuring himselfe within that time to get some good draught to bee drawen upon him by some of the Provinciall Rebells who now being heart-broken would doe any thing for their Pardons or for a little money not onely sleightly rejected his offers but bid Odalley tell him That although hee were never so warie yet hee doubted not before it were long to haue his head sent unto him in a bag willing him to forbeare to send any more unto him While these forces aforesaid were gathering according to the directions afore-recited the Governor of Kerry losing no opportunity and forbearing no labour had the like fortune upon the Knight of Kerry as Sir Samuel Bagnall had upon Tirrell for being conducted to his Quarter in the night killed fortie of his men and tooke from him all his whole substance which consisted of fiue hundred cowes two hundred garrans and two moneths provision of Meale and Butter for his Souldiers which small spoyle was a great losse to the poore Knight for thereby hee being disfurnished of all his provision disabled to minister entertainment to his followers and having no Castle whereunto he might safely retreat was constrained like a Wolfe to shelter himselfe in waste woods and desolate mountaines untill he could worke meanes with Sir Charles to accept his humble submission which incontinently upon his defeat hee earnestly solicited by the meanes of Osulevan More And surely this Service was of good consequence for the setling of Kerry for Thomas Oge induced by the example of the Knight and likewise Donnell Osulevan Son to the said Osulevan More did all joyntly submit themselues and her Majesties
Talis erat vultu sed linguâ menteÌ„ manuque Qualis erat qui vult discere scripta legat Consulat aut famam qui linguâ menteÌ„ manuû̄ Vinceret hunc famâ iudiceÌ„ rarus erat VOERST FEâ— Hir Scepter sweet hir sword was seldomeÌ„ sharp Yet reâ—câ— subiects and invading foes It quaid repelling theis reclayming those Such cure did set in tune the farring Harp To this last Act of hir exploits glory A Plauaite reviveth by this story MAde bright and glorious by Afflictions flame Forth from a Prison to a Crowne she came Attempting and effecting harder things Then haue been reached by the greatest Kings Of all her Causes Religion was the prime Which shee reformed in a dangerous time And though her neighbouring Princes thereat stormed Did all her life defend what she reformed As watchfull in the State-Affaires was shee And oft from civill broyles her Realmes did free From Ireland shee the Spanish 〈◊〉 expeld And all the rude rebellious Irish queld In Scotland shee did marre the Frenchmens hope Shee fooled all the projects of the Pope And though his Bulls did roare in ev'ry place Turn'd all his thundrings to his owne disgrace Spaines furie without feare shee did oppose And gaue their Forces famous overthrowes Yea shee the huge Armado over came Which of Invincible usurp'd the name And though shee had at home great works to do Shee ayded France and saved Belgia too Her Coyneâ—hee â—hee to just values did reduce Her wholsome Lawes redressed much abuse By Trades abroad shee Riches did encrease By Providence at home establish'd Peace Then having till the fortie fifth yeere raign'd And to the seventieth of her age attain'd Shee dyed and lefâ— behind her such a Fame As shall be lov'd while England hath a Name G. W. Printed for Robert Milbourne 1633. PACATA HIBERNIA IRELAND APPEASED AND REDVCED OR AN HISTORIE OF THE LATE Warres of IRELAND especially within the Province of MOVNSTER 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. Wherein 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 IUVENAL SAT. 10. Bellorum Exuviae truncis affixa trophaeis Lorica fractâ de Casside buccula pendens Humanis majora bonis creduntur LONDON Printed by AVG MATHEVVES for ROBERT MILBOVRNE at the Signe of the Grey-hound in Pauls Church-yard 1633. TO HIS MOST SACRED MAIESTIE SIR THE great Actions of worthie and eminent Persons haue ever been esteemed so powerfull for the instruction of succeeding times that all Civill States haue made it their principall care to preserue and transmit them to Posteritie for their Example and Imitation The Meanes by which this is done is HISTORY a powerfull suggester and Recorder of Gods providence in publike Blessings and Iudgements the Mother of Experience the Nurse of Truth the common bond and ligature which unites present times with all ages past and makes them one To manifest this if othâ—r Arguments fayle the Examples of the greatest Emperors and Generalls were sufficient who in the midst of their Conquests thought their publike dutie not discharged if they imployed not some time to leaue the immortall memory of their owne actions by writing to Posteritie The omission of this hath bin a great defect of some ages foregoing ours being the Middle times betweene learned Antiquitie and this latter age wherein Language Arts and Elegancie haue revived and flourished In those times though there haue been many Qui fecerunt scribenda yet there were few qui describerent facta I dare not say that this our Age and Nation are guiltie of the like errour or negligence in deciphering to the life the occurrences of our owne times and affayres by such as best knew and faithfully would relate them A want of which many haue complained but few haue laboured to supply That which I now in all humilitie present is your Majesties by many Titles First from the subject matter being the finall Dispersion of that cloud of Rebellion which hath so long hung over that Kingdome of Ireland which by undoubted title and lawfull succession is descended to your Majestie and that performed by the prudent fortitude of the English Nation which your Majestie now so happily governes Next from your Majesties late faithfull Servant the Earle of Totnes whose Actions are not the least part of the Argument of this Historie hee being at that time chiefe Governour of the Province of Mounster which was the Stage whereon the last and greatest Scene of that Tragedie was acted and since advanced by your Majesties Royall Father and your selfe to many Honourable Titles and Imployments of State And lastly from the Publisher through whose hands nothing can passe which to your Majestie is not justly due both by common All geance and particular Service Pardon gracious Soveraigne this presumption in aspiring to so high a Patronage and graciously accept this poore Tribute of Dutie and thankefulnesse from him who hath eternally bound himselfe Your Sacred Majesties most faithfully devoted Subject and Servant THO STAFFORD TO THE READER OVT of a necessitie imposed by powerfull Custome somewhat must bee sayd to you Reader both to prevent mistakings touching the publishing of this VVorke and to prepare you with some unprejudicate affection to the reading thereof The large space of time thirtie yeeres and upwards betweene the matters Acted Written and now published may beget some wonder in what obscure corner this Worke hath lyen all this while without notice given or taken or if knowne why so long kept from publike view For answere heereto understand indifferent Reader that it was composed while the Actions were fresh in the memories of men by the Direction and appoyntment of the Right Honourable Earle of Totnes late deceased then Lord President of Mounster so often mentioned in this Historie The Collection made was by him first reserved for his owne private Information Secondly preserved for the furtherance of a Generall Historie of that Kingdome of Ireland when it should please God to raise up some industrious Writer to undertake a compleat Description of those Affayres And lastly out of his retyred Modestie the rather by him held backe from the Stage of Publication lest himselfe being a principall Actor in many of the particulars might be perhaps thought under the Narration of publike proceedings to giue vent and utterance to his private merit and Services howsoever justly memorable He leaving the world left it among his Papers where it was found by the now Publisher thereof to whom they were bequeathed and by whom it hath beene offered to the view and censure of divers learned and judicious persons By them it hath been esteemed worthy the view
G. George Flower Captaine 198 Sir George Bourcheir sent to Kilkenny 27 Sir George Bourchier comes to Corke 199 Sir George Thornton joynes with the Lord Barry 360 George Kingesmill maymed at Donboy 314 George Blunt 41 Glancoyne castle surprized by Sir Francis Barkley 84 Glin castle besieged and taken 63 64 Gregory Castle taken 297 Geoffrey Galway Major of Limricke fined imprisoned 110 And a new Major elected 111 H. Henrie Skipwith Captaine 15 315 Henry Malbie slaine 365 Sir Henry Folliot 233 Husseyes Report of the Rebellion in Mounster 146 Hopton dyed of a hurt 214 Hostages delivered by Don Iuan and their Names 247 Hugh Mostian 128 Sir Henrie Power 31 253 I. Iames Fits Thomas apprehended by Dermond O Conner 54 Iohn Power 55 Iohn Bostocke 30 Instructions for the Lord President of Mounster 6 Iames Archer Iesuite 26 InstructioÌ„s to the Earle of Thomond 287 Instructions for Capt. George Blunt 256 Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle taken prisoner 135 His Examination 174 His Relation to the Lord President 139 Iames fits Thomas Dermond Mac Gragh make a narrow escape 106 Don Iuan de Aguila his Declaration at Kinsale 200 His Request to the Lord Deputie for shipping 252 Intelligence of the Spanish Invasion 188 Irish in Mounster revolted to the Spaniards 224 Irish fled into Spaine with their Names 237 Iames Gold second Iustice of Mounster 6 Iohn fits Thomas his practice to deceiâ—e the Lord President 328 Iames fits Thomas the young Earle of Desmond commeth into Ireland 85 Returneth into England 122 Iames Grace 217 K. Kinsale summoned and Don Iuans Answere 219 Kinsale Burgesses desire their Charter 252 Kinsale receiues their Ensignes of Magistracie 359 Kilcow castle taken by Capt. Flower 383 Knight of Kerry protected 299 Defeated by Sir Charles Wilmâ—t 361 Makes his submission ibidem Kilcrey Castle and Abbey rendred 334 Kirton a Lieutenant hurt at Donboy 318 L. Lowghguyrre taken by the Rebells and recovered againe from them 45 Listoell Castle besieged and taken 97 List of the Captaines of the Spanish armie 191 List of the Army in Mounster 290 382 Lixnaw castle taken by coÌ„position 296 Leamâ—con castle taken 321 Lettertinlesse castle taken burnt ibid. Laghlin O Dallic 360 Lord of Lixnaw defeated by Captaine Boys 383 Letters Patents for Sir George Carew to be Lord President of Mounster 3 A Letter from the Lord President and the Earle of Thomond to the Lords of the Councell 24 A Letter from Iames Galde Butler to the Lord President 42 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 40 A Letter from the Mounster Rebells to O Dâ—nnell 58 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 62 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 70 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 48 Two Letters from William Burke and Moroghe ni Moe O Flartie to the Lord President 60 61 A Letter from her Majestie to the Lo President 86 A Letter from Redmond Burke to the Lord President 96 A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie 80 Letters Patents for Iames fits Gerald to be Earle of Desmond 89 A Letter from Cormock Mac Dermond vnto Tyrone 100 A Letter from the Earle of Clanrickard to Theobald ne long Burke 103 A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Iames fits Thomas 111 A Letter from her Majestie to the Lord Deputie 116 A Letter from the Lord President to the Lord Deputie 119 A Letter from Redmond Burke to the L. President with his Answers 128 A Letter from Tyrone to Florence Mac Cartie 132 A Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President 132 A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie 141 Two Letters from Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle to the K. of Spaine 154 A Letter from her Majestie to the Lord President touching base Monies 147 A Letter from Thomas Shelton to Florence Mac Cartie 169 A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Florence Mac Cartie 170 A Letter from Tirone Iames fits Thomas Florence Mac Cartie and Mac Donogh to the Pope 175 A Letter from Mr. Secretary Cecill to the Lord President with Spanish Intelligence 182 A Letter from the Lord Deputie to the Lord President 185 A Letter from the Lord Deputie satisfactory to the Lord President 186 A Letter from Donnell O Sulevan Beare to the King of Spaine 228 A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to the Archbishop of Dublin 260 A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila 260 A Letter from the Secretary Ybarra to Don Iuan de Aguila 261 A Letter from the Secretary Franquesa to Don Iuan de Aguila ibid. A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila 262 A Letter from the King of Spaine to Don Iuan de Aguila 263 A Letter from the L. Deputy and Councell to the Lords in England 264 A Letter from O Sulevan Beare to the King of Spaine 269 A Letter from Owen Mac Eggan to Richard Mac Goghagan 307 A Letter from Iohn Anias to the Lord of Lixnaw 309 A Letter from Iohn Anias to Dominicke Collins ibid. A Letter from Iames Archer to Dominicke Collins 308 A Letter from Donnell O Sulevan Beare to the Earle of Carazena 27â— A Letâ—er from Donnell O Sulevan Beare to Don Pedro Zubiaur 272 A Letter from the Lo. President to the Spanish Cannoniers in Donboy 294 A Letâ—er from Don Iuan de Aguila to Câ—ptaine Iuan de Albornos Y Andrada 227 A â—etter from her Majestie to the Lo. Pâ—esident 209 A Letter from her Maiestie to the Lord President 339 A Letter from Don Iuan de Aguila to Tirone and O Donnell 227 A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie 253 A Letter from the Lord President to Don Iuan de Aguila 326 A Letter from Tege Mac Cormock Cartie to the Lord President 330 A Letter from the Lords of the Councell in England to the Lord President 336 A â—etter from her Majestie to the Lord Pâ—esident 339 A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie ibid. A Letter from Captaine Roger Harvie to Pedro Lopez de Soto 340 A Letter from Don Iuan de Aguila to the Lord President 344 A Letter from the Lord President to Don Iuan de Aguila 345 A Letter from O Donnell to O Conner Kerry 343 A letter from her Majestie to the Lord President concerning the Earle of Clanrikard 378 A Letter from Iohn Burke to the Lord President 379 A Letter from Iohn Burke to Sir George Thornton 380 A Letter from the Lord Deputie to the Lords in England 384 M. Maurice Stack sent into Kerry 67 Treacherously murthered 79 O Mulrians Countrey spoyled 47 Mac Awley spoyled by Sir Francis Barkley 108 Mocrumpe Castle besieged 334 Taken 351 Muskrey-quirke and Arloghe spoyled by the armie 106 Mounster in what state after the Siedge of Kinsale 283 Malachias the Popish Bishop of Kilmakow 380 N. Names of the Councellors of Mounster 19 Sir Nicholas
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 â—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 graunâ— 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 aâ—â—emble hee marched from Dublin but his endeavour was fruitlesse for Tirone was past before his comming CHAP. III. The Lord President leâ—â—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 Countâ—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
Omore at a place about eight miles from Kilkenny and hee was desirous that the President would goe with him whereunto he easily assented the next morning being the tenth of Aprill according to the appointment the Earle parlied with the Traitor and was there taken Prisoner To the end the Reader may truely understand the manner of that dayes misfortune behold the Letter which the President and the Earle of Thomond sent to the Lords of the Councell in England wherein the same is fully related A Ioint Letter from the Lord President and the Earle of Thomond to the Lords of the Councell IT may please your Lordships Although I the President haue by my Letters advertised the Lord Deputie the manner in what sort the Earle of Ormond was taken which I thinke is by his Lordship sent unto you yet wee thinke it our dueties to make relation thereof unto your Lordships and to make knowen unto your Honours how accidentally we were witnesses of his misfortune On Munday the seventh of Aprill wee departed from Dublin and upon Wednesday at night wee came to Kilkenny where wee found the Earle of Ormond In our company we had one hundred Horse dispersed in the Countrey ten or twelue miles distant from us by the Earles Officers as soone as we came unto him he acquainted us that he had appointed the next day to parlie with Owny Mac Rory vvee told his Lordship that vve vvould attend him And I the President desired his Lordship that my one hundred Horse might be sent for to goe vvith us for his Lordships better guard vvhich he refused thanking me for my offer saying that he had no need of them The next day being the tenth of this present after Dinner his Lordship not having in his company aboue the number of seventeene Horsemen of his followers armed and not little aboue the like number of all sorts whereof wee were part and the rest Lavvyers Merchants and others upon Hacknies with no other Weapons then our Swordes roade out to the place of meeting eight long Miles from Kilkenny called Corronneduffe upon the Borders of Ydough Leaving his Lordships owne Company of two hundred Footemen short of the place of Parlie assigned aboue two English Miles The place vvhere vvee met with the rebells was upon a Heath ground descending towards a narrow straight having on either side of us a lowe shrubbie boggie wood within three pikes length at the farthest from the place where wee parlyed and the like distance from the straight aforesaid the choyce whereof wee much misliked Owny Mac Rorye when hee came unto us brought with him a Troupe of choise Pikes leaving in a little plaine beyond the straight within halfe Culvering shot of us in our sight all his grosse beeing in all to the number as Redmond Keting one of the rebells did sweare unto mee the President fiue hundred Foot strong and twentie Horse whereof three hundred were Bonoughes the best furnished men for the warre and the best appoynted that wee haue seene in this Kingdome At our first meeting and so during the parley which was appoynted for some good causes best knowen to his Lordship they stood as they might every one trayling his Pike and holding the cheeke thereof in his hand ready to push The Earle himselfe was upon a little weake Hackney unarmed as all wee were that were about him standing so neere with the side of his Hackney to the rebells as they touched him After an hower and more was idly spent and nothing concluded wee and others did pray his Lordship to depart But hee desirous to see that infamous Iesuite Archer did cause him to bee sent for assoone as hee came the Earle and hee fell into an Argument wherein hee called Archer Traytor and reprooved him for sending under pretext of Religion her Majesties Subjects into rebellion In this meane time the grosse of the rebells had left their standing in the plaine and some crept into the shrubbes aforesayd and others did so mingle themselues among us that wee were environed and stood as if wee had been in a Faire whereof divers did advertise his Lordship And at last I the Earle of Thomond willed Ownye to put backe his men And I the President desired his Lordshipp to bee gone for that I did not like their mingling with us wherewith as his Lordship was turning his Horse at an instant they seised upon him and us two His Lordship was in a moment drawen from his Horse we had more hanging upon us then is credibly to bee beleeved but our horses were strong and by that meanes did breake through them in tumbling downe on all sides those that were before and behinde us and thankes be to God we escaped the push of their pikes which they freely bestowed and the flinging of their Skeines without any hurt saving that I the Earle of Thomond received with a Pike a wound in the back The Earles Horsemen which were armed were farre from us for every one was dispersed and talking with particular rebells about the bordering businesse so as wee doe protest unto your Lordships in all wee were not aboue tenne unarmed men neere unto him and assoone as the Allarme was raised every man of his followers came away without â—ooking behind him After wee had cleered our selues within a Butt length at the most wee made hault and called for the Trumpet and cried upon the Earles men for a Charge but none stood by us but Captaine Harvy Captaine Browne Master Comerford a Lawyer and three of our Servants which was all the company that we had then and all of us without Armour or other Weapon then our Swords so as for want of more company vvee were enforced by the Enemies shott to leaue them the ground But we doe assure your Lordships the place wherein we parlied was of such advantage to the Enemy that 500 Foote would not haue cared for 500 Horse and therefore his Lordship having no Foote with him it was unpossible to doe the Enemy any harme with Horse this treachery for so wee must terme it in respect of his Lordships confidence in the valour of his owne men and also in his opinion that the Enemy durst not shew him this foule measure was contrived by that Villaine Archer and none was made acquainted with it but Owny Mac Rory two Leinster men and fower Bonnaghes for if more had beene trusted there is no doubt but his Lordship should haue had knowledge of it Owny Mac Rory laid his hands on mee the President as they report and next unto God I must thanke the Earle of Thomond for my escape who thrust his Horse upon him and at my backe a Rebell newly protected at my suite called Brien Mac Donoghe Kevanaghe being a foote did me good service and wounded one of the Traitors that laid hands on the Earle of Ormond for the rest I must thanke my Horse whose strength bare downe all about him On our
chiefe of small Countreyes submitted themselues to her Majesties mercie But the principall marke which the Lord President aymed at before his entrance into the Field with his Armie was to reclaime if possible it might be Florence Mac Cartie before spoken of from further pursuing those hatefull and ingratefull courses which unadvisedly he had entred into This hee desired for divers reasons First and especially for the service which he foresaw might receiue some good countenance by his subjection Secondly because if hee continued in action of necessitie hee must bee constrained to imploy a great part of his Forces which hee thought both inconvenient and dangerous to bee divided to follow the prosecution of him and his Complices And lastly a good opinion which some his honourable friends in England and himselfe also had conceived of him For these causes was the President moved earnestly to desire that this Florence might bee stayed from further persisting in those exorbitant courses and the rather because the said Florence had written Letters unto him which upon his way into Mounster hee received that assoone as hee should come to Corke hee would present himselfe personally to him aud doe all his endeavours to advance the Service All which being made knowen by the Lord President to the Earle of Thomond he intreated the said Earle and Sir Nicholas Welsh to joyne with Iohn fits Edmonds Florence his Godfather a man very famous in those parts for his learning and liberall hospitalitie in entertaining of strangers to send a Messenger to signifie to Florence Mac Cartie that they were very desirous to conferre with him about certaine particularities concerning his owne good By his Letter remised in answer of this message hee appoynted both a time and place for their meeting which was accordingly performed After more then two houres spent and many Oathes passed as well by the Earle as Sir Nicholas Welsh that the President had promised his safe returne with fearefull guiltinesse hee came to Corke and from thence to Shandon Castle upon the third of May 1600 where the Lord President remained at that time before whom when hee had presented himselfe hee made his submission upon his knees with many protestations of the sinceritie of his Heart and the true loyaltie which hee alwayes bare towards her Majestie desiring that hee might bee received into her Majesties favour and hee would serue her as faithfully and unfainedly as any man in Mounster The Lord President reprooved him very sharply for his trayterous behaviours laying before him the odiousnesse and foulnesse of his faults and the monstrous ingratitude towards her Majestie from whom hee had received many great benefits and gracious favours These speeches finished the President bade him to stand up when as both hee and the Earle of Thomond Sir Nicholas Welsh and Iohn fits Edmund did every of them very feelingly preach Obedience unto him His answer being very generall carried great shew of loyaltie and obedience at that time Vpon the next morrow hee was called before the President and Councell who was againe urged by them all in generall not onely to desist from proceeding in evill but with alacritie of minde to doe some such service as might merit reward for assurance and performance whereof the President demaunded his eldest sonne in pledge for the avoydance whereof hee used many colourable reasons viz. That it would cause the Bonnoghs to forsake him yea and to driue him out of his Countrey erecting his wiues base Brother in his place That he had of long time tasted of miseries and wants That hee had lately recovered his Countrey of Desmond with great travell and charges and therefore like the burnt child hee feared to run into any such inconvenience as might cause his friends to relapse from him Adding moreover that it was needlesse in them to exact any such thing at hishands who was in his soule wholly addicted devoted to her Majesties service The weaknesse of these reasons were both wisely discovered and effectually answered but all that could bee said was no more pleasing to him then is delightfull musicke to deafe eares which being discerned the President betooke himselfe to a new devise for now hee vehemently threatned that leaving for a time all other services a sharpe prosecution of Hostilitie with fire and sword against himselfe his tenants and followers should speedily overtake him upon his returne into Desmond Much was hee amazed with this denunciation and therefore hauing made a short pawse answered thus Since my needlesse pledge is so earnestly desired I am content to leaue my eldest sonne in Corke upon these conditions That her Majestie would passe unto mee the Countrey of Desmond in as large and ample manner as before it was conveyed unto my Father in law the Earle of Clancare Secondly that shee would giue unto mee the Name and Title of Mac Cartie More or Earle of Clancare Thirdly that shee would giue unto mee three hundred men in pay for assuring my Countrey from all that would offend it These hyperbolicall demands were no sooner propounded but absolutely rejected Therefore he desired that Licence might bee graunted unto him to write to his honourable friends in England to worke for him the afore recited Conditions which without any great difficultie was permitted Lastly the President questioned with him what hee intended to doe if these his desires were not satisfied thereupon hee sware upon a Booke that hee would never beare Armes against her Majesties Forces except hee were assaulted in Desmond and that his followers should likewise abstaine from actuall rebellion and further that he would send him intelligence from time to time of the Rebells proceedings and doe him the best underhand-service that possibly hee could Now had the President effected a great part of his desires namely that by Florence his remaining in Neutralitie his Forces might be wholly imployed against Iames fits Thomas who being once slaine or banished it would bee an easie matter to teach him to speake in a more submissiue language and forget to capitulate either for Lands Title or Charge Florence is now departed towards his Countrey of Desmond where leaving him in suspence betwixt doubt and feare wee will proceed in the accidents of Corke Now the President discerning this Warre in Mounster to be like a Monster with many Heads or a Servant that must obey divers Masters did thinke thus that if the Heads themselues might bee set at variance they would proue the most fit Instruments to ruine one another The two chiefe Heads were the Sugan Earle for so they called Desmond Commander of the Provincials and Dermond O Conner Generall of the Bownoghs before mentioned This Dermond O Conner was a poore man in the beginning of his fortune and not Owner of two Plough Lands in Connaght his natiue Countrie his reputation grew partly by his wife who was daughter to the old Earle of Desmond and partly by his valour being reputed one of the most valiant Leaders and
owne home leaving the Earle to a desperate fortune who now perceived that the Provincials submitted themselues daily to the President and the strangers returned into their severall Countries and that no aide approached either from the South or North by Sea nor Land was compelled together with Iohn his Brother Maurice Mac Thomas Pierce Lacy and the Knight of the Glyn to leaue the Countrie of Corke and to fly into Tipperary and Ormond and from thence Iohn fits Thomas hasteth to Vlster CHAP. XIIII Supplies of Foote sent from England Osulevan More sent by the Lord Deputie to the Lord President The Castle of Glancoyne surprised by Sir Francis Barkley Florence Mac Carties Wife and Followers perswaded him to goe to the Lord President The young Earle of Desmond arrived at Yoghall A Letter from Her Majestie to the Lord President Her Maiesties Letters Patents for Iames Fitz-Gerald to be Earle of Desmond THE Lords of the Councell of England by their Letters bearing Date the twentie seventh advertised the President that there was sixe hundred Foote in a readinesse to be sent to Corke to supply the Armie and for that many Souldiers daily arrived in England by Passeports from their Captaines onely They gaue the President a straite Charge to take order with all the Maritime Townes that no Souldier should be transported out of any of them without a Passe under his owne Hand and Seale and the last of the same he had directions from their Lordships that good Bands with Sureties should be taken upon all Merchants of Ireland which traded with Spaine or France not only for their owne good behaviours and loyalties when they were beyond the Seas but to all such Passengers as they should carry with them which was presently put into execution Dermond O Conner at his late being in Mounster had caused Osulevan More a man aboue sixtie yeares of age and yet never knowen to be in action against Her Majestie neither in Iames fits Maurice his Warres nor in the old Earle of Desmonds nor in this last Rebellion This man I say Dermond O Conner had taken Prisoner not without Consent and Councell of Florence Mac Cartie because he refused to pay Bonnaght unto the Connaght men Captaine Tirrell by force or fraud I know not whether tooke the Prisoner from him and caried him into the North who escaped out of the Vlster mens hands was taken by Sir Theobald Dillon of Connaght and presented to the Lord Deputie by whom hee is committed to the Castle of Dublin untill his estate should be further knowen and not long after he sent him to the Earle of Ormond to be sent by him to the President to be disposed of according to his discretion He being about this time come to Corke raileth bitterly against Florence ascribing both the beginning and continuance of his troubles to him and relating to the Councell such intelligence as hee had learned in those parts where he had beene detained returneth into his owne Countrey The Arch-rebels Iames fits Thomas Fits Maurice and the Knight of the Glyn not finding as it should seeme the entertainement they expected in my Lord of Ormonds countrey or rather notintending at the first to make any long stay there but onely that thereby the President might thinke them quite gone and so make no further inquirie after them did in the beginning of this Moneth of October steale backe into the Countie of Limerick yet not so privily but the President had intelligence thereof for it was signified unto him the fourth of this instant that Desmond was about Arlogh having not aboue fiue in his Company and two of them came lately from the Pope with promise of Succours which came too late for his turne as hereafter shall be shewed In the meane time our Garrisons prospered so well that Sir Francis Barkley got the Castle of Glancoyne in Connilogh burning and spoyling great store of Corne in those parts and Sir Charles Wilmot in Kerry prevailed so farre that Castlemange held by Thomas Oge and Listoell defended by Fits Maurice were the only two Castles held against her Majestie which were both regained within short time and Captaine Flower at Lysmore wrought miracles against the Rebels in those parts as Sir Richard Aylward wrote to the President But Florence Mac Cartie notwithstanding his manifold Letters stuffed with abominable oathes came not as yet to the President nor indeed minded he to come as it was reported had not his Wife and some of his Countrey in a manner compelled him thereunto for she refused to come to his Bed untill he had reconciled himselfe to Her Majestie saying that she knew in what manner her Father had that Earledome from her Highnesse and though she be not pleased to bestow the same wholly upon her yet she doubted not to obtaine some part thereof but if neither of these could bee gotten yet was not she minded to goe a begging either unto Vlster nor into Spaine and to confirme this report it was certainely knowen that she with the helpe of her friends kept the Castle of the Lough in Desmond by force from him Her Majestie having evermore had a determination to send Iames fits Gerald Sonne unto the late Earle of Desmond attainted in Ireland and having found by experience that the attempt which Dermond O Conner made in the apprehension of Iames fits Thomas was at his Wifes suite in hope thereby to obtaine the restitution of her Brother to his old Title of Earle of Desmond and also unto some state of Inheritance for his maintenance did now resolue to put her determination in effect hoping that his presence in Ireland would draw the ancient Followers of the Earle of Desmond his Father from Iames fits Thomas the supposed Earle and therefore releasing him out of the Tower where from his infancie he had beene Prisoner shee not onely admitted him to her presence but stiled him Earle of Desmond and sent him conducted into Ireland by Captaine Price a sober discreet Gentleman and an ancient Commander in the Warres who landed with his charge at Youghall the fourteenth day of October from thence he brought him to Moyallo to the President upon the eighteenth where from Her Majestie he presented to his Lordship the young Earle Her Majesties Letters and Letters Pattents under the great Seale of England for his restitution in blood and Honour both which Letter and Letters Pattens I thinke it not unnecessary to set downe the true Copies which were as followeth A Letter from her Maiestie to the Lord President ELIZAB. R. TRustie and Welbeloved wee greet you well Wee haue now at the last resolved to send over Iames fits Gerald into Mounster after long debate with Our selfe what accidents might follow thereupon wherein although there might be many doubts to what hee may bee inveagled in times to come yet that opinion which wee conceiue of his owne good nature and disposition to gratefulnesse for
within lesse then two Moneths namely before the end of February the President had recommended aboue foure thousand by name unto the Lord Deputie for Pardons who had all put in such pledges or other Caution as by the State of the Province was thought convenient which indeed was such and so warily taken as no Governour in former times had ever done the like All which notwithstanding the President could not satisfie himselfe in the safetie of the one and so consequently in the securitie of the other so long as their pledges were remayning in the Cities of Corke and Limerick the places of their custodie not being of sufficient strength the Keepers many times negligent or corrupt in their charge and the Citizens so partiall as they had rather helpe to convey them into the Countrey then to retaine them within the Citie for prevention whereof the President became an humble Suitor to the Lords of the Councell of England that they would be pleased to giue commandement that the Pledges of greatest moment might by an order from them bee commanded to the Castle of Dublin which should not be any thing chargeable to Her Majestie and yet very profitable for the State As also that they would be pleased to giue Commandement to all such Vndertakers as hold land within the Province that they should make their immediate repaire unto their Signiories that thereby the Countrey might bee the better furnished with English upon any occasion As also that Her Majestie might from them receiue their rents in some part of that immeasurable treasure which was expended in these Warres And lastly being fully assured of a Spanish Invasion in all his dispatches for England He evermore put the Lords in mind of it sending unto them the intelligences hee had and for that he would not be taken unprovided hee continually in all his Letters besought supplies of Victuals and Munition And for that in his last dispatch he had intreated a large proportion of Victuals now in this of the sixth of March hee forbare the same requesting onely fiue Laste of powder and foure hundred quarters of Oates The young Earle of Desmond having beene tenderly brought up in England and not well agreeing with the manner and customes of Ireland and also seeing how much he was deceived in his hopes supposing that al his Fathers Followers would haue relied upon him and obeyed his directions whereof finding little or no appearance desired the Lord President to giue him leaue to goe into England whereunto for the reasons afore mentioned the President easily assented for in all the time of his being in Ireland no one Rebell did for his sake submit himselfe to Her Majestie Thomas Oge of Kerry onely excepted who at his request submitted himselfe and rendered Castle-mange whereof he was Constable by Iames fits Thomas his assignement into Her Majesties hands as formerly hath beene declared But it may be truely supposed that wit and necessitie did perswade him to submit and render the Castle as he did for Sir Charles Wilmot had so blockt him up with Garisons as at that present he was in feare of starving and if he had not taken the opportunity offered upon the Earles motion he was in danger to haue lost both his life and it This I write not to upbraid the Earle or to lessen him in any thing for I must confesse he was too good to liue amongst such traitorly Followers and no man living had a more willing desire to serue Her Majestie then himselfe but the truth is that this was all the service which hee did or could doe during his aboad in Mounster from whence he embarqued the two and twentieth of March and landed at Miniade in Somerset-shire and so to the Court of England where after a few Moneths he died The Letters Pattents which Her Majestie had granted for his restoration the President never delivered unto him where in my opinion he did discreetly and according to his directions for they were sent unto him by Her Majestie with caution not to deliver them except he saw sufficient cause so to doe and that his services or services done for his fake should merit the same of both which there was but weake and slender performance In this first Booke the Reader may behold in what a confused estate the Province of Mounster was in when the L. President entred into his government in the first yeare whereof these memorable accidents hapned the unfortunate death of Sir Warham St Ledger the departure of Tyrone out of Mounster The taking of the Earle of Ormond by the rebels The defeat of Florence Mac Cartie the losse and recovery of Cahir castle the submission of the White Knight the recovery of the Iland and castle of Loghgier the bold attempt of Nugent and the effects which followed therof the burning and spoiling of West Clanwilliam Omulrians countrey the taking and escape of Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle of Desmond the siege and winning of the Castle of the Glinn the freeing of the Province of 2500 Bownoghs Odonnels harrasing of Thomond the encounter betwixt Captaine Roger Harvy and the White Knights sonne the planting of garrisons in Kerry the perpetuall juglings of Flo. Mac Cartie the taking of the Castle of Listoell in Kerry the defeat by the garrison of Kilmallock given to the Sugan Earle the poore and distressed estate he was driven unto the submission of Dermond Mac Owen L. of Dowalla and sundry others the comming into Mounster of the young Earle of Desmond the submission of Flor. Mac Cartie the rendring of Castle Mange the murdring of Dermond O Conner the burning and spoyling of East Clanwilliam and Arlogh the quiet setling of the Province and the restoring the civill government Whosoever with indifferencie will consider how much was done in such short time must acknowledge it to bee beyond expectation and say that God fought for vs and directed our Counsels otherwise it was not to bee hoped for And had not the comming of the Spaniards given new interruptions the worke of Mounster had beene throughly finished The Province fully reduced to a setled peace and in all likelihood so to haue continued The end of the first Booke PACATA HIBERNIA THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE WARRES IN IRELAND Whereby that Countrey was reduced to Subjection and Obedience CHAP. I. Connaght and Vlster men drawen to a head to invade Mounster A Regiment sent by the Lord President into Connaght to assist Sir Iohn Barkley Walter Burke and Teg O Bryen slaine The Lord President with the remainder of the Army come to Limrick The rising out of the Countrey commanded by the Lo. Barry drawne neere to Limericke The Rebels distressed for want of victualls and defeated Donogh Mac Cormocke Cartie slaine Redmond Burkes letter to the Lo. President with the Lord Presidents answer THE prosperous Successes of the last yeere did promise faire hopes that the malice of the Warre was spent and that the Province would within
Majestie professing to doe service such as should merit favour Humbly besought him not desiring any protection that hee might remaine with his Lordship The President granted his request and withall sent him a Protection which in an other Letter unto Richard Boyle the Clarke of the Councell hee besought The reason which moved the President to grant his request was the absence of the Earle of Thomond then in England that during the same the County of Clare might bee freed from Bonfires but now for a time we must leaue the President in Cork returne to Florence Mac Carty You heard before that Florence had a cutting as they call it upon Carberry towards his charges in the pretended journey for England but employed all the same and whatsoever more hee could procure to another end for about this time he provided a Barke which hee fraught with Hides Tallow and such commodities committing the care and trust thereof to some of Kinsale by whom the same merchandize should bee transported beyond the Seas and in liew thereof munition and abilliments of warre should be returned and and delivered unto him in the Harbour of Valentia Moreover about the same time hee did earnestly sollicit aide from the neighbour Provinces to resist Her Majesties forces and for the same purpose wrote a Letter in Irish which was read by Iames Welsh by whose relation I received this light unto one in Ormond called Cahir Mac Shane Glasse Omulrian desiring that he would leavy for him sixe hundred Foote in Linster which if hee could not then to procure Redmond Burke to come with so many to his aide and if hee failed likewise herein to deale with Captaine Terrill to the same effect and hee would pay them upon the Countrey of Desmond Lastly Donoghe Mac Cormuck called Mac Donoghe his Agent with Tyrone laboured so much at his hands and that so earnestly as he procured a Letter from Tyrone the Contents whereof were as followeth And thus translated out of the Irish. A Letter from Tyrone to Florence Mac Carty OVr commendations to yoâ— Mac Carty More I send shortly unto you according to our trust of you that you will doe a stout and hopefull thing against the pagan beast and thereupon our Armie is to goe into Mounster and with the will of God we consent unto you and will that you beleeue not any word from us for ever before wee write againe unto you for you shall see trouble enough in England by English men it selfe so as there shall be easinesse of suffering their warres at May next in respect of that it is now And since this cause of Mounster was left to you next under God let no weaknesse or imbecillitie bee found in you and the time of helpe is neere you and all the rest From Dongannon the sixth of February 1601. Stilo Novo Oneale The Armie mentioned in this Letter was the same which now you heard of taking their journey by the way of Connaght which as may appeare both by the examination of Iames Welsh and the Contents of those Letters were solicited and sent principally by the meanes promises and procurement of Florence he being then and before under protection the breach whereof hee nothing esteemed But surceasing farther to rake in the filthy Channels of his malicious practises like maladies immedicable lest it should be loathsome to the Reader I will leade him abroad into the open Aire to behold the hunting rousing and fall of a great Stag which was after sent into England to Her Majestie and by her received as a most acceptable Present although it was not Gods will that shee should liue to reward the chiefe Ranger About the middest of May the Lord President received a Letter from the Lords of the Councell in England which bare date the eight and twentieth of Aprill which for the Readers better vnderstanding how the Affaires of Mounster did sute with the Directions and Counsels in England I thinke it meet to be inserted A Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President AFter our very heartie Commendations to your Lordship Although we haue before this time acquainted you with her Majesties gracious acceptation of your service because wee know you had no greater object then to deserue her Majesties grace and favour yet now vve vvill forbeare to touch it at this time because her Majestie giues you notice of it with her owne hand and for the present onely let you know what care vvee haue taken to satisfie all your demaunds for her Majesties service because it may appeare unto you seeing you doe orderly and carefully giue us account of your proceedings that wee will in no sort neglect such things as you in your discretion hold fit or necessary Wee haue therefore first by her Majesties Commandement sent you a supply of Munitions according to your request We haue likewise given order for Victuals in good proportion although it seemeth to us by the Certificate of the Victualler that you were better stored at your writing then you knew for Wee haue also given order for Oates to be presently sent you and because you haue so good use of a Ship for transporting of Victualls to and fro besides the service shee may doe in mastering those Barques and Boats which offend the Coast wee haue sent Captaine Harvie with a good Ship for that purpose And now that you may know what Letters wee haue intercepted out of Spaine concerning those bruits which wee perceiue are spread of Spanish succours you shall receiue the Copies of three Letters whereof wee haue the Originall which were committed to the charge of Peter Strong of Watterford whose Ship and Goods were taken in Famouth where they were put in by storme One of them comes from the Governour of the Groyne and another from a Fryer that resideth with him the third from one Sennock who as it seemeth being unwilling to haue Tyrone deceived sheweth him truely how little reason they haue to trust to any of the Spanish Succours as they expect of these you may make such use as you thinke good As concerning your desire to know what shall become of the Lady Ioane of Desmond wee thinke you should doe well to set her at libertie againe as shee was before referring the care of her well doing to some of her Sisters that may haue an eye over her We doe also require you still to foresee that her Majesties Forces being now so much diminished may not bee spent in maintaining private mens Castles and houses but where those places are of use for her Majesties service Lastly concerning the Fine imposed on the Major of Limrick for which we finde you had so just occasion wee wish you in no wise to remit it but rather to bestow it upon the repaire of her Majesties Castle there which as it seemeth will serue to so good purpose for her Maâ—esties service And so wee bid your Lordship very heartily farewell From the Court
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 maintenancâ— 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 â—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 daâ—â—erly enemies dare not shew their faces in any parâ— of my Countrey but having taken my Townes and Cities for their refuge and strength where they doe remaine as yet were Prisonerâ— 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 graâ—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 iâ— your Majestie will vouchsaâ—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
at the Pallace heard him say that hee had almost as willingly die as come under the English government and perswaded all those he spake with to be obstinate in action telling him how long Ireland had beene tyrannically governed by English men All which Osulevan aforesaid did relate unto the President and thereto tooke his corporall oath the one and twentieth of March 1600. In Iuly hee taking upon him regall authority within Desmond as Mac Cartie More sent first to ne Donnell Fâ—rrers to bee Sherife of that Countrey perswading him that it would be very beneficiall unto him which the said Donnell refused answering that hee would not take that authority upon him except hee could shew him a warrant from the President authorising him to make such election as hee knew the like heretofore graunted to the Earle of Clancare in the times of trouble whereupon he appointed another named Muriertagh Mac Teg to the same office Ex Examinatione Donnell Fâ—rrers In August Sir Charles Wilmot first planted his Garisons in Kerry and how glad this dissembling hypocrit was of his neighbourhood besides his owne manifold Letters sent to Sir Charles full of God damme him if he were not heartily glad of his good successe here you shall perceiue partly by the examination of the said Ferrers in haec verba When the President in August 1600. setled Garisons in Kerry Florence caused the Castle of Killorglan appertayning to Master Ienkin Conway an Vndertaker to bee burned fearing lest Sir Charles Wilmot should plant himselfe there and when as the Governour afterward placed this Examinat therein hee sent some of his kerne and tooke all his prey threatning to pull them all out by the heeles having no other quarrell against him but onely because hee repaired the same Castle Hee also releeved the Knight of the Valley at his house of the Pallace And after the said Florence was protected by the President hee releeved likewise Thomas fits Maurice the Barron of Lixnaw and ceassed his Bonoghs in Desmond but more plainely by examination of Iames Welsh taken the tenth of May 1601. as followeth When Iames fits Thomas was in Kerry in September last Florence Mac Cartie perswaded him to remaine there promising him all the aide that hee could giue him and being in his departure towards Arlogh hee sent Thomas Oge after him praying him to returne and hee would bring him to the killing of Sir Charles Wilmot and the Garison of Traley that was with him c. And when hee saw that Iames fits Thomas would not follow his Councell but would needs goe to take Arlogh Mountaines for his refuge hee wrote a Letter in Irish which the said Iames Welsh read directed unto Cahir Mac Shane Glasse Omulrian in Ormond desiring him to levie for him in those parts sixe hundred Foote which if hee could not doe then to procure Redmond Burke to get so many for him and if hee failed then to deale with Captaine Tirrell and that hee would pay them upon Desmond About this time also hee sent a traiterous message to the White Knight by his daughter Mac Donoghes wife together with a cunning Letter written in Irish and translated as followeth A Letter from Florence to the White Knight DAmnation I cannot 〈◊〉 â—â—â—mend mee heartily unto you as bad as thoâ— art and doe also most heartily commend mâ—e to your wife and to your two Sonnes I would bee very glad to speake with you for your good and because I cannot speake with you my selfe yet I would haâ—◠〈◊〉 in any wiâ—e credit your daughter Mistris Mac Donoghe concerning me and to beleeue from me whom shee sends or what shee sends you word of by a trusty Messenger I would haue you to determine about Pierce Oge and that I may speake with you I meane about Gorâ—â—etâ—berd or Tullylease send word to Pierce and Dermond of the day with him and send mee word and I will come without all faile In the meane time I leaue you to God Pallace this seven and twentieth of August 1600. Your assured loving Friend Florence Mac Cartie This Letter was delivered and expounded to the President by the White Knight Pierce Oge before mentioned was Pierce Lucy the message which hee sent by Mac Donoghs wife was to reproue him for his submission to the Queene and to incite him to enter againe into rebellion and if hee would not bee advised by him and himselfe not able to mainetaine the action that hee purposed to agree with Donell Mac Cartie his brother in Law and to leaue the County of Desmond and the Followers in his hands and to imbarke himselfe into Spaine to procure and hasten the long expected aide In October after many and infinite delatory excuses and protracted delayes he submitted himselfe to the President putting in such pledges as before you haue heard and received a Protection for ten dayes before the expiration whereof hee earnestly laboured Cormock Mac Dermond about the mariage betwixt the Arch-rebell Iames fits Thomas and his Sister promising to the said Cormock all the Lands that hee had in Carbery and undertaking that the said Earle should giue farther unto him such portions of Lands as should bee to his owne content so that he would consent to this mariage and joyne in this wicked combination The next Moneth divers meanes were made to Thomas Oge Constable of Castlemange by the Governor of Kerry and the young Earle of Desmond lately come out of England about the delivery of that Castâ—e to her Majesties use Florence receiving notice hereof made many journies to the said Thomas Oge urging him with forcible perswasions not to relinquish the said Castle to the English promising that hee would undertake upon his owne charge and perill to see him furnished with victuals and all other necessaries from time to time whereof hee should stand in need and when hee perceived an inclination in the said Thomas Oge notwithstanding his perswasions to yeeld the Castle hee assayed by a craftie wile to haue conveyed away the two Sonnes of Pierce Lacy which were held as pledges for Iaâ—es fits Thomas within that Castle but the plot being frustrate by meere accident the children and Castle were within short time after delivered to the State When Sir Charles Wilmot came into Kerry with her Majesties forces Florence Mac Cartie as Thomas Oge upon his examination confessed intreated Iames fits Thomas to make the warre there whereunto hee assented But Iames could not perswade the Bonoghs unto it Also after that Dermond O Conner had enterprised the taking of Iames fits Thomas hee did then promise him to enter into open action of Rebellion and to that end he solicited Dermond Mac Owen Mac Awley Okeefe Mac Finnin Owen Mac Teg Carty and others And when Tyrone was in Mounster Florence desired him to make it knowen to the King of Spaine that hee would serue him faithfully for the assurance whereof the said Florence wrote a Letter
is borne by the Towne and Countrey the Queenes expences is no more but the use of her Shovels Spades Pickaxes and Whildebarrowes c. Now wee may see how true a Prophet the President was that the Spaniards would invade Ireland but like unto Cassandra untill this time could never bee beleeved which proceeded out of the defects which both the Lords in England and the Lord Deputie of Ireland had of good intelligence whereof the President was better stored then either of them of the undoubted likelihood of their comming Sir Robert Cecill her Majesties Secretary wrote to the President as followeth A Letter from Master Secretary Cecill to the Lord President SIr George Carew on Wednesday last certaine Pinnaces of her Majesties met with a fleete of Spaniards to the number of fiftie saile whereof seventeene are men of warre the rest are transporting Ships as by this Note inclosed doth appeare which my Intelligencer sent me at their going out These Ships cannot bee but for Ireland from which Coast the storme kept them unlesse it should bee said that the King will land them in the Low-countries which I will never beleeue hee durst adventure knowing how long wee haue expected them and haue fourteene good ships out which if you compare with the note inclosed of his you shall find that wee might be ashamed to suffer his Fleete to land so quietly and our Fleete in the taile of them but which is more certaine to confirme my opinion ever for Ireland this proportion is fit for Ireland there it may worke mischiefe and besides that they which met them saw them set their course from the mouth of the sleeue where they were on wednesday just for Ireland and as I verily thinke they will fall for Limerick for in Spaine it was advertised me that their Rendezvous was for the Blaskys which you know is on that Coast about the Dingle or the Ventrey Lastly if they had meant to haue come hither they would haue beene here before this time being on wednesday at Silley and the wind having beene South-west since faire If therefore they bee not in Ireland they are certainely put Roomer with Spaine againe but that I dare not hope Now Sir what my Lord Deputy and you shall doe there is not our parts to tell you onely wee desire you to propound us possible things and then shall you haue them two thousand wee haue sent already into Mounster at least the want of wind hinders them in the imbarquing Ports if we know once where they are landed then must you also tell us where you will haue us second you for if you looke for our supplyes to come to you in the West side of Mounster or South parts then can we put them by Sea more properly and land neerer the parts of Accon then to send them to Dublin or to Corke but all this to you must bee referred to whom I wish as great happinesse as I wish to my owne heart And so I end from the Court at Windsore this twelfth of August 1601. Your loving and assured Friend Robert Cecill From Lisbona the fiue and twentieth of Iuly 1601. Here at Lisbon there are stayed about two hundred Sailes of Ships out of which number fiue and fourtie onely are selected for transportation of Souldiers The number of Souldiers are sixe thousand whereof three thousand are here kept aboard the ships left they should runne away the other three thousand are a comming from Andaluzia and those parts in a fleete of ships and gallies under the conduct of the Adâ—lâ—ntados sonne unto Lisbon The ships which carie the Souldiers are of the burthen of one hundred one hundred and fiftie and not aboue two hundred Tuns The Spaniards doe refuse greater ships of the East Countries which are stayed at Lisbon and make choise of the smallest Vessels they haue for their purpose Of their fiue and fourtie Saile of ships seventeene saile onely are fitted for men of warre whereof eleaven of them are but small ships the other sixe are Gallions the Saint Paul the Saint Peter the Saint Andrew and three smaller Gallions of the Kings whose names I know not For the manning of their ships fifteene hundred Sailors were sent hither out of Biskay The Marques of S. ta Croce goeth Admirall in the Saint Paul Sibiero alias Seriago Viceadmirall in the Saint Peter they make account to bee ready by the last of Iuly and ride with their yards a Crosse. The two ships of Dunkerke which haue remayned long at Lisbon doe make ready to come away with the Fleete By this Letter it appeares that they in England now were awake and confident of the Spanish invasion untill which time notwithstanding the Presidents daily calling upon them for Men Munition and Victuals they gaue a deafe eare also hee received an other of the same date a fragment whereof I thinke it not unnecessary to relate aswell to shew the assurance which was held in England of the invasion as the tender care her Majesties principall Secretary had of the President and of the deare affection he bare him My deere George now will I omit all the petty particulars of many things because the great storme which I presume is fallen upon Mounster drownes all my petty cares and wounds my soule for care of you of whom I know not what to expect but as a lost child for though I know you are not so mad as to runne to the enemies mouthes with a dozen persons in comparison yet I am desperatly affraid that the Provincials should betray you even those I meane that must or will seeme to be principally about you c. CHAP. IX The crosse Accidents which hapned to make the Lord Deputy to be offended with the Lord President The Lord Deputies Letter to the Lord President A satisfactory Letter from the Lord Deputy to the Lord President AS is formerly related Sir Francis Barkley being in the Province of Connaght with one thousand Foote and fiftie Horse of the List of Mounster when the President sent him thither among other instructions which hee gaue unto Sir Francis was that hee should not upon any direction goe out of that Province untill hee first heard from him the reason which moved him to insert this clause into his instructions was the confident assurance hee had of the Spanish invasion But yet to prevent the worst left the Lord Deputie might peradventure command him to march into Vlster or Linster hee presently dispatched a Letter to the Lord Deputie signifying unto him what direction hee had given unto Barkley and the reasons that moved him unto it beseeching his Lordship to allow thereof But see the mischiefe before the Presidents Letters came to the Lord Deputies hands hee had sent Captaine Henry Cosby with a peremptory commandement to Sir Francis Barkley to march to Ballisheman in Vlster Sir Francis being perplext what course to take at last resolved to obey his instructions hoping that the Lord
entertaine the skirmish with those that came up and another strong party was sent out towards Rincorran who from the Bushie hill played in flancke upon their trenches and beate them from the same so as they that were first sent out close to our Campe being beaten backe by our shot and thinking to find the seconds they left behind them were disappoynted by the quitting of their trenches and by that meanes driven to follow the rest to the succour of the Towne our men following them with much furie hurt and killed divers amongst whom they brought off the body of a Sergeant and possessed the enemies trenches the which the Enemy being re-enforced made many attempts to regaine but were repulsed and beaten backe into the Towne we heard by divers that Don Iohn committed the Sergeant Major who commanded then in chiefe presently after the fight and threatned to take off his head commended highly the valor of our men and cryed shame upon the cowardise of his owne who he said had beene the terror of all nations but now had lost that reputation and he gaue straight commandement upon paine of death which hee caused to be set upon the Towne gates that from thenceforth no man should come off from any service untill hee should be fetcht off by his Officer though his powder were spent or his Peece broken but make good his place with his sword Captaine Soto one of their best Commanders was that day slaine for whom they made very great moane and some twentie more besides were hurt which could not but bee many on our side onely some ten hurt and three killed among whom Master Hopton a Gentleman of the Lord Deputies was sore hurt and since dyed thereof If this skirmish had not bin readily and resolutely answered on our part the Spaniards had then discovered the smalnesse of our numbers and would no doubt haue so plyed us with continuall sallies as wee should hardly haue beene able to continue the siege The same day wee had Newes of the Earle of Thomonds landing at Castlehaven with one hundred horse and one thousand foot of Supplies out of England in thirteene Ships which by violence of foule weather had beene driven to the westermost part of Ireland and with great difficultie recovered Castlehaven aforesaid from whence the fifth day following hee came with Horse and Foot to the Campe at Kinsale The next day being the eleventh wee were advertised that Sir Anthonie Cooke and Patrick Arthur were landed at Waterford with two thousand foot and some horse The twelfth Sir Richard Levison Admirall and Sir Amias Preston Vice-Admirall of the Queenes Fleet for Ireland with ten Shippes of Warre arrived at Corke with two thousand Foot besides Munitions Cannoniers Carpenters Wheele-wrights Smithes c. presently the Lord Deputie sent them direction to come for Kinsale The thirteenth nothing was done either by us or the enemy The Queenes Ships with much difficultie recovered the harbour of Kinsale the Admirall Sir Richard Levison and the Vice-Admirall Sir Amias Preston came to the Lord Deputies Campe That day and the next day the two thousand Land-forces were put on shoare and before that wee had certaine newes of the arrivall of the other Forces from Barstable and Bristoll at Waterford and Castlehaven but they were not then come to the Campe nor in many dayes after The Lord Deputie comming from aboard the Ships a great shott was made at him from the Towne from whence they might discerne him in the head of a Troupe and yet missed him very little Some of the Queenes Ships having direction began to play upon a Castle in the Iland called Castle Ny Parke held fit next to bee taken to invest the Towne on that side they brake off some part of the top but finding that they did it no greater hurt they left shooting and the rather because that day and the two next prooved so extreame stormie and foule as the Ordnance could not bee landed nor any thing else well done yet out of an extraordinary desire to effect somewhat the seventeenth being the most happy day of her Majesties Coronation which wee meant to haue solemnized with some extraordinary Adventure if the weather would haue suffered us to looke abroad wee sent at night when the storme was somewhat appeased the Sergeant Major and Captaine Bodly with some foure hundred Foot to discover the ground of Castle Ny Parke and to see whether it might be carried with the Pickaxe which was accordingly attempted but the Engine wee had gotten to defend our men while they were at worke being not so strong as it should haue beene they within the Castle hauing store of very great stones on the top tumbled them downe so fast as brake it so as they returned with the losse of two men and proceeded no further in that course The same day the Lord Deputie called a Councell of warre wherein it was propounded that now that her Majestie had plentifully furnished us with men munition and victuals we wereto consider of our owne strength and the best way either to attempt the Towne or to continue the siege we were also to consider of the force of the Enemy within Kinsale and what aides they were like to haue out of the Countrey and of all other commodities or incommodities that were to happen on either side The conclusion and resolution was that wee should invest the Towne with all celerity to keepe it short of reliefe and before the making of a breach to breake their houses that they might find no safetie in them and thereby to bee exposed to the like incommoditie of cold and raine as wee felt in the Campe in doing whereof it was conceived that many would bee slaine and indanger the destroying their magazines of powder and victuals for if presently we should make a breach and attempt it by assault there was no difference betweene a weake place stored with bodies of men and a strong fortified Towne besides the Enemy had ground sufficient if a breach were made to cast up new earth workes which would put us to more toyle and losse of men then an old stone wall and in the opinion of all the chiefest of the Armie it was concluded that wee could not doe the Enemy a greater pleasure or unto our selues a greater disadvantage then to seeke to carie it by a breach before the forces in the Towne either by sword or sicknesse were weakned CHAP. XVI The Earle of Thomond with his supplyes came to the Campe. Castle ny Parke rendred by the Spaniards A Spanish Captaine wounded whereof he dyed A braue Act of a private Souldier Approaches made neerer to the Towne The Lord President with the Earles of Thomond and Clanricard returned to the Campe. A sally made by the Spaniards THE Earle of Thomond also with one thousand Foote and one hundred Horse having beene by force of weather driven farre
of them dyed that night they lost aboue two thousand Armes their Powder Drummes and nine Ensignes which was more then ever they had together before of Captaines besides other men of marke foureteene were slaine and on our side onely Sir Richard Greames Cornett was killed Sir Henrie Davers hurt with a sword slightly Sir William Godolphin a little rased on the thigh with a Halbert Captaine Crofts the Scout-Master with a shot in the backe and not aboue fiue or sixe common Souldiers hurt many of our horses killed and more hurt The Earle of Clanricard had many faire escapes being shot through his Garments and no man did bloody his sword more then his Lordship that day and would not suffer any man to take any of the Irish prisoners but bad them kill the Rebells After the Retreit was sounded the Lord Deputie did giue the Order of Knighthood to the Earle of Clanricard in the field in the midst of the dead bodies and returning backe to the Campe drew out the whole Armie and gaue God thankes for this Victorie with their prayers At the ending whereof and a volley of shott for joy discharged Don Iuan who was attentiue to heare of the Spanyards approach hearing the volley and conceiving that his Ayds were in fight with us made a salley out of the Towne but when hee perceived the Spanish Colours to be carried by Englishmen in triumph he made a speedy retreit The Enemies Armie as Alonso de o Campo doth assure us was sixe thousand Foote and fiue hundred Horse there were some of the Irish taken Prisoners that offered great ransomes but presently upon their bringing to the Campe they were hanged Although no man is lesse credulous then my selfe is of idle Prophesies the most whereof are coyned after things are done yet I make bold to relate this which succeeds for long before the thing I speake of was brought to light my selfe was an eye witnesse when it was reported in concealing it I should wrong the trueth which makes mee bold to remember it Many times I did heare the Earle of Thomond tell the Lord President that in an old Booke of Irish prophesies which hee had seene it was reported that towards the latter dayes there should bee a battell fought betweene the English and the Irish in a place which the Booke nameth neere unto Kinsale The Earle of Thomond comming out of England landing first at Castle-haven and after at Kinsale as aforesaid in the time of the siege my selfe and divers others heard him againe report the Prophesie to the President and named the place where according to the Prophesie the field should bee fought the day whereupon the victorie was obtained the Lord President and the Earle rode out to see the dead bodies of the vanquished and the President asked some that were there present by what name that ground was called they not knowing to what end hee did demand it told him the true name thereof which was the same which the Earle so often before had reported to the President I beseech the Reader to beleeue mee for I deliver nothing but trueth but as one Swallow makes no Summer so shall not this one true Prophesie increase my credulitie in old Predictions of that kinde The fiue and twentieth in the afternoone the Spanyards made a sally but they were enforced to retreat into the Towne at nine in the night they sallyed againe to hinder our workes in the Trenches the skirmish continued two houres in the end they were repulsed on our side the Ensignes of Captaine Roper and Captaine Ghâ—st were hurt what harme they received we know not The sixe and twentieth in the night they gaue againe upon our Trenches and enforced a Lieutenant with his Guard to quit them and from thence they went to a little Fort of ours on the west side of the Towne but there they found so good resistance as they were enforced to retreat with the loose of foure men slaine and eight hurt The seven and twentieth nothing was done and that whole day was by the Lord Deputie the Lord President and the rest of the Councell then in the Campe spent in making of Dispatches into ENGLAND CHAP. XXII Zubiaur arrived at Castlehaven and immediatly returned O Donnell Redmond Burke c. imbarqued for Spaine The names of such of the Irish as fled into Spaine The losse which the Rebells had in passing through Mounster after the battell of Kinsale THE eight and twentieth intelligence was brought to the Lord President who related it to the Lord Deputy that Pedro Zubiaur who was as is said a great Commander in the Spanish fleete that came to Kinsale was lately landed at Castlehaven and hearing of Tyrones overthrow hee made no stay but set saile for Spaine carrying with him O Donnell Redmond Burke Hugh Mostian with others of their traine whose names I will omit but for the better satisfaction of the Reader I thinke it meet to set downe the names of sundry other Mounster men who not long after fled into Spaine whose names ensue A List of the names of such of the Irish as haue shipped themselues for Spaine out of Mounster besides divers others which attended these and whose names are not knowen all which set saile since December 1601. From Castlehaven in December 1601. Odonnell Redmond Burke Hugh Mostian and their trayne In a Pinnace of advice that brought the Kings Letters which were intercepted by the President in February 1601. Osulevan Beares sonnes and with him one Trant of Dingle Donnell Sonne to Sir Finin Odrischall From Ardea in a Patache the seventh of Iune 1602. Donoghe Bastard brother to Florence Mac Cartie Donoghe Mac Maghon Obrien Mac Enaspicke Brian Okelly From Kinsale with Don Iuan de Aquila in March 1601. Teg Mac Donnell ne Contie William Mac Shane the Seneschals Sonne of Imokillie Dermond Mac Conoghor Odrischall of Castlehaven together with his Brother and Sonnes Thomas Omoroghoe alias Thomas Keughe Mac Edmond of Muskry Richard Meaghe Sonne and Heire to Iames Meaghe of Kinsale Dominicke White of Kinsale a Capenters Sonne Melaghlen More of Kinsale borne in Connaght Conoghor Omonowe of Kinsale and there borne Edmond Mac Shane of Kinsale Dermond Mac Shane of Kinsale Donoghe Deasoghe of Kinsale Andrew Butler a kerne borne at Galway William Butler a kerne Brothers Maghon Mac Donogh Olery under Barry Oge Dermond Mac Owen David fits Garret Barry and his wife and children dwelling at Rincorran Garrot Barry Nicholas Barry Iohn Barry David oge Barry sonnes to David â—its Garrot aforesaid William Hartilige of Rincorran Iohn Hartelige son to William aforesaid Dermond oge Osulevan of Rincorran Dermond Ogriffien of Rincorran Iohn Mac Donnell Kedie of Rincorran Dermond Mac Donell Kedie Brothers Maurice Roch fits Iohn of Ellinfinchstowne in Kinalâ—y Iohn fits Iohn Roche Brothers Conoghor Mag Donogh of Rathmore in Kinaley Donogh Gowe a Connaght man dwelling at Rathmore in Kinaley Hugo Ohellie a
ships shall meet with this English ship either outward or homeward bound they shall permit her to passe without any detention it being convenient for his Majesties service so to doe Written at Baltimore the nineth of March 1602. Pedro Lopez de Soto Pedro Lopez de Soto his Letter to Captaine Roger Harvie ALthough you be an Englishman and my selfe a Spaniard neverthelesse finding you to bee as it appeares unto mee a man of honour in all your actions I cannot but assure you that I am extreamely affectioned unto you and the cause that moues me to desire your friendship and correspondence is the just respect I haue to the good proceedings of the Lord Deputie and the Lord President and their Ministers towards the King my Master as also of you and the rest in the service of your Prince which hath obliged us to a good correspondence The Pasport which I left with you shall bee alwayes faithfully accomplished when occasion shall serue and of the same you may be confident for wee will fully obserue it And so God keepe you From the Groyne the nineth of Aprill 1602. Pedro Lopez de Soto To Captaine Roger Harvie Governour of Castle-haven and Baltimore CHAP. XXX Don Iuan imbarqued at Kinsale The Lord Deputie departed from Corke towards Dublin A Letter from the Lord Deputie and Councell to the Lords in England The Lord Deputie sickned in his Iournie to Dublin The Lord President surprised with a Feaver in his returne to Mounster THE eighth of March Don Iuan being at Kinsale hourely expecting a wind to bee gone and finding a flattering gale went aboard The Lord Deputie on the other side as desirous to bee at his worke in Vlster for the prosecution of Tyrone the day following hee began his Iourney towards Dublin on whom the Lord President attended untill hee had brought him out of the Province But Don Iohn for want of a faire wind departed not from Kinsale untill the sixteenth of the same Moneth The day before the Lord Deputies departure or the same day I know not whether his Lordship being mindfull of the sufficiencie blood and valour of Sir Richard Percy caused him to bee sworne a Councellor of the Province of Mounster and the night that he left Corke hee lodged at Clone a Towne and Mannor house sometimes belonging to the Bishop of that Sea but now passed in Fee farme to Master Iohn Fits Edmonds who gaue cheerefull and plentifull entertaynment to his Lordship and all such of the Nobilitie Captaines Gentlemen and others as attended upon him The Deputie as well to requiâ—e his perpetuall loyaltie to the Crowne of England as also to encourage others in the like at his departure did honour him with the Order of Knighthood and then continued his iourney towards Waterford where he bestowed the like honour vpon Edward Gough and Richard Aylward two ancient and well deseruing Citizens The President having attended the Lord Deputie to Kilkenny where they lodged in the Earle of Ormonds house and all things considered of which concerned the State of the Kingdome upon the foure and twentieth of March the last day of the yeare 1601 the Lord Deputie and Councell made a Dispatch into ENGLAND which heere ensues A Letter from the Lord Deputie and Councell to the Lords in England IT may please your Lordships having certaine intelligence since our comming to this place that Don Iuan and all the rest of the Spaniards departed from Kinsale on Tuesday the sixteenth hereof and that the wind since that time hath served them so well as wee assure our selues by this they are neeâ—e the Coast of Spaine wee thought fit hereby to giue your Lordships notice thereof that you may know that wee are free now of them all Since our being â—ere there hath beene brâ—ught in a notorious Rebell one William Mac Hubbard lately taken in Vpperossery who of late hath done great spoyles and murders in these parts more then any other so as wee haue caused him to bee executed in this Towne to the great terror of many About the same time that hee was executed a Sonne of Garret Mac Mortaghes named Moris Mac Garret dyed of a hurt lately given him in fight who was a most dangerous young man like to trouble all the Countrey The death of these two Rebels as also of a notorious Rebell by birth of Mounster lately slaine called Dermot Mac Awley who was an inward man and a great practising instrument with Tyrone will greatly quiet these parts and your Lordships can hardly thinke what a great change wee find already by their â—o happy timely cutting off As for Sir Finnin Odrisâ—hall 〈◊〉 and the two Sonnes of Sir Owen Mac Cartie they and their Followers since their comming in are growne very odious to the Rebels of those parts and are so well divided in factions amongst themselues as they are fallen to preying and killing one an other which we conceiue will much availe to the quieting of these parts I the Deputie am this day going towards Dublin from whence your Lordships shall heare from mee according to the directions given mee by your Lordships And I the President am returning into Mounster to attend my charge there Wee haue beene much importuned by the Army in generall touching an abatement of halfe a pound of Beefe upon every flesh day from every particular Souldier and of two Herrings every fish day and the Horse troopes likewise find themselues agrieved that the Victualler chargeth them with two shillings sixe pence increase in the issuing of every Barrell of Oates without any other Warrant then a private Letter from Master Wade Clerke of the Councell which although we conceiue Master Wade hath signified over upon such purpose of your Lordships or other good ground yet in regard of importunities of the Captaines and to prevent a generall mutiny of the Army in regard the Souldiers are weake and much infeebled by the last siege of Kinsale and that the prices of all things are increased aboue all measure by reason of the new standard Coyne and that the Countrey is generally much harried and wasted and thereby great scarcitie and wants grow here wee hold it meet and accordingly gaue direction to the Commissary of the victuals to issue Oats as formerly at six shillings the barrel and allow the Souldier two pound of Beefe and eight Herrings a day according as it was formerly accustomed till your Lordships resolution were returned in that behalfe which wee humbly pray and expect And so having no other matter at this time worthy the presenting to your Lordships wee most humbly take leaue The same day after this Letter was signed the Lord Deputie tooke his Iourney towards Dublin but being surprised with an ill disposition of health which so increased upon him as that the next day he was enforced to bee caried in his Horse litter and so continued untill hee arrived there And the President the aforesaid day returned
towards Corke surprised with the like accident in so much as hee was not able that night to journey any farther then unto Master Geralt Comâ—rfords house not distant from Kilkenny aboue three miles and there it appeared that hee was in a burning feaver Neverthelesse being transported with a desire to bee in his Province the next day hee remooved and so by easie journeyes resting some dayes upon the way at last upon the third of Aprill hee came to Corke but exceeding weake and in many mens opinion in danger of death The Actions Accidents and Services of marke related in this second Booke for the Readers better memory I will briefly recount which were as followeth viz. The sending of Forces out of Mounster into Connaght to withstand the entrance of Connaght and Vlster men into Mounster The taking of Iames fits Thomas the reputed Earle of Desmond The apprehension of Florence Mac Cartie The sending of a Regiment into Connaght for the service of that Province The sending of Iames fits Thomas and Florence prisoners into England The restraint of certaine principall Gentlemen of Mounster that were apt to rebell The arrivall of the Spaniards at Kinsale The Lord Deputies comming into Mounster The siege of Kinsale The landing of seconds from Spaine at Castlehaven The remarkeable Sea-fight in that harbour The revolt of divers of the Provincials The comming of Tyrone and Odonnell to raise the siege at Kinsale The famous victory obtayned against them and the Spaniards The flight of Odonnell Redmond Burke c. into Spaine The honourable and advantagious Composition The rendering of Castle-haven and the Castles at Baltimore unto her Majestie The surprising of the Castle of Donboy by Osulevan Beare The transporting of the Spaniards into Spaine And the departure of the Lord Deputie out of Mounster The end of the second Booke PACATA HIBERNIA THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE WARRES IN IRELAND Whereby that Countrey was reduced to Subjection and Obedience CHAP. 1. The estate of the Province of Mounster after the siege of Kinsale The Warre of Ireland censured to bee lawfully maintained by the Rebells in the opinion of the learned men of Spaine The Names of the Doctors of Salamanca who censured the lawfulnesse of the Rebellion in Ireland ALthough the Spanyards as is related were sent away out of Ireland and the Province of Mounster cleared of strangers yet to regulate and draw into order the Provincials which were revolted was a taske of no small labour for the President to undergoe being not unlike unto the state of mens bodies wherein Relapses are farre more dangerous then the first sickenesse Before the comming of these Castillians the Province as you haue heard was in so good conformity as the civill Iustice without all contradiction had as currant passage as in any of the former yeares of Peace and every mans cattell without losse or danger lay day and night in the fields But now the Rebells and their hyred Bownoghs swarmed every where and especially in Carbery Beare Desmond and Kerry in so much as there was no place in them or adjoyning unto them free from these Catterpillers who beholding the grievousnesse of their offences grewe to bee desperate concluding themselues to bee the children of perdition and not capable of her Majesties gracious mercie whereby their obstinacie was increased In the tract of Land aforementioned there was no Castles which which held for the Queene but those which the Spanyards rendred and guarded by the two Captaine Harvies and Castle Mange in Kerry wherein a Guard of Sir Charles Wilmotts had continued all the time of the siege at Kinsale all the rest were in the possession of the Rebells In this distemper the Province remayned when the Lorâ— Deputie left the same But before I enter further into the progression of the affaires of Mounster I beseech the Reader to pardon me for this ensuing digression in the which hee may perceiue how the learned men of Spaine at Salamanca did maintaine and approoue the Rebellion in Ireland which was handled upon the seventh day of March 1602. Stilo novo IN the Name of God Amen The most renowned Prince Hugh Oneale doth make warre for the Defence of the Catholique faith with the Queene of England and the English people that is to say that it may be lawfull for him and the Irish freely to professe the Cathoâ—â—que Religion which libertie the Queene of England doth endeavour to take from them by force and Armes There are two matters now in question about this warre The one is whether it bee lawfull for the Irish Catholiques to favour the foresaid Prince Hugh with Armes and all other meanes in this warre The other is whether it bee lawfull for the same Catholiques to fight against the foresaid Prince without deadly sin and to favour the English in this warre either with Armes or by any other meanes especially when as if they deny this kinde of helpe unto the English they expose themselues to a manifest danger of their life or of loosing all their temporall goods And furthermore since it is permitted by the Pope that the Irish Catholiques may obey the foresayd Queene of England and acknowledge her as their lawfull Queene by paying tribute unto her for it seemeth that what belongeth unto Subjects to doe may be performed that is to say to fight against the Queenes Rebells which deny their due obedience to her and seeme to usurpe the Land which is subject to her Dominion That both these questions may be decided wee must hold it as for certaine that the Romish Bishop hath power to bridle and suppresse such as forsake the faith and those which oppose themselues with Armes against the Catholike faith when other meanes is not ministred to overthrow so great an evill And further it must bee concluded for infallible that the Queene of England doth oppugne the Catholike Religion neither doth permit the Irish publikely to embrace the Catholike faith and that for the same cause the foresaid Prince and others before him of whom the Letters Apostolicall of â—lement the eighth make mention did make warre against her These being thus set downe the first question is easily resolved for it is qustionlesse that any Catholikes whatsoever may favour the said Prince Hughe Oneale in the foresaid warre and the same with great merit and hope of most great and eternall reward for seeing that the foresaid Prince doth make warre by the authority of the high Bishop for the defence of Catholike religion and that the Pope doth exhort all the faithfull by his Letters thereto as by his Letters is manifest and that hee will extend his graces upon the Favourers of the Prince in that warre in as ample manner as if they did make warre against the Turkes no man will in equity doubt but that both the present warre is just and that to fight for defence of the Catholike religion which is the greatest thing of all is a matter of great merit
ready to come forth and Sir George Thornton the Sergeant Major Captaine Roger Harvie Captaine Power and others entering the Vault to receiue them Captaine Power found the said Richard Mac Goghegan lying there mortally wounded as before and perceiving Taylor and the rest ready to render themselues raised himselfe from the ground snatching a light Candle and staggering therewith to a barrell of powder which for that purpose was unheaded offering to cast it into the same Captaine Power tooke him and held him in his armes with intent to make him prisoner untill he was by our men who perceived his intent instantly killed and then Taylor and the rest were brought prisoners to the Campe. The same day fiftie eight were executed in the Market place but the Fryer Taylor and one Tirlagh Roe Mac Swiny a follower unto Sir Tirlagh O Brian and twelue more of Tirrels chiefe men the Lord President reserved aliue to trie whether he could draw them to doe some more acceptable service theÌ„ their liues were worth The whole number of the Ward consisted of one hundred fortie three selected fighting men being the best choice of all their Forces of the which no one man escaped but were either slaine executed or buried in the ruines and so obstinate and resolved a defence hath not bin seene within this kingdome On our part we lost in the place Thomas Smith Captaine Francis Slingsbies Lieutenant and some others many of our men were burnt with Powder and Fire-works which the enemie cast amongst them as they were in fight Men of note hurt Captaine Dodington shot with two Bullets in the body but not mortall his Lieutenant Francis Kirton shot in the arme and thigh divers 〈…〉 CHAP. IX 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 hee would never upon which answer this twelve Men before respited two dayes after were executed The cause wherfore he so suddainly swarâ—ed from his first promise of service was the hopes which hee received by Owen Mac Egan the Popes Bishop of Rosse lately arrived at Ardea in the Bay as aforesaid of Claâ—marrah The President therefore perceiving that they conceived great hope of Spaniards advised the day following with the chiefes of the Army what course was best to bee taken with the Castle of Dunboy halfe ruined who were all of opinion that a Garrison which should be left there could not defend themselves or give any great annoyance to the Spaniard if they should fortune to land there for being so remote from all Seconds and succours were unavoydably left to ruine And besides though the Spaniards came not the service that they could doe in that Countrey would not countervaile Her Majesties charge in maintayning them Therefore they resolved to bestow the Powder which was recovered in the Castle to blow up the same committed to the charge of Captaine Slingsbie The two and twentyeth the Castle of Dunboy was accordingly blowne up with Powder the out-Workes and Fortifications utterly destroyed and the same day Lieutenant Downings with our men and Boates returned from the Dorses to the Campe as also twelve of Terrills chiefe men formerly spoken of were executed But Taylor and Dominicke Collins the Fryer were carryed Prisoners to Corke where being found by due proofe that Taylor was one of the principall murderers of his Captaine George Bingham at Sâ—igo besides an infinite number of other foule and traytorly 〈◊〉 he was shortly after without the City of Corke not farre from the North Gate hanged in chaines and the Fryer in whom no penitence appeared for his detestable treasons nor yet would endeavour to merite his life either by discovering the Rebells intentions which was in his power or by doing of some service that might deserve favour was hanged at Youghall the Towne wherein he was borne The same day also all our carriage and baggage layed aboard at the enterance into our boats because wee were not able to carie the Cowes Horses and Mares which wee had taken being at least sixe or seven hundred heads the President commanded they should bee killed which was performed The three and twentieth wee shipped our whole Army backe from Dunboy who all arrived that day in the great Iland and from thence the Earle of Thomond and Sir Charles Wilmot and both their Regiments were transported by shipping to Killaminog being the place wee encamped in as wee went in Mainterbaie The same day the Lord President was advertised by Lieutenant Saunders that hee had taken a great boat belonging to Teg Mac Connor Odriscall brother to Connor Oge Odriscall of the Downings wherein there was slaine Dary Mac Connor his brother and three more of his best men and that two dayes after hee tooke the strong place of the Downings which is seated upon a high rock in the Sea disioyned from the land so as there is no comming unto it but over a little draw bridge of wood resembling the seat of Dunluce in Vlster The foure and twentieth the Lord President and Sir Richard Percy with their Regiments were embarqued aâ—d they arrived in the evening at the Iland of Whiddy where wee had no meanes for want of boats to unship our men and the night approaching were enforced to leaue our two Regiments a shipboard and the Lord President lay that night in the Iland The fiue and twentieth the Earle and Sir Charles with their Regiments marched by land from Killaminog to the old camping place at Carew Castle whither when the boats came to us wee unshipt the remayne of the Army and there wee encamped all that night The sixe and twentieth the Companies required by the Lord Deputie were assigned and commanded to prepare themselues and attend Sir Samuell Bagâ—all till hee brought them to his Lordship and the same day the Castle of Leamâ—con neere Crooke haven which the rebels warded was recovered from them by an officer and party of men of Captaine Roger Harvies Company The seven and twentieth the Earle of Thomond and Sir George Thornton were embarqued in the Queenes Pinnace to goe for England and the Army dislodged from Carew Castle and marched to a place in the Mountaine called Becarien Eltagh where wee encamped that night The eight and twentieth the Lord President departed thence taking the Captaines and Officers of those companies that were to goe into Vlster along with him that they might perclose their accounts and dispatch all things at Corke against their Companies should come thither and by the way the Castle of Lettertinlesse belonging to Conogher Sir Finnin Odriscals Sonne where the Enemy had a ward of seventeene men after some defence made and shot discharged when they saw the Army drawe before the Castle they sued for their liues which granted them they yeelded it up and after the Souldiers had made pillage of the goods wee burned and destroyed the Castle and stone hall and rod thence to Tymolagg leaving the Army behind us
Carew Norris Norris Carew Carew Norris Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew 6 Martij Blunt The Lo Deputie and Councels instructions to the Lo. President Carew 7. Martij Carew Carew Carew Saxâ—y Gold Carew Carew Carew Carew Saxey Gold Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Carew Blunt Blunt Carew Carew Carew Blunt Carew Carew Carew Carew The Earle of Tyrone in MouÌ„ster his actions there The White Knight Tyrones prisoner FloreÌ„ce Mac Carty made Mac Cartie More and Donell Mac Carty displaced The L. Barry preyed and spoiled Sir Warham St leger and Mac Guire slaine 1600. Tyrones returne into Vâ—ster The PresideÌ„t left Dublin 7. April 10. Aprilis The Earle of Ormond taken prisoner by Owny mac Rory Oâ—more The manner of the Earle of Ormonds taking The narrow escape of the Lord President The Earle of Thomond wounded The order which was taken for the setling of the countrie after the Earle of Ormonds disaster 18. April The submissions of Tho. fits Iames Tho. Power 20. April 22. April The encounter of her Majesties forces with Flor. Mac Cartie The prey of the Brough taken 23. Aprill The state of the Province of Mounster when the Lo. President came into it The Lord Barry preyed 26. April Redmond Burke defeated by Odwire Odwires couÌ„try harrassed by Redmond Burke 29. April Loghguire preyed The submission of Barret and Condon 3. Maâ—â— The submission of Flor. Mac Carty Flor. Mac Carties demands The submission of Nugent The Brough burnt by Pierce Lacy. Redmond Burke departed out of Connologhe May. 16. Tenne of the Bownoghs slaine by Sir Richard Percy May. 17. 21. Maij. The Armie set out from Corke towards Limricke 23. Maij. The submission of the White Knight Cahir Castle surprised by Iames Galdie Butler 24. Maij. 25 Maij. Therendring of the Castle of Loghguire Nugents attempt upon Iohn fits Thomas Clanwilliam spoiled and burnt by the Armie 29. Maij. The submission of Iohn Burke The castle of Ballitrarsnie taken O Mulrians Countries burnt and spoiled by the Army O Sulevan More detained prisoner by the practise of Flor Mac Cartie The plot contrived by the Lo. President for the apprehension of Ia. fits Thomas Iune 11. Iunij 500 men sent to lye in garrison at Askeiton Supplies of money munition victuals c. The apprehension of Iames Fits Thomas by Dermond O Conner 19. Iunij 20. Iunij The Countrey of Thomond harassed and spoyled by O Donnell Forces sent into Thomond Iames fits Thomas set at liberty 26. Iunij 28. Iunij 29. Iunij Dermond O Conner and the Rebels agreed and reconciled The Castle of Crome taken by the Armie 30. Iunij 4. Iuly 7. Iulij The Knight of the Valley upâ—â—â—f conduct spake with the Earle of Thomond The Constable of Glyn Castle hiâ— advice to the Earle of Thomond for hiâ— safetie 8. Iulij A Breach made The breach assaulted A sally made by the rebels The Constable c. slaine 9. Iulij The Castle wonne and the rebels put to the sword AWard put into the castle of Glin by the L. President Carrigfoile rendred by Oconner Kerry Maurice Stacke sent into Kerry The Bonoghs obtained the Lord Presidents Passeport to depart the Province Sixty of the Bonoghs slaine by the Lo. Burke The Lord Presidents returne to Limerick The Castle of Corgrage rendred A Garrison left in Askeiton 15. Iulij The Castle of Kathmore rendred A Garrison placed at Kilmallock 16. Iulij The Rebels enforced to rise from the siege of Liskaghan Flor. Mac Carties perswasions unto the Ward to quit Liskaghan Florence Mac Carty attempted to câ—rrupt the Constable of Liskaghan 23. Iulij 28. Iulij Fits Gerald Knight of Kerry The L. President come to Carrigofoile 29. Iulij The Castles of Lixnaw Rathowine and Tralee surprized by Sir Charles Wilmot The Bonoghs defeated by Sir Gharles Wilmot 2. August The death of Patricke fits Maurice L. of Lixnaw Florence Mac Cartie being sent for would not come unto the L. President A Mariage practised by Florence for Iames fits Thomas Letters and Messages betweene Florence and Tyrone 16. Aug. Aug. 18. Aug. 20. 21. Aug. An Encounter betweene Captaine Harvie and the White Knights Sonne The White Knights Sonne defeated 23. Aug. The Knight of Kerry the Lord of Lixnaw made suite to be protected The Earle of ThomoÌ„d left to command the garrison at Askeiton Florence coÌ„tinueth his practise with Tyrone Lands given by Iames fits Thomas to Flor. Mac Cartie Donnel Mac Carty taken in upon protection The Castle of Mayne in Connologh taken Omaghon and the O Crowlies protected The intended Mariage of Iames fits Thomas frustrated Cahir Castle rendred 29 August Supplies of Horses and Monie sent for Mounster 26. August Dermond Mac Owen O keefe and Mac Awly made suite to be received as Subjects The submission of the Knight of Kerry Ia. fits Tho. and Pierce Lacy defeated by the Knight of Kerry The castle of Ardart taken by Sir Ch. Wilmot Maurice Stacke murdrâ—d treacherously Septemb. The Prey of Kilkoe taken by Sir Richard Percy Iames fits Tho defeated by the garrison of Kilmallocke 16. Sept. Supplies of Foote sent out of England Osulev an More sent by the Lord Deputie to the Lord President October 4. Octbe The Castle of Glan Coyne surprised by Sir Francis Barkley Florence Mac Carties wife and followers perswaded him to goe to the Lord President The young Earle of Desmond arrived at Yoghall 14. Octob. 18. Octob. The Inggling of Florence Mac Cartie Supplies of men apparell sent into Mounster The submission of Florence Mac Cartie Octob. 29. A skirmish betweene the Carties and the Oleries Olerie slaine 4. Novemb. The submission of Thomas Oge fits Gerald and the rendring of Castle Mange The Câ—stle of 〈◊〉 besieged and taken 5. Novemb. A prey taken in Kinalmekagh The Castle of the Dingle rendred The Abbey of Ratho burned and fourtie of the Bownoghs slaine by Sir Charles Wilmot A thousand Bownoghs levied by Florence Mac Carty Connaght and Vlster men being ready to invade Mounster suddenly brake their resolution and the cause why Dermond O Conner murdered by Theobald ne Long Burke 18. Nov. Sessions held at Limerick Cassell and Clonmell 26. Nov. The Lord President the Earle of Ormond meet at Clonmell December Muskry-quirke and Arloghe burnt preyed and spoyled by the Army The submission of the Burkes and Obriens The narrow escape of Iames fits Thomas and Dermond Mac Craghe the Popes Bishop of Corke In what good estate the province of Mounster was 15. Decemb. 20. Decemb. Mac Awly preyed upon by Sir Fra Barkley The Major of Limerick fined and imprisoned and a new Major elected 21. Decem. Kinalmâ—kaghe preyed by Sir Richard Percy He mâ—aneth Iohn fits Thomas brother to the titulary Earle Ianuary The Sheriffs men slaine by Flor. Mac Gartie Florence his excuses received for truths The L. President perswadeth Florence to goe into England Florence seemeth to like