into our Camp we understood that the Earl of Tyrconnel who since K. James's leaving of Ireland stiles himself Lord Lieutenant of Ireland having some jealousie of the Earl of Trone Governor of Waterford sent for him to Lymerick and made Old Collonel Lacy Governor in his stead and that the Enemy had in it about 1600 Men. Collonel Eppinger who was sent from Dublin with a small Party by Sea towards Wexford that being Deserted as you have heard took Possession of the Place and secured a Garrison in it he found a Considerable quantity of Provision there and his Men a little after took 400 Head of Cattle from the Raparees who had taken them a little time before from the Countrey People on whom they have ever since the Battle of the Boyne committed many Outrages and done much Mischief July 12th We came to a place called Bennets-bridge within 16 Miles of Waterford where we Encamped Here we understood that on the 18th the Enemy quitted Cloâ—mel notwithstanding it is a very Considerable Pass lately strengthned by the addition of several new Fortifications and Major-General Sarsfield was Posted there with 5000 Irish but on the approach of our Army in it's Neighbourhood he retired towards Lymerick This day four French Officers came over to us they gave an account That the Earl of Tyrconnel and the Count de Lauzun were Fortifying of Lymerick the remains of the Army being in that Neighbourhood but in a very ill Condition having lost all their Baggage This day the King dined with the Duke of Ormond at the Castle of Killkenny On the 20 th We Decamped from Bennets-Bridge and Marched about 7 Miles to a place called Rossen Narrow and the next day being the 21 th We came to Carick His Majesty Commanded a Trumpet to be sent to Summon Waterford requiring them to Surrender the Place They desired time till the next Morning when they sent out Articles but the King not approving thereof let them know that they should go out with their own Arms and Baggage only and that if they did not accept thereof but stayed till they were Attacked he would give them no Quarter However they sent some of their Scruples again the next day and Major-General Kirk was sent thither with five Regiments and several Pieces of Cannon to answer them the next day in the Afternoon the Capitulations were Signed and the next day after the Garison Marched out with their Arms and Baggage the Number of 1600 and were conducted to Mallow 12 Miles in their way to Lymerick The Garrison would not have had so good terms only His Majesty had Compassion on 300 Protestant Families in the Town Several Officers staid behind in the Place and Prayed His Majesties Protection The same day the Lord Dover and Lord George Howard with several others submitted themselves to the King The French when they first came to Lymerick took Possession of it with their Infantrey under the Command of the Count de Lauzun and they would not suffer any of the Irish to come into the Town so that the Lord Tyrconnel and General Sarsfield with their Irish where forc'd all to Encamp without the Town July 25th The King viewed the Walls of Waterford without entering into the Town and returned back to the Camp which was about three Miles distant where all things were ready for an Attack His Majesty dined in the Camp and then returned to Carick that Night From Waterford His Majesty sent a Summons to the Governour of Duncannon Fort Captain Michael Burk offering the same Capitulation which had been granted to Waterford and letting him know if he refused or delayed to Comply he must expect no Mercy He insisted upon six days to consult the Lord Tyrconnel which being refused he declared he would take that time whereupon the Cannon was ordered down in order to an Attack but the next day being the 26th In the Evening Sr. Cloudsly Shovel appearing with Sixteen Frigats in View it so terified them that the Governour writ to Major-General Kirk that they would accept of what had been offered which His Majesty being made acquainted with he was pleased to order That they should still have the Benefit of the Articles that were at first propos'd and the Fort was accordingly Surrendred whereby we are possessed of a very advantagous Post which commands the River of Waterford On the 27th His Majesty left the Camp and set forward for Dublin resolving to return immediatly for England On the 29th The King arriv'd a Chappel-Izod where He Published his Second Declaration as followeth William and Mary King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland To all the People of Our Kingdom of Ireland whom it may concern William R. ALthough Our former Declaration of the 7th of July last past hath not hitherto produced those Effects of Gratitude and Obedience from several of Our Rebellious Subjects which We justly expected Yet being willing to Compassionate those who are misled and to extend Our farther Grace as well in granting unto some a longer time to lay hold of the Advantages already offered as to enlarge Our Clemency unto others We do now farther Declare That as to all poor Labourers Common Soldiers Country Farmers Ploughmen and Cottiers whatsoever As also to all Citizens Townsmen Tradesmen and Artificers who remained at home or who having fled from their Dwellings shall by the Five and Twentieth Day of this Instant August repair to their usual place of Abode surrendring up what Arms they have to such Justices as are or shall be appointed by Us not only to receive the same but to Register the Appearances of such as shall submit to Our Authority We do hereby Declare That We will not only Pardon them as to their Lives and Liberties for all Violences they have done and committed by Authority of their Superiors during the Rebellion but We do also promise to secure them in their Goods their Stocks and Cattle and all their Chattels personal whatsoever Willing and Requiring them to come in and where they were Tenants there to preserve the Harvest of Grass and Corn for supply of the Winter But forasmuch as many of them had a legal Right to the Tenancy of several Lords some holden from Protestants and some held from Popish Proprietors who have been concerned in the Rebellion against Us Our Will and Pleasure is That all those Tenants who hold from our good Protestant Subjects do pay their Rents to their Respective Landlords And the Tenants of all those who have been in the present Rebellion against Us do keep their Rents in their hands until they shall have notice from the Commissioners of Our Revenue unto whom they are to Account for the same But whereas we are farther Advertiz'd that several of these Ranks aforementioned who have adhered to Our said Declaration do complain of ill treatment from our Soldiers and of the loss of Goods and Stock on pretence that such Stock and Goods were formerly by them Plundered
if they had been alive from the Dead the Streets were fill'd with Crowds and Shouts and the Roman Catholicks now lay in the same terrors as they had done some few days before At Eight this Night one Troop of Dragoons came as a Guard to an Officer that came to take charge of the Stores It was impossible the King himself coming after this could be welcom d with equal joy as this one Troop the Protestants hung about the Horses and were ready to pull tâ—e Men off them as they march'd up to the Castle Next Morning b ing Fryday the 4th the Duke of Ormond and Monsieur Overkirke came in with Nine Troops of Horse and the King being encamped by Finglass came on Sunday to St. Patricks Church and heard a Sermon preach d by Dr. King concerning the Power of God Of which that which seem'd to us greatest on Earth mighty Armies was a faint shadow The King went back to his Camp to dinner not suffering any Soldiers to come into the City except a few for Guards By some Persons in our Army that have viewed the Dead at the Boyne I am told that there were not above sixteen hundred killed on both sides though perhaps you may hear of greater Numbers in England which is a wonderful thing that so small a loss should disperse the whole Irish Army who seemed to be blown away only by a Wind from God July 5. The Town of Wexford declared for his Majesty the manner or it was thus Collonel Butler Lord Lieutenant of the County hearing that the late late King James was gone by on Wednâ—sday last he posted after him and from Duncannon wrote to his Son to come to him and to follow the late King James to France He wrote also another Letter to Captain Kelly to come away with his Company and set the Castle of Wexford on Fire which was under his command but this Letter falling into the hands of an English Merchant where Collonel Butter was quartered he did not deliver it but told the Captain how he was sent for concealing that part of the Letter about burning the Castle and so soon as he and his Company were gone the Protestants there rose disarmed the Papists and seized the Castle and at their humble Request by two Messengers His Majesty sent some few days after a Regiment with Arms and Ammunition to secure them we continued in our Camp to refresh our selves till July 9. At which time early in the Morning his Majesty caused us to decamp from Finglass to a place called Cromlin three Miles on the South side of Dublin This Day was Published at the Camp Their Majesties Declaration which follows The Declaration of William and Mary King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland To all the People of the Kingdom of Ireland to whom it may concern William Rex AS it hath pleas'd Almighty God to bless our Arms in this Kingdom with a late Victory over our Enemies at the Boyne and with the Possession of our Capital City of Dublin and with the general Dispertion of all that did oppose Vs We are now in so happy a Prospect of our Affairs and of extinguishing the Rebellion of this Kingdom That we hold it reasonable to think of Mercy and to have Compassion upon those whom We judge to have been seduced wherefore We do hereby Declare We shall take into our Royal Protection all poor Labourers Common Souldiers Country Farmers Plough men and Cottiers whatsoever as also all Citizens Townsmen Tradesmen and Artificers who either remained at home or having fled from their dwellings shall by the the First day of August next repair to their usual Places of Abode Surrendering what Arms they have to such Justices of Peace as are or shall be appointed by Vs not only to receive the same but also to Register the Appearance of such of the said Persons as shall come in and submit to Our Authority For Our Royal Intention is and We do hereby Declare That we will not only Pardon all those poor People as to their Lives and Liberties who shall come in by the time aforesaid for all Violences they have done or committed by the Command of their Leaders during the War but We do promise to secure them in their Goods their Stocks of Cattle and all their Chattels personal whatsoever Willing and Requiring them to come in and where they were Tenants there to preserve the Harvest of Grass and Corn for the supply of Winter But forasmuch as many of them had a Legal Right to the Tenancy of several Lands some holden from Protestants and some from Popish Proprietors who have been concerned in the Rebellion against Vs Our Will and Pleasure is That all those Tenants who held from our good Protestant Subjects do pay their Rents to their respective Landlords And that the Tenants of all those who have been concerned in the present Rebellion against Vs do keep their Rent in their Hands until they have notice from the Commissioners of Our Revenue unto whom they are to account for the same And as We do hereby strickly forbid all Violence Rapine and Molestation to any who shall thus come in and remain Obedient to Vs so for those of this or any other Rank or Quality who are already in Our Quarters and within our Power and Obedient to Vs We do hereby charge and require That they be not molested in any sort without Our special Command For the desperate Leaders of the present Rebellion who have violated those Laws by which this Kingdom is united and inseparably annexed to the Imperial Crown of England who have called in the French who have Authorized all Violences and Depredations against the Protestants and who rejected the Gracious Pardon We offered them in our Proclamation of the 22th of Feb. 1688. s We are now by God s great Favour in condition to make them sensible of their Errors so are We resolv'd to leave them to the event of War unless by great and manifest demonstrations We shall be convinced they deserve our Mercy which We shall never refuse to those that are truly Penitent Given at our Royal Camp at Finglass near Dublin the 7th day of July 1690. In the Second Year of Our Reign July 11th We continued in our Camp at Cromlin till this Morning When the King set out to Kilkenny with a part of the Army General Douglass with another Part went some days before towards Wexford July 14th His Majesty Encamped at Inchiqueen 21 Miles from Dublin where News was brought to the Camp that Cavan and Sligo had Voluntarily Surrendred and that the Irish Villains called Raparees had burnt Longford and the Lord Longfords House July 15th His Majesty with the Army Encamped at Castle Dermote On the 1 6th We Marched to Caterlough which was but five Miles On the 1 7th We Encamped about Kelly leaving the Road to Kilkenny that City being above four Miles out of our way here by some Deserters come
de la Meloniere gave Protections to a great many Papists who expected to have been plundered and marched to joyn the Army whom we shall leave for a little time and give the Reader here an account of the Movements of the late King and his Troops and the Affairs in and about Dublin and the Protestants therein Friday June 13. The Protestants in Dublin receiv'd the certain Account of King William's Landing Before this a Camp had been laid out by the Irish about Atherdeâ— and the late King James had ordered his Army to Rendezvouz there from several parts of the Kingdom On Monday the 16th King James marched out of Dublin to joyn them with about 6000 French Foot most old Soldiers excellently well Arm'd and Clad one Regiment of these were Dutch and Protestants and were observed carefully for fear of Deserting The whole Irish Army encamped made about 36000 all well Clad and in good heart both Horse and Foot The same day King James left Dublin there marched in 6000 of the Countrey Militia and Collonel Luterel and Mac Gillicuddy as his Assistant were left Governors It was expected the Irish would have been much cast down upon King James's leaving Dublin and the certain News of King Williams's Landing but they were much the contrary they Triumphed and rejoyced as if they had got King William in a Pound and the Day were their own They were assured either that the French Fleet would cut of King William from England or that an Insurrection would be made there for we were told that an hundred thousand Men were ready to rise under the Notion of declaring for a Common-wealth The Protestants in Dublin knew not what to think of these things for they were kept as Prisoners of War and suffered to know no more nor enjoy any more than what the others pleased But this the Protestants feared most because the Irish spoke least of it that some desperate Persons had undertaken to Destroy King William as soon as he should come ashoar For the great assurance of the Irish could not be imputed to any other thing than this Some were so open as to tell their Protestant Friends very lately That they would be glad to go to Mass within this Twelve Month with several other Expressions of the like nature The great concern of the Protestants in Dublin was how they should be preserved from being Plundered and Burnt in case of the Defeat of the Irish Army this they thought could be done only by the English pursuing the Victory close for by a particular Providence the Irish had neglected all this time to fortifie Dublin or else by sending a Party by Sea to Land at the Bay at the time of the Engagement neither of which as it afterward happen'd was done But God alone preserv'd the Protestants of Dublin by an extraordinary Deliverance On Thursday June 19. After King James was gone to Encamp about Twelve at Noon the Governour ordered all Persons walking the Streets without Swords or Bayonets which was the Badge of Protestants to be taken up and secured in Parades At Night he pickt out whom he thought fit and sent them to several Prisons where they were considerably incommoded After this followed a Proclamation That not above Five Protestants should meet in any place above the Family on pain of Death By which they were from that time shut out from our Churches which by an extraordinary Providence they had enjoyed all these times except Christ Churh Most of them were frequented twice every Day at Prayers The Church-men who stayed in the City though they had lost all their Subsistance by the Irish Parliament except what People voluntarily contributed acquitted themselves with a great deal of Zeal and Diligence being particularly influenc'd by the Bishop of Meath and Dr. King Dean of St. Patricks who have been the Bulwark of the Protestants in these sad times On Tuesday 24. Dr. King was clapt up in the Castle and many other of the principal Protestants in the College which was now a Garison and other publick places The Galway Protestants being about 200 these were they of Sir Thomas Southwel's party which were lately brought to Dublin in order to be exchanged were removed from White Fryars to the Round Church and all the Newgate Prisoners were put to them where they were near stifled The Prisoners of War were brought from Kilmainham to St. John's Church the publick Contributions which hitherto had been very liberal every Lord's Day to their Relief were now intercepted and the Poor began to suffer much few Protestants daring to walk the Streets Saturday the 28th News came to Dublin That the Irish Army retreated and the English Army were come towards Droghedah and seemed to press forward for Dublin On Sunday the 29th the Irish Army came on this side the Boyne and King James as it should seem distrusting the Issue Sir Patrick Trant First Commissioner of the Revenue and another Gentleman were ordered to go from Dublin on Monday Morning to Waterford to prepare Ships July 1st Early in the Morning the Protestants in Dublin were wakened by an Alarm and the News that there would be a Battle The Gates of the City were kept strictly Guarded and the Protestants kept their Houses The Issue they expected with the greatest apprehensions Several Reports were spread abroad every Hour one while that the French Fleet were in the Bay another that a French Express was come from Waterford with the news of taking the Isle of Wight by the French and of their being gone to Dover then that the English Right Wing was quite routed then that the P. of Orange was taken Prisoner But at Five that Afternoon some that had made their escape on tired Horses told the Protestants The Irish were much worsted and others at Six That they were totally defeated from hence till One that Night all the Entries of the Town were filled with dusty wounded and tired Soldiers and Carriages perpetually coming in After these several of King James's Horse Guards came in stragling without Pistols or Swords and could not tell what was become of himself Near ten that Night he came in with about 200 Horse all in disorder The Protestants concluded now that it was a total rout and that the English Army were just ready to come into Town but were greatly Surprised when an hour or two after they heard the whole Body of the Irish Horse coming in in very good order with Kettle-Drums Haut boys and Trumpets and early the next Morning the French and a great Party of the Irish Foot These being a little rested Marched out again as they gave out to meet the Enemy which were supposed to draw nigh Wednesday July 2d About five this Mornning King James having sent for the Irish Lord Mayor and some Principle Persons to the Castle made a Speech to them to this purpose Gentlemen I had a very good Army in England and when I had the greatest occasion for them they