A LETTER FROM SR. LEVVIS DYVE to the Lord Marquis of New-Castle giveing his Lordship an account of the whole Conduct of the KINGS affaires in Irland since the time of the Lord Marquis of Ormond His Excellencies arrivall there out of France in Septem 1648. Until Sr. Lewis his departure out of that Kingdome In June 1650. Together with the annexed Coppies of sundry Letters mentioned by SR. LEWIS DYVE as relating to the Businesse He treats of From the Hague 10. 20. July 1650. HAGVE Printed by SAMUELL BROUN English Bookeseller 1650. MY LORD NOt long after my arrivall at the Hague intimation was given me by a noble freind upon some casuall discourse with him of the affaires of Ireland that your Lordship had a great desire to be satisfied as well in some particulars touching the conduct of that businesse since my Ld. Leiut. last went thither as in what condition the Kingdom stood at the time when I came from thence Wherupon not knowing whether the necessitie of my occasions or indeed the usuall thwartnesse of my fortune in what I most covet would allow me so great a hapiness as personally to waite upon you before I left this country I held it my duty in that case to leave some testimony behind me of my obedience and readinesse to serve you wherin rather then faile I have adventured to ingage my selfe in this relation though conscious of mine owne disability to performe it in such sort as the subject requires the unpollished rudenesse of so plaine and course a stile affording no lustre of ornament or beauty that may render it worthy to be presented to a person of your eminency which may the easier in my behalfe admit of excuse whose profession and practice hath all wayes bin accustomed rather to use a sword then a pen the only plea I have therfore to offer to your Lordship for this presumption is the candor and integrity where with it is written which I have religiously observed through the whole body of the discourse endeavouring to vindicate truth which I find highly suffering by the world either through the malice and malignity of these unhappy times or for want of cleare and impartiall information which I am confident your Lordship and all who rightly know me will expect from my hands and which sincerely I promise to afford without suffering the Biasse of any passion or privat respect or interest whatsoever to sway me in the least circumstance contrary to truth unlesse by misaprehension and want of judgment or by the misrepresentation of the ablest and best knowing persons I may unhappily have bin misled But that I may the better do it it will be necessary a little to look back and take a short view of the desperate time wherein his Ex cy the Marquesse of Ormond under tooke this worke and to reflect upon the sad face that was then upon His MAjESTIES affaires in all his three Kingdomes In England as your Lordship may well remember the King was not only made a close prisoner his Crowne his life and the succession of his posterity declared against but also all those parties that stood for him there or had declared in his behalfe and taken armes for his rescue were wholy dispersed and subdued yea and all other men whose parts honesty or publique interest made them worthy of a suspition either imprisoned banisht or utterly disarmed In Scotland the army raised for the freedome and restauration of the King having bin unfortunatly lost under the leading of Duke Hamilton in Lankashire all that acted by the Kings commission were not only compelld to lay downe armes but after being declared incapable to sit any more in Parliament or to have any share in Government som of them proscribed and expelled the land whilst Cromwell for having countenanced them in these proceedings was saluted at Edenburgh Preservator of the nation thus you see there are two Kingdoms wherin is neither Garrison nor army left at the Kings devotion nor any person scarce at liberty that durst owne either him or his quarrell Ireland only remaines to be considered and that God knowes a wofull spectacle cantonized into severall sundry factions drawing all divers waies and driueing on severall interests there was Iones Monke and Coote playing an Independant game as eagerly as might be there were the Scots Patronizinge the Covenant and Presbitery there was O Neale and the Nuntiated party of the Cleargy that with might and maine under the colour of Religion were promoteing a forraigne interest in case they could not make a Prince at home there was the counsell of the confederats together with all the auntient English and some of the Irish their adherents who being more moderat and averse to such desperat courses awakened also with the miseries that opprest them already the ruin that menaced them out of England made fresh applications into France unto the Queene and the Prince his highnesse that my Lord Leiut. and the Kings Authority might againe be sent amongst them wherupon these two factions grew to so great a fewde that the latter were all excomunicated by the first and the first proclaimed Traytors by the latter Besides all these there was Inchiquin who having recollected himselfe at last dislikeing the revolutions in England had prevailed with his party to declare for the King Wherupon he made a cessation with the counsell of the confederats in expectation of my Lord Leiu ts coming over which cessation being violently opposed both by the spirituall and temporall sword of the Nuntio and O Neale induced finally my Lord Marquess of Clanricard who from the time of my Lord Leiu nts going to sea from Dublin had retired himselfe and his family to a place convenient to ship away assoone as he should despaire of being able to serve the King by his further stay to take armes and drawe together his army to countenance the cessation and to make way for my Lord Marquess of Ormond with the Kings Authority to which he did highly contribute by awing and curbing the towne of Galloway at that time the seat of the Nuntio and the principall receptacle of the most factious people in the Kingdome as also by his succesfull reduceing of Fortfaukland Athlone Iames towne and the greatest part of the Province into his power But to the end that you may see with what steadinesse that Honorable Person in the depth of all these revolutions hath still adhered unto the service of the King and the Interests of the Crown even against those that couloured al their designes and practises over with the artificiallest and most deludeing pretences of Religion since it is an example fit to be recommended to posterity and truly worthy your lordships knowledge you may please to read the particular conduct of this his undertakeing in the Coppy of a Letter I send you herewithall writ from the Marquis himselfe to Mr. Walsingham then in France In this posture was Ireland when my Lord Leiut. came
was left them But also recouer upon the enemy considerably this Summer which really I wish with all my soule they may Principally for His MAjESTIES sake and the present engagement of the Kingdom of Scotland to both which the preservation of what is left or the regaining of what is lost in Irland must needs be if well considered of high concernment And in the next place for the sake of many worthy families amongst them some of which were never involved in the association nor had any hand in the warr and many of the rest through the menaces strange kind of proceedings of the Parliament against the whole Nation upon the Insurrection the villanous practises of Parsons Burlacy the then Lords Justices who desired to make them all forfeit their estates were frighted forced into Rebellion All which are now to suffer equally and by Cromwell with out distinction designed for ruine together with those that were the Originall authors of the first Rebellion and those ugly massacres that were committed which indeed deserves commiseration since very many of the Nobility gentry with the body of the people wish the King as well have as great dispositions to his service as can be desired having been abused whoâ— into those offences they have committed by a few malicious ill affected persons craftier then most of the rest Who haâ— with great art and industry acquired unto themselves the opinion of wise religious and honest men Wherby they misleaâ— that credulous and for the most part unwise Nation upon pretence of the advancement of their Roman Religion and preservation of their Country to what they please Having been able to perswade them that all these afflictions misfortunes they suffer under are come upon them for their admitting of a cessation a peace indisobedience to the Nuntio for their joyning with Heretiques Not suffering them to consider rightly that it is their disobedience to the lawfull King the blood and murther they are guilty of that makes them so unfortunate that is their breaches of publike faith in compliance with the Nuntio the rapine and want of justice that raignes amongst them that hath brought upon them these heavy punishments given them over to be scourged by the hand of so faithless Bloody an enemy And surely whosoever shall recollect how first after the double breach of the former peace they were immediately punished with the defeat of two considerable armies one after another with the desolation of the flourishingest part of their Country upon which a famine ensued that devoured neer 20000 soules then how the plague that hath since over spread the Kingdom began first at Galloway the place that did most longest countenance those ill proceedings of the Nuntio O Neale of any other in the Kingdom where it swept away about 5000 soules those only of the common and meanest sort of people who were they that contrary to the inclinations of the principall persons being most of them moderate well disposed men carried all things their violent way Next how the Vlster army which I heare have received a great defeat since my coming away who were the beginners of the rebellion the breakers of the first Peace the opposers of the second the releivers of Derry are now come to fall under the hands of Coote those men who if it had not been for them had certainly been destroyed And lastly how the Bishops of Tuam Cloghor who had so deep hands in the contrivance of the warr were guilty of so much blood have both fallen if the printed relation concerning the last of them be true upon the edge of the sworde together with their armies The Bishops of Rosse Downe also the first of which had not many weekes before his own miscarriage appeared very unhandsomely in the persecution of the Protestant Lord Bishop of London Derry a person of great worth moderation and prudence one Who as he had meritted highly from the King for his loyalty and constant services so also was he very farr to my knowledge from deserving ill from that Kingdom The second one who had ever cherished stirrs factions both of them notoriously averse to peace to the Government coming to perish ignominiously in the hands of those enemies that by staving off a timely submission to the Kings Authority hindering the settlement of the Country they may be said after a sort to have brought into the Kingdom He must needs as I do admire the order of Gods Chastisements with submission acknowledging that he is just and that his judgements are right Through whose fault or through what miscarriage Tecroghan is lost after it hath been so long and gallantly defended by Sr. Robert Talbot and the lady Fitz-Garret and the Vlster army defeated I cannot undertake to say since they are accidents after my coming to sea Though I do much feare that the first was occasioned principally through the reliques of those unhappy emulations backwardnesses that dwelt in some of the great ones against others who were like to reap too much honour and advantage from the enterprize in case that place had been releived and preserved What ever the matter were I confess those mischances have much altered the case from what it was but yet I despaire not of the business in giving all for gone but hope Gods justice having been in some measure satisfied the people being become more humble more united that by Gods blessing they may weather this storm preserve themselves with that Kingdom to the King However I am confident this late defeat of the Vlster army under the conduct of the Bishop of Cloghor by so small a party will convince the people that these misfortunes are not entailed unto either my Lord of Ormonds person or religion conduce much to satisfy them that his Excellency hath neither betraied the Kings Interest nor them into this low condition they are brought into Of which being once perswaded they will turn their hearts fixe their hopes wholy upon the Kings Leiutenant Who beleeve me my Lord is as Wise as Honourable Gallant a Person as is any where to be found as excellent a subject as any Prince in the world can boast of Yea and one who I assure your Lordship if ever he shall thinke it fit to give the world an account of his actions is able with modesty truth to say so much for himselfe and for what he hath done as will wring a confession out of the mouth of enuy herselfe that hee hath behaved himselfe so prudently so uprightly in the place he now holds notwithstanding all these forementioned misfortunes that no man hath ever out gone him in loyalty to or merit from the Crowne and Royall house of England of which a better argument needs not be given then that most Excellent Speech for the eloquence and subject of it deserving an Eternall
indignation resented Emer Mac Mahon Bishop of Cloghor who had been chosen Generall of the Vlster army having a good while since received his commission from my Lord Leiutenant was now gathering together his army which in ad short time after before my leaving the Kingdom he had made up to be about 6000 men wherewith having taken severall little Castles in his way he was marched up into the Claneboyes and become master of the feild The next enterprize Cromwell went in hand with was to take Clonmell which was kept by Major Generall Hugh O Neale who behaved himselfe so discreetly gallantly in defending it that Cromwell lost neer upon 2500 men before it had notwithstanding gone away without it if they within had had store of powder but their small proportion being spent the Governour with his souldiers was fain to go out of the town on the other side of the river by night towards Waterford leave the townesmen to make conditions for themselves which they did the next morning the enemy not knowing but the Garrison was still in towne till the conditions were signed Thus the losse of this place severall other Garrisons for want of ammunition was another effect of the disobedience of the townes In so much that had it not been for a little magazine that my Lord of Clanricard had providently made before hand wherewith since the losse of Drogheda his Excellencies army the Scots the Vlsters most of the Garrisons were surnished All might have gone to an irrecoverable ruine whilst the walld townes like free States lookt on as unconcernd denying to afford it to them This being true no body that hath heard of any injuries or injustice in point of trade or prizes here can blame the King or my Lord Leiutenant for it neither of whom they did obey further then they pleasd themselves but now having received Garrisons as I make no question they have I dare be bold to assure any body that trafficks that way of all equity justice from my Lord Leiutenant hands About the time of the seidge of Clonmell David Roch having raised above 2000 men in the Counties of Corke Kerry and beginning to make head with them received a small brush from my Lord of Broghall which only dispersed his men for a few daies his losse being not considerable for any thing but the Bishop of Rosse who being taken was hanged with two other Priests by Cromwell for being found in armes as they said against the Right worshipfull the State of England Soone after the gaining of Clonwell Cromwell upon letters out of England inviting him thither goes to sea and leaves Ireton in cheife command behind him to subdue the rest of that miserable wasted Kingdom whilst himselfe went about the conquest of new Empires more worthy of his presence But since he is gone I cannot but here observe that of all those thousands that either came with him thither or were sent after there are now few hundreds surviving either to reap the benefit or report the stories of their Victories his army upon his departure being sunke to a very inconsiderable number especially in foot and neer three parts of those consisting of either Irish Jones or my Lord of Inchiquins men who only are able to undergo the wofull incommodities of that Country now groning under a universall plague famine and desolation to that degree that if they knew but halfe the misery that expects them there I am confident that no threats nor flatteries could perswade men out of England thither in hopes of reaping the fruites of their fellowes labours in that destroyed Kingdom Which as low as t is brought may chance to cost Cromwell a second expedition and another army and yet go without it For they have Waterford Galloway and Limrick three of the strongest and most considerable townes of the Kingdom still untaken any of which if they be well Garrisond as questionless now they are will be neare a summers work to reduce The forts of Duncannon Silgo the Castles of Caterlo Athlone Charlemont Neauagh are not easy puachases the Province of Connaght is still preserved intire by my Lord of Clanricard who will be able to bring 4000 men of his own into the feild now that Galloway his Country is somewhat cleard from the infection of the plague which begins to rage greatly in the enemies quarters as Cork Youghall Wexford and Dublin it selfe Kilkenuy Clonmell with severall places there abou ts being left desolate with it The County of Clare in Mounster brought unto my Lord Leiutenant at a Rendezvous just upon my coming away above 2000 men wherwith his Excellency being invited by the Magistrates was ready to march into Limrick for to Garrison the place and to make it his residence What Forces the Irish had in Vlster towards Kerry I have already told you as likewise what Connaght and the County of Clare afforded I must add that Hugh Mac Phelim had in Wicklow towards Wexford hard upon 2000 men at Waterford Generall Preston and Hugh O Neale had litle lesse to conclude besides all this the Lord Castlehaven the Lord Dillon and the Bishop of Drummore made account they should draw together a considerable body in Meath and the rest of Leinster to joyne with the Marquis of Clanricard towards the releife of Tecroghan then beseidged by Colonell Reynolds Thus your Lordship may see that provided they bee united amongst themselves as truly I left them and that meanes can be found of keeping them in bodies together there are men enough in armes yet to dispute the business with an enemy that is not halfe their number whose quarters are pestered likewise with the plague and famine as well as theirs especially these having such strengths and fastnesses still in their hands as are almost inaccessible to Cromwells souldiers Who after having mastered the greatest part of Mounster and Leinster and their supplies from England coming in but slowly â— have made bold at last with the people they flattered with before altered their manner of proceedings taking from them by force what they pleased and violating their protections given making not nice to tell them they suffered them to possesse their estates but during pleasure and till they could have planters to put into their roomes by which kind of clear dealing they have so lost made desperate the natives that lamenting their former too ready compliance with the enemy they now call for my Lord Leiutenant again taking armes in their hande begin to rise in all quarters of the Kingdom so that it is impossible for a greater power then Ireton has there to attend to the suppression of them all In this posture left I that Kingdom it being very probable that if the enemies recruites and provisions out of England did faile through any other diversion and the Irish receive but any moderate supplies from abroad they would not only make good all that
colonies of English here the English interest of this Kingdome is included but what this English Interest is when we shall have once examined your fright concerning it will soon be over it appears to me to be nothing else but that the right and authority of the crown of England over them should be acknowledged by all the subjects of this Kingdom and those Colonies of English aswell as the native Irish be therby protected and secured in the possession of such fortunes and estates as either by the sword the roiall gift or purchase have bin lawfully acquired unto them Beyond this the English Interest is an unknown-land to me and how far this Interest thus stated is secured by or Consistent with that peace you blame so I leave it to any third unpreiudiced person to determin Who I am certaine will find them square so well together that he shall have reason to beleive the English interest taken in your sense infers an obedience to you and your independant masters abstract from all relation to the crown an establishment of your Tetrarchy here till your ambition were wearied out and you with your corrupt and hungry family had ungratefully glutted yourselves in the blood and fortunes of those noble persons whose smiles and patronage in your mercenarie pleading daies were the top of your ambition that so by this consequence the lives and estates of all that have been here in armes may beleft a prey to worse rebells then the worst of these have ever been This is an English interest indeed that the peace securs not and which I cannot blame you for pleading for with so much passion as to affirme that were there neither king nor parliament you would maintaine it neither for averring that my Lord Lieutenants transporting a considerable part of the English army hence was destructive unto but as to the true English Interest I mentioned before it was very suteable to that that my Lord Lieutenant should without dispute â—omply with the Kings commands from whom only he had his commission and derived his authoritie and whom both himselfe and that army in all relations both of honor and duty were obliged to obey Besides his Excellency knows well enough how much he was concerned in the support of that cronâ—ne that gave him and all the English in this Kingdome the title to what they possessed here nothing of which could be long secure unto them and the crowne at home in danger In the next place I do not know whether the Parlement is more beholding to you for asserting their infringed authoritiâ— or the Irish themselves in your being so generous as to let them see the invalidity of this peace they are abused withall for to prove both which you bring noworse an argument then an English act of Parliament which underfavour your own skil in the lawe if you have not forgot it will tell you can be of no force here untill received by a Parliament in Irland which asserts a power as just and absolute to it selfe as the Parliament of England can else should the ancient conquerors of this Kingdome and their free posterity unjustly undergoe the dominion of those to whom neither Interest nor merit hath given any right or footing here or priviledge over them Besides you shall have others which will tell you and make it good that a Prince cannot give a way the Iurisdiction of his people to one that hath no title to it as the Parlement of England hath none to Irland without their own consent yet grant for argument sake that these people by taking armes unlawfully had put themselves into that condition that might aswell enable as induce the late King of ever glorious memory to invest the Parliament of England with such a power over them as that act involues yet can it not be beleived that the King ever intended to trust them with managing the war of Irland against himselfe as by what they have don in England t is evident they would have done but let us also suppose it possible that the royall power can be so convayed unto another as that contrary to the intention of the King it may be converted to his own destruction which is a possition I am sure that no Sophister lesse accute and learned then your selfe will be able to make good yet must this power surely needs revert to its firfl originall the crown through the death both of the King that gave it of the Parliament it was conferd upon and that since that the Kings death is out of dispute this Parlement hath for this seaven yeares at least wanted both a King and freedome which being the head and hart of that body are two things most necessary to the life and essence of it nay that that breathlesse headles carcass of a Parliament hath by those Independant vermine that bred out of the putrifacton of it been anatomiz'd and quite dismembred since there is no man that is not deafe and blind that can be uninformd Now that such a martird mooncalfe canstil be a living Parliament I am sure there is no man wakes that can be so perswaded especiallie the King that calld it being dead which both the law custom tells you that a Parliament could neuer yet survive upon which conclusion you must needs grant that his present Majestie who hath already confirmed by his both my Lord Lieutenant and all that his Excellency hath don by his Royal fathers Commission hath now indisputably reverted to him the power to manage a war and conclude or conâ—irme a peace in Irland except that you will still maintainé that the authoritie of the late Parliament is by I know not what legierdemain translated into those usurpers that have not only destrojed that Parliament but also declared that they intend there shall never be any more and this non consequence if you still insist upon I will conclude you are crackt as was that Spanish gallant and leave you in your quest of Windmills But if you can prevayle with your selfe to be so ingenuous as acknowledg the preceding truths I will hold on still and endevour to remove out of your tender conscience your last and greatest difficult of breach of trust indeed a scruple very suitable to a man of honour such as I would willinglie take you for and to begin the worke I must tell you that the premisses are very convinceing that in your compliance with my Lord Lieutenant there is no trust broken either with God or King or Parliament who are all you can pretend to owe a faith unto by deserting those villanous impostors who have supplanted religion subverted Monarchy murthered the King violated the Parliament annihilated the lawes trampled upon learning and nobility and left neither worth nor justice unopprest within their reach which kind of perfidious people surely to deceive right reason it selfe tells you there is no deceipt Yet had you no such assurance I should thinke it strange that you who have
Passe to my Lord Lieutenant Mentioned PAG. 48. Dean Boyles Letter to my Lord Lieutenant touching the transactions with Cromwell in behalfe of the disbanded English May it please your Excellency BEing now returned from the enemies quarters I am bold to give your Lordship an account of what we have done there we were two dayes held in suspence by Generall Cronwell whether he would descend to any capitulation upon those articles we delivered him dureing which time his arguments were few but his perswasions many to come in upon a Cleare score without any articling for conditions and that he sayd would put the whole party into a Condition of being trusted by the Parliament which their insisting upon articles would deprive them of But we wholy waving the force of his perswasions told him that we were limited by instructions and to decline them in any particular were very unfaithfull and beyond our Commission we therefore desired his positive resolution whether he would ascertaine them of their securities or the like or no that so we might returne with an account to them that sent us whereupon ireton objected that by those proposals which wee gave in to them our design might be to contract for the Lord Inchiquint estate aswell as others he being under your Excellencies command to which I made him this answer that indeed it was much the desires of the Officers to serve him in that particular but that I had peremptory directions from his Lordship to signify unto them that it was not your Excellencies intent or his Lordships to Capitulate with then at all or to be comprized under any general Conditions whereuphn Cromwell then made answer that if that were our purpose he would not a jot the more decline the businesse There were many houres wasted in debate before we came to any issue at last the result of all determined in these inclosed conditions wherin your Excellency may he pleased to observe that there lyes no obligation at all on our partes but all on theirs so that your Excellency may dispose of your men or any number of them as you shall thinke fitting notwithstanding any engagements from us only thus much we are obliged to that our party under the couert of those articles do not prejudice them in the surprisal of any of their guarrisons or the like which emboldens me to beseech your Excellency that Sr. Thomas Armstrong may take notice of it and send his engagement hither for Sr. Robert Sterlings and Lieutenant Collonel Daniells security and mine this inclosed to him I held it my duty to present open to your Excellencie before I sent it to himselfe My Lord Dureing my being there I had many opportunities and hints given me by Generall Cromwell and Ireton whereby I might plainly understand that if I would move any thing from your Excellency or the Lord Inchiquin they would willingly hearken to it but I waved them all so far that they at last in plain English asked mee what your Lordship intended to doe if this party came of I said I was not acquainted with your resolutions But that I beleeud you would endeavour to forme the army there into a considerable body if upon the comeing off of the English party you did not find their behaviours to be such as might give you no great confidence of them so enforce you to desert them if you were not necessitated to tarry with them for want of convenient transportation to which they insinuated unto me that I might have a Passe for your safe going of if you had a mind to it that I desired it my reply was that I had no commission to that purpose but on the contrary had positive directions not to aske any thing in your Lordship or the Lord Inchiquins behalfe yet if they would deliver me any such passes for your Excellency and the Lord Inchiquin I would reserve them by mee and if I had any opportunity make use of them the Passes I have here to dispose of as your Excellency shall appoint My Lord Inchiquin doth exceedingly dislike my bringing them at all and the rather be cause there is not included in them a liberty for the ship it selfe and all others to goe with you that have an intent to wayte upon you But J find if your Excellency have any inclination to make use of such a Passe it might easily be gayned for any that shall desire it either for my Lord Muskery or my Lord Taaffe or any other officer of quality They say they are very much concerned for the Marquis of Clanricard and if he would but desire any thing that lyes in their power to serve him he should find that the State of England would not be unmindfull of those many good offices they were informed he had done for the poor Protestants in that country They gave me likewise a hint concerning Sr. Georg Hamilton and the Castle of Nenagh but I took no notice of it Vpon discourse with Generall Cromwell he sayd that he had no interest at all in your estate nor any designe upon it he pretends to be a great servant of your ladies and much to pitty her condition the estate which she brought your Lordship they openly professe shall not be given to any from her The day before I came from thence there came a pacquet which gave them some seeming disturbance upon the observance whereof I used meanes by one of their own party to discourse with the captaine that brought it who certifyed him that the news was very bad and that Montrose was landed or certainly did intend to land in Irland with 12000. men something of consequence there is in it but whether this be the Certainty thereof or no it is not yet known I must beg your Excellencies pardon for this tedious and rude diversion which I could very much lengthen by severall other passages but I fear I have transgressed too farr already which submitting to your Excellencies Charitable interpretation I remain My Lord Your Excellencies most faithfull and most humble servant M. BOYLE Clare 30. April 1650. Cromwells Passe unto my Lord Lieutenant By the Lord Lieutenant of Irland THese are to require you and every of you to permit and suffer his Excellency the Lord Marquis of Ormond and his family not exceeding the number of twenty persons with three horses and also their clothes houshold stuffe and other goods not being merchandize quietly and safely to take shipping at any place within the river of Shannon or at Galloway or to Passe to Kinsale and take shipping there and from such place of their shipping to be transported to any parts beyond the seas except to England Wales or Scotland without any violence injury or molestation as you will answer the Contrary at your perills Provided they take shipping and depart from Irland within the space of two monthes after the date hereof and that in the mean time they or any of them do not act any thing to the