part of the Province and in her there was a Messenger sent from the King to Don Iuan de Aguila with a packet of Letters The President having knowledge thereof told the Lord Deputie that if hee had a desire to know the King of Spaines intentions there was a good occasion offered the Lord Deputies heart itching to haue the Letters in his hands prayed the President to intercept them if hee could handsomely doe it the President to undertooke it and having notice that the next morning the Messenger would come from Kinsale to Corke and knowing that there was but two wayes by the which hee might passe called Captaine William Nuce unto him who commanded his foote Company to make choise of such men as hee could trust to lie upon those passages and when they saw such a Spaniard whom hee had described unto him to seaze upon him and as thieues to rob him both of his Letters horses and money not to hurt his person but to leaue him and his Guid bound that hee might make no swift pursuit after them and when they had delivered him the Letters to runne away Captaine Nuce so well followed his instructions as the Spaniard was taken in a little Wood and the Letters brought at dinner time Don Iuan if I doe not mistake that very day dyning with him who instantly caried them to the Lord Deputie where at good leasure the packets were opened and read which doen the President went to his house leaving the Letters with the Lord Deputie the same evening the Spanish Messenger having beene unbound by passengers came to Don Iuan de Aguila relating his misfortuÌ„ne in being robbed not fiue miles from the Towne Don Iuan de Aguila went immediatly to the Lord Deputie grievously complayning that the Messenger was robbed by Souldiers as hee alleaged The Lord Deputie seemed no lesse sorry but said he it is a common thing in all Armies to haue debaucht Souldiers but hee thought it to bee rather done by some of the Countrey thieues but if the fact was committed by Souldiers it was most like to bee done by some Irish men who thought it to bee a good purchase as well as the money to get the Letters to shew them unto their friends in rebellion that they might the better understand in what estate they were in Don Iuan not being satisfied with this answer desired the Lord Deputie to enquire of the Lord President for of his intercepting of them he had a vehement suspition whether hee had any knowledge of the matter and so they departed The next morning the Lord Deputy related to the President the complaint and his answers Don Iuan eager in the pursuite of his Letters came to know of the Lord Deputie what the President answered The Lord Deputie answered him upon his fayth that hee was sure that the President had them not which hee might well doe for they were in his owne possession In conclusion a Proclamation was made and a reward in the same promised for him that could discover the Theeues and a pardon for their liues graunted that committed the fact if they would come in and confesse it with this Don Iuan rested satisfied How much the intercepting of these Letters did import her Majesties Service not one Spanyard being then imbarked but remaining in a Body at Kinsale may appeare by these ensuing Letters Englished taken at that time unto although it bee not the thousand part of her disbursements In nomine paenae which in all such great offences is accustomed towards the victualling of her Majesties Garisons hee shall pay two thousand Cowes within sixe moneths That the Countrey of Tyrone may bee limited and no more by him to be possessed then is contayned in his Letters Pattents That the territory of Tyrone might bee divided into shieres and haue Goales as hee hath formerly desired That hee put at liberty the Sonnes of Shane Oneale and all other prisoners English and Irish These things you shall only propound as from your selfe yet as conceiving that they will be demanded at his hands if hee be received and to draw as large an overture from him of what hee will agree unto as you can perswade him telling him that the greater assurance he doth giue the estate of his loyaltie the greater will bee his safetie for wee shall conster his good meaning by his free offer thereof and after wee shall haue the lesse reason to bee jealous of him Mountioye George Carew CHAP. XXVI The King of Spaines Letters inâ—ercepted A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to the Archbishop of Dublin A Letter from the Secretary Ybarra to Don Iuan de Aguila A Letter from the Secretary Fragursa to Don Iuan de Aguila A Letter from the King of Spaiâ—e to Don Iuan de Aguila ABout the tenth of February Doâ— Iuan de Aguila residing in Corke whilest his Troopes were preparing to bee embarqued for Spaine In this interim a Spanish Pinnace landed in the Westermost part of the Province and in her there was a Messenger sent from the King to Don Iuan de Aguila with a packet of Letters The President having knowledge thereof told the Lord Deputie that if hee had a desire to know the King of Spaines intentions there was a good occasion offered the Lord Deputies heart itching to haue the Letters in his hands prayed the President to intercept them if hee could hansomely doe it the President undertooke it and having notice that the next morning the Messenger would come from Kinsale to Corke and knowing that there was but two wayes by the which hee might passe called Captaine William Nuce unto him who commanded his foote Company to make choise of such men as hee could trust to lie upon those pâ—ssages and when they saw such a Spaniard whom hee had described unto him to seaze upon him and as thieues to rob him both of his Letters horses and money not to hurt his person but to leaue him and his Guid bound that hee might make no swift pursuit after them and when they had delivered him the Letters to runne away Captaine Nuce so well followed his instructions as the Spaniard was taken in a little Wood and the Letters brought at dinner time Don Iuan if I doe not mistake that very day dyning with him who instantly caried them to the Lord Deputie where at good leasure the packets were opened and read which done the President went to his house leaving the Letters with the Lord Deputie the same evening the Spanish Messenger having beene unbound by passengers came to Don Iuan de Aguila relating his misfortune in being robbed not fiue miles from the Towne Don Iuan de Aguila went immediatly to the Lord Deputie grievously complayning that the Messenger was robbed by Souldiers as hee alleaged The Lord Deputie seemed no lesse sorry but said he it is a common thing in all Armies to haue debaucht Souldiers but hee
and good opportunity as I imagined I I came to their presence tendering my obeysance unto them in the name of your Highnesse and being with foure hundred men at my owne cost towards your service I yeelded out of my meere loue and goodwill without compulsion or composition into their hands in the name of your Majestie not onely my Castle and Haven called Beerehaven but also my Wife my Children my Countrey Lordships and all my possessions for ever to be disposed of at your pleasure They received mee in that manner and promised as from your Highnesse to keepe and saue the said Castle and Haven during the service of your grace Notwithstanding my gratious Lord conclusions of peace were assuredly agreed upon betwixt Don Iuan de Aguila and the English a fact pittifull and according to my judgement against all right and humane conscience Among other places whereof your greatnesse was dispossessed in that manner which were neither yeelded nor taken to the end they should bee delivered to the English Don Iuan tyed himselfe to deliver my Castle and Haven the onely key of mine inheritance whereupon the living of many thousand persons doth rest that liue some twentie leagues upon the Sea Coast into the hands of my cruell cursed misbeleeving Enemies a thing I feare in respect of the execrablenesse inhumanity and ingratefulnesse of the fact if it take effect as it was plotted that will giue cause to other men not to trust any Spaniard hereafter with their bodies or goods upon these causes My Lord in that I judge this dishonourable act to be against your honour and pleasure as I understand by your last Letters that came into Ireland considering the harme that might ensue to the service of your Majestie and the ever lasting overthrow that might happen to mee and my poore people such as might escape the sword of our Enemy if any should I haue taken upon mee with the helpe of God to offer to keepe my Castle and Haven from the hands of mine Enemies untill further newes and order come from your Highnesse I haue sent my Sonne and Heire being of the age of fiue yeares as a Pledge for accomplishing your will in this behalfe and for the performing of my promise past unto your Greatnesse I would not omit my selfe in person to come and visit your Highnesse but that I feare our warres here would grow weake in respect of my absence for which cause my selfe and the rest of our men of worth haue sent in haste with Intelligence vnto your Greatnesse our loving Friend Dermond Odrischall in respect of our confidence in him our knowledge of him and the continuall endeavors wee see in him towards this Catholique Warre as from vs all And for as much as wee could not conveniently write all that wee wish vnto you wee humbly beseech that hee may bee heard as from vs all as if our selues were present and to hasten helping Newes that shall rejoyce vs and our people and afterwards to speed your gracious helpe vnto vs for the sooner the better whilest our enemies are not in readinesse and vntill the comming of newes from your grace vnto vs I will haue in a readinesse where the service shall require the number of one thousand men and I will upon my knees pray the mercifull God to giue vnto your Grace long life with health of body and soule and all happinesse and so doe commit you to the safeguard of the Omnipotent Donboy viz. Beere-haven the twentieth day of February 1602. Donnell Osulevan Beare A Letter from Osulevan Beare to the Earle of Caraçena MY dutie remembred It may please your Lordship to understand that according to my former Letters it hath manifestly appeared heere the resolution of Don Iuan de Aguila to haue been by his composition with the English to yeeld unto the Enemies hands all the Forts and Havens voluntarily delivered by the Lords and Gentlemen of this Land for his Majesties service which will bee to the dishonour of the King the prevention of his most godly attempt and the utter ruine and destruction of thousands of this Countrey Gentlemen and Catholiques who without compulsion entred into this Action All which having considered I haue of meere affection to my Religion his Highnesse service and loue to my people and Countrey so endeavored the recovery of my Castle as I did draw into the same some hundred of my followers whom although the Spanyards haue attempted to resist and killed three of my best Gentlemen yet durst none of my people kill any of them but without harme forced them out of my said Castle saving their Captaine with fiue or sixe unto whom I haue allowed certaine roomes in my House to looke to the Kings Munition and Artillerie which Castle and Haven I doe detaine and will evermore for his Majesties Service to defend untill his Highnesse pleasure and your Lordships resolution unto mee shall bee further knowen And for manifestation of my loyaltie and faithfulnesse to his Majestie I haue sent my Sonne and Heyre thither whom I hope ere this time is present before your Lordship and haue cessâ—d all the Captaines Company upon my owne people and charges humbly beseeching it may please your Honour to bee a meane unto his most Catholique Majestie that hee may vouchsafe speedily to releeue this place where many of his Royall Shipps in time of service may bee kept in safetie Or otherwayes to send some small Ship towards this coast for to receiue mee and the rest of my Family and Children for to bee carryed into Spaine for the saving of our liues out of the hands of these mercilesse Hereticall Enemies making choyce rather to forsake my ancient Inheritance Friends Followers and Goods then any way to trust to their most gracelesse Pardon or Promise Thus much I hope your godly charitable Nature will draw you to doe for such a one as I am who hazarded Life Lands Goods and Followers for the Catholique Faith and the Kings Majesties Service All which leaving to your Honourable Discretion through whose vertuous meanes I chiefely hope to receiue comfort I humbly take leaue From Beare-haven Castle the last of February 1602. Your most Faithfull and bounden Donnell Osulevan Beare To the Earle of Caraçena Governor and Captaine Generall for his Majestie in the kingdome of Galitia A Letter from Osulevan Beare to Don Pedro Zubiaur MY honorable good friend your kind letters I haue of late received for your carefull furtherance I cannot but rest beholden and thankfull as before Our state sithence your departing notwithstanding many crosses was reasonable well partly because of the weaknesse of the English forces untill a brute came unto us credibly that Don Iuan de Aguila did not onely agree and compound to yeeld the Towne of Kinsale but also the other Castles and Havens delivered voluntarily by the owners unto you and the Veador to the King his use during the occasion of service which notwithstanding being
hee weekely present to the Lord President and Councell to be considered And because her Maiestie meaneth principally to benefit her Subiects not onely with the fruites of Iustice but with the delivery of them from all unnecessary burdens The Lord President and Councell shall foresee that no manner of extraordinary or excessiue charge bee put and layed upon any person against their Wils and Agreements by finding or sustaining of any Horsman or Footman or Horse-boy or Horse belonging of the said Lord President or any of the said Councell on any belonging to them And in the like manner shall see that the Subiects bee not oppressed with the like by any other contrary to the Lawes of the Realme for such causes provided Item considering the Queenes Maiestie hath title and right to no small quantity of possessions within Mounster aswell of auncient revenew of the Crowne and of other Seigniories devolued to the Crowne And also of the dissolved Monasteries and other Houses of religion the which are not duely answered to her Maiestie as reason would The said Lord President and Councell shall from time to time imploy their Labours by all their good discretions to procure that her Maiesties Officers or Farmors appointed for that purpose may peaceably and fully from time to time possesse and receiue the profits of the same The Oath to bee ministred by the Lord President to such as shall be admitted to bee of the Councell of Mounster being not already sworne of her Majesties Privie Councell in Ireland as well the oath provided in the Statute for swearing of Officers as also this heereunder written viz. You shall sweare to the uttermost of your power will and cunning you shall be true and faithfull to the Queenes Majestie our Soveraigne Lady and to her Heires and Successors You shall not know nor heare any thing that may in any wise be prejudiciall to her Highnes or the Commonwealth peace and quiet of this her Hignesse Realme but you shall with all diligence reveale and disclose the same to her Highnesse or to such other person or persons of her Majesties Privie Councell in Ireland as you shall thinke may and will soonest convey and bring it to her Highnesse knowledge You shall serue her Maiestie truely and faithfully in the roome and place of her Maiesties Councell in Mounster You shall in all things that bee moved treated and debated in any Councell faithfully and truely declare your mind and opinion according to your heart and conscience In no wise forbearing so to doe for any respect of Favour Meade Dreade Displeasure or corruption Yee shall faithfully and unrightly to the best of your power cause Iustice to bee duely and indifferently ministred to the Queenes Maiesties Subiects that shall haue cause to sue for the same according to equity and order of Lawes Finally you shall bee vigilant diligent and circumspect in all your doings and proceedings touching the Queenes Maiestie and her affaires All which points and Articles before expressed with all other Articles signed with the hands of the Lord Deputie and Councell of this Realme and delivered to mee the Lord President of her Highnesse Councell established in these parts You shall faithfully obserue keepe and fulfill to the uttermost of your Power Wit Will and cunning so helpe you God and the contents of this Booke THE NAMES OF THE COVNCELLORS TO BEE ASSISTANT to the Lord President of Mounster as they are directed under the hand of the Lord Deputie The Earle of Ormond The Earle of Kildare The Earle of Thomond The Vice-Co Barry The Lordâ—Audley The Bishop of Corke The Bishop of Limer Sir Nicholas Welsh Iustice Saxey Sir Francis Barkley Sir George Thornton Iustice Golde The Queenes Sergeant The Q. Attorney generall The Q. Solicitor Sir Charles Wilmot Garret Comerford Esquire Hugh Cuffe Esquire Adam Dublin Thom. Midens George Cary. Rich. Wingfield Anth. St leger George Bourcher Geof Fenton â—ra Stafford CHAP. II. The Earle of Tyrone in Mounster and his Actions there The White Knight Tyrones prisoner Florence Mac Carti made Mac Carti More and Donell Mac Carti displaced The Lord Barry spoyled Tyrones letter to the Lord Barry with the Lord Barry's answere Sir Warham Saint leger and Mac Guyre slaine Tyrones returne into Vlster A Little before the landing of the Lord Deputie in Ireland as is said the Arch-traytor Tyrone to unite the Rebels of Mounster and especially to conferre with Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle of Desmond and Florence Mac Cartie at whose intreatie he made a journey into Mounster Those whom hee found obstinate in rebellion hee incouraged from such as hee held doubtfull hee tooke pledges or detained prisoners of which last sort was the White Knight and his sonne in law Donogh Mac Cormocke Cartie whom in hand-lockes he carried away with him And whereas Donell Mac Cartie the Earle of Clancares base sonne had been by the Mac Carties of Desmond advanced to the Stile title and authoritie of Mac Cartie More Him hee displaced and in his roome Florence Mac Cartie was surrogated being a man as hee conceived of farre more use then Donell Such as were or reputed good Subjects these hee prosecuted with sword and fire Amongst others which felt his heavie hand the Lord Barry was one upon whom when hee could not worke his desire to draw him into actuall rebellion by the perswasion of the Provinciall rebells him hee preyed burned and spoyled to make it manifest that hee was sollicited to enter into Rebellion both the Letters of Tyrone and the Lord Barries Answere are heere truly set downe the tenors whereof doe ensue Tyrones Letter to the Lord Barrie MY Lord Barry your impietie to God crueltie to your soule and body tyrannie ingratitude both to your followers and country are inexcusable intolerable You separated your selfe from the unitie of Christs mysticall Bodie the Catholike Church You know the Sword of Extirpation hangeth over your head as well as ours if things fall out other wayes then well you are the cause why all the Nobilitie of the South from the East part to the West you being linked unto each one of them either in affinitie or consanguinitie are not linked together to shake off the cruell yoake of Heresie and Tyrannie with which our Soules and Bodies are opprest All those aforesaid depending of your resolution and relying to your Iudgement in this common cause of our Religion and Countrey you might forsooth with their helpe and the rest that are combyned in this holy Action not onely defend your selfe from the incursion and invasion of the English but also by Gods assistance who miraculously and aboue all expectation gaue good successe to the cause principally undertaken for his glorie exaltation of religion next for the restauration of the ruines and preservation of the Countrey expell them and deliver them and us from most miserable and cruell exaction and subjection enjoy your religion safetie of Wife and children life lands
the Province when he had sent the one thousand promised to the Lord Deputie yet he humbly desired the Lords that they would bee pleased untill Michaelmas next following to continue the victuals to bee sent for Mounster as formerly was accustomed that is for three thousand two hundred and fiftie and for the same reason of innovation he besought them to send unto him fiue Lasts of powder with match and lead two thousand shovels and spades fiue hundred pickaxes and fiftie Crowes of Iron and lastly that they would be pleased to send a competent sâ—mme of money for the souldiers to liue upon for untill the expectation of the comming of Spaniards were past hee would preserue his victuals untoucht I formerly recounted unto you that the President by his Letters of the second of November humbly besought their Lordships that a generall pardon might be granted for the reasons then alleged which as it seemeth had good acceptance in England as by Her Majesties Letter to the Lord Deputie dated the one and twentieth of December may appeare which came to the Presidents hands the nineteenth of Ianuary the true Copie of which Letter is here inserted And also for the Lord Deputies farther discharge a draught of a Warrant to bee passed under the Great Seale of Ireland was sent unto him by Her Majestie A Letter from her Maiestie to the Lord Deputie of Ireland ELIZABETH R. RIght Trustie and Welbeloved We greet you well Wee understand by such advertisements as wee haue received from Our President of Our Province of Mounster that it will bee very expedient for the reducing of Our Subjects dwelling in that Our Province to a setled obedience to graunt unto them our generall and gracious Pardon thereby to remooue from them all suspition of impeachment for their former offences whereunto the greatest part of them haue beene violently carried rather by the power of the arch-traytours then by any wilfull defection in their loyaltie Wee being therefore in Our princely Clemencie graciously pleased to accept the humble submission of such our Subjects within that Province as haue not out of their desperate and disloyall hearts entred into this horrible action of Rebellion against Vs doe thinke meet and hereby doe will and authorise you that from time to time you cause such generall and particular pardons to be passed in due forme of Law under our great Seale of that our Realme to all and everie the Inhabitants of that province of what condition or estate soever they bee either by ample words of our generall Pardon as wee understand hath beene graunted to some Counties in Connaght upon like occasion or by particular Names of peculiar persons as by Our said President and Councell or two of them with the President shall be desired of you excepting out of every pardon such persons and inserting such Conditions and Limitations for our service as by our said President and two of our Councell shall bee thought requisite And to the ende our people wasted with the miserie of these warres may not bee pardoned with expences in the obtaining their pardons or putting in Securitie for our peace in Causes where it may be needfull Our gracious pleasure is That the Fees of our Seale and all other Officers Fees in these cases of our affayres shall bee either wholly remitted or so moderated by you and Our Councell there that our Subjects may haue cause the more dutifully and gladly to imbrace our princely Clemency and Bountie in this our gracious and free Pardon Neverthelesse such is Our detestation of the Treasons and horrible Murders committed in this Rebellion that for a perpetuall memorie in every such pardon either generall or speciall there shall bee an expresse exception that the same extend not to pardon Iames Fits Thomas usurping the Title of Earle of Desmond Iohn his Brother Pierce Lacie the Knight of the Valley nor Thomas Fits Maurice sonne to the late Barron of Lixnaw who are knowen to haue beene the ringleaders to many monstrous and unnaturall outrages Neither shall our pardon bee availeable to any of the servants and followers of the persons so excepted unlesse those servants and followers shall fully and absolutely submit themselues to our President and Councell of that Province or to some of them to bee bound with Sureties for their future Loyaltie within twentie dayes after publique proclamation made of this Our gracious Pardon And for the doing heereof these Our Letters shall bee your sufficient Warrant and Discharge Given vnder Our Signet at Our Pallace of Westminster this one and twentieth of December one thousand sixe hundred in the three and fourtieth yeare of Our Reigne And at that time he received a Letter from the Lords of the Councell agreeing in substance with that of her Majesties to the Lord Deputie Wherefore I hold it needlesse to set it downe at large onely I will recite the first part of it whereby it is manifested how agreeable the Presidents proceeding was as well to her Majesties liking as to their Lordships A Branch of the Lords of the Councels Letters to the Lord President AFter our very heartie Commendations to your Lordship We haue received your Letters bearing date the second of November whereby you haue made us an orderly Relation of the state of that Province whereof wee haue informed her Majestie who hath commaunded us to giue you notice of her most gracious acceptation of your Endeavors in the whole course of your proceedings as that which hath prooved greatly to her Honour and the advancement of her Service wherein as wee haue beene alwayes ready to performe the best offices in respect of your discreet proceedings towards us in all things so it doth not a little content us for the loue wee beare you to bee messengers of her Majesties favour tovvards you then which wee know you can receiue no greater comfort c. From the Court at Whitehall the foureteenth of December 1600. CHAP. XXI Victuals and money arrived at Corke One thousand Foote and fiftie Horse to bee sent out of Mounster to the Lord Deputy A Letter from the Lord Presiâ—ent to the Lord Deputy The Companies sent for by the Lord Deputie and staied by his directions The effect of the Lords of the Councels Letters to the Lord President with an Abstract of his Letter to the Lords of the Councell THE fiue and twentieth the President advertised the Lords that there was arrived out of England at Corke a proportion of victuals and money and in the same dispatch he humbly besought their Lordships for that the Province was in a manner by the long warre throughly wasted and that the Horse having nothing but grasse to sustaine them grew weake and unserviceable That they would be pleased to send with the best expedition foure hundred quarters of Oates which should bee defalked upon the Horsemens entertainements Vpon the thirtieth the President received Letters from the Lord Deputie praying him to send
divulged in the Citie of Corke In answere whereof Don Iuan de Aquila assoone as it came to his eares did likewise Proclaime this Declaration or Apologie in Kinsale and dispersed Copies thereof into sundry places the tenour whereof ensueth Don Iuan de Aquila his Declaration in answere of a Proclamation published by the Lord Deputie and Councell translated out of the Latine DOn Iuan de Aquila Generall of the Warre and the Catholique King of Spaines chiefe Commander in Gods warre which is made in Ireland for defence of the Faith To all the Irish Catholiques living in Kinsale the Citie of Corke and in all other Villages Cities and Castles wisheth health in him who is the true happinesse There is come unto our eares a Proclamation or certaine Libell made in the Citie of Corke in the Name of the Deputie which because it conteineth many untruths and such things as offend the eares of honest men lest they may leade and seduce the mindes of simple men into errours and turne them from the truth I am compelled to shew their falsehood to lay open the trueth and in fewe words to signifie the pretence and intention of our most Excellent King Philip in this Warre which is with the Apostolique Authoritie to be administred by us and to speake the truth I could very easily retort vpon them those reproaches which they object to us and make them lose the pleasure which they haue taken in ill speaking by hearing of the like Notwithstanding we will not like unto weake and unarmed women goe to reproachings but setting these things aside answer to those that are objected with sound truth and Christian modestie First of all yee faine that wee would leade away the pretended Subjects of the Queene of England from their obedience to bring them under our yoke which is a very untruth for wee endeavour not to perswade any body that hee should deny due obedience according to the word of God to his Prince But yee know well that for many yeares since Elizabeth was deprived of her kingdome and all her Subjects absolved from thâ—ir fidelity by the Pope unto whom hee that raigneth in the heavens the King of Kings hath committed all power that hee should roote up destroy plant and build in such sort that hee may punish temporall Kings if it shall be good for the spirituall building even to their deposing which thing hath beene done in the kingdomes of England and Ireland by many Popes viz. by Pius quintus Gregory the thirteenth and now by Clement the eighth as it is well knowen Whose Buls are extant amongst us I speake to Catholikes not to froward Heretikes who haue fallen from the faith of the Romane Church seeing they are blind Leaders of the blind and such as know not the grounds of the truth it is no marvell that they doe also disagree from us in this thing But our brethren the Catholikes walking in the purenesse of the faith and yeelding to the Catholike Church which is the very Pillar of the truth will easily understand all those things Therefore it remayneth that the Irish which adhere to us doe worke with us nothing that is against Gods Lawes or their due obedience nay that which they doe is according to Gods word and the obedience which they owe the Pope Secondly yee affirme that wee Spaniards goe about to winne the Irish with allurements and 〈…〉 which is a thing farre from our nature and that wee doe it but for a while that after wee haue drawen the minds of simple men unto us wee might afterwards exercising our truelty towards them shew our bloody nature O the immortall God! who doth not wonder at your bitter and unexpressible cruelty your boldnesse shewed in these words For who is it that doth not know the great cruelty which you English haue exercised and cease not to exercise towards the miserable Irish You I say goe about to take from their soules the Catholike faith which their fathers held in which consists eternall life truely you are farre more cruell then Beares and Lyons which take away the temporall life for you would depriue them of the eternall and spirituall life Who is it that hath demolished all the temporalities of this most flourishing kingdome except the English looke upon this and bee ashamed whereas on the other side wee commiserating the condition of the Catholikes here haue left our most sweet and happy Countrey Spaine that is replenished with all good things and being stirred with their cryes which pierce the heavens having reached to the eares of the Pope and our King Philip They haue being moved with pitie at last resolved to send unto you Souldiers Silver Gold and Armes with a most liberall hand not to the end they might according as they faine exercise cruelty towards you O Irish Catholikes but that you may bee happily reduced being snatched out of the jawes of the divell and free from their tyranny unto your owne pristine ingenuitie and that you may freely professe the Catholike faith Therefore my most beloved seeing that which you haue so many yeares before desired and begged for with prayers and teares and that now even now the Pope Christs Vicar on earth doth command you to take Armes for the defence of your faith I admonish exhort and beseech you all all I say unto whom these Letters shall come that as soone as possibly you can you come to us with your friends and weapons whosoever shall doe this shall find us prepared and wee will communicate unto them those things which wee possesse And whosoever shall despising our wholesome councell doe otherwise and remaine in the obedience of the English wee will persecute him as an Heretike and a hatefull Enemy of the Church even unto death The Army nose and marched within halfe a mile of Kinsale where they encamped under a hill having not meanes to entrench called Knock Robbin Captaine Morgan came out of England and Iolly the Master â—unner from Waterford whither some shipping was come from Dublin with part of the provisions but enforced to stay there the wind being Southerly some few shot offered to disquiet the Campe but were soone beaten backe with very little disturbance The Army lay still there many places viewed to sit downe fitly before the Towne but the Artillery not yet come no place was agreed upon An other offer made by the Enemy to disturbe the Campe that night much greater then the former but being readily answered were soone repelled without hurt on our side Wee lay still there expecting the Provisions some slight skirmishes in viewing of the Towne Sir Iohn Barkley was this night appointed to giue an Allarme to the Towne who beat in all the guards without the Towne into their trenches This night one thousand of the Spanyards or as some that came from them say fifteene hundred were come to the top of the Hill neere the Campe to cut off some of the Scouts
to the Westward and with much difficultie had recovered Castle-haven came thence by Sea to the port of Kinsale The Lord Deputie to refresh his men and horses sent them to Corke for in their healths they were impaired and that evening some Spaniards fled from Kinsale and voluntarily came to our Campe. A Demy Cannon was unshipped assoone as it was calme and placed on this side the water which played most part of that day upon that Castle and brake many places but made no breach that was assaultable In the night they of the Towne attempted to releeue the Castle by boat but were repelled by Captaine Tolkern and Captaine Ward who lay with their Pinnaces betweene the Iland and the Towne The Demy Cannon played againe and a Cannon then landed and placed by it with some Ordnance also out of the Ship though they served to small purpose about noone one hundred men were sent with Captaine Yorke and Captaine Smith to view if the breach were assaultable and though they found it was not yet the Spanyards within being no longer able to endure the fury of the shot hung out a signe for parley upon the first shew of our men and yeelded themselues and the Castle upon promise of their liues onely which being accepted they brought them presently to the Campe being in number seventeene Before the Castle was yeelded the Spanyards in the Towne made divers shot at Captaine Tolkernes Pinnace with a piece of Ordnance which they mounted a day or two before close to the gate of the Towne but did no hurt at all unto her the Pinnace warping neerer to the other side under the hill and at last rode safely without danger of the shott The same day a Platforme was made upon a ground of advantage not farre from the Campe that commanded one part of the Towne that under the favour thereof wee might the better make our neerer Approaches which at that time wee could hardly haue done by reason of the great extreame frost and a Demy-cannon mounted vpon it with which some shot was made at the Towne and a Sentinell taken anon after affirmed that the first Piece shot off went through the house that Don Iohn was in and did otherwise great hurt An other Cannon was brought up and planted by the Demy-cannon which the night before was brought from the Ship and this day the Lord Deputie went over into the Iland to view how from thence the Towne might be best annoyed and invested Also the Prisoners which were taken at Castle Parke were sent to Corke with direction to the Major to send them and all the former prisoners into England the Sergeant Major and the Commanders of Rincorran and Castle Ny Parke excepted and this day a great number of Irish women and children were put out of Kinsale to trie their fortunes in the Countrey Foure other Peeces were planted by the Cannon and Demy Cannon which altogether played into the Towne one of those short killed foure men in the Market place and strucke off a Captaines legge called Don Iohn de Saint-Iohn who is since dead of the hurt That Evening one Iames Grace an Irishman ran out of Kinsale assuring the Lo. Deputie that Don Iohn at his landing was fiue thousand men and that hee was yet three thousand strong that hee had foure Peeces of Ordnance well mounted that the Irish which were with him were so much affrighted with our Artillery as Don Iohn had much to doe to hold them whose departure if it should happen would be a great want unto him for by them hee received ease and comfort and that Don Iohns house where hee lodged had been shot through with a great shot The sixe Peeces began againe about ten a clocke to batter upon the Towne and so continued till night in which time and in all mens judgements as by report of the Prisoners wee tooke they did great hurt to the Towne This day while the Lord Deputie the Marshall and the Sergeant Major were viewing the ground where the Approaches were intended a private Souldiour of Sir Francis Barkleyes in the face of the Guards attempting to steale as hee had done divers times before a Spanish Sentinell who was seconded with foure that hee saw not fought with them all fiue whereof one of them was the Sergeant Major whom he had almost taken and when he had found he could doe no good upon them all hee came off without other hurt then the cutting of his hand a little with the breaking of a thrust which one of them made at him and hurt the Sergeant Major The Lord Deputie this night began to make his approaches neerer the towne and for that purpose caused some 1000 Foot to be drawne out by Sir Iohn Barkley Sir Benjamin Berry and Captaine Bodley who continued the worke all night and although the ground were extreame hard by reason of the frost and the night very light yet they brought the worke to very good perfection the Enemy played all the night upon them with great Volleyes but hurt but three men neither in the Trenches nor in divers Sallies they made in the one whereof a Squadron of our new men beat them backe to the gates In the Euening his Lordship sent direction to Sir Richard Levison to land three Culverings this night and to plant them in the Iland about Castle Ny Parke that from thence they might likewise make Battery upon the Towne and Sir Richard drewe in the Admirall and Vice-Admirall betweene the Towne and the Iland from whence they did great hurt in the Towne the next day All the Artillery still played but because the shot from the ships did but little hurt saue onely upon the base Towne the Lord Deputie gaue direction to make very few shot except it were at the high Towne In the afternoone the Lord President the Earles of Thomond and Clanricard Sir Thomas Burke and divers others returned to the Campe Odonnell with his force being stollen by them This night direction was given to haue a Plat-forme made for the Artillery upon the trench which was made on Munday night somewhat after midnight the Spaniards made a sudden salley with purpose to force that trench but were quickly repelled by Sir Francis Barkley who commanded there that night The Companies that went with the Lord President returned and with them two other Regiments of the Earle of Clanricards and Sir Christopher Saint-Lawrence the Regiments were that night quartered by themselues upon the West side of Kinsale to invest the Towne and keepe the Spaniards and Odonnell from joyning This night the three Culverings from the Iland were planted on the poynt of the hil neere the water on this side behind the last trenches This morning the Spaniards played with a Demy Cannon from the Towne upon the Admirall which was twice shot and the Viceadmirall once they riding both close by the Towne and
Earle of Thomonds Quarter who stood in guard without the Trenches The Enemie sallyed about eight of the clocke in the night being extreame darke and raynie with about two thousand men and first gaue slightly towards the new Trenches upon the West side and presently after with a great grosse upon the trench of the Cannon continuing their resolution to force it with exceeding fury having brought with them tooles of divers sorts to pull downe the Gabions and Trenches and Spikes to cloy the Artillery The Allarme being taken in the Camp the Marshall with Sir Iohn Barkley and Sir William Fortescue Sir Francis Rush and Captaine Roe with some fiue or sixe hundred sallyed presently towards the Cannon for their seconds and Sir Benjamin Berry fell out with some hundred directly towards the Port of the Towne next to the Campe to whose seconds the Lord Deputie sent Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn Vpon the arrivall of the Marshall with his Forces the enemy brake and our men did execution upon them Sir Benjamin Berry fell directly upon the Enemies seconds whom he presently charged and brake killed many of them and tooke the Commander of that body being an ancient Captaine of chiefe account with the enemy At the same time the enemy gaue upon our new Trenches and continued the attempt a long time with great fury till Captaine Flower sallying out and beating backe part of their forces the enemy entred before his returne and were possessed of the Trenches in which time Sir William Godolphin gaue many charges for the seconding of our men which continued fight in the field untill the Earle of Clanricard being sent for their second with Captaine Shipwith Captaine Slingsby Captaine Clare Captaine Boise and Captaine Thomas Burke with some sixtie men for the rest of his Regiment was not advanced so farre charged a grosse of the Enemies without the sort brake them and did execution upon them towards the Towne and returning entered the fort againe which the Enemy abandoned with little resistance and made it good till hee was releeved In this sally the Enemy left behind them aboue sixscore dead bodies besides such as were killed neere the Towne and wee tooke nine prisoners of whom there was a Captaine a Sergeant and a Drum but since wee heard out of the Towne that they lost dead aboue two hundred of their best men and two Captaines and two Alfeeroes and the Sergeant Major being the second Commander to Don Iohn and Don Carloes Carty and aboue two hundred hurt of our part were hurt Captaine Flower Captaine Shipwith slightly in the face the Earle of Clanricards Lieutenant Captaine Dillon killed Captaine Spencer Captaine Flowers Lieutenant and some fiue and twentie private Souldiers the Enemy at the Cannon cloyed a Demy Culvering which being a little crased was left without the fort but the next morning it was made serviceable againe There were some of them killed upon the Cannon and upon the powder and the trenches in some places filled with their dead bodies and in that attempt of the Cannon onely seventy two dead bodies were left in the place of the best men the Spaniards had whereof many of them were found with Spikes and Hammers to cloy the Cannon The Captaines Officers and Souldiers that defended the Cannon acquitted themselues singularly well CHAP. XVIII A supply of Spaniards landed at Castle-haven A Councell of warre held Good service done by a Scottish man Odonnell joyned with the Spaniards at Castle-haven All the Irish in the West of Mounster and some of the English race revolted and adhered to the Spaniards Sundry Castles rendred by the Irish into the Spaniards hands Divers of the Irish had Companies in pay given them by Don Iuan. The Castle of Carigfotle taken and the Ward murdered Tyrones Army discovered neere to our Campe. INtelligence sent to the Lord Deputie that sixe Spanish ships were put into Castle-haven and that sixe more were sent with them from the Groyne but in comming were severed by tempest and no certainetie what is become of them in these were said to bee two thousand Spaniards come with great store of Ordnance and munition and that two thousand more were comming presently after A confirmation of the Spaniards being at Castlehaven and that they were landed whereupon it was resolved in Councell that our Campe should bee strengthned and the Artillery better intrenched and guarded and to leaue battering the other Campe to rise and sit downe close by the Towne betweene the North and the West gate adding one Regiment more to it and all the Horse to be drawen into our Campe a Drum was sent to Don Iohn to offer him to bury his dead bodies which hee tooke thankfully praying that we would bury them and that hee would doe the like for any of ours if they hapned in his power And this day Sir Charles Wilmot with his Regiment was commanded for the better strengthning of the Earle of Thomonds quarter to rise out of the Lord Deputies Campe and lodge there Sir Richard Levison with a good part of the Fleete with towing got out of the harbour to seeke the Spanish fleete at Castle-haven to take them if hee could or otherwise to distresse them as much as hee might A Scottishman that had some eightie of those Spaniards aboard put into Kinsale harbour in the morning and getting a boat acquainted Sir Amias Preston the Viceadmirall therewith and put them into his hands whereupon the said Scottishman and foure of the chiefe Spaniards being Officers were brought to the Lord Deputy and examined before his Lordship the Lord President and divers others of the Councell their examinations were sent into England the Ships were heard to be in fight that day This day our Ordnance was drawen from the old platformes into our Campe the better to intend the service of the Field and to place them more commodiously towards the West side of the Towne if wee should see cause Newes came this Evening that Odonnell was joyned with the Spaniards landed at Castle-haven and that Tirone with his Force was very neere vs. The same day the Ditches and Trenches of the Lord Deputies Campe and the Earle of Thomonds Quarter were cast deeper and higher and it was resolved that two small Forts should bee raysed betweene the Earle of Thomonds Quarter and the water side so that the Towne might bee wholly invested to forbid any accesse to or from it Vntill this time none of the Provincialls of Mounster that had beene either protected or pardoned relapsed but now upon the comming of these seconds to Castlehaven Sir Finnin Odriscall and all the Odriscalls Sir Owen Mac Carties sonnes and almost all the Carties in Carbrie Donnell Osulevan Beare Osulevans Mores eldest son Donnell Mac Cartie the Earle of Clan-Cares base sonne with all the Carties of Desmond Iohn O Conner Kerry the Knight of Kerry all the protected and pardoned men in Kerry
Don Richardo his going unto you because hee had order from you to say that upon the Spanyards joyning with you from Castle haven you would doe mee that favour I beseech you so to doe with as much celeritie and as well furnished as you possibly may for I doe assure you the enemies are wearied and but few and that they cannot furnish with Guards the third part of their Trenches which shall little availe them their first fury resisted all is ended In what manner your Excellencies will come on is better known to you there then unto me here I will giue them enough to doe this way being ever attending to giue the blow in all that I can and with some good resolution that your Excellencies fighting as you are accustomed I hope in God the victorie shal be ours for that the cause is his I doe as much desire the victory for the interest which your Excellencies haue in it as for my owne There is nothing now to be done but that you would bring up your Troupes come well appoynted and in close Order and being once mingled with the enemies their Forts will doe them as much harme as us I salute Don Ricardo the Lord preserue your Excellencies From Kinsale the 28. of December 1601. Though you are not well prepared yet I beseech your Excellencies to hasten towards the enemie for it imports much I thinke it needfull to bee all at once on horseback the greater haste you make it is so much the better Don Iuan de Aquila A Letter from Don Iuan to Captaine Iuan de Albornos y Andrada I Was extreame glad of your Letter and of the health of your person when Don Ricardo went hee brought for resolution that when the Earles had met with the Spanyards they would come the ill passage for Messengers is the cause that you haue had no Letters from me Hasten their comming they know there better then wee doe the wayes and the newes I am ever in readinesse the enemies are few and wearied and by good resolution from thence their Trenches shall not availe them nor can they maintaine so much ground as they lodge in I will giue them their hands full from the Towne and their first furie resisted all is ended Commend mee to Don Ricardo and to Captaine Rius de Velasco to whome I write not because the Messenger should not carry too great a Pacquet I haue written to the Earles to hasten hither before the enemies haue bettered their Quarter it would profit much and wee being once mingled with them their Forts will doe them as much hurt as vs From Kinsale the eight and twentieth of December 1601. Don Iuan de Aquila The nineteenth by reason of stormie and foule weather nothing on either side was performed but the same day Donnell Osulevan Beare in thankfulnesse to the King of Spaine and to endeare himselfe the more into his favour wrote unto him this ensuing Letter the originall was in Irish and thus translated but the Reader may understand that it was long afterward before it came to the Lord Presidents hands yet here inserted in regard of the date thereof A Letter from Donnell Osulevan Beare unto the King of Spaine IT hath beene ever most mighty and renowned Prince and most gratious Catholike King from time to time manifestly proued by daily experience among vs the Irish that there is nothing worketh more forcibly in our hearts to winne and to draw our loue and affection then naturall inclination to our Progeny and Ofspring and the memoriall of the friendship which sticketh still in our minds chiefely the same being renewed cherished and kept iu use by mutuall affection and by shewing like friendship to vs also Wee the meere Irish long â—ithence deriving our roote and originall from the famous and most noble race of the Spaniards Viz. from Milecius sonne to Bile sonne to Breogwin and from Lwighe sonne to Lythy sonne to Breogwin by the testimony of our old ancient bookes of antiquities our Petigrees our Histories and our Cronicles Though there were no other matter wee came not as naturall branches of the famous tree whereof we grew but beare a hearty loue and a naturall affection and intire inclination of our hearts and minds to our ancient most loving kinsfolkes and the most noble race whereof wee descended Besides this my Soveraigne such is the abundance of your goodnesse and the bounty or greatnesse of your liberality now euery way undeserved of our parts as tokens of loue and affection by your Majestie shewed unto vs that it is not fit nor seemely for vs but to bestow our persons our men and our goods in the service of a Prince that dealeth so gratiously with vs that sendeth forces of men great treasure victuals and munition for our aide against our Enemies that seeke to overwhelme and extinguish the Catholike faith diabolically put to death our Chiefetaines tyrannously coveting our Lands and Livings unlawfully For the foresaid considerations and for many other commendable causes me moving I bequeath and offer in humblenesse of mind and with all my heart my owne person with all my forces perpetually to serue your Majestie not only in Ireland but in any other place where it shall please your Highnesse I commit also my Wife my Children my Mannors Townes Countrey and Lands and my Haven of Dunboy called Biara-haven next under God to the protection keeping and defence or Commericke of your Majestie to be and remaine in your hands and at your disposition Also at your pleasure bee it my Liege Lord to send defence and strong keeping of the haven of Dunboy first for your selfe my Soveraigne to receiue your ships and for mee also as your loving servant so that the Queene of Englands ships may not possesse the same before you while I follow the warres in your Highnesse behalfe I pray Almighty God to giue your Majestie a long life health of body and soule with increase of grace and prosperity So I betake you to the keeping of God From the Campe neere Kinsale the nine and twentieth of December 1601 Stilo novo Your most dutifull loving Servant Donnell Osulevan Beare This morning being faire the Ordnance played oftner and brake downe a good part of the wall and to the end wee might proceed the more roundly if Tyrones force came not the sooner upon us another great Trench was made beneath the Platforme to hinder which the Enemies made very many shott but all would not serue for by the next morning that worke was brought to good perfection though the night fell out stormie with great abundance of thunder and lightning to the wonder of all men considering the season of the yeare This night came certaine Intelligence that Tyrone would be the next night within a mile and halfe of us CHAP. XX. Tyrone with his Armie approached within view of our Campe but could not bee provoked to fight The enemy sallyed out
Walsh 199 O Earle of Ormond taken prisoner 24 O Sulevan repaires with Tirrell into Muskrey 352 Remaines in Beare 392 O Sulevan More sent by the Lord Deputie to the Lord President 84 Prisoner by the practice of Florence Mac Cartie 49 Olerie slaine 95 Owen Mac Eggan the Popes Viccar slaine 366 His qualitie and condition 367 P. Lord Presidents Letters Patents 3 His letter to Iames fits Thomas 51 Sent against O Donnell 210 Surprised with a Feaver 280 His opinion of a defensiue Warre in Ireland 348 Sends 1000. foot to the Lord Deputie 377 Meets the Earle of Ormond at Clonmell 105 Proclamation for publishing the new Money for Ireland 149 Principall men in Tyrones and O Donnells armie 212 Propositions made by Don Iuan. 241 Patrick fits Morris L. of Lixnaw died 71 Preyes taken from the enemy 293 R. Roger Harvey 29 Sir Richard Masterson 29 Sir Robert Gardiner 199 Sir Richard Levison his service at Castlehaven 225 Sir Richard Greame 232 Roger Harvey died of sorrow 257 Richard Power 43 Regiment sent by the L. President into Connaght 159 Reply of Don Iuan to the propositions of the Lo. Deputie 241 Reasons mooving the Lo. Deputie and Councell to a Composition 244 Sir Richard Percie 40 His Service 111 Robert Tent. 30 Rincorran Castle battered by the Lord President 206 Yeelded and the Spanyards received to mercie 208 Lo. Roche coÌ„mended for his loyalty 377 Andrew Roche 144 Richard Ailward knighted 279 Rancoliskey Castle taken 324 Rathmore Castle rendred 68 Rahane taken 297 Ratho Abbey burnt by Sir Charles Wilmot 101 Redmond Burke defeated by O Dwyre 33 Richard Owen comes to Corke with a Message from Tyrone 254 Sir Richard Wingfield 199 S. Spanish Fleet discovered at sea by Captaine Lâ—ue. 189 Spaniards land at Kinsale 190 Spaniards make severall fallies 230 Spaniards make a great sally 221 Spaniards beateÌ„ out of their treÌ„ches 219 Spaniards landed at Castlehaven 223 Spaniards how many transported out of Ireland 248 Spaniards imbarqued at Kinsale 268 Spanish letters intercepted 258 Spanish Hostages licensed to depart 326 Spaniards make three sallies 236 Spaniards defeated at Kinsale in the time of Richard the second 359 Spanish ship arrived neere Ardea 306 Spanish money distributed amongst the Rebells ibid. Shandon Castle 333 Sessions held at Limerick Cashell and Clonmell 105 Selby a Lieutenant 363 Supplies of 1000 foot from England 323 T. Tirlogh Roâ— Mac Swiny 318 Tyrone comes into Mounster 20 Tyrone writes to the Lord Barry 20 Returnes into Vlster 23 Sir Thomas Norris 2 Townes of Mounster required to send Companies of foot to the campe 200 Earle of Thomond commands the Garison at Askeiton 75 Comes with supplies to the camp 216 Marches with an army into Carbry 287 Returned to Corke 289 Thomond spoyled by O Donnell 55 Sir George Thornton left a Commissioner of Mounster 383 Tirrell desires a Parley with the Earle of Thomond and fayles 307 His men executed at Donboy 320 Flies out of the Province 362 Tho. Taylor hangd in chaines at Cork 320 Tho. Oge makes his Submission 361 William Taffe Captaine 29 His Service against the Rebels in Carbery 366 V. Victuals delivered to Don Iuan. 248 Victuals money arrived at Corke 118 W. Warrant for the L. Presidents Patent 3 Sir Warham Saint Leger slaine by Mac Gwyre 〈◊〉 William Saxey Chiefe Iustice of Mounster 6 William Power Captaine his Service at Donboy 318 A Catalogue of the severall MAPPES contained in this HISTORIE In the first Booke 1 A Map of Mounster Page 1. 2 A Map of the Earle of Ormond taken prisoner between pa. 24. 25. 3 A Map of Cahir Castle betweene pag 42 and 43. 4 A Map of Askeiton Castle page 52 and 53. 5 A Map of Glin Castle page 62 and 63. 6 A Map of Carigfoyle Castle page 66 and 67. 7 A Map of Castle Mange page 96 and 97. 8 A Mapp of Limerick Castle pag 108 and 109. In the second Booke 9 A Map of the Siege of Kinsale betweene page 188 and 189. 10 A Map of the Fort of Hallibolyn pag. 252 and 253. In the third Booke 11. A Map of the Army in Beare betweene page 292 and 293. 12. A Map of the Siege of Dunboy page 310 and 311. 13 A Map of Muskrey page 330 and 331. 14 A Map of Castle-nigh-parke page 352 and 353. 15 A Map of Limerick page 362 and 363. 16 A Map of Yough-hall page 376 and 377. 17 A Map of Corke page 382 and 383. PACATA HIBERNIA THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE WARRES IN IRELAND CHAP. I. The Lord Deputie and the Lord Presidents landing in Ireland The Warrant for passing the Lord Presidents Patent The Patent The Lord Deputie and Councells Instructions to the Lord President THE Warres of Ireland having received their originall foundation in the North proceeded like unto a strong poyson which having infected one member without speedie prevention doth spred the contagion over the whole bodie for the Irish perceiving the prosperous successe of those first Rebels even beyond all expectation and hope of those that were ill affected and that her Majesties Forces had sustained many disasters which were never feared untill they happened the neighbour Provinces of Connaght and Leinster following the current of the present time begin to dismaske themselues of that cloake of subjection which before they pretended and to shew themselues partakers in that wicked action and furtherers of the rebellion And these being united in a strict Combination did verily perswade themselues that it would bee a matter very feasible to enable them to shake off the English Government and to make themselues absolute Commanders of all Ireland if the chiefe Lords of Mounster with their friends and followers would joyne with them to banish the English out of that Province They did account that Province to bee the key of the Kingdome both by reason of the Cities and walled Townes which are more then in all the Island besides the fruitfulnesse of the Country being reputed the garden of Ireland and the commodious Harbors lying open both to France and Spaine They devised many plots cast many projects and used many perswasions to animate the Provincials to begin to enterprise But currenti quid opus est calcaribus they were not so ready to yeeld reasons as those were to heare and their eares no more open to heare then their hearts to consent and their hands nothing backward in the execution thereof The Earle of Essex at his being in Ireland with his Army made a journey into Mounster in hope to compose the troubles thereof all that he performed at that time was the taking of Cahir Castle and receiving the Lord of Cahir and the Lord Roche with some others into protection Who after his departure did either openly partake or secretly combine with the rebells againe Her Majestie being resolved to send a new Lord Deputy into Ireland made choise of a worthy and noble Gentleman endued with excellent parts as well of body as
first entire give in the names of all and every the aforesaid Souldiers to the Clearke of the Cheque to bee entred in his booke and from time to time shall certifie the deaths and alterations of the same to the Lord Deputy and Cleark of the Checque in convenient time as the same may reasonably be done having regard to the distance of the place and as other Captaines of the army are bound to doe Item the said Iustice Saxey shall have for his stipend yearely one hundred pounds sterling and the said Iames Gold assistant or second Iustice one hundred markes sterling and the said Clark of the Councel twenty pounds sterling and which stipends and wages shall be payed quarterly by the hands of the Treasurer at warres or Vice-treasurer here of this Realme of Ireland And if the said Iustice or assistant and secondary Iustice shall depart out of the Limits of the Commission aforesaid without the speciall licence of the said Lord President or having leave shall tarry longer out then the time granted then without reasonable cause of excuse the said Lord President shall deduct and defalke out of their said severall entertainments so much as the said wages of so many dayes doth amount unto to the use of her Majestie towards her other charges to be extraordinarily sustained in the execution of their Commission at the discretion of The said Lord President Item for further reputation and honour of the same Office the said Lord President shall have continually attending upon him a Serjeant at Armes who shall beare the Mace of the Queenes Majesties Armes before him in such manner as the Serjeant at Armes doth beare the Mace before the President in Wales which Serjeant may at all times be sent by the said Lord President and Councell for th'apprehending and bringing in of any disobedient person receiving of every such person being of the degree of a Gentleman so commonly knowen and having yearely liuelihood by any meanes of tenne pounds for his arrest ten shillings and for the arrest of every particular person six shillings eight pence and six shillings eight pence for every dayes travell and not aboue Hee shall also haue his dyet in the Household of the said Lord President and towards his maintenance the ordinary wages of one of the thirtie Horsemen And forasmuch as there must bee of necessitie one Officer to whom all offenders and malefactors are to bee committed during the time of their Imprisonment it is thought meet that the said Lord President shall appoint one Porter to haue charge of the Goale who shall haue his dyet in the househould of the said Lord President and bee accounted as one of the twentie Footmen and receiue the wages due for the same and also such other profits upon every prisoner as ensueth viz. for the entry of every prisoner so to him committed having liuelihood of tenne pounds by the yeare three shillings foure pence and twelue pence by the day for his dyet during his abode in prison and for every other person of inferiour condition two shillings for his entry and six pence by the day for his dyet Item the said Lord President and Councell if oportunitie may serue monethly or once every two moneths at the least advertise us the Lo. Deputie and Councell here of the State of the Country within their Commission or oftner if they shall see cause And where the said Lo President and Councell shal haue by their Commission sufficient authoritie to heare and determine by their discretions all manner of complaints within any part of the province of Mounster as well guildeable as franchise yet they shall haue good regard that except great necessitie or other matters of conscience conceived upon the complaint shall moue him they shall not hinder nor impeach the good course and usage of the common Lawes of the Realme but shall to their power further the execution thereof nor shall without evident cause interrupt such Liberties and Franchises as haue lawfull commencement and continuance by the warrants of the Law other wayes then where any speciall complaint shall be made unto them of any manifest wrong or delay of Iustice done or used by the owners Officers or Ministers of the said Franchises or Liberties In which cases the said Lord President and Councell shall examine the said defaults so alledged by way of complaint to be counted in the Franchises and shall send for the Officers against whom complaint shall be made and finding the same to be true they shall not only heare and determine the particular principall causes of the parties complaints but shall also reforme punish according to their discretions the defaults of the said owners and Ministers of the said Liberties and if the matter shall so serue upon due information to be made to us of the abuses of the said Franchises and Liberties so as the same may be done by order according to the lawes tryed and upon just causes the Liberties resumed into the Queenes Majesties hands Item where the said Lo President and Councell shall haue Commission power and authoritie by Letters Patents under the Great Seale of this Realme of Ireland and of Oyer Determiner and Goale deliverie in as large and ample manner as any such Commission or Authoritie is graunted to any Commissioners for that purpose within the Realmes of England or Ireland Wee the said Lord Deputie and Councell doe earnestly require and charge the said Lord President and Councell that hee and they doe diligently and often severely and justly sit heare and determine by vertue of the same such causes as shall bee brought before them in such severall places as best may agree with the necessitie of the cause and the commoditie of the people Item where also the said Lord President hath full power and authoritie by Letters patents under the great Seale of this realme to execute the Martiall law when necessitie shall require in as large and ample manner as to any other it hath beene accustomed to bee graunted within this realme of Ireland The said Lord President shall haue good regard thereunto that no use be made of the Martiall lawe but when meere necessitie shall require for the exercise thereof is onely to bee allowed where other ordinarie administration of Iustice cannot take place foreseeing alwayes that no person having fiue pound of Freehold or goods to the value of tenne pound shall not bee tried by the order of the Martiall Law but by order of the common Law And yet if necessitie for service and terrour to others shall at any time require the Martiall Lawe to be executed vpon any one person or moe being of greater value in lands or goods then aboue is expressed the President in such speciall causes may use his discretion and thereof and of the causes that mooved him shall make us the Lord Deputie and Councell privie Item
penall Statutes as also of obligations and Recognizances taken made or acknowledged before the said L President and Councell or any of them within the limits of their authorities and Commission for apparance or for the peace or good abearing or by reason of any speciall Statute whatsoever then made or to be made And shall also have authority to cesse reasonable fines for any offences whereof any person shall happen to bee convicted before the said Lord President and Councell and such Summes of mony as shall grow or come by reason of any such compositions or Fines they shall cause it to bee entred into a booke subscribed with the hands of the said Lord President and Councell or two of them at the least whereof the Lord President to bee one To the end the Queenes Majestie may be answered of the same accordingly And also upon such compositions made of Fine or Fines set as aforesaid shall have authority to cancell or make voyde all such Obligations and Bonds And also the said Lord President shall cause as much as in him lyeth all Writts or Processes sent or to bee sent to any person or persons inhabiting or being within the precinct of his Commission out of the Kings Bench Chaunceâ—â—e or Exchequer or any other Court of Record diligently to bee observed and effectually to bee obeyed according to the tenor of the same And if hee shall find negligence slacknesse or willfull omission in any Officer or other Minister to whom the delivery or serving of such Processe doth appertaine Hee shall punish the same severely according to the greatnesse and qualitie of the offence And it shall bee lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell or any three of them whereof the Lord President to bee one after examination in the causes necessary upon vehement suspition and presumption of any great offence in any partie committed against the Queenes Majestie to put the said partie so suspected to tortures as they thinke convenient and as the cause shall require and also to respitt Iudgement of death upon any person convicted or attainted before him and that Councell for any treason murder or any other felony Or after Iudgement given to stay execution untill such time as hee shall certifie us the Lord Deputie and Councell of his doings and consideration of the same and receiue answere from us thereof Provided alwayes that the same certificate bee made to us the Lo Deputie and Councell within the space of 21 dayes after such thing is done Also if any Inquest within the precinct of their Commission within Liberties or without being sworne and charged upon triall of any fellonie murder or any like offender whatsoever hee bee having good and pregnant evidence for sufficient proofe of the matter whereof the said offendor shall bee accused indicted or arraigned doe utterly acquite such offendor contrary to the said evidence that then the said Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall examine such perjuries as well by deposition of witnesses as by all other kinde of proofes by their discretions and if the said Inquest bee convicted before the said Lord President and Councell or three of them at the least wherof the Lord President to be one the said Lord President and Councell may and shall proceed to the punishment of such offence by fine imprisonment or wearing of papers or standing on the pillorie as by their discretions shall seeme meet Also wee the said Lord Deputie and Councell doe earnestly require and straightly charge the said Lord President and Councell that they at all times and in all places where any great assembly shall bee made before them doe perswade the people by all good meanes and wayes to them seeming good and especially by their owne examples in observing all Orders for Divine Service and other things appertaining to Christian Religion and to embrace forlow and devoutly to obserue the Order and Service of the Church established in the Realme by Parliament or otherwayes by lawfull authoritie and earnestly to call upon and admonish all Bishops and Ordinaries within the precinct of their Commission diligently fervently and often to doe the same And if the Lord President and Councell shall finde them negligent and unwilling or unable to doe the same That then they shall advertise the Lord Deputie and Councell thereof and they shall call earnestly upon the Bishops severely to proceed according to the censuring of the church against all notorious Advowterers and such as without lawfull divorce doe leaue their Wiues or whilest that their lawfull Wife liveth doe marry with any other and the Sentence pronounced by the Bishop or Ordinarie upon the offendor The said Lo President and Councell shall endeavour themselues to the uttermost that they conveniently may to cause the same Sentence to bee put in execution according to the Lawes And if they shall finde the Ordinarie slacke or remisse in this duetie and not doing according to his Office they shall punish or cause to bee punished the same Bishop or Ordinary according to their discretions Also the Lord President and Councell shall examine the decay of all parish Churches and through whose defaults the same be decayed and to proceed to the procuring or informing of such as ought to repaire any Church or Churches with all convenient speed according to their discretions And in cases where her Majestie shall bee after due and advised inquisition found by reason of her possessions bound to repaire the same Churches In those cases advertisement shall bee given to us the Lord Deputie c. Or if they shall know of any that shall spoyle rob or deface any Church they shall with all sincerity proceed to the punishment of the Offenders according to the Lawes Statutes and Ordinances of this Realme or according to their discretions They shall assist and defend all Arch-Bishops Bishops and all other ecclesiastical Ministers in the ministery of their function and in the quiet possessing of their Landes rents services and hereditaments and shall punish the with-holders intruders and usurpers of the same according to their discretions and the quality of the offence They shall also giue earnest charge for the observation of all Lawes and Statutes or Ordinances made or to be made for the benefit of the Common-wealth and punishment of malefactors and especially the Statute for the Hue and crie for Night-watches and for Weights and Measures to be diligently considered and severely put in execution Also the said Lord President shall haue and retaine one Chaplin or Minister that shall and can preach and reade the Homilies who shall bee allowed his Dyet in the Houshold of the sayd Lord President and shall receiue his entertainment to bee payed out of the Fines growing in that Province to whom the Lo President shall cause due reverence to be given in respect of the Office that he shall haue for the Service of God Also the said Lo Deputie and
Councell will that the sayd Lord President and Councell or two of them at least whereof the Lord President to bee one shall endeavour themselues to execute as well all and all manner Statues of this Realme Proclamâ—tions and to doe and execute all other Lawes and Statutes of this Realme and other Ordinances as to punish the transgressors of the same according to the said Statutes Ordinances and Proclamations And to leavie or cause to be leavied all and all manner of forfeitures contained in the same according to the order limitted by the sayd Lawes And if cause so require shall compound for reasonable causes for all and singular such forfeitureâ— and paines by their discretions Having therein regarde not to diminish the â—ines specially limited by the Lawes without great necessitie of the poverty of the parties to be ioyned with repentance and disposition of amendment in the partie for otherwise it is perâ—llous to giue example in weakening the iust terror of good Lawes Also the Lord President and Councell or two of them wherof the Lord President to be one shall and may assesse and taxe Costs and dammages aswell to the Plaintiffe as to the Defendant and shall awarde Executions for their doings Decrees and Orders And shall punish the Breakers of the same being parties therevnto by their discretions And the said Lord President and Councell shall immediately upon their repaire to some convenient place where they meane to reside within the Limits of their Commission appointing two sufficient men to bee Clearkes oâ— Attornies to that Councell for the making of Bils Answers and Proceses for all manner of Subiects and thâ—râ—n not multiply such Officers leâ—t also they be occasioÌ„ to multiply unnecessary suites and some trusty wise persons to examine witnesses betweene partie and partie which of necessitie would be chosen with good advise foreseeing expresly and charitably that no excessiue fees be by any of them taken of the Subiects but that their fees bee assessed by the Lord President and Councell and the same faire written upon a Table and fixed upon some publike place where the same may be seene and understood of all Suitors and that in the beginning the Fees may appeare and be meane and reasonable So as in no wise the prosecution of releefe by way of Iustice bee not so chargeable as the poore oppressed sort bee thereby discouraged to make their complaints And because it shall bee convenient that a Register bee daily kept for all the doings orders decrees and proceedings which from time to time shall passe by the said Lo. President and Councell The Lord Deputie and Councells pleasure is that the Clarke of the sayd Councell for the time being having reasonable allowance for the same of the parties having an interest thereby shall diligently execute and performe this charge without any further expences then shall bee specially directed unto him by the said Lord President to be sustained by her Majesties Subjects for enteries of Actes and Orders c. Also the said Lord Deputie and Councell haue thought it convenient that there shall bee one honest and sufficient man appointed to bee Clarke and receiver of the Fines at the nomination of the sayd Lord President who shall diligently and orderly keepe a Booke of all such Fines as shall bee taxed upon any person the fine to bee alwayes entred by the hand of the Lord President and shall haue full power to send out Processe for any person upon whom any such fine shal be so seased and to receiue all such fines and in every Michaelmasâ— Terme thereof to make a true and perfect account before the Barons and other Officers of the Queenes Majesties Exchequer for the time being to the end we may be assertained what fines haue bin acquired to the Queenes Majestie and how the same haue been imployed Provided alwayes and it shall be lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell to imploy of the said Fines reasonable summes for reward of Messengers and repairing the Queenes castles and houses and in building and reedifying Goales within each Countie in the precinct of their Commission where by Lawes of the Realme no other persons are thereto bound and chargeable and also for furnishing of necessary utensils for the houshold as to the said L. President and Councell or to any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall seeme neâ—dfull and convenient In all which the said Lord President shall haue regard to moderate those allowances as of the Fines assessed and levied the Queenes Maiestie may be answered some reasonable yeerely Sommes towards her great chardges in maintaining of this Councell the same being to the Crowne of England a new chardge and any warrantmeÌ„t signed by the said Lord President or any one of the Councell for any such Somme or Soms shall be a sufficient dischardge to the said Clearke our Receiver of the said Fines for the issuing of the said Sommes And the said Clearke or Receiver shall haue full power for the sending out of Processe against any person upon whom any such Fine shall be cessed and to haue his Processe gratis from the Clearke of the Signet and hee to haue his diet in the house of the said Lord President and to bee accounted one of the number of this Horsemen and to receiue the wages and entertainement due for the same Also the said Lord Deputie and Councell haue thought meete there shall be a continuall housholde kept within the precinct and limits of the Commission aforesaid in such place as to the Lord President shall seeme most convenient All servants necessary for which houshold shall be at the Nomination of the said Lord President In which house each Councellor bound to continuall attendance and attending shall bee allowed their diets and the clearke of the Councell and every other Councellor being either sent for or comming for any needfull busines for the Queene or countrey shall be allowed during their aboad there their diet And for the more honourable porte of the said Houshold there shall be allowed unto the said Lord President and Councell after the rate of ten pounds sterling by the weeke to bee imployed upon the Table chardges of the said Household halfe yeerely to bee received at the hands of the Vice-treasurer and generall Receiver of the Queenes Maiesties revenewes of this Realme for payment of which there shall remaine in the hands of the said Vice-treasurer who is also Treasurer for the Warres as Warrant dormant whereby the said Vice-treasurer shall be authorized to pay to the said Lord President one halfe yeeres allowance alwayes before hand towards the making his necessary provision out of the revenew Or if he shall not haue sufficient Treasure then out of any other Treasure the said Lord President shall nominate and appoint one discreete and sufficient man of his servants to bee Steward or clearke of the same Houshold who shall weekely write and summe the chardges thereof and the same also shall
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
long after the receit of this Letter hee left the Countie of Limericke severed himselfe from the Mounster Rebells and setled in Ormond and Tirrell stayed not long behinde inwardly doubting some practise upon himselfe but publikely pretending the cause of his departure for a mislike betweene him and Dermond O Conner The President had given foorth ever since his first comming to Corke that his Armie should bee on foot in the way to Limerick by the sixth of May his intention not being to rise untill the twentieth the bruit thereof caused the Rebells greatest strength to assemble together who by the day assigned had united their Forces in the great Wood called Kilmore betweene Moyallo and Kilmallock neere the place of Ballihawre through the which the Armie was to march There they continued the space of tenne dayes attending continually and hearkening daily for the Presidents comming but finding that hee stirred not in all this time imagining that he durst not take the field at all they dispersed their Companies and departed every one into his owne Countrey Heereupon some thought that the President had altered his determination for going to Limerick and intended to begin the prosecution in some other place others supposed that hee would not venture out of Corke untill hee had received new Supplies which were daily expected out of England But both the one and other were besides the marke for by this stay which from the beginning he determined hee saw divers commodious opportunities might accrue unto him as that heereby hee should receiue certaine advertisement of the strength of the enemy that was to confront him and also that it was impossible for them any long time to hold together for divers wants which of necessitie must accompany such an undisciplined and disordered multitude by meanes whereof they would bee constrained to breake with their owne weight wherein he nothing failed of his expectation for within a few dayes following they were all divided into so many places and those so farre distant that they could not speedily be reassembled Vpon the sixteenth of May the President was advertised by Sir Richard Percie who was Governour at 〈◊〉 that by his Horsemen in Kinalmekagh whom he had sent to forrage that Country ten of the Bownoghs were slaine and a farre greater slaughter had beene made of them if Florence Mac Cartie had not had some intelligence out of Kinsale of his intention who gaue the Bownoghs warning of their comming whereupon they fled and dispersed themselues Vpon the seventeenth of May Iames fits Thomas the usurping Earle of Desmond wrote a Letter to Florence Mac Cartie praying the ayde of his Forces the Copie whereof is here inserted A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie AFter my very heartie Commendations Having received Intelgence of your happie escape out of Corke it was very joyfull to mee and many other your Cosens and adherents heere the fruit of your conference with the President and the rest I hope shall purchase ripe experience and harvest of further knowledge to cut off the cruell yoke of bloody enemies who daily studie to worke our perpetuall destruction and exile I am given to understand that they pretend a journey towards the Countie of Limerick I am gathering the best force and rising out of these parts to resist their wicked desires Redmond Burke is bordering on the Confines of Ormond expecting to heare from me if occasion of important service should require I haue the other day received his Letters signifying his constant service to be ready whensoever I shall send to him what news you haue with your best advice in all causes tending to our generall Service I expect to heare and if the President doe rise out as it is thought I pray you good Cosen slacke not time with your best Force Provision of victuals to prosecute him freshly in the Reareward as you respect me the exaltation of the Catholike faith and the ease of our countrey I looke no excuse at your hands which I pray to lay apart wherein you shall further the service and bind me with all my Forces to second you at your need I haue retained Dermond Oconner in Kerry two hundred Souldiers this quarter besides the Clanshihies and other Bonoghs with the rising out of my country so as I think I shall make up sixteen or seventeene hundred strong well appointed together with the Force of Redmond Burke Thus for lacke of farther Novelties I commit you to the blessed guiding of God From Crome the seventeenth of May 1600. I am credibly informed that fiue Spanish ships are landed in the North with Treasure Munition and great Ordinance with a competent number of three thousand Souldiers Pioners and religious persons I expect every day advertisement in writing and the comming up of Captaine Terrell with the Munition sent me by Oneyle I appointed your Cosen Maurice Oge Fits Maurice Gerald to haue the charge of Kierrycorrie I pray you afford him your lawfull favour Your most assured Cosen Iames Desmond The same day Captaine Gawen Harvy who then had in her Majesties pay a man of Warre wherein for the payment of the Armie there was three thousand pound in monie Munition Victuals and Souldiers apparrell set saile with direction for the River of Shenan to meete the Lord President at Limericke The President the twentie one of May left Corke and with his Armie incamped that night within three miles of Moyallo The twentie two they lodged within fiue miles of Kilmallocke the twentie three the Armie came within a mile of Kilmallocke where the white Knight according to his former promises made his humble submission unto the President whereby the Faggot began to unloose which combined the Rebellion in Mounster but let us a little looke backeward CHAP. VI. Cahir Castle surprized by Iames Galdie Butler A letter from Iames Galdie Butler to the Lord President The rendring of the Castle of Loghguyrre Nugents attempt upon Iohn fits Thomas â—lanwilliam spâ—yled and burnt by the Armie THe President being at Yoghall in his journey to Corke sent Sir Iohn Dowâ—all an ancient Captaine in Ireland to Cahir Castle as well to see the same provided of a sufficient Ward out of Captaine George Blunts Companie as to take order for the furnishing of them with Victuall Munition and other warlike Provision there hee left the eighth or ninth of May a Sergeant with nine and twenty Souldiers and all necessary Provision for two moneths who notwithstanding upon the three and twentieth of the same were surprized by Iames Galdie alias Butler brother to the Lord of Cahir and as it was suspected by many pregnant presumptions not without the consent and working of the Lord himselfe which in after times proved to be true The carelesse securitie of the Warders together with the treachery of an Irish-man who was placed sentinell upon the top of the Castle were the causes of this Surprize Iames Galdie had no
the beginning of Iune was most convenient to lie in Campe whereas if the Service should bee deferred untill Winter the Companies would bee weakened both by death and sicknesse and more difficulties should they find in the fowlnesse of the weather and deepnesse of the way then in the sword of the Enemy whom now they did ardently desire to encounter withall yea many there were that ceased not confidently to utter that they did now plainely perceiue that though her Majesties charges was greatly inhaunsed by increasing the List in Mounster yet her Service was likely to be no better followed then in the yeare last past But that the true ground of this action may bee discovered wee must haue recourse to the prosecution of the stratagem that all this while had beene in working with Dermond O Conner for after his Wife the Lady Margaret had acquainted him both with the Enterprize and Conditions which was not untill the Armie was at Kilmallock aforesaid hee shewed a good inclination to effect it were it not for three difficulties that seemed to interpose themselues First the President being altogether unknowen to him he demanded sufficient Pledges to be put into his hands there to remaine untill the conditions promised should be performed Secondly he wanted some shew of reason or colourable cause to satisfie his Copartners in excuse of his action And lastly he alleaged that no opportunitie could bee found for the execution of the Designe so long as Iames Fits Thomas remained with all the force hee could possible make sixe miles from the Campe to confront the Presidents Armie in his passage to Askeiton For assurance of the conditions the President was content to deliver into his hands foure Pledges which yet notwithstanding must bee in such sort delivered by the one and received by the other as no suspition might arise The Hostages agreed upon were Redmond and Brian Sonnes of Milerius Mac Craghe Archbishop of Cashell who himselfe had before beene a Principall Actor in the busines and Captaine William Power and Iohn Power his elder Brother who likewise had been imployed in the Action These were made choice of because they might be free from the violence of Dermond O Conners men The Powers being foster brethren to the Lady Margaret and the Archbishop himselfe borne in Vlster a naturall Follower unto the Arch-Traitor Tyrone Therefore that these fower should make a Iournie from Kilmallocke towards Kinsale where Captaine Poore his Companie were then in Garrison and the time of their going being made knowen to Dermond O Conner he should lye with some of his Forces in the pace of Ballihowre to intercept Passengers where these foure should as it were by chance fall into his Ambush and so they did where Dermond O Conner although for the reasons before mentioned saved their liues yet he could not restraine the furie of his men that knew nothing of his purpose but that they were stripped of their clothes and left almost naked These being in this manner taken the eleaventh day of Iune they were presently caried to Castle Lyshin seated in the great Wood called Kilmore seven miles from Kilmallock where the Lady Margaret his Wife then remained and there straightly kept in Irons untill the Ransome were discharged which was given forth to be no lesse then two thousand pound sterling Assoone as they were taken Iames Fits Thomas repaired to Castlelishin and instantly requested Dermond that he might haue the two Powers executed for unto them hee was an ancient Enemy which Dermond would not assent unto as well in respect of the great ransoms which hee pretended to expect from them as for giving of offence unto his Wife unto whose Brother then in the Tower of London they were foster Brothers then the which in Ireland there is no greater Obligations of loue The first Impediment being thus removed care was taken to devise some shew of reason to excuse this action to the Bonoghs if they should be discontented after the execution thereof which was disguised by a Letter as written by the Sugan Earle from the President which forasmuch as the Contents thereof doe manifest the invention I haue thought not unfit to bee inserted in this present relation The Lord Presidents Letter to Iames Fits Thomas SIr your last Letters I haue received and am exceeding glad to see your constant resolution of returne to subjection and to leaue the rebellious courses wherein you haue long persevered You may rest assured that promises shall bee kept and you shall no sooner bring Dermond O Conner to me aliue or dead and banish his Bownoghs out of the Countrie but that you shall haue your demand satisfied which I thanke God I am both able and willing to performe Beleeue me you haue no better way to recover your desperate estate then by this good service which you haue proffred and therefore I cannot but commend your Iudgement in choosing the same to redeeme your former faults And I doe the rather beleeue the performance of it by your late action touching Loghguire wherein your Brother and your selfe haue well merited and as I promised you shall finde mee so just as no Creature living shall ever know that either of you did assent to the surrender of it all your Letters I haue received as also the joynt Letter from your Brother and your selfe I pray loose no time for delayes in great Actions are subject to many dangers Now that the Queenes Armie is in the field you may worke your determination with most securitie being ready to releeue you upon a dayes warning So praying God to assist you in this meritorious Enterprize I doe leaue you to his protection this twentie nineth of May 1600. This Letter was sent to Dermond O Conner which when time should serue hee might shew as intercepted by him and therefore what he did was imposed upon him by necessitie except hee would suffer himselfe wittingly and willingly to be betraied These things thus contrived there remained nothing but to separate the reputed Earle from his strength that no resistance might be made by the Provincialls when hee should bee apprehended This was not likely to bee effected unlesse the President would divide his Forces and bestow them in severall Garrisons as though they should leaue the field for that Summer whereupon was judged that the Rebels would likewise disperse themselues and even so it came to passe for they understanding that the English Armie was now garrison'd nothing suspecting that he would adventure to send a Garrison to Askeiton without the countenance of an Armie separated themselues into divers Companies The President had no sooner advertisement hereof but hee sent foorthwith under the conduct of Sir Francis Barkley fiue hundred Foot from Limricke by water to goe to Askeiton which they might easily effect in a fewe howers too short a time for them to assemble their Forces to impeach their landing By these meanes were they setled in Garrison without any
of the Sugan Earle as aforesaid the Earle of Thomond having intercepted a Letter sent by the Rebells of Mounster to O Donnell and his Associates did send the same unto the President whereby it may appeare how much the taking of Iames fits Thomas did grieue them at the heart which is the reason I doe in this place insert the same A Letter from the Mounster Rebels to O Donnell ALL heartie Commendations from Mac Maurice and the rest undernamed to O Donnell and the rest of the Lords and Gentlemen that are with him Letting you to understand that Dermond O Conner hath played a lewd part amongst us heere Hee hath taken the Earle of Desmond Thomas Oge and the two sonnes of Rory Mac Shihy together with their Townes and Castles claiming in right of his wife the Earledome of Desmond The Earle is as yet upon his hands and the Countrey is all preyed and destroyed and Rory Mac Shihy who is olde and blinde is banished out of his Towne leaving him bare without any thing and his sonnes bound very safe and sure which Act being considered by Con Oneale and others the Gentlemen of Connaght who were in the said Dermonds company to proceed of treachery and falsehood by the said Dermond whereupon the said Con Oneale and the rest of those Connaght men eaâ—â—e unto us bringing with them the said Roriâ— his sonnes for which wee rest very thankfull to them and therefore we desire you to shew them thanks likewiâ—e and that you should write unto the said Dermond touching the inlargement of the Earle and that hee should take good pledges of the Earle to bee put upon the hands of the Clergie or some indifferent temporall personâ—s and he to â—et 〈◊〉 the like and your Order and the Order of the Clergie to puâ—â—e betweene them and we desire your preseâ—t helpe To that purpose Dermond is drawign the English â—word to â—word the Estate with them we and the Gentlemen of Connaght heere are 〈◊〉 the Castle where the Earle lyeth and seeing that the River of Shanen is passable if it had been your pleasure to come to helpe us we would bee very glad thereof and yet if wee can rescue the Earle and it to be your pleasure we will draw towards you hereupon send us present word Castlelishine the 24. of Iune 1600. Your trustie Friends Iohn Gerald. Thomas fits Maurice Edmond Valley M. fits Thomas Patricke Lixnawe William fits Gerald. Dierby Mac Cartie Pierce Lacie Mac Shihy The President being out of hope to get this Haggard into his hands by these Limetwigs intending the prosecution which was to take in the Castles of the Glynne and Carrigfoile the one belonging to the Knight of the Valley the other to Iohn O Conner commonly called O Conner Kerry both being seated upon the River of Limerick and so to passe the Mountaine into Kerry The President having taken order for all such necessaries as should be requisit in his Iournie on the twentie eighth marched to Limericke the twentie nineth upon a Letter which hee received from Dermond O Conner into the Hart of Conniloe and incamped at a Towne called Ballingery foureteene miles from Limerick being by him requested who was now besieged by the Enemy in the Castle of Balliallinan to releeue him with her Majesties Forces The President being advanced within three miles of the Castle where Dermond O Conner was besieged the Rebels understanding thereof and fearing to bee assailed by him and loath that Dermond O Conner should fall into his hands to be imployed in service against them whose credit with the Bownoghs was such as that hee could perswade them to what he listed they resolved to treate with Dermond and upon his oath of future faith to take him againe into their societie and to restore him to his former Command Dermond as it should seeme fearing that Reliefe would not come unto him in convenient time accepted the offer and rendered the Castle and himselfe into their hands But yet I could never heare that Dermond afterwards was had in any great estimation amongst them This busines being thus composed they presently dislodged with intent to giue impediment to the Armie in their passage towards the Glynne His Lordship being advertised of the reconcilement directed his March to the Glynne and understanding that the Castle of Crome the Earle of Kildares inheritance which was not much out of his way and held by a Ward left therein by Pierce Lacy which gaue great Annoiance to the Subjects thereabouts and comfort to the Rebels being seated at the entrance into Conniloe tooke it in his way upon the sight of the Armie the Warders quitted the Castle and the President possessed himselfe thereof together with some store of Corne and other Provision that was found therein The last of Iune the Armie marched through Kerry a safe Countrey unto Askeiton where it remained foure dayes in expectation of Victuals that should come thither from Limerick by Water The fourth of Iuly the Armie rose from thence and marched to Ballintare upon the Mountaine of Sleughlogher twelue miles from Askeiton the Enemy to the number of three thousand marching all that day in our view Now did the President assure himselfe that this Armie of the Rebels did onely attend the opportunitie for some place of advantage where they might conveniently attempt our Forces and no doubt so they would haue done if the fore conceived Iealousie and distrust betweene the Provincials and Bonoghs confirmed in them by the bones of Dissention that the President had cast forth amongst them had not wrought in either of them a desire of nothing more then to be freed from the danger reciprocally apprehended each of the other as might well appeare by two Letters which this night were brought to the President from the Principall of the Connaght men the true Copies whereof I haue thought not unfit to be inâ—erted in this present Relation A Ioynt Letter from William Burke and Moroghe ny Moe O Flaghertie to the Lord President COmmendations to your Honour For as much as we thinke your Honour willing to further and augment your credit in doing your Princesse service we thought to make you acquainted that wee are here in Campe two thousand and fiue hundred Connaght men Yet we let your Honour to understand that we will not set upon you in any way nor molest you in your Iourney so that your Honour consider us with a peece of money and giue us your Passe and safe Conduct to depart this Countrey not that wee feare you or any other but that wee meane to doe you no harme so your Honour shew us the like favour You may well accept of this our proffer for it is a thing that others of your Calling sought for and could not obtaine although very desirous for the obtayning of it Thus troubling your Honour no further onely expecting your speedy resolution we commit you to God From the Abbey
Ambassadour Leger in France to deale with the King for preventing such further mischiefes as might arise by his Subjects merchandizing with the Rebels The sixe and twentieth of this Moneth Dermond Mac Owen Lord of the Countrey called Dowalla a man for wit and courage nothing inferior to any of the Mounster Rebels by his Letters directed to Captaine Roger Harvy bearing Date the twentie sixeth aforesaid made humble suite unto the President that himselfe Mac Awly and O keefe with all their followers might be received into Her Majesties gratious protection promising both for himselfe and them from thence forward to continue and remaine loyall and obedient Subjects and for the performance of the same they would put in sufficient securitie which humble suite the President not long after granted Neere unto the day before mentioned William fits Gerald the Knight of Kerry in a very penitent manner submitted himselfe to Sir Charles Wilmott and received her Majesties gracious protection protesting with many vowes his future loyaltie whereof Sir Charles advertised the President praying the confirmation of the same which was upon sight of his Letters graunted Foure or fiue dayes afterwards as Sir Charles lay with his Force before Ardart in Kerry Iames fits Thomas and Pierce Lacie with all the Force they could make entred by night into the Knight of Kerries Countrey with a full intention either to surprise his person or to spoyle burne his townes and corne to his utter ruine The Knight having some little foreknowledge of the storme at hand assoone as they were entred into his Countrey hee fought with them slew two of their chiefe Leaders of the Bownoghs the one called Teg O Kelly the other Walter Mac Castelogh and with them sixteene others The Invaders finding so ill a vvelcome returned not having gained so much as one Cowe CHAP. XIII The Castle of Ardart taken by Sir Charles Wilmot Maurice Stacke treacherously murdered The prey of Kilkoe taken by Sir Richard Percie A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie Iames fits Thomas defeated by the garison of Kilmallock ARdart for some nine dayes made good defence and had burned with Fire-workes such Boardes and Timber as Sir Charles had placed against the wall of the Castle for his mens safetie as they undermined But at the last Sir Charles sent for a Saker out of an English mans Ship which one Hill the Master lent him with a purpose onely to breake open the doore of the Castle for the walls were too strong for so small a Peece to offend The Rebells at the sight of the Saker yeelded Sir Charles hanged the Constable the rest of the Ward vvhich vvas but eight with the vvomen and children vvere spared Towards the latter end of August Maurice Stack the braue undertaker before spoken of was by Honore ny Brien wife to the Lord of Lixnaw invited to dine with her in her Husbands Castle of Beaulieu in Kerry at which time Donnell Obrien Brother both to her and the Earle of Thomond was then with his Sister Dinner being ended the young Lady desired to speake with the said Stacke privately in her Chamber where after a little time spent and disagreeing about the matter then in speech the Lady cryed out unto Dermon'd Kewghe Mac Corman William Odonichan and Edmond Oheher being at the Chamber doore doe you not heare him misuse mee in words Whereupon with their skenes they instantly murdered him in the place Assoone as hee was slaine shee sent unto her Husband and willed the Murtherers to repaire unto him of this barbarous and inhumane Act some say that this Lady was the principall Agent though some of her friends haue since sought to excuse her The Earle of Thomond upon the knowledge of it was so infinitly grieved and for the same held his Sister in such deteâ—tation as from that day forwards to the day of her death which was not many Moneths after as I thinke he never did see her nor could not abide the memory of her name But howsoever this worthy Subject more worthy then whom there was no one of Ireland birth of his quality was thus shamefully butchered as you haue heard The Lord of Lixnaw not satiated with his blood traitrously shamefully shed the next day after he hanged Thomas Encally Stack the Brother of the said Maurice Stack whom he had held Prisoner a long time before About the beginning of this Moneth of September the Garrison of Kinsale was droven into the field and marched so farre as Rosse Carbery being commanded by Sir Richard Percy and guided by Walter Coppinger of Corke upon hope of doing service thereabout but being disappointed thereof they marched beyond the Leape and comming suddenly to Kilcoe they tooke there a Prey of three hundred Cowes which they brought in safetie without any losse to Littertinlis and from thence they returned againe to their Garrison The Garrison of Kerry had by this time so galled the Forces of the vsurping Desmond as he found himselfe unable long to subsist except Florence Mac Cartie who had long played the Machiavillian Ambodexter betwixt him and the L President would now at the last joyne with him in defence and supportation of the Action this did he importune by divers Letters but especially by one which because it containeth his estate at this time together with other particularities fit to bee understood I haue thought good to insert the very words of his owne Letter as followeth A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie MY Lord your Letters I haue received and the present time of Service is now at hand which by Letters nor any excuse so effectuall ought to bee delayed And whereas you write that you intend to conferre with the President and the Earle of Thomond I marvell that one of your Lordships acquaintance with their proceedings doeth not yet know their inticing bayts and humours to intrap us all within the nets of their pollicies Your vow to God and this action for the maintenance of the Church and defence of our owne right should not for any respect bee unregarded you know that of long time your Lordship hath been suitor to the Queene and Councell and could not at any time prevaile nor get any likelihood of your settlement and now being duly placed by the assent of the Church and us the Nobilitie of this Action your Lordship should worke all meanes possible for to maintaine the same You know the ancient and generall malice that heretofore they bare to all Irish Birth and much more they raue at this present so as it is very bootlesse for any of us all to seeke their favours or countenance which were but a meane to worke our totall subversion Write to mee effectually your Lordships minde and what resolution you purpose to follow whereby I may proceed accordingly This Armie is but very slender for they are but sixe hundred Foot and eightie Horse I am my selfe
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
neweâ— of these parts are that the Sonne of Geralt the late Earle is arrived unto whom his Fathers old Followers doe much resort hee is an Heretike yet neverthelesse by the helpe of the English he will doe us great harme The right Earle of Desmond is forsaken of all men and not able to make Head and the lesse hope of his rising againe by the comming of young Iames who is the Queenes Earle and hath a Patent for his Earledome I pray your speedy Answer in the meane time I will dissemble with the President who deales sharpely with us the Letter which you sent with these to Mac Carty More I haue sent unto him by a Messenger of my owne who is lately agreed with the President and so we are deceived in him and therefore he is not to be firmely trusted with the commandement of all the Clan Carties Cormocke Cartie Sir Charles Wilmot in the meane time maâ—ching to an Abbey in Kerry called Ratho neere unto Lixnaw assoone as his Colours were descried was fired by the Enemy that lodged there from thence with his Horse onely he marched â—o Tralie where hee found one hundred Bonoghs of the Oâ—â—â—llies among whom was Moriertagh Mac Shighie and three or foure more of the lurking Earles chiefest Followers on horsebacke our Horse charged them the Horsemen by flight saved themselues but of the â—ooâ—e there was slaine about fourtie dead in the place the rest by the â—avour of a neighboâ—ring bogge and the Mountaine at hand escaped but all their Armes were left to our shares The perpetuall juggling which Florencâ— Mac Cartie continued towards the Lord President I haue so often touched as it needs no other proofe but for the better Testimonie of his ill â—ffection to the State even now when the Sugan Earle was in the estate of a fugitiue hiding himselfe from the sight of men Florence as the Lord President was advertised from Sir Charles Wilmot had raysed one thousand Bownoghs to bee placed upon Desmond foure hundred uâ—on Kerry and sixe hundred upon Carbry and concludes with these words Viz. assuredly hee purposeth to bee a Villaine though hee could be contented to liue in neutralitie as he doth if he could cary it cleanely Also at that time the Baron of Lixnaw who was banished Kerry was by him relieved in Desmond but obserue well I beseech you this wavering and unsetled companion who not knowing which way either to be a Subject or Rebell not many dayes afterwards as shall bee said came to the President with a smooth countenance full of Loyaltie but inwardly the same man hee had ever beene Nothing was more common now in Mounster then a bruite of the strangers from Connaght and Vlster comming to invade the Province with two thousand men and hereof the President received daily advertisement from the Earle of Thomond the Lord Barry Iustice Comerford and others and to verifie the same Pierce Lacy was come into the borders of Kilquig and had preyed Glanogre a Towne belonging to Sir George Bourchier Master of the Ordnance being a parcell of his Signiory and then in farme to Alexander Fitton this caused the President to assemble the greatest part of his Forces to Kilmallock attending there to behold what should become of this Cloud which threatned such a dangerous Tempest which at length vanished without any great disturbance for about the midst of this Moneth they withdâ—â—w themselues into Ormond within the Libertie of Tipperarie the cause why they departed before they had made any Bonfiers in Mounster which was their arrand as I haue since learned was two fould First because Redmond Burke could by no meanes bee drawen into the Province being in expectation of great favour from the President as appeareth by his Letters sent about this time which because it is but short and yet apparantly declareth this truth I thought not unfit here to bee recited in his owne words RIght Honourable I would long ere this be a Subject and will now shew my selfe worthy to be accepted if I be entertained and my Fathers Lands seized into your Honours hands till my Title bee tried this Countrey of Ely O Carrell being in your Honours Province is a parcell whereto I make claime wherein I would expect your Honour to right me first and thus requesting your Honour to accept my service and favour my right I take leaue this ninth of November 1600. Your Honours as you please Redmond Letrim The President to hold Redmond as I conceiue in some hope that hee might not joyne with the Northerne Forces then expected to come into Mounster returned him answer to this effect That his Demaunds seemed to bee somewhat reasonable and that hee was very sorry that it was not fully in his power to accomplish his request Notwithstanding there was no doubt but upon his Letters already dispatched to the Councell of England and to the Lord Deputie in his behalfe such order should bee taken as hee should hold himselfe well satisfied and surely whether the President dealt plainely and bona fide vvith the said Redmond or whether hee fed him vvith good vvords onely like a Courtier to serue his owne turne I know not but if I might deliver my poore opinion I thinke him to haue received some hard measure I meane in respect of his Fathers Lands upon whomsoever the fault lyeth but to returne This Redmond commanding the greatest part of the Forces now assembled depending this much upon the Presidents favour as by his Letter appeareth could by no allurements of these Mounster Rebels bee inticed to commit any outrage within that Province An other cause why these Rebels thus assembled came no further up into Mounster was because the wandring Earle Iames fits Thomas who should haue given them Bonnaght in the Province knowing that Lixnaw Redmond Burke Pierce Lacie and all of them were growen wearie of the Rebellion and that the President had commerce with all those durst not commit himselfe into their power they being so strong and hee so poore and weake fearing left they should haue delivered him being the marke the President chiefly aymed at to worke their owne peace Dermond O Conner having now heard that the young Earle of Desmond his Brother in law was arrived in Mounster according to the Presidents promise to him made that he should come was desirous that hee should repaire thither with intent to doe some acceptable service for her Majestie which being made knowen by the Lady Margaret his wife the Lord President sent him a Safe-conduct for himselfe and his followers and procured the like from Sir Arthur Saâ—age the chiefe Commissioner in Connaght and also from the Earle of Clanrickard to secure his passage through his Countrey and for his better safetie he sent an hundred Foot to guard him as soone as hee should enter into Thomond Hee being now past Clanrickard and comming to Oshafnesses Countrey within seventeene or eighteene miles of Limerick Theobald ne Long Burke who
for the service of Linster one thousand Foote whereof the Companies of Sir Iohn Barkley and Sir Garret Harvies to bee part and with them Sir Richard Greames troope of Horse According to this direction he assembled them at Clonmell and gaue the Command of them unto the Lord Awdley and as they were ready to march hee received advertisement from the Earle of Thomond that a body of more then three thousand men of Vlster and Connaght were presently to enter into the Province whereupon hee wrote unto the Lord Deputie this ensuing Letter making stay of the Lord Awdley untill he should receiue answer thereof A Letter from the Lord President to the Lord Deputie IT may please your Lordship I am so infinitly distracted betweene the earnest desire I haue to satisfie your Lordships commandements and the present dangers which I see hangs over this Province if I should obserue them as that I stand amazed what Councell to take being in my selfe wholly addicted to obedience and by necessitie in a manner enforced to pause upon the same untill I may receiue your Lordships answer to these and then without farther protraction I will bee ready accordingly to obserue your commandements wherein I humbly pray your Lordship deliberatly to advise being as I take it especially materiall for the furtherance of Her Majesties service The next day after I received your Lordships Letter of the seven and twentieth of Ianuary being the thirtieth of the same for the better expediting of your directions I addressed severall warrants unto the Captaines residing neerest unto me commanding every of them to meete at the Townes of Clonmell and Fetherd by the sixth of this Moneth there to receiue such further directions as the Lord Awdley who I haue appointed to command them should direct The List consists of one thousand and fiftie Foote and Sir Richard Greames Horse Sir Garret Harvie lyes so farre remote in Kerry as I could not conveniently in so short a time draw them to the rest Wherefore for that particular I humbly pray to be excused and for Sir Iohn Barklies Company who are part of the List aboue-said I haue directed them by warrant according to your Lordships former pleasure signified unto me before the receipt of your Lordships last letters to repaire into Connaght but haue now countermanded them and doe hope they are not yet past Thus your Lordship may see my willingnesse to obey your directions which I did as gladly and affectionatly as your Lordship can desire But since having this day received these inclosed Letters from the Earle of Thomond and Master Comerford I doe make humbly bold to present the consideration of them unto your Lordships wisedome before I doe throughly accomplish your Commandements wherein my hope is that your Lordship will both giue me thankes and hold me excuâ—ed because the publike service doth violently urge me unto it In my judgement I am perswaded that this intelligence is true drawne thereunto by many and sundry the like advertisements from all parts and persons lately reconciled whereof I could send your Lordship bundels of papers of divers mens relations and now confirmed in the same by these inclosed Letters which as your Lordship sees threatens the present disturbance of this Province not yet well setled Yet neverthelesse that it may appeare unto your Lordship that I am not backward to accomplish any thing which your Lordship shall require I do yet continue though not without some hazard to this Province if these Northern Forces should presently invade us to send the Companies aforesaid to the Rendevous before mentioned with directions to remaine there until your Lordship shall returne me your pleasure in answer of these and then what you shall prescribe unto me I will dutifully and carefully effect assuring my selfe that your Lordship will haue such a speciall regard to the State of this Province as that you will not withdraw them but upon certaine knowledge of the untruth of these intelligence But as a Councellor to speake my opinion if your Lordship can other wayes follow the prosecution in Linâ—ter without calling Forces from hence it were very expedient to forbeare the same untill this Cloud be overpast which cannot long hold in suspence for all the danger is betweene this and the end of the next Moneth after which time untill the Cattle be strong and giue milke there is little doubt All which humbly referring to your Lordships better consideration I rest Moyallo the second of February 1600. G. C. Not many dayes after the Lord Deputie by his Letters so well approoved of the reasons why the President stayed the Lord Audley as hee thanked him for it and willed him to make Head against the Rebels descent and hereafter when they might be better spared then he prayed him to send them unto him The effect of the Lords of the Councells Letters to the Lord President IAnuary 28. the Lord President received Letters of great comfort from the Lords in England saying That they were exceeding glad to see that in so short a time hee had reduced the Province to such tearmes as that he could indure the cashiering of fiue hundred Foot and spare the Lord Deputie one thousand more of his List which was an evident demonstration of his Labours well spent in the Service and that his holding of Assises and Sessions so long dis-used was a manifest signe of a new life in the Province That they had written to the Lord Deputie to call Theobald ne Long Burke in question for the murdering of Dermond O Conner and had required him to see it punished That notwithstanding her Majesties pleasure was signified unto him that Iames fits Thomas his Brother Iohn the Baron of Lixnaw the Knight of the Valley and Pierce Lacie should not be received to mercie upon any condition but to be left as children of perdition unto destruction yet considering how long Rebells may continue by underhand friendships in Ireland shee was pleased that the Lord President should haue power if he saw cause to induce him thereunto to accept of the last three but with this caution That they should be pardoned for life onely and that not untill they had performed some signall services which might merit such gracious favour Lastly they admonished the President to carrie a strict hand upon the Commissaries of the Musters for by Certificate from Dublin they understood that they were very slacke in their duties The President knowing that it was a matter of no lesse moment to retaine and keepe the Provincialls in subjection and good order then it was at first to reduce them hereunto imployed now a great part of his time in devising such courses as might secure them from a future revolt and therefore first resumed into his owne hands all power of protecting and then protested never to renew any protections already granted whereby they were constrained to use all celerity and haste for the obtaining their Pardons In so much that
at Whitehall the 28 of Aprill 1601. Your Lordships very loving Friends Thomaâ— Egerton C. Tho. Buckhurst W. Knowles Ro. Cecill Ioh. Fortescue I. Herbert The eight and twentieth day Dermond Mac Awlie who was lately come out of Vlster and daily conversant with the Traytors of Mounster and acquainted with all their proceedings and Councell by mediation of friends made his repaire to the President and being examined whether they intended to come againe with new forces into the Province hee affirmed that at his departure from them they were ready to come away and did particularize what Munitions and Money every one of them was furnished withall by Tyrone viz. The Lo. of Lixnaw Calievers 40. Powder Barrells 02. Lead one Sow 01 Match faddoms 120 Money 14. pound Iohn fits Thomas Calievers 25. Powder Barrels 01. Lead Sowes ½ Match faddoms  Money 10. li. Pierce Lacie Calievers 20. Powder Barrels 01. Lead Sowes ½ Match faddoms  Money 8. li. Mac Donogh Calievers 25. Powder Barrels 01. Lead Sowes â— Match  Money 12. li. Redmond Burke Calievers 150. Powder Barrels 10. Lead Sowes 05. Match  Money 500. li. Teg Orwrke Calievers 150. Powder Barrels 10. Lead Sowes 05. Match  Money 500. li. From Odonnell to Teg Kewgh Calievers 12 Powder Barrels 02 Lead Sowes ½ Match Fathomes  Money 40. li. CHAP. III. Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle of Desmond taken Prisoner Iames fits Thomas kept Prisoner in the Lord Presidents house His 〈◊〉 and condemnation His relation presented to the Lord President The Lord Presidents Letter to Her Majesty Two Letters from Iames fits Thomas to the King of Spaine The causes of the Rebellion in Mounster as Iames fits Thomas alleaged Hussies report of the causes of the Rebellion in Mounster THere was no man of account in all Mounster whom the President had not oftentimes laboured about the taking of the reputed Earle still lurking secretly within this Province promising very bountifull and liberall rewards to all or any such as would draw such a draught whereby he might be gotten aliue or dead every man entertained these proffers as being resolute in performing the same service although they never conceived any such thought but at last it hapned after this manner The Lord Barry having one hundred men in pay from the Queene employed them many times about such service as either the President should command or himselfe thought requisit and namely about the fourteenth of May knowing that one Dermond Odogan a Harper dwelling at Garryduffe vsed to harbour this Arch-rebell or else upon occasion of some stealth that had beene made in his Countrey the thieues making towards this Fastnesse his Souldiers pursued them into this Wood where by good fortune this supposed Earle with two of the Baldones and this Dermond were gathered together being almost ready to goe to supper but having discovered these Souldiers they left their meate and made haste to shift for themselues they were no sooner gone out of the Cabbin but the Souldiers were come in and finding this provision and a Mantle which they knew belonged to Iames fits Thomas they followed the chase of the Stag now roused By this time the Harper had convaied the Sugan Earle into the thickest part of the Fastnesse and himselfe with his two other Companions of purpose discovered themselues to the Souldiers and left the Wood with the Lapwings policie that they being busied in pursuite of them the other might remaine secure within that Fastnesse and so indeed it fell out for the Souldiers supposing that Iames fits Thomas had beene of that Company made after them till Evening by what time they had recovered the White Knights Countrey where being past hope of any farther service they returned to Barry-court and informed the Lord Barry of all those accidents On the next morning the Lord Barry glad of so good a cause of complaint against the White Knight whom hee hated hasteth to the President and relating unto him all these particulars signifieth what a narrow escape the Arch-traytor had made and that if the White Knights people had assisted his Souldiers hee could not possibly haue escaped their hands Hereupon the White Knight was presently sent for who being called before the President was rebuked with sharpe words and bitter reprehensions for the negligence of his Countrey in so important a busines and was menaced that for so much as hee had undertaken for his whole Countrey therefore hee was answerable both with life and lands for any default by them made The White Knight receiving these threatnings to heart humbly intreated the President to suspend his judgement for a few dayes vowing upon his soule that if the said Desmond were now in his Countrey as was averted or should hereafter repaire thither hee would giue the President a good account of him aliue or dead otherwise he was contented that both his Lands and Goods should remaine at the Queenes mercy and with these protestations he departed And presently repairing to Sir George Thornton hee recounted unto him the sharpe reproofes which from the President hee had received Sir George finding him thus well netled tooke hold of the occasion never left urging him to performe the service untill he had taken his corporall oath upon a booke that he would employ all his endeavours to effect the same Assoone as he was returned to his house he made the like moane unto some of his faithfullest Followers as hee had done to Sir George Thornton and to stirre up their minds to helpe him in the perill hee stood hee promised him that could bring unto him word where Iames fits Thomas was he would giue him fiftie pound in money the inheritance of a Plough land to him and his Heires for ever with many immunities and freedomes One of his Followers which loved him dearely compassionating the perplexity hee was in but would you indeed said he lay hands upon Iames fits Thomas if you knew where to find him the Knight confirmed it with protestations then follow me said he and I will bring you where he is The White Knight and hee with sixe or seven more whereof Redmond Burke of Muskry-quirke was one presently upon the nine and twentie nineth of May tooke horse and were guided to a Caue in the Mountaine of Slewgort which had but a narrow mouth yet deepe in the ground where the Caytiffe Earle accompanied onely with one of his foster brothers called Thomas Opheghie was then lurking The White Knight called Iames fits Thomas requiring him to come out and render himselfe his Prisoner But contrariwise hee presuming upon the greatnes of his quality comming to the Caues mouth required Redmond â—urke and the rest to lay hands upon the Knight for both hee and they were his naturall Followers but the vvheele of his fortune being turned vvith their swords drawen they entred the Caue and without resistance disarming him and his foster Brother they delivered them bound to the White Knight
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
after that rate for more or lesse in quantitie Item our said Soveraigne Lady c. That hee shall and may to all and every persons bringing into any place for the exchange appointed in Ireland monies of base allay heretofore currant or now vsed within the Realme deliver by himselfe or his deputies like quantities by weight of the monies of this new Coyne as he or his deputies shall receiue of any such old base monies by weight Item our said Soveraigne Lady doth c. That she wil allow unto the said Sir Gâ—o Cary or his Assignes for the charges of transportation of the monies of this new Coyne from her Tower of London into her Majesties said Realme of Ireland aswell to the Citie of Dublin as to any other places where Exchanges are to be established or payments to bee made for her service after the rate of twentie pounds of this new Standard upon every thousand pound of the same coyne the same to bee allowed unto him upon his account as her Majesties Treasurer at warres in Ireland Item our said Soveraigne Lady doth c. That whensoever and as often as any of the monies of this new Standard of Ireland after their first uttering in payment to her Highnesse Armie there being brought backe againe to the Exchange to be converted in sterling or otherwise shall by her Majesties commandement bee 〈◊〉 againe for her Highnesse service in payment of her Armie or otherwise That so often her Highnesse will allow to the said Sir George Cary or his Assignes after the 〈◊〉 of ten pounds of this new Standard upon every thousand pounds of the same coyne by tale the same to bee allowed unto him upon his account as Treasurer of her Highnesse warres in Ireland Item our said Soveraigne Lady doth c. That shee will allow unto the said Sir George Cary for all such summes of money as shall by her Highnesse from time to â—ime beâ— sent or delivered out of her Exchequer for the furnishing mâ—intenance of this Exchange after the rate of 〈…〉 â—pon every thousand pounds by â—ale The said Sir George Câ—â—y taking upon him the charges and expence of conveying her Majesties said Treasure unto the placâ—s where the same shall bee vsed for the exchange Item our said Soveraigne Lady doth c. That all hazard and danger hapning in the transportation of this her Majesties monies out of her Realme of England into Ireland either by wrecke of Sea or tempest or by violence of enemies shall bee at the only perill of our said Soveraigne Lady her Heires and Successors as heretofore it hath beene in like cases the said Sir George Cary making proofe that hee his deputies or Assignes having charge of the said transportation haue vsed all such care heed and diligence for the safe conveyance thereof as they would or might haue done for the assurance of their owne goods or as heedfull provident men use to doe for the safetie of their goods in like adventures Item our sayd Soveraigne Lady doth c. That shee shall and will from time to time furnish and deliver to the said Sir George Carey or his Assignes all such summes of money as shall bee requisite and needfull for Exchanging and converting of this new Irish Coyne into moneys of the Standerd of England according to her Majesties Proclamation after the rate of one fourth part at the least of such quantities of this Irish moneys as her Majestie shall cause to be coyned from time to time or after a greater rate if it shall appeare by experience that a greater portion then a fourth part of the same shal be returned to the Exchange Item our sayd Soveraigne Ladie doth c. That if at any time heereafter her Majestie shall thinke good to cease the Exchange and not to continue the converting of Irish moneys into sterling and that it shall happen that at such time there shall bee remaining in the hands of the sayd Sir George Carey any quantities of Irish Monies great or small not issued for her Majesties service that in such case her Highnesse will accept and allow unto the said Sir George Cary upon his account all such summes of money at such raâ—e and valew as the same were delivered unto him to bee issued in payment for her service And further her Majestie doth covenant c. That for the defraying of all Wages Fees and Stipends as well to him the said Sir George Cary as 〈…〉 of the Exchanges as also to all other Officers needfull to bee established for the exercise of the same either within the Realme of England or in Ireland wheresoever her Highnesse doth and will allow unto the said Sir George Cary the summe of two thousand pounds of the monies of this new Standard by the yeare to bee taken unto him and stayed in his owne hands out of such profits as upon the exchange doth arise unto her Majestie The said allowance of two thousand pounds per annum to take beginning the first day of May now next ensuing the date hereof and to continue during all the time that the Exchange shall be upheld CHAP. V. A Regiment sent by the Lord President into Connaght Intelligence of the Spanyards comming for Ireland brought to the Lord President sundry wayes Iames fits Thomas his report of Florence Mac Cartie Dermond Mac Awlies report of the Counsell held in Vlster for the Spanyards landing THE Affayres of Mounster thus digested the President according to the Lord Deputies directions expedited with munition and victuals one thousand Foot into Connaght under the command of Sir Francis Barkley The List of the Captaines and Companies were as followeth viz. Sir Francis Barkley 100. Foot Sir Richard Percie 150. Sir Gerrard Harvie 150. Sir Edward fits Gerald 100. Sir Iohn Dowdall 100. Captaine Iohn Bostocke 100. Captaine George Kingsmill 100. Captaine George Blunt 100. Captaine William Power 100. Besides fiftie Horse under the command of Captaine Richard Greame which Regiment was sent to giue countenance unto the service of Ballishanon intended by Sir Henry Docwray although the President was very loath to spare them at this time for the rumour of Spanish preparations for Ireland which had been secretly whispered all this Spring was now strongly conceited and confidently beleeved by all the Irish And moreover certaine Advertisment hereof was daily brought unto the President from the Irish Merchants Factors in Spaine from the Priests in Italy to the Irish Lords from the English in France to their private friends all of them agreeing in one adde heereunto the constant Asseverations of Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle then a condemned prisoner who after his apprehension and condemnation being often examined was still confident of the Spanyards comming and being demaunded his cause of knowledge answered That the Spanish Fryer Don Matheo de Oviedo whom they call Archbishop of Dublin did assure him of the Kings pleasure therein and to hasten the same hee tooke his journey from Spaine
to the King and gaue it to Tyrone to bee sent into Spaine And also tooke his corporall oath to performe his promises whereupon Tyrone stiled and confirmed him Mac Carty More hee also told the said Thomas Oge that if the Spaniards did not land by May next hee would goe into the North and from thence into Spaine And after that Iames fits Thomas was broken hee told this examinat that if Iames could get Forces out of Vlster the said Florence would joyne with him Farther Florence intised Connocke Mac Dermond to enter into rebellion and marry his Sister to Iames fits Thomas who should giue unto him Kerry whereby that his eldest Sonne should marry Cormocks Daughter and Cormocks eldest Sonne to marry his daughter who in mariage with her would giue Carrigenesse with twelue Plow-lands which mariage hee proposed for their firmer vnion in their rebellious enterprise And that hee had loaden a Barque with Irish commodities to bee sent beyond the Seas which should returne him munition c. Many other treasonable actions and traitorly speeches acted and spoken by the said Florence the same Thomas Oge related unto the Lord President which for brevities sake I haue omitted which was taken at Moyallo by the President in Ianuary 1600. The President not holding himselfe sufficiently assured of Florence with his two pledges his base brother and kinsman still importuned the bringing of his eldest Sonne according to his promise upon his first protection hee having no pretext for his longer stay sent to Owen Mac Teg Mergagh in Desmond to carry his said Sonne to Corke there to bee left as a pledge for him within a few dayes after this message sent Florence receiving advertisement from Tyrone of certaine Spaniards landed in the North and hearing continuall rumors of Northern forces to infest the Province dispatched a Messenger to the said Owen Mac Teg mergagh to make stay of his Sonne for a longer time viz. untill hee might perceiue what would bee the issue of those preparations but before the Messenger could come the said Owen was with the child upon his way and come to Corke before the said Messenger overtooke him but had not as yet delivered the child out of his owne custody wherefore receiving this countermand hee secretly conveyed the child out of the Citie and returned with him againe into Desmond where he was kept as before untill Florence had seene that there was neither Irish nor Spaniards appeared to his aide succour and comfort In the Moneth following namely in Ianuary hee sent divers Letters to Tyrone and other his fellow traytors in the North and from them received severall answers whereof some part chanced to come to our hands which wee will here insert and first there doth offer it selfe one Letter written by Donogh Mac Cormock to the King of Spaine in the name of Florence Mac Cartie the tenor whereof was as followeth A Letter from Donoghe Mac Cormock in the name of Florence to the King of Spaine HAving received direction from the Earle of Clan-Care I would not omit this opportunity at the departure of the Archbishop of Dublin and Don Martin de La Cerda to make knowen to your Majestie how the said Earle hath written to your Majestie by two or three wayes but understanding that these Letters came not to your Royall hands hee hath now againe written by me to your Majestie making offer as well of his person and lands as of his vassals and Subjects to your Royall service humbly beseeching your Majestie to receiue favour and aide him with your power and liberall hand seeing there is no other that can and will assist us better against these Heretikes in this holy Enterprise From Donegall the fift of Ianuary 1601. Your Majesties loyall Vassall to kisse your Royall hands Donoghe Cartie This Letter as it should seeme was originally written and the Copie sent to Florence by one Thomas Shelton who wrote herewith other Letters unto him of his owne as followeth A Letter from Shelton to Florence Mac Carty MY honourable Lord by direction of the Lord Archbishop of Dublin and at the request of Mac Donogh your agent here I did write a Letter addressed to the King of Spaine subscribed by him In which was signified â—ow by your directiâ—â— hee had made offer of your service to his Majestie the Copie of which Letter goâ—th here inclosed what the newes and hopes of Spaine are the bearer will fully informe you This only rests that as I haue ever desired to serue your Lordship so finding now the opportunity of this Bearer I would not omit so fit an occasion to kisse your honourable hands and signifie that respect I haue ever borne towards you God preserue and assist yoâ— in all your designes that wee may liue to see accomplished by you these things whereof your noble beginnings giue an assured hope Donegall Iâ—â—â—ary the sixth sub Your most affectionate Friend Thomas Shelton Hee received also at the same time other Letters in Spanish thus Englished from the said Archbishop subscribed To the most Excellent Earle Florence Mac Cartie A Letter from the Spanish Archbishop of Dublin to Florence Mac Cartie RIght Honourable Lord God is my witnesse that after my arivall in Ireland having knowledge of your Lordships valour and learning I had an extreame desire to see communicate and conferre with so principall a personage but the danger of the way would not permit mee I am now departing into Spaine with griefe that I haue not visited those parts but I hope shortly to returne into this Kingdome and into those parts to your satisfaction and be assured that I will performe with his Maiestie the office that a Brother ought to doe that he should send from Spaine Because by letter I cannot speake any more I leaue the rest untill sight The Lord haue your Lordship in his keeping according to my desire From Donegall the sixteenth of Ianuary 1601. Yo Mateo Arçobispo de Dublin After all this namely in February next following the said false-hearted Florence wrote certaine Letters to O Doâ—â—â—ll the contents whereof may be gathered by the answer that the said O Donell remised in Irish therevnto and therefore I haue thought good to remember the same translated in this place O Donnels Answer OVr commendations to you Mac Cartie We haue received the Letter you sent the fourteenth of October and we sweare by our word that you are no lesse grieved for that you see us not then we our selues and it was not more your minde to haue ayd then ours to send vnto you if wee could for the great trouble it would bee to our selues to intend you and by your hand there was not many in Ireland more of the minde then mine owne person to haue gone to visit you had not the strangers neighboured upon my Countrey and as you know my Countrey lying on the Sea and they having the secrecie thereof to doe their endeavours to conquer what they may
and that all hee did intend or make shew of to the President was but to gaine time Shilie wife to Osulevan More and Sister to Florence Mac Cartie in September 1600. speaking with the Lord President exclaimed upon her Brother as the cause of her Husbands imprisonment with the Rebels and praying his advise and helpe for his inlargement hee told her there was no way to obtaine his liberty but to giue his oath and promise to enter into action of rebellion and perswaded her to giue him that advise Thomas Oge being examined said that Florence Mac Cartie told him upon the delivery of his first pledge that if all the children living were in her Majesties hands for his loyaltie or any other Follower hee would loose no opportunity if Tyrone were able to assist his enterprise with any sufficient forces or if Spaniards did â—and Iames fits Thomas upon the eighteenth of Iune 1601. being examined by the Lord President said that Florence Mac Carty did evermore acquaint him with all that passed betweene him and the President and did continually sweare and protest that hee would persevere in the action to the end and that the principall hopes of the Spaniards and Vlster Rebels were built upon the helpe succour of himselfe and Florence Mac Carty And to what purposes hee employed himselfe in the times immediatly following untill the time of his imprisonment may bee gathered aswell by that which hath heretofore beene delivered as by the examination of one Gillernow Okelly a Connaght man taken by Sir Francis Barkley who being deposed said that Florence Mac Carty sent his Letter and promise to Tyrone to giue Bonnogh to Redmond Burke and sixe hundred men upon Desmond and Carbery and himselfe with one thousand more of his owne would meete the said Redmond Burke in Arloghe and at the same time hee saw foure and twentie Letters written by Tyrone directed to Florence and the Traytors in Mounster You haue already perceived that this cunning hypocriticall Traytor hath written Letters to the Arch-traytors Iames fits Thomas Tyrone and Odonnell and besides hath sent or at the least procured Letters to bee sent to the King of Spaine moving and intreating him to invade her Majesties kingdome And now for a perclose of all you shall behold Ne quid desit ad summam impudentiam that hee might equall if not exceed the most impudent and barbarous Traytor his Letters sent to his holy Father the Pope the contents whereof are as followeth A Letter from Tyrone Iames fits Thomas Florence Mac Carty and Mac Donogh to the Pope SAnctissime Pater cum superioribus annis Dei summi nutu voluntate excitati ad recuperandum Hoc regnum ab Anglorum graâ—issimo jugo qui Religionem Regionem vi tyrannide multis seculis occupaâ—ere id nunctandem post multa pericula exantlata pro majore parte excussimus sanctitati vestrae exponimus quod prima nobis praecipua fuit cura perpetuoque erit statum Ecclesiae hîc fere extinctum in integrum restituere collapsum redintegrare ita apud nos judicantes nostrarum partium esse vitam ipsam omnemque substantiam nostram in eo augendo impendere id quod libentiori animo praestare conamur ut non dicamus cogimur quia nisi tempestive communi malo in utroque statu occurserimus nobiscum deterius longe actum fuisset quam Turcae solent agere cum sibi subditis Christianis adeo ut vel fugae esset consulend ' vel hic mors obeunda Rebus itaque in angustias has redactis ad quem majore spe jureque accedere cujusque opem implorare possumus ac dobemus quà m ad te Pater spirituum in terris ut filijs spiritualibus miserè adhue afflictis jugoque longe graviore crudeliore quà m Pharaonico attritis adsis Quod nos speramus à pietate tua consecuturos exemplo omnium afflictorum qui ad sedem tuam in talibus aerumnis accedentes opem atque desider atiorem exitum fuerunt consecuti Ad te igitur communem omnium afflictorum praesertim fidei causa laborantium pium bene volum Patrem tanquam aâ— unicum nostrum refugium tutissimum asylum confugimus fusisque lachrimis humiliter petimus ut nostros gemitus audiat vota suscipiat ac postulatus concedat ut eorum ora obstruantur franganturque vires qui oderunt Sion ac impediunt diruta Ierusalem denuo reaedificari Maenia ubi si nobis credere dignetur tua Sanctitas Nunquam antecessores nostri ex tempore quo Regnum hoc in manus Anglorum devenerat adjutores fuerant quà m nos sumus ad fidem à nostro Apostolo Sancto Patricio traditam suscipiendum ad eamque proh dolor in his partibus fere eâ—tinctam hactenus pene sepultam excusso jam pro parte Anglorum jugo exsuscitandam promovendam augendam amplificandam Quia nihil aliud in his votis habemus quà m videre Dei gloriam sidei orthodoxae propugnationem annuere itaque dignetur vestra sanctitas nostris petitionibus qui spretis honoribus commodis quibuscunque diem ulteriorem vivere non desideramus quà m videre Dei Ecclesiam toto orbe â—â—orentem petimus autem inprimis ut ad majora fidei incrementa illis sedibus vacantibus in hoc Regno ij qui vita moribus literatura sunt conspicui quique in negotio fidei promovendo plurimum nobiscum laborant praeficiantur quosque nobiscum Reverendissimus Corcagen ' ac Cloanen ' Episcopus nominavit ac commâ—ndavit tanquam idonei Pastores ad Dei gregem verbo et exemplo instruendum ne indignis qui sine ordine fortasse summâ— cum authoritate ambitione sese animarum curae ingererent nisi occurreretur aditus pateat Quod ut petamus movemur propter summam animarum jacturam quam ob Pastorum paucitatem in vtraque Monioniae provincia qui undecim Episcâ—patus sub Metropoli Cassilensi complectitur excipimus enim Reverend ' Corcagen ' Cloaneum qui senio labore jam penâ— est confectus nostri potiuntur hoc eo confidentius petimus quia qui electi consecrati ad nos dimissi fuerunt à vestra sacrosancta sede ad vacuas hijs in partibus sedes occupandas à nobis pro viribus in ijsdem Deigracia defendantur ut gregibus sibi Commissis tuto invigilare queant Insuper desideramus ut quemadmodum felicis recordationis Pius Quintus Pontifex Maximus contra Reginam Angliae ejusque fautores Bullam excommunicationis ediderat Necnon Gregorius 13. eandem continuaverat ac vim habere in bello Giraldinarum indicavit similem quoque sententiam ad hoc bellum promovendum ad felicem exitum deducendum Sanctitas vestra emittere dignetur ac generatim sanctitati vestrae affectu quo possumus maximo regnum hoc vestrum à te solo post Deum dependens nosque humiles tuos
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
fiftie Souldiers whom hee promised to releeue if they were assayled or bring them off in boats The two Culverings were landed and all meanes vsed to mount them but it could not bee done till the next day so ill was every thing fitted by reason there had beene no use of them of a long time These two Peeces were mounted and all things put in a readinesse to batter the next day the Spaniards in the Towne discovering our purpose did that night assay to releeue the Castle by Boats and were valiantly repelled by Captaine Button with shot out of his ship The two Culverings began to play upon the Castle of Rincorran but within two or three shot the cariage of the better Culvering brake and about two of the clock in the afternoone the other received a flawe and by that meanes made unserviceable so all that could bee done that day was to mount the whole Culvering upon her cariage The same day they gaue an Alarme to our Campe drawing Artillery out of the Towne and with it played into our Campe kild two neere the Lord Deputies tent with a Demy Cannon shot and through the next tent to it brake two Hogsheads of the Lord Deputies beere and every shot that was made fell still in the Lord Deputies quarter neere his owne tent Don Iuan de Aquila perceiving the Castle would bee distressed attempted to releeue it by Boats but Sir Richard Percy beate them off who had the command of the Lord Presidents regiment that this night was appointed to guard The Culvering in the morning began to play and about nine of the clock the Demy Culvering was mounted which after a few shot brake her Axeltree before three she was remounted and by that time a Cannon likewise planted and all the three Peeces without intermission played The Lord President misliking the manner of the making of the battery not being constantly made upon one place but upon the Spikes of the Castle requested the Lord Deputie to leaue that service to his care whereunto he easily assented To shew that hee was well experienced in the profession of a Cannonier wherein hee had beene by reason of his imployments long practised he performed the office of a Master-gunner making some shot and that the Artillery might play as well by night as day himselfe did take and score out his ground-markes and with his Quadrant tooke the true levell so as the want of day-light was no hindrance but in doing thereof hee fairely escaped two Musket shott for as hee was standing at the Breech of a Cannon busie about his worke the one lighted upon the muzzle of the Peece the other upon the Carriage close to the Trunnions While wee were busie attending the Battery fiue hundred of the principall men drew out of Kinsale with shew to goe to relieue Rincorran by land toward a guard wee kept betweene Rincorran and the Towne leaving a great grosse for the seconds under the walles and under that colour to gaine a safe passage for their Boates thither whereupon out of the Regiments being then in Armes in the Campe divers broken Companies drew that way among which Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn sent Captaine Roe his Lieutenant Colonell and Sir Arthur Savages Lieutenant with one hundred men and seeing them likely to draw on a round Skirmish tooke thirtie Shott of his owne Company and went up to them where hee found Captaine Roe and Carbery Lieutenant to Captaine Thomas Butler skirmishing with Shot the Enemy being hard by them with some two hundred men and another grosse neere towards the Towne to second them The Lord Audley who drew some of his Regiment out of the Campe was then comming up assoone as Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn came where the skirmish was hee saw the Enemies drawing up to giue a charge comming close with their Pikes whom they presently encountred and beat them backe towards their seconds and made them retreat apace Notwithstanding they played upon them with their small shott out of every house in that quarter of the Towne being full of Towers and Castles In this Charge Sir Oliver received on his Target and Body divers thrusts with the Pike whereof one gaue him a very small hurt in the thigh he killed a Leader and one other with his owne hands The Lord Audley comming up to the charge was shot through the thigh Sir Garret Harvie hurt in the hand and his horse killed under him Captaine Butlers Lieutenant was slaine and foure other Sir Arthur Savages Lieutenant shot through the Body and thirtie other hurt the Enemy left ten or eleuen dead in the place besides those that were hurt which in all likelihood were many by reason of the neernesse of the shot and as one reporteth that came the next day from Kinsale and had bin in the Ghesthouse amongst them 70 were brought thither hurt whereof eight dyed that night In this skirmish was taken prisoner Iuan Hortensio de Contreras that had been Sergeant Major of the forces in Brittany and divers very good Armes and Rapiers gotten from the Spaniards All this while the three Peeces played upon the Castle untill sixe of the clock at night at which time they in the Castle founded the Drum and prayed admission of parley which the Lord President whom the Lord Deputie had left there himselfe returning to take care of the Campe accepted there came with their Drum an Irish man borne in Corke who prayed in the name of the rest that they might bee licensed to depart to Kinsale with their Armes bag and baggage this being denyed by the Lord President who would not conclude with any but the Commander of the place hee returned the Messenger willing him to tell the Commander that no other but himselfe should bee heard and that hee had no commission to grant them any other composition then to yeeld to her Majesties mercy Then immediatly they sent the Drum againe and with him a Sergeant called Pedro de Herodiay çuaçola whom the Lord President refused to speake withall upon whose returne the Commander himselfe called Bartholomeo Paez de Clavijo an Alfero came to the Lord President but not agreeing upon the conditions for hee still insisted to depart with their Armes to Kinsale being put safe into the Castle the battery began afresh and the Defendants bestowed thicker vollies of shot then at any time before at length about two of the clock when they found the weake estate the Castle was growen into by furie of the battery they sounded againe their Drumme for an other parley which not being accepted many of them endeavored to escape under the Rocke close to the water side which being espied by us our men ran presently close to the Castle wals and if the Lord President had not forbidden them although the breach was not sufficiently assaultable they would haue entered the house of those which attempted to escape
there were three and twentie Spaniards taken and of this Countrey birth a great multitude of Churles women and children there was likewise slaine of the Spaniards towards thirtie all this while the Enemy shot not a shot but as men amazed lay still of the Irish there was not a man taken that bare weapon all of them being good Guids escaped onely one Dermond Mac Cartie by them called Don Dermutio was taken who was then a pensioner to the King of Spaine and heretofore a servant to Florence Mac Cartie A good while before day the Lord Deputie sent Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn to the President to signifie his pleasure unto him which was if they would render themselues hee should accept of their offer excepting the Irish not long after Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn was departed that no error might bee committed towards the morning the Lord President went to the Lord Deputie to make relation of that nights proceeding and upon deliberation it was thought convenient if the Spaniards would quit their Armes and render the place with promise of life onely to bee sent into Spaine that they should bee received to mercy the consideration whereof grew upon these reasons the one because in forcing a breach it was likely many good men should bee lost and also to intice others that are in Kinsale to leaue the place wherein they felt misery by the example of this mercifull dealing with those of Rincorran but especially because expedition in the taking of this Castle had many important consequences About one houre after day the Commander sent word to the Lord President that hee would render the place and quit all their Armes so as they might bee sent to Kinsale which being refused hee intreated onely that himselfe might hold his Armes and bee sent to Kinsale which also being denyed hee resolutely determined to bury himselfe in the Castle and not to yeeld his Company seeing his obstinacie did threaten him to cast him out of the breach so as they might bee received to mercy in the end it was concluded that all his people should bee disarmed in the house which was done by Captaine Roger Harvie Captaine of the Guards that night and himselfe to weare his sword untill hee came to the President and then render it unto him which being performed upon his knees they were brought prisoners into the Campe and from thence immediatly sent unto Corke The last of October the President received a gratious Letter from her Majestie all written with her owne hand it was short but yet therein is liuely expressed in what a thankefull sort his service was accepted the true Copie whereof here ensueth CHAP. XIIII Her Majesties Letter to the Lord President A supply of Munition and victuals A resolution in Councell that Forces should be sent to encounter O Donnell The Lord President of a contrary opinioâ— and his reasons The reasons why this service was imposed upon the Lord President The Lord President marcheth towards O Donnell O Donnell lodgeth neere the Holy Crosse and the strength of his Quarter O Donnell by the meanes of a great Frost pâ—ssed over the Mountaine of Shewphelim whereby hee escaped from fighting with the Lord President O Donnels hastie March The principall men that were in O Donnels Army The principall men in Tyrones Armie Her Maiesties Letter unto the Lo. President MY faithfull George if ever more service of worth were performed in shorter space then you haue done Wee are deceived among many eye-witnesses Wee haue received the fruit thereof and bid you faithfully credit that what so Witt Courage or Care may doe Wee truely finde they haue beene all truely acted in all your Charge and for the same beleeue that it shall neither bee vnremembred nor vnrewarded And in meane while beleeue my Helpe nor Prayers shall never faile you Your Soveraigne that best regards you ELIZ. R. The second of November the Ordnance was drawne from Rincorran to the Campe. The third the Spanish Sergeant Major which had been taken prisoner upon the last of October and the Alferes which rendred himselfe upon condition of life at Rincorran obtained licence to write to Don Iuan and one of our Drummeâ— was sent to carry their Letters The fifth foure Barques with Munitions and Victuals from Dublin arrived in the Haven of Kinsale The sixth upon certaine knowledge that Tyrone and O donnell were drawing towards Mounster the trenches of the Campe were made deeper and higher The seventh the Lord Deputie having Intelligence that O donnell with a great part of the Northren Forces was advanced neere unto the Province to joyne with the Spanyards and that Tyrone was but a fewe dayes journeyes short of him it was debated in Councell whether it were necessary that Forces should bee sent towards him to divert his intention It was agreed by the greater part that two or three Regiments of Foot and some Horse should be employed in that service The President was of a contrary opinion alledging for instance that Tyrone at his late being in Mounster at whose returne the Earle of Ormond having good Especials and very desirous to fight with him yet could never haue sight of him or of any of his company and the reasons sayd he are very apparant for they are sure to haue the Countrey to friend to giue them howerly intelligence of our lodging and marches and they are so light footed as if they once get the start of us be it never so little wee shall hardly or never overtake them Notwithstanding these reasons it was concluded that Forces should be sent and for so much as the Countrey would bee more willing to giue assistance to the Lord President then to any other as also because hee was best acquainted with the passages and places of advantage to giue Odonnell impediment Hee was commaunded with his owne Regiment and Sir Charles Wilmots which were in List two thousand one hundred and fiftie but not by pole aboue one thousand and three hundred and fiftie Horse in List which were by pole two hundred and fiftie to undertake the Service and for his better strength Sir Christopher Saint-Laurence who with his Regiment was comming into Mounster and was to meet him upon the way should joyne with him and also the Rising out of the Countrey The President in Obedience though without hope to meete with an Enemy that hath no will to hazard his Troupes in fight for so hee conceived of Odonnell the seventh of November left the Campe and never ceased travelling untill with long and weary Marches hee came to Ardmaile in the Countie of Tipperary Odonnell with his sharking Troupes lodging not farre from the Holy Crosse their Campes not being distant the one from the other aboue foure miles But the Countrey stood so partially affected to the Traytors as by no promise of reward or other satisfaction could they bee induced to drawe any draught upon them
shot being made from those ships they dismounted the Spaniards Peece within and hurt their chiefe Gunner so as it played no more Betimes in the morning those three Peeces from the poynt of the Hill neere the water played upon the Towne doing great hurt by reason they were so neere planted but because the day fell out extreame windy and rainy they were enforced to leaue and spent the rest of the day in drawing downe some other Peeces that were planted upon the first platforme CHAP. XVII The Towne of Kinsale summoned and Don Iuan his Answer The Spaniards beaten out of their trenches The Marshall went to view the Towne to discover a fit place to batter A skirmish entertayned for the viewing of the breach An intrenchment made on the West side of the Towne A bold attempt of a Sergeant of ours wherein he was slaine A Souldier slaine standing betweene the Lord Depâ—â—y and Lord President The great sally made by the Enemy with a furious charge both upon the plat forme where the battery was placed and upon a new entrenchment on the West side of the towne the Enemy repulsed and beaten The Enemy gained our entrenchment on the West-side of the towne The entrenchment recovered from the Enemy The losse on the Enemies part and on our part IN the morning a Trumpeter was sent to summon Kinsale who was not suffered to enter into the Towne but receiving his answer at the Gate viz. that they held the Towne first for Christ and next for the King of Spaine so would defend it Contra tutti inimici upon his returne with this answer the Lord Deputie gaue direction to beginne the battery with all the Artillery who continued in shooting upon the Gate till towards night and brake a great part thereof during the time the Ordnance played Sir Christopher Saint-Laurence drew out from the other Campe some Foote and gaue upon the Spaniards trenches which they possessed with great numbers at the other end of the Towne being enforced to goe thereunto through the furie of the shot which they could not endure in that part of the Towne where the Ordnance played at his first giving upon them hee beate them out of the trenches following them to the very Gate of the Towne and killed some of them returning without losse on our side saue onely some hurt All the Artillery still played and brake downe most part of the Gate and some part of a new worke made before the Gate The Marshall taking some fiftie shot went to the wall of the Towne to view which was the best place to make a breach and found the wall close to the Gate on the right hand to bee the fittest after he had taken view and made a slight skirmish with the Spaniards hee returned without any losse saving some three hurt and caused the Artillery to beate upon that place who played upon it without any intermission and brake downe before night a very great part of the wall which the Enemy attempted to make up in the night but were beaten from it by our Guards who played upon them most part of the night A Spaniard ran away this day from Kinsale who reported to the Lord Deputie that our Artillery had killed divers Captaines in the Towne besides private Souldiers Resolved in Councell and by the Councell of warre that some Foote should be drawen out of the Campe to giue the Spaniards a bravadoe and to view whether the breach was assaultable and to cause the Spaniards to shew themselues that our Artillery might the better play upon them whereupon two thousand Foote commanded by Sir Iohn Barkley and Captaine Blaynie were presently put in Armes and drawen neere the wals of the Towne who entertayned a very hot skirmish with the Spaniards that had lodged themselues in a trench close to the breach without the Towne during the continuance of this skirmish our Artillery played upon those that shewed themselues either on the breach or in the trench and killed many of them besides such as were killed and hurt by our small shot after an houres fight or thereabouts when full view was taken in what manner the breach was and found not to bee assaultable our men were drawen off with little or no hurt on our side saving some three hurt and Captaine Guests horse killed under him who before killed two or three with his owne hands This night the Marshall Sir Iohn Barkley Captaine Blaynie and Captaine Bodly the Lord Deputie leaving the President in the Campe being almost all night present drew out fiue and twentie of every Company and intrenched themselues on a Hill on the West side of the Towne within lesse then halfe Callivers shot of the same and cast up a small fort to lodge some Foote to serue as seconds for the Artillery that was to be planted not farre from it our men being at worke the Spaniards about midnight began to play upon them from the wals and from a trench they possessed close to the West gate and so continued very hotly till the morning our men that guarded the Pioners playing likewise upon them and divers hurt and killed on either side Our men continued still in that worke and brought the same before night to very good perfection though the Spanyards from their high Castles and other places of the Towne sought to annoy them what they could While our men were thus at worke a Sergeant of Captaine Blaynies drew out some seven or eight shott and suddenly fell into a trench that the Spaniards possessed close to the towne wherein were some nine or ten Spaniards of which the Sergeant killed two with his owne hands and the rest every man one Not being contented therewith he attempted to giue upon another Trench possessed by the Spanyards some good distance from it but in going on the Sergeant was shott through the body and his company in bringing him off had two hurt and returned without any more losse The same day the Lord Deputie and the Lord President came to see the new Worke and as they were discoursing very neere together a Musket shot from the Towne passed betweene them and brake the backe bone of a Souldier that stood close by them whereof hee dyed This night the Trenches where the Cannon was planted being manned with the Lord Deputies Company commanded by Captaine Iames Blunt Sir Thomas Burkes commaunded by his Lieutâ—nant Sir Benjamin Berries commanded by his Lieutenant Captain Rotheram himselfe and Captaine Hobbie Captaine Muses commanded by his Lieutenant and Captaine Roger Harvie commanding in chiefe being Captaine of the Watch in a fort on the West neere the Towne betweene the two Campes that was made the morning before being manned by Captaine Flower with Sir Arthur Savages Company Sir Iohn Dowdalls Company Captaine Dillon Captaine Spencer Captaine Mastersons Lieutenant and Sir William Warrens Lieutenant with certaine Squadrons out of the
to bee done in the Earle of Thomonds quarter and that from thence they should draw out three hundred choise men betweene that quarter and the Fort built upon the West hill neere a Barricado made crosse a high way to stop the Enemies suddaine passage in the night and himselfe accompanied with the President and the Marshall advanced forwards towards the scout and having given direction to Sir Henry Davers who commanded the Horse under the Marshall for the ordering of the Troopes sent the Marshall to take view of the Enemy who brought him word that Horse and Foote of theirs were advanced whereupon the Lord Deputie with Sir Oliver Lambert rid to view a peece of ground betweene that and the Towne which had on the backe of it a Trench drawen from the Earle of Thomonds quarter to the West for t on the front a boggish Glyn and passable with Horse onely at one ford which before hee had intrenched the ground whereupon the Enemy must haue drawen in grosse to force the passage was flankerd from the Earles quarter by the Cannon it was resolved to make that ground good being of greater advantage for Horse and Foote both to bee imbattled and to fight upon view whereof the Lord Deputie sent the Marshall word that on that place hee was resolved to giue the Enemy battaile and sent the Sergeant Major Sir Iohn Barkley to draw out Sir Henry Folliots and Sir Oliver Saint-Iohns Regiments to that place O Campo that commanded all the Spaniards that came last out of Spaine desired Tyrone that hee might imbattle his men and presently giue on to joyne that way with Don Iuan for their purpose was at that time by that meanes to haue put into the Towne all the Spaniards with Tirrell and eight hundred of their chiefe men and the next night from the Towne and their Army to haue forced both our quarters of the successe whereof they were so confident that they reckoned us already theirs and were in contention whose prisoners the Lord Deputie should bee and whose the President and so of the rest But Tyrone discovering the Marshall and Sir Henry Davers to bee advanced with all the Horse and Sir Henry Powers squadron of Foote retired beyond a ford at the foote of that hill with purpose as he fained till his whole Army were drawen more close instantly the Marshall sent the Lord Deputie word by Sir Francis Rush that the Enemy retired in some disorder whereupon the Lord Deputie came up unto him and gaue order that all the Foote should follow when we were advanced to the Ford but our Foote not wholly come to us the Enemy drew off in three great bodies of foot and all their horse in the reare The Lord Deputie asked of some that understood the Countrey whether beyond that ford there were neere any ground of strength for the Enemy to make advantage of but being answered that there was none but a faire Champion he drew after the Enemy and then desired the Lord President to returne from thence and secure the Campe and attend the sallies of Don Iuan which hee did with whom the Lord Deputie sent the Earle of Thomonds Horse Sir Anthony Cookes and Sir Oliver Lamberts and only tooke with him betweene three or foure hundred Horse and under twelue hundred Foote but being drawen out some mile farther we might perceiue the Enemy to stand firme upon a ground of very good advantage for them having a bog betweene us and a deepe ford to passe and in all apparance with a resolution to fight the Marshall being advanced with the Horse neere unto the Ford sent unto the Lord Deputie that hee perceived the Enemy in some disorder and that if hee would giue him leaue to charge hee hoped to giue a very good account of it the Lord Deputie left it to his discretion to doe as he should find present occasion out of the disposition of the Enemy whereupon the Earle of Clanrickard that was with the Marshall importuned him exceedingly to fight and the Lord Deputie sent to draw up the Foote with all expedition close together who marched as fast as it was possible for them to keepe their orders the Marshall assoone as a wing of the Foote of the Vaunt-guard was come up unto him and Sir Henry Power with his Regiment drawen over the Ford advanced with some hundred Horse accompanied with the Earle of Clanrickard and gaue occasion of skirmish upon the bog side with some hundred hargubisheers the Enemy thereupon put out some of their loose shot from their battle and entertayned the fight their three battalions standing firme on the other side of the bog at the first our shot were put close to the Horse but with a second they beat the enemies loose shot into their battle and withall the Marshall with the Earle of Clanrickard and Sir Richard Greame offered a charge on a battle of one thousand Foote and finding them to stand firme wheeled a little about by this time Sir William Godolphin with the Lord Deputies Horse and Captaine Mynshall with the Lord Presidents Horse who were appointed to keepe still in grosse to answer all accidents was come up and Sir Iohn Barkley with two of our three bodies of Foote whereupon the Marshall with the Earle of Clanrickard vnited themselues with Sir Henry Davers Captaine Taffe and Captaine Fleming charged againe the Horse and the reare of the same battle who presently thereupon both Horse and Foote fell into disorder and brake All this while the Vantgard of the Enemies in which was Terrill and all the Spaniards stood firme upon a Bog on the right hand unto whom within Calievers shotthe Lord Deputie had drawen up our Reare upon a little hill and willed them to stand firme till they received direction from him but perceiving the grosse drawing betweene our men that were following the execution and the other Bodies of foot he drew up that squadron commanded by Captaine Roe to charge them in Flanck whereupon they presently drew off and in a great grosse marched to the top of the next hill and there for a little time made a stand the Reare of the Enemy beeing in â—heir retreat the Van went off with few slaine but with the losse of many of their Armes their Battell being the greatest Body was put all to the sword and not aboue some sixtie escaped The Vantguard who went last off were broken on the top of the hill the Irish for the most part quit the Spanyards who making a stand were broken by the Lord Deputies Troopes and most of them killed O Campo the chiefe Commaunder taken prisoner by the Cornet Iohn Pykman two Captaines 7. Alferoes and 40. Souldiers taken prisoners by such as followed the execution which continued a mile a halfe and left there onely tyred with killing There were of the Irish rebells twelue hundred dead bodies left in the place and as we heard from themselues about eight hundred hurt whereof many
by all the best and speediest meanes that may be Wee haue thought it good in regard of the great knowledge and experience wee haue had and found in your faith and valour and in respect of the speciall trust confidence and sufficiencie wee repose in you Wee haue thought it good to grant and commit unto you during our pleasure the command and authority by the power granted us by her Majestie over the Castles of Baltimore and Castlehaven and the whole Countrey of Carbery and over all the Countries territories or places of Collemore Collibeg Ivagh Mounterbarry Slewghteagibane Slewghteage Roe Cloncahill Clondermot Clonloghten and Coshmore and over all the other Countries territories places by what name or names soever they bee called from the Towne of Rosse to the hither parts of the Meares and bounds of Beere and Bantry and so in compasse Northwards to Muskery And we doe giue you power and authority over the Queenes people and her Subjects and Inhabitants in all or any the said Countries appoynting and authorising you hereby to prosecute with fire and sword all Rebels Traytors or other capitall Offenders and all their Ayders Releevers Maintayners Receivers and Abettors or any other Offenders whatsoever that are not ameanable to her Majesties Lawes or haue combined or adhered themselues to any her Majesties enemies or to any now in actuall rebellion against her Highnesse and to make ceasure of all their goods and chattles to her Majesties use And for the better effecting of this her Highnesse service and the speciall trust reposed in you wee doe hereby giue unto you liberty to employ or send among the Enemies or Rebels now in action such Messengers and Espialls as you sâ—all thinke fit to use and to write to parley conferre or treate with them or any of them and to receiue Messengers or Letters from them and to keepe any of them in your company fourteene dayes to procure the doing of service or to gaine intelligences from them and upon assurance and good hopes that any of the said Rebels will doe service to her Majestie Wee doe hereby authorize you to safeconduct them by warrant under your hand for the like space of fourteene dayes so as in the meane time you send them unto us or to the chiefe Governour of the Province for the time being which your safeconduct shall bee duly observed to all those you grant it unto And for the better and speedier clensing and purging the Countrey from Rebels and Malefactors Wee doe hereby giue and commit unto you full power and authority to execute by Marshall Law all notable and apparant Offenders and Malefactors that can neither dispend fourtie shillings in Lands per Annum nor are worth ten pounds in goods and as for such Rebels and Malefactors as are not within compasse of Martiall Law them to apprehend and commit to the Sheere Goale there to remaine and attend their trials by due course of her Majesties common Lawes And for the better advancement of her Majesties service wee doe hereby authorise you to goe aboard any Ship Barque or other Vessell that shall bee or arriue in those parts and to make search in them for Traytors Iesuits Seminaries Letters or prohibited wares and to make stay of them if just occasion so require and to presse and take up any the Boats or Vessels that are or shall bee within the compasse of your command and them to send and employ to such place or places as her Majesties service shall giue you occasion or otherwise to use and dispose of them as you in your discretion shall thinke meetest And this our authority and Commission to you granted to haue continuance during the pleasure of us the Lord Deputie and if wee shall not recull the same during our aboad in this Province then the same to bee in force during the pleasure of the Lord President and no longer And therefore wee doe hereby straightly charge and command all her Majesties Officers Ministers and loving Subjects to be unto you in the due execution of the premisses aiding obedient and assisting at their uttermost perils and for such your whole doings herein These shall bee unto you sufficient warrant and discharge Giuen under her Majesties privie Signet at the Campe before Kinsale the seventh day of Ianuary 1601. George Carew Richard Wingfield George Bourchier To our well beloved Captaine Roger Harvy The eleaventh the Lord President had intelligence from England that Iames the late restored Earle of Desmond was dead and that eighteene hundred quarters of Oates were sent into Mounster for the releefe of our horses CHAP. XXV Don Iuan his request to the Lord Deputie A resolution in Councell to erect certaine Forts in Mounster The request of the Inhabitants of Kinsale to the Lord President Certaine Companies cashiered A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie The Examination of Richard Owen Richard Owen his Message from Tyrone to the Lord Deputie Instructions for Captaine George Blunt THE fourteenth Don Iuan wrote to the Lord Deputie to pray his Lordship that expedition might be made in taking up of shipping for his transportation and that his Lordship would commiserate the poore Spanish Prisoners in Corke who were like to perish for want of food During the siege there had beene taken at Rincorran Castle Ny Parke in sallyes and in the overthrow of Tyrone together with some runawayes that voluntary came unto us about two hundred rather more then lesse whereof some of them had been sent into ENGLAND About this time the Lord Deputie and the Lord President went by Boate to an Iland in the River of Corke called Halbolin sixe or seven miles from the Citie which upon view they thought fit to bee fortified being so seated as that no shipping of any burthen can passe the same but under the commaund thereof Whereupon direction was given to Paul Ive an Ingeneere to raise a Fortification there and also another at Castle Ny Parke to command the Haven at Kinsale Furthermore it was resolved in Councell that Forts should haue beene erected at Baltimore and Beere-haven as also Cittadells at Corke Limrick and Waterford to keepe the Citizens in some awe but none of these workes were performed saue onely the Forts at Halbolyn and Castle Ny Parke aforesayd From the fourteenth of Ianuary unto the last of the same no matter of any consequence hapned all which time was spent in civill causes in sending of dispatches into England as occasions did result in discharging of Companies which were growen weake whereof two thousand in List were casheerd in hastning away of the Spaniards and in setling of Garisons in the East part of Mounster among other private dispatches which the Lord President sent into England hee wrote this Letter unto her Majestie A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie SACRED MAIESTIE NOw that it hath pleased the omnipotent Director of all things to blesse you with a happie Victory over the mâ—licious
that Redmond Burke and Captaine Mostian went likewise without his consent Which done being sorry as he protested of his traytorly life hee humbly craved her Majesties gracious protection promising to merit the same with future loyall service which being graunted hee departed Vpon the fourth of this moneth as aforesayd having beene in the meane time with Tyrone hee made his second addreffe to the President the Lord Deputie then being in Corke and being called before the Lord Deputie and the President he dlivered unto them a Message from Tyrone the effect whereof was that he would be glad to be received into her Majesties mercie being heartily sorry that hee had given her so just a cause of offence and likewise grieved in his soule that hee had been the cause of the effusion of so much blood the exhausting of her Majesties Treasures and the ruine of his natiue Countrey Neverthelesse this pretended griefe and humilitie was farced with some exorbitant conditions unmeet for him to demaund from his Soveraigne whom hee had highly offended or for a Monarch to graunt to a vassall Notwithstanding it was thought good to take hold of the occasion for although it should not worke the end desired which was to settle the Kingdome in tranquillitie yet a motion onely of submission proceeding from the capitall Rebell would worke in the mindes of the inferiour Traytors a mistrust of their estates and seeke by his Example to sue for grace while there was time wherein they might hope to obtaine it Vpon these considerations the Lord Deputie was willing after hee had shewed his dislike to the Conditions to embrace the motion And because that he might be assured to haue a true report returned Captaine George Blunt who had been a familiar and inward friend unto Tyrone when hee was a Subject was imployed in this businesse and for his manner of treating with him hee had these Instructions following subscribed by the Lord Deputie and the Lord President When you speake with Tyrone you shall tell him that you understand that Richard Owen came from him to the Lord Deputie with Commission from him to tell his Lordship that hee desired to bee received into the Queenes mercy if his life might be secured Whereupon you finding in him such conformitie out of your ancient loue which in former time you bare him were glad of the alteration and therefore as his friend did now undertake this long Iourney to perswade him to those courses which might best answer his dutie to his Prince and repayre his estate which in your opinion is desperate If you find him desirous to bee received to mercie you shall giue him hope of it and promise him furtherance for the effecting of it upon these conditions That he shall in token of his penitency and according to the dutie of a Subject to his Naturall Prince first under his hand write a letter of submission to the Lord Deputie humbly craving in the same her Majesties mercy with promise to redeeme his errours past by his future service That likewise he shall write a publique Submission to her Majestie imploring at her hands forgiuenesse of his faults and likewise promise amendment of his life with a willing desire to doe her some acceptable service in recompence of his transgression in the same protesting to serue her Majestie against all men either of Ireland or Forreiners that shall endeavour the disturbance of this Countrey That he shall put into her Majesties hands his eldest Sonne for the assurance of his future loyaltie and foure principall Gentlemen of his blood as he formerly promised That hee shall at his charge finde workmen to build such Forts in the Countrey of Tyrone and in such places as the Lord Deputy shall thinke fit That he shall permit throughout Tyrone her Majesties Officers of Iustice as the Sheriffes and others to haue free liberty to execute their Offices as is accustomed in other Provinces and Counties of the Realme and answer all other duties formerly promised That hee shall onely undertake for himselfe and his Pledges to lye for no more then those that dwell upon that land onely that is contayned in his Letters Patents not any way undertaking for the rest of Tyrone as Tirlogh Brassiloes sonnes Mac Maghon O Canâ— Mac Guire Mac Genis the two Clandeboyes and all of the East side of Ban. That if any of his neighbours shall continue in rebellion none of their people shall be harboured in Tyrone and likewise that none of Tyrone shall by his consent or knowledge succour any Rebell or giue assistance to them and if any such offendor shall happen to be discovered either by himselfe or any other her Majesties Officers upon knowledge thereof that hee shall doe his best endeavour to prosecute the parties offending and either take them whereby they may be tryed by the Lawes of the Realme or kill them if they may not otherwise bee had and shall assist her Majesties Officers in taking to her use the goods and chattells of the Offenders and their retinues That he shall not onely truely pay all her Majesties Rents and Duties from this time forward due unto her out of Tyrone but also pay the Arrerages that for many yeares haue been by him detayned That in respect of the great charges that hee hath put her Majestie unto although it bee not the thousand part of her disbursements In nomine paenae which in all such great offences is accustomed towards the victualling of her Majesties Garisons hee shall pay two thousand Cowes within sixe moneths That the Countrey of Tyrone may bee limited and no more by him to be possessed then is contayned in his Letters Pattents That the territory of Tyrone might bee divided into shieres and haue Goales as hee hath formerly desired That hee put at liberty the Sonnes of Shane Oneale and all other prisoners English and Irish These things you shall only propound as from your selfe yet as conceiving that they will be demanded at his hands if hee be received and to draw as large an overture from him of what hee will agree unto as you can perswade him telling him that the greater assurance he doth giue the estate of his loyaltie the greater will bee his safetie for wee shall conster his good meaning by his free offer thereof and after wee shall haue the lesse reason to bee jealous of him Mountioye George Carew CHAP. XXVI The King of Spaines Letters intercepted A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to the Archbishop of Dublin A Letter from the Secretary Ybarra to Don Iuan de Aguila A Letter from the Secretary Fragursa to Don Iuan de Aguila A Letter from the King of Spaiâ—e to Don Iuan de Aguila ABout the tenth of February Dou Iuan de Aguila residing in Corke whilest his Troopes were preparing to bee embarqued for Spaine In this interim a Spanish Pinnace landed in the Westermost
thought it to bee rather done by some of the Countrey thieues but if the fact was committed by Souldiers it was most like to bee done by some Irish men who thought it to bee a good purchase as well as the money to get the Letters to shew them unto their friends in rebellion that they might the better understand in what estate they were in Don Iuan not being satisfied with this answer desired the Lord Deputie to enquire of the Lord President for of his intercepting of them he had a vehement suspition whether hee had any knowledge of the matter and so they departed The next morning the Lord Deputy related to the President the complaint and his answers Don Iuan eager in the pursuite of his Letters came to know of the Lord Deputie what the President answered The Lord Deputie answered him upon his fayth that hee was sure that the President had them not which hee might well doe for they were in his owne possession In conclusion a Proclamation was made and a reward in the same promised for him that could discover the Theeues and a pardon for their liues graunted that committed the fact if they would come in and confesse it with this Don Iuan rested satisfied How much the intercepting of these Letters did import her Majesties Service not one Spanyard being then imbarked but remaining in a Body at Kinsale may appeare by these ensuing Letters Englished taken at that time A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila NOt many dayes past I wrote unto you and now I make answere to those which I received from you the thirteenth of the last October assuring you that his Majesty puts great confidence in your care and valour As touching the men and other things which you demaund there is dispatched a good quantitie and more is in preparing and make you no doubt but still more shall bee in sending as much as may bee for his Majestie hath it before his eyes and I haue taken in hand the solliciting thereof Wherefore you may bee assured that you shall not want any thing which may bee sent that is needfull There is now in readinesse 150 Launces which shall be presently embarqued and more men are in levying with expedition with whom Money shall be sent And so referring my selfe for the rest to his Majesties Dispatch I will say no more but to assure you that in all things which may concerne you esteeme mee ever to bee your Sollicitor God keepe you Valladolid the fourth of December 1601. El Duque de Lerma Marques de Denia To Don Iuan de Aguila Master of the Campe Generall of the men of Warre in Ireland A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to the Archbishop of Dublin I Haue received your Lordships Letters giving thanks to God for the successe of your journey for by it it appeares that there is a way and doore open for many good purposes for his service and his Majestie hath much confidence of the care zeale which your Lordship hath for the progression in the same Now we send you a good Body of men with such things as is necessary and more shall be prepared and so continue sending as much as wee may whereof you need not doubt for his Majestie whom God preserue holds it before his eyes forasmuch as the most important thing appertaining to this businesse is the joyning of the Earles with Don Iuan de Aguila his Majestie commandeth your Lordship to doe in it your uttermost endevour according to the confidence hee hath in your zeale God preserue your Lordship From Valladolid the fifth of December 1601. El Duque de Lerma Marques de Denia Let not your Lordship be weâ—ried with your travells I hope in God they will be full of good successes Al Arâ—obispo de Dublin A Letter from the Secretary Ybarra to Don Iuan de Aguila BY Captaine Albornoz I wrote unto your Lordship and I wish that this dispatch may overtake him at the Groyne according to the desire I hold that it and that which goes with it were with your Lordship certifying you that as much is done as may be for your supply in all things I wrote unto your Lordship that there were two Companies of Horse ready to be sent unto you but now I say there is three and in them two hundred and twenty Souldiers well armed and horsed and it please God they shall be all embarqued in this Moneth God in his divine mercy guid them There is men levied in all Castile and Portugall and shipping embargâ—d to transport them victuals and other necessaries in providing and now at this instant there is embarqued in Lisborne in the Groyne and Saint Ander a more then sixe thousand Hanegas of Wheat and three hundred pipes of Wine and some Beanes and Rice and sixe hundred Arrobas of Oyle and moreover besides this which I say is embarqued there are Commissaries taking of more up and no care shall be wanting to â—asten them away I haue spoken with Captaine Moreles and of that which hee hath told mee of the seat of the place and of the small number of men your Lordship hath I feele my selfe grieved but when I call to mind what a person Don Iuan de Aguila is the way is open unto me to expect great matters and I hope God will grant the same according to the worth of your Lordship against your wicked enemies Let your Lordship hasten the joyning of the Earles with you for of all things that is most important which being done before the Queene can reenforce her Army all is accomplished I am desirous to heare that the excellent good Horsemen were with your Lordship that with them your Lordship may winne honour in the field c. From Valladolid this seventh of December 1601. Estevan de Ybarra To Don Iuan de Aguila Generall Master of the Campe. A Letter from the Secretary Franquesa to Don Iuan de Aguila HIs Majestie is much satisfied of the good government in those occasions of your Army and I hope in God that with the succors which now shall bee sent unto you it will bee bettered in such sort that you will not onely bee able to defend your selfe from the Enemies but also to chastise them the meanes to effect the same is for you to hold your selfe as you are untill the succours aforesaid doe â—ome in the meane time the more you are pressed upon the more will be your reward and recompence which his Majestie will conferre upon you the which I will thrust on as occasion shall offer it selfe and bee alwayes vigilant in these things which shall concerne your Lordship as I haue beene God preserue your Lordship according to my desire From Manâ—illa the thirteenth of Ianuary 1602. To Don Iuan de Aguila Master of the Campe Generall of his Majesties Army in Ireland A Letter from the Duke of Lerma to Don Iuan de Aguila BY that which Zubiare and Pedro Lopez
foote The same day that Captaine Harvie came to Castle-haven the Odrischals who had the inheritance of the same by a slight got into the Castle and had made themselues masters of it the Spaniards to recover it againe assaulted it and were undermining the same when Captaine Harvie was entering into the Haven but upon the sight of his ships the Irish by composition to depart in safetie rendered it to the Spaniard who had lost two of their Souldiers in the attempt The one and twentieth Captaine Harvie having in his Company the Veador and some other Spaniards set saile for Baltimore whereupon the three and twentieth they went on land and were feasted in the Castle of Donelong by the Governour thereof called Andreas de Aervy and the next day by the direction of the Veador their Ordnance being seven in number in the Castle were shipped And the sixe and twentieth the said Castle and the Castle of Donneshed were with Spanish gravitie rendered to her Majesties use The second of March following they were all embarqued and set saile for Spaine while these things were in doing Captaine Roger Harvie sent a partie of men to Cape-Cleere the Castle whereof was guarded by Captaine Terrils men which they could not gaine but they pillaged the Iland and brought from thence three Boats and the second day following the Rebels not liking the neighbourhood of the English quitted the Castle wherein Captaine Harvie placed a Guard at this time Sir Finnin Odrischall came to Captaine Harvie and submitted himselfe The tenth of the same Moneth the Lord Barry Captaine Taffe and Captaine Iohn Barry chanced to light upon Donoghe Moyle Mac Carties men and slew eighteene of the best of them From Baltimore Captaine George Flower was shipped in a Hoy of one hundred and twentie Tuns with two Companies of two hundred in list but weake by pole to receiue from the Spaniards the Castle of Dunboy but doe all hee could by reason of fowle weather and contrary winds hee could never although hee was at the mouth of the Haven of Beere recover the Land and so enforced to returne effecting nothing in this short Navigation fiftie of his Souldiers by infection dyed and but seven of the Saylers living CHAP. XXVIII The Spanyards imbarqued at Kinsale The Spanyards dispossessed of Doxboy by Osulevan Beare A Letter from Osulevan Beare to the King of Spaine A Letter from Osulevan Beare to the Earle of Carazeâ—a A Letter from Osulevan Beare to Don Pedro de Zubeaur THE twentieth of Februarie twentie Spanish Captaines with one thousand three hundred seventie foure Souldiers set sayle from Kinsale for Spaine The Composition which Don Iuan did make when he surrendred Kinsale did infinitely grieue and offend the Irish and especially those who had voluntarily delivered into his hands their Castles but especially Donnell Osulevan who considering that if his Castle of Donboy should bee in the possession of the English hee was like to be banished his Countrey not having any hope of favour from her Majestie unto whose Crowne and Dignitie hee had manifested himselfe to bee a malicious Traytor resolved to set up his rest in regaining of it out of the Spanyards hands and afterwards to defend it against her Majesties Forces as well as hee might For accomplishing whereof they watched a fit opportunitie and surprized it in this sort Although the Spaniards were the Masters of the Castle yet evermore he had recourse into it lodged therein with such of his men as hee thought good In the dead time of the night when the Spanyards were soundly sleeping and the key of the Castle in the Captaines custody Osulevan caused his men amongst the which there were some Masons to breake a hole in the wall wherein fourescore of his men entered for by appoyntment he had drawne that night close unto the Castle Archer the Iesuite with another Priest Thomas fits Maurice the Lord of Lixnaâ— Donnell Mac Cartie Captaine Richard Tirrell and Captaine William Burke with a thousand men When day appeared Archer prayed Francesco de Saaredra the Spanish Captaine to goe with him to Osulevans chamber unto whom hee made relation that his men were entred the Castle that he meant no personall hurt either unto him or to any of his and that he would keepe the same for the King of Spaines use and also told him that hee had one thousand Foot within Harquebusse shott of the Castle The Captaine seeing himselfe surprized made no resistance and willed his men to doe the like But the Spanyards in furie discharged a few Musket shott amongst the Irish and slew three of them and hurt one but by the mediation of Osulevan and Francesco de Saavedra the Captaine all was pacified Osulevan being very carefull that no hurt might bee done to the Spanyards Afterward Osulevan disarmed them all kept the Captaine and a few of the better sort with three or foure Gunners in the nature of Prisoners and the rest hee sent to Baltimore to be imbarqued into Spaine He also seazed upon all the Spanish Ordnance Munitions and Victualls which was there in store The Captaine not long after was set at libertie and returned with the Veador from Baltimore into Spaine and with him the other souldiers which were detained but the Cannoniers Osulevan reserved When report was brought to Don Iohn de Aguila then in Corke of the surprize of Dunboy he tooke it for a great affront and would presently haue drawen from Kinsale the Spanish Companies there yet remayning and march to Dunboy to regaine it by force and to deliver it according to the Composition into her Majesties hands But the Lord Deputie and the President who were desirous to see his heeles towards Ireland wished him not to trouble himselfe with that businesse and when hee was gone the President should take order for the reducing of it into his hands the Castle of Dunboy was surprized as beforesayd in this moneth of February 1601 and held by Osulevan to the use of the King of Spaine but yet to excuse himselfe unto the King and to make it appeare unto him how much hee was his servant hee wrote unto him to the Earle of Carazena and to Pedro de Zubiare there being at that present in Beerehaven the Spanish Pinnace which brought the Pacquet from Spaine intercepted betweene Kinsale and Corke as aforesaid A Letter from Osulevan Beare to the King of Spaine My Lord and my King OVt of his loue to your kingly greatnesse your humble stedfast servant Donnell Osulevan Beare enforced through perill and constraint doth make bold to enforme unto your greatnesse that upon the landing in Castle-haven in the West of Ireland your Generall Pedro de Zubiar and Pedro Lopez de Soto with a fleet and men from your Greatnesse according to the inward conceit of mind I alwayes held which I manifested in my young yeares and would haue still followed unlesse disability had constrayned mee to the contrary finding a happy
and Sir Charles Wilmot were commanded to stand in Armes in the market place aswell to assure the Campe as also to answer all other occasions all things being thus disposed of Lieutenant Kirton according to the direction giving on first in entering the breach was at the push of the Pike on the top of the same who although hee received three shot and hurt in the right arme yet with valour and resolution hee kept the place and made it good till Lieutenant Mewtas came up to his second and both they untill the Lord Presidents colours and the rest did clime up and placed their Ensignes upon a turret of the barbicon reinforced with earth and faggots of great thicknesse unto which was added a large spurre on the South west part of the Castle of the hight of sixteene foote as in like manner all the Turrets and Curtains of the Barbicon were reinforced at the top whereof they barricadoed themselues with barrels of earth and at the first approach there was within it some of the Enemy with a Faulcon of Iron whom our men forced to quit the place and to retreate themselues into a Turret adjoyning upon the South side which was rampiered with earth some sixteene foote high flanking the first it being well manned and therein a Demy Culvering and a Saker of brasse loaden with haile shot the one whereof they presently discharged upon our men that were possest of the South-west Turret and Spurre and going to lade her againe their Gunner was slaine at his Peece whereupon they being for the present deprived of the use of those Ordnance and the place wee possest playing directly into it they were forced to retreate under the safetie of the East part of the Castle which was standing where the Enemy had placed Pikes at the corners of the wals to receiue them the way betweene it and the Curtaine of the Barbicon being but sixe or eight foote broad which passage they so well defended as we could neither annoy them nor goe betwixt the two Turrets aforesaid without disadvantage and apparant danger of great losse where the shelter of the wall and the narrownesse of the passage deprived both us and them of all use of shot and there for the space of an hower and a halfe it was disputed with great obstinacie on either side the Enemy still making good defence and beating with shot and stones upon us from the staires and likewise from that part of the Castle which stood from the top of the Vault and from under the Vault both with peâ—ces and by throwing downe stones Iron bullets and other annoyances wherewith many of our men were slaine and wounded and wee oppressing them in all those places by all meanes wee might and still attempting to get up to the top of the Vault by the ruines of the breach which was maintayned by the Enemy as wee were divers times forced downe againe And whilest in each of these places our men were thus employed Captaine Slingsbies Sergeant who had gotten to the top of the Vault of the South-west Tower by cleering the rubbish thence found out that the ruines thereof had made a way that leads to a spike or window that looked into it and commands that part of the barbicon of the Castle which the Enemy possest and defended hee having beene there two howers before hee discovered the same by which passage our men making their descent to the Enemy and gayning ground upon them they being then in desperate case some fourtie of them made a â—alley out of the Castle to the Sea side whither our men pursuing them on the one side and they being crost by Captaine Blundell with a small party of men on the out side of the Barbiâ—on on the other side wee had the execution of them all there saving eight which leapt into the Sea to saue themselues by swimming But the Lord President supposing before that they would in their extremity make such an adventure to escape had appoynted Captaine 〈◊〉 Harvie and his Lieutenant Thomas Stafford with three boatâ— to keepe the Sea who had the killing of them all other three leapt from the top of the Vault where our Souldiers killed them amongst which a notable Rebell called Mellaghlen Moore being the man that layed hands first upon the Earle of Ormond and plucked him from his horse when hee was taken prisoner by Owhny Mac Roâ—ry was slaine After this the courage of the Enemy decreasing with their Numbers and not able nor daring to make such defence as they did before we gaue a new Assault to the top of the Vault where having a difficult ascent the shott from the foot of the Breach giving good assistance after some howers assault and defence with some losse of both sides wee gayned the top of the Vault and all the Castle upwards and placed our Colours upon the height thereof the whole remaynder of the Ward being threescore and seventeene men were constrained to retyre into the Sellors into which wee having no descent but by a straight winding stony stayre they defended the the same against us and thereupon upon promise of their liues they offered to come foorth but not to stand to mercy Notwithstanding immediately after a Fryer borne in Yoghall called Domnicke Collins who had beene brought up in the Warres of Fraunce and there under the League had beene a Commaunder of Horse in Brittany by them called Captaine Le Branch came foorth and rendred himselfe the Sunne being by this time set and strong guards being left upon the Rebels remayning in the Celler the Regiments withdrawen to the Campe. The eighteenth in the morning three and twentie more likewise rendered themselues simply to Captaine Blundell who the night before had the guard and after their Cannoniers being two Spaniards and an Italian for the rest were slaine likewise yeelded themselues Then Mac Goghegan chiefe Commander of the place being mortally wounded with divers shot in his body the rest made choise of one Thomas Taylor an English mans Sonne the dearest and inwardest man with Tirrell and married to his Neece to be their Chiefe who having nine barrels of powder drew himselfe and hit into the Vault and there sate downe by it with a light match in his hand vowing and protesting to set it on fire and blow up the Castle himselfe and all the rest except they might haue promise of life which being by the Lord President refused for the safetie of our men his Lordship gaue direction for a new battery upon the Vault intending to bury them in the ruines thereof and after a few times discharged and the bullets entering amongst them into the Celler the rest that were with Taylor partly by intercession but chiefly by compulsion threatning to deliver him up if hee were obstinate about ten of the clock in the morning of the same day constrained him to render simply who with eight and fourtie more being
his greatnesse who will by no meanes giue me a portion of Land to liue upon as was promised upon the delivery up of Kilcrey by your Honour wherein as of the rest I doe againe humbly beseech your favour and so as with a repentant and penitent transgressor of the Lawes I doe humbly submit my selfe to her Majesties grace and will endeavour my selfe hereafter by my good deeds and services to wipe out the memory of my former follies Expecting your favourable Answer I most humbly take my leaue From Carrigifuky this ninth of Iune 1602. Your Honours most humble to commaund Teg Mac Cormock Cartie The combination lately by Cormocke contracted with the Priest Owen Mac Eggan being manifestly prooved by severall witnesses subject to no Exceptions the Gentleman Porter called Master Raph Hammon was commaunded to bring the Prisoner before the President and Councâ—ll which were assembled at Shandon Castle who making his apparance was charged with the severall Treasons afore recited who insisted very much upon his Iustification pretending that those accusations were injuriously devised and slanderously suggested by his Enemies especially for the last Article concerning the Conspiracie with the Priest Mac Eggan which indeed was so cunningly and secretly caryed as he supposed that it was rather presumed then prooved against him Hee renounced all favour and pardon if it would bee justified by lawfull testimony The President replyed that this was the onely matter of substance that he was charged withall the former being pardoned since the perpetrating thereof being onely inducements and presumptions whereby they were the rather mooved to giue â—are and credit to the latter accusation But hee still persisting in his Innocencie was at last urged with this Dilemma namely that either hee should confesse his fault and so intreat her Majesties mercy or else in token of his loyall and guiltlesse heart he should deliver unto the State his Castle of Blarney upon condition that if the fact whereof he was charged were not evidently prooved against him the sayd Castle should be redelivered to him or his assignes by a day appoynted At first hee seemed very inclinable to the motion but in processe it was perceived that hee intended nothing but jugling and devices wherefore a Warrant from the whole Body of the Councell was directed to the sayd Gentleman Porter straightly charging and commanding that he should be kept in yrons closer then before untill he should demeane himselfe in more dutifull conformitie And besides they appoynted Captaine Taffe in whom Cormock reposed much trust to perswade him to surrender the sayd Castle into the Presidents hands undertaking upon his credit to retaine the same and all the goods in it or neere thereunto belonging either to himselfe or his followers from losse and danger either by Subject or Rebell Cormocke at last finding that the President was resolved either to make him bend or breake caused his Constable though much against his will to yeeld the said Castle to Captaine Taffe so that no other whatsoever might haue the charge or custodie thereof The Prisoner besides the Castle of Blarney had two places kept by his Dependants of good importance to commaund the Countrey the one an Abbey called Kilcrey distant from Corke sixe myles and the other a Castle called Mocrumpe sixteene miles distant from Corke the former scituated upon the South and the latter upon the North side of the River of Lee. The Castle and Abbey of Kilcrey was rendred to Captaine Francis Slingsbie sent thither by the President But Mocrumpe seated in the heart of Muskrey and invironed round about with woods and bogges could not be gotten without the countenance of an Armie therefore the President sent first Captaine Flower and afterwards Sir Charles Wilmott with competent numbers of Foot and Horse to lye before it untill such time as they might gaine it by Sapp or Myne or by some other stratageme as time and occasion should minister opportunity During this siege the President cast about for his wife and children and having gotten them likewise into his hands confined them within the walles of Corke These things thus accomplished the President dispatched Letters both to the Lords of her Majesties Privie Councell of England and also to the Lord Deputie and Councell of Ireland relating unto them the apprehension of Cormocke and the reasons inducing him thereunto desiring also to receiue their Lordships pleasures for his further proceedings in this businesse but before answere could bee returned an unfortunate accident unexpected altered the whole platforme of this intended service For Cormocks followers had plotted his escape and likewise to procure Cormock Oge his eldest sonne who was then a Student in Oxford to bee convayed secretly out of the Vniversitie and to be brought into Ireland or as some thought to bee sent into Spaine for effecting whereof Iohn O Healy one of Cormocks old theeues was the next passage to be sent into England Advertisement hereof was brought to the President who for preventing of both these Designes first sent for the Gentleman Porter delivered unto him at large the great prejudice that should arise to her Majesties Service if the prisoner should escape that the Queenes charge and his owne paines and laborious travell were all frustrated yea if the Spaniards should arriue as they were expeâ—â—ed the whole kingdome of Ireland should receiue hazard and prejudice by it Wherefore he charged him upon his duty to the State his allegeance to her Majestie and in the loue he bare unto himselfe that hee would bee no lesse carefull of his safe keeping then of his owne life which in some sort depended thereon Answer was made by Hammon that his Lordship should not need to trouble his minde with any such imaginary doubts for if shackles of yron walles of stone and force of men for hee had certaine Souldiers allowed him for a Guard could make him sure then should the Prisoner bee forth-comming whensoever the State should bee pleased to call for him and for Iohn O Healy the President held a watchfull eye over him but it was not thought good to make stay of him untill he should be aboard the ship that such Instructions and Letters as should bee sent by him might with himselfe bee apprehended whereby the whole circumstance of these plots and the chiefe Agents therein might bee discovered to make short the wind was faire the Master hasteth aboard the Marriners and Passengers purposing to set saile the next tyde amongst the rest Iohn O Healy unregarded as hee thought is also on shipboard but hee was much deceived in his opinion for presently a Messenger sent from the State found him in the hold when he began to search him for his Letters he making shew to deliver them willingly upon a suddaine threw both his Letters and money into the Sea which although it did plainely demonstrate apparant guiltinesse yet could hee never afterwards bee wrought to confesse either the contents of the one or
the summe of the other pretending ignorance in both whereupon hee was committed to the common Goale But let us leaue Cormock for a while with the Gentleman Porter and his man in the Goale and speake of other accidents and matters of State which at this time were handled Vpon the second of September the Lord President received Letters from the Lords of the Councell wherein they signified unto him how well her Majestie and themselues liked of his services performed in Mounster with many other things worthy to be remembred which importeth me in this place to relate the true copie of the originall Letter CHAP. XIII A Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President Instructions for Captaine Harvie to write into Spaine A Letter written by her Majesties owne hand to the Lord President A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie A Letter from Captaine Harvie to Pedro Lopez de Soto the Sâ—anish Veador A Letter from O Donnell to O Connor Kerry A Letter from Don Iuan de Aguila to the Lord President A Letter from the Lord President to Don Iuan de Aguila Captaine Harvies Passeport sent to the Veadâ—r The Lord Presidents Passeport for Captaine Edny into Spaine Spanish intelligence sent from Master Secretary Cecill to the Lord President The Lord Presidents opinion sent to Master Secretary of a defensiue warre in Ireland A Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President AFTER our very hearty Commendations Wee haue according to our dueties imparted to her Majestie your dispatch of the seven and twentieth of Iuly who hath conceived so great liking of your proceedings as she hath commanded us to take notice of the same in the most gratious tearmes that our owne heart could wish being likewise most desirous that the Army under you as well in generall as those Gentlemen and Officers in particular who haue so valiantly exposed themselues to danger as appeareth by your particular relation may know that they haue ventured their liues for a Prince who holdeth them so deare as if shee could preserue her estate and them without the losse and hazard of them there is nothing which she possesseth of her owne which she would spare to redeeme their trouble and danger It remayneth now that wee acquaint what is done by her Majestie to prevent the purposes of the King of Spaine wherein wee cannot but much commend the apprehension you take of those advertisements you haue and the judgement you use in applying the same for the safetie of that Province the defection whereof as wee are sorry to find by so understanding a person as you are So doe wee hope when it shall appeare as it doth daily in all parts of Ireland that God doth blesse her Majesties Army against the Rebels and that the King of Spaine shall find himselfe not so at ease as to employ any Army there in haste that that lacke of duety and ingratitude which doth now liue in them will either dye in it selfe and turne to the contrary or else that God will as hee hath begun confound them in their owne malitious inventions It is very true that her Majesties owne advertisements doe confirme that a Pinnace of fiftie Tunne was sent with some of Odonnels Followers and some trâ—asure to assure the Rebels of an Army to come into Ireland which Pinnace being once put to Sea was forced backe againe to Vinera but they parted thence againe within three or fower dayes after which is the same that landed at Ardea whereof your Letters make mention Wee haue also assured advertisements that her Majesties fleete being kept on the Coast hath much hindered the Spanish deâ—ignes not that they were fully ready to come forth but because the fleete kept their preparations from drawing to a head for this next moneth is the time which is the fittest for them to put to Sea if her Majesties fleete doe not hinder them For which purpose though now most of her ships being long at Sea and come in with the carrick yet they are going out againe with all possible speed You shall further understand that her Majestie hath beene acquainted of the Letters of complements betweene Don Iohn and you the Copies being sent over by the Deputie by Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn whereof you now send the originall At which time hee sent her Majestie his owne and kept no counsell that â—ee had intercepted your great bribe wee haue also seene the Letter of Soto to Captaine Harvie and the Passeport of whose conference from which Passeport also proceeded her Majesty conceiveth that you may make some good use for her service in this forme following Where it doth appeare by Odonnels Letter to O Connor Kerry out of Spaine that hee is desirous to understand the State of Ireland but so as if thee bee any bad it may bee concealed from the Spaniards Captaine Harvie may in requitall of the Veadors curtesie towards him use this freedome of a Gentleman though an enemy to let him see how much the King of Spaine is abused by the Rebels who seeke to engage him upon false hopes and conceale just causes of doubts for which purpose hee shall send him Odonnels owne Letter which hee cannot deny and withall in any case it being well overâ—eene by you make him a relation of the successes of her Majesties Army now if it may bee said that they will thinke this Letter is aposted and take this to be a finenesse in Harvie the worst that can come is that this good may ensue That under colour of sending that to him there may some person goe in the ship who may discover what preparations there is in that place for the better colouring whereof hee may reply that where hee hath sent him a Passeport for the safe conduct of any person whatsoever hee should send to negotiate in the matter which passed betweene them in conference that he looked rather to haue received from him who was the Propounder of the same with so great affection some such overture from that side as might haue given him foundation to breake with the Deputy or your selfe to send over to her Majesty about it for which purpose he may offer him as good a Passeport for any of his Messengers as he hath sent to himselfe it being very great reason that such a motion should prooceed from that side rather which hath opened it selfe with greatest violence then from any of her Majesties ministers who haue in steed of their malitious attempt performed all offices of honour and humanity And so much for answer of that poynt For your opinion concerning such places as are fit to bee fortified her Majestie doeth very well approoue the reasous whereupon the same is grounded being such indeed as ought to sway her Maiesties Iudgements either one way or other for as it is true that charge is well forborne which draweth with it perill so it is a double danger to spend in any place where safetie followeth
not such a charge And therefore if you doe continue in the minde that Baltimore is like to bee of greatest use to the Enemie both in regard of the Haven it selfe and of the Countrey adjoyning and that some such Fortification may bee raysed as may commaund the Haven without any great charge her Maiestie is content that you doe proceed Otherwise if you doe thinke that whensoever any forces shall descend that the place so fortified cannot hold out for any time then her Maiestie doeth like it better both there and elsewhere that those Castles which you doe winne from the Irish seated upon the Sea bee utterly demolished rather then to bee left for the Rebells to nestle in at their first arrivall and easier to be furnished by them for their great advantage In which poynt of Fortifications because you may â—ee the temper of her Maiesties mind that useth meane in all things and knoweth when to spend and when to spare in both which never Prince was so little subiect to private â—umour either one way or other further then stood with the safetie of her state and people over which her care is rather to bee admired then matched Wee doe send you an extract of her owne Letter to the Lord Deputie how hee should governe himselfe in that poynt whereof wee feare you haue not yet had notice in respect that the distance betweene you and him is well neere the longitude of Ireland For the Artillery which you haue taken if you finde them necessarie for that Kingdome shee is well pleased that they bee detayned as well to serue for a scourge to them that brought them if againe they renew their attempt as to prevent the inconveniencie and charge of their transportation hither But if you finde them not necessary for that place but that Iron may doe as good service you may transport them in some of the Victuallers when they doe returne from that Province And so wee doe commit you to Gods protection From the Court at Greenwich this eighteenth of Iuly 1602. Your very loving Friends Thomas Egerton C. S. Notingham Robert Cecill Thomas Buchurst Iohn Stanhope Iohn Fortescue At the same time also he received a gracious Letter written by her Majestie with her owne hands which multiplied his comforts thinking all his laborious endeavours to bee fully recompensed in that they were so graciously accepted A Letter written by her Majesties owne hand to the Lord President Your Soveraigne E. R. MY Faithfull George how joyed Wee are that so good event hath followed so toylesome endeavors laborious cares and heedfull travells you may guesse but Wee can best witnesse and doe protest that your safetie hath equalled the most thereof And so God ever blesse you in all your actions Not many dayes after the receit of this gracious Letter the President in his next dispatch into England wrote vnto her Majestie this Letter following A Letter from the Lord President to her Majestie SACRED MAIESTIE IF I could sufficiently expresse the Ioy which my heart conceived when I beheld a Letter written by your Royall hand and directed unto mee who in your service haue merited little though in zeale faith and loyaltie equall to any your Maiestie would not in your more then abounding Charitie mislike your paines having thereby â—aysed the deiected spirit of a poore Creature exiled from that blessing which others enioy in beholding your Royall Person whose beautie adornes the world and whose wisedome is the myracle of our age Gracious Soveraigne three yeares are now almost fully expired since my imploiment into this kingdome tooke his beginning during which time rest in body and minde hath been a stranger unto mee and overwearied in both I doe most humbly beseech your Maiestie if this Realme bee not invaded from Spaine whereof in a few dayes true Iudgement may be made to graunt mee leaue but onely for two moneths this Winter to attend you in your Court which small time of respiring and at that time of the yeare can bee no hinderance to the Service and yet sufficient to releeue my minde and enable my body which now is not so strong as I could wish to doâ— your Maiestie that service I ought Ireland is destitute of learned men of English birth and with Irish Physicians knowing the good will they beare mâ—â— if they were learned I dare not adventure The longer I am without remedy the lesse and the lesse time I shall bee able to serue you But as I am your Majesties Creature so I doe submit the consideration of my humble and just suite to your Princely consideration at whose Royall feete and in whose Service I am howerly ready to sacrifice my life From your Maiesties Citie of Corke the nine and twentieth of September 1602. Your Sacred Majesties most humble Vassall and Servant GEORGE CAREVV After the President had received their Lordships instructions in their Letters afore mentioned hee framed an answer for Captaine Harvie written in French to the Veador and also a French Passeport the copies whereof Englished I thinke it meete to relate and with them the Letter from Odonnell formerly touched by their Lordships A Letter from Captaine Harvie to Pedro Lopez de Soto the Spanish Veador SIr after your departure it pleased God to visit mee with such extreame sicknesse as all my thoughts were fixed upon another life supposing that my dayes had beene determined By reason whereof together with my feeblenesse and absence I had not the meanes to acquaint the Lord President with the passages betwixt us untill now that the time prefixed in your Passeport is almost expired which I could not by any meanes remedy Sir I haue of late received a Letter from you dated the ninth of Aprill 1602. by the which I perceiue that you are desirous that I should send a Messenger to giue you a taste as I conceiue concerning the discourse which passed betweene us which truely I would willingly haue done if I had not beene visited with sicknesse But now finding by the opinion of all men that his Majestie is resolved to continue the warre against the Sacred person of my Soveraigne Although in my heart as a Christian I wish a firme vnity betweene their Majesties the which by their Ancestors hath beene so long time to the comfort of their Subjects religiously continued Yet now understanding of the great preparations which the King is in making for the invasion of her Majesties Dominions I confesse I am not so passionate for the peace as I was and I haue no reason to make any overture of your discourse to the Lord President there being so little probability of a peace to ensue Wherefore if you thinke it good that the matter we speake of should be set on foote because you were the first mover of it wherein you manifest your zeale I pray you to write unto mee that I may understand whether his Majestie will giue eare to a peace or no whereof you need not be scrupulous to
speake freely since you see by experience that when your designe did giue us cause of revenge we did intreat you with honour and humanity when I shall know your answer I will deale effectâ—ally with the Lord President with whom aswell in kindred as in affection I haue such interest as you haue heard and of whose worth and sufficiencie you haue bin well informed assuring you that if hee will put his hand unto it it will much advance the busines I am not in despaire of his inclination to a peace if by your answer hee may perceiue that you proceed roundly I marvell much that his Majestie and the Lords of his Councell lends their eares so much unto this traitorly barbarous nation who from their Cradles haue beene nourished in falsehood and treasons masking of late their actions under the vaile of religion whereof the truth is that in their hearts they haue neither feare of God nor faith to men And that from henceforth you may not bee blinded and see their fraud wherewith they beguile his Majestie unto whom they protest sincerity I doe send you here inclosed a Letter signed by the hand of the Traytor Odonnell written to a friend of his in this Province of Mounster called O Connor Kâ—rry which was found in the Castle of Beerehaven the which by her Majesties forces under the conduct of the President in person was within the space of seven dayes taken and razed and the Rebels put to the sword their Companions with all their forces lodging neere unto them but according to their custome they durst not second nor aid them but left them to destruction By the which Letter you shall see as cleere as the day how this Traytor Odonnell onely tempers a baite to deceiue the King your Master like unto all the rest of this nation who doe but temporize to worke their advantage by it To relate unto you truely in what estate these Rebels liue at this present howsoever they may protest and dissemble their affaires or write from hence I protest upon my soule that Tironâ— workes all he may to bee received into the favour and mercy of our Soveraigne and that all the Lords and Chiefs of the North that followed him on the day of the rowt at Kinsale and others of those parts haue submitted themselues to the Lord Deputie and for securitie haue put in their Pledges for their future loyalties And Tirone with his weake Troupes haue beene so sharply prosecuted that as a fugitiue being enforced to quit his owne Countrey hee seekes out Coverts Bogges and Woods The Lord Deputie without impeachment passes from place to place and holds all Vlster in subjection The other Provinces of Leinster and Connaght are reduced to obedience and the Province of Munster where I remaine is so much at the commandement of the Lo. President as if he would receiue to mercy all the Traytors that seeke to bee received and promise to liue as good subjects there would bee no rebels left And amongst others Osulevan who hath given you the best assurance and of whom as I think you haue most confidence doth daily make suit to be restored to the Queens favour and this I assure you from the mouth of the Lo. President Moreover as the vulgar can informe you the President absolutely commands in this Province and the traitors whose requests he rejects are so few and so weake as they liue like unto wolues and foxes flying from one place to another onely to assure their liues which kind of life cannot long endure But if the King your Master will persevere to ayd these poore traitors you shall see us when you shall enterprise it in better point then wee were it not being in your power to surprise any Port or place of importance and if it be your chance to come hither in person you shall find it to be true whereof in my particular in regard of the honor I beare you I should be exceeding sorry The Bearer hereof Walter Edney my Lieutenant whom you know by sight in his fatherly loue to his dearest Son whom he placed in the service of Captaine Pedro Enriques de Tejada lately deceased hath intreated the Lord President to licence him to see his sonne to the end that he might supply his necessary wants for default wherof he may otherwise perish which occasion I willingly embraced whereby I might write unto you by that meanes receiue your answer beseeching you to extend your favour unto him during his abode in Spaine I will doe the like for all such as depend upon you if they shall happen to arriue in this Kingdome And to the end that I might the more fully know your answere and haue the better meanes to treat the more effectually in these affayres which are of such consequence I pray you to send one from you well instructed that I may bring him to the Lo. President which will much advance the businesse you desire And as you haue given mee a Pasport for such as I should send unto you whereof by reason of my sicknes I could make no use I doe send you the like here inclosed which shal be of force untill the end of February 1602 Even so Sir being ever ready my allegiance to my Soveraigne excepted to doe you all friendship service I pray God to preserue you in health according to your own desire From Corke the 17 of September 1602. Yours affectionatly to doe you Service Roger Harvie A Monsieur Monsieur Pedro Lopez de Soto Veador generall for his Majestie of Spaine deliver these at the Groyne Sir I had forgotten one thing which is to pray you to affoord your favour to my Lieutenant that hee may vent his Merchandises transported thither and returne others which he carries onely by the meanes of Traffique for the defraying of his charges I will doe the like for any of yours that you shall send hither Roger Harvye A Passeport of Captaine Harvies sent to the Veador I Roger Harvie Captaine of a foote Company and Governour for her Majesty of Castle-haven and Baltimore c. For certaine causes concerning her Majesties service I doe giue this free Passeport to such ship and Messenger as Don Pedro Lopez de Soto Veador generall for the King of Spaine shall send into this Province of Mounster in Ireland betweene the date of this present and the last of February 1602. And if it shall happen that any of her Majesties ships or any other of her Subjects shall meete with the said Ship or that by force of wind they shall be enforced upon the Coast of England or into any part within the Realme of Ireland In her Majesties name I pray and require every of tbem that they may bee friendly entreated and that the Messenger without any impediment may bâ—â— permitted to haue free recourse unto me and to vent their merchand iâ—e being requiâ—ite for the Queenes service Dated at Corke the seventeenth of September 1602. Roger Harvie
fidei dâ—sertores in maximo vitae bonorum quae hereditario jure non sine multorum praesertim Catholicorum commendo vtilitate adhuc possidet terras peterâ— alienas eo animi decreto vt aliquandò in propriam reversus patriam patriae miles decus esse possit Proindè vos omnes pietatis et verae religionis a natores Cathol cum Regem Philippum Dominum Matheum supra dictos caeterosque cujuscunque nationuÌ„ conditionisue sitis quos vnafides vnum baptisma vnus spiritus adjunxit Oramus obsecramus obtestamur in Christi visceribus vt eum praedictum Iohannem Burke omni fide omni auxilio omni farore dignissinum Catholicum de repub ' optimè meritum accipiatis benigneque tractetis In cujus rei fidem testimonium Sigillum ac Chirographium apposui c. Malaâ—hias Duac ' Episcopus Another that calleth himselfe Fryer Simon de S. S â—â— hath these words writing to the said supposed Archbishop of Dublin A Certificate from a Popish Priest in the behalfe of Iohn Burke NOtum tibi facio vt hoc invictissimo Regi notum facere cures harum Latorem Iohannem Burke relictis bonis paternis te adire quo illi ad Regem aditum praebeas sui temporis opportunitatem ad peragenda negotia maximi ponderis momenti quae vnanimis hujus regionis saluti conducunt c. If then as in the former Letter hee tooke upon him this Iourney to make himselfe an expert Souldier whereby hee might proue in time a Champion and ornament to his Countrey or if the allegation of the later may bee credited namely that hee hath busines with the King of Spaine about affaires of great moment and consequence for the good of this nation then are his owne pretexts of religion vowes and pilgrimages devised onely for a blinder to conceale his trayterous complots To prevent therefore such mischiefes as might grow unto the State from his solicitations in Spaine the President was content that Sir George Thornton should send a messenger unto him being then in the Rebels Campe to revoke and recall him if it were possible from this irreligious expedition which at last was effected by the perswasions which his mother wife and friends vsed unto him CHAP. XX. The Lord Deputie sent to the Lord Pâ—esidâ—nâ— for men and munition and himselfe to 〈◊〉 unto him The List of her Majesties forcâ—s in Mounster Sir Edward Wingfield sent by the Lord President with fiue hundred foote into Câ—â—â—aght The Lord of Lixâ—aw defeated by Captaine Boys The Castle of Kilco tâ—kâ—n by Caâ—taine Flower The Castle of Berengary taken by Sir Charles Wilmot Sir Charles Wilmot and Sir George Thornton left by the Lord President Ioynt Commissioners for the government of Mounster A Letter sent by the Lord President from the Lord Deputy to the Lords of the Councell THE Lord Deputie understanding now in what state the Province of Mounster stood directed his Letters to the President requiring of him that if necessary occasions of present service did not forbid he would fend to Athlone for the warre of Connaght certaine foote Companies and a proportion of victuals from Limerick so much as forth of her Majesties store there might conveniently be spared and withall to repaire himselfe unto Dublin from whence hee was to take his Iourney into England The list of Mounster consisting at that time of Horse and Foote as followeth The List of Mounster as it stood Of Horse Lord President 100. Earle of Thomond 50. Captaine William Taffe 50. 200. Of Foot Lord President 200. Earle of Thomond 200. Lord Audley 150. Sir Charles Wilmot 150. Sir Richard Percye 150. Sir Francis Barâ—â—ley 150. Sir George Thornton 100. Captaine Francis Kingsmill 100. Captainâ— George Kingsmill 100. Captaine George Flower 100. Captaine Charles Câ—ote 100. Captaine Gawen Harâ—â—e 100. Captaine Thomas Boyce 100. Captaine Francis Slingsby 100. Captaine VVilliam Stafford 100. 1900. Although there was never weary Marriner in a violent and tempestuous storme more desired to arriue into his wished Harbour nor a virgin Bride after a lingering and desperate loue more longing for the celebration of her nuptiall then the Lord President was to goe for England yet was hee content to deferre his private affections in regard of the publike charge committed unto him and therefore first hee sent for Sir Charles Wilmot out of Kerry acquainting onely him with that Iourney because his purpose was having before hand had good experience of his sufficiencie to leaue him in speciall trust with the government in his absence Then hee tooke order for the satisfying of the Lord Deputie his demands and therefore appointed Sir Edward Wingfield with fiue hundred foote the three and twentieth of February to take his Iourney into Connaght And lastly having taken order how the other forces should be disposed he tooke his Iourney from Corke towards Dublin about the beginning of February being newly come to Dublin hee received Letters from Sir Charles Wilmot that the Lord of Lixnaw having assembled some two hundred foote and twenty horse in his Fastnesse neere Listall Captaine Thomas Bois left by Sir Charles to command the Garrisons in Kerry drew upon his quarter in the night killed eighty of his men tooke all his substance of Cowes Hacknies Garrans and all his provisions of Wheate Oatemell and Butter so that although his Company was not all slaine yet were they for ever after unable to assemble together in any number about the same time also Captaine George Flower tooke in the Castle of Kilcow being a place of great strength and the onely Castle in Carbery that held out in rebellion presently after this defeate Captaine Bois was advertised that the Lord of Lixnaw his brother Garret Roe Stack and some other Provinciall rebels were in the Castle of Berengary whereupon that night hee blocked up the Castle with a sufficient guard of men that none should issue forth untill the Governour his Collonell might be acquainted therewith Sir Charles receiving intelligence hereof being then holding the Sessions at Limerick instantly left the Citie and taking with him by Sea two small Peeces of Ordnance presented himselfe before the said Castle the Warders and the rest within perceiving no possible meanes to escape yeelded themselues to her Majesties mercy But the advertisement concerning the Lord of Lixnaw himselfe failed the remainder were all taken the principals presently executed and the rest were pardoned by the Lord Lieutenant at his comming to Corke The Lord President having thus left Mounster reestablished in a firme and vniuersall peace by the assent of the Lord Deputy having appoynted Sir Charles Wilmot and Sir George Thornton Ioynt Commissioners for governing the Province prepared himselfe for England but before his departure hee made an ample relation to the Lord Deputy and Councell in what estate he had left his Province and the Lord Deputy and Councell having likewise declared unto him the present estate of
attempted to relieue Rincorran The Lord Awdley Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn and Sir Garret Harvy hurt A Spanish Commander takeÌ„ prisoner The Enemy demands a parley but the Lo. President refused to treat with the messenger A second messenger likewise refused The Commander parlied with the Lord President but his offer rejected A parley the fourth time demanded and rejected The Enemy endeavored to make an escape wherein many were slaine takeÌ„ prisoners Dermond Mac Carty alias Don Dermutio taken prisoner Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn sent from the Lord Deputy with direction to the Lord President The reasons that induced the Lo. â—Deputy to receiue the Spaniards at Rincorran to mercy The agreemeÌ„t betweene the L. President and the Spanish CoÌ„mander of Rincorran 2. Novemb. 3. Novem. 5. Nov. A supply of munition victuals 6. Nov. 7. Nov. It was coÌ„cluded in Councell that forces should be sent to encouÌ„ter Odonnel The Lo. President was of a contrary opinion and his reasons The reasons why this service was imposed upon the Lord President The Lo. President marcheth towards Odonnell Odonnell lodged neere to the Holy Crosse. The strength of his quarter Odonnell by the meanes of a great frost passed over the mountaine of Slewphelin whereby hee escaped from fighting with the Lord Pâ—esident Odonnels hasty march to escape the Lord President The principall men that were in Odonnells armie The principall men in Tirones armiâ— A part of Don Dermutio his examination concerning a practise for the taking or killing of the L. President 8. Nov. 10. Nov. A Salley made by the Enemy A Spanish Captaine slaine Mr. Hopton dyed of a hurt The Earle of ThomoÌ„d landed at Castle haven with supplies of horse foot 11. Novemb. Supplies of horse foot landed at Waterford The Queens fleet and supplies of foot with munitions c. arrived at Corke 13. Novem. 14. Nov. 15. Nov A faire escape 16. Nov. 17. Nov. Castle ny Parke atteÌ„pted to bee taken by us but the enterprise fayled A Councell of Warr called by the L. Deputie The Earle of Thomond with his supplies came to the Campe. 19. Nov. 20. Nov. Castle Ny Parke rendred by the Spanyards 21. Nov. 22. Nov. A Spanish captain wouÌ„ded whereof he dyed 23. Nov. A braâ—e act of a private Souldier Approaches made neerer to the towne 24. Nov. 25. Nov. The L. President with the Earles of Thomond Clanricard returned to the Campe. A sally made by the Spaniards 26 Nov. 27. Nov. 28. Nov. The towne of Kinsale summoned and Don Iuan his answer The Spaniards beaten out of their trenches 1601. 29. Nov. 30. Nov. The Marshall went to view the Towne to discover a fit place to batter 1. Decemb. A skirmish entertayned for the viewing of the breach An entrenchmeÌ„t made on the West side of the towne 2. Decemb. A bold attempt of a Sergeant of ours wherein he was slâ—ine A Soldier slain staÌ„ding betweene the Lo. Deputie and the Lord President The great sally made by the enemy wherein they gaue a furious assault both upon the platforme where the battry was placed upon a newe entrenchment on the West side of the Towne The enemy repulsed and beaten The Enemy gayned our entrenchment on the west side of the Towne The entrenchment recovered from the Enemy The losse on the Enemies part The losse on our part 3. Decemb. A supply of Spaniards landed at Castlehaven 4. Decemb. A Councell of warre hâ—ld 5. Decemb. 6. Decemb. Good service done by a Scottishman Odonnell ioyned with the Spaniards at Cast lehaven All the Irishry in the West of Mounster and some of the English race revolted and adhered to the Spaniards Sundry Castles rendred by the Irish into the Spaniards hands Divers of the Irish had Companies in pay given unto them by Don Iuan. Tâ—e Castle of Carrigfoile taken and the Ward murdered 7. Decemb. 8. Decemb. Tyrones Army discovered neere to our Campe. 9. Decemb. A briefe report of the good service done by Sir Richard Levison upon the Spanish fleet at Castlehaven 12. Decem. 13. Decem. 14. Decem. 15. Decem. 16. Decem. 17. Decem. 18. Decem. Stilo novo Postscript Ricard Owen Stilo novo 19. Decemb. Stilo novo 20. Decemb. 21. Decemb. Tyrone with his Army approached within view of our Campe but could not be pâ—ovoked to fight The Enemy sallied out of the Towne 22. Decem. The Irish Army as before presents it selfe The Enemy from the Towne made another sally 23. Decem. 24. Decemb. Intelligence of the Enemies designe brought to Captaine Taffe The meanes wherby Captaine Taffe had his Intelligence The Battell of Kinsale wherein the rebels were overthrowne The Lo. PresideÌ„t diâ—ected by the L. Deputy to guard the Campe against any attempt to be made by the Spaniards A glorious victory An old Irish prophesie proved true 25. Decemb. Two sallyes made by the Spanyards 26 Decemb. Another sally 27. Decemb. 28. Decem. Zubiaur arrived at Castlehaven and immediatly returned Odonnell Redmond Burke c. imbarqued for Spaine The names of such of the Irish as fled into Spaine 29. Decem. The losse which the Rebels had in passing through Mounster after the battell of Kinsale A Parley desired by Don Iuan and granted by the Lord Deputie Don Iuan his propositions The Answer Don Iuan his reply The reasons which moved the Lo. Deputie and Councell to yeeld to a Composition Build your enemy a silver bridge to waft him away if he bee potent or not hopelesse of supplies The â—rticles of the Composition The names of the hostages delivered by Don Iuan. Don Iuan his demand of victuals for the transportation of his men The victualls which was delivered to Don Iuan their rates The number of the Spaniards which were transported out of Ireland 9. Ianuar. The Lo. Deputy brake up his siege and returned to Corke 10. Ianuar. Captaine Harvies Commission for his government Ianuary 11. 14. Ianuar. Don Iuan his request to the Lord Deputie A resolution in Councell to erect certaine forts in Mounster Certaine Companies cashiered 4. February The examination of Richard Owen 4. Febr. Rich. Owen his message from Tyrone to the Lord Deputie Instructions for Captaine Geo Blunt 10. Febr. The King of Spaines Letters intercepted 10. Febr. The King of Spaines Letters intercepted Stilo novo Stilo novo Stilo novo Stilo novo Stilo novo Postscript Stilo novo 15. Feb. Odonnels landing and reception in Spaine Castle haven rendred by the Spaniards The Castles of Doneshed and Donelong rendred by the Spaniards The Castle of Cape-Cleere guarded by Captaine Harvy The illsuccesse of Captaine Flowers employment Spanyards imbarked at Kinsale The Spaniards dispossessed of DuÌ„boy by Osulevan Beare Stilo novo Stilo novo Odrischall Stilo novo An interloquâ—tory discourse betweene Captaine Roger Harvie and Pedro Lopezde Soto Pedro Lopez de Soto his Passeport Stilo novo 8. March Don Iuan imbarqued at Kinsale The Lord Deputy departed from Corke towards Kinsale 24. March The Lord Deputy sickned on his way to Dublin The Lord President
of Feilâ— the third of Iuly 1600. Your Friends to use during your Friendship William Burke Moroghe ni Moe O Flarty A Letter from Morogh ni Moe O Flaghertie to the Lord President MY dutie remembred I commend mee unto your Lordship Whereas about May last I came hither in my Galley out of Connaght to draw home my people souldiers and followers into my natiue soyle there to liue quiet and under her Majesties subjection whereupon I haue had her Highnesse protection and Passeport for my selfe and them and all other out of Connaght that shall accompany me Whereby ever since my selfe and souldiers haue been so crossed and troubled by this Countrey people as they did not suffer me to depart from the Earle of Desmond I have thought good therefore in respect it is a thing belonging to the advancement of her Majesties service to bring the number of one thousand persons souldiers and tenants to peace to pray and desire your Lordship to graunt mee and all such as I shall bring with mee your Passeport and Safe-conduct through all your Garrisons and her Majesties Subjects as well in this Countrey as in Thomâ—nd And in so doing wee shall pray c. And so I humbly take leaue Clanmorishkerry this third of Iuly 1600. Her Majesties true Subject if your Lordship please Moroghe ni Moe O Flartie Vnto these Letters the President deferred to returne any present Answer as well because they should know that they who had attempted and performed so many outrages and rebellious practises against her Majestie and her Subjects should not so presently and so easily receiue favour from the State as also they might haue imagined if hee had instantly condiscended unto theâ—e their demaunds that he stood in feare of them which might haue made them more bold in attempting some enterprise upon his Armie And lastly he conceived a hope that to effect their longing desire of returning into Connaght they would at the last be glad to doe service one upon another remising therefore onely this Answer that he despised their Forces and he knew they durst not interrupt his passage Neverthelesse at further leasure hee would consider of their demands At this time Iames fits Thomas wrote a Letter to Florence Mac Cartie which in this place I thinke good to insert A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie MY very good Lord I was driven through the treacherous dealings of Dermond O Conner to let the President and the English Armie passe into Glenne without any resistance and yet they are but thirteene hundred Foote and one hundred fiftie Horse Dermond O Conner did undertake that the Connaght men should not medle with them nor take our parts being the only encouragement of the English to venter this Enterprize But now God be praysed I am joyning my Forces with them and doe pray you to assist mee with your Forces for now is the time to shew our selues upon the Enemy for they are but very few in number and destitute of all reliefe either by Sea or Land If your Lordship bee not well at ease your selfe let your Brother Dermond and the Chiefe Gentlemen of your Forces come without any delay assuring your Lordship that I will and am ready to shew you the like against your need Beseeching your Lordship once againe not to faile as you tender the overthrow of our Action Even so committing your Lordship to the tuition of God Almighty I end Portrinad the fifth of Iuly 1600. Your Honours most assured Friend and Cosen Iames Desmond CHAP. IX The Armie sate downe before Glyn-Castle The Knight of the Valley upon safe Conduct spake with the Earle of Thomond The Constable of Glyn-Castle his Advise to the Earle of Thomond for his safetie A Breach made and assaulted A Sally made by the Rebels The Constable c. slaine The Castle of the Glyn wonne and the Rebels put to the Sword The seventh the Knight of the Valley by a Messenger from him to the Earle of Thomond prayed a safe conduct to the Campe which was granted He told the Earle that he desired to conferre with the President which he refused without absolute submission to her Majesties mercy whereunto he would not yeeld but stood upon conditions whereupon hee was commanded to depart He saw the Cannon already planted and his Sonne then a child in the Presidents hands ready at his will to bee executed being by himselfe formerly put in pledge for his Loyaltie then hee desired to speake with the Earle of Thomond againe which was granted But the Earle found his obstinacie to be such as he disdained to haue any long conference with him And so being safely conveied out of the Campe he returned to his fellow Traitors who were on the top of an Hill not farre of where they might see the successe of the Castle When he was gone the same day towards the Evening the Constable of the Castle who was a Thomond man borne sent a Messenger to the Earle of Thomond praying his Lordship to get a safe conduct from the President that he might come to speake with him which being granted in his discourse to the Earle my Lord said he in the loue I beare you being your naturall Follower I desired to speake with you to the end that you may avoid the perill that you are in for the Earle of Desmond and the Connaght men lodge not two miles from this place they are three thousand strong at least and the Lord President may bee assured that they will giue upon his campe for so they are resolved and in all likelihood you will bee there put to the Sword or driven into the River of Shenan The Earle deriding these threats advised him to render up the Castle to the President whereby his life and his fellowes might be secured which he with vaine glorious obstinacie refused and returned to the Castle for a Farewell the President sent him word that since he had refused the Earle of Thomonds favourable offer that he was in hope before two dayes were spent to haue his Head set upon a Stake which proved true as you shall heare before the Castle was taken The next day when wee looked that the cannon should begin to play the Cannonniere found the Peece to be cloyed all the art and skill which either the Smith or himselfe could or did use prevailed nothing The President who is a man that knowes well to mannage great Artillery commanded that the peece upon her carryage as she was should be abased at the tayle and elevated at the musle as high as it might bee then hee willed the Gunner to giue her a full charge of powder roule a shott after it and to giue fire at the mouth whereby the touch-hole was presently cleared to the great rejoycing of the Armie which of necessitie in attempting the Castle without the favour of the Cannon must haue endured great losse This particular I thought good not to
omitt because it may bee an Instruction to others whensoever the like accident should happen The Peece being thus cleared the President having the Knight of the Valleyes eldest sonne a childe of sixe yeares olde in his hands to terrifie the Warders hee caused the child to be set upon the topp of one of the Gabions sending them word That they should haue a faire marke to bestow their small shott upon The Constable returned answere That the feare of his life should not make them to forbeare to direct their Volleyes of shot to the batterie for said he in undecent termes not fit for me to write the place is open where he was borne and the Knight may haue more sonnes The President not intending as hee seemed caused the Infant to bee taken downe from the Gabion knowing that the discharging of the Cannon would haue shaken the poore childes bones in sunder and then presently hee commanded the battery to begin and the small shott did so incessantly burne powder as the Warders durst not stand to their fight untill a breach was made assaultable into the Seller under the great Hall of the castle all this was done with the losse of one onely man a Cannoniere Then was Captaine Flower commaunded by the President with certaine Companies assigned vnto him to enter the breach which hee valiantly performed and gained the Hall and enforced the Ward to returne into a Castle close adjoyning unto it where from out of a Spike they slewe foure of our men then hee ascended a paire of staires to gaine two turrets over the Hall in which attempt Captaine Bostocks Ensigne was slaine by the winning whereof they were in better securitie then before and there were our Colours placed and because it was by this time within night Captaine Slings by who was there with the Presidents Companie was commaunded to make it good till the morning during which time some whiles on either side small shott played but little or no harme done about midnight the Constable seeing no possibilitie to resist long and no hope of mercy left thought by the favour of the night in a sally to escape but the Guards were so vigilant as they slew him and some others neverthelesse two escaped the rest which were unslaine returned into the Castle and the Constables head was as the President formerly had told him put on a stake Early in the morning the Ward was gotten into the Tower of the Castle wherunto there was no comming unto them but up a narrow stayre which was so strait as no more then one at once might ascend and at the staire foot a strong wooden doore which being burnt the smoke in the staires was such as for two howers there was no ascending without hazard of stifling when the extremitie of the smoake was past one of the Rebels presented himselfe and said in the behalfe of himselfe and his fellowes That if their liues might be saved they would render but before any answere was made he voluntarily put himselfe into our hands The smoake being vanished a Muskettier and to his second a Halbardier Then Captaine Flower and Captaine Slingsbie Lieutenant Power Lieutenant to Sir Henrie Power Ensigne Power Sir Henry Powers Ensigne Lieutenant Nevill Lieutenant to Sir Garratt Harvie which was after killed in Connaght seconded by others ascended the staires in file where they found no resistance nor yet in the upper roomes for the Rebels were all gone to the Battlements of the Castle with resolution to sell their liues as deare as they could Our men purâ—ued the way to the Battlements whereunto there was but one Doore Captaine Flower entred upon one hand and Captaine Slingsbâ—e upon the other the gutters were very narrow betweene the Roofe of the Castle and the Battlements In conclusion some were slaine in the place and others leapt from the top of the Castle into the water underneath it where our Guards killed them In this Service eleven Souldiers were slaine whereof one was an Ensigne and one and twentie hurt of which number the Serjeant Major who served admirably well was one hee received three or foure wounds but none of them mortall there was also the Lieutenants of the Earle of Thomond and Sir Henry Powers hurt of the enemy of all sorts were slaine 80 or thereabouts whereof 23 were naturall borne followers to the Knight of the Valley in whom hee reposed greatest confidence The reasons which mooved the Knight thus obstinately to persist was partly the strength of the Castle which hee ignorantly thought defensible against the Cannon and also 〈◊〉 â—anifold oathes and protestations made unto him by his fellow Rebells that with their whole Forces they would giue reliefe and raise the Siege but how much hee fayled in expectation of the one and they in the protestation of the other yee haue already heard whereof if the protesters had had any feeling of their promised faith the provocation they had was great for they were eye-witnesses when the Castle was assaulted and wonne This Castle is a place of great importance and ever since the beginning of the rebellion one Anthony Arthur a Merchant of Limricke lay in it as a generall Factor for the citie to vent commodities to the Rebels CHAP. X. A Ward put into the Castle of Glynne by the Lord President Carrigfoyle rendred by O Conner Kerry Victuals and Munition sent out of England into Mounster Maurice Stacke sent into Kerry The Bâ—noghs obtained the Lord Presidents Passeport to depart the Province Sixty of the Bonnoghs slayne by the Lord Burke The Lord Presidents returne to Limericke The Castle of Corgrage rendred A garrison left in Aâ—keiton The Castle of Rathmore rendred A garrison placed at Kilmallock The Rebels enforced to rise from the siege of Lyskaghan Florence Mac Carrie's perswasions to the Ward to quit Lyskaghan Florence attempts againe to corrupt the Constable of Lyskaghan A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie THE President was constrained to stay heere fiue dayes after the taking of the Castle to place a Guard therein which was left to the charge of Captaine Nicholas Mordant with one and twentie Souldiers and to repayre the breach and ruines made by the Cannon which being finished hee intended to draw the Cannon to Carrigfoyle fiue miles distant from the Glinne which Castle was held then against her Majestie as it was in anno 1580 and wonne by Sir William Pelham the Lord Iustice under whom at that time the President was a Captaine of Foot But O Conner Kerry being advertised hereof desired a protection and for assurance of his future loyaltie offered to surrender his sayd Castle to bee kept unto her Majesties use His profer the Lord President accepted and a Ward of Sir Charles Wilmot his Company was placed therein The Earle of Thomond in his good affection to the service gaue unto Iohn O Conner during the Warres a Castle and thirteene Plow Lands for his Tenants