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A01404	The true exemplary, and remarkable history of the Earle of Tirone vvherein the manner of his first presumption, affrighting both England and Ireland with his owne and the King of Spaines forces, and the misery of his ensuing deiection, downefall, and vtter banishment is truely related: not from the report of others, or collection of authors, but by him who was an eye witnesse of his fearefull wretchednes, and finall extirpation. Written by T.G. Esquire.	Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?	1619 (1619)	STC 11524; ESTC S121075	36,786	60

compelled to alter their Religion and disclaime the Popes vsurped authoritie ouer the Church Thirdly that the Marshall Sir Henry Bagnoll had not onely prosecuted him with despightfull and malignant enmity but iustified Articles of Treason against him Fourthly that he was denied the fruits of his owne labor and honor of his industry after he had as hee obiected with the losse of much blood and expending of great Treasure of his owne reducted the Prouince of Vlster And last of all that Sir William Fitz-William Lord Deputy had not only giuen way to the malice of the Marshall but possessed the Court of England with many vntruths against him all which were quickly capitulated to the Dinastas of the North his kinsmen fauorites and dependents they as quickly commiserated his discontents and meerely out of inueterate hate against vs all contracted themselues to the maintaining the Romish Religion and obedience to the house of Oneale keeping yet an open correspondency with vs though in couert their hearts as the Lapwing cryeth farthest from her nest stored vp as it were all prouocations of disloyalty lying yet in waite for some aduantagious excuse if they once were discouered The first that brake the Ice of their ill contriued Rebellions was Mac Guier a turbulent yong man crafty and reuengefull who seduced by Gauranus a Priest confirmed Primate of Ireland by the Pope inuaded Conagh and in insulting manner vsurped the Countrey as hee went with full confidence that the holy Fathers blessings should in a manner make security and successe attend them But the doores of Heauen were barred on the inside excluding them as yet from any entrance and the vertue of Sir Richard Bingham so counterchecked Mac Guiers fortunes that hee fled discomfited the Primate slaine and all his forces dispersed Yet after a while the scattered limbs of Pelops are gathered together and as if Anteus should recouer by touching the Earth Mac Guier maketh a stronger party and with some deceiueable beginnings goes into more open Action against whom the Earle of Tyrone himselfe was compelled to ioyne with the Marshall his only suspected enemy and receiued a wound in that seruice But his heart as it should seeme was worser hurt with priuate discontentments For you must vnderstand that before he set forward in her Maiesties seruice order was taken for the safe keeping of Shane Oneales children whose deliuery hee had denied to the State inferring by way of complaint that the Lord Deputy and Marshall picked nothing but quarrels against him and by new occsiaons of vnkindenesse determined to supplant him Now is Sir William Fitzwilliam recalled and Sir William Russell constituted Deputy in his stead to whom of his owne accord the Earle of Tyrone came to submitte himselfe with all those promises that might induce a generous spirit to beleeue him but the Marshall Bagnoll then present audaciously articulated 1 That he countenanced Mac Guier and the Primats Rebellion 2. That hee supported Odonell and the rest of that coniuration 3. That by the aduice of Cormach Mac Baron his Bastard Sonne Con had coadiutement from him in the deuastation of Monaghan and besieging of Inigkellin 4. That hee corrupted the Faith and Obedience of the Captaines of Kilulto and Kilwarney 5. And that all his protestations were counterfet and dissimulatory fictions These were hainous obiections and indeede deuided the Councell For the Deputy and Marshall would haue detayned him prisoner but the greater part eyther by vaine feare or corrupted respects interceded vntill a more fitter oportunity to whom as men better acquainted with the affaires of Ireland the Lord Deputy hardly condiscended So Tyrone returned home and indeede turned as the Dog to his vomit to his former impressed resolutions to disturbe the State if the State disturbed him whereupon vnderstanding of an Army raysed in England with new supplies of 1300. Low-countrey Souldiers against him whom that worthy and renowned Sir Iohn Norris by the famous name of Generall Norris brought out of Britany hee not onely stood on his guard but mustred his followers by this time reasonably disciplin'd in the open fields and whilst the English went against Balishanon and Belike Castles at the further end of Logh Erne he approched Black-water Fort and comming on the suddaine had it surrendered into his hands but not with that confidence that eyther hee relied on the security of the place or power of his owne Army whereupon he very politiquely one way attempted the Earle of Kildare to support him against the manifest iniuries of the Deputy and Marshall and another way promised the Earle of Ormond and Sir Henry Wallop Treasurer to remaine within the limits of iustifiable obedience To this hee added the vnclasping the booke of these occurrences to Sir Iohn Norris Generall of the Army imploring his commiseration and as it were begging at his hands that hee might not bee enforced to such exorbitant actions as necessity and the law of Nature would and could contriue but the former Letters the Marshall intercepted and these too Generall Norris quite suppressed which he sparingly misliked though it fell not to his turne absolutely to finde fault withall But when Tyrone vnderstood of these calumnious and dangerous proceedings against him hee was put quite out of patience exclayming that his destruction was now on the webbe and in the hands of a pestilent workeman yea his aduersary wanted onely meanes to his will to contriue his vtter destruction indeede Notwithstanding all this hee put on new wings to his deceiueable hopes and turmoyled all the Kingdome with inficious Rebellion whereupon hee was publikely proclaymed Traytor and enemy to the Queene which hee professed accordingly with all correspondency of an aduersary For in Vlster his Army consisted of a 1000. Horse and 7000. Foote In Conach he had or if you wil O Roorck and the Conners kept them together at his disposing 200. Horse and 2400. Foote In Lease and Ophaly the number was as vncertaine as their dispositions being sometimes violent Rebels and anon submissiue Subiects In Munster they liued so dispersed that the Gouernour found it worke enough to finde them out and follow them The English forces vnder Sir Iohn Norris equalled their greatest Armies but nothing was done worthy of so great a Commanders name and souldiers renowne For vnder colour of priuate displeasure betweene the Deputy and him many bad offices were performed and the time spent to small purpose in parlies and conferences affording Tirone such leisure that hee contracted with Spaine and expected from thence continuall supplies But before the matter came to martiall deciding Sir Henry Wallop Treasurer at warrs and Sir Robert Gardner chiefe Iustice of the Kings Bench men layd downe in the ballance of integrity wisedome and experience were deligated to heare the grieuances of these great Lords of the North enforced to a defensiue warre as they intimated and yet obscured by the name of traytors against the State The commiserate hearing of these compulsions and vnquiet discourses

this Interim assaulted Black-water Fort but therein commanded that industrious Captaine Th. Williams who at the same instant by meere valour and resolution propulsed them and many times after by patience and constancy endured all those mischiefes where by a Souldier is put to the test and enemy maketh demonstration of his hate and policy For when the Irish found themselues vncapable of such a businesse by way of expugnation or assault they tooke another course by intercepting the passages to famish them which when the English vnderstood they were as resolute to affront all mischances as the enemy was violent in contriuing displeasures and so with noble stedfastnesse bare vp a head against the streame of sicknesse and wants eating Horses and Weedes and if it had beene possible the very durt and stones In this time the gouernment of Ireland was in the hands of the Earle of Ormond as Lieutenant Generall of the Army the Lord Chancelor and Sir Robert Gardner Iustices to whom the Earle of Tyrone by many dilatory Letters did lay open all his grieuances touching sparingly his breach of promise with Sir Iohn Norris and all the effectuall points of his disobedience and refractary courses To these Letters hee receiued answere which hee interpreted displeasing rather then satisfactory and so accordingly entred into further Rebellious actions pressing Black-water Fort again with a more dangerous siedge against whom the Lord Lieutenant and Iustices aforesaid sent Sir Henry Bagnoll the Marshall his only reputed aduersary with sixteene Companies of Foot and foure troops of Horse who aduancing forward more malicious then fortunate as ouerwrought by a predestinated wilfulnesse came to blowes and according to the slippery footing of Warre fel to a dangerous Skirmish in which Tyrone shouldred him with all his strength nigh vnto Armagh determining as it were to punish his Enuy and supposed abuses against him wherein it should seeme the Mistrisse of successe as we abuse Gods prouidence by the Character of Fortune was coadiutrix and displayed all the maligne circumstances of reuenge against vs. For ere night decided the controuersy hee triumphed with a notorious victory whereby in one houre the Marshall ended his brauery life and enmity nor could the Irish euer boast of a more conspicuous triumph since the Conquest or if you had rather haue it so since we first curb'd their immanity For we lost fifteene Captaines and 1500. Souldiers ouer whom the manner of insulting was more barbarous then the accident tyrannous Presently followed the surrendring of Black-water Fort when the besieged saw all reliefe debarred them and heard how Tyrone was proclaymed the deliuerer of his Countrey and Protector of the Catholique cause seeming the very darling of prosperity and delight of Bellona wherein he proceeded accordingly making all the Kingdome witnesse his glory and renowne For hee presently sent Ouny-Mac Roory Oge and Tirrill into Munster with foure thousand Rebels against whom the Lord President Sir Iohn Norris hauing lost his brother by sicknesse or as some suppose a disastrous Melancholy with reasonable equipage and orderly attendance set nobly forward but the enemy not appearing he retired to Corck and diuiding his Army into seuerall Garrisons gaue them liberty to take aduantage of our wearisomnesse and impatience For presently they proceeded to all hatefull courses of sauage outrage and after Iames Fitz-Thomas a Rebell of that House was proclaymed Earle of Desmond who thereupon acknowledged Oneale his benefactor and superior they returned with ambitious alacrity and cheerefulnesse and sent word into Spayne of their admirable successes wherein Tyrone behaued himselfe so audaciously that he interdicted the peace of England as if there had beene a way opened vnto an easy conquest of the same and the first steppe into Ireland would helpe them vp the degrees of a more illustrious glorie to which purpose the King of Spayne should not onely bee assured of the Popes blessing but Oneales Fortunes and assistance yea the whole power of the Kingdome This was the lamentable estate of Ireland when her Maiesty taking pitty of her Orphan Countrey substituted Robert Earle of Essex whom the successe of Cales voyage and many other memorable designes and prosecutions had worthily renowned her Lieutenant Generall of Ireland But how hee had formerly wound himselfe into the good opinion of his Countrey how England looked vpon him as a glorious sonne of comlinesse and honour how his forces Treasure and Fauours were extraordinary in this proiect of Ireland how hee proceeded in this military race how the applause of the people and the greatest part of the nobilitie attended him How a sudden storme as if some ominous signe from Heauen presaged misfortune intercepted his iollity euen at his first setting out of London how landed in Ireland hee beganne his businesse as preposterously How that braue Sir Coniers Clifford was abused by presumption and ouer-credulous opinion that his bosome friend O Roorck would not haue prooued such a Traytor and so not only lost his life at the Curlews a boggy Mountaine by the Abby of Aborle but was inhumanely after the skirmish mangled and with great immanity cut in peeces How the Earle of Ormond and Sir Henry Harington were surprized and taken prisoners by Harry Oge Owny mac Roory and the sonnes of Feff mac-Heugh rebells vnited against the peace and flourishing prosperity of Lemster How hee came to a priuate parley with Tyrone and was much affected by the Irish How her Maiesty rebuked him and from incensed indignation challenged both his loyalty and the wisedome of the Councell of Ireland for a contrarious and vntoward method of gouernment and prosecutions in the North How his glorious celebrating the feast of Saint George in the City of Dubline considering the times and turmoyles of the kingdome was imputed rather an ostentous brauery then a necessary honour How contrary to expectation hee comes into England after a priuate prohibition by her Maiesties owne Letters How hee was commanded to his owne House and his Offices dispensed withall How his sorrows multiplied How the peoples loue encreased eyther from a generall commiserating of such men in distresse or particular apprehension of his greatnesse and worth How his fortunes and Life ended I will leaue to a Story of it selfe yea if I might say so to many Stories in which such infinite obseruations might bee folded that if a man durst or might spread them abroad all the passages should be laid open and exposed to publique ouerlooking of the fauour and disfauor of Princes the dangers of men insatiable of glory the condition of Councellours emulous of one anothers greatnesse the mutability and inconstancy of popularitie the perill wherein men plunge themselues that dare presume to perpetrate vniustifiable actions and the misery which an vntimely death bringeth to a man projecting high matters to himselfe But to our Irish businesse againe When my Lord of Essex troubles were published abroad and divulged in Ireland the Earle of Tirone with great indignation brake the

determined to see the manner of Tyrones returning home into his Countrey but was preuented by the admirable expedition hee made For certified of all our proceedings not without some ampliation of my Lords power and authority as in all such cases it happens that new Gouernours are not onely extolled but an army of a thousand by poll shall be made two thousand by report he quickly procured a shelter for the storme which was threatned and euen ready to powre vpon him and so taking the way of Lease and the skirts of Meath posted into the North. When my Lord Deputy was thus frustrated of his expectation he returned to Dublin and after orderly consultation concluded to send forces by sea to Logh-Foile and Balishanon as also to Logh-Erne to visit Lease and Ophaly to restore Munster and fortifie Conach which as they were designes of wonderfull consequence so must as wonderfull wisdome of men and prouidence of God effectuate the same and bring to a happy period Thus was all Ireland like a turbulent sea full of billowes euen to the very shores and the Rebell vexed both Countrey and Inhabitants the country was spoiled ouerrunne and in most parts depopulated insomuch that in diuers places twenty mile together not so much as a bird appeared the inhabitants were slaine rauished enforced and robbed insomuch that neither house nor Church except some few castles and townes in speciall mens hands remained vpright but were burnt ruined and deuasted When my Lord Deputy to make my first simile hold correspondency felt the pulses so strong of this disquieted body and vnderstood the state of the same by outward and inward demostration his principall care was to reduce the distemperature and coole the heat if it were possible of this burning feauer for which purpose hee conferred with the Councell and after orderly and prouident furnishing his army with munition garons and seuerall prouision he determined in person and with all speedinesse sometimes the onely strength and life of all difficult enterprizes to encounter the enemy but especially to diuert Tyrone from intercepting S r. Henry Dockeray at Logh-Foile and S r. Matthew Morgan at Balishanon whereupon in the beginning of May an early time to bring an army into the field hee marched toward Vlster and pressed the Rebell with so many skirmishes that they were wonderfully dispersed and against all expectation confounded Thus had hee leasure in the midst of Iune to march backe againe into Lease the onely refuge of the Rebels of Lemster where with admirable successe he preuailed against that turbulent cruell and bloudy young man Ony-Mac-Roory-Oge the cheefe of the family of O-more who had so lately disturbed the peace of all Munster to whom with other his most pestilent and impious confederates did our Deputy read a lesson of Iustice and taught rebellion other principles of conformity then either they were willing to learne or had beene before orderly enstructed in by which occasion Bellona began to giue vs better entertainment and already there appeared a declining of the others prosperity Thus was the God of battells propitious vnto vs and the sunne of comfort by degrees chased away the foggy mists of despaire and despight so that euery mans heart was cheered and they which held downe their heads full low in the time of mistrust and affliction I meane the Irish-English themselues in the pale beganne to stand vpright for ioy and flocked to the court in troops to welcome my Lord Deputy home and applauded the prosperity of his attempts yea to speake without flattery to impute the happinesse to his vertue and wisdome In the midst of this iollity new supplies out of England gaue more aire to successe which had beene so long smoothered betweene malignant circumstances of time and ill conditions of men deuoted to priuate ends For this is most certaine that in the vncertainty of our preuailing when the gouernment of Ireland seemed layd at the stake howeuer the better sort kept correspondency with vs and professed a kinde of glory in participating with our misfortunes yet did they vnderhand not onely releeue Tyrone but contracted for their owne security if any alteration should chance yea in some of our extremities they behaued themselues so audaciously and yet with an vntoward policy that when they were sent for to march with the army they made dilatory excuses and many times denied such attendance as if they had businesse sufficient to keepe their owne territories from robbery and spoiles But our worthy Deputy againe with these new troops he vndertooke the iourney of the Moiry three miles beyond Dondalk and attempted an impetuous assault which continued with many dangerous and violent skirmishes For his horse was shot vnder him his Secretary slaine by him his friends wounded and diuers Commanders hurt yet he endured all and the God of heauen endured him so that at the last with a memorable slaughter and fortunate victory hee enforced them from his fastnesse Presently finding sweet beginnings to breath life into actions he marched to Armagh and tumbled those hindrances on to side which had made that passage so noysome and because he would maintaine an old position Non minor est virtus quam quaerere parta tueri He built a fort called Mount Norris within eight miles of the Newry and in a manner the mid-way to Armagh in honour of that worthy Generall vnder whom he was introducted on the martiall theater In his returne passing ouer many light skirmishes neere vnto Carlingford hee preuailed with a memorable defeature of the rest and so stored the castles with strong wards making the narrow water passible and sending the pestilent Kerne lurking in euery corner to seeke for better shelter For these new and terrible stormes had shattered their olde couerts and almost beaten them to peeces ouer their heads Not long after in the midst of winter he coasted into the Glins by Dublin where Donnell-Spaniah-Phelin and Raymond-Mac-Feugh with that pestilent rabble of O-Tooles held such a quarter that no man before him had either leisure to disranke them or sufficient forces to raise them from their firmnesse these yet he subdued reduced and led them by strong hand to such a way of obedience that Sir Henry Harrington vnder him went quietly to Newcastle and had the principall command ouer them yea I can assure you were glad to be inuited to the pleasures of his peace and entertainment and Raymond-Mac-Feugh as I take it was his tenant for Baltinglas and gloried in nothing more then that hee had sworne himselfe a true subiect to the Maiestie of England Lastly he hasted into Feriall where the Rebell Tirrell was pulled out of his darke corners into the open light of discomfiture and in the end compelled into Vlster to the great Cōmander of their facinorous enterprizes whither his Lordship followed with admiration and preuailed with all the aduantages of a fortunate Captaine For in truth he attempted nothing but preuailed and with the Centurion in the