built by Henry Londres Arch-Bishop of that Sea And in the Reign of King Ed. 2. Alexander de Bicknor Arch-Bishop of Dublin began to incourage the profession of Learning having obtained from Pope John the 22. the priviledges of an University to the Colledge of Dublin which he builtin the place where of old stood the Monastry of All-hallows the first Master hereof was Fryar William Hardite In times of War and Tumult it was defac'd but rebuilt in Queen Elizabeths time and endowed with several priviledges being ever since a Nursery of Protestants till they were turn'd out by King Jams's Souldiers and it made a Guard House but now at King Williams coming restored to the Protestants with their other possessions Monday the 6. Several parties of Horse were sent up and down the Country and next day the Bishop of Meath the Bishop of Limerick and all or most of the Clergy then in or near the City of Dublin waited upon the King the Bishop of Meath made a Speech telling his Majesty The Bishops and Clergy Address the King That they came not to Beg his Protection for he had given sufficient demonstrations of his affection towards them by ventring his Royal Person for their deliverance but they came to Congratulate his Arrival to pray for the continuance of his good success and to give his Majesty all the assurance possible of their Loyalty and Obedience intreating his Majesty not to think worse of them for staying in Ireland and submitting to a Power that it was impossible for them to resist since they had been as serviceable to the Churches interest and his Majesties by staying as they could have been otherwise with a great deal more to that purpose The King made Answer that as he had by the blessing of God succeeded so far he doubted not but by Gods Assistance to free them absolutely and that in a small time from Popish Tyranny which was his design in coming Then the Bishop of Limerick desired his Majesty to give them leave to appoint a day of publick Thanksgiving and to compose a Form of Prayer upon that Occasion to which his Majesty assented Money left in the Treasury The Irish went away in such haste that they left 16000 l. Brass mony in the Treasury and a great quantity of French peices called Souses I enquired of some People concern'd in the Treasury in King James's time and they told me that there had not been much above 1100000 l. Brass mony Coyned during all the time it passed On Tuesday July the 7. the King sent out his Declaration to the Irish assuring all under such a Quality of his protection and because the not observing of it has since done a great deal of prejudice not only to his Majesties affairs but also to all sorts of People belonging to that Country it will not be improper here to insert it The Declaration of William and Mary King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland c. To all Our People of Our Kingdom of Ireland whom it may concern William R. K. Williams Declaration AS it hath pleased Almighty God to bless Our Arms in this Kingdom with a late victory over Our Enemies at the Boyn and with the Possession of Our Capital City of Dublin and with a general dispersion of all that did oppose us we are now in so happy a prospect of Our Affairs and of extinguishing the Rebellion of this Kingdom that We hold it reasonable to think of Mercy and to have Compassion upon those whom we judge to have been seduced Wherefore We do hereby declare We shall take into Our Royal Protection all poor Labourers Common Souldiers Country Farmers Plowmen and Cottiers whatsoever As also all Citizens Trads-men Towns-men and Artificers who either remain'd at home or having fled from their dwellings shall by the first of August next repair to their usual places of abode surrendring up what Arms they have to such Justices of the Peace as are or shall be appointed by Vs not only to receive the same but also to Register the Appearance of such of the said Persons as shall come and submit to Our Authority For Our Royal Intention is and We do hereby declare That We will not only pardon all those seduced people as to their Lives and Liberties who shall come in by the time aforesaid for all violences they have committed by the command of their Leaders during the time of the War But We do also promise to secure them in their Goods their Stocks of Cattle and all their Chattels personal whatsoever willing and requiring them to come in and where they were Tenants there to preserve the Harvest of Grass and Corn for the supply of the Winter But forasmuch as many of them have a Legal Right to the Tenancy of several Lands some holden from Protestants and some held from Popish Proprietors who have been concern'd in the Rebellion against Us. Our Will and Pleasure is that all those who held from Our good Protestant Subjects do pay their Rents to their respective Landlords and that the Tenants of all those who have been concern'd in the Rebellion against us do keep their Rents in their hands until they have notice from the Commissioners of Our Revenue unto whom they are to account for the same And as we do hereby strictly forbid all violence Rapine and Molestation to any who shall thus come in and remain Obedient to us We do hereby Charge and Require that they be not disquieted in any sort without Our particular Command For the desperate Leaders of this Rebellion who have violated those Laws by which this Kingdom is united and inseparably annexed to the Imperial Crown of England who have called in the French who have Authorized all Violences and depredations against the Protestants and who rejected the Gracious Pardon We offered them in Our Proclamation of the 22 of February 1688. As we are now by Gods great favour in a Condition to make them sensible of their Errours So are we resolved to leave them to the Event of War unless by Great and Manifest demonstrations We shall be convinced that they deserve Our Mercy which We shall never refuse to those that are truly penitent Given at Our Royal Camp at Finglass neer Dublin the 7 th of July 1690. In the Second year of Our Reign This Declararion was published in the Camp two days after and had it been punctually observed according to the intent of it we had had fewer Enemies at this day by at least 20000 For tho' the King was punctual in his observance of it some Officers and Soldiers were apt to neglect the Kings Honour and the Honour of our Country and Religion when it stood in Competition with their own profit and advantage July the seventh and eighth the King took a view of his Army by distinct Regiments and though it often Rain'd very fast yet his Majesty sate on Horseback in the midst of it and saw
were secured in other places The County of Cork was formerly a Kingdom and is the most fertile Country in Ireland This Kingdom was granted in the Time of Henry the Second to Sir Robert Fitz Stephen and Sir Miles de Cogan in these Words Know ye that I have granted the whole Kingdom of Cork excepting the City and Cantred of the Oustmans to hold for them and their Heirs of Me and John My Son by the Service of Sixty Knights At Cork was born one Briork a Famous Saint in the Days of Old The same Afternoon a Party of about Five hundred Horse were sent under Brigadeer Villars to infest Kingsale he sent a Trumpeter at his Approach to summon the Town but the Governor threatned to hang him up for bringing such a Message and then set fire to the Town and retreated to the Old Fort which our Horse seeing rid in and quenched the Fire killing seven or eight of the Irish that they found in Town On the 30th a Party of our Foot marched to Five-mile-House towards Kingsale and the Magistrates of Cork reassuming their Places proclaim'd King William and Queen Mary and put the Place into some order month October The Army marches to Kingsale On the First of October the Earl of Marlborough marched out of Cork to Five-mile Bridge and the next day came near the Town then in the possession of our own Men Towards the Evening the Lord Marlborough posted his Men towards the New Fort and Major General Tetteau with 800 Men the next morning early passed the River in Boats stormed the Old Fort in which he succeeded very well Several Barrels of Powder at the same time accidentally taking fire blew up nigh Forty of the Enemy the rest flying into an old Castle in the midst of the Fort were a great many of them kill'd before they got thither and all that made resistance as we scaled the Walls were cut in pieces The Old Fort taken So that of 450 Men in this Fort about 200 were blown up and kill'd and the rest submitting to Mercy were made Prisoners Some endeavoured to escape to the New Fort by Water but were most of them kill'd from the Shore The Governor and several Officers that would have prevented our Men from coming over were killed upon the Ramparts The New one besieged My Lord Marlborough having gained this Fort resolves to make as quick work as he could with the New one for the Weather was now very bad and Provisions were growing scarce and withal his Men began to fall sick which made him judge it was the best way to attack the Place briskly in which he was like to lose fewer Men than if by lying long before it he should have it surrendred He sends a Summons however to the Governor to surrender who return'd him answer That it would be time enough to talk of that a Month hence Batteries raised Whereupon the Cannon being planted we began to batter the Fort in two Places the Danes on the Left and the English on the Right On the Fifth of October the Trenches were opened and on the Ninth we were got nigh the Counterscarp On the Twelfth in the Morning Six Pieces of Cannon were mounted at the Danes Attack and Two Mortars at the English which fired all day and the Mortars continued all night On the Thirteenth Two Guns of Twenty four pound Ball were planted on the English Battery and on the Fourteenth Three more for the Danes on their side had made a pretty large Breach We then sprung a Mine with very good success and were preparing to spring another and being Masters of the Counterscarp on the Fifteenth the Cannon plaid all the Morning and every thing was ready to lay our Galleries over the Ditch But at one a Clock the Enemy beat a Parly and desired a Treaty about the Surrendry of the Fort The Fort surrendred which being done the Articles were agreed to and signed by which the middle Bastion was to be delivered up next Morning and the Garrison being about 1200 Men to march out the day after with their Arms and Baggage and be conducted to Limerick We had kill'd and wounded in our several Attacks about 200 but a great many more were sick and dead by reason of bad Weather In this Fort we received a very considerable Magazine and great plenty of all sorts of Provisions sufficient to have supported a thousand Men for a Year there were 1000 Barrels of Wheat 1000 Barrels of Beef Forty Tuns of Clarret a great quantity of Sack Brandy and strong Beer My Lord Marleborough did a considerable piece of Service in reducing those Places which will be of great advantage to the next Campagn In October 1601. Don John d' Aquila landed at Kingsale from Spain with an Army to assist the Irish against Queen Elizabeth calling himself Master General and Captain of the Catholick King in the War of God for holding and keeping the Faith in Ireland But by the Courage and Industry of Sir Charles Blunt Baron Mountjoy then Lord Deputy the Irish were defeated and the Spaniards forced to go home upon dishonourable Terms But to return again to Dublin and the Affairs of that part of the Kingdom On the 18th of October the Blue Dutch Guards set sail for England and a day or two afterwards landed Colonel Mathews's Dragoons and Count Schonberg's Horse from thence And now after the taking of Cork and Kingsale part of the Irish Army that was in Kerry made several Incursions and burnt all the Towns and Villages of the Counties of Cork and Limerick that had hitherto escap'd My Lord Duke of Berwick dined in Charlevil-house one of the Second-rate Houses of these Kingdoms built by the late Earl of Orrery and after Dinner order'd it to be fir'd and staid to see it in Ashes And those of the Irish Army that lay between Limerick and Athlone burnt Balliboy wherein were Six Companies of my Lord Drogheda's Regiment The thing was thus Lieut. Col. Bristow was at the Breaking-up of the Camp at Birr ordered to Kilkormack Castle a considerable Pass and within Two Miles of Balliboy but he liking Balliboy better as a Place of more Forrage and Shelter for the Men quitted the other and took most of his Men into that open Village which the Irish having notice of came in the night and lay in the Hedges nigh the Town Our Men had heard of the designed Attempt the day before and desired Colonel Bristow to deliver out Ammunition but he apprehending no danger took no care to prepare for such a Mischief However our Men sate up all that night and sent out a Lieutenant with Twenty Men mounted to learn Tidings of the Enemy who returned without discovering any for they were all this while close in the Hedges After Revallia the Officers and Soldiers thinking all safe went to their Lodgings all but the ordinary Guard They had not been dispersed half an hour till the
Irish set both ends of the Town on fire The Officers and Soldiers made what haste they could to a Mount towards the middle of the Town where they staid till a Party of Dragoons came from Birr to their Relief for the Irish after some small time drew off and would not adventure to force them from the Mount tho' they were four times our number We had about Twenty eight kill'd and some wounded And Captain Henry Gore as he was going towards the Mount had a Rencounter with some of the Irish Granadeers in which with Club-Musket he had his Jaw-bone broke and several Wounds on the Head but he is since recover'd We kill'd several of the Enemy both in the Streets and in the Houses that they went to plunder The 21th some of the Rapparees march'd towards Philipstown in the King's County A Party of ours going out to discover them took two of their Officers and hanged them And the 23d being the Anniversary of the former Irish Rebellon was kept with great Solemnity a Proclamation being issued out the day before commanding the Sixteenth of November to be kept as a day of Thanksgiving for preserving the King and reducing three entire Provinces Which accordingly was obey'd On the 28th there came an Account from Meerscourt in the County of West-Meath that part of the Enemies Forces advanced from Lanesborough in the County of Longford and came within six Miles of Meerscourt but retreated without any harm done to either side If I am not much mistaken when we left Limerick it was our Business and Advice was given accordingly to secure all the Passes upon the Shanon which had been easie at that time our Army being together and in the Field for these and the Castles all along by the Shanon side might easily have been made tenable where our Men might have been secure and had a very plentiful Country at their Backs for their Relief and then might have made Incursions into Conaught when they pleased But in stead of that we retired further into the Country and left them all the Passes and Forts upon the Shanon by which means they are not to be kept in their own Province as they might have been but can both keep us out and also come amongst us when they have a mind to it Several Protestants come from Limerick About this time the Enemy gave leave to several Protestants to come off who gave account that all things were very scarce amongst them Wheat being generally about Ten pound Brass Money a Barrel Malt Nine pound Brandy Three pound a Quart Ale Two Shillings six pence Mens Shooes Thirty shillings Salt Twenty shillings a Quart And that the Irish Army were in a very miserable condition in all respects And yet it was not so bad as 't was reported This Week the Lords Justices had an Account That one Captain Long formerly Master of a Ship was in February last surprised in the Bay of Killibeggs in the North of Ireland and taken Prisoner to Galloway A Ship brought off from Galloway but whilst he was there he so ordered the Matter as with the help of some Protestants he seised upon a Frigat and brought her from Galloway to Carigfergus She had Twelve Guns and Four Patereroes month November And about the beginning of November a French Ship of thirty Tuns loaden with Brandy and Salt sailed into the Port of Kingsale coming to an Anchor under the New Fort believing that Place still to be in the Hands of the Irish but the Ship was soon boarded by our Men and made a Prize His Majesties Birth-day The Fourth of November being His Majesties Birth-day was observed with all the Splendour that Place could afford Dublin Militia all the Town Militia were drawn out being 2500 Foot two Troops of Horse and two of Dragoons all well Cloathed and Armed and at night the Lords Justices made an Entertainment for the most Considerable Persons in and about the Town The next day also being the Fifth of November was observed according to the Act of Parliament By this time Commissions being given out for Lords Lieutenants and Deputy Lieutenants as also for Officers of the Militia in the Country they had got Arms and were in a pretty good Condition And on the First day of the Term Mr. Sergeant Osburn Their Majesties Serjeant at Law moved the Court of King's Bench for Writs of Certiorari to remove all Indictments of High Treason found in several Counties of this Kingdom against those in Rebellion against the King and Queen which was granted and Writs Issued out accordingly Proposals were made also by the Commissioners for the Forfeited Estates to set Leases for a year of all Lands that are Forfeited in this Kingdom but I did not hear of many Tenants for amongst other things there Proposed the Farmer must give in an Exact Account of the Acres both Arable and Pasture of the Farm he designs to take contains and if upon view it appears to be more than to pay 28 s. for every Acre of Arable and 5 s. for every Acre of Pasture that was over-plus this indeed is a good way to get an Account of all the Lands but not to make any Benefit to the King of them for I 'm afraid several Acres will not yield 20 s. in many years An Exploit of Captain Archer's On Tuesday the 13 th of November Captain Archer one of the Militia had a scuffle with the Raparees in the County of Wicklow kill'd about Five and took Twenty three Prisoners with the loss of Five or six of his own Men and about this time the Enemy burnt Philip's Town the chief Town in the King's County so called from King Philip as Mary Borough is from Queen Mary for in this Reign those two Counties were settled and part of them given to Thomas Ratcliff Earl of Sussex though we had a Garrison in it for they came from a great adjacent Bog in the Night and having set the Town on Fire retreated thither again The General comes to Dublin At this time Lieutenant General Ginkle who Commands in Chief over His Majesties Forces in Ireland came to Dublin and on the Thirteenth Published several Orders and Rules how the Army should be subsisted and the Country paid and secured which are too long to insert but very Commendable if they had been observed And the General and Lords Justices consulting together the Justices send out a Proclamation the Fourteenth for regulating the Quartering the Army and assertaining the Rates of things as what should be paid by each Soldier for all sorts of Provisions and Confirming the General 's Orders Published the day before We had News brought from Limerick by a Lieutenant that deserted of several Inconveniencies the Enemy were put to but these were only true in part there was a Report also that a supply of Arms Ammunition and Money was come from France and this was true in some respect for at that time
goes to Athlone Lieut. Gen. Douglas and his party Encamped that Night nigh Chappel-Issard and next day at Manouth Friday we Encampt at Glencurry about five miles further and we had not got this length till we begun to plunder though the General gave strict Orders to the contrary Saturday the 12th we marched to Clenard Bridge here we staid all Sunday and Lieutenant-General Douglas took an account of every Man in his party that he might have Bread provided accordingly the Soldiers went abroad and took several things from the Irish who had staid upon the Kings Declaration and frequent complaints came already to the General but Plundering went on still especially amongst the Northern Men who are very dextrous at that sport Sunday morning Captain Aughmouty of Colonel Woolsley's Regiment went with a party of Horse towards the County of Longford And Munday the 14th they met the Army at Mullingar whither we marched and several of the Irish came in for Protections though when they had them they were of little force to secure their Goods or themselves Two Spies taken The party that was sent out brought in a great prey of Cattle from the Enemies Quarters and took two Spies with Letters from Athlone one was to Advise one Tute to Defend an Island nigh Mullingar in which he had store of Horses and several things of value Another Letter was from an Officer at Athlone to his Father in the Country telling him that my Lord Tyrconnel the Duke of Berwick and several more great Officers were come to Limerick with a good Body of Horse and that all their Army would be there in two or three days so that they would make either a Hog or a Dog on 't as he exprest it That the Dauphin was landed in England with a great Army that the French had beat the English and Dutch Fleets that Duke Schonberg was dead and it was said the Prince of Orange was so too that their King was gone for France but it was no great matter he said where he was for they were better without him Then he advised his Father not to take a Protection because those that did were lookt upon as Enemies And after his Letter was sealed he had writ on the out-side Just now we have an Account by a Gentleman that 's come to us from Dublin that Orange is certainly dead so that all will be well again Such were their Hopes and Expectations at that time But though they believed most of those things yet they did not certainly know what to make on 't for they had no good opinion of the late King as may appear by a great many instances for Sarcefield sometime afterward speaking of the Action at the Boyn swore if we would change Kings they would fight it over again and beat us For certainly the Courage and Countenance of the Chief Commander in Armies is a material Point in the success of the Action and especially in Kings for he that has a Genius to the War has Advantages above other Men that makes his Gentry Nobility and Officers strive to imitate his Example by which he is better served and commonly more fortunate The 15th we remained Encamped at Mullingar and about 500 Creights came from the County of Longford with their Wives Children Cattle and every thing that they could bring away their business was to procure the Generals Protection which was granted them and they moved homewards as the Army marched forwards but were most of them plundered afterwards There had been a Friery at Mullingar during the late Kings Reign but the Friday before we got thither the Fathers thought fit to go a Pilgrimage into Conaught This Evening a party of Col. Russel's Horse went towards Athlone and came within three miles of the place but did no feats worth the mentioning next day we marcht to Ballimoor where stands a strong House at the side of a Lough which the Enemy has since fortified Athlone Besieged And Thursday July 17th we came before Athlone and encamped within a quarter of a mile of the Town the Enemy playing their great Guns upon us as we marched but did us little dammage The General sent a Drum to Summons the Town but old Colonel Grace the Governor fired a Pistol at him and sent word those were the Terms he was for The Town it self stands on a narrow Neck of Land between two Bogs one on either side the Shannon and you cannot come to it much less pass the River any where up or down within six or eight miles except at the Town through the midst of which the River Shannon runs and is both very broad and deep being by much the greatest in these three Kingdoms Ptolomy calls this River Senus Giraldus Flumen Senense but the Irish call it Shannon that is the Ancient River It arises out of Theru Hills in the County of Letrim and running through an excellent Country and several Towns particularly Limerick and Athlone it falls into the Sea beyond Knock-Patrick a Mountain upon which St. Patrick conjured all the Venomous Creatures in Ireland and threw them into the Sea insomuch that nothing of that kind has appeared or will live in that Kingdom ever since if you 'll believe what the Irish do however this River is Navigable for above twenty Leagues That part of Athlone standing on the South-side the Shannon is called the English Town and that on the other the Irish Town where stands a very strong Castle Athlone is the head Town in the County of Roscommon and was formerly the Barony of the O Kelly's There is a very good Stone-Bridge between the two Towns which was Built by Sir Henry Sidney in Queen Elizabeth's time and because this is commonly accounted the Center of Ireland that Queen once designed to make it the Residence of the Lords Justices The English Town not being so easie to defend the Irish Burnt it the day before our coming and broke down the Bridge They had several very convenient opportunities to disturb us in our march to the Town because of the Bogs Woods and Passes that lay very advantageous for that purpose but they retired over the River to defend the other side about 200 Yards above the Town they had raised some Breast-works on the River side nigh the end of the Bridge they had cast up several Redoubts and other Works and had planted two Batteries of two Guns a piece besides what were in the Castle Friday we spent in contriving our Batteries and our Works and on Saturday we planted two Field-Pieces which did the Enemies Guns some damage then one hundred and fifty Men out of each Regiment were ordered to make and carry Fascines and in two days more we had a Battery of six Guns finished nigh the Bridge-end which plaid upon the Castle and made a small Breach to wards the top On Sunday the 20th the General sent a Detachment of Horse commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Barry and 150 Granadeers mounted
towards Bi r and joyned our Horse who went that way the Night before Commanded by Sir John Laneir some Three Miles short of the Town There we understood that Sarsfield's Party in Bar was very strong and Major General Kirk thought it was too great a hazard to engage with those Men he had so sent an Express to Lieutenant General Douglas who was then at Mary-Borough some Twenty Miles off We returned to Roscreag that Night and next Morning being re-inforced with Douglas's Horse we marched forwards towards Bi r again The Enemy then had left the Town and encamped Three Miles from it towards the Shanon but their Out-Guards were within a Mile of Bi r and could over-look our Camp The General sent out all the Granadeers who took the shortest way over the Bog towards the Hill where the Enemy stood and at the same time sent out a Detachment of Horse who beat the Enemy off Thursday the 18 th our Army encamped beyond the Town and one Lieutenant Kelly of Levison's Dragoons as he was discovering the Enemy with a Party being surrounded was taken Prisoner He is since exchanged and gives us an Account of the Present State of Limerick which is something different from the Publick Friday the 19 th the Enemy decamped and marched to Banohar-Bridge though that Night a party of their Horse beat in our Out-Guards Saturday the 20 th our Army begun some Fortifications in Town it being only an open place before and part of them stayed here encamped for Ten or Twelve Days Some say also that here was a good opportunity lost in not falling upon the Enemy in their Retreat towards Banohar for they marched off in great Confusion But during our stay here the Soldiers either by the bad Example of others or making the Scarcity of Bread a Pretence they â—…gun to strip and rob most of the Irish that had got Protections which made it natural for them after this to turn Rapparees and do us all the Mischief they could And it did not stop here for there was scarce any distinction made of Papist or Protestant in this Affair Lords Justices come to Dublin Towards the middle of September my Lord Sidney and Tho. Coningsby Esq Lords Justices came to Dublin and on the 15 th they took the usual Oaths of Chief Governours of that Kingdom before the Commissioners of the Great Seal with all the accustomed Formalities the People by their Bonefires and other Signs of Joy expressing their satisfaction for the restoring of the Civil Government One of the first things they did was to consider of the Settlement of the Militia in such hands as might be most for the King's Service and the Countries Interest and in some small time after gave out Commissions accordingly The same Day they sent out a Proclamation to encourage all People to bring in their Goods to the Market at Dublin forbidding any Officers or Soldiers to press such Peoples Horses which has been a trick too frequent in that Country And whereas the Rapparees began to be very numerous in several places the Lords Justices issued out a Proclamation requiring all Papists to remain in their respective Parishes at least not to go Three Miles farther and only then to Market This bears date the 18 th And because the hardships that the Soldiers had endured occasioned a great many of them at the breaking up of the Camp to steal from their Colours and make the best of their way for England a Proclamation came out the 19 th Forbidding all Masters of Ships or Seamen to transport any Officers or Soldiers or other Person whatsoever except known Merchants and Persons of known Quality not belonging to the Army without a Pass from the Lords Justices or the General of the Army The Papists on the Frontiers were very angry at us and gave constant Intelligence to the Enemy of all our Affairs by which means our Men in small numbers were often surprized and murdered and several other Inconveniencies fell out so that a Proclamation came out on the 26 th Forbidding all Papists to dwell within Ten Miles of the Frontiers And another bearing the same Date Commanding all the Wives Children and Dependants upon any of the Irish in King James's Army or of those who had been kill'd or taken in that Service to remove beyond the River Shanon by such a Day or else to be proceeded against as Enemies and Spies And accordingly most of them went having a Guard to conduct them to our Frontiers And a Third there was dated that day also Forbidding any of the Protected Irish to Harbour any that belonged to the late King's Army or that robb'd and plundered the Countrey in the Night And because Coals were now very scarce at Dublin and other Firing not coming in so plentifully as formerly some Days before this there was a Proclamation published Promising Protection to all Ships and Mariners that should be imployed in transporting Coals from any part of the Kingdom of England or Wales to the City of Dublin One there came out on the 30 th Forbidding all people to buy any Goods but in open Markets because several Abuses were committed by the Soldiers taking peoples Goods and selling them at an undervalue And on the 7 th of October there was another Proclamation Forbidding any to pretend to be Soldiers in Colonel Fouks and Colonel Herbert 's Regiments that were not Those two Regiments being then in Town and several Abuses committed that way and some of the Soldiers affronting the Militia had like one Night to have made a great deal of Mischief upon which the Alarm was beat and several people wounded one or two being kill'd out-right All the Army in Quarters By this time the Soldiers every where had got to Quarters and it was proposed by several Justices of the Peace and Deputy-Lieutenants in the Countrey That if the Soldiers would be quiet and not take things at their own hands the Countrey should find them with Meat and Drink with whatever else they could reasonably think on which was very well liked by some Colonels but others for their own Gains sake ordered the Countrey-people to bring in most of their Corn to such and such places and secured it for their own private use allowing the Soldiers in the mean time to do what they would This made the Irish and English both plundered at all hands and if by chance an Englishman had any thing left the Rapparees being stript of what they had themselves were ready to come in the Night and steal that by which things were not in such order as good Men could have wished But before I go any farther this way it will be convenient to look back and see how Major General Scravemore and his Party went on and how the business of Cork and Kingsale was managed On the 17 th of September Major General Scravemore and Major General Tatteau sent Colonel Donap to burn the Bridge of Mallow and to view
time And further the French are retired and it 's to be supposed without design of returning else they would not have gone away Suppose therefore the Irish fortifie all those Places in their possession and have Arms and Ammunition with whatever else is needful from France yet all this will neither put Courage into them to defend those Places nor is it altogether in the power of France to supply them with necessary Provisions And lastly Of our own But Secondly As to our own Army I doubt not but we have several that are indifferent whether the War be quickly at an end or not for they find the Irish to be an easie sort of Enemy and if the War were done here they must expect hotter Service somewhere else They look upon it however as an Enemies Country which is the reason that great Spoils are made and Outrages committed nay which is worst of all no Distinction made of Papist or Protestant This it 's to be fear'd may bring a Famine and then all Peoples Condition in that Kingdom will be very severe For tho' there be Plenty enough in England yet the People of Ireland being poor no body will be at the pains to carry their Goods into a Country where there is nothing to be got in return of them But then whatsoever pains the Irish take in fortifying their Towns we take as much in carrying things to beat them out of them for there is a vast quantity of Bombs of the largest size with all things convenient for such a Design daily brought to Dublin And as to our Army our Numbers are the same as last Year except Two Regiments that are broke they are also much healthfuller and better acquainted both with the Country and their Arms and to encourage us the more the Parliament has granted His Majesty a considerable Fund to carry on the War as also to Equip His Fleet which we were in both defective last Summer Besides we have now at least Twelve thousand of the Militia in good order either to defend our Garrisons behind us or assist in our Army upon occasion for one should think that there is no body so fit to fight for their own Country or indeed to be entrusted with it as those People whose Concern it is And more than all this we shall have a great many Protestant Rapparees from the North and other Places that we can at least set against theirs for the Northern People are most of them arm'd either from our Men that died last Year or by some means or other so that I hope we shall have no want of Men. If therefore we have a mind to retrive our Losses we must encourage such as do well and reward them for their Valour and Conduct but punish Offenders though their Station be the greater And as to the Arrears of the Army they are not so very great as some People make them for though we have not had our Accounts stated for some time yet we have still received Money upon Account and the Soldiers have constantly been supplied with Bread and other Provisions But it 's usual with a great many that when they can have no other Excuse for their Extravagancies then they 'll say the King owes them so much but say not a word of what they have received And as to what the present Irish War both has cost and is like to do both as to Men and Money it is not to be named with that in Cromwell's time which any may see that will but read Burlace's History Nor can there be any Comparison between the present Government and that for then both Law and Religion were trampled upon but now they run in their due Channel But after all the Reason why Ireland was not reduc'd last Year was our late taking the Field and the Occasion of that was because the Affairs of the Army could not be put in a compleat Posture any sooner For England has a long time been used to Peace and Ease and therefore unprovided of those things that are absolutely necessary in time of War which were to come from abroad The King did as much as was possible in the time as any who have seen the Country may know for if Ireland were as well Peopled and Mann'd as the Soil it self will bear it may defie all the World besides You cannot see a Town or a small Castle but where there 's either a Bog or a River or both all Places being fortified as well by Nature as Art And in War there 's no doubt but time must be allow'd to regulate such Mistakes as may happen since no Man is infallible in that Art Nor was there a sufficient Fund of Money the Year past to supply the real Necessities of so great a Work which Inconveniency being now removed a fair Conclusion may be rationally hoped for As to the Charge of maintaining a competent Army there when Ireland is reduced the Country will night do that of it self since the Customs in that part of the Kingdom now in our possession amounted to Sixty seven thousand five hundred twenty six pound for the Six Months last past and what must the whole Kingdom come to in Times of Peace and a setled Establishment I have only this to add That when our Armies go out to defie our Enemies and yet at the same time in their Practice defie the Living God or if we should stay at home and fast and pray for their good Success never so heartily yet God will neither hear us nor help them if we are negligent in our Duty towards him If therefore we desire that our Armies and Fleets may make a considerable Figure in the World let us not grudge at and censure every thing our Betters do but be careful to do our Duty to God and Man then after the enduring for a Season the Inconveniencies of War we may hope to be happy in a lasting Peace Amen FINIS ADVERTISEMENT WHereas there are some mistakes occasioned by the Printer's oversight which the Author being suddenly call'd to his Post in Ireland had neither leisure nor opportunity to Correct the Reader may if he pleases supply such Defects Books lately printed for Richard Chiswell A New History of the Succession of the Crown of England and more particularly from the Time of King Egbert till King Henry the VIII Collected from those Historians who wrote of their own Times A Discourse concerning the unreasonableness of a New Separation on account of the Oaths With an Answer to the History of Passive Obedience so far as relates to Them A Vindication of the said Discourse concerning the Unreasonableness of a New Separation from the Exceptions made against it in a Tract called A Brief Answer to the said Discourse c. 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