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A50168	A farther impartial account of the actions of the Inniskilling-men containing the reasons of their first rising, their declarations, oaths, and correspondencies with several parts of the kingdom : together with many other remarkable passages of their behaviour and management, not yet published / written by Capt. William Mc-Carmick, one of the first that took up arms in Inniskilling, for the defence of that place, and the Protestant interest.	McCarmick, William.	1691 (1691)	Wing M116; ESTC R11414	46,392	74

form Companies Captain Allen Cathcart William Mc-Carmick his Lieutenant Ralph Picking Ensign raising the first and Captain Malcome Cathcart the second most consisting of Nonconformists as they term them that party effectually espousing our interest and never declined us in the most dangerous times The Governour a Company of Foot in the Country where he had lived and a Troop of Horse in and about the Town At this time We were put to great toil in breaking the Ice round our Town every Day it standing in an Island and having no other Walls save the Water which Frose so extreamly up that Both Foot and Horse might March over it with safety Toward the latter end of December we had an Express from my Lord Blany with advice not rashly to admira Garison of Papists into our Town but rather to continue in the condition we were in while we knew what measures were taken by the Nobility and Gentry of the Counties of Antrim Down Ardmagh and Managhan and a Letter inclosed sent to his Lordship from Belfast which was this My Lord WE herewith send you a Copy of the Capitulation betwixt Lord Mountjoy and the City of Derry Whereupon that Place was put into the hands of Lieutenant-Collonel Lundy We also send your Lordship a Narrative of what past betwixt my Lord Mountjoy and a Gentleman we intrusted from hence to manage both with his Lordship and the City by all which your Lordship may perceive that Lord Mountjoy proposeth managing the Protestant Interest by less hazardous means than was intended And we are unwilling to suspect his Lordship's sincerity and think it may be prejudicial to us as yet to thwart his Lordship whereupon we think it most adviseable for us to defer putting any thing in execution till a new notice is given and that in the mean time we may take care that his Lordship be discoursed herein and we thereby judge what are the measures most proper for us to pursue We believe your Lordship hath wrote to Lord Granard and Lord Kingston and we now desire that you will with the utmost speed give them and other our Friends intimation of this our altering our resolutions with the motives thereunto we also desire that you would acquaint Lord Granard that we do however rely so much on him that if he judges our method best and either hath or will make any step towards countenancing thereof so as to think his Honour in the least ingaged that we will all unanimously stand by him Your Lordship perceives that it is likewise intended that Inniskilling submit as Derry hath done we refer it to your Lordship to consider if means ought to be used that they at least delay so doing and for your Lordship to Act therein or Prevent it as you think fit c. Belfast December 26. You see by this it was concluded That the Holding out Inniskilling was thought convenient and indeed we had firmly resolved it but wanting Ammunition Arms and Commissions we in January sent Mr. Hugh Hamilton and Mr. Allen Cathcart into England with an Address to the Prince of Orange hearing King James had left that Kingdom And in their way to Donoghadee where they were to take Shipping for Scotland toward their more secure passage to discourse the Lords and Gentlemen of the North-East to whom we wrote this following Letter My Lord. WHILST we and all the Protestants of this Kingdom groaned under the fear of approaching Misery and there was nothing but an universal dread of eminent Ruin suggested to our thoughts and that we see our Religion our Laws Liberties Lives and our all at stake so that nothing could be added to our danger but our willingness to lye under whatsoever was imposed upon us the Law of Self-preservation one of the Ancientest of the World constrained us rather to chuse an hazardous Vndertaking than a voluntary Slavery to which we were the more provoked by the Insulting Menaces of those who under pretence of Quartering upon us came to Pillage us and designed to make this their entrance to the Devastation of this part of the Province So that not being willing to be inslaved and help to make others so too this Pass being the only Inlet from Conagh to Ulster from whence as by an Inundation it must have been overflowed we stand upon our Guard and do resolve by the blessing of God rather to meet our Danger than expect it We doubt not but your own Considerations hath suggested thoughts of this Nature to you also which we do believe may induce you to a necessary Defence of your Selves and Neighbours and therefore do humby intreat your candid and sincere advice in the management of this great Affair which is too weighty for our weak Shoulders to bear alone since we are sure to be the first that shall meet with the dangerous and highly incensed revengful Hands of our Enemies our great hope is That God will incline you to our Assistance and give us Courage and Success in this so just an Vndertaking we intreat Credit may be given to our Messengers who are well-acquainted with the Proceeddings of those that shall not fail to continue To the Right Honourable the Earl of Mount-Alexander Lord Viscount Massarine Sir Arthur Reiden or any of them c. Your Lordships most Faithful Humble Servants Gustavus Hamilton and the rest of the Inhabitants of Innikilling We had a very kind and favourable return to this Letter from the Honourable Persons it was sent too we now diligently applied our selves in raising more men Capt. Rob. Clark Capt. Will. Browning Capt. Alex. Archison Capt. Robert Stevenson Capt. Robert Corry Capt. Hen. Smith Capt. Archibald Hamilton each raising a Company Sir John Hume who indeed did from the beginning effectually espouse our Interest raised and armed two Foot Companies and a good Troop of Horse joyning always with us when occasion Fortified and Victualled his own House so that it was capable of containing and maintaining a very considerable Garison and sent into England for his Eldest Son who had been formerly in the Army there a very hopeful young Gentleman who headed his Horse This Garrison was no small support to Inniskilling it lying three miles below the Town on Conaught side of the River and a great defence to the Country about it In the beginning of January we received a Letter sent us by Mr. Charles Lesly from Glaslough a place in the County of Monaghan where he lived it was in Characters and shew'd the Intentions of the Irish Priests and Friars whose restless spirits left nothing unattempted to drive on their Hellish designs against the poor Protestants The Letter was thus M17t27 McK2nn1 945r S2lf2 t4g2th2r 553th R4b2rt 34hn 7t51rt c1pti3n 453nd4n 553ll31m 224rth 1r2 15th4r3726 89 92 c45nc2ll 4f 658l341 t4 72372 5p4n ch1rl2s l27l32 1n6 34hn kn4k7 capt3ne 34hnst4n th2r2 1r2 1ll74 74m2 c4ntr3526 6273gn7 li36 3n pr1ct37 t4 75rpr372 92ch5rch22 4f 1rdm1gh l5rg1nl37n1g1r592 18452 4n 7c4r2 4f 92

Inniskilling This came no sooner to hand than Mac-Carmick went to the Provost and some others of the Townsmen intreating them as soon as Day appear'd to set the Carpenters again to work at the Draw-Bridge getting a Horseback himself and Rides immediately to Cornet Gustavus Hamilton a Gentleman that liv'd on the West side of the Town in the Barony of Maghreboy about five Mile from the Town to know his and the other Neighbouring-Gentlemens Resolutions who were all very ready and willing to joyn in the Defence of Inniskilling several of them together with Cornet Hamilton coming into Town with M c Carmick but upon the way were met by an Express from the Provost with this following Letter Dear Sir MR. Latournall came just now from Captain Corry and in his coming into the Town commanded the Carpenters to leave off working at the Drawbridg and also came to me and begged I should send for my Brethren and disswade them from the Resolution of denying the Soldiers Entrance and to provide them Quarters as speedily as I could My request to you is That you will immediately give the Gentlemen in these parts an Accompt of my design which is to give them entrance and that you will make all the haste you can home to assist me is all from Inniskilling Dec. 13th 1688. Yours to serve you whilst I am PAVL DANE To Mr. William Mc-Carmick These By this you may see how strangely mens minds were hurried and what a hard task it was to unite a divided multitude yet this Letter hindered not our coming into Town where Captain Corry and several other Gentlemen livers on the East side of Loghearne were assembled Things again were debated but most were for admitting the two Companies alledging the strength of the Irish in that Country they being well armed and provided in Ammunition having all the Arms Magazines and Garisons of the Kingdom in their hands save Londonderry we wanting both Arms and Ammunition wanting Soldiers amongst us and the uncertainty of a headstrong multitude being likely that they would as soon throw down their Arms as they took them up when they either see an Enemy or were reduced to any hardships or want yet all could not do the Townsmen with the Gentlemen that came out of the Barony of Maghreboy stood firm to the Resolution of neither submitting themselves to be slaves nor to assist the making of others so Carpenters were set to work again at the Bridge And indeed though Captain Corry would not at all comply with our Resolution yet when we sent for the Chains and Irons that had formerly belonged to the Bridge he sent them in to us we soon got up the Draw-bridge and again sent to all the Neighbourhood intreating them to joyn with us both for their own preservation and ours promising them free quarter in Town both for themselves and Horses upon this several of the Country came in being thereunto much incouraged by the industrious solicitation of one Mr. Kelsy a Nonconformist Minister who indeed laboured both publickly and privately in animating his hearers to take up Arms and stand upon their own defence shewing example himself by wearing Arms and marching in the head of them when together Our next Care was to turn all Papists out of Town seizing Anthony Murry the forenamed Friar-Guardian and committing him to the Castle where he continued Prisoner a good while and after by a Rope made his Escape over the Wall so got off in a Boat but although the Rope set him at liberty then yet it may send him to another world ere long Upon Saturday the 15th of December Mr. James Baird and Mr. James Johnston were sent on Horseback to view and bring intelligence of the Enemies approach who return'd upon Sunday about Ten of the Clock with assurance of the Enemies being within four or five miles of the Town most of the Inhabitants being in Church got immediately to their Arms our number not two hundred Foot and they not near half Armed our Horse about 150. such as they were who took the field with a resolution to fall in upon the Enemies Reer if they had offered to enter the Town by force but they coming within a mile and meeting several of their own sort that were turn'd out of Town acquainting them that we were resolved to fight and indeed magnifying our number the Soldiers were so discouraged that they immediately Retreated the most of their Officers being at Dinner in Captain Corry's upon intelligence of which our Horse with threescore Firelooks pursued them their Officers perceiving our Horse to move towards them fled likewise after their men we hearing that they had several Horse-loads of spare Arms and Ammunition good store along with them for arming the Country were resolved to have them these being the chief things we wanted but our Horse being met by Captain Corry were perswaded to return to the great dissatisfaction of the Foot he having as we were told past his word for the Enemies safety while they were in our Country they marched that night to M c Guiers Bridge eight miles from us and there stood upon their Guard all night next day to Newtown Buttler where in the night time they had like to have seised three Gentlemen of ours that we sent to observe their motion and to know if any of the Country joyned them viz. Mr. William Browning Mr. _____ and Mr. James Corry who lighting in their Quarters and assuming other Names after finding out their number strength and resolution having discoursed several of their Officers were discovered to be Inniskilling men and ere they could well mount their Horses were surrounded by a strong Guard of the Enemy but our men made their way through them and escaped to the County of Cavan where they stayed in Captain Sanderson's while the two Companies marched past them to Cavan then returned the two Companies stayed some small time in Cavan then marched to Firmah twelve miles further being alarmed that the Inniskilling men were coming to disarm them Gustavus Hamilton during their being near the Town kept at a place called Portoragh within a quarter of a mile of the Town with near a hundred Horse to support and assist the Townsmen if any force had been offered them by the two Companies but as for carrying meat or drink out of Town to treat them or sending any of our number to perswade them to return there was no such thing it 's true indeed they did not shew their Patent nor once desire to be admitted into Town After this we always kept strict Guards and being sensible that a Body without a Head seldom lives long our next care was to make choice of some Gentleman to Command us the Irish indeed every day growing more insolent than usual and gathering themselves together in Companies Exercising and learning to handle their Arms yea and taking away the Protestants Cattel both publickly and privately nay more they were grown to that height