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A43956	The history of the wars in Ireland, betwixt Their Majesties army and the forces of the late King James Giving an impartial relation of all the battles, sieges, rencounters, skirmishes and other material passages, revolutions and accidents that has happened in that kingdom since the year 1688. The second edition, corrected. To which is added, the siege of Lymerick, to the raising thereof; with the siege and surrender of Bandon, Cork, the Old and New Fort, and town of Kin-sale; with other material occurrences. By an officer in the Royal Army. Illustrated with the lively effigies of His Sacred Majesty, and the great commanders in the Army.	Officer in the Royal Army.	1691 (1691)	Wing H2190A; ESTC R218430	61,520	168

Pillag'd and from Clandes … Thievery to proceed to violent De … dation they thought it prudent to 〈◊〉 their Gates and avoid Plunder by … cessary Defence and Self-preservation This was the first Essay of the … cious Indulgence of a Popish King 〈…〉 Protestant Subjects This was a 〈◊〉 Specimen of what is to be exp … from him who will mortgage his … son to the humour of his Priests The business of Sir Thomas Southwel i●…●…together of another Nature and a●… … e repetition of it may justly cause an … horrence of those Blood-suckers who … light in the torment and ruin of such 〈…〉 call Hereticks so the Example may … monish all Men of State and Degree 〈◊〉 to truckle their Authority in Vassal … to their Servants and Inferiours The Earl of Seaforth taking a particu … fancy to Sir Thomas Southwel a very … eful young Gentleman and under … demnation for his reputed Rebelli … procur'd a Warrant from the Late … g to Sir Richard Neagle his Attorney … eral to pass a Pardon for him which said Earl shewed to Sir Richard but 〈◊〉 a most unmannerly and churlish … on refused to obey it saying it was 〈◊〉 than the King could do The Earl … ed to his Master and reported the … er of the Attorney-General who 〈◊〉 sent for owned it to the King and … ly told him It was not in his 〈◊〉 to grant him a Pardon where … the King passionately locked him … in his Closet 〈◊〉 who in England was flattered into … it of an absolute and unlimitted Power to dispence with the established Laws is not allowed in Ireland the priviledg inherent to all Soveraign Powers by the Law of Nations to pardon the Offences of a Subject But even in this it has appeared as by several other instances that he is permitted to pardon any Crime in a Roman Catholick but in relation to a Protestant the Law is indispenable And what favour Protestants are to expect under a Popish King and in a Kingdom where Popery is predominant let all men judge by their procedure in Ireland where almost all the Churches where the Irish Arms were prevalent except in Dublin were seized by Authority the Protestant Ministers were Deprived and Popish Priests setled and inducted into Livings and Ecclesiastical Preferments It is a matter not unworthy the Observation how dexterously the Government there could prevaricate in their dealings with the poor enslaved Protestants For upon any apprehention of Succours arriving from England or other pretext to fleece and squeeze them an Information was presently given how numerous the Protestants were and what danger may arise from thence and then they were forthwith confined and hurried away to Prison and their Houses and Goods exposed to the Rapine of the Irish and French At another time when it might be subservient to their designs to lessen the number and undervallue the strength of the Protestants then they give out that their number was but small and their interest inconsiderable And this is very remarkable in a late Passage at the City of Limorick where the Cabal of the Papists projecting to get the Churches there into their Hands Represented to the King and Council that the Protestants in that Place were so very few that there was no need to Assign them any more then one Church for their Meeting and this Suggestion was fortifyed by a Letter from the Earl of Limmerick attesting the same If at any time an Information was given to the Government of any Mony Plate or other things valuable in the hands of a Protestant tho guarded by the solemnity of a Protection this was soon seconded by the suspection of some Plot against the Government and immediately a Party was sent to seize their Persons to Search and Plunder their Houses and so after the Infliction of all ●orts of Misery and Distress they are admitted to Liberty under the Caution of Bonds for good behaviour but nothing left to sustain them or to prevent the Calamitous Assaults of Poverty and Famine At another time they proceed with a more Jesuitical Fierceness for having in their Eye a concealed purchase of Money or good Moveables in the Hands of a Protestant immediately an Order was secretly Granted to seize the Persons and secure their Goods and then to amuse the World with an Opinion of their Justice and Lenity a Proclamation was contrived with a plausible promise of Indemnity to all Protestants under their Protection and an invitation to all Men to rest secure under the Benignity of it But in the mean time the matter is so ordered that the Proclamation shall not be Published nor delivered into the Sherriffs Hands or other Officers tho anti-dated before the Issuing such Order till a certain Advertisement be receiv'd that the Order is Executed and the Work done What a miserable and an unexpected Oppression is it that the poor Subjects shall be compelled to part with their Goods and Merchandise for a contemtible lump of Brass or Pewter Yet such ever hath been the constant proceeding of the Late King towards his Subjects of Ireland whose Goods and Commodities he rather Seizeth than Buyeth and becoming the grand Merchant of the Kingdom he is the general ingrosser of all Trade which he Vents and Exports to his dear Correspondent in France Bargaining with the Owner at such a rate as the Buyer is pleased to make and discharging his Contract in Bills of Copper Pewter and Brass which can in no way avail the poor Seller or support him in the circulation of his Trade I will only present the Reader with one instance among innumerable others and give him an Authentick Account of what Goods were taken up in Dublin at one time for the Kings use i. e. were seized by Armed Force and a Price set upon them at the pleasure of the Taker Seized in the City of Dublin for the King's use February 6. 1689.   Tann'd Hides Raw Hides Stones of Wool at 18 ps in the Stone Tuns of Tallow stones of Butter In Oxmantown 00920 02140       St. Andrew's St. Peter's and St. Brides ●1166 02190       St. Catherins St. James and St. Nichol. without 05071 03192 61105 389 40 Within the City 11619 07192         18771. 14687. 61105. 389. 40. This with much more about the time Sir Clovesly Shovel stood before Dublin was a carrying on Board the Ships that lay in the Harbour to be transported to France which for that small time Sir Clovesly Shovel tarried there had some intermission but as soon as he was gone the same and many more hands were employed that all might be sent off whilst the like methods were a putting in Execution in all parts of the Country seizing and carrying away what the Protestants had in order to be sent after the former by the next opportunity beggering the Inhabitants and Impoverishing the Kingdom by a wilful Devastation of those staple Commodities for which no

Arms in this Kingdom with a late Victory over our Euemies at the Boyne and with the Possession of Our Capital City of Dublin and with the General Oispersion of all that did oppose Vs VVe 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 a Compassion upon those whom VVe judge to have been seduced VVherefore VVe do hereby Declare VVe shall take into Our Royal Protection all poor Labourers Common Soldiers Countrey Farmers Ploughmen and Cottiers whatsoever as also all Citizens Towns-men Trades-men and Artificers who either remained at Home or having fled from their Dwellings shall by the First Day of August next repair to their usual Places of Abode Surrendering up what Arms they have to such Iustices 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 in and submit to Our Authority For Our Royal Intention is and VVe do hereby Declare That VVe will not only Pardon all those poor People as to their Lives and Liberties who shall come in by the time aforesaid for all Violences they have done or committed by the Command of their Leaders during the War but We do 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 Winter But forasmuch as many of them had a legal Right to the Tenancy of several Lands some holden from Protestants and some held from Popish Proprietors who have been concerned in the the Rebellion agaiust us Our Will and Pleasure is that all those Tenants 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 concerned in the present Rebellion against us do keep their Rent 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 so for those of this or any other Rank or Quality who are already in Our Quarters and within our Power and Obedient to Vs We do hereby charge and require that they be not molested in any sort without Our particular Command For the desperate Leaders of the present Rebellion who have violated those Laws by which this Kingdom is united and inseperably 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 Twenty second of February 1688. As We are now by God's great Favour in condition to make them sensible of their Errors so are We resolved to leave them to the event of War unless by great and manifest demonstrations We shall be convinced they deserve Our Mercy which We shall never refuse to those who are truly Penitent Given at Our Royal Camp at Finglass near Dublin the seventh day of July 1690. In the Second Year of Our Reign July 11. The King set out from Cromlin to Kilkenny with a part of his Army General Douglas with another part went some days before towards Athlone and a third by way of Bray towards Wexford July 14. His Majesty Encamped at Inchiquin 21 Miles from Dublin where News was brought to the Camp That Cavan and Sligoe had voluntarily Surrendred and that the Irish Villains called Raparees had Burnt Longford and the Lord Longford's House July 15. His Majesty with the Army Encamped at Castle-Dermote On the 16th We Marched to Caterlough which was but five Miles On the 17th We Encamped about Kells leaving the Road to Kilkenny that City being above four Miles out of our way here by some Deserters come into our Camp we understood That the Earl of Tyrconnel who since King James's leaving of Ireland stiles himself Lord Lieutenant of Ireland having some Jealousie of the Earl of Tyrone Governor of Waterford sent for him to Lymerick and made Old Colonel Lacy Governor in his stead and that the Enemy had in it about 1600 Men. Colonel Eppinger who was sent from Dublin with a small Party by Sea towards Wexford that being Deserted as you have heard took Possession of the Place and secured a Garrison in it he sound a considerable quantity of Provisions there and his Men a little after took 400 Head of Cattle from the Raparees who had taken them a little time before from the Country People on whom they have ever since the Battle at the Boyne committed many Outrages and done much Mischief July 19. We came to a place called Bennets-bridge within 16 Miles of Waterford where we Encamped Here we understood that on the 18th the Enemy quitted Clonmel notwithstanding it is a very considerable Pass lately strengthned by the addition of several new Fortifications and Major General Sarsfield was Posted there with 5000 Irish but on the approach of our Army in its Neighbourhood he retired towards Lymerick This day four French Officers came over to us they give an account That the Earl of Tyrconnel and the Count De Lausun are Fortifying of Lymerick the remains of the Army being in that Neighbourhood but in a very ill condition having lost all their Baggage This day His Majesty Dined with the Duke of Ormond at the Castle of Kilkenny On the 20th We Decamped from Bennets-Bridge and marched about seven Miles to a place called Rossen-narrow and the next day we came to Carick His Majesty commanded a Trumpet to be sent to Summon Waterford requiring them to Surrender the Place They desired time till the next Morning when they sent out Articles but the King not approving thereof let them know that they should go out with their own Arms and Baggage only and that if they did not accept thereof but stayed till they were Attacked he would give them no Quarter However they sent some of their Scruples again the next day and Major General Kirk was sent thither with five Regiments and several Pieces of Cannon to answer them the next day in the Afternoon the Capitulations were Signed and the next day after the Garrison Marched out with their Arms and Baggage the number of 1600 and were conducted to Mallow 12 Miles in their way to Lymerick The Garrison would not have had so good Terms only His Majesty had Compassion on 300 Protestant Families in the Town Several of the Irish Officers staid behind in the Town and prayed His Majesties Protection The same day the Lord Dover and Lord George Howard with several others submitted themselves to the King The Garrison of Athlone upon the approach of Lieutenant