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A31226	The memoirs of James, Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven, his engagement and carriage in the wars of Ireland from the year 1642 to the year 1651 written by himself.	Castlehaven, James Touchet, Earl of, 1617?-1684.	1680 (1680)	Wing C1234; ESTC R4054	46,323	144

the Oath and Employment Chief heads of the Model of Government Burras Fore-Faukland Byrrh and Ballinikille yield to Preston who not long after was twice defeated Castlehaven begins his Command with an action of Charity And then he forces Crawford from the Siege of Balli-Brittas takes Ballinunry Clogrenen and Ballilenan and withall defeats the succour ON the whole matter I returned to this Council thank'd them for their good Opinion of me and engaged my self to run a Fortune with them Whether Anger and Revenge did not incline me to it as much as any other consideration I cannot resolve This I well remember that I consider'd how I had been used and seen my house burning as I pass'd by besides that I was a light man with no Charge and not any hopes of redress from the King who was then engaged in an Intestine War Now being thus a Confederate and having taken the Oath they made me one of the Council and General of the Horse under Preston The Assembly met the 24. of Oct. 1642. It differ'd nothing from a Parliament other then that the Lords and Commons sate together and not in two Houses This you see was a force put upon us and we hoped in time the storm being pass'd to return to our old Government under the King We had many learned in the Law amongst us whom we encouraged to keep us as near the old Government as might be holding to the Ancient Laws of the Land That Assembly without delay approved all the Council had done and settled a Model of Government viz. that at the end of every General Assembly the Supream Council should be confirmed or changed as they thought fit That it should consist of 25. six out of each Province three of the six still resident The 25 th was my self with no Relation to any Province but to the Kingdom in general Every Province had a Provincial Assembly which met on Occasions and each County had Commissioners for Applotting money within themselves as it came to their shares on the general Applotment of the Province Many other things there were as to Government If a Letter came to them written in Irish it would be wonder'd at and hardly could one be found to read it We were not in case to bring to Justice those that begun the Rebellion But I never saw any of them esteemed or advanced The General Assembly being put off the Generals fell to their work and my General took in Burras Fort-Faukland and Birrh in the Kings County where I was with him And I had the good Fortune to begin my first commanding in the Wars with an Action of Charity For going to see this Garrison of Birrh before it marcht out I came into a great room where many people of Quality were both men and women They with many Tears so soon as they saw me fell on their Knees desiring me to save their lives I was astonished at their posture and Petition and desiring them to rise ask'd what the matter was They answered that from the first day of the Wars there had been continual action and much blood shed between them and their Irish Neighbours and little Quarter on either side And that therefore understanding that I was an English man some knowing me they desired that I would take them into my Protection I doubted that there was too much reason for their fears considering they were to March two or three days through the Woods of Iregan and waste Countreys before they came to Athy their next friends Garrison I went immediately to the General and desired that I might command their Convoy which he granted Then culling out two hundred Horse and three hundred Foot in whom I had most Confidence I March'd and delivered them with their Baggage safe They were at least eight hundred Men Women and Children I was with this General the 18 th of March 42. when he was beaten at Ross by the Marquess of Ormond and by Colonel Monk since Duke of Albermarle at Timochoe in the Queens County the 5 th of Octob. 42. Yet afterwards he besieging Ballynckill in the same County I ventured once more with him Where he having Intelligence that Major General Crawford was besieging Ballybritas a Castle belonging to the Vicount Clanmaleer he sent me with a Party of fifteen hundred Horse and Foot to endeavour the succouring of that place which I did Crawford drawing off in passing the River of the Barrow in a skirmish had his Thigh broken with a Musquett-shot I returned as Ballynekill was rendred and conveyed that Garrison too as I had done the other of Byrrh After this I remained at Kilkenny with the Supream Council and Preston went into the lower parts of the Province with the Army Of whose absence the Enemies Garrisons in the County of Catherloe and Queens County taking advantage Alarm'd the County of Kilkenny even to the Gates of the City I was then by the Council commanded to go against them And therefore having gotten together about 2000 men with some Cannon I Marched to Ballenunry in the County of Catherloe and took it as also Clogrenan Where the County of Wexford Regiment Mutined but were reduced and some examples made served well for the future I Marched thence into the Queens County and Besieged Ballilenan Commanded by the Grimes's a Valiant People with a strong Garrison But a great breach being made their Succour came by the way of Athy I was not well at this Alarme but laid upon my Bed in my Tent. However I made no great matter of it knowing the Succour could not be considerable But my Old Lord Richard Vicount of Mountgarret being abroad sent me advice that they were coming on in great hast and stronger than I thought both in Horse and Foot and were then near the end of the Tougher which is a great way cut through a Bog and I believe in length at least half a Mile Now I had a great Guard of Horse and Foot at my end of the Tougher with a Line thrown up before them So I judged the danger not great However I got on Horse-back taking with me 400 Horse and coming to my Guard I saw some of the Enemy on the Tougher in their March Whereupon I bad my Horse and Guards follow me and March towards them thinking to have fought them upon the Tougher But they retired and formed on a plain two Musquet-shot off I having pass'd the Tougher prepared to Charge But they Drew off again and did not stand me till they had gotten through a Gap in a Ditch with water to the Belly Being past they lined the Ditch with Musqueteers drawing up their Horse and Foot close by to defend this Gap Sir Walter Butler with his Squadron begun the Fight but being Wounded in the Ditch with a Pike through his Thigh his men sell off and a second Squadron Charged and did the like But the Enemy seeing more Squadrons coming on in the smoke took their advantage to

1642. My Lord of Ormond after this being to Pass with his Army just by my Door some of his people being of my acquaintance came Galloping before assuring that my Lord of Ormond would be with me in half an hour On which my Lady Dutchess and my self be-stirred our selves and having two or three Cooks a good Barns Door and plenty of Wine we patcht up a Dinner ready to be set on the Table at my Lords coming in But some that came with him turned this another way magnifying the entertainment beyond what it was and Publishing through the Army that it was a mighty Feast for my Lord of Mount-Garrett and the Rebels and this through the English Quarters past for Currant I believe it was much the Cause of that under-hand villanous proceeding against me mentioned in my Brothers Letter My Lady Dutchess and my Lord of Antrim soon left me going into their own Country in the North. For a while I Tided it out alone till my Brother fetcht me to Dublin You have seen by my Brothers Letter how I was Imprisoned and no hopes of any relief from either the King or Parliament sitting in England So that after twenty Weeks that I had remained in Prison I was ordered to be removed to the Castle of Dublin Which Startled me and brought to my thoughts the proceedings against the Earl of Strafford who confiding in his Innocency lost his head I concluded then that Innocency was a scurvy Plea in an angry time Besides I looked upon the Justices and most of the Council to be of the Parliaments persuasion Wherefore I resolved to attempt an Escape and save my self in the Irish Quarters Which I did in this manner After the Battel of Killrush there was one George Lidwidge an Irish-man and Trooper left wounded in my house who being recovered in acknowledgment of Kindnesses received often visited me in Prison I found so much Fidelity in the man towards me that I trusted him with my design desiring his assistance which he promis'd I then giving him Mony ordered him to buy me three Horses for my self and two Servants with Sadles and Pistols which he did And the next night just as the Maid was to shut the Door it being dark I slipt into the Street leaving my two men in the house and appointing them where they should find me in the Morning About Nine of the Clock they came out of the house bidding the Maid make no noise pretending that I was not well and had not rested that Night They coming to me the Guards of the Town withdrawn and the Pattroles come in were sent before with the Son of the Trooper to the place where our Horses stood to have them ready the Trooper and my self soon following but I as his Man carrying a Saddle under my Arm. To be short we Mounted all on Horseback March'd as Troopers carelesly out of the Town and took our way by Temple-Oage towards the Mountains of Wicklow Where being come I cared little for the Justices But before Dinner my Escape was discovered by the people of the House and on Notice given to the Justices I was pursued by a Party of Horse taking their way to my house at Madingstown In the Night they invested it but not finding me after having possest themselves of what I had within and without they killed many of my Servants and Burnt the House I kept on my way towards Kilkenny as much through the Fast Country as I could till I arrived Where I found the Town very full and many of my acquaintance all preparing for their Natural defence seeing no distinction made or safety but in Arms. To this end they had chosen amongst themselves out of the most eminent Persons a Council and gave it the Title of the Supream Council of the Confederate Catholicks of Ireland and formed an Oath of Association by which all were bound to obey them They had made Four Generals of the Four Provinces Preston of Leinster Barry of Mounster Owen-roe O Neal of Vlster and one Burk of Conaught and being to give Commissions they caused a Seal to be made which was the Seal of the Council I was sent for to this Council to tell my Story which I did And then being askt what I intended to do I answer'd To get into France and so to England Upon which they told me their condition and what they were doing for their preservation persuading me to stay with them being I was beloved in the Country had three Sisters Married amongst them was persecuted on the same score they were and ruined so that we had no more to lose but our Lives I took two or three days to think of this Proposition examining the Model of Government they had prepared against the meeting of the General Assembly and most particularly their Oath of Association Which Oath I judged to be very reasonable as the Case stood it being as here followeth The Oath of Association I A B. Do Profess Swear and Protest before God and his Saints and his Angels that I will during my life bear true Faith and Allegiance to my Sovereign Lord Charles by the Grace of God King of Great-Britain France and Ireland and to his Heirs and Lawful Successors and that I will to my power during my life defend uphold and maintain all his and their just Prerogatives Estates and Rights the Power and Priviledge of the Parliament of this Realm the Fundamental Laws of Ireland the free Exercise of the Roman-Catholick Faith and Religion throughout this Land and the Lives Just Liberties Possessions Estates and Rights of all those that have taken or shall take this Oath and perform the Contents thereof and that I will obey and ratifie all the Orders and Decrees made and to be made by the Supream Council of the Confederate Catholicks of this Kingdom concerning the said Publick Cause and that I will not seek directly or indirectly any Pardon or Protection for any Act done or to be done touching this general Cause without the Consent of the Major part of the said Council and that I will not directly or indirectly do any Act or Acts that shall prejudice the said Cause but will to the hazard of my Life and Estate Assist Prosecute and Maintain the same Moreover I do farther Swear that I will not accept of or submit unto any Peace made or to be made with the said Confederate Catholicks without the consent and approbation of the General Assembly of the said Confederate Catholicks And for the preservation and strengthening of the Association and union of the Kingdom that upon any Peace or accomodation to be made or concluded with the said Confederate Catholicks as aforesaid I will to the utmost of my Power insist upon and maintain the ensuing Propositions until a Peace as aforesaid be made and the matters to be agreed upon in the Articles of Peace be Established and secured by Parliament So help me God and his holy Gospel SECT II. 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