prevent a Famine had turn'd out of the City and on the 20th the Lord-Lieutenant being informed that Jones had for want of Forrage sent part of his Horse to Tredagh his Excellency ordered Insiquin to pursue them which he performed with great success and having surpriz'd one whole Troop and routed Collonel Chidly Coot and 300 Horse whereof many were killed he follow'd the blow to Tredagh and being re-inforced with two Regiments of Foot and two Pieces of Artillery he besieged that Town whilst it was under consternation at the late Defeat Nevertheless the Garrison consisting of 600 Men defended the place with exceeding bravery until their Powder was spent and then they did a 30 June Surrender on Honourable Conditions and Collonel Coot with 150 Horse and 400 Foot marched to Dublin But whilst Insiquin staid at Tredagh he had notice that Lieutenant-General Farrell with 500 Foot and 300 Horse was gone to Convey a considerable quantity of Arms and Ammunition which Collonel Monke had upon Articles given to Owen Roe whereupon Insiquin sent a detached Party which met with and routed this Convoy and killed 500 of the Men and took all the Arms and Ammunition and what other Booty they had with them And it was from some of the Prisoners then taken that Insiquin was informed of the weak condition of Dundalk wherefore being resolved to prosecute his good Fortune he marched to besiege it and being assisted by the Lord of Ardes he forced Monk in two days time to Surrender the place whereunto he was necessitated by the Mutiny of the Garrison which else would have given him up Hereupon Monk went to England and was imprisoned for a short time as shall be hereafter related and Insiquin took possession of Dundalk and a considerable Magazine that was in it After this prodigious Success the lesser Garrisons became an easy Prey Newry Narrow-water Greencastle and Carlingford submitted to the Conqueror of course and Trim itself did not hold out above two days and so Insiquin having no more to do return'd trimphantly to the Royal Camp at Finglass with more Men than he first carried out And there we must leave him till I give a brief Account of the second Army viz. that of the Presbyterian British and Scots which was so powerful under the Command of the Lord of Ardes that it seized upon Belfast and Carifergus and most part of Ulster and some places in Conaught But they had entertain'd such inconsistent Principles that it was impossible for any other Party to joyn with them and yet they were too weak to stand alone so that their Ruine was inevitable nevertheless it was hastned by their Divisions for when their General the Lord of Ardes perceived that by the Manifesto they published they declared an Abhorrence of the Murder of the late King which rendered their Conjunction with the Parliamentarians impossible and that they published no less Aversion against the Irish so that they rejected any Correspondence either with Owen Roe or the Supreme Council and as well for that reason as because they would not own the new King there was no hopes of their Union with the Cavaleers he saw the necessity of his doing something without them that might strengthen their Party by a powerful Alliance and Conjunction and being offered by the Lord-Lieutenant a Commission to be Chief Governour of Ulster he was easily prevailed upon to submit to the King's Authority which he did in the latter end of April and being joyn'd with the Lagan Forces which were weakned by the Surprize of Sir Robert Steward and Collonel Mervin at a Christning by Sir Charles Coot who sent them Prisoners to England he went to besiege London-Derry where we will likewise leave him and give an Account of the third Army viz. that of the Supreme Council's This Army was mix'd I cannot say incorporated with the King 's by the late Peace and so continued until after the Defeat at Rathnines but having a distinct Interest from the Protestant part of the King's Army and a National and Religious Aversion unto them they never did any service together where ever the Irish were the Majority and in the end most of the Irish being seduced by the Clergy did desert the King's Service some privately and others more openly their Towns became ungovernable and their Clergy grew Mutinous and rejected the King's Authority in the Lord-Lieutenant so that at length their pretended Loyalty became the Scorn and Contempt of their most inveterate Enemies as shall be related in its proper place And as for the fourth Army which was under the Command of Own Roe it consisted of natural Irish and fierce Nuntiotists and this General was so enraged at the Supreme Council both because they did not comply with the Nuntio and because they did not in their Articles of Peace provide for the Restitution of the Escheated Lands in Ulster that he chose rather to correspond with the Parliament then with them And therefore he did on the 8th day of May enter into Articles with Collonel Monk not only for a Cessation for three Months but for mutual Assistance within that time and that Monk should furnish Owen Roe with Ammunition if he wanted and should suffer Ships with Arms Money c. that should be sent to Owen Roe to Harbour in any of the Parliament's Ports And it was in vertue of this League that Lieutenant-General Farrell had the Ammunition from Dundalk which Insiquin took from him as hath been already related And this Irish General did at the same time make some extravagant Proposals which being granted he and his Army would embrace the Service and Interests of the Parliament of England But tho' they were never consented to yet during this League of three Months he did faithfully observe his Agreement to the great prejudice of the King's Army and to the great advantage of the Parliament's Forces which else would have been in an ill condition Moreover he did on the 22th day of May make a League with Collonel Richard Coot in the behalf of Sir Charles Coot and pursuant thereunto and in consideration of 2000 l. in Money and 2000 Cows and some Ammunition he did oblige the Lord of Ards and the Lagan Forces to raise the Siege of London-Derry on the 8th day of August Nevertheless when the Parliament of England were acquainted with these Transactions they Disavowed what the one and the other of these Commanders had done with Owen Roe And tho' Sir Charles Coot being absent escaped with a severe Check only yet Monk who was then in England was Imprison'd and Displac'd and tho' when he was brought to the House he gave good reasons for what he had done and demonstrated the Advantages that the Parliament had acquired by it yet the House would by no means approve it but on the contrary made the following Votes Resolved c. That this House doth utterly Disapprove of the Proceedings of Collonel Monk in the Treaty and Cessation made
truly and inviolably observed fulfilled and kept 11. It is concluded and accorded that all Possessions and likewise all Goods and Chattles that shall be found in Specie taken by either party after the Hour of Twelve aforesaid and before Publication of this Cessation shall be restored to the Owners and after Publication all Possessions and Goods that shall be taken to be restored to the Owners upon demand or Damages for the same In witness whereof the said Marquess to the part of the said Articles remaining with the said Viscount Muskery and the rest of the above named Persons hath put his Hand and Seal And the said Viscount Muskery c. To that part of the Articles remaining with the said Marquess Ormond have put their Hands and Seals the Day and Year first above written Muskery Lucas Dillon Nic. Plunket Rob. Talbot Rich. Barnwell Torl o Neale Geffry Brown Ever Magennis Jo. Walsh An Instrument touching the manner of payment of 30800 Pounds Sterling by several Payments WHereas by an Instrument bearing date with these Presents we have in the behalf and by Authority from the Roman Catholicks of this Kingdom freely given unto His Majesty the Summ of Thirty Thousand Pounds Sterling wherein the times or manner of payments are not expressed We do therefore hereby agree that the same shall be paid in manner following viz. 5000 Pounds within one Month next after the date of these Presents the one half in Money and the other half in good and merchantable Beeves not under four or above ten years old at the Rate of 30 Pounds the score at the City of Dublin 5000 Pounds more within one Month next after the said first Month the one half in Money and the other half in Beeves as aforesaid at the like Rates at the City of Dublin aforesaid also within two Months next after Five Thousand Pounds more whereof one half in Beeves as aforesaid at the like Rates and the other half in Money One other Five Thousand Pounds at or before the last of February next and the Summ of 10000 Pounds being the last Payment of the said Thirty Thousand Pounds at or before the last Day of May next which shall be in the Year 1644. And we hereby further agree that Eight Hundred Pounds more shall be paid to His Majesties Use to whom the Lords Jnstlces shall appoint at the Garrison of Naas within two Months next ensuing the one half by one Months End next after the date hereof and the other half by the End of one Month more next after that First Month all other Payments in Money save the Eight Hundred Pounds shall be paid at Dublin and the rest of the Beeves save the said first two Payments to be paid within the several Provinces to His Majesties Use to such Persons as shall be appointed by His Majesties Lords Justices or other Chief Governor or Governors in this Kingdom they first giving notice to Us or any one or more of Us of their Pleasures therein In witness whereof We have hereunto put our Hands and Seals the sixteenth Day of September 1643. Muskery Lucas Dillon Nic. Plunket Rob. Talbot Rich. Barnwell Torl O Neale Geffry Brown Ever Magennis Jo. Walsh Appendix XVII The Lord of Insiquin's Complaints of the Breaches of the Cessation in Munster First THEY withhold from us the Fourth Sheaff in Barymore and Imokilly albeit those two intire Baronies were under the protection of our Army and most of them under particular Protection until Four or Five days before the Cessation during all which time they did contribute to our several Garrisons and were under our Command at the time of Sowing and for the most part at the time of Reaping the last Harvest and the Articles say That the places Sown under our Protection shall pay the Sheaff c. Secondly We being possessed of the whole Lands in Roches Country all the time before the Cessation they pretend to a Possession gain'd therein some days before the Treaty endedâ— by thrusting Three or Four men a piece into some old ruinous Castles or Houses deserted by us in a skulking manner it being very evident that they had no considerable Force drawn into all that Country save what they slipt into those deserted places as aforesaid whilst we had Two strong Garrisons at Mallow and Downeraile which would easily have repelled any Force that they brought into those parts if they had come in such sort as to be taken notice of Thirdly In like manner they have gained and do insist upon the Possession of Bally-begg near Buttivant and other places in Orrery Fourthly The Castle of Pilltown they entred into Four or Five days after the Cessation and do yet detain it and the Castle of Cloghleigh with others in Condons they gained as those in Roches Country Fifthly Several of the principal Gentry in Orrery as Mr. Robinson Stapleton Lombard and Magner with their Tenants having always adhered and contributed to our Party and never declared themselves against us by any publick Act have since the Cessation been drawn to join with their Party under pretence that they had past their private Promise to Mac Donogh and Donogh O Callaghane to join with them when the Cessation was concluded Sixthly Several of our Party being in actual Possession of sundry Tithes in Barrymore and Imokilly did make Sale thereof and contract for several Summs of Money in lieu of them for payment whereof they took Bills and other Security before we lost any part of our Interest there which Monies so contracted for they refused to pay Seventhly The Lord Roch by force and strong hand hath entred upon Mr. Cuishin of Farrihi's Lands and compelled him to the payment of Six or Seven Pounds and enforced divers of his People to Swear to further Payments Mr. Cuishin having been always of our Party both before and since the Cessation and not to be drawn to theirs by their vehement Perswasions since the Cessation and having for the most part a Ward in his Castle Eighthly Where by the Articles of Cessation competent proportions of Land ought to be allowed to all Garrisons and Wards Captain Garret Fitz Gerald hath entred upon the Liberties of the Town of Youghal and thereout expelled divers poor English by violent taking their distresses by placing Guards of Armed Men on the High-ways and enforcing the People to contribute to their Army Ninthly They have entred upon a Mill and Five Plow-Lands of Ballycrenan belonging to Robert Tynt Esquire since the beginning of April last which was formerly in his continual Possession Tenthly The Lord Roch hath violently taken away from Mr. Cuishin the Tithes belonging to Dean Boyl and by him contracted for and disposed of before the Cessation whilst the Barony of Fermoy was in our Hands Eleventhly Several other petty Injuries as Stealths of Cattle Detention of Corn Incroachments on Bounds and the like do daily occur touching which we cannot prevail with any of their Party to joyn or interpose in
thought this Rebellion so formidable that on the third of December 1598. she sent Letters to the Lord President if possible to retain Mac Donough the white Knight and Condon in their Duty by all reasonable favour and persuasion which undoubtedly he endeavoured to doe but all in vain But that all the World may know what Trust is to be given to the wheedlings and Submissions of Irish Rebels it must be remembred that amidst all these Treasons and whilst Tyrone magnified his Victories to the Spaniard and promised he would accept no Conditions from the English yet at the same time he wrote submissive Letters to the Earl of Ormond praying that he might be pardoned and offering to come in but indeed upon unreasonable conditions nor is Camden's Observation to be omitted Camd. Eliz. 566. That by long use it was grown a mischievous custome in Ireland that Rebels and Malefactours might with the Money they had gotten by Pillage and Plunder procure for themselves Protections and escape without Punishment The Queen was sollicitous to find a Governour fit for this disordered Kingdom and no body seem'd more proper for it then the Lord Montjoy but he durst not stand in competition with the great Favourite of his time the Earl of Essex who covering this great Authority and Station at once gratified his own Ambition and his Enemies malicious designs for they desired nothing more than his Absence from Court and so Robert Earl of Essex Lord Lieutenant landed on the 15th day of April and was the same day sworn at Dublin his Commission was larger than his Predecessours both in power of pardoning all Treasons and granting many of the great Offices as also in the Power of displacing all Officers that had no Patents and suspending those that had in making and executing Marshall Laws and in disposing the Lands of the Rebels in Fee at a small yearly Crown Rent to be reserved in Commanding all Ships in the absence of the Lord Admiral of England and in issuing the Treasure at Pleasure keeping within the Summe of the Establishment The particulars of the Establishment are to be found Morison 29 the whole of the years charge amounted to 299111 03 07 ½ besides some contingencies Camd. Eliz. 569. which perhaps exceeded 50000 l. more for Ammunition c. his Army was as great and as well furnished as his heart could desire for that service being at first 1300 Horse and 16000 Foot which were afterwards encreased to 20000 men complete and Sir George Cary was made Treasurer at Wars in the room of Wallop His instructions were according to his own former advice to Prosecute the Vlster Rebels and to plant Loghfoyle and Ballyshanon Garisons all which when he came to Ireland he neglected The Earl of Kildare and some gallant Gentlemen went for expedition's sake in a small Vessel but they made more haste than good speed and were all cast away The Council gave the Lord Lieutenant an account of the confused Estate of the Kingdom that there were of the Rebels in Arms In Leinster 3048 Foot 0182 Horse In Vlster 7220 Foot 1702 Horse In Munster 5030 Foot 0242 Horse In Connaugh 3070 Foot 0220 Horse  18368 Foot 2346 Horse Many of the Rebels had sworn at a publick Cross to be stedfast and true to their Religion meaning their Rebellion for the defence of it and even those Irish that were not out in action were so backward to help the Queen that they who could bring 100 Horse and 300 Foot to dispute their private quarrels would not bring six men to assist the State But Essex neglecting the chief Rebels which were in Vlster unfortunately marcht into Munster where he took Cahir Castle on the 30th of May and forced the Lord of Cahir Lord Roch c. to submit he also relieved Askeaton and had two or three Skirmishes with the Sugan Earl of Desmond and did some petty feats altogether unworthy of his Reputation or Army and so marched by Killmallock Mallow Fermoy Lismore Dungarvan Waterford Wexford and Arclow near which he had a small successfull Rencounter with the Rebels to Dublin where he came in the latter end of July his Army being very much diminished in number without any fighting worth mentioning In the mean time on the 15th of June he received advice that both the Spaniards and Scots had supplyed Tyrone with Amunition and that the Rebels were treating with the Scots for Aid and that therefore he had best prevent it by engaging them by better Subsidies according to a Project formerly laid by the Lord Burrough O Sullivan reports that Essex's Army was 7000 Foot and 900 Horse and that Owen Omoor with 500 men fell upon his Rear at Barnaglitty i.e. the Cap of Feathers and did good Execution and took many Plumes of Feathers which occasioned that name to be given to the place of Battel that the Earl of Desmond and Redmond Bourk came to the relief of Cahir whereby that Siege held ten days that Essex marched to Lymerick and thence to Askeaton that Desmond and Daniel Mac Carthy Moor laid an Ambush for him the ill management whereof raised a Feud between Thomas Plunket and Peirce Lacy wherein the former was slain that a Bloudy fight was near Crome where Henry Norris was slain and that for six days Desmond pursued Essex his Rear but there is little credit to be given to that Authour and yet some things that he says must be allowed to be true On the 15th of June Essex wrote a most Excellent Letter to the Queen which contains many good Instructions how to manage an Irish War and though some of his Notions are obsolete now yet because others are very usefull I will recite the Letter at large WHEN this shall come to your Majesty's Hands I know not but whensoever it hath that Honour give it leave I humbly beseech your Majesty to tell you that now having passed through the Provinces of Leinster and Munster and been upon the Frontier of Connaught where the Governour and the chief of the Province were with me I dare begin to give your Majesty some Advertisement of the State of this Kingdom not as before by hear-say but as I beheld it with mine own Eyes The People in general have able Bodies by Nature and have gotten by Custome ready use of Arms and by their late Successes boldness to sight your Majesties Troups In their Pride they value no man but themselves in their Affection they love nothing but idleness and licentiousness in their Rebellion they have no other end but to shake off the Yoak of Obedience to your Majesty and to rout out all remembrance of the English Nation in this Kingdom I say this of the People in general for I find not only a great part thus affected but that it is a general quarrel of the Irish and they who do not profess it are either so few or so false that there is no account to be made of them The Irish
charge for Gallowglasses number and time certain viz. Meat and Drink one day in a Fortnight Soroheen more was an equivalent for the other in Quirrens of Butter and Srones of Oatmeal South alias Tax or Tallage is a Contribution towards the payment of the Lords Debts or any other extraordinary occasion vide Cuttings Stanihurst a Treatise in Latin of the Conquest of Ireland by Richard Stanihurst Sullevan the Catholick History of Ireland written in Latin anno 1621. by Philip O Sullevan Siurirupes Carig ni shure alias Carrick in Com' Typerany T. Termon-lands are Lands belonging to the Church and were priviledg'd from Taxes and it seems the Termon was the Clergy-mans Tenant or Servant Turbarii Kernes Irish Foot-Souldiers lightly arm'd Tagh of Land is 60 acres Tuethia the Territory of Mac Swiny na doo in Com' Donegall Tirconell the County of Donegall Tybrach a Castle within two miles of Carrig and not Typerary as is by mistake supposed pag 40. Trowses are Britches and Stockings made to sit as close to the Body as can be Tate is sixty Irish acres V. Vriell is the County of Louth Vallis Juncosa Slevelogher the Mountain between the Counties of Cork and Kerry W. Ware Sir James Ware 's Annals of Ireland Ware de Presul the same de praesulibus Hiberniae Ware de Antiq. the same de Antiquitatibus Hiberniae ERRATA APparatus pag. 1. read 150 of the same miles broad p. 26. read Squaleing Engine Pag. 9. line 16. read irrita p. 11. l. 24. r. Birne p. 13. l. 11. r. next day p. 18. l. 41. r. inheritance p. 20. l. 28. r. Army was p. 23. l. 7. r. Tuam p. 27. l. 35. r. extirpate p. 37. l. ult r. and he without delay p. 44. l. 33. r. extraordinary p. 52. l. 44. r. Combatants l. 46. r. Nor the strong p. 57. l. 2. r. beholding to Ireland p. 63. l. 3. r. fideli p. 69. l. 38. r. Carbry p. 73. l. 46. r. and tho' the Britton had p. 109 l. 23. r. by methods p. 111. l. 20. r. Lucy p. 117. l. 7. r. and the King by his Patent p. 121. l. 17. r. Custodium p. 129. l. 5. r. and wounded the Earl p. 153. l. 34. r. Athy p. 157. l. 34. r. Heir Male p. 183. l. 21. r. Xeesh p. 190. l. 15. r. from his Journey p. 200. l. 16. r. in the world p. 208. l. 16. r. Clogher p. 211. l. 39. r. blows p 213. l. 19 r. repostum l. 42. r. James p. 234. l. 8. r. sixteen hundred p. 260. l. 9. r. quieted p. 261. l. 1. r. Finin O Driscoll l. 37. r. at four p. 271. l 40. r. if they prove p. 321. l. 43. r. 1565. p. 324. l. 5. r. Alexander Oge p. 325. l. 3. r. by Affane p. 329. l. 13. r. offenders in Parliament p. 367. l. 43. r. Thomas Butler alias Becket p. 368. l. 18 r. combat p. 370. l. 8. r. at wars p. 399 l. 30 r. aspersions p. 417. l. 20. r. gap p. 418. l. 19. r. root p 420. l 8 r. at loose fight p. 421. l. 15. r. O Birnes p 422. l. 9. r. figary l. 31. r. he deposed p. 425. l. 30 r. Barret l. 44. r. hereupon p. 426. l. 32. r. disown'd a Truce I do hereby License a Book written by Mr. Richard Cox intituled HIBERNIA ANGLICANA or The Second Part of the History of Ireland to be Printed and Published Given at the Court at Whitehall the 18 th day of February 1689-90 Shrewsbury Let this Book intituled HIBERNIA ANGLICANA or The Second Part of the History of Ireland be Printed Nottingham Febr. 18. 1689-â—â— HIBERNIA ANGLICANA OR THE SECOND PART OF THE HISTORY OF IRELAND From the CONQUEST Thereof by the ENGLISH To this Present Time By the Author of the First Part. ΕΙΚΩΠΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ 61. Indeed that Sea of Blood which hath been cruelly and barbarously shed in Ireland is enough to drown any Man in eternal both Infamy and Misery whom God shall find the malicious Author or Instigator of its Effusion Earl of Clarendon against Cressy 71. Was not the Rebellion begun and carried on by the King's Roman Catholick Subjects Was there one Man but Catholicks that concurr'd in it And did they pretend any other Cause for it but Religion In the SAVOY Printed by Edward Jones for Joseph Watts at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard Matthew Gillyflower in Westminster-hall Charles Harper in Fleet-street and Samuel Crouch in Cornhill MDCXC TO THE KINGS Most Excellent MAJESTY GREAT SIR IT is noted by the Lord Bacon in the Life of the Wise and Victorious Prince King Henry the Seventh That it was his Custom to be First or Second in all his Warlike Exploits and that it was his Saying when he heard of Rebels That he desir'd but to see them What Your Majesty has lately published to the Two Houses of Parliament is of the same Spirit and Policy But This is not the only Parallel between Your Majesty and that Great King for He also came from Abroad yet with this Distinction that His Coming was only to assert his Particular Claim whereas the Coming of Your Majesty was of Vniversal Concern it being to free us all who were at the Brink of Idolatry and Bondage To whom then GREAT SIR should I Dedicate this Second Part of the History of Ireland but to Your Majesty who now Dedicates Your Self to the Redemption of Ireland and being thus far in Possession of the Subject I am already preparing to Record all Your Majesty's Glorious Atchievements and am in certain expectation of a greater Theme than ever that Kingdom could hitherto boast 'T is true Your Majesty hath herein the Power of Two Kings to Oppose but 't is no ill Symptom that by what you have already done the One of them has been constrained to send his Plate and the Other his Cannon to the Mint Nor ought we to think better of Irish Armies or Irish Courage than is thought by those who judge Both well paid for when but rewarded with Copper 'T is certain The Bulk of that Nation are already surfeited with the Stratagem of that Imaginary Coin they feel the Fruits of contending for a French Interest by the Slaughter Sickness and Defolation of the Year past so that 't is possible Humane Nature may at length be too hard for the Priest and the Politician too and that when by Your Majesty's Presence they behold their Ruin at hand they may give more Exercise to Your Mercy than to Your Sword It was truly observed by Your Majesty in Your late Gracious Speech That in the speedy Recovery of Ireland the Place and Honor of England did consist and that hereby alone Taxes could cease So that as Your Majesty is now willing to expose Your Person for those Great Ends 't is not to be feared but the Nation will second Your Majesty with such Royal Supplies as may make it a short and not a lingring Work for not only in This but
thousand did again besiege it and tho' Captain Vaughan with One hundred Foot and Fifty Horse did kill Forty of the Enemy and raise the Siege yet the Place being so remote could not at all times be relieved and therefore by Order of Council was demolished But the Parliament of England were desirous to manage the War of Ireland by a Committee at least till the Lord Lieutenant should go over but the King opposed that as needless because the Lord Lieutenant was just then ready for the Voyage But whether it was thought that he would not be propitious to the Cessation and Peace with the Irish which were then in design or for what other Reasons he was delay'd it is hard to determine but this is certain That tho' he was always going yet he never went And indeed the Differences between the King and the Parliament were grown to that heighth that each Side prepared for War and at length it came to a Battel at Edge-hill that very day Twelve-month on which the Irish Rebellion broke out viz. 23 October 1642. And in this Fight the Loss seem'd equal and each Party boasted of the Victory whilst both of them were thereby hindred from sending necessary Relief to Ireland and so the unfortunate English suffered every where and were destroy'd by one another in the Civil War in England and by the Common Enemy in that of Ireland However the Parliament did not totally neglect Ireland but on the Fourteenth of October sent over Mr. Robert Godwin and Mr. Robert Reynolds Husbands's Collections 2 part 249. Two Parliament-men and one Captain Tucker from the City of London to inquire into the Condition of the Army and the State of the Kingdom and to see how their Money was disposed of They brought with them Twenty thousand Pounds in Money and some Ammunition and arrived safe on the Twenty ninth of October and on the Second of November presented themselves to the State and being received with Respect were placed on a Form behind the Council and sate covered They did good Service in Ireland and particularly gave great satisfaction to the Army that Care was taken for Pay and Supplies They also made a Book which contained a Subscription of most of the Officers in the Army to take Debentures on the Forfeited Lands for a certain Proportion of their Pay as believing they would fight the better and end the War the sooner if they were interested in the Fruits of the Victory as well as in the Quarrel But the King disliked that Course because it might take up so much of the Rebels Lands that would hinder all Hopes of a peace with them which His Majesty began to have some Hopes of and therefore several Officers well enough inclined to the Proposal omitted to subscribe and some that had subscribed desired to retract So that at length these Commissioners were so sharply threatned that they delivered up the Book to be cancelled Nevertheless they promoted the March of the Army to enlarge their Quarters which afterwards produced the Battel of Ross but some of the Cavalier-party looking upon these Commissioners as Spies procured a Reprimand to the Lords Justices for suffering them to sit covered in the Council-chamber and the King 's positive Orders for their Return which was performed the Twenty seventh of February to the very great prejudice of the Affairs of Ireland and to the great disgust of the Parliament of England In the mean time the Irish under their General Preston had besieged Ballynakill and Colonel Monk with Six hundred Foot and Two Troops of Horse was sent to relieve it He marched out of Dublin the Fifth day of December and upon his approach the Enemy withdrew from the Siege and politickly marched to a Place of Advantage between the English Army and Dublin Battel of Tymachoo to intercept them in their Return But the Rebels had not so much Courage as Cunning for tho' they were Fourteen hundred Foot and Three hundred Horse yet upon the loss of about Threescore that were slain upon the first Volley they basely ran away and left the Road open for Monk to march to Dublin In like manner Sir Richard Greenvill with Two hundred Horse and One thousand Foot on the Twentieth of January marched to raise the Siege of Athloan and carry Supplies to that Garison both which he effected but in his Return he was encountred by Three thousand four hundred Foot Battel of Raconell and Six Troops of Horse at Raconell in a place of great disadvantage to him Nevertheless he had the good fortune to defeat the Rebels with the slaughter of Two hundred and fifty of their Men and to take the General Preston's eldest Son and some other Prisoners But that which rendred this Victory the more valuable was an ancient Prophecy That whoever won the Battel of Raconell should gain all Ireland therefore this Victory troubled and discouraged the Superstitious Irish exceedingly But we must return to the Lords Justices who in November 1642. transmitted to His Majesty a Petition from the Confederates by the Name of The Roman Catholicks of Ireland desiring His Majesty to appoint Commissioners to hear their Grievances And accordingly a Commission was brought over by Thomas Burk one of the first Rebels and by him confidently delivered at the Council-Board to the admiration of the State It impowered the Marquis of Ormond the Earls of Clanrickard and Roscomon Sir Maurice Eustace and others to hear and report their Complaints and in order to it the Three last went to Trim where the Lord Gormanstown Sir Lucas Dillon Sir Robert Talbot and John Walsh the Confederates Agents on the Seventeenth of March 1642. presented a Remonstrance of Grievances which one truly calls an Infamous Pamphlet and contains so much false Reasoning and Arguments ex post facto and downright Untruths as clearly manifests That the Irish first resolved to rebel and then set their Lawyers and Divines on work to fish for Arguments to justifie or at least excuse it But there was an Answer printed 1644. entitled An Answer to the false and scandalous Remonstrance of the inhuman and bloody Rebels of Ireland which sufficiently confuted all their vain Pretences and both of them being essentially necessary to this History are in substance added Appendix 5 6. But this Remonstrance met with better Fortune in the Irish Parliament which sat the Ninth of April for the English were then unluckily dividing into the Factions of Protestant and Puritan and some of the former very unwisely to back their Arguments against that Remonstrance compared it with the Scots Covenant which engendred such Heats in the House that the Parliament was prorogued to the Sixth of May 1643. However the Protestant Army did not neglect to sollicit their Affairs in England but by their Agents Sir James Mongomery Sir Hardress Waller Colonel Hill and Colonel Mervin they Addressed first to the Parliament to whom the King had committed the Care of Ireland and afterwards
Lord George Digby That the Protestant Forces that came from Munster were much dissatisfied that the Protestant Agents from Ireland received so little Countenance His Lordship answered That the greatest Kindness he could do them was to call them Mad-men that he might not call them Roundheads for putting in such mad Proposals And he desired to speak with some of them but they refus'd to come to one that had expressed so much Prejudice against them On the Ninth of May these Agents were ordered to attend the King and Council which they did and His Majesty told them They were sent by His Protestant Subjects to move Him in their behalf and desired to know in what Condition the Protestants of Ireland were to defend themselves if a Peace should not ensue They answered That they humbly conceived they were employed first to prove their Petition and to disprove the scandalous Aspersions which the Rebels have cast upon His Majesty's Government and the Protestants of Ireland The King replied That it needed not any more than to prove the Sun shines when we all see it They answered That they thought His Majesty was not satisfied but that those of the Pale were forced into Rebellion by the Governors The King said That was but an Assertion of the Irish and then He renew'd His former Question about their Condition to resist if a Peace did not ensue The Agents desired time to answer but the King told them He thought they came prepared to declare the Condition of the whole Kingdom and asked them Would they have Peace or no The Agents answered They were bred up in Peace and were not against it so that it might stand with His Majesty's Honor and the Safety of His Protestant Subjects in their Religion Lives Liberties and Fortunes Then the Lord Digby interpos'd and said That the Agents desir'd a Peace Yes says the Duke of Richmond and Earl of Lindsey provided it consists with the King's Honor and the Protestants Safety And I would rather says the King that they should have their Throats cut in War than SUFFER by a Peace of my making but I will take Care the Protestants of Ireland shall be secured And then His Majesty told the Agents they should have a Copy of the Irish Proposals and Liberty to answer them but that they were to consider of Two things First That He was not in a Condition to relieve them with Men Money Ammunition Arms or Victuals And Secondly That He could not allow them to joyn with the New Scots or any others that had taken the Covenant The Protestant Agents having got a Copy of the Irish Propositions did on the Thirteenth of May present to His Majesty a full Answer to them recited at large Appendix 23. This Answer being read the King asked Whether they had answered according to Law and Justice or prudentially with respect to Circumstances The Agents replied That they looked upon the Rebels Propositions as they appeared to them destructive to His Majesty His Laws and Government and His Protestant Subjects of Ireland Whereupon the Earl of Bristol interpos'd and said That if they asked what in Law and Justice was due from the Rebels their Answer was full but that the King expected from them what was prudentially fit to be done seeing the Protestants are not in a Condition to defend themselves and the King will not admit them to joyn with any Covenanters The King also asked What would become of the Protestants if the Irish Agents should break off the Treaty which 't is feared they will do if their Propositions for the most part are not yielded unto To which the Agents replied That the Rebels might be brought to better Terms if they were held to it and that they were assured the Lord Muskery refused to come with limited Instructions but would be at liberty to do as he should see cause Whereupon they were ordered to withdraw But the Protestant Agents hearing that Sir Robert Talbot and Dermond mac Teig O Bryan had left Oxford the Twelfth of May and that the Lord Muskery and the rest departed thence the 22th addressed themselves to Secretary Nicholas to know if His Majesty had further Service for them and thereupon on the Thirtieth of May they kist the King's Hand and were told by His Majesty That he had written to the Marquis of Ormond concerning the Protestants of Ireland and that He would use His best Endeavors for them there as He did for Himself here and said He meant His good Protestant Subjects and not Covenanters or their Adherents And thus Reader you have the Secret of this Great Transaction whereby you will perceive That the Irish Agents filled with the Contemplation of their own Power and the evil Circumstances of His Majesty's Affairs thought that the King would purchase their Assistance at any Rate and therefore insisted upon such exorbitant and unreasonable Demands as would have subverted the Laws and Constitution of the Government and would have rendred the Protestant Religion at most but Tolerated and that it self but poorly and precariously On the other side the English Agents did not fail to chastize this Vanity and to mortifie the Confederates with a Scorn and Contempt both of their Conduct and Courage They represented to the King That the Rebels got more by the Cessation than they could do by the War In fine they press'd the Execution of the Laws and demanded Reparation for Damages sustained during the Rebellion and desir'd that the Irish might be disarm'd and reduced to a Condition of not Rebelling any more The Commissioners from the Council would gladly have moderated these matters but they found there was no trust to be reposed in the Confederates and the Irish would not agree to any other terms than what continued the Power in their own hands so that the English should have no other security of their future Tranquility but the Honour and Promise of the Rebels It was very difficult to reconcile these Jarring and Differing Interests and indeed impossible to do it in England and therefore the Irish Agents who were men of Parts and Address having cunningly insinuated to the King That they believed that their Principals when truly informed of His Majesty's circumstances would comply with them so far as to moderate their Demands to what His Majesty might conveniently grant and promised they would sollicite them effectually to that purpose prevailed with His Majesty to send over a Commission under the Great Seal of England to the Lord Lieutenant to make Peace with his Catholick Subjects upon Conditions agreeable to the Publick Good and Welfare that might produce such a Peace and Union in Ireland as might vindicate his Royal Authority there and suppress those in Arms against him in England and Scotland and he also sent Instructions to continue the Cessation for another Year This Commission came to the Lord Lieutenant on the 26th of July but in regard the Confederates chose a Clergyman I suppose the Bishop of
would send it we being fleshed in Blood one against the other But whilst the Treaty between Ormond and the Irish was in agitation a Letter of his to the Supreme Council was intercepted and brought to the Parliament and by them shewed to the King who was then in the Isle of Wight whereupon they obliged His Majesty to write to the Lord Lieutenant not to proceed any farther in the Treaty with the Irish but that Letter was interpreted to come from one in Duress and being contrary to express Orders given his Excellency Not to obey any Commands inconsistent with those then received unless they were manifestly for His Majesty's Advantage until His Majesty were at liberty to declare his Sentiments freely That Letter was not much regarded and so after twenty days spent in the Treaty at Carrick the Lord Lieutenant about the middle of November removed to his Castle at Kilkenny upon the Invitation of the Commissioners and to be nearer the General Assembly which was then Sitting in that City he was received with such profound Respect as is usually paid to the Sovereign Authority and had his own Guards with him However it was the middle of January before the Matters relating to the Peace could be adjusted and then they passed unanimously even by the Votes of the Popish Bishops and were on the 17th of January mutually Ratified and afterwards Proclaimed with great Joy and followed by the * * Appendix 44 Declarations of the Popish Clergy expressing their great Satisfaction at this Peace which consisted of the Articles mentioned Appendix 43 which King Charles the second in the Preamble of the Act of Settlement had good reason to call Difficult Conditions Upon this Peace Ormond proposed to get together so good an Army as might by Force or Treaty prevent the Impending Fate of his Royal Master for the undertaken Quota's were as followeth  Foot Horse Munster Irish 4000 800 Leinster 4000 800 Insiquin 3000 600 Conaught 4000 800 Owen Roe if he would come in had 5000 500  20000 3500 But he depended upon a broken Reed for besides that the Irish had delayed the conclusion of the Peace too long to render it serviceable to the King and had exacted such Conditions as would rather hasten than prevent His Majesty's Ruine the Lord Lieutenant was exceedingly disappointed in his Calculation for Owen Roe did not at all come in till it was too late and most of the rest were deficient in their promised Proportions of Men or Money so that he was forced to borrow 800 l. upon his own Credit to enable the Army to march But it must not be forgotten that the Confederates still lay upon the lurch and in order to keep up their Dominion and Power notwithstanding the Peace they did on the 12th of January 1648 make the following Order By the General Assembly WHEREAS the Declaration of the General Assembly of the Confederate Catholicks Ante pag. 152. 〈◊〉 bearing date the 28th day of August 1645 and the Explanation of the 〈◊〉 General Assembly thereupon dated the First of September 1645 did relate to a Settlement of a Peace to be grounded on any Authority from his Majesty as by the said Declaration and Explanation thereupon more at large may appear It is this day ordered and declared by this Assembly ☜ That the said Declaration and Explanation shall CONTINUE and REMAIN in full force and be renewed as of this time and have relation to all Articles for a Settlement agreed on as well by Authority from His Majesty as from his Highness the Prince of Wales or both as if the said Declaration and Explanation had been NOW MADE to all Intents Constructions and Purposes But the Peace being concluded the Irish became very troublesom by their Importunities for Offices and Places of Trust and Honour Sir Richard Blake the very next week after the Peace wrote to Secretary Lane to mind the Lord Lieutenant to make him a Baron and others were as careful of their own Advancement but above all others the Insolence of a Son of Hugh O Connour is remarkable for he on the 9th of March wrote to the Lord Lieutenant to give him a Troop and his Brother a Foot Company or else they would shift for themselves To whom the Lord Lieutenant made answer That whatever he did with great Rebels he would not capitulate with small ones And now how gladly would I draw a Curtain over that Dismal and Unhappy Thirtieth of January wherein the Royal Father of our Country suffered Martyrdom Oh! that I could say They were Irish Men that did that Abominable Fact or that I could justly lay it at the Door of the Papists But how much soever they might obliquely or designedly Contribute to it 't is certain it was actually done by others who ought to say with the Poet Pudet haec opprobria nobis Et dici potuisse non potuisse refelli THE REIGN OF Charles the Second KING OF England Scotland France and Ireland CHARLES Prince of WALES 1648. eldest Son of the deceased King succeeded his Father in the Right of All and in the Possession of some of his Dominions and was by the Lord-Lieutenant first at Youghall where he then hapned to be in his return from visiting Prince Rupert and afterwards at Carrick proclaimed King by the Name of Charles the Second And altho' the new King did soon after by his Letters confirm the Marquess of Ormond in the Government of Ireland and acquainted him That the Kirk of Scotland had caused his Majesty to be proclaimed King on the 16th of February yet he also sent him the bad News of that Kirk's Declaration of the 13th of February against the Peace his Excellency had made with the Irish But the Lord-Lieutenant was encouraged to struggle with that Misfortune by two Accidents that happened in his favour viz. the Arrival of Prince Rupert and the Departure of the Nuncio The Prince being by the mistake of his Pilot put into Crook-Haven did not come into Kinsale till the 10th of February tho' his Brother Prince Maurice arrived above a Fortnight before he brought with him sixteen Frigats and his design was to make way for the Prince of Wales and he thought it a happy Omen that the first News he met with was that of the Peace Wherefore upon Conference with the Lord-Lieutenant at Corke it was resolved to send Capt. Ulbert to the Prince to hasten him for Ireland which was accordingly done and then the News of the King's Martyrdom arrving Prince Rupert proclaimed the new King at Kinsale with all the Solemnity that place was capable of and put himself and all his Officers in Mourning and even the Ensigns Jacks and Streamers of all the Fleet were altered to a colour suitable to the black and dismal Occasion Whilest Prince Rupert staid at Kinsale his Frigats cruis'd abroad and brought in several considerable Prizes and particularly three Corn-Ships which were of great consequence because of
Delinquency or Free quarter or any other Forces than those continued in the establishment and none to have command but in one capacity and to serve in the head of that Command otherwise not to be in Command And in the said establishment considering the necessity the Kingdom is reduced unto the Burthen of general Officers or other burthens that may be spared or not found necessary to be put by and the Kingdom at present eased thereof IV. That on the composure of that Army and on Garrisoning of places necessary to be Garrisoned exact wariness be used that none against whom just exception may be taken or who by any probability considering all circumstances cannot be so well confided in as others of this Nation be either of the number whereof those established Forces shall consist or be put or continued in Garrison V. That several places are Garrison'd without the consent or concurrence of the Commissioners of Trust It is proposed that the Forces placed in such Garrisons be forthwith removed and withdrawn and not Garrison'd but by consent of the Commissioners of Trust and that none be placed in such Garrisons but such as the Commissioners of Trust will consent to be placed therein And for particular instance of this grievance the Castle of Clare Clonraud Ballingary and Bunratty are instanced and what else are of that nature the Commissioners of Trust are to represent and instance forthwith and see redress afforded therein to the peoples satisfaction if any such be of that nature VI. That it is a great cause of jealousie and mistrust among the people that where Catholicks were settled or understood to be settled in some of the greatest employments of Trust in the Army they have been notwithstanding removed and put by for avoiding of those causes and grounds of mistrust the Catholicks so settled or understood to be setled in such employments are desired to be forthwith restored VII That for satisfaction of the people who in the many disorders of these times see no face of Justice exercised among them a Judicature be erected according to the Articles of peace wherein all Causes without limit between party and party may be heard and determined and that Judges of Assize go Circuits twice each year at least and over and besides this that some persons as Justices of Peace in Quarter Sessions or otherwise be entrusted in each County to whom the Inhabitants of each such County may have their applications for redress against oppressions and extortions hapning within that County and for Debts and other complaints not exceeding Ten pounds This will free your Excellency from the trouble of those multitudes of complaints that come before you for want of other Judicatures and will leave your Lordship the time entire to be disposed in the consults of the State affairs for the better management of the War and other the great affairs that may concern the better Government of the Kingdom these being of so high a nature and so much tending to the peoples preservation as no other matter or causes should be interposed that might give any interruption thereto VIII That to the very great grievance and dissatisfaction of the people the Receiver general hath failed to clear his Accompts concerning the vast sums of Mony levyed from the people since the 17th of Jan. 1648. though the same hath been long expected and the grievances from the Agents of Counties long foreslowed in expectation of those Accompts It is proposed that some of the Commissioners of Trust and some other select persons may be forthwith now named to be authorized and entrusted to take the said Accompts and to that purpose the persons so to be entrusted to be authorized to call before them the said Receiver General the Commissary of the Victuals and their Deputies and all Receivers whatsoever intrusted in the several Counties as they shall see cause and will find it necessary and to take examinations on Oath and to do all matters that may tend to the clearing of those Accompts whereby on the close of such Accompts due satisfaction may be given to the people in the knowledge of the right disposal thereof or the Parties failing in such accompts due punishment to be inflicted on them and their persons goods and Estates seized on and secured for satisfaction of the People that they be answerable for what they shall appear to be owing to be applyed to the publick service And for avoiding all jealousies and mistrusts for the future in the disposal of any of the publick monies so far and for what any publick Treasury shall be necessary all Sums and Payments be made with the allowance consent and concurrence of the Commissioners of Trust und not otherwise and no persons to intermeddle hereafter in the receipts of Publick dues that shall fail in the accompts for the time past IX That the Oppressions and Extortions of any of the Officers or others of the Army hitherto hapned and any Miscarriages in the Designs of the Army either in Field-Service or the render of Castles or Towns to the Enemy may be forthwith strictly examined and punished by the Lord-Lieutenant assisted by a Privy-Council now to be chosen and by a Council of War now to be named And that for the better Government of the Army and for the Officers and others of the Army their due information how to demean themselves hereafter and for the Peoples Satisfaction also there be Rules and Orders of War drawn printed and published that may tend to the remedying in the future of such Grievances as formerly have hapned for want thereof And for the Times past what Oppressions or Extortions have hapned in any County the same to be represented from such Counties to his Excellency and such Privy-Council as shall be now named upon which Representation his Excellency and the said Council are to afford the best redress they may in the Grievances so to be represented for the Peoples Satisfaction and Redress and this to be intimated to the several Counties timely that they may prepare their said Grievances X. That all Custodiums or other Acts or Orders done or granted whereby any the Publick Revenue hath any way been diminished be recalled by his Excellency on the Instance of the Commissioners of Trust and the private Persons profiting thereby to the prejudice of the Publick to accompt at full notwithstanding such Orders or Custodiums whereby the Publick Profit thereby to accrue may admit no diminution XI That no Imposition or Charge be imposed on the People by Applotment Free-quarter or otherwise but by the Commissioners of Trust or with their Allowance according to the Articles of Peace and none to have freedom in Applotments but all to pay with equality and all Applotments or Impositions heretofore since the 17th of January 1648 imposed on the People without the Consent of the Commissioners of Trust be put by and due satisfaction given to the People where such Burdens have been imposed Forasmuch as it
be duly examined and it will be found that their Sentence is most unjust So that as their Tribunal is usurped their Judgment is Erroneous And as to the Preamble Concerning their Motives of taking up Arms in the Year 1641 The Answer to the Preamble we shall say nothing But since they begin so high with their Narrative as the Year 1641 it will not be amiss to mind them that betwixt that and the Year 1648 there was by Authority from his Majesty and our Ministration several Cessations and at length a Peace concluded with the Confederate Roman-Catholicks in the Year 1646 which Peace was shamefully and perfidiously violated by the Instigation and Contrivâ—ment of most part of these Arch-Bishops Bishops Prelates and others of the Secular and Regular Clergy and that not in slight and strained Particulars such as We are now charged with by them but by coming with two powerful Armies before the City of Dublin upon no provocation from Us unless they esteemed the continuance of a Cessation for about three Years with them and the bringing them a Peace to their own Doors such a Provocation as deserved their bending their united Power against Us leaving other Parts that neither had nor would have Peace or Cessation with them unmolested and at liberty to waste their Quarters whilst they devoured Ours and sought our Ruin This is a particular blotting their Name and Memory with the everlasting Infamy of Perfidy Ingratitude and undeniable Disloyalty They have reason to leap over their Preamble lest they should awaken the Curses of those Multitudes of People who being seduced into so horrid a Violation of Publick Faith by their impious Allurements and hellish Excommunications are thereby become desolate Widows helpless Orphans and miserable Exiles from the Place of their Birth and Sustenance True it is that his late Majesty and his now Majesty then Prince of Wales overcoming their just Indignation with a pious compassion of their seduced People commanded Us over to treat and conclude a Peace with the Roman-Catholicks of this Kingdom In obedience whereunto and in humble imitation of their great Example forgetting the ungrateful usage We had met with We undertook the hazard of that Voyage and at length concluded the Peace in this Preamble mentioned We are unwilling to say any thing that might seem to lessen the Loyalty and Affection of the Assembly that concluded the Peace Nor is it to that End that We shall answer to those Men that though his then Majesty was in restraint and his now Majesty and his Royal Mother not in condition to send Supplies and Relief into this Kingdom yet there wanted not apparent Motives of Advantage to induce the Roman-Catholicks to consent to the Peace which was thankfully acknowledged by a more Authentick Representative of the Nation than these Arch-Bishops Bishops c. and even by as many of them as really or from the Teeth outward for such we find now there were that consented to it Upon what Conditions the Confederate Roman-Catholicks could have agreed with those in this Declaration called the Parliament of England we know not nor do believe they are able to prove their Assertions if they be put to it Though if it should appear it were not to be wondred at that Usurpers and such as make almost as little Conscience of breaking Public Faith as these Declarers are more liberal in the Dispensation of their unlawful Acquirings by way of Brokeage than a just Monarch whose Purpose it is to keep as well as it is in his Power only to grant Conditions to a People in the State the said Confederates were in Next in their Preamble they say That after the concluding of the Peace the Catholick Confederates came sincerely and cheerfully under his Majesty's Authority in Us plentifully providing vast Sums of Money well nigh half a Million of English Pounds By which they seem to insinuate first That all the Roman Catholicks of Ireland came thus cheerfully under his Majesty's Authority whereas Omen O Neil with his whole Army and divers of the County of Wickloe with others were and continued in Rebellion long after the Conclusion of the Peace as is well known to many of the Declarers who were of their party as also that our first Work was to reduce places held by them lying in our way to Dublin as Mariburough-Athy c. They mention next after their providing plentifully vast Sums of Money adding also these Words viz. near half a Million of English Pounds to have it believed we were set forth with such a Sum and all the following Provisions of Corn and Ammunition though it is notoriously known that for all the half Million of English Pounds the Army we had brought together could not march from about â—loghgregan till upon our private Credit we had borrowed eight hundred English Pounds of Sir James Preston which is yet owing him and for which we have lately written to you to see him satisfied by means whereof and of a little Meal not yet paid for neither as we believe we took in Talâ—olstown Castle-Talbot and Kildare But there our Money and Meal failing us and having borrowed about one hundred Pounds from twenty several Officers to give the Souldiers Sustenance we were forced to stay on the West-side of the Liffy and thereby lost an Opportunity of engaging Jones who with a much less Force than ours was drawn forth of Dublin as far as Johnstown And in what continual Want the Army was from our setting forth even to the Defeat at Rathmines being about three Months is so notoriously known having during all that time been very meanly supplied in Money and that in small inconsiderable Sums as by the Receiver-General's Accompts may appear that if we be to be blamed it is for undertaking an Expedition so meanly provided and which we can only answer with the Necessity of attempting Dublin and those parts before they should receive Supplies out of England and upon Discovery destroy such as were faithful to his Majesty and importuned us daily to advance For Magazines of Corn Ammunition and Materials for War the Stores we found so inconsiderably furnished or rather so absolutely unfurnished that till we with the Assistance of the Commissioners procured some Supply thereof in Waterford Limerick and Kilkenny it was not possible for us either to reduce the Fort of Mariburough and Athy held by Owen O Neil's party nor to march as we did towards Dublin And for Ammunition we were forced to bargain with Patrick Archer and other Merchants for a Supply thereof engaging the King's Customs and Tenths of Prizes else that want of Ammunition had absolutely hindred our March nor is the said Archer yet satisfied for his Ammunition The Truth of this is referred to the Knowledg of many a Viz. Loghreagh there met who can witness with us herein and in many other Distresses and Difficulties we met with for want of Money which we cannot call to mind How much
the Rebels was far more numerous than the Rebels is not true for the Rebels were effectually 4000 Foot and 1200 Horse and the Army encamped at Rathmines was not stronger in Horse or Foot We deny not but that the Defeat may reasonably be ascribed to the Faithlessness Negligence Ignorance or Cowardize of some of the Officers and Souldiers Nor have we ever read or heard of any Defeat given where the encountering Numbers were near upon equal but the Defeat was ascribed to one or more of these Failings And yet it is for the most part found difficult and many times unfit to fix the Blame where it may most justly be placed But that the Peoples Belief of this is fortified for that no Search or Inquiry hath since been made by a Court or Council of War of the Deportment of the Officers is an Argument suitable to the Malice and Misconstruction all Our Actions have met with If the Officers were not fit for the Employments given them they were yet of those instanced to Us by the general Assembly And if new raised Men under expertless Officers accompanied with a general want of all things necessary for Support Offence and Defence have been beaten by a like or less Number of old well-armed experienced and continually garisoned Souldiers the wonder is not great nor the Accident rare even in this Kingdom and where We have commanded the prevailing Party If we could have had the Freedom in Election of Officers and Power to have garison'd them and their Souldiers where We might have overlooked them and caused them to have been exercised as We have always in vain desired it might yet have pleased God to have disposed of the Victory as he did but then We might more justly than now have been charged with a Failure on Our Part. But to return to what follows and clear the next Objection it will be necessary that We set down what We did presently after that Defeat When We found it impossible after twelves Miles riding to head any considerable Number of the scattered Horse and that as fast as We could rally them they broke from Us We immediately directed Our Letters to those We had left on Finglass side of Dublin and that had not that Day seen the Enemy being the Lord Dillon's Sir Thomas Armstrong's the Lord Moor's and Lieutenant Colonel Purdon's Regiments of Horse Colonel Warren's Colonel Wall 's and Col. Mich. Byrne's Regiments of Foot to march immediately the one half to Drogheda and the other half to Trym for the Security of those Places and went Our self to Kilkenny to rally what We could of the Army and to raise what new Forces We should be able This was accordingly done and that Day seven-night after the Defeat We marched out of Kilkenny with what Strength of Horse We could make to relieve Drogheda before which Jones was sat down Upon Our Approach to Trim with about 300 Horse which was all that We could in that time rally he raised his Siege and We went unto Drogheda During our being there Cromwel landed with his Army on or about the 15th of August not a full Fortnight after the Defeat at Rathmines It was then plain we were to be on the defensive part of the War and that he would draw forth suddenly to recover those Places we had gained And first we were assured he proposed to attempt Drogheda We therefore applied our uttermost Industry to supply that Place with what it wanted placed in it Sir Arthur Aston as expert and gallant a Governour as we could wish for gave him the same Men and the same number of Men Horse and Foot that he desired and furnished him with the full proportion of Ammunition and other Provisions he demanded judging that if Cromwell could be there foiled of kept before it but for a time it would much advantage us that had so lately received so great a Blow as required time to recover and the Rebels in the Neck of it having received so great a Coountenance and Strength as Cromwell brought with him being the best of the Rebels old Army in England But it pleased God in a few days to give that Town into their Hands and all the Officers and Souldiers that were within it to the Cruelty of their Swords where there were lost 2000 of our best Souldiers with all their Officers who were chosen as the likeliest Men by giving a Check to Cromwell in his first attempt to recover the Kingdom Now that after the Defeat at Rathmines and that great Loss at Drogheda for so it was so powerful and so prevailing an Army as Cromwell's marched without interruption from us that had not above 700 Horse and 1500 Foot and of those some not to be trusted others newly raised and all discouraged from Dublin to Rosse is not much to be wondered at for all the Men we could make were not sufficient to man Wexford which being taken as we have before said there were lost in it others of our best Men to a considerable number That the Rebels might have been prevented in building over their Bridg at Rosse considering the Situation of the Place and the Power their Ordnance had from the Key to and upon the other side of the River we believe they are very ignorant or malicious that will affirm But if it had been a thing as easy as they would have it believed we were so far from being able to attempt any thing that we never all that time had either 24 hours Pay or Provision before hand to keep the Men we had together where they were upon no Duty much less to bring them near an Eneâ—â—â—â— where they must be held to hard Duty close together It should 〈◊〉 also be considered that during Cromwell's March from Dublin to Wexford and those Parts began the Revolt of the Towns and Army in Munster which occasioned very much of Jealousy Distraction and other Interruptions and gave the Rebels leisure to prosecute their Victories When they marched over their Bridg at Rosse towards Carrick it was believed they meant to march to Kilkenny and if we had not been diverted by a false Alarum which coming as it did we had cause to credit of their being gone as far as Bennet's Bridg towards Kilkenny whilst we lay at Thomas-Town and thereby drawn thither for the Defence of that City we had as our purpose was engaged them to fight before their getting to Carrick In what miserable Condition our Army was when we came to Carrick which we were forced to leave meerly for want of Provision to keep it and so much Money as to make necessary Materials to gain that Place is so generally known that it must argue the Contrivers of this Article guilty of a strange degree of Malice to object to us as an Omission that the Rebels Army whilst it lay before Waterford was not attempted or once faced by us And sure we are it is as openly known that in Person we twice
injunctis eis seu alias quomodolibet debitis paenitentiis in forma ecclesiae consueta relaxamus Praesentibus ad decimum duntaxat valituris volumus autem quod si alias Câ—risti fidelibus dictam ecclesiam visitantibus aliam indulgentiam perpetuo vel ad certum tempus nondum elapsum duraturam concesserimus presentes nullae sint Dat. Rom. apud St. Marcum sub anulo piscatoris die 12 Julii 1601. Pontificat nostri Anno decimo And so I conclude this First Part of the History of Ireland with the Death of the most renowned and victorious Queen Elizabeth which happened at Richmond on the 24th day of March 1602. in the Seventieth Year of her Age and the Five and fortieth Year of her happy Reign FINIS An Explanatory INDEX OF SOME Quotations and Terms Necessary for the Understanding this and other Histories of Ireland A. A Trium dei Athird or Ardee in Com' Louth Alla Barony of Duhallow in Com' Cork Auriterra the Barony of Orry in Com' Armagh Alladensis episcopus Bishop of Killalla Arachta Fraghty O Cahan ' s Estate in Com' Londonderry Aurilia Vriel or Monaghan and part of the County of Cavan Arachta O Connor Iraghticonnor in Kerry Armachanus Archbish of Armagh Atharla Harlow Wood. Agerlentis Gortnapishy Aunliffy Liffy the River of Dublin B. Bea insula the Dursyes in Com' Cork Bettagh or Buddagh a Clown or Villain Berva the River Barrow Ballybetagh contains 16 Ballyboes Ballybo contains 16 acres and in some places 60 100 and 120. Bonagium Bonnaught and is either Bonnaughtbeg viz. a certain proportion of Meat Drink and Money for the maintenance of the Souldier or Bonnaught bur is free quarter at discretion or rather this is free quarter in specie and the other is a comutation for it in money Bally similida Trimletstown Banacha the Territory of Mac Swiny bane in Com' Donegall Brethina Brenny in Com' Leitrim Bentragia Bantry in Com' Cork C. Cronoge is sevenscore Sheaves of Corn. Clyn's Annals a Manuscript written by Fryar John Clin of Kilkenny in the time of Edward III. Corbâ— Chorepiscopus is a sort of a Lay-coadjutor to the Bishop or one that takes care of the Temporalities of the See Clera Cape Cleer an Island in Com' Cork Cartron contains 60 acres Cothlia Colly O Driscoll's Territory in Com' Cork Clenglasia Clenlis a Territory in Com' Limerick Cella Canici Kilkenny Coyne Livery is free quarter for Horse and Man and Money besides Cheifry is a Rent in half-faced Money which was better than Sterling rather worse than Sterling by a third part Cuddy or Quid-â—hy is a Supper or Entertainment for a Night or an equivalent for it in Honey Aquavitae or Money Coshering is living upon the Party or quartering with him for a time Cess is Horse-meat and Mans-meat at the King's price Cutting is a Tax on extraordinary occasion vide verbum South Campion a History of Ireland written anno 1571. by Edmund Campion the famous Jesuit he counterfeited himself a Protestant and was a Deacon in the Church of England and Fellow of St. John's Colledge in Oxford D. Dondygon a River South of Dundalk Damliaga Duleck Danguina Dingle-i-cush in Kerry Dowgello or black Rent is a Contribution towards the keeping of Dogs and Hunts-men Duacensis Episcopus Bishop of Kilmacough Dunensis Episcopus Bishop of Downe Derensis Episcopus Bishop of Londonderry Darensis Episcopus Bishop of Kildare Dalra Delvin in Westmeath E. Ergalia is the County of Monaghan Eyrus the River Nore that runs by Kilkenny Elia Carolina Ely O Caroll or O Caroll's Country being the West part of the King's County F. Fardarough Maâ—â—ew Fercallia O Mâ—lloy ' s Country Fuida insula Whiddy Island in Com' Cork Feurus laâ—us Lâ—ghfâ—yle near Londondâ—râ—y Fanida the Territory of Mac Swiny Fanagh in Donegall Fenaborensis Episcopus Bishop of Kilfenora Baron Finglas a Manuscript of the Decay of Ireland wrote 1535. by Patrick Finglas one of the Barons of the Exchequer G. Gort a Field of about 6 acres more or less Gallown of Land is 25 acres Goron Jeofry Gillycree a Stud-keeper Gillycon a Dog-keeper or Huntsman Gormleghan Barony of Barimore in Com' Cork Glinns a Territory in the County of Antrim Galvia Gallway H. Herenache is a sort of an Archdeacon or Oeconomus Holingsh. Ralph Holingshead's Chronicle wrote about the year 1575. Hooker a Supplement to the Irish History wrote anno 1586. by Johu Hooker alias Vowell and bound up with Holingshead Hanmer Dr. Hanmer's Chronicle of Ireland preserv'd by Bishop Vsher it was wrote anno 1604. I. Iveleghan the Barony of Barrymore in Com' Cork Imanya O Kellyes Territory in the Counties of Galway and Roscomon perhaps the Barony of Boyle Inisonia Inisowen the Island wherein Londonderry is scituate Ibacha Evagh Mac genis his Territory in Com' Down Imelacencis Episcopus Bishop of Emly K. Kenlisa Kenanisa Kells in Com' Meath Kilmuchaloga Kilmallock in Com' Limrick Kernety is a Tax of 3 s. 4 d. or 4s per Plow-land to maintain the Lords Kerne call'd Kern-tee L. Lovidia Louth Logh tee Demeasn or Mensal Lands for House-keeping Lucus Derry Leffria Liffer Laonia Killaloo in Com' Clare Laonenis Episcopus Bishop of Killaloo Lib. A. Lib. B. c. are Manuscripts in the Library of Lambeth to the number of fifty or more marked Alphabetically M. Mart a yearly Rent in Beef Menapia Waterford Musterown a Charge of Money and Victuals for Workmen that build for the Lord of the Soil Midensis Episcopus Bishop of Meath N. Nevoge a Boat or Cot covered with Hides O. Ochella Yonghal Oriria Barria Orrery formerly belonging to the Barries Onachta Owny O Donough Ogigia the History of Ireland written in Latin by Mr. Flagherty P. Pontana Drogheda Pottle of Land is twelve Acres Polle of Land is fifty Acres Portucastellum Castlehaven in Com' Cork The Pale That part of Ireland near Dublin which was answerable to Law and where the King's Writ was obey'd it once extended from Dundalk to Carlow and Kilkenny but was much streightned in Queen Elizabeth's time but now is quite abolish'd because the whole Kingdom is reduc'd Polychronicon a fabulous History written by Ranulphus Higgeden Propect a History of Ireland by Peter Walsh Q. Quirren of Butter a Pottle or four pound price 4 d. R. Roseglass Monasterevan Routs a Territory in the County of Antrim Rapotensis Episcopus the Bishop of Rapho Refection is a priviledge the Lord has of claiming Entertainment for one Meal and no more Raporees the Rabble of the Irish who are armed with a Half-pike which they call a Rapery and have plundered the English in all parts of the Kingdom Regan a Manuscript by Maurice Regan Servant to Dermond mac Morough wrote about the Year 1175. Rupesfergusia Carrigfergus S. Securigeri or Scotici Gallow-glasses Irish Foot-Soldiers arm'd with a Battle-Axe Surius the River Shure Silanchia the Barony of Longford in the County of Galway Srone of Oat-meal is three Pottles price 4 d. Shraugh a yearly Rent in Money Soroheen a
for Sir William Saintleger to be Lord President of Munster And on the Fifteenth of March he ordered the Vice-Treasurer to pay what the Lord Deputy and Eight Privy-Counsellors should think fit for the Charges of the Lord Deputy's Progress On the Ninth of May 1627. upon Complaint of the Lord Courcy That Sir Dominick Sarsfeild had obtained the Title of Viscount Kinsale it was referred to the Lord president of the Council the Steward of the Houshold Earl of Totness Viscount Grandison and Chancellor of the Dutchy who report That the Lord Courcy and his Ancestors were Lords Courcy and Barons of Kinsale and Ringrone And thereupon the Defendant endeavor'd to carry the Barony to another Line and also alledged an Attainder but made out neither and then he propos'd That both Titles were consistent one to be Baron and the other to be Viscount of Kinsale But that being not thought convenient his Majesty orders That Sir Dominick quit the Title of Kinsale but retain the Name and Precedency of Viscount Sarsfeild and chuse some other Place to denominate his Honour and afterwards he did so and was created Viscount Killmallock And on the 24th of July the King orders That Nathaniel Catlin his second Serjeant at Law should have Precedence of the Attorney-General and Sollicitor-General and in February following his Majesty likewise gave Orders to make a new Examinator for the Court of Chancery there being but one Examinator in that Court before that time But in order to make the Papists the more willing to bear the great Charge of the Army and to consent to a constant Tax for its Support certain Propositions were set on foot in their favour viz. to suspend all Proceedings against them for Marriages and Christnings by Priests and to give them liberty of Suing out Liveries and Ouster le mains without taking the Oath of Supremacy with design to introduce a more Publick Toleration of Religion for which a good Sum of Money should be paid to his Majesty to maintain the Army to which end a Great Assembly of the Nation was Convok'd by the Lord Deputy But the Protestant Archbishops and Bishops abhorring this gross and scandalous Proposal did on the 26th day of November 1626. at the Lord Primate's House unanimously vote and subscribe the following Protestation viz. The Judgment of divers of the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland Life of Archb. concerning Toleration of Religion Vsher 28. THe Religion of the Papists is Superstitious and Idolatrous their Faith and Doctrine Erroneous and Heretical their Church in respect of both Apostatical To give them therefore a Toleration or to consent that they may freely exercise their Religion and profess their Faith and Doctrine is a grievous Sin and that in two Respects For First It is to make our selves accessory not only to their Superstitions Idolatries and Heresies and in a word to all the Abominations of Popery but also which is a Consequent of the former to the Perdition of the seduced People which perish in the Deluge of the Catholick Apostacy Secondly To grant them a Toleration in respect of any Money to be given or Contribution to be made by them is to set Religion to sale and with it the Souls of the People whom Christ our Saviour hath redeemed with his most precious Blood And as it is a great Sin so it is also a Matter of most dangerous consequence the Consideration whereof we commit to the Wise and Judicious beseeching the God of Truth to make them who are in Authority zealous of God's Glory and of the Advancement of True Religion zealous resolute and couragious against all Popery Superstition and Idolatry Amen Ja. Armachanus Mal. Casellen Anth. Medensis Tho. Ferns Leghlin Ro. Dunensis Georg. Derensis Richard Cork c. Andr. Alachadens Tho. Kilmore Ardagh Theo. Dromore Mic. Waterford Lismore Fra. Limerick This zealous Protestation of the Bishops against Popery which Downham Bishop of Derry read to the State in the midst of his Sermon at Christchurch on the 23th day of April 1627. drew on a Remonstrance from the House of Commons in England to his Majesty to this effect That the Popish Religion was publickly profest in every Part of Ireland and that Monasteries and Nunneries were thsre newly erected and replenished with Votaries of both Sexes which would be of evil Consequence unless seasonably repress'd These two extraordinary Actions put a stop to any farther Endeavors for the publick Exercise of Popery at that time Nevertheless because the Irish Agents in England did consent to the payment of 120000 l. in three Year it was thought reasonable that the King should signifie his Gracious Acceptance thereof by conferring some extraordinary Favours on the Agents and Contributors And therefore the King did on the 24th day of May not only grant them the following Graces which were transmitted to Ireland by way of Instructions to the Lord Deputy and Council but also sent with it a Letter recommending the Lord of Killeen and the Lord Poer and the rest of the Irish Agents to the Lord Deputy's Favour desiring that he would order such Moneys to be paid them by the Country as they were promis'd for their Agency and that he should issue necessary Warrants and Directions for levying the same Instructions to be observed by Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Lord Viscount Falkland Our Deputy-General of Our-Realm of Ireland and by Our Council there and by the Deputy or other Chief Governor or Governors and Council there which hereafter for the time shall be and by all other Our Officers and Ministers whom it may severally or respectively concern I. AT the humble Requests presented unto Us on the behalf of Our Subjects of Ireland upon mature Consideration had thereof and by the Advice of Our Privy-Council We are graciously pleased in the first place to order and direct for the better Preservation and Ease of our said Subjects that Our Soldiers there be called in and limited to the most Serviceable Garrisons and that they be not called from thence upon any Pretence but against the Enemy or Rebel that makes Head II. For the Collection of Our Rents in case of Default That first a Summons Process shall issue Secondly That a Purâ—uivant be sent and Lastly If this be not sufficient in case the Sum be of value that then Our Vice-Treasurer by Warrant from Our Deputy and Council shall appoint a competent Number of Soldiers of the next adjoyning Garison to collect Our said Rents at the Charge of the Parties complained of having care that any Man be not burdened with a greater number of Soldiers than the Service shall necessarily require III. And when Necessity requires the Marching of Our said Soldiers against the Enemy or Rebel That the Officers imploy'd shall give Ready Money or Ticket to be defalked out of their Entertainment and duly paid into the Country upon demand without taking Money Pawns or Distresses but such Meat and
Drink as the People can afford IV. That laying of any Burthen upon Our Subjects for Payment of Soldiers be forborn except in Cases of inevitable necessity V. Concerning the Grant for selling of Aquavitae and Wine in regard it is complained of as a great Burthen to the Country without any Profit to Us We are pleased that the Patentee or his Assigns shall be restrained from all Proceedings whatsoever to the Charge or Vexation of any of Our Subjects for or concerning that Grant until the Assembling of the next Parliament and that it be taken into consideration by the Houses of Parliament and regulated as may best agree with the Ease and Convenience of the Commonwealth and the advancing of Our Profit in the Subsidies VI. For the Licensing to sell Ale and Beer forasmuch as it appears that the same hath no Ground of Law That the Grant thereof shall be presently resum'd into our Hands and that all Proceedings thereupon shall cease until the next Parliament and that in the Parliament such Course be laid down for Licensing and Selling of Beer and Ale from that time forwards as shall be most convenient Wherein Consideration must be taken that a Profit in the Subsidies may thereby be advanced and in the mean time no Process or Warrant to Issue to the Charge or Trouble of any Our Subjects touching that Grant VII That the late Proclamation of the First of February last concerning the Fees of the Clerk of the Market and all other Fees mentioned in the said Proclamation shall be suspended until further Order And because there appears nothing here but that the Grant of the Clerk of the Market and Gauger complained of is lawful only there is question of the Fees That Our Chancellor two Chief Justices Master of the Rolls and Chief Baron there taking to their Assistance Two or more of the Principal Gentlemen of the Country shall regulate the Fees to be taken by those Officers according to the Law And for the Measure of the Cask to be exported into any Foreign Parts you Our Deputy and Council are to take it into your Consideration and upon Conference with the Officers of Our Customs and the Merchants such as you shall think fit to call before you to limit them to such a certain Gage for the same as shall be most advantagious to the Merchants in their Traffique without prejudice to Us in Our Customs leaving the Gage of Cask that shall be vented within the Land to be ruled by the Standard there And in regard it is alledged That the Packers Office is not ancient nor grounded upon Law We require you and Our Council to take Consideration thereof and to set down such Orders as may take away the Abuses VIII For Reforming of the barbarous Abuse of the Short Ploughs We are pleased that the Penalty now imposed thereon shall be presently taken away and that hereafter an Act of Parliament shall pass for restraining of the said Abuse upon such a Penalty as shall be thought fit IX That all Grants for Places assigned for Tanning of Leather by Sir Henry Sidney according to the Statute 1â— Eliz. enacted in Ireland shall stand good and also all other Grants or Licences past in Fee-simple or Fee-farm under Our Great Seal for Tanning of Leather in Cities Corporations Towns Mannors or other particular Places shall likewise stand good But that all Grants or Licensing concerning Tanning of Leather throughout Counties Baronies or Hundreds past or to be past to any particular Person for Life Years or otherwise by pretence whereof any Licence or Toleration is or may be made by the said particular Person or Persons to any the Inhabitants of the said Counties Baronies or Hundreds shall be called in and suppressed And to supply any Defect that may be for want of Liberty to Tan Leather in convenient Places We require and authorize you Our Deputy and Council for the time being to pass Letters Patents under Our Great Seal there for Tanning of Leather in Places where you shall think convenient without payment of any Fine with a Clause of Non obstante of the Statute aforesaid And in the next Parliament We are pleased that a further Course shall be taken therein and likewise for the Inhibiting of the Barking of Trees X. And for the furtherance of Traffick and bringing in of Coin into that Our Kingdom We are graciously pleased that Corn may be transported without License into any of Our Dominions and other Countries in Amity with Us when Wheat shall not exceed the price of Ten Shillings English a Bristol-band Barrel and likewise That Living Cattel may be brought into Our Dominions without Restraint or Licence and that Wooll also may be transported provided that it be into Our Kingdom of England only and paying the Ordinary Customs and Duties In which Three last Particulars We require you to take Order by Act of State or otherwise as shall be most expedient XI The Patent for Linen Yarn shall be resumed to the end the whole Profit may come to Us and Our Crown as well that which the Patentee doth receive as that which We now have And the Patentee shall receive such Recompence as We think fit and Our Subjects also shall be secured for so much as concerneth the Transportation of the said Linen Yarn and consequently not to be compelled to take Licence Nevertheless it is Our Pleasure That the Patentee continue his Grant and receive the Profit as hitherto he hath done until he be Compounded with and receive Recompence for it XII We are graciously pleased That Tallow and Hides and Fish Beef and Pork in Cask may be freely transported into Our Dominions and all other States in Amity with Us and that all such Pipe-staves as are already made may be transported into any of Our Dominions paying the Customs and Duties XIII The Bishops and Patentees of Dissolved Abbies and other Religious Houses in or near Cities and Towns of Ireland pretending Liberties and Freedom are to contribute towards the Lodging of Soldiers and to bear such other Publick Charges according to indifferent Assessment to be made and laid upon them by the Sheriffs and other Magistrates of Counties and Cities and the proper Officers of those Places And to that purpose you are to publish a General Order to avoid any Dissension that may arise thereout and for other Matters they are to be left to the Law And if any unjust Charge in what kind soever shall be laid on any of Our Subjects of that Our Kingdom they shall have Access unto Us and gracious Hearing XIV Creation-Money for the Nobility is to continue according to the Letters Patents thereof and the Impost-Wines is likewise to be continued to such of the Nobility and Council as shall reside or bear Principal Offices in that Kingdom And the Two Presidents of Munster and Conaught are to enjoy the same although they be absent because they keep Tables for their several Councils XV. The Subjects of