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parliament_n	king_n	lord_n	special_a	2,576	5	8.3281	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92492	A letter from a person of quality residing in Kinsale, with an attestation of the officers of the Parliaments army in Munster, in vindication of the Lord of Inchiquin, Lord President of that province Also, another letter from Colonel William Jephson, relating the present state and condition of Ireland. Published by speciall command.	B. S.; Jephson, William, 1615?-1659?	1646 (1646)	Wing S11; Thomason E354_6; ESTC R201095	5,717	12

A LETTER From a person of quality residing in Kinsale With an Attestation of the Officers of the Parliaments Army in Munster in vindication of the Lord of INCHIQVIN Lord President of that Province ALSO Another Letter from Colonel William Jephson relating the present state and condition of IRELAND Published by speciall Command LONDON Printed for John Wright at the Kings Head in the Old Bayley 15. Sept. 1646. A Letter from a person of quality residing at Kinsale and an Attestation of the Officers of the Parliaments Army in Munster in vindication of the Lord of Inchiquin Lord President of that Province SIR VPon notice of sundry false reports cast abroad whereby the honour and integrity of the Lord of Inchiquin Lord President of this Province was endeavoured as maliciously as undeservedly to be traduced The Officers of this Army who have been eye witnesses of his Lordships actions and proceedings and are very sensible how innocently his Lordship suffers herein took into their serious consideration how necessary and meet it was for them to declare their knowledges in each particular as well for the vindication of his Lordship who it hath pleased Almighty God in his providence to make a principall instrument in preserving the remnant of the poore Protestants here and in preventing the designes of these bloody Rebels in the continuing of the unnaturall Warre there as also for the honour and service of the Parliament in preserving persons of honour and quality by them eminently imployed from unjust aspersions which may be conceived to reflect with no small prejudice upon their affairs in relation to the publike And thereupon they did unanimously make this Attestation which you shall herewith receive to be published there where the scandals were raised as yee see occasion I have no newes to certifie you of save that by the unhappy losse of Bunratty soone after Lieutenant Colonell Mac Adam was slaine the Rebels are at liberty and now in preparation to fall upon us and in their hopes of a sudden peace to be concluded between the Lord of Ormond and them and of the slow coming of supplies unto us they have swallowed us up already in their own conceits but they shall be sure to finde the best resistance that it shall please God to enable us to give them and that very faithfully And so Sir this being to no other purpose I rest Your very loving friend B. S. Kinsale August 2. 1646. To my very loving friend Thomas Betswohth Esquire Agent for the Province of Munster FInding in a private Pamphlet a scandalous passage which may eclipse the honour and reputation of the Right Honourable the Lord Barron of Inchiquin now Lord President of Munster in that he did not formerly take in the Castle of Blarny so neere the Garrison of Cork as though his Lordship had overslipt opportunities to have taken in the same And whereas we heare it hath been suggested into England that his Lordship hath had some secret correspondencie with the Irish whereby he hath during these Warres been extraordinarily favourable unto them in some points And whereas in the third place another scandal hath bin endeavoured to be fastned on his Lordship That he hath converted the entertainment due to the Souldier and Officer of the Army and which might have bin conveniently paid them into his owne purse transported severall sums of money into forraign parts We therefore whose names are underwritten make this ensuing attestation to vindicate as in justice we ought his Lordships honour and do confidently and truly averre in answer to the first scandall against all foule-mouthed detractors That upon the death of the late Lord President a great debate arising at a Councel of War at Downraile who should have the power of commanding the Army and ordering the Warre untill some Commission should come from the State at Dublin or out of England the generall Vote cast the weight on the Lord of Inchiquins shoulders who undertaking the Warre prosecuted the Warre against the Rebels by taking severall Castles in that then plentifull Country called Roches Country thereby besides the weakning of the Rebels his Lordship gained meanes to maintaine the Army which was then like to be distressed there being scarce any provision in the stores as also he lay ready to receive the Enemy which his Lordship heard by intelligence were falling out of the County of Limricke into the County of Corke that way and thereby his Lordship obtained by Gods providence those two remarkable Victories of Newtowne and Liscarroll in either of which especially the latter had the Rebels prevailed or not been opposed untill they came over the black water our interest in Munster was likely to be lost from Liscarroll his Lordship returned back to Corke with a resolution to fall on Blarny but that resolution being debated at a Generall Councell of Warre at Corke it was by a Generall consent concluded It was neither seasonable nor feasible by reason of the mortallitie of the Souldiers who died in multitudes and want of Victuals to carry the Army forth to lie in the field for his Lordship was then so necessitated that to maintaine the Souldiers he was constrained to billet them on the severall Towns they giving them but one meale a day for about twelve weeks together and to send about one thousand Horse and Foot to quarter at Downraile and Malloe under the command of Major Generall Jephson to live by gaining their owne subsistence by taking now and then some small preys from the Rebels all the succeeding winter his Lordship was forced likewise to imploy all the forces in preying severall parts of the Countrie to gaine a livelihood for them no supplies comming out of England to relieve him and in sending some part of the Army to relieve Rathbarry in the West or to fetch off divers distressed English who were besieged by the Irish of those parts And after that the Army that lay in the severall Garrisons of Corke Kinsale Bandon Malloe and Downraile was imployed in burning and harrowing all Muskry in severall places at once to dis-inable them to maintaine a siege threatned against Corke and to which end they had provided severall sorts of graine in great quantities in that Country and in Mac Donoghs Country the Army still rather decreasing then otherwise and no supplies comming out of England yet his Lordship carried as convenient a number as he could of Horse and Foot to relieve Capaquine a Garrlson of ours in the County of Waterford to stop the Enemy from falling on it and after that the Army was sent in May into Ibawne where divers Castles were taken and thereby the Army sti●l refreshed That being done and the Army retiring the Garrisons being spent out and not able to diet the Souldiers any longer his Lordship was constrained to keep the Souldier from disorder at home to encourage them by getting somewhat abroad to march towards Kilmalock and doubting that that part of the Country would