MORE TRUE AND Exceeding Joyfull Newes FROM IRELAND, OR, The Victorious Proceedings of the Proteſtants in the Neweries, and in the North parts of Jreland, From the 11. of Aprill, To this preſent. 1642.
SHEWING, In a moſt true, and Reall Relation, the manner of three Glorious and Renowned Battels, fought by theſe Worthy Pillars of the Proteſtant Religion; following.
Brought ever by the laſt Poſt, Aprill 18. 1642.
Likewiſe, the Copie of a Letter ſent from Ireland, to a worthy Gentl••••in London, and r••d in the Honourable Houſe of COMMONS.
It is Ordered, That this be forthwith Printed.
H••…, Elſynge, Cleric. Parl. D. Com.
London, Printed for I. H. 1642.
SInce my laſt Letter, I have ſent you theſe joyfull Occurrences, being all the proceedings, which paſſed from Aprill the 12. 1642. To this preſent.
Vpon the 12 day of Aprill, the Lord Preſident of Munſter fought: a great Battle with the Rebels in the North parts of Jreland, hazarding his owne perſons very dangerouſly, by reaſon of his couragions and Heroick Spirit bringing up his men ſo valiantly, he himſelfe being fore-moſt in the Re•re, but after 2. or. 3. value of Shot, withdrew himſelfe into the midſt of his Army.
It is credibly reported, that he with 700. men, hath fought againſt 3000 of the Rebels, the fight laſting for the ſpace of five houres, and hath ſlaine 1300 of them, and tooke foureſcore priſoners, ſome being Commanders of great Note, and hath likewiſe wonne the ſtrong Caſtle of Carnow, leaving a ſtrong Garriſon in the ſame.
After this, he marched to his owne Quarters againe, and doth intend very ſuddenly, to ſet forth, to ſcoure thoſe parts.
But upon the 13. day of Aprill was a joyfull day with us, when the Earle of Ormond with 500 Foote and 100 horſe, gave Battle againſt two thouſand Rebels, neare to the City of Youghall, who had entrenched themſelves very ſtrongly; and after a bloody Battle, burnt them out of their Quarters, they retreating backe with the loſſe of 800 men, leaving great ſtore of good Pillage behind them, of our ſide were ſlaine not above 50. at the moſt, all Common Souldiers.
On the 14. day of Aprill, Sr. Richarh Greenvill, Sr. Charles Coote, and Captaine Marro, ſet forth with 5000. men from our City, and marched towards the Neweriis, where they had Battle given them immediately by 12000 Rebels, but they were reſiſted moſt valiantly by them againe, ſo that a long and tedious Battle did inſue, Captaine Marro bringing up the Reare, gave Fire ſo thicke upon them, that in the firſt incounter were ſlain of the Rebels 300. our men ſeeing them fall ſo thicke before them were mightyly encouraged, ſo that they moſt puiſſantly ſent the dreadfull Bullets amongſt them, ſo that by that meanes the Rebels retreated backe, for the ſpace of halfe a Mile, our men purſuing them very cloſe, ſlew 200 of them in theire retreat whereupon the Rebels inſtantly preſented themſelves in a faire Battalia Order, ſo that there did begin another hot Skirmiſh for the ſpace of foure houres, where there were ſlain of the Rebels 500. more, of our ſide threeſcore, the Battle then ending, the Rebels retreated backe, leaving great ſtore of Pillage behind them
Then Captaine Marro, with the conſent of Sir Richard Greenvill, and Sr. Charles Coote, drew out 1000 men from the maine Body, taking with him foure pieces of Ordnance, and upon the 14. of this preſent Moneth, marched towards Wallen Caſtle, foure Miles diſtant from the Army, where he gave them a ſuddaine aſſault, and beate downe a great wall of the Caſtle, which put the Rebels into a great perplexity, nevertheleſſe they with the beſt Power and Strength they had, gave Battell to him, and after the ſpace of foure houres fight, they ſounded a Parley, Captaine Marro ſhewing himſelfe in the Front, they deſiring of him ſome time to prepare themſelves for Battell, but he immediately cauſed the Drums to beat up, and mounted his Ordnance againſt them, ſo that after ſome time to prepare themſelves for Battell, but immediately cauſed the Drums to beate up, and mounted his Ordnance againſt them, that after ſome time he attained the Caſtle, putting all to the Sword that was therein.
Our Army is entred in the Neweries, 15. Miles, and doth intend (God willing) to give them another Battell very ſuddenly.
From DublinAprill the 14.
I Have written by the the two laſt Poſts, and having good Newes, it ſhall trot to impart it unto you.
The laſt Saturday the Lord Moore and Sir Henry Tuchburne ſallyed out of the Towne, and fell upon the Enemies, and drove them out of their Trenches, and raiſ'd their Siege, ſlew about 350 of their men, and tooke many of their chiefe Officers, and have relieved themſelves bravely, and tooke 150 of their Muskets, and a Field full of Pikes, we having loſt, as ſome affirme no men. Here are three of our Captaines come by Land, ſo that this Newes is true.
Vpon Munday our Forces went out, 4000 Foote and 500 Horſe, they are already within five myles of Tredagh: by the way; Lievtenant Colonell Reade came into our men, and ſubmitted, if he had not done it he could not have fled: he is ſent hither, and lodg'd in the Caſtle I doe believe we ſhall now get good ſtore of Corne out of the Countrey, which will keepe the price from riſing. Our men are not expected home this weeke, pray GOD keepe them ſafe: Sir Philimy Oneale was in the Battle, but was faine to flye; and that was not like to ſerve turne.
It is this day Ordered, That this be forthwith Printed.
(EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A89298)
Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 156622)
Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 26:E144[12])
Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford.
EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). The general aim of EEBO-TCP is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic English-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in EEBO.
EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org).
The EEBO-TCP project was divided into two phases. The 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 January 2015. Anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source.
Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data.
Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.
Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.
The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.
Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements).
Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site.
This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this EEBO-TCP Phase II text, in whole or in part.