ing they were then at Bundrous, conceived it of absolute necessity to hazard the fighting with the rebels with their own strength, and Sir William Cole's troop, rather than to lose themselves, and the outgarisons, which were, in a manner, all blocked up, by the rebels lying between them and Sligo. Captain Richard Coot, and Captain Cole, commanded the horse, being near two-hundred; and, after some skir mishing with the rebels horse, fell, pel-mell, into their several divisions of foot, routed them, and pursued them; and Lieutenant-Colonel Sanderson, sallying out of the town with his foot, and Sir Francis Hamilton coming, in the nick of time, with his troop, they had all execution upon the rebels for five miles; and, at the end thereof, left slain the Popish Archbishop of Tuam, the rebels president of Connaught, for a memorable mark. They took one-hundred and fifty horse, with their arms, their tents, and all other baggage and ammunition, and had much spoil; several colours of horse and foot, and many officers of note, to the number of about twenty-eight, prisoners; about twohundred killed; and our loss but of one man, and six hurt. Many more of the rebels might have been killed, but that our foot left the chace, and fell to plunder.

The whole army being thus defeated, one thousand foot, and three troops of horse, that were coming to join with them, upon the news thereof, returned. And our men, with the Leggan army joined with them, have since entered the barony of Tereragh, and taken thirteen castles there, well provided of corn, which was our chief want, and like to be the loss of that whole province, if God, in this miraculous manner, had not supplied it. The oxen, which drew the enemy's waggons, drew our ordnance, for the taking in of the said castles. And now our men have good quarters for this winter, about the said castles, which keep the country under contribution.

The Archbishop of Tuam was a principal agent in these wars, and one of the supreme council of Kilkenny. He attended their army at this time, to visit his diocess, and to put in execution an order for the arrears of his bishoprick, granted to him from the council at Kilkenny; which order, together with the pope's bull, and several other letters of correspondence, between him and his agents from Rome, Paris, and several parts of this kingdom, were found about him: the particulars of which letters, in order to the Irish affairs, are as followeth:

'That the pope would not, at the first, engage himself, in the sending of a Nuncio for Ireland, till the Irish agents had fully satisfied him, that the establishment of the Catholick religion was a thing feasible, and attainable in this kingdom; whereupon, he was content to sollicit their cause with Florence, Venice, &c. and also to delegate Farmano, his Nuncio, to attend this kingdom.' Who, the said Nuncio, after some delays in France, was, at last, expedited thence, by express order from the pope; and he arrived at the river of Kilmare, in a frigate of twenty-one pieces, twenty-six Italians of his retinue, Secretary Belinges, and divers regular and secular priests, October the twenty-second. The Irish are much encouraged with these supplies which he hath brought; the list whereof, found about the archbishop, is;

Imprimis, two thousand musquets, four-thousand bandeliers, two thousand swords, five hundred petronels, and twenty thousand pounds of powder (all which arrived in another barque by itself at Brook-haven, October the tenth) together with five or six desks, or small trunks of Spanish gold, the sum uncertain.

These letters likewise inform us, that the King's hopes are from the Irish nation; and, if they desert him, he is like to be in a hard condition very speedily. Several other things they contain, concerning Prince Rupert, Colonel Legg, the King's losses at Bristol and Chester. Something there is, also, of the treaty of peace. Ormond, says one, is found a Machiavellian; Dillon, Muskerry, Talbot, are for peace; · Conditionibus quibuscunque iniquis,' says another; Our publick affairs are in via, non in termino,' says a third; the propositions high, the answers high and sly. There are some mysteries of state in this business, which I cannot commit to paper; yet, morally certain it is, there will be peace, saith a fourth. It seems, also, there were some differences amongst the rebels themselves, as between Muskerry and Brown; insomuch, that Brown is dispatched from Dublin to Kilkenny, between Castle-haven, and Preston; insomuch, that Father Scrampe went from the supreme council to reconcile them. There was also a private letter, of suspicious informations, against Dominico Spinola, an agent in Ireland, wherein he is said to hold correspondence with the Queen of England in France, and to be a lover of their enemies.

Prisoners at Sligo.

Great Morah ne Dom. O'Flaherty, lieutenant-colonel to Richard Bourk, cousin-german to the Earl of Clanrickard, and his next heir. John Gerdy, lieutenant-colonel to Sir Tibbot Bourk, eldest son to the Lord of Mayoe.

Richard Bourk, Major to Richard Bourk aforesaid.

Captain William O Shaghnise, brother to Sir Roger O Shaghnise. Captain Garret Dillon, son to Sir Lucas Dillon, who saith, that his father was shot in the thigh.

Captain Costologh, with divers other inferior officers.

The titular Archbishop of Tuam was slain.

Captain Brown, brother Jeffery Brown, the lawyer, who brought one hundred musquets from Galloway, was also killed.

A true and fuller relation from Ireland of the service performed by the men of Inniskillin, of Sir William Cole's regiment and troop at Lowtherstowne, upon Thursday, November the twenty-seventh, 1645, about one o'clock in the night; wherein, they did not only, by the Providence of God, rescue their prey, but, having there routed a party of four or five hundred men of the rebels, did likewise put the whole army of Owen Mac Arte O Neale to flight, viz.

SIR WILLIAM COLE, upon Sunday morning, November the twenty-third, received a letter from Sir Charles Coot, lord-president of

Connaught; who, to satisfy his lordship's desires, commanded his troop to march unto him, to be at Sligo, on Thursday night, November the twenty-seventh, to join in some expedition, by his lordship's orders; against the rebels in that province.

The greatest part of his troop, with their horses, were then in the island of Baawe, sixteen miles northward from Inniskillin; who, upon his notice, did march away, upon Monday, November the twentyfourth, together with almost all the foot-soldiers of two companies of his regiment, that quartered with their cattle, and many of the cows of Inniskillin in that island, unto Balleshannon, which was their place of rendezvouz.

The cornet of that troop, upon Tuesday, November the twenty-fifth, with about twenty horsemen, marched from Inniskillin to the westward of Loghern, with resolution to lodge, that night, by the way, within fifteen miles of Sligo; but a little snow falling, altered their determination, and so took their course to Balleshannon, without appointment, God, in his high providence, for the advancement of his own glory, and our good, directing them thither; where, as soon as they got their horses shod, they were still hastening towards Sligo, whither sundry of their foot companies aforesaid, on horseback, rid before them: and a great part of the troop were advanced as far as Bundrowis, where the alarm overtook them, with orders to return, to resist the enemy, to the number of four or five-hundred men, of Owen Mac Arte's army, under the conduct of several captains, led by Roury Mac Guire in chief; who, upon Wednesday morning, November the twenty-sixth, being provided with two of our own boats, by the treachery of one Bryan

Harran, and others of our bosom-snakes, protected Sinon's, had entered the said island of Baawe, at the south-end of it, and was burning, spoiling, and preying their goods; wherein they prevailed, even to the stripping naked of all onr women, plundering and taking theirs, and our then absent soldier's clothes, victuals, and arms away.

That party of our horsemen speedily returning to Balleshannon, whence, with the cornet, the rest of the said troop, some of the foot soldiers on horseback, and captain John Folliot, accompanied with as many horsemen as he could make, hastened towards the north-end of that island, which is distant, from the south-end thereof, three English miles. But, the enemy having driven the prey of cows, horses, and mares, forth at the south-end, our horsemen, with captain Folliot, followed by Termon castle; whence they marched through very inaccessible woods and bogs, in the night, to the Cash (distant sixteen miles from Balleshannon) being the first place that they could guide themselves by the track of the enemy and prey, which they still pursued, with chearfulness, to Lowtherstown; where, overtaking them about one o'clock in the morning of November the twenty-seventh, 1645, their trumpet sounding a charge, they followed it home so resolutely, that, after a fierce confliction, in a short time, they routed the enemy, and had the execution of them for a mile and a half; slew many of them in the place, took some prisoners, rescued most part of their prey, recovered their own soldiers, that were then the enemy's prisoners, with some of the rebels knapsacks to boot: which sudde

and unexpected fright did so amaze Owen Mac Arte, and his army, consisting of about two thousand foot, and two hundred horse (as prisoners do inform) who, after they had made their bravado on the top of an hill, within a mile of Inniskillin, in the evening of November the twenty-sixth, to keep the town from issuing forth, to resist or stay the prey, incamped, that night, at Ballenamallaght, within four miles of this town; that they all, in a most fearful and confused manner, ran away to the mountains, so vehemently scared and affrighted, that their van thought their own rear were my troops, and their rear like wise imagined, those that escaped the fight, by flight from Lowtherstown, to have been also my party that pursued them; whereby, their mantles, clokes, and all that could be an impediment to their more speedy flight, were cast upon the ground, and left behind them; and so continued, until they passed the mountains of Slewbagha into the county of Monaghan, where they are quartered upon the county Creaghts, which lies from Arthur Blaney's house, and from Monaghan Duffee, near the town of Monaghan, all along to Drogheda, consisting of the banished inhabitants of Tyrone, Armagh, Monaghan, and Lowth.

My troop returned, with Captain Folliot, in safety, praised be God, without hurt of man or beast, save one horse of Lieutenant Edward Graham's, that was shot and killed under him. And having put the said prey again into the said island, upon Friday, November the twenty-eighth, they marched to Balleshannon, whence, again, they came home to Inniskillin, on the north-side of Loghern, the thirtieth of November, 1645.

Among those that were slain, the grandson of Sir Tirlagh Mac Henry ONeale was one.

One captain killed. Two lieutenants killed.

any

of

And, I find, there is some man, of more eminent note than these, killed, but, as yet, cannot learn certainly who it is. Lieut. Tirlagh O Moylan, of Captain Awney O Cahan's company, taken prisoner; who, upon examination, saith, That Inchiquin hath given a great blow, of late, unto Castlehaven and Preston, in their quarters near Yoghel; and also saith, That the intent of this army was, that, if they could come off with our said prey, without check, they purposed then to have besieged this town, and, according as fortune favoured them, to have proceeded against the Lagan, and other places of Ulster.

And yet I find, by the answer of some others of the prisoners, that, by direction from the supreme council of Ireland, this army of Owen Mac Aite's are to serve in nature of a running party, to weaken our forces of Inniskillin, Laggan, and Claneby's, by sudden incursions, to kill, spoil, and prey us, upon all occasions of advantage, according as, by their successes therein, they shall assume encouragement to themselves to go forwards against us, but especially against Inniskillin, which they conceive is worst able to resist their attempts.

Captain Folliot had sixteen horsemen, with four of Mannor Hamilton's men, and four of Castle Termon horsemen, that joined very fortunately, in this service, with my troop; for which God Almighty be ever glorified and praised by William Cole.

Die Luna, 12 Januarii, 1645.

Ordered by the commons assembled in parliament, That the committee of lords and commons for Irish affairs, do take care, that the relation of the late good success in Ireland be forthwith printed.

H. Elsynge, Cler. Par. D. Com.

AN ENQUIRY

INTO THE

PHYSICAL AND LITERAL SENSE OF THAT SCRIPTURË

Jeremiah viii. 7.

The Stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow observe the time of their coming, &c.

Written by an eminent Professor * for the use of his scholars, and now published at the earnest desire of some of them.

Printed by J. H. no date. Duodecimo, containing thirty-six pages.

THE whole place is a rebuke to man, who should best know, and

therefore most readily perform, the law of his creator, written in his nature; this is the theological scope, wherein he is upbraided by brute creatures, that better observe their instincts.

But our present enquiry is of the physical and literal sense, especially of these words (in the heaven) where the stork seems to be and reside, when she knoweth her appointed time of her return unto this our earth. The question is, Whence come the stork, and the turtle, the crane, and the swallow, when they know and observe the appointed time of their coming?

For the probable solution of which question, four things deserve some particular consideration, being of the number of those wonderful works of God, which seem to be proposed to be sought out of all them that have pleasure therein, Psal. cxi. 3. besides the theologico-moral design of convincing unnatural sinners.

1. The kinds or species mentioned. And they are fowls; not but beasts, worms, and fishes have their seasons and months, in which they

• Mr. Charles Morton. See Calamy's Continuation, vol. I. pag. 211.