by them: Yea to such a habit of Sauage tirany hath Rebellion brought that nation, that no­thing hath beene or still is pleasing to a great part of them, but that which all ciuill kingdomes abhor, (as beeing their onely plague) and that is Ciuill Warre: Murders and Massacres and vp­rores are to them as Musick & Banquets: bloud as the most delicate cups of wine: Thou needest not (O gallant country) to boast that no vene­mous beast is bread within thee, for the hearts of thy disobedient children are full of rancke poyson: Thou hast deserued to bee called not one of the daughters of Britannia, but to bee re­iected as a bastard: and albeit from time to time, she hath beene vnto thee as a louing Nurse and Mother, thou canst not condemne her of vn­kindenesse if shee proue vnto thee a stepdame. How many hundreds of thousands of our Eng­lish nation haue beene drowned in their owne bloud, sluc'de out by thy treachery how many of our Nobility haue lost their liues and beene confounded, whilst in their duety and al­legiance they went about to enduce thee to ci­uility, or to chastize thee for thy Stubburnnes? how many widowes haue bewailed the losse of their husbands, butcherd by thy rebellious peo­ple? how many sonnes and daughters by thy meanes haue been left fatherlesse? Yet if thou lookest backe (ô Ireland) either vpon the for­tunate reigne of thy late Queene and mistresse [Page] (of happy memory) or doest but number vp the daies of rest which thy now royall soueraigne (our most gracious King) hath in his peacefull and blessed gouernment bestowed vpon thee, thou canst not choose but confesse, that (thy ill deseruings beeing so many) thou hast beene fa­uorably dealt withall, in being not punished ac­cording to the measure of thy offendings: thou hast beene worthy to haue beene beaten with rods of Iron for thy vnrulinesse, and to haue had fire the sword playe the executioners vppon thee and thy nation for their stiff-necked rebel­lion. But our Princes haue beene vnto thee in their correction as fathers are to children, when they punish them, yet nothing can win thee to goodnesse or weane thee from thy bloudy and barbarous proceedings.

But let vs leaue this streame, and hoist vp sailes in that sea where our intent was at first to end our voiage. And that is to discouer the onset and ouerthrow of a Rebell, or rather conductor of Rebells, Sir Carey Adougherty.

You shall therefore vnderstand, that Sir Carey Adoughertie, hauing with his bloudie assotiate (Fallin Reeah Mack Dauy) committed that inhu­maine murder vpon Sir George Paulet, and o­thers the inhabitantes of the towne of Derry, thought with the Tragicall Poet, Tutum esse sce­leribus per scelus itur, that the onely buckler to defend villanies was to ioyne the army of more [...] [Page] of his Soueraigne? Yet did Sir Carey Adoughertie in the heigth of his prowd ouer-weening, thinke that like a whirle-winde hee should throw downe all that with-stood his furie, and that like a storme at Sea, the whole kingdome of Ireland should vaile to him, to saue it selfe from shipwrack. But God, whose Angels, are the garde of Princes persons, and whose right hand steeres the helme, by which Kingdomes are gouerned, did arme the Lord Deputie, and the Councell of Ireland, not one­lie with present courage to encounter this Re­bell, but with wisedome to preuent, and to beat backe all stormes that by his boysterous and and turbulent spirits were threatned to disqui­et the peaceable state of the country.

One thousand English are therefore forth­with leuied, and those diuided into three regi­ments, vnder the conducts of these Gentlemen and others, viz.

• Sir Thomas Ridgeway, Treasurer for Ire­land.
• Sir Richard Wingfield, Knight Marshall of Ireland
• Sir Oliuer Lambert.
• Sir Richard Morrison.
• Sir Thomas Roper.
• Sir Francis Rush.
• Sir Toby Cofeild.
• Sir Iosias Bodley.

[Page]And besides these, diuerse gentlemen of name, all of them, vsing their best pollicie, to cut off the forces of the enemy: And because, they would bee sure, that hee should not escape out of the nettes prepared for him, those three thousand so diuided into three seuerall companies were directed to march three seuerall waies into the countrie, and by that meanes the Rebell, if hee durst come in­to the fielde, might bee encompassed and set vpon.

Before I proceede any further, it shall not bee amisse to set downe one matter, as an argument, to expresse the confidence that Sir Cary Adough­ertie had in his forces, as also to shew the pride and highnesse of his spirit, and that was thus.

The Bishoppe of Derry and of those parts of the country had his wife surprized by Sir Carry & his accomplices, and by them held prisoner: no intreaty of the bishop, no nor the ransome of a thousand pound (which hee offred) could buy her out of their hands wherevpon the bishop (who freely passed too & fro, aswel to Sir Cary as to the English that were his friends, without dis­turbance, because he was a church-man) entred into speech with the rebell, about his vnnaturall (proceedings against the peace of his country. But Adougherty being careles of his reprehensi­on, in the end spake thus. I vnderstand) quoth he) [...] [Page] they fought with answerable courage, and an­swerable fortune; till at length, one of those three companies, into which the English troopes were diuided, secretly keeping aloofe, came vpon the suddaine and vnexpected of the enemy, on the back of the Rebell, so that hee was roundly be set with death and his officers. They were like a heard of lustie Deere encom­passed with huntsmen, and euery minute looked to heare the knell of their deaths rung forth; yet to shew that albeit they scorned life, they would not giue it away for nothing, they fought couragiouslie, because they purposed to sell their bloud deerely. But (alas!) what strength of man can hold out when the finger of God is held vp against them? God added vigor, and knitte the sinews of the loyall Subiect, that hoe might bee of power to confound the trayte­rous rebell. And that their pride might bee confounded euen in that person, that first made them faithlesse to their countrie, and foes to their Soueraigne: heauen opened the hand of diuine vengeance, and from it shotte a bullet, which strooke Sir Carey Adoughertie quite through the head. The wound was mortall, for with it, hee presently fell downe and dyed; and so fell downe, that his hand laye directly vnder his cheeke, (his head leaning vpon it) and so was found slaine about some three houres after hee was shotte; the head beeing [Page] afterwards out off from the shoulders by one of Sir Francis Rush his men, And from the field sent to Dublin, where to standeth (fixed on a pole,) o­uer the East-gate of the citey, called New-gate.

In this skirmish were lost on the English side very few; of the Irish many; for the leader being cut off, those that were his followers in so disho­nest and dishonorable an action, fainted, and felt the deserued inst [...]ed of the warres, so that in a short time, they were all either slaine or (as chaff by a furious winde) blowne away a dispersed to nothing. Since which defeat [...] diuerse of the Rebels are come in of their owne accord, and daily more and more doe submit themselues to that mercy, which Sir Arthur Chichester (the Lord deputy) hath by proclamation offred vnto them.

Thus haue I set downe the ouer-throwe of a man, whose fortunes might haue bin better, had not a turbulent & reuenging spirit dwelt in his bosome: But as the course of his life was bloudy, so (by the iust doome of heauen) was the conclusion of it. God neuer suffers a hand that takes a pride to be embrewed in slaughter, to scape vnpunished. Note the ends of all such mutinous and barbarous-minded Rebels, that haue burn [...] vp their country with the fires of ci­uill vproares, and haue layd wast the hopes of the poore hus-bandman, and you shall see that their deathes haue beene a suddaine, as bloudy, [...]