The last and truest intelligence from Ireland being a true relation of the taking of a castle from the rebels, called the Castle of the Knights of the Elms, on the river of Limbrick, by the souldiers of the Englishe fleet, who took in the castle 1000 bushels of wheat, 4000 weight of butter, with great store of barley, malt, and salted beefe, Septemb. 28 : also the taking of a French ship on the river of Limbrick which brought ammunition and other provision from S. Mallos to assist the rebels : wherein the English fleet took 120 barrels of powder, ammunition for 500 men, 35 butts of sack, with great store of salt : set forth in the true copie of a letter / sent to M. Barnet, pewterer in Fanchurch Street, Lon. from M. Owen Cox ... Cox, Owen. 1642 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A34845 Wing C6709 ESTC R18083 12437550 ocm 12437550 62045

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The Laſt and Trueſt INTELLIGENCE FROM IRELAND: BEING A true Relation of the taking of a Caſtle from the Rebels, called the Caſtle of the Knights of the Elms, on the river of Limbrick, by the ſouldiers of the Engliſh Fleet, who took in the Caſtle 1000. Buſhels of Wheat, 4000. weight of Butter, with great ſtore of Barley, Malt, and ſalted Beefe, Septemb. 28.

ALSO The taking of a French ſhip on the river of Limbrick which brought Ammunition and other Proviſion from S. Mallos to aſsiſt the Rebels, wherein the Engliſh Fleet took 120. barrels of Powder, Ammunition for 500. men, 35. Butts of Sack, with great ſtore of Salt.

Set forth in the true copie of a Letter ſent to M. Barnet Pewterer, in Fanchurch Street Lon. from M. Owen Cox Maſter of one of the ſhips for the Iriſh Expedition called the Arkelles. Dated, Septemb. 29.

Printed for A. Wildgooſe. October 17. 1642.
The Trueſt and laſt INTELLIGENCE FROM IRELAND: Being a true Relation of the taking of a Caſtle on the river of Limbrick from the Rebels, by the ſouldiers of the Engliſh Fleet, wherein they took 1000. buſhels of Wheat, 4000. weight of Butter, beſides great ſtore of Barley, Malt, and ſalted Beefe, Septemb. 28. M. Barnet▪

IT was my promiſe to let you underſtand the proceedings of this our expedition, but finding no convenient opportunity to write, nor conqueſt worth the writing till now, I hope I may the better be excuſed. What hath been done ſince our Fleet came together, you ſhall underſtand.

On the 9. day of Auguſt we arrived before Galloway, which is the ſtrongeſt towne they have, except Limbrick, and there laid ſiege to it: ſo the Lord of of Clenrikard came downe and conferred with our Lord Forbes, and the Merchants of the towne: they ſtrongly replied, and ſaid, that they were the Kings loyall ſubjects, and had not offended in the leaſt thing, but that the ſouldiers in the Kings Fort had done them wrong: but had the King ſealed to our Commiſſion, we ſhould have found enough againſt them, that we might truly have made an onſet upon the towne: wee were ſo neere the towne with our garriſon, that we could heare them plainly call our Parliament rogues, Parliament-dogs, and Puritan-Dogs: ſo you may very well conceive what ſubjects they are. On the third and fourth day we re-fetcht aboard our ſouldiers, and the ſixth day wee ſet ſaile from Gallaway to go to Limbrick, and on the ninth day we arrived in Limbrick river, and on the two and twentieth day we laid ſiege to the Knights of the Elmes Caſtle, that is to ſay in Engliſh, the Knights of the valley; the which Caſtle we plaid upon two dayes and two nights with two Demi-Canons: ſo the ſecond day we entred the Caſtle, ſlaying all we found alive: but when we came to burie them we found but eighteene or twentie, the reſt made an eſcape and got into the woods: there came a great army of the Iriſh within ſight of the Caſtle; there marched out betwixt four and five hundred, and when they began to approach, the Iriſh men fled, and durſt not ſtand: We tooke in this Caſtle a thouſand buſhels of Wheat, three or foure thouſand vveight of Butter, beſides Barley, Malt and ſalt Beefe: this Caſtle vve took on the three and tvventieth of September vvith the loſſe of five men, a Trouper and a Footman in the purſuit after the firſt landding, and three other after vve came under the Caſtle vvals, tvvo common ſouldiers, and the Maſter of Captaine Thompſons ſhip: after they vvere under the Caſtle vvals, they vvent off againe, and ſo vvere ſhot from the caſtle out of one of the lovver holes: but vvhen vve entred the caſtle, vve loſt never a man: and for their men, vve knovv not the number vve ſlevv before the caſtle vvas taken, for they buried their dead out of our ſight. We had a very hard ſiege of it by reaſon of the fouleneſſe of the vveather, I think they did ſet all the divels they ſerve to vvorke; for it did raine and blovv all the time; vve vvere in the cold exceedingly, and in that regard my Lord hath given us ten days to reſt our ſelves, and then to goe to ſome other caſtle upon this river.

A TRUE RELATION of the taking of a French ſhip which came from S. Mallos with proviſion to aſſiſt the Rebels on the river of Limbrick with 120. barrels of Powder, Ammunition for 500. men, and 35. butts of Sack.

AS we paſſed along the foreſaid river of Limbrick, We took on the river a French Ship that came from S. Mallos, vvhich had in it an hundred and tvventie barrels of povvder, and Armes for foure or five hundred men, as Muskets, Pikes, and ſuch like, beſides thirty and odd butts of ſack, and great ſtore of falt, vvhich hath been very helpfull unto us. M. Barnet, I do intreat you that you would be pleaſed to remember me in your prayers, for God hath been very mercifull unto me in giving mee my life, for I was at puſh of Pike with them in the caſtle an houre and an halfe before I entred in, and then was faine to enter in at a ſmall hole, as much as I could do to creep in at with my armes, and had no harme at all, I praiſe God for it. Thus hoping you will not be unmindfull of me, I reſt,

From the River of Limbrick, Septemb. 29. 1642. Yours, &c. Owen Cox. FINIS.