IRELAND, for this present last Yeare, hath beene the bloody Stage whereon the horrid and never the like heard of Trage­dies have been really to the life (or rather to the death) acted.

The Romish Rebels have beene so im­pious in their crueltie, and so cruell in their immanitie, that they have not spar'd Men, Women nor Children: the very Turkes and Mahu­metans were never so sanguinean as those Tygers have beene. They haue ravished Matrons, vitiated Wives, destoured Vir­gins, fired Cities, and (which was the ground of all their in­solencies) they are damnablly periur'd; as having falsified their Oathes both to God and man. Their Attempts, Plots, and Conspiracies have beene so hainous and facinorous, that my tongue is not able to relate them, much lesse my Pen to [Page 2]expresse them; (yet I hope by Gods assistance they will bee ere long written in their owne blood.)

What hideous and most barbarous Massacres, they have perpetrated and committed contrary to the Rules of Religion to God, loyalty to the King, and charity to their neighbours, the History of these times doth sufficiently testifie.

But to come to the Subiect matter of this ensuing It pleased Almighty God on the 10th. day of Iuly last month that the Forees lately sent out of England under the Com­mand of the Lord Forbes were safely arrived at the Towne of Kinsale; in the County of Corke, and Province of Munster; seven hundred of them, and a hundred Sea-men forthwith marched with some Conducters of the said, Towne towards the famous Towne of Bandonbridge, with a reliefe sent by the Honourable Houses of Parliament of Armes for 500. Men, 50. Bartels of Powder for Bandon, and hundred and fifty pounds in money for the poore of the said Towne, which the aforesaid Forces did faithfully and happily deliver, accor­ding to the Order of the Honourable Court of Parliament: and having further instructions for the relieving of Raph­barry Castle neere Resse in the said Countie, about ten miles from the aforesaid Towne, they marched from Bandon with neere about a hundred horse and foot of the Towne Souldiers, together with their owne eight hundred; in which march, [Page 3]they met with a booty of 500. Cowes and abundance of Sheep; for the guarding of which, they left behind them 300. Men, who upon the departure of the major part of the said men, ad­vaincing towards Raph-barry Castle for the reliefe thereof; were set upon by Mecharty Reach, Tiego O downy and other Arch-Rebels of those parts of Munster, who were in number about 5000. lying close in by-nookes and corners, untill the greater part of our Forces were cut of fight and hearing of playing off the Enemies Musquets) who tell so hot upon our 300. Men, having the advantage of above ten to one against them, that they much endangered the lives of the 300. Men.

But that GOD that shews himselfe most gracious when his Servants are most necessitated, was pleased to put such cou­rage and Power into the hearts and hands of our English, that they held our so stoutly, that with the losse of Captaine Wel­d [...]n and hi [...] Company, (save onely the Leivten [...]t, and thirty men of Bandon-bridge souldiers, they cut off the Enemy above five hundred, and continued the fight [...]ill the remainder of the forces which went up to releive Raph-barry Castle were re­turned unto them. Then recovering new spirits, the surviving Souldiers fell on the Enemy so eagerly and und [...]tin [...]edly with the assistance of their fellow-forces, that they slow at the least twelve hundred: For having surrounded and encompas [...] them the Enemies could hardly betake themselves to their heels, as they usually doe and have formerly done, after the first or se­cond shot (unlesse they should expose themselves to the mer­cy of the water somwhat neere the place of their sight as they intended for the recovering of a certaine Island to av [...]yd the [...]ury of our Forces) Many of the Rebels were constrained af­ter the violent and revengfull pursuit of our Army to trust to the courtesie of the meecilesse waters wherein there could not be lesse then five hundred swallowed and overwhelmed (like [Page 4]proud Pharoah and his hoasts) in an ingurgitative neck of that none sparing Ocean.

Thus by this true Relation you may evidently perceive Gods great mercy to his servants, and his iust lugment towards his, and their Enemyes; of which we ought all to take speciall no­tice, and to render him due thankes, to whom the honour be­longs; saying as that renowned and victorious King Henry the fist sometimes said at his triumph after his Battaile at A­gincourt over the French, who were more then ten to one a­gainst him, commanding all his Soldirs to acknowledge up­on their knees those words of the Psalmist, Non no [...]is Domine non uobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam; Not unto us Lord, not unto us; but unto thy Name give the glory.

ONe of our Ships lately sent forth to the Coasts of Ire­land, ventured upon this ensuing Stratagem into the harbour of Baltemore. They put up the Dunkirkers Colours, as if they had come with Ammunition and Armes for the Rebels; which the Rebels being very proud of and confident that they were (as our men pretended to be) both by their Coulers, and the Irish-language which some of them spake, were drawne on Ship-board, in particular Durmod Glack, Florence Macharty, Arch-Rebels with divers other the princi­pall of which they saved alive, the other they hanged vp pre­sently.

[Page 5] Thus we see that by the divine providence, our policy and weake meanes doe prosper to the astonishment and destructi­on of our Enemies, and to the perpetuall exultation and ob­ligation of all true Protestants; who ought not for all this to tempt GOD by neglecting meanes in due time of sending over sufficient Ammunition, mony and men to sucour our distressed friends in Ireland, and suppresse their Enemies who (with GODS blessing on these meane [...]) may be quickly extirpated, or reduced to their obedience to the Crowne of England.