Monthly deduce you all things in as set a Form, as the Commonprayer
or Presbytery. Not long after the Sally at Dublin, which the
Enemy out of Modesty call the Battel of Ramines, the Lord Lieutenant
landed at Dublin, with an Army so nourisht in Victory, that
they never saw any Defeats but those they gave their enemies.
The first designe we undertook, was the gaining of Tredagh, in
which Ormond had placed above 3000 of his select men, and Sir
Arthur Asbton for Commander, one as unable to stand to it, as to
run away; and it may be that's the reason he fell in the service:
doubtless he was better for a Retreat, since every step he would
make a halt. In a word, if the Rule be true of judging Hercules,
by his foot, one may conclude this a wooden Governour. Yet he
had made so good earthen Fortifications, that by trusting to his
Works, he shewed what Religion he was of. Their first Retrenchment
against us, was the Church, out of which they were soon dislodg'd;
and I dare say't was the first time they ever went from
Church unwillingly: this being done too by some Ordnances of
Parliament, 'tis not unlikely the grave Presbyterians (if ever the
drouzie Assembly came into play again) my question their proceeding,
and aver we have a minde our enemies should still continue
Papists, by so pregnantly evincing there was no salvation for
them in our Church. At length the breach being found assaultable
(more from the event, then the largeness of it) our Army were
so little Courtiers, as to enter the town without so much as knocking
at the gate, where all lost their lives but those that saved
them: Of the first qualification there were about 3000; of the
later, 30 be it more or less.
Whist this was doing Intbiquin the Irish Presbyter, to divert, but
it proved to increase our success, assaulted the Na'as, a Town fortified
like Jericho, after the battery of the Rams borns; from
whence he drew off, to the march of Fortune my foe; confessing in
his heart, that Providence was a better Engineer then Asbton, and
concluding the Spanish fashion was the best, which is, to leave a
Town when one cannot take it.
Doubtless the Sympathetick operation is not meerly Nationals;