Germane and Scolish Souldiers: so that considering it is in this nick of
time wherein the Generalities of the whole Kingdome are so desirous
of the King, hee feares hee shall not bee able to maintaine the Independent
Interest there without great Aids from England, which hee hath
writ about to the Men at Westminster, but what their Answer will bee
may bee easily judged, if they prosper no better then wee heare they doe
in Ireland & c.
By another Letter from Dublin of the two and twenty Instant, wee
have thus much concerning his Majesties affaires in Ireland, (viz.) That
on Thursday the twentith of September, the Besieged in Tredagh made a
most desperate Salley from the South-gate of the Towne, where the Rebells
have raised a Fort, then not finished, and this early in the Morning
before the Reliefe of their Guards; when, having the advantage of a
great Fog, they drew out some twelve hundred Horse and Foote, and
Advanc'd against it, within Pistoll-shot before they were discovered,
where finding but slender resistance, the Horse broke in amongst their
maine-Guard, which consisted of about six hundred Horse and Foote,
which they tooke and killed every man of them, and drew out three
pieces of their best Ordnance, which they drew all with them into the
Towne, and nayled up the rest, before any came to resist them. That at
length a Partie of Crumwel's Life-Guard of Horse, taking the Alarme,
made up, to fall into their Reare, but were so gallantly Received by the
Royallists, that they Routed them, killed and tooke divers, and (as the
generall report goes) wounded Crumwell himselfe, and his sonne Iretcu
to boote, pursuing the rest with great Exequution, And (faith the Letter)
had they drawne but two hundred Horse out more, might have endangered
Crumwell's whol Army. That for a certaine Oneale and Ormond
are agreed, but as yet not joyned, One ale being about Cariefergus,
with about five thousand Horse and Foote, where hee is levying more,
and as is thought Designed for the Blocking up of London-Derry : And
the Marquesse still Eying the Actions of Crumwell, not farre from Tredagh;
with whom is also the Lord Inchequine, who now and then visits
the Inhabitants about Dublin, and the last weeke tooke from the Enemy
a Mortar-piece and many Granadoes that were sent for from Dublin,
with the whol Convoy, consisting of about fiftie Horse and Dragoones.
That hee hath done many rare Exploits of late, in severall parts, which
they heare of at Dublin, though not so particularly as is requisite to give
us a true Account thereof in England. But ( faith the Letter;) by the
next expect it at large, &c.
And this is the Truth of all the great Route so confidently talked of,
which (though it bee not mentioned at all in their Licensed Pamphlets,