A trve relation of Gods providence in the province of Mvnster in delivering them from the hands of ther enemies and giving them a great victory : related in a letter / sent from a gentleman, a voluntier in the Lord Dungarvans troope to a worthy friend of his in London. Johnson, Thomas, volunteer in the Lord Dungarvan's troope. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A46972 of text R16461 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing J852). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). 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A46972) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 61987) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 248:E122, no 4) A trve relation of Gods providence in the province of Mvnster in delivering them from the hands of ther enemies and giving them a great victory : related in a letter / sent from a gentleman, a voluntier in the Lord Dungarvans troope to a worthy friend of his in London. Johnson, Thomas, volunteer in the Lord Dungarvan's troope. [2], 5 p. Printed by L. N. for William Ley, London : 1642. Signed at end: Thomas Johnson. Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. A46972 R16461 (Wing J852). civilwar no A true relation of Gods Providence in the province of Munster. In delivering them from the hands of their enemies; and giving them a great v Johnson, Thomas, volunteer in the Lord Dungarvan's troope 1642 982 3 0 0 0 0 0 31 C The rate of 31 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2005-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-12 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-01 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2006-01 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A TRVE RELATION OF Gods Providence in the PROVINCE of MVNSTER . IN Delivering them from the hands of their Enemies ; and giving them a great Victory . RELATED In a Letter sent from a Gentleman , a Voluntier in the Lord Dungarvans Troope , to a worthy Friend of his in LONDON . LONDON . Printed by L. N. for William Ley. 1642. A true RELATION OF GODS PROVIDENCE TO THE Province of Munster . Mr. BALL ; THough I have laine dormant for a long time , the memory of our former freindship , hath awaked me to see my error in not writing unto you , and ( indeed ) I would not til fortune bestowed a blessing , I understand by IOHN GROOME that he had Letters for me from you , but what they import ( I know not ) he lost them ( in my exordium ) I should tell you of our want of men and mony , but 't is too tedious to particularise our wants , in a word all that is necessarie ( but the Lord make us thankfull ) we have been very happy in our designes since my Lord Dungarvan came over first in taking Ardmore Castle which my Lord took in , with that small strength he had under his owne Command and , gave us the pillage 〈◊〉 hanged there betweene seventy and eighty persons , but on the first of this month , the Rebells advanced towords us with a body of 9. Thousand Horse , and Foot , ( I beleeve having a true relation of our weaknes ) with a full resolution to extirpat the English out of the Province of Munster , had not God preserved us and made true the saying of the Prophet they are affraide where no feare is , but our Commanders having some notice of it , there was command given to al parts of the Province the forces could be made should drawe to a head and meete the Enemie to give them battaile , ( I suppose our Army consisted of 6. hundred horse and 25. hundred foot , which I am sure was the most : on the 3. of this month we came neere them at a place neere the Castle of Liscorrall where they had chosen out their ground to their great aduantage , the Lord of Ensquine was the first troope , by reason of the honor of his Comission for the Presidencie and my L. Dungarvans troop was the next s the Rebels had likewise brought 3. brasse Pe●ioe with them which they had planted in the most oportune places to doe execution upon us , beside they had taken a strong Castle from us called Liscorrall and very well fortified it , as we advanced they were hanging our men they had taken in the Castle , but the noise of our approach gave a repreive to the men condemned , we began the fight an hour after the sunne was risen , we charged the Enemy with our Horse very sharply but by reason our Foot were not marched up to us , we were forced to retreat with our Horse , till our Foot could march , up in this retreate , my Lord , of Kenulmachy was slaine , and noe man beside his Lordship , but when our Foot came , and our field Peices were brought up we charged the enemy a fresh , and bent them to their works , the Lord of Ensequin with his Troope would needs fetch a compasse to cut off an ambush ▪ the Enemy had layd , and my Lord Dungarvan with his Troope was to hould the Enemy play , while his Lordship Ensequin went on in stratagem which the Enemy perciving , fell upon my Lord Ensequins Troope , and part on us , my Lord Ensequins forced to retreate with that swiftnes , that that they ride in among our Troop , and routed us , when the Enemies shot plaid like haile upon us , had not God then preserved us , wee had been all cut off , his Troop and my Lords Troop , in this confusion some two more resolute rogues than the rest had mingled themselves with us , one of them rides to my Lord Ensequine , and was going to shoot him but was prevented with a more timely shott , now he that was to act his part on my Lord , takes another course rides up close to him watches his opportunity and whips out his Faulchion and stroke at him with that violence that he cut quite through his Armour , but my Lord Pistol'd him presently , Sir Charls Vavasour perceiving our danger , brought up his musqueteirs , to keepe off the enemy while we new rank't our selves , when we had new ranked our selves , and God having protected us from this greate danger , wee charged the enemy againe with assurance of Victory , and routed them Horse and Foot ; my Lord Musgrave told them the day was lost , and bid as many as could save their lives , to make hast away ; wee killed seven hundred of them , tooke three brasse Pieces and some Waggons , recovered the Castle of Liscorall ▪ for my owne share , I had onely the happinesse to get a Scarlet Cloake lined with Plush , and a Priests Habit ; my Horse got a shott through the neck , and indeed , wee all got something : so with my hearty love presented unto you , fearing I have beene already too tedious ; I rest , Yours to command ; Thomas Johnson . Septemb. 9. 1642.