A copie of a letter from the Lord Antram in Ireland to the Right Honourable the Earle of Rutland bearing date the 25 day of Febr. Annos Dom. 1642 wherein is contained the description of two battells fought between the English and the Irish rebels : as also the number of those that were slaine on either side. Antrim, Randal MacDonnell, Earl of, 1609-1683. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A25679 of text R15575 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A3521). 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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A25679) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 63010) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 250:E138, no 7) A copie of a letter from the Lord Antram in Ireland to the Right Honourable the Earle of Rutland bearing date the 25 day of Febr. Annos Dom. 1642 wherein is contained the description of two battells fought between the English and the Irish rebels : as also the number of those that were slaine on either side. Antrim, Randal MacDonnell, Earl of, 1609-1683. [7] p. Printed for W.T., London : 1642. Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library. eng Ireland -- History -- Rebellion of 1641. A25679 R15575 (Wing A3521). civilwar no A copie of a letter from the Lord Intrim in Ireland to the Right Honourable the Earle of Rutland, bearing date the 25. day of Febr. Anno Dom Antrim, Randal MacDonnell, Earl of 1642 876 3 0 0 0 0 0 34 C The rate of 34 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2006-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-04 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-05 Andrew Kuster Sampled and proofread 2006-05 Andrew Kuster Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A COPIE OF A LETTER FROM THE LORD ANTRAM IN IRELAND TO THE right Honourable the Earle of Rutland , bearing date the 25. day of Febr. Anno Dom. 1642. Wherein is contained the Description of Two Battells fought between the English and the Irish Rebels . As also the Number of those that were slaine on either side . London , printed for W.T. 1642. A Copie of a Letter from the Lord Intrim in Ireland . My honourable Lord , HAving nothing of that waight and consequence that befits mee to accommodate your Honour withall worthy of your Lordships acceptation , I am inforced to present your Honour with what I can , as a small signe of the great observance in many respects I owe to your Lordship for the noble favours I have had the honour formerly to receive from your Lordship , and the mutuall correspondencie that hath been betweene your honour and my selfe , which when opportunity may permit , I humble thankfulnesse acknowledge . My Lord , It is a great sorrow to me , my name and honour should be so much defamed and scandalized by false and slanderous reports , nay permitted to be published in print , that I have revolt●d from my King and turned Rebell , the very name wounds mee sore , which never had the least thought of treason against my Soveraigne or disloyalty to my Country , I am so farre from such imaginations , that I will rather perish at his Majesties feet , and suffer any punishment what ever shall be thought requisite to bring a period to my life and fortunes , then live stained with such a horrid denomination as Traytor : And am so farr incensed against these reports , that I vow to God I will to the uttermost of my power mainetaine the rightfull power and prerogatives of his sacred Majesty , to whom I desire to approve my selfe an obedient subject and servant , and his Government as the undoubted and lawful King over his Maiesties Kingdomes of England , Scotland , and Ireland : I desire not to be di●obedient to any the Lawes and Ordinances of his Parliament for the good Government of his Kingdomes , that may not abridge and restraine the free exercise of the Roman religion , which I am devoted to and am ingaged to maintaine in duty to God and respect of my future happinesse and salvation . Her Maiesty , my Gracious Queene , I will to my power endeavour to obey , and her rightful raign in his Maiesties Dominions under his Governement endeavour to uphold and maintaine to the uttermost of my life and Fortune : And such respect and honour I owe to my Lady , whom my prayers are daily for , and to whom I recommend my dearest affections , that she may be confident I will intermeddie with any affaires that may I hope prove destructive to my selfe or Family , or in defamation to mine or her Honour , which I humbly desire your Honour to certifie her , and to present his Maiesty with my unchangeable and dutifull Intentions . My Lord , Some passages of the affaires here in Ireland I thought good to present you with all which is necessary to be taken notice of . There was a grea● Battell fought before the City of Dublin , where was slaine 4000. English and Scotch , and Sir Edward Denny one of our Captaines with his forces of 400. Souldiers hath Slaine Thomas Eger with five hundred more of his Souldiers , and put all the rest ( besides some prisoners taken ) to Flight . This is the greatest overthrow to the English as yet hath been : And Sir Edward Denny having the Victory , on the next morning being by his Souldiers saluted in a most Noble manner , for their better encouragement , gave to each Souldier five pounds , and in vindication of his reputation made a royall Feast to entertaine his Souldiers , in a deriding and scoffing manner to the English . There was also another skirmish on saturday last , which continued some 8. houres betweene the Forces under the command of the Lord Osmond Neterfield and others , and the Forces under the Command of Sir Simon Harecourt , Sir William Cootes , Mr. Moore of the English ; the L. Douglas , Sir Charles Bland , Mr. Henry Stewart , and others of the Scots , where were Slaine 2000. Irish , and about 100. Scotch and English , the rest of the Irish being forced to retire , great spoyles being left by them as a prey to the English of Ammunition and provision of Victuall , sufficient to furnish and maintaine 500 men for 6. months , which was a great weakning to the Catholike party : And thus having no more at this present , I will not be troublesome to your Honour , but humbly take my leave . Your Honours in all due observance INTRIM . Lemster 25. Febr. 1642. FINIS .