A GLORIOUS VICTORY Obtained by the SCOTS against the Rebels in IRELAND.  
Showing in a very true, and warrantable Relation how the Scots to the number of two thousand five hundred and fifty went Voluntarily into Jreland under the Command of Colonel Hayse to relieve the poor distressed Protestants there. the last day of Decem. 1641.  
With the number of those Rebels that they slew, and the names of some Towns where they pillaged the sam●, wherein the Rebels inhabited, and had first taken from the Protestants.  
With many credible, Memorable, and Remarkable passages herein.  
London, Printed for john Thoma●, 1641.   

THE SCOTTISH Battle with the Rebels in IRELAND.  
THe Papists, and that Rebellious nest of Vipers in Ireland, (whose bloody designs are not limited with humane terminations, but so lax, that they are altogether irregular) have plotted and daily studied to supplant the very root, and glorious foundation of the Protestant Religion to the utter demolition of Christianity. And being impartial in their viperous Tyranny, they have not spared any Six, or degree whatsoever, but as if they meant to make the Protestants fit sheaths for their Swords, even so they have bloodily pierced them with the same. Thus they have continued a long time in their Rebellious proceening, and have brought hereupon the manifold distress, and condoleable calamity of the poor Jnhabitants in the City of Dublin, and elsewhere to such miserable calamity, that it makes even my pen to tremble in expressing it, and I am sure it would pierce an heart of Adamant to hear the Relation thereof.  
But I will not digress too fare from my intent, and Subject in a preliminary deviation, for it is not unknown to the world, what inhumanity, and tyrannical cruelty they have showed to the Protestants there, who do groan under their nefarious oppressions, and devilish machinaeions. What shall I need to describe though murders, cruelties, and incestuous rapes, that they daily commit. What shall I need to relate the Tyrant's names, who are the Actors in this io ernall, and stupendious Tragedy? These things the world are troubled with enough daily, and I would to God they were not too much (I suppose) troubled with many things in this regard, especially those whom we may lawfully denominate to be Poetarum figmenta, the appellation I am sure is correspandent enough to their delitions, I had almost said Fictious Fancies. For my part it is not my intent to delude the world with a fabulous error: for that, which here after I am to relate, is not only real, and credible, but also warrantable, and Privilegious, as appear by many Letters sent unto Merchants, and other sufficient Citizens in this Honourable City of London, who are ready to testify the srm●.  
The Scots having taken into their Christian Commisseration the extreme misery, and calamity that the Protestants in Jreland are daily involved in, and the danger that the City of Dublin is in, did of toeir own, free, and spontaneous will collect a number of themselves to go Voluntarily in Ireland to help and relieve the said poor Protestants. They gathered together the number two thousand 500 and 50 or thereabouts, and went under the command of Colonel Hayse, thus they marched with great alacrity into Ireland, and as they went, they still met with many Rebels wand'ring about the Territories of Scotland, and after some private inquisition, they hearing that they had stolen both Cattles and other things from them, and pillaged many places thereabouts, did slay whomsoever they did meet, and supposed to be Rebels. Thus they marched on, and did kill many by the way, proceeding with great Magnanimity.  
At length they came unto a Town named Puragh, where they found very nigh a thousand Rebels residing thereabouts, which Town they had takeu before from the Protestants, and inhabited there, but the Scots entered violently upon them, and slew all that they could find, and withal they pillaged the same, some part thereof they burned, when as they could not have free entrance into it, and the rest they all pillaged. Here they stayed that night, and a great watch was set round about the same, and espies in most places thereabouts, for fear the Rebels should at any time of the night assault them unawares.  
In the morning every man courageously prepared himself for Buttall, the colours were displayed, Trumpets sounded and Drums beaten, and so they marched out of the said Town, of P●ragh onwards unro Dublia. the number of the Scots that were slain at that time were not above thirty at the most, or thereabouts, but there were at the least 2000 slain in all of the Rebels with those that they killed by the ways that they came from Scotland. and those in the Town of Puragh. thus they still went on Magnanimously, and with great puissance, whenas after they were 2 Mills and 3 half of the Town they met with a Troop to the number of 200. or rhereabouts who had a droue of Cattles with them, these the Scots immediately beset round about, some they killed, and others they took, so that not one man escaped from their hands, but those that they took they enquired of them whither they went, and they did tell ehem to the Town of Puragh. they asked then from whence that droue of Cattles came or by whom they were sent, but one man amongst the rest, related unto them every particular thing concerning the same, that they had taken the said herd from some Protestant Shepherds, and the like, whereupon without any longer inquisition, or delay they slew those that remained of the Rebels, and did drive the Cattles before them, when they had traveled a little farther they met with many more, some with 40 in a Company some with more, and others with less, all which they slew incontinently, and so continued in their proceed towards the City of Dublin, to the relief of the Protestants there, whose courageous proceed I beseech God to bless, and favour, to the great honour of his name, the propagation of his Gospel, and the flourishing prosperity of Protestant Religion, that the firm root and radicate foundation there be not extirpated by such wicked, cruel, impious, Savage, inhuman, irreligious, and Tyrannical Rebels. Wherefore I beseech the divine providence to be propitious unto them, that their number may be encreatsed, and some greater aid be sent suddenly unto them in an auxiliary opitulat on That, being conjoined in an vnnanimos● cournge, and concatenation of minds they may utterly expel, and exenterate those refarious Woluns from Gods little flock.  
FINIS.