A LETTER From on Board Major General Kirke.  
Giving a Full Account of the Posture of Affairs of London-Derry And their Resolution to Hold out that Garrison for the Service of King William and Queen Mary.  
With a LIST of the Irish Forces, the Officers Slain, and Prisoners Taken.  
Licenced, J. F. July 27. 1689.  
SIR,  
WE are all glad of the News you send us, of the speedy Succours designed to join us. The River of Derry is so blocked and boomed up, that we cannot relieve it by the River with our small Forces: however we have tried another Trick; we have landed half our Forces at an Island called Inch, in Lough Swilley, which is within Five Miles of the Enemy's Camp, and have had good Success: There is but one way to Ford it, which is about Musquet-shot long; and our Men have entrenched, and built a Redoubt, and have secured themselves well, and are increased in their number with Protestants, above a thousand, and expect greater numbers will join within five or six days, where we have Arms for them; and to morrow all our Forces leave this place, and go thither, which terrifies the Enemy very much, and had we but 500 Horse, we would not question to raise the Siege. Our Men has already stocked their Island with a thousand Head of Cattle, and expect to take many more. It's a brave Island to refresh our Horse's Limbs, after their Sea-Voyage. We have sent Arms and Ammunition, with some Forces, to the Protestants at Enniskilling, who are strong, 1500 good Horse, one Regiment of Dragoons, four Regiments of Foot, of sixty in a Company, and eighteen Companies in a Regiment; these will fight their way to us. I hope Derry men's Provision will hold out until they join with us. Enniskilling Men have great Droves of Cattle and Provision with them; they have often been out twenty Miles from home, and has beat the Enemy wherever they met them, and have lately took Coll. Scot, with thirteen Officers, and three hundred Soldiers, which were guarding Arms and Provisions, which all fell into their Hands, and there were three thousand of them, but they fled at the first Firing, and left those Provisions with 1000 French Arms. The Enemy, in all appearance, if there were but any formidable Army against them, would certainly be routed: They have in all their Attacks upon Derry received great losses, that their Men are so balked they desert in numbers.  
The Messenger that went into Derry told me, That the People of Derry are in good Heart, and that they have a Barrel of Powder made every day in the Town; and that they treated him with Bread and good salt Beef, and strong Drink, and drank King William and Queen Mary's Health hearty, and prayed for their Prosperity, resolving never to trust a Papist, as having never kept his Promise; and that if they had never so many Lives, they would sell them all for the Protestant Interest.  
The little Vessel that came to us from Liverpoole, being called the Wheel of Fortune, set Sail out of that Port on the Tenth instant, and being in the Bay of Carick fergus, heard great shooting, but coming out of the Bay, took a Boat with Three Irish men, and Three Highlanders, having three Muskets, four Skeanes, and four Swords, by whom they understood, that there was Three French men of War, and that the shooting was for Joy they had taken the 2 Scotch Frigates, the Men having behaved themselves very well, all refusing Quarter but twelve; and that these Boat-men were going to the Highlands to fetch some of Dundees Followers Wives, to bring them to Ireland, believing Scotland not safe for them.  
Derry Lough, on Board the Swallow, July 15. 1689. R. Billing   

A LIST of all the Irish Forces, and of the Slain, and Prisoners at .  



Regiments of Horse.  
1. DUke of Tyrconnel.  
2. Lord Galmoy.  
3. Coll. Sarsfield.  
4. Coll. Southerland.  
5. Lord Abercorne.  
6. Coll. Lutteril.  
7. Coll. Parker.    


Dragoons.  
1. Lord Dungan.  
2. Sir N. O Neile.  
3. Coll. Dan. Brian.  
4. Coll. Nich. Purcell.  
5. Coll. Simon Lutteril.  
6. Coll. Clifford.  
7. Sir James Cotter.    


Foot Regiments.  
1. Royal Regiment.  
2. Coll. John Hamilton.  
3. Coll. Ramsey.  
4. Earl of Clancarty.  
5. Coll. Anth. Hamilton.  
6. Earl of Clanrickard.  
7. Earl of Antrim.  
8. Lord Gormonstown.  
9 Lord Clare.  
10. Lord Lowth.  
11. Lord Dulceke.  
12. Lord Galloway.  
13. Lord Slain.  
14. Sir Val. Browne.  
15. Sir John Fitz-Gerard.  
16. Sir Maurice Eustace.  
17. William Nugent.  
18. Henry Dillon.  
19 John Grace.  
20. Richard Butler.  
21. Edward Butler.  
22. Walter Butler.  
23. John Bourke.  
24. Charles Moor.  
25. Con. O Niele.  
26. Charles Cavanagh.  
27. Gordon O Niele.  
28. Nich Browne.  
29. Sir Michael Creagh.  
30. Bryan Mac Mahone.  
31. Coll. O Toole.  
32. Howard Oxborough.  
33. Mac Carthy Moor.    


Disbanded June 15th, as believing no Force to come from England.  
1. Coll. Barret.  
2. Coll. Farrel.  
3. Coll. Bagnall.  
4. Lord Tyrone.  
5. Donogh O Brian.  
6. Lord Evagh.  
7. Mac Carthy Reagh.  
8. Lord Kilmallock.  
9 Dominick Browne.  
10. Daniel O Donevan.  
11. Lord Mount-Castle.    


Officers killed.  
1. Lieut.-Gen. Mamooe.  
2. Lieut.-Gen. Pusignan.  
3. Major Toole.  
4. Maj. Nangle drowned.  
5. Coll. Ramsey.  
6. Major Reigan.  
7. Lieut. Coll. Farrel.  
8. Capt. Fitz-Gerald.  
9 Capt. Fleming.  
10. Capt. Barnwell.  
11. Capt. Graham.  
12. Capt. Kelly.  
13. Capt. Watson.  
14. C. Lawton.  
15. C. Plunkett.  
16. C. Mac Cane.  
17. C. Farrel.  
18. C. Smith.  
19 C. Cheevers.  
20. C. Pen.  
21. Major Taaf.    


Wounded.  
1. Capt. Arthur.  
2. Monsieur Du Pointee, the great Engineer, and since dead.  
3. Coll. Dorrington.  
4. Coll. Vaughan.  
5. Coll. Nugent.  
6. Lieut-Coll. Eustace.  
7. Major Farrol.  
8. Capt. Plunkett.  
9 C. Fray.  
10. C. Burke.  
11. C. Thomas Bourke.  
12. C. Thomas Nugent.  
13. C. Oxborough.  
14. 2 French Lieutenants.  
15. Lord Talbot.  
16. Lieut. Barnwell.  
17. Lieut. Fitz-Gerald.  
18. Ensign English.  
19 Ensign Welch.  
20. Cornet Purcell.  
21. Cornet Darcy.    


Prisoners taken.  
1. Lord Nettervil.  
2. Lieut. Coll. Talbot.  
3. Sir Garret Aylmer.  
4. Capt. Manus Buff.  
5. Lieut. Newcomen.  
6. Lieut. Macdonnel.  
7. Lieut. Eustace.  
8. Thomas Nugent.  
9 Two French Lieutenants.  
10. Lieut. Devereux.  
11. Lieut. Welch.  
12. Lieut. Connel.  
13. Lieut. Rich. Eustac●  
14. Sandy Eustace.  
15. Ensign Kenny.  
16. Ensign Arch-bold.  
17. Maurice Eustace.    


Acts of Parliament passed by K. James.  
1. Supply of 260000 l. in Thirteen Months.  
2. A General Liberty of Conscience.  
3. Act of Settlement Repealed.  
4. Taking off the Benefit of Clergy Two Years.  
5. Taking of 12 d. per Pound from Clergy Beneficed in Corporations.  
6. Preventing Appeals to England.  
7. Against Counterfeiting Foreign Coyn.  
8. Repealing the Act of 23 October, 1641:  
9 Repealing Poinings Laws.  
10. All Pattentees for Life only.      
FINIS.  

London: Printed for J. Wilson, at Charing-Cross. 1689.