THE LORD OSMONDS OVERTHROW, WHICH WAS THE Chief Commander to the REBELLS.  
With the truth how he fell distracted, and how he killed his son, and how his Wife and three Daughters were poisoned; and in what manner his late remaining Forces partend and joined to the PROTESTANTS.  
Together with a Comet or Blazing star, which appeared in the North part of Ireland the 28. of December, and continued till the fifth of January instant.  
To the great Amazement of the Inhabitants.  
LONDON Printed for John Greensmith. 1642.   

THE LORD OSMONDS OVERTHROW, WHICH WAS the chief Commander to the Rebels in Ireland.  
THE Lord Osmond one of the Rebels chief Commanders was distracted, and in his distraction killed his own and onely son, upon which his Lady poisoned her self, and three of her own daughters. Whereupon certain of the Lord Osmonds servants left him and fled to the Protestant party; unto whom they revealed the intents of their Lord and his Confederates, which hath stood the Protestants in very great stead, insomuch as by them they know their goings out and comings in.  
By which take courage you which belong to the host of God, for assure yourselves in this, that he which puts his trust in him, shall never be confounded, in anger the malice of all your enemies whatsoever.   

The Meteor or Blazing Star.  
TO writ of a Meteor Comet, or Blazing Star is no easy subject, wherefore tis worth thy time, Reader, to understand the nature of a Comet according to the Philosophers.  Cometa est sine Crinitus Bar●●tus sine Co●datus. 
A Comet is either as it wore hairy as a Periwig, or else it seems barbated, bearing the similitude of a bear, or else it appears with a long tail, and such a one was that which appeared in Irelands North part, which doth cause there both hope and fear, the Protestants hope it will prove ominous to the Rebels: the Rebels conceited that it will prove to the destruction of the Protestants, who truly the first might had ill success, insomuch that that very night there died in sheep and oxen as many as being sold would have yielded five thousand pound. But mistake me not, for the loss of sheep and oxen did not onely happen upon the Protestants, but the Rebels also in loss shared with them, their number being ten for one.  
Also there happened another strange accident which was this: The vermin were all killed with Frogs; a thing which never before was heard of, no vermin never inhabiting that place, unless lice, which they enjoy in such plenty, as if the whole race of them had sprung from the loins of Pharaoh the Egyptian King.  
But now again to the Rebels supposition, who thought the rather that the Blazing star would prove prodigious to the Protestants, because in Germany a Blazing Star did appear a little before the death of that magnanimous Monarch the King of the swedes.  
But if upon such grounds they build their cogitations, I shall easily make them recant their opinion, in so much as put them in remembrance, that although he died he died a conqueror, and in Lutzan field with his thirtie-thousand vanquished threescore thousand, so he lost his blood and saved his honour.  
A King that hath more honoured the Chronicles, then the twelve Caesars, or that great Alexander, who wished for another world for to overcome. Therefore to his perpetual memory, he lies entombed in Stockholme, where he was born, in a silver Coffin, which is engraven thus;  Hic Jacet, Qui in Praelio Lutzune Victor: Omubuit. 
Let this Story be dedicated to the Rebels, and by it let them learn and assure themselves, that although some great Commander of the Protestants may die, which significano axiom, that he must necessary die. Wherefore take courage you which belong to David, and do not prophecy too late your own overthowes. For he that was able to make the sun stand still in Gideon, and the moon in the valley Jehosapha; and to take away the force of fire, in so much, as it was not able to consume a Bush, is also able to deliver you, notwithstanding that apparance of what aspect soever.   
FINIS.