A TRUE RELATION OF EVERY REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE IN RELIEVING OF TREDAGH, BY Captain Thomas Steutevile. Also the Copy of Sir Phelome Oneal's Commission, for the establishing of Colonel Richard Plunket Lieutenant General of Lempster, and Ulster. Together, with the distress of the whole Kingdom, and other passages of note.  
Printed by J. R. for C. M. 1642.   

A true Relation of those passages which happened unto Captain Thomas Steutevile, unto the Town of Droghedagh, else Tredagh; from the ninth of January, unto Wednesday, the 19th day of the same; together with his relieving the Town.  
ON Sunday, Captain Stutevile late in the night set sail, having with him the Swan, two Friggots, one Gubard, and two long Boats. And going along the Coasts, the Captain sent out of the Swan some Musqueteers to the Sherreis, where he found the enemy fled, but had left behind them much goods, which being all taken aboard by them, they set the Town on fire; and with it got above 500 l. worth of Corn. Then returning unto their Ship on Tuesday, they came safe to the Bar of Droghedab, where Captain Stutevile with his five small Vessels loaden with victuals and Ammunition put over, and went up the River not without much danger; the Rebels having made a kind of a Block-house upon the entrance into the River, whereon they had planted two Pieces of Ordnance, and all along in Trenches within both sides of the River were placed Musqueteers; and he being not able to pass, but continually within Musquet-shot of either, for two miles together, his Ordnance but seldom availing him any thing (by reason of the height of the shore above him;) yet (God be thanked) he got la●e within the Town with his Vessels, without the loss of a man (he having with him 124 Musqueteers, besides Ship-men.) But to express the joy of the Soldiers in the Town, requires a quicker Genius than mine own, or at least one that had felt their wants. The Rebels supposing that there would be such joy, and tha● by reason of the Soldiers now having store of victuals, they would altogether drown themselves in security, (as it is thought) dealt under hand with some Centeries that were on the Walls, and broke in at a place where there had been a Shallop-Port, so that two might come with stooping low, on a breast; in at which, 'tis certain 500 got, and marched a great way into the Town; until at last one of their chief Captains was perceived by a common Soldier of ours, to turn a Piece of Ordnance that stood upon the bridge, towards the Town.  
The Soldiers seeing this, shot, and killed the Captain, and gave the Alarm. Whereupon our Soldiers gathered so fast, that they wholly discovered the Rebels, and had the kill of 160 of them, and took prisoners 40: some escaped through the place they came in at, and others over the Wall, yet many broke their necks at that sport; some one hundred is thought to be yet in Town, hidden in Papists houses, and is confessed by some of the Householders that were found faulty that way; that it was intended by the Townsmen to have cut the throats of all the Officers that lay in their houses, upon this assault. But (God be thanked) in all this we lost not one man. And on Thursday, Captain Steutevile set forth out of the Town, and came with less danger than before to the Bar, where he was on ground, and was forced to stay for want of water; for the Tide being spent, he lay in a manner dry, the rest of the Shipping forsaking him; whereupon the enemies came down thinking to have taken him and his Ship: but he laid about him so well, that he killed 20 of them; yet they not contented with this (but like desperate villains) got underneath the stern of the Ship some 30 of them, where he could do them little hurt; and there they belaboured themselves with a Pickax and a crow of iron, and broke the Ship almost through; whereupon he threw some 6 Granades amongst them, and they finding themselves fewer by six, by reason of them, and many of themselves to want plasters about the thighs and shins; and the seventh cast, thought their heels their best safeguard, leaving behind them some pikes and swords, one Target, Pickax, and a crow of iron. Then he finding himself quit of them, the next Tide hoist up sails, and came in this day safe into our Town of Dublin; but we cannot hear any certainty of the other Vessels that forsook him, only we fear that by reason of the winds, they were driven Northerly.   

THE Copy of Sir Phelome O-Neal, Kt, his Commission for establishing Colonel Richard Pluncket his Lieutenant General of Lempster and Ulster.  
To the Right Honourable, our friend and kinsman, Colonel Richard Pluncket, Lieutenant General of Lempster.  
WHereas we have hitherto sustained several inconveniences, in regard of the great want of able Commanders, concerning the Forces in the Northern parts of this Kingdom; For the speedy prevention whereof, We Sir Phelome O-Neal, Knight, Elect General of the two Provinces of Lempster and Ulster; by the free will and consent of the Right Honourable, Lords, Knights, and Commons there, Are out of our pious care for the safety of the said parts, moved to nominate and appoint One whose Birth and Honours, together with his Wisdom, Prowess, and Magnanimity, may animate, advise, and discipline our Army within the said parts, as well to a due obedience, as unto fight, in a time of War. In tender consideration whereof, we the said Phelome O-Neal, Knight, General of the said Forces, and Commander in Chief, Have thought fitting, and most expedient, for the speedy advancement of the holy Roman Catholic Religion, together with the great contentment, satisfaction, and welfare which shall therein ensue unto our Sovereign Lord, 
By this may be seen the insolency and false pretence of the Popish Rebels.  the Kings most Excellent Ma.tie, Have Nominated, Ordained, and Constituted, and by These our letters do Nominate, Ordain, and Constitute our trusty and well affected kinsman and friend, Colonel Richard Pluncket, to be our Lieutenant General, and next in Commission unto us, over the said Catholic Army within the Province of Lempster and Ulster: Under whose Conduct and Command, we do hereby straight charge and require all manner of persons within the said bounds and limits of Lempster, to yield their ready service and obedience whatsoever. And furthermore it is our said will and pleasure, That it should be lawful unto him our Lieutenant General Pluncket, to perform and do whatsoever in his wisdom and prudence shall be requisite, unto the expediting of these our Affairs.  
We the said Sir Phelome O-Neal ratifying, confirming and allowing the same, as our own proper Act and Deed; whereunto we have set our Hand and Seal, _____ day of _____ 1641.   

Sir,  
SInce the relieving of Tredagh, the Rebels have drawn their greatest Forces thither, hoping to make that their purchase, which hath been, of late, so fatal to them.  
Two jesuites are at this instant brought from Yonghall; they came from Spain in English Bottoms, with ten Barrels of Powder, and Letters full of knavery, with a false superscription, to R. B. Earl of Cork.  
Our Soldiers are in a great want of Money; they begin to play mad pranks. For us in Town here, we are like to be in great distress, if Men, Money, Victuals, and Provision come not speedily, indeed with fare more speed than hitherto they have done. The promises we have had, and the stay there hath been in the performance thereof, doubtless much animates the Rebels in their massacres and daily cruelties. Besides, it makes us fear the whole Kingdom, which by a reasonable supply of Men, Monies, and other necessaries, would be able (which otherwise will be suddenly put to a very near extremity) to encounter their greatest opposition. And so looking (even with the first Winds) for a considerable relief, till the next opportunity. Farewell.  
Dublin, Jan. 24.  
FINIS.