Several letters from Ireland read in Parliament the sixth of July, 1652. Concerning the affairs there. Tuesday the sixth of July, 1652. / Ordered by the Parliament, that these letters by forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.

A Letter from the Commissioners of the Parliament in Ireland, of the Four and twentieth of Iune, 1652.

Mr. Speaker,

SInce the late Agreement at Kilkenny, the Lord of Muskerry in the south, and the Lord Clanric∣card in the north, have not onely declared them∣selves not to accept of that Capitulation, but have gathered together considerable Bodies of the Irish in both places; as to Clanriccard, since the reducing of Balleshannon, Sir Charls Coot with his own and part of Commissary General Reynolds party, have reduced Sleigo, and since that the Commissary General is come to him, and as we hear from the Commissary General of the Eighteenth instant, from the Camp before Bal∣lemote, are now before that Castle, being the Castle of the Lord Taaff in the county of Catrim: Colonel Ven∣ables with his Party are at Belturbet in Cavan, a place very considerable to be made a Garrison in order to the reducing of the County of Cavan, and those Fast∣nesses thereabouts; and we do believe, part of the Leimster Forces are with Venables, or near to him; and Clanriccard doth lie in Fastnesses between Ballimote and Belturbet, with Four thousand Horse and Foot, but hath refused to engage with either party of ours, but hath sent for a Treaty, and hath sent to the Lieutenant General and to us to appoint Commissioners, and hath sent Articles to the Commissary General; our Answer

thereto we send inclosed, and have advised the Com∣missary General to that purpose: And Grace, another of the Irish Rebels, hath gathered a Body of the Irish that formerly were of the Leimster Rebels; and being beaten from his Fastnesses in Leimster by Colonel Ax∣tel and Colonel Sankey, got over the Shannon and have burnt the Town of Portumney, and threatned the Castle of Portumney; but Colonel Ingoldsby from Li∣merick going to assist our Friends there, heard that Grace had joyned with Burk, and were about Lough-Reagh, and were about Three thousand Horse and Foot, and so Colonel Ingoldsby fell on the Enemy; and as we heard from Major Smith from Limerick the Twenty second instant, That certain Intelligence was come to him, that Ingoldsby had totally routed the ene∣mies horse & foot, being got into a Bog, he had encom∣passed the same with his Horse and Dragoons; and was in that posture when the Messenger came from him to Limerick. As to the Enemy with the Lord Muskerry in Kerry, the Lieu: General and the Major General with what Party could be spared from other Parts, are marched to Ross, the chief Hold of the Enemy there, and having left two Troops of Horse, one of Dra∣goons, and Four hundred Foot in a Fort before Ross: The Lieutenant General with the Body of his Bri∣gade did the thirteenth instant meet with a Party of the Enemy and routed them, and took some Fifty Horse and some Prey, and Abby called Killara, where they found some Four barrels of Powder: And in those parts they have been till the Boats and other necessaries sent them from Kingsale came to them; and on the Nineteenth instant we received Letters from them, that

that day they marched up with their Party to the Fort near Ross Castle, and thither they have sent the Boats and Provisions; but on the Eighteenth instant Musker∣ry sent for a New Treaty, but the Lieutenant General hath limitted it to conclude on the One and twentieth instant at six in the night, and in the mean time are preparing their Boats for service; but this last Sabbath being twentieth instant, a Party of Muskerry's Forces having ioyned with other the Rebels Party that lie in the Bogs and Mountains of Cork, did come into this county to drive the Cattle about Macroom, to carry them into their Quarters; but the Lord Broghil, who is left behinde to secure the Quarters, after a March of Twenty Miles, fell on the Enemy who were more then double in number to the Lord Broghil's Party, but the Enemy would not Engage, so as the Lord Broghil's Party on the Rere of the Enemies Body, took about Eighty Horse, killed about Fifty, took Lieute∣nant Colonel Supple that commanded the Rere-guard of the Enemy, and got Two Colours and some good quantity of Arms, and regained two hundred Cattel the Enemy were carrying away, and the rest of the Enemy by the favor of a Mist; and our Party being much spent with a long March before the Skirmish, and the Impassableness of those parts, could not fol∣low them above a Mile or two. Colonel Clark's Re∣giment is safely arrived at Waterford, which doth come very seasonable to strengthen our Forces in these parts. These Wonder-workings of our God we hope will ap∣pear glorious in your eyes, and we hope will clearly evidence unto you the Diligence and Fidelity of your poor Servants here, who in order to your Service are

dispersed into all parts of the Land, and yet their small scattered Parties (through the Goodness and Help of the Lord) have put to flight the Armies and great Bodies of the Enemy. We shall onely adde that we are,

Your most humble Servants,

• Miles Corbet.
• Jo: Jones.

Cork 24 Iune. 1652.

Since the writing hereof we have received Letters from the Lieutenant General of the 23^d instant, from the Camp before Ross, concerning the Rendring of Ross, and Submission of that Enemy: A Copy of that Letter we send also inclosed.