Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland Volume 6

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. ...the rest follow, & soe made after them. At fower myles end wee ouertooke them, theire owne horses kept in the reare, flanked with foote, marching by the edge of a Bogge, & those horse they had gott from vs sent away before with the foremost of theire foote. When they sawe vs cominge, they turned heade & made readie to receiue vs; wee charged them, & at the first encounter I was stricken with a horseman's stafe in the Foreheade, in soe much as I fell for deade, & was a goode while deprived of my sences; Butt the Captaines & Gentlemen that were about me (whereof the cheife that I Remember were Captaine Anthony Erington, Captaine John Sidney, Captaine John KingsmylL, & Mathew Wroth, a Corporall of my horse Companie) gaue beyond my Bodie & enforced them to giue ground a good way, by meanes whereof I recouered myselfe, was sett vp on my horse, & soe safelie brought of, & Conducted home, & they sufferred, with the prey they had gott, to departe without further pursuite. " I kepte my Bed4 of this wound by the Space of a fortneth, my chamber a weeke after, & then I came abroade; & the first thinge I did, I tooke a viewe & particuler muster of all the Companyes. How weake I found them, euen beyonnd expectation (though I had seene them decay very fast before), is scarselie credible; &, I thinke, noe man will denye but it was euen then a strange Companie, that, of 150 in list, could bring to doe service 25 or 30 able, at the most. " Then did I alsoe manifestlie discouer the Trechery of the said Moyle Morrogh Mac Swynedo" Mulmurry Mac Sweeny Doe, " hauing intercepted the Messenger that he employed to O'Donnell in all his Bussinee, out of whose month I gott a full...