For the Garrison at Kinsale, Victualls is likewise ordained to bee sent, whereof the Victualler must be remembered.

The capitall Rebells that are to resist you, is Osulevan, and Tirrell, your Lordship must leaue no meanes unassayed to get them aliue or dead; the way (in my judgement) how that service may bee effected, I haue already made knowne to your Lordship, wherein I pray you to use your best indeavours.

Giue all the comfort you may to Owen Osulevan, by whose meanes you know the affaires of those parts will be best composed.

Dermond Moyle Mac Cartie is most assisted by the Ocrawlyes, haue a speciall care to prosecute and plague him and his assistants, and if you can finde any good meanes to worke upon him, spare not your endeavour: Sir Owen Mac Carties sonnes (if they bee well handled) will proue the best meanes, knowing as you doe, that hee stands betweene them and the Lord of the Countrey.

If Teg Onorsies Castle, and Rannell Duffes shall in your opinion bee meet for the Service, doe you take them into your hands, and leaue wards in them; but let not your intent bee discovered, untill you be possessed of them.

The like you are to doe with Donneshed, Sir Finnin Odrischalls house, in the which (of necessitie) I thinke the store of Victuals and Munitions for the garrison of Baltimore, must be layed, for the Castle of Donnelong, where Roger Harvie is, is too little for that purpose.

Lastly, I pray your Lordship, of all your proceedings to giue me as often advertisement as you may, and haue correspondencie with Sir Charles Wilmot, for betweene your two Forces, all the Mounster Rebels remaine,

The Earle being gone with his Armie, marched as farre as the Abbey of Bantrie, about threescore miles from Corke, and there had notice, that Donnell Osulevan Beare and his people, by the advice of two Spanyards, an Italian, and a Fryer called Dominicke Collins, did still continue their workes about the Castle of Dunboy; the Barbican whereof being a stone wall of sixteene foot in height, they faced with soddes intermingled with wood and faggots (aboue foure and twenty foot thick) for a defence against the Cannon; they had also sunke a low Plat-forme to plant their Ordnance for a counter-battery, and left nothing undone, either within or without the Castle, that in their opinions was meet for defence: But when it came to tryall, it appeared that their Iudgements fayled, (as after shall heare) For the Bar

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bican was not aboue six or eight foot distant from the Castle, the height whereof was exceeding high, not remembring that the ruines thereof would quickly fill the voyd space betweene them, and make a faire assault when a breach was made, whereby all their earth and sodd workes prooved vaine and fruitlesse, not so much as one Cannon shott being bestowed upon them, but as neere as the Cannoniers could take their aymes aboue it, as the President had directed. Tirrell in this meane time with the other Bownoghs had so well placed themselues in the mountaines of Beare, that hee could not with his Armie passe any farther without apparant danger: Heereupon the Earle left with Captaine George Flower, besides his owne Company, the Companies of Sir Iohn Dowdall, the Lord Barry, Captain Francis Kingsmill, Captaine Bostock, and Captaine Bradbury, which were seven hundred men in List, in the Whiddy, (an Iland lying within the Bay of Bantrie) very convenient for the Service, and himselfe with the rest of his Forces returned to Corke, where having made relation of the particulars of his journey, it was found necessary that the President without any protractions or delay, should draw all the Forces in the Province to a head against them; And although the time of the yeere was not so convenient, (the Spring being newly begun) yet present order was taken for all the Armie to repaire unto Corke, except those which Sir Charles Wilmott did imploy for the reduction of Kerry: Vpon a longer

delay a double inconvenience depended: First, her Majestie should be burthened with a greater charge; and secondly, though the Spaniards had an intention of sending another Army, yet if they might bee certified that the Castle of Donboy was taken, which was the onely possession which they had in Ireland, and the Countrey reduced to her Majesties Obedience before they were put to Sea, it might peradventure perswade them to new Councels, and alter the former Determinations.

But before I proceed any farther, it is pertinent to set downe the Forces which the Lord Deputy left for the prosecution of the warre in Mounster, which as they stood in List, (but very weake by the Pole) was as followeth :