A True account of the intire defeat of the rebels in Ireland contained in a letter from the lords justices of that kingdom, to Their Majesties Privy Council of Scotland. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A63315 of text R18592 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T2367). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A63315 Wing T2367 ESTC R18592 12874255 ocm 12874255 94812 2240850473

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A63315) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 94812) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 900:27) A True account of the intire defeat of the rebels in Ireland contained in a letter from the lords justices of that kingdom, to Their Majesties Privy Council of Scotland. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson ..., Edinburgh : 1691. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Broadside. eng Scotland. -- Privy Council. Ireland -- History. Broadsides eebo A true account of the intire defeat of the rebels in Ireland; contained in a letter from the lords justices of that kingdom, to Their Majesties Privy [no entry] 1691 1 439 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2010-01 Sampled and proofread 2010-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2010-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A TRUE ACCOUNT Of the Intire Defeat of the Rebels in IRELAND ; Contained in a Letter from the Lords Justices of that Kingdom , to Their Majesties Privy Council of SCOTLAND . Dated the 15th Current .

AFter the Taking of Athlone , the Rebels marched to Billynaslow , and thence about three miles further , to a place called Aghrim in Connaught .

Their Majesties Army marched from Athlone , in pursuit of the Enemy , and pitched their Camp very near the place , from whence the Rebels had removed a little before .

The Enemies Army consisting of about 8000 Horse and Dragoons , and of no less than 20000 Foot , besides Rapparies , had posted themselves very advantageously , having Bogs very near round them ; Their Majesties present Horse , Foot and Dragoons , making about 20000 , began the Fight betwixt five and six a Clock upon Sunday the 12th . in the Evening ; The Action lasted very sharply for about two hours ; then the Enemy began to run , and Their Majesties Troops had the pursuit of them for about four miles , and would have made the Slaughter much greater than it is , if the Night had not overtaken them . The present Accompt making the Enemies loss about 6000 , and of Their Majesties , not one thousand .

The Enemies General St. Ruth had mightily bestirred himself all that Morning to animat the better sort to this Engagement , and sent the Priests about to do the like to the common Souldiers , to whom they also gave Absolution ; And it 's said , the Irish were never known to fight so well , as in this Battel .

On the Irish side , the Lord Galway , Collonel Barker , and several other Officers of Quality are killed ; and Major-General Hamilton , Major-General Dorington , Lord Bedlow , Collonel Bourk , Collonel Gourdon , O'neill , Collonel Butler , are taken Prisoners , and a great many more ; And of their Majesties side , not a General-Officer killed , except Major-General Hossaple , and the Prince of Hess , Lord George Hamilton , Lord Lord Cutts , Collonel Earl , and Lieutenant-Collonel Brudwell wounded .

It is not certain whether St. Ruth be killed or not ; some say he is , but all his Equippage is taken , as also all the Enemies Baggage and Cannon .

Edinburgh , Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson , Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties , by Order . 1691.