SInce the time that the Lord brought up his People from the house of Bondage, by the Outgoings of his Almighty Power, in Signs and Wonders, it can hardly be ob­served, That ever His Almighty Arm was made more visibly bare in promoting, or that He hath by more evi­dent demonstrations declared to the world, His appro­bation and owning of any Cause, then he hath done that, in which this Parliament hath been engaged, for asserting and recovery of their just Rights and Liberties, with the establishment of Truth and Righteousnes, and suppression and removal of Tyranny, and all the effects of it. And this hath been seen the more evidently and absolutely, since the time that the Parliament hath engaged most expresly and impartially against the greatest and highest Enemies of Religion and Liberty.

With what a Series of Mercies, and Miracles of Victory and Deli­verances we have been followed from the hand of our Merciful God, since the Battel of Naseby till this present, cannot, we hope, be so far out of either the sense or memory of any good Patriot, as to need a Recapitulation or Rehearsal. He hath made us to Triumph over our Enemies, and wherein they dealt proudly, He was above them; giving them leave oft-times to swell their Waves, that He might set them li­mits, and say unto them, Hitherto shall you come, and no further. He hath made them feel the liftings up of his hand, which they would not see; and by His own Almighty wonder-working Power, defeated their Strengths, and confounded them in their Confidences: When height­ned to Assurances of undoubted Success, they have promised them­selves nothing but Victory, Spoil, and the full harvest of their Hopes, then sudden destruction hath befaln them from the Lord, and that so signally, and beyond ordinary Providences, as if the Stars in their courses had fought against them: When they have gone from Moun­tain [Page 452]to Hill to seek for Divinations against Israel, and called in Moab, and Ammon, and Amaleck, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir, against the worm Jacob, through the Power, and Presence of our God, no Sor­cery hath prevailed, no weapon found against us hath prospered: The Lord hath declared to the world, That he is a God of Mountains and of Valleys, and every where a strong Rock, a mighty Defence for those that serve and trust in Him. Against all persons, and in all places, He hath appeared for Us, as against the old professed Malignants and Royalists all along in England; against the pretended Covenanters the last year from and in Scotland; so now of late most seasonably, and even mira­culously in Ireland, against both Scots, Renegado English, and Irish for­merly Commanded by Taaff, Preston, Clanrickard, Inchiquin, and now united and grown into a numerous Army under the Apostate Ormond, amounting in the whole, at their own account, to Nineteen thousand men. Now when by the Revolt of Inchiquin, all Munster was theirs; and by the force of Clanrickard, all Connaught, by the defection of the Scots, and treachery of the English deserting their Trust, all Ulster was lost, except Derry; and Lempster, even to Dublin. When all the English Interest in Ireland was reduced, and shut up in those two Towns, and the latter straightly besieged by so potent a force, whereby the Enemy was arrived to such a Confidence, as that the Lord Ormond began to be solicitous, and full of trouble to himself, what to do with our Men, when they should be in his power (whereof he made no doubt) inclining (as he said) to send them to the Barbadoes, and our other Plantations, if sufficient shipping could be gained; and the Lord Taaff, to ease him of that care, suggested (as an easier expedient) the throwing them into the Sea (such are the Mercies of the Wicked;) Then, when they onely staid but for the coming up of their additional forces, to effect all this the more securely, then the Lord look'd down from Heaven, the habi­tation of his Holiness, and His Glory, and defeated them; Then He sent forth his wrath, and consumed them as stubble, or as chaff before the wind. And thus hath He begun to avenge his Israel there, and visit for the Blood of his people shed in that Kingdom, with a rage reaching up to Heaven, and therein given his Servants here cause with triumphant joy to say, Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in Holiness, fearful in Praises, doing wonders?

The particulars of which wonderful Mercy now given, are more fully and clearly certified in several Expresses from Lieutenant General Jones, the principal and most honorable Instrument in the Hand of God for this great Deliverance and Success, summ'd up into the ensuing Narrative.

SInce Ormonds first setting himself before Dublin, (where he continued from the twentieth of June, to the second instant) little was done against this City; He aiming [Page 453]first at the gaining the principal Out-Garrisons, as Drog­hedah, Dundalk and Trym, the last being taken the one and twentieth past.

On the two and twentieth, Col: Venables landed with his Foot; the five and twentieth, Colonel Reynolds with his Horse; the six and twentieth, Colonel Moor, and Colonel Hunks with their Foot, and Captain Norwood, and Major Eliot with their Troops, whereby this Party became in some sort considerable. Wherewithal, and by the report of the Lord Lieutenant's following soon after with the whole Army, the Enemy being awakened, thereupon re­solved to set themselves wholly to this work; And in the first place, they did cut off that Water, whereby our Mills were driven, and thereby was our condition something straightned; but principally upon the second instant, they cast up a Work at Baggarath, within a quarter of a mile of this City, whither having drawn about fifteen hundred Foot, besides Horse, they thence purposed to work them­selves forward in their approaches, and to take from us our forrage for our Horse, and grass for our Cattle, with­out which this place could not long have subsisted; and they built Forts towards the Sea, to deprive us of the land­ing-place, for our coming Supplies, and this was the onely safe landing left for our Forces in the Dominion of Ireland.

The Enemies Horse and Foot appearing at Baggarath, the second of this instant, about nine in the morning, Lieute­nant General Iones drew out twelve hundred Horse, and four thousand Foot; intending then onely to beat up the Enemies quarters, and not to engage with so small a par­ty, their Camp being at Rathmines, within less then a mile of Baggarath; but God blessing our men with success, and by the coming on of parties on all sides, it came at length to a general engagement, and after more then two hours hot dispute, the Enemy was totally routed: Ormond hardly escaped with eight horse, and few had escaped of their whole numbers, but that there was cause to provide a­gainst [Page 454]a body of a thousand fresh Horse of the Enemies, commanded by S^r Thomas Armstrong, which coming up fresh, and in our mens disorder, might have endangered all; but they in stead of advancing (which our men expe­cted) fled toward Drogheda.

Our loss of men was little, there not being twenty mis­sing, but many wounded.

Of the Enemy were slain about four thousand, some of considerable quality, and two thousand five hundred and seventeen taken prisoners, amongst whom Colonel Chri­stopher Plunket, the Earl of Fingale, and Colonel Richard But­ler, the Earl of Ormonds brother, were Principals, and with them sixteen Colonels and Field-Officers, forty one Ca­ptains, Lieutenants fifty eight, Ensigns forty two, of Cor­nets, Quatermasters, and other persons of inferior Offi­ces and quality, great numbers; most of them of Inchi­quins English, and our run-aways. To which is to be ad­ded M^r. Iohn Herbert (servant to the pretended King) who about six days before landed his Masters houshold-stuff in Galloway. Our men took in the place three Demi-canons, one large square Gun, carrying a Ball of twelve pound, one Sacre-Drake, and one Morter-piece, all these Brass. And our men also gained about two hundred Oxen for the Trayn, besides carriages. The next day our men seized a Brass Canon, within five miles of the Camp, which Camp was richly furnished with great store of Velvets, Silks, Scarlets and other clothing of value, Wines, Grocery, with some convenient quantity of Money: all which they left be­hinde them, and the neighboring villages plentifully stored with cattle of all sorts, fit for food.

There are also taken of Train-carriages and waggons, be­longing to the Enemies Army, at the least three hundred, Tents five hundred, Cows three hundred, and Irish Nags, termed by them Garroones, eight hundred.

It was for our advantage that Inchiquin had some days before gone towards Munster, yet intending to return shortly. As also that our men so engaged before Clan­rickards [Page 455]coming up with his three thousand men out of Con­naught, and seven thousand Vlster Scots also upon advancing.

All this was done but by a handful of men, and not the third part of our Foot coming in to the principal part of the Work; yet by them the Lord defeated an Enemy, by them­selves now acknowledged Nineteen thousand, and they having a fresh reserve of Horse, little short of our numbers.

The same night Rathfurnans (S^r Adam Loftus his house) lately taken by the Enemy, was regained, and the Soldiers in number about Seven score, entertained into the Parlia­ments service, professing their abhorrence to accompany any longer with those bloody Irish Rebels, and that they were forced to do what they did, and that hereafter they would live and dye with us. Nor did their fear leave them till they had also quitted Mannoroth, (the Earl of Kildares house, and one of the strongest pieces in Ireland the Naas, Donahe­dy, and Richardstown, each twelve miles at the least distant from Dublin▪

Never was any duty in Ireland like this, to the confusion of the Irish, and to the raising up the spirits of the poor En­glish, and to the restoring of the English Interest; Which, from their first footing in Ireland, was never in so low a con­dition, as at that very instant: there not being any one considerable landing place left us, but this alone, and this also almost gone.