And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH; or E. PONSONBY, 116, GRAFTON STREET DUBLIN, [Cd. 2570.] Price 1s. 9d. 1905. Ders MARGIS 942 G722 e V.12 THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE EARL OF EGMONT. VOL. I. PART II. Jo. DAVIES to SIR PHILIP PERCIVALL. 1646, November 26. Chester Water at the point of Eyre.-A vessel has to-day come into the river from the Isle of Man, whose captain tells me that last Saturday the Earl of Derby's frigate arrived there from Dublin, and brought news that the soldiers were not yet landed, but were in Polle Beg, as the Lord Ormond and the Commissioners were not agreed, "for the city and soldiery would not have no other Governor than the Lord of Ormond, and this they stand upon. God send there be a good end of the treaty." I am apt to believe this, because none of the vessels that went with them have yet come back, but whether it be for the better or no, I cannot tell. God's will must be done. I am aboard Captain Ritch, waiting for a wind. It seems they have only a thousand foot with them, the rest and the horse being still in Anglesey," and happy it is they are there, if they have not landed the rest, for the horse would have been all lost. We have now here, lying by our side, aboard a Dutch ship, eighty horse of Captain Hunt's, as good as I have seen in any troop since I came into England. This Capt. Hunt is a very honest, civil, stout man, and hath all proper men." All them who hath seen them protesteth they are better than the two hundred and forty horse that Col. Cutte's [Coote] hath, who are men under no command. The Commissioners certainly came into the bay the day I wrote of before, so I fear they were a week aboard at the least. Let no one know this but Lord Lowther and Sir Paul Davies, to whom and to their ladies, I present my service, as also to your lady. When you are at Westminster I pray you see my poor wife and children, and let her know that I am well, but do not tell her I wrote to you, as I cannot now write to her or any other. 2 pp. Postscript, on the back." A vessel of mine is landed in Sligo with sixteen hundred bones of meal, fourteen days since, that will keep them three months." COL. THOS. PIGOTT to SIR PHILIP PERCIVALLE. 1646, November 27.-Is sending the letters by the ViceAdmiral, who has not yet gone. That to Mr. Mall [Maule] has 7166 * Poolbeg (the little pool) in Dublin Bay. Y 787973 |