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Title: An impartial history of the wars of Ireland, with a continuation thereof
Year: 1693 (1690s)
Authors: Story, George (Warter), d 1721
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Publisher: London, Printed for R. Chiswell
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ty of London-dtrry^ which contemn-ed both their Threats and fair Promifes, baffling the chiefof their Forces for at leaft Four Months together, with-out any extraordinary Supplies from EngUnd^ till theywere reduced to the lafl: Extremity : Yet on the 25/^^. ofMurch the Befieged had fbme Arms and Ammunitionbrought them by Captain Jam^.s Hambleton. And on theI yh, of Jprily Collonel Richxrds and Collonel Ctinnmg-ham were fent with Two Regiments from EngUnd, totheir Adiftance; who coming to the Lough of Dernyand being ordered to obey the then Governour Lttndy\ di-re6lions, they were told by him. That the Town couldnot hold out a Week; and that their coming in wouldonly be the iofs of their men, and the Befieged alio; andadvifed them to return, which they did, the they lofttheir Regiments upon it. Then 89. -Gene-it fentr re)ie£ ( commonly called my Lord Mo^cafiel) that were march-ing towards them, in order to Befiege their Town alfb,they very bravely met them nigh Twenty Miles from home,
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of the Wars of Ireland, j • Then went Major-General KJrk^ with his own Regi- 1689.menr, Sir John H^nmer^s^ and Brigadier Stuart*s^ who L-^>/*vianchord in the Lough Two Months ; during which Si^fen^time a great many French Commanders werefent to the to their reliefIrijh Camp, and alfb the late King himfelf went downto encourage the BeriegerSjfreilT Supplies of mengaingthither daily, but all to no purpiDfe^:whichwhen he fa whow unfucceftful the Attempts of his Ir/(h Army againftthe Town were Hke to prove, its confidently reported,that he expred hinifelf to this effe6^, That if he had had as-many Eti^i^h-mtninlrisArmy^as he had of others^ the/ti^uldhave brought hlTH ifflone hyjlone ere that. But being wea-ry of lb tedious a Siege, he returned to Dublin; and atlaft, the Dartmonth Vng2Lt forced her way up to theTown; and the Iri/b rziihd their Siege on the laft of ?//-ly. The Management of this Affair was blamed by fomeof themfelves, who wer6 either for pufbing on the Siegewith their

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