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Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… way being hard and hilly ground, within culiver shot of wood and bog on both sides, which was wholly possessed by the … enemy, and straw for the horses, and to make provision of wood, before the hardness of winter come on, and while the … as much as might be done in so ill a ground, being wood and bog on either side of our march unto the trench. The …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… our 'grose,' I drew down, relieved them, passed the wood and trench to a place of equal advantage, where, after … in straits and fastness; and so they retired into a strong wood, fleeing from Her Majesty's forces back some five miles … perceived by the rebels, they went into a very strong wood three miles westward of Mallow, and encamped there two …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… they were (as the Gibeonites among the Hebrews) hewers of wood and drawers of water; only let them retain the liberty …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… what haste they could to overtake us. We, having gained a wood, thought but a little on it, as I thought, and no doubt it was the greatest strength we had. This wood stood on a high hill, with a step to descend to a foul … Captain Montague charged them and drove them back to a wood. But, nevertheless, they charged faster and faster. …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… of Athy, some hundred of the rebels shewed themselves by a wood's side; where they entertained a light skirmish with … some of the army. The former, being soon driven out of the wood, fled into a bog. Captain Bosworth and Gardener, …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… castles, to be victualled ; but for furnishing them with wood, Tyrone said that the woods were in the possession of … they deny Her Majesty's soldiers of both the forts to cut wood, to have victuals brought to them out of the country, or … proclamation that the garrison of Kilmallock shall have no wood, either in their woods or in the woods of the subject, …