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Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… garrison, they sent divers of their company to fetch some wood. And Tyrone having possessed the pass, there began a … 26th, a party being sent over to O'Cahan's side to cut wood, two Irish and one English ran to the enemy, and the …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… sic, lodged], we had that day hot skirmish in fetching of wood, but we put the rebels to the worse, who only maintained … be driven to fall back again upon the Pale, for want of hay and oats, I have given order to the sheriffs of the counties for the making of hay to be laid in this summer time in the garrisons, wherein …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… be better settled. James McThomas is now no better than a wood kern, and gone I know not whither. For, since his last …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… of the contract made between the Privy Council and John Wood, victualler for the forces in the province of Munster. … that carried him forth was conveyed six miles off into a wood almost impassable, and there kept with herself in a cave … requisite it should be so, for that there they may have hay in more quantity than in the heart of the Pale. And it …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… burned; so as I conclude them now no better than poor wood-kern. Piers Lacy (as James FitzThomas) hath shrouded … in his opinion at the first view very commodious for wood, water, and discovery, not far from the high way betwixt … first camping place we were constrained to fight both for wood and water; in which skirmish about five of our men were …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… day before, and leaving 100 men to guard it), being in a wood, plashed, and very strongly fortified for any sudden …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… that all the horses of the town, except few garrans for wood, were stolen away this last rebellion, and out of use, … late book of reformation and orders, as they call it, of hay a quantity, and litter a quantity, oats, three pints at a … band, containing thirty-two gallons, and 750 weight of hay, which is not half a load of trussband in London. Such a …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… third of May, I met with Tyrrell in his sconces within a wood, where I entertained a skirmish for three hours, and … broke them, and made them quit their sconces and the whole wood, with the loss of two Lieutenants, one ensign, fourteen … the north will hold up head, except it be in nature of a wood-kern. But their hopes are altogether built upon the help …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… To the southward of the same island stands a church with a wood, called Donoughmore. "From Don-owen a mile northwards is … do with his own forces, because it lies all within bog, wood and mountain, [so] that it is almost inaccessible with … so is it defensible in itself by the fastness of bog and wood, whereof it wholly consisteth. "And whereas your …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… concerneth the setting of the ovens a work, and providing wood for the same purpose, wherein I shall gladly obey your … deal with the churls of the country to bring in heath and wood, so much as may serve, and hire as many as I can get … hurt very dangerously fourteen of our soldiers going for wood, and some report we killed as many of them. But because …