340 Proceediiifis of the Royal Irish Academy. 



appointed for the battle.' After some liours we saw the enemy coming down 

 a turning between two hills, which we knew by the rising of the dust ; and 

 by and by they shew themselves in their best colours, for they drew up upon 

 a line only, and our army was upon three. We looked upon one another who 

 should come first ; but at last, we seeing that their foot and baggage was 

 running away, and that the king had engaged their right way, we marched 

 towards them over ditches and trenches. They presently retired upon a 

 mountain behind a little town called Duleek, where they fired three or four 

 pieces at us. We killed abundance of their men, and pursued the rest till 

 nine of the clock, that we overtaking them, and having too hotly pursued 

 them, were almost upon them, when they facing about made as if they had been 

 willing to receive us ; but we having left our foot and cannon behind, and 

 considering how late it was, made halt. They fired for an hour and half small 

 shot very thick upon us, for they had hid partly in bushes. At last our cannon 

 came and played smartly upon them, till the night coming they retired, and 

 so did we, we laying in the plow'd lands, and had no tents. That day we lost 

 Duke Schomberg and Dr. Walker, Governor of Londonderry. They were 

 killed in forcing the passage. The king himself passed that way. Next day 

 we stayed encamped in that place, and there was a popish gentleman's house 

 plundered by us. 



Thursday being the 3rd of Jnly, we came near a fine house belonging to a 

 papist where we encamped, and where I fell sick of a violent fever and an 

 extreme fit of the gout in the same time. I was sent to Dublin, where I 

 stayed till Saturday, the 12th, that I went in the company of the adjutant- 

 general of the Danish forces to rejoin our army. That day I went to Kilcullen 

 bridge, sixteen long miles fi-om Dublin. I passed through the Naas, a good, 

 big borough. At Kilcullen bridge, I found our army encamped, and there we 

 stayed one night, and the next day we marched but eight mile. There, my 

 sickness continuing, or indeed rather increasing, I was forced to go to Castle- 

 dermot ; it has been the seat of some of the kings of Leinster, but now is a 

 poor beggarly town, though in a very pretty plain. Eight miles beyond it upon 

 the highway is the burying place of the kings of Leinster, and there you may 

 see the vaults still full of bones, and some old inscriptions upon large stones.^ 

 Our army went before Waterford and, after the town was surrendered, the king 

 went to lay the siege before Limerick, whilst General Douglas^ was gone to 



' Bonnivert belonged to the British right wing detached. See the map in " Eevolutionaiy 

 Ireland and its Settlement," p. 154. 



- This place is Carman. 



2 Douglas was at the battle of the Boyne in the vicinity of Slane Bridge, failed to take Athlone, 

 and was at the first siege of Limerick. His writing is among the worst in the Clarke correspondence. 



