HISTORY. 
“ My lord deputie, att the time wee should land, (to make our discent the more easie) was 
drawne downe to the Blackwater and gaue out that hee would enter the countrey that way, where¬ 
upon Tyrone and ODonell had assembled theire cheifest strength to oppose against him : but 
his lordship now knowing wee were safe on shore, and possest of the ground wee ment to inhabite, 
wthdrew his campe and retourned to Dublin, and then being deliuered of that feare, those forces 
they had brought togeather for that purpose, being now enereased by the addition of more, and es¬ 
timated (by common fame) to be about 5000 in all, they came downe wth upon us, and placing 
tbemselues in the night wthin litle more then a mile from where wee lay, earelie in the 
morning at the breaking upp of the watch, gaue on upon our corps de gaurd of horse, chased 
them home to our foote sentynells, and made a countenance as if they came to make but that one 
dayes worke of it, but the alarume taken, and our men in armes, they contented themselues to at- 
tempe noe further, but seeking to draw us forth into the countrey where they hoped to take us 
at some aduantages, and finding wee stoode upon our defensive onelie, after the greatest pte of the 
day spent in skrimish a litle wthout our campe, they depted towards the evening whither did wee 
thinke it [not] fitt to pursue them. 
“ And now did Sr Mathew Morgan demaund his regiament of 1000 foote, and 50 horse, 
wch at first (as I saide before) were designed him for a plantation att Ballyshannon, but upon 
consultation held how he should proceed, and with what probabilitie, he might be able to effect that 
intended bussiness, there appeared soe many wants and difficulties unthought on, or unprouided, for 
before that it, was euident those forces should he exposed to manifest mine, if at that time, and in the 
state as things then stoode, hee should goe forward, the truth whereof being certified both by him- 
selfe and mee, to the lords of the couucell in England as also to the lord deputie and councell of 
Ireland, wee received present directions from them both to suspend the proceeding in that action 
till another time, and soe I discharged the rest of the shipping reserved for that journey, and not 
long after the companys growing weake, and the list of the foote reduced to the number of 3000, 
that regiament was wholie dissolued, and made as a part onslie of our army.” 
“ On the second of July I put 800 men into boates and landed them att Dunalong: Tyrone 
(as wee were tould) lying in campe within two rnyles of the place, where I presentlie fell to raiseing 
a forte, his men came downe and skirmisht with us all that day, but perceiving the next, wee were 
tilted and out of hope to be able to remoue us, they rise up and left us quietly to doe what we 
would where after 1 had made it reasonable defensible, I left Sr John Bowles in garrison with 6 
companyes of foote, and afterwards sent him 50 horse.” 
It will not, perhaps, be uninteresting to the reader to see the contemporaneous Irish account 
of Docwra’s transactions, as given in the Annals of the Four Masters, particularly as they throw 
some additional light on the character of the w r orks, erected by the English on this occasion. 
A. D. 1600. “ The English fleet, that was ordered by the queen and the English parlia¬ 
ment to be sent to Ireland against the province of Ulster, when Lord Mountjoy was lord justice 
of Ireland, which was about the festival of St. Patrick, as we have already mentioned, was prepar¬ 
ing in England, and all necessary apparatus procuring with the greatest possible expedition ; be¬ 
cause it was great vexation of mind to the queen, and her councils in England and Ireland, that 
the Kinel-Connell, Kinel-Owen, and all Ulster, besides those chiefs who were confederated with 
them, had made so long and successful a defence against them. They also remembered, yea, it 
privately preyed like a consumptive disease upon their hearts, that so many of their people had 
been lost, and so much of their money and wealth consumed in carrying on the Irish war until 
this period ; wherefore they were determined to send the aforesaid fleet to Ireland. 
“ They put into the harbour of Dublin in the month of April this year, whence they sailed 
in the beginning of summer, by the advice of Clanricard and Thomond, by whom they were 
ordered to go to the lake of Feval, the son of Lodan [Lough Foyle]. They sailed, keeping 
Ireland to the left, until they landed at the place they were ordered. After they had landed 
they erected on both sides of the harbour three fortresses of trenches, as they had been 
instructed in England,—one of these fortresses, namely Dun-na-long, and two in the country of 
O’Donnell; of these, one in Culmore, in the country of O’Dogherty in the cantred of Inishowen; 
the other in Derry, to the S. W. of the former. 
“ The English immediately commenced sinking fosses around them, and erecting a strong 
wall of earth, [mup cpicro], and a rampart, [ounchan], so that they were able to hold out a 
defence against their enemies. There were many other fortifications and preparations of defence, 
and also courts [large houses] of lime and stone, and a city, on the erection of which much time and 
labour were bestowed. They immediately tore down the monastery and cathedrall, [oarhlia^,] and 
destroyed all the ecclesiastical buildings of the town, and with the materials thus obtained erected 
houses and apartments. Henry Docwra was the name of their general: he was an illustrious 
knight of wisdom and prudence, a pillar of valour and prowess. Six thousand was the number 
that came to that place. Whan they arrived at Derry they made little account of Culmore and 
Dunnalong.” 
