Having taken Estionage, Cromwell threw a bridge over the Barrow, and made himself master of Passage and Carrie.

The English had no further difficulties to encounter than what arose from fatigue and the advanced season.

Fluxes and contagious distempers crept in among the soldiers, who perished in great numbers.

Jones himself, the brave governor of Dublin, died at Wexford.

And Cromwell had so far advanced with his decayed army, that he began to find it difficult, either to subsist in the enemy's country, or retreat to his own garrisons.