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ordered in twenty-two, to Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland; we all decamped, but got no further than Drogheda, thence ordered to Mullengar, forty miles west, where by Providence we stumbled upon a kind relation, a collateral descendant from Archbishop Sterne, who took us all to his castle and kindly entreated us for a year - and sent us to the regiment at Carrickfergus, loaded with kindnesses, &c. - a most rueful and tedious journey had we all, in