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Turenne and the garrison of
Mardyke were so reduced by disease that at the beginning of December only eighteen hundred out of the six thousand were fit for service. Partly in order to obtain a fresh supply of men, partly on private grounds, Reynolds obtained leave to embark for England, leaving Major-general (afterwards Sir Thomas)
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For his services to the parliamentary cause, Parliament voted a reward of Irish lands to the value of £500 per annum to
Reynolds, in pursuance of which vote the manor of Carrick was made over to him. With the debentures he received for his pay he invested in seven thousand acres of land in the county
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was taken on 23 September, and
Reynolds installed there as governor of the English garrison; but the task of keeping so weakly fortified a post was one of great difficulty. Though Reynolds repulsed one attack with considerable loss to the assailants (22 October), both the English troops serving with
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English troops "behaved themselves very stoutly, and were one great cause of the governor's not daring to abide the utmost", but the six thousand men under the command of Reynolds were reduced to four thousand by September 1657, solely by the hardships of the campaign. "Howsoever", he protested,
187:, or for the return of Fleetwood to his duties in Ireland. In January 1656 Reynolds was sent to England by Henry Cromwell to give the Protector an account of the state of affairs in Ireland. He was also charged with commissions of importance relative to the reorganisation of the Irish government.
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attempt to retake it. "Both in the taking and defending of this place", wrote
Cromwell to the speaker, "Colonel Reynolds his carriage was such as deserves much honour". About April 1651 Reynolds was made commissary-general of the horse in Ireland, and in that capacity assisted in the sieges of
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appointed
Reynolds commander-in-chief of the forces intended to co-operate with the French army in Flanders. His pay as commander-in-chief was five pounds per diem. Reynolds, after some hesitation, accepted. He landed in France in May, and was received with studied courtesy by
86:(afterwards Cromwell's) regiment of horse, and distinguished himself at the storming of Bridgewater. He is said to have taken a leading part in concerting opposition to the proposed disbanding of the army in 1647, and to have been for a time chairman of the committee of "
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Reynolds was a zealous supporter of
Cromwell, was knighted by the Protector on 11 June 1655, and voted for the offer of the crown to Oliver. In March 1655 Reynolds was employed in the suppression of the intended rising of the royalists in Shropshire.
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A story which was widely circulated at the time represents
Reynolds as returning to England in order to justify himself against the suspicions excited in the Protector's mind by a secret interview which had taken place between Reynolds and the
282:, the husband of his sister Dorothy. On 20 July 1659 the House of Commons declared the will valid, and ordered Robert Reynolds to be given possession of Carrick. Sarah, the widow of Sir John Reynolds, married, in 1660,
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in
December 1648. On 17 February 1649 his regiment was placed on the establishment, and ordered to be completed. It was intended to employ it in the relief of Ireland. Part of the regiment joined in the mutiny of the
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prove that such a meeting actually took place, but nothing more than ordinary civilities passed in it. Rumours that he had for some reason lost
Cromwell's favour had certainly reached Reynolds, as a letter from
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reported that he was willing to accept the post, but added: "If you take him from hence you deprive me of my right hand". In November 1655 Reynolds promoted the petition for the appointment of Henry Cromwell as
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to command at Mardyke in his absence. The ship in which he sailed was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, and all on board were drowned, on 5 December 1657. On 7 December, Admiral
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Reynolds married Sarah, daughter of Sir Francis Russell of Chippenham, thus becoming the brother-in-law of Henry Cromwell, who had married her sister Elizabeth.
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Limerick and Galway, and signed capitulations with Colonel Fitzpatrick, Lord Clanricarde, and other Irish leaders. In 1653 the
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Reynolds and his regiment landed at Dublin on 25 July 1649, and played an important part in the victory which Colonel
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had been lost and a trunk washed up containing White's personal letters. They were lost about the
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wrote that the "loss is to be much lamented, they being very worthy persons and of great use".
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in May 1649, but Reynolds, with those who remained faithful, dispersed some of the
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1601–1678). He was educated as a lawyer, and probably was a member of the
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who entered that society in 1639, described him as his "chamber-fellow"
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of 1654 he represented the counties of Galway and Mayo, and in
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in his narrative of the surrender of the parliamentary army at
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Aylme, G. E (January 2008). "Reynolds, Sir John (1625–1657)".
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of Cork, and also purchased other lands in Waterford. In the
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170:In July 1656 Reynolds returned to Ireland with
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43:and was lost at sea when returning to England.
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232:had arrived from Mardyke but the accompanying
961:(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
509:, ed. 1894, i. 262, 269, 289; and Gilbert,
78:in September 1644. On the formation of the
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511:Contemporary History of Affairs in Ireland
862:, p. 49 cites Thurloe, vi. 761;and
687:, p. 48 cites Thurloe, vi. 223, 230.
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