From Ireland with Letters canto1, part3: begin with the arrival
Ferrall "requested the trumpeter to return to his master with this result, that he was Lieutenant-General Ferrall, governor of that place, at present having 2000 of his Ulster force there;
that as long as any of them did survive, he would not yield the town."
On December 2, 1649, the New Model Army retreated from Waterford.