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<NAME>Colm MacCrossan</NAME>
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<P>The &s;tate of DUBLIN, As it &s;tood the 27. of December, And of other parts of <HI>Ireland. BEING</HI> The Copy of a Letter &s;ent from a good hand to an Alderman of this City. By reading which You will finde the vanity and fal&s;hood of tho&s;e vaine fooli&s;h Pamphlets inven|ted and publi&s;hed of late. With a &s;trange and unheard of flocking together of &s;everall kinde of Birds over the City of Dublin on Chri&s;tmas Eve la&s;t.</P>
<P>Printed at London for <HI>Nath. Butter.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>The copy of a Letter &s;ent from Dublin Decemb. 27. 1641. by <HI>Tri&s;trum Witcome,</HI> a Factor there for a worthy Alderman of this City, declaring in what &s;tate the City there &s;tands. With the &s;trange and &s;udden depar|ture of two Aldermen from thence: and &s;trange &s;ight on CHRISTMAS Eve.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_OUr mi&s;eries are great, our feares more, if &s;peedy reliefe doe not &s;uddenly arrive, hunger will certainly be more plentifull with us then bread; for the Rebels who daily increa&s;e have blocked up all pa&s;&s;age two wayes unto the City, &s;o that Southward from Doungarvil, and Northea&s;t from Clannoroe, no pro|vi&s;ion of victuall can come at us; neither can the pre|&s;ent Garri&s;on here be &s;pired to cleare tho&s;e parts. It &s;tands farre wor&s;e with this City (God knowes) then the world with you will beleeve, otherwi&s;e they would not be &s;o &s;low of their &s;uccours, as to our woes we finde they are. For the Rebels grow &s;trong, and
<PB REF="3">withall &s;o daring, that they attempt the blocking up of the very harbour of Dublin, and to that end are building two Sconces at the Havens mouth, out of the command of the Ca&s;tle, whereupon they have al|ready mounted twelve iron Peeces, how&s;oever they came by them: &s;o that it they be not prevented, and that with &s;ea&s;onable opportunity, (which God in his mercy grant) they will not onely &s;top and hinder, all our Po&s;ts and Mi&s;&s;engers for England, but likewi&s;e be able to debar&s;e and affront what &s;uccours &s;hould come from thence to us.</P>
<P>The Engli&s;h not without ju&s;t ground are in excee|ding great jealou&s;ie and &s;u&s;pition of the Iri&s;h inhabi|tants of the City, who although they make us faire countenance, as whole vi&s;age and habits &s;ort with ours, yet their hearts and good wi&s;hes it is to be fea|red are with the Rebels. Apparences are good proofs: Vpon the Eve of Saint <HI>Thomas</HI> Decemb. 20. two of the Aldermen of Dublin, Mr. <HI>Dominick Rooch,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Patrick Copinger</HI> fled but of Dublin, with their wives, children, and whole families, whither God knowes, but &s;urely all is not well; their hou&s;es being ob&s;erved to &s;tand &s;hut up for the &s;pace of two dayes together, without ingre&s;&s;e or egre&s;&s; of any either ma&s;ter, &s;er|vant, or neighbour; notice being thereof taken at la&s;t report being there of made unto the two Iu&s;tices, it was thought fit by them to &s;end officers and &s;ouldiers who upon command to open, and none an&s;wering, forced the doores; but being entred found nothing within con&s;iderable, in re&s;pect of their e&s;tates and qualities, which giveth great cau&s;e of jealou&s;ie unto the &s;aid Iu&s;tices, and to all loyall Engli&s;h, that the&s;e
<PB REF="3">Aldermen are not onely fled and &s;tolne away to the Rebels, but further have di&s;covered what&s;oever may be advantagious unto them, as touching the &s;tate of the &s;aid City: as likewi&s;e of carrying a heedfull and watchfull eye over the re&s;t: for it is greatly to be &s;u&s;|pected that the Rebels have more intelligence in this City, then &s;tands for our profit; &s;eeing that they make daily approaches towards us, &s;ometimes in le&s;&s;er bo|dies, &s;ometimes in greater; &s;ometime on hor&s;ebacke, &s;ometime onely with their foot; now &s;taying longer, now retiring &s;ooner; now drawing nearer the City, now retiring farther off, as they that looked for &s;ome &s;igne or token of advantage to be &s;hewed out of the City: and which increa&s;eth our feares the more, is that the two great Rebels that have the command of the&s;e rebellious troopes that now are neare&s;t the City, are <HI>Mack Odonnel</HI> and <HI>Charles Mack Cartie,</HI> who have but too great alliance, kindred, co&s;in germans, friends, fo&s;ter fathers or fo&s;ter mothers, or fo&s;ter brethren in this City.</P>
<P>I am heartily &s;ory of what you writ mee the la&s;t weeke, that the King and the Parliament di&s;agreeing about the pre&s;&s;ing of men for Ireland; for I am much afraid that if the Parliament will have no men to bee pre&s;&s;ed for that &s;ervice, but what come hither to come voluntary, I am afraid that our helpe will come too late, if any come at all. Although it be true that there hath beene divers skirmi&s;hes in the Country, wherein (God be prai&s;ed) our people have had the better, yet we have lo&s;t men likewi&s;e, and &s;ome brave and wor|thy Commanders; and although wee bee weakned through victory, yet weakned wee are by rea&s;on that
<PB REF="4">we have no &s;upply, and are but few in re&s;pect of the enemy, and their number daily increa&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>A &s;trange and wonderfull thing by Fowles.</HEAD>
<P>_A Mo&s;t &s;trange and unwonted accident happened in Dublin on Chri&s;tmas Eve, as ever was heard of the Crows, Ravens, and Sea Gulls, about foure of the clocke in the afternoone, being duske, a&s;&s;embled in &s;uch a numerous manner, hovering, pewling and croaking in &s;uch a &s;trange unheard of wi&s;e over the City, that it amazed and affrighted all the inhabitants; e&s;pecially they con|tinuing without departing in this &s;ort untill &s;ix of the &s;aid evening; a &s;trange time of night for &s;uch rowle to bee abroad at, at &s;uch a time of the yeare. And which is more &s;trange, that could not be frighted nor &s;cared away with all the reports of muskets, and &s;ome great Peeces out of the Ca&s;tle that were &s;hot off for that purpo&s;e. What this &s;trange accident meanes or portends is not for mee to divine: but &s;urely by the knowledge of the olde&s;t men in Dublin, either Eng|li&s;h or Iri&s;h, never the like was &s;eene.</P>
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<P>Concerning other matter of trade, it behooveth rather to thinke of calling in, if we can, then of &s;end|ing any thing el&s;e over. Which if I can in any rea&s;o|nable way accompli&s;h, you &s;hall by Gods permi&s;&s;ion &s;hortly &s;ee me in London: till then, de&s;iring you and all our friends to implore the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of Heaven for us here, I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Servant, T.W.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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