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<P>Excceding certain and true NEWES FROM
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<ITEM><HI>AND DVBLIN;</HI></ITEM>
</LIST> <HI>Otherwi&s;e called the Engli&s;h Pale.</HI></P>
<P>Being the true Copie of a Letter &s;ent From a Marchant in <HI>Dublin,</HI> a man well knowne in <HI>London,</HI> one Captaine <HI>Scout,</HI> a <HI>Dutch-man,</HI> living on the Marchants Key, neer Sir <HI>William Par&s;ons,</HI> one of the Lord Iu&s;tices of IRELAND To his worthy friend Mr. <HI>VAN HOOKER.</HI></P>
<P>Bearing Date, <HI>January</HI> 2. 1643.</P>
<P>January 9. Printed by <HI>T. Fawcet,</HI> for <HI>J. B.</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>The la&s;t true Intelligence from the Kingdome of IRELAND;</HEAD>
<P>_THe Di&s;tractions of <HI>England</HI> hath bin and yet is &s;o mighty dangerous, and &s;o horrid fearefull, that we have nei|ther Eares to receive Calamities of our afflicted poore Bretheren the Prote&s;tants in <HI>Ireland,</HI> nor &s;earce Chri&s;tian hearts to pitty them, being every man fearefull to endute the like here, if not wor&s;e, with|out the infinite me<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ey of God be plea&s;ed to &s;top it, with the &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tling of his true Church in order, I mean the reformed Prote&s;tant Religion, with abolli&s;hing of Papi&s;ts, Athei&s;ts, and other vild Sects, that choak the true Go&s;pell, and the peace of the&s;e Kingdoms, the which poore <HI>Ireland</HI> hath, and &s;till lives in, with that continuance of griefe, that is in&s;en&s;ible to any but tho&s;e which lately have. to give a feeling relati|on
<PB N="4" REF="3">of the &s;ame, for tho&s;e Prote&s;tant Gentry that through good hap hath e&s;caped to <HI>Dublin,</HI> from the barbarous cruelty of the murthering Rebels, men both well landed, and Moneyed, yet have they bin in <HI>Dublin,</HI> (after their moneys have been gone) glad to fell their Plate, &s;uch as &s;ome by &s;tealth could get thither, for halfe a Crowne, and two &s;hillings an Ounce, yea, and for eighteen pence an Ounce, Gold Rings of two and twenty &s;hillings weight, for &s;even &s;hillings, and glad any man will &s;o befriend them, Pewter three-pence, and two pence halfe penny, and two pence a pound, and the be&s;t Bra&s;&s;e the &s;ame, Bedding and other Hou&s;hold &s;tuffe worth nothing, &s;o that Engli&s;h Prote&s;tants that have a long time been livers in the Kingdome, Citizens of <HI>Dublin,</HI> who have by gathering all their li&s;e times a compe|tent &s;ub&s;i&s;tance for them, and for their Children, hare by the le&s;&s;ing of Souldiers put upon them, for pay they have not had, nor their Commanders to give them, by which meanes they have been eate and drunke out of all mon<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ies and goods to relieve them with, as by the &s;ad relation of an Engli&s;hman, a Cooke who kept an Ordinary at the &s;igne of the Bell, as many here can witne&s;&s;e, was a man very able onely by his paines taking and trade, yet be had &s;uch a Company &s;ea&s;t upon him, that it utterly undid him, for by his owre confe&s;&s;ion now in <HI>London</HI> to many of the Parliament, had but renne layne upon his charge, he could have maintained both him, them and his Hou&s;hold well enough, likewi&s;e &s;o all the Ci|ty
<PB N="5" REF="3">more and le&s;&s;e doe thus complaine, Markets they have, but fle&s;h very poore, &s;qa&s;hey. and unwhol|&s;ome, which hath as many conjecture, bred fluxes, and di&s;ea&s;es among them, Bread &s;carce and coor&s;e, Butter very little, and as deare, and that place &s;o plen|tifull heretofore for Egges, one &s;ould for a penny, yet is that Towne by the &s;trong &s;upportrance of the Ca&s;tle, impo&s;&s;ible to be taken, and for treachery they have and &s;till take a good cour&s;e to have no dealing or commerce with the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> or Papi&s;t, though Eng|li&s;h, is there are &s;ome, yet tha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">kes be to God for it, they have had good reliefe by the Sea for Fi&s;h, as from <HI>Rulloch</HI> the onely Herring-place &s;ix miles from <HI>Dublin,</HI> have be<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n &s;ent up by Boates, infinite of Cod, Haddocke, Place, and like Fi&s;h, Herrings thirty for a penny, for the porer &s;ort that have no|thing to doe, but their paines (may have them for fetching) as for the Rebels in all parts of the Coun|try, as namely the Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">vi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ces of <HI>Mun&s;ter, Connough, Lim&s;tar, Vl&s;ter,</HI> and the li<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e by rea&s;on of our di&s;trac|tio<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s here in <HI>England,</HI> (h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ping th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t it will have no ce&s;&s;ation of Armes) or unna<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">urall Warr one with the other will be &s;till, have in all tho&s;e parts, being le&s;t alone by the Engli&s;h, Plowed, Tild, and &s;owne great &s;tore of Corne, as Whea<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e, Rye, Oates, Bar|ly, Beanes, Pea&s;e, and Fetches, but the mo&s;t part is Oates and Barly, in hope of a plentifull Crop, and enjoying the Harve&s;t to them&s;elves, with Summars Aide from <HI>Spaine</HI> and other places, for &s;ome of their Commanders have &s;tole away, &s;ince the Earle of
<PB N="6" REF="4"><HI>VVarwicke</HI> left his Charge upon the Sea, to come unto the Parliaments imployment on the Land, now the <HI>Rebels</HI> being there, intend to rai&s;e Forces, and tran&s;port them out of <HI>Spaine,</HI> into <HI>Ireland,</HI> if they can get them over.</P>
<P>But God I tru&s;t as he hath &s;till will ever fru&s;ter|ate their ill intents and make the &s;ea their grave that thinks to kill and bury us on land, who as they &s;up|po&s;e have all &s;ave <HI>Dublin</HI> in their po&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ion, who come not nere it, nor hath &s;uch intent, becau&s;e their Devili&s;h Prei&s;ts of antichri&s;t, that were the &s;it&s;t incendiaries of this evill, &s;till fats them up with pro+mi&s;e of their land and all &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ll be their owne and they to live happy, I feare happier then when their patron ble&s;t Saint <HI>Patrick</HI> made all almo&s;t in com+mon in their Land, and did &s;o holy &s;anctifie the &s;ame, that all ill moving Creatures from that earth as Frogs, Toades, Adders, Snakes. blud-wormes, Mules, and A&s;&s;es, he charmed downe from a moun|taine to the &s;ea, and as their ill tutard ignorance re|ports, he &s;ent them into <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> Wales, and the I&s;le of man, <HI>Shepey Garu&s;ey,</HI> and other Ilands &s;eated in the &s;ea, but had &s;aint <HI>Patrick</HI> b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n worthy of that name he would a bani&s;ht them into the Sea being wor&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r vermin and the evill natured, who &s;ince there wilderne&s;&s;e of wolves have bin de&s;troyed, they have drawne their natures and conditions from them and are the &s;ame them&s;elves, and now live in that &s;elfe &s;ecurity, as they were <HI>I&s;raels</HI> Children and that Land were their promi&s;e, and poore Roges,
<PB N="6" REF="4">that alwaies naked lived on mountaines, or on moores halfe &s;tarved, and eaten up with lice, which vermaine their Saint <HI>Patrick</HI> left enough off, now play on Tabers and on Drum beds for handfulls, and for pur&s;es fild with &s;ilver and with gold, which they have robd and murdered <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> for, and vows as it is credibly reported, before the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> ere &s;hould repo&s;e&s;&s;e thir owne again they would chock<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e them&s;elves with it, or throw it in the &s;ea, or bury it in the earth, &s;o mighty is their hate to tho&s;e that have reformed them from bad, as bea&s;ts into huma|nity, tell now they lo&s;t it, and now them &s;elves in mid&s;t of all their welth doth even no more but tan|tali&s;e vpon it, for in all parts is &s;edition rai&s;ed a|mong&s;t them round.</P>
<P>There friers in their di&s;putattons Iarr with each other.</P>
<P>Father again&s;t Father, Doctrine again&s;t Doc|trine.</P>
<P>And many of the wi&s;e&s;t and the noble&s;t of them have drawne forth heads and meetings with each other, cur&s;ing the fir&s;t begetters of this Rebelli|on for they them &s;elves terme it no better now.</P>
<P>Togeather with their &s;ad Relations, of their &s;u|ture happy lives, both they, their fathers, and their granfathers, before them, and how with peace and plenty, they were ble&s;t, each Raining as a King o|ver his owne.</P>
<P>This in all parts is tooke into con&s;ideration of
<PB N="8" REF="5">their wi&s;e&s;t, who thinks to find favour by &s;up|pre&s;&s;ing the re&s;t.</P>
<P>Some Skirmi&s;hes they have had, and as it cre|dibly reported, they are very like to de&s;troy them|&s;elves.</P>
<P>Which if God of his mercy &s;end a true and firme uniting betwixt the King and Parliament, they have but &s;hort continuance, or time to raine in the&s;e cruell outrages.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Friend to Command <HI>J. Skout.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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