DVBLIN Ianuary the 28th.
A TRVE AND PERFECT Occurrance of the present state of DVBLIN.
And of every severall passage betweene the Protestants and the Rebells there.
BEENG The substance of severall Letters which was sent from Sir Henry Tichborne, and Captaine Studley, to some friends of theirs now resident heere.
Which Letters by Reason of their true relation were desired by divers Gentlemen to be Printed, to give this Citie a full satisfaction, whose names are here incerted and now published, By W. N. Gent.
London, Printed for George Thompson. 1642.
YEsterday Captaine Studley returned hither, and brought us Letters from Sir Henry Tichborne, at the entrance of our Shipping, our men were encountred by many thousand of the Rebells on both sides of the river where they exchanged a thousand shotts, in the end the enemie having lost three score men, and wee nor a man; our shipping fired their passage to the towne where you may imagine they were very well and joyfully received as in deede they were. On wednesday morning some three hundred of the Rebells an howre before day through the treachery of some Papists [Page 4]of the towne had broken downe an old doore in the towne wall, & so got into the towne, & were advanced in the streets in rancke and file before the Larum given, and a little before day they were discovered, and Sir Henry and his Souldiers so played the men, as they killed the most of them, tooke three score prisoners, and some leaping over the wall broke their neckes, some lye yet hidden in some of the Townes-mens houses as some prisoners informe; so the towne was preserved with that slaughter of the enemies and not above foure of our men killed; the fight being hot, and feirce in the night, sir Henry least his Souldiers should hurt one another, hee caused them to put white papers in their harts to difference them from the enemie.
On Thurseday our Pinnace was comming away, she strucke aground in the Harbour too far for sir Henry to relieve them, and too neere the Rebells, where there was a terrible fight, our poore Pinnace lying a ground, being not able to use her Ordinance; many Muskets shot on both sides, in the ende the Rebbels waded to the side of the Pinnance, being but knee deepe above a hundred of them, and fell on the Pinnace with Iron Crowes and other engins to batter her) Captaine Studley threw then amongst them some granadoes which killed many of them, and by the helpe of his Grannadoes having slaine many of them, they ranne away and quitted [Page 5]the Pinnace, whereof they held themselves so sure, untill the Granadoes slew amongst them, as that they thought Studley their prisoner, bidding him yeeld.
After that fight where we lost onely on man a Lievetenant of sir Simon Harcots Regiment whose name was Lieftenant Sparke, under Captaine Verneth. The Pinnace stood on ground untill Munday, and the Rebells fearing the Granadoes, durst not attempt him any more, so Captaine Studley with his Pinnace came away and arrived here last night.
THe rebels reasaulted Tredarth the next day after the repulse, notwithstanding their losse and danger, but Sir Henry Tichborne entertained them with a fuller breakfast then supper, the night before he slewe 800 of them or as most consent 600 of them, he tooke fiftie Friers and Preistes and hanged them, and although it may seeme strange that soe many Grasehoppers should be together in one place yet it is the lesse Marvell since all the Papists are confident that their sonne is riseing in Ireland and to shine full upon them.
There was a command of horse last night appointed at Dublin to surprise the Rebbels that Lay under the mountaines, & neere it in their kenells; but the serpents in our owne bosomes the faithfull Inteligence from the Papist in Dublin, is such, that the Rebbels haue notice of everie perticuler in our designe before we [Page 7]can acte any thing 300. of them tooke to their best helpe their [...]les, and fled to the mountaines for fiue or sixe miles together but our Soldiers killed eight of them that lay to longe in their Caues; Fortie of the Rebbels entered a Castle there with, in that we wanted materialls we could not goe further, but in the enterprise we lost siue of our horses and one man short, yet by good happ we regaind fiue of theirs and remounted onr men and returned to Dublin, haueing prevented the nesling of the Rebels nerethe towne to make our owne slepe the more sound and secure.
Three Captaines of every regiment are appointed to serch the Citie of dublin amongst the Papists, for amunition and victualles to distribute amonge the Soldiers, by which many are like to fare the better, and noe dout but the Cookes will lick theire owne fingers.
They begin to want money at Dublin soe as euery house keeper is comanded to keepe a fitt number of the Soldiers proportionable to their estates until supply of mony and victualls come from England which God speedly grant, Vale.
The Gentlemens names that received these Letters.
Master
- Henry Tichborne.
- Charles Latham.
- Iohn Studley.
- George Wilford.