IN some late Letters I troubled you with some of the frowning occurrents of this place; where­in I have had a heavy share, as well of the sufferings in the ill, as in my labours to fore-lay and prevent the worst: Which la­bour, I must say, God hath wonderfully blest; In so much as now I dare avow, if England for their owne good much more then ours, will set in roundly to enable us under a good Governour, (if God have so ordained us one) we will make the mischiefes we have suffered, the greatest ad­dition to the glory, security, and happinesse of [Page 2] England, that ever they had by any particular action: For besides that, we will for ever free them from the dishonours and dammages both in men and treasure which they have from Age to Age endured from, and by occasion of this dis­loyall and malignant people, the entire benefit of this unnaturall and high rebellion, shall in a manner redound to themselves, by setling here very great multitudes of the English, which this Island can well receive, and give them happy and plentifull being, if God guide the conduct and conclusion of this Warre aright. I entreat you Sir consider, if the Irish had gained the Ca­stle and City of Dublin, (which nothing could have hindred but the blessed sudden discovery) and therein all the Kings Armes and Munition, and therewithall the Port-townes and Shipping of Ireland, and out of that strength had sent 30000. men into England, as they entended; whether their ravenage (wherein they excell all men) would not have beene more losse to Eng­land, before they could have found competent resistance, then all the money comes to, which they are now to send us, to reduce Ireland, and make it theirs, in a more firme way then ever it was since the Conquest. If you be sparing to us this Summer, you hurt your selves and the cause; And therefore to our speedy and round supplyes, I pray you put your helping hand in this act of reducement, which must at last have beene done with infinite more difficul­ty [Page 3] and charge, after the above mentioned hor­rible losse.

I doubt not but by late Letters you have heard that we have beaten the Enemy from Tredagh: Now I must tell you, that a partie of that late besieged garrison, with the helpe of five hundred men sent from hence, have mar­ched and taken the Port-towne of Dondalke, sixteene miles North-wards from Tredagh, and there beaten out a thousand Rebels, and taken the little Ordnance they had. We want men and money extreamly; when they come, I un­dertake we shall not mis-apply them. It is mar­vellous to see how spiritfull our few souldiers that have health are, while we are not able to put shooes on their feet, clothes on their backs, or meat in their bellies, save herrings, and some salt beefe: Neither have we any money at all, which is the life of Warre. Out of all which de­fects, our souldiers doe so die daily before our fa­ces, besides what are slaine, as without speedy supplies, we shall not onely be frustrated in our promising beginnings, but speedily sink into a desperate danger of utter losse.

I find by your late Letter to the Dutchesse, that you heare there, that the Earle of Antrim is in rebellion; I assure you Sir, it is not so, nei­ther I hope will be; though truly through these tumults, cutting betweene him and his late meanes here, he is now in great and pinching want; And, which grieves me more, the Dut­chesse [Page 4] suffers very lamentably in it: For my part I have helped her what I could, but being depri­ved wholly of my poore estate by this rebellion, I am able to doe no more: Hereof I desire you and her friends there to be sensible, and take it for a truth from