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 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 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 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