The Last and Truest INTELLIGENCE FROM IRELAND: BEING A true Relation of the taking of a Castle from the Rebels, called the Castle of the Knights of the Elms, on the river of Limbrick, by the soldiers of the English Fleet, who took in the Castle 1000 Bushels of Wheat, 4000 weight of Butter, with great store of Barley, Malt, and salted beef, Septemb. 28.  
ALSO The taking of a French ship on the river of Limbrick which brought Ammunition and other Provision from S. Mallos to assist the Rebels, wherein the English Fleet took 120. barrels of Powder, Ammunition for 500 men, 35. Butts of Sack, with great store of Salt.  
Set forth in the true copy of a Letter sent to M. Barnet Pewterer, in Fanchurch Street Lon. from M. Owen Cox Master of one of the ships for the Irish Expedition called the Arkelles. Dated, Septemb. 29.  
Printed for A. wild-goose. October 17. 1642.   

The Truest and last INTELLIGENCE FROM IRELAND: Being a true Relation of the taking of a Castle on the river of Limbrick from the Rebels, by the soldiers of the English Fleet, wherein they took 1000 bushels of Wheat, 4000 weight of Butter, besides great store of Barley, Malt, and salted beef, Septemb. 28.  
M. Barnet▪  
IT was my promise to let you understand the proceedings of this our expedition, but finding no convenient opportunity to write, nor conquest worth the writing till now, I hope I may the better be excused. What hath been done since our Fleet came together, you shall understand.  
On the 9 day of August we arrived before Galloway, which is the strongest town they have, except Limbrick, and there laid siege to it: so the Lord of of Clenrikard came down and conferred with our Lord Forbes, and the Merchants of the town: they strongly replied, and said, that they were the King's loyal subjects, and had not offended in the least thing, but that the soldiers in the King's Fort had done them wrong: but had the King sealed to our Commission, we should have found enough against them, that we might truly have made an onset upon the town: we were so near the town with our garrison, that we could hear them plainly call our Parliament rogues, Parliament-dogs, and Puritan-Dogs: so you may very well conceive what subjects they are. On the third and fourth day we refetched aboard our soldiers, and the sixth day we set sail from Gallaway to go to Limbrick, and on the ninth day we arrived in Limbrick river, and on the two and twentieth day we laid siege to the Knights of the elms Castle, that is to say in English, the Knights of the valley; the which Castle we played upon two days and two nights with two Demi-Canons: so the second day we entered the Castle, slaying all we found alive: but when we came to bury them we found but eighteen or twenty, the rest made an escape and got into the woods: there came a great army of the Irish within sight of the Castle; there marched out betwixt four and five hundred, and when they began to approach, the Irish men fled, and durst not stand: We took in this Castle a thousand bushels of Wheat, three or four thousand weight of Butter, besides Barley, Malt and salt beef: this Castle we took on the three and twentieth of September with the loss of five men, a Trouper and a Footman in the pursuit after the first landding, and three other after we came under the Castle walls, two common soldiers, and the Master of captain Thompson's ship: after they were under the Castle walls, they went off again, and so were shot from the castle out of one of the lower holes: but when we entered the castle, we lost never a man: and for their men, we know not the number we slay before the castle was taken, for they buried their dead out of our sight. We had a very hard siege of it by reason of the foulness of the weather, I think they did set all the devils they serve to work; for it did rain and blow all the time; we were in the cold exceedingly, and in that regard my Lord hath given us ten days to rest ourselves, and then to go to some other castle upon this river.   

A TRUE RELATION of the taking of a French ship which came from S. Mallos with provision to assist the Rebels on the river of Limbrick with 120. barrels of Powder, Ammunition for 500 men, and 35. butts of Sack.  
AS we passed along the foresaid river of Limbrick, We took on the river a French Ship that came from S. Mallos, which had in it an hundred and twenty barrels of powder, and arms for four or five hundred men, as Muskets, Pikes, and such like, besides thirty and odd butts of sack, and great store of fault, which hath been very helpful unto us. M. Barnet, I do entreat you that you would be pleased to remember me in your prayers, for God hath been very merciful unto me in giving me my life, for I was at push of Pike with them in the castle an hour and an half before I entered in, and then was fain to enter in at a small hole, as much as I could do to creep in at with my arms, and had no harm at all, I praise God for it. Thus hoping you will not be unmindful of me, I rest,  
From the River of Limbrick, Septemb. 29. 1642. Yours, &c. Owen Cox.  
FINIS.