DUBLIN january the 28 th'.  
A TRUE AND PERFECT Occurrance of the present state of DUBLIN.  
And of every several passage between the Protestants and the Rebels there.  
being The substance of several Letters which was sent from Sir Henry Tichborne, and Captain Studley, to some friends of theirs now resident here.  
Which Letters by Reason of their true relation were desired by divers Gentlemen to be Printed, to give this City a full satisfaction, whose names are here inserted and now published, By W. N. Gent.  
London, Printed for George Thompson. 1642.   

DUBLIN The twentieth Eight of january.  
YEsterday Captain Studley returned hither, and brought us Letters from Sir Henry Tichborne, at the entrance of our Shipping, our men were encountered by many thousand of the Rebels on both sides of the river where they exchanged a thousand shotts, in the end the enemy having lost three score men, and we nor a man; our shipping fired their passage to the town where you may imagine they were very well and joyfully received as in deed they were. On wednesday morning some three hundred of the Rebels an hour before day through the treachery of some Papists of the town had broken down an old door in the town wall, & so got into the town, & were advanced in the streets in rank and file before the Alarm given, and a little before day they were discovered, and Sir Henry and his Soldiers so played the men, as they killed the most of them, took three score prisoners, and some leaping over the wall broke their necks, some lie yet hidden in some of the Townes-mens' houses as some prisoners inform; so the town was preserved with that slaughter of the enemies and not above four of our men killed; the fight being hot, and fierce in the night, sir Henry lest his Soldiers should hurt one another, he caused them to put white papers in their hearts to difference them from the enemy.  
On Thursday our Pinnace was coming away, she struck aground in the Harbour too far for sir Henry to relieve them, and too near the Rebels, where there was a terrible fight, our poor Pinnace lying a ground, being not able to use her Ordinance; many Muskets shot on both sides, in the end the Rebbels waded to the side of the Pinnance, being but knee deep above a hundred of them, and fell on the Pinnace with Iron Crows and other engines to batter her) Captain Studley threw then amongst them some granadoes which killed many of them, and by the help of his Grannadoes having slain many of them, they ran away and quitted the Pinnace, whereof they held themselves so sure, until the Granades slew amongst them, as that they thought Studley their prisoner, bidding him yield.  
After that fight where we lost only on man a Lieutenant of sir Simon Harcots' Regiment whose name was Lieutenant Spark, under Captain Verneth. The Pinnace stood on ground until Monday, and the Rebels fearing the Granades, durst not attempt him any more, so Captain Studley with his Pinnace came away and arrived here last night.   

Dublin the twentieth Eighth of January.  
THe rebels reasaulted Tredarth the next day after the repulse, notwithstanding their loss and danger, but Sir Henry Tichborne entertained them with a fuller breakfast than supper, the night before he slew 800 of them or as most consent 600 of them, he took fifty Friars and priests and hanged them, and although it may seem strange that so many Grasehoppers should be together in one place yet it is the less Marvel since all the Papists are confident that their son is rising 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 mountains, & near it in their kenells; but the serpents in our own bosoms the faithful Intelligence from the Papist in Dublin, is such, that the Rebbels have notice of every particular in our design before we can act any thing 300. of them took to their best help their … les, and fled to the mountains for five or six miles together but our Soldiers killed eight of them that lay to long in their Caves; Forty of the Rebbels entered a Castle there with, in that we wanted materials we could not go further, but in the enterprise we lost siue of our horses and one man short, yet by good hap we regaind five of theirs and remounted our men and returned to Dublin, having prevented the nesling of the Rebels nerethe town to make our own sleep the more sound and secure.  
Three Captains of every regiment are appointed to search the City of dublin amongst the Papists, for ammunition and victuals to distribute among the Soldiers, by which many are like to far the better, and no doubt but the Cooks will lick their own fingers.  
They begin to want money at Dublin so as every house keeper is commanded to keep a fit number of the Soldiers proportionable to their estates until supply of money and victuals come from England which God speedly grant, Vale.  
 
The gentlemen's names that received these Letters.  
Master 

Henry Tichborne.  
Charles Latham.  
john Studley.  
George Wilford.    
FINIS.