A TRUE COPY OF A LETTER Sent from PATRICK ROCH A Romish Priest in Ireland, to Doctor Washington, provost of the College of Dublin, and to the whole Society.  
Wherein may plainly appear their further Machinations, and Plot-workes towards the subversion of protestanisme, if God permit.  
Likewise a short Description of the Rebels proceed, as it was sent in a posscript of the same Letter.  
Sent in a Letter from Mr. William Reymond, Student and fellow of the College to Mr. Charles Frank, Mintster of God's Word in Suffolk, in former times his Chamberfellew in the University of Cambridge.  
First printed at Dublin and now reprinted at London for Richard Cooper, 1641   

THE COPY Of a Letter sent from Patrick Roch, a Romish priest in Ireland, to Doctor Washington, provost of the College of Dublin, and to the whole Society.  
SIR,  
I Am confident that you, and the rest of your society are not insensible of the insolent affronts, the true Catholics of late years have endured, and these, since your predominance in the University, have been aggravated several ways: I am sorry that your frustating the expectations of your real wellwishers (I mean the Roman Catholics) have forced me to brand you with the title of an ill disposed Governor, and enemy to that true Church, whereof you ought to be a prime Member.  
It is strange that you should be guided by the giddy brains, and illiterate persuasions of puny fellows, whose Learning hath been admired, and discretion unparallelled in the University of Oxford.  
It is not to be denied, but that this College was sounded, and consecreted to the studies of religions men, whose good works here on earth might merit happiness, and in the world to come make them shine forth as the Sun in the kingdom of their Father.  
But your society have made it a den of Thiefs by robbing the Natives of this kingdom of their privileges (yea their Birth-rites) and extirpating those, whose lights would so shine forth to this Kingdom, that all the world might see their good works, and the blessed Saints by their servant prayers intercede for the welfare of all the Inhabitants to Almighty God.  
You may, I am sure, will curse the time that you arrived safe in Ireland, if you do not speedily curb the arrogancy of your Associates, who daily prate against our Catholic Religion, and in their pulpits abbrobe the authority of our Church, and holy Father the Pope.  
But what needs there more: had we not conceived better hopes, this warning-piece had not gone off. Be wise and charitable to yourselves at length; if not to us (for it gins at home) we need it not. The God of charity hatd heard our prayers, & hath not stopped his ears to his distressed Militants here on earth: his battle we sight, we fear no bad event the cause being his own.  
He cannot forsake us, because he cannot leave himself.  Et si Deus pro nobis, quis contaa nos. 
But I will keep no longer from you, what in my duty I must impart: prevent now a course, if not too late, from your forsaken Mother the Church of Rome. It is already gone forth I fear, if our last letters have not prevailed: but his Holiness, who if without offence I ma speak, being as merciful as his Father of Heaven is merciful, hath in his last good Letters enclosed this, which accept, and consider of.  If they will embrace the truth they may: if not proceed. 
Sir, This needs no interpretation, his holy meaning (who as yet I am sure never erred) is already deciphered in characters of blood. A poor beginning of Christ's revenge, unless according to all Christians desire the issue prove more successful; for we hearty wish, and endeavour if you persist, as I may use that accussed Heretics word in the Scottish cause, to extirpate you both root & branch; dream not of other Assistants, although policy may persivade you: your cause in your own consciences is wrong, witness our happy proceed so prosperously, so successfully atcheived.  
There are not a few wise men assembled in England to whom these affairs are open.  
Were they as truly pious, as wise, making the Palace of Westmihster a true old Roman, not a Christian Senate, they would not Heathen-like so hastily contrive their, and your own ruins; and as the true Copies of those former Tyrant's joy in the bloodshed of so many Catholics whose separation from the body cannot please, unless their miserable, and never too much to be lamented Car'Kasses be on their public Gates exalted, and exposed a ridiculous object to their posterity.  
This alone is a sufficient warrant for all our unjust miscalled cruelty: and he that hitherto hath furnished us with 30000. will triple the number, since he hath promised never to fail those who really call upon him.  
For we appeal unto his Almighty Throne, that neither poverty, sickness, or calamity true Mothers of Rebellion, together with unequal Taxations, or impositions, those first fruits of murmuring. have caused our resistance, but only the cause of Christ, and his vilified Church, as before the dreadful seat of Judgement we hope one day to answer, is, a ever shall be an occasion, now, and at all times, of the hazarding of our goods, lives, and fortunes, toward the confusion of God's perfect Enemies.  
So with only this, I leave you. Fear not him that can destroy the body, but him that can destroy both soul and body eternally,  
Your yet not despairing Wellwisher, and true Servant of the Catholic Church, Patrick Roch. Tredagh, Shortly in the shortest day of our year, Decemb. 11. 1641.   

REader, this is the true and perfect Copy of that Letter, which was privately sent by Master William Reymond one of the fellows of the college in Dublin, to Mr. Charles Francke, a Minister of God's Word in Suffolk.  
FINIS.