A COPY OF A LETTER CONCERNING THE TRAITOROUS CONSPIRACY OF THE REBELLIOUS PAPISTS in IRELAND:  
Being a true Relation, written by a Gentleman of good worth, who hath suffered by them much damage and loss in his estate, and hardly escaped with his life.  
LONDON, Printed in the Year, 1641.   

The Copy of A Letter sent from Ireland.  
Sir,  
I am glad to hear of your health by your Letter of the second of this month. And for the Conspiracy in Ireland it is so certain, that I can assure it unto you by my own experience of the evils, for on Sunday was a seven-night last, when it was to have been executed generally throughout the whole kingdom, I was then at my Country house some 26 miles from Dublin, and some murmurings there was of an insurrection, but privately whispered, But at a place called Kells a Market Town within a mile of my house, a mighty Concourse of Papists were at Mass, which was said that day, for the good success of the Plot, and a pardon to all that should go boldly on in the Adventure. I was at Church that day in the Town, (and I praise GOD) served him without any such fear: but yet recollecting some things from all these matters of suspicion, I set a watch in my Town, and went to bed, and at midnight there was an alarm given, as if the Rebels had been come to Kells, but it was my own neighbours of Kells, that were the Rebels indeed. But that intimation needed not make me go, for my wife and I in that extremity (having eight good geldings in the stable) shaked on our , and so many servants as we had horses for within the doors, took our flight for our lives, and got 〈◊〉, or 12 miles by break of the day, when all the Townsmen of Kells came to my house, and thence drove away some 13 hundred fair English sheep, two hundred Milch Cowes young and old, some worth five pounds, and most worth four pounds a piece, some twenty or two and twenty horses, Mares and Colts, that were abroad young and old, twenty Swine, and as much householdstuff, plate and jewels, Linen and such like goods, as was not so little worth within doors as Six hundred pounds. And thus in two hours' space I was made two thousand pound the worse in my estate. But the safety of my wife, and children's lives, and of my own, who was especially designed to have my throat cut as a leading man, hath so sweetened my cross as (I thank my God) I suffer it with much patience and chieerfulness, and so doth my wife also, and God be praised we are all now gotten safely to Chester, where I believe all the Ladies and Gentlewomen of Dublin and near thereabouts are come, that the Town is full. I mean to place my wife, and children here, till we hear how things will go, and I purpose God willing to be at London with you ere it be long, in the mean time if the party be come, pray tell him I must not fail of my moneys for my own supply, for I protest we escaped with the  on our backs and of 500 pound rents now due at all Saints, I fear me, the Kingdom now stands in such a condition, as not a penny will be gotten of it. For the plot it was this, that in one day the Castle of Dublin and all the King's forts in Ireland should have been taken, and all the Protestants throats cut throughout all that Kingdom.  
The Intelligence I received since I came away is thus written. viz. The news certain is that there hath been a design for the blowing up of Christ-Church in Dublin, but by the mercy of God deafeated, and certain barrels of Gunpowder found under the Church. Divers Rogues have endeavoured to fire the Suburbs, but are taken and two Gibbets set up for their sudden execution. Lieutenant Britteridge though outwardly a Protestant hath Combined with the Papists in both designs and is fuddenly to be hanged, I am surprised by the Post who is going or I had written more.  
Chester the sixth of November, 1641. \