TRUE NEWS FROM MUNSTER IN IRELAND, Being a Copy of a Letter sent to the Countess of THOMOND in Northamptonshire. Cork the fourth of june 1642.  
LONDON, Printed for Henry Seyle, june 16. 1642.   

True News from Munster in Ireland, being the Copy of a Letter sent to the Countess of Thomond in Northamptonshire.  
Cork the 28 of May, 1642.  
Right Honourable,  
YOu may please to take notice, that (thanks be to God) the 20. of this present, I arrived safe here, and this day Captain Constable will be here dispatched to be ready for the first fair Tide to set Sail for Kinsaile, and from thence to Limmerick where he might have been by this, had he not been ordered to touch in these Ports. But now whether he will be able to relieve the Castle of Limmerick or no is uncertain; In regard Limmerick men have built two Blockhouses upon the River, and placed Ordnance in each, the one at Cortebarck on Munster side, the other on Thomond side, and chained up the River between, as it is credible reported: there is Captain Coles ship and one more now in the River; But the news is that they cannot relieve the Castle. The report here is for certain that the Lord Muskry, and the Lord Roch are now at Limmerick; Their success in these parts of late having not been so pleasing as they expected, and Limmerick being now grown to a great strength, and the place intended for the Enemy's refuge: The Castle they much aim at, and no certainty whither it be ours or no, it is much feared it will be very hard recovering of it. The Lord President is not yet thoroughly recovered of his sickness, and many much doubt that he will hardly ever recover, which would be a great loss in these parts: Yet he is daily up, and this day hath sent part of his goods to Dunraile whither he intends to go the next week to dwell. The remainder of the 2000 men came to Town yesterday, which hath been no small comfort to the Lord President and all the English in these parts, and a great discomfort to the Irish, For surely they thought there would not have been any more aid sent into these parts. It hath been so long a coming; were here 1000 or 2000 more, the Lord Precedent would then speedily for Limmerick and these parts, were but these Townsmen to be trusted and the Lord Muskeries Castle down, which I think will be aimed at the next week, than it would be reasonable clear here. For the passage by land from hence to Kinsaile, Bandon-Bridge, Mallogh and Dunraile is without much danger, and likewise to Youghall, in regard the Earl of Barrimore keeps all his Country in safety, out of which parts the Market is daily supplied here.  
On thursday last the Lord Inchiquin came hither, who told me that he had a man with him some eight days since which came then out of Thomond; at which time my Lord of Thomond was yet safe in his Castle at Bunratty, and that divers of the English Castles do yet hold out, but feared that provision grows short with them: Some English have been forced to submit to the enemy and yield up their Castles and so to Mass. One Castle called Inchecrony, where Anthony Heathcot lived some twelve miles from Bunratty, where divers English were, was taken by the Shanese and all the English put to death, only Heathcot and his wife, for whom my Lord of Thomond ventured hard himself with one hundred men, and brought them off to his own house at Bunratty. But his Lordship's Park is broke up by the Rebels, and all his stock droven from him. The Lord Inchiquin hath promised to go over the river into Thomond within three weeks at furthest, and carry some five hundred men with him, which he hopes will make reasonable good work in those parts.  
The Lord Inchiquin doubts not, but if my Lord of Thomond had 2000 men in Thomond, it would suffice there, the enemy being but weakly armed: and if the Parliament have not ordered some for Thomond by this time, than the English there must needs be in the miserablest case of any in Ireland, in regard Limmerick is like to be the seat of these wars, Galloway for certain is out but the Fort relieved.  
Two Castles near adjoining have been by our Forces taken since my coming hither, but the pillages in them very small; the one was rendered upon quarter, the other shot down, where were slain some fifty men, women and children, not any escaping, only some six or seven that scaped through a breach they made at the West side adjoining to a Bog: There were not any of our men lost, only nine hurt, but there is hope of their recovery: This Castle was within a mile and half of my Lord Muskeries, and he, (than there) though fled to Limmerick since with his Forces, was by our soldiers expected: But surely he was very weak in munition, or very cowardly, otherwise he would then have showed himself. About the nineteenth of this month, the Lord Inchiquin and some eighty Horse, with an hundred Musketeers, was set upon by four hundred of the Lord Roches and Caudens ablest Forces, hard by the Lord Roches Castle, called Castletowne; but it pleased God to bring the Lord Inchiquin off, and his company without any loss, only one Horse; but there were slain of the Lord Roches men about an hundred and forty, the rest they forced into the Castle, burned the outward gate, recovered two drums, two cellars, and some fifty muskets. Since the Lord Inchiquin, and Mr. jepson have burnt all the Lord Roches Country, and Caudens. At present I have not else to trouble your Honour withal, only with my earnest prayers for you and yours I humbly take leave ever to remain  
Your Honour's most humble servant to be commanded Maurice Cuffe.  
FINIS.