Two famous Battles fought in Ireland: Wherein the Protestants under the command of the Earl of Ormond, Sr. Charles Coote, and Sr. Simon Harcourt, slew great numbers of the Rebels, routing them from one Town to another, and took divers prisoners to their great joy and comfort.  
Faithfully related in a Letter, sent from Mr. Ralph Parsons in Dublin, to Sr. William Brewerton, a worthy Member of the House of Commons.  
Received by the last Post, February 23. 1641.  
Whereunto is added, The brave Adventures and Victorious exploits of Captain Thomas Steutevile, near unto the Town of Drogheda in IRELAND.   two soldiers 
LONDON, Printed for J. Wright, 1642.   

February 19, 1641. Noble Sir,  
I Now send you all the news from the parts about Dublin, from the other Provinces we have none.  
Letters of the twelfth give us, that the Earl of ●rmond, Sir Charles Coote, and Sir Simon Harcourt, went with two Thousand foot, and three Hundred horse to the Nase, the first night they lay at Newcastle, seven miles from Dublin, that evening they sent to Racoole two hundred horse to burn what was left, one Hundred went to the Town, the other stayed in ambush, they no sooner came to the Town, but they were encountered with one Thousand Rogues, the horse retired to their ambush, which made the Rebels follow hard after them, in disorder, which the horse perceiving, both troops charged home and killed numbers of them, and so burned the Town, next day the Army went to the Nase, which they burned not, the Rebels durst not abide their coming, the Soldiers got very much pillage, and so bacl to Newcastle, they have burnt all the Towns this side the Nase, I shall not trouble you with their names, some prisoners of quality taken, as the Ashess and Aylmores.  
The twelfth of this instant, the Lord Lambert went forth of Dublin, ●o a place called Lauglinston, where were a Thousand Rogues, the Lord fought with the Rebels, rou●ed them and killed above a hundred, took much Pillage, and so returned home, in all these actions wherein you may see Gods great goodness we lost not one man, but a Soldier hurt, the Lord Lambert brought home some twenty prisoners, which I believe are now hanged, there came one Captain Codogan the fifth of this Month from Tredagh by Sea, he went away again the twelfth, and there was to follow him instantly three Ships, and some ten Gabards to victual the Town for two months, I pray God send them safe, he brings news that all are well there, and have killed above a thousand of the Rebels, since Sir Henry Tichburnes being there, the Lord Moor shows himself a gallant man, and ventures as far as any man: there is a jury at the King's Bench, where are indicted the Freeholders of the Countries of Dublin, Kildar, Meath, and Wicklar, I believe they will not appear, than the Bills of Treason cannot but pass.  
I am confident the King will get land enough to plant a better, and a more permament generation, and Gods true worship settled. Sin you may see how the case stands about Dublin, I doubt not but where resistance is made in other parts, the English will do the like; if the King and Parliament please, that our succours go overspeedily, we shall be able to run through the Kingdom, for assure yourself the Rebels want powder, & that might be stopped, if shipping were on the coast to keep away that provision, so consequently the work the shorter. There hath not a passage been made to Dublin from hence this six weeks, I believe the reason the Post boats dare not venture, but with a very fair wind, lest they be driven amongst the Rebels, some Pinnace with Ordnance for that purpose were very convenient, that would not care to go in all weathers, and would be able to defend herself, if occasion were, I send you a Proclamation which gives you what the state do there. We hear that Sir Nicholas White and his eldest son are for Treason in the Castle, he is a great and leading man in the Country of Kildare, I believe by this something is done with him at the King's Bench Bar; the offence, that he stood on his Castle at Lexis, where the poor English were Pillaged, and that the Commanders were in his house, and some of the Pillage found there, his son at the Nase with the Rebels, he is father in law to the Lord Castello, and Master Tafe, there may be some working, but you know what to do.  
Sir I am afraid I am too troublesome, I shall take my leave and shall over be  
Yours to do you faithful service RALPH PARSONS.  
I hope to morrow morning our Soldiers will under sail, all reardy for that.   

A TRUE RELATION Of those passages which happened unto Captain Thomas Steutevile, unto the Town of Droghedagh, else Tredagh.  
ON Sunday, Captain Stutevile late in the night set sail, having with him the Swan, two Friggots, one Gubard, and two long Boats. And going along the Coasts, the Captain sent out of the Swan some Musqueteeres to the Sherreis, where he found the enemy fled, but had left behind them much goods, which being all taken aboard by them, they set the Town on fi●e: and with it got above 500 l. worth of Corn. Then returning unto their Ship on Tuesday, they came safe to the Bar of Droghedah, where Captain Stutevile with his five small Vessels loaden with Victuals and Ammunition put over, and went up the River not without much danger; the Rebels having made a kind of a Block house upon the entrance into the River, whereon they had planted two pieces of Ordnance, and all along in Treaches within both sides of the River were placed Musq●eteers; and he being not able to pass, but continually within Musquet-shot of either, for two miles together; his Ordnance but seldom availing him any thing (by reason of the height of the shore above him;) yet (God be thanked) he got safe within the Town with his Vessels, without the loss of a man (he having with him 124 Musqueteers, besides Ship men.) But to express the joy of the Soldiers in the Town, requires a quicker Genius than mine own, or at least one that had felt their wants. The Rebels supposing that there would be such joy, and that by reason of the Soldiers, now having store of victuals, they would altogether drown themselves in security, (as it is thought) dealt under hand with some Centuries that were on the Walls, and broke in at a place where there had been a Shallop-Port, so that two might come with stooping low, on a breast; in at which, 'tis certain 500 got, and marched a great way into the Town, until at last one of their chief Captains was perceived by a common Soldier of ours, to turn a Piece of Ordnance that stood upon the bridge, towards the Town.  
The Soldiers seeing this, shot, and killed the Captain, and gave the Alarm. Whereupon our Soldiers gathered so fast, that they wholly discovered the Rebels, and had the kill of 160 of them, and took prisoners 40, some escaped thorough the place they came in at, and others over the Wall, yet many broke their necks at that sport; some one 100 is thought to be yet in the Town, hidden in Papists houses, and is confessed by some of the householders that were found faulty that way; that it was intended by the Townsmen, to have cut the throats of all the Officers that lay in their houses, upon this assault. But (God be thanked) in all this we lost not one man. And on Thursday, Captain Steutevile set forth out of the Town, and came with less danger than before to the Bar, where he was on ground, and was forced to stay for want of water; for the Tide being spent, he lay in a manner dry, the rest of the Shipping forsaking him; whereupon the enemies came down, thinking to have taken him and his Ship; but he laid about him so well, that he killed 20 of them; yet they not contented with this (but like desperate villains) got underneath the stern of the Ship some 30 of them, where he could do them little hurt, and there they be laboured themselves with a Pickax and a crow of iron, and broke the Ship almost through; whereupon he threw some six Granades amongst them, and they finding themselves fewer by six, by reason of them, and many of themselves to want plasters about the thighs and shins; and the 7th cast, thought their heels their best safeguard, leaving behind them some Pikes and Swords, one Target, Picke-axe, and a crow of iron. Then he finding himself quit of them, the next Tide hoisted up sails, and came in this day safe into our Town of Dublin; but we cannot hear any certainty of the other Vessels that forsook him, only we fear that by reason of the winds, they were driven Northerly.  
FINIS.