exceeding certain and true NEWS FROM 

Munster.  
Lemster,  
Waxford,  
Ulster,  
Conough,  
Tiperar●y,  
AND DUBLIN;   Otherwise called the English Pale.  
Being the true Copy of a Letter sent From a Merchant in Dublin, a man well known in London, one Captain Scout, a Dutchman, living on the Merchant's Key, near Sir William Parsons, one of the Lord justices of IRELAND To his worthy friend Mr. VAN HOOKER.  
Bearing Date, January 2. 1643.  
January 9 Printed by T. Faucet, for J. B. 1643.   

The last true Intelligence from the Kingdom of IRELAND;  
THe Distractions of England hath been and yet is so mighty dangerous, and so horrid fearful, that we have neither Ears to receive Calamities of our afflicted poor Brothers the Protestants in Ireland, nor searce Christian hearts to pity them, being every man fearful to endute the like here, if not worse, without the infinite me●ey of God be pleased to stop it, with the settling of his true Church in order, I mean the reformed Protestant Religion, with abolishing of Papists, Atheists, and other vild Sects, that choke the true Gospel, and the peace of these Kingdoms, the which poor Ireland hath, and still lives in, with that continuance of grief, that is insensible to any but those which lately have. to give a feeling relation of the same, for those Protestant Gentry that through good hap hath escaped to Dublin, from the barbarous cruelty of the murdering Rebels, men both well landed, and Moneyed, yet have they been in Dublin, (after their moneys have been gone) glad to fallen their Plate, such as some by stealth could get thither, for half a Crown, and two shillings an Ounce, yea, and for eighteen pence an Ounce, Gold Rings of two and twenty shillings weight, for seven shillings, and glad any man will so befriend them, Pewter threepences, and two pence half penny, and two pence a pound, and the best Brass the same, Bedding and other Household stuff worth nothing, so that English Protestants that have a long time been livers in the Kingdom, Citizens of Dublin, who have by gathering all their lise times a competent subsistence for them, and for their Children, hare by the lessing of Soldiers put upon them, for pay they have not had, nor their Commanders to give them, by which means they have been eat and drunk out of all mon●ies and goods to relieve them with, as by the sad relation of an Englishman, a Cook who kept an Ordinary at the sign of the Bell, as many here can witness, was a man very able only by his pains taking and trade, yet be had such a Company seast upon him, that it utterly undid him, for by his hour confession now in London to many of the Parliament, had but run laid upon his charge, he could have maintained both him, them and his Household well enough, likewise so all the City more and less do thus complain, Markets they have, but flesh very poor, sqashey. and unwholesome, which hath as many conjecture, bred fluxes, and diseases among them, Bread scarce and course, Butter very little, and as dear, and that place so plentiful heretofore for Eggs, one sold for a penny, yet is that Town by the strong supportrance of the Castle, impossible to be taken, and for treachery they have and still take a good course to have no dealing or commerce with the Irish or Papist, though English, is there are some, yet tha●kes be to God for it, they have had good relief by the Sea for Fish, as from Rulloch the only Herring-place six miles from Dublin, have be●n sent up by Boats, infinite of Cod, Haddock, Place, and like Fish, Herrings thirty for a penny, for the poorer sort that have nothing to do, but their pains (may have them for fetching) as for the Rebels in all parts of the Country, as namely the Provinces of Munster, Connough, Limstar, Ulster, and the li●e by reason of our distractio●s here in England, (h●ping th●t it will have no cessation of Arms) or unnatural War one with the other will be still, have in all those parts, being lest alone by the English, Ploughed, Tilled, and sown great store of Corn, as Whea●e, Rye, Oates, Barley, Beanes, Pease, and Fetches, but the most part is Oates and Barley, in hope of a plentiful Crop, and enjoying the Harvest to themselves, with Summars Aid from Spain and other places, for some of their Commanders have stole away, since the Earl of Warwick left his Charge upon the Sea, to come unto the Parliaments employment on the Land, now the Rebels being there, intent to raise Forces, and transport them out of Spain, into Ireland, if they can get them over.  
But God I trust as he hath still will ever frusterate their ill intents and make the sea their grave that thinks to kill and bury us on land, who as they suppose have all save Dublin in their possession, who come not ne'er it, nor hath such intent, because their Devilish Priests of antichrist, that were the sit'st incendiaries of this evil, still fat's them up with promise of their land and all sh●ll be their own and they to live happy, I fear happier than when their patron blessed Saint Patrick made all almost in common in their Land, and did so holy sanctify the same, that all ill moving Creatures from that earth as Frogs, Toads, Adders, Snakes. blud-wormes, Mules, and Asses, he charmed down from a mountain to the sea, and as their ill tutard ignorance reports, he sent them into England, Scotland, Wales, and the Isle of man, Shepey Garusey, and other Lands seated in the sea, but had saint Patrick b●n worthy of that name he would a banished them into the Sea being worse vermin and the evil natured, who since there wilderness of wolves have been destroyed, they have drawn their natures and conditions from them and are the same themselves, and now live in that self security, as they were Israel's Children and that Land were their promise, and poor Rogues, that always naked lived on mountains, or on moors half starved, and eaten up with louse, which vermaine their Saint Patrick left enough off, now play on Tabers and on Drum beds for handfuls, and for purses filled with silver and with gold, which they have robbed and murdered English for, and vows as it is credibly reported, before the English ere should repossess their own again they would chock●e themselves with it, or throw it in the sea, or bury it in the earth, so mighty is their hate to those that have reform them from bad, as beasts into humanity, tell now they lost it, and now themselves in midst of all their wealth doth even no more but tantalise upon it, for in all parts is sedition raised amongst them round.  
There friars in their disputattons jar with each other.  
Father against Father, Doctrine against Doctrine.  
And many of the wisest and the noblest of them have drawn forth heads and meetings with each other, cursing the first begetters of this Rebellion for they themselves term it no better now.  
Together with their sad Relations, of their future happy lives, both they, their fathers, and their granfathers, before them, and how with peace and plenty, they were blest, each Raining as a King over his own.  
This in all parts is taken into consideration of their wisest, who thinks to find favour by suppressing the rest.  
Some Skirmishes they have had, and as it credibly reported, they are very like to destroy themselves.  
Which if God of his mercy send a true and firm uniting betwixt the King and Parliament, they have but short continuance, or time to rain in these cruel outrages.  
Your Friend to Command J. Skout.   
FINIS.