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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91490	A letter written from Sir VVilliam Parsons, one of the lord justices of Ireland, to Sir Robert Pye, a worthy knight of the honourable House of Commons: published by his consent and other members of the said Commons House. This letter was received by Sir Robert Pye, the 9. of April.	Parsons, William, Sir, 1570?-1650.	1642 (1642)	Wing P577; Thomason E142_20; ESTC R8499	1,501	7

A LETTER WRITTEN FROM Sir VVILLIAM PARSONS One of the Lord Justices of IRELAND TO Sir ROBERT PYE A worthy Knight of the Honourable House of Commons Published by his consent and other Members of the said Commons House This Letter was received by Sir Robert Pye the 9. of April LONDON Printed for JOHN BARTLET 1642. A LETTER VVRITTEN from Sir VVIL PARSONS One of the Lo Justices in Ireland to Sir HENRY PYE a worthy Knight of the Honourable House of Commons Honoured Sir IN some late Letters I troubled you with some of the frowning occurrents of this place wherein I have had a heavy share as well of the sufferings in the ill as in my labours to fore-lay and prevent the worst Which labour I must say God hath wonderfully blest In so much as now I dare avow if England for their owne good much more then ours will set in roundly to enable us under a good Governour if God have so ordained us one we will make the mischiefes we have suffered the greatest addition to the glory security and happinesse of England that ever they had by any particular action For besides that we will for ever free them from the dishonours and dammages both in men and treasure which they have from Age to Age endured from and by occasion of this disloyall and malignant people the entire benefit of this unnaturall and high rebellion shall in a manner redound to themselves by setling here very great multitudes of the English which this Island can well receive and give them happy and plentifull being if God guide the conduct and conclusion of this Warre aright I entreat you Sir consider if the Irish had gained the Castle and City of Dublin which nothing could have hindred but the blessed sudden discovery and therein all the Kings Armes and Munition and therewithall the Port-townes and Shipping of Ireland and out of that strength had sent 30000. men into England as they entended whether their ravenage wherein they excell all men would not have beene more losse to England before they could have found competent resistance then all the money comes to which they are now to send us to reduce Ireland and make it theirs in a more firme way then ever it was since the Conquest If you be sparing to us this Summer you hurt your selves and the cause And therefore to our speedy and round supplyes I pray you put your helping hand in this act of reducement which must at last have beene done with infinite more difficulty and charge after the above mentioned horrible losse I doubt not but by late Letters you have heard that we have beaten the Enemy from Tredagh Now I must tell you that a partie of that late besieged garrison with the helpe of five hundred men sent from hence have marched and taken the Port-towne of Dondalke sixteene miles North-wards from Tredagh and there beaten out a thousand Rebels and taken the little Ordnance they had We want men and money extreamly when they come I undertake we shall not mis-apply them It is marvellous to see how spiritfull our few souldiers that have health are while we are not able to put shooes on their feet clothes on their backs or meat in their bellies save herrings and some salt beefe Neither have we any money at all which is the life of Warre Out of all which defects our souldiers doe so die daily before our faces besides what are slaine as without speedy supplies we shall not onely be frustrated in our promising beginnings but speedily sink into a desperate danger of utter losse I find by your late Letter to the Dutchesse that you heare there that the Earle of Antrim is in rebellion I assure you Sir it is not so neither I hope will be though truly through these tumults cutting betweene him and his late meanes here he is now in great and pinching want And which grieves me more the Dutchesse suffers very lamentably in it For my part I have helped her what I could but being deprived wholly of my poore estate by this rebellion I am able to doe no more Hereof I desire you and her friends there to be sensible and take it for a truth from 1. APR. 1642. Your assured friend and servant VV m PARSONS FINIS