BERNARD, Nicholas, Dean. A letter sent from Dr Bernard parson at Tredagh to Sir Simon Harcourt’s lady in Westminster - London: 1641 [42]. 4to. pp. [i], 6. Modern half morocco. Very good. Wing...

BERNARD, Nicholas, Dean. A letter sent from Dr Bernard parson at Tredagh to Sir Simon Harcourt’s lady in Westminster - London: 1641 [42]. 4to. pp. [i], 6. Modern half morocco. Very good. Wing printing under this authorship but an edition wrongly crediting the information to Sir Simon Harcourt himself is to be found at Sweeney entry 2228. Exceedingly rare. No copy located in COPAC. The text title “an abstract of newes since our releife, January 11. to the 20. of February. Drogedagh Feb. 23 1641.” A vivid piece of descriptive reporting by the dean: “The whole designe of the rebels wee saw was to starve us by burning all the corne and hay within two miles of us; they drew often nigh in the darke nights, and in mockery askt our sentinels, if we had yet eaten up our cabbadge stalks and horse hides: And indeed famine was such length with the common souldiers, that horses. dogges and cats were good meat.” Sweeney 383.

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