Text this: A letter from the Earle of Forth, to His Excellency Robert Earle of Essex, Lord Generall, &c. dated 15 Feb. 1643. And His Excellencies answer thereunto dated 19 Febr. 1643. Also a petition of the well-affected nobility and gentry of the realm of Ireland, who have suffered under the bloody rebels there; and presented to the Lords Justices, to be presented to His Majesty, which was done accordingly; and the agents accepted to come to His Majesty.