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act_n	king_n	parliament_n	successor_n	2,446	5	9.0199	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77534	Two remarkable letters concerning the Kings correspondence with the Irish rebels. The first by Digby in the Kings name to the Irish Commisioners. The second from the Lord Muskery one of those Commissioners in answer to Digby. Also a full state of the Irish negotiation at Oxford now treated, set forth in the rebels propositions, and the Kings particular concessions. Published according to order.	Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677.; Clancarty, Donogh MacCarty, Earl of, 1594-1665.; Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677. Two letters of his sacred Majesty.	1645 (1645)	Wing B4785; Thomason E300_8; ESTC R200255	11,715	16

him to comply any longer with them or to joyn again with their opposites The condition of the Irish Papists also is but little better for they to ingratiate with the King have committed most execrable massacre upon the Irish Protestants yet now at last they begin to find that they have no more assurance of the King then we had The Lord help us and disabuse all that erre and recall every one into the right path further I will not forestall your judgment I am yours to command A. B. Postscript SIR I have since thought good to send you also copies of the Rebels late Propositions and the Kings condiscentions thereunto Onely understand they were intercepted about six months since and I beleive the King hath since condiscended to much more for it hath been his fortune alwayes hitherto to be as humble a suitor to the Rebels for good tearms as we have been to him The Propositions of the Roman-Catholicks of Ireland humbly presented to his Sacred MAJESTIE in pursuance of their Remonstrance of grievances and to be annexed to the said REMONSTRANCE 1. THat all Acts made against the professors of the Roman Catholike faith whereby any restraint penalty or incapacity may be laid upon any Roman Catholick within the Kingdom of Ireland may be repealed and the said Catholiques to be allowed the freedome of the Roman Catholike Religion 2. That your Majesty be pleased to call a free Parliament in the said Kingdome to be held and continued as in the said Remonstrance is expressed And the Statute of the tenth year of King Henry the seventh called Poynings Act and all Acts explaining or inlarging the same be suspended during that Parliament for the speedy settlement of the present affairs and the repeal thereof to be all are further considered of 3. That all Acts and Ordinances made and passed in the now pre●ended Parliament in that Kingdom since the seventh day of August 1641. be clearly annulled and declared void and taken off the ●●les 4. That all Indictments Attainders Outlawries in the Kings 〈◊〉 or elsewhere since the seventh day of August 1641. and all 〈…〉 rents Grants Leases Custodims● Bonds Recogni●… and all 〈◊〉 Records Act or Acts depending thereupon or in prejudice of the said Catholikes or any of them be taken off the fyles annulled and declared voyd First by your Majesties Proclamation and after by Act to be passed in the said free Parliament 5. That in asmuch as under colour of such Outlawries and Attainders debts due unto the said Catholiques have been granted levyed and disposed of and of the other side that debts due upon the said Catholicks to those of the adverse partie have been levyed and disposed to publike use that therefore all debts be by Act of Parliament mutually released notwithstanding any Grant or disposition 6. That the late Offices taken or found upon feigned or old titles since the yeare 1634. to intitle your Majesty to several Counties in Connaught ●homond and in the Counties of Jipperary Lymmerick Kilkenny and Wickloe be vacated and taken off the fyle and the Professor setled and secured in their ancient estates by Act of Parliament And that the like Act of limitation of your Majesties title for the security of the estates of your subjects of that Kingdom be passed in the said Parliament as was enacted in the 21 year of his late Majesties 〈…〉 Kingdom 7. That all marks of incapacity imposed upon the Natives of that Kingdom to purchase on acquire Lands Leases Offices or Hereditaments be taken away by Act of Parliament and the same to extend to the securing of Purchase or Leases or Grants already made and that for the edution of youth an Act be passed in the next Parliament for the erecting of one or more Innes of Court Universities Free and common schools 8. That the offices and places of Command Honour Profit and 〈◊〉 within that Kingdome be conferred upon Roman Catho 〈…〉 in equality and indifferencie with your Majesties other subjects 9. That the insupportable oppression of your subjects by reason of the Court of Wards and respit of Homage be taken away and a certain ●…venew in lieu thereof setled upon your Majesty without diminution of your Majesties profit 10. That no Lord not estated in that Kingdom or estated and not resident shall have note in the said Parliament by proxie or otherwise and none admitted to the House of Commons but such as shall be estated and resident in the Kingdome 11. That an Act be passed in the next Parliament declaratory That the Parliament of Ireland is a free Parliament of it self independant of and not subordinate to the Parliament of England and that the subjects of Ireland are immediately subject to your Majesty as in night of your Crown And that the Members of the said Parliament of Ireland and all other the subjects of Ireland are independant and no way to be ordered or concluded by the Parliament of England and are onely to be ordered and governed within that Kingdome by your Majesty and such Governours as are or shall be there appointed and by the Parliament of that Kingdome according to the lawes of the land 12. That the assumed power or jurisdiction in the Councell-Board of determining all manner of causes be limited to matter of State and all Patents estates and Grants illegally and extrajudicially avoyded there or elsewhere be left in state as before and the parties grieved their heirs or assignes till legall eviction 13. That the statutes of the eleventh twelfth or thirteenth year of Q. Elizabeth concerning staple commodities be repealed reserving unto his Majesty lawfull and just pound age and a book of rates to be setled by an indifferent Committee of both Houses for all commodities 14. That inasmuch as the long continuance of the chief Governor or Governors of that Kingdom in that place of so great eminence power hath been a principall occasion that much tyranny and oppression hath been exercised upon the subjects of that Kingdom That your Majesty will be pleased to continue such Governours hereafter but for three years And that none once imployed therein be appointed for the same again untill the expiration of 6 years next after the end of the said ● yeers And that an Act passe to disma●ble such Governour or G●… during their government directly or indirectly in use trust or other wise make any manner of purchase or acquisition of any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments within that Kingdom other then from your Majesty your Heirs or Successors 15. That an Act may be passed in the next Parliament for the raising and ●…ing of Trained-Bands within the severall Counties of that Kingdome aswell to prevent forrain invasions as to render them the more serviceable and ready for your Majesties occasions as shall require 16. That an Act of oblivion be passed in the next free Parliament to extend to all your Majesties said Catholick subjects and their adherent●… for all manner of offences capitall