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A38652	A copy of a letter from the Earle of Essex, by order of the pretended Houses of Parliament, to Prince Rupert with His Highnesse answer thereunto.	Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646.; Rupert, Prince, Count Palatine, 1619-1682.	1645 (1645)	Wing E3310; ESTC R8995	3,951	8

A COPY OF A Letter from the Earle of ESSEX By Order of the Pretended Houses of PARLIAMENT TO PRINCE RUPERT WITH HIS HIGHNESSE ANSWER THEREUNTO OXFORD Printed by Leonard Lichfield Printer to the Vniversity 1645. For his Highnesse PRINCE RUPERT GENERALL SIR THE two Houses of Parliament have received Information that because the Committee at Shrewesbury caused Thirteen Irish Rebels taken in Hostility against the Parliament to suffer Death according to an Ordinance of Parliament herewith sent Therefore by your expresse Commands Thirteene English Protestants who had Quarter given them by your Officers that took them Prisoners were notwithstanding murthered upon coole bloud and that you have resolved to proceed in the same manner for the future A Relation and Resolution so strange that the truth thereof might justly be suspected were it not verified by letters from that Committe of the 24th of March last to the Speaker of the House of Commons and by a Letter of the 23. of March sent to the same Committee by your direction and subscribed by one Ralph Goodwin your Secretary as is informed which doth own avow the Fact And therefore the two Houses of Parliament being deeply affected with such cruell Massacres committed upon their Protestant Brethren whose Lives they value as their owne have commanded me to acquaint your Highnesse that it is evident by undoubted Proofe that the Rebels of Ireland what ever they pretended to some on this side the Sea did really intend by that odious Rebellion to wrest that Kingdom for ever from the Crowne of England to the utter disherison of the King His Posterity And to extirpate the English Nation and Protestant Religion and for that purpose have sollicited by their Agents the bringing over of Powerfull Aydes from Forraigne Parts to assist them in this their intended Conquest And have set vp the Spanish Colours publiquely both at Wexford and Gallway Have caused their Captaines Officers and others to make Oath before their Titular Clergy That they shall not suffer any English or Protestant to live in that Kingdom That they prosecuted this horrid designe by murthering hanging drowning burning alive and starving within few Months in one Province one hundred fifty four Thousand of harmles Brittish Protestants Men Women and Children without distinction of Age or Sexe without any provocation given but living securely by them in a full and setled Peace That the King first by Proclamation attested by His own Royall Signature and Privy Seale hath Procl●●ed them Traytors and Rebels and since that time both King and Parliament by foure severall Acts of Parliament have declared and stiled them in the same manner And further His Majesty by Act of Parliament hath consented That all Pardons granted to them or any of them before Attaindor shall be voyd Now that such bloody barbanous Miscreants so odious both to God and men so obnoxious to Law and Iustice even by the Judgment of both sides comming out of Ireland where they neither did give nor receive Quarter to burne and lay wast this Kingdom as they have done that should after all this be admitted to receive Quarter here and consequently be made equall in Exchange with the English Nation and Protestants The Lords and Commons of the Parliament of England cannot with Religion Honour or Justice in any sort consent unto it And have commanded me to let your Highnesse and all other Commanders on that side know That if hereafter upon executing the Irish Rebels in pursuance of that just Ordinance any unjust Pretext shall be made to murther in coole blood any Officer Souldier or Seaman in the service of the Parliament That the two Houses have resolved and do hereby declare that for every Officer Souldier and Seaman so causelesly massacred they shall and must though with deep sorrow and reluctancy cause so many of the Prisoners remaining in their Power to be put to Death in the same manner And therefore do earnestly desire your Highnesse and all other your inferiour Commanders to forbeare by such prodigious Cruelty to embase the value of the English Nation which they are confident will be resented with indignation even by those English Protestants who are for the present deceived into Armes against the Protestant Religion and the Parliament of England To whom they shall be ready to allow Quarter and equall exchange as before and for whom they daily pray That Almighty God would open their eyes and reduce them into the right way Sir this being all I have in Command I take my leave and remaine Your humble Servant ESSEX Westminster the 4th of April 1645. The Copy of the Order mentioned in the foregoing Letter Die Iovis 24. Octob. 1644. THe Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament of England doe declare That no Quarter shall be given hereafter to any Irish-man nor to any Papists what soever borne in Ireland which shall be taken in Hostility against the Parliament either upon the Sea or within this Kingdom or Dominion of Wales And therefore doe Order and Ordaine That the Lord Generall Lord Admirall and all other Officers and Commanders both by Sea and Land shall except all Irish-men and all Papists borne in Ireland out of all Capitulations Agreements and Compositions hereafter to be made with the Enemy And shall upon the taking of every such Irish-man or Papist borne in Ireland as aforesaid forthwith put every such Person to death And t is further ordered and Ordayned That the Lord Generall Lord Admirall and the Committees of the severall Counties doe give speedy Notice hereof to all subordinate Officers and Commanders by Sea and Land respectively who are hereby required to use their utmost Care and Circumspection That this Ordinance be duly executed And lastly the Lords and Commons doe declare That every Officer and Commander by Sea or Land that shall be remisse or negligent in observing the Tenor of this Ordinance shall be reputed a Favourer of that bloody Rebellion of Ireland And shall be lyable to such condigne punishment as the Iustice of both Houses of Parliament shall inflict upon him Io. Browne Cleric Parliamentor For the Earle of ESSEX Generall MY LORD I Received your Lordships Letter of the fourth of this Moneth on the eleventh and cannot but wonder that it should seem strange to the two Houses that I should cause those Prisoners which were taken in Armes against His Majesty to be used in the same manner and by the same measure as His Majesties good Subjects taken Prisoners in the act of their duty are used by those that take them Those Souldiers of mine that were barbarously murthered in cold bloud after Quarter given to them at Shrewsbury were those who during the time they were in Ireland served His Majesty stoutly constantly and faithfully against the Rebels of that Kingdome and after the Cessation they were by His Majesties Command transported to serve Him in this where they honestly performed the duty of Souldiers and therefore I were unworthy