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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87309	An act of state, made by the Lords justices and councell of Ireland, for the observation of the three and twentieth day of October yeerly, to be a day of thanks-giving, for the discovery and prevention of the horrible conspiracy and plot of the papists, to massacre all the protestants in that Kingdom. W. Parsons, Jo. Borlase.	Ireland. Lords Justices and Council.	1642 (1642)	Wing I323; Thomason E127_46; ESTC R4957	2,025	8

An ACT OF STATE Made by The Lords Justices and Councell OF IRELAND For the Observation of the Three and twentieth day of OCTOBER yeerly to be a day of Thanks-giving for the discovery and prevention of the horrible Conspiracy and Plot of the Papists to massacre all the Protestants in that Kingdom W. Parsons Jo. Borlase Printed first at Dublin by William Bladen Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty And now re-printed at London for Edward Husbands Novemb. 23. 1642. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ❧ By the Lords Justices and Councell W. Parsons Jo. Borlase WHereas many malignant and devillish Papists and Jesuits Friars Seminary Priests and other superstitious Orders of the Popish pretended Clergy most disloyally treacherously and wickedly conspired to surprize His Majesties Castle of Dublin His Majesties principall Fort in this Kingdom the City of Dublin and all other Cities and Fortifications in this Realm to massacre us the Lords Justices and Councell to destroy and root out all the Protestant Brittish and all other Protestants in this Realm and finally to deprive His Majesty of this His ancient and rightfull Crown and Soveraignty of this Kingdom and to possesse themselves thereof All which was by the said Conspirators plotted and intended to be acted on the 23 day of October in the Yeer of our Lord God 1641. A Conspiracy so inhumane barbarous and cruell as the like was never before heard of in any Age or Kingdom And if it had taken effect in that fulnesse which was intended by the Conspirators it had occasioned the utter ruine of this whole Kingdom and the Government thereof And howsoever it pleased Almighty God in his unsearchable Wisedom and Justice as a just punishment and deserved correction to us for our sins and the sins of this Nation to permit then and afterwards the effecting of a great part of that destruction complotted by those wicked Conspirators whereby many thousand Brittish and Protestants have been massacred many thousands of others of them have been afflicted and tormented with the most exquisite Torments that the malice of the devill could suggest to the mischievous Rebells And all mens Estates as well those whom they trayterously slew as all others are utterly wasted ruined and destroyed Yet as his Divine Majesty hath in all Ages shown his power and mercy in the miraculous and gracious Deliverance of his Church and in the protection of Religious Kings and States so even in the midst of his Justice he was graciously pleased to extend mercy to His Majesty and to this His Kingdom and good subjects therein not onely in miraculously discovering to us the Lords Justices that hideous and bloody Treason not many hours before the appointed time for the execution thereof but also in preserving the said Castle and City of Dublin and some other Cities Towns and Castles in the Kingdom from the bloody hands of the barbarous Conspirators as also in thereby rendring deliverance to the lives of us the Lords Justices and Councell and of all the Brittish and Protestants in Dublin and in the said other Cities Towns and Castles preserved and of sundry other Brittish and Protestants faln even into the hands of those Rebellious Conspirators and likewise in sending us succours wherby with Gods blessing we have hitherto continued safe under his mighty protection notwithstanding the unexampled rage and implacable fury and malice of those mercilesse enemies of Gods Truth Wherefore as we do most humbly and justly acknowledge Gods Justice in our deserved punishments in those calamities which from the Counsels and Actions of those Conspirators and their adherents are faln upon us and this Nation in generall so we do in like manner acknowledge That even in exercising of that his Justice he remembred mercy also and magnified his mercy to us in those great blessings which we humbly confesse to have proceeded meerly from his infinite goodnesse and mercy and therefore to his most holy Name we do ascribe all Honour Glory and Praise And to the end this unfained thankfulnesse may never be forgotten but may be had in a perpetuall Remembrance that all Ages to come may yeeld praises to his Divine Majesty for the same and have in Memory This joyfull day of Deliverance We do ordain and establish by this our Act of Councell in the mean time untill by Authority of Parliament it shall be made a Law to be delivered over to Posterity That all and singular Ministers in every Cathedrall and Parish Church or other usuall place for Common-Prayer in this Realm of Ireland shall always upon the 23 day of October say Morning Prayer and give thanks unto Almighty God for this most happy and miraculous Deliverance and for our preservation hitherto far above the expectation of those wretched Conspirators And that all and every person and persons inhabiting within this Realm of Ireland shall alwayes upon that day diligently and faithfully resort to the Parish Church or Chappell accustomed or to some usuall Church or Chappell where the said Morning Prayer Preaching or other Service of God shall be used and then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of the said Prayers Preaching or other Service of God there to be used and ministred And because all and every person may be put in minde of his Duty and be then better prepared to the said holy Service We do ordain and establish by this our Act of Councell That every Minister shall give warning to his Parishioners publikely in the Church at Morning Prayer the Sunday before every such 23 day of October for the due observation of the said day And that after Morning Prayer and Preaching upon the said 23 day of October they reade publikely distinctly and plainly this our Act of Councell Given at His Majesties Castle of DUBLIN the 14 day of October 1642. Ormond Ad. Loftus Geo Shurley Gerrard Lowther J. Temple Tho. Rotheram Fr. Willoughby Ja. Ware G. Wentworth Rob. Meredith FINIS