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A82040	The declaration and ingagement of the Protestant army in the province of Mounster. Under the command of the Right Honourable the Lord Baron Inchiquin.		1648 (1648)	Wing D530; Thomason E449_38; ESTC R205120	5,818	8

be their indeavour to make us so when we consider the arguments raised by Col Lambert and others of the Army against the Justice and lawfulnesse of this War on our parts and justifying the actions of the Rebels It having been avouched to some of our Faces that the English interest were better in the hands of the Rebels then in ours And there has not been wanting those of the Lord Lisles owne retinue who have openly professed that they made no distinction betwixt the Rebels and those of the Protestant party which they found upon the place his Lordships domestique Chappellane at the same time diffusing words of the same sence in the Pulpit whiles other Orthodox Divines were not admitted to preach But we shall summe up all their practises to obstruct our relief in this one instance of their late seizure upon the moneyes brought in upon the Ordinance of 20000. l. per Mens and taking the same out of the hands of our Treasurers so as that it may be feared That to have the War finished here before the perfection of their designes in England would prove to them the greatest dis-satisfaction in the world by means whereof many of our poor Souldiers have been aready swept into a miserable miserable Grave for whose lives as these men stand justly accomptable so will it be difficult for them to be freed of the guilt of all that blood which hath been shed in the service which but for their practices had been long agoe foreclosed And yet their confidence is remarkable for though these things have been visibly practised in our eyes yet we finde the cry raised aloud against the KING the eleven Members involving the Lord President for obstructing the war of Ireland and the Independents putting on as sober countenances as if their hands were innocent of our blood and that it were just that they should passe by plausibly unblameable And for this end they make that Criminall in some that they allow to be commendable in others If we importune Relief declare against Innovations in Government professe a readinesse to serve and obey the Parliament we must at least sue forth an Act of Indempnity and it is held for a speciall lenity that two of our Officers were not executed on that score But if the Army in England refuse to disband at the appointment of an Ordinance of Parliament or to obey the major Votes of the Houses and march up to the City of London with Banners displayed it shall not only be approved but made penall to us or any other that dare mention it with dislike though as being English-men and Subjects we esteeme our interest and propriety in the Law of the Land and liberty of the Subject proportionably as good as theirs Though these their private practices were sufficiently notorious unto us yet we were resolved to struggle with all difficulties to maintain the Protestant interest in these parts successively to the last man rather then by any Cessation with the Irish or otherwise to give a jealousie of forfeiting the least trust which was imposed in us by that authority which imlpoyed us hither while they continued in the Government we would not decline our obedience for the greatest hardships But now at last discovering the Resolutions of our Adversaries to cast off all obligations both to KING and Parliament rather then to faile in their intendments We conceive we are obliged by the Law of God and of the Kingdome not to assent unto their requirements whom Power not Justice hath seated in those places of Authority It is was ever a main Principle whereon all our Resolutions were grounded to contend for the safety of His MAJESTIES Person Prerogative for the freedom and priviledge of Parliament and liberty of the Subject as they were interwoven and had a cleere and mutuall Dependency each upon other And it was long before we could entertaine any suspition of a designe to engage us further untill the practice of the Independents party grew more obnoxious and that we saw His MAJESTY in effect deposed made Prisoner to the closest confinement The freedome of the Parliament highly invaded and their inclination and assent to a personall Treaty with His MAJESTY the onely expedient of a happy Peace made frustrate by the over-powering awe of the Army the Liberty of the Subject and Propriety of Interest totally suppressed and all other the genuine Immunities of that once glorious Nation made arbitrary at the pleasure and determination of the Armies dictations And though while these things were in our eye and observation we had still quiet desires of sitting silent and intent upon our own engagement here and the Prosecution and conduct of our charge in this Kingdome yet we came at last to discerne that if we would no be involved and ingaged in the same practises with those who were resolved to trample under foot the subject matter of our Nationall League that we should be made partakers of their ruine whom he had sworn to support of which besides other evidences we had that signall Testimony of the Vice-Admiralls demand in this Armies absence in the field of certaine persons committed to close custody for contriving the Armies ruine of his blocking up our Harbours thereupon and meanacing us with a Declaration of being enemies to the State and with the accesse of great Powers to suppresse and suddenly swallow us up though nothing considerable in twelve moneths space came to support the war against the Rebells unlesse we did declare for those who acted contrary to our and their own engagements of seducing encouraging our fugitive mutinous Souldiers abroad for the accomplishing the most wicked end of necessitating us to submit to famine or Cessation with the Irish All which we could not imagine he would presume to act without direction and authority from that part of the Parliament which is soly guided by the pleasure of the Army for the doing whereof he now avoucheth Authority at the same time that the Committee at Derby house assures us of the Houses confidence in our integrity And did therefore esteeme it absolutely necessary at a generall Rendezvous upon our return out of the field to declare and manifest our Intentions and Resolutions to the Souldiery as well to give them a cleer understanding of our intendments as to confirme them against the practises of seducers against whose charmes we resolve to arme our selves with these ensuing resolutions That we will not be involved by Consent or Cooperation in any Actions which shall tend to the violation of our publick engagements to the KING and Parliament nor prostrate our selves to a misguidance with those who with grief of heart we observe to be under the coercive inforcement of the Independent Power from which as we shall labour to restore them to their proper freedome so we shall not during their continuance under these Pressures esteeme our selves obliged to the Observance of any Injunctions which by the usurped Authority of the Independents they shall labour to lay upon us under the Notion of Parliament but the ensuing Protestation do declare First to improve our utmost endeavours for the Settlement of the Protestant Religion according to the example of the best Reformed Churches Secondly to defend the KING in his Prerogatives Thirdly to maintaine the Priviledges and freedome of the Parliament and the Liberty of the Subject And that in Order hereunto we shall oppose to the hazard of our lives those Rebells of this Kingdome who shall refuse their Obedience to His MAJESTY upon what termes soever He shall think fit to require it And we shall endeavour to the utmost the suppressing of that Independent Party who have thus fiercely laboured the Extirpation of the true Protestant Religion the ruine of our PRINCE the dishonour of our Parliament and the Vassalidg of our Fellow-Subjects against all those who shall depend upon them or adhere unto them And that this our undertaking might not appear obnoxious to the trade of England but that we desire a firme union and agreement be preserved betwixt us We doe likewise declare that we will continue free traffique and commerce with all His MAJESTIES good Subjects of England And that we will not in the least manner prejudice any of them that shall have recourse to our Harbours either in their bodies ships or goods nor shall we take any thing from them without payment of ready money for the same It may happily be judged by some as an act of Imprudence that we should take this unseasonable time for this Remonstrance wherein the KING Himself is in confinement His Party nothing the moderate party of the Houses or most of them either in retirement or banishment for the preservation of their lives and onely those in power and authority against whose proceedings we make this our publick Protestation All which we cannot but with much sorrow acknowledge to be too true and that these inconveniencies are to be resisted but not avoyded Had we been ascertained heretofore that their intentions were as now we finde them to introduce an Anarchy upon us and by the destruction of the Fundamentalls of these Kingdomes to advance a Government of their own Imaginations We had long ere this time approved our duty to KING and Country by opposing them which in all probabilitie we might have done upon more advantagious termes both to our persons and undertakings had we not been drawn on in an expectation of a fair composure of all differences as not able to discerne beyond suspition the cleere drift of their designes through those various pretences which they put upon them till they had gained the whole power of the Kingdome into their hands Yet these difficulties must not be admitted into the ballance with Honesty Though it may not come within the compasse of our abilities to serve our KING and Country as we would which we shall never decline upon the least occasion yet we desire to approve our integrities to both by this manifest of our Resolution FINIS

THE DECLARATION AND INGAGEMENT OF THE PROTESTANT ARMY In the Province of Mounster Under the Command of the Right Honourable the Lord Baron of Inchiquin DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAY Y PENSE Printed at Cork and re-Printed at London in the Year 1648. The Declaration of the Protestant Army in the Province of Mounster WE have formerly testified unto the World by our constant sufferings in this Cause and sedulous indeavours in the service how firmely we stood devoted to the obedience of the KING and Parliament in the prosecution of the Common Enemy against whom the severall successes wherewith our weake Attempts have been seconded hath as well testified the divine Providence over us as attracted the approbation of men upon our actions untill a growing party of Independency sprung up in the Houses and Army who finding an unaptnesse in us to receive the impression of their designes have on that consideration contrived our subversion In order whereunto they had no sooner prevailed to place the Lord Lisle in the Lieutenancy of this Kingdome but in short time there was advanced 180000. pound for the service thereof a summe so considerable that had it been effectually imployed to the use whereunto it was designed might have reduced most of this Kingdome to Obedience but 10. Moneths of 12. being spent on Preparations and the moneyes detained lest it should come to our unconfiding hands whilst our Souldiers starved in the streets the Lord Lisle in February 1646. arrives with 25000. l. of the aforesaid summe which with the whole Contribution of the Country was exhausted in eight weeks space 5000. l. in money and a few provisions only excepted the only services performed by the expence of so much treasure were the taking of Corke Kinsale ' and Youghall out of those hands who had long and faithfully held them for the service of the KING and Parliament and placing in them confidents of their own to secure unto themselves their owne resolutions which were so fixed upon the suppression of both KING and Parliament as that they endeavoured to postpone a Commission from both under the true broad Seale of England to a paper-warrant of their own and howbeit to give Countenance and enforce obedience to that new contrived Authority they had drawn the head Garrison into Armes loaden their Musquets with Powder and Ball shut up the Portes and drawn in part of the Lord Brohels Regiment of Horse to the Lord Presidents door yet finding the Officers generally a few particularly obliged persons only excepted to adhere unto the Parliaments authority in the Lord Presidents person and nothing moved with their apparition of force they desisted from further prosecution of that designe and departed the Kingdome giving testimony of the good affections they had for the service thereof upon their landing by labouring to foment a Petition amongst the Horse Forces then lying ready at the water-side to imbarke for this Province whereby they desired to decline this Service unlesse under the command of some of their Faction But that with many other provoking too weake a practice to accelerate our ruine they labour to retard or divert all Supplyes for the carrying on this War For the better accomplishing whereof it hath been suggested That the wants of this Army are not so great as they are frequently represented but that here is a competency upon the place to support us though to take away that supposition being of somewhat a long standing it hath been often most earnestly desired that a Committee might be sent over to improve whatsoever may arise upon the place and dispose of what shall be transmitted thence But as there is a suggested sufficiency of meanes so there is a supposed deficiency in the Officers which must give ground to deteine all supplyes till they can be sent by such as have sufficient prejudice to this Army As a practice to this purpose we must necessarily looke upon the indeavour used by some Independents to take off the Reputation of our late Ingagements with the Rebels at Knocknonosse calling it on the open Exchange a Project to draw on the Adventurers then convening to advance moneys for our reliefe and for the greater disparagement of the action substracting from the numbers of the Rebels both alive and slaine lest the considerablenesse of the Service should induce any proportionable reliefe which the Houses did not with more alacrity grant then others laboured to retard It could not otherwise be that of 10000. l. Voted so long since and re-Voted on the advertisement of that action there should be only 2500. l. advanced and remitted or that of the Ordinance for 20000. l. per Mens Voted four moneths since to continue but for six We should yet find no effect the passing of which Ordinance did not more comfort us with the contemplation of a setled competency then with an expectation that the leavies made for us distinguished from any mitxure with other taxations would come cleerly and intirely to us without the accustomed misapplication whereby the relief of Ireland was made but a stale to collect great summes by for other uses It being generally observeable and many of us eye-witnesses thereof that the Impositions laid in City and Country for the relief of this distressed Kingdom were payd in with the greatest alacrity and readinesse of any other taxes which occasioned the name of our reliefe to be inter woven in all assessements We doubt not but many will be ready to object an impossibility that any man can be so unchristian to obstruct or divert the supplies of this bleeding Kingdom to the support whereof all so highly pretend And yet the detaining most part of the traine of Artillery with its Carriages and Utencils for which the Lord Lisles accompt stands charged with above 12000. l. and for transporting whereof 1000. was imprested to Sir John Veale could not hate passed with impunity if some did not contrive the retarding the worke of Ireland The reproachfull usage of those Gentlemen who in Conformity to the Ordinance of Parliament disbanded and subscribed for the service of Ireland The suffering of many men desirous to come for Ireland to lye upon free-quarter in the West till they had eaten as much as would have maintained them here a twelvemoneth and were at last disbanded The strict course taken by the interposition of some particular persons to deprive us of all hope of reliefe from the shipping by reprizals taken at Sea upon our Coasts even in our Harbours-mouthes an expedient that hath formerly often preserved us in our greatest Exigencies savoureth of no meane indeavours to retard the reliefe of Ireland And the words of a powerfull Member of the Army to a late servant of the Lord Lisles declaring our starving condition for want of food and rayment That if we in Munster were not poor enough they would make us so have been in a great measure verified But we do the lesse wonder that it should