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B06727
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To the King's most excellent Majestie the humble remonstrance, acknoledgement, protestation, and petition of the Roman Catholick clergy of Ireland.
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Walsh, Peter, 1618?-1688.
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1662
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Wing W643E; ESTC R186214
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To the KINGS most Excellent Majestie The humble Remonstrance Acknowledgment Protestation and Petition of the Roman Catholick Clergy of Ireland YOur Majesty's faithfull subjects the Roman Catholick Clergie of your Majesty's Kingdom of Ireland do humbly Represent this their present state and deplorable Condition That being intrusted by the undispensable Commission of the King of Kings with the Cure of Souls and the Care of their Flocks in order to the Administration of the Sacraments and Teaching the people that perfect obedience which for Conscience sake they are bound to Pay to your Majesty's Commands they are Loaden with Calumnies and persecuted with Severitie That being obliged by the Allegeance they owe and ought to swear unto your Majesty To reveal all conspiracies and practices against your Person and Royall Authority that come to their knowledge they are themselves clamour'd against as Conspirators plotting the destruction of the English among them without any ground that may give the least colour to so fowl a Crime to passe for probable in the judgment of any indifferent Person That their Crimes are as numerous and divers as are the Inventions of their Adversaries and because they cannot with freedom appear to justifie their Innocency all the fictions and allegations against them are received as undoubted verities and which is yet more mischeivous the Laity upon whose Consciences the character of Priesthood gives them an influence suffer under all the crimes thus falsly imputed to them it being their adversaries principal design That the Irish whose Estates they enjoy should be reputed persons unfit and no way worthy any Title to your Majesty's mercy That no wood comes amiss to make Arrows for their Destruction for as if the Roman Catholick Clergie whom they esteem most Criminal were or ought to be a society so perfect as no Evil no indiscreet Person should be found amongst them they are all of them Generally cryed down for any Crime whether true or feigned which is imputed to one of them and as if no words could be spoken no Letter written but with the common consent of all of them the whole Clergie must suffer for that which is laid to the charge of any particular Person amongst them We know what Odium all the Catholick Clergie lies under by reason of the Calumnies with which our Tenents in Religion and our Dependence upon the Popes Authority are aspersed And we humbly beg your Majesty's pardon to vindicate both by the ensuing Protestation which we make in the sight of Heaven and in the presence of your Majesty sincerely and truly without Equivocation or mentall reservation We do acknowledge and confess your Majesty to be our true and lawfull King Supream Lord and rightfull Soveraign of this Realm of Ireland and of all other your Majesty's Dominions And therefore we acknowledge our selves to be obliged under pain of Sin to obey your Majesty in all Civill and Temporall affairs as much as any other of your Majesty's Subjects and as the Laws and rules of Government in this Kingdome do require at our hands And that notwithstanding any power or pretention of the Pope or Sea of Rome or any sentence or declaration of what kind or quality soever given or to be given by the Pope His Predecessors or Successors or by any Authority Spiritual or Temporal proceeding or derived from Him or his Sea against your Majesty or your Royall Authority We will still acknowledge and perform to the uttermost of our abilities our faithfull Loyalty and true Allegeance to your Majesty And we openly disclaim and renounce all forraign Power be it either Papall or Princely Spirituall or Temporall in as much as it may seem able or shall pretend to free discharge or absolve us from this Obligation or shall any way give us leave or license to raise tumults bear Arms or offer any violence to your Majesty's Person Royall Authority or to the State or Government Being all of us ready not only to discover and make known to your Majesty and to your Ministers all the Treasons made against your Majesty or Them which shall come to our hearing but also to lose our Lives in the defence of your Majesty's Person and Royall Authority and to resist with our best endeavours all conspiracies and attempts against your Majesty be they framed or sent under what pretence or patronized by what forraign power or authority soever And further we profess that all absolute Princes and Supream Governours of what Religion soever they be are Gods Lieutenants on Earth and that obedience is due to them according to the Laws of each Commonwealth respectively in all Civil and Temporall affairs And therefore we do here Protest against all Doctrine and Authority to the Contrary And we do hold it impious and against the word of God to maintain that any private Subject may kill and murther the Anointed of God his Prince though of different belief and Religion from his And we abhorr and detest the practice thereof as damnable and wicked These being the Tenents of our Religion in point of Loyalty and Submission to your Majesty's Commands and our Dependence of the Sea of Rome no way intrenching upon that perfect Obedience which by our Birth by all Laws divine and humane we are bound to pay unto your Majesty our naturall and Lawfull Soveraigne We humbly beg prostrate at your Majesty's feet That you would be pleased to protect us from the severe persecution we suffer meerly for our profession in Religion leaving those that are or hereafter shall be Guilty of other Crimes and there have been such in all times as well by their Pens as by their Actions to the punishment prescribed by the Law Fr. Oliver Darcy Bishop of Dromore Fr. George Dillon of S Fran. Ord. Guardian of the Irish Franciscans at Paris Fr. Philip Rocb of S. Fran. Ord. Reader Gen. of Divinity Fr. Anthony Gearnon of S. Fran. Ord. one of Her Majesties the Queen Mother's Chapl. Fr. John Everard of S. Fran. Ord. Conf. Preac Fr. Anthony Nash of S. Fran. Ord. Conf. Preac Fr. William Lynch of S. Fran. Ord. Conf. Fr. Nicholas Sall of S. Fran. Ord. Conf. Preac James Cusack Doctor of Divinity Cornellus Fogorry Protonor Apost and Doctor of the Civil and Canon Law Daniel Dougan Divine Fr. Henry Gibbon of S. Aug. Ord. Conf. Preac Fr. Redmund Moore of S. Dom. Ord. Conf. Pr. Bartholomew Bellew Denis Fitz Ranna Bartholomew Flemming Fr. Redmund Caron of S. Fran. Ord. Reader jubilate of Divinity Fr. Simon Wafre of the same Order Reader of Divinity F. James Caverley of S. Fran. Ord. Conf. Pr. Fr. John fitz Gerrald of S. Fran. Ord. Conf. Pr. Fr. Theobald Burk of S. Fran. Ord. Conf. Pr. Fr. Matthew Duff of S. Fran. Ord. Conf. Proc. Fr. Peter Geogbegan of S. Fran. Ord. Conf. Pr. Fr. Peter Walsh of S. Fran. Ord. Reader of Div. and Procurator of the Rom. Cath. Clerg both Sec. Reg. of Ireland An