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A45851	The Lord Inchiquins queries to the Protestant clergy of the province of Munster, with theyr answer to the said queeres as also Sir Richard Blagues speech, chaireman to the Assembly of the Confederate Catholicks at Killkenny, made to His Excellence the Lord Marquis of Ormond upon signing of the articles of peace : and His Exellencies answer to Sr. Richard Blagues speech.; Queries to the Protestant clergy of the province of Munster	Inchiquin, Murrough O'Brien, Earl of, 1614-1674.; Blake, Richard, Sir, d. 1663.; Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1649 (1649)	Wing I135; ESTC R4978	5,760	12

Corty Rob. Baily Edward Eyres Edmund Grayne SIR RICHARD BLAGVES Speech Chaireman to the Assembly of the Confederate Catholicks at Killkenny made to his Excellence the Lord Lieutenant upon signing of the Articles of Peace May it please your Excellence I Am Commanded by the Prelacie Nobility and Gentrie of the Roman Catholiques of Ireland now assembled in this Citty of Kilkenny to present unto your Excellencie theire ardent zeale naturally engrafted in theire hearts to theire sacred Soveraigne King Charles his service unto whom they ever have bin are and will be most faythfull loyall subjects and in the next place theire great affection to your Excellencie and the never dying memory they entertaine and will retayne of your most noble and succesfull Endeavours in the joynting setting together of the much disordered frame of this Kingdome Former Cessations Accommodations and Capitulations did but skin over the deepe wide wounds that were and are in the body of it They received no life or perfection they abortively perished in the Embryo and vanished into the ayre But the Peace that by the great mercy of God by the influence of His Majestye's graces and by the Ministery and cooperation of your Excellencie is now to be Established will prove as with joy confidence wee expect a firme stable and lasting Peace a Peace that will cure these bleeding wounds search to the very roote and plucke out all the splinters that remaine of them A Peace that will as wee hope and is the height of our desires as it shall be of our endeavours reinvest His Majestie in his just due and Royall Rights and Prerogatives and will restore this Nation to its former luster plenty and tranquillity such a Peace as allready ends all our doubts feares and Jealousies in a mutuall confidence rejoycing and will make all the Members of this Generall Assembly an Assembly unto which the present and future ages will justly give the glorious name of the Peace-making Assembly after their many distractions and long continued sufferings to returne unto theire severall respective Countryes and dwellings with olive branches the Emblems of Peace in theire hands and the words in theire mouthes that were said of our saviour when upon his entrance into the Citty of Naim he mett with the funeralls of a dead young man the onely sonne of his following weeping Mother whom gratiously compassionating her teares he restored from death to life the words were and not unaptly to be applyed to our present Condition Ecce Propheta magnus surrexit in nobis quiae Deus visitavit plebem suam Most Excellent Lord whom God allmighty hath preserved and lead as it were by the hand through a sea of troubles dangers to be the happie essentiall Instrument to mediate actuate and now consummate this great worke and to make Ireland like the heavenly Ierusalem to be a Citty at unity with in it selfe I cannot sufficiently expresse the sence and joyous exultancie of these most venerable Prelats most honorable Lords most juditious and gallant Gentry the representative body of the Roman Catholiques of this Kingdome nor with what fervor and ardor they expect to reape the blessed fruites which they have so long sighed for and did sowe in theire blood teares of this Peace and of your Excellencie's Goverment of this Kingdome unto which being derived from His Majestie who is the spring from which these Graces and favours flowe upon them they will humbly and heartely pay all due obedience Your Excellencie's fast and tryed fidelity to his Majestie your owne great interest in the Kingdome and the many great parts and talents that God and nature have plentifully endowed you with giving them assurance that your Goverment will produce effects sutable to theire expectation and that will answer theire desires It much transcends my weake abilityes to represent them theire affections apprehensions and hopes in theire right and lively colours and therefore I humbly begg that your Excellencie will vouchsafe to give a benigne and favourable interpretation to what by theire Commands I have endeavoured humbly to offer unto your grave judgement and consideration and that your Excellencie will be pleased to signe this Instrument the Everlasting Record and Monument of this blessed Peace as by their Commands it having bin solemnly and unanimously by them so voted I have had the honour a greater honour then my lowe humble thoughts ever aspired to in their chaire to signe this Counterpart thereof and in all their names most humbly to present it to your Excellencie HIS EXELLENCIES Answer to S R. Richard Blagues speech My Lords and Gentlemen I Shall not speake to those expressions of duty and Loyalty so eloquently digested into a Discourse by the Gentleman appointed by you to deliver your sense you will presently have in your hands greater and more solid Arguments of His Majestyes gratious acceptance of them then I can enumerate or then perhaps you your selves discerne for besides the provision made against your remotest feares of the severity of certaine Lawes and besides many other freedomes and bountyes conveighed to you and your posterity by these Articles There is a doore and that a large one not left but sett open to give you entrance by your future meritts to whatsoever of honour or other advantage you can resonably wish so that you have in present fruition what may abundantly satisfye and yet there are no bounds set to your hopes but you are rather invited or according to a new Phrase but to an old better purpose You seeme to have a Call from Heaven to excercise your Armes and uttermost fortitude in the noblest and justest Cause the world hath knowen for let all the Circumstances incident to a great good Cause of warr be examined and they will be found Comprehended in that which you are now called warrantably to defende Religion not in the narrow circumscribed definition of it by this or that late found out meanes but Christian Religion is our Quarrell which certainly is as much as fatally struck at I may say more by the blasphemous Lycence of this Age then ever it was by the rudest Incursions of the most barbarous and most avowed Enemyes to Christianity The venerable Lawes and fundamentall Constitutions are trodden under impious and for the most Mechanique feete The sacred person of the King the life of those Lawes under an ignominious imprisonment and his life threatned to be taken away by the Sacrilegious hands of the basest of the People that owe Him obedience And to endeare the Quarrell to you the fountaine of all the benefitts you have but now acknowledged and of what you may further hope for by this Peace your owne meritts is now in danger to be obstructed by the execrable murther of the worthjest Prince that ever ruld these Islands In short Hell can adde nothing to the desperate Mischeife now openly projected And now judge if a greater a more glorious feild was ever sett open to action and then prepare yourselves to enter into it And receive these few Advices from one throughly embarqued with you in the Adventure First Lett me recommend unto you that to this as to all other holy Actions you would prepare yourselves with perfect Charity a Charity that may obliterate whatsoever of Rancours a long continued Civill warr may have contracted in you agamist any that shall now cooperate with you in so blessed a worke and lett his engagement with you who ever he is be as it ought to be a Bond of unity of Love of Concord stronger then the nearest tye of nature In the next place marke and beware of those that shall goe about to renew or create Jealousies in you under what pretense soever and accompt such as infernall Ministers imployed to promote the black Designe on foote to subvert Monarchy and to make us all slaves to those that are so to theire owne avaritious Lusts A way assoone and as much as possibly may be with those distinctions of Nations and of Partyes which are the feilds where in the seeds of those Ranker weeds are sowen by the great Enemy of our Peace In the last place Lett us all divest ourselves of that preposterous that ridicilous Ambition and selfe Interest which rather leads to our threatned generall Ruine then to the enjoyment of Advantages unseasonably desired And if at any time you shall thinke yourselves pincht too neare the bone by those Taxes and Leavyes that may be imposed for your defense Consider then how vaine how foolish a thing it will be to starve a Righteous Cause for want of necessary support to preserve yourselves fatt and guilded sacrifices to the rapine of a mercilesse Enemy And if wee come thus well prepared to a Contention so just on our part God will blesse our Endeavours with successe and victory and will Crowne our sufferings with honour and patience for what honour will it not be if God have so determined of us to perish with a long glorious Monarchy And who can wante patience to suffer with opprest Princes But as our Endeavours so lett our prayer be vigorous that they may be delivered from a more unnaturall Rebellion then is mentioned by any now raised to the highest pitch of successe against them I should now say some thing to you for my selfe in returne to the advantagious mention made of me my Endeavours to bring this settlement to passe but I confesse my thoughts were wholy taken up with those much greater Concernements Let it suffice that as I wish to be continued in your good esteeme and affection so I shall freely adventure upon any hazard and esteeme no trouble a difficulty too great to encounter if I may manifest my zeale to this Cause and discharge some part of the obligations that are upon me to serve this Kingdome FINIS