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A90186	The Marquesse of Ormonds proclamation concerning the peace concluded with the Irish rebells, by the Kings command, at the Generall Assembly at Kilkenney; with a speech delivered by Sir Richard Blake, Speaker of the Assembly at Kilkenney. Also a speech by the Marquesse of Ormond in answer to the same. Together with a perfect list of their severall numbers of horse and foot by them raised, amounting to 20000. foot, and 3500. horse. Imprimatur. Gilbert Mabbott.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1641-1649 : Ormonde); Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.; Blake, Richard, Sir, d. 1663.	1649 (1649)	Wing O458; Thomason E545_12; ESTC R203069	4,586	16

everlasting Record and Monument of this blessed Peace as by their commands it having been solemnly and unimously by so valued I have the honor a greater honor then my low and humble thoughts ever aspired to in their Chair to signe this counterpart and in all their names most humbly to present it unto your Excellency The L. Marquis of Ormonds Speech in Answer to the Speech of Sir Richard Blake at the Assembly in Kilkenney My Lords and Gentlemen I Shall not speak to those Epressions of duty and loyalty so eloquently digested into a discourse by the Gentleman appointed by you to deliver your Sence you will have in your hands presently greater and more solid Arguments of his Majesties gracious acceptance then I can enumerate or then perhaps you your selves discern for besides the provision made against the remotest fears of the severity of certain Laws and besides many other Freedoms and bounties conveyed to you and your posterity by these Articles there is a doore and that a large one not left but expresly set open to give you entrance by your future merits to whatsoever of honor or other advantages you can reasonably wish so that you have in present fruition what may abundantly satisfie and yet there are no bounds set to your hopes but you are rathr invited or according to the new phrase but to an old and better purpose you seem to have a Call from heaven to excercise your Arms and your utmost in the noblest and justest Cause the world hath known for let all the circumstances incident to a great and good cause of War be examined and they will be found in that which you are now warrantably called to defend Religion not in that narrow circumscribed definition of it by this or that late found out names but christian Religion is our Quarrel which certainly is more fatally struck at by the blasphemous license of this age then ever it was by the rudest incursions of the most barbarous and avow'd Enemies to Christianity The venerable Laws and Fundamental Constitutions of our Ancestors are troden under impious and for the most part mechanick feet The sacred person of our King the life of those Laws and head of those Constitutions is under an ignominious imprisonment and his life threatened to be taken away by the sacrilegious hands of the basest of the people that owe hsm obedience and to endear the Quarrel to you the fountain of all the benefits you have but now acknowledged and of what you may further hope for by this Peace and your own merits is in danger to be obstructed by the execrable murther of the worthiest Prince that ever ruled these Islands In short Hell can add nothing to that desperate mischief now openly projected And now judg if a greater a more glorious field was ever set open to action and then prepare your selves to enter into it and receive these few advices from one throughly embarqued with you in the adventure First Let me recommend unto you that to this as to all other holy actions you would prepare your selves with perfect charity a charity that may obliterate whatever of rancor a long continued civil War may have contracted in you against any that shal now co-operate with you to so blessed a work and let his engagements with you in this whosoever he be be as it ought to be a bond of unity of concord of love stronger then the neerest ties of nature In the next place mark and beware of those that shall go about to renew or create jealousies in you vnder what petence soever and account such as infernal Ministers imployed to promote the black design on foot to subvert Monarchy and to make us all slaves to those that are so to their own avaratious lusts Away as soon and as much as possible may be with those distinctions of Nations and of parties which are the fields wherein the seeds of those rank weeds are sown by the great enemies of our Peace In the last place let us all divest our selves of that preposterous that ridiculous ambition and self-interest which rather leads to our threatned ruine then to the enjoyment of advantages unseasonably desired And if at any time you shall think your selves pincht too neer the bone by those Taxes and Levies that may be imposed for your defence consider then how vain how foolish a thing it will be to starve a righteous Cause for want of necessary support to preserve your selves fat and guilded sacrifices to the rapine of a merciless enemy And if we come thus prepared to a contention so just on our part God will bless our endeavours with success and victory or will crown our sufferings with honor and patience for what honor will it not be if God have so determined of us to perish with a long glorious Monarchy Or who can want patience to suffer with an opprest Prince But as our endeavors so let our prayers be vigorous that they may be delivered from a more unnatural rebellion then is mentioned by any story now raised to the highest pitch of success against them I should say something to you for my self in retribution to the advantageous mention made of me and my endeavors to bring this Settlement to pass but I confess my thoughts were wholy taken up with these much greater concernments let it suffice that as I wish to be continued in your good esteem and affection so I shall freely adventure upon any hazard and esteem no trouble or difficulty too great to encounter if I may manifest my zeal to this cause and discharge some part of the obligations that are upon me to serve this Kingdom The Engagement of the several Parties in Ireland included in the late Peace made betwixt the Marquess of Ormond and the Rebels   Foot Horse ORmond Taffe and that party engaged to raise for Munster 4000. 800 The Supream Councel and Preston for Lemster 4000. 800 Inchequeen 3000. 600 The Lord Clanrickard for Connaght hath engaged not to be behind with the best of them at least 4000. 800   15000. 3000 Owen Roe is certainly upon a design of conjunction with them the Marquesse of Antrim being about the 17 of this instant up on his journey to Kilkenny to work a Reconciliation betwixt the Kilkenney party and the said Owen Roes party whose number by generall computation cannot be lesse then 5000. Foot and 500. Horse 5000. 500 In all 20000. 2500 FINIS