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A87239	A letter from the Right Honourable the Lord Inchiqvin and other the commanders in Munster, to His Majestie expressing the causes and reasons of their not holding the cessation any longer with the rebels; with their desire intimated to His Majestie, that he would be pleased to renounce any treatie with the rebels any longer, and that he would againe proclaime them rebels, and would now comply with his Parliament, and make a peace with them. With several other letters from the said Lo. Inchiquin and other the commanders in Munster in Ireland to severall other their friends here in England, advising them of their proceedings, with severall motives and reasons to perswade them also to returne unto their former charges in Ireland, and to joyne with them to oppose the said rebels, and for to vindicate with them therein their obligation unto religon, the preservation of that kingdome, and the honour of the English nation. Published by authoritie.	Inchiquin, Murrough O'Brien, Earl of, 1614-1674.	1644 (1644)	Wing I131; Thomason E8_37; ESTC R18278	10,179	16

A LETTER From the Right Honourable the LORD INCHIQVIN And other the Commanders in Munster To His Majestie Expressing the Causes and Reasons of their not holding the Cessation any longer with the Rebels With their desire intimated to his Majestie that he would be pleased to renounce any Treatie with the Rebels any longer and that he would againe proclaime them Rebels and would now comply with his Parliament and make a Peace with them With severall other Letters from the said Lo. Inchiquin and other the Commanders in Munster in Ireland to severall other their Friends here in England advising them of their Proceedings with severall Motives and Reasons to perswade them also to returne unto their former Charges in Ireland and to joyne with them to oppose the said Rebels and for to vindicate with them therein their Obligation unto Religion the Preservation of that Kingdome and the honour of the English Nation Published by Authoritie Printed at London by George Miller 1644. A Copie of a Letter to his Majestie from the Lord Inchiquin May it please your most excellent Majestie WE your Majesties most humble and Loyall Subjects the Protestants of the Province of Munster doe with all humility acknowledge your Majesties speciall care towards our preservation and wee should esteeme our selves guiltie of two high an ingratitude if we should not discharge our duties to God and your sacred Majestie by acquainting you that no peace can be concluded with the Irish Rebells which will not bring unto your Majestie and the English in generall a farre greater prejudice then the shew of a peace here will bring us an advantage and since your Majestie hath shewed us so high a degree of your pious care in all things that might take from our afflictions as our Declaration doth manifest to the world those actions shew so piously in your Majestie that you have entrusted us and makes us humbly beg your Majestie that you would not so much regard so inconsiderable a handfull of people as we are as to purchase but a seeming securitie by leaving the Protestant Religion in all likelihood to be extirpated and your Majestie obnoxious to the losse of this your Kingdome Indeed it is too truly called a seeming securitie as in our Declaration which we humbly present unto your Majestie doth largely and plainly appeare as also with how much reason we have taken up armes to defend our Religion lives and your Majesties Interests and we firmely hope that our infinite wrongs and miseries will be a sufficient motive and rise for your Majestie to send unto the Parliament for the procuring of a peace in England without which we must be as speedily as unavoidably ruin'd and the Protestant Religion quite rooted out of this Kingdome We have likewise sent our humble desires to the same purpose unto the Parliament with a strong beliefe that both your Majestie and they will so seriously consider the justnesse and necessity of the Irish war that it will wringe the sword out of both your hands and imploy those armies which are likely to be destructive to the Protestant Religion for the suppressing of those bloudy enemies of the Gospell and truly when we consider how correspondent this blessed motion is with the goodnesse of your Majesties owne inclination We doe not despaire but that God which brings the greatest things to passe by the weakest meanes may through our great necessities and humble prayers restore England to that just Peace which it hath been so long deprived of But if the judgements of the Almighty are not all falne upon that Kingdome and that the just quarrell to this nation which would be farre more glorious to the English armies then the wars there is not a sufficient power to produce our agreement between your Majestie and the Parliament We doe most humbly beseech your Majestie not to give care to any that shall strive to blemish the Integritie of our proceedings since we take God to witnesse we aime at nothing but Gods glory your Majesties honour and the safetie of the English Nation And that the world may see that your Majestie beleeves us to be what really we are we humbly beg your Majestie as we have likewise done the Parliament to send us what supplies of Men Armes and Ammunition your sacred Majestie thinkes fit for a people which value not their lives and fortunes where your Majesties honour is concerned and that we may die as perfect Martyrs in the opinion of men as we are certaine all those that suffer in this cause will be in the eye of God that your sacred Majestie would be pleased to proclaime againe the Irish to be rebels and not pardon those who have committed so many barbarous crimes that they are as farre above description as they are short of honestie nay more publiquely professe they had your Majesties Commission for what they did The true sence of this divellish aspertion cast upon your Majestie with all those other reasons which we have set down in our Declaration makes us resolve to die a thousand deaths rather then to condescend to any peace with these perfidious Rebels and since death is a tribute we must all pay who will apprehend the payment of it somewhat the easier to purchase by it a Kingdome as full of glory as this is now of misery to all honest men neither is this onely the resolution of all the most considerable men amongst us but of all in generall for our gracious God hath so inspired the hearts of all the Commonaltie that they have vowed never to desert the cause that is so visibly God Almighties and we beseech the Almightie so to direct your sacred Majestie that our great miseries may through your Majesties pious furtherance beget that blessed peace in England which is so zealously praid for by Your Majesties most humble most obedient and most loyall Subjects Inchiquin Broughill Tho. Searle Fenton Percy Smith Will. Brockett Agm. Muschampt Corke 17. July 1644. A Copie of a Letter to Coll. Nicholas Mynn Noble Sir SOme Councellors about the King have prevailed with him to make such an agreement with the Rebels here as leaves the interest he now has in their power whereof we find they meane to make up for the Extirpation of the English Nation and Protestant Religion out of this Kingdome and this being discovered unto us by certaine and undoubted intelligence we have given notice thereof to King and Parliament whose Assistance we have craved for our owne defence and the meane time we have turned out the Irish who we know were the Rebells confederates now we doubt the King will not approve of what we have done because the papisticall faction about him will oppose us but we are confident the Parliament will send us great supplies to follow the warre against the Irish wherefore and seeing our cause is so good we are hopefull as many forces as went from us will come to us forth with and you I must desire to come

commands I shall in the first place let you know that I forsake a plentifull fortune for the good of this Cause And then I shall desire you to say only to them that if the placing of another person in my roome be thought an advantage for the prosecution of the warre I shall be well-pleased with it and doe most earnestly defire it for truly no preferment or prosit can be so pleasing to me as to see this warre followed with effect against the Irish Rebels I found that having the disposall of what money we had here I lost the favour of many because I could not comply with their particular desires wherefore if I should be thought fit to command againe I would by no meanes meddle with that taske and shall in that case pray the Houses to send one or more Commissioners to see the carriages of affaires and to disburse the treasure as shall be requisite This Course I conceive will give much satisfaction both to the Parliament and us to them in regard of the assurance they shall have that the money is imployed to the best advantage and that they shall have complaint of none but reall wants to us because we shall then expect to be better supplyed then otherwise Another thing that I desire you would offer to the Honourable Houses is that they would take the poore English here into their consideration and to take a course for their satisfaction concerning those debts due unto them from the Army which I conceive may be done out of the Houses and Lands of the expulsed inhabitants as if their money had been given upon adventure for them I could write a volumne of things that would cause your admiration as they have done my Alteration from the course I was in but I know you have been told some of them by your Wife and P.S. and others you will heare from the bearer wherefore I will now say no more but that I am Your affectionate Friend and Servant Inchiquin Cork 20. July 1644. A Copie of a Letter to Sir I. Powlet from the Lord Inchiquin Noble Sir AS I must confesse I had alwaies great inducements to love your person so must I acknowledge an obligation now both to increase that affection and professe my selfe infinitely your servant for I have it from many good hands that you were noble just and friendly zealous in defence of my honour being wounded very much by my Lord of Corks traducing me for betraying his Townes unto the Irish rebells Sir I could wish now that I had tould you somewhat more then I did of that businesse which truly I forbeare because I thought it would be deemed vaine glory in me for if ever I did any thing towards the defence of this Province against the Irish this was that I had cause to bragge off whereof I shall take you for a witnesse for you know that at the time when the enemy came to Lismore we had no provisions in any of our stores and a weeke before their coming that false friend my uncle Edmond came unto me to let me know that the Irish Army were advancing towards our ports and that if I would give way to their taking of Cappoquin and Lismore they would spare the rest of our quarters which he said they would otherwise burne and destroy but before he delivered me this message from my Lord of Muskerie he made me promise him secrecy which as I made good so I made use of what he tould me for my owne advantage for presently I sent all the provision I could get in Corke and Yawhall with all hast to Cappoquin and with it 400 commanded men Lismore was of it selfe well provided but if it had not you know I was not then able to helpe it at that time I communicated to your selfe and the Officers the intelligence I received of the enemyes advancing and after advice taken of what was fit to be done we found our wants and the scarcity that was in all places would make it impossible for us to keepe the field with our Armie part whereof to the number of 1200 were with Colonell Mynn in the West where they had no foode but what corne they cut burnt and drest the same day to eate so that all we were able to doe was only to draw 1600 foote and 250 horse to Tallowe out of the severall garrisons for whom I had not one dayes victualls to march they being onely on billets in their severall quarters when I found that this was all we could doe then I bethought my selfe to make use of the motion made unto me by my uncle and whereas he under pretence of giving me intelligence went about to worke upon me in hope to make me an instrument to betray the English I did in the like manner indeavour to make use of him for the overthrowing the rebells designe Which with Gods assistance I did thus happily effect After I had taken advice with you and found that we could not drawe the westerne forces unto us and that without them there was no fighting I seemed to him to have put on a resolution with your advices presently to gather all our forces together and tould him of a great strength that we were able to make letting of him know that I was glad the Irish were comming into a trap to us for that I knew there would none of them get off againe and then to fetch him about I told him that I was sorry that my Lord of Muskery was not more reall in his professions to the King which I perceived were all but dissilmuations or that otherwise he would not now presse so hard upon our quarters being he expected a cessation soone after and being that then it was professed by them that they would goe into England with forces so soone as that was agreed on I marvailed that they would be so much the Kings and their owne enemies as to seeke the destruction of those people meaning theirs whose assistance I did soone expect in his Majesties service which I tould him was a thing I would vvillingly avoid if I could and then finding by him that they were resolved to come notwithstanding all my threats I tould him that I would not draw our forces together till such a day if they aimed at nothing but my Lord of Corks townes for that I cared not if they tooke them and that therefore I had so ordered it that the forces should be there no sooner to hinder them which would be time enough for them to take them in But said that if they tooke them not by that day that then they must resolve to retreate or that otherwise I must fall upon them this they thought was enough and therefore they promised that they would retreat that day whether they tooke them or not though with as little intention to performe as I expected Now that I might seeme unto him to be able to doe this I presently made all the noise I could