cruel and inhumane outrages and acts of Hostility within this Realm The said Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled being justly mov'd with a right sense of the said disloyal rebellious proceedings and actions of the Persons aforesaid do hereby protest and declare That the said Lords and Commons from their hearts do detest and abhor the said abominable actions and that they shall and will to their uttermost power maintain the Rights of his Majesties Crown and Government of this Realm and the peace and safety thereof as well against the persons aforesaid their Abettors Adherents as also against all Foreign Princes Potentates and other Persons and attempts whatsoever And in case the Persons aforesaid do not repent of their aforesaid Actions and lay down Arms and become humble Suitors to his Majesty for Grace and Mercy in such convenient time and in such manner and form as by his Majesty or the Chief Governour or Governours and the Council of this Realm shall be set down The said Lords and Commons do further protest and declare That they will take up Arms and will with their Lives and Fortunes suppress them and their attempts in such a way as by the Authority of the Parliament of this Kingdom with the approbation of his Excellent Majesty or of his Majesties Chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdom shall be thought most effectual Copia vera exam per Phil. Percivall Cleric Parliament And after that the Parliament had sate two days to whom the Lords Justices had imparted his Majesties gracious intentions not to depart from any his former favours promised to them for setling their Estates who should remain faithful and Loyal and that the Lords Justices had shorten'd the Prorogation to the 11th of January the Lord Viscount Costelough impower'd by the Lords went for England not long before having been sworn a Privy Counsellor in Ireland even since the Rebellion with whom the Lord Taaff also embarck'd having before presented to the Lords Justices and Council from many of the Gentry and Inhabitants of the County of Longford in Rebellion a rebellious and scandalous Letter in the nature of a Remonstrance full of pretended Grievances and unreasonable Demands as namely to have freedom of Religion a Repeal of all Laws made to the contrary and the like Upon the information of which especially that there should be a toleration of the Popish Religion in Ireland it was resolv'd on the 8th of December 1641. upon solemn Debate by the Lords and Commons in the Parliament of England That they would never give consent to any Toleration of the Popish Religion in Ireland or in any other his Majesties Dominions Which Vote hath been since adjudged a main motive for making the War a cause of Religion consequently of calling in Foreign Princes to their aid and assistance which before ever this Vote past to ground the least pretence thereupon the Irish made Religion the principal end of their Insurrection and this Proposition was as you see one of the first to be demanded which gave the Parliament a cause for the Vote fore-mention'd In pursuance of which Sir Benjamin Rudyard whom the cause ever made eloquent thus delivered his sense Mr. Speaker PEradventure I could have wish'd that Toleration of Religion had not at this time come in question but now it is brought on the Stage I am brought to the Stake When Religion is so nearly concern'd I love not to take any Civil or Politick respects into consideration Reason of State hath almost eaten up all the Laws and Religion of Christendom I have often heard it discours'd whether we should make Religion an Argument of any of our undertakings abroad wherein the wiser sort have been very nice and tender believing that the over-number of Papists would overwhelm us yet I have been long of opinion that our Attempts and Assistances have so often miscarri'd because we have not boldly and publickly avowed our Religion It may be God thinks we are too many who can conquer as well with few as with many Shall the Irish now make their Religion the cause of their Rebellion and shall we be asham'd or afraid to maintain our Religion in reducing them to their Duty and Obedience God will not honour them who do not honour him Let us remember that expostulation in the Chronicles Why transgress ye the commandments of God so that ye cannot prosper This is a great transgression to shrink from God in his truth When we deny the Irish a Toleration we do not withdraw the eases and favours they have heretofore enjoy'd Greater I am sure than they would afford us if we were in their power Wherefore Mr. Speaker let us uphold our Religion and trust God with the success Upon which and other motions thereupon the Vote mention'd proceeded without dispute and that the cause thereof might appear we shall refer you to the Longford Letter it self What reception it had at the Council-board may easily be conceiv'd by these Lords speedy repair into England who afterwards centred in that which in time brought on a Cessation of Arms with the Rebels in its own place to be spoke of The Lord Dillon upon his coming into England was seiz'd on by the Parliament and his Papers rifled according to a Vote in Parliament the 3d. of November which by the Confederates was look'd upon as a heinous crime though the discovery of the Concerns in Ireland as well as the management of the War were entrusted to the English Parliament so no crime in them But he escaped from them at last and went to the King having in his private Instructions orders to move that no Forces might be sent over out of England but that the whole work might be left to the Remonstrants and that they would then undertake to suppress the Rebels themselves In the interim we must not omit that some of both Houses of Parliament in Ireland lately met but now Prorogu'd were appointed to treat with the Rebels So they receiv'd their Instructions from the Lords Justices who were to impower them under the great Seal thereunto But instead of any happy effects thereon the Rebels were so puffed up with their Victories over the poor surpriz'd unresisting innocent English as they barbarously tore the Order of Parliament together with the Letter sent unto them promising themselves success and Dominion in all their Attempts By this time the State had receiv'd an Answer from the Lord Lieutenant of the Account they had given him of the Rebellion wherein he certified the Lords Justices that he understood his Majesty had receiv'd some Advertisements out of the North of Ireland of the present Rebellion and that the Business of Ireland might not suffer by his stay in Scotland which was somewhat longer than he expected his Majesty had refer'd the whole Business of Ireland to the Parliament of England who after a most serious and solemn information of this horrid Plot by a select Committee
many other Freedoms and Bounties conveyed to you and your Posterity by those Articles there is a door and that a large one not left but purposely set open to give you entrance by your future Merit to whatsoever of Honour and Advantage 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 rather invited or to use a new phrase but to another and better end you seem to have a Call from Heaven to exercise your Arms and uttermost Fortitude in the Noblest and Justest Cause the World hath seen for let all the Circumstances incident to a great and good Cause be examined and they will be found comprehended in that which you are now warrantably call'd to defend Religion not in the narrow circumscribed definition of it by this or that late found out name but Christian Religion is our Quarrel which certainly is as much and fatally struck at I may say more by the blasphemous License of this Age than ever it was by the rudest Incursions of the most barbarous and avowed Enemy to Christianity the Venerable Laws and Fundamental Constitutions of our Ancestors are trodden 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 threaten'd to be taken away by the Sacrilegious hands of the basest of the People that owed him obedience and to endear the Quarrel to you the Fountain of all the benefits you have but now acknowledg'd and which you may further hope for by this Peace and your own Merit is endangered to be obstructed by the execrable murther of the worthiest Prince that ever Ruled these Islands In short Hell cannot add any thing to the desperate Mischiefs now openly projected and now judge if a greater and more glorious Field was ever set open to Action and then prepare your selves to enter into it receiving these few advices from him that is throughly Embarqu'd with you in the Adventure First let me recommend to you that to this as unto all holy Actions as certainly this is you will prepare your selves with perfect Charity a Charity that may obliterate what-ever Rancor the long continued War may have contracted in you against any that shall now co-operate with you in so blessed a Work and let his Engagement with you in this whoever he is be as it ought to be a Bond of Unity of Love of Concord stronger than the nearest Tyes of Nature In the next place mark and beware of those who shall go about to renew jealousies in you under what pretence soever and account such as the infernal Ministers imploy'd to promote the black design on foot to subvert Monarchy and to make us all slaves to their own avaritious lusts Away as soon and as much as possible may be with distinction of Nation and Parties which are the fields wherein the seeds of those Rancour-weeds are sown by the great Enemy of our Peace In the last place let us all divest our selves of that preposterous and ridiculous ambition and self-interest which rather leads to our own threatned general ruine than to the enjoyment of advantages unreasonably desired And if at any time you think your selves pinch'd too near 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 a necessary support to preserve your selves fat and gilded Sacrifices to the rapine of a merciless Enemy And if we come thus well prepared to a Contention so just on our Parts God will bless our Endeavours with success and victory or will crown our Sufferings with honour and patience for what honour will it not be if God hath so determin'd of us to perish with a long glorious Monarchy and who can want patience to suffer with an oppressed Prince But as our Endeavours so let our Prayers be vigorous that he may be delivered from a more unnatural Rebellion than is mention'd by any Story now raised to the highest pitch of Success against him I should now say something to you as to my self in Retribution to the advantagious mention made of me and my Endeavours to the bringing this Settlement to pass But I confess my thoughts were taken up with those 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 any Zeal to this Cause and discharge some part of the Obligations that are upon me to serve this Kingdom It will not here be necessary to insert the Articles of Peace at large which are publickly known to the World though we shall sum them up in brief It is sufficient that the Lord Lieutenant granted all that was enough in the Judgements of the Romish Catholick Bishops and even of the Bishop of Ferns that Incendiary and still waspish Prelate requisite to a peaceable and secure profession of that Religion with such countenancing of and support to it as from the first planting of it it had never in some respects been possessed of in that Kingdom but was likewise compelled so far to comply with the Fears and Jealousies of divers who by often breaking their Faith and from a greater guilt were apprehensive that all that was promised to them might not be hereafter observed as to divest himself of that full and absolute Power that was inherent in his Office and was never more fit to be exercised than for the carrying that Design in which they seem'd all to agree and to make 12 Commissioners nam'd and chosen by the Assembly to look to the observation and performance of the said Articles until the same should be ratified in a full and peaceable Convention of Parliament joynt sharers with him in his Authority So that he could neither levy Souldiers raise Money or so much as erect Garrisons without the approbation and consent of the major part of those Commissioners the danger and mischief of which limitation and restraint he foresaw enough but found the uniting that People and composing them to an entire confidence in the Peace which could be compassed no other way was so necessary that he could not sacrifice too much to it And then the abilities and the affections of the Commissioners were so well known and approved by him that having most of them in appearance the same good Ends with him he presum'd he should with less difficulty be able to perswade which were the nearest and most natural ways that conduced thereunto The Heads of the Articles of Peace 1648. 1. THat the Roman Catholicks of Ireland have free Exercise of Religion all Penalties taken off not obliged to the Oath of Supremacy to enjoy all
and Cruelty unmeasurably sinful and detestable But I fear I have been too long and too troublesome both to you and my self I will conclude It is well known how the loud cry of innocent Blood of many thousands of Christians ascending up to Heaven and the devout and fervent prayers of many of Gods dear Saints and Servants have solicited the Throne of Justice that this happy and blessed day might come wherein Justice might impartially be executed against those Murderers whose cruelties have made this Land a Field of Blood And now since the high and righteous Providence of God by those many and signal Victories given to the Arms and Forces of Ireland hath sent down from Heaven this day of Justice unto us in this Land we ought to return him all praise and thankfulness for this unspeakable mercy And since the trust of this great work by the same Providence is committed unto us let us stir up his Grace within us and faithfulness of our minds and Souls to the faithful discharge and execution of this great trust Sedes Judicanda est quasi Thronus Dei saith old Bracton that learned Chief Justice in Henry the Thirds time I well remember and have often thought upon the counsel of Jethro to Moses Exod. 18. 2. Thou shalt provide thee out of all thy people able men such as fear God men of truth hating covetousness and set them to judge the people Whereupon Moses having constituted Judges over the People gave them this charge viz. Hear the causes between your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him Ye shall not respect persons in judgment but ye shall hear the small as well as the great Ye shall not be afraid of the face of man for the judgment is Gods Deut. 16. 17. Give me leave likewise to mind you of Jehosaphat's charge to the Judges 2 Chron. 19. 6 7 9 11. Take heed what you do for you judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in judgment Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts This shall ye do in the fear of the Lord faithfully with a perfect heart and shall judge the cause that shall come before you between blood and blood c. Deal couragiously and the Lord shall be with you There is also an excellent Rule for Judicature put in the case of the Gibeonites abuse of the Levites Wife Judg. 19. 30. the Crime was horrid the Case extraordinary There was never such a deed done or seen before in Israel the Tribes were moved at it and upon the Assembly the Rule is given viz. Consider of it take advice and speak your minds This certainly is an excellent Rule of Judicature viz. first 1. Consider of it consider well the Case and consider all the Circumstances of it beware that no guilty person escape nor innocent person be condemned For he that justifieth the wicked and condemneth the just even they both are an abomination to the Lord Prov. 17. 15. 2. Take advice and consult with others Lean not to thine own understanding saith the wise Solomon Prov. 4. 5. In the multitude of Counsellors there is safety Be not rash nor sudden or hasty to give judgment Qui festinat ad judicium proper at ad poenitentiam Prov. 11. 14. And therefore right grave and ponderous are the Entries of the Judgments in the Common Law scil Quibus lectis auditis per justiciarios his plenius intellectis matura deliberatione me praehabita c. adjudicatur c. When we have patiently heard and fully understood the Parties and Proofs the Witness and whole Case and have search'd into all the Parts and Circumstances of it and when we have advisedly considered debated and consulted of it and taken mature deliberation thereupon then according to the charge of Jehosaphat Let us deal couragiously give Sentence and fear not the face of man for God is with us It is no less impiety to absolve the Guilty than to condemn the Innocent Thus Sir Gerrard Lowther Chief Justice of the Common Pleas one principally imployed in the weightiest Affairs at Oxford and Westminster by the Marquess of Ormond with his Majesties Approbation that it cannot be said we have here presented you with the froth of a Fanatick or one less interressed in the State then one to whom the greatest Concerns thereof had been frequently communicated Yet because his Speech being spoke at the opening of the High Court of Justice may be thought Apocryphal and so not to be admitted for Doctrine yet may be read for instruction of Manners we shall soon present you with some thing Orthodox Many at Kilkenny Waterford Cork Dublin and other Places underwent the Censure of the High Court of Justice though the number of those that suffered exceeded not 200. for that the Sword Plague Famine and Banishment had swept away vast numbers amongst whom one Tool a notable Incendiary of Wicklow was one against whom Edmund Reily the Irish Priest and Vicar-General afterwards Archbishop of Ardmagh appearing in 1653. as a Witness was there accused for the chief Author of surprizing and burning in Cessation time the black Castle of Wicklow and consequently too of murthering of all those were in it upon which he was seized and committed Yet for his service in betraying the Royal Camp at Rathmines suffered no further punishment In distributing of Lands a course was thought of how the English might enjoy them freely without disturbance of the Irish for the future ever ready to fall upon them and therefore many of the Natives were transplanted into Connaght and according to the Extenuation of their Crimes had more or less Land allotted them which they enjoyed freely and in several respects was a great conveniency to them and not less security to the English They being now in a Body might be better watched then several where they would have been sure on every opportunity to have disturb'd the Peace One of the last Commanders amongst the Irish which bore up against the Parliament was Moitogh O Brian who being at last forced into his Fastnesses obtain'd in March 1653. the usual Articles of Transportation By the favour of which not less then 27000 Men had that year been sent away so as through the numbers that had been killed died of the Plague Famine and had been Transported the scarcity of People was very considerable To supply which Fleetwood writ that several Colonies might be sent over offering very good Conditions to such Families that would Transport themselves whereupon great numbers of all sorts of Sex flocked into Ireland which Fleetwood much indulging Cromwel thought requisite for the greater strengthening of his own Party to make his Son Harry Lord Deputy which he did in 1655. and soon after Lord Lieutenant a
Town Let him be sent to another Province County or Town where he may be safely kept and with less danger or loss of others remain 13. Whosoever shall be declared in one County or Province Adversary or Traitor of this Cause and Country shall likewise be held and punished in other Countries and Provinces where he shall be found and such as receive or favour him or be his Messengers knowing his misdemeanour shall be liable to such punishment as the Traitor himself 14. We Command and Ordain as a main point pertaining to this Union that no Province County City Town or Person whatsoever shall demand Peace or submit himself to the Enemies without the consent of the general Council of the whole Kingdom and that under pain of Excommunication to be incurred ipso facto and for further force of this Statute to be observed We will that in every Province a firm Oath be taken by the Peers Nobility Corporation and commonalty of every Province and thereupon a Publick and Authentical Instrument be made And that every Province do send into every other Province an Instrument subscribed with the proper hands of such as have taken this Oath for the assurance of their Oaths and whosoever shall refuse to take this Oath let him be held as Adversary of the common Cause and of the Kingdom and let him be punished as such as hereafter shall be declared except he be excused for the Reasons hereafter to be set down 15. The Ordinaries of every place The Preachers Confessors Parish-Priests and other Churchmen shall endeavour to see perfect peace and charity observed between Provinces Counties Cities and Families as the obligation of this Union requireth 16. Such Goods as well moveable as unmoveable pertaining to Catholicks as were recovered from the Enemies by this present War shall be restored to their former owners Provided that such necessary and reasonable charges shall be paid as the next general or Provincial Council or Commitees of the County where the Parties dwell shall decree 17. Whereas diverse persons do diversly carry themselves towards this Cause some with helps and supplies do assist the Adversaries others with Victuals and Arms others with their Advice and Authority supporting as it were the contrary Cause some also as Neuters behaving themselves and others lastly neglecting their Oath do forsake the Catholick Union and Cause We do therefore declare and judge all and every such as do forsake this Union do fight for our Enemies accompany them in their War defend or in any other way assist them as giving them Weapons Victuals Counsel or Favour to be Excommunicated and by these Presents do Excomunicate them Provided that this present Decree shall be first published in every Diocess respectively and having received admonition before hand which shall supply the treble admonition otherwise requisite and we do hereby declare so it be made in a place where it may easiy come to the knowledge of those whom it toucheth But as touching the Judgment and Punishment of the Neuters we leave it to the Ordinaries of every place respectively so that the Ordinaries themselves be not contrary to the Judgment and Opinion of this Congregation in which cause we Commit power to the Metropolitans or Archbishops to proceed against such Ordinaries according to the common course of Law wherein they are to be very careful and speedy and if the Metropolitans be found herein careless or guilty let them be lyable to such punishment as is ordained by the holy Canons and let them be accused to the See Apostolick 18. We Ordain and Decree that all and every such as from the beginning of this present War have invaded the Possessions of Goods as well moveable as unmoveable spiritual or temporal of any Catholick whether Irish or English or also of any Irish Protestant being not Adversary of this Cause and do detain any such Goods shall be Excommunicated and by this present Decree we do Excommunicate them if admonished they do not amend and with the like censure we do bind such as henceforward shall invade or detain such Goods and not only them but also all and every such as shall keep Lands or Possessions against publick authority as also such as favour or assist them therein And we declare involved in this censure all and every of them who directly or indirectly hinder or forbid to pay their due Rents unto such as have possessed the said Lands from the beginning of this War and such likewise as without the License of such Possessors do take or extort Rents or equivalent payment from the Tenants of such Possessors under colour of paying Souldiers therewith or otherwise 19. We command all and every the Churchmen as well Secular as Regular not to hear the Confessions of the aforesaid Excommunicated persons nor to Administer unto them the Holy Sacrament under pain of Excommunication ipso facto 20. VVe will and declare all those that Murther Dismember or grievously Strike all Theives unlawful Spoilers Robbers of any Goods Extortors together with all such as favour receive or any ways assist them to be Excommunicated and so to remain until they compleatly amend and satisfie no less then if they were namely Proclaimed Excommunicated and for satisfaction of such Crimes hitherto committed to be enjoyned we leave to the discretion of the Ordinaries and Confessors how to absolve them 21. Tradesmen for making Weapons or Powder brought into this Countrey or hereafter to be brought in shall be free from all Taxations and Customs as also all Merchants as shall transport into this Countrey such wares as are profitable for the Catholick Cause as Arms and Powder may lawfully traffick without paying any Custom for Commodities brought out of this Kingdom or transported hither of that kind and let this be Proclaimed in all Provinces Cities and Towns 22. We think it convenient that in the next National Congregation some be appointed out of the Nobility and Clergy as Embassadours to be sent in the behalf of the whole Kingdom unto the Kings of France and Spain to the Emperour and his Holiness and those to be of the Church Prelates or one of the Nobility and a Lawyer 23. We will and ordain that Ordinaries Dignitaries and other Properietors of Church livings with the assistance of the Colonel or some other prime Gentleman of the County Barony or Parish as the Ordinary and Dignitaries or Proprietors shall appoint do set unto Tenants the Lands Houses Tenements and Tithes and other Church livings and let competent means be appointed for the maintainance of the said Ordinaries Dignitaries and Proprietors and the rest to be appointed for the Souldiers until it be otherwise ordained 24. Collectors and Receivers of the Rents of Church-livings shall be appointed by the Ordinaries with the consent of the Proprietors in the presence of the chiefest Gentlemen of every County Barony or Parish respectively 25. The Ordinaries and other Proprietors of Church-livings may take unto themselves the Houses Tenements and
into Ireland out of Scotland * Fol. 290. * Nicholas Dowdall * The Author of the English and Scotch Bresbytery p. 222. The States Manifest in Answer to Nettervile and his Accomplices fears The Lords Justices Vindication of Sir Charles Coote See Sir J. Temple part 2. p. 30. as the Answer to the 9th Article of the Rebels Remonstrance at Trym p. 78. His Majesty's Works fol. 393 About the midst of December the Rebellion breaks forth in Munster The Rebellion appears in Connaght The Reasons why each Province burst not at once into a flame * The Author of the English and Scotch Presbytery p. 222. Scobels Acts fol. 197. Sir Simon Harcourt arriv'd out of England with the first Forces Sir Charles Coote goes to Swoards Five Regiments more arriv'd out of England His Majesties Proclamation against the Rebels the first of January His Majesties Reasons why his Proclamation came out so late The Rebels notwithstanding his Majesty's Proclamation grew more united * The Insolencies of the Polititian's Catech. briefly reflected on and what the English are charged with The Rebels endeavour principally to make themselves Masters of Leimster The Rebels begirt Tredath The Situation of Tredath The Siege of Tredath and its strength * Sir John Netterviles Sir Hen Tichborn enters the 4th of Novemb. Governour of Tredath * This Captain John Morris was Page to the Countess of Strafford one of singular courage through the whole War and a Colonel in England and Governour of Pontfract Castle for which Service having past many Fortunes he was Condemn'd and Executed at York the eight of August 1649. The first Relief of Tredath the xi of January The second Relief Febr. the 14th Appendix 6th * In his Speech the 13th of Febr. 1662. p. 17. 38. Tredath being freed several of the Lords of the Pale offer upon Conditions to come in The Earl of Ormond visits Tredath with 3000 Foot and 500 Horse Dundalk assaulted and gain'd Sir Phelim Oneal being disappointed at Tredath revenges himself on the British in other Parts The Irish taunt the Lords of the Pale with old Miscarriages The King offers to go for Ireland Sir Harcourt's Expedition into Wicklow Lieutenant Colonel Gibson pursues the Design and took Carrickmain May in his Hist. 8. p. 174. The Marquiss of Ormonds Expedition The Battle of Kilrush Some Transactions in Connaght The Lord Lisle lands at Dublin * This Lady Offalia was the only Daughter of Gerald eldest Son of Gerald Earl of Kildare who died before his Father Brother of Thomas beheaded the 28. of H. 8. She was Entituled Lady Offalia by the special Favour of King James in an Award betwixt her and George late Earl of Kildare else she could not have had that Title properly belonging to the eldest Son of the Earls of Kildare The Lord Lisle and Sir Charles Coot relieve the Lady Offalia They take in Trym The Rebels resolve to surprize Sir Charles Coot in Trym Sir Charles Coot slain at Trym The Battle of Balintober fought at a Place called now Na Nart the mid-way betwixt Oran and Balintober The account of some Affairs in the North. See the Article 6. of Aug. 1642. Kings Works fol. 534. The Affairs in Munster Mountgarret lodges at Moyallo The Lord Muskery contrary to his promises takes part with the Rebels A contest upon Mountgarret's leaving Moyallo who should be Chief Barry chosen General Muskery c. styled The Council of War Bealing's vain Summons of the Castle of Lismore The Lord President 's advance to Talloe Dungarvan taken by the Lord President The Battel near Cappaquin the first in Muster well fought and managed The Earl of Barrymore took in Cloghleagh Ardmore Castle taken in The Fort of Dunganon Limerick C. Archerstown Rathbarry Castle Dundede and Dunowen Castle Asketon Castle Matrix Castle of Loegar Castle Kilfinny An Abbreviate of Sir Cole's Services in his Fort of Eniskillin Sir Hamilton's Enterprises The Rebels under Garret Barry beaten before Cork Sir William St. Leger Lord President of Munster vigilant and faithful The Lord President of Munster dies The Lord Inchequin chosen in his Place The Lord Inchequin's excellent service at the Battel of Liscarrol Carickfergus delivered to the Scots The Bill of Loan passed at Westminster Several Sums prescrib'd * In a Declaration to all his loving Subjects in Answer to the Remonstrance of the Commons the 15th of Decemb 1641. The King expresses his deep Resentment for Ireland His Majesty's sense of Ireland and the Parliament's Return Ireland neglected The Parliament makes use of part of the Money collected for Ireland * In his Answer to the Parliament's Petition the 28th of April 1642. * Appendix 7th * In his Collection of Acts and Ordinances of Parliament fol. 197. * Fol. 740. The General Assembly at Kilkenny As also Mahone in his Disput. Apologet. p. 101. The Preamble to the Oath of Association The Oath of Association The Propositions Their Seal The Confederates Commission to a Privateer * Appendix 8. Custodiums allotted to the Soldiers Appendix 9. The Lord Mac-Guire and Mac-Mahon sent into England Their Trial at Westminster Mac-Mahon's Execution The Lord Mac-Guire's end * The 20th of August 1642. Causes why Affairs prospered no better The Lord Lisle's Expedition into Westmeath c. Cap. Vaughan's Resolution * October 14th * In Declar. 22. Octob. 1642. Goodwin and Reynolds arrive in Ireland See Hâ—â—b Collect fol. 248. They leave Ireland Colonel Monk relieves Balanokil Necessity of all things in Dublin upon the withdrawing of the Parliaments Committee Sir Richard Greenvile relieves Athlone The Battle at Raconnel The Lords Justices coin Plate with his Majesty's Stamp The Lords Justices Letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons in England touching Ross c. The Marquess of Ormond's Expedition against Ross. Ross Battle The Army from Ross return and quarter in Dublin to the further burthen of that City The Armies Remonstrance The Confederates Petition sent to his Majesty The Protestant Committe's Petition to his Majesty His Majesties Answer The Irish Remonstrance The Parl. Declaration concerning the Rise of the Rebels Husb. Collect. fol. 248. * Sir J. T. Hist. Irel. the Pref. * Printed by Edw. Husb. 1644. His Majesties first Letter of the 23d of April touching the Cessation An Abbreviate of the War in Munster The English Army routed The Irish worsted before Cappaquin * Colonel Myn after the Cessation went into England with his Regiment oftentimes encountring Massy who joyntly exprest much valour And in a conflict near Hartpury-fields in Glocestershire was slain by Massies Forces 1644. and by reason of his Gallantry buried at Glocester with the loss of the English Regiment he brought from Ireland Sanders H. C. 1. Fol. 731. The transactions in Connaght Galloway Fort taken by the Irish. Castle Coot Besieged The Irish break the Cessation Sir Jo. Borlase Sir Hen. Tichborn Lords Justices His Majesties second Letter about the Cessation See Husbands Collect. Fol. 160. The Lords Justices Letter to his Majesty of
feed the Souldiers with from hand to mouth is spent I know no way to prevent their sudden disbanding and therefore I do again beseech your Lordship to endeavour that I may not be exposed to the dishonour and misery of being abandoned by the King's Forces and left my self single to the mercy of the Enemy but that Moneys may be speedily transmitted unto me with directions what pay to allow the Horsemen and Officers of the Foot with an overplus of Money as I have always desired for extraordinary and emergent occasions about either the Ordinance or Forts whereas yet nothing is in a right posture but things only shuffled together for a shift by reason we had not wherewithal to the work as it ought Your Lordships most humble Servant W. Saintleger Cork April 2. 1642 APPENDIX VII Fol. 95. In the Name of the holy Trinity the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen Acts agreed upon ordained and concluded in the General Congregation held at Kilkanny the 10 11 and 13 days of May 1642. by those Prelates whose Names are subscrib'd the Proctors of such other Prelates as then were absent being present together with the Superiours of the Regulars and many other Dignitaries and learn'd Men as well in Divine as also in Common Law with divers Pastors and others of the Catholick Clergy of all Ireland whose Names are likewise hereafter set down 1. WHereas the VVar which now in Ireland the Catholicks do maintain against Sectaries and chiefly against Puritans for the Defence of the Catholick Religion for the maintenance of the Prerogative and the Royal Rights of our gracious King Charles for our gracious Queen so unworthily abus'd by the Puritans for the Honour safety and Health of their Royal Issue for to avert and refrain the Injuries done unto them for the Conservation of the just and lawful Safeguard Liberties and Rights of Ireland and lastly for the defence of their own Lives Fortunes Lands and Possessions VVhereas I said this VVar is by the Catholiques undertaken for the aforesaid causes against unlawful Usurpers Oppressors and their Enemies chiefly Puritans And that hereof we are enformed aswel by divers and true Remonstrances of divers Provinces Counties and Noblemen as also by the unanimous consent and agreement of almost the whole Kingdom in this VVar and Union VVe therefore declare that VVar openly Catholick to be lawful and just in which VVar if some of the Catholicks be found to proceed out of some particular and unjust Title covetousness cruelty revenge or hatred or any such unlawful private intentions VVe declare them therein grievously to sin and therefore worthy to be punished and refrained with Ecclesiastical Censures if advised thereof they do not amend 2. VVhereas the Adversaries do spread divers rumours do write divers Letters and under the King's Name do print Proclamations which are not the King 's by which means divers plots and dangers may ensue unto our Nation VVe therefore to stop the way of untruth and forgeries of the Political Adversaries do will and command That no such rumours Letters or Proclamations may have place or belief until it be known in a National Councel whether they truly proceed from the King left to his own freedom and until the Agents of this Kingdom hereafter to be appointed by a National Councel have free passage to his Majesty whereby the Kingdom may be certainly enformed of his Majesties intention and will 3. VVhereas no Family City Common-wealth much less any Kingdom may stand without union and concord without which this Kingdom for the present standeth in most danger VVe think it therefore necessary that all Irish Peers Magistrates Noblemen Cities and Provinces may be tied together with the holy bond of Union and Concord and that they frame an Oath of Union and agreement which they shall devoutly and Christianly take and faithfully observe And for the conservation and exercise of this Union VVe have thought fit to ordain the ensuing Points 4. VVe straightly command all our inferiours aswell Churchmen as Laymen to make no distinction at all between the old and ancient Irish and no Alienation comparison or differences between Provinces Cities Towns or Families and lastly not to begin or forward any emulations or comparisons whatsoever 5. That in every Province of Ireland there be a Councel made up both of Clergy and Nobility in which Councel shall be so many persons at least as are Counties in the Province and out of every City or notable Town two persons 6. Let one general Councel of the whole Kingdom be made both of the Clergy Nobility Cities and notable Towns in which Councel there shall be three out of every Province and out of every City one or where Cities are not out of the chiefest Towns To this Councel the Provincial Councels shall have subordination and from thence to it may be appealed until this National Councel have opportunity to sit together Again if any thing of great importance do occur or be conceived in one Province which by a negative Vote is rejected in the Councel of one Province let it be sent to the Councels of other Provinces except it be such a matter as cannot be delayed and which doth not pertain to the Weal-publick of the other Provinces 7. Embassage sent from one Province to forraign Nations shall be held as made from the rest of the Provinces and the fruit or benefit thereof shall be imparted and divided between the Provinces and Cities which have more need thereof chiefly such helps and fruits as proceed from the bountiful liberality of forreign Princes States Prelates or others whatsoever provided always that the charge and damage be proportionably recompenced 8. If there be any Province which may not conveniently send Embassage from it self unto forraign Nations let it signifie it to another Province which may conveniently supply it and ought in regard of their Union to supply it according to the instructions sent from the other Provinces concerning the place and Princes to which they would have their Embassage employed 9. Let a faithful Inventory be made in every Province of the Murthers Burnings and other Cruelties which are committed by the Puritan Enemies with a Quotation of the place day cause manner and persons and other circumstances subscribed by one of publick Authority 10. In every Parish let a faithful and sworn Messenger be appointed whereby such Cruelties and other affaires may be written and sent to the neighbouring places and likewise from one Province to another Let such things be written for the comfort instruction and carefulness of the People 11. Great men taken prisoners in one Province may not be set at liberty for any price prayers or exchange without the consent of the Prelates and Nobility of the other Province united and let every Province be careful of the Liberties of such Prisoners as are from the other Provinces as far as it conveniently may 12. If any one stubborn or dangerous be found in one Province County or
other Church Goods pertaing unto their respective Titles with obligations to pay proportionable Rent unto the Souldiers as aforesaid or his payment of their own competent maintenance and lett the Houses Tenements and other Church goods be taken from the Catholicks who heretofore had them as Tenements or otherwise 26. It is committed to the will and disposition of the Ordinary whether and when to enter into the Churches and celebrate Masses therein we command all and every the general Colonels Captains and other Officers of our Catholick Army to whom it appertaineth that they severally punish all transgressors of our aforesaid Command touching Murtherers Maimers Strikers Thieves Robbers and if they fail therein we Command the Parish Priests Curats or Chaplains respectively to declare them interdicted and that they shall be Excommunicated if they cause not due satisfaction to be made unto the Common-wealth and the party offended And this the Parish Priests or Chaplains shall observe under pain of Excommunication of sentence given ipso facto 27. To the end that these Acts Propositions and Ordinances may have more happy success We thought it fitting to have recourse unto God Almighty by Prayers Fastings and Alms We therefore will pray and as far as it is needful do command that every Priest as well Secular as Regular do celebrate one Mass a week and that all Lay-men do fast upon Wednesday Friday and Saturday in one week and thence forward one day a week and upon that Wednesday or Saturday as long as the Ordinary shall please and that they pray heartily unto God for the prosperous success of this our Catholick War for which they shall gain so many days indulgences as every Prelate shall publish in their several Diocesses respectively after the Fast of the aforesaid three days in one Week having first confessed and received the blessed Sacrament and bestowed some Alms to this effect 28. In every Regiment of Souldiers let there be appointed at least two Confessors and one Preacher to be named by the Ordinaries and by the Superiors of the Regulars whose competent maintenance we commend and command to every Colonel in their respective Regiments And to the end that all those Ordinances and Statutes may effectually be put in Execution We will and decree that all Arch-bishops Bishops Apostolical Vicars and Regular Superiours as well here present as absent may be very serious and careful of the Execution of the aforesaid as they tender not to incur displeasure wrath and revenge and herewith we charge their Consciences 29. Moreover VVe pray and require all Noblemen Magistrates and all other Marshal Commanders that with their helps and Secular forces they assist and set forward in Execution the aforesaid Statutes in their several Precincts respectively as often as it shall be needful If in any of the aforesaid Statutes any doubt or difficulty may by chance arise the explication thereof we reserve to the Metropolitans in every Province respectively and to the Bishops in every their Diocesses such of them as are no way contrary to this Cause no other person may presume to expound the aforesaid difficulties Haec dicta acta ordinata statuta subscripta erant nominibus sequentium Praelatorum All those Judgments Sayings Acts and Covenants VVe submit to the Judgment of the See Apostolick Hugo Archiepiscopus Armachanus Thomas Archiepiscopus Casselensis Malachius Archiepiscopus Guamenum David Episcopus Osoren Frater Boetius Episcopus Elphinensis Frater Patricius Episcopus Waterforden Lysmoren Frater Rochus Episcopus Kildaren Johannis Electus Claunfarten Emerus Electus Dunen Conoren Frater Josephus Everard Procurator Archiepiscopi Dublinens Doctor Johannes Creagh Procurator Episcopus Lymeriten David Bourck Willielmus O Connell Procurator Episcopi Imolacen Donatus O Tearnan Procurator Episcopi Laonen Doctor Dionysius Harty Decanus Laonensis Doctor Michael Hacket Vicar gener Waterforden Gulielmus Devocer Vic. gener Fernesen Thomas Roch Vicar Generalis Ossoren Frater Lucas Archer Abbas Sanctae Crucis Frater Anthonius de Rosario Ord. praed Vicar Provincial Robertus Nugent Societat Jesu in Heb. Frater Thadeus Connoldus Ang. pro Provinc Johannes Wareinge Decanus Lymericen Frater Patricius Darcye Guardian Dublin Frater Thomas Strange Guardian Waterford Frater Joseph Lancton Prior Kilkenny Frater Tho. Tearnon Guard de Dundalk Frater Johannes Reyly Guard Kilkenny Frater Boetius Egnanus Guard Buttevant Jordanus Boork Archidiaconus Lymericensis APPENDIX VIII Fol. 98. Orders made and established by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the rest of the general Assembly for the Kingdom of Ireland met at the City of Kilkenny the 24th day of October Anno Dom. 1642. and in the Eighteenth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord the King Charles by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland c. 1. IMprimis That the Roman Catholick Church in Ireland shall and may have and enjoy the Priviledges and Immunities according to the great Charter made and declared within the Realm of England in the ninth year of King H. 3. sometime King of England and the Lord of Ireland and afterwards enacted and confirmed in this Realm of Ireland and that the Common Law of England and all the Statutes of force in this Kingdom which are not against the Catholick Roman Religion on the Liberties of the Natives and other Liberties of this Kingdom shall be observed throughout the whole Kingdom and that all Proceedings in Civil and Criminal Cases shall be according to the said Laws 2. Item That all and every person and persons within this Realm shall bear Faith and true Allegiance unto our Soveraign Lord King Charles by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland His Heirs and Successors and shall uphold and maintain his and their Rights and lawful Prerogatives with the utmost skill and power of such person or persons against all manner of persons whatsoever 3. Item That the Common Laws of England and Ireland and the said Statutes called the great Charter and every Clause Branch and Article thereof and all other Statutes confirming expounding or declaring the same shall be punctually observed within this Kingdom so far forth as the Condition of the present times during these times can by possibilities give way thereunto and after the War is ended the same to be observed without any Limitation or Restriction whatsoever 4. Inasmuch as the City of Dublin is the usual and principal Seat of Justice in this Kingdom where the Parliament and ordinary Courts were held and some other places where principal Councils were sometimes kept and as yet possessed and commanded by the malignant party who are Enemies to God and their King and his Majesties well-affected Subjects The Assembly is necessitated during this VVar in some formalities and circumstances to deviate from the proceedings prescrib'd by the said Laws and Statutes nevertheless retaineth the substance and Essence thereof so far-forth as the endless malice and cruelty of their Enemies the said malignant party doth permit