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A87206	A letter from the Lord Deputy-General of Ireland, unto the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Parliament of England; concerning the rendition of the city of Limerick: together with the articles formerly offered, and the articles upon which the same was surrendred: as also a particular of the persons excepted, the ammunition and ordnance in the town delivered upon the surrender of the said city. Friday the 28th of November, 1651. Ordered by the Parliament, that the letter from the Deputy-General of Ireland, and articles, together with the particulars inclosed, be forthwith printed and published; and read by the ministers on the day appointed for thanks to be given in the several congregations. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1650 : Ireton); Ireton, Henry, 1611-1651.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1651 (1651)	Wing I1032; Thomason E647_9; ESTC R202610	11,132	24

A LETTER FROM The Lord Deputy-General OF IRELAND Unto the Honorable William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the PARLIAMENT of ENGLAND Concerning the Rendition of the City of LIMERICK Together with the Articles formerly offered and the Articles upon which the same was Surrendred As also a Particular of the persons excepted the Ammunition and Ordnance in the Town delivered upon the Surrender of the said CITY Friday the 28th of November 1651. ORdered by the Parliament That the Letter from the Deputy-General of Ireland and Articles together with the Particulars inclosed be forthwith Printed and Published and read by the Ministers on the day appointed for Thanks to be given in the several Congregations Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by John Field Printer to the Parliament of ENGLAND 1651. For the most Honorable Willian Lenthal Esq Speaker of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of ENGLAND Mr. Speaker IT was no small Blessing in order to your Affairs here nor without manifest appearances of the Power and Providence of God That your Forces entrusted with me got a Passage over the River Shanon so early in the Summer But that for the matter of it to such as neither saw nor can have a clear Relation of the maner and Circumstances wherein God appeared being rather but the making way for further progress in your Businesses then a thing of visible effect in it self and nothing since then considerable having been effected by that part of your Forces with me save the taking of some few small Castles in Thomond and possessing of others that were of advantage and consequence for you with Garisons and those things of the like or other nature wherein God hath blest the rest of your Forces and Parties in other Parts having I suppose come to your knowledge more immediately from the several persons commanding them I have forborn to trouble you with any immediate account from my self of what hath been done But God who having onely given some Testimonies of his continuing Favor to your Cause and presence with your Servants here in the beginning of this Summers Service in the giving of such a seasonable and easie Passage to us over the Shanon and therewith in a few days more the Possession or Command of almost all the Passes over it when before we had not any hath since seen it good to deny us thus long any further considerable effect in any thing and to exercise our Faith and Patience with divers small Losses in the surprize of several small Garisons and Parties by the lurching Enemy mixt with the smaller Successes he hath given to any of your Forces having now vouchsafed to Crown the Summers Service in the close of it with giving into your hands a place of such Strength Value and Importance as the City of Limerick I thought it my duty hereby to give you an account of it and present to your view the Conditions on which it is Surrendred to you wherewith I thought it not amiss to send also a Copy of the Conditions which about the end of June and beginning of July last were thought fit by advice of your Councel of War here with me to be tendered to the Soldiery and people within if they would have Surrendred then but were rejected by both which being compared together as you will see them in inclosed Papers you may finde how far God suffered them to be hardened then to their own loss in the issue and hath made their Obstinacy then and since serve to your greater advantage at last not onely in point of Freedom for prosecution of Justice one of the great Ends and best Grounds before God and men of the War you have maintained here and in point of safety to English Planters and the setling and securing of the Commonwealths Interest in this Nation but also in respect of valuable benefit to the State which in the value of Arms and Ammunition with some Goods of excepted persons and of the Houses and Lands of the rest by the first Conditions tendered in great part to have been granted away but by these at last reserved clearly in your Power may be some considerable Compensation for your charge in the Four moneths longer Siege For the length whereof and detaining so great a part of your Forces from any other work considerable in all this Summer past I can at this distance give onely this account at present That it pleased God after that loss he left us to in the attempt upon the Island which had it succeeded had given us an easie way and visible advantage for a speedy attempt of the City by way of Force that hath since been fully provided against by their industrious working not to incline the hearts of our Officers at any of the Councels of War held since for that purpose to think a way of present force against the place advisable but onely to provide by way of Siege to starve them until of late after we had largely provided both for security and subsistence of a sufficient part of the Army through Gods blessing to have attended the Siege unto a far longer issue of extremity finding the supposition of their sudden falling into want which was conceived would have been in two Moneths or three at the most and so have given us some competent season for the work remaining to fail us and finding also some hopeful advantage for an attempt by way of Battery at a place we had little observed before God having as it were till very lately hid the advantage of it from our eyes we resolved at last to try that way whether it would please God by the apprehensions of present danger to them in the way of force added to the foresight of more certain extremity by Famine at last though the other should fail so to work upon their hearts within as might induce a present Surrender before extremity of Winter and so save your sickly Army from the hazards and hardships of a Winters Siege And since this Resolution taken sending to several places as speedily as we could for some more Battering-Guns to recruit our Train in lieu of those so carelesly lost at Clare as I suppose you have heard so soon as we had a number of them competent for such a work we began our Approaches in one night and finished our Batteries and planted our Guns the second and next morning began to Batter whereupon they presently sent out to give us assurance they would accept our Conditions for the matter which upon an overture of Treaty about three weeks ago we had tendred them and about which they had sent out Commissioners since from time to time still continuing or renuing the Treaty but with no effect and that day sending out Commissioners to us again in the evening to have the Articles perfected in Circumstances we came to a conclusion upon them by the next morning we cannot tell whether the danger of present Force or foresight of want did more incline

be allowed to march as is granted to the Soldiery in the last preceding Article 5. That any of the Officers Soldiers or others now in the City except Clergy-men and such as were in Arms or otherwise in Hostility which or for those that committed the murthers and outrages in the first Insurrection before the first general Assembly or that sat in the said first Assembly if within _____ days they shall desire to lay down Arms and to submit to the authority of the Parliament of England shall be admitted so to do and to live at their homes or with their friends and shall have Protection in their persons and estates on the same Terms as the rest of the inhabitants of the Countrey of the same Conditious or Qualifications with themselves 6. That all the Citizens or Inhabitants in the said City that are Free-men or members of the Corporation and were so before the first of October One thousand six hundred and fifty and all the Widows and Children of them that were such with their families and servants who shall be willing to live under the Government of the Common-wealth of England and submit to Contribution proportionably with their neighbors except such as come within the exception made in the last foregoing Article shall freely enjoy all their personal estates where ever the same be except Arms Ammunition and other furniture of War to themselves and their assigns paying to the State of England one third part of the value of their personal Estates visible within this Dominion from such onely as have personal Estates visible within this Dominion from such onely as have personal Estates to the value of one hundred pounds and upwards but the rest to enjoy the whole freely and shall likewise enjoy two third parts of their Estates real lying without the City of Limerick and Liberties thereof or the full value of the same to themselves their Heirs or Assigns and shall also enjoy their respective Interests in their Houses in the City except such of them as shall be thought fit to be removed out of the Garison in order to the securing thereof who shall have liberty to set or sell their said Houses to the best advantage of themselves their Heirs or Assigns paying in case of sale a third part of the price they make to the use of the State of England and shall have moneths time after warning given them to depart for removal and disposing of themselves their families and goods as they please and Protection to live in any part of this Dominion within the Power of the Parliament of England not being a Garison or a Countrey planted intirely with English or set apart to be so or shall have Passes to remove to any Foreign parts if they so desire And those of the said Citizens not within the aforesaid Exception who shall submit upon these Terms and perform the same on their parts shall have Indempnity for any things done in prosecution of the War An Answer of the Commissioners of the English Army to the particular Exceptions of the Commissioners for the City of Limerick against the Conditions tendred upon the Treaty in June and July One thousand six hundred fifty one 1. TO the first Exception we shall allow a proviso for the Citizens as follows Provided and and it is hereby declared concerning all and every the said Citizens That they or any of their being ingaged in Arms in the besieging and reducing of the Castle of Limerick after the coming in of the Irish Forces under General Barry into the Town though it was before the said first general Assembly shall not conclude or be understood to conclude them or any of them within the Exception afore going except such of them as shall appear by sufficient evidence to have contrived procured endevored or wittingly furthered the letting in of the Irish Forces into the Town or to have been otherwise guilty as parties or immediate accessaries to some particular murther of the English or Protestant people before the said first general Assembly And as to the Soldiery Nobility and Gentry now in the City we are content that they be admitted to live in Protection they submitting themselves and their Estates to the judgement of the Parliament of England although they were in Arms during the first year of the War 2. To the second We cannot allow any Ordnance or other furniture of War but what is granted by our Articles onely we are content that all Ships belonging to any private persons remain to the disposal of the owners 3. To the third We shall not grant any power to leavy Arrears in our Quarters as to the Run-aways and hertofore Protected persons although they be not mentioned expresly yet it is intended the Quarter should extend to them we are willing to prefix a time and grant an Indempnity from Suits during the time mentioned in the Exception 4. To the fourth We shall be willing to allow all the Protected persons Horses and travelling Arms as we do to other Protected people as to persons formerly Protected and not within the reach of the Exception paying the Arrears of their Contribution due to the Parliaments party they shall be received into Protection as formerly To the rest we adhere to our Articles 5. To the fifth We shall not treat concerning Religion 6. To the sixth We shall adhere to our Article unless they be willing to wave their Indempnity from private Suits 7. To the seventh We must adhere to our Proposal 8. To the eighth We shall adhere to our Proposition 9. To the ninth It is intended that all such of the Citizens as are by these Articles allowed to enjoy their Estates real and personal should have full liberty to sell and dispose the said Estates to their best advantage and liberty with their Wives Families and Goods to pass beyond the Seas when they shall think good 10. The tenth We shall not Treat upon 11. To the eleventh It is intended that all such of the Citizens as are not within the Exception shall have full liberty to trade at home and abroad as other English Subjects 12. To the twelfth The proviso of our Proposition enjoyns no sale of any part of their Estates in the City 13. To the thirteenth It is intended they should enjoy all their real Estates in any Corporation or place of this Dominion except Garisons The names of the Commissioners in behalf of the Parliaments Army Lieutenant General Edmund Ludlow Adjutant General William Allen Judge Advocate Philip Cartret Major Anthony Morgan Major Brian Smith Articles agreed upon the twenty seventh day of October One thousand six hundred fifty one by and between Henry Ireton Esquire Deputy General of Ireland on the one part and Bartholomew Stackpoll Recorder of the City of Limerick or Dominick White Alderman of the same Nicholas Haley Esquire Lieutenant Colonel Piers Lacy Lieutenant Colonel Donogh O-Brien and John Baggot Esquire Commissioners appointed by and on the behalf of the