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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90185	The loyall declaration of His Excellency, the Right Honourable, James, Marquesse of Ormond, Earle of Ormond, and Ossary, &c. Lord Lieu. Generall, and Generall Governour of the kingdome of Ireland. August the 11. 1649. Declaring grounds of his present ingagement, and his resolution to maintaine it, against all powers that shall oppose him.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1641-1649 : Ormonde)	1649 (1649)	Wing O453; Thomason E571_31; ESTC R203117	4,681	8

And albeit that Princes hold their Crownes immediately of and from God by right of lawfull Succession and Inheritance inherent by Royall Blood yet by force of Armes they keep His present Majesty from His undoubted Right and absolve the People from their due Allegiance and fealty to their lawfull Soveraigne Declaring and solemnly proclaiming throughout the Kingdome That they will absolutely abolish Monarchy and perpetuate the Government to themselves and their posterity in a confused Anarchy And now I cannot but declare that from my soule I doe abhorre and utterly detest that execrable and prodigious murder which was executed upon the Person of my late dread Soveraigne which was a Treason of that horror and monstrous nature as was excellently expressed by a learned Lawyer in case of the Gun-powder Treason that before now the tongue of Man never delivered the ear of Man never heard the heart of Man never conceited nor the malice of hellish or earthly Devil ever practised For if it be abominable to murder the least if to touch Gods Anointed be to oppose themselves against God if by blood to subvert Princes States Kingdoms be hateful to God and Man as all true Christians must acknowledg then how much more than monstrous must all Men judge the horror of this Treason to murder and subvert such a KING to race out such a Progeny to overthrow such a Government so compleat and absolute that God approves the world admires all true English hearts honour and reverence and onely the Pope and his Adherents themselves and their Abettors envie and maligne Nor can I leave hear having to doe with offences so exorbitant and transcendent and aggregated of so many bloody and fearfull crimes as they cannot be aggravated by any inference argument or circumstance whatsoever being of the first impression and therfore without any Name which might be adaequate sufficient to expresse it given by any Legist that ever made or writ of any Lawes For the highest Treason that all they could imagine they called it onely Crimen laesae Majestatis the violating of the Majesty of the Prince but this Treason doth want an apt name as tending not onely to the hurt but to the death of the KING and not to the death of the KING onely but of His whole Kingdomes that is to the destruction and dissolution of the whole frame and fabrick of the antient famous and ever-flourishing Monarchy even the deletion of our whole Name and Nation For repairing and restoring the honour whereof for bringing these high and capitall Delinquents to due and impartiall justice for the restoring the true Protestant Religion to its antient splendour the establishing His Majesties Thrones in power and peace for the maintenance of the antient Priviledges of Parliament the Law of the Land and Liberty of the People and I take God to witnesse for no other end by vertue of His Majesties Commission I have taken up Armes and doe solemnly protest in the presence of Almighty God that I will never lay them downe while God shall enable me to hold them up till I have fully finished my intended worke and reduced all in rebellion to His Majesties obedience Nor shall any prosperous successe in my Adversaries or adverse in my selfe discourage me in prosecution of my resolved enterprise not being any thing amated at my late unhappy fortune before Dublin where I was betrayed by my new modelled Souldiers which Defeat was not yet so great as my Enemies pretend nor their losse so small as themselves would perswade but shall speedily returne to that Siege from whence I resolve not to depart till it shall please God to deliver that City up into my hands not doubting but by Gods assistance in a small time to turne their triumphant Festivall of Thanksgiving into a day of Humiliation And for as much as mercy is the surest foundation whereon a King can establish his Throne I declare that I shall alwaies become an importunate Intercessour to His Majesty to receive all such to mercy as shall humbly submit themselves and acknowledge their offences and that all convenient Liberty may be granted to the ease of Tender Consciences and that all such may be received to pardon who have been deluded and drawne away by the subtile insinuations of the crafty Adversary and have been only Spectators or Abettors of that horrible Murder and that indempnity may be granted to all save those that have been principall and grand Actors in that monstrous and prodigious Treason who can expect no pardon And whereas by credible information I am given to understand that OLIVER CROMWELL with a numerous Army lies now at Milford intending to make a speedy entrance into this Kingdome to joyne with those now in rebellion against His Majesty to the dissipation of this Army under my command and promotion of the Rebels interest here Wherefore I declare that I am so farre from being any whit daunted at the noise of their numbers that my encouragement is swolne to a full measure not onely with the sense of my ability to encounter them but my assured confidence that by Gods assistance we shall utterly destroy them and their rebellious Host And I doe further declare that I am fully resolved and doe hereby command all Officers and Commanders both in Field and Garrison not to capitulate with any of them upon any termes save in the language of the Sword but upon all occasions to fight it out to the last Man Nor doe I make any doubt but that I shall be able to give a speedy accompt of this City Kingdom which I hope shortly to reduce to His Majesties obedience And I am confident that the God in whō we trust will be the Tower of our defence and as we owne his Cause so he will owne us for his owne and as from nothing he gave us a beginning and from a small beginning hath made us a powerfull Army and given almost all the strong Garrisons in the Kingdome into our possession causing our Enemies to become our Friends so he will now deliver up these our proud and implacable enemies into our hands making them and the world to know that he is our God and we his People And now with this comfort I shall conclude that maugre the malice power and fury of those insolent Regicides our Enemies this present designe in which I am ingaged shall altogether tend to the glory of God the honour of our Religion the Safety of his most Excellent Majesty and the Royall Family the security of His Kingdomes the extirpation of Errours and suppression of Rebellion and I doubt not but my progresse herein shall be continually attended with the blessing of God and the prayers of the Church From our Rendezvous neer Dublin August the 11th 1649. FINIS