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A80451	A copy of a commission under the Great Seale of Ireland, granted by the Right Honorable Sir William Parsons Knight and Barronet, and Sir John Borlase Knight, Lords Justices of that kingdom: for disarming all papists in and about the city of Dublin, and restraining the accesse of any suspitious persons unto the said city, and for the preservation of the same in safety and good order.	Parsons, William, Sir, 1570?-1650.; Borlase, John, Sir, 1576-1648.	1642 (1642)	Wing C6111; Thomason E240_25; ESTC R3664	5,000	8

A Copy of a COMMISSION UNDER The Great Seale OF IRELAND Granted by the Right Honorable Sir William Parsons Knight and Barronet and Sir John Borlase Knight Lords Justices of that Kingdom FOR Disarming all Papists in and about the City of DVBLIN And restraining the accesse of any suspitious persons unto the said City and for the preservation of the same in safety and good order London Printed for E. Husbands and J. Franck October 6. 1642. CHARLES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the Faith c. To our we●beloved Our Major of the City of Dublin for the time being Sir William Anderson Knight Sir Christopher Forster Knight Sir William Vsher Knight Sir Philip Percival Knight J●hn Bysse Esq Recorder of our City of Dublin Richard Barry of Dublin Alderman Charles Forster of Dublin Alderman William Smith of Dublin Alderman William Bladen of Dublin Alderman William Plunket Esquire Captaine Theodore Sc●out Robert Savill Serjeant at Armes Mathew Ford Anthony Dopping Captaine Philip Fernely Robert Kenedy John Woodcock John Pue Sankey Sulliard Josua Carpenter Brian Jones Thomas Tallis William Rowlls Thomas Leigh Thomaas Hill William Scott Daniel Forster Richard Francis Joseph H●ll Daniel Adrian Thomas Hooke Frederick Panchart Captaine Balthazar Creamer John Wogan Randall Becket James Smith John Fisher Ralph Bryen Richard Stone Robert Davies Ralph Wallis Daniel Hutchison Peter Wybrant John Hill Merchant John Norris Thomas Haukins Thomas Windall Nathaniel Neve and Robert Scarborow greeting WHEREAS We have taken into our Princely consideration the strange and unusual Concourse of Papists to our City of Dublin and the Suburbs thereof some of them not having formerly dwelt there And others of them aswel Masters of Families as Servants having formerly dwelt there but withdrew themselves into the Country for a time since the present Rebellion began and of late returned again to the said City and Suburbs and there all of them now continue as Inhabitanas or Sojourners not onely to the needlesse and exceeding great burden of the Inhabitants and disappointment of the Souldiers aswel in their lodging as in the raysing of the price of meate and other needfull provisions but also to the terrour of many of Our good and loyal Subjects inhabiting in this City and Suburbs thereof aswel in respect of the numbers of those Papists as in the advantages observed to be dayly thereby gayned to the Rebels aswel in frequent intelligences from Our sayd City as in Supplies of needfull provisions from thence from time to time AND forasmuch as in these times of open Rebellion when the Rebells appeare in all parts of this Our Kingdom in open Arms with Banners displayed against Us and Our Royall Authority We are necessitated to take some extraordinary way whereby to free Our said City and good Subjects therin from the fears dangers threatned against Us and them and against the peace safety of this Our Kingdom by that unlimitted concourse of people flocking so dangerously to Our sayd City and Suburbs and for reformation of sundry other abuses and disorders in Our said City of Dublin and the Suburbs thereof KNOW yee therefore that We reposing speciall trust and confidence in your fidelity and circumspection have nomin●ted constituted and appointed and by these presents doe nominate constitute and appoint you to be Our Commissioners And doe hereby give unto you or any two or more of you ful power and authority from time to time and as often as you or any two or more of you shall think fit to repaire to all and every part of the said City and Suburbs and there aswell by Examination of Witnesses upon Oath which oath and oaths We hereby authorize you or any two or more of you to administer wh●n and as often as you or any two or more of you shall from time to time think fit as by all other lawfull wayes and means whatsoever to examine search far inquire and finde out what Arms or Munion are or shal be remaining in any house houses or other place or places in the said City or Suburbs belonging to any Papists or in the house or houses of Protestants whose wives and children are Papists And the same so found out to inquire how when and where 〈◊〉 they came by them and all other matters touching and concerning the same which you or any two or more of you shall think fit And it is Our pleasure and We doe accordingly require and authorize you or any two or more of you to seize upon and take into your hands or the hands of any two or more of you all the said Arms and Munition as also al the Arms of what kind soever which you or any two or more of you shal finde any Papist carrying about him either in his house or dwelling or abroad in the streets whether he or they be commorant in Town or Traveller to or from the said City or Suburbs Giving the party from whom the same shall bee so taken a note in writing under the hands of you or any two or more of you mentioning the particulars and quantity of Arms or Munition or both so to be taken from him her or them to Our use and that thereupon you or any two or more of you cause the same to be delivered forthwith after you shal so seize the same into Our store of Arms and Munition at our castle of Dublin taking the clark of the store's hand for receipt thereof which shall be a good discharge for you against your said note or notes formerly given And We also require and authorize you or any two or more of you aswel by examination of witnesses upon Oath as by all other lawful waies and means whatsoever to examine search inquire and finde out what titulary popish Archbishops Bishops Vicars-generall Jesuits Priests or Friars or other superstitious Orders of the popish pretended Clergy are or shall be in and about the said City or Suburbs And them to apprehend commit to prison there to remaine until further direction from Us or Our said Justices or other Our chiefe Governour or Governours and Councell of this Our Kingdome And in like manner to examine search inquire and finde out what men and women that are Papists and what Papists children of what quality or degree soever he or they be have come to the sayd City or Suburbs to reside sojourne or any way to continue therein since Easter last Where they now lodge and since their coming to Town have lodged either in the houses of Papists or Protestants What their names and sirnames are and of what sept or kindred they be Whence they came What occasions called them thither What now deteynes them there And all other matters concerning their being there Which you or any two or more of you shall thinke fit And then that you or any two or more of you do comand so many of them as you or any two or more of you shal think

fit to depart from the said City and Suburbs within so many hours as to you or any two or more of you shal be thought fit and not to returne back to the said City or Suhurbs without special licence from Us or Our Justices or other chiefe Governour or Governours of this our Kingdom for the time being And to enjoyne all those in whose house or houses either Papists or Protestants such person or persons so to be commanded away doe or shall lodge so journe or live that they or any of them presume not thereafter to entertaine them or any of them into his or their house or houses as they will answer their so doing at their extreame perill And We doe also require you or any two or more of you to cause two Books to be made up and in one of them to cause to be inserted in writing the names strnames and qualities of all men and women ordinarily Town-dwellers in Our sayd City or Suburbs aswel Masters of Families as Servants that are Papists And in the other Booke to cause to be inserted the names sirnames and qualities of all men and women whom you shall so command to depart from this City and Suburbs And in another part of that Book to insert the names sirnames and qualities of all such men and women that are Papists whom you admit to stay and expressing at their nams for what time their stay is admitted that so you may upon a new search wherein Wee require you to be diligent and frequent finde out whether or no they have exceeded the time limited for their stay We do also require and authorize you or any two or more of you to charge and command all person or persons whatsoever in the said City and Subburbs in whose houses any such person or persons formerly lodged soiourned or lived and to publish and declare to all others whom it may concern that in case any of the said persons so to be cōmanded away shall return again at any time to the said City or Suburbs or any other men or women whatsoever that are Papists and not resident continually in the said City and Suburbs without any late intermission since the first of October last shall hereafter come to the said City or Suburbs that then the person or persons to whose house or houses he she or they so returning shall return or come do from time to time and as often as any such shall happen within two hours after the receipt or entertainment into his her or their house or houses of any such person or persons return under his her or their hands unto two or more of you the names sirnames qualities and conditions of all and every such person and persons so received lodged or entertained We likewise require and authorize you or any two or more of you in like manner to examine what Victualls Cloaths Arms Munition or other provisions whatsoever have been carryed or shall be carryed out of the said Citie or Suburbs for the relief of the Rebells and by whom and who were furtherers and privy thereunto and what Towns-men or their Servants that are Papists have been since Easter last admitted into any Horse Troop or Foot company or Ward in Our pay And by whom And in whose Troop Company or Ward so admitted And what Arms of any kind have are or shall be sold by any Souldier Horse-man or Foot-man to any Towns-man or other Inhabitant in the said Citie and Suburbs And where the said Arms now are And what Masters or Mistresses of Families or Servants that are Papists that formerly resided in the said Citie Suburbs have between the three and twentieth of October and the first of Aprill last withdrawn themselves into the Country and having continued there a while returned again to live in the said City and Suburbs And if upon examination you or any two or more of you shall find them or any of them to have been with the Rebells to cause all such to be apprehended and committed to prison and to certifie their names under the hands of you or any two or more of you to our Justices or other Our chief Governour or Governours and Councell of this Our Kingdom And what else shall appear unto you concerning them AND We also require and authorize you or any twelve or more of you to view all thatched Houses and Cabins in and about the said City and Suburbs and to give six dayes warning to the possessors of such of the said thatched houses and Cabines as you or any twelve or more of you shall finde to be dangerous to the safety of the said City and suburbs and therefore ought necessarily to be removed or pulled down to remove or pull them down wherein if they faile then and in such case you or any twelve or more of you are to cause such of the thatched houses and Cabines to be removed and pulled down as you or twelve or more of you shall finde not to have been pulled down by the possessors within the said six dayes according to the said warning given AND in case you or any two or more of you shall finde any person or persons disobedient to your commands in and concerning the Execution of the premises or any part thereof We do in such case authorize you or any two or more of you to commit to prison such person or persons when and as often as there shall be just cause and afterwards to release such person or persons when you or any two or more of you shrll think fit And for the better and more full and due performance of these services It is Our pleasure and we do hereby authorize you or any two or more of you as aforesaid to administer from time to time an Oath or Oaths to any person or persons witnesses touching or concerning all or any the points Clauses Articles Authorities or Commands in these presents above mentioned And that you Our Commissioners do divide your selves in and throughout the said City suburbs into severall limits streets and parishes and so to proceed in the execution of the premises either altogether or severally as you shall finde cause And that you be frequent at least weekly or oftner if you find cause in the searches examinations and other services by these presents committed to your trust AND we require all Maiors Sherriffs Justices of the peace and all other our Officers Ministers and loving subjects whom it may concern and particularly all Colonells Commanders officers and souldiers of our Army to be unto you or any two or more of you alwayes aiding helping and assisting in the due execution of the premises from time to time as there may be occasion And we require you from time to time to give an account of your proceedings to our Justices or other Our chief Governour or Governours of this Our Kingdom for the time being And this Our Commission is to continue in force during Our pleasure Witnesses Our right trusty and welbeloved Councellors Sir William Parsons Knight and Baronet and Sir John Borelase Knight Our Justices of Our said Realm of Ireland At Dubin the ninth day of September in the eighteenth yeer of Our Raign Carleton Exham FINIS