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A77534 Two remarkable letters concerning the Kings correspondence with the Irish rebels. The first by Digby in the Kings name to the Irish Commisioners. The second from the Lord Muskery one of those Commissioners in answer to Digby. Also a full state of the Irish negotiation at Oxford now treated, set forth in the rebels propositions, and the Kings particular concessions. Published according to order. Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677.; Clancarty, Donogh MacCarty, Earl of, 1594-1665.; Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677. Two letters of his sacred Majesty. 1645 (1645) Wing B4785; Thomason E300_8; ESTC R200255 11,715 16

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criminall and personall and the said Act extend to all Goods and Chattels customes maisne profits prizes arrears of Rent taken received or incurred since this trouble 17 Forasmuch as your Majesties said Catholick subjects have been taxed with many inhumane cruelties which they never committed your Majesties said subjects therfore for their vindication and to manifest to all the world their desire to have such heynous offences punished and the offenders brought to justice do desire that in the next Parliament all notorious murders breaches of quarter and inhumane cruelties committed of either side may be questioned in the said Parliament if your Majesty so think fit and such shall appear to be guilty to be excepted out of the said Act of Oblivion and punished according to their deserts Forasmuch Dread Soveraign as the wayes of our addresses unto your Majesty for apt remedies unto our grievances were hitherto debarred us but now at length through your benigne grace and favour laid open We do humbly present these in pursuance of the said Remonstrance which granted your said subjects are ready to contribute the ten thousand men as in their Remonstrance is specified towards the suppressing of the unnaturall rebellion now in this Kingdom and will further expose their lives and fortunes to serve your Majesty as occasion shall require Additionall Propositions 1. THat an Act be passed this next parliament prohibiting that neither the Lord Deputy Lord Chancellor Lord High Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellor or any of the Barons of the Exchequer Privy-Councell or Judges of the foure Courts be Farmours of your Majesties customes 2. That an Act of Parliament may passe in Ireland against all Monopolies such as was enacted in England 21. year of King James with a further clause for repealing of all Grants of Monopolies in Ireland 3. That the Court of Castle-Chamber in Ireland having been an oppression to the subjects and there being other remedies for the offences questioned in that Court by the common Law and Statutes of th●…r Realm be taken away or otherwise limited as both Houses shall thin●… 4. That two Acts lately passed in Ireland one prohibiting the plowing with horses by the tayle and the other prohibiting the burning of Oates in straw may be repealed 5. That it may please your Majesty to give order that upon presenting the names of three persons of quality in each County by your suppliants to your chief Governor or Governors their Patents be passed to such of those so to be presented respectively to be Sheriffes in each County as to be chief Governor or Governors shall seem meet to make choice of for that purpose 6. That one or more Agents from that Kingdom may be admitted still to attend his Majesty for his Information of the Affairs of that Kingdom And that as a testimony of his Majesties favour some of the Nobles and others of quality of that Kingdom may be imployed about your Majesties person 7. Forasmuch as divers of the Scotch Nation and others in Ireland do not obey the present Cessation and many of them having of late taken the Covenant proposed by the Members of the Parliament at Westminster now in Arms against your Majesty it is therfore humbly desired that such as disobey the said Cessation or have taken the said Covenant be by his Majesties appointment proclaimed Traitors in Ireland and prosecuted accordingly by your Majesties authority And that such Counties or Corporations as have not submitted to the now Cessation of Arms in that Kingdom according to your Majesties Commission be not admitted to make any return to the Parliament 8. Forasmuch as since the late Commotion in that Kingdom some persons of quality of his Majesties Romane Catholick subjects dyed or were killed and their estates by means thereof became wast and uselesse That therfore for the better enabling of that partie to serve your Majesty It is humbly desired that the Wardship of their heires and the management of their estates be granted to such as shal be accountable to the said heires for the profit of those lands whereby their lands may be of some use to the common-wealth in their contributions to his Majesties service 9. Forasmuch as sundrie persons estated in that Kingdom have either actually raised Armes in this Kingdom against your Majestie or have otherwise adhered to the malignant party now in Arms against your Majestie that therfore it may please your Majestie to give way to the impeachment and Attainder of those and of such Officers whose names we shall here represent to your Majestie by way of Bill in Parliament wherby they may receive condigne punishment for their offences and your Majestie take advantage of the forfeiture of their estates And in the interim those possessions to remain in the hands wherein they are at present 10. Forasmuch as upon application of Agents from that Kingdom to your Majestie in the fourth yeer of your Reign and lately upon humble suit made to your Majestie by a Committee of both Houses of the Parliament of that Kingdom Order was given by your Majestie for redresses of severall grievances It is therfore humblie desired that for so many of those as are not expressed in the now Propositions presented to your Majestie whereof both Houses in the next ensuing Parliament shall desire the benefit of your Majesties said former directions for redresses that the same be afforded them 11. That the Office of Admirall in that Kingdom be setled independant of none but your Majestie whereby Maritine Causes may be determined there without driving Merchants or others to appeal or seek Justice elsewhere in those Causes Concerning any thing in Religion His Majesties Answer is 1. THat as the Laws against those of the Romish Religion within that His Kingdom of Ireland have never been executed with any rigor or severity So if such his Subjects shall by their returning to their dutie and loyaltie merit His Majesties favour and protection they shall not for the future have cause to complain that lesse moderation is used towards them then hath been in the most favourable of Queen E and King James his times Provided that under pretence of Conscience they do not stir up Sedition but live quietly and peaceably according to their Allegiance 2. Touching the calling a free Parliament by which His Majestie supposes the Proposers intend a new Parliament His Majestie saies that he could wish that all the particulars might be fully agreed on and ratified this Parliament His Majestie well understanding That his Protestant Subjects may be in far greater danger in a new Parliament then the Proposers and their partie can be in this His Majestie being willing to give them any securitie that can be desired against their apprehensions Howsoever since some objections and doubts are raised of the legall continuance of this Parliament since the death of the Lord Deputie Wansford and by the late arrivall of his Majesties Commission after the day of meeting upon the Prorogation though those doubts may
be easily solved his Majestie is content to call a new Parliament upon Condition that all particulars be first agreed on and the Acts to be passed be first transmitted according to custome for his Majestie will by no means consent to the suspension of Poynings Act and the Proposers giving his Majestie security that there shall be no attempt in that Parliament to passe any other Act then what is agreed on and first transmitted or to bring any other prejudice to any of His Majesties Protestant Subjects there 3. His Majestie neither can nor will declare Acts in themselves lawfull to be void but is well content that neither the Proposers nor their partie shall suffer any prejudice by any Acts or Ordinances passed since the time in that Proposition mentioned by reason of this commotion and for that end shall give his full concurrence 4. The matters of the fourth and fifth and sixteenth Propositions are to be disgested into an Act of Oblivion in which his Majesty will admit any clauses to inlarge his mercy but will not by declaring indictments legally taken and regularly prosecuted to be void give any countenance to or make any excuses for the present Rebellion which would be a great prejudice to truth and the future security of that Kingdome And therefore his Majesty is contented to grant a full and generall Pardon to all persons whatsoever within that his Kingdom Except For all Trea●ons Rebellions or other crimes whatsoever growing and arising from or by reason of the said Rebellion And will likewise give his consent to such an Act of Oblivion as shall be prepared and transmitted to him by the advice of his Lord Lievtenant and Councell of Ireland who are fittest to consider in what state debts are to be left and particular Actions and Remedies to be waved In which his Majesty for the peace of the Kingdome will be content to release what concernes himselfe 6. When all other things shall be agreed on and faithfully executed on the parts of the Proposers his Majesty excepting a just acknowledgement of his bounty as well knowing that he parts with very much to which he hath a legall and undoubted title Is content to release and acquit his right to all such lands in the Counties mentioned except in the Counties of Kilkenny and Wiekloe upon the termes formerly assented to by his Majesty in his answer to the grievances in the 17 year of his raign and will consent to such an Act of Limitations as is desired 7. When all other things shal be concluded his Majesty will consent to an Act for the taking away any incapacity as Natives either to Lands or Offices if any such there be And will willingly consent to the erecting an Inne of Court Vniversity or Free-schooles provided that they be governed by such Statutes Rules and Orders as his Majesty shall approve and agreeable to the custome of this Kingdome 8. Such of his Majesties subjects of the Romish Religion within that Kingdome as shall manifest their duty and affection to his Majesty shall receive such marks of his Majesties favour in Offices and places of trust as shall manifest his Majesties good acceptance and regard of them 9. His Majesty will take care that his good subjects of that Kingdom shall not be oppressed by his Court of Wards And if oppression 〈…〉 kind have been upon good and due information His Majesty 〈…〉 Justice to be done for the time past and for the future will prevent 〈…〉 by instructions But for the taking away of that Court his Majesty 〈…〉 make no answer till the particulars for his satisfaction be set down and presented to him 10. His Majesty consented as farre as is fit for him in this point 〈…〉 his answer to the 25th grievance in the 17th yeare of his Raign the 〈…〉 he is still willing shall be enacted looking forward still to five yeares 〈…〉 begin after the peace concluded 11. His Majesty conceives the substance of this Proposition which concernes the fundamentall rights of both Kingdomes fit to be referred to the free debate and expostulation of the two Parliaments when it sh●… please God that they may freely and safely sit His Majesty being so equally concerned in the prviledges of either that he will take care to the utmost of his power that they shall both contain themselves within t●… proper limits His Majesty being the Head and equally interressed in 〈…〉 Rights of both Parliaments 12. This is sufficiently provided for in his Majesties Answer to the tenth grievance which he is content shall passe 13. Since it appeares by long experience that their Lawes have not produced that good effect for which they were made His Majesty 〈…〉 graciously pleased by his late Graces that those Statutes should be ●…led save onely for Wools and Wool-fells and will observe the same ●…lution And a book of Rates shall be setled by indifferent Commiss●… 14. His Majesty doth not admit that the long continuance of th●… Governours of the Kingdome in that place hath been an occ●… much tyranny and oppression or that any tyranny and oppression 〈…〉 been exercised upon his subjects of that Kingdome However his Majesty will take care that such Governours shall not continue longer in th●… places then he shall find for the good of his people there And is c●… that they shall be inhibited to make any purchase other then by ●… for the provision of their houses during the time of their govern●… such manner as is desired 15. This Proposition is to be explained and some particular wa●… be proposed to his Majesty for the doing hereof And this his Majest●… on due consideration of the safety and security of his Protestant su●… will return his Answer 16. Answered the 4th and 5th Such persons who shall be excepted out of the act of oblivion shall be tryed by the known lawes of the land FINIS