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A89395	The declaration of Sir Charls Coot Knight and baronet, Lord President of the province of Connaught: and the rest of the council of officers of the Army in Ireland present at Dublin, concerning the re-admission of the secluded members.	Mountrath, Charles Coote, Earl of, ca. 1610-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing M2980; Thomason E1016_7; ESTC R202925; ESTC R208264	6,310	10

the peace of the Nation and Army and which is above all to the endangering even of Religion it self And here it is observable that those Members now sitting at Westminster by their Declaration of 23. of Ianuary 1659. since their restitution to their present liberty of sitting have published that extravagant Councils and actions have engaged the Nations in a great debt and charge which it seems necessitates their laying a new increase of charge on the Nations and yet so indulgent they are to those persons that in a high degree created that necessity of so unreasonably charging the people and whose Estates might well bear a great part of that burden as without so much as any suit made to them by those Delinquents they granted them indempnity for their persons and Estates whereby it seems the said Members now sitting at Westminster hold it fit that those who are of sober spirits and offended not the Parliament should out of their Estates pay for those extravagant mens Delinquency rather then the Delinquents themselves And although the said Lt. Gen Ludlow and Miles Corbet Esq together with Col. Iohn Iones and Col. Mat. Thomlinson stand impeached from hence most justly of High-Treason and that charge against them being known to the House and there remaining yet they have admitted 2 of those persons namely the said Lt. Gen. Ludlow and Miles Corbet actually to sit in the said House And now the greatness of those miseries which have befaln these three Nations in General by such late actings in England and those heightned with many aggravations in the circumstances of them too many and too long to be repeated as it hath begotten in us and in all good men in the three Nations deep impression of astonishment and horror so it is evident that if it be any longer continued it will perpetually nourish dishonour to God grief to all good men and we doubt and fear utter infamy and destruction to the three Nations In contemplation whereof and considering how God hath in his justice blasted all attempts that since the year 1648. have been made for resetling of these Nations in peace and tranquillity and that after all the tryals and various changes of Government which we have in all that time with much-long-suffering and patience endured there is no way visible to us under Heaven whence deliverance may be probably wrought or expected but from the care and wisedom of a Free and full Parliament in England which by the experience of all former ages hath been found the best and only expedient for providing remedies to be applyed to so great and general mischiefs arising in Church or State And considering also that the marks of the true Reformed Religion according to the Word of God and of the Fundamental Laws of the Land and of our now dying Liberties and Freedom are not yet so utterly razed and defaced but that some footsteps of them do yet remain so as by the wisedom of a full and Free Parliament they may be again renewed and firmly re-established and considering likewise that our hopes of having the said excluded Members restored and of new Elections to be made for vacant Places whereby there might be a full and Free Parliament as there was on Dec. 5. 1648. and the ancient and long contested for Liberties of the People might be asserted are much contrary to our expectations and contrary to the Fundamental Laws of the Land and indeed contrary to all justice and reason become frustrated and considering further how unjust and unreasonable a thing it is that of above 500 Members whereof the Commons House of Parliament usually consisted there were but 44 or thereabouts when that fatal Vote passed for the keeping out the aforesaid excluded Members by the prevalency of a major part of the said 44 persons not much exceeding those who voted then on the contrary side which assumes to it self the Supream Authority not only of England but also of the three Nations without president or example of any former age there being above 250 which stand eleven years excluded without so much as the least offer of an Impeachment against them in all that time which unexampled and unparallel'd assumption in those men is not possible to continue but by the force of an Army poisoned with Anabaptistical and corrupted principles to the continual grief and unsupportable burden and charge of the three Nations And besides that act of the aforesaid persons chasing away for so it now appears about 250 Members of above 500 chosen by all the several parts of England according to the known Laws of the Land to represent the whole Nation in Parliament and after the forcible exclusion of so many that the 44 persons remaining amongst whom we believe there are some worthy Patriots who are not so fully concurring in the actings of the rest of their number as violently over-voted them which is a further aggravation of the others guilt should dare to usurp to themselves as is formerly mentioned contrary to all Laws the Supream Power not only of England but also of Ireland and Scotland is a thing which none but Conquerers or Tyrants would attempt and in all circumstances is so hideous and monstrous to be endured by a Free People formerly famous to all the world for wisedom and valour as the English Nation have been as it will be incredible to all posterity And lastly considering that as in all ages and more particularly since the beginning of the late horrid Rebellion in Ireland our Brethren in England have abundantly manifested a tender and compassionate sence of the condition in Ireland and were carefull to relieve us in our lowest estate as bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh which we do and shall ever acknowledge with humble thankfulness and as a debt which we well know to be due from us to them above all people in the world shall be for ever as tender of their happiness and welfare as of our own which indeed is involved in theirs and without whom Ireland cannot be happy We therefore remaining constant in the reasons of our said Declaration of Dec. 14. 1659. for adhering to the Parliament in defence of it's Priviledges and the just Rights and Liberties of these Nations all which we see now are apparently more and more violated by the not admission of the said excluded Members and by not filling the vacant Places whereby the House might be full and being freed from force might interruptedly act according to their judgments and consciences towards resettling the peace of these Nations which otherwise in all humane probability can never be restored to peace and tranquillity We do therefore declare for a full and free Parliament in England consisting not only of those that sate on Oct. 11. 1659. but al●o of all such of the Members of Parliament imprisoned excluded or with-drawn in December 1648. as are yet living whom we desire may be restored to ●he f●●edom and l●be●ty of

THE DECLARATION OF Sir Charls Coot Knight and Baronet Lord President of the Province of CONNAVGHT And the rest of the Council of Officers of the Army in IRELAND Present at DUBLIN Concerning the Re-admission of the Secluded Members DUBLIN Printed by William Bladen by special Order and reprinted at London by J. Macock 1659. The Declaration of Sir Charls Coot Knight and Baronet Lord President of Connaught and the rest of the Council of Officers of the Army in Ireland present at Dublin c. SInce the Authority of Parliament became openly violated and that by their own waged servants of the Army in England by whom 41. of the Members of Parliament were torn from the Parliament House in Dec. 1648. and imprisoned and 160 other Members denied entrance into the House about 50. more voluntarily withdrew themselves to avoid violence making in all of secluded Members about 250. when the remaining Members charged the Army with the guilt of that force and sent to the then General of the Army for the restitution of those excluded Members which was denyed them how many and manifold have been the the miseries and calamities under which these Nations have laboured and do still labour is evident to all equall minded men The Godly Ministers of the Gospel despised The Ministry it selfe villified Tythes and other means of their maintenance particularly in Ireland taken from them and misapplyed the Protestant Religion shaken and almost overturned Anabaptists Quakers and other Sectaries set up and countenanced Heresies and Schisms increased The Fundamental Laws of the Land trampled upon and an Arbitrary Government endeavoured to be introduced The Civil Rights Properties and Liberties of the people in their persons and Estates broken in pieces Impositions and Taxes on the people without example laid and increased in an excessive manner and measure whereby Thousands of Famalies have been ruined and enforced to beg their bread Manufacture at home discouraged Publiq●e Tr●de and Commerce abroad interrupted The Nations become deeply indebted and generally impoverished the reformed Protestant Churches abroad exposed to great danger wanting the wonted support of England which under God was the Bulwark and chief strength of the Protestant Religion throughout all Christendom and finally the English Nation which was alwayes deservedly in so high honour and estimation at home and abroad as it was a bridle and terrour to their Enemies and a countenance and support to their friends and allies is now become we tremble and grieve to have so just cause to speak it a scorn and derision to all Nations round about us and all this brought to pass to satisfie the Avarice Ambition Lusts and fears of a few inconsiderable persons of Anabaptistical and other Fanatique spirits who have made it their business to occasion still one trouble on the neck of another so to embroil and continue the Nations in Division Warr and bloody confusions that sober men might not have time or leisure with maturity of judgment or Counsel to look into the inwards of their designs or actings And after we had beheld all this with bleeding hearts and calling to mind that when in December 1648. the said force was put upon the Parliament the then remaining Members sent sundry times to the General to know why he imprisoned their Members and desired him to set them at liberty which was not done and we gathering from all this that if the House were once freed from the force of an Army and they again restored to Freedom and Liberty of sitting and acting they would then upon the firmer grounds in conscience of their duties to God and their Countrie and in testimony of their high resentment of that breach of priviledges of the Parliament have taken into the House those excluded Members and filled vacant places by due and orderly Elections of the people and after so many years unhappy interruption unite again in a full and Free Parliament and there assert the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and Liberties of the people which from the very beginning of the War of England have been not the least ground of their contest with the late King ever since and joyn their counsels and endeavors for restoring these Nations to peace and tranquillity And thence it was That on the 14th day of December 1659. several Officers of the Army here on the behalfe of themselves and those under their Commands by their joynt Declaration Declared and Published their stedfast resolutions to adhere to the Parliament in the defence of its Priviledges and the just Rights and Liberties of the people of these Nations as Men and Christians In which Declaration afterwards concurred the whole Army of Ireland but now finding much contrary to our expectations that when the Members of Parliament now assembled at Westminster were in Decemb. 1659. by an extraordinary providence restored to their Freedom and liberty of sitting and acting as in Parliament and that divers of those formerly excluded Members of Parliament on the 27. of December 1659 as they had formerly done in May 1659. offered themselves to discharge their Trusts for the several Counties and places for which they were Elected and formerly served those their fellow Members assembled at Westminster did not onely deny them admittance but also voted and ordered the utter exclusion of all the excluded Members with this further addition that none of them should be chosen in future Elections to sit in this Parliament whereby they have by a more unnatural violence taken away from above the one half of the people of England their Representatives in Parliament and limited and abridged in a high degree the Liberty and Freedom of the people in further Elections which denyal and order of theirs in a time when they were under no force is so much the more strange in regard that in December 1648. when they were under a force they transferred that guilt from themselves to the Army and pretended a willingness to re-admit those Members if it were in their power as is formerly mentioned And whereas Lt. Gen. Ludlow had placed in Ireland several Officers who are Anabaptists and persons of the like fanatique spirits many of whom had been very active in the late conspiracies and actings of the factious part of the Army in England even against those Members of Parliament now sitting at Westminster of which Officers so placed by Lt. Gen. Ludlow it was found necessary to purge the Army and to put in their places persons more soberly minded and well affected to the Parliament yet after all that done and after Lt. Gen. Ludlow stood justly and deservedly charged with High Treason the said Lt. Gen. Ludlow himselfe and some others of the like principles with him were by a report from the Council of State proposed ro be appointed to govern not onely the Army but also the whole Nation of Ireland to the astonishment of the people and Army here to the unsetling of those persons so well deserving to the hazard of