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A proclamation of the Lords Ivstices for the apprehension of the chiefe rebels and the revvard for taking any of them : with the true and last newes from Ireland, and in what state Dublin stands at this present, sent from an honourable and one of the chiefest persons there, to a nephew of his in London.
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Ireland. Lords Justices and Council.
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Wing E931A; ESTC R15631
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A PROCLAMATION OF THE LORDS IVstices for the apprehension of the chiefe Rebels AND THE REVVARD FOR TAKING ANY OF THEM WITH The true and last Newes from Ireland and in what state Dublin stands at this present Sent from an Honourable and one of the chiefest persons there to a Nephew of his in London LONDON Printed for Henry Shepheard and are to be sold at the Signe of the Bible in Chancery-Lane 1641. By the Lords Iustices and Councell W. Parsons Jo. Borlase IT is well knowne to all men but more particularly to his Majesties Subjects of this Kingdome who have all gathered plentifull and comfortable fruits of his Majesties blessed government how abundantly carefull his Majesty hath been in the whole course of his Government of the peace and safety of this his Kingdome and how graciously he hath laboured to derive to all his Subjects therein all those benefits and comforts which from a most gracious King could be conferred on his Subjects to make them a happy people whereof he hath given many great testimonies And as at all times he endeavoured to give them due contentment and satisfaction so even then whilest the Rebels now in Armes were conspiring mischiefe against Him and his Crowne and Kingdome he was then exercising Acts of Grace and Benignity towards them granting to his Subjects here the fulnesse of their own desires in all things so far as with Honour or Justice he possibly could and particularly when the Committees of both Houses of Parliament here this last Summer attended his Majesty in England at which time amongst many other things graciously assented to by Him he was content even with apparent losse and disadvantage to himselfe to depart with sundry his Rights of very great value which lawfully and justly hee might have retained And as his continued goodnesse to this people and his Princely care of their prosperity and preservation shall to the unspeakable joy and comfort of all his good Subjects render him glorious to all Posterity so the wicked ingratitude and treacherous disloyalty of those Rebels shall render them for ever infamous to all ages and utterly inexcusable even in the judgement of those who for any respect either formerly wished well to their persons or now pitty them in their transgressions And although the said persons now in Rebellion were in no degree provoked by any just cause of publike griefe received from his Majesty or his Ministers to undertake such desperate wickednesse neither can justly assigne any severity or rigour in the execution of those Lawes which are in force in this Kingdome against Papists nor indeed any cause at all other then the unnaturall hatred which those persons in Rebellion do beare to the Brittish and Protestants whom they desire and publikely professe to root out from amongst them The more strange in that very many of themselves are descended of English whence is the originall and foundation of all their estates and those great benefits which they have hitherto enjoyed and whence their Predecessors and others then well affected in this Kingdome have been at all times since the Conquest cherrished relieved countenanced and supported against the ancient enemies of the Kings people of England many of the Irish also having received their estates and livelihood from the unexampled bounty and goodnesse of the Kings of England Yet such is their inbred ingratitude and disloyalty as they conspired to massacre Us the Lords Justices and Councell and all the Brittish and Protestants universally throughout this Kingdome and to seize into their hands not only his Majesties Castle of Dublin the principall Fort in this Kingdome but also all other the fortifications thereof though by the infinite goodnesse and mercy of God those wicked and devillish Conspiracies were brought to light and some of the principall Conspirators imprisoned in his Majesties Castle of Dublin by Us by his Majesties authority so as those wicked and damnable plots are disappointed in the chief parts thereof his Majesties said Castle of Dublin and City of Dublin being preserved and put into such a condition of strength as if any of them or their adherents shall presume to make any attempt thereupon they shall God willing receive that correction shame confusion and destruction which is due to their treacherous and detestable disloyalty And in pursuit of their bloody intentions they assembled themselves in Armes in hostile manner with banners displayed surprised divers of his Majesties Forts and Garrisons possessed themselves thereof robbed and spoiled many thousands of his Majesties good Subiects Brittish and Protestants of all their goods dispossessed them of their houses and lands murdered many of them upon the place stripped naked many others of them and so exposed them to nakednesse cold and famine as they thereof dyed imprisoned many others some of them persons of eminent quality laid siege to divers of his Maiesties Forts and Towns yet in his Maiesties hands and committed many other barbarous cruelties and execrable inhumanities upon the persons and estates of the Brittish and Protestants men women and children in all parts of the Kingdome without regard of quality age or sex And to cover their wickednesse in those cruell Acts so to deceive the world and to make way if they could to the effecting of their mischievous ends they adde yet to their wickednesse a further degree of impiety pretending outwardly that what they doe is for the maintenance and advancement of the Kings prerogative whereas it appeares manifestly that their aimes and purposes inwardly are if it were possible for them so to doe to wrest from him his Royall Crown and Scepter and his iust Soveraignty over this Kingdome and Nation and to deprive him and his lawfull Ministers of all authority and power here to place it on such persons as they think fit which can no waystand with his Maiesties iust Prerogative nor can any equall minded man be seduced to beleeve that they can wish well to his Royall person or any thing that is his who in their actions have expressed such unheard of hatred malice and scorn of the Brittish Nation as they have done And such is their madnesse as they consider not that his sacred Maiesty disdaines to have his name or power so boldly traduced by such wicked malefactors Rebells having never in any age beene esteemed fit supporters of the Kings Prerogative much lesse these who under countenance thereof labour to deface and shake off his Government and extirp his most loyall and faithfull Subjects of his other Kingdomes and here whose preservation above all earthly things is and alwayes hath beene his Majesties principall study and endeavour which even these Traytors themselves have abundantly found with comfort if they could have beene sensible of it And whereas divers Lords and Gentlemen of the English Pale preferred Petition unto Us in the behalfe of themselves and the rest of the Pale and other the old English of this Kingdome shewing that whereas a late Conspiracie of Treason was
discovered of ill-affected persons of the old Irish and that thereupon Proclamation was published by Us wherein among other things it was declared that the said Conspiracie was perpetrated by Irish Papists without distinction of any and they doubting that by those generall words of Irish Papists they might seeme to be involved though they declared themselves confident that We did not intend to include them therein in regard they alleadged they were none of the old Irish nor of their Faction or Confederacie but as they then pretended altogether averse and opposite to all their designes and all others of like condition We therefore to give them full satisfaction having indeede at that time great confidence in their loyalty did by Proclamation dated the 29. of October 1641. declare and publish that by the words Irish Papists We intended only such of the old meere Irish in the Province of Ulster as were then Actors in that Treason and others who adhered to them and that We did not any way intend or meane thereby any of the old English of the Pale nor of any other parts of this Kingdome then esteemed good Subjects We being then as We conceived well assured of their fidelities to the Crowne and having experience of the good affections and services of their Ancestors in former times of danger and Rebellion And indeede so beleeving were VVe in their faithfulnesse loyalty to the Crown as We then also represented it into England for their advantage and thereupon in the Order of the Lords and Commons in the Parliament in England concerning Ireland his Majesties loyall Subjects of English blood though of the Romish Religion being ancient Inhabitants within severall Counties and parts of this Realme are mentioned as those who have alwayes in former rebellions given testimony of their fidelity to the Crowne of England And in further testimony of the good affiance VVee had in their loyaltie VVee issued Armes to the severall Counties of the English Pale the better to enable them to discharge their duties in defending those parts and his Majesties good Subjects therein against the Rebels upon deepe professions of loyaltie made by them and their seeming detestation of the loathsomnesse of the crimes and bloody guilts of the Rebells which they for their parts professed with many oathes and protestations to abhorre and promised to oppose and resist them with all their power And wee issued Armes also to many Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Pale and elsewhere of the Romish Religion for the defence of their houses against the Rebells Yet much contrary to the expectation of all equall minded men and in deceit of the trust reposed in them by this State and directly contrary as to their loyaltie and dutie to his Majestie so to the great professions which they had so lately before made at this Councell Board many of those as well whole Counties as particular persons entrusted with those Armes revolted to the Rebels caryed his Majesties Arms with them and so the Arms which were trusted into their hands for the protection of his Masties good Subjects they converted to the annoyance and destruction as much as in them lay of those good Subjects they were trusted to protect and of this State and Government and have not onely not resisted the Rebells but have also joyned with them and they and the Rebells assembled in Armes in hostile manner with banners displayed against his Majestie in besieging some of his Townes taking into their possession by force or fraud many of his Majesties Burroughs walled and unwalled and in committing murders spoyles robberies and many detestable cruelties on his Majesties good Subjects And although those of the Pale pretended that they were not able to assemble or arme any strength against the Rebells yet lately they found meanes to assemble and arme great multitudes to assist the Rebells against his Majesties forces and against his Majesties Government and this State And as well the persons who were the first Actors in this Rebellion as also many others in the English Pale and severall other parts of the Kingdome forgetting those duties which by the Lawes of God and man are due from them to his Sacred Majestie are so ungratefull to his Majestie for the great and abundant benefits and favours from Him and his Royall Father and Predecessors derived to them so insensible of the happinesse which they with all others in this Kingdome enjoyed by his blessed Government and so improvident to themselves and their posteritie as they have presumed most unnaturally to conspire raise and act those abhominable Treasons and Rebellion against his Majestie as is herein formerly mentioned And for as much as those Rebells and particularly Sir Con Magenis of Newcastle in the Countie of Downe Knight Patrick mac Cartan of Loghnelan in the said Countie Art oge mac Glasny Magenis of Ilanderry in the said County Ever mac Phelim Magenis of Castlewelan in the said County Rory mac Brian oge Magenis late of Edenteecullagh in the said County Phillip mac Hugh mac Shane O Rely of Ballinecarrig in the Countie of Cavan Phillip mac Mulmorry O Rely of Lismore in the sayd Countie Mulmorry mac Edmond O Rely of Cavet in the said Countie Hugh Boy mac Shane O Rely of Kilmore in the said Countie Owen mac Shane mac Phillip O Rely of the same Rory Magwyre of Hassets-towne in the County of Farmanagh brother to the Lord Magwyre Donogh bane Magwyre of Carrow in the said Countie Uncle to the said Lord Magwyre Brian mac Cowcannaght Magwyre of Tempoe in the said County Sir Phelim O Neale of Kinard in the County of Tyrone Knight Tirlagh Roe O Neale brother to the said Sir Phelim Tirlagh Groome O Quin of Donoghmore in the said Countie Cormock mac Owin oge O Hagan of Mullinecor in the said County Patrick Modder O Donelly of Croskanena in the said County Art mac Tirlagh mac Henry O Neale of Devernagh in the County of Armagh Tirlagh mac Henry mac Tirlagh O Neale of the Fues in the sayd County Hugh oge O Neale of Aghadamph in the said County Donogh oge O Murchie of Cashell in the said County Collo mac Brian mac Mahowne of Balloghie in the County of Monaghan Neale mac Kena of the Trough in the said County Coolo mac Ever mac Mahowne of _____ in the said Countie Art Roe mac Patrick mac Art Moyle mac Mahowne of Fanahah in the said County Captaine Hugh mac Phelim Birne late of Ballinecor in the County of VVicklo Shane mac Brien mac Phelim Birne late of Carrigocroe in the said County Luke alias Feagh O Toole of Castlekeven in the said County Luke alias Feagh mac Redmond Birne of Kilcloghram in the said County Redmond mac Feagh Birne late of Kilvane in the said County Phelim mac Redmond Birne late of the same in the said County Dermot mac Dowlin Cavenagh of Ballidony in the Countie of VVexford Lewis alias Lisagh mac Owny Dempsie of Rahynne in