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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	act_n	ireland_n	law_n	3,028	5	5.2143	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87242	A true copy of a second letter, sent from the Lord of Inchiquine to the honorable Collonell Michaell Iones commander in chiefe of the Parliaments forces in Leinster, and governor of the citty of Dublin, vvith Colonell Iones his answer, to the Lord of Inchiquines saied letter.	Inchiquin, Murrough O'Brien, Earl of, 1614-1674.; Jones, Michael, d. 1649.	1649 (1649)	Wing I135B; ESTC R223518	7,161	20

A TRVE COPY OF A second letter sent from the Lord of Inchiquine to the Honorable Collonell Michaell Iones Commander in chiefe of the Parliaments Forces in Leinster AND Governor of the Citty of Dublin VVith Colonell Iones his Answer To the Lord of Inchiquines saied Letter DVBLIN Printed by William Bladen 1649 Sir I Have receiued yours of the 21th of Iune wherein you referre mee for answer to part of mine of Iune 20th to what hath passed betweene you and his Excellency the Marquis of Ormonde when I perused those papers of yours I observed how you put of the maine objections against the chiefe actors in England as not concerning you at all can the horrid and treasonable Paricide of a lawfull Soveraigne by rebellious Subjects contrary to all laws of God and man contrary to soe many oathes and obligations detested by all Europe the abrogation of the antient liberties and priviledges of Parliament the totall subvertion of the fundamentall constitutions of their native country the extreamest violation of the rights and properties of their fellow subjects and the assuming of an absolute arbitrary power over their lives and fortunes by the Sword be crimes of the highest nature in the Actors and yet the maintainers and abbetters of them in their Tirannicall vsurpations remaine innocent and unconcerned I observed further how you plead his Majesties limitation of his Regall power and his committing of the managery of the Irish warre to his two houses of Parliament in England and upon that foundation you ground the justice of your Proceedings suppose the laws of England did tye our common Soveraignes hands from doing acts of grace in Ireland suppose they did obliege the subjects of this Kingdome in their lives and Estates without their owne consents yea before they bee heard suppose this doe not render the subjects of Ireland the veriest slaves in the world nor make voide our free charters as antient and as large as those of England it selfe suppose that solemne Act to introduce the English statutes into Ireland to have been needlesse superfluous supposing all you will have to be supposed yet now there is not the least shadow of the two houses remaining the upper house being quite taken away and the house of Commons become a suppositions changling certainely they are none of his Majesties two houses which have taken away both Majesty Monarchy Lastly that warre hath noe affinity with this That was to suppresse Rebellion this to maintaine Rebellion That was to defend the Protestant Religion the liberties of Parliament the rights of the subject this is meerely for the subvertion of all theise p●●der those things seriously without prejudice and you will quickly finde what tottering grounds you have laied to support the weight of soe much Christian blood and the devastation of the whole Kingdome and how little you have answered to his Excellencies reasons I proposed a conference and you reject it as not consisting with Prudence in matters of this consequence and subject in these times to construstions and misconstructions Certainely if advice and deliberation be necessary it is in maters of moment and Consequence If you be your selfe that is free to follow reason and Conscience and not engaged to the dictates of other men nor willfully wedded to an implicit faith but ready to imbrace the truth whensoever it shall be revealed which every good Christian ought to be a conference had been the likeliest meanes to take away misconstructions and beget better constructions This made the office of Embassadors soe sacred that quarrells might not become immortall for want of conference right vnderstanding There is a blessing promised to Peace-makers but a judgment hangs over their heads who nourish contentions This rejecting of a conference seemes to me to argue strongly either a diffidence in your cause or a resolution to hold the conclusion without any regard of the premisses or a distrust of my ingenuity We both professe the same ends why should we differ soe much in the meanes I thought a conference would take away the vaile and either discover our difference in the first or have happily reconciled us in the later to which I was resolved to come without prejudice or obstinacy contending more for truth then for victory as willing to have condiscended to you had you been in the right as I am unwilling to depart from you ●●w because I am assured that you are in the wroung It is indifferent to me what cause is right soe I be in the right cause And though I have left your party because you have left your principles it is but as a man leaves his brothers house whilest it is infected with some contagious disease with a minde to pray for you and a desire of revnion with you soe soone as I may with safety This is not to forsake you but to provide for myselfe you say you are satisfied in the justice of your cause admitt you be soe yet take heed this be not for want of due discussion or out of an implicit trust and adherence to others or a prejudice in your affections which robbes and betraies reason of its due succours and like a false glasse makes things appear otherwise then in truth they are Be it spoken without the beast disparagdment to your person or partes which I honour and desire to love you cannot be more resolute then Saul was in his pharisaicall opinions or then many thousand heretickes and Shismatickes of all sortes in the world are at this day who might be cured if they did not stopp their cares against the voice of the Charmer Principles may be erronious and nothing is more ordinary then to mistake a party for a principle The only reason which you give for your resolution is that Gods blessing hath dwelt visibly upon your cause as still it doth when God blesseth men in evill courses it is the greatest judgment his waies are alwaies just but often secret The evening commends the day and the conclusion often differs from the first Acts of the Tragily howsoever ascribe not that to the meritts of your cause which may be due to the sinnes of the advers party My sword you say hath been prosperous but you advise mee to consider the cause wherein I then appeared If over my cause were just which you confesse it is soe still and therefore I may still hope for the same blessings yet the prosperous●●es of it did not assure mee that it was good but the goodnes of it did and still doth give mee hopes that it will be prosperous But you tax mee now for joineing with the bloody Rebells and setting my selfe against those of the Protestant Religion contrary to my former engagements how ill doe these words become you who adhere to and maintaine the bloodiest Rebells in the world that is those in England who are soe strictly joyned and vnited with Colonell Monke who if I be not misinformed hath made a Cessation with the bloodest of