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A81959	A letter from Sir Levvis Dyve: to the Lord Marquis of New-Castle giveing his Lordship an account of the whole conduct of the Kings affaires in Irland [sic], since the time of the Lord Marquis of Ormond, His Excellencies arrival there out of France in Septem. 1648. Until Sr. Lewis his departure out of that Kingdome, in June 1650. Together with the annexed coppies of sundry letters mentioned by Sr. Lewis Dyve as relating to the businesse he treats of from the Hauge 10. 20. July 1650.	Dyve, Lewis, Sir, 1599-1669.	1650 (1650)	Wing D2979; Thomason E616_7; ESTC R206730	54,200	79

colonies of English here the English interest of this Kingdome is included but what this English Interest is when we shall have once examined your fright concerning it will soon be over it appears to me to be nothing else but that the right and authority of the crown of England over them should be acknowledged by all the subjects of this Kingdom and those Colonies of English aswell as the native Irish be therby protected and secured in the possession of such fortunes and estates as either by the sword the roiall gift or purchase have bin lawfully acquired unto them Beyond this the English Interest is an unknown-land to me and how far this Interest thus stated is secured by or Consistent with that peace you blame so I leave it to any third unpreiudiced person to determin Who I am certaine will find them square so well together that he shall have reason to beleive the English interest taken in your sense infers an obedience to you and your independant masters abstract from all relation to the crown an establishment of your Tetrarchy here till your ambition were wearied out and you with your corrupt and hungry family had ungratefully glutted yourselves in the blood and fortunes of those noble persons whose smiles and patronage in your mercenarie pleading daies were the top of your ambition that so by this consequence the lives and estates of all that have been here in armes may beleft a prey to worse rebells then the worst of these have ever been This is an English interest indeed that the peace securs not and which I cannot blame you for pleading for with so much passion as to affirme that were there neither king nor parliament you would maintaine it neither for averring that my Lord Lieutenants transporting a considerable part of the English army hence was destructive unto but as to the true English Interest I mentioned before it was very suteable to that that my Lord Lieutenant should without dispute ●omply with the Kings commands from whom only he had his commission and derived his authoritie and whom both himselfe and that army in all relations both of honor and duty were obliged to obey Besides his Excellency knows well enough how much he was concerned in the support of that cron●ne that gave him and all the English in this Kingdome the title to what they possessed here nothing of which could be long secure unto them and the crowne at home in danger In the next place I do not know whether the Parlement is more beholding to you for asserting their infringed authoriti● or the Irish themselves in your being so generous as to let them see the invalidity of this peace they are abused withall for to prove both which you bring noworse an argument then an English act of Parliament which underfavour your own skil in the lawe if you have not forgot it will tell you can be of no force here untill received by a Parliament in Irland which asserts a power as just and absolute to it selfe as the Parliament of England can else should the ancient conquerors of this Kingdome and their free posterity unjustly undergoe the dominion of those to whom neither Interest nor merit hath given any right or footing here or priviledge over them Besides you shall have others which will tell you and make it good that a Prince cannot give a way the Iurisdiction of his people to one that hath no title to it as the Parlement of England hath none to Irland without their own consent yet grant for argument sake that these people by taking armes unlawfully had put themselves into that condition that might aswell enable as induce the late King of ever glorious memory to invest the Parliament of England with such a power over them as that act involues yet can it not be beleived that the King ever intended to trust them with managing the war of Irland against himselfe as by what they have don in England t is evident they would have done but let us also suppose it possible that the royall power can be so convayed unto another as that contrary to the intention of the King it may be converted to his own destruction which is a possition I am sure that no Sophister lesse accute and learned then your selfe will be able to make good yet must this power surely needs revert to its firfl originall the crown through the death both of the King that gave it of the Parliament it was conferd upon and that since that the Kings death is out of dispute this Parlement hath for this seaven yeares at least wanted both a King and freedome which being the head and hart of that body are two things most necessary to the life and essence of it nay that that breathlesse headles carcass of a Parliament hath by those Independant vermine that bred out of the putrifacton of it been anatomiz'd and quite dismembred since there is no man that is not deafe and blind that can be uninformd Now that such a martird mooncalfe canstil be a living Parliament I am sure there is no man wakes that can be so perswaded especiallie the King that calld it being dead which both the law custom tells you that a Parliament could neuer yet survive upon which conclusion you must needs grant that his present Majestie who hath already confirmed by his both my Lord Lieutenant and all that his Excellency hath don by his Royal fathers Commission hath now indisputably reverted to him the power to manage a war and conclude or con●irme a peace in Irland except that you will still maintainé that the authoritie of the late Parliament is by I know not what legierdemain translated into those usurpers that have not only destrojed that Parliament but also declared that they intend there shall never be any more and this non consequence if you still insist upon I will conclude you are crackt as was that Spanish gallant and leave you in your quest of Windmills But if you can prevayle with your selfe to be so ingenuous as acknowledg the preceding truths I will hold on still and endevour to remove out of your tender conscience your last and greatest difficult of breach of trust indeed a scruple very suitable to a man of honour such as I would willinglie take you for and to begin the worke I must tell you that the premisses are very convinceing that in your compliance with my Lord Lieutenant there is no trust broken either with God or King or Parliament who are all you can pretend to owe a faith unto by deserting those villanous impostors who have supplanted religion subverted Monarchy murthered the King violated the Parliament annihilated the lawes trampled upon learning and nobility and left neither worth nor justice unopprest within their reach which kind of perfidious people surely to deceive right reason it selfe tells you there is no deceipt Yet had you no such assurance I should thinke it strange that you who have

Passe to my Lord Lieutenant Mentioned PAG. 48. Dean Boyles Letter to my Lord Lieutenant touching the transactions with Cromwell in behalfe of the disbanded English May it please your Excellency BEing now returned from the enemies quarters I am bold to give your Lordship an account of what we have done there we were two dayes held in suspence by Generall Cronwell whether he would descend to any capitulation upon those articles we delivered him dureing which time his arguments were few but his perswasions many to come in upon a Cleare score without any articling for conditions and that he sayd would put the whole party into a Condition of being trusted by the Parliament which their insisting upon articles would deprive them of But we wholy waving the force of his perswasions told him that we were limited by instructions and to decline them in any particular were very unfaithfull and beyond our Commission we therefore desired his positive resolution whether he would ascertaine them of their securities or the like or no that so we might returne with an account to them that sent us whereupon ireton objected that by those proposals which wee gave in to them our design might be to contract for the Lord Inchiquint estate aswell as others he being under your Excellencies command to which I made him this answer that indeed it was much the desires of the Officers to serve him in that particular but that I had peremptory directions from his Lordship to signify unto them that it was not your Excellencies intent or his Lordships to Capitulate with then at all or to be comprized under any general Conditions whereuphn Cromwell then made answer that if that were our purpose he would not a jot the more decline the businesse There were many houres wasted in debate before we came to any issue at last the result of all determined in these inclosed conditions wherin your Excellency may he pleased to observe that there lyes no obligation at all on our partes but all on theirs so that your Excellency may dispose of your men or any number of them as you shall thinke fitting notwithstanding any engagements from us only thus much we are obliged to that our party under the couert of those articles do not prejudice them in the surprisal of any of their guarrisons or the like which emboldens me to beseech your Excellency that Sr. Thomas Armstrong may take notice of it and send his engagement hither for Sr. Robert Sterlings and Lieutenant Collonel Daniells security and mine this inclosed to him I held it my duty to present open to your Excellencie before I sent it to himselfe My Lord Dureing my being there I had many opportunities and hints given me by Generall Cromwell and Ireton whereby I might plainly understand that if I would move any thing from your Excellency or the Lord Inchiquin they would willingly hearken to it but I waved them all so far that they at last in plain English asked mee what your Lordship intended to doe if this party came of I said I was not acquainted with your resolutions But that I beleeud you would endeavour to forme the army there into a considerable body if upon the comeing off of the English party you did not find their behaviours to be such as might give you no great confidence of them so enforce you to desert them if you were not necessitated to tarry with them for want of convenient transportation to which they insinuated unto me that I might have a Passe for your safe going of if you had a mind to it that I desired it my reply was that I had no commission to that purpose but on the contrary had positive directions not to aske any thing in your Lordship or the Lord Inchiquins behalfe yet if they would deliver me any such passes for your Excellency and the Lord Inchiquin I would reserve them by mee and if I had any opportunity make use of them the Passes I have here to dispose of as your Excellency shall appoint My Lord Inchiquin doth exceedingly dislike my bringing them at all and the rather be cause there is not included in them a liberty for the ship it selfe and all others to goe with you that have an intent to wayte upon you But J find if your Excellency have any inclination to make use of such a Passe it might easily be gayned for any that shall desire it either for my Lord Muskery or my Lord Taaffe or any other officer of quality They say they are very much concerned for the Marquis of Clanricard and if he would but desire any thing that lyes in their power to serve him he should find that the State of England would not be unmindfull of those many good offices they were informed he had done for the poor Protestants in that country They gave me likewise a hint concerning Sr. Georg Hamilton and the Castle of Nenagh but I took no notice of it Vpon discourse with Generall Cromwell he sayd that he had no interest at all in your estate nor any designe upon it he pretends to be a great servant of your ladies and much to pitty her condition the estate which she brought your Lordship they openly professe shall not be given to any from her The day before I came from thence there came a pacquet which gave them some seeming disturbance upon the observance whereof I used meanes by one of their own party to discourse with the captaine that brought it who certifyed him that the news was very bad and that Montrose was landed or certainly did intend to land in Irland with 12000. men something of consequence there is in it but whether this be the Certainty thereof or no it is not yet known I must beg your Excellencies pardon for this tedious and rude diversion which I could very much lengthen by severall other passages but I fear I have transgressed too farr already which submitting to your Excellencies Charitable interpretation I remain My Lord Your Excellencies most faithfull and most humble servant M. BOYLE Clare 30. April 1650. Cromwells Passe unto my Lord Lieutenant By the Lord Lieutenant of Irland THese are to require you and every of you to permit and suffer his Excellency the Lord Marquis of Ormond and his family not exceeding the number of twenty persons with three horses and also their clothes houshold stuffe and other goods not being merchandize quietly and safely to take shipping at any place within the river of Shannon or at Galloway or to Passe to Kinsale and take shipping there and from such place of their shipping to be transported to any parts beyond the seas except to England Wales or Scotland without any violence injury or molestation as you will answer the Contrary at your perills Provided they take shipping and depart from Irland within the space of two monthes after the date hereof and that in the mean time they or any of them do not act any thing to the