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A89475	A manifestation directed to the honourable Houses of Parliament in England, sent from the Lord Inchequin, the Lord Broghill, Sir Wil. Fenton, Sir Percy Smith, Lieut. Col. Will. Brocket, Lieut. Col. Thomas Serle, Sarjeant Major Muschamp; containing the reasons of their now opposing the cestation with the blood-thirsty Irish rebels; and their resolution to live and die in defence of the Parliament and Protestant cause in that Kingdom. As also, the joynt and unamimous declaration of His Majesties Protestant subjects in the Province of Munster, shewing to the whole world the many inhumane, cruell, and unheard of perfidious dealings, treacherous conspiracies, and horrid combinations of friers, priests and Jesuits, to betray the castles, forts and garrisons, and their murthering many Protestants in that province, contrary to the article of free commerce, and other articles of the late treaty.	Inchiquin, Murrough O'Brien, Earl of, 1614-1674.	1644 (1644)	Wing M424; Thomason E6_1; ESTC R3771	7,096	14

Nation and Protestant Religion we have reassumed our Armes according to our duty to God our King and Country with inviolable resolution to dye or frustrate this divelish designe And since those that dye acting for the Gospell are as perfect Martyers as those that dye suffering for it Wee cannot but with joy embrace any effect that proceeds from so glorious a cause Neither can this act be esteemed a crime in us since his Majesty upon the Rebels first insurrection his treasure being exhausted gave his Royall assent for the passing of an Act of Parliament wherin he granted to all his Subjects that would adventure mony towards reducing of the rebells Lands proportionable to the sum adventured which would fall to the Crowne when the conquest should be finished and the better to secure the adventurers his Majesty obliged himselfe to make no peace with the Rebels but with the advice and approbation of the Parliament of England And by that Act communicated to the Parliament that power which before was solely in himselfe So that they not condescending to this peace Our imploying of their Aids and reassuming of those Armes put into our hands by King and Parliament joyntly cannot be esteemed contradictory to his Majesty in regard that their joynt Act is so absolutely binding that neither of them severally can annull it as is evident in the Lawes of the Realme Therefore if this war were only offensive yet even slander it selfe must acknowledge us innocent having so just a cause so pious an intention and so lawfull an authority much more it being defensive and the Law both of God and nature allowing every one to defend himselfe from violence and wrong Moreover the King must never expect any obedience from the Irish but what proceeds either from their Interest or fear Through the first of these neither His Majesty or we can hope for assurance for not granting them all their desires their Interest which is more powerfull with them then their loyalty will make them throw off their subjection and to become absolute not scruple to destroy us then to expect any security by their feares were frivolous for though we have found their hearts as ill as their cause yet they cannot be apprehensive of two or 3000 ill armed and unprovided men having all things necessary and so numerous a people at their devotion And lest our Enemies should scandalize us with breach of faith in violating the pretended Cessation or with cruelty in expelling the Irish Papists from our Garrisons who hitherto seemed adhering to us Concerning the first we declare That although our necessities did induce us to submit supposing the Cossation would have produced other effects as is before mentioned yet that we had no power without authority from King and Parliament joyntly to treat or yeeld to it or if it had been in our powers yet by the Rebels daily breaches of it we are disengaged from it Concerning the second We declare That our Garrison cannot be secured whilst so powerfull and perfidious Enemies are in our bosomes Powerfull being foure to one in number more then the English Perfidious in their constant designes to betray us some whereof we will instance to convince their owne consciences and satisfie the world of our just proceedings One Francis Matthewes a Francisean Fryer being wonderfully discovered in an enigmaticall Letter and as justly executed before his death confessed that he had agreed to betray the City of Corke to the Lord of Muskery which must necessarily inferre that the chiefest and greatest part of that City were engaged in this conspiracie for otherwise he could not so much as hope th' accomplishment And if this had taken effect it had consequently ruined all the Protestants in the Province of Minister that being our chiefe Magazine and greatest Garrison Besides upon this occasion other Fryers being examined upon Oath confessed that in their daily Masses within that Towne and all other of our Garrisons where Papists did inhabite they prayed for the advancement of the Catholique cause which they believed the Rebels fought for And lastly Wee have lately discovered that the now Major and Corporation had conbined with the Rebells to betray the Towne to them and for that purpose an Army was drawne to all the parts adjoyning to our Garrisons In the three chiefest whereof we are confident the Rebells had their partie but by divine providence before the Plot could be executed the Major presuming on his speedy successe contemned the Lord of Inch●quins authority by opposing the levying of the monyes granted by the English for the maintenance of the Souldiers just about the nick of time that the treachery was to be effected And he being committed upon this occasion The Rebels apprehending their designe to be discovered with drew their Forces And lest this should be judged as an act of the Major onely as a private person Wee desire the world to take notice that as soone as our Army which forced their obedience was removed into England the Papists generally resisted what ever could be propounded for our security and would have disenabled us to continue our Garrisons had not the poore stript English taken all that burthen upon themselves Nay they were so insolent that they laboured to get Armes into their hands and to cause us to disband our Souldiers which they affirmed to be kept as an unnecessary charge upon the King that so they might with more facilitie receive the Irish and ruine us In a word since they pretend the ground of this Warre to be for Religion and that this is confessed by those who seemed to adhere to us what faith can be expected from such a people whose Religigion permits them to hold none with us By this preceding Relation it is evidently seene that unlesse we reassume our Armes we betray the trust committed to us by God the King and Parliament and become slaves both of bodies soules And therefore we have resolved to performe our dutie though with apparent hazard of our lives And likewise maintaine that which is a thousand times more deare unto us our Religion and also defend our Garrisons for the Kings just use These we take God to witnesse are our Intentions and we beseech him to punish us as strangely as his 〈◊〉 he hath preserved us if we decline at all from these loyall and religions resolutions And we firmely hope that the world will by this declaration be as fully satisfied of the justinesse of our proceedings as we our selves are Then though we all lose our lives in this cause we shall give o● friends occasion to rejoyce and our Enemies to envie at so blessed an and. FINIS

though we had notice just time enough to secure our maine Magazine at Dublin yet we could not prevent the butchery of multitudes of innocent soules which suffered at the first in the Province of Vlster and since they have continued this Rebellion with such perfidiousnesse and bloudinesse that though we had been as guilty as we are innocent yet the prosecuting of the VVar with that barbarousnesse had rather been a sinne then Justice But by Gods great providence when the Rebellion brake out first the Parliament of England was sitting unto whom His Majesty communicated so much of his power over this Kingdome as we shall hereafter mention and gave them great encouragement to prosecute the VVar against the Rebells by granting lands unto such as should adventure money for the maintenance of the VVar. Whereupon the Parliament who were most willing to advance so good a cause sent us at first large supplies which had so good successe that the Divine aswell as humane Justice did proclaime them Rebells for indeed God Almighty since the deliverance of the children of Jsrael from the Egyptians never appeared to visibly as in this VVar. But the unhappy misunderstanding betweene the King and Parliament did so hinder the continuance of those supplies for this Kingdome that all we received in nineteene moneths amounted not to five weeks entertainement so that the Army which was sent to relieve us lived upon us And truly we may with Justice professe That the forces of this Province did feed as miraculously as fight being never able to prescribe any certaine way of subsistence for one moneth together But when the poore Inhabitants were absolutely beggered and no meanes for the forces to subsist on left a cessation of Armes was made for a twelve moneth with the Rebells which our necessity not inclination compelled us to beare with and the rather out of a firme hope that the Almighty out of his infinite goodnesse would within that yeare settle a right understanding betweene the King and Parliament That then they would unanimously revenge the crying bloud of so many thousands of innocent soules And untill God blessed us with the sight of that happy Union we might keep our Garrisons which otherwise we could not the better to enable them to prosecute so just and honorable a designe But the Cessation was as fatall to us during the time of Treaty as afterwards it was ill observed or they knowing what agreement they would enforce us to condescend unto did privately send one or two persons to every Castle that we had demolished which under pretence of being by that means in their possession they ever since detaine though it be contrary to the Articles And which is more injurious they have at all times since entered upon what Lands they have thought fit and detained them also and their devilish malice having no bounds they ●id place guards upon the high wayes to interrupt our Markets and punished divers of their owne party for comming with provisions to us thereby to deter all from bringing any reliefe to our Garrisons that so they might statue us out of those places that neither their fraud or force could get from us which that they might the better accomplish they murthered divers of the poore English that presuming on the Article of free commerce went abroad to buy victualls which certainly would have caused them to have declined that course of seeking food if hunger threatning them with more certaine death had not forced them thereunto And whereas we trusted that these notorious infidelities in them and infinite sufferings in us would have been so visible to His Majesty that nothing could have induced Him to make a peace with so perfidious a people who through their fawning and insinuating with His Majesty and by the counsell of some who represent that there is no way left for the securing the remainder of English but by a peace We find His Majesty being deluded by the first and believing the last to be conducing to the preservation of His Majesties Protestant Subjects is concluding of a Peace which will againe admit those Irish Rebells to be members of Parliament so that that Court which should afford reliefe for our grievances will by their overswaying Votes be our greatest grievance Moreover we are too truely enformed by divers of their owne party whose names if we should publish would be as great an ingratitude as folly The first in betraying those that obliged us The last in depriving our selves of all future intelligence by them that they have vowed never to submit to an English or Protestant Government except they have liberty to exercise their Religion in Churches That the Forces of the Kingdome may be Trained-Bands of their men And that likewise those of their owne Religion may be admitted to places of trust in the Common-Wealth which they call modest and moderate demands though we hope they cannot seeme so to any but themselves and their Clergy who we find doe not thinke them enough being they may not have all the Churchlivings For we have certaine intelligence that they have made a strong Faction as well among my Lord of Castlehavens Souldiers as in all other parts of the Kingdom so that they are five parts of six who will fly out into a new action when they see a convenient time to execute their design which as yet they determine to forbeare untill they see a peace concluded supposing that then the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland will intermix Irish and English without distinction to oppose the Scots and that by that meanes there wil be a sufficient number of their party in our garrisons to master them which when they find an opportunity for they will certainly seize into their owne hands Upon notice whereof the Faction abroad will with all expedition apprehend the English in all parts and having accomplished this part of their designe they will manifest that they are weary of the King of Englands Government and that they will trust none of his Protestant Subjects among them For we are certainly enformed that they will invite a forraigne Prince to take them into his protection Unto whom they will deliver possession of what he pleases and will become his Subjects And lest that Princes Treasure should be exhausted by warres in other places the Clergy have with the Popes assistance raysed amongst those of their owne calling and divers of the Gentry in Italy one hundred thousand pounds in money and a quantity of Armes and Ammunition that are now ready to be 〈◊〉 hither● And they have imployed one Doctor Daye● to goe forthwith thither for it As also to get his holinesse to settle a course for the raysing of more money to be imployed for the advancement of that which they call Catholique cause Therefore out of a true sence of our injuries already suffered and unredressed with a right apprehension of inevitable ruine not only to our lives and estates but likewise to the English