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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77534	Two remarkable letters concerning the Kings correspondence with the Irish rebels. The first by Digby in the Kings name to the Irish Commisioners. The second from the Lord Muskery one of those Commissioners in answer to Digby. Also a full state of the Irish negotiation at Oxford now treated, set forth in the rebels propositions, and the Kings particular concessions. Published according to order.	Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677.; Clancarty, Donogh MacCarty, Earl of, 1594-1665.; Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677. Two letters of his sacred Majesty.	1645 (1645)	Wing B4785; Thomason E300_8; ESTC R200255	11,715	16

criminall and personall and the said Act extend to all Goods and Chattels customes maisne profits prizes arrears of Rent taken received or incurred since this trouble 17 Forasmuch as your Majesties said Catholick subjects have been taxed with many inhumane cruelties which they never committed your Majesties said subjects therfore for their vindication and to manifest to all the world their desire to have such heynous offences punished and the offenders brought to justice do desire that in the next Parliament all notorious murders breaches of quarter and inhumane cruelties committed of either side may be questioned in the said Parliament if your Majesty so think fit and such shall appear to be guilty to be excepted out of the said Act of Oblivion and punished according to their deserts Forasmuch Dread Soveraign as the wayes of our addresses unto your Majesty for apt remedies unto our grievances were hitherto debarred us but now at length through your benigne grace and favour laid open We do humbly present these in pursuance of the said Remonstrance which granted your said subjects are ready to contribute the ten thousand men as in their Remonstrance is specified towards the suppressing of the unnaturall rebellion now in this Kingdom and will further expose their lives and fortunes to serve your Majesty as occasion shall require Additionall Propositions 1. THat an Act be passed this next parliament prohibiting that neither the Lord Deputy Lord Chancellor Lord High Treasurer vice-Vice-Treasurer Chancellor or any of the Barons of the Exchequer Privy-Councell or Judges of the foure Courts be Farmours of your Majesties customes 2. That an Act of Parliament may passe in Ireland against all Monopolies such as was enacted in England 21. year of King James with a further clause for repealing of all Grants of Monopolies in Ireland 3. That the Court of Castle-Chamber in Ireland having been an oppression to the subjects and there being other remedies for the offences questioned in that Court by the common Law and Statutes of th●…r Realm be taken away or otherwise limited as both Houses shall thin●… 4. That two Acts lately passed in Ireland one prohibiting the plowing with horses by the tayle and the other prohibiting the burning of Oates in straw may be repealed 5. That it may please your Majesty to give order that upon presenting the names of three persons of quality in each County by your suppliants to your chief Governor or Governors their Patents be passed to such of those so to be presented respectively to be Sheriffes in each County as to be chief Governor or Governors shall seem meet to make choice of for that purpose 6. That one or more Agents from that Kingdom may be admitted still to attend his Majesty for his Information of the Affairs of that Kingdom And that as a testimony of his Majesties favour some of the Nobles and others of quality of that Kingdom may be imployed about your Majesties person 7. Forasmuch as divers of the Scotch Nation and others in Ireland do not obey the present Cessation and many of them having of late taken the Covenant proposed by the Members of the Parliament at Westminster now in Arms against your Majesty it is therfore humbly desired that such as disobey the said Cessation or have taken the said Covenant be by his Majesties appointment proclaimed Traitors in Ireland and prosecuted accordingly by your Majesties authority And that such Counties or Corporations as have not submitted to the now Cessation of Arms in that Kingdom according to your Majesties Commission be not admitted to make any return to the Parliament 8. Forasmuch as since the late Commotion in that Kingdom some persons of quality of his Majesties Romane Catholick subjects dyed or were killed and their estates by means thereof became wast and uselesse That therfore for the better enabling of that partie to serve your Majesty It is humbly desired that the Wardship of their heires and the management of their estates be granted to such as shal be accountable to the said heires for the profit of those lands whereby their lands may be of some use to the common-wealth in their contributions to his Majesties service 9. Forasmuch as sundrie persons estated in that Kingdom have either actually raised Armes in this Kingdom against your Majestie or have otherwise adhered to the malignant party now in Arms against your Majestie that therfore it may please your Majestie to give way to the impeachment and Attainder of those and of such Officers whose names we shall here represent to your Majestie by way of Bill in Parliament wherby they may receive condigne punishment for their offences and your Majestie take advantage of the forfeiture of their estates And in the interim those possessions to remain in the hands wherein they are at present 10. Forasmuch as upon application of Agents from that Kingdom to your Majestie in the fourth yeer of your Reign and lately upon humble suit made to your Majestie by a Committee of both Houses of the Parliament of that Kingdom Order was given by your Majestie for redresses of severall grievances It is therfore humblie desired that for so many of those as are not expressed in the now Propositions presented to your Majestie whereof both Houses in the next ensuing Parliament shall desire the benefit of your Majesties said former directions for redresses that the same be afforded them 11. That the Office of Admirall in that Kingdom be setled independant of none but your Majestie whereby Maritine Causes may be determined there without driving Merchants or others to appeal or seek Justice elsewhere in those Causes Concerning any thing in Religion His Majesties Answer is 1. THat as the Laws against those of the Romish Religion within that His Kingdom of Ireland have never been executed with any rigor or severity So if such his Subjects shall by their returning to their dutie and loyaltie merit His Majesties favour and protection they shall not for the future have cause to complain that lesse moderation is used towards them then hath been in the most favourable of Queen E and King James his times Provided that under pretence of Conscience they do not stir up Sedition but live quietly and peaceably according to their Allegiance 2. Touching the calling a free Parliament by which His Majestie supposes the Proposers intend a new Parliament His Majestie saies that he could wish that all the particulars might be fully agreed on and ratified this Parliament His Majestie well understanding That his Protestant Subjects may be in far greater danger in a new Parliament then the Proposers and their partie can be in this His Majestie being willing to give them any securitie that can be desired against their apprehensions Howsoever since some objections and doubts are raised of the legall continuance of this Parliament since the death of the Lord Deputie Wansford and by the late arrivall of his Majesties Commission after the day of meeting upon the Prorogation though those doubts may