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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81469	The royall apologie: or, An ansvver to the declaration of the House of Commons, the 11. of February, 1647. In which they expresse the reasons for their resolutions for making no more addresses, nor receiving any from His Majesty.	Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.; Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674, attributed name.	1648 (1648)	Wing D1447; Thomason E522_21; ESTC R206215	46,522	48

of levying men by way of presse without consent of Parliament although it had beene alwayes used by His Predecessors But such was their art by the inserting of the said Clause that they would either gain the disclaiming of that power to presse men or else would render the King odious by publishing his refusall to doe that which by the Houses was thought necessary for the suppressing of that horrid Rebellion This artifice hath been since used by clogging most Bills which would be plausible to the people with some clause or parenthesis of great prejudice unto the King which He hath been often forced to passe by to avoid the distaste which the denying of those plausible Bils would have brought upon Him so He did in this Besides this his concurrence in all that was desired of him being at Yorke having some beginning of power he offered to have passed in person into Ireland for the subduing of those Rebells and to let the world see that He desired rather ro imploy those forces against the Rebels in Ireland then by them to raise the least jealousie of raising a war in England But this His Majestyes offer was by the Houses rejected and the King did then see that the forces and the moneys that were levyed by his consent and Commission were in part imployed against Himselfe to strengthen pay the forces that were designed to march against Him whereby the War of Ireland which had beene most prosperous under the wise and faithfull Conduct of the Marq. of Ormond for which the Houses sent him publique thanks a present began to be very dubious by their neglect their applying of the moneys forces pretended for Ireland against the King so by degrees the English Armies in Ireland were reduced to those great streights for want of pay provision by the ill Conduct of the Houses that after many sollicitations both to the King and Parliament by which little or no releife was obteined there was a necessity of coming to a cessation of Armes for one yeare which was done by the advise of the Councell of Ireland at the earnest petition of the Lords of the cheif Officers of the Army of whom the Lord Inchiquin was one as appeares by their own booke of Exact Collect. page 344. To 2. where likewise the necessity of the said cessation is at large set downe And the King seeing Himselfe much over-power'd like to be overborne by the Rebels in England was inforced to make use of the forces offered Him from Ireland who were there ready to sterve which certainly would have beene a great imprudence in Him not to have done and is as great an impudence in them to charge this as a fault or crime upon the King to assist Himselfe of His own Subjects for His defence when they at so great an expence to the kingdom have hired in a forraign Nation the Scots to subdue Him Next they alleag concerning the proclamations That though they declared that the Rebels in Ireland stiled themselves the King Queens Army yet they could not obtain a proclamation against them in divers moneths then also but 40 Copies might be printed c. The first perfect advertisement of the Rebellion of Ireland came to his Majesty Counsell in England from the Lords Justices Sir William Parsons and Sir John Burlace and Councell of Ireland wherewith they sent the draught of such a Proclamation as they conceived best for the suppressing thereof and because those Rebells did pretend that what they had done was for the service of the King and not without some authority from him it was by the said Lord Justices Letters desired that 20 copies of those Proclamations might be sent over signed by the Kings own hand whereas the usuall course was to send over only one so signed that besides those which they were there to print and publish after the usuall manner they might send some of the Originals so signed to some of the chiefe of the Rebells to manifest the falshood of the said traiterous pretence And though Proclamations which the King Signes either for England or Ireland never use to be printed yet it was now for better expedition held fit by his Majesty the Lords of his Councell whereof divers of those now sitting in the house of peers at Westminst. were then present that those 20 proclamations his Majesty was to signe should be printed and the Secretary being directed to cause it to be forthwith dispatched did accordingly presently send a warrant to the Kings Printer to print about 40 Copies and to send them to him for his Majesties service and to deliver out none to any other for that those were to be Originals for the Kings signature only to be by them reprinted in Ireland according to the usuall course And to have any copies of them dispersed in England before they were proclaimed in Ireland where they were principally of use as it was never practised so it was conceived it might have bin of some prejudice for that the said Irish Rebels who had forged the former false pretence might if they had gotten any Copy thereof before they had bin proclaimed in Ireland have divulged some other traiterous fiction to have rendred the Proclamation of lesse credit with their party so have frustrated the good which His Majesty and his councell of both Kingdoms did hope that proclamation would have effected And whereas it is alleaged as a fault that there were but 40 of those Proclamations sent into Ireland it is well known to the Lords of the Councell now sitting at Westminster that it was twice as many as was desired And whereas they say that the Irish Rebels called themselves the King and Queens Army It is the constant practice of all Rebels at the begining to countenance their Rebellion with the pretence of the Kings service and that they take Armes against the oppressions of evill Councellours and Ministers that seduce the King The like was done by themselves at the beginning who only pretended to remove Malignants and evill Councellors and to bring Delinquents to punishment and then their war was in the name of King and Parliament as some of their own have not of late forbore to put them in mind But now it is to remove the King from the government and to settle another of their own making without the King or against Him For the disbanding the Irish Army although the King had great reason to demur upon it yet such was his desire to gratify them that He condescended unto it themselves consented that they should take any forreign imploiment whatsoever but afterward would not give way to the transporting of them by that meanes much strength was added to the Irish Rebellion all which they themselves cannot deny And upon such malicious false inferences as these depend all or most of their instanced Accusations in this their Declaration They say the