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A69508	Admonitions by the Supreame Councell of the Confederat Catholicks of Ireand [sic] to all His Majesties faithfull loyall subjects of the three Kingdomes of England, Ireland, and Scotland against a Solemn League and Covenant framed by the malignant partie in the Parliament of England : as also against a declaration of the English Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament.	Confederate Catholics. Supreme Council.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing A593A; Wing A598; ESTC R11171	12,219	24

ordered by the Commons in Parliament That this Covenant and Orders bee forthwith printed and published H. Elsings Cl. Parl. D. Com. London Printed for Edward Husbands Octob. 9. 1643. Die Lunae 25. Septemb. 1643. IT is this day ordered by the Commons now assembled in Parliament that the Ministers in all the Parish Churches and Chappell 's of London VVestminster Suburbs and Liberties and in all Parishes within the Bills of Mortality doe read the solemne League and Covenant on Wednesday next being the day of publicke humiliation And doe explane it and urge the ground and necessity of it and exhort the people to the cheerfull taking of it and that the severall Inhabitants and Parishioners of the severall and respective Parishes arforesaid and Students of the Innes of Court doe take the said League and Covenant on the Lords day next in the afternoone And that notice hereof be given to my Lord Mayor and his Lordship desired to give timely notice hereof to the places aforesaid The Ministers are likewise to give notice that the Comissioners of Scotland now here doe take it here Hen. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Cem. Die Sabbathi 30. Sept. 1643. WHereas divers Lords Knights Gentlemen and divers Colonells Officers and Souldiours and others now residing in the Cities of London and VVestminster and within the line of Communication are desirous to meere at Saint Margarets Church at VVestminster on Friday next to take the solemne League and Covenant for Reformation and defence of the honour and happinesse of the King and the peace and safety of the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland And whereas divers of the Scottish Nation are desirous likewise to meet at the same time and place and divers Ministers who have no charge within the said limits to take the said Covenant It is this day ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That M. Carrill of Lincolus Inne be desired to preach on Friday next in the forenoone to those that shall so meet for the taking of the said Covenant And a Parchment Rolle with the said Covenant written therein shall be prepared for every one that take the said Covenant to subscribe his name and Colonell Long and M. Iohn Browne members of the said House are to see the names subscribed accordingly And this order is appointed to be printed and published forthwith Hen. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com. A solemne League and Covenant for Reformation and defence of Religion the honour and happinesse of the King and the peace and safety of the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland WE Noblemen Barons Knights Gentlemen Citizens Burgesses Ministers of the Gospell and Commons of all sorts in the Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland by the providence of God living under one King and being of one reformed religion having before our eyes the glory of God and the advancement of the Kingdome of our Lord Iesus Christ the honour and happinesse of the Kings Majestie and his posterity and the true publicke liberty safety and peace of the kingdomes wherein every ones private condition is included and calling to mind the treacherous and bloudy plotts conspiracies attempts and practises of the enemies of God against the true Religion and professors thereof in all places especially in these three kingdomes ever since the reformation of Religion and how much their rage power and presumption are of late and at this time increased and exercised whereof the deplorable state of the Church and Kingdome of Ireland the distressed estate of the Church and kingdome of England and the dangerous estate of the Church and kingdome of Scotland are present and publicke testimonies We have now at last after other meanes of supplication remonstrance Protestations and sufferings for the preservation of our selves and our Religion from utter ruine and destruction according to the commendable practise of these kingdomes in former times and the example of Gods people in other Nations after mature deliberation resolved and determined to enter into a mutuall and solemne League and Covenant wherein we all subscribe each one of us for himselfe with our hands lifted up to the most High God doe sweare 1. That we shall sincerely really and constantly through the grace of God endeavour in our severall places and callings the preservation of the reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in doctrine worship discipline and government against our common enemyes the reformation of Religion in the kingdomes of England and Ireland in doctrine worship discipline and governement according to the Word of God and the example of the best reformed Churches And shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three kingdomes to the neerest conjunction and uniformity in religion confession of Faith Forme of Church governement directory for worship and Cathechising that wee and all our posterity after us may as brethren live in Faith and love and the Lord may delight to dwell in the middest of us 2. That we shall in the like manner without respect of persons endeavour the extirpation of Popery Prelacy that is Church-governement by Archbishops Bishops their Chauncellours and Commissaries Deanes Chapters Archdeacons and all other Ecclesiasticall officers depending on that Hierarchie superstition heresie schisme prophanenesse and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godlinesse lest we partake in other mens sinnes and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues and that the Lord may bee one and his Name one in the three kingdomes 3. We shall with the same sincerity reallity and constancy in our severall vocations endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve the rights and priviledges of Parliaments and the liberties of the kingdomes and to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the kingdomes that the world may beare witnesse with our consciences of our Loyaltie and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish his Majesties just power and greatnesse 4. Wee shall also with all faithfulnesse endeavour the discovery of all such as have beene or shall be incendiaties malignants or evill instruments by hindering the reformation of Religion dividing the King from his people or one of the kingdomes from another or making any faction or parties amongst the people contrary to this League and Covenant that they may be brought to publicke triall and receive cōndigne punishment as the degree of their offences shall require or deserve or the supreame Iudicatories of both kingdomes respectively or others having power from them for that effect shall judge convenient 5. And whereas the happinesse of a blessed peace betweene these kingdomes denyed in former times to our progenitors is by the good providence of God granted unto us and hath beene lately concluded and setled by both Parliaments we shall each of us according to our place and interest endeavour that they may remaine conjoyned in a firme peace and union

of that kingdome And by what Popish instruments and ministers in their Councell at the Court the said designe is and hath been carried on persons of great trust eminent for their affection or Religion and hatred of the Rebells being displaced and men Popishly addicted put in their offices all serving for the better introduction of Popery and extirpation of the true Protestant Religion in that and other of his Majesties dominions Die Sabbathi 30. Septemb. 1643. Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that this declaration shall be forthwith printed and published Io. Browne Cler. Parlment London Printed for Io. VVright in old Baily Octob. 2. 1645. A DECLARATION OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT AS it is evident to all the world that this late horrid Rebellion of the Papists in Ireland did without any colour or pretext of provocation professedly and boldly ayme at the destruction of the Protestant Religion the rejecting of the lawes of England and the extirpation of the Brittish inhabitants out of that kingdome so it is no lesse manifest that this Parliament of England to whom his Majesty hath left the managing of the warre against those rebels hath taken the troubles of Ireland to heart with that resentment and compassion as may evidence their zeale to Religion their love to their distrest Countreymen and brethren there in these times when the Iesuiticall practises have cast England into wofull distractions and unnaturall warre notwithstanding which the reducing of Ireland hath still beene a chiefe part of the care of this Parliament And God hath beene pleased to blesse our endeavours with such successe as that those furious bloud thirsty Papists have beene in the carrier of their crueltie some part of the Protestant bloud which at first was spilt like water upon the ground hath beene revenged their massacres burnings and famishings have by a divine retaliation beene repayde into their bosome And the Protestant party hath been erected to that condition of strenght and hope that their enemies are constrayned distrusting their forces to have recourse to their craft policies and therefore by their subtill Agents at Court and their active instruments elsewhere have beene endeavoring now of along time to make our Armies in Ireland disaffected to the Parliament what by occasion of their wants not so readily supplyed as their neede required what by misusing them with these unhappy differences fallen in here betweene King People labouring by that meanes to devide those forces into factions to the end the maine worke they have in hand might be neglected which is the prosecution of the warre against the Rebels so far brought low in some partes of Ireland that if they can bee deprived of the benefit of this Harvest they are not likely to see the next Summer And therefore the Rebels finding that notwithstanding the distractions here occasioning the slownesse scarcenesse of supplyes yet they themselves are in a farre worse condition being in want of most things necessary not onely for the maintayning of a warre but even of life the judgement of God being remarkeable upon them in this that as their bloudy and treacherous Religion made them inhumanely cruell in shedding the protestants bloud so now the famine amongst many of them hath made them unnaturally and Canniball-like eate and feede one upon another Therefore that they may have time to expect from their friends abroad new supplyes both of victuals and ammunition and may without molestation reape the fruite of this harvest they have laboured a treaty for a Cessation which project of theirs doth no lesse ayme at the overthrow of the remainder of the Protestants in that kingdome then their treacherous taking of Armes at the first did intend the destruction of them all for their Cessation and hostility their warre and peace are alike to be esteemed of and with those that neyther in peace nor warre keepe any faith it is best to be in perpetuall defiance Therefore the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled according to their continued care of that kingdome of Ireland doe in a speciall manner take into their consideration the condition thereof upon this occasion of an intended Cessation and so much the rather because it is feared that the Protestant forces through want of Provision for their Armies may at last if not relieved be perswaded to admit of this course in hope thereby to procure some meanes for their subsisting as also because there is too much ground to suspect that if this Cessation should be agreed unto they might have opportunitie to joyne with the papist party heere for their greater strenghtning And though it were to have no influence upon this kingdome yet the evill consequences of it are so many and pernicious to Ireland that this Parliament should betray the trust reposed in them if they did not declare against this Cessation and use all meanes in time to make it prove abortive And therefore they desire that it may be observed and taken notice of First from whence the Counsell and designe of this Cessation ariseth even from the rebels and Papists themselves for their owne preservation for soone after they had missed of their intent to make themselves absolute masters of that kingdome of Ireland by their treacherous surprises And seeing that this kingdome did with most generous and Christian resolutions undertake the charges of warre for the reliefe and recovery of Ireland propositions were brought from the Rebellion the Lords Dillon Taffe at which time they were intercepted 〈◊〉 restrayned by order of the house of Commons After that they had the boldnesse even while their hands were still imbrued in the Protestant bloud to petition to his Majestie that their demands might be heard and for this purpose they obtayned a Commission to be sent over into Ireland to divers persons of quality whereof some were Papists to heare receive transmit to his Majesty their demands which was done accordingly and one Master Bourke a notorious pragmaticke Irish papist was the chiefe sollicitor in this businesse after this the just revenging God giving daily successe to the handfull of the Protestant forces against their great numbers so that by a wonderfull blessing from heaven they were in most parts put to the worst Then did they begin to set on foote an overtime for a Cessation of Armes concerning which what going and comming hath beene between the Court and the Rebels is very well knowne and what meetings and treaties have beene held about it in Ireland by warrant of his Majesties ample Commission sent to that effect and what reception and countenance most pragmaticke Papists negotiating the businesse found at Court and that those of the State in Dublin who had so much Religion and honesty as to disswade the Cessation were first discountenanced and at last put out of their places and restrayned to prison as Sir VVilliam Parsons one of the Lords sustices there Sir Iohn Temple Master of the