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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53445	A true copy of two letters the first sent from the Earle of Ormond to the Honourable Colonell Michael Jones, commander in chiefe of the Parliament's forces in Leinster and governor of the city of Dublin : vvith Colonell Jones his answere to the Earle of Ormond's said letters.	Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.; Jones, Michael, d. 1649.	1649 (1649)	Wing O461; ESTC R181053	15,271	16

A TRVE COPY OF two Letters the first sent from the Earle of Ormond to the Honourable Colonell Michael Jones Commander in chiefe of the Parliaments forces in Leinster AND Governor of the City of Dublin VVith Colonell Jones his Answere to the Earle of Ormond's said LETTERS DUBLIN Printed by William Bladen 1649. and now Re-printed The Lord of Ormonds Letter to Collonell Jones Sir I Have not thus long forborne to invite you with those under your Command to a submission to his Majesties authority in me and a Conjunction with mee in the wayes af his service out of any the least aversion I had to you or any of them or out of any disesteeme I had to your Power to advance or impede the same but out of a fear that whilst those that have of late usurp'd power over the Subjects of England held forth the least colourable shadow of moderatiō in their intentions toward the settlement of Church or State that in some tolerable way with relation to Religion the intrest of the King and Crowne the Freedom of Parliaments and the Libertie of the Subject any addresses from mee proposing the withdrawing of that Party from those thus professing ana from whom they have received some and expect farther support would have beene but coldly received any determination thereupon deferred in hope expection of the fore mentioned settlement or that if you your selfe who certainly have not wanted a fore-sight of the sad confusion now covering the face of England would have declared with mee the Lord Inchequin and the Protestant Army in Munster in prevention thereof Yet my feare was it would have beene as difficult for you to have carried with you the maine body of the Army under your Command not so clear sighted as your selfe as it would have beene dangerous for you and those with you well inclined to have attempted it without them But now that the Masque of hypocrisie by which the Independent Army hath ensnared and enslaved all Estates and degrees of men is laid aside Now that bare-faced they evidently appeare to bee the subvertours of true Religion and the protectors and invitors not only of all false ones but of irreligion and athisme now that they have barbarously and inhumainly layed violent sacrilegious hands upon and murthered Gods Annointed and our King not as heretofore some Patricides have done to make roome for some usurper but in a way plainly manifesting their intentions to change the Monarchy of England unto Anarchy unlesse their aime bee first to Constitute an elective Kingdom and Cromwell or some such John of Leyden being elected then by the same force by which they have thus farre compassed their end to establish a perfect Turkish tyranie now that of three Estates of King Lord and Commons whereof in all ages Parliaments have consisted there romaines only a small number and they dreggs and 〈◊〉 of the house of Commons picked and awed by the Army a wicked remnant left for no other end then yet further if it bee possible to delude the People with the name of Parliament the King being murthered and the Lords and the rest of the Commons being by unheard of violence forced at severall times from the house and some imprisoned and now that there remaines no other Liberty in the Subject but to professe blasphemous opinions to revile and tread under foote Majestracy to murther Majestrates and oppresse and undoe all that are not like minded with them Now I say I cannot doubt but that you and all that are with you or under your command will take this opportunity to declare and act against so monstrous and unparpalel'd a Rebellion and that you and they will cheerefully acknowledge and faithfully serve and obey Our gracious King Charles the second undoubted Heire of his Fathers Crowne and vertues under whose right and conduct wee may by Gods assistance restore Protestant Religion to purity and therein settle it Parliaments to a Freedome good Lawes to their force and our fellow Subjects to their just Liberty wherein how blessed and glorious a thing it will bee to bee so considera●ly Inst●umentall as you may now make your selfe I leave to you now to consider and though I conceive there are not any Motives relating to Particular interests to bee mentioned after these so weighty Considerations which are such as the World hath not at any time beene furnished with yet I hold it my part to assure you that as there is nothing you can reasonably propose for the safety satisfaction or advantage for your selfe or of any that shall adhere to you in what I desire that I shall not to the uttermost of my power provide for so there is nothing I should or would more industriously avoid then those necessities arising from my duty to God and Man that may by your rejecting this offer force mee to bee a sad instrument of shedding of English blood which in such a case must on both sides happen If this overture finde place with you as I earnestly wish it may let mee know with what possible speede you can and if you please by the bearer in what way you desire it should bee drawne on to a Conclusion for in that as well as in the substance you shall find all ready compliance from mee that desires to bee Carricke the 9. of March 1648. Your affectionate friend to serve you ORMONDE For Colonell Michael Jones Governour of Dublin Colonell Jones his Answer to the Lord of Ormonds said Letter My Lord. YOur Lodrships of the 9 I received the 12 instant and therein have I your Lordships Invitation to a Conjunction with your selfe I suppose as Lord Lievtenant of Ireland and with others now united with the Irish and with the Irish themselves also As I understand not how your Lordship should bee invested with that power pretended So am I very well asured that it is not in the power of any without the Parliament of England to give and assure pardon to those bloudy Rebells as by the Act to that end passed may appeare more fully I am also well assured that the Parliament of England would never assent to such a Peace such as is that your Lordships with the Rebells wherin is little or no Provision made either for the Protestants or the Protestant Religion nor can I understand how the Protestant Religion should be settled and Restored to it's purity by an Army of Papists or the Protestants intrests maintained by those very Enemies by whom they have been spoiled and theirs slaughtered and very evident it is that both the Protestants and Protestant Religion are in that your Lordships treaty left as in the Power of the Rebells to be by them born downe and rooted out at Pleasure As for that consideration by your Lordship offered of the present and late Proceedings in England I see not how it may bee a sufficient motive to mee or any other in like trust for the Parliament of England in the service of