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A89395 The declaration of Sir Charls Coot Knight and baronet, Lord President of the province of Connaught: and the rest of the council of officers of the Army in Ireland present at Dublin, concerning the re-admission of the secluded members. Mountrath, Charles Coote, Earl of, ca. 1610-1661. 1660 (1660) Wing M2980; Thomason E1016_7; ESTC R202925; ESTC R208264 6,310 10

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THE DECLARATION OF Sir Charls Coot Knight and Baronet Lord President of the Province of CONNAVGHT And the rest of the Council of Officers of the Army in IRELAND Present at DUBLIN Concerning the Re-admission of the Secluded Members DUBLIN Printed by William Bladen by special Order and reprinted at London by J. Macock 1659. The Declaration of Sir Charls Coot Knight and Baronet Lord President of Connaught and the rest of the Council of Officers of the Army in Ireland present at Dublin c. SInce the Authority of Parliament became openly violated and that by their own waged servants of the Army in England by whom 41. of the Members of Parliament were torn from the Parliament House in Dec. 1648. and imprisoned and 160 other Members denied entrance into the House about 50. more voluntarily withdrew themselves to avoid violence making in all of secluded Members about 250. when the remaining Members charged the Army with the guilt of that force and sent to the then General of the Army for the restitution of those excluded Members which was denyed them how many and manifold have been the the miseries and calamities under which these Nations have laboured and do still labour is evident to all equall minded men The Godly Ministers of the Gospel despised The Ministry it selfe villified Tythes and other means of their maintenance particularly in Ireland taken from them and misapplyed the Protestant Religion shaken and almost overturned Anabaptists Quakers and other Sectaries set up and countenanced Heresies and Schisms increased The Fundamental Laws of the Land trampled upon and an Arbitrary Government endeavoured to be introduced The Civil Rights Properties and Liberties of the people in their persons and Estates broken in pieces Impositions and Taxes on the people without example laid and increased in an excessive manner and measure whereby Thousands of Famalies have been ruined and enforced to beg their bread Manufacture at home discouraged Publiq●e Tr●de and Commerce abroad interrupted The Nations become deeply indebted and generally impoverished the reformed Protestant Churches abroad exposed to great danger wanting the wonted support of England which under God was the Bulwark and chief strength of the Protestant Religion throughout all Christendom and finally the English Nation which was alwayes deservedly in so high honour and estimation at home and abroad as it was a bridle and terrour to their Enemies and a countenance and support to their friends and allies is now become we tremble and grieve to have so just cause to speak it a scorn and derision to all Nations round about us and all this brought to pass to satisfie the Avarice Ambition Lusts and fears of a few inconsiderable persons of Anabaptistical and other Fanatique spirits who have made it their business to occasion still one trouble on the neck of another so to embroil and continue the Nations in Division Warr and bloody confusions that sober men might not have time or leisure with maturity of judgment or Counsel to look into the inwards of their designs or actings And after we had beheld all this with bleeding hearts and calling to mind that when in December 1648. the said force was put upon the Parliament the then remaining Members sent sundry times to the General to know why he imprisoned their Members and desired him to set them at liberty which was not done and we gathering from all this that if the House were once freed from the force of an Army and they again restored to Freedom and Liberty of sitting and acting they would then upon the firmer grounds in conscience of their duties to God and their Countrie and in testimony of their high resentment of that breach of priviledges of the Parliament have taken into the House those excluded Members and filled vacant places by due and orderly Elections of the people and after so many years unhappy interruption unite again in a full and Free Parliament and there assert the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and Liberties of the people which from the very beginning of the War of England have been not the least ground of their contest with the late King ever since and joyn their counsels and endeavors for restoring these Nations to peace and tranquillity And thence it was That on the 14th day of December 1659. several Officers of the Army here on the behalfe of themselves and those under their Commands by their joynt Declaration Declared and Published their stedfast resolutions to adhere to the Parliament in the defence of its Priviledges and the just Rights and Liberties of the people of these Nations as Men and Christians In which Declaration afterwards concurred the whole Army of Ireland but now finding much contrary to our expectations that when the Members of Parliament now assembled at Westminster were in Decemb. 1659. by an extraordinary providence restored to their Freedom and liberty of sitting and acting as in Parliament and that divers of those formerly excluded Members of Parliament on the 27. of December 1659 as they had formerly done in May 1659. offered themselves to discharge their Trusts for the several Counties and places for which they were Elected and formerly served those their fellow Members assembled at Westminster did not onely deny them admittance but also voted and ordered the utter exclusion of all the excluded Members with this further addition that none of them should be chosen in future Elections to sit in this Parliament whereby they have by a more unnatural violence taken away from above the one half of the people of England their Representatives in Parliament and limited and abridged in a high degree the Liberty and Freedom of the people in further Elections which denyal and order of theirs in a time when they were under no force is so much the more strange in regard that in December 1648. when they were under a force they transferred that guilt from themselves to the Army and pretended a willingness to re-admit those Members if it were in their power as is formerly mentioned And whereas Lt. Gen. Ludlow had placed in Ireland several Officers who are Anabaptists and persons of the like fanatique spirits many of whom had been very active in the late conspiracies and actings of the factious part of the Army in England even against those Members of Parliament now sitting at Westminster of which Officers so placed by Lt. Gen. Ludlow it was found necessary to purge the Army and to put in their places persons more soberly minded and well affected to the Parliament yet after all that done and after Lt. Gen. Ludlow stood justly and deservedly charged with High Treason the said Lt. Gen. Ludlow himselfe and some others of the like principles with him were by a report from the Council of State proposed ro be appointed to govern not onely the Army but also the whole Nation of Ireland to the astonishment of the people and Army here to the unsetling of those persons so well deserving to the hazard of
●t●ing and acting according to the Trust committed to them by the several Counties places which did chuse them that so they may be no longer debarred from discharging their said Trust and that vacant places may be speedyly supplyed by free and due Elections of the people yet so as none of the persons to be admitted or elected be any of those who have been in Arms or otherwise ayding ab●tting or assisting the late King or his Son in the late War against the Parliament and that the House being so filled may proceed unanimously to consult the best means for resettling the Peace of the Nations the re-establishment of true Religion the surest foundation as of all righteous Government so of all the happiness of a Nation the fundamental Laws of the Land whereby all mens rights and properties are preserved and the liberties and freedom of the people which are supported by those Laws And for those ends and in discharge of our duty to God and to our Country We do resolve by the blessing of Almighty God to joyn with our Brethren in England Ireland and Scotland who have or shall joyn with us for the ends aforesaid and do resolve for the maintenance and preservation thereof to hazard our Lives and Estates and all that is dear to us And we doubt not but all our Brethren in the said Nations who disdain to be made Slaves will joyn with us herein as being with wisdome and reason desirous to deliver over to their Posterity that Liberty and Freedom which was conveyed to them at so dear a rate by our Ancestors And then we trust that by the great mercy of God will speedily follow a happy settlement of these yet miserable and distracted Nations and cnosequently that the true Protestant Religion in the power and purity thereof may be established the Godly Learned and Orthodox Ministers of the Gospel maintained by their Tithes and other their accustomed rights their persons supported and countenanced the Universities and all other Seminaries of Learning cherished Heresies and Schisms suppressed needless Impositions Taxes on the people removed and no charge to be laid on any of the Nations without their own free consents given by their Representatives in their several and respective Parliaments Manufactures and Publique Trade and Commerce at home and abroad advanced Justice in its due and wonted course administred the just debts of the Nation satisfied the Treasure and Revenues thereof preserved and returned to their right and proper channels the Arrears of the Army and other publique debts duely satisfied the Armyes and Forces continued in due obedience to the Supream Authority and not presume as some haue done to give Laws thereunto which hath been the root of a great part of our miseries the N●tions enriched united and strengthned the R●●●●med Protestant Churches abroad supported and count●nanced the Honou● of the E●glish Nation restored to the comfort of Friends and te●rou● of Enemies 〈…〉 of Ireland in the hands of Adventurers and Souldiers and 〈…〉 Advanced as a farther acce●sion of honour and greatn●s● 〈…〉 so by the blessing of God all will shortly terminate in the g … 〈…〉 ●●●c●●●d tranquillity of these Nations the strengthning of them against fo●●eign … sion and intestine Rebellion and the comfort contentnent of all the good people in th●se N●tions VVhich the Lord of his Mercy grant Dated at Dublin Febr. 16. 1659. Sir Charls Coote William L Cawfield Sir Theo. Jones Sir Oliver St George Sir Hen. Ingoldsby Sir John King Col. Chidley Coote Col. John Cole Col. William Warden Col. Richard Coote Col. John Georges Col. Hen. Owen Lt. Col Tho. Scot. Lt. Col. W. Purefoy Lt. Col. Oliver Jones Maj. Tho. Barrington Maj. Alex. Staples Maj. Rich Bingley Maj. George Pepper Lt. Col. H. Smithwick Capt. Henry Baker Capt. Rob fitz Gorald Capt. Cha. Wenman Capt. Adam Molineux Col. Hum. Barrow Capt. Sam. Fol●y Capt. John Salt Capt. Simon Garstin Col. Cha. Blunt Col. Hen. Slade Capt. Ant. Stamp Capt. Art Purefoy Capt. George St George Capt. Peter Purefoy Capt. Thomas Curd Capt. Tho. Newcomen Capt. Tho. Newburgh Capt. Hen. Thrimpton Lt. Hugh Clatworthy Lt. Peter Flower Lt. Her Langrish Lt. Rich. Morrick Lt. Brian Jaques Lt. Richard Butler Lt. John Ottway Lt. Tho. Evelin Lt. Tho. Flint Lt. Edw. Harrington Cornet Art Vsher Corn. Donw Prothers Corn. W. Pinsent Ensign John Hiad Thom. Sheppard Mar. C … Quarter-Master W. El … John Payn Comptr.