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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81326	A declaration of the Right Honourable, James, Earle of Darby, Lord Stanly, Strange of Knocking, and of the Isle of Man. Concerning his resolution to keep the Isle of Man for His Majesties service, against all force whatsoever. Together with His Lordships letter, in answer to Commissary Generall Ireton.	Derby, James Stanley, Earl of, 1607-1651.	1649 (1649)	Wing D1091; Thomason E566_5; ESTC R204625	3,021	7

A DECLARATION Of the Right Honourable JAMES EARLE Of DARBY Lord Stanly Strange of Knocking and of the Isle of Man Concerning his Resolution to keep the Isle of Man for His Majesties service against all force whatsoever Together with His Lordships LETTER in Answer to Commissary Generall Ireton LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1649. A DECLARATION Published by the Right Honourable JAMES Earle of Darby Ld. Stanly Strange of Knocking and of the Isle of Man c. PLausible beginnings are not alwaies the forerunners of good ends they may promise faire but it is the end that either crownes all undertakings with reputation or brands them with shame making a most exact discovery of the Undertakers intentions whether good or evill Many honest-meaning-men who eight yeares since viewed the face of the Parliaments actions and judged of their integrity by their Protestations and Declarations entertained a very charitable and honorable opinion both of them and their Cause and therein thought not too much to hazard both their Lives and Estates with them who are long since sat downe in the chaire of repentance having by sad experience found their large pretences to prove but the shadowes of weake performances and their greatest labours to produce no other effects then to burden this distracted Nation with unheard-of tyranny and miserable oppression But they that beheld their actions even in their primitive and best times with a considerate and judicious eye did easily perceive them to pursue their owne ambitious ends more than the welfare of this miserable Land that they were men whose thoughts were filled with bloud and judged them through pretence of Zeale to be Wolves in Sheeps cloathing and what better could be expected from the illegall proceedings of those Men who presumed from Servants to become Masters but that they should endeavour to bring in Democracy and abolish Monarchy their actions being altogether such as must needs produce strange effects and set open the floudgates of ruine to overflow this Kingdome in a moment For my owne part I have with my utmost power and skill taken most perfect and exact notice of all their proceedings from their first beginning of entrance into Action unto this day and therein can finde nothing but a large comment upon that Text of Samuel Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft I sate in their House of Peeres more then a full year till finding their courses to be so strangely un-Parliamentary I was constrained with diverse others of the Loyall Nobility to forsake the House and repair into my Country being truly ashamed to bear any part in their rebellious enterprises wherein they have proceeded vvith such impudent violence that they have Plundred and Ruin'd all the Ancient Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdome fought many Desperate and Bloudy Battails against their Soveraign His Children and Subjects imprisoned His Sacred Person and not only so that but they might out-go all their Predecessours in Rebellion and become unprecedented therein they clouded the very Rayes of Sacred Maj. in bringing the Royal Owner of the Throne to their Bar of Injustice and beyond all that upon a Scaffold at high noon-day in the face of the world as a Malefactor before His own Court Gate in his usuall place of Recreation after a most shamefull manner by the hands of the common Hang-man inhumanely murdered their Soveraigne un-headed the Lords Anointed and not contented with His Bloud in prosecution of their most deadly and implacable malice have since to the utmost of their power endeavoured to staine the Candour of His Royall Name in fixing thereon the ignominious brands of Tyrant Traytor and Murderer styling Him in all their Prints the Grand and Capitall Enemy of the Kingdome and laying their Guilt of all the Bloud that hath been shed upon His Innocent shoulders and beyond all this have quite discarded banished and casheired all the Royall Issue and solemnly proclaimed our present dread Soveraign Lord King CHARLES the Second and His Pincely Brother the Duke of York Traytors in the usuall places to the amazement and detestation of the whole world And whereas of late there hath been some overtures made to me by one Henry Ireton who stiles himselfe Commissary Generall of their Army whom his manners stiles the Parliament of England In whose name and for whose service he demands that I deliver up this I le of Man And for a gratefull acknowledgement of that service he ingages on their part that I shall have an act of Indempnity for all that I have done and my Lands to be restored to me without Composition and upon my Ingagement not to oppose the proceedings of the Parliament in their present Government I shall peaceably and quietly enjoy the same In answer to which I declare That according to the dictate of my own Conscience and Reason and according unto the obligation I stood ingaged unto His Majesty my late dread Soveraign as well by my common Allegeance as by my more particular duty of personall Service in the beginning of these unhappy Differences and Divisions of the Kingdome I ingaged my self on His Majesties Party wherein I have constantly persever'd either in acting or suffering untill this day concurring with those of the contrary Party onely in hating detestable Newtrality According to my best ability I did diligently execute all such Commissions as I did receive from His Majesty and did alwayes use my utmost endeavour to retaine the people in their due obedience unto Him as I shall ever faithfully practice towards my present Soveraigne His Sonne holding my self bound unto Him in the same Bonds of Allegeance and Loyalty as I was to the late King of ever blessed Memory His Father and doe hereby declare that I doe from my very Soul abhor all base compliance with any of His Majesties Enemies whether Forraigne or Domestick And particularly if I could endure to be Treacherous I would never doe it with the prevailing Party in England whom I know to have renounced all principles of Civility Honour Honesty and Conscience and whose Ingagements Vowes Protestations or Oathes I would not take as security for the least attome of dust on which I tread And I doe protest in the presence of God and the whole world that in ballance to my Allegeance Honour and Conscience I scorn their pardon in reference to any thing I have acted or shall act hereafter and value my Estate no more then the most contemptible mote that flies in the sunne And I doe hereby declare that to the utmost of my power I shall faithfully endeavour to hold out this Island to the advantage of His Majesty and the annoyance of all Rebels and their Abettors and doe cheerfully invite all my Allies Friends and Acquaintance all my Tenants in the Counties of Lancaster and Chester or elswhere and all other His Majesties faithfull and loyall Subjects to repaire to this Island as their generall Rendezvous and safe harbour where they shall receive entertainment and such incouragement as their severall qualities and conditions shall require where we will unanimously imploy our Forces to the utter ruine of these unmatchable and rebellious Regicides and the finall destruction of their Interest both by Land and Sea Neither shall any apprehension of danger either to my Life or Estate appall me but I shall on all occasions by Gods assistance shew my selfe ready to expresse my duty and loyalty with the hazard of both and this I shall adventure for the future with more alacrity forasmuch as in all my former actings in His Majesties service I never did any thing with relation to the trust reposed in me that awakens my conscience to repentance From Castletowne in the Isle of Man July the 18. 1649. DARBY A LETTER sent from the Right Honourable JAMES Earle of Darby to Commissary Gen IRETON in Answer to his Sommons of the Isle of Man SIR I Have received your Letter with indignation and with scorne returne you this Answer That I cannot but wonder whence you should gather any hopes that I should prove like you treacherous to my Soveraigne since you cannot be unsensible of the manifest candor of my former actings in His late Majesties service from which principles of Loyalty I am no whit departed I scorne your proffer I disdaine your favour I abhorre your Treason and am so farre from delivering up this Island to your advantage that I shall keep it with the utmost of my power to your destruction Take this for your finall Answer and forbeare any further solicitation for if you trouble me with any more Messages of this nature I will burne the Paper and hang the Messenger this is the immutable resolution and shall be the undoubted practise of him who accounts it his chiefe glory to be His Majesties most loyall and obedient Subject DARBY From Castletowne July 12. 1649. FINIS