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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94461	To the honourable knights, cittizens and burgesses, of the Commons House of Parliament. The humble petition of the lords knights and gentlemen of the Kingdome of Ireland now in towne, ...	Loftus of Ely, Adam Loftus, Viscount, 1568-1643.	1642 (1642)	Wing T1420; Thomason 669.f.4[53]; ESTC R210821	1,799	1

TO THE HONOVRABLE Knights Cittizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament The Humble Petition of the Lords Knights and Gentlemen of the Kingdome of Ireland now in Towne HVMBLY SHEWING THat your Petitioners have received many and particular advertisements from all parts of the kingdome of Ireland which set forth the universall desolations made in such plantations of the British both English and Scotch wheresoever the barbarous Irish rebels have come to the utter destruction both of the persons there inhabiting and extirpating of the reformed protestant religion there set up through the royall care and piety of King Iames of blessed memory and his Majesty that now is and prosecuted by the great industry and pious endeavours of neer 40 yeares travell by those who have spent their whole lives in reducing that Kingdome to civility which is now utterly desolated by the proceedings so matchles●ely cruell that no age nor story can parallell their inhumanities some whereof your petitioners are informed have beene touched upon by advertisements already brought to this Honourable House whereof there is so great variety that volumnes were but little enough to containe the particulars many thousands of men women and children lying mangled on the face of the earth crying loud to God and their neighbour Kingdomes for reliefe against those monsters whose conspiracy is now so universall that small aides will be not onely inconsiderable to effect the worke but a meanes to lengthen the warre with the losse not onely of the treasure applyed therein but also of the persons imployed who being but few will be in danger to be given up to the cruelties of the rebels by that meanes which God prevent will they gaine not onely great accesse to their number but which is much more considerable that experience in warre and use of armes as may render them infinitely more able to make resistance against the hereafter supplies these particulars your petitioners out of the deepe sence they have of the calamities incumbent to that and in danger to fall on this Kingdome with all humility crave leave to present most humbly desiring That in pursuance of the zeale and fervency already shown to the Glory and Worship of God of the Honour and Renown of his most excellent Maiesty both which are now strongly assaulted and pusht at and out of the tender commiseration already exprest for the reliefe of that bleeding Kingdome That this Honorable Assembly will represent such prevalent arguments to his sacred Maiesty and the House of Peeres that the ten thousand men tendred by the Kingdome of Scotland and accepted of by this Honourable Assembly may be speedily ordered to resort into Vlster Not but that we doe also desire there may be as great a proportion of souldiers sent out of this Kingdome as soone as they can be prepared if so it may please his Maiesty and both Houses of Parliament the contagion of rebellion in Ireland having spread it selfe over so many other parts of the Kingdome and yet daily more and more increasing as will require the service of those who shall be sent out of England for the subduall of the Rebels and comfort of his Maiesties good subiects in the other provinces But forasmuch as your petitioners many of whose whole estates and some of whose wives children and neerest kindred and friends are already in the hands and possession of those barbarous and bloudy rebels of Vlster and that they may have more then ordinary cause to feare that the remayning protestant party together with the important Townes of Caricfargus London-Derry and Colerane being the chiefe Bulwarks and Fortresses of that Province may for want of speediest reliefe be surprised and destroyed and by that meanes the rest of the Kingdome extreamely indangered to the irrepairable dammage and discomfort of his Maiesty and all his good and loyall Subiects of all his dominions Therefore your petitioners doe most instantly supplicate this Honourable Assembly to indeavour the hastning thither with all possible expedition the tenne thousand men out of Scotland whose assistance being within three houres saile may be soonest conveyed and whose constitutions will notably match with the rebels being well able as many of these petitioners have knowne by former experience to follow them through the bogges and moorish places frequent in those parts during the winter season which other supplies possibly may not be so fit for at present This number added to those raised and to be raised in those parts through Gods blessing may soone checke these insolencies and contribute much for reducing that kingdome to due obedience and yeeld unspeakable comfort and reliefe to many thousand disconsolate bleeding protestant soules who have long languished in expectation of aide from that and this kingdome the longer retarding whereof will carry loud cries to heaven against those who cause the same And your Petitioners shall pray c. Adam Viscount Loftus Thomas Lord Folliot Henry Lord Blayney Robert Lord Digby Theodore Lord Docwra Francis Lord Mountnorris Sir George Blundell Baronet Sir Edward Loftus Knight Sir Faithfull Fortescue Knight Sir Iohn Clattworthy Knight Sir Robert King Knight Sir Robert Parkhurst Knight Arthur Annesley Esquire Robert Wallop Esquire Richard Fitz-Gerald Esquire Arthur Iones Esquire Iohn Moore Esquire Nicholas Loftus Esquire Ralph Whisteler Esquire Richard Perkins Iohn Davis London Printed Anno Dom. 1641.