Plunket Knight Sir Richard Barnewall Baronet Jeffrey Browne Donnogh O Callaghan Tyrlagh O Neile Miles Reily and Gerrald Fennell Esquires or any seven or more of them shall be thought fit to be altered and then and in such case or in case of death fraud or misbehavior or other alteration of any such person or persons then such other person or persons to be imployed therein as shall be thought fit by the cheife Governour or Governours for the time being by and with the advice and consent of the said Tho. Lord Visc. Dillon of Costollogh Lord President of Connaght Donnogh Lord Viscount Muskery Francis Lord Baron of Athunry Allexander Mac Donnell Esq. Sir Lucas Dillon Kt. Sir Nicholas Plunket Kt. Sir Richard Barnewal Baronet Jeffrey Browne Donnogh O Callaghan Tyrlagh O Neile Miles Reily and Gerrald Fennell Esquires or any seven or more of them And when it shall appeare that any person or persons who shall be found faithfull to his Majesty hath right to any of the offices or places about the said customes wherunto he or they may not be admitted untill settlement in Parliament as aforesaid that a reasonable compensation shall be afforded to such person or persons for the same 31. Item as for and concerning his Majesties rents payable at Easter next and from thenceforth to grow due untill a settlement in Parliament It is concluded accorded and agreed upon by and between the said parties and his Majestie is graciously pleased that the said rents be not written for or levied untill a full settlement in Parliament and in due time upon application to be made to the said Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of this Kingdome by the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon of Costologh Lord President of Connaght Donnogh Lord Viscount Muskerie Francis Lord Baron of Athunry Alexander Mac Donnell Esquire Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Sir Nicholas Planket Knight Sir Richard Barnwal Baronet Jeffery Brown Donnogh O Callaghan Tyrlagh O Neal Miles Reily and Gerrald Fennell Esquires or any seven or more of them for remittall of those rents the said Lord Lieutenant or any other chief Governor or Governors of this Kingdome for the time being shall intimate their desires and the reason thereof to his Majestie who upon consideration of the present condition of this Kingdome will declare his gracious pleasure therein as shall be just and honorable and satisfactorie to the reasonable desires of his Subjects 32. Item it is concluded accorded and agreed by and between the said parties and his Majestie is graciously pleased that the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer and Goal deliverie to be named as aforesaid shall have power to hear and determine all Murthers Man-slaughters Rapes Stealths burning of houses and corn in Rick or Stack Robberies burglaries forcible entries detainers of possessions and other offences committed or done and to be committed and done since the first day of May last past untill the first day of the next Parliament these present Articles or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided that the Authority of the said Commissioners shall not extend to question any person or persons for doing or committing any act whatsoever before the conclusion of this Treaty by vertue or colour of any warrant or direction from those in publike authoritie among the confederate Roman Catholikes nor unto any act which shall be done after the perfecting and concluding of these Articles by vertue or pretence of any authority which is now by these Articles agreed on Provided also that the said Commission shall not continue longer then the first day of the next Parliament 33 Item it is concluded accorded by and between the said parties and his Majestie is further graciously pleased that for the determining such differences which may arise between his Majesties Subjects within this Kingdome and the prevention of inconvenience and disquiet which through want of due remedie in severall causes may happen there shall be judicatures established in this Kingdome and that the persons to be authorized in them shall have power to do all such things as shall be proper and necessary for them to doe and the said Lord lieutenant by and with the advice and consent of the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon of Costollogh Lord President of Connaght Donnogh Lord Viscount Muskerry Francis Lord Baron of Athunry Alexander Mac Donnell Esquire Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Sir Nicholas Plunket Knight Sir Richard Barnwall Baronet Jeffery Brown Donnogh O Callaghan Tyrlagh O Neal Miles Reilie and Gerrald Fennell Esquires or any seven or more of them shall name the said persons so to be authorized and doe all other things incident unto and necessarie for the setling of the said intended Judicatures 34. Item at the instance humble suit and earnest desire of the General Assembly of the confederate Roman Catholikes It is concluded accorded and agreed upon that the Roman Catholike regular Clergie of this Kingdom behaving themselves conformable to these Articles of Peace shall not be molested in the possessions which at present they have of and in the bodies scites and precincts of such Abbies and Monasteries belonging to any Roman Carholike within the said Kingdom until settlement by Parliament and that the said Clergie shall not be molested in the enjoying of such pensions as hitherto since the Watres they enjoyed for their respective livelihoods from the said Roman Catholikes and the scites and precincts hereby intended are declared to be the bodie of the Abbie one garden and Orchard to each Abbie if any there be and what else is contained within the walls meares or ancient fences or ditch that doth supply the wall thereof and no more 35. Item it is concluded accorded and agreed by and between the said parties that as to all other demands of the said Roman Catholikes for or concerning all or any the matters proposed by them not granted or assented unto in and by the foresaid Articles the said Roman Catholikes be referred to his Majesties gracious favour and further concessions In witnesse whereof the said Lord Lieutenant for and on the behalfe of his most Excellent Majestie to the one part of these Articles remaining with the said Roman Catholiques hath put his hand and Seal And Sir Richard Blake Knight in the Chaire of the Generall Assembly of the said Roman Catholikes by order command and unanimous consent of the said Catholikes in full Assembly to the other part thereof remaining with the said Lord Lieutenant hath put his hand and the publque Seal hitherto used by the said Roman Catholiques the 17. of January 2648. And in the 24. year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord CHARLES by the Grace of God King of Great Brittain France and Ireland c. SIR I Have not thus long forborn to invite you with these under your command to a submission to his Majesties authoritie in me and a conjunction with me in the waies of his service out of any the least aversion I had
ARTICLES OF PEACE MADE AND CONCLUDED with the Irish Rebels and Papists by JAMES Earle of ORMOND For and in behalfe of the late King and by vertue of his Autoritie Also a Letter sent by Ormond to Col. JONES Governour of Dublin with his Answer thereunto AND A Representation of the Scotch Presbytery at Belfast in Ireland Upon all which are added Observations Publisht by Autority LONDON Printed by Matthew Simmons in Aldergate-streete 1649. BY The Lord Lieutenant Generall and Generall Governour of the Kingdome of IRELAND ORMOND WHereas Articles of Peace are made concluded accorded and agreed upon by and between Us JAMES Lord Marquesse of ORMOND Lord Lieut. Generall and Generall Governor of his Majesties Kingdome of Ireland by vertue of the Authority wherewith We are intrusted for and on the behalfe of His Most Excellent Majesty of the one part and the Generall Assembly of the Roman Catholickes of the said Kingdome for and on the behalfe of his Majesties Roman Catholick Subjects of the same on the other part A true Copy of which Articles of Peace is hereunto annexed We the Lord Lieut. do by this Proclamation in His Majesties name publish the same and do in his Majest. name strictly charge and command al His Majesties Subjects and all others inhabiting or residing within his Majesties said Kingdome of Ireland to take notice thereof and to render due obedience to the same in all the parts thereof And as his Majesty hath been induced to this peace out of a deep sence of the miseries and calamities brought upon this His Kingdome and People and out of a hope conceived by His Majesty that it may prevent the further effusion of His Subjects blood redeem them out of all the miseries and calamities under which they now suffer restore them to all quietnesse and happinesse under His Majesties most Gracious Government deliver the Kingdome in generall from those slaughters depredations rapines and spoyles which alwayes accompany a war encourage the Subjects and others with comfort to betake themselves to trade traffique comerce manufacture and all other things which un-interrupted may increase the wealth and strength of the Kingdome beget in all his Majesties Subjects of this Kingdome a perfect unity amongst themselves after the too long continued division amongst them So His Majesty assures himselfe that all his Subjects of this his Kingdom duely considering the great and inestimable benefits which they may find in this Peace will with all duty render due obedience thereunto And We in his Majesties name doe hereby declare that all persons so rendering due obedience to the said Peace shall be protected cherished countenanced and supported by his Majesty and his Royall Authority according to the true intent and meaning of the said Articles of Peace Given at our Castle of Kilkenny 17 January 1648. GOD SAVE THE KING Articles of Peace made concluded accorded and agreed upon by and between his Excellency James Lord Marquesse of Ormond Lord Lieutenant General and Generall of his Majesties Kingdome of Ireland for and on the behalfe of His most Excellent Majesty by vertue of the authority wherewith the said Lord Lieutenant is intrusted on the one part And the Generall Assembly of the Roman Catholickes of the said Kingdome for and on the behalfe of His Majesties Roman Catholicke Subjects of the same on the other part HIs Majesties Roman Catholique Subjects as thereunto bound by allegiance duty and nature doe most humbly and freely acknowledge and recognize their Soveraigne Lord King Charles to be lawfull and undoubted King of this Kingdom of Ireland and other his Highnesse Realms and Dominions And his Majesties said Roman Catholicke Subjects apprehending with a deep sence the sad condition whereunto His Majesty is reduced As a further testimony of their Loyalty Doe declare that they and their posterity for ever to the utmost of their power even to the expence of their blood and fortunes will maintaine and uphold His Majesty His Heires and lawfull Successors their Rights Prerogatives Government and Authority and thereunto freely and heartily will render all due obedience Of which faithfull and loyall recognition and declaration so seasonably made by the said Roman Catholickes His Majesty is graciously pleased to accept and accordingly to owne them His loyall and dutifull Subjects And is further graciously pleased to extend unto them the following graces and securities 1. IN primis It is concluded accorded and agreed upon by and between the said Lord Lieutenant for and on the behalfe of His most Excellent Majesty And the said General Assembly for and on the behalf of the said Roman Catholick Subjects and His Majestie is graciously pleased that it shall be enacted by act to be passed in the next Parliament to be held in this Kingdome that all and every the professors of the Roman Catholicke Religion within the said Kingdom shall be free and exempt from all mulctes penalties restraints and inhibitions that are or may be imposed upon them by any law statute useage or custome whatsoever for or concerning the free exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion And that it shall be likewise enacted that the said Roman Catholicks or any of them shall not be questioned or molested in their persons goods or estates for any matter or cause whatsoever for concerning or by reason of the free exercise of their Religion by vertue of any power authority statute law or useage whatsoever And that it shall be further enacted that no Roman Catholique in this Kingdome shall be compelled to exercise any Religion forme of devotion or Divine service other then such as shall be agreeable to their Conscience and that they shall not be prejudiced or molested in their persons goods or estates for not observing using or hearing the Booke of Common-Prayer or any other forme of devotion or divine service by vertue of any coulor or Statute made in the second yeare of Queen Elizabeth or by vertue or coullor of any other law declaration of law Statute Custome or usage whatsoever made or declared or to be made or declared And that it shall be further enacted that the Professors of the Roman Catholicke Religion or any of them be not bound or oblieged to take the Oath commonly called the Oath of Supremacy expressed in the Statute of 2 Elizabeth c. 1 or in any other Statute or Statutes And that the said Oath shall not be tendered unto them and that the refusall of the said oath shall not redound to the prejudice of them or any of them they taking the oath of Allegiance in haec verba viz. I A. B. Doe hereby acknowledge professe testifie and declare in my conscience before God and the world that our Soveraigne Lord King Charles is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realme and of other His Majesties Dominions and Countries and I will beare Faith and true Allegiance to His Majesty and His Heires and Successors and Him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all Conspiracies
converted by the said Lord lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of this Kingdom for the time being to the maintenance of the Kings Armie and other necessary charges untill settlement by Parliament and that the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon of Costologh Lord President of Connaght Donnogh Lord Viscount Muskerie Francis Lord Baron of Athunry Alexander Mac Donnel Esquire Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Sir Nicholas Plunket Knight Sir Richard Barnwal Baronet Jefferie Brown Donnogh O Callaghan Tirlagh O Neal Miles Reily and Gerrald Fennel Esquires or any seven or more of them shall have power to applot raise and leavie meanes with indifferencie and equalitie for the buying of Armes and Ammunition and for the entertaining of Frigots in such proportion as shall be thought fit by his Majesties Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governors of this Kingdom for the time being by and with the advice and consent of the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon of Costologh Lord President of Connaght Donnogh Lord Viscount Muskerie Francis Lord Baron of Athunrie Alexander Mac Donnell Esquire Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Sir Nicholas Plunket Knight Sir Richard Barnwall Baronet Jefferie Brown Donnogh O Callaghan Tirlagh O Neal Miles Reily and Gerrald Fennel Esquires or any seven or more of them the said Armes and Ammunition to be laid up in such Magazines and under the charge of such persons as shall be agreed on by the said Lord lieutenant and the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon of Costologh Lord President of Connaght Donnogh Lord Viscount Muskerie Francis Lord Baron of Athunrie Alexander Mac Donnel Esquire Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Sir Nicholas Plunket Knight Sir Richard Barnwal Baronet Iefferie Brown Donnogh O Callaghan Tirlagh O Neal Miles Reily and Gerrald Fennel Esquires or any seven or more of them and to be disposed of and the said Frigots to be imployed for his Majesties service and the publike use and benefit of this Kingdom of Ireland and that the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon of Costologh Lord president of Connaght Donnogh Lord Viscount Muskerrie Francis Lord Baron of Athunrie Alexander Mac Donnell Esquire Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Sir Nicholas Plunket Knight Sir Richard Barnwall Baronet Jeffery Brown Donnogh O Callaghan Tyrlagh O Neal Miles Reily and Gerrald Fennell Esquires or any seven or more of them shall have power to applot raise and levie meanes with indifferencie and equallitie by way of Excise or otherwise in the severall Cities corporate Towns Counties and part of Counties now within the Quarters and only upon the Estates of the said confederate Roman Catholikes all such sum and summes of money as shall appear to the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon of Costologh Lord president of Connaght Donnogh Lord Viscount Muskerie Francis Lord Baron of Athunrie Alexander Mac Donnell Esquire Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Sir Nicholas Plunket Knight Sir Richard Barnwell Baronet Jeffery Brown Donnogh O Callaghan Tirlagh O Neal Miles Reilie and Gerrald Fennell Esquires or any seven or more of them to be really due for and in the discharge of the publike ingagements of the said confederate Catholikes incurred or grown due before the conclusion of these Articles and that the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon of Costologh Lord President of Connaght Donnogh Lord Viscount Muskerie Francis Lord Baron of Athunrie Alexander Mac Donnel Esquire Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Sir Nicholas Plunket Knight Sir Richard Barnwall Baronet Jeffery Brown Donnogh O Callaghan Tyrlagh O Neal Miles Reily and Gerrald Fennell Esquires or any seven or more of them shall be authorized to appoint Receivers Collectors and all other Officers for such monies as shall bee assessed taxed or applotted in pursuance of the authorities mentioned in this Article and for the arrears of all former applotments taxes and other publike dues yet unpaid And that the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon of Costologh Lord President of Connaght Donnogh Lord Viscount Muskerie Francis Lord Baron of Athunrie Alexander Mac Donnel Esquire Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Sir Nicholas Plunket Knight Sir Richard Barnwell Baronet Jeffery Brown Donnogh O Callaghan Tyrlagh O Neil Miles Reily and Gerrald Fennell Esquires or any seven or more of them in case of refractories or delinquencie may distrain and imprison and cause such delinquents to be distrained and imprisoned And the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon of Costologh Lord President of Connaght Donnogh Lord Viscount Muskerie Francis Lord Baron of Athunrie Alexander Mac Donnel Esquire Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Sir Nicholas Plunket Knight Sir Richard Barnwal Baronet Jefferie Brown Donnogh O Callaghan Tyrlagh O Neal Miles Reily and Gerrald Fennel Esquires or any seven or more of them make perfect books of all such monies as shall be applotted raised or levied out of which books they are to make severall and respective abstracts to be delivered under their hands or the hands of any seven or more of them to the severall and respective collectors which shall be appointed to levy and receive the same And that a duplicate of the said books under the hands of the said Thomas Lord Visc. Dillon of Costologh Lord President of Connaght Donnogh Lord Visc. Muskerie Francis Lord Baron of Athunrie Alexander Mac Donnell Esq. Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Sir Nicholas Plunket Knight Sir Richard Barnwall Baronet Jefferie Brown Donnogh O Callaghan Tyrlagh O Neal Miles Reily Gerrald Fennell Esquires or any seven or more of them be delivered unto his Majesties Lord lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of this Kingdom for the time being whereby a perfect account may be given and that the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon of Costologh Lord president of Connaght Donnogh Lord Viscount Muskerie Francis Lord Baron of Athunrie Alexander Mac Donnel Esquire Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Sir Nicholas Plunket Knight Sir Richard Barnwall Baronet Jeffery Brown Donnogh O Callaghan Tirlagh O Neal Miles Reily and Gerrald Fennell Esq. or any seven or more of them shall have power to call the Councell and Congregation and the respective supream Councells and Commissioners Generall appointed hitherto from time to time by the said Confederate Roman Catholickes to mannage their publick affaires and all other persons accountable to an account for all their receipts and disbursments since the beginning of their respective imployments under the Confederate Roman Catholicks 28 Item it is concluded accorded and agreed by and between the said parties and his Majesty is graciously pleased that for the preservation of the peace and tranquility of the Kingdome the said Lord Lieutenant and the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon of Costollogh Lord President of Connaght Donnogh Lord Viscount Muskery Francis Lord Barron of Athunry Allexander Mac Donnell Esquire Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Sir Nicholas Plunket Knight Sir Richard Barnewall Baronet Jeffrey Browne Donnogh O Callaghan Tyrlagh O Neile Miles Reily and Gerrald Fennell Esquires or any seaven or more of them shall for the present agree upon such persons who are to be authorized by commission under the great Seale to be Commissioners of
to you or any of them or out of any dis-esteem I had to your power to advance or impede the same but out of my fear whiles those that have of late usurped power over the Subjects of England held forth the least colourable shadow of moderation in their intentions towards the settlement of Church or State and that in some tollerable way with relation to Religion the interest of the King and Crown the freedom of Parliament the Liberties of the subject any addresses from mee proposing the withdrawing of that party from those thus professing from whom they have received some and expected further support would have been but coldly received and any determination thereupon deferred in hope and expectation of the forementioned settlement or that you your selfe who certainly have not wanted aforesight of the sad confusion now covering the face of England would have declared with me the Lord Inchequeen and the Protestant Army in Munster in prevention thereof yet my fear was it would have been as difficult for you to have carried with you the main body of of the Armie under your command not so clear sighted as your self as it would have been dangerous to you and those with you well inclined to have attempted it without them but now that the mask of hypocrisie by which the Independent Armie hath ensnared and enslaved all estates and degrees of men is laid aside now that barefaced they evidently appear to bee the subverters of true religion and to be the protectors and inviters not only of all false ones but of irreligion and Atheisme now that they have barbarously and inhumanely laid violent sacrilegious hands upon and murthered Gods annointed and our King not as heretofore some Patricides have done to make room for some usurper but in a way plainly manifesting their intentions to change the Monarchy of England into Anarchy unlesse their aime bee first to constitute an elective Kingdome and Crumwell or some such Iohn of Leiden being elected then by the same force by which they have thus far compassed their ends to establish a perfect Turklsh tyranny now that of the three estates of King Lords Commons whereof in all ages Parliaments have consisted there remains only a small number and they the dregs and scum of the House of Commons pickt and awed by the Armie a wicked remnant left for no other end then yet further if it be possible to delude the people with the name of a Parliament The King being murthered the Lords and the rest of the Commons being by unheard of violence at severall times forced from the Houses and some imprisoned And now that there remaines no other libertie in the subject but to professe blasphemous opinions to revile and tread underfoot Magistracie to murther Magistrates and oppresse and undoe all that are not like minded with them Now I say that I cannot doubt but that you and all with you under your command will take this opportunitie to act and declare against so monstrous and unparaleld a rebellion and that you and they will cheerfully acknowledge and faithfully serve and obey our gracious King Charles the second undoubted heir of his Father Crown and Vertues under whose right and conduct we may by Gods assistance restore Protestant Religion to puritie and therein settle it Parliaments to their freedome good laws to their force and our fellow-subjects to their just liberties wherein how glorious and blessed a thing it will bee to be so considerablie instrumentall as you may now make your self I leave to you now to consider And though I conceive there are not any motives relating to some particular interest to be mentioned after these so weightie considerations which are such as the world hath not been at any time 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 of your self or of any that shall adhear to you in what I desire that I shall not to the uttermost of my power provide for so there is nothing I would nor shall more industriously avoid then those necessities arising from my duty to God and man that may by your rejecting this offer force me to be a sad instrument of shedding English blood which in such case must on both sides happen If thir overture finde place with you as I earnestly wish it may let me know with what possible speed 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 complyance from me that desire to bee Your affectionate friend to serve you ORMOND Carrick March 9. 1648. For Colonel Michael Jones Governour of Dublin My Lord YOur Lordships of the ninth I received the twelfth instant and therein have I your Lordships invitation to a conjunction with your self I suppose as Lord lieutenant of Ireland and with others now united with the Irish and with the Irish themselves also As I understand not how your Lordship should be invested with that power pretended so am I very well assured That it is not in the power of any without the Parliament of England to give and assure pardon to those bloodie Rebels as by the Act to that end passed may appear 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 Rebels wherin is little or no provision made either for the Protestants or the Protestant Religion Nor can I understand how the Protestant Religion should bee setled and restored to its puritie by an Armie of Papists or the Protestant interests maintained by those very enemies by whom they have been spoiled and there 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 Rebels to be by them born down 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 be a sufficient motive to mee or any other in like trust for the Parliament of England in the service of this Kingdome to joyn with those Rebels upon any the pretences in that your Lordships letter mentioned for therein were there a manifest betraying that trust reposed in me in disserting the service and work committed to me in joyning with those I should oppose and in opposing whom I am obliged to serve Neither conceive I it any part of my work and care to take notice of any whatsoever proceedings of State forreign to my charge and trust here especially they being found hereunto apparently destructive Most certain it is and former ages have approved it that the intermedling of Governors and parties in this Kingdom with sidings and parties in England have been the very betraying of this kingdom to the
Irish whiles the Brittish forces here had bin thereupon called off and the place therin laid open and as it were given up to the common enemie It is what your Lordship might have observed in your former Treatie with the Rebels that upon your Lordships thereupon withdrawing and sending hence into England the most considerable part of the English army then commanded by you thereby was the remaining Brittish party not long after over-poured and your quarters by the Irish over-run to the gates of Dublin your self also reduced to that low condition as to be besieged in this very Citie the Metropolis and princpall cittadell of the Kingdom and that by those very Rebels who till then could never stand before you and what the end hath bin of that party also so sent by your Lordship into England although the flower strength of the English army here both officers and souldiers hath bin very observable And how much the dangers are at present more then in former ages of hazarding the English interest in this Kingdom by sending any parties hence into any other Kingdom upon any pretences whatsoever is very apparent as in the generalitie of the Rebellion now more then formerly So considering your Lordships present conclusions with and concessions to the Rebels wherein they are allowed the continued possession of all the cities forts and places of strength whereof they stood possessed at the time of their Treatie with your Lordship and that they are to have a standing force if I well remember of 15000 foot and 2500 horse all of their own party officers and souldiers and they with the whole kingdom to be regulated by a Major party of Irish Trustees chosen by the Rebels themselves as persons for their interests and ends to be by them confided in without whom nothing is to be acted Therein I cannot but mind your Lordship of what hath been sometimes by your self delivered as your sence in this particular that the English interest in Ireland must be preserved by the English and not by Irish and upon that ground if I be not deceived did your Lordship then capitulate with the Parliament of England from which cleer principle I am sorrie to see your Lordship now receding As to that by your Lordship menaced us here of blood and force if dissenting from your Lordships waies and designes for my particular I shall my Lord much rather chuse to suffer in so doing for therein shall I doe what is becomming and answerable to my trust then to purchase my self on the contrary the ignominious brand of perfidie by any allurements of whatsoever advantages offered me But very confident I am of the same divine power which hath still followed me in this work and will still folllow me and in that trust doubt I nothing of thus giving your Lordship plainly this my resolution in that particular So I remain Dublin March 14. 1648. Your Lordships humble servant Signed Mic Jones For the Lord of Ormond these By the Lord Lieutenant Generall of Ireland Ormond WHereas our late Soveraign King Charles of happie memory hath bin lately by a party of his rebellious Subjects of England most traiterously maliciously and inhumanely put to death and murthered and forasmuch as his Majestie that now is Charles by the grace of God King of England Scotlana France and Ireland is son and heir of his said late Majestie and therefore by the Laws of the Land of force and practised in all ages is to inherit We therefore in discharge of the dutie we owe unto God our allegiance and loyaltie to our Soveraign holding it fit him so to proclaim in and through this his Majesties Kingdome doe by this our present proclamation declare and manifest to the world that Charles the second son and heir of our late Soveraign King Charles the first of happy memory is by the grace of God the undoubted King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Given at Carrick Febr. 26. 1648. God save the King A NECESSARY REPRESENTATION of the present evills and eminent dangers to Religion Lawes and Liberties arising from the late and present practises of the Sectarian party in England together with an Exhortation to duties relating to the Covenant unto all within our Charge and to all the well-affected within this Kingdome by the Presbytery at Belfast February 15th 1649. WHen we doe seriously consider the great and many duties which we owe unto God and his people over whom he hath made us Overseers and for whom we must give an accompt and when wee behold the laudable Examples of the worthy Ministers of the Province of London and of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly of the Church of Scotland in their free and faithfull testimonies against the insolencies of the Sectarian party in England Considering also the dependency of this Kingdome upon the Kingdome of England and remembring how against strong oppositions we were assisted by the Lord the last yeare in discharge of the like dutie and how he punished the Contempt of our warning upon the despisers thereof We finde our selves as necessitated so the more encouraged to cast in our Mite in the treasury least our silence should involve us in the guilt of unfaithfulnesse and our People in security and neglect of duties In this discharge of the trust put upon us by God we would not be looked upon as sowers of sedition or broachers of Nationall and divisive motions our record is in heaven that nothing is more hatefull unto us nor lesse intended by us and therefore we shall not feare the malicious and wicked aspersions which we know Satan by his Instruments is ready to cast not onely upon us but on all who sincerely endeavour the advancement of Reformation What of late have been and now are the insolent and presumptuous practises of the Sectaries in England is not unknowne to the world For first notwithstanding their specious pretences for Religion and Liberties yet their late and present actings being therewith compared doe clearly evidence that they love a rough garment to deceive since they have with a high hand despised the Oath in breaking the Covenant which is so strong a foundation to both whilest they loaden it with slighting reproaches calling it a Bundle of particular and contrary Interests and a Snare to the people and likewise labour to establish by Lawes an Universall Toleration of all Religions which is an Innovation over-turning of Unity in Religion and so directly repugnant to the word of God the two first Articles of our Solemne Covenant which is the greatest wickednesse in them to violate since many of the chiefest of themselves have with their hands testified to the most high God sworne and sealed it Moreover their great dis-affection to the Settlement of Religion and so their future breach of Covenant doth more fully appeare by their strong oppositions to Presbyteriall Government the hedge and Bulwarke of Religion whilest they expresse their hatred