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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92920	The sentence of the Councell of VVarre, pronounced against the Lord Mountnorris, in Ireland the twelfth of December, 1635. VVith the Lord Mountnorris petition to the Parliament concerning his iniuries and wrongs sustayned by the Lord Deputy deceased.; Sentence of warre pronounced against Sir Francis Annesley, Knight and Baron Mountnorris, in the realme of Ireland.	Ireland. Army. Council.; Valentia, Francis Annesley, Viscount, 1585-1660. Humble petition of Sir Francis Annesley, Knight and Baron Mountnorris, in the realme of Ireland.	1641 (1641)	Wing S2555; Thomason E208_6; ESTC R17542	7,727	19

doubtles of malice to in sinuate that as an affront or disgrace which was indeed a iustly merrited but a mild and modest reprehention and admonition Secondly Wee conceive the offence to containe an incitement to a revenge in these words but hee has a brother that would not take such a Reuenge which incitement might have given encouragement to the brother being then and now in this kingdome and Liuetenant of the said L. Mountnorris his foote companie to the said Ansley himselfe being continually so neere the person of Vs the deputie and generall or to some other to have taken vp resolutions of dangerous consequence and the manner of speaking the words doe so farr aggravate them as there is no place left for any indulgent construction to bee made of them nor indeede any construction but such as renders the speaker a delinquent in a high and a transendent manner against the person of his generall and his Majesties authoritie whence we derive Our power This councell also tooke it into consideration that if the like words had beene spoken of the sacred person of our dread Soveraigne Lord the King they had a mounted to little lesse then high treason which by some rule of relation apply themselves even to his Majestie being directed to the person of his deputie and the revenge thus insolently voted to have beene taken vpon him being done when Wee the deputie and generall had that great and high honor which We alwayes esteeme our Selfe in our selfe farre vnworthy of as to be apparralled and robed with his Majesties owne robe of majestie and Soveraingnity We considered likewise the time when these words were spoken when part of the Armie was in motion and when there were divers companies of foote and troops of horse in the towne daily in exercising and training whereat for the most part We the deputie were present and the towne full of people from all parts of the kingdome as then vnreturned back to their owne dwellings from their sitting in Parliament In the next place for the punishment due to his offence We judge it to be an apparent breach and contempt of the 41. Article of the printed lawes and orders of warr established for the good conduct of the service of Ireland dated the 13. of March 1633. and published in print by Vs the Lord deputie soone after our accesse to this governement in these words of the said article No man shall give any disgracefull words or commit any act to the disgrace of any person in his Army or garrison or any part thereof vpon paine of imprisonment publique disarming and banishement from the Armie as men for ever disabled to carrie Armes And which is more in like breach and contempt of the 13. Article of the said printed lawes and orders of Warre the words of which Article are these No man shall offer any violence or contemptuously disobey his Commander or doe any Act or speake any words which are like to breede any mutiny in the Army or Garison or impeach the obeying of the generall or principall officers directions upon paine of death which Articles are no other then very same Articles this Army had allwaies been the governed by in the time of the late Lord Faulkland Lord Willm●tt and other the generalls before them And therefore this Councell of Warre in conformity to his Majesties gra●ious pleasure as aforesaid and aswell to vindicate the honour of his Majesties deputy and generall of his Army from the wrong and contempt under which we now suffer to the scandall of this Govenement and to ill example of others As also to deliver one to all which beare office or are listed as members of the Army under the rule and govenment of us his generall An example of Justice for them to take warning by how they presume to offend against the Authority intrusted us by his Majestie doe hereby Adjudge Order and Decree that the said Lord Mountnorris stands justly and deservedly lyable to undergoe the censures paires and punishments by the said 41. Article and 15. Articles proved against the breakers of all good discipline and the transgressors against those orders which are by the said 41. Articles imprisonment publique disarming and banishment from the Army as a man for ●ver disable to carry Armes And by the said 13. Article death And therefore according to the said Articles this Councell doe unamimously with one joynt consent not one of us being of other opinion adjudged the said Lord Mountnorris for his said high and great offences to bee imprisoned to stand from henceforth deprived of all the places with the entertainments due thereunto which he holds now in the Army to be disarmed to be banished the Army and dis-inabled for ever bearing office therein hereafter And lastly to be shot to death or to loose his head at the pleasure of the Generall Given at his Majesties Castle of Dublin the 12. day of December 1635. Valentia Tho. Cromwell R. Ranelagh R. Dillon Law Esmond Kirkudbright Iohn Barlasse Charles Coot Tho. Wenman Arthur Terringham Arthur Blundell Faith Fortescue Ro. Farrar Io. Borlase Tho. Roper TO THE HONORABLE ASsembly the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons house of Parliament The humble Petition of Sir Francis Annsley Knight and Baron Mountnorris in the Kingdome of the Realme of Ireland Humbly shewing THat whereas your Petitioner for divers yeares hath beene imployed by his Majestie and his late Royall Father in divers Offices and imployments of great trust and eminence within the Realme of Ireland wherein to the uttermost of his power hee hath Faithfully discharged the trust in him reposed with the publique approbation and satisfaction both of this and that State and Realme in Testimony whereof his Majestie was pleased to dignifie your Petitioner with the stile he now beares yet the Right Honorable Thomas Earle of Strafford Lord Livetenant of the said Realme of Ireland having conceived a causelesse distrust against your Petitioner and thereupon indeavoring the revenge of some personall neglects and the undue advancement of his own ends and instruments by the dishonour and ruine of your Petitioner his Lordship without any just cause at all not onely stript and deprived your Petitoner of those honorable imployments with contumely and reproach but also of his owne private fortunes and the birthright and liberty of a subject a short viewe of part of which your Petitioners sufferings he humbly presents in these ensuing particulars 1. First whereas his late Majestie King Iames by his Highnesse Letters bearing date the first day of October in he 14. yeare of his Majesties Reigne did appoint your Petitioner to be one of the principall Secretaries and of the Councell of State for that Realme whereupon your Petitioner was sworne and admitted accordingly and whereas after viz. the eighth day of Iune in the 16. yeare of the said Majesties Raigne his said late Majestie by his Letters Patents under the great Seale of Ireland did grant unto your Petitioner