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A83674	A declaration of the Commons assembled in Parliament concerning the rise and progresse of the grand rebellion in Ireland. Together vvith a multitude of examinations of persons of quality, whereby it may easily appear to all the world, who were, and still are the promoters of that cruell and unheard of rebellion. With some letters and papers of great consequence of the Earl of Antrims, which were intercepted. Also some letters of Mart, which were granted by the Lord Mohun, Sir Ralph Hopton, &c. And likewise another from the rebells in Ireland, who term themselves, the supreme councel for the Catholique-cause. Ordered by the Commons in Parl. that this declaration, examinations, and letters, be forthwith printed and published: H. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.; Proceedings. 1643-07	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.; Antrim, Randal MacDonnell, Earl of, 1609-1683.	1643 (1643)	Wing E2557A; ESTC R204348	37,446	63

and were in a fair and hopefull way to induce most of the Officers of that Kingdome to do the like which would have been a principall meanes under God to have quickned the mannaging of that Warr when the Officers that must do the worke should have bin engaged in interest as well as honour to prosecute the same with vigour and effect and would have lessened the insupportable charge of that War and in all probability would have encouraged the Adventurers in London and elsewhere to have proceeded cheerfully to a second Subscription Then to render this endeavour fruitlesse one Captain Yarner did confidently affirm that those which had or should subscribe were enemies to the King a thing so incredible that few could believe it till the same man went to Oxford and upon his returne to Dublin assured the Lord Marquesse of Ormond and the Officers that he had discoursed with His Majesty about this way of Subscription and that His Majesty did not approve of the same Whereupon those who had subscribed did withdraw their hands and the rest were wholly discouraged finding His Majesty to dislike of that way which he had formerly approved of by His Assent to the Propositions presented to Him at Dover and by His Royall Assent to foure Acts of Parliament all made in pursuance of these Propositions That about this time a Commission was sent over to meet with the Rebells and to hear what they could say or propound for themselves which Commission was directed to the Lord Marquesse Ormond the Commander in chief of the English Armies there whose duty was to fight and not to treat with the Rebells and to some other Commissioners among whom the said Thomas Bourk that had an hand in contriving this Rebellion was one and who brought the said Commission into Ireland and confidently delivered the same at the Councell Table to the amazement of all the Councell then present that were not acquainted with the Plot. And whereas by an Act of Parliament it is provided That all the Monies paid in upon that Act shall be imployed for the speedy and effectuall subduing of the said Rebels by sending over into the said Realm of Ireland and disposing there such forces of foot horse Monies Ammunition Victuall and all other things necessary for a war in such manner as the Lords and Commons in Parliament shall from time to time direct And whereas the Lords and Commons finding that from the Battell of Kilrush which was fought in April 1642. till October following the Army in Leinster had not been so active as was expected and therefore to quicken the War to inform themselves of the wants and defects of the Army and of all other things that might enable them the better To send thither and dispose of there according to that Statute such Forces Monies Ammunition and Necessaries as were requisite for that service thought it very expedient to send into Ireland a Committee for that purpose Members of the House of Commons but authorised from both Houses who carrying with them above Twenty thousand pounds in ready Money besides great store of Powder Match and other Ammunition and hazarding their lives in the Winter season meerly for the good of that Kingdom might justly have expected a cordiall welcome there But when those that now appear too evidently to favour the Rebels saw that during the abode of the Committee there Parties were continually sent forth to destroy the Enemy That the Committee engaged their own particular credits to take up Monies for the relief and setting forth of the Army That the Commission sent over to treat with the Rebels was not like to have so good successe as was wished by them so long as the Committee were present at the Councell-Table where all the proceedings against the Rebells were promoted and concluded A Letter was sent from His Majesty to the Lords Iustices and Councell to this effect that His Majestie took notice that without His consent or privity they had admitted of one Master Robert Goodwyn and one Master Reynolds to be present at their debates who thereupon were become so bold as to Vote with them a thing of such presumption as none of their predecessors would have done or suffered And therefore His Majesty did require the Lords Iustices and Councell not to admit them any more That He knew of no businesse those men had in His Kingdom of Ireland but if they had any they should make their addresses like other of His Subjects and did upon their Allegiance charge the Lords Iustices and Councell to take care that those persons did not sow Sedition among His good Subjects And 't is observable that this Letter like that which accompanyed the Commission to treat with the Rebells was only signed with His Majesties hand without any Secretaries hand to avow the same That it was brought over by the Marquesse of Ormond his own Secretary who was sent very secretly to Oxford a little before That although both Houses before the sending over of their Committee had acquainted His Majesty therewith by Letter and sent him a Copy of the Instructions which they had given to their Committees to which Letter and Instructions an Answer was returned by Sir Edward Nicholas as from His Majesty acknowledging thereby that the Instructions were the same in effect which His Majesty had given to the Earle of Liecester Yet after all this His Majesty was pleased to say in that Letter that He knew of no businesse those men had in His Kingdom of Ireland And t is further observable that a Committee sent by the authority of both Houses of Parliament who had both the charge and mannaging of the War referred unto them to negotiate and consult with a State in distresse for their own good where every Privy-Councellor sate covered in Counsell there such a Committee so qualified should make their addresses like other of His Majesties Subjects That is to say should stand bare-headed at the back of the Councell day by day from morning to night and humbly beseech them to save the Kingdom of Ireland and consequently their own estates at the proper cost and charges of the Parliament and Kingdom of England who sent them thither Lastly the Commons cannot conceive what is meant that the Iustices and Councell are straightly charg'd in that Letter upon their Allegiance not to suffer the Committee to sow Sedition among His Majesties good Subjects unlesse to stir up and incite the English Souldiers in the pay of the Parliament to proceed vigorously against those bloody Irish Rebels be construed as a sowing of Sedition among His Majesties good Subjects for that the Irish Rebels should be now esteemed his Majesties good subjects is more then probable by that which followes Sir William Brereton Knight of the Shire for the County of Chester a man of honour and Religion by his Letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons dated from Liverpoole in Lancashire the 7. of June 1643.

August 1642. shewing the obstructions of the relief of Ireland THe House of Commons having received a Message from His Majesty of the 13 of August last whereby they are required to retract an Order made by them for the borrowing of One hundred thousand pounds of the Adventurers money for Ireland supposing that Order very prejudiciall to the affairs of Ireland and contrary to an Act of Parliament made this present Session Do in the first place Declare That these directions given by His Majesty for the retracting of this Order is an high breach of priviledge of Parliament And they cannot without a deep sense of sorrow call to minde how Popish and Prelaticall Counsells did so far prevail with his Majesty that two Armies were brought within the bowels of this Kingdom and two Protestant Nations ready to welter in each others blood that when both those Armies had been a long time defrayed at the charge of the poor Commons of England and at length by Gods blessing upon the endeavours of the Parliament quietly disbanded the same wicked Counsels prevented of that designe did soon after raise this bloody and barbarous Rebellion in Ireland The suppressing whereof for the better colour was recommended to the care of the Parliament who out of a fellow-feeling of the unspeakable miseries of their Protestant brethren there not suspecting this horrid Plot now too apparent did cheerfully undertake that great work and do really intend and endeavour to settle the Protestant Religion and a permanent Peace in that Realm to the glory of God and the great honour and profit of His Majesty and security of His three Kingdoms But how they have been discouraged retarded and diverted in and from this pious and glorious Work by those Trayterous counsells about His Majesty will appear by many particulars some whereof they shall upon this just occasion call to remembrance That when the Lords and Commons had upon the first breaking out of the Rebellion immediately provided and sent over twenty thousand pounds and engaged themselves and the whole Kingdom for the reducing of the Rebels Yet His Majesty after His return from Scotland to London was not either pleased by Word or Message to take notice of it untill after some in the House of Commons had truely observed how forward those mischievous Counsellors were to incite His Majesty against His Protestant Subjects of Scotland and how slow to recent the proceeding of His Papist Traytors in Ireland That although the Rebells had most impudently stiled themselves The Queens Army and profest that the cause of their rising was To maintain the Kings Prerogative and the Queens Religion against the Puritan Parliament of England And that thereupon both Houses of Parliament did humbly and earnestly advise His Majesty to wipe away this dangerous scandall by proclaiming them Rebels and Traytors to His Majesty and the Crown of England which then would have mated and weakned the Conspirators in the beginning and have encouraged both the Parliament here and good people there the more vigorously to have opposed their proceedings Yet such was the power of those Counsells that no Proclamation was set forth to that purpose till almost three months after the breaking out of this Rebellion and then Command given That but 40 should be Printed nor they published till further directions should be given by His Majesty That after both Houses of Parliament had found out a probable way to reduce the Kingdom of Ireland by the Adventure of private men without any charge to the Subject in generall and which they are very confident would have brought in a Million of money had His Majesty continued in or neer London those malicious whisperers that durst not hinder the passing of the Bill which was so specious in it self and so generally approved Yet have by practise by drawing His Majestie from His Parliament by keeping Him at this distance and advising him to make War upon His People so intimidated and discouraged the Adventurers and others that would have adventured that they have rendred that good Bill in a manner ineffectuall That the Parliament and Adventurers had long since designed five thousand Foot and five hundred Horse for the relief of Munster to be sent as a Brigade under the command of the Lord Wharton had made choice of and listed all the Commanders and prepared Money Arms and other Provision for that Expedition and all to be at the charge of the Adventurers And when nothing was wanting but a Commission to the Lord Wharton to enable him for that service such was the power of those Counsels that no Commission could be obtained from His Majesty by reason whereof Lymbrick was wholly lost and the Province of Munster is now in very great distresse That when divers pious and well-affected persons had prepared twelve Ships and six Pinnaces with a thousand or more Land-forces at their own charge by way of Adventure for the service of Ireland and desired nothing but a Commission from His Majesty to enable them thereunto that Commission after twice sending to York for the same and the Ships lying ready to set Sail for three weeks together at the charge of neer three hundred pound a day was likewise denied and those Adventurers rather then to lose their Expedition were constrained to go by vertue of an Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament That although the Lords Justices of Ireland have three moneths since earnestly desired to have two Pieces of Battery sent over as very necessary for that service yet such commands are given to the Officers of the Tower That none of His Majesties Ordnance must be sent to save his Majesties Kingdom That although whilst the Earl of Leicester stayed here in the Service of the Parliament and in providing for his long-expected Voyage into Ireland a Message was sent to the Parliament from His Majesty to hasten him away and Letters were written to the said Earl from His Majesty that he should make no stay at York for his dispatch but that his Instructions should be ready for him against he came And although it is notoriously known That the Affairs of Ireland do exceedingly suffer by wanting the personall assistance of a Commander in chief to give both life and motion to the Army there yet the said Earl hath been stayed with His Majesty in the North a month and more and as yet can get no dispatch That notwithstanding the bleeding condition of Ireland yet divers Commanders and Officers in pay and in actuall employment there against the Rebels have been called away from that important Service by the expresse Command of His Majesty as Charles Floyd Engineer and Quarter-master Generall of the Army in Ireland and divers others That Captain Green Comptroller of the Artillery a man in pay and principally employed and trusted here by the Lord-Lievtenant of Ireland for the providing and odering the Train of Artillery which was to be sent to Dublin and who had received great Sums of money

A DECLARATION Of the Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT Concerning the Rise and Progresse of The Grand Rebellion IN IRELAND TOGETHER VVith a multitude of Examinations of Persons of quality whereby it may easily appear to all the World who were and still are the Promoters of that cruell and unheard of REBELLION With some Letters and Papers of great consequence of the Earl of Antrims which were intercepted Also some Letters of MART which were granted by the Lord Mohun Sir Ralph Hopton c. And likewise another from the Rebells in Ireland who term themselves The SUPREME COUNCEL for the Catholique-Cause ORdered by the Commons in Parl. That this Declaration Examinations and Letters be forthwith printed and published H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. London Printed for Edw. Husbands and are to be sold in the Middle-Temple Iuly 1643. Die Martis 25 Julii 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the House of Commons That the Ministers of every Parish within the Kingdom shall read this Declaration in their severall Churches and Chappels on the next Fast day the same shall come to their hands after the ending of the first Sermon and before the beginning of the next H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. A Declaration of the Commons assembled in Parliament c. THe COMMONS in Parliament do observe that the grand Designe of altering Religion throughout His Majesties Dominions had a more speciall influence in Ireland as being more remote from view and more propence to receive such impression and therefore they think fit to call to minde as introductive to that which follows some particular footsteps by which Popery hath been advanced and true Religion discountenanced in that Kingdom since the accesse of His Majestie to the Crown of England In the second yeer of His Majesties Raign certain Propositions were set on foot in Ireland the scope whereof was to fautour and indulge Popery in that Kingdom as namely to suspend all proceedings against the Papists for being marryed or for procuring their children to be christned by popish Priests to allow the suing out of Liveries Outre Les-mains by the Papists without taking the Oath of Supremacie with many like Priviledges to the Papists The Designe being to bring in a more publique Tolleration of the popish Religion in that Kingdom for a sum of Money to be paid to His Majestie for the same These Propositions and Designe were so grosse and scandalous that even the then Bishops of Ireland by a writing under their hands bearing date the 26 of November 1626. did make a Protestation setting forth how grievous a sin it was to consent to such Tolleration of Popery and that to grant it in respect of any Money to be given were to set Religion to sale and withall the souls of the people whom Christ hath redeemed with his precious blood And that as it was a great sin so they did conceive it of most dangerous consequence as by the said Protestation herewith printed may appear And although the House of Commons in their Remonstrance made in the third Yeer of His Majesties Raigne did truely informe See Folio 24. that even then the Popish Religion was openly profest in every part of that Kingdome that Monasteries and Nunneries were then newly erected and replenished with men and women of severall Orders that this might prove of evill consequence if not seasonably repressed therefore most humbly besought His Majesty to lay the serious consideration thereof to His Royall and pious heart and that some speedy course might be taken for redresse therein Yet how this faithfull and timely advice of the Bishops of Ireland and the Commons of England was followed and what speedy course was taken for redresse therein will appeare by this which insues For IN the beginning of the Fourth yeer of His Majesties Raigne upon the agreement of certain Agents sent from Ireland to His Majestie all or most part of them being professed Papists these Propositions and Graces with many like Additions were granted and confirmed by His Majestie in consideration of One hundred and twenty thousand pounds to be levyed in three yeers upon the Kingdom in generall as well upon the Protestants as upon the Papists How great an encouragement to the Papists this was and what an insufferable pressure to the Protestants that besides the illegall imposing it upon them without their consent in Parliament they must be compelled to purchase with their money Tollerations and Immunities for the Papists let even those men judge who will be stiled the moderate and honest Protestants whiles with all their faculties of body and minde they strive to advance Popery and to root up the Protestant Religion and the Liberty of the Subject Many potent and notorious Papists have been created Peers by His Majestie whereby the Votes of the Popish party in the Lords House too many before are much encreased and those Papists become more powerfull and more exemplary in their respective countries to the great encouragement and growth of Popery and discouragement to the good people of that Kingdom That when by direction of the Lord Chancellor Loftus and the Earl of Cork then Lords Justices proceedings were begun against the Papists upon the Statute of 2 Eliz. for not coming to Church and the Iudges in their circuits gave that Statute in charge and Indictments were framed thereupon directions were sent from England to suspend and stay all proceedings upon that Statute when by taking the penalty imposed by that Statute being Nine pence for absenting from Church Sundayes and Holy-dayes the poor Protestants there might have been eased of many heavie payments and Taxes which were after imposed upon them and the Papists either brought to conformity or else kept so under that this Rebellion if not wholly prevented yet could not have proved so Universall and so bloody as now it is That the late Earl of Strafford being the Kings Lieutenant there did by his great Favorite Sir George Ratcliff one of His Majesties Privie-Couneell of that Kingdom hold correspondencie with the Popish Clergie and particularly with Paul Harris a known Priest who had both publique and private accesse to Sir George Ratcliff at all times as well by night as by day That in March 1639. the Earl of Strafford carryed with him into Ireland Sir Toby Matthews a notorious pernicious English Iesuited Priest banished at the beginning of this Parliament upon the importunity of both Houses lodged this Priest over against the Castle of Dublin the house where the Earl did himself reside and from whence this Priest daily rode to the publique Masse-houses in Dublin and negotiated the engaging of the Papists of Ireland in the war against Scotland When the late Lo Chanc Loftus and the E. of Cork were Lords Iustices they endeavoured to suppresse the Masse-houses in Dublin and to convert them to pious uses one which was in the street called the Back-lane they disposed of to the University of Dublin who placed a Rector and Schollars in it

and maintained a weekly Lecture there to which Lecture the Lords Iustices and State of Ireland did usually resort to the great countenancing of the Protestant Religion there But after the Earl of Strafford came to the Government the Lecture was put down the Schollars displaced and the house became a Masse-house as formerly it had been That divers Monasteries and Nunneries were newly erected immediately before the Rebellion brake forth in divers parts of that Kingdom That at the Naas where the Earl of Strafford had his chief seat and resort Convents of Friars namely Augustines Franciscans Dominicans were not onely permitted but also an house built there by the said Earl for an other purpose as he pretended soon after the building was converted to a Friery by the connivence of the said Earl That the Popish Irish Army was kept on foot there for a long time after the beginning of this Parliament contrary to the advice and frequent desires of both Houses of Parliament and to the great furtherance of this Rebellion by teaching those barbarous villains the knowledge of Arms under the notion of fighting against Scotland but now made use of to extirpate both English and Scots from the Kingdom of Ireland And that Lead might not be wanting to the compleating of this intended Rebellion as it had bin in the last great Rebellion there to the great disadvantage of the then Rebells the Silver Mines of that Kingdom which do afford great store of Lead and therefore fit onely to be in the hands of Protestants of known integrity were farmed out by His Majestie to most pernicious Papists namely Sir George Hamilton Sir Basil Brook the like and upon the discovery of the Plot for the surprising of the City and Castle of Dublin divers barrels of Musquet-bullet were found upon search in the house of the said Sir George Hamilton in Dublin Before this Rebellion brake forth the Earl of Strafford well knowing the ready way to endear his Prince was to promote his profit had by a violent endeavour entitled His Majestie by Office to the whole counties of Roscommon Mayo Slego Galloway and Clare and to a great part of the counties of Limerick and Tipperary by which means a door was opened not onely to increase His Majesties revenue in a very great proportion but therewith to settle a Plantation of English Protestants to the advancement of Religion and safety of that Kingdom And however the proceedings of the Earl herein were not to be justified in all points yet when the Committee was sent from Ireland at the beginning of this Parliament to complain of divers grievances they had no particular directions to mention this for one neither did that Committee ever attend His Majestie to complain thereof or desire a red resse therein conceiving the mentioning thereof wouldexceedingly distaste His Majestie untill His Majestie freely offered to depart with His Title to the former proprietors But on the contrary the Lords Iustices and Councell of Ireland apprehending the great advantage of this service did by their Letters exceedingly importune His Majestie that he would not part with His Title to those counties and lands and that the Plantation of English Protestants might proceed as was formerly intended But when those mischievous Councells now onely prevalent with His Majestie found that the Parliament had both discovered and interrupted them in some measure and that their Designe could be no longer carryed on by fraud and subtilties as before and had therefore projected this hideous Rebellion then the Lord Gormanstown Sir Donnaugh Mac Carthy Knight now Lord Viscount Muskerry Nicholas Plunket Uncle to the Earl of Fingal Sir Roe-buck Lynch and Jeffery Brown a Lawyer all principall and active Rebels now in Ireland and Thomas Bourke who was named a Commssioner in the late Commission to Treat with the Rebels and whose father brothers and kindred are all now in Rebellion being the chief of the Popish part of that Irish Committee were consulted and caressed at Whitehall and they or some of them without the privity of the rest of that Committee had divers private conferrences with the King in the Queens presence and what Clandestine agreement was made with those Rebels may easily be imagined when upon their private mediation His Majesty was induced to give away these five whole Counties with a great part of the Counties of Limerick and Tipperary after so great an endeavour had bin used for divers yeers together to entitle His Majesty to the same and all this for a rent of 2000. l. or thereabouts when as in finding the Offices searching Records and admeasuring these Counties and Lands the King had expended out of His Own Coffers ten thousand pounds and upwards And this service of entitling the King was before that time esteemed such a Master-piece of the said Earle that some persons who came over to complaine against the Earle for the same were imprisoned here and after sent into Ireland to be further dealt with as the said Earle should think fit Neither is it improper to observe upon this occasion the extream difference between this Superlative Indulgence to the Irish Papists by this unusuall bounty and that exquisite piece of injustice offered to the City of London in the case of London Derry and Collerane which shews the Land of Ireland is worth the owning where no greater compensation is proposed for the parting therewith And His Majesty was drawn to tell the Committee for Ireland that now since he was content to part with so much of His Right He expected they would recompence Him some other way Immediately after namely in August before the Rebellion they returned into Ireland where how they bestir'd themselves by seconding their Letters and Messages with their personall sollicitations did appear by the Sequele for that the 23. of October following this Rebellion brake forth in Vlster To these violent presumptions may be added that which is expresly proved by Archdeacon Maxwell a Learned Divine who testifies in his Examinations taken in Ireland that he heard Tirlagh Oge O Neile brother to Sir Phelim O Neale the arch Rebell of Vlster confesse That this businesse meaning the Rebellion was communicated by the Popish Irish Committee to the Papists in England who promised their assistance and that by their advice something formerly resolved on were altered saying it was a good omen and undoubted signe of divine approbation that the Parliament of Ireland should send over a Committee into England the major part whereof were Papists And Mac Mahoun who was to joyn with the Lord MacGuire for the surprizing the Castle of Dublin being taken and examined at the Racke confessed that the originall of that Rebellion was brought to them out of England by the Irish Committee imployed to His Majesty for redresse of Grievances as by the Examination See Fol. 2 of James Piesly Gentleman herewith Printed may appeare And as these Irish Papists did negotiate in both Kingdomes so the Earl of Castlehaven a

Peer of this Realm that sate here in Parliament at the beginning thereof but now a notorious Rebell in Ireland Mr. Porter son to Endimion Porter who declared himselfe a Papist in Ireland Sir Bazill Brooke the Popish Treasurer for the moneys raised by the Queens sollicitation for the War against the Scots Mr. Andrew Brown a Lawyer of Lincolns-Inne heretofore expelled thence for being a knowne Papist with divers other dangerous English Papists went out of England into Ireland the Summer before the Rebellion brake forth and were very active there If these Circumstances preceding the Rebellion and divers other of the like nature be not enough of themselves to open the eyes of the world It hath pleased God to discover such subsequent evidence of this kind that may serve to convince the greatest unbeliever Therefore not repeating any of the proofs set forth in that Answer to His Majesties Message of the 13th of August 1642. but referring to the same herewith printed to which no Reply hath yet been made they think fit to adde to that evidence this which followes namely the generall profession of the Rebells in all parts of that Kingdome that the cause of their rising was to preserve His Majesty and the Queen from being opprest by the Puritan-Parliament and that it was by their consent That they knew well the best in England would Colonell Mervin's Examination See Folio 33. William Stuart Esq's Examination See Folio 36. Hen Steuart's Examination See Fol. 37. side with them that they had good Warrant in black and white for what they did Their calling the English Army Parliament-Rogues and Traitors to the Queen and telling them at the beginning of the Rebellion before any appearance of War here that ere long they should see England as much in blood as Ireland then was That they had their party in England and Scotland which should keep both Kingdomes so busie at home that they should not send any ayd against them with a multitude of such like expressions from the Irish of the best quality and degree as may appear by the Examinations of Colonell Audley Mervin William Steuart Esquire William-Steuart Cent ' herewith printed and by divers other proofs And although these expressions proceed from Rebels yet concurring with a multitude of other proofs and found true in a great part by sad experience are not inconsiderable In the same Moneth of October wherein the Rebellion of Ireland brake forth the Lord Dillon of Costelough an Irish Peer now in armes against the Parliament and Kingdom of England went out of Scotland from His Majesty into Ireland bringing His Majesties Letters which he obtained by mediation of the Queeen to be presently sworne a Privie-Councellor of Ireland who when he had taken the Oath of a Privie Councellor endeavours to be usefull to the Rebells presents to the Lords Justices and Councell from many of the Centry and Inhabitants of the County of Longford all in Rebellion a rebellious and scandalous Letter in the nature of a Remonstrance full of pretended grievances and unreasonable demands As namely to have freedom of Religion a repeall of all Laws made to the contrary and the like as by the said Letter herewith printed may appeare In December after the Rebellion the same Lord Dillon together with his brother in Law the now Lord Taaffe a notorious Papist repaired into England bringing with them severall Papers and Instructions in writing from the Lord Gormanston and other Lords and Gentlemen of the Pale all now in Rebellion to negotiate for them to His Majesty and as they sollicite with His Majesty here on the behalf of the Rebels so doe they sollicite the Rebels from hence in the Name of His Majesty to persist in their wicked Rebellion as appears by the Testimony of Mr. Jephson a Member of the House of Commons lately delivered at a Conference before both Houses in these words viz. AT my late being at Oxford finding the Lord Dillon and the Lord Taaffe in favour at Court I acquainted the Lord Faulkland His Majesties Secretary that there were two Lords about the King who to His Majesties great dishonour and the great discouragement of His good Subjects did make use of His Majesties Name to incourage the Rebells to make this appeare I informed that I had seen two Letters sent by the Lord Dillon and the Lord Taaffe to the Lord of Muskerie the chief man in Rebellion in Munster and one of the Irish Committee sent into England intimating that though it did not stand with the conveniency of His Maiesties Affaires to give him publique countenance yet that his Majesty was well pleased with what he did and would in time give him thankes for it or neer to that purpose That these Letters were seen by the Lord Inchiquine the chief Commander of the English Forces in Mounster and by his Secretary who had kept Copies of them and that I was ready to justifie as much Whereupon the Lo Faulkland was pleased to say that they deserved to be hanged But though I stayed there at Oxford about a week after this discovery made I never was called to any farther accompt nor any prejudice done to these two Lords but they had the same freedome in Court as before for ought I could observe or hear to the contrary Thus far in Mr. Jephsons owne language a man of knowne honour and integrity That since this discovery made to the Lord Faulkland by Mr. Jephson the same Lord Taaffe one Roche and William Brent a Lawyer active Papists with Letters from His Majesty went from Oxford to Dublin And upon Thursday before Whitsuntide 1643. in the Evening taking with them one Colonell Barry a protest Papist and pretending for Connaught slipt away to Kilkenny where the Tuesday following was a generall assembly of all the chief Rebels When they had done their Errand Barry was left Lieger at KILKENNY among the Rebels the Lord Taaffe returned to DUBLIN and upon Friday the 9. of June 1643. the Lord Taaffe with divers of the Privie-Councell of Ireland that favour the Rebels met at the Marquesse of Ormond's house where the Propositions which the Lord Taaffe brought from the Rebels were debated The Lord Taaffe is since gone into Cannaught Brent is come back to Oxford to give an accompt of this imployment By this which hath bin thus truely related every man may construe what was meant by His Majesties not consenting that the Parliament should send a Cōmittee into Ireland the last yeer to endeavour the carrying on the War against the Rebels upon pretence that the Earl of Liecester was presently to go over thither who is yet remaining at Oxford That when that Committee had prevailed with the Lords-Iustices and Councell and with many of the prime Commanders and other Officers of the Army in Leinster to subscribe by way of Adventure for Land in Ireland to be setled by a new Bill very considerable sums which were to be deducted out of their respective entertainments

are Irish by all which it may appear that the Irish Rebels are not onely esteemed His See the examination of Mr Dod. fol. 62. Majesties good Subjects but even the best of His Subjects when they are thus admitted so neer His Majesties own person Upon the whole matter no man can think that this Rebellion in Ireland so barbarous and bloody that one hundred and fifty four thousand Protestants men women and children English and Scotch were Massacred in that Kingdom between the 23 of October when the Rebellion brake forth and the first of March following by the computation of the Priests themselves that were present and principall Actors in all those Tragedies and were directed by some chief Rebells of Ireland to take this computation lest they should be reported to be more bloody then in truth there was cause all which appears by the examination of the said Arch-deacon Maxwell who lived as a Prisoner a long time with St Phelmi O Neils mother and was there when this Computation was brought in No man can beleeve that this horrid and unparareld Rebellion should be the undertaking of the Rebels alone being set on foot when a Parliament was sitting in England that could not dissolve without its own consent when all Nations professing the Romish Religion were at peace with England and so engaged at home that the Rebells in reason could not expect any considerable assistance from them nor could think themselves able to incounter England or Scotland either much lesse both together being so concerned and engaged by Religion and the common interest of both Kingdoms to suppresse by all means possible so insufferable an insurrection So that to imagine the Nobility Gentry and in a manner the whole Kingdom of Ireland who at that time enjoyed more freedom of Religion then they had done for many yeers before should thus desperately engage their lives and estates in so wicked so rash an enterprise without being encouraged incited nay commanded from England with an assurance both of connivence and assistance too were to deny them to be reasonable Creatures And therefore the House of Commons abundantly satisfied in their own consciences and judgements of the trueth hereof though with deep sorrow and amazement cannot but declare to the world That by all these concurring circumstances and convincing Proofs to which nothing can be added save a witnesse to confesse that he was present at the making of the bargain which no man will expect in a conspiracie of this horrid and high importance that this unheard of and monstrous Rebellion of Ireland was projected incited and assisted by those Councells now onely prevalent with His Majestie That the Queen with her Romish Priests the Papists of all His Majesties three Kingdoms have been principall Actours and Sticklers herein That now those bloody Rebels have in a manner rooted out the Protestant Religion in Ireland there is a Designe to pardon them and to bring them into England to do the like That no earthly power is likely in humane reason to withstand this damnable Plot but the power of the Parliament of England which is now declared by a late Proclamation to be no free Parliament to be null and of none effect and all possible endeavour used by strength and stratagem to destroy the same So that unlesse the Royall blood of King James and the innocent blood of the Protestants of Ireland do lie as a crying and stupendious guilt upon this Nation which God hath determined at this time to revenge and retalliate the House of Commons do conceive it impossible that so many of those which would be thought the honest and moderate English Protestants should any longer be blinded and led on to joyn with German French Wallon English Scotch and Irish Papists and thereby to surrender up at once The Protestant Religion The Parliament Liberties and Lawes of England into the hands of Papists and Strangers that so this Renowned Kingdom may be no more a Nation The Protestation of the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of Ireland against the toleration of Popery agreed upon and subscribed by them at Dublin November 26. 1626. THe Religion of the Papists is Superstitious and Idolatrous their Faith and Doctrine erroneous and Hereticall Their Church in respect of both Apostaticall To give them therefore a Toleration or to consent that they may freely exercise their Religion and confesse their Faith and Doctrine is a grievous sin and that in two respects First It is to make our selves accessary not onely to their Superstitions Idolatries Heresies and in a word to all the abominations of Popery but also which is a consequence of the former to the Perdition of the seduced people which perish in the deluge of their Catholique Apostasie Secondly To grant them a Toleration in respect of any Money to be given or contribution to be made by them is to set Religion to sale and withall the souls of the people whom Christ our Saviour hath redeemed with his most precious blood And as it is a great Sin so it is a matter of most dangerous consequence the consideration whereof we leave to the wise and judicious beseeching the jealous God of Trueth to make all those who are in Authority zealous of Gods glory and the advancement of true Religion and resolute and couragious against all Popery Superstition and Idolatry The Examination of James Peisley late of Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland Saith THat about the moneth of March 1641. it was his fortune to be present when Mackmaghon one of the grand Rebels of Ireland was Wracked and his Examination taken by Sir Charles Coot senior in the presence of Sir Francis Willowby Sir Arthur Losters the Constable of the Castle and some others the said Mackmohon confessed that the Originall of that Rebellion was brought over to them by their Committee who were imployed by the Irish Parliament to His Majestie for redresse of their Grievances in that Kingdom and that they having often solicited His Majestie for that purpose was answered That he was willing to grant them their desire and that he did confesse they were His good Subjects but that He was so opprest by his Parliament in England that he knew not how to relieve them wishing he knew how to be revenged on them or words to that purpose which occasioned Sir Charles Coot to take him up calling him Rogue and Raskall for offering to lay such a charge upon the King whom he said would assist them in things honest and just but not give them Commission to cut our Throats This Narration was not incerted in the Examination read to Mackmaghon after Sr Charles Coot had finished it The Reason as this Examinate then conceived was That it being a matter of great consequence they would take some other time to examine that point more privately which whether they did or no this Examinae knows not A Declaration of the Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT In Answer to His Majesties Message of the 13 of

for that purpose was commanded from that employment and trust to serve His Majesty in this most unnaturall War against His loyall and best-affected people That the Parliament having made great provision of clothes for the poor Souldiers in Ireland for their present succour and sending six hundred suits part thereof towards Chester the last week the man that undertook the carriage of them one William Whitaker by name was assaulted by His Majesties Cavaliers then lying about Coventry who took away these six hundred suits of clothes and the Waggon and horses of the poor man although they were told that the six hundred suits of clothes were for the Souldiers in Ireland and notwithstanding the poor Carryer was five times with the Earl of Northampton to beg a release of his Waggon That three hundred suits of clothes with a Chirurgions Chest of Medicaments being likewise sent for Ireland by one Richard Owefield who was employed by the Parliament to carry them to Chester a Troop of His Majesties Cavaliers under command of one Captain Middleton met with them upon the Road and took away the clothes and Chirurgeons Chest together with the poor Carryers horses and Waggon for His Majesties pretended service here That a great number of Draught-horses prepared by the Parliament for the Artillery and Baggage of the Irish Army were sent to Chester for that purpose and being there attending a Passage are now required by His Majesty for His said present service in England That His Majesties Forces are so Quartered in and about the common Roads to Ireland that neither Money Clothes Victualls or other Provision can passe thither by Land with any safety That Captain Kettleby the Admirall and Sir Henry Stradling the Vice-Admirall of the Ships which were directed to lie upon the Coast of Ireland to annoy the Rebells and to prevent the bringing to them Ammunition and relief from forraign Parts are both called away from that employment by His Majesties Command and by reason of their departure from the Coast of Munster to which they were designed the Rebells there have received Powder Ammunition and other relief from forraign parts by which and many other particulars too long to relate it may seem as if those barbarous Irish Rebells are kept on foot and countenanced there of designe to assist the Northern Cavaliers and according to the Earl of Strafords unheard of advice to have an Army in Ireland with which His Majesty may reduce this Kingdom especially considering those confident Rebells have presumed very lately to send a Petition to His Majesty intituling themselves His Majesties Catholike Subjects of Ireland and complaining of the Puritane Parliament of England and desiring That since His Majesty comes not thither according to their expectation that they may come into England to His Majesty Which Petition we may justly fear is but a Prologue to that Tragedie they have designed to act here in case their coming over be not prevented by the care and vigilancy of the Parliament and good people of England But lest the House of Commons might seem to excuse the making of this Order by a way of Recrimination They for satisfaction to the world do protest before Almighty God the searcher of all hearts That they have as great compassion and sorrow for the present sufferings of their distressed brethren in Ireland as if themselves were in their case into which they are confident those horrid Traitours those monsters of men about His Majestie do labour to bring this Kingdom That they have and shall ever really endeavour by all means possible with a due regard to the present estate of this Kingdom to supply and support them in this their great affliction notwithstanding the malice and obstructions of all opposers That the House of Commons lively apprehending the imminent danger of this Kingdom and finding that whilest they were active here to subdue the Rebels of Ireland there were Papists Traytors and Delinquents more active in the North to conquer and destroy the Parliament and good people of England Thought it necessary to provide for the safety of both by preparing a competent Army for the defence of King and Kingdom And although multitudes of well-affected persons had cheerfully brought in great store of Plate for that purpose yet in regard the Plate could not be coyned with such expedition as the Importance of the Service did require and well knowing that One hundred thousand pounds might for a short time be borrowed out of the Adventurers Money for Ireland without any prejudice to the Affairs of that Kingdom whose subsistence depends upon the well-fare of this and resolving to make a reall and speedy re-payment of what Money should be so borrowed did make this Order which that it may appear to all the world to be neither mischievous illegall nor unjust as His Majestie by the instigation of those Malignant whisperers is pleased to tearm it the House of Commons thought fit to recite it in haec verba and in stead of retracting the Order to re-pay the Money with all possible speed The 30 of July 1642. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons House of Parliament That the Treasurers appointed to receive the Monies come in upon the Subscriptions for Ireland do forthwith furnish by way of Loan unto the Committee of the Lords and Commons for the defence of the Kingdom the sum of One hundred thousand pounds for the supply of the publike necessitie for the defence of the King Parliament and Kingdom upon the publike Faith to be re-paid duely and carefully within so short a time that it shall not be diverted from the purpose for which it was intended or any way frustrate the Acts already made in the behalf of that Adventure BY which Order and that which hath been here truely set down it will easily appear to all the indifferent people of His Majesties three Kingdoms whether the King and His Cavaliers or the King and His Parliament do most affect and endeavour the setling of true Religion and a firm and constant Peace within that bleeding and distressed Kingdom The examination of Collonell Audley Mervin given in the fifth day of Iuly 1643. unto a select Committee of the House of Commons and attested under his hand THis Examinate saith that about the 27 of October 1641. Rory Maguire brother to the Lord Maguire came unto Castle Trelick in the County of Tyrone being this Examinates then house who amongst other discourse told this Examinate that it was resolved amongst themselves to imploy him into England to represent unto his Majestie upon what grounds they had taken up Armes and what desires being granted they would lay them downe the reasons Rory Maguire acquainted this examinate withall for the present were that the Parliament in England was fully bent to the extirpation of the Catholique Religion as was apparent in the execution of some of their priests and that they invaded the Kings prerogative in which their greatest security reposed To the