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B23087	A letter from the Earle of Forth to His Excellency Robert Earle of Essex, lord generall, &c. dated 15 Feb., 1643 and His Excellencies answer thereunto dated 19 Febr, 1643 : also a petition of the well-affected nobility and gentry of the realm of Ireland who have suffered under the bloody rebels there, and presented to the Lords Justices to be presented to His Majesty, which was done accordingly, and the agents accepted to come to His Majesty.	Forth and Brentford, Patrick Ruthven, Earl of, 1573?-1651.; Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646.	1643 (1643)	Wing F1615	3,069	8

A LETTER FROM The Earle of Forth to His Excellency Robert Earle of Essex Lord Generall c. dated 15 Feb. 1643. AND His Excellencies Answer thereunto dated 19 Febr. 1643. March 8. 1643. IT is his Excellencies pleasure these Letters be forthwith printed I Baldwin Secretary to His Excellency ALSO A PETITION of the well-affected Nobility and Gentry of the Realm of Ireland who have suffered under the bloody Rebels there and presented to the Lords Justices to be presented to His Majesty which was done accordingly and the Agents accepted to come to His Majesty Printed according to Order march 13th LONDON Printed for J. C. and T.G. 1643. My Lord I Cannot so willingly write to you in any businesse as in that of Peace The endeavour thereof being the principall duty of those who are trusted in places of our Commands especially when the blood that is spilt is of persons under the same Allegiance of the same Countrey and Religion His Majesty continuing constant in His pious and frequent desires of a happy end to those bloody distractions I doe hereby desire your Lordship to send me a safe Conduct to and from Westminster for Mr. Richard Fanshaw and Mr. Thomas Ofly Esquires to be sent by His Majesty concerning a Treaty for Peace I rest Your Lordships humble servant FORTH Oxford Feb. 15. 1643. My Lord YOu shew your Noblenesse in declaring your willingnesse to write to me in any businesse as of that of Peace and I joyn with you in the same opinion that it ought to be a principall duty of those who are trusted in a place of our command And therefore whensoever I shall receive any directions to those who have entrusted me I shall use my best endeavours and when you shall send for a safe Conduct for those Gentlemen mentioned in your Letter from His Majesty to the Houses of Parliament J shall with all chearefulnesse shew my willingnesse to further any way that may produce that happinesse that all honest men pray for which is a true understanding between His Majesty and His faithfull and onely Councell the Parliament Your Lordships humble servant ESSEX Feb. 19. 1643. TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Majestie The humble Petition of divers of Your Majesties Protestant Subjects of Your Kingdome of Ireland as well Commanders of Your Majesties Army as others whose names are subscribed in the behalfe of themselves and others your Protestant-Subjects in this your Kingdome Sheweth THat this your Kingdome reduced with a vast expence of Treasure and much effusion of Brittish blood to the obedience of the Imperiall Crowne of England hath beene by the Princely care of Your Royall Progenitors especially of Queene Elizabeth and of Your Royall Father of ever blessed memory and Your sacred Majesty in many parts happily planted great sums of Money disbursed in buildings and improvements Churches edified and endowed and frequented with multitudes of good Protestants and your Customs and Revenues raised to great yeerly summes by the industry of the Protestant Subjects especially and great yeerly summes by way of Subsidies and Contributions cheerfully paid unto Your Majestie by Your said Subjects in which happinesse this Your said Kingdom hath flourished in a long continued Peace and under Your Highnesse most glorious and happy government untill that by the present Conspiracy and Rebellion raised out of detestation of Your blessed government and for rooting out of the Protestant Religion and so for the dispossessing of Your Majesty of this Your said Kingdome without the least occasion offered by Your Majesty or Your Protestant Subjects And notwithstanding that Your Majestie immediately before had inla●ged beyond president Your Royall favour and bounty to them in g●anting all that their and our joynt Agents did desi●e of Your Majestie And we continuing amongst them in all love and amitie wi●hout distrust Your Petitioners and others who laboured to oppose those damnable designes and practices have beene driven from their Dwellings Estates and Fortunes their Houses and Churches burnt and demolished all Monuments of civility defaced utterly Your Majesties Forts and places of strength throwne downe and the Common and S●atute Lawes of this Your Kingdome utterly confounded by taking upon themselves the exercise of all manner of Authority and Jurisdiction Ecclesi●sticall and Civill both by Land and Sea proper and peculiar to Your sacred Majestie being Your just Prerogatives and the royall Flowers of Your Imperiall D●adem to the disherison of Your Crowne and Revenues brought to nothing and the Protestant Clergy wi●h their Revenues and Support for the present destroyed This Your Kingdome in all parts formerly inhabited in all parts by Brittish Protestants now depopulated of them and many thousands of Your Protestant Subjects most barbarously used stripped naked tortured famished hanged buried alive drowned and otherwise by all barbarous cruell sorts of death murdered Such as yet remaine of them are reduced to that extremity that very few of them have wherewith all to maintaine a being and all of them so terrified and afflicted with these barbarous and inhumane cruelties the true reports whereof being now spread abroad into the Christian world Your Suppliants conceive feare that Your Majesties Brittish Subjects will be discouraged from comming againe to inhabit this Kingdome and the remnant of the Brittish left here will be inforced to depart All this being done by the Conspiracy of the Papists who did publikely declare the utter extirpation of the Protestant Religion and all the Brittish Professors thereof out of this Your Majesties Kingdome And to the end it may the better appeare in some measure Your Suppliants have made choice of Captaine William Ridgeway Sir Francis Hambleton Knight and Baronet Captaine Michael Iones and Master Fenton Parsons whom they have imployed and authorized as their Agents to manifest the truth thereof in such particulars as for the present they are furnished withall referring the more ample manifestation to Cap. Wil. Ridgeway Fr. Hambleton Michael Iones and Fenton Parsons or any 3 or more of them or any such other agents as shall with all convenient speed be sent as occasion shall require to attend Your Majesty from Your Protestant Subjects of the severall Provinces of this Your Kindome Wee therefore Your Majesties most humble loyall and obedient Protestant Subjects casting downe our selves at Your Royall feete and flying to You for redresse and Sutors in these our great calamities as our most gratious Soveraigne Lord and King And next and immediate under Almighty God our Protector and Defence most humbly beseeching Your Sacred Majesty to admit into Your Royall Presence from time to time our sayd Agents And in Your great Wisdome to take into Your great care and consideration the distressed estates and humble desires of your said subjects so that the glory of God Your Majesties Honour and the happinesse of Your Subjects the Protestant Religion may be restored throughout the whole Kingdome to its Iustre That the losses of Your Protestant Subjects may be repaired in such manner and measure as Your Majesty in Your Princely Wisdome shall thinke fit And that this Kingdom may be so setled as that your said Protestant Subjects may hereafter live therein under the happy government of Your Majesty and Your Royall posterity with comtort and security whereby Your Majesty will render Your selfe throughout the whole World a most just and glorious defender of the Protestant Religion and draw downe a blessing on all other Your Royall undertakings for which Your Petitioners will ever pray c. GEorge Kildare Montgomery Henry Blaney Mr. Ridgeway Ja. Montgomery Cha. Coote Fra. Hamilton Ar. Forbish Ro. Hannah Ro. Stuart William Cooley Ar. Blundell Fra. Shurley Ja. Dumbettr Edw. Peuey Tho. Merideth Ar. Loftus Wil. Vsher Fra. Slingsby Fra. Willougby Ion Morris Geo. Munke Rob. Sterling Hen. Iones Io. Pygot Rob. Baliffe Ed. Philpot. Anth. Trime Wil. Parsons Ioh. Edgworth Wil. Bodoley Fran. Moore Io. Nueman Fra. Bowes Will. Plankot Jo. Turner Io. Cliffe Pet. Wyburne Theod. Sceut Brya Stapleton David Dunbar Tho. Hill Geo. Launder Ed. Montgomery Hen. Tilliard Io. Colvell Will. Iohnson Geo. Montgomery Io. Reevonin Art Hambleton Will. Gibbs Bob. Whitfeeld Ioh. Camphell Ios Wheeler Io. Wheeler Will. Alfrey Dudley Loftus Nich. Simson Rog. Alinson Will. Pigat Ant. Doping Ratcl Duckenfeeld Will. Lucasse Tho. Leigh Dan. Foster Io. Sterling Ad. Merideth Rob. Sandersor Tho. Coote Geo. Bently Tho. Lallis Will. VVhite Ed. Pygot Ioh. Dernelle VVill. Knight VVill. Palmes Ed. Springe Ro. Percivall Io. Cranford Tho. Aglmen VVill. Aubrey Io. Iohnson Io. Doyley Ios Allen. Rob. Cole Ioh. Kenedey Nich. Pinner Cooley Phillips Rob. Stuart Ioh. Hoy. Tho. VVhite Paul Canning Sam. Mullenex Io. Lyght And. Brewarton VVill. Hamilton Hen. Kenney Io. Billingham VVill Humphrey Hug. Gerney Io. Clark Io. Feeld Ed. Fisher Io. Shenning Iohnthor Holt. Io. Combloody Tho. Lawton And. Crimlle Nath. Higinson Io. VValker Re. Holland VVal. Fraser Geor. Os●aston Tho. Manley Fra. Barbar VVill. Bodington And. Young Ed. Barton VVill. Richardson Io. Penrose Rob. Mason VVill. Medops Mat. Sloghson Iohn Roe VVill. Steward Adam Iones VVill. Teddey Rob. Bowyer Arno. Cosby VVill. Sands Nat. Hollington Adam VVatson Io. VVoods Mat. Forester Arnold Boate. Io. Parsons VVill. Gilbert Rob. Iones Francis King FINIS