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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37364	The declaration of the army in Ireland declaring their resolutions for a free Parliament, and the re-admitting of all the members secluded in 1648 : and for the establishing of a learned and orthodox ministry, and their just maintenance by tithes, and for the removing of all needless impositions and taxes, &c. : together with a letter concerning the present transactions there, directed to a friend in London : dated from Dublin February 18, 1659.	England and Wales. Army.	1660 (1660)	Wing D634; ESTC R8463	6,817	10

THE DECLARATION OF THE ARMY IN IRELAND Declaring their Resolutions for a Free Parliament and the Re-admitting of all the Members secluded in 1648. and for the establishing of a Learned and Orthodox Ministry and their just Maintenance by Tithes and for the removing of all needless Impositions and Taxes c. Together with A Letter concerning the present Transactions there directed to a Friend in London Dated from Dublin February 18. 1659. Entred in Stationers Hall according to order Printed at Dublin and now re-printed at London by S. Griffin for John Playford at his shop in the Temple near the Ch 〈…〉 〈…〉 9. A LETTER from DUBLIN To a Friend in LONDON Worthy Sir NOtwithstanding I have wrote to you by this very Post inclosed to my friend yet since its delivery into the Post-house there having happened sudden and unexpected Changes which has not only retarded the usual pass of the Post but much amused the people in this Nation But as it has its original in Ireland yet doth it chiefly concern England It being intentionally to assert the privileges of the Nations in indeavouring to remove us out of that servitude in which we have been for some years detained under but Sir not to keep you in suspence know that these persons here remonstrating were opposed by Sir Har. Waller with some other few Commanders who with two Companies of Foot secured Dublin Castle which was this day delivered into the hands of the Remonstrators as Sir Cha Coote Sir Theo. Jones and the rest I having inclosed the Declaration Sir shall not need to give you any other further account but that I am Your Servant W. G. Dublin Februory 18. 1659 The Declaration of the Army in Ireland Dated from Dublin Feb. 16. 1659. SInce the Authority of Parliament became openly violated and that by their own waged servants of the Army in England by whom 41. of the Members of Parliam were torn from the Parliament House in Decem. 1648. and imprisoned and 160. other Members denied entrance into the House and about 50. more voluntarily withdrew themselves to avoid violence making in all of excluded Members about 250. when the remaining Members charged the Army with the guilt of that force and sent to the then General of the Army for restitution of those excluded Members which was denied them how many and manifold have been the Miseries and Calamities under which these Nations have laboured and do still labour is evident to all equall minded men The godly Ministers of the Gospel despised the Ministry it self vilified Tythes and other means of their maintenance particularly in Ireland taken from them and misapplied The Protestant Religion shaken and almost overturned Anabaptists Quakers and other Sectaries set up and countenanced Heresies and Schisms encreased The Fundamental Laws of the Land trampled upon and an Arbitrary Government endeavoured to be introduced The Civil Rights Properties and Liberties of the people in their persons and Estates broken in pieces Impositions and Taxes on the people without example laid and increased in an excessive manner and measure whereby thousands of Families have been ruined and enforced to beg their bread Manufacture at home discouraged Publick Trade and Commerce abroad interrupted The Nations become deeply indebted and generally impoverished the Reformed Protestant Churches abraad exposed to great danger wanting the wonted support of England which under God was the Bulwork and chief strength of the Protestant Religion throughout all Christendome and finally the English Nation which was alwaies deservedly in so high honour and estimation at home and abroad as it was a bridle and terrour to their Enemies and a countenance and support to their Friends and Allies is now become we tremble and grieve to have so just cause to speak it a scorn and derision to all Nations round about us all this brought to pass to satisfie the Avarice Ambition Lusts and Fears of a few inconsiderable persons of Anabaptistical and other Fanatick Spirits who have made it their business to occasion stil one trouble on the neck of another so to embroyl and continue the Nations in Division War and bloody Confusions that sober men might not have time or leisure with maturity of judgement or Council to look ino the inwards of their designs or actings And after we had beheld all this with bleeding hearts and calling to mind that when in December 1648 the said force was put upon the Parliament the then remaining Members sent sundry times to the Generall to know why he imprisoned their Members and desired him to set them at liberty which was not done and we gathering from all this that if the House were once freed from the force of an Army they again restored to Freedom and Liberty of sitting acting they would then upon the former grounds in conscience of their duties to God and their Country in testimony of their resentment of that breach of priviledges of the Parliament have taken into the House those excluded Members and filled vacant places by due and orderly elections of the people and after so many years unhappy interruption unite again in a Full and Free Parliament and there assert the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and Libertyes of the people which from the very beginning of the War of England have been not the least ground of their contest with the late King and ever since and joyn their councils and endeavours for restoring these Nations to Peace and Tranquillity And thence it was that on the 14 day of December 1659 several Officers of the army here on behalf of themselves and those under their commands by their joynt Declaration declared and published their stedfast resolutions to adhere to the Parliament in the defence of its Priviledges and the just Rights and Liberties of the people of these Nations as Men and Christians In which Declaration afterwards concurred the whole Army of Ireland but now finding much contrary to our expectations that when the Members of Parliament now assembled at Westminster were in December 1659. by an extraordinary providence restored to their Freedom and Liberty of sitting and acting as in Parliament and that divers of those formerly excluded Members of Parliamnet on the 27. of December 1659. as they had formerly done in May 1659. offered themselves to discharge their Trusts for the severall Counties and places for which they were elected and formerly served those their fellow Members assembled at Westminster did not onely deny them admittance but also voted and ordered the utter exclusion of all the excluded Members with this further addition That none of them should be chosen in future Elections to sit in Parliament whereby they have by a more unnatural violence taken away from above the one half of the people of England their Representatives in Parliament and limited and abridged in a high degree the Liberty Freedom of the people in future Elections which denial and order of theirs in a time when they were under no

force is so much the more strange in regard that in December 1648. when they were under a force they transferred that guilt from themselves to the Army and pretended a willingness to readmit those Members if it were in their power as as is formerly mentioned And whereas Lt. Gen. Ludlow had placed in Ireland several Officers who are Anabaptists and persons of the like fanatique spirits many of whom had been very active in the late conspiracies and actings of the factious part of the Army in England even against those members of Parliament now sitting at Westminster of which Officers so placed by Lt. Gen. Ludlow it was found necessary to purge the Army and to put in their places persons more soberly minded and well affected to the Parliament yet after all that done and after Lt. Gen. Ludlow stood justly and deservedly charged wish High-Treason the said Lt. Gen Ludlow himself and some others of the like principles with him were by a report from the Council of State proposed to be appointed to govern not only the Army but also the whole Nation of Ireland to the astonishment of the people and Army here to the unsetling of those persons so well deserving to the hazard of the peace of the Nation Army and which is above all to the endangering even of Religion it self And here it is observable that those Members now sitting at Westminster by their Declaration of Ian. 23. 1659. since their restitution to their pre●ent liberty of sitting have published that extravagant Councils actions have engaged the Nations in a great debt and charge which it seems necessitates their laying a new increase of charge on the Nations and yet so indulgent they are to those persons that in a high degree created that necessity of so unreasonably charging the people and whose Estates might well bear a great part of that burden as without so much as any suit made to them by those Delinquents they granted them indempnity for their persons and Estates whereby it seems the said Members now sitting at Westminster hold it fit that those who are of sober spirits and offended not the Parliament should out of their Estates pay for those extravagant mens Delinquencie rather then the Delinquents themselves And although the said Lt. Gen. Ludlow and Miles Corbet Esq together with Col. I. Iones and Col. Mat. Thomlinson stand impeached from hence most justly of high-Treason and that charge against them being known to the House and there remaining yet they have admitted two of those persons namely the said Lt. Gen. Ludlow and Miles Corbet actually to sit in the said House And now the greatness of those miseries which have befallen these three Nations in general by such late actings in England and those heightned with many aggravations in the circumstances of them too many and too long to be repeated as it hath begotten in us and in all good men in the three Nations deep impression of astonishment and horror so it is evident that if it be any longer continued it will perpetually nourish dis-honour to God greif to all good men and we doubt and fear utter infamy and destruction to the three Nations In contemplation whereof and considering how God hath in his justice blasted all attempts that since the year 1648. have been made for resetling of these Nations in peace and tranquility and that after all the tryals and various changes of Government which we have in all that time with much long suffering and patience endured there is no way visible to us undrer Heaven whence deliverance may probably be wrought or expected but from the care and wisdom of a Free and full Parliament in England which by the experience of all former ages hath been found the best and only expedient for providing remedies to be applyed to so great and General mischiefs arising in Church or State And considering also that the marks of the true reformed Religion according to the word of God and of the fundamental Laws of the Land and of our now dying Liberties and Freedom are not yet so utterly razed and defaced but that some footsteps do yet remain so as by the wisdom of a full and Free Parliament they may be again renewed and firmly re-established and considering likewise that our hopes of having the said excluded Members restored and of new elections to be made for vacant places whereby there might be a full and Free Parliament as there was on the fifth day of December 1648 and the ancient and long contested-for Liberties of the people might be asserted are much contrary to our expectations and contrary to the fundamental Laws of the Land and indeed contrary to all justice and reason become frustrated and considering further how unjust and unreasonable a thing it is that of above 500. Members whereof the Commons House of Parliament usually consisted there were but 44 or thereabouts when that fatal vote passed for the keeping out the aforesaid excluded Members by the prevalency of a major part of the said 44 persons not much exceeding those who voted then on the contrary side which assumes to it self the Supream Authority not only of England but also of the three Nations without Precedent or example of any former age here being above 250 which stand eleven years excluded without so much as the least offer of an impeachment against them in all that time which unexampled and unparallel'd assumption in those men is not possible to continue but by the force of an Army poisoned with Anabaptistical and corrupted principles to the continual grief and unsupportable burden and charge of the three Nations And besides that act of the aforesaid persons chasing away for so it now appears about 250. Members of above 500 chosen by all the several parts of England according to the known Laws of the Land to represent the whole Nation in Parliament and after the forcible exclusion of so many that the 44 persons remaining amongst whom we believe there are some worthy Patriots who are not so fully concurring in the acting of the rest of their number as violently overvoted by them which is a further aggravation of the others guilt should dare to usurp to themselves as is formerly mentioned contrary to all Laws the supream power not only of England but also of Ireland and Scotland is a thing which none but conquerers or Tyrants would attempt and in all circumstances is so hideous and monstrous to be endured by a free people formerly famous to all the world for wisdom and valour as the English Nation have been as it will be incredible to all posterity And lastly considering that as in all ages and more particularly since the beginning of the late horrid Rebellion in Ireland our brethren in England have abundantly manifested a tender and compassionate sence of the condition of Ireland and were careful to relieve us in our lowest estate as bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh which we do and shall