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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80787	Irelands ingratitude to the Parliament of England. Or, A remonstrance of Colonell Crawfords, shewing the Jeuiticall [sic] plots against the Parliament, which was the onely cause he left his imployment there. Die Sabbathi, Feb. 3. 1643. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that Colonell Crawfords remonstrance be printed and published. H. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com.	Crawford, Lawrence, 1611-1645.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1644 (1644)	Wing C6864; Thomason E33_28; ESTC R22835	4,959	15

IRELANDS INGRATITUDE TO THE Parliament of England OR A REMONSTRANCE of Colonell CRAWFORDS shewing the Jeuiticall plots against the Parliament which was the onely cause he left his imployment there Die Sabbathi Feb. 3. 1643. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that Colonell Crawfords Remonstrance be printed and published H. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com. LONDON Printed by E. Griffin 1643. Colonell Crawford HIS REMONSTRANCE DECLARING Why he deserted his imployment in IRELAND I Should not have thought my private sufferings so much worthy of publique consideration as to engage the Presse to a mention of them if I had not looked upon them as involved not onely in the publique sufferings of calamitous Ireland but in the more publique endangerment of Religion Lawes and Liberties of the three Kingdomes and besides that that the most honourable Houses of Parliament the best and highest Judges of such concernes had not authorized me to right my selfe in this kinde This authority therefore which I truly honour shall as much vindicate me from vaine-glory or ambition in making this relation as the truth of this relation shall cleare me from any aspersions which are or shall be cast upon me by mine and their enemies To use therefore no long preambles the briefe of my sufferings when I was forced to make an escape from Ireland were these besides the losse of my command and fortunes there being robbed as shall afterward appeare of all my Money Cloathes Horses and whatsoever I possessed and so extreame an hazzard of my life I have beene unjustly traduced by the Marquesse Ormond and the rest of that Councell as a deserter of that imployment which I had undertaken and a forsaker of His Majesties service To these unjust aspersions I shall plainely answer by setting downe not onely the reasons why I came away but the manner of it Which I had sooner done if since I arrived in my native Kingdome of Scotland I had not been hindred by crosse windes from making my repaire to this honourable Parliament not onely to justifie here my former actions but tender my future service in that cause to which I have been ever most heartily devoted in which I have already spent some of my blood and will never be sparing to venture the remainder of it When first I undertooke the service against those barbarous and bloody rebels of Ireland authorised by Commission from His Majesty and the honourable Houses of Parliament as it was my earnest desire so it was my confident hope to have given an account more acceptable to them then either my selfe or any other joyned with me in that undertaking can promise at this time Nor were my most hearty endeavours ever wanting as God and my owne conscience beare me record and all true Protestants who have beene witnesses of my actions will beleeve For shortly after my engagements in that service I found in those who had the greatest command such backwardnes from all counsels tending to the advancement of the great Cause in hand such complying with the barbarous Rebels such subtill waies to retard the zealous endeavours of all who studied to be faithfull and frowning upon them that were most forward in action that I found no lesse difficulty to acquit my selfe against the treacherous policy of seeming friends then to withstand the power of professed enemies Yet against both I ever confirmed my resolution so farre upon the just and Honourable Cause that I am perswaded no man can convince me of yeelding either to the one or other in any jot to the prejudice of the service Neither should any discontents have diverted me from my imployment nor the ruine of my fortunes nor the hard and cruell usage of my friends have beene able to draw me from that station wherein His Majesty and the honourable Houses of Parliament had placed me if I had not evidently found that I could stay no longer there without either making shipwracke of a good conscience and taking courses destructive to the intentions of the Parliament or else to suffer imprisonment and so be made unprofitable to that Cause to which I was addicted Upon these reasons I resolved with what perill soever to endeavour an escape from thence that so I might be able in another place to doe better service to the true Cause then I could possibly have performed there And it pleased Almighty God though with the losse of all my fortunes as aforesaid and danger of my life from pursuing enemies to bring me safely hither The reasons which necessitated my comming away are these First I saw by sad experience the Marquesse Ormonds designe in concluding a Cessation with the bloody Rebels of Ireland which seemed to me a second plot agreeing to the former which in October 1641. was put into act by those mercilesse Rebels to deliver the remainder of His Majesties true Subjects into their hands and so to root out the Protestant Religion and destroy both English and Scots from that Kingdome Secondly he would have forced me to goe for England with my Regiment in a most unjust warre against the Parliament there who have sustained me and my Regiment since the beginning of that Irish Rebellion And most illegally he sent two Companies of my Regiment under the command of another into England without my knowledge which is without precedent or discipline Thirdly the said Marquesse formed a most unjust and illegall Oath and imposed it upon every Officer and Souldier to take as appeares by that Oath here annexed I Resting fully assured of his Majesties most Princely truth and goodnesse doe freely and from my heart promise vow and protest in the presence of Almighty God that I will to the utmost of my power and with the hazzard of my life maintaine and defend the true Protestant Religion established in the Church of England His Majesties sacred Person His Heires and lawfull Successours and His Majesties just powers and Prerogatives against the Forces now under the conduct of the Earle of Essex and against all other Forces whatsoever that are or shall be raised contrary to His Majesties commands and Authority And I will doe my best endeavour to procure and re-establish the peace and quietnesse of the Kingdome of England And I will neither directly nor indirectly divulge or communicate any thing to the said E. of Essex his Officers or any other to hinder or prejudice the designes of his Majesty in the conduct or imployment of his Army By the Lieutenant-Generall of his Majesties Army WHereas his Majestie hath beene pleased to command the present transportation of a part of his Army here into England I doe thinke fit and hereby order that every Officer and Souldier to be transported hence do take the Oath above written before they depart this Harbour Given at his Majesties Castle of Dubin the 13. of October 1643. Ormond To which he pressed me extreamly telling me that if I would not take it he would cashiere and imprison me Upon this I feared