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C R  BY THE general ASSEMBLY OF THE CONFEDERATE Catholics OF IRELAND.  
WHereas several Declarations and Protestations are said to have been unlegally and unduly by secret, soul and sinister practices, and under-hand-working, lately obtained from some particular persons within the Quarters and jurisdiction of the Confederate Catholics, touching the conditions upon which the now peace is to be concluded, or war continued within this kingdom, by the said general Assembly which may tend to the prejudice of our Religion, government and unity; And whereas such course of proceeding is contrary to the fundamental laws of this realm, which we are bound to observe, by the Oath of Association; And whereas such illegal Protestations and Declarations, are destructive to all good government, and the present union of the said Catholics, and punished in all well governed States and Commonwealths from whom we should take example, and is a prejudicating of the Honourble, Pious and Religious intentions and proceedings of the said Assembly, whose Decrees and Orders by the said Oath of Association, all and every of the said Confederate Catholics, and their party, are obliged to obey and perform; And whereas the said Declarations, and Protestation (if gained) were obtained upon untrue and false surmises from persons ignorant of the reasons 〈…〉 s olutions, which (if rightly understood) would satisfy any pious Catholic, in point of Conscience, and any reasonable and well minded man whatsoever, in point of loyaltic and safety, we therefore taking the premises into our serious Consideration and observing the dangerous consequence that might thereof ensue, as well to the breach of our union as to the total ruin and destruction of this kingdom, do Order and Declare, that all, and every the said protestations heretofore made (if any such were) were obtained surreptitiously, and upon false grounds and pretences, and do tend to mutiny, sedition and breach of our union, and therefore are to be suppressed as Slanderous and Calumnious libels, & that the publishing hereafter of any the said Protestations or Declarations already made, shall be High Treason, in the offenders, and that the making contriving subscibing of hands, or labouring to obtain hands to such Protestations of Declarations, or to any other such Declarations, Protestations, oaths of Covenants or Combination hereafter to be made or published to the prejudicating or prejudice, of or contrary to the sense of the Assembly in matters of Peace or war, shall be High Treason in the Makers, Contrivers, Abetters, Favourers Procurers to subscribe, and Subscribers, to such Declarations, Protestations, oaths of Covenants, or Combination; And all such Offenders, that hereafter shall offend in that kind, are hereby declared incapable of any place of preferment or advancement in the Commonwealth that lies in the gift or nomination of the public, and shall be taken and reputed infamous, and common disturbers of the public Peace and Tranquillitic of this kingdom, and are accordingly to be proceeded against, And we lastly Order that this Order shall be withal convenient speed Printed and Published upon market days, between the hours of ten and two of the clock in the afternoon in the Market place of each Corporation, and Market town in this kingdom. Given at Kilkenny the fourth day of July. Anno Domini, 1645.  
N. PLUNKET.   

Printed at Waterford, in the year of our Lord God, 1645 and reprinted at Kilkenny in the year, 1646.