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HONI SOIT x MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  BY THE general assembly OF THE CONFEDERATE CATHOLIQVES OF IRELAND 
WHereas colonel Owen O neil, coming into this kingdom, under pretence of serving his majesty, and his faithful subjects the Confederate Catholics, hath been by the Supreme council in Anno one thousand six hundred forty and two, advanced unto the places of general and Governor of the Province of Ulster, and upon receiving of his patent of those employments of great honour, trust & command, solemnly took the Oath of Association usually taken by the Confederate Catholics. And also an Oath to discharge those places with that sincerity to the public, and obedience to the Government, as became a person so highly entrusted. Nevertheless the said Owen O neil, in breach of the said trust, having proposed unto himself by the force of the Army under his command, to destroy the present, and to introduce a new and tyrannical Government over the Lives, Estates and Liberties of his majesty's faithful subjects, and to alienate them from their loyalty to the crown of England, hath without warrant or authority contrary to the laws of the Land, and the establishments of all assemblies of the Confederate Catholics made and appointed commanders in chief, several Lieutenant generals, colonels, and other inferior commanders throughout the kingdom, to raise Horse and foot; gathered and assembled together, all such as he thought inclined to his ways of destruction, to whom for their better encouragement he gave them liberty of plunder, and pillage, who did accordingly, actually pillage, plunder, and rob his majesty's subjects in the Provinces of Leinster, monster, and Connaght, and possessed himself and his party, of their Castles and Holts as by woeful experience these five years past, the inhabitants of the said Provinces have found.  
And in pursuance of his wicked, and traitorous designs, and to the end to bring the same to a full period, being thereunto encouraged through the want of due and timely punishment for his past offences and high misdemeanours, hath this present year shaked off, all manner of obedience to the Government established among the Confederate Catholics; joined with colonel Jones, a Parliamentary, and adverse to his majesty, and the said Confederate Catholics; And in an hostile and rebellious manner marched with his said Army, killing, burning, pillaging, plundering & destroying his majesty's faithful subjects, besieged and took by force of arms divers of his majesty's Castles, Forts, and strong holts, committed and perpetrated all other Acts of hostility and treason. And notwithstanding that all ways, and means possible tending to the safety and quiet of the kingdom, have been used by the Supreme council entrusted with the government for the reducing and reclaiming of the said Owen O neil, and his complices from those his wicked, malicious, and traitorous Acts. Yet so far was he fixed upon those his resolutions, as he would not admit any address to be made unto him, as by burning of the counsels letters sent to him and others the said Commanders of his Army, and menaces to hang the messenger if he had come with any more messages to that purpose, and other proofs appeareth, much less give care or agree to any manner of accommodation, other than such as must of necessity prove destructive to Religion, King, and country, as by an exact account given to this Assembly by the Supreme council of their proceedings, and by the several other proofs & testimonies, otherwise known to this Assembly plainly and manifestly appeareth. Wherefore it is this day ordered, Decreed adjudged & established by the said Assembly, that the said Owen O neil is hereby, and shall be from henceforth declared a traitor, and rebel, against our sovereign Lord the King, the fundamental laws of the Land, and a common disturber of the peace, tranquillity, and quiet of this kingdom, and a manifest opposer of the established Government of the Confederate Catholics, contrary to his said oath. And the said Assembly doth hereby strictly charge and command, all generals and Governors of Provinces, magistrates, High-Sheriffs, Governors of Garrisons or Forts, Holts, and Castles Commanders, and all other officers civil and martial, and all other his majesty's faithful subjects as well within liberties, and Corporat towns, as without under the command of the Confederate Catholics, to proceed against and destroy the said Owen O neil, as an Enemy, and traitor, on pain of being proceeded with themselves in case of their wilful neglect herein as culpable of the said Treasons & capital offences aforesaid.  
Given ●t Kilkenny, the thirtieth day of September, Anno Domini one thousand six hundred forty and eight and in the four ●●d twentieth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord CHARLES, by the grace of GOD, King of Eng●●●●, Ireland 〈…〉 and Scotland, &c. 
 GOD SAVE THE KING