A REMONSTRANCE OF GRIEVANCES PRESENted to his most Excellent majesty, in ●he behalf of the catholics of IRELAND.  

●●NI SOIT ●V● MAL ● P●N●●  
dieu ET MON DROIT   
Printed at Waterford by Thomas Bourke, Printe● to the Confederate catholics of Ireland. Anno Dom. 1643.   

THis remonstrance was delivered, by the Lord Viscount Gormonstowne, Sir Lucas Dillon Knight, Sir Robert Talbot Barronnet, & John Walsh Esquire, thereunto authorized, by the Confederate catholics of Ireland, to his Majesties Commissioners, at the town of Trim, in the County of Meath, on the 17. of March 1642▪ to be presented to his most Excellent majesty.   

TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT majesty.  
MOst gracious sovereign, Wee your Majesties most dutiful, & loyal subjects, the catholics of your Highnesse kingdom of Ireland, being necessitated to take arms for the preservation of our Religion, the maintenance of your Majesties rights, & prero●atives, the natural & just defence of our lives & estates, & the liberties of our country; have often ●ince the beginning of these troubles attempted ●o present our humble complaint unto your Royal ●iew, but were frustrated of our hopes therein, by ●he power and vigilancy of our adversaries( the now Lords justices & other ministers of State in this kingdom) who by the assistance of the malignant party in England now in arms against your royal person, with less difficulty to attain the bad ends they proposed to themselves of ex●irpating our Religion & Nation, hitherto debarred us of any access to your Majesties justice, which occasioned the effusion of much innocent blood & other mischiefs in this your kingdom, that otherwise might well be prevented. And whereas of late notice was sent unto us of a Commission granted by your Majesty to the right honourable the Lord Marques of Ormond and others authorizing them, to hear what we shall say, or propound, & the same to transmit unto your Majesty in writing, which your Majest●es gracious an● princely favour, we find to be accompanied with these words; viz.( albeit we do extremely detest the odious rebellion which the recusants of Ireland have without ground o● colour raised against us our crown and dignity) which words, wee do in all humility conceive to have proceeded from the misrepresentations of our adversaries; and therfore do protest, we have been, therein maliciously traduced to your majesty, having never entertained any rebellious thought against your majesty, your crown, or dignity, but always have been and ever will continue your Majesties most faithful and loyal subjects, and do most humbly beseech your Majesty so to own, & avow us, and as such wee present unto your Majesty these ensuing grievances, and causes of the present distempers.  
1 In primis, the catholics of this kingdom whom no reward could invite, no persecution enforce to forsake that Religion professed by them, and their ancestors for thirteen hundred yeares or there abouts, are since the second year of the reign of Queen Eliz made incapable of places of honor, or trust in Church or Common-wealth, their Nobles become contemptible their Gentry debarred from learning in universities, or public schools within this kingdom, their younger brothers put by all manner of employment in their native country, and necessitated either to live in ignorance and contempt at home, or( to their great discomfort, & impoverishment of the land) to seek education and fortune abroad; misfortunes made incident to the said catholics of Ireland onely( their numbers, quality, and loyalty considered) of all the Nations in christendom.  
2 Secondly, that by this incapacity, which in respect of their Religion was imposed upon the said catholics, men of mean condition & quality for the most part, were in this kingdom employed in places of greatest honor and trust, who, being to begin a fortune built it of the ruins of ●he catholic Natives, at all times lying open to be discountenanced, and wrought upon, and who( because they would seem to be careful of the government) did from time to time, suggest false & malicious matters against them, the said catholics, to render them suspected and odious in England, from which ungrounded informations and their many other ill Offices, these mischiefs have befallen the catholics of Ireland: First the oppositions given to all the graces, and favours that your majesty, or your late royal Father promised or intended to the Natives of this kingdom. Secondly the procuring of false inquisitions upon faygned Titles of their estates against many hundred yeares possession, and no travers, or petition of right admitted thereunto, and jurors denying to find such Offices, were censured even to their public infamy, & ruin of their estates, the finding thereof being against their consciences and clear evidences, and nothing must stand against such Offices taken of great and considerable parts of the kingdom, but Letters-patents under the great seal, And if Letters-patents were produced,( as in most cases they were) none must bee allowed, valid, not yet fought to be legally avoided: So that of late times by the underhand working of Sir William Parsons now one of your Lords Iustices here, and the arbitrary illegal power of the two impeached Iudges in Parliament, and others drawn by their advice and counsel, one hundred and fifty Letters-patents were avoided in one morning, which course continued until all the Patents of the kingdom, to a few were by them, and their associates declared void, such was the care those ministers had of your Majesties great seal, being the public faith of the kingdom, this way of service, in show onely pretended for your Majesty, proved to your diservice, and the immoderate and too timely advancement of the said ministers of state, and their adherents, & too near the utter ruin of the said catholics.  
3 That whereas your Majesties late royal Father King james, having a princely and fatherly care of this kingdom, was graciously pleased, to grant several large and beneficial Commissions under the great seal of England, and several instructions, and Letters under his privy Signet, for the passing and securing of the estates of his subjects here by Letters-patents under the great seal, and Letters-patents accordingly were thereof passed, fines payed, old rents increased, and new rents reserved to the crown, And the said lat● King was further graciously pleased, at several times to sand divers honourable persons of integrity, knowledge and experience, to examine the grievances of this kingdom, and to settle and establi●h a course for redress thereof. And whereas your Majesty was graciously pleased, in the fourth year of your reign, to vouchsafe a favourable hearing to the grievances presented unto you by Agents from this kingdom, and thereupon d●d grant many graces and favours unto your subjects thereof, for security of their estates, and redress●●s, for remove of those heavy pressures under which they have long groaned, which acts of justice, and grace extended to this people; by your Maje●tie and your said royal Father did afford them great content, yet such was, and is yet, the immortal hatred of some of the said ministers of state, and especially of the said Sir Wiliam Parsons, the said impeached iudges and their adherents to any welfare and happiness of this Nation, and their ambition, to make themselves still greater and richer, by the total ruin and extirpation of this people, that under pretence of your Majesties service the public faith involved in those grants was violated, and the grace and goodness intended by two glorious Kings successively to a faithful people, made unprofitable.  
4 The illegal, arbitrary, and unlawful proceedings of the said Sir William Parsons, and of the said impeached Iudges, and their adherents, and instruments in the Court of Wards, and the many wilfully erroneous decrees, and judgements of that Court, by which the heires of catholic Noble-men, and other catholics were most cruelly, and tyrannically dealt withall, destroyed in their estates, and bread in dissolution, and ignorance, their Parents debts unsatisfied, their Sisters and younger brothers left wholly unprovided for, the ancient and appearing tenors of mesne Lords unregarded, estates valid in Law, and made for valuable considerations, avoided against Law, and the whole Land filled up with the frequent swarms of Escheators, Feodaries, pursuivants, and others by authority of that Court.  
5. The said catholics notwithstanding the heavy pressures before mentioned, and other grievances in part represented to your majesty by the late Committees of both houses of Parliament of this kingdom, whereunto they humbly desire that relation he had and redress obtained therein did readily and without reluctation or repining contribute to all the Subsidies, loans, and other extraordinary grants made to your majesty in this kingdom, since the beginning of your reign amounting unto well-near one Million of pounds, over and above your Majesties Revenue, both certain, and casual: And although the said catholics were in Parliament and otherwise the most forward in granting the said sums, and did bear nine parts of ten in the payments thereof, yet such was the power of their adversaries, and the advantage they gained by the opportunity of their continual addresses to your majesty, to increase their reputation in getting in of those moneys, and their authority in the distribution thereof to your Majesties great diservice, that they assumed to themselves to be procurers thereof, and represented the said catholics as obstinate and refractory.  
6 The Army raised for your Majesties service here at the great charge of the kingdom was disbanded, by the pressing importunity of the malignant party in England, not giving way that your Majesty should take advice therein with the Parliament here, alleging the said army was popish, and therefore not to be trusted: And although the world could witness the unwarrantable; and unexempled invasion, made by the malignant party of the Parliament in England, upon your Majesties Honor, rights, prerogatives, and principal flower of your crown, And that the said Sir William Parsons, Sir Adam Loftus knight your Majesties vice-treasurer of this kingdom and other their adherents, did declare that an Army of ten thousand Scots was to arrive in this kingdom to force the said catholics to change their Religion, and that Ireland could never do well without a rebellion, to the end the remain of the Natives thereof, might be extirpated, and wagers were laid at general Asseizes, and public meetings, by some of them, then, and now employed in places of great profit, and trust in this kingdom, that within one year no catholic should be left in Ireland, and that they saw the ancient, and unquestionable privileges of the Parliament of Ireland unjustly, and against Law encroached upon, by the orders, acts and proceedings of both houses of Parliament in England, in sending for, and questioning to, and in, that Parliament the members of the Parliament of this kingdom, sitting the Parliament here, And that by speeches, and orders Printed by authority of both houses in England, it was declared, that Ireland was bound by the Statutes made in England, if name, which is contrary to known truth, and the laws here settled, for four hundred yeares and upwards. And that the said catholics were thoroughly informed, of the protestation made by both houses of Parliament of England against catholics, and of their intentions to introduce laws for the extirpation of catholic religion in the three kingdoms, and that they had certain notice of the cruel and bloody execution of Priests there, onely for being priests, and that your Majesties mercy and power could not prevail with them, to save the life of one condemned Priest, and that the catholics of England being of their own flesh and blood, must suffer or depart the Land, and consequently others not of so near a relation to them, if bound by their Statutes, and within their power. These motives, although very strong, and powerful, to produce apprehensions and fears in the said catholics, did not prevail with them to take defensive arms, much less offensive, they still expecting that your majesty in your high wisdom, might be able in a short time, to apply seasonable cures, and apt remedies unto those evils and innovations.  
7 That the Committees of the Lords and Commons of this kingdom, having attended your Majesty for the space of nine Moneths, your Majesty was graciously pleased( notwithstanding, your then weighty and urgent affairs in England and Scotland) to receive, and very often with great patience to hear their grievances, and many debates thereof at large, during which debates, the said Lords-Iustices, & some of your privy counsel of this kingdom and their adherents, by their malicious and untrue informations conveyed to some ministers of state in England( who since are declared of the malignant party) and by the continual solicitation of others of the said privy counsel gone to England of purpose, to cross & give impediment unto the justice, and grace your Majesty was inclined to afford to your subjects of this realm; did as much as in them lay hinder the obtaining of any redress for the said grievances, and not prevailing therein with your majesty, as they expected, have by their Letters and instruments, laboured with many leading members of the Parliament there, to give stop, and interruption thereunto, and likewise transmitted unto your Majesty, and some of the state of England, sundry, misconstructions, & misrepresentations of the proceedings, and actions of your Parliament of this your kingdom, and thereby endeavoured to possess your Majesty, of an evil opinion thereof, and that the said Parliament had no power of Indicature in capital causes( which is an essential part of Parliament) thereby aiming at the impunity of some of them, and others who were then impeached of high Treason, and at the destruction of this Parliament. But the said Lords-Iustices and privy counsel, observing that no art, or practise of theirs, could be powerful to withdraw your Majesties grace and good intentions from this people, and that the redress granted of some principal grievances was to be passed, as acts in Parliament. The said Lords-Iustices, and their adherents, with the height of malice envying the good union; long before settled, and continued between the members of the house of Commons, and their good correspondency with the Lords, left nothing unattempted, which might raise discord and disunion in the said house, and by some of themselves, and some instruments of theirs in the said Commons house, private meetings of great numbers of the said house were appointed, of purpose, to raise distinction of Nation, and Religion, by means whereof a faction was made there, which tended much to the disquiet of the house, and disturbance of your Majesties, and the public service. And after certain knowledge that the said Committees were by the waterside in England with sundry important, & beneficial bills, and other graces to be passed, as acts in that Parliament of purpose to prevent the same, the said faction by the practise of the said Lords-Iustices and some of the said privy counsel, and their adherents, in tumultuous, and disorderly manner, on the seventh of August 1641. and on several dayes before, cried for an adjournement of the house, and being overvoted by the voices of the more moderate part, the said Lords-Iustices and their adherents told several honourable peers, that if they did not adjourn the Lords house on that day, being Saturday, that they would themselves prorogue, or adjourn the Parliament on the next Monday following, by means whereof, and of great numbers of proxies of Noblemen not estated, nor at any time resident in this kingdom( which is destructive to the liberty and freedom of parliament here) the Lords house was on the said seventh day of August adjourned, and the house of Commons by occasion thereof and of the faction aforesaid, adjourned soon after, by which means those bills, and graces according your Majesties intention, and the great expectation; and the longing desires of your people could not then pass as Acts of parliament. Within a few dayes after this fatal, and enforced adjournement, the said Committees arrived at Dublin, with their di●patch from your Majesty, and presented the sai●●e to the said Lords-Iustices and council, expressing a right sense of the said adjournement, and besought their Lordships for the satisfaction of the people; to require short heads of that part of the dispatch, wherein your Majesty did appear, in the best manner, unto your people, might be suddenly conveyed unto all the partes of the kingdom, attested by the said Lords-Iustices, to prevent despair or misunderstanding, this was promised to be done, and an instrument drawn, and presented unto them for this purpose; and yet( as it seems) desiring rather to add shall to the fire of the subjects discontent, than quench the same, they did forbear to give any notice thereof to the people.  
8 After this certain dangerous, and pernicious petitions contrived by the advice, and counsel of the said Sir William Parsons, i● Adam ●oftus, Sir John Clotworthy knights, Amb●rs Hill esquire, and sundry others of the malignant party, and signed by many thousands of the malignant party in the city of Dublin, in the province of ulster, and in sundry other partes in this kingdom, directed to the Commons house in England, were at public asseizes, and other public places made known and red to many persons of quality in this kingdom, which petitions contained matters destructive, to the said catholics, their Religion, lives and estates, and were the more to be feared by reason of the active power of the said Sir John Clotworthy in the Commons house in England, in opposition to your Majesty, and his barbarous and inhuman expressions in that house against catholic Religion, and the professors thereof. soon after, an order conceived in the Commons house of England, that no man should bow unto the name of IESVS( at the sacred sound whereof all knees should bend) came to the knowledge of the said catholics, and that the said malignant party did contrive, and plot to extinguish their Religion and Nation, hence it did arise that some of the said catholics begun to consider the deplorable and desperate condition they were in, by a Statute-law here found among the Records of this kingdom, of the second year of the reign of the late queen Elizabeth, but never executed in her time, nor discovered till most of the members of that Parliament were dead, no catholic of this kingdom could enjoy his life, estate or liberty, if the said statute were executed, whereunto no impediment remained, but your Majesties prerogative, and power which were endeavoured to be clipped, or taken away as is before rehearsed, then the plot of destruction, by an Army out of Scotland, and another of the malignant party in England must be executed, the fears of those twofold destructions, and their ardent desire to maintain that just prerogative, which might encounter and remove it, did necessitate some catholics in the North about the two and twentieth of October 1641. to take arms, in mantaynance of their Religion, your Majesties rights, and the preservation of life, estate, and liberty, and immediately thereupon, took a solemn Oath, and sent several declarations to the Lords-Iustices and counsel to that effect, and humbly desired they might be heard in Parliament, unto the determination whereof they were ready to submit themselves, and their demands, which declarations being received, were slighted by the said Lords-Iustices, who with the swaying part of the said counsel, and by the advice of the said two impeached Iudges, glad of any occasion to pure off the parliament which by the former adjournment was to meet soon after, caused a Proclamation to be published on the three and twentieth of the said month of October 1641. therein accusing all the catholics of Ireland of disloyalty, and thereby declaring that the Parliament was prorogued, until the six and twentieth of February following, within a few dayes after the said three and twentieth day of October 1641. many Lords and other persons of rank and quality, made their humble address to the Lords-Iustices and counsel, and made it evidently appear unto them, that the said prorogation was against Law, and humbly besought the Parliament might sit, according the former adjournment, which was then the onely expedient to compose or remove the then growing discontents and troubles of the land; And the said Lords-Iustices, and their party of the counsel, then well knowing that the members of both houses throughout the kingdom,( a few in and about Dublin onely excepted) would stay from the meeting of both houses, by reason of the said prorogation, by proclamation two dayes before the time, gave way the Parliament might sit, but so limited that no Act of grace or any thing else for the peoples quiet, or satisfaction might he propounded or passed, and thereupon a few of Lords and Commons appeared in the Parliament house, who in their entrance at the Castle-bridge and gate, and within the yard to the Parliament house-dore, and recess from thence, were environed with a great number of Armed men, with their match lighted, and Muskets presented even to the breasts of the members of both houses, none being admitted to bring one servant to attend him, or any weapon about him, within the Castle-bridge, yet how thyn soever the houses were, or how much over-awed, they both did supplicate the Lords-Iustices and counsel, that they might continue for a time together, and expect the coming of the rest of both houses, to the end they might quiet the troubles in full Parliament, and that some Acts of security granted by your majesty, and transmitted under the great seal of England, might pass to settle the mindes of your Majesties subjects, to these requests, so much conducing to your Majesties service, and the settlement of your people, a flat denial was given, and the said Lords-Iustices and their party of the counsel, by their working with their party in both houses of Parliament being then very thyn as aforesaid, propounded an order should be conceived in Parliament that the said discontented Gentlemen took arms in rebellions manner, which was resented much by the best affencted of both houses, but being awed as aforesaid and credibly informed of some particular persons amongst them, stood in opposition thereunto, that the said musketeers were directed to shoot them at their going out of the Parliament house, through which terror, way was given to that order. Notwithstanding all the before mentioned provocations, pressures, and indignities, the far greater and more considerable party of the catholics, and all the Cities and Corporations of Ireland, and whole provinces stood quiet in their houses, whereupon, the Lords-Iustices and their adherents well knowing that many powerful members of the Parliament of England, stood in opposition to your Majesty, made their principal application, and addressed their dispatches full fraught with calumnies, and false suggestions against the catholics of this kingdom to them, and propounded unto them to sand several great forces to Conquer the kingdom, those of the malignant party here, were by them armed, the catholics were not onely denied arms, but were disarmed, even in the city of Dublin, which in all successions of ages past, continued as loyal to the crown of England, as any city or place whatsoever, all other ancient and usual Cities and Corporate towns of the kingdom by means whereof principally the kingdom was preserved in former times were denied arms for their money to defend themselves: and express order given by the said Lords Iustices, to disarm all catholics in some of the said Cities, and towns, others disfurnished, were inhibited, to provide arms for their defence, and the said Lords-Iustices and counsel having received an order of both houses of Parliament in England, to publish a proclamation of pardon, uto all those who were then in rebellion( as they termed it) in this kingdom, if they did submit, by a day, to be limited. The said Sir William Parsons contrary to this order so wrought with his party of the council, that a Proclamation was published of pardon, onely in two Counties, and a very short day prefixed, and therein all free-holders were excepted: through which every man saw that the estates of catholics were first aimed at, and their lives next: The said Lords-Iustices and their party having advanced their design thus far, and not finding the success answerable to their desires, commanded Sir Charles coat Knight and Barronnet, deceased, to march to the county of Wickloe, where he burnt, killed, and destroyed, all in his way. And in a most cruel manner, man, woman and child, persons, that had no appearing wills to do hurt, nor power to execute it; soon after some foot-companies did march in the night by direction of the said Lords-Iustices, and their said party, to the town of Sawntry in Fingall, three miles of Dublin; a country that neither then, nor for the space of four or five hundred yeares, before did feel, what troubles were, or war meant, but it was too sweet and too near, and therefore fit to be forced to arms; in that town innocent husband-men, some of them being catholics, and some Protestants, taken for catholics, were murdered in their inn, and their heads carried triumphant into Dublin; next morning complaint being made of this, no redress was obtained therein, whereupon some Gentlemen of quality, and others the inhabitants of the country, seeing what was then acted, and what passed in the said last march towards the county of Wickloe, and justly fearing to be all murdered, forsook their houses, and were constrained to stand together in their own defence, though ill provided of arms or ammunition. Hereupon a Proclamation was agreed upon at the Councell-boord on the thirteenth of December 1641. and not published or Printed till the fifteenth of December, by which, the said Gentlemen, and George King by name, were required to come in, by or upon the eighteen of the said month and a safety was therein promised them. On the same day, another Proclamation was published summoning the Lords dwelling in the English-pale, near Dublin, to a grand-Councell on the seventeenth of the said month, but the Lords Iustices, and their party of the counsel to take away all hope of accommodation, gave direction to the said Sir Charles coat, the said fifteenth day of the said month of December to march to Clontarffe being the house, & town of the said George King, and two miles from Dublin, to pillage, burn kill, and destroy all that there was to bee found, which direction was readily and particularly observed( in manifest breach of public faith) by means whereof the meeting of the said Grand-Councell was diverted, the Lords not daring to come within the power of such notorious faith-breakers, the consideration whereof, and of other matters aforesaid, made the Nobility and Gentry of the English-pale, and other parts of the province of Leinster sensible of the present danger, and put themselves in the best posture they could, for their natural defence, and employed Lieutenant colonel read, to present their humble Remonstrance to your Sacred Majesty and to declare unto you the state of their affairs, and humbly to beseech relief and redress therein, the said Lieutenant-Colonell though your Majesties servant and employed in public trust( in which case the Law of Nations affords safety and protection) was without regard to either, not onely stopped from proceeding in his employment, but also tortured on the rack at Dublin.  
10 The Lord-president of Munster by direction of the said Lords-Iustices( that province being quiet) with his complices, burnt, preyed, and put to death Men, Women, and Children, without making any difference of quality, condition, age, or sex in several parts of that province. The catholics, Nobles and Gentlemen there mistrusted and threatened, and others of inferior quality trusted and furnished with arms, and ammunition. The province of Connaght was used in the like measure, whereupon, most of the considerable catholics in both the said provinces were enforced( without arms or ammunition) to look after safety, and to that end to stand on their defence, still expecting your Majesties pleasure, and always ready to obey your commands, Now the plot of the said ministers of state and their adherents, being even ripe, applications were incessantly by them made to the malignant party in England, to deprive this people of all hopes of your Majesties justice or mercy, and to plant a perpetual enmity between the English and Scottish Nation and your subjects of this kingdom.  
11 That whereas, this your Majesties kingdom of Ireland, in all successions of ages, since the reign of King Henry the second, sometimes King of England and Lord of Ireland, had Parliament of their own composed of Lords and Commons in the same manner and form, qualified with equal liberties, powers, privileges, and immunities with the Parliament of England, and onely dependent of the King and crown of England and Ireland, and for all that time no prevalent Record, or authentic president can be found, that any Statute made in England, could or did bind this kingdom before the same were here established by Parliament, yet upon untrue suggestions and informations given of your subjects of Ireland, an Act of Parliament entitled an act for the speedy, and effectual reducing of the rebels in his Majesties kingdom of Ireland, to their due obedience to his majesty, and the crown of England, and another Act entitled an act for adding unto and explayning the said former Act, was procured to be enacted in the said Parliament of England, in the 18. year of your Majesties reign, by which Acts, and other proclamations your Majesties subjects unsumoned, unheard, were declared Rebels and two Millions and a half of Acres arable, meadow and profitable pasture within this kingdom were sold to undertakers, for certain sums of money, and the edifices, Loghes, Woods, Bogs, wastes & their appurtenances were thereby mentioned to be granted and past gratis, which Acts the said catholics do conceive to have been forced upon your Majesty, and although void, and unjust in themselves, to all purposes, yet continue matters of evil consequence, and extreme prejudice to your Majesty, and totally destructive to this Nation. The scope seeming to aim at Rebels onely, and at the disposition of a certain quantity of Land, but in effect and substance, all the Lands in the kingdom, by the words of the said Acts may be distributed in whose possession soever they were without respect to age condition or quality, and all your Majesties tenors, and the greatest part of your Majesties standing revenue in this kingdom taken away, and by the said Act if it were of force, all power of pardoning, and of granting those Lands, is taken from your Majesty, a president that no age can instance the like, against this Act the said catholics do protest, as an Act against the fundamental laws of this kingdom, and as an Act destructive to your Majesties right, and prorogatives, by colour whereof most of the forces sent hither to infest this kingdom by Sea and Land disavowed any authority from your Majesty but do depend upon the Parliament of England.  
12 All strangers and such as were not inhabitants of the city of Dublin, being commanded by the said Lords-Iustices, in and since the said month of November 1641. to depart the said city were no sooner departed then they were by the direction of the said Lords-Iustices, pillaged abroad and their goods seized upon; and confiscated in Dublin, and they desiring to return under the protection and safety of the state, before their appearance in any action, were denied the same, and divers other persons of rank & quality by the said Lords-Iustices employed in public service, and others keeping close within their doors without annoying any man, or syding then with any of the said catholics in arms, and others in several parts of the kingdom, living under, and having the protection, and safety of the state, were sooner pillaged; their houses burnt, themselves, their Tenants, and servants killed, and destroyed than any other, by directions from the said Lords-Iustices, and by the like direction, when any commander in chief of the Army promised or gave quarter or protection, the same was in all Cases violated, and many persons of quality, who obtained the same, were ruined before others. Others that came into Dublin, voluntarily, and that could not be justly suspected of any crime, if Irishmen, or catholics, by the like direction were imprisoned in Dublin, robbed and pillaged abroad, and brought to their trial for their lives; The city of Dublin and cork, and the ancient Corporate towns of Drogheda, Yeoghell, and Kinsale. who voluntarily received Garrizons in your Majesties name, and the adjacent countries, who relieved them were worse used and now live in worse condition than the israelites did in egypt: So that it will be made appear, that more murders, breaches of public faith, and quarter, more destruction and desolation more cruelly not fit to be name, were committed in Ireland, by the direction, and advice of the said Lords-Iustices and their party of the said counsel, in less than eighteen Moneths, then can be paralleled to have been done by any Christian people.  
13 The said Lords-Iustices, and their adherents, have against the fundamental laws of the Land, procured the sitting of both houses of Parliament for several Sessions( nine parts of ten of the natural and genuine members thereof, being absent) it standing not with their safety, to come under their power, and made up a considerable number in the house of Commons, of clerks, souldiers, serving men, and others not legally, or not chosen at all, or returned, and having no manner of estate within the kingdom, in which sitting sundry orders were conceived, and dismiss obtained of persons before impeached of Treason in full Parliament, and passed or might have passed some Acts against Law, and to the prejudice of your Majesty, and this whole Nation, and during these troubles, terms were kept, and your Majesties Court of chiefe-place, and other Courts sate at Dublin to no other end or purpose, but by false and illegal judgements, Outlawries, and other capital proceedings, to attaynt many thousands of your Majesties most faithful subjects of this kingdom, they being never summoned, nor having notice of those proceedings, and Sheriffes made of obscure mean persons, by the like practise appointed of purpose, and poor Artificers Common-souldiers, and mecanicall servants returned jurors, to pass upon the lives, and estates of those who came in upon protection and public faith.  
14 Therefore, the said catholics in the behalf of themselves, and of the whole kingdom of Ireland do protest & declare against the said proceedings, in the nature of Parliaments, and in the other Courts aforesaid, & every of them, as being heinous crimes against Law, destructive to the Parliaments, & your Majesties prerogatives, and authority & to the rights, & just liberties of your most faithful subjects.  
Forasmuch dread sovereign as the speedy application of apt remedies unto these grievances, & heavy pressures, will tend to the settlement, & improvement of your Majesties revenue, the prevention of further effusion of blood, the preservation of this kingdom from desolation, & the content and satisfaction of your said subjects, who in manifestation of their duty and zeal to your Majesties service, will be most willing & ready to employ 10000. men, under the conduct of wel-experienced Commanders in defence of your royal rights and prerogatives. They therfore, most humbly beseech your majesty that you will vouchsafe gracious answers to these their humble and just Complaints. And for the establishment of your people in a lasting peace and security, the said catholics, do most humbly pray, that your majesty may be further graciously pleased to call a free Parliament in this kingdom; in such convenient time, as your majesty in your high wisdom shall think fit, and the urgency of the present affairs of the said kingdom doth require; And that the said Parliaments be held in an indifferent place, summoned by, & continued before some person or persons of honour, & fortune, of approved faith to your Majesty & acceptable to your people here, & to be timely placed by your Majesty in this government, which is most necessary for the advancement of your service & present condition of the kingdom, in which Parliament, the said catholics do humbly pray these & other their grievances may be redressed, & that in the said Parliament, a statute made in this kingdom in the 10. year of K. Henry the 7. commonly called poinings Act, & all acts explayning or enlarging the same, be by a p●rticular act suspended, during that Parliament, as it hath been already don, in the 11 year of Q. Eliz. upon occasions of far less moment than now do offer themselves, And that your Majesty with the advice of the said Parliament will be pleased to take a course for the repealing, or further continuance of the said Statutes, as may best conduce to the advancement of your service here, & peace of this your realm, and that no matter whereof Complaint is made in this Remonstrance, may debar catholics, or give interruption to their free Votes, or Sitting in the said Parliament; And as in duty bound they will ever pray for your Majesties long and prosperous reign over them.  
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