The False and Scandalous REMONSTRANCE OF The Inhuman and Bloody Rebels of Ireland, DELIVERED To the Earl of St. Alban and Clanrickard, the Earl of Roscomon, Sir Maurice Eustace Knight, and other His Majesty's Commissioners at Trim, the 17. of March, 1642. to be presented to His Majesty, by the Name of The Remonstrance of Grievances presented to His Majesty in the behalf of the Catholics of IRELAND. Printed at Waterford nine Months after, by Tho: Bourk Printer to the Confederate-Catholicks, and until then concealed from His Majesty's good Protestant Subjects. Together with an ANSWER thereunto, on the behalf of the Protestants of Ireland. Also a true Narration of all the Passages concerning the Petition of the Protestants of IRELAND, presented to His Majesty at Oxford the 18. of April, 1644. With the Reasons inducing the said Protestants to Petition, The Proceed and Successes thereof in Ireland, and afterwards in England, until the Protestant Agents were dismissed by His Majesty, 30. Maii, 1644. (Collected in obedience to the Order and Command of the Honourable House of Commons of England) For the manifestation of the Truth, and Vindication of the Protestants.  
August 27. 1644.  
IT is this day Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning Printing, That the Books, entitled, An Answer presented to His Majesty at Oxford, unto the false and scandalous Remonstrance of the Inhuman and Bloody Rebels of Ireland; Together with A Narration of the proceed at Oxon, be forthwith printed and published:  
JOHN WHITE.  
London, Printed for Edw. Husbands, in the Middle-Temple. 1644.   

A Remonstrance of Grievances Presented to his most Excellent Majesty, in the behalf of the Catholics of IRELAND.  
To the Kings most Excellent Majesty.  
MOst gracious Sovereign, We your Majesty's most dutiful, and loyal subjects, the Catholics of your Highness' kingdom of Ireland, being necessitated to take arms for the preservation of our Religion, the maintenance of your Majesty's rights and prerogatives, the natural and just defence of our lives and estates, and the liberties of our country; have often since the beginning of these troubles attempted to present our humble complaint unto your Royal view, but were frustrated of our hopes therein, by the power and vigilancy of our adversaries (the now Lords-Iustices and 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 extirpating our Religion and Nation, hither to debarred us of any access to your Majesty's justice, which occasioned the effusion of much innocent blood and 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 Marquis of Ormond and others, authorising them to hear what we shall say, or propound, and the same to transmit unto your Majesty in writing, which your Majesty's gracious and 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 or colour raised against us, our Crown and dignity) which words, we do in all humility conceive to have proceeded from the misrepresentations of our adversaries; and therefore 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 Majesty's most faithful and loyal subjects, and do most humbly beseech your Majesty so to own, and avow us, and as such we 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 years or thereabouts, are since the second year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth made incapable of places of honour, or trust in Church or Commonwealth, 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 and impoverishment of the land) to seek education and fortune abroad; misfortunes made incident to the said Catholics of Ireland only (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 honour and trust, who, being to begin a fortune, built it of the Ruins of the 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 falls & malicious matters against them, the said Catholics, to render them suspected & odious in England; from which ungrounded informations & their many other ill Offices, these mischiefs have befallen the Catholics of Ireland: First the oppositions given to all the graces, and favours of your Majesty, or your late Royal Father promised or intended to the Natives of this Kingdom. Secondly, the procuring of false inquisitions upon feigned Titles of their estates against many hundred year's possession, and no travers or petition of Right admitted thereunto, and jurors denying to find such Offices, were censured even to their public infamy, and 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 be allowed, valid, nor yet sought 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 judges 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 Majesty's great Seal, being the public faith of the Kingdom, this way of service, in show only pretended for your Majesty, proved to your disservice, and the immoderate and too timely advancement of the said ministers of state, and their adherents, and too near the utter mine 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 & 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 paid, old rents increased, and new rents reserved to the Crown, And the said late King was further graciously pleased, at several times to send divers honourable persons of integrity, knowledge and experience, to examine the grievances of this kingdom, and to settle and establish 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, did grant many graces and favours unto your subjects thereof, for security of their estates, and redresses, or remove off those heavy pressures under which they have long groaned; which acts of justice and grace extended to this people, by your Majesty 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 Sat, and especially of the said Sir William Parsons, the said impeached judges 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 Majesty's 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 proceed of the said Sir William-parsons', and of the said impeached judges, and their adherents, and instruments in the Court of Wards, and the many wilful erroneous decrees, and judgements of that Court, by which the heirs of Catholic Noblemen, and other Catholics were most cruelly and tyranically dealt withal, destroyed in their estates, and bred 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 valued 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 be 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 on Million of pounds, over and above your Majesty's 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 Majesty's great disservice, that they assumed to themselves to be procurers thereof, and represented the said Catholics as obstinate and refractory.  
6 The Army raised for your Majesty's 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 Majesty's Honour, Rights, Prerogatives, and principal Flower of your Crown, And that the said Sir William Parsons, Sir Adam Loftus Knight, your Majesty's 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 Assizes, 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, & that they saw the ancient and unquestionable privileges of the Parliament of Ireland unjustly, and against Law encroached upon, by the orders, Acts, and proceed 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 the authority of both houses in England, it was declared; that Ireland was bound by the Statutes made in England, if named, which is contrary to known truth, and the Laws here settled, for four hundred years and upwards. And that the said Catholics were throughly informed, of the protestation made by both houses of Parliament of England, against Catholics, and their intentions to traduce 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, only for being priests, and that your Majesty's 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 departed 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, & 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 Months, 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, and 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 and 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, and misrepresentations of the proceed 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 judicature 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 Majesty's 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 justices, 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 and beneficial Bills, and other graces to be passed, as Acts in that Parliament of purpose to prevent the same, the said faction by the practice 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 days before, cried for an adjournment of the house, and being over-voted 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 Lord's 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 Majesty's intention, and the great expectation, and the longing desires of your people, could not then pass as Acts of Parliament. Within a few days after this fatal, and enforced adjournment, the said Committees arrived at Dublin, with their dispatch from your Majesty, and presented the same to the said Lords-Iustices and Council, expressing a right sense of the said adjournment, 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 parts 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 fuel 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, Sir Adam Loftus, Sir john Clotworthy knights, Arthur 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 parts in this kingdom, directed to the Commons house in England, were at public Assizes, and other public places ' made known and read 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 JESUS (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 Majesty's prerogative, and power, which were endeavoured to be clipped or taken away, as is before rehearsed, than the plot of destruction, by any 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 maintenance of their Religion, your Majesty's 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 judges, glad of any occasion to put 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 days 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, & made it evidently appear unto them, that the said prorogation was against Law, and humbly besought the Parliament might sit, according to the former adiournment, which was then the only 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, than well knowing that the Members of both houses throughout the kingdom, (a few in and about Dublin only excepted) would stay from the meeting of both houses, by reason of the said prorogation, by proclamation two days before the time, gave way the Parliament might sit, but so limited, that no Act of grace or any thing else for the people's quiet or satisfaction might be propounded or passed; and thereupon a few of the Lords and Commons appeared in the Parliament house, who in their entrance at the Castle-bridge and gate, and within the yard to the  door, 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 thin soever the houses were, or how much overawed, 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 minds of your Majesty's subjects. To these requests, so much conducing to your Majesty's 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 thin as aforesaid, propounded an order should be conceived in Parliament that the said discontented Gentlemen took Arms in rebellious manner, which was resented much by the best affected of both houses, but being awed as aforesaid, and credibly informed of some particular persons amongst them, stood in opposition thereunto, that the said Musquetiers 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 send several great forces to Conquer the kingdom; those of the malignant party here were by them armed; the Catholics were not only 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-Justices and Counsel having received an order of both houses of Parliament in England, to publish a proclamation of pardon, unto 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 Counsel, that a proclamation was published of pardon, only in two Counties, and a very short day prefixed, and therein all freeholders' 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 Coot Knight and Baronet, deceased, to march to the County of Wickloe, where he burned, 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 off Dublin; a Country that neither then, nor for the space of four or five hundred years 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 husbandmen, 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 Counsel board 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 eighteenth of the said Month, & 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-Counsell on the seventeeths of the said Month; but the Lords-Justices, and their party of the Counsel, to take away all hope of Accommodation, gave direction to the said Sir Charles Coote, the said fifteenth day of the said Month of December, to march to Clontarff, being the house and Town of the said George King, and two miles from Dublin, to pillage, burn, kill, and destroy all that there was to be found; which direction was readily and particularly observed (in manifest breach of public faith) by means whereof the meeting of the said Grand-Counsell 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 Colonel, though your Majesty's servant and employed in public trust (in which case the Law of Nations affords safety and protection) was without regard to either, not only 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 accomplices, 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, Nobleses 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 Majesty's pleasure, and always ready to obey your commands: Now the plot of the said ministers of State and their adherents, being very ripe, applications were incessantly by them made to the malignant party in England, to deprive this people of all hopes of your Majesty's 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 Majesty's kingdom of Ireland, in all successions of ages, since the reign of King Henry the second, sometimes King of England, & Lord of Ireland, had a 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 only dependant of the King and Crown of England and Ireland; and for all that time, no prevalent Record, or authentic precedent 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 Majesty's kingdom of Ireland, to their due obedience to his Majesty, and the Crown of England; and another Act, entitled, An Act for adding unto & explaining the said former Act, was procured to be enacted in the said Parliament of England, in the 18. year of your Majesty's reign, by which Acts, and other proclamations your Majesty's subjects unsummoned, 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 and their appurtenances, were thereby mentioned to be granted and passed 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 only, 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 Majesty's Tenors, and the greatest part of your Majesty's 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 precedent 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 Majesty's right and prerogatives; by colour whereof most of the forces sent hither to infest this kingdom by Sea and Land, disavowed any authority form 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 Lord-Iustices, in and since the said Month of November, 1641. to departed the said city, were no sooner departed than they were by the direction of the said Lords-Iustices, pillaged abroad, & 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 and quality by the said Lords-Iustices employed in public service, and others keeping close within their doors without annoying any man, or siding 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 then 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, rob 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 garrisons in your Majesty's 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 named, were committed in Ireland, by the direction and advice of the said Lords-Justices and their party of the said Counsel, in less than eighteen Months, then can pe paralleled to have been done by any Christian people.  
13 The said Lord-Justices 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, Soldiers, Servingmen 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 Majesty's Court of chief place, and other Courts sat at Dublin, to no other end or purpose, but by false and illegal judgements, Outlawries, and other Capital proceed, to attaint many thousands of your Majesty's most faithful subjects of this kingdom, they being never summoned, nor having notice of those proceed, and Sheriffs made of obscure mean persons, by the like practice appointed of purpose, and poor Artificers, common soldiers, 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 and declare against the said proceed, in the nature of Parliaments, and in the other Courts aforesaid, and every of them, as being heinous crimes against Law, destructive to the Parliaments, and your Majesty's prerogatives and authority, and to the rights and just liberties of your most faithful subjects.  
Forasmuch, Dread Sovereign, as the speedy application of apt remedies unto these grievances and heavy pressures, will tend to the settlement and improvement of your Majesty's revenue, the prevention of further effusion of blood, the preservation of this kingdom from desolation, and the content and satisfaction of your said subjects, who in manifestation of their duty and zeal to your Majesty's service, will be most willing and ready to employ 10000 men, under the conduct of wel-experienced Commanders in defence of your Royal rights and prerogatives. They therefore 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, and continued before some person or persons of honour, and fortune, of approved faith to your Majesty, and acceptable to your people here, and to be timely placed by your Majesty in this government, which is most necessary for the advancement of your service and present condition of the kingdom; in which Parliament, the said Catholics do humbly pray these and other their grievances may be redressed, and that in the said Parliament, a statute made in this kingdom in the 10. year of K. Henry the 7. commonly called Poynings Act, and all acts explaining or enlarging the same, be by a particular Act suspended, during that Parliament, as it hath been already done, 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, and 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 Majesty's long and prosperous Reign over them.  
FINIS.   

THis Remonstrance was delivered, by the Lord Viscount Gormonstown, Sir Lucas Dillon Knight, Sir Robert Talbot Baronet, and John Walsh Esquire, thereunto authorised by the Confederate Catholics of Ireland, to His Majesty's 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.   

Printed at Waterford by Thomas Bourke, Printer to the Confederate Catholics of IRELAND. Anno Dom. 1643.   

To the Kings most excellent Majesty.  
YOur Majesty's most loyal and obedient Protestant Subjects of Ireland, groaning under the heavy pressures of the confederate Roman Catholics of Ireland, who to add to all their other injuries, have printed a book entitled A Remonstrance, delivered by the Lord Viscount Gormanstowne, and others, authorised by the said confederate Catholics, to Your Majesty's Commissioners at Trim, the 17. of March, 1642. (which came not to the knowledge of Your Majesty's Protestant Subjects of Ireland till of late) wherein they have endeavoured by confounding of times, and by other subtle conveyances, to put a show of reason upon their wicked and unnatural acts: We therefore beseech Your most sacred Majesty to cast your eye upon the ensuing Collection of some passages and unknown truths, wherein will appear part of the grievances of Your Majesties said Protestant subjects, and part of the many untruths and scandalous aspersions by the said Remonstrants cast upon Your Majesty's gracious government, and upon Your said Protestant subjects. And although these Collections in some measure answer the Remonstrance, and come attired in round and plain expressions, as the woeful case requireth, the just vindication of Your Majesty's gracious government pressing also that all vizards and palliations be laid aside; yet it is humbly prayed, that nothing herein may be construed as to proceed of malice, or desire of aggravation against any person therein concerned, how intolerable soever the projects and actions of many of them have been; or to be contrived to avert, foreclose, or shorten Your Majesty's grace or clemency, which Your Majesty shall extend to any of them in Your Majesty's abundant indulgence, as a Princely parent to your people, and may stand with Your Majesty's honour and sovereignty, and the peace and future security of Your Majesty's Kingdom and good people of Ireland.  

First to the Preface.  
THat the Remonstrants were no way necessitated to take Arms for the preservation of their Religion; for which long time before their taking arms they were not troubled, nor so much as questioned (having also in their actions varied from the rules of all Christian Religion) nor for maintenance of your Majesty's rights & prerogatives, there being no opponents in the kingdom of Ireland in that matter, except the Remōstrants themselves, who knew that Governors and Officers there, have with all zeal, and constancy from time to time maintained, and with extreme hazard of their lives to maintain the same, and that none in the said Kingdom hath offered to oppose or diminish them, save what these Remonstrants have done by laying aspersions on your Majesty in your Goverement, and striving to abridge both your profit and Authority under that popular and specious pretence of grievances, which is one of their main ends in all their unruly actions; and now having possessed themselves almost of all your Majesty's Revenues both certain and casual, and also of the estates of your Protestant Subjects, do undutifully assume unto themselves, and exercise a Papal jurisdiction in that Church, and a tyrannical power in that Commonwealth, as well by sea as by land, a presumption never adventured upon in any former rebellious times, and which can be nothing but a ground-plot of insurrections hereafter: They publish new Laws for Government, erect new Courts, and Tribunals of all kind of judicature; they ordain Magistrates, judges, and Officers of all sorts, as well of State, as Civil and Marshal; they make War and Peace at pleasure, they punish with death, and all other corporal punishments, they pardon and protect at pleasure, they publish Proclamations as well in pain of death as otherwise in their own names; they convoke general Assemblies out of all Counties in nature of Parliaments; they have Assembled, and held Synods and Convocations of their Titulary Arch-Bishops, and Bishops, and other Popish pretended Clergy, and therein made Canons and Constitutions for the government of the Church; they have excommunicated many of your Majesty's Subjects, and thereby enforced them to join with them in their confederacy; they have taken possession of the Churches, and seized the whole means of the Protestant Clergy into their own hands, and exercise the whole Ecclesiastical jurisdiction and function; they have received, and yet entertain a Nuncio from the Pope, and two Agents from France and Spain, as themselves give out; they treat with foreign States in matters of the Kingdom; they annoy the seas, and hinder traffic; they coin money, make it currant, and advance and Decree Coins already currant; they settle and alter Possessions, and in sum by way of exclusion to all Your Majesty's Prerogatives, Rights, and Authorities, they published an Act in print that no temporal Government or Jurisdiction shall be assumed, kept or exercised within that Kingdom, or any Province or County thereof, during the troubles, other than what is approved, or instituted by their general Assembly, or supreme Counsel, and have in this and other acts showed themselves in the highest degree to be antimonarchical, and contemners of Your Majesty's Royal Sceptre and Sovereignty; neither were they necessitated to take up Arms for the defence of their lives, estates, and liberties of their Country, they being in no fear of their lives or estates by any violence, or illegallity, so much as offered or intended by Your Majesty's Governors, or Protestant Subjects, neither can it be instanced than at any time since the Reformation of Religion, either Your Majesty's Governors, or Protestant Subjects ever offered any open violence against the person or estate of any Papist quatenus a papist, nor otherwise except in case of Rebellion, wherein there was necessity to descend Your Majesty's good people, or repress the Rebels unjust insolence by way of just chastisement; Your Majesty's Governors and Officers there using all their skill and labour to preserve the happy peace of that Kingdom, which they well knew Your Majesty esteemed the highest blessing of Almighty God upon earth; and for just Liberties of Subjects it equally concerns Your Majesty's Protestant Subjects with the Papists, and each of them have so freely enjoyed them during the gracious Reign of Your Sacred Majesty, and Your most illustrious Father until this present Rebellion, as no Nation in Christendom hath exceeded them in that blessing, as it will best appear, if comparison be made with former times, when for many ages there was in Ireland absolute tyranny in the Chieftains ruling in an Irish manner, and direct slavery in the inferiors, which it seems these Remonstrants do rather affect, than the legal peaceable regiment of Your sacred Majesty, and the wholesome Laws of England; and since that Rebellion began, Your Majesty's people of Ireland have by the confederates been wholly subjected to illegal Ordinances, oppressions, and Arbitrary powers, and indeed to the will of a raging, and sinisterly incensed multitude; and therefore those Figg-leaves of their feigned excuses are ill put together, pretending the murder, robbery, and destruction of Your Majesty's Protestant Subjects should be for the preservation of the said confederate, whereas in truth Religion might teach them to discern that the innocent blood they have thus cruelly and wantonly spilt would cry to Heaven, and to Your Sacred Majesty, God's Vicegerent within Your Dominions, for a just revenge against them.  
Touching the frustrating of these Remonstrants' attempts to present complaints to Your Majesty since the Rebellion began, there will appear no truth in this suggestion, when all things are duly examined; nay it will appear that the Lords justices and Counsel have not concealed or debarred them, or any thing that came from them, to their Lords hands, but have furthered the same to Your Majesty's view or knowledge so fast as they could: As first about the sixth of November 1641. the Rebels of the County of Cavan sent up a presumptuous Proposition to the Lords justices and Counsel, which their Lordships answered with all the moderation and satisfaction that could stand with their duty, as may appear by the same, and forthwith certified the one and the other to the late Lord Lieutenant, to whom Your Majesty had expressly commanded them to send all addresses for the affairs of Ireland; after that when about the 23th. of December, 1641. certain Lords of the Pale had declared by a former Letter that they would stand on their guard, and after they had joined with the Northern Rebels in the siege of Drogheda, the Lords justices received a Letter from seven Lords of the Pale, wherein (after some unjust Challenges made to the Lords justices and Counsel) they signified they would not come to them (though before they the Lords justices and Council, had sent them security for their persons, and published the same by Proclamation) and desired that the Lords justices and Council, would send them certain Commissioners to confer concerning the Common peace, and other things. This the Lords justices and Council thought not good to descend unto, considering their former great undutifullnesse. And hereof they forthwith certified the late Lord Leiutenant also; but the truth is that (for several months in the beginning of this Rebellion) they little regarded any thing the Lords justices could say or do, while they hoped to carry all before them by surprise, or open force; And indeed until your Majesty's Armies (by access of succours sent out of England) had redeemed such of your protestant Subjects, as with life only escaped from that overwhelming destruction by these confederates prepared against them, and enabled your Majesty's distressed subjects to make head against their bloody cruelties, and that they felt their own weakness to maintain their disloyalty against so potent a Monarch as your Majesty is; Neither indeed had they any colour of complaint, the cause of grief being entirely on our side. And at the beginning of this Rebellion they had less reason than ever, having lately received so much grace. And satisfaction in all their pretended greivances, though they had not he duty and patience to forbear force, and humbly to reap the fruits thereof.  
The second overture which any of them made unto the Lords justices and Council, was by a Letter written to the Earl of Castlehaven, dated the 16th of March 1641. signed only by the Lords Gormonstowne, Netterville, and Slain, in the stile of united Lords, wherein they desired to have a meeting in some convenient place, and that in the mean time there might be a Cessation of Arms: This the Earl sent to the Lords justices the 23th of the same month, which was long after the Irish Army was beaten from Drogheda, and that your Majesty's Army was fully Master of the field in all parts of the Pale, And then the Lords justices and Council thought not fit of themselves to hearken unto it, but forth with certified the same to the then Lord Lieutenant, desiring your Majesty's directions therein. And for their further proceeding on the 23th of March 1642. the Lord Montgarret sent to the Earl of Ormond then Lientenant General of your Majesty's Army, a paper of the grievances, aswell concerning things done in England as Ireland, and desired it might be showed to the Lords justices and Council, that redress might be given (which lay not in their Lordship's powers) yet this also they sent to the then Lord Lieutenant to be showed to your Majesty. About August, one thousand six hundred forty and two, the Remonstrants sent to the said Lieutenant General of your Majesty's Army, a Petition directed to your Majesty, which his Lordship presented to the Lords justices, who forthwith sent it away to your Majesty's principal Secretary, and since than no other complaint hath been heard of except that Remonstrance, and except some particular motions hereafter mennoned; By all which it fully appears the Lords justices and Council, did no way frustrate any of their attempts to complain to your Majesty.  
For the sense these Remonstrants seem now to have of the late effusion of innocent blood there: 'tis well if they now begin to be sensible of the effusion of the innocent blood whereof indeed themselves only are guilty, which will more plainly appear by distinguishing the times, which they causelessly confound: Your Majesty's subjects being in full peace, and trusting only to the protection of your Majesty's laws, these confederates and their bloody instruments did in many parts of the Kingdom suddenly and treacherously assault and glut their long contealed malice, in cruelly murdering by sundry kind of tormenting deaths, some hundred thousands of your Majesty's harmless Protestant subjects, and dispoiling both them, and all the rest of all their esTates and substance, as is too manifest to the world, nothing limiting their outrageous aims, but professEd to all, extirpation of all British and Protestants. All which time neither your Majesty's Governors, nor your surprised subjects were able to make any considerable resistance: And when afterwards your Majesty's forces out of England enabled your subjects to stand upon their defence, and by your Majesty's Princely direction and authority to take due vengeance on their unparraleld wickedness, no man, no not the confederates in their own consciences can justly charge your Majesty's Governors or protestant Subjects with blood undeservedly shed in that necessitated way of their own defence; and just punishment of those former heinous acts. But the confederates ought to bewail the blood of your Majesty's officers and servants fight in your just quarrel, as an addition of weight to their former guilt. 
Vid. Proclamation Octob. 3. 1641.   
Whereas on the other side, aswell your Majesty by your Princely Proclamation under your royal signature and privy Signer, commanded them to lay down Arms, 
Vid. Proclamation 1 Novena. 1641.  with intent doubtless to have mercy on them in a fit measure; And your Majesty's Governors there partly by Proclamations promising in your Majesty's name mercy to all that should desist from force (as hereafter is set down) And partly by employing unto them a committee of Parliament there, whom they scornfully rejected by tearing aswell the Committees Letters sent to them from Drogheda, as the order of Parliament therewith sent; And at another time by sending unto them certain of their own Clergy to treat and persuade with them, whom they abused; And partly by letters and fair messages moving them to cease and stay violence, by appointing the Lord Moor and others to treat with them: By appointing Sir Richard Barnwell, and Patrick Barnwell to treat and persuade with them; Did their utmost to induce them to return to due obedience, To come and submit their discontents to your Majesty's known Clemency, and stop the issue of blood, which they so wilfully had opened & enraged; And which gives further evidence of your Majesty's servants & subjects peaceable inclination: Your Majesty's justices and Counsel did in the beginning of this Rebellion give several Commissions to Lords and prime Gentry of the Natives in the Pale, and all the adjacent Counties, authorising them to gather the Forces of the Country, and to govern and command them for preservation of the Subjects in peace, authorising them in those Commissions to parley with Rebels, protect, and promise mercy to all that would return to obedience; so much confidence had the Lords justices in those old English, and did desire to make them assured of their trust: As the Lord Gormanston in Meath, Lord Montgarret in Kilkenny, Nicholas Barnwell in Dublin, Walter Bagwell in Catherlagh, Lord of Lowth in Lowth, Sir Thomas Nugent in Westmeath, Sir Robert Talbot in Wickloe, Sir james Dillon in Longford, and several others as well in Munster as Conaught. All which Commissions so issued, even to so many of of the Remonstrants themselves, were issued after the 23 of October, and before the last of November, 1641. In all which time, or afterwards, if they pleased, they might have stayed the spreading of the Rebellion, if promise of mercy could have done it, besides several Commissions of Martial Law to the Natives in each County. But they, contrary to all hope, not only forbore to protect or reduce any, but they soon after joined with the Northern and other Rebels, to the confusion of the State and Government, and destruction and banishment almost of all British and Protestants: and as for those few Roman Catholics who stood firm in loyalty in those unseasonable times, they have been embraced and used with that love and affection by your Majesty's Governors and Protestant subjects, which the Protestant subjects formerly showed to them, and as the Protestants have been.  
As to their undutiful Challenge to your Majesty's Princely and deeply merited expressions in your gracious Commission to your said Lieutenant General of your Army, granted in compassion to these Remonstrants, Your Majesty's loyal subjects cannot observe their presumption without grief of heart, but do in all humility leave the same to Your Majesty's most discerning judgement: Your Majesty's Protestant subjects do not believe, nor ever could observe that any of Your Governors or Protestant subjects there have either directly or collaterally in adverse affection towards the Confederates, advertised against, or otherwise represented those Confederates to Your sacred Majesty, than the truth urged, and their bounden duty to Your Majesty and your service pressed them to do.   

To the first Article.  
Artic. 1. It runneth upon generals, and is in substance generally untrue: yet in further dutiful care to give Your Majesty satisfaction, Instances herein are humbly offered to maintain the truth.  
First; as to their vaunt of 1300 years unalterable profession of the now Romish Religion: It is most apparent in the learned Treatises of the Lord Archbishop of Armagh, and otherways, that for above 600 years within the said time of 1300 years, the Religion professed by the Clergy and people of Ireland, was more agreeable to the true Protestant Religion now by law established, and by public Authority maintained in that Kingdom, then unto that Roman Catholic Religion, as they call it, which they do now profess, the free exercise whereof throughout that Kingdom, they by their confederacy and oath of Association are to maintain, and do now by force authorise: And for most of the time after the said 600 years, the Religion professed in that Kingdom was far otherwise then now it is professed and practifed by these Confederates and some of their Ancestors; for the Council of Trent (which ended about the year 1563.) brought Articles of Faith into the Church, fare different from the former Catholic faith; And this new Religion of Popery, is the Romish Religion, which they call Catholic, and is now professed by them. And this is the great Antiquity of these Romanists present profession, which they faith, they and their Ancestors have so long unalterably professed (though that also in so large an extent is utterly untrue) for besides what is declared in the Statute laws in Ireland, enacted in the Reign of King Henry the 8. and Queen Elizabeth, expressing the detestation of those Paliaments against the Pope's usurped authority in that Kingdom, his wresting of God's holy word and Testament to his worldly and carnal affection, and entangling and troubling the jurisdiction and Regal power, and much unquieting the people, making that unlawful which by God's Word is lawful, and many such like expressions in several Statutes; which shows the genius of the people of Ireland at that time. It is clear, that since the Reformation in the latter end of the Reign of King Henry the 8 in all the time of King Edward the 6. and Queen Elizabeth, the Natives of that Kingdom, Ancestors to these Confederates, (howsoever perhaps in mind popishly affected) according to the ignorance of those times, did generally without scruple resort to the Protestant Ceurches in all places where any Protestant Clergy could reside, until about the 13. year of Queen Elizabeth, that the Bull of Pius Quintus was sent into Ireland; And then began some persons of note to stand at distance: But after that they did also generally come to Church both in Towns and Country, till about the 30 year of Queen Elizabeth, that the Spaniards, wracked upon that Coast, dispersed themselves into the Towns and several other parts, and left generally many evil impressions, which caused some more wilfulness in recusancy; yet after that most of the Natives of Ireland, all the residue of Queen Elizabeth's Reign, (for then there were few new English) and most of the Reign of King James, partly by fair inducements, and partly by the weak impulsives of the Statute of 2. Eliz. did still for the most part, till of late years, come to Church, which is all that Your Majesty's Government, and Your Laws there do enjoin them generally unto, not offering to enforce the Conscience with torture, death, or otherwise, as the Romanists do: Neither were they so unalterable in their supposed Catholic profession, but that of late years several of them (even of noted pregnancy in the Doctrinal part) did for a majoralty in a City, or to save a pension in some times, or some other employment in others, forsake their Mass for that season, to come to Church: Sir Philonty O Neal makes it more plain in his Letters of triumph to his holy Confessor, that his purpose was conquest, and not defence of Religion, his Majesty's Prerogative, or their Liberties, there being none there that offered any offence to either of them, and for Liberty in their profession, they had little or no restraint, 
Vid. the epistle of Paul Harris Priest, to P. Vrban the 8. in his book entitled Fratres sobrii estoie. An 1634. It is as hard to find what numbers of Friars be in Dublin, as to count how many frogs therewere in the 2d. plague of Egypt.  for they had by the patience of the Governors, their titular Archbishops, Bishops, Vicar general, and provincial Consistories, Ecclesiastical Deans, Abbots, Priors, Monks, Nuns, jesuites, Priests, and Friars without number, all officers proper to that Hierarchy, and free use of Mass, aswell in Towns as Country (they not so much as in truth doubting or fearing any violent cruelty of the English, knowing their nature and disposition as they did) so as fear of being massacred for their Catholic Religion, was not their motive for taking Arms, as they fraudulently pretend.  
It is utterly untrue that ever since the Statute of second Elizabeth, the Catholics of that Kingdom, were debarred from places of honour and trust in Church or Common wealth, for after that Statute many Noblemen of the old English were made Counsellors; who were bred in the ignorance of those times, though afterwards they came to Church; And after that Statute ten several judges of that Birth and education, possessed successively all the prime Places of all the Benches of the Law, and likewise all the Inferior judges of those Benches were of the same birth and education, though afterwards most of them came to Church, and the officers in Courts of justice and otherways were exercised by men of like condition, the Malignity of Popery being in those times not discerned to be so perilous, as of later times, the Spanish Armado in 88; Tyrones Rebellion, the Powder Treason, this present Insurrection, and many other treacherous and mischievous machinations and plots have discovered it to be; ('tis true, that about the 29. year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, upon the death of Sir John Plunket Chief justice of the King's Bench, Sir Robert Gardner was sent out of England, who was the first English judge sent into that Kingdom in many years before: And after upon the death of some of the rest, a little before the end of the Reign of the same Queen, three more were sent thither, and so from thenceforth, as the rest died, others were sent thither; And how the reformation of the Kingdom, and Your Majesty's services were advanced before the coming of those English judges, the Stories and Records do show: And for the Natives of that Kingdom, such as would conform and come to Church, were freely admitted to be Counsellors, judges, and Officers, as many of them were, and yet are; Besides, for matter of trust, many of the Lords, and prime Gentry of the old English (though reputed Catholics) were throughout that Queen's time made Commanders of men in her Army, and very many made chief Commanders in several Counties, and of the forces in those Countries; All which time that Kingdom was kept almost in continual garboil; and as well then as ever since her decease, the Noblemen and other Natives of fit capacity and breeding, have been trusted and employed in all Commissions from the Courts, or otherwise, in all matters as well concerning the King as other subjects in equal degree with Protestants; the Gentry also from time to time, even till this Rebellion were appointed Sheriffs, justices of the Peace, high Constables, Marshals upon occasion, and all other Officers in the Country that the Law appoints: They were also allowed chief Officers, and judges in Corporations, and other Liberties and Franchises (their sons also admitted Clerks in the Courts, and other under Officers, which are graces and favours rarely allowed to the pretended Catholics in England, though Natives of this Kingdom, so as very few of that Kingdom have been observed to seek fortunes in other Countries, except some that do pass into this Kingdom for their preferment, and except such as do voluntarily travel beyond Seas to the wars, and to become Clergy-mer, and some students in the Arts, as natives of England do the same; their Lawyers also to our dear experience, notwithstanding different in Religion, are and have been admitted to the Bar, and all other practice as Protestants are, by which they grow popular, and in short time fare richer, and greater purchasers than the Protestant Lawyers, or judges now employed can do in many years, a favour not allowed to like natives here in England, which hath been an extreme mischief to that Kingdom of Ireland, as hereafter shall appear, many of the prime Gentry have by suit to Your Majesty, and Your most blessed Father, been advanced to honour of several degrees, have been dignified with titles of Baronet's and Knight's, and for preferment in the Church; It is apparent that after the Statute of Secundo, many of that Nation were then continued Bishops, and other Dignitaries, and many newly created upon the yielding to the extern part of the Reformation (though it is to be remembered what is declared of some of them by Statute in that Kingdom enacted in the eleaventh year of Queen Elizabeth, Cham 6. In which is this expression, viz. Where the right honourable sir Henry Sidney, Knight of the honourable Order, now Lord Deputy of Ireland hath in his late progress into Munster and Connaught found (amongst other experiences) the great abuse of the Clergy therein, admitting of unworthy Personages to Ecclesiastical dignities, which hath neither lawfulness of Birth, Learning, English habit, or English Language, but descended of unchaste and unmarried Abbots, Priors, Deans, Chanters and such like, getting into the said digniries, either with force, simony, friendship or other corrupt means, to the great overthrow of God's Holy Church, and the evil example of all honest Congregations. Be it therefore, etc.  
Yet they were continued during their lives, howsoever afterwards none were admitted to those places, but such as were known Protestants, and therein the Natives of that Kingdom being so conditioned, were freely entertained, and many of them so dignified, as they are at this day, it being not thought fit to put that charge into the hands of Recusants; because it hath been since observed, as it is now clearly manifest, that they are in that Kingdom of Ireland, the Seeds-men and womb of all the distempers and miser able sufferings of the now deplorable Commonwealth, which is by many of considerable quality now lamentably acknowledged; neither indeed are the Recusants capable of that charge by the Laws of the Land; and if they take offence at those Laws, supplications, not Murders, Rebellions and depredations, were a proper way to sue for the repeal of them; but the Nobles, (that they are become contemptible) is a strange affirmation (they have been graced by Your Majesty, and Your Governors from time to time, with all the respects of Honour and Privilege, that is any way due to them, and in no less measure than the Protestants have been; besides it is well known that since the Protestant subjects, British and others, became their neighbours and Tenants, and inhabited their now desolate estates, the Rents and Revenues of those Lords were so raised, as they were brought into a condition to livel ike Noblemen in a civil Commonwealth, which they were not before able to do, nor (it is believed) will ever be again, if some as perilously credulous as the Protestant Subjects (now ruined, have been) do not make such adventures, as they have done to their cost. Lastly, where those confederates do boldly, and untruly affirm that their Gentry were debarred from Learning in Universities, and public Schools; first their children (though themselves and their Parents Papists) were freely admitted into all public Schools, as well of Your Majesty's foundation as other ways, without question of Religion, wherein they attained to the knowledge of the Latin and the Greek Tongues, and full introduction into the Arts, and all other humane learning. And for Universities, they know there is but one only College in Ireland founded by Queen Elizabeth, and endowed by Your Majesty's most blessed Father for the education of the youth of that Kingdom. That College is of small capacity, yet can it not be instanced, that any the son of a noble man, or Gentleman were refused to be admitted thereunto, if they would conform to the Laws of the Land, and Statutes of that Society, neither are they there pressed with the Law, till they come to be Graduates, and it is well known that as well from that University, as Inns of Court here in England, very many of them have gained learning and knowledge, which in many of them now is employed to the extreme annoyance and harm of Your Majesty, and Your Kingdom, and though they were not so freely admitted into those Societies, and in Corporations, because they would not conform to the Laws of the Land, and Charters, Orders, and Customs of that society, yet many of those lived there and here with greater freedom from those Laws, than the Natives of England of the Popish Religion did in England; and yet it is humbly conceived (that if their numbers, quality, and loyalty be rightly weighed and considered, there will not be found any good cause or found reasons, why the Native Papists of Ireland should have more freedom in Ireland, than the Native Papists of England have in England; and whereas they so needlessly press for the free admittance into the School of the Kingdom, as they have clearly received that freedom as is above mentioned (which also well appears in the men of this age, educated far beyond all former times) so they should have laid their challenge with all hample acknowledgement and thankfulness to Your sacred Majesty, and the famous ProresTant Princes preceding Your Muesty, and Your English Government. For first in the 28th. year of King Henry the 8th. it was enacted that every incumbent should keep a School in his Parish to teach English. Secondly, Queen Elizabeth by a Statute in the 12th. year of her Reign, ordained that there should be a Free School kept in every Diocese of that Kingdom, to be maintained by her own Clergy, and her senants of impropriate Parsonages and Viccaridges. Thirdly, Your Majesty, and Your Royal Father in all the Plantations erected many Free Schools and endowed them. Fourthly, many Protestants have built, and endowed Free Schools in special places, whereas before there were few, and those only in some Towns, supported by very small salaries; not able to give the Teacher's subsistence, and so in a manner discontinued, as well appeared by the ill iteratenes, and indeed barbarism of the people in former times; and it cannot be showed that any Papist there has built or endowed any School: nay which is worse, all the Popish Clergy, and all other Popish Laiety, from whom that Clergy can draw any such charity (much being so gotten) do send all that can be so gathered to Schools and Universities beyond the seas, whereby that Kingdom is much impoverished, and the love and dependency of the people much translated from Your Crown to foreign Princes and Potentates.   

To the second Article.  
As they have not spared scandalous and untrue aspersions against Your Majesty and your Government, and against Your Officers and Ministers, 
Arti. 2.  which is no other than Art used to cover, or (if it were possible) excuse their odious murders, and other cruelties now committed upon Your Majesty's Protestant Subjects, so they have presumed to tax Your gracious Majesty, and Your glorious predecessors with want of love and care of their Subjects of that Kingdom, by placing, (as the Remonstrants pretend) in the seat of Government and other Offices of eminency, men of mean condition and quality, who were to begin their fortunes upon the ruins of the Catholic Natives, which tax untrue in itself, is so undutiful to those Sovereign and gracous Princes, as no person of honour will appear in it; but it must be devised by the Romish adversaries of the Clergy or jesuited Lawyers, who now appear to have been the chief firebrands of all these horrible flames, which have almost consumed that Kingdom, for it cannot be denied that Your Royal Majesty, and the other excellent Princes Your predecessors have since the said Statute of Secundo, sent thither to govern, Earls, Barons, and others of noble extraction, and plentiful esTates in England; and when in intervals for short times justices were appointed, they were sometimes Noble men, and otherwise men of the best rank, sufficiency, and ability to undergo that charge, and it cannot be showed that many of them have built their fortunes on the ruins of Your. Majesty's Subjects, either Protestants or Priests, to whom they 〈…〉; equally in all things; but on the contrary, some of them have lost themselves and have been much damnified in their estates by their employment there, partly by the unjust clamours and maliciou; accusations of of some of those Catholic Natives, never enduring long any English Governor, or other servants of the King; of England, that endeavoured the peaceable and legal obedience to the Crown; And it is manifest, that of 21 Lieutenants, Deputies, and justices successively, Thirty Privy Counsellors, and Twelve prime judges, and several inferior judges sent thither out of England, since the Statute of 2 do. no one of them hath left any Estate there, neither were they enriched by that service: And though some others (and not many) left esTates, it only was for the most part by bounty of the Crown, and very few or none by their purchase, except the Earl of Strafford, who paid great sums of money for all he bought: whereas on the other side, of eleven prime judges, and many inferior judges of the birth of Ireland, employed there since the Statute of 2 do. every one of them left visible and valuable estates, many of them equal at least with the prime Gentry, and several of them, in themselves or their posterity, since advanced to titles of honour, by the favour of your Majesty and your Royal Ancestors; whereby your Majesty may be pleased to judge whether the English or Irish officers have most built their fortunes on the ruins of Catholic Natives. It is true, that no Natives have been employed as Chief Governors there, since the 27. of King Henry the 8. but in former times many of them were, until the last of them gave cause to the King to alter that course; And yet since that time, most of the prime and inferior judges and the Officers were of the Natives, even until towards the latter end of the Reign of Queen Eliz. as is before said. 
Vid. the Stat. of 10 H. 7. c. 8. and other Statutes for the prosperity of Ireland, while the English laws were executed, and how it decayed afterwards.  And if times be compared, it will appear by good records and histories, that from the end of the first 90 years after the first coming of King Henry the 2d. (in which time of 90 years the English Colonies spread over all the than most habitable parts of the Kingdom) the Towns being also wholly English and the English laws then only used and obeyed throughout all the English Colonies. The Irish then and many years after, declared enemies and aliens, did encroach and prevail strangely against the English Colonies, which happened by reason of the unwise and irregular behaviour of many of the English Lords and Chieftains of Irish birth, who then and after degenerated into Irish manners and usages, cast off the English laws, subjected themselves to the Brehon and Irish customs, 
The English Lords falling into mortal quarrels among themselves, called in and waged the Irish in their contentions, who formerly lived in mountains & bogs, & were of no force; whereby the Irish grew powerful and bold, and so wrested out the English freeholders by allowance of the English Lords, which happened chief in the times or by occasion of the civil wars in England.  joined with the Irish in marriage, fostering, gossoprick, and all other things, even against their own fellow conquerors the English freeholders, almost to their utter ruin; The Governors also, and otehr Officers, being for the most part of those old English, gave way, (perhaps necessitated in some times) to the Irish encroachments and customs, though some of them at several times behaved themselves nobly and dutifully, yet others raised Coin and Livery, and other Irish exactions upon the remaining English Colonies, and all other Inferiors; (All which by the English governor's and officers were after taken away, insomuch as before the end of the Reign of King Henry the 8. even all lthe Kingdom, except the sieve Shires of the Pale, walled Towns, and some small parts about them, which also were much degenerated, were turned Irish (except a few of prime Nobility) the English Law renounced, Irish Captainships advanced, many of the old English Lores turned Irish Captains; All which Captainships, and all exactions, coin and taxes belonging thereunto, were after taken away by Act of Parliament) And all the Inferiors for the most part wholly reduced into Irish slavery, having neither lands nor goods but at the will of those usurping Chieftains; And that Kingdom in a manner from age to age infested with continual bloody insurrections, and intestine commotions. In which case it continued even unto the end of the Reign of Queen Elizabth, notwithstanding all that the English Governors sent by her, could do, being assisted for the most part all that time with Irish Counsellors, judges and Officers, as is herein formerly metioned, The Kingdom being held in great poverty and barbarism, notwithsTanding the vast expense of English blood and treasure spent there, by that gracious Queen and some of her Royal predecessors: Neither could the Revenues and Profits of the Crown, in any of those times, be advanced to above 11000 l. per annum, and many times far less, (yea sometimes nothing at all) And all it was advanced to, was spent there, besides the continual exhausted of treasure out of England, even to keep life in the few English that continued there obedient to the Crown and Laws of England,; whereas on the other side, since the beginning of the Reign of the blessed King James, and Your sacred Majesty successively; 
Vid. Statute 11 jac. c. 1. in Ireland, for the benefit of Law and English government.  by His and Your wise and pious couduct and direction, the English Governors, with the assistance of English judges and officers, have wholly abolished and removed all those Irish powers and jurisdictions, and placed the dependency of the people entirely on the Crown settled and secured a Legal property in every subject of their lands and goods, bringing them absolutely into the state of free subjects, utterly razed out the Irish gavelkind and Tainstry, the very pest of the Nation, the Farmers and Yeomanry being formerly scarce able out of the earth to gain meat and sustenance for themselves, and for idle Gentry and unemployed youth: They introduced Civility, peace, and legal obedience to your Majesty throughout that Kingdom, dispersed English habitations and manurance in all parts and Provinces, even formerly the most rude Irish and uninhabited, who built and erected Corporations and civil societies, set up Markets and Fair, for Commerce, built and placed Churches, bridges, cawsies and passages, gaoles, Session houses, Schools for education of youth, and thousands of Castles, and houses of stone and brick, for habitation and defence, (as did also then by their example, many of the old English and Irish, which were civilised) besides four walled Towns, built in necessary places, now (since that Rebellion begun) maintained for your Majesty by Garrisons. They caused enclosures of lands, planting of Orchards and Gardens, and draining of Bogs in all places; as fare as time could permit: They also brought in English habit, language and usage, and the full and universal exercise of the English laws in all parts of the Kingdom, turning all (not formerly turned) into Shire grounds, setting known limits to all the Counties and Baronies thereof; Into all which justices of Assize and Gaol delivery were half yearly sent, for the happy and orderly administration of Justice, and settling men's properties: Whereas before the Reign of King James, the judges could travel no where but in the Pale, and that not ordinarily, because of Rebellions; They placed Sheriffs, justices of Peace, and all Officers of Law, in each County, well instructed to execute their offices: They caused estates for lives, years, and otherways, to pass between Lord and Tenant, for comfort and settlement of the people, who were before generally Tenants at will in all parts; And by commixture of new English and old English with Irish, established indifferency of Trial by jury in most parts, which before by reason of combined Irish Septs, and the power of Irish Lords, could not be. They caused the Irish and others to live in Town-Reads, not wand'ring with their cattles and creates dispersedly and barbarously in mountains and wastes, as formerly. They enchartered the Towns and Corporations with enlarged and necessary Franchises, Liberties and Jurisdictions, aswell for government, as ornament and benefit, to the great enriching of those Inhabitants, and increase of Merchandise; they settled a learned Protestant Clergy of all degrees in all the parts of that Kingdom, and Ordained the Consistories in a Legal form; They caused to be enacted Laws for the course of Justice, and quieting men's Estates and Interests, agreeable as far as was necessary to the Laws made in England since the 10. of H. 7. They reform the exorbitancy of Sheriffs, who after the Captainships were taken away, did in many places succeed them in extortion and oppression: They had settled an Army of 2000 foot, and 1000 horse, intended to be English, who took nothing of the Country without ready money; and a competent Navy to guard the Coast; all paid there without charge to England. And lastly, they had advanced your Majesty's Revenues certain and casual, from under 8000 l. per annum, (as it was when King James began) to above 85000 l. per annum, besides a great gain the Farmers of the Customs had, for a few years to come: and all this done with little or no charge to England. And as an addition of blessing to all this, the people generally by this means did wonderfully increase in riches and substance far beyond all other times; Rents raised as high as in many parts of England, where before lands yielded little or nothing: The breed of Cattles of all sorts wonderfully enlarged, bettered, and prized, and infinite numbers of cows, horses and sheep, with very great quantities of wool yearly sent into this Kingdom, and corn multiplied in all parts, which redounded to the benefit of the Natives equally, (if not more) then to the English, as may appear, as by many other things, so particularly by the large marriage portions given by the Lords, Gentry, and others, with their daughters, ten times above the rates of former times; dowries and jointures of wives, and purchase of lands proportionably increased; Money let at Ten in the hundred at most, whereas formerly it was at 15 l. 20 l. and 30 l. and sometimes higher. And lastly, whereas in all Queen Elizabeth's time they could give her but one Subsidy, and that but a mean one of 13 s. 4 d. out of every ploughland occupied or manured, to continue for ten years (very few Subsidies having been granted in Ireland to any former Kings) that Subsidy of Queen Elizabeth (by reason that the Towns and Corporations were by a Statute freed, and that divers exceptions of gentlemen's estates and other ways were inserted, and that great quantities of the Kingdom were in the hands of the Irish, not till then divided into Blow Lands, much whereof was never so done; and lastly by reason of the Rebellions (of those times) did never amount to any considerable sum; now in the happy and plentiful Reign of Your Majesty, they were able to raise and grant unto Your Majesty ten Subsidies of one and forty thousand pounds each Subsidy, and some of them 45000. l. besides Lords and Clergy, over and above great contributions before that; all which, and what remained unpaid thereof, when the Rebellion begun, would have been levied and paid with little complaint or grievance, had the affections of the Remonstrants been as free, and real to Your Majesty as they pretend, and as the affections of Your Subjects the Protestants were, and are, and all this besides one Subsidy of near thirty thousand pounds, granted to Your Majesty's most blessed Father: by all which it plainly appears, that those Governors, judges and Officers, employed not their time in building their fortunes on the ruins of Catholic Natives, as is unconscionably suggested, nor yet in conspiring Rebellions, and destructions against Kings and Kingdoms, nor indeed can it be justly proved that any of them have so in any kind built their fortunes; neither can it appear that ever any of the Governors or Magistrates did suggest malicious matters against those Catholics for their hurt, the whole labour of the Governors being by all means to unite them, and the Protestants in all legal and peaceable amity; which the Popish Clergy and Lawyers observing, (and envying the so great prosperity, and increase of livelihood in the people of all sorts, as well English as Irish, foreseeing that the unity, and prosperity would certainly settle a constant subjection to a Protestant Prince) they wrought by all under hand, and wicked surmises and suggestions to break up and confound that happy peace and unity, the Clergy on the one side possessing the miscognisant and uninstructed multitude that the Protestants were Heretics, and not Christians, nor to be suffered to live in the Kingdom; that it was meritorious to destroy the Protestants, promising immediate passage to Heaven to all that died in that action, and that so was the pleasure of the Pope; for which purpose a Bull of Indulgence of the Pope hath been published in several parts of that Kingdom, even since the Cessation of Arms agreed on there, the tenor whereof followeth:  

Urbanus Octavus, etc.  
AD futuram rei memoriam, Zelum Orthodoxa fidei quo aver● Hiberni Catholic● Bellatores exercituum Regni Hiberniae (ob eximium ejusdem fidei cultum patriam Sanctorum olim appellatam) ab hereticorum oppressionibus et injuriis, quibus jamdudum affligitur armis vindicare, et operarios iniquitatis qui massam Catholicae puritatis eodem in regno hereticae Contagionis fermento inficerunt, et iugiter inficere nituntur extirpare, satagunt, spiritualium gratiarum quarum dispensatores in terris a Domino constituti sumus largitionc confovere volentes de omnipotentis Dei misericordia, ac beatorum Petri et Pauli Apostolorum ejus aucthoritate confisi ex illa liganai atque solvendi potestate, quam nobis Dominus meritis minime suffragantibus contulit, universis et singulis Christi fidelibus in praedicto Hiberniae Regno contra hereticos et alios Catholicae fidei hostes nunc et pro tempore militantibus vere pernitentibus et confessis ac facrâ Communione refectis plenariam omnium peccatorum suorum Indulgentiam, et remissionem sicut in anno jubilei visitantibus certas Ecclesias intra et extra urbem concedi consuevit tenore praesentium pro una vice tantum pro quolibet concedimus et elargimur, cupientes autem omnes Christi fideles militantes, ut praefertur, participes fieri hujus pretiosissimi Thesauri, universis et singulis Christi fidelibus praedictam licentiam concedimus et facultatem damus ut sibi ad hunc effectum quemcunque, Confessarium tam secularem quam cujusvis Ordinis Regularem etiam ex aliis approbatis a locorum Ordinariis eligere possent, qui eorum confessionibus diligenter auditis ab omnibus Excommunicationis suspensionis et aliis Ecclesiasticis sententiis et censuris a viro vel ab homine quavis causa latis seu inflictis, nec non ab omnibus peccatis excessibus criminibus et delictis quantumvis gravibus et enormibus etiam locorum Ordinariis sive nobis et sedi Apostolicae etiam in Caena Domini legi consuetis contentis et alias per quascunque nostras et Romanorum Pontificum, Praedecessorum nostrorum constitutiones quarum tenore praesentibus haberi volumus pro expressis quomodocunque reservatis in foro Conscientiae et ea vice tantum eos absolvere et liberare valeat, et insuper vota quaecunque (Religionis et Castitatis exceptis) in alia pia et salutaria opera commutare, Injuncta tum eis et eorum cuilibet in supra dictis omnibus casibus paenitentia salutari aliisque ejusdem Confessoris Arbitrio injungendis, Quapropter tenore praesentium in virtute sanctae obedientiae districtae praecipimus et mandamus omnibus et quibuscunque venerabi libus fratribus Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, et aliis Ecclesiasticis Praelatis ac quibuscunque Ordinariis locorum in Hibernia existentibus eorumque vicarijs et officialibus vel ijs deficientibus illis qui curam animarum inibi exercent ut praesentium literarum transumpta aut exempla etiam impressa acceperint, illa statim absque ulla mora retardatione vel impedimento per suas Ecclesias Diaeceses, Provincias Civitates et Oppida terras et loca publicent et publicare faciant, Non intendimus autem per praesentes super aliqua irregularitate publica vel occulta nota defectu incapacitate seu inhabilitate quoquo modo coutracta dispensare, velaliqua facultate tribuere dispensandi seu habilitandi et in pristinum statum restituendi etiam in foro conscientiae neque etiam eosdem praesentes ijs quia nobis et Apostolica sede vel ab aliquo Praelato seu judice Ecclesiastico excommunicati, suspensi, interdicti seu alias in sententias et censuras incidisse Declarati vel publice denunciati fuerint, nisi prius satisfecerint, aut cum partibus concordaverint ullo modo suffragari posse aut debere. Non obstantibus constitutionibus et ordinationibus Apostolicis quibus facultas absolvendi in _____ tunc expressis casibus ita Romano Pontifici pro tempore existenti reservatur, ut nec etiam similes vel dissimiles jubilei Indulgentiarum et facultatum hujusmodi concessiones nisi de illis expressa mentio aut specialis derogatio fiat, cuique suffragari queant, nec non Regula nostra de non concedendis Indulgentiis ad instar ac quibus vis etiam juramento confirmatione Apostolica vel alia quavis firmitate roboratis statutis et consuetudinibus privilegijs quoque indultis et literis Apostolicis in contrarium praemissorum concessis quomodo libet, approbatis et innovatis quibus omnibus et singulis etiam si de illis eorumque totis tenoribus specialis specifica expressis, 
This is a true Copy of the original Bull as it came to Dubline wherein there was two words that could not be read being worn out.  et individua ac de verbo ad verbum non autem pro clausulas generales idem importantes mentio seu quavis alia expressio _____ aut aliqua alia exquisita forma ad hoc servanda foret illorum tenorum praesentibus pro sufficienter expressis ac formam in illis traditam pro servata habentes hac vice specialiter nominatim et expresse ad effectum praesentium derogamus. Caeterisque contrarijs quibuscunque.  autem praesentes nostrae quam ad singula loca deferri non possunt ad omnium noti facilius deveniant, volumus et earundem praesentium transumptis, vel exemplis etiam impressis manu alicujus notarij publici subscriptis et sigillo alicujus personâ in dignitate Ecclesiastica constitutae munitis, eadem prorsus adhibeatur fides quae adhiberetur praesentibus, si forent exhibitae vel ostensae.  
Datum Romae apud Sanctum Petrum 25 Maij 1643, Pontificatus nostri Anno vigessimo. M. A. Maraldus.   

It is Translated into English thus: Vrbanus Octavus, etc. AD FUTURAM REI MEMORIAM.  
HAving taken into Our serious consideration the great zeal of the Irish, towards the propagating of the Catholic faith: and the piety of the Catholic warriors in the several armies of that Kingdom (which was for that singular fervency in the trus worship of God, and notable care had formerly in the like case by the inhabitants thereof, for the maintenance and preservation of the same Orthodox Faith, called of old the land of Saints) and having got certain notice, how in imitation of their godly and worthy Ancestors, they endeavour by force of arms to deliver their thralled nation from the oppressions, and grievous injuries of the Heretics, wherewith this long time it hath been afflicted, and heavily burdened, and gallantly do what in them lieth to extirpate and totally root out those workers of iniquity, who in the Kingdom of Ireland had infected, and always striven to infect the mass of Catholic purity with the pestiferous leaven of their heretical contagion; We therefore, being willing to cherish them with the gift of those spiritual graces, whereof by God we are ordained the only disposers on earth, by the mercy of the same Almighty God, trusting in the authority of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by virtue of that power of binding, and losing of souls, which God was pleased (without our deserving) to confer upon us. To all and every one of the faithful Christians in the foresaid Kingdom of Ireland now, and for the time militating against the Heretics, and other enemies of the Catholic Faith, they being truly and sincerely penitent, after confession, and the spiritual refreshing of themselves with the sacred communion of the body and blood of Christ. Do grant a full and plenary Induigence, and absolute remission for all their fins, and such as in the Holy time of jubilée, is usual to be granted to those that devoutly visit a certain number of privileged Churches, within and without the walls of our City of Rome, by the tenor of which present letters for once only and no more, we freely bestow the favour of this absolution, upon all and every one of them, and withal destring hearty all the faithful in Christ now in arms as aforesaid, to be partakers of this most precious treasure.  
To all and every one of these foresaid faithful Christians, we grant licence, and give power to choose into themselves for this effect any fit Confessor, whither a secular Priest, or a Regular of some Order, as likewise any other selected Person approved of by the Ordinary of the place, who after a diligent hearing of their confessions shall have power to liverate and absolve them from excommunication, suspension, and all other Ecclesiastical sentences and censures by whom soever or for what cause soever pronounced, or inflicted upon them: as also from all sins, trespasses, transgressions, crimes, and delinquencies how heinous and Atrocious soever they be, not omitting those very enormities in the most peculiar cases which by any whatsoever former constitutions of Ours, or of our Predecessor Popes (than which we will have these to be no less valued in every point) were designed to be reserved to the Ordinary, or to the Apostolic Sea, from all which the Confessor shall hereby have power granted him to absolve the foresaid Catholics at the bar of conscience, and in that sense only. And furthermore we give them power to exchange what vow or vows soever they were formerly astricted to (those of religion and chastity excepted) into any other pious and good work or works: imposed or to be imposed on them and every one of them to perform in all the foresaid cases by a wholesome penance according to the mind and will of the Confessor.  
Therefore by the tenor of these present Letters, and by the virtue of that Holy strict obedience, wherein all Christians are bound unto Us, we charge and command all and every one of the reverend Brethren, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ecclesiastical Prelates, and whatsoever Ordinaries of places now residing in Ireland, together with all Vicars, substitutes and officials under them, or these failing, We command all such to whom in those places the care of souls is incumbent, that as soon as they shall have received the copies of these Our Letters, they shall forthwith without any stop or delay publish them, and cause them to be published throughout all their Churches, Dioceses, Provinces, Countries, Cities, Towns, Lands, Villages, and places whatsoever.  
Nevertheless we do not intent by these present Letters, where any public or secret irregularity is made known, or any defection, apostasy, incapacity or inability in any manner of way contracted, to dispense therewith, or grant to any other any power or faculty of dispensation, rehabilitation or restoring the Delinquent to his former condition, though but at the bar of conscience: neither can nor should these our present Letters avail or be stedable to those, who by us and the Apostolic Sea, or by any Prelate or Ecclesiastic judge have been excommunicated, suspended, interdicted, or declared, and publicly denounced to have justly incurred the sentences and censures of the Church, till first they have satisfied and agreed with the parties therein concerned, notwithstanding all other Constitutions and Apostolical Ordinations, whereby vevertherlesss the faculty of Absolution in these as well as other expressed cases is so reserved to his Holiness the Pope for the time being, that no kind of jubilée nor power of granting such indulgences can in any sort avail, unless express mention be made of the fault or faults in particular, and the whole tenor of them fully deduced by an individual relation from word to word, and not by general clauses importing the same thing: this or some other exquisite form of the like nature being carefully observed, we in that case especially, expressly, and namely by the effect of these presents do totally abolish and remit them all and every one of them their offences, notwithstanding any thing to the contrary.  
Now that these principal Letters of ours, which cannot be conveniently brought to every place, may the sooner come to the notice of all, Our will and pleasure is, that any whatsoever Copies or Transumpts whether written or printed, that are subscribed with the hand of a public notary, and which have the seal of some eminent Person in Ecclesiastical dignity affired thereunto, be of the same force, power, and authority, and have the like credit in every respect given unto them, as would be to these our principal Letters if they were shown and exhibited.  
Dated at Rome in the Vatican or St. Peter's Palace the 25 of May 1643 and in the twentieth year of our Pontificat. M. A. Maraldus.   
THe Recusant Lawyers on the other side secretly infusing into the credulous Irish and many old English, pretended grievances and quarrels against your Majesty and your Government, and the English judges and officers; which pretended grievances, even those Lawyers themselves knew to be of no importance, towards any prejudice to the Kingdom in general, and which they well faw the English judges and Officers were most earnest to redress, and did it as fast as could be, being to strive against such irregularities and reluctances, as they found when they began; And to prepare for this Rebellion, they did in the present Parliament declare that kill in rebellion was no forfeiture of lands, though the Law was heretofore held other ways, and much of your Majesty's revenue stands upon that Title, And for petitionary ways, and some other illegal parts in the Government, the Popish Lawyers now chief leaders of the Remonstrants, were the chief practizers at Council board, and most solicitous to lead the people into those ways, to flatter the Governors: All which they did of purpose as it now appears, to poison the minds of the people, and to heap up matter whereout to gather discontent in them against your Majesty and your Government, that when the Clergy could work in them a grounded hatred to the Protestants, and gain in their hearts a further loathing of English Government; how just and profitable soever, both might meet towards destruction of the Kingdom in a War, as they have now brought to pass, And yet if a thorough Scrutiny were made, and the state of that Realm with other Kingdoms, notwithstanding their loud clamours of pretended Grievances no such enormities or abuses, will be found to have been there, when the Rebellion began, as do exceed others in foreign Kingdoms, but rather fare less, and not any such as might stir up such implacable malice, and hatred against your Majesty and the English Government and nation, as now they show: Besides it is observable that in the Protestation, and Declaration of the Lords and Commons in this Parliament of Ireland, they do protest and declare that that Kingdom at the Earl of strafford's first coming to that Government was in a flourishing, wealthy and happy estate, and that for many years passed before his coming the Government was Laudable, Mild, and Legal, and yet in some Prints they now call it Tyrannical for forty years past.  
Touching the opposing of the graces, this is as untrue as the rest, for as to the graces in the fourth year of your Majesty's reign they were allowed the benefit of them for the most part, as in particular:  
THe placing of the Soldiers in Garrisons, and ordering them so as they were no burden to the Country, neither were they from thenceforth used to collect Your Majesty's rents other than those graces allowed, and that rarely.  
The licences for retailing Ale and Beer were called in, and so remained till settled by Law.  
Orders were made for regulating the Clerk of the Market.  
The imposition upon the short Ploughs ceased until a Law was made for it, and the penalty of that Law also forborn at the motion of the Lords in Parliament.  
Limitation for Tanning of Leather quite taken away.  
Free Liberty given for Transportation of Corn, Tallow, Hides, Beef, and other Commodities.  
Bishops and Abbey Liberties in Towns did contribute with the Towns.  
Creation money allowed to Lords, who had it granted to them by Patent, Liveries, Ouster Lemaines', &c. past without Oath of Supremacy, notwithstanding the Laws then and now in force otherways ordained.  
Divers Lands in Connaught put out of charge on those graces.  
Rates of Compositions observed.  
Commissioners of the Country appointed to join with officers for inquiry, and all other directions mentioned in the graces, concerning the Court of Wards, were obeyed.  
The ordering of Fees of Officers in Court was left to the Parliament, who took pains in it through not fully finished.  
Estates of undertakers in Ulster were confirmed according to the graces, and no man denied it, that sued for it.  
The Recusant Lawyers without taking the Oath of Supremacy admitted to the bar, and all others to practice as Protestants were.  
The Plantations of Longford, Leytrim, etc. had their allowance of two years for performance of Covenants as was required.  
The town of Athlone had time given them, as in the graces was commanded.  
The judges were required to take order for summoning of convenient numbers of jurors at Assizes, and King's Bench; Not to allow accusation and testimony of infamous persons (convicted of treason) for evidence.  
Not to bind over jurors in case of trial between subjects.  
To dispatch poor men's causes in Courts; Not to assess Recompense upon robberies.  
Not to bind over Witnesses upon Trials, and to forbear Reprivalls except upon case of necessity, All which were observed by the judges as fare as might be.  
The Bishops were required to take care that Pluralities should not be bestowed on unqualified or unworthy persons, which was observed generally.  
Provost Marshals were forborn in all places except upon rare occasions of necessity, and commonly at the suit of the Country while the necessity required, and then to cease.  
The Scottish men were generally made Dennizens either by Patent or Act of Parliament, and none were refused it, and now lately all the residue naturalised by Act of Parliament.  
Strict course was taken to recover Vicaridges out of Impropriators and Laymens' hands, many recovered, and where no Vicars were, the Impropriators compelled to give good maintenance to Curates.  
Protections against judgements in Courts, and Decrees in Chancery very rarely granted.  
Corporations were Assessed towards contributions, and other Country charges.  
Order was given for Sheriffs Fees as well in Leets, as for removing possession, and for effecting their Fines by justices of peace, which was observed, so as it was not complained of.  
The Exchequer was commanded to proceed touching Custodiaries, as was required by the graces, and not to compel possessors to plead to charges upon Patents granted to strangers: All which was observed.  
Warrants of Assistance to the Clergy were wholly forborn, only in one Diocese of Down four years since or thereabouts, which was called in; And in effect all those graces were yielded unto and allowed as fast as the times could permit: Except the enrolling the surrenders of Connaught and granting away those lands, and Tenors, and except the limitation of Your Majesty's Titles above sixty years, which were stayed by the then Lord Deputy and Counsel upon great and weighty reasons of state, as they then represented to your Majesty, till your Majesty might be well informed of the truth of the case, yet afterwards by your Majesty's command, Bills for Acts of Parliament to resettle all those lands in the Natives and other possessors, and their heirs, were sent over, under the great Seal of Ireland, and returned under the great Seal of England according to Poynings Act, and were ready to pass by Parliament there, at the then next session, and three other Acts, parcel of those graces, if the confederate Catholics had not raised this fearful Rebellion, before the beginning of that Session, which was appointed to be in November following; And where in one of those graces it was desired that all distinctions between the Natives and British might be taken away, That was a thing most desired by the British and Protestants, But these Remonstrants have now showed that they never so intended; They were so fare from that, as they have to their uttermost, extirpated all the British and Protestants, although the English Governors, in the Reign of your Majesty, and your royal father, had by Statutes repealed thirteen several old Statutes against Irish, many of which were penal to them in a high degree, and tended to destruction.  
Touching the Complaints of false Inquisitions taken upon feigned titles, and no traverses or petition of right admitted, It is a feigned and scandalous information, for when any particular Inquisitions were found, either for tenors, or title of land, no traverses or petition of right, as fare as Law would allow, 
Vide the statute of 10 Caroli: Cap.: 3 for the benefit of plantations.  were ever denied to the subject: But where general Inquisitions were found for Plantations in Irish Countries, in respect they were for settling the people in a full peace, And because the Deputy, many of the Counsel, your Majesty's learned Counsel, and chief Officers of eminent trust, were Commissioners and always present, And that the lurors were always the prime men in each Territory, and the Offices most publicly found by their free consent, all parties fully heard, And that those people had neither legal title, nor evidences whereon to to ground traverses, And by reason of the great difficulty to obtain indifferency of trial for the Crown; In these cases which could at best but breed disturbance, contrary to the true intent of those public and beneficial works, It was thought fit for quieting of those estates by Patents, that traverses should not be admitted unto those grand Officers, upon every light surmise, but only upon good, just and legal causes, first made known, and well considered of by your Majesty's Counsel, neither were ever Jurors sentenced for not finding any of those Offices, except in the County of Galway in the Province of Connaught, where the jurors upon only wilfulness would not find upon just and full evidence, as appeared after in the Starrechamber, And upon the same evidence, Informations being filled in the Exchequer for those lands, the prime Lawyers, and many of the Gentry of that Country, in their answers upon oath confessed your Majesty's Title, and so Judgement passed for your Majesty, and seizures issued, And afterwards in a Petition signed and preferred by all the Prime Inhabitants in that County, your Majesty's Title was acknowledged, and a plantation desired, besides in the Lord faulkland's time many of the prime men, Lords and others, in three other Counties of that Province tendered to your Majesty a Plantation upon certain conditions appearing under their hands, they well knowing the benefits arising by plantations, and your Majesty's just Title to those lands, and being conscious to themselves of their unjust intrusion into them.  
And touching the illegal avoiding 150 Patents in a morning by underhand working; It is an untruth, and as to their naming Sir William Parsons in this Article, he was none of the Committee that considered of the Patents in Connaught or Munster, where this must be meant, neither had any thing to do in that part of the proceed, neither were any thing near so many Patents ever questioned in Connaught, and the Territories in Munster lately found for your Majesty, which must be the places intended by this Article; the debate whereof continued several months, neither was any such course continued, or intended to avoid other Patents, except what was done by the means of one james Cusack Esquire, on of his Majesty's Counsel at law and Clerk of the Commission for defective titles, (A Papist Lawyer) now a Remonstrant, but where the parties in that intended Plantations brought in their Patents as was required; A Committee of some of the prime Judges, & your Majesty's learned Counsel were appointed by the E. of Straford late Lord Lieutenant to view them, And where they found them good, as many were, they were allowed & where they conceived them void in law; Counsel was fully heard, where they confessed the same it was so agreed, where they doubted, they were left to trial, if they would stand upon it (as few did.) This was done for avoiding of trouble & needless charge, neither was it a new course, for in the Ulster Plantation the like course was found fittest, and books of the Cases sent to his then Majesty, and by him referred to the Judges of England, and by them agreed unto, and certified back, and so the lands passed, and in many other cases, aswell for pretended grants of Customs, Franchises, and other things in former times, the Cases were ruled by opinion of the Judges, directed by the Deputies, and in this Parliament both Houses required the Judge's opinions on certain Queries concerning the Government tendered to the House of Lords, by the House of Commons; but in most of all the other Plantations, all Patents, whether void or otherways (being not many) were allowed, and the Pattentees had regraunts, for the most part of the same lands, or if the necessity of the service so required it) of others of like quantity and value as near as might be, sometimes of better value, paying only the old Patent Rents, and services, except in some cases when general Patents (being void in themselves) were in Queen Elizabeth's time made to Irish Lords of whole Countries upon false surrenders, where possession did never run according to their Patents; And in those cases also so much as they were possessed of, were repassed unto them at the former rents and services; And if these confederates had had as much care of the honour of the great Seal, the public Faith, and just duty and service to your Majesty and your Crown, as those Governors, Counselors, and Officers always had, they would never have broken out into this unnatural and horrid rebellion, having no just ground or cause for any such act; Neither were the Ministers of State like to be advanced, or like to be benefited by what was done, or to be done towards that Plantation of Connaught, and the rest of those Territories, but only subjected to great travel and pains for your Majesty's service, and common benefit of the Kingdom and people, And in the then intended Plantation of Connaught, (so much complained of by the Remonstrants) the same course was observed for avoiding the Patents of Protestants which were many, and for taking part of their lands, as of the Roman Catholics, without any difference at all. Which course was by the Parliament of Ireland, represented to your Majesty as a general grievance in the Remonstrance sent over by a Committee of Protestants and Papists, and redress obtained in that point.   

In the third Article doth plainly appear, 
3. Article.  contrary to the intention of the Remonstrants, and the Princely & Fatherly care of blessed King james for the general good of that Kingdom, both by sending Commissioners for settling estates, and often renewed and enlarged, and after Statutes made by your Majesty to confirm all those Grants; And also in sending Commissioners to examine grievances, and instructions for the general ease of the people; All which by the Governors and Officers there, was most wililingly obeyed & performed, so fare as was possible, or might any ways stand with your Majesty's service, and the general happiness of the Kingdom as is more particularly expressed in part, in the answer to the precedent Article, and shall hereafter herein appear at full; All which should have wrought love and obedience in their hearts to so gracious a King, and thankfulness to his Ministers, who bestowed daily labour for their benefit, as appeared well in the increase of the Kingdom in all riches, and worldly substance, far beyond all former times, (there being no such pressures as might occasion such outcry) and should have restrained their unjust malice to the English Government; But their desperate hatred to Protestants in general, and to English Governors & Ministers of State, how beneficial soever to them, far beyond any of their own working, or endeavours, was so uncessant and prevalent, as brought forth all these cursed events, and heathenish cruelties; And in particular for officers named in this Article, and other English officers (if particulars may come to an exact examination) it will be most clear; That they have done more for the general peace and prosperity of the Kingdom, than any of these Remonstrants ever offered to do or could do; And if the English Governors and Officers would have concurred, or connived with these Remonstrants' practices for setting up Popery, and the Abridgement and Diminution of your Majesty's Prerogatives, Authorities, Rights and profits (to which end most of their pretended grievances and complaints are framed and devised) they might have enjoyed their more tolerable reports and approbation; the contrary whereof they deserved not, neither will it appear that they have been questioned for any particular injustice, oppression, or private disaffection, unless they be charged with the just detestation of the Remonstrants, perfidious breach of faith to your Majesty, and undeserved cruelties committed upon your Majesty's faithful Ministers, and innocent Protestant subjects, who could be no way guilty of the pretended terrors and mis-behaviours of your Majesty's Governors and Ministers, if any such were, neither is this reluctation and hatred in those of the Irish, and such of the old English, as after degeneration joined with them against the New English, and English Government, vernours, and the desire to root them out, any new thing, for it was the same in the reign of King E. the 3. as appears by Record and good story: It was the same in the reign of King H. the 8. as appears by the Statute made 28. H. 8. cap. 1. It was the same in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, as is evident, and in all other times, when the Kings of England endeavoured reformation or reducement there.   

To the 4th Article. 
4. Article.  The parts of this Article consisting of Generals are untrue, and unjustly devised to traduce your Majesty's gracious Government in all the parts thereof, as fare as these Confederates can invent; First, there are no adherents or instruments who have dealing in the Court of Wards, other than the three sworn Judges, and the sworn Officers thereof, which are not many, against whom in particular no just complaint did in twenty years appear, not in the times of the most strict Governors, who would have been (as was thought) apt to give ready ear unto them, neither can it appear that any wilfully erroneous Decrees or Judgements were ever given in that Court; in which point the Confederates would not have been wilfully silent, if they had had just cause to complain of any such, as they never had; neither were the heirs of Roman Catholics, Noblemen, or others cruelly and tyrannically dealt withal, which are scandalous, and to your Majesty undutiful terms, and sinisterly devised; But on the contrary it is evident by the records, orders, and proceed of that Court ever since the Erection thereof; That all Decrees and Judgements there given, were grounded on an orderly proceeding in a Chancery course, according to your Majesty's Commission in that behalf, Counsel on both sides freely heard, and all parties convinced of the justness of every Decree or judgement there given, and all tolerable respect and moderation used in executing the same, so as no man could justly complain; All which part of that Judicature was wholly governed by the Attorney of that Court, who is well able to answer for it; It also appears by the Records and Entries in that Court, that since the Erection thereof in favour to all your Majesty's Subjects, aswell Papists as Protestants above two hundred Wardships were granted to the friends of the Ward, or unto others of their nomination, (who in some cases might better be trusted) to the use of the heir, for payment of their debts, preservation of their houses, sustentation and preferment of younger Sons and Daughters, if not provided for by the Ancestor, and their lands leased to their most responsible friends to the same uses, and good security given for account; Most of all which if the Judges of that Court had been regardless of the heirs and other children, or careful to raise profit to themselves or their friends, they might have granted to others by force of their Commission and instructions; yet none were granted to strangers to their own use, except by your Majesty's immediate Warrants, or in some few cases, where the parties neglected many Terms, or refused to prosecute, or where they obstinately opposed the King's Title, and so of necessity it was prosecuted at great charge and travel by others by allowance of the Court, which could not otherwise be done, and this manner of granting was the safest way for the heir, for it being in a stranger's name to the use of the heir, and strict bonds taken for account, every friend or kinsman of the heir or younger Children, espying any abuse of their estates, would be apt to inform (often without cause or ground,) Whereas on the other side if the same had been left to the order of the friends, there would have been none to inform against them; The Judges of that Court also did take order actually to pay many of those heirs debts, out of the heirs estate, in some cases 1000 pounds, if the Wardship continued any time, in other cases lesser sums, as they could enforce the money received (out of their friends the trusties hands) who would often endure imprisonment ere they would pay it in. They also often appointed portions for Daughters and younger children, many times also by labour and suit preserved their estates from encroachment of friends and neighbours, and secured for them their Leases, Chattels and Debts, if they could discover any; And lastly took care of their Marriages as fare as they could, and specially of their Evidences; It is also manifest that the Compositions taken for Marriages of Wards, Lyveries, ouster le maines, Allienations and other contempts, were very easy and moderate, the values of the estates, and the charges and encumbrances thereupon duly considered, your Majesty always receiving but a small part of what was justly due to your Majesty, and in many cases less than by your Majesty's instructions the graces was ordained; It is also most apparent, that if the heirs were so under age. as any way fit for schooling, 
6.  and other good learning, for which purpose by the care of that Court of Wards special houses, honest and religious Overseers, Schoolmasters, and Ushers were waged and ordained, many of the Wards sent to the College, when they were fit for it, whereby they were all in the view of the Master, brought up and instructed in the true Religion, and in all other good literature and knowledge, fitting their quality, and by this means several Noblemen and Gentry are at this day good Protestants and loyal Subjects, and for those that afterwards forsook the Religion and became Papists, if they be compared with any of their quality in the Kingdom, their ability and behaviour will testify their education fare surpassing the others bred in the Country; All which several cares, as well for education as ordering their estates, were in former times neglected and forborn, and never any such course held; And as to the disallowing of Tenors of mean Lords and avoiding of estates valid in law by unjust judgement; It is a causeless imputation, for it is most apparent by the Acts of that Court, that whatsoever could in law or conscience be allowed unto them, was done; Nay, whereas in former times when that part of your Majesty's business had a kind of being in the Exchequer. That Court did usually seize lands upon one De quo, or an Ignoramus found of a Tenure of lands; But when the Court of Wards was erected, those Judges did never seize until the second De quo, which gave the Subject much time and liberty to collect and find out evidences or other matter, if any were to help himself; And if any loss and damage happened by those Judgements, it fell on your Majesty's part through tenderness towards the parties so fare as the oaths of the Judges could permit; In all which the Attorney of the Court is able to give good account, on whose judgement in law the rest relied, And in cases where the Bar yielded not to the opinion of the Attorney, the Master, by your Majesty's gracious instructions, called others of the most learned and grave Judges, who upon arguments on both sides resolved the question, and so the judgement passed; Besides, if differences at any time happened between the Judges of that Court, They had by your Majesty's instructions a resort to the Court of Chancery, where they were to sit with the Lord Chancellor and other Judges, and there was to be the final determination, where the Judges of the Court of Wards did only once sit on that occasion, there being cause for it no oftener, And there those Catholic Natives might have sought relief daily, if they could have justly complained of any erroneous and unjust Judgements, and as to the swarming of Escheators, Feodaries, and Pursuivants, there are but five Escheators, and eight Feodaries in the whole Kingdom (which is fare less than the laws of the Land do appoint) being all men of known judgement, moderation and integrity; And whereas in the Kingdom of England, the heirs friends do with all earnestness solicit those Officers for timely obtaining due discharges against the Crown; In that Kingdom, such is the refractoriness and disobedience of many of those pretended Catholics, as those Officers were driven to express them and attend several (disappointed) days to their no small travel and loss, and at last content themselves with bare fees; And for Pursuivants there are but two belonging to that Court and their necessary servants, And those never used but in cases of contempt, And those contempts many times multiplied; and in case of nonpayment of your Majesty's moneys, the use of whom the Court were necessitated unto, and could not forbear, unless they would contrary to their oaths, suffer your Majesty to lose your Majesty's legal and just profits, And truly aswell may these Remonstrants, charge the government with multitude of Sheriffs, Sheriffs men, Bailiffs & other Officers, by reason that men would not willingly obey the law, deal justly, and pay their debts and just duties, by occasion whereof many were disquieted and attached, & many outlawed, which concluded with their great loss & damage; But when these Confederates have summoned their inventions to infame that necessary and orderly Court, they forbear to express the true grounds of their grievances, which are first the education of the Wards as well in civility as true Protestant Religion, and other good literature, which they generally abhor; Secondly, that the Uncles and friends might not freely take into their hands the children's Evidences, Lands, Rents, and goods, and waste them without account, as they had formerly done, tending to the ruin of many heirs; Thirdly, because the just and legal dependency of the Gentry is rightly settled in your Majesty, whereof the Irish Lords and Chieftains did in former times unjustly deprive your Majesty, and your Predecessors, and so labour still to do; Lastly, because by the blessing of peace and good order your Majesty's rights interests and just profits, were by your Majesty's Judges and Officers more carefully looked unto and brought in, which also is one true reason why these confederates do so much hate peace, and the government of the Laws because their licentious appetites are thereby somewhat restrained, and your Majesty's rights and just Prerogatives maintained, as appears by their actions.   

In the fift Article the Remonstrants do still inculcate pressures of purpose to scandalise that government, 
5. Article.  where in truth none such were of any moment, other than that which was for the service of the Crown and benefit of the Kingdom, which they call greivances, or where the public necessities of the Kingdom justly required it, or the irregular carriage of some officers in the Country and some Courts, might bring upon some particulars, those officers or their servants being for the most part some of the new Remonstrants, which officers of whatsoever condition or profession, were punished so often as they could be discovered, neither did any of those burdens whatsoever they were, fall other ways on the Remonstrants, then on the Protestant Subjects, and whatsoever they were, the happy and rich peace settled amongst them by your Majesty, and your blessed father which they never before enjoyed, did more than abundantly recompense them, if they could have endured peace, and the just laws of England; And as to their vaunts of the great gifts they say they have bestowed on your Majesty, first they did but their duties in whatsoever they gave as a part of retribution for the great and inestimable benefits they received by your Majesty's gracious government, and by your great bounties, neither was your Majesty made the richer by any of those gifts, for they were all disbursed amongst themselves partly to the old army placed among them for their own safety and quiet, if they could have been content with that happiness, which army would have been sufficient to repress any particular disorder or insolence, if the Remonstrants had not by general conspiracy suddenly and at once cast of all obedience to your Majesty and the Laws and surprised your Majesty's stores, and forts, and almost all the arms of the British and Protestants; Those gifts were also bestowed in the other necessary occasions of the Kingdom, and in truth the new army (which consisted for the most part of themselves) received the greatest part of those gifts; And whereas they affirm that they were the most forward in granting those contributions and subsidies, over and above your Majesty's Rents, and Reveneus (which is an expression savouring of some repining at your Majesty's receipts in rents which is your Majesty's legal due, and which they well know, comes not to your Majesty's private purse) and that they paid Nine parts of ten of those Subsidies, it is most untrue, that those Remonstrants were either most forward in granting them, or paid such large quantities thereof: for first as to the contribution towards the maintenance of the Army, your Majesty's Protestant Officers and Subjects were the first movers thereof, and when they came to be agreed on and paid, those Remonstrants were the main opposers thereof both in Ireland and in England, as doubtless your Majesty may remember, and is well known to many yet living, and when they were paid it was with great luctation and clamour amongst them; and yet they rested not, till they drew from your Majesty under the title of graces, matters of more loss to your Majesty then those contributions were worth, and as to the Subsidies it is most true, that they were first moved by your Majesty's Protestant Officers, and Subjects, not without some difference in alacrity, at least in those Remonstrants, neither would they have been so granted (as there is just cause to conceive) had not these Remonstrants seen the unanimous propension of your Majesty's Protestant Subjects, and that by a trial in the House of Commons, before that motion made they found that your Majesties Protestants subjects then exceeded them in number & would carry it by voices; And this may with the more confidence be affirmed in certain knowledge, and upon a second probate, which is that when afterwards by occasion of the Lord strafford's troubles in England, and of the new Armies lying at Knockefergus, and in those parts many Protestant members were absent, most of whom upon several pretences, they discharged them and brought in Papist members, whereby the Remonstrants' party were grown fare the greater in the Commons House, than partly by complaining in England, and partly by orders made in the house; the Subsidies formerly granted were drawn down from 41000 l. certain each Subsidy, to little above 12200 l. as appear by the Subsidy Roll last returned, which is far below the subsidy granted in the tenth year of King james— when the Kingdom was but in growth; And as to the proportion paid by the Protestant Subjects it well appears by the Rolls extant that they paid above a third part of the whole besies the Clergy, though neither the quality or quantity of the Lands of Inheritance holden by them in the Kingdom do amount to more than to the fift part; nor is the truth thus vouched, which desire to arrogate any thing to your Majesty's Protestant Subjects in prejudice of the others (whom they would rejoice to see as forward as themselves in all subject duties the rather to merit in some measure your Majesty's princely favours;) But to give your Majesty and all others, a true view as near as they can of both parties in their actions, seeing the Remonstrants presume to stand before them so fare in professions, howsoever it is most notorious, how the said Protestant Subjects stand in sufferings, and here it is desired that the affections and duty of the Protestant Subjects in Ireland may be measured by their actions, which have been, and always will be such towards your Majesty your Crown and posterity as (if those Remonstrants would really perform the like) your Majesty's Revenues and the bounties of your people might wholly come to your Majesty's purse without any men of war to maintain peace there, and then should your Majesty enjoy competent benefit of a fruitful Kingdom which hitherto hath been made unprofitable to your Majesty and highly chargeable, and mischievous to your Royal Predecessors.  
And lastly as to the distribution of the sums of money given, which these Remonstrants would insinuate to have been to your Majesty's diservice, and to the profit of their adversaries, whom they seem to design to be your Majesty's Protestant servants and officers, the vanity and inconsiderateness of this imputation, will easily appear upon view of your Majesty's Officers accounts there, extant which will sufficiently clear that point, and manifest the falsehood of that scandal.   

To the sixth Article. 
6. Article.  It is to be answered that what pressing Importunity was offered to your Majesty by any whom they call the Malignant party in England touching the disbanding of the new Army, is best known to your Majesty; But it is not true that the Lords Justices and Counsel there went about to disband that Army till they received your Majesties warrant so to do, and soon after for doing it received your Majesty's gracious approbation, and indeed it was of absolute necessity to disband them, they having spent all the victuals provided for them, and there being no money in your Majesty's treasure in Ireland to pay them, or the old Army, then in charge thereupon, and fare in arraere neither was that Kingdom able in a peaceable way to maintain such an Army as those Remonstrants themselves, (amongst others) openly professed in this Parliament, being therein moved by your Majesty's direction only to give some help thereunto for a time; But it is now plainly seen, that the secret reason why those Remonstrants so distasted, and in Parliament laboured against the disbanding of that Army, was, because by their disbanding, they saw themselves like to be disappointed of such a help, and of those Arms, with a more fall hand, to execute their bloody design upon your Majesty's British and Protestant Subjects, which it seems was consented unto by many of these Remonstrants, members of both houses in the May session of Parliament before, as was declared by Hugh Mac Mahon upon his examination: Those Remonstrants well knowing, that the greatest part of that Army, aswell the common soldier, as many of the Commanders, were ready to be employed by them in that exploit, as since more fully appeared; And that this their confederacy seems to be begun at that time, or before, doth somewhat more appear, in that at the next Session in june and July when that Army was disbanded, and that your Majesty for good reasons had commanded by your several warrants that they should be sent over sea, to serve other Princes in amity with your Majesty, those Remonstrants took great pains to frame reasons to stay them, which by their means the Lords Justices were then pressed to transmit to your Majesty: And that they were unwilling to supply those Princes, whose aid they so undutifully, soon afterwards solicited against your Majesty and your Majesty's true Subjects and servants, not that they believed the kingdom could not well spare those men, being then lose and no way settled, but that they intended shortly to make an other use of them, to the utter destruction of your Majesty's good Subjects, as lamentable experience now evinceth, besides it was then made known to the Lords, Justices, and Council, That the Priests and Jesuits dissuaded the Colonels, Captains, and Soldiers all they could, from going over, which was on the same grounds to open which secret a little further, It must be also remembered that in that Session upon a pretence that some of the Lord strafford's servants had placed powder under the Parliament House, with purpose to blow them all up, (which was a mere fiction) They moved the house to send certain Committees of Lords, to the Lords Justices, wherein the lord Magwier a chief conspirator (as himself confessed) was a most busy man, to require search for the powder, which they curiously performed, and veiwed every corner, on purpose to see what Arms were brought in (that being a place where Arms had been in former times kept) though the Officers of the Ordnance assured them that no powder had been laid there for some years before, neither was there any at that time; And when they had seen what there was, they adventured (and drew the other Lords of that Committee, then and now good Subjects) to renew their motion to the Lords Justices, to be admitted to see the stores of powder and arms placed in other parts in and about the Castle, to whom the Lords Justices then answered that those were the King's precious jewels not to be without special cause showed, and so refused them, whereat they seemed discontented, as being left in uncertainty, in what state your Majesty's stores stood, which they desired much to know, especially whether the powder & Arms were all there, & where they lay, that if they were not come in, they might find them elsewhere, or if there, then by the intended surprise to be sure of them, and to know where on the sudden to find them.  
As for that strange Chimaera of bringing a 10000 Scots into that Kingdom, to force the Catholics thereof to change their Religion, and that Ireland would never be well without a Rebellion, to the end the Natives might be extirpated; It is little marvile that those Remonstrants in whose brains exterpation of British and Protestants did so much run, which they to their uttermost power soon after executed, & had their hearts full of Rebellion, which they wickedly practised soon after, could easily fancy such thoughts in other men, as one colour of excuse amongst others, for their own evil intents: But that those persons named in this Article should declare or advise such an act, to the disturbance of that blessed peace, (in settling whereof they have been principal actouts) and in that Kingdom where their whole subsistence is, and where their children are matched to Natives, knowing also as they do, that such an action cannot be without great means, and authority to support it, it is incredible, neither can they conceive that it will gain more credit with any intelligent man, than the tale of wagers mentioned in this Article, the true particular whereof is, That at an Assizes at Wexford, a little before the Rebellion, certain Papists and Protestants being at the Sheriff's table at dinner, a Protestant and a Papist had some conference about Religion, The Protestant at last wished the Papist to come to Church as most of them had done formerly whereto the Papist answered he would never go to Church, the Protestant said I will give you 5 l. & you shall give me 50. l. for it, if you come not to Church before this time Twelvemonth, he well knowing that the Papist would not come to Church whereat the Papist seeming startled, was very earnest to understand the secret of that wager, which at last the Protestant discovered, and so it proved a merriment to the whole table, as is well known to the Remonstrants, And these are some of the grounds whereon these Remonstrants pretend to found their bloody Massacre, which soon after ensued to the destruction of your Majesty's British and Protestant subjects; What the Parliament in England protested or intended concerning the Catholics in Ireland, The Protestants in Ireland were not much moved with the rumours thereof, being strangers thereunto, and presumed those Remonstrants were better settled in the assurance of your Majesty's Protestant subjects love to them, and your Majesty's gracious favours, and care showed to their security; It is true, that some Prints have been seen here, seeming to aver, that Laws made in England will bind in Ireland, if Ireland named; This is a power that may equally concern your Majesty's Protestant subjects, as those confederates, But it being a matter yet fare from determination, might have been thought more fit to be disputed in peaceable and civil Assemblies, then canvased by Arms, in open hostility against your Majesty, and your obedient Subjects, and the resolution written in the blood of so many thousand innocent Protestants, unable to resist, and that by treacherous surprise, without the least notice of force intended, especially seeing therein they say truly, (and that in all respects only truly hitherto in their Remonstrance) that your Majesty's high wisdom was able to apply seasonable cures to any such evils or innovations, neither can it be believed that those Remonstrants or Catholics of Ireland, as they call themselves, could be truly informed of any Protestation made by both Houses of Parliament in England, or an intention in them to introduce law for the extirpation of Catholic Religion in the three Kingdoms, at any time before these Remonstrants openly entered into this actual Rebellion, and bloody assacination, though those Remonstrants draw it in amongst their provocations, to take up Arms; Neither indeed did those Remonstrants fear any violence, or sharp prosecution from their quiet Neighbours the Protestants in Ireland, there having been very great, and (as now appears) very dangerous patience used towards the Remonstrants, aswell by Governors, as all Officers and Protestants, who would have been glad to live among them in peace, if the Remonstrants could have endured their company; Lastly, whereas they seem grieved, That the Parliament of England encroached against law, and unjustly upon the Privileges of Parliament in Ireland, in sending for, and questioning too, and in the English Parliament the members of that Parliament, They do well now to express sense of it, amongst the rest of their pretexts for their wicked acts; But when Protestant members of this Parliament (against whom that pretended encroachment most extended) were sent for, they imploring the aid of the Parliament of Ireland to defend them, and their privileges, were not helped therein by the Commons house, but were answered by a leading Member of the Commons house, now a Remonstrant, that the House should do well not to take notice thereof, lest any variance should arise between the two Parliaments, so unwilling they were to assist the Protestants, or maintain that right, which now they so stoutly challenge, though a good while afterwards both Houses, took occasion to write to their Committee in England to solicit concerning that particular; And so little fear had they then of any pernicious purposes in that Parliament against them, though they now make mention of that Parliaments unwarrantable invasion, since made on your Majesty's Rights and Prerogatives, as a pretence for their wicked and abominable actions, long before that begun.   

In the seventh Article, Those Remonstrants do justly acknowledge your Majesty's grace and Princely patience, in hearing their grievances, 
7. Article.  which would have wrought upon any loyal or dutiful heart, to return love, and obedience to so gracious a Sovereign, and at least neighbourlike demeanour towards your Majesty's faithful Subjects, the British and Protestants, which how they performed, their then immediately ensuing acts do demonstrate; But in this Article also, they continue their untrue and malicious calumniations against your Majesty in your Governors and Officers, who did never give any of them just cause of offence; It cannot appear that the Lords, Justices, and Counsel did give any untrue Information against them or the Committees of that Parliament; neither is it true, that any such thing was done, for that they know the Counsel (of whom the Lords, Justices, than were) gave all the furtherance they could to the going of that Committee, Hoping that what your Majesty should be pleased to grant might redound to the common benefit of your people; Neither did any Privy Counselors go into England of purpose, to cross, or give impediment to your Majesty's Justice and graces: But it is true that the late Lord Dillon, afterwards Earl of Roscomon, and Sir Adam Loftus, your Majesty's Vice-Treasurer, were about that time sent for by your Majesty upon the motion of your Parliament of England (as it seemed) to testify in the cause moved in that Parliament, against the Earl of Strafford, And if in their attendance there their advice or knowledge concerning any thing there propounded, or handled by the Committee, were required by your Majesty, doubtless those Counselors did faithfully discharge the duty of good servants to your Majesty, and true wellwishers to that Kingdom, being both Natives thereof, and members of that Parliament: Neither did your Majesty's Justices and Counsel transmit unto your Majesty, or any of the State of England any misconstructions or misrepresentations of the proceed and actions of that Parliament; but rather it may justly be believed that those Remonstrants do work upon their own evil imaginations in this, as in the former Articles they have presumed to avouch several known untruths; Nay, the Lords, Justices, were so farce from any such malevolence to that Parliament, or any Members thereof, as when they received your Majesty's Commission, dated the sourth of january 1640. authorising them to continue, prorogue, or determine the Parliamnent as they thought fit; They in confidence that the intent of all the Members of the Parliament was for the general good of the Kingdom, and your Majesty's service, did willingly continue it, and gave all countenance and assistance to it, which well appears by a motion made by a noble Peer in the Lord's House, That the Lords Justices had always cheerfully received their requests, and Messages, and were ready to comply with them, desiring it might be entered, to the end it might remain to posterity; It is also conceived that when your Majesty had given direction that all Letters from thence should be kept apart, to the end the Committee might have recourse unto them, if any such misrepresentations could have appeared to them, they would have instanced the same in this Remonstrance, and not have offered to your Majesty suppositions for certainties.  
And touching the Parliament of Ireland's power of Judicature in matters Capital, there was nothing written from thence concerning that matter, until your Majesty being advertized of the impeachment of the Lord Chancellor, and others in the Lord's House, required the Lords Justices to search and certify, whether any precedents might be found there for such a proceeding, Your Majesty then also graciously declaring that as your Majesty intended not to prejudice the Rights of the Lords House, so your Majesty did expect that they should not introduce any new precedent for that cause. Thereupon the Lords Justices having searched and demanded of the two Houses of Parliament if any such precedents they could show, none were produced, which the Lords Justices certified bacl to your Majesty's principal Secretary, as in duty they ought; And it is believed that those Remonstrants would not now more earnestly press for that power in Judicature, than heretofore was done, were it not by the exercise, or terror thereof (if their party could have prevailed) to rid themselves of your Majesty's English Judges and Officers, whom they cannot endure to bear rule amongst them, though they clearly saw the Kingdom prospered above any former times, under their great labour and travel.  
It is most untrue that your Majesty's Protestant officers or subjects did envy the good union between the two Houses; But the truth is, they did labour to cherish and confirm it, by their uttermost skill and industry; And if your Majesty's servants, or your Protestant subjects did happen to oppose those Remonstrants in any their undutiful motions and projects, either concerning Religion, or your Majesty's Protestant Clergy, or concerning the derogation of your Majesty's Prerogatives, Rites, and authories, or malicious practice against your Majesty's Officers; Those Remonstrants did, and now do, ascribe it to malice against them and the Nation, which is a most unjust obloquy; And though your Majesty's Protestant subjects of the Commons House saw, and knew, that there were then daily and nightly. meetings of those Remonstrants, and their party then members of both Houses, Insomuch as it was in the former Session 1641. moved in the Lord's House, that an order might be entered against such meetings; And though your Majesty's Protestant subjects found that from those meetings proceeded daily motions in the Commons House, touching the  particulars in prejudice of your Majesty & your government, whichin a manner took up all their time to moderate, & contain them, yet your Majesties said Protestant Subjects of that house, did for their parts forbear any such course of meetings, fearing to under go suspicion of siding or inclination to disunion at last finding the continued inconvenience of that practice in the Popish party, and hearing also that it was muttered amongst many of the now Remonstrants, that they intended to impeach divers of your Majesty's principal Officers, who could not be drawn to vary from their just duty to your Majesty and your rights, and against some other your Maesties' British Protestant Officers, who had either given opinion or any ways laboured towards the clearing of your Majesty's title to the Lands in Connaught, the obstructing & frustrating whereof was the Remonstrants' darling care, all the rest of their pretended greivances (both in the fourth year of your Majesty's reign and those lately being gathered up, and for the most part strained out of particulars, and subservient, to countenance and support the importunity concerning that business, which plantation if it had proceeded, they knew would have been a full ground of peace to that Kingdom, which they laboured to retain from your Majesty's knowledge; Then and not till then some of your Majesty's Protestant Subjects of that house, in these respects did only once meet, (in which meeting there were some Papists also) of purpose to become in some measure prepared to free themselves and the house, from those unreasonable attempts, in which meeting nothing was done or agreed, that ever gave offence, or just distaste to the house, or any member thereof, which may appear in that the Remonstrants can mention no disturbance thereby which they would not spare, if any such thing they could speak of, though they have not trembled to present to your Majesty's royal view, many as strange inventions, neither were the Lords Justices so much as acquainted with the meeting.  
It is utterly untrue that during that Session of Parliament (which was very long from the 11 of May to the 7 of August) there was any certain knowledge there, of the Committees being at the waterside, in all which time of the Session little was done to the good of the Common wealth or advancement of your Majesty's service for most part spent in Protestations Declarations, Votes upon the queries the stay of soldiers from going over seas, and private petitions.  
About the 14 day of july, 1641. the Lords Justices finding nothing of moment for the general good, or your Majesties, service then in doing in the house, sent to both Houses to consider of a reasonable time of prorogation, or adjournment of that Session, the rather because, the harvest drew on, many members were gone home, and the house grown thine, as in some orders appears in the Lord's House.  
Upon the 30 of july the Commons House, desired the Lords House that the adjourning might be stayed till the saturday seavenight after, which was the 7 of August: On the second of August, the Lords house ordered that in respect the Judges were very shortly to go their circuits, and some of them already licenced, the rest of them should be that day licenced to departed, and no more to attend that Session; on the same day the Commons house sent to the Lords HOuse that they conceived the prorogation or adjournment was fit to be on saturday the 7 of that month, and to meet again the ninth of November following, on the 5 of August the Lord's House ordered that a Committee of that House should join with a Committee of the Commons (whereto the Commons House also assented) to acquaint the Lords Justices that both Houses had agreed that a prorogation or adjournment should be on saturday aforesaid, and to meet again on the said ninth of November, and desired their Lordship's approbation thereof.  
To this the Lords Justices answered them that there were three several ways of recess, one by writte-of adjournment, for which no precedent was found in that Kingdom, another by adjournment to be entered in the books of the Houses as done by the Lords Justices consent, and the third by prorogation which their Lordships intended, But because the Houses inclined to an adjournment, their Lordships consented thereto, by order to be entered in the Houses as by their consent.  
On the 6 of August the Lord's House ordered that the adjournment should be on the satturday aforesaid according to their resolution sent to the Lords Justices. On the same 6 day the Lords House ordered that a Message should be sent to the Commons House to let them know that they saw no cause to alter their former resolution for the adjournment, finding no cause in the letter, that day received from the Committee in England, nor by what they otherwise understood at the late conference, and from the said Earl of Roscommon, who late then landed there, (and who brought the letter from the Committee) to expect the Bill desired in any short time, for indeed they were then at London undispatched, and the Letter said they were then busy about their dispatch; And accordingly the next day being the 7 of August their Lordships adjourned the House till the 9 of November following; All which being the very truth in this particular it is hardly credible that the Lords Justices and their adherents (whosoever is meant thereby) would take occasion to use those menacing words to several Honourable Lords in the Article mentioned (viz) that if they did not adjourn the Lords House on that day being saturday, they would prorogueon Monday following: or whether it be likely, that by the practices of the Lords Justices and some of the Privy Counsel, and their adherents that faction (as those Remonstrants injuriously term them) did or could in such tumultuous and disorderly manner cry out for the adjournment with purpose to prevent the passing of those acts and graces, that Session, which were expected from your Majesty's goodness: But those Remonstrants having broken faith with your Majesty and all your faithful people do take liberty to asperse your Majesty's Governors and well affected Officers. whom they desire for ill ends to make odious to the people of both Kingdoms; And as a fatal perclose to this Article, they subioyne another palpable untruth, That after the artivall of that Committee, who came not thither till towards the end of August. That Committee could not obtain from the Lords Justices Notification to be given to the Country of your Majesty's goodness and bounty intended and showed to the people, which might have tended to their great satisfaction; Whereas the Lords Justices never denied them any such thing, But De facto did forthwith write to all the Ports in the Kingdom, with briefs of those graces, concerning matters of Customs, which that season most required; Commanding the Officers punctually to obey those his Majesty's directions; They also published Proclamations for the sending away of Wool, and what Customs was to be paid for the same; And sent several Letters to all the Ports of the Kingdom to publish the same, And sent warrants for free entries of all Tobacco brought in, or to be brought in at all the Ports, and what Custom to be paid; They gave order for drawing a Bill for repeal of the preamble of the Act of Subsidies: They also desired Sir james Montgomerie, and Sir William Cole, two of the Committee then returned, (if they could overtake the Assizes in the Counties of Ulster) to give public notice to all the undertakers, what your Majesty had graciously granted and intended to them, which they undertook to do: They had formerly sent over the Bill for the general pardon, which was all that for that short time could be done, specially the Term, and the next Session being so near, aswell for passing the Acts then newly come over, as upon deliberate consultation in the mean time, to prepare for an orderly execution, and publication of the rest of those graces; Most of the rest of the graces being to be executed there in Dublin, and in the Courts; The Committee also, and the few others of the Members of the House, remaining then in Dublin, being very urgent to go to their houses, which they suddenly did: But it appeared soon after that those Remonstrants and their party had other intentions, and determined to be their own carvers, aswell of your Majesty's Rents and Subsidies then in the Collectors hands, as of all the goods substance, and estates of your Majesty's British and Protestant subjects, which intenon they within a few days after fully put in practice.   

As to the prodigious tale mentioned in the eight Article of dangerous, 
8. Article.  and pernicious Petitions to the Parliament in England, pretended to be contrived by the four persons named in this Article, and signed by many thousands of a malignant party, which Petitions they say were made known at Assizes, and other public places, containing (as they pretend) matters destructive to the Catholics their Religion, lives, and estates; This allegation exceeds all the rest in malice and untruth, and certainly if ever there were such a Petition (as there was not) it is wonderful being signed (as they say it was) by many thousands, that to this hour, no Copy thereof can be showed by any: But these Remonstrants care not what detractions, how untrue, and improbable soever they print or publish against those they hate, for the truth is, those four persons never contrived or advised, jointly or severally, and such Petitions, or indeed any Petitions to that Parliament: But to open this Trojane Hours, the truth is, That about the thirteenth of August 1641. The Lords, Justices, and Counsel having intelligence out of the County of Tyrone, that a Petition to the Parliament of England, framed (as it after appeared) by some Protestants in Dublin, was carried up and down in those parts to gather hands, their Lordships not knowing what it was, and doubting it might be some such thing that might breed distemper in those Inhabitants; Did by their Letter dated the said thirteenth of the same August, pray and require the Lord Bishop of Clogher to take that Petition, and carry it to the Justices of Assize then in the Country, and to wish them to proceed thereupon as they should think fit according to law; And after the Assizes ended, to send it up to the Lords Justices and Counsel; All which was done, and the Petition then sent up, and ever since remains in the hands of the Clerks of the Counsel: Now lately in the year 1643. it was discovered to the Commissioners for Ecclesiasticicall causes, That one Partington of Dublin, had a Petition framed in the name of several Inhabitants in and about the City of Dublin, and some few parishes within the Diocese of Laughlyn; whereupon he being cited and examined, produced the draught of that Petition, which upon view appeared to be the same in substance with that which remaineth in the Clerk of the Counsels hands, which Petition contained no matter destructive to the said Catholics, their Religion, lives, or estates, but doth rather lay accusations, of some disorders and remissness in the Protestant Clergy, as appears by the Copy of the said Petition which followeth in these words.  
To the Honourable, the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament assembled in England. The humble Petition of several the Protestants inhabiting, and now residing in and about the City of Dublin, and in some few Parishes within the Diocese of Laughlin and Fearnes in the Realm of Ireland.  
In all humbleness showeth,  
THat whereas the Protestant Religion was generally received in the said Realm of Ireland, in the beginning of the reign of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth of famous memory, as by several good Laws and Statutes then made and established by Parliament (for restoring the Crown to the Ancient jurisdiction over the estate Ecclesiastical and Spiritual, for abolishing all Foreign power and authority out of the said Realm, and for uniformity of Prayer, and administration of the Sacraments within the said Kingdom may appear: By which Laws all Ecclesiastical persons and Officers judges, justices, Mayors, and temporal Officers are enjoined to take the Oath of Supremacy, and all persons mhatsoever required, on Sundays and Holidays to repair to Church upon the several pains therein limited and expressed: And whereas ever since the making of the said Statutes, it hath been the care of our dread Sovereign, the constant Defender of the Faith, and his most noble Predecessors, tohave his people governed according to those, and other the laudable Laws of England and Ireland: And whereas both the Protestants Clergy, and Laity, have heretofore contributed to his Majesty's occasions towards the free Gifts of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds and likewise by an other gift of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds more, during the Government of the Lord Viscount Fauckland, as largely as the Papists, and after in or about the next ensuing Government of Lords justices, to the Gift of forty thousand 'ounds, and the Protestant Laiety likewise contributed to the six entire Subsidies, in the tenth year of his Majesty's reign, which Subsidies in the Collection amounted to two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, besides the eight entire Subsidies of four shillings in the pound granted to his Majesty the same year by the Protestant Clergy; In all which payments, as in all other public charges, the Popish Clergy contribute nothing, notwithstanding that they have their duties from all the people duly paid them, with great sums of moneys left unto them by the death of such as are Papists, and by their doctrines of penance and Purgatory, and such like, grow fare richer than the Protestant Clergy: Yet so it is, may it please your honours, That after the payment of the said sums of One hundred and fifty thousand pounds, and one hundred and twenty thousand pounds, the popish party only, was advanced by stay of Execution of the aforesaid Laws, contrary to his Majesty's pious intention as (your supplicants verily believe.) And whereas in the Government of the said Lords justices, when the judges of Assize in their several Circuits, twice had put the said Laws in execution against the Papists, and thereby brought multitudes, to Church, who were glad of that occasion, to be freed from the intolerable exactions of the popish Clergy, even then about the time of payment of the said forty thousand pounds, the said proceed against the Papists were again stopped, since which time, during the Government of the late Lord Lieutenant, notwithstanding the said Subsidies both of the Clergy and Laity, Popery hath been countenanced fare more than the Protestant Religion, they having liberty in the said City, and in all other parts of the Kingdom, to Marry, Bury, Baptise, Communicate, after their own ways, profess their orders, we are their several habits, meet in great numbers, exercise all manner of Foreign jurisdiction, and Superstitious Ceremonies, without giving any account for the same, they having divers Fryaries and Masse-houses that were formerly suppressed by precedent Governors, restored to the pretended owners, which with other public Masse-houses newly erected, and furnished with Images and Altars, are imloyed in the exercise of popish Religion, both in the City and Country; And likewise by their Titulary Bishops, Dignitaries, and numbers of parish priests, far exceeding the number of the Protestant Clergy, with many thousands of jesuites and Friars, the Emiscaries of Rome, that swarm through all parts of the City and Kingdom, especially since the late Proclamation of England, against the Papists, they have not only impoverished the Kingdom, but amongst other their pernicious Doctrines, that there is no salvation, but in Communion with the Church of Rome, and subjection to the Bishop of Rome, have so seduced the people, and ensnared their consciences; That no Papist that is made justice of Peace, Mayor, Sheriff, or other Officer, will take the Oath of Supremacy, And yet they are in all parts of the Kingdom admitted to the said Offices, without any such Oath administered unto them, and thereby the principal means provided, for the execution of the said Laws, is taken away. And your Supplicants likewise show, that the flourishing estate of the true Protestant Religion, hath not been eclipsed by the popish Clergy only, but by reason that in most parts of the said Kingdom, there is many Parishes that have no Minister to read Service, others that have no Preaching Minister, others that have such Preachers as are very scandalous in their lives and many of the Clergy that suffer their Wives and Children to go to Mass; Besides, in most places there is no sufficient maintenance for the Ministry; Yea, and some of the Protestant Clergy advance to places of Dignity in the Church, (instead of opposing Popery) have brought divers popish superstitions into the Protestant Churches; Turning Communion Tables into Altars, bowing before them, worshipping towards the East, exhorting the people to confess their sins to a Priest as a matter necessary to salvation, with other such like Innovations, for which there is no low nor Connon, and alsouncharitably (if not cruelly) prosecuted divers of the Protestants, both Clergy and Laity, in the high Commission, and other Ecclesiastical Courts, and judicatures for pretended nonconformity, thereby causing some religious Ministers and people to fly the Kingdom, others to take the Oath Ex officio, against Law and equity, committed others to close prison, who refused, put down Lectures, discouraged some that kept them, or that preached on Sundays in the Afternoon. So that betwixt the Popish faction, and those of the Protestant Clergy (ill affected as aforesaid) being both encouraged under the late Government, many Protestants have been seduced, some to popery, others to superstitious practices, and many others discouraged and full of fears of a change in Religion, and not a few unstable in Religion, become Newters or Atheists, while the Papists thoronout the said City and Kingdom (have, and still do not in corners only, but publicly flock to and from Mass as ordinarily, openly, securely, and in as great, (yea greater) numbers in some places, by forty to one, than others go to and from the Protestant Churches, to the great dishonour of Almighty GOD, the derogation of his Majesty's Laws, and Authority, the danger of those poor souls, that are either seduced to, or hardened in Idolatry, whereby it may appear, that the Papists (in all things) have bad that freedom for the time past, that the Protestants could not obtain; And for the future the Protestants have just cause of fears, that the Papists of the said Kingdom (though in themselves peaceable, yet by the instigation of their Clergy, with the multitudes of discontented jesuites, Priests, Friars, and others, That since the said Proclamation came to them out of England, are now more than ever, labouring to advance their own party, depress the Protestants, and hinder Reformation.  
In tender consideration of the Premises, and to the end of the Laws enacted against Popery, may for the time to come be duly executed throughout the said City and Kingdom, the Popish Clergy banished, the Mass house's seized or abolished, the poor seduced people reform, and all unlawful designs of the Papists against the Protestants prevented, And to the end that all non-preaching and scandalous Ministers, in the Protestant Church may be cast out, all Innovations suppressed, a speedy course taken for time to come, that every parish may have an able and painful Ministry, with means sufficient provided for their maintenance, that such of the Clergy as are orthodox, painful and unblameable in life, may be encouraged, and preserved from contempt, That all uncharitable prosecution of the Protestants (as aforesaid) may be stayed, And the causes of all the aforesaid evils so searched into, that they may for ever be prevented, throughout the said City and Kingdom.  
May it please this Honourable House, for the glory of GOD, the honour of our dread Sovereign, and welfare of the said City and Kingdom, to take the Premises, and every circumstance thereof into consideration, So that the poor Kingdom of Ireland may be made partakers of a blessed Reformation with the Kingdom of England, by such means, and in such manner, as this honourable House, and happy Assembly shall conceive to be most meet.  
And your Supplicants will ever pray, etc. Copia vera. Exem. per Jo. Pew, No. public. Re.  
And of some disorders and remisenesse in the Protestant Clergy, the said Partington was dismissed in that Court upon hearing thereof, neither were the Lords Justices, and Counsel, or any of the parties (being of the Counsel) mentioned in this Article acquainted with the framing of the said Petition; And whether the Petition was delivered to the Parliament in England or no was not known there, only the said Partington saith that that Petition was about the 22. of October 1641. presented by him to the Parliament in England, which could not be a motive to this Rebellion, which began that very same day at night, neither did any thing ever ensue thereof: What Sir john Clotworthie did, or expressed in that Commons House against Catholics, was not known to the Protestants of Ireland, nor is it material, neither is it believed that any thing was there moved, plotted, or contrived against those Remonstrants, or that that Parliament resolved any such destructive course against them, till they had declared themselves in the late horrid Rebellion, and massacred, rob, and spoilt your Majesty's peaceable and conformable British and Protestant Subjects; But the Remonstrants do practise, by confounding of times to gain some cover for their inhuman perpetrations; For their other fearful speculation of the deplorable and desperate condition they were in, by the above mentioned Statute of 2. Eliz. which they seem to wonder at, as a thing lately found amongst the Records there, but never executed in that Princess time, nor discovered till most of that Parliament were dead; By the danger of which Statute they say, no Catholic in that Kingdom could enjoy his estate, life, or liberty, if executed.  
To this it is to be answered, that several Statutes were enacted in that second year of that glorious Queen, And which State it is, that those Remonstrants do to much tremble at is not here understood; But it is believed that those Remonstrants pretend to find themselves so much grieved with the first Chapter of those Statutes, first for that it was made principally to repeal the Statutes made by Queen Mary, wherein that Queen repealed all Laws made by King H. 8. against usurped foreign power, jurisdiction and authority, and to set up some other authorities and judicatures in the Church, the mischiefs and inconvenience whereof are in that Statute of secundo declared, whereunto is to be added, that the continuance of such a foreign power in matters Ecclesiastical would utterly banish all Protestant Subjects out of that Kingdom, and leave your Majesty few good Subjects there, for that the Popish party (being dissolved from their just dependency on your Majesty's authority in matters Ecclesiastical, which in true consideration, concerns the half of your Majesty's Royal Sovereign, will apply themselves for all matters of spiritual cognizance, to the Pope, in whose power it may be to discharge them from alleigeance in civil causes, as he hath often done to other Princes, which he will not spare to do, for his advantage, and to keep on foot his old claims. And in the second place to restore to the Crown the Ecclesiastical jurisdiction which of right belongeth thereunto, And to authorise apt Ministers for ordering and dispensation thereof, for the better eschewing those mischiefs both to Prince and people, and to revive certain Acts repealed by Queen Mary: And for the penal part thereof against such as shall maintain and defend the authority, pre-eminence, power or jurisdiction spiritual or Ecclesiastical of any foreign Prince, Prelate, Person, State, or Potentate; It is to be answered, That that Statute is not introductive, or maketh any new crime, for that offence was formerly Treason by the law, for the first offence; But that Statute mittigateth the severity of punishment, and maketh it not Treason till the third offence committed, after the second conviction and attainder and giveth a great relief to the offenders touching the time of prosecution, so that the Subjects terror is less than it was before: The residue of that law appointeth what manner of persons shallbe fit for promotion in the Church, or employment under your Majesty in civil affairs, and how Liveries shall be sued by your Majesty's Tenants, the restriction whereof is in your Majesty's hands to moderate at your gracious pleasure, wherein they have of late had good experience of your princely clemency, And have little cause so to exclaim against your Majesty's Laws, as destructive to their lives, estates and Liberties.  
If those Remonstrants do so startle at the second Chapter of that Session, It may well be said here is a great noise of danger, but little hurt done, and concerning these two Statutes, they were no such concealed things for they were printed amongst all the Statutes of the Kingdom then printed about the 16 year of Queen Elizabeth when few of those Parliament men were dead, and they were put in execution severally, soon after the Statutes were made, and long before that Queen died, as appears by the Records extant, Only for the second Chapter, it may be said that it was not so frequently put in execution for certain years after the Statute made, because all men for the most part in that Kingdom, when there were any intervals of peace, did come to Church though many of them went to Mass also: Recusancy was little then heard of, or in many years after, as is before declared; But when Recusancy began over boldly to look the Government in the face, and that not only, but many evil effects of Popery began to be dangerous to the safety of the King's Majesties good people, and government: Then that Statute was at several times put inexecution, yet without danger to any man's life, or estate, neither is there any thing in that Statute that may threaten any man's life, or estate; the most binding part of that Statute, being but to settle and maintain the book of Common prayer, and other Orders, Ornaments, and Ceremonies in the Church and Churchmen, and requires all subjects aswell Protestants as Papists to come to Church every Sunday and Holy day having not lawful cause of absence upon pain to forfeit 9d for every such day's absence, And that limited to an indictment to be found at the next Sessions or Assizes, after the offence committed, unless men would wilfully abuse themselves, aswell towards God, as the authorized Church and government. In which cases, other penalties are appointed not reaching to life. In which Statute also are other favourable clauses for the ease of the people fare from provoking those Remonstrants, to enter into the late hateful conspiracy against your Majesty your Laws, and just prerogatives, or to commit such outrageous cruelties upon your Majesty's British and Protestant subjects, as they have done, The same Laws being now in force here in England, and much more sharp against Papists, and these Laws in Ireland have now been in force above fourscore years, yet no man ever lost his life or estate, upon either of these Laws, nor Liberty for any long time, yet do those Remonstrants from this, and the other wild fiction of 10000 Scots (than not so much as thought on to come thither, but long after agreed on, after your Majesty under your own royal signature had appointed and authorised several persons of quality to be Colonels to prosecute Rebels and sent upon necessity to preserve your Majesty's Crown and Kingdom against those confederates most unnatural and horrid attempts) take the boldness to avow the Acts of the Northern Rebels on the 23 of October 1641 as necessitated thereto for preservation of their Lives Liberties and Estates, for maintenance of their religion, and for your Majesty's rights, which none there (except themselves) ever moved or offered to oppose or impeach, which Northern rising is by Declaration made by many of themselves in Parliament in November 1641 and by their advice printed, professed and published to be a traitorous and rebellious taking up of Arms against your Majesty they then seeming to detest and abhor their abominable and inhuman actions of murders and other outrages therein, specified, therein also protesting to maintain the rights of your Majesty's Crown and Government against the said Rebels whom they then acknowledged to be Rebels, and to fight against your Majesty's Rights and Government, and whom now they palliate with the attribute of discontented Gentlemen: Neither was that Declaration enforced from the Parliament as they suggest, but by due course passed, as well appears by the passages thereof, appearing in the books; And in further presumption, those Remonstrants affirm, that those Northern Traitors did send Declarations to the Lords Justices and Counsel, humbly desiring to be heard in Parliament; which is most untrue, there never coming any Declaration or other motion from any of them, to the Lords Justices and Counsel, other than a presumptuous proposition from those of Cavan, which their Lordships answered, and certified to the then Lord Lieutenant as is before mentioned. Neither is it to be wondered at that these consederats pass over so slightly the cruel murders and massacres acted upon your Majesty's Protestant Subjects in Ulster and else where in time of full peace, (your Majesty's Protestant Subjects not being in any posture of defence by reason of the suddenness of their surprise) considering the little defence the confederates are able to make against those known massacres. And as to the Proclamation on the 23 of October 1641 published by the Lords Justices and Counsel to make known the preservation of your Majesty's Castle and City of Dublin, and to publish the discovery of the conspiracy of some evil affected Irish Papists, wherein all good Subjects are admonished to take comfort, to stand one their defence and preserve the peace; There is in that Proclamation no mention at all of any Prorogation. and whereas afterwards divers of the pale, and other old English, petitioned the Lords Justices and Counsel, taking offence at the words Irish Papists, wherein there being no distinction they might doubt themselves involved; The Lords Justices and Counsel being tender lest they (in whose fidelity their Lordships then rested confident) should take umbrage at any their expressions, did by their printed Declaration dated the 29 of the same October, publish and proclaim, That by the words, Irish Papists they intended the mere old Irish in the Province of Ulster, and none of the old English of the Pale or other parts. True it is that on the 27 of October 1641. The Lords Justices by advice of the Counsel, and for the necessity of the time (many members of those houses being then in Rebellion, and many slain or hanged, by the Rebels, and some imprisoned, and some besieged in their houses by them) did proclaim a prorogation of the Parliament, from the days of the former adjournment in November 1641 till the 24 of February following, yet that Proclamation not to stand for a prorogation (as conceived not fully warranted by Law,) but was done in those dangerous times to prevent concourse at Dublin, to preserve the members of the houses from danger of travail, and to the end they shall not be drawn from defence of the Country; In which Proclamation there is no word of Irish Papists, or of the Catholics of Ireland, or of the Rebellion, raised, for which prorogation the Lords Justices received your Majesty's express command, because your Majesty desired the Lord Lieutenant should be then there, And the Lords Justices act was therein approved by your Majesty as concurring with the advice of your Counsel; And to show that it was not intended for the full prorogation when afterwards before the day of the former adjournement some of the houses came to the Lords Justices and Counsel, and seeming to doubt of the legality, of that manner of prorogation desired that the houses might meet, and for clearing of all doubts might fit on the 9 day of November, and adjourn to the 16 day of that November, and at the 16 day of November might sit for a day or two, to make some public Declaration of their loyalties, and that a shorter time for their next meeting than the 24 of February aforesaid might be appointed: The Lords Justices and Counsell-freely-yeilded unto them in all their requests and on the 17 day of November towards night the Parliament was prorogued in the houses, but till the 11 of january after, though your Majesty's warrant was till the end of February; It is most untrue that the Lords Justices and Counsel limited them, that no Acts of grace or other thing for the people's quiet and satisfaction should pass; For the houses during those two days did make and publish the Declaration above mentioned, and some other ordinance for the provision, security, and comfort of the Country, as fare as might be, But they neither did, nor could then at the very beginning of of the rebellion move or offer to pass any acts of grace, 
The Lords justices by his Mjesties' directions did make known to the Parliament that his Majesty would not departed from any his former favours promised to them for settling their estares to such as should remain faithful and loyal.  or were denied the same, many of their intentions being fixed, as soon after appeared, to come by their end another way, which proceed of the Lords Justices and Counsel in that business, doth appear by Proclamation then published by the Lords Justices and Counsel, with the privity of the houses: And as to their being environed with a great number of armed men in their access and recess to and from the house with their matches lighted and Muskets presented even to the breasts of the members of both houses: First they should tell that those guards were put into your Majesty's Castle (where before none were, except the ordinary retinue of a few warders under the Constable's Command) for guard and preservation of the said Castle against the said confederates wicked plots and conspiracies then discovered; And that those guards did but stand in their Arms in the Castle yard, merely as in observance to that eminent assembly of Lords and others, aswell Protestants as Papists, and to make a guard for them in their passage to and from the house, and have held the same course ever since, when those houses have consisted in a manner wholly of Protestants, and all done without any intent or design to offend affront, or terrify any of them, which the Remonstrants did, and do well know if they would deal sincerely in the matter; And certainly any of the members of either house then present could not from such a civility rendered to them, take up the least apprehension of terror in some inward guilt, did not beget in them a fear or jealousy of what was never intended or thought of: The same course for ornament being held by the late Lord Lieutenant the Earl of Strafford in the former Parliament, and by the now Lord Lieutenant at the last Session.  
Neither did any thing then hinder the Lords Justices from seizing on their persons, if they had been willing to take strong presumptions and probability of guilt, for a ground against men, whom indeed they desired to think better of, and hoped they would employ themselves better for your Majesty's service: It is also an untruth that the Lords Justices, and their party of the Counsel (what is meant by that party is not understood) for there was not so much as a shadow of any partaking or siding there in any matter; But the Lords Justices, and Counsel unanimously concurred in all things, did cause an order to be propounded in the Parliament to declare; That the Irish had taken up Arms in rebellious manner; For the Lords Justices and Counsel did not conceive that there was any necessity for their attestation, so that too well known a truth the bleeding testimonies of many miserable spectacles, men, women and children unable to resist, who escaped those cursed bloodsuckers in Ulster daily coming to the City of Dublin, and to other Garrisons, stripped, rob, wounded, and spoiled, then gave sufficient evidence of then Rebellious and tyrannous acts: But the truth is, the sitting was permitted two days at their own suit, as appears by Proclamation after published; That they might draw up some Declaration of their own loy alties, as they said, and their detestation of the abominable acts of the Rebels; yet seeing they have the confidence to move in that passage sinisterly, to your Majesty your Royal Majesty may please to know, that when the Houses had appointed certain Committees to draw up that Ordinance, and those Committees had dutifully expressed those Rebels by the just terms of Traitors and Rebels; Many of these Remonstrants then of the House much contested it, and would not have them so called, being privy to what themselves had formerly with those Rebels contrived to be done, and fearing it might move the Rebels to recriminate, Howsoever the Declaration passed by Votes, and was agreed on; But that any such menaces to such as should oppose that Declaration were by any man uttered (though they say it is a thing that was credibly informed) is a most false scandal, the orders of the Houses showing plainly, that it was done in the Houses, no way urged or enforced upon them.  
There were never any such provocations, pressures, and indignities, as in this Article are mentioned, offered to the considerable party of the Catholics; And although the Remonstrants say, That at the time of that Session, all the Cities and Corporations, and whole Provinces stood quiet, yet at the apprehension of Hugh Mac Mahon on the 23. of October aforesaid; The said Hugh being demanded by the Lords Justices, and Counsel, whether he thought (that though they had taken Dublin) the rest of the strong Towns in the Kingdom, which were the Kings, would yield to them, he boldly answered, that he and the rest were well assured, that none of those Towns would stand against them, as did fully after appear, for they all joined with them, except very few where your Majesty's forces lay strong, and except the Protestant towns, which kind of defection was never so in any former Rebellion, those towns being in all times places of refuge for your Majesty's forces, and good subjects, and a great bridle to the Rebels; And the same Mac Mahoun also declared the privity and consent to the foresaid Conspiracy of all the Catholics in both Houses of Parliament in the Summer Session before, as is before mentioned; The same Mac Mahoun also declared, That twenty men out of each County in the Kingdom were appointed to be at Dublin the said 23. of October to execute the Plot on your Majesty's Castle and City of Dublin. and indeed thither they did come at the time, in very great numbers, of whom very many were apprehended, which proves the general Combination; And the Lord Magwire upon his examination, declared that in Summer before, the conspiracy and action was agreed on amongst the Irish, which the event proved to be true; Besides, it is testified upon oath, by a very credible person sometimes prisoner with the Rebels in Cavan, That Colonel Richard Plunkett, late of Donsaghly in the County of Dublin, within the pale, who should have been one at the taking of the Castle: coming into that County of Cavan, about the twenty sixth of October 1641. said openly that he had a contract under the hands of all the Lords in Ireland that were Catholics to stand firm in this insurrection, wherein although the said Plunkett cannot be believed, as to all the Lords, seeing some of them, have even in this Rebellion manifested their loyalty to your Majesty in opposing the Rebels, yet he may be believed, as to all of them, except, very few, their own actions also afterwards concurring therein; The same Colonel Plunkett also by his Letters written to the Titular Abbot of Mellifont, whom he styled Lord, signified that he had been a means to incite the Lords and Gentry of the Pale to appear in the Blessed cause then in hand, meaning the Rebellion) and that he would use his best endeavours night and day to accomplish, Ad majorem Dei gloriam, those are his own words: The above mentioned Contract or Covenant, was also spoken of usually by the Ulster Rebels before many Protestants then prisoners, and was declared by some Rebels (afterwards taken prisoners) upon examination; It is observable also, that notwithstanding your Majesty's Warrant stood good for four Colonels, viz. Colonel john Barry, Colonel Taaf, Colonel Garrett Barry, and Colonel Porter, for transportation of four thousand men; And that the Lords Justices and Counsel gave them all Warrants, and other helps for their passage; And that the three Colonels that were there, had gathered their men, yet it being near the time of execution of the foresaid great Design and conspiracy, their transportation was deferred, and pretences made partly of the adversaries of that Parliament in Ireland, and partly of want of money, and other impediments, their men were kept in Bodies, the one in Munster, not fare from Kinsale, another in Connaught towards galway, and the third in Leinster about Dublin, and those parts, when the Castle and City of Dublin was preserved, there was a general change in all former Counsels, yet afterwards the said Garrett Barry, and all his men went into Rebellion, and so did most of the soldiers, and officers of the other two Regiments; Besides, on the twenty third day of October one thousand six hundred forty one, The Rebels in Ulster. when they spoiled and murdered the English, said with one voice, that Dublin was taken; Also are to be remembered, the several Antecedents to this Rebellion, aswell in print as in words uttered by Romish Clergy men, and some Laics, that within three years, a general Rebellion should be in Ireland, mentioned in the printed Deposition of Doctor jones; And in the month of October, before the execution of this Plot. It was consulted in a great Assembly in the County of Westmeath, at, or near Multifernam, consisting as well of the prime Popish Clergy, as of the lay Gentry, what should be done with the British and Protestants, whether to murder and kill them all, or to kill some, and spoil and banish the rest, or only to spoil, pillage, and banish all; And how your Majesty should be limited in your Revenues, Rights and Authorities, as more at large appears in the said Doctor's examination: The like Discoveries of the general Combination appears in the Digest framed and collected by the Commissioners, for examining the spoils and murders committed upon the Protestants by the Rebels tendered there by Master Watson, and others of those Commissioners, and sent over to your Majesty's principal Secretary. It appears also by examinations sent up by the late Lord Precedent of Munster, in the beginning of this Rebellion, that about the twenty three of October 1641. the taking of the Castle of Dublin, and other your Majesty's Forts in Ulster, etc. was then muttered in that Province, (for a while after in show quiet.) And the like in Connaught, though at that time, neither of those had heard any thing of the discovery from Dublin, nor many days after; By all which is somewhat plain, That the Conspiracy was general, and that the three Provinces stood not so clear, and quiet in November, as in this Article is insinuated; The Remonstrants being careful to leave nothing unobjected, that malice or Art can invent. do suggest, that the Lords Justices and their adherents (who those were is not yet known) well knowing that many powerful members of the Parliament in England stood in opposition to your Majesty, made their principal addresses to them full fraught with calumnies against those Catholics; First, it is conceived that there was no such opposition given to your Majesty, as in the Article is mentioned, when this Rebellion began, your Majesty being then in Scotland, bestowing your Grace and Royal presence on your Subjects there: Neither at that time was any difference heard there between your Majesty and your Parliament in England, save what concerned the Earl of Strafford, whom the Remonstrants most violently prosecuted; Secondly, the Lords Justices and Counsel did first address their advertisement of this Rebellion, not to the Parliament of England, as the Remonstrants pretend, but to your Majesty on the twenty five of October 1641. And to your Majesties then Lieutenant of that Kingdom, to whom all addresses thence were to be made by your Majesty's Order. A Copy of which Letters to the Lord Lieutenant, they then sent to your Majesty and by the answer of that dispatch they were advertised that your Majesty had sent to the Parliament of England concerning that affair, and that your Majesty doubted not of their speedy resolution for relief of your Majesty's faithful Subjects: The next dispatch sent away by the Lords Justices and Counsel into England or Scotland was on the fift of November 1641 at which time they directed letters to the Lords of your Majesty's privy Counsel in England, and considering that your Majesty was then in Scotland, and that it than became of absolute necessity to invoke all the powers, that might stand with your Majesty's honour, and good pleasure, from whom any deliverance could come, to assist for preservation of your Majesty's Crown and Kingdom; They then also, and not before, directed letters to the speakers of both houses of Parliament in England, referring the particulars to the Lords of the Counsels letters, and moving for succours, and then also they sent a dispatch to your Majesty into Scotland, and enclosed therein copies of their several letters to the Lords of the Counsel and both the Speakers, and then also signified by their letters to the Lords of the Counfell that they had so written to both the Speakers.  
And touching the denying of Arms to the Catholics, and arming the Malignant party, who in the Remonstrants' esteem, are all your Majesty's British and Protestant Subjects in Ireland (though there never appeared any Malignity in them in the least degree, either to your Majesty or your government, or to these pretended Catholics (quatenus Catholics) True it is that many Roman Catholics aswell as Protestants, were armed by the Lords Justices and Counsel, when they were listed into your Majesty's Army, to defend your Majesty's Kingdom, rights and government, against those confederate Catholics in the beginning of this Rebellion, whose plot and design was to surprise your Majesty's Castle of Dublin, and your Monition and stores there, and all the rest of your Forts and stores in that Kingdom to extirpate all your Majesty's British and Protestant Subjects, by death or exile and further as is before mentioned: 
Note, there were but ●00 arms in the store.  It is true also that the Lord Justices and Counsel did deliver Arms and Ammunition as fare as they could possible spare aswell to the Roman Catholics as Protestant Subjects, for defence of their houses in several parts and in great numbers: They did also deliver to the five Counties of the Pale Arms and Ammuniton for 1700 men for defence of those Countries, (although your Majesty was no way bound to furnish them with arms for their own defence) and some of those arms upon notice of the defection of those trusted with them, were recovered and brought bacl, and the rest soon after employed by the confederates to fight against your Majesty and your Armies: And for the Cotholiques in the City of Dublin, of whose ancient fidelity (in the beginning of this Rebellion) the Lords Justices and Counsel were fully persuaded; they were not disarmed, till most of the Catholics of the Pale declared themselves in open Rebellion against your Majesty, which the Lords Justices and Counsel finding and considering that those Inhabitants of Dublin were for the most part allied & matched with the gentry and considerable Inhabitants of the Pale, That some of them sent daily intelligence to the Rebels, sent them provisions of victuals and otherways and sundry of them of good substance, went to the Rebels with their goods, That great numbers of the Popish prentices servants, and journymen of the City went daily to the Rebels and joined with them, and that daily rumours were spread in the City, aswell by words, as by papers scattered and found, that surprises and massacres were intended against your Majesty's Subjects the Protestants of the City, than was it thought fit, and not before, to disarm those Catholics the better to secure the City for your Majesty, and quiet the Catholics who might well know that the strength of the Protestants was their security, and from which Protestants, the Catholics never found any violence offered (the Protestants profession abhorring such wickedness) the Lords Justices and Counsel also sent arms and powder to Drogheda; delivered arms and powder for zoo men to Wexford they sent powder to Waterford, and gave them licence to buy and import, powder and arms for their defence, though afterwards when they joined in the Rebellion the Lords Juces and Counsel restrained it as much as they could. They sent powder to Trim, they sent powder for Dondalke as far as Drogheda, where it was stayed because Dondalk was yielded up to the Rebels before it could come thither, they also wrote letters to the several Towns of Wexford, Waterford, galway and Drogheda commending their then seeming forward affections, and encouraging and persuading to stand constantly in duty, and faith to your Majesty their Lord and King: It is true that the Lords Justices and Counsel received an order of both houses of Parliament in England, whereby they did commend to the Lord Lieutenant or in his absence to the Lord Deputy, or Lords Justices according to the power of their Commission to bestow your Majesty's gracious pardon to all such as were seduced on false grounds, and within a convenient time to be declared by their Lordships, should return to their due obedience: This Order the Lords Justices and Counsel printed at Dublin forthwith after receipt thereof the 12 of November 1641 and dispersed it into all parts of the Kingdom, as fare as they could to try whether it might work any relenting or application of those confederated Catholics, to the Lords Justices and Counsel to the end they might have further proceeded, to have obteuned a more full direction for granting pardon, if that could have been likely to reclaim any of them: The Lords Justices also found in their Commission and instructions, no express warrant to pardon such pernicious Traitors, and that in all late former pardons, Treasons against your Majesty and murder was excepted, and they daily expected the old Levitenants coming over with more ample authority, and direction, and considered also that on the 30 of October before the Lords Justices and Counsel had by public Proclamation adventured so fare as to tender your Majesty's grace to all seduced Rebels whereupon none then tendered themselves to the Lords Justices and Counsel, or any other your Majesty's Officers, and afterwards on the first day of November 1641 the Lords Justices and Council foreseeing the danger that the Inhabitants of Meath, Lungford, Westmeath and Lowth, who of the Pale lay next to the Northern Rebels, might be first educed, either by strange rumours spread abroad, or by the false enticement of the Clergy, and desirous to contain and preserve as many of them as they could, did by public Proclamation (advised and drawn by Mr. Plunket and others of the Commons house) admonish all that were not Freeholders, nor having their hands in blood, within ten days to submit themselves before any Justice of Peace or chief Officer of a Corporation, and restore the Protestants goods which they had taken, & thereupon they should be received to mercy whereupon a few submitted in the County of Meath but never restored any thing, nor proceeded further to give satisfaction of their loyalty, but soon after returned to their former defection and joined in the said Rebellion; All which advisedly considered the Lords Justices and Counsel thought not fit to prostitute your Majesty's royal grace to men so ungrateful and deperded, for they plainly saw, that the confederacy and their persuasion to carry all by force was so strong, as their actions gave no hope of any inclinations to submit themselves to your Majesty's grace and mercy; No not when your Majesty's Proclamation under your royal Signature, and privy signet was sent amongst them; Commanding them to lay down Arms, nor until they of the Pale, and the Irish of Ulster were beaten from Drogheda, and the siege wholly raised which was about the beginning of March and that your Majesty's Levitenant General of your army, was in the field with a strong force of foot and horse, able to March where he pleased, in Meath, Lowth, and Dublin, ready to burn and destroy their houses, and eize on the former owners thereof, if they could be found; Then and not till then some, and those but very few of Meath rendered themselves to the Lieutenant General of your Majesty's army who received them as prisoners, and a few others of that County rendered themselves at Dublin who were all imprisoned as was just, to so notorious and obstinate offenders, And it were criminal in the Lords Justices and Counsel not to commit them. Neither did the Lords Justices and Counsel aim at any of their estates, but on the contrary always showed much regret, at the unnatural defection of the pale, which had for the most part in other Rebellions stood firm and loyal: And certainly they would have been most glad to have preserved as many of them as they could, as well appeared in their readiness to embrace the Earl of Westmeath and his Family, upon timely application made, though the Lords Justices and Counsel had Intelligence of Northern Rebels resorting to his house: They also upon Sir Morgan Cavanaghs false and feigned Protestations permitted him to return to his house, in hope of his good obedience, though they had cause to suspect his and hsi sons coming to the Town on the 22. of October one thousand six hundred forty one. They permitted Sir Luke Fitzgerald to departed quietly, because he came to them soon after the beginning of the Rebellion, though the Protestant Tenants dwelling on his land, were despoiled of all their substance, not without his privity, as since hath appeared: They permitted Robert Harpoole of Frowle, and necre Catherlogh, to departed upon his fair protestations, notwithstanding they had intelligence of his former being with the Rebels; The Sheriff of Longford and others of the Offarralls permitted bacl again, though informed to have joined in pillaging of the Protestants, and many others in like manner, because the Lords Justices thought fit to forbear all manner of strictness at first, hoping they would not so fare forget their duties, as afterwards they all did, and also divers others about Dublin (who entertained Rebels (some perhaps of necessity) were permitted to be at liberty by the Lords Justices, because they desired to retain as many of them as they could, coming in any time, before they had openly joined with the Rebels, and committed the horrible acts of hostility, which put them out of the Lords Justices power to receive them, without further allowance, and direction from your Majesty, which they writ for, and desired to receive.  
Touching Sir Charles Cootes journey into Wickloe, who with such a small force of English and Irish, as the Lords Justices and Counsel could then raise, set forth from Dublin on the 27. of November 1641. the design being to relieve your Majesty's Castle of Wickloe, and one other only Castle kept by a subject, but both besieged by Rebels: All the Irish of that County having many days before risen in open Rebellion, surprised your Majesty's Fort of Cairis Fort, Arckloe Fort, Chichester, and all the houses of the English in that County, The Lord Esmonds house, and the adjacent parts of Wexford, rob all the British Protestants, threatened to assault Dublin, having rob and preyed within two miles thereunto, and committed all amnner of acts of hostility, as is before particularised: He had also direction to kill and spoil by fire and sword those Irish Rebels, so fare as he could; But it is not true that any there dicd by his command, save one woman one whose back, certain of the Protestants spoils were found, and twelve or thirteen men, who were proved to have committed the same rebellious acts, and such as fought with him in open field, with Banners displayed, where the Rebels being, as he conceived a thousand strong, were by him routed, and put to flight; Neither could that journey any way terrify those of the Pale, or give them occasion of suspicion of any violence intended against them, being principally intended to prevent incursions and spoils of the Irish to be committed on them as they had in former times often done: and against whom they had with much effusion of blood, often defended themselves: yet now so plainly appears their preceded general conspiracy in this Rebellion, as they are not abashed, (despising the honour of their birth, and loyalty to your Majesty) to profess sense of those Rebel's sufferings, and to mention your Majesty's just vengeance taken on those ancient, and in all former, and later ages, and now declared Rebels and Traitors, as one of their motives to take up Arms, or at least to stand on their guard, as they call it: Touching the Act of Santry three miles from Dublin, seeming to work so much upon the Remonstrants, as to put them into open rebellion against your Majesty, as if they could resolve of a general Rebellion in all the Kingdom in twenty four hours; It is fit to open the truth of this supposed fearful, and as may be said miraculous accident, being of force almost to raise a whole County into Arms in one day against your Majesty, and your peaceable subjects; though the said County (during six weeks after the conspiracy against the Castle of Dublin, and the state, was discovered and prevented) did not seem able (or rather being unwilling) by all fair persuasions of the Lords Justices and Counsel used to them, to put themselves into a posture of defence, against the Rebels of Ulster, to find any Arms to arm their men, or agree upon Captains to command them, notwithstanding they had upon the twenty two of November after several invitations thereunto received out of your Majesty's stores, Arms, and all other Munition for three hundred men; And not withstanding that the Lords Justices and Council in October 1641. wrote Letters to the several Counties of the Pale to name their Captains, gather their men, and fetch out their Arms, which they deferred, sometimes seeming desirous to have all things agreed on in Parliament, which they knew could not then meet, and sometimes upon other pretences: And notwithstanding that they saw the inferior people of those Counties formerly to rise in multitudes to murder, rob and spoil, the British and Protestant Inhabitants amongst them, without resistance or control; And in particular they had murdered Derrick Hubbert, a Protestant Gentleman in his own house, and some others of his family in the County of Dublin; And about ten miles from Dublin, besides many other so used in other parts, and had spoilt Protestants in several Villages within three or four miles of Dublin, in Fingall, where the Remonstrants do say the Inhabitants had felt no wars or troubles for four hundred years before, yet could Luke Nettervile, son to the Lord Nettervile, who dwelled but seven miles from Dublin, in that County of Fingall, and the other Gentry of that County Arm and Muster at Swoards (about six miles from Dublin (about twelve hundred men on the seventh day of December 1641. to affront your Majesty's Authority, upon this only accident (as they allege) to the kill of four Catholics, (or supposed Catholics) because called Catholics (as they would have it) and for no other cause, or reason, at Santry aforesaid; On Tuesday at night the fifth day of December by some Troops of horse, and foot Companies marched out of Dublin, by direction (as the Remonstrants pretend) of the Lords Justices and Counsel, and their (supposed) party, which party the Remonstrants would aswell have named, if any such they had known, (for no such party was then heard of, unless they mean your Majesty's Counsel;) And before that time they suffered the Rebel Colonel Hugh Birne, and many of the mountain and Wickloe Rebels to enter into that Country and spoil the British and Protestants, which they had power to hinder, and might have done, if they had not been of the Confederacy. Whereas the truth of that accident is, That on the said fifth day of December, intelligence being brought to a Lieutenant in Dublin, That his informer could bring him upon some of those that had murdered the said Derrick Hubbert, and rob and spoiled other Protestnats as aforesaid: He by allowance of his Captain (as he afterwards upon examination declared,) without the privity or command of the Lords Justices, or any of the Counsel, or any other Commander authorized to that purpose, took with him forty soldiers that night, in pursuit of those murderers, and other Malefactors, and coming to Santry, he found there four persons lately come thither, with such Arms as they could get in the Country, whom he slew in the place, and who as he was informed, were offenders; And after this done, he passed somewhat further into the Country, 
Note, there were many Papists then dwelling in that Town whom he did not hurt.  in search of the rest of the Malefactors, but could not find them, there having issued no other Troops of horse or foot: This rash act was the next day voiced in Dublin, and the Lords Justices and Counsel hearing of it, sent for the said Lieutenant, who upon examination justified the Act, affirming them to be Rebels, And no man prosecuting the matter against him, it there rested.  
And as to the rest of the particulars in this Article pretended to be motives to the Rebellion of the Pale, and the other parts of Leinster (whereas before that several parts of Leinster, and many in the Pale, were in open Rebellion, as shall herein further appear; True it is that about the later end of November 1641. The said Luke Nettervile without any Warrant for the same, caused Proclamation to be made in the Market place at Luske, (about twelve miles from Dublin) That all the Gentry of the Country upon pain of death, should within three or four days after, meet at Swoards, within six miles of Dublin, which was before the kill at Santry, which meeting was held, and there the said Nettervile of his own authority made everall Captains (viz.) Richard Golding, Thomas Russell, Francis Russell, Robert Travers, Christopher Hollywood, Peter Cru●●, and Michael Murphy, and others, many of them men of estate, and the rest branches of the Gentry, and there commanded them to be with their Companies armed at the same Town of Swoards on the seventh day of December following, (which was a short time for such a levy, if they had not been formerly combined and prepared to that Summons;) They observed it as fast as they could, many of them coming thither on the seventh day of December aforesaid, and on the eighth day of the said month they were there gathered together in bands about one thousand two hundred men armed, (as was informed to the Lords Justices and Counsel,) Their Lordships therefore on the ninth day of December aforesaid, sent a Warrant to the said Nettervile and the rest, in mild manner, signifying to them the unseasonableness of the time chosen for such an act, that howsoever a construction might be made thereof to their disadvantage, yet their Lordships were unwilling to make an indulgent interpretation of their actions, in regard of their good opinion they had of their loyalty, and conceiving there was some mistake in that enterprise, they did choose rather to command them on their duty of allegiance forthwith to separate themselves and no more to unite in that manner, without direction from their Lordships. And that the said Nettervile and six others of the principal of them, should appear before their Lordships the then next morning, to show cause for their so assembling, and thereof not to fail at their extreme perils; All which notwithstanding, the said Nettervile and the rest, did neither separate, nor any of them appear as was commanded, but holding the Messenger, as in restraint that night, did on the enxt day write a mutinous Letter to the Lords Justices and Counsel acknowledging the receipt of the said Warrant, and setting forth their fears, by reason of the said killing at Santry, and other rumours of unexpected attempts, and desired to be secured of their lives, which security was also granted them, but they despised it. Their intention being from another root, and of a higher nature then to meet in merriment in a Market town and shake hands: These men continued at Swoards, and other Villages thereabouts, till about the tenth of january following, robbing, spoiling, and imprisoning all your Majesty's Subjects, that either lived thereabouts, or that offered to pass that way, being the road to Drogheda, then straight besieged, and soffering no provisions to be brought to Dublin that way, threatening also daily to assault Dublin on the North side from thence, and from other great Companies of the same confederacy, out of Wickloe, and Kildare, settled on the South side of the City, performing like hostile acts, and giving out on all sides, that they would have Mass in Christ-Church of Dublin, on Christmas day next after: All which time the Lords Justices and Counsel were nor able to send sufficient forces against them.  
About the fourteenth day of that December, those Rebels being increased in numbers from other parts, sent two several strong parties to Santry and Finglas, where they continued till the twenty second of the same December, when they were beaten thence by your Majesty's Forces; Neither of which two places are above three miles from Dublin, there to be the more ready to annoy and set upon the City, when the rest of the parties to the design might be ready, which near approaches much straitened all things in the City: On the same fourteenth day of December, those Rebels at Swoards sent another party to Clantarffe, about a mile and half from Dublin, which Village belonged to George King, who lay in garrison with the said Nettervile at Swoards, and whose hand was to their Answer formerly mentioned: And there gathering together from the other Villages on the Sea side, about three hundred men, they shown themselves on a high ground near Clantarfe, to the open view of the City; those Inhabitants being furnished with store of strong fisher-boats, and having a few days before rob and spoilt, two English Barks lying at Anchor, near Clantarfe, in the road of Dublin, and threatening by themselves and other Rebels which lay on the South side of the harbour, (where Irish Boats also were) to seize on all the shipping in the harbour, and either burn them, or make use of them to block up the harbour, so to cut off all access to that Port which the Lords Justices and Counsel much feared, having then no shipping of strength there; Thereupon their Lordships found it of necessity to adventure on some of those parties to try if they could disperse them, And therefore they considered that those at Santry and Finglas, came thither by open force; That those lands belonged to honest subjects who had not then offended; That the forementioned outrageous act was committed by those at Clantarfe, And that the lands belonged to one in open hostility, who had given assistance or countenance to the aforesaid rebellious act of robbing the Barks, and of robbing other your Majesty's Protestant subjects passing that way, and judging that that place and party threatened most danger, in respect of the harbour, And lest other Fishermen, on that coast (who for the most part joined with the Rebels,) should take encouragement to come and strengthen their design against the shipping and harbour, considering also that by the assistance of those Coasters, the Rebels of the County of Dublin, had formerly on the third day of December 1641. rob an English Bark at Skirries, about twelve miles from Dublin, and that the goods were divided amongst the Gentry thereabouts, the principal part thereof being magazined at the Castle of Master Barnewell of Brimore, a prime man, and some of the English carried prisoners to the Lord of Gormanston, who sent them Prisoners to Balrothry; Thereupon the Lords Justices and Counsel did order, that the Lieutenant general of the Army should and men against them at Clantarfe, who accordingly did (on the fifteenth day of that December) send out Sir Charles Coote, with such a party as could be spared, to fall on those men at Clantarfe, with direction that if they could beat them, to burn that Village, and either destroy or bring away all the Boats. This was well performed by Sir Charles, who killed some of the Rebels in the place, and put the rest to flight, where he then found, aswell in the house of the said King as other houses in the Town, divers of the goods taken out of the said two Barks, rob at Clantarfe; And by this means was strucken off much of that danger; And to the end it may further appear, That the Lords of the Pale, especially of Meath, were in the same Confederacy with the Rebels at Swoards, and other parts of Leinster, and not forced to take up Arms for their own safety, nor fearing to be murdered by any under the command of the Lords Justices and Counsel, as in the Remonstrance is maliciously and scandalously urged: the Lords Justices and Counsel seeing dangers thus multiplied on all sides, receiving Letters of intelligence from all parts of rebellious Acts done, and hearing many strange rumours of the general combination before the said meeting at Swoards, or killing at Santry; (robberies and spoils being before that time committed on the English in every County in Leinster) Their Lordships thereupon desired, in their great distress, to have the advice and assistance of those Lords of the Pale, in whose fidelity they formerly much confided, as appears by their comfortable expression thereof, in October before, aswell to the then Lord Lieutenant in England, as to your Majesty's principal Secretary, the effect whereof appeared in the Parliametn order sent thither thereupon soon after, and printed the twelfth of November 1641. wherein they declared that they conceived the Massacre was intended aswell against your Majesty's good Subjects, Ancient Inhabitants of English blood, though of the Romish Religion (who have in former Rebellions given testimony of their fidelity to the Crown of ENGLAND) as against the Protestants, and that they intended to move your Majesty for the encouragement of those English or Irish, that should raise Horse or Foot against the Rebels, that they should be honourably rewarded: and therefore on the third of the same December, the Lords Justices and Counsel did write several Letters unto those, and other Lords in and near Dublin, to meet together with the Lords Justices and Counsel at Dublin, the eighth day of the same month, to the end they might confer with those Lords, concerning the present state of the Kingdom, and the safety thereof and specially of the City of Dublin, in those times of danger, to this the Earl of Fingall, and the Lords of Gormanston, Slain, Dunsany, Nettervile, Lowth, and Trimletstowne by their Letter dated the seventh of the same December answered: That they had cause to conceive their loyalty was suspected, and that they had received advertisement that Sir Charles Coote at the Counsel Board, had uttered some speeches tending to a purpose and resolution to execute upon those of their Religion a general Massacre, whereby they were deterred to come, not having security for their lives, but rather thought fit to stand on their guard till they might hear from the Lords Justices and Counsel, how they should be secured (They well knowing that the Lords Justices and Counsel had no force, or having force had no intent to hurt them, unless much greater cause appeared) in which Letter they did mention the kill at Santry, which it seems they had not then heard of, and could not take that for a ground of their rebellion as now they urge, and so they did forbear to come as they were required, but the Earl of Kildare, the Lords Fitzwilliams and Houth, came at the day appointed, with whom Conference was had; Thereupon the Lords Justices and Counsel desirous and labouring by all the means they could, to clear all erroneous conceptions in those Lords, and to prevent their hurt, by any undutiful resolutions, and as much as they might to provide against any breach with them, lest thereby greater extremities might be drawn upon them, and the Rebels at Swoards might be raised, in stomach, did print and publish a Declaration dated the thirteenth day of the same December, and sent it those Noblemen therein positively affirming, That the Lords Justices and Counsel did never hear Sir Charles Coote or any other, utter at the Council board or elsewhere any such speeches tending to a purpose or resolution to execute upon those of their profession or upon any other, a general Massacre, and that that board, never intended or meant to dishonour your Majesty or that State, or wound their own consciences, by harbouring the least thought of so odious, impious, and detestable a thing, upon any persons whatsoever; And that they were had would be ready to inflict due punishment upon any man against whom proof shall be made of speaking the same: therein likewise requiring those Lords to attend the Lords Justices and Counsel at the Board, on the seventeenth day of the same month of December. Thereby also giving to those Lords, and every of them the word and assurance of the State, for their safe repair to the Board, without danger of any trouble or stay whatsoever, of or from the Lords Justices and Counsel, or any under their Command, who never had intention to wrong or hurt them: neither in truth did they fear any such massacre, there having never been any such thing attempted against Papists either in England, Scotland, or Ireland, notwithstanding their difference in Religion, and the Protestants provoked by many strange plots in former times; The same thirteenth day also of December, the Lords Justices and Counsel, printed and sent to the said Luke Nettervile, and the rest at Swoards their manifest setting forth the truth of the aforesaid action at Santry, and that they had no knowledge of it till it was done, and their readiness to give redress, it upon prosecution there were cause either at the Board, or at a Counsel of War, therein also laying before them their high and unsufferable Contempt in not separating according to former Command, declaring also, that there was no intent or purpose against the lives of them or any other your Majesty's good Subjects, Protestants or Papists who were not actors or abettors in the traitorous murders and robberies lately committed, but that their care and endeavour always was, and should be, to cherish and preserve all your Majesty's good Subjects, of what profession soever, requiring them again forth with to separate and forbear further terror and annoyance to your Majesty's good Subjects, and therein the Lords Justices and Counsel, required the said Luke Nettervile and the rest who formerly signed the Letler, to appear before them at the Counsel board, on the eighteenth day of the said month, where they should receive due hearing: and further gave unto them and every of them, the word and the assurance of the state, as to their persons, for their safe repair unto them without any trouble or stay from them whatsoever: and that they had no intention to wrong or hurt any of them, all which notwithstanding, they did not separate, but on the contrary sent men to Clantarfe, as aforesaid, which gave the Lords Justices and Counsel full assurance, that they were resolved to run on, according to their rebellious beginnings, and so necessitated their Lordships to attempt them at Clantarfe, as is before related, and this as is conceived will appear sufficient to vindicate the Lords Justices and Counsel from any just cause given of such malicious and scandalous imputation of faith breaking, and otherways, as in their remonstrance is pressed, and from the guilt of such provocations to the said Nobility and Gentry of the Pale, and other parts of Leinster to put themselves in posture of defence, against the State and other your Majesty's Protestant subjects: Whereas on the other side those Lords and Gentry had most apparent cause to do the same against their Confederates of Ulster, who (as they pretended) so much terrified them, yet being most true, that while they joined with the State in former times, the Earl of Tyrone in all his strength durst never attempt them: besides, is hath been since made evident, partly by discoveries made, and examinations taken of notorious acts committed, and partly in that many of the Inhabitants in several parts of the Pale, and other adjacent Counties, and generally all the Irish inhabitants in Ulster, and many in some Counties of Connaught had declared themselves Confederates, or committed open rebellious acts and cruelties against your Majesty, and your Protestant Subjects before the above mentioned killing at Santry, (which was the first act, favouring of force offered and that but pretended to be offered by the Lords Justices and Counsel, to those of the Pale, or any of them,) viz. on the 23. of October 1641. and so daily after all the Irish of the Province of Ulster, viz. in the Counties of Cavan, Fermanagh, Donegall Tyrone, London Derry, Ardmagh, Monaghane, and most part of the County of Down, and the County of Leitrim, with part of the County of Sligo, and many of the County of Roscomon in Connaught declared themselves in open rebellion, and committed the acts of murders, and cruelties elsewhere mentioned.  
And to show that the common people aswell as the chief Conspirators were acquainted with the main plot in the chief part thereof, it now appears by very many examinations that on the twenty three of October 1641 the Rebels of Ulster, and in Leytrim, generally told the Protestants whom they rob that the Castle of Dublin was taken, howsoever they formerly concealed the plot on the thirtieth of October 1641. the Irish of the County of Longford next adjoining to Meath, and Westmeath, began to murder and rob and spoil all the British and Protestants among them, the Sheriff also of that County a prime man of the Farrels soon after joined in the action, and on the second of November the Lord's Justices and Counsel did write to Sir james Dillon uncle to the Lord of Costilo to employ against those Rebels of Longford and others in Cavan 2000 men which he had gathered together under pretence to carry them into Spain, he liked not of that motion, notwithstanding he had by former letters offered the service of those men, but soon after employed them against your Majesty and your forces, notwithstanding he had lately at his own suit received Arms and Ammunition for fifty men foot and horse, for his own defence. On the last day of October 1641 the town of Dundalke in the County of Lowth in the Pale, wherein was a Company of the old Army, was yielded up to the Rebels without stroke, and your Majesty's Arms lost, against which neither Shane O Neale (with whom all the Irish of Ulster, and many other Irish joined) could prevail by assault nor the Earl of Tyrone with all his strength, (being other ways provided then Sir Phelomy O Neale both in numbers of trained men and arms) durst ever attempt it, seldom gain a few Cattle from it, though he lay often within two miles of it, their faith then sufficiently arming them against the stoutest Rebels, and Drogheda had been yielded up within few days, had not Sir Henry Titchburne come thither about the fourth day of November, about that time also was the town of Atherdy in the County of Lowth so yielded up to the rebels, before the end of October and about the beginning of November 1641 many of the inferior inhabitants in the bordering parts of the County of Meath in the Pale, especially the inhabitants of Kells rob and spoiled the British and Protestants, with whom also some of the gentry joined, the rest looked on: about the same time also they did the same about Trim, in the heart of Meath in the County of Westmeath, also in the Pale, they did the same about the same time. Upon the tenth day of November 1641 the Lord of Lowth having formerly received Commission from the Lords Justices and Counsel to command the forces in the County of Lowth, came and delivered up his Commission, pretending offence that Sir Christopher Bellew was joined with him in command, and soon after went into Rebellion: On the twelfth day of the same November all the Irish of the County of Wickloe which adjoined on the South side to the County of Dublin entered into open Rebellion and murdered rob, and spoilt all the British and Protestants in that County, burnt and pulled down all their fair English buildings and preyed and rob within two miles of the City of Dublin on the sixteenth day of the same November they surprised and forced your Majesty's fort called Carisfort in the County of Wickloe. On the one and twentieth of the same November the Irish of the Counties of Wexford and Catherlagh entered into rebellion and joined with those of Wiikloe; they seized on the Lord Esmonds house and all other the late undertakers buildings in Wexford, and murdered, rob and spoiled all the British and Protestants, on the hither side of that County of Wexford, and spoiled the British and Protestants in most parts of the County of Catherlagh. Before the fifteenth of November the Irish in some parts of the Queen's County, and King's County rob and spoiled the British and Protestants there, and defaced their houses, from which time forwards they proceeded to growt o great numbers robbing and spoiling the British and Protestants wheresoever they came. On the twenty fourth of the same November all the old English and other inhabitants in the County of Lowth (one of the five shires in the Pale) joined with the Northern rebels in pen rebellion, and with them also joined the Sheriff john Bellew who was formerly sent into England privately in some negotiation concerning the Parliament of Ireland and returned thither again in February 1640, many of the Inhabitants of that County had also formerly spoiled and rob most of the British and Protestants in that County of Lowth, and defaced their houses, which Country being full of old Castles was formerly defended against all Irish insurrections, and the Inhabitants might now easily have done the like, against those barbarous and raw men of Ulster, if the former confederacy had not wrought amongst them, and if their old fidelity had remained in them: about that time was Sir Phelomy Oneale made general of the Catholic Armies, as they then called them in the Provinces of Ulster and Meath, a County of the Pale, On the same four and twentieth day of November 1641 was the house of the Lord Moor, called Mellifont three miles from Drogheda, surprised, and taken by those rebels and many men murdered there in cold, blood: About the same time also intelligence came from several parts to the Lords Justices and Counsel that many more younger brothers and sons of the gentry and their servants and most of the inferior Inhabitants of the County of Meath beyond the river of Boyne and many on this side that river, and many in the County of Dublin on that side the County next Meath, had rob and spoiled all the British and Protestants amongst them, and many such acts were freely done within few miles of Dublin the prime gentry most of them Justices of the peace, looking on in all places and giving way to those hateful actions, and no course taken to resist or repress any of those insolences, notwithstanding the Commissions of government and of Marshal Law given to many of themselves as is before mentioned. On the 22 of the same November, great numbers of the Northern Rebels, (having without touch passed the County of Lowth) shown themselves on the North side of Drogheda: On the 26 and 27 of the same November, great number of the Northern Rebels were lodged in slain, the Mansion of the Lord of slain, in the heart of Meath, and possessed themselves of that bridge, the chief passage into the hither part of that County, and the County of Dublin: by examination it appeareth, that on the same 27 of November at night, the Lord of Gormanstons' Groom was sent, and raised those Rebels out of their beds, to encountrr the six hundred Foot sent by the Lords Justices, and Council towards Drogheda, for further strengthening of that Town, with whom the 28 day of the same November, the same Northern Rebels and others met and defeated the said six hundred men, near Julianstowne (being undisciplined men newly aaised) and took their Arms; about the end of that November, great numbers of the Irish, and some of the old English of the Counties of Wexford, Kilkenny, and Catherlagh passed over in boats into the County of Waterford in Munster, and there committed murders, and great spoils and rapine on the British and Protestants in that County, and sent over great numbers of Cattles, and other spoil, about the beginning of December 1641. And in part of November before, many of the inferior Inhabitants, and some of the Gentry, made the like spoil of the British and Protestants in the County of Kildare: About the same time, very many of the old English and Irish, were in rebellion about Rosse and Wexford, in the County of Wexford: Before this time also they had public Mass in many Churches in the Counties of Meath and Dublin: And about the 27 of November aforesaid, the walled Town of Trim, in the heart of Meath, was seized on by the Rebels, and many of your Majesty's Subjects murdered there: About the beginning of that December, were the British and Protestants in the County of Kilkenny, rob and spoiled by the Gentry, and Irish Inhabitants, Papists of that County: and in the same month, the Lord Mountgarret having drawn a strength of Irish Armed into the City of Kilkenny, stood by, while the English there dwelling, and such as came thither for safety were spoiled and pillaged: On the 1 and 2 day of December aforesaid, the Northern Rebels in great numbers were lodged and entertained in the strong Castle and Village of Platten in Meath, on this side the Boyne, about two miles from Drogheda, belonging to Nicholas Darcy Esquire: About the last of November, or the first of December aforesaid, the Northern Rebels, and those of the Lowth, and Meath in the Pale who assisted them, were set down in Leaguer round about Drogheda, on both sides the River; against whom the Inhabitants of Meath or Dublin made no manner of resistance: About the 4 day of the same Dublin met with the Northern Rebels at the Hill of Crofty al' Grofty, not fare from Drogheda; the manner of whose intercourse was this, the Lords and Gentry of the Pale, being on the said Hill of Crofty, the Northern Rebels lay in great numbers near the Hill, and espying the said Lords & Gentry, some of the Northern Commanders came to them, thereupon the Lord of Gormanston in the Name of the Lords and Gentlemen, demanded of the Rebels wherefore they came in that hostile manner into the Pale, whereunto answer was made by Rowry O Moor (called a Colonel among the Rebels) in name of the rest, that they came for the free exercise of the Catholic Religion, to restore the King to his Prerogative, and to give the Subjects of Ireland the like freedom, as the Subjects of England had: thereupon the Lord of Gormanston said if those were the true grounds of their war, they (meaning the Lords and Gentry of the Pale) would join with them; and so the said Lords and Gentry, and the said Rebels strooke hands. It is also testified, that certain days before this general meeting, divers prime Gentry of Meath, and the chief Officers of the Rebels, had a meeting at Duleeke, on this side the Boyne in Meath; and that a few days after this meeting at Crofty aforesaid, all the Lords and Gentry of Meath, and divers of the Northern Rebels had another meeting at the Hill of Taragh in Meath, where they determined on the maintenance of the Northern Rebels, during the Siege, and what provision of Beefs and Corn should be raised on the Country, for every hundred of the said Rebels, which was done accordingly by their Warrants; the Sheriff of that County called Nicholas Dowdall (who was with them in Rebellion) obeying them in all things. And soon after another meeting, the said Lords and Gentry made choice of new Generals of Foot and Horse, and other Officers of the Field, and Captains in that County, and appointed who should be chief Commanders in each Barony, and what number of men should be raised and maintained out of each Blow land in that County of Meath, aswell to join in the Siege, as to fight with any other your Majesty's Armies, which were conceived to amount to two thousand men; whereas in six weeks before, at the instance of the Lords Justices, and Council, they could or would not raise five hundred men for the defence of the County against the Rebels, which with seeming great forwardness they at first promised to do; and for whom five hundred Arms with Munition answerable was appointed by the Lords Justices, and Council, and the Arms sent as fare as Gormanston, and there kept till upon notice of the Rebels coming into the Country, the Lords Justices, and Council, suddenly conveyed them to Drogheda, which the Lord of Gormanston pretends to be done by his monition: Though the truth is, the Lords Justices had that morning, before he declared it, sent away to have it done that night, otherwise they had been taken, and he thinking that the Lords Justices, and Council could not so soon remove them, and presuming besides (in case they were so removed) to have them within a few days in Drogheda (whether he moved they might be conveyed) by taking that Town, whereof he little doubted: About the beginning of November aforesaid, Arms and Munition for three hundred men, were by the Lords, Justices, and Council, delivered to three Captains appointed for the Guard of the County of Kildare: And on the 2 of December aforesaid, the whole Company of Mr. Nicholas White, eldest Son of Sir Nicholas White, did run away with their Arms to the Rebels, and so did the other two Captains, and their Companies soon after, and then did the Gentry and Inhabitants of the said County of Kildare appoint Officers of the Field, and Captains for the Catholic Army. All which particulars are here specified, together with the times of each action (as many others might be mentioned) to the end that it appearing in what ease the Pale, and other parts of Leinster stood, before the kill at Santry, and burning at Clantarfe, your Majesty may the more clearly see the vanity and malignity of the Confederates, in pretending to be terrified into Arms by those acts (which they well know were subsequent to their taking Arms) and by their other devised Provocations in England and Ireland, no truer than the former. And it is observable, that in the beginning of the Remonstrance, they in express and plain terms do affirm that they at first, were necessitated to take Arms for preservation of their Religion, the maintenance of your Majesty's Rights and Prerogatives, and defence of their Lives, Estates, and Liberties, of the danger whereof there was not then so much as a shadow, beside their general avowment of their acts in Ulster, in the beginning of the rebellion, as done by authority, which was most false, and so afterward acknowledged by them, and to the end it may appear to all the world, that the Lords, Justices, and Council, did not draw your Majesty's sword upon jealousies or presumptions, till the highest extremities, and acts committed compelled them, nor till the innumerable murders, spoils, and outrages commited on the British and Protestants in so many places, without stop or restraint by any of the Lords or Gentry; nor till the horrid defamation of your Sacred Majesty, nor till it fully appeared, that all was done by Conspiracy and Design, there being a wide difference between malicious design and Profession to do evil, and confession of acts done perhaps necessitated, or by seducement.  
And as to the Remonstrants unjust complaint of stopping Lieutenant Colonel 
* Note that this Read is now Sir John Read, For he being examined in Ireland, by the State there as a plotter of that Rebellion was afterwards sent over hither, and committed for High Treason; Who to escape his Condign punishment, broke prison, went to Oxford and was there Knighted, and is now gone back into Ireland  Read, whom they say they employed to your Majesty, with Remonstrance of the state of their Affairs; The truth of the matter stands thus, In the foresaid month of December, four Lords, and three Gentletlemen of the County of Meath, framed a Petition to your Majesty of some particulars concerning them, intending (as they told Lieutenant Colonel Read) to send him with it to your Majesty, but deferred it for that time, presuming on their strength, to win their ends another way, and on the weak estate of your Majesty's Forces to oppose.  
And when several times the said Lieutenant Colonel Read, moved them to be sent away; They whiled it off (it is Reads own phrase) and the Lord Gormanston said that there would be time enough for that matter, all which the said Lieutenant Colonel Read declared on his Examination, after his coming to the Lords Justices and Council in the beginding of March 1641. when he delivered the draught of the Petition, amongst other papers, but did not say, he was then sent by them, or desired to be sent on that business: And to make this more manifest, the said Licutenant Colonel Read, on the tenth day of January 1641. wrote to the Lords Justices for their pass into England, not mentioning any employment from the Remonstrnats, or any of them, to whom their Lordships wrote that they desired to confer with him before his going into England, and wished him to repair unto them, to the end they might confer with him, and consider of his request, but he would not come, nor any other ways make known any other employment or trust he had for the said Remonstrant: By all which it is manifest, their abusive tax on the Lords Justices, and Council, in stopping or hindering their Petition, by Lieutenant Colonel Read, or his pretended employment for them. And for the racking of the said Lieutenant Colonel Read, it was not without precedent, it being for the discovery of things that might highly concern the safety of your Majesty's Kingdom, and good people there.   

To the tenth Article.  
THe Lords Justices did never give any such direction to the Lord Precedent of Munster, 
Art. 10.  as in this Article is most untruly offered, much less would they do it, while the Province stood quiet, the peace whereof they by all means sought to provide for, neither would he have obeyed any such unrighteous and half command, himself being a Native of the Kingdom, allied amongst the old English and Irish, and in all things lovingly affected to the people, so long as they by any means could be contained in duty, neither was he provided wantonly to make a war, being soon after driven to great extremity by their unprovoked disloyalty: True it is, that from the 23 of October 1641. till about the end of November following, that Province of Munster stood in appearance quiet, whereof he from time to time advertized the Lords Justices, and Council, and from them he received several expressions by many Letters, of their great joy and comfort to find that people so well disposed: and as the Lord Precedent signified to them the constancy or merit of any particular person, the Lords Justices and Council wrote Letters of thanks and encouragement to them, specially they wrote to the Lord of Muskery, (whom the said Lord President had used with all civility, trust, and respect from time to time) acknowledging his zeal in your Majesty's service, and giving him thanks for it in your Majesty's behalf, praying and requiring him to apply himself to the Lord Precedent, and be advised and directed by him, for his own future good, and the safety of the Country; whose concurrence if he had continued loyal, as he stood obliged by his several corporal oaths, to the said Lord Precedent, would have availed much to the general peace: The same was done to others, both to the Nobility and Gentry of that Province, so fare was it from the Lords Justices to irritate, or grieve any of them with passionate or needless cruelty, neither was there any violence offered to any person of what profession, sex, age, or condition soever in all that time in that province. The Lord Precedent rather blamed the Lords Justices and Council for their mild course towards the Rebels of other parts, not thinking the Conspiracy to be such as they found it, and thinking a sharp persecution would soon quell it, wherein he both mistook their general combination (which he after found) and the Lords Justices inability to set upon it with that vigour that had been requisite: The Lords Justices and Council also sent him directions to authorise prime men in each County to Command the forces of the County, and sent him Commissions for martial Law to be given to men of quality of the Natives, and others of purpose to settle the peace of the Country, and prevent rebellion if it might be.  
The first occasion that necessitated him to use force, was about the beginning of December, 1641. when the Rebels of Wexford, Kilkenny, and Katherlagh came over the River, to prey and spoil in the County of Waterford before mentioned, whither he made haste to encounter them, and whom, though he was fare inferior in number, he discomfited, and slew many of them, and executed others, and recovered much of the spoil, which he caused to be restored to the owners: In this action he found many of his Provincials, to whom he suffered no hurt to be done, supposing they came thither for saving their goods, not then believing the Conspiracy to be such, as soon after he found it. The second disturbance which he heard of, was in the County of Tipperary, where Mr. Purcell, called the Baron of Loghmo, had stirred, and set on the Irish in great numbers, to rob and spoil the British, and Protestants, which they arrogantly did; thither he went the ninth of December aforesaid, with such small forces of the English, as he then had (for he then wrote he found cause to trust very few Papists) and there finding where the spoils were made, he pursued therebels, and such as he found in the act, and the Protestants Cattle in their hands, he slew, and executed and burnt two or three Villages, hoping by that quick course to stay and terrify others; There he rescued great store of Cattle of all sorts to the owners; soon after did the Inhabitants of all sorts rise into rebellion in several parts of the Provinces, and before the end of that December did all the Irish and Old English Papists in the County of Tipperary, and Limberick forsake their Allegiance, and with them joined many prime men and others our of Ostery, and other parts of Leinster, and murdered, spoiled and ransacked all the English and Protestants upon these extremities; he had by warrant of the Lords Justices and Council raised a thousand Foot and some Troops of Horse, but wanted Arms for most of them, which the Lords Justices were not able to furnish (having delivered to the Lords and Gentry of the Pale, and others in Leinster for their defence, as many as possibly could be spared) so as he was in a very ill condition, till some forces arrived there out of England, which was in February, 1641. And then, and not before did the Lords Justices and Council require the Lord Precedent to prosecute those wilful Rebels with fire and sword (as was fit) so fare as he was able: The Rebellion afterwards increased upon him in all parts, and when about the end of February he published and showed to so many prime men as he could, your Majesty's gracious Proclamation, under your Royal signature and Privy Signet, for laying down Arms, they rejected it, some saying it was counterfeit, others, that it was done by coercion. By all which fully appears, both that noble Gentleman's moderation, and the Lords Justices and Counsels avoiding all unjust Provocation, at least that they were not set upon those ways of unreasonable cruelty, unjustly charged on them by the Remonstrance, and that those Inhabitants were not forced to stand on their defence, his case being only to defend himself against them if he could, which with great hazard of himself, and your Majesty's affairs in that Province he was driven unto, considering his weakness in men, and other means, and their excessive numbers, rebelliously gathered together, and armed by a long Provision underhand, and furnished with the wealth of all the British, and Protestants, being very great in that Province, which they suddenly and traitorously seized upon. Touching Connaught the report must be fare different from that of Munster, although the Remonstrants say it was used in the like measure, which shows that they are the same in bold affirmation, howsoever the probability or case differeth: When this Rebellion began, the Lord Precedent of that Province was in Dublin, and saw the moderate and winning course used, and intended towards those of the Pale and Leinster, by the Lords Justices and Council, about the beginning of November following, he went towards Connaught, where at his coming to Athlone, he found much disorder in the Province, he found very many of the inferior Irish, and some of the Gentry in rebellion, in the Counties of Roscomon, and Sligo, and that they had murdered, rob, and spoiled the British and Protestants dwelling among them; he entered into a fair course of Treaty and persuasion with the prime men of the several Counties not then in rebellion, presuming in some alliance, and former private friendship and interest amongst them, which prevailed little, as he after found: He had no strength to resist them, there being but one Troop and a half of Horse (most Irish) in the Province, whereof he could make little or no use: And six half Companies of Foot, whereof one was surprised, and lost their Arms, and one drawn away to Dublin, and the rest so dispersed, and engaged in Leytrim, then totally in Rebellion, as he could make little or no use of them: by which appears, he was in no case to use cruelty against the people, or put them to defence, nor so much as rescue the poor British and Protestants in their goods out of the hands of the ravenous Rebelst neither were the Protestant Inhabitants of that Province any way able to defend themselves, being not armed, against such swarms as assaulted them: The Lords Justices, and Council sent down Commissions of government, to the prime Natives in the several Counties, (viz.) to the Earl of Clanrickard, to the Lord of Mayo, Lord of Costilo, and others, and Commissions of Martial Law to other Natives of best choice, of purpose to prevent disturbance as much as might be, and to stay the people: But so little prevailed all the Lord Presidents lenity, and swasory courses, and the care of the Lords Justices and Council, to avoid any offence, or rigid usage towards them; as within the Month of December, most of the prime men of the Province declared themselves Rebels and of the Conspiracy; They blocked him up in the Castle of Athlone by the help of the Conspirators of Westmeath, They burned his Town of Roscomon, and the Bishop's Town of Elphin, and many other English men's habitations, They surprised several Castles of the Earl of Clonrickards, in the County of Galway; notwithstanding that on their surmise that they doubted they should not have the benefit of the graces, his Lordship wrote to your Majesty, and received assurance in their behalves of the same, which he published, together with several other Declarations of your Majesties. And so the Lord Precedent continued in Athlone till your Majesty's Lieutenant General of your Army, carried down 2000 foot, and some Troops of horse: by all which appears, that neither the Lords Justices, and Council, nor the Lord Precedent, nor any other in that Province did any thing to provoke them, much less to put them to defence, till they had murdered, rob and spoilt all the British and Protestants, and committed all other Rebellious and hostile Acts that lay within their lust or power.   

To the eleventh Article.  
IT is confessed that Parliaments have been held in Ireland very many years, often for the benefit of the King, 
Art. 11.  and the good people of the Kingdom. But how long Parliaments have been held there, or whether with equal liberties, powers, and immunities with the Parliament of England, and how fare laws made in England, may bind in Ireland, will best appear in the Records, Rolls, and Authentic Precedents of both Kingdoms, and will be fittest for the dispute and judgement of such learned in the Law, and other Antiquities, as your Majesty in your high wisdom shall appoint thereunto. Neither is it true that untrue suggestions and informations out of Ireland moved the Parliament of England to make such Laws, as in this Article are mentioned, neither can it be conceived the words or intent of those Acts (if they have force in Ireland) do aim at or can reach unto any the lands or possessions of any your Majesty's good Subjects in that Kingdom, but only to the lands and rights of those that have most disloyally lifted up themselves against their most gracious Sovereign Lord their lawful and natural King, and committed the most detestable treasons against your person, Crown, and Dignity, and the most sanguinolent, outrageous, and abominable Acts, upon the persons and estates of your Majesty's obedient, peaceable and innocent Subjects, so fare as possibly they could, that ever were read, or heard of, without provocation or the least motive; neither can those Acts in any respects be the occasion or grounds of those hideous perpetrations; Those Acts (in their first conception) being derived only from fearful rebellion raised by the Confederates and (long after the horrible Acts of that rebellion) by your Majesty and your Parliament advised of, and considered in England, as the most speedy and effectual way to raise means for the relief of the remnant of your Majesty's miserable despoiled Subjects, ready every day to be swallowed up by the deluge of that universal rebellion, and to maintain some being in your Majesty's just Soveraingty, rights and interest in that Kingdom, wholly despised and trodden under foot, by the Confederates, as before appears: Neither can it be believed that your Majesty was enforced thereunto, it being your own cause, and the cause of your beloved and ever loving people; And if any loss should thereon happen to your Majesty (which is not believed) yet would your Majesty be largely recompensed, in settling those lands (except where your Majesty shall find cause to show mercy) in the hands of a peaceable and faithful people, who will not repine, or be slow to strain themselves every way to your Majesty's profit and honour, who will be willingly taught, that rebellion is Treason, and so hate and abhor it, and who will for ever free your Majesty and your posterity from those dangers, travels, and expenses, which have in many ages lain heavy upon the Kings and Kingdom of England, by means of the undutiful behaviour and strange seducements of many of the Inhabitants of that Kingdom of Ireland, and for which your Majesty's gracious and pious provision for your Majesty's good people, both your Kingdoms will now, and in all succeeding ages bless and pray for your sacred Majesty, and your Royal posterity, and for ever acknowledge your Majesty's rare piety and Princely goodness; Neither is there any truth in that malicious traducement that your Majesty's forces in Ireland disavowed any authority from your Majesty, all their authority and command being entirely derived from your Majesty and your immediate Ministers, and they wholly disclaiming any other service, the contrary whereof could never be heard out of the mouths of any of them.   

To the twelfth Article.  
IT is true that the Lords Justices and Council in just and lawful grounds, 
Artic. 12.  and for great and weighty reasons of State for common safety, published several Proclamations, as shall here appear; but not with wicked intent or evil event, as in this Article is with malice insinuated. On the 23 of October 1641. when the hour approached, which was designed for surprising your Majesty's Castle of Dublin, great numbers of strangers were observed to come to town in great parties several ways, who not finding admittance at the gates, stayed in the Suburbs and fields, and there grew numerous, to the terror of the Inhabitants; Insomuch as the Magistrates of the City came to the Council board, with much fear and astonishment, declaring that those mighty numbers in the fields and Suburbs, still increasing, did threaten high & present danger, in respect whereof, and considering the great numbers of desperate and lose persons, who were the night before, and that morning, stolen into the City and Suburbs, from several parts of the Kingdom, who were secretly harboured amongst the Papist Inhabitants; the Lords Justices, and Council first caused as many of them so harboured in town as could be readily found to be apprehended; and secondly, sought for the rest, considering also that in so sudden and great a distemper and confusion, something of extraordinary, was of necessity to be done for terror to disperse those multitudes, so to rid the Town of them, and to resettle in some degree the minds of the terrified and distracted inhabitants; which the Lords Justices, and Council, did choose rather to do the same by some sharp Proclamation, then by falling upon them by violence, which must needs have increased the tumult, and therefore the Lords Justices, and Council, did then instantly publish a Proclamation in your Majesty's Name, Commanding all persons not dwellers in the City or Suburbs, to departed within one hour after publishing by Proclamation, and that upon pain of death; This Proclamation did not so much as intent or aim at any known Inhabitants of the Pale, or Countries adjacent, or any of known credit or good subsistence, neither did any such qualified persons than take the least ill apprehension thereat, but such of them as applied themselves to the Lords Justices, were friendly entertained; on the 28 of the same October, it being complained to the Lords Justices and Council, by the Magistrates of the City, that many like formerly qualifyed persons, as formerly assembled to the terror of the City, did still resort to the City and Suburbs, and others (notwithstanding the former Proclamation) did still lurk there, whose company they much feared, as threatening some sudden violence.  
The Lords Justices and Council therefore on the same grounds as formerly, did the second time by Proclamation command all such to departed forthwith on pain of death, and the like pain to such as wilfully harboured them; And that the Inhabitants should forthwith bring in the names of all such strangers, and the Officers to apprehend such Inhabitants as should further harbour them: which no way was intended towards men of quality, or known credit as aforesaid, neither did any of them stir, or take any misapprehension at it: afterwards on the 11 of November following, the Lords Justices and Council having intelligence from several parts, of the insolent proceeding of the Rebels, against the British and Protestants, in the borders of the Pale, (The Lord's Justices and Council than not fearing disloyalty in the prime Inhabitants thereof) as in some other Counties adjacent, and finding that divers men of quality and countenance in the Country, and very many others, were then come into the City, whereby the Country was deprived of defence, and left open to the rapine of the Rebels then in Arms; And considering that in the beginning of so great distractions, as then began to show themselves in many parts, the inferiors might be terrified, or disturbed in the absence of the prime men, the Lords Justices and Council therefore then, unanimously thought it necessary, and so did (for those reasons only, and in duty to their then present charge under your Majesty) on the said eleventh day of November, Proclaim, and Command, on pains in the said Proclamation mentioned, That all persons not having necessary cause of residing in the said City, and the Suburbs thereof, or in places within two miles about the same (their said cause of residing to be approved of by the Earl of Ormond, and Ossory, than your Majesty's Lieutenant general of the Army and the Council of war, there for the time being, or such other persons as should be by them appointed, for examination thereof) should within four and twenty hours after publication of that Proclamation, repair to their several dwellings, in which Proclamation there are other Cautions, Prescripts, and reservations, which show that no unfitting rigour was offered, or so much as intended. This Act of the Lords Justices, and Council, did soon after appear to agree with your Majesty's Royal sense of that necessary retiring of such kind of men, in that time of danger and trouble in the Country, expressed in your gracious Letters, written to the Lords Justices in December after, concerning the proroguing of the Parliament; notwithstanding this Proclamation, such of the Parliament as were come to the Town, and their retinues, and great numbers of others did continue in Town many days after, and those of them that were Members of Parliament did sit, and many of the rest of the Lords and Gentry did remain in Town, as their occasions moved them, and did come and go at their pleasure, neither was there enforcement, or so much as menaces used to any man, that did not willingly go, or saw not good reason, on the said Public warning to departed for the good of the Country and safety of their families and neighbours.  
And it is observable, that although that Proclamation did expressly provide for such to stay as having cause, and making the same known, would desire to stay, yet those of them that had a mind to join with the Rebels and did join with them, did choose rather to departed, then to make use of the Liberty given them to stay, and yet now would seem to be constrained to departed, which shows apparently the vanity and untruth of that their subterfuge: and seeing the unnatural conspiracy stands so discovered, as now it doth; it may not be forgotten that within the space of five weeks after several Gentlemen of the Pale, who had sojourned in Town, and intended so to do that Winter, and some of them who had been dwelling in the City, (no way concerned by that Proclamation) and likewise some Citizens of good substance, as is , did freely departed the City with some of their substance of value, doubting the sudden assault and taking of the City, which seemed to be upon underhand intelligence, between them and those of the Pace, then beginning to show their formerly secret Confederacy, till the discovery, whereof none of them had impediment or interruption by the Lords Justices and Council, or any command from them, to come and go at their pleasure, neither was there any pillaging all that while heard of in the City, or of any of these Gentry in the Country. It is most untrue, that after the said discovery (which was fully made immediately after the before mentioned rebellious Assembly at Swords) any of those that formerly departed out of Dublin, or any others of quality, in the Pale (except a few that continued loyal, who from time to time resorted to the Lords Justices and Council, and were gladly entertained by them) did offer to return, until the Northern forces, and the forces of the Pale were beaten from Drogbeda, and your Majesty's Armies become full Masters of the field in all the parts of the Pale, and then the Lords Justices and Council could not with their duty deal otherwise with them, than as is before mentioned.  
Another Proclamation was published on the 28 of December, 1641. requiring all persons (other than such as had necessary causes to Dublin, such as the Lords Justices, or the said Lieutenant General of the Army, or the Governors of your Majesty's forces in the City of Dublin should approve, and other than such as should bring provision to the City to be sold) should forbear coming to the City or Suburbs thereof; This was done in time of high necessity. The Lords Justices, and Council seeing that none offered themselves to them openly, but hearing that divers, being now discovered Traitors, presuming on friends within did secretly come to the City, partly to furnish themselves, partly to eat up and exhaust our victuals, and partly to gain intelligence, and understand in what case the City stood, which had been a most unwise and unfaithful thing in the Lords Justices and Council to permit, yet could it not be totally prevented, notwithstanding all their care & diligence; so great intelligence had they amongst the Papist Inhabitants of the City. It is as untrue that any of those men's goods, who first departed the City, intended in this Article, or any other man's goods were pillaged, seized or confiscated, by warrant, command, or direction of the Lords Justices, neither were any man's goods so much as touched or laid hands upon, till a good time after the Lords, Gentry and Inhabitants of the Pale, and other Counties were publicly declared Rebels: Indeed afterwards the soldiers which came out of England, in times when they wanted pay did many unruly acts by pillage and otherways; But the Lords Justices, and Council did labour to restrain such acts as much as possibly they could, which may well appear by their several Warrants and Proclamations against pillaging, and all other unwarranted violence, wherein they adventured so fare as to trench on the martial part of government, rather than (so much as might any ways lie in their power to prevent it) to suffer such disordered acts to be done, and which were declared to them would (and so did indeed) prove to be prejudicial to themselves to have such lawless consumption made of of those things, which well ordered & taken from such persons, who had justly merited it, and orderly Warrants given for it, would long afford them subsistence, which restraint though it wrought little, yet procured great dislike in the Army to the Lords Justices, touching the Calumny of pillaging and burning the houses of persons of rank and quality, employed by the Lords Justices, who kept their houses and annoyed no body, and of others, having the protection of the State; It is most false that any such thing was done by the command or privity of the Lords Justices and Council, neither (without the Council) did the Lords Justices do any manner of thing concerning the government; neither can it be conceived reasonable, that the Lords Justices and Council should be answerable for the irregular acts of so unbridled and ill-paid an Army, who in those necessitous and extremely disordered times would not be punished; Though the Confederates have no cause to complain of their losses, it being but just vengeance on their wilful and unprovoked rebellion: and for persons of rank or quality employed, no such persons ever offered themselves, or were employed by the Lords Justices, and Council, except two of the County of Meath, who after they had joined with the Northern Rebels, wrote to the Lords Justices, that if they might have Commission to parley with the Rebels, they hoped to do some good, for the quiet of the Country, which Commission the Lords Justices and Council gave them; Although it after appeared, that it was sought by them, only to gain some colour of security, for those persons rebellious complying with the Rebels: However the Lords Justices, and Council, sent them Commission as is before mentioned, being desirous to leave no means unassayed, that might give hope of any ceasing of extremities, being then in very weak case to use that just force that was requisite to compel obedience, the British and Protestants being generally rob and spoilt, as is before mentioned, and the City daily threatened, as well by those of the Pale, as other Rebels. To this Commission those men soon after made a very frivolous and scornful return, and indeed dealt most deceitfully in all things with the Lords Justices and Council, seeming by letters to give them intelligence, which were no other, than either terror and threatening of the Rebels, or public Acts which they knew would come to their knowledge otherwise from the common fame, which will appear in their Letters yet extant; yet were neither of these men's houses burnt at all, neither were their goods taken by any direction, or command of the Lords Justices; But being open Rebels, as the rest of that Country were, when your Majesty's forces were of some strength, and when it was thought fit by the Lords Justices and Council, and Commanders of the Army, to burn and spoil that Country, to the end to disappoint the Rebels, and send them further off; the Army being sent abroad, spoiled them, as it seems, amongst the rest, and indeed burned many other houses where the Rebels were relieved and harboured, and from whence they had opportunity daily to take Cattle (by sudden Roads) from the lands of Dublin, having spoilt and rob all the British and Protestants round about it: And touching protected men, the Lords Justices and Council gave very few Protections, finding by ancient and late experience, that course to turn only to your Majesty's disadvantage: It is true, that while the Natives inhabiting within few miles of Dublin, were permitted by the Rebels to live on their holdings, from whom the active Rebels had daily relief,  
The Governor of Dublin gave passes to very many of them to bring corn and other Victuals to Dublin, for relief of the Town, and so did the Captains and Commanders of other Garrisons of purpose to draw to the Market, what they could from the Rebels, which all (out of their Garrisons, and their Limits) then were either in act, or full consent and combination, yet were none of those people pillaged or spoiled by any direction of the Lords Justices, and Council, but all such things resisted by them, as fare as they could possibly do against an unpaid Army; neither did the Lords Justices, and Council ever give direction, or any permission to violate any word or writing of safety, given by them, or any Commander, or suffer it to be done, wheresoever they could withstand it. But after long forbearance of those wicked and evil disposed people, and it being found by daily experience, that under pretext of relieving the City, they carried Munition and other provisions out to the Rebels, and much more relieved them then the City; and by that means gave the Rebels much more ready way to annoy and rob the City: and that some seeming to labour at the Blow, had their weapons hidden near them, and if any of the straggling Soldiers, or other British, or Protestants, ventured to pass by them, single, or in weak parties, they assaulted and murdered them; and that from those parts, the Lords Justices and Council, or any Commander of the Army, could not at any time receive any intelligence to discover where the Rebels haunted, or rested, though they daily lived and passed among them; Then were the Lords Justices and Council necessitated, to disannul and revoke all those passes, and pretended protections: and yet that was not done, but upon a forewarning and time given, and that by public Proclamation. And afterwards were the Army sent out (though with the great grief of the Lords Justices and Council) to burn and spoil those parts, which they well foresaw, must conclude in their own great distress, as after it did, for want of promised provisions out of this Kingdom; of all which their proceed they from time to time advertised your Majesty by their letters to the then Lord Lieutenant, & your Majesty's Secretary: Neither was any quarter though sometimes unwarrantably given ever violated by the Lords Justices and Council, or with their privity; neither was any man killed, or his goods taken by any authority, because an Irish man, or a Roman Catholic, but because a wilful Rebel: And indeed those disorderly pillagings lighted sometimes aswell on the British and Protestants, and some Roman Catholic Inhabitants of the City and Suburbs, as upon the open Rebels: As to the Cities and Towns of Dublin, Drogheda, and the rest which were kept by your Majesty's Garrisons. It is true, they endured the trouble of unruly Soldiers, much against the hearts of the Lords Justices and Council, but all their miseries, and the miseries of all other good men happened by occasion only of the hateful Conspiracy, and violent Rebellion of the Confederates, because they were under the English Government: The Confederates did use them worse, than the Egyptians did the Israelites, for they took away but the Straw, whereas these Confederates (besides the Innocent blood they have spilt) did not only actually rob and spoil of their substance, them aswell Papists of the Cities, as Protestants in the Country, where they were able, but also, which was worse, having gotten into their hands by way of trust, very great quantities of their substance, partly in foreknowledge of this Rebellion, and partly to answer their barbarous lavish expenses, they by their Rebellion deprived them of it all, to the utter ruin of many of them, they not so much as (since the Cessation) yielding them any relief, in their similate Counsels, and judicatories, though free Commerce granted.  
And lastly, as to the murders, breaches of public faith and quarter, destruction and desolation in eighteen months (which by computation must be after the Conspiracy and actual Rebellion fully discovered, and your Majesty's Armies sent over) The assertion is most false and scandalous in all the parts thereof; For whatsoever killing or destruction was then executed on the Confederates and their Complices, having their Swords in their hands, in a most disloyal and irreligious action, was done in natural defence, and in a course of just War, as a necessary chastisement, from a Gracious and Religious Prince, upon the unnaturalness of unfaithful Rebels, 
After the Siege of Drogheda, the old English of the Pale being forced into Ulster, they did vaunt that they had killed more English and Protestants in Fingall, then were killed in many other Counties.  raging in all extremity against the Lives, Persons, and Estates of your innocent and obedient Subjects, neither did all that kill and destruction amount to the tenth part of the murders and destructions, in near four months before, committed upon your Majesty's Loyal and innocent Subjects, and that by sudden surprisal in open peace and cold blood, when they were no way able to make resistance, as is too apparent: But nothing could relish with the Confederates, as favouring of equity, except the Lords Justices and Council would, in base fear, have treacherously delivered up to them your Majesty's Prerogatives, Rights, and Sovereignty, their own lives (for their substance and estates, they had before violently torn from them) and the lives of all the remaining wretched British and Protestants; the lives of many thousands of the same kind of men, and the whole substance of them, and the rest, being not sufficient to satiate the malice of the Confederates, against their lives, their thirst after their estates, and their hatred to the Protestant Religion, British Nation, and English Government. And the indisposition of the Lords Justices to shed blood appeared in that above sixty persons, who amongst many hundreds came to surprise Dublin, were on the 23 of October, 1641. apprehended, none suffered death, save one of Fermanagh, who as the Lord Magwire confessed was privy to the Plot; and many like instances there are of their great tenderness in that point.   

In the thirteenth Article,  
THese confederates do further show, 
Art. 13.  that one main foundation of their Rebellion, is their hatred of all Law and good order; They cannot endure that the Parliament should sit, which is your Majesty's highest favour to your people, for the common good: Or that the Courts of Justice should sit, according to the ancient and laudable Laws of the Kingdom, by the benefit whereof they had for so many years undeniably prospered, and advanced into that happy estate, which none of their ancestors ever saw, in that Kingdom, many of them ennobled, and all of them enriched, as doth well appear in the Statute 11 Jacobi Cap. 1. But of all things it is and will be for ever admirable, that they should challenge interest in the fundamental Laws, which they have laboured by all their power and policy to pluck up by the roots; And with a high hand have executed all manner of violations of those Laws, both against Prince and people, as doth well appear in the forementioned Collections truly made, and by a public Declaration of both Houses of Parliament, made the 17 of November 1641. That they should call themselves natural and genuine members of the Parliament (which is an Assembly of Peace and Order) they having rend asunder, and cast from them all the bonds of humane society, peace and order, and that they should complain of want of safety, to come under that power, which they so wilfully renounced, having under it had full fruition of the happiest protection, and being that ever they or any of their Ancestors enjoyed, whereof (under God) nothing could have deprived them, but their own inordinate rage and appetite: Can they imagine it reasonable, that because they will be Rebels without cause or provocation, therefore your Majesty and your good people must neither have Parliament, nor Courts of Justice to sustain and comfort them? will nothing satisfy them but an entire concurrence of all your Majesty's people in their confusions? And whereas they affect to vilify the members of the Parliament, doubtless they cannot but know that the Peers are the same they were, when they were thought worthy to sit with them; And for the Commons, they are for the most part the same that sat with them, while they could be capable of so honourable a trust, and were as active and able in the Service of your Majesty and Commonwealth as any of them, much more faithful: And for such of these confederates as the wholesome Laws of the Land have cast out for their treasons and breach of Faith, both to God and man, there are by due order and election, substituted in their places, men of Estate, for the most part, but all honest and legal men: They speak much in some of their Prints, of the Power and Privilege of Parliament. Yet now, because their offences have made them unfit for such trust, they spurn at that Power, and cannot endure it in those faithful men, whom the fundamental Laws have appointed unto it; Certainly, it is wonderful, that those confederates should imagine, that by the highest treasons, murders, robberies, faith-breaking, betraying their peaceable Neighbours, and Friends, and utterly spoiling the whole British Nation and Protestants in that Kingdom, of their whole Estates, they should gain privilege to speak evil of all manner of Authority, and to be thought the only good Governors of the Commonwealth, miserably distracted by themselves, and that not upon particular quarrels, or pretended grievances, which your Majesty could easily have redressed, whatsoever they could be; but upon prepensed resolution and design to extirpate all the British and Protestants.  
If these be the Liberties that they fight for, doubtless they are not justifyable by the Laws of God or Man, but utterly inconsistent with the loyalty of Subjects to a Religious Monarch, now by the mercy of God granted to that Nation; They complain of persons impeached in Parliament, to be dismissed by the Parliament now sitting; This we conceive to be a just act, they having fully answered their charge, and no crime appearing against them: And it is upon good reason believed, that the same was set on foot against those impeached Judges, rather out of disaffection to the Government, and because they were observed careful Servants to your Majesty, than out of any crime that could be truly objected and proved against them. It is confessed that the Parliament, since the beginning of that Rebellion have made divers Orders, and Declarations for the advancement of your Majesty's Service and the Public good, and declaration of the Truth; and if there had been any Acts ready, which might have been good for the Kingdom, they might have been passed with as much authority, as at any other time: neither can it appear that ever the Protestants did, or ever offered to pass any Acts prejudicial to your Majesty, or harmful to the Nation, wherein themselves by God's Providence were incorporated, both in habitation, alliance, and interest; Nay, rather their ill requited love to the Nation will appear in that (as is before herein set down) they freely joined as well in this Parliament, as in the last Parliament, and in that held in the Reign of the blessed King James, to repeal all Acts that were offensive, or penal to the Nation. It is confessed that since the beginning of Hillary Term, 1641. Terms have been kept in Dublin, as legally and justly they ought to be, and in the King's Bench many known Traitors and Rebels have been upon just and full evidence indicted, and many outlawed by a legal and due course, but not known faithful Subjects were then indicted, nor ever intended to be, neither were any Sheriffs appointed, but men of known-credit, and subsistence, competent for such a trust, as now the State of the Kingdom standeth, most of the Sheriffs formerly appointed, having openly joined in the conspiracy, and action of rebellion against your Majesty, your Government and Laws. And where these Remonstrants seem offended, that Soldiers are members of the Parliament, and have been Jurors on those indictments, and some trials, They should have considered, that their Rebellion forced many of those men to forsake their Estates, and undergo that honourable profession, to stand in your Majesty's just quarrel against the Remonstrants, and to defend the residue of your Majesty's distressed Subjects, and the Government and Laws of the Kingdom: Those Confederates well knowing, that many of those men had, and yet have full interests in as good estates as themselves; and aswell in point of Interest, as other abilities of education, are as fit as any of them were to be partakers of the best trust in the Commonwealth. And whereas they say that divers who came in upon protection and public faith, were so tried for their Lives and Estates; It is a most notorious untruth, and can only befit the Remonstrants to aver, but can never gain credit with any that know Ireland, or will duly weigh what is here before truly specified. And for their Protestation against the Parliament, and the Acts of it, and of other your Majesty's Ministers, it can be of no better value. And for the Remonstrants' desire, that your Majesty would be graciously pleased to call a free Parliament in Ireland, in such convenient time, as your Majesty in your High Wisdom shall think fit, and the urgency of the present affairs of that Kingdom doth require; and that the said Parliament be held in an indifferent place, summoned by, and continued before some Person or Persons, of Honour and Fortune, of approved faith to your Majesty, and acceptable to your people there: By this their desire, your Majesty's Protestant Subjects do evidently perceive, that the Remonstrants thereby intent the dissolving of that Parliament which your Majesty hath now sitting, and which hath on weighty reasons been continued thus long: and how dangerous this may prove to your Majesty, and your Majesty's Protestant Subjects, they most humbly beseech your Majesty in your High Wisdom to judge.  
First, they being Parties criminous, will gain the acquittal of their own ill done actions, and the management of the most weighty affairs of the Commonwealth, and wholly exclude your Majesty's Protestant Subjects, who with all real fidelity have served your Majesty this present Parliament: and they seem not willing to have any of your Majesty's Protestant Subjects amongst them; assuring themselves that if any thing shall be there propounded to the dishonour of God, the prejudice of your Majesty, or any of your good Subjects there, that your Majesty's Protestant Subjects will stand in opposition to their intentions: The Remonstrants well knowing that by their cruel actions they have either murdered or banished most of your Majesty's Freeholders, so as no votes are left either in Counties or Corporations, for the electing of your Majesty's Protestant Subjects, by which they intent no other than a Parliament of Roman Catholics, who we doubt not will take care to vindicate themselves; And as for those of your Majesty's Protestant Subjects, that these Remonstrants have left undestroyed by the Sword, they now desire to destroy, or banish them out of that Kingdom by colour of Justice; as may appear by this following Oath, by them generally taken.  
The oath of the Confederate Roman Catholics of IRELAND, etc.  
I A. B. Do in the presence of Almighty God, and all the Angels and Saints in Heaven, promise, vow, swear, and protest, to maintain and defend as fare as I may, with my life, power, and Estate, the public and free exercise of the true, and Catholic Roman Religion, against all persons that shall oppose the same. I further swear, That I will bear Faith and Allegiance to our Sovereign Lord King CHARLES, his Heirs and Successors; And that I will defend him and them, as fare as I may with my life, power, and estate, against all such persons as shall attempt any thing against their Royal Persons, Honours, and Estates, or Dignities: And against all such as shall directly, or indirectly endeavour to suppress their Royal Prerogatives, or do any act or acts contrary to Regal Government, as also the power and privileges of Parliament, the lawful Rights and Privileges of the Subject. And every person that makes this Vow, Oath, and Pretestation, in whatsoever he shall do in the lawful pursuance of the same. And to my Power, as fare as I may, I will oppose, and by all ways and means endeavour to bring to condign punishment, even to the loss of life, liberty and estate, all such as shall, either by force, practice, Counsels, Plots, Conspiracies, or otherwise, do, or attempt any thing to the contrary of any Article, clause, or any thing in this present vow, Oath, and Protestation contained.  
So help me God.  
AND as for the place of holding the Parliament, your Majesty's Protestant Subjects cannot imagine why the Remonstrants should desire any other place than Dublin, it being the place of the residence of the State, unless those Remonstrants would draw your Majesty's Governors, and the remainder of your Majesty's Protestant Subjects into some remote place where they might enforce them to comply with them in their desires; And your Majesty's Protestant Subjects do conceive that this present Parliament is continued before a person of honour and fortune; And by the repealing or suspending of Poying Law, it plainly appears that the Remonstrants' desire to bereave your Majesty of the advice of your Privy Counsels, both of England and Ireland.  
It is not agreeable to reason that your Majesty, who is the head, should not be acquainted with the making of those Laws which perhaps may bind your Majesty and Posterity, your Prerogatives and Revenues, yea, perhaps altar the whole frame of that your Government.  
If this Law be suspended, they may repeal the Statute made in the second of Queen Elizabeth, for restitution of Jurisdictions of the Crown, in causes Ecclesiastical, and the abolishing the Pope's usurped Jurisdictions out of that Kingdom, and all Laws which do concern the worship of God, or the jurisdiction Ecclesiastical, whereby your Majesty will lose above the one moiety of your Regal Authority, and God be bereft of his honour, and all good people be enforced to forsake that Kingdom.  
It being most unreasonable at this time, for that would make themselves their own Judges, and they being the parties criminous, should not only have the power of their own acquittal in their own hands, but also of the condemnation of your Majesty's British and Protestant Subjects, who persecuted them for their disloyalty against your Majesty.  
It is also dangerous for that the Remonstrants have erected that Idol of popular Government; We mean their Counsels called the supreme Counsels, Provincial Counsels, and County Counsels, and all other their usurped judicatures, both by Sea and Land, which if they should settle by Parliament, they would thereby give countenance to their past actions, and for ever exclude the honourable and just Laws of England, which for these 400. years have governed that people.  
Also your Majesty is already entitled to a great part of that Kingdom by Attainder of many of the Remonstrants in this Rebellion, which by this means they will be sure to deprive your Majesty of; And so to disable your Majesty to raise any yearly Revenue out of their lands, or to make your Majesty's Protestant Subjects any satisfaction for their losses thereout.  
This Statute was held so sacred and inviolable, that notwithstanding that the Committee from the Parliament made suit to your Majesty that an Act might pass for the further explanation of the same Statute, which your Majesty upon mature deliberation did not think fit to give way unto; And for the suspension made in the 11 year of Queen Elizabeth; It was with those cautions and restrictions, as can neither give expedition to the present affairs, or be applied to these times or occasions.  
And your Majesty's Protestant Subjects do humbly crave leave to inform your Majesty, that whereas by the late Articles of Cessation of Arms in Ireland, It was, amongst other things, agreed, That your Majesty's Protestant Subjects, and their adherents, should enjoy all their several possessions and quarters, as they stood the 15 of September 1643. at twelve of the clock of the said day, without interruption of the said Confederate Roman Catholics and their adherents; And that restitution should be made of any things taken after the said time, as may appear by the said Articles; yet the said Confederate Roman Catholics have since the said 15 of the said September, as well by fraud as by force of Arms, taken from divers of your Majesty's Protestant Subjects, several holds and places of strength, and divers lands and goods, amounting to a very great value, and refuse to make restitution of the same, and have burnt and wasted many places, to the ruin of divers Families, and to the great terror of your Majesties said Protestant Subjects.  
And whereas also upon the Conclusion of the said Cessation, it was agreed by the said Lord Viscount Muskery and others, on the behalf of the said Confederate Roman Catholics, that thirty thousand pounds should be paid by them at certain days agreed upon, which was intended and declared, should be employed to the maintenance of your Majesty's Army, then much distressed for want of means, yet nevertheless, although the times are long since expired, that the most part of the thirty thousand pounds should have been paid, the far greatest part thereof is detained, and what was paid was paid so unseasonably, as that your Majesty's Army that relied thereupon, have been reduced to very great extremities; and your Majesty's Protestant Subjects forced to pay taxes and contributions towards their relief, fare above their ability: which failer of payment by the Remonstrants, your Majesty's Revenues being in the hands of the confederate Roman Catholics, necessitated the soldiers to pillage and plunder thousands of your Majesty's good Subjects, to their utter ruin and destruction, in manifest breach of their undertake, and to the great disservice of your Majesty.  
And by these former and continued evil actions, known untruths and scandalous aspersions cast on your Majesty, and your Royal government, and Protestant Subjects of that Kingdom, in their said Remonstrance, all men may judge that they intent nothing but the absolute extirpation of your Majesty's English government and Protestant Subjects there. All which your Majesty's Protestant Subjects do most humbly desire, may be redressed by your Sacred Majesty, for the continuation of your Majesty's English Governors and government in that Kingdom, and for the encouragement of your Majesty's loyal and obedient Protestant Subjects.    

A TRUE NARRATION OF ALL The Passages concerning the Petition of the Protestants of Ireland, presented to his Majesty at Oxford, the eighteenth day of April, 1644. Together with The Reasons inducing the said Protestants to Petition, the proceed, and successes thereof, in Ireland, and afterwards in England, from the beginning, until the Protestant Agents were dismissed by His Majesty from Oxford, the thirtieth day of May, 1644. Collected in obedience to the Order and Command of the Honourable House of Commons of the Parliament of England, for the manifestation of the Truth, the vindication of the Protestants, the satisfaction of the Well-affected, and prevention of the Popish party, whose daily practice it is to represent untruths to the world, and under specious shows to delude and blind the people.  
ABout the sixth of October 1643. divers of the Protestant Nobility, Gentry, Officers of the Army, and other Protestant Inhabitants in Ireland, taking into serious consideration their sad condition, the great necessity they were reduced unto, and their extreme sufferings by the late Conspiracy, and horrid Rebellion there, and finding by the Articles of Cessation, and his Majesty's Proclamation thereupon, that the Rebels of Ireland were allowed to send Agents to his Majesty, who would doubtless watch all opportunities to prejudice the Protestants; and to endeavour to clear themselves of their ill-done actions, the Protestant Petitioners met together at the Earl of Kildares' house in Dublin, where they framed a Petition, to the then Lords Justices and Council, which they presented at the Council board, and received their Lordship's answer the twelfth day of the same Month: which Petition and Answer follow, In haec verbo.  

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Lords justices and Council, The humble Petition of divers of his Majesty's Protestant Subjects of IRELAND.  
Humbly showeth,  
THat your Petitioners being pressed by extreme necessities, and their great sufferings in the present Rebellion, for remedy thereof desire to address themselves to his Sacred Majesty by their Agents: and because they understand by his Majesty's Proclamation, and the Articles of Cessation, lately published in Print, that the Romish Catholics are admitted to send Agents to his Majesty, who will doubtless watch all opportunities to prejudice your supplicants;  
They humbly pray that your Lordships will be pleased to be a means that they be not admitted to his Majesty until your supplicants Agents may be present, which shall be with all convenient speed. And to that end they humbly desire that your Lordships will be pleased to grant licence unto such as your supplicants shall from time to time appoint to attend his Majesty touching the premises; And in regard that your supplicants conceive that the dissolving of this Parliament (which by the alteration of the late Lords Justices will shortly determine unless by special Commission the same be continued) may prove of very evil consequence to his Majesty's good Subjects,  
They humbly pray that your Lordships will be pleased to recommend the same effectually to his Majesty's pious consideration, that timely direction may arrive for continuance thereof. Octobris 12. 1643.   

Upon consideration of this Petition, We think fit to let the Petitioners know, that his Majesty (out of his gracious care of his affairs, and good Subjects here) hath been pleased, already to signify hither his Royal intention, to call into England some such able and fitting Ministers or servants of his Majesty on this side, as are fit to be sent into England, to assist in the treaty there, when the persons to be employed to his Majesty from the Irish shall go over, and his Majesty's Royal purpose therein is already so fare advanced, as the names of fit and able persons, of eminent quality, free from any exception, and well experienced in the affairs of this Kingdom, are already transmitted to his Majesty, that so he may make choice of such as he shall think fit, so as all that could be thought of, necessary for the good of his Majesty's Protestant Subjects, his Majesty hath already provided for, with great piety and wisdom. Yet we (who well know his Majesty's abundant care and tenderness of his Protestant Subjects here) being desirous to give the petitioners all needful satisfaction, in their desires, so fare as may confist with the duty we own to his Majesty, and looking into former times, do find that when Agents were sent from this Kingdom to attend his Majesty by the approbation of this board, it was by his Majesty's gracious Licence first obtained, wherefore we hold it our duties at this time also to reserve that part for his Majesty. And therefore we do forbear of ourselves to give any direction therein, but do intent humbly to transmit a Copy of this their Petition to his Majesty, which also answers the Petitioners request, concerning the Parliament. And we will labour to obtain a signification of his good pleasure therein, with all convenient speed, which we shall readily obey. And if in the mean time there be any matter of grievance offered by the petitioners to us, which is in our power to redress here: We do let the petitioners know, we shall be ready to hear it, and to interpose his Majesty's authority entrusted with us, towards their just relief therein.  


Ormonde  
Jo. Borlase  
Cham Lamberte  
Tho. Lucas  
Roscomon  
Herald Tychborne  
Fra. Willoughby  
Ja. Ware.  
Edw. Brabason  
Ant. Midensis     

Upon the receipt of the aforesaid Answer, the Protestants met again, at the Earl of Kildares' house; and conceived such persons as the Lords Justices and Council mentioned in their Answer to be called into England, were to assist by their counsel in the Treaty, and to advise in what should be proposed, and (for aught known to the Protestants) not to represent the bleeding and miserable condition of that Kingdom, or to make proof of the unparallelled cruelties of the Rebels, (neither did the Petitioners than know who those persons should be) And notwithstanding the Lords of the Council pretended they had no precedent for the giving of approbation to Agents to attend his Majesty, without his Majesty's special Licence; yet it was recent in many men's memories, that there were several precedents for it, and that in very late times, wherefore the Protestant Petitioners conceived that these delays were put upon the Protestants by some ill affected, merely to gain the Rebel's advantage of time, to work their ends at Court, and to discourage the poor Protestants in the prosecution of their intendments: And the Protestant petitioners being not satisfied with the Lords of the Counsels Answer, proceeded to the choice of Agents, and prepared a petition, which afterwards was presented to his Majesty. And on the foureteenth day of October 1643. the Protestants presented another petition to the Lords Justices and Council, and delivered their Lordships a Copy of the Petition that was prepared to be sent to his Majesty, which was answered by the Lords, the nineteenth of the same Month: which Petition and Answer follow, In haec verba.   

To the Right Honourable the Lord's justices and Council, The humble Petition of divers of his Majesty's Protestant Subjects, as well Commanders of his Majesty's Army, as others.  
Humbly showeth unto your Lordships,  
THat we have received your Lordship's Answer in writing to our Petition, whereby we perceive his Majesty's abundant care and tenderness of us, which we shall with all humble thankfulness ever acknowledge, together with your Lordship's readiness therein. And whereas we find in your Lordships said Answer, your willingness for redress of any manner of grievance, which is in your Lordship's power; We do humbly herewith offer unto your Lordships a Copy of our most humble Petition which we prepared to present to his Sacred Majesty, wherein we set down part of our grievances.  
Humbly desiring your Lordships to take the same into your grave consideration, and so fare to condescend to our just demands in our former Petition, and humble motions to your Lordships expressed for the Licence and recommendation of our Agents and Petition to his sacred Majesty, as that the cause of our Religion, of ourselves and our Posterity, whereof his Majesty is so abundantly earefull, his Majesty's honour and service so much concerned therein, may not suffer through delay or want of true and full information, which your supplicants humbly conceive cannot be without particular persons as Agents from the several parts of this Kingdom to that end chosen, (by those who have now suffered) to solicit and wholly attend the same.  
And they shall ever pray, etc. 19 Octobris   

XIX Octob 1643.  
THe answer which on the twelfth of this month we gave to a former petition, concerning this matter exhibited at this board, In the name of divers of His Majesty's protestant subjects of Ireland, doth sully answer the requests of this your petition; to which we can now add, That such is our care of the petitioners, as that on the same day we gave them that answer, We signed letters directed to Mr. Secretary Nicholas, and enclosed therein their petition to Us, and we have by those letters earnestly entreated Mr. Secretary, that with all convenient speed, we may understand His Majesty's gracious pleasure therein, which we shall readily obey, and if the Petitioners shall think fit to send any to attend His Majesty, as we shall not hinder them, or any other from making their humble applications to his Majesty in any their occasions, so we hold it agreeable with our duties to forbear our recommendation, for the reasons expressed in our said answer of the twelfth of this month, until we first understand his Majesty's good pleasure therein.  


Jo. Borlaso  
Herald Tichborne.  
Ormonde  
Roscomon  
Ant. Midensis.  
Cham Lambert  
Geo. Shurley  
Fra. Willoughby●  
Ja. Ware.  
Tho. Rotheram.     

Whereupon, Sir Sichard Bolton Knight, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, upon the delivery of the said Copy at the council board, said, that the Copy of the petition prepared to be sent to his Majesty was not a true copy, because it wanted the names who had subscribed the original petition, which nicety was soon taken away by the protestants delivery of a perfect list of the names of such as had subscribed the petition intended to be presented to His Majesty.  
The next day a Protestation was framed against the Protestant Petitioners and their agents, by some ill affected to so good a work, and countenanced by the Earl of Roscomon and Sir James Ware, two members of that board (amongst others) to draw scandal and prejudice on the Protestants, and their petition, which Protestation followeth in haec verba.  
The sense of divers of His Majesty's Protestant subjects, who have signed to the late Petition directed to His Majesty.  
Suffering under the misconstruction of our Petition, we hold it fit to declare that we exhibited not the same through want of assurance of His Majesty's care of the Protestant Religion and of his subjects; Nor yet to divert any supplies that may be drawn from honce against such as in His Kingdom of England have taken up Arms against him, but merely in right to God's Cause, and in our right, humbly to inform His Majesty when the Irish agents repair unto him, if the said Agents shall endeavour to surprise or prejudice us in either, this is the Commission We give; and if any person or persons employed by Us shall go further, or otherwise busy themselves, to the disturbance of His Majesty's service, against such we do and shall protest, as being in our intentions no parties thereunto, which as it may serve to vindicate our faith to His most sacred Majesty, so it may show how causeless the Jealousies are of this address to Him.  
And some ill affected persons were employed unto several of the subscribers to the Protestant petition, desiring them to subscribe the said Protestation, which took so little effect, that not one man who had formerly subscribed the said Petition to his Majesty, would be drawn to sign the said Protestation, one Officer of the Army excepted, who immediately after came to the council-board (divers of the Protestant petitioners being there present) and desired that the Lords Justices and Council would permit him to withdraw his name from the said Petition intended to be presented to His Majesty, which he had formerly subscribed: yet seeing the design of the petition, and other discouragements given the Petitioners took no other effect, but that the protestant petitioners constantly presisted in their zeal to their Religion, honour of his Majesty, the vindication of the innocent blood of their brethren shed by the barbarous rebels, and the preservation of the remainder of the poor protestants there, They that favoured the said petition desisted from any further proceed therein.  
About the beginning of january, a letter from His Majesty dated the 6 of November 1643 arrived at Dublin licensing the protestant Agents to repair to His Majesty, which followeth in haecverba.  
CHARLES REX,  
RIght trusty and well beloved Counsellors, and right trusty and right well-beloved Cousins, and Counsellors we greet you well; We have seen your letters to secretary Nicholas of the 18 of October 1643. with the copy of a petition to you presented the sixth day of that month, by our cousins the Earl of Kildare, and Lord viscount Ardes and divers others in the names of more of our protestant subjects in that our Kingdom, and what answer you then made thereupon, with a reservation till our pleasure should be signified concerning their requests. We have likewise seen your letter to our said Secretary of the 28 of the same month, with the copy of a petition to us, and a list of the subscribers, in the name of divers our protestant subjects, aswell Commanders as others in that our Kingdom, and a Copy of their petition to you in pursuance of their former, with your answer thereupon; In all which we find you have very prudently and carefully done what befits your duties to Us: The four persons nominated by the petitioners, We are pleased may repair hither, over and above the persons by us formerly appointed, with fitting instructions concerning the grievances mentioned in the petition aforesaid, and that you permit them accordingly to come over, when or before the persons to be sent from our Roman Catholic subjects of that our Kingdom shall come; And if hereafter our said Protestant Subjects shall desire to add more to them upon Declaration of their names, who are desired to be added to you, and your advertizement thereof to Us, you shall receive further direction, and so we bid you hearty farewell.  
Given at our Court at Oxford the 6 day of November in the Ninteenth year of our Reign, 1643.  
To our right trusty and well-beloved Counsellors, Sir John Borlase, and Sir Henry Titchborne Knights, Lords justices, and to our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousins & Counsellors and trusty and well-beloved Counsellors, the Lords and others of our Privy Council of Our Kingdom of Ireland.  
By His Majesty's Command, Edward Nicholas.  
After the receipt of which letter the Protestant Petitions proceeded, and the 26 of january made choice of Sir Charles Coote Knight and Baronet, and Captain William Parsons to be added over and above the four persons formerly nominated for agents, and presented their names unto the L. marquis of Ormond then L. Lieutenant of Ireland to be transmitted to his Majesty.  
Soon after (viz) on the 17 day of Febuary 1643 the said Petition of the Protestants was read in the Commons house of the Parliament of Ireland yet continuing, who declared their concurrences therein, and that the same day the Parliament was prorogued to a further time.  
Shortly after the Protestant Petitioners humbly moved the Lord Lieutenant, and Council for a recommendation to His Majesty, both of the cause and persons of their Agents; And they were answered by the said Lord Lieutenant and Council, that by His Majesty's letter of the sixth of November the Agents were to have fittting Instructions concerning their grievances, and their desires mentioned in the petition of the Protestants unto His Majesty, and therefore they were required by the Lords of the Council to show their Instructions, without which they could not recommend the Agents or their cause.  
Thereupon the 4th of March, the Protestant Petitioners tendered a Copy of their Instructions for their Agents to the L. Lieutenant and Council, which followeth in haec verba.   

Instructions for the Agents, who are to attend His most Sacred Majesty, on the behalf of His Majesty's Protestant Subjects of Ireland.  
FIrst. most humbly to represent unto His Sacred Majesty the Remonstrance, or Petition of his truly obedient and loyal subjects the Protestants of this His Kingdom of Ireland, entitled: To the Kings most Excellent Majesty, The humble petition of divers of Your Majesty's Protestant subjects in Your Kingdom of Ireland, aswell Commanders of Your Majesty's Army here as others, whose names are subscribed in the behalf of themselves, and others Your protestant subjects in this Your Kingdom, and to manifest by all good ways and means the truths thereof in every particular, and to solicit the obtaining the humble desires therein requested, and to refel and disprove the untruths of the scandalous aspersions laid by the confederate Roman Catholics, etc. of Ireland upon the most gracious Governments of Our most royal late Sovereigns, Queen Elizabeth, and King James of ever blessed memory, and also of our most Gracious and dread Sovereign King CHARLES and also the extreme falsehoods by the said confederate Roman Catholics published and imposed upon His Majesty's said protestant subjects of this Realm.  
2. And also to offer unto His Majesty's royal and most tender consideration the barbarous usage, inhumanity, cruel tortures, and bloody murders committed & done upon His Majesty's protestant subjects, in the several parts of the Kingdom without provocation, and that commonly after quarter given, passes, promises, and oaths for security or safe convoy, especially in that glorious plantation of King James of ever blessed memory in the province of Ulster, which terrible effusion of innocent blood cryeth to Almighty God, and his sacred Majesty for Justice.  
3. In like manner to present unto his sacred Majesty, the true and entire faith, and allegiance of his Majesty's protestant subjects of this Kingdom unto his royal person, Crown and Dignity, their cheerful and constant acknowledgement of his Supremacy in all causes and over all persons, their universal obedience to all his Laws and gracious government; and their continued desires and endeavours, even to the uttermost hazard of their lives and fortunes, for the preservation of all his rights and just prerogatives; and to present to his Majesty in what estate and condition the Kingdoms was in at the time of the breaking out of this horrid Rebellion.  
4. And most humbly to desire the preservation, and establishmant of the true protestant Religion in this Realm, and the suppression of popery, according to the laws and statutes to that end established.  
5. Most humbly to desire His sacred Majesty, that the great losses of his protestant subjects now utterly ruined by the Rebellion of the said confederate Roman Catholics, etc. may be repaired in such manner and measure as his highness in his Princely wisdom shall think fit, whereby his Majesties said protestant subjects may be enabled to subsist and re-inhabit in the said Kingdom.  
6. Most humbly to present to his Sacred Majesty all other things that may conduce to the glory of God, to the advancement of the true Protestant Religion, according to the Laws, the honour and profit of His Majesty, the just prerogatives of his Crown, the preservation of the Laws, and just Liberties of the subject, the securing of this Kingdom to his Majesty and his royal posterity, and future safety to His Majesty's protestant subjects in their Religion, Lives, and Fortunes, that they may no longer, nor hereafter be liable to such and the like evils and destructions on them committed, as they have now suffered from those who sell upon them, spilt their blood, and destroyed their estates unprovoked, and even when they lived together in full peace.  
7. And for avoiding mistakes, that you present, or propound nothing to his Majesty but what shall be first well debated amongst yourselves, and maturely considered of, and agreed upon in writing by the major part of you, and subscribed with your hands.  
8. That from time to time you give an account of your proceed unto those who are here appointed to negotiate this affair.  
9 Which said Instructions being read, the protestant petitioners were required to withdraw, who (after debate had on the Instructions at the Council board) were called in again, and exceptions were taken to the, 1, 2, 3, 4 &, 6. Articles of the instructions, and they were told by the Lords of the Council, that they could, nor would not recommend them as the Instructions were now drawn, and while the third Article of the Instructions remained; In respect that they knew that there were many protestants in the Province of Ulster in Ireland, that were not obedient to His Majesty's Laws, and the Lord Chancellor moved that these words in the second Article aforementioned might be omitted out of the Instructions, viz. commonly committed after quarter given, passes, promises, and oaths for security of fase convoy, especially in that glorious plantation of King James of ever blessed memory in the Province of Ulster; which effusion of innocent blood cryeth to Almighty God and his sacred Majesty for justice.) And the Lord Lieutenant and Council further gave the Protestant petitioners the particulars in writing, which they would have added and omitted in the said Instructions, otherwise they would not recommend the protestant Agents nor the Cause to His Majesty. By reason whereof the Protestant petitioners were necessitated to the alteration of their justructions, as hereafter followeth:  
In the second Article of the first Instruction (quarter given) is  out.  
In the former part of the third Article these words are left out (viz.) in like manner to present unto His sacred Majesty the true and entire faith and allegiance of His Majesty's Protestant subjects of this Kingdom unto His Royal Person, Crown, and Dignity, their cheerful and constant acknowledgement of His supremacy in all causes, and over all persons, their universal obedience to all His Laws, and gracious Government; and their continued desires and endeavour, even to the uttermost hazard of their lives and fortunes for the preservation of all His Rights and just Prerogatives.  
In the fourth is added (in Doctrine and Discipline.)  
In the sixth is added (and Statutes in this Kingdom established, and now of force.)  
And about the same time the Lord-lieutenant sent for the Protestant Agents and declared unto them, that it would be for their better reception at Court, that they should prepare their several Companies under their commands to go into England to serve His Majesty (Sir Charles Cootes excepted) whose command lay in another Province. And soon after Captain Parson's Troop was cashiered because they refused to go into England. Captain Bridgeway, and Sir Francis Hamiltons' Companies, notwithstanding divers of them refused to go, and that the Lord-lieutenant on his first motion promised not to impose that on them, and that Captain Bridgeway and Sir Francis Hamilton were desirous that their Companies might remain there, for their future hopes of settlement there, were ordered to go with their Lieutenants; which was very prejudicial to the said Agents and soldiers, most of the Soldiers being Lessees or under Farmers unto them, and persons who expected satisfaction from the rebels for their losses and injuries sustained by them; which course was the cause as Major jones (another of the said Agents,) declared, that he declined the said employment.  
After which Captain Ridgeway and Sir Francis Hamilton were employed to the Lord Lieutenant, and desired his Lordship that Sir Charles Coote and Captain Wil Parsons, who were chosen, and added as Agents by the Protestants, might have liberty to go along with them into England.  
They received answer from his Lordship, that he would acquaint the Board therewith.  
The eighteenth of March the Protestant Petitioners petitioned the Lord-lieutenant and Council for licence for Sir Charles Coote, and Capt. Parsons to repair into England to join with their other Agents, in the behalf of the Protestants, in regard the petition limited the negotiation thereof to three or more of them; and that Major jones had formerly declined the Agency; and that Mr. Fenton Parsons, then at London, was not acquainted with the choice of him made, therefore it was doubtful whether he could attend the same or no. Which request being denied by the Lords did very much discourage the Protestants, until they were revived by the arrival of His Majesty's Letter of the 27 of February, 1643. which came to Dublin the 29 of March, 1644. signifying his Majesty's pleasure in approbation of Sir Charles Coote, and Captain William Parsons, for their coming into England, which followeth in haec verba.  
CHARLES REX,  
RIght trusty and right entirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor, Right trusty and right well-beloved Cousins and Counsellors, and trusty and well-beloved Councillors, We greet you well; We are very well pleased to observe in your Letter to Secretary Nicholas of the third of this month, how dutifully the Earl of Kildare and the rest of our good Protestant subjects in Ireland acknowledged before you the confidence We gave them of Our Grace and Favour, which We hope they will give Us cause more particularly to make good to every of them, as occasion shall be offered. And whereas they have further proposed the addition of Sir Charles Coote, and Captain William Parsons to those Gentlemen designed to attend Us, We are well contented to give way to that addition, and that you licence them accordingly, to come over hither to attend Us with the rest, for which these Our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant. Given at our Court at Oxford, the twenty seventh of February, 1643.  
To Our right trusty and entirely beloved Cousin and Councillor, James marquis of O mond, Our lieutenant-general, and general Governor of Our Kingdom of Ireland, and to the rest of Our Council there. By His Majesty's command, EDW. NICHOLAS.  
whereupon the said Agents received Letters which were delivered them as Letters of recommendation from the Lord Lieutenant and Council to Mr. Secretary Nicholas; but what was the effect of the said Letters, or of former Letters delivered to those agents formerly appointed, neither the Protestant petitioners nor their Agents did ever know, being refused to be communicated to the said Agents, though they earnestly desired the same.  
On the second of April 1644. the Protestant Agents took shipping at Dublin, and on the seventeenth of April came to Oxford, and that day they delivered to Mr. Secretary Nicholas the said Letters from the Lord Lieutenant and Council, formerly mentioned, and desired him to let them know what time he thought fittest for the said Agents to wait upon His Majesty, to present unto Him the petition from the Protestants of Ireland; who appointed them the next day at nine of the clock in the Garden at  in Oxford, and then they were by him presented to His Majesty; where, after kissing His Majesty's hands, they presented unto Him the said petition, to which afterwards they received an answer: which petition and answer follow in haec verba.  
To the Kings most Excellent Majesty.  
The humble Petition of divers of your Majesty's Protestant Subjects in your Kingdom of Ireland, as well Commanders of your Majesty's Army here, as others whose names are subscribed, in the behalf of themselves, and other your Protestant Subjects in this your Kingdom.  
Shows,  
THat this your Highness' Kingdom (reduced with the vast expense of Treasure, and much effusion of British blood, to the obedience of the Imperial Crown of England) hath been by the Princely care of your Royal progenitors, especially of Queen Elizabeth, and of your Royal father of ever blessed memory, and your sacred Majesty, in many parts happily planted, great sums of money disbursed in buildings, and improvements, Churches edified, and endowed, and frequented with multitudes of good Protestants, and your Customs and Revenues raised to great yearly sums, by the industry of your Protestant subjects especially; and great sums of money by way of Subsidies and Contributions cheerfully paid unto your Majesty by your said Subjects. In which happiness this your Kingdom hath flourished in a long continued peace, and under your Highness' most glorious and happy government: until that by the present general conspiracy and rebellion raised out of detestation of your blessed government, and for rooting out of the Protestant religion: and so for the dispossessing of your Majesty of this your said Kingdom, without the least occasion offered by your Majesty, or your Protestant subjects. And notwithstanding that your Majesty, immediately before, had enlarged beyond precedent your Royal favour, and bounty to them, in granting all that their and and our joint Agents did desire of your Majesty. And we continuing amongst them in all love and amity, without distrust, your Petitioners and others who laboured to oppose those damnable designs and practices, have been driven from their dwellings, estates, and fortunes; their houses and Churches burnt, and demolished; all monuments of civility utterly defaced, your Majesty's Forts and places of strength thrown down, and the Common and Statute laws of this your Kingdom utterly confounded, by taking upon themselves the exercise of all manner of authorities and jurisdictions, Ecclesiastical and Civil, both by Land and Sea, proper and peculiar to your sacred Majesty, being your just Prerogatives, and the Royal flowers of your Imperial Diadem, to the disherison of your Crown, and your royal Revenues brought to nothing, and the Protestant Clergy with their revenues and support for the present destroyed; This your Kingdom in all parts formerly inhabited with British Protestants, now depopulated of them, and many thousands of your Protestant subjects most barbarously used, stripped naked, tortured, famished, hanged, buried alive, drowned, and otherwise by all barbarous cruel sorts of death murdered; such as yet remain of them are reduced to that extremity, that very few of them have wherewith all to maintain a being, and all of them so terrified and afflicted with those barbarous and inhuman cruelties (the true report whereof being now spread abroad into the Christian world) you Suppliants conceive fears, that your Majesty's British subjects will be discouraged from coming again to inhabit this Kingdom, and the remnant of the British left here will be forced to departed: All this being done by the conspiracy of the Papists, who did publicly declare the utter extirpation of the Protestant Religion, and all the British professors thereof out of this your Majesty's Kingdom; And to the end it may the better in some measure appear, your Suppliants have made choice of Captain Mr. William Ridgeway, Sir Francis Hamilton Knight and Baronet, Captain Michael jones, and Mr. Fenton Parsons, whom they have employed and authorised as their Agents, to manifest the truth thereof in such particulars as for the present they are furnished withal, referring the more ample manifestation thereof to the said Captain Mr. William Ridgeway, Sir Francis Hamilton, Captain jones, and Fenton Parsons, or any three or more of them, and such other Agents as shall with all convenient speed be sent, as occasion shall require, to attend your Majesty, from your Protestant Subjects of the several Provinces of this your Kingdom.  
We therefore, your Majesty's most humble, loyal, and obedient Protestant subjects, casting down ourselves at your Royal feet, and flying to you for succour and redress in these our great calamities, as our most gracious Sovereign Lord and King, and next and immediately under Almighty God our protector and defence: most humbly beseeching your sacred Majesty to admit into your Royal presence, from time to time our said Agents, and in your great wisdom to take into your Princely care and consideration the distressed estate, and humble desires of your said Subjects, so that to the glory of God, your Majesty's honour, and the happiness of your good Subjects, the Protestant Religion may be restored throughout the whole Kingdom to its lustre: That the losses of your Protestant subjects may be repaired, in such manner and measure as your Majesty in your Princely wisdom shall think fit; and that this your Kingdom may be so settled, as that your said Protestant Subjects may hereafter live therein under the happy government of your Majesty, and your Royal posterity, with comfort and security: Whereby your Majesty will render yourself throughout the whole world a most just and glorious Defender of the Protestant Religion, and draw down a blessing on all other your Royal undertake. For which your Petitioners will ever pray, etc.  
Subscribed by the Earl of Kildare, the Lord Viscount Montgomery, the Lord Blany, and many others.  
At the Court at Oxford, the 25 of April. 1644.  
HIs Majesty being very sensible of the Petitioners losses, and sufferings, is ready to hear and relieve them, as the exigency of His affairs will permit; and wisheth the Petitioners to propose what they think fit in particular for His Majesty's information, and the Petitioners remedy, and future security.  
Edw. Nicholas.  
And His Majesty looking upon the petition and the names of the subscribers commanded the same to be read, and after the reading thereof His Majesty was pleased to express himself, that he knew the contents of the Petition to be truth, and that the same could not be denied; and required the Protestant agents to reduce the generals of the Petition into particulars. And His Majesty then further said to the said Agents, That the Agents for the Irish took it upon their salvation unto him, that the Conspiracy in Ireland at first was not general, and that the English pale of Ireland were forced into Rebellion by His Governors of Ireland, and that if his Parliament of England had permitted Him to have gone into Ireland, when He desired, He doubted not but He should soon have suppressed that Rebellion.  
His Majesty having directed the Protestant Agents by His answer on the said petition, to represent what they should think fit in particular for His Majesty's information, and the petitioners remedy, and future security; the said Agents likewise taking into consideration a scandalous and most false Remonstrance of the Irish rebels, presented to His Majesty's Commissioners at trim in Ireland the 27 of March, 1642. which afterwards was printed at Waterford by Thomas Bourke, printer to the Confederate Roman Catholics of Ireland, whereunto he affixed His Majesty's Arms; many of which books were published and dispersed by the rebels, not only in Ireland, but at Oxford, and other parts of this Kingdom, and in foreign parts, of purpose to asperse the late government there, and His Majesty's good and faithful Protestant subjects, and to put a show of reason upon the barbarous and inhuman cruelties which the said Rebels had acted on the Protestants of Ireland unprovoked, in time of full peace.  
The Protestant Agents for vindication of the late government, and of the Protestants of Ireland, and for the satisfaction of all good people, conceived themselves bound in duty to God and His Majesty, to present to His Majesty some collections of known truths, in answer to the said Remonstrance of the Rebels of Ireland. Which Remonstrance, and the copy of the said Collections in answer thereunto, were presented to His Majesty, together with their first propositions in the behalf of the Protestants of Ireland, which first propositions follow in haec verba.   

The humble Propositions of your Majesty's Protestant Agents of Ireland, in pursuance of the humble Petition of your Majesty's Protestant Subjects, aswell Commanders of your Majesty's Army there, as others, presented to your Majesty the 18 day of April, 1644. and answered by your Majesty the 25 of the same.  
1. WE most humbly desire the establishment of the true Protestant Religion in Ireland, according to the Laws and Statutes in the said Kingdom now in force.  
2. That the Popish titular Archbishops, Bishops, Jesuits, Friars and Priests, and all others of the Roman Clergy be banished out of Ireland, because they have been the stirrers up of all rebellions, and while they continue there, there can be no hope of safety for your Majesty's Protestant Subjects. And that all the Laws and Statutes established in that Kingdom against propery and popish Recusants may continue of force, and be put in due execution.  
3. That restitution may be made of all our Churches, and Church-rights and revenues, and all our Churches and Chapels re-edified, and put in as good estate as they were at the breaking out of the rebellion, and as they ought to be, at the charge of the confederate Roman Catholics (as they call themselves) who have been the occasion of the destruction of the said Churches, and possessed themselves of the profits and revenues thereof.  
4. That the Parliament now sitting in Ireland may be continued there, for the better settlement of the Kingdom. And that all persons duly indicted in the said Kingdom of Treason, Felony, or other heinous crimes may be duly and legally proceeded against, outlawed, tried, and adjudged according to Law. And that all persons lawfully convicted and attainted or to be convicted and attainted for the same may receive due punishment accordingly.  
5. That no man may take upon him or execute the Office of a Major or Magistrate in any Corporation, or the Office of a Sheriff or Justice of peace in any City or County in the said Kingdom, until he have first taken the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance.  
6. That all popish Lawyers who refuse to take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance may be suppressed and restrained from practice in that Kingdom, the rather because the Lawyers in England do not here practice until they take the Oath of Supremacy; and it hath been found by woeful experience that the advice of popish Lawyers to the people of Ireland hath been a great cause of their continued disobedience.  
7. That there may be a present absolute suppression and dissolution of all the assumed arbitrary and tyrannical power, which the said confederates exercise over your Majesty's subjects, both in causes Ecclesiastical and Temporal.  
8. That all the Arms and Ammunition of the said Confederates be speedily brought in to your Majesty's stores.  
9 That your Majesty's protestant Subjects, ruined and destroyed by the said Confederates may be repaired for their great losses, out of the estates of the said Confederates, not formerly by any Acts of this present Parliament in England otherwise disposed of, whereby they may the better be enabled to reinhabit, and defend the said Kingdom of Ireland.  
10. That the said Confederates may rebuild the several plantation houses and castles destroyed by them in Ireland, in at good state as they we eat the breaking out of the rebellion, which your Majesty's protestant subjects slave been bound by their several Patents to build and maintain for your Majesty's service.  
11. That the great arrears of rent due to your Majesty out of the estates of your Majesty's protestant subjects, at, and since Michaealmas 1641, may be paid unto your Majesty by such of the said Confederates who have 〈…〉 the said rents to the uses of the said Confederates, or dessroyed the same by disabling your Majesty's protestant subjects to pay the same; and have also destroyed all or the most part of all other rents or means of support belonging to your said protestant subjects. And that your said protestant Subjects may be discharged of all such arrears of rents to your Majesty.  
12. That the said Confederates may give satisfaction to the Army for the great arrears due unto them since the rebellion, and that 〈◊〉 Communcers as have raised forces at their own charges, and laid forth great famines of money out of their own purses, and engaged themselves for money and provisions to keep themselves, their holds, and soldiers under their commands, in the due and necessary defence of your Majesty's right and Laws, may be in due sort satisfied, to the encouragement of others in like times and cases which may happen.  
13. That touching such parts of the said Confederates estates, as being forfeited for their Treasons, are come or shall duly come into your Majesty's hands and possession by that Title, your Majesty after due satisfaction first made to such as claim by former acts of Parliament would be pleased to take the same into your own hands and possession, and for the necessary increase of your Majesty's revenue, and better security of your said Kingdom of: Ireland, and protestant Subjects living under your gracious government thereto plant the same with British and Protestants upon reasonable and honourable terms.  
14. That one good walled Town may be built and kept repaired in every County of the said Kingdom of Ireland, and endowed and furnished with necessary and sufficient means of legal and just government, and defence, for the better security of your Majesty's Laws and rights, more especially the true Protestant Religion in times of danger. In any of which Towns not papist may be permitted to dwell or inhabit.  
15. That for the better satisfaction of justice, and your Majesty's honour, and for the future security of the said Kingdom, and your Majesty's Protestant subjects there, exemplary punishment according to Law may be inflicted upon such as have there traitorously leavyed war, and taken up Arms against your Majestles protestant Subjects and Laws, and therein against your Majesty; especially upon such as have had their hands in the shedding of innocent blood, or had to do with the first plot or conspiracy, or since that time have done any notorious murder, or overt act of Treason.  
16. That all your Majesty's Towns, Forts, and places of strength destroyed by the said Confederates since the said rebellion, may be by them, and at their charges re-edified, and delivered up into your Majesty's hands, to be duly put into the government under your Majesty, and your Laws, of good Protestants; and that all strengths and fortifications made and set up by the said Confederate since the said rebellion may be slighted and thrown down, or else delivered up and disposed of for Protestant government and security, as aforesaid.  
17. That according to the precedents of former times in cases of general rebellions in Ireland, the attainders which have been duly had by Outlary for Treason done in this rebellion may be established and confirmed by act of Parliament, to be in due form of Law transmitted and passed in Ireland, and that such Traitors as for want of Protestant and indifferent Jurors to indict them in the proper County, are not yet indicted, nor convicted, or attainted by Outlary or otherwise, may upon due proof of their offences be by like act of Parliament convicted and attainted, and all such offenders forfeit their estates, as to Law appertaineth, and your Majesty to be adjudged and put in possession without any Office or Inquisition to be had.  
18. That your Majesty's protestant Subjects may be restbred to the quiet possession of all their Castles, Houses, Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments and Leases, and to the quiet possession of the rents thereof, as they had the same before, and at the time of the breaking forth of this rebellion, and from whence without due process and judgement of Law they have since then been put or kept cut, and may be answered of and for all the mean profits of the same, in the interim, and for all the time until they shall be so restored.  
19 That your Majesties said protestant subjects may also be restored to all their Moneys, Plate, Jewels, Houshouldstuffe, Goods and Chattels whatsoever, which without due process or judgement in Law have by the said Confederates been taken or detained from them since the contriving of the said rebellion, which may be gained in kind, or the full value thereof, if the same may not be had in kind; and the like restitution to be made for all such things, which, during the said time have been delivered any person or persons of the said Confederates in trust to be kept or preserved, but are by colour thereof still withholden.  
20. That the establishment and maintenance of a competent Protestant Army, and sufficient Protestant soldiers and forces for the time to come be speedily taken into your Majesty's prudent, just, and gracious consideration, and such a course laid down, and continued according to the tules of good government, that your Majesty's rights and Laws, the Protestant religion, and peace of that Kingdom be no more endangered by the like rebellions in time to come.  
21. That whereas it appeareth in print that the said Confederates, amongst other things, aim at the repeal of Poynings Law, thereby to open an easy and ready way for the passing of acts of Parliament in Ireland without having them first well considered of in England, which may produce many dangerous consequences both to that Kingdom, and to your Majesties other Dominions; your Majesty would be pleased to recent, and reject all propositions tending to introduce so great a diminution of your Royal and necessary power, for the confirmation of your Royal estate, and protection of your good protestant Subjects both there and elsewhere.  
22. That your Majesty out of your grace and favour to your Protestant subjects of Ireland, would be pleased to consider effectually of assuring them that you will not give order for, or allow of the transmitting into Ireland any act of general Oblivion, release, or discharge of Actions, or Suits, whereby your Majesties said Protestant Subjects there may be barred or deprived of their legal remedies, which by your Majesty's Laws and Statutes of that Kingdom they may have against the said Confederates or any of them, or any of their party, for, or in respect of any wrongs done unto them, or any of their ancestors or predecessors, in or concerning their lives, liberties, persons, lands, goods, or estates, since the contriving or breaking forth of the said rebellion.  
23. That some fit course may be considered of to prevent the filling, or overlaying of the Commons house of Parliament in Ireland with popish Recusants, being ill affected members; and that provision be duly made that none shall vote or sit therein but such as shall first take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance.  
24. That the proofs and manifestations of the truth of the several matters contained in the Petition of your Majesty's Protestant subjects of Ireland, lately presented to your Majesty, may be duly examined, discussed, and in that respect the final conclusion of things respited for a convenient time, their Agents being ready to attend with their proofs in that behalf, as your Majesty shall appoint.   

Which Remonstrance, Answer, and Propositions, His Majesty received from the said Agents the 27 of April 1644. and the same delivered to Master Secretary Nicholas, and then the said Agents desired him to move his Majesty, that nothing might be concluded with the Irish Agents, until the said protestant Agents were fully heard, and that they might have a Copy of the Propositions of the Irish.  
The next day after Master Secretary Nicholas told them, that his Majesty had referred the protestants petition, their answer to the rebels Remonstrance, and their propositions to the Committee for Irish affairs.  
The 29th of April the protestant Agents were told by one of the Committee for the Irish affairs at Oxford, that such of the Committee who were at the reading of the Answer to the Rebel's Remonstrance, and the Propositions of the protestant Agent, said, That those Propositions were drawn by the close Committee of London, and that they wondered that His Majesty would receive so mutinous a Petition.  
The same day the Protestant Agents being informed by divers persons of quality, that the rebels Agents were upon dispatch, they waited on the Lord Cottington chief of the Committee, and desired his Lordship to be a means that they might have a Copy of the Rebel's Propositions to His Majesty, his Lordship seemed a stranger to the business, and said, he knew not any Propositions the Rebels had made, and said further that he conceived they meant the Irish Remonstrance; whereunto they answered that the same was long since printed, and that they were not strangers thereunto; To which his Lordship replied, that if any such Propositions were made, it were fit the same should be made known unto them, but that he knew of none such. Notwithstanding the said Lord Cottington was present at the Committee appointed by His Majesty for Irish affairs the 19 of April, when the said Propositions from the Rebels of Ireland were read, and by his Lordship and the rest on inviolable secrecy delivered unto Sir William Stewart, and Sir Gerard Lowther, Sir Philip percival and Mr. Justice Donuelland, who were sent for out of Ireland, and appointed by His Majesty to advise with him upon the Treaty, and who received command from their Lordships not to communicate the said Propositions to any body; which Injunction of secrecy was a great prejudice to the Protestant cause, that those persons being persons of ability, and integrity should be restrained from a free communication of all occurrences concerning that affair with the said Protestant Agents, and both they and the Agents were thereby prevented of satisfying several persons that on false grounds and misinformation of the Rebels and their party (who took liberty to discourse of the reasonableness of the Rebel's desires, and of the motives inducing the same) were deluded with an opinion of the moderatnesse of the Rebel's propositions, and other their proceed.  
The same day the Protestant Agents being much troubled with the said Lord Cottingtons' answer, repaired unto Sir William Stewart, Sir Gerard Lowther, Sir Philip percival, and Justice Donuellan, and unto Sir George Radcliffe, and Sir William Sambach, who were added to them for that affair, and acquainted them that they were attending with instructions from His Majesty's protestant subjects of Ireland, and had exhibited a petition and propositions to his Majesty, who had promised them a gracious hearing, and that they heard that the Rebel's Agents were somewhat near a dispatch, and therefore entreated them (who, as they understood, were to be admitted to attend the Lords of the Committee for Irish affairs that afternoon) that they would move their Lordship, that the protestant Agents, who had diver a things of great consequence to offer to their Lordships, might be admitted to a full hearing before matters proceeded too farce, His Majesty having promised them a gracious hearing, and they having attempted many other means to obtain the same and that their Lordships would admit the said protestants Agents to see a copy of what was moved by the rebels; being also ready to deliver a Copy of the Protestants Agents propositions.  
The next day Sir George Radcliff sent for the Protestant Agents, and in the presence of Sir William Stewart and the rest of the Gentlemen aforenamed, he told them that they had acquainted the Lords of the Committee with their desires, and that their Lordships commanded them to return this answer, that their Lordships took it ill that the said Agents were so forward in prejudicating the King's Justice, and their Lordships, and that they should be heard at large before any conclusion were, and said further that themselves were thought too forward to present such a request; but as to the Protestants Agents desire of having a copy of the rebels propositions, they received no answer.  
The first of May, the Protestant Agents were commanded to attend the said Committee for Irish affairs at the audit Chamber in Oxford which accordingly they did; The Lords of the Committee then present, being the Lord Cottington, the Earl of Bristol, the Earl of Portland, the Lord George Dagby, Sir Edward Nicholas, Sir john Culpepper, and Sir Edward Hade; At which time their Lordships caused to be read the Protestants Petition, and their propositions presented to His Majesty, and the Instructions from the Protestants of Ireland, and the order of the Commons house of the Parliament of Ireland of the 17 of February 1643. Declaring the concurrence of that house to the said petition, but the Collections made in answer of the Remonstrance of the Irish which would have disproved their untrue pretences was not read. Then the E. of Bristol told the said Agents that both the King and themselves were sensible of the prejudicated opinion, which the said Agents had of their justice, by their pressures to be heard, and by their belief of vulgar reports, That the said Agents could not be more careful of the Protestants and Protestant Religion than their Lordships were; To which the said Agents answered, that if they had erred in pressing to be heard, it was but out of their zeal to the service, and for the preservation of the remnant of the poor Protestants of Ireland, who entrusted them, and out of a desire that His Majesty, and their Lordships might be rightly informed of the past sufferings, and present deplorable condition of the Protestants there, which the said Agents humbly desired might be no otherwise represented to his Majesty, and that they might be admitted to the proof of the particulars contained in the said Protestant Petition, which they humbly conceived to be of greatest concernment to them in discharge of their trust: whereupon the said Agents were bidden to withdraw, and soon after were called in again, and commanded to subscribe the propositions, which they had formerly presented to His Majesty, and were that day read before their Lordships, which they did, and the same day they were appoint in the afternoon to attend the Lord Priimate, the Lord Bishop of Down, Sir Geo. Radcliff and others; and there Sir George Radcliff cold them that they were commanded by the Committee for Irish affairs to let them know how ill they took the height, and unreasonableness of their said Propositions, and to deliver them this ensuing message.  
First, that their Lordships did not think that the Propositions presented by the pretestant Agents to His Majesty, and that morning read before their Lordships were the sense of the Protestants of Ireland.  
Secondly, That those Propositions were not agreeable to the Instructions given the said Agents by the protestants of Ireland.  
Thirdly, That as those Propositions were drawn, they would lay a prejudice on His Majesty, and His Ministers to posterity, these remaining on record, if a Treaty should go on and a peace follow, which the King's necessity did enforce: and that the Lords of the Committee apprehended the said Agents did flatly oppose a peace with the Irish.  
Fourthly, That it would be impossible for the King to grant the Protestant Agents desires, and grant a Peace to the Irish.  
Fifthly, That the Lords of the Committee desired the protestant Agents to propose a way to effect their desires either by force, or treaty, considering the condition of His Majesty's affairs in England.  
To which Message the Protestant Agents gave Answer, to this effect.  
TO the first, that they humbly conceived, that the Propositions which they had presented to his Majesty were the sense of the Protestants of Ireland.  
To the second, that the propositions were agreeable to the Instructions given to the said Agents by the protestants of Ireland, and conduced to the well settlement of that Kingdom.  
To the third, that they had no thought to draw prejudice on His Majesty, or their Lordships by putting in those propositions, neither had they so soon put in propositions, had not his Majesty by his Answer to the Protestant petition directed the same.  
To the fourth, the said Agents humbly conceived that they were employed to make proof of the effect of the protestants Petition, to manifest the inhuman Cruelties of the Rebels, and then to offer such things as they thought fit for the security of the protestants in their Religion, lives, liberties, and fortunes; That the said Protestants had no disaffection to peace, so as punishment be inflicted according to law, as in the propositions are expressed; and that the said pretestants might be repaired for their great losses out of the estates of the rebels, not formerly by any Acts of this present Parliament in England otherwise disposed of, which the said Agents desired might be represented to his Majesty, and the Lords of the Committee accordingly.  
To the fifth, that the said protestant Agents were strangers to his Majesty's affairs in England, and conceived that part more proper for the advice of his Counsels then the said Agents, and therefore desired to be excused from meddling in the Treaty further than the manifesting of the truth of the protestant petition, and proposing in the behalf of the protestants, according to the Instructions given them, which the said Agents were ready to preforme, whensoever they should be admitted thereunto.  
And having read them before their Lordships, etc. Sir George Radcliff told the said Agents, that while they continued so high and unreasonable in their propositions they must expect nothing but War; To which the Agents answered, that they were ill furnished for a War, but had rather undergo the hazard of a War, than consent to a dishonourable and destructive peace, and they further answered that they should betray the trust reposed in them by the Protestants of Ireland, if they did admit of any further alterations of the said propositions then, as is hereafter mentioned, which the said Agents were resolved upon no terms to do; Then Sir George Radcliffe said that he was sure that if the said Agents would fall three parts of four of the said Propositions, that the fourth part would not be consented unto; And afterwards Sir George Radclieffe (seeing he could no way further prevail with the said Agents to alter their propositions) told them that they were sent over by the Protestants of Ireland to preserve them, 
☞  and unless the said Agents consented to a peace, His Majesty being in no condition to send them any relief, the Irish upon their Agents return home would destroy the remnant of the Protestants of Ireland, and therefore desired the said Agents to consider of some way to secure them. To which it was answered by the Protestant Agents that there were five more he yet to come to the end of the Cessation, within which time means might be found for their relief, and that it were better that the Protestants should quit Ireland for a time, then consent to a destructive peace; Then Sir George asked how they could get the Protestants from thence; To which it was answered by one of them, that His Majesty might make stay of the Irish Agents in England, until the protestants were brought out of Ireland; Sir George Radcliff replied that be had rather advise the King to lose that Kingdom, then that he should violate his word with the Irish Agents, who were come to Treat with His Majesty and had his Majesty's promise for their safe return; And the said Sir George said further, 
☞  that if the Irish had not good conditions, it was not likely that they would forbear Arms until the end of the time limited by the Articles of Cessation; The next day the Protestant Agents delivered the aforesaid propositions unto Secretary Nicholas to be presented to his Majesty, or to the Lords of the Committee, which he thought fittest, which propositions follow, in haec verba.   

The humble Propositions of Your Majesty's Protestant Agents of Ireland in pursuance of the humble Petition of Your Majesty's Protestant subjects, aswell Commanders of Your Majesty's Army there, as others presented to Your Majesty the 18. day of April 1644. and answered by Your Majesty the 25 of the same.  
1. WE most humbly desire the establishment of the true Protestant Religion in Ireland, according to the Laws and Statutes in the said Kingdom now in force.  
2. That popery and popish recusants may be suppressed according to the laws, and statutes established in Ireland.  
3. That the Parliament now sitting in Ireland, may be continued for the better setlement of that Kingdom, for if that Parliament should be dissolved, there would be few or no protestant freeholders found in that Kingdom, they being either killed, or banished by this rebellion, to elect or choose any of Your Majesty's protestant subjects to sit in Parliament hereafter, which by consequence may be destructive to Your Majesty's rights and prerogatives, and protestant subjects in their lives, liberties and fortunes.  
4. That all such lawyers, who refuse to take the Oaths of supremacy and allegiance may be suppressed and restrained from practice in that Kingdom, the rather because the lawyers in England do not here practise, until they take the Oath of supremacy; And it hath been found by woeful experience that the advice of the popish lawyers to the people of Ireland hath been a great cause of their continued disobedience.  
5. That there may be a present absolute suppression and dissolution of all the assumed arbitrary and tyrannical power, which the said confederate Roman Catholics (as they call themselves) exercise over Your Majesty's subjects both in causes Ecclesiastical and Temporal.  
6. That all the Armet and Ammunition of the said confederates may be brought into Your Majesty's hands, when any conclusion shall be made.  
7. That Your Majesty's protestant subjects ruined and destroyed by the said confederates may be repaired for their great losses out of the estates of the said confederates, not formerly by any Act of Parliament in England otherwise disposed of, in such manner and measure as Your Majesty in Your high Wisdom shall think fit, whereby they may the better be enabled to reinhabit and defend the said Kingdom of Ireland.  
8. That the said confederates may rebuild the several Plantation Houses, and Castles destroyed by them in Ireland in as good state as they were at the breaking out of the rebellion, which Your Majesty's protestant subjects have been bound by their several patents to build and maintain for Your Majesty's service, or otherwise that Your Majesty will discharge Your said protestant subjects of that Covenant or condition in their several patents, and that an Act be passed in this present Parliament to that purpose. And whereas, several Castles, and Houses, were surrendered upon Quarter, upon Articles under their hands, with solemn Oaths or otherwise to preserve the said Castles, and houses from being defaced or demolished; That the said confederates who have so Articled with any of Your Majesty's protestant subjects may rebuild the said Castles, or Houses in as good state as they were at the time of surrendering up of the same upon Articles, as aforesaid, or such a considerable fine may be levied out of the Estates of the said confederates as may rebuild the said Houses, as Your Majesty in your high Wisdom shall think fit.  
9 That the great arrears of rent due to Your Majesty out of the Estates of Your Majesty's protestant subjects, at and since Michaelmas 1641. may be paid unto Your Majesty by the said confederates, who have either received the said Rents to the uses of he confederates, or destroyed the same by disabling Your Majesty's protestant subjects to pay the same, and have also destroyed all or the most part of all other rents or means of support belonging to Your said protestant subjects, or that Your said protestant subjects may be discharged of all such arrearages of rents to Your Majesty. And that Your Majesty will be further graciously pleased to give an abatement of the great yearly rents payable from Your protestant subjects for some reasonable time as in Your Majesty's high wisdom shall be thought fit for their encouragement and enablement to replant that Your Kingdom, in respect the said lands for the most part depopulated by the said confederates will not be worth Your Majesty's rents for a long time,  
10. That Your Majesty will be graciously pleased to take into Your Majesty's hands so much of the confederates estates as are necessary to be planted in that Kingdom for the increase of Your Majesty's revenues, towards the defraying of Your Majesty's necessary chage of that Kingdom, the satisfying in some measure the arrears of Your Army in Ireland, especially those who have laid great sums of money out of their own purses, and deeply engaged themselves for money and provisions to keep themselves, their holds, and Soldiers under their commands in the necessary defence of Your Majesty's rights and laws, and for the encouragement of others in like times and cases which may happen, who otherwise will be totally ruined by their great engagements, which we humbly submit to Your Majesty's consideration; And likewise that Your Majesty will be graciously pleased in the said plantations to erect and build some walled Towns in the said Kingdom of Ireland, and endow and furnish them with necessary and sufficient means of legal and just government, and defence, for the better security of Your Majesty's laws and rights, more especially the Protestant Religion in time of danger,  
11. That for the better satisfaction of Justice and Your Majesty's honour, and for the future security of the said Kingdom, and Your Majesty's protestant subjects there, exemplary punishment may be inflicted upon such of the principal offenders as have had their hands in the shedding of innocent blood, or had to do with the first plot or conspiracy, or since that time have done any notorious murders.  
12. That Your Majesty's Towns, forts and places of strength destroyed by the said confederates since the said rebellion, may be by them, and at their charge re-edified, and delivered up into Your Majesty's hands, to be duly put into the government under Your Majesty and Your laws of good protestants; and that all strengths, and fortifications made and set up by the said confederates since the said rebellion, may be slighted and thrown down, or else delivered up, and disposed of for Protestant government, as aforesaid.  
13. That Your Majesty's Protestant subjects may be restored to the quiet and peaceable possession of all their Castles, Houses, manors, lands, Tenements hereditaments and leases, as they had the same before, and at the time of the breaking forth of this rebellion, and from whence, without due process and Judgement in law, they have since then been put out and kept.  
14. That Your Majesties said Protestant subjects may also be restored to, or satisfied for all their moneys, plate, Jewels, household Stuffe, Goods or Chattels whatsoever, which during the Rebellion have been delivered to any person or persons of of the confederates in trust to be kept and preserved, which are yet detained from them without colour of law or Justice.  
15. That the establishment and maintenance of a complete protestant Army, and sufficient protestant Soldiers and forces for the time to come in Ireland, be speedly taken into Your Majesty's Prudent, Just, and Gracious consideration, and such a course laid down and continued therein, according to the rules of good government, that Your Majesty's rights and laws, and the protestant Religion, and Peace of that Kingdom be no more endangered by the like Rebellion in time to come.  
16. That whereas it appeareth in print that the said confederates amongst other things aim at the repeal of Poynings Act, thereby to open an easy and ready way for the passing of Acts of Parliament in Ireland without having them first well considered of in England, which may produce many dangerous consequences, both to that Kingdom, and to Your Majesties other Dominions; Your Majesty would be pleased to recent and reject all propositions tending to introduce so great a Diminution of Your royal and necessary power, for the conservation of Your royal estate, and protection of Your good protestant subjects both there, and elsewhere.  
17. That Your Majesty, out of Your abundant grace and favour to Your Protestant subjects of Ireland, will be pleased to consider effectually of assuring them, that if your Majesty shall think fit for the furtherance of your service, to grant to the said confederates an Act of oblivion, that your Majesty will not allow of, discharge, or release any actions, suits, debts, or interests, whereby your Majesty's protestant subjects of Ireland may be barred or deprived, or any of their party, in respect of any wrongs done unto them or any of their ancestors, or predecessors, in and concerning their lands, goods or estates, since the contriving or breaking forth of the said rebellion.  
18. That some fit course may be considered of to prevent the filling or overlaying the Commons house of Parliament in Ireland with popish recusants, and unless some course shall by due means be settled, the popish faction may at some time or other get such an overruling power in that house, as may endanger both your Majesty's rights and royal prerogatives, and the Protestants of that Kingdom; And that provision may be made that none shall Vote, or sit in any Parliament there, but such as shall first take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance.  
19 That the proofs and manifestation of the Truth of the several matters contained in the Petition of your Majesty's protestant subjects of Ireland, and the collections made to disprove the scandalous aspersions cast on your Majesty's gracious government, and on your good and loyal protestant subjects by the confederates may be duly examined and discussed.   

The seventh of May Sir William St Leger came from His Majesty's Army to Oxford, and being with the protestant Agents told them, That that party of the Army that came out of Munster in Ireland were much discontented to hear that the protestant Agents received no better countenance, and that he had told the Lord Digby so much, and that the Lord Digby on discourse with the said Sir William, said, That The greatest favour he could do the Protestants Agents, was, to call them mad men, that he might not call them roundheads, for that the said Agents had proposed mad propositions; and wished him to prevail with some of the Agents to come to him, that he might confer with them, which the said Agents did not, the L. Digbies expressions then and before so little encouraging them thereunto.  
The same day there was a report in Oxford, grounded upon a letter that came out of Ireland, signifying that it went for currant news in Dublin that the Irish Agents were dispatched at Court, and that they stayed to procure the protestants pardons; This being told to the L. Digby by the said Sir William St Leger, his Lordship answered, That the Protestant Agents had raised that report, of purpose to cast an aspersion upon the King.  
The eighth of May the Protestant Agents waited on Mr. Secretary Nicholas, desiring to know what resolution was taken upon their second propositions, who told them; That the Lords sat not that day according to their appointment. And the said Agents heard by others, that some of the Lords desired to avoid sitting in counsel when the business of Ireland was debated.  
The ninth of May the protestant Agents were commanded to wait at the Council board, which they did; and His Majesty being present told them, That they were sent over by his Protestant subjects to move him in their behalf, and desired to know in what condition the Protestants were to defend themselves in case a peace should not be concluded which was answered by the Protestant Agents, That they humbly conceived they were employed first to make proof of the effect of the protestants petition, and disprove the scandalous aspersions, which the Rebels had cast on His Majesty's government, and the protestants of Ireland; The King said, that needed not, for to what purpose is it to prove the Sun shines this day, when we all see it? The Agents said, they found not His Majesty satisfied, but that the five several Counties called the English Pale were forced into Rebellion by his governor's; To which His Majesty answered, That that was but an assertion of the Irish; Then the King again desired to know in what condition the protestants were in to defend themselves, in case he should not make a peace with the Irish; The said Agents desired some time to make an answer to that Question; but His Majesty answered, That he thought they had come prepared to declare the whole condition of that Kingdom; And further asked whether they would have Peace or no. To which it was answered by the Agents, That peace was the thing they had been bred up in, and that they were not against peace, so it might stand with His Majesty's honour, and safety of his protestant subjects in their Religion, Lives, Liberties, and Fortunes; Then the Lord Digby told His Majesty, That they desired Peace; The Duke of Richmond, and the Earl of Linsey replied, it is true, the Agents have expressed that they are not against Peace, so that it may be with honour to His Majesty, and safety to His Majesty's Protestant Subjects of Ireland; Then the King said, he had rather they should have their Throats cut by War, then that they should suffer by a Peace of His making, And that he would take a care that the Protestants of Ireland should be preserved. His Majesty told the said Agents, that they should have a Copy of the Propositions of the Irish, and wished them to make an answer to them; And the said Agents being wished to withdraw, and being sent for in again, His Majesty told them, That for the clearing of the matter he must tell them two things; the first was, That he could not relieve his Protestant subjects in Ireland either with Men, Money, Arms, Ammunition, or Victuals. And secondly, That he could not allow them to join with the new Scots, or any others that had taken the Covenant with them.  
And on the same day about one of the clock the Protestant Agents received a copy of the Rebels high and destructive propositions from Secretary Nicholas, who wished them from His Majesty to put in their answers thereunto within two days. On which the Agents desired two days longer, which was granted.  
And on the 13 of May 1644. at the council-board, the King, Prince, and Duke of York, with many of the Lords there sitting, the Protestant Agents presented unto His Majesty their answers to the Rebels propositions; both which hereafter follow in haec verba.   

The Propositions of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, humbly presented to His sacred Majesty, in pursuance of their Remonstrance of grievances, and to be annexed to the said Remonstrance. Together with the humble Answer of the Agents for the Protestants of Ireland to the said Propositions made in pursuance of your Majesty's directions of the ninth of May 1644. requiring the same.  1. Proposition. THat all acts made against the Professors of the Roman Catholic Faith, whereby any restraint, penalty, mulct, or incapacity may be laid upon any Roman Catholic within the Kingdom of Ireland may be repealed, and the said Catholics to be allowed the freedom of the Roman Catholiqus Religion. 
Answer. To the first, We say that this hath been the pretence of almost all those who have entered into rebellion in the Kingdom of Ireland at any time since the Reformation of Religion there, which was settled by Acts of Parliament above 80 years since, and hath wrought good effects ever since for the peace and welfare both of the Church and Kingdom there, and of the Church and Kingdom of England, and Protestant party throughout all Christendom, and so hath been found wholesome and necessary by long experience. And the repealing of those Laws will set up Popery again both in jurisdiction, profession, and practice, as it was before the Reformation, and introduce amongst other inconveniences the Supremacy of Rome; and take away or much endanger your Majesty's supreme and just authority in causes Ecclesiastical, a diminution of honour and power not to be endured; the said Acts extending as well to seditious sectaries as to popish recusants; so as by the repeal thereof every man may seem to be left to choose his own Religion in that Kingdom, which must needs beget great confusion, and the abounding of the Roman Clergy there hath been one of the greatest occasions of this late rebellion. Besides, it is humbly desired that your Majesty will be pleased to take into your gracious consideration a clause in the Act of Parliament passed by your Majestis Royal assent in England, in the seventeenth year of your Reign, touching punishment to be inflicted upon those that shall introduce the authority of the See of Rome in any case whatsoever.  2. Proposition. That your Majesty will be pleased to call a free Parliament in the said Kingdom, to be held and continued, as in the Remonstrance is expressed; And the Statute of the tenth year of King H 7. called Poynings Act, and all Acts explaining, or enlarging the same, be suspended during that Parliament, for the speedy settlement of the present affairs, and the repeal thereof to be there further considered of. 
Answer. Whereas they desire to have a free Parliament called, reflecteth by secret and cunning implication upon your Majesty's present Parliament in Ireland, as if it were not a free Parliament, we humbly beseech your Majesty to resent how dangerous it is to make such insinuation, or intimation to your people of that Kingdom touching that Parliament, wherein several Acts of Parliament have already past; the validity whereof may be endangered, if the Parliament should not be approved as a free Parliament; and it is a point of so high nature as we humbly conceive it not properly to be discussed but in Parliament; and your Majesties said Parliament now sitting is a free Parliament in law holden before a person of honour and fortune in that Kingdom, composed of good, loyal, and well affected subjects to your Majesty, who doubtless will be ready to comply in all things that shall appear to be pious and just, for the good of the true Protestant religion, and for your Majesty's service, and the good of that Church and State. That if this present Parliament should be dissolved, it would be a great tenor and discontent to all your Majesty's protestant Subjects of that Kingdom, and may be also a means to 〈◊〉 many of your Majesty's subjects to quit that Kingdom, or peradventure to adhere to some other party there in opposition to the Roman Irish confederates, rather than be liable to their power; which effects may prove of most dangerous consequence. And we humbly offer unto your Majesty's consideration your own gracious expression mentioned in the grounds and motives inducing your Majesty to agree to a Cessation of Arms for one whole year, which the Roman Catholics of Ireland printed at Oxford 19 Octob. 1643. viz. And let all Our good subjects be assured, that as we have for these reasons, and with this caution and deliberation consented to this preparation to peace, and to that purpose do continue Our Parliament there, so we shall proceed in the accomplishing thereof with that care and circumspection, that we shall not admit even peace itself, otherwise then as it may be agreeable to conscience, honour, and justice. We also humbly desire that such Laws as your Majesty shall think fit to pass may be transmitted according to Poynings Law, and other Laws of explanation thereof, or of addition thereunto now in force with great contentment and security to your Majesty's protestant Subjects: But if the present Parliament be dissolved, we humbly represent unto your Majesty, that so many of your ablest and best protestant Subjects have been murdered or banished by this rebellion, that few or no protestant Freeholders' will be found in the Counties, Citles, and Burroughs to elect and choose Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, which will be most dangerous to your Majesty's rights and prerogatives, and good subjects, and may begent great disputes in after-tmes; For the repealing of Poynings act, notwithstanding their feigned expressions of their loyalty, yet it plainly appears they do not repose so much trust in your Majesty's Justice as it becometh loyal Subjects to do (and such they pretend themselves to be) for that they seek thereby to prevent your Majesty and your Council of England and Ireland of so full a view and time of mature consideration to be had of Acts of Parliament of Ireland before they pass, as in prudence is requisite, and hath been found necessary by the experience of well near 200 years; and if their intentions were so clear as they profess, we know not why they should avoid the strictest view and try all of your Majesty and Counsels of both Kingdoms, this their desire tending to introduce a great diminution of your Royal and necessary power for the conservation of your Regal State, and protection of your good protestant Subjects there and elsewhere. And what special use they aim at in seeking such repeal, your protestant Subjects, as they know not the particulars, so can they conjecture of none, unless the said confederates have some design by way of surprise to obtrude upon your Majesty in their new desired Parliament some Acts in justification of their ill done actions, and for condemning such of your protestant Subjects as have in their several degrees most faithfully served your Majesty there: which we the rather believe, seelng they have vowed by their Oath of association, and the Bull lately published in Ireland since the cessation, the destruction of the Protestants there, when they have their Swords in their hands to put the same in execution.  3. Proposition. That all Acts and Ordinances made and passed in the now pretended Parliament in that Kingdom since the seventh day of August 1641. be clearly annulled and declared void, and taken off the file. 
Answer. We humbly desire that they may particularise those Ordinances which may prejudice your Majesty's service, for we are well assured that the Parliament now sitting in Ireland, on signification of your Majesty's pleasure therein, will either give your Majesty full satisfaction, or repeal any unjust Orders or Ordinances whatsoever, which may be prejudicial to your Majesty. And there may be some Orders or Ordinances which may concern particular persons in their lives, liberties, or fortunes, that may suffer unheard by the admitting of so general a Proposition, which is merely proposed, as we humbly conceive, to put a scorn on your Majesty's Parliament now sitting there, and to discourage your Majesty's Protestant Subjects who have faithfully served your Majesty in that Parliament.  4. Proposition: That all Indictments, Attainders, Outlaries, in the King's Bench or elsewhere since the said seventh day of August 1641. and all Leters Patents, Grants, Leases, Custod, Bends, Recognizances, and all other Records, Act or Acts depending thereupon, or in prejudice of the said Catholics, or any of them, be taken off the file, annulled and declared void first by your Majesty's Proclamation, and after by Act to be passed in a free Parliament. 
Answer. This we conceive to be a very bold Proposition, not warranted, as we also conceive by any example, and tending to introduce an ill precedent in after times, for it was never seen that Records were taken off the file, but where there was some corruption, or fraud, or some illegal or unjust carriage used in and concerning the procuring or making up of such Records, and the same first well proved upon due examination. And it may not only conceal, but in some sort seem to justify their abominable treasons, murders, cruelties, massacres, and plunders, acted against your Majesty's Person, Crown and Dignity, upon the persons of your Majesty's most loyal protestant Subjects in that Kingdom, and encourage the papists there to do the like again; besides the discouragement it may beget in your Majesty's Officers and Subjects to do their duties in the like insurrections which may happen hereafter, which also may prove very prejudicial to your Majesty's rights and revenues, if the Records to support the forfeitures wherein many of them are or may be grounded should be taken off the file and canceled.  5. Proposition. That inasmuch as, under colour of such Outlaries and Attainders, debts due unto the said Catholics have been granted, levied, and disposed of: and of the other side, that debts due upon the said Catholics to those of the adverse party have been levied and disposed to public use: That therefore all debts be by Act of Parliament mutually released, or all to stand in statu quo, notwithstanding any grant or disposition. 
Answer. We humbly conceive, that in times of peace and most settled government, when the course of Law and Justice is most open and best observed, that the debts due to the Crown, and actually levied and paid in to your Majesty's use ought not to be restored, though the Records of the forfeitures should be legally reversed, which is fare from the present case; and this proposition tendeth to cross that just right of your Majesty, and to make the disposition by the confederate popish Rebels of debts due to Protestants, and by the said Rebels by fraud and force levied and disposed in maintenance of their Rebellion, which cunningly they call by the name of public uses, to be in equal degree to the debts owing by the Rebels, and by them all forfeited, and many of them by Law duly levied, which is a most unequal and unjust thing; and the said Proposition cannot nor doth make offer to have the popish Confederates cut off from the debts due to them, which they have justly forfeited, but only for a colour of consideration to have the Protestants lose such debts justly due to them as have been unjustly taken from them who have done no act at all to forfeit them.  6. Proposition. That the late Offices taken or found upon feigned or old titles since the year 1634. to entitle your Majesty to several Countries in Connaught, Thomond, and in the Counties of Typperarie, Limrick, Kilkenny, and Wickloe, be vacated, and taken off the file, and the possessors settled and secured in their ancient estates by Act of Parliament. And that the like Act of limitation of your Majesty's titles for the security of the estates of your Subjects in that Kingdom be passed in the said Parliament, as was enacted in the 21 year of His late Majesty's Reign in this Kingdom. 
Ans. We know not of any Offices found on feigned Titles, nor what the Confederates may demand, in respect of any graces promised by your Majesty which we intent not, nor have any occasion to dispute, but we humbly conceive that all those who have committed Treason in the late Rebellion, subsequent to your Majesty's promise of those graces, have thereby forfeited the benefit thereof, together with the Lands to which the said graces might else have related, and so their whole estates are now justly fallen to your Majesty, by their Rebellion, which we conceive is of great importance for your Majesty's service, to be taken into consideration: As first; with regard to the Statutes made in the present Parliament of England. Secondly, by the necessary increase of your Revenue, decayed by the present Rebellion. Thirdly, the abolishing of the evil customs of the Irish, and preservation of Religion, Laws, and Government there. Fourthly, the satisfaction of your Protestant Subjects losses in some measure. Fiftly, the Arrers of your Majesty's Army, and other debts contracted for that war, and for preservation of that Kingdom to your Majesty. Sixtly, the bringing in of more British upon the Plantations. Seventhly, the building of some walled Towns, in remote and desolate places, for the security of that Kingdom, and your good Subjects there. Eightly, the taking of the Natives from their former dependency on their Chieftains, who usurped an absolute power over them, to the diminution of your Regal Power, and to the oppression of the Inferiors.  7. Propos. That all marks of incapacity imposed upon the Natives of that Kingdom, to purchase or acquire Lands, Leases, Offices, or Hereditaments, be taken away by act of Parliament, and the same to extend to the securing of Purchases, Leases, or Grants already made; And that for the education of Youth, an Act be passed in the next Parliament, for the erecting of one or more Inns of Court, Universities, Free, and Common Schools. 
Ans. This we conceive concerneth some of the late Plantations, and no other part of that Kingdom, and that the restriction herein mentioned is found to be of great use, especially for the indifferency of Trials, strength of the Government, and for Trade, and Traffic; And we humbly conceive, that if other Plantations shall not proceed for the settling and securing of that Kingdom, and that no restraint be made of Papists buying, or purchasing of the Protestants out of their former Plantations, where they were prudently settled, though now cast out of their estates, by the late Rebellion, and unable to Plant the same again, for want of means, and therefore probably upon easy terms will part with their estates to the Confederates, that those Plantations will be destroyed, to the great prejudice of your Majesty's service, and endangering of the safety of that Kingdom. Touching bearing of Offices, we humbly conceive that their nonconformity to the Laws and Statutes of that Kingdom, is the only mark of incapacity imposed upon them; and we humbly conceive that they ought not to expect to be more capable there, than the English Natives are here in England, in like case. For Schools in Ireland, there are divers settled in all parts of that Kingdom already, by the Laws and Statutes of that Realm; And if any person well affected, shall erect and endow any more Schools there, at their own charges, so that the Schoolmaster, and scholars may be governed according to the Laws, Customs, and orders of England, and the best of Free-schools here, we cannot apprehend any just exceptions thereunto: But touching Universities, and Inns of Court, we humbly conceive that this part of the Proposition savoureth of some desire to become Independent upon England, or to make a separation in the Religion, and Laws of the Kingdom, which can never be truly happy, but in the good unity of both, in the true Protestant Religion, and in the Laws of England: For (as for matter of charge) such of the Natives as are desirous to breed their sons for learning in Divinity, can be well contented to send them to the University of Louvain, Douai, and other Popish places in Foreign Kingdoms, And for civil-law, or Physic, to Milan, and other places, which draws a great treasure yearly out of your Majesty's Dominions, but will send few or none of them to Oxford, or Cambridge, where they might as cheaply be bred up, and become as learned, which course we conceive is holden out of their pride, and disaffection towards this Kingdom, and the true Religion here professed. And for the Laws of the Land, which are for the Common-law agreeable to England, and so for the greatest part of the Statutes, the Inns of Court in England are sufficient, and the Protestants came thither without grudging; And it is a means to civilize them after the English Customs, to make them familiar and in love with the Language and Nation, to preserve the Law in the purity. when the Professors of it shall draw from one original fountain, and see the manner of the practice of it in the same great Channels where his Majesty's Courts of Justice of England do flow most clearly, whereas by separation of the Kingdoms in the places of their principal instruction, when their foundations in learning are to be laid, a degenerate corruption in Religion, and Justice may happily be introduced and spread, with much more difficulty to be corrected and restrained afterwards by any discipline to be used in Ireland, or punishments there to be inflicted, for departing from the true grounds of things which are best preserved in unity, when they grow out of the same root, then if such Universities, and Inns of Court as are proposed should be granted; All which we humbly submit to your Majesty's most pious and prudent consideration and judgement.  8. Propos. That the Offices and places of Command. Honour, Profit, and Trust within that Kingdom, be conferred upon Roman Catholics Natives in equality and indifferencis with your Majesties other Subjects. 
Answ. We humbly conceive that the Roman Catholic Natives in Ireland, may have the like Offices, and Places, as the Roman Catholics Natives of England here have, and not otherwise: Howbeit we conceive that in the generality they have not deserved so much by their late Rebellion; Therefore we see not why they should be endowed with any new, or further Capacities, or Privileges than they have by the Laws, and Statutes now in force in that Kingdom.  9 Propos. That the insupportable oppression of your Subjects, by reason of the Court of Wards, and respite of homage be taken away, and a certain Revenue in lieu thereof fettled upon your Majesty without diminution of your Majesty's profits. 
Answ. We know of no oppression by reason of the Court of Wards, and we humbly conceive, that the Court of Wards is of great use, for theraising of your Majesty's Revenues, the preservation of your Majesty's Tenors, and chief the education of the Gentry, in the Protestant Religion, and in civility of learning, and good manners, who otherwise would be brought up in ignorance and barbarism, their estates be ruined by their kindred and friends, and continue their dependency on the chief Lords, to the great prejudice of your Majesty's service, and Protestant Subjects: And there being no colour of exception to your Majesty's just Title to Wardships, we know not why the taking away of your Court concerning the same, should be so pressed, unless it be to prevent the education of the Lords and Gentry, that fall Wards in the Protestant Religion: For that part of this Proposition which concerneth respite of Homage, we humbly conceive it reasonable that some way may be settled for that, if it stand with your Majesty's good pleasure, without prejudice to your Majesty, or your Protestant Subjects.  10. Propos. That no Lord not estated in that Kingdom, or estated, and not resident, shall have Vote in the said Parliament by proxy or otherwise, and none admitted to the House of Commons, but such as shall be estated, and resident within the Kingdom. 
Answ. We humbly conceive, that in the year 1641. by the graces which your Majesty then granted to your Subjects of Ireland, the matter of this Proposition was in a fair way regulated by your utter abolishing of blank Proxies, and limiting Lords present, and attending in the Parliament of Ireland, that no one of them should be capable of more Proxies than two; and prescribing the Peers of that Kingdom not there resident, to purchase fitting proportions of Land in Ireland, within five years, from the last of July 1641. or else to lose their Votes, till they should make such purchases; which purchases by reason of the troubles happening in that Kingdom, and which have continued for two years and a half, have not peradventure yet been made; And therefore your Majesty may now be pleased, and may take just occasion to enlarge the time for five years, from the time when that Kingdom may again be settled in a happy and firm peace; And as to Members of the House of Commons the same is most fit, as we humbly conceive, to be regulated by the Laws and Statutes of that Kingdom.  11. Propos. That an Act been passed in the next Parliament declaratory, that the Parliament of Ireland is a free Parliament of itself, independent of, and not subordinate to the Parliament of England; And that the Subjects of Ireland, are immediately subject to your Majesty, as in right of your Crown; And that the Members of the said Parliament of Ireland, and all other the Subjects of Ireland are independent, and no way to been ordered, or concluded by the Parliament of England, and are only to been ordered and governed within that Kingdom, by your Majesty and such Governors as are or shall be there appointed, and by the Parliament of that Kingdom, according to the Laws of the Land. 
Answ. This Proposition concerns your Majesty's high Courts of Parliament both of England, and Ireland, and is beyond our abilities (who are not acquainted with the Records and Precedents of this nature) to give any answer unto, and therefore we humbly desire your Majesty's pardon for not answering unto the same.  12. Propos. That the assumed power of jurisdiction in the Council boatd, of determining of all manner of Causes, be limited to matters of State, and all Patents, Estates, and Grants, illegally and extrajudicially avoided there, or elsewhere, been left in state as before, and the parties grieved their heirs or assigns till legal eviction. 
Answ. The Council-table hath always exercised jurisdiction in some cases, ever since the English Government was settled in that Kingdom, and is of so long continuance in cases of some natures, as the beginning thereof appeareth not, which seemeth to be by prescription, and hath always been armed with power to examine upon Oath, as a Court of Justice, or in nature of a Court of Justice in Cases of some natures, and may be very necessary still in many Cases, especially for the present, till your Majesty's Laws may more generally be received in that Kingdom; And we conceive that Board is so well limited by Printed Instructions, in your Majesty's Royal Father's time, and by your Majesty's graces in the 17. year of your Reign, that it needeth for the present little or no further Regulating at all, howbeit they humbly refer it to your Majesty's great wisdom and goodness, to do therein as to Law and Justice shall appertain.  Propos. 13. That the Statute of the 11.12. and 13. year of Queen Elizabeth concerning Staple commodities be repealed, reserving to his Majesty, lawful and just poundage, and a book of Rates to be settled by an indifferent Committée of both Houses, for all Commodities. 
Answ. The matter of this Proposition is settled in a fitting and good way by your Majesty already, as we conceive, amongst the graces granted by your Majesty to your people of Ireland, in the 17 year of your Majesty's Reign; to which we humbly refer ourselves.  Propos. 14. That in as much as the long continuance of the chief Governor or Governors of that Kingdom, in that place of so great eminency, and power, hath been a principal occasion that much Tyranny and oppression hath been exercised upon the Subjects of that Kingdom; That your Majesty will be pleased to continue such Governors hereafter but for three years: And that none, once employed therein, be appointed for the same again until the expiration of six years next after the end of the said three years: And that an Act pass to dis-inhable such Governor or Governors during their Government, directly or indirectly in Use, Trust, or other wise, to make any manner of purchase or Acquisition of any Manners, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments within that Kingdom, other then from your Majesty, your heirs or successors. 
Ans. We humbly conceive that this Proposition tendeth to lay a falls and scandalous aspersion upon your Majesty's gracious government over Ireland, and that it trencheth very high upon your Wisdom, Justice, and Power, and under colour of supposed corruptions pretended to be in the greatest Officer that Commandeth under your Majesty there, if he continue so long in his government as may well enable him to find out and discover the true state of that Kingdom, and the dangerous dispositions and designs of the Popish party there, to prevent him therein, and to turn him out from doing service before or assoon as he is throughly informed and experienced how to do the same, and then to hold him excluded so long that in all likelihood he shall not live to come to that place the second time, which we humbly conceive will be a great discouragement to any person of honour and fortune, to serve your Majesty in that high trust: And for their purchasing Lands in that Kingdom, your Majesty may be pleased to leave them to the Laws, and punish them severely if they commit any offence, or exercise any oppressions under colour of purchasing of any lands or estates whatsoever.  Prop. 15. That an Act may be passed in the next Parliament, for the raising and settling of Trained Bands within the several Counties of that Kingdom, aswell to prevent foreign invasions, as to render them the more serviceable and ready for your Majesty's occasions, as cause shall require. 
Answ. The having of Trained bands in Ireland, for the present cannot, under favour be for your Majesty's service or the safety of that Kingdom, for that the Protestants by the sad effects of the late Rebellion are so much destroyed, that the said Bands must consist in effect altogether of the confederate Catholics, and to continue them in Arms stored with Ammunition, and made ready for service by mustering and often training will prove under colour of advancing your Majesty's service against foreign invasion, a meet guard and power of Popish Forces, always in readiness to protect the Popish confederates, and by force and Arms (according to their late oaths and Protestations) to execute all their cruel designs for extirpation of the Protestant Religion and English Government, both which they mortally hate, howsoever in cunning they dissemble it, and to prevent the settling an Army of good Protestants, without which your Majesty's good Subject cannot live securely there.  Propos. 16. That an Act of Oblivion be passed in the next free Parliament, to extend to all your Majesties said Catholic Subjects, and their adherents for all manner of offences Capital, Criminal, and Personal and the said Act to extend to all Goods and Chattels, Customs, Measne, Profits, Prizes, Arrears, of Rents taken received or incurred since these troubles. 
Answ. We humbly pray that the Laws of force be taken into consideration, and do humbly conceive that your Majesty in honour and Justice may forbear to discharge or release any Actions, Suits, Debts, or Interests, whereby your Majesty's Protestant Subjects, who have committed no offence against your Majesty or your Laws, should be barred or deprived of any of their Legal remedies or just demands, which by any of your Majesty's Laws and Statutes, they may have against the Popish confederates, who are the only delinquents, or any of their party, for or in respect of any wrongs done unto them, or any of their Ancestors or Predecessors, in or concerning their Lands, Goods, or Estates, since the contriving or breaking forth of Rebellion, The said confederates having without provocation shed so much innocent blood, and acted so many cruelties, as cannot be paralleled in any story: And we conceive it to be high presumption in them upon so weak grounds, to propound an Act of Oblivion in such general terms, some of the confederates having been contrivers or Actors of such cruel Murders and other Acts of Inhumanity, as cry to God and your Sacred Majesty for Justice, and they having of your Majesty's Revenues, Customs, Subsidies, and other rights of your Crown in their hands, or destroyed by them to the value of 200000. l. and more.  
Propos. 17. Forasmuch as your Majesties said Catholic Subjects have been taxed with many Inhuman cruelties which they never committed; Your Majesty's said suppliants therefore for their vindication, and to manifest to all the world, their desire to have such heinous offences punished, and the Offenders brought to Austice; Do desire that in next the Parliament, all notorious murder's breaches of Quarter, and Inhuman cruelties, committed of either side, may be questioned in the said Parliament if your Majesty so think fit; And such as shall appear to be guilty, to be excepted out of the said Act of Oblivion, and punished according to their deserts.  
Forasmuch Dread Sovereign as the ways of our address unto your Majesty for apt remedies unto our grievances were hither to debarred us but now at length through your benign grace and favour laid open. We do humbly present these in pursuance of the said Remonstrance, which granted, your said subjects are ready to contribute the 10000 Men, as in their Remonstrance is specified towards the suppressing of the unnatural Rebellion now in this Kingdom, and will further expose their lives and fortunes to serve your Majesty, as occasion shall require.  
Answer. We conceive this Proposition is made but for a flourish, and if the confederates be so desirous to try their innocency as they pretend, they need not stay for another Parliament, in Ireland, but submit to that which is now in being, which is an equal and just Parliament, as in some of our reasons touching that point is expressed, And the offering to draw it to a new Parliament is in effect to desire that they may be their own Judges, for as that Kingdom is now imbroiled and wasted, the chief delinquents or their confederates will be so prevalent a faction in the next Parliament, that they will be able, and doubtless will clear all the Popish party how guilty soever, and condemn the Protestants, how Innocent soever.   

These Answers to the High and unexpected demands of the confederate Rebels we have framed in humble obedience to your Majesty's directions, but being very sensible as of the weight and great importance of the business, so also of our own weakness and want of time, and well knowing that some of your Majesty's Privy Counsellors, Judges and Officers of that Kingdom, are now in Town, sent for over, and here attending by your Majesty's command, who by their long observation and experience of the affairs and state of Ireland, are better able to give your Majesty more full and satisfactory answers touching the premises than we can; and conceiving that the Collections in answer to the said confederates Remonstrance, which we humbly presented to your Majesty the 29. of the last Month of April may in many things give your Majesty more light, than these our Answers do or can: We humbly beseech your Majesty that the said Privy Counsellors, Judges, and Officers as occasion shall require may be called upon, and heard, to give your Majesty the better satisfaction in these Particulars, and that to the same purpose the book of the said Collection may be perused and considered of as your Majesty shall find most requisite.  
After reading of which Propositions and Answers thereunto; the King asked the Protestant Agents, Whether they had Answered unto the Rebels Propositions as they were to be granted by him, in Law and Justice, and fit for the security of the Protestants of Ireland, or prudentially as the times were, Who humbly made answer to his Majesty, That they looked upon the Rebels Propositions as they appeared to them destructive to his Majesty, his Laws, Government, and Protestant Subjects of Ireland. Then the Earl of Bristol said, That if they asked what by law and Justice was due from the Rebels, their Answers were full; But now the King expected from the said Agents, What prudentially was fit for his Majesty to do, seeing the Protestants were not in a condition to defend themselves, and that the King would not admit the Protestants to join with the new Scots, or any other that had taken the Covenant;  
The Lord Digby upon motion of the Protestant Agents for further time to answer, said, It was good to set down those questions in writing, and expect their answers to them.  
Then the King asked them, What would become of the Protestants in Ireland if the Rebels Agents should break off their Treaty, which was to be feared they would do; if they had not their Propositions for the most part yielded unto.  
The Protestant Agents Answered his Majesty, That they conceived that the Rebel's Agents might be brought to better terms, if they were held unto it; and that they were confidently assured before their coming out of Ireland, that the Lord Muskery refused to come into England with limited Instructions, but would be at liberty to do as he should see cause.  
Then the Protestants Agents were commanded to withdraw, And since that time were no further called upon.  
And the said Protestant Agents knowing by experience how that the said Rebels had in all parts of the Kingdom broken the Articles of Cessation, having begun that course within 3 days after the said Articles of Cessation were published, by taking away forceably and detaining, (notwithstanding many complaints thereof made) 369 head of choice English Cows, or  from the poor Inhabitants of the Suburbs of the City of Dublin, and by like proceed in all parts of the Kingdom, in taking of divers Castles, Forts, and Houses, and great quantities of Corn and Cattle, some by force and some by fraud, and by burning divers others, and by withholding divers contributions in all parts of the Kingdom, yielded to the Protestant Forces, until the Cessation, to the utter destruction of the Protestant Party in divers parts of that Kingdom. The said Protestant Agents in the conclusion of the Collection which they had made and presented to his Majesty in Answer of the said Remonstrance, did make mention of the said breaches, and also of the failers of payment of the far greater part of the 30000. l. by them agreed on, to be paid by the Rebels to his Majesty's use, upon the conclusion of the said Cessation, to be applied towards the maintenance of the Army there, and also of their extreme bad and unseasonable payment of that small part thereof, which they had paid, in manifest breach of their undertaking, the said failers having occasioned heavy Taxes to be laid upon the poor Protestant Inhabitants, and necessitated the Soldiers through want to pillage and plunder thousands of his Majesty's good Subjects. And the said Protestant Agents did offer to make proof thereof, and also that the said confederate Roman Catholics had broken all the said Articles of Cessation, humbly expecting reparation therein, but not hearing any further thereof, and observing that the said Sir William Stewart and the rest of the Gentlemen , which were sent for out of Ireland, had by Authority from the Lord Lieutenant and Council, informed his Majesty of 20 several complaints of notorious breaches made by the said Rebels of the said Articles; whereof no right or reparation could be had there, notwithstanding many complaints there made. They the said Agents delivered to the said Sr Will. Stewart, and the rest above named about the 10th of May 1644. a brief of many more great injuries done by the Rebels to the Protestant Party, contrary to the said Articles of Cessation, especially in Conaght, where many of the Soldiers were forced there by to disband, desiring them to acquaint the Lords with the same, to the end that some course might be taken for redress, and afterwards they understood by them that they had acquainted the Lords of the Committee therewith, and that the Lords said that they would acquaint the Agents of the Rebels therewith; but heard no more thereof: neither were the said Protestant Agents ever called to make proof thereof, or of any other their Allegations, or to receive hearing therein. One particular instance of a notorious breach of the Articles of Cessation, which we produced at Oxford, we have here inserted, being from one of the bloodiest Rebels, who exercised the place of Governor of the County of Fermanagh.  
Com. Fermanagh.  
FOrasmuch as the daily resort and concourse of Catholics since the Cessation, into English Garrisons, might bring a great deal of Inconveniency unto our proceed: I do therefore hereby, by Virtue of the Lord General's Authority given me in that behalf, and especially to avoid the eminent peril, that hereafter might arise thereof, straightly charge and command all manner of persons, of what rank, quality, or condition soever they be, of the Irish Nation of this County; not to visit, confer, talk, or parley, to, or with any person or persons; of, in, or belonging to the Garrison of Eniskillen, upon pain of death, and of forfeiting all the goods, and Chattels belonging to every such offender, or offenders: And likewise that none of the Inhabitants of this County, on the West side of Loghern, live, dwell, or inhabit no nearer to Eniskillen, than the River of Arny; until further directions be given, to the contrary, upon pain of the foresaid forfeiture and penalty. Dated the 25 November. 1643.  
Signed, Rory Maguire.  
The 12. of May Sir Robert Talbot, and Dermot mac Teag o Bryan, two of the Rebels Agents, went away out of Oxford towards Ireland.  
The 22. of May 1644. the Lord Viscount Muskery and the rest of the Rebels Agents went away from Oxford towards Ireland, but what dispatch they had, the Protestant Agents do not know.  
The 26. of May the Protestant Agents seeing the Irish Agents were gone, waited on Mr. Secretary Nicholas, and desired him to know his Majesty's pleasure and commands, and whether they should expect any further answer concerning their Agency from his Majesty, And the next day Mr. Secretary Nicholas told them. That his Majesty commanded him to know of the Committee for Irish affairs; Whether they had any thing more to say to the Protestant Agents, And the same day Mr. Secretary Nicholas told the said Agents, That the Committee saw no reason to detain them any longer, and that he would move his Majesty for their dispatch.  
The 30. of May M. Secretary Nicholas presented the Protestant Agents to his Majesty, to kiss his hand, who told them, That he had written to the marquis of Ormond concerning the Protestants of Ireland, That he would use his best endeavours for them there, if he were able, as he did for himself here; And he said, That he meant his good Protestants, and not such as did either take or adhere to such as had taken the Covenant.  
By all this which hath been faithfully Related, and several other Circumstances, it plainly appears, that the Rebels of Ireland intentions are and have been for the extirpation of the Protestants and Protestant Religion, and how far forth they have been countenanced therein.   
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