A LETTER FROM The Lord Deputy-General OF IRELAND, Unto the Honourable William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the PARLIAMENT of ENGLAND; Concerning the Rendition of the City of LIMERICK: Together with the Articles formerly offered, and the Articles upon which the same was Surrendered: As also a Particular of the persons excepted, the Ammunition and Ordnance in the Town delivered upon the Surrender of the said CITY. Friday the 28th of November, 1651. ORdered by the Parliament, That the Letter from the Deputy-General of Ireland, and Articles, together with the Particulars enclosed, be forthwith Printed and Published; and read by the Ministers on the day appointed for Thanks to be given in the several Congregations. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. London, Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of ENGLAND, 1651. For the most Honourable William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of ENGLAND. Mr. Speaker, IT was no small Blessing in order to your Affairs here, nor without manifest appearances of the Power and Providence of God, That your Forces entrusted with me, got a Passage over the River Shanon so early in the Summer; But that for the matter of it (to such as neither saw nor can have a clear Relation of the manner and Circumstances wherein God appeared) being rather but the making way for further progress in your Businesses, than a thing of visible effect in itself, and nothing since then considerable having been effected by that part of your Forces with me, save the taking of some few small Castles in Thomond, and possessing of others that were of advantage and consequence for you, with Garrisons; and those things of the like, or other nature, wherein God hath blest the rest of your Forces and Parties in other Parts, having, I suppose, come to your knowledge more immediately from the several persons commanding them. I have forborn to trouble you with any immediate account from myself of what hath been done; But God, who having only given some Testimonies of his continuing Favour to your Cause, and presence with your Servants here in the beginning of this Summer's Service (in the giving of such a seasonable and easy Passage to us over the Shanon) and therewith (in a few days more, the Possession or Command of almost all the Passes over it, when before we had not any) hath since seen it good to deny us thus long any further considerable effect in any thing, and to exercise our Faith and Patience with divers small Losses in the surprise of several small Garrisons and Parties, by the lurching Enemy (mixed with the smaller Successes he hath given to any of your Forces, having now vouchsafed to Crown the Summer's Service in the close of it, with giving into your hands a place of such Strength, Value and Importance, as the City of Limerick, I thought it my duty hereby to give you an account of it, and present to your view the Conditions on which it is Surrendered to you, wherewith I thought it not amiss to send also a Copy of the Conditions, which about the end of June and beginning of July last, were thought fit by advice of your Council of War, here with me to be tendered to the Soldiery and people within (if they would have Surrendered then, but were rejected) by both which being compared together (as you will see them in enclosed Papers) you may find how far God suffered them to be hardened then to their own loss in the issue, and hath made their Obstinacy then and since, serve to your greater advantage at last, not only in point of Freedom for prosecution of Justice, one of the great Ends and best Grounds (before God and men) of the War you have maintained here; and in point of safety to English Planters, and the settling and securing of the Commonwealths Interest in this Nation; but also in respect of valuable benefit to the State, which in the value of Arms and Ammunition, with some Goods of excepted persons, and of the Houses and Lands of the rest by the first Conditions tendered, in great part to have been granted away, but by these at last reserved clearly in your Power) may be some considerable Compensation for your charge in the Four months longer Siege: For the length whereof, and detaining so great a part of your Forces from any other work considerable in all this Summer past, I can at this distance give only this account at present, That it pleased God after that loss he left us to in the attempt upon the Island (which had it succeeded, had given us an easy way and visible advantage for a speedy attempt of the City by way of Force, that hath since been fully provided against by their industrious working) not to incline the hearts of our Officers at any of the Counsels of War held since for that purpose, to think a way of present force against the place advisable, but only to provide by way of Siege to starve them, until of late (after we had largely provided both for security and subsistence of a sufficient part of the Army (through God's blessing) to have attended the Siege unto a far longer issue of extremity, finding the supposition of their sudden falling into want (which was conceived would have been in two Months, or three at the most, and so have given us some competent season for the work remaining) to fail us; and finding also some hopeful advantage for an attempt by way of Battery, at a place we had little observed before (God having as it were till very lately hid the advantage of it from our eyes) we resolved at last to try that way, whether it would please God (by the apprehensions of present danger to them in the way of force, added to the foresight of more certain extremity by Famine at last, though the other should fail) so to work upon their hearts within, as might induce a present Surrender before extremity of Winter, and so save your sickly Army from the hazards and hardships of a Winter's Siege: And since this Resolution taken, sending to several places as speedily as we could for some more Battering-Guns to recruit our Train (in lieu of those so carelessly lost at Clare, as I suppose you have heard) so soon as we had a number of them competent for such a work, we began our Approaches in one night, and finished our Batteries and planted our Guns the second, and next morning began to Batter; whereupon they presently sent out to give us assurance they would accept our Conditions for the matter (which upon an overture of Treaty about three weeks ago we had tendered them, and about which they had sent out Commissioners since from time to time, still continuing or renewing the Treaty, but with no effect; and that day sending out Commissioners to us again in the evening, to have the Articles perfected in Circumstances) we came to a conclusion upon them by the next morning; we cannot tell whether the danger of present Force, or foresight of want did more incline them, but find clearly that Divisions and Distractions within (which God alone had wrought amongst them) were most prevalent towards the Surrender: There marched out at the Surrender about Twelve or thirteen hundred Officers and Soldiers in pay (being decreased in the Siege to that number, from about Two thousand by the best account we had) and we find yet in the Town, I believe, no less than Four thousand men able to bear Arms: It appears still very Populous, though since we came last before it, they have lost, as they account to us, above Five thousand Souls, what through the Sword without, and the Famine and Plague within (the last whereof is still violent amongst them, to the great endangering your Soldiery here, if God by distinguishing mercy prevent not) and this way, as well as in the outstanding of better Conditions from us, God hath rendered their Obstinacy a scourge to themselves, and made us in the way he saw it good to incline us to a means to keep them under his own more immediate and righteous Judgement. We have about Three thousand five hundred Foot Arms already delivered up and brought into stores for your Service, and Eighty three Barrels of Powder, with some store of other Ammunition, and some Pistols and old Saddles, but no Horses: We hope to find yet more Arms and Ammunition, and intent speedily to clear the place of a multitude of People that are most dangerous (either in Quality or Infection) and by degrees it may be rendered more English, as you or your Ministers shall find opportunity of Planters, though there are now divers of the now Inhabitants (and some persons of Quality amongst them) whose carriage all along towards the English People and Interest, and particularly in this surrender, may deserve your admittance to continue here, and dealing in point of their Estates. Of the persons excepted from quarter there was only the Governor and ten more, whose names are mentioned in the enclosed note, that rendered themselves at our mercy, none of which we have yet executed, nor are yet well resolved how to deal with them, though I suppose we shall see cause to execute some of them in a Military way, in relation to the holding out of the place, and for terrors to others; and there are others of them fit to be reserved for examples of Justice in a Judicial way, in relation to the first Rebellion and Murders: But it hath pleased God since the surrender, providentially to discover and deliver into our hands, three persons of principal Activity and Influence in the obstinate holding out (the last years Major, the Bishop of Emley, and Major General Purcell; all whom we presently hanged, and have set up their heads on the gates; the two latter being original Incendiaries of the Rebellion and Mischiefs in it, or prime Engagers therein, and also one Captain Welsh a Priest, whom we have not yet executed, but I think shall. Now besides the real importance and advantage of this place towards the further carrying on or ending the War, and the settling and securing of your Interest in this Nation (if God see it good) it is not unhopeful that the terror and sad example of it may so work upon other places remaining (through God's blessing) as to hasten or facilitate the reducement of them, as much as the long detaining us at this Siege hath retarded it, save that the winter season and difficulty of subsisting now (for Horse or men) in the Field, about their remaining Garrisons, may give them so much breathing time, as to digest and forget this example; however, it was a Mercy most seasonable, in relation to the present condition of your Men, and state of your Affairs in this Land (as well as great in effect) that this place was now Surrendered to you on such Terms; and God doth (by the extremity of Winter weather, ever since our Agreement, whereas he had till then, favoured us with a more dry and gentle Season than hath been ordinarily known before for so long time together, and so late in the year) make it appear more feeling to be so: And you (as we that serve you here) may accordingly add it to the account of those other great Blessings and Deliverances, and more glorious Workings of Gods good hand towards you this year in England and Scotland, which you have to acknowledge to the Praise of his Great Name, and improve to his further Honour and Service in the Advancement of Righteousness and Truth in the Three Nations, and furthering the Exaltation of all that is indeed the Interest of the Lord Jesus Christ, who hath so graciously owned, and thus far Upheld and Established yours. Now that you, and those that serve and partake with you in these things, may be both intent to consider and seek, and taught of him more and more what manner of persons we ought to be, and what to do for his Name, and made (through his greater Grace) both really to be, and faithfully to do in some sort more answerable to such peculiar Favours of his, and Experiences or Testimonies thereof towards us, and preserved by him from the many Snares and Temptations, attending such Advantages to such corrupt Natures, is still the hearts desire and prayer of him, who hath been very little, and grows less able otherwise to serve you. Your most humble Servant, H: IRETON. Limerick, 3. Novemb. 1651. A Copy of Conditions tendered to the Garrison and City of Limerick June 30. 1651. upon surrender thereof. 1. AN Article for the surrender, etc. 2. That in consideration of the surrender, etc. all persons whatsoever within the City and Garrison of Limerick shall have quarter for their lives, and liberty of their persons, without pillage, plunder, or other Militery violence to their persons or goods during their continuance under safe Conduct or Protection, by virtue of the ensuing Articles respectively. 3. That all Officers and Soldiers of the Forces in pay, and not belonging to the Militia of the City of Limerick, shall have liberty to march away to any Garrison or Quarter of the Irish party with their Horses, Arms, and other equipage suitable to the several qualities they serve in respectively, Bag and Baggage, Drums beating, Colours flying, their Fire-arms loaden and primed, Bandeliers and Flasques full of Powder, Matches lighted at both ends; and to have such Carriage for their Goods as the County will afford provided for them (they paying reasonable rates for the same) And shall be allowed _____ Months time for the removal of any goods to them duly belonging which they leave behind them, except Arms, Ammunition, or other furniture of War. 4. That all other persons of what quality soever now in the said City, that desire to march with them, shall have liberty so to do, with the same freedom, privilege, time and benefit, for the carrying away of their Bag and Baggage, and removing of their goods (except Ammunition, and all Arms or other furniture of War, save travelling Arms, with which they shall be allowed to march) as is granted to the Soldiery in the last preceding Article. 5. That any of the Officers, Soldiers, or others now in the City (except Clergymen, and such as were in Arms or otherwise in Hostility, which, or for those that committed the murders and outrages in the first Insurrection before the first general Assembly, or that sat in the said first Assembly) if within _____ they shall desire to lay down Arms, and to submit to the authority of the Parliament of England, shall be admitted so to do, and to live at their homes or with their friends, and shall have Protection in their persons and estates on the same Terms as the rest of the inhabitants of the Country of the same Conditious or Qualifications with themselves. 6. That all the Citizens or Inhabitants in the said City that are Freemen or members of the Corporation, and were so before the first of October, One thousand six hundred and fifty, and all the Widows and Children of them that were such (with their families and servants) who shall be willing to live under the Government of the Commonwealth of England, and submit to Contribution proportionably with their neighbours (except such as come within the exception made in the last foregoing Article) shall freely enjoy all their personal estates where ever the same be (except Arms, Ammunition and other furniture of War) to themselves and their assigns (paying to the State of England one third part of the value of their personal Estates visible within this Dominion, from such only as have personal Estates visible within this Dominion, from such only as have personal Estates to the value of one hundred pounds and upwards, but the rest to enjoy the whole freely; and shall likewise enjoy two third parts of their Estates real (lying without the City of Limerick and Liberties thereof) or the full value of the same to themselves, their Heirs or Assigns; and shall also enjoy their respective Interests in their Houses in the City, except such of them as shall be thought fit to be removed out of the Garrison, in order to the securing thereof, who shall have liberty to set or sell their said Houses to the best advantage of themselves, their Heirs or Assigns, paying (in case of sale) a third part of the price they make, to the use of the State of England, and shall have month's time (after warning given them to departed) for removal and disposing of themselves, their families and goods as they please, and Protection to live in any part of this Dominion within the Power of the Parliament of England (not being a Garrison, or a Country planted entirely with English, or set apart to be so) or shall have Passes to remove to any Foreign parts if they so desire. And those of the said Citizens (not within the aforesaid Exception) who shall submit upon these Terms, and perform the same on their parts, shall have Indemnity for any things done in prosecution of the War. An Answer of the Commissioners of the English Army to the particular Exceptions of the Commissioners for the City of Limerick, against the Conditions tendered upon the Treaty in June and July, One thousand six hundred fifty one. 1. TO the first Exception, we shall allow a proviso for the Citizens as follows; Provided, and and it is hereby declared concerning all and every the said Citizens, That they or any of their being engaged in Arms in the besieging and reducing of the Castle of Limerick, after the coming in of the Irish Forces under General Barry into the Town (though it was before the said first general Assembly) shall not conclude or be understood to conclude them or any of them within the Exception afore going, except such of them as shall appear by sufficient evidence to have contrived, procured, endeavoured, or wittingly furthered the letting in of the Irish Forces into the Town, or to have been otherwise guilty (as parties or immediate accessaries) to some particular murder of the English or Protestant people before the said first general Assembly. And as to the Soldiery, Nobility and Gentry now in the City, we are content that they be admitted to live in Protection, they submitting themselves and their Estates to the judgement of the Parliament of England, although they were in Arms during the first year of the War. 2. To the second, We cannot allow any Ordnance or other furniture of War, but what is granted by our Articles, only we are content that all Ships belonging to any private persons remain to the disposal of the owners. 3. To the third, We shall not grant any power to levy Arrears in our Quarters as to the Runaways, and heretofore Protected persons, although they be not mentioned expressly, yet it is intended the Quarter should extend to them, we are willing to prefix a time, and grant an Indemnity from Suits during the time mentioned in the Exception. 4. To the fourth, We shall be willing to allow all the Protected persons Horses and travelling Arms as we do to other Protected people, as to persons formerly Protected and not within the reach of the Exception, paying the Arrears of their Contribution due to the Parliaments party, they shall be received into Protection as formerly. To the rest, we adhere to our Articles. 5. To the fifth, We shall not treat concerning Religion. 6. To the sixth, We shall adhere to our Article, unless they be willing to wave their Indemnity from private Suits. 7. To the seventh, We must adhere to our Proposal. 8. To the eighth, We shall adhere to our Proposition. 9 To the ninth, It is intended that all such of the Citizens as are by these Articles allowed to enjoy their Estates real and personal, should have full liberty to sell and dispose the said Estates to their best advantage and liberty, with their Wives, Families and Goods to pass beyond the Seas when they shall think good. 10. The tenth, We shall not Treat upon. 11. To the eleventh, It is intended that all such of the Citizens as are not within the Exception, shall have full liberty to trade at home and abroad as other English Subjects. 12. To the twelfth, The proviso of our Proposition enjoins no sale of any part of their Estates in the City. 13. To the thirteenth, It is intended they should enjoy all their real Estates in any Corporation or place of this Dominion, except Garrisons. The names of the Commissioners in behalf of the Parliaments Army, Lieutenant General Edmund Ludlow, Adjutant General William Allen, Judge Advocate Philip Cartret, Major Anthony Morgan, Major Brian Smith. Articles agreed upon the twenty seventh day of October, One thousand six hundred fifty one, by and between Henry Ireton Esquire, Deputy General of Ireland on the one part, and Bartholomew Stackpoll Recorder of the City of Limerick, or Dominick White Alderman of the same, Nicholas Haley Esquire, Lieutenant Colonel Piers Lacie, Lieutenant Colonel Donogh O-Brien, and John Baggot Esquire, Commissioners appointed by and on the behalf of the Governor and Major of the said City, to Treat and Conclude for the surrender thereof on the other part. 1. THat the City of Limerick, with the Castle, and all places of strength in the City be surrendered into the hands of the said Deputy General of Ireland, for the use of the Parliament and Commonwealth of England, upon, or before the twenty ninth day of October instant at noon, together with all the Ordnance, Arms, Ammunition, and other furniture of War therein, and all the Goods of any kind not allowed by the ensuing Articles to be carried away or kept by the owners, and this without waste, spoil, or embezlement. And the full possession of John's Gate and Prior's Mill shall be delivered unto the said Deputy General or such Guards as they shall appoint (not exceeding an hundred men for John's Gate) this day by Sunset; and for performance hereof, the above named Lieutenant Colonel Piers Lacie, Lieutenant Colonel Donogh O-Brien, Alderman Dominick White, and Nicholas Haley Esquire, shall remain as Hostages with the said Deputy-General, until the Surrender of the said City. 2. That in consideration thereof, all persons now in the City (except such as are hereafter excepted) shall have Quarter for their Lives, liberty of their persons, their , Money, and other Goods, so as to be free from Pillage, Plunder, or other hostile violence in their Persons or Goods during their continuance under the said Deputies safe Conduct or Protection, by virtue of the ensuing Articles respectively: But whereas through the practices of some persons more eminent and active than the rest, both amongst the Clergy, Military-Officers, the Citizens, and other sorts of men within the large Conditions formerly tendered for Surrender, have been rejected. The subsequent occasions or opportunities for timely making of Conditions neglected and avoided, the dispositions and desires of many persons within to that purpose, is opposed, resisted and restrained, and the generality of the people partly deluded and deceived (to the keeping of them in vain expectations of relief from one time to another) and partly overawed, or enforced by their power to concur and contribute this long to the obstinate holding out of the place; therefore the persons hereafter named, viz. Major General Hay Oniel the Governor, Major General Purcel, Sir Jeffry Galway, Lieutenant Colonel Lacie, Captain George Wolf, Captain Lieutenant Sexton, the Bishop of Limerick, the Bishop of Emley, John Quillin a Dominican Friar, David Roch a Dominican Friar, Captain Laurence Welsh a Priest, Francis Wolf a Franciscan Friar, Philip O deep Priest, Alderman Dominick Fanning, Alderman Thomas Stretch, Alderman Jordan Roch, Edmund Roch Burgess, David Rocheford Burgess, Sir Richard Everard, Doctor Higgin Maurice Baggot of Baggotstown, and Jeffry Barron (being as aforesaid the Principals appearing in such Practices in this Siege, and the holding out so long; as also Evan the Welsh Soldier who ran into Limerick; and all other persons that have been employed, and come into the City as Spies since the Fourth day of June last, shall be excepted and excluded from any benefit of this Article, or any other Articles ensuing, and such of them as can be found within the Garrison, shall be rendered up at Mercy upon the Surrender of the City: And any such persons as shall be found to hid or conceal any of the said expected persons, or be privy to their Concealment or attempt of Escape, and not discover, and do their best endeavour to prevent the same, shall thereby be understood to have forfeited the benefit of these Articles to themselves; but otherwise, none shall lose that benefit for other men's default in their Concealment or escape, or for the not rendering of them up as aforesaid. 3. That all Officers, Soldiers and other persons now in the City (not excepted in the last precedent Article) shall also have liberty to march away with their , Bag and Baggage, Money, and all other their Goods of what kind soever, except Arms, Ammunition, and other Utensils of War (carrying nothing but their own) to what place or places they shall choose respectively within the Dominion of Ireland, not being a Garrison for the Parliament (all the Field-Officers of Horse and Foot, and Captains of Horse, with their Horses, Pistols and Swords, and other the Commissioned Officers with their Swords only) And shall have Three Month's time after the Surrender to remove any Goods of their own, that they shall not think fit sooner to carry with them; and such of them as shall choose to go to any Garrisons, or Parties of the Enemy, shall have Convoy or safe conduct for that purpose, for such time as shall be requisite for their march, at the rate of Ten miles a day, and shall have Carriages and provision allowed from the Country at the usual rates. 4. That such of the Citizens and Inhabitants interested in the City, as are not excepted in the second Article, and shall not presently march away as aforesaid, but desire to continue longer in the City, shall (upon application for that purpose to the said Deputy General, or the chief Officer commanding in Limerick after the Surrender) have Licence given them to stay, either for such further time as the said Deputy General, or the said chief Officer present shall find convenient, or until further warning given them to departed; and in case of such Licence given till further warning, shall have Four month's time allowed from and after such warning, for the removal of themselves and their Families, and Six months for the removal of their Goods, and during such further time limited, or in case of reference to further warning, during their continuance there to the time of warning given; and for the said Four months and Six months after respectively, shall be protected in their Families and Goods from all Injury and Violence, and at any time as they shall desire within the said space or spaces respectively shall have liberty and safe conduct for the removal of themselves, their Families and Goods, to any place or places within this Dominion, not being garisoned for the Parliament as aforesaid; and if they shall not be admitted to reside elsewhere in protection within this Dominion, they shall have liberty, for themselves, their Wives, Children and Goods, to pass beyond the Seas; Provided that they pay their due proportion of what Taxes and other Contribution shall be charged upon the City, from the day of the Surrender to the day of the removal, in due proportion with other places in Ireland, and behave themselves as becometh: And such of the said Citizens and Inhabitants as having not Licence to stay until further warning, shall within a month after the Surrender be ordered to departed, shall have the same benefit of the Third Article, as those that march away immediately upon the Surrender. 5. That all such persons now in the City, as shall desire to live peaceably under protection, and submit to the Parliament of England (except the persons excepted in the second Article aforegoing, and except all Clergymen, Priests and Friars of any Order) shall upon their application to that purpose, have Licence and protection to live quietly at any such place or places within this Dominion as they shall desire, and the said Deputy General find convenient to admit; but such Protection shall not be understood to extend either to the assuring of them in the enjoyment of their Lands or other Hereditaments; or to the granting of other Indemnity or Freedom from any Question or Prosecution to Justice in a Judicial way, for any Crimes they may be guilty of, except to such persons as shall be found fit to have that Mercy and Favor expressly granted to them, or to others for a certain time to be limited for that purpose; but to such as shall have protection for a limited time, either Citizens or others, it is intended they shall be freed from any Suit or Censure in the Civil Judicature for things done in relation to the War during the time limited. Memorandum, As to the fourth Article aforegoing, it is intended, That the Citizens (not excepted against within a Month) may tatry (without particular Application) and have Four Months after warning given to remove themselves and Families, and six Months to carry away their Goods. Memorandum, Also that all Soldiers or other persons, not excepted in the third Article, who through Sickness are disabled to remove themselves at present, shall have liberty to march away when they shall recover, and have equal benefit with others in their Conditions respectively; And that from twelve of the Clock this day, there shall be Cessation of all acts of Hostility on either part, but the persons Besieged not to come without the Walls or Island, saving into John's Gate, until the time limited for Surrender, without Licence from the other part respectively. And lastly it is agreed, That no person shall be understood to forfeit the benefit of any the Articles for another man's Breach thereof, unless he be found to be consenting thereto, or privy to it, without discovering or endeavouring to prevent it, provided this extend not to indemnify the Hostages in case of failer of Surrender. In Testimony whereof, the parties first above mentioned have Interchangeably set to their Hands and Seals the day and year first above written. Bar: Flacpol, Hen: O Bryan. Domi: White. Pu●s: Lacy. Nic: Haly. John Bagot. The Names of those excepted persons that rendered themselves up at mercy at the Surrender of Limerick, 29 Oct. b. One thousand six hundred fifty one. Major Gen: Hugo O Neil. Sir Jeffry galway. Sir Richard Everard. Mr. Jordan Roch Alderman. Mr. Jeffry Barron. Major Maurice Baggot. Doctor Daniel Higgin. Edmund Roch Burgess. George Wolf Captain. Lieutenant Coll Piers Lacy. These were taken since the rest submitted, and Executed. The Bishop of Emley. Major General Purcel. The late Major. Tho: Stretch. Captain Welsh Priest. An Account of the Ammunition and Arms received from the Soldiers and Inhibitants of Limerick, 30 October 1651. Barrels of Power 83 Barrels of mixed shot 23 Match three Tun and an half Fixed and fixable Muskets 1654. Broken Muskets and Musket Barrels 1610 Fowling Pieces, Firelocks and Carbines 215 Pikes 512 Half Pikes 30 Holberts 93 Brown Bills 27 Pistols most unfixed 109 Collars of Bandeliers 246 Old Swords 140 Old Saddles 72 Besides round Shot, Backs, Breasts, Headpieces, Pioniers Tools, Powder, Flasks, etc. whereof an account is not yet taken. Nath: Boysh. A list of the Ordnance taken in Limerick. 30 October, 1651. Brass Guns. Demy Cannon 2 Demy Culverin 1 Saker, 1 Faulknet 1 Small Drake 1 Iron Ornance. Culverin 1 Saker 2 Menion 7 Falkon 2 Falkenet 3 Friday the 28th of Novem. 1651. Ordered by the Parlliament, THat the Ministers in the several Congregations within the Cities of London and Westminster, and the late Lines of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality, Do on the next Lordsday come Seven-night, render solemn Thanks to Almighty God for his great and seasonable Mercy to this Commonwealth, in the delivering up into the hands of the Parliament Forces in Ireland, under the Command of the Deputy-General, the strong and Populous City of Limerick, with all the Artillery, Arms and Ammunition therein, upon the Thirtieth of October, One thousand six hundred fifty one; and in the taking of the Isle of Jersey and the Isle of Man, with all the Castles and Forts, Ordnance and Ammunition therein. Ordered, That the Lord Major, and Committees of the Militia's, be required to take order for notice of this Order to be given. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. FINIS.