THE DECLARATION OF His Excellency the Lord Marquis of ORMOND Lord Deputy of JRELAND, and General of all the Forces in that Kingdom for the KING.  
Together with the Lord INCHEQVEENE, and all the rest of the Kingdom; Concerning the Death of His Sacred MAJESTY, who was Murdered at White-Hall, the 30. of january; By an usurped Power of the COMMONS of ENGLAND, as they call themselves.  
Likewise their Intentions to Crown Prince CHARLES King, and engage in His Quarrel against ENGLAND.  
To which is added the Reasons, which moved them to join with the Irish Rebels as they Call them in England.  
Published by special Command.  
Printed at Cork in Ireland, and now reprinted, 1648.   

THE DECLARATION, etc.  
FOrasmuch as we know and are ascertained of the Tragic proceed and treasonable attempts put in practice by that rebellion's Army of Sectaries now in England, and the Command of Baron Fairfax, who by Martial power and contrary to their once protended principles for which they did at first engage, which were to seat their Lawful King upon his Throne, and make him a great and glorious Prince, and not to injure His Royal Person, and likewise to maintain and defend the Privileges of Parliament, and liberty of the Subject, unto which engagement they were sworn, which Oath they have presidiously broken by their excluding and making the Major part of the house of Commons uncapable of the trust reposed in them by the respective Counties for whom they were chosen as Members, imprisoning some and denying others admittance also, disabling the Lords for ever having any voice in Parliament, unless they please to entertain them into their Conventicle of Sectaries, who are not above forty or fifty at most which be now considerable with that perjured Army of Rebbels, and presume to call themselves the Commons of England, and pretend that the supreme power of the Kingdom is in herent in them (a thing before never heard of) by which like aspiring 〈◊〉, they assume the power Legislative to make and 〈◊〉 Laws. They have by this pretended and new found authority 〈◊〉 a Court of judicature (as they 〈◊〉 it) which indeed is no other but Conventicle of injustice and wicked treasonable practices. By which pretended Court they like imperious proud and barbarous regicids, have presumed to bring their Le●ge Lord and gracious King to an illegal trial, and contrary to all Law both of God and man, have condemned and tyranously laid violent hands on His Sacred Person, perpetrating Murder upon him without all or any just cause. O what a tyrannical cruelty was this! Acted upon their King & Father of the Country is it possible they can think that God will let such a infinite sin slip without revenging his blood upon such cruel murderers, who have made theselves drunk with the innocent blood of their Sovereign and the best of K●ngs, whose fervour and zeal to Peace and his Subjects good, was ever visible even to his latest breath as may appear by his Declarations & several Messages sent to his two Houses of Parliament, desiring a Treaty with them, that all differences might be happily composed, and His three Kingdom, settled in Peace and Unity, which he with much desiring at length procured to Treat with his two Houses of Parliament, where his alacrity and integrity to Peace was made most plain and manifest, for he was graciously pleased to yield to all that was desired, although to bind up his own hands and throw himself into the laps of his own Subjects and to do what they should think fit whereby to stop the bleeding o● his people in all three Kingdoms, but when every man's eyes were fixed of a conclusion of the Treaty and expected peace and his late Majesty's Concessions voted satisfactory and sufficient to the grounds of peace and settlement and his late Majesty thought he had been in safety, he was by some Arch traitors of that treacherous Army taken away from the Isle of Wight, and His body hurried from place to place, and at last unhumanely murdered by them, who of right aught to have been his Subjects, and to have protected his Royal Person from violence.  
And whereas they have since his late Majesty's death of famous memory, by pretended Acts and Proclamations declared, that it shall be high-Treason for any one to Proclaim Prince Charles (who is now rightful heir to the Crown of England) to be King of great Britain without their approbation, which they have since manifested, shall not be granted by another Act of theirs, saying, the Office of Kings is chargeable and withal useless amongst them, therefore aught to be abolished; which wicked and illegal practice of theirs is abominable and of right is to be shunned by all true Subjects and good Christians, who are bound by Conscience and by their Oath of Allegiance to use their best endeavours to circumvent their consultations and hellish design which tends only to the subversion of Monarchy and setting up the rule and government of Democracy, by wrongfully expelling their lawful King, and not giving to Caesar those things which be Caesar's, but keeping him in exile and banishment, and murder, rob and despoil all his Loyal Subjects of their inheritance, by that unjust sword which they have in their lawless hands. It is not unknown to all the three Kingdoms our forwardness, loves and affections to the Parliament of England, and what hazard we have divers times sustained in behalf of it, both endangering our lives and fortunes to maintain its privileges, but now we can acknowledge it no Parliament at all, neither King nor Lords being there, but only a few of the Commons house and whether those rightly elected or no, we are uncertain, but this we know, that at the death of the King, the Parliament is dissolved until the succeeding King have elected a new one. But so soon as we found and did perceive that they took several Oaths, Protestations, and the Covenant, merely to make a nose of wax of, and cheat the vulgar and mean people, deviating from their once (as it seems) only pretended principles, and that by backsliding clandestine plots and treacherous designs, their sole aim was to take away our late King's life, who indeed we may boldly affirm, that for a virtuous liver, and Kingly parts, he was unparalleled there not having been his Peer for acute wit and solid judgement amongst all his Royal predecessors in former ages. But what may we really say, he was too good to rule so sinful a people, therefore God in his high displeasure hath taken him away, however we have a young Phoenix his Royal son Charles late Prince of Wales, whom we must acknowledge for our King, as we are bound by our Allegiance, so to do, and his Royal Cause we shall with our lives and fortunes prosecute, and with our swords endeavour to establish him in despite of those proud Rebbels who did so traitorously murder his late Father to satisfy their bloodthirsty appetites.  
To satisfy all Christian people of the Truce and Association made between us and the Catholic Irish, we do declare (to stop the mouths of some who peradventure will endeavour to lay false scandals upon us, calling us Papists, which is very well known, we were never of that Religion, but always Protestants, as may answer by our proceed against them, which may be a large testimony that we do not allow of their Profession, nor will ever enlarge the Pope's Dominions and Romish Hierarchy) the reason why we entered into League and confedenacy with them is as followeth, viz.  
We finding their real intentions and often protested principles were to submit and live under the ancient rule and Government of a King, and that it was never their desire to live under any other, than our late deceased King Charles and his lawful successor, and successors who is the noble and illustrious Prince Charles now Charles the second, and is by birth right to succeed his deceased Father. And that the only thing for which at first they did promote the Irish Wars was for no other and but to preserve the liberty of their consciences which they were informed (by some cvill instruments) they should be very suddenly deprived of, which made such an impression in them, that they were resolved rather to hazard their lives, then prejudice their Consciences, which they did believe all good Christians ought to do. But for altering their Government, and rovolting from their and our King to make this Nation Subjects to the Pope (as it hath all along been supposed) was never their intentions more than to allow him supremacy in Ecclesiastical matters, which belong only to themselves as some of the principles of their Religion. We having therefore found in them so much integrity to the King's cause, and so much willingness to hazard their lives and fortunes for him (as becomes) true Subjects, we could not either in reason not conscience but accept their offer enjoining with us to Crown and settle our lawful King Charles the second, who is now in a low condition kept from his Right of Inheritance by the basest and meanest Mechanics in all the English Nation, and also the worst and desperatest Rebels that ever looked upon the Sun, who durst to act an open murder upon their gracious Sovereign.  
We hope what we have here expressed concerning our Confederacy and League with our fellow Subjects of Ireland, (will give any true subject or honest man satisfaction, and for Rebels we care not) by whose assistance as an immediate means we doubt not to inthrowne our King and dissolve that Rebel nest fitting at Westm. who take so much authority upon them, affirming themselves to be the highest Court of Indiceture upon earth, when it is well known there's no Nobleman not scarce a Gent, amongst them, but low bred fellows and most of them men of broken fortunes, laying aside what they have by injustice robbed the Kingdom of and extorted from true and loyal Subjects.  
Now to declare further what is our true and unfeigned Resolutions, and wherefore we do engage to prevent misunderstanding, and stop the mouths of those who would peradventure calumniate us with false aspersions, blemish our integrity by lies and forgeries, and feigned Chemeras of their own brainsick inventing) we say upon the saith of Christians that we have no other ends, but according to this Declaration to prosecute our allegiance, in furthering our Sovereign's cause, and the establishing his Royal Person in the Dominious which did of right belong to his late Father. viz.  
1. We will to the utmost of our power (as becomes loyal Subjects) endeavour to Crown and settle our gracious King CHARLES the II. in all his three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, and to that end we have advanced an Army for his said Majesty's service, and will hazard our lives and fortunes, His Royal Person to defend and keep against all violence, treasonable and treacherous attempts, which may be by the English Rebels or any other at any time made against him, his Crown, dignity, and Regal authority, or to the dimishing: of any of his Kingly titles by any pretended power of Parliament whatsoever.  
2ly, That we do not intent to introduce any Arbitrary Government which may enslave our fellow Subjects of England, but only to bring such who be in Rebellion to due Obedience according as their allegiancebinds them to their natural liege Lord and King.  
3ly, That we do not intent to violate the fundamental Laws, and Constitutions of any the 3. Kingdoms, but shall be careful to keep and preserve them as the greatest good belonging to all our fellow Subjects.  
4ly. We do declare, that we will ever stand and be firmly and Really for the true Protestant Religion, and shall not admit of any other Church government; likewise for the just Rights, Freedoms and Privileges of Parliaments, when lawfully called and elected by His said Majesties Writ, as of right it ought to be, and to consist of King, Lords, and Commons, as all precedent Ages hath done, and until than we hold all Authority of the English protended Parliament, to be usurpation, illegal, and not Parliamental authority, but a Committee of Adjutators to plot and contrive treasonable practices against their lawful King, and his loyal Subjects.  
5. And lastly, If there be any one amongst them, who will (as by duty and allegiance bound) desert those wicked Robels, and timely repair to serve their King, they shall not only have pardon for their former acts, but shall be accommodated according to their degrees and several qualities.  
God save King CHARLES the II.  
Finis.  
Ormond. Inchiqueene.