PROPOSITIONS OF THE IRISH REBELLS( By the Name of the Roman catholics of Ireland) Presented to his majesty In pursuance of their Remonstrance of grievances, and annexed to the said Remonstrance.  
Which being granted, the rebel do offer to assist his majesty with ten thousand Irish against the Parliament.  
And further to expose their lives and fortunes to serve His majesty as occasion shall require.  
( Fit Instruments to settle the Protestant Religion.)  
LONDON, Printed by I.N. for Henry Twyford at the three Daggers in Fleet-street, 1644.   

Propositions of the Irish Rebells,( by the name of the Roman catholics of Ireland) presented to His majesty, &c.  
1. 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any Restraint, Penalty, Mulct, or Incapacity may be laid upon any Roman catholic within the kingdom of Ireland, may bee repealed, and the said catholics to be allowed the freedom of the Roman catholic Religion.  
2. That Your majesty be pleased to call a free Parliament in the said kingdom, to be held and continued as in the said Remonstrance is expressed, and the Statute in the tenth year of King Henry the seventh, called poinings 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 the●●of 〈◇〉 be 〈◇〉 considered of.  
3. That all Acts and Ordinances made and passed in the now pretended Parliament in that kingdom since the seventh day of August 1641. bee clearly annulled and declared void, and taken off the File.  
4. That all Indictments, Attainders, Outlawrles in the Kings Bench or elsewhere since the said seventh of August 1641. and all Letters Patents, Grants, Leases, Custodiums, Bonds, recognizances, and other Records, Act or Acts depending thereupon, or in prejudice of the said catholics or any of them, be taken off the Files, annulled and declared void: First by your Majesties Proclamation, and after to be passed in the said free Parliament.  
5. That in as much as under colour of such Out-lawries and Attainders, debts due to the said catholics, have been granted levied or disposed of, and on 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.  
6. That all late offices taken or found upon feigned or old titles since the year 1634. to entitle your Majesty to several counties in Connaught Tho●●●and, and in the counties of Tippary, Limericke, Kilke●●y and Wickl●●, be vacated and taken off the File, and the possessors settled and se●u●ed in their ancient estates by act of Parliament. And that the like Act of lymitation of your Majesties title for the security of the estates of your subjects of that kingdom, be passed in the said Parliament, as was enacted in the 21 year of his late Majesties reign in this kingdom.  
7. 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, & the same to extend to the securing of purchases, Leases, or Grants already made. And that for the education of youth an 〈…〉 passed in the next Parliament, for the erecting of one or more Inns of Courts, universities, free and Common schools.  
8. That the Offices and places of Command, Honour, Profit and Trust within that kingdom, be conferred upon Roman catholics Natives in equality and indifferency with your Majesties other subjects.  
9. That the insupportable oppressione of your Subjects by reason of the Court of Wards and respite of homage, be taken away, and a certain revenue in lieu thereof settled upon your Majesty without diminution of your Majesties profit.  
10. 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 as shall bee estated and resident within the kingdom.  
11. That an Act be 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 the subjects of Ireland are immediately Subjects to your majesty, as in right of your crown; And that the Members of the said Parliament of Ireland, and other the Subjects of Ireland are independent, and no way to be ordered or concluded by the Parliament of England, and are onely to bee ordered and governed within that kingdom by your majesty, and such Governours as are or shall be there appointed, and by the power of that kingdom according to the laws of the Land.  
12. That the assumed power or Jurisdiction in the council board, of determining all manner of Causes, bee limited to matters of State, and all Patents, Estates, and grants illegally and extrajudicially avoided, there or elsewhere, be left in state as before, and the parties grieved, their Heires, or assigns, till legal eviction.  
13. That the Statutes of the eleven, twelve, and thirteen yeares of queen Elizabeth concerning Staple commodities be Repealed, reserving to his majesty lawful and just Boundage, and a book of Rates to be settled by an indifferent Committee of both Houses for all Commodities.  
14. That in as much as the long continuance of the chief governor or Governours in that kingdom, in that place of so great eminency and power, hath been a principal occasion that much tyranny and oppression have been exercised upon the Subjects of that kingdom; That your majesty will be pleased to continue such Governours hereafter but for three yeares. And that none once employed therein be appointed for the same again until the expiration of six yeares next after the expiration of the said three yeares: And that an Act pass to dis-inable such governor or Governours during their government; Directly or immediately in use, trust, or otherwise to make any manner of purchase or Acquisition of any Manners, Lands, Tenements, or Heriditaments within that kingdom other then from your majesty, your Heires or successors.  
15. That an Act be passed in the next Parliament, for the raising and settling of trained Bands within the several Counties of that kingdom, as well to prevent foreign Invasions as to render them the more serviceable and ready for your Majesties occasions, as causes shall require.  
16. That an Act of oblivion be passed in the next free Parliament to extend to all your Majesties catholic Subjects, and their adherents for all manner of offences Cappitall, criminal and personal, and the said Act to extend to all goods, and chattels, customs, Measne, Profits, prizes, Areares, of rents taken, received, or incurred since these troubles.  
17. For as much as your Majesties said catholic Subjects have been taxed with many inhuman cruelties which they never committed. Your Majesties said suppliants therefore for their vindication, and to manifest to all the world their desire to have such heinous offences punished, & the offenders brought to justice, do desire that in the next Parliament all notorious murders breaches of Quarter & 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 e●cepted out of the Act of oblivion, and punished according 〈◇〉 their deserts.  
Forasmuch( Dread sovereign) as the ways of our addresses unto your Majesty for apt remedies unto our grevances were hitherto debarred us, but now at le●●th through your benign grace and favour, laid open, wee do humbly prefent 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 farther expose their lives and fortunes to serve your Majesty as occasion shall require.  
Publish●● according to Order.  
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