A TRUE COPY OF A Letter from the Lord chief justices in Ireland, with a Proclamation of the Rebels therein: Dated from Dublin Novem. 5. 1641.  
Whereunto is annected certain Propositions presented to the Parliament by the Merchants for the West-Indy Company: with Answered.  
Printed at London, 1641.   

A Copy of a Letter from the Lord chief justices in Ireland, with a Proclamation of the Rebels therein enclosed, together with the massacring of all those, that obeyed not the same.  
The Letter was dated the 5. of November. 1641.  
From the Castle in Dublin.  
THe Calamity on the English and Protestants in Ireland is great, and the mischiefs, that the Rebels have done, are many, and so much the more ought to be severely executed by reason of a Proclamation, which the Rebels have put out. Commanding all those, that are either English, or Protestants, to be gone away immediately after the publishing thereof; or otherwise to take what punishment the Rebels shall inflict upon them; and that they do execute with all cruelty, by cutting off the heads of all those that remain, and by burning their Villages, and putting both Man, woman and Child, to the sword.   

To the House of PARLIAMENT.  

Propositions of the Merchants for a West-Jndia Company. With the objections made against it, and Answers to the objections.  
The first Proposition. 
 WHeteher the House would grantt them a free trade or no?  
The second Proposition. 
 Whethe the House would grant it in a public way or no, to all in general, that would come in.  
The third Proposition. 
 Whether the House would not grant it to any particular person, that would desire it or no.   

Objections against the East-India Company.  
Objection the first. 
 THat the stock, which should manage the same, would be too great to venture in the Subject's hands, and be a means to make them too peremptory against their Prince, if any difference should arise between them.  
Obection the second. 
 The King of Spain's power was so great and so vast, that it would be very difficult to effect it.  

Answers by the Merchants of the West-india Company to the Objections.  
Answer the first. 
 IT cannot be too great a stock because shipping can never be too great, and now more especially, because the defence of the Kingdom lies upon the same.  
Answer the second. 
 The power of Spain was never so much weakened as now it is, for every Prince plucks a feather from it; As Portugal, France, and the Low-Countries: therefore England would be very improvident, if it did not share amongst them.    
FINIS.