BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CONFEDERATE CATHOLIQVES OF IRELAND.  
WHereas divers ill affected to the Government of this Kingdom have endeavoured to lay scandalous aspersions upon this Assembly, affirming that it was called out of a design to conclude a Peace dishonourable and unsafe in matters concerning Religion without regard had of the Acts and Orders of former Assemblies: And although the many testimonies We have given of our zeal towards the advancement of Religion, to the wasting of our Fortunes, the loss of many lives, and to the danger even of an extirpation of the Nation, leaves us no way subject to such Calumnies, in the opinion of any indifferent judge: yet lest any of easy belief, should be seduced by such sinister means, We do unanimously declare in pursuance of our former several expressions and protestations in our Oath of Association and otherwise, that We will, to the uttermost of Our power and abilities, labour and endeavour the preservation and advancement of the Roman Catholic Religion, the immunities and privileges thereof, & therein are so far from declining the acts of the former Assemblies as that in any Peace to be concluded, we will not receade from the Acts, Orders, Declarations or Explanations of the said Assemblies, or exceed the power by them reserved, & Declarations by them made, concerning the settlement of the Peace and quiet of the Kingdom: And therefore we do further declare, all and every person and persons, of what degree or quality soever, that aught to assist in this Assembly, and yet will absent himself from the same, on any such pretence, and without manifest lawful impediment, to be a person ill affected to the Peace and settlement of the Kingdom, and accordingly to be treated and prosecuted. Given at Kilkenny, the foureteenth day of September Anno Domini 1648. and in the four and twentieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord CHARLES, by the grace of God, King of England, Ireland, France, and Scotland, etc.  


RICHARD BLAKE, Prol. Gen. Conu.  
Phill. Kearney Cler. Gen. Conu.     

Printed at Kilkenny, by command of the General Assembly, 1648.