❧ A copy of a Letter sent from the Lords Justices, and the rest of the privy council in Ireland, concerning His Majesties Resolution to go into that His Kingdom.  
May it please your most Excellent Majesty,  
BY your Majesties gracious Letters of the thirteenth of this month, and a Copy of your Majesties Message sent lately to your Parliament in your Kingdom of England( both which came to the hands of us, your Justices, on the eighteen of this month) we observe, That your majesty( out of a just sense of the great miseries and afflictions of your distressed Subjects in this your Kingdom of Ireland, occasioned by the inhuman cruelties of the Rebels here, and out of your tender and gracious care of your good Subjects on this side) hath firmly resolved( by the assistance of Almighty God) with all possible speed to make a journey hither in your own royal Person, for the full and final suppressing of this Rebellion.  
Those Letters and Messages we, your Majesties Justices, then immediately communicated with the council, as we always do all matters of importance concerning your Majesties Services, and caused the Copy sent us of your Message to your Parliament in England to be printed here, so to make known here your Majesties gracious purpose, as you commanded us.  
And we all jointly do humbly beseech your Majesty to give us leave to cast ourselves at your Majesties feet, and( with the duty and loyalty of faithful Subjects) most humbly and thankfully to aclowledge to your Sacred majesty, as well your continued Grace and goodness upon all occasions expressed to this your Kingdom, and all your Subiects therein, and amongst them, even those wretched Rebels themselves, heretofore when they stood in the condition of good Subjects, though they want the gratitude to be sensible of it; as particularly this high addition of your Majesties gracious favour to us, in not sparing the pains or hazard, even of your own royal Person, for the suppressing of this hideous Rebellion, and punishment of these ungrateful and treacherous Rebels, who are thus unnaturally risen in Arms against your majesty, expressed such unparalleled hatred and detestation against your Government and Nation, spilled, unprovoked, the blood of so many thousands of your faithful and innocent Subiects, destroyed the estates of all the british and Protestants in the Kingdom, and( which is above all) as appears by several Examinations, and many other concurring circumstances here, notwithstanding all their false and feigned pretences, to disguise their wicked and traitorous Purposes, aimed finally at no less( which we tremble to writ, and cannot think, without horror and astonishment at their impiety) then even to deprive you of your royal Crown and Dignity, and to place over them some of themselves, or some foreign Prince, and so altogether to shake off the English Government.  
Wherefore, we cannot but rejoice( even in the midst of our present Calamities) to hear your majesties Princely Purpose, to take just Vengeance on them, for vindicating your Honour, revenging the blood and destruction of so many of your faithful Subjects, and securing the future safety of your Crowns and Kingdoms.  
And as we do thus joyfully apprehended the happiness we are to enjoy by those your majesties royal Purposes, so we hold it agreeable with the Duty of us, your loyal Subiects and faithful Servants, whom you have advanced to the honour to serve you as Councellors to You in this your Kingdom, humbly to represent to your majesty, upon this occasion, the present state of your Affairs here, and the Condition wherein this Kingdom stands, which we have done by our Letters now sent to Master Secretary Nicholas, to be made known to your majesty, that so your majesty understanding them, may on that side provide for supplying our Defects here, and rendering Safety to your own royal Person, against these bloody Rebels, as your majesty, in your excellent Judgement, shall think fit, whereby You may( to the comfort of your good Subiects, and terror of your Enemies) appear in this Kingdom in that majesty which is suitable to the greatness and Wisdom of so mighty a King as God hath appointed You, whom we pray God to bless and prosper with length of dayes, and a happy and blessed Government over this, and all other your Kingdoms and Dominions, to the Glory of God, the Honour of your majesty, and the Joy and Comfort of all your Subiects, And amongst them of us  
From Your majesties Castle of Dublin, 23. April. 1642. Your majesties most loyal and most faithful Subiects and Servants, Subscribed by Sir William Parsons, Sir John Borlase, Lords Justices of Ireland. earl of Ormond and Ossory, earl of Rostomon, Lord Lambarte, Lord Ro. Digby, Sir Adam Loftus, Sir Thomas Rotherham, Sir Ia. Ware, Sir I. Temple, Sir Francis Willoughby, Sir Robert Meredeth, Sir G. Wentworth.   

¶ Imprinted at York by Robert Barker, Printer the Kings most Excellent majesty: And by the assigns of John Bill. 1642.