The humble PROPOSITIONS Of the Agents for the Protestants in Ireland( residing at OXFORD,) presented to his Majesty the 18 of april 1644.  
In pursuance of the PETITION Of the Protestant Subjects in Ireland. Humbly Craveing of his Majesty that for the satisfaction of Iustice, and his own Honour, Exemplary punishment may be inflicted upon the Irish Rebells that have had a hand in shedding so much Innocent blood. And that His majesty will not grant a pardon to those bloody Rebells, for the Murders and Cruelties committed by them since the breakeing forth of this odious REBELLION.  
LONDON, Printed by I.N. for Henry Twyford at the three Daggers in Fleet-street, 1644.   

The humble Propositions of your Majesties present Agents in Ireland, in pursuance of the Humble Petition of your Majesties Protestant Subjects, as well Commanders of Your Majesties army there, as others, presented to Your majesty the 18. day of april 1644. and Answered by Your Majesty the 25. of the same.  
1. WEE humbly desire the establishment of the true Protestant Religion in Ireland, according to the laws and Statutes in the said kingdom now in force.  
2. That the Popish titular Archbishops, Bishops, jesuits, friars, and Priests and all others of the Roman Clergy bee banished out of Ireland, because they have ever been the stirrers of all Rebellions, and while they continue there, there can be no hope of safety for your Majesties Protestant Subjects; And that all the laws and Statutes established in that kingdom against Popery and popish Recusants may continue in force, and be put in due execution.  
3. That restitution may bee made of all our Churches and Church Rights and Revenues, and all our Churches and chapels re-edified, and put in as good estate as they were at the breaking out of the Rebellion, and as they ought to be, at the charge of the confederate Roman catholics( as they call themselves) who have been the occasion of the destruction of the said Churches, and possessed themselves of the Profits and Revenues thereof.  
4. That the Parliament now sitting in Ireland, may bee continued there for the better settlement of the kingdom, and that all persons duly indicted in the said kingdom, of treason, felony, or other heinous crimes, may be duly and legally proceeded against Outlawed, tried and adjudged according to law, and that all persons lawfully convicted and attainted, or so to be convicted or attainted for the same, may receive due punishment accordingly.  
5. That no man may take upon him, or execute the office of Mayor or Magistrate in any Corporation, or the Office of a sheriff, or Justice of Peace, in any City or County in the said kingdom, until he hath first taken the oaths of supremacy and Allegiance.  
6. That all popish Lawyers who refuse to take the Oaths of supremacy and Allegiance, may bee suppressed and restrained from practise in that kingdom, he rather because the Lawyers in England do not here practise until they take the Oath of supremacy: And it hath been found by woeful experience, that the advice of the popish Lawyers to the people of Ireland hath been a great cause of their continued disobedience.  
7. That there may bee a present absolute suppression and dissolution of all the assumed Arbitrary and tyrannicall power, which the said Confederates exercise over your Majesties Subjects, both in causes ecclesiastical and temporal.  
8. That all arms and Ammunition of the said Confederates, be speedily brought into your Majesties Stoares.  
9. That your Majesties Protestant Subjects ruined and destroyed by the said Confederates, may be repaired for their great losses, out of the estates of the said Confederates, not formerly by any Acts of this present Parliament in England otherwise disposed of, whereby they may be the better enabled to reinhabite and defend the said kingdom of Ireland.  
10, That the Confederates may rebuild the several Plantations, Houses and Castles destroyed in Ireland, in as good estate as they were at the breaking out of this Rebellion, which your Majesties Protestant Subjects have been bound by their several Patents to build and maintain for your Majesties service.  
11. That the great arrears of Rents due to your majesty out of the estates of your Majesties Protestant Subjects, at and since michaelmas 1641. may bee paid unto your Majesty by such of the said Confederates, who have either received the said Rents to the uses of the said Confederates, or destroyed the same by disabling your Majesties Protestant Subjects to pay the same, and have also destroyed all, or the most part of all other rents and means of support belonging to Your said Protestant Subjects, may be discharged of all such arrears of rents to your majesty.  
12. That the said Confederates may give satisfaction to the Army for the great arrearages due unto them since the Rebellion, and that such Commanders as have raised forces at their own charges, and laid forth great sums of ready money out of their own purses, and engaged themselves for money and provisions, to keep themselves, their holds and souldiers under their command in the due and necessary defence of your Majesties Rights and laws may be in due sort satisfied to the encouragement of others in like times and cases which may happen.  
13. That touching such parts of the said Confederates estates as being forfeited for their Treasons, and come, or shall come into your Majesties hands and possession by that title Your majesty after due satisfaction made to such as claim by former Acts of Parliament, would be pleased to take the same into your own hands and possession, and for the necessary increase of your Majesties Revenue, and better security of your said kingdom of Ireland and Protestant Subjects living under your gracious government there, to Plant the same with british and Protestants upon reasonoble and Honourable terms.  
14. That one good walled town may bee built and kept repaired in every County of the said kingdom of Ireland, and endowed and furnished with necessary and sufficient means of legal and just government and defence, for the better security of your Majesties laws and Rights, more especially the Protestant Religion, in times of danger; In any of which towns no Papist may be permitted to dwell or inhabit.  

☞  15. That for the better satisfaction of Justice, and your Majesties Honour, and for the further security of the said kingdom, and your Majesties Protestant subjects there, exemplary punishment according to Law, may be inflicted upon such as have there traitorously levied war, and taken up arms against your Majesties Protestant Subjects and laws, and therein against your majesty, and especially upon such as have had their hands in the shedding of innocent blood, or had to do with the first Plot or Conspiracy, or since that time have done any notorious murder, or overt Acts of Treason.  
16. That all your Majesties towns, Forts, and places of strength destroyed by the said Confederates since the said Rebellion, may be by them, and at their charges reedefied and delivered up into your Majesties hands, to be duly put into the government( under your majesty and your laws) of good Protestants, And that all Strengths and Fortifications made and set up by the said Confederates since the said Rebellion, may be slighted and thrown down, or else delivered up and disposed of for Protestant government, and security as aforesaid.  
17. That according to the Presidents of former times in cases of general Rebellion in Ireland the Attainders which have been duly had by Outlawry for Treason done in this Rebellion, may be established and confirmed by Act of Parliament to be in due form of Law transmitted and passed in Ireland; And that such traitors as for want of Protestant and indifferent Jurors, to indict them in the proper Counties, are not yet indicted nor convicted or attainted by Outlawry or otherwise, may upon due proof of their offences, be by like Act of Parliament convicted and attainted, and all such offenders to forfeit their estates as to Law appertaineth; and your Majesty to be adiudged and put in possession without any Office or inquisition to be had.  
18 That your Majesties Protestant Subjects may be restored to the quick possession of all their Castles, Houses, manors, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments and Leases, and to the quick possession of the Rents therof, as they had the same before and at the time of the breaking forth of this Rebellion, and from whence, without due process and Judgement of Law, they have since then been put out or kept out, and may be answered of and for all the mean profits of the same in the interim; and for all the time until they shall be so restored.  
19 That your Majesties Protestant Subjects may also be restored to all their moneys, plate, Jewels, Household stuff, goods, and chattels whatsoever, which without due process or Judgement in Law, have by the said Confederates been taken or detained from them since the contriving of the said Rebellion, which may be gained in kind or the full value thereof, if the same may not be had in kind, the like restitution to be made for all such things which during the said time have been delivered to any person or persons of the said Confederates in trust to be kept and preserved, but are by colour thereof still with holden.  
20 That the establishment& maintenance of a competent Protestant Army, and sufficient Protestant souldiers& forces for the time to come in Ireland, be speedily taken into your Majesties prudent, just and gracious consideration, and such course laid down and continued therein, according to the rules of good government: that your Majesties Rights and Laws, and the Protestant Religion and Peace of that kingdom be no more endangered by the like Rebellions in time to come.  
21 That whereas it appeareth in print that the said confederates amongst other things aim at the repealing of poinings Law, thereby to open an easy and ready way for the passing of Acts of Parliament in Ireland, without having them first well considered in England, which may produce many dangerous consequents both to that kingdom, and to your Majesties other Dominions; your Majesty would be pleased to resent and reject all propositions tending to introduce so great a diminution of your royal and necessary power for the confirmation of your royal estate and protection of your good Protestant Subjects both there and elsewhere.  
22 That your Majesty out of your grace and favour to your Protestant Subjects of Ireland, will be pleased to consider effectually of assuring them, 
☞  that you will not give order for, or allow of transmitting into Ireland any Act of general oblivion, release or djscharge of Actions or suits whereby your Majesties said Protestant Subjects there may be barred or deprived of any of those legal remedies which by your Majesties laws and Statutes of that Kingdom, they may have against the said Confederates or any of them, or any of their party, for, or in respect of any wrongs done unto them, or any of their Ancestors or predecessors, in or concerning their Lives, Liberties, Persons, Goods, or Estates, since the contriving or breaking forth of the said Rebellion.  
23 That some fit course may be considered of to prevent the filling or overlaying of the Commons House of Parliament in Ireland, with Popish Recusants being ill affencted Members, and that Provision may be duly made that none shall Vote or sit therein, but such as shall first take the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.  
24 That the proofs and manifestations of the truth of the several matters contained in the Petition of your Majesties Protestant Subjects of Ireland, lately presented to your Majesty, may be duly examined and discussed, and in that respect the final conclusion of things respited for a convenient time, their Agents being ready to attend with their proofs in that behalf as your majesty shall appoint.  
Published according to Order.  
FINIS.