BY THE general assembly OF THE CONFEDERATE CATHOLIQVES OF IRELAND.  
THe ensuing Declaration of the Lord Nuncio,& his party of the clergy, We think fit to be printed and published, to the end that all men may see and abhor the malice& irregularity of those that subscribed that Instrument, thereby dissuading the people, ●nder the specious pretence of Conscience from their allegiance to his majesty, and due obedience to the Civill Magistrat, and inviting them to breach of public Faith, Rapines, murder,& ●lood-shed; whereof there hath been a sad example already in the town of galway, where( by ●he countenance of that bloody instrument soon after the publishing thereof) the magistrates ●ouse was violently assaulted, and the Kings sword, the keys of the Towne-gates, and other en●●gnes of Office forcibly taken thereout, by a rout of people led by one of the Subscribers of ●he Instrument, and brought into the Church, which occasioned such a tumult, as some blood as drawn, one man killed, and many lives were endangered, till for the appeasing thereof; the ●ord Nuncio seeing that party overpowr'd by a number of others loyal and well affencted to ●he Government, went to the Church, and thereout in person brought, and restored the said ●word, keys, and ensigns to the Mayor in his house; And least it may work the like, or worse ●ffects in any other place, or with any other persons. It is this day unanimously declared by ●his Assembly, that the said Declaration or Instrument is in itself wicked, malicious and ●raiterous, repugnant to all laws, Human and Divine, and tending to the utter subversion of ●he Government of the Church, and Commonwealth of this kingdom; the Subscribers endeavouring to engage the Confederat catholics, in an irreconcilable rent and division, which will more evidently appear by other Acts and Declarations of this Assembly, ready to be published; which Instrument followeth.  
Richard black, Prol. Gen. Conv.   

In the Name of God, Amen.  
WHere● about our late decision touching the Proclamation of the Cessation, it was objected by some, that though for the loss of some temporal goods, they might not securely in Conscience, proclaim the said Cessation: yet the doubt they have made was, of the lo●●e of mens lives, which may ensue the opposing of it, Wee do hereby declare, that it is a dead●y sin against the Law of God, and his Church, and a perjury against the Oath of Association, to have or to suffer the said Cessation to be proclaimed; and therefore they are obliged to loos● both lives, goods, liberties, and all that is deere to them in the world, rather then to obey or pro●laime it; This was the sense likewise of those words in our former decree. It is in no wise lawful, &c. And truly we knew full well, that they could not loose their goods in this quarrel, without the loss of some lives, or many lives perhaps.  
witness our hands, the thirtieth day of August, 1648. Signed, 

Joannes Baptiste Archiepiscopus  
Firmanus nuntius Apostolicus.  
joannes Rapotensis.  
Fr. Boëtius Rossensis.  
Walterus Clonfertensis.  
Robertus Corcagiensis& Cloan.  
Fr. Terentius I●●olacensis.  
Fr. Athon. Episcopus Clonmacnois.  
Fr. Dionisus o Driscoll. Provincialis Augustinorum.  
Patricius Lynch Praepositus.  
Fr. Gregorius French.  
Fr. Bernarlus Connius.  
Stephanus Lynch Doctor.  
Nicholaus Condulmanus.  
james Fallan V. A. A.  
Iacobus abbess de congee.  
Gregorius joice.  
Michael Lynch.     

Printed at Kilkenny, by command of the general Assembly, in the year of our Lord God, 1648. phil. Kearney clear. Gen. Conv.