we judging it requisite for the better government of his majesties army, and the preservation of the peace of this kingdom, that all officers and souldiers under their command, should be, and continue in their respective garrisons ... by the lord lieutenant general and general governour of ireland, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) we judging it requisite for the better government of his majesties army, and the preservation of the peace of this kingdom, that all officers and souldiers under their command, should be, and continue in their respective garrisons ... by the lord lieutenant general and general governour of ireland, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by benjamin tooke ... and are to be sold by mary crook ..., dublin : mdc.lxxviii [ ] title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at his majesties castle of dublin in th. day of october, . [signed] w: ellis." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant general and general governour of ireland . ormonde : vve judging it requisite for the better government of his majesties army , and the preservation of the peace of this kingdom , that all officers and souldiers under their command , should be , and continue in their respective garrisons , that they may be in readiness on all occasions to execute such directions as we shall from time to time think fit to give , for the carrying on of his majesties service ; do hereby will and require all and singular the officers of his majesties army , ( excepting such of them as are of his majesties privy council ) and souldiers under their commands as are now absent from their quarters . whether it be by licence from vs or otherwise , not being out of this his majesties kingdome , to repair within fourteen days after publication hereof , to their said respective garrisons ; and all officers and private souldiers now in their quarters , are to remain there in like manner , and not to absent themselves on any pretence whatever , without particular and express licence from vs to be obtained after the date hereof ; and the said officers are to keep their respective troops and companies under their command intirely together , and to take care that good guards be constantly kept , as they will answer the contrary at their peril . given at his majesties castle of dublin the th . day of october , . w : ellis . dublin , printed by benjamin tooke , printer to the king 's most excellent majestie ; and are to be sold by mary crook at his majesties printing-house in skinner-row mdc.lxxviii . whereas in the present treaty concerning the setling and establishing of a firme & perfect peace within this kingdome ... ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (wing i ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas in the present treaty concerning the setling and establishing of a firme & perfect peace within this kingdome ... ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . sheet ([ ] p.). s.n., [dublin : / ] title information from first lines of text. "dated the . day of january, . ormonde." other title information from first lines of text. imprint suggested by wing. imperfect: tightly bound with loss of text. reproduction of original in bodleian library. eng ireland -- history -- - . a r (wing i ). civilwar no whereas in the present treaty concerning the setling and establishing of a firme & perfect peace within this kingdome ... ireland. lord lieutenant f the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the f category of texts with or more defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - pip willcox sampled and proofread - spi global rekeyed and resubmitted - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion whereas in the present treaty concerning the setling and establishing of a firme & perfect peace within this kingdome , ( which treaty stands already adjourned to the . day of this ianuary ) severall matters of ●eight and consequence have been treated and deba●●d of , which doe necessarily require to be yet further ●●epared for the satisfaction of all parties , and conse●●tly and adiournment to a further time , beyond the 〈…〉 d tenth day of this january , is become necessary . we the lord lieutenant his majesties cōmissioner 〈◊〉 & in the behalf of his maiestie on the one part , and 〈…〉 donogh lord visc . muskery , alexander mac donell ●icholas plunket esquires . sir robert talbot baronet , ●●rmot ô bryen , patricke darcy , geffrey brown , and 〈◊〉 dillon esquires . for and in the behalf of his ma●●●●ies roman catholique subjects of the other part . 〈◊〉 ●●e thought fit to adjourn , and doe hereby adjourne 〈…〉 treaty of peace till the tenth day of february next , for better preparation of sundry matters concerning said treaty , and conducing to a peace . it is agreed 〈…〉 the said donough lord visc . muskery , alexander mac ●●●ell , nicholas plunket , sir robert talbot , dermot ô ●●●en , patrick darcy , geffrey brown , and john dillon , 〈◊〉 ●ny one or more of them may repaire to dublin , as 〈…〉 and remaine there as long in the meane time as 〈◊〉 shall thinke fit , or continue intercourse to that 〈…〉 ose by letters or messages as they shall finde ne●●●●●● . dated the . day of january , . ormonde . whereas the sins of prophane swearing and cursing are offenses forbidden by the word of god, and do highly provoke his wrath, not onely against the persons that are guilty thereof but also against the place where such crimes are permitted to pass unpunished ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas the sins of prophane swearing and cursing are offenses forbidden by the word of god, and do highly provoke his wrath, not onely against the persons that are guilty thereof but also against the place where such crimes are permitted to pass unpunished ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by john crooke ... and are to be sold by samuel dancer ..., dublin : [ ] title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at the council chamber in dublin the th day of february, " [ ] reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng blasphemy -- ireland. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde , whereas the sins of prophane swearing and cursing are offenses forbidden by the word of god , and do highly provoke his wrath , not onely against the persons that are guilty thereof , but also against the place where such crimes are permitted to pass unpunished ; and although there be a good provision made for punishing the said crimes , by an act of parliament made in this kingdom , in the tenth year of the reign of his late majesty king charles the first , entituled , an act to prevent , and reform prohane swearing and cursing ; which if it were duely put in execution would quickly suppress , and restrain the liberty that wicked persons take to themselves to transgress the said law , as now they do without fear of punishment ; & for that the justices of the peace , and such others as are intrusted with the punishment of these offenses , do in a manner totally neglect their duty herein , whereby the said offenses do daily increase to the offense of almightly god , and scandal of the government , and doth endanger the drawing down the wrath of god on this people , if speedy course be not taken for the punishing of so great and crying offenses : we therefore the lord lieutenant and council do by this our proclamation require and command all justices of the peace , mayors , bayliffs , head-officers , and all and every other person and persons intrusted by the said act , to see the same put in execution with all diligence and impartiality . and to the end the same may be the more duely effected , we the lord lieutenant will nominate such persons , as we shall think fit in every county of this kingdom to inform against , apprehend , and bring before the said justi●●s of peace , head-officers , and other persons by the said act authorized to see the same put in execution , the persons of all , and every such person and persons who shall offend contrary to the said act , and assign them such allowances out of the forfeitures as shall be fit . and whereas by the said act it is provided that the same shall be read in every parish church by the minister thereof upon the sunday after the evening prayer twice every year , which hath been of late neglected ; we do therefore by this proclamation require and command the ministers of all and every the respective parishes in this kingdom , that they cause the said act to be publicquely read as by the statute is required , on the first sunday after the publication hereof , and after publicquely to read the same yearly in such manner as by the said act is prescribed . given at the council chamber in dublin the th day of february , . ja. armachanus . mich. dublin . canc. donegall . arran . anglesey . kingston . jo. bysse . rob. byron . rob. forth . tho. pigott . god save the king . dvblin : printed by john crooke , printer to the kings most excellent majestie , and are to be sold by samuel dancer in castlestreet . . a letter from his grace james, duke of ormond, lord lieutenant of ireland in answer to the right honourable arthur, earl of anglesey, lord privy-seal, his observations and reflections upon the earl of castlehaven's memoires concerning the rebellion of ireland : printed from the original, with an answer to it by the right honourable the earl of anglesey. ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) a letter from his grace james, duke of ormond, lord lieutenant of ireland in answer to the right honourable arthur, earl of anglesey, lord privy-seal, his observations and reflections upon the earl of castlehaven's memoires concerning the rebellion of ireland : printed from the original, with an answer to it by the right honourable the earl of anglesey. ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . anglesey, arthur annesley, earl of, - . letter from the right honourable arthur, earl of anglesey, lord privy-seal, in answer to his grace the duke of ormond's letter of november the th, . , p. printed for n.p., london : mdclxxxii [ ] "a letter from the right honourable arthur earl of anglesey, lord privy-seal, in answer to his grace the duke of ormond's letter of november the th ..." has special t.p. and separate paging, and has been filmed and cataloged separately, as wing a , at reel : . reproduction of original in the university of illinois (urbana-champaign campus). library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng anglesey, arthur annesley, -- earl of, - . -- letter from a person of honour in the countrey written to the earl of castlehaven, being observations and reflections upon his lordship's memoires. castlehaven, james touchet, -- earl of, ?- . -- memoirs of james, lord audley, earl of castlehaven. ireland -- history -- - -- sources. ireland -- history -- rebellion of -- sources. ireland -- history -- - -- sources. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter from his grace james duke of ormond , lord lieutenant of ireland , in answer to the right honourable arthur earl of anglesey lord privy-seal , his observations and reflections upon the earl of castlehaven's memoires concerning the rebellion of ireland . printed from the original , with an answer to it , by the right honourable the earl of anglesey . london , printed for n. p. mdclxxxii . a letter from his grace james duke of ormond , &c. my lord , it is now , i think , more than a year since i first saw a little book written by way of letter , called , observations and reflections on my lord of castle-haven 's memoires : wherein , though there are some things that might lead the reader to believe that your lordship was the author yet there were many more i thought impossible should come from you : for it affirms many matters of fact positively , which are easily and authentically to be disproved : and from those matters of fact , grosly mistaken , it deduces consequences , raises inferences , and scatters glances injurious to the memory of the dead , and the honours of some living : among those that by the blessing of god are yet living , i find my self worst treated ; twenty years after the kings restauration , and forty after the beginning of the irish rebellion , as if it had been all that while reserved for me , and for such times as these we are fallen into , when calumny , ( though the matter of it be never so groundless and improbable , ) meets with credulity ; and when liberty is taken to asperse men , and represent them to the world under the monstrous and odious figures of papists , or popishly affected : not because they are so thought by those that employ the representers , but , because they are known to be too good protestants , and too loyal subjects , to joyn in the destruction of the crown and church : besides , the treatise came forth , and must have been written , when i had but newly received repeated assurances of the continuance of your friendship to me , wherein , as in one of your letters , you are pleased to say , you had never made a false step ; for these reasons i was not willing to believe that book to be your lordships composing , and hoped some of the suborned libellers of the age had endeavoured to imitate your lordship , and not you them ; but i was in a while after , first by my son arran , and afterwards by the bearer , sir robert reading , assured your lordship had owned to them that the piece was yours , but profest the publication to be without your order , and that you did not intend to do , or think that you had done me any injury or prejudice : if your lordship really thought so , the publication might have been owned as well as what was published : but then let the world judge , whether pen , ink , and paper are not dangerous tools in your hands ? when i was thus assured your lordship was the author , it cost me some thoughts how to vindicate truth , my master the late king , my self , my actions and family , all reflected on , and traduced by that pamphlet ; i found my self ingaged in the service of our present king , and that in a time of difficulty and danger , and in such times for the most part it has been my lot to be employed in publick affairs ; and though i had not been so taken up , yet i well knew that writing upon such occasions is no more my talent , than it is my delight : and to say truth , my indisposition to the exercise might help to perswade me , that the book , though honoured with your lordships name , would , after it had performed its office in coffee-houses , and served your lordships design in that conjuncture , expire ; as writings of that nature and force usually do : and herein i rested , without troubling my self , or any body else , with animadversions upon your lordships mistakes , which are so many , and so obvious , that i wonder how you could fall into them . i will add to this , that i have been in expectation that by this time your compleat history would have come forth , wherein , if i may judge by the pattern , i have just cause to suspect that neither the subject or my self will be more justly dealt with , than in that occasional essay , and i would have been glad to have seen all my work before me , in case i should think fit to make a work of it . the delay of your publishing that history , and the consideration of your lordships age and mine , are the occasions of this letter , whereby i inform you , that as no man now alive is better able than i am to give an account of the principal transactions during the rebellion in ireland ; so no man is possessed of more authentick commissions , instruments , and papers ; all which , or transcripts of them , you might have commanded , before you set forth your reflections : but possibly to have stayed for them , might have lost you a seasonable opportunity of publishing your abhorrence of the irish rebellion , and your zeal against popery : what your lordship might then have had , you may yet have , because i had rather help to prevent than detect errours , but then i must first know to what particular part of your history you desire information , and how you deliver those parts to the world and to posterity . if after this offer your lordship shall proceed to the conclusion and publication of your history , and not accept of it , i must before-hand appeal from you , as from an incompetent judge of my actions , and a partially engaged and an unfaithful historian . my lord , your lordships most humble servant , ormond . dublin , . nov. . a letter from the right honourable arthur earl of anglesey lord privy-seal , in answer to his grace the duke of ormond's letter of november the th . . about his lordships observations and reflections upon the earl of castle-haven's memoires , concerning the rebellion of ireland . london , printed for n. p. . a letter from the right honourable arthur earl of anglesey , &c. my lord , your graces of the th of november , i received towards the end of that month , and was not a little surprized , after being threatned above a year with your graces answer to the observations and restections on my lord castle-haven 's memoires , which your grace takes notice you had seen above a year before ; to find them only most satyrically burlesqued , and my intentions in the writing of them most unnaturally misinterpreted and misjudged , without giving instance of any one particular , which could so much transport your grace , or interest you to judge of a letter of mine to another , with so invective heat and mistake . your graces letter therefore consisting only of generals , i can no otherwise adapt my answer , ( after a most serious revision of my book upon this occasion ) but by giving the reverse of your graces strain'd and erronious affirmatives by my plain and true negatives , till your grace shall administer occasion , by communicating the particular animadversions your grace hath been ( as i hear ) so long about . the reasons leading your grace to believe it impossible i could be the author of that discourse , i cannot admit , though they import a fair opinion of me ; and that in the beginning of your letter your grace had better thoughts than when your hand was in and heated . i do therefore absolutely deny that i affirm any matters of fact positively in that book , which are easily or authentically ( or at all ) to be disproved . or that from those matters of fact , grosly mistaken , it deduces consequences , raises inferences , and scatters glances injurious to the memory of the dead , and the honour of some living ; among which your grace finds your self worst treated . this being so , your graces unjust inferences from the time of its writing , and the misjudging the design of the author , give no countenance or occasion to your graces rhetorical character of the times , though i joyn in all , but the opinion your grace seems to have taken up that there is a plot , ( other than that of the papists ) to destroy the crown and church ; a discovery worthy the making , if your grace knows , and believes what you write ; but how i am concerned to have it mentioned to me , i know not , your grace can best tell what you intend to insinuate thereby . these are your graces reasons why you were not willing to believe that book to be of my composing , yet you cannot leave me without a sting , in your expressing the hopes which succeeded them , viz. that some of the suborned libellers of the age had endeavoured to imitate me , and not i them . whether i should imitate suborned libellers , or they me , would be all one for my reputation ; because i were grosly criminal in the first , and must have been so before in your graces opinion , or they could not imitate me in the second : your grace will want instances in both , except this of your own making ; and therefore there must be some other reason why your grace did not believe ( if really you did not ) that discourse to be of my composure . but this admitted for truth ( as it is undoubtedly ) your grace in the next place calls the world to judge whether pen , ink , and paper , are not dangerous tools in my hands . i remember the times , when they were serviceable to the kings restoration , and constant service of the crown , or craved in aid by your grace , that you did not account them so ; and it is much to my safety that they are not so in your graces hands , though i find them as sharp there as in any mans alive . your grace being at length assured i was the author , your next care was to spend some thoughts to vindicate truth , the late king , your self , your actions , and family , all reflected upon , and traduced ( as your grace is pleased to fancy ) by that pamphlet . but your grace had no cause to trouble your thoughts with such vindications , unless you could shew where in that book they are reflected upon and traduced , no such thing occurring to me ( upon the strictest revisal ) nor ever shall be objected to me with justice and truth . after your grace hath brought it to the coffee-houses , ( where i believe it never was till your grace prefered it to that office ) and where you have doomed it to expire , as writings of that nature and force use ( you say ) to do ( for which i shall not be at all concerned ) you rested without troubling your self or any body else with animadversions upon my mistakes , which your grace is pleased to say are so many and so obvious ( though you name none , nor do they occur to others ) that you wonder how i could fall into them . if your grace believe your self in this , you seem to have forgot the long time you spent in considering and animadverting upon that despicable pamphlet , with your labours whereon i was threatned by some of your graces relations for many months ; and your grace hath redeemed the delay , by the virulent general reflections you have now sent me , which yet i doubt not will evaporate or shrink to nothing , when your grace shall seek for instances to back them , whereof if you can find any , i claim in justice they may be sent me . your grace adds , that you have been in expectation that by this time my compleat history would have come forth ; wherein ( if you may judge by the pattern ) your grace saith , you have just cause to suspect , that neither the subject nor your self will be more justly dealt with than in that occasional essay ; and therefore offer me all the helps of authentick commissions , transactions and papers your grace is possessed of , whereof you inform me none hath more . this is an anticipating jealousie , which no man living can have ground for ; and when my history shall be compleated ( which is now delayed for those assistances your grace is so well able , and so freely offers to afford me ) though my weakness may be exposed , my integrity and impartiality shall appear , and your unjust suspicion will , i doubt not , cease , if truth may be welcome to you , and not accounted one of the dangerous instruments in my hand ; by which having incurred your anger and enmity in the first essay , i have slender hopes to be more acceptable in the second ; though i resolve to hold to the first approved law of a good and faithful historian , which is , that he should not dare to say any thing that is false ; and that he dare not but say any thing that is true , that there be not so much as suspicion of favour or hatred in his writing . and this might give a supersedeas to your graces unseasonable appeal , before a gravamen ; though i never intended , by relating the truth of things past , to become a judge of your graces or any other mans actions , but barely res gestas narrare , for the information , correction , and instruction of this age and posterity . your grace desiring to know to what particular parts of my history i would have information , i shall at present only mention these . the intrigues of the cessation , and commissions for them and the two peaces of . and . forced upon the king by the rebellious irish . the grounds and transactions about depriving sir william parsons from being one of the lords justices , and then dismissing him , sir adam loftus vice-treasurer , sir john temple master of the rolls , sir robert meredith chancellor of the exchequer , &c. from the council-table . the mystery of glamorgan's peace , and his punishment . the several ungrateful expulsions of your grace by the confederate roman catholicks . the passages concerning the parliaments present of a jewel to your grace . the battles , reliefs , seiges , and chief encounters in your graces time . the proceedings between your grace and the roman catholick assembly of the clergy in . with the commission for their sitting . the plot for surprizing the castle of dublin , in which warren and others were , with the examinations , and what offenders were executed , &c. and any thing else your grace judgeth of import to have conveyed to posterity . other parts of the history shall be proposed to your grace in my progress , and before i put my last hand to it , with a resolution , that though i may have been sometimes mistaken in judgment : yet as i never did promote the report of a matter of fact which i knew to be false , so i never would . which i am induced the rather to mention , because your grace saith , you had rather help to prevent , than to detect errors . my lord , your graces most humble servant anglesey . a true account of the whole proceedings betwixt his grace james duke of ormond, and the right honor. arthur, earl of anglesey, late lord privy-seal, before the king and council and the said earls letter of the second of august to his majesty on that occasion : with a letter of the now lord bishop of winchester's to the said earl, of the means to keep out popery, and the only effectual expedient to hinder the growth thereof, and to secure both the church of england, and the presbiterian party. ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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lord privy-seal , before the king and council , and the said earls letter of the second of august to his majesty on that occasion . with a letter of the now lord bishop of winchester 's to the said earl , of the means to keep out popery , and the only effectual expedient to hinder the growth thereof , and to secure both the church of england and the presbiterian party . london , printed for thomas fox at the angel and star in westminster-hall . . to the reader . that there hath been a controversie between the duke of ormond and the earl of anglsey ( the immediate consequence of which hath been the removal of the earl from a place of great honor and trust under his majesty , for which he was in every respect extraordinarily well qualified perhaps no man questions . and many may be likely to say , that the more fatal such quarrels amongst great personages are to either side , the more instructive they commonly prove to the rest of mankind , who are thereby let into a prospect of those things which were thought too sacred for the view of the profane vulgar . as every inferior soldier may learn skill & address , by seeing two generals engage in the sight of their armies , so certainly this paper battel between these great ones may be of use to all sorts of men that have the lest grain of that commendable ambition , to propound to themselves the greatest examples . wherefore i conceive no man , of which side soever fortune or choice hath placed him , can blame me for procuring and exposing to publick view authentick transcripts of what hath passed in this affair . the bare curiosity to know how such men write , were almost enough to tempt any one to peruse these papers , but then when they relate to the history of unmovable affairs , of which eitherof the parties may say , quorum pars magna fui . — and when they were so great men in themselves , & their parts in the history so great that they may be compared to caesar writing the commentaries of his own enterprises ; i should think him very dull that need be courted to be a reader but these papers carry in them what i hope vvill further recommend and endear them to the greater part of this nation ; most of them being in defence of the poor english protestants in ireland , to some of vvhich the earl of anglesey hath most generously asserted the glory of their martyrdom , and to others , the unblemished honor of preventing the utter ruin & extirpation of the rest . the earl of castlehaven , who had been too too fortunate an head to the romancatholick rebels in ireland , had not only in print justified his own engagement with that bloody party , butwould make that chiefly a defensive war , w ch was certainly the effect of an universal conspiracy amongst the papists there . nor is it to be doubted but there were encouragers in england . this engaged the earl of anglesey , amidst his many avocations , to ward off the second blow against them who had suffered almost beyond all example before : and his interposition extracted from the earl of castlehaven a confession , that he himself acted as a rebel , and that all the water in the sea cannot wash that rebellion off that nation , which was begun most bloodily on the english in that kingdom in a time of a setled peace , without the least occasion given . i must confess there are several passages in the letter to the earl of castlehaven , wherein the duke of ormond seems concerned to vindicate his own actions . how far the charge or the defence is made good , it is not for me to judge : nor shall i in the least enter into the merits of it . i am sure the earl of anglesey made a most noble declaration , fit to be written in letters of gold ; truth , says he , being the greatest and best friend , i had rather one or several persons and families should lie under the consequence of its impartiality , than that the english nation and protestant religion should suffer by a timorous unworthy concealing or with-holding any part of it . this being the said earlsavowed principle , methinks he ought to be importunedby a publick address , that what he hath meditated and hath been preparing from records and authentick unquestionable relations and transactions of that bloody tragedy and matchless defection from the crown and very nation of english men , may soon see the light . to the king' 's most excellent majesty . the duke of ormond , your majesties lieutenant of ireland , and steward of your majesties houshold , most humbly represents : that the earl of anglesey lord privy-seal , in the year . caused a book to be printed ( whereof he hath acknowledged himself to be the author ) intituled a letter from a person of honour in the country , written to the earl of castlehaven , being observations and reflections upon his lordships memoirs concerning the wars of ireland . that in the said book there are divers passages and expressions which are not only untrue , but reflecting in a high degree upon his late majesties government , and particularly in relation to the rebellion and war in ireland , and to the several cessations and peaces made by his , and your majesties authority and command . that in the said book the lord privy-seal hath malitiously endeavour'd to calumniate and asperse the duke of ormond , by calling in question his faithfulness and loyalty to his late majesty , the sincerity of his profession in point of religion , and insinuating that the cessations and peaces ( destructive as he says to the english and protestants ) were advised and procured by him the said duke , out of his affection to the irish popish rebells , because he was allyed to many of them in blood and by marriages . that the lord privy-seal in the course of above twenty years free and friendly acquaintance and correspondence with the duke of ormond , never thought fit to give him any intimation of his lordships intention to write a history of the wars of ireland , and other transactions there , wherein both the duke and his lordship ( tho' of opposite parties ) had a great part , but chose rather to seek for information from the earl of castlehaven , and to publish his observations on the earl of castlehaven ' s memoirs , in a conjuncture when his reflections in his book and his letter of the seventh of december , . to the duke of ormond , might not only do most mischief to him , but to the government . the duke of ormond humbly conceives that at least , while the lord privy-seal and he have the honor to be of your majesties privy council , and in the stations they are , it will not be fit for him to publish such an answer to the lord privy-seal's book and letter , as might otherwise be necessary in vindication of truth , his late majesties justice and honor , and his own integrity . it is therefore most humbly proposed , that your majesty would be pleased to appoint a committee of your privy-council to look over the lord privy-seal's book , and to call his lordship and the duke of ormond before them , and if upon report from them , it shall appear to your majesty that the earl of anglesey has fallen into the mistakes and errors herein laid to his charge , that then your majesty would be pleased to consider of the best and most authentick means how reparation may be made to all that are injured by the earl of anglesey's book and letter , and to prevent the credit his great place , supposed knowledge ( especially in the affairs of ireland ) and his pretended candor and impartiality may give to his writings , in these and future times . ormond . a true copy . john nicholas . at the court at hampton-court , june , . . by the king' 's most excellent majesty , and the lords of his majesties most honorable privy-council . the annexed representation of his grace the duke of ormond , lord lieutenant of ireland , &c. being this day presented and read to his majesty in council . his majesty taking the contents thereof into his royal consideration as a matter of very great importance , was pleased to declare that he would hear the matter thereof in council . and did order that a copy of the said representation be delivered to the earl of anglesey lord privy-seal , and that his lordship do attend his majesty in council on fryday next , at three of the clock in the afternoon at white-hall , when his majesty hath appointed to take that business into further consideration . john nicholas . the earl of anglesey lord privy-seal , being by the said order of his majesty in council , of june . appointed to be at council at white-hall , june . being not able to stand by reason of the gout , yet got out of his bed , and was carried thither ; where when the king came , he spake to his majesty ( as i am well inform'd ) to this effect . sir , i am in the first place to beg your majesties pardon for my obedience to your order for appearing here this day , being in no condition of health to have left my bed , and altogether unfit for the presence of the king. and indeed i expected that the duke of ormond would rather have complained and printed against the earl of castlehaven his memoirs ; which aspersed and scandalised your royal father's government , and represented the protestants of ireland as rebells , and the confederate irish papists as loyal subjects , then against me , who had vindicated his majesties government , and his protestant faithful subjects so effectually in my letter to the said earl , that his lordship in an epistle to the reader which he after added to his memoirs , confessed himself and the irish confederates the rebells : and that all the water in the sea would not wash that rebellion off that nation . this is the first quarrel i ever had with any man , and your majesty sees how it is brought upon me , and cannot but believe it very unwelcome to me from one who hath so many years professed friendship to me . but that which troubles me in it is , that it is pretended to be upon account of my failing in duty to his late majesty and your self , whereas if i can pretend to merit in any thing , it is for exemplary and considerable faithfulness and service to you both . sir , that i may not trouble you with much discourse , i have reduced the vindication of my innocence to writing , which i present for my answer to the duke of ormond ' s accusation , and to which i shall add no more but my desire , that tho' the duke of ormond hath thought fit to attaque me thus causelesly , all the contention hereafter between him and me may be who shall serve your majesty best , and cost you least . in the next place all the papers written and printed , that had passed between the duke and the lord privy-seal , were read as they lay in order , and both the lords discoursed and bandied the matter fully , which the king heard with great patience : the duke of ormond notwithstanding doing that right to the lord privy-seal , as to acknowledge that none had been more active and instrumental in his majesties happy restauration , or carried it on with more success in great dangers and difficulties , than his lordship . in conclusion the duke was ordered to charge the lord privy-seal by particulars in writing , that he might know what to answer , generals not being sufficient , and so that business was left at that time . now follows the lord privy-seal's answer to the duke of ormonds representation or complaint against him . to the king 's most excellent majesty . the earl of anglesey keeper of your majesties privy-seal , ( mistead by an ill president admitted ) most humbly represents . that having this eighteenth day of june , received in bed , where he had continued for above a month last past , very much afflicted with the gout , and deprived of the use of hands and leggs , and by reason of pains and sicknesses getting little rest , which he hath reason to believe was well known to the duke of ormond ; your majesties order in council of the seventeenth , with a copy of the representation of the said duke annexed , and command to attend your majesty in council on fryday next , at three of the clock in the afternoon at white-hall , which he resolves by gods blessing to do if he shall be in a capacity of health and strength to be carried thither , without peril of his life ; which he doth not believe that the duke himself thinks , after a year and halfs concerning himself in this controversie , is to be adventured to gratifie a hasty proposal , upon his changing his way of proceeding . in the mean time , that your majesty may not be under the least prepossession by what the duke hath represented with heat , and sharpnels against the said earl , he doth humbly offer to consideration , that though the duke appear before your majesty , as a representer , the said earl cannot but look upon him as a petitioner , the title by which all subjects that complain , address to your majesty , and for want of which he hath observed many suitors rejected with their requests . and therefore your majesty is desired to be informed in the first place by a deduction of all that hath passed between the duke and the earl in this affair , which is as followeth . the book complained of was written about two years ago by meer accident of the earl of castlehaven's sending his printed memoirs , to the earl then at blethington in oxfordshire , where having read the same , and conceiving the english , and protestants to be unjustly dealt with therein , and the irish foul cause professedly justified , though the most execrable rebellion that ever was in the world ; the earl could not digest the same , but upon a bare old memory without help of writings or notes , immediately put pen to paper and the eighth of july wrote a letter to the said earl of castlehaven , which he believes his lordship hath yet to shew , tho' when it appeared afterwards in print , about october , . one was sent to his lordship taking notice thereof , and asking him what he had done with the said letter , who then confessed he had lent it to a friend , but he would recover it again . the letter being thus printed , the duke of ormond had soon sight of it , for in his letter to the earl of anglesey of november the th . . he takes notice that he had seen it a year before , and writes his pleasure of it so satirically , that the said earl returned his answer of the th . of october following , which the said duke takes notice of in his said representation , though he never before acknowledged the receipt thereof , nor was pleased to make any reply to it , though it gave him sufficient occasion : thus ( when the said earl expected a reply ) things stood till the said complaint made to your majesty , which he humbly submits whether it be fit to be received or proceeded upon in council , after so open a litigation thereof in print , wherein the said duke had appealed to the people , and accused the earl with as much acrimony as it was possible for the duke 's sharp pen to do , it being as the said earl conceives , below the dignity of your majesty and the board , after the duke has proceeded so far in a private quarrel of his own making , without success , ( and that those the duke had appealed to seemed generally satisfied that the earl had fully vindicated himself from the aspersions laid upon him by the duke 's said letter ) for your majesty to be addressed to so late , and in a cause so concluded ; wherein the earl had justified himself in the method the duke himself lead him , and is ready to proceed further so to do , if the duke shall please to reply in maintenance of his printed charge . however the earl not knowing what course in this affair will be pursued , or directed , saith that he doth not disown the book mentioned in the duke's representation , so far as he hath acknowledg'd the same in a letter written by him to the said duke . but denies that in the said book or letter , there are divers , or any passages and expressions which are not only untrue , but reflecting in a lugh degree upon his late majesties government , and particularly in relation to the rebellion and war in ireland , and to the several cessations and peaces made by his , and your majesties authority and command , which the said earl hath formerly intimated in writing to the said duke in answer to a letter of his insinuating the same thing , and urging for particulars which the said earl could never yet obtain . the said earl is no further charged with malitiously calumniating and aspersing the said duke , and insinuating several particulars to that purpose , but the passages in the said books of that import are still reserved , and not thought fit by the said duke , to be expressed so as the earl may know what , or how to answer . and the said duke is not ignorant that malitious calumny or scandal against so great a person as the duke of ormond , is severely punishable by law. what to say more herein the said earl knows not , till the duke gives more clear and particular occasion . whosever shall take notice of what the duke asserts of his and the earls free converse and friendship for above twenty years , and which the earl adds ( and the duke cannot forget ) the real and adventurous friendship with the earl , hath ingaged in with and for the duke , he cannot but wonder as others do , that they are so easily cancell'd and turned into rancor and ill returns , without demonstrating a change in the earl , which may satisfie inquiring men the duke hath a cause . for else it seems wonderful and past belief to intelligent men , that the earl who professeth that he bears malice to no person living , nor ever had quarrel with any man , that counts it his great misfortune in his old age , when he was preparing to go to his grave in peace and in perfect charity with all men , he should be attacqued by one who hath professed friendship to him above these twenty years , and as he finds by letters and otherwise was intimatly a friend to his father : as it is miraculous to the same degree , that the earl in his circumstances should willingly be drawn into controversie with so great and fortunate a man , and so antient a friend as the duke of ormond . but since it hath been the dukes pleasure or humor so violently , and so many ways to assault the earl , he must not take it ill that he cannot bear wounds patiently , and without just resentment . the duke complains further , that in the course of above twenty years free and friendly acquaintance and correspondence with him , the earl never thought fit to give him any intimation of his intent to write a history of the wars of ireland , and other transactions there . the said earl cannot recollect with certainty whether he did or no , but he very well remembreth that many years ago he acquainted sir george lane then the duke's secretary , and now viscount of lanesborrow ( and who told him he had the custody of all the duke's papers and writings of publick affairs ) with his intended history of ireland , who promised him the assistance of them , but he could never yet obtain any from him : nor from the duke himself since he made a free offer and promise of them by his letter of the th . of november , threatning to appeal from the earl as a partially ingag'd , and unfaithful historian if he accepted them not , he being as he wrote , more desirous to prevent than rectifie errors and mistakes . the earl having this noble encouragement from so great a person , ( and who was to make so great a part of it ) to proceed in his history by his letter of the seventh of october , acknowledged and accepted the duke's favour , expecting the performance thereof , but never heard since from the duke till by his representation to your majesty , wherein he seems to forget or retract all that had passed , tho' the earl had given him all the assurance a man of honour could do , that he would be exactly faithful and impartial in the history , and now shews that he is unwilling any history should be written by the earl , whose candor and impartiality he will yet allow to be but pretended , and therefore proposeth that your majesty will prevent the credit which they , his great place , and supposed knowledge ( especially in the affair of ireland ) may give to his writings in these and future times , never considering that himself hath greater places . yet the earl doth not apprehend their giving credit to any thing the duke hath or shall write against the truth , which the earl is resolved to tye himself strictly and authentically to , if he be suffered to go on , and not discouraged in his design with which he intended to close his labours in this life , for the good of england , and the safety of that poor kingdom of ireland , harrassed by rebellions and massacres , and which must expect and undergo more ( still preparing ) unless prevented by wise councils here , upon the warnings that a true account of former times and failings may give us . and since the earl hath been versed above forty years in publick affairs , without blemish or dishonour , and intends by your majesties permission , to dedicate his history to your self , which sure he would not be so weak as to offer , if any thing were to be in it of the nature the duke presageth , the earl therefore hopes the duke may at least trust your majesties wisdom with the publishing of what you shall have the perusal of if you shall judge it worth your reading before it go to the press , being intended both for the honour of the late king and of your majesty , and not to gratisie any private humor or party , or to disguise or cover the errors or miscarriages of any subject whatsoever . as to the duke's reflection , that the earl chose rather to seek for information from the earl of castlehaven than from him , the contrary doth appear ever since the earl had any hopes given him of the duke's assistance , with such authentick instruments and writings as may contribute to the history , which the earl cannot but yet expect and he never desired other informations from the said earl of castlehaven , than in the military actions wherein the duke employed him as a general , and never thought of making other use of them than as they concur'd with , clear'd and confirm'd the true account the earl was possessed of in those affairs before . as to the duke's insinuating ( where he mentions the war of ireland and other transactions there , wherein they had both a great part ) that they were of opposite parties , since he accounts it serviceable to his design of aggravating to the utmost against the earl , the occasion is willingly imbraced to give your majesty a brief and true information of the part the earl had both in ireland and england , in the late unhappy time. the earl was ( under the authority his late majesty had entrusted both houses of parliament with for ordering and governing the affairs in ireland , after the horrid rebellion begun ) instrumental there to preserve the brittish and protestant interest , countries and garrisons , from being swallowed up by owen oneill's barbarous army , or falling into the bloody irish hands . he also held correspondence with , and offer'd assistance to the then marquess of ormond , to preserve the english and save the city of dublin , and other english garrisons and quarters from the treacherous irish , who broke all faith with the marquess . he likewise sent to the marquess the late king's majesties positive prohibition in writing , against making any peace , or having at all further dealing with the irish , and used his most earnest persuasions herein , foreseeing it would be destructive to the english , and mischievous to the late king ; and still offer'd assistance to the marquess to encourage him in vigorous opposing the irish , and to enable him to disappoint their treachery , and the consequence of their faith-breaking . the said earl after the peace notwithstanding made with the irish confederate rebells , and their shameful and treacherous breach of it , with design and endeavor to surprize the marquess and all the english garrisons in lemster , and after they had so handled their business as to get the commissioners of parliament , ( which were arrived at dublin by the marquesses invitation , to receive the city of dublin , and all other garrisons and strengths under his command , and secure them against the irish , for which end they had brought forces , shipping , provisions , and ammunition of all sorts with them ) to be rejected and sent away by the marquess . he upon a second invitation of the marquess to the parliament , ( upon the irish rebells continued breaches and treacheries ) went again for ireland , after he had used all his interest to persuade them to send again , though they were very unwilling , and it was much opposed by reason of the former unexpected disappointment . and was the chief employed in commission from the parliament with an army of horse and foot , furnished with all things necessary to deliver the marquess and english from the irish treacheries and designs , and to receive the city of dublin and other garrisons , into the parliaments custody , who were trusted , and able to preserve the same for the crown , if we could agree upon articles for that purpose , which by the blessing of god the earl did to the marquess and the late lord chancellour eustace , ( whom the marquess chiefly trusted therein ) to their great satisfaction , as well as his own and the english and protestants ; and after he and the rest of the commissioners had received the city of dublin and other garrisons , and conveyed the marquess with the honor due to his quality , to the sea side to take shipping for england , as the articles gave leave ; and had spent some time to lay the foundations which after happily succeeded , for the total reduction of the irish , and breaking their cursed confederacy and power for treachery , and final subduing them to the crown of england , with the forfeiture of all their estates , for the satisfaction of adventurers and soldiers , and the vast encrease of the revenue of the crown . the earl returned for england as he had leave to do , before he went , where by his interest in parliament he secured to the marquess the thirteen thousand pounds , &c. agreed by the articles for the surrender of dublin , &c. to be paid to him , though much endeavour was used by the lady vicountess moore and others ; upon legal pretences to deprive him of it ; so that he lost not one penny of it , and then the said marquess thought , and held the said earl his real friend , and a punctual performer of publick faith. in england the earl's part was as followeth : to preserve the church in its legal establishment to the last , to desend the king and the laws , against usurpation and arbitrary government , to adventure his estate and life to save his from execrable murder , and never to sit still till he and his friends , his late majesties and your faithful subjects , had compassed your majesties happy restauration , with the apparent and imminent hazard of their lives , whereof the said duke had vast benefits without danger . now if the duke will give the earl information of his part , as an opposite party in the said transactions , he promiseth they shall not want their due place and regard in history , when all done by both shall be truly and exactly recorded . the earl doth not know what the duke means by saying , that at least while the lord privy-seal and he have the honor to be of your majesties privy-council , and in the stations they are , it will not be fit for him to publish such an answer to the lord privy-seal's book and letter , as might otherwise be necessary in vindication of truth : unless he would insinuate it fit for the earl to be displaced to make room for that long threaten'd answer , that so he might have the more home and fuller stroak at the earl before your majesty , when he hath endeavored but cannot hurt him before your people . and it appears that it is but a new phancy and consideration taken up by the duke , for when he was pleased not only to write but , print his virulent letter of the twelfth of november , agains● the earl , it had not it seems affected his thoughts as of any import , and this also shews , that it is too late and dishonorable an appeal to be made to your majesty , after the duke hath done it , without success in print to the people , and would never in probability have been attempted , but that he thinks he hath arrived in a more happy conjuncture , or hath entertained some groundless hopes of favour by the earls depression , which he will never in the least apprehend from a just master that he hath faithfully served so long . and therefore the earl conceiving that the duke hath already in print charged him with all he hath to say , and more than he can make good ; and there being an obligation of honor lying upon him to publish any answer to the lord privy seals book which ( without difference or respect to him ) would be necessary in vindication of truth , and the said earl no ways apprehending the dint of such an answer ; humbly beseecheth your majesty that the duke may be at liberty and encouraged in his worthy design for vindication of truth by his answer without regard to the earl , who is ready and willing to be trampled upon for the truths sake , and dreads much more what the duke may with vain hopes whisper or insinuate to your majesty , than any thing he can or shall think sit to publish for that end. the earl tho' he acknowledgeth your majesties favor in the office he enjoys , it being a testimony of your gracious acceptance of his long faithful and unblemish'd service ; yet for the duke ( who hath partaken more deeply of your royal bounty and favor , than any other subject ( to say no more ) to go out of his way after he had decipher'd the earl sufficiently by his title of honor and name of office , to mention his great place seems to be rather in undervaluing than with intention to allow your majesties poor officer what his predecessors , though some of them were of inferior quality to his , have enjoyed without envy or scorn , from the greatest subjects . and i can truly say , that i have not paid my debts incurred in your majesties service , nor preferred my many children , nor grown rich by my service and great place , though my ancestors and i have received titles of honor , and marks of favor from your majesty and predecessors , for divers generations . as to the duke's proposal , that your majesty will be pleased to appoint a committee of your privy-council , to look over the lord privy-seal's book , and to call the said earl , and duke of ormond , before them , and to report to your majesty how reparation may be made to all that are injured by the earl's mistakes and errors , in his said book and letter . the earl saith , that the duke seems to conceive that your majesty and council have more leisure than the earl dares presume , and the earl hopes the duke may content himself by your majesties favor to govern one kingdom under you , without involving this in his concerns , or offering to impose his dictates upon your majesty and council of england , who have wisdom to appoint committees , or take other course for business ( properly before them ) without the direction of the parties concern'd , which most men in modesty forbear to give . and though the duke seems in great hast to have mistakes and errors fixed upon the earl , he on the contrary ( and though time will shew that all that are , will appear to be on the duke's part ) presumes not to give your majesty trouble herein , or to pursue the duke for what is common to mankind . and he conceives it an employment below your majesty and council , to be set upon an essay to find matter to justifie what the duke hath injuriously published against the earl , which course being his first choice , he may freely pursue if he please . as to the duke's objection , that the earl saith the cessations and peaces were destructive to the english and protestants , he believes the duke will not say the earl was the first that said so by above thirty years , for it hath been printed long ago , and the truth of history and publick acts will evince it , must the earl only be restrained from saying what he thinks , and the duke knows he thought near forty years ago , and endeavor'd to prevent as much as he could , and believes he can make good that time , was , when the duke was much of the same opinion . it was indeed an unhappiness to conclude cessations and peaces , that neither the irish nor english were satisfied with , and my unhappiness is not small to be the only english man reproached for an opinion they generally had , and felt by sad and dismal effects . if the earl hath dealt more plainly with the duke than his nature averse to contention ( and who hath had quarrels with none in the whole course of his life ) inclines him to , he hopes your majesty will consider that to be taxed of untruth and reflection on his late majesties honor and justice , and branded as a malitious calumniator , a close concealed and disguised enemy to your majesty , a designer of mischief to the duke and the government , and one who chose the most effectual conjuncture for those things , with pretence only of candor and impartiality , are provocations unusual and not easily born by persons of honor , and might the better have been forborn , because after all this loud noise and criminal charge , the duke himself dwindles it into bare mistakes and errors , which who lives that is not guilty of , and the earl conceives , is a task very improper to be laid upon your majesty to examine , especially in cases of controversie thereupon between your majesties subjects . thus the earl tho' he had reason first to complain , if he could have thought it decent to trouble your majesty with private disputes ( after the duke had scandalized him in print , for which he prays and hopes reparation ) in obedience to your majesties order hath represented what he conceived expedient upon this occasion wherewith if the duke be not satisfied . it is desired that he would in due form of law , and by legal and certain articles charge the said earl with particulars , to which he may answer by advice of council , and if he vindicates not himself , let him be exposed to the censure of this present age and posterity , and incur your majesties displeasure , less than which cannot be aimed at by the duke , who to satisfie his unjust and causeless animosity , makes use of his power to alienate from the earl your majesties favor , good opinion and confidence , after above three and twenty years faithful and diligent service , wherein the said earl hath almost worn out his strength and life , without conviction of any failure or transgression , which surely the said duke would never do ( after he had privately quarrell'd the earl , and exposed him the worst he could in print , and this affair having taking a circuit of almost two years ) unless he conceived he had met with some extraordinary juncture to bear down the earl , nor trouble your majesty and council , when so great affairs are before them , with such private concerns and complaints , after so long a run , and using other ways unsuccessfully , to vindicate himself from what was never intended as a charge against him . i conclude praying ( as i have heartily endeavored ) for the glory and prosperity of your majesties government , to be equal to the greatest of your royal predecessors , wishing your majesty many such subjects as i have been and am , whom the duke of ormond seems so earnest to rid your majesty of ; or leave under a black character , and misrepresentation in your service which he shall never be able to compass . anglesey . at the court at white-hall , this th . day of july , . by the king 's most excellent majesty , and the lords of his majesties most honorable privy-council . upon reading this day at the board , a paper delivered in by his grace the duke of ormond . his majesty in council was pleased to order , that a copy of the said paper be sent to the right honorable the earl of anglesey , lord keeper of the privy-seal , ( which is accordingly hereunto annexed ) who is to return an answer thereunto , to his majesty in council upon thursday the th , instant , at hampton court , at nine in the morning . phil. loyd . i. the cessations and peaces dishonorable to the crown of england . pag. . ii. of advantage only to the irish. ibid. iii. destructive to the english protestants . ibid. iv. that therefore the lords justices and council , were from the beginning averse to them . pag. . v. that for the same reasons the chief , and most of the english nobility in ireland , and the generality of the english , scotch and irish protestants , of all qualities and degrees , sooner or later opposed both the cessations and peaces . pag. . vi. that amongst them were found the earls of kildare , thomond , &c. ibid. vii . and that the two first peaces were against law , and several acts of parliament in both kingdoms . pag. . the council not sitting the th . of july , tho' the lord privy-seal who received the th . the particular charges of the duke of ormond against him then delivered in , answer'd them the th . yet gave not in his answer till the next council held at hampton-court the th . of july , which was as followeth : july the th . . the answer of arthur earl of anglesey , lord privy-seal , to the paper deliver'd by the duke of ormond at council , july , . . as a charge of particulars against him . saving still the benefit of his former answer deliver'd in the d . of june , and what was then done at council , the said earl further saith : that 't is to be consider'd that all the said particulars were passages in a private letter to a friend , not designed for publick view . that the earl of castlehaven to whom it was written being convinced thereby , as appears by a second epistle to the reader added to his memoirs , wherein he saith that his acting as a confederate catholick was in plain english as a rebel , that he doth not excuse the rebellion , for all the water of the sea cannot wash it off that nation , it having been begun most bloodily on the english in that kingdom , in a time of setled peace , without the least occasion given . a noble and remarkable confession of one who had been long of the supreme council of the confederate irish. and which makes it the more wonderful , that the duke of ormond should be so severe a censor on a letter which had so good an effect on him it was written to . in the next place the said earl saith , that since the duke of ormond thought it fit to concern himself in a letter not written to him , he should have been so impartial as to have taken notice of this passage therein , pag. . your lordship having been privy to all the cabals and secret councils against the english and protestants , will i hope if you find any thing written by me , questionable or doubtful in your opinion , favour me with your severest reflections thereupon , for , as i design nothing but exact truth wherever it light , so if by any inadvertancy or want of full information , i should err or come short in the least , your lordship shall find me ready to retract or supply , but never to persist in it , whereby it appears , that the earl of anglesey had no intention to injure any man as he is not conscious he hath . these things premised , the said earl gives this short answer or rather justification to the said particular charges , first , to that marked no. . . . which are all but one clause in the letter page ( viz. ) that the cessations and peaces were of advantage only to the irish , and highly dishonorable to the crown of england , and destructive to the english and protestants . answer . the said earl passing by the irish and papists , being the chief promoters of them , the english and protestants sent agents to oxford , purposely to oppose and divert the influence thereof , and to hinder agreements with the irish , which they fore-saw would be destructive to the english and protestants , the whole passages of the proceedings herein , were published in . in a book intituled , the false and scandalous remonstrance of the inhumane , and bloody rebells of ireland , together with an answer thereunto on the behalf of the protestants of ireland ; the perusal whereof will fully justify the earl in what he hath written , besides the two houses of parliament , their declarations and reasons against both cessations and peaces : but to put it past dispute , the earl refers to his majesties declaration , and the act for the settlement of ireland in which the duke of ormond himself , had a great hand and gave the royal assent pa. . &c. by which his majesty that now is in full parliament , declares , that his royal father had been forced to the cessation and peace which he had made with the irish , and that , he was thereby compelled to give them a full pardon , in the same act his majesty also declares , that he himself was necessitated to make the second peace with the irish upon difficult conditions . if all this do not prove the cessations and peaces dishonorable to the crown of england , of advantage only to the irish and destructive to the english and protestants , i submit to judgment . and why else were the peaces upon hearing all parties laid aside , and the irish their estates divided among the english ? d . charge . that therefore the lords justices and council were from the beginning averse to them page , . answer . to prove that the justices and council were from the beginning averse to the cessations and peaces , i refer to their many letters , which i have ready to produce , in some whereof the duke of ormond , then earl joyned , by which they declare the horridness and vniversality of the rebellion , and the design of the irish to extirpate the english , and to cast off the english government , and that there was no way of recovering that kingdom to the crown of england , but by a vigorous and total reducing them to obedience . but when other councils were taken up , one of the lords justices , and divers of the chief officers and councellors of greatest experience in that kingdom , and who best understood how to deal with that people were displaced , and affairs put into other hands ; the grounds and proceedings and success whereof , the duke of ormond can better relate than i. charge d. concerning the protestants of all degrees sooner or later opposing both the cessations and peaces , and the nobility named that did so pag. . answer . this is matter of fact unquestionable , and without which and their subduing the irish to the crown of england ( who were sheltered and protected by the cessations and peaces ) their estates could never have been granted to the english and protestants as they are , if there were any mistake in the enumeration of the nobility , ( which is possible ) the letter being written by memory and far from books and papers , it will not be great or material , and is easily amendable without varying the case . charge th . that the two first peaces were against law , and several acts of parliament in both kingdoms , pag. . answer . they are not only against the whole scope of the laws in ireland and england , for establishing the protestant religion and suppression of poperty , but against these particular acts of parliament ( viz. ) eliz. cap . in ireland and . h. cap. &c. and in england the statutes of the caroli . cap. . . . . in one of which it is provided , that all pardons granted to any of the rebells of ireland , without assent of parliament shall be void , and yet by the cessations they were reprieved , and by both the peaces fully pardoned . and in the same act , it is also enacted , that whosoever shall make any promise or agreement , to introduce or bring unto the realm of ireland the authority of the see of rome in any case whatsoever , or to defend or maintain the same , shall forfeit all his lands , tenements and hereditaments , goods and chattells . after some debate of the said charges and answers at council , the lords concerned being withdrawn , this resolution passed by the lords on the lord privy-seals letter to the earl of castlehaven ( viz. ) that it was a scandalous libell against his late majesty , against his now majesty , and against the government ; but no particular clauses were mentioned to ground that censure upon , and when the parties were called in again , the lord chancellor only told the lord privy-seal , that the king conceived him faulty in the clause pag. . of the said letter to the earl of castlehaven , wherein the committees of the parliament of ireland were mentioned , as having been in at the intrigues of the popish faction at court , but that the council had appointed his lordship to be heard next council day aug. d. when he was to produce the vouchers mentioned in his answer , as appears , by the order following . at the court at hampton-court , this th , day of july . by the kings most excellent majesty , and the lords of his majesties most honorable privy council . it was this day ordered by his majesty in council , that the right honorable the earl of anglesey lord privy-seal , do on thursday next being the third of august produce to his majesty in council , appointed at hampton-court , at nine in the morning the vouchers mentioned by his lordship in his answer this day read at the board to the paper delivered in the th . instant by his grace the duke of ormond . phi. lloyd . the lord privy-seal continuing extream ill of the gout , and finding himself prejudged by the lords the said th . day of july , aug. . wrote the following letter to his majesty , and sent it enclosed to the lord president to be presented , which was done accordingly . may it please your majesty , having received your majesties order in council of the th of july , to produce the third of aug. next at hampton-court , to your majesty in council , the vouchers mentioned by me in my answer to the paper delivered , in the th instant by the duke of ormond , and the increase of my fit of the gout , occasioned by my last attendance incapacitating me personally to obey the said order , i hold it my duty to yield the obedience i am able by this humble address to your majesty . i find by the entry of the last council days proceedings , that beyond what the lord chancellor declared to me , at the board of your majesties judgment of a clause , in the page of my letter to the earl of castlehaven , which was not so much as mentioned in the duke of ormonds said paper ; a resolve passed by the council on that letter , to this effect ; that it was a scandalous libel against your majesties royal father , against your majesty , and against the government , but i find no clauses , whereon such judgment , is grounded , your majesty may imagine with what amazement , as well as trouble this came to my knowledge , i should with less concern , have seen a dagger at my old faithfull heart , then to have received the wound i have from your royal hand , after three and twenty years faithfull and diligent service under great trusts . i do not know , by what right or authority the council table , who are limited by lawes in their jurisdiction , take upon them the tryal of a peer for pretended libelling , though i shall be glad to see their zeal against real libelling , which is the dangerous and countenanced sin of the age. i am supported at present under my misfortune in this , that your majesty , who hath so often declared to your people , that you will govern according to law , will not deny your old servant a fair and legal tryal , in some one of your courts of justice , upon the points , whereof the duke of ormond hath accused me , before they take any impression on your majesty to my prejudice , and then , i no ways doubt by a due administration of the laws , i shall by jurors legally impanel'd and untamper'd with , which is the right of every subject , be represented to your majesty in this affair , under a charracter more suitable to that unblemished and honor , with which , i am arrived at old age . but if the duke of ormond upon his prosecution of me , before those judges who have power to hear and determine , shall by supplying his defect of proofs in council , convict me for a libeller , in any one point of his charge , i shall not only deserve your majesties censure , but the utmost severity of the law in my punishment , which may gratifie the ambition of some who promote , and wait for my supplanting . the only passage that i yet know of , which your majesty seems to take offence at , being that in page the . of the irish committees , being in at the intrigue of the popish faction at court &c. since it was suddenly and unexpectedly urg'd against me at council , not being one of the particulars , i was ordered to answer that day , i could then only answer what occurr'd to me on that surprise , without so much as my reading the clause ( viz. ) that first negatively , by those words was not meant his late majesty or his council , but the popish faction then haunting the court , like locusts against the laws , which prohibit their approach to it , and as many as will be owned then papists at court , and were capable of intriguing , i do not scruple to say , i intended them , and such there were of my knowledge at that time , who may be justly suspected , to have laid the design of all the calamities of this kingdom and ireland that ensued . and as long as any such shall dare to come to court , and by their faction spread libells to the scandal of all legal proceedings , and the exasperating your people dayly in affront , of the wise provision the laws of the land have made against them , neither your majesty nor your kingdoms can be safe , but the seeds of sedition will grow up to confusion . and for your majesties further satisfaction , of my harmless intention in that expression , now i have perused it at leisure , i find that in that clause , i assert nothing positively , but when with disjunctive particles , i had mentioned divers particulars , which were in that juncture the jealousie and discourse of the times , and even the boast of the irish themselves . i conclude , that i would not take upon me to determine any thing , but that soon after the said committees return for ireland , brake out that execrable and unparrallel'd rebellion of the papists . by this time your majesty and the council will i hope , see cause to think , that a summons for me to produce vouchers , after they have given so terrible a judgment against me comes too late , and that if i were in a condition to attend at the day appointed , it would be no contempt to decline making of further defence before the lords , who have prejudged me , and condemned me as guilty , before the hearing of the cause be concluded , which i hope no other court will do , and was never that i know done by them till now in my case , nor do i hear , that the duke of ormond is censured for the scandalous pamphlet , which he owned at council , to have published against me , whereof i complained : i must therefore hope , that what i have delivered in council already , will be better and more impartially considered , without my giving your majesty further trouble therein . and as i have spent the best of my days in your service without reproach , so i hope still to stand justified to all the world , what i resolve , whilst i live to be your majesties most obedient and most faithful devoted subject and servant . anglesey . london aug. d . . the said letter was read at council aug. d. but nothing appears entered to be done thereupon , but the earl of castlehaven was called in several times and questioned , about his printed memoirs answered by the earl of anglesey lord privy-seal , which he acknowledged to be his , and in conclusion his book was by his majesty and council , judged to be a scandalous libel against the government , but no further proceeding , was had against his lordship . but aug the th . . the following warrant of the king , was brought by sir lionel jenkins secretary of state , to the lord privy-seal in the evening , being then at his lordships house in drury-lane . charles r. to our right trusty , and right well beloved cousin and councellor , arthur earl of anglesey keeper of our privy-seal . our will and pleasure is , that immediatly upon sight hereof you deliver up our privy-seal , appointed by our letters patents , to remain during our pleasure in your custody , into the hands of our right trusty , and well beloved councellor sir lionel jenkins knight , our principal secretary of state , and for so doing , this shall be your warrant , given at our court at windsor the th . day of august . in the year of our reign , by his majesties command conway . what passed between the lord privy-seal , & mr. secretary appears not , further , then what follows under the laid secretaries hand and seal , but it 's said the lord privy-seal with his duty to the king , desired the secretary ( which he promised to let his majesty know that at the signification of his majesties pleasure , he delivered the seal more joyfully than ever he received it . anglesey house on wednesday the th . of aug. . in pursuance of his majesties w●rrant bearing date yesterday , being the th . day of this present moneth of aug. which warrant was in these words ( viz. ) charles r. our will and pleasure is , that immediatly upon sight hereof you deliver up our privy-seal , appointed by our letters patents , to remain during our pleasure in your custody , into the hands of our right trusty and well-beloved coun ellor , sir leoline jenkins knight , our principal secretary of state , and for so doing this shall be your warrant , given at our court at windsor the th . day of august , . in the year of our reign to our right trusty and right well-beloved cousin and counceller arthur earl of anglesey keeper of our privy-seal . by his majesties command conway the right honorable the said earl of anglesey , delivered into my hands his majesties privy-seal , sealed up with his lordships seal at armes , being put into the purse , given by his majesty for carrying the said privy-seal , which said privy-seal , i receiv'd at eight a clock in the evening of the said ninth of august , witness my hand and seal l. jenkins . finis . now to shew , that dr. morley the learned bishop of winchester , is of the same opinion with the earl of anglesey , for the keeping out of popery , now it seems to be flowing in upon us , it hath been thought fit , to fill up this last sheet with the following letter of the said bishop , written to the said earl above ten years ago , when the papists warmly set upon their design to introduce popery , and many years before their desperate plot since discovered ( for which so many have suffered by the hand of justice ) was ripe for execution . which letter was receiv'd by the said earl from the said bishop , july the th . . by the hands of the lord cornbury , now earl of clarendon . my lord , yours by my lord of cornbury , i receiv'd this morning from his own hands , and this is to return you my humble thanks , for the favorable opinion of me you are pleased to express in it , which as to the zeal i have for the protestant religion , i hope i may without vanity , own to be true , but must acknowledge i want these abilities to defend it , which you seem to think i have , but thanks be to god , our church wants not those that have , and can , and will answer all that hath been , or is , or can be objected against her , or any of the doctrines , which in opposition to the church of rome are professed by her ; neither do i know any one book or any one argument , ( worth the taking notice of ) written or urged by any romanist , for them , or against us , in any material point of difference betwixt us , that hath not been clearly and fully answered over and over again , by some or other of our own church of england , to say nothing of those eminently learned and pious divines of the other reformed protestant churches beyond the seas , so that to answer every impertinent pamphlet that comes forth , which hath nothing but what hath been so often answered before in it , is but actum agere & stultus labor ineptiarum , and therefore the wiseman that bids us , for bids us too ; to answer a fool in his folly , his meaning is , that after we have answered him once , we should answer him no more , especially such kind of fools , quos non persuadebis etiamsi persua●eris , and such are all those who contend for interest and not for truth : demetrius will hold his conclusion , that diana is a goddess , as long as he hath nothing to live by , but the making of shrines , but is there then nothing to be done will you say to keep out popery , now it seems to be flowing in upon us ? yes no doubt there is , and i hope there will be , when his majesty shall see a convenient time for it , but it will not be done , when it is done by writing , or answering of books pro and con , of which there will never be an end . but how is it to be done then ? i answer , viderint illi qui ad clavum sedent , let them look to it , who sit at the helm . i am ready to obey , whatsoever i shall be commanded to that purpose , as far as my conscience will permit , and i thank god i have done so both formerly , and in my late visitation of my whole diocess , which perhaps you may have heard of , little to my credit if the pseudo-catholicks have informed you of it , but i care not what they or any other hereticks , or schismaticks do , or can say of me ; as long as i do that and no more then what my duty to god and the king , and the place i hold in the church requires of me . you know what i was for in the late sessions of parliament , ( i mean not a comprehension , ) but a coalition or incorporation of the presbiterian party , into the church as it is by law established , and i am still of the same opinion , that it is the one only effectual expedient , to hinder the growth of popery , and to secure both parties , and i am very confident , that there are no presbiterians in the world ( the scotch only excepted ) that would not conform to all that is required by our church , especially in such a juncture of time as this is , which is all i have to say as to that particular at this distance . my lord the visit your son made me , i took for a great honor and favor from him , especially considering how much good i have heard of him , which i hope will increase every day more and more in him , that the succeeding age may be the better for him . my lord i am your lordships very humble servant geor. winton . farnham castle july th . directed . for the right honorable the earl of anglesey . finis . the reader is desired to amend or pass by the errors of the press . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a -e e , castlehav . memoirs , p. . pref. to the memoirs . p. . p. . by the lord lieutenant, a proclamation appointing the time for putting in of claims ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) by the lord lieutenant, a proclamation appointing the time for putting in of claims ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by john crook ... and are to be sold by samuel dancer ..., dublin : . 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and that after the said time shall be expired , no claim shall be received , but the parties left without remedy , and debarred for ever , without his majesties special order in that behalf , upon accidents or emergencies where justice shall require the same : in pursuance of the said act , we do by this proclamation appoint munday the sixth day of october , one thousand six hundred sixty and two , to be the day next and immediately after which , all and every the said persons are to put in their claims according to the tenor of the said act , before his majesties commissioners for the execution of the said act , at the kings inns dublin , whereof all persons concerned are to take notice , to the end they may within the space of one and thirty days next after the said sixth day of october aforesaid , put in their respective claims accordingly . given at his majesties castle of dublin , the . day of september , . god save the king . dvblin , printed by john crook , printer to the kings most excellent majesty ; and are to be sold by samuel dancer book-seller , in castle-street , . by the lord lieutenant and council. ormonde. whereas certain wicked persons of fanatick and disloyal principles disaffected to his majesties just and gracious government, and to the peace and settlement of this kingdome, have lately most traiterously and disloyally conspired to raise rebellious disturbances in this realm, ... proclamations. - - . ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) by the lord lieutenant and council. ormonde. whereas certain wicked persons of fanatick and disloyal principles disaffected to his majesties just and gracious government, and to the peace and settlement of this kingdome, have lately most traiterously and disloyally conspired to raise rebellious disturbances in this realm, ... proclamations. - - . ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . sheet ([ ] p.) printed by john crooke, and sold by samuel dancer, [dublin : ] title from caption and opening lines of text. imprint from wing. imperfect as filmed; lacks all after recto of first leaf. reproduction of the original in the bodleian library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; 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oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas a most barbarous and outragious murder and robbery was committed, on sunday the seventh day of this instant october in the evening, in the town of radrom in the county of wicklow ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormond. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. s.n., [dublin : ] title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. imprint suggested by wing. 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we think fit hereby , in his majesties name straightly to charge & command , all his majesties loyal subjects , upon their duty & allegiance to his majestie , not only to forbear to receive , or relieve , any the persons who were actors in the sai● murder or robbery , but also to make diligent search and enquiry after the said persons , and by all means possible , to apprehend and take the bodies of them , and them to bring or cause to be brought , under safe custody , to the high sherriffs of the respective counties , where they shall be apprehended to be by such sheriffs , safely conveyed to the said goal of wicklow , to the end they may be there legally proceeded against , and tryed for their said offences . and we do hereby further declare , that whatsoever person or persons shall knowingly comfort , relieve or abet , the said offendors , or any of them , they are and shall be reputed , deemed and adjudged traitors , in like degree , with the offendors themselves , and to be proceeded against according to law ; and we do hereby also declare , that whosoever shall discover and apprehend , or cause to be apprehended , any of the persons , who were actors in the said murder or robbery , and are not yet in custody , shall upon conviction of any such persons , have for a reward for his said discovery and apprehension of any such malefactors , for each person so discovered and brought in , ten pounds , for payment whereof , we will give warrant as occasion shall require . and whosoever of the said offendors , not yet seised upon , shall first discover , ●ither to us the lord lieutenant , or any of his majesties privy council , or iudges in this kingdom , the whole plot and conspiracy entred into , for committing the said robbery , and the several persons engag'd therein , or shall at any time hereafter , bring unto the high sheriff of any country in this kingdom , any of the said other persons , who were guilty of the said crimes , and are not yet in custody , he shall upon such his discovery , or the conviction of such person so brought in by him , together with his said reward , receive his pardon , and towards the speedy effecting of this service , all commanders of horse , and foot , and all other his majesties officers and loving subjects are to be aiding and assisting as they and every of them will answer the contrary at their perils . given at the councel chamber in dublin the th . day of october . ja : armachanus . mich : dublin . cance . blesinton . lanesborough . hen : midensis r : coot . ro : booth : j : temple john cole . ja : hayes . tho : radcliffe . we the lord lieutenant and council, do order, command and proclaim publick humiliation, fasting and prayers to be observed in all the parts and parishes within this kingdom, that is to say, in the city of dublin and suburbs thereof on wednesday the twentieth day of this moneth of june, and on wednesday the seven and twentieth day of the said moneth, in and throughout the whole kingdom ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) we the lord lieutenant and council, do order, command and proclaim publick humiliation, fasting and prayers to be observed in all the parts and parishes within this kingdom, that is to say, in the city of dublin and suburbs thereof on wednesday the twentieth day of this moneth of june, and on wednesday the seven and twentieth day of the said moneth, in and throughout the whole kingdom ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. j. crooke, [dublin : ] title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. imprint suggested by wing. "given at the council chamber in dublin, the eighth day of june, ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion cr diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde . we the lord lieutenant and council , do order , command and proclaim , publick humiliation , fasting and prayers to be observed in all the parts and parishes within this kingdom ; that is to say , in the city of dublin and suburbs thereof on wednesday the twentieth day of this moneth of june , and on wednesday the seven and twentieth day of the said moneth , in and throughout the whole kingdom : and therefore we will and require , that the ministers and parishioners of every parish within this kingdom , do duly repair to the cathedral or parish church on every of the said days as aforesaid , to divine service and sermons : vpon which days the minister is to call upon the people , that they abstain from labour , and from pleasure , and from the ordinary works of their callings , and dedicate themselves on those days to humiliation , fasting , prayer , works of charity and devotion , bewailing as well their own sins , as the great and known sins of the kingdom , and supplicating almighty god of his mercy and goodness , to bless and prosper all his majesties councils , and all his armies and fleets by land and by sea , and particularly his present expedition : and we will and require every archbishop and bishop to call upon his clergy for the diligent and due performance thereof . given at the council chamber in dublin , the eighth day of june , . mich. dublin . canc. cork . roscommon . meath . anglesey . dungannon . j. temple . paul davys . robert forth . ja. ware. rob. meredith . theo. jones . whereas we are informed that the price of corn, and all sorts of grain, meale and malt, is grown excessive high in several parts of this kingdom, which both arise as is conceived from the great quantities of corn which have been of late carried out of this kingdom, into foreign parts ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas we are informed that the price of corn, and all sorts of grain, meale and malt, is grown excessive high in several parts of this kingdom, which both arise as is conceived from the great quantities of corn which have been of late carried out of this kingdom, into foreign parts ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by benjamin tooke and john crook ... and are to be sold by mary crook ..., dublin : . title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at the council chamber in dublin the first day of july ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grain trade -- law and legislation -- ireland. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - pip willcox sampled and proofread - spi global rekeyed and resubmitted - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde . whereas we are informed that the price of corn , and all sorts of grain , meale and malt , is grown excessive high in several parts of this kingdom , which both arise as is conceived from the great quantities of corn which have been of late carried out of this kingdom , into foreign parts . we the lord lieutenant and council for a timely & seasonable prevention of that scarcity , which by such transportation of corn may be brought upon this kingdom ; do hereby in his majesties name strictly charge and commad all manner of persons whatsoever , that they do from henceforth until michaelmas next , forbear to ship , carry , or transport any wheat , barly , rye , beare , oates , pease , pulse , meslin , or any meal , or malt out of this kingdom to any other place whatsoever beyond the seas , as they will answer the contrary at their perils . and we require all his majesties officers in the several and respective ports of this kingdom , and the farmers of the great branches of his revenue , that they do seise all such grain , meal , or malt as they shall find to be shipt after the date of this our proclamation , and before michaelmas next with intent to export the same , contrary to the true meaning hereof . given at the council chamber in dublin the first day of july . mic. armach . c. jo. dublin . drogheda . longford . blesinton . granard . lanesborough . ca. dillon . rich. coote . char. meredith . wm. davys . h. hen. ol. st-george . john cole . god save the king . dublin , printed by benjamin tooke and john crook printers to the king 's most excellent majestie , and are to be sold by mary cro●ke and andrew crooke at his majesties printing-house skinner-row , . whereas upon the french kings declaring warr against his majestie and his subjects, his majestie hath issued his declaration against the french, which followeth in these words ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas upon the french kings declaring warr against his majestie and his subjects, his majestie hath issued his declaration against the french, which followeth in these words ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . [ ] leaves. printed by john crooke ... and are to be sold by samuel dancer ..., dublin : [ ] title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. imprint from colophon. "given at the council chamber in dublin the th day of february, " [ ] broadside in [ ] leaves. reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng anglo-french war, - . anglo-dutch war, - . ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - elspeth healey sampled and proofread - spi global rekeyed and resubmitted - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion c r diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . or monde , whereas upon the french kings declaring warr against his majestie and his subiects , his maiestie hath issued his declaration against the french , which followeth in these words : charles r. whereas the french king pretending the execution of a defensive treaty with the states generall of the vnited provinces , and thereby determining us to be the aggressors and invadors of them , ( the contrary of which is most notoriously known to all the world ) did on the th or th of january last declare warr against our subjects , making himself thus the aggressor , and rendring the peace , we have allwayes desired with the said states , more difficult , towards which the french kings ambassadours never offered either satisfaction for past injuries done to our subjects , or a faire regulation of the commerce for the future ; we relying upon the help of god almighty in the justice of our cause , and being assured of the valour and affections of our subjects in the defence thereof have thought fit to declare , and by these presents do declare , that we will oppose the french king , and vigorously prosecute this warr , which he hath so unjustly begun , with the utmost of our force by sea and land , in the maintenance and defense of our subjects , enjoyning hereby our most dear and intirely beloved brother our high admirall , and our right trusty right intirely beloved cosen and councellor george duke of albemarle generall of our forces by land , our lieutenants of the severall counties , and all other officers and souldiers under them both by sea and land to oppose all attempts of the french king or his subjects , and to do and execute all acts of hostility in the prosecution of this warr against the whereas we are informed by john stepney esq., who is the only party to the earl of ranelagh ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas we are informed by john stepney esq., who is the only party to the earl of ranelagh ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by benjamin tooke ... and are to be sold by joseph wilde ..., dublin : [i.e. ] title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at the council-chamber in dublin the th day of march ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng tax collection -- ireland. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - elspeth healey sampled and proofread - spi global rekeyed and resubmitted - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde . whereas we are informed by john stepney esq who is the only party to the earl of ranelagh , and partners contract that appears here to act on the place , that several sheriffs and collectors within the respective counties of this kingdom , have received by virtue of his majesties process , divers considerable summes of money due to his majestie , and which belongeth to the said earl and partners undertaking , some of whom have accompted lately in the exchequer , but not paid in the money due from them , and others have not as yet accompted ; upon consideration whereof , we think fit by this our proclamation , to require such of the said sheriffs and collectors who have accompted , with all convenient speed , and at furthest , by the tenth day of the next term , to pay the money in their respective hands into his majesties treasury , and such of them as have not accompted , that they do before the end of the said term make up their accompts , and pay such moneys as they have , or shall by that time receive into his majesties treasury , as aforesaid , to the end , the same may be applied to the uses of the said undertaking . given at the council-chamber in dublin the th , day of march . ja : armachanus , mich : dublin cane . longford . blesinton . lanesborough . ca : dillon . char : meredith . walter plunkett . john cole . theo : jones . ja : cuff. god save the king . dublin , printed by benjamin tooke , printer to the king 's most excellent majestie ; and are to be sold by joseph wilde book : seller in castle-street . a letter sent out of ireland from the right honorable earle of ormond and ossory, to his much honored uncle, sr. robert poyntz shewing the true estate of the kingdome of ireland at this present time, and delivered to his uncle here, the , of iune, . ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing o thomason .f. [ ] estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) a letter sent out of ireland from the right honorable earle of ormond and ossory, to his much honored uncle, sr. robert poyntz shewing the true estate of the kingdome of ireland at this present time, and delivered to his uncle here, the , of iune, . ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . sheet ([ ] p.) printed for thomas whitaker, london : [ ] publication date from wing. signed at end: ormond ossory. dated at end: dublin the . of june . reproduction of the original in the british library. eng poyntz, robert, -- sir, ?- -- early works to . ireland -- history -- - -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no a letter sent out of ireland from the right honorable earle of ormond and ossory, to his much honored uncle, sr. robert poyntz, shewing the ormonde, james butler, duke of a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter sent ovt of ireland from the right honorable earle of ormond and ossory , to his much honored uncle , sr. robert poyntz , shewing the true estate of the kingdome of ireland at this present time , and delivered to his uncle here , the , of iune , . the last letter i receaved from you was of the th of april , by one veele , to whom i shall be very ready to give my assistance towards his preferment , when i have rid my selfe of a few former ingagements . wee are now in so good condition for matter of men , that i know it will be wondred that we do no more with them ; but when it shall be considered what men without money , meate , or clothes , are able to doe , i hope we shal not be taxed with sloth , having by many winter , & uncomfortable journies , manifested our unwillingnesse to lie still ; it is true that our want of money , was then as great as now , but then the hagards barnes , and houses , were full of all manner of provision , which now betwixt us , and the rebells are so wasted , that the most fertill country affords nothing but penury , and desolation , and the booty that heretofore gave edge to the souldiers , and made them indure indefatigably all manner of labour , is for a great circuit about us , either already taken by our men , or removed into inaccessable places by the rebells ; nor have wee carriage ( if there were plenty of victuall in the store ) to convey it with us , forth of those limits already wasted , if wee march in such numbers as to considerable service ; and on the other side , if wee lie still , and eate upon the magazin , wee shall very sudainly wast it , so that unlesse there bee a speedy supply of at least victuall , and cariages , this army raised at so great charge to that kingdome , will bee forced to dissolve or ruine of it selfe ; i have given you this short , and true accompt of the state wee are in , because i hope you are at london , where you may acquaint such of your friends as are of the parliament with it , as likewise that you might be able to say something in my excuse , in case the blame of this dangerous losse of time should be laid on me ; for though all this bee much fullier represented to the commissioners , appointed for the management of this war , from the lords iustices , and councell , yet many may be apt to censure mee , that will not be called to the reading of that . when i know you are at london , you shall heare often , and more particularly from me , one munday next i take a journey to conaught , where i will endeavor to doe some service before our provision be quite gone , from thence you shall heare from me , in the meane time i rest dublin the . of june . your most affectionate nephew , and servant , ormond ossory . london , printed for thomas whitaker . whereas we have by the blessing of god discovered and disappointed a traiterous conspiracy for surprizing and taking his majesties castle of dublin, (his majesties principal fort in this his kingdom), which the said conspirators had designed to do on the th day of this present moneth of may ... ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i _variant estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas we have by the blessing of god discovered and disappointed a traiterous conspiracy for surprizing and taking his majesties castle of dublin, (his majesties principal fort in this his kingdom), which the said conspirators had designed to do on the th day of this present moneth of may ... ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by john crooke ... and are to be sold by samuel dancer ..., dublin : . title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. 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ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng blood, thomas, ?- . conspiracies -- ireland. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - elspeth healey sampled and proofread - spi global rekeyed and resubmitted - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion c r diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde . whereas , we have by the blessing of god discovered and disappointed a traiterous conspiracy for surprizing and taking his majesties castle of dublin , his majesties principal fort in this his kingdom ) which the said conspirators had designed to do on the th . day of this present moneth of may , and whereas divers of the conspirators are apprehended and committed to prison , where they still remain ; and whereas divers others of the said conspirators ( being conscious to themselves of their own guilts ) have found means to escape , and are not as yet apprehended , namely , thomas blood , late of sarny near dunboine , in the county of meath , colonel daniel abbot , major abel warren , andrew mac cormock , a pretended minister , lately of magherawly , in the county of down , robert chambers , a pretended minister , colonel gilbert carr , commonly called gibby carr , john chamberlin late of dublin brewer , john fooke late of atherdee in the county of lowth esquire , lieutenant john ruxton late of the same , lieutenant de la rock , major henry jones , late of stelorgan , in the county of dublin , major alexander staples late of londonderry , lieutenant colonel william moore , who was lately disbanded , and had been formerly garrisoned at gallway , and afterwards at athlone . we therefore do by this proclamation in his majesties name strictly charge and command all and every the said forenamed persons , that within eight and forty hours after the publishing of this proclamation , within the county where such person or persons shall then be , he and they do render his and their persons to us , the lord lieutenant , or to one of his majesties privy council in this kingdom , or to one of his majesties iustices of peace next adjoyning to the place or places where such person or persons now are , or then shall be , wherein if they or any of them shall fail , we do hereby declare and publish them and every of them to failing , to be rebells and traitors against his majesty , his crown and dignity , and to be accordingly prosecuted by all his majesties good subjects . and we do hereby publish and declare that all and every person and persons that shall relieve or conceal any of the said forenamed persons at any time after the publishing of this proclamation as aforesaid , that they also shall be proceeded against as relievers and abettors of rebells and traitors , and we require all his majesties officers and loving subjects to endeavour the apprehension of all and every the said forenamed persons . and we do hereby declare that any person or persons that shall apprehend the said thomas blood , major abel warren , andrew mac cormock , robert chambers , colonel gilbert carr , commonly called gibby carr , or any of them , and bring him or them , or cause him or them to be brought to the high sheriff of the county , wherein he or they shall be apprehended at , by or before the th . day of june next shall have as a reward for the said service , the sum of one hundred pounds for every of the said last named persons , so to be apprehended and brought in as aforesaid by or before the said th . day of june next . given at his majesties castle of dublin the th . of may. . god save the king . mau. eustace , cane . drogheda , mount-alexander , anglesey , massereene , dungannon , w. caulfield , r. coote , santry , hen. tichborne , ja. donelan , jo. bysse , j. temple , paul davis , tho. pigot . dvblin , printed by john crooke , printer to the kings most excellent majesty , and are to be sold by samuel dancer next door to the bear and ragged-staffe in castle-street .. . whereas the process of his majesties court of exchequer are issued out to several sheriffs, collectors, and receivers of the respective counties, towns, and places of this kingdom, for divers arrears of rents, debts, and other sums of money due to the kings majestie, at or before the twenty fifth day of december, one thousand six hundred sixty eight ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas the process of his majesties court of exchequer are issued out to several sheriffs, collectors, and receivers of the respective counties, towns, and places of this kingdom, for divers arrears of rents, debts, and other sums of money due to the kings majestie, at or before the twenty fifth day of december, one thousand six hundred sixty eight ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by benjamin tooke ... and are to be sold by joseph wilde ..., dublin : . title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at the council-chamber in dublin the th. day of april, ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng rent -- taxation -- ireland. taxation -- ireland. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - elspeth healey sampled and proofread - spi global rekeyed and resubmitted - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde . vvhereas the process of his majesties court of exchequer , are issued out to several sheriffs , collectors , and receivers of the respective counties , towns , and places of this kingdom ; for divers arrears of rents , debts , and other sums of money , due to the kings majestie , at or before the twenty fifth . day of december , one thousand six hundred sixty eight . and for other branches of his majesties casual , or other revenue not in farm to the late farmers , and due at or before the twenty fifth . day of december , one thousand six hundred seventy five . which by contract with the king's majestie , are to be applied to certain payments undertaken by richard , then lord viscount , now earl of ranelagh , and others his partners . and forasmuch as we are informed , that several doubtful and uncertain charges have issued in such process , and that several of such sheriffs , and collectors have been dilatory , or negligent in the collection of such charges as are clear and undoubted , and remisse in the due payment of what hath been collected . we the lord lieutenant and council , being desirous , that his majesties good subjects , that stand unduly charged in such process , may be freed from all trouble and vexation concerning the same ; and that the arrears and debts of all others that stand duly charged , and are able and responsible to pay the same , may be put into some speedy and easy way of collection , have thought fit , at the humble desire of john stepney , one of the partners party to the said contract , and john hayes esq acting and intrusted for others of them , and accordingly do order and require by this our proclamation , that all and singular such sheriffs , collectors , and receivers , do from and after the tenth day of may next , forbear to collect , levy , or receive any rents , debts or summes of money , by virtue or colour of such process ; and that they and every of them do at or before the last day of may next , accompt in his majesties court of exchequer , for all moneys by them received by virtue of such processs , and pay the same into his majesties receipt of his exchequer . and we do also hereby require all sheriffs , and collectors , that have accompted and not taken out their quietus est , at or before the said last day of may next , to clear their accompts . given at the council-chamber in dublin the th , day of april . ja : armachanus . mich : dublin canc. donegall . longford . strafforde . massereene . blesinton . granard . lanesborough . hen : midensis . ca : dillon . char : meredith . jo : bysse . ol : st. george . hans hamilton , ja : cuffe . god save the king. dublin , printed by benjamin tooke , printer to the king 's most excellent majestie ; and are to be sold by joseph wilde book : seller in castle-street , . articles of peace made and concluded with the irish rebels and papists by james earle of ormond ... also, a letter sent by ormond to col. jones, governour of dublin, with his answer thereunto : and a representation of the scotch presbytery at belfast in ireland : upon all which are added observations. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (wing a ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing a estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) articles of peace made and concluded with the irish rebels and papists by james earle of ormond ... also, a letter sent by ormond to col. jones, governour of dublin, with his answer thereunto : and a representation of the scotch presbytery at belfast in ireland : upon all which are added observations. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . milton, john, - . observations upon the articles of peace with the irish rebels. [ ], p. printed by matthew simmons ..., london: . "publisht by autority [sic]" the "observations" are attributed to john milton. cf. bradshaw irish collection, v. , no. . reproduction of original in huntington library. eng ireland -- history -- - . a r (wing a ). civilwar no articles of peace, made and concluded with the irish rebels, and papists, by james earle of ormond, for and in behalfe of the late king, and ireland. lord lieutenant a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - judith siefring sampled and proofread - judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion articles of peace , made and concluded with the irish rebels , and papists , by james earle of ormond , for and in behalfe of the late king , and by vertue of his autoritie . also a letter sent by ormond to col. jones , governour of dublin , with his answer thereunto . and a representation of the scotch presbytery at belfast in ireland . upon all which are added observations . publisht by autority . london ; printed by matthew simmons in aldergate-streete . . by the lord lieutenant generall , and generall governour of the kingdome of ireland . ormond : whereas articles of peace , are made , concluded , accorded , and agreed upon , by and between us , james lord marquesse of ormond , lord lieut. generall , and generall governor of his majesties kingdome of ireland , by vertue of the authority wherewith we are intrusted , for , and on the behalfe of his most excellent majesty of the one part , and the generall assembly of the roman catholickes of the said kingdome , for and on the behalfe of his majesties roman catholick subjects of the same , on the other part ; a true copy of which articles of peace is hereunto annexed . we the lord lieut. do by this proclamation , in his majesties name publish the same , and do in his majest. name strictly charge and command al his majesties subjects , and all others inhabiting or residing within his majesties said kingdome of ireland to take notice thereof , and to render due obedience to the same in all the parts thereof . and as his majesty hath been induced to this peace , out of a deep sence of the miseries and calamities brought upon this his kingdome , and people , and out of a hope conceived by his majesty , that it may prevent the further effusion of his subjects blood , redeem them out of all the miseries and calamities under which they now suffer , restore them to all quietnesse and happinesse , under his majesties most gracious government , deliver the kingdome in generall , from those slaughters , depredations , rapines , and spoyles which alwayes accompany a war encourage the subjects and others with comfort to betake themselves to trade , traffique , comerce , manufacture , and all other things , which un-interrupted , may increase the wealth and strength of the kingdome , beget in all his majesties subjects of this kingdome , a perfect unity amongst themselves , after the too long continued division amongst them ; so his majesty assures himselfe , that all his subjects of this his kingdom ( duely considering the great and inestimable benefits which they may find in this peace ) will with all duty render due obedience thereunto . and we in his majesties name , doe hereby declare , that all persons so rendering due obedience to the said peace , shall be protected , cherished , countenanced , and supported by his majesty , and his royall authority , according to the true intent and meaning of the said articles of peace . given at our castle of kilkenny january , . god save the king . articles of peace , made , concluded , accorded and agreed upon , by and between his excellency james lord marquesse of ormond , lord lieutenant general , and generall of his majesties kingdome of ireland , for and on the behalfe of his most excellent majesty , by vertue of the authority wherewith the said lord lieutenant is intrusted , on the one part ; and the generall assembly of the roman catholickes of the said kingdome , for and on the behalfe of his majesties roman catholicke subjects of the same , on the other part . his majesties roman catholique subjects , as thereunto bound by allegiance , duty and nature , doe most humbly and freely acknowledge and recognize their soveraigne lord king charles to be lawfull and undoubted king of this kingdom of ireland , and other his highnesse realms and dominions ; and his majesties said roman catholicke subjects , apprehending with a deep sence , the sad condition whereunto his majesty is reduced . as a further testimony of their loyalty : doe declare , that they and their posterity for ever , to the utmost of their power , even to the expence of their blood and fortunes will maintaine and uphold his majesty , his heires and lawfull successors their rights , prerogatives , government and authority , and thereunto freely and heartily will render all due obedience . of which faithfull and loyall recognition and declaration so seasonably made by the said roman catholickes ; his majesty is graciously pleased to accept , and accordingly to owne them his loyall and dutifull subjects ; and is further graciously pleased to extend unto them the following graces and securities . . in primis , it is concluded , accorded , and agreed upon , by and between the said lord lieutenant , for , and on the behalfe of his most excellent majesty ; and the said general assembly , for and on the behalf of the said roman catholick subjects , and his majestie is graciously pleased , that it shall be enacted by act to be passed in the next parliament to be held in this kingdome , that all and every the professors of the roman catholicke religion within the said kingdom , shall be free and exempt from all mulctes , penalties , restraints and inhibitions that are , or may be imposed upon them by any law ; statute useage or custome whatsoever , for or concerning the free exercise of the roman catholick religion : and that it shall be likewise enacted that the said roman catholicks or any of them shall not be questioned or molested in their persons , goods or estates , for any matter or cause whatsoever for , concerning , or by reason of the free exercise of their religion , by vertue of any power , authority , statute , law , or useage whatsoever ; and that it shall be further enacted , that no roman catholique in this kingdome shall be compelled to exercise any religion , forme of devotion or divine service other then such as shall be agreeable to their conscience , and that they shall not be prejudiced or molested in their persons , goods or estates for not observing , using or hearing the booke of common-prayer or any other forme of devotion or divine service by vertue of any coulor or statute made in the second yeare of queen elizabeth , or by vertue or coullor of any other law , declaration of law , statute , custome or usage whatsoever made or declared , or to be made or declared ; and that it shall be further enacted , that the professors of the roman catholicke religion , or any of them be not bound or oblieged to take the oath commonly called , the oath of supremacy expressed in the statute of elizabeth c. or in any other statute or statutes ; and that the said oath shall not be tendered unto them , and that the refusall of the said oath shall not redound to the prejudice of them , or any of them , they taking the oath of allegiance in haec verba , viz. i a. b. doe hereby acknowledge , professe , testifie and declare in my conscience , before god and the world , that our soveraigne lord king charles , is lawfull and rightfull king of this realme , and of other his majesties dominions and countries ; and i will beare faith and true allegiance to his majesty , and his heires and successors , and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their crowne and dignitie , and do my best endeavour to disclose and make knowne to his majesty , his heires and successors , or to the lord deputy , or other his majesties cheife governour or governors for the time being , all treason or traiterous conspiracies which i shall know or heare to be entended against his majesty or any of them , and i doe make this recognition and acknowledgment , heartily , willingly and truly , upon the true faith of a christian , so helpe me god , &c. neverthelesse the said lord lieutenant doth not hereby intend that any thing in these concessions contained shall exten'd or be construed to extend to the granting of churches , church-livings , or the exercise of jurisdiction , the authority of the said lord lieutenant not extending so far , yet the said lord lieutenant is authorized to give the said roman catholicks full assurance as hereby the said lord lieutenant doth give unto the said roman catholicks full assurance that they or any of them shall not be molested in the possession which they have at present of the churches and church-livings , or of the exercise of their respective jurisdictions as they now exercise the same untill such time as his majesty upon a ful consideration of the desires of the said roman catholicks in a free parliament to be held in this kingdome shall declare his further pleasure . item , it is concluded , accorded ; and agreed upon , by and between the said parties , and his majestie is further graciously pleased that a free parliament shall be held in this kingdome within six months after the date of these articles of peace , or as soon after as thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskery , francis lord baron of athunry , allexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnewall baronet , jefferey browne , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neile , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or the major part of them will desire the same , so that by possibility it may be held , and that in the mean time , and untill the articles of these presents , agreed to be passed in parliament be accordingly passed , the same shall be inviolably observed as to the matters therein conteined , as if they were enacted in parliament ; and that in case a parliament be not called and held in this kingdom within two yeares next after the date of these articles of peace , then his majesties lord lieutenant , or other his majesties cheif governour or governours of this kingdome for the time being , will at the request of the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costollogh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskery , francis lord baron of athunry , allexander mac donnell esquires , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnewall baronet , geffery browne , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neile , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or the major part of them , call a generall assembly of the lords and commons of this kingdom , to attend upon the said lord lieutenant or other his majesties cheife governour or governours of this kingdom for the time being , in some convenient place , for the better setling of the affairs of the kingdome ; and it is further concluded , accorded and agreed by , and between the said parties , that all matters that by these articles are agreed upon to be passed in parliament , shall be transmitted into england , according to the usuall forme , to be passed in the said parliament , and that the said acts so agreed upon , and so to be passed , shall receive no dis-junction or alteration here , or in england ; provided that nothing shall be concluded by both , or either of the said houses of parliament , which may bring prejudice to any of his majesties protestant party ; or their adherents or to his majest. roman catholicke subjects or their adherents , other then such things as upon this treaty are concluded to be done , or such things as may be proper for the committee of priviledges of either or both houses to take cognizance of , as in such cases heretofore hath been accustomed , and other then such matters as his majesty will be graciously pleased to declare his further pleasure in , to be passed in parliament for the satisfaction of his subjects , and other then such things as shall be propounded to either or both houses by his majesties lord lieut. of other cheif goveror or governors of this kingdome for the time being , during the said parliament , for the advancement of his majesties service , and the peace of the kingdom , which clause is to admit no construction which may trench upon the articles of peace or any of them and that both houses of parliament may consider what they shall thinke convenient touching the repeale or suspension of the statute commonly called poynings act , entitled an act , that no parliament be holden in that land , untill the acts be certified into england . item , it is further concluded , accorded and agreed upon , by , and between the said parties , and his majesty is graciously pleased ; that all acts , ordinances , and orders made by both , or either houses of parliament , to the blemish , dishonour or prejudice of his majesties roman catholicke subjects of this kingdome , or any of them , fithence the seventh of august . shall be vacated ; and that the same and all exemplifications and other acts which continue the memory of them be made voide by act to be past in the next parliament to be held in this kingdome , and that in the meane time the said acts or ordinances , or any of them shall bee no prejudice to the said roman catholickes or any of them . item , it is also concluded and agreed upon , and his majesty is likewise graciously pleased , that all indictments , attainders , outlawries in this kingdome , and all the processes and other proceedings thereupon , and all letters , pattents , grants , leases , customes , bonds , recognizances , and all records , act or acts , office or offices , inquisitions , and all other things depending upon , or taken by reason of the said indictments , attainders or outlawries , fithence the seventh day of august , . in prejudice of the said catholickes , their heires , executors , administrators or assignes , or any of them , or the widdowes of them , or any of them shall be vacated and made void in such sort as no memory shall remain thereof , to the blemish , dishonour or prejudice of the said catholikes , their heires , executors , administrators , or assignes , or any of them , or the widows of them , or any of them ; and that to be done when the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord vise . muskerry , francis lord baron of athunry , alexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwell baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reilie and gerrald fennell esquires , or the major part of them shall desire the same , so that by possibilitie it may be done , and in the mean time that no such inditements , attainders , outlaries , processes , or any other proceedings thereupon , or any letters , patents , grants , leases , custodiums , bonds , recognizances , or any record or acts , office or offices , inquisitions , or any other thing depending upon , or by reason of the said indictments , attainders , or outlawries , shall in any sort prejudice the said roman catholikes , or any of them , but that they and every of them shall bee forthwith upon perfection of these articles , restored to their respective possessions , and hereditaments respectively , provided that no man shall be questioned by reason hereof , for measne rates , or wastes , saving wilfull wastes committed after the first day of may last past . . item , it is likewise concluded , accorded , and agreed , and his majesty is graciously pleased , that as soon as possible may be , all impediments which may hinder the said roman catholikes , to sit or vote in the next intended parliament , or to choose , or to be chosen knights , and burgesse , to sit or vote there , shall be removed , and that before the said parliament . . item , it is concluded accorded , and agreed upon , and his majestie is further graciously pleased , that all debts shall remain as they were upon the . of october . notwithstanding any disposition made , or to be made , by vertue or colour of any attainder , outlawrie , fugacie , or other forfeiture , and that no disposition or grant made , or to be made of any such debts , by vertue of any attainder , outlawrie , fugacie , or other forfeiture shall be of force , and this to be passed as an act in the next parliament . . item , it is further concluded , accorded , and agreed upon , and his majesty is graciously pleased ; that for the securing of the estates or reputed estates of the lords , knights , gentlemen and freeholders , or reputed freeholders , as well of connaght , and county of clare , or country of thomond as of the counties of limerick and tipperary , the same to be secured by act of parliament , according to the intent of the . article , of the graces granted in the fourth year of his majesties reign the tenor whereof for so much as concerneth the same doth ensue in these words , viz. wee are graciously pleased , that for the inhabitants of connaght , and country of thomond , and county of clare , that their several estates shall be confirmed unto them , and their heires against us , and our heires and successors , by act to be passed in the next parliament to be holden in ireland , to the end the same may never hereafter be brought into any further question , by us or our heires and successors . in which act of parliament so to be passed , you are to take care , that all tenures in capite , and all rents and services as are now due , or which ought to be answered unto us out of the said lands and premises , by any letters pattents , past thereof , since the first year of king henry the eight , or found by any office taken from the said first year of king henry the eight , untill the . of july . whereby our late dear father or any his predecessors , actually received any profit , by wardship , liveries , primer-seisins , measne , rates , ousterlemains or fines of alienations without licence , be again reserved unto us , our heires and successors , and all the rest of the premises to be holden of our castle of athlone by knights service , according to our said late fathers letters , notwithstanding any tenures in capite found for us by office , since the . of july . and not appearing in any such letters patents , or offices , within which rule , his majesty is likewise graciously pleased , that the said lands in the counties of limerick and tipperarie be included , but to be held by such rents and tenures only , as they were in the fourth year of his majesties reign ; provided alwaies that the said lords , knights , gentlemen and freeholders of the said province of connaght , county of clare , and countrey of thomond , and counties of tipperarie and limerick shall have and enjoy the full benefit of such composition and agreement which shall be made with his most excellent majestie , for the court of wards , tenures , respits , and issues of homage , any clause in this article to the contrary notwithstanding ; and as for the lands within the counties of kilkennie and wickloe ; unto which his majestie was intituled by offices , taken or found in the time of the earl of straffords government in this kingdom , his majestie is further graciously pleased that the state thereof , shall be considered in the next intended parliament , where his majestie will assent unto that which shall be just and honourable , and that the like act of limitation of his majesties titles , for the securitie of the estates of his subjects of this kingdome be passed in the said parliament as was enacted in the . year of his late majestie king james his reign in england . . item , it is further concluded , accorded , and agreed upon , and his majestie is further graciously pleased , that all incapacities imposed upon the natives of this kingdome or any of them , as natives , by any act of parliament , provisoes in patents or otherwise , be taken away by act to be passed in the said parliament ; and that they may be enabled to erect one or more innes of court in or neer the city of dublin or elsewhere , as shall be thought fit by his majesties lord lieutenant , or other chief governour or governours of this kingdom for the time being ; and in case the said innes of court shall be erected before the first day of the next parliament , then the same shall be in such place as his majesties lord lieutenant , or other chief governor or governors of this kingdom for the time being , by and with the advice and consent of the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh , lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerrie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwall baronet , jefferie brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reily , gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them shall thinke fit ; and that such students natives of this kingdom as shall be therein , may take and receive the usuall degrees accustomed in any innes of court , they taking the insuingoath , viz. i a. b. doe hereby acknowledge professe , testifie and declare in my conscience , before god and the world that our soveraign lord k. charles , is lawful and rightful king of this realm , and of other his majesties dominions and countries ; and i will bear faith and true allegiance to his majesty , and his heirs and successors , and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever , which shall be made against his or their crown and dignity , and do my best endeavour to disclose and make known to his majesty , his heires and successors , or to the lord deputy , or other his majesties cheife governour or governors for the time being , all treason or traiterous conspiracies which i shall know or heare to be entended against his majesty or any of them , and i doe make this recognition and acknowledgment , heartily , willingly and truly , upon the true faith of a christian , so help me god , &c. and his majestie is further graciously pleased that his majesties roman catholike subjects may erect and keep free schools for education of youths in this kingdom , any law or statute to the contrarie notwithstanding ; and that all the matters assented unto in this article be passed as acts of parliament in the said next parliament . . item , it is further concluded , accorded , and agreed upon , by , and between the said parties , and his majestie is graciously pleased ; that places of command , honour , profit and trust in his majesties armies in this kingdom shall be upon perfection of these articles actually and by particular instances conferred upon his roman catholike subjects of this kingdom , and that upon the distribution conferring and disposing of the places of command , honour , profit , and trust in his majesties armies in this kingdome , for the future no difference shall be made between the said roman catholikes , and other his majesties subjects . but that such distribution shall be made with equall indifferency according to their respective merits and abilities ; and that all his majesties subjects of this kingdom , as well roman catholikes as others , may for his majesties service , and their own security , arme themselves the best they may , wherein they shall have all fitting incouragement ; and it is further concluded , accorded and agreed upon , by and between the said parties , and his majestie is further graciously pleased ; that places of command , honour , profit , and trust in the civill government in this kingdome , shall be upon passing of the bills in these articles mentioned in the next parliament , actually and by particular instances conferred upon his majesties roman catholike subjects of this kingdome , and that in the distribution , conferring and disposall of the places of command , honour profit , and trust , in the civill government ; for the future no difference shall be made between the said roman catholikes , and other his majesties subjects , but that such distribution shall bee made with equall indifferencie , according to their respective merits and abilities , and that in the distribution of ministeriall offices or places which now are , or hereafter shall be void in this kingdom , equalitie shall be used to the roman catholike natives of this kingdom , as to other his maiesties subiects ; and that the command of forts , castles , garrison towns , and other places of importance in this kingdom , shall be conferred upon his majesties roman catholike subjects of this kingdom upon perfection of these articles actually and by particular instances , and that in the distribution conferring and disposall of the forts , castles , garrison towns , and other places of importance in this kingdome , no difference shall be made between his maiesties roman catholike subiects of this kingdom , and other his maiesties subiects , but that such distribution shall be made with equall indifferencie , according to their respective merits and abilities , and that untill full settlement in parliament fifteen thousand foot , and two thousand and five hundred horse of the roman catholikes of this kingdom shall be of the standing armie of this kingdome : and that untill full settlement in parliament as aforesaid , the said lord lieutenant or other chief governour or governours of this kingdom for the time being , and the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord visc. muskerry , francis lord baron of athunry , alexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwall baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reilie and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them , the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh , lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunry , alexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwall , jefferie brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , shall diminish or adde unto the said number , as they shall see cause from time to time . . item , it is further concluded , accorded and agreed upon , by and between the said parties , and his majesty is further graciously pleased , that his majestie will accept of the yeerly rent , or annuall sum of twelve thousand pounds sterling , to be applotted with indifferencie and equalltie , and consented to be paid to his majestie , his heires and successors in parliament , for and in lieu of the court of wards in this kingdom , tenures in capite , common knights-service , and all other tenures within the cognizance of that court , and for , and in lieu of all wardships , primer-seizins , fines , ousterlemains , liveries , intrusions , alienations , measne rates , releases , and all other profits , within the cognizance of the said court , or incident to the said tenures or any of them , or fines to accrew to his majestie by reason of the said tenures or any of them , and for and in lieu of respits and issues of homage , and fines for the same . and the said yearly rent being so applotted and consented unto in parliament as aforesaid , then a bill is to be agreed on in the said parliament to be passed as an act for the securing of the said yeerly rent , or annuall sum of twelve thousand pounds to be applotted as aforesaid , and for the extinction and taking away of the said court , and other matters aforesaid in this article contained . and it is further agreed , that reasonable compositions shall bee accepted for wardships fallen since the . of october . and already granted , and that no wardships fallen and not granted or that shall fall , shall be passed untill the successe of this article shall appear ; and if his majesty be secured as aforesaid , then all wardships fallen since the said . of octob. are to be included in the agreement aforesaid , upon composition to be made with such as have grantees as aforesaid , which composition to be made with the grantees since the time aforesaid , is to be left to indifferent persons , and the umpirage to the said lord lieutenant . . item , it is further concluded , accorded , and agreed upon , by and between the said parties , and his majesty is further graciously pleased , that no nobleman or peer of this realm in parliament shall be hereafter capable of more proxies then two , and that blanck proxies shall be hereafter totally dis-allowed ; and that if such noble men or peers of this realm as have no estates in this kingdom do not within five yeares , to begin from the conclusion of these articles purchase in this kingdom as followeth , viz. a lord baron l. per annum , a lord viscount li. per annum , and an earl l. per annum , a marquesse l. per annum , a duke l. per annum , shall loose their votes in parliament untill such time as they shall afterwards acquire such estates respectively ; and that none be admitted in the house of commons , but such as shall bee estated , and resident within this kingdome . item , it is further concluded , accorded and agreed upon , by and between the said parties , and his majesty is further graciously pleased ; that as for and concerning the independency of the parliament of ireland on the parliament of england , his majesty will leave both houses of parliament in this kingdom to make such declaration therein as shall be agreeable to the laws of the kingdome of ireland . item , it is further concluded and agreed upon , by and between the said parties , and his majesty is further graciously pleased , that the councel-table shall containe it selfe within its proper bounds in handling matters of state and weight fit for that place , amongst which the pattents of plantation and the offices whereupon those grants are founded to be handled as matters of state , and to be heard and determined by his majesties lord lieutenant , or other chiefe governour or governours for the time being , and the councell publickly at the councell-board , and not otherwise , but titles between party and party grown after these patents granted , are to be left to the ordinary course of law , and that the councel-table do not hereafter intermedle with common businesse , that is , within the cognizance of the ordinary courts , nor with the altering of possessions of lands , nor make , nor use private orders , hearings or references , concerning any such matter , nor grant any injunction or order for stay of any suites in any civill cause ; and that parties grieved for or by reason of any proceedings formerly had there , may commence their suites and prosecute the same in any of his majesties courts of justice or equity for remedy of their pretended rights , without any restraint or interruption from his majesty , or otherwise by the cheife governour or governours , and councell of this kingdome ; and that the proceedings in the respective presidency courts , shall be pursuant , and according to his majesties printed book of instructions , and that they shall containe themselves within the limits prescribed by that book , when the kingdom shall be restored to such a degree of quietnesse , as they be not necessarily enforced to exceed the same . item it is further concluded , accorded and agreed upon , by and between the said parties and his majesty is further graciously pleased : that as for and concerning one statute made in this kingdome , in the eleventh year of the reigne of queene elizabeth intituled , an act for staying of wooll , flockes , tallow , and other necessaries within this realme ; and another statute made in the said kingdome , in the twelfth year of the reign of the said queen , intituled an act and one other statute made in the said kingdome , in the year of the reign of the said late queen , intituled an exemplanation of the act made in a session of this parliament for the staying of wooll , flocks , tallow ; and other wares and commodities mentioned in the said act , and certaine articles added to the same act , all concerning staple or native commodities of this kingdom shall be repealed , if it shal be so thought fit in the parliament ( excepting for wooll and woollfells , and that such indifferent persons as shall be agreed on by the said lord lieutenant , and the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costollogh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskery , francis lord baron of athunry , allexander mac donnell esquires , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnewall baronet , geffery browne , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neile , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them shall be authorized by commission under the great seal , to moderate and ascertain the rates of merchandize to be exported or imported out of , or into this kingdome , as they shall think fit . item , it is concluded , accorded , and agreed , by and between the said parties , and his majesty is graciously pleased , that all and every person and persons within this kingdome pretending to have suffered by offices found of several countries , territories , lands and hereditaments in the province of ulster , and other provinces of this kingdome in or since the first year of king james his reign , or by attainders or forfeitures , or by pretence and coulor thereof , since the said first year of king james or by other acts depending on the said offices , attainders and forfeitures may petition his majesty in parliament for reliefe and redresse ; and if after examination it shal appeare to his majesty , the said persons , or any of them have been injured , then his majesty will prescribe a course to repaire the person or persons so suffering according to justice and honor . item , it is further concluded , accorded and agreed upon by , and between the said parties , and his majesty is graciously pleased ; that as to the particular cases of maurice lord viscount de rupe & fermoy , arthur lord viscount iveagh , sir edward fitz gerrald of cloanglish boronet , charles mac carty reag , roger moore , anthony mare , william fitz gerrald , anthony linch , john lacy , collo mac brien mac mahowne , daniel castigni , edmond fitz gerrald of ballimartir , lucas keating , theobald roch fitz miles , thomas fitz gerrald of the vally , john bourke of loghmaske , edmond fitz gerrald of ballimalloe , james fitz william gerrald of glinane , and edward sutton , they may petition his majesty in the next parliament , whereupon his majesty will take such consideration of them as shall be just and fit . item it is likewise concluded , accorded , and agreed upon , by and between the said parties , and his majesty is graciously pleased , that the citizens , free-men , burgesses and former inhabitants of the city of corke , townes of youghall and downegarven shall be forthwith upon perfection of these articles , restored to their respective possessions and estates in the said city and townes , respectively where the same extends not to the endangering of the said garrisons in the said city and townes . in which case so many of the said citizens and inhabitants as shall not be admitted to the present possession of their houses within the said city and towns , shall be afforded a valuable annuall rent for the same untill settlement in parliament , at which time they shall bee restored to those their possessions . and it is further agreed , and his majesty is graciously pleased , that the said citizens , free-men , burgesses , and inhabitants of the said city of corke , and townes of youghall and downegarven respectively shall be enabled in convenient time before the next parliament to be held in this kingdome to chuse and returne burgesses into the same parliament . item it is further concluded , accorded and agreed upon , by and between the said parties , and his majesty is further graciously pleased that an act of oblivion be past in the next parliament , to extend to all his majesties subjects of this kingdom and their adherents , of all treasons and offences , capitall , criminall and personall , and other offences of what nature , kind , or quality soever , in such manner as if such treasons or offences had never been committed , perpetrated or don ; that the said act do extend to the heires , children , kindred , executors , administrators , wives , widowes , dowagers or assignes of such of the said subjects and their adherents who dyed on , before , or since the of october . that the said act doe relate to the first day of the next parliament , that the said act doe extend to all bodies politicke and corporate , and their respective successors , and unto all cities , burroughs , counties , baronies , hundreds , townes , villages , thitlings and every of them within this kingdom , for and concerning all and every of the said offences , or any other offence or offences , in them , or any of them committed , or done by his majesties said subjects , or their adherents , or any of them , before , in , or since the of october , . provided this act shall not extend to be construed to pardon any offence or offences , for which any person or persons have been convicted or attainted of record at any time before the day of october in the year of our lord . that this act shall extend to piracies , and all other offences committed upon the sea , by his majesties said subjects , or their adherents , or any of them , that in this act of oblivion , words of release , acquittall and discharge be incerted , that no person or persons , bodies politicke , or corporate , counties , cities , burroughs , baronnies , hundreds , townes , villages , thitlings , or any of them within this kingdom , included within the said act be troubled , impeached , sued , inquieted , or molested , for , or by reason of any offence , matter or thing whatsoever , comprised within the said act : and the said act shall extend to all rents , goods , and chattles , taken , detained or growne due to the subjects of the one party from the other since the of october to the date of these articles of peace ; and also to all customes , rents , arrears , of rents , prizes , recognizances , bonds , fines , forfeitures , penalties and to all other profits , perquisits and dues which were due , or did or should accrew to his majesty on , before , or since the of october untill the perfection of these articles , and likewise to all measne , rates , fines , of what nature soever , recognizances , judgements , executions thereupon , and penalties whatsoever , and to all other profit due to his majesty since the said of october and before , untill the perfection of these articles , for by reason , or which lay within the survey or recognizance of the court of wards ; and also to all respits , issues of homage and fines for the same ; provided this shall not extend to discharge or remit any of the kings debts or subsidies due before the said of october which were then or before levyed , or taken by the sheriffes , commissioners , receivers , or collectors , and not then or before accounted for , or since disposed to the publick use of the said roman catholick subjects , but that such persons may be brought to account for the same after full settlement in parliament , and not before , unlesse by , and with the advice and consent of the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskery , francis lord baron of athunry , allexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnewall baronet , jefferey browne , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neile , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seaven or more of them , as the said lord lieut. otherwise shall thinke fit ; provided that such barrowys and inhumian crimes as shal be particularized and agreed upon by the said lord lieutenaut , and the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costollogh lord president of connagh lord viscount muskery , francis lord baron of athunry , allexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnewall baronet , jeffry browne , donnogh o callaghan , tirlagh o neile , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them , as to the actors and procurers thereof bee left to bee tryed and adjudged by such indifferent commissioners as shall be agreed upon by the said lord lieutenant , and the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costollogh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskery , francis lord baron of athunry , allexander mac donnell esq. sir lucas dillon kt. sir nicholas plunket kt. sir richard barnewal baronet , jeffrey browne , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neile , miles reily and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them ; and that the power of the said commissioners shall continue onely for two yeares next ensuing the date of their commission , which commission is to issue within six months after the date of these articles ; provided also , that the commissioners to bee agreed on for tryall of the said particular crimes to be excepted ; shall hear , order and determine all cases of trust where reliefe may or ought in equity to be afforded against all manner of persons according to the equity and circumstances of every such cases , and his majesties cheife governor or governours and other magistrats for the time being , in all his majesties courts of justice and other his majesties officers of what condition or quality soever be bound and required to take notice of , and pursue the said act of oblivion without pleading or suite to bee made for the same , and that no clerke or other officers doe make out or write out any manner of writs , processes , summons or other precept for , concerning , or by reason of any matter , cause , or thing whatsoever released , forgiven , discharged , or to be forgiven by the said act under pain of li . sterling , and that no sheriffe or other officer , do execute any such writ , processe , summons or precept ; and that no record , writing or memory , do remain of any offence or offences , released or forgiven , or mentioned to be forgiven by this act ; and that all other clauses usually inserted in acts of generall pardon or oblivion , enlarging his majesties grace and mercy , nor herein particularised , bee incerted and comprised in the said act when the bill shall be drawn up with the exceptions already expressed and none other . provided always that the said act of oblivion shall not extend to any treason , felony , or other offence or offences which shall be committed or don from or after the date of these articles untill the first day of the before mentioned next parliament , to be held in this kingdome ; provided also that any act or acts which shall be done by vertue , pretence , or in pursuance of these articles of peace agreed upon , or any act or acts which shall be don by vertue , coulor or pretence of the power or authority used , or exercised by and amongst the confederate roman catholicks after the date of the said articles , and before the said publication , shall not be accounted , taken , construed , or to be , treason , felony , or other offence to be excepted out of the said act of oblivion ; provided likewise that the said act of oblivion shall not extend unto any person or persons that will not obey and submit unto the peace concluded and agreed on by these articles ; provided further that the said act of oblivion or any thing in this article contained shall not hinder or interrupt the said tho. lord visc. dillon of costologh lord presid. of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskery , francis lord baron of athunry , allexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnewall baronet , jeffrey browne , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neile , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them , to call to an account , and proceed against the councell and congregation , and the respective supream councells commissioners generall , appointed hitherto from time to time by the confederate catholickes to manage their affaires , or any other person or persons accomptable to an accompt for their respective receipts and disbursements , since the beginning of their respective imployments under the said confederate catholickes , or to acquit orrelease any arrears of excises , customes , or publicke taxes to be accounted for , since the of octo. . and not disposed of hitherto , to the publicke use , but that the parties therein concerned may be called to an account for the same as aforesaid , by the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskery , francis lord baron of athunry , allexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnewall baronet , jeffrey browne , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neile , miles reily and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seaven or more of them , the said act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding . item , it is further concluded , accorded and agreed upon , by and between the said parties , and his majestie is graciously pleased , that an act be passed in the next parliament , prohibiting that neither the lord deputy , or other chief governor , or governors , lord chancellor , lord high-treasurer , vice-treasurer , chancellor , or any of the barons of the exehequer , privie councel or judges of the foure courts be farmers of his majesties customes within this kingdom . . item , it is likewise concluded , accorded and agreed , and his majestie is graciously pleased , that an act of parliament passe in this kingdom against monopolies , such as was enacted in england . jacobi regis , with a further clause of repealing of all grants of monopolies in this kingdom , and that commissioners be agreed upon by the said lord lieutenant , and the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerrie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnell . esquire , sir lucas dillan knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwall baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them , to set down the rates for the custome and imposition to be laid on aquavitae , wine , oile , yarne and tobacco . . item , it is concluded , accorded , and agreed , and his majestie is graciously pleased , that such persons as shall be agreed on by the said lord lieutenant , and the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh , lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwell baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan , tirlagh o neal , miles reilie , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them shall be as soon as may be authorized by commission under the great seal , to regulate the court of castle-chamber , and such causes as shall be brought into , and censured in the said court . . item , it is concluded , accorded , and agreed upon , and his majesty is graciously pleased , that two acts lately passed in this kingdom , one prohibiting the plowing with horses by the tail , and the other prohibiting the burning of oates in the straw bee repealed . . item , it is further concluded , accorded , and agreed upon by , and between the said parties , and his majestie is further graciously pleased , for as much as upon application of agents from this kingdome unto his majestie in the fourth yeer of his reign , and lately upon humble suit made unto his majestie , by a committee of both houses of the parliament of this kingdom , order was given by his majestie for redresse of severall grievances , and for so many of those as are not expressed in the articles , whereof both house , in the next insuing parliament shall defire the benefit of his majesties said former directions for redresse therein , that the same be afforded them , yet so , as for prevention of inconveniences to his majesties service , that the warning mentioned in the . article of the graces in the . yeer of his majesties reign be so understood , that the warning being left at the persons dwelling houses be held sufficient warning , and as to the article of the said graces , the proces hitherto used in the court of wards doe still continue , as hitherto it hath done in that , and hath beene used in other english courts , but the court of wards being compounded for so much of the aforesaid answer as concernes warning and processe shall be omitted . . item , it is further concluded , accorded , and agreed upon by , and between the said parties , and his majesty is further graciously pleased , that maritine causes may be determined in this kingdome , without driving of merchants or others to appeal and seek justice elsewhere ; and if it shall fall out that there bee cause of an appeal , the party grieved is to appeal to his majestie in the chancerie of ireland , and the sentence thereupon to be given by the deligates , to be definitive and not to be questioned upon any further appeal except it be in the parliament of this kingdome , if the parliament shall then be sitting , otherwise not , this to be by act of parliament , and untill the said parliament , the admiraltie and maritine causes shall be ordered and setled by the said lord lieutenant , or other chief governor or governors of this kingdome for the time being , by and with the advice and consent of the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh , lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnel esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard ( barnwall baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reily and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them . . item , it is further concluded , accorded , and agreed upon , by and between the said parties , and his majestie is graciously pleased , that his majesties subjects of this kingdom be cased or all rents and increase of rents lately raised on the commission or defective titles in the earl of straffords government , this to be by act of parliament ; and that in the mean time the said rents or increase of rents shall not be written for , by any processe , or the payment thereof in any sort procured . . item , it is further concluded , accorded , and agreed upon , by and between the said parties , and his majestie is further graciously pleased , that by act to be passed in the next parliament , all the arrears of interest mony , which did accrue and grow due by way of debt , mortgage or otherwise , and yet not so satisfied since the . of october . untili the perfection of these articles , shall be fully forgiven and be released , and that for and during the space of three yeeres next ensuing , no more shall be taken for use or interest of money then five pounds per centum . and in cases of equitie arising through dis-abilitie , occasioned by the distempers of the times , the considerations of equitie to be like unto both parties ; but as for mortgages contracted between his majesties roman catholike subjects and others of that partie , where entry hath been made by the mortgagers against law , and the condition of their mortgages , and detained wrongfully by them without giving any satisfaction to the mortgages , or where any such mortgagers have made profit of the lands morgaged above countrey charges , yet answer no rent , or other consideration to the mortgagees , the parties grieved respectively to be left for releife to a course of equitie therein . . item , it is further concluded , accorded , and agreed upon , and his majestie is further graciously pleased , that immediatly upon perfection of these articles , the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh , lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerrie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwall baronet , jefferie brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reily , gerrald fennell esquires , shall be authorized by the said lord licutenant to proceed in , hear , determine , and execute in , and throughout this kingdom , the ensuing particulars , and all the matters thereupon depending , and that such authoritie and other the authorities hereafter mentioned shall remain of force without revocation , alteration or diminution , untill acts of parliament be passed , according to the purport and intent of these articles , and that in case of death , miscarriage , disabilitie to serve , by reason of sicknesse or otherwise of any the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnel esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwall baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan tirlagh o neal , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , and his majesties lord lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of this kingdom for the time being , shall name and authorize another in the place of such as shall be so dead , or shall miscarrie himselfe , or be so disabled , and that the same shall be such person , as shall bee allowed of by the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerry , francis lord baron of atbunry , alexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwall baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reilie and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them then living . and that the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh , lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunry , alexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket kt. sir richard barnwal baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them shall have power to applot , raise and leavie meanes with indifferencie and equalitie by way of excise or otherwise , upon all his majesties subjects within the said kingdom , their persons , estates and goods , towards the maintenance of such armie or armies as shall be thought fit to continue , and be in pay for his majesties service , the defence of the kingdom , and other the necessary publike charges thereof , and towards the maintenance of the forts , castles , garrisons , and towns of both or either partie , other then such of the said forts , garrisons and castles , as from time to time , untill there shall bee a settlement in parliament shall be thought fit , by his majesties chief governor or governours of this kingdom for the time being , by and with the advice and consent of the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnel esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwal baronet , jefferie brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reily , and gerrald fennel esquires , or any seven or more of them , not to be maintained at the charge of the publike , provided that his majesties lord lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of this kingdome for the time being , be first made acquainted with such taxes , levies , and excises as shall be made , and the manner of leavying thereof , and that he approve the same ; and to the end that such of the protestant party , as shall submit to the peace may in the severall counties where any of their estates lyeth , have equallitie and indifferencie in the assessements and levies that shall concern their estates in the said severall counties . it is concluded , accorded , and agreed upon , and his majestie is graciously pleased , that in the directions which shall issue to any such county , for the applotting , subdeviding , and levying of the said publike assessements , some of the said protestant party shall be joyned with others of the roman catholike party to that purpose , and for effecting that service ; and the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnel esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwell baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neil , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them shall have power to leavie the arrears of all excises and other publike taxes imposed by the confederate roman catholikes , and yet unpaid , and to call receivers and other accomptants of all former taxes and all publike dues to a just and strict account either by themselves , or by such as they or any seven or more of them shall name or appoint ; and that the said lord lieutenant , or any other chief governor or governors of this kingdom for the time being , shall from time to time issue commissions to such person and persons as shall be named and appointed by the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh , lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnel esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwall baronet , jefferie brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reily and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them , for letting , setting and improving the estates of all such person and persons , as shall adhere to any partie opposing his majesties authority and not submitting to the peace ; and that the profits of such estates shall be converted by the said lord lieutenant , or other chief governor or governors of this kingdom for the time being , to the maintenance of the kings armie , and other necessary charges , untill settlement by parliament ; and that the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunry , alexander mac donnel esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwal baronet , jefferie brown , donnogh o callaghan , tirlagh o neal , miles reily , and gerrald fennel esquires , or any seven or more of them shall have power to applot , raise and leavie meanes with indifferencie and equalitie for the buying of armes and ammunition , and for the entertaining of frigots in such proportion as shall be thought fit by his majesties lord lieutenant , or other chief governors of this kingdom for the time being ; by and with the advice and consent of the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh , lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwall baronet , jefferie brown , donnogh o callaghan , tirlagh o neal , miles reily , and gerrald fennel esquires , or any seven or more of them , the said armes and ammunition , to be laid up in such magazines , and under the charge of such persons as shall be agreed on , by the said lord lieutenant , and the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnel esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwal baronet , iefferie brown , donnogh o callaghan tirlagh o neal , miles reily , and gerrald fennel esquires , or any seven or more of them , and to be disposed of , and the said frigots to be imployed for his majesties service , and the publike use and benefit of this kingdom of ireland ; and that the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerrie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwall baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them , shall have power to applot , raise , and levie meanes with indifferencie and equallitie , by way of excise or otherwise , in the severall cities , corporate towns , counties , and part of counties , now within the quarters , and only upon the estates of the said confederate roman catholikes , all such sum and summes of money as shall appear to the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh , lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwell baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan , tirlagh o neal , miles reilie , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them to be really due for and in the discharge of the publike ingagements of the said confederate catholikes , incurred or grown due before the conclusion of these articles ; and that the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh , lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnel esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwall baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them shall be authorized to appoint receivers , collectors , and all other officers , for such monies as shall bee assessed , taxed , or applotted , in pursuance of the authorities mentioned in this article , and for the arrears of all former applotments , taxes , and other publike dues yet unpaid ; and that the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnel esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwell baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neil , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them , in case of refractories , or delinquencie may distrain and imprison , and cause such delinquents to be distrained and imprisoned . and the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnel esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwal baronet , jefferie brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reily , and gerrald fennel esquires , or any seven or more of them , make perfect books of all such monies as shall be applotted , raised , or levied , out of which books they are to make severall and respective abstracts to be delivered under their hands or the hands of any seven or more of them to the severall and respective collectors which shall be appointed to levy and receive the same . and that a duplicate of the said books under the hands of the said thomas lord visc. dillon of costologh , lord president of connaght , donnogh lord visc. muskerie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnell esq. sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwall baronet , jefferie brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reily , gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them be delivered unto his majesties lord lieutenant , or other chief governor or governors of this kingdom for the time being , whereby a perfect account may be given ; and that the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunrie , alexander mac donnel esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwall baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan tirlagh o neal , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esq. or any seven or more of them shall have power to call the councell and congregation , and the respective supream councells , and commissioners generall , appointed hitherto from time to time by the said confederate roman catholickes , to mannage their publick affaires , and all other persons accountable to an account for all their receipts and disbursments since the beginning of their respective imployments under the confederate roman catholicks . item it is concluded , accorded , and agreed , by and between the said parties , and his majesty is graciously pleased , that for the preservation of the peace and tranquility of the kingdome , the said lord lieutenant , and the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costollogh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskery , francis lord barron of athunry , allexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnewall baronet , jeffrey browne , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neile , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seaven or more of them shall for the present agree upon such persons who are to be authorized by commission under the great seale to be commissioners of the peace , oyer and terminer , assises and goale delivery , in , and throughout the kingdome , to continue during pleasure , with such power as justices of the peace , oyer and terminer , assizes and goale delivery in former time of peace , have usually had , which is not to extend unto any crime or offence committed before the first of may last past , and to be quallified with power to hear and determin al civil causes coming before them , not exceeding ten pounds ; provided that they shall not intermeddle with titles of lands ; provided likewise the authority of such commissioners shall not extend to question any person or persons , for any shipping , cattle or goods heretofore takēn by either party from the other , or other injuries done contrary to the articles of cessation , concluded by and with the said roman catholicke party , in , or since may last , but that the same shall bee determined by such indifferent persons as the lord lieutenant , by the advice and consent of the said thomas lord visc. dillon of costollogh lord presi . of connagh , donnogh lord viscount muskery , francis lord baron of athunry , allexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnewall baronet , jeffry browne , donnogh o callaghan , tirlagh o neile , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them shall think fit , to the end , that speedy and equall justice may be done to all parties grieved ; and the said commissioners are to make their estreats as accustomed of peace , and shall take the ensuing oath , viz. you shall sweare , that as justice of the peace oyer and terminer , assizes , and goale delivery in the counties of a. b in all articles to the commission to you directed . you shall do equall right to the poore , and to the rich after your cunning , and wit and power , and after the lawes and customes of the realme , and in pursuance of these articles ; and you shall not be of councell of any quarrell hanging before you ; and the issues , fines and amerciaments which shall happen to be made , and all forfeitures which shall happen before you , you shall cause to bee entred without any concealment or imbeazling , and send to the court of exchequer , or to such other place as his majesties lord lieut. or other cheif governor orgovernors of this kingdome shall appoint , untill there may be accesse unto the said court of exchequer ; you shall not let for gift or other cause , but well and truly ; you shall doe your office of justice of the peace , oyer and terminer , assises and goale delivery in that behalfe , and that you take nothing for your office of justice of the peace , oyer and terminer , assizes and goale delivery to be done , but of the king , and fees accustomed ; and you shall not direct , or cause to be directed any warrant by you , to be made to the parties , but you shall direct them to the sheriffs and bayliffs of the said counties respectively , or other the kings officers or ministers , or other indifferent persons to doe execution thereof , so helpe me god , &c. and that as well in the said commission , as in all other commissions and authorities to be issued in pursuance of the present articles , this clause shall be incerted viz. that all officers , civill and martiall , shall be required to be aiding and assisting , and obedient unto the said commissioners , and other persons to be authorized as above said in the execution of their respective powers . item , it is further concluded , accorded and agreed upon , by and between the said parties , and his majesty is further graciously pleased that his majesties roman catholicke subjects , do continue the possession of such of his majesties cities , garrisons , townes , forts and castles which are within their now quarters , untill settlement by parliament , and to be commanded , ruled and governed in cheife , upon occasion of necessity ( as to the martiall and military affairs , by such as his majesty , or his cheife governour or governours of this kingdom for the time being , shall appoint ; and the said appointment to be by , and with the advice and consent of the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskery , francis lord baron of athunry , allexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnewall baronet , jefferey browne , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neile , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seaven or more of them , and his majestyes cheife governour or governours is to issue commissions accordingly , to such persons as shall be so named and appointed , as aforsaid , for the executing of such comand , rule , or government , to continue untill all the particulars in these present articles agreed on to passe in paliament , shall be accordingly passed , only in case of death or misbehaviour , such other person or persons to be appointed for the said command , rule and government to be named and appointed in the place or places , of him or them , who shall so dye , or misbehave themselves as the cheife governor or governors for the time being , by the advice and consent of the said thomas lord visc. dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskery , francis lord baron of athunry , allexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnewall baronet , jeffrey browne , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neile , miles reily and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seaven or more of them , shall thinke fit , and to bee continued untill a settlement in parliament as aforesaid . item , it is further concluded , accorded and agreed upon by , and between the said parties , and his majesty is further graciously pleased , that all customes and tenths of prizes belonging to his majesty , which from the perfection of these articles , shall fall due within this kingdome , shall be paid unto his majesties receipt , or until recourse may be had thereunto in the ordinary legal way , unto such person or persons , and in such place or places , and under such controls as the lord lieutenant shall appoint to be disposed of , in order to the defence and safety of the kingdome , and the defraying of other the necessary publicke charges thereof , for the ease of the subjects in other their levyes , charges and applotments . and that all , and every person or persons who are at present intrusted and imployed by the said roman catholicks , in the entries , receipts , collections , or otherwise , concerning the said customes and tenths of prizes , doe continue their respective imployments in the same , untill full settlement in parliament accountable to his majesties receipts , or untill recourse may be had thereunto ; as the said lord lieutenant shall appoint as aforesaid , other then to such , and so many of them ; as to the cheife governour or governours for the time being , by , and with the advice and consent of the said tho. lord visc. dillon of costologh lord pres. of connaght , donnogh lord visc. muskery , francis lord baron of athunry , allexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnewall baronet , jeffrey browne , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neile , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them shall be thought fit to be altered ; and then , and in such case , or in case of death , fraud or misbehavior , or other alteration of any such person or persons , then such other person or persons to be imployed therein , as shall be thought fit by the cheife governour or governours for the time being , by , and with the advice and consent of the said tho. lord visc. dillon of costollogh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskery , francis lord baron of athunry , allexander mac donnell esq. sir lucas dillon kt. sir nicholas plunket kt. sir richard barnewal baronet , jeffrey browne , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neile , miles reily and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them ; and when it shall appeare , that any person or persons who shall be found faithfull to his majesty , hath right to any of the offices or places about the said customes wherunto he or they , may not be admitted untill settlement in parliament as aforesaid , that a reasonable compensation shall be afforded to such person or persons for the same . . item , as for and concerning his majesties rents , payable at easter next , and from thenceforth to grow due , untill a settlement in parliament . it is concluded , accorded , and agreed upon , by and between the said parties , and his majestie is graciously pleased , that the said rents be not written for , or levied untill a full settlement in parliament , and in due time upon application to be made to the said lord lieutenant , or other chief governor or governors of this kingdome by the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costologh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerie , francis lord baron of athunry , alexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas planket knight , sir richard barnwal baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reily , and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them for remittall of those rents , the said lord lieutenant , or any other chief governor or governors of this kingdome for the time being , shall intimate their desires , and the reason thereof to his majestie , who upon consideration of the present condition of this kingdome will declare his gracious pleasure therein , as shall be just and honorable , and satisfactorie to the reasonable desires of his subjects . . item , it is concluded , accorded , and agreed , by and between the said parties , and his majestie is graciously pleased , that the commissioners of oyer and terminer , and goal deliverie to be named as aforesaid , shall have power to hear and determine all murthers , man-slaughters , rapes , stealths , burning of houses and corn in rick , or stack , robberies , burglaries , forcible entries , detainers of possessions and other offences committed or done , and to be committed and done since the first day of may last past , untill the first day of the next parliament , these present . articles or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding ; provided that the authority of the said commissioners shall not extend to question any person or persons , for doing or committing any act whatsoever , before the conclusion of this treaty , by vertue or colour of any warrant or direction from those in publike authoritie among the confederate roman catholikes , nor unto any act which shall be done after the perfecting and concluding of these articles , by vertue or pretence of any authority which is now by these articles agreed on ; provided also that the said commission shall not continue longer then the first day of the next parliament . item , it is concluded , accorded by and between the said parties , and his majestie is further graciously pleased , that for the determining such differences which may arise between his majesties subjects within this kingdome , and the prevention of inconvenience and disquiet , which through want of due remedie in severall causes may happen , there shall be judicatures established in this kingdome , and that the persons to be authorized in them shall have power to do all such things as shall be proper and necessary for them to doe ; and the said lord lieutenant by and with the advice and consent of the said thomas lord viscount dillon of costollogh lord president of connaght , donnogh lord viscount muskerry , francis lord baron of athunry , alexander mac donnell esquire , sir lucas dillon knight , sir nicholas plunket knight , sir richard barnwall baronet , jeffery brown , donnogh o callaghan , tyrlagh o neal , miles reilie and gerrald fennell esquires , or any seven or more of them shall name the said persons so to be authorized , and doe all other things incident unto , and necessarie for the setling of the said intended judicatures . . item at the instance , humble suit and earnest desire of the general assembly of the confederate roman catholikes ; it is concluded , accorded , and agreed upon , that the roman catholike regular clergie of this kingdom , behaving themselves conformable to these articles of peace , shall not be molested in the possessions , which at present they have of and in the bodies scites and precincts of such abbies and monasteries belonging to any roman carholike within the said kingdom , until settlement by parliament ; and that the said clergie shall not be molested in the enjoying of such pensions as hitherto since the watres they enjoyed for their respective livelihoods from the said roman catholikes , and the scites and precincts hereby intended are declared to be the bodie of the abbie , one garden and orchard to each abbie , if any there be , and what else is contained within the walls , meares or ancient fences or ditch that doth supply the wall thereof , and no more . . item , it is concluded , accorded , and agreed , by and between the said parties , that as to all other demands of the said roman catholikes , for or concerning all or any the matters proposed by them , not granted or assented unto , in and by the foresaid articles , the said roman catholikes be referred to his majesties gracious favour and further concessions . in witnesse whereof , the said lord lieutenant , for and on the behalfe of his most excellent majestie , to the one part of these articles remaining with the said roman catholiques hath put his hand and seal ; and sir richard blake knight in the chaire of the generall assembly of the said roman catholikes , by order , command , and unanimous consent of the said catholikes in full assembly to the other part thereof remaining with the said lord lieutenant , hath put his hand and the publque seal hitherto used by the said roman catholiques the . of january . and in the . year of the reign of our soveraign lord charles by the grace of god , king of great brittain , france and ireland , &c. sir , i have not thus long forborn to invite you with these under your command to a submission to his majesties authoritie in me , and a conjunction with me in the waies of his service out of any the least aversion i had to you or any of them , or out of any dis-esteem i had to your power to advance or impede the same , but out of my fear , whiles those that have of late usurped power over the subjects of england held forth the least colourable shadow of moderation in their intentions towards the settlement of church or state , and that in some tollerable way with relation to religion , the interest of the king and crown , the freedom of parliament , the liberties of the subject , any addresses from mee proposing the withdrawing of that party from those thus professing , from whom they have received some , and expected further support , would have been but coldly received , and any determination thereupon deferred in hope and expectation of the forementioned settlement , or that you your selfe , who certainly have not wanted aforesight of the sad confusion now covering the face of england , would have declared with me , the lord inchequeen , and the protestant army in munster in prevention thereof , yet my fear was it would have been as difficult for you to have carried with you the main body of of the armie under your command ( not so clear sighted as your self ) as it would have been dangerous to you , and those with you well inclined , to have attempted it without them , but now that the mask of hypocrisie , by which the independent armie hath ensnared and enslaved all estates and degrees of men is laid aside , now that barefaced , they evidently appear to bee the subverters of true religion , and to be the protectors and inviters , not only of all false ones , but of irreligion and atheisme , now that they have barbarously and inhumanely laid violent , sacrilegious hands upon , and murthered gods annointed , and our king , not as heretofore some patricides have done to make room for some usurper , but in a way plainly manifesting their intentions to change the monarchy of england into anarchy , unlesse their aime bee first to constitute an elective kingdome , and crumwell or some such iohn of leiden being elected , then by the same force , by which they have thus far compassed their ends to establish a perfect turklsh tyranny ; now that of the three estates of king , lords & commons , whereof in all ages , parliaments have consisted , there remains only a small number , and they the dregs and scum of the house of commons , pickt and awed by the armie , a wicked remnant left for no other end ; then yet further , if it be possible to delude the people with the name of a parliament : the king being murthered , the lords and the rest of the commons , being by unheard of violence , at severall times forced from the houses and some imprisoned . and now that there remaines no other libertie in the subject but to professe blasphemous opinions , to revile and tread underfoot magistracie , to murther magistrates , and oppresse and undoe all that are not like minded with them . now i say , that i cannot doubt but that you , and all with you under your command will take this opportunitie to act and declare against so monstrous and unparaleld a rebellion , and that you and they will cheerfully acknowledge , and faithfully serve and obey our gracious king charles the second undoubted heir of his father crown and vertues ; under whose right and conduct we may by gods assistance restore protestant religion to puritie , and therein settle it , parliaments to their freedome , good laws to their force , and our fellow-subjects to their just liberties , wherein how glorious and blessed a thing it will bee , to be so considerablie instrumentall , as you may now make your self , i leave to you now to consider . and though i conceive there are not any motives relating to some particular interest to be mentioned after these so weightie considerations , which are such as the world hath not been at any time furnished with , yet i hold it my part to assure you , that as there is nothing you can reasonably propose for the safety , satisfaction or advantage of your self , or of any that shall adhear to you in what i desire , that i shall not to the uttermost of my power provide for , so there is nothing i would , nor shall more industriously avoid , then those necessities arising from my duty to god and man , that may by your rejecting this offer force me to be a sad instrument of shedding english blood , which in such case must on both sides happen . if thir overture finde place with you , as i earnestly wish it may , let me know with what possible speed you can , and if you please by the bearer in what way you desire , it should bee drawne on to a conclusion . for in that , as well as in the substance you shall find all ready complyance from me that desire to bee your affectionate friend to serve you , ormond . carrick march . . for colonel michael jones governour of dublin . my lord , your lordships of the ninth , i received the twelfth instant , and therein have i your lordships invitation to a conjunction with your self ( i suppose ) as lord lieutenant of ireland , and with others now united with the irish , and with the irish themselves also . as i understand not how your lordship should be invested with that power pretended , so am i very well assured , that it is not in the power of any without the parliament of england to give and assure pardon to those bloodie rebels , as by the act to that end passed may appear more fully . i am also well assured that the parliament of england would never assent to such a peace ( such as is that your lordships with the rebels ) wherin is little or no provision made either for the protestants or the protestant religion nor can i understand how the protestant religion should bee setled and restored to its puritie by an armie of papists , or the protestant interests maintained by those very enemies by whom they have been spoiled and there slaughtered : and very evident it is that both the protestants and protestant religion are in that your lordships treaty , left as in the power of the rebels to be by them born down , and rooted out at pleasure . as for that consideration by your lordship offered of the present and late proceedings in england , i see not how it may be a sufficient motive to mee ( or any other in like trust for the parliament of england in the service of this kingdome ) to joyn with those rebels upon any the pretences in that your lordships letter mentioned , for therein were there a manifest betraying that trust reposed in me in disserting the service and work committed to me in joyning with those i should oppose , and in opposing whom i am obliged to serve . neither conceive i it any part of my work and care to take notice of any whatsoever proceedings of state forreign , to my charge and trust here , especially , they being found hereunto apparently destructive . most certain it is , and former ages have approved it , that the intermedling of governors and parties in this kingdom , with sidings and parties in england , have been the very betraying of this kingdom to the irish , whiles the brittish forces here had bin thereupon called off , and the place therin laid open , and as it were given up to the common enemie . it is what your lordship might have observed in your former treatie with the rebels , that upon your lordships thereupon withdrawing , and sending hence into england the most considerable part of the english army then commanded by you ; thereby was the remaining brittish party , not long after over-poured , and your quarters by the irish over-run to the gates of dublin , your self also reduced to that low condition , as to be besieged in this very citie ( the metropolis and princpall cittadell of the kingdom ) and that by those very rebels , who till then could never stand before you ; and what the end hath bin of that party , also , so sent by your lordship into england , ( although the flower & strength of the english army here both officers and souldiers ) hath bin very observable . and how much the dangers are at present ( more then in former ages ) of hazarding the english interest in this kingdom , by sending any parties hence into any other kingdom upon any pretences whatsoever is very apparent , as in the generalitie of the rebellion , now more then formerly ; so considering your lordships present conclusions with , and concessions to the rebels , wherein they are allowed the continued possession of all the cities , forts , and places of strength , whereof they stood possessed at the time of their treatie with your lordship , and that they are to have a standing force ( if i well remember of foot , and horse ( all of their own party officers and souldiers ) and they ( with the whole kingdom ) to be regulated by a major party of irish trustees chosen by the rebels themselves , as persons for their interests and ends to be by them confided in , without whom nothing is to be acted . therein i cannot but mind your lordship of what hath been sometimes by your self delivered , as your sence in this particular ; that the english interest in ireland must be preserved by the english , and not by irish , and upon that ground ( if i be not deceived ) did your lordship then capitulate with the parliament of england , from which cleer principle i am sorrie to see your lordship now receding . as to that by your lordship menaced us here , of blood and force , if dissenting from your lordships waies and designes , for my particular i shall ( my lord ) much rather chuse to suffer in so doing ( for therein shall i doe what is becomming and answerable to my trust ) then to purchase my self on the contrary the ignominious brand of perfidie , by any allurements of whatsoever advantages offered me . but very confident i am , of the same divine power which hath still followed me in this work , and will still folllow me ; and in that trust doubt i nothing of thus giving your lordship plainly this my resolution in that particular , so i remain , dublin march . . your lordships humble servant , signed mic : jones . for the lord of ormond these . by the lord lieutenant generall of ireland . ormond , whereas our late soveraign king charles of happie memory hath bin lately by a party of his rebellious subjects of england most traiterously , maliciously , and inhumanely put to death and murthered ; and forasmuch as his majestie that now is , charles by the grace of god king of england , scotlana , france and ireland , is son and heir of his said late majestie , and therefore by the laws of the land , of force , and practised in all ages , is to inherit . we therefore in discharge of the dutie we owe unto god , our allegiance and loyaltie to our soveraign , holding it fit him so to proclaim in and through this his majesties kingdome , doe by this our present proclamation declare and manifest to the world , that charles the second , son and heir of our late soveraign king charles the first of happy memory , is , by the grace of god the undoubted king of england , scotland , france , and ireland , defender of the faith , &c. given at carrick febr. . . god save the king . a necessary representation of the present evills , and eminent dangers to religion , lawes , and liberties , arising from the late , and present practises of the sectarian party in england : together with an exhortation to duties relating to the covenant , unto all within our charge ; and to all the well-affected within this kingdome , by the presbytery at belfast , february th . when we doe seriously consider the great , and many duties which we owe unto god , and his people , over whom he hath made us overseers ; and for whom we must give an accompt ; and when wee behold the laudable examples of the worthy ministers of the province of london , and of the commissioners of the generall assembly of the church of scotland , in their free and faithfull testimonies against the insolencies of the sectarian party in england . considering also the dependency of this kingdome upon the kingdome of england , and remembring how against strong oppositions we were assisted by the lord the last yeare in discharge of the like dutie , and how he punished the contempt of our warning upon the despisers thereof : we finde our selves as necessitated ; so the more encouraged to cast in our mite in the treasury , least our silence should involve us in the guilt of unfaithfulnesse , and our people in security , and neglect of duties . in this discharge of the trust put upon us by god , we would not be looked upon as sowers of sedition , or broachers of nationall and divisive motions , our record is in heaven , that nothing is more hatefull unto us , nor lesse intended by us , and therefore we shall not feare the malicious , and wicked aspersions , which we know satan by his instruments is ready to cast , not onely upon us , but on all who sincerely endeavour the advancement of reformation . what of late have been , and now are the insolent , and presumptuous practises of the sectaries in england , is not unknowne to the world : for , first , notwithstanding their specious pretences for religion , and liberties , yet their late , and present actings , being therewith compared , doe clearly evidence that they love a rough garment to deceive ; since they have with a high hand despised the oath in breaking the covenant , which is so strong a foundation to both , whilest they loaden it with slighting reproaches , calling it a bundle of particular and contrary interests , and a snare to the people ; and likewise labour to establish by lawes an universall toleration of all religions , which is an innovation over-turning of unity in religion , and so directly repugnant to the word of god , the two first articles of our solemne covenant , which is the greatest wickednesse in them to violate , since many of the chiefest of themselves , have with their hands testified to the most high god , sworne , and sealed it . moreover ; their great dis-affection to the settlement of religion , and so their future breach of covenant doth more fully appeare by their strong oppositions to presbyteriall government ( the hedge , and bulwarke of religion ) whilest they expresse their hatred to it , more then to the worst of errours , by excluding it under the name of compulsion ; when they imbrace , even paganisme , and judaisme in the armes of toleration . not to speake of their aspersions upon it , and the assertors thereof , as antichristian , and popish , though they have deeply sworn to maintaine the same government in the first article of the covenant , as it is established in the church of scotland , which they now so despite , and fully blaspheme . againe , it is more then manifest that they seek not the vindication , but the extirpation of lawes , and liberties , as appeares by their seizing on the person of the king , and at their pleasures removing him from place to place , not onely without the consent , but ( if we mis-take not ) against a direct ordinance of parliament : their violent surprizing , imprisoning , and secluding many of the most worthy members of the honourable house of commons , directly against a declared priviledge of parliament ( an action certainly without parallell in any age ) and their purposes of abolishing parliamentary power for the future , and establishing of a representative ( as they call it ) in stead thereof . neither hath their fury stayed here , but without all rule , or example , being but private men , they have proceeded to the tryall of the king , against both the interest , and protestation of the kingdome of scotland , and the former publique declarations of both kingdomes ( besides the violent hast , reiecting the hearing of any defences ) with cruell hands have put him to death ; an act so horrible , as no history , divine or humane , hath laid a president of the like . these , and many other their detestable insolencies , may abundantly convince every unbyassed judgement , that the present practise of the sectaries , and their abettors , doe directly over-turne the lawes and liberties of the kingdomes , roote out lawfull , and supreme magistracy ( the just priviledges whereof we have sworne to maintaine ) and introduce a fearfull confusion , and lawlesse anarchie . the spirit of god by solomon tells us , pro. . . that a servant to reigne is one of the foure things for which the earth is disquieted , and which is cannot heare : we wonder nothing that the earth is disquieted for these things ; but we wonder greatly , if the earth can beare them , and albeit the lord so permit , that folly be set in great dignity , and they which sit in low place ; that servants ride upon horses , and princes walke as servants upon the earth , eccles. . ver. , . yet the same wise man saith , pro. . . delight is not seemely for a foole , much lesse for a servant to have rule ever princes . when we consider these things , we cannot but declare and manifest our utter dislike and detestation of such unwarrantable practises , directly subverting our covenant , religion , lawes , and liberties . and as watchmen in sion warne all the lovers of truth , and well-affected to the covenant , carefully to avoyde compliance with , or not bearing witnesse against horrid insolencies , least partaking with them in their sinnes , they also be partakers of their plagues . therefore in the spirit of meeknesse , wee earnestly intreate , and in the authority of jesus christ , ( whose servants wee are ) charge , and obtest all who resolve to adhere unto truth , and the covenant , diligently to observe , and conscientiously to performe these following duties . . first , that according to our solemne covenant , every one study more to the power of godlinesse , and personall reformation of themselves , and families , because for the great breach of this part of the covenant , god is highly offended with these lands , and justly provoked to permit men to be the instruments of our misery and afflictions . . secondly , that every one in their station and calling earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints , jude . and seeke to have their hearts established with grace , that they be not unstable , and wavering , carried about with every winde of doctrine ; but that they receive the truth in love , avoyding the company of such , as withdraw from , and vilifie the publique ordinances ; speake evill of church-government ; invent damnable errors , under the specious pretence of a gospel-way , and new light ; and highly extoll the persons and courses of notorious sectaries , least god give them over to strong delusions ( the plague of these times ) that they may beleeve lies , and be damned . . thirdly , that they would not be drawne by councell , command , or example , to shake off the ancient , and fundamentall government of these kingdomes by king and parliament , which we are so deeply ingaged to preserve by our solemne covenant , as they would not be found guilty of the great evill of these times ( condemned by the holy ghost ) the despising of dominion , and speaking evill of dignities . . fourthly , that they doe cordially endeavour the preservation of the union amongst the well-affected in the kingdomes , not being swayed by any nationall respect : remembring that part of the covenant ; that wee shall not suffer our selves directly , nor indirectly , by whatsoever combination , perswasion , or terrour , to be divided , or withdrawne from this blessed union , and conjunction . and finally , albeit there be more present hazard from the power of sectaries , ( as were from malignants the last yeare ) yet wee are not ignorant of the evill purposes of malignants , even at this time in all the kingdomes ; and particularly in this ; and for this cause we exhort every one with equall watchfulnesse to keep themselves free from associating with such , or from swerving in their judgements to malignant principles ; and to avoyd all such persons as have been from the beginning knowne opposers of reformation , refusers of the covenant , combining themselves with papists , and other notorious malignants , especially such who have been chiefe promotors of the late ingagement against england , calumniators of the worke of reformation , in reputing the miseries of the present times unto the advancers thereof , and that their just hatred to sectaries , incline not their mindes to favour malignants , or to thinke that because of the power of sectaries , the cause of god needs the more to feare the enmity , or to stand in need of the helpe of malignants . observations upon the articles of peace with the irish rebels , on the letter of ormond to col. jones , and the representation of the presbytery at belfast . although it be a maxim much agreeable to wisdom , that just deeds are the best answer to injurious words , and actions of what ever sort , their own plainest interpreters ; yet since our enemies can finde the leisure both wayes to offend us , it will be requisite we should be found in neither of those wayes neglectfull of our just defence . to let them know , that sincere and upright intentions can certainly with as much ease deliver themselvs into words as into deeds . having therefore seen of late those articles of peace granted to the papist rebels of ireland , as speciall graces and favours from the late king , in reward , most likely , of their work don , and in his name and authority confirm'd and ratifi'd by james earle of ormond ; together with his letter to col. jones , governour of dublin , full of contumely and dishonour , both to the parliament and army . and on the other side , an insolent and seditious representation from the scotch presbytery at belfast in the north of ireland ; no lesse dishonourable to the state ; and much about the same time brought hither ; there will be needfull as to the same slanderous aspersions but one and the same vindication against them both . nor can we sever them in our notice and resentment , though one part intitl'd a presbytery , and would be thou ghta protestant assembly , since their own unexampl'd virulence hath wrapt them into the same guilt , made them accomplices and assistants to the abhorred irish rebels , and with them at present to advance the same interest : if wee consider both their calumnies , their hatred , and the pretended reasons of their hatred to be the same ; the time also , and the place concurring , as that there lacks nothing but a few formall words , which may be easily dissembl'd , to make the perfetest conjunction ; and between them to divide that iland , as for these articles of peace made with those inhumane rebels and papists of ireland by the late king , as one of his last master-pieces . we may be confidently perswaded , that no true borne english-man , can so much as barely reade them without indignation and disdaine , that those bloudy rebels , and so proclaim'd and judg'd of by the king himself , after the mercilesse and barbarous massacre of so many thousand english , ( who had us'd their right and title to that countrey with such tendernesse and moderation , and might otherwise have secur'd themselvs with ease against their treachery ) should be now grac'd and rewarded with such freedomes and enlargements , as none of their ancestors could ever merit by their best obedience , which at best was alwaies treacherous , to be infranchiz'd with full liberty equall to their conquerours , whom the just revenge of ancient pyracies , cruell captivities , and the causlesse infestation of our coast , had warrantably call'd over , and the long prescription of many hundred yeares ; besides what other titles are acknowledg'd by their own irish parlaments , had fixt and seated in that soile with as good a right as the meerest natives . these therefore by their own foregoing demerits and provocations justly made our vassalls , are by the first article of this peace advanc'd to a condition of freedome superior to what any english protestants durst have demanded . for what else can be the meaning to discharge them the common oath of supremacy , especially being papists ( for whom principally that oath was intended ) but either to resigne them the more into their own power , or to set a mark of dishonour upon the brittish loyalty ; by trusting irish rebels for one single oath of alleageance , as much as all his subjects of brittaine for the double swearing both of alleageance and supremacy . the second article puts it into the hands of an irish parlament to repeale , or to suspend , if they thinke convenient , that act usually call'd poynings act , which was the maine , and yet the civillest and most moderate acknowledgement impos'd of their dependance on the crown of england ; whereby no parlament could be summond there , no bill be past , but what was first to be transmitted and allowd under the great seale of england . the recalling of which act , tends openly to invest them with a law-giving power of their own , enables them by degrees to throw off all subjection to this realme , and renders them who by their endlesse treasons and revolts have deserv'd to hold no parlament at all , but to be govern'd by edicts and garrisons , as absolute and supream in that assembly as the people of england in their own land . and the th article grants them in expresse words , that the irish parlament shall be no more dependent on the parlament of england , then the irish themselves shall declare agreeable to the lawes of ireland . the two and twentieth article more ridiculous then dangerous , coming especially from such a serious knot of lords and politicians , obtaines that those acts prohibiting to plow with horses by the tayle , and burne oates in the straw , be repeald ; anough if nothing else , to declare in them a disposition not onely sottish but indocible and averse from all civility and amendment , and what hopes they give for the future , who rejecting the ingenuity of all other nations to improve and waxe more civill by a civilizing conquest , though all these many yeares better shown and taught , preferre their own absurd and savage customes before the most convincing evidence of reason and demonstration : a testimony of their true barbarisme and obdurate wilfulnesse to be expected no lesse in other matters of greatest moment . yet such as these and thus affected , the ninth article entrusts with the militia ; a trust which the king swore by god at new-market , he would not commit to his parliament of england , no not for an houre . and well declares the confidence he had in irish rebels , more then in his loyaliest subjects . he grants them moreover till the performance of all these articles , that foote and horse , shall remaine a standing army of papists at the beck and command of dillon , muskery , and other arch rebels , with power also of adding to that number as they shall see cause . and by other articles allows them the constituting of magistrates and judges in all causes , whom they think fie : and till a settlement to their own minds , the possession of all those townes and countreys within their now quarters being little lesse then all the iland , besides what their cruelty hath dispeopl'd and lay'd wast . and lastly , the whole managing both of peace and warre is committed to papists , and the chiefe leaders of that rebellion . now let all men judge what this wants of utter alienating and acquitting the whole province of ireland from all true fealty and obedience to the common-wealth of england . which act of any king against the consent of his parliament , though no other crime were layd against him , might of it selfe strongly conduce to the dis-inthrowning him of all . in france henry the third demanding leave in greatest exigencies to make sale of some crown lands onely , and that to his subjects , was answerd by the parlament then at blois , that a king in no case , though of extreamest necessity , might alienate the patrimony of his crown , whereof he is but onely usu-fructuary , as civilians terme it , the propriety remaining ever to the kingdome , not to the king . and in our own nation , king john , for resigning though unwillingly his crown to the popes legate , with little more hazard to his kingdome then the payment of marks , and the unsightlinesse of such a ceremony , was depos'd by his barons , and lewis the french kings sonne elected in his roome . and to have carried onely the jewells , plate , and treasure into ireland without consent of the nobility , was one of those impeachments that condemn'd richard the second to lose his crown . but how petty a crime this will seem to the alienating of a whole kingdome , which in these articles of peace we see as good as done by the late king , not to friends , but to mortall enemies , to the accomplishment of his own interests and ends , wholly separate from the peoples good , may without aggravation be easily conceiv'd . nay by the covenant it self , since that so cavillously is urg'd against us , wee are enjoyn'd in the fourth article , with all faithfulnesse to endeavour the bringing all such to public triall and condigne punishment , as shall divide one kingdome from another . and what greater dividing then by a pernicious and hostile peace , to disalliege a whole feudary kingdome from the ancient dominion of england ? exception we finde there of no person whatsoever ; and if the king who hath actually done this , or any for him claime a priviledge above justice , it is againe demanded by what expresse law , either of god or man , and why he whose office is to execute law and justice upon all others , should sit himself like a demigod in lawlesse and unbunded anarchy ; refusing to be accountable for that autority over men naturally his equals , which god himself without a reason givn is not wont to exercise over his creatures ? and if god the neerer to be acquainted with mankind and his frailties , and to become our priest , made himself a man , and subject to the law , we gladly would be instructed why any mortal man for the good and wellfare of his brethren beeing made a king , should by a clean contrary motion make himself a god , exalted above law ; the readiest way to become utterly unsensible , both of his human condition , and his own duty . and how securely , how smoothly , with how little touch or sense of any commiseration , either princely or so much as human , he hath sold away that justice so oft demanded , and so oft by himself acknowledg'd to be due for the bloud of more then . of his subjects , that never hurt him , never disobeyd him , assassinated and cut in pieces by those irish barbarians , to give the first promoting , as is more then thought , to his own tyrannicall designes in england , will appeare by the th article of his peace ; wherein without the least regard of justice to avenge the dead , while he thirsts to be aveng'd upon the living , to all the murders , massacres , treasons , pyracies , from the very fatall day wherein that rebellion first broke out , he grants an act of oblivion . if this can be justified , or not punisht in whomsoever , while there is any faith , any religion , any justice upon earth , there can no reason be alleg'd why all things are not list to confusion . and thus much be observd in brief concerning these articles of peace made by the late king withhie irish rebells . the letter of ormond sent to col. jones governour of dublin , attempting his fidelity , which the discretion and true worth of that gentleman hath so well answerd and repulst , had pass'd heer with out mention , but that the other part of it not content to doe the errand of treason , roves into a long digression of evill and reproachfull language to the parlament and army of england . which though not worth their notice , as from a crew of rebells whose inhumanities are long since become the hornour and execration of all that heare them , yet in the pursuance of a good endeavour , to give the world all due satisfaction of the present doings , no fit opportunity shall be omitted . he accuses first that we are the subveters of true religion , the protectors & inviters not only of all false ones , but of irreligion & atheism . an accusation that no man living could more unjustly use then our accuser himself ; & which without a strange besottednesse , he could not expect but to be retorted upon his own head . all men who are true protestants , of which number he gives out to be one , know not a more immediate and killing subverter of all true religion then antichrist , whom they generally believe to be the pope and church of rome , he therefore who makes peace with this grand enemy and perscutor of the true church , he who joynes with him , strengthens him , gives him root to grow up and spread his poyson , removing all opposition against him , granting him schools , abbeyes , and revenues , garrisons , fortresses , townes , as in so many of those articles may be seen , he of all protestants may be calld most justly the subverter of true religion , the protector and inviter of irreligion and atheism , whether it be ormond or his maister . and if it can be no way prov'd , that the parlament hath countenac'd popery or papists , but have every where brok'n their temporall power , thrown down their public superstitions , and confin'd them to the bare enjoyment of that which is not in our reach , their consciences , if they have encouragd all true ministers of the gospel , that is to say , afforded them favour and protection in all places where they preacht ; and although they think not money or stipend to be the best encouragement of a true pastor , yet therein also have not been wanting nor intend to be , they doubt not then to affirm themselves , not the subverters , but the maintainers and defenders of true religion ; which of it self and by consequence is the surest and the strongest subversion , not onely of all false ones , but of irreligion and atheism . for the weapons of that warfare , as the apostle testifies who best knew , are not carnall , but mighty through god to the pulling down of strong holds , and all reasonings , and every high thing exalted against the knowledge of god , surprising every thought unto the obedience of christ , and easily revenging all disobedience , cor. . what minister or clergy-man that either understood his high calling , or sought not to erect a secular and carnall tyranny over spirituall things , would neglect this ample and sublime power conferrd upon him , and come a begging to the weak hand of magistracy for that kind of ayd which both the magistrate hath no commission to afford him , and in the way he seeks it hath been alwayes found helplesse and unprofitable . neither is it unknown , or by wisest men unobserv'd , that the church began then most apparently to degenerate , and goe to ruine , when shee borrow'd of the civill power more then fair encouragement and protection ; more then which christ himself and his apostles never requir'd . to say therefore that we protect and invite all false religions , with irreligion also and atheism , because wee lend not or rather missapply not the temporall power to help out , though in vaine , the sloth , the spleen , the insufficiency of church-men , in the execution of spirituall discipline , over those within their charge , or those without , is an imputation that may be layd as well upon the best regulated states and governments through the world . who have been so prudent as never to imploy the civill sword further then the edge of it could reach ; that is , to civill offences onely ; proving alwayes against objects that were spirituall a ridiculous weapon . our protection therefore to men in civill matters unoffensive we cannot deny ; their consciences we leave , as not within our cognisance , to the proper cure of instruction , praying for them . neverthelesse , if any be found among us declar'd atheists , malicious enemies of god , and of christ ; the parlament , i think , professes not to tolerate such , but with all befitting endeavours to suppresse them . otherwaies to protect none that in a larger sense may be tax'd of irreligion or atheism , may perhaps be the ready way to exclude none sooner out of protection , then those themselves that most accuse it to be so generall to others . lastly , that we invite such as these , or incourage them , is a meer slander without proof . he tells us next that they have murderd the king . and they deny not to have justly and undauntedly , as became the parlament of england , for more bloudshed and other hainous crimes then ever king of this land was guilty of , after op'n tryall , punisht him with death . a matter which to men whose serious consideration thereof hath left no certain precept , or example undebated , is so farr from giving offence , that wee implore and beseech the divine majesty so to uphold and support thir spirits with like fortitude and magnanimity , that all thir ensuing actions may correspond and prove worthy that impartiall and noble peece of justice , wherein the hand of god appear'd so evidently on our side . wee shall not then need to feare what all the rout and faction of men basely principl'd can doe against us . the end of our proceedings , which he takes upon him to have discover'd ; the changing forsooth of monarchy into anarchy , sounds so like the smattering of some raw polititian , and the overworne objection of every triviall talker , that wee leave him in the number . but seing in that which followes he containes not himself , but contrary to what a gentleman should know of civility , proceeds to the contemptuous naming of a person , whose valour and high merit many enemies more noble then himself have both honour'd and feard , to assert his good name and reputation , of whose service the common-wealth receaves so ample satisfaction , t is answerd in his behalf , that cromwell whom he couples with a name of scorne , hath done in few yeares more eminent and remarkable deeds whereon to found nobility in his house , though it were wanting , and perpetuall renown to posterity , then ormond and all his auncestors put together can shew from any record of thir irish exploits , the widest scene of thir glory . he passes on in his groundless conjectures , that the aime of this parlament may be perhaps to set up first an elective kingdome , and after that a perfet turkish tyranny . of the former wee suppose the late act against monarchy will suffice to acquitt them . of the latter certainly there needed no other patterne then that tyranny which was so long modelling by the late king himself , with strafford , and that arch prelat of canterbury , his chief instruments ; whose designes god hath dissipated . neither is it any new project of the monarchs , and their courtiers in these dayes , though christians they would be thought , to endeavour the introducing of a plain turkish tyranny . witnesse that consultation had in the court of france under charles the ninth at blois , wherein poncet , a certain court projector , brought in secretly by the chancellor biragha , after many praises of the otteman government ; proposes means and wayes at large in presence of the king , the queen regent , and anjou the kings brother , how with best expedition , and least noyse the turkish tyranny might be set up in france . it appeares therefore that the designe of bringing in that tyranny , is a monarchicall designe , and not of those who have dissolvd monarchy . as for parlaments by three estates , wee know that a parlament signifies no more then the supream and generall councell of a nation , consisting of whomsoever chos'n and assembld for the public good ; which was ever practis'd , and in all sorts of government , before the word parlament , or the formality , or the possibility of those three estates , or such a thing as a titular marquess had either name or being in the world . the originall of all which we could produce to be farr newer then those all ages which he vaunts of , and by such first invented and contriv'd , whose authority , though it were charles martell , stands not so high in our repute , either for himself , or the age he liv'd in , but that with as good warrant we may recede from what he ordain'd , as he ordaine what before was not . but whereas besides he is bold to allege that of the three estates there remaines onely a small number , and they the dreggs and scum of the house of commons , this reproach and in the mouth of an irish man concernes not them onely , but redounds to apparent dishonour of the whole english nation . doubtless there must be thought a great scarcity in england of persons honourable and deserving , or else of judgement , or so much as honesty in the people , if those whom they esteem worthy to sit in parlament be no better then scum and dreggs in the irish dialect . but of such like stuffe wee meet not anywhere with more excrescence then in his own lavish pen ; which feeling it selfe loose without the reines of discretion , rambles for the most part beyond all soberness and civility . in which torrent he goes on negotiating and cheapning the loyalty of our faithfull governour of dublin , as if the known and try'd constancy of that valiant gentleman were to be bought with court fumes . he layes before him that there remaines now no other liberty in the subject but to professe blasphemous opinions , to revile and tread underfoot magistracy , to murther magistrates , to oppresse and undoe all that are not like minded with us . forgetting in the mean while himself to be in the head of a mixt rabble , part papists , part fugitives , and part savages , guilty in the highest degree of all these crimes . what more blasphemous not opinion but whole religion then popery , plung'd into idolatrous and ceremoniall superstition , the very death of all true religion ; figur'd to us by the scripture it selfe in the shape of that beast , full of the names of blasphemy , which wee mention to him as to one that would be counted protestant , and had his breeding in the house of a bishop . and who are those that have trod under foot magistracy , murder'd magistrates , oppress'd & undone all that syded not with them , but the irish rebels , in that horrible conspiracy , for which ormond himselfe hath either been or seem'd to be their enemy ; though now their ringleader . and let him aske the jesuitea about him whether it be not their known doctrine and also practise , not by faire and due processe of justice to punish kings and magistrates , which we disavow not , but to murder them in the basest and most assassinous manner , if thir church-interest so require . there will not need more words to this windy railer , convicted opnly of all those crimes which he so confidently and yet falsely charges upon others . we have now to deale , though in the same country , with another sort of adversaries , in show farr different , in substance much what the same . these write themselves the presbytery of belfast , a place better known by the name of a late barony , then by the same of these mens doctrine or ecclesiasticall deeds ; whose obscurity till now never came to our hearing . and surely wee should think this their representment farr beneath considerable , who have neglected and past over the like unadvizednesse of their fellowes in other places more neer us , were it not to observe in some particulars the sympathy , good intelligence , and joynt pace which they goe in the north of ireland , with their copartning rebels in the south , driving on the same interest to loose us that kingdome , that they may gaine it themselves , or at least share in the spoile : though the other be op'n enemies , these pretended brethren the introduction of their manifest out of doubt must be zealous ; their duty , they say , to god and his people , over whom he hath made them overseers , and for whom they must give accompt . what meane these men ? is the presbytery of belfast , a small town in ulster , of so large extent that their voyces cannot serve to teach duties in the congregation which they oversee , without spreading and divulging to all parts farr beyond the diocesse of patrick , or columba , their writt'n representation , under the suttle pretence of feeding their owne flock ? or doe they think to oversee or undertake to give an accomht for all to whom their paper sends greeting ? st. paul to the elders of ephesus thinks it sufficient to give charge that they take heed to themselves and to the flocke , over which they were made overseers ; beyond those bounds hee inlarges not their commission . and surely when we put down bishops , and put up presbyters , which the most of them have made use of to enrich and exalt themselvee , and turn the first heele against their benefactors , we did not think that one classick fraternity so obscure and so remote , should involve us and all state affairs within the censure and jurisdiction of belfast , upon pretence of overseeing their own charge . wee very well know that church censures are limited to church matters , and these within the compasse of their own province , or to say more truly of their own congregation : that affaires of state are not for their medling , as we could urge ev'n from their own invectives and protestations against the bishops , wherein they tell them with much fervency , that ministers of the gospell , neither by that function nor by any other which they ought accept , have the least warrant to be pragmaticall in the state . and surely in vain were bishops for these and other causes forbid to fit and vote in the hous , if these men out of the house , and without vote shall claim and be permitted more license on their presbyteriall stooles , to breed continuall disturbance by interposing in the common wealth . but seeing that now , since their heaving out the prelats to heave in themselves , they devise new wayes to bring both ends together which will never meete , that is to say their former doctrine with their present doings , as that they cannot else teach magistrates and subjects their duty , and that they have besides a right themselves to speake as members of the common wealth , let them know that there is a wide difference between the generall exhortation to justice and obedience , which in this point is the utmost of their duty , and the state disputes wherein they are now grown such busie bodies , to preach of titles , interests , and alterations in government : more then our saviour himselfe , or any of his apostles ever took upon them , though the title both of caesar and of herod , and what they did in matters of state might have then admitted controversie anough . next for their civill capacities , we are sure that pulpits and church-assemblies , whether classicall or provinciall , never were intended or allowd by wise magistrates , no nor by him that sent them , to advance such purposes ; but that as members of the common wealth they ought to mixe with other commoners , and in that temporall body to assume nothing above other private persons , or otherwise then in a usuall and legall manner : not by distinct remonstrances and representments , as if they were a tribe and party by themselves , which is the next immediate way to make the church lift a horne against the state , and claim an absolute and undepending jurisdiction , as from like advantage and occasion ( to the trouble of all christ'ndome ) the pope hath for many ages done ; and not only our bishops were climing after him , but our presbyters also , as by late experiment wee find . of this representation therefore wee can esteem and judge no other then of a slandrous and seditious libell , sent abroad by a fort of incendiaries , to delude and make the better way under the cunning and plausible name of a presbytery . a second reason of thir representing is , that they consider the dependance of that kingdome upon england , which is another shamelesse untruth that ever they consider'd ; as their own actions will declare , by conniving , and in thir silence partaking with those in ulster , whose obedience by what we have yet heard , stands dubious , and with an eye of conformity rather to the north , then to that part where they owe thir subjection ; and this in all likelihood by the inducement and instigation of these representers : who are so farr from considering thir dependence on england , as to presume at every word to terme proceedings of parliament , the insolencies of a sectarian party , and of private men . despising dominion , and speaking evill of dignities , which hypocritically they would seeme to disswade others from ; and not fearing the due correction of their superiors , that may in fit season overtake them . when as the least consideration of their dependance on england would have kept them better in their duty . the third reason which they use , makes against them ; the remembrance how god punisht the contempt of their warning last yeare upon the breakers of covnant , whenas the next year after they forget the warning of that punishment hanging over their own heads for the very same transgression , their manifest breach of covnant by this seditious representation accompanied with the doubtfull obedience of that province which represents it . and thus we have their preface supported with three reasons ; two of them notorious falsities , and the third against themselves ; and two examples , the province of london , & the commissioners of the kirk assembly . but certain , if canonicall examples bind not , much lesse doe apocryphall . proceeding to avouch the trust put upon them by god , which is plainly prov'd to be none of this nature , they would not be lookd upon as sowers of sedition , or authors of divisive motions , their record , they say , is in heaven , and their truth and honesty no man knowes where . for is not this a shamelesse hypocrisie , and of meer wolves in sheeps cloathing , to sow sedition in the eares of all men , and to face us downe in the very act , that they are authors of no such matter . but let the sequell both of their paper , and the obedience of the place wherein they are , determine . nay while we are yet writing these things , and foretelling all men the rebellion which was eevn then design'd in the close purpose of these unhallow'd priestlings , at the very time when with thir lips they disclaim'd all sowing of sedition , newes is brought , and too true , that the scottish inhabitants of that province are actually revolted , and have not only besieg'd in london-derry those forces which were to have fought against ormond , and the irish rebels ; but have in a manner declar'd with them , and begun op'n war against the parlament ; and all this by the incitement and illusions of that unchristian synagogue at belfast , who yet dare charge the parlament , that notwithstanding specious pretences , yet thir actings doe evidence that they love a rough garment to deceive . the deceit we own not , but the comparison , by what at first sight may seem alluded , we accept : for that hairy roughnesse assum'd won jacob the birthright both temporall and eternall ; and god wee trust hath so dispos'd the mouth of these balaams , that comming to curse , they have stumbled into a kind of blessing , and compar'd our actings to the faithfull act of that patriarch . but if they mean , as more probably thir meaning was , that rough garment spok'n of zach. . . we may then behold the pittiful store of learning , and theology , which these deceivers have thought sufficient to uphold their credit with the people , who , though the rancour that levens them have somewhat quickn'd the common drawling of thir pulpit elocution , yet for want of stock anough in scripture-phrase to serve the necessary uses of thir malice , they are become so liberall , as to part freely with their own budge gownes from off their backs , and bestow them on the magistrate as a rough garment to deceive ; rather then not be furnish'd with a reproach though never so improper , never so obvious to be turn'd upon themselves . for but with half an eye cast upon that text , any man will soon discern that rough garment to be thir own coate , thir own livery , the very badge and cognisance of such false prophets as themselves . who , when they understand , or ever seriously mind the beginning of that th . verse , may be asham'd every one of his lying vision , and may justly fear that foregoing denouncement to such as speak lies in the name of the lord , vers. . lurking under the rough garment of outward rigor and formality , whereby they cheat the simple . so that this rough garment to deceiv we bring ye once again , grave sirs , into your own vestry ; or with zachary shall not think much to fit it to your own shoulders . to bestow ought in good earnest on the magistrate , we know your classic priestship is too gripple , for yee are alwayes begging : and for this rough gown to deceav , we are confident yee cannot spare it ; it is your sundays gown , your every day gown , your only gown , the gown of your faculty ; your divining gowne ; to take it from ye were sacrilege . weare it therfore , & possesse it your selvs , most grave and reverend carmelites , that all men both young and old , as we hope they will shortly , may yet better know ye and distinguish ye by it ; and give to your rough gown where ever they meete it , whether in pulpit , classis , or provincial synod , the precedency , and the pre-eminence of deceaving . they charge us next that we have brokn the cov'nant , & load'n it with slighting reproaches . for the reproaching , let them answer that are guilty , wherof the state we are sure cannot be accus'd . for the breaking , let us hear wherin . in labouring say they , to establish by law a universall tolleration of all religions , this touches not the state ; for certainly were they so minded , they need not labour it , but do it , having power in thir hands ; and we know of no act as yet past to that purpose . but suppose it done , wherin is the covnant broken . the covnant enjoyns us to endeavor the extirpation first of popery and prelacy , then of heresy , schism , and prophaness , and whatsoever shall be found contrary to sound doctrin and the power of godliness . and this we ceas not to do by all effectuall and proper means : but these divines might know , that to extirpat all these things can be no work of the civil sword , but of the spirituall which is the word of god . no man well in his wits endeavoring to root up weeds out of his ground , instead of using the spade will take a mallet or a beetle . nor doth the covnant any way engage us to extirpate , or to prosecute the men , but the heresies and errors in them , which we tell these divines and the rest that understand not , belongs chiefly to their own function , in the diligent preaching and insisting upon sound doctrin , in the confuting not the railing down errors , encountring both in public and private conference , and by the power of truth , not of persecution , subduing those authors of hereticall opinions , & lastly in the spirituall execution of church discipline within thir own congregations . in all these ways wee shall assist them , favour them , and as far as appertains to us joyn with them , and moreover not tolerate the free exercise of any religion , which shall be found absolutely contrary to sound doctrin or the power of godliness ; for the conscience we must have patience till it be within our verge . and thus doing we shall believ to have kept exactly all that is requird from us by the covnant . whilst they by thir seditious practises against us , then which nothing for the present can adde more assistance or advantage to those bloudy rebels and papists in the south , will be found most pernicious covnant breakers themselves , and as deep in that guilt as those of thir own nation the last year ; the warning of whose ill successe like men hardn'd for the same judgment , they miserably pervert to an incouragement in the same offence , if not a fat worse ; for now they have joyn'd interest with the irish rebels , who have ever fought against the covnant , wheras thir country-men the year before made the covnant thir plea . but as it is a peculiar mercy of god to his people , while they remain his , to preserve them from wicked confederations : so it is a mark and punishment of hypocrites to be drivn at length to mix thir cause , and the interest of thir covnant with gods enemies . and wheras they affirm that the tolerating of all religions in the manner that we tolerat them , is an innovation , we must acquaint them that we are able to make it good if need be , both by scripture and the primitive fathers , and the frequent assertion of whole churches and protestant states in thir remonstrances and expostulations against the popish tyranny over souls . and what force of argument do these doctors bring to the contrary ? but we have long observ'd to what passe the bold ignorance and sloth of our clergy tends no less now then in the bishops days , to make thir bare sayings and censures authentic with the people , though destitute of any proofe or argument . but thanks be to god they are discern'd . thir next impeachment is , that we oppose the presbyteriall government , the hedg and bulwark of religion . which all the land knows to be a most impudent falshood , having establishd it with all freedom , wherever it hath been desir'd . nevertheless as we perceave it aspiring to be a compulsive power upon all without exception in parochiall , classicall , and provinciall hierarchies , or to require the fleshly arm of magistracy in the execution of a spirituall discipline , to punish and amerce by any corporall infliction those whose consciences cannot be edifi'd by what authority they are compell'd , we hold it no more to be the hedg and bulwark of religion , than the popish and prelaticall courts , or the spanish inquisition . but we are told , we imbrace paganism and judaism in the arms of toleration . a most audacious calumny . and yet while we detest judaism , we know our selves commanded by st. paul , rom. . to respect the jews , and by all means to endeavor thir conversion . neither was it ever sworn in the covnant to maintain a universal presbytery in england , as they falsly allege , but in scotland against the common enemy , if our aid were calld for : being left free to reform our own country according to the word of god , and the example of best reformed churches ; from which rule we are not yet departed . but heer utterly forgetting to be ministers of the gospel , they presume to op'n their mouths not in the spirit of meeknesse , as like dissemblers they pretend , but with as much devillish malice , impudence and falshood as any irish rebell could have utter'd ; and from a barbarous ●ook of ireland brand us with the extirpation of laws and liberties ; things which they seem as little to understand as ought that belongs to good letters or humanity . that wee seisd on the person of the king . who was surrendred into our hands an enemy and captive by our own subordinate and paid army of scots in england . next our imprisoning many members of the house . as if it were impossible they should deserve it , conspiring and banding against the public good ; which to the other part appearing , and , with the power they had , not resisting , had bin a manifest desertion of thir trust and duty . no question but it is as good and necessary to expell rott'n members out of the house , as to banish delinquents out of the land : and the reason holds as well in forty as in five . and if they be yet more , the more dangerous is thir number . they had no privilege to fit there and vote home the author , the impenitent author of all our miseries to freedom , honour , and royalty , for a few fraudulent if not destructive concessions . which that they went about to doe , how much more clear it was to all men , so much the more expedient , and important to the common-wealth was their speedy seisure and exclusion ; and no breach of any just privilege , but a breach of their knotted faction . and heer they cry out , an action without parallel in any age . so heartily we wish all men were unprejudic'd in all our actions , as these illiterat denouncers never parallelld so much of any age as would contribute to the tithe of a century . that wee abolish parlamentary power , and establish a representative instead thereof . now we have the hight of them ; these profound instructors in the midst of thir representation , would know the english of a representative , and were perhaps of that classis , who heretofore were as much staggerd at trienniall . thir grand accusation is our justice don on the king , which that they may prove to be without rule or example , they venture all the credit they have in divine and human history ; and by the same desperate boldness detect themselves to be egregious liars and impostors , seeking to abuse the multitude with a show of that gravity and learning which never was their portion . had thir knowledge bin equall to the knowledge of any stupid monk , or abbot , they would have known at least , though ignorant of all things else , the life and acts of him , who first instituted thir order : but these blockish presbyters of clandeboy know not that john knox , who was the first founder of presbytery in scotland , taught professedly the doctrine of deposing , and of killing kings . and thus while they deny that any such rule can be found , the rule is found in their own country , givn them by thir own first presbyterian institutor ; and they themselves like irregular friers walking contrary to the rule of thir own foundation , deserv for so grosse an ignorance and transgression to be disciplin'd upon thir own stools . or had thir reading in history bin any , which by this we may be confident is none at all , or thir malice not highth'n'd to a blind rage , they never would so rashly have thrown the dice to a palpable discovery of thir ignorance and want of shame . but wherefore spend we two such pretious things as time & reason upon priests , the most prodigal mis-spenders of time , and the scarsest owners of reason ? t is sufficient we have publishd our defences , giv'n reasons , giv'n examples of our justice don ; books also have bin writt'n to the same purpose for men to look on that will ; that no nation under heav'n but in one age or other hath don the like . the difference onely is , which rather seemes to us matter of glory , that they for the most part have without form of law don the deed by a kinde of martial justice ; wee by the deliberate and well-weighd sentence of a legal judicature . but they tell us , it was against the interest and protestation of the kingdom of scotland . and did exceeding well to joyn those two together : heerby informing us what credit or regard need be givn in england to a scotch protestation ; usherd in by a scotch interest : certainly no more then we see is givn in scotland to an english declaration , declaring the interest of england . if then our interest move not them , why should theirs move us ? if they say , wee are not all england ; we reply they are not all scotland : nay , were the last year so inconsiderable a part of scotland as were beholding to this which they now term the sectarian army , to defend and rescue them at the charges of england from a stronger party of thir own countrymen , in whose esteem they were no better then sectarians themselves . but they add , it was against the former declarations of both kingdomes , to seize , or proceed against the king . we are certain that no such declarations of both kingdomes as derive not thir full force from the sense and meaning of the covnant , can be produc'd . and if they plead against us the covenant , to preserve and defend his person ; we aske them briefly whether they take the covenant to be absolute or conditionall ? if absolute , then suppose the king to have committed all prodigious crimes and impieties against god , or nature , or whole nations , he must neverthelesse be sacred from all violent touch . which absurd opinion , how it can live in any mans reason , either naturall or rectifi'd , wee much marvell : since god declard his anger as impetuous for the saving of king benhadad , though surrendring himselfe at mercy , as for the killing of naboth . if it be conditionall , in the preservation and defence of religion , and the peoples libertie , then certainly to take away his life beeing dangerous , and pernicious to both these , was no more a breach of the covnant , then for the same reason at edinburrow to behead gordon the marquess huntley . by the same covnant we made vow to assist and to defend all those that should enter with us into this league : not absolutely but in the maintenance and pursuing thereof . if therefore no man else ever were so madd as to claime from hence an impunitie from all justice , why should any for the king ? whose life by other articles of the same covnant was forfet . nay if common sense had not led us to such a cleer interpretation , the scotch commissioners themselves might boast to have bin our first teachers : who when they drew to the malignance which brought forth that perfidious last years irruption against all the bands of covnant or christian neighbourhood , making thir hollow plea the defence of his majesties person , they were constraind by thir own guiltinesse to leave out that following morsell that would have choakd them , the preservation and defence of true religion , and our liberties . and questionless in the preservation of these , wee are bound as well , both by the covnant , and before the covnant , to preserve and defend the person of any private man , and the person and authoritie of any inferior magistrate : so that this article objected with such vehemence against us , containes not an exception of the kings person , and autoritie to doe by privilege what wickedness he list , and be defended , as som fancy , but an express testification of our loyaltie , and the plaine words without wresting will beare as much , that wee had no thoughts against his person , or just power , provided they might confist with the preservation and defence of true religion and our liberties . but to these how hazardous his life was , will be needless to repeat so oftn . it may suffice that while he was in custody , where wee expected his repentance , his remorse at last and compassion of all the innocent bloud shed already and hereafter likely to be shed for his meer wilfulness , he made no other use of our continuall forbearance , our humblest petitions and obtestations at his feet , but to sit contriving and fomenting new plots against us , and as his own phrase was , playing his own game , upon the miseries of his people : of which wee desire no other view at present then these articles of peace with the rebells , and the rare game likely to ensue from such a cast of his cards . and then let men reflect a little upon the slanders and reviles of these wretched priests , and judge what modesty , what truth , what conscience , what any thing fit for ministers , or wee might say reasonable men can harbour in them . for what they began in shamelesness and malice , they conclude in frenzie : throwing out a sudden rapsody of proverbs quite from the purpose ; and with as much comliness as when saul propheci'd . for casting off , as he did his garments , all modestie and meekness wherewith the language of ministers ought to be cloath'd , speaking especially to thir supreme magistrate , they talke at random of servants raigning , servants riding , and wonder how the earth can beare them . either those men imagin themselves to be marvellously high set and exalied in the chaire of belfast , to voutsafe the parlament of england no better stile then servants , or els thir high notion , which wee rather beleeve , falls as low as court parasitism ; supposing all men to be servants , but the king . and then all thir paines tak'n to seem so wise in proverbing , serves but to conclude them down right slaves : and the edge of thir own proverb falls reverse upon themselves . for as delight is not seemly for fooles , much less high words to come from base minds . what they are for ministers , or how they crept into the fould , whether at the window , or through the wall , or who set them there so haughtie in the pontificall see of belfast , wee know not . but this wee rather have cause to wonder if the earth can beare this unsufferable insolency of upstarts ; who from a ground which is not thir own dare send such defiance to the sovran magistracy of england , by whose autoritie and in whose right they inhabit there . by thir actions we might rather judge them to be a generation of high-land theevs and red-shanks , who beeing neighbourly admitted , not as the saxons by merit of thir warfare against our enemies , but by the courtesie of england to hold possessions in our province , a countrey better then thir own , have , with worse faith then those heathen , prov'd ingratefull and treacherous guests to thir best friends and entertainers . and let them take heed , lest while thir glence , as to these matters , might have kept them blameless and secure under those proceedings which they so feard to partake in , that these thir treasonous attempts and practices , have not involv'd them in a farr worse guilt of rebellion ; and ( notwithstanding that faire dehortatory from joyning with malignants ) in the appearance of a co-interest and partaking with the irish rebells . against whom , though by themselves pronouncd to be the enemies of god , they goe not out to battell , as they ought , but rather by these thir doings assist and become associats . the end . we hereby think fit to will and require all officers and souldiers, immediately to repair to their respective commands ... by the lord lieutenant general, and general governour of ireland, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) we hereby think fit to will and require all officers and souldiers, immediately to repair to their respective commands ... by the lord lieutenant general, and general governour of ireland, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by benjamin took ... and are to be sold by mary crooke ..., dublin : [ ] title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at his majesties castle of dublin, the tenth day of february / ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant general , and general governour of ireland . ormonde . we hereby think fit to will and require all officers and souldiers , immediately to repair to their respective commands , and garisons . notwithstanding any licences , orders , or directions formerly given by us ; and hereof they are not to fail , as they will answer the contrary at their peril . given at his majesties castle of dublin , the tenth day of february / . dublin , printed by benjamin took printer to the kings most excellent majesty , and are to be sold by mary crooke at his majesties printing house on ormonde key . whereas his majesty out of his princely care for securing the true protestant religion, and to satisfie the minds of all his loving subjects therein, for the more effectual discovery and suppression of the most horrid and execrable popish plot ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas his majesty out of his princely care for securing the true protestant religion, and to satisfie the minds of all his loving subjects therein, for the more effectual discovery and suppression of the most horrid and execrable popish plot ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by benjamin took and john crook ... and are to be sold by mary crook ..., dublin : . title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at the council-chamber in dublin the fifteenth day of november, ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng popish plot, . ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde . whereas his majesty out of his princely care for securing the true protestant religion , and to satisfie the minds of all his loving subjects therein , for the more effectual discovery and suppression of the most horrid and erecrable popish plot , and the encouragement of all persons who have any knowledge thereof , to make discovery of the same , hath thought fit to set forth his royal proclamation , bearing date at his court at white hall the thirtieth day of october last past , thereby promising and assuring his free and gracious pardon to all and every person and persons who within two months after the date of the said proclamation should come in and give further information and evidence concerning the said popish plot. now we the lord lieutenant and council , for the like encouragement of all persons within this kingdom , who have any knowledge of the said plot , to make discovery of the same , do think fit to set fort● , this our proclamation , hereby promising and assuring his majesties free and gracious pardon to all and every person and persons within this kingdome , who within two months from the date of this our proclamation shall come in , and give further information and evidence concerning the said popish plot. given at the council-chamber in dublin the fifteenth day of november , . blesinton . lanesborough . hen. midensis . r. coote rob. fitz gerald. ca. dillon . char. meredith . john keatinge . he. hene . jo. davys . will. stewart . ol. st. george . w. wentworth . mau. eustace . tho. newcomen . god save the king dublin , printed by benjamin took and john crook , printers to the kings most excellent majesty ; and are to be sold by mary crook at his majesties printing-house in skinner-row . . by the lord lieutenant and councell upon consideration of the annexed instrument, whereby it is concluded and accorded that there shall be a further continuation of the cessation of armes ... untill the last day of ianuary next ensuing ... ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (wing i ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) by the lord lieutenant and councell upon consideration of the annexed instrument, whereby it is concluded and accorded that there shall be a further continuation of the cessation of armes ... untill the last day of ianuary next ensuing ... ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . sheet ([ ] p.). by vvilliam bladen ..., imprinted at dublin : anno dom. . other title information from first lines of text. "given at his majesties castle of dublin, . november, ." imperfect: tightly bound with loss of text. reproduction of original in bodleian library. eng ireland -- history -- - . a r (wing i ). civilwar no by the lord lieutenant and councell. ormonde. upon consideration of the annexed instrument, whereby it is concluded and accorded that there ireland. lord lieutenant d the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the d category of texts with between and defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - pip willcox sampled and proofread - pip willcox text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion ¶ by the lord lieutenant and councell . ormonde . vpon consideration of the annexed instrument , whereby it is concluded and accorded that there shall be a further continuation of the cessation of armes , and of all acts of hostility in this kingdome , untill the last day of ianuary , next ensuing the date hereof , at the hour of twelve of the clock of the same day . we the lord lieutenant and councell do by this proclamation in his majesties name , ratifie , confirme and publish the same , and doe require all his majesties subjects whom it may concerne by sea and by land to take notice thereof , and ●eeld all obedience thereunto in all the parts thereof . given at his majesties castle of dublin , . november , . ri. bolton . canc. roscomon . ant. midensis . cha. lambart . fr. willoughby . god save the king . whereas articles of cessation of armes were agreed and concluded on at sigginstowne in the county of kildare , the fifteenth day of september , in the nineteenth year of his maiesties raigne , by and between vs the lord lieutenant by the name of iames marques of ormonde , lieutenant generall of his maiesties armie in the kingdome of ireland , for and in the name of our gracious soveraigne lord charles , by the grace of god , king of great brittaine , france , and ireland , &c. by vertue of his maiesties commission bearing date at dublin , the last day of august , in the said nineteenth year of his maiesties ragine , of the one parte , and donogh viscount muskery , and others authorized by his maiesties roman catholicke subiects then in armes in the said kingdome , &c. of the other parte : which cessation of armes was by the said articles to continue for one whole yeare , beginn●ing the fifteenth of september , one thousand six hundred forty and three , at the houre of twelve of the clock of the said ●ay . and whereas by his maiesties commission under his great seale of england , dated the foure and twentieth ●f iune last . we the lord lieutenant are authorized to treat concerning the settling and establishing of a firme and ●erfect peace within this kingdome . and whereas the lord lieutenant by vertue of his maiesties authority en●usted with vs as his lieutenant generall , and generall governor of this his kingdome , and by advice of the councell , and for and in the name of his maiesty of the one parte , and the lord viscount muskery , nicholas plunket esq . sir robert talbot barronet . dermot ô bryen , patrick darcy , geffrey browne and iohn dillon , esquires . deputed and authorized on that behalfe by his maiesties said subiects now or late in armes in this kingdome , of the other parte , did on the fifth day of september last conclude , and accord that there should be a further cessation of armes , and of all acts of hostility in this kingdome , untill the first day of december next , at the houre of twelve of the clock of the said day . now forasmuch as we finde that by reason of the many and manifold preparations necessarily incident ●o so great a worke , the said treaty of peace cannot be concluded within the said time limitted for the present cessation of armes , namely the first day of december next . we the lord lieutenant by vertue of his maiesties authority entrusted with vs as his lieutenant generall and generall governor of this his kingdome , and by advice of the councell , and for , and in the name of his maiesty of the one parte , and we the said lord viscount muskery , alexander mac donell , and nicholas plunket , esquires , sir robert talbot barronet . dermot ô bryen , patrick darcy , geffrey brown iohn dillon , esquires . deputed and authorized in that behalfe by his maiesties said subiects now , or late in armes in this kingdome of the other parte , have concluded and accorded , and it is accordingly hereby concluded and accorded that there bee a further continuation of the said cessation of armes and of all acts of hostility in this kingdome , untill the last day of ianuary , next ensuing the date hereof , at the houre of twelve of the clock the same day , upon the like articles and agreements , to all intents and purposes as are expressed in the said former articles of cessation , concluded on at sigginstowne , on the fifteenth of september , one thousand six hundred forty and three . and as if the said cessation first agreed had continuance untill the said last day of ianuary next , at the houre of twelve of the clocke of the same day . in witnesse whereof , the said lord lieutenant to that part of this agreement which remaines with the said lord viscount muskery , alexander mac donell , nicholas plunket , sir robert talbot , dermot ô bryen , patrick darcy , geffrey browne , and iohn dillon , hath put his hand and seale , and the said lord viscount muskery , alexander mac donell , nicholas plunket , sir robert talbot , dermot ô bryen , patrick darcy , geffrey brown , and iohn dillon , to that part of this agreement which remaines with the said lord lieutenant , have put their hands and seales the eleaventh day of november , one thousand six hundred forty and foure , and in the twentieth yeare of his maiesties raigne . ormonde . jmprinted at dublin by vvilliam bladen , printer to the kings most excelle●● majestie , anno dom. . the lord inchiquins queries to the protestant clergy of the province of munster, with theyr answer to the said queeres as also sir richard blagues speech, chaireman to the assembly of the confederate catholicks at killkenny, made to his excellence the lord marquis of ormond upon signing of the articles of peace : and his exellencies answer to sr. richard blagues speech. queries to the protestant clergy of the province of munster inchiquin, murrough o'brien, earl of, - . this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (wing i ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) the lord inchiquins queries to the protestant clergy of the province of munster, with theyr answer to the said queeres as also sir richard blagues speech, chaireman to the assembly of the confederate catholicks at killkenny, made to his excellence the lord marquis of ormond upon signing of the articles of peace : and his exellencies answer to sr. richard blagues speech. queries to the protestant clergy of the province of munster inchiquin, murrough o'brien, earl of, - . blake, richard, sir, d. . ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . [ ], p. printed by samuell broun ..., hage : . "published by his majesties special command" reproduction of original in cambridge university library. eng catholic church -- ireland. protestants -- ireland. a r (wing i ). civilwar no the lord inchiquins queries to the protestant clergy of the province of munster, with theyr answer to the said queeres. as also sir richard inchiquin, murrough o'brien, earl of a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - jonathan blaney sampled and proofread - jonathan blaney text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the lord inchiqvins queries to the protestant clergy of the province of munster , with theyr answer to the said queeres . as also sir richard blagues speech chaireman to the assembly of the confederate catholicks at killkenny , made to his excellence the lord marqvis of ormond upon signing of the articles of peace . and his exellencies answer to sr. richard blagues speech . published by his majesties special command . hage : printed by samuell broun english bookeseller , dwelling in the achter-om at the signe of the english printing house . anno m.dc.xlix . the lord inchiqvins queries to the protestant clergie of the province of munster . mr. dean boyle i desire you to propose these severall queries to the clergy , and returne me their cleer and conscientious answer to them . i. whether the clergie , living under the protection of his majesty in this province , do conceive themselves obliged by conscience to give obedience to his commands , and the authority placed under him , for the preservation of the english protestant party here , and the armie under their command ? and whether there be not the same engagement upon them to use their utmost endeavours possible to confirme , and settle all fluctuating persons to the like obedience ? and whether all contrary practises be not blameable ? ii. whether their endeavours thereunto ought not to be shewed by them in their publique ministery ; videlicet their prayers and sermons , which they shall exercize themselves in , at their publique meetings , and assemblyes of the people , and in their other devotions , and discourses also ? iii. whether prayers uttered in these assemblyes , though with pretenses to performe that duty before mentioned , may include in them suppositions scandalous against either the person , right goverment , or pious affections of the king , or his ministers ? and whether any that doe so , may not be rather said to accuse them before god , and men , then any way to assist them in the preservation of the people , or army under their commands , in amity and obedience ? iv. can it be lawfull , or approved in conscience , that the ministers should present to the people the mysteries of state ( if they came to their knowledge ) or to manifest unto them their owne apprehensions ( if not sufficiently understood ? ) and if so by what authority ? to what intent ? or end ? if not , ought they not to keepe themselves within their owne line , preaching faith , and good manners , with obedience to the civill magistrate ? inchiquin . the protestant clergy of munsters answer to the lord inchiquins queres . in obedience to your honors commands wee have taken the queres into our consideration , and unanimously returne this answer . to the first quere . first . wee acknowledge , that wee , who live under the protection of his majesty in this province , are bound , by our duty towards god , and our othes of allegeance , and supremacy , to give obedience to him , as to our leige lord , and supreme governour in all causes , and over all persons , as well ecclesiasticall , as civill . secondly . wee acknowledge , that by the same tye of conscience towards god , & duty towards our soveraigne , wee are bound to obey all lawfull authority placed under him , and over us , and in particular , that which is now established in the hands of the most honorable the lord marques of ormond , lord lieutenant generall of this kingdome : together with that in your lordships management , as lord president of this province , and generall of the protestant forces in these parts , and wee freely professe our selves , not onely bound to obey your honor but likewise to glorifie god on your behalfe , as the happie instrument of the preservation of the remnant of protestants that remaine in these parts , and more especially of our selves , as ( under god , and our soveraigne ) the principle patron , and protector of us in this church ; for which , as wee promise our free & cheerfull obedience , so wee desire to paye our willing devotions to god for you that he would allwaies remember you for good concerning this , and wipe not out the good deeds you have done for the house of god , and for the officers thereof . thirdly . wee confesse it our duty , and shall endeavour the performance of it , to the utmost of our power , to labour , by all meanes possible , to fixe , and confirme all wavering persons in theire due obedience to this authority establisht , as the most probable meanes to preserve the protestant partie , and the army under your honors command . fourthly . wee cannot but acknowledge , that all contrary practises are justly blameable before god & man , and wee utterly disclayme , and disavowe all dictates , and discourses whether by word , or writing , which in any wayes tend to raise up the peoples jealousie of the piety , and good inclination of our governours towards us . to the second quere wee acknowledge it a part of our ministeriall duty , in our publique exercises , to endeavour , from the word of god , to instill the doctrine of obedience to civill magistrates into the breasts of the people , and having planted that doctrine , to water it with our prayers , and weede up contrary opinions by our discourses publique , and private , and this wee conceive the meanes to prevent intestine broyles amongst us , and to stop the effusion of blood , and settle us in a quiet & peaceable life , in all godly conversation and honesty . to the third quere . wee acknowledge wee owe the magistrate the duty of our hearts , and knees ; supplications , and prayers , and intercessions , and giving of thanks is to be made for all men , especially for kings , and all that are in authority ; but as for any scandalous suppositions against theire persons or goverment , wee esteeme them contrary to the method of christian prayers , which teacheth us to lift up holy hands without wrath , and therefore to be avoyded as libells , and rayling accusations , rather then humble supplications and such as are faulty here in ( if any such be amongst us ) wee desire them to rectify theire devotions in this particular . to the fourth quere . wee acknowledge that the cheife and principall subject of ministers in their sermons should be in instructing of the people in the right faith of the gospell , good life and manners , and that theire discourses should noe way intrench upon the civill goverment , or transactions of state businesses , to detract from them , by possessing the people with any scandalous suppositions , which may alienate their affections , and obedience to them , and that they should not communicate any mysteryes of state ( which may be thought fit to be imparted unto them ) without the speciall comand of those which have immediate authority reposed in them . kobert nayler . hilke hussey . bern. packington . edward singe . david bovild . andrew chaplin . rob. shawe . rich. germine . phil. fitz symons . hen. copley . iohn goddard . iohn hall . tho. blackwell . iohn godfrey . sirach gilsland . tho. bennet . rich. burgh . mich. boyles . iohn snary . iames dyer . morgan mundyn . iohn stawell richard boile . iames cox. edward fenner . tho. roberts . rue wight . charles coldwell . beniam hearne lewis frix . edward iohn . anthony procter . tho. hacket . nept . blood . israel taylor . henr. rugge . tho. frith . rob. browne . phil. holmes . florence corty . rob. baily . edward eyres . edmund grayne . sir richard blagves speech chaireman to the assembly of the confederate catholicks at killkenny , made to his excellence the lord lieutenant , upon signing of the articles of peace . may it please your excellence . i am commanded by the prelacie , nobility , and gentrie of the roman catholiques of ireland , now assembled in this citty of kilkenny , to present unto your excellencie theire ardent zeale ( naturally engrafted in theire hearts ) to theire sacred soveraigne king charles his service , unto whom they ever have bin , are , and will be , most faythfull , & loyall subjects ; and in the next place , theire great affection to your excellencie , and the never dying memory they entertaine , and will retayne of your most noble and succesfull endeavours in the joynting , & setting together of the much disordered frame of this kingdome . former cessations , accommodations , and capitulations did but skin over the deepe , & wide wounds that were , and are in the body of it . they received no life or perfection , they abortively perished in the embryo , and vanished into the ayre : but the peace ( that by the great mercy of god , by the influence of his majestye's graces , and by the ministery , and cooperation of your excellencie , is now to be established ) will prove , ( as with joy & confidence wee expect ) a firme , stable , and lasting peace , a peace that will cure these bleeding wounds , search to the very roote , and plucke out all the splinters that remaine of them : a peace that will ( as wee hope , and is the height of our desires , as it shall be of our endeavours ) reinvest his majestie in his just , due , and royall rights , and prerogatives , and will restore this nation to its former luster , plenty , and tranquillity : such a peace as allready ends all our doubts , feares , and jealousies in a mutuall confidence & rejoycing , and will make all the members of this generall assembly ( an assembly , unto which the present and future ages will justly give the glorious name of the peace-making assembly ) after their many distractions , and long continued sufferings , to returne unto theire severall respective countryes , and dwellings , with olive branches ( the emblems of peace ) in theire hands , and the words in theire mouthes that were said of our saviour , when upon his entrance into the citty of naim , he mett with the funeralls of a dead young man , the onely sonne of his following weeping mother , whom ( gratiously compassionating her teares ) he restored from death to life , the words were , and not unaptly to be applyed to our present condition , ecce propheta magnus surrexit in nobis , & quiae deus visitavit plebem suam . most excellent lord , ( whom god allmighty hath preserved , and lead , as it were , by the hand , through a sea of troubles & dangers , to be the happie , & essentiall instrument , to mediate , actuate , and now consummate this great worke , and to make ireland ( like the heavenly ierusalem ) to be a citty at unity with in it selfe , i cannot sufficiently expresse the sence , and joyous exultancie of these most venerable prelats , most honorable lords , most juditious , and gallant gentry , the representative body of the roman catholiques of this kingdome , nor with what fervor and ardor they expect to reape the blessed fruites ( which they have so long sighed for , and did sowe in theire blood & teares ) of this peace , and of your excellencie's goverment of this kingdome , unto which , being derived from his majestie ( who is the spring from which these graces and favours flowe upon them ) they will humbly and heartely pay all due obedience . your excellencie's fast , and tryed fidelity to his majestie , your owne great interest in the kingdome , and the many great parts and talents that god and nature have plentifully endowed you with , giving them assurance , that your goverment will produce effects sutable to theire expectation , and that will answer theire desires . it much transcends my weake abilityes to represent them , theire affections , apprehensions , and hopes , in theire right and lively colours , and therefore i humbly begg , that your excellencie will vouchsafe to give a benigne and favourable interpretation to what , by theire commands , i have endeavoured humbly to offer unto your grave judgement , and consideration , and that your excellencie will be pleased to signe this instrument , the everlasting record , and monument of this blessed peace , as by their commands ( it having bin solemnly and unanimously by them so voted ) i have had the honour , ( a greater honour then my lowe , & humble thoughts ever aspired to ) in their chaire to signe this counterpart thereof , and , in all their names , most humbly to present it to your excellencie . his exellencies answer to s r. richard blagues speech . my lords and gentlemen . i shall not speake to those expressions of duty and loyalty , so eloquently digested into a discourse , by the gentleman appointed by you to deliver your sense , you will presently have in your hands greater and more solid arguments of his majestyes gratious acceptance of them , then i can enumerate , or then perhaps , you your selves discerne , for , besides the provision made against your remotest feares of the severity of certaine lawes , and besides many other freedomes , and bountyes conveighed to you , and your posterity , by these articles . there is a doore , and that a large one , not left , but sett open to give you entrance , by your future meritts , to whatsoever of honour , or other advantage , you can resonably wish , so that you have in present fruition what may abundantly satisfye , and yet there are no bounds set to your hopes , but you are rather invited , or , ( according to a new phrase , but to an old & better purpose ) you seeme to have a call from heaven , to excercise your armes and uttermost fortitude , in the noblest , and justest cause the world hath knowen ; for let all the circumstances , incident to a great & good cause of warr , be examined , and they will be found comprehended in that which you are now called warrantably to defende , religion ; not in the narrow circumscribed definition of it , by this , or that late found out meanes , but christian religion , is our quarrell , which certainly is as much , as fatally struck at ( i may say more ) by the blasphemous lycence of this age , then ever it was by the rudest incursions of the most barbarous and most avowed enemyes to christianity . the venerable lawes , and fundamentall constitutions are trodden under impious , and , for the most , mechanique feete . the sacred person of the king ( the life of those lawes ) under an ignominious imprisonment , and his life threatned to be taken away by the sacrilegious hands of the basest of the people that owe him obedience ; and , to endeare the quarrell to you , the fountaine of all the benefitts you have but now acknowledged , and of what you may further hope for by this peace , & your owne meritts , is now in danger to be obstructed by the execrable murther of the worthjest prince that ever ruld these islands . in short , hell can adde nothing to the desperate mischeife now openly projected . and now judge , if a greater , a more glorious feild was ever sett open to action ; and then prepare yourselves to enter into it , and receive these few advices from one throughly embarqued with you in the adventure . first . lett me recommend unto you , that to this , as to all other holy actions , you would prepare yourselves with perfect charity , a charity that may obliterate whatsoever of rancours a long continued civill warr may have contracted in you agamist any that shall now cooperate with you in so blessed a worke , and lett his engagement with you , ( who ever he is ) be , as it ought to be , a bond of unity , of love , of concord , stronger then the nearest tye of nature . in the next place , marke , and beware of those that shall goe about to renew , or create jealousies in you , under what pretense soever , and accompt such as infernall ministers , imployed to promote the black designe on foote , to subvert monarchy , and to make us all slaves to those that are so to theire owne avaritious lusts . a way assoone , and as much as possibly may be , with those distinctions of nations , and of partyes , which are the feilds where in the seeds of those ranker weeds are sowen by the great enemy of our peace in the last place , lett us all divest ourselves of that preposterous , that ridicilous ambition , and selfe interest , which rather leads to our threatned generall ruine , then to the enjoyment of advantages unseasonably desired . and if at any time you shall thinke yourselves pincht too neare the bone by those taxes , and leavyes that may be imposed for your defense , consider then , how vaine , how foolish a thing it will be , to starve a righteous cause for want of necessary support ; to preserve yourselves fatt and guilded sacrifices to the rapine of a mercilesse enemy . and if wee come thus well prepared to a contention , so just , on our part , god will blesse our endeavours with successe and victory , and will crowne our sufferings with honour , and patience ; for what honour will it not be , ( if god have so determined of us ) to perish with a long glorious monarchy ? and who can wante patience to suffer with opprest princes ? but as our endeavours , so lett our prayer be , vigorous , that they may be delivered from a more unnaturall rebellion then is mentioned by any now raised to the highest pitch of successe against them . i should now say some thing to you for my selfe , in returne to the advantagious mention made of me , & my endeavours to bring this settlement to passe : but i confesse my thoughts were wholy taken up with those much greater concernements ; let it suffice , that as i wish to be continued in your good esteeme and affection , so i shall freely adventure upon any hazard , and esteeme no trouble a difficulty too great to encounter , if i may manifest my zeale to this cause , and discharge some part of the obligations that are upon me to serve this kingdome . finis . whereas dualtagh alias dudy costelo, edmund nagle commonly called cornet nangle, christopher hill, thomas plunket, cahel alias charles maccawell and neil o neil and their complices have in the counties of meath, tyrone, monagham, fermangah, longford, leitrim, cavan and other places appeared in armes against his majesties authority ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of 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and forasmuch as the actors of those disorders and offenses cannot as yet be apprehended , whereby they may be punished by the ordinarie course of law , whence we might justly be moved , according to the former usage and custome in this kingdome in cases of like nature , to cause them to be forthwith proclaimed rebells and traytors , yet in mercy to them we think fit hereby to charge and command them upon their dutie of alleigeance to his majestie that they lay down armes , and before the seaventeenth day of july next render their persons to any of his majesties iustices of peace , and submit themselves to his majesties iustice to be tryed for their offenses according to the lawes of the land ▪ wherein if they or any of them shall faile , we do hereby publish and declare that he or they so failing , and such as shall accompany or adhere to them after the publication of this proclamation , and every of them are from and immediately after the said seaventeenth day of july next to be called , reputed , and taken for notorious rebells and tray●●●s against his majestie , and accordingly to be prose●●ted by all his majesties loving and good ●bjects in all hostile manner . declaring further that whatsoever person or persons shall comfort , releive or abett them , or any of them , or any of their confederats or adherents , they are and shall be reputed , deemed and adiudged traytors in like degree with the forenamed traytors and rebells themselves ; and we do in his majesties name straighly charge and command all his majesties loyal subjects upon their duty of allegiance to his majestie not onely to forbeare to receive or releive them the said dualtagh alias dud●y costelo , edmund nangle , christopher hill , thomas plunket , cahel alias charles mac cawell and neil ô neil or any of them , or any of their confederates or adherents , but also to make diligent search and enquirie in what place or places the said dualtagh a●ias dudly costelo , edmund nang●e , christopher hill , thomas plunket , cahell alias charles mac cawell and neil ô neil , or their said confederates shall from time to time lurk or be releived , and by all means possible to prosecute apprehend and take the bodies of them the said dualtagh alias d●dly costelo , edmund nangle , christopher hill , thomas plunket , cahel alias charles mac cawell and neil ô neil and their adherents , and them to bring or cause to be brought under safe custodie unto the high sheriffs of the respective counties , where any of them shall be apprehended , to be by such sheriff kept in strict and safe custodie , till we upon notice thereof shall give further direction concerning them , or resisting and refusing to be taken , to kill them or any of them ; and we do hereby declare that whosoever shall after the said seaventeenth day of july next bring unto any sheriff the bodie of the said dualtagh alias dudly costelo , edmund nangle , christ●pher hill , thomas plunket , cahell alias charles mac cawell , or neil ô neil or any of than alive , or kill any of them , and bring his head to the sheriff of the county where he shall be killed ( to be by such sheriff set up in some publicque place in that countie ) shall have for his reward for each person so brought in , or his head twenty pounds to be paid him by such sheriff , and to be allowed by such sheriff upon his accompt to be rendered in his majesties court of exchequer , and whosoever of the complices of the said proclaimed persons shall after the said seaventeenth day of july next apprehend or kill as aforesaid , any of the said reb●lls and traytors particularly named , he shall together with the said reward receive his pardon ; and towards the speedy effecting of this service all commanders and officers of horse and foot , and all other his majesties officers and loving subjects are to be aiding and assisting , as they and every of them will answer the contrary at their perills . given at the council chamber in dublin , the eighth day of june , . meath . roscomon . arran . anglesey . dungannon . henry tichborne . j. temple . paul davys . robert forth . ja. ware. rob. meredith . theo. jones . god save the king . dublin , printed by john crook , printer to the kings most excellent majestie , and are to be sold by samuel dancer in castlestreet . . we the lord lieutenant and council considering the duty incumbent on us to give a right representation of his majesties great care of, and indulgence to, his people, and to make the execution of the laws as easie and safe to his subjects, as the exegencie of the times and necessity of affairs may possibly admit ... by the lord lieutenant and co. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) we the lord lieutenant and council considering the duty incumbent on us to give a right representation of his majesties great care of, and indulgence to, his people, and to make the execution of the laws as easie and safe to his subjects, as the exegencie of the times and necessity of affairs may possibly admit ... by the lord lieutenant and co. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by john crook ... and are to be sold by samuel dancer book-seller ..., dublin : . title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at his majesties castle of dublin, the thirteenth day of december, ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng taxation -- ireland. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion c r diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde . we the lord lieutenant and council considering the duty incumbent on vs to give a right representation of his majesties great care of and indulgence to his people , and to make the execution of the laws as easie and safe to his subjects , as the exigencie of the times and necessity of affairs may possibly admit : and taking notice that many of his good subjects who attend the confirmation of their estates in this kingdom , graciously intended them by his majesty , according to the act for the better execution of his majesties gracious declaration , &c. may by reason of the great scarcity of coyn , be in present disabled , and through the expectation of a return of a commission for valuing the estates of adventurers , souldiers and others , that are by the said act to pay half a year or a years rent to his majesty according to the value of the said estates in the year one thousand six hundred fifty nine , may have unwarily taken up hopes that upon the application of the house of commons to this board , the time of payment would be inlarged , which his majesties pressing occasions would not then permit , and that upon some or all of these grounds , many persons may not onely have neglected to provide moneys , but also may lie under the trouble of misapprehensions that advantage will be taken by his majestie for their failers in payment by the fifteenth of this month of december : vpon deliberate consideration hereof , and of what hath further occurred unto vs , upon this occasion though the said moneys have not been paid in proportionably to what was requisite and reasonably by vs expected , so that the wilful and total failers deserved no inlargement of time , yet many having done their part with great duty and readiness , so that the present exigencie of his majesties affairs hath been in some degree supplied thereby , & many as we understand being upon the way with their mony : we therefore to manifest to the whole kingdom that his maiesty takes more satisfaction in the happiness & contentment of his people , than in any advantage to himself , have thought fit ( according to the power intrusted with vs by an act of parliament , intituled , an act for the inlargement of the periods of time limited in an act for the better execution of his majesties gracious declaration for the settlement of his kingdom of ireland , &c. ) and do by this our act of council inlarge the time for the payment of the first half years value payable out of the estates of adventurers , souldiers and others , unto his majesty , unto the third day of february next ensuing the date hereof , before or on which day all persons concerned are hereby required to make the said several payments due from them by the said act , according to the truest estimate they can make of their lands , as the same yeilded in the year one thousand six hundred fifty nine ; and whensoever the commissions that have issued , or shall issue for the valuing of the said lands as aforesaid , shall be returned , in case any person shall have paid more than by the return of such commissions shall appear to have been due from him , an allowance shall be made to him of such overplus , upon return of the said commissions . and this readiness of ours to give full satisfaction in this particular , will we hope quicken all persons concerned in subsidies , quit-rents and other payments to his majesty , to answer the same duely at the receipt of his majesties exchequer , that his majesties occasions being supplied by his own dues , the people may with more assurance enjoy the tranquillity , happiness and protection of his government , the contentment whereof is the chief advantage his majestie draws at present from this kingdom . given at his majesties castle of dublin , the thirteenth day of december , . god save the king . jo. armachanus , mau. eustace canc. ja. dublin , ossory , barrymore , drogheda , mount-alexander , anglesey , shannon , massereene , hen. midensis , mich. cork , fran. aungier , tho. pigot , jo. bysse , j. temple , paul davys , fra. hamilton , robert forth , ja. ware , rob. meredith , theo. jones . dvblin , printed by john crook , printer to the kings most excellent majesty , and are to be sold by samuel dancer book-seller , in castle-street , . whereas by some letters scattered about the streets of this city of dublin, and by other informations, we have lately received notice of a conspiracy against the life of us the lord lieutenant ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas by some letters scattered about the streets of this city of dublin, and by other informations, we have lately received notice of a conspiracy against the life of us the lord lieutenant ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by benjamin took ... and are to be sold by mary crook ..., dublin : . title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at the council chamber in dublin, the th. day of december, ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng ormonde, james butler, -- duke of, - -- assassination attempts. conspiracies -- ireland. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde vvhereas by some letters scattered about the streets of this city of dublin , and by other informations , we have lately received notice of a conspiracy against the life of us the lord lieutenant , by means whereof , we have made some discoverie of the said designe , but the person who writ the said letters is yet unknown , we have therefore thought fit hereby to publish and declare , that in case the person who wrote the said letters , or caused the said letters to be so writt and dispersed , or any other person shall within twenty dayes after the date hereof , come before us the lord lieutenant , or his majesties principall secretary of state in this kingdome : or any other of his majesties privie council in dublin , and shall first make full and perfect discovery of the said designe , such person shall not onely receive his pardon in case be were party or privie to the said designe , but shall also foorthwith upon making out such further discoverie , receive the summe of two hundred pounds , for his reward , and shall also be secured in his person from all such trouble and danger , as he shall apprehend may befall him by reason of such discoverie . given at the council chamber in dublin , the th . day of december , . mich : dublin c , arran . granard . lanesborough . hen : midensis . r. coote . r. fitz-gerald . char. meredith . ro. booth . jo : davys . john cole . h , ingoldesby . hans hamilton . ric : gethin . theo : jones . walter plunkett . tho : newcomen . tho : radcliffe . god save the king. dublin , printed by benjamin took , printer to the king 's most excellent majesty ; and are to be sold by mary crook at his majesties printing-house in skimmer-row , . upon consideration of a petition presented unto us, by the officers of the receipt of his majesties exchequer, and the answer of the farmers of his majesties revenue thereunto ... by the lord lieutenant and council. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) upon consideration of a petition presented unto us, by the officers of the receipt of his majesties exchequer, and the answer of the farmers of his majesties revenue thereunto ... by the lord lieutenant and council. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by benjamin took and john crook ... and are to be sold by mary crook ..., dublin : . title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at the council chamber in dublin the th. day of december, ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng taxation -- ireland. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal yp pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde . upon consideration had of a petition presented unto vs , by the officers of the receipt of his majesties exchequer , and the answer of the farmers of his majesties revenue thereunto , as also of the provision made by his majesty for and in behalf of the said officers expressed in his majesties grant to the said farmers for and concerning the iust and vsual fees due and accruing to the said officers upon the payments of his majesties revenue arising out of quitt-rents , crown-rents , and composition-rents within this kingdom , by his majesties ter-tenants , we iudge it expedient , and it is accordingly by and with the unanimous consent of the said farmers and officers , ordered , that the said farmers and commissioners of his majesties revenue , do forthwith give notice by printed copies of this order to all and every of the collectors , or receivers that have been or are employed by them in this kingdom , for the receipt of his majesties said quit-rents , crown-rents and composition-rents , since the commencement of the present farm , that they do within the space of one & twenty daies after notice aforesaid , give and deliver in writing a full and just account of all the fees to the said officers of his majesties receipt , which they the said collectors and their agents under and by them severally employed have received from his majesties said ter-tenants to the th . day of september last past , which said account is to be such , as they will give upon oath to be made before any one or more of the barons of his majesties courts of exchequer aforesaid , wherein they are to express the denominations of such lands , and the ter-tenants names within their respective districts , for which they have received the said fees as aforesaid , to the end the said officers may know for what lands they the said collectors have , and for what lands they have not received fees ; and the said collectors or receivers are hereby required to pay or cause to be paid all the moneys they have received for fees as aforesaid , within forty days after they shall receive such notice of this our order as aforesaid , to such person or persons as the said commissioners and officers shall nominate and appoint to receive the same , for the vse of the said officers ; and to the end every such person or persons as are herein concerned may be proceeded against that shall not punctually comply with this our order , the farmers and commissioners of his majesties said revenue are hereby required to give notice to this board of every particular person employed by them for receiving of the rents aforesaid , that shall not punctually comply with this our order . given at the council chamber in dublin the th . day of december . m●ch . armach , c. arran . blesinton . granard . lanesborough . ranelagh . hen. midensis . r. coote . ro. booth . john keatinge . jo. davys . theo. jones . wm. flower . god save the king . dublin , printed by benjamin took and john crook , printers to the king 's most excellent majestie , and are to be sold by mary crook at his majesties printing-house , in skinner row. . by the lord [li]eutenant generall of ireland. ormonde. whereas wee haue graunted our commissions of sequestrations of all the lands, tenements, goods and chattles of such persons as are now absent, ... ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (wing o ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing o estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) by the lord [li]eutenant generall of ireland. ormonde. whereas wee haue graunted our commissions of sequestrations of all the lands, tenements, goods and chattles of such persons as are now absent, ... ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . sheet ([ ] p.) [s.n.], printed at kilkenny : in the yeare of our lord . title from heading and first lines of text. copy catalogued tightly bound with some loss of print. reproduction of the original in the bodleian library. eng ireland -- history -- - -- early works to . a r (wing o ). civilwar no by the lord [li]eutenant generall of ireland. ormonde. whereas wee haue graunted our commissions of sequestrations of all the lands, tenemen ireland. lord lieutenant f the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the f category of texts with or more defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion by the lord ●●evtenant generall of ireland . ●…rmonde . whereas wee haue graunted our commissions of sequestrations of all the lands , tenements goods and chattles of such persons as are now absent , either in this kingdome or in 〈…〉 d and beyond the seas , who haue estates and places of residence within this his maiesties 〈…〉 me of ireland , and that in doeing thereof wee might not be said to take any aduantage of 〈…〉 on s casuall or necessarie absence , who haueing a disposition to retourne brings with him an 〈…〉 n 〈◊〉 submitt to his maiesties power and authority intrusted with vs , and to the articles and 〈◊〉 of peace , which wee haue contracted vpon good deliberation , and by the concurrence and 〈…〉 ation of his sacred maiestie with such of his roman catholick subiects as haue giuen vs ●●surance and testimony of their loyaltie and adhering vnto him . wee haue thought fitt and 〈…〉 eby for the encouradgment and security of such absent persons publish and declare , that if 〈…〉 ll retourne to their former habitations and possessions by or before the tymes and dayes he 〈…〉 limitted , and apply and submitt themselues to his maiesties power and authority here esta 〈…〉 vnder our commaund and gouernment , and to the articles and conditions of peace now ●●●cted and aggreed vpon with his roman catholick subiects , that then wee shall readily receiue ●nto his maiesties protections , and repossess them of their estates , possessions and intrests , vnless 〈…〉 iust cause of exception against them for some transcendent delinquency in reference to 〈◊〉 ●●ecrable murther of his late maiestie of famous memory . that is to say . that euery 〈◊〉 now in this kingdome doe retourne by or before the fower and twentieth day of iune next 〈…〉 g , and euery person now in england or beyond the seas doe retourne qualified as aforesaid 〈…〉 before the last day of september next ensuing . and if they shall faile , refuse or neglect soe to within the seuerall tymes aforesaid wee doe then hereby giue such persons to vnderstand that 〈…〉 resolue to distribute and imploy their estates and intrests towards the publick and his ma 〈…〉 seruice . giuen at our castle of kilkenny the nynth day of may , . god save the kinge printed at kilkenny in the yeare of our lord . victorious newes from ireland being a battail fought by the lord of ormond, the nineteenth day of june, to the losse of two thousand of the rebels, ten miles beyond limbrick, sent in letter to master thomas flinge, burgine, darby. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (wing b ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing b estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; :e , no ) victorious newes from ireland being a battail fought by the lord of ormond, the nineteenth day of june, to the losse of two thousand of the rebels, ten miles beyond limbrick, sent in letter to master thomas flinge, burgine, darby. ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . warwick, robert rich, earl of, - . [ ] p. printed for marmaduke boat, ... london : iuly [ ] signed: darby burgine. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng ireland -- history -- - . a r (wing b ). civilwar no victorious newes from ireland, being a battail fought by the lord of ormond, the nineteenth day of june, to the losse of two thousand of the burgine, darby c the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the c category of texts with between and defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - celeste ng sampled and proofread - celeste ng text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion victorious newes from ireland , being a battail fought by the lord of ormond , the ninteenth day of june , to the losse of two thousand of the rebels , ten miles beyond limbrick , sent in letter to master thomas flings , now resident in covent garden . and many other remarkable passages in that kingdom . as also a letter that was sent from the right honourable robert earl of warwick , admirall of the sea , to master iohn pym , esquire , and presented to both houses of parliament , july . . die mercurii , iulii , . ordered by the lords in parliament , iohn brown , cler. parl. july . london , printed for marmaduke boat . worthy sir , i know you do much desire to hear from your friends especialy having left them in this distracted kingdom ; yet it hath pleased god to blesse your friends with health , and your uncle mac shane , and your coufen dermot . the day of this month the earl of ormond marched towards munster with an army of . men , which when sir phelim oneal had intelligence , marched towards him with an army of . men , some ten miles beyond limbrick , where they had as famous a pitchs battle as hath been since these troublesome times begun ; these rebels and their forces continued for the space of two dayes , untill sir patrick weams , and some other english commanders , with two pieces of ordnance , made an assault upon them the day of this month , about two of the clock in the morning ( they not expecting any such thing ) which being so suddenly performed , did so distract the rebells , that they all seemed to be men without life , and speedily provided every one for himself by flight ▪ yet for all this their haste , there were slain and wounded on the rebells part to the number of men , we losing but or at the most . thus we daily see by experience how mightily god doth fight for us ; to whom be praise and glory for evermore . after the flight of these miserable people , the whole spoil of the camp was taken , and a great part of it divided amongst the souldiers , to encourage them , and the rest is kept for the relief of our men . the rebells have since assembled , which when sir patrick weams heard of , did march towards them , but could not cause them to stay , nor durst they fight , the fear which the last skirmish had stricken them into being still in them , and the want of arms and powder , which if they had , they would soon be with us . we want men and money extraordinarily ; for had not god blessed us with this little pillage to relieve our men , we had been in a miserable condition , but we hope , and daily expect both from england : which if a speedy course be not taken , it will much endanger the losse of this kingdom , and the lives of many poor distressed protestants : for there is scarce an irish gentleman , but is turned to the rebells ; for they call themselves the holy catholique camp , and do daily expect supplies from some forraigne enemies . your friends hope to see you shortly : your wife and children are all well , and remember you daily in their prayers . so , till i see you , and ever , i shall remain your assured loving friend , darby bargine . from the fort of leas , this of june , . m. pym , before these shall come to your hand , i make no doubt but m. nicbolls of the house of commons hath made both houses a relation of what hath passed here since i received his majesties letters for the discharging me of the command of the fleet wherewith i was entrusted , how i called a councell of warre , and acquainted them with his majesties letters , and likewise with the ordinance of parliament , sent from the houses for me to continue my charge : i confesse it was a great streight that i was put in , between two commands that have so much power over me : but when i consider the great care which i have ever observed in the parliaments of this kingdom for the good and safety of the king and kingdom , and every mans particular in them ; and that they are that great councell by whose authority the kings of england have ever spoken to their subjects ; and likewise that the trust of his fleet for the defence of his majesty and the kingdoms was committed to me by them ; and knowing the integrity of my own heart to his majesty and parliament , i resolved not to desert that charge committed to my trust , wherein god ( blessed be his name for it ) hath made me hitherto so successefull , but to continue it untill i shall be revoked by that authority that hath entrusted me with it : which having declared to my captains at the councell of warre , all of them unanimously and cheerfully took the same resolution , excepting five , which was the rere-admirall , captain fogge , captain barley , captain slings by , and captain wake , all which five refused to come upon my summons , as having no authority over them , and got together round that night to make their defence against me , onely captain burley came in and submitted to me . whereupon in the morning i weighed my anchors , and caused the rest of my ships so to do , and came to an anchor round about them , and besieged them ; and when i had made all things ready , i summoned them : sir john mennes , and captain fogge came in to me ; but captain slingsby and captain wake stood out : whereupon i let fly a gunne over them , and sent them word i had turned up the glasse upon them , if in that space they came not in , they must look for for me ab●ord them . i sent to them by my boat , and most of the boats in the fleet ; their answer was so peremptory , that my masters and saylors grew so impatient on them , that although they had no arms in their boats at all , yet god gave them such courage and resolution , as in a moment they entered them , took hold on their shrouds , and seized upon these captains , being armed with their pistolls and swords , and struck their yards and top masts , and brought them both in to me ; the like courage and resolution was never seen amongst unarmed men , so as all was ended without effusion of blood , which i must attribute to the great god of heaven and earth onely , who in the moment that i was ready to give fire on them , put such courage into our men to act it , and so saved much blood . i hope the parliament will think of some course for all our indempnities , and especially for the officers of the navy , and principall for the surveyor of the navy , my vice-admirall , a very able and good man , for my self , i doubt not but they that put me in this employment , will preserve me for serving them faithfully . i pray you sir be a means to sir robert pye , and m. green , that some money may be sent us ; for it hath been often promised , but hear not of it . the weather continuing stormy so long together , that we spend our masts , and top masts , or some detriment or other falls upon us daily , so that we are in great extremity for want of money . thus , having nothing else to trouble you for the present , onely that you will be pleased to acquaint your house of commons with our proceedings here , i bid you fare well , and rest , your assured friend to serve you , warwick . from aboard his majesties ship the james , on the downs ; this of july , . die mercurii , iulii , . ordered by the lords in parliament , that this letter beforth with printed and published . jo brown , cleric . parliamentorum . finis . whereas it appears by the examination of john totty, one of the officers at mace in the city of dublin, taken upon oath before the lord mayor of the said city, that on the first day of this instant april, the examinant being commanded, went with the magistrates and other officers, pursuant to an order of this board, to a mass house on the merchants-key in this city, where they found a priest & many people assembled together ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas it appears by the examination of john totty, one of the officers at mace in the city of dublin, taken upon oath before the lord mayor of the said city, that on the first day of this instant april, the examinant being commanded, went with the magistrates and other officers, pursuant to an order of this board, to a mass house on the merchants-key in this city, where they found a priest & many people assembled together ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by benjamin tooke and john crook ... and are to be sold by mary crook ..., dublin : . title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at the council-chamber in dublin the th day of april ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng anti-catholicism -- ireland. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde vvhereas it appears by the examination of john totty , one of officers at mace in the city of dublin , taken upon oath before the lord mayor of the said city , that on the first day of this instant april , the examinant being commanded , went with the magistrates and other officers , pursuant to an order of this board to a mass house on the merchants-key in this city , where they found a priest & many people assembled together , and that the lord mayor of this city ordered them to forbear their meetings , or having any publick mass , for that we the lord lieutenant & council had given divers to the contrary , and that the examinant taking the said priest by the shoulder , and pulling him away , the said priest cryed out , that he would be revenged for it . and that the same night betwixt nine and ten of the clock , the examinant was met near the thollsel in this city by two men whose names the examinant knowes not , who forcibly seized on him , and took him by the throat , and there almost strangled him , and that immediately after , three or four men more came with clubs , and there with knocked him on the head with several blowes , whereby he fell flat to the ground , and left the examinant on the ground for dead , one of them stamping on the examinants face with his foot , after he had received many bruises , and that one of them with his rapier run the examinant into his left side , & said , you son of a whore , you rogue , will you pull down the holy altar . and whereas we conceive it necessary , that diligent and strict enquiry should be made after the persons who committed the said outrage , whose insolence therein , we cannot but look upon , not only as a high breach of the peace , but also as a hainous contempt of his majesties authority . we the lord lieutenant and council have therefore thought fit hereby to publish & declare , that in case any person shall at any time within the space of three months after the date hereof , discover to us the lord leiutenant , or to any the members of this board , or to the lord mayor , or any of the justices of peace , of this city , any of the said offendors who so beat or abused the said john-totty , so as they may be apprehended and brought to justice , such person making such discovery , shall upon conviction of the said persons so discovered by him for the said offences , receive for his reward the summe of twenty pounds ; and if any of the persons who were guilty of the said offence , shall make the like discovery of any other of the said offendors , he shall likewise receive the said reward of twenty pounds for such his discovery , together also with his majesties pardon for the said offence by him therein committed . given at the council-chamber in dublin the th day of april . mich : armarch : c. jo : dublin . arran , blesinton . lanesborough . hen : midensis . ro : fitz-gerald . ca : dillon . char : meredith . jo : davys . ol : st. george . john cole . god save the king . dublin , printed by benjamin tooke , and john crook , printers to the king 's most excellent majesties ; and are to be sold by mary crook , at his majesties printing house in skinner-row . whereas we are informed by the earl of ranelagh, and his partners, that several sheriffs and collectors within the respective counties of this kingdom, have received by vertue of his majesties process, divers considerable summs of money due to his majestie, and which do belong to the earl of ranelagh and partners undertaking, some of whom have accompted lately in the exchequer, but not paid in the money due from them ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas we are informed by the earl of ranelagh, and his partners, that several sheriffs and collectors within the respective counties of this kingdom, have received by vertue of his majesties process, divers considerable summs of money due to his majestie, and which do belong to the earl of ranelagh and partners undertaking, some of whom have accompted lately in the exchequer, but not paid in the money due from them ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by benjamin took and john crook ... and are to be sold by mary crook ..., dublin : . title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at the council chamber in dublin the th day of march " [ ] reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng tax collection -- ireland. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - elspeth healey sampled and proofread - spi global rekeyed and resubmitted - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde . whereas we are informed by the earl of ranelagh , and his partners , that several sheriffs and collectors within the respective counties of this kingdom , have received by vertue of his majesties process , divers considerable summs of money due to his majestie , and which do belong to the earl of ranelagh and partners undertaking , some of whom have accompted lately in the exchequer , but not paid in the money due from them ; and others have not as yet accompted ▪ upon consideration whereof , we think fit by this our proclamation , to require such of the said sheriffs and collectors who have accompted and not paid what remains due from them , that they do with all convenient speed , & at farthest by the twenty ninth day of april next , pay the money in their respective hands into his majesties treasurie , and such of them as have not accompted , that they do by the twelth day of may next make up their accounts : and pay such money as they have received into his majesties said treasury : to the end the same may be applied to the uses of the said undertaking . and if they fail herein , they shall be proceeded against with the utmost severity . and we do also hereby require all collectors of the monies applotted within this kingdom for the supply of the deficiencie of the years value , who have not accompted for , and paid the moneys by them collected , that they do at or before the said twenty ninth of april next , account for , and pay in the monies by them collected into his majesties said treasurie , as they will answer the contrary at their perils . given at the council-chamber in dublin the th , day of march . mich : armach . c. jo : dublin . blesinton . lanesbrough . hen. midensis . ro : fitz-gerald . ca : dillon . char : meredith . ro : booth . jo : davys . john cole . theo : jones . god save the king. dvblin , printed by benjamin tookand john crook , printers to the kings most excellent majestie ; and are to be sold by mary crook , at his majesties printing-house in skinner-row . . [a prayer ordered to be used by the earle of ormonde, feb. th] bulkeley, lancelot, ?- . this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (wing l ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing l estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) [a prayer ordered to be used by the earle of ormonde, feb. th] bulkeley, lancelot, ?- . ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [dublin : of february, ] first two lines of text read: lord of hosts, almighty and eternall god, whose high and glorious name is king of kings and lord of lords. signed: la. dublin [i.e. lancelot, archbishop of dublin]. wing incorrectly enters surname as launcelot and assigns the following title: a prayer ordered to be used by the earle of ormonde, feb. th. "i require all preachers and chaplaines of the army to use the above forme of praier at all times of publique praier in expeditions. ormonde" reproduction of original in bodleian library. eng prayers -- early works to . a r (wing l ). civilwar no [a prayer ordered to be used by the earle of ormonde, feb. th] bulkeley, lancelot d the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the d category of texts with between and defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - jonathan blaney sampled and proofread - jonathan blaney text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion o lord of hosts , almighty and eternall god , whose high and glorious name is king of kings , and lord of lords : heare from heauen thy dwelling place the prayers and supplications of vs thy servants , assembled together to fight thy battels against the enemies of thy truth and gospell , many in number and most maliciousiy bent are they that are risen vp against vs : but if thou ( o lord ) be with vs , we will not feare what man can doe against vs ; as our hope of helpe is in thee , so let our helpe and assistance be from thee , send thy blessed angels to keepe vs in all our wayes , direct and prosper our councells , encourage our hearts and strengthen our hands , graunt vs victorie in the day of battle , and perfect thy strength in our weakenesse , strike the hearts of our enemies with thy terrors , disperse their numbers , make vaine their devices , and glorifie thy power and wisedome in our safetie , and their conversion or confusion , o lord of hosts convert them in thy mercie , or avenge vpon them their treason and disloyallty towards thine anoynted , our dread soveraigne , returne into their bosomes the blood of our brethren , which they have shed with crueltie , and vpon their heads the ●ischiefes which they have wrought , wash away the guilt of all our sinnes by the bloud of thy son iesus christ , which was shed as a ransome for vs all ; sanctifie our hearts by the grace of thy holy spirit , that our sinnes cause not the removeall of thy presence from vs , sanctifie our campe , and dwell therein , and grant the event and successe of this our present warfare , m●y be the advancement and establishment of the true auncient catholike , apostolike protestant faith , the rooting out of popery , idolatry and superstition , the conversion of this rebellious seduced nation vnto loyaltie and obedience of thy gospell , the honor and contentment of our gracious soveraigne king charles , the settlement of peace in this desolate kingdome , and the glory of thy great and fearefull name , and that for the meritt of thy onely son iesus christ our lord . amen . la dublin . of february . . i require all preachers and chaplaines of the army to use the above forme of praier at all times of publique praier in all expeditions . ormonde we the lord lieutenant and council do hereby think fit to declare and publish that whosoever shall make discovery of any officer or souldier of his majesties horse and foot guards in this city and suburbs thereof, or of his majesties army in this kingdom, who having formerly taken the oathes of allegiance and supremacy, hath since been perverted, or hereafter shall be perverted to the popish religion ... by the lord lieutenant and council. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) we the lord lieutenant and council do hereby think fit to declare and publish that whosoever shall make discovery of any officer or souldier of his majesties horse and foot guards in this city and suburbs thereof, or of his majesties army in this kingdom, who having formerly taken the oathes of allegiance and supremacy, hath since been perverted, or hereafter shall be perverted to the popish religion ... by the lord lieutenant and council. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by benjamin tooke ... and are to be sold by mary crook ..., dublin : . title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at the council chamber in dublin the th. of november. ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; 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such discoverers upon information given to vs the lord lieutenant , shall have a reward of ten pounds sterl . for every commssioned officer , five pounds sterl . for every private trooper , & forty shillings sterl . for every foot souldier so discovered as aforesaid . and to the end this resolution of vs the lord lieutenant and council herein may be fully known ; we have thought fit to command this our order to be forthwith printed and published . given at the council chamber in dublin the th . of november . . mich. dublin c. lanesbotough hen : midensis . r : coote . ed : villiers . rob fitz gerald , ca. dillon . char : meredith . ro : booth . jo : davys . wm : gore . vvill : steward . john cole . hans hamilton . h : ingoldesby . vvm : flower . ric : gethin . vvalter plunkett . theo : jones . tho : radcliffe . god save the king. dublin , printed by benjamin took , printer to the king 's most excellent majesty ; and are to be sold by mary crook at h●s majesties printing-house in skinner row. . forasmuch as for his majesties service, we hold it fit that all officers of his majesties army now in this kingdom, as well members of parliament, as others, attend their duties at their several and respective quarters ... ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) forasmuch as for his majesties service, we hold it fit that all officers of his majesties army now in this kingdom, as well members of parliament, as others, attend their duties at their several and respective quarters ... ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by john crooke ..., dublin : . signed at end: g. lane. at head of title: [lo]rd lieutenant general, and general governour of ireland, ormonde. "given at his majesties castle of dublin the th. of may. ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) by the lord lieutenant general and general governor of ireland all persons that shall have occasion to prefer any petitions to us are to take notice ... ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . sheet ([ ] p.). printed by john crook ... and are to be sold by samuel dancer, bookseller ..., dublin : . reproduction of original in bodleian library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; 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neither are any petitioners to resort to the castle for them , nor by their unseasonable solicitations to hinder our secretaries from the dispatch of the businesses committed to their charge . given at his majesties castle of dublin , the . day of august , . god save the king. dvblin , printed by john crook , printer to the kings most excellent majesty ; and are to be sold by samuel dancer book-seller , in castle-street , . whereas several complaints have been made unto us by the farmers and commissioners of his majesties excise upon beer, ale and strong-waters, and for granting licences for selling of beer and ale by retayle ... by the lord lieutenant general and general governour of ireland, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas several complaints have been made unto us by the farmers and commissioners of his majesties excise upon beer, ale and strong-waters, and for granting licences for selling of beer and ale by retayle ... by the lord lieutenant general and general governour of ireland, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. j. crook, [dublin : ] title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. imprint suggested by wing. "given at kilkenny castle the fourteenth day of september, ." imperfect: faded, with loss of print. reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; 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whereof the several and respectiv● commanders of such souldiers are to take special notice . given at kilkenny castle the fourteenth day of september , ● . g. la 〈…〉 for the more due and orderly preservation of his majesties game of pheasants, partridges, crows and hares, and all other game whatsoever, for the recreation of the lord lieutenant and council, especially near about the places where the lord lieutenant and state shall for the most part reside, we do hereby in his majesties name strictly charge and command all persons whatsoever not to presume to kill or take, or attempt to kill or take any pheasant, partridge, crows, hares, or any prohibited game whatsoever ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) for the more due and orderly preservation of his majesties game of pheasants, partridges, crows and hares, and all other game whatsoever, for the recreation of the lord lieutenant and council, especially near about the places where the lord lieutenant and state shall for the most part reside, we do hereby in his majesties name strictly charge and command all persons whatsoever not to presume to kill or take, or attempt to kill or take any pheasant, partridge, crows, hares, or any prohibited game whatsoever ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by john crook ... and are to be sold by samuel dancer ..., dublin : . title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at the council-chamber in dublin, the riv. day of november, ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng poaching -- ireland. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - pip willcox sampled and proofread - pip willcox text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion royal english blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde , for the more due and orderly preservation of his majesties games of pheasants , partridges , grows and hares , and all other game whatsoever , for the recreation of the lord lieutenant and council , especially near about the places where the lord lieutenant and state shall for the most part reside : we do hereby in his majesties name strictly charge and command all persons whatsoever that they do not presume to kill or take , or attempt to kill or take any pheasant , partridge , grows , hares , or any prohibited game whatsoever , either by hawks , nets , guns , setting dogs , grey-hounds , or any other engine whatsoever , in any place or places within seven miles from the city of dublin , as also within the bounds of the curragh of kildare , or within three miles distance from the same , except onely that counsellours of state may take their recreation with hawks or otherways within the said limits . and we do likewise charge and command all persons , that they do not shoot within the limits aforesaid in any gun or piece , except souldiers at the time of their exercizing , and such others as shall be lawfully authorized either by the lord lieutenant , or the master of his majesties game for this kingdom , which licences we think fit to be hereafter granted with as much caution as may be , for the avoiding the destruction of the said game : and we require all persons to whom any such licence shall be granted , that they give bond to the master of the game , in the sum of forty pounds , not to kill or shoot at any game whatsoever within seven miles of this city of dublin , or the limits specified about the curragh of kildare . and we do strictly charge and command , that no person or persons whatsoever within the realm of ireland , do presume to use or keep any setting dogs , but that it may be lawful for the master of his majesties game , or his deputies , to seize , take and destroy such setting dogs at their pleasure . and we do strictly charge and command all mayors , sheriffs , iustices of the peace , soveraigns , portriffs , constables , officers and ministers of iustice whatsoever , to take special care for apprehension of offenders against this proclamation and to binde them over to appear before vs his majesties lord lieutenant and council to answer their contempts , that so they may receive punishment according to their demerits . given at the council-chamber in dublin , the xiv . day of november , . god save the king . jo. armachanus , mau. eustace canc. ja. dublin . ossory , orrery , mount-alexander , anglesey , dungannon , fran : aungier , hen. midensis , tho. pigot , theo. jones . dvblin , printed by john crook , printer to the kings most excellent majestie , and are to be sold by samuel dancer book-seller , in castle-street , . a speech made to his grace the duke of ormond lord lieutenant of ireland, and to the lords of his majesties most honorable privy council to return the humble thanks of the french protestants lately arriv'd in this kingdom, and graciously reliev'd by them / by p. drelincourt. drelincourt, peter, - . approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) a speech made to his grace the duke of ormond lord lieutenant of ireland, and to the lords of his majesties most honorable privy council to return the humble thanks of the french protestants lately arriv'd in this kingdom, and graciously reliev'd by them / by p. drelincourt. drelincourt, peter, - . ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . p. printed by joseph ray, for william mendey, dvblin : . reproduction of original in huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng huguenots -- england. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - celeste ng sampled and proofread - celeste ng text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a speech made to his grace the duke of ormond lord lieutenant of ireland , and to the lords of his majesties most honorable privy council . to return the humble thanks of the french protestants lately arriv'd in this kingdom ; and graciously reliev'd by them . by p. drelincovrt domestick chaplain to his grace the duke of ormond , and chantor of christ-church . published by special command , dvblin , printed by joseph ray , for william mendey bookseller in the exchange . . may it please your grace and your lordships , i shou'd not presume to take up any part of that time , which your grace so happily employs in the government and conservation of a whole nation ; nor to divert the rest of this honourable board from those important affairs , which usually call your lordships hither ; were i not under an obligation both of gratitude and duty , to be an interpreter for those poor protestants , lately come out of france , to take sanctuary with you : and to express for them and in their names , as they have earnestly desired me , a part of that grateful sense , which they have , and will for ever preserve , of your lordships christian charity and generosity towards them : this they have often , i assure you , acknowledg'd to heav'n in their pray'rs , but cou'd not be satisfied , till they had made their solemn and publick acknowledgments to their noble benefactors . life and religion are the two things most dear and valuable of all upon earth : life is the ground of all the good and happiness we enjoy in this world , and religion is the foundation of all the felicities we hope for in that to come ; so that those persons that are depriv'd both of the comforts of life , and the profession and exercise of their religion , may justly be look'd upon as the truest objects of pity that we can meet with in this world ; and by the same rule , those that have a lively sympathy with such , have the true principle of a christian spirit , and are the true examples of a christian practice . what extream hardships and sufferings those protestants were under in their own country , both as to their livelihood and religion , is too sad and too notorious a truth , as well as too big a subject for me now to enlarge upon . the many proclamations which their prince made against them , for pulling down and demolishing most of their churches , and excluding them from all trades and preferments , are well known , they cou'd neither serve god , nor enjoy themselves ; they are forbidden to quit their country , and yet by their hard usage , and persecution , in effect , not suffer'd to stay . the cry of that egyptian-like bondage and slavery , they groaned under , that entred into the ears of the lord of hosts , entred also into your noble and charitable hearts , and there has met with compassion and pity ; and by your christian example and charity you have set your selves patterns to this whole nation : by it you have excited the general beneficence of all ; and by it , no less than by your orders , you have already influenc'd this great city ( and i hope will shortly after , the whole kingdom ) into an obedience to that truly christian , and royal law of beneficence and mercy . and altho this be eminent , and extraordinary in its kind , yet it is no wonder that that illustrious person , who began as early to be good , as to be great , whose matchless courtesie and generosity are not only known to his friends , to his servants , to strangers , but even to his greatest enemies ; who has learn'd by a long experience , what it is to suffer for righteousness sake , and to forsake all , rather than his honour and religion ; no wonder , i say , that he shou'd be ready and zealous to relieve those that suffer innocently , and for a good conscience , and who forsake their all , rather than forsake their god. nor is it strange , that that most eminent prelate the churches primate in piety and learning as well as in rank and dignity , on whom comes daily the care of all the churches , shou'd take care of that small part of the flock of christ , that are forc'd from their own sheepfold , to seek food and protection under so great a shepherd . or that he , whose tribunal is a common sanctuary to all injur'd persons , shou'd relieve those that are oppress'd and persecuted , only for their obedience to god , his gospel , and their conscience . such a noble and charitable act as this , becomes indeed all this honorable company whom the king hath chosen for his great council : you do not only imitate your royal patron , and act like the best of men , but this is truly to act god-like ; for nothing makes us more conformable to the divine nature , nor better resemble his actions , than doing good , and being merciful , as our heavenly father is merciful . we can't imitate god in many of his attributes , we can't command the wind , nor still the raging of the sea ; but we can relieve the ship wrackt , and those that are in misery , according to our abilities ; in this we imitate our great maker , the god of all comfort and the mighty one to save ; and sure 't is our happiness as well as our duty so to do . there are some that make long pray'rs and devour widows houses , and wou'd be thought religious too ; but st. james tells us that pure religion and undefil'd before god and the father , is this , to help the fatherless and the widow . and there is no sort of duty more highly christian , none so beneficial to those that practice it : for we dare affirm that the stretching out of our hands towards our poor brother , will call down more blessings upon us , than the lifting them up in pray'r all day long . nay , there are no actions , nor perfections , that get us more true love and respect in the world , than charity and beneficence . the renown of power and greatness , of wit and learning , and the like , may perhapsd well for a while in the fancies and memories of men with some admiration , & often with fear & envy too ; but the remembrance of goodness and bounty reigns in the heart , with pure affection , without any mixture or allay of contrary passion ; and when the great ones are either forgotten , or ill spoken of , the memory of the charitable and bountiful lives and triumphs over death and envy it self . and what great reward doth attend this religious duty in this world & in that to come , we are sufficiently assur'd by the sacred word of god. for god is not unrighteous to forget the work and the labour of your love which you have shewed towards his name , in that you have ministred to the necessities of the saints , and do still minister . they have receiv'd and felt the kind effects of your charity , they have receiv'd it , as an odour of sweet smell , a sacrifice acceptable and well pleasing to god , and i hope god also will supply all your need according to his riches and glory . in the mean while , noble benefactors , give leave to those whose bowels you have refresh'd , to offer up to you their humble and hearty thanks , not to say themselves . they come with their lives you have so generously preserv'd ; but i can't say , with their fortunes , alas ! most of them have none other , but a part of your own . but they come with honest hearts , full of gratitude towards their benefactors ; full of loyalty towards the king , the defender of their faith , & of their persons ; of obedience & conformity to the best christian setled church : full of love & meekness , of a peaceable temper and disposition towards their new fellow citizens ; and full of pray'rs and devout wishes for the prosperity and welfare of this church and state. but however grateful now they be , yet no other return can they yet make for your signal favours vouchsafed unto them , but that usual one of the poor and needy , blessing , pray'rs and thanksgiving . may he that ministreth seed unto the sower , whose is the earth and the fulness thereof , that great creator , whom by your charity you have made your debtor , and who is able to make all grace abound towards you , multiply the seed of your charity sown , and increase your substance and the fruits of your righteousness , that you having an all-sufficiency in all things , may abound to every good work , being enriched to every good thing . may the lord be for ever gracious unto this good land. let mercy and truth always meet here together . let righteousness , peace and plenty , wise and steady government long continue to kiss each other . and when the righteous and merciful judge shall appear with his reward with him , to crown charity ( that queen and greatest of all christian virtues ) with eternal bliss , may every one of your lordships hear these joyful words , come ye blessed of my father , inherit the kingdom prepar'd for you from the foundation of the world , for i was an hungred , and you gave me meat , i was thirsty , and you gave me drink , naked , and you clothed me : i was a stranger and you took me in . which mighty reward , that every one of your lordships may be partakers of , shall always be my humble and hearty pray'r . finis . o lord of hosts, almighty and eternall god, whose high and glorious name is king of kings and lord of lords ... bulkeley, lancelot, ?- . this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (wing b a). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing b a estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) o lord of hosts, almighty and eternall god, whose high and glorious name is king of kings and lord of lords ... bulkeley, lancelot, ?- . ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . sheet ([ ] p.). s.n., [s.l. : ] signed: la dublin. " of february. : i require all preachers and chaplaines of the army to use the above forme of praier at all times of publique praier in all expeditions. ormonde." reproduction of original in the bodleian library. eng prayers. great britain -- history -- charles i, - . ireland -- history -- rebellion of . broadsides -- england -- th century. a r (wing b a). civilwar no o lord of hosts, almighty and eternall god, whose high and glorious name is king of kings, and lord of lords: heare from heauen thy dwelling bulkeley, lancelot c the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the c category of texts with between and defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - john pas sampled and proofread - john pas text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion o lord of hosts , almighty and eternall god , whose high and glorious name is king of kings , and lord of lords : heare from heauen thy dwelling place the prayers and supplicatious of vs thy servants , assembled together to sight thy battels against the enemies of thy truth and gospell , many in number and most maliciously bent are they that are risen by against vs : but if thou ( o lord ) be with vs , we will not feare what man can doe against vs ; as our hope of helpe is in thee , so let our helpe and assistance be from thee , send thy blessed angels to keepe vs in all our wayes , direct and prosper our councells , encourage our hearts and strengthen our hands , graunt vs victorie in the day of battle , and perfect thy strength in our weakenesse , strike the hearts of our enemies with thy terrors , disperse their numbers , make vaine their devices , and glorifie thy power and wisedome in our safetie , and their conversion or confusion , o lord of hosts convert them in thy mercie , or avenge vpon them their treason and disloyallty towards thine anoynted , our dread soveraigne , returne into their bosomes the blood of our brethren , which they have shed with crueltie , and vpon their heads the mischiefes which they have wrought , wash away the guilt of all our sinnes by the bloud of thy son jesus christ , which was shed as a ransome for vs all ; sanctifie our hearts by the grace of thy holy spirit , that our sinnes cause not the removeall of thy presence from vs , sanctifie our campe , and dwell therein , and grant the event and successe of this our present warfare , m●y be the advancement and establishment of the true auncient catholike , apostolike protestant faith , the rooting out of popery , idolatry and superstition , the conversion of this rebellious seduced nation vnto loyaltie and obedience of thy gospell , the honor and contentment of our gracious soveraigne king charles , the settlement of peace in this desolate kingdome , and the glory of thy great and fearefull name , and that for the meritt of thy onely son jesus christ our lord , amen . la. dublin . of february . . i require all preachers and chaplaines of the army to use the above forme of praier at all times of publique praier in all expeditions . ormonde whereas the late horrid plot & conspiracy of divers priests and jesuits, and other papists, against his majesties sacred person, and for the subversion of the protestant religion and his majesties government, hath been so far discovered, that the said effects thereof have by his majesties care and the blessing of almighty god been hitherto prevented, and the most notorious offenders therein brought to condigne punishment in england, or are secur'd, or fled from justice ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas the late horrid plot & conspiracy of divers priests and jesuits, and other papists, against his majesties sacred person, and for the subversion of the protestant religion and his majesties government, hath been so far discovered, that the said effects thereof have by his majesties care and the blessing of almighty god been hitherto prevented, and the most notorious offenders therein brought to condigne punishment in england, or are secur'd, or fled from justice ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by benjamin took and john crook ... and are to be sold by mary crook ..., dublin : [ ] title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. date of publication suggested by wing. "given at the council chamber in dublin, the th. day of december, ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng popish plot, . ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council ormonde . whereas the late horrid plot & conspiracy of divers priests and jesuits , and other papists , against his majesties sacred person , and for the subversion of the protestant religion and his majesties government , hath been so far discovered , that the said effects thereof have by his majesties care and the blessing of almighty god , been hitherto prevented , and the most notorio●s offenders therein brought to condigne punishment in england , or are secur'd , or fled from justice . and whereas nothing would more conduce to the lasting safety of his majestie , his kingdom , and the protestant religion therein established , then that there might be a full and perfect discovery of the said conspiracy ; and it is to be suspected , that many persons contrary to the duty of their allegiance , do still conceal their knowledg of the said plot , and the conspirators therein , presuming that at any time hereafter ( though never so late ) when they shall offer a discovery , they may obtain his majesties pardon for all their offences . now for the more speedy and full discovery of the said conspiracy , and to deter all persons whatsoever from concealing any longer their knowledg thereof . we the lord lieutenant and council by his majesties commands , do by this our proclamation , strictly require and command all and every person and persons whatsoever within this kingdom of ireland , who know , or can make discovery of any person or persons ingag'd in the said conspiracy , or of any matter or circumstance relating thereunto , to discover and make known the same to us the lord lieutenant and council , or his majesties principal secretary of state , or to the lord chief justice , or one of the justices of the court of kings bench within this kingdom , before the last day of february next ; his majestie having declared , that after that time his pardon is not to be expected for any such treasons or misprisions of treason . given at the council chamber in dublin , the th , day of december , . mich. armach . c. arran . blesinton . granard . lanesborough . hen. midensis . r. coote . ro. fitz-gerald . ca : ●illon . char. meredith . ro. booth . john keating . jo. davys . theo. jones . wm. flower tho : newcomen . god save the king. dublin , printed by benjamin took and john crook , printers ; to the king 's most excellent majestie and are to be sold by mary crook at his majesties printing-house , in skinner-row . by the lord lieutenant general and general governour of ireland for special reasons conducing to his majesties service, we do hereby require and command all officers of his majesties army ... ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde). approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) by the lord lieutenant general and general governour of ireland for special reasons conducing to his majesties service, we do hereby require and command all officers of his majesties army ... ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde). ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . sheet ([ ] p.). printed by john crook ... and are to be sold by samuel dancer ..., dublin : . other title information from first lines of text. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) the lord marques of argyle's speech to a grand committee of both houses of parliament the th of this instant june, together with some papers of the commissioners for the kingdom of scotland, wherein they do give their consent to the sending of the propositions of peace to his majesty, and desire their armies to be supplyed, and the accounts between the kingdoms to be perfected, to the end all armies may be disbanded, &c. : also his majesties letter to the marques of ormond discharging all further treaty with the irish rebels : and a letter from general major monro concerning the state of affairs in ireland. speech to a grand committee of both houses of parliament the th of this instant june argyll, archibald campbell, marquis of, - . ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . monro, robert. england and wales. parliament. scotland. parliament. england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles i) p. printed for lawrence chapman, london : june , . "published by authority" reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng charles -- i, -- king of england, - . great britain -- history -- charles i, - . ireland -- history -- - . a r (wing a ). civilwar no the lord marques of argyle's speech to a grand committee of both houses of parliament, the th of this instant june, . together with so argyll, archibald campbell, marquis of b the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the b category of texts with fewer than defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - judith siefring sampled and proofread - judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the lord marques of argyle's speech to a grand committee of both houses of parliament , the th of this instant june , . together with some papers of the commissioners for the kingdom of scotland , wherein they do give their consent to the sending of the propositions of peace to his majesty , and desire their armies to be supplyed , and the accounts between the kingdoms to be perfected , to the end all armies may be disbanded , &c. also his majesties letter to the marques of ormond , discharging all further treaty with the irish rebels . and a letter from general major monro concerning the state of affairs in ireland . published by authority . london : printed for laurence chapman . june . . the lord marques of argyle his speech to a grand committee of both houses , iune . . my lords and gentlemen , though i have had the honor to be named by the kingdom of scotland in all the commissions which had relation to this kingdom since the beginning of this war ; yet i had never the happinesse to be with your lordships till now , wherein i reverence gods providence ; that he hath brought me hither at such an opportunity , when i may boldly say , it is in the power of the two kingdoms , yea , i may say in your lordships power , to make us both happy , if you make good use of this occasion , by setling religion , the peace and union of these kingdoms . the work of reformation in these kingdoms is so great a work , as no age nor history can parallel since christs days ; for no one nation had ever such a reformation set forth unto them , much lesse three kingdoms : so that this generation may truly think themselves happy if they can be instrumental in it . and as the work is very great , so it cannot be expected but it must have great and powerful enemies , not only flesh and blood which hate to be reformed but principalities and powers , the rulers of the darknesse of this world , and spiritual wickednesses in high places . as the dangers are great , we must look the better to our duties ; and the best way to perform these , is to keep us by the rules which are to be found in our national covenant , principally the word of god ; and in its own place , the example of the best reformed churches . and in our way we must beware of some rocks , which are temptations both upon the right & left hand , so that we must hold the middle path . upon the one part we would take heed not to setle lawlesse liberty in religion , whereby in stead of uniformity , we should set up a thousand heresies & schisms , which is directly contrary and destructive to our covenant . upō the other part we are to look that we persecute not piety & peaceable men , who cānot through scruple of conscience come up in all things to the cōmon rule : but that they may have such a forbearance as may be according to the word of god , may consist with the covenant , and not be destructive to the rule it self , nor to the peace of the church and kingdom ; wherein i will insist no further , either to wrong your lordships patience or judgements , who , i doubt not , will be very careful to do every thing according to our covenant . as to the other point , concerning the peace and union of the kingdoms , i know it is that which all professe they desire ; i hope it is that all do aim at : sure i am , it is that which all men ought to study and endeavor . and i think it not amisse to remember your lordships of some former experiences as an argument to move us to be wise for the future . if the kingdom of england in the . year of god then sitting in parliament , had concurred as they were desired against the kingdom of scotland , no question we had been brought to many difficulties , which blessed be god , was by the wisdom of the honorable houses prevented . so likewise when this kingdom was in difficulties , if the kingdom of scotland had not willingly , yea cheerfully sacrificed their peace to concur with this kingdom , your lordships all know what might have been the danger . therefore let us hold fast that union which is so happily established betwixt us ; and let nothing make us again two , who are so many ways one ; all of one language in one island , all under one king , one in religion , yea one in covenant , so that in effect we differ in nothing , but in the name ( & so do brethren ) which i wish were also removed , that we might be altogether one , if the two kingdoms shall think fit : for i dare say , not the greatest kingdom in the earth can prejudice both , so much as one of them may do the other . i will forbear at this time to speak of the many jealousies i hear are suggested , for as i do not love them , so i delight not to mention them : only one i cannot forbear to speak of , as if the kingdom of scotland were too much affected with the kings interest . i will not deny but the kingdom of scotland , by reason of the raign of many kings his progenitors over them , hath a natural affection to his majesty , whereby they wish he may be rather reformed then ruined : yet experience may tell , that personal regard to him hath never made them forget that common rule , the safety of the people is the supreme law : so likewise their love to monarchy makes them very desirous that it may be rather regulated , then destroyed , which i hope i need not to mention further to your lordships , who i trust , are of the same minde . i know likewise there are many jealousies and unjust aspersions cast upon the scotish armies in england and ireland : i can ( if it were needful ) presently produce heads of a declaration intended by the army in england for vindicating themselves from such injuries , and shewing the clearnesse of their resolutions and integrity , both in the cause , and towards this kingdom , wherein their undertakings and coming in at such a season of the year , their hard sufferings and constant endeavors since , may be sufficient testimonies . therfore i am the more bold to desire your lordships , that so long as they stay in england ( which i wish may be for a short time ) they may be supplied with some moneys , and their quarters enlarged , least their lying in too narrowquarters , make the burthen in supportable to that exhausted corner of the countrey where they now remain , and so beget out-cryes against them , when they are not-enabled to discharge their quarters , as other armies within the kingdom . as for the army in ireland , i have been an eye witness to their sufferings , and so may speak of it likewise upon certain knowledge , that never men have suffered greater hardships , who might have been provided ; for they have lived many times upon a few beans measured out to them by number , and never had any other drink but water ; and when they were in some better condition , they had but an irish peck of rough oats for a whole week ; and now at their best conditiō when they are quartered upon the country ( which is able to entertain them only for a very short time ) they have only an irish peck of oat-meal , or a shilling in the ten days both for meat and drink . therefore , according to the many desires given in to the honorable houses for that end , i humbly entreat that your lordships will take care to provide for them , so long as it is thought fit they remain in that kingdom . for a renewed testimony of our earnest desires to comply with the honorable houses for setling the peace of these kingdoms , so much longed for , we do return unto your lordships the propositions of peace ( which we received on tuesday last ) with our consent thereunto , wishing they may be hasted to his majesty , who hath so often called for them . and i likewise offer to your lordships the copy of his majesties letter to my l : ormond , discharging him from any further medling in any treaty with the rebels in ireland , i hope in order to his majesties further condescending to the setling of that proposition concerning ireland , and the rest of the propositions now to be sent unto him . another paper there is which concerns the supplying of the scotish armies in england and ireland , and the perfecting of the accompts between the kingdoms , together with a letter from gen : major monro , to the committee of estates of the kingdom of scotland , concerning the : state of affairs in ireland . all which , when your lordships have considered , i trust ye will take such course therein , as may satisfie our just desires , may put an end to our present troubles , and settle these kingdoms in a happy peace . the paper wherein the commissioners for the kingdom of scotland consent to the propositions of peace . it is above a twelve moneth sithence we did earnestly presse the sending of propositions to the king for a safe and well grounded peace . in answer whereunto , the honorable houses were pleased to acquaint us , that they had resolved propositions should be sent to his majesty , but did intend to make some alterations , in the former propositions , and after eight or nine moneths deliberation we received from the honorable houses some of those propositions : and though we did finde therein very material additions , alterations and omissions , which for their great importance , and the interest of the kingdom of scotland therein , might very well have required the delay of an answer until the estates of that kingdom had been consulted ; yet so unwilling were we to retard the means of peace , that in a fortnights time we returned an answer upon the whole propositions ; and the houses of parliament not resting satisfied therewith , in less then ten dayes we prepared a further answer , wherein we did very much comply with the desires of the honorable houses , especially in the matter of the setling of the militia of england & ireland , and in other things did shew our readinesse to hear or propose such expedients as might determine our differences : so that in a whole years time the propositions have not remained in our hands the space of four weeks ( which we only mention to clear our proceedings frō mistakes & aspersions ) and the househaving now after two months further deliberation delivered unto us upon the . of this instant june , all the propositions they intend to send to the king at this time ; we do without any delay return such an answer & resolution thereupon , as will be to the present and future generations one undenyable testimony ( besides many others ) of the integrity & faithfulnesse of the kingdom of scotland in their solemn league and covenant , of their love to peace , and earnest desire to satisfie their brethren of england , in those things which concern the good and government of this kingdom : being further resolved , touching the kingdom of scotland , that as nothing of single or sole concernment to that nation did engage them in this war , so nothing of that nature shall continue the same . although these propositions now to be sent , do much differ from the propositions formerly agreed upon by the parliaments of both kingdoms , and the most material additions , omissions and alterations , are in such particulars as concern the joynt interest & mutual confidence & conjunction of both kingdoms , which were , as we conceive , much better provided for , and strengthned by the former propositions then by these ; although the particular propositions presented by us concerning the kingdom of scotland , are not yet agreed unto by the houses of parliament , as was offered in their paper of the . of april ; although divers propositions of joynt concernment be now superseded , and the sending of them delayed to a more convenient time , as is expressed in the votes of both houses the . of march ; and although ( which is to us more then all the rest ) those ordinances of parliament , unto which the fifth and sixth propositions do relate ( and were therefore cōmunicated unto us upon our desire to see what the houses had already agreed upon concerning religion ) do not contain the establishment of such a reformation of religion , and uniformity as was expected and was the chief end of our engagement in this war . and as all these ordinances put together come short of what we wished , so there are some particulars which we conceive to be inconsistent with the word of god , and the example of the best reformed churches , and therefore cannot in our consciences consent unto them ; which particulars were expressed to both houses in the remonstrance of the commissioners of the church of scotland , of the date march . . yet neverthelesse , we do so earnestly desire , and so highly value the easing of the heavie pressures under which both kingdoms groan , and the bringing of this bloody lasting war to a speedy and happy end ; considering withal , that not onely the book of common-prayer , and the prelatical government are abolished , and a common directory of worship established in both kingdoms , but that likewise the ordinances aforementioned do contain divers parts of a positive reformation & uniformity in church-government , unto which we formerly gave our consent in our answer upon the whole propositions of peace of the . of april , and for so happy beginnings , and so good a foundation laid for the future , we heartily thank god , and do acknowledge the zeal , piety , and wisdom of the honorable houses therein , remembring also , that these ordinances do not contain the whole model of church-government , and that the houses have been pleased to expresse , [ that it cannot be expected , that a perfect rule in every particular should be setled all at once , but that there will be need of supplements and additions , and happily of alterations in some things , as experience shall bring to light the necessity thereof . upon these considerations , as we doe cheerfully consent to many materiall parts of these propositions , so we resolve to make no let , but to give way to the sending of such other particulars therein contained , with which we are unsatisfied in the matter , for the reasons formerly represented to both houses , of which some still stand in force ; though others of them be taken away by the new expedients . it being alwayes understood , that our not dissenting from , nor opposing of the sending of the propositions , as they now stand , shall be no prejudice nor impediment to all , or any one of the articles of the solemne league and covenant , especially to the first articles , concerning the preservation of the reformed religion in the church of scotland , in doctrine , worship , discipline , and government , against our common enemies ; the reformation of religion , in the kingdom of england and ireland , in doctrine , worship , discipline and government , according to the word of god , and example of the best reformed churches , and the bringing of the churches of god in the three kingdoms to the neerest conjunction and uniformity in religion , confession of faith forme of church , government , directory for worship , and catechising , which things both kingdoms are by covenant obliged sincerely and really to endevour , and that not for a time , but constantly ; so that neither of the kingdoms can be loosed or acquitted from the most strict and solemne obligation of their continued and constant endevouring these good ends , so farre as any of them is not yet obtained : it being also understood , that our concurrence to the sending of the propositions , shall be without prejudice to any agreement or treaty betweene the kingdoms , and shall not infringe any engagement made to the kingdom of scotland , nor be any hind●rance to our insisting upon the other propositions already made known to the houses : and it being understood that it is not our judgement , that every particular and circumstance of these propositions is of so great importance to these kingdomes , as peace and warre should depend thereupon . upon these grounds ( which we make knowne onely for clearing our consciences and for discharging our selves in the trust , put upon us , without the least thought , of retarding the so much longed for peace ) we condescend and agree that the propositions as they are now resolved upon be in the name of both kingdoms presented to the king , whose heart we beseech the lord wholly to incline to the councells of truth and peace . . iune , . by the command of the commissioners , for the kingdom of scotland . iohn cheisley another paper , wherein the commissioners for the kingdome of scotland desire their armies in england and ireland to be supplied , the accounts to be perfected , and all armies disbanded , &c. having so often represented by papers , and now by word to the honourable houses , the extreame necessities of our armies in england and ireland , we shall not trouble them with unnecessary repetition , but onely mention those desires which require their very speedy consideration . we desire , that for easing the countrey of their great pressures , and preventing many dangerous inconveniences , the quarters of the scottish army in the north of this kingdome may be enlarged , and a considrable supply of money dispatched unto them . that money , provisions , and ammunition may be sent to the scottish army in ireland , and the same care taken in providing for them as for other forces imployed in that kingdome . that the armes long since promised , and in an ordinance of both houses of the of august , referred to the care of the committee sitting at habberdashers-hall , may be speedily provided ; and that the honourable houses will be pleased to grant power to that committee , to contract and make payment as well as to treat for furnishing of these armes , by reason of which defect in the ordinance , the sending of these armes hath been hitherto retarded . that to prevent the further invasion of the kingdome of scotland by the irish rebels , ships may be presently sent to attend the coasts betwixt scotland and ireland , and the commanders of these ships authorised with such instructions as are agreeable to the treaties between the kingdomes . that the honourable houses will be pleased to send commissioners to joyne with the committee of estates , residing with the scottish army , who may be witnesses as of their other proceedings , so of their earnest desires and reall endeavours with the king , for giving speedy and full satisfaction to both kingdoms . and it is also our earnest request , that these commissioners may have power to treat and agree with the committee of estates , concerning the stating of the accompts , and setling any differences that may arise thereupon . and further to treat and agree upon overtures , estimated mediums , or expedients for the speedy setling therereof ( which we are confident may be done in a very few dayes ) and either finally to conclude them , or represent them to both houses ; whereby withall possible expedition upon the setling of the propositions and accompts , such course may be taken as all armes may be disbanded , the kingdoms eased of their heavy pressures and insupportable burthens , that so all things being setled in a brotherly way , we and our posterity may after so unhappy and troublesome a war , enjoy a quiet and blessed peace . . iune , . by command of the commissioners , for the kingdom of scotland . iohn cheisly . his majesties letter to the marquesse of ormond . charles r. right trusty , &c. having long with much griefe looked upon the sad condition our kingdome of ireland hath been in these divers yeeres through the wicked and desperate rebellion there , and the bloody effects have ensued thereupon ; for the setling whereof we would have wholly applied our selves , if the difference betwixt us and our subjects here had not diver●●d and withdrawn us ; and not having been able by force ( for that respect ) to reduce them , we were necessitated for the present safety of our protestant subjects there , to give you power and authority to treat with them , upon such pious , honourable , and safe grounds as the good of that our kingdome did then require . but for many reasons too long for a letter , we thinke fit to require you to proceed no further in treaty with the rebels , nor to engage us upon any conditions with them after sight hereof . and having formerly found such reall proofes of your ready obedience to our commands , we doubt not of your care in this , wherein our service and the good of our protestant subjects in ireland , is so much concerned : from newcastle the of june . right honorable , it being my duty to represent unto your honours the condition of affaires here touching our army , and these of the brittish army , who were engaged with us in the service being extraordinarily scarce of provisions , and hearing from all parts that the irish had no considerable army on foot , for preservation of our quarters it was resolved by joynt advice to make to the feilds with a moneths provision , for to purchase victualls or cattell from the enemy ; so that we entred our march the second of iune being effective under armes fooot , and eleven troopes of horse with six feilding peeces , and colonell monro was to joyne with us at glashloch with three troopes of horse , and musqueriers , auchinbreck being left at home for defence of the quarters ; the marquis regiment being landed from scotland two dayes before , could not be gotten in readinesse to joyne with us . it was also condiscended on by the english commissioners and me , that the laggan forces should march unto connaght immedately to keepe the enemy busied there , who were ordained to keepe correspondency with us on all occasions ; having parted with our commissioners the second night of our march neere drummore . the fourth in the morning , i commanded forth a party of horse being , commanded horse-men led by the lieutenant of my troope daniel monro , who had direction to crosse the black-water at benburg to scoure the fields , and to certifie colonell monro of my rendezvouz place at glasloch iune the . whereby the way at armagh the party unexpectedly foregathered with the enemies fore troope , and tooke a prisoner of theirs , who gave intelligence that the enemies army were marching that morning from glasloch to quarter at benburg andcharlemount , which intercepted my party from going to colonell monro , the prisoner being sent to meete mee , after examination certified us the enemies army were effective above foote , and twelve troopes of horse provided with a fortnights victualls . being thus informed i presently broke up our night leagure and marched six miles surther to hamiltons hand foure miles from armagh , and sent for our party to retire upon the army , being impossible for them to get through to colonell monro . friday the fifth by foure of the clock in the morning i marched to armagh in view of the enemy , thinking the nearer our army was to theirs , to hinder them from sending any strength to fall upon colonell monro , his way lying directly towards the enemies quarters . and having viewed the enemies army in a posture to defend the passage at benburg , which being hard for us to force the passage , by reason of the straitnesse of the passe , the enemy being master of the bridge and of the ford , very advantagious for him ; presently i conveened the officers of the army to consult what was best for us to undertake , whereby joynt advice it was resolved to march with the army in the enemies view to kinnard to crosse the water there , and so to draw the enemy from his advantage , and from colonell monro his party being but weake , which being effectuated we were betwixt the enemy and his victualls , having gained the passe at kinnard without dispute and had he enemy betwixt us and our party , and our baggage secured in our reare ; all our army foote and horse did earnestly cover fighting , which was impossible for mee to gainestand without being reproached of cowardice ; and therefore having provided our selves for battell , and that orderly , with resolution , we advanced towards the enemy about six a clock at night , and beate in their commanded men and fore troopes to their army , where they stood ready in battell to receive us . lieutenant colonell cuningham , with commanded men cleered the passage for our horsemen to advance who were commanded then in absence of colonell moure by the lord viscount of ardes ; the army followed up after the feilding peeces , and drew up in battell forth against the enemy , who had possessed themselves with the advantagious ground , where their foot were covered with scrogs and bushes ; the service begun hot on both sides continued from six a clock at night till after sunne set . the enemy could not get charged on our left or right wing having the blackwater on the right hand and a marrish bog on the left wing , and wee being drawne up in the plaine , having our peices before us and our horsemen behind our reserve , and it being impossible for the enemy to charge us but in our van , our horsemen could receive them marching up , and charging through the intervals , betwixt the brigades of foot , about sun set i perceived the enemy making ready for a generall assault , first with his foot and his horse coming up behind his foot to second them , i had given order to a squadron of our horse to break through them before they should advance to our foot , that squadron of horse consisting for the most part of irish riders , although under the english command , did not charge but retreated disorderly through our foot , making the enemies horse for to follow them at least one squadron , notwithstanding thereof our foot stood to it , and received the enemies batalions body to body with push of pike , till at last our second squadron of horse charged : the enemies horse and fell pell mell amongst our foot , who being carried in disorder , had no way of retreat but to wade the blackwater where it was scarce foordable , and by that meanes and the darknesse of the night many of our foot escaped with the losse of some few officers , six field pieces , and some colours , so that by all appearance the irish under the lesnegarvey horsemen had a purpose to betray the army by their running away ; leaving the foot to be cut downe , who were also deserted by the rest of the horse after retiring from their last charge , the enemy falling on our baggage , the baggage horses being all gone , the enemy loved the spoyle better then to prosecute the victory . so that we lost off the foote at the nearest conjecture five or six hundred , and twenty officers were taken prisoners the lord of ardes being one , we lost also many armes by reason the souldiers had above miles to retire . and notwithstanding of all our losses , the enemy as yet ( praised be god ) hath not attempted to prosecute his victory within our quarters , and col. monro with his party miraculously retreated home from the enemy who viewed them , without the losse of a man . and now we are making up out forces again , having not lost of our horsemen above thirty , and one cornet who was killed ; we are both scarce of armes and victuals , and for ought i can understand , the lord of hosts had a controversie with us to rub shame on our faces , as on other armies , till once we shall be humbled ; for a greater confidence did i never see in any army then was amongst us , and we behooved to taste of bitternesse as well as others of both nations ; but praised be god being now humbled before god , we increase in courage and resolution so according to your interest in us and in the poore inhabitants in this province , use some speedy meanes to supply us . thus recommending your lordships and all your weighty affaires to the protection of the allmighty , i humbly take my leave . cariek-fergus the th of iune . robert monro . about the same time a party of our countrymen in connaght incountered with a commanded party of prestons army , where the enemy lost five hundred men , besides twenty officers that were taken prisoners , whereof generall major taaff was the speciall , with whom and such others as i have prisoners of theirs , we intend to relieve the lord ardes and other of our friends . finis .