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A83674	A declaration of the Commons assembled in Parliament concerning the rise and progresse of the grand rebellion in Ireland. Together vvith a multitude of examinations of persons of quality, whereby it may easily appear to all the world, who were, and still are the promoters of that cruell and unheard of rebellion. With some letters and papers of great consequence of the Earl of Antrims, which were intercepted. Also some letters of Mart, which were granted by the Lord Mohun, Sir Ralph Hopton, &c. And likewise another from the rebells in Ireland, who term themselves, the supreme councel for the Catholique-cause. Ordered by the Commons in Parl. that this declaration, examinations, and letters, be forthwith printed and published: H. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.; Proceedings. 1643-07	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.; Antrim, Randal MacDonnell, Earl of, 1609-1683.	1643 (1643)	Wing E2557A; ESTC R204348	37,446	63

Peer of this Realm that sate here in Parliament at the beginning thereof but now a notorious Rebell in Ireland Mr. Porter son to Endimion Porter who declared himselfe a Papist in Ireland Sir Bazill Brooke the Popish Treasurer for the moneys raised by the Queens sollicitation for the War against the Scots Mr. Andrew Brown a Lawyer of Lincolns-Inne heretofore expelled thence for being a knowne Papist with divers other dangerous English Papists went out of England into Ireland the Summer before the Rebellion brake forth and were very active there If these Circumstances preceding the Rebellion and divers other of the like nature be not enough of themselves to open the eyes of the world It hath pleased God to discover such subsequent evidence of this kind that may serve to convince the greatest unbeliever Therefore not repeating any of the proofs set forth in that Answer to His Majesties Message of the 13th of August 1642. but referring to the same herewith printed to which no Reply hath yet been made they think fit to adde to that evidence this which followes namely the generall profession of the Rebells in all parts of that Kingdome that the cause of their rising was to preserve His Majesty and the Queen from being opprest by the Puritan-Parliament and that it was by their consent That they knew well the best in England would Colonell Mervin's Examination See Folio 33. William Stuart Esq's Examination See Folio 36. Hen Steuart's Examination See Fol. 37. side with them that they had good Warrant in black and white for what they did Their calling the English Army Parliament-Rogues and Traitors to the Queen and telling them at the beginning of the Rebellion before any appearance of War here that ere long they should see England as much in blood as Ireland then was That they had their party in England and Scotland which should keep both Kingdomes so busie at home that they should not send any ayd against them with a multitude of such like expressions from the Irish of the best quality and degree as may appear by the Examinations of Colonell Audley Mervin William Steuart Esquire William-Steuart Cent ' herewith printed and by divers other proofs And although these expressions proceed from Rebels yet concurring with a multitude of other proofs and found true in a great part by sad experience are not inconsiderable In the same Moneth of October wherein the Rebellion of Ireland brake forth the Lord Dillon of Costelough an Irish Peer now in armes against the Parliament and Kingdom of England went out of Scotland from His Majesty into Ireland bringing His Majesties Letters which he obtained by mediation of the Queeen to be presently sworne a Privie-Councellor of Ireland who when he had taken the Oath of a Privie Councellor endeavours to be usefull to the Rebells presents to the Lords Justices and Councell from many of the Centry and Inhabitants of the County of Longford all in Rebellion a rebellious and scandalous Letter in the nature of a Remonstrance full of pretended grievances and unreasonable demands As namely to have freedom of Religion a repeall of all Laws made to the contrary and the like as by the said Letter herewith printed may appeare In December after the Rebellion the same Lord Dillon together with his brother in Law the now Lord Taaffe a notorious Papist repaired into England bringing with them severall Papers and Instructions in writing from the Lord Gormanston and other Lords and Gentlemen of the Pale all now in Rebellion to negotiate for them to His Majesty and as they sollicite with His Majesty here on the behalf of the Rebels so doe they sollicite the Rebels from hence in the Name of His Majesty to persist in their wicked Rebellion as appears by the Testimony of Mr. Jephson a Member of the House of Commons lately delivered at a Conference before both Houses in these words viz. AT my late being at Oxford finding the Lord Dillon and the Lord Taaffe in favour at Court I acquainted the Lord Faulkland His Majesties Secretary that there were two Lords about the King who to His Majesties great dishonour and the great discouragement of His good Subjects did make use of His Majesties Name to incourage the Rebells to make this appeare I informed that I had seen two Letters sent by the Lord Dillon and the Lord Taaffe to the Lord of Muskerie the chief man in Rebellion in Munster and one of the Irish Committee sent into England intimating that though it did not stand with the conveniency of His Maiesties Affaires to give him publique countenance yet that his Majesty was well pleased with what he did and would in time give him thankes for it or neer to that purpose That these Letters were seen by the Lord Inchiquine the chief Commander of the English Forces in Mounster and by his Secretary who had kept Copies of them and that I was ready to justifie as much Whereupon the Lo Faulkland was pleased to say that they deserved to be hanged But though I stayed there at Oxford about a week after this discovery made I never was called to any farther accompt nor any prejudice done to these two Lords but they had the same freedome in Court as before for ought I could observe or hear to the contrary Thus far in Mr. Jephsons owne language a man of knowne honour and integrity That since this discovery made to the Lord Faulkland by Mr. Jephson the same Lord Taaffe one Roche and William Brent a Lawyer active Papists with Letters from His Majesty went from Oxford to Dublin And upon Thursday before Whitsuntide 1643. in the Evening taking with them one Colonell Barry a protest Papist and pretending for Connaught slipt away to Kilkenny where the Tuesday following was a generall assembly of all the chief Rebels When they had done their Errand Barry was left Lieger at KILKENNY among the Rebels the Lord Taaffe returned to DUBLIN and upon Friday the 9. of June 1643. the Lord Taaffe with divers of the Privie-Councell of Ireland that favour the Rebels met at the Marquesse of Ormond's house where the Propositions which the Lord Taaffe brought from the Rebels were debated The Lord Taaffe is since gone into Cannaught Brent is come back to Oxford to give an accompt of this imployment By this which hath bin thus truely related every man may construe what was meant by His Majesties not consenting that the Parliament should send a Cōmittee into Ireland the last yeer to endeavour the carrying on the War against the Rebels upon pretence that the Earl of Liecester was presently to go over thither who is yet remaining at Oxford That when that Committee had prevailed with the Lords-Iustices and Councell and with many of the prime Commanders and other Officers of the Army in Leinster to subscribe by way of Adventure for Land in Ireland to be setled by a new Bill very considerable sums which were to be deducted out of their respective entertainments

and herewith likewise printed After some account given of his happy proceedings in those parts writes in this manner Within few dayes after this Victory there landed out of two Barques many Irish Rebels in Werrall in Cheshire some whereof acknowledged in the presence of divers sufficient men who affirmed the same unto me that they had washed their hands in the blood of divers English and Scots in Ireland and now hoped to wash their hands in the bloud of English men in England which Rebels being brought unto Chester were accused by severall of those poor English who fled from Ireland to Chester for refuge to bee the persons who cut their husbands throats others that they ripped up their childrens bowels The Country wherein they first arrived did apprehend so much distast that they did all rise with their best weapons and apprehended divers of the Irish Rebels but being unarmed not having past seven or eight Musketteers they could not make good their prisoners who were rescued out of their hands by a Troop of Horse which came from the Commissioners of Array who also seized about 28 of our honest Country men prisoners These Irish acknowledge they caome from Strangford and that there are Sir Willi Breretons 〈◊〉 Fol. 41 1200. some speake of 1000. more to follow after as by the said Letter herewich printed may appear So these Irish Rebels were taken for good Subjects and set at liberty and the honest men that had taken them imprisoned in their stead And that the Counsells now predominant at Oxford and the supreame Councell of Rebels at Kilkenny are equally His Majesties good Subjects and do ayme at one and the same thing and are concurring and ayding one another as well by Sea as by Land is apparent by that which followes The Commissioners authorised to command the Kings Forces in the West viz. The Lord Mohun Sir Ralph Hopton and others by an authority derived unto them under the Great Seal of England as they expresse themselves do grant Commissions or Letters of Mart for the apprehending seizing and taking for His Majesties Service all Ships and Vessells belonging to the Cities Towns and Ports of London Exeter Hull Portsmouth Dartmouth Barnstable Biddeford Plymouth or belonging to any other Cities Towns or Ports of England c. As by a Commission or Letters of Mart bearing date the first of June 1643. 〈◊〉 the Letter Mart. Fol. 44. under the hands and seales of the Lord Mohun Sir Ralph Hopton and Sir John Barklay herewith likewise printed may appear On the other side the Rebels of Ireland by the name of the supream Councell of the confederate Catholiques of Ireland do grant Commissions or Letters of Mart for the taking of all His Majesties Enemies and the enemies of the generall Catholique cause now in hand in that Kingdom of Ireland as by a Commission dated the 5. of March 1642. granted by the said Supreame Councell to one Francis Oliver a Flemming herewith likewise 〈◊〉 another ●●●●er of Mart. ●●●●0 46. printed may appear And as the Ships in His Majesties service do gratifie the Rebels of Ireland in seizing the Ships that bring provision for the relief of the English Army in Ireland as appears by the Examination of John Davice Esquire Commissary of Victuall for the Province of ULSTER Who testifieth as followeth That a Ship called The Michael of London whereof Sydrake Pope was Master was sent for France by the said John Davice with 648 Hydes which were to be sold and converted into Corn for the relief of the Army in Vlster This Ship by foul weather in December 1642. was forced into Falmouth in Cornwall where she was seized on by Sir Nich. Slanning and by him sent into France and the proceed of the Hydes returned to him in the said Ship in Powder Match and Ammunition That about the 20 of April 1643. a Ship belonging to See the Examination of M. Davice Fol. 48. William King of Dover laden with Wines and Salt from France and bound for Carrigfergus in Vlster upon the Accompt of the said John Davice was taken at Sea by one Rich. Jones Captain of a Ship set out from Falmouth by His Majesties Warrant and as well the Ship as the Goods were sold at Brest in France by the said Jones So the Rebells of Ireland do in like manner gratifie His Majesty by commanding the Ships set forth by them to examine all English ships at Sea Whether they be for the King or Parliament and if they be for the King to let them go but if for the Parliament to take and pillage them as may appear by the Examinations of See their Examinations fol. 49 50. Christopher Hassall and Marke Roche two Irish Sea-men of Wixford in Ireland who were taken upon the Coast of Yarmouth in Norfolk and June 12 1643. examined before the head Officers of Yarmouth and authentique Copies of those Examinations sent up to the House of Commons and herewith Printed The Earl of Antrim a notorious Rebell was taken by the Scots Army in Vlster and imprisoned there upon suspition of High Treason to avoid his Tryall he brake Prison and fled into the North parts of England and hath been with the Queen at Yorke a long time from whence he was sent to the Rebels of Vlster with secret Instructions and had Ammunition assigned him by the Queens directions And what care was taken of his Ammunition will appear by a Letter dated at Yorke the 8 of May 1643. written by Serjeant-Major Rosse to that Apostata Sir Hugh Cholmley Governour of Scarborough intercepted by the Lord Fairfax and sent up to the House of Commons wherein Cholmley is intreated to have such care of the Ammunition appertaining to the Lord of Aboyn as he shall have of the Lord of Antrims Ammunition for M. Jermin hath desired him to write these lines as by the Letter herewith also Printed may appear and what relation M. See the Letter Fol. 51. Jermin hath to the Qu is well known to the world Since this care taken of the Ammunition of the Earl of Antrim and the L. of Aboyn the Earl of Antrim is taken the second time by Generall Major Monroe in the County of Downe in Ireland as he was returning from the Queen to the Rebells of Vlster with divers Letters Instructions and Papers and the Confession and Deposition of the Earl of Antrim's own servant who was taken with his Master and since condemned and executed it is evident that there was and doubtlesse yet is an impious Designe on foot to reconcile the English and Irish in Ireland that by their joynt power having expelled the Scots the Irish Forces there might be sent against the Parliament of England The Earl of Antrim and the Lord of Aboyn whose Arms assigned them by the Queen for this purpose were taken care of by M. Jermyn as appears by the said Letter from Serjeant Major Rosse and the Earl of Niddisdale were three principall

first I answered him the power of the Parliament in England extended only to that Kingdome their statutes obliged not us untill confirmed it being found agreable to the constitution of this Kingdome by our owne Parliament As to the second we were no competent Iudges of the Parliaments proceedings and it were seasonable enough to vindicate the Kings prerogative when his Majestie had declared it wounded and had commanded his assistance and desired further to know in what high poynt those poore protestant soules already murthered had offended his Majesties prerogative Hee replied that when he came next with the heads of their Remonstrance unto mee hee would satisfie mee in every scruple Upon his departure this examinate called him aside advising him in respect the said Rory Maguire had married his sister and by her got 900 pounds per annum inheritance that hee would desist from further prosecuting so barbarous and treasonable a designe and that it were feizable to procure his pardon if he would bestow his endeavours in appeasing this Rebellion but howsoever hee assuming at the present the power to send Proclamations into the Countrey except he would represse the fury of the fire and sword and such other acts of hostility by publique notice given to the Countrey that I durst not addresse my self unto his Majestie since the subject I feared would receive but a cold welcome at the best but especially when it should be dyed in so much innocent bloud which he accordingly did and this examinate gave notice to the Protestants about him to dispose of themselves towards Derrey and that hee would adventure himself the last man and so by the blessing of God many were saved and this examinate his wife two sisters and his children escaped in the night saving nothing but their lives such as remayned being deluded by the Rebells promises and wedded to their owne habitations were massacred This examinate further saith that amongst other dehortatorie reasons used to Rory Maguire hee alleadged that admit the Papists could for the present roote the Protestants out yet they nor their posterity could never enjoy a peaceable setlement whilst England or Scotland survived To this hee replyed that the Catholique Princes would assist them viz. France Spaine I answered if it were so they would be well paid for their paynes and that it were better to rest with their peaceable government in their hand then to dreame after a fained and uncertaine priviledge in the bush and that I could assure him those Princes were in a condition of borrowing supplies not lending any This examinate remembers well his Reply viz. Come come brother deceive not your self in being too wise all Ireland is at this instant in our hands I will shew you all the places of strength to what persons their suprisall was assigned this great undertaking was never the Act of one or two giddy fellowes wee have our party in England wee have our party in Scotland that shall keepe them busie for sending you any ayd I assure you t is well if they can save themselves and before you can get thither you will finde them if they be not already as deepe in bloud as our selves He further added if you will resolve to goe I will come within three or foure dayes and then you shall know all if you will not I will convoy you and yours safe to the next port and see you imbarqued Provided you sweare never to come over to fight against us But I fearing this was to sound me and that so many lives depended upon my demeasner I replyed bring your heads the sooner the better but unwilling to trust to any further curtesies escaped before his returne He told me this plot had beene of ancient date and many times discontinued but it had beene lively revived and prosecuted from Candlemas last past before the Rebellion both in England and Scotland All which I have heard from many more of very considerable quality Audley Mervin William Stewart Esquire examined Iuly 8. 1643. by a select Committee of the House of Commons saith THat he being a Prisoner six Moneths among the Rebels in Vlster from the middest of November 1641. he heard Tyrlagh ô Neale and Roger ô More and the principall men in Vlster say that Religion the lands escheated and the Kings Prerogative were the prime causes of their rising in Armes that they knew well the best of England would side with them that they had good warrant in black and white for what they did that when he objected the power of England and Scotland would bee brought against them they replyed that there was little feare of that For the troubles of England were but then in beginning and would not end in hast That he should see the King ere long in Ireland VVilliam Stewart Henry Stewart Gentleman Examined 8 Iuly 1643. before a select Committee of the House of Commons saith THat at Michaelmas 1642. at the surrender up of the Castle of Dungannon to the Rebells Sir Philemon ô Neale was desirous to know of this Examinate what forces General Lesley had with him and what authority hee had whether from King or Parliament or both he told Sir Philemon from both which he would not beleeve but said That ere long the troubles of England would call Lesley away to assist them and that he did not beleeve he had the Kings Commission but hee hoped ere long to kisse the Kings hand before those that were his greatest enemies Henry Stewart 10 November 1641. A Copie of a Letter directed to the Lord Viceco Costiloe from the Rebells of the Countie of Longford in Ireland which he presented to the State in their behalfe Our very good Lord OUr alliance unto your Lordships Ancestors and your selfe and the tryall of your and their performance of trust unto their friends in their greatest adversitie encourageth us and engageth your honour to our fruition of your future favours the fixion of our confidence in you before any other of the Peeres and Privie Counsellers of the Kingdome doubleth this obligation Your Lordship may be therefore pleased to acquaint the Lords Justices and Councell to bee imparted unto his Sacred Majestie with our grievances and the causes thereof the redresse which we most humbly pray and the manner of it First the Papists in neighbouring Countries are severely punished and their miserie might serve for Beacons unto us to looke unto our owne when our neighbours houses are afire and wee and other Papists are and ever will be as loyall subjects as any in the King his Dominions for manifestation whereof we send herein enclosed an oath solemnly taken by us which as it received indeleble impression in our hearts shall be signed with our hands and sealed with our blood Secondly there is an incapacitie in the Papists of honour Offices and the immunities of true subjects the royall markes of distributive Justice and a disfavour in the commutative which raised strangers and forrainers whose valour and

Majesties forces in the West To George Chappell of Topesham Merchant VVEE doe hereby nominate authorice and appoynt you George Chappell to bee Captaine and chiefe commander of a ship called the Hope of Topesham requiring you with all diligence and expedition to endeavour the furnishing and compleating of her with men victuall and ammunition as also with tackell and furniture fit for a voyage to sea commanding all inferiour officers souldiers mariners and sea-men under your command in the said ship and vessell to obey you as their Captaine according to this Commission authorizing you to set to sea at any time and as often as you in your discretion shall thinke fit for the space of six moneths next ensuing And during the said time to apprehend seise and take for his Majesties service all such Shipps barques and vessells as doe belong to the Citties towns and ports of London Exeter Hull Portmouth Dartmouth Barnestable Bideford and Plimmouth or to any of them or to any other Cities Townes or Ports of this Kingdome of England now in Rebellion against his Majestie or to the inhabitants of the same or any of them And the same to carry or bring into any of his Majesties Ports or harbours within the Countie of Cornwall That the said shipp or goods so taken by you together with the Merchants Officers masters and Seamen may be proceeded against according to the lawes of this Land giving you also full power and authority in case of resistance to kill and slay all such as shall resist you in the execution of this your commission And you are likewise to observe and follow such orders and directions as from time to time you shall receive from us Given under our hands and seales at Honyton the first day of Iune Anno Domini 1643. Warwick Mohum Ralph Hopton Iohn Berkeley By the Supream Councell of the confederate Catholiques of Ireland TO all men to whom this present shall come we the supreame Councell of the confederate Catholiques of this Realme send greeting Know yee that wee having taken into our serious consideration the great and necessarie use wee have of ships of warre for the defence of the coasts of this Realme and advancement and furtherance of commerce with forraign Nations and for opposing of his Majesties Enemies who daily hinder and annoy his Majesties good Subjects of this Kingdome by Sea and stop all the Free trade in this Realme and abroad Have therefore constituted and appointed and doe hereby ordaine constitute and appoint Our wellbeloved Friend Captaine Francis Oliver native of Flanders having received good testimony of his sufficiency and integritiy to be Captain of the ship called Saint Michaell the Archangell of burden an hundred and twentie Lasts or Tuns or thereabouts Hereby giving and granting unto the said Captaine full and absolute power Commission and authority to furnish the said ship with all necessaries fit for sea and warre and with the same to crosse the seas and take hinder and prejudice all such as he shall find or meet of his Majestics enemies the enemies of the generall Catholique cause now in hand in this Kingdome their ships and goods whatsoever either by sea or Land by what means soever and the said shipping or Goods to set to sale and dispose of as lawfull prizes and open enemies goods saving unto his Majcstie and his lawfull officers and to all other person or persons bodies politique and corporate all rights requisites and duties due or usually answered out of all prizes And we hereby command all officers of all Ports and Harbours and Havens within our Iurisdiction throughout this Realme to admit the said Captaine Francis Oliver and his Companies ships and goods from time to time to passe and repasse come and goe without molestation or trouble and that all Commanders of forts and all other officers of his Majesties loving subjects to be aiding and assisting unto him in execution and furtherance of the premises whatsoever and as often as occasion shall require And lastly we pray all forraigne Princes States and Potentates to defend protect assist and favour the said Captain his ships and goods when and as often as he shall come into their respective coasts and harbours This our Commission to continue during our pleasure Given at Kilkennie the last of December 1642. Was signed Mountgarret Hugo Ardmachanus Gormanston Ioannes Episcop Clonfertensis N. Plunket Patr. Darcy Iames Cusack Geffr Browne Sealed At a Labell in parchment with a seale of yellow wax bearing the marke of a long crosse on the right side whereof a Crown and a harpe on the left with a dove above and a flaming heart below the crosse and round about this inscription Pro Deo pro Rege patria Hibernia unanimis And Endorsed thus Memorandum this Patent is inrolled in the Admiraltie Court of Ireland and that the whithin Captaine hath sworne and given security of his fidelitie according to the usuall forme Witnes my hand the 5 March 1642. Iames Cusack Judge Admiralty The Examination of Iohn Davice Esquire taken before a select Committee of the House of Commons 13. Iuly 1643. SAith that two Ships the one called the Michael of London Mr. Sydrach Pope being sent therein for France with 648 Hydes to relade corne for the reliefe of the Protestant Armie in Vlster was by foule weather in December last forced into Falmouth and there seised on by Sir Nich. Slaney and manned with some Musquettiers of his sent unto Saint Mallo in France where the Hides were sold and the proceed returned unto him in the said Ship in powder match Ammunition c. And further saith that about the 20 of April last one VVilliam King of Dover his Ship being laden with 90 tunnes of Wine and salt from France and bound for Carrickfergus in Ireland upon the examinaets accompt was upon the Coast of France taken by one Rich. Iones Captaine of a ship set out from Falmouth with his Majesties Warrant and the ship and goods were sold by him at Brest in France IOHN DAVICE Great-Yarmouth The Examination of Christopher Hassall of Washford in Ireland Sayler taken this 12 of July 1643. as followeth WHo saith that he was prest by the Major of Washford Mr. Nicholas Hayes about ten daies since into a Dunkirke Frigot called the Patricke to serve the King of England at Sea in taking and pillaging such Ships and Vessels as were not for the King of which Frigot one George Pruncas a Dunkirker was chiefe Commander and Captaine and Walter Hayes an Irish-man was Captaine under him and had about an hundred men in the Ship and eleven pieces of Ordinance and came out to the Sea the fourth of this instant June and tooke and pillaged since they came out First an Apsome Barke which after she was pillaged they sunke in the Sea having taken out of her eleven packs of Cloth and after that tooke a Fisherboat of Yarmouth upon Saturday last and tooke out of her an hundred North-sea Cod-fish

A DECLARATION Of the Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT Concerning the Rise and Progresse of The Grand Rebellion IN IRELAND TOGETHER VVith a multitude of Examinations of Persons of quality whereby it may easily appear to all the World who were and still are the Promoters of that cruell and unheard of REBELLION With some Letters and Papers of great consequence of the Earl of Antrims which were intercepted Also some Letters of MART which were granted by the Lord Mohun Sir Ralph Hopton c. And likewise another from the Rebells in Ireland who term themselves The SUPREME COUNCEL for the Catholique-Cause ORdered by the Commons in Parl. That this Declaration Examinations and Letters be forthwith printed and published H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. London Printed for Edw. Husbands and are to be sold in the Middle-Temple Iuly 1643. Die Martis 25 Julii 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the House of Commons That the Ministers of every Parish within the Kingdom shall read this Declaration in their severall Churches and Chappels on the next Fast day the same shall come to their hands after the ending of the first Sermon and before the beginning of the next H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. A Declaration of the Commons assembled in Parliament c. THe COMMONS in Parliament do observe that the grand Designe of altering Religion throughout His Majesties Dominions had a more speciall influence in Ireland as being more remote from view and more propence to receive such impression and therefore they think fit to call to minde as introductive to that which follows some particular footsteps by which Popery hath been advanced and true Religion discountenanced in that Kingdom since the accesse of His Majestie to the Crown of England In the second yeer of His Majesties Raign certain Propositions were set on foot in Ireland the scope whereof was to fautour and indulge Popery in that Kingdom as namely to suspend all proceedings against the Papists for being marryed or for procuring their children to be christned by popish Priests to allow the suing out of Liveries Outre Les-mains by the Papists without taking the Oath of Supremacie with many like Priviledges to the Papists The Designe being to bring in a more publique Tolleration of the popish Religion in that Kingdom for a sum of Money to be paid to His Majestie for the same These Propositions and Designe were so grosse and scandalous that even the then Bishops of Ireland by a writing under their hands bearing date the 26 of November 1626. did make a Protestation setting forth how grievous a sin it was to consent to such Tolleration of Popery and that to grant it in respect of any Money to be given were to set Religion to sale and withall the souls of the people whom Christ hath redeemed with his precious blood And that as it was a great sin so they did conceive it of most dangerous consequence as by the said Protestation herewith printed may appear And although the House of Commons in their Remonstrance made in the third Yeer of His Majesties Raigne did truely informe See Folio 24. that even then the Popish Religion was openly profest in every part of that Kingdome that Monasteries and Nunneries were then newly erected and replenished with men and women of severall Orders that this might prove of evill consequence if not seasonably repressed therefore most humbly besought His Majesty to lay the serious consideration thereof to His Royall and pious heart and that some speedy course might be taken for redresse therein Yet how this faithfull and timely advice of the Bishops of Ireland and the Commons of England was followed and what speedy course was taken for redresse therein will appeare by this which insues For IN the beginning of the Fourth yeer of His Majesties Raigne upon the agreement of certain Agents sent from Ireland to His Majestie all or most part of them being professed Papists these Propositions and Graces with many like Additions were granted and confirmed by His Majestie in consideration of One hundred and twenty thousand pounds to be levyed in three yeers upon the Kingdom in generall as well upon the Protestants as upon the Papists How great an encouragement to the Papists this was and what an insufferable pressure to the Protestants that besides the illegall imposing it upon them without their consent in Parliament they must be compelled to purchase with their money Tollerations and Immunities for the Papists let even those men judge who will be stiled the moderate and honest Protestants whiles with all their faculties of body and minde they strive to advance Popery and to root up the Protestant Religion and the Liberty of the Subject Many potent and notorious Papists have been created Peers by His Majestie whereby the Votes of the Popish party in the Lords House too many before are much encreased and those Papists become more powerfull and more exemplary in their respective countries to the great encouragement and growth of Popery and discouragement to the good people of that Kingdom That when by direction of the Lord Chancellor Loftus and the Earl of Cork then Lords Justices proceedings were begun against the Papists upon the Statute of 2 Eliz. for not coming to Church and the Iudges in their circuits gave that Statute in charge and Indictments were framed thereupon directions were sent from England to suspend and stay all proceedings upon that Statute when by taking the penalty imposed by that Statute being Nine pence for absenting from Church Sundayes and Holy-dayes the poor Protestants there might have been eased of many heavie payments and Taxes which were after imposed upon them and the Papists either brought to conformity or else kept so under that this Rebellion if not wholly prevented yet could not have proved so Universall and so bloody as now it is That the late Earl of Strafford being the Kings Lieutenant there did by his great Favorite Sir George Ratcliff one of His Majesties Privie-Couneell of that Kingdom hold correspondencie with the Popish Clergie and particularly with Paul Harris a known Priest who had both publique and private accesse to Sir George Ratcliff at all times as well by night as by day That in March 1639. the Earl of Strafford carryed with him into Ireland Sir Toby Matthews a notorious pernicious English Iesuited Priest banished at the beginning of this Parliament upon the importunity of both Houses lodged this Priest over against the Castle of Dublin the house where the Earl did himself reside and from whence this Priest daily rode to the publique Masse-houses in Dublin and negotiated the engaging of the Papists of Ireland in the war against Scotland When the late Lo Chanc Loftus and the E. of Cork were Lords Iustices they endeavoured to suppresse the Masse-houses in Dublin and to convert them to pious uses one which was in the street called the Back-lane they disposed of to the University of Dublin who placed a Rector and Schollars in it

are Irish by all which it may appear that the Irish Rebels are not onely esteemed His See the examination of Mr Dod. fol. 62. Majesties good Subjects but even the best of His Subjects when they are thus admitted so neer His Majesties own person Upon the whole matter no man can think that this Rebellion in Ireland so barbarous and bloody that one hundred and fifty four thousand Protestants men women and children English and Scotch were Massacred in that Kingdom between the 23 of October when the Rebellion brake forth and the first of March following by the computation of the Priests themselves that were present and principall Actors in all those Tragedies and were directed by some chief Rebells of Ireland to take this computation lest they should be reported to be more bloody then in truth there was cause all which appears by the examination of the said Arch-deacon Maxwell who lived as a Prisoner a long time with St Phelmi O Neils mother and was there when this Computation was brought in No man can beleeve that this horrid and unparareld Rebellion should be the undertaking of the Rebels alone being set on foot when a Parliament was sitting in England that could not dissolve without its own consent when all Nations professing the Romish Religion were at peace with England and so engaged at home that the Rebells in reason could not expect any considerable assistance from them nor could think themselves able to incounter England or Scotland either much lesse both together being so concerned and engaged by Religion and the common interest of both Kingdoms to suppresse by all means possible so insufferable an insurrection So that to imagine the Nobility Gentry and in a manner the whole Kingdom of Ireland who at that time enjoyed more freedom of Religion then they had done for many yeers before should thus desperately engage their lives and estates in so wicked so rash an enterprise without being encouraged incited nay commanded from England with an assurance both of connivence and assistance too were to deny them to be reasonable Creatures And therefore the House of Commons abundantly satisfied in their own consciences and judgements of the trueth hereof though with deep sorrow and amazement cannot but declare to the world That by all these concurring circumstances and convincing Proofs to which nothing can be added save a witnesse to confesse that he was present at the making of the bargain which no man will expect in a conspiracie of this horrid and high importance that this unheard of and monstrous Rebellion of Ireland was projected incited and assisted by those Councells now onely prevalent with His Majestie That the Queen with her Romish Priests the Papists of all His Majesties three Kingdoms have been principall Actours and Sticklers herein That now those bloody Rebels have in a manner rooted out the Protestant Religion in Ireland there is a Designe to pardon them and to bring them into England to do the like That no earthly power is likely in humane reason to withstand this damnable Plot but the power of the Parliament of England which is now declared by a late Proclamation to be no free Parliament to be null and of none effect and all possible endeavour used by strength and stratagem to destroy the same So that unlesse the Royall blood of King James and the innocent blood of the Protestants of Ireland do lie as a crying and stupendious guilt upon this Nation which God hath determined at this time to revenge and retalliate the House of Commons do conceive it impossible that so many of those which would be thought the honest and moderate English Protestants should any longer be blinded and led on to joyn with German French Wallon English Scotch and Irish Papists and thereby to surrender up at once The Protestant Religion The Parliament Liberties and Lawes of England into the hands of Papists and Strangers that so this Renowned Kingdom may be no more a Nation The Protestation of the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of Ireland against the toleration of Popery agreed upon and subscribed by them at Dublin November 26. 1626. THe Religion of the Papists is Superstitious and Idolatrous their Faith and Doctrine erroneous and Hereticall Their Church in respect of both Apostaticall To give them therefore a Toleration or to consent that they may freely exercise their Religion and confesse their Faith and Doctrine is a grievous sin and that in two respects First It is to make our selves accessary not onely to their Superstitions Idolatries Heresies and in a word to all the abominations of Popery but also which is a consequence of the former to the Perdition of the seduced people which perish in the deluge of their Catholique Apostasie Secondly To grant them a Toleration in respect of any Money to be given or contribution to be made by them is to set Religion to sale and withall the souls of the people whom Christ our Saviour hath redeemed with his most precious blood And as it is a great Sin so it is a matter of most dangerous consequence the consideration whereof we leave to the wise and judicious beseeching the jealous God of Trueth to make all those who are in Authority zealous of Gods glory and the advancement of true Religion and resolute and couragious against all Popery Superstition and Idolatry The Examination of James Peisley late of Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland Saith THat about the moneth of March 1641. it was his fortune to be present when Mackmaghon one of the grand Rebels of Ireland was Wracked and his Examination taken by Sir Charles Coot senior in the presence of Sir Francis Willowby Sir Arthur Losters the Constable of the Castle and some others the said Mackmohon confessed that the Originall of that Rebellion was brought over to them by their Committee who were imployed by the Irish Parliament to His Majestie for redresse of their Grievances in that Kingdom and that they having often solicited His Majestie for that purpose was answered That he was willing to grant them their desire and that he did confesse they were His good Subjects but that He was so opprest by his Parliament in England that he knew not how to relieve them wishing he knew how to be revenged on them or words to that purpose which occasioned Sir Charles Coot to take him up calling him Rogue and Raskall for offering to lay such a charge upon the King whom he said would assist them in things honest and just but not give them Commission to cut our Throats This Narration was not incerted in the Examination read to Mackmaghon after Sr Charles Coot had finished it The Reason as this Examinate then conceived was That it being a matter of great consequence they would take some other time to examine that point more privately which whether they did or no this Examinae knows not A Declaration of the Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT In Answer to His Majesties Message of the 13 of

with some fit instrument there by all their strength to surprize the Isles and the High-Lands and to depopulate and waste so much of this Kingdom as their power could extend unto being assured of the like dealing in the North by the Papists and their assistance there And to have a Magazine at Carlile for twenty thousand men to fall in with an hostility upon the south parts of this Kingdom The Letters sent from Nithisdail and Aboyne all written and subscribed by their hands to the Earle of Antrim and found with him although in some things covertly written do carry thus much expresly that for furtherance of the designe and point resolv'd on there was assistance assured from the Isles and from the North and South of Scotland that Ammunition and Armes without which they think their service uselesse were appointed to be sent to the North and other parts of this Kingdom and that Popish Officers were commanded and had undertaken to goe into Scotland of which we are informed some are already gone to the North for stopping and disappointing so far as may be for the present till the same divine providence make a more full discovery the attempts and devices of this unnaturall and bloody confederacy and conjuration As the Lords of his Majesties Privy Councell have given order that Nithisdail and Aboyne be cited and criminally pursued of high Treason and have made the same as a matter of publike and most high importance known to his Majestie and to the Parliament of England so they and the Commissioners of Peace also for acquitting themselves in their trust and for the safety of the Kingdome doe make the same publikely known to all his Majesties good Subjects that being forewarned of their danger they may be upon their guards and prepared against forraign invasion and intestine plots and insurrection And especially that the Noble men Commissioners of Shires and Borroughs perceiving greater and more apparent necessity of the approaching convention then they could have wished or expected may at the day formerly appointed meet in such celerity and with such publike affection and disposition of heart as the present condition of affairs doth require and call for at their hands and as beseemeth the lovers of their Religion King and Countrey which are in so great danger from Papists Atheists and other degenerated Countrey-men who are no lesse inraged against this Kingdom even since the late Reformation of this Kirk then were their Predecessours at the first reformation of Religion when their negotiating was so restlesse and their attempts so many and malicious against the work of God in this Land nor is it to be past without observation that while His Majesty is making a publike Declaration of His intentions to defend and maintaine the Religion Rights and Liberties of this Kingdome according to the Lawes Civill and Ecclesiastick the Papists are conspiring plotting and practising against the Religion Rights and Liberties established and against the lives of his Majesties good Subjects whereby they doe really manifest to the world what the Kings Majestie against his Declarations and his Subjects against their confidence grounded thereupon may look for from their malice and power if they shall continue in Armes and which God forbid if they shall prevaile in the end And whereas the Lords of Councell are informed That the late Act of Councell for publishing his Majesties Declaration is mistaken by sundry as a Declaration of their owne judgement concerning the proceedings of another Kingdom For preventing of this mistake they think fit to remember and declare according to the act of Councell in January last shewing that their Lordships giving Warrant to print any Paper comming from his Majestie or Parliament of England did not import their approbation of the contents thereof That they did on the first of June both remember the samine and expresse their intention in this publication to be far from taking on them to judge of the proceedings of the Parliament of another Kingdom but onely to thank his Majestie for his gracious expressions towards the preservation of the Rights and Liberties of this Kingdom And ordain this to be printed and published at the Market-Crosse of Edinburgh and all other Burghs within this Kingdom for the information of his Majesties Subjects within the same At Edinburgh the ninth day of June 1643. THe Lords of his Majesties Privy-Councell and Commissioners for conserving the Articles of the Treaty ordain this following Declaration to be printed and published at the Market-Crosse of Edinburgh and other Burghs of this Kingdom for the information of all his Majesties good Subjects within the same Arch. Primrose Cler. S. Cons Commis To the Right Honourable my very Noble friends these On the Irish Committee of the Parliament of England present these with due respect Right Honourable EXpect nothing from your honours reall and faithfull servant in this adverse time but what brings comfort In my last expedition against the Rebels occasioned by sudden intelligence I went forth with two thousand foot and three hundred horse being provided for ten daies at no greater allowance then seven ounces of meale a day for a souldier our scarcity being so great that for want of victuals and shooes we were unable to doe the service we wish or your honours expect from us Neverthelesse our fortune was such that with this small party without Cannon for want of carriage horses we beat Owen M c art Oneale Sir Philome Oneale and Owen M c art the Generall his sonne being all joyned together with their Forces and forced them to returne upon Charlemount after quitting the Generals house to be spoyled and burus by us with the whole houses in Lochgall being the best Plantation in Vlster and straitest for defence of the Rebels At the same time Colonell Hoome with a party of five hundred men was busied in beleaguering the Castle of Newcastle the receipt of all the Intelligence comes from England to the Rebels in Vlster where it was my good fortune in time of treaty there to trist a Barke come from the Isle of Man with that treacherous Papist the Earle of Antrim whose brother Alexander was sent before by the Queenes Majesty from Yorke to make way for the Earle in negotiating betwixt her Majesties Army in the North of England and the Papists on the borders of Scotland in the Isles of Scotland and the North parts thereof and with the Rebels in Ireland Their plot being set downe by the Queenes Majesties consent for the ruine of Religion and overthrew of His Majesties loyall Subjects in all the three Dominions as evidently doth appeare by the Letters Characters Passes and Papers found with the Earle directed by me to the Councell of Scotland and the Generall It becommeth me as the servant of the publique intrusted with your Commission under the great Seale of England to enforme truly your honours of the great prejudice the cause in hand suffers by your honours neglect of this Army being