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A25942	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 (1641-1649 : Ormonde); Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.; Milton, John, 1608-1674. Observations upon the articles of peace with the Irish rebels.	1649 (1649)	Wing A3863; ESTC R495	49,636	68

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 15000 foot and 2500 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 14. 1648. 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. 26. 1648. 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 15th 1649. 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

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 2 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 3 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 1641. 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 4 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 1641. 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

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 12th 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 15000 foote and 2500 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 1000 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

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. 11. 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