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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

and maintained a weekly Lecture there to which Lecture the Lords Iustices and State of Ireland did usually resort to the great countenancing of the Protestant Religion there But after the Earl of Strafford came to the Government the Lecture was put down the Schollars displaced and the house became a Masse-house as formerly it had been That divers Monasteries and Nunneries were newly erected immediately before the Rebellion brake forth in divers parts of that Kingdom That at the Naas where the Earl of Strafford had his chief seat and resort Convents of Friars namely Augustines Franciscans Dominicans were not onely permitted but also an house built there by the said Earl for an other purpose as he pretended soon after the building was converted to a Friery by the connivence of the said Earl That the Popish Irish Army was kept on foot there for a long time after the beginning of this Parliament contrary to the advice and frequent desires of both Houses of Parliament and to the great furtherance of this Rebellion by teaching those barbarous villains the knowledge of Arms under the notion of fighting against Scotland but now made use of to extirpate both English and Scots from the Kingdom of Ireland And that Lead might not be wanting to the compleating of this intended Rebellion as it had bin in the last great Rebellion there to the great disadvantage of the then Rebells the Silver Mines of that Kingdom which do afford great store of Lead and therefore fit onely to be in the hands of Protestants of known integrity were farmed out by His Majestie to most pernicious Papists namely Sir George Hamilton Sir Basil Brook the like and upon the discovery of the Plot for the surprising of the City and Castle of Dublin divers barrels of Musquet-bullet were found upon search in the house of the said Sir George Hamilton in Dublin Before this Rebellion brake forth the Earl of Strafford well knowing the ready way to endear his Prince was to promote his profit had by a violent endeavour entitled His Majestie by Office to the whole counties of Roscommon Mayo Slego Galloway and Clare and to a great part of the counties of Limerick and Tipperary by which means a door was opened not onely to increase His Majesties revenue in a very great proportion but therewith to settle a Plantation of English Protestants to the advancement of Religion and safety of that Kingdom And however the proceedings of the Earl herein were not to be justified in all points yet when the Committee was sent from Ireland at the beginning of this Parliament to complain of divers grievances they had no particular directions to mention this for one neither did that Committee ever attend His Majestie to complain thereof or desire a red resse therein conceiving the mentioning thereof wouldexceedingly distaste His Majestie untill His Majestie freely offered to depart with His Title to the former proprietors But on the contrary the Lords Iustices and Councell of Ireland apprehending the great advantage of this service did by their Letters exceedingly importune His Majestie that he would not part with His Title to those counties and lands and that the Plantation of English Protestants might proceed as was formerly intended But when those mischievous Councells now onely prevalent with His Majestie found that the Parliament had both discovered and interrupted them in some measure and that their Designe could be no longer carryed on by fraud and subtilties as before and had therefore projected this hideous Rebellion then the Lord Gormanstown Sir Donnaugh Mac Carthy Knight now Lord Viscount Muskerry Nicholas Plunket Uncle to the Earl of Fingal Sir Roe-buck Lynch and Jeffery Brown a Lawyer all principall and active Rebels now in Ireland and Thomas Bourke who was named a Commssioner in the late Commission to Treat with the Rebels and whose father brothers and kindred are all now in Rebellion being the chief of the Popish part of that Irish Committee were consulted and caressed at Whitehall and they or some of them without the privity of the rest of that Committee had divers private conferrences with the King in the Queens presence and what Clandestine agreement was made with those Rebels may easily be imagined when upon their private mediation His Majesty was induced to give away these five whole Counties with a great part of the Counties of Limerick and Tipperary after so great an endeavour had bin used for divers yeers together to entitle His Majesty to the same and all this for a rent of 2000. l. or thereabouts when as in finding the Offices searching Records and admeasuring these Counties and Lands the King had expended out of His Own Coffers ten thousand pounds and upwards And this service of entitling the King was before that time esteemed such a Master-piece of the said Earle that some persons who came over to complaine against the Earle for the same were imprisoned here and after sent into Ireland to be further dealt with as the said Earle should think fit Neither is it improper to observe upon this occasion the extream difference between this Superlative Indulgence to the Irish Papists by this unusuall bounty and that exquisite piece of injustice offered to the City of London in the case of London Derry and Collerane which shews the Land of Ireland is worth the owning where no greater compensation is proposed for the parting therewith And His Majesty was drawn to tell the Committee for Ireland that now since he was content to part with so much of His Right He expected they would recompence Him some other way Immediately after namely in August before the Rebellion they returned into Ireland where how they bestir'd themselves by seconding their Letters and Messages with their personall sollicitations did appear by the Sequele for that the 23. of October following this Rebellion brake forth in Vlster To these violent presumptions may be added that which is expresly proved by Archdeacon Maxwell a Learned Divine who testifies in his Examinations taken in Ireland that he heard Tirlagh Oge O Neile brother to Sir Phelim O Neale the arch Rebell of Vlster confesse That this businesse meaning the Rebellion was communicated by the Popish Irish Committee to the Papists in England who promised their assistance and that by their advice something formerly resolved on were altered saying it was a good omen and undoubted signe of divine approbation that the Parliament of Ireland should send over a Committee into England the major part whereof were Papists And Mac Mahoun who was to joyn with the Lord MacGuire for the surprizing the Castle of Dublin being taken and examined at the Racke confessed that the originall of that Rebellion was brought to them out of England by the Irish Committee imployed to His Majesty for redresse of Grievances as by the Examination See Fol. 2 of James Piesly Gentleman herewith Printed may appeare And as these Irish Papists did negotiate in both Kingdomes so the Earl of Castlehaven a

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

vertue was invisible when the old families of the English and the major part of us the meere Irish did swim in blood to serve the Crowne of England and when Offices should call for men of worth men without worth or merit obtained them Thirdly the Statute of 2 Eliz. of force in this Kingdome against us and others of our Religion doth not a little disanimate us and the rest Fourthly the avoydance of grants of our Lands and liberties by quirkes and quiddities of law without reflecting upon the King his Royall and reall intention for confirming our estates his broad Seale being the pawne betweene his Majestie and his people Fifthly the restraint of purchase in the meere Irish of lands in the escheated Counties and the taint and blemish of them and their posterities doth more discontent them then that Plantation rule for they are brought to that exigent of povertie in these late times that they must be sellers and not buyers of lands And we conceive and humbly offer to your Lordships consideration Principiis obsta that in the beginning of this Commotion your Lordship as it is hereditarie for you will be a Physitian to cure this disease in us and by our examples it will doubtlesse beget the like auspicious successe in all other parts of the Kingdome for we are of opinion it is one sicknesse and one Pharmack will suffice sublata causa tollitur effectus And it will be recorded that you will doe service unto God King and Countrie and for salving every the forementioned soares your Lordship to bee an humble suiter in our behalfe and of the rest of the Papists that out of the abundance of his Majesties Clemencie there may be an Act of oblivion and generall pardon without restitution or accompt of goods taken in the time of this Commotion a libertie of our Religion a repeale of all Statutes formerly made to the contrary and not by Proclamation but Parliamentary way A Charter of free Denizen in ample manner for the meere Irish which in all succeeding ages will prove an union in all his Majesties Dominions in stead of division a comfort for desolations and a happinesse in perpetuitie for an imminent calamitie and this being granted there will be all things quae sunt Caesaris Caesari and quae sunt Dei Deo And as it was by the Poet written though he be prophane in other matters yet in this Propheticall Divisum Imperium cum love Caesar habet All which for this present we leave to your Honourable care And we will as ever we did and doe remaine Decimo Novembr 1641. Your very humble and assured ever to be commanded Hugh mas Gillernow Farrall Iames Farrall Bryan Farrall Readagh Farrall Edmund mac Cahell Farrall John Farrall in Carbuy Garret Farrall Lisagh mac Conell Farrall Brian mac William Farrall Iohn mac Edmond Farral Iohn Farral Roger mac Bryne Farrall Barnaby Farrall Iames mac Teig Farr his marke Morgan mac Carbry Farral Donagh mac Carbry Farrall Richard mac Conel Farrall VVilliam mac Iames Farrall Iames Farrall Taghna mac Rory Farrall Cormack mac Rory Farrall Conock mac Bryne Farrall Readagh mac Lisagh Farrall Connor Oge mac Conor Farrall Edmond mac Connor Farrall Cahell mac Bryne Farrall To the Honourable William Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the House of Commons present these VVorthy Sir THese Lines are sent to give you this further accompt of our proceedings since my last from Stafford upon Thursday May 30. that God who delivered the Town of Namptwich from three attempts of our Enemies of Whitchurch did notwithstanding upon the first attempt made against Whitchurch deliverd the same into our hands and foure peeces of Ordnance some Powder Armes Horses and much Treasure which was taken but concealed by some of the common Souldiers and others All their Carriages cloaths provisions and some horses taken Two of their Captaines and other persons of worth slaine and one Captaine and some other persons of qualitie taken Prisoners The Lord was pleased much to appeare in this dayes successe and to assist our men with invincible and indefatigable courage so farre as to enable them to make their entrance upon the mouth of their Cannon There were twentie of theirs slaine out right and not above two or three of ours Colonell VVinne Colonell Crow Serjeant Major Generall VVoodhouse and the most of their prime Commanders escaped Their Cannonier was killled by a shot made by our Cannoniere we were not possessed of one Peece of Cannon at our entrance into this Countie yet now God hath pleased plentifully to furnish us with six peeces at Namptwich and two at Stafford so as wee now want Cannoniors to order and manage the same ☞ VVithin a few dayes after this victory there landed in two Barkes many Irish Rebels in Worrall 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 blood of English men in England Which Rebels being brought into Chester were accused by severall of those perons who came to Chester for refuge to be the persons who cut their husbands throats others that they ripped up their childrens bowels The Countrey wherein they first arrived did apprehend so much distaste that they did all rise with their best weapons and apprehended divers of the Irish Rebles but being unarmed not having above seven or 8 Musqueteers they could not make good their Prisoners who were rescued out of their hands by a troope of horse which came from the Commissioners of Array who also seized about 28 of our honest Countrey-men prisoners These Irish acknowledge they came from Strongforth and that there are 1200. some speake of 10000 more to follow after Sir Your most humble servant Will. Brereton Liverpoole Iune 1643. Read in the House of Commons Ianuary 14. We have placed a Garrison in this Towne which I hope may be of great Advantage being the onely Haven Town in these parts of the Kingdome Post SInce I writ the lines above two of our Long Boats which were manned and sent out are returned and have brought in the Boats which carried the Rebels and have taken three or foure of the Rebells who confesse they came from Strangford and that they were sent by one Master Savage they have also seized some Barques laden with Wine part whereof belonges to those who are well affected to you and have suffered in your cause But the greatest part to those who are engaged against you which is reserved here to be disposed of as you shall please to order and direct A letter of Mart Warwicke Lord Mohun Baron of Okehampton Sir Ralph Hopton knight of the Bath Sir Iohn Barkeley knight and William Ashbourneham Esquire or any two of them Commissioners authorized under the great seal of England in the absence of William Marques of Hertford to command all his

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