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A46130 By the generall assemblie of the Confederate Catholiques of Ireland whereas Colonell Owen O Neill, coming into this kingdome, under pretence of serving His Majestie and his faithfull subiects the Confederate Catholicks ... Confederate Catholics. 1648 (1648) Wing I763; ESTC R43297 1,624 1

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C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE BY THE GENERALL ASSEMBLIE OF THE CONFEDERATE CATHOLIQVES OF IRELAND WHereas Colonell Owen O Neill coming into this Kingdome under pretence of serving his Majestie and his faithfull Subiects the Confederate Catholicks hath been by the Supreme Councell in Anno one thousand six hundred fourty and two advanced unto the places of Generall and Governor of the Province of Vlster and upon receiving of his Pattent of those imployments of great honour trust command solemnely tooke the Oath of Association usually taken by the Confederate Catholicks And also an Oath to discharge those places with that sincerity to the publicke and obedience to the Government as became a person so highly intrusted Neverthelesse the said Owen O Neill in breach of the said trust having proposed unto himselfe by the force of the Army under his command to destroy the present and to introduce a new and Tyrannicall Government over the Lives Estates and Liberties of his Maiesties faithfull Subiects and to alienate them from their loyalty to the Crowne of England hath without warrant or authority contrary to the Lawes of the Land and the establishments of all Assemblyes of the Confederate Catholicks made and appointed commanders in chiefe severall Lieutenant Generalls Colonells and other inferiour commanders throughout the Kingdome to raise Horse and Foote gathered and assembled together all such as hee thought inclined to his wayes of destruction to whom for their better encouragement hee gave them libertie of plunder and pillage who did accordingly actually pillage plunder and rob his Maiesties Subiects in the Provinces of Leinster Mounster and Connaght and possessed himselfe and his party of their Castles and Holts as by woefull experience these five years past the inhabitants of the said Provinces have found And in pursuance of his wicked and trayterous designes and to the end to bring the same to a full period being thereunto encouraged through the want of due and timely punishment for his past offences and high misdemeanors hath this present yeare shaked off all manner of obedience to the Government established among the Confederate Catholicks ioyned with Colonell Jones a Parliamentary and adverse to his Maiesty and the said Confederate Catholicks And in an hostile and rebellious manner marched with his said Army killing burning pillaging plundering destroying his Maiesties faithfull Subiects besiged and tooke by force of Armes divers of his Maiesties Castles Forts and strong holts committed and perpetrated all other Acts of hostility and treason And notwithstanding that all wayes and meanes possible tending to the safety and quiet of the Kingdome have been used by the Supreme Councell entrusted with the Goverment for the reducing and reclaiming of the said Owen O Neill and his complices from those his wicked mallicious and trayterous Acts Yet so farre was hee fixed upon those his resolutions as hee would not admit any addresse to bee made unto him as by burning of the Councells letters sent to him and others the said Commanders of his Army and menaces to hang the messenger if he had come with any more messages to that purpose and other proofes appeareth much lesse give care or agree to any manner of accommodation other then such as must of necessity prove destructive to Religion King and Countrey as by an exact accompt given to this Assembly by the Supreme Councell of their proceedings and by the severall other proofes testimonies otherwise knowne to this Assembly plainely and manifestly appeareth Wherefore it is this day ordered Decreed adiudged established by the said Assembly that the said Owen O Neill is hereby and shall be from henceforth declared a Traytor and Rebell against our Soveraigne Lord the King the Fundamentall Lawes of the Land and a common disturber of the peace tranquillity and quiet of this Kingdome and a manifest opposer of the established Government of the Confederate Catholicks contrary to his said oath And the said Assembly doth hereby strictly charge and command all Generalls and Governors of Provinces Magistrats High-Sheriffs Governors of Garrisons or Forts Holts and Castles Commanders and all other officers Civill and Martiall and all other his Maiesties faithfull Subiects aswell within liberties and Corporat Townes as without under the command of the Confederate Catholicks to proceede against and destroy the said Owen O Neill as an Enemy and Traytor on paine of being proceeded with themselves in case of their wilfull neglect herein as culpable of the said Treasons capitall offences aforesaid Given ●t Kilkenny the thirtieth day of September Anno Domini one thousand six hundred fourty and eight and in the foure ●●d twentieth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord CHARLES by the grace of GOD King of Eng●●●● Ireland 〈…〉 and Scotland c. GOD SAVE THE KING