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A82228
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The declaration of the Protestant army in the province of Munster (of the Kingdom of Ireland) under the command of the Right Honourable the Lord Baron of Inchiquine, Lord President of the same.
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1648
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Wing D755; Thomason E452_10; ESTC R204857
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whose charmes we resolve to arme our selves with these ensuing resolutions That we will not be involved by consent or coopperation in any Actions which shal tend to the violation of our publick ingagements to the King and Parliament nor prostrate our selves to a misguidance with those who with grief of heart we observe to be under the coercive inforcement of the Independent power from which as we shall labour to restore them to their proper freedom so we shall not during their continuance under these pressures esteem our selves obliged to the observance of any injunctions which by the usurped Authority of the Independents they shall labour to lay upon us under the notion of Parliament but by the ensuing Protestation do declare First to improve our utmost endeavours for the settlement of the Protestant Religion according to the examp1e of the best Reformed Churches Secondly to defend the King in his Prerogatives Thirdly to maintain the Priviledges and freedom of the Parliament and the Liberty of the Subject and that in order hereunto we shall oppose to the hazard of our lives those Rebels of this Kingdom who shall refuse their obedience to his Majesty upon what terms soever he shall think fit to require it And we shall endeavour to the utmost the suppressing of that Independent party who have thus fiercely laboured the extirpation of the true Protestant Religion the mine of our Prince the dishonour of our Parliament and the Vassalidge of our Fellow-Subiects against all those who shall depend upon them or adhere unto them And that this our undertaking might not appear obnoxious to the trade of England but that we desire a firm union and agreement be preserved betwixt us We do likewise declare that we will continue free Traffique and commerce with all his Maiesties good Subiects of England And that we will not in the least manner preiudice any of them that shal have recourse to our Harbours either in their bodies ships or goods nor shall we take any thing from them without payment of ready money for the same It may happily be judged by some as an Act of Imprudence that we should take this unseasonable time for this Remonstrance wherein the King himself is in confinement his party nothing the moderate party of the houses or most of them either in retirement or banishment for the preservation of their lives and onely those in power and authority against whose proceedings we make this our publique Protestation All which we cannot but with much sorrow acknowledge to be too true and that these inconveniences are to be resisted but not avoided Had we been assertained heretofore that thâ—ir intentions were as now we find them to introduce an Anarchy upon us and by the distruction of the Fundamentals of these Kingdoms to advance a Government of their own imaginations we had long ere this time approved our duty to King and Country by opposing them which in all probabilites we might have done upon more advantagious terms both to our persons and undertakings had we not been drawn on in an expectation of a fair composure of all differences as not able to discern beyond suspition the clear drift of their designes through those various pretences which they put upon them till they had gained the whole power of the Kingdom into their hands Yet these difficulties must not be admitted into the ballance with honesty Though it may not come within the compass of our abilities to serve our King and Countrey as we would which we shall never decline upon the least occasion yet we desire to approve our integrities to both by this manifest of our resolution April 1648. FINIS