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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

ARTICLES OF PEACE MADE AND CONCLUDED with the Irish Rebels and Papists by JAMES Earle of ORMOND For and in behalfe of the late King and by vertue of his Autoritie 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 Publisht by Autority LONDON Printed by Matthew Simmons in Aldergate-streete 1649. BY The Lord Lieutenant Generall and Generall Governour of the Kingdome of IRELAND ORMOND WHereas Articles of Peace are made concluded accorded and agreed upon by and between Us JAMES Lord Marquesse of ORMOND Lord Lieut. Generall and Generall Governor of his Majesties Kingdome of Ireland by vertue of the Authority wherewith We are intrusted for and on the behalfe of His Most Excellent Majesty of the one part and the Generall Assembly of the Roman Catholickes of the said Kingdome for and on the behalfe of his Majesties Roman Catholick Subjects of the same on the other part A true Copy of which Articles of Peace is hereunto annexed We the Lord Lieut. do by this Proclamation in His Majesties name publish the same and do in his Majest. name strictly charge and command al His Majesties Subjects and all others inhabiting or residing within his Majesties said Kingdome of Ireland to take notice thereof and to render due obedience to the same in all the parts thereof And as his Majesty hath been induced to this peace out of a deep sence of the miseries and calamities brought upon this His Kingdome and People and out of a hope conceived by His Majesty that it may prevent the further effusion of His Subjects blood redeem them out of all the miseries and calamities under which they now suffer restore them to all quietnesse and happinesse under His Majesties most Gracious Government deliver the Kingdome in generall from those slaughters depredations rapines and spoyles which alwayes accompany a war encourage the Subjects and others with comfort to betake themselves to trade traffique comerce manufacture and all other things which un-interrupted may increase the wealth and strength of the Kingdome beget in all his Majesties Subjects of this Kingdome a perfect unity amongst themselves after the too long continued division amongst them So His Majesty assures himselfe that all his Subjects of this his Kingdom duely considering the great and inestimable benefits which they may find in this Peace will with all duty render due obedience thereunto And We in his Majesties name doe hereby declare that all persons so rendering due obedience to the said Peace shall be protected cherished countenanced and supported by his Majesty and his Royall Authority according to the true intent and meaning of the said Articles of Peace Given at our Castle of Kilkenny 17 January 1648. GOD SAVE THE KING Articles of Peace made concluded accorded and agreed upon by and between his Excellency James Lord Marquesse of Ormond Lord Lieutenant General and Generall of his Majesties Kingdome of Ireland for and on the behalfe of His most Excellent Majesty by vertue of the authority wherewith the said Lord Lieutenant is intrusted on the one part And the Generall Assembly of the Roman Catholickes of the said Kingdome for and on the behalfe of His Majesties Roman Catholicke Subjects of the same on the other part HIs Majesties Roman Catholique Subjects as thereunto bound by allegiance duty and nature doe most humbly and freely acknowledge and recognize their Soveraigne Lord King Charles to be lawfull and undoubted King of this Kingdom of Ireland and other his Highnesse Realms and Dominions And his Majesties said Roman Catholicke Subjects apprehending with a deep sence the sad condition whereunto His Majesty is reduced As a further testimony of their Loyalty Doe declare that they and their posterity for ever to the utmost of their power even to the expence of their blood and fortunes will maintaine and uphold His Majesty His Heires and lawfull Successors their Rights Prerogatives Government and Authority and thereunto freely and heartily will render all due obedience Of which faithfull and loyall recognition and declaration so seasonably made by the said Roman Catholickes His Majesty is graciously pleased to accept and accordingly to owne them His loyall and dutifull Subjects And is further graciously pleased to extend unto them the following graces and securities 1. IN primis It is concluded accorded and agreed upon by and between the said Lord Lieutenant for and on the behalfe of His most Excellent Majesty And the said General Assembly for and on the behalf of the said Roman Catholick Subjects and His Majestie is graciously pleased that it shall be enacted by act to be passed in the next Parliament to be held in this Kingdome that all and every the professors of the Roman Catholicke Religion within the said Kingdom shall be free and exempt from all mulctes penalties restraints and inhibitions that are or may be imposed upon them by any law statute useage or custome whatsoever for or concerning the free exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion And that it shall be likewise enacted that the said Roman Catholicks or any of them shall not be questioned or molested in their persons goods or estates for any matter or cause whatsoever for concerning or by reason of the free exercise of their Religion by vertue of any power authority statute law or useage whatsoever And that it shall be further enacted that no Roman Catholique in this Kingdome shall be compelled to exercise any Religion forme of devotion or Divine service other then such as shall be agreeable to their Conscience and that they shall not be prejudiced or molested in their persons goods or estates for not observing using or hearing the Booke of Common-Prayer or any other forme of devotion or divine service by vertue of any coulor or Statute made in the second yeare of Queen Elizabeth or by vertue or coullor of any other law declaration of law Statute Custome or usage whatsoever made or declared or to be made or declared And that it shall be further enacted that the Professors of the Roman Catholicke Religion or any of them be not bound or oblieged to take the Oath commonly called the Oath of Supremacy expressed in the Statute of 2 Elizabeth c. 1 or in any other Statute or Statutes And that the said Oath shall not be tendered unto them and that the refusall of the said oath shall not redound to the prejudice of them or any of them they taking the oath of Allegiance in haec verba viz. I A. B. Doe hereby acknowledge professe testifie and declare in my conscience before God and the world that our Soveraigne Lord King Charles is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realme and of other His Majesties Dominions and Countries and I will beare Faith and true Allegiance to His Majesty and His Heires and Successors and Him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all Conspiracies

to you or any of them or out of any dis-esteem I had to your power to advance or impede the same but out of my fear whiles those that have of late usurped power over the Subjects of England held forth the least colourable shadow of moderation in their intentions towards the settlement of Church or State and that in some tollerable way with relation to Religion the interest of the King and Crown the freedom of Parliament the Liberties of the subject any addresses from mee proposing the withdrawing of that party from those thus professing from whom they have received some and expected further support would have been but coldly received and any determination thereupon deferred in hope and expectation of the forementioned settlement or that you your selfe who certainly have not wanted aforesight of the sad confusion now covering the face of England would have declared with me the Lord Inchequeen and the Protestant Army in Munster in prevention thereof yet my fear was it would have been as difficult for you to have carried with you the main body of of the Armie under your command not so clear sighted as your self as it would have been dangerous to you and those with you well inclined to have attempted it without them but now that the mask of hypocrisie by which the Independent Armie hath ensnared and enslaved all estates and degrees of men is laid aside now that barefaced they evidently appear to bee the subverters of true religion and to be the protectors and inviters not only of all false ones but of irreligion and Atheisme now that they have barbarously and inhumanely laid violent sacrilegious hands upon and murthered Gods annointed and our King not as heretofore some Patricides have done to make room for some usurper but in a way plainly manifesting their intentions to change the Monarchy of England into Anarchy unlesse their aime bee first to constitute an elective Kingdome and Crumwell or some such Iohn of Leiden being elected then by the same force by which they have thus far compassed their ends to establish a perfect Turklsh tyranny now that of the three estates of King Lords Commons whereof in all ages Parliaments have consisted there remains only a small number and they the dregs and scum of the House of Commons pickt and awed by the Armie a wicked remnant left for no other end then yet further if it be possible to delude the people with the name of a Parliament The King being murthered the Lords and the rest of the Commons being by unheard of violence at severall times forced from the Houses and some imprisoned And now that there remaines no other libertie in the subject but to professe blasphemous opinions to revile and tread underfoot Magistracie to murther Magistrates and oppresse and undoe all that are not like minded with them Now I say that I cannot doubt but that you and all with you under your command will take this opportunitie to act and declare against so monstrous and unparaleld a rebellion and that you and they will cheerfully acknowledge and faithfully serve and obey our gracious King Charles the second undoubted heir of his Father Crown and Vertues under whose right and conduct we may by Gods assistance restore Protestant Religion to puritie and therein settle it Parliaments to their freedome good laws to their force and our fellow-subjects to their just liberties wherein how glorious and blessed a thing it will bee to be so considerablie instrumentall as you may now make your self I leave to you now to consider And though I conceive there are not any motives relating to some particular interest to be mentioned after these so weightie considerations which are such as the world hath not been at any time furnished with yet I hold it my part to assure you that as there is nothing you can reasonably propose for the safety satisfaction or advantage of your self or of any that shall adhear to you in what I desire that I shall not to the uttermost of my power provide for so there is nothing I would nor shall more industriously avoid then those necessities arising from my duty to God and man that may by your rejecting this offer force me to be a sad instrument of shedding English blood which in such case must on both sides happen If thir overture finde place with you as I earnestly wish it may let me know with what possible speed you can and if you please by the bearer in what way you desire it should bee drawne on to a conclusion For in that as well as in the substance you shall find all ready complyance from me that desire to bee Your affectionate friend to serve you ORMOND Carrick March 9. 1648. For Colonel Michael Jones Governour of Dublin My Lord YOur Lordships of the ninth I received the twelfth instant and therein have I your Lordships invitation to a conjunction with your self I suppose as Lord lieutenant of Ireland and with others now united with the Irish and with the Irish themselves also As I understand not how your Lordship should be invested with that power pretended so am I very well assured That it is not in the power of any without the Parliament of England to give and assure pardon to those bloodie Rebels as by the Act to that end passed may appear more fully I am also well assured that the Parliament of England would never assent to such a Peace such as is that your Lordships with the Rebels wherin is little or no provision made either for the Protestants or the Protestant Religion Nor can I understand how the Protestant Religion should bee setled and restored to its puritie by an Armie of Papists or the Protestant interests maintained by those very enemies by whom they have been spoiled and there slaughtered And very evident it is that both the Protestants and Protestant Religion are in that your Lordships Treaty left as in the power of the Rebels to be by them born down and rooted out at pleasure As for that consideration by your Lordship offered of the present and late proceedings in England I see not how it may be a sufficient motive to mee or any other in like trust for the Parliament of England in the service of this Kingdome to joyn with those Rebels upon any the pretences in that your Lordships letter mentioned for therein were there a manifest betraying that trust reposed in me in disserting the service and work committed to me in joyning with those I should oppose and in opposing whom I am obliged to serve Neither conceive I it any part of my work and care to take notice of any whatsoever proceedings of State forreign to my charge and trust here especially they being found hereunto apparently destructive Most certain it is and former ages have approved it that the intermedling of Governors and parties in this Kingdom with sidings and parties in England have been the very betraying of this kingdom to the

Articles of Peace we see as good as done by the late King not to friends but to mortall Enemies to the accomplishment of his own interests and ends wholly separate from the Peoples good may without aggravation be easily conceiv'd Nay by the Covenant it self since that so cavillously is urg'd against us wee are enjoyn'd in the fourth Article with all faithfulnesse to endeavour the bringing all such to public Triall and condigne Punishment as shall divide one Kingdome from another And what greater dividing then by a pernicious and hostile Peace to disalliege a whole Feudary Kingdome from the ancient Dominion of England Exception we finde there of no person whatsoever and if the King who hath actually done this or any for him claime a Priviledge above Justice it is againe demanded by what expresse Law either of God or man and why he whose office is to execute Law and Justice upon all others should sit himself like a demigod in lawlesse and unbunded anarchy refusing to be accountable for that autority over men naturally his equals which God himself without a reason givn is not wont to exercise over his creatures And if God the neerer to be acquainted with mankind and his frailties and to become our Priest made himself a man and subject to the Law we gladly would be instructed why any mortal man for the good and wellfare of his brethren beeing made a King should by a clean contrary motion make himself a God exalted above Law the readiest way to become utterly unsensible both of his human condition and his own duty And how securely how smoothly with how little touch or sense of any commiseration either Princely or so much as human he hath sold away that justice so oft demanded and so oft by himself acknowledg'd to be due for the bloud of more then 200000. of his Subjects that never hurt him never disobeyd him assassinated and cut in pieces by those Irish Barbarians to give the first promoting as is more then thought to his own tyrannicall designes in England will appeare by the 18th Article of his peace wherein without the least regard of Justice to avenge the dead while he thirsts to be aveng'd upon the living to all the Murders Massacres Treasons Pyracies from the very fatall day wherein that Rebellion first broke out he grants an act of Oblivion If this can be justified or not punisht in whomsoever while there is any faith any Religion any Justice upon Earth there can no reason be alleg'd why all things are not list to confusion And thus much be observd in brief concerning these Articles of peace made by the late King withhie Irish Rebells The Letter of Ormond sent to Col. Jones Governour of Dublin attempting his fidelity which the discretion and true worth of that Gentleman hath so well answerd and repulst had pass'd heer with out mention but that the other part of it not content to doe the errand of Treason roves into a long digression of evill and reproachfull language to the Parlament and Army of England Which though not worth their notice as from a Crew of Rebells whose inhumanities are long since become the hornour and execration of all that heare them yet in the pursuance of a good endeavour to give the world all due satisfaction of the present doings no fit opportunity shall be omitted He accuses first that we are the Subveters of true Religion the protectors inviters not only of all false ones but of irreligion atheism An accusation that no man living could more unjustly use then our accuser himself which without a strange besottednesse he could not expect but to be retorted upon his own head All men who are true Protestants of which number he gives out to be one know not a more immediate and killing Subverter of all true Religion then Antichrist whom they generally believe to be the Pope and Church of Rome he therefore who makes peace with this grand Enemy and perscutor of the true Church he who joynes with him strengthens him gives him root to grow up and spread his poyson removing all opposition against him granting him Schools Abbeyes and Revenues Garrisons Fortresses Townes as in so many of those Articles may be seen he of all Protestants may be calld most justly the Subverter of true Religion the Protector and inviter of irreligion and atheism whether it be Ormond or his Maister And if it can be no way prov'd that the Parlament hath countenac'd Popery or Papists but have every where brok'n their Temporall power thrown down their public Superstitions and confin'd them to the bare enjoyment of that which is not in our reach their Consciences if they have encouragd all true Ministers of the Gospel that is to say afforded them favour and protection in all places where they preacht and although they think not money or Stipend to be the best encouragement of a true Pastor yet therein also have not been wanting nor intend to be they doubt not then to affirm themselves not the Subverters but the maintainers and defenders of true Religion which of it self and by Consequence is the surest and the strongest Subversion not onely of all false ones but of irreligion and atheism For the Weapons of that Warfare as the Apostle testifies who best knew are not carnall but mighty through God to the pulling down of Strong Holds and all reasonings and every high thing exalted against the knowledge of God surprising every thought unto the obedience of Christ and easily revenging all disobedience 2 Cor. 10. What Minister or Clergy-man that either understood his high calling or sought not to erect a secular and carnall Tyranny over spirituall things would neglect this ample and sublime power conferrd upon him and come a begging to the weak hand of Magistracy for that kind of ayd which both the Magistrate hath no Commission to afford him and in the way he seeks it hath been alwayes found helplesse and unprofitable Neither is it unknown or by wisest men unobserv'd that the Church began then most apparently to degenerate and goe to ruine when shee borrow'd of the Civill power more then fair encouragement and protection more then which Christ himself and his Apostles never requir'd To say therefore that We protect and invite all false Religions with irreligion also and atheism because wee lend not or rather missapply not the temporall power to help out though in vaine the sloth the spleen the insufficiency of Church-men in the execution of spirituall discipline over those within their Charge or those without is an imputation that may be layd as well upon the best regulated States and Governments through the World Who have been so prudent as never to imploy the Civill sword further then the edge of it could reach that is to Civill offences onely proving alwayes against objects that were spirituall a ridiculous weapon Our protection therefore to men in Civill matters unoffensive we cannot deny their Consciences we