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A87239	A letter from the Right Honourable the Lord Inchiqvin and other the commanders in Munster, to His Majestie expressing the causes and reasons of their not holding the cessation any longer with the rebels; with their desire intimated to His Majestie, that he would be pleased to renounce any treatie with the rebels any longer, and that he would againe proclaime them rebels, and would now comply with his Parliament, and make a peace with them. With several other letters from the said Lo. Inchiquin and other the commanders in Munster in Ireland to severall other their friends here in England, advising them of their proceedings, with severall motives and reasons to perswade them also to returne unto their former charges in Ireland, and to joyne with them to oppose the said rebels, and for to vindicate with them therein their obligation unto religon, the preservation of that kingdome, and the honour of the English nation. Published by authoritie.	Inchiquin, Murrough O'Brien, Earl of, 1614-1674.	1644 (1644)	Wing I131; Thomason E8_37; ESTC R18278	10,179	16

A LETTER From the Right Honourable the LORD INCHIQVIN And other the Commanders in Munster To His Majestie Expressing the Causes and Reasons of their not holding the Cessation any longer with the Rebels With their desire intimated to his Majestie that he would be pleased to renounce any Treatie with the Rebels any longer and that he would againe proclaime them Rebels and would now comply with his Parliament and make a Peace with them With severall other Letters from the said Lo. Inchiquin and other the Commanders in Munster in Ireland to severall other their Friends here in England advising them of their Proceedings with severall Motives and Reasons to perswade them also to returne unto their former Charges in Ireland and to joyne with them to oppose the said Rebels and for to vindicate with them therein their Obligation unto Religion the Preservation of that Kingdome and the honour of the English Nation Published by Authoritie Printed at London by George Miller 1644. A Copie of a Letter to his Majestie from the Lord Inchiquin May it please your most excellent Majestie WE your Majesties most humble and Loyall Subjects the Protestants of the Province of Munster doe with all humility acknowledge your Majesties speciall care towards our preservation and wee should esteeme our selves guiltie of two high an ingratitude if we should not discharge our duties to God and your sacred Majestie by acquainting you that no peace can be concluded with the Irish Rebells which will not bring unto your Majestie and the English in generall a farre greater prejudice then the shew of a peace here will bring us an advantage and since your Majestie hath shewed us so high a degree of your pious care in all things that might take from our afflictions as our Declaration doth manifest to the world those actions shew so piously in your Majestie that you have entrusted us and makes us humbly beg your Majestie that you would not so much regard so inconsiderable a handfull of people as we are as to purchase but a seeming securitie by leaving the Protestant Religion in all likelihood to be extirpated and your Majestie obnoxious to the losse of this your Kingdome Indeed it is too truly called a seeming securitie as in our Declaration which we humbly present unto your Majestie doth largely and plainly appeare as also with how much reason we have taken up armes to defend our Religion lives and your Majesties Interests and we firmely hope that our infinite wrongs and miseries will be a sufficient motive and rise for your Majestie to send unto the Parliament for the procuring of a peace in England without which we must be as speedily as unavoidably ruin'd and the Protestant Religion quite rooted out of this Kingdome We have likewise sent our humble desires to the same purpose unto the Parliament with a strong beliefe that both your Majestie and they will so seriously consider the justnesse and necessity of the Irish war that it will wringe the sword out of both your hands and imploy those armies which are likely to be destructive to the Protestant Religion for the suppressing of those bloudy enemies of the Gospell and truly when we consider how correspondent this blessed motion is with the goodnesse of your Majesties owne inclination We doe not despaire but that God which brings the greatest things to passe by the weakest meanes may through our great necessities and humble prayers restore England to that just Peace which it hath been so long deprived of But if the judgements of the Almighty are not all falne upon that Kingdome and that the just quarrell to this nation which would be farre more glorious to the English armies then the wars there is not a sufficient power to produce our agreement between your Majestie and the Parliament We doe most humbly beseech your Majestie not to give care to any that shall strive to blemish the Integritie of our proceedings since we take God to witnesse we aime at nothing but Gods glory your Majesties honour and the safetie of the English Nation And that the world may see that your Majestie beleeves us to be what really we are we humbly beg your Majestie as we have likewise done the Parliament to send us what supplies of Men Armes and Ammunition your sacred Majestie thinkes fit for a people which value not their lives and fortunes where your Majesties honour is concerned and that we may die as perfect Martyrs in the opinion of men as we are certaine all those that suffer in this cause will be in the eye of God that your sacred Majestie would be pleased to proclaime againe the Irish to be rebels and not pardon those who have committed so many barbarous crimes that they are as farre above description as they are short of honestie nay more publiquely professe they had your Majesties Commission for what they did The true sence of this divellish aspertion cast upon your Majestie with all those other reasons which we have set down in our Declaration makes us resolve to die a thousand deaths rather then to condescend to any peace with these perfidious Rebels and since death is a tribute we must all pay who will apprehend the payment of it somewhat the easier to purchase by it a Kingdome as full of glory as this is now of misery to all honest men neither is this onely the resolution of all the most considerable men amongst us but of all in generall for our gracious God hath so inspired the hearts of all the Commonaltie that they have vowed never to desert the cause that is so visibly God Almighties and we beseech the Almightie so to direct your sacred Majestie that our great miseries may through your Majesties pious furtherance beget that blessed peace in England which is so zealously praid for by Your Majesties most humble most obedient and most loyall Subjects Inchiquin Broughill Tho. Searle Fenton Percy Smith Will. Brockett Agm. Muschampt Corke 17. July 1644. A Copie of a Letter to Coll. Nicholas Mynn Noble Sir SOme Councellors about the King have prevailed with him to make such an agreement with the Rebels here as leaves the interest he now has in their power whereof we find they meane to make up for the Extirpation of the English Nation and Protestant Religion out of this Kingdome and this being discovered unto us by certaine and undoubted intelligence we have given notice thereof to King and Parliament whose Assistance we have craved for our owne defence and the meane time we have turned out the Irish who we know were the Rebells confederates now we doubt the King will not approve of what we have done because the papisticall faction about him will oppose us but we are confident the Parliament will send us great supplies to follow the warre against the Irish wherefore and seeing our cause is so good we are hopefull as many forces as went from us will come to us forth with and you I must desire to come

with your whole Regiments to Milford Haven where you may recrewt your Regiment and bring them away in the Parliaments ships and that you may not scruple at this action we have sent you our Declaration which will shew open the realityes of our intentions Then for incouragement for the Officers and Souldiers I can assure you to have all arrears allowed in adventures and that we shall have very good pay for the time to come I am so confident of your coming that I have writ to the Parliament to make you Major Generall of the forces that shall be now on foote here which I beleeve will be no lesse then 10000 horse and foote we have already 3000 of our own besides the expectation of my owne Regiments and yours So that if they send but 2 or 3000 forth of England and order for the like number of Scots to come by sea hither we shall make up that number I have likewise sent to the Parliament to get a stipend setled upon you as Governour of Halboling which I am confident will be done for that I hope these inducements calling you to a cause of comfortable as we may terme it Gods owne cause that will make all speed unto us in expectation whereof I remaine Your very affectionate Friend and servant Inchiquin Cork 20th Iuly 1644 A Copie of a Letter to Lievtenant Coll. Saintleger Deare Brother VVE find that his Majesty is strangely beguiled by the Irish rebells who making great and faire promises unto him have gained such trust as that we see the Kingdome save what the Scots have is to be left in their power whereof we know most certainly they meane to make such use as that no English if Protestants shall be left therein for they resolve to leave no professors of that Religion But their wickednesse will not stop there neither for seeing the King of England unable to give them assistance against the Scots they have imployed agents abroad to treat with forraigne Princes and to give assurance unto him that will undertake to supply them with money and utensils of warre that they will become his subjects when we were sufficiently assured of this we resolved to resume our armes and rather to dye gloriously then to live miferably But although we know these actions of ours are effectuall condueing to his Majesties service Yet we feare the instruments that gained favour for the Irish will have power to possesse his Majestie with an ill opinion of our proceedings because we receive assistance from the Parliament of England notwithstanding knowing the goodnesse of his Majesties own disposition and hoping for Gods assistance to make him apprehensive of our reall love to him we have presumed to write unto him signifying how undoubtedly our Religion had bin extinguished and his Kingdome lost if we had not prevented it and desiring that his Majesty would not only approve of the Parliaments sending us supplyes for the following of this warre against the perfidious Irish rebells but that he would gratiously reflect on us with what assistance his condition will permit and proclaiming the Irish Rebels This if his Majestie approve of may happily be a good recourse for such a treatie to be had betweene him and the Parliament as may produce a happy Accommodation which may give them both leave to imploy the Armies now destructive to England against these malicious enemies of our Religion and most dangerous enemies of his but if he doe not our Consciences beare witnesse we intend nothing but loyaltie to him and we hope this will appeare when they see the grounds of our proceedings which we have partly set forth in a Declaration though we have left out things that we thought might displease his Majestie who we know cannot chuse but extend a gracious eye of favour towards us when things are come a little more to light and that the Villaines of those Irish now smiled on shall be discovered In the meane time I pray you Brother to consider who we fight against namely Papists and Rebels and that it is a happinesse to be imployed in such a Quarrell rather then against Protestants whatever their Loyalties be we are sure we fight neither against the Kings Person nor Lawes neither against his profit but you are not sure there but that you fight against the two last neither doe you know but that you fight against Religion which Implicitly is against God and that sure you will confesse to be more then doing the first Wherefore I beseech you to get away hither as soone as you can And get what Officers and Souldiers especially W. Kingsmill to come with you the best way for you to come by will be to come to Milford Haven where the Parliament shipping will take you in and transport you hither with what horse or foot you can get There you will have good pay halse your Arreares in Adventures and if God prosper our designes we shall surely possesse the estates of our enemies with the comfort of having all our neighbours English and Protestants Your Mother hath written to you carnestly desiring your repaire hither the which she doth with teares often pray that she may see God put it into your heart to obey her therein which would exceedingly rejoyce Your most affectionate Brother and Servant Inchiquin Corke 21. July 1644. The Copie of a Letter from the right honourable the Lord Baron of Inchiquin to Colonell William Iephson the Governour of Portsmouth ALthough I have been earnest in prosecution of all the Commands come unto me from his Majestie yet I was ever as industrious for the perservation of the English here and the Protestant Religion as my weake abilities would give me leave and now that I perceive his Majestie to be so deluded by a Papisticall Councell as that his Prorestant people are like to be all extirpated and our Religion extinguished I confesse it is no longer my dutie to execute those Commands knowing them to proceed from the advice of those who expose Religion and the Common-wealth to shipwracke under pretence of advancing his Majesties service whilst indeed they doe but contrive their owne deliverance from the hand of justice The Bearer will tell you more of this and of my resolutions to use all endeavours to prosecute the warre against the Rebels in Ireland and crosse those who are more mischievous then any Rebels can be in England and if the Parliament doe speedily supply us I am very hopefull with Gods assistance to put the worke here suddainly into a good forwardnesse for I am consident my Brother Harry will if he can deliver Wareham againe into the hands of the Parliament and will come away with my whole Regiment hither when you send Ships to fetch him which I thinke will be greatly advantageous to them there and us here If notwithstanding my new Professions the Parliament should distrust me because it is true I have served the King with all my power according to his owne

of my resolution to fight with the enemies and wrote unto all the Garrisons to let the inhabitants know that if they did not make some shift to furnish the Souldiers knapsacks for the field that they were all lost whereupon they furnished us with five dayes provision so that you and I made a shift with the before mentioned number to get thither by the day that I threatned to fight with them if they were not gone which you know was the soonest that I could be there you being a witnesse of the diligence I used to get the men into the field and certainly if I could have come thither sooner I would have threatned the enemy accordingly but when we were come to Tallow the rebells belike having notice of our weakness continued the seige notwithstanding the promises which I perceiving and being fearefull they might take Lismore offered unto your selfe Lieutenant Colonell Appleyard and the Officers to fall upon them if you should advise whereupon you all advised to send presently for Colonell Mynn and not to attempt any thing till he came This delay after I had threatned to fight with them I I was fearefull would make the enemy contemne us and thinking that it was very likely that before Colonell Mynn who could not in lesse then five dayes time be with us should come that the place must needs have bin lost I bethought my selfe to send Iack fitz Gerald privately to them to let them know that they were very happy in that Mynn was not come yet unto me and that I had received letters from him intimating his being on his march towards me whereof I gave them notice out of my desire to preserve them whom we thought would soone become his Majesties Subjects and servants and therefore let them know that if they did not goe away the next day that I must of necessity fall upon them but all I could doe could not divert them from their owne ends till my Lord of Cork landed and brought me a Letter from the King commanding me to give credit to what he should tell mee who told me that it was his Majesties Command that I should forward the Cossation by all the meanes could whereupon I desired a Conference with my Lord of Muskerie and you know how my Lord of Corke delivered the Message sent unto me there before my Lord of Muskerie and did assure my Lord that if he would with-draw the siege he knew his Majestie would take it well which my Lord thinking that I would have fallen upon them the next day assented unto now let the world judge whether I did intend to give up my Lord of Corks Towns they knowing our wants our condition our strength Nick Mynns being in the West unable to come to us my offering daily to fall on if a Councell of warre should advise it and all other circumstances to be as I have related and let them also that know how we were say if it had not been easie for their 3000 foot and 800 horse to have taken all our Quarters if I had not by this meanes prevented it by giving them occasion to stay where I had provided against their attempts whereas if they had marched on in to our Quarters I could never make head against them knowing the Countrey to be readie to rise and afford them their assistance against us and that we could never bring our Army into a bodie to have given them Battell so that truly I never was so happy in any thing concerning this warre as in that diversion which by my Unkle Edmonds and my Lord of Muskeries ambush it pleased God I gave them and thereby preserved all the poore English that were abroad in our quarters and Sin for confirmation hereof you know we were frequently told that it was a common report amongst the Irish that I had fool'd my Lord of Muskerie and he them then let all the world thinke whether I could be so foolish as to give way that so many of them should know such a secret if I had not my own ends in it or if those ends had been to favour them whether that favour must not proceed from hope of reward of effection to their partie the first of these I am confident no enemis will alleage against me And I hope my Actions have never given Cause to suspect me for the last perhaps my Lord of Corke will say I did it out of malice to him to which I answere that it were strange I should put my safetie into the hands of the Irish onely to doe him a prejudice who I knew durst not affront me not any man that durst strike a knowne Coward unlesse I did intend to become one of the Irish partie which sure now I shall not be suspected for s●eing I have put on a resolution to follow the warre against the Irishe whereunto my selfe and the rest of the Officers here have been induced by the certaine knowledge of their designes being no losse then to extirpate all the Protestant and their Religion and give this Kingdoms into the hands of another Prince who they thinke betten able to assist them against the Parliament then the King of England is Sir we have made this knowne to the King and the world in a large Declaration but we feare that the same instruments that gained such trust for the Irish as that the King condescended to leave this in their power supposing them to be more faithfull to him then that they would doe any such thing will also prevaile to make him discredit our Declaration and disapprove of our proceedings which yet shall appeare to be effectuall for his service But because we knew that his Majestie by reason of the Parliaments strength at sea could not assist us we have applyed our selves to the Parliament also desiring their Assistance against the Irish and have besought both King and Parliament that they would from the knowledge of their treacheries take a rise to beget such an Accommodation as that by their joynt consent this warre might be followed and that in England may surcease I know not what effects this may produce for the good of that Kingdome But I know we shall have large supplies here and good pay for 10000. horse and foot to keepe the field and that it may be an incouragement for our old friends to come over to us againe the Parliament doe undertake to pay the Arreares due unto all the Officers and us in so much Adventure besides which there is no doubt if God make us vanquishers but deserving 01 men will have estates conferred on them in the end of this as it was in the end of the last warres I meane Tyrones warres of Ireland I should thinke it a great happinesse that I might have your Assistance in this businesse promising you that if it lie in my power your condition shall be one of the Chiefe in the Armie but I know your Noblenesse and Uprightnesse to be such as that I shall offer nothing as an inducement to you but that here you may fight in a Cause which first is Gods owne then that we fight against those who are Papists and Rebels and who we know to be enemies to the King and our Religion And lastly I would desire you to consider that if the King should get the upper hand with the help of these men whether it be likely that it will be in his power to establish the Protestant Religion if you think fit to come you must not make knowne your Resolution till you see how the King approves of our Declaration But if that be not come to his hands I would advise you to come without the knowledge of any but such as you thinke will come with you to Milford Haven where the Parliament shipping will receive you and transport hither any that desire to come I pray God direct you for the best which is heartily wished by Sir Your most affectionate Friend and Servant Inchiquin FINIS