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A46023 A declaration of the General Convention of Ireland with the proceeding there : newly brought over by a gentleman to the Council of State in England. Ireland. General Convention. 1660 (1660) Wing I381; ESTC R28724 7,549 16

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A DECLARATION OF THE General Convention OF IRELAND WITH The late proceedings there Newly brought over by a Gentleman to the COUNCIL OF STATE IN ENGLAND LONDON Printed for Henry Crips in Popes-head Alley 1660. A DECLARATION OF THE General Convention OF IRELAND WHereas the high extremities of Ireland necessarily requiring it this General Convention is assembled to consider of and apply remedies to redeem the Nation from those extremities And whereas it is visible to all the Kingdoms and Nations throughout Christendom and most lamentably felt by the three Nations of England Ireland and Scotland that the horrid violence offered to the authority and dignity of the Parliament of England in December 1648. did let in all the miseries and calamities in Church and State which have ever since afflicted and distracted these Nations and have plunged them in a gulf of sorrows and confusion under which they have long suffered and that not without secret designs and great endeavors utterly to extinguish the true reformed Protestant Religion to eradicate Parliaments to subvert the fundamental Laws of the Land to take away the Rights Liberties Freedom and Propertyes of the people and to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government over these Nations And whereas the just consideration of those sad confusion brought upon these Nations moved the Council of Officers of the Army in Ireland by their Declaration Dated the sixteenth day of February 1659. to Declare for a Full and Free Parliament in England wherein they have since had the General concurrence of all the Army in Ireland This General Convention doth not only approve of the said Declaration of the Council of Officers of the Army but doth also Declare that this Nation is resolved by the blessing of God to joyn with the said Council of Officers Army in Ireland and with their brethren in England and Scotland who have joyned or shall joyn for the accomplishment of the good and publick ends therein expressed and to con●ribute cheerfully and readily to the charges requisite thereunto by all good and Lawful ways hoping by the mercy of God to be no less prosperous in this undertaking then the cause is just And whereas after the said Declaration of the Council of Officers of the Army in Ireland and since the assembling of this Convention there came advertisement of the sitting of the late excluded Members at Westminster for which this General Convention doth most humbly and thankfully acknowledg the great and extraordinary Providence of God his Mercies therein to these Nations And doth Declare that this Nation doth Resolve by the blessing of God constantly to adhere to the present Parliament and future Parliaments of England in the preservation of them in Fulness and Freedom And this Convention doth also Declare and assert that as for several hundreds of years last past by the Laws and laudable Custom and constitution of this Narion Parliaments have been usually held in Ireland and that in those Parliaments Laws have been Enacted and Laws repealed and Subsidyes granted as the publick occasions required So that Right of having Parliaments held in Ireland is still justly and Lawfully due and belonging to Ireland and that the Parliament of England never charged Ireland in any Age with any Subsidyes or other publick Taxes or Assesments until after the violence offered to the Parliament of England in December 1648. since which time they who invaded he Rights of the Parliaments of England Invaded also the Rights of the Parliament of Ireland by imposing Taxes and Assesments upon Ireland And because some of those who have been instrumental in drawing on and increa●ng the Miseries Calamities and Desolations of these Nations particularly the late Lt Gen. Edmond Ludlow Col. John Jones Miles Corbet Esq and Col. Matthew Thomlinson and others of turbulent spirits have laboured and do labour to asperse this Nation falsly and scandalously as if the people of Ireland did by their necessitated proceedings intend to divide or separate from England Therefore this Convention for vindicating this Nation from that fowl and unjust calumny and aspersion and for satisfaction as wel of our brethren in England as of all the World doth surther Declare That the People of Ireland are so far from designing or intending to divide or separate from England as that they conclude such a Division or Separation would be absolutely destructive to the Nation and is that then which there is nothing that Ireland more abhorres they being Generally bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh and therefore that they do Resolve by the Mercy of God for ever to adhere to England as that Nation which hath derived to Ireland such and so great Comforts Benefits and Advantages and all in so high a degree as the welfare and Interests of England and Ireland are so infeparably interwoven as the good or evil of either must necessarily become common to both And this Convention doth also Declare That they will use their best endeavor that a Pious Learned and Orthodox Preaching Ministry of the Gospel and no other may be setled throughout Ireland and that only in a Parochial way and encouraged and supported by Tythes and other Legal maintainance and Universities and Schools of Learning countenanced and cherished And that all Arrears of the Army as well those due to such as have been Officers or Soldiers of the Army of Ireland before the fifth of June 1649. as those since may be satisfied And that all the Estates and Interests of all Adventures their Heirs and Assign's who by virtue of the Act of 17. Carol fot satisfaction of Adventurers have had forfeited Lands assigned to them by Lot and possessed by them accordingly may be confirmed to them and that care be had for the just satisfaction of Adventurers who have not yet had satisfaction pursuant to the said Act and that such Officers and Soldiers as are or have been of the army in Ireland heirs their Executors administrators and assigns and have had forfeited Lands ordered or set forth unto them and possessed by them accordingly may have the same confirmed to them And this General Convention having discharged their duty herein to God and to their Country do in the greatest humility Implore almighty God so to guide and dispose all things as may tend to the Glory of his Name the advancement of the true Reformed Protestant Religion and the Unity Peace and Tranquility of the three Nations of England Ireland and Scotland Dated at Dublin the 8. of March 1659. Mat. Barry Clerk of the General Convention of Ireland The 12. of March 1659. Ordered by the General Convention of Ireland that this Declarabe forthwith Printed and Published An account of the chief Occurrences of Ireland Wednesday Feb. 22. THe womb of this day no less then others was pregnant with joyfull tydings nor was there ever more reason for the whole Nation to congratulate one another with Songs of Thanksgiving there being so sweet a harmony of many prosperous