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<HEAD>Ireland's Declaration: Being a Remon&s;trance of the Generality of the Good People of <HI>IRELAND.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WE need not in&s;i&s;t much upon the &s;o generally known Calamities of this deplored I&s;land, by the want of, or fault in the regiment of our affairs in Church and State, &s;ince the depo&s;ing fir&s;t, and after (we wi&s;h we could not &s;ay) murther of our law|full and good King. Only, as we cannot but a&s;cribe the pa&s;t, pre&s;ent, and impending di&s;tractions in the three Nations, to the ju&s;t judgment of God upon us in general for our Trea&s;ons and Rebellions again&s;t his Annointed: So (being truly &s;en&s;ible that this Nation was fir&s;t in the wickedne&s;&s;e) we think it a duty impending us in particular, fir&s;t to endeavour the expiation of tho&s;e dreadfull crying &s;ins of Rebellion and Murther, we &s;tand &s;o hainou&s;ly guilty of, by doing penance in this &s;heet (being at pre&s;ent capable of bringing no better a Peace-offering) that &s;o we who led others to wickedne&s;&s;e, may be likewi&s;e an example and inducement to their repentance. And therefore (though briefly) mo&s;t &s;eriou&s;ly remon&s;trate.</P>
<P N="1">I. <HI>That (having duly con&s;idered the pre&s;ent &s;tate of Affairs in the three Nations; The Confu&s;ion of Church and State; The Oppre&s;&s;ion of the People in general, by the Ambition and Avarice of &s;ome in&s;atiable, a&s;piring per&s;ons that pre&s;ide us; The continual &s;lavery we have groaned under for the&s;e Nineteen years, and the vi&s;ible and more dreadful Judgements of an angry God &s;till impending, with the true Cau&s;e, and mo&s;t probable Remedies for the averting Judgement, and healing our Di|vi&s;ions, (We do from our hearts and con&s;ciences di&s;own, abhor, and deplore that wicked Murther committed upon the late King</HI> Charles <HI>under the &s;pecious pretences of Law and Con&s;cience.</HI></P>
<P N="2">II. <HI>That we do di&s;own, and will to the hazard of our lives and fortunes, oppo&s;e all Authorities what&s;oever as u&s;urp'd and &s;acrilegious, but that of King and Parliament, con&s;i&s;ting of Lords and Commons, according to the ancient fundamental, Civil and Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, Laws of this Realm.</HI></P>
<P N="3">III. <HI>That we do heartily and ab&s;olutely own</HI> Charles <HI>H. Crowned King of</HI> Scots, <HI>to be rightfully, both by the Laws of God, and the three Nations, undoubted King of</HI> England, Scotland <HI>and</HI> Ireland; <HI>And that we hold our &s;elves engaged by con&s;cience, duty, and Allegiance, not only to the utmo&s;t of our power to defend him from the violence and treachery of his Enemies, but withall to endeavour his re|&s;tauration to that Right and Enjoyment of the three Nations he is &s;o unju&s;tly debarr'd of, under the&s;e, or &s;ome other Qualifications of the like nature.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. That he &s;hall ab&s;olutely and without exception grant his gracious pardon in general to all and every of his and his Fathers enemies, as to life and Member, for all and all manner of matters and things acted or done in oppo&s;ition to his Father or him&s;elf, before his e&s;tabli&s;hment in the three Nations, be their offences or crimes of what nature &s;oever.</P>
<P N="2">2. That a rea&s;onable re&s;pect be had to the Purcha&s;ers of Crown or Church-lands, &s;o that they may not be damnified by the laying out of their purcha&s;e-money.</P>
<P N="3">3. That all the Soldiers who &s;erve under the Parliament in <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> or el&s;ewhere, may have &s;peedy &s;atisfaction for their Arrears by &s;ome way and means to be con&s;ider'd of, before the Kings Introduction, and to be &s;pecified in certain Articles to be tender'd him upon the &s;ame. That &s;o as far as may be there may be an accommodation with all per&s;ons what&s;oever.</P>
<P>And as we are fully per&s;waded that this is the only means under God left us for the healing our breaches and divi&s;ions in &s;ome mea&s;ure, re&s;toring Peace, Trade, and Plenty to this mi&s;erably di|&s;tracted and almo&s;t undone Realm, re&s;cuing the lo&s;t honour of the&s;e formerly &s;o renowned Kingdoms from reproach and infamy among the neighbour Nations, and averting the &s;o vi&s;ibly revenging hand of God: &s;o we do with all carne&s;tne&s;s po&s;&s;ible invite all tho&s;e in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> who have any &s;park of Religion, Con&s;cience, Ju&s;tice, Loyalty, Ingenuity, or common Hone&s;ty, to return with us to their Allegiance, which is the a&s;&s;erting of the <HI>Good old Cau&s;e</HI> indeed, which we fir&s;t generally declared for, but have &s;ince been bia&s;&s;ed by Ambition and Intere&s;t &s;o much to Apo&s;tatize from.</P>
<CLOSER>Con&s;ented unto, and agreed upon by many thou&s;ands of the good people and hone&s;t Soldiers of the Kingdom of <HI>IRELAND.</HI>
<DATELINE>Dublin <DATE>Tue&s;day March 13. 1649.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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