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<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>royal blazon or coat of arms</FIGDESC>
<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
</FIGURE>&para;By the Lords Iu&s;tices and Councell.</HEAD>
<OPENER>VV. Par&s;ons. Io. Borla&s;e.</OPENER>
<P>_WHereas many malignant and divelli&s;h Papi&s;ts, and Ie&s;uits, Friars, Seminary prfe&s;ts,
and other &s;uper&s;titious Orders of the Popi&s;h pretended Cleargie, mo&s;t di&s;loyally,
treacherou&s;ly and wickedly con&s;pired to &s;urprize His Maje&s;ties Ca&s;tle of Dublin, his
Maje&s;ties principall Fort in this Kingdome, the Citie of Dublin, and all other Cit|ties
and Fortifications in this Realm, to ma&s;&s;acre Vs the Lords Iu&s;tices and Coun|cell,
to de&s;troy and roote out all the Prote&s;tant Britti&s;h, and all other Prote&s;tants in
this Realm; and finally, to deprive His Maje&s;tie of this His antient and rightfull
Crowne, and Soveraignty of this Kingdome, and to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them&s;elves thereof, all
which was by the &s;aid Con&s;pirators plotted, and intended to be acted on the 23. day
of October in the yeare of our Lord God 1641. A Con&s;piracie &s;o inhumane, barba|rous
and cruell, as the like was never before heard of in any age or Kingdome, and
if it had taken effect in that fulne&s;&s;e which was intended by the Con&s;pirators, it had
occa&s;ioned the utter ruine of this whole Kingdome, and the Governement thereof.</P>
<P>And how&s;oever it plea&s;ed Almighty God in his un&s;earchable Wi&s;edome and Iu|&s;tice,
as a ju&s;t puni&s;hment and de&s;erved correction to us for our &s;innes, and the &s;ins of this Nation, to permit then,
and afterwards, the effecting of a great part of that de&s;truction complotted by tho&s;e wicked Con&s;pirators, whereby
many thou&s;and Britti&s;h and Prote&s;tants have been ma&s;&s;acred, many thou&s;ands of others of them have been affli|cted
and tormented, with the mo&s;t exqui&s;it torments that the malice of the Divell could &s;ugge&s;t to the mi&s;chievous
Rebells, and all mens e&s;tates (a&s;well tho&s;e whom they trayterou&s;ly &s;lue, as all others) are utterly wa&s;ted, ruined,
and de&s;troyed, yet as his Divine Maje&s;tie hath in all ages &s;hewen his power and mercy in the miraculous and gra|cious
Deliverance of his Church, and in the protection of Religious Kings and States, &s;o even in the mid&s;t of his
Iu&s;tice, he was graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to extend mercie to His Maje&s;tie, and to this His Kingdome and good Sub|jects
therein, not onely in miraculou&s;ly di&s;covering to Vs the Lords Iu&s;tices, that hideous and bloudy Trea&s;on, not
many houres before the appointed time for the execution thereof, but al&s;o in pre&s;erving the &s;aid Ca&s;tle and Cittie of
Dublin, and &s;ome other Citties, Townes and Ca&s;tles in the Kingdome, from the bloudy hands of the barbarous
Con&s;pirators, as al&s;o in thereby rendring Deliverance to the Lives of Vs the Lords Iu&s;tices and Councell, and of
all the Britti&s;h and Prote&s;tants in Dublin, and in the &s;aid other Citties, Townes, and Ca&s;tles pre&s;erved, and of
&s;undry other Britti&s;h and Prote&s;tants, falne even into the hands of tho&s;e Rebellious Con&s;pirators, and likewi&s;e in
&s;ending Vs &s;uccours, (whereby with Gods ble&s;&s;ing) We have hitherto continued &s;afe under his mighty protection,
notwith&s;tanding the unexampled rage and implacable fury and malice of tho&s;e mercile&s;&s;e enemies of Gods truth.</P>
<P>Wherefore as We doe mo&s;t humbly and ju&s;tly acknowledge Gods Iu&s;tice in Our de&s;erved puni&s;hments, in tho&s;e ca|lamities
which from the Councells and actions of tho&s;e Con&s;pirators &amp; their Adherents, are falne upon Vs, and this
Nation in generall, &s;o We doe in like manner acknowledge, that even in exerci&s;ing of that his Iu&s;tice, he remembred
mercie al&s;o, and magnified his mercie to Vs, in tho&s;e great ble&s;&s;ings which We humbly confe&s;&s;e to have proceeded
meerely from his infinite goodne&s;&s;e and mercy, and therefore to his mo&s;t holy Name We doe a&s;cribe all Honor, Glo|ry
and Prai&s;e: And to the end this unfained thankfulne&s;&s;e may never be forgotten, but may be had in a perpetuall
Remembrance, that all ages to come may yeeld prai&s;es to his Divine Maje&s;tie for the &s;ame, and have in memorie
<HI>This joyfull day of Deliverance.</HI> We doe ordaine and e&s;tabli&s;h by this Our Act of Councell (in the meane time untill
by Authority of Parliament it &s;hall be made a Law to be delivered over to po&s;terity) that all and &s;ingular Mini&s;ters
in every Cathedrall and Pari&s;h Church, or other u&s;uall place for Common Prayer within this Realme of Ireland,
&s;hall alwayes upon the 23. day of October &s;ay Morning Prayer, and give Thankes unto Almighty God for
this mo&s;t happy and miraculous Deliverance, and for our pre&s;ervation hitherto, farre above the expectation of
tho&s;e wretched Con&s;pirators. And that all, and every per&s;on and per&s;ons, inhabiting within this Realme of Ire|land,
&s;hall alwayes upon that day diligently and faithfully re&s;ort to the Pari&s;h Church or Chappell accu&s;tomed, or to
&s;ome u&s;uall Church or Chappell where the &s;aid Morning Prayer, Preaching, or other &s;ervice of God &s;hall be u&s;ed,
and then and there to abide orderly and &s;oberly during the time of the &s;aid Prayers, Preaching, or other &s;ervice of
God there to be u&s;ed and mini&s;tred.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e all and every per&s;on may be put in mind of his duty, and be then better prepared to the &s;aid holy &s;er|vice:
We doe ordaine and e&s;tabli&s;h by this Our Act of Councell, that every Mini&s;ter &s;hall give warning to his Pa|ri&s;hioners
publiquely in the Church at Morning Prayer, the Sunday before every &s;uch 23. day of October for the
due ob&s;ervation of the &s;aid day. And that after Morning Prayer, and Preaching upon the &s;aid 23. day of October,
they reade publiquely, di&s;tinctly and plainely this Our Act of Councell. </P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at His Maje&s;ties Ca&s;tle of Dublin <DATE>the 14.
day of October. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Ormond.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ad. Loftus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Geo. Shurley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gerrard Lowther.</ITEM>
<ITEM>I. Temple.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho. Rotherham.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Willoughby.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ia. Ware.</ITEM>
<ITEM>G. Wentworth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rob. Meredith.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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