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<P>HIS MAJESTIES <HI>MESSAGE</HI> Sent to the PARLIAMENT, <HI>Aprill,</HI> 8. 1642.</P>
<P>Concerning His Re&s;olution to go into <HI>Ireland</HI> for &s;uppre&s;&s;ing the Rebels there.</P>
<P>LONDON: <HI>Printed for JOSEPH SMITH,</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>HIS MAJESTIES Me&s;&s;age &s;ent to the Parliament <DATE>the Eighth of Aprill, 1642.</DATE></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Concerning his Re&s;olution to go into <HI>Ireland,</HI> for &s;uppre&s;&s;ing the Rebels there.</HEAD>
<P>_HIs Maje&s;ty being grieved at the very &s;oul, for the calami|ties of His good Subjects of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and being mo&s;t ten|derly &s;en&s;ible of the fal&s;e and &s;eandalous Reports di&s;per&s;ed among&s;t the people, concerning the rebellion there, which not onlywounds His Maje&s;ty in Honour, but likwi&s;e
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greatly Retards the reducing of that un|happy Kingdom, and multiplies the Di|&s;tractions at home, by weakning the mutuall confidence betwixt Him and his People: Out of his pious Zeal to the Honour of Almighty God, in e&s;ta|bli&s;hing the true prote&s;tant profe&s;&s;ion in that Kingdom, and his princely care for the good of all His Dominions, hath firmly re&s;olved with all convenient &s;peed to go into <HI>Ireland,</HI> to cha&s;ti&s;e tho&s;e wicked and dete&s;table Rebels (<HI>odious to God aad all good men</HI>) therby &s;o to &s;ettle the Peace of that Kingdom, and the &s;e|curity of this, that the very name of Fears and Jealou&s;ies may be no more heard of among&s;t us.</P>
<P>As his Maje&s;ty doubts not, but that His <HI>Parliament</HI> will cheerfully give all po&s;&s;ible a&s;&s;i&s;tance to this good work; &s;o He requires them and all His loving Sobjects to beleeve, That he &s;hall upon tho&s;e Con&s;iderations as earne&s;tly pur|&s;ue this De&s;ign (not declining any ha|zard of his per&s;on, in performing that
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Duty which he oweth to the defence of Gods true Religion, and his di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Subjects) as for the&s;e, and only the&s;e Ends he undertakes it: to the &s;incerity of which profe&s;&s;ion he cals God to wit|ne&s;&s;e, with this further a&s;&s;urance, That His Maje&s;ty will never con&s;ent (upon what&s;oever pretence) to a Toleration of the Popi&s;h profe&s;&s;ion there, or the Abo|lition of the Laws now in force again&s;t popi&s;h Recu&s;ants in that Kingdome.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty hath further thought fit to adverti&s;e his Parliament, That to|ward this Work He intends to rai&s;e forthwith by his Commi&s;&s;ions, in the Counties neer <HI>We&s;tche&s;ter,</HI> a Guard for His own per&s;on (when He &s;hall come into <HI>Ireland</HI>) con&s;i&s;ting of 2000. Foot, and 200. hor&s;e, which &s;hall be Armed at <HI>We&s;tche&s;ter</HI> from his Magazine at <HI>Hull</HI>: At which time all the Officers and Soul|diers &s;hall take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance: The charge of rai&s;ing and paving wherof His Maje&s;ty de&s;ires His <HI>Parliament</HI> to adde to their former
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Undertakings for that war which His Maie&s;tie will not only well accept; But if their Pay be found too great a Burthen to His good Subjects, His Ma|je&s;ty will be willing (by the advice of His <HI>Parliament</HI>) to &s;ell, or pawn any of His Parks, Lands, or Hou&s;e towards the &s;upplies of the Service of <HI>Jreland</HI>: with the addition of the&s;e Leavies to the for|mer of Engli&s;h and Scots agreed upon in <HI>Parliament,</HI> He hopes &s;o to appear in this Action, that (by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of Al|mighty God) in a &s;hort time that King|dome may be wholly reduced and re|&s;tored to peace, and &s;ome mea&s;ure of happine&s;&s;e. whereby he may cheereful|ly &s;eturne, to be welcomed home with the Affections and ble&s;&s;ings of all his good Engli&s;h people.</P>
<P>Toward this good work, as his Maje&s;tie hath lately made di&s;patches into <HI>Scotland,</HI> to quicken the Leavies there for <HI>Vl&s;ter,</HI> So he heartily wi&s;h|es that his Parliament here would give all po&s;&s;i| expedition to tho&s;e which they have re&s;olved for <HI>Mun&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Conaught</HI>: and hopes the encourage|ment which the Adventurers (of who&s;e intere&s;t His Maie&s;tie will be alwayes very carefull (will
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hereby receive (as likewi&s;e by the lately &s;igning of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter"> Commi&s;&s;ion for the Affairs of <HI>Ireland,</HI> to &s;uch per&s;ons for were recommended to him by both hou&s;es of Parliament) will rai&s;e full &s;ums of Money for the doing there of.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;tie hath been likewi&s;e plea&s;ed (out of of His earne&s;t de&s;ire to remove all occa&s;i|ons, which do unhappily multiply M<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;-under|&s;tandings between Him and His Parliament) to prepare a Bill ro be offered to them by His Attourney, concerning the <HI>Militia,</HI> whereby He hopes the Peace and Safety of this Kingdom may be fully &s;ecured, to the generall &s;atisfaction of all men, without violation of His Maie&s;ties iu&s;t Rights or preiudice to the Liberty of the Subiect. If this &s;hall be thankfully received; He is glad of it. If retu&s;ed; He calls God, and all the world to judge, on who&s;e part the default is: one thing his Maje&s;tie requires, (if this Bill be appro|ved of) That if any Corporation &s;hall make their lawfull Rights appeare, they may be re&s;erved to them.</P>
<P>Before his Maje&s;tie &s;hall part from <HI>England,</HI> he will take all due care to entru&s;t &s;uch per&s;ons with &s;uch authority in his ab&s;ence, as he &s;hall find to be requi&s;ite for the Peace and Safety of this Kingdom, and the happy Progre&s;&s;e of this Par|liament.</P>
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