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<P>The IRISH <HI>PAPERS,</HI> Containing the Lord <HI>Digbyes</HI> Let|ter, And the Lord <HI>Inchiquins</HI> an&s;wer, with other &s;peciall Pa&s;&s;ages of the Overtures concerning the whole de&s;igne in <HI>Ireland,</HI> The Plot of the Rebells di&s;covered: And preparations for the com|ming in of the Marqui&s;&s;e of ORMOND to the Parliament, who&s;e &s;trength in <HI>Dublin</HI> is betweene 5. and 6000. Men.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>October 1. 1646.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P><HI>The&s;e Jri&s;h Papers are appointed to bee printed, and are publi&s;hed according to Order.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>F. Leech,</HI> Anno Dom. 1646.</P>
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<HEAD>A Copy of the Lord <HI>George Digby's</HI> Letter to the Lord <HI>Inchiquine.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Have &s;everall times (While I was in <HI>England</HI>) endeavoured (though un&s;uck&s;esfully) to con|vey unto your Lord&s;hip this truth, that a|mong&s;t all the Calamitites of my Country, and misfortunes to the King my Mr. there hath not happened any thing of a more neere, and per|&s;onall affliction to mee, then the &s;eparation from his &s;ervice, and intere&s;ts a per&s;on from whom I had &s;o high a value, and particular a friend&s;hip, as for your Lord&s;hip: and upon who&s;e affection, and abillities I had founded &s;o great part of my &s;olide&s;t hopes for his Ma|je&s;ties Re&s;tauration.</P>
<P>And really (my Lord) how oppo&s;ite cour|&s;es &s;oever, we have &s;ince runne, and appeare &s;til ingaged in: I mu&s;t profe&s;&s;e that I have ever cheri&s;ht all the arguments I could po&s;sibly rai&s;e to per&s;wade my &s;elfe that either &s;ome &s;trange mi&s;take, or &s;ome de&s;perate malice of others have occa&s;ioned this &s;eparation: And that only
<PB N="5" REF="2"><!-- PDF PAGE 5 -->the impo&s;sibility of our meeting to cleere them had continued it.</P>
<P>VVherefore (my Lord) wee being now both upon a &s;ceene, where it will depend meerly upon our own wills to give our &s;elves that &s;atisfaction, concerning one anothers opi|nions, and actions, (which a much le&s;&s;e kind|ne&s;&s;e then ours was, might challenge.)</P>
<P>I &s;end this not onely to invite, but even to conjure Your Lord&s;hip, to pay that dutie to former friend&s;hip, as to agree of the place, and manner where (upon the mutuall &s;ecurity of our owne honours) I may waite upon you, and enjoy the happine&s;&s;e of an houres or twos Conference with you, from which I hope their may bee much advantage produced to the publike, and am mo&s;t a&s;&s;ured, at lea&s;t of much &s;atisfaction to our &s;elves, &s;ince certainly, either I &s;hall have &s;o much rea&s;on to worke upon you, or yours &s;o much power on mee as though not to alter my opinion in relation to the publike, yet &s;o far to inlighten me in what concernes my owne perticular, as not to let my publike engagements in the contrary way bee any longer any impedement to my re&s;u|ming
<PB N="4" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 6 -->in a private one, the affection where|with I was formerly.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord;</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t affectionate humble &s;ervant. <HI>George Digby.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">lkenny,</HI> <DATE><HI>Sept.</HI> the 2d 1646.</DATE></DATELINE> To the Right Honourable the Lord Inchequin:</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>This letter was &s;ent from Kilkenny after that the Lord Digby was come thither with the Marque&s;&s;e of Ormond, and the Forces from Dublin.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The Lord Inchequin having received this letter, by a me&s;&s;enger from the Lord Digby, peru&s;eth it, di&s;daines the perfidious traducement of it; and returnes his Lord&s;hip a plenary an&s;wer as followeth.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>The Copy of the Lord Inchequins An|&s;wer to the Lord</HI> Digbies <HI>Letter.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe place you are now in, whom I know to bee a per&s;on in whom his Maje&s;ty re|po&s;ed &s;o much tru&s;t, And the peace now con|cluded by His Maje&s;ties authority to the utter ruine (as I conceive) of all that profe&s;&s;e the Prote&s;tant Religion in this Kingdome, and &s;ubmit therunto; have evidenced to the whole
<PB N="5" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 6 -->world tho&s;e ju&s;t grounds that cau&s;ed my &s;epa|ration from that Your Lord&s;hip is plea&s;ed to call his &s;ervice, and intere&s;ts, though I a&s;&s;ure my &s;elfe it tends to the ruine of both.</P>
<P>I find Your Lord&s;hips opinion, in relation to the publike &s;o &s;etled, that I am not &s;o vaine to entertaine a hope of altering Your Lord|&s;hip by my rea&s;ons: And I am very &s;ure (though I mu&s;t acknowledge your rea&s;ons and abilities to bee great) my re&s;olutions are built upon &s;uch a foundation as can never bee moved: And therefore cannot imagine what advantage can bee derived to the publike by our per&s;onall meeting, the honour whereof J may not (for any perticular re&s;pect) allow my &s;elfe. And for the private friend&s;hip (with the mention whereof you are plea&s;ed to ho|nour me) the publique impediments being re|moved, J &s;hal be ambiti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">us to have it renued, and &s;hal al&s;o accompt it an honour to be e&s;tee|med by you,  </P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t humble &s;ervant <HI>Inchiquin.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Cork</HI><DATE> the 9th of <HI>Sept.</HI> 1646.</DATE></DATELINE> For the Lord <HI>Georg Digby;</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>But the meane while the Lord</HI> Ca&s;tle-haven <HI>in|formes the</HI> Marqui&s;&s;e <HI>of</HI> Ormond <HI>that a Plot is
<PB N="8" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 7 -->taid again&s;t him, and the Lord</HI> Digby <HI>by the old Na|live Iri&s;h, to cut them off, and that the A&s;&s;embly of the Catholike Clergy are de&s;igning to declare the &s;u|preame Coun&s;ell perjured, and to excommunicate them for concluding that peace without them. This cau&s;eth</HI> Digby <HI>and</HI> Ormond <HI>to ha&s;t back to</HI> Dublin <HI>with their forces, the</HI> Clergy <HI>of</HI> Dublin <HI>commend the worke, pray to have their Hirarchy and Booke of Common-prayer continued, But the Popi&s;h Clergy at</HI> Waterford <HI>declare the &s;upreame Coun&s;ell to be per|jured, and proceed to excommunication, &s;end out their cur&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s, and thunderbolts, &amp; re&s;olve to advance the po|pi&s;h Religion, or el&s;e to yeeld to no peace, and after ma|ny meetings, &amp; divers con&s;ultations had in that a&s;&s;em|bly, at la&s;t they re&s;olve to &s;end Propo&s;itions to the</HI> Marqui&s;&s;e <HI>of</HI> Ormond, <HI>whereunto if he wil con&s;ent then they will yeeld to a peace, el&s;e declare open Warre against the power of the King, as well as again&s;t the Parliament.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The</HI> Marqui&s;&s;e <HI>of</HI> Ormond <HI>hereupon mu&s;ters up his &s;trength in Dublin, which amount to</HI> 5. or 6000. <HI>men able to beare armes, vvhich if he will declare him|&s;elfe for the Parliament (as &s;ome hope and expect)</HI>) fre|land <HI>will (probably) be an ea&s;ier work to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> then vvas before thought on, for entertainment whereof there are preparations to &s;ome Overtures.</HI></P>
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