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<P>A LETTER SENT To His Maje&s;tie, From the Lords Ju&s;tices, and <HI>Councell in</HI> IRELAND, <HI>April</HI> 23. 1642.</P>
<P>Concerning His Maje&s;ties Re&s;olution to go into <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON: Printed by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;tie: And by the A&s;&s;ignes of JOHN BILL. MDCXLII.</P>
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<HEAD>23. <HI>April.</HI> 1642. &leaf; The Copie of a Letter &s;ent to His Maje&s;tie, by the Lords Ju&s;tices, and Councell in <HI>Ireland.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e Your most Excellent Majestie,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_BY Your Maje&s;ties gracious Letters of the thirteenth of this Moneth, and a Copie of Your Maje&s;ties Me&s;&s;age &s;ent lately to Your Par|liament in Your Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> (both which came to the hands of us Your Ju&s;tices, on the eighteenth of this Moneth) we ob&s;erve that Your Maje&s;tie (out of a ju&s;t &s;en&s;e of the great mi&s;eries and afflictions of Your di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Subjects in this Your Kingdom of <HI>Ire|land,</HI> occa&s;ioned by the inhumane cruelties of the Rebells here; And out of Your tender and graci|ous care of Your good Subjects on this &s;ide, hath firmely re&s;olved (by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of Almighty
<PB N="2" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 3 -->God) with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed to make a Journey hither, in Your own Royall per&s;on, for the full and finall &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of this Rebellion.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e Letters and Me&s;&s;age we Your Maje|&s;ties Ju&s;tices then immediately communicated with the Councell, as we alwayes do all matters of Importance concerning Your Maje&s;ties Ser|vices; And cau&s;ed the Copy &s;ent us of Your Me&s;|&s;age to Your Parliament in England to be Prin|ted here; &s;o to make known here Your Maje&s;ties gracious purpo&s;e, as You commanded us.</P>
<P>And we all joyntly do humbly be&s;eech your Maje&s;tie to give us leave to ca&s;t our&s;elves at your Maje&s;ties feet, and (with the Duty and Loyalty of faithfull Subjects) mo&s;t humbly and thankfully to acknowledge to Your Sacred Maje&s;tie, as well Your continued Grace and Goodne&s;&s;e, upon all occa&s;ions expre&s;&s;ed to this Your Kingdom, and all Your Subjects therein; and among&s;t them, even tho&s;e wretched Rebels them&s;elves hereto|fore, when they &s;tood in the condition of good Subjects, though they want the gratitude to be &s;en&s;ible of it; as particularly, this high addition of Your Maje&s;ties gracious favour to us, in not &s;paring the pains, or hazard even of Your own
<PB N="3" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 3 -->Royall Per&s;on, for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of this hide|ous Rebellion, and puni&s;hment of the&s;e ungrate|full and treacherous Rebels, who are thus un|naturally ri&s;en in Arms again&s;t Your Maje&s;tie, Expre&s;&s;ed &s;uch unparalleled hatred and dete|&s;tation again&s;t Your Government and Nation, Spilt (unprovoked) the blood of &s;o many thou|&s;ands of Your faithfull and innocent Subjects, De&s;troyed the E&s;tates of all the Briti&s;h and Pro|te&s;tants in the Kingdom, And (which is above all) as appears by &s;everall examinations, and ma|ny other concurring Circum&s;tances here, not|with&s;tanding all their fal&s;e and feigned Preten|ces to di&s;gui&s;e their wicked and traiterous pur|po&s;es, aimed finally at no le&s;&s;e (which we trem|ble to write, and cannot think without horrour and a&s;toni&s;hment at their Impiety) then even to deprive You of Your Royall Crown and Dig|nity, and to place over them &s;ome of them&s;elves, or &s;ome Forreign Prince, and &s;o altogether to &s;hake off the Engli&s;h Government.</P>
<P>Wherefore we cannot but rejoyce (even in the midde&s;t of our pre&s;ent Calamities) to hear Your Maje&s;ties Princely purpo&s;e to take ju&s;t vengeance on them, for vindicating your Ho|nour,
<PB N="4" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 4 -->revenging the blood and de&s;truction of &s;o many of Your faithfull Subjects, and &s;ecuring the fu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ure Safetie of Your Crowns and King|doms.</P>
<P>And as we do thus joyfully apprehend the happine&s;&s;e we are to enjoy by tho&s;e your Maje|&s;ties Royall purpo&s;es, &s;o we hold it agreeable with the duty of us Your loyall Subjects and faithfull Servants, whom You have advanced to the Honour to &s;erve You as Councellours to You in this Your Kingdom, humbly to repre&s;ent to Your Maje&s;tie upon this occa&s;ion the pre&s;ent e&s;tate of Your affairs here, and the condition wherein this Kingdom &s;tands, which we have done by our Letters now &s;ent to Ma&s;ter Secreta|rie <HI>Nicholas,</HI> to be made known to your Maje&s;ty, that &s;o your Maje&s;tie under&s;tanding them, may on that &s;ide provide for &s;upplying our defects here, and rendering &s;afety to Your own Royall Per&s;on again&s;t the&s;e bloody Rebels, as your Ma|je&s;tie in Your Excellent judgement &s;hall think fit; whereby You may (to the comfort of Your good Subjects, and terrour of Your Enemies) appear in this Kingdom, in that Maje&s;tie which is &s;utable to the Greatne&s;&s;e and Wi&s;dom of &s;o
<PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 4 -->Mightie a King as God hath appointed You, whom we pray God to Ble&s;&s;e and Pro&s;per with length of dayes, and a happie and ble&s;&s;ed Go|vernment over this and all other Your King|doms and Dominions, to the Glory of God, the Honour of your Maie&s;tie, and the Joy and Comfort of all Your Subjects, and among&s;t them of us,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From Your Maje&s;ties Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin,</HI> <DATE>23. April 1642.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Your Maje&s;ties mo&s;t loyall and mo&s;t faithfull Subjects and Servants.</HI> Sub&s;cribed by
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<ITEM>Sir William Par&s;ons</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir Jo. Borla&s;e</ITEM>
</LIST> Ju&s;tices.</ITEM>
<ITEM>E. of Ormond O&s;&s;ory.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord Ro. Digby.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir Th Rotherham.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir Jo. Temple.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir Fra. Willoughby.</ITEM>
<ITEM>E. of Ro&s;comon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord Cha. Lambert.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir Ad. Loftus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir Ja.Ware.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir G. Wentworth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir Rob. Meredith.</ITEM>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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