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<P>THE DECLARATION AND INGAGEMENT OF THE PROTESTANT ARMY <HI>In the Province of Moun&s;ter.</HI> Under the Command of the Right Honourable the Lord Baron of <HI>Inchiquin.</HI></P>
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<P>Printed at <HI>Cork,</HI> and re-Printed at <HI>London</HI> in the Year, 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>The Declaration of the Prote&s;tant Army in the Province of <HI>Moun&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WE have formerly te&s;tified unto the World by our con&s;tant &s;ufferings in this Cau&s;e, and &s;edulous indeavours in the &s;ervice, how firmely we &s;tood devoted to the obedience of the KING and Parliament in the pro&s;ecution of the Common Enemy, again&s;t whom, the &s;everall &s;ucce&s;&s;es wherewith our weake Attempts have been &s;econded, hath as well te&s;ti|fied the divine Providence over us, as attracted the approbation of men upon our actions, untill a growing party of <HI>Independency</HI> &s;prung up in the Hou&s;es and Army; who finding an unaptne&s;&s;e in us to receive the impre&s;&s;ion of their de&s;ignes, have on that con&s;ideration contrived our &s;ubver&s;ion. In order whereunto they had no &s;ooner prevailed to place the Lord <HI>Li&s;le</HI> in the Lieutenancy of this Kingdome, but in &s;hort time there was advanced 180000. pound for the &s;ervice thereof; a &s;umme &s;o con&s;iderable, that had it been effectually imployed to the u&s;e where|unto it was de&s;igned, might have reduced mo&s;t of this Kingdome to Obedience; but 10. Moneths of 12. being &s;pent on Preparations, and the moneyes detained, le&s;t it &s;hould come to our unconfiding hands, whil&s;t our Souldiers &s;tarved in the &s;treets; the Lord <HI>Li&s;le</HI> in <HI>February</HI> 1646. arrives with 25000. l. of the afore&s;aid &s;umme, which, with the whole Contribution of the Country was exhau&s;ted in eight weeks &s;pace, 5000. l. in money, and a few provi&s;ions only excepted; the only &s;ervi|ces performed by the expence of &s;o much trea&s;ure were the taking of <HI>Corke, Kin&s;ale'</HI> and <HI>Youghall</HI> out of tho&s;e hands who had long and faith|fully held them for the &s;ervice of the KING and Parliament, and placing in them confidents of their own, to &s;ecure unto them&s;elves their owne re&s;olutions, which were &s;o fixed upon the &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of both KING and Parliament, as that they endeavoured to po&s;tpone a Commi&s;&s;ion (from both) under the true broad Seale of <HI>England</HI> to a paper-warrant of their own, and howbeit to give Countenance and enforce obedience to that new contrived Authority they had drawn the head Garri&s;on in|to Armes, loaden their Mu&s;quets with Powder and Ball, &s;hut up the Portes and drawn in part of the Lord <HI>Brohels</HI> Regiment of Hor&s;e to the Lord Pre&s;idents door, yet finding the Officers generally (a few particu|larly
<PB N="2" REF="3">obliged per&s;ons only excepted) to adhere unto the Parliaments authority in the Lord Pre&s;idents per&s;on, and nothing moved with their apparition of force, they de&s;i&s;ted from further pro&s;ecution of that de|&s;igne, and departed the Kingdome, giving te&s;timony of the good affe|ctions they had for the &s;ervice thereof upon their landing, by labouring to foment a Petition among&s;t the Hor&s;e Forces then lying ready at the water-&s;ide to imbarke for this Province, whereby they de&s;ired to decline this Service, unle&s;&s;e under the command of &s;ome of their Faction. But that (with many other) provoking too weake a practice to accele|rate our ruine, they labour to retard or divert all Supplyes for the car|rying on this War; For the better accompli&s;hing whereof it hath been &s;ugge&s;ted; That the wants of this Army are not &s;o great as they are frequently repre&s;ented, but that here is a competency upon the place to &s;upport us; though to take away that &s;uppo&s;ition (being of &s;omewhat a long &s;tanding) it hath been often mo&s;t earne&s;tly de&s;ired that a Com|mittee might be &s;ent over to improve what&s;oever may ari&s;e upon the place, and di&s;po&s;e of what &s;hall be tran&s;mitted thence: But as there is a &s;ugge&s;ted &s;ufficiency of meanes, &s;o there is a &s;uppo&s;ed deficiency in the Officers which mu&s;t give ground to deteine all &s;upplyes, till they can be &s;ent by &s;uch as have &s;ufficient prejudice to this Army. As a practice to this purpo&s;e we mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily looke upon the indeavour u&s;ed by &s;ome <HI>Independents,</HI> to take off the Reputation of our late Ingagements with the Rebels at <HI>Knocknono&s;&s;e,</HI> calling it (on the open Exchange) a Pro|ject to draw on the Adventurers (then convening to advance moneys for our reliefe) and for the greater di&s;paragement of the action, &s;ub|&s;tracting from the numbers of the Rebels, both alive and &s;laine, le&s;t the con&s;iderablene&s;&s;e of the Service &s;hould induce any proportionable re|liefe, which the Hou&s;es did not with more alacrity grant, then others la|boured to retard; It could not otherwi&s;e be that of 10000. l. Voted &s;o long &s;ince, and re-Voted on the adverti&s;ement of that action, there &s;hould be only 2500. l. advanced and remitted, or that of the Ordinance for 20000. l. <HI>per Men&s;.</HI> Voted four moneths &s;ince, &amp; to continue but for &s;ix. We &s;hould yet find no effect, the pa&s;&s;ing of which Ordinance did not more comfort us with the contemplation of a &s;etled competency, then with an expectation that the leavies made for us di&s;tingui&s;hed from any mitxure with other taxations, would come cleerly and intirely to us without the accu&s;tomed mi&s;application, whereby the relief of <HI>Ireland</HI> was made but a &s;tale to collect great &s;ummes by for other u&s;es; It be|ing generally ob&s;erveable, and many of us eye-witne&s;&s;es thereof, that the Impo&s;itions laid in City and Country for the relief of this di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Kingdom, were payd in with the greate&s;t alacrity and readine&s;&s;e of any
<PB N="3" REF="3">other taxes, which occa&s;ioned the name of our reliefe to be inter woven in all a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ements.</P>
<P>We doubt not but many will be ready to object an impo&s;&s;ibility that any man can be &s;o unchri&s;tian to ob&s;truct or divert the &s;upplies of this bleeding Kingdom, to the &s;upport whereof all &s;o highly pretend; And yet the detaining mo&s;t part of the traine of Artillery with its Car|riages and Utencils, for which the Lord <HI>Li&s;les</HI> accompt &s;tands charged with above 12000. l. and for tran&s;porting whereof 1000. was impre|&s;ted to Sir <HI>John Veale,</HI> could not hate pa&s;&s;ed with impunity if &s;ome did not contrive the retarding the worke of <HI>Ireland;</HI> The reproachfull u&s;age of tho&s;e Gentlemen who in Conformity to the Ordinance of Par|liament disbanded and &s;ub&s;cribed for the &s;ervice of <HI>Ireland;</HI> The &s;uffe|ring of many men de&s;irous to come for <HI>Ireland</HI> to lye upon free-quarter in the We&s;t, till they had eaten as much as would have maintained them here a twelvemoneth, and were at la&s;t disbanded; The &s;trict cour&s;e taken (by the interpo&s;ition of &s;ome particular per&s;ons) to deprive us of all hope of reliefe from the &s;hipping, by reprizals taken at Sea upon our Coa&s;ts &amp; even in our Harbours-mouthes (an expedient that hath former|ly often pre&s;erved us in our greate&s;t Exigencies) &s;avoureth of no meane indeavours to retard the reliefe of <HI>Ireland;</HI> And the words of a power|full Member of the Army, to a late &s;ervant of the Lord <HI>Li&s;les</HI> declaring our &s;tarving condition for want of food and rayment, (<HI>That if we in</HI> Mun&s;ter <HI>were not poor enough, they would make us &s;o</HI>) have been in a great mea&s;ure verified; But we do the le&s;&s;e wonder that it &s;hould be their indeavour to make us &s;o, when we con&s;ider the arguments rai&s;ed by Col: <HI>Lambert</HI> and others of the Army, again&s;t the Ju&s;tice and lawful|ne&s;&s;e of this War on our parts, and ju&s;tifying the actions of the Rebels; It having been avouched to &s;ome of our Faces, that the <HI>Engli&s;h intere&s;t were better in the hands of the Rebels then in ours;</HI> And there has not been wanting tho&s;e of the Lord <HI>Li&s;les</HI> owne retinue, who have openly profe&s;|&s;ed <HI>that they made no di&s;tinction betwixt the Rebels and tho&s;e of the Prote|&s;tant party, which they found upon the place,</HI> his Lord&s;hips dome&s;tique Chappellane at the &s;ame time diffu&s;ing words of the &s;ame &s;ence in the Pulpit, whiles other Orthodox Divines were not admitted to preach. But we &s;hall &s;umme up all their practi&s;es to ob&s;truct our relief, in this one in&s;tance of their late &s;eizure upon the moneyes brought in upon the Ordinance of 20000. l. <HI>per Men&s;.</HI> and taking the &s;ame out of the hands of our Trea&s;urers; &s;o as that it may be feared, That to have the War fini&s;hed here before the perfection of their de&s;ignes in <HI>England,</HI> would prove to them the greate&s;t di&s;-&s;atisfaction in the world, by means whereof many of our poor Souldiers have been aready &s;wept into a mi|&s;erable
<PB N="4" REF="4">mi&s;erable Grave; for who&s;e lives, as the&s;e men &s;tand ju&s;tly accomptable, &s;o will it be difficult for them to be freed of the guilt of all that blood which hath been &s;hed in the &s;ervice, which, but for their practices had been long agoe foreclo&s;ed.</P>
<P>And yet their confidence is remarkable; for though the&s;e things have been vi&s;ibly practi&s;ed in our eyes, yet we finde the cry rai&s;ed aloud a|gain&s;t the KING, the eleven Members involving the Lord Pre&s;ident for ob&s;tructing the war of <HI>Ireland;</HI> and the <HI>Independents</HI> putting on as &s;ober countenances, as if their hands were innocent of our blood, and that it were ju&s;t that they &s;hould pa&s;&s;e by plau&s;ibly unblameable; And for this end they make that Criminall in &s;ome, that they allow to be commen|dable in others; If we importune Relief, declare again&s;t Innovations in Government, profe&s;&s;e a readine&s;&s;e to &s;erve and obey the Parliament, we mu&s;t at lea&s;t &s;ue forth an Act of Indempnity, and it is held for a &s;peciall lenity that two of our Officers were not executed on that &s;core; But if the Army in <HI>England</HI> refu&s;e to disband at the appointment of an Ordi|nance of Parliament, or to obey the major Votes of the Hou&s;es, and march up to the City of <HI>London</HI> with Banners di&s;played, it &s;hall not on|ly be approved, but made penall to us, or any other that dare mention it with di&s;like, though as being <HI>Engli&s;h-men</HI> and Subjects, we e&s;teeme our intere&s;t and propriety in the Law of the Land, and liberty of the Subject proportionably as good as theirs.</P>
<P>Though the&s;e their private practices were &s;ufficiently notorious unto us, yet we were re&s;olved to &s;truggle with all difficulties, &amp; to maintain the Prote&s;tant intere&s;t in the&s;e parts &s;ucce&s;&s;ively to the la&s;t man, rather then by any Ce&s;&s;ation with the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> or otherwi&s;e to give a jealou&s;ie of for|feiting the lea&s;t tru&s;t which was impo&s;ed in us by that authority which imlpoyed us hither; while they continued in the Government we would not decline our obedience for the greate&s;t hard&s;hips; But now at la&s;t di&s;covering the Re&s;olutions of our Adver&s;aries to ca&s;t off all obligati|ons both to KING and Parliament, rather then to faile in their intend|ments, We conceive we are obliged by the Law of God and of the Kingdome not to a&s;&s;ent unto their requirements whom Power, not Ju&s;tice hath &s;eated in tho&s;e places of Authority; It is, &amp; was ever a main Principle whereon all our Re&s;olutions were grounded to contend for the &s;afety of His MAJESTIES Per&s;on &amp; Prerogative, for the freedom and priviledge of Parliament, and liberty of the Subject, as they were interwoven and had a cleere and mutuall Dependency each upon other: And it was long before we could entertaine any &s;u&s;pition of a de&s;igne to engage us further, untill the practice of the <HI>Independents</HI> party grew more obnoxious, and that we &s;aw His MAJESTY in effect depo&s;ed,
<PB N="5" REF="4">made Pri&s;oner to the clo&s;e&s;t confinement: The freedome of the Parliament highly invaded, and their inclination and a&s;&s;ent to a per&s;onall Treaty with His MAJESTY (the onely expedient of a happy Peace) made fru&s;trate by the over-powering awe of the Army; the Liberty of the Subject, and Pro|priety of Intere&s;t totally &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, and all other the genuine Immunities of that once glorious Nation, made arbitrary at the plea&s;ure and determination of the Armies dictations: And though while the&s;e things were in our eye and ob&s;ervation, we had &s;till quiet de&s;ires of &s;itting &s;ilent, and intent upon our own engagement here, and the Pro&s;ecution and conduct of our charge in this Kingdome, yet we came at la&s;t to di&s;cerne, that if we would no be in|volved and ingaged in the &s;ame practi&s;es with tho&s;e who were re&s;olved to trample under foot, the &s;ubject matter of our Nationall League, that we &s;hould be made partakers of their ruine, whom he had &s;worn to &s;upport; of which be&s;ides other evidences, we had that &s;ignall Te&s;timony of the <HI>Vice-Ad|miralls</HI> demand (in this Armies ab&s;ence in the field) of certaine per&s;ons com|mitted to clo&s;e cu&s;tody for contriving the Armies ruine, of his blocking up our Harbours thereupon, and meanacing us with a Declaration of being enemies to the State, and with the acce&s;&s;e of great Powers to &s;uppre&s;&s;e and &s;uddenly &s;wallow us up (though nothing con&s;iderable in twelve moneths &s;pace came to &s;upport the war again&s;t the Rebells) unle&s;&s;e we did declare for tho&s;e who acted contrary to our and their own engagements, of &s;educing &amp; encouraging our fugitive &amp; mutinous Souldiers abroad, for the accompli&s;hing the mo&s;t wicked end of nece&s;&s;itating us, to &s;ubmit to famine or Ce&s;&s;ation with the <HI>Iri&s;h:</HI> All which we could not imagine he would pre&s;ume to act, without direction and authority from that part of the Parliament which is &s;oly guided by the plea&s;ure of the Army, (for the doing whereof he now a|voucheth Authority at the &s;ame time, that the Committee at <HI>Derby</HI> hou&s;e a&s;&s;ures us of the Hou&s;es confidence in our integrity;) And did therefore e|&s;teeme it ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary, at a generall Rendezvous upon our return out of the field, to declare and manife&s;t our Intentions and Re&s;olutions to the Souldiery, as well to give them a cleer under&s;tanding of our intendments, as to confirme them again&s;t the practi&s;es of &s;educers, again&s;t who&s;e charmes we re&s;olve to arme our &s;elves with the&s;e en&s;uing re&s;olutions. That we will not be involved by Con&s;ent or Cooperation in any Actions which &s;hall tend to the violation of our publick engagements to the KING and Parliament, nor pro&s;trate our &s;elves to a mi&s;guidance with tho&s;e, who (with grief of heart) we ob&s;erve to be under the coercive inforcement of the <HI>Independent</HI> Power, from which, as we &s;hall labour to re&s;tore them to their proper freedome, &s;o we &s;hall not during their continuance under the&s;e Pre&s;&s;ures, e&s;teeme our &s;elves obliged to the Ob&s;ervance of any Injunctions, which by the u&s;urped Autho|rity of the <HI>Independents</HI> they &s;hall labour to lay upon us, under the Notion of Parliament, but the en&s;uing Prote&s;tation do declare,</P>
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<P>Fir&s;t, to improve our utmo&s;t endeavours for the Settlement of the Prote|&s;tant Religion according to the example of the be&s;t Reformed Churches.</P>
<P>Secondly, to defend the KING in his Prerogatives.</P>
<P>Thirdly, to maintaine the Priviledges and freedome of the Parliament and the Liberty of the Subject.</P>
<P>And that in Order hereunto we &s;hall oppo&s;e to the hazard of our lives, tho&s;e Rebells of this Kingdome, who &s;hall refu&s;e their Obedience to His MAJESTY upon what termes &s;oever He &s;hall think fit to require it.</P>
<P>And we &s;hall endeavour to the utmo&s;t the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of that <HI>Independent</HI> Party, who have thus fiercely laboured the Extirpation of the true Prote&s;tant Religion, the ruine of our PRINCE, the di&s;honour of our Parliament, and the Va&s;&s;alidg of our Fellow-Subjects, again&s;t all tho&s;e who &s;hall depend upon them, or adhere unto them.</P>
<P>And (that this our undertaking might not appear obnoxious to the trade of <HI>England,</HI> but that we de&s;ire a firme union and agreement be pre&s;erved be|twixt us) We doe likewi&s;e declare, that we will continue free traffique and commerce with all His MAJESTIES good Subjects of <HI>England:</HI> And that we will not in the lea&s;t manner prejudice any of them that &s;hall have recour&s;e to our Harbours, either in their bodies, &s;hips, or goods, nor &s;hall we take any thing from them without payment of ready money for the &s;ame.</P>
<P>It may happily be judged by &s;ome, as an act of Imprudence, that we &s;hould take this un&s;ea&s;onable time for this Remon&s;trance, wherein the KING Him|&s;elf is in confinement, His Party nothing; the moderate party of the Hou&s;es (or mo&s;t of them) either in retirement or bani&s;hment for the pre&s;ervation of their lives, and onely tho&s;e in power and authority again&s;t who&s;e proceedings we make this our publick Prote&s;tation: All which we cannot but with much &s;orrow acknowledge to be too true, and that the&s;e inconveniencies are to be re&s;i&s;ted, but not avoyded: Had we been a&s;certained heretofore, that their intentions were (as now we finde them) to introduce an Anarchy upon us, and by the de&s;truction of the Fundamentalls of the&s;e Kingdomes to advance a Government of their own Imaginations: We had long ere this time ap|proved our duty to KING and Country by oppo&s;ing them; which in all probabilitie we might have done upon more advantagious termes, both to our per&s;ons and undertakings, had we not been drawn on in an expectation of a fair compo&s;ure of all differences as not able to di&s;cerne (beyond &s;u&s;piti|on) the cleere drift of their de&s;ignes through tho&s;e various pretences which they put upon them, till they had gained the whole power of the Kingdome into their hands: Yet the&s;e difficulties mu&s;t not be admitted into the bal|lance with Hone&s;ty; Though it may not come within the compa&s;&s;e of our abilities to &s;erve our KING and Country as we would, (which we &s;hall never decline upon the lea&s;t occa&s;ion) yet we de&s;ire to approve our integrities to both, by this manife&s;t of our Re&s;olution.</P>
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