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<P><PB REF="1" MS="y"> THE DECLARATION OF His Excellency the Lord Marquis of ORMOND Lord Deputy of JRELAND, and Generall of all the Forces in that Kingdome for the KING.</P>
<P>Together with the Lord INCHEQVEENE, and all the re&s;t of the Kingdome; Concerning the Death of His Sacred MAJESTY, who was Murdered at
<HI>White-Hall, the</HI> 30. <HI>of Ianuary;</HI> By an u&s;urped Power of the COMMONS of ENGLAND, as they call them&s;elves.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e their Intentions to Crown Prince CHARLES King, and ingage in His Quarrell again&s;t ENGLAND.</P>
<P>To which is added the Rea&s;ons, which moved them to joyne with the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebels as they Call them in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Publi&s;hed by &s;peciall Command.</HI></P>
<P>Printed at <HI>Corke</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and now reprinted, 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>THE DECLARATION, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as we know and are a&s;certained of the Tragick proceedings and trea&s;onable attempts put in practice by that rebellions Army of Sectaries now in England, and the Command of Baron <HI>Fairfax,</HI> who by Martiall power and contrary to their once pro|tended principles for which they did at fir&s;t engage, which were to &s;eate their Lawfull King upon his Throne, and make him a great and glorious Prince, and not to injure His Royall Per&s;on, and likewi&s;e to maintaine and defend the Priviledges of Parliament, and liberty of the Subject, unto which engagement they were &s;worne, which Oath they have pre&s;idiou&s;ly broken by their excluding and ma|king the Major part of the hou&s;e of Commons uncapable of the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them by the re&s;pective Counties for whom they were cho&s;en as Members, impri&s;oning &s;ome and denying others admittance al&s;o, di&s;abling the Lords for ever having any voice in Parliament, unle&s;&s;e they plea&s;e to entertaine them into their Conventicle of Sectaries, who are not above forty or fifty at mo&s;t which be now con&s;iderable with that perjur'd Army of Rebbels, and pre&s;ume to call them&s;elves the Commons of England, and pretend that the &s;upreame power of the Kingdome is in herent in them (a thing before never heard of) by which like a&s;piring <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word">, they a&s;&s;ume the power Legi&s;lative to make and
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> Lawes. They have by this pretended and new found authority
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> a Court of Iudica|ture (as they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> it) which indeed is no other but <PB N="2" REF="3"> Conventicle of inju&s;tice and wicked trea&s;onable practi&s;es. By which pretended Court they like imperious proud and barbarous regicids, have pre&s;umed to bring their Le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ge Lord and gracious King to an illegall tryall, and contrary to all Law both of God and man, have condemned and tyranou&s;ly laid violent hands on His Sacred Per&s;on, per|petrating Murder upon him without all or any ju&s;t cau&s;e. O what a tyranicall cruelty was this! Acted upon their King &amp; Father of the Country is it po&s;&s;ible they can think that God will let &s;uch a infinit &s;in &s;lip without revenging his blood upon &s;uch cruel murderers, who have made the|&s;elves drunk with the innocent blood of their Soveraign and the be&s;t of K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ngs, who&s;e fervor and zeal to Peace and his Subjects good, was ever vi&s;ible even to his late&s;t breath as may appear by his Declarations &amp; &s;everal Me&s;&s;ages &s;ent to his two Hou&s;es of Parliament, de&s;iring a Treaty with them, that all differences might be happily compo&s;ed, and His three Kingdom, &s;etled in Peace and Unity, which he with much de&s;iring at length procured to Treat with his two Hou&s;es of Parliament, where his alacrity and inte|grity to Peace was made mo&s;t plaine and manife&s;t, for he was graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to yeild to all that was de&s;ired, al|though to bind up his own hands and throw him&s;elfe in|to the laps of his own Subjects and to do what they &s;hould think fit whereby to &s;top the bleeding o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> his people in all three Kingdoms, but when every mans eyes were fixt of a conclu&s;ion of the Treaty and expected peace and his late Maje&s;ties Conce&s;&s;ions voted &s;atisfactory and &s;ufficient to the grounds of peace and &s;ettlement and his late Maje&s;ty thought he had been in &s;afety, he was by &s;ome Arch tray|tors of that trecherous Army taken away from the I&s;le of
<HI>Wight,</HI> and His body hurryed from place to place, and at la&s;t unhumanely murdred by them, who of right ought to <PB N="3" REF="3"> have been his Subjects, and to have protected his Royall Per|&s;on from violence.</P>
<P>And whereas they have &s;ince his late Maje&s;ties death of fa|mous memory, by pretended Acts and Proclamations declared, that it &s;hall be high-Trea&s;on for any one to Proclaim Prince <HI>Charles</HI> (who is now rightfull heyre to the Crown of <HI>England)</HI> to be King of great Brittaine without their approbation, which they have &s;ince manife&s;ted, &s;hall not be granted by another Act of theirs, &s;aying, the Office of Kings is chargeable and withall u&s;ele&s;&s;e among&s;t them, therefore ought to be aboli&s;hed; which wicked and illegall practice of theirs is abominable and of right is to be &s;hun'd by all true Subjects and good Chri&s;tians, who are bound by Con&s;cience and by their Oath of Allegiance to u&s;e their be&s;t endeavours to circumvent their con&s;ultations and helli&s;h de&s;igne which tends only to the &s;ubver&s;ion of Mo|narchy and &s;etting up the rule and government of Democracy, by wrongfully expelling their lawfull King, and not giving to Cae&s;ar tho&s;e things which be Cae&s;ars, but keeping him in exile and bani&s;hment, and murder, rob and de&s;poyle all his Loyall Subjects of their inheritance, by that unju&s;t &s;word which they have in their lawle&s;&s;e hands. It is not unknown to all the three Kingdoms our forwardne&s;&s;e, loves and affections to the Parlia|ment of <HI>England,</HI> and what hazard we have divers times &s;u&s;tain|ed in behalfe of it, both indangering our lives and fortunes to maintain its priviledges, but now we can acknowledge it no Parliament at all, neither King nor Lords being there, but only a few of the Commons hou&s;e and whether tho&s;e rightly elect|ed or no, we are uncertain, but this we know, that at the death of the King, the Parliament is di&s;&s;olved untill the &s;ucceeding King have elected a new one. But &s;o &s;oone as we found and did perceive that they took &s;everall Oaths, Prote&s;tations, and the Covenant, meerely to make a no&s;e of wax of, and cheate the vulgar and meane people, deviating from their once (as it <PB N="4" REF="4"> &s;eemes) onely pretended principles, and that by back&s;liding clande&s;tine plots and trecherous de&s;ignes, their &s;ole aime was to take away our late Kings life, who indeed we may boldly a&s;&s;irm, that for a vertuous liver, and Kingly parts, he was un|paralel'd there not having been his Peere for acute wit and &s;olid judgement among&s;t all his Royal predece&s;&s;ors in former ages. But what may we really &s;ay, he was too good to rule &s;o &s;infull a people, therefore God in his high di&s;plea&s;ure hath taken him away, however we have a young Phoenix his Royall &s;on
<HI>Charles</HI> late Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> whom we mu&s;t acknowledge for our King, as we are bound by our Allegiance, &s;o to do, and his Royall Cau&s;e we &s;hall with our lives and fortunes pro&s;ecute, and with our &s;words endeavour to e&s;tabli&s;h him in de&s;pite of tho&s;e proud Rebbels who did &s;o trayterou&s;ly murder his late Father to &s;atisfie their blood-thir&s;ty appetites.</P>
<P>To &s;atisfie all Chri&s;tian people of the Truce and A&s;&s;ocia|tion made between us and the Catholick <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> we do declare (to &s;top the mouths of &s;ome who peradventure will endea|vour to lay fal&s;e &s;candals upon us, calling us Papi&s;ts, which is very well known, we were never of that Religion, but alwayes Prote&s;tants, as may an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ere by our proceedings again&s;t them, which may be a large te&s;timony that we do not allow of their Profe&s;&s;ion, nor will ever enlarge the Popes Dominions and Romi&s;h Hierarchy) the rea&s;on why we entred into League and confedenacy with them is as followeth, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P>We finding their reall intentions and often prote&s;ted prin|ciples were to &s;ubmit and live under the ancient rule and Go|vernment of a King, and that it was never their de&s;ire to live un|der any other, then our late decea&s;ed King <HI>Charles</HI> and his law|full &s;ucce&s;&s;or, and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors who is the noble and illu&s;trious Prince <HI>Charles</HI> now
<HI>Charles</HI> the &s;econd, and is by birth right to &s;ucceed his decea&s;ed Father. And that the only thing for which at fir&s;t they did promote the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Wars was for no o|other <PB N="5" REF="4"> and but to pre&s;erve the liberty of their con&s;ciences which they were informed (by &s;ome cvill in&s;truments) they &s;hould be very &s;uddenly deprived of, which made &s;uch an impre&s;&s;ion in them, that they were re&s;olved rather to hazard their lives, then prejudice their Con&s;ciences, which they did beleeve all good Chri&s;tians ought to do. But for altering their Govern|ment, and rovolting from their and our King to make this Na|tion Subjects to the Pope (as it hath all along been &s;uppo&s;ed) was never their intentions more then to allow him &s;upremacy in Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall matters, which belong only to them&s;elves as &s;ome of the principles of their Religion. We having there|fore found in them &s;o much integrity to the Kings cau&s;e, and &s;o much willingne&s;&s;e to hazard their lives and fortunes for him (as becomes) true Subjects, we could not either in rea&s;on not con&s;cience but accept their offer injoyning with us to Crown and &s;ettle our lawfull King <HI>Charles</HI> the &s;econd, who is now in a low condition kept from his Right of Inheritance by the ba&s;e&s;t and meane&s;t Mechanicks in all the Engli&s;h Nation, and al&s;o the wor&s;t and de&s;perate&s;t Rebels that ever lookt upon the Sun, who dur&s;t to act an open murder upon their gracious Soveraigne.</P>
<P>Wee hope what we have here expre&s;t concerning our Con|federacy and League with our fellow Subjects of <HI>Ireland,</HI> (will give any true &s;ubject or hone&s;t man &s;atisfaction, and for Re|bels we care not) by who&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;tance as an immediate meanes we doubt not to inthrowne our King and di&s;&s;olve that Rebell ne&s;t fitting at <HI>We&s;tm.</HI> who take &s;o much authority upon them, affirming them&s;elves to be the highe&s;t Court of Indiceture up|on earth, when it is well knowne theres no Nobleman not &s;carce a Gent, among&s;t them, but low bred fellowes and mo&s;t of them men of broken fortunes, laying a&s;ide what they have by inju&s;tice robd the Kingdome of and extorted from true and loyall Subjects.</P>
<P>Now to declare further what is our true and unfeigned Re|&s;olutions, <PB REF="5"> and wherefore we doe ingage to prevent mi&s;under|&s;tanding, and &s;top the mouthes of tho&s;e who would peradven|ture calumniate us with fal&s;e a&s;per&s;ions, blemi&s;h our inte|grity by lies and forgeries, and fained Chemera's of their own braine-&s;ick inventing) wee &s;ay upon the &s;aith of Chri&s;tians that we have no other ends, but according to this Declarati|on to pro&s;ecure our allegiance, in furthering our
<HI>Soveraignes</HI> cau&s;e, and the e&s;tabli&s;hing his <HI>Royall</HI> Per&s;on in the Domini|ous which did of right belong to his late Father.
<HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. We will to the utmo&s;t of our power (as becomes loyall Subjects) endeavour to Crowne and &s;ettle our gracious King CHARLES the II. in all his three Kingdomes of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and to that end wee have advanced an Army for his &s;aid Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, and will hazzard our lives and fortunes, His Royall Per&s;on to defend and keepe again&s;t all violence, trea&s;onable and treacherous attempts, which may be by the Engli&s;h Rebels or any other at any time made again&s;t him, his Crowne, dignity, and Regall authority, or to the dimi&s;hing: of any of his Kingly titles by any pretended power of Parliament what&s;oever.</P>
<P N="2">2ly, That wee doe not intend to introduce any Arbitrary Govern|ment which may in&s;lave our fellow Subjects of England, but onely to bring &s;uch who be in Rebellion to due Obedience according as their allegiancebinds them to their naturall liege Lord and King.</P>
<P N="3">3ly, That we doe not intend to violate the fundamentall Lawes, and Con&s;titutions of any the 3. Kingdomes, but &s;hall be carefull to keep and pre&s;erve them as the greate&s;t good belonging to all our fellow Subjects.</P>
<P N="4">4ly. We doe declare, that we will ever &s;tand and be firmely and Re|ally for the true Prote&s;tant Religion, and &s;hall not admit of any other Church government; likewi&s;e for the ju&s;t Rights, Freedomes and Privi|ledges of Parliaments, when lawfully called and elected by His &s;aid Maje&s;ties Writ, as of right it ought to be, and to con&s;i&s;t of King, Lords, and Commons, as all precedent Ages hath done, and untill then wee hold all Authority of the Engli&s;h protended Parliament, to be u&s;urpa|tion, illegall, and not Parliamentall authority, but a Committee of Ad|jutators to plot and contrive trea&s;onable practices again&s;t their lawfull King, and his loyall Subjects.</P>
<P N="5">5. And la&s;tly, If there be any one among&s;t them, who will (as by du|ty and allegeance bound) de&s;ert tho&s;e wicked Robels, and timely re|paire to &s;erve their King, they &s;hall not only have pardon for their for|mer acts, but &s;hall be accommodated according to their degrees and &s;e|verall qualities.</P>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave King CHARLES the II.</CLOSER>
<TRAILER>Finis.</TRAILER>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Ormond. Inchiqueene.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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