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THE HVMBLE AND IVST REMONSTRANCE.</P>
<P>OF The Knights, Citizens, and Burge&s;&s;es, in Parliament a&s;&s;embled in JRELAND.</P>
<P>Printed for <HI>Hugh Perry,</HI> in the Yeare 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, The Lord Deputie.</HEAD>
<P>SHewing that in all Ages pa&s;t, &s;ince the happy &s;ubjection of this King|dome, to the imperiall Crowne of <HI>England;</HI> it was and is a principall &s;tu|dy, and Princely care of his Maje&s;tie, and his mo&s;t Noble Progenitors, Kings and Queenes of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> to the va&s;t expence of Trea&s;ure and blood, that their loyall and dutifull people of this Land of <HI>Ireland,</HI> being now for the mo&s;t part derived from the <HI>Britti&s;h Ance&s;tor,</HI> &s;hould be governed according to the municipiall and fundamentall Lawes of <HI>England,</HI> that the Statute of <HI>Magna Charta,</HI> or the great <HI>Charter</HI> for the liberties of <HI>England,</HI> and other laud|able Lawes and &s;tatutes, were in &s;everall Parliaments, here enacted and declared, that by the meanes thereof, and of the mo&s;t prudent and benigne government
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of his Maje&s;tie, and his Royall Progeni|tors, this kingdome was (untill of late) in its growth to a flouri&s;hing e&s;tate, where|by the &s;aid people were hearetofore ena|bled to an&s;wer their humble and naturall de&s;ires, to comply with his Maje&s;ties Royall &amp; Princely occa&s;ions, by the free gift of 150000. <HI>l. &s;ter.</HI> and like wi&s;e by ano|ther gift of 120000. <HI>l. &s;ter.</HI> more during the governement of the <HI>Lord Vi&s;count Faulk-land,</HI> &amp; after by the gift of 40000. <HI>l.</HI> &amp; their free &amp; cheareful gift of 6. <HI>entire &s;ub&s;idies,</HI> in the 10. yeare of his Maje&s;ties Reign, which to comply with his Maje|&s;ties then occa&s;ions &s;ignified to the then hou&s;e of Co~mons, they did allow &s;hould amount in the collections unto 250000. <HI>l.</HI> although as they confidently beleeve, if the &s;aid &s;ub&s;idies had not beene levied in a moderate parliamentary way, they would not have amounted to much more then halfe the &s;aid &s;um, be&s;ides the foure entire &s;ub&s;idies, granted in this pre&s;ent Parliament. So it is, may it plea&s;e your Lord&s;hip, that by the occa&s;ion of the en|&s;uing and other grievances and innovati|ons, though to his Maje&s;ties no con&s;ide|rable profit, this kingdome is reduced to that extreme &amp; univer&s;all poverty, that the &s;ame is now le&s;&s;e able to pay a Sub&s;i|dies, then it was heretofore to &s;atisfie all
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the before recited great payments, &amp; his Maje&s;ties mo&s;t faithfull people of the &s;ame, doe conceive great feares that the grievances and the con&s;equences thereof may hereafter be drawn into precedents to be perpetuated upon their po&s;terity, which in their great hopes and &s;trong be|liefe, they are per&s;waded is contrary to his Maje&s;ties Royall and Princely inten|tion towards his &s;aid people, &s;ome of which &s;aid grievances, are as followeth.</P>
<P N="1">I. Fir&s;t, the generall and apparent decay of Trades, occa&s;ioned by the new &amp; ille|gall ray&s;ing of the booke of Rates and Impo&s;itions; as xij. d. a piece, cu&s;tome for Hides bought for 3. 4. or 5. s. and many other heavie Impo&s;itions upon native &amp; other commodities exported and impor|ted, by rea&s;on thereof &amp; of the extreame u&s;age, and &s;en&s;ures, Marchants are begg|red, and both di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nable, and di&s;couraged to trade; and &s;ome of the honorable per|&s;ons who gaine therby are often Iudges and parties, and that in Conclu&s;ion his Maje&s;ties profit thereby is not con&s;ide|rably advanced.</P>
<P N="2">II. Secondly, the arbitrary deci&s;ion of all civill cau&s;es and controver&s;ies, by paper petitions before the Lord <HI>Lieutenant</HI> and
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<HI>Lord Deputy,</HI> &amp; infinite other judicators upon references from them derived in the nature of all actions, determinable at the common law, not limited unto cer|taine times, &s;ea&s;ons, cau&s;es, and things, what&s;oever, and the con&s;equence of &s;uch proceedings, by receiving immoderate &amp; unlawful fees by <HI>Secretaries, Clerkes, Pur|&s;ivants, Serjeants</HI> at Armes, &amp; otherwi&s;e, by which kind of proceedings, his Maje|&s;ty lo&s;eth a con&s;iderable part of his Re|venue, upon originall writs, &amp; otherwi&s;e, and the &s;ubject lo&s;eth the benefit of his writ of errour, Bill of rever&s;all, vouchers, and other legall and ju&s;t advantages, and the ordinarie cour&s;e &amp; Courts of ju&s;tice declined</P>
<P N="3">III. Thirdly, the proceedings in civill cau|&s;es at the Councell boord, contrary to the law and great <HI>Charter,</HI> and not limit|ted to any certaine time, or &s;ea&s;on.</P>
<P N="4">IV. Fourthly, that the Subject is in all the materiall parts therof denied the be|nefit of the princely graces, and more e|&s;pecially of the &s;tatute of Limitations, of the 21. <HI>Ian.</HI> granted by his Maje&s;tie in the 4. yeare of this Reigne, upon great advice of the Coun&s;ell of <HI>England and Ireland,</HI> and for great con&s;ideration; &amp; then pub|li&s;hed
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in all the Courts of <HI>Dublin,</HI> and in all the Courts of this Kingdome in open A&s;&s;izes, whereby all per&s;ons doe take notice, that contrary to his Maje|&s;ties pious intention, his Subjects of this Land have not enjoyed the benefit of his Maje&s;ties Princely promi&s;e therby made.</P>
<P N="5">V. Fiftly, the extrajudiciall avoyding of Letters Patents of e&s;tates of a very great part of his Maje&s;ties &s;ubjects under the great Seale (the publique faith of the Kingdome) by private opinions delive|red at Coun&s;ell Board, without legall E|victions of their e&s;tates, contrary to the Law and without precedent or example of any former age.</P>
<P N="6">VI. Sixtly, the Proclamation for the &s;ole exemption and uttering of <HI>Tobacco,</HI> which is bought at very low Rates, and uttered at high and exce&s;&s;ive rates, by meanes whereof thou&s;ands of Families within this Kingdome and of his Maje&s;ties &s;ub|jects in &s;everall I&s;lands, &amp; other parts of the <HI>We&s;t Indies</HI> (as your Petitioners are informed) are de&s;troyed, and the mo&s;t part of the Coyne of this Kingdome is ingro&s;&s;ed into particular hands: In&s;o|much that your Petitioners doe conceive
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that the profit ari&s;ing &amp; ingro&s;&s;ed ther|by, doth &s;urmount his Maje&s;ties reve|nues Certaine and ca&s;uall within this Kingdome, and yet his Ma&s;tje&s;tie recei|veth but very little profit by the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="7">VII. Seventhly, the unu&s;uall and unlawfull increa&s;ing of <HI>Monopolies</HI> to the advantage of few, to the di&s;profit of his Maje&s;tie and the impoveri&s;hment of his people.</P>
<P N="8">VIII. Eightly, the extreame and cruell u&s;age of certaine late Commi&s;&s;ioners and o|ther, towards the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Farmers and Inhabitants of the City and County of <HI>London-derry,</HI> by meanes whereof the worthy plantation of that Country is al|mo&s;t de&s;troyed, and the Inhabitants are reduced to great poverty, and many of them forced to for&s;ake the Country, the &s;ame being the fir&s;t and mo&s;t u&s;efull Plantation in the large Province of <HI>Vl|&s;ter,</HI> to the great weakening of the King|dome, in this time of danger, the &s;aid Plantation being the principall &s;trength of tho&s;e parts.</P>
<P N="9">IX. Ninthly, the late erection of the Court of high Commi&s;&s;ion for cau&s;es Eccle&s;i|a&s;ticall in the&s;e nece&s;&s;itous times, the
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proceedings of the &s;aid Court in many cau&s;es without legall warrant, and yet &s;o &s;upported as prohibitions have not been obtained, though legally &s;ought for, and the exce&s;&s;ive fees exacted by the mini&s;ters thereof, and the incroaching of the &s;ame upon the juri&s;diction of other Eccle&s;ia|&s;ticall Courts of this Kingdome.</P>
<P N="10">X. Tenthly, the exorbitant and barbarous Fees and pretended Cu&s;tomes exacted by the Clergie again&s;t the Law, &s;ome of which have been formerly repre&s;ented to your Lord&s;hip.</P>
<P N="11">XI. Eleventhly, the Petitioners doe mo&s;t heartily bemone that his Maje&s;ties &s;er|vices and profits are much more impai|red then advanced by the grievances a|fore&s;aid. And the Sub&s;idies granted in the la&s;t Parliament having much encrea|&s;ed his Maje&s;ties Revenue by the buying in of Grants and otherwi&s;e, and that all his Maje&s;ties debts then due in this King|dome were &s;atisfied out of the &s;aid Sub|&s;idies, and yet his Maje&s;tie is of late (as your Petitioners have been informed) in the hou&s;e of Commons become indebted in this Kingdome in great &s;ummes, and they doe therefore humbly be&s;eech that
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an exact account may be &s;ent to his Ma|je&s;tie, how and in what manner his trea|&s;ure i&s;&s;ued.</P>
<P N="12">XII. Twelfthly, the Petitioners doe hum|bly conceive great and ju&s;t feares at a Proclamation publi&s;hed in this King|dome in <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1635. prohibiting men of quality or e&s;tate for to depart this Kingdome into <HI>England,</HI> without the Lord Deputies Licen&s;e, whereby the Subjects of this Kingdome are hindered and interrupted from free acce&s;&s;e and ad|dre&s;&s;e to his &s;acred Maje&s;tie and Privie Coun&s;ell of <HI>England,</HI> to declare their ju&s;t grievances, or to obtaine remedy for them, in &s;uch &s;ort as their Ance&s;tors have done in all ages, &s;ince the Reigne of King <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;econd, and great fees exacted for, every of the &s;aid Licen&s;es.</P>
<P N="13">XIII. Thirteenthly, that of late his Maje&s;ties late Atturney generall hath exhibited in|formations again&s;t many ancient Bur|roughs of this Kingdome into his Maje|&s;ties Court of Exchequer, to &s;hew by what warrant the &s;aid Burroughes, who heretofore &s;ent Burge&s;&s;es to the Parlia|ment, &s;hould &s;end the &s;aid Burge&s;&s;es to the Parliament. And thereupon for want
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of an an&s;wer, the &s;aid Priviledge of &s;en|ding Burge&s;&s;es was &s;eized by the &s;aid Court, which proceedings were altoge|ther <HI>Coram non Judice,</HI> and contrary to the Lawes and Priviledges of the hou&s;e of Parliament (and if way &s;hould be given thereunto) might tend to the &s;ubver&s;ion of Parliaments, and by con&s;equence to the ruine &amp; de&s;truction of the Common-wealth, and that the hou&s;e of Commons hath hitherto in this pre&s;ent Parliament bin deprived of the advice and Coun&s;ell of many profitable and good members by meanes thereof.</P>
<P N="14">XIV. Fourteenthly, that by the powerful|ne&s;&s;e of &s;ome Mini&s;ters of State in this Kingdome, the Parliament in its mem|bers and actions hath not his naturall freedome.</P>
<P N="15">XV. Fifteenthly, that the fees taken in all the Courts of Ju&s;tice in this Kingdome, both Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall and Civill, and by o|ther inferior Officers and Mini&s;ters, are &s;o immoderately high, that it is an un&s;pea|keable burthen to all his Maje&s;ties Sub|jects of this, who are not able to &s;ub&s;i&s;t, except the &s;ame be &s;peedily remedied &amp; reduced to &s;uch a moderation as may &s;tand with the condition of this Realme.</P>
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And la&s;tly, That the Gentry, Mer|chants, and other his Maje&s;ties &s;ubjects of this Kingdome, are of late by the grie|vances and pre&s;&s;ures afore&s;aid and other the like, very neere to Ruine and de&s;tru|ction. And Farmers of Cu&s;tomes, Cu|&s;tomers, Waiters, Searchers, Clearkes of unwarrantable proceedings, Pur&s;e|vants, and Gaolers, and &s;undry others ve|ry much inriched, whereby and by the &s;low redre&s;&s;e of the Petitioners grievan|ces, his Maje&s;ties mo&s;t faithfull and du|tifull people of this Kingdome, doe con|ceive great feares that their readine&s;&s;e approved upon all occa&s;ions, hath not beene of late rightly repre&s;ented to his Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>For Remedy whereof, the &s;aid Peti|tioners doe humbly and of Right be|&s;eech your Lord&s;hip, that the grievan|ces and pre&s;&s;ures may be &s;peedily redre&s;|&s;ed. And if your Lord&s;hip &s;hall not thinke fit to afford us pre&s;ent reliefe therein, that your Lord&s;hip may admit a &s;elect Committee of this Hou&s;e of per&s;ons unintere&s;&s;ed in the benefit ari|&s;ing, the afore&s;aid grievances to be li|cen&s;ed by your Lord&s;hip, to repaire to
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his &s;acred Maje&s;ty in <HI>England</HI> for to pur&s;ue the &s;ame, and to obtaine fitting Remedies for their afore&s;aid and other ju&s;t grievances and oppre&s;&s;ions, and upon all ju&s;t and honorable occa&s;ions, they will without re&s;pect of particular inte|re&s;t or profit to be rai&s;ed thereby, mo&s;t humbly and readily in Parliament, ex|tend their utmo&s;t endeavours to &s;erve his Maje&s;ty, and comply with his Royall and Princely occa&s;ions, And &s;hall pray, &amp;c.</P>
<CLOSER>Copia vera.</CLOSER>
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