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<HEAD>HONT SOIT <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">EVI MA<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">Y PENSE</HEAD>
<FIGDESC>seal</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> R BY THE SVPREAME COVNCELL OF THE CONFEDERAT CATHOLICKS OF IRELAND</HEAD>
<P>THE deepe &s;en&s;e Which wee haue of the &s;add condition, the Kingdome is at pre&s;ent reduced vnto, by the vnadui&s;ed proceedings of &s;ome <HI>Prelats Secular</HI> &amp; <HI>Regular,</HI> &amp; of &s;ome &s;uperiors of Regular orders in this Kingdome, together with our iu&s;t feares, that vnle&s;s a timely cour&s;e be taken to &s;topp the violence of tho&s;e vnwarrantable wayes, the whole body of the <HI>Confederats</HI> may run irrecouerable hazard; The&s;e with the con&s;cience of doinge an act mo&s;t Religious, by &s;afeguarding innocence (though noe co~mon danger were &s;u&s;pected) moued vs, to reflect on the duty wee owe to the publick, &amp; on the &s;traight tye which the oath of <HI>A&s;&s;ociation</HI> binds vs vnto, for its pre&s;eruation, for di&s;charge of our duty in both, &amp; &s;topping the current of evills which wee &s;adly behold flowing out of this &s;ource (though the lawes both diuine &amp; naturall edge vs to v&s;e all extreamity in bu&s;&s;ines of &s;oe great concernment, whereon the &s;afety &amp; liues of the whole nation depends) yet being vnwilling to fix on any cour&s;e which might &s;eeme harsh (even to the offenders them&s;elues) wee thought good, fir&s;t to admonish &amp; de&s;ire all &amp; every the &s;aid <HI>Prelats</HI> of what degree &s;oeuer, <HI>Arch Bushopps, Bushopps, Abbots, vicars Generalls, Deanes, &amp; Chapters, Prouincialls, Priors, Guardians</HI> &amp; all other &s;uperiors, coniuring them by the &s;acred bond of the oath of A&s;&s;ociation, &amp; &s;trictly charging them, on theire due allegiance to his Maie&s;tie, his Crow|ne, his Kingdome, and vnto vs as Supreame Councell of the Confederat Catholicks, that they shall in noe wi&s;e mole&s;t any of theire re&s;pec|tiue &s;ubiects, Prie&s;ts or Religious, for per&s;euering in theire loyalty or (in pur&s;uance thereof) for approuing the late Ce&s;&s;ation made by vs with the Lord Barron of <HI>In&s;iquin,</HI> and that they shall not commaund, &s;ollicit, de&s;ire, or induce, by worde, writing, or deed, publickly or priuately, any of theire &s;aid &s;ubiects to oppo&s;e the &s;aid Ce&s;&s;ation, or any other our iu&s;t Commaunds, in pur&s;uance of it, for the publick &s;afety, or to infu&s;e into the people any di&s;obedience to our authority, vppon any pretence what&s;oeuer, even of the declaration made or Cen&s;ures now i&s;&s;ued, or heereafter to be i&s;&s;ued by the Lord Nuncio, and his four <HI>Bushopps</HI> on the &s;ame ground, From all which [as both groundle&s;s and vnlawfull) wee haue (according to the rule of &s;acred Canons,) legally appealed to his <HI>Holyne&s;s,</HI> and by that our addre&s;s, not only &s;u&s;pended the pa&s;t &s;entences and Cen&s;ures, but al&s;oe his <HI>Graces</HI> whole iuri&s;diction, and the &s;aid four Bushopps (if any they had) from proceeding any further therein, vntill his <HI>Holine&s;s</HI> plea&s;ure bee knowne.</P>
<P>AND furthermore, wee require (by vertue of the &s;aid <HI>Oath,</HI> and vpon theire allegeance) all inferiors of both Cleargies, <HI>Dignitaries Curats, Preachers, Confe&s;&s;ors,</HI> &amp; all others, of what condition &s;oeuer they be, that they shall not, on any pretence [euen of the &s;aid Gen|&s;urs) withdraw any Confederat from approuing the &s;aid Ce&s;&s;ation, or obeying our orders and Decrees, made and to be made, in pur&s;uance thereof, but rather endeauour, in their publick &s;ermons, priuat Conferences, and vpon each occa&s;ion offerd, to confirme them in their allegiance to his Maje&s;tie, and our iu&s;t decrees and orders.</P>
<P>BESIDES, Wee thought it mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary and iu&s;t, to receaue (as we doe by the&s;e, and from this in&s;tant) into the &s;peciall, and imme|diat protection of the Crowne and of his Maje&s;tie (the admini&s;tration of who&s;e rights, euen in this particular, is in our hands to|wards the Confederat Catholicks) all Church-men both <HI>Secular</HI> and <HI>Regular,</HI> of what degree &s;oeuer, who hitherto have declared them|&s;elues faithfull and obedient to the Gouernment of the Kingdome, and who haue therefore, and for oppo&s;eing &s;ini&s;ter and Dangerous practi|&s;es again&s;t vs, and &s;uch as are in authority, beene heeretofore, are for the pre&s;ent, or shall heereafter be per&s;ecuted by theire &s;uperiours, vex|ed, hindred, &s;u&s;pended, depriued or any way mole&s;ted; Prote&s;ting and publishing to the world, that wee will v&s;e all the extent of our power to &s;uppre&s;&s; &amp; defend their innocence heerein, again&s;t the <HI>Lord Nuncio</HI> and &s;uch theire Superiours, vntill his <HI>Holine&s;&s;</HI> and <HI>Generall Supe|riors</HI> of In&s;tituts (being &s;ufficiently enformed) prouide further, for the affaires of the <HI>Church,</HI> and duedi&s;cipline of Regular orders in <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<P>LASTLY, wee Declare vnto the &s;aid <HI>Prelats</HI> and <HI>Superiours,</HI> and likwi&s;e vnto all inferiors of either <HI>Clergie,</HI> that if hence-forth any Church-men be found &s;educeing the people as afore&s;aid, or countenancing, either &s;educers, or the &s;educed, wee mu&s;t, and Will pre&s;ently vpon notice giuen, proceede again&s;t &s;uch, as enemies of the common good, and iniurious to the Gouernment, the &s;uddaine&s;&s; and great|ne&s;&s; of the pre&s;ent fatall dangers nece&s;&s;itating vs thereunto.</P>
<P>HENCE it is, that none is to conceiue, wee intend heereby (&s;ince both are <HI>per viam facti,</HI> and for our naturall and nece&s;&s;ary defence, in a&s;&s;umeing into our protection the vniu&s;tly oppre&s;&s;ed <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;ticks</HI>) to v&s;urp an illegall power, iuri&s;diction, or vnwarrantable prerogatiue, or to intrench vppon the immunities of the Church, being &s;oe farr from either, as wee are certaine, our decree in all, and every the afore&s;aid perticulars, doth not &s;warue from the &s;quare of <HI>&s;acred Canons,</HI> from the con&s;ent of <HI>great Diuines</HI> and <HI>Canoni&s;ts,</HI> from the practi&s;e of mo&s;t <HI>Catholick Nations</HI> (and among&s;t the re&s;t of <HI>England</HI> before the <HI>&s;chi&s;me</HI> without controulement of the Clergie) nay we are vndoubtedly po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, the law of nature (which is aboueall <HI>Cannons</HI>) doth approue and Commaund it &s;o &s;trictly, as wee cannot other|wi&s;e an&s;wer the trv&s;t repo&s;ed in vs, when by our negligence heerein, the liues and fortunes of the Confederat Catholicks would be expo&s;ed to mo&s;t ineuitable and euident danger. Giuen at <HI>Kilkenny</HI> Ca&s;tle, the third day of Iune 1648. and in the Four and twentieth yeare of the Raigne of our Soueraigne Lord CHARLES By the Grace of God, King of Great <HI>Brittaine, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Mountgarrett. Athunry, Donboyne. Lucas Dillon, Rob. Linch, Richard Barnewall, Richard Euerard, Richard Bellings. Patrick Gough, Iohn Wal&s;h, Gerrald Fennell, Patricke Brian, Robert Deuereax, George Commin.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at Kilkenny in the Yeare of our Lord 1648.</P>
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