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<P>CERTAIN ACTS AND DECLARATIONS made by the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Congre|gation of the Arch-bi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, <HI>and other Prelates.</HI></P>
<P>Met at <HI>Clonmacnoi&s;e</HI> the fourth day of <HI>De|cember</HI> 1649. <HI>And &s;ince Concluded.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>KILKENNY</HI> Printed in the year of our Lord. 1649. <HI>And Reprin|ted at</HI> London <HI>by</HI> Robert Ibbit&s;on.</P>
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<HEAD>By the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Congregation of the Arch|bi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, and other Prelates.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas heretofore many of the Clergy and Laity did in their actions and proceedings expre&s;&s;e much di&s;con|tents and divi&s;ions of minde, grounding the &s;ame on the late dif|ference of Opinion happened among&s;t the Prelats and the Lay|ty, by which the Nation was not &s;o well united, as was nece&s;|&s;ary in this time of great Danger, wherein all, as with one heart and hand ought to oppo&s;e the Common Enemy. We the Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, and Prelates of this Kingdome met <HI>motu proprie,</HI> at <HI>Clonmackno&s;e</HI> 4 <HI>Decembris</HI> 1649, having re|moved all differences among us (not entring into the merits of diver&s;ities of former opinions) thought good for removing of all jealou&s;ies from our owne thoughts, hearts and re&s;olutions, and from others, who had relation, or were adherent to the for|mer diver&s;ity of opinions, to manife&s;t hereby to all the world that the &s;aid divi&s;ions, and jealou&s;ies grounded thereupon, are now forgotten, and forgiven among us on all &s;ides as afore&s;aid. And that all and every of us, of the above Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, and Prelates are now, by the ble&s;&s;ing of God, as one body united. And that we will, as becommeth charity and our pa&s;toral charge &s;tand all of us as one intire body, for the intere&s;t and immunities of the Church and of every the Prelats and Bi&s;hops thereof, and for the honour, dignity, e&s;tate, right, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, of all and e|very the &s;aid Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops and other Prelates. And we will as one intire and united body forward by our coun|&s;ailes, actions and devi&s;es the advancement of his Maje&s;ties Rights, and the good of this Nation in general and in particular occa&s;ions, to our power, and that none of us in any occa&s;ion what&s;oever concerning the Catholicke Religion, or the good of this Kingd. of <HI>Ireland,</HI> will in any re&s;pect &s;ingle him&s;elf, or be, or &s;eem oppo&s;ite to the re&s;t of us, but will hold firme and intire
<PB N="2" REF="3">in one &s;ence as afore&s;aid; hereby dete&s;ting the actions, thoughts and di&s;cour&s;es of any that &s;hall renew the lea&s;t memory of the differences pa&s;t, or give any ground of future difference among us, And do in the name of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t exhort all our flock to the like brotherly affection and union, and to the like dete&s;tati|on of all pa&s;t differences or jealou&s;ies as afore&s;aid, ari&s;ing hither|to among them. And we de&s;ire that this our declaration be prin|ted and publi&s;hed in each Pari&s;h by command of the re&s;pective Ordinaries. <HI>ut videant opera ve&s;tra bona &amp; glorificent Patrem ve|&s;trum qui in Caelis e&s;t.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Datum apud Clonmacno&s;e <DATE>13 Decemb. 1649.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Signed by,
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<ITEM>Hugo Ardmachanus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Thomas Dublin.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Ca&s;shel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Joan Archiep. Tuam.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Boetius Elphyn.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Edmundus Laghlinen&s;is &amp; Procurator Waterfordien&s;is,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Emerus Clogher,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ro|bertus Corcagien&s;is &amp; Cluanen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nicholaus Fernen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edmun|dus Limericen&s;is. &amp; Procurator Epi&s;copi. O&s;&s;orien&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Franci&s;cus. Aladen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Andraeus Finiboren&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Joan. Laonen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Oliverus Dromoren&s;is,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Antonius Clonmacno&s;en&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Hugo Duacen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Arthur Duneu&s;is, &amp; Conneren&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Terentius Imolacen&s;is,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Patr. Arsdagh.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Oliverius. Deis Procurator Epi&s;co. Meden&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. Joa. Hu&s;&s;ey Procurator Epi&s;co. Ardferten&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Joannes Cantwell Ab|bas. <HI>S.</HI> Crucis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. Thadeus Clery Epi&s;cop. Rapo. Procurator,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Gregorius o Ferraile Provin. Ordinis Praedicatorum Provin. Hiber.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Thomas Mackeyernane Provin. Fratrum Minorum Provin. Hiber.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Walterus Clonferten&s;is Congregationis Secretar.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>By the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Congregation the Kingdome of IRELAND.</HEAD>
<P>WEE the Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, and other Ordianries, and Prelats of the Kingdome of <HI>Ireland,</HI> having met at <HI>Clo|nemacno&s;e proprio Motu</HI> the fourth day of <HI>December</HI> in the year of our Lord God 1649. to con&s;ider of the be&s;t meanes to unite our flocks, for averting Gods wrath fallen on this nation, now blee|ding under the evills, that famine, plague and warre bring af|ter them, for effecting a pre&s;ent union, decreed th' en&s;uing Acts.
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<ITEM>1 We order and decree as an Act of this Congregation, that all Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, and other Ordinaries within their re|&s;pective Dioce&s;&s;es, &s;hall injoyn publick prayers, fa&s;ting, Gene|rall Confe&s;&s;ion, and Receiving, and other works of piety <HI>toties quo|ties</HI> to withdraw from this Nation Gods anger, and to render them Capable of his mercies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 We order and decree as an act of this Congregation, that a Declaration i&s;&s;ue from us letting the people know how vaine it is for them to expect from the Common Enemy commanded by <HI>Cromwel</HI> by authority from the Rebells of <HI>England,</HI> any a&s;&s;u|rance of their Religion, Lives, or Fortunes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 We Order and decree as an Act of this Congregation, that all Pa&s;tors and Preachers be injoyned to preach amity. And for inducing the people thereunto to declare unto them the ab&s;olute nece&s;&s;ity that is for the &s;ame, and as the cheife meanes to pre&s;erve the Nation again&s;t the extirpation &amp; de&s;truction of their Religion and Fortunes re&s;olved on by the Enemy. And we hereby do mani|fe&s;t our dete&s;tation again&s;t al &s;uch divi&s;ions between either Provin|ces or Families: or between old Engli&s;h and old Iri&s;h, or any the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> or <HI>Scots</HI> adhering to his Maje&s;ty. And we decree and or|der that all Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall per&s;ons fomenting &s;uch di&s;&s;entions, or unnaturall divi&s;ions, be puni&s;hed by their re&s;pective Prelats, and Superiours, <HI>Juxta gravitatem exce&s;&s;us, &amp; (&s;i opus fuerit) &s;u&s;pen|dantur beneficiali &amp; Pa&s;tores a beneficio &amp; officio ad certum tempus, Religio&s;i autem a Divinis juxto circum&s;tantias delicti.</HI> Leaving the Layty offending in this kind, to be corrected by the Civil Magi|&s;trate, by Impri&s;onment, Fine, Bani&s;hment, or otherwi&s;e, as to them &s;hall &s;eem be&s;t, for plucking by the root, &s;o odious a crime; the execution whereof we mo&s;t earne&s;tly recommend to all tho&s;e having power, and that are concerned therein, as they will an|&s;wer to God for the evills that thereout may in&s;ue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 We <HI>Decree</HI> and <HI>Declare</HI> excommunicated, tho&s;e high way robbers commonly called the Idle Boyes, that take away the goods of hone&s;t men or force men to pay them Contribution, and we likewi&s;e declare Excommunicated all &s;uch as &s;uccour or harbour them, or be&s;tow or &s;ell them any victualing, or buy Cattle or any other thing el&s;e from them wittingly, Likewi&s;e all Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall per&s;ons mini&s;tring &s;acraments to &s;uch robbers,
<PB N="4" REF="4">or Idle boyes; or burying them in holy grave, to be &s;u&s;pended <HI>ab officio &amp; beneficio, &s;i quod habent,</HI> by their re&s;pective &s;uperiours <HI>juxta gravitatem delicti.</HI> This our decree is to oblige within fifteen dayes after the publication thereof in the re&s;pective Dio|ce&s;es.</ITEM>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed by,
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<ITEM>Hugo Ardmachanus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Thomas Dublin.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Ca&s;shel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Joan. Archiep. Tuam.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Boetius Elphyn.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Edmundus Laghlinen&s;is &amp; Procurator Waterfordien&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Emerus Clogher,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robertus Corcagien&s;is &amp; Cluanen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nicolaus Fernen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edmundus Limericen&s;is, &amp; Procurator Epi&s;copi O&s;&s;orien&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Franci&s;cus Aladen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Andreas Fi|niboren&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Joan. Laonen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Oliverus Dromoren&s;is,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. An|tonius Clonmacno&s;en&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Hugo Duacen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Arthurus Dunen|&s;is, &amp; Conneren&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Terentius Imolacen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Patric. Ardagh.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Oliverius Deis Procurator Epi&s;co. Meden&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. Joannes Hu&s;&s;ey Pro|curator Epi&s;cop. Ardferten&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Joannes Cantwell Abbas. S, Cru|cis</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. Thadeus Clery Epi&s;cop. Rapo. Procurator.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Walterus Clonferten&s;is Congregationis Secretar.</ITEM>
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<HEAD><HI>By the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Congregation of the Kingdome of</HI> Ireland.</HEAD>
<P>VVE the Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, and other Or|dinaries and Prelats of this Kingdome of <HI>Ireland,</HI> having met at <HI>Clonmacno&s;e proprio motu,</HI> on the fourth day of <HI>December,</HI> in the yeare of our <HI>Lord God</HI> 1649. taking into our con&s;ideration among other the affaires then agitated and determinated for the pre&s;er|vation of the kingdome, that many of our flock are mi&s;lead by a vaine opinion of hopes, that the Com|mander in chiefe of the Rebels Forces, commonly cal|led the Parliamentaries, would afford them good con|ditions, and that relying thereon they &s;uffer utter de|&s;truction of Religion, lives, and fortunes, if not pre|vented. To undeceive them in that their ungrounded
<PB N="5" REF="4">expectation, we do hereby declare as a mo&s;t certaine truth, that the Enemies re&s;olution is, to extirpate the Catholique religion, out of all his Maje&s;ties Domi|nions, as by their &s;everall Covenants doth appear, and the practice where-ever their power doth extend, as is manife&s;ted by <HI>Cromwels</HI> Letter of the 19 of <HI>Octob.</HI> 1649 to the then Governour of <HI>Ro&s;&s;e.</HI> His words are: <HI>For that which you mention concerning liberty of Religion, I meddle not with any mans Con&s;cience, but if by liberty of Con&s;cience, you mean a liberty to exerci&s;e the ma&s;&s;e,</HI> I <HI>judge it be&s;t to u&s;e plaine dealing, and to let you know, where the Parliament of</HI> England <HI>have power, that will not be allowed of.</HI> This ty|rannicall re&s;olution they have put in execution in <HI>Wexford, Drogheda, Ro&s;&s;e</HI> and el&s;ewhere. And it is noto|riou&s;ly known, that by Acts of Parliament, called <HI>The Acts of Sub&s;cription,</HI> the E&s;tates of the Inhabitants of this kingdome are &s;old, &s;o as there remaineth now no more, but to put the purcha&s;ers in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, by the power of Forces drawn out of <HI>England.</HI> And for the common &s;ort of people, towards whom if they &s;hew any more moderate u&s;age at the pre&s;ent, it is to no o|ther end but for their private advantage, and for the better &s;upport of their Army, intending at the clo&s;e of their conque&s;t (if they can effect the &s;ame as God for|bid) to root out the Commons al&s;o, and plant this land with Colonies to be brought hither out of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> as witne&s;&s;e the number they have already &s;ent hence for the Tobacco I&s;lands, and put enemies in their places.</P>
<P>And in effect this bani&s;hment or other de&s;tructions of the c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">+mon
<PB N="6" REF="5">people, mu&s;t follow the re&s;olution of extirpating the Ca|tholique Religion, which is not to be effected without the ma&s;|&s;acring or bani&s;hment of the Catholique Inhabitants.</P>
<P>We cannot therefore in our duty to God, and in di&s;charge of the care wee are obliged to have for the pre&s;ervation of our flocks, but admoni&s;h them, not to delude and loo&s;e them&s;elves with the vaine expectation of conditions to be had from that mercile&s;&s;e Enemy. And con&s;equently we be&s;eech the Gentry, and Inhabitants, for Gods glory, and their own &s;afety, to the uttermo&s;t of their power, to contribute with patience, to the &s;up|port of the Warre again&s;t that Enemy, in hope that by the ble&s;|&s;ing of God, they may be re&s;cued from the threatned evils, and in time be permitted to &s;erve God in their Native Country, and enjoy their E&s;tates, and fruits of their labours, free from &s;uch heavy levies, or any other &s;uch taxes as they beare at pre&s;ent: Admoni&s;hing al&s;o tho&s;e that are inli&s;ted of the Army, to pro&s;e|cute con&s;tantly according to each mans charge the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them, the oppo&s;ition of the Common Enemy, in &s;o ju&s;t a Warre, as is that they have undertaken for their Religion, King, and Country, as they expect the ble&s;&s;ing of God to fall on their actions. And that to avoyd Gods heavy judgement, and the indignation of their Native Country, they neither plunder nor oppre&s;&s;e the people, nor &s;uffer any under their charge, to commit any extortion or oppre&s;&s;ion, &s;o far as &s;hall lye in their power to prevent.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed by
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<ITEM>Hugo Ardmachanus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Thomas Dublin.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Cas&s;hel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Joan Archiep. Tuam.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Boetius Elphyn.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Edmundus Laghlinen&s;is &amp; Procurator Waterfordien&s;is,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Emerus Clogher,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robertus Corcagien&s;is <HI>&amp;</HI> Cluanen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nicelaus Fernen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edmundus Limericen&s;is, <HI>&amp;</HI> Procu|rator Epi&s;copi</ITEM>
<ITEM>O&punc; Jorien&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Franci&s;cus Aladen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Andreas Finibo|ren&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Joan. Laonen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Oliverus Dromoren&s;is,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Antonius Clon|macno&s;en&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Hugo Duacen&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Arthurus Dunen&s;is, <HI>&amp;</HI> Conne|ren&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Terentius Imolacen&s;is,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Patric. Ardagh.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Oliverus Deis procurator Epi&s;co. Meden&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. Joannes Hu&s;&s;ey procurator Epi&s;co. Ardferten&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fr. Joannes Cantwell Abbas. S. Crucis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. Thadeus Clery Epi&s;cop. Rapo. Procurator,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Walterus Clonferten&s;is Congregationis Secretar.</ITEM>
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<P>Imprimatur,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Henry Scobel. Cler. Parliamenti.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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