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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>BY THE GENERALL ASSEMBLIE OF THE CONFEDERATE CATHOLIQVES OF IRELAND.</HEAD>
<P>_THe en&s;uing Declaration of the Lord Nuncio, &amp; his partie of the Clergie, We thinke fit to be printed and published, to the end that all men may &s;ee and abhorre the malice &amp; irregularity of tho&s;e that &s;ub&s;cribed that In&s;trument, thereby di&s;&s;wading the people, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nder the &s;pecious pretence of Con&s;cience from their allegiance to his Maie&s;tie, and due obedi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nce to the Civill Magi&s;trat, and inviting them to breach of publick Faith, Rapines, Murther, &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">lood-shed; whereof there hath been a &s;ad example already in the Towne of <HI>Gallway,</HI> where (by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">he countenance of that bloody in&s;trument &s;oone after the publishing thereof) the Magi&s;trats <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ou&s;e was violently a&s;&s;aulted, and the Kings &s;word, the keyes of the Towne-gates, and other en|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">gnes of Office forcibly taken thereout, by a rout of people lead by one of the Sub&s;cribers of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">he In&s;trument, and brought into the Church, which occa&s;ioned &s;uch a tumult, as &s;ome blood as drawne, one man kill'd, and many lives were endangered, till for the appea&s;ing thereof; the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ord Nuncio &s;eeing that partie overpowr'd by a number of others loyall and well affected to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">he Government, went to the Church, and thereout in per&s;on brought, and re&s;tored the &s;aid <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">word, Keyes, and En&s;eignes to the Mayor in his hou&s;e; And lea&s;t it may worke the like, or wor&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ffects in any other place, or with any other per&s;ons. It is this day unanimously declared by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">his A&s;&s;embly, that the &s;aid Declaration or In&s;trument is in it &s;elfe wicked, malicious and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">raiterous, repugnant to all lawes, Human and Divine, and tending to the utter &s;ubver&s;ion of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">he Government of the Church, and Commonwealth of this Kingdome; the Sub&s;cribers endea|vouring to engage the Confederat Catholiques, in an irreconciliable rent and divi&s;ion, which will more evidently appeare by other Acts and Declarations of this A&s;&s;embly, ready to be pu|blished; which In&s;trument followeth.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Richard Blake, Prol. Gen. Conv.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>In the Name of God, Amen.</HEAD>
<P>_WHere<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> about our late deci&s;ion touching the Proclamation of the Ce&s;&s;ation, it was ob|iected by &s;ome, that though for the lo&s;&s;e of &s;ome temporall goods, they might not &s;e|curely in Con&s;cience, proclaime the &s;aid Ce&s;&s;ation: yet the doubt they have made was, of the lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">e of mens lives, which may en&s;ue the oppo&s;ing of it, Wee doe hereby declare, that it is <HI>a dead<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">y &s;inne again&s;t the Law of God, and his Church,</HI> and <HI>a periurie again&s;t the Oath of A&s;&s;ociation,</HI> to have or to &s;uffer the &s;aid <HI>Ce&s;&s;ation</HI> to be proclaimed; and therefore they are obliged to loo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> both lives, goods, liberties, and all that is deere to them in the world, rather then to obey or pro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">laime it; This was the &s;en&s;e likewi&s;e of tho&s;e words in our former decree. <HI>It is in no wi&s;e lawfull, &amp;c.</HI> And truely we knew full well, that they could not loo&s;e their goods in this Quarrell, without the lo&s;&s;e of &s;ome lives, or many lives perhaps.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Witne&s;&s;e our hands, <DATE>the thir|tieth day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Signed,
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<ITEM><HI>Joannes Bapti&s;te Archiepi&s;copus</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Firmanus Nuncius Apo&s;tolicus.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ioannes Rapoten&s;is.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fr. Bo&euml;tius Ro&s;&s;en&s;is.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Walterus Clonferten&s;is.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robertus Corcagien&s;is &amp; Cloan.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fr. Terentius I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">olacen&s;is.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fr. Athon. Epi&s;copus Clonmacnois.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fr. Dioni&s;us &ocirc; Dri&s;coll. Provincialis Augu&s;tinorum.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Patricius Lynch Praepo&s;itus.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fr. Gregorius French.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fr. Bernarlus Connius.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Stephanus Lynch Doctor.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nicholaus Condulmanus.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iames Fallan V. A. A.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iacobus Abbas de Conge.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gregorius Joyce.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Michael Lynch.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at Kilkenny, by command of the Generall A&s;&s;embly, in the yeare of our Lord God, <HI>1648. Phill. Kearney Cler. Gen. Conv.</HI></P>
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