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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE


BY THE SVPREAME COVNCELL OF THE CONFEDERAT CATHOLICK OF IRELAND.

[...] cannot be expressed by what suttle practises such, as for their owne ambitious ends, doe fo [...] [...] [...]ctions in the gouernment, doe endeauor to obstruct all the waies, by which the blessing of a settl [...] [...] [...]e protection of the Crowne of England, and his Maiesties authority may be introduced, It was r [...] [...] [...]o haue slaundered our proceedings so farr, as by word and writing, to seeke to perswade the C [...] [...] [...]licks, that wee labour to resussitat the late reiected [...]ce, and that in order thereunto, we had [...] [...]ati [...] [...]ith the Lord Barron of Inchiquin, B [...] [...]ng, that neither by the vniust cen [...] [...] [...]ance thereof, nor the power of that Army, which they had inveigled to stand in opposition [...] our autho­ [...] they could prevaile against the Iustice of our cause, they doe now fill all corners of the King [...]ome, with [...] brute of a Peace less aduantagious to the Nation, then the former, and more preiudiciall to [...]e Catholick [...]igion, said to be concluded by some of our Agents in France, which the Marquess of Ormond ( [...]s they say) [...]o enforce vpon the Kingdome, And though wee find that so malitious and groundless reports [...]e despised [...] all men, that know the honor and integrity of our Agents, and the lymitts which , by theire I [...]structions, [...] sett vnto them, yet to vndeceiue all men that haue not passions too violent, to heape more calamities [...] this afflicted Nation, Wee doe againe repeate that parte of our former Declaration of the two and twentyeth of [...]ay last, And doe by these protest againe, and publicklie declare, that n [...]ither wee, nor any other by ou [...] aduice or as­ [...]nce, shall directly or indirectly, bring in any Peace, but that which by the orders of the last Assembly was directed and [...]mitted to the Agents sent for Rome, France, and Spaine, to be by them obtained, untill the Generall Assembly of the [...]onfederat Catholicks, shall otherwise determine, and that wee will oppose our selues, against all and euery person who shall [...]deavour, in any sorte whatsoeuer, to introduce any other Peace then such, as our said Commissioners haue in charge, from [...] Confederat Catholicks to solicit for them, or such as the said Assembly shall Iudge fitt to be embraced. And whereas a [...] calumny is raised against vs, by the suggestions of some ill disposed persons, who endeuor to perswade [...] [...]ple, that wee are not willing a right vnderstanding should be mediated betweene vs, & the Lord Nuncio, [...] [...]fore to meete such calumny, and the evill construction may be made of our intentions, Doe declar [...] [...] shall not giue any oposition thereunto, but rather esteeme any person of qualitie, a fauourer of the [...]que cause, and a well wisher of the Vnion of the Kingdome, that shall [without preiudice of our Appeale or [...] [...]ch of our publick faith, giuen for maintaining the late concluded Cessation] endeuor to remoue the [...] [...]ousies betweene vs, and his Lordsipp, and shalbe reddy at all tymes, to affoord the said part all befitting [...] [...]ountenance and fauor; Not intending in the meane tyme to omitt enforming the people of th [...] truth of for­ [...]er proceedings, to the'nd noe sinister suggestions may withdraw them from theire obedience to our autho­ [...]y.

  • Mountgarett,
  • Dounboyn,
  • Lucas Dillon,
  • Rob: Lynch,
  • Richard Bellings,
  • Gerald Fenell,
  • Robert Deuereux,
  • Iohn Walsh,
  • Patrick Bryan.
GOD SAVE THE KING.

Printed at Kilkenny in the Yeare of our Lord, 1648.

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