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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE
❧ His Majesties Massage to the House of Commons.
HIs Majestie, taking notice of an Order lately made by the House of Commons, whereby that House hath unduly assumed to themselves Authority to order, direct, and dispose of one hundred thousand pounds, part of those moneys which the Adventurers for the reducing of the Rebels of Ireland have paid to that, and onely to that purpose, to other uses and intents, contrary to the expresse words of the Act of Parliament concerning the same; Wherein it is enacted, That no part of the money, which should be paid in according to that Act, shall be employed to any other purpose, then the Reducing of those Rebels, untill they shall be declared to be subdued, Out of His Piety and Princely care for the confirming and reestablishment of Gods true Religion in that His kingdom of Ireland, for the relief of His distressed Subjects there, for the suppression of that horrid and bloody Rebellion, for the supply and payment of His Armies there, now in great want and necessity, doth strictly require the House of Commons, as they will answer the contrary to Almighty God, His Majestie, & those that have trusted them, That they immediately retract that mischievous, illegall, and unjust Order; Wherein His Majestie expecteth their speedy Answer, and Obedience; And the rather, That he may thereby be secured, That such part of the four hundred thousand Pounds as is or shall be collected from His good Subjects of England, by vertue of the late Act of Parliament, whereby the same is granted, may not likewise (under false pretences) be diverted from its proper use, for which it was intended, and mis-imployed to the Disturbance of the Peace of this Kingdom, in a war against His Sacred Majestie.