A letter from the Lord Deputy-General of Ireland, unto the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Parliament of England; concerning the rendition of the city of Limerick: together with the articles formerly offered, and the articles upon which the same was surrendred: as also a particular of the persons excepted, the ammunition and ordnance in the town delivered upon the surrender of the said city. Friday the 28th of November, 1651. Ordered by the Parliament, that the letter from the Deputy-General of Ireland, and articles, together with the particulars inclosed, be forthwith printed and published; and read by the ministers on the day appointed for thanks to be given in the several congregations. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1650 : Ireton) 1651 Approx. 37 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 13 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2011-04 (EEBO-TCP Phase 2). A87206 Wing I1032 Thomason E647_9 ESTC R202610 99862838 99862838 115016

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A87206) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 115016) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 99:E647[9]) A letter from the Lord Deputy-General of Ireland, unto the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Parliament of England; concerning the rendition of the city of Limerick: together with the articles formerly offered, and the articles upon which the same was surrendred: as also a particular of the persons excepted, the ammunition and ordnance in the town delivered upon the surrender of the said city. Friday the 28th of November, 1651. Ordered by the Parliament, that the letter from the Deputy-General of Ireland, and articles, together with the particulars inclosed, be forthwith printed and published; and read by the ministers on the day appointed for thanks to be given in the several congregations. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1650 : Ireton) Ireton, Henry, 1611-1651. England and Wales. Parliament. 24 p. Printed by John Field, printer to the Parliament of England, London : 1651. With the Parliament's order dated 28 Nov. 1651. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

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A LETTER FROM The Lord Deputy-General OF IRELAND, Unto the Honorable William Lenthal Eſq Speaker of the PARLIAMENT of ENGLAND; Concerning the Rendition of the City of LIMERICK: Together with the Articles formerly offered, and the Articles upon which the ſame was Surrendred: As alſo a Particular of the perſons excepted, the Ammunition and Ordnance in the Town delivered upon the Surrender of the ſaid CITY.

Friday the 28th of November, 1651.

ORdered by the Parliament, That the Letter from the Deputy-General of Ireland, and Articles, together with the Particulars incloſed, be forthwith Printed and Publiſhed; and read by the Miniſters on the day appointed for Thanks to be given in the ſeveral Congregations.

Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.

London, Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of ENGLAND, 1651.

For the moſt Honorable Willian Lenthal Eſq Speaker of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of ENGLAND. Mr. Speaker,

IT was no ſmall Bleſſing in order to your Affairs here, nor without manifeſt appearances of the Power and Providence of God, That your Forces entruſted with me, got a Paſſage over the River Shanon ſo early in the Summer; But that for the matter of it (to ſuch as neither ſaw nor can have a clear Relation of the maner and Circumſtances wherein God appeared) being rather but the making way for further progreſs in your Buſineſſes, then a thing of viſible effect in it ſelf, and nothing ſince then conſiderable having been effected by that part of your Forces with me, ſave the taking of ſome few ſmall Caſtles in Thomond, and poſſeſſing of others that were of advantage and conſequence for you, with Gariſons; and thoſe things of the like, or other nature, wherein God hath bleſt the reſt of your Forces and Parties in other Parts, having, I ſuppoſe, come to your knowledge more immediately from the ſeveral perſons commanding them. I have forborn to trouble you with any immediate account from my ſelf of what hath been done; But God, who having onely given ſome Teſtimonies of his continuing Favor to your Cauſe, and preſence with your Servants here in the beginning of this Summers Service (in the giving of ſuch a ſeaſonable and eaſie Paſſage to us over the Shanon) and therewith (in a few days more, the Poſſeſſion or Command of almoſt all the Paſſes over it, when before we had not any) hath ſince ſeen it good to deny us thus long any further conſiderable effect in any thing, and to exerciſe our Faith and Patience with divers ſmall Loſſes in the ſurprize of ſeveral ſmall Gariſons and Parties, by the lurching Enemy (mixt with the ſmaller Succeſſes he hath given to any of your Forces, having now vouchſafed to Crown the Summers Service in the cloſe of it, with giving into your hands a place of ſuch Strength, Value and Importance, as the City of Limerick, I thought it my duty hereby to give you an account of it, and preſent to your view the Conditions on which it is Surrendred to you, wherewith I thought it not amiſs to ſend alſo a Copy of the Conditions, which about the end of June and beginning of July laſt, were thought fit by advice of your Councel of War, here with me to be tendered to the Soldiery and people within (if they would have Surrendred then, but were rejected) by both which being compared together (as you will ſee them in incloſed Papers) you may finde how far God ſuffered them to be hardened then to their own loſs in the iſſue, and hath made their Obſtinacy then and ſince, ſerve to your greater advantage at laſt, not onely in point of Freedom for proſecution of Juſtice, one of the great Ends and beſt Grounds (before God and men) of the War you have maintained here; and in point of ſafety to Engliſh Planters, and the ſetling and ſecuring of the Commonwealths Intereſt in this Nation; but alſo in reſpect of valuable benefit to the State, which in the value of Arms and Ammunition, with ſome Goods of excepted perſons, and of the Houſes and Lands of the reſt by the firſt Conditions tendered, in great part to have been granted away, but by theſe at laſt reſerved clearly in your Power) may be ſome conſiderable Compenſation for your charge in the Four moneths longer Siege: For the length whereof, and detaining ſo great a part of your Forces from any other work conſiderable in all this Summer paſt, I can at this diſtance give onely this account at preſent, That it pleaſed God after that loſs he left us to in the attempt upon the Iſland (which had it ſucceeded, had given us an eaſie way and viſible advantage for a ſpeedy attempt of the City by way of Force, that hath ſince been fully provided againſt by their induſtrious working) not to incline the hearts of our Officers at any of the Councels of War held ſince for that purpoſe, to think a way of preſent force againſt the place adviſable, but onely to provide by way of Siege to ſtarve them, until of late (after we had largely provided both for ſecurity and ſubſiſtence of a ſufficient part of the Army (through Gods bleſſing) to have attended the Siege unto a far longer iſſue of extremity, finding the ſuppoſition of their ſudden falling into want (which was conceived would have been in two Moneths, or three at the moſt, and ſo have given us ſome competent ſeaſon for the work remaining) to fail us; and finding alſo ſome hopeful advantage for an attempt by way of Battery, at a place we had little obſerved before (God having as it were till very lately hid the advantage of it from our eyes) we reſolved at laſt to try that way, whether it would pleaſe God (by the apprehenſions of preſent danger to them in the way of force, added to the foreſight of more certain extremity by Famine at laſt, though the other ſhould fail) ſo to work upon their hearts within, as might induce a preſent Surrender before extremity of Winter, and ſo ſave your ſickly Army from the hazards and hardſhips of a Winters Siege: And ſince this Reſolution taken, ſending to ſeveral places as ſpeedily as we could for ſome more Battering-Guns to recruit our Train (in lieu of thoſe ſo careleſly loſt at Clare, as I ſuppoſe you have heard) ſo ſoon as we had a number of them competent for ſuch a work, we began our Approaches in one night, and finiſhed our Batteries and planted our Guns the ſecond, and next morning began to Batter; whereupon they preſently ſent out to give us aſſurance they would accept our Conditions for the matter (which upon an overture of Treaty about three weeks ago we had tendred them, and about which they had ſent out Commiſsioners ſince from time to time, ſtill continuing or renuing the Treaty, but with no effect; and that day ſending out Commiſſioners to us again in the evening, to have the Articles perfected in Circumſtances) we came to a concluſion upon them by the next morning; we cannot tell whether the danger of preſent Force, or foreſight of want did more incline them, but finde clearly that Diviſions and Diſtractions within (which God alone had wrought amongſt them) were moſt prevalent towards the Surrender: There marched out at the Surrender about Twelve or thirteen hundred Officers and Soldiers in pay (being decreaſed in the Siege to that number, from about Two thouſand by the beſt account we had) and we finde yet in the Town, I believe, no leſs then Four thouſand men able to bear Arms: It appears ſtill very Populous, though ſince we came laſt before it, they have loſt, as they account to us, above Five thouſand Souls, what through the Sword without, and the Famine and Plague within (the laſt whereof is ſtill violent amongſt them, to the great endangering your Soldiery here, if God by diſtinguiſhing mercy prevent not) and this way, as well as in the outſtanding of better Conditions from us, God hath rendred their Obſtinacy a ſcourge to themſelves, and made us in the way he ſaw it good to incline us to a means to keep them under his own more immediate and righteous Judgement. We have about Three thouſand five hundred Foot Arms already delivered up and brought into ſtores for your Service, and Eighty three Barrels of Powder, with ſome ſtore of other Ammunition, and ſome Piſtols and old Saddles, but no Horſes: We hope to finde yet more Arms and Ammunition, and intend ſpeedily to clear the place of a multitude of People that are moſt dangerous (either in Quality or Infection) and by degrees it may be rendred more Engliſh, as you or your Miniſters ſhall finde opportunity of Planters, though there are now divers of the now Inhabitants (and ſome perſons of Quality amongſt them) whoſe carriage all along towards the Engliſh People and Intereſt, and particularly in this ſurrender, may deſerve your admittance to continue here, and favorable dealing in point of their Eſtates. Of the perſons excepted from quarter there was onely the Governor and ten more, whoſe names are mentioned in the incloſed note, that rendred themſelves at our mercy, none of which we have yet executed, nor are yet well reſolved how to deal with them, though I ſuppoſe we ſhall ſee cauſe to execute ſome of them in a Military way, in relation to the holding out of the place, and for terrors to others; and there are others of them fit to be reſerved for examples of Juſtice in a Judicial way, in relation to the firſt Rebellion and Murthers: But it hath pleaſed God ſince the ſurrender, providentially to diſcover and deliver into our hands, three perſons of principal Activity and Influence in the obſtinate holding out (the laſt years Major, the Biſhop of Emley, and Major General Purcell; all whom we preſently hanged, and have ſet up their heads on the gates; the two latter being original Incendiaries of the Rebellion and Miſchiefs in it, or prime Engagers therein, and alſo one Captain Welſh a Prieſt, whom we have not yet executed, but I think ſhall. Now beſides the real importance and advantage of this place towards the further carrying on or ending the War, and the ſetling and ſecuring of your Intereſt in this Nation (if God ſee it good) it is not unhopeful that the terror and ſad example of it may ſo work upon other places remaining (through Gods bleſſing) as to haſten or facilitate the reducement of them, as much as the long detaining us at this Siege hath retarded it, ſave that the winter ſeaſon and difficulty of ſubſiſting now (for Horſe or men) in the Field, about their remaining Gariſons, may give them ſo much breathing time, as to digeſt and forget this example; however, it was a Mercy moſt ſeaſonable, in relation to the preſent condition of your Men, and ſtate of your Affairs in this Land (as well as great in effect) that this place was now Surrendred to you on ſuch Terms; and God doth (by the extremity of Winter weather, ever ſince our Agreement, whereas he had till then, favored us with a more dry and gentle Seaſon then hath been ordinarily known before for ſo long time together, and ſo late in the year) make it appear more feeling to be ſo: And you (as we that ſerve you here) may accordingly adde it to the account of thoſe other great Bleſſings and Deliverances, and more glorious Workings of Gods good hand towards you this year in England and Scotland, which you have to acknowledge to the Praiſe of his Great Name, and improve to his further Honor and Service in the Advancement of Righteouſneſs and Truth in the Three Nations, and furthering the Exaltation of all that is indeed the Intereſt of the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, who hath ſo graciouſly owned, and thus far Upheld and Eſtabliſhed yours. Now that you, and thoſe that ſerve and partake with you in theſe things, may be both intent to conſider and ſeek, and taught of him more and more what maner of perſons we ought to be, and what to do for his Name, and made (through his greater Grace) both really to be, and faithfully to do in ſome ſort more anſwerable to ſuch peculiar Favors of his, and Experiences or Teſtimonies thereof towards us, and preſerved by him from the many Snares and Temptations, attending ſuch Advantages to ſuch corrupt Natures, is ſtill the hearts deſire and prayer of him, who hath been very little, and grows leſs able otherwiſe to ſerve you.

Your moſt humble Servant, H: IRETON. Limerick, 3. Novemb. 1651.
A Copy of Conditions tendred to the Gariſon and City of Limerick June 30. 1651. upon ſurrender thereof.

1. AN Article for the ſurrender, &c.

2. That in conſideration of the ſurrender, &c. all perſons whatſoever within the City and Gariſon of Limerick ſhall have quarter for their lives, and liberty of their perſons, without pillage, plunder, or other Militery violence to their perſons or goods during their continuance under ſafe Conduct or Protection, by vertue of the enſuing Articles reſpectively.

3. That all Officers and Soldiers of the Forces in pay, and not belonging to the Militia of the City of Limerick, ſhall have liberty to march away to any Gariſon or Quarter of the Iriſh party with their Horſes, Arms, and other equipage ſuitable to the ſeveral qualities they ſerve in reſpectively, Bag and Baggage, Drums beating, Colours flying, their Fire-arms loaden and primed, Bandeliers and Flaſques full of Powder, Matches lighted at both ends; and to have ſuch Carriage for their Goods as the County will afford provided for them (they paying reaſonable rates for the ſame) And ſhall be allowed _____ Moneths time for the removall of any goods to them duly belonging which they leave behinde them, except Arms, Ammunition, or other furniture of War.

4. That all other perſons of what quality ſoever now in the ſaid City, that deſire to march with them, ſhall have liberty ſo to do, with the ſame freedom, priviledge, time and benefit, for the carrying away of their Bag and Baggage, and removing of their goods (except Ammunition, and all Arms or other furniture of War, ſave travelling Arms, with which they ſhall be allowed to march) as is granted to the Soldiery in the laſt preceding Article.

5. That any of the Officers, Soldiers, or others now in the City (except Clergy-men, and ſuch as were in Arms or otherwiſe in Hoſtility, which, or for thoſe that committed the murthers and outrages in the firſt Inſurrection before the firſt general Aſſembly, or that ſat in the ſaid firſt Aſſembly) if within _____ days they ſhall deſire to lay down Arms, and to ſubmit to the authority of the Parliament of England, ſhall be admitted ſo to do, and to live at their homes or with their friends, and ſhall have Protection in their perſons and eſtates on the ſame Terms as the reſt of the inhabitants of the Countrey of the ſame Conditious or Qualifications with themſelves.

6. That all the Citizens or Inhabitants in the ſaid City that are Free-men or members of the Corporation, and were ſo before the firſt of October, One thouſand ſix hundred and fifty, and all the Widows and Children of them that were ſuch (with their families and ſervants) who ſhall be willing to live under the Government of the Common-wealth of England, and ſubmit to Contribution proportionably with their neighbors (except ſuch as come within the exception made in the laſt foregoing Article) ſhall freely enjoy all their perſonal eſtates where ever the ſame be (except Arms, Ammunition and other furniture of War) to themſelves and their aſſigns (paying to the State of England one third part of the value of their perſonal Eſtates viſible within this Dominion, from ſuch onely as have perſonal Eſtates viſible within this Dominion, from ſuch onely as have perſonal Eſtates to the value of one hundred pounds and upwards, but the reſt to enjoy the whole freely; and ſhall likewiſe enjoy two third parts of their Eſtates real (lying without the City of Limerick and Liberties thereof) or the full value of the ſame to themſelves, their Heirs or Aſſigns; and ſhall alſo enjoy their reſpective Intereſts in their Houſes in the City, except ſuch of them as ſhall be thought fit to be removed out of the Gariſon, in order to the ſecuring thereof, who ſhall have liberty to ſet or ſell their ſaid Houſes to the beſt advantage of themſelves, their Heirs or Aſſigns, paying (in caſe of ſale) a third part of the price they make, to the uſe of the State of England, and ſhall have moneths time (after warning given them to depart) for removal and diſpoſing of themſelves, their families and goods as they pleaſe, and Protection to live in any part of this Dominion within the Power of the Parliament of England (not being a Gariſon, or a Countrey planted intirely with Engliſh, or ſet apart to be ſo) or ſhall have Paſſes to remove to any Foreign parts if they ſo deſire. And thoſe of the ſaid Citizens (not within the aforeſaid Exception) who ſhall ſubmit upon theſe Terms, and perform the ſame on their parts, ſhall have Indempnity for any things done in proſecution of the War.

An Anſwer of the Commiſsioners of the Engliſh Army to the particular Exceptions of the Commiſſioners for the City of Limerick, againſt the Conditions tendred upon the Treaty in June and July, One thouſand ſix hundred fifty one.

1. TO the firſt Exception, we ſhall allow a proviſo for the Citizens as follows; Provided, and and it is hereby declared concerning all and every the ſaid Citizens, That they or any of their being ingaged in Arms in the beſieging and reducing of the Caſtle of Limerick, after the coming in of the Iriſh Forces under General Barry into the Town (though it was before the ſaid firſt general Aſſembly) ſhall not conclude or be underſtood to conclude them or any of them within the Exception afore going, except ſuch of them as ſhall appear by ſufficient evidence to have contrived, procured, endevored, or wittingly furthered the letting in of the Iriſh Forces into the Town, or to have been otherwiſe guilty (as parties or immediate acceſſaries) to ſome particular murther of the Engliſh or Proteſtant people before the ſaid firſt general Aſſembly.

And as to the Soldiery, Nobility and Gentry now in the City, we are content that they be admitted to live in Protection, they ſubmitting themſelves and their Eſtates to the judgement of the Parliament of England, although they were in Arms during the firſt year of the War.

2. To the ſecond, We cannot allow any Ordnance or other furniture of War, but what is granted by our Articles, onely we are content that all Ships belonging to any private perſons remain to the diſpoſal of the owners.

3. To the third, We ſhall not grant any power to leavy Arrears in our Quarters as to the Runaways, and hertofore Protected perſons, although they be not mentioned expreſly, yet it is intended the Quarter ſhould extend to them, we are willing to prefix a time, and grant an Indempnity from Suits during the time mentioned in the Exception.

4. To the fourth, We ſhall be willing to allow all the Protected perſons Horſes and travelling Arms as we do to other Protected people, as to perſons formerly Protected and not within the reach of the Exception, paying the Arrears of their Contribution due to the Parliaments party, they ſhall be received into Protection as formerly. To the reſt, we adhere to our Articles.

5. To the fifth, We ſhall not treat concerning Religion.

6. To the ſixth, We ſhall adhere to our Article, unleſs they be willing to wave their Indempnity from private Suits.

7. To the ſeventh, We muſt adhere to our Propoſal.

8. To the eighth, We ſhall adhere to our Propoſition.

9. To the ninth, It is intended that all ſuch of the Citizens as are by theſe Articles allowed to enjoy their Eſtates real and perſonal, ſhould have full liberty to ſell and diſpoſe the ſaid Eſtates to their beſt advantage and liberty, with their Wives, Families and Goods to paſs beyond the Seas when they ſhall think good.

10. The tenth, We ſhall not Treat upon.

11. To the eleventh, It is intended that all ſuch of the Citizens as are not within the Exception, ſhall have full liberty to trade at home and abroad as other Engliſh Subjects.

12. To the twelfth, The proviſo of our Propoſition enjoyns no ſale of any part of their Eſtates in the City.

13. To the thirteenth, It is intended they ſhould enjoy all their real Eſtates in any Corporation or place of this Dominion, except Gariſons.

The names of the Commiſſioners in behalf of the Parliaments Army, Lieutenant General Edmund Ludlow, Adjutant General William Allen, Judge Advocate Philip Cartret, Major Anthony Morgan, Major Brian Smith.

Articles agreed upon the twenty ſeventh day of October, One thouſand ſix hundred fifty one, by and between Henry Ireton Eſquire, Deputy General of Ireland on the one part, and Bartholomew Stackpoll Recorder of the City of Limerick, or Dominick White Alderman of the ſame, Nicholas Haley Eſquire, Lieutenant Colonel Piers Lacy, Lieutenant Colonel Donogh O-Brien, and John Baggot Eſquire, Commiſsioners appointed by and on the behalf of the Governor and Major of the ſaid City, to Treat and Conclude for the ſurrender thereof on the other part.

1. THat the City of Limerick, with the Caſtle, and all places of ſtrength in the City be ſurrendred into the hands of the ſaid Deputy General of Ireland, for the uſe of the Parliament and Common-wealth of England, upon, or before the twenty ninth day of October inſtant at noon, together with all the Ordnance, Arms, Ammunition, and other furniture of War therein, and all the Goods of any kinde not allowed by the enſuing Articles to be carried away or kept by the owners, and this without waſte, ſpoil, or embezlement. And the full poſſeſſion of Johns Gate and Priors Mill ſhall be delivered unto the ſaid Deputy General or ſuch Guards as they ſhall appoint (not exceeding an hundred men for Johns Gate) this day by Sun-ſet; and for performance hereof, the above named Lieutenant Colonel Piers Lacy, Lieutenant Colonel Donogh O-Brien, Alderman Dominick White, and Nicholas Haley Eſquire, ſhall remain as Hoſtages with the ſaid Deputy-General, until the Surrender of the ſaid City.

2. That in conſideration thereof, all perſons now in the City (except ſuch as are hereafter excepted) ſhall have Quarter for their Lives, liberty of their perſons, their Cloathes, Money, and other Goods, ſo as to be free from Pillage, Plunder, or other hoſtile violence in their Perſons or Goods during their continuance under the ſaid Deputies ſafe Conduct or Protection, by vertue of the enſuing Articles reſpectively: But whereas through the practices of ſome perſons more eminent and active then the reſt, both amongſt the Clergy, Military-Officers, the Citizens, and other ſorts of men within the large Conditions formerly tendred for Surrender, have been rejected. The ſubſequent occaſions or opportunies for timely making of Conditions neglected and avoided, the diſpoſitions and deſires of many perſons within to that purpoſe, is oppoſed, reſiſted and reſtrained, and the generality of the people partly deluded and deceived (to the keeping of them in vain expectations of relief from one time to another) and partly over-awed, or enforced by their power to concur and contribute this long to the obſtinate holding out of the place; therefore the perſons hereafter named, viz. Major General Hay Oniel the Governor, Major General Purcel, Sir Jeffry Galway, Lieutenant Colonel Lacy, Captain George Wolf, Captain Lieutenant Sexton, the Biſhop of Limerick, the Biſhop of Emley, John Quillin a Dominican Friar, David Roch a Dominican Friar, Captain Laurence Welſh a Prieſt, Francis Wolf a Franciſcan Friar, Philip O Diepe Prieſt, Alderman Dominick Fanning, Alderman Thomas Stretch, Alderman Jordan Roch, Edmund Roch Burgeſs, David Rocheford Burgeſs, Sir Richard Everard, Docter Higgin Maurice Baggot of Baggotſtown, and Jeffry Barron (being as aforeſaid the Principals appearing in ſuch Practices in this Siege, and the holding out ſo long; as alſo Evan the Welch Soldier who ran into Limerick; and all other perſons that have been imployed, and come into the City as Spies ſince the Fourth day of June laſt, ſhall be excepted and excluded from any benefit of this Article, or any other Articles enſuing, and ſuch of them as can be found within the Garriſon, ſhall be rendred up at Mercy upon the Surrender of the City: And any ſuch perſons as ſhall be found to hide or conceal any of the ſaid expected perſons, or be privy to their Concealment or attempt of Eſcape, and not diſcover, and do their beſt endeavor to prevent the ſame, ſhall thereby be underſtood to have forfeited the benefit of theſe Articles to themſelves; but otherwiſe, none ſhall loſe that benefit for other mens default in their Concealment or eſcape, or for the not rendring of them up as aforeſaid.

3. That all Officers, Soldiers and other perſons now in the City (not excepted in the laſt precedent Article) ſhall alſo have liberty to march away with their Cloathes, Bag and Baggage, Money, and all other their Goods of what kinde ſoever, except Arms, Ammunition, and other Utenſils of War (carrying nothing but their own) to what place or places they ſhall chooſe reſpectively within the Dominion of Ireland, not being a Gariſon for the Parliament (all the Field-Officers of Horſe and Foot, and Captains of Horſe, with their Horſes, Piſtols and Swords, and other the Commiſſioned Officers with their Swords onely) And ſhall have Three Moneths time after the Surrender to remove any Goods of their own, that they ſhall not think fit ſooner to carry with them; and ſuch of them as ſhall chooſe to go to any Gariſons, or Parties of the Enemy, ſhall have Convoy or ſafe conduct for that purpoſe, for ſuch time as ſhall be requiſite for their march, at the rate of Ten miles a day, and ſhall have Cariages and proviſion allowed from the Countrey at the uſual rates.

4. That ſuch of the Citizens and Inhabitants intereſted in the City, as are not excepted in the ſecond Article, and ſhall not preſently march away as aforeſaid, but deſire to continue longer in the City, ſhall (upon application for that purpoſe to the ſaid Deputy Generall, or the chief Officer commanding in Limerick after the Surrender) have Licenſe given them to ſtay, either for ſuch further time as the ſaid Deputy General, or the ſaid chief Officer preſent ſhall finde convenient, or until further warning given them to depart; and in caſe of ſuch Licenſe given till further warning, ſhall have Four moneths time allowed from and after ſuch warning, for the removal of themſelves and their Families, and Six moneths for the removal of their Goods, and during ſuch further time limited, or in caſe of reference to further warning, during their continuance there to the time of warning given; and for the ſaid Four moneths and Six moneths after reſpectively, ſhall be protected in their Families and Goods from all Injury and Violence, and at any time as they ſhall deſire within the ſaid ſpace or ſpaces reſpectively ſhall have liberty and ſafe conduct for the removal of themſelves, their Families and Goods, to any place or places within this Dominion, not being gariſoned for the Parliament as aforeſaid; and if they ſhall not be admitted to reſide elſwhere in protection within this Dominion, they ſhall have liberty, for themſelves, their Wives, Children and Goods, to paſs beyond the Seas; Provided that they pay their due proportion of what Taxes and other Contribution ſhall be charged upon the City, from the day of the Surrender to the day of the removal, in due proportion with other places in Ireland, and behave themſelves as becometh: And ſuch of the ſaid Citizens and Inhabitants as having not Licenſe to ſtay until further warning, ſhall within a moneth after the Surrender be ordered to depart, ſhall have the ſame benefit of the Third Article, as thoſe that march away immediately upon the Surrender.

5. That all ſuch perſons now in the City, as ſhall deſire to live peaceably under protection, and ſubmit to the Parliament of England (except the perſons excepted in the ſecond Article aforegoing, and except all Clergy-men, Prieſts and Friars of any Order) ſhall upon their application to that purpoſe, have Licenſe and protection to live quietly at any ſuch place or places within this Dominion as they ſhall deſire, and the ſaid Deputy General finde convenient to admit; but ſuch Protection ſhall not be underſtood to extend either to the aſſuring of them in the enjoyment of their Lands or other Hereditaments; or to the granting of other Indempnity or Freedom from any Queſtion or Proſecution to Juſtice in a Judicial way, for any Crimes they may be guilty of, except to ſuch perſons as ſhall be found fit to have that Mercy and Favor expreſly granted to them, or to others for a certain time to be limited for that purpoſe; but to ſuch as ſhall have protection for a limited time, either Citizens or others, it is intended they ſhall be freed from any Suit or Cenſure in the Civil Judicature for things done in relation to the War during the time limited.

Memorandum, As to the fourth Article aforegoing, it is intended, That the Citizens (not excepted againſt within a Moneth) may tatry (without particular Application) and have Four Moneths after warning given to remove themſelves and Families, and ſix Moneths to carry away their Goods.

Memorandum, Alſo that all Soldiers or other perſons, not excepted in the third Article, who through Sickneſs are diſabled to remove themſelves at preſent, ſhall have liberty to march away when they ſhall recover, and have equal benefit with others in their Conditions reſpectively; And that from twelve of the Clock this day, there ſhall be Ceſſation of all acts of Hoſtility on either part, but the perſons Beſieged not to come without the Walls or Iſland, ſaving into Johns Gate, until the time limited for Surrender, without Licenſe from the other part reſpectively.

And laſtly it is agreed, That no perſon ſhall be underſtood to forfeit the benefit of any the Articles for another mans Breach thereof, unleſs he be found to be conſenting thereto, or privy to it, without diſcovering or endeavoring to prevent it, provided this extend not to Indempnifie the Hoſtages in caſe of failer of Surrender. In Teſtimony whereof, the parties firſt above mentioned have Interchangeably ſet to their Hands and Seals the day and year firſt above written.

Bar: Flacpol, Hen: O Bryan. Domi: White. Pu ſ: Lacy. Nic: Haly. John Bagot.
The Names of thoſe excepted perſons that rendred themſelves up at mercy at the Surrender of Limerick, 29 Oct. b. One thouſand ſix hundred fifty one. Major Gen: Hugo O Neil. Sir Jeffry Gallway. Sir Richard Everard. Mr. Jordan Roch Alderman. Mr. Jeffry Barron. Major Maurice Baggot. Doctor Daniel Higgin. Edmund Roch Burgeſs. George Wolf Captain. Lieutenant Coll Piers Lacy.
Theſe were taken ſince the reſt ſubmitted, and Executed. The Biſhop of Emley. Major General Purcel. The late Major. Tho: Stretch. Captain Welſh Prieſt.
An Accompt of the Ammunition and Arms received from the Soldiers and Inhibitants of Limerick, 30 October 1651. Barrels of Power 83 Barrels of mixt ſhot 23 Match three Tun and an half Fixed and fixable Muſquets 1654 Broken Muſquets and Muſquet Barrels 1610 Fowling Pieces, Firelocks and Carbines 215 Pikes 512 Half Pikes 30 Holberts 93 Brown Bills 27 Piſtols moſt unfixed 109 Collers of Bandeliers 246 Old Swords 140 Old Saddles 72

Beſides round Shot, Backs, Breſts, Head-pieces, Pioniers Tools, Powder, Flasks, &c. whereof an account is not yet taken. Nath: Boyſh.

A list of the Ordnance taken in Limerick. 30 October, 1651. Braſs Guns. Demy Cannon 2 Demy Culverin 1 Saker, 1 Faulknet 1 Small Drake 1 Iron Ornance. Culverin 1 Saker 2 Menion 7 Falkon 2 Falkenet 3
Friday the 28th of Novem. 1651. Ordered by the Parlliament,

THat the Miniſters in the ſeveral Congregations within the Cities of London and Weſtminſter, and the late Lines of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality, Do on the next Lords-day come Seven-night, render ſolemn Thanks to Almighty God for his great and ſeaſonable Mercy to this Commonwealth, in the delivering up into the hands of the Parliament Forces in Ireland, under the Command of the Deputy-General, the ſtrong and Populous City of Limerick, with all the Artillery, Arms and Ammunition therein, upon the Thirtieth of October, One thouſand ſix hundred fifty one; and in the taking of the Iſle of Jerſey and the Iſle of Man, with all the Caſtles and Forts, Ordnance and Ammunition therein.

Ordered, That the Lord Major, and Committees of the Militia's, be required to take order for notice of this Order to be given.

Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. FINIS.