A TRVE COPPY OF A Letter from the Lord cheife Iustices in Ireland, with a Proclamation of the Rebels therein: Dated from Dublin Novem. 5. 1641.

Wherunto is annected certaine Propositions presen­ted to the Parliament by the Marchants for the West-Indy Company: with Answered.

Printed at London, 1641.

A Coppie of a Letter from the Lord cheife Iustices in Ireland, with a Proclamation of the Rebells therein inclosed, together with the massacring of all those, that obeyed not the same.
The Letter was dated the 5. of November. 1641.

From the Castle in Dublin.

THe Calamity on the English and Protestants in Ireland is great, and the mischiefes, that the Rebells have done, are many, and so much the more ought to bee severely executed by reason of a Proclamation, which the Rebells have put out. Commanding all those, that are ei­ther [Page 2] English, or Protestants, to bee gone away immediately after the publishing thereof; or otherwise to take what punish­ment the Rebells shall inflict upon them; and that they doe execute with all cruelty, by cutting off the heads of all those that remaine, and by burning their Villages, and putting both Man, woman and Child, to the sword.

To the House of PARLIAMENT.

Propositions of the Merchants for a West-Jndia Company. VVith the ob­iections made against it, and Answers to the obiections.

The first Proposition.
WHeteher the House would grantt them a free trade or no?

The second Proposition.
Whethe the House would grant it in a [Page 4] publique way or no, to all in generall, that would come in.

The third Proposition.
Whether the House would not grant it to any particular person, that would desire it or no.

Obiections against the East-India Companie.

Obiection the first.
THat the stocke, which should mannage the same, would be too great to venture in the Subiects hands, and bee a meanes to make them too peremptorie against their Prince, if any difference should arise between them.

Obection the second.
The King of Spaines power was so great and so vast, that it would bee very difficult to effect it.

Answers by the Merchants of the VVest-India Company to the Obiections.

Answer the first.
IT cannot bee too great a stocke because shipping can never bee too great, and now more especially, because the defence of the Kingdome lies upon the same.

Answer the second.
The power of Spayne was never so much weakened as now it is, for every Prince pluckes a feather from it; As Portugall, France, and the Low-Countries: therefore England would be very improvident, if it did not share amonst them.

FINIS.

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