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[ CXLV] IT is very contrary to our expectation to find your Lordships unsatisfied, after those Arguments and Reasons alledged by us, that His Majesty had not Power to make the Cessation with the Rebels in Ireland, and that upon the perusal of the Statute, it ap∣pears not to you, that His Majesty had no Power to make that Cessation: it is strange to us your Lordships should forget all the other Arguments used by us from the Com∣mon-Law,
from other Proceedings in Parliament, and Circumstances as this case stands, on which we still insist, and do affirm, that His Majesty had no Power to make or con∣sent to that Cessation: we do not see any just grounds in the Copies of the Letters given us by your Lordships for His Majesties assenting to the Cessation, nor do we know by whom those Letters were written. We are therefore still clearly of opinion, notwith∣standing all your Lordships have alledged, that it was unfit for His Majesty to agree unto that Cessation, being destructive to His good Subjects, and to the Protestant Religion there, and only for the advantage of the Popish Rebels, to the high Dishonour of God, the Disservice of His Majesty, and evident prejudice of His three Kingdoms. We there∣fore again desire your Lordships full Answer to what we have delivered to you con∣cerning Ireland.