are to prosecute that War, as is expressed in our Answer to your Lordships second
Paper of the 19. of February. And when there shall be a Lieutenant of Ireland, and
that he shall joyn with the Commander in chief of the Scotish Army, the said Com∣mander
is to receive Instructions from him, according to the Orders of the Commissi∣oners
of both Kingdoms, as we have said in our Answer to your Lordships second Paper
of this day. Nor doth the naming of the Earl of Leven to be General any more take
away the Power of the two Houses, then if he were a Native of this Kingdom; or is
there any part of the Kingdom of Ireland delivered over into the hands of his Majesties
Subjects of the Kingdom of Scotland, who do only joyn with their Councils and For∣ces
for carrying on the War, and reducing that Kingdom to his Majesties Obedience.
And we conceive it most conducing for the good of his Majesties Service and of
that Kingdom, that the Lieutenant and Judges there should be nominated by the two
Houses of Parliament, as is expressed in the twentieth Proposition, who will recommend
none to be imployed by his Majesty in places of so great trust, but such whose known
Ability and Integrity shall make them worthy of them, which must needs be best known
to a Parliament; nor are they to have any greater Power conferred upon them by
the granting this Proposition, then they have had who did formerly execute those pla∣ces.
And we know no reason why your Lordships should make difficulty of his Maje∣sties
consenting to such Acts as shall be presented unto him for raising Moneys and
other necessaries from the Subject, which is without any charge to himself, for no other
end but the settling of the true Protestant Religion in that Kingdom, and reducing it
to his Majesties Obedience, for which we hold nothing too dear that can be imploy∣ed
by us. And we cannot but wonder that your Lordships should make the prose∣cution
of the War of Ireland, which is but to execute Justice upon those bloody Rebels,
who have broken all Laws of God and Man, their Faith, their Allegiance, all bonds of
Charity, all rules of Humanity and humane Society, who have Butchered so many thou∣sands
of Innocent Christians, Men, Women and Children, whose Blood cries up to Hea∣ven
for Vengeance, so many of his Majesties Subjects, whose Lives he is bound to re∣quire
at their hands that spilt them, and to do Justice upon them to put away innocent
Blood from himself, his Posterity, the whole Land; these execrable Antichristian Rebels,
who have made a covenant with Hell to destroy the Gospel of Christ, and have taken up
Arms to destroy the Protestant Religion, to set up Popery, to rend away one of his
Majesties Kingdoms, and deliver it up into the hands of Strangers, for which they
have negotiations with Spain and other States; a War which must prevent so much
mischief, do so much good, offer up such an acceptable Sacrifice to the Great and
Just God of Heaven, who groans under so much Wickedness to lie so long unpunish∣ed;
a War which must reduce that Kingdom unto his Majesties Obedience, the most
glorious work that this Kingdom can undertake; that the prosecution of such a War
your Lordships should make to depend upon any other condition, that the Distracti∣ons
of these Kingdoms should be laid as an impediment unto it, and that there should
be any thought, any thing which should give those Rebels hope of impunity, if our
Miseries continue, whereas, according to Christian reason and the ordinary course of
God's Providence, nothing can be more probable to continue our Miseries then the
least connivence in this kind. What can be said or imagined should be any induce∣ment
to it? We hope, not to make use of their help and assistance to strengthen any
party here, to bring over such Actors of barbarous Cruelties to exercise the same in
these Kingdoms. We desire your Lordships to consider these things, and that no∣thing
may remain with you which may hinder his Majesty from giving his Consent
to all good means for the reducing of Ireland, according to what is desired by us in
our Propositions.