XVI.
That the said Earl of Strafford, the Two and twentieth of Februry, in the Seventh year of his * 1.1 now Majesties Reign, intending to oppress the said Subjects of Ireland, did make a proposition, and obtained from his Majesty an allowance, that no complaint of injustice or oppression done in Ireland, should be received in England against any, unless it first appeared that the party made first his address to him the said Earl: And the said Earl having by such usurped tyrannical and exorbitant Power, expressed in the former Articles, destroy∣ed the Peers and other Subjects of that Kingdom of Ireland, in their Lives, Consciences, Land, Liberties, and Estates; the said Earl, to the in∣tent the better to maintain and strengthen his Power, and to bring the People into a disaffecti∣on of his Majesty, as aforesaid; did use his Maje∣sties name in the execution of his said power. And to prevent the Subjects of that Realm of all means of complaints to his Majesty, and of redress against him and his Agents, did issue a Proclamation bearing date the Seventeenth day of September, in the Eleventh year of his Majesties Reign, thereby commanding all the Nobility, Undertakers and others, who held Estates and Offices in the said Kingdom (except such as were imployed in his Majesties Service, or attending in England by his special Command) to make their personal residence in the said Kingdom of Ireland, and not to depart thence without licence of himself. And the said Earl hath since issued other Proclamations to the same purpose, by means whereof the Subjects of the said Realm are restrained from seeking relief against the oppres∣sions of the said Earl, without his licence: Which Proclamation the said Earl hath by several rigorous ways, as by Fine, Imprisonment, and otherwise, put in execution on his Majesties Sub∣jects, as namely, one—Parry, and others, who came over only to complain of the exorbi∣tances and oppressions of the said Earl.
Testified by the Earl of Desmond, the Lord Roch, Marcattee, and Parry.