A letter from the Right Honourable the Lord Inchiqvin and other the commanders in Munster, to His Majestie: expressing the causes and reasons of their not holding the cessation any longer with the rebels; with their desire intimated to His Majestie, that he would be pleased to renounce any treatie with the rebels any longer, and that he would againe proclaime them rebels, and would now comply with his Parliament, and make a peace with them. With several other letters from the said Lo. Inchiquin and other the commanders in Munster in Ireland to severall other their friends here in England, advising them of their proceedings, with severall motives and reasons to perswade them also to returne unto their former charges in Ireland, and to joyne with them to oppose the said rebels, and for to vindicate with them therein their obligation unto religon, the preservation of that kingdome, and the honour of the English nation. Published by authoritie.

A Copie of a Letter to his Majestie, from the Lord Inchiquin.

May it please your most excellent Majestie,

WE your Majesties most humble and Loyall Subjects the Protestants of the Province of Munster doe with all humility acknowledge your Majesties speciall care to∣wards our preservation, and wee should esteeme our selves guiltie of two high an ingratitude if we should not discharge our duties to God, and your sacred Ma∣jestie, by acquainting you that no peace can be concluded with the Irish Rebells; which will not bring unto your Majestie and the Eng∣lish in generall, a farre greater prejudice then the shew of a peace here will bring us an advantage; and since your Majestie hath shewed us so high a degree of your pious care in all things that might take from our afflictions as our Declaration doth manifest to the world; those acti∣ons shew so piously in your Majestie that you have entrusted us, and makes us humbly beg your Majestie, that you would not so much re∣gard so inconsiderable a handfull of people as we are; as to purchase but a seeming securitie by leaving the Protestant Religion in all likeli∣hood to be extirpated, and your Majestie obnoxious to the losse of this your Kingdome. Indeed it is too truly called a seeming securitie, as in our Declaration which we humbly present unto your Majestie doth largely and plainly appeare, as also with how much reason we have ta∣ken up armes, to defend our Religion, lives, and your Majesties Inter∣ests, and we firmely hope that our infinite wrongs and miseries will be a sufficient motive and rise for your Majestie to send unto the Parlia∣ment for the procuring of a peace in England, without which we must

be (as speedily) as unavoidably ruin'd, and, the Protestant Religion quite rooted out of this Kingdome; We have likewise sent our humble desires to the same purpose unto the Parliament, with a strong beliefe that both your Majestie and they will so seriously consider the justnesse and necessity of the Irish war, that it will wringe the sword out of both your hands, and imploy those armies (which are likely to be de∣structive to the Protestant Religion) for the suppressing of those blou∣dy enemies of the Gospell; and truly when we consider how corre∣spondent this blessed motion is with the goodnesse of your Majesties owne inclination: We doe not despaire but that God which brings the greatest things to passe by the weakest meanes, may through our great necessities and humble prayers, restore England to that just Peace which it hath been so long deprived of. But if the judge∣ments of the Almighty are not all falne upon that Kingdome, and that the just quarrell to this nation, which would be farre more glorious to the English armies, then the wars there, is not a sufficient power to produce our agreement between your Majestie and the Parliament. We doe most humbly beseech your Majestie not to give care to any that shall strive to blemish the Integritie of our proceedings, since we take God to witnesse we aime at nothing but Gods glory, your Majesties ho∣nour, and the safetie of the English Nation.

And that the world may see that your Majestie beleeves us to be (what really we are) we humbly beg your Majestie, as we have like∣wise done the Parliament to send us what supplies of Men, Armes and Ammunition your sacred Majestie thinkes fit for a people, which value not their lives and fortunes, where your Majesties honour is concerned, and that we may die as perfect Martyrs in the opinion of men, as we are certaine all those that suffer in this cause will be in the eye of God; that your sacred Majestie would be pleased to proclaime againe the Irish to be rebels, and not pardon those who have committed so many barbarous crimes, that they are as farre above description, as they are short of honestie, nay, more publiquely, professe they had your Ma∣jesties Commission for what they did: The true sence of this divellish aspertion cast upon your Majestie, with all those other reasons, which we have set down in our Declaration, makes us resolve to die a thou∣sand deaths rather then to condescend to any peace with these perfidi∣ous Rebels; and since death is a tribute we must all pay, who will ap∣prehend the payment of it somewhat the easier to purchase by it a

Kingdome as full of glory as this is now of misery to all honest men, neither is this onely the resolution of all the most considerable men amongst us, but of all in generall; for our gracious God hath so inspired the hearts of all the Commonaltie, that they have vowed never to de∣sert the cause that is so visibly God Almighties, and we beseech the Almightie so to direct your sacred Majestie, that our great miseries may through your Majesties pious furtherance beget that blessed peace in England, which is so zealously praid for by

Your Majesties most humble, most obe∣dient, and most loyall Subjects, Inchiquin. Broughill. Tho. Searle. Fenton. Percy. Smith. Will. Brockett. Agm. Muschampt.

Corke, 17. July, 1644.