§. 11. Observations on the tenth Article.
17. NOble men not estated in Ireland are indeed (by this tenth Article) to purchase within five yeares meanes sutable to their dignitie, yet are they admitted members of all Parliaments that shall be during the intervall, which was nei∣ther mentioned nor admitted in the concessions granted at first by the Lord Marques himselfe. The king by His graces confer∣red on the kingdom in the fourth yeare of His Raigne, granted them, but five yeares time to purchase land from the date of those graces; now well nigh eighteen yeares are past, and yet it pleased the Marques contrary to the said graces recorded in the Chancerie, and published through the whole kingdome, and contrary to his own Concessions, to adde unto those eighteen yeares (without commission) five more, namely five yeares from the cōclusion of these articles. These unestated Lords, together with the Pseudo-Bishops and all rebellious Parliamentary No∣bilitie, Gentrie, and Commons in this Countrey, that hither∣to sided with the Parliament and resolve to come in upon this Peace (as they are invited articles 15.25. &c.) will swarme to the next Parliament, there to make their factions strong & out∣vote the Catholiques. By this, as also by the neglect of the sus∣pension of Poynings Act, it may be doubted whether our Com∣mittee have well discharged that part of the oath of associati∣on, which binds them to maintaine the rights and priviledges of the Parliaments of Ireland. How carelesse soever our Com∣mittee have been herein, wee hope never to see that day that any Heretique Bishop shall ever sit in Parliament to give law, or prescribe a rule unto the Catholiques of Ireland, how and what faith or Religion they shall professe.