THE COPY OF A Barbarous and Bloody DECLARATION BY THE IRISH REBELS, AGAINST The Supreame COUNCELL of JRELAND. AND The Votes of the Popiſh Aſſembly at Waterford againſt Peace. AND A Proclamation excommunicating the Clergie of Kilkennie, from ſaying Maskes, or executing any other Church-Offices.
This Declaration and Proclamation is examined, printed and publiſhed according to ORDER.
LONDON Printed for N. E. Anno Dom. 1646.
COncerning the Queſtion between us debated, and diſputed on many dayes together, whether they who accepted a Peace, contained in thirty Articles, tranſmitted to us by the ſupream Councell, were to be declared perjured, and conſequently whether they ſhould be excommunicated as perjured perſons:2 The Opinions and the Reaſons of every one being firſt heard, and the Writings of ſome Doctors of Divinitie read.
It is ordered by one generall conſent, and voted by all (no man gain ſaying it,) That all and ſingular confederate Catholiques, who ſhall adhere to the ſaid Peace, or conſent with the Favourers of it, or after any other manner, ſhall entertain and embrace it, are abſolutely to be accompted perjured, eſpecially, for this reaſon, Becauſe in thoſe Articles there is no mention made of the Catholique Religion, and the ſecuritie thereof, nor regard had of the conſervation of the priviledges of the Countrie, as it was promiſed by the Oath, But that all things are rather referred to the judgment of our moſt renowned King (from whom in this preſent eſtate, wee can have nothing ſetled,) And in the mean time, the Armies, Weapons, and Fortifications, and the ſaid ſupreame Councell of the confederate Catholiques it ſelf, are ſubjected to the Authoritie and Command of the Councell of the State, and the Proteſtant Officers of his Majeſtie, from whom that he might be ſecure, wee have taken that Oath: From which, and many other cauſes moved only by our own Conſciences, and having God before our eyes, that it may be known to all and ſingular, as well Iriſh as Stranger, That we have not, nor will give our conſent to ſuch Peace, except ſafe conditions, as well for our Religion, as for the King, and for the Countrie, according to our Oath bee offered unto us, And that our Flockes, and all our Ca holique People, with our confederate Friends, who in theſe generall meetings, have ſomtimes asked our advice in3 this Spiritual buſineſſe belonging only to a Spirituall Judge, may know certainly what hath been determined by us; to the end, that the godly and faithfull Catholiques, obeying their Shepheards and Paſtors, may concur in the ſame ſentence.
We have commanded this Decree to bee written, and publiſhed in all places in the Engliſh and the Iriſh Tongue, which we have confirmed with our hands and Seals. But the other Queſtion concerning Excommunication, we have referred untill the next Seſſions.
WHereas wee have in publike and private meeting, at ſeveral times declared to the ſupreame Councell, and others whom it might concern, That it was and is unlawfull, and againſt Conſcience; yea, implying perjurie (as it hath been deſigned by a ſpeciall Act of the Convocation now at Waterford) to do or concurre to any Act tending to the approbation or countenancing of the publication of this unconſcionable and miſchievous Peace ſo dangerous (as it is now Articled) to both Common-wealths, Syirituall and Temporall, but more particularly to the Spirituall.
And whereas, notwithſtanding our Declaration of the whole Clergie of the Kingdome to the contrarie, the ſupreame Councell and Commiſſioners have actually proceeded to the Proclamation of it, yea, and forced on the Citie by terrour and threates, rather6 then by any free conſent, or deſire of the people.
We having duly conſidered, and taken to heart, as it becometh, how envious this Fact both is, and appears in Catholiques even againſt God himſelf, And what publike contempt of the holy Church it appeareth, beſides the evills it is like to draw on this poore Kingdome.
After mature deliberation, and conſent of our Clergie (in deteſtation of this heinous and ſcandalous diſobedience of the ſupream Councell) and others who adhere unto them in a matter of Conſcience towards the holy Church, and in hatred to ſo wilfull an abominable an Act, do by theſe preſents (according to the preſcription of ſacred Canons) pronounce and command (from henceforth) a generall Ceſſation of divine Officers throughout all the City and Suburbs of Kilkennie, in all Churches, Monaſteries, and houſes in them whatſoever.
Given at Our Palace of Nova Curia,the 18. day of Auguſt, 1646.
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