I. For firft, Out of the whole Province of Munster, containing thefe following large and rich Counties, viz. Tipperary, Limerick, Cork, Kerry and Clare, no one hath yet appeared. II. Out of the whole Province of Connaght, containing thefe Counties, Rofcommon, Mayo, Galway, Sligoe and Leitrim, there have only eleven out of Leitrim given in their Loffes, being 1352 l. 4 s. 8 d. III. Out of the Province of Ulfter, these alone have appeared themselves, viz. d. 1. S. 4332 ΟΙ 04 47418 07 Fermanagh, 94. Examinates 26947 ΙΟ 08 >Their Loffes 03802 12 08 Tyron, 2. Examinates 01667 00 00 London-Derry, 1. Examinate Monaghan, 31. Examinates 36181 00 08 None appearing out of the Counties of Down, Antrim, or Donegall. IV. Fourthly, For the Province of Leinster, the Number of the Examinates is as followeth, County of Dublin, 72. Exam.) County of Kildare, 57. Ex. County of Wicklow, 65. Ex. County of Wexford, 38. Ex. County of Catherlagh, 16.Ex. In the County of Kilkenny, 5. Ex. County of Meath, 46. Exam. County of Westmeath, 7. Ex. Kings County, 9. Examinates Queens County, 14. Exam. County of Longford, 28. Ex. ง. Fifthly, Of thofe Counties that have come in, one being confidered with another, not the five hundred Part hath appeared, there being of them, 1. Many imprifoned, or befieged by the Rebels. 2. Many gone into England, before the beginning of this Commotion, and fince. 3. Multitudes murthered, and none hitherto appearing for them, 4. Many 4. Many thousands, by reason of the Danger of the wayes, not daring to appear. 5. Many being fick and weak, by reason of their Sufferings, so not able to appear. 6. Many there are who (in time) purpose to give in the particulars of their Loffes, but for the prefent forbear being in many respects not prepared for the doing thereof. 7. Laftly, of fuch as have given in their Particulars, few can depose to the full of their Loffes, wanting the Help of their Papers torn from them, or of their Agents, who could inform them of their Estates, they being remote in the Country, and there imprisoned, or befieged, or by reason of the danger of the Wayes, not daring to adventure from fuch Places of Safety, as they have betaken themselves unto, if perhaps they have not altogether perished by the Hand of the Enemy. The fame Confideration may also induce any to beleeve that of the other Particulars in the faid Remonftrance, either for Words blafphemous against God, impious against Religion, or traiterous towards His facred Majefty, or for Actions, wicked, cruell, or barbarous, or for discovery of the Minds and Intents of thefe Confpirators, and their Adherents, the least part hath been fet forth in the faid Remonftrance, and Examinations thereunto annexed; and yet that alone is fufficient, and more than enough to fet forth the miferable Condition of the poor diftreffed Church, and miferable wafted Kingdom of Ireland. Of all which we the Commiffioners aforefaid, do berein give up a true Report, attefted under our refpective Hands this seventh of March, 1641. Hen. Jones, Roger Puttock, John Sterne, William Aldrich, Randal Adams, William Hitchcock, MURDER MURDER WILL OUT: Or, the KINGS LETTER justifying the MARQUESS of ANTRIM, and declaring, That what he did in the Irish Rebellion, was by Direction from his Royal Father and Mother, and for the Service of the Crown. Be aftonished, O ye Heavens, at this, and be ye horribly afraid, be ye very defolate, faith the Lord, Jer. 2. 12. For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor any thing bid which fhall not be known, or come abroad, Mat. 10. 26. Ever honoured Sir, L Ireland, Aug. 22. 1663. AST Thursday we came to Tryal with my Lord Marquefs of Antrim, but according to my Fears (which you always furmifed to be in vain) he was by the King's Extraordinary and Peremptory LETTER of Favour reftored to his Eftate, as an Innocent Papift. We proved Eight Qualifications in the Act of Settlement against him, the least of which made him uncapable of being restored as Innocent. proved, We 1. That he was to have a band in furprizing the Castle of Dublin, in the year, 1641. 2. That he was of the Rebels party before the 15th of September, 1643. which we made appear by his hourly and frequent intercourfe with Renny O Moore, and many others; being himself the most notorious of the faid Rebels. 3. That he entered into the Roman-Catholick Confederacy before the Peace in 1643. 4. That he conftantly adhered to the Nunctio's Party, in oppofition to his Majefties Authority. 5. That be fate from time to time in the Supream Council of Kilkenny. 6. That he figned that execrable Oath of Affociation. 7. That he was commiffionated, and acted as Lieutenant General, from the faid Affembly at Kilkenny. 8. That be declared by feveral Letters of his own penning, himself in conjunc tion with Owen Ro Oneale, and a conftant oppofer to the feveral Peaces, made by the Lord Lieutenant with the Irish. We were feven hours by the Clock in proving our Evidence against him, but at last the King's Letter being opened, and read in Court, Rainsford, one of the Commiffioners, to us, That the King's Letter on its behalf was Evidence without Exception, and thereupon declared him to be an Innocent Papift. This Caufe (Sir) hath (though many Reflections have paffed upon the Commiffioners before) more startled the Judgments of all Men, than all the Tryals fince the beginning of their fitting; and it is very strange and won derful derful to all of the Long Robe, that the King fhould give fuch a Letter, having divested himself of that Authority, and repofed the Truft in the Commiffioners for that Purpose: And likewife it is admired, that the Commiffioners having taken folemn Oaths, To execute nothing but according to, and in purfuance of the Act of Settlement, fhould, barely upon his Majefties Letter, declare the Marquefs Innocent. To be fhort; there never was fo great a Rebel, that had fo much favour from fo good a King: And it is very evident to me, though young, and fcarce yet brought upon the Stage, that the confequence of these things will be very bad; and if God of his extraordinary Mercy do not prevent it, War, and (if poffible) greater Judgments, cannot be far from us; where Vice is patroniz'd, and Antrim, a Rebel upon Record, and fo lately and clearly proved one, fhould have no other Colour for his Actions but the Kings own Letter; which takes all Imputations from Antrim, and lays them totally upon his own Father. Sir, I fhall by the next, if poffible, fend you over one of our Briefs against my Lord, by fome Friend: It's too large for a Pacquet, it being no less in Bulk than a Book of Martyrs. I have no more at prefent, but refer you to the King's Letter, hereto annexed. CHARLES Right R. Trusty and Well-beloved Coufins and Counsellors, &c. We greet you well. How far we have been from interpofing on the behalf of any of our Irish Subjects, who by their Miscarriages in the late Rebellion in that Kingdom of Ireland, had made themfelves unworthy of Our Grace and Protection, is notorious to all Men, and We were fo jealous in that particular, that shortly after Our return into this Our Kingdom, when the Marquefs of Antrim came hither to prefent his Duty to Us, upon the Information We received from thofe Perfons who then attended us, by a Deputation from Our Kingdom of Ireland, or from those who at that time owned our Authority there, that the Marquefs of Antrim had fo mifbehaved himself towards Us, and Our late Royal Father of bleffed Memory, that he was in no degree worthy of the leaft Countenance from Us, and that they had manifeft and unqueftionable Evidence of fuch his guilt. Whereupon we refufed to admit the faid Marquefs fo much as into Our Prefence, but on the contrary committed him Prifoner to our Tower of London; where after he had continued feveral Months under a ftrict Reftraint, upon the continued Information of the faid Perfons, We fent him into Ireland, without interpofing the leaft on his behalf, but left him to undergo fuch a Tryal and Punishment, as by the Juftice of that Our Kingdom fhould be found due to his Crime, expecting ftill that fome heinous Matter would be objected and proved against him, to make him uncapable, and to deprive him of that Favour and Protection from Us, Which we knew his former Actions and Services had merited. After many Months Attendance there, and (We prefume) after fuch Examinations as were requifite, he was at laft difmiffed without any Cenfure, and without any Tranfmiffion of Charge against him to Us, and with a Licence to tranf port port himself into this Kingdom; We concluded that it was then time to give him some instance of Our Favour, and to remember the many Services he had done, and the Sufferings he had undergone, for his Affections and Fidelity to Our Royal Father and Our Self, and that it was time to redeem him from thofe Calamities, which yet doe lie as heavy upon him fince, as before our happy Return; And thereupon We recommend him to you Our Lieutenant, that you should move Our Council there, for preparing a Bill to be tranfmitted to Us, for the Re-investing him the faid Marquefs, into the Poffeffion of his Estate in that Our Kingdom, as had been done in fome other Cafes. To which Letter, you Our faid Lieutenant returned us anfwer, That you had informed Our Council of that Our Letter, and that you were upon confideration thereof, unanimously of Opinion, that fuch a Bill ought not to be trans mitted unto Us, the Reafon whereof would forthwith be prefented to Us from Our Council. After which time We received the inclofed Petition from the faid Marquefs, which We referred to the confiderations and examinations of the Lords of Our Privy Council, whofe Names are mentioned in that Our Reference, which is annexed to the faid Petition, who thereupon met together, and after having heard the Marquefs of Antrim, did not think fit to make any Report to Us, till they might fee and understand the Reasons which induced you not to tranfmit the Bill We had propofed, which Letter was not then come to Our Hands: After which time We have received your Letter of the 18th of March, together with feverall Petitions which had been presented to you, as well from the Old Souldiers and Adventurers, as from the Lady Marchioness of Antrim, all which we likewise transmitted to the Lords Referees; Upon a fecond Petition prefented to Us by the Lord Marquefs, which is here likewife enclofed, commanding Our faid Referees to take the fame into their ferious confideration, and to hear what the Petitioner had to offer in his own Vindication, and to report the whole matter to Us, which upon a third Petition herein likewife inclofed, We required them to expedite with what speed they could. By which deliberate Proceedings of Ours you cannot but obferve, that no importunity, how just foever, could prevail with Us to bring Our Self to a Judgment in this Affair, without very ample Information. Our faid Referees, after feverall Meetings, and perufal of what hath been offered to them by the faid Marquefs, have reported unto Us, That they have feen feveral Letters, all of them the Hand-writing of Our Royal Father to the faid Marquefs, and feveral Inftructions concerning his treating and joining with the Irish, in order to the King's Service, by reducing to their Obedience, and by drawing fome Forces from them for the Service of Scotland. That befides the Letters and Orders under His Majesties Hand, they have received fufficient Evidence and Testimony of feveral private Meffages and Directions fent from Our Royal Father, and from Our Royal Mother, with the privity and with the Directions of the King Our Father, by which they are perfuaded, that whatever Intelligence, Correfpondence or Actings, the faid Marquefs had with the Confederate Irish Catholicks, was directed or allowed by the faid Letters, Inftructions and Directions; and that it manifeftly appears to them, that the |