BY
THE
GENERALL
ASSEMBLIE
OF
THE
CONFEDERATE
CATHOLIQVES
OF
IRELAND
.
THe
ensuing
Declaration
of
the
Lord
Nuncio
,
&
his
partie
of
the
Clergie
,
We
thinke
fit
to
be
printed
and
published
,
to
the
end
that
all
men
may
see
and
abhorre
the
malice
&
irregularity
of
those
that
subscribed
that
Instrument
,
thereby
disswading
the
people
,
●nder
the
specious
pretence
of
Conscience
from
their
allegiance
to
his
Maiestie
,
and
due
obedi●nce
to
the
Civill
Magistrat
,
and
inviting
them
to
breach
of
publick
Faith
,
Rapines
,
Murther
,
&
●lood-shed
;
whereof
there
hath
been
a
sad
example
already
in
the
Towne
of
Gallway
,
where
(
by
●he
countenance
of
that
bloody
instrument
soone
after
the
publishing
thereof
)
the
Magistrats
●ouse
was
violently
assaulted
,
and
the
Kings
sword
,
the
keyes
of
the
Towne-gates
,
and
other
en●●gnes
of
Office
forcibly
taken
thereout
,
by
a
rout
of
people
lead
by
one
of
the
Subscribers
of
●he
Instrument
,
and
brought
into
the
Church
,
which
occasioned
such
a
tumult
,
as
some
blood
as
drawne
,
one
man
kill'd
,
and
many
lives
were
endangered
,
till
for
the
appeasing
thereof
;
the
●ord
Nuncio
seeing
that
partie
overpowr'd
by
a
number
of
others
loyall
and
well
affected
to
●he
Government
,
went
to
the
Church
,
and
thereout
in
person
brought
,
and
restored
the
said
●word
,
Keyes
,
and
Enseignes
to
the
Mayor
in
his
house
;
And
least
it
may
worke
the
like
,
or
worse
●ffects
in
any
other
place
,
or
with
any
other
persons
.
It
is
this
day
unanimously
declared
by
●his
Assembly
,
that
the
said
Declaration
or
Instrument
is
in
it selfe
wicked
,
malicious
and
●raiterous
,
repugnant
to
all
lawes
,
Human
and
Divine
,
and
tending
to
the
utter
subversion
of
●he
Government
of
the
Church
,
and
Commonwealth
of
this
Kingdome
;
the
Subscribers
endeavouring
to
engage
the
Confederat
Catholiques
,
in
an
irreconciliable
rent
and
division
,
which
will
more
evidently
appeare
by
other
Acts
and
Declarations
of
this
Assembly
,
ready
to
be
published
;
which
Instrument
followeth
.
Richard
Blake
,
Prol
.
Gen.
Conv
.
In
the
Name
of
God
,
Amen
.
WHere●
about
our
late
decision
touching
the
Proclamation
of
the
Cessation
,
it
was
obiected
by
some
,
that
though
for
the
losse
of
some
temporall
goods
,
they
might
not
securely
in
Conscience
,
proclaime
the
said
Cessation
:
yet
the
doubt
they
have
made
was
,
of
the
lo●●e
of
mens
lives
,
which
may
ensue
the
opposing
of
it
,
Wee
doe
hereby
declare
,
that
it
is
a
dead●y
sinne
against
the
Law
of
God
,
and
his
Church
,
and
a
periurie
against
the
Oath
of
Association
,
to
have
or
to
suffer
the
said
Cessation
to
be
proclaimed
;
and
therefore
they
are
obliged
to
loos●
both
lives
,
goods
,
liberties
,
and
all
that
is
deere
to
them
in
the
world
,
rather
then
to
obey
or
pro●laime
it
;
This
was
the
sense
likewise
of
those
words
in
our
former
decree
.
It
is
in
no
wise
lawfull
,
&c.
And
truely
we
knew
full
well
,
that
they
could
not
loose
their
goods
in
this
Quarrell
,
without
the
losse
of
some
lives
,
or
many
lives
perhaps
.
Witnesse
our
hands
,
the
thirtieth
day
of
August
,
1648.
Signed
,
-
Joannes
Baptiste
Archiepiscopus
-
Firmanus
Nuncius
Apostolicus
.
-
Ioannes
Rapotensis
.
-
Fr.
Boëtius
Rossensis
.
-
Walterus
Clonfertensis
.
-
Robertus
Corcagiensis
&
Cloan
.
-
Fr.
Terentius
I●●olacensis
.
-
Fr.
Athon
.
Episcopus
Clonmacnois
.
-
Fr.
Dionisus
ô
Driscoll
.
Provincialis
Augustinorum
.
-
Patricius
Lynch
Praepositus
.
-
Fr.
Gregorius
French
.
-
Fr.
Bernarlus
Connius
.
-
Stephanus
Lynch
Doctor
.
-
Nicholaus
Condulmanus
.
-
Iames
Fallan
V.
A.
A.
-
Iacobus
Abbas
de
Conge
.
-
Gregorius
Joyce
.
-
Michael
Lynch
.