WHEREAS We are certainly informed that Our unnatural Enemy , the Prince of Orange , doth intend suddenly to invade this Our Kingdom of Ireland , having an Army of Forreigners and Rebels ready to land in one or more places thereof ; and that for the better compassing of his unjust ends therein , and for the better encouragement of the said Forreigners and Rebels in so great an undertaking , the said Prince of Orange hath promised to bestow and distribute all the Lands of Ireland belonging to all Our Catholicks , and other Our Loyal Subjects here , amongst the said ●… eigners and Rebels , and to confer upon them all the Offices , whether 〈…〉 or Military , Ecclesiastical or Temporal , within this Realm , and thereupon to extirpate , ruine and destroy all Our Catholicks , and other Our Loyal Subjects within this Our Kingdom . For the prevention whereof , We have heretofore summoned all Our Roman Catholick Subjects , from sixteen to sixty , to be ready , as well armed as they can , to oppose the said Invaders . And to the same purpose We have ordered a Militia to be settled in Our several Counties of Ireland , and have also commanded certain Forces to be raised for the recruiting Our Standing Army . And whereas several Captains with great chearfulness , out of their fervent zeal to vs , have raised several Companies for Our Service , and subsisted them for many months at their own Costs and Charges ; some whereof were Regimented under certain Collonels , and others of them were independent Companies , not inlisted in any Regiment : And though We were very sensible of their zealous carriage towards vs , yet , as well to lessen the charge We were at in supporting Our Troops , as that the circumstances of Our affairs did not require so great an Army as was then on Foot , We gave Orders that the said several Companies should be layd by from Our then present Service ▪ and at the same time ordered that Our thainks should be given them , with an assurance to the said Captains that they should not only be recompenced in due time for their charges , but that they and their said Companies upon the first occasion should be imployed in Our Service , and Mustred in Our Troops , and being resolved to make a Vigorous Defence , against the unjust designes of such Forraigners and Rebels , and having to that purpose set up Our Royal Standard at Our Camp at Dublin , and knowing it to be of great Consequence to Our affairs , that the said Companies so layd by for a time should be made up , and that such of Our Subjects as are provided with Horses , should Immediately come to Our Assistance ; We have thought fit by the advice of Our Privy Council to Charge and Require , and We do hereby strictly Charge and Require all such Captains , Inferior Officers and Souldiers who were so layed by , and who are not now of Our Standing Army that they do forthwith get together , and that such Captaines do forthwith Compleat their respective Companies , and having so don , that they Immediately do Repair to Our Camp at Dublin , or to any other Place where Our Forces shall be Encamped , where they shall be out of hand put in Actual Pay , hereby requiring them to come as well Armed as they can ; And We do further by the Advice aforesaid , strictly charge and require all Gentlemen and others of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland , ( not being of Our Standing Army , or Officers who are to make up their Companies as aforesaid , and not being Lieutenants , Deputy Lieutenants or Commissioners of Array appointed in any County ) and who are furnished with Serviceable Horses , that they forthwith upon their Allegiance and duty to vs , repair to Our Royal Standard wherever the same is or shall be , and that they take special care to come as well Armed as they can , to serve vs , as Volentiers for the defence of the Kingdom , against the Attempts of the said Forraigners and Rebels hereby Declaring that such of them as shall not be able to Subsist themselves , will be Subsisted and suplyed by vs ,