Skippon due to him upon a former Order, for his good services
done when the Army lay before Colchester; and for allowing him
the [unr] questred house, whereof he is now possessed, in Long-Acre; (farra
better then the thatck't house hee was at in Northfalke.)
But that which hath most troubled them this weeke is, how to
make the People believe they had no hand in concluding the Cessetion
with Owen Roe in Ireland: For which purpose, having first censulted
with Collonel Monck and engaged him to silence and secrecy
in the Businesse, they Resolved &c. That the house doth utterly disprove
of the Proceeding of Collonel Monck in the Treaty and Cessation made
betweene him and Owen Roe O Neale, and that the Innocent blood
(indeede they are very tender of that) which hazbibeene shed in Ireland,
is so fresh is memory of the House, that they detest and ashorre the thoughts
of clesing with any Party of Popish Rebells there, who have had their
bands in sheding that Blood.
Neverthelesse the house (full of Compassion, Mercy and Charity)
being satisfied, that what the said Collonel Monck did therein, was in
his apprehensions necessary to preserve their Interest in that Nation, is
content the further consideration thereof, as to him, (but to themselves
it will not so easily) bee laid aside: and shall not at any time: hereafter
bee called in question; unlesse by the Presbyterian Party, when they
get the Power againe, and that they hope to doe shortly.
The knack for a Generall Composition of those they call Delinquents
in North Wales, is cow passed and Published: The summe in Gresse
24000.l. and speciall care taken, that no Well-affected persons pay
towards it, nor such as are comprised in the qualification of those excepted
from pardon, to have any benefit by it. A Petition presented
from the wise-acre of Kensington and his Councell of Coxcembes, directed
To the Supreame Authority of this Nation, the Parliament of
England Wherein (after they have made severall hypocriticall expression)
according to the common Mode of the admirers of the Saints,
expressing how Sensible they are of that Power and Presence of God, which
hath appeared in Ireland (as for many yeares together it hath in the
Turkish Armies) as the fruit of that Spirit of Faith and Supplication
which God hath ponred on the hearts (and drenched on the Beards)
of his People, to the bringing downe the Common Enemy (nearer the
Walls of Dublin) and exalting his owne name (not by any Action of
the Regicides) that doth great things by small and contemptible meanes
(the high and mighty Tyrants at Westminster) that no flesh (save only
the Saints) may boast, but hee who glories, may glory (in Tautology
Treason and Nonsence, and) in (being) the Lord (Governour of Ireland,)