his crime, that We may give further Order therein. And if any Ecelesiastical
Person in his Prayer or Sermon. Shall presume to exercise the
people to Sedition or Disobedience, or shall intermeddle in Pulpit or
Consistroy, with the managery of Civil Affairs, or shall derogate from
the present Government, or Governors of this Kingdom, or shall teach,
That His Majestie is not to be admitted to the possession of His Crown,
until He hath given Satisfaction to His Subjects, or until He have taken
such Oaths, and Covenants, as are imposed upon Him without His Consent,
without Law, contrary to the Dictates of His Own Conscience;
upon proof whereof, without further Circumstance, Let his Estate be
confiscated to the use of the Army, and himself be either imprisoned or
banished, or tried for his life, as the enemy shall deserve.
5. If there be any person whose loyalty is suspected, let the chief in
Command upon the place. Administer unto him the Oath of Allegiance;
and if he refuse it, let them secure both his person and estate, and send
up an information to us, that We may cause Process to be made against
him.
6. Although We cannot now take notice of a Scotch Army in this
Kingdom, or of any distinst from that which is committed into Our
Hands by His Majesty, We expecting a joynt Obedience of all forces,
English, Scotch, and Irish, indifferently, as Branches of the Army under
Our Command; yet in respect your old Quarters are straightned by
The Garison of Belfast, by Our very good Lord, the Lord Viscount
Montgomery of the Ards, We are well pleased. In lien thereof to assign
unto you for the enlargement of your Quarters, so much of the Counties
of Antrim, as was possest or enjoyed by Sir John Clotworthies Regiment
now disbanded of themselves; and because We cannot but judg,
that this Dissolution of them proceeds from the aversness to His Majesties
Service, and therefore We require, That none of them be admitted
into any Troops as Horsemen, or Dragooners.
7. For Answer to your other Proposition if any Forces shall be sent
down from them or from the other Provinces of the Kingdom into
Ulster for His Majesties service, upon any occasion: It is Our Pleasure
they have their quarter and provision for the present in these quarters,
through which they pass; but the whole Province of Ulster is to contribute
proportionably towards the charge.
8. Let the siege of Derry be prosecuted by the common advice of the
Lord Viscount Montgomery of Ards, Sir Robert Stuart, Sir George
Monro, and Colonel Audley Mervin.