Now I referre to all that are Soldiers, or men of ordinary judgement,
whether it bee probable, That Col. Monck, a subordinate Officer,
Commissionated from those that stile themselves The Parliament of England,
and thereby enjoyned in termes so strict and peremptory (as are
usually in Instruments of that nature) to prosequute a Warre against Owen
Ros, and the rest in Armes in that Kingdome, whether hee ( I say)
would or durst enter into Treaty, and conclude ( as hee did) a Cessation
and Conjunction with the very Enemy hee had undertaken to fight against,
without the Knowledge and Directions (Publique or Private)
of the same Persons that authorized him so to doe; or unlesse hee had intended
to discert them, which certainly hee did not; who when hee had
failed of the Ends aimed at by this Treaty, let not, with so great confidence,
to repaire hither, and afterwards to king Oliver, and face them
all with Arguments and Reasons to justifie his doings - Sureley Col. Monck
is so much a Soldier, that hee well knew (as doe all that have any experience
in Military affaires) what the usuall reward is of such as exceede
the bounds of their Commissions, much more of those that Act in direct
Opposition thereunto, as herein hee did: A deed of such Nature, that
(without sufficient Warrant to justifie it) is, any where else, punished
with Death, although the Intentions were never so gay; yea, notwithstanding
great advantages had beene gained by such meanes.
Yet for all this the Juncto Resolved, &c. That although the House did
utterly disapprove of the Proceedings of Collonell Monck, in the Treaty
and Cessation made betwixt him and Owen Roe O Neal: And that the
Innocent Blood which hath beene shed in Ireland is so fresh in the memory
of the house, that they doe detest the thoughts of any closing with any Partie
of Popish Rebells there, who have had their hands in shedding that Blood:
Neverthelesse the house being satisfied (in their Consciences) that what
the said Collonel Munck did therein, was (not without their Privity and
Advice besides) in his apprehension necessary for the preservation of their
(Usurped and Tyrannicall) Interest; They were content the further
consideration thereof, as to him should bee laid aside, and not at any time
hereafter bee called in question (for feare hee should discover all their
dissimulation and jugling. - And Ordered the Printing and Publishing
of all such Letters and Proceedings as concerne this Businesse (except
such as passed' betweene Oneale and Munck, which were taken by
the Lord lnchequeene in Dundalke, and transmitted to the Marquesse
of Ormond, by whom the Originalls were conveyed to his Majesty,
and an authentique Copy sent into Dublin to let Jones see the practise
of these men who for so many yeares together had bespattered the