, imputing the traitorous
Design of some desperate, indigent Persons to seize your Majesty's
Castle of _Dublin_, on the 23rd of _October_, 1641, to an universal
Conspiracy of your Catholick Subjects, and applying the Estates and
Persons thereby presumed to have forfeited, to the Use and Benefit of
that Regicide Army, which brought that Kingdom from its due Subjection
and Obedience to his Majesty, under the Peak and Tyranny of a bloody
Usurper. An Act unnatural, or rather viperously destroying his late
Majesty's gracious Declaration, from whence it had Birth, and its
Clauses, Restorations and Uses, inverting the very fundamental Laws, as
well of your Majesty's, as all other Christian Governments. An Act
limiting and confining the Administration of Justice to a certain Term
or Period of Time, and confirming the Patrimony of Innocents unheard,
to the most exquisite Traytors, that now stand convict on Record; the
Assigns and Trustees, even of the then deceased _Oliver Cromwell_
himself, for whose Arrears, as General of the Regicide Army, special
Provision is made at the Suit of his Pensioners. Now in regard the Acts
above mentioned do in a florid and specious Preamble, contrary to the
known Truth in Fact, comprehend all your Majesty's _Roman_ Catholick
Subjects of _Ireland_, in the Guilt of those few indigent Persons
aforesaid, and on that Supposition alone, by the Clause immediately
subsequent to that Preamble, vest all their Estates in his late
Majesty, as a Royal Trustee, to the principal Use of those who deposed
and murthered your Royal Father, and their lawful Sovereign. And
furthermore, to the Ends that the Articles and Conditions granted in
the Year 1648, by Authority from your Majesty's Royal Brother, then
lodged in the Marquess of _Ormond_, may be duly fulfilled and made good
to your Majesty's present _Irish_ Catholick Subjects, in all their
Parts and Intentions, and that the several Properties and Estates in
this Kingdom may be settled in their antient Foundations, as they were
on the 21st of _October_, 1641. And that all Persons may acquiesce and
rejoyce under an impartial Distribution of Justice, and sit peaceably
down under his own Vine or Patrimony, to the abolishing all Distinction
of Parties, Countries and Religions, and settling a perpetual Union and
Concord of Duty, Affection, and Loyalty to your Majesty's Person and
Government in the Hearts of your Subjects, Be it enacted, etc.

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