rn Faith and
natural Allegiance, in a secret Intelligence and traitorous
Combination, with the Puritan Sectaries in the Realm of _Great
Britain_, against their lawful and undoubted Sovereign, his Peace,
Crown, and Dignity, the Malice of which made it soon manifest in the
Nature and Tendency of their Proceedings; their untimely Prorogations
of a loyal unanimous Parliament, and thereby making void, and
disappointing the Effects of many seasonable Votes, Bills, and
Addresses which, passed into Laws, had certainly secured the Peace and
Tranquility of this Kingdom, by binding to his Majesty the Hearts of
his _Irish_ Subjects, as well by the Tyes of Affection and Gratitude,
as Duty and Allegiance there. The said Lords Justices traitorously
disbanding his Majesty's well assured Catholick Forces, when his Person
and Monarchy were exposed to the said Rebel Sectaries, then marching in
hostile Arms to dispoil him of his Power, Dominion, and Life; their
immediate calling into the Place and Stead of those his Majesty's
faithful disbanded Forces, a formidable Body of disciplined Troops
allied and confederated in Cause, Nation and Principles with those
Rebel Sectaries; their unwarrantable Entertainment of those Troops in
this Kingdom, to the draining of his Majesty's Treasury, and Terror of
his Catholick Subjects, then openly menaced by them the aforesaid Lords
Justices with a Massacre and total Extirpation, their bloody
Prosecution of that Menace, in the Slaughter of many innocent Persons,
thereby affrighting and compelling others in despair of Protection,
from their Government, to unite and take Arms for their necessary
Defence, and Preservation of their Lives; their unpardonable
Prevarication from his Majesty's Orders to them, in retrenching the
Time by him graciously given to his Subjects so compelled into Arms of
returning to their Duty; and stinting the General Pardon to such only
as had no Freehold Estates to make Forfeitures of; their pernicious
Arts in way-laying, exchanging and wickedly depriving all Intercourse
by Letters, Expresses, and other Communications and Privity betwixt
your said Royal Father and his much abused People; their insolent and
barbarous Application of Racks and other Engines of Torture to Sir
_John Read_, his then Majesty's sworn menial Servant, and that upon
their own conscience Suspicions of his being intrusted with the too
just Complaints of the persecuted Catholick aforesaid; their diabolical
Malice