being asked, how they might prevail against the resources his majesty could draw from his other two kingdoms; replied, In England we have allies enough to balance his power. In Ireland, I shall kindle a spark, that can hardly, if ever, be extinguished.' Here he evidently alludes to his intrigues with the displanted Irish and Scots of Ulster. To give more effect to these intrigues, he entered into a treaty of marriage and alliance with the young O'Neil, earl of Tyrone, then residing at Brussels; a treaty broken off by the murder of that nobleman in his bed; whether contrived by the rebel or royal party, as yet remains a secret. The covenanters were strongly interested to promote insurrection in Ireland, and so deprive the king of the resources he could draw from the mistaken loyalty of that people.

saries, deans, deans and chapters, arch-deacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending on that hierarchy,) superstition, heresie, schism, profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sqund doctrine, and the power of godliness; lest we partake in other mens sins, and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues; and that the Lord may be one, and his name one, in the three kingdoms.

3. We shall with the same sincerity, reality, and constancy, in our several vocations, endeavour with our estates and lives, mutually to preserve the rights and privileges of the parliament, and the liberties of the kingdoms, and to preserve and defend the king's majesty's person and autho rity, in the preservation and defence of the true religion, and liberties of the kingdoms; that the world may bear witness with our consciences of our loyalty, and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish his majesty's just power and greatness.

4. We shall also with all faithfulness endeavour the disco. very of all such as have been or shall be incendiaries, malig

The English commons infected the Irish commons, through their committee in London, with a portion of their democratic spirit, as Carte, Leland and Warner testify; and the dependents of puritans were employed as instruments to stir the northern Irish to revolt, and then betray them. What machinations were used by the Scotch and long parliament to foment the civil war, are but imperfectly recorded: yet it is visible from their declarations, their recorded transactions, and the result, that they did contrive and effectuate that great calamity. Their emissaries and agents gave it birth, nor would it have long survived or become general, were the flame not fanned by the detestable perfidy of the long parliament's creatures, the justices. The most authentic record of its commencement, hitherto published, is lord

nants, or evil instruments, by hindering the reformation of religion, dividing the king from his people, or one of the kingdoms from another, or making any faction or parties amongst the people, contrary to this league and covenant, that they may be brought to publick trial and receive condign punishment, as the degree of their offences shall require or deserve, or the supream judicatories of both kingdoms respectively, or others having power from them for that effect, shall judge convenient:

5. And whereas the happiness of a blessed peace between these kingdoms, denied in former times to our progenitors, is by the good providence of God granted unto us, and hath been lately concluded and settled by both parliaments, we shall each one of us, according to our place and interest, endeavour, that they may remain conjoined in a firm peace, and union, to all posterity: and that justice may be done upon the wilful opposers thereof, in manner expressed in the precedent article.

6. We shall also according to our places and callings, in

Macguire's narrative, acknowledged by him as true, before his execution.

"Being in Dublin Candlemas-term last was twelvemonth-meaning February sixteen hundred forty one-the parliament then sitting, Mr. Roger Moore did write to me, desiring me if I could in that spare time I would come to his house (for then the parliament did nothing but sit and adjourn, expecting a commission for the continuance thereof, their former commission being expired) and that some things he had to say unto me that did nearly concern me: and on receipt of his letter, the new commission for continuing the parliament being landed, I did return him an answer that I could not fulfil his request for that present; and thereupon he himself came to town presently after, and sending to me I went to see

this common cause of religion, liberty, and peace of the kingdoms, assist and defend all those that enter into this league and covenant, in the maintaining thereof: and shall not suffer ourselves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination, persuasion or terror, to be divided and withdrawn, from this blessed union and conjunction, whether to make defection to the contrary part, or to give ourselves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause, which so much concerneth the glory of God; the good of the kingdoms, and honour of the king; but shall all the days of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all lets and impediments whatsoever; and what we are not able ourselves to suppress or overcome, we shall reveal and make known, that it may be timely prevented or removed: all which we shall do as in the sight of God: and because these kingdoms are guilty of many sins and provocations against God, and his Son Jesus Christ, as it is too manifest by our present dis tresses and dangers the fruits thereof; we profess and declare before God and the world our unfeigned desire to be humbled

him at his lodging: and after some little time spent in salutations, he began to discourse of the many afflictions and sufferings of the natives of that kingdom, and particularly in those late times of my lord Strafford's government, which gave distaste to the whole kingdom: and then he began to particularize the suffering of them that were the more antient natives, as were the Irish; how that on several plantations they were all put out of their ancestors estates; all which sufferings, he said, did beget a general discontent through

for our own sins and for the sins of these kingdoms; espe cially that we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the gospel, that we have not laboured for the pu rity and power thereof, and that we have not endeavoured to receive Christ in our hearts, nor to walk worthy of him in our lives, which are the causes of other sins and trangressions so much abounding amongst us, and our true and unfeigned purpose, desire, and endeavour for ourselves and all other under our power and charge both in public and in private, in all duties we owe to God and man, to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the example of a real reformation that the Lord may turn away his wrath and heavy indignation, and establish these churches and kingdoms in truth and peace. And this covenant we make in the pre sence of Almighty God, the searcher of all hearts, with a true intention to perform the same, as we shall answer at that great day, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his holy spirit for this end, and to bless our desires and proceed. ings with success, as may be deliverance and safety to his people. Encouragement to other christian churches groaning under or in danger of the yoke of antichristian tyranny; to join in the same or like association and covenant to the glory of God, the enlargement of the kingdom of Jesus Christ, and the peace and tranquillity of christian kingdoms and common wealths.

all the kingdom in both the natives, to wit, the old and new Irish: and that if the gentry of the kingdom, were disposed to free themselves furtherly from the like inconveniences, and get good conditions for themselves for regaining their ancestors estates, (or at least a good part thereof) they could never desire a more convenient time than that time, the distempers of Scotland being then on foot, and did ask me what I thought of it. I made him answer that I could not tell what to think of it, such matters being altogether out of element. Then he would needs have an oath of me of secrecy, which I gave him; and thereupon he told me, that he had spoke to the best gentry of quality in Leinster, and a great part of Conaught, touching that matter; and he found all of them willing thereunto, if so be they could draw to them the gentry of Ulster, for which cause, said he, I came to speak to you. Then he began to

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lay down to me the case that I whelmed in debt, the smallness of my estate, and the greatness of the estate my ancestors had, and how I should be sure to get it again, or at least a good part thereof; and moreover how the welfare and maintaining of the Catholic religion, which, he said, undoubtedly the parliament now in England will suppress, doth depend on it. For, said he, it is to be feared, and so much I hear from every understanding man, the parliament intends the utter subversion of our religion; by which persuasions he obtained my consent; and so he demanded if any more of Ulster gentry were in town. I told him that Philip Reily,