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II. The second was the dishonourable and dan 

 gerous treaty held, and cessation concluded 

 with the same arch-rebel Tyrone. 



III. The third was his contemptuous leaving his 

 government, contrary to her majesty s abso 

 lute mandate under her hand and signet, and 

 in a time of so imminent and instant danger. 



For the first, it had two parts ; that her ma 

 jesty s resolution and direction was precise and abso 

 lute for the northern prosecution, and that the same 

 direction was by my lord, in regard of the journey 

 to Munster, wilfully and contemptuously broken. 



It was therefore delivered, that her majesty, 

 touched with a true and princely sense of the torn 

 and broken estate of that kingdom of Ireland, en 

 tered into a most Christian and magnanimous reso 

 lution to leave no faculty of her regal power or 

 policy unemployed for the reduction of that people, 

 and for the suppressing and utter quenching of that 

 flame of rebellion, wherewith that country was and 

 is wasted : whereupon her majesty was pleased to 

 take knowledge of the general conceit, how the for 

 mer making and managing of the actions there had 

 been taxed, upon two exceptions ; the one, that the 

 proportions of forces which had been there main 

 tained and continued by supplies, were not sufficient 

 to bring the prosecutions to a period : the other, 

 that the prosecutions had been also intermixed and 

 interrupted with too many temporizing treaties, 

 whereby the rebel did not only gather strength, but 



