342 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



A General Proclamation by the Confederate Catholickes of the Supreme 

 Councell against the Covenanters and for arming all Catholickes from 18 to 60. 

 Dated 6th July, 1644. 



Tho. Bourke. 



[Vide MS. copy (from a printed original) in Bodleian, /Carte 11, 217 ; Vide also: 

 London reprint entitled — " A Declaration made By the Rebels in Ireland," in National 

 Library — Thorpe Collection, vol. iii ; Bodleian/G. Pamphlets, 2641 (42) ; See also : " Irish 

 Rebellion," Dublin, 1723: pp. 206-8. Gilbert's "History of Irish Confederates"; 

 vol. iii, pp. 205-8 ; R. R. Madden's "Irish Periodical Literature," vol. i, pp. 137, &c. ; 

 Also vide: London reprint by B. Austin, 1644, in Brit. Mus. (Thomason) E. 17 (14).] 



16. 1644. Proceedings relative to oath of Association of Confederates, &c. 

 Thomas Bourke. 



[Vide Gilbert's " History of Confederation," vol. iii, p. 212.] 



17. 1645. A Persuasive Letter / Exhorting the Natives /of Ireland /to 



stand in Defence / Of their Faith, King and Countrey against / Parliamentary 



intruders, their errors, and / temeritie, directed to Sir N. Th. With a discovery 



of the Tyrannicall pollicie and / unfaithfidl dealings of some English Govcr-nors, 



adherents to the malignant partie, tovjards their Pardoned Ene-mies and surest 



friends in / Ireland. / Printed at Wareford [sic] in the year, 1645. 4to. 



4 leaves. A4. 



[University Library, Cambridge. /Hib. 5. 645. 1. (No. 5312) ; Vide W. C. Hazlitt's 

 " Bibliographical Collections and Notes," third series, 1887, p. 119.] 



N.B. — No printer given, but ornament on title in style of (No. 8). 



18. 1645. A Declaration of the General Assembly of the Confederate 

 Catholicks of Ireland suppressing certain Declarations and Protestations. 

 Dated at Kilkenny, 4th July, 1645. 



[Vide Kilkenny reprint in Bodleian Library — Carte MSS. xviii, fol. 8.] 



19. 1645. A Eemonstrance of Grievances Presented to his most Excellent 



Majestie, in the behalfe of the Catholicks of Ireland. Thomas Bourke. 4to. 



32 pp. Sig. A-D4. 



[Vide W. C. Hazlitt's " Bibliographical Collections and Notes," third series, 1887, 

 p. 119.] 



Query : Second edition ? 



20. 1645. Declaration of the Councell and Congregation of Confederate 

 Catholicks against Plundering Eoman Catholicks dwelling in English 

 quarters. 



[Bodleian Library.] 



Note. — This item is doubtful : the Kilkenny edition is in the Bodleian Library, and 

 is dated 1646. 



