CHARLES I. His Majesties message sent to the Parliament, 8 April 1642 concerning his resolution to go into Ireland for suppressing the rebels there - London: 1642. 4to. pp. [ii], 6. Wing C 2447....

CHARLES I. His Majesties message sent to the Parliament, 8 April 1642 concerning his resolution to go into Ireland for suppressing the rebels there - London: 1642. 4to. pp. [ii], 6. Wing C 2447. In a project never to be realised the King told parliament that “His Majestie being grieved to the very soul, for the calamities of his good subjects of Ireland, and being most tenderly sensible of the false and scandalous reports dispersed among the people, concerning the rebellion there, which not onely wounds His Majestie in honour, but likewise greatly retards the reducing of that unhappy kingdom, and multiplies the distractions at home, by weakning the mutuall confidence betwixt him and hys people .... hath firmly resolved with all convenient speed to go into Ireland, to chastise those wicked and detestable rebells (odious to God and all good men) thereby so to settle the peace of that kingdom, and the security of this.” Had he taken this action, it is conceivable that it might have prevented the outbreak of the English Civil War later in the summer of ‘42. Sweeney 998 quoting the Dublin reprint of the York variant edition.

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