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of Ireland. The King refu~ed Lo pas8 "al1 sueli aets.. . beiore he know
whether such acts be reasonable or no.. ."cl4)
This seciion of the treatv neeotiations came to an end in an
atrnosphere made snlphuroue b; m&al accusations of bad faith. To
tbe old eharge tliat Charles had eonnived at the Irisli Rebellion was
added the accusation tliat the Cessation was simply the first step towards
bringing an lrish army into England. For his part the King declared
ihat it n-as the unreasonable deelarations of Parliameut at the beginning
of the Rebellion that had made it a war oi religion "and against that
Connivance (at toleration) that had been used in that Kiugdom ever
sinee the Reformation, and tending to make it a natioual quarrel, aud
to eradieate the whole stock of the Irish.. . whieh made the rebellion
so general. . .''[]5)
Parliament rould now assume that the possibiliiy of obtaining a Iree
hand in lrelnnd from Charles wae a remote one.(lO' In their last
message their chagrin is indieatd by the violenee of tlieir language:
"We cannot believe that your Lord~hips wiU think it ht, there ean be
any agreement.. . with such rreatures, as are not fit to [ive no more than
with Wolves or Tygerp.. . in the Nanie of him who is the Prinee of
Peace. . . give not y our ronseuts to lhis cessation of War in Ireland,
till Justice have been fullv execuled upon the actors of that aceursed
rebellion." 1 17)
Witliin the Parliameiiiarv camp there was intense rivalry between
various groupg interesied in ireland. BI- mid-la5 a clash of interests
between the London Adventurer~ and a group in the House of Commons
headed by the egregious Sir Johu Clotworthy was evideiit. On July
1, 1645, wjth the establishment of a joint cornmittee of Lords and
Commons Ior lrish aflairs dominated by the Clotworthy faction, the
Loudoners met a setback froni which they never recovered. In general
it may be iaid that disagreenient over Irelatid plaj-ed a sigriificant part
in the ~eneral deterio ration iu Parlianient-London relations in the period.
The Lotidoners did tiot, however, give up withoui a struggle. In
July, 1445, shortly aiter the iormation of the Cornmittee, they preeeuted
a new scheme for raising money ior Ireland. Among o~her things it
was urged that more Irish towna be put up for sale, naniely Cork,
Kinsale and Y oughall. cls) The scheme was coldly received and, was
sheived for some monlhs.

(14) Papers ol ihr King's Cornmissionen, Feb. 10, I644/5, Rufhworlh, Fart
iii, TOI. v., pp. 859-61.
(15) His lfajesties Answer in Certain Pnpere, Ruahaorih, Pt. iii, rol. v., p. 884.
(161 On Feb. 22. 1645 afier the Daners from Uxbridre relniin~ Io Ireland had
lieen read ih ihe House of Cimmoiis, tlie rtiertibei iioied ihat Cllarles "pare
les sarisfacijon in rhai ihnn eiiher in ~rli~ion in the Militia.. .", Sir
or
Symorids D'Ewes, Par1i:imeniary Diary, B.hl. Harl. 166, p. 1793.
(171 Papers of Fnrliameninry Comniisaionerr, Feb. 22, 1644i45, Rusbworili,
Pr. iii, vol. v., p. 863.
(181 Order Book, Coiriniiltee [or Irish Afiairs, July 26, 1645, P.R.O. S.P.
63/215/9 p. 14; "The Hcads of An Ordiriance, B.M. Thomason Collection,
E314 (7) p. 11.