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The result was a settled hoetility on the part of the Londotiers to
al1 attempts to raise money for lrelatid. On Oct. 11, 1645, the House
of Commons atternpted tu borrow motiey irom the Lundotiers atid was
met by a blank refusal.
On Nov. 11, 1û45, the London civic government demunstrated
their support for kheir merchants by a petiiioti to the Commons urging
that the petition of the London Adventurers be taken into consideration
and such action taken "as may eucourage the said Commi~tee and
Ad~enturers".(~O)

On the same day a paper wae presetited to the Clotworthy Commiitee
by William Hawkins, one of the most prominent oi ihe London merehants
interested in Ireland, outlining prupositions for Ireland. Four eities
were to be chosen by the Adventurers which sould be put up for sale.
In addition al1 persons who sere ahle to prove that they were owed debts
a: the beginning of the Rehellion, should, on the invesiin~ of one third
or one quarter of the sum uwed, have the whole deLt secured on land.
Some weeks later the London Adventurers oflered to contribute 520,iiW
to the cause if their requests were granted.
The netiiion is intereatincr Lecause of the evidence it affords of
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London obinion regarding ihe nature of the eventual ettlement whieh
they felt should be eflected in Ireland. Al1 their propositious, ~hey
aaserted, only tended to the re-establishment of stable governinent in
Ireland "and the better peopling and civilizing of that Realm. . . to eff ect
a good and speedy plantation of that Kingdom. wiih a religious people,
in the plaee.. . of that ldolatruus Nation the Irieh ReLals." If Parlia-
ment wou1d "give thoee lands freely to men thus qualified and under-
taking. . .", that end would be accomplished wiih "the most speed and
~ecurity."[~~'i Among other benefits accruing from their schemes wae
the possibiIity that "The Protestant party throwout Chrisrendom, will
the rather also be enconraged to joyn with ris in thie Rreat work of
Reiormation, and a iruitful and good land will thus again ere long Le
repeopled to live under the Sunshine of the Gospel.. ."'")
The House of Commous appearfi to have remembered this petition;
at any rate, in January 1646, when the defeated and desperate King
Charles was vaiuly hoping for a negotiated peace wiih the Parliament,
the Commons resolved that one of the peace couditions should be that
the King should agree to the "utter Abolition of Popery" in Ireland.'"'
Charles was at this time negotiating with the Irish for iheir support and
when, a ferv weeks later evidence of his ue~otiations with the Irish through
the Earl of Glamorgan lell jnto the hantls of the Parliamentarians, they
denionstratd their usnal eensitivity. When ~he eviclence of the negotia-
tion and of the King's proniise of toleration iur the Catholics of lreland

Journala of the House of Lords, vii, p. 695.
(20) Rensons delircred. . . B.h,f. Thornason Coll., E 313 (7) Jan. 2, 1645-6.
(21) Ibid., p. 13.
2 ) JournaIn of ihe House of Commons, iv., pp. 39+5; L. Whitaker, Parliameulery
Mary, B.M. Add. hlS. 31, 116, f. 252.