Page 184 - Transcriptions d'actes notariés - Tome 20 - 1682-1686

This was underlincd s ferv days later by a report that Loridon had
offered Parliament "to hnd niiiiiey fur the war in Ireland ori the
Understanding that al1 lhst ia recovered shall belong to them."("I
Toward the end oi 1M7, with the pussibility 01 a second Civil
War iii the air, Parliament was anxiiiiig tu have the support 01 the city
uf London and to that end passed several measiires designed to placate
the Irish inlerest. By an orrlinance of Nov. 13. 1647'""he advantages
uf the doiibling ordinance of 1G43 were made even more lucralive.
More evideiiee of a new iound spirit of eo-operation between cily
and Parliaments is afforded by the ordinance of Jan. 13, 1648, by ivhicli
E50,000 was to be raised for the campaign in 11,rland. The provisions
were siieh as to gladden the hearis of the merchants tif the city who
had lent lar~e siims to the Parliament in previous yesrs hreauce hv it
"every person rvho hath any just debt oweiiig to Iiini uynn Publiql~r~:
Faith" by lendinl: a given aiirn urider the ieims of thr rtrdinance. wa9
to be credited rvj th double lhat surn and was io be re-paid bu the "speed y
sale of al1 the Hoiises, Buildings, Laiids aiid Tenements iiI the Irish
Rrbels within.. . the Cities, Towns or Liberties oi Dublin, Cork, Kinaale
Yoi~~hal and Drogheda in.. . Ireland.. ."':"'
It nia! be reealled ihat ihe London ~idrentiirers hnd, in 1645,
repeatedly prtitioned Ior the sale of three iif lhese eities aiid n2ere
uiidoiibt~dly plraaed iii se Dnblin and Drogheda added tii the lisr.
The eipnjfirance of the rapprochement between Parliament and
London ivas nnderlined by the eireumstances 01 the second Civil War
whieIi began with royalist risings in Kent and Eseex in May and June
of 1644. The royaliats had high hopes oi siipport irom London which,
in the Spring of 1648 had demonetrated increasing aympathy for the King.
As a Ruuatifit force of Kcntish men approaehed ~he city, Parliamelit
hutriedlv pasd various measiires desigiied io retain the loyalty of the
Londiiiiers. Among these was an act providing that the Londoii Adven-
turera wiiuld be trnstees of the properties to be confiscated in Irelaiid
by the aet iif Jaii. 16$8.(~:'l Whether or not this tippcd ille scales 15.
of course, not kiiuwii. Rut LrintIon remained on the side of Parliament
and what promised to be a very formidable roy-alist rising diviiidled
rapidly to a few palhetic skirmiehes.
In the Antnmii of 1648, aiier the defeat of ~he Royalist forces bu
Crorn~vell aiid while thr leaders of the New Mode1 brooded on iheir next
move, Parliamcntary cnnimicsioners were carrying on ra~her unuwal
negotiaiions with Charle~. Whether or not Cromwell wuu Id hsw
permitted the restoration of [hr King at thie time is highly queetionalile
but, in any event, anreement lietween the King and the Parlianient
was made almost impossible b~ the exer-prewnt Irish issue.

Adiiceu Irr>iii I.ondnn, Coliondur or Siate Popera Venetion 1641.47, p. 289.
Ç. Firtli ond R. Ruii, Acta anrl Ordinnncer O/ the In~erregnum \ol. l., pp.
1027.29, London, Ii. hi. Si~iirinery Ofire, 1'311, vol. 1, pp. 1027-9.
'*.lu Ordinanrr O[ Pdriiar~irni Iur rai\inp, fil~y ihousaud pounds. . ." E.31.
Tlioniacon Coll.. E124
(33) P.n,O,, Letter Book cif Llcrhy Horisr Cornniittee for Irish ARnirs, S.P. 21/27.