ALthough wee find our selues much afflicted, for the expressions wee are forced to make, of the Lord Nuncio his violent proceedings, against the gouernment of the Kingdome, & the iust liberties of the Nation; yet being obliged to render an accompt to God and man, of the trust reposed in vs, & seeing his Lopp: squares his actions by principles, apparantly contrary to the intrest of this Nation: Wee must (in opposition to the Course hee steeres) ma­nifest to the world our dislike of his actions, and express some parte of those Iellousies and distrusts, which (vpon iust grounds) wee haue entertained of his proceedings, in the ensuing reasons, by which wee are induced at present to inhibitt the meeting of a Nationall Synod appointed by his Lopp:to be held at Galway the fifteenth of August next.

• 1. First, it is not vnknowen, that the Lord Nuncio hath made such vse of a declaration drawen from a few Prelats against the Cessation concluded with the Lord Barton of Inchiquin, and of the vniust Censurs temerariously issued there vpon, that hee hath introduced a Ciuill [...]ar among the Confederatts, & thereby exposed the Catholick Religion and this Kingdome to apparant hazard of destruction. And now obseruing many Prelatts, all the Nobi­lity and men of intrest, and all the Citties and Townes Corporat with in our Quarters, resolued with vs to suppress those in Armes opposing the Gouerment, who are supported by his Countenance, & the ayds sent for maintenan­ce of our cause, which (contrary to his Holines pious intentions) are applyed to foment and encrease dissentions, hee (by the assistance of a few seditious persons) calls this Nationall Synod, intending [by that vnlimited power which hee assumes vnto himselfe] and the terror of his Iudgements, which are already extended [to the vttermost of seue­rity on the persons of Father George Dillon, and Father Valentine Browne, for no other reason, then that they are not of his opinion, concearning the Cessation; to force an approbation of his most vniust and vnexampled pro­cedings against those adhering to the Gouernment, and to anticipat [asmuch as in him lyeth) his Holiness, [to whom wee haue appealed) his iudgment of our Cause.
• 2. Secondly, hee conuenes it at Galway, a place inconuenient, as being seated in a remote parte of the Kingdome, vnsafe in the way to it, & in a Prouince, which is now made the seate of warr: A place where inuectiues, against autho­rity, are frequently preached by his allowance, where his Lopp:by his, and the influence of some seditious Cleargy­men, vpon a parte of the ignorant and misled multitude, haue already affronted the Magistrat, and best men of that Towne.
• 3. T [...]dly, wee haue iust cause to feare some practize for surprizall of the Towne, at such a tyme, when some ill affected persons in the neighbourhood of it, haue rebelliously taken armes, in opposition to our authority; and are countenaced in it, & (already by seizing & piladging some Castles belonging to men of Gallway) do express their disaffection to the inhabitants, and their inclinations to the plunder of that Towne. What opportunity will such a meeting (to which all men are promisscuously inuited by offer of safe Conduct, in the summons) affoard to such a designe in these distracted tymes, when perhapps the Towne may be declared to haue incurred the Censures, be­cause it submitts to our authority; and the act of plundering it, therefore esteemed meritorious.
• 4. Fowrthly, the Lord Nuntio, haueing made himselfe a partie, and adhereing to Owne ô Neill, now actually in Ar­mes against the authority established by the Confederat Catholicks, what indifferency can be expected by the Na­tion, in a Synod wherein hee is to praeside?
• 5. It is improper a Synod, should be called at such atyme, when noe corner of the Kingdome is freed from the horrid effects of warr, and all places are full of inexpressable distractions, and none exempt from the misery of famine wherein that Towne, and the adioyneing Countrey, suffer in a high measure.
• 6. The Generall Assembly (the hig hest authority among the Confederat Catholicks) being now conuen'd, and the body of the Kingdome being to meete, the fowrth of September next, wee hould it necessary they should be first consulted with, in so great an affaire.
• 7. Wherefore, It is ordered, and (by vertue of their oath of Association) it is straightly charged and enioyned, that no Confederat Catholick, either of the Cleargy or of the Layety, of what degree, quaility, or Condition souer, do repaire to the Synod or meeting, summoned by the Lord Nuncio, to be held at Gallway the fifteenth of August next, or shall remaine there (if alredy gon thither, but shall depart thence imediatly, and shall not send his, or their Pro­xies thither; and shall reuoke his or their said Proxie ( [...] already sent) vpon paine of being putt out of the protection of the Confederat Catholickes, and further proceeded against, as fallen from our vnion and oath of Association: Whereof the Generall Commanders, Mayors, Magistrats, and other Officers, subject to authoritie, are to take notice, and proceede accordingly in interrupting and stopping all and every person and persons, going to any such meeting or Synod, at the place or tyme aforesaid, as they will answeare the contrary.