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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>_CHARLES by the grace of God King of great Brittain, France and Ireland, defender of the Faith.</SIGNED> <SALUTE>To Our Lovits Me&s;&s;engers, our Sheriffes in that part conjunctly and &s;everally &s;pecially con&s;titute, greeting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>For&s;ameikle as the E&s;tates of Our Kingdome of Scotland pre|&s;ently conveened, taking into their mo&s;t &s;erious con&s;ideration the great and imminent danger of the true Prote&s;tant reformed Religion, and of the peace of thir Our Kingdomes from the treacherous and bloudy plots, con&s;piracies, attempts and practices of Papi&s;ts, Prelats, Malignants, and their adherents, Have after mature deliberation thought expedient to enter into a &s;olemne and mutuall Covenant with Our Kingdome of England, for the defence of the true Prote&s;tant reformed Religion in the Kirk of Scotland, and the reformation of Reli|gion in the Kirk of England, according to the Word of God, the example of the be&s;t re|formed Kirks, and as may bring the Kirk of God in both Kingdomes to the neare&s;t Con|junction and Uniformity in Religion and Church government, And &s;iclike to pre&s;erve and defend the Rights and Priviledges of Our Parliaments, and Liberties of Our Kingdomes <HI>re&s;pectiv&egrave;,</HI> And to pre&s;erve and de|fend Our Per&s;on and Authoritie in the pre&s;ervation of the &s;aid true Religion, and Liberties of Our &s;aids Kingdomes, And to ob&s;erve the Articles of the late Treaty and Peace betwixt the two Nations, And to a&s;&s;i&s;t and defend all that &s;hall enter into this Covenant, in the maintaining and pur&s;uing thereof, as the &s;ame more fully proports: Which as it wil be a comfort and incourage|ment to all Chri&s;tians who fear God, and love Religion, to all good and loyall Subjects who truly honour Us, and to all true Patriots who tender the liberty of their Countrie: So doubtle&s;&s;e it wil exa&s;perate and inrage the &s;aid Papi&s;ts, Prelats, Malignants, and their adherents, to practi&s;e and execute all the mi&s;chief &amp; cruelty they can again&s;t this Kirk and Kingdome, as they have done in Our Kingdoms of England and Ireland. For preventing therof, the E&s;tates of this Our &s;aid Kingdome (according to the practi&s;e of Our Councel, Convention of Our E&s;tates, &amp; of Our Parliaments in former times of the like exigence) have re&s;olved to put this Our &s;aid Kingdom, with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed, in a pre&s;ent po&s;ture of defence, And for the better &s;afety and &s;ecuritie thereof, have &s;ta|tute and ordained, and hereby &s;tatues and ordaines, that immediately after the publication hereof, all the &s;en&s;ible per&s;ons within this Our Kingdome of Scotland, betwixt &s;ixtie and &s;ixteene yeares of age, of what&s;oever qualitie, rank, or degree, &s;hall provide them&s;elves with fourtie dayes provi&s;ion, and with Ammunition, Armes, and other warlike provi&s;ion of all forts, in the mo&s;t &s;ub&s;tantious manner, for Hor&s;e and Foot, with Tents, and all other furni&s;hing requi&s;ite, And that the Hor&s;emen be armed with Pi&s;tols, broad Swords, and Steel caps, And where the&s;e Armes cannot be had, that they provide Jacks, or Secrets, Lances and Steel-bonnets, And that the Footmen be armed with Musket and Sword, or Pike and Sword, And where the&s;e cannot be had, that they be furni&s;hed with Halberts, Loquhaber axes, or Jeddart &s;taves and Swords.</P>
<P>_OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We charge you &s;traitly and commands, that incontinent thir Our Letters &s;eene, you pa&s;&s;e to the Market Cro&s;&s;e of Edinburgh, and &s;everall Burrowes of this Our King|dome, and Pari&s;h Kirks thereof, and there by open Proclamation make publication hereof, wherethrough none pretend ignorance of the &s;ame, And that you command and charge all and &s;undry Our &s;ubjects fore&s;aids, being &s;en&s;ible per&s;ons, betwixt &s;ixtie and &s;ixteene yeares, to provide them&s;elves in manner fore&s;aid, and to be in readine&s;&s;e to make their Randevous thus armed at the places to be appointed by Our &s;aids E&s;tates, or Com|mittees having power from them, within eight and fourty hours after they &s;hall be lawfully warned by order from them to that effect, as they will te&s;tifie their affections to the true Prote&s;tant Religion, the Liberties of Our Kingdomes, Our owne honour, and the peace and &s;afety of that their native Countrey; and under the paine to be e&s;teemed and puni&s;h as enemies to Religion, Us and Our Kingdomes, and their whole goods to be confi&s;cate to the u&s;e of the publick.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at Edin|burgh <DATE>the eighteenth of Augu&s;t, and of Our Reigne the nineteenth yeare, 1643.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Conventionis.
Arch. Primero&s;e Cler. Conven.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><ADD>Printed at Edinburgh 15 August 1648</ADD></P>
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