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<HEAD>THE LAST OFFERS OF THE NOBLEMEN and GENTLEMEN NOW IN ARMES FOR THE COVENANT, To the Earls of <HI>Craford Glencairn</HI> and <HI>Lanerk, George Munro</HI> and others joyned with them in the late unlawfull engagement again&s;t the Kingdome of <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_VVEe have &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;idered the &s;ad and deplorable condition, to which this King|dome is now brought, by your proceedings and actions in pur&s;uance of the late en|gagement, again&s;t our neighbour Nation of <HI>England,</HI> with whom Wee are joyned in Covenant, and the fearfull de&s;olation that is like lie further to come upon it, by the return of a part of that Armie which invaded <HI>England;</HI> And after &s;everall debates and conferences with your Lord&s;hips, the&s;e &s;everall dayes by pa&s;t, both by word and writing, Wee do find the &s;tate of the the difference betwixt your Lord&s;hips and us to be this. That which hinders agreement upon our part, is the point of con&s;ci|ence, forbidding us to do any thing, which may inferre an acce&s;&s;ion to the late en|gagement, the de&s;ire wee have to keep the Covenant and Treaties, and not break the Union betwixt the Kingdomes, and to avoid a quarrell with <HI>England,</HI> which may de&s;troy this Kingdome and entayle a warre upon us and our po&s;teritie, and to pre|vent the expo&s;ing of the cau&s;e and Kingdome to the &s;ame dangers under which they now lie, from which grounds Wee cannot part; Whereas the Arti<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">les on your part, which hinder agreement, are &s;uch, from which your Lord&s;hips may ea&s;ilie recede. Wee have verie much endeavoured in our la&s;t paper to give your Lord&s;hips all ju&s;t and rea&s;onable &s;atisfaction; Yet that it may further appear how de&s;irous Wee are to prevent an In|te&s;tine Warre, and to have the peace of the Kingdome &s;etled, Wee offer unto your Lord&s;hips the&s;e Articles following to be agreed on.</P>
<P><LABEL>I.</LABEL> That for ea&s;ing the Burdens of the Kingdome, and to prevent famine and de&s;olation, all forces on both &s;ides whi|ther in the field or in the Gari&s;ons of <HI>Berwick</HI> and <HI>Carlile,</HI> or the Gari&s;ons within the Kingdome be disbanded betwixt the 25^t^h day of this in&s;tant moneth of <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>II.</LABEL> That the &s;ecureing and &s;etling of Religion at home, and the promoteing the work of Reformation abroad in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> be referred to the determination of the Generall A&s;&s;emblie or their Commi&s;&s;ioners, and that all Civill que&s;tions and differences what&s;oever be referred to the determination of a Parliament to be &s;peedilie called.</P>
<P><LABEL>III.</LABEL> To prevent the imminent dangers to Religion and a quarrell with our neighbour Nation in the mean time, un till the meeting of a Parliament (which cannot be done without a Treatie betwixt the Kingdomes) That all of your number who have been employed in publick place or tru&s;t, &s;hall forbear the exerci&s;e thereof, and not come to the Committee of E&s;tates, to the end there may be a Committee of E&s;tates con&s;i&s;ting of &s;uch members as are free of the late engagement, &amp; again&s;t whom <HI>England</HI> may not have this exception, That &s;uch have the manageing of the affairs of this Kingdome as they e&s;teem their Enemies, and with whom they cannot treat. And if your Lord&s;hips &s;hall out of love to this almo&s;t ruined Kingdome yeild to tho&s;e our ju&s;t de&s;ires, Wee are verie confident that the peace this Kingdome &s;hall be &s;etled, the union betwixt the Kingdomes continued, and all quarrells prevented.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed by command of the Commi&s;sioners for the Treatie. <HI>M. Tho. Hender&s;on.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Wood&s;ide <DATE><HI>16.</HI> September.
<HI>1648.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;tie. 1648.</P>
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