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<HEAD>A DECLARATION OF THE COMMANDER in Chief of the Forces in <HI>SCOTLAND,</HI> And of the OFFICERS of the Army under his Command, In Vindication of the Liberties of the PEOPLE, and the <HI>Priviledges</HI> of <HI>PARLIAMENT.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_HAving, to the great grief of our hearts, been informed of a mo&s;t unhappy difference lately fallen out betwixt the Parliament and &s;ome Officers of the Army at <HI>London,</HI> which hath occa&s;ioned the di&s;placing of &s;undry of the &s;aid Officers; And al&s;o the in|terruption of the Members of Parliament in the di&s;charge of their Duty, We therefore, having earne&s;tly be&s;ought the LORD to direct us in this great and weighty Affair, wherein the Liberty and Peace of the&s;e Nations, and the Intere&s;t of the Godly and Faithfull therein is &s;o nearly concerned, do finde it our duty to Declare, and we do hereby Declare,</P>
<P>That we &s;hall u&s;e our Chri&s;tian endeavours to the utmo&s;t for the be|getting of a Right under&s;tanding and Reconciliation betwixt the Parlia|ment and the &s;aid Officers of the Army. And we do al&s;o Declare, That we &s;hall, through the &s;trength of God, a&s;&s;ert and maintain the Freedom and Priviledges of the pre&s;ent Parliament, the &s;o often, and lately acknow|ledged Supream Authority of the&s;e Nations, and not &s;uffer the Members thereof to be illegally interrupted or mole&s;ted in the di&s;charge of their Du|ties; And we do &s;olemnly avow to all the world, that our only intention in doing this, is to pre&s;erve the Rights of our Country, and to protect and encourage all the Godly and Faithfull therein, according to our De|claration to the Churches, lately emitted and publi&s;hed; and likewi&s;e to e&s;ta|bli&s;h the Peace of the&s;e Nations, and the Government of a Free-State or Commonwealth, To which we &s;tand obliged by &s;everal Vows and En|gagements, made before GOD and many Witne&s;&s;es: And as we have within us the Te&s;timony of &s;incere hearts and unbya&s;&s;ed con&s;ciences to en|courage us in the&s;e our Vndertakings, &s;o we doubt not of the concurrent a&s;&s;i&s;tance of all the unprejudiced Faithfull in the Land, for who&s;e &s;akes principally we are drawn forth to this Engagement.</P>
<P>And we therefore invite all our Brethren of the Army, and of the <HI>Militia,</HI> and all others that profe&s;&s;e love to GOD and His People, and to their own and their Po&s;terities Liberties, to come and give us their chearful aid in this Work, whereunto the Lord hath called us, le&s;t they be made a Prey to the Lu&s;ts of Men, and then bewail the lo&s;&s;e of this opportunity which God hath put into their hands.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Linlithgow,</HI> <DATE><HI>Octob.</HI> 21. 1659.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Signed in the Name and by the Con&s;ent of the Commander in Chief and the Officers of the Army in <HI>Scotland.</HI> WILLIAM CLARKE, Secretary.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>EDINB&V;RGH, <HI>Printed by</HI> Chri&s;topher Higgins, <HI>in</HI> Harts <HI>Clo&s;e, over again&s;t the Trone Church,</HI> 1659.</P>
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