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<HEAD>AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWO HOUSES of PARLIAMENT now a&s;&s;embled in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> AND THE WHIGGS DECLARATION in <HI>Scotland.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Together with <HI>Argile</HI>'s DECLARATION at large, as it was published by him and his Accomplices.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Friday May 22.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P><HI>THE fir&s;t thing the two Hou&s;es did was to re&s;olve to return their mo&s;t Humble and Hearty Thanks to His Maje&s;ty for his mo&s;t gracious Speech and Declaration. And the Hou&s;e of Commons taking into con&s;ideration that part of His Maje&s;ties Speech which relates to the Revenue, Re&s;olved,</HI> Nemine Contradicente, That the Revenue which was granted to the late King, be &s;etled on his pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty for his Life, and that a Bill &s;hould be brought in for that purpo&s;e.</P>
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<P> <HI>In the Afternoon the two Hou&s;es attended His Maje&s;ty in a Body in the Banquetting Hou&s;e at</HI> Whitehall <HI>to return their Thanks to His Maje&s;ty.</HI></P>
<P>This day the Hou&s;e of Lords re&s;olved to make the following Addre&s;s to His Maje&s;ty,</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty having graciou&s;ly imparted to this Hou&s;e, That he is informed that the late Earl of <HI>Argile</HI> attainted of Trea&s;on, with divers other Rebels, are Landed in <HI>Scotland,</HI> and are in Actual Rebellion. It is ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament A&s;&s;embled, That this Hou&s;e do wait upon His Maje&s;ty at Five a Clock this afternoon in the Banquetting Hou&s;e at <HI>White|hall,</HI> to give his Maje&s;ty their humble thanks for having imparted the &s;ame to this Hou&s;e; And do humbly offer to a&s;&s;i&s;t his Maje&s;ty with their Lives and Fortunes against the &s;aid Rebels and all other his Ene<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ies what&s;oever.</P>
<P><HI>The Hou&s;e of Commons likewi&s;e after Reading of</HI> Argiles <HI>Declaration mentioned in his Maje&s;ties Speech. Re&s;olved,</HI> Ne|mine Contradicente, That this Hou&s;e will &s;tand by and a&s;&s;i&s;t his Ma|je&s;ty with their Lives and Fortunes again&s;t <HI>Archibald Campbel</HI> the pretended Earl of <HI>Argil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> and his Ad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erents, and all Rebels and Traytors, and all others what&s;oever that &s;hall a&s;&s;i&s;t him or any of them. And that this Hou&s;e will in a body attend his Maje&s;ty with this Vote.</P>
<P><HI>And this afternoon the two Hou&s;es accordingly attended his Maje&s;ty &s;everally in the Banquetting Hou&s;e with the &s;aid Addre&s;|&s;es and Votes.</HI></P>
<P>The Bill for &s;ettling the Revenue on his Maje&s;ty for his Life, <HI>was this day Read the fir&s;t time; and is to be Read again on</HI> Momday <HI>next.</HI></P>
<P>Edinbugh, May 9. <HI>Ye&s;terday there pa&s;&s;ed two Acts in Parlia|ment; The one declaring,</HI> That whereas the ob&s;tinacy of the Fana|tical party, notwith&s;tanding all the Laws formerly made against them, do pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;evere to keep their Hou&s;e and Field Conventicles, which are the Nur&s;eries and Rendevouzes of Rebellion. Therefore
<PB N="3" REF="2"> his Maje&s;ty with con&s;ent of his E&s;tates in Parliament, doth Statute and Ordain that all &s;uch as &s;hall hereafter Preach at &s;uch Fanatical Hou&s;e or Field Conventicles, as al&s;o &s;uch as &s;hall be pre&s;ent as Hear|ers at Field Conventicles, &s;hall be puni&s;hed by Death, and Confi&s;ca|tion of their Goods.</P>
<P><HI>The other declaring,</HI> That the giving or taking the National Covenant as explained in the Year 1638, or of the League and Cove|nant, &s;o commonly called, or writing in defence thereof, or owning of them as lawful or obligatory on them&s;elves or others, &s;hall infer the Crime and Pains of Trea&s;on.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Edinburgh, May</HI> 13</DATE> This day the Parliament pa&s;&s;ed the following Act.</DATELINE></OPENER>
<HEAD>An Act and Offer of a new Supply to His Maje&s;ty.</HEAD>
<P><HI>THE E&s;tates of Parliament calling to mind the many great Ble&s;&s;ings they have and do enjoy under the protection of the Royal Government / and e&s;pecially by the many deliverances from the Rebellious In&s;ut|rections and de&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gns of Phanatical Traitors / from whom they could expect no le&s;s than confu&s;ion in Religion / Oppre&s;&s;ion in their E&s;tates / and Cruelty again&s;t their Per&s;ons and Familes; And that the Terror of His Maje&s;ties Forces hath been very in&s;trumental for procuring our pre&s;ent Security: But con&s;idering that not only the&s;e Enemies continue their inveterate hatred a|gain&s;t King and People / but that their frequent di&s;appointments have height|ned their malice to de&s;pair; And that the pre&s;ent Forces may be too few to un|dergo all the Fatigue which His Maje&s;ties Service / or the protection of the Country doth require; And to demon&s;trate to all Seditious men that this Na|tion is re&s;olved to be&s;tow all they have in the Kings Service / rather than to be expo&s;ed to the lea&s;t of their In&s;ults: Do therefore for them&s;elves &amp; the Nation repre&s;ented by them / make a hearty and dutiful offer to His Maje&s;ty of Two hundred &amp; 16 thou&s;and pounds yearly / payable at two Terms</HI> / viz. Whit&s;onday <HI>and</HI> Mertimas <HI>each year / beginning at</HI> Whit&s;onday <HI>next</HI> 1685. <HI>and &s;o forth termly / and that over and be&s;ides the five Months Ce&s;&s;e already impo&s;ed on this Kingdom by the third Act of Parliament</HI> 1681. <HI>whereby there will be four Months Ce&s;&s;e payable at each Term hereafter / beginning at</HI> Whit&s;onday <HI>next</HI> 1685. <HI>And as a farther Evidence of their entire affection to the Sacr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d Per&s;on of his pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty / they humbly and heartily offer a continuation and prorogation of the &s;aid four Months Ce&s;&s;e termly from the &s;aid Term of</HI> Whit&s;onday 1685, <HI>inclu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ve / during all the Terms of His Maje&s;ties life time / which God Almighty long pre&s;erve / that being the greate&s;t of our e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">ly wishes / as it is the chief of our Temporal Felicity and Glory.</HI></P>
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<P> <HI>Edinburgh, May</HI> 18. The late Earl of <HI>Argile,</HI> and with him &s;ome other Rebels having in <HI>Holland</HI> made provi&s;ion of Arms and Ammunition, &s;et Sail from the <HI>Vlye</HI> on Saturday the 2<HI>d</HI> In&s;tant in thre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;mall Ships. On the <HI>5th</HI> he appeared before <HI>Orkney,</HI> where having &s;ent his Secretary and Chirurgeon on &s;hore, they were immediately &s;eized by the Inhabitants of that I&s;land, and are &s;ending hither with all diligence to the Privy Council. From thence he Sailed for the We&s;t Coa&s;t of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and arrived the <HI>13th</HI> In&s;tant at <HI>Dan&s;tafnage</HI> in <HI>Lorne</HI> (a ruinous Ca&s;tle which formerly did belong to him&s;elf) and put a Garri&s;on therein. The Highlanders, and all His Maje&s;ties Forces on the Confines of that Country, are marching with all po&s;&s;ible dili|gence for &s;uppre&s;&s;ing the&s;e Rebels; Who have emitted two Trai|terous Declarations, whereof the fir&s;t (a long one) is intitled thus: <HI>[The Declaration and Apologie of the Prote&s;tant People, that is, of the Noblemen, Barons, Gentlemen, Burge&s;&s;es and Commons of all &s;orts, now in Arms within the Kingdom of</HI> Scotland, <HI>with the Concurrence of the True and Faithful Pa&s;tors, and of &s;everal Gentlemen of the Engli&s;h Nation joined with them in the &s;ame Cau&s;e,</HI> &amp;c] By which <HI>they</HI> impudently and irreligiou&s;ly <HI>&s;et forth the great advantages the Prote&s;tant Religion both at home and abroad, had by the Succe&s;s</HI> of the Horrid Rebellion <HI>against King</HI> Charles <HI>the Fir&s;t, which Suc|ce&s;s they now</HI> impiou&s;ly <HI>a&s;cribe to the Ble&s;&s;ing of God upon the Good|ne&s;s of their Cau&s;e: They cry up the Loyalty of the Scotch Covenan|ters,</HI> who after they had delivered up the Father to be barbarou&s;ly and inhumanly Murdered by their Brethren in <HI>England,</HI> had yet admitted of the Son to Reign <HI>upon certain terms &amp; Conditions</HI> (ab|&s;olutely incon&s;i&s;tent with Monarchy) by which they pretend to prove that all that was done by his Late Maje&s;ty &s;ince his Hap|py Re&s;tauration, was <HI>&V;ngrate, Illegal, Arbitrary and Tyrannical;</HI> And that all the Oaths impo&s;ed by Law &s;ince the re&s;cinding of the Solemn League and Covenant <HI>have been Perjury,</HI> and the Government it &s;elf a <HI>continued Apo&s;tacy.</HI> And they accu&s;e the Parliaments of both Kingdoms for re&s;cinding the <HI>pernicious Laws made</HI> during the Rebellion, and tho&s;e of <HI>Scotland</HI> in particular, for making of Laws by which Prote&s;tant Blood (as they pretend)
<PB N="5" REF="3"> is &s;hed, whereof they give for in&s;tance the late Marquis of <HI>Argile</HI> Condemned in Parliament; and al&s;o for turning out the Noncon formi&s;ts Mini&s;ters. They accu&s;e the Government of putting men to death contrary to Law; and <HI>de&s;olating the Churches, changing the Ordinances of God to the Inventions of Men;</HI> conniving at Pa|pi&s;ts; keeping up of Standing Forces, which they call the <HI>Bane</HI> of Civil Government. They declare again&s;t the Kings <HI>Supremacy;</HI> And all the Wars again&s;t the States General of the United Pro|vinces. The Execution of tho&s;e Mi&s;creants, who make it their Profe&s;&s;ion and Practice to Murder Loyal Subjects upon the pre|tence of Religion; and the Torture of <HI>Spence</HI> and <HI>Car&s;tares,</HI> by whom was made &s;o great a di&s;covery of the late horrid Con&s;pira|cy; as al&s;o the Forfeiture of the late Earl of <HI>Argile.</HI> They like|wi&s;e declare again&s;t the Enquiries that were made into the Rebel|lion at <HI>Bothwel Bridge</HI> by the late Circuit Courts, all which (&s;o nece&s;&s;ary for the peace and quiet of the&s;e Kingdoms) they call <HI>Tyranny and Popery twi&s;ted together.</HI> They declare again&s;t his pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty, <HI>(whom they call James Duke of York)</HI> his A&s;cen|tion to the Throne, as being <HI>Excluded from it by the Commons of England.</HI> They declare likewi&s;e again&s;t the pre&s;ent <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons as Packed and Caballed and returned by Fraud and Inju|&s;tice.</HI> For all which pretended rea&s;ons they declare that they totally <HI>throw off all Bonds of Subjection,</HI> and do take up Arms a|gain&s;t his pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty (whom they &s;till call <HI>James Duke of York)</HI> and all his Accomplices, &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iling them the <HI>mo&s;t unnatural and wicked Enemies;</HI> for tho&s;e pretended ends. Fir&s;t <HI>The re|&s;toring and &s;etling what they call the Prote&s;tant Religion.</HI> Second|ly, <HI>The Suppre&s;&s;ion and perpetual Exclu&s;ion of Popery, and its bi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">-Root and Spring,</HI> Prelacy. Thirdly, <HI>The re&s;toring of all who hav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> been Sufferers upon the account of adherence to their Partly, for the pulling down of this pre&s;ent Government, and &s;etting up another &s;uit|able to their de&s;igns; And they declare that they never will enter into any Capitulation, Treaty, or Conditions with the King; but on the contrary pro&s;ecute the War wit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> reality, con&s;tancy and vigor, until they &s;hall attain their ends; and that they will a&s;&s;i&s;t and main|tain one another, e&s;pecially their Brethren in</HI> England <HI>and</HI> Ireland,
<PB N="6" REF="4"> <HI>who &s;hall pur&s;ue the &s;ame ends.</HI> And la&s;tly, they promi&s;e Indem|nity to tho&s;e who have been formerly their Enemies, upon their &s;incere repentance, joyning with them and vigorou&s;ly a&s;&s;i&s;ting them again&s;t a <HI>Per&s;ecuting Tyrant and an Apo&s;tate Party,</HI> for &s;o they call His Maje&s;ty and his loyal Subjects, ending their Decla|ration with great Promi&s;es of A&s;&s;i&s;tance from God to their Par|ty, and of Confu&s;ion to their Enemies. This being the &s;ub&s;tance of their long and Canting Declaration, the other le&s;&s;er is here &s;et down at length.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The Declaration of</HI> Archibald <HI>Earl of</HI> Argile, <HI>Lord</HI> Kintyre, Cow all, Campbel, <HI>and</HI> Lorn, <HI>Heritable Sheriff and Lieutenant of the Shires of</HI> Argile <HI>and</HI> Turbett, <HI>and Heritable Ju&s;tice Gene|ral of the &s;aid Shires, and of the We&s;t I&s;les, and others; with his Order to his Va&s;&s;als and others in the &s;aid Shires, and under his Juri&s;dicton, to concur for Defence of their Religion, Lives and Liberties.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Shall not mention my Ca&s;e publi&s;hed in Print in Latine and in Dutch, and more largely in Engli&s;h, nor mean I to repeat the printed Declaration emitted by &s;everal Noblemen, Gentlemen, and others of both Nations now in Arms; but becau&s;e the Suf|ferings of me and my Family are therein mentioned, I have thought it fit for me to declare for my &s;elf; That as I go to Arms with tho&s;e who have appointed me to conduct them, for no pri|vate nor per&s;onal end, and only for tho&s;e contained in the &s;aid Declaration, which I have concerted with them, and approve of; &s;o I do claim no Intere&s;t, but what I had before the pretended Forfeiture of my Family, and have &s;ufficient right to.</P>
<P>And that I do freely, (and as a Chri&s;tian) forgive all per&s;onal Injuries again&s;t my Per&s;on or Family to all that &s;hall not oppo&s;e, but join and concur with us in our pre&s;ent Undertaking, for the ends mentioned in the &s;aid Declaration. And hereby I oblige me never to pur&s;ue them in Judgment, nor out of Judgement; And I do further declare, That obtaining the peaceable and quiet Po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ion of what belonged to my Father and my &s;elf before our
<PB N="7" REF="4" MS="y"> pretended Forfeitures, I &s;hall &s;atisfie all Debts due by my Fa|ther and my &s;elf, as any Heir or Debitor can be obliged.</P>
<P>And as my Faithfulne&s;s to his late Maje&s;ty and his Govern|ment, hath &s;ufficiently appeared to all unbia&s;&s;ed per&s;ons void of Malice; &s;o I do with Grief acknowledge my former too much complying with and conniving at the methods that have been taken to bring us to the &s;ad condition we are now in, though God knows never concurring in the de&s;ign.</P>
<P>I have now with Gods Strength &s;uffered patiently my unju&s;t Sentence and Bani&s;hment three years and a half, and have never offered to make any Uproar or Defence by Arms, to di&s;turb the Peace upon my private concern; But the King being now dead, and the Duke of <HI>York</HI> having taken off his Mask, and having a|bandoned and invaded our Religion and Liberties, re&s;olving to enter into the Government, and exerci&s;e it contrary to Law, I thinkit not only Ju&s;t, but my Duty to God and my Country, to u&s;e my outmo&s;t endeavors to oppo&s;e and repre&s;s his U&s;urpations and Tyranny.</P>
<P>And therefore being a&s;&s;i&s;ted and furni&s;hed very nobly by &s;eve|ral good Prote&s;tants, and invited and accompanied by &s;everal of both Nations to lead them, I re&s;olve, as God &s;hall enable me, to u&s;e their a&s;&s;i&s;tance of all kinds, towards the ends expre&s;t in the &s;aid Declaration.</P>
<P>And I do hereby earne&s;tly invite and obte&s;te all hone&s;t Prote|&s;tants, and particularly all my Friends and Blood Relations, to concur with us in the &s;aid Declaration; And as I have written &s;e|veral Letters, &s;o having no other way fully to intimate my mind otherwi&s;e, I do hereby require all my Va&s;&s;als any where, and all within my &s;everal Jurisdictions, with their Fencible Men within their Command, to go to Arms, and to join and concur with us according to the &s;aid Declarations, as they will be an&s;werable at their peril; And that they obey the particular Orders they &s;hall receive from me from time to time.</P>
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