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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<P>AN ACCOUNT of the late VIOLENCE committed by &s;ome Souldiers upon the Generall A&s;&s;embly OF THE KIRKE OF <HI>SCOTLAND.</HI></P>
<P>Printed in the Year, 1653.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>A LETTER.</HEAD>
<P>_THe la&s;t Wedne&s;day being the twentieth of <HI>July</HI> 1653. was the &s;adde&s;t day that ever I &s;aw on Earth, and I thought not that any that cals them|&s;elves Reformed Chri&s;tians and Co|venanters, would have Enterprized &s;uch an Act. It was the day of the meeting of the Generall A&s;&s;embly of the Church of <HI>Scotland,</HI> at which M^r <HI>David Dick&s;on</HI> did Expound in the <HI>Gal.</HI> 2. and taught on 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> ch. 13. ver&s;. 11. M^r <HI>Robert Doug|las</HI> taught afternoon on 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.25, 26, 27. both of them very holily, prudently and hone&s;tly, for healing our Rents. After the&s;e Sermons about four of the Clock, the Generall A&s;&s;embly met in the u&s;uall place; and immediatly after prayers
<PB N="2" REF="3">conceived by M^r <HI>Dick&s;on</HI> the la&s;t Moderator, there came in one Lieutenant Colonell <HI>Cotterel,</HI> and Captain <HI>Cliftown</HI> Captain of the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Edenborough,</HI> and another Captain with them, who&s;e name I know not. The Lieutenant Colo|nel &s;tanding upon a bench, &s;aid with a loud voice, Gentlemen, I am commanded to ask you by what Authority you &s;it here: If you have none from the Parliament, Commander in Chief, or Judges, you are to go with me. Now at this time he had &s;ome Musketteers at the door of the Hou&s;e within the Church, and &s;ome Hor&s;e and Foot about the Church: M^r <HI>Dick&s;on</HI> de&s;ired all that were in the hou&s;e and not Members of the Meeting, to remove, that they might give a di&s;creet An&s;wer to the Gentleman that &s;poke. After all removed, M^r <HI>Dick&s;on</HI> &s;aid, We &s;it here by the Authority of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and by the Law of this Land, Whereby we are Authori|zed to keep Generall A&s;&s;emblies from year to year, according to the &s;everal Acts of Parlia|ment, and every A&s;&s;embly meets by the Ap|pointment of the Former. The Lieutenant Co|lonell required them to ari&s;e and go with him pre&s;ently, or el&s;e he would make them ri&s;e on other terms. Mr <HI>Dick&s;on</HI> de&s;ired time to call the Rols to con&s;titute the A&s;&s;embly, and appoint the next Diet. By this time &s;ome Musketteers with fired matches entered the Hou&s;e; where|upon M^r <HI>Dick&s;on</HI> prayed, and in time of Prayer the Commanders afore&s;aid kept on their Hats,
<PB N="3" REF="3">and one of them &s;pake all the time; the Prayer was &s;hort: M^r <HI>Dick&s;on</HI> prote&s;ted that this violent rai&s;ing of the A&s;&s;embly &s;hould not hinder the next meeting to be at &s;uch a time and place as he &s;hould think meet to appoint at a fitting oppor|tunity; whereupon they were forced to ri&s;e, and as they went out at doors were guarded about with Foot and Hor&s;e, the Officers going before: They went up the We&s;t Bow, and down the Bow to the We&s;t-Gate, and from thence to <HI>Brun&s;field-Linkes,</HI> and there they took up all their Names, and gave Orders to them to go to their own homes at the neare&s;t; and not return to the Town: But when &s;ome told him that their way was through the City, and all of them had &s;omething to do there: He commanded them that returned to the City, to give up their own names and the names of their Lodgings to the Captain of the Guard that night at &s;even of the Clock, and to depart the City to morrow by eight a Clock in the morning at their perill; and that no three of them &s;hould meet together; Whereupon M. <HI>Dick&s;on</HI> again prote&s;ted to the pur|po&s;e afore&s;aid: It would have grieved any Chri|&s;tian &s;oul to &s;ee the Members of that Grave A&s;|&s;embly &s;o di&s;gracefully carried through a great part of the City and Suburbs. E&s;pecially Re|verend M. <HI>Dick&s;on</HI> late Moderator, and to have heard the Groans and Sighs that were among the People for the violence done to the Highe&s;t Court of Chri&s;t in <HI>Scotland;</HI> Yet in this time
<PB N="4" REF="4">and all the next day the Remon&s;trators or Pro|te&s;tors again&s;t the decliners of the A&s;&s;embly &s;ate in the We&s;t-Kirk without any to rai&s;e them, but on Thur&s;day at night a Proclamation was made at the Market-Cro&s;&s;e, that all Lords, Lairds, and Mini&s;ters &s;hould depart the City by too mor|row at eight a Clock, except &s;uch as had to do in the Laws, or before the Judges, or could give other nece&s;&s;ary cau&s;e of their &s;tay: By who&s;e in&s;tigation this was done God will bring to light in his good time, but the Order is un|der Colonell <HI>Lilburn's</HI> hand: We expected better things at their hands who &s;wore &s;incerely, real|ly, and con&s;tantly through the grace of God in their &s;everall places and callings, the pre&s;ervati|on of the Reformed Religion in the Church of <HI>Scotland,</HI> in Doctrine, Wor&s;hip, Di&s;cipline, and Government, then to overturn our Di&s;cipline and Government. As for my &s;elf I found the word of 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 20.6. made very lively and &s;en&s;ible to me; and I got great liberty to pray and beleeve accordingly.</P>
<P>God is Ju&s;t, and will not forget a broken Co|venant, He will be a &s;peedy witne&s;&s;e again&s;t Co|venant-breakers, but in his own time, which is be&s;t, and till then here is the Patience and Faith of the Saints.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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