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<P>THE DESIGNS AND Corre&s;pondencies of the pre&s;ent <HI>COMMITTEE</HI> of <HI>ESTATES</HI> AND That part of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation which is now entred into this Kingdom in Ho&s;tility, <HI>In &s;ome mea&s;ure di&s;covered by two</HI> PACKETS of LETTERS intercepted in the North, and &s;ent up to the Hou&s;e of COMMONS.</P>
<P>WITH AN INTRODUCTIVE AND Some Marginal Notes and Animadver&s;ions, <HI>By a private Pen.</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>DAN. 2.26.</HI></BIBL>
<P>There is a God in heaven that revealeth Secrets.</P></Q>
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<P>ORdered by the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That the&s;e Letters be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed:</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H: El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Edward Hu&s;band,</HI> Printer to the Honorable Hou&s;e of Commons. <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 16. 1648.</P>
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<P>THat the great and glorious work of erecting a throne for the Lord Chri&s;t, &amp; promoting the powers of god|line&s;s by a thorow Reformation in Church and State (which is a principal part of that Cau&s;e the Parlia|ment hath hitherto travelled with) &s;hall pro&s;per, and notwith|&s;tanding the fraud and force of men or devils, &s;hall ride on con|quering and to conquer, till captivity be fully lead captive, and grace become glory; no pious heart but believes, But whither the Lord will honor this generation of men, and make them an in|&s;trument in his hand to accompli&s;h this work in the&s;e Kingdoms, we cannot &s;o confidently determine: For, when we reminde our high Rebellions again&s;t our God, our want of real and per&s;onal Reformation, and neglect of executing judgement upon the Ene|mies of this Cau&s;e (in which &s;ence it cannot be denyed but our &s;olemn Covenant hath been as &s;olemnly broken) we may have cau&s;e enough to expect, That the Lord will &s;o vi&s;it upon us tho&s;e provocations, as to make <HI>England</HI> an <HI>Aceldama,</HI> or as <HI>Germany,</HI> a perpetual de&s;olation, and bury this Parliament in their own ruines, by the unju&s;t indignation of tho&s;e very people, who&s;e life and welfare is bound up in theirs; and yet endeavor in a blinded zeal, <HI>Samp&s;on</HI>-like, to pull down tho&s;e pillars that &s;hould &s;up|port them, and let fall the Vindication of his Cau&s;e, to be re&s;um'd by &s;ome more faithful generation that &s;hall &s;ucceed. Yet if we do but con&s;ider, with what Vici&s;&s;itudes and Alternations the Lord hath been plea&s;ed to di&s;pence his providences, &s;uffering us many times to be brought to the pits brink, and thence as often recovering us, and bla&s;ting the highe&s;t expectations of the Ene|my, we may with &s;ome rea&s;on hope, That the Decree is not yet gone forth again&s;t us; but rather that he beholds us, as once he did I&s;rael, with a troubled heart and repentings kindled toge|ther, when he &s;aid, <HI>How &s;hall I give thee up, O Ephraim? How &s;hall I make thee as Admah?</HI> &amp;c. as it were unre&s;olved what to do with <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Englands</HI> &s;ometimes dear and de&s;ired Par|liaments. But if we adde thereunto the con&s;ideration of the
<PB N="4" REF="3">maner of our Deliverances, wherein he hath imprinted generally &s;ome character of &s;pecial favor and mercy; and of the great and glorious things he hath done for this Parliament, the meer works of an Almighty arm, to which the creature could not pretend, not onely of old, when his hand was &s;o lifted up, that all the world &s;aw and confe&s;t his marvellous doings in behalf of his &s;er|vants; but even that now again, &s;ince the like troubles have been renewed, he hath repeated the like Admini&s;trations, giving us in the mid&s;t of our dangers (by &s;o much the more formidable as re|lap&s;es are wor&s;e then the fir&s;t di&s;ea&s;es) many &s;ea&s;onable, and little le&s;s then miraculous Deliverances; as, in <HI>Wales,</HI> the North, <HI>Kent, Surrey</HI> and el&s;where, the lea&s;t of which we could not want, or having wanted, mu&s;t probably have peri&s;ht. We can|not without a &s;inful ingratitude, and inob&s;ervance of former mercies, which with God are arguments and obligations for fu|ture, but think that he will yet do this Parliament good at the latter end; and having been at the co&s;t of &s;o many mercies and miracles for them, That he will carry on this Cau&s;e by the&s;e hands, unto a happy and ble&s;&s;ed i&s;&s;ue for the&s;e Kingdoms. But in no &s;ort of Di&s;pen&s;ations hath he more remarkably appeared, and te&s;tified the continuance of his favor to this Parliament and his people, then in di&s;covering and di&s;appointing the &s;ecret Plots and Machinations of &s;uch, as under the character of friends lay in our bo&s;oms, to which he hath always hitherto given a mi&s;carrying womb and dry bre&s;ts; and in unmasking and taking off tho&s;e &s;pecious vizards, wherewith tho&s;e apo&s;tatized friends, and other more profe&s;&s;ed Enemies that have ri&s;en up in arms again&s;t us, have clothed their undertakings, to lure our people from us, and pro&s;elyte them to their a&s;&s;i&s;tance: By means whereof, and by the good hand of God, the affections of tho&s;e that fir&s;t engaged with us, and were in &s;ome mea&s;ure withdrawn, &s;eeming to &s;leep in the a&s;hes of di&s;content for their long continued burthens, and long delayed reparations, have been reinlivened and recovered to us, they by &s;uch providential Di&s;coveries being brought to &s;ee a&s;wel the wickedne&s;s as the un&s;ucce&s;sfulne&s;s of their De&s;igns; and from thence gathering cau&s;e to re&s;olve, That as the Enemies ma|lice levels at the De&s;truction, &s;o their welfare is onely to be &s;e|cured in the Pre&s;ervation of this Parliament, That in the ruine of
<PB N="5" REF="3">this they may bid Good-night to all future Parliaments, and in the change of this have &s;mall hopes of bettering their con|dition: A fre&s;h occa&s;ion of this is given in from our Neighbors of <HI>Scotland,</HI> who being entred this Kingdom in open ho&s;tility, yet by their plau&s;ible Declarations and publike Overtures, would have the world think their errand hone&s;t and honorable, that they have nothing in their eye but the good of Religion, the Pre|&s;ervation of the Kings Per&s;on according to the Covenant, and tho&s;e other ends of the Covenant and Ingagements in the joynt Declaration of the 6. of <HI>January;</HI> whereas by that which fol|lows it will appear, That it is even among&s;t them&s;elves a que&s;tion, whether Duke <HI>Hamilton,</HI> who commands their Forces in chief, be at all a friend to Presbytery (by which generally they under|&s;tand Religion) that tho&s;e conditions in the Covenant with which the Defence and Pre&s;ervation of the Kings Per&s;on is qua|lified, are wholly forgotten, as always omitted in their publique Expre&s;&s;es; and that in&s;tead of bringing Delinquents and the Enemies of this Cau&s;e to condign puni&s;hment, which both by the Covenant and recited Declaration they are joyntly with us ingaged to, their principal a&s;&s;i&s;tances are rai&s;ed, and corre&s;pon|dencies laid with &s;uch, and particularly tho&s;e Northern noto|rious Incendiaries, <HI>Glemham, Langdale, Mu&s;grave,</HI> with <HI>Hart|ford</HI> and <HI>Holland,</HI> and other Southern Malignants; and, not to be infinite, That their Intentions of good to this Kingdom are &s;o worthy of &s;u&s;pect, as that the Lord <HI>Lauderdale,</HI> who might be thought (though mi&s;guided) to have &s;ome hone&s;t principles left, is judg'd fit to be packt away to <HI>France,</HI> as a likely oppo&s;er of their bad ends; and the Prince him&s;elf, who is content to u&s;e their ayds, doubts to tru&s;t him&s;elf among&s;t them; and not without rea&s;on, if it be true, as many wi&s;e ob&s;ervers of Affairs believe, That Duke <HI>Hamilton,</HI> with the help of the active Secretary his brother, hath got him&s;elf in the head of the&s;e Forces, more with De&s;ign (according to &s;ome old pretentions and predictions) to get the Crown of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and the conque&s;t of <HI>England</HI> to him|&s;elf, then for any &s;ervice to this King or Kingdom; and though much of this lay hid and un&s;u&s;pected by many well meaning men (that having lo&s;t their way in a Scotch mi&s;t, and out of zeal to Presbytery, in which both the Scots and they concentred) were (in
<PB N="6" REF="4">compliance with them) gon further on the malignants errand then ever they intended, yet now they are printed in &s;uch legible Cha|racters, as he that runs may read them, in two packets intercepted; which having &s;tated the occa&s;ion by which they come to the Par|liaments hands, without further anticipation of the Readers judgement, &s;hall be left to &s;peak their own &s;en&s;e, with this onely Ob&s;ervation premi&s;ed, That though much thereof be in Cipher, yet tho&s;e in&s;truments which God hath qualified with skill to open them, will be able to evidence to any competent under|&s;tanding, that the language they now &s;peak is mo&s;t genuine and natural; which will the rather be believed, if it be con&s;idered that the tran&s;lation put upon the <HI>Na&s;eby</HI> and other Letters which came in Characters, by the Decipherers were never yet di&s;avow|ed or contradicted in the lea&s;t. But now to the occa&s;ion, When the new Committee of E&s;tates had all things in readine&s;s for their expedition, and inva&s;ive entrance into this Kingdom, they di&s;patcht from <HI>Edenburgh</HI> (upon the very &s;ame day that Duke <HI>Hamilton</HI> entred into <HI>England</HI>) their Vaunt-currier or Agent Mr. <HI>Haliburton,</HI> to give the Parliament an account of (the Rea|&s;ons we cannot call them, but) Pretences of their march and return into this Kingdom, by a Letter and Declaration from them, and another to the King, for which he was qualified by Commi&s;&s;ion, and for that onely; upon con&s;idence whereof, he ap|proaches Major General <HI>Lamberts</HI> Quarters for his pa&s;s and &s;afe conduct, which was not denied him, but finding him po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of divers other Letters doubtfully directed, and by Characters, he cau&s;ed them to be put in a ca&s;e under both their &s;eals, and him to be fairly waited upon by per&s;ons of tru&s;t and credit, that the judgement of Parliament might be had concerning the &s;ame: Being thus &s;ent up (having in his pa&s;&s;age principally de&s;ired con|ference with &s;uch as were known abetters to the Kings cau&s;e) the Hou&s;e of Commons, though tender of the Laws of Agencies and publique Mini&s;ters, ob&s;erving (be&s;ides that he pretended no Commi&s;&s;ion for bringing tho&s;e other Papers) that the Com|mittee of E&s;tates in that publique Expre&s;s to the Hou&s;es, held forth as one cau&s;e of their coming in, that they were invited by divers per&s;ons in this Kingdom engaged in Covenant with them; for the more hopeful di&s;covery of the per&s;ons that might have
<PB N="7" REF="4">invited them, Ordered them to be opened and viewed by a Com|mittee of their own, and a report (of &s;uch as were of any im|portance or &s;ignification) to be made, which after the difficulty of Deciphering them (that were in Characters) was ma&s;tered, was done accordingly, and by their Order thus made publique.</P>
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<P>The fir&s;t that is thought worthy of publique view, is directed to a per&s;on of Honor here, and &s;ometimes a zealous A&s;&s;erter of the Parliaments Cau&s;e, by a Character endor&s;ed, which be&s;ides that the Po&s;t&s;cript clears it, is known to &s;ignifie the Counte&s;s of <HI>Car|li&s;le,</HI> and comes from the Lord <HI>Lauderdail,</HI> written partly in Cyphers, but all with his own hand, as by comparing it with ano|ther written to his own Counte&s;s re&s;iding at <HI>Highgate,</HI> will be demon&s;trated.</P>
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<HEAD>8 <HI>July,</HI> 1648.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>MADAM,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">It hath been an old ob|&s;ervation, That there was ne|ver any great Trea&s;on carried on without a Woman and a Prie&s;t: Since your Ladi&s;hip is plea&s;ed to lead the Van in this, 'tis thought Time may di&s;cover &s;ome of our late Di&s;&s;enting Brethren and non-Sub&s;cribers of the Clergy that will bring up the Rear.</NOTE> AT la&s;t our bu&s;ine&s;s is brought to &s;ome ripe|ne&s;s; for D. Hamilton 30 writes, That this day he enters England 22: but this Bearer will more particularly acquaint your Ladi&s;hip, for he goes by the Army. He brings up to the Honorable Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment the Declaration of this Kingdom, of the Nece&s;&s;ity, Grounds and Ends of their undertakings, and of the return of our Army into <HI>England;</HI> your Ladi&s;hip will receive a copy of it: I dare both an|&s;wer for the hone&s;ty of the matter, and the rudene&s;s of the form and language; for truly it was the work of<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">How long this Cocka|trice Egg hath been hatching, we are not yet &s;o in&s;tructed as to affirm; but they that have ob&s;erved the cold and li&s;tle&s;s pro&s;ecution of the War by the Scoti&s;h Army, called in and well paid for that Service, from the Siege of <HI>Hereford</HI> downward (at which time Trea|ties and Negotiations were admitted by &s;ome principal per&s;ons in that Army, to which this Epi&s;tler was no &s;tranger, with Sir <HI>William Fleming</HI> in the Kings behalf) will rea&s;on|ably judge, That the De&s;ign cannot be of a much yonger date, but laid there.</NOTE> very few hours, not above<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">Great bodies commonly have &s;low Births: Naturali&s;ts ob&s;erve, That the Ele|phant goes three years with yong; but this great Lord is (ye &s;ee) of quicker di&s;patch, and may perhaps repent it at lei&s;ure.</NOTE> four and twen|ty: but God willing it &s;hal be hone&s;tly pur&s;ued. This Gentleman hath order ab&s;olutely to obey your La|di&s;hip in every thing. We owe &s;o many obligations to E. Holland 31, and I have no cypher with him; there|fore
<PB N="8" REF="5">E. Lanerick 35 and I have written this enclo&s;ed to him, which you will plea&s;e to deliver: it is only a te&s;timony of our re&s;pects, and an a&s;&s;urance, when ever we are able, of our &s;ervice. E. Lanerick 35 thought it fit al&s;o to write a general Letter to the Lo: <HI>Hartford,</HI> which is done; and I have from my &s;elf written to E. Manche&s;ter 39, I know not if he will tell it you. Your Ladi&s;hip will plea&s;e to addre&s;s the Bearer to 164. 197. 193. and<NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">If the City or (that which repre&s;ents them) the Common-Councel &s;hall take occa&s;ion from hence to put a Te&s;t upon their Members for di&s;covery of tho&s;e that have invited the Scots, or corre|&s;pond with them, they &s;hall ju&s;tifie their Integrity, and rear a Monument of their Prai&s;e to all &s;ucceeding gene|rations.</NOTE> our Friends in the City. I can adde no more to what I wrote &s;o fully by the la&s;t Expre&s;s, but that I am mo&s;t faith|fully and unfainedly,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble Servant.</SIGNED>
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<P>I would not write to your Brother <HI>Northumber|land,</HI> but none is more his Servant. Be plea&s;ed to &s;end the copy of the Declaration to L. Jermin 28.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Endor&s;ed</HI> )&middot;( Count. <HI>Carli&s;le.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>This inclo&s;ed in the former, though without any Super&s;cription to di|rect it, mu&s;t according the intimation in that Letter, belong to 31. the Earl of <HI>Holland.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>My Lord,</HI> Your Lord&s;hip hath given<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">Which have not been without &s;ome convenient and prudent intermi&s;&s;ions, varted and alternated <HI>pro temporum ratione.</HI></NOTE> &s;o many eminent Te&s;timonies of your Loyalty to the King, of your good affections to both King|doms, their Unity, Peace and Happine&s;s, and of your particular re&s;pects to<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">More re&s;pects to his own Nation might more have becom'd his Lord&s;hip; for want of which it may be &s;aid, <HI>Hic amor e&s;t Odio majus &s;eclus.</HI></NOTE> our Nation, That we thought it fit to appoint this Gentleman to wait on your Lord&s;hip, to acquaint you with our Re&s;olutions, and our proceedings in order to all tho&s;e we have been engaged for. If we had not thought it too publique a way, the Committee of E&s;tates would have &s;aid thus much to you. Be plea&s;ed therefore to let us know how we may<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">We know not how you may better &s;erve him, then by &s;ending a competent &s;um (wor+thy your great obligations to him) for his ran&s;om.</NOTE> &s;erve your Lord&s;hip, and we dare an&s;wer, This Kingdom will ever be ready to give te&s;timonies of their re&s;pects to your Lord&s;hip, as we &s;hall be particularly to approve our &s;elves, My Lord,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t humble Servants, <HI>Lauderdale. Lanerick.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE><HI>July</HI> 8.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>MY Lord,</HI> Your Lord&s;hip hath given &s;uch eminent proof of your Loyalty and Fidelity, as that we are confident (now while His Maje&s;ty is in the<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">His Lord&s;hip might do better to repent him&s;elf of coun&s;elling and abetting the King in his defection from the Parliament, which hath brought him to this extremi|ty; from which, a clear and cordial compliance with the Parliament can onely re&s;cue him with Honor and Advan|tage.</NOTE> extremity of a low condition) your Lord&s;hip will &s;hew your &s;elf for His Re&s;cue. The Bearer is commanded to repre&s;ent to you our condition and Re&s;olutions here; by whom we will earne&s;tly de&s;ire you would plea&s;e to convey to us &s;uch Advices and Commands as you &s;hall think fit, for he may be ab&s;olutely tru&s;ted, and they &s;hall be faithfully obeyed by,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t humble Servants, <HI>Lauderdale. Lanerick.</HI></SIGNED> <DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>8 <HI>July,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>Here follow a few (of many) Letters of Credence, by which their Agent <HI>Mr. Haliburton,</HI> was recommended to divers per&s;ons in this Kingdom, &s;ome of which remain yet undi&s;covered.</P>
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<HEAD>JULY 8.</HEAD>
<P><HI>RIght Honorable,</HI> You know this Bearer, therefore I &s;hall onely &s;ay, you may tru&s;t him as you would do</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t obedient Son and Servant, <HI>Lanerick.</HI></SIGNED>
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<P><HI>Endor&s;ed, For the Right Honorable the Earl of</HI> Derlton, <HI>but known in</HI> England <HI>by the name of</HI> Mr. James Maxwel, <HI>now or late Gentleman &V;&s;her of the Black-Rod to the Lords Hou&s;e.</HI></P>
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<P>If this Noble Courtier &s;hall not without the rack confe&s;s what he knows of De&s;ign again&s;t this Kingdom, where he hath Reapen &s;o many gol|den Harve&s;ts, and which Tran&s;planted into the other, have pro&s;pered into an Earldom, I &s;hall think the &s;tool of Repentance too good a Penance, and a Horning from hence but too gentle puni&s;hment for high Ingratitude.</P>
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<HEAD>JULY 8.</HEAD>
<P><HI>SIr,</HI> This is onely to beg an ab&s;olute tru&s;t to the Bearer hereof, in every thing which he &s;hall impart to you from</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your faithful Servant, <HI>Lanerick.</HI></SIGNED>
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<P>It is &s;o long &s;ince I heard from Mr. 52.6.8.44. that
<PB N="10" REF="6">I dar'&s;t not write to him, if his<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">'Tis hoped many gal|lant men will change their in|clinations, &s;ince you have &s;o notoriou&s;ly changed your Cau&s;e; and upon that ac|count only were your friends, 1. <HI>u&s;&abque; ad aras.</HI></NOTE> Inclinations be changed we will lo&s;e a gallant Friend; Let this Bearer receive his directions in conveying his com|mands to me, if he hath yet any good wi&s;hes for us, which certainly we never &s;o much de&s;erved from Men of Honor as now.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Endor&s;ed,</HI> 409.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>JULY 8.</HEAD>
<P><HI>MAdam,</HI> The little we have more to &s;ay then what we did by the la&s;t Expre&s;s, will be fully offered to your Lady|&s;hip by this Bearer, for who&s;e Fidelity and Secrecy I dare ab&s;o|lutely engage my &s;elf, and that he will faithfully obey &s;uch com|mands as you &s;hall think &s;it to lay upon him. Madam,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Ladi&s;hips mo&s;t humble and mo&s;t obedient Servant, <HI>Lanerick. Endor&s;ed,</HI> 367, 154. 17.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>What u&s;e their Agent <HI>Mr. Haliburton</HI> was to make of the great tru&s;t and power conferred upon him by the&s;e ab&s;olute and unlimited Cre|dentials, will appear in this that follows.</P>
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<HEAD>JULY 8.</HEAD>
<P><HI>SIr,</HI> This Bearer hath full Authority to engage the Publique Faith of <HI>Scotland,</HI> for &s;uch &s;ums of money as can be procured upon a National &s;ecurity: We dar'&s;t not hazard to put your name in the Commi&s;&s;ion, for we cannot an&s;wer for the Secrecy of all that have &s;igned it; be&s;ide our fears of having it mi&s;carry, &amp; &s;o a po&s;&s;ibility of wronging you: But he hath &s;o po&s;itive a com|mand to follow your directions, as he will addre&s;s him&s;elf to none but &s;uch as you &s;hall advi&s;e him; he will fully &s;hew you our Condition, and the be&s;t ways in our Judgements of your being a&s;&s;i&s;ting to us, give him the &s;ame tru&s;t you would give to</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble Servants, <HI>Lauderdale. Lanerick. Endor&s;ed,</HI> 189.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>IOhn Donne,</HI> I am commanded by the Committee to let you know, That this Gentleman Mr. <HI>Haliburton</HI> is employed by them to <HI>London</HI> to the two Hou&s;es of Parliament, and to go to the King: you &s;hall direct Letters as he bids you, and receive
<PB N="11" REF="6">and direct our Letters as formerly, when he is in the I&s;le of <HI>Wight.</HI></P>
<P>He carries up Copies of our large Declaration, which you &s;hall tran&s;cribe, and in our<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">Though the fa&s;hion be old, certainly it never became you; and though while you lived among&s;t us you were with an unexampled patience &s;uffered to publi&s;h your &s;can|dals and our wrongs by our own In&s;truments, in&s;ooth 'twere high time now to leave it off, le&s;t it &s;tick upon you with the &s;uperadded badge of a &s;hamole&s;s Impudence.</NOTE> old fa&s;hion provide a Printer, and &s;ee that he print it correctly: I am confident many Printers will be glad to print it<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">You have &s;o long plow|ed with our Heifers, that you may be confident of the Bea&s;ts that they will do your work: But, my Lord, afford us the like in <HI>Scotland,</HI> and I &s;hall not envy it, if you enjoy that liberty here to your utmo&s;t wi&s;h; in the mean time I &s;hall content my &s;elf with that ea&s;ie Reproof, <HI>Licebit Clazementis turpuer agere:</HI> I hope you know the Story, which fits you but too well.</NOTE> without a Warrant; therefore you &s;hall be careful that it be not fal&s;e printed: Before you can get it printed there, we &s;hall have it printed here. I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your a&s;&s;ured Friend, <HI>Landerdale.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>8 <HI>July,</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>For <HI>Mr.</HI> John Donne.</TRAILER>
</LETTER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="letters">
<P>The other Packet was intercepted by the Northumberland Forces, and tran&s;mitted to the Hou&s;e of Commons by Sir <HI>Arthur He&s;il|rige</HI> Governor of <HI>Newca&s;tle;</HI> It was directed to Mr. <HI>John Donne,</HI> the Agent to the Committee of E&s;tates for the King|dom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> at his Lodging in Black-Fryers.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>Barwick: <HI>19</HI> July, <HI>1648.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>MAdam,</HI> I have received two together, one of the 6. the other of the 11. till now I thought it not po&s;&s;ible a Letter from your<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">You &s;ee, my Lord, a fair hand may draw black lines; but comfort your &s;elf, for Sables and Cro&s;&s;es are good bearing in Heraldry.</NOTE> Lady|&s;hip could have brought me &s;o much trouble as your la&s;t hath done, for the &s;ad di&s;a&s;ter of &s;o many gallant per&s;ons. I could di&s;ge&s;t the ruine of that De&s;ign (though I was rai&s;ed to a greater<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">Tis happy with <HI>Eng|land</HI> when the Enemies be&s;t hopes lean upon &s;uch brek in Reels; and con&s;idering the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> you had of that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> valor, when he commanded the Kings Hor&s;e in <HI>Scotland,</HI> we wonder upon what Ba&s;is you rai&s;ed &s;uch great Expectations from him; you know who &s;aid, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> cerborum Duce Loone quam Leonum Duc. cervo.</HI></NOTE> expe|ctation from it then any thing el&s;e in <HI>England</HI>)
<PB N="12" REF="7">but the great lo&s;s by the impri&s;onment of the Earl of <HI>Holland,</HI> I confe&s;s I cannot<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">Have a little patience, my Lord, and you &s;hall have &s;ome Mu&s;tard after your din|ner to help your dige&s;tion.</NOTE> di&s;ge&s;t, nor your Lady&s;hips trouble which you expre&s;s in the end of your Letter. But I will in&s;i&s;t no more on &s;o &s;ad a &s;ubject; onely thus much I may with confidence aver, That except the King, who is a pri&s;oner, none in <HI>England</HI> could have been made pri&s;oner, that <HI>Scotland</HI> would have been &s;o ready to relieve as the Earl of <HI>Holland,</HI> and none in the world more for|ward to it then I.</P>
<P>From <HI>France</HI> we are &s;trangely neglected; I got not &s;o much as a Letter, except what was directed in common, not the half of the Ammunition pro|mi&s;ed, and that was Mu&s;tard<NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg">Since your Lord&s;hip is &s;o un&s;ati&s;fied with the me|thod of your &s;ervice, I wi&s;h you had had your Mu&s;tard before dinner.</NOTE> after dinner, after our Army was marched; not a peny of<NOTE N="(f)" PLACE="marg">Not a peny, my Lord perhops it come all in Carde|cues, or el&s;e 'twas thought that the clippings and filings of our Engli&s;h money which you carried hence in your la&s;t, might defray the charge of this Expedition. Ammu|nition by haives, and Money by nulls, &s;o let our Enemies be always &s;upplied.</NOTE> money: but that which is wor&s;t, is the &s;trange<NOTE N="(g)" PLACE="marg">It is not &s;trange, but rea&s;on enough to make a prov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">, <HI>Crete <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;is agere cum <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters">i&s;i|bus,</HI> to break Faith with Faith breakers.</NOTE> conditions demanded, contrary to all our ingagement, and &s;hewing a great di&s;tru&s;t of <HI>Scotland;</HI> but I will re|peat nothing of what you may read here, and after you have read it, be plea&s;ed to &s;end it away.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble Servant. <HI>Endor&s;ed,</HI> )&middot;( <HI>Count.</HI> Carli&s;le.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>Barwick: <HI>10</HI> July, <HI>1648.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>MY Lord,</HI> We have at la&s;t received the Queen's and Prince's plea&s;ure by Sir <HI>William Fleming,</HI> with about the half of that Arms and Ammuni|tion we expected; yet as much as he could get at <HI>Am&s;terdam,</HI> though he &s;taid long for it: but<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">It may be the Queen and Prince were informed and &s;atisfied with the Advice D <HI>Hamilton</HI> gave in <HI>Scotland,</HI> who to that prepo&s;ition in Parliament, concerning &s;up|ply of money for this Service, bade, Set the Lads into <HI>Eng|land;</HI> and they would do well enough; which we found a &s;ober truth, when they came hither upon an hone&s;ter Errand.</NOTE> no Money, whereof we &s;tood mo&s;t in need. And as we are very &s;en&s;ible of, and thankful for Her Maje|&s;ty and His Highne&s;s gracious favor expre&s;t in the Letter they honored us with; &s;o we cannot but let your Lord&s;hip know, how much we are troubled with tho&s;e hard conditions in the additional In|&s;tructions,
<PB N="13" REF="7">which indeed are &s;uch as we dare not make them known but to very few: For &s;hould it be known in <HI>Scotland</HI> that the Prince demands in our Army the exerci&s;e of that<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">'Tis much that they have concell'd all Obligati|ons of Honor and Hone&s;ty, lo&s;t the remembrance of what we did for them in <HI>Q Eliza|beths</HI> day and what we would not do again&s;t than in the beginning of the&s;. Troubles, that have broke then Vows to God, Faith and Treaties with men, &s;hould &s;tick at any form of Wor&s;hip, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;cruple a Ser|vice-Book, <HI>Qui <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">emth mode&s;ciae limites tran&s;ierum, oporta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> na|viter e&s;&s;e impudenies,</HI> which they could afford, were it not to give advantage to their op|po&s;ers</NOTE> Form of Wor|&s;hip formerly u&s;ed in <HI>England</HI> (which the King ne|ver had with us it would give &s;o great advantage to the violent oppo&s;ers and have &s;uch an operation, as we &s;hall not be guilts of: Some of the other De|mands look &s;o like<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">Wonder not, my Lord, at that, &s;ince every Age hath afforded in&s;tances of them that have loved the Trea&s;on, but hated the Traytors.</NOTE> di&s;tru&s;t, as we dare not &s;hew them. But we have &s;ent Sir <HI>W. Fle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">no</HI> to the Army, and when he comes back, and brings the opinion of D. <HI>Hamilton</HI> and <HI>Calendar,</HI> &s;uch a return &s;hall be made, and &s;uch a&s;&s;urances given, both by the Com|mittee in the Name of the Kingdom, and by tho&s;e that wrote formerly, as &s;hall witne&s;s our loyalty and fidelity to their Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, and of our duty to the Prince, who&s;e<NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">'Tis thought the Prince remembers his Fathers u&s;age among&s;t you, and may ex|pect, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> your Army meet with a di&s;a&s;ter, his per&s;on may be made a price for your redem|ption, with &s;ome money per|naps into the bargain</NOTE> pre&s;ence with, and confidence in the Scots, will be found to be the be&s;t, if not the onely means of the Kings re&s;cue, and the Princes real good.</P>
<P>The Scots Army is now at <HI>P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">erith, Lambert</HI> re|tires before them Fa&s;t enough; they are in a condi|tion to &s;tand upon their own legs: The greate&s;t part of the Forces expected from <HI>Ireland</HI> are land|ed in <HI>Scotland;</HI> as &s;oon as they come up to the Army, and &s;ome Regiments now upon their march in <HI>Scotland,</HI> the Army will march into better quarters, The Earls of <HI>Lauderdale</HI> and <HI>Lanerick</HI> are &s;ent to <HI>Barwick</HI> with Forces to &s;ecure a Ga|ri&s;on there<NOTE N="()" PLACE="marg">This Parenthe&s;is was writ in Characters in the &s;u&s;t per&s;on, which proves them the Authors of this Letter; the re&s;t of the clau&s;e being in words at length, and in the third per&s;on, to blinde the Reader.</NOTE> (which we have done) They are to return to EDENBURGH, where the Ge|neral A&s;&s;embly now &s;its, as violent again&s;t us as ever the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the la&s;t were. The mi&s;|fortunes of our friends in the South, and at <HI>Pom|fret</HI> is &s;ad, mo&s;t e&s;pecially the taking of the Earl of <HI>Holland.</HI> But no difficulties nor di&s;couragement can make us le&s;s active, as we &s;hall, God willing, (how|ever we may be looke upon) give real proofs of
<PB N="14" REF="8">our zeal and con&s;tancy to the Kings &s;ervice; and that we are mo&s;t faithfully</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble Servants, <HI>Lauderdale. Lanerick.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>For my Lord <HI>Jermin.</HI></TRAILER>
</LETTER>
<P><HI>Another inclo&s;ed.</HI></P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>Barwick: <HI>19</HI> July, <HI>1648.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>MAdam,</HI> We have now lo&s;t all our hopes in the South, &s;ince the Earl of <HI>Holland</HI> his &s;ad misfortune and re&s;traint; but as our Difficulties grow, &s;o does the ju&s;tne&s;s of our quarrel; for to the re&s;cue of the King is now<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">Nothing to nothing will not advance the &s;um, nor one bad Cau&s;e to mother mend the matter, but iniqui|ty to iniquity may increa&s;e vvrath again&s;t the day of wrath, if not prevented by a timous repentance.</NOTE> joyned our be&s;t and no|ble&s;t friend. With Gods<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">We hope he is left out of all your corre&s;pondencies, for we may &s;afely &s;ay, God is Independent, and will not a&s;|&s;ociate with &s;uch faithles pre|tenders to Presbytery, as have the powers and piety of it un|der the notion of Impertiner|cy</NOTE> a&s;&s;i&s;tance we will effectuate both, or bring our &s;elves to the &s;ame condition. This is a<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">Madam, 'tis ill tru&s;ting to &s;uch votaries; he is ill like to keep his per&s;onal vow, that hath broken his National, more &s;olemnly made then this, and with a hand lifted up to the high God.</NOTE> vow now &s;olemnly made, and &s;hall as faithfully be kept by</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble and mo&s;t obedient Servant, <HI>Lanerick.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>Barwick: <HI>19</HI> July, <HI>1648.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>MI&s;tris,</HI><NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">Yet more Ladies! &s;ure that war which at fir&s;t, and with the Scots was <HI>Bellum Epi&s;co ale,</HI> and &s;ince in <HI>Eng|land Bellum Ba&s;ilicum,</HI> will at la&s;t re&s;olve it &s;elf between both into <HI>Bellum Faemininum;</HI> but that God who has inabled us to outride the &s;torms and impetuous force of our Ma&s;|culine &s;pirited Enemies, will not let us fall under the at|tempts of &s;uch effeminate con&s;pirators.</NOTE> If the &s;atisfaction of two long Letters from you had not allayed it, yours of the third of July would have made me quarrel, there is a great deal in it too like Complement; and then you tell me in plain Engli&s;h, 4 will imploy <HI>Lauder|dale</HI> no more, what ever nece&s;&s;ities he have; and that upon a great mi&s;take, as if I had by that woful little &s;um prejudiced my occa&s;ions: But I mu&s;t &s;ay no more of this, le&s;t again I grow angry. You will, I hope, by the next, do <HI>Lauderdale</HI> more right, and &s;end your picture, which will make amends.</P>
<P>Now for an&s;wer to your two la&s;t, you de&s;ire to know<NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg">&icirc; is taken to &s;ignifie the Lord <HI>Jer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">in.</HI></NOTE> how &icirc; and Duke <HI>Hamilton</HI> agree, I wrote you my minde of that already, which it &s;eems you had not then received, but it came that night to <HI>London,</HI> &s;o I &s;hall not repeat it. Since that time, Informations are come to <HI>Lanerick,</HI> that &icirc; does
<PB N="15" REF="8"><HI>Hamilton</HI> and him ill offices in <HI>France,</HI> which re|news the di&s;tance, I do what I can to mend it, but I cannot do you the good offices you expect with Duke <HI>Hamilton</HI> at this di&s;tance,<NOTE PLACE="marg">'Twas ob&s;erved in the Pre|face, That Duke <HI>Hamiltons</HI> af|fection to Presbytery is &s;u|&s;pected by their mo&s;t confi|dent Abettors and Cabali&s;ti|cal corre&s;pondents Here's my Voucher.</NOTE> yet I have told <HI>La|nerick</HI> what a Champion you are. Your next que|&s;tion is, of the affections of <HI>Lauderdale</HI> to 163. which I a&s;&s;ure you is as great as ever, as al&s;o to Presbytery, though he abhors the impertinencies of &s;ome Presbyters, mo&s;t e&s;pecially <HI>Gile&s;py:</HI> And this affection is mo&s;t con&s;i&s;tent with all duty to the King and to <HI>England,</HI> which <HI>Lauderdale</HI> can de|mon&s;trate, though for his own part, to both he be|lieves it much above di&s;pute. I &s;hall here write no|thing of News, it comes to you by another addre&s;s, as you de&s;ired. I am mo&s;t un&s;atisfied with the Princes delay, and more with tho&s;e hard conditions Sir <HI>William Fleming</HI> hath brought, which indeed argue a great mi&s;tru&s;t of the Scots, and an unju&s;t one: For a&s;&s;ure your &s;elf, what ever you may think of other De&s;igns,<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">It is hard to di&s;tingui&s;h between the Nation and Par|liament of <HI>Scotland,</HI> that un|der a pre&s;ent di&s;temper is in|gaged in this De&s;ign: yet I dare not call it National, when I finde &s;o many there that have not bowed the knee to <HI>Baal,</HI> and among&s;t them &s;o con&s;iderable a body and So|ciety of men, as the Reverend A&s;&s;embly, and others our Co|venant-ingaged Brethren of all qualities and degrees, who de&s;ire to &s;erve and &s;ave the King and <HI>England.</HI></NOTE> It is <HI>Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> onely mu&s;t &s;ave the King and <HI>England,</HI> all others have their ri&s;e from the expectation of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and I am &s;orry with &s;o little &s;ucce&s;s, mo&s;t particu|larly for E. <HI>Holland.</HI> And now while&s;t <HI>Lauderdale</HI> is &s;o un&s;atisfied, and indeed almo&s;t de&s;pairing that the Prince will come to <HI>Scotland,</HI> if he can cho&s;e; I am earne&s;tly pre&s;t to go to <HI>France</HI> to invite him; <HI>Lauderdale</HI> &s;huns it, and oppo&s;es it with all his &s;trength, but is re&s;olved, rather then the blame of not inviting Him &s;hould be charged upon him, he will go, although he &s;hould be laugh'd at at his re|turn, for coming without his errand: 2 will go, though <HI>Lauderdale</HI> hath no hope of prevailing, as to his Regiments full e&s;tabli&s;hment. But all &s;hall be done that is po&s;&s;ible, which you ea&s;ily expect from me: if <HI>Lauderdale</HI> go, he &s;hall not relieve 4. yet you will know his Regiment by the Cornets, which are hair-colour'd and white. I have ventured &s;o
<PB N="16" REF="9">long a Letter, though I have no hope it will go &s;afe, always if it be intercepted, you are ea&s;ed of &s;o much trouble, and they that gets it may let it go, for they will not be much the wi&s;er, for there are no State-matters in it. Adieu.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Endor&s;ed,</HI> &Dgr;&Dgr;.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>This Letter is not without &s;ome ob&s;curity and incon&s;i&s;tency; but far be it from this hand to adde or &s;upply any &s;ence that &s;eems to be le&s;t in the Character on Decypherer: Gods Cau&s;e needs not our lye. Be&s;ide, the next of the &s;ame Direction, whith runs in a more current uniformity and analogy of &s;ence, in many parts expounds and ju&s;tifies this.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<P>YOu will be clearly per&s;waded it was not want of re&s;olution to part, made me &s;tay here &s;o long, when you &s;ee that &s;ince I wrote la&s;t, I have taken a firm one to go to <HI>France</HI> within ten days at mo&s;t: It is both the de&s;ire of &icirc; &s;ignified by Sir <HI>William Fleming;</HI> and every thing el&s;e invites, and is fully ripe for it: One &s;ingular in&s;tance is, <HI>Lauderdales</HI> going along with me, as you will hear fully from him&s;elf: I get a Letter from the Com|mittee to the King of <HI>France,</HI> one to the Queen, another to the Cardinal, to get my Regiment e&s;tabli&s;hed with all advan|tages, which I know will take no effect, onely it will conciliate &s;ome re&s;pect to my affairs, and furni&s;h me a hand&s;om retreat when I li&s;t to come off, having got a refu&s;al; both which you may make an account of, for it is very like this &s;ummer will go near to make an end of the greate&s;t part of my men, and un|le&s;s the Countrey undertake the recruits, and that upon terms granted by <HI>France,</HI> for the &s;ure payment of the Regiment, and admi&s;&s;ion of it to guard the King, it were madne&s;s to look after it any more: <HI>Lauderdale</HI> will take cour&s;e for Addre&s;s, and you &s;hall hear from us at all occa&s;ions: The General A&s;&s;embly here will go as high again&s;t the engagement as can be imagined, but it is now<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">So thought <HI>Haman,</HI> when he had gained a Commi&s;&s;ion for the de&s;truction of the Iewi&s;h Nation: but though the Medes and Per&s;ians could not rever&s;e &s;uch Decrees, the God of I&s;rael could, and did control and invert them to the ruine of the De&s;igners.</NOTE> pa&s;t their hindring, and all that op|po&s;e it will be ruined, unle&s;s &s;ome &s;trange accident hinder it; Duke <HI>Hamilton</HI> and <HI>Calendar</HI> have not
<PB N="17" REF="9">both the &s;ame &s;pirit;<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">If <HI>Lanerick</HI> rule <HI>Scot|land,</HI> D. <HI>Hamalton,</HI> who is the elder Brother, hath the more wrong; but if either rule it, King <HI>Charls</HI> wants &s;ome of His Right.</NOTE> <HI>Lanerick</HI> doth now ab&s;o|lutely rule <HI>Scotland,</HI> and though it be indeed mo&s;t perfectly nece&s;&s;ary for <HI>Lauderdale</HI> to go, yet the <HI>Hamiltons</HI> pre&s;s it vehemently to have him out of the way, that they may rule all without any impe|diment, which is impo&s;&s;ible (while he is pre&s;ent, at lea&s;t) to bad ends, &s;o that things will &s;urely go &s;trangely here &s;hortly: all other particulars of our voyage <HI>Lauderdale</HI> will communicate; and all I adde is, that you fail not to write us <HI>Lauderdales</HI> addre&s;&s;es, what you will have me &s;ay to &icirc;.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Endor&s;ed,</HI> &Dgr;&Dgr;.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
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<P>The&s;e three that follow, amongst many others that &s;peak the &s;ame &s;ence, being writ at large, are added as concurrent Te&s;timonies to tho&s;e in Cypher, though it needed not, when the principal con|tents are &s;o univer&s;ally, and (by that unhappie&s;t way of proof, Experience) found to be too true; as namely, That the Earl of <HI>Calendar</HI> hath the Command of <HI>Carli&s;le</HI> in <HI>Cumberland</HI> (as the Earl of <HI>Lauderdale</HI> hath of the Counte&s;s of <HI>Carli&s;le</HI> at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI>) The &s;ame Lord <HI>Lauderdale</HI> and <HI>Lanerick</HI> were &s;ent to &s;ecure <HI>Barwick,</HI> upon an Information that &s;ome thou|&s;ands of Engli&s;h Hor&s;e were in <HI>Northumberland;</HI> and that the Information proving fal&s;e, they re&s;olved to prove fal&s;e too, and &s;ecure the place notwith&s;tanding, with the breach of Faith, and the Articles of the National Treaties: And la&s;tly, but that which is worth all the re&s;t, That learned <HI>Gille&s;py</HI> is Moderator of that Reverend A&s;&s;embly, that will never (to &s;ay no wor&s;e) pray a Ble&s;&s;ing upon this horrid Violation of the Publique Faith of their Nation, by many ancient Obligations, and the late Covenant and Treaties, &s;o &s;olemnly and religiou&s;ly en|gaged with this.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>For the Counte&s;s of <HI>Lauderdale</HI> at <HI>Highgate.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My deart heart,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IT is very likely this Letter may come to other hands before it come to you, yet I may tell you,
<PB N="18" REF="10">that I am well, thus much nearer you then I was; for it plea&s;ed the Committee of E&s;tates to command my Lord <HI>Lanerick</HI> and me to come hither and &s;ecure this Town, which we have this day very quietly done: The<NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot">You had no rea&s;on to expect other from tho&s;e Renegado Engli&s;h, who were &s;ent into that Town by your &s;elves, to keep it for your coming.</NOTE> Engli&s;h are marcht out, and we in, we have made Col: <HI>Lodowick Le&s;ley</HI> Governor under my Lord Duke, the Earl of <HI>Calendar</HI> hath the command of <HI>Carli&s;le:</HI> As for the condition of our Army, I &s;end you the la&s;t Letter I had from thence, which comes from one that is in the Engli&s;h Army; within two days or three I go back to <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> where Mr. <HI>Gille&s;py</HI> is Moderator of our A&s;&s;embly.</P>
<P>Be careful of the inclo&s;ed Letters, you know to whom 151, is, the other is for Mi&s;tre&s;s 108.23.71.13.65.95.109.21.45.104.11.60.66.17. I pray you cau&s;e write on the back of it and &s;end it to her: This is all at this time &s;hall be &s;aid by</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your own LAUDERDALE.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Barwick,</HI> <DATE>19 <HI>July.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>For <HI>151.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I was &s;orry to &s;ee you trouble your &s;elf and me both, with an account of what money you received, you need no more but take upon my account as you need it, and adverti&s;e me.</P>
<P>I can tell you but few news: Our Army is at <HI>Peerith, Lambert</HI> hath &s;till retired, but our Army will not go in far, till the Forces from <HI>Ireland</HI> come to them, mo&s;t
<PB N="19" REF="10">part are landed; the General A&s;&s;embly &s;its, and <HI>Gil|le&s;py</HI> is Moderator: The Committee &s;ent the Earls of <HI>Lauderdale</HI> and <HI>Lanerick</HI> to &s;ecure <HI>Berwick,</HI> upon an information that &s;ome thou&s;and Engli&s;h Hor&s;e were in <HI>Northumberland,</HI> and gave them power to take what force they could get for that &s;ervice, but the in|formation is proved fal&s;e, and they are gone with no more then are nece&s;&s;ary for the place: Sir <HI>William Fleming</HI> is returned with a good proportion of Ammu|nition and &s;ome Arms: This is all I can tell you at this time.</P>
<TRAILER><HI>For Mr.</HI> GEORGE HALIBURTON.</TRAILER>
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<HEAD>19 July, 1648.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>George,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>VNtil I know of your being at <HI>London,</HI> I &s;hall not direct the Packets to you; I can &s;ay little by this Po&s;t, the condition of our Army being better known to you then to me. Mo&s;t of our Iri&s;h Forces are now landed, and within few days will joyn with our Army; two hundred of them in their pa&s;&s;age were taken by one of the Parliaments Ships, and carried to Col. <HI>Monk,</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot">Whence you may &s;ee all fairne&s;s (I hope it de&s;erves no other name) towards the Scots, none from them. <HI>Omnia adver&s;um &s;pectantia nulla retror&s;um.</HI></NOTE> who as we are this day informed, did immediately cau&s;e &s;end them back to Major Gen. <HI>Monro,</HI> declaring, That he had no Order for hindring of Scoti&s;h men to return to their own Land; mo&s;t of our Forces in the North are likewi&s;e upon their march, and within few days will be up with the Army. This day the Earls of
<PB N="20" REF="11"><HI>Lauderdale</HI> and <HI>Lanerick</HI> have &s;ecured the Town of <HI>Berwick</HI> from the Sectaries with a Scotti&s;h Gari&s;on, and have placed Col. <HI>Lodowick Le&s;ley</HI> Governor there: It is impo&s;&s;ible to &s;atisfie this General A&s;&s;embly, who are re&s;olved to fly very high in their Cen&s;ures and Declarations, though many pious and eminent men of the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot">Tis likely there wants the word Epi&s;copal, who onely will be &s;candalized at their proceedings in pur&s;uance of their Co|venant.</NOTE> Clergy are &s;o &s;candaled with this rigid pro|cedure of theirs, as they can hardly force them&s;elves to live under their Government: This is all which for the pre&s;ent &s;hall be &s;aid to you by</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Friend.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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