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<P>THE ANSWER OF THE LORDS and COMMONS A&s;&s;embled in the Parliament of England AT <HI>WESTMINSTER,</HI> To &s;everal PAPERS OF THE Commi&s;sioners of SCOTLAND.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>14. APRIL, 1646.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, that <HI>The An&s;wer to the &s;everal Papers of the Commi&s;|&s;ioners of Scotland</HI> 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>LONDON: Printed for <HI>Edward Husband,</HI> Printer to the Honorable Hou&s;e of Commons. April 16. 1646.</P>
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<HEAD>The Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> at <HI>VVe&s;tmin|&s;ter,</HI> having received the &s;everal Papers from the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>Scotland</HI> two of the 29<HI>^t^h</HI> and 30<HI>^t^h</HI> of <HI>September,</HI> with a third of the 9<HI>^t^h</HI> of <HI>October;</HI> To the particulars therein con|tained, they returned this An&s;wer:</HEAD>
<P>_COncerning the payment of the Scots Army, &s;o much in&s;i&s;ted upon in your Lord&s;hips Papers, The &s;eve|ral Declarations, and the divers cour&s;es and wayes which in the &s;aid Papers are expre&s;&s;ed, and acknowledged by your Lord&s;hips to have been made, and taken by us for the payment of that Army, &s;ufficiently witne&s;&s;e our con&s;tant care, and manifold endea|vours for the &s;upply thereof; And if all the&s;e wayes have notwith&s;tanding proved &s;o little ef|fectual,
<PB N="4" REF="3">as your Lord&s;hips alleage, yet can it not in any &s;ort be imputed to the Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment, who no &s;ooner have had any wants of that Army, or any ob&s;tructions in the wayes ta|ken for the entertainment thereof repre&s;ented unto then, but they have forthwith applyed them&s;elves to &s;upply the one, and remove the other to the utmo&s;t of what lay in their power; Before the Scots Army was entred into this Kingdom, We appointed a Committee to &s;it purpo&s;ely at <HI>God&s;miths</HI>-Hall, to provide Moneys and nece&s;&s;aries for the &s;upport thereof; This Committee hath &s;ate ever &s;ince con&s;tantly to that end, and to put forwards the execution of our Ordinances therein, whereat twice a week &s;ome of the Commi&s;sioners of <HI>Scotland</HI> them|&s;elves were pre&s;ent to be witne&s;&s;es and promo|ters of their diligence; The &s;ame Committee had their Agents in every county, to quicken the execution of our Orders below in the coun|try; we allowed Sallaries and Rewards to the Diligent, we gave power to puni&s;h the negli|gent, and all that &s;hould it any &s;ort divert or ob&s;truct the coming in the tho&s;e A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments: When the cour&s;e fir&s;t de&s;igned for the payment
<PB N="5" REF="3">of the Scots Army out of the E&s;tates of Papi&s;ts and other Delinquents, an&s;wered not expectati|on, we provided for it, as for other Armies, by way of Tax and A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment upon &s;everal coun|ties; and when tho&s;e of the Northern parts pro|ved in&s;fficient for &s;o great a charge, we added others thereunto, and tho&s;e of the mo&s;t entire and quiet parts of the Kingdom, where fir&s;t was laid an A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment of Two hundred thou|&s;and pounds in gro&s;&s;e, and after a Monethly A&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ment of Twenty one thou&s;and pounds <HI>per men&s;em:</HI> There was never any expedient offered to us for the removal of any ob&s;truction in the rai&s;ing of tho&s;e A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments, which we did not readily a&s;&s;ent unto: There was never any thing de&s;ired of us, by our Brethren of <HI>Scotland</HI> which was in our power to grant, which we have not willingly agreed unto, for the more &s;peedy and more effectual execution of our Orders, for the pay and &s;upport of that Army: There was no cour&s;e taken for any other Army, but we have taken the like al&s;o for the Scots Army; &s;o that we may truly affirm, That it hath not re&s;ted on us, that that Army hath not been as well paid, and provided for, as any other what&s;oever;
<PB N="6" REF="4">but if the Activene&s;&s;e and great Succe&s;&s;es of &s;ome other Armies have given us more credit in procuring Moneys to be advanced for them, or more quickned the &s;pirits of the people to pay in their A&s;&s;e&s;sments to them; &s;urely, that ought not to be turned into matter of Complaint a|gain&s;t us, having found the &s;ame by experience from time to time, in the payment of the Armies of our own Nation; po&s;sibly al&s;o, the pay of other Armies may appear more con|&s;tant, &amp; their wants le&s;&s;e then it is well known to us, that both the one and the other have been; neither have our endeavours been altogether &s;o ineffectual for the Supply of the Scoti&s;h Army, but that from the &s;ixth of <HI>October</HI> 1643. to the fir&s;t of <HI>November</HI> 1645. there hath been actu|ally paid to them in Money and Provi&s;ions, for which Money hath been i&s;&s;ued out of Gold|&s;miths-Hall, the Sum of Two hundred twenty thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and twenty nine pounds Sterlin, be&s;ides Nine thou&s;and pounds in Mo|ney and Lead paid unto them at <HI>York:</HI> And what they have received upon the A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments of the Northern parts, appointed to be paid in to the Lord Mayor of <HI>York,</HI> and upon the fifth and
<PB N="7" REF="4">twentieth part, and from the Coal, and Exci&s;e of <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> and of the Northern parts, or otherwi&s;e by any A&s;signments of both Hou&s;es of Parliament; And likewi&s;e be&s;ides another A&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ment of Twenty two thou&s;and pounds <HI>per men&s;em,</HI> A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed upon the County of <HI>York</HI> in Moneys and Provi&s;ions for four moneths, du|ring the &s;iege of <HI>York,</HI> and after amounting to Eighty eight thou&s;and pounds, and al&s;o be&s;ides Ten thou&s;and pounds more for to cloath the &s;ol|diers of that Army, upon the return to <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> over and above all that them&s;elves have taxed and levyed in the &s;everal Counties where they have been, and their free-quarter and di&s;order|ly plunderings (which if they have been &s;o ex|ce&s;sive as the cry thereof from &s;everal parts re|pre&s;enteth them to our Ears) it is not much to be wondered, if the water run more &s;paringly from the Ci&s;tern and Conduit, when it is &s;o much exhau&s;ted at the Spring-head, from whence the A&s;&s;e&s;sments for the entertainment of that Army and other Forces &s;hould have ri&s;en. Concerning the Exci&s;e of the Northern parts, and the wayes that are alleaged to be taken to divert it from the Scoti&s;h Army, by
<PB N="8" REF="5">fore&s;talling it here in the South, and applying it to other u&s;es, no &s;uch practi&s;es have been made known to us; and when&s;oever they &s;hall be di&s;covered, we &s;hall be ready to apply fitting remedies thereunto: And for the Coal of <HI>Newcastle</HI> po&s;sibly the profit thence ari&s;ing might fall very &s;hort of the e&s;timate made thereof in &s;ome one moneth, but in other Moneths it hath come in, in greater quantities. And we finde, that for the&s;e Twelve Moneths la&s;t pa&s;t, there hath actually come in, and been taken to the u&s;e of that Army upon the Coals of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> and <HI>Sunderland</HI> above Fifty three thou&s;and pounds &s;terling, whereof Four thou|&s;and five hundred pounds was of the Cu&s;tomes belonging to the Navie: And if upon the ta|king of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> by the Scoti&s;h Army, the cour&s;e for the managing of the Coals &s;etled by both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> in the Committee of <HI>Gold&s;miths</HI>-Hall had not been in|terrupted; That Committee might have been better able to have given an Accompt of any decay of Trade therein, and how it hath hapned that many Moneths it hath fallen below the fir&s;t e&s;timate thereof.</P>
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Having made an&s;wer to the mo&s;t materi|rall points in your Lor&s;hips papers concer|ning the pay of the Scotts army, as you have very frequently and very freely declared unto us the wants and nece&s;ities thereof, through default of pay, &s;o &s;hall we al&s;o with the like freedome and brotherly affection, repre&s;ent unto our Brethren of <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;ome particu|lars concerning the proceedings of that Ar|my.</P>
<P>It is well knowne unto your Lor&s;hips that we have upon divers occa&s;ions, &s;ignified our advices and directions, how that Army might imploy it &s;elf mo&s;t effectually for the advance|ment of the publique &s;ervice of this King|dom, by engageing again&s;t the common E|nemies, and the places held and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by them, wherein (by what occa&s;ion we know not) we have found our &s;elves &s;everall times di&s;appointed of our hopes and expectations, by which meanes not only the common cau&s;e hath bin retarded, but al&s;o the end fru&s;trated for which the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of &s;o great and Army was de&s;ired by us; which was, that a &s;peedy conclu&s;ion might be put to the&s;e unhappy
<PB N="10" REF="6">Warres we &s;hall not need to goe further backe for an in&s;tance, then to that whereof the &s;ence is fre&s;he&s;t in our minds, and which in that conjuncture of time and of our af|faires, proved very prejudiciall to the &s;ervice of this Kingdome, which was the continu|ing of that Army in the North where no Ene|my was, and not marching to be&s;eiged <HI>New|arke,</HI> at &s;uch time as it was thereunto de&s;ired by both Hou&s;es of Parliament, a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ough they not only expre&s;&s;ed their de&s;ires therein, but al|&s;o their care in provi&s;ion of money, &amp; ammu|nition to enable &amp; encourage them to under|take that worke; But having received no &s;a|tisfaction at al in that particular, till that now by your Lord&s;hips Letter of the 12. of <HI>Nowem|ber</HI> the re&s;olution of the Generall the Earle of <HI>Leven,</HI> concerning the marching of that Army towards <HI>Newarke</HI> was &s;ignified unto us, By meanes of this delay, not only the Northerne parts have layne all this while under a mo&s;t un&s;upportable burthen, but al&s;o the faire&s;t op|portunity that hath yet offered it &s;elfe to us &s;ince the beginning of this Warre of putting an end to our mi&s;eries, together with the &s;ea|&s;on
<PB N="11" REF="6">the yeare for the &s;peedy reducing of that place which was the principall ground of our re&s;olution in that particular, is already &s;lipt out of our hands, And the advance of the thirty thou&s;and pounds, which we had good hope, and &s;ome a&s;&s;urance of from the City for the u&s;e of that army, in ca&s;e it came to <HI>New|arke</HI> before the fir&s;t of <HI>November,</HI> and not o|therwi&s;e, is rendred more difficult and doubt|full unto us.</P>
<P>It was farre from our intentions that the Scotti&s;h Army &s;hould neither be provided for by us, nor yet &s;uffered to provide for their owne &s;ub&s;i&s;tance, nor doth the contrary ap|peare by any actions or omi&s;&s;ions on our part, nor yet by any &s;ufferings of that army, but that according to our power, we have made provi&s;ions for them, and that they al|&s;o have &s;upplyed them&s;elves.</P>
<P>We &s;hall remember according to your Lord&s;hips expre&s;&s;ions in your papers, That not written Ordinances but reall payments mu&s;t &s;atisfie the nece&s;&s;itie of the Souldiers, And we hope it &s;halbe a&s;well remembred al|&s;o, how far better then paper, our Ordinances
<PB N="12" REF="7">have proved to that Army, which hath not bin more ready to engage it &s;elfe really in the &s;eruice of this Kingdome, then we have bin forward to pay it really, for to &s;atisfie the ne|ce&s;&s;ities of the &s;ouldiers, And therefore de&s;ire &s;uch expre&s;&s;ions may be forborne, which may &s;eeme to derogate from the honour ei|ther of the proceedings or Ordinances of Par|liament.</P>
<P>When the Treaty was concluded between the two Kingdomes, it was &s;uppo&s;ed that &s;uch might be the wants &amp; nece&s;&s;ities of this Kingdom, as that they might not be able to make due and con&s;tant payment to the Scots Army, yet was it no &s;uppo&s;ed that in default thereof they might forbeare to engate their Army, much le&s;&s;e lay Taxes upon the people of <HI>England</HI> to lay them&s;elves, this Kingdome being to give their publique faith for the pay|ment of their Arreares with Intere&s;t, as on the other &s;ide the Kingdome of <HI>Scotland</HI> gave their publique faith that neither their entrance in|to, nor continuance in the Kingdome of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> &s;hould be made u&s;e of to any other ends then &s;uch as are conteyned in the Covenant and Articles of the Treaty.</P>
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That it is contrary to the Liberties of the &s;ubiects of <HI>England</HI> That any Taxes or Levies of Monies &s;hould bee layd or rai&s;ed upon them without the con&s;ent of both Hou&s;es of Parliament&punc; we need not declare to your Lord&s;hips.</P>
<P>And wee are &s;orry that the cryes which continually &s;ound in our eares from the peo|ple, e&s;pecially of the Northerne parts, brought to us by the hands of &s;uch us we have inmo|&s;ted there, &s;hould enforce us to repre&s;ent unto our Brethren of <HI>Scotland,</HI> the great Com|plaints, which long &s;ince, and at this pre&s;ent, are made of the laying of Taxes of Money, and other things by &s;ome of the Scots Army, and that al&s;o in very va&s;t and exce&s;&s;ive pro|portions, be&s;ides free Quarterings, and di&s;|orderly plunderings of Hor&s;es and other goods, which cour&s;es being taken and conti|nued; It cannot be expected that wee &s;hould continue the monethly pay of that Army, which though wee have not taken occa&s;ion to &s;top and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">urcea&s;e, upon the Taxes and lea|vies of Moneys and other proceedings of that Army, Yet wee expect (as that which of right is due, that our of it, deduction and
<PB N="14" REF="8">&s;atisfaction &s;hould be given in the Premi&s;&s;es. And as we are obliged to make good the monethly pay of that Army according to the Treaty, &s;o long as we &s;hall find it nece&s;&s;ary to u&s;e the a&s;&s;i&s;tance thereof within this King|dome and no longer, &s;o is that Army like|wi&s;e bound to demeane them&s;elves confor|mable to the tenour of the Treaty, and accor|ding thereunto to give &s;atisfaction to this Kingdome; That &s;uch forces of the Scotti&s;h Nation, as have beene put into the &s;everall Garri&s;ons of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> upon Tyne, the City of <HI>Carlile,</HI> and other places in the North, without the con&s;ent of both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> &s;hall be removed, to the intent that the &s;ame may bee di&s;po&s;ed off in &s;uch manner as &s;hall be thought fitting by the &s;aid Hou&s;es of Parliament, The performance whereof we have demanded from the Kingdome of <HI>Scotland,</HI> by our Letter to that Parliament.</P>
<P>The&s;e things we held our &s;elves bound to repre&s;ent to our Brethren of <HI>Scotland,</HI> a&s;well in di&s;charge of the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in us for the pre&s;ervation of the Intere&s;t and liberties of this Kingdome, as al&s;o the better to maintaine the union, and good Corre&s;pondency betweene
<PB N="15" REF="8">the two Kingdomes, which being the &s;ure&s;t foundation of &s;ecurity, and pro&s;perity to both Nations. It alwayes hath, and alwayes &s;hall be the firme re&s;olution of both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> to pre&s;erve and maintaine the &s;ame according to the Cove|nant and Treaty, the common rules and markes which both Kingdomes have &s;et up unto them&s;elves to &s;teere their cour&s;e by, in the pur&s;uance of their joynt intere&s;ts, and for the attaining of the good ends therein expre&s;|&s;ed and contained, from which we de&s;ire that there may bee no &s;werving on either &s;ide, hoping and expecting the like redre&s;&s;e and &s;a|tisfaction from our Brethren of <HI>Scotland,</HI> up|on any infringement thereof, as we &s;hall bee ready to give unto them if any &s;uch thing &s;hould happen on our part.</P>
<P>Concerning Religion, and the &s;ettling of Church-Government, as there is nothing wherein wee have more de&s;ired to approve our con&s;ciences to God, and our actions to the world, &s;o doe our hearts give us a very cleere Te&s;timony of the faithfull and diligent di&s;charge of our duty therein, according to the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in us, and the Covenant ta|ken
<PB N="16" REF="9">by us. And were conceive our actions witne&s;&s;e no le&s;&s;e to all that will rightly weigh and con&s;ider, what wee have already done therein, and with what diligence and zeale wee have from time to time proceeded in that worke of God, being re&s;olved to conti|nue &s;o doing, till we have fully &s;upplyed what &s;hall yet appeare wanting therein, it be|ing alwayes to bee remembred, that the pre|&s;erving of the Liberty, and freedome of our debates, and Re&s;olutions in Parliament, is not to be interpreted or termed negligence or de|lay in us.</P>
<P>As to the Propo&s;itions of Peace to be &s;ent to his Maje&s;ty in pur&s;uance of our Re&s;olutions of the &s;ixth of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> communicated to your Lord&s;hips, we have proceeded therein as the exigents of our affaires would permit, and the Propo&s;itions being at this pre&s;ent continually in agitation and debate in Par|liament; Wee are re&s;olved to apply our &s;elves both &s;peedily and effectually to the perfecting of them ac|cording to the Pre&s;ent &s;tate of affaires, and we doubt not but that our actions &s;hall te&s;tifie to our Brethren of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and all the world, that there is no earth|ly thing more in our thoughts and de&s;ires, then the &s;ettling of a &s;afe and a well-grounded Peace in the three Kingdomes, for which we have done and &s;uffe|red a&s;much as any Kingdome in the world.</P>
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