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<P>LETTERS FROM THE HEAD-QUARTERS OF OUR ARMY IN SCOTLAND: BEING A DIARY of all Proceedings in the Army to <HI>Octob.</HI> 30. 1650.</P>
<P>An Accompt of Col. <HI>Kerr</HI> and <HI>Straughans</HI> Overture to the Lord Generall CROMWELL, about Accomodation.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Commi&s;&s;ioners from them, with a Declara|tion again&s;t the Intere&s;t of the Scots King and Lords, &amp;c.</P>
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<P><HI>Publi&s;hed by Authority.</HI></P>
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<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>E. G.</HI> in the Old-baily. 1650.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Cannot but continue my duty in acquainting you what pa&s;&s;es here, I &s;hall be glad to hear from you, now we are like to &s;tay here longer then expected.</P>
<P>My la&s;t told you of a Letter to be &s;ent to Col. <HI>Kerr</HI> &amp; <HI>Straughan</HI> from hence. Satturday the 26 the Commi&s;&s;ary Gen. di&s;patcht away a Trumpet with that letter, as al&s;o gave another to the Shi|riff of <HI>Cumberland</HI> to be &s;peeded away to M. <HI>Iohn Scot</HI> Bailiff and B. brother to the Lord of <HI>Bucc|liew,</HI> for his demanding re&s;titution upon his Te|nants the Mo&s;&s;-troopers, for the hor&s;es by them &s;tolne the night we quartered in their Country; &s;ince which, promi&s;es hath been made of re&s;titu|tion, and we doubt not to receive it very &s;ud|denly, or el&s;e to take &s;atisfaction another way our &s;elves.</P>
<P>Sunday the 27. the Commi&s;&s;ary, with Col. <HI>Fitch,</HI> Col. <HI>Hacker,</HI> and divers Officers of the Ar|my heard Sermon in the Cathedrall at <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> where preached before them in the forenoone M. <HI>Bywater</HI> the Governours Chaplaine, and in the Afternoon an Officer of our Army.</P>
<P>Munday 28. We had intelligence of &s;ome of
<PB REF="2">our Me&s;&s;engers being taken, and their Letters intercepted: al&s;o we were informed that a yeel|ding to us was in probability like to be &s;hortly from &s;ome of their Grandees, who now better under&s;tand them&s;elves then formerly, and are ready to li&s;ten to us, e&s;pecially the good people of the we&s;t of Scotland, from whom as al&s;o from <HI>Kerr</HI> and <HI>Straughan</HI> &s;ome Gentlemen are &s;ent to treat with his Excellency.</P>
<P>Tue&s;day 29, Mr <HI>Caithnes</HI> came &s;afe hither in the evening, and the Provo&s;t of Dumfreeze with him (who was a Major at Dunbar fight, there ta|ken, and now upon his Parole) came to renew it. Al&s;o our Trumpeter &s;ent with the Letter to <HI>Kerr</HI> and <HI>Straughan</HI> came in this night, who in|formes us of his kind entertainment at Dum|freeze, but their Scouts blinded him for many miles up and downe the Countrey, but <HI>Kerr</HI> was &s;ent for po&s;t to give an&s;wer to the Letter, who promi&s;ed to returne it &s;peedily by a me&s;&s;enger of his owne. The Enemy having left Dumfreeze expectating of our comming. Many of their &s;ouldiers run away daily. Both Hor&s;e, Foot, and Dragoones were ready for a march, and Thur&s;|day morning next we were to have exchanged Engli&s;h for Scotti&s;h ground, but now (upon o|ther grounds) our de&s;ired march is &s;u&s;pended.
<PB REF="3">Our &s;ouldiers (not long &s;ince drooping and &s;ickly) are now mo&s;t lively, well, and cheerful, de&s;irous of nothing more then action: Of &s;uch vigour is a little Engli&s;h refre&s;hment, whereto &s;ome timely &s;upplies of monies would be a mo&s;t comfortable addition. This day Mr. <HI>Caithnes</HI> was di&s;patcht away with other Letters to the Head|quarters, which is all at pre&s;ent from.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> <DATE>30 <HI>Octob.</HI> 1650.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your &s;ervant, <HI>T. F.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>The Letter &s;ent <HI>Kerr</HI> and <HI>Straughan</HI> from Car|li&s;le, was as followeth:</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>IT is not unknown to you what Amicable and Chri|&s;tian wayes, both before and &s;ince our comming into</HI> Scotland, <HI>and even after our never to be forgotten Victory, My Lord Generall and the Officers about him have taken to avoid the effu&s;ion of Chri&s;tian bloud; but hitherto (to our great griefe) God hath permitted all to be ineffectuall; yet knowing God can change the hearts of men in a Moment; It troubles me not to be further &s;o|licitous, the union of Gods People, in both Nations, yea even throughout the whole world, being that which above any thing in the Earth we de&s;ire, It's that which God hath commanded, that which he hath pro|mi&s;ed, that which we pray for, that which with con|fidence we believe &s;hall be, and that which indefatiga|bly
<PB REF="3">I hope we &s;hall endeavour; tho&s;e that are acquain|ted with the &s;ecrets of God doe clearely &s;ee, the Quar|rell is betwixt Chri&s;t and the Devill, betwixt Christs &s;eede and the Devills. Here it began, here it will end. The whore of</HI> Babylon, <HI>hath received her deadly wound, let the Devill be her Chirurgion;</HI> Babylon <HI>is falling, let not Gods People (to the lo&s;&s;e of their outward man) &s;tay in it, much le&s;&s;e labour to &s;upport it; And this ye are doing, though ignorantly: And our prayers for you &s;hall be that the Lord would forgive you in that you know not what you doe; and that he would give you a cleare &s;ight of the great vvorke, he is now in the&s;e latter dayes carrying on and then I am &s;ure we &s;hall not differ. I &s;hall &s;ay no more further, then to let you know, that the Armes of our Chri&s;tian love are &s;till &s;tretcht out, ready to imbrace you, vvhen ever God &s;hall incline your hearts to come in to us: When you &s;hall &s;ee, (as already wee have declared) We &s;eeke not for domination over you, we &s;eeke not to en&s;lave you, nor the depre&s;&s;ing your Kirk-government, vve &s;eeke not your Goods, nor E&s;tates, but to carry on the Worke of the Lord, vvhich from our very &s;oules, vve de&s;ire you may have a joynt &s;hare in. But if after all this, God &s;hall &s;till &s;uffer your eyes to be blinded, as that &s;eeing, you vvill not &s;ee; and your hearts to be hardned as to per&s;i&s;t in your gaine&s;aying and oppo&s;ing vvay of the Lord vvhat ever further mi&s;ery befalls
<PB REF="4">your Nation, either through Famine or Svvord, I mu&s;t plainly tell you vvill lye heavy upon you: And this before any attempt be made upon you by the&s;e For|ces under my Command, I thought my &s;elfe obliged in Chri&s;tian duty to acquaint you with, I remaine</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Carli&s;le, <DATE><HI>Octob.</HI> 26. 1650.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your &s;ervant, E. W.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>By a &s;peciall Expre&s;&s;e from Edenburgh, thus:</HI></P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Myne intended to be &s;prung under <HI>E|denburgh</HI>-ca&s;tle goes on very well, they have now wrought 60 yards into it, and are come to the hard Rocke, &s;o that a few dayes (if there be not &s;ome unexpected interruption) will produce the de&s;ired effect. The two Mor|ter-pieces being come from Hull. I hope we &s;hall goe to worke that way. Major <HI>Brovvne</HI> hath with a party of Hor&s;e po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed a &s;trong hou&s;e not farre from Dalkeeth called Dalhouz, it was &s;u&s;pected to have bin an harbour for tho&s;e vil|lanous Mo&s;&s;e Troopers who murdered &s;ome of our men that were either &s;tragling or going for provi&s;ions. They found in it 50. Mu&s;kets, 50. pikes, foure Barrels of powder and &s;ome &s;tore of provi&s;ions and provender.</P>
<P>On Tue&s;day la&s;t a Lieutenant came with &s;ome intimations from Col. <HI>Ker</HI> and Col. <HI>Straug|han</HI>
<PB REF="4">as to their Re&s;olution for a conference, they having already &s;ent foure Commi&s;&s;ioners to the Court Commi&s;&s;ioners with a Declaration, that they will not own the intere&s;t of King and Lords, and that as to the Executive part of the Kingly power they did not think it fit the King &s;hould be admitted to it untill he had given bet|ter &s;atisfaction to their Kirke, that his father was ju&s;tly put to death for his acts of tyranny though there might be &s;ome mi&s;carriages in the way, that the Commi&s;&s;ioners and Kirk had done very ill in provoking the Engli&s;h, but that the Par|liament were too much to blame to &s;end an Ar|my to make an Inva&s;ion to proceed to bloud be|fore they gave them warning. They &s;ent al&s;o a Letter to the Generall with &s;ome Queeries in|clo&s;ed concerning what &s;ecurity or &s;atisfaction was expected &amp; to whom it &s;hould be given, &amp;c.</P>
<P>From Saint <HI>Iohn&s;tons</HI> wee under&s;tand that the Kings and Kirks party are &s;till at variance. That the Royall party (having notice from &s;ome of the Kirks who de&s;erted them of the quarters of Sir <HI>Io. Brounes</HI> Regiment) fell upon that Regi|ment, took &s;ix &s;core Hor&s;e and pri&s;oners: That therupon L. G. <HI>David Le&s;ley</HI> was gone with four Regiments of hor&s;e to fall upon them, and that Major General <HI>Mountgomery</HI> was gone with 800
<PB REF="5">hor&s;e to reduce <HI>Straughan</HI> and that party to the obedience of the Kirk. That the Kirk had per|&s;waded the King to proclaime, that if tho&s;e in the hither parts of the North &s;hould not come in within 15 daies, and the re&s;t within 20 daies, and lay downe their armes, that they &s;hould be proceeded again&s;t as Traytors and enemies to to him. The Kings party in&s;i&s;t to have a free Parliament, and that they may &s;it in Parlia|ment with the re&s;t; the Kirke &s;ay none &s;hal have any hand in government that were enga|ged in <HI>Hamiltons</HI> inva&s;ion. Our worke now is to &s;tand &s;till and &s;ee &s;alvation wrought for us, this Nation being de&s;tinated for ruine, which makes them thus to divide among&s;t them&s;elves, when an Enemy is in their bowels.</P>
<P>We are rai&s;ing a Platform for a battery again&s;t <HI>Edenburgh</HI> ca&s;tle, which we hope (with the mine) will tend much to the reducing the &s;ame. They in the Ca&s;tle have beene &s;o angry at it, that for two or three nights together they di&s;charged &s;even pieces of Ordnance again&s;t it, but did not &s;poyle it much.</P>
<P>Saturday <HI>Oct.</HI> 26. The Generall and Officers of the Army kept a day of humiliation to humble them&s;elves for the &s;ins of the Army, and to de|&s;ire Gods ble&s;&s;ing upon their proceedings.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>27 <HI>Octob.</HI> 1650.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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