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<P>The Copies of all LETTERS, PAPERS And other TRANSACTIONS Between the Commi&s;sioners of the <HI>Parliament of</HI> England, And the Parliament and Committee of <HI>E&s;tates of the Kingdom of</HI> Scotland, From February 10. 1647. until July 8. 1648. <HI>Whereby it may appear,</HI> What the Endeavors of the Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> have been to keep a good Under&s;tanding, and to pre&s;erve The Union between the Nations: AND How the SEIZING of <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le</HI> by Papi&s;ts and other notorious Delinquents (again&s;t whom both Kingdoms lately joyned in War as Enemies to the Happine&s;s and Peace of both) was countenanced (if not procured) by the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation, contrary to &s;everal Treaties and Agreements between the Kingdoms of England &amp; Scotland.</P>
<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> 14. 1648.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB REF="2">
<PB N="5" REF="2">
<HEAD><HI>The Copy of a Letter from the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of</HI> England, <HI>to the Right Honorable, The Earl of</HI> Londoun, <HI>Lord High Chancellor of</HI> Scotland.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WE are &s;ent from both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> Commi&s;&s;ioners unto the Committee of E&s;tates, Convention of E&s;tates, and Parlia|ment of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland:</HI> And hear|ing that the Committee of E&s;tates do meet this day, we do intreat your Lord&s;hip to move them on our behalf, That they would be plea&s;ed to appoint in what way we may impart to them what we have in command from both Hou&s;es, with as much &s;peed as may &s;tand with their conveniency; wherein you will do a &s;pecial favor unto, My Lord,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>10 Febr. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t humble Servants, <LIST>
<ITEM><HI>William A&s;hhur&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Birch.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Lord Chancellors An&s;wer to the Commi&s;sioners Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honorable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Did communicate your Letter ye&s;terday to the Committee of E&s;tates, who have commanded me to make known to you, That they will take your De&s;ire into con&s;ideration, and re|turn an An&s;wer &s;peedily: And I &s;hall be ready upon all occa|&s;ions to te&s;tifie that I am</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Holyrood hou&s;e,</HI> <DATE>11 Feb. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble Servant, <HI>Loudoun Canc.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="6" REF="3">
<HEAD>The copy of a Letter from the Commi&s;sioners to the Lord Chancellor.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>VVE do acknowledge your Lord&s;hips favor, in pre&s;ent|ing the De&s;ires in our former Letter unto the Right Honorable, The Committee of E&s;tates; And now (after we have re&s;ided here &s;o many days) we judge it our duty, both to let their Lord&s;hips know in general, wherefore we are &s;ent to them; and to inable our &s;elves to give &s;ome account to Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> what we do in pur&s;uance of their Commands: Therefore we do further humbly intreat your Lord&s;hip, To communicate this inclo&s;ed Paper to the Right Honorable Committee of E&s;tates, who&s;e Re&s;olutions we &s;hall attend concerning the way of our further Proceedings, and ever remain,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>15 Feb. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t humble Servants, <HI>William A&s;hhur&s;t. John Birch.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the fir&s;t Paper &s;ent by the Commi&s;sioners of</HI> England <HI>to the Committee of E&s;tates of</HI> Scotland, <HI>concerning the &V;nion betwixt the Kingdoms.</HI></HEAD>
<P>VVE the Commi&s;&s;ioners of both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> have in charge from them to Declare unto the Committee of E&s;tates, Convention of E&s;tates, and Parlia|ment of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> That it is their unfeigned De&s;ire, and &s;hall be their con&s;tant Endeavors, to maintain and pre&s;erve a good Corre&s;pondence, a right Under&s;tanding, and a perpetual Brotherly Agreement between the Parliament and Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> and the Parliament and Kingdom of <HI>Scotland:</HI> And that they do &s;incerely intend to do all things which (with Honor and Ju&s;tice) lies in their Power, to give Sa|tisfaction unto their Brethren of <HI>Scotland.</HI> To which end they have &s;ent us, that all contrary Impre&s;&s;ions or Apprehen&s;ions (that po&s;&s;ibly might ari&s;e) may be removed, and their unfeigned De&s;ire manife&s;ted, to continue the happy Conjunction betwixt
<PB N="7" REF="3">the&s;e two Kingdoms in the Common Cau&s;e, and again&s;t the Common Enemy, wherein they have been &s;o long (through the Ble&s;&s;ing of God) United; it being that whereunto we are deep|ly obliged by &s;o many mutual Engagements; and wherein the glory of God, the Intere&s;t of all that profe&s;s the true Re|formed Religion, and the Tranquility and Peace of both the&s;e Kingdoms are &s;o much concerned: Upon which con&s;iderations we cannot doubt but that the like Affection and De&s;ire will be manife&s;ted by the Parliament of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> your Lord&s;hips, and all others in Power and Tru&s;t under them.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>15 <HI>Febr.</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>By Command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> JOHN SQUIB.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>A copy of the Lord Chancellors Letter to the Right Honorable the Earl of <HI>Notingham,</HI> and the other Commi&s;&s;ioners.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Received your Letter of the 15. with the inclo&s;ed Paper, which I communicated to the Committee of E&s;tates, who have appointed me to de&s;ire that you would be plea&s;ed to make known the Commi&s;&s;ion or Powers you have from the two Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England;</HI> after which they will take your De&s;ires &s;peedily into con&s;ideration. This being all I have in command at this time, I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>21 <HI>February,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>My Lord and Gentlemen,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble Servant, LOUDOUN <HI>Canc'</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="8" REF="4">
<HEAD><HI>A Letter of Credence from the Parliament of</HI> England <HI>to the Parliament of</HI> Scotland, <HI>for the Commi&s;|&s;ioners hereafter named.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honorable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>VVE are commanded by both Hou&s;es of Parliament, to &s;ignifie unto you, That they have nominated and ap|pointed <HI>Charls</HI> Earl of <HI>Notingham, Henry</HI> Earl of <HI>Stanford,</HI> and <HI>Bryan Stapilton, Robert Goodwyn, William A&s;hhur&s;t</HI> and Co|lonel <HI>John Birch,</HI> E&s;quires, Committees and Commi&s;&s;ioners of Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> to the Parliament of <HI>Scotland;</HI> and therefore in the name of the two Hou&s;es of Parliament, we are to de&s;ire the Parliament of <HI>Scotland</HI> to give unto them or any two of them, full credit in tho&s;e things which &s;hall be propounded by them, from and on the behalf of Both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE>31. <HI>Jan.</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips very affectionate Friends and Servants, <LIST>
<ITEM>E. Manche&s;ter, <HI>Speaker of the Hou&s;e of Peers</HI> pro tempore.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Lenthal, <HI>Speaker of the Hou&s;e of Commons.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>A Letter from the Commi&s;&s;ioners, to the Lord Chan|cellor of</HI> Scotland.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe La&s;t night we received in a Letter from your Lord&s;hip, that which (upon Saturday the 19. of this moneth) your Lord&s;hip was plea&s;ed to deliver to us by word of mouth from the Committee of E&s;tates; in An&s;wer whereunto, we did then &s;hew unto your Lord&s;hip our Letters of Credence unto the Par|liament of <HI>Scotland</HI> (whereof becau&s;e we have a Duplicate, we have for better &s;atisfaction &s;ent you inclo&s;ed one of the Origi|nals) which we doubt not will give &s;atisfaction unto the Right Honorable Committee of E&s;tates, to whom both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> are &s;o de&s;irous to &s;hew all re&s;pect,
<PB N="9" REF="4">that (we are confident) they would have &s;ent to them al&s;o a par|ticular Letter of Credence, if it could have been judged nece&s;&s;a|ry or u&s;ual: Be&s;ides, we did then &s;hew unto your Lord&s;hip, that both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> did (upon the 29. of <HI>January</HI> la&s;t) pa&s;s In&s;tructions (which having the force of an Ordinance of Parliament, are both a Commi&s;sion and In&s;tructi|ons) unto <HI>Charls</HI> Earl of <HI>Notingham, Henry</HI> Earl of <HI>Stanford, Bryan Stapilton, Robert Goodwyn, William A&s;hhur&s;t</HI> and Colonel <HI>John Birch,</HI> E&s;quires, Commi&s;&s;ioners to the Kingdom of <HI>Scot|land:</HI> And we did then let your Lord&s;hip &s;ee &s;o much of our In&s;tructions, as did make it appear, that the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners or any two of them, were commanded in the name of both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> to make Addre&s;&s;es not onely unto the Parliament of this Kingdom, but al&s;o unto the Convention and Committee of E&s;tates; and that we had &s;uffi|cient Warrant in tho&s;e In&s;tructions for the Paper of the 15. of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t (now mentioned in your Lord&s;hips Letter) where|in we did declare the unfeined de&s;ires of the Parliament of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> to pre&s;erve and continue a good Under&s;tanding, and a Bro|therly Agreement betwixt the&s;e two Kingdoms, who are (by the ble&s;&s;ing of God) in &s;o happy a Conjunction: And now having this opportunity, we do intreat your Lord&s;hip to pre&s;ent from us this further de&s;ire unto the Right Honorable the Committee of E&s;tates, That they would entertain no mi&s;apprehen&s;ions of the proceedings of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> but if any &s;uch &s;hould be, that we may be heard, it being the re&s;olutions of the Parlia|ment of <HI>England,</HI> to give &s;atisfaction to the Kingdom of <HI>Scot|land</HI> in all ju&s;t and honorable things; which is all wherewith we &s;hall at pre&s;ent trouble your Lord&s;hip, but &s;hall wait upon the further re&s;olutions of the Committee, and remain, my Lord,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>22. <HI>Febr.</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips humble Servants, <LIST>
<ITEM><HI>C. Notingham.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rob: Goodwyn.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William A&s;hhur&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Birch.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="order">
<PB N="10" REF="5">
<HEAD><HI>A Copy of the Order of the Committee of E&s;tates of</HI> Scotland.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>23 <HI>February,</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe Committee of E&s;tates gives Commi&s;&s;ion to the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of <HI>Lauderdail,</HI> the Earl of <HI>Lane|rick,</HI> the Lord <HI>Lee,</HI> Sir <HI>Charls Aresken, Archibald Syd&s;erf,</HI> and <HI>Hue Kenuedy,</HI> or any four of them, there being one of each E&s;tate, to hear the Commi&s;&s;ioners of both Hou&s;es of the Par|liament of <HI>England,</HI> and to receive any Papers from them, and to report the &s;ame to the Committee.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Extractum.</HI> ARCH: PRIMROSE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A Copy of a &s;econd Paper delivered by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of</HI> Eng|land, <HI>concerning the pre&s;ervation of the &V;nion.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>21 <HI>February,</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVHereas your Lord&s;hips are now appointed by the Right Honorable Committee of E&s;tates, to receive our Ad|dre&s;&s;es to them; We the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> according to our Paper of the 15. and our Letter to the Lord Chancellor of the 22. of this pre&s;ent <HI>February,</HI> do again Expre&s;s and Declare unto your Lord&s;hips (in the name of both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI>) their unfeigned de&s;ire to pre&s;erve and maintain a good Corre&s;pondence, and perpetual Brotherly Agreement betwixt the Parliament and Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> and the Parliament and Kingdom of <HI>Scotland.</HI> And now again we de&s;ire, that the Right Honorable the Committee of E&s;tates, would not entertain any mi&s;apprehen&s;ions of the proceedings of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> or if there be any &s;uch, that they would be plea&s;ed to make them known to us, who are commanded to declare unto the Parliament, Convention and Committee of E&s;tates of this Kingdom, the &s;incerity of the in|tentions of both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> to re|move whatever of that kinde may have ari&s;en in, or been made
<PB N="11" REF="5">upon their Brethren of <HI>Scotland;</HI> and they are re&s;olved to do whatever is Ju&s;t and Honorable, for the &s;atisfaction of this Kingdom.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> JOHN SQUIE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD>A copy of the Paper concerning the payment of the One hun|dred thou&s;and pounds.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>28 <HI>February,</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVE the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> are commanded by them, to make known unto the Right Ho|norable the Committee of E&s;tates, Convention of E&s;tates, or Parliament of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> That they have taken in|to &s;erious con&s;ideration the payment of the One hundred thou|&s;and pounds, which was due unto our Brethren of <HI>Scotland</HI> about the third of this pre&s;ent <HI>February;</HI> and however they could not get the money ready at that day, yet they have taken &s;uch cour&s;e as will be effectual, to bring in &s;peedily what moneys is not already brought in (Copies of which re&s;olutions we do for better &s;atisfaction herewith deliver to your Lord&s;hips) and for &s;uch part of the &s;aid &s;um, as was not paid at the afore&s;aid time, both Hou&s;es will allow after the rate of Eight pounds <HI>per centum per annum,</HI> for forbearance for &s;o much as &s;hall be behinde, until the whole be paid, which we are confident will be very &s;peedily.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> JOHN SQUIB.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="order">
<PB N="12" REF="6">
<HEAD>An Order of both Hou&s;es, concerning the bringing in of the Arrears of the Two hundred thou&s;and pounds Loans for payment of the Scots Army.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATE><HI>Die Sabbathi,</HI> 27 <HI>Januarii,</HI> 1647.</DATE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament a&s;&s;em|bled, That the Committee at Gold&s;miths-Hall be herewith required and enjoyned to take the mo&s;t effectual cour&s;e they can for bringing in from the &s;everal Counties the Arrears of the Two hundred thou&s;and pounds Loans for payment of the Scots Army, and al&s;o the Arrears of the Two months A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments for the &s;aid Army: And that they do prepare Letters to be &s;ent to the re|&s;pective Committees in the &s;everal Counties, where any of tho&s;e Arrears are due, to be Signed by the Speakers of both Hou&s;es, to &s;atisfie them with the nece&s;&s;ity of bringing in the &s;aid moneys, and to quicken them in the bringing in of the &s;ame.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Joh: Brown, Cleric. Parliamentorum.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>H: El&s;ynge, Cler.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Parl. D. Com.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="order">
<HEAD><HI>An Order of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, concerning the payment of One hundred thou&s;and pounds to the Scots, a&s;&s;igned to be paid</HI> 3 February, 1647.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATE><HI>Die Sabbathi,</HI> 29 <HI>Januarii,</HI> 1647.</DATE></OPENER>
<P>THe Lords and Commons in Parliament a&s;&s;embled, do De|clare, That their intention is fully and really to perform with our Brethren of <HI>Scotland</HI> to the uttermo&s;t of their powers, in the due payment of the One hundred thou&s;and pounds, a&s;&s;ign|ed to be paid to them on the third day of <HI>February</HI> next; and in Order thereunto, do require the Committee at Gold&s;miths-Hall to imploy their be&s;t endeavors, that the Fifty thou&s;and pounds, part thereof charged on the&s;e Receipts, may be com|plyed with, and payed to the per&s;ons named in the Ordinance, appointing the payment of the &s;aid Fifty thou&s;and pounds in cour&s;e, as it is directed by the &s;aid Ordinance; And in ca&s;e the
<PB N="13" REF="6">&s;aid &s;everal &s;ums cannot in time be paid to the &s;aid &s;everal per|&s;ons, that Intere&s;t after the rate of Eight <HI>per centum,</HI> be allowed and paid to the &s;aid &s;everal per&s;ons during the time the &s;aid &s;ums or any of them &s;hall be unpaid: The &s;aid Committee is further required from time to time to repre&s;ent any &s;uch ob&s;tructions as they &s;hall meet with, to the end they may be removed, and due payment of the &s;aid Moneys may be made according to the Intentions and Orders of the Hou&s;es. It is further Ordered, That the Intere&s;t of the afore&s;aid whole Hundred thou&s;and pounds be charged upon the Receipts of Gold&s;miths-Hall, and paid by the Committee there from time to time, for &s;o long time as the &s;ame, or any part thereof &s;hall be unpaid: It is like|wi&s;e Ordered, That power be, and it is hereby given to the Com|mittee, to Treat with &s;uch per&s;ons, Citizens or others, as they &s;hall think fit, for the pre&s;ent borrowing of the Fifty thou&s;and pounds, charged upon the Credit and Receipts of Gold|&s;miths Hall.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Joh: Brown, Cleric. Parliamentorum.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>H: El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="order">
<HEAD>An Order of the Hou&s;e of Commons, concerning the bringing in of the Arrears of the Loans, and the Arrears of the A&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ments for the Scots Army.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATE><HI>Die Sabbathi,</HI> 29 <HI>Januarii,</HI> 1647.</DATE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That the &s;everal Members of this Hou&s;e, that are imployed in the &s;everal Counties for bringing in the Six moneths A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments of Sixty thou&s;and pounds <HI>per men&s;em,</HI> be likewi&s;e required to imploy their be&s;t endeavors for the &s;peedy Leavying and bringing in the Arrears of the Loans of the Scots Army, and the Arrears for the A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments of the Scots Army, according to the Letters to be written by the Speakers to that purpo&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H: El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<PB N="14" REF="7">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the Paper concerning the Scoti&s;h Army in</HI> Ireland.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>28. <HI>February,</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVE the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> have it in charge to make known unto the Right Hono|rable, The Parliament, Convention, or Committee of E&s;tates of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> That however the great troubles wherewith it hath plea&s;ed God to exerci&s;e the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> and their great nece&s;&s;ities and occa&s;ions for money incident thereunto, have hitherto di&s;inabled them to make tho&s;e Provi&s;ions for the Scoti&s;h Army in <HI>Ireland</HI> that they intended and de&s;ired, yet they are fully re&s;olved to give them all the &s;a|tisfaction that lies in their power: And therefore we are com|manded in the name of both Hou&s;es, to offer unto the Parlia|ment, Convention, or Committee of E&s;tates of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> That both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> will, if it be de&s;ired, &s;end Commi&s;&s;ioners into <HI>&V;l&s;ter</HI> in the Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> to &s;tate the Accompts of the &s;aid Army; or if your Lord&s;hips &s;hall rather de&s;ire to agree by way of general e&s;timate for the whole, they will con&s;ent to that way; and when the &s;um &s;hall be mutually agreed on, both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> will endeavor to the utmo&s;t of their power and ability, to give that Army all ju&s;t &s;atisfaction.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England.</HI> JOHN SQUIB.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>For the Right Honorable the Earl of</HI> Loudoun, <HI>Lord High Chan|cellor of</HI> Scotland, <HI>and Pre&s;ident of the Parliament.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>VVE have already made known unto the Right Honorable the Committee of E&s;tates of this Kingdom, That we were &s;ent by both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> unto the Parliament, Convention, and Committee of E&s;tates of this Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> to continue and pre&s;erve a good corre|&s;pondence
<PB N="15" REF="7">and Brotherly Agreement betwixt both Kingdoms; in order whereunto, we have-already given to the Committee of E&s;tates our Letters of Credence, and &s;everal other Letters and Pa|pers, which if they be regularly (according to your form of proceedings) before the Right Honorable the Parliament of <HI>Scotland</HI> (now &s;itting) we &s;hall wait for their re&s;olutions there|upon; but if they be not, we do de&s;ire your Lord&s;hip to move the Parliament, that they would be plea&s;ed to direct the way of our Addre&s;&s;es to them, wherein you will do a favor unto,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>4 <HI>Martii,</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips humble Servants, <LIST>
<ITEM><HI>C. Notingham.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Goodwyn.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William A&s;hhur&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Birch.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of a Letter to the Lord Chancellor of the</HI> 10. <HI>of</HI> March, 1647.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>VVE de&s;ire your Lord&s;hip to move the Honorable, The Parliament of <HI>Scotland,</HI> to take our Letter of the 4. of this in&s;tant <HI>March</HI> into con&s;ideration; and that your Lord|&s;hip would procure their An&s;wer therein to be returned unto,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips humble Servants, <LIST>
<ITEM><HI>C. Notingham. Stanford.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bryan Stapilton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William A&s;hhur&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rob: Goodwyn.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo: Birch.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the Lord Chancellors Letter of the</HI> 11. <HI>of</HI> March, 1647.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lords and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YE&s;terday I received your Letter, which I did immediately communicate to the Parliament; and in obedience to their
<PB N="16" REF="8">commands, I do return unto your Lord&s;hips their An&s;wer here inclo&s;ed, and &s;o re&s;t, My Lords and Gentlemen,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble Servant, Loudoun <HI>Canc. Pre&s;ident of the Parliament.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="order">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of an Order of the Parliament of</HI> Scotland, <HI>of the</HI> 10. <HI>of</HI> March, 1647.</HEAD>
<P>THe E&s;tates of Parliament having received and con&s;idered certain Papers and mi&s;&s;ive Letters from the Commi&s;&s;io|ners of the Honorable Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> They did nominate and appoint &s;ome of every E&s;tate to be a Committee for taking the &s;ame Papers and Mi&s;&s;ives into their con&s;ideration, to whom the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners may make their Addre&s;&s;es, concerning any thing they have to offer to the Par|liament; and de&s;ire the Lord High Chancellor, Pre&s;ident of the Parliament, to return this An&s;wer.</P>
<CLOSER><POSTSCRIPT>
<P>Extr. out of the Records of Parliament,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>by me Sir <HI>Alex. Gib&s;on</HI> of <HI>Dury</HI> Knight, Clerk of His Highne&s;s Regi&s;ters Councel and Rolls.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the Letter of the</HI> 14 <HI>of March to the Lord Chan|cellor, concerning</HI> Barwick.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THis la&s;t night we did receive a Letter from the Town of <HI>Barwick,</HI> (whereof the inclo&s;ed is a Copy) with a further a&s;&s;urance from the Me&s;&s;enger, That they had good Information from &s;everal parts, of a real De&s;ign in the Malignants to &s;urprize the Town at this intended Hor&s;e-Race: And that the Major, and other the Magi&s;trates of the Town (be&s;ides the forbidding of the Hor&s;e-Race) onely appointed a Watch of Town&s;men for the preventing of &s;uch a mi&s;chief; We thought it our part, &s;peedily to acquaint your Lord&s;hip with the truth of this bu&s;ine&s;s, to prevent all Mi&s;reports and Mi&s;takes that might happen upon
<PB N="17" REF="8">it; and intreat your Lord&s;hip to communicate the &s;ame to the Honorable, The Parliament of <HI>Scotland;</HI> with this further, That however the Delinquents are very indu&s;trious to interrupt the happy Union betwixt the Kingdoms, as that which &s;tands mo&s;t with their Intere&s;t; yet we doubt not but it will have this effect, to make them both more careful and diligent to continue and pre&s;erve it: And as Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> are re&s;olved to keep the Treaties concerning this Town, and all other Treaties betwixt both Kingdoms inviolable, &s;o we have given &s;uch Directions to the Town of <HI>Barwick</HI> upon this occa|&s;ion, as may manife&s;t the like Re&s;olutions in, My Lord,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>14 <HI>Martii,</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips humble Servants, <LIST>
<ITEM><HI>C. Notingham.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bryan Stapilton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William A&s;hhur&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Stanford.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Goodwyn.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Birch.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the Letter to the Lord Chancellor,</HI> 15 <HI>Martii,</HI> 1647.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>VVE have in charge from Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> to communicate unto the Honorable, The Parliament of <HI>Scotland,</HI> their An&s;wer (herewith &s;ent you) unto &s;ome former Papers of the Commi&s;sioners of this Kingdom, touching the Di&s;po&s;ing of the Per&s;on of the King: Upon con&s;i|deration whereof, We doubt not but their Proceedings and In|tentions will be cleared from &s;ome Mi&s;takes which we perceive are apprehended by many in this Kingdom. Thus de&s;iring that your Lord&s;hip will take the fir&s;t opportunity to pre&s;ent it, We &s;hall onely adde, that we are, My Lord,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips humble Servants, <LIST>
<ITEM><HI>C. Notingham.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Goodwyn.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Stanford.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William A&s;hhur&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bryan Stapilton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Birch.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<PB N="18" REF="9">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the Paper given in to the Parliament of</HI> Scotland, <HI>con|cerning the Demand of Captain</HI> Wogan.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>21 <HI>Martii,</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVE the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> are commanded to make known unto the Parliament of <HI>Scotland,</HI> That they have notice from Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax</HI> their General, That one Captain <HI>Wogan</HI> (an Engli&s;h man) and his Troop, who being of the Supernumerary Forces, was by the Re&s;olutions of Both Hou&s;es of Parliament, and the Order of the General to be disbanded; but he refu&s;ing &s;o to do, marched by a counterfeit Pa&s;s from the county of <HI>Worce|&s;ter</HI> in the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> into the North; and that from thence they are come in a Military po&s;ture, with Arms and Co|lours into the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> which was altogether with|out the allowance, order or privity of the Parliament of <HI>Eng|land.</HI> And they are likewi&s;e informed, That others who are principal Engli&s;h Delinquents, and have been in Arms again&s;t the Parliament, do harbor in this Kingdom; All which is again&s;t the large Treaty betwixt the Kingdoms of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scot|land,</HI> the Act of Pacification and Oblivion, pa&s;&s;ed <HI>Anno</HI> 17 <HI>Ca|roli Regis.</HI> The &s;aid Captain <HI>Wogan</HI> being &s;een in <HI>Edenburgh</HI> by &s;everal of our Servants ye&s;terday and divers days before; we do in the name of both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> demand of the Parliament of <HI>Scotland,</HI> that the &s;aid Captain <HI>Wogan,</HI> with his Officers and Soldiers (that are Engli&s;h men) to|gether with their Hor&s;es and Arms, be &s;eized, &s;ecured and de|livered to us, to be di&s;po&s;ed of as both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> have or &s;hall appoint: And we cannot doubt but upon di&s;covery of any other Engli&s;h Forces, or any Engli&s;h men who have been Officers or Reformades, and &s;erved the King again&s;t the Parliament, that &s;hall be received or harbored in this Kingdom, you will do the like ju&s;tice to the Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> upon our demanding of them.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> JOHN SQUIB.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="19" REF="9">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the Letter to the Lord Chancellor, of the</HI> 23. <HI>of</HI> March, 1647.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>VVE are commanded by both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> to give in the Declaration herewith, &s;ent to the Parliament of <HI>Scotland;</HI> we do therefore intreat your Lord&s;hip to communicate it to them: We are, my Lord,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips humble Servants, <LIST>
<ITEM><HI>C. Notingham. Stanford.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bryan Stapilton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rob: Goodwyn.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William A&s;hhur&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo: Birch.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P>The Declaration herein mentioned, was from both Hou&s;es, of the 4. of <HI>March,</HI> 1647. concerning the Papers of the Scots Commi&s;&s;ioners, entituled, <HI>The An&s;wer of the Commi&s;|&s;ioners of the Kingdom of</HI> Scotland <HI>to both Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment, upon the New Propo&s;itions of Peace, and the Four Bills to be &s;ent to His Maje&s;ty:</HI> And concerning the proceedings of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners in the I&s;le of <HI>Wight.</HI></P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the Paper delivered in to the Parliament of</HI> Scotland, <HI>pre&s;&s;ing for an An&s;wer to former Papers.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>27 <HI>Martii,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVE have by the command, and in the Name of both Hou|&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> &s;everal times made known unto the Parliament and Committee of E&s;tates of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> that we were &s;ent hither to keep a good Corre&s;pondence betwixt both Kingdoms; And that it is the Re&s;olution of both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> on their part, to continue and pre&s;erve the Union and Brotherly Agreement betwixt them, and to remove all mi&s;apprehen&s;ions to the contrary (if any &s;uch &s;hould be) and in order thereunto, have delivered in to your Lord&s;hips &s;everal Papers: But although we have been at <HI>Edenburgh</HI> &s;ince the Eighth of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, yet we have not received a particular An&s;wer to any of them,
<PB N="20" REF="10">whereof we are (and Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>Eng|land</HI> have rea&s;on to be) very &s;en&s;ible. At this time we being re|quired to return an Accompt to Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> concerning the Bu&s;ine&s;s of Captain <HI>Wogan</HI> and his Troop, mu&s;t earne&s;tly pre&s;s your Lord&s;hips to give us your An|&s;wer to our Paper concerning him of the 21. of this in&s;tant <HI>March;</HI> wherein we do not doubt but your Lord&s;hips will comply with the De&s;ires of Both Hou&s;es, it being conform to, and in pro&s;ecution of the Large Treaty betwixt Both King|doms, and the Act of Pacification and Oblivion pa&s;&s;ed by the Parliaments of Both Kingdoms.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By Command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> JOHN SQUIB.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A Paper delivered in to the Parliament of</HI> Scotland, <HI>dated</HI> Edenburgh, 31 Martii, 1648. <HI>Concerning the former Demand of Captain</HI> Wogan, <HI>and a further Demand of Sir</HI> Philip Mu&s;grave <HI>and Sir</HI> Tho: Glemham.</HEAD>
<P>VVHereas Both Kingdoms of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> have pa&s;&s;ed their Publique Faith in the Act of Pacification and Oblivion of 17 <HI>Caroli Regis,</HI> to concur in the repre&s;&s;ing of tho&s;e that &s;hall ri&s;e in Arms, or make War in any of the King|doms of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> or <HI>Ireland,</HI> without the con&s;ent of the Parliament of that Kingdom to which they do belong; and that &s;uch &s;hall be held, reputed and demanded as Traytors to the E&s;tates whereof they are Subjects: And that no per&s;on &s;en|tenced by the Parliament of either Nation, as Incendiaries be|twixt the Nations, &s;hall have &s;helter or protection in any other of His Maje&s;ties Dominions. And whereas by the &s;aid Act, if any Engli&s;h man who hath committed offences again&s;t that Kingdom &s;hall remove into <HI>Scotland,</HI> he &s;hall (at the de&s;ire of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI>) be remanded to abide his tryal in that Kingdom where he committed the offence. We having in
<PB N="21" REF="10">charge to demand all Engli&s;h men that we &s;hall di&s;cover to be in this Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> who have been in Arms again&s;t the Parliament and Kingdom of <HI>England:</HI> And being certainly in|formed, That there is now many &s;uch per&s;ons in this City of <HI>Edenburgh</HI> (Incendiaries betwixt the Nations) and particularly Sir <HI>Philip Mu&s;grave,</HI> and Sir <HI>Thomas Glemham,</HI> We do there|fore in the name of Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> demand, That the &s;aid Sir <HI>Philip Mu&s;grave,</HI> and Sir <HI>Thomas Glemham</HI> be delivered to us, to be di&s;po&s;ed of as Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> have or &s;hall appoint (wherein as al&s;o in the bu&s;ine&s;s of Captain <HI>Wogan</HI> and his Troop, repre|&s;ented to your Lord&s;hips in our Papers of the 21. and 27. of this in&s;tant <HI>March,</HI> who were in Arms in <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI> and <HI>Cumberland,</HI> and in &s;ome other parts of the Kingdom of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and afterwards in this Kingdom, without the con&s;ent of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI>) the publique Faith of this Kingdom being &s;o deeply ingaged, We cannot doubt of a &s;peedy and &s;a|tisfactory an&s;wer.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> JOHN SQUIB.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>A copy of the Lord Chancellors Letter to the Commi&s;&s;ioners.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lords and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Did communicate your Letter and Paper of the la&s;t of <HI>March</HI> to the Parliament, who have remitted the &s;ame to a Com|mittee; who were appointed to con&s;ider of your former Papers; And the Parliament is re&s;olved to give their An&s;wer to your Lord&s;hips &s;ome time this week: which by their Warrant and Command is &s;ignified to your Lord&s;hips, from</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>3 <HI>April,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t humble Servant, Loudoun <HI>Canc' Pre&s;ident of the Parliament.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="22" REF="11">
<HEAD>A copy of the Lord Chancellors Letter to the Commi&s;&s;ioners.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lords and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Committee to whom your Lord&s;hips De&s;ires and Papers were referred, having this day made their Report to the Parliament, they have commanded me to &s;hew your Lord&s;hips, That they have taken the &s;ame into con&s;ideration, and have re|&s;olved to give your Lord&s;hips their An&s;wer in the beginning of the next week, as will appear by their Order, which is herewith &s;ent to you, from</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>8 <HI>April,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t humble Servant, Loudoun <HI>Canc' Pre&s;ident of Parliament.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="order">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the Order of the Parliament of</HI> Scotland.</HEAD>
<P>AT <HI>Edenburgh</HI> the Eighth day of <HI>April,</HI> the year of God, 1648. The E&s;tates of Parliament recommends to the Lord Chancellor, Pre&s;ident of Parliament, to make known to the Commi&s;&s;ioners from the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> That the opi|nion of the Committee of an An&s;wer to be returned to the Let|ters and Papers given in by them, was this day, being the la&s;t day of the week, pre&s;ented and read in Parliament; But according to the order kept in this Parliament, the An&s;wer is taken to the con&s;ideration of the &s;everal E&s;tates till the beginning of the next week; at which time An&s;wer will be given to them.</P>
<CLOSER><POSTSCRIPT>
<P>Extr. forth of the Records of Parliament</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>by me Sir <HI>Alex: Gib&s;on</HI> of <HI>Dury</HI> Knight, Clerk of His Maje&s;ties Regi&s;ters Councel and Rolls, under my Sign and Sub&s;cript Manual, <HI>Alex: Gib&s;on</HI> Cleric. Regi&s;tr.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<PB N="23" REF="11">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the Paper delivered in to the Parliament of</HI> Scotland, <HI>concerning the former demands of Captain</HI> Wogan, <HI>Sir</HI> Philip Mu&s;grave, <HI>Sir</HI> Tho: Glemham, <HI>and a fur|ther demand of Col:</HI> George Wray.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>14 April, 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVE had notice from the Honorable, the Parliament of <HI>Scotland,</HI> that we &s;hould have an An&s;wer the la&s;t week to the &s;everal Papers communicated to them from us; and &s;ince that time, that we &s;hould have an An&s;wer in the beginning of this week; but we not receiving any hitherto, think it our duty in bu&s;ine&s;&s;es wherein we have &s;o &s;trict a charge, and which do &s;o much concern the Peace of both Kingdoms, to pre&s;s your Lord|&s;hips again for a &s;peedy An&s;wer, e&s;pecially to our demands of Captain <HI>Wogan</HI> and his Troop, and Sir <HI>Philip Mu&s;grave,</HI> and Sir <HI>Tho: Glemham;</HI> the rather becau&s;e we do &s;till ob&s;erve a great concour&s;e of Engli&s;h Delinquents to this Kingdom, who are received and harbored here; and among&s;t them &s;ome Papi&s;ts that have been in Arms, who were all (by former Propo&s;itions to the King agreed to by both Kingdoms) excepted from par|don; and particularly we know, that one Colonel <HI>George Wray,</HI> who is a Papi&s;t, and was a Colonel in the War again&s;t the Parlia|ment, hath been for &s;ome time of late (and we believe now is) in this City of <HI>Edenburgh:</HI> We do therefore upon the grounds laid down in our former Papers (which we hope do appear very clear to your Lord&s;hips) demand of the Parliament of <HI>Scotland,</HI> in the name of both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> That the &s;aid Colonel <HI>George Wray</HI> be likewi&s;e delivered to us, to be di&s;po&s;ed of as both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> &s;hall direct, and that they may no longer have &s;helter and protection in this Kingdom.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;sioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> JOHN SQUIE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<PB N="24" REF="12">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of a Paper from the Lord Chancellor, and others, of the</HI> 15. <HI>of</HI> April, 1648. <HI>Delivered by them to the Engli&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners.</HI></HEAD>
<P>VVE do according to the Warrant and Command of the Parliament, deliver to your Lord&s;hips their An&s;wer to the De&s;ires and Papers pre&s;ented from you to them, and &s;hall report what further your Lord&s;hips &s;hall be plea&s;ed to move to the Parliament.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Loudoun.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fochgert.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lotherdail.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rob: Jenies.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lanerick.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Arch: Syd&s;erf.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A Paper of the Parliament of</HI> Scotland, <HI>in An&s;wer to &s;everal Papers delivered by the Engli&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners, dated at</HI> Edenburgh, 12 April, 1648.</HEAD>
<P>THe E&s;tate of Parliament having peru&s;ed and con&s;idered the &s;everal Papers given in to them, and to the Committee of E&s;tates by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> &s;ince their la&s;t coming to this Kingdom, do finde at the arrival of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, and upon their fir&s;t Ad|dre&s;s to the Committee of E&s;tates; Although they &s;hew no Commi&s;&s;ion, nor had any Credential Letters directed to the Committee, yet the Committee of E&s;tates did appoint &s;ome of their number to meet with them, who did accordingly receive from them what they then thought fit to offer: And when they made their Addre&s;s to the Parliament, The very days wherein their Letters were given to the Lord Chancellor (to whom they &s;ent the &s;ame) they were in&s;tantly read in Parliament, and a Com|mittee appointed to take in con&s;ideration what was offered by them, that upon report thereof an an&s;wer might be returned by the Parliament.</P>
<P>Whereas your Lord&s;hips are plea&s;ed in the name of the Honorable Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> to expre&s;s their de&s;ires to pre&s;erve a good under&s;tanding and Brotherly Agree|ment betwixt the two Kingdoms; The E&s;tates of Parliament do
<PB N="25" REF="12">return this An&s;wer, That as the actions of this Kingdom have been real proofs of their de&s;ires and willingne&s;s to entertain a good Corre&s;pondence and Amity betwixt the two Nations, &s;o they are &s;till re&s;olved to keep inviolably on their part the happy Union to which both kingdoms are Solemnly engaged by the Covenant and Treaties; Yet they have thought fit to let them know, That this kingdom hath rea&s;on to be very &s;en&s;ible that the nece&s;&s;ary and ju&s;t de&s;ires given in by their Commi&s;&s;ioners by Warrant of the Parliament and their Committees, to the Ho|norable Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> concerning Re|ligion, the Kings Maje&s;ty, and Intere&s;t of this kingdom, have had no &s;atisfactory An&s;wer as yet.</P>
<P>And for the particular de&s;ires concerning Captain <HI>Wogan</HI> and his Troop, alleaged to be in this kingdom, and demanded in the Paper of the 21. of <HI>March,</HI> upon the Act of Pacification and Oblivion in the large Treaty in <HI>Anno</HI> 1641. as Delinquents, and who have been in Arms again&s;t the Parliament of <HI>England;</HI> And the Paper of the 31. of <HI>March,</HI> demanding the afore&s;aid Captain <HI>Wogan,</HI> Sir <HI>Philip Mu&s;grave,</HI> and Sir <HI>Thomas Glemham,</HI> to be delivered upon the &s;ame Act of Pacification, as tho&s;e who have ri&s;en in Arms and made War again&s;t the Parliament of <HI>Eng|land:</HI> If your Lord&s;hips will be plea&s;ed to peru&s;e that Treaty, and Act of Pacification to which the Papers given in do relate, It will clearly appear, That none can be remanded or delivered by this kingdom, but &s;uch onely of the Engli&s;h Nation who have in|cen&s;ed the King of <HI>Scotland</HI> again&s;t the kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> all other criminals being referred to the Laws.</P>
<P>And the E&s;tates of this kingdom are confident that your Lord|&s;hips will not mi&s;under&s;tand the not returning of an An&s;wer &s;ooner to your Papers and De&s;ires, &s;ince the many other pre&s;&s;ing and weighty Affairs of this kingdom, which have &s;till been before the Parliament &s;ince your coming, hath been the onely Rea&s;on of this delay.</P>
<P>The E&s;tates of Parliament give warrant and command to the Committee of Twenty four, to deliver to the Engli&s;h Commi&s;&s;i|oners the An&s;wer this day pa&s;t in Parliament, and to appoint &s;ome of their number to meet with the Engli&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners,
<PB N="26" REF="13">and to a&s;&s;ert the Parliaments an&s;wer, and to report what fur|ther the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Honorable Hou&s;es &s;hall offer to the con&s;ideration of the Parliament.</P>
<CLOSER><POSTSCRIPT>
<P>Extracted out of the Records of Parliament</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>by me Sir <HI>Alex: Gib&s;on</HI> of <HI>Dury</HI> Knight, Clerk of His Ma|je&s;ties Regi&s;ters Councels and Rolls, under my Sign and Sub&s;cription Manual, <HI>Alex: Gib&s;on</HI> Cleric. Regi&s;t.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>The Reply of the Engli&s;h Commi&s;sioners of</HI> April 19. <HI>to the Par|liament of</HI> Scotland, <HI>in An&s;wer to theirs of the</HI> 12^t^h</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>April 19. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVE have received your Lord&s;hips An&s;wer of the 12. of this in&s;tant <HI>April,</HI> wherein we do not finde any thing of tho&s;e Papers we delivered, in order to the giving &s;atisfaction un|to this Kingdom, concerning &s;uch moneys as are due to them, and to the Scoti&s;h Army in <HI>Ireland,</HI> from the Kingdom of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> wherein both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> are mo&s;t willing to do any thing in their power, for the real per|formance of their Ingagements: For that which your Lord&s;hips mention concerning our Commi&s;sion and Credential Letters, we mu&s;t affirm, That although our Letters of Credence were onely directed to the Honorable Parliament of <HI>Scotland,</HI> yet we did &s;hew unto the Right Honorable the Lord Chancellor, who was &s;ent to us from the Honorable the Committee of E&s;tates, that by our In&s;tructions we had Commi&s;sion and Command to make Addre&s;&s;es unto that Committee; however, we do gladly take notice of your Lord&s;hips readine&s;s to continue the good corre|&s;pendence betwixt both Kingdoms, and the Declaration of your Re&s;olutions to keep inviolably on your part the happy Union, to which both Kingdoms are &s;olemnly engaged by the Covenant and Treaties; and as we have &s;everal times already, &s;o now again we do in the name of both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>Eng|land</HI> declare, That it is their Re&s;olutions to keep the Union in|violably
<PB N="27" REF="13">on their part, and we &s;hall hope that both Kingdoms (having to their former Ingagements added the&s;e mutual Decla|rations of their real intentions therein) will be careful not to do any thing which may increa&s;e jealou&s;ies, or provoke one ano|ther to break the Union, which is &s;o much hoped, de&s;ired and en|deavored by tho&s;e that are Enemies to both Kingdoms.</P>
<P>For tho&s;e de&s;ires your Lord&s;hips mention, given in by your Commi&s;sioners to the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> we are con&s;ident they will do therein what &s;hall be fit, to manife&s;t their de&s;ire of a Brotherly Union with the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<P>For the An&s;wer your Lord&s;hips were plea&s;ed to give to our demands of Captain <HI>Wogan</HI> and his Troop, Sir <HI>Philip Mu&s;grave,</HI> and Sir <HI>Thomas Glemham,</HI> if it were onely according to your Lord&s;hips Papers, that by the Act of Pacification and Oblivion they were &s;uch as were to be referred to their Tryal by Law; yet that (as we conceive) doth imply a ground and ju&s;tification of our demands; for they being in this kingdom, we cannot bring them to Tryal, &s;eeing we cannot pur&s;ue them hither by force, until the Parliament or E&s;tates in this kingdom do deliver them into our hands, which was the &s;um of our Demands; but it is mo&s;t clear without di&s;pute (in one of the la&s;t clau&s;es in the &s;aid Act, That no per&s;ons who &s;hall be cen&s;ured by the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> as the&s;e are) &s;hould have &s;helter or protection in the kingdom of <HI>Scotland;</HI> and if your Lord&s;hips had but proceeded at pre&s;ent to &s;uch a Re&s;olution, it might po&s;&s;ibly have prevented affronts and threatnings to us from &s;ome Engli&s;hmen here, who have been in Arms again&s;t the Parliaments of both kingdoms: However, we do not now intend to trouble your Lord&s;hips with any thing of our own particular concernments, we do further de&s;ire your Lord&s;hips to peru&s;e that clau&s;e in the &s;aid Act, where|in it is provided, That in ca&s;e any of the Subjects of any of the kingdoms &s;hall ri&s;e in Arms or make War again&s;t any other of the kingdoms and Subjects thereof, without con&s;ent of the Par|liament of that kingdom whereof they are Subjects, or upon which they do depend, that they &s;hall be held, reputed and de|mained as Traytors to the E&s;tates whereof they are Subjects; and that both the kingdoms in that ca&s;e be bound to concur in
<PB N="28" REF="14">the repre&s;sing of tho&s;e that &s;hall happen to ari&s;e in Arms, or make War, without con&s;ent of their own Parliament; from whence we do ob&s;erve, That if any of the Subjects of the king|dom of <HI>England</HI> be in Arms without the con&s;ent of the Par|liament of <HI>England,</HI> as Captain <HI>Wogan</HI> and his Troop were in <HI>Cumberland</HI> and other parts of <HI>England,</HI> and Sir <HI>Philip Mu&s;|grave,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Glembam,</HI> and Colonel <HI>George Wray</HI> are, having been Commanders in the War again&s;t the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> and not pardoned by them, although they &s;hould not make War again&s;t any other of the kingdoms or Subjects there|of, yet both kingdoms are bound to repre&s;s them; upon which, and all the above&s;aid grounds, we do in&s;i&s;t upon our former Pa|pers, That the afore&s;aid per&s;ons being now in this kingdom, may (by your Lord&s;hips power and authority) be delivered to us.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;sioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> JOHN SQUIB.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A Paper delivered in to the Parliament of</HI> Scotland, April 29. <HI>Concerning their former demands, and the further demand of Sir</HI> Marmaduke Langdale <HI>and Sir</HI> Lewis Dives.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>April 29. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>WE have by &s;everal Papers (upon grounds of the Trea|ties betwixt the Kingdoms of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI>) demanded Captain <HI>Wogan</HI> and his Troop, Sir <HI>Philip Mu&s;grave,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Glemham,</HI> and Colonel <HI>George Wray,</HI> to be deliver|ed to us, that they might be di&s;po&s;ed of as &s;hould be directed by the Parliament of <HI>England;</HI> and although unto that Paper concerning Colonel <HI>George Wray</HI> (a Papi&s;t in Arms) we have not heard any thing, yet we have received your Lord&s;hips An|&s;wer as to the other two, wherein finding no &s;atisfaction, we did by our Paper of the 19. in&s;tant, in&s;i&s;t upon our former De|mands; yet the &s;aid per&s;ons not being hitherto delivered to us, but rather on the contrary, &s;till injoying freedom and &s;helter in
<PB N="29" REF="14">this Kingdom, and (as we are credibly informed) &s;ome of them have lately had frequent meetings in this City with Sir <HI>Mar|maduke Langdale,</HI> Sir <HI>Lewis Dives,</HI> and other great Engli&s;h De|linquents, which might be much to the prejudice of the Peace and Good of both kingdoms; and the &s;aid Sir <HI>Marmaduke Langdale,</HI> and Sir <HI>Lewis Dives,</HI> being per&s;ons excepted in the Propo&s;itions agreed upon by both kingdoms, and joyntly &s;ent to the King for the &s;etling of a &s;afe and well grounded Peace; We do therefore Demand, That the &s;aid Captain <HI>Wogan</HI> and his Troop, Sir <HI>Philip Mu&s;grave,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Glemham,</HI> and Colo|nel <HI>George Wray,</HI> the &s;aid Sir <HI>Marmaduke Langdale,</HI> and Sir <HI>Lewis Dives,</HI> may (by your Lord&s;hips power and authority) be Apprehended and Delivered to us; which if your Lord&s;hips &s;hall not think fit to do, but that they &s;hall have freedom and &s;helter in this kingdom, The kingdom of <HI>England</HI> and our &s;elves are free from all the evils and ill con&s;equences (that upon their con|trivances and practi&s;es) may ari&s;e or happen to either or both kingdoms.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> JOHN SQUIB.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A Paper delivered in to the Parliament of</HI> Scotland, <HI>May</HI> 2. <HI>concerning the &s;eizing of</HI> Barwick.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>May 2. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ALthough we had Information long &s;ince, That &s;ome De|linquents had a De&s;ign to &s;eize the Town of <HI>Barwick</HI> up|on Tweed; wherefore we gave your Lord&s;hips notice by our Letter of the 14 of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t (at which time we had the like Information concerning the City of <HI>Carli&s;le</HI>) yet the kingdom of <HI>England</HI> and our &s;elves were careful in all things to pre&s;erve the Treaties betwixt both kingdoms, and to avoid every thing that might have the lea&s;t colour of a Breach, or admini&s;ter oc|ca&s;ions of Jealou&s;ies betwixt them: yet ob&s;erving the great flocking together of Engli&s;h Delinquents in this City, We could
<PB N="30" REF="15">not but apprehend, That they had &s;ome de&s;perate De&s;ign again&s;t the Parliament and kingdom of <HI>England:</HI> And now after we have long expected your Lord&s;hips Re&s;olutions upon our &s;everal Demands of &s;ome principal men among&s;t tho&s;e Delinquents, We are informed, That &s;ome of them, with divers other Engli&s;h Delinquents, that went from this City of <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> and forded the River Tweed, did upon Friday la&s;t the 28 of <HI>April,</HI> the &s;ame day return back over the Bridge, and in an Ho&s;tile way &s;eized upon the &s;aid Town of <HI>Barwick,</HI> and keeps it by force, contrary to &s;everal Treaties betwixt both kingdoms; which being &s;o, We do by vertue of the large Treaty Declare to your Lord&s;hips, That all tho&s;e who have &s;eized and taken the &s;aid Town of <HI>Barwick,</HI> or do now hold and keep the &s;ame in a Ho&s;tile way as a Gari|&s;on, To be Enemies and Traytors to the Parliament and king|dom of <HI>England,</HI> and in Arms again&s;t them; And likewi&s;e all Engli&s;h men who &s;hall any ways be ayding, a&s;&s;i&s;ting or abetting to them, or &s;hall furni&s;h them with any Moneys, Hor&s;es, Arms, Ammunition, Corn, or other Victual or provi&s;ions what&s;oever, and to be puni&s;hed accordingly: And do in the Name of Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> demand, That your Lord|&s;hips, in order to the repre&s;&s;ing of them, do Declare them Ene|mies to this kingdom; And likewi&s;e all tho&s;e of the Scoti&s;h Na|tion who &s;hall ayd them with Money, Hor&s;e, Arms, Ammuni|tion, Corn, or any other Victuals or provi&s;ions what&s;oever. And to the end that they may not be &s;tored with provi&s;ions out of this kingdom, We de&s;ire, That publication of &s;uch Declara|tion as your Lord&s;hips &s;hall make in this ca&s;e, may be made forth|with not onely in <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> but in all parts of this kingdom near the &s;aid Town of <HI>Barwick</HI> upon Tweed. And becau&s;e we hear that <HI>Carli&s;le</HI> is &s;eized in like maner, We de&s;ire your Lord|&s;hips Orders and Declarations may extend to both: All which, con&s;idering the many ways whereby the&s;e kingdoms are engaged to one another, and your Lord&s;hips late Declarations of your Re&s;olutions to pre&s;erve the happy Union betwixt them, we can|not doubt but that your Lord&s;hips will do effectually and with &s;peed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> JOHN SQUIB.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="31" REF="15">
<HEAD><HI>A Letter from the Parliament of</HI> Scotland <HI>to the Parlia|ment of</HI> England.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honorable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Parliament of <HI>Scotland</HI> now a&s;&s;embled, being re&s;olved by all fair and ju&s;t means to endeavor the pre&s;erving and enter|taining the Brotherly Union and good corre&s;pondency betwixt the kingdoms; to which by &s;o many bonds and tyes they are mutually obliged: Yet being very &s;en&s;ible that the many ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary De&s;ires given in by their Commi&s;&s;ioners by order from this kingdom, for the good of Religion, of His Maje&s;ty, and for the Intere&s;ts of <HI>Scotland,</HI> have not received a &s;atisfactory An|&s;wer; and con&s;idering the many great and imminent dangers threatning Religion, His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on and Authority, yea, Monarchical Government it &s;elf, and the Peace and Union of the&s;e two kingdoms of <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>England,</HI> by the power and prevalency of Sectaries and their Adherents, Have thought fit to make the&s;e ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary Demands to the Honorable Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> to which the Parliament de&s;ires a clear and &s;atisfactory An&s;wer, not having the lea&s;t thought or intention to encroach upon the National Rights of the king|dom of <HI>England,</HI> nor to intrench upon the Priviledges of Par|liament; But their Zeal to the Glory of God, their Loyalty to their King, and their de&s;ire of Unity betwixt the kingdoms, hath moved them to make the&s;e inclo&s;ed Demands, whereby Religion may be &s;etled according to the Covenant, His Maje&s;ty may enjoy His Freedom and Ju&s;t Rights; And &s;o by &s;etling a Religious and &s;afe Peace, the pre&s;ent Confu&s;ions and Di&s;tempers may be removed, and all occa&s;ions of Mi&s;takes and Differences betwixt the two kingdoms prevented. This is all I have in com|mand from the Parliament; In who&s;e Name this is &s;ub&s;cribed by</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>26 <HI>April,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips affectionate Friend and humble Servant, Loudoun <HI>Canc' Pre&s;ident of the Parliament.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<PB N="32" REF="16">
<HEAD><HI>De&s;ires of the Parliament of</HI> Scotland, <HI>to the Honorable Hou&s;es of the Parliament of</HI> England.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, It is de&s;ired, That an effectual cour&s;e be taken by the Hou&s;es for enjoyning the Covenant to be taken by all the Subjects of the Crown of <HI>England,</HI> conform to the fir&s;t Article of the Treaty, and conform to the Declaration of both king|doms in <HI>Anno</HI> 1643. By which all who would not take the Co|venant, were declared to be publique Enemies to Religion and the Countrey; and that they are to be cen&s;ured and puni&s;hed as profe&s;&s;ed adver&s;aries and Malignants; and that Reformation and Uniformity in Religion be &s;etled according to the Covenant; That as the Hou&s;es of Parliament have agreed to the Directory of Wor&s;hip, &s;o they would take a real cour&s;e for practi&s;ing therof by all the Subjects of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland;</HI> That the Confe&s;&s;ion of Faith tran&s;mited by the A&s;&s;embly of Divines to the Hou&s;es, be approved; And that Presbyterian Government, with a &s;ubordi|nation of the lower A&s;&s;emblies to the higher, be &s;etled and fully e&s;tabli&s;hed in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland;</HI> And that effectual cour&s;e be taken for &s;uppre&s;sing and extirpating all Here&s;ies and Schi&s;ms, particularly, Sociniani&s;m, Arminiani&s;m, Arriani&s;m, Anabapti&s;m, Antinomiani&s;m, Era&s;tiani&s;m, Famili&s;m, Browni&s;m and Inde|pendency; And for perfecting of what is yet further to be done for extirpating of Popery and Prelacy, and &s;uppre&s;&s;ing the pra|ctice of the Service-Book, commonly called, <HI>The Book of Eng|li&s;h Common-Prayer.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, That conform to the former de&s;ires of this King|dom, the Kings Maje&s;ty may come with Honor, Freedom and Safety to &s;ome of His Hou&s;es in or near <HI>London,</HI> That the Par|liaments of both kingdoms may make their Applications to Him, for obtaining His Royal A&s;&s;ent to &s;uch De&s;ires as &s;hall be by them pre&s;ented to Him, for e&s;tabli&s;hing of Religion as is above expre&s;t, and &s;etling a well grounded Peace.</P>
<P>Thirdly, That all the Members of both Hou&s;es, who have been faithful in this cau&s;e, may freely and &s;afely return and attend their charges; The City of <HI>London</HI> may enjoy its Liberty and Priviledges which it had before the late encroachment of the
<PB N="33" REF="16">Army; The Parliament may &s;it and voyce with Freedom and Safety; Both kingdoms without interruption or di&s;turbance, may make their Applications to His Maje&s;ty; And the &s;ettling of Religion and Peace, may not longer be hindred and ob&s;tructed. It is de&s;ired, That the pre&s;ent Army of Sectaries, under the com|mand of <HI>Thomas</HI> Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> of <HI>Camerone,</HI> be disbanded, and none employed but &s;uch as have or &s;hall take the Covenant, and are well-affected to Religion and Government, excepting from the &s;aid disbanding, the Gari&s;ons nece&s;&s;ary to be kept up by the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> for &s;ecurity of that kingdom, which are de&s;ired to be commanded by &s;uch as have or &s;hall take the Co|venant, and are well-affected to Religion and Government as afore&s;aid. <HI>Endenburgh</HI> the 26 day of <HI>April,</HI> in <HI>Anno</HI> 1648.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Loudoun, <HI>Canc' Pre&s;ident of the Parliament.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>A Letter from the Lord Chancellor the</HI> 10 <HI>of May,</HI> 1648.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lords and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe inclo&s;ed contains the Parliaments An&s;wer to your former Papers; and as to that Paper which you &s;ent me ye&s;terday, the An&s;wer will be returned either this night or to morrow: This is all I have in command, and &s;o I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your affectionate Friend and humble Servant, Loudoun, <HI>Canc' Pre&s;ident of the Parliament.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the An&s;wer of the Parliament of</HI> Scotland 2 May, <HI>to the Commi&s;sioners Papers of the</HI> 19 <HI>and</HI> 29 <HI>of</HI> April, 1648. <HI>con|cerning the per&s;ons demanded by the Commi&s;sioners.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>2 of May, 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe E&s;tates of Parliament have con&s;idered the two Papers bearing date the 19. and 29. of <HI>April,</HI> pre&s;ented to them from the Commi&s;sioners of both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> to which they return this An&s;wer, That the per&s;ons re|manded,
<PB N="34" REF="17">not being as they are informed in this Kingdom, they think it not nece&s;&s;ary to in&s;i&s;t upon giving the Rea&s;ons of their former An&s;wer; but if the Commi&s;sioners of both Hou&s;es &s;hall think it fitting, they will appoint a Committee to confer with them anent tho&s;e Articles of the Large Treaty mentioned in your papers, and how far either kingdom &s;tands ingaged there|by, wherein they are confident to give all ju&s;t &s;atisfaction.</P>
<CLOSER><POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Extract. out of the Books of Parliament</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>by me Sir Alexander Gib&s;on <HI>of</HI> Dury <HI>Knight, and Clerk of His Maje&s;ties Regi&s;ters Councel and Rolls, and under my Sign and Sub&s;cription Manual.</HI> Alex. Gib&s;on Cler. Regi&s;t.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT>
<POSTSCRIPT TYPE="endorsement">
<P>Memor. received this the 10. of May, 1648. in a Letter from the Lord Chancellor of the &s;aid 10. of May.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A Paper delivered by the Commi&s;sioners in to the Parliament of</HI> Scotland <HI>the</HI> 9. <HI>of</HI> May, 1648. <HI>pre&s;sing them to declare again&s;t tho&s;e that had &s;eized</HI> Barwick <HI>and</HI> Carli&s;le, <HI>and to prevent their &s;upplies of Arms, Ammuni|tion and Provi&s;ions out of</HI> Scotland.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>May 9. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>BY our Paper of the &s;econd of this Moneth we did Declare, That tho&s;e who had &s;eized the Town of <HI>Barwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed,</HI> and kept it as a Gari&s;on, were Enemies and Traytors to the Parliament and kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> and all others of the Engli&s;h Nation, who were any ways ayding or a&s;si&s;ting to them; and the like for the City of <HI>Carli&s;le:</HI> And fora&s;much as what they have done herein, was again&s;t the Large Treaty and Act of Pacification, pa&s;&s;ed by the King and Parliaments of both kingdoms; and con&s;idering the great mi&s;chief that might follow upon it, if they &s;hould be furni&s;hed with Arms, Ammu|nition and Provi&s;ions out of this kingdom, we did for preven|tion
<PB N="35" REF="17">thereof Demand, That your Lord&s;hips would likewi&s;e &s;peedily Declare again&s;t them, and all of this Nation who &s;hould ayd or a&s;si&s;t them; but we are very &s;orry, in a bu&s;ine&s;s of &s;o great concernment to the peace and good of both king|doms, we &s;hould have cau&s;e to complain (after a weeks ex|pectation) that we have not received any An&s;wer from your Lord&s;hips, e&s;pecially now being informed, that &s;everal loads of Arms, Ammunition and provi&s;ions, have &s;ince the &s;econd of this Moneth been conveyed out of this kingdom into the &s;aid Town of <HI>Barwick,</HI> which we hope was onely done by &s;ome particular Malignants and di&s;-affected per&s;ons of this kingdom, and not by any allowance or connivance from your Lord&s;hips, it being &s;o directly again&s;t not onely the Treaties betwixt both kingdoms, but again&s;t the Solemn League and Covenant, where|in we have &s;worn, not to &s;uffer our &s;elves directly nor indi|rectly, by what&s;oever combination, per&s;wa&s;ion or terror, to be divided or withdrawn from the ble&s;&s;ed Union and Conjunction (of the&s;e kingdoms) either by making defection to the contrary party, or by giving our &s;elves to a dete&s;table indifferency or neu|trality in this cau&s;e; and therefore all tho&s;e who have taken the Covenant, mu&s;t needs ingage God again&s;t them, if they any ways ingaged with, or a&s;si&s;t tho&s;e men in <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> who (as we are informed) have many Papi&s;ts come daily to joyn with them, and them&s;elves are of the Popi&s;h and Prelatical party, who have been in Arms again&s;t both kingdoms, and again&s;t that cau&s;e wherein we have been happily United, and to which God hath given a ble&s;sing of Victory and Succe&s;s; and as we are mo&s;t confident, that not onely the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> but al&s;o all the Religious per&s;ons, and tho&s;e who have been faithful in this cau&s;e in <HI>England,</HI> will &s;till be United again&s;t tho&s;e in <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> and all other our common Ene|mies, &s;o we cannot doubt but that your Lord&s;hips actions and de|terminations will be &s;uch as &s;hall &s;peak you to have the &s;ame affections and re&s;olutions to the pre&s;ervation of the Union be|twixt the&s;e kingdoms, and to the maintenance of this cau&s;e again&s;t the common Enemies of it that ever you had; from which if either kingdom do recede, it can onely be an advantage to
<PB N="36" REF="18">the Rebels of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the Popi&s;h and Prelatical party of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> but mu&s;t be a reproach, lo&s;s and infinite hazard to all the re&s;t, which we are well a&s;&s;ured the kingdom of <HI>England</HI> will no ways be guilty of, and we hope the &s;ame of your Lord&s;hips, that your proceedings will be &s;uch as we &s;hall never hereafter have cau&s;e to remember, How many of our Engli&s;h Delinquents did lately re&s;ort hither; How long they had &s;helter and freedom here; How often we did by Directi|ons, and in the Name of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> Demand &s;ome of the chief of them to be delivered to us, and had them not; How many meetings and con&s;ultations they had in this City; How they went from hence when they did take <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> &s;ome of tho&s;e Soldiers (as we are informed) having for divers weeks before had Free-quarter in this king|dom, and divers of them pay (as them&s;elves affirmed) That tho&s;e who are now chief Commanders in them were here, and demanded by us; And that &s;ince (in the time of the delay of your Lord&s;hips An&s;wer to our la&s;t Paper) they have (as we are credibly informed) been furni&s;hed with Arms, Ammunition and Provi&s;ions out of this kingdom; We do therefore earne&s;t|ly pre&s;s your Lord&s;hips to take our Paper of the &s;econd of this Moneth into con&s;ideration, that &s;o all &s;uch mi&s;chiefs for the future may be prevented (until it plea&s;e God by his ble&s;sing upon the Forces of the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> to give tho&s;e per|&s;ons in <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le</HI> into their hands) and by your Lord&s;hips actions and re&s;olutions tending to Peace and Union of the kingdoms, there may be a further declared and manife&s;t confidence and good under&s;tanding betwixt both kingdoms, which for our parts we &s;hall not only heartily de&s;ire, but earne&s;t|ly and faithfully endeavor.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;sioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> THO: READE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="37" REF="18">
<HEAD><HI>The An&s;wer of the Parliament of</HI> Scotland <HI>the</HI> 10 <HI>of</HI> May, <HI>to the Commi&s;&s;ioners Papers of the</HI> 2 <HI>and</HI> 9 <HI>of</HI> May, <HI>con|cerning</HI> Barwick <HI>and</HI> Carli&s;le, 1648.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>10 Maii, 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVHereas your Lord&s;hips mentioned by your Paper of the 2 of <HI>May</HI> in&s;tant, That you formerly had given us no|tice of a De&s;ign &s;ome Engli&s;h Delinquents had to &s;eize upon the Town of <HI>Barwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed;</HI> by the &s;ame Addre&s;s you in|formed us, that Guards were kept there for preventing any &s;uch De&s;ign; and as to your Demands concerning the Delivery of Captain <HI>Wogan</HI> and his Troop, and Sir <HI>Thomas Glemham,</HI> Sir <HI>Marmaduk Langdale,</HI> Sir <HI>Philip Mu&s;grave,</HI> Colonel <HI>Wray,</HI> and Sir <HI>Lewis Dives,</HI> We gave you &s;uch An&s;wers thereunto as we conceived agreeable to the Treaties, which by our Paper of the 2 of <HI>May</HI> in&s;tant, we offered to a&s;&s;ert by conferrence; And whereas you give us notice that the Towns of <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le</HI> are &s;eized upon, contrary to the &s;everal Treaties betwixt both kingdoms; and by vertue of the large Treaty, your Lord&s;hips in Name of Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> do Declare all tho&s;e who have &s;eized and taken the &s;aid Towns, or do now hold and keep the &s;ame in an Ho&s;tile way as a Gari&s;on, to be Enemies and Traytors to the Parliament and Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> and in Arms again&s;t them; And likewi&s;e all Engli&s;h men, who &s;hall any ways be aiding, a&s;&s;i&s;ting or abetting to them; And do in their name al&s;o Demand, that in order to the repre&s;|&s;ing of them, we &s;hould declare them Enemies to this kingdom, and likewi&s;e any of this kingdom, who &s;hall ayd or a&s;&s;i&s;t them: To this and your Paper of the 9 relating thereto, we return this An&s;wer, That as we have been always mo&s;t careful to pre&s;erve unviolated on our parts all the Articles of the Treaties betwixt the kingdoms, &s;o when we &s;hall be certainly informed by what per&s;ons, and by what power and authority the places are &s;eized upon and Gari&s;oned, your Lord&s;hips may be confident that this kingdom will do thereupon what is ju&s;t and fit, and agreea|ble to their Solemn Covenant and Treaties; and upon this or
<PB N="38" REF="19">any thing el&s;e you have in command from the two Hou&s;es, we are ready to appoint &s;ome to confer with you.</P>
<CLOSER><POSTSCRIPT>
<P>Extracted out of the Books of Parliament</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>by me Sir <HI>Alex: Gib&s;on</HI> of <HI>Dury</HI> Knight, Clerk of His Ma|je&s;ties Regi&s;ters Councels and Rolls, under my Sign and Sub&s;cription Manual. <HI>Alex: Gib&s;on,</HI> Cleric. Regi&s;t.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A Paper delivered in to the Committee of E&s;tates by the Engli&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners, with the Votes of Both Hou&s;es of</HI> May 6. 1648.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>15 Maii, 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVE have often declared to your Lord&s;hips the unfeigned de&s;ires of Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> to continue and pre&s;erve the Union and Brotherly Agreement betwixt them and the Parliament and kingdom of <HI>Scotland;</HI> And now it may appear to your Lord&s;hips and all the World, how really they have endeavored it by their re&s;olutions here inclo&s;ed, which we doubt not will give your Lord&s;hips &s;atisfaction: we are to give an accompt to Both Hou&s;es of Parliament of your Lord&s;hips acceptance of what they herein do offer, which we hope your Lord&s;hips will return to us with all convenient &s;peed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> THO: READE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A Vote</HI> 6 Maii, <HI>concerning the keeping of the Covenant and Trea|ties, and their offer to joyn with the Propo&s;itions pre&s;ent|ed to the King at</HI> Hampton-Court.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATE>6 Maii, 1648.</DATE></OPENER>
<P>THe Lords and Commons do Declare, That they are fully re|&s;olved to mantain and pre&s;erve inviolably the Solemn
<PB N="39" REF="19">League and Covenant, and the Treaties betwixt the Kingdoms of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> and that they &s;hall be ready to joyn with the kingdom of <HI>Scotland;</HI> in the Propo&s;itions agreed on by both kingdoms, pre&s;ented to the King at Hampton-Court, for the making &s;uch further proceedings thereupon, as &s;hall be thought fit for the &s;peedy &s;ettlement of the Peace of both king|doms, and pre&s;ervation of the Union according to the Cove|nant and Treaties.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>The An&s;wer of the Commi&s;sioners of both Hou&s;es of the Par|liament of</HI> England, <HI>unto the &s;everal Papers of the</HI> 2. <HI>and</HI> 10. <HI>of</HI> May <HI>in&s;tant, &s;ent to them from the Honorable Parliament of</HI> Scotland.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>18 of May, 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>BY your Lord&s;hips Papers of the 2. of <HI>May</HI> in&s;tant, in An|&s;wer to ours of the 19. and 29. of <HI>April</HI> (which yet we did not receive till the 10.) you are plea&s;ed to inform us, That the per&s;ons remanded are not within this kingdom, and therefore you think it not nece&s;&s;ary to in&s;i&s;t upon giving the Rea&s;ons of your Lord&s;hips former An&s;wer, but offer us a conference about it; to which we mu&s;t Reply, That by the &s;ame Rea&s;on, it is not nece&s;&s;ary to have any conference upon it; and however, we &s;hall not wave a conference concerning the afore&s;aid Papers, if your Lord&s;hips &s;hall de&s;ire it, yet we wi&s;h it had been offered to us before tho&s;e Gentlemen took their journey from hence, &s;o much to the prejudice of the kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> when (as we &s;hould not have doubted to clear the ju&s;tice of our Demands, &s;o) we might have had hope to reap the fruit of it in having tho&s;e per&s;ons delivered to us, which might have prevented much mi&s;|chief that hath and may happen to both kingdoms.</P>
<P>For your Lord&s;hips Paper of the 10. of <HI>May</HI> in&s;tant, in An|&s;wer to ours of the 2. and 9. of <HI>May,</HI> as to that part wherein your Lord&s;hips are plea&s;ed to &s;ay, That we had in a former Addre&s;s to you, informed your Lord&s;hips, that Guards were kept in <HI>Barwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed;</HI> we affirm, if your Lord&s;hips &s;hall plea&s;e to peru&s;e that Letter, it will appear, that we did not inform
<PB N="40" REF="20">your Lord&s;hips that any Guards were there, but onely a Watch of Town&s;men (which by the Laws of the kingdom of <HI>England</HI> every Town may keep) the &s;cope of our Letter being onely to a&s;&s;ure your Lord&s;hips, that there were no Guards or &s;hew of Ho&s;tility or Gari&s;on there; it being the re&s;olution of the Par|liament of <HI>England,</HI> and of us intru&s;ted by them, not onely to keep the Treaties betwixt the kingdoms inviolable, but to avoid every thing that might have the lea&s;t appearance of a breach; and therefore although at that time the Major and Officers of <HI>Barwick</HI> did give charge to the Watch, That during the time of the then intended Hor&s;e-race, no man that had been in Arms again&s;t the Parliament, &s;hould come into the Town, yet becau&s;e we heard that &s;ome Members of the Parliament here were un&s;atisfied with it, to avoid offence, the &s;aid Watch was laid down; this being the truth, whatever we may &s;uffer at pre&s;ent by the &s;urprizing and holding of <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> yet our hone&s;t and &s;incere intentions herein, we are a&s;&s;ured is acceptable to God and all good men; and we are confident will (by Gods ble&s;sing in the i&s;&s;ue) be of more advantage, then if we had underhand privately carried on unworthy and unrigh|teous de&s;igns again&s;t our Agreement with this kingdom, to get them taken and held without your Lord&s;hips con&s;ent, although it had been to no other end, but to pre&s;erve them from tho&s;e who have been in Arms again&s;t us, and who as they have hither|to been, &s;o will again be found to be, the real Enemies of both kingdoms.</P>
<P>As to that part of the An&s;wer your Lord&s;hips are plea&s;ed to give us, That when you &s;hall be certainly informed, by what per&s;ons, and by what power and authority the&s;e places are &s;eized upon and Gari&s;oned, we may be confident, that this kingdom will do thereupon what is ju&s;t and fit, and agreeable to the So|lemn Covenant and Treaties; and upon this or any other thing el&s;e we have in command from the two Hou&s;es, your Lord&s;hips are ready to appoint &s;ome to confer with us.</P>
<P>We mu&s;t confe&s;s this An&s;wer &s;eemed very &s;trange to us, when our Papers to which your Lord&s;hips did relate, a&s;&s;ured your Lord|&s;hips, that they were &s;uch per&s;ons as were Enemies to the Par|liament
<PB N="41" REF="20">and kingdom of <HI>England;</HI> and the&s;e being Engli&s;h Towns, if we had &s;aid no more, con&s;idering the tyes that are be|twixt the&s;e kingdoms (although there had been no Treaties be|twixt us concerning the&s;e Towns) yet we conceive had been &s;ufficient grounds in our &s;aid Papers of the 2. and 9. of <HI>May</HI> for our Demands; but we did more particularly tell your Lord|&s;hips, that they were &s;uch as went from this City (of <HI>Eden|burgh)</HI> to take and &s;eize them, and &s;ome of tho&s;e whom we had in the Name of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> demanded of your Lord&s;hips while&s;t they were here: and although we cannot imagine but the particular names of tho&s;e per&s;ons are much bet|ter known to many in this City then to us, &s;eeing tho&s;e in <HI>Car|li&s;le</HI> and <HI>Barwick</HI> have frequent and free recour&s;e hither, even the Commanders in the&s;e Towns; yet we &s;hall more particularly acquaint your Lord&s;hips (as we are credibly informd) that of tho&s;e we have demanded, Sir <HI>Marmaduke Langdale</HI> did &s;eize <HI>Barwick,</HI> and commands the Forces there and thereabouts in chief, and that with him there is Colonel <HI>George Wray,</HI> and many &s;uch like, that have been Papi&s;ts in Arms; and that Sir <HI>Philip Mu&s;grave</HI> hath taken and holds <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> and that with him is Captain <HI>Wogan</HI> and his Troop, which as to the per&s;ons, we hope, will give your Lord&s;hips &s;atisfaction; however we conceive it was altogether unnece&s;&s;ary, further then to An&s;wer your Lord&s;hips Quere in our Papers; for if the&s;e Towns be taken, &s;eized and held (as they are) contrary to the Treaties, it is a breach in any whom&s;oever.</P>
<P>For your Lord&s;hips de&s;ire to know by what power and au|thority the&s;e places are &s;eized upon and Gari&s;oned; although we cannot An&s;wer it in the Affirmitive, yet we may &s;atisfie your Lord&s;hips in the Negative, That no power on earth without the con&s;ent of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> can give a lawful War|rant to take or hold tho&s;e Towns of <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> they being to remain di&s;gari&s;oned by Act of Parliament, whereof we need not to give further a&s;&s;urance to your Lord&s;hips, the &s;ame Act being likewi&s;e pa&s;&s;ed in this kingdom: For the conference upon this bu&s;ine&s;s offered by your Lord&s;hips, although we con|ceive nothing can be objected again&s;t the&s;e clear matters of fact,
<PB N="42" REF="21">yet we &s;hould willingly accept of it, but that it mu&s;t make a delay, which we have no rea&s;on to occa&s;ion on our part, when to the &s;tores of Arms and Ammunitions which are already brought to <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> mentioned in our former Papers (although not taken notice of by your Lord&s;hips in your An&s;wer) we are credibly informed, that &s;everal pieces of Ordnance are now go|ing out of this kingdom to <HI>Barwick;</HI> which if your Lord&s;hips do not allow (as we are confident you will not) we hope you will not onely u&s;e means to prevent, but now without further delay, make &s;uch Declaration again&s;t tho&s;e that now hold the &s;aid Towns of <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> and their adherents, as will make it appear to the world, that your Lord&s;hips are re|&s;olved to keep inviolable the Solemn Covenant and Treaties be|twixt the kingdoms of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> THO: READE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A Paper delivered by the Commi&s;&s;ioners to the Committee of E&s;tates the Twenty fifth of</HI> May, 1648. <HI>In pur&s;uance of theirs of the</HI> 15. <HI>&s;ent with the Votes of Both Hou&s;es.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>25 Maii, 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>BY our Paper dated the fifteenth of this in&s;tant <HI>May,</HI> We did communicate to your Lord&s;hips a Vote of the Parlia|ment of <HI>England,</HI> declaring their readine&s;s to joyn with the kingdom of <HI>Scotland</HI> in the Propo&s;itions agreed on by both king|doms, pre&s;ented to the King at Hampton-Court, and the making &s;uch further proceedings thereupon as &s;hould be thought fit for the &s;peedy &s;ettlement of the Peace of both kingdoms, and pre|&s;ervation of the Union according to the Covenant and Treaties; whereunto pre&s;uming of your Lord&s;hips Re&s;olutions to pur&s;ue the &s;ame ends, we expected a &s;peedy An&s;wer; but having not as yet received any, we mu&s;t pre&s;s your Lord&s;hips for a return to
<PB N="43" REF="21">that Paper, and the Vote therewith &s;ent to your Lord&s;hips, which &s;o much conduceth to the happine&s;s of both kingdoms.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> THO: READE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>To the Right Honorable the Lord</HI> Loudoun, <HI>Lord Chancellor of</HI> Scotland, <HI>and Pre&s;ident of the Parliament of</HI> Scotland.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>VVE are commanded by Both Hou&s;es of Parliament to acquaint your Lord&s;hip, That they received a Let|ter of the 26. of <HI>April</HI> la&s;t, &s;igned by your Lord&s;hip in the Name of the Parliament of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> together with a Paper of De&s;ires enclo&s;ed, and that &s;uch Re&s;olutions as &s;hall be taken thereupon, &s;hall be &s;ignified to the Parliament of <HI>Scotland,</HI> by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of this Kingdom re&s;ident there: Thus much we de&s;ire your Lord&s;hip to communicate to the Parlia|ment of <HI>Scotland,</HI> which being all we have in command, we remain,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE>15 <HI>Maii,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips humble Servants, <HI>Signed by the Speakers of Both Hou&s;es.</HI></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>After that the Letter of Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of</HI> Eng|land <HI>to the Lord Chancellor of</HI> Scotland, <HI>concerning their De&s;ires of the</HI> 26. <HI>of</HI> April, <HI>was received by the Committee of E&s;tates then &s;itting; The Lord</HI> Crawford <HI>and</HI> Lind&s;ey, <HI>Lord Trea&s;urer of</HI> Scotland, <HI>in the name of that Committee did write a Letter to the Engli&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners, a Copy thereof is wanting; but it was to this purpo&s;e, That the Committee of E&s;tates de&s;ired to know whether the Parliament of</HI> England <HI>had &s;ent unto them an An&s;wer of their De&s;ires of the</HI> 26. <HI>of</HI> April, <HI>whereunto the Engli&s;h Com|mi&s;&s;ioners returned the en&s;uing An&s;wer.</HI></P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="44" REF="22">
<HEAD><HI>A Letter to the Lord Trea&s;urer of</HI> Scotland, 23 <HI>Maii,</HI> 1648.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOur Lord&s;hips Letter of <HI>May</HI> 23. we received this day; in An&s;wer whereunto we de&s;ire your Lord&s;hip to acquaint the Right Honorable the Committee of E&s;tates, that we have not yet heard from the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> this week, but we are in daily expectation to hear from them, concerning the contents of your Lord&s;hips Letter, which &s;hall be without delay &s;ignified to your Lord&s;hip, as &s;oon as it comes to our hands, by, My Lord,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips humble Servants, <LIST>
<ITEM><HI>C. Notingham.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bryan Stapilton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William A&s;hhur&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rob: Goodwyn.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Birch.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of a Letter to the Lord Chancellor of</HI> Scotland, 1 Junii, 1648.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IF the Committee of E&s;tates had &s;itten &s;ince Saturday la&s;t, We had given them the inclo&s;ed Papers, which we now intreat your Lord&s;hip to communicate to the Parliament of <HI>Scotland,</HI> from, My Lord,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips humble Servants, <LIST>
<ITEM><HI>C: Notingham.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bryan Stapilton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will: A&s;hhur&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rob: Goodwyn.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Birch.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the Commi&s;&s;ioners Paper, concerning the De&s;ires of the Parliament of</HI> Scotland, <HI>of the</HI> 26 <HI>of</HI> April, 1648.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>June 1. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVE are commanded by Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> in pur&s;uance of their Letter to the Lord Chancellor of <HI>Scotland,</HI> dated the 15 of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t, to acquaint your Lord&s;hips, that before they received your Lord&s;hips Paper
<PB N="45" REF="22">of De&s;ires of the 26 of <HI>April</HI> la&s;t, Both Hou&s;es were in Debate and Con&s;ideration of the be&s;t ways and means for the &s;etling of a well grounded Peace, and pre&s;ervation of a good corre|&s;pondency and brotherly Agreement and Union betwixt the kingdoms; And as the mo&s;t effectual way thereunto, Both Hou&s;es did pa&s;s the inclo&s;ed Vote, which we &s;ent to the Hono|rable Committee of E&s;tates, with a Paper of the 15 of <HI>May,</HI> de&s;iring their Lord&s;hips Re&s;olutions thereupon, and &s;econded that Paper by another to them of the 25 of the &s;ame moneth, to which we have received no an&s;wer. We are commanded to a&s;&s;ure your Lord&s;hips, that the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> do make a real offer to joyn with your Lord&s;hips, in the Propo&s;itions a|greed upon by both kingdoms, pre&s;ented to the King at <HI>Ham|pton-Court,</HI> for the making &s;uch further proceedings thereupon as &s;hall be thought fit, for the &s;peedy &s;ettlement of a Peace of both kingdoms, and pre&s;ervation of the Union according to the Covenant and Treaties. And we are further commanded to a&s;&s;ure your Lord&s;hips, that when the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> &s;hall receive the an&s;wer of the Parliament of <HI>Scotland,</HI> con|cerning their Conjunction in the &s;aid Propo&s;itions, The Parlia|ment of <HI>England</HI> will be then ready to give your Lord&s;hips &s;ati&s;|faction in tho&s;e things which &s;hall be judged nece&s;&s;ary for the Peace of both kingdoms, and which &s;hall not intrench upon the particular intere&s;t of the kingdom, and priviledges of the Par|liament of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;sioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> EDVVARD FOX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the Paper concerning the Forces marching into the North, of the</HI> 1 <HI>of</HI> June, 1648.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>June 1. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVE have in command from the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> to give notice to your Lord&s;hips, That the Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI>
<PB N="46" REF="23">hath command from the Hou&s;es to march with Forces into the Northern counties of the kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> for the &s;uppre&s;|&s;ing of tho&s;e who are now in Arms again&s;t that kingdom, and for the removing of them (according to the Treaties) who have po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le</HI> contrary thereunto: And we are further commanded to a&s;&s;ure your Lord&s;hips (and as we have power and authority from Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> we do hereby engage the Faith of the Kingdom of <HI>England</HI>) That the employing or &s;ending of the&s;e or any other Forces to the more remote Northern parts of the kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> is not with the lea&s;t intention of any offence or preju|dice to the kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> or in the lea&s;t maner to di&s;turb the peace or quiet of that kingdom, but for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of the &s;aid Traytors and Rebels now in Arms again&s;t the Hou&s;es, and the keeping of the Northern counties in obedience to the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> and protection of &s;uch as have been faithful to the Cau&s;e which Both kingdoms have been and are engaged in.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> EDWARD FOX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of a Paper delivered by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the</HI> 6 <HI>of</HI> June, 1648. <HI>pre&s;&s;ing the Parliament of</HI> Scotland <HI>to declare again&s;t them in</HI> Barwick <HI>and</HI> Carli&s;le, <HI>and again&s;t their Supplies out of</HI> Scotland.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>6 June, 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>BY our &s;everal Papers of the 2. the 9. and the 18 of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t, We have in the Name of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> (upon grounds of Treaties and Acts of Parliament pa&s;&s;ed Both king|doms) demanded, That your Lord&s;hips would declare again&s;t tho&s;e who had (contrary thereunto) &s;eized and do hold the Town of <HI>Barwick</HI> upon Tweed, and city of <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> and again&s;t all &s;uch of this Nation as &s;hould ayd or a&s;&s;i&s;t them; but we are
<PB N="47" REF="23">(and the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> have ju&s;t cau&s;e to be) very &s;en|&s;ible, That notwith&s;tanding we did according to our duties timely and frequently repre&s;ent to your Lord&s;hips what mi&s;chiefs have and were like to happen, if they were not &s;peedily declared again&s;t by your Lord&s;hips; yet tho&s;e in the afore&s;aid Towns, who have been and are profe&s;&s;ed Enemies to both Kingdoms, and for &s;ome years pa&s;t have &s;till been fighting again&s;t the cau&s;e of God, Religion and the Covenant (which your Lord&s;hips profe&s;s to maintain) have gotten &s;o much encouragement, and &s;o many ad|vantages by your Lord&s;hips delaying hitherto to declare again&s;t them: And now being further credibly informed, That many loads of Provi&s;ion, Arms and Ammunition have lately gone from this City of <HI>Edenburgh</HI> to the &s;aid Town of <HI>Barwick,</HI> and that the people of this Kingdom have free recour&s;e to <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> and many have there taken up Arms with them, notwith&s;tanding it be well known, that there be very many Pa|pi&s;ts among&s;t them, and that &s;ome chief men (who impo&s;e great &s;ums of money upon the well-affected, both in tho&s;e Towns and Countreys thereabouts) and &s;ome chief Officers both in tho&s;e Gari&s;ons and their other Forces, are notorious Papi&s;ts, who ought to be &s;o far from being connived at, that (by the Agree|ment of both Kingdoms in their Propo&s;itions pre&s;ented to the King) they were to be excepted from pardon.</P>
<P>We do therefore once more earne&s;tly pre&s;s your Lord&s;hips, that you would take this bu&s;ine&s;s into your &s;erious con&s;ide|ration, when we &s;hall not doubt but that your Lord&s;hips Re&s;olutions therein, will An&s;wer our De&s;ires and Expectations.</P>
<P>We do further acquaint your Lord&s;hips, that we are credibly informed, That &s;ome Troops lately rai&s;ed by your Lord&s;hips Au|thority, went Armed in an Ho&s;tile way into the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> and did Quarter there, to the great encouragement of tho&s;e who are Enemies to the Peace of both Kingdoms, which as we hope it was done without your Lord&s;hips knowledge, &s;o we doubt not but that your Lord&s;hips will declare again&s;t it, and will take effectual cour&s;e that &s;uch things may not happen, to make breaches and interrupt the Peace of both Kingdoms: We do likewi&s;e further De&s;ire, That (with all convenient &s;peed) we
<PB N="48" REF="24">may receive your Lord&s;hips Re&s;olutions concerning the offer made to your Lord&s;hips by Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> repre&s;ented to the honorable the Committee of E&s;tates in our Papers of the 15. and 25. of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t, and to your Lord|&s;hips in our Paper of the fir&s;t of this pre&s;ent <HI>June,</HI> that &s;o we may give an account thereof to the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> who do daily expect it from us.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England.</HI> EDVVARD FOX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>The An&s;wers of the Parliament of</HI> Scotland <HI>to the Papers after mentioned, pre&s;ented to them from the Engli&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>Septimo Junii, 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe E&s;tates of Parliament have received your Lord&s;hips Papers of the fir&s;t of this in&s;tant <HI>June,</HI> with the Votes of the Hono|rable Hou&s;es of the 6. of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t, to which they can return no An&s;wer, until ju&s;t &s;atisfact on be given to their nece&s;&s;ary De&s;ires of the 26. of <HI>April.</HI></P>
<P>By your other Paper of the &s;ame date, your Lord&s;hips gave no|tice of the Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> his march unto the Northern counties, by command from the Honorable Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> with this a&s;&s;urance, That it is not with the lea&s;t intenti|on of any offence or prejudice to the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland:</HI> And as you therein expre&s;s the re&s;pect of the two Hou&s;es to this Kingdom, &s;o the Parliament do a&s;&s;ure your Lord&s;hips, That their Re&s;olutions of rai&s;ing new Forces within this Kingdom for their own &s;ecurities, and for ob&s;erving their pious and loyal De&s;ires, are without the lea&s;t intention to interrupt the Union betwixt the Kingdoms of <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>England,</HI> or violate in the lea&s;t maner any of the Articles of the Solemn League and Covenant, by which they are &s;o &s;trictly united under his Maje&s;ties government.</P>
<CLOSER><POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Extract. forth of the Records of Parliament</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>by me Sir Alex. Gib&s;on <HI>of</HI> Dury <HI>Knight, Clerk of His Maje&s;ties Regi|&s;ters Councels and Rolls, under my Sign and Sub&s;ription Manual.</HI> Alex. Gib&s;on, Cleric. Regi&s;t.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="49" REF="24">
<HEAD><HI>The Reply of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of</HI> England, <HI>to the An&s;wer of the Parliament of</HI> Scotland, 7 <HI>Junii,</HI> 1648.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>9 Junii, 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVE the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> have this day received your Lord&s;hips An&s;wer of the 7 of <HI>June,</HI> to our Papers of <HI>June</HI> the fir&s;t; And as to that &s;ent with the Votes of Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of the 6 of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t, your Lord&s;hips were plea&s;ed to tell us, That you can re|turn no An&s;wer until ju&s;t &s;atisfaction be given to your nece&s;&s;ary De&s;ires of the 26 of <HI>April;</HI> whereunto we mu&s;t Reply, That when it is con&s;idered how we did in the Moneth of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, in the Name of Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> demand of your Lord&s;hips &s;ome Engli&s;h Delinquents and In|cendiaries that were then (and for a long time after) in this City of <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> to be delivered to the di&s;po&s;al of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> according to the Treaties and Acts of Parliament pa&s;&s;ed both Kingdoms, and how often we pre&s;&s;ed and renewed tho&s;e Demands, and yet your Lord&s;hips did not think fit to deliver them, but &s;uffer them to return to <HI>England</HI> in Arms, where they are Wa&s;ting and De&s;troying tho&s;e in the Northern Counties of that Kingdom, who have been faithful in the Covenant and Cau&s;e wherein both Kingdoms are engaged. And when it is like|wi&s;e con&s;idered, that the Town of <HI>Barwick</HI> was taken before your Lord&s;hips De&s;ires of the 26 of <HI>April</HI> went out of this City; And that we did upon the 2 of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t, (which was be|fore your Lord&s;hips &s;aid De&s;ires came to the Parliament of <HI>Eng|land</HI>) Demand that your Lord&s;hips would Declare again&s;t tho&s;e (Delinquents and Papi&s;ts) that had taken and held the &s;aid Town contrary to the Treaties betwixt the Kingdoms, and have &s;ince very often by &s;everal Papers pre&s;&s;ed that Demand (and the like for <HI>Carli&s;le</HI>) and yet got no &s;atisfactory An&s;wer; The&s;e De|mands and De&s;ires of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> to your Lord|&s;hips, being fir&s;t in time, and upon mo&s;t ju&s;t and clear grounds of Treaties and Acts of Parliament in both Kingdoms, and the de|laying of them being &s;o prejudicial to the Kingdom of <HI>England:</HI> when the&s;e things (we &s;ay) are well and indifferently weighed
<PB N="50" REF="25">and con&s;idered, we doubt not but it will appear to your Lord|&s;hips, that the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> had more cau&s;e then your Lord&s;hips, to have made &s;uch a return that they could give no An&s;wer to your Lord&s;hips &s;aid De&s;ires of the 26 of <HI>April,</HI> until ju&s;t &s;atisfaction had been given to their afore&s;aid Demands and De&s;ires made by us to your Lord&s;hips; e&s;pecially con&s;idering, That neither in the paper of your Lord&s;hips &s;aid De&s;ires, nor in the Letter &s;ent with them from the Lord Chancellor, nor any other way &s;ince, do your Lord&s;hips oblige your &s;elves to any thing, or make any offer to the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> (though they had granted all your Lord&s;hips De&s;ires) which might be a ground of further mutual confidence betwixt the kingdoms; but on the contrary (what&s;oever an&s;wer they &s;hould give) your Lord|&s;hips have ever &s;ince you &s;ent your De&s;ires &amp; before) been pur&s;u|ing your re&s;olutions to rai&s;e a new Army, which (as it is generally reported and believed) is to invade the kingdom of <HI>England</HI> (to which the expre&s;&s;ions in your Lord&s;hips An&s;wer gives too great grounds of jealou&s;ie, which we &s;hal afterwards mention in its pro|per place) yet the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> who are exceeding de&s;i|rous to continue and pre&s;erve the brotherly Agreement and hap|py Union betwixt the&s;e Kingdoms, and to u&s;e all good means to that end, have notwith&s;tanding made the fir&s;t offer to your Lord|&s;hips (which is) to joyn with your Lord&s;hips in the Propo&s;itions, pre&s;ented to the King at Hampton-Court, and for the making &s;uch further Proceedings thereupon, as &s;hall be thought fit for the &s;peedy &s;ettlement of the Peace of both Kingdoms, and pre&s;er|vation of the Union according to the Covenant and Treaties. And further, that upon their Receipt of your Lord&s;hips re&s;olu|tions, therein they will be ready to give your Lord&s;hips &s;atisfa|ction in tho&s;e things which &s;hall not intrench upon the particular Intere&s;t of the Kingdom, and priviledges of the Parliament of <HI>England:</HI> Wherein the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> a&s;&s;ert the Cau&s;e both Kingdoms have been ingaged in by Covenant and by Arms, and the Terms wherein they have both agreed, and onely de&s;ire that your Lord&s;hips would do the like, which is a thing &s;o Pious, Ju&s;t and Honorable, that we could do no le&s;s then offer it again to your Lord&s;hips &s;erious con&s;ideration, and &s;hall not
<PB N="51" REF="25">doubt of your Lord&s;hips Concurrence with the Parliament of <HI>ENGLAND,</HI> &s;eeing tho&s;e PROPOSITIONS wherein they offer to joyn with your Lord&s;hips do contain full &s;ecurity for Religion, For the Kings Maje&s;ty, For the Covenant, For the Treaties, And all other things which in the Judgements of Both Parliaments was nece&s;&s;ary for the &s;etling of a &s;afe and well-grounded Peace in both Kingdoms, and pre&s;ervation of the Union; Therefore we hope your Lord&s;hips will judge that it re|ally an&s;wers your Lord&s;hips De&s;ires: However, We &s;hall with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed &s;end your Lord&s;hips An&s;wer to the Parliament of <HI>England.</HI> As to the other part of your Lord&s;hips An&s;wer to our Paper, wherein we by the command of Both Hou&s;es have engaged the Faith of the kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> that their For|ces &s;hall do no prejudice nor di&s;turb the Peace or quiet of the kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> we might ju&s;tly have expected an an|&s;werable Engagement from your Lord&s;hips for the Armies and Forces of this kingdom, that they &s;hould do no prejudice, or di&s;turb the Peace and quiet of the kingdom of <HI>England;</HI> but it appears far otherwi&s;e (to our pre&s;ent apprehen&s;ion) for although your Lord&s;hips do expre&s;s that you will not interrupt the Union betwixt the kingdoms, nor violate any of the Arti|cles of the Solemn League and Covenant (wherein we mo&s;t willingly and heartily joyn with your Lord&s;hips) yet your Lord|&s;hips having &s;aid in the beginning of your Lord&s;hips Paper, That you could return no An&s;wer to ours of the fir&s;t of <HI>June,</HI> until ju&s;t &s;atisfaction were given to your nece&s;&s;ary De&s;ires of the 26 of <HI>April,</HI> (which your Lord&s;hips &s;ent to the Parliament of <HI>England</HI>) and there being no mention by your Lord&s;hips of De|&s;ires to any other kingdom or per&s;on what&s;oever, and your Lord&s;hips affirming that you rai&s;e new Forces for your own &s;e|curities, and for obtaining your Pious and Loyal De&s;ires: which, &s;hould they relate to your Lord&s;hips De&s;ires before ex|pre&s;&s;ed, &s;ent to the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> then the words might &s;eem to imply, that you rai&s;ed your Forces again&s;t them; where|in becau&s;e your Lord&s;hips expre&s;&s;ion is &s;omething doubtful, and may rai&s;e Jealou&s;ies betwixt the Kingdoms: however, we know your Lord&s;hips cannot intend any &s;uch thing, being in &s;o &s;trict a Union with them, and it being agreed by the large
<PB N="52" REF="26">Treaty (confirmed by Act of Parliament in both kingdoms) that neither &s;hall denounce War, but three moneths warning is fir&s;t to be given; yet for the avoiding of all mi&s;takes and mi&s;|apprehen&s;ions that may ari&s;e, we likewi&s;e De&s;ire, that your Lord&s;hips would make a more full and clear Declaration in that point, which may give the Parliament and Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> a&s;&s;urance, that the Forces and Kingdom of <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;hall do nothing to the prejudice, or to the di&s;turbance of the Peace and quiet of the kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> and that your Lord&s;hips would give us an An&s;wer to our Paper of the &s;ixth of this pre&s;ent <HI>June,</HI> concerning your Lord&s;hips Declaring again&s;t tho&s;e in <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> and their adherents in this king|dom, whereunto your Lord&s;hips are not plea&s;ed to &s;ay any thing in the An&s;wer we have now received.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> EDVVARD FOX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the Paper &s;ent to the Committee of E&s;tates,</HI> 17 Junii, 1648. <HI>concerning their declaring again&s;t tho&s;e in</HI> Barwick <HI>and</HI> Carli&s;le, <HI>and that the Scoti&s;h Forces &s;hall not be employed to the prejudice of</HI> England.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edenburgh, <DATE>17 Junii, 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVE the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> have long waited for a &s;atisfactory An&s;wer to our many Pa|pers given to your Lord&s;hips, and the Honorable the Parliament of <HI>Scotland,</HI> concerning our Demand, That your Lord&s;hips would declare again&s;t tho&s;e Delinquents, Papi&s;ts, &amp; Enemies to the king|dom and Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> who contrary to the Treaties betwixt both kingdoms, have &s;eized and do hold the Towns of <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> and tho&s;e of this kingdom who a&s;&s;i&s;t them or adhere to them: We have from time to time made known to your Lord&s;hips, what credible informations we have received of &s;everal &s;tores of Arms, Ammunition and Provi&s;ions that have
<PB N="53" REF="26">gone to them out of this kingdom, which we might ju&s;tly ex|pect your Lord&s;hips would not have &s;uffered (con&s;idering the &s;trict Union that is betwixt <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI>) although there had been no particular agreements concerning the afore&s;aid Towns: But &s;eeing the Commanders in tho&s;e Towns have &s;till free recour&s;e to this City, and they are not onely &s;upplyed, but much incouraged by the delay of your Lord&s;hips Re&s;olutions, which being &s;o much to the prejudice of the Kingdom of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and the bu&s;ine&s;s of &s;o great importance to the Peace of both kingdoms, We &s;hould much fail in the di&s;charge of our Duties, if we cea&s;e not earne&s;tly to pre&s;s your Lord&s;hips (which hereby we do) for your An&s;wer to our &s;everal Papers concern|ing <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le.</HI></P>
<P>We do likewi&s;e further De&s;ire, That as we (by the com|mand of Both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of of <HI>England</HI>) have engaged the Faith of that kingdom, That their Armies and Forces &s;hall not do any thing to the prejudice of the kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> or di&s;turb the peace and quiet thereof; &s;o your Lord&s;hips would make the like Ingagement, That the Armies and Forces of this kingdom, &s;hall not do any thing to the pre|judice or di&s;turbance of the peace and quiet of the kingdom of <HI>England;</HI> which if your Lord&s;hips &s;hal deny or delay, con&s;idering how ambiguous your Lord&s;hips expre&s;&s;ions were upon this bu&s;i|ne&s;s, in the Paper of the Parliament of <HI>Scotland</HI> of the 7 of <HI>June</HI> in&s;tant, it mu&s;t needs increa&s;e the fears and jealou&s;ies of all hone&s;t men in both kingdoms, who wi&s;h and hold them&s;elves obliged to endeavor the continuing and pre&s;erving the happy Union betwixt them.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> EDVVARD FOX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<PB N="54" REF="27">
<HEAD><HI>A copy of the Paper &s;ent to the Committee of E&s;tates,</HI> 22 <HI>Junii,</HI> 1648. With the Three Propo&s;itions to be &s;ent to the King.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<P>BOth Hou&s;es of the Paliament of <HI>England</HI> have command|ed us to communicate to your Lord&s;hips their Re&s;olutions inclo&s;ed, concerning the Propo&s;itions to be &s;ent to His Maje&s;ty; and we have further in charge to de&s;ire your Lord&s;hips to pre|pare &s;uch Propo&s;itions as you &s;hall judge fit and nece&s;&s;ary for the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> that they may be &s;ent to His Maje&s;ty with all convenient &s;peed: We hope your Lord&s;hips will take this and our former Papers (to which we have yet received no An&s;wer) into your &s;peedy con&s;ideration, we being confident your Lord|&s;hips will finde the offers and proceedings of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> &s;o rea&s;onable and &s;o ju&s;t, according to former Agree|ments betwixt both kingdoms, and the Grounds whereupon both Kingdoms were engaged in this Cau&s;e; that we &s;hall &s;peedi|ly be inabled by your Lord&s;hips An&s;wer, to give &s;uch an account to Both Hou&s;es, as may be a ground of further mutual confi|dence betwixt both kingdoms; and may di&s;appoint the hopes and expectations of the Papi&s;ts and Malignants, who endeavor to break that Conjunction, wherein both kingdoms (by the ble&s;|&s;ing of God) are &s;o hapily United, and all of us have entred in|to a Solemn Covenant to God, and one to another to maintain.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> EDVVARD FOX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>III. PROPOSITIONS.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATE>30 <HI>Maii,</HI> 1648.</DATE></OPENER>
<P N="1">1. VVHereas both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> have been nece&s;&s;itated to undertake a War in their ju&s;t and lawful defence, and afterwards both kingdoms of <HI>Eng|land</HI>
<PB N="55" REF="27">and <HI>Scotland</HI> joyned in Solemn League and Covenant, were engaged to pro&s;ecute the &s;ame.</P>
<P>That by Act of Parliament in each kingdom re&s;pectively, all Oathes, Declarations and Proclamations, heretofore had, or hereafter to be had, again&s;t both or either of the Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> the Parliament of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and the late Covention of E&s;tates in <HI>Scotland,</HI> or Committees flowing from the Parliament or Convention in <HI>Scotland,</HI> or their Ordinances and proceedings; or again&s;t any for adhering unto them, or for doing or executing any Office, place or charge by any Authority derived from them: And all Judgements, Indictments, Outlawries, Attainders and Inqui&s;i|tions in any the &s;aid Cau&s;es; and all Grants thereupon made or had, or to be made or had, be declared Null, &s;uppre&s;&s;ed and for|bidden; and that this be publiquely declared in all pari&s;h Churches within His Maje&s;ties Dominions, and all other places needful.</P>
<P N="2">2. Whereas both Kingdoms are mutually obliged by the &s;ame Covenant, to bring the Churches of God in the three Kingdoms to the neare&s;t conjunction and Uniformity in Doctrine, Wor|&s;hip, Di&s;cipline and Government, according to the Word of God, and the Example of the be&s;t Reformed Churches.</P>
<P>That the Presbyterial Government be confirmed by Act of Parliament, in &s;uch maner as both Hou&s;es of Parliament have agreed in &s;everal Ordinances of Parliament, That is to &s;ay, &amp;c. for the term of Three yeers from the <GAP DESC="blank" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> of June, 1648.</P>
<P>That it be e&s;tabli&s;hed by Act of Parliament, That the Lords and Commons in the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> a&s;&s;embled, &s;hall during the &s;pace of Ten years from the <GAP DESC="blank" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> of June, 1648. Arm, Train &amp; Di&s;cipline, or cau&s;e to be Armed, Trained &amp; Di&s;ciplined all the Forces of the kingdoms of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> the I&s;les of <HI>Guern&s;ey</HI> and <HI>Jer&s;ey,</HI> and the Town of <HI>Bar|wick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed,</HI> already rai&s;ed both for Sea and Land-Service; and that from time to time during the &s;aid &s;pace of ten years,
<PB N="56" REF="28">&s;hall Rai&s;e, Leavy, Arm, Train and Di&s;cipline, or cau&s;e to be Rai&s;ed, Leavied, Armed, Trained and Di&s;ciplined, any other Forces for Land and Sea-Service in the Kingdoms, Dominions and places afore&s;aid, as in their judgements they &s;hall from time to time, during the &s;aid &s;pace of ten years think fit and ap|point: And that neither the King, His Heirs or Succe&s;&s;ors, nor any other, but &s;uch as &s;hall act by the Authority or Approba|tion of the &s;aid Lords and Commons, &s;hall during the &s;aid &s;pace of Ten years, exerci&s;e any of the powers afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And the like for the kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> if the E&s;tates of the Parliament there &s;hall think fit.</P>
<P>That Moneys be Rai&s;ed and Leavied for the maintenance and u&s;e of the &s;aid Forces for Land-Service, and of the Navy and Forces for Sea-Service, in &s;uch &s;ort, and by &s;uch ways and means, as the &s;aid Lords and Commons &s;hall from time to time, during the &s;aid &s;pace of ten years, think fit and appoint, and not other|wi&s;e; and that all the &s;aid Forces both for Land and Sea-Service &s;o Rai&s;ed or Leavied, or to be Rai&s;ed or Leavied, and al&s;o the Admiralty and Navy, &s;hall from time to time during the &s;aid &s;pace of ten years, be Imployed, Managed, Ordered and Di&s;|po&s;ed by the &s;aid Lords and Commons, in &s;uch &s;ort and by &s;uch ways and means as they &s;hall think fit and appoint and not other|wi&s;e. And the &s;aid Lords and Commons during the &s;pace of ten years &s;hall have power,</P>
<P N="1">1. To &s;uppre&s;s all Forces rai&s;ed or to be rai&s;ed, without Au|thority and Con&s;ent of the &s;aid Lords and Commons, to the di&s;turbance of the publique peace of the kingdoms of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> the I&s;les of <HI>Guern&s;ey</HI> and <HI>Jer&s;ey,</HI> and the Town of <HI>Barwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed,</HI> or any of them.</P>
<P N="2">2. To &s;uppre&s;s any Forraign Forces who &s;hall invade, or en|deavor to invade the kingdoms of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Domi|nion of <HI>Wales,</HI> the I&s;les of <HI>Guern&s;ey</HI> and <HI>Jer&s;ey,</HI> and the Town of <HI>Barwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed,</HI> or any of them.</P>
<PB N="57" REF="28">
<P N="3">3. To conjoyn &s;uch Forces of the kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> with the Forces of the kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> as the &s;aid Lords and Commons &s;hall from time to time during the &s;aid &s;pace of ten years, judge fit and nece&s;&s;ary, to re&s;i&s;t all forraign Inva&s;ions, and to &s;uppre&s;s any Forces Rai&s;ed or to be Rai&s;ed again&s;t or within either of the &s;aid kingdoms, to the di&s;turbance of the publike Peace of the &s;aid kingdoms, or any of them, by any Authority of the Great-Seal, or other Warrant what&s;oever, without con|&s;ent of the &s;aid Lords and Commons of the Parliament of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and the Parliament or the E&s;tates of the Parliament of <HI>Scot|land</HI> re&s;pectively; and that no Forces of either kingdom &s;hall go into, or continue in the other kingdom, without the advice and de&s;ire of the &s;aid Lords and Commons of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> and the Parliament of the kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> or &s;uch as &s;hall be by them appointed for that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Provided,</HI> That during the &s;aid &s;pace of ten years, nothing herein before contained, &s;hall extend to the taking away of the ordinary legal power of Sheriffs, Ju&s;tices of Peace, Majors, Bay|liffs, Coroners, Con&s;tables, Headboroughs, and other Officers of Ju&s;tice, not being Military Officers concerning the Admini|&s;tration of Ju&s;tice; &s;o as neither the &s;aid Sheriffs, Ju&s;tices of the Peace, Majors, Bayliffs, Coroners, Con&s;tables, Headboroughs, and other Officers, nor any of them, do Leavy, Conduct, Im|ploy or Command any Forces what&s;oever, by colour or pretence of any Commi&s;&s;ion of Array, or extraordinary command from His Maje&s;ty, His Heirs or Succe&s;&s;ors, without the con&s;ent of the &s;aid Lords and Commons.</P>
<P>And if any per&s;ons during the &s;aid &s;pace of Ten years &s;hall be gathered and a&s;&s;embled together in warlike maner, or otherwi&s;e, to the number of Thirty per&s;ons, and &s;hal not forthwith disband or di&s;per&s;e them&s;elves, being required thereto by the &s;aid Lords &amp; Commons, or command from them, or any by them, e&s;pecially authorized for that purpo&s;e; Then &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons not &s;o disbanding or di&s;per&s;ing them&s;elves &s;hall be guilty, and incur the pains of High-Trea&s;on, being fir&s;t declared guilty of &s;uch offence
<PB N="58" REF="29">by the &s;aid Lords and Commons, Any Commi&s;&s;ion under the Great Seal, or other warrant to the contrary notwith&s;tanding. And he or they that &s;hall offend herein, to be incapable of any pardon from His Maje&s;ty, His Heirs or Succe&s;&s;ors, and their E&s;tates &s;hall be di&s;po&s;ed as the &s;aid Lords and Commons &s;hall think fit, and not otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P>Provided, That the City of <HI>London</HI> &s;hall have and injoy all their Rights, Liberties and Franchi&s;es, Cu&s;toms and U&s;ages in the Rai&s;ing and Imploying the Forces of that City for the de|fence thereof, in as full and ample maner, to all intents and pur|po&s;es, as they have or might have u&s;ed or injoyed the &s;ame at any time before the making of the &s;aid Act or Propo&s;ition.</P>
<P>And after Your Maje&s;ties a&s;&s;ent given to the three Propo&s;i|tions now tendred to Your Maje&s;ty, and to &s;uch Acts of Parlia|ment as &s;hall be offered by Both Hou&s;es for confirmation there|of, Then Both Hou&s;es of Parliament will Treat with Your Ma|je&s;ty, concerning the future &s;ettlement of the Government of the Church, the &s;ettlement of the <HI>Militia,</HI> and upon the re&s;t of the Propo&s;itions formerly tendred to Your Maje&s;ty at <HI>Ham|pton Court.</HI></P>
<P>That the Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> do de&s;ire, That &s;uch Propo&s;itions as &s;hall be fit and nece&s;&s;ary for the king|dom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> may be prepared to be &s;ent to His Maje&s;ty with all convenient &s;peed.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="memorandum">
<HEAD><HI>A Paper from the Committee of E&s;tates of</HI> Scotland, <HI>of the</HI> 8. <HI>of July, to the Commi&s;&s;ioners of</HI> England, <HI>in an&s;wer to &s;ome of their former Papers.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>At Endenburgh, <DATE>the 8. of July, 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVE the Committee of E&s;tates of the Parliament of the kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> do return this an&s;wer to your Lord&s;hips Papers of the 17. and 22. of June:</P>
<PB N="59" REF="29">
<P>That although our Commi&s;&s;ioners at <HI>London</HI> did often, for &s;ome Moneths together (after the return of our Army out of <HI>England</HI>) attend without any an&s;wer to their Papers, and the ju&s;t De&s;ires of this kingdom, and at &s;everal times for many days could obtain no hearing; Yet the Parliament, notwith&s;tanding of their important bu&s;ine&s;s, and that this la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion was very &s;hort, did always, immediately after the receipt of your Lord|&s;hips Letters and Papers read them, and returned &s;uch an&s;wers as they conceived ought to &s;atisfie, and particularly to your De|&s;ires concerning <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le;</HI> as likewi&s;e to that In|gagement which you were plea&s;ed to offer upon the advance of the Army under the command of the Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> into the North of <HI>England</HI> towards our border, which therefore we &s;hall not here repeat.</P>
<P>The Parliament al&s;o, upon con&s;ideration of the great dangers threatning Religion. His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on and Authority, yea Monarchy it &s;elf, and the peace and happine&s;s of the&s;e kingdoms, &s;trictly united by Covenant, Treaties, and &s;o many near relati|ons, Did upon the 26 of April la&s;t, &s;end &s;uch Demands to the Hou&s;es of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> as they conceived to be ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary: To which they did upon the 15. day of May return a very general an&s;wer, relating to a more particular &s;ati&s;|faction, to be expected from your Lord&s;hips. And the Com|mittee of E&s;tates did on the 23. day of May la&s;t de&s;ire to know, if your Lord&s;hips had received any further In&s;tructions for &s;ati&s;|fying the De&s;ires of this kingdom: To which your Lord&s;hips an&s;wered, That as yet you had not received any; neither have we &s;ince that time heard any thing concerning the &s;aid De&s;ires from your Lord&s;hips: Which we cannot but look upon, as a great contempt and neglect of this kingdom, and an evidence of no great forwardne&s;s nor inclination towards a peace or &s;et|tlement, or Re&s;olution to entertain that Amity and good cor|re&s;pondense betwixt the Nations, which we by Treaties, Me&s;|&s;ages and all imaginable means have &s;till &s;tudied to pre&s;erve: And had a &s;atisfactory an&s;wer been returned to the&s;e our nece&s;|&s;ary De&s;ires, all the Inconveniences which hereafter may in&s;ue, would probably have been prevented, which we have &s;till &s;ince
<PB N="60" REF="30">that time patiently expected, and acted nothing as to an In|gagement, in hopes thereof: But finding the dangers to all that is deare&s;t to us &s;till increa&s;ing, No &s;atisfaction, nor &s;o much as an an&s;wer offered to the&s;e our ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary De&s;ires; No &s;ecurity to Religion, but rather a greater danger thereunto from the Propo&s;itions now communicated unto us; No hope of Safety or Freedom thereby to His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, and as little of Freedom to the Honorable Hou&s;es of the Parliament, Ea&s;e to the oppre&s;&s;ed Subjects of <HI>England,</HI> or Security to either Na|tion. We have therefore re&s;olved to pur&s;ue our duties in order to all the&s;e, as Chri&s;tians, as Subjects, and as Brethren joyn'd together in Covenant, upon the grounds contained in the inclo|&s;ed Declaration; which we de&s;ire your Lord&s;hips would be plea&s;ed to communicate to the Honorable Hou&s;es.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By command of the Committee of the E&s;tates of Parliament, ARCH: PRIMEROSE, Cler.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Vnto this Paper the Engli&s;h Commi&s;sioners re|turned no An&s;wer, in regard the Scoti&s;h Ar|my had then invaded</HI> England.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>The Commi&s;&s;ioners of both Hou&s;es of the Parliament of</HI> England, <HI>&s;ent to the Committee of E&s;tates of the Kingdom of</HI> Scotland, <HI>for a &s;afe Pa&s;s to return into</HI> England, <HI>which they granted, and therewith &s;ent a Letter to the Commi&s;&s;ioners; a Copy whereof is as followeth:</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honorable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Am commanded by the Committee of E&s;tates, in An&s;wer to your Lord&s;hips De&s;ires of the 19. of this in&s;tant <HI>July,</HI> to return to your Lord&s;hips from them the inclo&s;ed Pa&s;s: And
<PB N="61" REF="30">when your Lord&s;hips &s;hall be plea&s;ed to acquaint them with the time of your parting from hence, they will be ready, if you in|&s;i&s;t thereupon, to appoint a competent Convoy to attend your Lord&s;hips for &s;o much of the way as you &s;hall think nece&s;&s;ary; your Lord&s;hips engaging the Publique Faith of the Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> for their &s;afe return: I am likewi&s;e commanded by the Committee to &s;hew your Lord&s;hips, That by their Orders the Towns of <HI>Barwick</HI> and <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> are for the Peace of both Kingdoms &s;ecured from the Sectaries; and that ju&s;t &s;atisfaction being given to the nece&s;&s;ary De&s;ires of this Kingdom, not on|ly the&s;e Towns &s;hall be put in the condition they were in for|merly, and their Fortifications &s;lighted, but likewi&s;e all the Forces of the kingdom of <HI>Scotland</HI> now in <HI>England,</HI> &s;hall im|mediately be recalled and return; And that they will &s;till invio|lably ob&s;erve on their parts the Union and brotherly Corre&s;pon|dence betwixt the kingdoms.</P>
<P>The Committee having employed one Mr. <HI>Thomas Hamilton</HI> Gentleman, about a moneth ago to <HI>London</HI> as a publique Ser|vant of theirs, they have commanded me to &s;hew your Lord|&s;hips their De&s;ire, that no let nor hindrance be offered to him in his return, which would be contrary to the Law of Nations, and their expectations: I &s;hall adde nothing from my &s;elf, but that I am,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Eden.</HI> <DATE>la&s;t <HI>July,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>My Lords,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t hum|ble Servant, <HI>Crayford</HI> and <HI>Lind&s;ey.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD><HI>The An&s;wer of the Commi&s;&s;ioners to the Letter from the Lord Trea&s;urer of the la&s;t of</HI> July, 1648.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honorable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>VVE have received yours of the la&s;t of <HI>July,</HI> and to that part thereof which concerns publique bu&s;ine&s;s, we cannot give your Lord&s;hip any An&s;wer, but have thought good to let your
<PB N="62" REF="31">Lord&s;hip under&s;tand, That an Order is come to our hands, Da|ted the 22. of <HI>July,</HI> 1648. by which we are recalled, and there|by our powers of any further Tran&s;action of bu&s;ine&s;s with your Lord&s;hip, otherwi&s;e then in order to our return, we con|ceive are Determined; as to that part wherein your Lord&s;hip hath been plea&s;ed to manife&s;t your care for our &s;afe Pa&s;s and Convoy, we return your Lord&s;hip thanks. We are,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburgh,</HI> <DATE>1 <HI>Augu&s;ti,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t hum|ble Servants, <LIST>
<ITEM><HI>C: Notingham.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bryan Stapleton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Goodwyn.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Birch.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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