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<P>PAPERS FROM SCOTLAND OF Tran&s;actions of the Scots Commi&s;&s;ion|ers, concerning the KING <HI>And the Parliament of England.</HI></P>
<P>Delivered at the Convention of E&s;tates at <HI>Edinburgh.</HI></P>
<P><HI>ALSO</HI> A Conference by the Marquis of <HI>Arguile,</HI> the Earle <HI>Louderdaile,</HI> and the Lord <HI>Lothean,</HI> with the <HI>Engli&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners.</HI></P>
<P>AND The proceedings of the Grand Committee of <HI>E&s;tates, and the Commi&s;sioners of the Kirk of Scotland.</HI></P>
<P>Printed at <HI>London</HI> by <HI>Robert Ibbit&s;on</HI> in <HI>Smithfield,</HI> neere the Queens-head Tavern. 1648. <ADD>1647</ADD></P>
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<P>Imprimatur,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Gilb. Mabbot.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>PAPERS FROM SCOTLAND OF Tran&s;actions of the Scots Commi&s;&s;i|oners, concerning the KING, and the <HI>Parliament</HI> of <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Grand Committee of E&s;tates for the king|dome of <HI>Scotland,</HI> Conveened at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> on Tue&s;day <HI>February</HI> 8. On which day, both the Engli&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners, Mr. <HI>A&s;hur&s;t,</HI> and Collonell <HI>Birch,</HI> came to <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> with Mr. <HI>Mar&s;hall,</HI> and al|&s;o the Scots Commi&s;&s;ioners that night; But their Grand Convention of E&s;tates had onely &s;ome Spee|ches made by divers Lords, viz. the Marquis of <HI>Ar|guile,</HI> the Lord <HI>Lothean,</HI> Mr. <HI>Hamilton</HI> and others, to congratulate their meeting, but it being moved that (in regard the Scots Commi&s;&s;ioners were not there ready with their Reports) they might adjourne untill
<PB N="2" REF="3">Thur&s;day <HI>Februa.</HI> 10. which the Committee of E|&s;tates, accordingly Ordered.</P>
<P>On Wedne&s;day the 9 of <HI>February,</HI> the Committee of the Kirke of <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;ate, and proceeded in &s;ome debates, which they had been upon the day before, concerning &s;ome non-conformi&s;ts in <HI>Scotland,</HI> there being much di&s;turbance in divers of the Kirkes, by &s;ome who &s;tand for liberty of Con&s;cience in Church|wor&s;hip.</P>
<P>The Marquis of <HI>Arguile,</HI> the Earl <HI>Lauderdaile,</HI> and the Lord <HI>Lothean,</HI> (not Lord <HI>Loudoun</HI> the Lord Chan|cellor) gave our Commi&s;&s;ioners a vi&s;it at their lodg|ing, which is at an Inne, there being no hou&s;e provi|ded for them, (and I can a&s;&s;ure you that there are not Innes here like the <HI>London</HI> ones) a &s;orry place, yet &s;uch as are in <HI>Edinburgh.</HI> The&s;e three Lords were ve|ry courteous to our Commi&s;&s;ioners, and the Scots in generall are civill to them.</P>
<P>On Thur&s;day the 10 of <HI>Februa.</HI> The Grand Com|mittee of E&s;tates met againe. And the Earle of <HI>Lou|doun</HI> Lord Chancellour, and the Earle <HI>Lauderdaile,</HI> (with the re&s;t of the Scots Commi&s;&s;ioners, from <HI>Lon|don,</HI> began to make their Reports, concerning tran&s;|actions of overtures by them in <HI>England,</HI> &s;ince la&s;t they went from <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> And declared to the Com|mittee what they had offered to the Parliament of <HI>En|gland,</HI> and what engagements they had tendred to the King, as al&s;o what they had done to &s;atisfie his Ma|je&s;ty.</P>
<P>Particularly, what was tran&s;acted by them with his Maje&s;ty at <HI>Hampton</HI> Court, and &s;o other Over|tures untill the time that his Maje&s;ty was removed from <HI>Hampton</HI> Court.</P>
<P><PB N="3" REF="3">
Divers of the Lords and the re&s;t of the E&s;tates (in particular) gave them thanks for their fidelity, and for their paines, after the E&s;tates were ri&s;en, but the bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e is not yet debated what &s;hall be done in a body by the whole Committee of E&s;tates by order: becau&s;e when they &s;it again they are to go on in their reports untill they have fini&s;hed all, which will hardly bee this week, and then perhaps a week or more in debate afterwards.</P>
<P>They then ordered to fit this pre&s;ent Thur&s;day, being the 15 of February, and are to fit by and by: And did Order February 10 la&s;t pa&s;t that the Engli&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hould make their addre&s;&s;es to the Lord Chancellour <HI>Loudoune,</HI> who is pre&s;ident to the Committee of E&s;tates. And the rea&s;on of the la&s;t ad|journment untill this day was becau&s;e he is not well. And for ought I &s;ee, they wil &s;o adjourn, that time will &s;pin out to a full length before they come to the pe|riod: So I hope there will be no great feare of rai&s;ing Forces in <HI>Scotland</HI> this yeare, And before Winter we may all learne wit to be friends. Here is a muttering of Sir <HI>Lewis Dives</HI> being in this Kingdome, but I &s;ee him not, nor heare of him where he is. Some rumor here that the Earle of <HI>Leven</HI> is gone away in a di&s;con|tent &s;aying, that he would loo&s;e his life but he would &s;et the Crowne on the Kings head, but this is fal&s;e, and therefore if any Malignants from hence &s;hall writ any &s;uch thing into <HI>England</HI> beleeve it not, for it is ut|terly fal&s;e.</P>
<P>On Friday the 11 of February the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Kirke &s;at and had reports made concerning the &s;ub&s;tance of the Committee of E&s;tates the day before &s;omething was moved about drawing up a paper to
<PB N="4" REF="4">pre&s;ent to the Committee of E&s;tates at their &s;itting, but it was at la&s;t re&s;olved that nothing &s;hould be done in that particular untill the Commi&s;sioners had made a full report of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> negotiation.</P>
<P>On Saturday the 12 of <HI>February,</HI> came news hither of the Disbanding of the &s;upernume|rary Forces in the North of <HI>England,</HI> which gives much content to divers of the Commi&s;|&s;ioners of E&s;tates here, (as them&s;elves ex|pre&s;&s;e). We had here &s;ome talke of Prince <HI>Charles</HI> his comming hither, as &s;ome &s;aid, was expected from <HI>France,</HI> others &s;aid, it was the Duke of <HI>York</HI> to come from <HI>London.</HI> But the <HI>Scots</HI> are &s;o farre from agitating, or liking any &s;uch de&s;igne, that they generally &s;ay, they will have neither <HI>King, Queene,</HI> nor any of the Kings Children to be there to charge them; they cannot &s;pare monies neither for Warre, nor Honour, they will labour to maintain what they have, and to keep their own king|dome quiet, if they can, and let others &s;hift for them&s;elves.</P>
<P>On the Lords day <HI>Febru.</HI> 13. the Mini&s;ters here which we heard, did pray zealou&s;ly for peace, and preached very hone&s;tly, though
<PB N="5" REF="4">we have heard that &s;ome others have been a little too bitter el&s;e where, there were very few that day with our Commi&s;&s;ioners.</P>
<P>Ye&s;terday being Munday the 14 of <HI>Febru<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI> many Lords and other Gentlemen came to Town from other parts, &s;o that this City of <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> is very full, things are exceeding deare, and accommodation bad, better in ma|ny Villages in <HI>England.</HI> But, which is wor&s;e than all the former, the Plague breaks out here very violently, and many dye, every day more then other, &s;o that we begin to fear dan|ger in re&s;iding here, except &s;ome place be a&s;|&s;igned for the Commi&s;&s;ioners out of <HI>Eden|burgh,</HI> and the <HI>Scots</HI> E&s;tates adjourn to &s;ome other place, or there &s;itting untill the Parlia|ment meet to adjourn.</P>
<P>This day being the 15 of <HI>Februa.</HI> the Con|vention of E&s;tate, are to meet: And the <HI>Scots</HI> Commi&s;&s;ioners are to proceed upon their re|ports, concerning the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Negotiation, from the time that his Maje&s;ty came la&s;t to <HI>Hampton</HI> Court, what tran&s;acted there, and &s;o on untill their return: As al&s;o what papers they delivered into the Parl of <HI>England,</HI> and what an&s;wers they received, as al&s;o concern|ing
<PB N="6" REF="5">&s;ome pa&s;&s;ages about the Engli&s;h Army, which will take up &s;o much time, that I be|leeve the Engli&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners (for ought I heare this day) cannot make their addre&s;&s;es to them before March. The Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Arguile,</HI> and divers of the Committee of E|&s;tates, yea, and many of the <HI>Scots Mini&s;ters</HI> prote&s;t that they will labour for a right un|der&s;tanding between the two Nations, and for &s;ettlement of a firme and inviolable <HI>Peace,</HI> for the Souldiery, mony, Ile warrant you, will &s;top their mouths, and there is none vi|&s;ible to them any where, but hopes of the <HI>En|gli&s;h</HI> Arrears, And the Inhabitants of <HI>Scot|land</HI> long to hear of all things to be united and &s;etled between the <HI>Kingdomes.</HI> For which he prayes, who is,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips humble &s;ervant <HI>WIL. ROSSE</HI></SIGNED> <DATELINE>Edenburge <DATE>the 15 of Feb. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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