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<HEAD>THE PEOPLE AND SOVLDIERS OBSERVATIONS, ON THE SCOTCH MESSAGE TO THE PARLIAMENT, CONCERN|ing the <HI>KING;</HI> 5. of November 1647.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">By the &s;cope whereof, all who will be &s;atisfied with Rea&s;on, or with mens practices more then their words, may have full re&s;olution to this more u&s;uall then doubtfull Que&s;tion: <HI>Whether the King, Lords, Commons, Scotts, City, Clergy, and Officers of the Army, have &s;ought more their own private ends then the publick weale of this Nation?</HI></HEAD>
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<HEAD>The words of the Me&s;&s;age here follow in order.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>AS upon the removal of his</HI> Maje&s;ty <HI>from</HI> Holdenby, <HI>again&s;t his will, by a party of the Army under the command of Sir</HI> Shomas Fairfax, <HI>we expre&s;&s;ed our &s;en&s;e and the re&s;entment of the Kingdome of</HI> Scotland <HI>of that violent action, &s;o the Committee of E&s;tates of the Parliament of</HI> Scotland, <HI>finding that his</HI> Maje|&s;ty <HI>is &s;till kept within the power of that Army, thought them&s;elves obliged to indeavour to know the certainty of His condition, in obedience to his commands, wee have applied our &s;elves to His</HI> Maje&s;ty, <HI>that from him&s;elfe we might know the truth there|of, who was plea&s;ed to &s;hew us his u&s;age, ever &s;ince he came from</HI> New-ca&s;tle, <HI>but for his pre&s;ent condition he really confe&s;&s;eth he cannot, but referres us to know it, from the two Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment, and the Army.</HI></P>
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<P><PB N="2" REF="2">
Dear Brethren (wee may well &s;ay) here yee expre&s;&s;e (in very patheticall words) the tenderne&s;&s;e of our affections to|wards this forlorne &s;ucce&s;&s;our of all the numerous race of your tyrannicall Kings, of which many not being a tenth part &s;o wicked as this, yee have rewarded otherwi&s;e; it is a wonder that &s;uch high minded people as ye, can &s;o underva|lue your &s;elves, as &s;till and alwaies to &s;toop your &s;tiffe necks, rather to the heavy manarchiall yoake of cruell tyrants, then to pitty and free both your &s;elves and your po&s;terities, from all kind of &s;lavery and mi&s;ery, having now a fairer occa&s;ion and more precious opportunity, then ever yee had hereto|fore, or may po&s;&s;ibly ever have hereafter.</P>
<P>If yee were as ju&s;t in your practices, as yee are wi&s;e in your conceits, yee would have long a-goe either alone, when he was under your power, or &s;ince, by advice and a&s;&s;i&s;tance of our Parliament and Army, rather called him to a &s;trict ac|count, impeached him of mo&s;t high trea&s;on, and arraigned him for all his great abominations, oppre&s;&s;ions, murthers, and de&s;tructions throughout all the&s;e three bleeding Nati|ons (even from the death of his Father, untill he was catch|ed in the mid&s;t of his &s;ins, ripe enough for the &s;ickle of Gods judgements) then anywi&s;e to be &s;o zealou&s;ly affected, and tender hearted concerning his u&s;age &s;ince yee delivered him at <HI>New-Ca&s;tle,</HI> and how he hath learned the le&s;&s;on of obedi|ence to the Armies commands, now after he hath forfeited his authority, and lo&s;t his tyrannicall &s;ting.</P>
<P>Certainly, it may well be deemed by his u&s;uall double-dealing, that if he had you once more under his arbitrary power, as the Army hath ju&s;tly both taken and kept him all this time, untill now that he was conveied away to act more mi&s;chief; he would &s;o remember your taking up armes (though in your owne defence) again&s;t him and his forces both at home and here, for all that is come and gone, and notwith&s;tanding all your kindne&s;&s;e and tender
<PB N="3" REF="2">care now of him, he would teach you perfectly to know what he meaned and intended, when he both proclaimed you all Rebels and Traitors, and levied &s;uch &s;trong forces by Sea and Land again&s;t you; and all for your refu&s;ing his popi&s;h Service-book.</P>
<P>But it &s;eemeth, that yee (e&s;pecially unto whom he hath either given or promi&s;ed great offices and honourable titles) have &s;o well learned &s;ome new court le&s;&s;ons, that yee have quite forgotten your good old fa&s;hions, even to e&s;teem of Kings as of other mortall men, and not to idolize them, nor hide their haynous faults, as mo&s;t of our vulgar fort havetoo long fooli&s;hly done, even to our gaeat griefe, and both their and our vexation, yea, yee had rather like the men of <HI>Ly&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ra,</HI> who in their blind and &s;uper&s;ticious zealo, both called <HI>Barnabas Jupiter,</HI> and <HI>Paul Mercurius,</HI> and would have offered &s;acrifice to them, if tho&s;e Appo&s;tles had not in|terrupted them, then anywi&s;e like di&s;creet men, who &s;hould di&s;eerne between tho&s;e who ought to be honoured and re&s;|pected, and &s;uch as de&s;erve to be tryed and puni&s;hed.</P>
<P>Have yee &s;o &s;oon forgotten how he made the be&s;t and greate&s;t of you, not only know the newes, but feel the &s;mart, that his little finger was heavier then his Fathers loynes (wereof too many of us want not enough of &s;uch experi|ence al&s;o, and that by all kind of oruell oppre&s;&s;ions, in things both &s;pirituall and temporall; heavy taxations, per&s;ecuti|ons, and neither hearing nor regarding petitions, but impri|&s;oning, bani&s;hing, exiling yea, and intending to execute your own grand Commi&s;&s;ioner, whom he hath &s;ince prefer|red to be your Chancella&punc; (upon what termes they two be&s;t know) never ob&s;erving any agreement, performing any promi&s;e, nor regarding either &s;aith, truth or ju&s;tice more to you then us, but all in hypoci&s;ie, deceit, and King-craft, (al|waies acting and pro&s;ecuting what his Father devi&s;ed and contrived) even by plotting, con&s;piring, and all &s;ort of <HI>Ma|chivelian</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="3">dealing, to extirpate, root-out, undermine, and de&s;troy as well all kind of goodne&s;s, faithfulne&s;s and ju&s;tice, as good peaceable and true hearted people.</P>
<P>A few in&s;tances may &s;uffice, becau&s;e not only the &s;ight of a great parte thereof is &s;till &s;o cleare before our eyes, but the &s;mart of all, is yet &s;o recent and fre&s;h in our memories and apprehen&s;ions, how&s;oever ye like unthrifty Schollers, have rubbed and worn both all the remembrance of your le&s;&s;ons, &amp; marks of your &s;tripes, out of your minds, &amp; from off your backs, with high titles, great offices, new promi&s;es, and lof|ty hopes: Have yee likewi&s;e rubbed out of your memories, all his cheating of you (by meanes of <HI>Hender&s;on</HI> the great, at fir&s;t one of your high <HI>Prie&s;ts,</HI> and next one of his Chaplins) of all his royall performance of that agreement which he made wtth you at <HI>Dunce-law,</HI> and you; &s;urrendring to him of <HI>Edenburgh-Ca&s;tle,</HI> and his planting therein both a number of our Country <HI>Papi&s;ts&punc;</HI> and aboundance of our ammunition, by which in&s;truments and meanes, he made many of you &s;o &s;ight, &s;ob, weep and groane (yea and leave <HI>Edenburgh</HI> town) that yee were ready to cur&s;e, both the day of that a|greement, and the birth-day of all tho&s;e that had any hand in it: Have ye al&s;o forgotten how (by his means) our Coun|try <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> blew up with a train of gunpowder, a Ca&s;tle full of your <HI>Nobility, gentry and Ladies,</HI> in the aire; neare <HI>Barwick</HI> where your <HI>Generall</HI> narrowly e&s;caped? And do ye not re|member how in your la&s;t Parliament when he was pre&s;ent, that the one day he gave you (as it were, a pur&s;e full of gold and jewels in the one hand, even all and what&s;oever yee de|&s;ired, or at lea&s;t required, but in the other hand a <HI>Scotti&s;h-dagger,</HI> whereby he would have killed and devoured you all before yee was aware? For at his own palace did he not ap|point a dozen to kill each one a man at one appointed hour of your meeting, even a dozen of the chiefe&s;t of you, whom he thought were his greate&s;t oppo&s;ers, or mo&s;t able, and poli|ticke, to cro&s;&s;e his popi&s;h and bloudy de&s;ignes?</P>
<P><PB N="5" REF="3">
Was not this bloodie attempt &s;o contrived and ordered, that your Generall was the fir&s;t man to have been thus trea|cherou&s;ly &s;tobed, and cowardly murthered, and then as his Maje&s;tie conceved any of you oppo&s;it to him in your places to have proceded again&s;t you, and all the re&s;t as his Maje&s;tie &s;hould bee Gratiou&s;ly plea&s;ed; even as wee &s;ee Butchers doe with their fat Oxen: But it plea&s;ed God, both to di&s;cover and prevent that plot for your good, if yee have &s;o much grace as to make a happy u&s;e thereof, now in your great need; which (as &s;ome of our Country-men report) was on|ly di&s;covered by meanes of him, who was imployed to kill your Generall: And al&s;o of the like plot at that &s;ame time to have beene here again&s;t &s;ome of our Parliament mem|bers, which wee thankfully remember was prevented by &s;ome of your Nation, howbeit it tooke, &s;uch a wofull ef|fect in <HI>Ireland,</HI> that it &s;till continueth almo&s;t to the de&s;tructi|on thereof, be&s;ides a greater multitude of other enormi|ties, plots, cruelties and oppre&s;&s;ions, then either tongue or pen can expre&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Me&s;&s;.</P>
<P><HI>Both Hou&s;es (by many profe&s;&s;ions and ingagements) have de|clared to the Kingdome of</HI> Scotland, <HI>that they would take care of the pre&s;ervation of his per&s;on, his ju&s;t power and greatne&s;&s;e, (which both Kingdomes have &s;worn not to dimini&s;h) and the Par|liament of</HI> Scotland <HI>upon the Kings going to</HI> Holdenby, <HI>did de|clare again&s;t all harme, prejudiee, injury, or violence to be done to his royall per&s;on, Therefore in pur&s;uance of the tru&s;t commit|ted to us, wee make this addre&s;&s;e to the Honourable Hou&s;es, con|ceiving it needle&s;&s;e to apply our &s;elves to the Army, who wee &s;up|po&s;e are and ought to be under their command, de&s;iring to know from them the certainty of his Maje&s;ties condition: And the ra|ther that wee are informed, their are intentions in the Army of the removing him from</HI> Hampton-Court.</P>
<P><PB N="6" REF="4">
<HI>Ob&s;erv.</HI> What&s;oever our Parliament hath declared to the Kingdome of Scotland, for taking care of the Kings per&s;on, it is in reference to that en&s;naring covenant, which yee (by meanes of your deceitfull Clergy) fa&s;tened upon our corrupt Commi&s;&s;ioners, when they agreed with you to a&s;&s;i&s;t our for|ces, and &s;o they unju&s;tly upon our Parliament, and the Par|liament upon the whole Nation; and yet in the Covenant by vertue of that agreement (wee &s;uppo&s;e) there is no ab&s;olute promi&s;e nor oath to pre&s;erve the Kings per&s;on, power nor greatne&s;&s;e, whether he be a King or a tyrant, di&s;charge his du|ty, or betray his tru&s;t; but only a conditionall promi&s;e and vow of his pre&s;ervation, whil'&s;t he &s;heweth his fidelity by his activity in the defence of our ju&s;t Lawes and Liberties, and no otherwi&s;e: which if hee ever did &s;ince that time, but rather more cruelly &amp; tyrannically u&s;ed his Norman power then ever hee did, wee even refer the judgement thereof to God, the world and your owne con&s;ciences.</P>
<P>But your Parliament and Nation in &s;tead of trying him according to Law and ju&s;tice, declare again&s;t all harme, pre|judice, injury or violence, to bee done to his Maje&s;ties royall per&s;on; as if he had been borne a Law-le&s;s Libertine, even to doe all kind of mi&s;chief to thou&s;ands, ten thou&s;ands and hundreds of thou&s;ands; and yet never be &s;o much as once que&s;tioned him&s;elfe, or &s;carce tho&s;e who a&s;&s;i&s;ted him.</P>
<P>If he urged, threatened and rai&s;ed cruell warres again&s;t you, for refu&s;ing that ma&s;&s;e-booke, which hee undertoke (with all the rable of Popery) to plant among&s;t both you and us, in that his mo&s;t vile and flatering <HI>Letter to the Pope,</HI> yet extant in print: why then doe not yee deal with him, as the only party with whom yee have to doe, and not trouble us with your Covenant, Reformation nor religion (whether it bee good or bad) more then wee trouble you with ours; as yee did both ingeniou&s;ly prophe&s;s and faithfully promi&s;e, in your declaration for a&s;&s;i&s;ting our Parliament and Nation. Rea&s;. 6.</P>
<P><PB N="7" REF="4">
Have yee likwi&s;e forgotten, what love and re&s;pect all of us (whom yee now mo&s;t cruelly and unju&s;tly both hate, and &s;tir up our enimies to per&s;ecute) did beare unto you, not on|ly by our former Parliament, who ab&s;olutly refu&s;ed him all kind of aide and a&s;&s;i&s;tance to come again&s;t you, but likewi&s;e, by our unanimous chu&s;ing rather to undergo his highe&s;t di&s;|plea&s;ure (according to our free and rationall principles) then to take up armes to a&s;&s;i&s;t him in that unju&s;t quarell.</P>
<P>Be&s;ids, in that Declaration, yee acknowledge that we have been your neare&s;t and deare&s;t freinds, being willing &amp; ready to help and a&s;&s;i&s;t you in all your &s;traits and extremities: and therfore if ye either &s;uffer or cau&s;e us to &s;ink in &s;uch mi&s;eries ye prote&s;t there; <HI>that ye not only betray our &s;afety but your own</HI> (as &s;tanding &amp; falling together) &amp; &s;o ye there conclude, <HI>that yee will doe to</HI> us herein <HI>as yee would bee done unto:</HI> and in di|vers of your other Remon&s;trances and Declarations, yee thankfully remember great aide and a&s;&s;i&s;tance which ye have receved of us; chiefly, at the expelling of the French out of your Nation in the dayes of your Queene Regent, which fa|vours yee vow and Imprecate never to forget.</P>
<P>Now, &s;eeing yee thus confe&s;&s;e, profe&s;&s;e, prote&s;t and promi&s;e, both to our greate credite and your owne greate comfort, what Neighbourly kindne&s;&s;es yee have received of us, and what re&s;pect therfore yee owe unto us: whence then cometh this great change, both of your affections, re&s;oluti|ons, words and actions? cannot yee re&s;t contented with your own mi&s;ery and &s;lavery, and not like Satan to tempt or in|&s;lave others? For it &s;eemeth to us, that yee love &s;uch unwor|thy conditions better then either your lives or e&s;tates, and have almo&s;t the&s;e nine yeares both adventured the one and con&s;umed the other, in pretending to fight again&s;t a a cruell tyrant, and yet all this time intending to fight for a cruell tyrant (as yee too well taught our deceitfull Parlia|ment) and that yee and your po&s;terity may be &s;till hence|forth,
<PB N="8" REF="5">as yee have been alwayes heretofore, not only his and his predice&s;&s;ours &s;laves, but as hee u&s;eth you, &s;o yee may &s;til u&s;e (or rather abu&s;e and en&s;lave) all the poore people under you, after that lamentable and ba&s;e example of France.</P>
<P>Doubtle&s;s, yee are a hundred-fould wor&s;e (as well in this re&s;pect as in many others) then the I&s;ralits in the daies of Sa|muel, who lu&s;ted to have a King like other Nations; for they not yet feeling the evills and inconveniences which would accompany a King, though they had &s;ufficient notice given them thereof by the Prophet; but yee have enough of &s;uch greevous and lamentable experience already your &s;elves, be&s;ides what yee (both as eye and eare witne&s;&s;es) well know both we and Ireland have; even that hee (who is now your be&s;t beloved Country man) hath mo&s;t cruelly exerci&s;ed (at lea&s;t) all the grevous oppre&s;&s;ions which Samuell fore-tould of King Saul; and therefore, except hee repent, as God gave that wicked King in his anger to I&s;raell, and tooke him away in his wrath; &s;o doubtle&s;&s;e he gave; and will take your King, whom yee &s;till both re&s;pect and endevour to excu&s;e and de|fend in all his mo&s;t hainous Sins, Abominations, Murthers, Inju&s;tices, Tyranies and oppre&s;&s;ions; far exceeding either Saul, Jeroboam, Ahab, Ahaz, or Ammon, if not all of them.</P>
<P>Yet notwith&s;tanding all this, yee (like wi&s;e merchants who take and keep all advantages again&s;t un&s;kilfull cu&s;to|mers) &s;till hould &s;o fa&s;t and &s;tick &s;o clo&s;&s;e to your bargain, which yee made with our corrupt Parliament, when yee &s;aw them in &s;uch a &s;traight, that they were in feare and danger of both their lives and e&s;tates, by his wicked meanes, and their owne unju&s;t dealings; and that even be&s;ides your hyre and wages, yee (by the device, meanes and a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the chief|e&s;t incendiaries of all the&s;e bloodie warres, even your ambi|tions, covetous and pernitious Clergy, confederating with ours) mo&s;t unju&s;tly procured your deceitfull Covenant to
<PB N="9" REF="5">be both taken by our Parliament, and forced upon the whole Nation; and con&s;equently your humane religion, under the colour of reformation; though it pa&s;&s;eth the limits and bounds of all their Commi&s;&s;ions or abilities; &s;eing thereunto they never had the con&s;ent of the free people of this Nation who both chu&s;ed and tru&s;ted them; yea and are like to bee called to an exact and &s;trict account by them, both for the&s;e and many hundreds more of other wrongs, treacheries and acts of Inju&s;tice; e&s;pecially, in that they would not call him to an account for all his tirranny and wickedne&s;&s;e, exerci&s;ed over the free people of this Nation, &s;ince the begining of his Raigne, nor deale with him according to his de&s;erts; neither before the&s;e warres began, nor when they began, nor yet ever &s;ince they have beene, (though they might often|times) and &s;o to haue prevented both the effu&s;ion of much blood and the de&s;truction &amp; wa&s;ting of manifold trea&s;ures and e&s;tates:</P>
<P>And how&s;oever yee Commi&s;&s;ionars, in pur&s;uance of the tru&s;t commited to you, by tho&s;e that &s;ent you, will make your adre&s;&s;e only to our Parliament, conceiving it nedle&s;&s;e to apply your &s;elves to the army, who ye &s;uppo&s;e are and ought to bee under the Parliaments command; yet yee are to con|&s;ider, that the Parliament are but the Commons of Englands &s;ervants, as well as the Army; as yee know Prophets and Prie&s;ts of ould, or Bi&s;hops and Mini&s;ters of late, are not &s;upe|riours to Kings (in temporall matters at lea&s;t) though they be imployed by the people, to put the Croun on their heads, and take their Oaths for the faithfull di&s;charging of their Offices; yea and in regard our Parliament have run them|&s;elves over head and eares into &s;o manifould gulfes of inju&s;t|ice, that they nither de&s;erve the title nor re&s;pect which is due to a Ju&s;t, di&s;creete, faithfull and carefull Parliament: and and therefore they now lye (as it were) pro&s;trate on their knees, as well at the mercie of the Commons of England
<PB N="10" REF="6">as your good King doth at this pre&s;ent; &s;o that all their &s;ub+tile propo&s;itions &amp; treaties with him, nor yet the City, Cler|gy, nor corrupt Officers of the Army to help them, will nei|ther availe nor prevent the fearfull Interrogatories, which po&s;&s;ibly and &s;peedily may be demanded of either; then ye will have oca&s;ion to take up &s;uch a mourning and lamentati|on for your good King, who hath &s;o advanced your glorious Reformation, as both <HI>Jerem. the Prophet, and all Judah with the &s;inging women, did for the death of good King Jo&s;iah, in the Valley of Megiddo.</HI></P>
<P>Me&s;&s;. <HI>The Kingdome af Scotland finding that their &s;tabili|ty, and happine&s;&s;e doth &s;o much depend upon the &s;afety and pre&s;er|vation of his Maje&s;ties royall per&s;on, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;er.</HI> Now, yee having both expre&s;&s;ed your owne fer|vent de&s;ires and &s;incere affections towards your good King, have al&s;o endevoured to make our Parliament and Nation doe the like: yee come in the third place to &s;hew the cau&s;e of all this great bu&s;ine&s;&s;e; namly, whereupon your &s;tability and happyne&s;s doth &s;o much depend; which yee attribute to <HI>The &s;afety and pre&s;ervation of his Maje&s;ties royall per&s;on.</HI></P>
<P>It is a wonder, that yee &s;hould either bee &s;o ignorant or void of &s;hame, as to expre&s;&s;e &s;o impudently and evidently &s;uch vile untruths, flatteries and contrarieties, even again&s;t both your owne experiences, under&s;tandings and con&s;cien|ces, chiefly in the&s;e late and &s;ad dayes, both of your affliction and ours, which yee well know hath been all by his meanes; being a mo&s;t cruell &s;courge to plague both you and us for all our hainous &s;ins, as Nebucadnezar was in puni&s;hing I&s;raell for theirs: and therefore yee (upon that &s;andy ground of your owne humours and conceits,) doe run the hazzard of the following re&s;olution.</P>
<P>Me&s;&s;. <HI>And being re&s;olved that no alteration of affaires &s;hall ever &s;eparate them from that duty allegiance they ow unto him, nor from their con&s;tant re&s;olvtions to live in all loyalty and obedience
<PB N="11" REF="6">under his government, have often &s;hewne their earne&s;t de&s;ires, and contributed their utmo&s;t endevours, towards the compo&s;ure of the&s;e unhappy differences.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ob.</HI> Here yee would &s;ay, if di&s;&s;imulation would permit you, no wickedne&s;&s;e, oppre&s;&s;ion nor tyranny that he and all his helli&s;h Cavaliers, bloudy papi&s;ts, prophane Countiers, flattering favorits, and domineering Bi&s;hops, can commit, &s;hall ever &s;eparate you from the performance of that duty of Allegiance ye owe unto him, and con&s;tant re&s;olu&s;ion yee have to live in all loyalty and obedience under his govern|ment, and that yee have been very active towards the com|po&s;ure of the&s;e unhappy differences.</P>
<P>All which words may perhaps feed the fancy of the &s;im|ple and ignorant multitude, who are alwaies ready to be de|luded by &s;uch meanes, but they will never &s;avour nor &s;mell of any goodne&s;&s;e, ju&s;tice, nor integrity to any impartiall di&s;creet, or judicious men: becau&s;e they proceed either of very weake or corrupt principles, of a &s;lavi&s;h di&s;po&s;ition, or blind affection, without either &s;en&s;e, rea&s;on, due, or true &s;atisfaction, though yee make him (as it were) your joy and your Crowne</P>
<P>Me&s;&s;. <HI>And the Hou&s;es of Parliament having by their Votes of the 26th. of</HI> Oct. <HI>la&s;t, intimated to us their re&s;olu&s;ions to ap|ply them&s;elves to his Maje&s;ty, and that they are preparing Propo|&s;itions to be tendred to him; Wee doe de&s;ire that they may be ex|pedited and communicated to us; that according to our many en|gagements and relations there may be &s;till a conjunction of coun|cels, in tho&s;e things that are for the common peace, ond joynt in|tere&s;ts of both Kingdomes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And for the better a&s;&s;erting of them, for clearing his Maje|&s;ties doubts, and for the giving, and receiving muturall &s;atisfa|ction: Wee doe de&s;ire (in the name of the Kingdome of Scotland) that there may be a per&s;onall Treaty with the King, as the be&s;t and redie&s;t meanes to obtaine the joynt de&s;ires of both Kingdoms;
<PB N="12" REF="7">And for that effect, that the King may bee invited to come to London, with that honour, freedom, and re&s;pect due to his Ma|je&s;ty, or (at lea&s;t) remaine at Hampton-Court, and not under the power and con&s;traint of Souldiers, where both Kingdomes may make their free applications to him, without any danger of &s;uch &s;top, or affront as hath been alredy commited again&s;t a Commi&s;&s;i|oner of Scotland: and for which no reparation hath bin made, and that his Maje&s;tie bee no more carried about with the Army at their plea&s;ures. &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Here is &s;till a continued cour&s;e of great bu&s;ine&s;&s;es (as well now after, as it was throughout all the warres) of addre&s;|&s;ing of Parliaments and &s;tates, as well <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> as <HI>Scots,</HI> by Pro|po&s;itions to be tendred to him, with all expedition, and communicated to you for unity and peace &s;ake; as if judges &s;hould pre&s;ent petitions, and offer conditions&punc; of peace unto &s;uch malefactors as &s;tand guilty at their Bar.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Ob. And for the better &amp;c.</HI> Here is a great deale of &s;tuffe to little purpo&s;e, truly it is a pitty yee were not as di&s;|creet as yee would appear to be; by meanes of your Prie&s;tly generation, yee are &s;till of &s;uch a &s;trange di&s;po&s;ition, that al|though yee doe re&s;ort to all Nations your &s;elves, yet yee will permit none to dwell among you, who are more able or bet|ter principled then your &s;elves, and might po&s;&s;ibly in&s;truct you, both in &s;pirituall and temporall freedomes, better then all your teachers and Lawyers: witne&s;&s;e your hard u&s;age from time to time, (chiefly in the fir&s;t three yeares of your late troubles) what numbers of our people re&s;orted among&s;t you, thinking there had been &s;ome hopes to have made you a free-principled, di&s;creet and ab&s;olute free people, and not to be carried away neither by wicked Kings, nor time-&s;er|ving Prie&s;ts; but &s;ome of our people, as well as your owne, had impri&s;oning in&s;tead of rea&s;oning, and both of them bad entertainment for endeavouring your good.</P>
<P>And concerning the Kings coming to <HI>London,</HI> doe yee
<PB N="13" REF="7">not know, he may come thither, with that honour, freedome and re&s;pect which is due unto him, and yet with little con|tent either to him&s;elfe or to you?</P>
<P>Yee make &s;o much of a di&s;&s;embling <HI>Ab&s;olon,</HI> a cruell mur|derer, and bloudy tyrant, as wee have great cau&s;e to be jea|lous, that yee have left your fir&s;t love which yee appeared to have, and that yee have not &s;uch a mea&s;ure of di&s;cretion as to di&s;cerne between good and evill, nor between tho&s;e that la&s;h, whip and &s;courge you, yea, and both makes you gather &s;traw, and performe your whole ta&s;k of bricks too; and tho&s;e who tell you the truth for your pre&s;ent and future good, yee both per&s;ecute even with a deadly hatrered, and indeavour more to force your Religion by the &s;word, then anywi&s;e to convince by the word; &s;o that if neither &s;word nor pe&s;tilence can humble you, God hath both famine and other judge|ments which doubtle&s;&s;e will doe it.</P>
<P><HI>Me&s;&s;. The&s;e we conceive to be the mo&s;t probable and effectuall meanes for attaining a happy peace, &s;ettling of Religion, restoring his Majesty to his just Rights, and continuing, and strengthen|ing a good understanding betwixt the&s;e Kingdomes, which are most earnestly de&s;ired by the Kingdome of Scotland, and &s;hall bee constantly and faithfully endevoured by &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Ob&s;. If ye conceive that the&s;e corrupt cour&s;es, which &s;o tend to ju&s;tifie the wicked and condeme the ju&s;t, are the mo&s;t probable &amp; effectuall meanes, for obtaining the&s;e your ends; yea, and being &s;o contrary to your ju&s;t prote&s;tations again&s;t his proclaimations, &amp; your takeing up armes again&s;t his for|ces; wee de&s;ire that yee would either &s;hew how this can bee po&s;&s;ible; or how this your great and &s;uddain change cometh, or el&s;e, acknowledge your errour herein; &s;eeing there is nei|ther any beginning nor appearance of repentance in him, notwith&s;tanding all his deceitfull Prote&s;tations and bloudy warres in all the three Nations: otherwi&s;e, ye will both in|curre blame, and come &s;hort of obtaining a happy peace,
<PB N="14" REF="8">re&s;toring him to his ju&s;t rights, and both continuing and &s;trengthening a good under&s;tanding between the&s;e Nations, though it be never &s;o much both de&s;ired by you and en|deavoured by your Commi&s;&s;ioners in your behalfe.</P>
<P>But &s;uppo&s;ing yee cannot &s;hew how &s;uch a thing is po&s;&s;i|ble, we will endeavour therefore to &s;hew you, how farre yee have both changed your minds, &amp; in our apprehen&s;ions, de|generated from the perfect rules of equity and ju&s;tice in two years time, that ye may learn to lay a more &s;olid founda|tion where upon to build your &s;tability &amp; happines, then on the &s;andy foundation of the &s;afety &amp; pre&s;ervation of a wick|ed mans per&s;on, though of never &s;o great a maje&s;ty &amp; <HI>royalty</HI> (as yee &s;ay) and by &s;uch corrupt flattering and deceit full meanes, yea, and unju&s;t tearmes and titles, to ju&s;tifie and protect him in all his wickednes, both again&s;t your &s;elves and us: wee &s;end you back againe, to read and con&s;ider once more, your own generall a&s;&s;emblies Remon&s;trance, publi&s;h|ed to the view of the world, <HI>June</HI> 12. 1645.</P>
<P>Chiefly <HI>page</HI> 3. line 16, 17, 18, 19. and <HI>page</HI> 5. <HI>line</HI> 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. and <HI>page</HI> 6. <HI><ABBR>l.</ABBR></HI> 19, 20, 21, 22. The words are the&s;e;</P>
<P><HI>When wee call to mind, that God accepteth not the per&s;ons of men, and that the greate&s;t are not to be winked at in their &s;innes; wee make bold to warne your Maje&s;ty freely, that the guilt which cleaveth fa&s;t to your Maje&s;ty, and to your Throne is &s;uch, as (what|&s;oever flattering preachers or unfaithfull councellers may &s;ay to the contrary) if not timely prevented, cannot but involve your &s;elfe and your po&s;terity under the wrath of the ever-living God, for your being guilty of the &s;hedding of the bloud of many thou|&s;ands of your Maje&s;ties be&s;t &s;ubjects, and for what other cau&s;es your Maje&s;ty is mo&s;t con&s;cious, and may be&s;t judge and &s;earch your own con&s;cience<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI></P>
<P>Now having paraleld your pre&s;ent practices with your former judgements, even of late dayes, whereof at fir&s;t wee e&s;teemed more highly, then either then or &s;ince, howbeit it
<PB N="15" REF="8">doth now clearly appear, that ye have not been &s;ound at all how&s;oever wee as all Chri&s;tians ought to take every thing' in the be&s;t or mo&s;t charitable &s;en&s;e, untill time di&s;cover mens intentions by their actions, according to our <HI>Saviours</HI> rule, <HI>to know the Tree by the fruit;</HI> for in&s;tance, it appears plain|ly to us now, even by your practices ever &s;ince, that in your little Book called <HI>Your lawfulne&s;&s;e of comming into Eng! a ad, Rea&s;.</HI> 6th. Yee have either a bloudy or (at the be&s;t) a compul&s;ive intention, to root out, or at lea&s;t to compell all of what &s;oever degree, e&s;tate or condition, to be one with you in <HI>Religion,</HI> by which unju&s;t re&s;olutions, do ye not pre|&s;ume above what is meet, and even u&s;urp the worke both of Gods word and Spirit?</P>
<P>If this kind of dealing, be any-wi&s;e a doing as yee would be done unto, we referre it both to your afore-&s;aid declarati|an, and to your owne con&s;ciences; for if yee would not bee plea&s;ed, that any per&s;on or &s;tate &s;hould urge and beat you from your Religion, why then dare yee pre&s;ume to urge or beate either us from ours, or any others from theirs; but &s;till to doe as yee would be done unto, for what&s;oever mea&s;ure ye give, the like ye &s;hall receive.</P>
<P>And have yee forgoten, is it &s;o out of your minds, that yee began all the&s;e bloody warres, again&s;t your good King, in the very &s;ame quarrell? was it not becau&s;e it was his Maje|&s;ties Royall and gracious plea&s;ure, to compell you to &s;erve God by his Bi&s;hopes and Popi&s;h booke, otherwi&s;e then yee were per&s;waded, or at lea&s;t accu&s;tomed? And if &s;o (which ye cannot yet deny, becau&s;e it can be &s;o aboundantly proved) why then will yee be &s;o arrogant and wicked, as &s;till to pro&s;e|cute &s;uch an un-godly attempt, and per&s;ecute hone&s;t and peaceable people? but rather to learne of <HI>Chri&s;t, to hee meeke, humble and lowly,</HI> endevouring alwayes to convince by the <HI>word,</HI> but never to force by the &s;word.</P>
<P>Again, it cannot be denied, but even thankfully remem|bred,
<PB N="16" REF="9">that ye not only lent us your helping hand, even a pow|erfull army, whereby yee forced a Parliament to be called a|mong us, when our King made it no le&s;&s;e then trea&s;on to mention a Parliament (being then in the highe&s;t of his nor|man tyranny and malice again&s;t our birth-rights and liber|ties) but likewi&s;e, yee continued your army a whole yeare with us, untill yee &s;et us in a right Parliamentary po&s;ture; and &s;aw both wicked men puni&s;hed, and ju&s;t men advanced before yee departed, yea and yee went all away with as great honour, credit and re&s;pect as (we &s;uppo&s;e) &s;uch a great army in any forraigne Nation ever did.</P>
<P>Upon which ground, and that yee have been alwaies e&s;t|emed a valiant people, and an unconquered Nation how&s;o|ever yee be in bondage to your Kings) and did carry your &s;elves wi&s;ely in all the particulars of your owne defence a|gain&s;t the Kings power and forces, we called you into our Nation with an army to help and a&s;&s;i&s;t us again&s;t the King; and in the fir&s;t place yee took in New-<HI>Ca&s;tle</HI> againe from his forces, and &s;ent us Coles both of your owne and from thence, for our moneyes; when many had begun to burne bed-&s;teeds and tables above the &s;pace of too yeares, for want thereof:</P>
<P>But herein was your failing, yee began and ran well but who did let you that ye would not goe on to the end of your races, why would ye not be as carefull to a&s;&s;i&s;t our forces and di&s;charge your owne duties in all other places and &s;ervices &s;ince, as ye were to exact your arreares, and &s;o to have made a &s;peedier end of the&s;e warres.</P>
<P>How&s;oever, upon this view of mutuall duties and favours thus given and received; it is our earne&s;t de&s;ire, for a better union betwen us, then either &s;uch a Covenant or kind of religion can make, that there may bee no further pur&s;uance of us, in a coercive way unto either, more then we indevour again&s;t you in what we profe&s;&s;e or practice, but that LOVE, which is the greate&s;t Commandement of all, may begin and encrea&s;e again betwen us as brethren, friends and neighbours, &amp; &s;o continue throughout all generations.</P>
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