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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	king_n	person_n	power_n	10,687	5	5.1311	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58608	A declaration of the Committee of Estates concerning their proceedings in opposition to the late unlawfull engagement against England	Scotland. Parliament.	1648 (1648)	Wing S1206; ESTC R34037	6,552	16

almost destroyed Authority weakened the person of the King put in hazard and his restitution which they pretended rendred more difficult and endeavours used to break the Union and peace betwixt the Kingdoms and to continue so far as was in their power a lasting War betwixt this Kingdom and our neighbour Nation with whom we are joyned in Covenant This being the true estate of affairs We did finde it most necessary for us to joyn in Armes together against these Covenant-breakers and their Adherents who had invaded England and were disturbing the peace of this Kingdom and who under a specious pretence of seeking the Kings Honour Freedom and Safety were seeking their own Honour and base private ends and have made the Kings condition harder then ever it was before this course being the onely means which was left us whereby to endeavour the preservation of Religion our native Countrey and the Peace and Union betwixt the Kingdoms and our own consciences being ready to condemn us if we should sit still and suffer Religion to be ruined England to be further provoked by detaining their Garrisons and this Kingdom to be enslaved and brought under the yoke of a perpetuall bondage When we had put our selves in a posture for our own defence neer Edinburgh the Earl of Crawford the Earl of Lanerk George Monro and other Commanders of the Forces joyned with them having marched to Inneresk sent unto us some Articles upon which they desired to Treat for removing all differences betwixt us but these Demands being very unreasonable and inconsistent with Religion the Covenant and Treaties betwixt the Kingdoms We refused to admit them to be the subject of a Treaty yet were content if they had any other thing to propound which might conduce to the setling of Truth and Peace according to the Covenant to appoint some from us to Treat with the like number authorized by them at any place equally distant from both Armies Whereupon they professed a readinesse to have all differences ended by a Treaty that an intestine War might be prevented but they assigned so short dyets for us to return our Answers about the necessary circumstances to be agreed on before a Treaty could begin as the time was elapsed before we could be well conveened and then they took the advantage of marching away whilest we continued in our Quarters in expectation of a Treaty by which means they gained the passe at Sterling and surprized our forces there killing some and taking others prisoners when they were in security being advertised that there was a Treaty betwixt us All this notwithstanding so desirous were we of the peace of this almost ruined Kingdom as passing over all the provocations given unto us We readily entertained all proffers to Treat And upon the 14. of September Commissioners on both sides met at Woodside together with some Ministers and Elders from the Commission of the Kirk but after three dayes debate that Treaty during which their Army was grievously plundering the Countrey produced little else but delays they refusing to accept of any conditions without rewards for their service Liberty to transport the Irish Forces in a body to Ireland security for their Lives Estates Honours Fortunes and places and assurance that none who had been accessory to the late Engagement should be questioned either by us or by the Kingdom of England for any thing done by them in relation thereunto which was impossible for us to grant without involving our selves in the guilt of the Engagement and giving occasion of quarrell against us to our neighbour Nation in whose names we could promise nothing without their advice and consent And here we cannot but remark that these Lords and others who in Parliament and otherwise pretended so great a zeal for his Majesties Honour Freedom and safety yet in all their demands to us in this Treaty they never made the least desire of any thing for the King but were ready to close an agreement with us when ever they could get satisfaction in what concerned their own Honour Freedom and Interest So soon as we understood that the Forces of the Parliament of England were come to the Borders for pursuit of the common Enemy and reducing the Garrisons of Berwick and Carlile We wrote a Letter from Falkirk to the Commander in chief of these Forces and sent two from us with instructions to acquaint him with the estate of our affairs particularly our proceedings in the Treaty and to assure them that we would contribute our utmost endeavours for the restitution of the Towns of Berwick and Carlile to the Parliament of England to whom they do of right belong In return whereunto we received from Lieut. Generall CROMVVELL a Letter to this purpose That upon the defeat of the Forces of the Duke of Hamiltoun they had received in command to prosecute the Victory untill the Enemy were put out of a condition or hope of growing into a new Army and the Garrisons of Berwick and Carlile were reduced in pursuance of which commands they had resolved to advance into Scotland with their Army for obtaining their Garrisons and that the common Enemy might be the sooner brought to a submission to reasonable conditions withall ingaging themselves that so soon as they should know from us that the Enemy should yeeld to these things we had proposed to them and the Garrisons of Berwick and Carlile were delivered they should fortwith depart out of this Kingdom after receipt of this Letter We sent some of our number with power and instructions to do their utmost endeavour for obtaining the Towns of Berwick and Carlile to be surrendred to him for the use of the Honourable Houses of the Parliament of England and to represent our earnest desire and firme resolution to preserve inviolable the Vnion betwixt the Kingdoms according to the Covenant and Treaties and since they had resolved in obedience to the Commands laid upon them to send Forces into this Kingdom for pursuing the common Enemy therefore to desire that these which should be sent might be such as would give no offence or scandall to the Ministrie and wel-affected in this Kingdome Upon the 18. of September some propositions were sent unto us from those at Sterling to which we returned an Answer upon the 20. And after a new meeting at Kirklistoun with Commissioners from them Articles of agreement were drawen up and subscribed by the Commissioners on both sides which are now published in Print In all which proceedings we have studyed to set before our eyes the Honour of God and the good of Religion the preservation of our Laws and Liberties and of the Union betwixt the Kingdomes And to the end it may further appear to this Kingdome and to all the World that no sinister end or worldly design for self-interest hath stirred us up to this course we do declare First of all that we have both matter of deep humiliation before God and thanksgiving to him when we consider