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A82143 A declaration of the English army now in Scotland, touching the justness & necessity of their present proceedings in that nation. Imprimatur Joh: Rushworth. England and Wales. Army. 1650 (1650) Wing D666; Thomason E609_10; ESTC R205957 10,147 16

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A DECLARATION OF THE English Army NOW IN SCOTLAND Touching the Justness Necessity Of their present PROCEEDINGS in that NATION Imprimatur Joh Rushworth London Printed by Edward Husband and John Field Printers to the Parliament of England August 12. 1650. For the Under-Officers and Soldiers of the English Army From the People of Scotland IT concerns you as you desire not to imbrue your hands in the blood of the Lords people without a cause and to be answerable to the Righteous Judge of the World in the day of your Accompts to consider whether the Invading of the Kingdom of Scotland wherein we and all our Interests are included be not a thing most sinful and unlawful which will bring wrath and indignation from the Lord upon all those who are engaged therein or accessory thereto And because we know that things are misrepresented to you and you are made to believe That your Undertaking is Just and Necessary We shall therefore for your Information shortly shew you how unwarrantable the gounds are upon which your so called Parliament have concluded and commanded to Invade this Land that if it be possible your sin and our affliction may be avoided The first Ground which is hinted at in the Declaration of your so called Parliament is the Commissioners of Scotland their Usurping upon Acts of Legislative Power and their frequent pretensions to and contestations about a joynt Interest in some Acts of it whilest they were resident in England and whilest nothing but Friendship and Unanimity in the same Cause was pretended But it is most certain That the Commissioners of Scotland did never claim nor assume to themselves any power concerning the making or giving of Laws in England The most that they did was 1. The Committee of both Kingdoms being appointed by the joynt Resolutions of the Parliament of both Kingdoms they acted therein in a co-ordinate way in things of common Interest 2. They did often by Letters and otherwise represent to the two Houses of Parliament their desires and give them Warning when they were either negligent in or averse from their duty in the work of Uniformity 3. They pleaded for a joynt Interest in the Kings Person he being King of Scotland as well as of England The second and a main Ground of Invasion which is much insisted upon is The late unlawful Engagement against ENGLAND in the year 1648. But how Unjustly and Unchristianly this is charged upon this Kingdom will appear to you in these particulars 1. That Engagement was protested against in the Parliament of Scotland by a considerable part of the Parliament it self even those who at first entred into Covenant with England and sent an Army for their Assistance and are now in place and power in Scotland 2. Not onely did the Body of the Ministery of the Land preach and pray against it but all the Judicatories of the Kirk did supplicate the Parliament against it and the General Assembly did in the very time of the going forth of the Army publish a large Declaration against it 3. As many Committees of War in Shires did petition the Parliament against it so were the Body of the people of the Land especially the godly so unsatisfied with it that as they did cry to God against it so did they refuse to contribute thereunto and concur therein and because of this suffered great affliction and oppression from a prevailing party of Malignants who carried it on 4. Those who had protested against it in Parliament and the generality of the well-affected in the Land did before the defeat at Preston begin to stir in Arms against it and did not lay them down until they had got all power out of the hands of that party that carried it on 5. The House of Commons and Lieut General Cromwel by their Letters the one to the General Assembly the other to the Committee of Estates do in a large way bear Testimony to the Innocency of the honest party in Scotland in that particular and did also give them Assistance against those who carried on that Engagement The third Ground is The protestation given in by the Commissioners of this Kingdom at Westminster against the taking away of the Kings and changing of the Government but this as it was an innocent and harmless so it was it a necessary Duty not onely because of the Irregularity and Insolency of proceeding in these things by Men wanting Authority and the joynt Interest of the Kingdom of Scotland in the Kings Person but also because they could not but foresee the great Scandal and many sad consequences that would follow thereupon to both Kingdoms The fourth Ground is this Kingdoms refusing to repair the Damages that England sustained in the unlawful Engagement in the year 1648. But to say nothing that it was Injustice to demand Reparation of those Damages from those who were Sufferers themselves Reparation was not refused but as the Committee of Estates gave assurance to the Parliament of England That none who had been active in or consenting to the said Engagement should be imployed in any publique place or trust whatsoever without the advice and consent of the Kingdom of England so did they not refuse all fair amicable ways of Reparation but desired to know the particular Wrongs and Damages and upon knowledge thereof offered to give just Satisfaction The fifth Ground is A Resolution of those in the Kingdom of Scotland again to Invade England which is fancied upon very unwarrantable Grounds as the refusing of a Treaty the Proclaiming of Charts Stuart King of England and promising him Assistance against England and declaring against the party that now prevails in England as Sectaries c. To all which we say That this Kingdom did refuse to treat with your Parliament not because they had a purpose to Invade the Kingdom of England but because a prevailing party have taken away the House of Lords and also driven away and imprisoned many Members of the House of Commons and changed the Government they could not acknowledge the Remnant for the Supreme Authority of England And for the King they did no otherwise proclaim him King then in the Ordinary way that hath been followed by both Kingdoms since they were both united under one King and they have given him no promise but this That they will by all lawful Means within their power and calling according to the Covenant contribute their Endeavors for his peaceable Restitution to the Government of his other Dominions And as to the declaring against them as Sectaries it is far from a conclusion of making War against them we can and ought to mourn and pray and bear Testimony against then Errors and yet be far from thoughts of Invading of them We will assure you That as those Grounds contained in the Declaration of your so called Parliament do not conclude it so hath there not hitherto been any such Question debated nor any such Resolution taken in the publique Councels