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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84670	For the under-officers and souldiers of the English army, from the people of Scotland		1650 (1650)	Wing F1438D; ESTC R229864	2,548	6

For the Under-Officers and Souldiers OF THE ENGLISH ARMY From the People of SCOTLAND _●T 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 Kingdome of Scotland wherein We and all our Interests are included be not a thing most sinfull and unlawfull which will bring wrath and indignation from the Lord upon all these who are engaged therein or accessory thereto and because we know that things are misrepresented unto 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 grounds are upon which your so called Parliament have concluded and commanded to invade this Land that if it be possible your sinne and our affliction may be avoyded 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 joint interest in some Acts of it whilst they were resident in England and whilst 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 〈…〉 ●●ving of Lawes in England The most that they did was 1. The Committee of both Kingdoms being appointed by the 〈…〉 ●f both Kingdomes they acted therein in a coordinate way in things of common Interest 2. They did often by Letters 〈…〉 ●●uses of Parliament their desires and give them warning when they were either negligent in or averse from their dutie 〈…〉 for a joynt interest in the Kings Person he being King of Scotland as well as of England 〈…〉 which is much insisted upon is the late unlawful Engagement against England in the year 1648. But how un●● 〈…〉 this Kingdome will appear to you in these particulars 1. That Engagement was protested against in the Parli●●●● 〈…〉 of the Parliament it selfe even those who at first entered in Covenant with England and sent an Army for their 〈…〉 Scotland 2. Not only did the Body of the Ministrie of the land preach and pray against it but all the Judicatories 〈…〉 it and the Generall Assembly did in the very time of the going forth of the Army publish a large Declaration 〈…〉 in Shyres did petition the Parliament against it So were the Body of the people of the Land especially the 〈…〉 to God against it So did they refuse to contribute thereto and concurre therein and because of this 〈…〉 prevailing partie of Malignants who carried it on 4. Those who had protested against it in Parliament and 〈…〉 did before the defeat at Preston begin to stirre in Armes against it and did not lay them down untill they 〈…〉 that carried it on 5. The House of Commons and Lieutenant Generall CROMVVELL by their 〈…〉 the other to the Committee of Estates doe in a large way bear testimony to the Innocencie of the honest 〈…〉 also give them assistance against those who carried on that Engagement 〈…〉 in by the Commissioners of this Kingdome at Westminster against the taking away of the Kings life and 〈…〉 ●●is as it was an innocent and harmlesse so was it a necessary duty not onely because of the Irregularity and 〈…〉 men wanting authority and of the joynt interest of the Kingdom of Scotland in the Kings Person but also be●● 〈…〉 ●reat scandall and many sad consequents that would follow thereupon to both Kingdomes 〈…〉 refusing to repair the dammages that England sustained in the unlawful Engagement in the year 1648. But to 〈…〉 ●●mand reparation of those dammages from those who were sufferers themselves reparation was not refused but as the 〈…〉 to the Parliament of England that none who had been active in or consenting to the said Engagement should be 〈…〉 trust whatsoever without the adv●ce and consent of the Kingdome of England so did they not refuse all fair and amica●●● 〈…〉 desired to know the particular wrongs and dammages and upon knowledge thereof offered to give just satisfaction 〈…〉 ●●ound is a resolution in those of the Kingdom of Scotland again to invade England which is fancied upon very unwarrantable grounds 〈…〉 of a Treatie The proclaiming of Charles Stewart King of England and promising him assistance against England and declaring against the 〈…〉 ●ow preva●les in England as Sectaries c. To all which we say that this Kingdome did refuse to treat with your Parliament not because they ●●rpose to invade the Kingdome of England but because a prevailing party having taken away the House of Lords and also driven away and impri●●● any members of the House of Commons and changed the Government They could not acknowledge the remnant for the supream authority of 〈…〉 the King they did no otherwayes proclaim him King then in the ordinary way that hath been followed by both Kingdomes since 〈…〉 King and they have given him no promise but this that they will by all lawfull means within their power and calling 〈…〉 contribute their endeavours for his peaceable restitution to the Government of his other dominions And as to the declaring 〈…〉 is farre from concluding a resolution to make Warre upon them we can and ought to mourn and pray and bear testimony 〈…〉 be farre from thoughts of invading of them We will assure you that as those grounds contained in the Declaration of your so 〈…〉 ●●●clude it so hath there not hitherto been any such question debated nor any such resolution taken in the publick counsels of 〈…〉 been done here hath been meerly in reference to defence of the Land if we should be invaded from England 〈…〉 your consciences and as before the Lord to weigh well whether God will countenance you in such a thing and whether 〈…〉 ●●venant in you after England hath sworne before God and Angels and men to preserve the Union and Peace betwixt the 〈…〉 ●ause to invade this Land and make Warre upon us and oppresse us and shed our blood We will assure you that all who 〈…〉 Heaven against such oppression and you have cause to be afraid that because of the same God will arise to execute judge●●●● 〈…〉 is not against malignants but against those who in the integrity of their hearts have been following Jesus Christ and his 〈…〉 ●●●werable to the Gospell and who helped England in the day of her distresse and have suffered much on her behalfe chosing 〈…〉 that the malice of malignaants could devise then to break with England or set one foot in that Land in an hostile way 〈…〉 who shall take warning to proceed no farther in an evill way least God who is the Judge of all things look upon such inju●●●●● 〈…〉 ●●ch of Covenant and require it 〈…〉 by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiesty 1650.