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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61504	An accompt of Scotlands grievances by reason of the D. of Lauderdales ministrie humbly tendred to His Sacred Majesty.	Stewart, James, Sir, 1635-1713.	1672 (1672)	Wing S5532A; ESTC R17495	39,626	70

also here offer to your Ma ties more serious thoughts a passage recorded 2 Sam. 19.5.6.7 and recommended by the suitablenesse of some of its circumstances to the present case but since I am farr from thinking that the D. of Laud. is to your Matie as Absolom to David or that the discontents with us are so dangerous or threatning as is there intimated and seing I doe as litle know how to seperat Ioabs militarie and rude passion from his dutifull and Zealous affection I trust that God shall by more gentle and sweet influences incline your Ma tie to arise and speake comfortablie to your servants The words of the passage hinted at in the close of this letter are these And Joab came into the house to the King and said thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants which this day have saved thy life and the lives of thy sones and of thy daughters and the lives of thy wives and the lives of thy concubines in that tbou lovest thine enemies and hatest thy friends for thou hast declared this day that thou reguardest neither Princes nor servants for this day I perceive that if Absolom had lived and all we had died this day then it had pleased the well now therefore arise goe forth and speake comfortablie unto thy servants for I swear by the Lord if thou goe not forth there will not tarrie one with thee this night that will be worse unto thee then all the evill that befell thee from thy youth untill now But albeit that all mareriall in this letter was pressed by these Noblemen and many other things represented that might have tended to the good of the Kingdom such as a digestion of our laws and rules of judgement formerlie mentioned a release of all arriers of Taxation and Sesse preceeding the year 1665 a discharge of the annuitie of tithes and a setling of the order of Par lt according to known rules and presidents And lastlie that nothing was omitted that might give a satisfieng evidence in every point yet My L. Laud s. suggestions and influences doe more prevaill D. Hammiltoun is dismissed with fair words However it being promised that the Par lt should sitt at its day and grievances be redressed and also a period putt to My Lo. Laud s. Commission My L. Hammiltoun haistens homeward with extraordinarie difficultie in respect both of the rigour of the season and the infirmitie of his health to attend its dyet on the 3d. of March which was the very next day to that of his arriveall But in stead of a session so much exspected by the people and all the members of Par lt who had now waited about four moneths and were better conveened then at any time before all doe meet with the disappointiment of a blunt adjournment unto the 14. of Oct r. next and accordinglie the Par lt is adjourned After these our more formed and generall grievances I might here subjoin some smaller notices relateing to My L. Lauds way and behaviour not impertinent to the things that we have allreadie heard such as first his arrogant undervalue of Par lts discovered by that expression to his Ma tie against the E. of Midletons services S ir if you had sent down a dog with your commission about his neck to your Scotch Par lt he would have done all that E. Midleton hath done 2dly his insolent treating of some members in this present Par lt as when he commanded one M r William Moor summarilie to prison because I think he desired that after the order of the English Par lt Acts might be at least thrice read before they were voted or somwhat to this purpose and in his course style asked another for having in his modestie said We for I what Sir are there any myce in your arse 3dly his contemptuous slighting of D. Hammiltoun and most of the antient nobilitie of greatest interest and consideration in the Kingdom whom he did not so much as allow to be named to be of the number of the Commissioners chosen for the Treatie of the Union betwixt the two Kingdoms 4thly his strange inconstancie in his friendships acted meerlie by his humour or advantage as witnesse his dealings with the Earles of Rothes Tweddell and Argyle S r Robert Murray D. of Ormond E. Shaftsberry and others whom according to occasion he hath both caressed with open flatterie and rejected with proud prejudice 5thly his regardlesse neglect of the countreys interest to gratifie indigent or covetous persons of his dependence by procuring for them gifts of the pains of penall statutes as to Sr John Moncriefe a gift of the pains of non-conforming within the Shires of Perth and Fyfe To .... Scot of Ardrosse and Major Borthwick a gift upon the Maltmen and Brewers and to the same Major Borthwick another vexatious gift called ordinarilie of peck and bole 6thly his prophane complement to the Archbishop of S t Andrews coming one day to visit him Come in My Lord sit down here at my right hand untill I make all your enemies your footstool 7thly his dull and malicious Iestings against his old practices and acquaintances as when one day at his table he said he could pray as well as any Nonconformist and so begunn a long complaint to God of covenant-breaking and other sins to their derision and when at other times he hath insulted over them in their appearances before the Councell by a reproachfull remembrance of by-past courses so that some of them have applyed to him the old remarque omnis Apostata suae sectae osor But it is not to these onely that he confines this humour he makes it serve also in other occurrences as when it was said about grievances that they ought not onely to be redressed but prevented for the future he answered with much noise that this was like an overture of the Commission of the Kirk c. as if in effect his fancie were lesed with the remains of his old hypocrisie But passing these things that may savour of a design of personall reflexion which is trulie farr from me it may be to better purpose to suspend a litle the closure of this relation in two more important remarques The first is that in the first session of this Par lt and for its first Act his Ma ties Supremacie was enacted whereby it is declared not onely that his Ma tie hath the supream authoritie over all persons and in all causes within this Kingdom and that by virtue thereof the ordering of the externall government and policie of the Church doth properlie belong to him but that his Ma tie and his Successors may setle enact and emitt such constitutions acts and orders concerning all ecclesiasticall persons meetings and Matters a word infinitlie extensive comprehending the all of Religion as they in their royall wisdom shall think fit It is true that this was unanimouslie consented to by the Par lt and it is as well known