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A48076 A letter from Rotterdam, touching the Scotch affaires, since November, 1650 1651 (1651) Wing L1500; ESTC R222062 6,872 14

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Grandchild Charles the 2. is to bee Crown'd without any such Royall or Religious Ceremony upon designe doubtlesse as well to devest him of that Jus Sanguinis that hereditary right of Succession which doth immortallize Princes here on Earth and make their Names and Office like his whose Vicegerents they are and whose Image they beare eternall to all generations as also to render him the peoples Creature and servant as if his Crowne and dignity had been the peoples gift and not his owne by Birthright as if his Power had beene derivative from his Subjects and not Gods Ordinance and as naturall over them as a Fathers over his children in a word that his first Title might be Carolus Electione Populi not Carolus Dei Gratia For this purpose they had prepared three Lay-Kirk-men and three Kirk-Lay-men to performe the Office of the Bishop my meaning is three Presbyters of their own Brooding under their Classes not of Episcopall Ordination and three Ruling Elders these last acting their parts in a double capacity for first they stand for Representers of the People and Commissioners of the Representative Body the Parliament and next for Assisting Elders of the Kirke Thus Presbytery which was ever good at deposing and usurping upon Kings hath at last and may it prove the last set the Crowne on their Kings Head more in mockery if without an ill Omen I may borrow that fimilitude as the Souldiers Crown'd our Saviour a little before his Crucifixion than out of any true intention For the Crowne they put upon his Head though it were of gold yet was it debas'd by the Covenant and rob'd of the choicest Flowers wherewith it was wont to be adorn'd His Royall Praerogatives those individuall and unforfeitable Ensignes of Soveraignty The Sword they gave him though it had a specious outside yet it seem'd rather of Wood than Steele the Edge being blunted by taking from him the Militia and depriving him of the power of the Sword either for offence by doing justice upon malefactors or for defence against Forreigne Invasion or home-bred Rebellion Lastly the Scepter they put into his hand was but a Mock-Scepter being divested of the Supreame Power which is the very Essence or Formalis ratio of Majestie for by the Articles of Breda they had reserved that Power to themselves tying him up to act nothing without or contrary to the advice of Parliament and Assembly nor to denie his Assent to any thing that should be represented by them or resolv'd on in their Committees of Kirke and State Thus had the Presbyterians muzled their Lion and at this first step into the Throne throwne down his Soveraign Majesties had not the great God by whom Kings reigne gratiously upheld his servant and in a short space restor'd him to that height of Honour and Dignitie which those Varlets sought to keep him from For soon after his Coronation the Nobilitie and Gentrie for many years having been oppress'd by severall Factions in their turns for the future to prevent all Faction and unite the whole Kingdome against the Common Enemy they resolve forthwith to restore His Majestie to all his just Praerogatives and no longer to suffer Committees either of Kirke or State to Lord it over them the jealousies of the two grand Factions of the Kingdome the Hamiltonian and Argylian gave life to this Resolution who not more ambitious of than envious at each others greatnesse chose rather than submit to the commands of their equalls or inferiours to set up the King and to yield obedience to one King rather than many Kings for which very cause The Beasts of the Forrest once made choyce of the Lyon for their King By this means in the month of January that glorious Sun began to mount higher and higher in the Zodiack of Majestie and Soveraigntie and quickly warm'd with its bright beams the hearts of his languishing Subjects into the love of Loyaltie and Regall Government for which they now praise God that had sent them a King under whose protection they might bee freed from the tyranny and oppression of their fellow subjects But about the 5. of February this glorious Sun appeared brighter and brighter when that free Parliament began to sit which ashamed longer to deprive their King of the libertie to use his Reason with a good Conscience admitted him to the power of his Negative Voice and put him into the possession of his just Rights whilst the Kirke Assembly at the same time met at St. Andrew perplex themselves with hot disputes touching His Majesties Authoritie in Ecclesiasticals and other private quarrels of their owne rather than endeavour to compose differences and submit to the Kings supreame power over all persons and in all Causes spirituall and temporall His Majestie not much minding their Disputes nor they carefull to tender their due respects to him till those contentions ended and that Assembly dissolv'd suddenly through the hot alarum given about this time by the English Forces who sent a strong party to crosse the Forth above Sterling whilest the maine Body fac'd Sterling it selfe and other parties were sent by Sea to make some attempt upon Burnt Eland and Fife-Nesse I shall not need to expresse the losses the Enemy sustain'd in those severall places Though your Mercury's whose brib'd breath dares publish naught but Victories conceale the particulars yet the Dutch Gazets talke of thousands of the English kil'd and of their disorderly Retreat and unseasonable mutiny of the Souldiery for want of pay and hard duty which begat a debate whether Fairfax his Counsell had not been more prudently follow'd rather to stand upon defence than invade a Countrey where they were to fight with two such potent Enemies as Hunger and Cold. Sir I can assure you the Scots since their Kings Coronation magnifie Gods providence in blessing them wonderfully beyond their deserts aswell in the discovery of some mens Treasons against his Majesties Person and the Treachery of others that sought to betray Sterling and Brunt Eland into the Enemies hand as also in repulsing Gen. Cromwels Forces which have endeavoured often and by sundry Stratagems to land men in Fife but chiefly for that great piece of providence by sending in unexpectedly to their relief 3 English Ships laden with provisions and Arms for the supply of the English Army and for the casting away of foure English Merchants Ships and their Convoy at the Towne of Are And further this you may take upon the assurance of an authentick witnes that the Scots King himself under his own hand very lately signified to his friends here that he is in no inconsiderable condition having already a very gallant Army of 36000. horse and Foot well appointed This news hath much encouraged the English Cavaliers in these parts and stir'd them up to furnish themselves with all necessaries fit for his Majesties service insomuch that about the end of February 12. sayle of Ships convoy'd by two men of War went from the Brill in