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A94168	The false brother, or, A new map of Scotland, drawn by an English pencil; being a short history of the political and civil transactions between these two nations since their first friendship: wherein the many secret designs, and dangerous aspects and influences of that nation on England are discovered; with the juglings of their commissioners with the late King, Parliament, and city. The grounds of the entrance of our army into Scotland cleared, from their own principles and actings; their main pleas impleaded, and answered. Humbly presented to the Councel of State.	Sydenham, Cuthbert, 1622-1654.	1651 (1651)	Wing S6294; Thomason E620_13; ESTC R203681	46,712	64

from Scotland to ease our burthen so that person laid the plot of Prerogative and persecution and left the prosecution of it to his Successors which they have not failed in But our neerer acquaintance and that which begot friendship betwen us seemed to have laid on a more contrary yet sure foundation not on our union under one King but their falling out with him and opposing the effects of his Fathers plots and his sons Tyranny an act then very new and strange that both gained them hatred and respect according to the disposition of the Court and the temperature of the Kingdom and had gained them immortal glory to all Nations if they had been as uniform and even in the series of action as they were hot and violent in their first motions and agitations about it For the late King having been fully acquainted with his Fathers principles which he had a peaceable time to fortify and observed whom he made his enemies and friends did endeavour to go on where he left off and to propagate them with that zeal that an interested Agent ought to do upon whom only the active part of the work lay which design as it was chiefly to advance the Prerogative above the Law and Episcopacy above the Gospel and both as a step to Popery so it was carried on by degrees in England both as to Civils and Ecclesiasticals and so less discerned and the great method was to begin with Scotland first which as it was more remote so it taking full effect there as an Essay it might be effected in England with more power knowing that England was the more Heroick free and noble Nation and more incapable of bondage and slavery and they well knew it would be hard on a sudden to make a Civil War in England after so long a Summer of peace especially ere they had tryed what could be done with the two other Kingdoms But it first brake out in Scotland on a sudden and too violently by the zeal of the Archbishop of Canterbury who to provoke them sent them a new Common-Prayer-book worse then ours which was bad enough with many revilings and affronts publickly to the whole Nation that the Scots had nothing else but the grosness of the plot to oppose which yet was sufficient to move them to preserve themselves our condition was much worse by how much we lay more directly under the design and both the burthens of oppression and persecution with less plea and power to oppose The Scots soon resent those actings and unite themselves together and put themselves into a posture of defence against the King and his Incendiaries at Court and at last come into England to prevent the Kings coming with an Army to Scotland and in a little time they gained their desires with something from England over and above This first engagement against the King Common-Prayer and Bishops all which lay heavy on our consciences did not only gain them their own desires but got them the hearts of true Englishmen and abundance of reverence to their Cause and Nation yea all honest and godly men to whom then the thoughts of any Liberty was sweet and the glimmerings of probable hopes precious fell down at their feet espoused their quarrel and though their actings had but an occasional influence upon our condition our whole Parliament suffered a dissolution rather then they would contribute a farthing to make a war against them though Parliaments were then rare monuments of Priviledges to us and of such necessity to our affairs and we were hopeless of attaining any more and when the necessities of the King to get money moved him to call this Parliament as meaning once more to try the people we not onely again refused to act against Scotland but the first thing we did was to proclaim them our Dear Brethren and instead of granting Subsidies against them we gave them a gratuity of three hundred thousand pound sterling for standing up for their own just Liberties and giving us occasion of doing the same though some wise and single eyed men are not afraid to say that there was somewhat more in the end then preservation of Religion in that expedition First because there were many private animosities long before ripening about places among some great ones at Court and Scotland and that there was fire enough in these breasts to kindle a very great flame however they took occasion to kindle it at a fit season for the Scots 2. The revenues of the Court in Scotland were not so equally distributed among the Scots Noblemen but some got all 3. It was a fine Essay for the Noblemen and Gentry of Scotland having so good a pretence to try the temper of the English and take a clear prospect of our State But that which makes many especially believe that Religion was but a pretence is because they have made so little progress in the Reformation and purifying it among themselves and yet have made so many divisions in it and by it among us Others think their hatred was not so much against Superstition as Ceremony nor of Episcopacy but of its pontificalness in outward Ornaments which they could no so well maintain and their Nobility together But we must give them their due they had the first eminent occasion given them to oppose Innovations and they must have the honor of the first start we then thought them all Saints and at that time every breath after Religion and Profession of Reformation was so taking to good men who knew no way of attaining it by themselves that the Scot laid in a stock of credit which hath lasted them ever since having the first commendation of early risers though afterwards they might and did lie abed striving to secure their own interests and make use of others necessities which they have ever since carefully held to in all opportunities But the last and most special friendship hath been by our mutual conjunction in a common Cause against the late King and his malignant interest the King having for the present altered the Scene from Scotland to England though the design was the same against both we were fain to unite more closely and to profess against our common enemy yet as the Scots did not move or engage untill solemnly invited by our Parliament so we were loth to trouble them untill we saw them like to be engaged by others and we at present through the delayes and divisions of our first Armies were not able to improve our own strength This union was confirmed by the Solemn League and Covenant which one would think had been an everlasting foundation of Amity and love between us had it been well made and honestly kept But concerning this Covenant it is to be feared though it was solemnly taken yet it was carelesly made with much design and craft which God will punish as well as the breach of it For it was drawn by the Scots according to their sense and what

they might be drawn farther South where better means might be had for redress in the mean time the burthen and misery was enough to busie us in patience and prayer yea so high they were grown that I heard a General person say debating about the rights of England and of their power over Englishmen that these distinctions must not be admitted the Covenant had made us one and that we were to be ruled by their Laws as our own I had not inserted these relations but only that we may see what use they made at first and meant to make of the Covenant The series of the actions and carriages of the Army were alwayes proportionable to these principles as if in their first Expedition they came to take our affections in the second to take away our priviledges and possess our inheritances As for their Military actions in prosecution of the War we need make no large Chronicle setting aside their lying before York the battel of Marston-Moor where they were assisted with two distinct English Armies and the taking New-Castle and Carlile in which they served themselves as well as us you may reduce all their services to a preserving their own borders saving their last journey in that Expedition into the South for March I cannot call it being there was no enemy in the way which yet was hardly obtained where though they shamefully left Hereford yet they got Newark and the King to boot of which more anon All the particulars of their strange deportment in the North will require a particular discourse and but burthen this I am sorry we have cause to repeat any thing of their miscarriages neither would I lessen their services but its time now to keep even reckoning and for England to know its own Interest But to go on God having almost beyond the faith of his people and expectation of Politicians blest our New Modell under the Command of that ever to be renowned Lord Fairfax to conquer the Kings Forces at Naseby Langport Cornwall that they had on a sudden beaten all their Field Forces and taken in most of their Garrisons save Oxford Hereford and some few more It put the Scots into new shifts and policies for they had kept their Army as the only reserve and Umpire and seeing things so strangely and without expectation altered by almost a miracle of providence and the main work to be done without them and no Martial work at all left for them on the Royal Party they secretly strive to make some that they might not leave us without doing something They were at a great loss in many regards by these new providences for first all their Commanders who had before the great command of the English Army had happily thrust themselves out of Office proudly slighting the New Model and scorning to stoop to a necessary Reformation and reduction of Officers which the State then saw fit whereby they wanted that influence in the Military part of our affairs which was of most concernment then unto us and we found the misery of it in the Lord General Essex his time by the delayes and neglects of opportunities which wasted our Treasure and gave the King too much ground to have got all and by the way it s not a useless observation seeing it is drawn by providence that God should lay aside and not use the Scots Army nor any of their great Officers in the full conquest of the common Enemy but while they were lying safe in their Quarters in the North getting in their Sesses God should prosper a poor despised Army and carry them from South to West conquering and to conquer that we may impartially say that they never were instrumental in one battle nor had a hand in the effectual accomplishment of that conquest there is something more in it then hath been taken notice of either by them or us and so much were they affected with the envy of that mercy that it was wonderful to see with what strange made faces they kept dayes of thanksgiving for every Victory which was obtained as ordinary as we had Marches Besides they might well think it mightily reflecting upon them that they should leave the Nation so much indebted to them and do them so little service But what an unexpressible favour God hath shewn to England in that he used our own Army to do the last work after-Ages will better judge if they got so much into our hearts and prevailed by the name of their brotherly assistance and reckoned on so much deserts from us that all our money and respects can never requite what would it have amounted unto if God had made them to do all that work for us The four Northern Counties had been a small testimony of our acknowledgements But that I may avoid tediousness the Scots seeing themselves so defeated and all their old instructions out of date think of a new way either to lengthen the war or slubber over the Peace which they had well contrived by their Commissioners who pretty well knew how to act their parts and had taken a full view of our affairs and having by our respects been admitted to all our Counsels and privy to most of our secrets for so kind we were they did soon cast our water and having had special advantages to view the generality of the people in the Parliament they observed them to consist of different tempers some but loosely principled and inclinable to the Royal Interest others but warily ingaged and almost neuters others very zealous for some express publick and national Government in the Church and capable of their severest notions others who were not much addicted to any seriousness and but a few truly engaged in the English Interest they strike in with the most comprehensive partie and fit baits sutable to them having but one interest to oppose they thought to crush them by strengthning the rest To take the one party which was not quite of Royal principles they deal with Mountril the French Agent to bring the King to their Army that after our Army had conquered him they might make use of him at least to gain breath to some other work That they might take the other party they press Reformation and cry up Presbyterial Government and that this temptation might not miss they closely joyn Royalty and Presbytery together as King James was wont to do Episcopacy and Royalty saying No Bishop no King The Forge wherein they formed all their Engines was the City of London the prime instruments to effect their design were closely some old formal discontented Citizens who had worn out their consciences with telling of money and some back-sliding and rotten Lords and Commons especially those who had been in the Army had lost their places and honor with the Scots Officers as Hollis Stapleton Waller Massey Graves Gentlemen who had their names up for a while among the people in regard of some particular acts in the war untill they

their hearts were and are those which ever since have abused our Parliament and Army and have made use of all their authority to overthrow us and yet we must be contented with their onely dissent onely to the manner and order of that invasion And yet truly I think we might well be satisfied in their dislike if we had not found that they have been both the first Agents and mean to be the last prosecutors of the same design but grant all these protesting spirits to be never so entire to the English interest the contrary to which we have found by woful experience yet we may see the complexion of that whole State in its aspects on England and may very well demand full satisfaction for a Parliamentary publick Commission to enslave and abase this Free born Nation When England was guiltless of any design they must satisfie When they come and invade us for their own security against two or three persons at Court we must out of Conscience reward them And when we make use of them in a Common Cause which would at last fall as hardly on themselves if they meant to keep their first principles yet we must pay them both for their own good as well as ours and maintain them in their zeal and love and Religion together and yet its unreasonable for this Commonwealth to propose satisfaction for an Authorized invasion on us to the undoing of thousands in the North. But the onely and best reason that ever I could find out to salve and quench such a motion is drawn from that way of arguing which is ab impossibili that its impossible for us to get satisfaction were they as Free as they are Froward and where there is nothing we may remember our English Proverb In that cause there the King must lose his Right intimating that if any thing could be got per fas aut nefas by hook or by crook Kings would be sure to get it who were nothing else but the Royal Catch-poles of a Commonwealth But grant that all arrears were discharged between us is it not reason that we should have security at least when we are willing to take that for satisfaction that is the next ground of entring Scotland to secure our own Borders and have not we reason when they have joyned with an interest diametrically against us to intreat that after they have laid their designs on England they will promise not to act them we desire nothing but peace at home and to reap the fruit of our own labors and Gods mercies Let Scotland sit down with the Triumph and Joys of their now Politick Convert we shall not envy them but they must give us leave to remember our own Condition when we have such neighbors and enemies joyned together who have been the bawds to all parties in their utmost Rapes and Ravishments of the Priviledges of this Commonwealth We wish we had as equal Judges as we have sufficient grounds for this Act they have given us cause of Jealousie should they prove never so honest now by their former Transactions but when both the former and latter designs are made one and the same pretences still pleaded to dress the old design and all waies of information and correspondencie is absolutely shut up by them its time for England to look to it self and to endeavor if they can to prevent that which they mean to prevail by viz. our facilness and delay upon what pretence soever And we mean to go by examples the Scots have led us the way and taught as the Method of invading long before Hamiltons Expedition upon sleighter and lower grounds and less occasion then we have For when the King by the prevailing Favourites at Court had raised an Army with intention to make war on them to prevent the miseries of war in their own Countrey and get before-hand with the King they fairly march over Tweed enter England and take New-Castle and by that means disappointed that intended mischief in their own Nation and have not we the same just reasons to take our opportunities when they have proclaimed a King over us and were forming an Army to enthrone him in this Nation let all the world judge If they say they had not stated a war against England or did not intend to invade us we shall desire nothing more from them than a full confirmation of that Protestation But what meant the Treaty at Breda what meant that Article wherein they promise upon his full satisfying the just demands of that State and Kirk they would endeavour to restore him to his rights in England Would they do it by an Army or not or could they restore him but by force upon us These juglings will not now serve the turn Can any man of any competency of reason judge that Charls Stuart who hath been bred up in his Fathers principles and who hath had such Tutors all this while would give up himself to live on the charity of that Nation or that he would ever enter Scotland but as a back door to England intending to make the furthest way about the nearest way home Or will any imagine that the Scots are so in love with a King as to be burthen'd both with his power and maintenance alone but that they meant to make use of him to get a greater footing in England than ever they had and to be enriched with the spoiles and rewards of this flourishing Nation for such a special service let every mans conscience speak this truth and should not we be for ever branded as fools to posterity to let them make their own preparations and take their own advantages to ruine us while we are terrified with the nicety of a word which they call invasion from securing our selves and certainly if the absolutest necessity had not enforced Expedition prudence and policy would have rendred it a madness for us to send our faithful and special Army into Scotland to suffer all that misery and hardship which they have since undergone and notwithstanding all former affronts without any acknowledgement much less redress from them God knows and honest men might see with what frame of spirit our Army entred Scotland in their addresses to the borders you would not think to see them they had been an Army of Souldiers but of suiters and humble Petitioners for a peace and it was no small encouragement to some silent and observing spirits to see the order of their addresses unto that Nation sending in their desires for nothing else but the security of England begging that they might not be put to extremities against that Nation but might yet receive some hopes of satisfaction writing as unto Saints not enemies and those that viewed their carriages saw as much of the workings of Christian bowels in that Remonstrance as ever any that came from an Army But all these amicable and sweet motions were returned with Fire and Sword with the utmost revilings and contempt as if