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A82120	A declaration of the army of England, upon their march into Scotland. Signed in the name, and by the appointment of his excellency the Lord General Cromwel, and his councel of officers. Jo: Rushworth Secr' Die Veneris, 19 Julii, 1650. Resolved by the Parliament, that this declaration be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1650 (1650)	Wing D635; Thomason E607_20; ESTC R205889	7,571	15

A DECLARATION OF THE ARMY OF ENGLAND Upon their March into SCOTLAND SIgned in the Name and by the Appointment of His Excellency the Lord General Cromwel and His Councel of Officers JO RUSHWORTH Secr. Die Veneris 19 Julii 1650. REsolved by the Parliament That this Declaration be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by Edward Husband and John Field Printers to the Parliament of England July 19. 1650. A Declaration of the Army of England upon their March into Scotland To all that are Saints and Partakers of the Faith of Gods Elect in Scotland WE the Army of England do from the bottom of our Hearts wish like Mercy and Truth Light and Liberty with our selves from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ Although we have no cause to doubt but that the Declaration of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England bearing date the 26 of June 1650. and published to manifest to the World the Justice and Necessity of sending their Army into Scotland may satisfie all impartial and uninterested men in all the Nations round about us the matters of Fact therein contained being true and the Conclusions made from thence and the Resolutions thereupon taken agreeable to the Principles of Religion Nature and Nations and therefore it may seem to some if not improper yet superfluous for us their Army to say any more Yet however out of our tenderness towards you whom we look upon as our Brethren and our desire to make a distinction and separation of you from the rest as who through the cunning practises of some wicked and designing men byassed by particular Interests or for want of a true and right Information and Representation of the great and wonderful Transactions wrought amongst us and brought to pass by the meer finger of our God may possibly be scandalized at some late actions in England and thereby be involved in that common Cause so much from Heaven declared against by blasting all persons and parties that at any time in the least under what pretence or disguise soever engaged therein and so with them to become partakers of their Miseries We have therefore thought fit to speak to some particulars and that as in the presence of the Lord to whose Grace and in the dread of whose Name we do most humbly Appeal and who should we come to a day of Engagement will be a sore Witness against us if we utter these things in hypocrisie and not out of bowels of love to perswade the Hearts and Consciences of those that are godly in Scotland that so they may be withdrawn from partaking in the sin and punishment of evil doers or that at least we might exonerate our selves before God and Man do Remonstrate as followeth And for as much as we believe many godly people in Scotland are not satisfied with the proceedings of this Nation concerning the death of the late King the rejection of his Issue the change of the Government and several actions conversant thereabout Although it cannot be supposed that we shall in this Paper meet with all Objections that may be made these very particulars alone requiring more lines then we intend in the whole Yet we briefly say That we were ingaged in a War with the said King for the Defence of our Religion and Liberties and how many times Propositions for a safe and well-grounded Peace were offered to him and how often he refused to consent thereto you well know which according to humane accompt he might have closed with had not the righteous God who knoweth the deceitful heart of man and is the preserver of Mankinde especially of his people in his secret judgement denyed him a heart to ascent thereto By which Refusals he made it appear That nothing less would satisfie then to have it in his own power to destroy Religion and Liberties the subversion whereof he had so often attempted That He was a man guilty of more Innocent Blood in England Ireland and Scotland even of those he ought to have preserved as a Father his Children then any of his predecessors or we think then any History mentioneth the guilt whereof he brought upon his Family by solemn Appeals to God That the Son did tread in the Fathers steps and pursue his Designs destructive to Religion Liberty That a party in Parliament false to God and to their trust were willing did endeavor to betray the Cause into the late Kings hands That a remaining number in Parliament desiring to be true to God and to the People that intrusted them out of Integrity of Heart and fearing that the high Displeasure of God would fall upon them if they had not done it did bring to Justice and cause to be executed the said King did reject the Person now with you did lay aside the House of Lords an Estate not representing the People nor trusted with their Liberties yet at that time very forward to give up the Peoples Rights and obstruct what might save them and always apt enough to joyn with Kingly Interest against the Peoples Liberties whereof we wish you have not like sad experience and did for the good of the people resolve the Government into a Commonwealth And having done all this that they are not accountable to any other Nation is sufficient to say to you except it be to excite you to rejoyce in this wonderful work of God and to be thankful to him for so much Deliverance as you have thereby and leave the rest to the State of England to whom it doth onely and properly belong who have manifested their regular proceedings therein according to the true and equitable intent of the constitution of England and the Representors of the people in Parliament in their several and respective Declarations if they be looked into to which we refer you Besides it is worthy consideration with how many Providences this Series of Action hath bin blest which would require a Volumn to recount If Treaties be urged against us It is easie to say by whom they were broken and how eminently even by the then full Authority of the Parliament of Scotland and the Invasion by Duke Hamilton and yet that not the first breach neither And if it be said That hath been protested against and revoked since We ask Doth that make up the breach so as to challenge England still upon Agreements and Articles you know as to Right it doth not except you suppose that England made their bargain so That Scotland might break and England remain bound whereas it is a known Law of Nations That in the breach of the League by the one party the other is no longer obliged If the Covenant be alleaged against us this may be said by us with honesty and clearness Religion having therein the first place civil Liberties the next the Kings Interest and constitution of Parliament the last and these with subordination one to another The Covenant tyed us to preserve Religion and

that Army who over numbring them in Parliament power and friends and by the advantage of Malignants thrust all that you could call the good party out of Power and Authority himself getting the command of that Army into England and leaving his Brother and other Kindred in power in Scotland Thus upon the same ground and pretence to carry on the Kingly Interest have you been twice deceived and now he is brought in among you who hath turned every stone and tryed all Friends and Allyes in Foreign parts endeavored commotions at home by his wicked and Malignant Instruments commissioned Rupert the French and all that Pyratical Generation who do spoil take plunder and destroy our Ships and Trade at Sea and all to the end he might destroy the people of God and the peace of the Three Nations And now being by his Mother and the Popish Interests abroad councelled thereto hath made a compliance with you as his last refuge who even whilest he was treating with you had his heart set upon Montross and his Accomplices writing Letters and sending particular Orders to him and upon his Popish Army in Ireland to whom he had given Commissions and whom he still owned as his faithful Subjects notwithstanding all the Innocent Blood by them shed and would never be induced to comply or close with the Covenant and Presbytery till utterly disappointed of all those his Malignant and Popish hopes and confidences Is there not now just cause for all good men with you to fear that one so bred so engaged and interested and meerly in such a way coming in to you doth but watch his opportunity to speak nothing of the weight of the Blood of Saints under the Altar crying still for Vengeance upon him and that Family till by his influence upon your Army which you know how composed he may gain his ends upon you and how likewise the generality of the people of Scotland are affected is not unworthy of your most serious consideration nor of a friendly intimation from us But that which most awakens us is That notwithstanding all this and all the wrongs done to England from Scotland they refuse to do us right so that what wrongs soever we have or shall sustain must be without remedy and we also without security for the f●…re as is sufficiently expostulated in the Parliament of Englands Declaration aforementioned and the 〈◊〉 ●…aid of a perpetual War by taking our grand 〈◊〉 into your Bosoms and your Engagement to Him in the late Treaty with Him to restore Him to the possession of England and Ireland and therefore we call Heaven and Earth to witness Whether or no we have not cause to defend our selves by hindring the present power of Scotland from taking their time and advantage to impose thus upon us And whether they have now any just reason to wonder at the approach of an Army to their borders and the taking some of their Ships by ours yea whether our coming into Scotland with an Army upon so clear a ground be any other then a just and necessary defence of our selves for preservation of those Rights and Liberties which divine Providence hath through the expence of so much blood and treasure given us and those amongst you have engaged they will if they can wrest from us unless it must be taken for granted That the Parliament of England ought to sit still and be silent whilest their ruine is contrived their Friends and Brethren destroyed by Sea and Land whom in Conscience and Duty both before God and Man they ought to preserve And now we come to speak to all those who are within the compass of the Title of this Declaration That we undertake this business in the fear of God with bowels full of love yea full of pity to the Inhabitants of the Country and if it shall please God to make Scotland sensible of the wrongs done to us and to give to the Commonwealth of England a satisfying security against future injuries we shall rejoyce But if that may not be obtained we shall desire such as fear God not to joyn or have to do with those who are the Authors and Actors of so much evil and mischief against their Neighbors And we dare say to the praise of God That that which moves us to this great undertaking is not any reliance upon the arm of flesh or being lifted up with the remembrance of former successes or the desire of accomplishing any designes of our own that we have forelaid but the full assurance we have that our cause is just and righteous in the fight of God looking at all precedent changes and the successes that have produced them not as the work of the policy of strength of man but as the eminent actings of the Providence and Power of God to bring forth his good will and pleasure concerning the things which he hath determined in the world And we are confident that as he hath hitherto gloriously appeared so he will still bearing witness to the righteousness of this Cause in great mercy and pity of the infirmities and failings of us his poor Creatures And we do most humbly implore his divine Majesty to give a merciful testimony whether the actings of divers men amongst you have not proceeded from worldly interests together with the rancor and bitterness of their spirits who we fear through envy at Instruments have refused to acknowledge his hand and goodness in the accomplishment of these great changes and whether ours have not come from the simplicity of our and other his poor servants hearts who we trust have desired though in the midst of manifold weaknesses to follow him in integrity through difficult paths having nothing but danger and ruine appearing to the flesh and little to encourage us saving those signal manifestations of his presence in those high acts of his Providence and the fear of his Name lest he going before we should not follow And this we can further adde That nothing is so predominant within us next to our duty to God nor to betray a cause to which he hath so much witnessed as the love we have towards those that fear God there who may possibly suffer through their own mistakes or our disability to distinguish in a common calamity of which Christian love we hope we gave some proof and testimony when we were last in Scotland with this Army and were by God made instrumental to break the power of those that then oppressed the Godly Party there and were then ready at their desire to do every thing on their behalf which might put them into the seat of Authority and Power whose consciences knows this is true and for which this late Act of Engagement to their new King against England is no good requital nor their heaping upon us the reproach of a Sectarian Army a Christian dealing all which we do with comfort commend to God and can notwithstanding all this say By the Grace of God we can forgive and forget those things and can and do desire of God that the precious in Scotland may be separated from the vile which is the end of this our Paper And to the truth of this let the God of Heaven in his great mercy pardoning our weaknesses judge of us when we come to meet our Enemies in the field if through the perversness of any in Authority with you God shall please to order the decision of this Controversie by the Sword which we from our hearts beseech the Lord to avert and to give you the like Christian and Brotherly affection towards us which we by Gods grace bear towards you Signed in the name and by the appointment of his Excellency the Lord General Cromwel and his Councel of Officers Joh. Rushworth Secretary