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A82540	The answer of the Parliament of England, to a paper, entituled, a declaration by the Kings Majesty, to his subjects of the kingdoms of Scotland, England and Ireland. Printed at Edinburgh, 1650. Whereunto is annexed, copies of four letters to the King of Scotland, which were found in the Lord Loudouns cabinet. Die Veneris, 20 Septem. 1650. Ordered by the Parliament, that this answer and letters be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Loudoun, John Campbell, Earl of, 1598-1663.	1650 (1650)	Wing E1227; Thomason E613_2; ESTC R206510	21,416	40

Guilt stands incapable of the meanest Priviledge amongst us Doth he think himself qualified to Exercise the Greatest Shall the Malefactor be presumed to have Power to give Pardon to his Judge Or do the Scots or their King imagine under pretence of an Act of Oblivion to seduce England to receive their Laws from Scotland The Obstructers of real Reformation we are as much against as he or they can pretend to be as by our Acts and Actions appears Amongst which we reckon it not the least That that Grand Enemy to Reformation the Father of the now Declarer after his long and Bloody progress made in Destruction and Devastation of the Innocent people in the Three Nations the Guilt whereof upon him being a Truth so apparant as both Himself and Son and our now Enemies of Scotland have been forced to acknowledge hath been by Our Authority Tryed Adjudged and Executed for his notorious Treasons Tyrannies and Murthers whereof whatever the Interpretation be given by the Son of that Murtherer or other his Partizans Old or New Malignants late Apostates or detestable Neutrals who stile the Act of Justice Murther with like Truth and Reason as those who call Good Evil and Evil Good Light Darkness and Darkness Light We for our parts bless God for that opportunity put into our hands of offering that Sacrifice to Divine Justice towards vindication and cleansing of our Land from that Blood wherewith by that Murtherer and his party it was so miserably defiled And as we have been obliged in a faithful and conscientious discharge of that Power and Trust committed to us by God and the People of this Nation to Avenge that Innocent Blood upon the Head of that Tyrant and some others the chief Authots and Actors under him in shedding thereof So for the seduced Multitude and those who in simplicity have been misguided by them to act to their own and Countreys ruine We have in the view of all expressed our tenderness and forbearance towards them And being invested with the Authority of the Nation whose Representative we are in that behalf as to such mis-led persons The Parliament of England thinks fit further to declare That as they have already long since had it in their thoughts and for that purpose have under consideration An Act of general Pardon in the progress whereof they have been interrupted by the renewed Endeavors of Charls Stuart and his Adherents to disturb the Peace of this Common-wealth and hinder its Settlement they will with all convenient speed apply themselves to the passing of such an Act And in the mean time do expect from all persons living under the Protection of this Commonwealth That they make not themselves any way Ayders or Abettors of the said Charls Stuart in his Pretences to the Government of this Nation under what fair and specious shews soever upon the penalties in the Laws in that behalf provided §. 5. THe Committee of Estates of the Kingdom and General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland having declared so fully in what concerns the Sectaries and the present Designs Resolutions and Actings of their Army against the Kingdom of Scotland And the same Committee and Assembly having sufficiently laid open publique Dangers and Duties both upon the right hand and upon the left It is not needful for his Majesty to adde any thing thereunto except That in those things he doth commend and approve them and that he Resolves to live and dye with them and his Loyal Subjects in prosecution of the Ends of the Covenant ANSWER THe Parliament of England and also their Army having so fully declared the Justice Necessity and Ends of undertaking the present Expedition into Scotland and having also put it in a way how those Declarations from the Committee of Estates and Commission of the Kirk in Answer thereunto shall have their invalidity detected as some of them already in part have been It will be needless to say any thing further on this subject in this place §. 6. ANd whereas that prevailing party in England after all their strange Usurpations and insolent Actings in that Land Do not onely keep his Majesty from the Government of that Kingdom by force of Arms but also have now Invaded the Kingdom of Scotland who have deserved better things at their hands and against whom they have no just quarrel His Majesty doth therefore desire and expect That all his good Subjects in England who are and resolve to be faithful to God and to their King according to the Covenant will lay hold upon such an opportunity and use their utmost endeavors to promove the Covenant and all the ends thereof and to recover and re-establish the Ancient Government of the Kingdom of England under which for many Generations it did flourish in peace and plenty at home and in Reputation abroad and Priviledges of the Parliament and Native and Just Liberty of the People His Majesty desires to assure himself That there doth remain in these so much confidence of their Duty to Religion their King and Countrey and so many sparkles of the ancient English Valor which shined so eminently in their Noble Ancestors as will put them on to bestir themselves for the breaking the Yoke of those mens Oppressions from off their Necks Shall men of Conscience and Honor set Religion Liberties and Government at so low a Rate as not rather to undergo any hazard before they be thus deprived of them Will not all generous men count any Death more tolerable then to live in servitude all their days And will not Posterity blame those who dare attempt nothing for themselves and for their Children in so good a Cause in such an Exigent Whereas if they gather themselves and take courage putting on a Resolution answerable to so Noble and just an Enterprise they shall honor God and gain themselves the Reputation of Pious men worthy Patriots and Loyal Subjects and be called The Repairers of the Breach by the present and succeeding Generations and they may certainly promise to themselves a Blessing from God upon so just and honorable undertaking for the Lord and for his Cause for their own Liberties their Native King and Countrey and the unvaluable good and happiness of the Posterity Whatever hath formerly been his Majesties guiltiness before God and the bad success that these have had who owned his Affairs whilest he stood in Opposition to the Work of God yet the state of the question being now altered and his Majesty having obtained Mercy to be on Gods side and to prefer Gods Interest before his own He hopes That the Lord will be gracious and countenance his own Cause in the hands of weak and sinful Instruments against all Enemies whatsoever This is all that can be said by his Majesty at present to those in England and Ireland at such a distance and as they shall acquit themselves at this time in the active discharge of their necessary Duties so shall they be accepted before God indeared

THE ANSWER OF THE Parliament of England TO A PAPER Entituled A Declaration by the Kings Majesty To His Subjects of the Kingdoms of Scotland England and Ireland Printed at Edinburgh 1650. Whereunto is annexed COPIES of Four LETTERS To the King of SCOTLAND Which were found in the Lord Loudouns Cabinet Die Veneris 20 Septem 1650. ORdered by the Parliament That this Answer and Letters be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by Edward Husband and John Field Printers to the Parliament of England 1650. IT is well known unto the World what maner of Contest the Parliament of England hath had these years last passed in their own Defence to preserve themselves from the almost Establish'd Tyranny which through a long tract of Time had been obtruding it self as well over the Consciences as the Laws and Civil Liberties of the People in England Ireland and Scotland Designing and Practising the Extremity of all Evils upon these Nations rather then to suffer it self to be stopped in its course or disappointed of its end Else what signified the first Troubles raised in Scotland by the late King and that failing then the cherishing upholding and continuing to the last the Horrid and Bloody Rebellion in Ireland by the same hand and after all the bringing of an Unnatural War into the Bowels of this Nation managed and improved to the utmost by him and the Popish Prelatical and Prophane Party adhering to him therein Which Evils have been writ out in such deep Characters of Blood been attended with such Consumption of Treasure and almost Devastation of several Countries in the three Nations that they will not suddenly be worn out of the Peoples Sense much less of their Memory Yet even during these first Troubles the Designers were not ashamed to appear bare-faced in their open and avowed Principles of Opposition and Hatred against the Cause of God the Work of Reformation Priviledges of Parliament and Peoples Liberties having for that purpose incorporated themselves in Interest with all the known and implacable Enemies of the same as The Popish Party abroad and Prelatical and Malignant Party at home But now when by the unspeakable Blessing of God unto this Nation Tyranny hath received its Mortal Wound not onely by being Beaten out of the Field in all that have fought for it but by the Remarkable Justice that hath been done upon the Prime Instrument in the late Kings Execution and in consequence thereof the Government of this Nation Restored to a Commonwealth and Fee-State and the Supreme Authority Establish'd in this and Successive Parliaments or Representatives of the People without King or House of Lords as the best Means and strongest Bulwark under the Divine Protection to preserve the Peoples Liberties against the like Attempts and Invasions for time to come and so deprived of all Hopes of its ever taking Root again in this Commonwealth and being like also if this Commonwealth continue to lose ground in Scotland and other Nations where the People are made meer Slaves and Vassals to the Will of their Prince and his Lordly Instruments in Church and State It hath seemed good to Charls Stuart the Declared King of Scotland and to the prevailing Party in State and Kirk there to dress up this old and Malignant Cause in a more plausible and Religious Garb then that with which it was put forth before and to take it out of or rather for a time suspend its Exercise in the hands of the Popish Prelatical and Malignant Party who begin also to see they can keep it up no longer but it will certainly breathe out its last Gasp if it be not shifted and by some Change of Instruments recover a Reputation amongst good men And therefore a room and place is made by common Consent amongst them to receive and hide the Interest of Tyranny and of Opposition to all Christian as well as Civil Liberty within the verges of the Solemn League and Covenant The Signing of which Covenant and the emitting of a Declaration by the eldest Son of the late King expressing in words a superficial Repentance for what there is no probability for him at the present to put in practice and promising in effect for the future to Tyrannize and Enslave men chiefly by the Advice of the Kirk and as shall tend to uphold their Power and Clergy-Interest in the first place before his own An Homage which the Pope indeed hath claimed from Earthly Princes as that which is due to him as he pretends himself Gods Vicar on Earth This is now accounted full Satisfaction as to what is to be done on his part and whereupon they would make the World believe the state of the Cause is altered even to that degree as that their New King is now no longer upon his Old Principles but is come over to those upon which they have fought against his Father for these Twelve years past The Deceit and Evil of all which will appear when we shall come to take in pieces the said Declaration and thereby Unmask as we have promised the gross Hypocrisie of the Contrivers thereof and the Wicked Design that is couched and contained therein under pretence of The Name and Cause of God The Work of Reformation The Power and Freedoms of Parliaments in England according to their Ancient Form except onely a perpetual subjecting and subordinating of their Laws Councels and Advices to the Clergy who have a promise That their Councels shall be heard before any other whatsoever and other plausible Inducements to possess himself of the Crown of England And having obtained that Power with the Destruction of all the Faithful and truly godly Party that have declared themselves for this present Government He may then be more absolute in Tyranny then ever Prince in England was and derive the same in Succession to his Posterity upon the score of Conquest acquired to him by the help of the Scots whose good-will to England for the Cause of God as they would have us believe hath been and still is such as to hold it fit to impose upon us the Yoke of their Usurpations both in Church and State and have not scrupled to attempt the attaining of the same either by Subtilty of by Force By both which Means they never thought themselves in so fair a way unto their End as now they have cast themselves into by their late Agreement with their New King and this Declaration they have made him put forth which we shall Answer in the distinct Paragraphs of it in order as they lie §. 1. HIs Majesty taking in consideration that merciful Dispensation of Divine Providence by which he hath been recovered out of the snare of Evil Councel and having attained so full perswasion and confidence of the Loyalty of his People in Scotland with whom he hath too long stood at a distance and of the Righteousness of their Cause as to joyn in one Covenant with them and to cast

there is a Regress left unto them in maner above express'd ANSWER IT is somewhat early days for him who by reason of his education and age and the Councel and Company hitherto about him could not be much furthered into the sight of the Justice and Equity of what is contained in the Covenants mentioned presently that is to say in the space of almost four and twenty hours to grow up into the full perswasion of the Justice and Equity of all the Heads and Articles of those Covenants and to be able to declare That he hath not sworn nor subscribed them upon any sinister intention and crooked Design for attaining his own ends and with so fix'd a Resolution to persist therein really constantly and sincerely all the days of his life when as the Commissioners of the General Assembly in their Declaration dated the thirteenth of August do say That there may be just Grounds of stumbling from his refusing to emit this Declaration and do tell him in so many words that They will not own him nor his Interest otherwise then with a subordination to God and in so far as he owns and prosecutes the Cause of God and disclaims his and his Fathers opposition to the Work of God and to the Govenant and all the Enemies thereof And notwithstanding all he still persists in his Refufal withdrawing to Dunfermlyn whether the Marquess of Argyle and Earl of Lothian are sent after to press him to Subscribe and in the mean time overtures are made under-hand to our Army as if things might yet be made up in a fair way and their King and they were not likely to agree And on the fifteenth of August a Remonstrance and Supplication of the Officers of the Scots Army by way seconding the foresaid Declaration of the Committee of Estates and Commissioners of the General Assembly was presented to and approved of by the Committee of Estates And on the sixteenth of the said August the Declaration so earnestly pressed upon him or rather forcibly extorted from him is subscribed and emited by him And now in a moment what a blessed and hopeful change is wrought upon this yong King how hearty is he become to the Cause of God and the work of Reformation and how readily doth he swallow down these bitter Pills which are prepared for and urged upon him as necessary to effect that desperate cure under which his Affairs lie But who sees not the gross Hypocrisie of this whole Transaction and the sandy and rotten foundation of all the Resolutions flowing hereupon as first He that on the fifteenth of August hugg'd all his Malignant and Popish Party in his bosom and lodged them in the secret Reserves of his favor and love as his best Friends can now on the sixteenth the day following from a fulness of perswasion of the Justice and Equity of all the Heads and Articles of the Covenant renounce and discard them in the sight of God and the world and vow never to have any more to do with them as old Sinners unless they by his example turn to be as good Converts as himself and be able to personate and act the same part and so by vertue of the very Covenant it self eat out and undermine those who conscientiously and honestly intend the ends of it The sad experience whereof was as well seen in the managing the whole business of Duke Hamiltons Invasion as in many of the then Members in both Houses who never shewed more zeal for the Covenant then when they found that thereby they could suppress and beat down the truly godly and honest Party as Sectaries and Enemies to Monarchical Government and buoy up the sinking and lost Reputations of the most engaged Royalists and rotten hearted Apostates under peetence that they were turned Friends to the work of Reformation and for upholding the Church Interest And if in this sense the Scots King will have no Enemies but the Enemies of the Covenant nor no Friends but the Friends of the Covenant he makes but little change for he hath the same Friends and Enemies that he had before with this onely difference That by his and his Parties becoming in appearance friends to the Covenant for a while they have the opportunity at the last to make use of this Engine better to undermine and oppose the true ends of the Covenant then by a flat opposition to it and to obtain a Crown what Dissimulation is not thought lawful by Politicians though a larger measure then what is held forth in this Declaration cannot easily be instanced in And which therefore we doubt not but God who is the Searcher of the Hearts and Tryer of the Reyns will proceed further to discover in the face of the Sun and more severely judge in this new King of Scots and his House then if he had dealt plainly with God and Man and held himself forth in his own colours The little time which he hath been upon the Stage having sufficiently laid him open what he is A true Inheritor of his Fathers Principles and Counsels wherein he may be traced all along and even in this last Action wherein he hath trod in the steps of his Father as well as other his Predecessors who when ever they found themselves in Scotland beset with the power of the Kirk and State did subscribe and emit whatever was pressed upon them though they resolved to break all that ever was so done by them upon the first occasion And as a second Deduction from his full perswasion of the Justice and Equity of all the Heads and Articles of the Covenants He Declares his conviction in conscience of the exceeding great Sinfulness and Unlawfulness of that Treaty and Peace made with the Bloody Irish Rebels and of allowing to them the liberty of the Popish Religion and that he is resolved for time to come rather to choose Affliction then Sin It seems very much to be doubted if the Irish Bishop of Clogher armed with a Commission from Ormond Charls Stuart's pretended Lieutenant of Ireland had with his Army of Irish Popish Rebels founded upon a pure Popish Accompt succeeded and prevailed against our Army in Ulster under Sir Charls Coot Whether then that which is now confessed and resolved against as Sinful and Unlawful would have been so acknowledged or thought wisdom perhaps so to have been by the Kirk of Scotland it self considering that the said Bishop offered very fair Quarter to all of the Scots Nation that were for Monarchical Government and the Scots Clergy in those parts had about the same time stirr'd up the people in our Quarters to Mutiny and Rebellion insomuch that Sir Charls Coot was necessitated to secure their persons as if they had done it on purpose to prepare the way to usher in the Infal upon our Quarters to destroy our Forces by that Irish Army who pitched their Opposition chiefly against such as they call'd Sectaries being indeed such as declared for the Parliament of