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A75567	The Declaration and apology of the Protestant people that is, of the noblemen, barrons, gentlemen, burgesses, and commons of all sorts, now in armes within the kingdom of Scotland.	Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Earl of, 1629-1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing A3677; ESTC R230114	9,451	8

The Declaration And APOLOGY of the PROTESTANT PEOPLE That is Of the Noblemen Barrons Gentlemen Burgesses and Commons of all sorts Now in Armes within the Kingdom of Scotland PSAL LXVIII V. 1. 2. Let God arise let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him as smoke is driven away so drive them away as wax melteth before the fire so let the wicked perish at the presence of God Reprinted more exactly then formerly conform to the True Copye The Declaration and Apology of the Protestant People That is of the Noblemen Barrons Gentlemen Burgesses And Commons of all sorts now in Armes within the Kingdom of Scotland with the concurrence of their true and faithful Pastors and of several Gentlemen of the English Nation joyned with them in the same cause For defence and releif of their Lives Rights Liberties and recovery and reestablishment of the true Protestant Religion in behalfe of them selves and all that shall Joyn with and adhere to them They must be altogether strangers or very litle concerned in the Christian world who after all that the Nations and Churches about have Seen of the Lords mighty hand and streatched-out arm in the late wars betuixt King Charles the First and his People and Parliaments of Scotland England Irland Against the then Conspyreings of Popery and Tyranny to the ruine of true Religion and Liberty The wonderful advancement of the Gospel and Kingdom of our Lord Jesus within these Kingdomes that therupon ensued With the general refreshment joy and security of all the Protestant Churches abroad that thence redounded And the no less rooted and firm Loyalty of the same people who notwithstanding of their long bloody and fatal contendings with the father Did Yet upon reasonable fair and just treaties concluded with all the assurance that either Religion honour or gratitude could promise call back and restore Charles the 2d his sone to his thron and empire Are not fully convinced and satisfied that considering the perpetual contradictings and counteractings of all these sacred and solemn engadgments that imediatly and ever since have been practised the whole reign of the aforsaid Charles the 2d through the sinistrous and subtile influences of a wicked and popish party now manifestly discovered was a constant uniform course of perjury apoftacy and violence Begun with open rebellion against God The rescinding not only of particular lawes but by an un-paralled most un-politick and pernicious device of whole unexceptionable parliaments for the space of tuenty seven yeares preceeding notwithstanding both our Religion and liberties were therein expresly legally and well provided for and the cruel shedding of the best Protestant blood in the most unjust execution of the Late Marquis of Argyll and many other worthies contrar to all Law and reason Carried on by the smiting and casting out of more faithfull and pious Pastors and scattering and dissipating more true flockes and followers of Christ than was done in most of the ten primitive persecutions and the diludgeing of these Lands with all villanous debauchries and abominable licentiousness to the very profligating of conscience morality and common honesty from among men And thence forward accomplished by a most un-relenting persecution and appression of the generality of Gods people in their consciences Persons Estates with vexations and rigours almost incredible and that for no other reason but because they could not actively comply with these notorious Perfidies and the manifold profanations and mischeifs where with they are attended But this hellish mystery of Antichristian iniquity and arbitrary Tyranny imposing upon many at home too willing through their love of ease to be abused and deluding the Protestant churches abroad in that woefull and visible indifferency that every where reigns by the vain pretext of the mere notion of our courts empty and simulat protestant profession having of a long time under the late King made most remarkable advances in the following particulars and many more that might be enumerated all too evidently seen and heavily felt to need any explicite proof or demonstration As 1. not only in the abovementioned open and avowed revolting from God by breach of Sworn treaties Covenants and coronation oaths and slighting and despiscing spontaneous promises and proclamations the overturning the very foundations of Parliaments and ranversing at one blow our best and most legal establishments The ungrate as well as unjust putting to death of most innocent and faithful men upon absurd pretences convelled by the Laws and customs of nations and in the time of Gods greatest indulgence towards the authors The desolating of the Churches and changing of the ordinances of God for setting up the frivolous and superstitious inventions of men the countenancing and encouraging of all vice and profanity and the violent and griveous persecuting of all conscience and conscientious men But nixt and more particularly in the conniving at Papists their meetings and Idolatrous masses while in the mean time all Protestant Nonconformists are persecuted with endless severities The raising of standing forces the very bane of all civil and Lawful Government and that without any other measure save what the indigence of Court Luxury and profusion did necessarly put unto it The declaring and appointing all Iudges and Officers to enjoy their places only during pleasure on purpose to make them more souple and complyant to all their masters designes The abusing of the great trust of calling and dissolving Parliaments the most high and necessary courts of the Kingdomes by iniquous Packing unseasonable proroguing pernicious discharging and insolent baffling them at pleasure The exalting of the Kings supremacy under the colour of his pretended right and power about the external Government and Policy of the Church to an express and absolut power of enacting statuting in all Church meetings and matters as he in his wisdom shall think fitt a ready prepared tool to bring us back not only to Popery but to Paganism The strange perversion of the high trust of the Militia committed to his Majesty expressy for the protection of good subjects and the assistance of all our protestant friends abroad only to the invading and oppressing by lawless hosts of the worst of high landers and low landers in times of profound peace the best parts of the Kingdom purposly to ruin them because too Protestant by free quarter and other illegal exactions ' and the making warr most causlesly and obstinatly against the States of the united Neitherlands our best nighbours and the strongest bulwarck of the Protestant interest The forcing of poor people by the extream rigours of exorbitart finings imprisonings beatings stigmatizins spoilings banishments and other violences for the simple cause of Nonconformity to take armes in their own defence as at Pentland and Bothwel bridge and then demeaning and executing them what in fields what on scaffolds as the most desperat of traitours and at the same time involving whole countryes upon the most slender

and absurd pretexts of inevitable intercommunings and reset both in their crimes and punishments The setting up of the most violent and obnoxious of men to be Ministers of the Law and Packing juries and assizes most partially for their worst ends The straining streaching and wreasting of Law not only in prejudice of every one suspected to be dissaffected to their evil courses but the violation of all right for spoiling and robbing cities and incorporations of their ancient and undoubted priviledges The transporting of freemen as slaves to forreine plantations for not making faith to answer against law super inquirendis as also for not dilating men upon Oath according to a most impious Law lately made against Nonconformists in matters where in the party put to swear judges them to be in their duty without exception of his nearest relations The arbitrarie imprisonings and detainings of free subjests without either bringing them to trial or allowing them any hearing The torturing of several persons even fyve times more of conscientious non conformists within these tuenty yeares then of all sorts of fellons and malefactors in Scotland these hundered yeares by past and that without either just previous grounds regarding of Legal methods or observing the measures of common humanity The eliciting by promises of indemnity and the publick faith interposed for that effect voluntary confessions of some as of Mr. Iames Mitchill c. and then not only retracting and dissowning the promise condition upon Oath in face of the justice court but further witnessing the confession to the poor mans condemnation not with standing the bookes of council containing the aforsaid indemnity were produced and laid open before and at the very time of their swearing Lyke as of Late after most cruel and exquisit tortures practised upon Mr. Spens Mr. Carstairs and a full ample promise there after made them with an act upon it that neither they nor their evidence should ever be made use of to their or to any other mens hurt they never the less cause produce and do sust●ine Mr. Carstairs deposition Against Bailzie of Iarviswood for an adminicle or aid to their lame and defective probation The making men offenders yea traitours for words and these true fair and innocent As the Earl of Argyl for declaring before the Council after leave given and with submission and only for exonering his own conscience that he believed the Parliament intended no contradiction in the test and therefore was willing to take it in their sens viz for securing the Protestant Religion and that he did not thereby mean to bind up him self from endeavouring Lawfully in Church and State what Religion and Loyaltie might obleidge and allow him to do for which words nevertheless he was tryed and condemned as a traitour in the loss of his life lands and goods and stands de facto deprived of both Lands and goods having only saved his life in the extremitie by a gracions providential escape The cruel executing to the death of several hundreds within these tuenty yeares besids many hundreds more that have either fallen in the fields or been made to perish in their imprisonments or transportations and that for the alone cause or on the occasion of their conscientious non conforming And some of them of which number several poor women for their bare opinion about the Kings breach of trust never before by them vented but simply declared upon examination and most part of them dispatched with that barbarous inhumanity as that after no better example then that of the bloody Duke of Alba they were by beating of Drumms hindered to speak to the people their last and dying words And some of them contrair to the perpetual custom of Scotland and all the formes used in the Christian world and as if it had been on design to destroy both their souls and bodies tryed sentenced and put to death in one Day yea the time and hour of their Death industriously concealed from them that they might be cut of by a more mortal surprise The condemning some to death others to the boring of their tongues and syning many in most exorbitant summes even to 100000 pound Sterling for calling the Duke of Yorke a Papist notwithstanding the notoriety of the matter to all men and his recusancie sound and declared by a grand jurie and expressly Supposed by an exception in his favours contained in an Act of parliament and that now he goes openly to the mass and marches in solemn processions to the horrour of all good Protestant subjects The loosing and exempting the Kings Sones and brothers from what themselves conceaved to be the best fence and greatest securitie for the Protestant religion The imposing and pressing of Oaths without Law manifestly contradictorie and that by terrible menacings violent beatings rigorous imprisonings and irreligious swearings no less barbarous then what was practised by the Spanjards in Christianising the wilde Indians The eating up of men by free quarters or otherwise falling on them by dounright violence as dryving with drawen Swords to constrain them to hear whom in their conscience they judged unsent and uncalled Curats to the effaceing of all conscience and oppen scorn of God and that pure and free religion which he only accepts The compelling the heritors of Shires to assesse them selves and the free subjects within their bounds a thing expresly denyed by Law to the King himself and only reserved to Parliaments The Sorning upon harrassing and destroying the best parts of the Country by four extraordinary circuits upon one and the same subject of Bothwel bridge on purpose as it were to justify his highness judgment to his late majesty That it would not be well with Scotland untill the South of Forth the better and more substantial halfe of that Kingdom were turned to a hunting field And to verify the late Chancellor the Earl of Aberdeen his affirmation at the Council board that there was not a loyal subject west ward of the Castle of Edinburgh The industrious stifling hindering or eluding the detection of all popish plots The Shamming of Mock plots upon good Protestants The suborning of witnesses hounding out and encouraging of Assassins to murder and cut the throats of honest men And generally in the studied and constant ensnaring or ruining upon every Shaddow of pretence all esteemed either fixed to the protestant interest or well affected to their Countries libertie This wicked mysterie wee Say and conspiracy of Popery and Tyrranny inseparablie twisted both in experience and reason in all their attempts upon these great and mighty Nations so unanimously united and firmly fixed in their contrarie Profession rights liberties having made so great a progress by the steps abovementioned is now at length evidently disclosed and brought to full maturity by the most suspicious though with all most ungrate cutting off of the late King as having indeed very unhappily acted all that part of which the conspirators did judge him capable