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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69365	His Majesties declaration, concerning his proceedings with his subjects of Scotland, since the pacification in the camp neere Berwick	Windebank, Francis, Sir, 1582-1646.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1640 (1640)	STC 9260; ESTC S101025	22,729	66

granted and promised in Our Name but also We are farther graciously pleased to declare and assure that according to the Petitioners humble desires all matters Ecclesiasticall shall be determined by the Assemblies of the Kirke and matters Civill by the Parliament and other inferiour Iudicatories established by Law which Assembly accordingly shal be kept once a yeare or as shal be agreed upon at the Generall Assembly And for setling the generall distractions of that Our ancient Kingdome Our will and pleasure is that a free generall Assembly be kept at Edinburgh the sixt day of August next ensuing where We intend God willing to be personally present and for the Legall Indiction whereof We have given order and command to Our Counsell and thereafter a Parliament to be holden at Edinburgh the twentieth day of August next ensuing for ratifying of what shal be concluded in the said Assembly and setling such other things as may conduce to the peace and good of Our Native Kingdome and therein an Act of oblivion to be passed And whereas We are farther desired that Our Ships and Forces by land be recalled and all persons goods and ships restored and they made safe from invasion We are graciously pleased to declare That upon their disarming and disbanding of their forces dissolving and discharging all their pretended Tables and Conventicles and restoring unto us all our Castles Forts and Amunition of all sorts as likewise Our Royall Honours and to every one of Our good subjects their liberties lands houses goods and meanes whatsoever taken and detained from them since the late pretended Generall Assembly We will presently thereafter recall Our Fleet and retire Our land Forces and cause restitution to be made to all persons of their ships and goods detained and arrested since the aforesaid time whereby it may appeare that Our intention of taking up of armes was no way for invading of Our Native Kingdome or to innovate the Religion and Lawes but meerly for the maintaining and vindicating of Our Royall Authority And since that hereby it doth cleerely appeare that We neither have nor do intend any alteration in Religion or Lawes but that both shal be maintained by Vs in their full Integrity We expect the performance of that humble and dutifull obedience which becommeth loyall and dutifull subjects and as in their severall Petitions they have often professed And as We have just reason to believe that to our peaceable and well-affected subjects this will be satisfactory so We take God and the world to witnesse that whatsoever calamities shall ensue by Our necessitated suppressing of the Insolencies of such as shall continue in their disobedient courses is not occasioned by Vs but by their owne procurement These Conditions in this Declaration that referre to the time past have beene the most part of them already punctually complied with by Us that clause excepted in which We expresse We intended to have beene at the Generall Assembly at Edinburgh which yet being but an Intention We had assuredly performed but that We were diverted by the disorders committed by Our tumultuary Subjects in Edinburgh upon the persons of Our High Treasurer the Earle of Kinnoull Our Justice Generall Sir Iames Hamilton Counsellors of that Our Kingdome and diverse others Our good Subjects there which gave Us just cause to suspect that there could be no safety for Our Person among people inraged so immediately after Our clemency shewed to them in the Pacification But one of the greatest discouragements We had from going thither was the refusing of such Lords and others of that Nation whom We sent for to come to Us to Berwick by which disobedience they manifestly discovered their distrust of Us and it cannot be thought reasonable that We should trust Our Person with those that distrusted Us after so many arguments and assurances of Our goodnesse towards them The Articles of Pacification agreed upon were these The Forces of Scotland to be disbanded and dissolved within forty eight houres after the Publication of Our Declaration being agreed upon Our Castles Forts Amunitions of all sorts and Royall Honours to be delivered after the said Publication so soone as We should send to receive them Our Ships to depart presently after the delivery of the Castles with the first faire wind and in the meane time no interruption of Trade or Fishing We were graciously pleased to cause to be restored all persons goods and ships detained and arrested since the first of November then last past No Meetings Treatings Consultations or Convocations of any Our Lieges but such as are warranted by Act of Parliament All Fortifications to desist and no farther working therein and they to be remitted to Our Pleasure To restore to every one of Our good Subjects their liberties lands houses goods and meanes whatsoever taken or detained from them by whatsoever meanes since the aforesaid time On Tuesday the 18. of June those of Scotland came to Our Pavilion and there We signed the aforesaid Declaration and the Articles were signed by them who also signed another paper of submission to Us as followeth In the Camp 18. June 1639. In obedience to His Majesties Royall commands we shall upon Thursday next the 20. of this Iune dismisse our Forces and immediately thereafter deliver His Majesties Castles c. and shall ever in all things carrie our selves like humble loyall and obedient subjects Signed Rothes Dumfermlin Lowdon Dowglas Alex. Henderson A. Iohnstoun Those of Scotland did likewise further promise and undertake that Our foresaid Declaration should be read and published in their Army which was accordingly done by Lyon King of Armes of Scotland on Thursday the 20. in the presence of the Earle of Morton Sir Edmund Verney and Sir Iohn Borough Our Commissioners sent thither to see the same performed How these Articles have beene performed on their part comes now to be considered and will appeare by that which followes First whereas We by the publication of the Articles of Pacification expected that due respect and acknowledgment of Our authority which might have witnessed their Loyalty and sense of their thankfulnesse for so great and royall favour We found on the contrary that at the very publishing of it in their Camp the same was met with a Protestation so scandalous and dishonourable to Our Government as Our Subjects were thereby rather encouraged in their former mutinous wayes than reduced to that obedience which they promised Secondly they delivered into the hands of some of Our English Nobility and spred among others a scandalous Paper intituled Some Conditions of His Majesties Treaty with His Subjects of Scotland before the English Nobility are set down here for remembrance Wherein are contained such untruths and seditious positions and so contrary to that which was concluded in the Articles of Pacification as thereby it did plainly appeare that however they pretended a desire of peace yet they intended nothing lesse This false and seditious paper comming to Our knowledge was after by

Neverthelesse Wee professe before God and all the World that We never did nor ever will hinder them from the enjoying of their Religion and Liberties according to the Ecclesiasticall and Civill Lawes of that Our Kingdome and according to Our promise and their desires subscribed by themselves at the Pacification but that We will governe them as a just and religious Prince In assurance whereof if they will yet acknowledge their former crimes exorbitancies and in an humble and submissive manner like penitent Delinquents crave pardon for what is past and yeeld obedience for the time to come they shall still find that Wee will bee more sensible of their Conversion then Wee have been of their Rebellions and that We rather desire their Reformation then their Destruction But if they persist in their Rebellious courses and by that which they call the enjoying of their Religion and Liberties according to the Ecclesiasticall and Civill Lawes of that Kingdome will understand nothing but the trampling of Our Crown and Royal Authoritie under their feet and the endeavouring to subvert all Lawes and Religion as they have done hitherto by their proceedings in the Assembly and Parliament then We hold Our Self obliged in discharge of that duty which We we to God the Government which he hath entrusted to Us to have recourse to Our coercive power to prevent so many imminent dangers as threaten the publicke This We take God to witnesse We are necessitated to and shall not undertake without extreme sorrow and reluctation Neverthelesse We trust that God whose Vicegerent We are and by whom alone Kings reigne being likewise a God of truth and a severe punisher of all falshood and imposture will no longer suffer his glory to be despised and profaned in Our person by grosse Hypocrisie under the counterfeit habit of Religion but will arise and scatter His and Our enemies And for this noble English Nation whose glory it hath beene to have been governed many hundreds of yeers under a Monarchy We doubt not but they will as it becomes loyall and faithfull Subjects continue their affection to Us and Monarchicall government and not suffer themselves to be debauched and betrayed into an Anarchy by such as envie the happinesse they have so long enjoyed and the many glorious victories which they have atchieved under Kingly government but following the example of the Lords of Our Councel and of Our Servants will cheerefully assist Us in this Our just cause wherein Our Honour and Safety together with theirs are so highly concerned Our subjects in Ireland by their late Declaration in Parliament have not only given Us a considerable supply toward Our present Preparations to reduce Our disaffected Subjects in Scotland to their due obedience but have humbly offered Us their persons and estates even to the uttermost of their abilities for Our future supply in a Parliamentary way as Our great occasions should that distemper continue shall require And this they desire may be recorded as an Ordinance of Parliament and that it may be published in print for a testimony to all the world and to succeeding ages of their loyalty and affection to Us as it well deserves This is a singular comfort to Us in the midst of these distractions and We have no cause to doubt but Our Subjects of England who are neerer to the danger will shew the like tendernesse of Our and their owne honour and safety which will be no lesse contentment to Us and make Us as a Father of Our people take the same care of their preservation and prosperity that We shall of Our own And this We assure them in the word of a Prince We shall ever doe FINIS