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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11674	A Remonstrance concerning the present troubles from the meeting of the Estaees [sic] of Scotland, Aprill 16. unto the Parliament of England.	Scotland. Parliament.	1640 (1640)	STC 21928; ESTC R212142	22,508	28

divert in time our gracious King from runing headlong unto these violent courses which cannot but produce in the end lamentable effects both for Prince and People And since we have just cause of feare that what hath been begun without your consent will also be followed contrary to your advise although we think nothing more properly doth belong unto to the justice of that high Court then ●o provide that they who have been drawers of his Majesty t● this action so dangerous for himself and so desperate for the Kingdomes should not passe away unquestioned and unpunished And nothing could be further from our expectation then that the Councel of England should conclude a warre against us upon the relation of one man ●brought upon the stage of purpose to act that malicious part without your consent● wherby it is apparent that these our adversaries have come to that height of insolencie to let all the Subjects see that they have taken to themselves a liberty to throw down the Laws of the Kingdome and laid a necessity upon us his Majesties own people as it were to choose their leasure and attend untill they have power and come and worke our overthrow by Sea and Land and that without a warning going before So now we understand that a restraint is put upon our Commissio●ers Some of them being put in the hands of Sheriffes some of Justices of peace at London Contrary to our expectation for who expecting this would either have send or gone in that Commission Contrary to the Law of Nations for we are two dive●se Nations and Kingdomes and they were sent from a Parliament promised and called by his Majesty and warranted by his Majesty to repaire to his presence and to shew the reasons of our demands Contrary to the very foundation of our present Treaty for a Committee was appointed legally by the authority of the Parliament and neces●arily for keeping correspondence with our Commissioners and to receive from them his Majesties answers that we wonder any man should be so absurd as to suggest to his Majesty that it is an unlaw●ull or presumptuous Committee or that they have taken upon them the gov●rnment of the Town of Edinburgh And that for a long time past no word or writ commeth from them and we are put out of hope to heare from them hereafter● That we can neither know whether there was any want in their propositions and reasons or whether there was any thing to be supplyed by us for a ●ull satisfaction and contrary to the deservings of our Commissioners for nothing is pretended to have escaped them which might have deserved this captivitie And as for the present condition of safetie of the Earle of Southesk and Sir Lewes Stewart at Edinburgh it can be no true ground there of his Majesty being fully informed by their own Letters how that harmlesse accident of their surprizall came on a suddain by the unexpected follie and rashnesse of the Governour of the Castle threatning presently upon their dispatch to discharge all his Ordinance against the Town And to ring as he was pleased to speak an uncouth peale of bells in their eares and we may truly adde by their own precipitation and too great haste to speed themselves to the Ports for escaping the common danger The multitude not without their own grounds conceived that the arresting of them might be a defence to themselves or at least a delay of the Governours furie But no sooner were they arrested by the People but they were rescued by order from the Magistrate and courteously used by such of the Nobilitie and Gentrie as were in the Town Since that time no violence hath been done against them but they have of their own accord and for their own safetie stayed in the Town with such libertie as they think meet to use to repair to the Streets Kirk Gardens or whither they will And in what equity can a particular tumult of some ●ew Commons in one City reflex upon the per●ons of the Commissioners sent from the whole Parliament o● the whole Nation But at the writing hereof we are advertised that the matter draweth a greater deep and that the Lord Lowdoun is committed to the Towre not upon the shallow pretext of safety to any arrested here but upon his own guiltines his hand and subscription being found at a Letter directed to the French King from certain Earles and Lords of Scotland for imploring his assistance to their courses This by our adversaries and such as had decreed our destruction before is already exaggerat and raised to a mountaine not onely to fall upon the Lord Lowdoun and others whose hands are found in it but that all former friends and all indifferent persons may stumble at our Cause as hereby evidenced to be nothing lesse forsooth then Religion But the Honourable Houses of Parliament who are acquainted with the designes and malice of our enemies and to whom our innocencie in times past cannot altogether be unknown are more grave and wise then upon the hearing or seeing of such a Letter to precipitate in judgement against us and our Nation before we be heard For their satisfaction and for vindicating our-selves we are constrained against our hearts in this our Remonstrance to remember and represent the words of that unexempled Proclamation given at York April 25. 1639. otherwise never to have been resented but buried in silence and in studied senselesnes and which we doe not attribute to the Majesty of our King but to the base cruelty of our barbarous enemies The words are thus We are forced to have r●course to a more ●harp and quick way to cure their obstinancy and rebellion by the sword of justice And therfore in that case we do proclaime all such as shall reject this our free and grat●ous pardon and does not return before the said eight dayes to that civill and dutifull obedience to be from thenceforth open Rebels and Traitours to us our Crown and dignity and declare all their lands and possessions goods and geir to be forfeited to us and our Crown and that we shall dispose of their lands possessions goods and geir to our wel deserving Subjects Noblemen Gentlemen and others who shal adhere to us obey our just commands And to this purpose we discharge all vassals and tennants to any rebels from making paym●nt to them of any of their rents duties or casualties and require them to keep the same in their hands the one ha●f● whereof shall be kept for our use the other halfe for themselves promising also to the tennants of the said rebels who shall leave their Misters and assist us to the maintenance of our authority good tearms of yeares in the estates they poss●sse with the dimunition of the third at least if not more of the duties they pay as we shall find them to deserve by their good service and ready obedience to us And to the vass●ls of such superiours as are rebels that

civill warre and homebred division● as inward diseases are more hard to cure then these that are without we are tyed in all respects to seek to prevent them before thy come And wheras by all that hath passed we may perceive that these who are chief actors in these troubles ●eek by all means to have us engaged the more should our care be to preserve our selves by their disappointment and by a seasonable remedy provide for the safety of our selves and posterity The readiest meane for the present that can come in our consideration in this that as when the treatie of the Union was intended but did not take effect the two Parliaments did sit and did appoint their Commissioners to treat thereanent with expresse reservation of their own Lawes and Liberties and to report their proceedings back againe to them that sent them so now when the two Nations are ready to be plunged in a bloudy warre to the overthrow of the Liberties of both Our soules desires that his Majesty would be pleased to appoint the like or any other meane whereby the Parliaments may sit freely and without feare of force and by their Commissioners appoint time and place where by their scanning the equity or inquity of our demands may be fully weighed that we may no longer suffer by false and artificiall relations but they be noturly known as they are and their fraud and hypocrisie discovered if there be any for we shunne no tryall which is not inconsistent with a free and independent Kingdome and which the Kingdome of England would choose in the like case of the quarreling of their Laws and liberties the King being resident amongst us for which end if his Majesties forces may be discharged and his further Levies suspended we will most gladly disband and leave off any that we are preparing for our own necessary and just defence which otherwise we cannot doe without our own apparent ruine neither can the Parliament sit with any security in either Kingdome if they see a Sword drawn ove● thei● heads and this we know the Parliament of England in their wisdome will think very reasonable and the least that can be granted and will joyne with us in this pe●ition for their own clearing before God and the world that they have not taken in hand to subdue us by armes before they have convinced us and made known to all true Christians and honest men for what cause and upon how great reason If this be denyed us as what may we not expect in this kind but that the conduct of this affai●e will be answerable to the first undertaking And as this plot hath been set on foot for the benefit of strangers so it will be continued to the weakning of both the Kingdomes the overthrow of our Religion and civill liberties to the uttermost of their power So we that the close of this discourse may bring in a short view all that hath been touched before cannot but begin with this that it is j●st with God to make us feel the sad e●fects of civill discord who have not ma●e the right use of our long enjoyed peace and that we suffer in the danger and hazard of the cure who have so long by our tollerance and permission strengthned that ill humour which is now ready to master the life both of Kirk and State You are called together who are the great Physitians of that State it is not unfitting for the present occasion to put you in minde of an old t●le that belongeth unto your Art Philotimus a Physician in Greece made this answer to one who offered his finger to dresse by whose face look and breath he knew he had an Impostume in his Lungs my friend saith he it is not fit time t● busie your selfe about your nailes The time was not long since when the grea●est question was whether the Bill of Tunnage and Poundage or the Bill of the Subjects right should be first moved in your House the times are farre changed the case much altered before you judge of any matters now or condemn others● you cannot but look whether your selves be free and what right you have For if the maintenance of our Religion and the Liberties of the Kingdome be a ground of a quarrell betwixt too Nations that are so nearly joyned and if it be judged so in that Honourable Court we cannot see how you can condemn us and acquit your selves For it was your glory to be the faithfull guardians of the Subjects right it cannot but blemish your reputation to be sound now the overthrowers of your Brethrens liber●ies If all this motion of a warre with Scotland were truly perceived to be a conception of Spain or Rome we do not doubt but for your own interest you would be carefull to stra●gle this monster in the very first birth but if you take it for a ready meane to ●ase your own distressed estate and that by wronging us you can better your condition And although we know the cond●ct of your Councels had ever more honourable and honest grounds yet let us take it as it may be propounded to you can the benefit that is offered to you countervail your losse We need not bring it nearer the example is but of yeste●dy and cannot be out of your sight All the Provinces and Prince of France envyed the good estate of the Protestants the priviledge● of their Chambers and the ben●fit of the Edicts they enjoyed every one did outrunne a●other to contribute to their ●uine and to endeer themselves by so doing to these that had the managing of all these affaires with what successe they know this day and all that looks upon them seeth what defence they have left themselves against the regiments of the guards We writ not this as doubting your wisdome and circumspection in a businesse of this nature that so neare concerns your selves but since the malice of our adversaries hath prevailed so farre upon our gracious King that he forgets the affliction of his people whiles he gives way unto their endlesse malice who seeks by all meanes to cut asunder that knot of our obedience wherby we are tyed in Conscience of our duty to his Majesty to the observance of the Laws and which is the sure Foundation of his Majesties greatnesse and the Union of the Kingdomes and which hath holden fast-against all the violence of time in so many ages past and against the force of all adversaries whatsoever to the Royall Crown the which the more we labour to preserve and fence the more they seek to undoe and to put in the place therof a chaine of violence and force We beseech you therefore right honourable and dear Brethren now conv●ened in both houses of Parliament that according to your place and s●ation you will heare from our selves the true representation of our pressing grievances and becaus● a linke of that chain cannot but approach you also if it take hold on us we intreat you to