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cause_n	king_n	kingdom_n	parliament_n	3,192	5	6.6091	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37379	The declaration of the kingdomes of Scotland and England joyned in armes for the vindication and defence of their religion, liberties, and lawes against the popish, prelaticall, and malignant party / by the Honourable Convention of the Estates of Scotland and the Honourable Houses of the Parliament of England.	Scotland. Convention of Estates.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1644 (1644)	Wing D693; ESTC R2716	4,933	12

or Compulsions against their wils and inclination have been induced or constrained to joyne in Arms with the Enemies against their Religion and Native Countrey We do Declare that all common Souldiers who upon the humble acknowledgement of their former Errors shall offer themselves willingly and speedily to take the Covenant and shall joyn heartily and really in the defence of this Cause as becometh good Christians and lovers of their Countrey shall be freely accepted into the Covenant and their former Error passed by otherwise let them expect the punishment of wilfull Delinquents and Malignants Fifthly Because some of the Scottish Nation upon their own private respects or upon specious pretences and fair perswasions have joyned themselves in Arms with the Popish Prelaticall and Malignant party against the Parliament and Kingdom of England and not considering the nature of the Cause in which they have been engaged nor the deep interest of the Church and Kingdom of Scotland upon which this Warre was to turn in the end have been fighting against their own Religion and Native Kingdom We do therefore again Warne all such of whatsoever quality and in whatsoever place speedily to withdraw themselves from that Faction to confesse their mistakes and to joyne in the Covenant and Cause of God in both Kingdoms before the first day of March next otherwise We Declare in the behalfe of the Kingdom of England that they are to expect no favour but are to be used as desperate Malignants And We Declare in behalfe of the Kingdom of Scotland if they either continue in Arms after the foresaid first day of March or withhold their help and assistance from their Native Countrey in the time of trouble and danger they are to be censured and punished as publick Enemies to their Religion and Countrey perfidious transgressors of their Nationall Covenant and their Estates disposed of for the use of the Publique Sixthly Because there are divers Noblemen Knights Gentlemen Citizens and others who by forsaking or deserting the Parliament of England and by joyning themselves to the Enemies of Religion his Majesties happinesse and Peace of the Kingdoms have made the division greater and the Breaches wider betwixt the King and his Parliament and thereby contrary to the duty of their places and callings have been the cause of the shedding of much innocent Blood of great Losses and of many Miseries and dangers to the Publique of both Kingdoms and of the Suffering of private men in their Estates and Lives and yet are not to be reckoned amongst the prime Authors of this unnaturall Warre nor amongst the malicious and desperate Enemies of their Religion and Countrey We do Declare That all such forsaking their former Opposition returning to their duty and indeavouring the good of Religion and the publique Peace shall as to their lives and liberties of their persons be secured and shall be received into favour But to the end that a just difference may be made betwixt such persons returning so late to their duty and those that never departed from it they must expect that toward the payment of the publique Debts relieving the common Burdens of the Kingdoms and repairing of particular Losses All which in a great part have been contracted and sustained by their default or procurement their Estates in some proportions should be lyable and that as the wisedome and discretion of the Parliament or of such as shall be authorized by them who will be as carefull to prevent their ruine as to punish their Delinquencies shall finde and judge to be necessary for that end Wherein also the time of their returning and offering themselves the reality of their affections and intentions and readinesse to joyne in the common Cause and Covenant will be taken into speciall consideration And in case they persist in their Opposition and shall not return before the first day of March next they are not to expect favour but shall be punished as publique Enemies to their Religion and Countrey Seventhly Because Papists and Popish Recusants according to the principles of their Profession have ever been plotting and contriving the change of Religion in this Island and the Ruine of all the Professors thereof And after the Frustration of their Attempts having waited upon such a time as this have alienated the Heart of the Kings Majestie from his Protestant and Loyall Subjects taken Arms against the Parliament and Kingdome and by all their means and power have maintained a Bloody and unnaturall Warre presuming in the end to have their execrable Superstition and Idolatry set up in the place of the true Reformed Religion and the King and his Kingdomes to be brought under the Power and Tyranny of the Pope We do hereby Declare That all such Papists and Popish Recusants who have been now are or shall be actually in Arms under the false pretence of defending the Kings Person and Authority are to look for no favour but to be punished as Traitors and professed and intolerable Enemies of Religion and their Native Countrey The same Declaration We also make against all such Irish Rebels whether Papists or others who have come over from Ireland and assisted in this Warre against the Parliament and Kingdome of England And Lastly Because there are some few wicked and divelish Spirits of both Kingdomes who have kindled and fomented the Fire of Division and Warre betwixt the King and his Parliament or have misgoverned his Majesties Counsels and Courses to his own dishonour and to the destruction of his loving and dutifull Subjects or have infused Malignancie in others or have been restlesse and active Instruments of the Troubles and Miseries of his Majesties Dominions We do Declare concerning those who are or shall be found by the Supreame Judicatories of the Kingdomes respectively or their Committees appointed for that effect to be such That as the Conscience of their own bad Deservings hath made them to despair of favour and thereby uncessantly to worke more and more mischief against their Religion and Native Countrey so are they to look for such Execution of Justice as is due to Traytours and Enemies of Religion of the King and his Kingdomes for Terrour and Example to others in all times to come And it is further now Declared That the whole Estates reall and personall moveable and Inheritance of those that shall not come in at the times before limited in the Sixth Article and of the persons before excepted from Pardon as of Papists in Armes Irish Rebells and those who shall be found to come within the compasse of the precedent Article shall be forfeited and imployed for paying the Publique Debts relieving the common Burdens of the Kingdoms and repairing of particular Losses And this Declaration We make not from any presumption or vain-glorying in the strength of our Armies and Forces but from the sense of that duty which is required and expected from the high places and publique relations wherein we stand and from the assurance We have of the assistance of God by whose providence the trust and safety of these Kingdomes is put into our hands at this time having after long and grave consultation resolved and decreed never to lay down Armes till Truth and Peace by the blessing of God be setled in this Island upon a firme foundation for the present and future Generations which shall be esteemed of Us an abundant reward of all that Wee can do or suffer in this Cause FINIS