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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94168	The false brother, or, A new map of Scotland, drawn by an English pencil; being a short history of the political and civil transactions between these two nations since their first friendship: wherein the many secret designs, and dangerous aspects and influences of that nation on England are discovered; with the juglings of their commissioners with the late King, Parliament, and city. The grounds of the entrance of our army into Scotland cleared, from their own principles and actings; their main pleas impleaded, and answered. Humbly presented to the Councel of State.	Sydenham, Cuthbert, 1622-1654.	1651 (1651)	Wing S6294; Thomason E620_13; ESTC R203681	46,712	64

this while in action and yet in the eyes and hearts of the people for their rare services and that their spirits would fain be at the main person to end the war whom the Scots had unworthily conveyed from them and they might well imagine that our Army could easilier beat the Scots out of England then the King into the Scots Army Yet when he went from them he was laden with as many promises as he could carry or well believe which was too well performed afterwards though privately of which more hereafter some of their great men told him he had done too much to be presently stood for ere they had worn out the thoughts of his miscarriages by their new strategems on these they were then pleased to call his enemies others told him that they could do him more service in his absence from them and with less suspition neither could the King have gone away with comfort nor they with that quietness had not they promised to make up all at last for besides the shifting off the burden from themselves in regard of maintenance they had the advantage of freer actings from him by how much they had so orderly given him up to the charity of the English Parliament 2. Great things lay visible to any Observer as to that transaction first that it was too costly for them to maintain him alone when they saw they could make no present use of him 3. That they could not part with their former engagement to the King without new promises in a more hopeful way of accomplishment and some of their Grandees at that time were for a present appearance and the Army was dealt withall to that purpose and the Regiments that were engaged I could relate and tell you how forward David Lesley himself was in that business and how far the Lords Calander Lanerick Sinclare yea and Lowden also acted in that affair but wiser and more concerned men knew the Kings temper and how little they had from him to satisfie their best and most followed men and what it was to fight so soon in a new mask for the old Cause and what need they had of two hundred thousand pounds at present to pay themselves and their Army that they changed the Case and gave up that person to us to look after which they could get then no more by The King who was no fool as to Politicks was not much discontented at his removal but looked upon it as his usual ghuesse and progress for he saw the Scots were too far engaged to England on the one way as he was on the other against both to expect a sudden opposition but he contented himself to think that he had laid a good foundation for their future designs and had both gained and engaged his formerly most opposite party And you shall finde that the Kings party did more storm at his giving up then the King himself who knew both his design and their promises they curse the Scots and fall on them as those that sold their King and betrayed their Trust but he knew that he was not sold but bought and as his necessities did drive him to come to them whom he perfectly hated so their necessities made them give him up and renew their first promises to be performed in a more convenient way they not finding mediums as yet so proportioned and fitted to their main end But it hath been thought with much seriousness by many that could the Scots have prevailed on him to have taken the Covenant they would have made a greater Cheat of him then ever they can now hope to make of Charls their Second Argyle who was their main man in his surrender to his praise be it spoken though he hath since opened his heart parted very fairly and with much complement from his Majesty and told him that he could be a better friend to him at a distance then in their quarters and whereas he could have now but one wheel moving for him if he staid he should hereafter have many Yet that I may not diminish any thing from them they were very zealous in pressing on him the Covenant and some other acts which was well done and indeed they had no other visible way without shame to make their best market by him and the King knew them so well that he would often tell them They loved him onely for themselves and yet he expected no more from them then that they might serve themselves by him Many particular discontents there were between them in their debates which the King would often put up and remember onely when he knew their full minde of delivering him up to the Parliament of England he laboured twice to escape from them which whether it were to try what they would do further for him or what he could do by himself I know not but he was prevented and not onely kept more safe but secured that future actions should manifest their real intentions But however the King is now delivered up to our Commissioners who was very cheery whether because he was freed from a Scottish bondage or was comforted with new hopes through their close Protestations I will not dispute but certainly he was no way danted or melancholy in sight he now saw himself the special Umpire of all affairs and the great prize of all Parties and therefore intended to let them try out among themselves their own differences and rejoyced in our divisions that he might raign But though the King was thus made ours after many disputes of the propriety of each Nation yet the Scots Army must have something else which they valued more then his personal presence viz. that English two hundred thousand pounds which was rather as a gratuity then pay all things considered and yet was gladly given to fore-speak a Peace ere they would march and yet to their Commendation they did keep their Articles upon reception of their money and I have nothing to say to dispraise their peaceable departure onely for the honor of England it may be well considered what a fruitful and blessed Nation we are in our societies and converses that whereas they came in with between two or three thousand Scots Naggs they marched out of England with about sixty Troopes of as gallant horse as ever any Army in Christendom was furnished withall and every Captain besides the extraordinaries of Colonels had his two or three led horses of as great value as some would judge their patrimony to be in Scotland were they equally divided by a sterling account But yet England have much to bless God they went away with no more then they did But still to the design This Army went into Scotland not to be disbanded after their pay but as into their Winter Quarters which though their march was at almost the end of our Winter yet but the middle of theirs and they were designed to go aside and lie out of sight untill things were prepared in the

from Scotland to ease our burthen so that person laid the plot of Prerogative and persecution and left the prosecution of it to his Successors which they have not failed in But our neerer acquaintance and that which begot friendship betwen us seemed to have laid on a more contrary yet sure foundation not on our union under one King but their falling out with him and opposing the effects of his Fathers plots and his sons Tyranny an act then very new and strange that both gained them hatred and respect according to the disposition of the Court and the temperature of the Kingdom and had gained them immortal glory to all Nations if they had been as uniform and even in the series of action as they were hot and violent in their first motions and agitations about it For the late King having been fully acquainted with his Fathers principles which he had a peaceable time to fortify and observed whom he made his enemies and friends did endeavour to go on where he left off and to propagate them with that zeal that an interested Agent ought to do upon whom only the active part of the work lay which design as it was chiefly to advance the Prerogative above the Law and Episcopacy above the Gospel and both as a step to Popery so it was carried on by degrees in England both as to Civils and Ecclesiasticals and so less discerned and the great method was to begin with Scotland first which as it was more remote so it taking full effect there as an Essay it might be effected in England with more power knowing that England was the more Heroick free and noble Nation and more incapable of bondage and slavery and they well knew it would be hard on a sudden to make a Civil War in England after so long a Summer of peace especially ere they had tryed what could be done with the two other Kingdoms But it first brake out in Scotland on a sudden and too violently by the zeal of the Archbishop of Canterbury who to provoke them sent them a new Common-Prayer-book worse then ours which was bad enough with many revilings and affronts publickly to the whole Nation that the Scots had nothing else but the grosness of the plot to oppose which yet was sufficient to move them to preserve themselves our condition was much worse by how much we lay more directly under the design and both the burthens of oppression and persecution with less plea and power to oppose The Scots soon resent those actings and unite themselves together and put themselves into a posture of defence against the King and his Incendiaries at Court and at last come into England to prevent the Kings coming with an Army to Scotland and in a little time they gained their desires with something from England over and above This first engagement against the King Common-Prayer and Bishops all which lay heavy on our consciences did not only gain them their own desires but got them the hearts of true Englishmen and abundance of reverence to their Cause and Nation yea all honest and godly men to whom then the thoughts of any Liberty was sweet and the glimmerings of probable hopes precious fell down at their feet espoused their quarrel and though their actings had but an occasional influence upon our condition our whole Parliament suffered a dissolution rather then they would contribute a farthing to make a war against them though Parliaments were then rare monuments of Priviledges to us and of such necessity to our affairs and we were hopeless of attaining any more and when the necessities of the King to get money moved him to call this Parliament as meaning once more to try the people we not onely again refused to act against Scotland but the first thing we did was to proclaim them our Dear Brethren and instead of granting Subsidies against them we gave them a gratuity of three hundred thousand pound sterling for standing up for their own just Liberties and giving us occasion of doing the same though some wise and single eyed men are not afraid to say that there was somewhat more in the end then preservation of Religion in that expedition First because there were many private animosities long before ripening about places among some great ones at Court and Scotland and that there was fire enough in these breasts to kindle a very great flame however they took occasion to kindle it at a fit season for the Scots 2. The revenues of the Court in Scotland were not so equally distributed among the Scots Noblemen but some got all 3. It was a fine Essay for the Noblemen and Gentry of Scotland having so good a pretence to try the temper of the English and take a clear prospect of our State But that which makes many especially believe that Religion was but a pretence is because they have made so little progress in the Reformation and purifying it among themselves and yet have made so many divisions in it and by it among us Others think their hatred was not so much against Superstition as Ceremony nor of Episcopacy but of its pontificalness in outward Ornaments which they could no so well maintain and their Nobility together But we must give them their due they had the first eminent occasion given them to oppose Innovations and they must have the honor of the first start we then thought them all Saints and at that time every breath after Religion and Profession of Reformation was so taking to good men who knew no way of attaining it by themselves that the Scot laid in a stock of credit which hath lasted them ever since having the first commendation of early risers though afterwards they might and did lie abed striving to secure their own interests and make use of others necessities which they have ever since carefully held to in all opportunities But the last and most special friendship hath been by our mutual conjunction in a common Cause against the late King and his malignant interest the King having for the present altered the Scene from Scotland to England though the design was the same against both we were fain to unite more closely and to profess against our common enemy yet as the Scots did not move or engage untill solemnly invited by our Parliament so we were loth to trouble them untill we saw them like to be engaged by others and we at present through the delayes and divisions of our first Armies were not able to improve our own strength This union was confirmed by the Solemn League and Covenant which one would think had been an everlasting foundation of Amity and love between us had it been well made and honestly kept But concerning this Covenant it is to be feared though it was solemnly taken yet it was carelesly made with much design and craft which God will punish as well as the breach of it For it was drawn by the Scots according to their sense and what

they might be drawn farther South where better means might be had for redress in the mean time the burthen and misery was enough to busie us in patience and prayer yea so high they were grown that I heard a General person say debating about the rights of England and of their power over Englishmen that these distinctions must not be admitted the Covenant had made us one and that we were to be ruled by their Laws as our own I had not inserted these relations but only that we may see what use they made at first and meant to make of the Covenant The series of the actions and carriages of the Army were alwayes proportionable to these principles as if in their first Expedition they came to take our affections in the second to take away our priviledges and possess our inheritances As for their Military actions in prosecution of the War we need make no large Chronicle setting aside their lying before York the battel of Marston-Moor where they were assisted with two distinct English Armies and the taking New-Castle and Carlile in which they served themselves as well as us you may reduce all their services to a preserving their own borders saving their last journey in that Expedition into the South for March I cannot call it being there was no enemy in the way which yet was hardly obtained where though they shamefully left Hereford yet they got Newark and the King to boot of which more anon All the particulars of their strange deportment in the North will require a particular discourse and but burthen this I am sorry we have cause to repeat any thing of their miscarriages neither would I lessen their services but its time now to keep even reckoning and for England to know its own Interest But to go on God having almost beyond the faith of his people and expectation of Politicians blest our New Modell under the Command of that ever to be renowned Lord Fairfax to conquer the Kings Forces at Naseby Langport Cornwall that they had on a sudden beaten all their Field Forces and taken in most of their Garrisons save Oxford Hereford and some few more It put the Scots into new shifts and policies for they had kept their Army as the only reserve and Umpire and seeing things so strangely and without expectation altered by almost a miracle of providence and the main work to be done without them and no Martial work at all left for them on the Royal Party they secretly strive to make some that they might not leave us without doing something They were at a great loss in many regards by these new providences for first all their Commanders who had before the great command of the English Army had happily thrust themselves out of Office proudly slighting the New Model and scorning to stoop to a necessary Reformation and reduction of Officers which the State then saw fit whereby they wanted that influence in the Military part of our affairs which was of most concernment then unto us and we found the misery of it in the Lord General Essex his time by the delayes and neglects of opportunities which wasted our Treasure and gave the King too much ground to have got all and by the way it s not a useless observation seeing it is drawn by providence that God should lay aside and not use the Scots Army nor any of their great Officers in the full conquest of the common Enemy but while they were lying safe in their Quarters in the North getting in their Sesses God should prosper a poor despised Army and carry them from South to West conquering and to conquer that we may impartially say that they never were instrumental in one battle nor had a hand in the effectual accomplishment of that conquest there is something more in it then hath been taken notice of either by them or us and so much were they affected with the envy of that mercy that it was wonderful to see with what strange made faces they kept dayes of thanksgiving for every Victory which was obtained as ordinary as we had Marches Besides they might well think it mightily reflecting upon them that they should leave the Nation so much indebted to them and do them so little service But what an unexpressible favour God hath shewn to England in that he used our own Army to do the last work after-Ages will better judge if they got so much into our hearts and prevailed by the name of their brotherly assistance and reckoned on so much deserts from us that all our money and respects can never requite what would it have amounted unto if God had made them to do all that work for us The four Northern Counties had been a small testimony of our acknowledgements But that I may avoid tediousness the Scots seeing themselves so defeated and all their old instructions out of date think of a new way either to lengthen the war or slubber over the Peace which they had well contrived by their Commissioners who pretty well knew how to act their parts and had taken a full view of our affairs and having by our respects been admitted to all our Counsels and privy to most of our secrets for so kind we were they did soon cast our water and having had special advantages to view the generality of the people in the Parliament they observed them to consist of different tempers some but loosely principled and inclinable to the Royal Interest others but warily ingaged and almost neuters others very zealous for some express publick and national Government in the Church and capable of their severest notions others who were not much addicted to any seriousness and but a few truly engaged in the English Interest they strike in with the most comprehensive partie and fit baits sutable to them having but one interest to oppose they thought to crush them by strengthning the rest To take the one party which was not quite of Royal principles they deal with Mountril the French Agent to bring the King to their Army that after our Army had conquered him they might make use of him at least to gain breath to some other work That they might take the other party they press Reformation and cry up Presbyterial Government and that this temptation might not miss they closely joyn Royalty and Presbytery together as King James was wont to do Episcopacy and Royalty saying No Bishop no King The Forge wherein they formed all their Engines was the City of London the prime instruments to effect their design were closely some old formal discontented Citizens who had worn out their consciences with telling of money and some back-sliding and rotten Lords and Commons especially those who had been in the Army had lost their places and honor with the Scots Officers as Hollis Stapleton Waller Massey Graves Gentlemen who had their names up for a while among the people in regard of some particular acts in the war untill they