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A75717	The speech of William Ashhurst Esquire; one of the commissioners of the Parliament of England, at Edenborough, the 28 of Febr. 1647 Upon their first hearing by a committee of Lords and others, appointed for that purpose by the committee of estates of Scotland; as it was taken by one that was then present.	Ashhurst, William, 1617-1680.	1648 (1648)	Wing A3978A; ESTC R231625	3,944	8

THE SPEECH OF WILLIAM ASHHVRST ESQUIRE One of the Commissioners of the Parliament of ENGLAND at Edenborough the 28 of Febr. 1647. Upon their first hearing by a Committee of LORDS and others appointed for that purpose by the Committee of Estates of SCOTLAND as it was taken by one that was then present LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1648. The SPEECH OF William Ashhurst Esquire One of the Commissioners of the PARLIAMENT of ENGLAND at Edinburrough the 28. of Feb. 1647. Upon their first hearing by a Committee of Lords and others appointed for that purpose by the Committee of Estates of Scotland as it was taken by one that was then present My Lords and Gentlemen I Am commanded by the rest of the Commissioners of the Parliament of England to acknowledge your Lordships favour and respect in appointing our lodging to be the place where you will receive our Addresses to the Honorable Committee of Estates for which I am to return Thanks unto your Lordships For our businesse I am to acquaint your Lordships that the chiefest end why we are sent hither by both Houses of the Parliament of England is to maintain a good Correspondence betwixt them and the Parliament Conventions and Committee of Estates of this Kingdom and to continue and preserve the Union and brotherly Agreement that we hope by the blessing of God will ever be betwixt both Kingdoms My Lords I conceive that I need not say much to inforce this part of our Negotiation when I consider by how many wayes God and Nature hath united us We are two Kingdoms in one Island of one language under one King and which is more then all professing one Religion I cannot but look upon these as many cords that cannot easily be broken Wherein I am the more abundantly confident when I consider what we have added to them of later times by Treaties Leagues and especially by solemn Covenants betwixt our selves and betwixt God and us for Vnion which have been sealed with so much Blood and seconded with such successe and blessing from heaven And when I further consider that we have been so long united in one common Cause wherein so many of both Nations have hazarded their lives and against a common Enemie by whom so many of both Kingdoms have lost their lives and others their estates And that as we have common Enemies so we have common Friends and common Interests And as I hope it will appear at last common Ends. And all these are accompanied with great advantages by our Union not onely in a comfortable converse and communion and a profitable Trade and converse betwixt the people of both Kingdoms But with so great an assurance of publick safetie in the prayers and Arms of both Kingdoms united that if we do not foolishly and make God our Enemie we need not fear any nor all earthly powers that can be raised up against us Besides all this my Lords shall I onely say England nay I hope that I may say Scotland also hath other strong ingagements to Union England I am confident will not nay it cannot forget their seasonable assistance from this Nation And Scotland I doubt not will remember that both these Houses of Parliament at their first sitting could not be drawn by all the earnest endeavours of the Malignant and Prelaticall party who were then exceeding powerfull to ingage or assist when it was against their Brethren of Scotland which I do the rather now mention because that partie in England who would have ingaged us against Scotland at the first and since have been in Arms against both Kingdoms are now renewing their manifold former endeavours to divide us By sowing jealousies and fomenting discontents thereby hoping we should do that for them they could never by all their policie and power do for themselves But the more it stands with their interest to divide us the more it must needs be ours to unite And the stronger seige they lay to our Union the more it stands us upon to fortifie it My Lords I wonder at the confidence of our Enemies that can hope for our Divisions do they look upon us as men so altogether void of Reason that we should not see or consider That dissentions amongst Brethren must necessarily very much weaken and doth usually prove destructive to both And that if it should fall amongst us at this time it were far more probable now when the Popish Prelaticall and Malignant are so much strengthened by a discontented party though we should both resolve the contrary to bring in Tyrannie and Episcopacie it may be Popery then be any good means for the establishment of the known Truths of God amongst us or a right Discipline in the Church or a good and peaceable Government in the Kingdoms the things so much desired by all good men My Lords Division is the Devils work at all times and it would be more especially so amongst us at this time when the Aids sought for in all parts by the bloodie Irish Rebels fails them and they have no other hopes of subsistance under Heaven left these things considered if yet we should fall into dissentions amongst our selves not onely all the Protestants in the world would condemn us but we should ingage the God of all the world against us to whom we have sworn to preserve the Union and then what could we expect but ruins upon which might be written These were they that when there was no other visible way to effect it did with the foolish woman in the Proverb pull down their house with their own hands My Lords To deal freely with your Lordships I have spoken the more upon this point because we hear which it may be your Lordships do not that some of our great English Delinquents are at this time come too or neer this City if their businesse be to blowe coals betwixt us we hope they will never be able to kindle them to a fire especially when not onely the Ministers and good people of both Kingdoms and poore bleeding Ireland and all the Protestants in Christendome whose interest and welfare is much lapt up in it do all cry to us to take heed unto and preserve our Union But the great God of Heaven and Earth to whom we have sworn it bids us look to it at our perils lest he bring upon the breakers of it Ruin without remedie And onely those for the most part that have been and I fear will still be found to be our Enemies incite us to division where it is thus unequally dealt I hope our choise will soon be made And for the Parliament of England we do assure your Lordships it is their reall resolution to preserve the Union and in order to it to do all just and honourable things for the satisfaction of this Nation Nor can we doubt but the like affection and resolution will appear in the Parliament and Committee of Estates of Scotland And for my Lord Nottingham and the rest of