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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94167	An English translation of the Scottish Declaration against James Graham alias Marquess of Montrosse. Wherein many things are set right between the kingdom of Scotland and Commonwealth of England. With many observable passages, concerning the transactions with the late king, and their now declared king.	Sydenham, Cuthbert, 1622-1654.	1650 (1650)	Wing S6293; Thomason E597_10; ESTC R203680	21,895	28

it himself with terrour and amazement to all the Nations And had there been any probable hope of better things from him yet the good that we should have got by him would be nothing to the weight of blood that would lie on this Nation unsatisfied for to procure judgements But what hope was there was his constitution or affections either to Episcopacy or Malignancy altered or abated had he any lower thought of himself and Prerogative was not the Queen as nearly related to him as ever did he not as much hate the Covenant as ever did he want any thing but power and oportunity to react his old principles Let us not trifle in these serious concernments politicall complements will not save Kingdoms the blood-thirsty man shall not live out half his daies saith holy Writ neither is it murther 〈◊〉 execute the murtherer but reason and justice there is no reason in nature or divinity that tells us that Kings are of such pure and refined flesh that they must in no cause be let blood what hath been done by the Parliament of England on that man of blood Heaven and Earth hath and will witnesse unto and vve doubt not novv justice is done though it should be but from a rais'd zeale as Phineas act vvas yet the person being the deserving subject of it the plague shall be staid And yet however we have all this reason and necessity for that Act with many eminent providences of God to shew concurring with and following it yet we free our Brethren from the guilt of the blood and wish heartily that they may be as free from the consequences of their politike compliances with the late King and his Son as we are before God of the crime and fault of that honourably memorable Act they have if they would speak out more reason to thank these instruments then charge them who have cut off the visible root of their and our miseries which neither they nor we know how to make a good use of and be true to our Covenant and consciences but though the root be cut down as rotten they intend to preserve the most naturall branch to graffe on the old stock of Malignancy that what the one could not do the other may if possible effect But let things be but accounted right was it not better to do an Act of Iustice at once in taking away the Kings life then to have left him dead while he lived and to have crucified him all dayes of his life with Papers and Pamphlets with reproaches and continuall representations of his unworthy and bloody actions and to have wish'd the same end yea onely to have let him live to see his misery and to have beheld those actings which he accounted as the greatest and highest affronts and worse then death it would be a great controversie to determine whether the King thought his imprisonment and restraint more infamous and cruell or his death if in the first the hope of an oportunity of revenge did not refresh and comfort him certainly it must needs be more honest and just before God and man for wicked and notorious acts to cut him off from his Kingdome then by degrees to complement him out of it and let him live to see it in the one shines justice in the other basenesse and deceit Had he reigned with all the qualifications and limitations we could for the present have put on his Government we had been ruined and had he not reign'd we had let him see his best self dead as a King before he died as a man which is a double death and so had as it were strangled him a more ignoble death then beheading The Committee of Estates might well remember on whom both their Kirk and State and our Parliament did often on more then shrewd suppositions lay the death of King James the losse of Rochell c. and with one voice ye at the last personall Treaty in the Isle of Wight did law the whole weight and charge of all the blood spilt in the three Nations directly on the Kings head and either it must lie on him or both Nations and was it fit in conscience that such a head should stand on his body which was full of so much innocent blood let justice and reason blush and Traytors and Murtherers Parricides and Patricides put on white garments and rejoyce as innocent ones if this man should escape the hands of justice and punishment Yea let Montrosse himself whom the Kirk calls a monster of men a child of the Devill clap hands and be canoniz'd for a Saint who rid but post as it were and for a little time through Scotland destroying and murthering in comparison of the late Charles Stuart who hath been the maine and only cause of the death of thousands shall I say millions of men ever since his reigne in England Scotland France and Ireland Nature Reason Religion did cry loud for vengeance and I had almost said and I may speak it without passion God himself had eclipsed yea lost the brightest beam of his divine justice that ever shined on this lower world if he had not some way or other brought that person to some eminent and preternaturall punishment and that way which God acted by was the most eminent and glorious But enough of this they are satisfied and so are we and if honest and just actings now follow we shall never have cause to repent of that act The last thing he taxeth them withall is that they have declared his Son King with proviso's robbing him of all right c. I shall say little against the justnesse of that proceeding if they will have a King they had need provide first for themselves yet there is much which may be objected and to speak truth as what ever they may expect from their new King will be but out of designe granted and untill he get the Kingdome so their actings seem to be but a bespeaking of a refusall and though the things they propound be never so necessary and just yet he hath his negative voice and power to deny them and yet be their King notwithstanding It had been a more faire way and lesse subject to misprision of deceit to have sent their conditions first e're they proclaimed him King and so to have let him know he injoyes not the Kingdome by succession but by election and compact on such conditions rather then first to declare him King give him full right and then put conditions without which he must not expect to be King that his Kingly right and power is involved in their conditions not in any naturall right of succession or heirship and as much as to tell him plainly you have no right nor title to the Kingdome of Scotland without you grant these terms which we think●●… and though we have proclaimed you King will not own you as a King but really and implicitely depose you and so found your power onely in election and