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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65418	Reasons why the Parliament of Scotland cannot comply with the late K. James's proclamation sent lately to that kingdom, and prosecuted by the late Viscount Dundee : containing an answer to every paragraph of the said proclamation, and vindicating the said Parliament their present proceedings against him : published by authority.	Welwood, James, 1652-1727.; Graham, John, Viscount Dundee, 1648-1689.	1689 (1689)	Wing W1309; ESTC R2126	15,716	35

Late King and upon the late Iustice of our Nation I mean the Indictment of high Treason against that Noble Person the late Earl of Argyle of whom to say too much were impossible and to say too little were a Crime It 's true this Affair was Transacted in the Late King Charles his Reign but it justly merits the glory of being accounted one of King Iames's Managements since he was his Brother's Commissioner and upon the place at the time and the source and promoter of that great Person 's Ruine One would think that it needs must have been some horrid Crime that could obliterate all the eminent Services done by this Nobleman to the Crown even in its lowest figure that could provoke Iustice to convict him of no less than High Treason to taint his Blood and declare his Family Ignoble to forfeit his Estate to extinguish his Honour the first of its Rank in the Kingdom and to sentence Himself to die the death of a Traytor and all this to happen within a few weeks after that he had been seen to move in the highest Orb of favour and to entertain the then Duke of York with the greatest magnificence at his House in Stirling King Charles had reason to call this Crime of the Earl of Argyle's a Metaphysick kind of Treason and a thing he could never make sense of But that those who are strangers to our Kingdom may have a short hint of this unintelligible Affair I beg leave to inform them That in the Parliament where the Late King Iames represented his Brother as High Commissioner there was an Oath or Test enacted to be taken by all Persons in publick Offices in which Test there were some things contained so hard of digestion and of apparent contradiction in it self that a great many Persons of all Ranks scrupled it upon that score Yea the universal dislike of it at first was such as oblig'd the Bishop of Edinburgh and afterward the Privy Council it self to emit a publick explanation of this Test and therein to piece up in the best manner possible the seeming Contradictions contained in it Notwithstanding of all this and that most of the Clergy especially of the North did take this Test and Oath with and under express Explanations and were by Authority allowed them yet the Earl of Argyle had his Life Honour and Fortune sacrific'd for venturing on that which the meanest Countrey Minister was permitted But that the Ages to come may know the very words wherein this Chymereal Treason lay and thereby be the better capacitate to have a true value of the Learning and Integrity of those Gentlemen that had the honour of finding it out I shall repeat the very Expressions which were declared by the plurality of his judges to be in themselves High-Treason which are these according as they are set down in the Indictment upon which he was found guilty I have considered the Test and am very desirous to give obedience as far as I can I am confident the Parliament never intended to impose contradictory Oaths and therefore I think no man can explain it but for himself and reconcile it as it is genuine and agrees in its own sense and I take it in so far as it is consistent with the Protestant Religion and it self And I do declare I mean not to bind up my self in my Station and in a lawful way to wish and endeavour any alteration I think to the advantage of Church or State and not repugnant to the Protestant Religion and my Loyalty And this I understand as a part of my Oath Behold the transcendent Crime that brought one of the Greatest and Ancientest Families of our Nation to ruine and at last one of the greatest and best of its Subjects to the Block and therein an unexampled Instance of an Arbitrary Power that scorn'd to be bounded by the mean and weak Bonds of Iustice and Law but could boldly venture upon all that uses to be sacred among men when it was found needful to sacrifice to Revenge any that might have the honour to oppose the Design of introducing Popery and Arbitrary Power It 's to be regretted that Death has exempted from a Temporal Bar the rest of this Nobleman's Iudges that gave their vote against him and has left us behind but one of them B. of F. a Person Iustice must stoop to before she can meet him and whom Heaven has denied any Qualities that might render him a suitable Victim for the atonement of so Illustrious Blood. Here it is but reasonable that I should mention with honour a great many noble and generous Persons who merit to have their Names affixt on the Temple of Fame to After-ages for the glory of daring to make what opposition they could to the enslaving their Countrey Some of whom neither Places of Preferment nor the honour of sitting at the Council-board and on the Bench could tempt to betray the Liberties of the Nation and of whom others were proof against the Frowns of Princes and could not be frighted by the loss of Imployments and Disgraces from their Duty But this fertile Subject I leave to a better Pen. Thus I hope I have made it appear That the two great Hinges of the Government of Scotland are that the Laws the People are governed by be made by King and Parliament And that the Government be administred according to these Laws I have also prov'd That the Late King Iames has subverted both these two Hinges of the Government and thence that our Constitution was dissolv'd and our Obligations of Obedience and Oaths of Allegiance to that King are extinguish'd and at an end From all which it must follow by a necessary Consequence without necessity of proving it That the Estates of the Kingdom did justly fill up the Throne vacant by the dissolution of the Government and thereby the above-mentioned Narrative of King Iames's Proclamation has now no more force than a Bull of Excommunication in Countreys where the Thunders of the Vatican have lost their force There is but one Objection that can be made with any shadow of reason against King Iames his obligation to govern by Law and it is so trivial that it scarce requires an Answer and it 's this That he never took the Coronation-Oath and therefore cannot be charged with unhinging that part of our Constitution To govern according to Law. To this all I shall say is first He was obliged to take it as being an Oath enacted to be taken by all the Kings of Scotland and it were most unreasonable that his Fault in not taking it should put him in a better Condition or us in a worse than if he had taken it Secondly Whoever accepts the Regal Dignity in right of Succession is thereby understood to assume the Government with and under the same Conditions and Limitations that his Predecessors were under So that King Iames by accepting the Crown of Scotland in Right of Succession to his Brother That very Right that entail'd upon him the Crown which was once his Brother's does at the same time entail also upon him the necessary and Essential Conditions of the Government as they were stated in his Brother's time The rest of the Proclamation runs thus By all which they have incurr'd the guilt and pains of High-Treason meaning the Parliament as mentioned in the former part and Rebellion against Us and Our Authority Therefore We hereby declare the saids wicked Persons assembled as aforesaid consenting to such Proceedings Rebels and Traytors Willing and requiring you and all our Good Subjects to take notice hereof that you give them no obedience concourse or assistance But that to the utmost of your power you rise in Arms against assault attach and destroy them their Assistants and Abettors and to take and apprehend them and bring them to condign punishment according to the Laws and Acts of Parliament of that Kingdom their Estates and Goods to seize and imploy for Our use or your own subsistence in Our Service And for whatever shall happen in prosecution of this Our Will and Pleasure This shall be to you and all others concern'd a sufficient Warrand and Command And for all blood-shed slaughter mutilation fire-raising or other damage done to these Rebels their Accomplices Assisters Abettors their Lands and Inheritances Goods or Possessions a sufficient Indemnity Pardon Warrand and Approbation for now and ever The which all our Iudges are to explain in the most favourable and extensive sense the words can bear in favours of Our saids Subjects obeying Our said Order as aforesaid Declaring We will make good to Our Subjects whatever We promis'd them in Our Declarations in favours of the Protestant Religion and Liberty of Conscience to all who will live peaceably and Rights and Properties of our People Given at Dublin c. I would not have been at the pains to transcribe these Expressions if I did not think that the very reading of these unexampled Invitations to Slaughter Fire-raising c. should excite a just horror in the minds of all men of what we are to expect if ever Heaven for the punishment of our Ingratitude should suffer us to fall under the Power of the Prince that uses them And I have chose rather to pass them over with a bare repeating of them than by such an Answer as perhaps they require add Reflections upon a Prince who has his Fortune too much sunk already and whom a great many Considerations obliges me always to treat with all possible Respect FINIS ADVERTISEMENTS A Seasonable Discourse wherein is Examined what is Lawful during the Confusions and Revolutions of Government Especially in the Case of a King deserting his Kingdoms And how far a Man may lawfully conform to the Powers and Commands of those who with Various Successes hold Kingdoms Whether it be Lawful I. In Paying Taxes II. In Personal Service III. In Taking Oaths IV. In giving himself up to a final Allegiance As also Whether the Nature of War be Inconsistent with the Nature of the Christian Religion Sold by Rich. Ianeway in Queen's-Head Court in Pater-Noster-Row Ioannis Georgii Graevii Oratio de Auspicatissima Expeditione Britannica Cum Potentissimus Invictissimus Guilielmus Arausionensis Princeps Angliae Galliae Hiberniae Rex inauguraretur Die xi Aprilis Auctoritate Praepotentium Illustrium Ordinum Trajectinae Dioeceseos Habita 1689. Impensis D. Newman ad Insignia Regalia in Vico vulgo vocato the Poultry