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B08718	A declaration from His Majestie the King of Scots wherein is declared how the army shall be fully satisfied all their arrears with a large overplus, together with an assurance of indempnity to all that have been engaged and and active in any the late wars, that all armies shall be disbanded, and his goverament always regulated by a free and full parliament triennially called, and the people secured of their liberties and eased of their illegal burthens and taxes, also A letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Lambert from a lover of peace and truth being a most faithful advice how to chuse the safest way to the happy ending of all our distractions.	Scotland. Sovereign (1649-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; S. L. Letter to the right honorable the Lord Lambert.	1659 (1659)	Wing C2971; ESTC R171211	9,101	18

LAMBERT SIR LEt it not be a trouble to you to read a few Lines from one unknown but a much honorer of your Noble Spirit and therefore desirous to cast in his dram of Advice among those many and weighty Debates now before you If I should tell you of divers that had a power or capacity to contribute to or restore Peace to these Nations and have neglected the Opportunities which they have since repented of I am confident you would even your self point out the men namely Essex Fairfax Waller Massey Browne Rich Cromwell and others Sir We look upon you at this instant as having the whole strength of the Nation in your hands but if you expect to hold it long you will be miserably deceived Therefore I beseech you make good use of this happy opportunity and consider how great you may make your self and how glorious you will be to posterity if you be a means of laying the Government on the shoulders of Him that ought to bear it which will in an instant restore a happy Peace and Settlement to this distracted Nation Certainly the greatest honour and a better estate than any English Subject enjoys shall be your reward But if you doubt how the Souldier and Persons deeply concerned that shall concur with you shall be secured and satisfied See this Declaration that to my knowledge hath been neer Three Moneths in this Town and perhaps not yet come to your view Are you not thereby convinced or would you know under what Government the People would rest most satisfied either a Single Person Council of State Parliament or Army Appoint such a way as every man may without fear or danger give in his vote undiscovered To begin only with this Town Let the Clerk of every Company or Constable of every Ward take a Ticket in Paper from every man and put it into a Box locked and sealed and you will find Nine parts of Ten encline to that Constitution we have lived under above these five hundred years But if not you will however by this course give great satisfaction to the People in letting them have each an opportunity of declaring their minds and thereby you will be rightly informed of their affections which being weighed in the ballance of your judgement you may with confidence and assurance steer on a straight course to the Haven of Happiness and Safety My Lord I conceive I have done my duty in declaring my mind and have no more to say but that you do as God shall put in your heart and then go and prosper Octob. 14. 1659. Your Lordships most humble and faithful Servant S. L. CHARLES R. WE having lately received an Overture from some persons in England with a seeming pretence of a Peace and Reconcilement betwixt Us and our Subjects of England and although they acknowledge themselves few in number and not so well resolved as to trust us with their Names yet undertake on the behalf of many thousands to make good their propositions to us conditionally that we grant and assure unto them their as they call them reasonable and modest requests whether these mens Intentions are just and upright as they pretend or whether with Jo●b's Salutation to Abner they would entrap us to our destruction or with Shimei come the first of all the House of Joseph to meet us not being able to support themselves in their decaying Condition we shall not be much desirous to enquire after Only from hence we take occasion to let those persons and all the world know that we are ready to grant to all our Subjects some very few excepted more then they can have the confidence to expect from us Yet let not any rash Judgement condemn us for our large Offers as being in so low and forlorn a Condition as never any Christian Prince for many Ages hath been That we are forward in promises though intend little or no performance We say were our calamity more heavy upon us which can hardly be we shall not be drawn by the greatest allurements and advantages to passe our engagement for any thing we are not fully resolved to perform which being chiefly for the general good and peace of all our Subjects we cannot but hope for a happy Successe to ensue and therefore do declare that if peaceably receiv'd we shall forthwith grant 1. A general and free pardon to all seven of those only excepted which were the bloody Judges and Murderers of the King our Father 2. That all the Armies shall be within six months disbanded if Moneys for their satisfaction can in a Parliamentary way be so soon raised and that they shall have all Arrears fully payed them and three months pay over and above to every common Soldier for their better removal and settlement in their former or better way and place of living 3. That the Armies being so satisfied and disbanded no Soldier shall be continued but in the ancient Garrisons accustomed on the Sea Coasts and that no new Army shall be raised or any Fleet by us set forth to Sea upon any occasion whatsoever but by consent of Parliament 4. That not any of our Subjects shall be burdened with Taxes Excise Free-quarterings or other illegal payments or pressures or any Oaths imposed nor any debarred of their Liberties questioned for their Lives or Estates for any cause or pretence whatsoever but by the ancient and known Laws of the Land according to Magna Charta and the Petition of Right 5. That the Purchasers of Crown Lands and Rents being satisfied their purchase mony and Interests by the Profits thereof and further payment to their full Reimbursement The said Lands and Rents may return to the Crown again we being resolved in the mean time to cast our Self on the Love of our Subjects for our future support And if the Parliament that shal next be called shal not think fit to give us a reparation such a competent revenue as we might expect we have learned and shal submit if there be occasion to the Condition of the meanest of our Predecessors 6. That the purchasers of Bishops and Deans and Chapters Lands and Rents being in like sort satisfied their purchase mony and Interest by the profits and further payment till they be reimbursed that then the said Lands and Rents shall be conferred on the Clergy and Ministery as the next Parliament shall ordain 7. That as soon as Writs can be issued a free and legal Parliament shall be summoned and the Privileges thereof maintained without any exemption to any person whatsoever being legally chosen and returned according to the ancient Laws and Customes of EngLand in that case provided 8. That the Parliament shall be desired by us and with whom we shal concur to take care for the setling of the Protestant Religion and the publick worship of God with liberty for tender Consciences and for the providing for the Ministry in the first place as being the most weighty affair and ought to

for our Servants and Friends we desire them all to consider our own and also their Conditions and how things now stand in England that neither we nor themselvs can otherwise in any probability better our selvs unless by a bloody and hazzardous War which though we cannot doubt of the lawfullnesse on our part and consequently a prossperous successe if we shall be necessitated thereto for the recovery of our just right yet we are assured that the God of peace will rather prosper a peaceable than violent and forceable entrance And therefore we hope all those our friends and loving Subjects will rest fully satisfied with that we shall do pursuant to these propositions we being desirous hereafter to consider their sufferings though not comparable to ours as God shall enable and in all just and lawfull ways And now we wish that all the people of England would remember how they have performed their Protestations Oaths Vows Solemn League and Covenant But to instance in no more than the Honour and Priviledges of Parliament the foundation of all their laws which they have so often sworn and vowed to maintain with their liues and fortunes what face of a Parliament they have now left which should consist of three Estates King House of Peers and House of Commons The two first wholly destroyed And what of the last is in being not to mention at least 150 that at the beginning of the Wars left them and went to Oxford when a considerable number of their own party protested against their proceedings and deserted the House How many imprisoned and what great numbers by force expulsed by that late bloody hypocritical Usurper which actions of his though they were a main step to his intended Throne and Tyrannical Goverment yet are to well relished By that Tail of a Parliament remaining that they are resolved neither to readmit the persons so illegally and injurioussly expelled nor to fill up the void places of any removed or dead so that in a few year● what by death and new expulsion they may reduce themselvs to the number of those infamous Tyrants of Athens and if they can establish themselvs by their designed Militia and that they may thereby be able to command their now masters the Sword-men and Cashire them they will modd●… such a nevv Army as shall be in subjection to them and then Vote themselvs their Sons and Nephews a Parliament for ever Let those that have generous English Spirits seriously consider into what a Labyrinth of woe and misery they have run themselvs and now lyc under what a confusion there is in Church and State that what hath been gotten by blood and rapine must be so upheld The Government these Usurpers would settle not being to be maintained but by continual Armies Navies and he support of these must be Taxes Excise Free-quarterings and chargeable Militia's and other unsupportable burdens to perpetuity Now let the whole Nation beg and implore a blessing from the Father of Mercies and let them all be of one heart and one mind to free themselvs of these Iron yokes and heavy pressures and joyn and concur●… with us in esablishing a peaceable Government to the great joy and happiness of the honest and true-hearted and to the sdvancement of the true Protestant Religion and God glory And let them all unanimously with one Voyce say Amen A true Copy taken from the Original A Letter to the Right Honorable The Lord LAMBERT SIR LEt it not be a Trouble to you to read a few Lines from one unknown but a much honourer of your Noble Spirit and therefore desirous to cast in this dram of Advice among those many weighty Debates now before you If I should tell you of divers that had a power or capacity to contribute to or restore Peace to these Nations and have neglected the oportunities which they have since repented of I am confident you would even your self point put the men namely Essex Fairfax Waller Massey Brown Rich Cromwell and others Sir We look upon you at this instant as having the whole strength of the Nation in your hands but if you expect to hold it long you will be miserably deceived Therefore I beseech you make good use of this happy opportunity and consider how great you may make your self and how glorious you will be to posterity if you be a means of laying the Government on the shoulders of Him that ought to bear it which will in an instant restore a happy Peace and Settlement to this distracted Nation Certainly the greatest est honour and a better estate than any English Subject enjoyes shall be your reward But if you doubt how the Souldier and Persons deeply concerned that shall concur with you shall be secured and satisfied See this Deelaration that to my knowledge hath been near three months in this Town and perhaps not yet come to your view Consider of it and see if all your own seekings both from Our Hand and another in particulars be not here answered Lay your Hand on your Heart for are you not thereby convinced or would you know under what Government the people would rest most satisfied either a Single Person Council of State Parliament or Army Appoint such a way as every man may without fear or danger give in his vote undiscovered To begin only with this Town Let the Clerk of every Company or Constable of every Ward take a Ticket in Paper from every man and put it into a Box locked and sealed and you will find Nine parts of Ten encline to that Constitution we have lived under above these five hundred years But if not you will however by this course give great satisfaction to the People in letting them have each an opportunity of declaring their minds and thereby you will be rightly informed of their affections which being weighed in the ballance of your judgement you may with confidence and assurance steer on a straight course to the Haven of Happiness and Safety My Lord I conceive I have done my duty in declaring my mind and have no more to say but that you do as God shall put in your Heart and then go on and prosper Octob. 14. 1659. Your Lordships most humble and faithful Servant S. L. A LETTER To the Right Honorable The Lord LAMBERT From a Lover of Peace and Truth Being a most faithful Advice how to chuse the safest way to the happy Ending of all our Distractions Also A DECLARATION FROM The KING of SCOTS How the Army shall be fully satisfied all their Arrears with a large Overplus TOGETHER WITH An Assurance and Indempnity to all that have been engaged and active in any the late Wars That all Armies shall be disbanded and his Goverment alwayes regulated by a free and full Parliament triennially to be called And The People secured of their Liberties and eased of all Illegal Burthens and Taxes Printed in the Year 1659. A LETTER to the right honorable The Lord

be preferred before any other Concernment whatsoever without which no blessing from above can be expected upon our Government 9. That if the Parliament shall passe an Act of general pardon and if they shall desire those seven persons by us intended to be executed shall be included and giving us satisfactory reasons for the same we shall concur with them therein 10. That the Affairs of the Land and our Government shall be constantly regulated and managed by Parliaments and that the Act for Triennial Parliaments shall be by us duly observed We acknowledge it is very difficult if not impossible to please all especially where there are so many divisions and every man almost of a several mind and opinion But as we have proposed to our Self so shall we endevour to give all reasonable Satisfaction to all our Subjects And if the Actings of the Representatives in a Free Parliament of their own choice can satisfie them we shall not be wanting in summoning and concurring with them But if that will not please them nothing will Now if these condescentions of ours shall have so much freedome of passage in England as many a scurrilous and lying Pamphlet flye abroad without our control we are confident that all of understanding that are not wilfully blinded or not over-swayed with present self-interest thereby knowing our large Offers must needs be fully convinced of the amplitude thereof extending to all their grievances However if it shall be instanced wherein we are two short for we are ready for the Good and Peace of the Nation to give large satisfaction and ample assurance to our most inveterate Enemies We having yielded to all matters of most importance shall not stick at lesser things And if any that have been adherers and assisting to our late royal Father and us shall think we are herein to free and indulgent to such and so many open and professed Enemies and that we have made no provision for our Servants and Friends we desire them all to consider our own and also their Conditions and how things now stand in England That neither we nor themselves can otherwise in any probability better our selves unless by a bloody and hazzardous War which though we cannot doubt of the lawfulness on our part and consequently a prosperous success if we shall be necessitated thereto for the recovery of our just right yet we are assured that the God of peace will rather prosper a peaceable then violent and forceable entrance And therefore we hope all those our friends and loving Sujects will rest fully satisfied with what we shall do pursuant to these propositions we being desirous hereafter to consider their sufferings though not comparable to ours as God shall enable and in all just and lawful ways And now we wish that all the people of England would remember how they have performed their Protestations Oaths Vows Solemn League and Covenant But to instance in no more then the Honour and Priviledges of Parliament the foundation of all their laws which they have so often sworn and vowed to maintain with their lives and fortunes What face of a Parliament they have now left which should consist of three Estates King House of Peers and House of Commons The two first wholly destroyed And what of the last is in being not to mention at least 150 that at the beginning of the Wars left them and went to Oxford when a considerable number of their own party protested against their proceedings and deserted the House How many imprisoned and what great numbers by force expulsed by that late bloody hypocritical Usurper which actions of his though they were a main step to his intended Throne and Tyrannical Government yet are so well relished by that Tail of a Parliament remaining that they are resolved neither to readmit the persons so illegally and injuriously expelled nor to fill the up the void places of any removed or dead so that in a few years what by death and new expulsions they may reduce themselves to the number of those infamous Tyrants of Athens and if they can establish themselves by their designed Militia and that they may thereby be able to command their now Masters the Sword-men and Cashire them they will moddle such a new Army as shall be in subjection to them and then Vote Themselves their Sons and Nephews a Parliament for ever Let those that have generous English Spirits seriously consider into what a Labyrinth of woe and misery they have run themselves and now lye under what a confusion there is in Church and State that what hath been gotten by blood and rapine must be so upheld The Government these Usurpers would settle not being to be maintained but by continual Armies and Navies and the support of those must be Taxes Excise Free-quarterings and chargeable Militia's and other unsupportable burdens to perpetuity Now let the whole Nation beg and implore a blessing from the Father of Mercies and let them all be of one heart and one mind to free themselves of these Iron yokes and heavy pressures and joyn and concur with us in establishing a peaceable Government to the great joy and happinesse of the honest and true-hearted and to the advancement of the true Protestant Religion and Gods glory And let them all unanimously with one Voyce say Amen A true Copy taken from the Original FINIS