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A82717	The declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament of England, to the subjects of Scotland With His Maiesties message to the Lords of His Privy Counsell of Scotland, upon that occasion. Charles R. Our expresse pleasure is, that this our declaration be published in all churches and chappels within our kingdome of England and dominion of Wales, by the parsons, vicars or curates of the same.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1642 (1642)	Wing E1471; ESTC R231515	4,614	13

We have from time to time acquainted Our Subjects of that Kingdom with the Accidents and Circumstances which have disquieted this how after all the acts of Iustice Grace and Favour performed on Our part which were or could be desired to make a people compleatly happy We were driven by the force and violence of rude and tumultuous Assemblies from Our City of London and Our two Houses of Parliamēt How attempts have been made to impose Lawes upon Our Subjects without Our Consent contrary to the Foundation and Constitution of this Kingdom How Our Forts Goods and Navy were seised and taken from Us by force and imployed against Us Our Revenue and ordinary subsistance wrested from Us. How We have been pursued with scandalous and reproachfull language bold false and seditious Pasquills and Libells publiquely allowed against Us and been told that We might without want of modesty and Duty be Deposed Now after all this before any force raysed by Us an Army was raysed and a Generall appointed to lead that Army against Us with a Commission to Kill Slay and destroy all such who should be faithfull to Us. That when We had been by these meanes compelled with the assistance of Our good Subjects to raise an Army for Our necessary defence We sent diverse gratious Messages earnestly desiring that the Calamities and Miseries of a Civill Warre might be prevented by a Treaty and so We might know the grounds of this misunderstanding How We were absolutely refused to be treated with and how at last the Army raised as was pretended for the defence of Our Person was brought into the Field against Us gave Us Battaile though it pleased God to give Us the Victory destroyed many of Our good Subjects with as imminent danger to Our own Person and Our Children as the skill and malice of desperate Rebells could contrive of all which and the other Indignities which have been offer'd Us We doubt not the Duty and Affection of Our Scottish Subjects will have so just a resentment that they will expresse to the world the sense they have of Our sufferings And Our good Subjects of Scotland are not We hope so great Strangers to the Affaires of this Kingdome to beleive that this Misfortune and Distraction is begot and brought upon Us by Our two Houses of Parliament though in truth no unwarrantable Action against the Law can be justified even by that Authority They well know how the Members of both Houses have been driven thence insomuch that of above five hundred Members of the House of Commons there are not now there above eighty and of above one hundred of the House of Peeres not above fifteen or sixteen All which are so awed by the multitude of Anabaptists Brownists and other Persons desperate and decayed in their Fortunes in about the Citty of London that in truth their Consultations have not the freedome and Priviledge which belong to Parliaments Concerning any Commissions granted by Us to Papists to raise Forces We must refer Our good Subjects to a Declaration lately set forth by Us upon the occasion of that Scandall which We send together with this and for Our own true zealous Affection to the Protestant Religion the Advancement whereof Our Soule desires We can give no other Instances then Our constant practice on which malice it selfe can lay no blemish and those many Protestations We have made in the sight of Almighty God to whom We know We shall be deerly accomptable if We faile in the observation For that scandalous Imputation of Our Intention of bringing in Forraigne Forces as the same is raised without the least colour or shadow of reason and solemnly disavowed by Us in many of Our Declarations so there cannot be a cleerer Argument to Our Subjects of Scotland that We have no such thought then that We have hitherto foreborne to require the Assistance of that Our native Kingdome from whose Obedience Duty and Affection We should confidently expect it if We thought Our own Strength here too weake to preserve Us and of whose Courage Loyalty We shall look to make use before We shall thinke of any Forraigne Ayde to succour Us. And We know no reasonable or understanding man can suppose Our good Subjects of Scotland are obliged or enabled by the late Act of Parliament in both Kingdomes to obey the Invitation which is made to them by this pretended Declaration when it is so evidently provided for by that Act That as the Kingdom of England shall not make Warr against the Kingdom of Scotland without consent of the Parliament of England so the Kingdome of Scotland shall not make Warr against the Kingdome of England without the Consent of the Parliament of Scotland when they have alwayes declared themselves so carefull of Our Honour Safety and just Rights which now undergoe so great violation This We have thought fit to say upon occasion of this late Declaration and doe commend it to you the Lords of Our Privy Counsell of Our Kingdome of Scotland to be communicated and published to all Our loving Subjects there and if the grave Counsell and Advice which you derived hither by your Act of the 22th of Aprill last had been followed here in a tender Care of Our Royall Person and of Our Princely Greatnesse Authority then would not this face of Confusion have appeared which now threatens this Kingdome And therefore We require you to use your utmost Endeavours to informe Our Subjects of that Our Kingdom of the truth of Our Condition and that you luffer not the Scandalls and Imputations laid on Us by the malice and Treason of some men to make any Impression in the minds of Our People to the lessening or corrupting their Affection and Loyalty to Us but that you assure them the hardnesse We now undergoe and the Armes We have been compelled to take up are for the defence of Our Person and Safety of Our Life for the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion for the preservation of the Lawes Liberties and Constitution of this Kingdome and for the just Priviledges of Parliament and We looke no longer for the blessing of Heaven then We endeavour the defence and Advancement of all these and We doubt not a dutifull Concurrence in Our Subjects of Scotland in the care of Our Honour and just Rights will draw downe a blessing upon that Nation too Given at Our Court at Oxford the sixth day of December 1642.

THE DECLARATION OF THE LORDS AND Commons assembled in the Parliament of England to the Subjects of Scotland WITH HIS MAIESTIES Message to the Lords of His Privy Counsell of SCOTLAND upon that occasion Charles R. Our expresse pleasure is That this Our Declaration be Published in all Churches and Chappels within Our Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales by the Parsons Vicars or Curates of the same Printed by His MAJESTIES Command AT OXFORD By LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity 1642. The Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament of England to the Subjects of Scotland c. WEE the Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament of England considering with what Wisdome and publike Affection our Brethren of the Kingdome of Scotland did coneurre with the endeavours of this Parliament and the desires of the whole Kingdom in procuring and establishing a firme peace and amity between the two Nations and how lovingly they have since invited us to a nearer and higher degree of union in matters concerning Religion and Church government which we have most willingly and affectionatly embrac'd and intend to pursue Cannot doubt but they will with as much forwardnesse and affection concurre with us in setling peace in this Kingdom and preserving it in their own that so we may mutually reap the benefit of that amity and allyance so happily made and strongly confirmed betwixt the two Nations Wherefore as we did about a yeare since in the first appearance of trouble then beginning amongst them actually declare That in our sense and apprehension of the Nationall allyance betwixt us we were thereby bound to apply the authority of Parliament and power of this Kingdom to the preservation and maintenance of their peace And seeing now that the troubles of this Kingdom are grown to a greater height and the subtile practice of the Common Enemy of the Religion and Liberty of both Nations doe appeare with more Evidence strength and danger then they did at that time we hold it necessary to declare that in our judgement the same obligation lyes upon our Brethren by the afore-mentioned Act with the power and force of that Kingdom to assist us in repressing those amongst us who are now in armes and make warre not only without consent of Parliament but even against the Parliament and for the destruction thereof Wherefore we have thought good to make known to our Brethren that His Majesty hath given Commission to divers eminent and known Papists to raise forces and to compose an Army in the North and other parts of this Kingdom which is to joyne with diverse forraine forces intended to be transported from beyond the Seas for the destruction of this Parliament and of the Religion and liberty of the Kingdom And that the Prelaticall part of the Clergy and their adherents have likewise incited His Majesty to raise another Army which in His own Person he doth conduct against the Parliament and the Citty of London Plundring and Robbing sundry well-affected Townes within their power And that in prosecution of their malice they are so presumptious and predominant of His Majesties resolutions that they forbeare not those outrages in places to wich His Majesty hath given his Royall word and Protection A great cause and incentive of which malice proceeds from the designe they have to hinder the Reformation of Ecclesiasticall government in this Kingdom so much longed for by all the true lovers of the Protestant Religion And hereupon we further desire our Brethren of the Nation of Scotland to raise such forces as they shall Iudge sufficient for the securing the peace of their own borders against the ill-affected persons there as likewise to assist us in suppressing the Army of Papists and Forreiners which as wee expect will shortly be on foot heere and if they be not timely prevented may prove as mischievous and distructive to that Kingdome as to our selves And though we seek nothing from His Majesty that may diminish His just Authority or Honour and have by many humble Petitions endeavoured to put an end to this unnaturall Warre and Combustion in the Kingdom and to procure His Majesties Protection and Security for our Religion Liberty Persons according to that great trust which His Majesty is bound to by the Lawes of the Land shall still cōtinue to renew our Petitions in that kind Yet to our great griefe wee see the Papisticall and malignant Counsell so prevalent with His Majesty and His Person so engaged to their power that wee have little hope of better successe of our Petitions then wee formerly had and are thereby necessitated to stand upon our just defence and to seeke the speedy and powerfull assistance of our Brethren of Scotland according to that Act agreed upon in the Parliaments of both Kingdomes the common duty of Christianity and the particular interests of their owne Kingdome To which wee hope God will give such a blessing that it may produce the preservation of Religion the Honour Safety and peace of His Majesty and all His Subjects and a more strict conjunction of the Counsells designes and endeavours of both Nations for the comfort and releife of the Reformed Churches beyond Sea 7. Novemb. 1642. Hen. Elsing Cl Parl D. Com. Iohn Browne Cler Parliam His MAjESTIES Message to the Lords of His Privy Counsell of Scotland upon the afore-said Occasion RIght Trusty and Right Welbeloved Cosens and Counsellours and Right Trusty and Welbeloved Counsellours We greet you well We have lately seen a Paper presented to Us by the Earle of Lynsey as a Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament of England of the 7. of November to Our Subjects of Our Kingdom of Scotland which after many high taxes of Us and Our Government very earnestly invites and in a manner challenges Assistance from that Our native Kingdom of Men and Armes for making a Warre against Us makeing a clayme to that Assistance by virtue of the late Act of Pacification to the which out of Our desire to make a perpetuall union between Our two Kingdoms for the happinesse of both and by it the more firmely to establish Our owne greatnesse and just power We cheerfully consented As We are at Our soule afflicted that it hath been in the Power of any factious ambitious and malitious Persons so farr to possesse the hearts of many of Our Subjects of England as to rayse this miserable Distemper and Distraction in this Kingdome against all Our reall Actions and Endeavours to the contrary so We are glad that this rage and fury hath so farr transported them that they apply themselves in so grosse a manner to Our Subjects of Scotland whose experience of Our Religion Iustice and Love of Our People will not suffer them to beleeve those horrid Scandalls laid upon Us and their Affection Loyalty and Iealousie of Our Honour will disdain to be made Instruments to oppresse their Native Soveraigne by assisting an odious Rebellion