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A82540	The answer of the Parliament of England, to a paper, entituled, a declaration by the Kings Majesty, to his subjects of the kingdoms of Scotland, England and Ireland. Printed at Edinburgh, 1650. Whereunto is annexed, copies of four letters to the King of Scotland, which were found in the Lord Loudouns cabinet. Die Veneris, 20 Septem. 1650. Ordered by the Parliament, that this answer and letters be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Loudoun, John Campbell, Earl of, 1598-1663.	1650 (1650)	Wing E1227; Thomason E613_2; ESTC R206510	21,416	40

diligently done for the House of the God of Heaven and whatever heretofore hath been the suggestions of some to him to render his Majesty jealous of his Parliament and of the Servants of God Yet is he hath declared that in Scotland he will hearken to their Counsel and follow their Advice in those things that concern that Kingdom and Kirk So doth he also declare his firm Resolution to manage the Government of the Kingdom of England by the Advice of his Parliament consisting of an House of Lords and of an House of Commons there and in those things that concern Religion to prefer the Counsels of the Ministers of the Gospel to all other Counsels whatsoever And that all the world may see how much he tenders the safety of his People and how precious their blood is in his sight and how desirous he is to recover his Crown and Government in England by peaceable means as he doth esteem the service of those who first engaged in the Covenant and have since that time faithfully followed the ends thereof to be Duty to God and Loyalty to him so is he willing in regard of others who have been involved in these late Commotions in England against Religion and Government to pass an Act of Oblivion excepting onely some few in that Nation who have been chief obstructers of the work of Reformation and chief Authors of the change of the Government and of the Murther of his Royal Father Provided That these who are to have the benefit of this Act lay down Arms and return unto the obedience of their lawful Soveraign ANSVVER THe Treaty that was touched upon in the former Paragraph made between the kingdom of Scotland and their King in reference to England and Ireland is here at large and in the particulars of it set down it will be needless to repeat them In the whole Frame of which we dare boldly affirm There are those Grounds laid of inslaving this Nation to the Scots and especially to the power of their Clergy That no Parliament that hath ever yet sate in England have had the least drop of true English blood in them but would disdain and abhor to be thus imposed upon by the Scotish Nation And are these the hopes that are given to this Nation of having two Houses of Parliament sitting in Freedom when what they must desire and what they must have must be prepared and agreed for them by a Forraign Nation Will the Parliament be more the Parliament of England when two Houses shall be brought upon the Stage again with a King at the Head of them by the power of a Scotish Army enforcing this upon the Nation then when the Parliament is in actual possession of such Power and Freedom as through the blessing of God upon their endeavors they are able by Law to exclude both King and House of Lords the known opposers of the Peoples Freedom out of their National Counsels and by the force God hath enabled them with to preserve the common Peace and Safety of the whole under the Government of a Commonwealth and Free-State It is too late now to think that the People have no better discernment of their own true Interest then to be ●atched with any satisfaction that can be offered and given by a King if he himself with his power must come in at the end of it Nor will the great promises of what he will do in the Cause of God and Work of Reformation under that pretence to let in upon us the return again of Tyranny much work upon the pious and judicious among us who want not the full and free enjoyments of their consciences in this kinde in a voluntary way under this Government without being beholding to the Concessions of a King nay we may truly say That since the change of Government in this Nation there have been more Laws made and means used for the propagating the Gospel and the power of godliness and encouraging the true Professors thereof and more done for the extirpation of Prophaneness and open Wickedness then hath been during the whole time of the Reigns of Kings over this Nation And as to the King of Scotland's declaring his firm Resolution to manage the Government of England by the Advice of his Parliament consisting of a House of Lords and of a House of Commons and in those things that concern Religion to prefer the Counsel of the Ministers of the Gospel before all Counsels whatsoever We trust it shall never be in his nor in the Kingdom of Scotlands power to impose either himself or his Creatures the House of Lords upon the Supreme Authority and National Counsel of the Free-born People of England who if they once become corrupted in that which is the Fountain of their Liberties their own Representatives in Parliament assembled which with thus much cost hazard are set up in some measure already in their Primitive and Original Purity and are going on every day more and more to the compleating thereof must expect nothing but the flowings forth of Tyranny and Mischief upon them in and by their very Laws and that which should be the chief and onely remedy against all their evils would by this means become the greatest cause and author of them Nor would this at all be mended or helped by the Clause which is put in That in those things which concern Religion he will prefer the Counsels of the Ministers of the Gospel before all Counsels whatsoever and so by undenyable consequence before the Parliament it self for we have learned by experience That there is hardly any Debate had in Parliament but the subject-matter of it in some sense or other may be brought under the concernment of Religion and by that means all the Laws must be or not be as the Clergy will approve or not approve of them A practice so inconsistent with the Fundamental Priviledges and Freedom of Parliament and the Peoples good that it hath always been exploded and resisted by all Assertors of English Freedom and whenever any visible Attempts have been made to promote such a Design as too often have been since the sitting of this Parliament the Parliaments have highly Resented it and frequently adjudged it High Treason looking at it as that which Introduces a Forraign Jurisdiction and makes way for the setting up again a Popish Supremacy changed in Name onely Touching the Act of Oblivion offered It is no doubt the effect of a great desire the King of Scots hath to receive that which he pretends unto in the Government of England An Acknowledgement of his Power to dispense such Favors But in the mean time we must observe who it is that makes this Offer A Traytor to the Parliament and People of England and who by his past Actings against them hath rendred himself obnoxious to their severest Censures from which we hold him no way Absolved by Assumption or Declaration of a Scotish Kingship He who by Law and his

Guilt stands incapable of the meanest Priviledge amongst us Doth he think himself qualified to Exercise the Greatest Shall the Malefactor be presumed to have Power to give Pardon to his Judge Or do the Scots or their King imagine under pretence of an Act of Oblivion to seduce England to receive their Laws from Scotland The Obstructers of real Reformation we are as much against as he or they can pretend to be as by our Acts and Actions appears Amongst which we reckon it not the least That that Grand Enemy to Reformation the Father of the now Declarer after his long and Bloody progress made in Destruction and Devastation of the Innocent people in the Three Nations the Guilt whereof upon him being a Truth so apparant as both Himself and Son and our now Enemies of Scotland have been forced to acknowledge hath been by Our Authority Tryed Adjudged and Executed for his notorious Treasons Tyrannies and Murthers whereof whatever the Interpretation be given by the Son of that Murtherer or other his Partizans Old or New Malignants late Apostates or detestable Neutrals who stile the Act of Justice Murther with like Truth and Reason as those who call Good Evil and Evil Good Light Darkness and Darkness Light We for our parts bless God for that opportunity put into our hands of offering that Sacrifice to Divine Justice towards vindication and cleansing of our Land from that Blood wherewith by that Murtherer and his party it was so miserably defiled And as we have been obliged in a faithful and conscientious discharge of that Power and Trust committed to us by God and the People of this Nation to Avenge that Innocent Blood upon the Head of that Tyrant and some others the chief Authots and Actors under him in shedding thereof So for the seduced Multitude and those who in simplicity have been misguided by them to act to their own and Countreys ruine We have in the view of all expressed our tenderness and forbearance towards them And being invested with the Authority of the Nation whose Representative we are in that behalf as to such mis-led persons The Parliament of England thinks fit further to declare That as they have already long since had it in their thoughts and for that purpose have under consideration An Act of general Pardon in the progress whereof they have been interrupted by the renewed Endeavors of Charls Stuart and his Adherents to disturb the Peace of this Common-wealth and hinder its Settlement they will with all convenient speed apply themselves to the passing of such an Act And in the mean time do expect from all persons living under the Protection of this Commonwealth That they make not themselves any way Ayders or Abettors of the said Charls Stuart in his Pretences to the Government of this Nation under what fair and specious shews soever upon the penalties in the Laws in that behalf provided §. 5. THe Committee of Estates of the Kingdom and General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland having declared so fully in what concerns the Sectaries and the present Designs Resolutions and Actings of their Army against the Kingdom of Scotland And the same Committee and Assembly having sufficiently laid open publique Dangers and Duties both upon the right hand and upon the left It is not needful for his Majesty to adde any thing thereunto except That in those things he doth commend and approve them and that he Resolves to live and dye with them and his Loyal Subjects in prosecution of the Ends of the Covenant ANSWER THe Parliament of England and also their Army having so fully declared the Justice Necessity and Ends of undertaking the present Expedition into Scotland and having also put it in a way how those Declarations from the Committee of Estates and Commission of the Kirk in Answer thereunto shall have their invalidity detected as some of them already in part have been It will be needless to say any thing further on this subject in this place §. 6. ANd whereas that prevailing party in England after all their strange Usurpations and insolent Actings in that Land Do not onely keep his Majesty from the Government of that Kingdom by force of Arms but also have now Invaded the Kingdom of Scotland who have deserved better things at their hands and against whom they have no just quarrel His Majesty doth therefore desire and expect That all his good Subjects in England who are and resolve to be faithful to God and to their King according to the Covenant will lay hold upon such an opportunity and use their utmost endeavors to promove the Covenant and all the ends thereof and to recover and re-establish the Ancient Government of the Kingdom of England under which for many Generations it did flourish in peace and plenty at home and in Reputation abroad and Priviledges of the Parliament and Native and Just Liberty of the People His Majesty desires to assure himself That there doth remain in these so much confidence of their Duty to Religion their King and Countrey and so many sparkles of the ancient English Valor which shined so eminently in their Noble Ancestors as will put them on to bestir themselves for the breaking the Yoke of those mens Oppressions from off their Necks Shall men of Conscience and Honor set Religion Liberties and Government at so low a Rate as not rather to undergo any hazard before they be thus deprived of them Will not all generous men count any Death more tolerable then to live in servitude all their days And will not Posterity blame those who dare attempt nothing for themselves and for their Children in so good a Cause in such an Exigent Whereas if they gather themselves and take courage putting on a Resolution answerable to so Noble and just an Enterprise they shall honor God and gain themselves the Reputation of Pious men worthy Patriots and Loyal Subjects and be called The Repairers of the Breach by the present and succeeding Generations and they may certainly promise to themselves a Blessing from God upon so just and honorable undertaking for the Lord and for his Cause for their own Liberties their Native King and Countrey and the unvaluable good and happiness of the Posterity Whatever hath formerly been his Majesties guiltiness before God and the bad success that these have had who owned his Affairs whilest he stood in Opposition to the Work of God yet the state of the question being now altered and his Majesty having obtained Mercy to be on Gods side and to prefer Gods Interest before his own He hopes That the Lord will be gracious and countenance his own Cause in the hands of weak and sinful Instruments against all Enemies whatsoever This is all that can be said by his Majesty at present to those in England and Ireland at such a distance and as they shall acquit themselves at this time in the active discharge of their necessary Duties so shall they be accepted before God indeared

THE ANSWER OF THE Parliament of England TO A PAPER Entituled A Declaration by the Kings Majesty To His Subjects of the Kingdoms of Scotland England and Ireland Printed at Edinburgh 1650. Whereunto is annexed COPIES of Four LETTERS To the King of SCOTLAND Which were found in the Lord Loudouns Cabinet Die Veneris 20 Septem 1650. ORdered by the Parliament That this Answer and Letters be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by Edward Husband and John Field Printers to the Parliament of England 1650. IT is well known unto the World what maner of Contest the Parliament of England hath had these years last passed in their own Defence to preserve themselves from the almost Establish'd Tyranny which through a long tract of Time had been obtruding it self as well over the Consciences as the Laws and Civil Liberties of the People in England Ireland and Scotland Designing and Practising the Extremity of all Evils upon these Nations rather then to suffer it self to be stopped in its course or disappointed of its end Else what signified the first Troubles raised in Scotland by the late King and that failing then the cherishing upholding and continuing to the last the Horrid and Bloody Rebellion in Ireland by the same hand and after all the bringing of an Unnatural War into the Bowels of this Nation managed and improved to the utmost by him and the Popish Prelatical and Prophane Party adhering to him therein Which Evils have been writ out in such deep Characters of Blood been attended with such Consumption of Treasure and almost Devastation of several Countries in the three Nations that they will not suddenly be worn out of the Peoples Sense much less of their Memory Yet even during these first Troubles the Designers were not ashamed to appear bare-faced in their open and avowed Principles of Opposition and Hatred against the Cause of God the Work of Reformation Priviledges of Parliament and Peoples Liberties having for that purpose incorporated themselves in Interest with all the known and implacable Enemies of the same as The Popish Party abroad and Prelatical and Malignant Party at home But now when by the unspeakable Blessing of God unto this Nation Tyranny hath received its Mortal Wound not onely by being Beaten out of the Field in all that have fought for it but by the Remarkable Justice that hath been done upon the Prime Instrument in the late Kings Execution and in consequence thereof the Government of this Nation Restored to a Commonwealth and Fee-State and the Supreme Authority Establish'd in this and Successive Parliaments or Representatives of the People without King or House of Lords as the best Means and strongest Bulwark under the Divine Protection to preserve the Peoples Liberties against the like Attempts and Invasions for time to come and so deprived of all Hopes of its ever taking Root again in this Commonwealth and being like also if this Commonwealth continue to lose ground in Scotland and other Nations where the People are made meer Slaves and Vassals to the Will of their Prince and his Lordly Instruments in Church and State It hath seemed good to Charls Stuart the Declared King of Scotland and to the prevailing Party in State and Kirk there to dress up this old and Malignant Cause in a more plausible and Religious Garb then that with which it was put forth before and to take it out of or rather for a time suspend its Exercise in the hands of the Popish Prelatical and Malignant Party who begin also to see they can keep it up no longer but it will certainly breathe out its last Gasp if it be not shifted and by some Change of Instruments recover a Reputation amongst good men And therefore a room and place is made by common Consent amongst them to receive and hide the Interest of Tyranny and of Opposition to all Christian as well as Civil Liberty within the verges of the Solemn League and Covenant The Signing of which Covenant and the emitting of a Declaration by the eldest Son of the late King expressing in words a superficial Repentance for what there is no probability for him at the present to put in practice and promising in effect for the future to Tyrannize and Enslave men chiefly by the Advice of the Kirk and as shall tend to uphold their Power and Clergy-Interest in the first place before his own An Homage which the Pope indeed hath claimed from Earthly Princes as that which is due to him as he pretends himself Gods Vicar on Earth This is now accounted full Satisfaction as to what is to be done on his part and whereupon they would make the World believe the state of the Cause is altered even to that degree as that their New King is now no longer upon his Old Principles but is come over to those upon which they have fought against his Father for these Twelve years past The Deceit and Evil of all which will appear when we shall come to take in pieces the said Declaration and thereby Unmask as we have promised the gross Hypocrisie of the Contrivers thereof and the Wicked Design that is couched and contained therein under pretence of The Name and Cause of God The Work of Reformation The Power and Freedoms of Parliaments in England according to their Ancient Form except onely a perpetual subjecting and subordinating of their Laws Councels and Advices to the Clergy who have a promise That their Councels shall be heard before any other whatsoever and other plausible Inducements to possess himself of the Crown of England And having obtained that Power with the Destruction of all the Faithful and truly godly Party that have declared themselves for this present Government He may then be more absolute in Tyranny then ever Prince in England was and derive the same in Succession to his Posterity upon the score of Conquest acquired to him by the help of the Scots whose good-will to England for the Cause of God as they would have us believe hath been and still is such as to hold it fit to impose upon us the Yoke of their Usurpations both in Church and State and have not scrupled to attempt the attaining of the same either by Subtilty of by Force By both which Means they never thought themselves in so fair a way unto their End as now they have cast themselves into by their late Agreement with their New King and this Declaration they have made him put forth which we shall Answer in the distinct Paragraphs of it in order as they lie §. 1. HIs Majesty taking in consideration that merciful Dispensation of Divine Providence by which he hath been recovered out of the snare of Evil Councel and having attained so full perswasion and confidence of the Loyalty of his People in Scotland with whom he hath too long stood at a distance and of the Righteousness of their Cause as to joyn in one Covenant with them and to cast

the Commonwealth of England But when Sin doth not prosper it is no wonder if it be bewailed and if it lose its power it is no marvel if it lose also its credit even with the best Friends to it It is fit Popery and the Bloody Rebellion of Ireland should be renounced and the Scots King Absolved from any further hand in it considering the many Breaches or rather Failings on their parts now that through the Blessing of God upon the Sectarian Army in that Nation as they call them the Rebels have been disinabled to keep themselves in Power and maintain his Interest there which we have good reason to believe is yet a greater Affliction to him in his sober thoughts then he findes it to be Sin For as we are credibly informed Ormond and Inchiquin were very lately departing out of Ireland and giving up all there but by very fresh Directions and Commands from the Scots King out of Scotland they are Required to stay and promote his Interest there In pursuance of which the said Ormond is as busie as ever giving out Commissions amongst the Irish whether as Friends to the Covenant or no we shall leave the World to judge The third and last Effect of the Scots Kings full perswasion of the Justice and Equity of all the Heads and Articles of the Covenant is His Recalling all Commissions formerly given for infesting the Seas with Pyracies and Depraedations and Resolutions for the future to employ none in such Power and Trust until they have renewed the Covenant and be declared capable of such Trust by the Parliament as more at large is afore-recited in the clause it self It is to be observed as little Justice and Necessity as the Scots pretend there was of sending our Army into Scotland That here is now acknowledged by their King for himself and them also That the Scots have treated and concluded with their King on the behalf of the People of England and Ireland as well as Scotland and have taken upon them we presume by vertue of the Covenant to Interest themselves in the highest Degree in the Laws and Liberties of England and have laid the Ground-work of a New War to be carried on principally by themselves in this Nation Declaring for such as adhere to the Covenant and Monarchical Government and against such as without Opposition to the Covenant are for this Common-wealth as it is now Established without King or House of Lords And yet have the confidence to Appeal to God how innocent they are of giving us any cause to send an Army into Scotland in our Defence and to keep off this deep designed War from our own Doors as long at least as God shall enable us thereunto Will not God judge such under-hand Dealing as this We are assured he will as he hath begun already of late most wonderfully and seasonably to do And he that thus brings it to light out of their own mouthes gives us hope That in his due time he will return it with Shame and Loss upon their own heads who have adventured on such bold Undertakings to which they were never called but are most perfectly unconcerned any further then they are drawn and inticed thereunto by inordinate lusting after the Conquest of this Nation and Establishing themselves in the Wealth and Power thereof But to make all fair and smooth to those that are apt to be deluded and mis-led and to engage them in a New War against their Native Countrey their New Converted King declares That by Commissionating persons at Sea to commit Pyracy and Depraedations for the interruption of Trade He intends no Damage nor Injury to his harmless oppressed Subjects but onely to his Enemies which now are none but those that are Enemies to the Covenant and Monarchical Government And that he resolves to imploy none in such Trust until they have renewed the Covenant and been declared capable of that Trust by Parliament and therefore doth in words recal all Commissions given to any such persons But when all this is done how are the former Evils committed at Sea to the interruption and destruction of Trade remedied by this or the parties injured repaired When War was acted by Duke Hamilton upon the Lives and Estates of this Nation and none therein were employed but such as took the Covenant and were declared fit for that Trust by the Parliament of Scotland who commanded that Invasion Were the Evils of War less upon the English or the Crime less in those that acted them Do such Resolutions as these vary the state of the War and of the Cause or do they onely change the Method and Circumstances of moving and proceeding to the same end We hope it is too late now to mis-lead any of the well-affected with Blindes of this nature by which they have once been cozened before and whereby they may assure themselves they shall be deceived a second time if the Cavaliers and purely Royal Party do but lay hold of the expedient offered to them which is by a faigned pious and good Deportment to make themselves capable of a Regress into their former Employments upon the cheap Terms of swallowing down the Covenant and the obtaining the Approbation of as full and free a Parliament as that which Authorized the Invasion of this Nation by Duke Hamilton And full who knows not what such a Declaration as this signifies to those that have Commissions to Rob and Spoil and perhaps better understand Charls Stuarts Intentions that granted them then those that put him upon holding forth this Dissimulation as if they were recalled §. 4. ANd as his Majesty hath given satisfaction to the just and necessary Desires of the Kirk and Kingdom of Scotland so doth he hereby assure and declare That he is no less willing and desirous to give satisfaction to the just and necessary Desires of his good Subjects in England and Ireland and in token thereof if the Houses of Parliament of England sitting in Freedom shall think fit to present unto him the Propositions of Peace agreed upon by both Kingdoms he will not onely accord to the same and such alterations thereanent as the Houses of Parliament in regard of the Constitution of Affairs and the good of his Majesty and his Kingdoms shall judge necessary but do what is further necessary for prosecuting the ends of the Solemn League and Covenant especially in those things which concern the Reformation of the Church of England in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government That not onely the Directory of Worship the Confession of Faith and Catechism but also the Propositions and Directory for Church-Government accorded upon by the Synod of Divines at Westminster may be setled and that the Church of England may enjoy the full Liberty and Freedom of all Assemblies and Power of Kirk-Censures and of all the Ordinances of Jesus Christ according to the Rule of his own Word And that whatsoever is commanded by the God of Heaven may be

hath by your Answer to the same Desires given full contentment to the General Assembly I doubt not but your Majesty is willing to give the same conent to your Parliament and Committee of Estates Therefore I trust your Majesty will pardon my boldness for I know no better service can be done to your Majesty than that any thing which proceeds from you may be acceptable to your People and that your Majesty may be more and more endeared in their affections which is the duty and shall be ever the desire of Endorsed A Copy of my Letter to the King July 22. 1650. Most gracious Soveraign THe condition of your Majesties Army here and what our Resolutions are at present will be so exactly shewn to your Majesty by Sir James Lumsden as I shall refer the particulars to his Relations rather than trouble your Majesty with a long Letter yet briefly I hold it fit to shew your Majesty That Cromwel hath gotten more than a moneths provision for his Army by Sea and that he expects shortly new Recruits And victuals being so scarce as it will be very difficult to entertain our Army in a Body till the Harvest that Corns be cut and reaped It s resolved for this and other Reasons That this Army shall march out to the fields nearer the Enemy and if they force us to fight in Gods strength to give them Battel or if they shall not pursue us some Enterprise will be undertaken to make a diversion to give the Enemy work in England rather than consume us with a lingring War and make the seat of it in Scotland In order to which your Majesties hastning hither your Declaration is so necessary as the delay of it will retard and obstruct any Expedition into England and time is so precious as the loss of opportunity can hardly ever be recovered So praying God to bless your Majesty and so direct your Councels and the actions of your Armies as may serve most for his honor may restore your Majesty to your just Right And Sir It is the desire and judgement of many That Sir J. L. should be Lieut General of the Foot but was not thought expedient to do it presently to shun contest and emulation yet his affection to the Cause and to your Majesties Service is such as he is willing to give his best assistance in ordering the Army and to act his part in a day of Battel And truly Sir he is a person of so much valor and experience in War that your Majesty would give him all encouragement and lay your Commands upon him to return presently to the Army and not leave it Endorsed A Scroll of my Letter to the King Aug. 10. 1650. SIR THere hath been so much said by these who are here and those were sent from the Committee of Estates and from the Commissioners of the General Assembly to move your Majesty to emit that Declaration for satisfaction of the Church and State and of such in all your Kingdoms as desire Religion and your Majestics Throne to be establish'd according to the Covenant as I can adde little to perswade your Majesty yet if your Majesty shall ponder in the Ballance of righteous judgement the consequences will follow upon your granting or refusal your Majesty will not deny it If your Majesty grant and emit this Declaration you satisfie the Church the State the Army and all your gude Subjects They all concur to act for you and the Army is ready if they be not engaged in present Battel to march into England and leave Scotland and all which is dear to them to the utmost hazard and sacrifice their Lives for carrying on the Work of Reformation and restoring your Majesty to your Right and Crown of England And then if there be any in England who dare appear for Religion for their own Liberties or for your Majesties Interest they will finde a fit opportunity for it Your Majesty is now obliged by the Oath of Covenant with God and your People to promote the Ends of the Covenant in your Royal Station and Place to the utmost of your Power And your Majesty by the Treaty with this Kingdom and in gude Reason is bund to follow the Counsel and Advice of your Parliament and Church and of these who are by them authorized and since this which is earnestly desired by both as necessary for the good of Religion and the Covenant and engaging of the Church and Kingdom to hazard their Lives and Estates for carrying on your Majesties Interest with the Interest of Religion your Majesty should not deny but cordially and speedily condescend to it If your Majesty after so earnest intreaty and such offers from the Church the State and the Army shall refuse to satisfie the desire and clear your Resolutions your Majesty will grieve their Spirits cool their Affections and weaken their Hands And since your Majesty refuseth to do what is necessary for the good of Religion and Gods Interest they will look to the safety and good of Religion and to their own Safety and emit a Declaration how willing they are to hazard their lives for your Majesties Interest if ye had been for Religion but that being denyed they will separate the preservation of Religion from your Interest and so to the Safety of this Kingdom and if there be a difference and separation upon those grounds there will never in humane appearance be such a conjunction and your Enemies who will grant any thing which may destroy your Majesty will win their ends Endorsed A Copy of my Letter to his Majesty upon sending the Declaration to him to be Signed FINIS