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A48076 A letter from Rotterdam, touching the Scotch affaires, since November, 1650 1651 (1651) Wing L1500; ESTC R222062 6,872 14

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Holland towards the North of Scotland stor'd with all sorts of Provisions Arms and Ammunition many Volunteers and good store of Horses I had like to forgot one observation worth your noting that whilest the King was under the tuition of the Scots Presbutery they would not afford him the freedome to speak or write to any of his friends all Letters either sent by his Majestie or directed to him they intercepted and opened and the only use they made of his Royall Hand and Authoritie tended ever to his dishonour and ofttimes to the destruction of himselfe and his party in the three Kingdomes for proofe of this I shall call to witnesse his Proclamations publisht in August last his peremptory command for disbanding Middleton and his friends in the North his declaring that party in Ireland Traytors who fought daily against the State of England his revoking the Commissions granted to the Marquesse of Ormond Lord Inchequeen and many others of that Nation that were to act by Sea and Land and lastly his recalling all Commissions granted to divers of the English Nobilitie and Gentrie in order to some action and designs then plotted against the Kingdome of England all which is sufficient to shew the Presbyterian is no Changeling Kings must be their Subjects and they themselves Kings or else there is no living amongst them And that you may see how much the Kingdome of Scotland hath groan'd under the Rigidnesse of Presbytery I shall acquaint you with a few Grieveances which of late have been represented to the King and his Counsell by the Commons with an earnest desire and hope of redresse Grievances against the Scots Presbytery 1. Their Usurping a power over all secular and Military Affairs for if by the major part in Parliament a Law be enacted contrary to their mindes they presently excommunicate the Members for sitting and Voting in that Parliament for this very cause Duke Hamilton Earle of Lyndsay Earle of Dumfernling Lauderdaile and divers others of the Nobility were forc'd to doe pennance and if any man else yield obedience to such statute enacted without their approbation he is immediately brought to the Stoole of Repentance witnesse all those that levied Horse or money for the use of Duke Hamiltons Army or did serve under his command 2. Their taking cognizance of things done in another Kingdome and beyond Seas an honest man was forced to doe pennance for drinking in a womans house at Campheere in Zealand who had been Excommunicated formerly by the Presbytery of Aberdeen likewise many others have been Excommunicated and constrain'd to doe penance for bearing Armes in England under Duke Hamilton 3. Their defaming of Persons of Honour and other particular Persons in their Pulpits as also their publishing defamatory Declarations to the scandall of Religion and contempt of Monarchy 4. Their secret subornation of children and servants to accuse and betray their Parents and Masters for words spoken in their Bed-chambers and private houses there is scarce a considerable Family in all the Kingdome where they have not by one means or other set a spy upon them 5. Their wresting out of the hands of the Nobility and Gentry the Patronages of all Ecclesiasticall Livings whereby they have occasion'd great corruption and divisions among the Clergy insomuch that in some places Churches have lyen voyd without any Minister two or three years to the eternall prejudice of the peoples souls 6. Their cruell interdicting of Churches in one County Atholl by name 5 Churches were interdicted 3 years together no Minister suffered to Preach or pray amongst the people all that time nor to administer Sacraments whereby many children dyed unbaptised 7. Their usurping an Arbitrary power over the souls of men every Minister taking upon him to debar whom he please even the best man of the Parish from the Sacrament and their denying Baptisme to the Children of Malignants 8. Their covetous increasing their owne stipends in all Corporations procuring the State to lay an imposition of 3 d. Excise upon every Scotch pinte of Wine to be payd to the Minister of the Parish making every house to pay the 12. penny according to the utmost rack'd Rent which is 20 d. per pound Sir All the effect these grievances produced at that conjuncture of time was That the King and His Councell thought it not fit to make the breach wider or increase Divisions amongst His Subjects onely for the present the Clergy were commanded not to intermeddle in Civill or Military Affaires but to preach to the people obedience to His Majesties Authority and Unity and Peace one amongst another Yet in the opinion of wise men if things should settle that way the Presbytery of SCOTLAND would be refined and made conformable to these in HOLLAND For as your Reformers did in the beginning call for a Moderate Episcopacy so the whole cry of the Scots Nation is for a Moderate Presbytery which in time will end in JOHN KNOX his Government whose designe was to place Superintendents in every County The Nobility and Gentry of that Kingdome as well as yours cannot endure to heare of the restoring of Episcopacy for feare their Sacrilegious Titles to the Churches Lands should once more be called in question As I was closing my Letter this certaine Intelligence I received That the Scots King having secured all the passes and landing places in FIFE and quelied the CLASSIS of STERLING who declared against Him and His Party is lately gone to suppresse the like Faction which the CLASSIS of ABERDEEN hath countenanced to the great prejudice and safety of that part of the Kingdome In His absence Duke HAMILTON commands the Southerne Army who endeavours dayly to try his friends in levying Forces in the West of SCOTLAND Here we expect some Scotch Nobleman as an Ambassader from the Scotch King for that Kingdome and the Report is the Lord GERARD hath a Commission sent him to bee His Embassador for the Kingdome of ENGLAND I have no more roome to write but onely to subscribe my selfe Your most humble servant From Rotterdam 10 1. March 1650.