Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	ambassador_n	king_n	scotland_n	2,962	5	8.7134	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92454	A letter from the Commissioners of Scotland, representing the hard usage of the Earle of Lauderdaill by the souldiers of the army at Wooburn: and desiring his Majesties speedy coming to London in safety, honour, and freedome.	Scotland. Parliament.; Lauderdale, John Maitland, Duke of, 1616-1682.	1647 (1647)	Wing S1002E; Thomason E400_33; ESTC R201763	1,510	9

A LETTER From The Commissioners OF SCOTLAND Representing the hard usage of the Earle of LAVDERDAILL by the Souldiers of the ARMY at WOOBURN AND Desiring his Majesties speedy coming to LONDON in Safety Honour and Freedome LONDON Printed for Robert Bostock at the Kings Head in Paul's Church-yard MDCXLVII Right Honourable THe Committee of Estates of the Kingdome of Scotland having sent us frequent directions since these late commotions to give them a true account from time to time of his Majesties condition In pursuance thereof we desired the Earl of Lauderdail to repair to his Majestie at Wooburn where wee expected that he should have been used with that respect which is due to a Commissioner of the Parliament of Scotland but we are herein extremely disappointed for on Saturday morning early before his Lordship was out of his bed a great many soldiers rushed into his chamber and coming to his bed-side desired him speedily to be gone without any delay He represented unto them his imployment that hee was there in the capacity of a Commissioner of Scotland to attend his Majestie that he had resolved to go away that morning and intreated he might have the liberty first to speak with his Majesty Which they would not grant but violently insisted that what they demanded might forthwith be put in execution and would not hearken to any reason he offered unto them telling him it was past dispute it was resolved upon what they did herein would be owned by the Army and they would maintain it with other expressions of that kind We do acknowledge the civility of the Commissioners of both Houses who acted their parts in disswading them from so unwarrantable an action and one of the Commissioners in particular represented unto them the danger thereof acquainting them that hee had been an Embassadour abroad and did very well understand that this injury done by them to a Commissoner of the Parliament of Scotland was of a very high nature intreating that if they apprehended any thing from Scotland the breach might not be made upon the Kingdom of England's part and that they would not give just cause by this action to the kingdom of Scotland to make was against England but no argument did prevail so at length the Earl of Lauderdail was forced to depart having publickly protested before the Commissioners of both Houses that hee was debarred from accesse to the King of Scotland and his liberty taken from him contrary to the Law of Nations and a particular agreement betwixt the Kingdomes Wee have formely represented unto the Honorable Houses how his Majesty was carried away from Holdenby by a party of Sir Thomas Fairfax his Army which the souldiers before mentioned did on Saturday last before the Earl of Lauderdail and some of the Commissioners of both Houses own to be the act of the whole Souldiery of the Army Wee did likewise acquaint the Houses how our Letters to Scotland were intercepted by some of that Army And now to compleat these injuries they offered violence to a Commissioner of the Parliament of Scotland debarred him from accesse to his Majesty deprived him of his liberty and drove him away so that there remains no hope that there can be any application made hereafter to his Majesty from the Kingdome of Scotland Nor can we be able to give that account of his Majesties condition to that Kingdom which is expected from us so long as he is in the power of that Army Wherefore we do desire that the Houses of Parliament wil in their wisdome take such course herein as reparation may be made to the Kingdom of Scotland of these multiplyed injuries and especially of the last done against the person of a publick Minister of the Kingdom of Scotland in so violent a manner And to the end there may be a free and unrestrained application to his Majestie from the Parliaments of both Kingdoms we do earnestly desire the honourable Houses to invite his Majesty to come to London And to declare that he shall be here in safety honour and freedome then which we see no other probable mean for the present to obtain a safe and well grounded Peace And so we rest Worcester-House the 1 of August 1647. Your Lordships humble Servants Lauderdaill Charles Erskine Hugh Kennedy Ro. Barclay For the Right Honourable the Speaker of the House of Peers pro tempore FINIS