name of Memoriall or Oblation for no other end but that the memoriall and sacrifice of praise mentioned in it may bee understood according to the Popish meaning Bellar. de Missa lib. 2. cap. 21. Not of the spirituall sacrifice but of the oblation of the body of the Lord It seemeth to bee no great matter that without warrand of the book of England the Presbyter going from the north end of the Table shall stand during the time of consecration at such a pairt of the table where hee may with the more ease and decencie use both hands yet being tried it importeth much as that he must stand with his hinder pairts to the people representing saith Durand that which the Lord said of Moses Thou shalt see my hinder pairts Hee must have the use of both his hands not for any thing he hath to doe about the bread and wine for that may bee done at the North end of the Table and bee better seen of the people but as we are taught by the Rationalists that he may by stretching foorth his armes to represent the extension of Christ on the Crosse and that hee may the more conveniently lift up the bread and wine above his head to be seen and adored of the people who in the Rubrick of the generall Confession a little before are directed to kneel humbly on their knees that the Priests elevation so magnified in the Masse and the peoples adoration may goe together That in this posture speaking with a low voyce and muttering for sometimes hee is commanded to speake with a lowd voyce and distinctly hee bee not heard by the people which is no lesse a mocking of God and his people then if the words were spoken in an unknowne language As there is no word of all this in the English Service so doth the book in King Ed. time give to every Presbyter his liberty of gesture which yet gave such offence to Bucer the censurer of the book and even in Cassanders own judgement a man of great moderation in matters of this kinde that he calleth them Nunquam satis execrandos Missa gestus and would have them to be abhorred because they confirme to the simple and superstitious ter impiam exitialem Missae fiduciam The corporall presence of Christs body in the Sacrament is also to be found here for the words of the Masse-book serving to this purpose which are sharply censured by Bucer in King Ed. Leiturgie are not to be found in the book of England are taken in here Almighty God is incalled that of his Almighty goodnesse he may vouchsafe so to blesse and sanctifie with his Word and Spirit these gifts of bread and wine that they may bee unto us the body and bloud of Christ The change here is made a work of Gods omnipotencie the words of the Masse ut fiant nobis are translated in King Edwards booke That they may be unto us which are againe turned into Latine by Alesius Vt fiant nobis On the other pairt the expressions of the booke of England at the delivery of the Elements of feeding on Christ by faith and of eating and drinking in remembrance that Christ died for thee are utterly deleated Many evidences there bee in this pairt of the Communion of the bodily presence of Christ very agreeable to the doctrines taught by his Secretaries which this paper cannot containe They teach us that Christ is received in the Sacrament Corporaliter both objectivè and subjectivè Corpus Christi est objectum quod recipitur corpus nostrum subjectum quo recipitur The booke of England abolisheth all that may import the oblation of any unbloody Sacrifice but here we have besides the Preparatorie oblation of the Elements which is neither to be found in the book of England now nor in King Edwards booke of old the oblation of the body and bloud of Christ which Bellarmine calleth Sacrificium Laudis quia Deus per illud magnopere laudatur This also agreeth well with their late doctrine We are ready when it shall be judged convenient and we shall be desired to discover much more matters of this kind as grounds laid for missasicca or the halfe Messe The private Messe without the people Of communicating in one kind Of the Consumption by the Priest and Consummation of the Sacrifice Of receiving the Sacrament in the mouth and not in the hand c. Our Supplications were many against these Books but Canterbury procured them to be answered with terrible Proclamations Wee were constrained to use the remedy of Protestation but for our Protestations and other lawfull meanes which we used for our deliverance Canterbury procured us to be declared Rebels Traitors in all the Parish Kirks of England when we were seeking to possesse our Religion in Peace against these Devices and Novations Canterbury kindleth warre against us In all these it is known that he was although not the sole yet the Principall Agent and Adviser When by the Pacification at Berwick both Kingdomes looked for Peace and Quietnesse he spared not openly in the hearing of many often before the King and privately at the Counsell-table and the privy Iointo to speak of us as Rebels and Traitors and to speake against the Pacification as dishonourable and meet to be broken Neither did his malignancie and bitternesse ever suffer him to rest till a new warre was entred upon and all things prepared for our destruction By him was it that our Covenant approven by Nationall Assemblies subscribed by his M. Commissioner and by the Lords of his M. Counsell and by them commanded to be subscribed by all the Subjects of the Kingdome as a Testimony of our duty to God and the King by him was it still called Ungodly Damnable Treasonable by him were Oaths invented and pressed upon divers of our poore Countrey-men upon the pain of imprisonment and many miseries which were unwarrantable by Law and contrary their Nationall Oath When our Commissioners did appeare to render the reasons of our demands he spared not in the presence of the king and Committee to raile against our Nationall Assembly as not daring to appeare before the World and Kirkes abroad where himselfe and his Actions were able to endure tryall and against our just and necessary defence as the most malicious and Treasonable Contempt of Monarchicall Government that any by-gone age had heard of His hand also was at the Warrant for the restraint and imprisonment of our Commissioners sent from the Parliament warranted by the King and seeking the peace of the Kingdomes When we had by our Declarations Remonstrances Representations manifested the truth of our intentions and lawfulnesse of our Actions to all the good Subjects of the Kingdome of England when the late Parliament could not be moved to assist or enter in warre against us maintaining our Religion and Liberties Canterbury did not onely advise the breaking up of that high and honourable Court to the great griefe
Confession although confirmed in former Parliaments When hee found that the Reformation begun in Scotland did stand in his way he left no meanes unessaied to rub disgrace upon us and our cause The peeces printed at Dublin Examen conjurationis Scoticanae the ungirding of the Scottish Armour the Pamphlet bearing the counterfeit name of Lysimachus Nichanor all three so full of calumnies slanders and scurrilities against our Countrey and Reformation that the Jesuits in their greatest spite could not have said more yet not onely the Authors were countenanced and rewarded by him but the bookes must beare his name as the great Patron both of the worke and workman When the Nationall Oath and Covenant warranted by our generall Assemblies was approved by Parliament in the Articles subscribed in the Kings name by his Majesties high Commissioner and by the Lords of privie Counsell and commanded to be sworne by his Majesties subjects of all rankes and particular and plenary information was given unto the Lieutenant by men of such quality as hee ought to have beleeved of the loyalty of our hearts to the King of the lawfulnesse of our proceedings and innocency of our Covenant and whole course that he could have no excuse yet his desperate malice made him to bend his craft and cruelty his fraud and forces against us For first he did craftily call up to Dublin some of our Country-men both of the Nobility and Gentry living in Ireland shewing them that the King would conceive and account them as conspirers with the Scots in their rebellious courses except some remedy were provided and for remedy suggesting his own wicked invention to present unto him and his Councell a petition which he caused to be framed by the Bishop of Raphoe and was seene and corrected by himselfe wherein they petitioned to have an oath given them containing a formall renunciation of the Scottish Covenant and a deep assurance never so much as to protest against any of his Majesties commandements whatsoever No sooner was this Oath thus craftily contriv'd but with all haste it is sent to such places of the Kingdome where our Countrey-men had residence and men women and all other persons above the yeares of sixteen constrained either presently to take the Oath and thereby renounce their Nationall Covenant as seditious and trayterous or with violence and cruelty to be haled to the jayle fined above the value of their estates and to be kept close prisoners and so far as we know some are yet kept in prison both men and women of good quality for not renouncing that Oath which they had taken forty yeares since in obedience to the King who then lived A cruelty ensued which may parallell the persecutions of the most unchristian times For weake women dragged to the Bench to take the Oath died in the place both mother and child hundreds driven to hide themselves till in the darknesse of the night they might escape by Sea to Scotland whither thousands of them did flye being forced to leave Corne cattel Houses and all they possessed to bee a prey to their persecuting enemies the Lieutenants Officers And some indited and declared guilty of High Treason for no other guiltinesse but for subscribing our Nationall Oath which was not onely impiety injustice in it selfe and an utter undoing of his Majesties subjects but was a weakning of the Scots Plantation to the prejudice of that Kingdome and his Majesties service and was a high scandall against the Kings honour and intolerable abuse of his Majesties trust and authority his Majesties Commission which was procured by the Lieutenant bearing no other penalty then a certification of noting the names of the refusers of the Oath But this his restlesse rage and insatiable cruelty against our Religion and Country can not be kept within the bounds of Ireland By his meanes a Parliament is called And although by the sixe subsidies granted in Parliament not long before and by the base meanes which himselfe and his Officers did use as is contained in a late Remonstrance that Land was extreamly impoverished yet by his speeches full of Oathes and Asseverations that we were Traytors and Rebels casting off all Monarchiall government c. he extorted from them foure new Subsidies and indicta causa before wee were heard procured that a Warre was undertaken and forces should be leavied against us as a Rebellious Nation which was also intended to be an example and Precedent to the Parliament of England for granting subsidies and sending a joynt Army for our utter ruine According to his appointment in Parliament the army was gathered and brought downe to the Coast threatning a daily invasion of our Countrey intending to make us a conquered Province and to destroy our Religion Liberties and Lawes and thereby laying upon us a necessity of vast charges to keepe forces on foot on the West Coast to waite upon his comming And as the Warre was denounced and forces leavied before wee were heard So before the denouncing of the Warre our ships and goods on the Irish Coast were taken and the owners cast in Prison and some of them in Irons Frigats were sent forth to scoure our Coasts which did take some and burne others of our Barkes Having thus incited the Kingdome of Ireland and put his forces in order there against us with all haste he commeth to England In his parting at the giving up of the Sword he openly avowed our utter ruine and desolation in these or the like words If I returne to that honourable Sword I shall leave of the Scots neither root nor branch How soone he commeth to Court as before he had done very evill offices against our Commissioners cleering our proceedings before the point So now he useth all meanes to stirre up the King and Parliament against us and to move them to a present warre according to the Precedent and example of his owne making in the Parliament of Ireland And finding that his hopes failed him and his designes succeeded not that way in his nimblenesse he taketh another course that the Parliament of England may be broken up and despising their wisdome and authority not onely with great gladnesse accepteth but useth all means that the conduct of the Army in the expedition against Scotland may be put upon him which accordingly he obtaineth as generall Captaine with power to Invade kill slay and save at his discretion and to make any one or moe Deputies in his stead to doe and execute all the power and authorities committed to him According to the largenesse of his Commission and Letters patents of his devising so were his deportments afterwards for when the Scots according to their Declarations sent before them were comming in a peaceable way farre from any intention to invade any of his Majesties Subjects and still to supplicate his Majesty for a setled peace he gave order to his officers to fight with them on the way that the two Nations once entred in blood whatsoever
and hazard of the Kingdome but which is without example did sit stil in the Convocation and make Canons and constitutions against us and our just and necessary defence ordaining under al highest paines that hereafter the Clergy shall preach 4. times in the yeare such doctrine as is cōtrary not only to our proceedings but to the doctrine proceedings of other reform'd Kirks to the judgement of all sound Divines Politiques and tending to the utter slavery and ruining of all Estates and Kingdomes to the dishonour of Kings Monarchs And as if this had not been sufficient he procured six Subsidies to be lifted of the Clergy under paine of Deprivation to all that should refuse And which is yet worse and above which Malice it selfe cannot ascend by his meanes a Praier is framed printed and sent through all the Paroches of England to bee said in all Churches in time of Divine Service next after the prayer for the Queene and Roiall Progeny against our Nation by name of trayterous Subjects having cast off all obedience to our anointed Soveraigne and comming in a rebellious manner to invade England that shame may cover our faces as Enemies to God and the King Whosoever shall impartially examine what hath proceeded from himselfe in these two books of Canons and Common Praier what Doctrine hath beene published and printed these yeares by past in England by his Disciples and Emissaries what grosse Popery in the most materiall points we have found and are ready to shew in the posthume writings of the Prelate of Edinburgh and Dumblane his owne creatures his neerest familiars and most willing instruments to advance his counsells and projects fall perceive that his intentions were deepe and large against all the reformed Kirks and reformation of Religion which in his Majesties dominions wes panting and by this time had rendered up the Ghost if God had not in a wonderfull way of mercy prevented us And that if the Pope himselfe had beene in his place he could not have beene more Popish nor could he more zealously have negotiated for Rome against the reformed Kirks to reduce them to the Heresies in Doctrine the Superstitions and Idolatry in worship and the Tyranny in Government which are in that See and for which the Reformed Kirks did separate from it and come furth of Babell From him certainely hath issued all this deluge which almost hath overturned all We are therefore confident that your Lordships will by your meanes deale effectually with the Parliament that this great firebrand be presently removed from his Majesties presence and that he may be put to tryall and put to his deserved censure according to the Lawes of the Kingdome which sall be good service to God honour to the King and Parliament terror to the wicked and comfort to all good men and to us in speciall who by his meanes principally have beene put to so many and grievous afflictions wherein we had perished if God had not beene with us We do indeed confesse that the Prelates of England have beene of very different humours some of them of a more hot and others of them men of a more moderate temper some of them more and some of them lesse inclinable to Popery yet what knowne truth and constant experience hath made undeniable we must at this opportunity professe that from the first time of Reformation of the Kirk of Scotland not only after the comming of King Iames of happy memory into England but before the Prelates of England have beene by all meanes uncessantly working the overthrow of our discipline and governement And it hath come to passe of late that the Prelates of England having prevailed and brought us to subjection in the point of Governement and finding their long waited for opportunity and a rare congruity of many spirits and powers ready to cooperate for their ends have made a strong assault upon the whole externall worship and doctrine of our Kirk By which their doing they did not aime to make us conforme to England but to make Scotland first whose weaknesse in resisting they had before experienced in the Novations of Governement and of some points of Worship and thereafter England conforme to Rome even in these matters wherein England had seperated from Rome ever since the time of Reformation An evill therefore which hath issued not so much from the person all disposition of the Prelates themselves as from the innate quality and nature of their office and Prelaticall Hierarchy which did bring furth the Pope in ancient times and never ceaseth till it bring furth Popish doctrine and worship where it is once rooted and the principles thereof fomented and constantly followed And from that antipathy and inconsistency of the two formes of Ecclesiasticall governement which they conceived and not without cause that one Iland united also under one head and Monarch wes not able to beare the one being the same in all the parts and powers which it wes in the times of Popery and now is in the Roman Church The other being the forme of Governement received maintained and practised by all the reformed Kirks wherein by their owne testimonies and confessions the Kirk of Scotland had amongst them no small eminency This also wee represent to your Lordships most serious consideration that not only the firebrands may be removed but that the fire may be provided against that there be no more combustion after this FINIS THE CHARGE OF THE SCOTTISH Commissioners against the Lieutenant of IRELAND IN our Declarations we have joyned with Canterbury the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whose malice hath set all his wits and power on work to devise and doe mischiefe against our Kirke and Countrey No other cause of his malice can we conceive but first his pride and supercilious disdaine of the Kirk of Scotland which in his opinion declared by his speeches hath not in it almost anything of a Kirk although the Reformed Kirks and many other Divines of England have given ample testimony to the Reformation of the Kirk of Scotland Secondly our open opposition against the dangerous innovation of Religion intended and very farre promoved in all his Majesties dominions of which hee hath shewed himselfe in his owne way no lesse zealous then Canterbury himselfe as may appeare by his advancing of his Chaplain D. Bramble not onely to the Bishoprick of Derry but also to be Vicar generall of Ireland a man prompted for exalting of Canterburian Popery and Arminianisme that thus himselfe might have the power of both swords against all that should maintaine the Reformation by his bringing of D. Chappell a man of the same spirit to the Vniversity of Dublin for poysoning the Fountaines and corrupting the Seminaries of the Kirk And thirdly when the Primate of Ireland did presse a new ratification of the Articles of that Kirke in Parliament for barring such novations in Religion hee boldly menaced him with the burning by the hand of the Hang-man of that
should be the successe he might escape tryall and censure and his bloody designes might be put in execution against his Majesties subjects of both Kingdomes When the Kings Majesty was againe enclined to hearken to our petitions and to compose our differences in a peaceable way and the Peeres of England conveened at Yorke had as before in their great wisedome and faithfulnesse given unto his Majesties Counsels of peace yet this firebrand still smoaketh and in that honourable Assembly taketh vpon him to breath out threatnings against us as Traytors and enemies to Monarchicall government That we be sent home againe in our blood and he will whip us out of England And as these were his Speeches in the time of the treaty appointed by his Maiesty at Rippon that if it had beene possible it might have beene broken up So when a Cessation of Armes was happily agreed vpon there yet he ceaseth not but still his practises were for warre His under Officers can tell who it was that gave them Commission to draw neere in Armes beyond the Teese in the time of the treaty at Rippon The Governour of Barwicke and Carlile can shew from whom they had their warrants for their acts of Hostility after the Cessation was concluded It may be tryed how it commeth to passe that the Ports of Ireland are yet closed our Countrey-men for the Oath still kept in prison Traffique interrupted and no other face of affaires then if no cessation had been agreed upon We therefore desire that your Lordships will represent to the Parliament that this great Incendiarie upon these and the like offences not against particular persons but against Kingdomes and Nations may be put to a tryall and from their knowne and renowned justice may have his deserved punishment 16 Decemb. 1640. THE SCOTTISH Commissioners Demand concerning their sixt ARTICLE COncerning our Sixt demand although it hath often come to passe that these who have beene joyned by the bonds of Religion and Nature have suffered themselves to be divided about the things of this World And although our Adversaries who no lesse labor the division of the two Kingdomes then we doe all seeke Peace and follow after it as our common Happinesse doe presume that this will be the Partition wall to divide us and to make us lose all our labours taken about the former Demand Wherein by the helpe of God by his Majesties Princely goodnesse and Iustice and your Lordships noble and equall dealing We have so fully accorded to keep us from providing for a firme and weell grounded Peace by the wisdome and justice of the Parliament of England which is our greatest desire expressed in our last Demand We are still Confident that as we shall concerning this Article represent nothing but what is true Iust and Honourable to both Kingdomes So will your Lordships hearken to us and will not suffer your selves by any slanders or suggestions to be drawne out of that straight and safe way wherein yee have walked since the beginning IT is now Wee suppose knowne to all England especially to both the Honourable Houses of Parliament And by the occasion of this Treatie more particularly to your Lordships That our distresses in our Religion and Liberties were of late more pressing then We were able to beare That our Complaints and Supplications for redresse were answered at last with the terrours of an Army That after a Pacification greater Preparations were made for warre whereby many Acts of Hostilitie were done against us both by Sea and Land The Kingdome wanted administration of Iustice and Wee constrained to take Armes for our defence That we were brought to this extreame and intollerable necessity either to maintaine divers Armies upon our borders against Invasion from England or Ireland still to be deprived of the benefit of all the Courts of Iustice and not onely to maintaine so many thousands as were spoiled of their ships and goods but to want all Commerce by Sea to the vndoing of Merchants of Saylors and many others who lived by Fishing and whose callings are vpholden from hand to mouth by Sea trade Any one of which evils is able in a short time to bring the most potent Kingdome to Confusion Ruine and Desolation how much more all the three at one time combined to bring the Kingdome of Scotland to be no more a Kingdome Yet all these behoved Wee either to endure and vnder no other hope then of the perfect slavery of our selves and our posterity in our Soules lives and Meanes Or to resolve to come into England not to make Invasion nor with any purpose to fight except we were forced God is our Iudge our actions are our witnesses and England doth now acknowledge the truth against all suspitions to the contrary and against the impudent lyes of our Enemies But for our reliefe defence preservation which we could find by no other meanes when we had essayed all meanes and had at large expressed our pungent and pressing necessities to the Kingdome and Parliament of England Since therefore the war on our part wch is no other but our comming into England with a guard is defensive and all men doe acknowledge that in common equity the defendant should not be suffered to perish in his just and necessary defence but that the pursuer whether by way of Legall Processe in the time of Peace or by way of violence and unjust invasion in the time of warre ought to beare the charges of the defendant We trust that your Lordships will thinke that it is not against reason for us to demand some reparation of this kind and that the Parliament of England by whose Wisdome and Iustice wee have expected the redresse of our wrongs will take such course as both may in reason give us satisfaction may in the notable demōstration of their Iustice serve most for their owne honour Our earnestnesse in following this our Demand doth not so farre wrong our sight and make us so undiscerning as not to make a difference betweene the Kingdome and Parliament of England which did neither decerne nor set forward a Warre against us And that Prevalent faction of Prelats and Papists who have moved every stone against us and used all sorts of meanes not onely their counsells Subsidies and forces but their Kirk Canons and prayers for our utter Ruine which maketh them obnoxious to our just accusations and guilty of all the losses and wrongs which this time past wee have sustained Yet this wee desire your Lordships to consider That the Estates of the Kingdome of Scotland being assembled did endeavour by their Declarations Informations and Remonstrances and by the proceedings of their Commissioners to make knowne unto the Counsell Kingdome and Parliament of England and to forewarne them of the mischiefe intended against both Kingdomes in their Religion and Liberties by the Prelates and Papists to the end that our Invasion from England might have beene prevented if by the Prevalencie of the