Sterling which he was willing to accept in stead of demanding the Eight Months during King James's life And supposing that he had redeemed us from that Eight Months Cess as well as many other miseries was it grateful or just to grudge him one years Cess for the relief of the rest There was more heat in this matter than consideration 6o. I cannot but admire their confidence in pretending to be surprised with the sudden Adjournment of the Parliament most men did wonder it sat so long and every body knew it was to rise that Week that strange Vote in refusing Four Months Supply after all the rest that had passed made it evident there was no better to be expected and when they had formerly refused to proceed upon the Instructions how could any man think that they should not be Adjourned As to your last Question where these mens strength lyes and whether the Presbyterians will desert the King and joyn with them I tell you plainly my thoughts these men play upon the Presbyterian Staik and though the Sticklers be persons who have little concern in Religion or regard to Church-government and when Episcopacy was formerly abolished and all the Laws establishing it Rescinded in consequence the Laws made at the Reformation in favours of the Presbyterian Government were redintegrat and revived the same might now have been done but thir same Addressers did oppose it and did add a Clause in the House declaring the Church-government was yet to be established upon this project that if Presbytery were once established they knew the Presbyterians needed no more depend upon them whereas the Presbyterians must either support them or else they will turn about and fall in with the Cavaleer Party against them for they Front to all Sides but to the King and in the mean time they render the Presbyterians jealous of the King and tell them that the Civil Magistrate likes always to have the Church in his power and that the King to oblige the Church of England will in the end abandon them whereas they are willing to establish Presbytery in what terms they can desire and to go the length of a Covenant and League with the Dissenters in England But after all I can hardly believe that the Presbyterians will be so imposed upon and whidled out of their Interest by persons they know to have no concern for Religion but to raise themselves by it And therefore I think the following Considerations will secure the Presbyterians First All the Presbyterian Lords in Scotland who have been all along of that Perswasion and have suffered for it have all to a Man stood firm to the King in this Parliament against the Club and they are almost all actually imployed in His Service Now it is not possible that any rational or sober Presbyterian will part with their old and great Friends who are able to do them good for new Undertakers whereof some have been lately their Persecutors and the Presbyterians have no safe retreat King James will neither trust nor forgive them Will they be Neuters and Associat again as the Five Western Shires did in Anno 1650. when they refused to joyn either with King Charles's Army or Cromwel's This design was both foolish and fatal they were quickly broken at Hamiltoun Secondly I can hardly believe that the Presbyterians will forget the regard the King had to their sufferings that he hath revived and restored them and will certainly settle the Government of the Church of Scotland by Presbyters and imploy them where they are capable in the Civil Government if they themselves do not hinder him For though I do not believe that the King either is or should be of a Party yet their circumstances lyes together his suscess and their deliverance For in Scotland though we had Bishops who were Tools for the Civil Government and led Horses for the State yet we never admitted Canons Service or any Forms in our Church so that even in time of Bishops the Nation was Presbyterian And whereas the Church and Bishops of England before this Revolution were standing in the Gap and suffering and the King in His Speech to the Parliament did avouch them to be a Bulwark to the Protestant Religion yet at that time our Bishops in Scotland in their Address to King James not only pray so his success and prosperity in that Expedition but they pray that God may give him the necks of his Enemies after they knew that the King then Prince of Orange was Embarqued and had set Sail for Britain This may conciliat a greater confidence and regard from the King to the Presbyterians of Scotland without giving any discouragement or displeasure to the Church of England For a Prince that hath different Countreys and Nations may maintain distinct Religions and much more distinct Forms of Government professing the same Religion without affecting or neglecting any man upon that account Thirdly As it is duty and gratitude for the Presbyterians to stand firm by the King they ly under a suspition to be difficile and uneasie under any Government and that their Principles are more suited to a Common-wealth than Monarchy they have now an opportunity to retrive and vindicate themselves from these aspersions and if they be such fools as to suffer themselves to be seduced to quite the King for the Club there are many that are now looking after their halting who will not be wanting to represent to the King that he hath neglected a far greater interest in looking after the Dissenters whom he could not manage These and other such considerations will certainly oblige the Presbyterians to look to their interest and foresee their danger if they should either ly by or prove unkind And if they do not support and sustain this Club it will fall to nothing and the Nation will return to some better temper and see their folly in not closing with the King's Instructions Sir I have been carried far beyond my design in giving you an account of my thoughts in this matter But without further I am Your most humble Servant London Dec. 1. 1689. 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An Account of the Affairs of Scotland In Answer to a Letter Written upon the occasion of the Address lately Presented to His Majesty by some Members of the Parliament of that Kingdom SIR I Will comply with your Desires in giving you a view of the Scottish-Affairs and before I make particular Answers to your Questions I will lay open the whole matter of Fact which hath occurred in the Meeting of Estates in Their Majesties Acceptance of the Crown and the Instructions given by His Majesty to His Commissioner for holding of the Parliament that you may be the better able to make a Judgment how far His Majesty hath made Concessions to satisfie the Minds and ease the Grievances of that Nation by His Offers in His Instructions to quite voluntarily these Advantages which the Crown hath insensibly got over the People ever since the Union of the two Kingdoms whereby Scotland is as much in the Power and Mercy of their Kings as most of the Nations in Europe by a Legal Constitution and the Consent of the People in Parliament It may be then Surprising if this great Opportunity hath not been Imbraced and these offered Concessions turned into perpetual Laws But the Ambition of some and the Selfish-Designs of others hath Obstructed the Happiness which that Nation could only expect from this Revolution and have kept it under the Power of these severe Laws and stretched Prerogatives which His Majesty was willing to have parted with A considerable number of the Nobility and Gentry of Scotland did Attend His Majesty in His Expedition for Britain and many moe having Met Him at London they did Address to His Majesty then Prince of Orange to Assume the Government till the Meeting of the Estates which they desired Him to Call. The Procedure in that Meeting was with a great deal of Discretion and Dispatch till the Country was put in a posture of Defence against an Invasion they had reason to apprehend from Ireland and till the Instrument of Government was finished which is almost in the same terms with that of England Upon the Eleventh day of April last the Estates did Proclaim Their Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MARY King and Queen of Scotland with all the Joy and Sincerity that could be Exprest the same day Their Majesties were Crowned in England Upon the Eighteenth day of the said Moneth the Estates did proceed to the Consideration of some Grievances to be Represented to His Majesty which they humbly desired might be Redressed in His Majesties first Parliament The Instrument of Government doth contain what the Estates did Assert to be the Peoples Right and the several Facts condescended upon are declared Illegal and the highest Violations of Law for which the Throne was declared Vacant The Grievances do acknowledge the things complained upon to be Legal but that the Laws introducing or allowing them are grievous and therefore there was necessity of applying to the King for Rescinding and taking off these Laws Upon the Twenty Fourth of April all the Grievances were concluded and three Commissioners being one for each Estate of the Kingdom were dispatched with the offer of the Crown to their Majesties Upon the Eleventh of May the Commissioners did present a Letter from the Estates of Scotland to His Majesty which waâ— Read first then the Instrument of Government then the Grievances and last a Desire from the Estates to be turned into a Parliament The King Answered the Commissioners in these Terms When I engaged in this Vndertaking I had particular Regard and Consideration for Scotland and therefore I did Emit a Declaration for that as well as to this Kingdom which I intend to make good and effectual to them I take it very kindly that Scotland hath exprest so much Confidence in Me and Affection to Me They shall find Me willing to Assist Them in every thing that concerns the Well and Interest of that Kingdom by making what Laws shall be necessary for the Security of Their Religion Property and Liberty and to Ease them of what may be justly grievous to Them. Then Their Majesties took the Coronation Oath and within some few days the King declared His Pleasure for turning the Meeting of Estates into a Parliament at their own desire and He did Nominat the Duke of Hamilton His Commissioner and upon the Thirty One day of May His Majesty did Sign his Instructions Upon Their Majesties acceptance of the Crown all Commissions Gifts and other Writs Superscribed by the King must of necessity be Docueted and Counter-signed by His Secretary of State The King made choice of my Lord Melvil for that Office a person who could never be induced to act in the Publick during the former Reigns who had been Forefault and forced to abandon his Relations and native Countrey and flee to Holland where and in Germany he remained seven years of whose Integrity and Sufficiency the King had good proof abroad and of his sincere Inclinations for the interest of Religion and His Majesties Undertaking It was likewise necessary for His Majesty to have an Advocat and He did name Sir John Dalrymple one of the three Commissioners which the States had so much recommended and considered as to Signalize and Intrust Them with a Matter of the highest Credit and Reputation as the offer of the Crown and receiving the Coronation Oath The rest of the Offices His Majesty did not supply that He might have more opportunity to know who were Habile and Deserving Persons for these Imployments Hitherto Matters were Mannaged with Calmness and Concord But now when the other Offices of Honour and Profit began to be Disposed on many who formerly did pretend to be behind with none for their Zeal in Their King and Countreys Service they quickly forgot the sense of their Deliverance and that Duty and Gratitude they owe to their Deliverer It had been moved in the Grand Committee of the Meeting of the Estates that it might be specially Provided in the Instrument of Government That the King should not have Power to Name the Judges Privy Counsellors or Officers of State but with Consent of Parliament This Motion was universally Rejected and thrown out with Detestation as an unreasonable Incroachment upon the Monarchy and there were only three in that whole Meeting who did favour the Proposal of whom some have worthily Retrited themselves by owning the King 's Right in this Point when it was afterwards called in question but what was universally Considered as an intollerable Invasion on the Royalty when there was no Government hath been since owned for Law and a Matter of the highest Importance this alteration of some mens Sentiments fell out Critically at that period when the King came to dispose of the Honourable or Advantagious Posts of the State then every man began to value himself and to believe he was better Judge of his own fitness for these Offices than the King whose Right it is to Dispose on them and thus our
pleasant Schene is turned into Confusion and some who doubted of their Interest to be preferred by their Princes Favour to that Share and Interest in the Government they designed they run about hoping to force Him to take them off for fear of their mischief whose Actings shew they resolve rather to disturb that Peace which is not yet well Confirmed to Embroyle the Nation Shake the Throne hazard Religion and all to a Revolution than fall short of their pretensions as if they had said Flectere sinequeo superos acheronta movebo and they have endeavoured to Amuse the unwarry multitude with the specious Pretexts of Law and Liberty and that their Grievances are so far from being Redressed that there are new Invasions made upon them and so in stead of taking their Relief which the King hath offered to all the Grievances represented by the Estates they fall upon new Complaints not formerly pretended to nor thought just or worthy to be insisted on for which some have Addrest to the King with great peremptoriness hindring their native Countrey from receiving the benefit of these Concessions which His Majesty offers in His Instructions But that I may not seem to impose upon you in this matter I will fairly set down both the Grievances and the Redress offered by His Majesty in the Instructions to His Commissioner with some short Notes that you may better understand the nature of the Grievâ—nce and the fulness of the Relief that is offered by the Instructions â—nd in regard the Instructions contain moe things than the Grievâ—nces do such as the turning the States into a Parliament and the â—ike they do not follow the same Method or Answer the numâ—er Therefore I shall repeat every Article of the Grievances with â—he particular Instruction relating to it together and then come to â—our Questions Article First Grievance THe Estates of the Kingdom of Scotland do Represent that the Committee of Parliament calâ—ed the Articles is a great Grievance to the Nation and that there â—ught to be no Committees of Parliament but such as are freely Chosen â—y the Estates to prepare Motions and Overtures that are first made â—n the House This is Answered by the second Article of the Instructions â—nstrustion â—econd YOu are to pass an Act for Regulating the Articles to consist of Twenty four Persons besides the Officers â—f State whereof Eight are to be Chosen by the Noblemen of their Eâ—tate Eight by the Barons and Eight by the Burrows out of their Eâ—tates and in case of the death of any of these Persons that Estate out â—f which the Person Deceased shall supply the same These are to prepare Matters and Acts for the Parliament but not to exclude the Parliaâ—ent to take any Matter into their Consideration though it hath been thrown out and Rejected in the Articles and all former Acts specially the first Act Parliament first Session third Charles the Second inconsistent herewith are to be Rescinded The Parliament of Scotland doth consist of Three Estates who all meet in one House and by the ancient Laws and Custom of that Kingdom there was a select number of Persons Chosen out of the Three Estates who with the Officers of State were called Domini ad Articulos because they did prepare Articles or Proposals and Framed Acts which were brought in to be Considered in Parliament And this Committee for Articles hath been as Antient as we find any Records of Parliament in that Kingdom and the Officers of State were alwayes Members The great Weight in the Mannagement of Affairs was committed to this Committee And in Antient times after the Articles were once Constitute the Parliament did Adjourn to a certain day till all things were prepared by the Articles which were to be proposed in Parliament The Policy of that Kingdom had introduced and maintained this Constitution of the Articles upon weighty aad solid Reasons as 1o. To preserve the different Interests of the Three Estates among themselves the several Estates having no Negatives in the Parliament for though one State were intirely opposit the plurality of the whole doth Determine and Decide And the Estates not being equal in number a greater State Combining might overthrow the Interest of another especially since the State of the Nobility being increased at the Kings Pleasure there are at present as many Lords in Scotland as do equal or exceed the number of the Commissioners for Shires and Burrows together As also the number of the Royal-Burrows may be increased at the King's Pleasure But the Shires remaining the same the Estate of the Burrows which hath the greatest part of the Property and visible Estate of the Nation they may have the fewest Votes in the Parliament But in the Articles every State hath an equal number whereby in the Projecting and Framing of the Laws each State hath an equal Interest 2o. All the Estates meeting in one House and there being no Negatives in the Parliament of Scotland a suddain Vote would put the Kings of Scotland to this strait and difficulty either to consent to a Law whereof they might be ignorant as to its Design and Framing or else to refuse the Royal Assent and so a Breach or Difference were Stated betwixt the King and People and there could be nothing more expedient for preventing these Inconveniencies than the Choosing of a select number for each Estate who with the Officers of State for the King did Prepare Digest and Adjust all Matters which were to be brought in to the Parliament In the Parliament of England there are two Houses and their Forms of Proceeding are flow and Cautious whereby the King may understand whatever is under the Deliberation of the one House before it come to the other and by Conference betwixt the two Houses Matters use to be Adjusted before they come the Kings length for the Royal Assent But in Scotland the Procedure is quick and the Forms of Parliament are Expedit and Summar besides the Temper and Genious of the Nation which is ready not to say Prefervidum Scotorum Ingenium whereby Matters of the greatest Importance may be Stated and Determined at one Sitting in the Parliament of Scotland And therefore as Matters in England do proceed by Bills from the Houses to the King so in Scotland Business did Commense from the Articles in which both the King and People had their shares of Members Of late there hath Excesses and Abuses crept in to the Articles both as to the manner of their Constitution and Power of Pâ—…miting the Parliament And since the Year 1633. The Bishops did chuse Eight Noblemen and the Noblemen did chuse Eight Bishops these did chuse Eight of the Commissioners for Shires and Eight of the Commissioners for Burrows who with the Officers of State made up the Articles by this method both the small Barons and Burrows were excluded from any Interest in chusing the Articles and they had not so much as a Vote in chusing these persons who
were to Represent their particular Estates in the Articles And it being the King's Prerogative to name all the Bishops in effect the King had the sole Power or Influence to make the whole Articles 2o. In stead of a Preparatory Committee for Ordering all things that were to be brought to Parliament the Articles did assume a Power that what they once rejected could not be brought in to plain Parliament But yet by the express Act of Parliament foresaid the 1. Act Sess 3. Parl. 1. K. Charl 2. The Articles is Constitute in the manner above-mentioned to be a perpetual Law in all time coming which was justly represented as a Grievance to the King but there is not the least mention of Officers of State though that point was spoken of and under Consideration in the Meeting by this Instruction the King did most Graciously and Fully Redresse these Errors and Corruptions of the Artieles by allowing every State to choise it s own Representatives and Declaring that the Articles shall not have Power to Pre-limit the Parliament but that even these things that have been rejected in the Articles may be brought in in plain Parliament whereby the interest of the Estates are equal and intire and the Parliament can never be imposed upon nor precluded It might have been expected that so Gracious a Concession from the King and His parting with so important a Jewel should have satisfied every man that the King designed no Arbitrary Power and that He verified that Clause of His Letter to the Estates That He would never put His Greatness or the Advantage the Crown had got in the Ballance with the True Interest of the Nation Yet this Concession did not please but some men insisted That there should be no Articles or constant Committee at all having now taken up a prejudice against the Name as well as the Excess of the Thing though the Grievance calls it the Articles and mentions not one word against a constant Committee But now they would make an Inference from the Custom of England though the Constitution of the two Parliaments are totally different And next they did Object against the Officers of State though this was no Incroachment or Corruption but they were Members of the Articles in the most Antient Constitutions And these last hundred and fifty years the Officers of State are named together in a Colum by themselves as distinct Supernumerary persons for the Interest of the Crown and as the Officers of State are not mentioned in the Grievance So the meaning of the Articles can not be extended to reach them for they being Supernumerary and for the King are not to be chosen nor can Re-present any State of the Parliament because they are Members of Parliament as Officers of State and are called and ranked though they be but Gentlemen before the Commissioners for Shires and Burrows It cannot but appear a great extremity that whereas by the present standing Law the King hath the whole Power and Influence in making the Articles that in an instant He shall be reduced to have no Interest at all and whereas every Estate hath an equal share of Members in this Committee for preparing Things to the Parliament the King shall have none for Him and every Body knows what Advantage may be made in the Framing and Wording of an Act where the Matter may be plausible and it were hard that the first Notice or Advertisement the King or His Commissioner might have of a Law designed were to hear it Read and Voted in the House and so be put on a sudden to give His Consent or interpose His Negative after the Parliament has engaged themselves by a Vote this Rock Our Ancestors have always shunned and there never was a Vote in the Parliament of Scotland before this time till the Matter was first subjected to the Kings Consideration and that His Commissioner was previously Instructed or knew it to be agreeable to the Kings Inclinations And there being a Law standing that all Matters to be determined in Parliament must be first brought in to the Articles till that Law be Repealled at least these Votes which were pressed in the Address were both unnecessary and preposterous But the King was so far from taking any occasion of Displeasure that he did Conced a further step by an Additional Instruction dated at Hampton-Court the Fourth day of July last which the Commissioner Read in Parliament WILLIAM R. Additional Instructions to Our Right Trusty and Right Entirely beloved Cousin and Councellor William Duke of Hamilton Our Commissioner 1. BY the Second Article of your Instructions Dated the Thirty One day of May last you was impower'd to pass an Act for regulating the Committee Called the Articles which were to consist of Twenty four persons besides the Officers of State Notwithstanding of which These are to Authorize you to pass an Act for them to consist of Thirtie three persons besides the Officers of State whereof Eleven to be chosen out of every Estate according to your former Instructions who are to prepare Matters as is therein expressed not excluding the Parliament to take Matters into their Consideration though it hath been rejected in the Committee nor to prevent their moving of any thing and regulating of it to them and the said eleven out of every Estate to be chosen Monthly or oftner if the Parliament think it fit and all former Acts especially the first Act Charl. 2. Sess 3. inconsistent with this are to be Rescinded 2. You are to pass what Acts stall be proposed sor settling the Church-Government according to your former Instructions 3. You are to pass an Act Rescinding all Forfeitures past against any of Our Subjects either in Parliament or Criminal Court since the first day of January 1665 which shal be thought fit by the Parliament to be Rescinded Likewise you are to consent to what Our Parliament shall propose for Restitution to be made of Fines or Compositions for Fines or Forfeitures from those who had the Benefit of them and you are to Rescind such Acts as were made in the years 1681 and 1685 as are justly grievous Although the first of the above Instructions is not complyed with yet you are to move the other two and have them past before any Adjournment Given under Our Royal Hand and Signet at Our Court at Hampton Court the Fourth day of July 1689. And of Our Reign the First Year By His Majesties Command Melvill The King did hereby Consent that the Articles should not be a constant Committee as they are now by Law but that the Estates might change their Representatives as oft as they please so that they could not be packed nor taken off by the Court and that each State in stead of Eight might choose Eleven Members whereby the Officers of State could never over-rule or determine them The whole Number of the Officers of State extends only to Eight whereof the Lord Secretary is ordinarly at Court and
Articles but they durst adventure to proceed in all these Votes contained in the Address without ever acquainting the King or procuring an Instruction to his Commissioner or Tabling these matters before the Articles which they would never allow to be chosen according to the standing Law By this you may guess at the Ingenuity of their Procedure and if it were not tedious I could give you many such instances The Estates did apply to the King to be turned into a Parliament that no time might be lost by the Indiction of the Parliament the King had no sooner granted it but a Committee of the Estates did Address to Him to delay the Diet of the Parliament till some of them might come up which was to secure their Interest in getting Offices and Places in the State which took off the reason they had pressed to be turned into a Parliament rather than that a new one should be called Likewise that Committee did take upon them to give good Injunctions to the King not to be hasty in disposing of Places till His Majesty might take Information from some persons whom they did recommend And accordingly His Majesty did neither at that time nor till now dispose of any place but what was absolutely necessary And in the nomination of the Lords of Session the King did not design the whole number but only Ten to make a full Quorum which might do all business while he were further informed for naming the other Five This was no sooner done then it was quarrelled as a Nullity in the Nomination because it was not compleat The King by Three several Instructions pressed the settling of the Church-government and did allow it to be done in any way they pleased with Committees or without them And sicklike for considering Fines and Forefaultures which was as oft shifted by those persons who offered the Address and at last it was declared to be impracticable and yet they have the confidence to spend a great deal of their Paper complaining for the not settling of Presbyterian Government and restoring Fines and Forefaultures as if the fault had lyen upon the King and that he needed to be pusht to it whereas they themselves have been the only obstructers And I am credibly informed that while they run about to amuse every body they tell those who are of the Church of England to ingratiat with them that what they did in relation to the abolishing of Episcopacy was nothing of their own inclinations but to comply with the King's Instructions who was engaged in that matter before he came from Holland which is sufficiently confuted by the Instructions themselves As to your second Question you have great reason to wonder why a Prince having made so great Concessions they were not accepted by every body and that it had been a better season afterwards to have demanded more But the misery lyes here if once the Instructions had been understood and been reduced into Laws that must have given so universal a satisfaction to the People and procured so much affection and gratitude to the King that all the Addresses Hopes and Endeavours had been in vain to creat Jealousie and maintain Faction and Mutiny For the benefits and ease the Nation should have received would have been so sensible and fresh that the Whisperer or Backbiter would have found no place or admittance whereas now the Nation remaining under its Fetters there being nothing done for its advantage or satisfaction every body is sensible of the misery it feels but few can make a Judgment of the Cause and the Author and they have been easily imposed upon to believe that these who keep them in slavery are their Champions and that he who promised and from whom they expected relief hath deserted them And to make these surmises pass the more plausible they give it out that the King is pestered with ill Counsellors and that the Malignants and these who ruined the Nation formerly are to be assumed into the Government that they may act their former part or a worse over again whereas almost all the Places and Commissions are filled with persons as have either never been in the Government or have acted most inoffensively there As to your third Question there came three Addresses to the King one from the Clergy desiring their Church-government to be established I am confident upon the sight of the Instructions and their application to the King the Ministers were convinced and satisfied that the King had done all that was proper for him and that it was their interest and duty to stand firm by the King and that their Party had no hopes or security under God but in him There was another Address from the Burrows desiring the King to give Instructions in relation to their Grievance I cannot say that their Commissioners were satisfied because they were men who went up upon another design than to take satisfaction unless they got places and therefore they got their Answer in Writing but I hope the Burrows do already or shall shortly understand how they were abused Thus far they did only choise a Trafequing Burgess who might be concerned in the interest of that State next day they were Whidled to choise the two Lawers whose errand was none of their business and yet they were to bear their Charges There was a third Address from a great many of the Members of Parliament I need not tell you what undue practices was used to procure and mendicat Subscriptions after the Parliament was up and to very little purpose for except it had been to insult the King as some few have done in all the steps of their management Could an Address out of Parliament import more than a Vote of Parliament except it were to convince the King of their peremptoriness and that they were incorrigible and that nothing was to be expected from the Parliament when it should meet again tho I do not believe that the King needs to fear this for when the generality of the Parliament comes to be informed and shall see the Instructions they will perceive clearly the selfish and implacable designs of some men and their false surmizes that they will quite and fall off from these men and leave them to themselves to double out their pretensions for places in which the Countrey hath little concern I need not tell you the matter of the Address since it is Printed I shall make some short reflections upon it 1o. These Votes which were so unseasonably brought in and so peremptorly pressed have no relation to the Grievances Now if they had been of so great importance why were they then forgot And if they be of less importance than the Grievance why do they make such a bustle to press in these points of less moment and stop these things which are of far greater consideration which were first Tabled by a representation from the States and granted by the King's Instructions And its pretty odd to see