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A94808	Treason and rebellion against their native country justly rewarded upon severall traitors and rebels lately executed in Scotland. Certified by an expresse in two letters dated at Saint Andrews, Jan. 26. 1645. Together with a declaration of the Generall Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Published by authority.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly.	1646 (1646)	Wing T2072; Wing C4211; Thomason E322_5; Thomason E322_6; ESTC R200577	5,298	12

but that I am Sir St. Andrews the 26. of January 1645. Your affectionate friend to serve you At Saint Andrews Jan. 20. 1646 5. I Nathaniel Gordoun being heartily sorrowfull for my manifold grievous sinnes against Almighty God and specially for taking up Armes and shedding much innocent blood in this wicked Rebellion against this Church and Kingdome for which I was justly excommunicate by the Kirk I doe therefore humbly beg mercy and pardon from God for the same through and for the merits of Christ his Sonne desiring earnestly to be relaxed from that fearfull sentence of Excommunication And doe hereby request and exhort all who yet adhere to that wicked cause to leave the same as they would eschew the wrath of God All which I doe declare and testifie in the sincerity of my heart and in the sight of God the searcher of hearts subscribing the same with my hand the day and place aforesaid Nath. Gordoun The Copie of another Letter sent from Saint Andrews Dated Ianuary 26. 1645. My honoured friend I Know you will heare by the publike Letters what our worke is here yet it will be but a small losse of time to you to take notice of some Observations from him who is your Brother in Christ and your private friend for the Publikes sake When I remember the servants of God who have suffered for the Cause of Christ in this Land of which many were my dearest friends they bring to my minde Simon a man of Cyrene who bearing the Cresse of Christ after him was the character of a Christian When I looke upon them who by order of Justice are put to death for their wicked and unnaturall Rebellion some of them ●s Sir William Rollock formerly and now Nathaniel Gordoun represent to my thoughts the penitent Malefactor converted to Christ at the time of his death But others of them such as Spotswood and Guthery are like the other thiefe that died rayling on Christ In the one sort the mercy of God was manifest to repenting sinners In the other the justice of God was seene against such as continue in the iniquity of their fathers for they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the wicked Sons of two excommunicated Prelates This Spotswood sometimes President of the Colledge of Iustice Sonne to him who was both pretended Primate and Chancellor of Scotland monstrum horrendum complayned on the Scaffold that he was brought to suffer in the place where sometimes he had been so much honoured but did not observe the justice of God by this circumstance of the place doubling his punishment that some few yeers ago his cursed fathers Coatch himself then being in England was brought from his Castle thorow the whole City with the Hangman sitting in it to the same very place of the Market Crosse and rent all in pieces The Lord is known by the judgement that he executes So let all thine enemies perish O Lord. His fatall sentence was to die as a Traitor to the Estates and an Enemy to his native Country from which while he endeavored to vindicate his innocency he did involve himselfe in further guiltinesse of both by charging the Kingdome of England with Rebellion and this Kingdome with unparalleld disloyalty in taking part with a Faction in England against our owne native King who at his last being here had given contentment to this Kingdome both in the Affaires of Church and Policy and by justifying and professing his assisting of the designe of James Grahame whom he calleth the Lord Marquesse of Montrose the matchlesse mirrour of all true worth and Nobility In all which to say no more he either lyed most impudently against his owne knowledge and conscience for he behooved to be convinced by our Declarations and could not be ignorant that James Grahame was not a Mirrour for Noblemen to dresse by but to present the monstrous face of drunkennesse of Adulteries and of divellish pride in such as are of noble extraction for which as was often presaged of him and hath beene paralleld by some few examples the Lord hath plagued him to be so horrible an Apostate and unnaturall murtherer and is reserving him for a tragicall end to be a mirror of his justice and wrath to all degenerous and perfidious spirits in this and the after ages And I am sure that Spotswood did no more allow him in taking and pretending to keepe our first Nationall Covenant by vertue whereof our Prelates did perish then he did approve of others in joyning in the mutuall Covenant of both Kingdomes by which himselfe and his fellowes with the Prelates of England have now fallen To returne if Spotswood did not lye against his owne present conscience he was punished with excae●●tion of minde such as useth to be the usher of exemplary ruine and destruction in those whom the Lord hateth One thing I cannot passe by which maketh me conceive his estate to have been the more desperate and that God had shut the way against all comfort to him by his Ministers he spared not openly to spew forth that God had put a lying spirit in the mouthes of the most part of the Prophets in the Land It was answered in the time That himselfe was the Sonne of a lying Prophet And indeed as one saith of Caesar Borgia the Sonne of Pope Alexander the sixth he was like his father not onely in body but in the swarthinesse of the complexion of his soul both of them would have given no other verdict of our first Reformers and of all the faithfull that have either succeeded them in this Church or have opposed defection or sought after Reformation in the Church of England The testimony of such Atheists and worldlings against them is no small commendation unto them and to the truth which they have constantly preached and sealed with their sufferings But finding my selfe drawne beyond the length of a Letter I will not further insist I would onely know of you some fewe things 1. What can be the cause that Church-Government is not yet setled in England The Assembly having given their advice for at long agoe the power of the Parliament being increased to such a fulnesse is able to doe it and if they did not intend it in the beginning or if they be growne more remisse then they were at first I pray you tell me by what means I shall convince Malignants and confirme the godly who have suffered so much in this cause 2. Let me know whether it be true that is talked here by the best affected upon what grounds I know not that many of our professed Brethren rejoyce in this that God hath raised up an Enemy against us in our owne Land that they may the more easily dispose of our forces there at their pleasure for I cannot imagine that they have more reason to rejoyce in our calamity then we had to rejoyce in theirs 3. Who is that Robert Wright and that unknowne Knight who endeavours to make division between the Kingdomes by their letters and false informations Have we not expressely covenanted to discover all such as are Incendiaries between the two Kingdomes and to bring them to publique tryall that they may receive condigne punishment according as their offence shall deserve And are we not also obliged to endeavour that the two Kingdomes may remaine conjoyned in a firm peace and union to all posterity 4. I desire to understand whether before this work be done they will insist in demanding their Garrisons in abridging or starving our Forces and in using all means to drive us home re infectâ When you have satisfied me in these particulars I will tell you more of my minde In the meane time believe me if matters go there according to the speeches of many here although none of the wifest yet non est temere quod vulgus dictitat I know not what our Commissioners can say for themseives that they have not given timeous warning of so great a change of disposition in our Brethren and I know it will produce more wofull effects then I desire to see but God I hope will bring his worke to a more gracious end which shall be the earnest prayer and endeavour of St. Andrews 26. of January 1645. Your affectionate friend and servant

TREASON AND REBELLION Against their Native Country justly rewarded upon severall Traitors and Rebels lately executed in SCOTLAND Certified by an Expresse in two Letters dated at Saint Andrews Jan. 26. 1645. Together with a Declaration of the Generall Assembly of the Church of SCOTLAND Published by Authority LONDON Printed for Robert Bostocke and are to be sold at his shop at the Kings Head in Pauls Churchyard 1646. A Copy of a Letter sent from S. Andrews dated January 26. 1645. SIR THe Committee appointed for the Processes against Delinquents having found the Enditements brought in against Sir Robert Spotswood pretended Secretary of State William Murrey Brother to the Earle of Tillibarne Gen. Major Nathaniell Gordoun and Master Andrew Guthery Sonne to the pretended Bishop of Murray to be relevant and having repelled all their defences except that of Quarters which was left to the determination of the Parliament their Processes were read in open Parliament and there were many rationall debates about the defence of Quarters grounded upon Scripture Reason Law of Nations and Military and the municipall Law of this Kingdom the state of the Question was Whether the granting of quarter in Battell to Delinquents by an Officer or Souldier did exempt them from punishment by the State for their Murder Rebellion and Treason and it was resolved unanimously by the whole Parliament that the defence of Quarters was not relevant when all the defences were repelled and the Parliament was ready to pronounce Sentence Offer was made by Nathaniell Gordoun to procure the exchange of all the Prisoners with James Grahame late Earle of Montrose for himselfe and to lye in prison untill they were brought hither and further to engage himselfe and finde Surety that he should never lift Arms against the Parliament This offer he conceived to be the more plausible that the Lord Chancellors Brother was one of the prisoners with the enemy but when the Lord Chancellors opinion was asked therein he declared That though all his Brethren and Children were in the like hazard he would not be the meanes of hindering the execution of Justice And such was the earnest desire of the Parliament to execute Justice that this motion was rejected and all the foure were forfeited in Life Lands and Goods their Coats of Armes appoined to be rent and deleted out of the Booke of Armes and themselves to be beheaded upon Tuesday the twentieth of January there were onely five or sixe contrary voices and those were for perpetuall imprisonment The Earl of Tillibarn presented a very humble supplication for sparing his brothers life and entreating that any other punishment might be inflicted upon him This was denyed but in regard he was very insensible of his present estate his execution was delayed till Friday the 23. and some Ministers were appointed to waite upon him and to endeavour to bring him to some sence of his condition Upon the 17. three of them were executed and first Nathaniell Gordoun who was exceeding penitent whereof he gave many evidences to all that heard him and at his earnest desire given in writing under his hand whereof a Copy is herewith sent he was relaxed frō the sentence of Excommunication After they were condemned he Sir Robert Spotswood were put in one Chamber whose obstinacy did him some har me but when he came to the Scaffold he said It was not time to dalley longer in a matter of eternall consequence he acknowledged that mercies led him not to repentance and therefore God had brought him to that publike death he confessed he had been an Adulterer a Drunkard and a shedder of innocent blood he besought all to pray for him and craved pardon of all that had any interest in the blood shed of late Casting off his Doublet he said That many a time he had cast it off to sinne but now hee cast it off to embrace his Saviour and to let his blood be now justly shed who formerly had shed much innocent blood As for that ambition that made men provoke to Combates he said Of all vanities it was one of the chiefe He desired the Parliament to keepe unity in the Cause and to avoid division as they desired to shun Gods Judgement upon themselves And amongst his last words he said He left as many ill wishes as in the condition he was in he durst to all such of his friends as should attempt to revenge his death he desired the Minister not to part with him till he delivered him over to his Redeemer All his discourse was so ingenuous and his expressions so Pathetick that he had few hearers from whose eyes he did not bring teares But Sir Robert Spotswood and Master Andrew Guthery dyed as they lived full of malice against the Cause and Covenant justifying themselves in all that they had done against the Cause Sir Robert Spotswood inveighed much in his discourse against the Parliament of England stiling them alwaies Rebels and said The Judgement of God was upon this Kingdome for assisting those Rebells against their native King when he had granted unto us all that we could crave concerning the setling of our owne Peace and desired no more of this Kingdome but that they would be neutrals in the affaires of England that the excommunicating those holy men of GOD meaning the Bishops was lying as a grievous sinne upon this Land That God had put a lying spirit in the mouthes of our Prophets whereby the people were deluded Master Robert Blare who was appointed to attend him desired the people to take notice that he was the Sonne of a false Prophet viz. the pretended Arch-Bishop of Saint Andrewes sometimes Chancellor of Scotland he would confesse no more sinne but that he had as other men Peccate juventutis quotidianae incursionis He said to the Provest of Saint Andrewes That he was sorry the place where he was so much honoured should now be the Stage of his Tragedy William Murray was executed upon Friday the 23. He confessed himselfe guilty of Adultery and Drunkennesse but denyed that he was a Traitor to his Country It is worthy of remarke that Nathaniell Gordoun whose sentence was most questioned because of the offer made by him for exchange that it should please God to open his eyes and move him so ingenuously to acknowledge the Justice of the Sentence pronounced against him Sir William Rollock Sir Philip Nisbet and Inner Wharrity who were formerly executed at Glasgow acknowledged the Justice of the Sentence pronounced against them yea Macklauchlane and Col. Ocain the two Irish Rebells hanged at Edenburgh did the same But these three last executed were obstinate to their last breath The Processe against the Earle of Hartfell is to be brought in to the Parliament this weeke I acquainted you by my last that the Lord Ogilby was escaped out of Prison in his Sisters cloathes and that the Rebells did retreat to the Hills upon Colonell Barclayes advance I have no more to adde at this occasion