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A81015	The transactions of several matters between Lieut: Gen: Cromwel and the Scots, for surrendring the towns of Bervvick, Carlisle, and all other garisons belonging to the kingdom of England. Together with the reason of Lieut: Gen: Cromwels entring the Kingdom of Scotland to assist the marquis of Argyle. Die Jovis, 28 Septembr. 1648. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that the extracts of the letters of the committee at Derby-house to Lieut: General Cromwel, and the whole dispatch from Lieut: General Cromwel now reported, and the votes thereupon, be forthwith printed and published. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1648 (1648)	Wing C7176D; Thomason E465_18; ESTC R201085	9,040	23

not use any arguments to convince you of the justice hereof the witness that God hath born against your Army in their Invasion of this Kingdom which desired to sit in Peace by you doth at once manifest his dislike of injury done to a Nation that meant you no harm but hath been all along desirous to keep Amity and brotherly affection and agreement with you If you deny me in this we must make a second Appeal to God putting our selves upon him in endeavoring to obtain our Rights and let him be Iudge between us and if your ayms be any thing beyond what we profess he will require it if further trouble ensue upon your denial we trust he will make our innocency to appear I expect your Answer to this Summons this day and rest Your Servant O. C. For the Governor of Berwick For the Right Honorable Lieutenant General Cromwel Much Honored and Noble Sir I Have received yours wherein ye desire the delivering up of this Town which I was put in trust with by the Committee of the States of Scotland wherewith I am immediately to acquaint them and expects their Order and in the mean time rests Berwick 15. Sep. 1648 Noble Sir Your humble Servant LO LESLIE The LETETR to the Committe of Estates of Scotland Right Honorable BEing upon my approach to the borders of the Kingdom of Scotland I thought fit to acquaint you with the Reasons thereof It is well known how injuriously the Kingdom of England was lately invaded by the Army under Duke Hamilton contrary to the Covenant and our Leagues of Amity and aginst all the Engagements of Love and Brotherhood between the two Nations And notwithstanding the pretences of your late Declaration published to take with the people of this Kingdom the Commons of England in Parliament assembled Declared the said Army so entring as Enemies to the Kingdom and those of England who should adhere to them as Traytors and having received commands with a considerable part of their Army to oppose so great aviolation of Faith and Justice what a witness God being appealed to hath born upon the Engagements of the Armies against the unrighteousness of man not onely your selves but this Kingdom yea and a great part of the known world will I trust acknowledge how dangerous a thing it is to wage an unjust War much more to appeal to God the righteous judge therein we trust he will perswade you better by this manifest token of his displeasure least his hand be stretched out yet more against you and your poor people also if they will be deceived That which I am to Demand of you is the Restitution of the Garisons of Berwick and Carlisle into my hands to the use of the Parliament and Kingdom of England If you deny me herein I must make our Appeal to God and call upon him for assistance in what way he shall direct us wherein we are and shall be so far from seeking the harm of the well-affected in the Kingdom of Scotland that we profess as before the Lord that what difference an Army necessitated in an Hostile way to recover the ancient Rights and Inheritance of the Kingdom under which they serve can make we shall rejoyce and use our endeavors to the utmost the trouble may fall upon the Contrivers and Authors of this Breach and not upon the poor innocent people which have been led and compelled into this Action as many poor souls now Prisoners to us confess We thought our selves bound in duty thus to expostulate with you and thus to profess to the end we may bear our integrity out before the world and may have comfort in God what ever the event be Desiring your Answer I rest Your Lordships humble Servant O. C. For the Right Honorable the Commander in chief of the Forces of the Parliament of England near Berwick and Carlisle or in any other part within the Northern Counties Right Honorable HEaring that some Forces of the Parliament of England are come Northward near the borders of Scotland to reduce Berwick and Carlisle The Desire we have to preserve a right understanding between the Kingdoms hath moved us to signifie to you That as we did dissent from protest against the late unlawful engagement against England carried on by a prevalent party and faction against the Declaration of this Church and their Commissioners and against the desires and supplications of the most considerable shires of this Kingdom so shall we be ready to cooperate by contributing our best endeavors with you that the Garisons of Berwick and Carlisle be reduced and the Towns delivered to the Houses of Parliament or such as are or shall be by them authorized These who command the Forces returned from that Army which went into England and their adherents have made applications to us for a Treaty we have desired them to disband their Forces and Garisons and deliver those Towns that they may be surrendred to the Houses of Parliament assuring you that in any transaction of Peace with them or pursuance of War against them we shall be as careful and tender of the interest and good of the Kingdom of England as of our own Nation and our Actions in this and in every occasion shall be real evidences of our sincere resolutions to observe inviolably the Covenant and Treaties between the kingdoms and to be mutually ayding to each other against the common enemy till it please God to grant both Kingdoms the great blessing of a safe and well-grounded Peace Falkirk 15. Sep. 1648 By Warrant and in the Name of the Noble men Gentlemen and Burgesses now in Arms who dissented in Parliament from the late Engagement against the Kingdom of England Loudoun Canc' Instructions to the Laird Gramheat and Major Straughan 1. YOu shall shew That the remainder of that Army that went into England in the last wicked Engagement with the Forces with George Monro and their Adherents being returned into this Kingdom are very active to raise new Forces and strengthen themselves to carry on the former Designs 2. You shall shew That we are resolved to oppose them and that we shall agree to no desire of that Army without disbanding of their Forces and denuding themselves of all power that the power of Peace and War may be intrusted to such as have dissented from the late Engagement and desire to preserve the Union between the Kingdoms 3. You shall shew That if they lay not down their Arms but persist to pursue their Engagements against the Kingdom of England and disturb the Peace of this Kingdom we are confident that the Houses of Parliament and their Armies will be ready to assist us with their Forces to pursue them as common Enemies to both Kingdoms as we were and are willing to assist the Houses of Parliament against the Malignants in England 4. That we desire and expect they will be in readiness to concur with us when we shall give them a call and that we

are to send to the Honorable Houses of Parliament to desire their assistance and that by joynt Councels and Forces the Disturbers of the Peace of both Kingdoms may be brought to Tryal and condign punishment Falkirk 15. Septemb. 1648 Articles in Treaty between the two Armies THe Members of Parliament who dissented in Parliament and the Gentlemen and Burgesses chosen by the several Shires and Burghes now in Arms for the Covenant do propound to those in Arms against us That all their Forces in the Field be forthwith Disbanded and the Garisons of Berwick and Carlisle and other Garisons in their Power within the Kingdom of Scotland and England be forthwith delivered that we may Surrender to the Kingdom of England their own Garisons and Forts and for continuing the Union betwixt two Kingdoms and dispose of our Garisons for securing the Peace of this Kingdom That all these of their number who have been imployed in Publique Place or Trust in the Kingdom in respect they have by manifest abuse of their Power and Trust so exceedingly endangered Religion and brought the Kingdom to the very brink of Dispair and Ruine shall forbear the exercise of all Place Power or Trust until a free PARLIAMENT or CONVENTION of ESTATES consisting onely of persons free from the late unlawful Engagement and that the benefit of their Places be Sequestred to be disposed of by the Parliament or Convention of Estates and they giving assurance that in the mean time they shall not disturb the Peace of the Kingdom we shall not challenge them for their lives or Estates being always understood That nothing herein contained shall prelimit the Parliament of this Kingdom to the Kingdom of England according to the Treaties and Covenant It is to be remembred That the Persons above written Nominated and Authorized for the Treaty shall not have any Power to conclude but after Debate of all matters in Writing to make a report thereof to us Woodhouse 14 Septemb. 1648 The Expostulation between the two Armies VPon Tuesday morning about five of the clock the Lord Humby and the Lord Lee your Commissioners presented a Letter Subscribed by the Earl of Crawford-Lindsey the Earl of Lanerick and Col Geo Monro wherein they did agree That a Treaty should begin at eight of the clock in the morning at Wenchborow with this limitation That the Treaty should onely continue till twelve at noon promising that the Army under your Command should march no further then they were at present our Army doing the like And that during the Treaty there should be a Cessation from all acts of Hostility Though this Letter came late to our hands about three hours after the time appointed and so it was in our choyce to have marched presently or to have embraced a Treaty yet we resolved to stay and were content to send some of our number to Treat at Wenchborow with the like number from you provided That the Treaty might endure until Wednesday at four of the clock in the morning and all marching of Forces and acts of Hostility on either side should cease during that time Whereupon your Commissioners the Lord Humby and the Lord Lee did undertake That either your Lordships should agree to prorogate the time of the Treaty until Wednesday four of the clock in the morning the Forces of both sides not marching further then they were at present and the Marquis of Argyle not coming with his Forces to St. Nynyans Kirk about a mile on this side of Sterling Or otherwise if you did not agree to this that then none of your Forces should march before eleven of the clock at the soonest Two from us were sent along with your Commissioners to receive your Answer which was delivered by the Earl of Crawford and Glencarn at the Town end of Lithgow in these words That it was impossible for you to consent to prorogate the time of the Treaty until four of the clock on Wednesday morning And that you resolved to fight that night for the Pass at Sterling though it were with Twenty thousand but withal promised to make good what your Commissioners had undertaken viz. That none of your Forces should march before eleven of the clock out of your Quarters particularly That they should not before that time cross the River of Evarn near Lithgow All which notwithstanding we were credibly informed part of your Forces marched through Falkirk which is about six miles distant from Lithgow betwixt nine and ten of the clock in the Forenoon and about two of the clock in the Afternoon marched into Sterling which is distant twelve miles from Lithgow and so under trust and fair pretences to Treat your Lordships did take an opportunity to surprize the Forces of the Marquis of Argye killing some and taking others Prisoners when they were in security being advertised by us of a Treaty betwixt your Lordships and us which we cannot esteem to be a fair way of proceeding And therefore we desire That all those of the Marquis of Argyle's Forces detained Prisoners by your Lordships may be forthwith released and set at liberty and for the Blood of those that have been killed under trust we know not how it can be expiated For the Right Honorable The Earl of Loudoun Chancellor of Scotland to be communicated to the Noblemen Gentlemen and Burgesses now with the Army who Dissented from the late Engagament against the Kingdom of ENGLAND Right Honorable VVE received yours from Falkirk of the 15 of Septem. instant we have had also a fight of your Instructions given to the Laird of Gramheats and Major Straughan as also two others Papers concerning the Treaty between your Lordship and the Enemy wherein your care of the Interest of the Kingdom of England for the Delivery of their Towns unjustly taken from them and desire to preserve the Unity of both Nations are dearest By which also we understand the posture you are now in to oppose the Enemies of the welfare and Peace of both the Kingdoms for which we bless God for his goodness to you and rejoyce to see the power of the Kingdom of Scotland in a hopeful way to be invested in the hands of those who we trust are taught of God to seek his honor and the comfort of his people And give us leave to say as before the Lord who knoweth the secret of all hearts That as we think one especial end of Providence in permitting the Enemies of God and Goodness in both Kingdoms to rise to the height and exercise such Tyranny over his people was to shew the necessity of the Unity amongst his of both Nations so we hope and pray That the late glorious Dispensation in giving so happy success against your and our Enemies in our Victory may be the foundation of the Union of the People of God in Love and Amity and to that end we shall God assisting to the utmost of our power endeavor to perform what may be behinde on our part And when

THE TRANSACTIONS OF Several matters between Lieut Gen CROMWEL AND THE SCOTS For Surrendring the Towns of BERWICK CARLISLE And all other Garisons belonging to the Kingdom of ENGLAND Together with the Reason of Lieut Gen Cromwels entring the Kingdom of SCOTLAND to assist the Marquis of ARGYLE Die Jovis 28 Septembr 1648. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That the Extracts of the Letters of the Committee at Derby-house to Lieut General Cromwel and the whole Dispatch from Lieut General Cromwel now reported and the Votes thereupon be forthwith printed and published H Elsynge Cler. Parl. D.Com. London Printed for Edward Husband Printer to the Honorable House of Commons Octob. 2. 1648. To the Right Honorable The Committee of Lords and Commons at Derby-house My Lords and Gentlemen I Did from Alnwick write to Sir William Armyn an account of our Condition and recommended to him divers particular considerations about your Affairs here in the North with desire of particular things to be done by your Lordships appointment in order to the carrying on of your Affairs I send you here inclosed a copy of the Summons that was sent to Barwick when I was come as far Alnwick as also of a Letter written to the Committee of Estates of Scotland I mean those who we did presume were convened as Estates were the men that managed the business of the War But there being as I here since none such the Earl of Roxbrough and some others having deserted so that they are not able to make a Committee I believe the said Letter is suppressed and retained in the hands of Colonel Bright and Mr. William Rowe for whom we obtained a safe Convoy to go to the Estates of that Kingdom with our said Letter the Governor of Barwicks Answer to our Summons leading us thereunto By advantage whereof we did instruct them to give all assurance to the Marquis of Argyle and the honest Party in Scotland who we heard were gathered together in a considerable Body about Edenburgh to make opposition to the Earl of Lanerick Monro and their Armies of our good affection to them wherewith they went the Sixteenth of this Moneth Upon the Seventeenth of this Moneth Sir Andrew Car and Major Straughan with divers other Scotish Gentlemen brought me this enclosed Letter Signed by the Lord Chancellor of Scotland as your Lordships will see They likewise shewed me their Instructions and a Paper containing the matter of their Treaty with Lanerick and Monro as also an Expostulation upon Lanericks breach with them in falling upon Argyle and his men contrary to Agreement wherein the Marquis of Argyle hardly escaped they having hold of him but Seven hundred of his men were killed and taken These Papers also I send here enclosed to your Lordships So soon as these Gentlemen came to me I called a Councel of War the Result whereof was the Letter directed to the Lord Chancellor a Copy whereof your Lordships have also here enclosed which I delivered to Sir Andrew Car and Major Straughan with which they returned upon the Eighteenth being the next day Upon private discourse with the Gentlemen I do finde the condition of their Affairs and their Army to be thus The Earl of Lanerick the Earl of Crawford-Lindsey Monro and their Army hearing of our advance and understanding the condition and endeavors of their Adversaries marched with all speed to get the possession of Sterling-Bridge that so they might have three parts of four of Scotland at their backs to raise men and to enable themselves to carry on their Design and are above Five thousand Foot and Five and twenty hundred Horse or Three thousand The Earl of Leven who is chosen General the Marquis of Argyle with the honest Lords and Gentlemen David Lesley being the Lieut General having about Seven thousand Foot but very weak in Horse lye about six miles on this side the Enemy I do hear that their Infantry consists of men who come to them out of Conscience and generally are of the godly People of that Nation which they express by their Piety and Devotion in their Quarters and indeed I hear they are a very godly and honest Body of men I think it is not unknown to your Lordships what Directions I have received from you for the prosecution of our late Victory whereof I shall be bold to remember a Clause of your Letter which was That I should prosecute the remaining party in the North and not leave any of them where-ever they shall go to be a beginning of a new Army nor cease to pursue the Victory till I finish and fully compleat it with their Rendition of those Towns of Barwick and Carlisle which most unjustly and against all Obligations and the Treaties then in force they surprized and Garisoned against us In order whereunto I marched to the Borders of Scotland where I found the countrey so exceedingly harrased and impoverished by Monro and the Forces with him that the countrey was in no sort able to bear us on the English side but we must have necessarily ruined both your Army and the Subjects of this Kingdom who have not bread for a day if we had continued amongst them In prosecution of your Orders and in answer to the necessity of your Friends in Scotland and their desires and considering the necessity of marching into Scotland to prevent the Governor of Barwick from putting Provisions into his Garison on Scotland side whereof he is for the present in some want as we are informed I marched a good part of the Army over Tweed yesterday about Noon the residue being to come after as conveniently as we may Thus have I given to your Lordships an Account of our present condition and Engagement and having done so I must discharge my duty in remembring to your Lordships the Desires formerly expressed in my Letters to Sir William Armyn and Sir John Evelyn for Supplies and in particular for that of Shipping to lye upon these Coasts who may furnish us with Ammunition or other Necessaries wheresoever God shall lead us there being extreme difficulty to supply us by land without great and strong Convoys which will weary out and destroy our Horse and cannot well come to us if the Tweed be up without going very far about Having laid these things before you I rest My Lords Norham this 20 of Septem. 1648 Your most humble Servant O. CROMVVEL Whilest we are here I wish there be no neglect of the business in Cumberland and Westmerland I have sent Orders both into Lancashire and the Horse before Pontefract I should be glad your Lordships would second them and those other Considerations expressed in my Desires to Sir William Armyn thereabouts O. C. Lieut General Cromwels Summons to the Governor of Berwick SIR BEing come thus near I thought fit to Demand the Town of Berwick to be delivered into my hands to the use of the Parliament and Kingdom of England to whom of right it belongeth I need