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A28914	Manifest truth, or, An inversion of truths manifest containing a narration of the proceedings of the Scottish army, and a vindication of the Parliament and kingdome of England from the false and injurious aspersions cast on them by the author of the said manifest.	Bowles, Edward, 1613-1662.	1646 (1646)	Wing B3873; ESTC R19508	56,538	84

settle a Reformation among them God forbid that I should be one of those ingrate children mentioned and cryed out on by this Author It is farre from my thought or purpose to deny or to diminish the kindnesse of our brethren whose help was desired and was seasonable but let us understand our selves and how the matter stands betwixt these two Kingdomes We are indebted to Scotland I wish an even reckning and long friendship but I am not yet of opinion we owe our selves to them and if the Author of the Manifest be consulted you shall find an intimation of some other Obligations then meere kindnesse unto us As for instance pag. 24. It is said that the Scots when they began to interesse themselves in this businesse they could not in Conscience and honesty sit quiet any longer and neither say nor doe but I take no advantage of this we are beholding to men for doing what in conscience and honesty they are bound though they should hurt themselves more in violating Conscience and honour then in suffering us to be violated To this you shall find a more externall ground added pag. 28. viz. Now the State of Scotland seeing the common Enemy come to that height that nothing will satisfie him but totall subversion of Church and State inthese Dominions onely they perhaps might be kept for the last though in intention they had been the first judge it not enough for their interest in the common cause to keepe an Army in Ireland but to bee upon their Guard at home and to help their Brethren in England with the Sword since all other meanes so often tryed were disappointed by the malice of the Enemies And this resolution is said to have been taken before Commissioners were sent from England to desire their assistance Pag. 30. So that you may observe the Enemy was a common Enemy the Cause a common Cause the danger to these Dominions the Scots like to suffer as deep though not so soone if they had sate still But give me leave paulo altius repetere and to consider the ancient mutuall tyes and later friendships betwixt these Kingdomes which may be a good meanes to continue and confirme their present correspondence So long as these Kingdomes were under divers especially popish Princes their condition was like that of Israel 2. Chron. 15. 3. when it was without a true God without a teaching Priest and without Law At which time there was no peace to him that went out nor to him that came in but great vexations were upon all the Inhabitants of the Countries and Nation was destroyed of Nation and City of City The mutuall spoyles and losses of these neighbour Kingdomes being well considered by that wise Prince Henry the seventh he layes a probable foundation of conjunction in giving his eldest Daughter to the King of Scots whose posterity upon the failing of the issue of his Sonne Henry the eight might inherit both Kingdomes which hath since come to passe In the time of Edward the sixt it was thought fit by that Prince whose wisdome and vertue was beyond his yeares and his Councell to make the conjunction more sure and therefore agreed with the Kingdom of Scotland for a Match betwixt this young King and the Daughter of Iames the fifth afterward Queen of France and Scotland But the Polititians of those times in Scotland chose rather to marry their young Princesse to France then England it may be forecasting upon the faile of issue in Henry the eights children that it would be more for their advantage to have a Scottish-man or a French-man King of England then an English-man of Scotland though if I may speake it without offence I think they might have had more comfort in that young Prince Edward 6. had God continued his life and reigne then England hath had of the two Kings they have had from Scotland of whom Truths Manifest sayes That there hath been more Christian bloud shed in these latter yeares under the end of King Iames his and King Charles his Reignes by their Commissions Approbations Connivences and not forbidding what at home and what abroad all which upon the matter they might have stopped if it had been their pleasure then were in the time of the ten Romane Persecutions But although the English had received some dis-ingagement by the non-performance of that Match which was aggravated on both parts by a Fight at Musselborough field yet when the Scots were sore troubled and their Religion Liberty indangered by the said Queene returned from France into Scotland who called the French in to her assistance against her native Subjects the renowned Queene Elizabeth and her prudent Councell though this Kingdome had continuall warre with Spaine yet feared not to provoke the French by affording seasonable helpe to her distressed Neighbours sending to their reliefe 6000 men which were maintained at the charge of the Kingdome of England Which was then thankfully and justly called to minde by the Kingdome of Scotland when this last treaty was to be made So that if we breake off here the kindnesse rests not on our part But I shall as gladly proceed to repeate the good turnes done to this Kingdome as by it and rejoyce in the mutuall obligation And that I may not breake in too suddenly upon the late affaires of these Kingdomes give me leave as a manuduction thereto to give a briefe touch of the Method of Reformation in this Island and but a word for the body of the Story may be had elswhere It pleased God at the bringing of this Island out of Popery to honour Scotland with a more full departure from Romish Idolatry and Superstition for though England wholly renounced their Doctrine yet some dregges of discipline and superstitious Ceremonies remained The Scots had indeed some advantages that wee had not Their Queene was obnoxious their young King in his nonage they had some Nobles and Ministers zealous and well affected so that through Gods blessing they obtained a Reformation in that point though not with so little difficulty as should give them ground to expect it should be done here on a suddaine But as for England in Queene Elizabeths time shee had so much trouble for Holland with Spaine and in Ireland that her Councell thought not fit to adventure upon the trouble of an alteration in this point which they foresaw and wee finde to be great And besides many of our Reformers being Bishops could not so well understand the convenience of their own abolishment In King Iames his time though wee might have expected to have been better in regard he came from a reformed Kingdome yet it was far worse with us for he came with an innate bitternesse against Puritanes which was fomented by our English Bishops so that he became a great Persecutor of unconformity And according to the Proverb Seldome comes a better since the Reigne of this King especially since the preferment of the late Archbishop of Canterbury

exception and that is strange seeing Mr. Musgrave the chiefe of them is a Sectary are sent up to the Parliament to acquaint the Houses with the state of businesse These mentioned Gentlemen were troubled that they had no more or better choyce to make Committees in the North but certainly they did to their apprehension chuse the best and most serviceable and they challenge you to name the professed Recusants As for Prelaticks and Common Prayer-Booke-men in that Country where they knew no other Government or Service it 's no considerable exception as for men that have been in actuall Rebellion against the State it may be granted that they employed men who according to Ordinance of Parliament had been Delinquents though not active against the Parliament for want of other and for this besides their necessity they had such examples on both hands of them in England but especially Scotland for the employing of neutrall and not so well affected men that it may be they passed over this rub with the lesse difficulty And as for the spoyling the Country and oppressing honest men the Committee are willing to joyne issue whether they or the Scottish Army for you put me to it have most spoyled the Countrey and oppressed honest men As for the men deputed from Cumberland to complaine of Mr. Barwis and the rest some of them may be honest as I hope Mr. Musgrave and his partner are but certainly they are inconsiderate in this point they find faults and 't is easie so to doe it 's like in that and other Committees there are too many as Covetousnesse and Partiality of which who ever are guilty for their owne sake and the Kingdomes let them amend it but to goe about to disgrace and displace men in Authority faithfull for the maine as they have shewed it and not to be able to name men fit to succeed is but to give advantage to the destruction of their Countrey by the division of it and to make a gap for some body else who it may be will lesse mind their good to strike in I much suspect the drift of this Author when he would goe about to possesse us that all our affaires in the North are in ill hands but I will not insist upon suspitions And that Gentleman with some other well-affected to the Publike viz have been too forward in charging the proceedings of Parliament and their Committees pleading Magna Charta and the Libertie of the Subject Alas our Ancestours never made provision for such times as these and if all the Lawes which are to have free passage in times of peace should now be urged we could have no Martiall Law no pressing men fortifying other mens houses cutting through their grounds to make workes and so should lose our Liberty whil'st we are defending knowne Lawes which was the Kings old snare cannot serve for dangers unknowne when the Lawes were made I hope the Parliament will be as carefull to countenance Law and Liberty as may be but we must not expect but that in many cases it should be broken and onely that it may be preserved As the case stands with us it may goe for Malignancy or high indiscretion to oppose and quarrell with the proceedings of the Parliament God hath made them Instruments of much good and I hope will of much more The Reader is desired to pardon this digression the discontents fomented by some against the Authority of the Houses is so dangerous that it hath inforced it From the 41. to 44. pag. The Author of the Manifest gives an accompt of the advance of the Scottish Army Southward in the Spring where he tells of their march from Newcastle to Rippon and from Rippon into Westmoreland and so to Rippon againe and then to Nottingham and casts in the story of the printed papers called the Manifest The excuse of the Scots and the fault of the Countries is declared to be in the slack providing of Draughts and Provisions But let us examine the true state of the businesse concerning their marching or not marching Southward that is over the Trent till the later end of Iune The Parliament upon the grounds mentioned in the Narrative sent for their speedy advance Southward in March and sent them 30000. l. in money their desired proportion of Armes and Ammunition to fit them for service The Manifest sayes that the delay of the march from Newcastle to the first of May was from the unreadinesse of Draughts The losses and wants of the parts about Newcastle sustained in the siege and by assessements all the Winter had made them though not so able yet very willing to forward the advance of the Scots knowing their ease by it and it will be proved that in the midst of the complaints for Draughts divers of their Officers tooke money of those that brought them in and released them But that is a small matter They came to Rippon or at least part of them about the beginning of May how comes the stop there It 's alleadged to be want of Draughts and provisions First for Draughts certainly the County of Yorke could not so little understand their own condition of which their suffering could not but make them sensible if they had not had an apprehension of the publique Service as not to afford them all possible Requisites to their march Southwards for as for the County it did undergoe ten times the charge by their stay there and as for my Lord Fairefax and the Committee they were so apprehensive of the Inconveniences of their not marching that they saw besides the disappointment of the Parliament their owne forces in danger of ruine by the quarter and assessements of the Scottish Army Concerning Draughts I adde this further The not relieving Draughts by the way and not restoring them when they served their proportion and exacting money for freeing them makes the people more backward then they should or otherwise would bee For it 's certaine that the Heresordshire men were some of them at Northallerton in Yorkeshire seeking their Draughts this Winter and the Yorkeshire Cumberland and Westmoreland men were forced to give money for releasing their Draughts and some to sell their Oxen at under rates and leave their Waynes behind them And truly I am not satisfied how the Scottish Army should come by Draughts so easily to march back into Westmoreland as to be ready on a sudden without further trouble to the Committee to march thither but could get no accommodation for marching Southward If they used the same rigour for Draughts for Service which is more reasonable as they doe for money for subsistance they would never want them long Will you give me leave to say that was not the onely reason but that time was not the season of their marching For when our Commissioners came to a Randezvous at Bramham-moore Lieutenant Generall Lesley upon their appearance came gallopping up with this expression I have it I have it and tells them he