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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92548	The declaration of the Estates of the kingdom of Scotland, containing the claim of right and the offer of the crown to Their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary: together with the grievances represented by the estates; and Their Majesties oath at their acceptance of the crown.	Scotland. Convention of Estates.	1689 (1689)	Wing S1217A; ESTC R232191	6,093	11

THE DECLARATION OF THE ESTATES OF THE KINGDOM OF SCOTLAND Containing the Claim of Right and the Offer of the CROWN to Their Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MARY Together with the Grievances Represented by the Estates and Their Majesties Oath at Their Acceptance of the CROWN Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson by Order of Parliament Anno DOM. 1689. The Declaration of the Estates of the Kingdom of Scotland containing the Claim of Right and the Offer of the CROWN to their Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MARY Edinburgh the Eleventh day of April 1689. WHereas King James the Seventh being a profest Papist did Assume the Regal Power and Acted as King without ever taking the Oath required by Law whereby the King at His Access to the Government is obliged to Swear to maintain the Protestant Religion and to Rule the People according to the Laudable Laws and did by the Advice of Wicked and Evil Counsellers Invade the Fundamental Constitution of this Kingdom and Altered it from a Legal Limited Monarchy to an Arbitrary Despotick Power And in a publick Proclamation asserted an Absolute Power to cass anull and dissable all the Laws particularly Arraigning the Laws establishing the Protestant Religion and did Exerce that Power to the Subversion of the Protestant Religon and to the Violation of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom By Erecting Publick Schools and Societies of the Jesuits and not only allowing Mass to be publickly said but also Inverting Protestant Chappels and Churches to publick Mass-Houses contrary to the Express Laws against Saying and Hearing of Mass By allowing Popish-Books to be Printed and dispersed by a Gift to a Popish Printer Designing him Printer to His Majesties Houshold Colledge and Chappel contrary to the Laws By taking the Children of Protestant Noblemen and Gentlemen sending and keeping them abroad to be bred Papists making great Fonds and Dotations to Popish Schools and Colledges abroad bestowing Pensions upon Priests and perverting Protestants from their Religion by offers of Places Preferments and Pensions By dis-arming Protestants while at the same time he Imployed Papists in the Places of greatest Trust Civil and Military Such as Chancellor Secretaries Privy Counsellers and Lords of Session thrusting out Protestants to make Room for Papists and entrusting the Forts and Magazins of the Kingdom in their hands By Imposing Oaths contrary to Law. By giving Gifts and Grants for exacting Money without Consent of Parliament or Convention of Estates By Levying or keeping on Foot a standing Army in time of Peace without Consent of Parliament which Army did exact Locality free and dry Quarters By Imploying the Officers of the Army as Judges through the Kingdom and Imposing them where there were Heretable Offices and Jurisdictions by whom many of the Leidges were put to death summarly without Legal Tryal Jury or Record By Imposing Exorbitant Fines to the Value of the Parties Estates Exacting Extravagant Bale and disposing Fines and Forefaultures before any Process or Conviction By Imprisoning Persons without expressing the Reason and delaying to put them to Tryal By causing Pursue and Forefault several Persons upon stretches of old and obsolete Laws upon frivolous and weak Pretences upon Lame and Defective Probations as particularly the late Earl of Argyl to the Scandal and Reproach of the Justice of the Nation By Subverting the Right of the Royal Burghs the third Estate of Parliament Imposing upon them not only Magistrats but also the whole Town-Council and Clerks contrary to their Liberties and Express Charters without the Pretence either of Sentence Surrender or Consent So that the Commissioners to Parliaments being chosen by the Magistrats and Council the King might in effect alse well nominat that entire Estate of Parliament and many of the saids Magistrats put in by him were avowed Papists and the Burghs were forced to pay Money for the Letters Imposing these Illegal Magistrats and Councils upon them By sending Letters to the Chief Court of Justice not only ordaining the Judges to stop and desist sine die to determine Causes but also Ordering and Commanding them how to proceed in Cases depending before them contrary to the Express Laws and by changing the Nature of the Judges Gifts ad vitam aut culpam and giving them Commissions ad beneplacitum to dispose them to Complyance with Arbitrary Courses and turning them out of their Offices when they did not Comply By granting Personal Protections for Civil Debts contrary to Law. All which are utterly and directly contrary to the known Laws Statutes and Freedoms of this Realm Therefore the Estates of the Kingdom of Scotland Find and Declare that King James the Seventh being a Profest Papist did Assume the Regal Power and Acted as King without ever taking the Oath required by Law and hath by the Advice of Evil and Wicked Counsellers Invaded the Fundamental Constitution of the Kingdom and altered it from a Legal Limited Monarchy to an Arbitrary Despotick Power and hath Exercised the same to the Subversion of the Protestant Religion and the Violation of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom Inverting all the Ends of Government whereby he hath Forefaulted the Right to the Crown and the Throne is become Vacant And whereas His Royal Highness William then Prince of Orange now King of England whom it hath pleased Almighty GOD to make the Glorious instrument of delivering these Kingdoms from Popery and Arbitrary Power Did by the Advice of Several Lords and Gentlemen of this Nation at London for the time call the Estates of this Kingdom to meet the Fourteenth of March last In Order to such an Establishment as that their Religion Laws and Liberties might not be again in Danger of being Subverted And the saids Estates being now Assembled in a Full and Free Representative of this Nation Taking to their most serious Consideration the best Means for attaining the Ends aforesaid Do in the first Place as their Ancestors in the like Cases have usually done for the Vindicating and Asserting their Ancient Rights and Liberties Declare That by the Law of this Kingdom no Papist can be King or Queen of this Realm nor bear any Office whatsoever therein nor can any Protestant Successor exercise the Regal Power untill He or She Swear the Coronation Oath That all Proclamations asserting an Absolute Power to Cass Annull and Disable Laws the Erecting Schools and Colledges for Jesuits the Inverting Protestant Chappels and Churches to Publick Mass-houses and the allowing Mass to be said are contrary to Law. That the Allowing Popish Books to be Printed and Dispersed is contrary to Law. That the taking the Children of Noble-men Gentle-men and others sending and keeping them abroad to be bred Papists the making Fonds and Dotations to Popish Schools and Colledges the bestowing Pensions on Priests and the perverting Protestants from their Religion by offers of Places Preferments and Pensions are contrary to Law. That the Disarming of Protestants and Imploying Papists in the Places of greatest Trust both

Civil and Military the thrusting out Protestants to make room for Papists and the intrusting Papists with the Forts and Magazines of the Kingdom are contrary to Law. That the Imposing Oaths without Authority of Parliament is contrary to Law. That the giving Gifts or Grants for raising of Money without the consent of Parliament or Convention of Estates is contrary to Law. That the imploying the Officers of the Army as Judges through the Kingdom or Imposing them where there were Heretable Offices and Jurisdictions and the putting the Leidges to death summarly and without Legal Tryal Jury or Record are contrary to Law. That the Imposing of extraordinary Fines the exacting of exorbitant Bale and the disposing of Fines and Forfaultures before Sentence are contrary to Law. That the Imprisoning Persons without expressing the Reason thereof and delaying to put them to Tryal is contrary to Law. That the causing Pursue and Forefault Persons upon stretches of old and obsolete Laws upon frivolous and weak pretences upon lame and defective Probation as particularly the late Earl of Argile are contrary to Law. That the Nominating and Imposing the Magistrats Councils and Clerks upon Burghs contrary to their Liberties and express Charters is contrary to Law. That the sending Letters to the Courts of Justice Ordaining the Judges to stop or desist from Determining Causes or Ordaining them how to proceed in Causes depending before them and the changing the nature of the Judges Gifts ad vitam aut culpam into Commissions durante beneplacito are contrary to Law. That the granting Personal Protections for Civil Debts is contrary to Law. That the forcing the Leidges to Depone against themselves in Capital Crimes however the punishment be restricted is contrary to Law. That the using Torture without Evidence in ordinary Crimes is contrary to Law. That the sending of an Army in an Hostile manner upon any part of the Kingdom in a peaceable time and exacting of Locality and any manner of free Quarter is contrary to Law. That the Charging of the Leidges with Law-borrows at the King's instance and the Imposing of Bonds without the Authority of Parliament and the Suspending Advocats from their Imployments for not Compearing when such Bonds were offered were contrary to Law. That the putting of Garrisons in privat Mens Houses in time of Peace without their consent or the Authority of Parliament is contrary to Law. That the Opinions of the Lords of Session in the two Cases following were contrary to Law viz. 10. That the concealing the demand of a Supply for a Forefaulted Person although not given is Treason 20. That Persons refusing to discover what are their privat Thoughts and Judgments in relation to points of Treason or other mens Actions are guilty of Treason That the Fyning Husbands for their Wives withdrawing from the Church was contrary to Law. That Prelacy the Superiority of any Office in the Church above Presbyters is and hath been a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this Nation and contrary to the Inclinations of the Generality of the People ever since the Reformation they having Reformed from Popery by Presbyters and therefore ought to be abolished That it is the Right and Priviledge of the Subjects to Protest for Remeed of Law to the King and Parliament against Sentences pronounced by the Lords of Session providing the same do not stop Execution of these Sentences That it is the Right of the Subjects to Petition the King and that all Imprisonments and Prosecutions for such Petitioning are contrary to Law. That for Redress of all Grievances and for the Amending Strengthning and Preserving of the Laws Parliaments ought to be frequently called and allowed to sit and the freedom of Speech and Debate secured to the Members And they do Claim Demand and Insist upon all and sundry the Premisses as their undoubted Right and Liberties and that no Declarations Doings or Proceedings to the prejudice of the People in any of the said Premisses ought in any wise to be drawn hereafter in Consequence or Example but that all Forefaulturs Fines loss of Offices Imprisonments Banishments Pursuits Persecutions Tortures and rigorous Executions be considered and the Parties Lesed be Redressed To which Demand of their Rights and Redressing of their Grievances they are particularly encouraged by his Majesty the King of England His Declaration for the Kingdom of Scotland of the day of October last as being the only means for obtaining a full Redress and Remedy therein Having therefore an entire Confidence that His said Majesty the King of England will perfect the Deliverance so far advanced by Him and will still preserve them from the Violation of their Rights which they have here Asserted and from all other Attempts upon their Religion Laws and Liberties The said Estates of the Kingdom of Scotland Do Resolve that WILLIAM and MARY King and Queen of England France and Ireland Be and be Declared King and Queen of Scotland to hold the Crown and Royal Dignity of the said Kingdom of Scotland to Them the said King and Queen during Their Lives and the longest Liver of Them and that the Sole and Full Exercise of the Regal Power be only in and Exercised by Him the said King in the Names of the said King and Queen during their Joynt Lives and after their Decease the said Crown and Royal Dignity of the said Kingdom to be to the Heirs of the Body of the said Queen which failing to the Princess Ann of Denmark and the Heirs of her Body which also failling to the Heirs of the Body of the said WILLIAM King of England And they do Pray the said King and Queen of England to accept the same accordingly And that the Oath hereafter mentioned be Taken by all Protestants of whom the Oath of Allegiance and any other Oaths and Declarations might be required by Law in stead of them and that the said Oath of Allegiance and other Oaths and Declarations may be Abrogated The OATH I A. B. Do sincerely Promise and Swear That I will be Faithful and bear True Allegiance to Their Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MARY So help me GOD. And the Estates Do Ordain That this Declaration be Ingrossed in Parchment and Recorded in the Register Books of Parliament Follows the Grievances Represented by the Estates of the Kingdom of SCOTLAND to the KING' 's most Excellent Majesty to be Redressed in PARLIAMENT THE Estates of the Kingdom of Scotland Do Represent That the Committee of Parliament Called the Articles is a great Grievance to the Nation and that there ought to be no Committees of Parliament but such as are freely Chosen by the Estates to prepare Motions and Overtures that are first made in the House That the first Act of Parliament 1669. Is inconsistent with the Establishment of the Church-Government now desired and ought to be Abrogated That Forefaulturs in prejudice of Vassals Creditors and Heirs of Entail are a great Grievance That the obliging the Liedges to