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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83946	Englands alarm from the north, vvherein the affaires of Scotland are represented, with the ominous aspect they have to England, to awaken all interests to consider of the nearest conjunction among themselves against the common enemie, who appears in a new disguize, yet as destructive as ever to our lawes, liberties, and priviledges.		1648 (1648)	Wing E2938; Thomason E434_24; ESTC R205279	15,178	23

are fore-warned be fore-armed you have been sorely whipt for your former stupiditie let experience teach you wisdome remember names of things will never effect ends You have fought against the King and his partie for your liberties never give them away to another nation for nothing things are now in a hopefull way of settlement Peace begins to spring over all our injoyments let us not suffer a Scots blast to nip our hopes in the bud God knowes when ever we shall be so faire for libertie and peace if we begin a new broil the name of a warre should now be as odious to all honest men as the name of peace hath been and is to the sonnes of violence Many discontents are among you many divisions make them up lest others discontent you more Events are not easily foreseen in hazardous difficult transactions improve the present mercies you injoy and pray for more but take heed of making them lesse by fomenting such new differences among friends Let us all lay to heart the danger of a new warre the hazard of all that ever we have gained the uncertaintie of effecting the best pretences by such a course It can never enter into the heart of any English man except he hath been bred in the Highlands among the Redshanks that the Kingdome of Scotland should ingage for a warre in England purely to preserve our interests and set up our liberties or that they should be more sensible of our condition then the Parliament of England whom the whole Kingdome have intrusted and of whose faithfulnesse we have experience sufficient though an absolute perfection is not to be expected from men on earth and allowance must be given to men for failings especially who are imployed in multitude of affaires and who go through varietie of temptations Though we acknowledge Scotland a good neighbour yet we have formerly thought that providence had well ordered it that the river Tweede should run between us and I cannot think him an English man that shall desire any more bridges then Barwick to be made over it for holding a brotherly correspondence with us we have not wanted grounds of suspition that sme thing more is desired by them then a bare keeping up the Union Wise men observe how they have of late pryed into our liberties made many incroachments on our interests seemed to challenge a part in the best and richest jewels of this State affronted our Parliament to their faces and that when they have had no army in England Such forward essayes portend only want of power to effect it which they may do in due time if providence and our care prevent it not It s not unknown how it was once pleaded hard at a Conference that the name of great Brittaine might comprehend us all and to leave out the distinct names of Scotland and England knowing that would be a handsome way to get an onenesse in power interest And at another time it was prest hard in both Houses and presented in their Papers that the foure Northern counties might be ingaged to them for the payment of their army knowing that possession was eleven points of the Law and a faire step to a propertie And all this propounded when they came in called by our Parliament purely on the interest of both Kingdoms equally in danger But if ever they should now come in let the pretence be as glorious as it will you can expect nothing but a transplantation of many generations of them into the best and fattest places of this Kingdome England is too great a remptation for souldiers who have no other ends to serve but their own bellies Put beggers on horseback pardon the comparison you know how they will ride But a hint of these things may suffice except we are willing to sell our birth-right for a messe of pottage The result of all should be an earnest endeavour of all the honest party in both King doms to unite and accommodate among themselves waving the punctilio's of private difference and fixing their eye on the designes of the common enemy in the close and underhand transactions of them And before I conclude I think it will not be amisse to spend a few words on each interest and that if possible we may be a wakened to a happy compliance against all our enemies And because our Brethren of Scotlād are now most in sight I cannot choose but begin with them give them this faithfull advice as an honest Covenanter and true English man Brethren we thank you for your brotherly assistance we shall labour to requite you with the same as we have opportunity you were never so nigh England as now you are the next breach will make us at a greater distance then ever we were he that makes the first breach must expect the first ruine we have mutually ingaged together against the common enemy let us not now ingage with them against one another let it never be said that you had made a Covenant with us to put out our eyes let not the dying hopes of our and your enemies be revived by you give not occasion to them to have one cast more against both Kingdoms You have had sufficient experience of Royall promises and what the Kings ingagements have been to you the English Cavaliers are the first born of his heart and will be most respected because of their first free and voluntary ingagement with him and they hate your Covenant and your Nation more then any people in the world When you have set up the King you will give him leave to remember his old quarrell against you Our English Gallants will never endure to see the best of you sit down at the right hand of the Royall Majestie you had better keep your esteem you have with the Parliament and the honest party in England and give us time and peace to pay our debts then crack your credit with every party We shall call against you to the most High God for revenge of the greatest treachery that ever was known if you now joyn with our common enemy to undo this poor Nation Do not verify that old character given you in all Histories and Nations where your name is mentioned that you are called Persidi Know this for certain Though many in England would be glad to see things changed yet they will never endure to see you rule Take heed that while you think to come into England God doth not raise up a second Montrosse to ruine Scotland Neither are we so low in England but we can resent your favours or frowns and you will never make wise men believe pretend Conscience or Covenant but your next coming must be to judgement to part and divide our spoil among your poor despised Gentry and souldiers and though we have of late degenerated much from our English Noblenesse and Gallantry yet there is a veine of good blood that yet runs in some honest hearts which will be prodigally spent

hope they have observed and read the Scots Commissioners by this time as well as they have formerly done them if they will still be made pack horses to the Scots designes I shall wish them no worse masters I have one word to another party of which I am sorry to hear that they should be thought a party distinct from the whole the Levellers falsely so called and as innocently misled in whom the principles of liberty would shine very resplendently were they not mixed with some other unsuitable passions You honest hearts whose designe do you drive on with such violence are there not parties enough already make no more lest you part your Interest from the Publique Liberty is the garland we must weare after victory but we must take heed how we prosecute the attainment of it all things cannot be done at once every man is not to be judge of his own liberty there may be more dangers sometimes in setling liberty then in acting a warre I fear you have done more disservice and made more breaches in the honest Party then the liberty of your particular persons will countervaile Avide ruendo ad libertatem in servitutem delapsi sunt was an observation found out by old experience It is observed in you that the violence of your spirit hath sprung from some particular discontents and injuries received from particular persons which is an ill foundation and honest men see not these holy and Christian-like gallantryes in your carriages but much of selfe and particular reflexions on private persons Oh let not advantages be given by you to your and our enemies againe revenge not your particular quarrels to some members of Parliament with opening a gap for the old Incendiaries to creep in at to destroy us all Ballance former services with present failings consider the many exigencies men of publique imployment are put unto they bear with your passions you must with their other infirmities wait but a while and calmly indeavour in your places what you aim at but let not your particular spirits manage such a publique work and especially remember who threatens to take advantage by our divisions I can assure you give the Cavaliers such a glimpse of hope that they as men risen from the dead at the hearing of your new agreements of the people and such like transactions for while you seem to agree in that you divide from the whole and incourage the present designe to destroy our Union and Communion together But I know the thoughts of a Scottish Invasion will settle your present thoughts to indeavour the strengthening the present honest Party under what names soever What remaines but that all honest and true-hearted English men should unite their apprehensions and affections in standing for the particular Interest of England and the sticking to this present Parliament for though things have not been carried so uniformely as could have been wished and many members have had their particular failings yet that is the most certaine remedy we have ever found and if we vilifie and undervalue them we shake the foundations of our own peace and there is no other visible remedy left us to support our selves but what is violent and unnaturall and though private men may see many failings in particular actions they must remember that they cannot see all the difficulties they meet with nor all the secret principles and reasons they act by and that what ever passeth through the best of men will need refining and long continuance in variety of Affaires cannot but alter thoughts and apprehensions if not principles We now know the worst of this Parliament but we know not what will be the next they are now going on happily if we discourage them by our divisions the blame must lie on us not on them who cannot possible please all parties in every circumstance of their desires and it is a mercy they have kept to the foundation of our liberties and have not given it up yet either to the King or Scots and their last declaration in Answer to the Scots Commissioners papers may satisfie the whole world in their absolute intirenesse to the Interest of this Kingdome and may calme our spirits from such murmurings as arise against them I am sorry to heare honest men so hot to desire a dissolution of this Parliament before we are freed of our feares and they have setled the Kingdome in a positive defence against our enemies It is better trust them whom we know and who promise better things then leave all to the hazard of a next Parliament of whom we know nothing nor how they may be packt and how in the intervall designes may act Let the last malignant elections in Scotland for ever stand a Patterne to us else we shall be wise when we have paid more for it And that we may yet prevent this designe from the North let us reflect on our former actings and recall our first principles of ingagement in this warre We may very well remember that the old Character which was given to our common Enemie by which we distinguished them was from their owning the Kings Prerogative interest against the Parliament of England and the libertie of the Subject from whence they were called Malignants and who ever owne the same interest or seeke to set up the King in his Throne contrary to the Propositions of Peace propounded by both Houses of Parliament and do joyne with the same partie cannot be looked upon any other notion then as the common Enemie though under another name all honest men are to unite against them as at first except we mean to forsake our principles or do imagine that our Enemies are regenerated and that the King is turned purely for the libertie of the Subjects and the Priviledges of Parliament Cujus contrarium verum est they had never more wicked intentions then now they have nor their hearts fuller fraught with malice then at this day But it s our misery that we can see nothing but what we feele nor will beleeve nothing before its too late to prevent it we have not so much wit that the same designe can be carried on by severall mediums which seeme contrary to it But if men will be secure let them be undone by the danger I hope wise men will take care for themselves If God will yet punish us with a senselesse slavish spirit it s but the fruit of our own doings It s happy for honest men they have a reserve at last but its sad to thinke that so many gallant spirits in this juncture of time are divided when division is the greatest prejudice to our affaires It s no wonder that Englands glory and happinesse hath beene the object of so much envie and other Nations have such ambitious eyes upon it but the wonder is that we should by our own folly prostrate so faire a Virgin to the ravishments of everie ones lust We can exchange nothing with other Nations of our Liberties and Priviledges without indangering their affections to it It hath beene but a little part of our wisdome that we have given Scotland such a sair prospect of our happiness we might have kept our secrets and have beene kinde enough unto them too But we cannot now help it you see what a vertue men make of necessitie let us be wise for time to come and know that a faire and loving distance from Scotland will not at all prejudice our condition so long as we keep to the substance of our union correspondence in mutual affaires any neerenesse besides will but make them covet and us fear It stands upon you to have your eyes in your head and to observe where you are and what you are comming unto and if all will not make you wise there must be a whip provided for the back of such fooles It may be this discourse may seeme needlesse and be thought only the frenzie of some melancholy spirit I wish it may prove so I shall be glad to lose my paines so they may lose their designs It wil be my happiness to be mistaken in this though timely caution never yet hindered any serious work I shall conclude with my heartie desires to God that he would open the eyes of this Nation defeate the plots of our Enemies settle us in Truth and Peace and that while we are of one Nation we may have one Interest in all publique Affairs FINIS

upon such treacherous underminers of our Liberties But we have better thoughts of the honest party in Scotland then that ever such a designe should come into their hearts or get the least countenance from them It would be farre better and more agreeing with our Covenant that we should come in to help you against that malignant Faction which growes prevalent among you then that you should help them against your friends and there need not to be any feare of our souldiers unwillingnesse to come back again to England though we must tell you plainly you must give us leave to feare that if ever your souldiers come into us we shall never get them out without blowes If you will not further do not envy our peace you shall enjoy some of the fruits of it as well as we make much of such friends while you have them The next whom I would addresse a few lines unto are the English Presbyterians but I am loth to call names who have been too far ingaged by the faire and smooth pretences of the Scots Commissioners yet they are English men and I have more hopes to prevaile on them to look about them Though your judgements be not much different from the Scots yet your interests are Let not the zeale of the Covenant eat out your love to the being of the Common-wealth Settle not the foundation of Presbyterie in Christian blood Let the beams of truth shine abroad from you to dispell and destroy errors Call not for fire from Heaven especially not from Scotland against your Brethren The sweetnesse of your Spirits the Rayes of Christs glory which shine from your doctrine will do more to destroy the Kingdome of the Devill set up in the judgement of men then all the swords and cannons in the world Can you think that the Scottish Cavaliers will settle an English Presbyterie will your setting up the King set up your Government no no Episcopacy is too great a darling of the Kings and his party for them to give away its Crown to you Souldiers will well minde Religion when once they get power when they have served your ends you must serve theirs Be content with what you have let not the world see you aim purely at Domination they will then soon conclude you are not Iure divino Presbyterie may well give in some thing to an accommodation as well as otherwayes you have reaped the first fruits yea the Harvest of what we have yet sown though with many teares you may well give leave to others of your Brethren to gather the gleanings of Peace and Liberty since they have fought and hazzarded their lives with you for the whole you have the broad Seal for what you do the publick stamp of the State the ingagements of a Kingdom for your maintenance you may well give leave that a squint eye should be cast on other honest hearts who desire but to serve Christ according to that light they have none seeks to be Competitors with you in your injoyments or envies your priviledges only desire to sit quietly down by you serving of God with you though not in the same externall forme Will the most exactest externall Uniformity if obtained by force amount to the losse of innocent blood and the oppression and persecution of any poor Saints Remember what was the ruine of Episcopacy but the rigidnesse of pressing Conformity let Pres byterie take heed she come not to the same end by over-forcing an outward Uniformitie And howere you may now think the design is as much against the honest Presbyterians as Independents and though now we divide we shall then be but one in the misery if ever through our own divisions God should let such a device take effect But they cannot be ignorant of these affaires if they be and are blinded by Scots mist I shall only wish they may have time enough to repent when they shall feel the mischiefs of such an Enterprise And before I go further I cannot passe by the City of ' London a place where most of those designes have been hatched a people mixt in their intorests and divided among themselves who have been ridden by all parties but now of late more abused and ingaged by the Scots Commissioners and some others You are full of discontents against this Parliament and Army you were like to have begun a bloody war of late had not some men more wise and honest then others prevented it you had inconsiderately made way for your utter Ruine and yet you think it now your happinesse you live in Peace Have you yet so many Bags to spare as to invite your Brethren of Scotland in Are your Chests so full that you know not how to imploy the overplus let bleeding Ireland have the benefit of your superabundance if ever another War should be you must launch out otherwise then ever you have done yet you may not expect the Bishops Lands or Delinquents Estates to be sold for your security the Cavaliers will soon punish that which they call Sacriledge and redeem the Revenue of the Clergy again you had need make much of this Parliament that they may settle things so as they may perform their ingagements to you and you may injoy what you lent your money for the next party may quickly undoe what is now done you have paid money only by way of Loan now for which you have got well the next turn you must give and pay for lending also what you have done for this Parliament against the Kings party if ever the King get his power you must do for him with an addition and lose your former profits too Oh that you would now be wise sit down and eat the fat and drink the sweet of your injoyments under this Parliament and let not another Kingdom come and make you Tributaries to their own designs Lose not all the glory of your former Actions in a new strain of Malignity If any of you be still discontented and would gladly see a new overture of Affaires in relation to a War I could only wish those mens persons were as far distant from the publick as their interests are and then let them take their fill of War Let every man consider that there can be no pretence for War so strong and necessary as the setling of our Lawes and Liberties after Conquest of our common Enemy can be for Peace And of all men the Citizens had need be quiet and stick fast to the Parliament who injoy all they have by them their trade is now coming in apace their shops full and except they long for to be plundred and to lay temptations before their old Enemies they cannot but detest any thought of a new ingagement or of countenancing such an undertaking yet doubtlesse the Scots Commissioners have not courted them all this while for nothing they have observed their tempers cast in Baits to trie their affections and have no small confidence in their assistance But I