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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94167	An English translation of the Scottish Declaration against James Graham alias Marquess of Montrosse. Wherein many things are set right between the kingdom of Scotland and Commonwealth of England. With many observable passages, concerning the transactions with the late king, and their now declared king.	Sydenham, Cuthbert, 1622-1654.	1650 (1650)	Wing S6293; Thomason E597_10; ESTC R203680	21,895	28

their challenges of any one to produce any testimony or demonstration for any such overture Hudson very well knew what he came at Southwell for and what he did there and this is faithfully his account from his own mouth with many more circumstances of a strange nature which out of love and tendernesse I omit Yea Hudson would often say when he heard that they denied any such knowledge with much vehemency that they grossely lied I shall relate but one story more which makes it out of doubt and it is a relation I heard with my own ears given in upon Oath by one that had relation to the Bed-chamber viz. that one night at New-castle the late King coming out into the presence Chamber to supper not very well pleased at something concerning the Scots dealing with him was reading in the window a Pamphlet that came out about that time entituled A game at Scotch and English wherein many particulars were discovered about the conveighing away of Ashburnham and Hudson and something about his coming in at Southwell to the Scots Army at which he was much pleased and said they were most truths He turns about to Sir James Lumsdale then Governor of New-castle who stood by with severall Lords and saith to him you did not know of the conveighing away of these two and he answered no if it like your Majesty he turnes to one of the Lords I take it it was the Lord Dumferlin no nor you did not know saith he of my coming in to your Army at Southwell and he answered no he did not the King after his wonted manner swore thus by God but you did I am sorry I should swear such an Oath again in print but it 's lawfull because it 's for the publique deciding a controversie and confirmation of truth that you have two Oaths if the world will believe the Kings Oath who knew well enough what was done concerning himself and another Oath confirming that he heard him swear thus But I leave it to the judicious Reader to consider I believe it was done but by some particular persons and very privately that the Parliament of Scotland knew it not and the fair delivery of him with their quiet march out of England is sufficient satisfaction to us and to acquit them for that private miscarriage I wish they had been as faithfull at the Isle of Wight as they were with him then and that they may come as fairly and honestly off from this King at Breda as they did from his Father at New-castle Onely I cannot but observe one passage p. 13. where though we and all honest men will joyn issue with the Committee that none can imagine they sold the King for money but did their duty in delivering him up to the Parliament yet I wonder they make the demonstration of it to be that they onely got two hundred thousand pounds of the Arrears due unto them for a very laborious service and as a part of the great expences they had been at by their expedition into England for the ends of the Covenant two hundred thousand pounds is not so small a sum to be given for Arrears especially if they considered the vast expences England had been at first and last and what great sums of money they received at severall times from England besides the Assessement of the four Northern Counties and free-quarter which came to farre more as it was audited by the Parliament then the Scots pay and arrears came unto especially if we consider what two hundred thousand pound sterling is accounted in the Kingdom of Scotland but most especially seeing it was for the ends of the Covenant and that we must pay them for doing their duty and that in so great sums and be slighted for our love is strange we could give our brethren 300000. l. for but beginning to resist Tyranny though principally relating to themselves and think nothing of it and since for but assisting in a cause of common concernment wherein they were equally engaged with us and for following the ends of the Covenant they have had first and last viis modis above a million of money in England and yet they go about to lesson our favours and heighten their owne Engagements and services for the Covenant though all upon our score but these things are slips and must be past by as lesser Errataes that doe not spoile the sense I onely adde this that never had Scotland so much of Englands wealth and treasure in such round sums in all the Reigns of the Kings either of England or Scotland as they have had from this Parliament and it 's bad parting with such friends The second Charge is That they have complotted the late Kings destruction to wipe of which aspersion they labour as in the fire and I shall freely acquit them only because they think it a Charge of so hainous a nature to have any hand in that legal act of Justice on him and insinua●e the guilt of it on us I must crave leave to vindicate that act as no● only most necessary but just and an act of the most celestial and divine disposal and import as any civil act done in England since its first constitution For the lawfulness of bringing Kings to Iustice and to condemn them if they be found Tyrants it s not so much as questioned in politick Casuists and in reason if they may be deposed for ill Government as we have instances both in England and Scotland they may be executed on the same ground without we will take the notion of Kings in that large and vast capacity that the late deluded and blinded Royalists have used it That the King is a creature only of Gods making all other Magistrates being acknowledged to be the creature of the people but only Kings and they exempted from and independent to any power but only Gods And if Lex be Rex as Mr. Rutherford proveth at large and Kings are under and subject to Laws why should vve suppose them above punishment when they are found the highest Transgressors of those Laws Grant them all that diety the Scripture invests them with yet when they come to dye it is as other men it may be for the same offences as well as in the same condition of nature yea it 's against Reason and Nature though through usu ped custom it hath got som credit that all Magistrates should be liable to punishment in case of mal-administration of th ir office and only that one order excepted But to come nigher home and consider what our first Arguments and Distinctions were of making a War against the King and the same will hold for sharpening the Sword now and cutting more keenly and closer to the root The Royalists always told us we sinned in fighting against the Lords anointed and took up Arms against that pow●r which God had made sacred and so called us Rebels against Gods Ordinances we then in both Nations found out a