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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65418	Reasons why the Parliament of Scotland cannot comply with the late K. James's proclamation sent lately to that kingdom, and prosecuted by the late Viscount Dundee : containing an answer to every paragraph of the said proclamation, and vindicating the said Parliament their present proceedings against him : published by authority.	Welwood, James, 1652-1727.; Graham, John, Viscount Dundee, 1648-1689.	1689 (1689)	Wing W1309; ESTC R2126	15,716	35

REASONS WHY THE PARLIAMENT of SCOTLAND Cannot comply with the Late King IAMES ADVERTISEMENT AN Answer to the Late King IAMES's Declaration to all His Pretended Subjects in the Kingdom of England Dated at Dublin Castle May 8. 1689. Ordered by a Vote of the Right Honourable the House of Commons to be burnt by the Common-Hangman REASONS WHY THE Parliament of Scotland Cannot comply with the Late K. IAMES's PROCLAMATION Sent lately to that KINGDOM And Prosecuted by the Late Uiscount Dundee CONTAINING An Answer to every Paragraph of the said Proclamation and vindicating the said Parliament their present Proceedings against him Published by Authority LONDON Printed for Dorman Newman at the King 's Arms in the Poultry MDCLXXXIX TO His GRACE THE Duke of Hamilton c. Their Majesties High Commissioner for the Kingdom of Scotland May it please Your Grace THE following Paper ambitionates no meaner Patron than a Personage who has had the Honour for a great many Years to struggle against the Encroachments made on a Kingdom whereof he himself is the First Peer and who has crown'd all his other Actions with that of giving a mighty and powerful Influence on a Revolution that it s hoped may at last make us Happy Accept of this as a part of that vast acknowledgment Your Countrey owe's You and Pardon the Address of May it please Your Grace Your Grace's Most Humble and Most Obedient Servant I. W. London Aug. 12. 1689. REASONS WHY THE PARLIAMENT OF SCOTLAND Cannot comply with the Late King IAMES c. IF one were to draw the Scheme of one of the most Despotick Governments in the World he needed not go so far as Constantinople Moscow or some of the Eastern Courts for a Copy to Design after Scotland alone might sufficiently furnish him with all the Idea's of Oppression Injustice and Tyranny concentred for the space of Twenty Years and upwards in that Kingdom To display the Tragick Scene of these three Kingdoms in their most lively Colours would require the imitation of that celebrated piece of Antiquity the Sacrifice of Iphiginia where every on-looking Graecian appeared sad and the sadder as they stood in nearer relation to the Royal Victim But the Painter conscious of the weakness of Art to express the grief of Agamemnon chose rather to draw a veil over a disconsolate Father's Face than vainly to endeavour the tracing the sorrows of his Countenance by the Pencil England's dismal State for some years past requires to be exprest in mournful Characters that of Ireland perhaps in more mournful yet but to delineate the unexampled misery of Scotland surpasses the Power of History or the Force of Eloquence To look back upon Athens under the Government of the Thirty Tyrants on Rome under the Triumvirate or on these three Kingdoms under the Usurpation of Cromwel might surnish some weak draughts to take up a Notion of the late condition of that Nation but all of them would fall short of the Scotch Original It were in vain to attempt the History of Scotland under the two last Reigns in a Paper of this kind the Materials being large enough for the most bulky Volume And if ever I should venture upon it apart it is more than probable I might find that Maxim verified at my cost Curae leves loquantur ingentes stupent and the rather that I am not altogether able to divest my self so far of Humanity as to forget my own share in the Ruines of my Country My design at present is only to make some Reflections on a Proclamation issued out by the late King Iames with relation to his pretended Subjects of Scotland dated at Dublin the Fourth of May last Signed by Himself and countersigned by my Lord Melfort in which it's hard to determine whether ill Nature or want of Politicks takes most place both of them outvying one another for Precedency Only upon first view it will be found that the late Conspiracy in that Kingdom is the Native Consequence of this Proclamation and though that Plot had amounted to a design of Assassinating their Majesties High Commissioner and the whole Members of Parliament yet the Actors of such a Villainy are not only by this Proclamation indemnified but fairly invited and required so to do The Proclamation begins thus Iames c. To all our Loving Subjects of our ancient Kingdom of Scotland Greeting Whereas several of our Subjects men of pernicious Principles and wicked Designs have taken upon themselves contrair to the Law of God their Natural Allegiance to Us their Lawful and Undoubted Sovereign the Laws and Acts of Parliament of that Our ancient Kingdom to meet in an Assembly to call themselves the States of that Kingdom and therein treasonably and wickedly to question Our Authority and to judge of Our Proceedings and finally to dispose of Our Imperial Crown which We hold from God alone Usurping Our Power which is not communicable to any whether single Persons or Bodies Collective without Our Authority be interposed thereto And that these Wicked and Lawless Persons still go on to oppress our People by heavy Burdens Imprisonments and other things grievous to Our Subjects contrair to all Law and Equity as well as to Our Royal Right and Prerogative uniting themselves with the Prince of Orange and his Adherents All these blustering Expressions might have a tolerable good Grace in the Mouth of the Grand Segniour or Great Mogul who vainly arrogate to themselves the High-flown Titles of King of Kings but if they can be at any rate excusable in King Iames it must be upon the Supposition of these two Principles First That King Iames as King of Scotland was so far an Arbitrary and Despotick Prince that he was not obliged to govern by Law and could in no case forfeit his Right to the Crown And Secondly That he was unjustly by the States of the Kingdom laid aside Now if it can be made appear That in the first place the Royal Dignity of Scotland is so far from being an Arbitrary and Despotick kind of Government that it carries along with it in its very Essence a mixture of Interests betwixt King and People and an obligation upon the King to govern not by his own Edicts or Will but by the known Laws of the Land which are indeed the two great hinges of the Government And in the second place That King Iames did forfeit his Right to the Crown by subverting these two fundamental Hinges of the Government and thereupon that the States of the Kingdom did justly lay him aside I say if these two General Heads be made appear then necessarily the other two supposed Principles fall in Consequence and the above mentioned Narrative of the Proclamation as built upon them must tumble with them As to the First General Head That the Royal Dignity of Scotland is so far from being an Arbitrary and Despotick kind of Government that it carries along with it in its very Essence a mixture of Interests betwixt King