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B05226 Act repealing all acts of Parliament or Committee made for the late unlawfull engagement, and ratifying the protestation and opposition against the same. Scotland. Convention of Estates. 1649 (1649) Wing S1157A; ESTC R183954 8,826 22

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ACT Repealing all ACTS of PARLIAMENT OR COMMITTEE Made for the late unlawfull Engagement and ratifying the PROTESTATION AND OPPOSITION against the same EDINBURGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most excellent Majesty 1649. ACT Repealing all Acts of Parliament or Committee made for the late unlawful Engagement and ratifying the Protestation and opposition against the same At Edinburgh the sixteen day of January the yeer of God One thousand six hundred fourty nine years THE Estates of Parliament presently conveened in this second Session of the second Trienniall Parliament by vertue of an Act of the Committee of Estates who had Power and Authority from the last Parliament for conveening of the Parliament Taking to their most serious considerations after so great judgments and deliverances on Gods part and after so Solemn an Acknowledgment and Covenant renewed on their part the Acts of the last Session of Parliament Beginning the second of March and ending the tenth of June 1648. And of the Committee of Estates before September last and the proceeding of the Forces raised by them in the first and second Levie and these brought out of Ireland and of the Committees of War in the severall Shires appointed by them with the grounds reasons and pretences therefore whither contained in the Kings concessions at the Isle of Wight or set down in their Declarations as in the fourth and seventh sixteen twenty six twenty seven Acts of the last Parliament and in their Declaration to the Kingdom of England emitted by the Committee of Estates the twenty eight day of June last when their Army went into England in establishing carrying on and prosecuting the late Engagement against the Kingdom of England and raising the first and second Leavie in pressing the same at home by unlawful Bands and cruel Plunderings and in rejecting all Warnings Petitions Remonstrances from the Kirk Judicatories and from Shires at home and all Remonstrances and offers of Treaty made from the Parliament of England by their Commissioners in refusing to declare the Kings Concessions at the I le of VVight unsatisfactory to them in trampling under foot the Liberties of the Church at home in invading of the Kingdom of England and surprizing of their Towns and marching through their Counties and associating with the Malignant party there in returning after their defeat to Scotland to renew their oppression in this Kingdom and invasion of England and to that end in the raising of new Forces sending Commissions to the classed Incendiaries of this Kingdom who by standing Acts of Parliament were debarred from all Trust for their joyning in the late Rebellion and in many other ways acts and deeds cuting their designe at home and abroad And considering the several offers and desires made by the Commissioners of the Kingdom of England for continuing the Peace and Union and the many earnest and humble Petitions from severall Shires and the most part of Provinciall Synods and Presbyteries and the just and necessary Desires Remonstrances and Declarations of the Commissioners of the Church to the Parliament and Committee with their unsatisfactory Answer thereunto and the Papers past betwixt the late General Assembly and the Committee and the Dissent and Protestations entred in the Parliament by a great number of every Estate and that of such as hath been most instrumental and constant in this Cause since the beginning And withall taking to their serious consideration the manifold solid reasons against the Engagement expressed in the Remonstrances of the Commission of the Kirk given in to the Parliament And of the unanimous Declaration of the late General Assembly and the reply of their Commissioners demonstrating from the Word of God the unlawfulnesse of the said Engagement and evidencing the many Breaches of Covenant and Treaties of Peace the many wrongs done to the Liberties of the Church and oppressions of the people of God and many other unlawfull ingrediences in the matter manner nature and effect of that Engagement And therefore denouncing Gods judgment against it And warning the people to do their duty for the Cause of God and to the Covenant against all lets and impediments All which was seconded so speedily and immediately by Gods own hand stirring up the hearts of his conscientious People to the resolution of opposing so great a defection from the Cause and Covenant And by his performing the Counsell of his Messengers and confirming the words of his servants in the defeat of that Army and their overthrow in England with their associats in England As also in scattering of the remainder of that force returned unto Scotland and joyned with these who at home were enslaving this Kingdom and in devesting them with their own consent by Treaty with so little blood of all outward force and exercise of State-power untill the determination of this Parliament And the Estates pondering seriously the great necessity and manifold reasons pressing the Protesters in Parliament with the assistance of the constant Covenanters throughout the Land To make that opposition in Armes so trysted directed and countenanced by Gods own good hand upon them as is more expressed in the Declaration of the Committee of Estates of the seventh of October last and Information of the Kirk published to the view of the world upon the ninth day of October last Therefore and for many other reasons and considerations convincing them in their consciences That the foresaid proceedings of the late Parliament and Committee in the appointing and prosecuting that Engagement against England and in the oppressing of the Church in her Liberties and of the good People throughout the Land in their persons and estates And which is most of all in their consciences by force and violence causing the people to sin after they had declared by their Petitions the same was against the light of their consciences were unlawfull before God and against his Word were breaches of the Solemn League and Covenant which being an Oath to GOD so necessary is not alterable by any humane Authority and of the Treaties betwixt the Kingdoms and under pretence of doing for Religion for the King for the Kingdoms did really tend as doth now more appear to the ruining of Religion undoing of the King and dividing of the Kingdoms And which in few moneths hath more wasted the substance of this Kingdom and especially of the wel-affected then all our former troubles And hath led out a forced multitude to slaughter or slavery with so great reproach and disgrace to the Nation and occasioned a powerfull Army to enter the bowels of this Kingdom in put suit of their enemies who had invaded England to the great endangering of this Kingdom and so laying the Land open and making it lyable to the guilt and miserie of an unjust and offensive War drawing down Gods judgements and exposing us and our posterity to invasion from our neighbour Kingdom if God in his providence had not remedied the same As the Estates of Parliament have
made before God a Solemn Acknowledgement of the publick sins and breaches of the Covenant and a Solemn Ingagement to all the duties therein contained Namely these which do in a more special way relate unto the dangers of these times that Gods judgement drawn upon the Nation by such a sinfull course by a prevalent party of the representative body may be removed and the like in time coming prevented So also that all pretence of Law at home for prosecuting of these courses And that all pretence of quarrell from abroad against this Nation for the same may be taken away And to testifie the firm resolution and earnest desire of this Kingdom to preserve inviolably the Union betwixt the Kingdoms The Estates foresaids do hereby finde and declare the Kings Concessions at the Isle of VVight and late Declarations emitted by the Parliament and Committee to be unsatisfactory to them and destructive to the Cause and Covenant And doth disclaim condemn annull repeal and declare to be void and of non-effect the Acts after mentioned as being in themselves from the beginning unjust and unlawfull and contrary to the Word of GOD and Solemn League and Covenant and large Treaty betwixt the Kingdoms The fourth Act intituled Act anent the resolutions of Parliament concerning the breaches of the Covenant and Treaties betwixt the Kingdoms of Scotland and England and demands for reparation thereof The sixt Act intituled Act for putting of the Kingdom in a posture of VVar for defence and constituting the Committees of VVar of the severall Shires The seventh Act intituled A Declaration of the Parliament of Scotland to all his Majesties good Subjects of this Kingdom concerning their resolutions for Religion King and Kingdoms in pursuing the Ends of the Covenant The eight Act intituled Desires of the Parliament of Scotland to the Honourable Houses of the Parliament of England The ninth Act intituled Act anent the Levies of horse and foot to be put out by the Shires and Burghs and the List of the Colonels with their numbers The eleventh Act intituled Act in favours of the out-reikers of Horse and Foot The sixteenth Act intituled A Letter from the Parliament of Scotland to the severall Presbyteries within the Kingdom The eighteenth Act intituled Act anent the Oath to be taken by the Committees of VVar in the severall Shires The nineteenth Act intituled Act and Ordinance concerning the Garrisons within the Kingdom for provision of the Forces thereof and adding of two moneths Maintenance to the former five The twenty Act intituled Act for raising of Troops The twenty third Act intituled Act Ordaining all Ministers to exhort their people to obedience to the Laws of the Kingdom and assuring these Ministers of their stipends during their lifetimes The twenty fourth Act intituled Act Ordaining the whole Members of Parliament Noblemen Barons Burgesses and all other Subjects and inhabitants of the Kingdom to subscribe this Act for defence of the lawfulnesse of this Parliament and obedience to the Acts thereof The twenty sixt Act intituled Act and Declaration of Parliament and Answers to the supplications from Synods and Presbyteries The twenty seventh Act intituled Act and Declaration of Parliament in Answer to the Petitions presented to them from some Committees of War of Shires And all other Acts or parts or clauses of any other Act of the last Parliament published and grounds and pretences thereof in so far as they import the approbation pursuance or furtherance of the said late unlawfull Engagement And this generall clause is declared to be also sufficient for repealing and annulling of them as if the tenour thereof were herein insert wherewith the Estates dispense Siclike the Estates annuls rescinds and repeals among the imprinted Acts the Commission granted to the close Committee concerning Berwick and Carlile against which divers Members of Parliament entred their dissent and Protestation the Commissions granted to Duke Hamilton and other Officers of the Army The Ordinance in favours of these that protested in Fyfe and Hadingtoun The Ordinance for giving thanks to these who in the severall Shires presented Petitions or writ Letters for encouraging the Parliament to go on in the Engagement The Act anent the Colledge of Justice and their Colonell The Act anent the Lord Cochrane Laird Garthland and Alexander Crawfurd their going to Ireland The Act ratifying the Acts of Committee made in the recess of Parliament and all other unprinted Acts or clauses of unprinted Acts grounds and pretences thereof in so far as they import the approbation pursuance or furtherance of the said late unlawfull Engagement And this generall clause is declared to be al 's sufficient for repealing and annulling them as if the tenours thereof were herein insert In like manner the Estates of Parliament condemns annuls and rescinds all the Acts of the Committee of Estates contained in the table subjoyned to this Act And all other Acts or parts or clauses of any other Acts of the said Committee of Estates grounds and pretences thereof in so far as they import the approbation pursuance or furtherance of the said late unlawful Engagement and this generall clause is declared to be also sufficient for repealing and annulling of them as if the tenour thereof were herein insert wherewith the saids Estates dispense And in like manner do annull condemn and repeal all Acts made and deeds done by the former Parliament and Committee of Estates contrary to the Liberties of the Kirk or any wayes encroaching upon the same in particular these which follow First their emitting of Declarations containing things highly concerning Religion not only without advice and consent of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY and their Commissioners but contrary to their express Desires Supplications Remonstrances and Declarations declaring the same to be dangerous and destructive thereto especially the restoring of the King to honour freedom and safety without sufficient security first had from him for securing of Religion as is more fully expressed in the Desires and Representation of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly Secondly the putting of an unsound gloss in the close of the Declaration of the Parliament upon the Covenant and Acts of the Generall Assembly in these things that concern our duties to the King as is clearly holden forth in the Representation of the Commission of the Assembly Thirdly The making provision for securing of the stipends of such Ministers as shall be censured for their concurring in or preaching for the unlawfull Engagement against England Fourthly their gross misrepresenting of the proceeding of the Commission of the Generall Assembly by the Parliaments Letter of May the eleventh to the severall Presbyteries and endeavouring to incense them against the Commission of the Generall Assembly and to pre-possess with prejudices the Commissioners to the following Assembly Fifthly the taking upon them in the Act and Declaration of the Parliament commonly called the Band to judge and determine such things without advise of the Kirk wherein the Assemblies of the Kirk have a