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A51203	The declaration of His Excellencie James Marquis of Montrosse, Earle of Kilcairn, Lord Greme, Baron of Mont-Dieu, Lievtenant Governour of Scotland, and Captaine Generall of all His Majesties forces by sea or land, for that kingdome	Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of, 1612-1650.; Scotland. Parliament. aut	1650 (1650)	Wing M2516A; ESTC R202891	16,807	24

all such as shall joyne or concurre with him or his adherents in armes to be guilty of High Treason and to be punished and proceeded against as the Parliament or their Committees shall thinke fit And doe further discharge all persons of whatsoever quality or degree to joyne with them in any Oath Band or Association whatsoever or to assist or supply them and their adherents or any of them with Men Money Armes Ammunition Victuall Counsell or Intelligence or to keep any sort of correspondence publick or private with them or any wayes to ayd or countenance them or any of them under the paine of being esteemed as Rebels and proceeded against as the Parliament or their Committees shall thinke fit and this wee declare to be instead of all Letters of intercommoning And Power and Warr and is hereby given to all good Subjects within the Kingdome to rise in Armes for opposing and suppressing all such as shall joyne in Rebellion as they shall be called and required thereunto by the Lord Generall Lievtenant Generall or any others having authoritie for that effect And for the encouragement of al● such as shall suffer in opposing or suppressing them Wee doe further declare that not onely the losses and sufferings of such as shall be active in the cause against them shall be taken in speciall consideration and repaired out of the Estates of such as shall joyne in Rebellion as aforesaid but their service shall be rewarded according as they shall be found to deserve And wee doe ordaine these presents to be printed and published at the Mercat Crosse of Edinburgh and other ordinary places of publication needfull A. JONSTON Clericus Registri EDINBURGH 2. January 165● Antemeridiem The Declaration and Warning of the Commission of the Generall Assembly unto all the Members of this Kirk and Kingdome In answer to a paper intituled and reputed The Declaration of James Grahame ALbeit the carriage of those who are engaged in the worke of Reformation in this Land hath been from the beginning so agreeable to the rule of the Word of God and of sound reason and so eminently owned and blessed by the Lord in all the tenour and proc●dour thereof as may sufficiently refute all the calumnies of enemies and strengthen his people against all their slanders and attempts for undoing of the same Yet least our silence in this day of blasphemy and rebuke should be construed either as a neglect of our dutie or as weaknesse through the sense of the guilt to wipe off the aspersions that are vented to the world in the name of that excommunicate and forfeited Traytor James Grahame wee have resolved till there may be opportunitie for a larger Declaration shortly to touch the revilings contained in that paper and to declare unto men their dutie in reference to such purposes and desires as are holden forth therein In the first place the instruments of the worke of Reformation are charged as an horrid and infamous faction of rebells who did hatch a rebellion against his late Majestie But to say nothing that that wretched man was accessorie unto the laying of the foundation of that blessed worke which now in the blindnesse of his minde and hardnesse of his heart as being given up of God as Pharaoh was he calls rebellion This is no other then the common calumnie that hath been cast upon the servants of God from the beginning of the world in all their endeavours and attempts for Reformation of Religion Was it rebellion to stand to our defence when in stead of an answer to all the earnest and reiterated supplications and desires of this Land against the corruptions of doctrine worship discipline and government wee were invaded with an Army both by Sea and Land that a yoke might be wreathed about our necks by oppression and violence Not onely had wee the Lords Word and the practise of the reformed Churches abroad and of our owne Church at home in the dayes of our Fathers to justifie us in this but also the King himselfe who upon information did retract the Declaration set forth against u● and grant what we had desired N●xt it is charge upon this Nation that they did solicite a partie in the Kingdome of England to beginne where they had left off and that finding their rebell brood there beginning to lessen They did contrary to all Faith Covenants Oathes c. enter with a strong Army the Kingdome of England persecute their Prince in a forreigne Nation and assist a company of strangers rebells against their native King c. What was the grounds and first rise of the warre betwixt the King and the Parliament of England needs not now to be repeated being so well knowne every where But this Nat●on were so farre from fomenting of the same that for a long time they did mediate a peace and so continued untill England by their earnest invitation did for the preservation and Reformation of Religion the honour and happinesse of the King the peace and good of these Kingdome● crave their assistance against the Popish Prelaticall and Malignant partie then in Armes who were like to have destroyed all For which end when they had entred in a solemne League and Covenant with that Nation as they did oblige themselves for the defence and preservation of his Majesties Person and just Greatnesse and Authority in the defence and preservation of Religion so they did never desist to solici● his Majesty for satisfaction to the just desires of both Kingdomes and were alwayes upon his Majesties granting of the same willing to admit him to the exercise of his Royall Power Thirdly It is alleaged that after all manner of assurances given to his Majesty before his comming to the Scottish Armie notwithstanding of assurances he was sold unto the English But wee are confident that albeit all the generation of Malignants of the three Kingdomes have now for three yeares together filled this and the Nations abroad with the noyse of such things that yet to this day never any of them did nor could bring any evidence of such assurance given or such bargaine made by this Kingdome nay such assurances were alwayes refused and when the King did cast himselfe upon the Scottish Army this Kingdome was so farre from making any sale of him that they did not condescend to leave him wit● his Subj●ct in England untill sufficient surety was given by both Houses of Parliament concerning the safety and preservation of his Majesties Person It is ●reat malice to say that because the Scottish Army about the time of al● Majes●ies living at New-Castle did receive some part of those arrears due unto them for their painfull faithfull service in England that therefore this Kingdome did ●ell their King The arrears which were then received were due before the King came unto our Army and in all probability had been more timously and cheerfully payd if he had not come thither at all Fourthly They are slandered as complotters of

THE DECLARATION OF HIS EXCELLENCIE JAMES Marquis of Montrosse Earle of Kilcairn Lord Greme Baron of Mont-Dieu Lievtenant Governour of Scotland and Captaine Generall of all His Majesties Forces by Sea or Land for that Kingdome LONDON Printed for Matthew Simmons next doore to the Golden Lyon in Aldersgate Streete 1649. THE DECLARATION OF HIS EXCELLENCIE JAMES Marquis of Montrosse Earl of Kincairn Lord Greme Baron of Mont-Dieu Lievtenant Governour of Scotland and Captaine Generall of all His Majesties Forces by Sea or Land for that Kingdome HOwever the Justice of His Majesties cause the wickednesse of those Rebells and my own Integrity are all of them so cleare and evident that to doe any thing which in the least measure may seeme to descend to a dispute or to hold such enemies as a considerable partie may rather be interpreted as an act both of publicke injustice to his sacred Majestie and private injurie to my selfe then of Dutie or Equitie Yet the further to confirme the world in a truth so generally known and acknowledged the more to encourage those who will Engage with mee and the more powerfully to disabuse those who have hitherto unwillingly been involved and out of their simplicitie inveigled in those desperate courses I doe in the name of his most sacred Majestie and by vertue of the po●●● and authoritie by Him graunted to me DECLARE THat howbeit there hath been and still is a most Horrid and Infamous faction of Rebells in the Kingdome of Scotland who as at first they did hatch a most groundlesse Rebellion against his Majestie of ever glorious memorie so when his Majestie had graunted them by their own confession even all their violent and most injust demands they were notwithstanding so farre from being satisfied therewith that being themselves unable to finde any further pretences they did perjuriously sollicite a partie in the Kingdome of England to begin there where shame or necessitie had forced them to breake off And when the English being by much lesse wicked would often have been contented with his Majesties extraordinarie Concessions for as then many did not intend those desperate lengths which the fa●all successe of a Rebellious warre and the cruell craf●i●esse of some m●licious hollow-hearted men did thereafter drive them unto these notable J●gglers to adde oyle to the fire and to keep green wounds still raw did intrude themselves into their counsells till they had brought affaires into a condition past all cure And not contented to act this their so b●oudie a Tragedi● in the foxe skinne alone or as it were behind the hangings which indeed could never have compassed all their wicked ends when they had received all Imaginable satisfaction at home witnesse their very own publicke Acts of Parliament wherein they confesse that His Late M●j●sty parted a co●tented King from a contented people They pull off the 〈◊〉 and appea●e in that of a Lyon or rather a Wolfe a beast as farre lesse Generou● so farre more Cruell For when they found their Rebell-brood which they had begot in England begin to lessen and that his Majesties partie appeared to have by much the better They not onely contrary to the dutie of Subjects but also contrary to all Faith Covenants Oaths Attestations to which they had so often invoked God his Angells and all the world as witnesse did enter the Kingdom● of England with a strong Armie did persecute their own Prince in a forraigne Countrey did assist strange Rebells against their native King and all those who continued in their Loyaltie to his Majestie in that Kingdome which trayterous p●oceedings of theirs the whole world doth know was the onely cause which stopped the course of his Majesties victories and of bringing that unnaturall warre to such a conclusion as all good men could have wished And not ashamed of all this which even many of their owne partie doe blush to own when his late Majestie reduced by God knowes how many Treacheri●s to thinke upon courses of greatest extremitie for his safetie was pleased of his invincible goodnesse and naturall inclination towards his owne native people notwithstanding all their former Treasons and Rebellions to commit himselfe to the protection of that Ignoble and Ingratefull faction hoping that whom his Greatnesse and their owne dutie could not oblige His miserie at least and an act of so great Trust and Confidence might move to pittie and Compassion They contrary to all Faith and pactions Dutie of Subjects Lawes of Hospitalitie Nature Nations Divine or Humane an action so barbarous which as it never had any president that it may follow so wee hope it will never be followed by any subsequent imitation most infamousl● and beyond all possible expressions of Basenesse to the blush of Christians and the abomination of all mankinde sold their Soveraigne to their mercilesse fellow-Rebells and fellow-Traitors to be by them Murthered For it is more then too too evident by the frequent and secret intercourses both before and at the time of that horrid never enough detested parricide and by their mutuall correspondence and familiarity since that the Rebellious factions in both Nations did unanimously conspire and plot the Destruction of His late Gracious Majesty now a glorious Martyr nor is it a small aggravation if any circumstance can aggravate so bloody a deed that his late Majesty justly jealous of their more then Punick faiths did resolve first to engage them to his protection before he would put himselfe into their hands of which by a long Treaty and many intercourses he received all manner of Assurance This indeed they are so much ashamed of that they would gladly cover it with some frivolous excuses yet the secret guilt of their owne consciences and the Publick knowledge the World hath of so undeniable a Truth shuts up even their most im●udent mouthes in silence And so little are these God●ie and Religious men toucht with any sence of what mischieves they have already done that they begin afresh with his Majestie Our now Gracious Soveraigne upon the same score where they left with his Father of ever blessed memorie They Declare him indeed to be their King but with such conditions and provisoes as Robb him of all right and power For while they pretend to give him a little which he must accept of as from them they spoile him of all that power and authority which the Law of God of Nature and of the Land hath invested him with by so long continued descent from his famous predecessors They presse him to joyne with those who by a sacrilegious Covenant have confederated all his Dominions in Rebellion and laid all Royall power in the Dust which in effect were nothing better then that he himselfe should asperse with infamy the sacred memory of his ever glorious Father that he should with his owne hands destroy himselfe and ruine all such who have still beene loyall to him in his thr●e Kingdomes These are the men who first entring England sollicited those

Commission to invade and destroy for it condemnes all the proceedings of the Kingdome even at the very first beginning of these troubles as the Rebellion of an horrid and infamous faction of Rebells at first causlesly ha●ched against his late Majesty of glorious memory notwithstanding they were approved by his Majesty in the yeare 1639. at the Treaty at Berwick wherein James Grahame himselfe was an actor and consenter It condemns all the proceedings of this Kingdome in the yeare 1640. notwithstanding his Majesty is obliged in the large Treaty which is ratified in the Parliament of both Kingdomes for himselfe and his successors by his promise in verbo Principis never to come in the contrary thereof nor any thing therein contained but to hold the same firme and stable in all poynts and that he shall cause it to be truely observed by all his Majesties Leidges according to the tenour and intent thereof for now and ever these are the very words of the Treaty And now what can be imagined to be a security to the Subjects of this Kingdome if that which their King is solmnly ingaged unto by promise for himselfe and his successours in verbo Principis and confirmed in the Parliaments of both Kingdomes shall not onely be questioned but their desires agreed unto by his Majesty declared to be violent and most unjust And all this is not enough to quarrell Treaties and Established lawes and to accuse the whole Nation but they are by this Declaration accounted more wicked then any in England or I●●l●nd this miserable miscreant is better pleased with the Sectaries or the Irish Rebells then with his native Countrey wherein he declares his Apostacy to be of such a stamp as he can sooner reconcile with all the World the● with the cause and Covenant which he did once sweare to maintaine and defend If he may but sit and judge all those in the Kingdome who have kept the Oath of God and made conscience of their Covenant shall be found accessory to the murther and ruine of the King and all those who have perjured themselves and made apostacy from the cause and Covenant as he hath done shall be justified as the onely righteous persons of the Nation as he is pleased to style them in his Declaration Neither is this the height of his insolency and ambition but in the Frontispeice of that Pamphlet he is exalted to be Governour of Scotland as if it were a Province or Conquered Nation a title which our Ancestors would never endure in the person of any but the King and we trust in God it shall never take place in this nor any subsequent Generation Is it not a sad and lamentable thing that when his Majesty hath lost possession of the Kingdome of England is in li●tle better condition for Ireland and onely Scotland is desirous to imbrace him upon grant of their just desires there should yet be such Counsellors about his M●jesty as would advise him no other wayes to come to his Throne in Scotland but by Conquest and before the Conquest be made to declare the Governour and to choose that Governour such a one as is more generally hated by many degrees then any person of the Nation What greater provocations can be given then these Or what designe worse then this can be set on Foote to make his Majesty and his people irreconcilable but we know that no bounds can be set to the wickednesse of this malicious man who had rather see both King and Kingdome utterly ruined then that his owne designes should faile and therefore we are very unwilling to thinke that these things are done with his Majesties knowledge and approbation but rather that his Majesties Name is abused in that pretended Declaration or if there hath beene any Commission granted unto him that it hath been surreptitiously purchased from his Majesty in which opinion we desire to rest and shall patiently wait for his Majesties Answer to our desires now againe presented to his Majesty in the Isle of Jersey These things being duely weighed and considered by forrain Princes and States wee trust that since we have never done any injury or wrong to them but have rather been ready to performe all friendly duties in our power as we have had occasion and opportunity and seeing we onely desire to enjoy our Religion and Liberties under his Majestie according to the word of God and the Lawes and Constitutions of this Ki●k and Kingdome and are most willing upon just satisfaction given to our desires presented to his Majesty and published to the world in Print not onely to receive his Majesty and submit to his Government but also to contribute our best endeavoure by all lawfull and necessary means according to the Covenant and the duty of faithfull Subjects that his Majesty may be restored to the peaceable possession of the Government of his other Kingdomes they will be mindfull of that Common Rule of Justice knowne by the light of nature and confirmed by our Saviour Christ Whatsoever yee would that men should doe to you doe so to them And therefore as they would expect from us in the like case wee doe expect from them that they will neither contribute men nor moneys nor any other a●d or assistance to a declared Traytor who is neither seeking his Majesties honour and happinesse nor the good of his native Countrey but meerly to satisfie his own lusts and ambitious ends and designes But in a speciall manner we doe expect from all Protestant Princes and States that they will remember what is said to Jehosapht for assisting Achab. Shouldst thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord And that as they desire to keepe the Communion of Saints they will forbeare to give him either countenance or assistance but looke upon him as a person justly excluded from civill society for his Treasonable practises and excommunicated from the Church of Christ for his a●●minable transgressions If he shall come into this Kingdome we are confiden●that all those in whom the sense of the feare of God duty to the King and affections to their native Countrey is not utterly decayed and extinguished will heartily and unanimously joyne to resist and oppose him and to use their best endeavours that he may be brought to condigne and exemplary punishment But if there shall be any found in the land so foolish base and treacherous as to hearken to the vaine promises and empty professions of that scandalous wicked and infamous Pamphlet published under the name of a Declaration of his Excellency James Marquesse of Monrosse Lievtenant Governour and Captain Generall for his Majestie of the Kingdome of Scotland which in detestation thereof wee have caused burne publickly at the Crosse of Edinburgh by the hand of the Common Hangman and shall ayd or assist the said James Grahame in his wicked designes against Religion King and Kingdome Wee doe hereby declare