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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92456	A letter from the Commissioners of the Kingdome of Scotland residing here at London, to William Lenthal Esquire, Speaker to the House of Commons. Concerning the present proceedings in this Kingdome, against religion, the King, and Government: together with their declaration and protestation, against the taking away of his Majesties life.	Scotland. Parliament.	1649 (1649)	Wing S1002F; Thomason E539_11; ESTC R205709	4,365	13

all their proceedings and Declarations And the Houses of Parliament have upon severall occasions expressed a detestation thereof in their Declarations Wherefore wee doe expect that their shall be no proceeding against his Person which cannot but continue and increase the great distractions of these Kingdomes and involve u● in many difficulties miseries and confusions But that by the free Councels of both Houses of the Parliament of England and with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Scotland which is now sitting Such course may be taken in relation to him as may be for the good and happinesse of these Kingdomes both having an unquestionable interest therein Wee are Covent-Garden the 6th of Ianuary 1648. 9. Your affectionate Friends and Servants Signed LOTHIAN IO CHEISEY WIL GLENDONING For the Hon Wil. Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the House of Commons SIR UPon the sixth of this instant We sent to you a Letter with a copy of our Commission inclosed and delivered another Letter to be therewith communicated to the House which were directed as usually letters from the Commissioners of Scotland to the House of Commons have been And when upon the delivery thereof the Serjeant of the House was sent to enquire of us whether the letters were to the Speaker himselfe or to be communicated to the House We answered that they were to be communicated to the House And although we have divers times fithence solicited you for the reading thereof yet we understand that our letters do still remaine in your hands and have not been communicated Wherefore we hold it our duty hereby to represent our sence of this delay expecting that we shall be enabled to give an account of our endeavours to the Parliament of Scotland And so we rest Covent-Garden the 19. of Ianuary 1649 8. Your affectionate friends and servants Signed Lothian Io. Chiesly William Glendoning For the Hon. will Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the House of Commons SIR WE were exceedingly surprized upon Saturday in the afternoon when we heard that His Majesty was brought before this new extraordinary Court and that there should be such hast and precipitation notwithstanding the resolution taken by the House upon reading of our Letter of the sixth of this instant to take into consideration what we have therein pressed as was signifyed by you to some of our Number Wherefore we have sent you this inclosed Paper to be forthwith communicated unto them And in pursuance of the directions which we have received from the Kingdome of Scotland we do desire That they will take effectuall course that we may have free accesse to His Majesty this day and afterward upon all occasions as we shall thinke fit without any interruption or molestation whatsoever And so we rest Covent-Garden the 22 th of January 1649 8. Your affectionate friends and servants Lothian Io. Chiesly William Glend●●ing For the Honourable William Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the house of Commons BY our Letter of the sixth of this instant We represented unto you what endeavours have been used for the taking away of his Majesties life for change of the Fundamentall Government of this Kingdome and introducing a sinfull and ungodly Tolleration in matters of Religion And therein we did expresse our sad thoughts and great feares of the dangerous consequences that might follow thereupon And further we did earnestly presse that there might be no proceeding against his Majesties person which would certainly continue the great distractions of these Kingdomes and involve us in many evils troubles and confusions But that by the free Counsels of both Houses of the Parliament of England and with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Scotland such course might be taken in relation to him as may be for the good and happinesse of these Kingdomes both having an unquestionable and undenyable interest in his Person as King of both which duely considered we had reason to hope should have given a stop to all proceedings against his Majesties Person But we understand That after many of the Members of the House of Commons have been imprisoned and Secluded And also without and against the consent of the house of Peeres by a single Act of yours alone power is given to certaine Persons of your own number of the Army and some others to proceed against His Majesties person In order whereunto he was brought upon Saterday last in the afternoone before this new extraordinary Court Wherefore we do in the name of the Parliament of Scotland for their Vindication from false aspersions and Calumnies declare That though they are not satisfyed with His Majesties Concessions in the late Treaty at Newport in the Isle of Wight especially in the matters of Religion And are resolved not to crave His Majesties restitution to his Government before satisfaction be given by him to his Kingdomes yet they do all unanimously with one voice not one Member excepted disclaime the least knowledge of or accession to the late proceedings of the Army here against His Majestie And sincerely professe that it will be a great griefe unto their hearts and lye heavy upon their Spirits if they shall see their trusting of his Majesties Person to the honourable Houses of the Parliament of England to be made use of to his ruine so far contrary to the declared intentions of the kingdome of Scotland and Solemn Professions of the kingdome of England And to the end it may be manifest to the world how much they abominate and detest so horrid a designe against his Majesties Person We do in the name of the Parliament and kingdome of Scotland hereby declare their dissent from the said proceedings and the taking away of His Majesties life And protest That as they are altogether free from the same so they may be free from all the evils miseries confusions and calamities that may follow thereupon to these distracted Kingdomes 22. th Ian. 1648. Signed Lothian Io. Chiesly William Glendoning FINIS