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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

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

of their faction to rise in that desperate Rebellion as a prolouge to the ensuing Tragedie which they meant to act These are they who were the chiefe and maine instruments of all the Battaills slaughters and bloody occasions within that or their owne Kingdome These are they who sold their Soveraigne to a bloody and infamous death yea these are they who still digg in his Grave and who are more pernitiously hatching the destruction of his present Majesty by the same bare old antiquated treacheries then ever they did that of his most excellent and most innocent Father NOtwithstanding all which because the greatest part of the People of the Kingdome of Scotland hath beene hitherto ignorantly misguided to follow their Leaders not knowing the pernicious ends their wicked Counsells did drive at which they had wrapped up in specious coverings but have now most of them by Gods mercy their eyes opened and their hearts inflamed to returne at least in their desires to their due obedience towards their most Gratious Soveraigne And because even in the worst times there never ●anted a loyall partie of men of all sorts and conditions who still gave evident Demonstrations of their unwearied loyallty and fidelity their sincere duties and affections to their dread Soveraigne His Majesty even in contemplation of those righteous ones is mooved with a tender passion of all such who now at last have a true remorse and doe seriously repent them of their former Error● and wickednesse His gracious Majestie therefore out of a Fatherly affection to all his people and subjects especially those of the Kingdome of Scotland is not onely willing and ready to pardon all and every one ●xcepting such who upon cleare evidences shall be found guilty of that most damnable parricide on the person of his Deare Father who upon the sight or knowledge of this Our Declaration doe immediately or with the first possible opportunity abandon those Rebells and rise and joyne with us and our Fo●c●s in this present service But also promiseth in the word of a Prince which he desires all men to be most assuredly perswaded of that so soone as God shall be pleased to inable him he will with the advise and consent of the lawfull and ordinary supreme Judicatories in that Kingdome ratifie and confirme whatever hath been done by his Royal Father in order to their peace Nor doth his Majesty requi●e or demand any more of them but that they would returne to their dutyfull obedience and afford him their faithfull Service to revenge that horrid murther of his Royal Father to reestabli●h himselfe in his just power and Government and to procure their owne perpetuall peace and happinesse Wherefore what ever true Scotch-man there is who hath any sence of his duty left him towards God his King Countrey Friends Wife Children or Houses or would change now at last the Tyranny violence or oppression of those Reb●lls with the mild and innocent Government of their just Prince or revenge the horrid and execrable murther of their sacred King redeeme their Nation from infamy and themselves from slavery restore the present and oblige all ages to come Let them as Christians Subjects Patriots Friends Husbands and Fathers joyne th●mselves forthwith with us in this present service which is so full of Conscience Duty Honor and all just interests And let no man so much feare or apprehend things future and uncertaine as abhor those present evills under which they groane since no calamities can match much lesse outstrip that vile and unjust servitude which now oppresses them For however at the first blush the enterprize may seeme hard and full of many and great difficulties yet let not Christians and men of courage doubt of Gods Justice and that perpetuall care wherewith he watches over Princes or their owne resolutions or the fortunes of those with whom they are joyned and by whom they are Commanded But let them resolve with Joab to play the men for their people and the Citties of their God And let the Lord doe what seemeth him good wherein whatever shall befall them they may at least be assured of CRASTINUS his recompence that Dead or a Live the World will owe and pay them deserved thanks MONTROSSE THe Declaration of the Scotts in answer to this of Montrosse being very long and much of it tending onely to justifie their proceedings while their Army was in England being that with which they have often vexed the Presse before and which for the most part hath received such Answers as were never replyed unto I have thought fit to save the reading of that which is not to the present purpose to Extract out of their large Declaration onely those Passages that looke at the person of Montrosse this being intended onely to shew the world what Opinion they professe to have of each other EXTRACTS OF A DECLARATION OF THE COMMITTEE OF ESTATES Of the Parliament of SCOTLAND In Vindication of their proceedings from the aspersions of a scandalous Pamphlet published by that excommunicate Traytor JAMES GRAHAME Vnder the title of a Declaration of James Marques of Monrosse c. Printed in the yeare 1649. AS ALSO OF A DECLARATION And Warning unto all the Members of this KIRK and KINGDOM In answer to a paper intituled and reputed the Declaration of JAMES GRAHAME By the Commission of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland EDINBVRGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie 24. January 1650. EXTRACTS OUT OF A DECLARATION of the Committee of Estates of the Parliament of Scotland In Vindication of their proceedings from the aspersions of a scandalous Pamphlet published by that excommunicate Traytor James Grahame under the title of a Declaration of James Marques of Montrosse c. Printed 1649. IT may seem strange to such as know the state of affaires in this Kingdome that we should thinke it worth the while to answer the slanders and groundlesse reproaches of that viperous brood of Sathan James Grahame whom the Estates of Parliament have long since declared traytor the Church hath delivered into the hands of the devill and the Nation doth generally detest and abhor Since we know there hath been and will be in all ages a wicked rabble of godlesse men who make it their worke to follow the righteous cause with aspersions and calumnies and it is an endlesse labour to answer every voyce that speaks against the truth and seeing also at length the innocencie of our cause the integrity of our hearts and the candor of our actions will prevaile over the malicious tongues of our adversaries yet because our silence may be subject to misconstruction and some of the weaker sort may be inveagled by the bold assertions and railing accusations of this impudent Braggard presenting himselfe to the view of the world clothed with his Majesties Authority as Lievtenant Governour and Captain Generall of this Kingdom We shall shortly answer what is said against us take off the ma●ke

which he hath put on and expose him to publick view in his own apparell This excommunicate Traytor in the first place chargeth his own Nation with hatching a Rebellion in this Kingdome then with the promoting the like in England and lastly with the sale and murther of their native King and robbing his Son of all right horrid crimes indeed if true But c. His l●st and main forgeries against us are that his late Majesty being red●cted to thinke on extream courses did engage us by a Treaty and having got all manner of assurance from us did cast himselfe in the hands of our Army which was sent into England for assistance of the two Houses of Parliament against the Popish Prelaticall and Malignant party And that we contrary to all faith p●ction and duty sold our Soveraign and afterwards complotted his destruction and now begin upon the same score with the Son d●claring him King with provisoes and robing him of all right while we would seeme to give some unto him and are more perniciously hatching the destruction of his present Majestie then ever we did his sacred Fathers What a strange contexture of multiplied lies doth this malicious man heap together In all this there is not one word true save one that his Majestie was redacted to think on extream courses and that makes against him for Sir Thomas Fairfax having defeated the Kings forces in the fields suddenly resolves to block up Oxford where the King was in person thinking that the shortest way to put an end to their troubles wherewith his Majestie being surprized privatly escapes with two or three from Oxford c. And that it is a malicious wicked device and manifest untruth that wee sold our King wee abhorre the very thought of it as sincerely as wee doe abhominate the treacherous actions of that perfidious Traytor James Grahame who as a childe of the Devil hates to speake truth As to the remainder of that which is said against us by that wretched man that wee complotted his late Majesties destruction and have Declared his Sonne King with provisoes robbing him of all right and are more perniciously hatching the destruction of his present Majestie then ever wee did his royall Fathers Wee say no person on earth has contributed more toward his Majesties ruine then James Grahame himselfe In the beginning of our troubles the Lord having put it into the hearts of his people of this Land to renew their nationall Covenant formerly taken by King James in the yeare 1580. That dissembling Hypocrite James Grahame then Earle of Montrosse did with teares in his eyes and both his hands lifted up to Heaven sweare the words of that Covenant unto the Lord in the publick Assembly of his people but being a man of a meane and desperate fortune and not meeting with that esteeme and reward which be in his vanity proposed to himselfe at the first pacification he began to hearken to the promises of the Court and to study a faction within and hold correspondence with the adverse pa●ty without the Kingdome and by false information to d●v●de his Maje●ty f●om his people ●is base and treacherous practises were dive●se times discovered and himselfe made ashamed yet would he not give over untill at length he was made prisoner in the Castle of Edinburgh and afterward brought to his Tryall before the Committee for tryall of plotters and incendiaries appoynted by his Majesty and the estates of Parliament where he was found guilty of perjury and treachery and had he then received his due punishment according to justice he had not troubled the World since but such was the mercy and favour of his Majesty and the Estates of Parliament as he was pardoned and no further Censure inflicted upon him but that his Majesty declared and caused it to be inserted in the records of Parliament that he should be incapable of any office or place in the Court or Common wealth and not have accesse to his Majesties person yet not long after his enlargement contrary to his owne promise and the Articles of the large Treaty betwixt his Majesty and this Kingdome he repaired to his Majesty in England and obtained a Commission for invading his native Countrey which shortly thereafter he did attempt upon the South borders and was repulsed but rather then faile in his designes he choosed to joyne himselfe with that Barbarous crew of Popish Irish Rebells which invaded this Kingdome upon the North with whose assistance and of some unnaturall Countrymen voyd of all Religion and humanity taking advantage of the qui●tnesse and security of this Kingdome when their Armies were abroad in England and Ireland he did cruelly destroy with the Sword diverse thousands of his owne Countreymen spoyled many of their goods burned Houses and Cornes ravished Women murthered old and young killed Ministers complyed with Papists countenanced Idolaters and despised the Worship of God for which abominable Crimes and his Rebellion and Treason as he was excommunicated by the Church so he was declared Traitor by the Estates of Parliament his Coat of Armes torne and his Estate forefaulted But for all this he is not weary of committing wickednes and therefore would returne into this Kingdome to over-act all his former transgressions and abominations But if he shall come we trust in God it is that he may be brought to a shamefull death and cursed end and here receive from the hand of justice his deserved punishment where he hath murthered so many of the Lords people and Julian-like hath made Apostasie from that cause and Covenant to which he was so Solemnly Engaged by Oath and Subscription To gaine supplies abroad and assistance at home this vaine m●● doth publish this his Declaration under the name and Title of Lievtenant Governour and Captaine Generall for his Majesty of the Kingdome of Scotland Upon what bare pretences he did formerly obtaine a Commission from his late Majesty to invade this Kingdome we shall not now descant bu● we are very sure that there was scarce any act his Made could have done that was more destructive to his owne interest or more displeasing to this K●ngedom● it being expresly contrary to the ties and bands betwixt King and people and here we may justly retort upon James Grahame that he doth begin with the Son upon the same score that he left with the Father for whither he hath really obtained such a Commision from his Majesty or doth onely abuse his name certainly he is not capable of doing his Majesty greater dis-service then is held forth in that Declaration The King received our Commissions in Holland and the Parliaments Letter and treated with them he denyed that he had given any Commission to James Grahame or any other to invade this Kingdome and promised a further answer to our desires by an Expresse from himselfe which is never yet come unto us The straine and scope of the Declaration makes the whole N●tion the party whom his Majesty gives