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A83946	Englands alarm from the north, vvherein the affaires of Scotland are represented, with the ominous aspect they have to England, to awaken all interests to consider of the nearest conjunction among themselves against the common enemie, who appears in a new disguize, yet as destructive as ever to our lawes, liberties, and priviledges.		1648 (1648)	Wing E2938; Thomason E434_24; ESTC R205279	15,178	23

Englands Alarm FROM THE NORTH VVherein the affaires of Scotland are represented with the ominous aspect they have to England to awaken all interests to consider of the nearest conjunction among themselves against the common Enemie who appears in a new disguize yet as destructive as ever to our Lawes Liberties and Priviledges Respublica incolumis privatas res facile salvas praestat publica perdendo tua nequicquam serves Liv. lib. 26. LONDON Printed by Robert White 1648. ENGLANDS Alarm from the NORTH WEre it not that some speciall judgement from heaven lies on the most of this Nation for our formalitie and unthankfulnesse it were impossible to conceive that we should be so ignorant and insensible of the designes which are yet upon us he which casts his eyes back with any observation of seven yeares proceedings cannot but have seene such a contexture of plots and stratagems to ruine this Kingdome as hath not beene before in such a space of time and had we been good husbands of our experience we might have both foreseen and prevented many mischiefs which are like to come upon us But we may sadly lament instead of observing the publike contrivances of our enemies we have closed in with many of them and are like to ingage again on the same designe if God prevent it not God hath done enough to open our eyes and Providence hath discovered that as at noon day which lay hid and was for a long time carried on by secret and only suspicious steps and that we might have a demonstration of their intentions our enemies have writ them in bloud and we have the undeniable prints of their malice on our bodies estates and liberties yea our Religion and consciences But this hath been our misery though we have felt the paine yet we have not looked into the designe nor eyed the secret and invisible paths and formes these men have walked in We should have had no neede of any paper discoveries if we had carefully observed the reall and manifest practises of these men but within these few yeares But because I may not speake at randome and all that can be done is little enough to make men sensible of their own good I cannot but tell you that you are yet on the sands and have need now if ever to open your English eyes and stand upon your guard for there are yet who seeke to make a prey of the richest and sweetest of your injoyments We have very loud Alarmes from the North which bespeak strange things I shall give you what I know and many honest and wise men justly feare that the old Engineers are still at work to undermine though in a more close and hansome way the very foundation of our peace and liberties When we look to heaven we may well feare the quarrell is not ended there our unfruitfulnesse hath been so great under the late happy dispensations of the Almighty to us but that still some sharper arrowes and bitterer pills are providing for us if we look to men we may promise our selves that all advantages shall be taken against us and indeed many clouds farre above the bignesse of a mans hand arise in the North the vapours of which have ascended partly from the South and are yet increasing as if they would fill the whole heavens which many wise men upon great reasons think will not distill in moist and spring-like showers but in bloud and miserie on this poor Nation if the Lord for his own name sake be not very mercifull And that you may the better prognosticate and be awakened it will not be amisse to lead you back unto the consideration of the old designe and how its like now to be carried on under another habit with as great diligence as ever and if possible you may be quickned up to a serious and deepe apprehensiou of what mischiefes do await you Two great interests have been for a long time apparently driven on with a high hand in these three Kingdomes the Kings and the Clergies the one for Prerogative the other for Poperie the one to bring us nigher Turkie the other nigher Rome and though they seeme to be different yet they have both interwoven interests for the mutuall strengthening of each other and professe one common cause they well knowing that the best way to inslave our bodies was first to ingage our consciences and the way to make our consciences stoope was to tyrannise over our bodies This designe was carried on secretly for a long wile untill at last through the opposition of this Parliament it broke out into a bloudy and cruell warre which was not managed by children or fooles but with the greatest policie and strength as the wifest heads could conjecture but after many and tedious overtures and bloudy battels God appeared against them by a poor and despised new Modell and we obtained a full and absolute conquest over them so that now all honest hearts seemed to be at rest to have sate downe and have eaten the fruits of such a glorious mercy But though the warre be done the designe is not done other wayes are essayed to give opportunitie to our old adversaries the Covenant is brought in by the now ruling malignant partie in Scotland as a bait to catch honest men the Presbyteriall Government must be made the next ground of a quarrel as if that was designed to effect what Episcopacie could not A new kinde of Malignants arise in both Kingdomes which are of two sorts some great Malignants formerly and actually in armes to save their Compositions take the Covenant are againe admitted to our bosomes and others who though not in armes yet ever were of the Kings side strike in with honest men whom they finde zealous for the Presbyteriall Government presse them to the pursuing of uniformitie to the crying downe the Armie whence divisions arise new names are found out to distinguish and divide that some might reigne Those which were not fully complying with their ends are called Independents and Sectaries and represented as the only plagues of the Kingdoms incompatible with the good of either nation the common enemie doth not stirre all this while as being under the lash and knowing that the very mention of them would be odious the Scots Commissioners must be imployed to ply the Citizens with Declarations to get into the hearts of the Ministers and to ingage them professe only their desires for the Church the puritie and uniformitie of it and that this may be the more effectuall Remonstrances must be Printed against the Parliament and their proceedings and that by the Scots Commissioners men publickly intrusted with the affaires of Scotland wherein the Parliament must be taxed for breach of Covenant for neglect of the Church and that you may see the bottome of the businesse the comming of the King to London is thought fit as the only medium and a personall Treatie prest with so much violence as if they meant to

upon such treacherous underminers of our Liberties But we have better thoughts of the honest party in Scotland then that ever such a designe should come into their hearts or get the least countenance from them It would be farre better and more agreeing with our Covenant that we should come in to help you against that malignant Faction which growes prevalent among you then that you should help them against your friends and there need not to be any feare of our souldiers unwillingnesse to come back again to England though we must tell you plainly you must give us leave to feare that if ever your souldiers come into us we shall never get them out without blowes If you will not further do not envy our peace you shall enjoy some of the fruits of it as well as we make much of such friends while you have them The next whom I would addresse a few lines unto are the English Presbyterians but I am loth to call names who have been too far ingaged by the faire and smooth pretences of the Scots Commissioners yet they are English men and I have more hopes to prevaile on them to look about them Though your judgements be not much different from the Scots yet your interests are Let not the zeale of the Covenant eat out your love to the being of the Common-wealth Settle not the foundation of Presbyterie in Christian blood Let the beams of truth shine abroad from you to dispell and destroy errors Call not for fire from Heaven especially not from Scotland against your Brethren The sweetnesse of your Spirits the Rayes of Christs glory which shine from your doctrine will do more to destroy the Kingdome of the Devill set up in the judgement of men then all the swords and cannons in the world Can you think that the Scottish Cavaliers will settle an English Presbyterie will your setting up the King set up your Government no no Episcopacy is too great a darling of the Kings and his party for them to give away its Crown to you Souldiers will well minde Religion when once they get power when they have served your ends you must serve theirs Be content with what you have let not the world see you aim purely at Domination they will then soon conclude you are not Iure divino Presbyterie may well give in some thing to an accommodation as well as otherwayes you have reaped the first fruits yea the Harvest of what we have yet sown though with many teares you may well give leave to others of your Brethren to gather the gleanings of Peace and Liberty since they have fought and hazzarded their lives with you for the whole you have the broad Seal for what you do the publick stamp of the State the ingagements of a Kingdom for your maintenance you may well give leave that a squint eye should be cast on other honest hearts who desire but to serve Christ according to that light they have none seeks to be Competitors with you in your injoyments or envies your priviledges only desire to sit quietly down by you serving of God with you though not in the same externall forme Will the most exactest externall Uniformity if obtained by force amount to the losse of innocent blood and the oppression and persecution of any poor Saints Remember what was the ruine of Episcopacy but the rigidnesse of pressing Conformity let Pres byterie take heed she come not to the same end by over-forcing an outward Uniformitie And howere you may now think the design is as much against the honest Presbyterians as Independents and though now we divide we shall then be but one in the misery if ever through our own divisions God should let such a device take effect But they cannot be ignorant of these affaires if they be and are blinded by Scots mist I shall only wish they may have time enough to repent when they shall feel the mischiefs of such an Enterprise And before I go further I cannot passe by the City of ' London a place where most of those designes have been hatched a people mixt in their intorests and divided among themselves who have been ridden by all parties but now of late more abused and ingaged by the Scots Commissioners and some others You are full of discontents against this Parliament and Army you were like to have begun a bloody war of late had not some men more wise and honest then others prevented it you had inconsiderately made way for your utter Ruine and yet you think it now your happinesse you live in Peace Have you yet so many Bags to spare as to invite your Brethren of Scotland in Are your Chests so full that you know not how to imploy the overplus let bleeding Ireland have the benefit of your superabundance if ever another War should be you must launch out otherwise then ever you have done yet you may not expect the Bishops Lands or Delinquents Estates to be sold for your security the Cavaliers will soon punish that which they call Sacriledge and redeem the Revenue of the Clergy again you had need make much of this Parliament that they may settle things so as they may perform their ingagements to you and you may injoy what you lent your money for the next party may quickly undoe what is now done you have paid money only by way of Loan now for which you have got well the next turn you must give and pay for lending also what you have done for this Parliament against the Kings party if ever the King get his power you must do for him with an addition and lose your former profits too Oh that you would now be wise sit down and eat the fat and drink the sweet of your injoyments under this Parliament and let not another Kingdom come and make you Tributaries to their own designs Lose not all the glory of your former Actions in a new strain of Malignity If any of you be still discontented and would gladly see a new overture of Affaires in relation to a War I could only wish those mens persons were as far distant from the publick as their interests are and then let them take their fill of War Let every man consider that there can be no pretence for War so strong and necessary as the setling of our Lawes and Liberties after Conquest of our common Enemy can be for Peace And of all men the Citizens had need be quiet and stick fast to the Parliament who injoy all they have by them their trade is now coming in apace their shops full and except they long for to be plundred and to lay temptations before their old Enemies they cannot but detest any thought of a new ingagement or of countenancing such an undertaking yet doubtlesse the Scots Commissioners have not courted them all this while for nothing they have observed their tempers cast in Baits to trie their affections and have no small confidence in their assistance But I

are fore-warned be fore-armed you have been sorely whipt for your former stupiditie let experience teach you wisdome remember names of things will never effect ends You have fought against the King and his partie for your liberties never give them away to another nation for nothing things are now in a hopefull way of settlement Peace begins to spring over all our injoyments let us not suffer a Scots blast to nip our hopes in the bud God knowes when ever we shall be so faire for libertie and peace if we begin a new broil the name of a warre should now be as odious to all honest men as the name of peace hath been and is to the sonnes of violence Many discontents are among you many divisions make them up lest others discontent you more Events are not easily foreseen in hazardous difficult transactions improve the present mercies you injoy and pray for more but take heed of making them lesse by fomenting such new differences among friends Let us all lay to heart the danger of a new warre the hazard of all that ever we have gained the uncertaintie of effecting the best pretences by such a course It can never enter into the heart of any English man except he hath been bred in the Highlands among the Redshanks that the Kingdome of Scotland should ingage for a warre in England purely to preserve our interests and set up our liberties or that they should be more sensible of our condition then the Parliament of England whom the whole Kingdome have intrusted and of whose faithfulnesse we have experience sufficient though an absolute perfection is not to be expected from men on earth and allowance must be given to men for failings especially who are imployed in multitude of affaires and who go through varietie of temptations Though we acknowledge Scotland a good neighbour yet we have formerly thought that providence had well ordered it that the river Tweede should run between us and I cannot think him an English man that shall desire any more bridges then Barwick to be made over it for holding a brotherly correspondence with us we have not wanted grounds of suspition that sme thing more is desired by them then a bare keeping up the Union Wise men observe how they have of late pryed into our liberties made many incroachments on our interests seemed to challenge a part in the best and richest jewels of this State affronted our Parliament to their faces and that when they have had no army in England Such forward essayes portend only want of power to effect it which they may do in due time if providence and our care prevent it not It s not unknown how it was once pleaded hard at a Conference that the name of great Brittaine might comprehend us all and to leave out the distinct names of Scotland and England knowing that would be a handsome way to get an onenesse in power interest And at another time it was prest hard in both Houses and presented in their Papers that the foure Northern counties might be ingaged to them for the payment of their army knowing that possession was eleven points of the Law and a faire step to a propertie And all this propounded when they came in called by our Parliament purely on the interest of both Kingdoms equally in danger But if ever they should now come in let the pretence be as glorious as it will you can expect nothing but a transplantation of many generations of them into the best and fattest places of this Kingdome England is too great a remptation for souldiers who have no other ends to serve but their own bellies Put beggers on horseback pardon the comparison you know how they will ride But a hint of these things may suffice except we are willing to sell our birth-right for a messe of pottage The result of all should be an earnest endeavour of all the honest party in both King doms to unite and accommodate among themselves waving the punctilio's of private difference and fixing their eye on the designes of the common enemy in the close and underhand transactions of them And before I conclude I think it will not be amisse to spend a few words on each interest and that if possible we may be a wakened to a happy compliance against all our enemies And because our Brethren of Scotlād are now most in sight I cannot choose but begin with them give them this faithfull advice as an honest Covenanter and true English man Brethren we thank you for your brotherly assistance we shall labour to requite you with the same as we have opportunity you were never so nigh England as now you are the next breach will make us at a greater distance then ever we were he that makes the first breach must expect the first ruine we have mutually ingaged together against the common enemy let us not now ingage with them against one another let it never be said that you had made a Covenant with us to put out our eyes let not the dying hopes of our and your enemies be revived by you give not occasion to them to have one cast more against both Kingdoms You have had sufficient experience of Royall promises and what the Kings ingagements have been to you the English Cavaliers are the first born of his heart and will be most respected because of their first free and voluntary ingagement with him and they hate your Covenant and your Nation more then any people in the world When you have set up the King you will give him leave to remember his old quarrell against you Our English Gallants will never endure to see the best of you sit down at the right hand of the Royall Majestie you had better keep your esteem you have with the Parliament and the honest party in England and give us time and peace to pay our debts then crack your credit with every party We shall call against you to the most High God for revenge of the greatest treachery that ever was known if you now joyn with our common enemy to undo this poor Nation Do not verify that old character given you in all Histories and Nations where your name is mentioned that you are called Persidi Know this for certain Though many in England would be glad to see things changed yet they will never endure to see you rule Take heed that while you think to come into England God doth not raise up a second Montrosse to ruine Scotland Neither are we so low in England but we can resent your favours or frowns and you will never make wise men believe pretend Conscience or Covenant but your next coming must be to judgement to part and divide our spoil among your poor despised Gentry and souldiers and though we have of late degenerated much from our English Noblenesse and Gallantry yet there is a veine of good blood that yet runs in some honest hearts which will be prodigally spent