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A81364	The designs and correspondencies of the present Committee of Estates and the part of the Scotish nation which is now entred into this kingdom in hostility, in some measure discovered by two packets of letters intercepted in the North, and sent up to the House of Commons. With an introductive and some marginal notes and animadversions, by a private pen. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that these letters by forthwith printed and published. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D Com.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1648 (1648)	Wing D1176; Thomason E459_5; ESTC R205079	16,674	21

THE DESIGNS AND Correspondencies of the present COMMITTEE of ESTATES AND That part of the Scotish Nation which is now entred into this Kingdom in Hostility In some measure discovered by two PACKETS of LETTERS intercepted in the North and sent up to the House of COMMONS WITH AN INTRODUCTIVE AND Some Marginal Notes and Animadversions By a private Pen. DAN 2.26 There is a God in heaven that revealeth Secrets ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That these Letters be forthwith printed and published H Elsynge Cler. Parl. D Com. London Printed for Edward Husband Printer to the Honorable House of Commons August 16. 1648. THat the great and glorious work of erecting a throne for the Lord Christ promoting the powers of godliness by a thorow Reformation in Church and State which is a principal part of that Cause the Parliament hath hitherto travelled with shall prosper and notwithstanding the fraud and force of men or devils shall ride on conquering and to conquer till captivity be fully lead captive and grace become glory no pious heart but believes But whither the Lord will honor this generation of men and make them an instrument in his hand to accomplish this work in these Kingdoms we cannot so confidently determine For when we reminde our high Rebellions against our God our want of real and personal Reformation and neglect of executing judgement upon the Enemies of this Cause in which sence it cannot be denyed but our solemn Covenant hath been as solemnly broken we may have cause enough to expect That the Lord will so visit upon us those provocations as to make England an Aceldama or as Germany a perpetual desolation and bury this Parliament in their own ruines by the unjust indignation of those very people whose life and welfare is bound up in theirs and yet endeavor in a blinded zeal Sampson-like to pull down those pillars that should support them and let fall the Vindication of his Cause to be resum'd by some more faithful generation that shall succeed Yet if we do but consider with what Vicissitudes and Alternations the Lord hath been pleased to dispence his providences suffering us many times to be brought to the pits brink and thence as often recovering us and blasting the highest expectations of the Enemy we may with some reason hope That the Decree is not yet gone forth against us but rather that he beholds us as once he did Israel with a troubled heart and repentings kindled together when he said How shall I give thee up O Ephraim How shall I make thee as Admah c. as it were unresolved what to do with England and Englands sometimes dear and desired Parliaments But if we adde thereunto the consideration of the maner of our Deliverances wherein he hath imprinted generally some character of special favor and mercy and of the great and glorious things he hath done for this Parliament the meer works of an Almighty arm to which the creature could not pretend not onely of old when his hand was so lifted up that all the world saw and confest his marvellous doings in behalf of his servants but even that now again since the like troubles have been renewed he hath repeated the like Administrations giving us in the midst of our dangers by so much the more formidable as relapses are worse then the first diseases many seasonable and little less then miraculous Deliverances as in Wales the North Kent Surrey and elswhere the least of which we could not want or having wanted must probably have perisht We cannot without a sinful ingratitude and inobservance of former mercies which with God are arguments and obligations for future but think that he will yet do this Parliament good at the latter end and having been at the cost of so many mercies and miracles for them That he will carry on this Cause by these hands unto a happy and blessed issue for these Kingdoms But in no sort of Dispensations hath he more remarkably appeared and testified the continuance of his favor to this Parliament and his people then in discovering and disappointing the secret Plots and Machinations of such as under the character of friends lay in our bosoms to which he hath always hitherto given a miscarrying womb and dry brests and in unmasking and taking off those specious vizards wherewith those apostatized friends and other more professed Enemies that have risen up in arms against us have clothed their undertakings to lure our people from us and proselyte them to their assistance By means whereof and by the good hand of God the affections of those that first engaged with us and were in some measure withdrawn seeming to sleep in the ashes of discontent for their long continued burthens and long delayed reparations have been reinlivened and recovered to us they by such providential Discoveries being brought to see aswel the wickedness as the unsuccessfulness of their Designs and from thence gathering cause to resolve That as the Enemies malice levels at the Destruction so their welfare is onely to be secured in the Preservation of this Parliament That in the ruine of this they may bid Good-night to all future Parliaments and in the change of this have small hopes of bettering their condition A fresh occasion of this is given in from our Neighbors of Scotland who being entred this Kingdom in open hostility yet by their plausible Declarations and publike Overtures would have the world think their errand honest and honorable that they have nothing in their eye but the good of Religion the Preservation of the Kings Person according to the Covenant and those other ends of the Covenant and Ingagements in the joynt Declaration of the 6. of January whereas by that which follows it will appear That it is even amongst themselves a question whether Duke Hamilton who commands their Forces in chief be at all a friend to Presbytery by which generally they understand Religion that those conditions in the Covenant with which the Defence and Preservation of the Kings Person is qualified are wholly forgotten as always omitted in their publique Expresses and that instead of bringing Delinquents and the Enemies of this Cause to condign punishment which both by the Covenant and recited Declaration they are joyntly with us ingaged to their principal assistances are raised and correspondencies laid with such and particularly those Northern notorious Incendiaries Glemham Langdale Musgrave with Hartford and Holland and other Southern Malignants and not to be infinite That their Intentions of good to this Kingdom are so worthy of suspect as that the Lord Lauderdale who might be thought though misguided to have some honest principles left is judg'd fit to be packt away to France as a likely opposer of their bad ends and the Prince himself who is content to use their ayds doubts to trust himself amongst them and not without reason if it be true as many wise observers of Affairs believe That Duke Hamilton with the help of

so many eminent Testimonies of your Loyalty to the King of your good affections to both Kingdoms their Unity Peace and Happiness and of your particular respects to (b) (b) More respects to his own Nation might more have becom'd his Lordship for want of which it may be said Hic amor est Odio majus seclus our Nation That we thought it fit to appoint this Gentleman to wait on your Lordship to acquaint you with our Resolutions and our proceedings in order to all those we have been engaged for If we had not thought it too publique a way the Committee of Estates would have said thus much to you Be pleased therefore to let us know how we may (c) (c) We know not how you may better serve him then by sending a competent sum worthy your great obligations to him for his ransom serve your Lordship and we dare answer This Kingdom will ever be ready to give testimonies of their respects to your Lordship as we shall be particularly to approve our selves My Lord Your Lordships most humble Servants Lauderdale Lanerick Edenburgh July 8. MY Lord Your Lordship hath given such eminent proof of your Loyalty and Fidelity as that we are confident now while His Majesty is in the (a) (a) His Lordship might do better to repent himself of counselling and abetting the King in his defection from the Parliament which hath brought him to this extremity from which a clear and cordial compliance with the Parliament can onely rescue him with Honor and Advantage extremity of a low condition your Lordship will shew your self for His Rescue The Bearer is commanded to represent to you our condition and Resolutions here by whom we will earnestly desire you would please to convey to us such Advices and Commands as you shall think fit for he may be absolutely trusted and they shall be faithfully obeyed by My Lord Your Lordships most humble Servants Lauderdale Lanerick Edenburgh 8 July 1648. Here follow a few of many Letters of Credence by which their Agent Mr. Haliburton was recommended to divers persons in this Kingdom some of which remain yet undiscovered JULY 8. RIght Honorable You know this Bearer therefore I shall onely say you may trust him as you would do Your most obedient Son and Servant Lanerick Endorsed For the Right Honorable the Earl of Derlton but known in England by the name of Mr. James Maxwel now or late Gentleman Vsher of the Black-Rod to the Lords House If this Noble Courtier shall not without the rack confess what he knows of Design against this Kingdom where he hath Reapen so many golden Harvests and which Transplanted into the other have prospered into an Earldom I shall think the stool of Repentance too good a Penance and a Horning from hence but too gentle punishment for high Ingratitude JULY 8. SIr This is onely to beg an absolute trust to the Bearer hereof in every thing which he shall impart to you from Your faithful Servant Lanerick It is so long since I heard from Mr. 52.6.8.44 that I dar'st not write to him if his (a) (a) 'T is hoped many gallant men will change their inclinations since you have so notoriously changed your Cause and upon that account only were your friends 1. usque ad aras Inclinations be changed we will lose a gallant Friend Let this Bearer receive his directions in conveying his commands to me if he hath yet any good wishes for us which certainly we never so much deserved from Men of Honor as now Endorsed 409. JULY 8. MAdam The little we have more to say then what we did by the last Express will be fully offered to your Ladyship by this Bearer for whose Fidelity and Secrecy I dare absolutely engage my self and that he will faithfully obey such commands as you shall think sit to lay upon him Madam Your Ladiships most humble and most obedient Servant Lanerick Endorsed 367 154. 17. What use their Agent Mr. Haliburton was to make of the great trust and power conferred upon him by these absolute and unlimited Credentials will appear in this that follows JULY 8. SIr This Bearer hath full Authority to engage the Publique Faith of Scotland for such sums of money as can be procured upon a National security We dar'st not hazard to put your name in the Commission for we cannot answer for the Secrecy of all that have signed it beside our fears of having it miscarry so a possibility of wronging you But he hath so positive a command to follow your directions as he will address himself to none but such as you shall advise him he will fully shew you our Condition and the best ways in our Judgements of your being assisting to us give him the same trust you would give to Your most humble Servants Lauderdale Lanerick Endorsed 189. IOhn Donne I am commanded by the Committee to let you know That this Gentleman Mr. Haliburton is employed by them to London to the two Houses of Parliament and to go to the King you shall direct Letters as he bids you and receive and direct our Letters as formerly when he is in the Isle of Wight He carries up Copies of our large Declaration which you shall transcribe and in our (a) (a) Though the fashion be old certainly it never became you and though while you lived amongst us you were with an unexampled patience suffered to publish your scandals and our wrongs by our own Instruments insooth 't were high time now to leave it off lest it stick upon you with the superadded badge of a shamoless Impudence old fashion provide a Printer and see that he print it correctly I am confident many Printers will be glad to print it (b) (b) You have so long plowed with our Heifers that you may be confident of the Beasts that they will do your work But my Lord afford us the like in Scotland and I shall not envy it if you enjoy that liberty here to your utmost wish in the mean time I shall content my self with that easie Reproof Licebit Clazementis turpuer agere I hope you know the Story which fits you but too well without a Warrant therefore you shall be careful that it be not false printed Before you can get it printed there we shall have it printed here I rest Your assured Friend Landerdale Edenburgh 8 July For Mr. John Donne The other Packet was intercepted by the Northumberland Forces and transmitted to the House of Commons by Sir Arthur Hesilrige Governor of Newcastle It was directed to Mr. John Donne the Agent to the Committee of Estates for the Kingdom of Scotland at his Lodging in Black-Fryers Barwick 19 July 1648. MAdam I have received two together one of the 6. the other of the 11. till now I thought it not possible a Letter from your (a) (a) You see my Lord a fair hand may draw black lines but comfort your self for Sables and Crosses are good bearing