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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32244	His Majesties gracious letter to the Convention of Estates in Scotland, the 13th of June 1678 and the speech of ... the Duke of Lauderdale ... to the Convention of Estates at Edenburgh, the 4th of July, 1678, with the dutiful letter sent to His Majesty from the Convention of Estates in Scotland, the 11th of July, 1678.	Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Lauderdale, John Maitland, Duke of, 1616-1682.; Scotland. Convention of Estates.	1678 (1678)	Wing C3029; ESTC R13032	5,740	11

enlarge on the Necessity of raising more standing Force regularly paid to prevent Free Quarter which would be otherwise unavoidable For if there should be an Invasion or if those Field Conventicles the true Rendevouzes of Rebellion should join in open Rebellion as they did in the Year 1666 the whole Power of the Kingdom must be drawn together how burthensome that would be I leave you to judge and nothing can prevent such a Rebellion but some more standing Forces regularly paid which may not only prevent it now by Gods blessing but secure us from it for the future My Lords and Gentlemen The King like a true Father of His Countrey puts you in mind of your danger and proposes to you the fairest the easiest and the most equal Remedy His Majesty hath these Eighteen Years in all His Kingdoms solemnly professed His Abhorrence of Arbitrary Government His Ruling by the Law and His inviolable Care to preserve the Liberty and Property of His Subjects Those Professions have been fully made good by all the Acts of His Government since His Happy Return And I do in His Majesties Name assure you That He is and shall be as careful of your Liberties and Properties as of any thing on Earth that is nearest and dearest to Him And if any intrusted by Him shall transgress they may certainly expect to be crush'd under His just Displeasure He will maintain the true Religion and the ancient Government of this Church as now Established by Law He will Execute the Law against Transgressors He will Maintain His Judicatures He will defend His good Subjects in all their just Rights Who would not then chearfully and thorowly Serve and Obey so Gracious a King And what He now demands shall I hope appear necessary and easie It will be some Burthen I confess but when you consider this great Truth That no Countrey in Europe hath born so little Publick Burthen as this none at all since the Year 1672. And how what hath been given hath been wholly employ'd for those Publick Ends for which it was given As this I do assure you shall most exactly be Consider all the intolerable Burthens you lay under whil'st you groan'd under Rebellion Call to mind the Monthly Maintenances the Cesses the Loans and that unparallel'd Oppression of borrowing Money from whom they pleas'd without Rules of Reason but their own Will which was their Law This borrowing was indeed forcing Money which was never Repaid Call to mind that horrid Tyranny of the Trayterous Vsurpers their most unsufferable Cesse of Ten thousand pounds per Mensem for many Years And at last their Six thousand pounds per Mensem constantly till His Majesties Glorious Return You cannot forget their Fining and Forfeiting their Imprisoning many of the Kings best Subjects and the other Acts of their most unlimited and most inhumane Tyranny which lasted Two and twenty Years till God broke their Bonds and set us free by the Return of our Lawful and Most Gracious King Compare then what We suffered for not Obeying the King and for our Rebellion and the Effects of that Rebellion the Sword of merciless Traytors whom our Divisions only enabled to subdue us and I hope you will clearly see how happy we are in Loyalty You cannot imagine that the King intends to keep up a constant Force while you remember that in the Year 1666 the Forces then raised were by His Majesty readily disbanded when that Exigent was over though no small Endeavors were used for their continuance The Force the King designs to raise shall not be formidable but moderate such as are of absolute necessity to which I hope you will give a hearty a ready and an Vnanimous Consent The wayes of Imposing it are left to your selves not doubting but you will take the expeditest way as is hinted in the Kings Letter And I persuade my self by your Vnanimity you will consider your own Reputation and the Honor and Security of Scotland in this so necessary Service to the best of Kings THE Dutiful LETTER Sent to His MAJESTY from the Convention of Estates in SCOTLAND The 11th of JVLY 1678. May it please Your Sacred Majesty WHen we reflect upon the great Happiness of living under a King of our own Nation and Religion whose Predecessors have for many Ages kept us from being Conquered by Strangers and a Prey to one another And how that though We have been so Unhappy as not to have had Your Majesties Sacred Person amongst us yet Your Majesty does alwayes with a most Fatherly Care provide for our Security and Happiness so that whil'st our Neighbors have been spending their Estates and Blood in cruel Wars we have enjoyed a most sweet and profitable Peace We cannot be so far wanting to our Duty as not to embrace every Occasion of testifying to the World our humble and thankful Acknowledgment of those Blessings which we value as much because they are Marks of Your Majesties Favor as for being the Effects of Your Royal Protection And therefore we Your Majesties most Faithful and most Loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Representatives of the Shires and Boroughs of this Your Ancient Kingdom being Assembled in this the fullest Convention that ever has been seen of Your Majesties Estates do in a Dutiful Return to those and the other Marks of Your Majesties Royal Care and Kindness assure Your Majesty That though Factious and Humorous Persons may seduce some in this Nation to depart from their Duty yet there is generally so much Innate National and Unalterable Kindness and Duty in the Hearts of the Subjects of this Your Majesties Ancient Kingdom that these Errors do in most proceed rather from a misrepresentation of Your Majesties Inclinations than from any formed Resolutions of opposing Your Authority And that the World may know how much we trust Your Majesties Judgment and how intirely we believe the Measures You take to be the best and safest We acknowledge it is fit we should Enable Your Majesty to resist all Foreign Invasions at this Time especially wherein all Europe has too apparent Reason to be jealous of so Potent and Restless Neighbors And therefore without prying into Foreign Mysteries which are the proper Employment of Princes we do with all humble Confidence repose intirely upon Your Majesties wise Conduct being fully resolved to contribute our Lives and Fortunes towards the maintenance of Your Majesties Honor and Greatness in which our Peace and Safety are inseparably included We hope Your Majesty will not think it strange that after so inveterate and raging a Rebellion as that was which for so many Years wasted all Your Majesties Dominions we should nor so fully and so soon return to our former Integrity as that some of us should not need sometimes Your Majesties Pardon and all of us at all times Your Majesties Assistance But we hope that Time and Reason will with Your Majesties Justice Clemency and Prudence reduce this Your Ancient Kingdom in a short time to its former intire Loyalty Such as trouble our Peace becoming daily more inconsiderable in their Numbers as they have for a long time been and have in this Representative of Your Majesties Kingdom appeared to be as to their Interest And that these Rebellious and Schismatick Principles may be rooted out by lawful and sutable means we have offered Your Majesty a Supply which nothing save the Sincerity Unanimity and the Affection wherewith it was offered could make any way considerable And to make the same yet more effectual for attaining so desirable Ends we assure Your Majesty That we shall contribute our hearty Endeavors for suppressing those Factious and Schismatick Humors which if favoured or indulged would soon ripen into a new Rebellion Knowing that the surest way to lessen our Burdens is to remove their Cause And as this Supply is furnished at this time with respect only to the present Exigence so this shall not lessen our forwardness in appearing universally betwixt 60 and 16 Conform to the Laws of this Your Majesties Kingdom with great Alacrity and Chearfulness when ever Your Majesty calls for our Assistance We hope that the Duke of Lauderdale will inform Your Majesty with what Respect we received and used him as Your High Commissioner Knowing that not to believe what is represented in Your Majesties Name by your Ministers is as dangerous as to oppose Your Person in defence of Your Authority both of these furnishing equally Pretexts of opposing the Royal Power when it does not please us His management of Affairs in this Convention has justified Your Majesties Choice of him and will we hope answer Your Expectation Having thus satisfied Your Majesties just Desires we hope Your Majesty who uses alwayes to lessen our greatest Guilt and to heighten the value of our meanest Endeavors will continue Your Care of our Concerns Your Goodness having left us nothing else to Grave That enjoying the pious and free Exercise of the Protestant Religion as it is presently Established in its Doctrine and Government and the just Liberties of our Persons and Properties in the due Administration of the Laws and Customs of our Native Countrey we may continue to bless God for a King who like God from whom alone our Kings derive their Power never uses his Power but to do good and may be with all Chearfulness ready to hazard what is so preserved to us in the defence of Your Majesties Royal Person and Government And this we have ordered to be Signed by Your Majesties Chancellor in Name of Your Majesties most Humble Most Faithful and Most Obedient Subjects and Servants Rothes Cancell I. P. D. Con. Edenburgh July 11. 1678.