Lievtenant of Ireland or Gâ—nerall of the Forces there hath to that purpose we do not know and therefore cannot inform your Lordships And as to the other particulars in that paper we do * The two Papers following no. 171 172. were delivered in before this Paper and the reference is to them and others formerly delivered on that subject refer our selves to the answers formerly given in to your Lordships demands touching that subject with this that we do conceive it to be most clear that His Majesty is in no wise restrained by expresse words or by the meaning of any Act made this Parliament from making a Peace or a Cessation in Ireland without the consent of the two Houses Their Paper 19. Feb. THere being but 3 dayes left to Treat upon the Propositions CLXIX for Religion the Militia and for Ireland and for that your Lordships have given no satisfactory answers to our dâ—mands concerning them we therefore now desire to confer with your Lordships how to dispose of the 3 dayes yet remaining that we may receive your Lordships full and clear answers thereunto The King's Commissioners Answer 19. February WE see no cause why your Lordships should think our CLXX Answers upon the Propositions for Religion and the Militia were not satisfactory And for that of Ireland we have received many Papers from your Lordships concerning that businesse besides the Propositions themselves to all which we doubt not to give a full and cleare Answer to your Lordships to morrow being the time assigned and the last day of the Treaty upon that subject * See the Paper 20. Feb. no. 192. touching His Majesties returne to Westminster After we shall be ready to conferre with your Lordships of disposing the remainder of the time Accordingly after the before mentioned Demands and Answer thereunto of the 19th of February the King's Commissioners in Answer to theirs of the 18th of February No. 149. delivered in this Paper 20. February VVE have already told your Lordships how farre we CLXXI. are from being satisfied by what you have alleadged against His Majesties Power to make a Cessation with the Rebells in Ireland neither have your Lordships in any degree answered the important reasons which induced His Majesty so to doe it being very evident that by the Cessation there His Majesties Protestant Subjects have been preserved and subsisted which without it they could not have done the two Houses forbearing to send any reliefe or supply to them and His Majesty not being able And we desire your Lordships to consider how impossible it was whilest the Warre continued in England with such fiercenesse and animosity by Armes to reduce the Kingdom of Ireland to His Majesties Obedience and therefore His Majesty had great reason to preserve that by a Cessation which He could not reduce by a Warre And we are most confident that the necessities which are not offered as excuses for but were the reall grounds of the Cessation were very visible to all those in that Kingdome whose advices His Maiesty ought in reason to follow and whose interests were most concerned and would not have given such advice if any â—ther way could have been found out to preserve them And we have been credibâ—y iâ—formed that the Committee sent into Ireland which His Maiesty never understood to be sent thither to supply the necessities but to observe the Actions of His Maiesties Ministers there having in their â—ourney thither signed Warrants in their owne names to apprehend the Persons of Pecres of this Realme and Persons of His Maiesties Privy Councell were never discountenanced there for His Maiesties directions that Persons who were not of His Privy Councell there should not be present at those Councells cannot be interpreted a discountenance to them in any thing they ought to doe And we are most assured that His Maiesty sent no Message or Letter to divert the course of the Officers Subscribing for Land in satisfaction of their Arreares but the Souldiers were meerly discouraged from the same by discerning that for want of Supplies they should not be able to goe on with that Warre And we doe assure your Lordships that His Majesty doth not beleeve that the Summes of Money raised for Ireland which your Lordships doe admit to have been made use of by both Houses of Parliament otherwise then was appointed are yet satisfied in any proportion the greatest part of the Money raised upon the Bill for 400000l and of the Moneys raised upon the charitable Collections as well as the Adventurers Moneys being imployed upon the Warre here And if the same were since satisfied it doth no wayes excuse the diverting of them when in the meane time that Kingdome suffered by that divertion And that the feare that other moneys so raised might likewise be misimployed was a great reason amoâ—gst others that made His Majesty not consent to that Bill mentioned by your Lordships And for the Regiments of Horse and Foot which your Lordships in your Paper of the 18th of this month say were designed for Ireland though they were imployed otherwise because a Commission could not be obtained for the Lord Wharton who was to Command those Forces It is well knowne that those Forces were raised before His Majesties Commission was so much as desired and then the Commission that was desired should have been independent upon His Majesties Lievrenant of that Kingdome and therefore His Maiesty had great reason not to consent to such a Commission and so the damages of keeping those six Pinnaces and the 1000 Land Forces if any such were proceeded not from any default of His Majesty And for the Provisions seized by His Maiesties Forces it is notorious that they were seized in the way to and neare Coventrey and that it was not made knowne to His Majesty that the same were for Ireland till after the seizure thereof when it was impossible to recover the same from the Souldiers who had taken them Whereas if a safe Conduct had been desired by His Majesty as it ought to have been the same being to passe through his Quarters there would have been no Violence or Interruption offered For the giving the Names of the Persons who subscribed the Letters delivered to your Lordships the Originalls of which have been shewed to you by us We have given your Lordships a full and reasonable Answer and if your Lordships will assure us that the giving their names to you shall be no prejudice to the Persons who did subscribe if at any time any of them shall be found within your Quarters we will forthwith deliver their names to you otherwise we conceive your Lordships cannot but give credit to that We have said and shewed to you all which we hope hath clearly satisfied your Lordships that the Cessation with the Rebels was neither unjust or unlawfull and that you will proceed to satisfie us by what meanes the Warre may be managed in Ireland with probable hope of the
upon the Questions formerly proposed by us We conceive that the Information given to us in debate by your Lordships to the Questions wee proposed to you in writing was 1 That the Congregationall Assemblies consist of the Ministers and Ruling Elders 2 That the Classicall Assemblies consist of many Congregationall Assemblies 3 That the Provinciall Assemblies are constituted of the severall Classicall Assemblies 4 That all these Congregationall Classicall and Provinciall Assemblies together constitute a Nationall Assembly 5 That the Authority and Iurisdiction of the severall Assemblies shall be setled by Parliament And if your Lordships have any thing else to informe us concerning this Government We desire to receive the same from your Lordships The King's Commissioners paper 3o. February WE are ready by present Conference to enter upon consideration XLIII of your Lordships first Proposition concerning Religion and shall desire to receive or give satisfaction whereby We may be of one mind in that Argument And for the better entering into this debate we desire to know whether in respect of Alteration mentioned in the third Proposition to be made in the Bill for abolishing Episcopacy you would have this individuall Bill passe or not Their Answer 3o. Feb. WE desire the Bill for the utter abolishing of Episcopacy XLIV which now remaines with His Maiesty may be passed without prejudice to us to insist upon the * The Alterations intended here and in the third Proposition are according to the Articles of the Treaty at Edenborough which see in the Appendix no. 4. and the joynt Declaration of both Kingdomes which are That whereas by the Bill the Bishops Lands are mentioned to be given to the King and other Church Lands for other uses by those Articles and Declarations they may be taken away and imployed to payment and recompence of the Scots and for paying the publique Debts and repairing of particular losses Alterations mentioned in the third Proposition and we are ready to give your Lordships a present conference upon the first Proposition concerning Religion according to your desire After a Conference wherein much time was spent in debate concerning that individuall Bill which was presented for abolishing Episcopacy their Commissioners delivered this paper 3o. Feb. WE desire your Lordships answer to our demands upon the XLV Propositions for Religion and in the first place to the Bill for abolishing of Episcopacy which hath been so much debated that upon the expiring of the first three dayes appointed to Treat concerning Religion we may be able to returne such an account to the Parliaments of both Kingdoms as may give them hopes of a happy progresse in this Treaty The King's Commissioners Answer 3o. Feb. WE conceive we have offered so weighty doubts and considerations XLVI to your Lordships in this dayes debate concerning severall parts in the Bill for abolishing of Episcopacy your Lordships having confined and limited our debate to that individuall Bill as it is now penn'd not to the consideration of abolishing Episcopacy in Generall that your Lordships cannot expect a positiue answer from us now being after eleven a clock at night touching that Bill But we shall be ready by the next day assigned for the Treaty upon this Argument to deliuer our opinions to your Lordships the which we shall be then the better able to doe when we have found by the progresse in our other debates how farre a blessed and a happy Peace is like to be advanced by our endeavouring to give your Lordships satisfaction in this particular This being the last of the three first dayes assigned for the Treaty upon Religion that subject was again taken up the 11. of Feb. being the first of the second three dayes appointed for Religion And their Commissioners delivered this paper 11th Feb. HAving received no satisfaction in the first three dayes appointed XLVII to Treat upon the Propositions for Religion we do now desire your Lordships cleare and full answer to our former demand on this subject that no farther time may be lost in a matter which doth so much concerne the Glory of God the honour of the King and the peace and happinesse of His Kingdomes The King's Commissioners Answer 11º Feb. VVE gave your Lordships as much satisfaction in the first XLVIII three dayes appointed to Treat upon the Propositions for Religion as in so short a time and upon so little information from your Lordships could reasonably be expected in a matter of so great high importance as we have given your Lordships already * That was by conference many reasons concerning the Injustice and Inconveniency which would follow upon passing the Bill for abolishing Episcopacy according to your first Proposition so we are now ready by conference to satisfie your Lordships why we conceive that the said Bill is not for the Glory of God or the honour of the King and consequently cannot be for the Peace and happinesse of His Kingdoms and if your Lordships reasons shall convince us in those particulars we shall willingly consent to what you desire if otherwise we shall offer to your Lordships our Consent to such other Alterations as we conceive may better contribute to the Reformation intended and such as may stand with the Glory of God and in truth â—e for the honour of the King and the Peace and happinesse of His Kingdoms Their Reply 11. Feb. We have received no satisfaction from your Lordships concerning XLIX the Propositions delivered in by us for Religion in the name of the Parliaments of both Kingdomes nor have you made appeare unto us any injustice or inconveniency in the passing of the Bill for abolishing of Episcopacy And as it cannot be denyed but the setling of Religion is a matter which doth highly concerne the glory of God the honour of the King and the Teace and happinesse of his Kingdomes So doe we desire your Lordships will grant those demands which have been made unto you by us to that end And we are ready by present Conference to receive what your Lordships will offer upon any of those Propositions and to returne that which may give your Lordships just satisfaction The King's Commissioners Answer 11. February YOur Lordships having expressed in your Paper of the first of L. February that there are other things touching Religion to be propounded by your Lordships to us We presume that by this time you may be enabled by your Instructions to propose the same And therefore we desire to receive them from your Lordships which we hope your Lordshipâ— will think very reasonable when you consider how incongruous a thing it will appeare to most men to consent to reall and substantiall alterations in the matter of Religion without having a view of the whole Alterations intended when at the same time there is mention of other Alterations Their Answer thereunto 11. February VVE shall deliver in very speedily that which remaines with LI. us touching Religion to be
desire to see the Bills for the observation of LIX the Lords day for suppressing of Innovation in Churches and Chappell 's and for the better advancement of the Preaching of Gods Holy Word which are mentioned in your Lordships * No. 52. Paper of the 11 of Feb. we being very ready to consent to the Subject Matter of those Bills We have expressed in our Paper delivered to your Lordships what we conceive fit to be done in the businesse of Pluralities which will prevent any inconveniences that way And when your Lordships shall give us your Demands concerning Papists and when we shall see the Acts for the regulating and reforming of both Vniversities of the Colledges of Westminster Winchester and Eton and for the Education and Marriage of His Majesties Children and the Children of His Heyres and Successors in the true Protestant Religion We shall give your Lordships such Answers as shall be fit being very willing to concurre with your Lordships in any good meanes for the suppressing of Popery and advancement of the Protestant Religion And we are well assured that His Majesty hath taken a pious care for the Education of all his Children in the true Protestant Religion and having already marryed one of His Children to the satisfaction we conceive of all his good Subjects we are confident in due time His Majesty will so dispose of the rest in Marriage as shall be most for the advancement of Religion and the good and wellfare of all His Dominions Their Answer to the First 13. February WHereas we expected your Lordships resolution for His LX. Majesties assent unto the Bill for the utter abolishing of Arch-bishops Bishops c. We find by your Paper given in this Evening that your Lordships are not yet satisfied that the Bill should passe and you are pleased to expresse severall Reasons and Objections against it which were at large answered and cleared at the Publique debate But what was then said by us is now by your Lordships wholly omitted nor may we in writing represent it againe unto your Lordships it not being agreeable to the usage of Parliaments to deliver reasons for or against a Bill though we were willing by conference in the Treaty to satisfy all doubts and remove all scruples which remayned with you And so farre were we from consenting that Episcopacy hath continued from the Apostlestimes by continuall Succession that the contrary was made evident unto your Lordships and the unlawfulnesse of it fully proved And as for that which your Lordships have propounded for uniting and reconciling all differences in the matter of Religion it is a new Proposition which wholly differs from ours is no way satisfactory to our desires nor consisting with that Reformation to which both Kingdoms are obliged by their solemne Covenant therefore we can give no other answer to it but must insist to desire your Lordships that the Bill may be past and our other demands concerning Religion granted The King's Commissioners Reply thereunto 13. February VVEE conceive that our Answer to your Lordships concerning the Bill for the utter abolishing of LXI Arch-bishops Bishops c. was so reasonable that it cleerly appears thereby that the passing that individuall Bill is not agreeable to Conscience and Iustice and that it would be very prejudiciall to the Civill State and to the Peace of the Kingdome neither have the reasons and objections given by us against it first in debate and since in writing been answered in debate by your Lordships And therefore we know no reason why your Lordships may not give an Answer to those objections in writing For as it is not agreeable to the usage of Parliaments for the two Houses to give His Majesty reasons why He should passe any Bill presented by them so it is no more agreeable to the same usage for His Majesty to give reasons why he doth not passe Bills so presented But we desire your Lordships to consider that we are now in a Treaty and we conceive the proper businesse thereof to be for your Lordships to give us Reasons why His Majesty should consent to the Propositions made by you or for us to give Reasons to your Lordships why we cannot consent to those Propositions otherwise it would be only a Demand on your Lordships part and no Argument of Treaty between us And we must professe to your Lordships that as we conceived in our former paper the Succession of Episcopacy by Succession from the Apostles time was consented to on all parts so we cannot remember that the contrary thereof was so much as alleadged much lesse that the unlawfulnesse thereof was proved the Question of the lawfulnesse thereof having never yet come in debate And we shall be very ready to receive any assertion from your Lordships to that purpose not doubting but we shall give your Lordships full satisfaction in that poynt And we conceive the Alterations proposed to us by your Lordships to be a very proper Answer to your Lordships Propositions and most agreeable to the end for which those Propositions seem to be made And that since it appears that the utter abolishing of Episcopacy in the manner proposed is visibly inconvenient and may be mischievous the Regulating of Episcopacy being most consonant to the Primitive Institution will produce all these good effects towards Peace and unity which Regulated Episcopacy is the summe of our former paper we desire your Lordships to consent to the same And we againe offer to your Lordships that if you shall insist upon any other things necessary for Reformation we will apply our selves to the consideration thereof Their Answer to the Second 13. Feb. WEE conceive your Lordships second Paper this day delivered LXII to us is a deniall of our demands that the Ordinance for the Calling and Sitting of the Assembly of Divines be confirmed by Act of Parliament And that His Majesty take the Solemne League and Covenant and the Covenant be injoyned to be taken according to the second Proposition Wherein if we misconceive your Lordships intention we desire you would explaine the meanings and accordingly shall make our reports to the Parliaments of both Kingdoms The King's Commissioners Reply 13. February COncerning the Ordinances for the Calling and Sitting of LXIII the Assembly of Divines and the taking the Covenant we can give no farther Answer then we have done in our second Paper delivered to your Lordships this day Their Answer to the Third 13. Febr. VVEE doe conceive your Lordships third paper is a Deniall LXIV of our Demands concerning the Directorie for publique worship and the Proposition for Church-Government against which your Lordships have made no objection and your Queres are already satisfied by Conference And we shall accordingly make our reports to the Parliaments of both Kingdoms The King's Commissioners Reply 13. Feb. OVr expressions in our Answer to your Lordships demands LXV concerning the Directory for publique worship import onely what
Offered if any other doubts yet remaine by conference to cleare them which still we are ready to doe And we have heard nothing just or reasonable for that Cessation It will be made evident that the necessities which by your Lordships were made excuses for the Cessation were created on purpose to colour the same and we are compelled by your Lordships paper to let you know that the Committees of Parliament sent into Ireland to endeavour to supply their necessities were discountenanced by the principall instruments for that Cessation and when they had taken up 2000l upon their personall security for the Army there they were presently after commanded from the Councell by a Letter brought thither from His Majesty by the Lord Ormonds Secretary And when the Officers of the Army were contented to subscribe for Land in satisfaction of their Arreares it was declared from His Majesty that He disapproved of such subscriptions whereby that course was diverted And we doe affirme that what ever summes of money raised for Ireland were made use of by both Houses of Parliament were fully satisfied with advantage and as we are informed before the Bill mentioned in our former paper was refused by His Majesty And for the Regiments of Horse and Foot mentioned by your Lordships to be raised for Ireland and imployed otherwise by the Houses of Parliament It is true that Forces were so designed and when the Money Armes and other Provisions were all ready and nothing wanting but a Commission from His Majesty for the Lord Wharton who was to Command them the same could not be obtained which was the cause those Forces did not goe thither and when twelve Shipps and six Pinnaces were prepared with 1000 or more land Forces for the service of Ireland and nothing desired but a Commission from His Majesty the Shipps lying ready and staying for the same were three weeks together at 300l a day charge yet the same was denyed though often desired And where your Lordships seem to imply that the provisions seized by His Maiesties Forces were going for Coventrey it was made known to His Maiesty that the same were for Ireland And your Lordships must needs conceive that the papers you delivered to us being but Extracts and for that you deny us so to compare them with the Originalls as to have the names of the Persons by whom they were Written it is altogether unreasonable for us to give any credit to them it being manifest by this and our former papers and debates that the Cessation with the Rebels in Ireland is both unjust and unlawfull We therefore insist on our demands concerning Ireland as apparently good for His Maiesties Subjects there and for reducing that Kingdom to His Maiesties Obedience Before His Maiesties Commissioners gave answer to this last paper they being also to answer the rest of the demands concerning Ireland for their necessary information touching some doubts that did arise upon those demands and the Articles of the Treaty of the 6th of August concerning Ireland and Ordinances delivered with them the Kings Commissioners gave in these severall papers The King's Commissioners first Paper 19. February IN the eight Article of the Treaty for the comming of the CL. Scots Army into England dated 29. Nov. 1643. at Edenbourgh delivered to us by your Lordships among the papers for Ireland and desired by the 12th Proposition to be confirmed by Act of Parliament It is agreed that no Cessation nor any Pacification or agreement for Peace whatsoever shall be made by either Kingdome without the mutuall advice and consent of both Kingdomes or the Committees in that behalfe appoynted who are to have full power for the same in case the Houses of the Parliament of England or the Parliament or Convention of Estates of Scotland shall not sit We desire to know whether that Article extend to any Cessation Pacification or Agreement in Ireland The Answer 19. Febr. WE did in answer to your Lordships Paper of the first of CLI February upon the Propositions concerning Religion deliver the Treaty of the 29th of November 1643. mentioned by your Lordships and not among the Papers for Ireland to which it hath no relation The King's Commissioners Reply 20. February YOur Lordships did deliver the Treaty of the 29th of November CLII. 1642. to us with the Papers concerning Ireland and on the 7th day of this instant February and not upon the first of February upon the Propositions concerning Religion Their Answer 20. Feb. WHen your Lordships peruse your Papers you will rest CLIII satisfied with our Answer of the 19th of this instant to your first Paper that day given to us for it will appeare by your Lordships 3d Paper of the first of February and our Paper given to your Lordships in answer of it that the Treaty of the date at Edenbourgh 29 Novemb. 1643. Was delivered to your Lordships on the first of February upon the Proposition of Religion and not upon the 3d of February with the Papers concerning Ireland The Article of the Treaty of the 29. of November 1643. which occasioned these Papers being by their Papers thus acknowledged not to concerne Ireland and so not pertinent to that subject the Kings Commissioners insisted no farther The King's Commissioners second Paper 19. February BY the 13th Proposition it is demanded that an Act be CLIV. passed to settle the prosecution of the Warre of Ireland in both Houses of Parliament of England to be managed by the joynt advices of both Kingdoms We desire to know Whether if the two Kingdoms shall not agree in their advice touching that Warre each have a Negative voyce or whether the Scots Commander in chiefe of the Forces in Ireland may manage that Warre in such case according to his own discretion Their Answer 19. Febr. IN answer to your Lordships second paper the prosecution of CLV the Warre of Ireland is to be setled in the two Houses of the Parliament of England but is to be managed by a joynt Committee of both Kingdoms wherein the Committee of each Kingdom hath a Negative voyce but in case of disagreement the Houses of Parliament of England may prosecute the Warre as they shall think fit observing the Treaty of the sixth of August 1642. between the two Houses and the Estates of the Parliament of Scotland and the Ordinance of the 11th of April 1644. delivered to your Lordships formerly The King's Commissioners third paper 19. February BY the 20th Proposition in the Intervals of Parliament the CLVI Commissioners for the Militia have power to nominate the Lord Deputy of Ireland and other Officers aâ—d Judges there We desire to know whether that power be limited to the Commissioners of both Kingdoms or only to the Commissioners for England and whether in such cases the Commissioners in Scotland shall vote as single persons Their Answer 19. Feb. THe power of the Commissioners in the Intervals of Parliament CLVII to nominate the Lord Deputy
That their Commissioners should have Instructions to Treat upon them Instructions concerning His Majesties Propositions for setling a safe and well grounded Peace And if you have any touching the same we desire to have a sight of them Their Answer I. Feb. WE have not yet received Instructions concerning His CLXXXI Maiesties Propositions and shall therefore acquaint the Lords and Commons Assembled in the Parliament of England with the desires expressed in that Paper who having taken those Instructions into their consideration before our comming from them will send them to us in time convenient After upon the third of February His Majesties Commissioners delivered this Paper concerning His Majesties sixt Proposition for a Cessation of Armes 3. February WE desire to know whether your Lordships have received CLXXXII any Instructions concerning that Proposition of His Majesties for a Cessation and if your Lordships have not received any that you will endeavour to procure Authority to Treat thereupon which we have power to doe and conceive it very necessary that during the time we are endeavourinâ— to establish a blessed and happy Peace the issues of blood may be stopped in this miserable Kingdom and His Maiesties oppressed and Languishing Subjects have some earnest and prospect of the Peace we are endeavouring by Gods blessing to procure for them To this no particular Answer was given The King's Commissioners Paper 10. February HAving now spent three daies severally upon each of CLXXXIII your Lordships three Propositions concerning Religion the Militia and Ireland we desire to know whether your Lordships have received any instructions concerning His Majesties Propositions that we may prepare our selves to Treat upon them when your Lordships shall think fit Their Answer 11. Feb. VVE have received Instructions concerning His Maiesties CLXXXIV Propositions And when the Houses of Parliament shall be satisfied in the good Progresse of the Treaty upon their Propositions concerning Religion the Militia and Ireland they will give time for the Treaty upon those Propositions sent by His Maiesty But there was not any time given to Treat upon His Majesties Propositions Touching further time for continuing or reviveing the Treaty and His Majesties Returne to Westminster after Disbanding those Papers were delivered The King's Commissioners Paper 14. Febr. VVE have this day received directions from His Majesty CLXXXV to move your Lordships that you will endeavour to procure an addition of time for this Treaty after the expiration of the daies limited for the same upon the reasons mentioned in His Majesties Letter which Letter we herewith deliver to your Lordships The Letter mentioned in the last Paper from His Majesty to His Commissioners is this RIght Trusty c. Having received from you a CLXXXVI particular accompt of your proceedings in the Treaty and observing thereby how impossible it is within the daies limited to give such full Answers to the three Propositions you are now upon as you might if upon Consideration had of the rest of the Propositions you could clearely see what fruit such Answers will produce in order to a blessed Peace for the present and the future good and happinesse of this Kingdom We have thought it fit to advise you That you propose and desire of the Commissioners with whom you Treat that they will procure such farther time to be allowed after the expiration of the Twenty daies as may be sufficient for you upon a full understanding one of another upon the whole to make such a Conclusion that all Our Subjects may reap the Benefit good men pray for Deliverance from these bloody distractions and be united in Peace and Charity And if you think fit you may communicate this Our Letter to them And so we bid you heartily farewell Given at Our Court at Oxford 13. Feb. 1644. By His MAJESTIES Command GEORGE DIGBY To Our Right Trusty c. the Lords and others Our Commissioners for the Treaty at Vxbridge Their Answer 14. Feb. COncerning the paper delivered by your Lordships for addition CLXXXVII of time for the Treaty We can give no other answer then that we will send Copies of His Maiesties Letter and of the paper unto the Houses of Parliament and after signification of their pleasure we will give further answer Afterwards on the 18th of Feb. they delivered this paper 18. February YOur Lordships may please to take notice that in the 20 dayes CLXXXVIII appointed to Treat upon the Propositions concerning Religion Militia and Ireland the first Thursday and three Sundayes are not to be included The King's Commissioners paper 20. February BY our paper delivered to your Lordships the 14th of this CLXXXIX moneth we moved your Lordships to endeavour an addition of time for this Treaty after the expiration of the dayes limited for the same upon the reasons mentioned in His Majesties Letter which letter we then delivered to your Lordships whereunto your Lordships then returned answer that you would send Copies of His Majesties Letter and of our paper to the Houses of Parliament and after signification of their pleasure you would give farther Answer we now desire to know whether there may be an addition of time for this Treaty after the expiration of the dayes limited for the same upon the reasons mentioned in His Maiesties said letter and what time may be added Their Answer 20. Feb. YOur Lordships paper of the 14th of this moneth for an addition CXC of time for this Treaty together with His Maiesties Letter concerning the same were sent by us to the Houses of Parliament who * See their Paper before 11. February no. 185. as we have already acquainted your Lordships have declared That if they shall be satisfied in the good progresse of the Treaty upon the Propositions concerning Religion the Militia and Ireland will give time for the Treaty upon the Propositions by His Majesty but farther then this have not as yet signified their pleasures unto us The King's Commissioners Paper 20. February HAving now spent 18 dayes with your Lordships in the CXCI. Treaty upon Religion the Militia and Ireland besides the present satisfaction we have given your Lordships in those particulars we having offered that further consideration and order be taken therein by His Majestie and the two Houses of Parliament and your Lordships having proposed many important things in the said severall particulars to be framed setled disposed by the two Houses before a full Agreement can be established we propose to your Lordships whether the two dayes remaining may not be best spent towards the satisfying your Lordships in those 3 Propositions and the procuring a speedy blessed Peace upon finding out some expedient for His Majesties repaire to Westminster that so all differences may be composed and this poor Kingdom be restored to it's Ancient happines and security and to that purpose if your Lordships shall think fit we are willing to Treat with your Lordships concerning the best meanes whereby all
effectuating of ye foirsaides endis the concluding of the Propositions with the Estaites th aire results thairupon And all suche uyr matteris conceruing the good of bothe Kingdomes as ar or all be from time to time committed unto thame be the Estaites of yis Kingdome or Committies thairof according to the instructiones givin or to be givin to the Commissionaris abovenameit or their quuorums And for this effect The Estaites Ordeanes Iohne Erle of Lowdonne Chancellor Iohne Lord Balmerino Sir Archibald Iohnstounne of Wariestounne Sir Charles Erskyne of Cambuskenneth and Hew Kennedy repaire with all dilligence to the Kingdome of England to the effect before rehearsit conforme to this Commissione and instructiones As also the Estaites Ordeanes ye saides ArchibaldMarqueis of Argyle M. George Dundas of Maner and Sir Iohne Smyth Proveist of Edenburgh to repaire to ye Kingdome of England with all sick conventencie as the occasione of ye businesse shall require or as they sall be commandit ather be the Committie from the Parliament heir they being in Scotland or be the Committie with the Army they being in England And Ordeanes thame to joyne with the remanent Commissionaris to the affect above mentionat conforme to the Commissionâ— and instructiones givin or to be givin to the Commissionais or thair quuorums thair anent be the Estaites of this Kingdome or Committies yrof And the Estaites of Parliament be thir presents haldis and sall halde firme and stable all and what summ evir thinges the Commissionaris abovenameit or any thrie or mae of thame sall doe conforme to this Commisionne and to the instructionnes given or to be given to thame Extractit furthe of the butkes of Parliament be me Sir Alexander Gibsone of Dunâ—ie Knyt Clerk of His Majesties Registers and Rollis under my signâ— and subscriptionne Mannuall Alexander Gibsonne Cler. Regist After the Commissions read their Commissioners delivered to His Majesties Commissioners this paper Ianuary the 30. WEE are directed by Our Instructions to Treat with XIII your Lordships upon the Propositions concerning Religion the Militia and Ireland three daies a peice alternis vicibus during the space of twenty dayes from the 30 of Ianuary beginning first with the Propositions of Religion and accordingly we shall deliver unto your Lordships a Paper to morrow morning upon those Propositions Accordingly the Treaty did proceed upon those subjectâ— three daies a piece Alternis vicibus beginning with that of Religion upon Friday the last of Ianuary and so continuing Saturday the first and Monday the third of February which was after resumed Tuesday the 11 Wednesday the 12 and Thursday the 13 of February and again the two last daies of the 20. And the like course was held touching the Militia and Ireland But because the passages concerning each subject severally will be more clearly understood being collected and disposed together under their severall heads therefore all those which concerne Religion the Militia and Ireland are put together And in like manner the passages preparatory to the Treaty concerning the Commissions the manner of the Treaty and a seditious Sermon made the first day appoynted for the Treaty And such as hapned in the Treaty touching His Majesties Propositions The demands of farther time to Treat and other emergent passages which have no Relation to those of Religion the Militia and Ireland are in like manner digested under their severall heads with their particular dates And first those which concerne the Commissions Friday the last of Ianuary His Majesties Commissioners delivered unto Their Commissioners this paper Vlt. Ianuary WEE having perused the power granted to your Lordships XIV in the Paper delivered by the Earle of Northumberland and finding the same to relate to instructions we desire to see those instructions that thereby we may know what power is granted to you and we ask this the rather because by All their Commissioners were not then come to Vxbridge the Powers we have seen we doe not find that your Lordships in the absence of any one of your number have power to Treat Their Answer 31. Ianuary BY Our Instructions we or any tenne of us whereof some of either XV. House of the Parliament of England and some of the Commissioners of the Kingdome of Scotland to be present have power to Treat with your Lordships Their farther Answer Vlt. Ianuary VVHereas your Lordships have expressed unto us a desire XVI of seeing our Instructions to know what Power is granted us and this the rather because you say you find not by what you have seen that in the absence of any one of our number we have power to Treat To this we returne in Answer that since the Paper already delivered in by us declaring that by our Instructions any tenne of us whereof some of either House of the Parliament of England and some of the Commissioners of the Kingdom of Scotland to be present had power to Treat with your Lordships hath not given you satisfaction in the particular of the Quorum We shall send unto the two Houses of Parliament to have the Quorum inserted in the Commission and doe expect the returne of it so amended within two or three daies when we shall present it unto your Lordships But as for your desire in generall to see our Instructions it is that for which we have no Warrant nor is it as we conceive at all necessary or proper for us so to doe for that the Propositions upon which we now Treat have been already presented from the Parliaments of both Kingdoms unto His Majesty and whatsoever is propounded by us in order unto them is sufficiently warranted by what both Parliaments have done in the passing and sending of those Propositions and by the Commissions authorising us to Treat upon them already shewn unto your Lordships so as there can be no need to shew any other power Accordingly on Saturday the first of February they did deliver their Commission for the English Commissioners renewed as followeth Die Sabbatis primo Febr. BE it Ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that Algernon Earle of Northumberland Philip XVII Earle of Pembrook and Montgomery William Earle of Salisbury Bazil Earle of Denbigh Thomas Lord Viscount Wenman Denzill Hollis William Pierrepont Sir Henry Vane junior Oliver St Iohn Bulstrode Whitlock Iohn Crew and Edmund Prideaux shall have power and authority and are hereby authorized to joyne with the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland together with Alexander Henderson upon the Propositions concerning Religion only or any tenne of them Whereof some of either House of the Parliament of England and some of the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland are to be present To treat with the Lord Duke of Richmond the Marquisse of Hertford the Earle of Southampton the Earle of Kingston the Lord Dunsmore Lord Capell Lord Seymour Sir Christopher Hatton Sir Iohn Culpeper Sir Edward Nicholas Sir Edward Hyde Sir Richard Lane
And therefore We desire Iustice against the Man that he may have exemplary punishment Their Answer 31. January TO the Paper delivered in by your Lordships this day concerning the Information received of severall Scandalous XXVIII passages Preached in a Sermon in Vxbridge Church by one Mr Love We doe returne this Answer That the said Mr Love is none of our Retinue nor came hither by any privity of ours That we conceive it most reasonable and agreeable to the businesse we are â—ow upon that all just occasions of offence on either part be avoyded And as it hath been our desire so it shall be our endeavour to take the best care we can to prevent all prejudices upon the present Treaty which may blast the blessed hopes thereof or may beget any iust offence and distrust in His Majestie and shall be as tender of the safety of your Lordships persons according to the safe Conduct as of our owne We shall represent your Lordships Paper concerning this businesse if your Lordships so desire unto the Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament of England who will proceed therein according to Justice The King's Commissioners Reply 1. February VVE insist upon our former desire concerning the Sermon XXIX Preached by M. Love and must referre the way of doing Iustice to your Lordships and if your Lordships are not satisfied that such Words as we have charged him with were spoken by him we are ready to produce our proofe thereof to your Lordships Their further Answer 1. February VVE will represent both your Lordships papers concerning XXX M. Love unto the Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament of England at Westminster who will proceed therein according to Justice In the next place according to the Order before mentioned do follow the passages and Papers concerning RELIGION Their Paper 31. Jan. ACcording to the * The Paper intended is that before of 30. Ian. no. 13. paper delivered by us to your Lordships XXXI yesternight we do now offer these Propositions following which concerne Religion That the Bill be passed for Abolishing and taking away of all Arch-Bishops Bishops c. according to the third Proposition That the Ordinances concerning the Calling and sitting of the The Propositions here intended are those before mentioned on theiâ— part sent by the E. of Denbigh and others to Oxford And the Bill for abolishing Episcopacy is in the Appendix no. 3. Assembly of Divines be confirmed by Act of Parliament That the Directory for Publique Worship already passed both houses of the Parliament of England And the Propositions concerning Church Governement hereunto annexed and passed both Houses be enacted as a part of Reformation of Religion and uniformity according to the fifth Proposition That His Majesty take the Solemne League and Covenant and that the Covenant be enjoyned to be taken according to the second Proposition To this was annexed the following Paper of the 31. January That the Ordinary way of dividing Christians into distinct Congregations and most expedient for edification is by the respective bounds of their dwellings That the Minister and other Church-officers in each particular Congregation shall joyne in the Government of the Church in such manner as shall be established by Parliament That many particular Congregations shall be under one Presbyteriall Government That the Church be Governed by Congregationall Classicall and Synodicall Assemblies in such manner as shall be established by Parliament That Synodicall Assemblies shall consist both of Provinciall and Nationall Assemblies The King's Commissioners Paper 1. February HAving considered your Lordships Paper containing the XXXII Propositions concerning Religion with the paper annexed and finding the same to contain absolute Alterations in the Government both of the Ecclesiasticall and Civile State We desire to know whether your Lordships have Power to Treat and debate upon the said Propositions and upon debate to recede from or consent to any alterations in the said Propositions if we shall make it appeare to be reasonable so to do or whether your Lordships are bound up by your Instructions to insist upon the Propositions without any alteration Their Answer 1. Feb. OVr Paper given in to your Lordships concerning Religion XXXIII doth contain no alterations but such as are usuall in a time of Reformation and by the Wisdome of the Parliaments of both Kingdoms are judged necessary at this time for setling Religion and Peace And as by our Commissions and Papers formerly shâ—wed your Lordships we have made known our Power to Treat upon them so are we ready by debate to shew how reasonable they are And that there will be no reason to expect that we should alter or recede from them But as for your demand of our shewing what farther power we have by our Instructions It is that we have no warrant to doe as we have already signified to your Lordships by a former Paper The KING's Commissioners Paper 1. Feb. YOur Lordships first Proposition in the Paper concerning XXXIV Religion referring to the third Proposition sent to His Majesty we find that referres to the Articles of the late Treaty of the daâ—e at Edinburgh 29. Nov. 1643. and to the joynt Declaration of both Kingdoms We desire your Lordships we may see those Articles and Declarations and your Lordships second Proposition in that paper referring to the Ordinances concerning the calling and sâ—ttiâ—g of the Assembly of Divines We desire to see those Ordinances Their Answer 1. Feb. ACcording to your Lordships desire in the * Meaning the next present Paper third Paper We XXXV now deliver in the Articles of the late Treaty of the date at Edinburgh 29 of November 1643. and the * This joynt Dâ—claration is already printed But the Articles being not Printed are in the Appendix n o 4. joynt Declaration of both Kingdoms And we shall speedily deliver to your Lordships the Ordinances concerning the calling and sitting of the Assembly of Divines The KING's Commissioners Paper 1. Feb. VVEE desire to know whether the Propositions which XXXVI we have received from your Lordships touching Religion be all we are to expect from you upon that Subject Their Answer 1. Feb. THere are other things touching Religion to be propounded XXXVII by us unto your Lordships upon the Propositions formerly sent unto His Maiesty from the Parliaments of both Kingdoms which we shall in due time give in unto your Lordships But we doe first desire your Answer to the Paper touching Religion given in yesterday that some good progresse may be made therein before the three daies assigned to treat upon Religion in the first place doe expire The KING's Commissioners Paper 1. Feb. VVEE desired to know whether the Propositions XXXVIII we formerly received from your Lordships concerning Religion were all that would be offered concerning that Subject because we thought it very necessary since so great alterations are proposed by you to have a full view of the whole
alterations that are desired since in an Argument of the greatest weight and highest importance we cannot possibly give a present Iudgement of any part till we have a prospect of the whole But since your Lordships doe not yet think it time to let us have a sight of the rest but first desire our Answer to the * See before N o 31. paper delivered yesterday which contains many particulars of which we never heard before We shall apply our selves to understand the things proposed by you in such manner as we may returne your Lordships a speedy answere And to that purpose must desire your Lordships information in some particulars which are comprized in your Lordships paper And when your Lordships consider that the * The Directoâ—y which was delivered in is of great length the Covenant delivered with it both now Printed and obvious are therefore forborne to be inserted here or in the Appendix Directory for Worship being so long was delivered to us but yesterday That the Covenant the Articles of the Treaty of Edinburgh the Declaration of both Kingdomes which â—re comprehended within the first Proposition were delivered to us but this day and therefore we could returne no Answer concerning the Bill for abolishing Arch-Bishops and Bishops which is proposed to be passed according to the third Proposition in which the said Articles and Declarations are comprehended and that the Ordinances for the Sitting of the Assembly are not yet delivered unto us We are confident your Lordships will not think us negligent in making as good a progresse in the Treaty upon Religion as is in our Power which we shall indeavour to advance with all diligence and the best of our understanding Afterwards the same first of February the * See them in the Appendix n o 5 6. Ordinances for the Assembly of Divines were delivered in After some debate touching the nature of the Church Government intended by the Paper annexed to the first Paper upon the subject of Religion which are here before set downe The Kings Commissioners delivered in this following Paper 1. Feb. THe information we desire from your Lordships for the XXXIX present is Whether by the words in the first of those Propositions in your Lordships paper annexed the respective bounds of their dwellings you intend the severall bounds of their dwelling houses or the bounds of Parishes or whether you intend an alteration of the bounds of Parishes In the second Proposition what other Church-Officers your Lordships intend shall joyne with the Ministers in the Government of the Church and what jurisdiction they shall exercise in Order to that Government and from whom they shall derive it and in what degree be subordinate to the power from whom they derive it And what you intend by Presbyteriall Government in your third Proposition In the fourth Proposition what your Lordships intend by Congregationall Classicall and Synodicall Assemblies How Synodicall Assemblies â—rovinciall and Nationall shall be constituted as to persons and causes and what shall be the bounds and limits of their Iurisdiction and from whom the severall Iurisdictions above mentioned shall be derived To these particulars we would be glad iâ— your Lordships think it fit to receive satisfaction by debate where Questions may be asked and replyes made before any answer be returned in writing which may aske much time and be lesse satisfactory but we referre the way to your Lordships Their Answer 1. Feb. VVEE cannot but be sensible of the great losse of time occasioned XL. by your Lordships Questions for information in your last Paper and shall have small hopes of good successe in this Treaty having these two daies made so little progresse unlesse your Lordships be pleased to give us full answers to our demands concerning Religion Yet to give all satisfaction with as little expence of time as may be we are ready by present conference to cleer the Questions in your Paper The King's Commissioners Reply in two severall Papers next following 2. Feb. VVEE conceive there was no cause your Lordships XLI should apprehend any losse of time occasioned by our Questions for that your Propositions concerning Religion were not delivered to us till Friday last And the Directory then delivered with them so long that the reading of it spent the residue of that day and diverse other Papers to which the Propositions referred without which we could not consider them were not deliverd us before yesterday and some of them not till after the Paper which imputes a delay to us and your Lordships having propounded only generall heads of a Presbyteriall government without any particular Modell of it which in severall Reformed Churches as we are informed is various both in names and Powers it was necessary to understand the particular expressions in your paper the alteration desired being so great and being proposed to be enacted which will require His Majesties consent whom we ought to satisfy having so great a trust reposed in us And we desire your Lordships to consider how impossible it hath been for us to give your Lordships in lesse then two daies a full answer which in your last Paper you require to what you propose which is in effect to consent to the utter abolishing of that Government Discipline and publique Forme of the Worship of God which hath been practized and established by Law here ever since the Reformation And which we well understand and the Alteration of which in the manner proposed takes away many things in the Civill Government and provides no remedy for the inconveniences which may happen thereby And to consent to the Alienation of the Lands of the Church by which for ought appears besides infinite other considerations so many Persons may be put to begge their bread to oblige His Majesty and all His Subjects to the taking a new Oath or Covenant and to receive and consent to a new Government we do not nor without information cannot understand And which in truth appears to us by your Lordships Propositions not to be yet agreed upon in the particulars And your Lordships having declared to us that you have other things to propose to us concerning Religion which you doe not yet think it fit time to acquaint us withall Notwithstanding all which difficulties we shall proceed with all possible expedition and desire your Lordships will not object delayes to us till we give you just occasion February 2. THat we may make a right use of the Information your XLII Lordships were pleased yesterday to afford us in Debate upon the Questions proposed by us concerning the Propositions in your Lordships paper annexed for the future Governement of the Church and so have some understanding of that Governement intended by your Lordships in place of that you propose to be abolished we desire to receive your Lordships answer in writing whether these short Collections upon the Debate yesterday be the Summe of your Lordships Resolutions or Informations
Kingdome All which if your Lordships please shall be examined by you with the Originalls And we are therefore of opinion that our Answer formerly delivered is a good Answer to the point of Cessation in question And that it was not unfit for His Maiesty to agree to that Cessation nor destructive to the Protestant Religion nor for the advantage of the Popish Rebells but much for the advantage of the Protestant Subjects there who were in apparent hazard of destruction by Force and Famine occasioned by the want of Supplies which had been promised to them as we have formerly said And we shall give yout Lordships a further Answer to your other Propositions concerning Ireland when the time comes againe for that Debate Here ended the first three dayes of the Treaty concerning Ireland and the night before the return of the next three dayes their Commissioners delivered this Paper 17. February VVE conceived that the Arguments used by us that His CXLVII Maiesty neither had or hath power to make the Cessation with the Rebells of Ireland might have fully satisfied your Lordships and if any doubts yetremaine we are ready by Conference to cleare them Your Lordships may well call to minde the severall Clauses we insisted upon in the Statute and the Arguments we have given from the Common-Law and other proceedings in Parliament And we doe affirme that severall great Summes of Money were paid by particular Persons and by Corporations who according to the true intent of the Statute ought to have the benefit of the same according to divers other Acts of Parliament in pursuance thereof and upon failer of payment by any particular Persons the forfeiture was to accrew to the Common benefit of the rest not failing And we doe deny that the Argument of Interest was at all waved by us And we conceive those wants alleadged by your Lordships if any such were in iustifying the Cessation were supplied from time to time by the Houses of Parliament untill His Maiesties Forces were so Quartered in and about the common Roades to Ireland that Provisions going thither were intercepted and neither Money Clothes Victualls or other things could passe by Land with safety to be transported And when that both Houses of Parliament were desirous further to supply those Wants and for that purpose did tender a Bill to His Majesty It was refused And we still alleadge that we have no reason to be satisfied concerning the Cessation by any Arguments used by your Lordships or by any thing contained in the Extracts of the Letters and Papers delivered to us by your Lordships as from the Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland and the Officers of the Army nor though desired by us have your Lordships afforded us Liberty to compare those Extracts with the Originalls whereby we might have the names of the Persons by whom they were written which we now againe desire We are therefore still clearly of Opinion as is expressed in our former Paper of the 10th of February concerning the Cessation and doe desire your Lordships full Answer to our Demands concerning Ireland The King's Commissioners Answer 18. February VVE did not conceive that your Lordships had beleeved CXLVIII that any Arguments used by you could satisfie us against His Majesties Power to make a Cessation with the Rebellâ— in Ireland which appeares to have been made by Him by the Advice of his Councell there and for the preservation of His Majesties Protestant Subjects of that Kingdome who in all probability would have perished by Famine and the Sword if that Cessation had not been made And we shall be very ready to receive farther Information from your Lordships by Conference or otherwise in that particular either concerning any Clauses in the Statute or Arguments at Common-Law or proceedings of Parliament your Lordships having never mentioned the one or made any Case upon the other upon which you intend to insist And for the severall great Summes of Money that were paid by particular Persons and Corporations upon that Statute mentioned by your Lordships we are sorry that we are compelled by your Lordships insisting thereon to informe your Lordships that His Majesty had cleare information that not only much of the money raised by the Act for the 400 thousand pound which was passed for the better suppressing that most wicked and execrable Rebellion in Ireland and for the payment of the debts of this Kingdom but also of the Mony raised by the Statute on which your Lordships insist for the speedy and effectuall reducing of the Rebels of Ireland c. and other moneys raised by Contribution and Loane for the reliefe of His Majesties distressed Subjects of that Kingdom were expended contrary to the intent of the Acts by which the same were levied and of the Persons who lent and contributed the same towards the maintenance of the Forces in this Kingdom under the Command of the Earle of Essex And that many Regiments of Horse and Foot leavied for the Warre of Ireland under the command of the Lord Wharton the Lord Kerry Sir Faithfull Fortescue and others were likewise imployed in that Army under the Earle of Essex at Edge-Hill and therefore His Majesty refused to consent to the Bill presented to His Majesty after this for the Levying more mony for Ireland justly fearing that the same might be used as the former had been And for the few cloathes for there were no Moneys intercepted by His Majesties Souldiers in His Maiesties Quarters which are said to be intended for Ireland the same were intercepted neere Coventrey and going thither after that City had refused to receive His Maiesty though at the Gates But His Maiesty never refused to give any safe Passe through His Quarters for any Goods or Provisions which were intended or prepared for Ireland neither was the same ever desired For the extracts and Copies of the Letters delivered by us to your Lordships from the Lords Iustices and Councell of Ireland and the Officers of the Army We have been and are willing that your Lordships should compare them with the Originalls But for your having the names of the Persons who writ the same since there can be no doubt of the truth of our Assertions we conceive it not reasonable to desire the same not knowing what inconvenience any of them since you seem not to like that advice might incurre if at any time they should be found within your Quarters And having now satisfied your Lordships in the Matter of the Cessation we shall gladly proceed in the Treaty with your Lordships upon any thing that may be apparently good for His Maiesties Protestant Subiects there and the resetling of that Kingdom in His Maiesties Obedience Their Reply 18. Feb. WE doe conceive that the Arguments used by us might CXLIX have fully satisfied your Lordships against His Majesties power to make a Cessation with the Rebells in Ireland having answered whatsoever your Lordships have hitherto alleadged to the contrary and
of the Scottish Foot and shall receive and obey the Orders and Instructions of the Commanders of the Scottish Army And that there shall be presently advanced the summe of twelve Hundred Pounds sterling for the Levying of a Troop of one hundred Horsemen in Scotland besides the Officers to be a Guard to the Generall of the Scottish Army Fifthly It is agreed That the Commanders and Souldiers of the Scottish Army shall have such Pay respectively as the Commanders and Souldiers of the English Army have according to a List presently agreed upon by the Commissioners of both Kingdomes As also that the Officers of that Army shall have such allowance for their Waggons as is contained in the said List Sixtly It is agreed That the Townes and Castle of Carickfergus and Colrayne shall be put into the hands of the Scottish Army to be places for their Magazines and Garrisons and to serve them for Retreat upon occasion And that the Magistrates and Inhabitants thereof shall be ordeyned to carry themselves to the Commanders of the said Army as is fitting and ordinary in such Cases And that the said Townes and Castle shall remain in the Scots hands untill the Warre shall end or that they shall be discharged of that service Like as the Commissioners for the Kingdom of Scotland do promise in the Puâ—lique Faith of that Kingdom to redeliver the said Townes and Castle to any having Commission from the King and Parliament of England as also the Commissioners for the Kingdom of England do promise in the name and on the Publique Faith of that Kingdom That Payment shall be made to the Kingdom of Scotland and their Army of all dues that shall arise upon this present Treaty and that when the Scottish Army imployed in the service of Ireland shall be discharged they shall be disbanded by Regiments and no lesser proportions and so may of them payed off as shall be disbanded and the residue kept in pay till they be disbanded Seventhly It is agreed that the Townes of Charickfergus and Colrayne shall by the Kingdom of England be with all expedition provided with Victualls necessary for Souldiers either in Garrisons or expeditions according to a List to be agreed on and Subscribed by the Commissioners of both Kingdoms And that such quantities thereof as the Scottish Army shall have occasion to use shall be sold unto them and bought by them at the severall Prices contained in the aforesaid List And also that the said Townes of Carickfergus and Colrayne shall be provided by the Kingdom of England with Powder Ball Match and other Ammunition for the service of the said Army conforme to the particular List to be condescended unto by both Commissioners and that Carts and Waggons shall be provided by the Kingdom of England for carrying of Ammunition for the use of the said Army in Marches As also that there shall be Gun-Smiths Carpenters and one or two Engineers appoynted to attend the Army and that hand Mils shall be provided to serve the Companies in Marches Eightly It is agreed that the Kingdom of England shall deposite two Thousand Pounds English money in the hands of any to be appoynted by the Scottish Commissioners to be disbursed upon accompt by warrant of the Generall of their Army upon Fortifications Intelligences and other Incidents so that there be not above the summe of two Thousand pounds in a yeare Imprested upon these occasions without particular and speciall warrant from the Parliament of England As also that there shall be deposited two Thousand and five hundred pounds English to be disbursed upon Accompt for the providing of a thousand Horses for the Carriage of the Artillery the Baggage and Victuall of their Army and for Dragooners upon occasion And likewise that the Scottish Army during the time of the Warre shall have power to take up such Horses in the Country as be necessary for the uses aforesaid Ninth It is agreed that the Inhabitants of the Townes and Villages in the Province of Vlster and in any other Province of Irâ—land where the Scottish Army shall be by it selfe for the time shall receive Orders from the Scottish Commanders And shall bring in Victualls for Money in an orderly way as shall be directed by them with Provision of Oates Hay and Strawe and such other Necessaries And that the Country People shall Rise and Concurre with the Scottish Troops when the Commanders thereof shall find it for the good of the Service and shall receive Orders and Directions from the said Commanders of the Scottish Army Tenth It is agreed that the said ten thousand men to be sent out of the Kingdom of Scotland shall goe in the way and order of an Army under their own Generall and Subalterne Officers And the Province of Vlster is appointed unto them wherein they shall first prosecute the Warre as in their Judgment they shall think most expedient for the honour of the King and Crowne of England And that the Commanders of the said Army shall have power to give Conditions to Townes Castles and Persons which shall render and submit themselves as shall be most expedient for the service according to the course of Warre Provided no Toleration of the Popish Religion be granted nor any condition made touching or concerning any of the Rebels Lands and that the Commanders â—f the Scottish Army shall be answerable for their whole deportment and proceedings to His Majesty and the two Houses of the Parliament of England only but shall from time to time give an accompt thereof to His Majesty the two Houses of the Parliament of England and to the Cheife Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being that such Townes and Places as shall be recovered from the Rebels by the Scottish Army shall be at the disposing of the Commanders thereof during their aboade for that service in those parts where such Townes and Places are And if it shall be found for the good of the service that the Scottish Army shall joyne with the Kings Lievtenant of Ireland and his Army in that case the Generall of the Scottish Army shall only cede to the Kings Lievtenant of Ireland and receive in a free and honourable way Instructions from him or in his absence from the Lord Deputy or any other who shall have the Cheife Government of that Kingdome for the time by authority derived from the Crowne of England and shall precede all others and that he only shall give Orders to the Officers of his own Army And that the Armies shall have the right lefthand Vand and Reare Charge and Retreat successively and shall not mixe in Quarterings nor Marchings and when it shall be found fit to send Troopes out of either Army that the Persons to be sent out of the Scottish Army shall be Commanded out by their own Generall the Lievtenant of Ireland prescribing the number which shall not exceed the fourth part of the whole Foote of the Scottish Army nor of the