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A78731	The Kings Majesties declaration to all his loving subjects of his Kingdome of Scotland. With an act of the Lords of His Majesties Privie Counsell for the printing and publishing thereof.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Scotland. Privy Council.	1643 (1643)	Wing C2245; Thomason E104_24; ESTC R13615	5,215	11

but know at what price we might prevent the miseries and desolation which were threatned That this was absolutely and scornfully refused and rejected and we compelled with the assistance of such of Our good Subjects as came to Our succour to make use of Our defensive Arms for the safety of Our Life and preservation of Our Posteritie What hath since passed That battell hath been given Us Our own Person and Our Children endeavoured to be destroyed That unheard-of pressures have been exercised upon our poor Subjects by rapine plundring and prisonment And that confusion which is since brought upon the whole excellent frame of Government of this Kingdome is the discourse of Christendome We are very far from making a Warre with or against Our Parliament of which We Our Self are an assentiall part Our principall quarrell is for the Priviledges of Parliament aswell those of the two Houses as Our own if a few persons had not by arts and force first awed and then driven away the rest these differences had never arisen much lesse had they ever come to so bloudie a decision We have often accused these persons against whom Our quarrell is and desire to bring them to no other triall then what by the Law of the Land they ought to be tried And we have been compelled to take up these defensive Arms for the safety of Our Life assaulted by rebellious Arms the defence of the true Reformed Protestant Religion scornfully invaded by Brownists Anabaptists and other independent Sectaries who in truth are the principall Authors and sole Fomenters of this unnaturall civill Warre for the maintenance of the libertie and proprietie of the Subject maliciously violated by a vast unlimited arbitrarie power and for the preservation of the rights dignitie and priviledges of Parliament almost destroyed by tumults and faction So what hath by violence bin taken from Us being restored the freedom of meeting in Parliament being secured We have lately offered though We have not bin thought worthie of an Answer to disband our Army and leave all differences to the tryall of a full and peaceable convention in Parliament and We cannot from Our Soul desire any blessing from Heaven more then We doe a peaceable and happy end of these unnaturall distractions For the malicious groundlesse aspersion of Our having an Army of Papists though in the condition and strait to which We were brought no man had reason to wonder if We received assistance from any of Our Subjects of what Religion soever who by the Laws of the Land are bound to performe all offices of duty and allegeance to Us yet it is well known that we took all possible care by Our Proclamations to inhibit any of that Religion to repair to Us which was precisely and straitly observed notwithstanding even at that time We were traduced as being attended on by none but Papists when there hath not in a moneth together not one Papist been near Our Court though great numbers of that Religion have with all alacrity been entertained in that Rebellious Army against Us and others have been endeavoured to be seduced to whom We had formerly denied employment as appeares by the examination of many prisoners of whom We have taken twenty and thirty at a time of one Troup or Company of that Religion What Our opinion is of the Popish Profession Our often solemne Protestations before Almighty GOD who knows Our heart do manifest to all the World and what Our practice is in Religion is not unknown to Our good Subjects of that Our Native Kingdome And as We have omitted no way Our Conscience and Understanding could suggest to Us for the advancing promoting the true Protestant Religion having protested Our readines in a full peaceable Convention of Parliament to consent to whatsoever shal be proposed to Us by Bill for the better discoverie and speedier conviction of Recusants for the education of the Children of Papists by Protestants in the Protestant Religion for the prevention of the practices of Papists against the State And the due execution of the laws against them So We shall further embrace any just Christian means to suppresse Poperie in all Our Dominions of which inclination and resolution of Ours that Our Native Kingdome hath received good evidence For the other malicious and wicked insinuation that Our successe here upon the Rebellious Arms raised against Us to destroy Us will have an influence upon Our Kingdome of Scotland And that We will endeavour to get loose from these wholesome laws which have been enacted by Us there We can say no more but that Our good Subjects of that Kingdome do well remember with what Deliberation Our Self being present at the debates We consented to these Acts. And We do assure Our good Subjects there and call GOD Almighty to witnesse of the uprightnesse and resolution of Our heart in that point That We shall alwayes use Our utmost endeavour to defend and maintain the Rights and Liberties of that Our Native Kingdome according to the Laws Civill and Ecclesiasticall established there And shall no longer look for obedience then We shall govern by the Laws And We hope that Our zeal and courage in the defence onely of the Lawes and Government of this Kingdome And for the subjecting Our self to so great hazard and danger wil be no Argument that when that Work is done We would passe through the same difficulties to alter and invade the Constitutions of that Our other Kingdome We finde disadvantages enough to struggle with in the defence of the most upright innocent just cause of taking up Arms. And therefore if we wanted the Conscience We cannot the discretion to tempt GOD in an unjust Quarrell the Laws of that Our Kingdome shall be alwayes sacred unto Us We shall refuse no hazzard to defend them but sure We shall run none to invade them And therefore We do conjure all Our good Subjects of that Our native Kingdome By the long happy uninterrupted Government of Us and Our Royal Progenitours over them By the memory of those many large and publick blessings they injoyed under Our dear Father By these ample favours and benefits they have received from Us By their own solemne Nationall Covenant and their obligation of Friendship and Brotherhood with the Kingdome of England Not to suffer themselves to be mis-led or corrupted in their affections and duetie to Us by the cunning malice and industrie of these seditious persons and their adherents but to look upon them as persons who would involve them in their guilt and sacrifice the honour fidelitie and allegeance of that Our Native Kingdome to their private end and ambition And We require Our good Subjects there to consider that the persons who have contrived fomented and do still maintain these bloudie distractions and this unnaturall Civill Warre what pretence soever they make of the care of the true Reformed Protestant Religion are in truth Brownists and Anabaptists and other independent Sectaries And though they seeme to desire an Uniformitie of Church-government with Our Kingdome of Scotland do no more intend and are al 's far from allowing the Church-government by Law established there or indeed any Church-government whatsoever as they are from consenting to the Episcopall And We cannot but expect a greater sense of Our sufferings since the obligations Wee have laid upon that Our Native Kingdome are used as arguments against Us here And Our free consenting to some Acts of Grace and Favour there which were asked of Us by reason of Our necessary residence from thence hath encouraged these ill affected persons to endeavour by force to obtain the same here where Wee usually reside To conclude We cannot doubt Our good Subjects there will so far hearken to the treason and malice of Our enemies as to interrupt their own present peace and happinesse And God so deal ●●●h Us and Our Posterity as We inviolably observe the Laws and Statutes of that Our Native Kingdome and the Protestations We have so often made to this for the defence of the true reformed Protestant Religion the Laws of the Land and the just Priviledges and Freedome of Parliaments FINIS

THE KINGS MAJESTIES DECLARATION To all His loving Subjects of His Kingdome of SCOTLAND WITH An Act of the Lords of His Majesties Privie Councell for the printing and publishing thereof EDINBURGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie 1643. At Edinburgh the first day of June 1643. THe Lords of His Majesties Privie Councell of Scotland having read and considered His Majesties Letter and Declaration this day exhibit unto them by the Earl of Lanerick His Majesties Secretarie Do with all humble duty and thankfulnesse acknowledge His Majesties grace and goodnesse so fully exprest therein towards this Kingdome And that the same may be made known to all His Majesties good Subjects do conforme to His Majesties warrant ordain the said Declaration to be printed and published at the market Crosse of Edinburgh by Heraulds and Pursevants with sound of Trumpet and displayed coats of Arms and that the Sheriffs Stewarts Bailiffs of Regalities and their Deputes and Magistrates of Burrows within this Kingdome have a speciall care to see the same with all diligence published and proclaimed at the market Crosses of all Burghes within their severall jurisdictions Arch. Primerose Cler. S. Cons C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE HIS MAJESTIES Declaration to his loving Subjects of his Kingdome of SCOTLAND AS there hath been no meanes left unattempted by some seditious persons which the malice and wit of rebellion could devise to infect and poison the affections and loyalty of our good Subjects of our Kingdome of England and to with-draw their hearts from us by the most pernicious and desperate calumnies that could be invented to under-value and lessen Our reputation with Forraigne Princes by injuries and affronts upon their publick Ministers and by procuring Agents to be sent qualified for negotiation without Our consent and thus to expose Us and Our Regall Authoritie to scorn and contempt by assuming a power over Us So these pernicious contrivers of these bloudy distempers have not delighted in any art more then in that by which they have hoped to stirre up Our good Subjects of that Our Native Kingdome of Scotland to joyne with them and to infuse into them a jealousie and dis-esteem of Our true affection and Our gracious intentions towards that Nation To this purpose they have used great industrie to convey into that Our Kingdome and to scatter and disperse their diverse seditious pamphlets framed and contrived against Our Person and Government and have procured Agents to be sent to reside there and to promote their designes One of which lately resident there one Pickering These are Pickerings informations which We hope ●re ●●lse by his Letters of the 9. of January from Edinburgh to Master Pym assures him of the concurrence of that Kingdome and that the Ministers in the pulpits doe in down-right termes presse the taking up of Armes And in another of his Letters of the same date to Sir John Clatworthy worthy he sayes That the trumpets sounded to the Battell and all cryed Arme arme With many other bold scandalous and seditious passages very derogatorie from that dutie and affection which We are most confident Our good Subjects of that Our Native Kingdom bear unto Us. To this purpose they traduce Us with the raising and making of Warre against Our Parliament of having an Armie of Papists and favouring that Religion of endeavouring to take away the libertie and propertie of Our Subjects And upon these grounds they have procured a publick Declaration to invite Our good Subjects of that Our Kingdome of Scotland to joyne with them and to take up Armes against Us their naturall Liege Lord. Lastly to this purpose they endeavour aswell in publick as by secret sly insinuation to beget an apprehension in them That if we prevail so farre here as by the blessing of God to preserve Our Self from the ruine they have designed to Us that the same will have a dangerous influence upon that Our Kingdome of Scotland and the Peace established there and that the good Laws lately consented to by Us for the happinesse and welfare of that our Native Kingdome will be no longer observed and maintained by Us then the same necessity which they say extorted them from Us hangs upon Us but that We will turn all Our Forces against them A calumnie so groundlesly and impiously raised that if We are in any degree conscious to Our Self of such wicked intentions We should not only not expect a dutifull sense in that Our Native Kingdome of Our sufferings but should think Our Self as unworthy of so great blessings and eminent protection as We have received from the hands of the Almighty to whom We know We must yeeld a dear accompt for any breach of trust or failing of Our duty towards Our People But as We have taken especiall care from time to time to informe Our good Subjects of that Our Native Kingdome of the Occurrences here particularly by Our Declaration of the 12 of August wherein is a plain clear narration of the beginning and progresse of Our sufferings to that time So the bold and unwarrantable proceedings of these seditious persons have been so publique and visible to the world that Our good Subjects of Scotland could not but take notice of them and have observed that after we had freely and voluntarily consented to so many Acts of Parliament as not only repaired all former grievances but also added whatsoever was proposed to Us for the future benefit and security of Our Subjects in so much as in truth there wanted nothing to make the Nation completely happy but a just sense of their own excellent condition a few discontented ambitious and factious persons so far prevailed over the weaknesse of others that in stead of receiving that return of thanks and a knowledgment which we expected and deserved Our people were poysoned with seditious and scandalous feares and jealousies concerning Us We were encountred with more importunate and unseasonable demands and at last were driven by force and tumults to flee from Our City of London for the safety of Our life after which We were still pursued with unheard-of insolencies and indignities and such members of either house as refused to joyne in those unjustifiable resolutions likewise driven from those Counsels contrary to the freedome and liberty of Parliament in so much as above four parts of five of that Assembly were likewise forced and are still kept from thence Our Forts Towns Ships and Arms were taken from Us Our Money Rents and Revenue seized and detained and that then a powerfull and formidable Army was raised and conducted against Us a good part of which was raised and mustered before we had given Our Commissions for raising one man That all this time we never denied any one thing that by the law we were required to grant or asked one thing but what by the known law was unquestionably Our Own That we earnestly pressed and desired a Treaty that we might