THE DECLARATION OF Duke HAMILTON, CONCERNING His Engagement against England, and his coming in with the King of Scots.  
AND, His Speech and Confession made to divers Officers of the Army, upon his deathbed; With the Protestation and Resolution of the Citizens of Worcester concerning the present Government.  
ALSO, The old Duchess of Hamilton's prophecy (Grandmother to the foresaid Duke) concerning the routing of the Scots Army, and the extirpation of the Family of the Stuarts.  
TOGETHER, With the Copy of a Letter from Edinburgh in Scotland, communicating the transactions of affairs in that Nation.  
London, Printed by Robert Wood, 1651 Sept. 16..   

Duke Hamilton's DECLARATION CONCERNING His coming into England with the King of Scots.  
SIR,  
I Make no question, but you have had a large account given you of the Battle which was fought here in this City, wherein the Mercies of God were very eminent towards us, and is as a Crown to all those blessings which the Lord hath vouchsased us formerly. This City is indeed become a sad Spectacle and was very noisome, by reason of the multitudes of dead carcases, both of man and beast, (for the Fight was very fierce, and the slaughter of the Enemy great) till care was taken for their removal (by God's blessing) to prevent Infection. We hope the Malignants of this place will learn by the present calamities, to see into their own Follies, and behold the hand of God upon them in those miseries which they have drawn upon Themselves, by their former and later compliances with the enemy; their remissness in Government, their murmuring and complaining of wants; for, under that pretence, in our greatest extremity, the day before the Scottish army entered the City, not five pounds could be raised among them for present supply, though now their Plunder be rated at an extraordinary value. His Excellency the Lord General hath been very noble in all things, and hath infinitely won the hearts of the Inhabitants of this City, who repent them of their former malignancy, and protest hereafter to be faithful to the Parliament, & to live and die in defence of the present Government.  
Duke Hamilton is dead of the wounds which he received in the late Fight; a little before he died, lying in great extremity with the pain of his leg, and every hour expecting to be dissolved, he declared before several Officers of the Army, and divers Gentlemen of quality who were present with him, That he was heartily sorry that ever he engaged against the Parliament; and that he was confident his coming into England was contrary to the Will of God; wishing that he had been admonished by his Grandmother, who Prophetically told his Father in the Year 1648. when he came with that numerous Scotch Army into England, which was routed in Lancashire, that if he did engage against England, it would be the ruin of him and his Posterity; saying further, That she was confident that the Army would be totally routed, and the Family of the Stuarts would in very few years be utterly extirpated both in England and Scotland.  
Whose words hitherto have proved Oracular; for his Father being taken prisoner, was beheaded at Westminster, and the son mortally wounded in the late Fight here, died yesterday of his wounds in this City; he seemed very sorrowful for his sins, and earnestly desired those about him to join in prayers with him to the Lord, that he might find mercy and forgiveness.  
The Commissioners of the Militia are disbanding their Militia Forces, and with some endeavours of satisfaction to them, answerable to their willingness in the Parliament's Service; and that in so great a number. They are likewise careful in ridding the Country of stragglers; also in seizing and securing the persons and estates of such as adhered to the Scottish King, most of which were Papists of this Country; and in Summoning the Country to level the new work and Fortifications about the City.  
Worcester, Sept. 13.   

The Copy of a Letter from Edinburgh in Scotland, relating the state of affairs in that Nation.  
SIR,  
Lieurenant Gen. Monk is now Master of the field in this Nation, all parts falling down before the power of the Parliament of England; yet there is a malignant spirit in many, they are not to be trusted, only with an hand of awe over them. The old Cavalier party curse the Presbyterians, and say that they and their pride and insolency hath been the cause of all this evil that hath befallen their King and his friends; and the Presbyterian party accuse the old Royalists for being so heady to run with their King so fast in his own way: But we say it is the wickedness of the one, and perfidiousness of the other hath provoked the Lord to humble them. The Lord grant they may make a right use of it.  
Here is old (or rather new) howling among the Ladies in Scotland, for their Husbands, Fathers, Sons, Friends, that are flame and taken in England and Scotland, and it seems some of them (like Pilat's wife) gave their husband's warning, begging of them not to go out in this War. The marquess of Arguile would fain make pretence that he hath not been guilty of the late transactions, though he had too great an hand in the Treaty with the King, and something since. Indeed he had so much discerning it seems into the Scots Kings designs, that he justly began to fear, that if he prospered, he should find the same feward that Montrosse had from him and his party, and therefore he so far obstructed that party that he saw designed to undermine him, that the very common soldiers have jusled him and abused him, as he went along the streets, before the Scots King marched into England.  
The Scots Gentry lay much fault upon their Ministers, that they preached to them as if the English designs were far otherwise than they find them: But we find much falseness in this Nation, yet some we hope are godly.  
We have fallen upon several Parties in Scotland, where they were respectively, and every day almost some prisoners are brought in, or some place reduced; so that the power of the Lord hath wonderfully appeared for us, Montrosse and Aberdeen have submitted.  
Captain Hume doth some mischief by robing, but we have sent some parties to find him out.  
Edinburgh, 14. Sept. 1651.  
FINIS.