GOOD News from Scotland: Being A TRUE RELATION Of the present condition of the ARMY under the Command of Lieut. Gen. CRUMWEL;  
And of the marquis of Arguile's taking a Ship coming from Denmark laden with ten thousand Arms: With the ARTICLES about the Surrender of BARWICK; and the Disbanding of the Forces under the Lord Lanerick and Monro:  
As it was sent in a LETTER from Lieut. General Crumwels' Quarters near Berwick, to a Friend in LONDON.  
8ber the 4th  
LONDON, Printed for Giles Calvert at the black Spread-Eagle at the West end of Paul's, 1648.   

News from Scotland: As it was sent in a LETTER from Lieut: General Cromwel's Quarters, to a Friend in London.  
My dear Friend,  
I Have much wondered, that having so frequently written unto you, I could never receive as much as one Letter from you: Whatever the reason was, Charity wishes me to imagine it to be either your not receiving my Letters, or else your not knowing how yours might be conveyed unto me. I invite you once more by this, to hold a constant Correspondence; which if you do, I shall give you a weekly Account of our proceed in these Northern parts. We have now drawn the most considerable part of our Army into Scotland, the Van quarter's this night within ten miles of Edinburgh: there is part of the Army left behind to block up Berwick; two Regiments of Foot, and the Lieut. General's Regiment of Horse block it up on the English side, we have others that keep strong Guards on Scotland side. The Lieut. General, and the Commanders and Officers, express very great tenderness to that Kingdom, in being very careful that the Soldiers give no offence justly to the Inhabitants, by Plundering, or being other-ways uncivil. Upon our first entrance into Scotland, a Regiment lately raised in the Bishopric of Durham behaved themselves rudely; which as soon as the Lieut: General had notice of, he caused it to Rend●zvouz upon Tweed Banks, and the Scottish people having challenged several Horses taken from them by that Regiment, which the Lieut: General caused to be restored back, and the Plunderers to be cashiered; a Lieutenant that countenanced such deeds, was delivered into the Marshal hands, and the Colonel himself conniving at them, and not doing Justice upon the Offenders when Complaints were brought to him, was taken from the head of his Regiment, and suspended from executing his Place, until he had answered at a Council of War for his negligence in the performance of his Duty. This notable and impartial piece of Justice did very much take with the people, and the Regiment is ordered back into Northumberland. Friday last 22 of Septem. the Marquis of Argyle, the Lord Elcoe, Sir John Scot, and others, came as Commissioners from the honest Party in Scotland, to the Lord of Mordingtons' house at Mordington, to the Lieut: Generals quarters two miles from Berwick within Scotland; we went all to meet him four miles from the house: That night my Lord sent in a Trumpet to Berwick, for a safe Conduct for the said Lord Elcoe, and the rest of the Commissioners; which being granted by the Governor, they were Conducted in the next morning: Little or nothing could be done by them to the gaining of the Town. The Lord's day my Lord sent in to desire the Governor himself to come forth, which he accordingly did: After much Debate he was brought to this, To desire to send two Gentlemen to Lanerick and Monro, to know their pleasure concerning the surrender of that Garrison. Monday morning the Gentlemen went, having the Lieutenant Generals Pass, and a Letter from the Lord Marquis. We fall to our-business in order to our taking the Town; and the Lords day at night Colonel Pride possessed himself of Tweed mouth, and the Bridge foot on the English side, and the next night he blew up the house of Guard which they had built upon the Bridge: We are very near them by the Scottish side, having driven away many of their Sheep from under the wall. Monday in the forenoon there came an Express from General Leven and Lieut. Gen. David Lesley, certifying my Lord Marquis, that they were very like to agree upon the old Treaty, which was to hold no longer than that night: The Conditions, in case they do agree, will be these.  
1. That both the Armies, that under the Lord Marquis Arguile, and that under Lanerick, with all Forces in any of the Garrisons in the Kingdom of Scotland, together with Berwick and Carlisle be disbanded.  
2. That the securing and settling Religion at home, and promoting the work of Reformation abroad, both in England and Ireland be referred to the determination of the General Assembly or their Commissioners, and that all questions and civil differences whatsoever be referred to the determination of a Parliament speedily to be called.  
3 That to prevent the ruin of Religion and breacd with England, no party that were in the late engagement against England, may be of the new Parliament or general Assembly.  
From Cockermouth briefly thus; It hath been a long time besieged by 500 Countrymen. The Lieutenant General ordered the Lancashire forces under Colonel Ashton, with Colonel Brigs his horse, together with Colonel Hacker and Colonel Whites Regiments of Horse, from Pontefract to march up to their relief; they might have been there three weeks ago, but are not yet come up. The honest Governor Lieutenant Bird hot●s out gallantly; he hath a fortnight's provision yet. The Enemy had mined very near the wall, he sallied out, killed and took them all that were at work, and brought away their Tools, and burned the barn that sheltered them. He can hold out one part of the Castle, though they should take the other, but I hope he will be relieved suddenly, for that I hear there are Forces upon their march towards them. The marquis of Arguile took seven days ago a ship with ten thousand Arms that came from Denmark, intended for Duke Hamilton; they came to Leith, where they were seized upon. There are about eighty Officers armed that ran away from Duke Hamiltons' Army; now lurking about Cheviot Hills, we have sent one hundred and twenty Horse of the Lieutenant General's Regiment, and forty Dragoons towards them, which we hope will be able to give a good account of that business.  
SIR, 
 The Godly Party in Scotland seem to be very sensible of the benefit they have lately reaped by the victory God gave to our Army, and say they hope never to forget those Instruments which the Lord chose to work their deliverance; and check themselves for the hard thoughts they formerly had of this Army: And it's very observable, That this Army which the honest Party in Scotland looked upon as a Bundle of Sectaries, not fit to be continued, and did many ways unjustly reproach, should now, under God, be the only authors of their Deliverance. Some of the most eminent and honourable in Scotland have ingenuously confessed to me their error and rashness in charging the Army last year with Rebellion unjustly, seeing now there is a necessity put upon them to tread in that very path: Nay, they acted now against a clearer Authority, where was the concurrence of the three States, King, Lords and Commons, I am much persuaded that the Lord hath a glorious work in Scotland as well as in England. The Interest of the godly people in Scotland, as to the Civil, was once different from that of the godly people in England, or at least acted as it had been different; but now the Lord hath been pleased so to order the Affairs of that Kingdom, as that the Interest of the godly people there, is become the same with ours in England, and they and we must act upon the same Grounds and Principles: And I am persuaded, that so much of their Power as the Princes of the Earth have lent to the support of that Man of Sin, God hath and will suddenly utterly break and destroy. I have no more at present, but that I am  
Mordington in Scotland, Sept. 27. 1648. Your most affectionate Friend, I: L.  
FINIS.