DECLARATION OF HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES MARQVES OF MONTROSE, EARL OF KINCAIRN, LORD GRAEME, BARRON OF MONTDEV, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AND CAPTAIN GENERAL FOR HIS MAJESTY OF THE KINGDOM OF SCOTLAND.  
At Gottenberge. ANNO MDCXLIX.   

DECLARATION, OF HIS EXCELLENCY, JAMES MARQUIS OF MONTROSE.  
THough it may seem, Public (both) and Private Injury, Rather than matter of Duty or Just Procedeur, to do any Act whatsumever that can in so much as appear to dispute, the Clearness of this present service, or to hold such enemies as a Party; The Justice of his Majesty's cause, The wickedness of those Rebels, and my oun Integrity, Being (all of them) so we'll and so throughly knoun as they are;  
Yet the further to confirm the world, The more to encourage all who are to engage, And the Poverfullier to convince many, who have Harmlessly been envolved, and Innocently Inveigled, in those desperate courses; I do in the name of his most sacred Majesty, and by virtue of the Pover and Authority granted by him unto me. Declare.  
That Howbeit there hath been (and still are) ane Horrid and Infamous Faction of Rebels within the Kingdom of Scotland [who most causelessly at first did hatch Rebellion against his late Majesty of Glorious Memory, And when he had granted unto them (by their oun acknouledgement) all their Violent and most unjust desyrs, They were so far from resting, notwithstanding, satisfied (as being Themselves able to find no further Pretences) They did perniciously Solicit ane Party in the Kingdom of England, to begin, where Shame and Necessity had forced them to break off, And when Thos of the English (being by much less wicked) would have often Satisfied themselves by his Majesty's extraordinary Concession; (They than not intending the desperate lenths which fatal success and their hollow Practisers did thereafter dryve them too) Then did they still thirst in (as oil to the Fire, and Ganger to the Wound) until they had randred all Irrecoverable; Neither were they contented in the Fox skinn alone, to act this Their so Brutish a Tragedy (which indeed could never have served their ends) But while they had received all Imaginable Satisfaction at Home, (As their weary oune Acts of Parliament doth witness, wherein, They say, That his Late Majesty parted a Contented King from a Contented People,) Finding their Rebel Brood, how they had begot in England beginning to lessen, and that his Majesty's Party appeared to have by much the better, They not only contrary to the Duty of subjects, But all Faith, Covenants, Oaths, Attestations, to which they had so often Invoked God, his Angels, the World, and all as witnesses, Did enter with a strong Army the Kingdom of England, Persecute their Prince, in a Foreign Nation, Assist a company of stranger Rebels, against their Native King, and those of his Loyal Party within that same Kingdom, Except for which the whole world does know his Majesty had without all Peradventure Prevailed; And not ashamed of all this, (which even many of their oune Party did blush to awow) when his late Majesty wes by (God knows) how many unhappy treacheries, redacted to think upon extreme Courses for his safety, He wes pleased, out of his so much Invincible goodness, and Natural Inclination towards his Native People (Notwithstanding all Their former Villainies) To choose that Ignoble Party to fall upon, Thinking that Thos who his Greatness and their Duty could not obliedge, His Missery, and their Compassion, might perhaps move with Pity; Yet too Justly fearing their Punik Faiths, He first resolved to Engage them by a Treaty, After which, when by many Intercourses, his Majesty had received all manner of Assurances, (which though Shame would make them willingly excuse, Yet guilt will let Them have nothing to say for it, It being so undeniable and to all the world so knoun a Truth) Casting himself in their hands, They (Contrary, to all Faith and Faction, Trust of Friends, Duty of subjects, Laws of Hospitality, Nature, Nations, Divine and Humane, to which there hath never been Precedent, nor can ever be a Follover) Most Infamously, and beyond all Imaginable Expression of Invincible Baseness, (to the Blush of Christians Abomination of Mankind) Sold their Sovereign ower, to their Mercyles Fellow Traitors to be destroyed; with whom How they have Comploted his Destruction, Their secret Intercourses, both before, In the time, and since his Horrid Murder, do too evidently declare; Of all which Villainies, They are so little touched with the guilt, as they now begin with his Majesty upon the same Scores they left with his Father, Declaring him King with Prouisoes, so Robbing him of all Right while they would seem to give some unto him, Pressing him to Join with Thos who have liged all his Dominions in Rebellion and laid all Royal Pover into the Dust, That in effect he would Condemn the Memory of his Sacred Father, Destroy himself, and Ruin his Faithful Party within all those Dominions; Their are Thos who at First entered England, Soliciting all to Rise in this Desperate Rebellion (as the Prologue of their enseving Tragedy (who who wer the Cheeff and maine Instruments of all the Battles; Slaughters, and Bloody Occasions, within that Kingdom, who sold Their Sovereign unto the Death, And that yet Diggs in his Grave, and who are more perniciously Hatching the Destruction of his present Majesty, by the same bare, Old, Outdated Treacheries, than ever they did his Sacred Fathers] Yet the People (in General) Having been but Ignorantly misled to it (Who's eye now for most part, God hes opened, and turned their hearts, (at least in their Desires) to Their Dutyful obedience, And that there hes still been a Loyal Party, who have giwin Such Proffs of their Integrity, as his Majesty is mowed with a tender Compassion; for those Righteous sakes, in behalf of All, who now at last, have Remorse for their former misdemeanours. His Majesty is not only willing to Pardon every one, (Excepting Such who upon clear evidencies shall be found guilty of that most Damnable Fact of the Murder of his Father) (who upon sight or knouledge hereof do Immediately or upon the First Possible Conveniency, Abbandon those Rebels and Rise and Join themselves with ws and our Forces in this present service) But also to assure all who are or will turn Loyal unto him of that Nation; That it is his Majesty's Resolution (which He doth Assure, and Promise unto them, upon the word of a Prince (to be ever ready to Ratiefy (so soon as it shall pleas God to put it in his Pover, According to the advyce of the Supreme Judicatories of that Kingdom) All what hes been done by his Royal Father in Order to their Peace; desiring nothing More, but Their dutiful Obedience, and Faithful Services, for the Rewenge of the Horrid Murder of his Father, His Just Reestablishment, and their oun Perpetual Happienes, under his Government.  
Wherefore, All who have any Duty left them, to God, their King, Country, Friends, Homes, Wyves, and Childreen, Or Would change (now at Last) the Tyranny, Violence, and Oppression, of Thos Rebels, With the Myild and Innocent Government, of their Just Prince; Or Reweng, the Horrid, and Execrable Murder of Their Sacred King, Redeem their Nation from Infamy; themselves from Slawery, Restore the Present, and Obliedge the Ages to come; Let Them, as Christians, Subjects, Patriots, Friends, Husbands, and Fathers, Join themselves Forthwith with ws, In this Present service, that is so full, of Conscience, Duty, Honour, and all Just Interests, And not apprehend any Evils, (which they may fear Can befall) Half so much, as Thos they Presently lie under, For though there may appear many Difficulties, Yet let them not Doubt of God's Justice, Nor the Happy Providence that may attend his Majesty, Nor their oun Resolutions, Nor the Fortunes of Thos, who they are Joined withal; Resolving with Joab; to play the Men for their People and the Cities of their God, And let the Lord do whatever seemeth him Good; Wherein, whatsum ever shall behappin, They may (at least) be assured, of Crastinus Recompense, That Dead, or Allyve, the World will give Them Thanks.  
MONTROSE.