EIGHT ARTICLES OF THE SCOTS DEMANDS, Lately put into the Parliament by the Scots Commissioners. 1o. JULY. 1641.  
Printed in the year, 1641   

EIGHT ARTICLES OF THE Scots Demands.  
IT is desired that it may be entred in this present Parliament that no Scotish men, Scotish ships, or Vessels, or passengers belonging to the kingdom of Scotland be pressed by land or sea, in any part of England or Ireland; Sea-ports or harbours thereof, seeing these are free of any press by the Law and practise of our kingdom.  
2. For a better commerce and intercourse betwixt the kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland; and that it may be now declared lawful to transport all goods and commodities from Scotland to England, or Ireland, or from thence to Scotland in the same case, and as free from customs and all other Taxations whatsoever, as if they were transported from one part of Scotland to another, or from one part or Port of England or Ireland to another with these declarations always, that the said mutual liberty in so much as concerns goods prohibited by the laws of either of the kingdoms to be transported to foreign Nations, shall onely serve for the inward use of the said three kingdoms.  
Alenially and the manner of the restraint and punishment of the contraveners to be considered upon.  
And that all Natives and foreign commodities not prohibited in the kingdoms from whence they transported by the Scotish men as freely as by any of his Majesties subjects of England or Ireland, and so reciprocally in Scotland by the English and Irish.  
3. That the Scotish ships coming from foreign places, and arriving in any Roads, Havens, or Ports of England or Ireland, through tempests of weather, or for refreshment, or upon whatsoever other occasions and not disclosed, may be free to pass and repass without searching or any other impediment, and that if Scotish men shall be leaden with moneys or whatsoever foreign Commodities in any foreign part, or in any foreign bottom, or in any English or Irish Bortome; That it shall be free to the Owners thereof and their Factors to unload their moneys, goods, and commodities aforesaid, at any port of England or Ireland, and to transport the same from thence to Scotland without any impediment, to be made to them, and the English and Irish to have the like liberty reciprocally in Scotland.  
4. If any Scotish ships or any other vessels loaden with Scotish mens goods, going or coming from any foreign Nation pertaining to Scotish men, as aforesaid, shall arrive in any part of England or Ireland and having necessity to sell a parcel of their said goods, that it shall be lawful for them to do the same, and to transport the remnant to Scotland, or elsewhere, without payment of any custom, but for so much as they shall happen to sell, and the English and Irish to have the like liberty reciprocally in Scotland.  
5. In respect of the great detriment sustained by his Majesties subjects, and by the Dunkirks and other pirates, by robbing them of their goods, taking the ships and spoiling their men: That some solid course may be taken for the preventing the like in time to come; so that his Majesties subjects may have free trade hereafter, and the Scotish ships passing to France, Holland, or any other part, may have a safe convoy of his Majesties ships, as the English and Irish ships have.  
6. There can be no greater mark of mutual unity betwixt the kingdoms, then a free and peaceable conversing at home and abroad, therefore we crave from the Parliament of England, that where the English have any out trade or dealing in foreign places, that it may be free to Scotish men to out-trade and deal in the same places, without any impediment to be made to them by the English or Irish, and the English and Irish to have the like liberty in out trade or dealing of Scottishmen in foreign places.  
7. That the Scots men be not debarred from being associated in companies within the kingdoms of England and Ireland, upon such conditions as the English and Irish are admitted, and this to be reciprocally for England and Ireland in companies, and all associations in Scotland; and because there is not such manufactories as yet erected in Scotland as are necessary, and that the trade of fishing( which is is one of the greatest benefits in his Majesties Dominions) is not yet brought to perfection, it is fit that by mutual concourse of both kingdoms such a course may be taken, as may best bring the trade of manufactories, in Scotland and fishing within his Majesties seas to perfection, and that Commissioners may be directed by the King and Parliaments of the kingdoms to treat upon such means and conditions as may subsist with the freedom and liberties, and may conduce best to the good and benefit of his Majesties Dominions.  
8. That the House of Parliament would be pleased to take into their considerations the exorbitant customs and texations and other rigogorous dealings, whereof the particulars are set down in a note herewith, given in, taken and used by the King of denmark both of the Scottish and English, and whereas his Majesties subjects have already felt the smart thereof, that now some good course may be taken for reducing the said exactions to some reasonable known and constant measure, and for the liberty of his Majesties subjects from the like rigorous dealing in time to come.  
FINIS.