A LETTER FROM THE PARLIAMENT OF SCOTLAND, To HIS most Sacred Majesty. August 1. 1681.  
EDINBURGH, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred MAJESTY, Anno 1681.   

A LETTER from the Parliament of SCOTLAND, to His most Sacred Majesty.  
May it please Your Sacred Majesty.  
THe manifold sad experiences of the fatal mischiefs and calamities which attend Rebellions, must needs in due proportion, dispose all your majesty's Subjects to higher measures of Loyalty; more particularly us in this Your ancient Kingdom, being sensible, as we have a more special interest in your majesty's Sacred Person and Family; so must we inevitably share the more deeply in all the inconveniences which may disturb or subvert your Royal Government. And therefore, as by our Allegiance, we own it to be out duty to be obedient and loyal to your Majesty and Your lawful Heirs and Successors; so your majesty's extraordinary kindness, to such as have continued in their duty, and your wonderful clemency by your repeated Inde●…pnities to such as have fallen from it, cannot but kindle in us strong and ardent desires to serve Your Majesty, with all the courage and alacrity, of which we are capables, and to let Your other Kingdoms, and all the world see, that we esteem our Lives and Fortunes to be best employed, in maintaining of the just Rights and Prerogatives of your majesty's Crown and Monarchy, the native succession whereof cannot be invaded, without utter subversion of the fundamental Laws of this your majesty's ancient Kingdom. And this our Loyalty we esteem our alone security, to avoid these confusions and slavery, which distracted and ruined us in the last Age, and seemeth to threaten us so apparently in this.  
SIR, Though some rebellious and deluded People, have disturbed your majesty's Government there, yet their Principles are so extravagant, and so few Persons of any Note or Quality, are engaged with them; that we may justly hope, their Crimes cannot be imputed to this Kingdom, whose Representatives in this Your majesty's Parliament, will no less for their Vindication as to what is past, then for their own Security for the time coming, cheerfully provide suitable and sufficient Remedies; All of us being very sensible, that these distractions and disorders would in the issue tend to the dissolution not only of Your majesty's Government in the Church and State, as the same is by Law established, but even of all Humane Society.  
It is a great satisfaction to us, to find Your Majesty so concerned for the PROTESTANT Religion, not only in Your Gracious Letter to us, but in the whole Conduct of Your Royal Government. And we shall with all Christian care, and duty endeavour to confirm it, so as it may become a solid and pious support, to Your Royal Family, and Monarchy, and a sure fence in this disturbed and divided Church, against all Usurpations and Disorders of Popery, and Phanaticism, that for the future, the pretence of its insecuritie may not be made (as formerly) an engine for carrying on disloyal designs and practices.  
We offer our most humble and hearty thanks to Your most Sacred Majesty, for calling us together at this time, to consult jointly the Interests of You majesty's Government, and of Your Subjects in this Your Ancient Kingdom, which we trust shall never be divided. And therefore, as the Prerogatives and just Rights of the Monarchy, are absolutely , for the defence of our Properties and Liberties, so in pursuance of our own Interest, and for further clearing of our Duty and Allegiance by positive Laws; we shall not fail to declare our humble and hearty acknowledgements of the just Rights and Prerogatives of Your Imperial Crown in its Just, Native, and Lineal course of Descent; And to secure the just Rights, and Liberties of Your Subjects, so as may fully demonstrat our unalterable Resolutions, never to departed from our Duty to Your Royal Family, and Your lawful Heirs and Successors, to whom we are tied by so many sacred Obligations.  
We do also with all humble Gratitude, acknowledge the Grace, and Honour, done to this Kingdom, in naming Your Royal Brother to be Your majesty's High Commissioner in this present Parliament. And indeed the beholding a SON of our Ancient Monarches, under whom we and our Ancestors, have been so long and so happily governed in this Character, Doth vigorously awaken in us, the remembrance of our Native Kindness and Obligations, as his just Temper and steady equality in all our Concerns cannot but extinguish in us all fears and jealousies of severity, or partiality; His Interest being unseparable from Your majesty's: And he being well acquainted with all Our Concerns, and so affectionate to, and careful of them, Your Majesty may justly expect from a Parliament, under the conduct of such a Commissioner, all that can be judged  for the honour and support of Your Royal Government, and Authority, and for securing the just Rights and Liberties of Your Subjects, and that with all the Loyalty, Readiness, and Sincerity, which can be expressed by Us:  
Signed in Name and by Order of the Parliament, By Your majesty's most Humble, most Faithful, and most obedient Subject and Servant. ATHOLE J. P. D. Par.