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A DECLARATION OF The Lords of His Majesty's Privie-Councell in SCOTLAND; AND Commissioners for conserving the Articles of the Treaty: For the Information of His MAJESTY'S good Subjects of this Kingdom.  
Together with a Treacherous and damnable PLOT Of the Irish, English, and Scottish Papists, begun to be discovered by the unexpected apprehending of the Earl of Antrim coming from York, partly by Letters which were found in the said Earls pockets, and partly by the Depositions of a Servant of his, who was hanged at Carrick-Fergus.  
26. junii: 1643.  
Imprimatur  
HEN: WALLEY.  
Edinburgh, Printed by Evan Tyler, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty; and now reprinted at London for Edward Husbands, 27 Junii, 1643.   

A Declaration of the Lords of His Majesty's Privie-Councell in Scotland.  
THe Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable privy-councel, and the Commissioners for conserving of the Peace, according to the great trust reposed on them by His Majesty and the Estates of Parliament, whereof they are to make account to God and His Majesty the next ensuing Parliament, Taking to their deepest and most serious consideration the best ways of preserving the peace of this Kingdom, That all His Majesty's good and dutiful Subjects may enjoy their Religion, Liberties, and Laws, which GOD in a singular and wonderful providence in the time of His Majesty's Reign hath vouchsafed them, And of the peace betwixt the two Kingdoms so unanimously and happily established in the late Treaty of peace, and in the Parliaments of both Kingdoms, Have faithfully endeavoured by all good means to reduce IRELAND to His Majesty's obedience, which through the unnatural, barbarous, and Antichristian cruelty of Papists, is from a peaceable Kingdom turned into a stage of unexampled and unexpressible miseries, to be looked upon as an horrid and dangerous example by this Kingdom, And by their earnest supplications to His Majesty, and their Declarations to the Parliament of England, but especially by their earnest desires for establishing Unity of Religion, and Uniformity of Kirk-government, and for disbanding all Papists in Arms within their Dominions, and by the humble offer of their meditation to remove the unhappy differences, and quench the fire of a wasting War, begun betwixt His Majesty and His Subjects of England, wherein His Majesty's sacred Person is exposed to so great danger, and so many thousands of His Subjects have already perished: But finding to their great grief the success no way answerable to their endeavours and expectation, and the trouble of the neighbouring Kingdoms, and the dangers of this Kingdom daily arising to a greater height, than they by their care, counsel, and diligence, were able to remeid or obviate, they did resolve for this and other causes, which exercise and heavily press the Kingdom at this time, to call a convention of the Estates, as the only mean (His Majesty not thinking fit to hearken unto their motion of calling a Parliament) which might by common counsel, consent and resolution, take the best course for representing yet more sensibly these manifold evils and dangers, and for overcoming by greater wisdom the difficulties which were above their power.  
In the mean while (which they cannot but attribute to the merciful and marvellous Providence of GOD, and which is a confirmation to them of their resolution in calling a convention, and layeth the greater necessity upon the Estates, to meet the more willingly and frequently) a treacherous and damnable Plot of the Irish, English, and Scottish Papists, is begun to be discovered, by the unexpected apprehending of the Earl of Antrim coming from York, where he had keeped his meetings and correspondence by Letters, with certain Popish Lords his confederates, and amongst others, with the Earl of Nithisdail and Viscount of Aboyne, Their devilish designs and devices are come to light, & brought to our knowledge, partly by Letters from Ireland, showing the deposition and confession of a servant of the Earl of Antrims, and partly by Letters which were found in the Earl his own pockets, all sent to them from Ireland: His servant who was hanged at Carricke-Fergus the _____ day of May, deponed (as the Letters bear) before and at the time of his death, that the design was to reconcile the English and Irish in Ireland, that they by their joint power, having expelled the Scots, the Irish Forces there might be sent against the Parliament of England, to deal with some fit instrument there, by all their strength to surprise the Isles and the Highlands, and to depopulate and waste so much of this Kingdom as their power could extend unto, being assured of the like dealing in the North, by the Papists and their assistance there, And to have a Magazine at Carlisle for twenty thousand men, to fall in with an hostility upon the south parts of this Kingdom. The Letters sent from Nithisdail and Aboyne, all written and subscribed by their hands to the Earl of Antrim, and found with him, although in some things covertly written, do carry thus much expressly, that for furtherance of the design & point resolved on, there was assistance assured from the Isles, & from the North, & south of Scotland, th●t Ammunition and Arms, without which they think their service useless, were appointed to be sent to the North, and other parts of this Kingdom, And that Popish Officers were commanded, and had undertaken to go into Scotland; of which we are informed, some are already gone to the North, for stopping, and disappointing so far as may be for the present (till the same divine providence make a more full discovery) the attempts and devices of this unnatural and bloody confederacy and conjuration. As the Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council have given order that Nithisdail and Aboyne be cited, and criminally pursued of high Treason, and have made the same as a matter of public and most high importance known to his Majesty, and to the Parliament of England; so they and the Commissioners of Peace also, for acquitting themselves in their trust, and for the safety of the Kingdom, do make the same publicly known to all his Majesty's good subjects, that being forewarned of their danger, they may be upon their guards, and prepared against foreign invasion and intestine plots and insurrection: And especially, that the Noble men, Commissioners of Shires, and Burrows, perceiving greater and more apparent necessity of the approaching convention than they could have wished or expected, May at the day formerly appointed, meet in such celerity, and with such public affection and disposition of heart, as the present condition of affairs doth require, and call for at their hands, and as beseemeth the lovers of their Religion, King, and Country, which are in so great danger, from papists, Atheists, and other degenerated country men, who are no less enraged against this Kingdom, even since the late Reformation of this Kirke, then were their predecessors at the first reformation of Religion, when their negotiating was so restless, and their attempts so many, and malicious against the work of God in this Land: nor is it to be passed without observation, that while His Majesty is making a public Declaration of his intentions to defend and maintain the Religion, Rights and Liberties of this Kingdom, according to the laws, civil and ecclesiastic, The Papists are conspiring, plotting, and practising against the Religion, Rights, and Liberties established, and against the lives of His Majesty's good Subjects; whereby they do really manifest to the world what the King's Majesty against His Declarations, and His Subjects against their confidence grounded thereupon, may look for from their malice and power, if they shall continue in Arms, and (which God forbidden) if they shall prevail in the end. And whereas the Lords of Council are informed, that the late Act of Council for publishing his Majesty's Declaration is mistaken by sundry, as a Declaration of their own judgement, concerning the proceed of another Kingdom; For preventing of this mistake, They think fit to remember and declare according to the act of Council in january last, showing that their Lordships giving warrant to print any paper coming from His Majesty, or Parliament of England, did not import their approbation of the contents thereof: That they did on the first of june, both remember the famine, & express their intention in this publication to be fare from taking on them to judge of the proceed of the Parliament of another Kingdom; but only to thank his Majesty for His gracious expressions towards the preservation of the Rights and Liberties of this Kingdom: And ordains this to be printed and published at the Market Cross of Edinburgh, and all other burgh's within this Kingdom, for the information of his Majesty's Subjects within the same.  
FINIS.   

At Edinburgh the ninth day of June, 1643.  
THe Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council and Commissioners for conserving the Articles of the Treaty, Ordains this following Declaration to be printed and published at the market Cross of Edinburgh, and other Burghes of this Kingdom, for the information of all Hi● Majesty's good Subjects within the same.  
Arch. Primrose. Cler. S. Cons. & Commis.