THE SCOTS policy: To asassinate our English Monarchy.  
Who hid their worldly encroachments, under pretence of Religion.  
And by introducing their own Government in England, would thereby become not only equal with us, but of our Mercenaries become our Lords.  
All which is discoursed by way of complaint made by the Scotch Presbytery.  
Printed in the year, 1647.   

The outcry of the Scotish Presbytery: And ●he rest of that false and beggarly Nation, who have been ever ready, and still would be contented to lose their own country if they might gain ours.  
ALas dear Brethren, did wee ever think you would so forget your solemn League and Covenant, such a cord, as wee had thought with it, to have drawn wheresoever wee had pleased: have wee so cheerfully adventured our lives( for your Goods) even with as much willingness as any one among us, would change his Scotch Hobby, for an English Gelding? did wee take in New Castle in a timely manner, ere you were compelled to burn the stools you sat on, and helped you to coals, when the Cavalieres threatened to kill you with agues? did wee give the King into your hands, to be disposed of at your pleasures in hope afterwards, in good faith to be awe Kings, and Leards over you, and yet have you s● little love to us, as to slight our proffered friendship, and to refuse to draw with us in one yoke, to retard the settling of the presbytery, the onely way under God to make you a free, and happy N●tion( as we ourselves at this day) who have but in one parish not containing above thirty houses at least twenty Lords, consisting of ministerial, and ruling Lay-Elders, who use us their inferiors, with such clemency, and ingenuity, that speak wee with never so much wariness, act wee with never so much civility, let our carriage be never so steady, wee cannot speak without their censure; act without their reproo●e, shape our gestures according to their prescription, & so consequently cannot walk without the compass of their verge. Ah dear brethren, had you joined with us in one & ●he same Religion, how sweetly had wee now drawn together in one yoke, then wee could have taken up that sweet saying of Hamor the son of Sichem, should not your goods, and your Cattle be ours, ah dear B●ethren, instead of ado●ing that venerable Geneva Gentleman, Sir John Presbyter, the Dagon of Scotland, you have let him fal● upon the ●hreshold of Ashod, so that his hands and feet are cut off, and he lieth grovelling on the ground, and no man is found to lift him up; yea, you have suffered one to writ his last Will and Testament, who hath abused the trust reposed in him, with a mere mock will, hath given ridiculous Legacies to the principal of our Presby●erian Bulls, D●. Sibbals D●. burgess, Mr. Case, and Mr. Callamy, writing an abusiv● Epitaph over his tomb, sufficient to make him infamous to Posterity: Alas dear brethren, wee had not the least thought that you would be oreswaied by the Independent party, resident in the Army, whose protestations are notorious, that they have fought for lib●rty of conscience the only gap to all manner of licentiousness, who are men of all Religions, and consequently of no religion; O had you been but ruled by bounce, Langley, Biggs, and Adams, you had never permitted that Army to enter in at your City Gates, had you not faithful Waller, Pointz, and Massey, who poor man for all his good servises, you suffered to be affronted in the heart of your City, while a schismatic was seen to throw a dirty bunch of carrots in his face, which manifestly bedaubed his carrot beard; yet he like a valiant mastiff that scorneth to return snap for snap with his inferiors, to wit little mungrills, passed along with much majesty, and only waved his sword about his head, to give signal what he was, whom they bespattered, having the aforenamed for your Cou●sellors, and these for your Generalls, you had little reason to suspect your inability to fight with the Independents, you could not choose but have prospered in your designs, for you had had the effectual prayers of the Presbytery, the classical national and provincial Assemblies; besides according to our Scottish angury, there was a good omen which prognosticated your future success, an owl, which in stead of the Eagle, we take to be ●oves harness bearer, lighted upon the chiefest Steeple in edinburgh, and there after much howling, while most of the City ran to behold her, she spake with an human voice, though you must understand, something parrot like, saying; The City is in arms, The City is in arms: Now, dear Brethren, you must know wee guessed this happy bide to have come from London, to found the Alarum to us, and relying with much confidence on the words of Bubo, we rejoiced in your resolutions, so steadfastly fixed to oppose that devouring Army; but alas, alas, contrary to our hopes, you have in stead of fighting against them, lovingly embraced them, and let them in to your bosoms, and what can we expect, nay it is without question, that by them instigated, Presbytery will never be settled amongst you, nor ever must wee hope that you will be conformed to the form of our presbyterial Government, and so we utterly disappointed of our hopes, to enjoy those golden dayes again in England, which we once had under good King Jemy, when enamoured of the clusters of the English Chanaan, wee used all means to get ground on this side Jordan, alias Tweed, & at length became possessors of fair Vineyards, and were able to vie Lordships, with the wealthiest English, thankes to our good King: but now those passages are blocked up, and our dear B●ethren whom we had hoodwinked, and prepared to entertain any change, though to their own prejudice, render our government odious, especially to tender consciences, and our dear Brethren now look upon us as underlings, not considering that wee came merely with an intention( for all their goods) and account us onely engaged( necessity requiring it) as mercenaries and hirelings to the English Parliament, not considering that we entred with them in a solemn League & covenant, out of a pious intention, that our S●o●ch Oats might bee exchanged for English Wheat, and our lousy doublets for fresh clothing; and whe●eas before we had some hopes to see our desires fulfilled, now those hopes are vanished into air, and the Scotch government generally detested by reasonable men: therefore seeing it is so, that our dear Brethren have harkened to the desires of the Independents, wee shall bee enforced to force that government upon them, which they once seemed so willingly to embrace: for we are valiant enough, and have one advantage abo●● other men,( in possessing little) and therefore we fear 〈◇〉 conquest; for our Country affordeth little of worth or invitation, that may 'allure men to a war.  
Our dear Brethren, to our unspeakable grief, do now begin to indevor to preserve themselves from our worldly encroachments, under the pretence of Religion, alas, they have found out, that though wee present it in a new dress, called Reformation, that ●t is like to prove no other then an Assasination of the Monarchy, and a reducing of the old privados to oppress them more rigrously with new ones; ●hey have found, how wee seek to screw ourselves in, by our Ingeneers of the Clergy, to whom wee have promised if they will make us Lords to allow them power to rule jointly with us, but awe for pity all our pretences, equivocations, false glosses, and sophistications are so apparent, that in good faith wee dread mickle, wee fall nere be pinniond, and that the Army will rather establish Episcopacy then Presbytery; but what greatly disturbeth us, the D●rectory, that new edition of the old Common-prayer book is crushed even in the bud that pithy volume which Bifield and Robrough spent so many houres in composing, correcting, and augmenting to their expense of time, and loss of sleep; yea and credibly not without the decey of their wits, lies now like an old ERRAPATER, in a Farmers house sometimes taken down, only to wonder at, alas, alas good Directory, she and we are equally despised of our dear brethren, and wee fear, thou maiest as soon be red in Pauls by Dr. burgess, as our Scottish Government be established in England, for woe and alas, our grand defender Mr. Prin is forced away from his inn, he alone would have stood in the gap, and have apollogized for us, had he remained in London, but now wee may add a tenth query to his own nine; whether or no Mr. Prin hath not divulged the bareness of that cause he lately so stifely maintained, by running away when the time called him to justify it: Finally dear Brethren since it is so, that contrary to our expectations, you intend every man to be a Lord of his own, wee cannot but bewail in briny tears your own wisdom, and our own loss, and shall be contented, for such is our affections to you, to let you enjoy your own with safety, until wee shall come a second time( for all your Goods.)   

Postscript.  
ALas dear Jockey, thou hast slipped thy hold,  
And thou must rest content with former gold  
Thou h●dst for helping us, when it was could:  
The time is changed, since Charles by thee was sold,  
Which to thine infamy shall ay be  told,  
Weel beat thee home, with losses manifold.  
Finis coronat opus.