The Scots REMONSTRANCE: CONCERNING Their KING, the Parliament of England, and the Lord General cromwell and his Army: With their Desires and Proposals. And a Declaration of the King of Scotland, touching his Power and Government, the Presbyterian Party, and the Solemn League and Covenant.  
Signed by the Lord Lowden, Cancel.  
 man on smiling horse  
LONDON, Printed by R. W. 1651.   

The SCOTS Remonstrance, &c.  
ALthough we do not judge of the undertakings of the Lords People by the success, and are not shaken by the dissipating of our Army, nor brought to question our Cause; yet we think our selvs and all the People of this Land, called by these late dispensations, to search and try our ways; we do therefore esteem it our duty, while we are about to adventure our lives against the Enemy, as providence shall give opportunisy, freely and faithfully to make our thoughts known to your Lordships, concerning the causes and remedies of the Lords indignation, which hath gone out against his people; wherein, as we suppose, we need not insist upon the sins contained in the late causes of the Fast, published by the Commissioners of the Kirk, relating to the conduct and carriage of our Army, and other things; but we shall to that which directly concerns your Lordships.  
1. That which is obvious in the first place, amongst the sins of the Land, is in our late proceedings with the King; wherein that we be not mistaken, we shall distinguish betwixt our Duty and our Sin.  
We own and acknowledge it for our Duty to use all lawful means for reclaiming the King, and to own his interest according to our vocation, so far as he owns and prosecutes the Cause.  
2. That there was so great hast and precipitation, and a second address to the King; after the first had been rejected, as appeared in the public motion of it, without any previous consultation about it, in the sudden election of Commissioners for the solemn address, and in refusing to delay the matter till the meeting of the Parl: then very near, and all this hast made, when there was information given, that his Majesty, at the same time had given Commissions to invade this Kingdom, and without seeking the Lords direction in a matter of so high consequence to the work and people of God.  
3. That the Treaty was continued after the Lord had clearly discovered the Kings unright dealing in the actual invasion of this Kingdom, by his Warrant and Commission during the Treaty.  
4. There was too great forwardness in some of the Commissioners to close the Treaty without satisfaction approved by the Parl: and the employing instruments to persuade the King, who were either open enemies to the Cause and Covenant, or had dealt deceitfully therein; from whom nothing could be expected, but to teach his Majesty dissimulation and outward compliance, rather then any cordial conjunction in the Cause and Covenant.  
5. When the Parl: of this Kingdom was acquainted with the transactions of our Commissioners with the King at Breda, and had declared their dissatisfaction with several things therein, and had made the same known to our Commissioners.  
These things we look upon as high provocations before the Lord, threatening no less then destruction to us and to our King, notwithstanding this sinful way of agreement, for which we and many of the Lords people in the Land have mourned, finding nothing in all the progress of the business that might give us any sure ground of hope that the Lords controversy was removed from the royal Family; yet having been willing to wait until the Lord should make some discovery whether the King had really joined in the Cause and Covenant, or had onely come in for worldly ends and designs, and had reclaimed his old enmity with the work of God, and friendship with the enemies thereof; but now there being clear evidences that the Land hath been deceived and ensnared by his dissembling in the Lords work, as may appear,  
1. By his countenancing and entertaining the Malignant party in this Kingdom, his cleaving to their Company, and following their councils, who have abused him and taught him to continue in his former opposition to the work, and in his late compliance that he might wind himself into power to prosecute his former designs.  
2. By his keeping correspondence with the notorious enemies of the work of Reformation and Covenant abroad, such as the marquis of Ormond, and the Earl of Newcastle, and others.  
3. By his refusing to sign the Declaration offered to him by the Committee of Estates, and Commissioners of the Goneral Assembly, until he was necessitated by Declarations concerning him, and till it was in a kind extorted from him.  
4. By his pursuing this same design since the Treaty as before, endeavouring to have the Malignants of this Kingdom in Power and Trust, as appears by his frequent conversing and correspondences with them, notwithstanding they are discharged the country by act of Parliament, by his writing to the Commis. of the Kirk to that purpose, and when it was denied by them, by his Instructions to the Lord Chancellor, communicated to the Committee of Estates the 26. of September last, pleading for a conjunction with the malignant party.  
And at last when neither Kirk nor State did give their concurrence therein, he deserted the councils of the Kingdom, and privately did convey himself away to join with the Malignants, who had ever since his coming to the Kingdom, waited for that opportunity, and with whom he had corresponded, carrying on a design to raise them again in Arms.  
And albeit the public Judicatures of Kirk and State, have in their Declarations sufficiently cleared themselves of that guilt which is unjustly charged upon them by the adversary, to wit, an Engagement to the King, and a design laid down to invade England, and force the King upon that Nation by Arms; and although we can purge ourselves before the Lord, that we never had any such design, which we can profess with the more clearness, because neither the lawfulness nor necessity thereof, nor our calling thereto was ever so much as debated in the public Judicatories: all which was declared to be necessary previous to any such resolution, and to which we still purpose to adhere: yet we beseech your Lordships to consider, whether in Gods sight, who will not be mocked with Declarations, contrary to intentions, there be not just cause to charge some eminent persons in our Counsels, and forces with such Engagements and designs, to invade England for the enforsing of the King on that Nation, and for enriching themselves with their spoil, and that the Lord is righteous in doing to this Nation, as many in our Armies did to England, when we were called in to their assistance, and as was now intended by many to be done again by a new invasion.  
Let it therefore be examined, how great a provocation this is in any person, to have intended an invasion, and forcing of the King on another Nation not subordinate to us, without any previous debate and determination of the lawfulness and necessity thereof, by the Parl: and general assembly, or their Commissioners, and without the previous clearing of our calling to it, and without the previous removing of the Lords controversy against the King, whom justly the Lord hath removed from the Government of the Kingdom, whatsoever injustice was on mans part; And what an intended conjunction with the malignant party, so far contrary to the public Declarations of the Kingdom, and attestation of God, that we had no such designs. If it be sin in us to have put into the Kings hands the exercise of power in this Nation, before evidences had of a real change in him, how much more sinful must it be to have designed, or endeavoured the putting of more power into his hands in England? We cannot judge otherwise of such a design, then to be a preferring of mans interest to Gods, and a betraying of his Cause and people into the hands of one, who had not laid down his enmity against both.  
In the next place, the great and mother sin of this Nation we conceive to be backsliding breach of Covenant, and Engagements unto the Lord. It hath been our manner in all our troubles, to take Vows and Resolutions against these sins which have been looked upon, as causes of our affliction; we have so often lied unto the Lord with our tongues, and flattered him with our lips, that we deserve to be no more trusted by him. And as we purpose not to forget our own breaches of Covenant, and sins of that sort, so we humbly desire your Lordships to lay to heart, how unanswerably you have walked to your solemn Engagement, to purge Judicatures and Armies, and to fill the places of power and trust, with men of known good affection to God, and of a blameless and Christian Conversation.  

A Declaration of the King and council of SCOTLAND.  
THe Kings Majesty and Committee of Estates having taken into consideration a paper presented to the said Committee at Sterling the 25. of Octob in name of the Gentlemen Officers and Ministers attending the Western Forces.  
That they have always been, and are still willing that all faults and miscarriages of any, as well their personal carriage, as in discharge of their public trust, may be discovered, redressed, and punished according to the Laws of the Kingdom; and that they find it their duty to show their dislike of many things remonstrated and held forth in the said paper, and have resolved in general to declare as followeth.  
That they find the said paper, as it relates to the Parl: and civil Judicatories, to be scandalous and injurious to his Majesties person, and prejudicial to his authority, and as it relates to Religion and Church-Judicatories, they are to desire the Commissioners of the Church to give their sense thereupon, and that in regard of the effects it hath already produced, and those that are like to follow thereupon, if not prevented, it holds forth the seeds of division of a dangerous consequence, and that it is dishonourable to the Kingdom in so far as it tends to a breach of the Treaty with the Kings Majesty at Breda, approved in Parl: and general Assembly: That it also strengtheners the hand of the enemy, giving him to justify his most unjust invasion, and the bloodshed and oppression committed by him in this Kingdom; and weaken the hands of many honest men: And likewise the said paper holds forth in the close of it a band of high and dangerous consequence, and albeit the said paper hath been wickedly and subtly contrived, yet because some honest, faithful, and religious Gentlemen, Officers and Ministers, and others of approved fidelity in the cause, of whom they do not harbour the least thought to their prejudices, have been thereby ensnared: Therefore the Kings Majest, and Committee of Estates do hereby declare the said Persons free of any imputation upon their names, or censures upon their persons or Estates, excepting here from all such who shall adhere to the former Remonstrance by persisting in and prosecuting of what is therein contrary to the Laws of the Kingdom.  
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Since the drawing up of this Declaration, the Scotch King hath made a Speech in Parl: in relation to their proceedings against the English Army, and at the close thereof said, That he was the first King that had taken the Covenant, and therefore he hoped the blessing of God would attend them in their present enterprise, and Cause in hand, &c. Divers of the Committee of Estates have entred a Protestation, against taking in of the royal party; and upon that score it is said, that their King is to go Northward for the raising of more Forces.  
FINIS.