TREASON AND REBELLION Against their Native Country justly rewarded upon several Traitors and Rebels lately executed in SCOTLAND.  
Certified by an Express in two Letters dated at Saint Andrews, Jan. 26. 1645.  
Together with a Declaration of the General Assembly of the Church of SCOTLAND.  
Published by Authority.  
LONDON, Printed for Robert Bostocke, and are to be sold at his shop at the King's Head in Paul's Churchyard 1646.   

A Copy of a Letter sent from S. Andrews, dated January 26. 1645.  
SIR:  
THe Committee appointed for the Processes against Delinquents having found the Enditements brought in against Sir Robert Spotswood, pretended Secretary of State, William Murrey, Brother to the Earl of Tillibarne, Gen. Major Nathaniel Gordoun, and Master Andrew Guthery, Son to the pretended Bishop of Murray to be relevant, and having repelled all their defences except that of Quarters, which was left to the determination of the Parliament; their Processes were read in open Parliament, and there were many rational debates about the defence of Quarters grounded upon Scripture, Reason, Law of Nations, and Military, and the municipal Law of this Kingdom; the state of the Question was, Whether the granting of quarter in Battle to Delinquents by an Officer or Soldier, did exempt them from punishment by the State, for their Murder, Rebellion, and Treason; and it was resolved unanimously by the whole Parliament that the defence of Quarters was not relevant, when all the defences were repelled, and the Parliament was ready to pronounce Sentence. Offer was made by Nathaniel Gordoun to procure the exchange of all the Prisoners with James Grahame late Earl of Montrose for himself, and to lie in prison until they were brought hither, and further to engage himself, and find Surety that he should never lift Arms against the Parliament. This offer he conceived to be the more plausible, that the Lord Chancellor's Brother was one of the prisoners with the enemy; but when the Lord Chancellor's opinion was asked therein, he declared, That though all his Brethren and Children were in the like hazard, he would not be the means of hindering the execution of Justice. And such was the earnest desire of the Parliament to execute Justice, that this motion was rejected, and all the four were forfeited in Life, Lands, and Goods; their Coats of Arms appoined to be rend, and deleted out of the Book of Arms, and themselves to be beheaded upon Tuesday the twentieth of January, there were only five or six contrary voices, and those were for perpetual imprisonment. The Earl of Tillibarn presented a very humble supplication for sparing his brother's life, and entreating that any other punishment might be inflicted upon him. This was denied, but in regard he was very insensible of his present estate, his execution was delayed till Friday the 23. and some Ministers were appointed to wait upon him, and to endeavour to bring him to some sense of his condition. Upon the 17. three of them were executed, and first Nathaniel Gordoun, who was exceeding penitent, whereof he gave many evidences to all that heard him, and at his earnest desire (given in writing under his hand, whereof a Copy is herewith sent) he was relaxed from the sentence of Excommunication. After they were condemned, he & Sir Robert Spotswood were put in one Chamber, whose obstinacy did him some harme; but when he came to the Scaffold, he said, It was not time to dalley longer in a matter of eternal consequence, he acknowledged that mercies led him not to repentance, and therefore God had brought him to that public death; he confessed he had been an Adulterer, a Drunkard, and a shedder of innocent blood; he besought all to pray for him, and craved pardon of all that had any interest in the blood shed of late. Casting off his Doublet, he said, That many a time he had cast it off to sin, but now he cast it off to embrace his Saviour, and to let his blood be now justly shed, who formerly had shed much innocent blood. As for that ambition that made men provoke to Combats, he said, Of all vanities it was one of the chief; He desired the Parliament to keep unity in the Cause, and to avoid division, as they desired to shun God's Judgement upon themselves. And amongst his last words, he said, He left as many ill wishes as in the condition he was in he durst, to all such of his friends as should attempt to revenge his death, he desired the Minister not to part with him, till he delivered him over to his Redeemer. All his discourse was so ingenuous, and his expressions so Pathetic that he had few hearers, from whose eyes he did not bring tears. But Sir Robert Spotswood, and Master Andrew Guthery, died as they lived, full of malice against the Cause and Covenant, justifying themselves in all that they had done against the Cause. Sir Robert Spotswood inveighed much in his discourse against the Parliament of England, styling them always Rebels, and said, The Judgement of God was upon this Kingdom for assisting those Rebels against their native King, when he had granted unto us all that we could crave concerning the settling of our own Peace, and desired no more of this Kingdom but that they would be neutrals in the affairs of England; that the excommunicating those holy men of GOD (meaning the Bishops) was lying as a grievous sin upon this Land. That God had put a lying spirit in the mouths of our Prophets, whereby the people were deluded. Master Robert Blare who was appointed to attend him, desired the people to take notice that he was the Son of a false Prophet, viz. the pretended Archbishop of Saint Andrew's, sometimes Chancellor of Scotland; he would confess no more sin, but that he had as other men, Peccate juventutis, & quotidianae incursionis. He said to the Provest of Saint Andrew's, That he was sorry, the place where he was so much honoured should now be the Stage of his Tragedy. William Murray was executed upon Friday the 23. He confessed himself guilty of Adultery and Drunkenness: but denied that he was a Traitor to his Country. It is worthy of remark, that Nathaniel Gordoun whose sentence was most questioned, because of the offer made by him for exchange, that it should please God to open his eyes, and move him so ingenuously to acknowledge the Justice of the Sentence pronounced against him. Sir William Rollock, Sir Philip Nisbet, and Inner Wharrity, who were formerly executed at Glasgow acknowledged the Justice of the Sentence pronounced against them; yea Macklauchlane, and Col. Ocain the two Irish Rebels hanged at Edinburgh did the same: But these three last executed were obstinate to their last breath. The Process against the Earl of Hartfell is to be brought in to the Parliament this week. I acquainted you by my last that the Lord Ogilby was escaped out of Prison in his Sister's , and that the Rebels did retreat to the Hills upon Colonel Barclayes advance. I have no more to add at this occasion, but that I am Sir;  
St. Andrews the 26. of January. 1645. Your affectionate friend to serve you.   

At Saint Andrews Jan. 20. 1646/ 5.  
I Nathaniel Gordoun, being hearty sorrowful for my manifold grievous sins against Almighty God, and specially for taking up Arms and shedding much innocent blood in this wicked Rebellion against this Church and Kingdom; for which I was justly excommunicate by the Kirk; I do therefore humbly beg mercy and pardon from God for the same, through and for the merits of Christ his Son, desiring earnestly to be relaxed from that fearful sentence of Excommunication: And do hereby request and exhort all who yet adhere to that wicked cause, to leave the same as they would eschew the wrath of God. All which I do declare and testify in the sincerity of my heart, and in the sight of God the searcher of hearts, subscribing the same with my hand the day and place aforesaid.  
Nath. Gordoun.   

The Copy of another Letter sent from Saint Andrews, Dated january. 26. 1645.  
My honoured friend;  
I Know you will hear by the public Letters what our work is here; yet it will be but a small loss of time to you, to take notice of some Observations from him who is your Brother in Christ, and your private friend for the Publikes sake. When I remember the servants of God who have suffered for the Cause of Christ in this Land, of which many were my dearest friends, they bring to my mind Simon a man of Cyrene, who bearing the Cress of Christ after him, was the character of a Christian: When I look upon them, who by order of Justice are put to death for their wicked and unnatural Rebellion, some of them, ●s Sir William Rollock formerly, and now Nathaniel Gordoun, represent to my thoughts the penitent Malefactor converted to Christ at the time of his death; But others of them, such as Spotswood and Guthery, are like the other thief that died railing on Christ: In the one sort the mercy of God was manifest to repenting sinners; In the other, the justice of God was seen against such as continue in the iniquity of their fathers; for they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the wicked Sons of two excommunicated Prelates. This Spotswood, sometimes Precedent of the College of justice, Son to him who was both pretended Primate and Chancellor of Scotland, (monstrum horrendum) complained on the Scaffold, that he was brought to suffer in the place where sometimes he had been so much honoured, but did not observe the justice of God, by this circumstance of the place doubling his punishment, that some few years ago his cursed father's Coach (himself then being in England) was brought from his Castle thorough the whole City with the Hangman sitting in it, to the same very place of the Market Cross, and rent all in pieces? The Lord is known by the judgement that he executes; So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord. His fatal sentence was to die as a Traitor to the Estates, and an Enemy to his native Country; from which while he endeavoured to vindicate his innocency, he did involve himself in further guiltiness of both, by charging the Kingdom of England with Rebellion, and this Kingdom with unparallelled disloyalty, in taking part with a Faction in England against our own native King, who at his last being here, had given contentment to this Kingdom, both in the Affairs of Church and Policy, and by justifying and professing his assisting of the design of James Grahame, whom he calleth the Lord marquis of Montrose, the matchless mirror of all true worth and Nobility: In all which (to say no more) he either lied most impudently against his own knowledge and conscience; for he behoved to be convinced by our Declarations, and could not be ignorant that James Grahame was not a Mirror for Noblemen to dress by, but to present the monstrous face of drunkenness, of Adulteries, and of devilish pride, in such as are of noble extraction; for which (as was often presaged of him, and hath been paralleled by some few examples,) the Lord hath plagued him to be so horrible an Apostate and unnatural murderer, and is reserving him for a tragical end, to be a mirror of his justice and wrath to all degenerous and perfidious spirits in this and the after ages. And I am sure that Spotswood did no more allow him in taking and pretending to keep our first Nationall Covenant, by virtue whereof our Prelates did perish, than he did approve of others in joining in the mutual Covenant of both Kingdoms, by which himself and his fellows, with the Prelates of England, have now fallen. To return, if Spotswood did not lie against his own present conscience, he was punished with excae●●tion of mind, such as useth to be the usher of exemplary ruin and destruction in those whom the Lord hateth. One thing I cannot pass by, which maketh me conceive his estate to have been the more desperate, and that God had shut the way against all comfort to him by his Ministers; he spared not openly to spew forth that God had put a lying spirit in the mouths of the most part of the Prophets in the Land; It was answered in the time, That himself was the Son of a lying Prophet. And indeed, as one saith of Caesar Borgia, the Son of Pope Alexander the sixth, he was like his father, not only in body, but in the swarthiness of the complexion of his soul, both of them would have given no other verdict of our first Reformers, and of all the faithful that have either succeeded them in this Church, or have opposed defection, or sought after Reformation in the Church of England.  
The testimony of such Atheists and worldlings against them is no small commendation unto them, and to the truth which they have constantly preached, and sealed with their sufferings. But finding myself drawn beyond the length of a Letter, I will not further insist: I would only know of you some few things; 1. What can be the cause that Church-Government is not yet settled in England? The Assembly having given their advice for at long ago? the power of the Parliament being increased to such a fullness, is able to do it; and if they did not intent it in the beginning, or if they be grown more remiss than they were at first, I pray you tell me by what means I shall convince Malignants, and confirm the godly who have suffered so much in this cause. 2. Let me know whether it be true that is talked here by the best affected, upon what grounds I know not, that many of our professed Brethren rejoice in this, that God hath raised up an Enemy against us in our own Land, that they may the more easily dispose of our forces there at their pleasure; for I cannot imagine that they have more reason to rejoice in our calamity, than we had to rejoice in theirs. 3. Who is that Robert Wright and that unknown Knight who endeavours to make division between the Kingdoms by their letters and false informations: Have we not expressly covenanted to discover all such as are Incendiaries between the two Kingdoms, and to bring them to public trial, that they may receive condign punishment, according as their offence shall deserve? And are we not also obliged to endeavour that the two Kingdoms may remain conjoined in a firm peace and union to all posterity. 4. I desire to understand, whether before this work be done, they will insist in demanding their Garrisons, in abridging or starving our Forces, and in using all means to drive us home re infectâ. When you have satisfied me in these particulars, I will tell you more of my mind; In the mean time believe me, if matters go there according to the speeches of many here, although none of the wifest, yet non est temere quod vulgus dictitat, I know not what our Commissioners can say for themseives, that they have not given timeous warning of so great a change of disposition in our Brethren; and I know it will produce more woeful effects than I desire to see; but God I hope will bring his work to a more gracious end; which shall be the earnest prayer and endeavour of  
St. Andrews, 26. of January, 1645. Your affectionate friend and servant.