several ARTICLES OF THE SCOTS DEMANDS, PRESENTED To the High and Honourable Court of PARLIAMENT, By the Commissioners appointed for the kingdom of SCOTLAND.  
ALSO Their real Resolution and constant affection in joining with their Neighbour-Nation of England for the defence of the Religion and Laws of the two kingdoms against the common Enemies of them both, knowing that the ruin of the one would prove the ruin of the other.  
LONDON, Printed for J. Upton. Septemb. 17. 1642.   

several ARTICLES OF THE SCOTS DEMANDS, Humbly presented to the High and Honourable Court of Parliament, by the Commssioners of SCOTLAND. ALSO Their constant resolution and affection to England in defence of the religion and laws of the two kingdoms against the common enemies of them both.  
IT is desired that it may be entred in th●s present Parliament, that no Scotish men, Scotish Ships or Vessels, or Passengers belonging to the kingdom of Scotland be pressed by land or sea, in any part of England or Ireland, Sea-Ports or harbours thereof, seeing these are free from any press by the Law and practise of our kingdom.  
2. For a better commerce and intercourse betwixt the kingdoms of Scotland, England and Ireland, and that it may be now declared lawful to transport all goods and commodities from Scotland, to England or Ireland, or from thence to Scotland in the same case, and as free from customs and Taxations whatsoever, as if they were transported from one Port of Scotland to another, or from one Port of England or Ireland to another, with these Declarations always, that the said mutual liberty insomuch as concerns goods prohibited by the laws of either of the kingdoms to be transported to foreign Nations, shall onely serve for the inward use of the said three kingdoms.  
Alenially and the manner of the restraint and punishment of the contraveners to be considered upon.  
And that all Native and foreign commodities not prohibited in the kingdoms from whence they are transported, may by the Scotish men as freely be imported, as by any of His Majesties Subjects of England or Ireland, and so reciprocally in Scotland by the English and Irish.  
3. That the Scottish Ships coming from foreign places, and arriving in any Roads, Havens, or Ports of England or Ireland, through tempests of weather, or for refreshment, or upon whatsoever other occasions, and not disclosed, may be free to pass and repass without searching, or any other impediment: and that if any Scotish men shalbe loaden with moneys or whatsoever foreign Commodities in any foreign part, or in any foreign bottom, or in any English or Irish bottom; That it shalbe free to the Owners thereof and their Factors to unload their moneys, goods, and commodities aforesaid, at any Port of England or Ireland, and to transport the same from thence to Scotland without any impediment to be made to them, and the English and Irish to have the like liberty reciprocally in Scotland.  
4. If any Scotish ships or any other vessels loaden with Scotish mens goods, going or coming from any foreign Nation pertaining to Scotish men, as aforesaid, shall arrive in any part of England or Ireland, and having necessity to sell a parcel of their said goods, that it shalbe lawful for them to do the same, and to transport the remnant to Scotland or elsewhere, without the payment of any custom, but for so much as they shall happened to sell, and the English and Irish to have the like liberty reciprocally in Scotland.  
5. In respect of the great detriment sustained by His Majesties Subjects, and by the Dunkirks and other pirates, by robbing them of their goods, taking the ships, and spoiling their men: That some solid course may be taken for the preventing the like in time to come; so that His Majesties Subjects may have free trade hereafter, and the Scotish ships passing to France, Holland, or any other part, may have a safe convoy of His Majesties ships, as the English and the Irish ships have.  
6. There can be no greater mark of mutual unity betwixt the kingdoms, then a free and peaceable conversing at home and abroad, therefore we crave from the Parliament of England, that where the En●lish have any out-trade or dealing in foreign places, that it may be free to Scotish men to out-trade and deal in the same places, without any impediment to be made to them by the English or Irish; and the English or Irish to have the like liberty in out-trade or dealing of Scotish men in any foreign places.  
7. That the Scots men be not debarred from being associated in companies within the kingdoms of England and Ireland, upon such conditions as the English and Irish are admitted; and this to be reciproc●lly for England and Ireland in companies and all associations in Scotland; and because there are not such manufactories as yet erected in Scotland as are necessary, and that the trade of fishing( which is one of the greatest benefits within His Majesties Dominions) is not yet brought to perfection; it is fit that by mutual concourse of both kingdoms, such a course may be taken, as may best bring the trade of manufactories in Scotland, and fishing within His Majesties seas to perfection, and that Commissioners may be directed by the King and Parliament of the kingdoms to treat upon such means and conditions as may subsist with the freedom and liberties, and may conduce best to the good and benefit of His Majesties Dominions.  
8. That the House of Parliament would be pleased to take into their considerations the exorbitant customs and taxations, and other rigorous dealings, whereof the particulars are set down in a note herewith, given in, taken and used by the King of denmark both of the Scotish and English: and whereas His Majesties Subjects have already felt the smart thereof, that now some good course may be taken for reducing the said actions to some reasonable, known and constant measure, and for the liberty of His Majesties subjects from the like rigorous dealing in time to come.  
Wherefore let all those who love Religion and their Liberty, join against the common enemy, and let them be accursed who shall not seek the preservation of their neighbour nation, both in Religion and laws, as their own, as knowing that the ruin of one will prove the utter ruin of both. And knowing well, as having from their own councils discovered it, that the ruin of both was intended, and that it was ever their plot and purpose, that if they could not engage our dearest Brethren and Neighbour-Nation in a war for our destruction, then to give us some ill assured peace, which might bind our hands and hold us quiet, until the yoke of bondage were more heavily and unremovably laid upon our Brethren in England, by the help of such an Army as was pretended to be gathered against us. And as we attest the God of Heaven, that the maintenance of Religion and Laws, and no other, is our aim, for the achieving of which, we shall neither spare our pains, fortunes nor lives, which we know cannot be more profitably and honourably spent.   
FINIS.