was said to Jehosophat for assisting Achab, "Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? therefore is wrath upon thee from the Lord." And that, as they desire to keep the communion of saints, they will forbear to give him either countenance or assistance, but look upon him as a person justly excluded from civil society for his reasonable practices, and excommunicated from the church of Christ for his abominable transgressions.

If he shall come into this kingdom, we are confident that all those in whom the sense of the fear of God, duty to the king, and affection to their native country, is not utterly decayed and extinguished, will heartily and unanimously join to resist and oppose him, and to use their best endeavours, that he may be brought to condign and exemplary punishment.

But if there shall be any found in the land so foolish, base, and treacherous, as to hearken to the vain promises, and empty professions of that scandalous, wicked, and infamous pamphlet, published under the name of " A Declaration of his Excellency James Marquis of Montrose, Lieutenant-governor, and Captain-general for his Majesty of the Kingdom of Scotland," (which, in detestation thereof, we have caused burn publicly at the cross of Edinburgh by the hand of the common hangman,) and shall aid or assist the said James Graham, in his wick. ed designs against religion, king, and kingdom, we do hereby declare all such as shall join or concur with him, or his adherents in arms, to be guilty of high treason, and to be punished and proceeded against, as the parliament, or their committees, shall think fit; and do further discharge all persons, of whatsoever quality or degree, to join with them in any oath, band, or associa tion whatsoever, or to assist or supply them and their adherents, or any of them, with men, money, arms, ammunition, victual, counsel, or intelligence, or to keep any sort of correspondence, public or private, with them, or any ways to aid or countenance them, or any of them, un der the pain of being esteemed as rebels, and proceeded against as the parliament, or their committees, shall think fit; and this we declare to be instead of all letters

of intercommuning. And power and warrant is hereby given to all good subjects within this kingdom, to rise in arms for opposing and suppressing all such as shall join in rebellion, as they shall be called and required thereto by the lord general, lieutenant-general, or any others having authority for that effect. And for the encouragement of all such as shall suffer in opposing or suppressing them, we do farther declare, that not only the losses and sufferings of such as shall be active in the cause against them, shall be taken in special consideration, and repaired out of the estates of such as shall join in rebellion, as aforesaid; but their service shall be rewarded, according as they shall be found to deserve. And we do ordain these presents to be printed and published at the market-cross of Edinburgh, and other ordinary places of publication needful.

A. JOHNSTON, Clericus Registri.

No. XXII.

List of the Prisoners taken and killed by Colonel Strachan, when he defeated Montrose, published at Edinburgh a few days after the Battle.

Prisoners.

LORD Frendraught,
Major-general Urry,
Lieutenant-colonel Stewart,
Lieutenant-colonel Hay, bro-
ther to the Laird of Naugh.

ton,

Captain Lawson,

Captain Lieutenant Gustar,
Lieutenant Verkin,
Lieutenant Andrew Osen,
Lieutenant Robert Touch,
Ernestie Buerham,

Lawrence Van Luttenburg,
Lieut. David Drummond,
Lieutenant William Ross,
Lieutenant Drummond,

Peter Sans, captain of dra- Lieutenant James Dun,

Major Clark,

Captain Mortimer,

Routmaster Wallenson,

Lieut. Alexander Stewart,

The Last Speech of Colonel William Sibbald, intended to have been spoken by him at his Execution, 7th January 1650.

GENTLEMEN, I am brought this day to this place, to pay a debt to nature before it be due; and by the malice and cruelty of my merciless enemies, I am sentenced to die a traitor to my country, for endeavouring to do service for my king, on whose happiness and welfare does depend the welfare of these kingdoms; and to whom I am bound, both by the law of God and man, to perform all faithful and loyal service. And as the cause for which I suffer proclaims my loyalty, so their sentence does declare to all the world their disloyalty, and their intentions against the king.

Their self-guiltiness makes cowardly spirits cruel; and such were their proceedings against me, as that I could not obtain an advocate to plead for me, nor any man skilful in the laws, either to advise with me, or to write my defence, though they knew me to be ignorant of the laws; thus is my innocence and integrity betrayed, partly by their malice and my own ignorance. The truth is, they did profer to do me any courtesy or

favour, if I would make an ingenuous confession, that is, accuse some noblemen and gentlemen of keeping correspondence with his majesty, or with the Marquis of Montrose; which, if I had done, I deserved to have been branded with perpetual infamy; for I never knew any man in this kingdom that did keep correspondence with them; neither had I commission from his majesty, or the Marquis of Montrose, to treat with any. I did indeed speak with some noblemen and gentlemen, because I was formerly obliged unto them for their love to me, and did expect from them small assistance to furnish me in my journey; but I never spake with them concerning the public affairs, any farther than the weekly gazettes made known to all the world. If these great fish could have been taken in our statesmen's nets, it might have been that such a minim as I should have escaped the bailiff of the fish-market's hands this day.

I have been from my youth a soldier; and though that calling in itself be honourable, yet men in that calling have greater occasions and provocations to sin than in any private calling. Besides, naturally my youth led me to some abominable sins, and custom in them for many years detained me captive unto them; so that I cannot but confess, that to me appertaineth shame and confusion in this life, and damnation of soul and body eternally in hell's fire, if God should deal with me according to my desert. My comfort is, that the blood of my Saviour cries louder in his ears for mercy than my sins do for vengeance; and that He who hath promised a free pardon and remission unto all penitent sinners, through faith in Jesus Christ, will purge and cleanse my soul from all uncleanness, and deliver me from all bloodguiltiness, by the blood of his Son our Saviour. The true sorrow that I find in my soul for my former sins, and that godly resolution and stedfast purpose I have to lead a new life, if it please God to continue it, together with the joy, the patience, and the courage I have to suffer, gives some assurance of this blessed hope, that, through faith in Jesus Christ my Saviour, my penitent soul, though sinful, shall be saved.

And as for my religion, I die, as I lived, a true Protestant. This religion, I thank God, as it preserved me from popish superstition, so it kept me from being seduced by the novelties of the times, and from being deluded with the wicked doctrine which is now taught by the reformers of the kirk. It was this religion which did keep my hand from your covenant; of which, in the space of some five years, you gave two interpretations quite contradictory; for in the year 1637, the assembly did affirm, as appears by our acts of parliament and assembly, that, in all causes whatsoever, you were to defend and maintain the person and dignity of your king; but in the year 1644, you limit your obedience to your king, to your religion, laws, and liberty, and make yourselves, in all differences between the king and you, both judge and party. The religion in which I was bred, taught me to give both to God and my king their due; it taught me to honour and worship God, and to expect salvation through Christ; and to live soberly, and to deal justly with all men. I ever hated that religion which made saints or angels sharers with God in worship, or men partakers with my Redeemer in the work of my redemption, or that made our Christian liberty a cloak of maliciousness: and though I, naturally inclined to evil and wicked company, drew me to most heinous and filthy sins, yet, I thank God, I hated that religion that taught impiety and wickedness, rebellion, murder, and injustice, or that approved the killing of kings, or their loyal subjects for their loyalty, as having its original rather from the devil, who was a murderer from the beginning, than from God; and I did ever esteem it more agreeable to man's sinful and corrupted nature, than to God's holy word. I have beard a learned man say that it were better to deny God to be, than to believe him to be such a one who delights in the bloody sacrifices of men and women, or to think that he is such a one who delights in cruelty and murder. The God whom we serve and worship is the Saviour of the world, the Preserver of man, the Redeemer of mankind, the Avenger of blood. I have been taught from God's word, that he hath no pleasure in wicked