MAJESTIE.

As our Record is on high, and our conferences within us bear us witnesse,
so the many former Supplications and Remonstrances to your Majestie, from
this Kirk and Kingdome, our solemne Covenants, and the whole course of our
proceedings from time to time in the prosecution of this Cause; Do make
known to the World, and we trust also to your own consience, our loyaltie
and faithful subjection, and how far our intentions are from the
diminution of your Majesties just Power and Greatnesse; And although the
successe of many of our humble addresses to your Majesty, hath been such
as did frustrate our desires and hopes, yet this hath not blotted our of
our hearts our loyaltie, so often professed before God and the World; but
it is still our Souls desire, and our Prayer to God for you, that your
Self and your Posterity may prosperously reigne over this your antient and
Native Kingdome, and over your other Dominions. And now as we have
published a solemn and free Warning to the Noblemen, Barons, Gentlemen,
Burrons, Ministers, and Commons of this Kingdome, concerning the present
affliction of this Nation, and their sins procuring the same; So when we
call to minde, that God accepteth not the persons of men, and that the
greatest are not to be winked at in their sins; We assure our selves, that
the best and most reall testimony which we can give at this present of the
tendernesse and uprightnesse of our affection to your Majesties true
Happinesse is this our humble and faithfull Representation of your
Majesties great and growing dangers, and the causes thereof. Of which, if
we should be silent, our consciences would condemne us, and _the stones
themselves would immediatly cry out_.

The troubles of our hearts are enlarged, & our fear increased in your
Majesties behalf, perceiving that your Peoples patience is above measure
tempted, & is like a cart prest down with sheaves, and ready to break,
while as beside many former designes and endeavours to bring desolation
and destruction upon us, (which were (and we trust all of that kinde shall
be) by the marvellous and mercifull providence of God discovered and
disappointed). Our Countrey is now infested, the blood of divers of our
Brethern spilt, and other acts of most barbarous and horrid cruelty
exercised, by the cursed crew of the Irish Rebels and their Complices in
the Kingdome, under the conduct of such as have Commission and Warrant
from your Majestie. And unless we pro