your Majestie and
present our humble desires more particularly then at this time could be
expressed by writ; And we are confident your Majestie will interprete our
freedom and plain dealing by them, to be a reall testimonie of our
unfained affection, who have constantly laboured to approve our selves in
all fidelity to our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, and in all loyaltie to
your Majestie; And are resolved to walk still after the same rule in our
severall stations and vocations, continuing our Prayers for you, that God
may multiply all sorts of Mercies upon your Royall Person and Posterity,
and more and more incline your heart to the speedie following of the
Counsels of Trueth and Peace and grant unto your Majestie along and happy
Reign, that we may live under you a peaceable and quiet life, in all
godlinesse and honesty.

_Edinburgh, 18. Junii 1646._

_Subscribed in name of the Nationall Assembly of the Kirk of_ Scotland _by
the Moderator._

_The Assemblies Letter to the Right Honorable the Lords and Commons in the
Parliament of_ England _Assembled at_ Westminster.

_Right Honourable,_

The report of the great things which the Lord hath done for your Honours,
hath gone forth into many Lands, and it becometh us least of any either to
smother or extenuate the same; We desire to be enlarged in the admiration
of the Power & Mercie of God the Author, & to diminish nothing of that
praise that is due unto you as Instruments. When the Lord set your Honours
upon the Bench of Judgment, both the Kirk and Common wealth of _England_
were afflicted with intestine and bosome evills, the cure whereof could
not but be very difficult; because they were not only many, but for the
most part Universall and deeply rooted, sheltred under the shadow of
Custome and Law, and supported with all the wisdom and strength of the
Malignant and Prelatical partie; who rather chose to involve the Land in
an unnatural and bloody Warre, then to fail of their ambitious and
treacherous designes, against Religion, the priviledges of Parliament, and
the Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdom: Neither hath that miserable crew
been wanting to their owne ends but for many years together hath
desperatly pursued their resolutions in Arms; And was likely to have
prevailed, if the Lord had not put himself in the breach, and furnished
you with much Patience, Wisdom, Courage, and Constancy, in the midst of
many difficulties and distresses; and at last with so g