V. There shall be no Meetings, Treatings, Consultations, or Convocations of His Majesties Lieges, but such as are warrantable by Act of Parliament.
VI. All Fortifications to desist, and no further Work therein, and they to be remitted to His Majesties Pleasure.
VII. To restore to every one of His Majesties Subjects their Liberties, Lands, Houses, Goods, and Means whatsoever, taken and detained from them, by whatsoever Means, since the aforesaid time.
[Next, the Commissioners signed the following
Note:[218]]
In the Campe, 18 Junii 1639.
In obedience to His Majesties Royal Command, we shall, upon Thursday next, the 20th of this June, dismisse our Forces, and immediatelie thereafter deliver His Majesties Castles, and shall ever, in all thinges, carry ourselves like Humble, Loyal, and Obedient Subjects.
| Rothes, | W. Douglas, |
| Dumfermline, | Al. Henderson, |
| Lowden, | Arch. Johnstown. |
1639.—June.
56. The Scottish Armies Declaration concerning the Acceptation of the Kings Majesties Answers.[219]
Least his Majesties Declaration, of the date Junii 18, concerning ane answer to our humble desire, presented by our Commissioners, should either be mistaken by our well-affected, or wilfullie misconstrued by the malitious, whereby his Majesties justice and goodnes may be concealled, or his Majesties good subjects may appear to have done or admitted any poynt contrare to our oath of Covenant; the Generall, Noblemen, Barrons, Burgesses, Ministers, and Officers conveined before the dissolving of the Army, have thought it necessary to put in write what was related to them by their Commissioners from his Majestie—To witt, That, as his Majestie declared that he would not acknowledge nor approve of the late Generall Assembly holden at Glasgow, for which cause it is called in his Majesties Declaration “a pretendit Assembly;” so was it not his Majesties mynd that any of the Petitioners, by their acceptance of the said Declaration, should be thought to disapprove or parte from the samen, or condemne their owne proceedings as disorders and disobedient courses; and, therefore, as they doe intreat all his Majesties good subjects, with submisse and heartie thanksgiving, to acknowledge and confesse his Majesties favour, in indicting a free Assembly, to be keept the 6 of August, and Parliament 20, for ratifieing of what shall be concluded in the Assembly as the propper and most powerfull meanes to settle this Church and Kingdome: so would they have all his Majesties good subjects to know, that, by accepting the said Declaration and Articles of Pacification joyned therewith, they doe not, in any sort or degrie, disclaime or disallow the said Assemblie, but that they still stand obleidged to adhere thereto, and obey and mentaine the same; and for preventing and mistaking all misconstructions, let this be made knowne to all persons, and in all places where his Majesties declarations shall be published, which, as it is his Majesties oune mynd, expressed diverse tymes to our Commissioners, so are we assured that it will serve much for his Majesties honour, for the satisfaction of the godlie, and for the promoting of this blessed pacification for which all of us ought earnestlie to pray unto God, to remember also our late Oath and Covenant, and to walk worthie of it, and to beseech the Lord that, by the approaching Assembly and Parliament, religion and righteousness may be established in the land.