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made a most acurat and formal plea against the lawfullness
and authority of this High Court, and notably defended him-
selfe, was, notwithstanding, sentenced as a traitor, and execut
on Towerhil, quher he died like other martyres before him,
full of joy and blissed hope. New jealousies, animosities, and
discontents beginning among the Scots, some for limiting the
King that he should wholly depend upon the Kirk, and be at
the disposall of the rigid Covenanters, Cromuel knew well,
who never ceased scribling, divulging the English armies good
intentions for the Scots; and now, haveing got good recruits
for his army by sea, and plentifull provision, and the fleet
saileing in equal pace with is in tuto, encamps in Penthland
hills, the Scot army in view of them. The Kirks declaration Declaraiton of
now comes out, and runs, That the King, stumbling at and1
refuseing to subscribe unto the Declaration offerred him by
the Committy of Estates and Commissioners of the Kirk,
concerning his former carriage, is cause of just greefe and
offence in reference to the cause of God, friends thereof, and
therefore do declare that they will espouse any malignant
party or quarrell, but that they fight meerly uppon their
former ground and principles in the cause of God and the
kingdom, nor will they own the King or his interest further
then he owns and prosecuts the cause of God; and this per¬
emptory Kirk resolution by their clerk subscribed Alex. Ker.
one of their coll.
Cromuel meantime, his provision growing scarce, retiers to
Musslebrugh, and a few dayes after to Dumbarr, intending if
need be to get into England by sea, being closely followed by
the Scots army in the reer, who had great advantage to fall
uppon the English, now weary with long march and want of
victualls, and them pent up on a neck of land not a mile and a
halfe from sea to sea, also in straites, and many of their
soldiers sick, and the whole army shut up in a pound,
resolved to force their way through their enemy. Tusday
morning, September 3, Lambert, Whaly, and Lilburn, with
a strong party of horse, gaind the Pass of Coperspath, and
so David Lessly, the Scots General, got down the hill with
his braggad, and to it. The English word was The Lord of The battel of
Hosts; the Scotch, The Coovenant. Lambert cryed, Doe or temter^ilso.
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