44 ^ Defence of the Scots 



and endeavour as nnuch as they\ can to dafh the 

 Government and us againfl one another. But 

 they are nniftaken in the People of Scotland : 

 we are fo fenfible of our Obligations to K. Wil- 

 liamj and know (b well what is due to our De- 

 liverer, thst it furpafles all their Art to create 

 in us the leafl: ill thought of him ; it is not in 

 the tennper of our Nation. The World knows 

 that however frequent and fuccefsful we have 

 been in reducing our bad Kings to reafon, yet 

 there never was any People under the Sun more 

 loyal and affeftionate to good Princes than we 

 have been ; and if, when we have been forcM 

 to oppofe our Monarchs, private perfbns have 

 fometimes carried their Refentments too high, 

 yet the publick Juftice of the Nation was al- 

 ways governed with Temper. We could mul- 

 tiply Inftances to prove this, but need go no 

 higher than the three laft Kings, who thoall 

 of them Enemies to our Conftitution, as ap- 

 peared by their Principles and Fraftices, yen it^s 

 very well known what we both did and fiiffer'd 

 for them, and particularly for K. Charles I. tho 

 the Malice of a Faftion in our neighbouring 

 Nation fix'd a fcandalous Reproach upon us, as 

 if we had fold him ; from which Refleftion 

 we are fuiEciently vindicated by the Lord HoHu^ 

 Memoirs before-mentioned ; wherein that ex- 

 cellent Perfon makes it evident, that tho our 

 War againfl: that Prince was juft, yet we had 

 all pcflible refpeQ: for his Perlbn, made the beft 

 ^Conditions we could for his Safcj;y and Honour, 



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