JOURNAL OF JOHN ASTON, 1639 95 



* peace of this your majestie's native kingdonie,-^^ we fall downe 

 ' againe at your majestie's feete, most humbly supplicating 

 ' that your majestie would be graciously pleased to appointe 

 ' some few of the many worthy men of your majestie's kingdome 

 ' of England who are well effected to the true religion and 

 ' our common peace, to heare by some of us of the same affecion 

 ' our humble desires, and to make known to us your majestie's 

 ' gratious pleasure ; that as by the providence of God wee are 

 ' joyned in one island, under one king, soe by your majestie's 

 ' great wisdome and tender care all mistakingg may be speedily 

 ' remooved, and tlie two kingdomes may be keeped in peace 

 ' and happinesse under your majestie's long and prosperous 

 ' raigne, for which we shall never cease to pray as becomes 

 ' your majestie's faithfull subjects.' 



The Letter to the Lords. 



Wherein it is observable theire ill effecion to the Lord 

 Arundell, lord general], believing him to bee a papist, there- 

 fore they leave him out in the endorsement of their letter 

 and super-scribe it 



' To the right honourable the earle of Holland, general 

 ' of the cavallerie, and others of the English nobillity 

 ' counsellours about his majestie. 



' Most noble lords, 



' Although wee have beene labouring this long time, by our 

 ' supplicacions, informacions and missives to some of your 

 ' lordships, to make knowne to his majestie and the whole 

 ' kingdome of England the loyalltie and peaceableness of our 

 ' inte^ncions and desires, and that wee never meant to deny 

 ' his majestie, our dread soveraigne native king, any power 

 ' of temporall and civill obedience, yet contrary to our 

 ' expectacion and hopes, matters to this day growing worse 



^^ It is seldom remembered that King Charles I., whose " Martyrdom" 

 was for so many generations commemorated in the Church of England, 

 was not only a Scotsman, by birth, bat a Presbyterian in his early 

 training. 



