WHereas a Paper containing many Falshoods, and tending much to the Dishonour of his Majesties late Proceedings in the Pacification given to his Subjects of Scotland, hath been dispersed in divers parts of this Kingdom; whereupon an Act of Council hath been made in these words en∣suing:
OR Sunday the fourth of August, 1639. His Majesty being in Council, was pleased to acquaint the Lords with a Paper he had seen at Berwick, entitled, Some Conditi∣ons of his Majesties Treaty with his Subjects of Scotland are set down here for remembrance. Which Paper being in most parts full of Falshood, Dishonour and Scandal to his Majesties proceedings in the late Pacifica∣tion, given of his Princely Grace and Good∣ness to his Subjects of Scotland, hath been very frequently spread here in England, and avowed by some in Scotland to have been ap∣proved and allowed as Truth by some of those Lords of England, who attended his Majesty, and were present at the Pacification in the Camp. Whereupon the Paper having been read, and his Majesty commanding those English Lords to declare their knowledge therein; The Earl-Marshal first begun to put his Majesty in remembrance, that some few days after the Pacification was conclu∣ded, some of the Scotish Lords coming to the Lord Chamberlain's Tent, sent to speak with him and the Earl of Holland, and offered them a certain Paper, which they pretended to have been collected for the help of their Me∣mories, and not otherwise, nor to be publish∣ed: But the said English Lords very dutiful∣ly and discreetly refused to accept that or any such Paper, but referred themselves totally to the Pacification in Writing. And the said Earl-Marshal further declared, That now