I Have considered the severall Papers and Propostions delivered to me by you, and do assure you, that I desire nothing more, then that I may entirely unite the hearts and affections of all my good Subjects of Scotland to me, and amongst themselves, as well for the honor, peace, and prosperity of that Kingdom, as that they may joyntly and unanimously assist me in the revenge of that hor­rid and impious murder of my Father, and the recovery of my just rights in my other Domini­ons, to which they are all equally ingaged by the Lawes of God and of that Kingdom: and to the obtaining of such an union, I will consent to all that in conscience and honor I may, without imposing on my other Kingdoms; as first I will maintain, confirm and defend the Government Ecclesiasticall and Civill of Scotland as it is setled by Law, and all the ancient known Lawes of that Kingdom, as likewise all such Acts of Parlia­ment as have been actually consented unto by the King my Father, being personally present in Parliament, or by his Counsellors lawfully authorized by him; and particularly those Lawes concerning the Nationall Co­venant, the Confession of Faith and Presbyteriall Government of that Church. Touching that part of the League and Covenant which concerns my other Kingdoms of England and Ireland, it is not in my power justly to take any resolution therein, without the advice of my respective Parliaments of those Kingdoms, by whose advice and consent only Lawes are there to be made and altered. Neither can I consent to any thing which shal oppose or disturb the peace lately concluded in Ireland; but J am very willing to refer the full con­sideration of the League and Covenant, and all the other particulars you mentioned as to England, to a free Parliament to be convened there by my Writ, as soon as the condition of that Kingdome will permit me so to do, by whose advice J am resolved to govern my self therein. In the mean time as J am ready to do all that is in my power to the safe and quiet protection of my people of Scotland under the benefit of the Lawes of that Kingdom, as likewise further to gratifie them in all that may really tend to their welfare, so J shall expect that obedience and duty from them in the exercise of my regall power, as is due to me by their allegiance, to which they submitting, and for the buriall of all bitternesse and animosities which the former distractions and divisi­ons may have produced, and the better effecting the happy union before mentioned, I am very willing and de­sirous to consent to an Act of Oblivion and indempnity to all persons of what condition soever of that King­dom of Scotland, excepting only such persons (if any such there be in or of that Kingdom) that shall hereafter upon sufficient and due evidence in a lawfull triall be found actually and expresly guilty of that last unparallel­led horrid act of the murther of their late Soveraign. And if it shall appeare unto me that the League and Covenant containeth any thing in it not comprised in those Acts concerning the Nationall Covenant, and Presbyteriall Government of the Church of Scotland, and necessary to the welfare of the said Church and Kingdom, without reference to England or Ireland, J shall upon the full setling of such an Union, and the pas­sing of such an Act of Oblivion as is before mentioned, apply my self to give full satisfaction therein, passio­nately desiring to remove all occasions of misunderstanding between my self and all my good Subjects of that my Kingdom of Scotland: and what is not plenarily answered at this time, shall be supplied by an Expresse which I will dispatch into Scotland as soon as conveniently I can.