you finde I can serve, you may freely command
your Friend and Servant
December 30. 1653.
GLENCAIRN.
For the Earl of Glencairn.
My Lord
YOurs I received by your Trumpet, wherein
you have put your self to much labor to convince
me of the erroneousness of my Principles,
and of my blindness for want of Information; the
truth is, I see not so far as I desire, but the more
I see, the more I discover of the unwarrantableness
of your Proceedings, going about to disquiet
the Peace of the Country, and to devour
that little which the poor People have left them
upon pretence of a King, which I assure you I
have disowned, and will stil disclaim: And wheras
you are pleased to inform me of the greatness
of your Army, and of many who daily appear
for you in England and Ireland, I am apt to believe
that were you so powerfull as you speak, your
Lordship might have had far better Quarters in
the Lowlands; but were you ten times the number
which you are, it should not cause me to own
that power which you call Kingly, or to betray
that Trust committed to me by my just Masters,
the deliverers under God of the poor oppressed
and inslaved People of the Commonwealth of
England and Scotland, from Regall Tyranny and
Bondage, but shall through the Lords assistance
approve my self faithfull to them, while cal'd by
the name of JOHN HILL.
Ruthven Castle, December
30. 1653.