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A89885	The manifold practises and attempts of the Hamiltons, and particularly the present Duke of Hamilton now generall of the Scottish Army to get the crown of Scotland. Discovered in an intercepted letter written from a malignant here in London to his friend in Scotland. The letter is directed thus on the back, For the much honoured, 21.53.7.10.19.72.67.40.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678, attributed name.	1648 (1648)	Wing N396; Thomason E446_4; ESTC R202962	12,327	23

The manifold PRACTISES And Attempts of the Hamiltons And particularly of the present Duke of Hamilton Now Generall of the Scottish Army To get the Crown of SCOTLAND Discovered in an intercepted LETTER WRITTEN From a Malignant here in London to his friend in SCOTLAND The Letter is directed thus on the back For the much Honoured 21. 53. 7. 10. 19. 72. 67. 40. Printed at LONDON in the year 1648. The Practises and Attempts of the Hamiltons particularly of Duke Hamilton now Generall of the Scottish Army SIR THe newes of suppressing those Covenanters which were the first movers and chief Authors of all our troubles these ten yeers past the taking of Barwick and Carlisle the forward proceedings of your Parliament and the readinesse of an Army to advance into England for the Kings service give great encouragement to all our friends here But the report of Duke Hamiltons being made Generall is like water to our wine and afflicts us with fears It is a wonder how the Kings friends have been induced to consent unto it or what necessity could drive them to make use of so desperate a remedy which for my own part I fear wil prove a means to increase the disease and if God prevent not fatall to the King and his posterity For now the Hamiltons have not only the pen and the purse of Scotland the Dukes brother Lanerick being Secretary and his brother in law Treasurer both which have great influence upon the Subject But they have the sword setled in their hands by authority and so whom favour will not draw power will force to go along with their designes for obtaining the Crown and Government of that Kingdome which they have aimed at for one hundreth and twenty years and upward as may be clearly instanced in many particulars sufficiently known to all such as are acquainted with the State of affairs of Scotland in latter times I shall briefly put you in minde of some and leave the rest to your own observation After the death of King Iames the fourth Iohn Duke of Albany being chosen to governe the King in his minority The Hamiltons made a conspiracy to thrust the Duke out of authority and to take the custody of the King and Governement of the Kingdome into their own hands the better to accomplish their ends In pursuance whereof they took the Castle of Glasgow and made an Assembly of their faction But the Duke of Albanies speedy comming with an Army surprised them dissolved that Assembly and made the Earle of Arran chiefe of that designe to flee away But here they rested not For Sir Iames Hamilton bastard sonne to the Earle of Arran conspired the death of the King in his owne house at Holy-rude House For which and other crimes after mentioned divers years after when the Plot was revealed he was executed When this failed they used their endeavours that the King should not marry that so he wanting issue Hamilton might succeed to the Crown They hindred the Kings meeting with his Vncle the King of England who was willing to have married his only daughter to him and made him King of England as well as Scotland after his death The King going by sea to France Sir Iames Hamilton went with him to hinder his marriage and the King being asleep in the ship Sir Iames without any necessity from wind or weather caused the mariners to turne saile from the West Coast of England and to land in Galloway which gave the King such cause of discontent against Sir Iames as he began to understand his unfaithfull dealing and at last he was executed for Treason These practices discovered made the King more hasty to marry that his succession might put the Hamiltons out of hope and himselfe out of danger of their further plots The King dying and leaving issue only one daughter of six dayes old The Hamiltons thought all their own For they got the Earle of Arran to be named Governour by a private faction But the Estates soone weary of his Government discharged him of his office wherefore his designe to marry his sonne upon the Queen whom he keeped rather like a prisoner then a Princesse was disappointed though in the opinion of divers it was once farre advanced the Duke of Lenox and Earle of Angus his principall opposer one of them being by him banished and the other imprisoned After the Queen and her mother were rescued out of his hands in hopes to gaine their favour and so his ends he abjured his religion in Sterling but without successe When neither he could get the Queen out of the way nor married as he desired he consented to expose her to the stormes of the sea and danger of enemies and sold her to France for which he was made Duke of Chastle-rault Having in manner thus sold their pretence to the Title of the Crown yet the Hamiltons were not quiet but used many meanes during the Queens being in France and after her return to get the Crown In order whereunto they conspired with the Earle of Bothuel to kill the Earle of Murray and when the Queen married to the house of Lennox which to this day they esteemed alwayes as their great enemy they conspired with the Earle of Bothuel to murther the King wherein particularly Bishop Hamilton Duke Hamilton of Chastle-rault brother was very instrumentall When the King was thus removed and so the Crown brought a degree nearer to the house of Hamilton it seemed to them very probable as it was indeed that Bothuel should destroy the young King and not suffer him to live to revenge his fathers death and prejudge the children of Bothuel with the Queen in the succession to the Crown and if the King were destroyed they hoped that the Queen and Bothuel would be so hatefull to the people for the murther of her husband and her sonne that they would have easie accesse to the Crown or otherwise then that they might kil Bothuel in which case they were in hope the Queen should marry John Hamilton the Dukes sonne whom she entertained often with merry looks and chearfull countenance But the King being preserved and the Queen keeped in Loch-herm by command of the Parliament the Hamiltons took another course which was to relieve the Queen and employ all their power to suppresse the King and the nobilitie that adhered to him I might here make a large discourse of their base murthering the Regent the Earle of Murray their joyning in conspiracy with the Duke of Norfolk and others in England against Queen Elizabeth their pretending to have the Queen brought out of England when they knew it was impossible without the Queen of Englands favour which they never sought but rejected to the end they might in the meane time have the better opportunity to follow out their designes against the King and hinder him from being setled in the Government as now they pretend the rescuing of the King out of the Isle of Wight and yet by

their actions I am afraid shall render it impossible But I leave these and other remarkeable passages that I may come nearer our own times to speak of the designes of this Marquesse whom cunning policie and jugling carriage seconded with the Craft and Courage of his brother Lanerick seemes to have fitted for such an enterprise and who began very early to insist in the steps of his predecessors encouraged perhaps with that old Scotch Prophesie When Kaidyow shall be King Meikle woeshall be bring His first Plot to get power into his hands was under pretext of that levie for Germanie about seventeene or eighteene yeeres agoe whereof that you may have a true narration I shall give you the chief heads of the depositions of the Lord Reay Lord Ochilcree and others as their examinations were taken by the Lord Coventry then keeper of this kingdome treasurer VVeston the Earles of Morton and Carlisle by the Kings direction In anno 1630 three or foure considerable persons of the name of Hamilton of neere relation to the Marquesse of Hamilton not having served the King of Sweden one yeere cashiered themselves from service without any known cause to such as were their fellow souldiers the Lord Reay being in Stockholme at the same time was informed by his Lievtenant Colonel one Lindsey who lodged in the same house with Sir James Hamilton that the reason was their chiefe the Marquesse of Hamilton intended to be a souldier and they resolved to take a share of his fortune whatsoever it should be and that they had assigned their estates to others before their engagement that they had offered him the said Lindsey a Regiment whereof he did accept and that they shortly expected David Ramsey from England who accordingly not many dayes after came to Sweden In company one night as the Lord Reay Colonel Alexander Hamilton Sir James Hamilton and David Ramsey were drinking they did drinke the Marquesse of Hamiltons health by the name of James by the grace of God King of Scotland and in discourse David Ramsey complained to him of the great abuses in the Court and that Popery and Arminianisme exceedingly prevailed to which the Lord Reay replying that there was no remedy but patience nay sayes David Ramsey with a great oath to use your own words my Lord VVe must help God to amend it Further said that the Marquesse was a good Protestant and before it were long he would let the world see his designe was for the defence of his Religion the Lord Reay answered that it would be small advantage to us to procure a free passage of the Gospel in Germany if we lost it at home to which David Ramsey said there were many honest men at home and that the Marquesse would make use of his Army to protect them and that this was his onely aym Whereupon the Lord Reay offered his service in that quarrell David Ramsey said it was not needfull to impart any more to him of the businesse he must keepe his masters secret but if there was any thing the Lord Reay desired to be done for him in England he could do his Lordship service Colonell Hamilton and Sir James being to go for England the Lord Reay desired to have the reversion of Orkney saying it were for the advantage of the Marquesse his ends to have a friend in that place and on the morrow Colonel Alexander Hamilton and David Ramsey having given him great assurance of true friendship from their master the Marquesse if he would continue constant in resolution they desired him to write a generall Letter to the Marquesse with the two Colonels which he did and so they parted In the Moneth of July Master Robert Meldrum being come from the Marquesse in pursuance of that same designe the Lord Reay met with him in Pomerland and asked newes from England to which Master Meldrum answered that matters became worse and worse and the King did give greater way to Papists and Arminians then before then he asked the Lord Reay where his Cosen David Ramsey was and what he had done and the Lord Reay told him that he was gone for Holland and all things were done according to his mind and particularly that he had taken care for Armes and Ammunition to be sent to the Marquesse from Sweden at which newes Master Meldrum did throw his cap to the ground and jumped up calling aloud good newes good newes I am a happy man I am happy and made up for ever I thanke God my five yeeres paines are not lost my good Lord Reay is this true To which the Lord Reay replying that it was true and that he had a duplicat of the contract and was engaged in the busines to David Ramsey and the two Colonels and to the Marquesse by Writ Master Meldrum said O my Lord that was the worke of God and not man to inspire your Lordship to joyne with us Further Master Meldrum told to Lindsay my Lord Reays Lieutenant Colonel that six thousand trayned souldiers with their own Faction in the Countrey would be able to do the businesse The day following at Colonel Leslies Tent Master Meldrum told the Lord Reay that King Charles was created for nothing but for desolation and undoing of kingdomes Religion and people and there was no way left but to take him and immure him within a wall or Dungeon for ever The Lord Reay demanded how that could be got done Master Meldrum answered that the way was easie for after the men were levyed in Scotland they might take one moneth to traine them at Leith without any suspition then they might seise on the Castles of Edinburgh Sterling and Dumbartan and the Town of Barwick in one night and having fortifyed Leith then to enter England by open force Further he told that the Lord Reay that he was writing a Declaration concerning the Marquesse his just and cleere title to the Crown and touching the tyrannicall usage and sufferings of the Church under King James in his last dayes and now worse groaning under his Son Within a few dayes there came newes of the birth of the Prince and the Lord Reay asked M. Meldrum whether this would coole the Marques his intentions to which master Meldrum sighing said not If the King and Queen of Bohemia would give their daughter to the Marquesse as they had promised making no question or difficulty about the Marquesse his divorcing from his present wife which as David Ramsey had affirmed was a very beast and the King had forced him to marry her Also Master Meldrum being in company drinking with Lieutenant Colonel Lindsay and on Henry Muschamp an English Gentleman he did discover so much of that businesse as the morrow after the Lieutenant Colonel told the Lord Reay he thought Master Meldrum the worst Secretary in the world Master Meldrum in discourse one day with the King of Swedens Secretary said it were greatly for the advantage of the King of Sweden whose ambition was