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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46076	An impartial account of some of the transactions in Scotland, concerning the Earl of Broadalban, Viscount and Master of Stair, Glenco-men, Bishop of Galloway, and Mr. Duncan Robertson in a letter from a friend.	Friend.	1695 (1695)	Wing I65; ESTC R15762	20,378	32

great or many strangers present which might be a Reflection in these days but I hope not now and to tell the truth I dare give no worse Character of him As for his Behaviour in Matters of State these are Matters I do not meddle with let him put his misbehaviour in Publick who will venture to do it if they can but I judge it will puzzle any to do it and Rational Men will Judge that he who Rules his Family best at home is the fittest to Rule in Publick and I pray God long may such Men Rule amongst us I will not say but the Lord Viscount Stair is envied by some People for his Parts and growing Greatness but that should be no Argument with Rational good Men being that mens Vertues ought not to be accounted their Crimes And I believe he may say in his Old Age Whose Ox or whose Asse have I taken The Master of Stair is the foresaid Viscount's Eldest Son liberally Educated and bred to the Law being upon his Travels in the time of the Dutch War he and one Ramsay Son of Sir Andrew Ramsay of Abbots-Hall being intimate Companions happened to be at Chatham and as I am informed preserved one of the King's Men of War from being blown up by the Dutch with the hazard of their own Lives for which brave Action when they were but very young King Charles Knighted them before he knew who they were thus I heard it In the Year 1672. Sir John was admitted after his Tryals to be an Advocate which Employ he followed for several Years being of the first Rank In the Year 1683. when the said Viscount his Father was forc'd to abscond in Holland as is said before the Laird of Claverhouse afterwards Viscount Dundee having the Command of the Army which was sent to the West Country to Spoil and Dragoon the Dissenting Party not without our Scots Bishops consent did attempt to possess himself of the Office of the Baily of Regality of the Lordship of Glenluce which did Heritably belong to the said Sir John and the Viscount of Stair his Father Sir John now Master of Stair by Creation of his Father Lord Baron and Peer of the Realm did oppose the Lord Dundee and beat him off for which he was convened before the Council and fined in 500l which he paid In the Year 1684. The said Master was seized at his own house when his Lady was just to lye in and made Prisoner being suspected it seems by the then Government to have Correspondence from Holland and to have carried on intrigues against the Government and being brought to Edinburgh was carried from the Palace of Holyrood-house where he was examined by the Ministers of State as a Trophe it seems to disgrace him between the common Soldiers along the publick Streets to the common Prison more than half a Miles distance was kept close Prisoner there for several Months not knowing for what Crime but as himself then said for the Original sin of the Father At last after many Petitions he had the favour granted him by the Council to be enlarged to the Castle Prison where he lay a long time till the Government was ashamed they could not fix a Crime upon him set him at Liberty In the Year 1687. there being none of the Advocates but these who were advanced to be Lords of the Session for their then Zeal and Loyalty to the Cause in hand fit to be the King's Advocate the Court hoping to gain him to their Party and to wheedle his Father over from Holland made the Master King's Advocate that being the time of the Toleration and during a whole year he continued King's Advocate there was none Prosecuted to death but one Man upon the score of Nonconformity The Court perceiving the Master's behaviour in that Post that year and intending to take another course by the Dispensing Power and finding him not to be a fit tool for their purpose brought in Sir George Mckhenzie again to be King's Advocate and they degraded the Master to be Justice Clerk then they found out he was the Man saved the Bishop of Ross in Anno 1686. by advising him to appeal from the Bishops Court to the Parliament Upon the Revolution the Earl of Perth then Chancellor fearing the just indignation of the enraged Mob taking his flight the said Master and some others of the Privy Councellors taking care first of keeping things in order and distributing so far as was then in their power the Government in the best hands went up to wait upon the Prince of Orange in December 1688. concurred in making the address to the Prince for taking on the Administration of the Government assisted in the Convention 1689. as a chosen Member thereof was the Man chiefly with the indefatigable pains and endeavours of the late Duke of Hamilton chosen President of the Convention who concerted the Resolution and stated the vote of forfeiting King James and Proclaiming his Majesty and the late Queen King and Queen of Scotland The Master of Stair in conjunction with the Earl of Argile and Sir James Montgomry were voted and sent up Commissioners from the Three Estates of Scotland to make offer of the Crown to their Majesties when our Gracious King was pleased to make the Master his Advocate again and Lord Melvil Secretary of State c. The foresaid Convention being turned into a Parliament The Duke of Hamilton made Lord High Commissioner some People who pretended great matters for Religion Liberty and Property being displeased it seems that they were not advanced instantly to some places of high dignity and trust in the Government recoiled And then it was that we unhappily turned into Parties which put the Subjects in a ferment made our Proceedings uneasie ever since at home and makes the King's Affairs sometimes to be retarded both here and abroad thus by our Divisions giving too much encouragement to the disaffected Party In the Winter 1690. The Master of Stair was advanced to be conjunct Secretary of State with the Earl of Melvil who upon the Revolution was made sole Secretary of State for Scotland as aforesaid which he did merit as formerly a great Sufferer and always a true common weals Man In the year 1692. Mr. James Johnson was made Conjunct Secretary of State with the Master of Stair and the Earl of Melvil sent to Scotland to be Lord Privy Seal And as to these Three Persons they continue in the same Stations and Offices still The Earl of Broadalban who was formerly called Sir John Campbell of Glenorchy an ancient family in the Highlands a Cadent of the family of Argile when he married the late Earl of Argile's Sister Countess Dowager of the late Earl of Caithnes who died without issue Male he the said Sir John was created Earl of Caithnes in the year 1677. or 1678. and brought several debts upon the Earldom of Caithnes and made use of force to possess himself of the Estate which