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A30389	The memoires of the lives and actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, &c. in which an account is given of the rise and progress of the civil wars of Scotland, with other great transactions both in England and Germany, from the year 1625, to the year 1652 : together with many letters, instructions, and other papers, written by King Charles the I : never before published : all drawn out of, or copied from the originals / by Gilbert Burnet ; in seven books.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Selections. 1677.	1677 (1677)	Wing B5832; ESTC R15331	511,397	467

for the King to do much without a Parliament in England and Subsidies granted by it but they had reason to think the Parliament would begin with Grievances before they went to Subsidies and if their enquiring into the former proved long and fierce as it would protract the Kings Supply it might also breed Irritations and Heats and end in a Rupture without relieving the King Neither could much be expected from a Loan of Money most of the Cities London especially were not well-affected to the Court and so were like to prove backward and narrow and all might be promised from that was to put off one Summer but the Scotish Storm was like to lie longer Besides he believed that if the Loan of Money went through the Scots would think that a good reason for their entring into England to make the Northern Countries the seat of the War which would prejudice the Kings Service in England All this he foresaw well and therefore was rack't with perplexity only he was not doubtful what to doe himself resolving to follow the Kings Interests on all hazards and in these Consultations this Year ended Anno 1640. An. 1640. They prepare in Scotland for War IN Scotland they begun again to prepare for a new War and the Ministers this year were likewise very busie taxing the King as having violated the late Pacification because way was not given to all their Acts. Besides it was preached in the very Pulpits of Edinburgh that the King had caused burn at London by the hand of the Hangman the Articles of the Treaty at Berwick This was founded on the Censure was put on the Paper spoke of last year which they gave out as the Conditions of Agreement and was burned by Order of the Council of England upon the Declaration made by all the English Lords who were on the Treaty That no other Articles were agreed upon beside the Seven above-mentioned yet this took with the People Next they laid on great Taxes for paying the last years Debts and defraying the Expence this year was like to draw on and for procuring of Money they fell on a new Device to cause the Ministers exhort all to lend liberally for the Service of the Cause which they did with so much Art and Zeal that the Women came and brought in their Jewels Rings and Plate however much Money was not got that way and all was far short of what they needed therefore divers of the most zealous of the Lords chiefly the Earls of Rothes and Cassils did give Bonds for great sums of Money and one Dick a rich Citizen of Edinburgh was got to lend them many thousand pounds Lanerick made Secretary of State In February the Earl of Sterlin the Secretary died for whose Place the King made choice of the Marquis his Brother Lord William whom he created Earl of Lanerick It was indeed the Kings choice for neither had the Marquis moved it nor himself pretended to it The Earl of Lanerick did act so considerable a part in Affairs after this that methinks their History should be as little divided as their Counsels and Affections for the Kings Service were and therefore as Lanerick's Actions come in my way they shall not be passed over in silence Being made Secretary his first care was to inform himself of all that belonged to his Place and Duty in the discharge whereof he resolved neither to spare labour or industry that thereby he might supply the defect of his years which were then but four and twenty But to go on with the Series of the Story the King went on carefully with his Preparations only the Charge of a Fleet was so great that he could not think of it this year but sent out as many Ships as stopt the Scotish Trade And finding how ill he had been served by his Lieutenant-Generals the former year and confiding both in the valour fidelity and conduct of the Earl of Strafford then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland he was called over to be Lieutenant-General in this Expedition and the Marquis was designed Colonel of the Kings Regiment of Guards The state of Affairs in Scotland In Scotland they were gathering Money bringing in more Arms and fortifying suspected Places few resisting them except Huntley in the North and Niddisdale in the South but the later was able to doe little The Marquis had divers Letters from my Lord Lindesay which are yet extant complaining of the Preparations they heard were making against them That Officers for the Army were already named Money was gathering not only Berwick Carlisle were fortified but Edinburgh-Castle and Dumbriton also had new men put in them and English-men were put in the former whereupon they were forced to resolve on hazarding the utmost for the Defence of Religion and Liberties and that all were Contributing very liberally and knew of good Friends both in England and abroad wherefore he assured him if things went to extremities they would not end so well as they did last year And he besought him that he would prove a good instrument betwixt the King and the Country protesting that for his own part nothing next to Religion went so near his Heart as the Kings Service In end he conjured him not to accept of any new Service if it went to an open Breach assuring him he would be ruined if he did telling him that God had provided a relief for them beyond their expectation The Marquis carried all these Letters as he got them to his Majesty and by his command wrote the following Answer My Lord I Received yours of February The Marquis his Letter to the Lord Lindsay wherein you endeavour to let me see the hazard that His Majesty may run if he take not a peaceable Course with his Subjects of Scotland which you say I am reported to be no adviser of as likewise the unavoidable Ruine that will befall me in case of my accepting of any Imployment against them The Arguments that you use are the Resolutions of your own People and the assistance that you will have elsewhere the particular way you forbear to write yet you say that God hath provided it beyond your expectation and as it was beyond your expectation so it is still beyond my belief my Reasons you shall have anon But first I will say somewhat concerning my self Know then Brother for a truth that I heartily pray a Curse may follow him and his Posterity that doth not endeavour and wish that these unhappy Troubles may be composed in a fair and peaceable way God who knoweth the Secrets of all mens thoughts can bear me record with how much care pains and zeal I have endeavoured that and I promise you I shall as faithfully continue in that Course as ever man did in any Resolution which was with reason grounded in his heart how few either believe or know this I care not for I have laid my accompt long since and am resolved on the worst that

own Hand which is to be omitted Whitehall 19th October 1638. The Marquis having got clear Directions in every particular for not so much as the Speech he was to have at Glasgow but was sent up and returned with the Kings Superscription a few lines of the first draught being onely dashed out by His Majesty he resolved to set out for Glasgow on the 16th of November But before he went he declared in Council that His Majesties positive Pleasure was that Episcopacy might be limited but not abolished and delivered them a Letter from the King commanding them to follow him to Glasgow and required the Kings Advocate to prepare himself to defend Episcopacy to be according to the Laws of Scotland he answered that it was against his Conscience to doe so and that he judged Episcopacy both contrary to the Word of God and to the Laws of this Church and Kingdom This brisk Answer though it was no surprize to the Marquis put his temper to a greater trial than any thing he met with in Scotland he threatned him with taking his Place from him but he answered him boldly that his Right to it was ratified in Parliament So he could do no more for that time but command him not to come to Glasgow which he obeyed On the 17th of November the Marquis came to Glasgow The Marquis goes to Glasgow and thither came to him a Letter from the Bishops of Ross and Brechin whom he left in Hamilton till he had opportunity of conveying them securely to the Castle of Glasgow which he did The night after he received the Letter that follows May it please your Grace WHat came from my Lord S. Andrews is herewith enclosed We humbly and heartily thank your Grace for your excessive favour and kindness towards us we must take it the more kindly that we know at such a time it is to let others see what respect your Grace carries to our Coat for our selves we could more willingly chuse a more sober diet and less ease considering our own Sins and the difficulties of the Times do admonish us rather to fast than feast to afflict our Souls rather than to relish any worldly pleasure But above all we two for our selves and in name of our Brethren do with most thankful hearts acknowledg your Graces most pious care of the Liberties of this poor distressed and distracted Church and especially the sollicitude and care your Grace hath that our Protestation be orderly done secretly kept and seasonably presented before either the Cause or we ●hat are Bishops suffer wrong It is that which now concerneth us most and is dearest to us both for Conscience before God and our credit to the present Age and future and we cannot express how happy we are to have in this Exigent such a Pious and Noble Patron careful and sollicitous with the most tender affection both of our Cause and Persons where otherwise with the greatest loss at least hazard can be to discharge our Duty to God and his Church we should be necessitated to doe it our selves and haply neither with so much safety nor honour God will reward your Grace we are confident and bless your Grace and yours for we dare aver in this Division your Grace hath made choice of the better part The Difficulties are great the Hopes none but too pregnant Fears to the contrary yet it is the more like to be Gods Cause that his Work may appear and it may be called digitus Dei and marvellous in our eyes Mans extremity is Gods opportunity We have given Doctor Hamilton our best directions which we submit humbly to your Graces better Iudgement to add and command what you think fit he needs no more Deputation but the inserting of his Name in the Procuratory which is in the close of the Declinator Above all we have recommended to him a care that it may be timeously presented but in this we trust only to your Grace As we pity the Difficulties your Grace is cast into so shall we be earnest supplicants to God Almighty to bless and preserve your Grace in this and all other Services wherewith God and His Majesty hath trusted you Your Graces most humble and bounden Servants Iohn Rossen Wal. Brechinen Hamilton Nov. 20. 1638. POSTSCRIPT What goes from my Lord of St. Andrews directed to me I beseech your Grace to open and read for your own use Because of an ambiguous word which was in the Paper the Marquis was to offer in His Majesties Name to the Assembly so strictly conscientious was His Majesty The strictness of his Majesties Conscience that he wrote His sense of it in the following Letter that found him at Glasgow Hamilton THis is rather to give the reason of My Answer than the Answer it self you being to receive it at large by My Lord of Canterbury The truth is that the same reason which made me blot out the whole Sentence before hath made me desire to alter a word now to wit that I should not be thought to desire the abolishing of that in Scotland which I approve and maintain in England namely the Five Articles of Perth now the word content expresses enough my consent to have them surcease for the present but the word pleased methinks imports as much as if I desired them to take them away or at least were well-pleased that they should doe so But I leave it to your ordering so that you make it be clearly understood that though I permit yet I would be better pleased if they would let them alone and so I rest Your assured constant Friend CHARLES R. Whitehall 21th of Novemb. 1638. At Glasgow the Marquis found the greatest confluence of People The Assembly sits at Glasgow that perhaps ever met in these parts of Europe at an Assembly On the 21th they sate down Mr. Bell Minister of Glasgow preached as the Marquis had ordered The Marquis judged it was a sad sight to see such an Assembly for not a Gown was among them all but many had Swords and Daggers about them when they were set he as Lord Commissioner begun with this Speech My Lords and the rest of this Reverend Assembly The Marquis his Speech THE making of long Harangues is not suitable either with my Education or Profession much less with this Time which now after so much Talking ought to be a time of Action I pray God that as a great and I hope the worst part of mens Spirits hath been evaporated into bitter and invective Speeches so the best and last part of them may be reserved for Deeds and these answerable to the Professions which have been made on all sides when this great Assembly should come For the Professions which have been made by Our Sacred Soveraign whom God long preserve to reign over us I am come hither by His command to make them good to His whole People whom to His grief He hath found to have been poysoned by whom I know

which could never be recovered for this raised Jealousies in the minds of the Scotish Lords as if the King had no Confidence in them which was cherished sufficiently by divers Male-contents upon which the Marquis despaired of getting any good done in Scotland All he judged possible thereafter was to prevent and provide against the Evil he feared and that he prosecuted with all the Zeal he was master of which His Majesty understanding by Mr. Mungo Murray Cupbearer wrote him what follows Hamilton YOur Letter and this Bearer hath so fully satisfied me that I cannot be more confident in any thing than that you will beside what you have deserve that mark of Favour I intend you You know me too well to have more words spent upon you only this I think unfit to trust particulars to Paper having so trus●y a Messenger whom I stayed this long expecting dayly a Battel but now I think the Rebels want either Courage or Strength to fight before they be forced So referring you to my Servant Mungo I rest Your most assured constant Friend CHARLES R. Wollerhampton the 27th Octob. 1642. The next Meeting of the Conservatours was on the 24th of November The Conservatours become worse affected where their strain seemed much altered to the worse yet they still resolved to interpose in a Mediation betwixt the King and the Parliament of England whereupon they wrote both to the King and the Two Houses for a Safe-conduct to such as they should send up At this time there were great Complaints of some encroachments made upon the Priviledges the Scotish Nation had enjoyed in France The Earl of Louthian is sent to France for Redress whereof the Council thought it necessary to send one to France and made choice of the Earl of Louthian and sent him first to the King with the Instructions they had given him that His Majesty might send him as His Minister to negotiate that Affair One of the Instructions was to get the Marquis put in possession of the Honour and Revenue of Chastle-herault Upon the Earl of Lowthian's coming to Court the Instructions he had from Scotland were called for by His Majesty who judged he had no reason to allow this Precedent of His Subjects instructing His Agents to Foreign Courts and these are yet extant among Lanerick's Papers But the King caused write them over in his Name so that there was no ground from this to charge any thing on the Marquis as tampering with Foreign Princes which was publickly done by his Enemies on this occasion it having been ordinarily recommended by King Iames to all the Ministers he sent from Scotland to France Neither was this done without the Kings particular Knowledge and Orders for besides that the King gave that Instruction with the rest he very seriously recommended it by word of mouth to Lowthian's Care as he informed the Writer After this the Marquis represented to the King that it were fit he should send down some person of Quality to give fresh Assurances and Hopes before they sent up their Commissioners Lanerick is sent back to Scotland whereupon the King sent down the Earl of Lanerick as the person who understood his thoughts best and was ablest to second his Brother in advancing his Service He came from Oxford in the beginning of December and brought the following Letter from the King to his Brother Hamilton THough the Trust of this Bearer needs not a Credential Letter An extraordinary Letter of the Kings yet the Civility of a Friend cannot but under his hand as well as by word of mouth express his Kindness and resentment of Courtesies which of late have been such that you have given me just cause to give you better Thanks than I will offer at in in words I shall not neglect the lazie use of so trusty a Bearer by referring to him not only the estate of my Affairs here but likewise in what way you will be of most use to Me yet I cannot but tell you I have set up my rest upon the Iustice of my Cause being resolved that no extremity or misfortune shall make me yield for I will be either a Glorious King or a Patient Martyr and as yet not being the first nor at this present apprehending the other I think it now no unfit time to express this my Resolution unto you One thing more which but for the Messenger were too much trust to Paper the sailing to one Friend hath indeed gone very near me wherefore I am resolved that no Consideration whatsoever shall ever make me doe the like Vpon this Ground I am certain that God hath either so totally forgiven me that he will still bless this Good Cause in my Hands or that all my Punishment shall be in this World which without performing what I have resolved I cannot flatter my self will end here This accustomed Freedom will I am confident add chearfulness to your honest Resolutions seeing beside Generosity to which I pretend a little my Conscience will make me stick to my Friends assuring you I have none if I am not Your most assured constant Friend CHARLES R. Oxford 2d Decemb. 1642. This excellent Letter will both shew what pious Resentments His Majesty carried along with him in the greatest perplexities of his Affairs and discover how he did not think that the Marquis had either neglected or abused his Trust. Lanerick acted with more briskness and spoke more home and roundly than his Brother which preserved him in a high degree from the Jealousies which the smoothness of his carriage brought upon him Now the Pulpits were not idle for the Ministers begun again to work on the People The Ministers perswade the People to Arms. for the Defence of the Good Cause now in hazard which was ecchoed back with the applause of the Vulgar The Marquis and Argyle at enmity At this time the Marquis his Friendship with Argyle grew to a Coldness which after a few moneths turned into an Enmity for he finding Argyle so backward in all motions for the Kings Service and that he could not be prevailed upon to continue in a Neutrality in the English quarrel broke with him There was then in Scotland one Pickering an Agent from England who studied to poyson all with Misinformations of the Kings Proceedings and Designs The Marquis is complained of England as the Incendiary He wrote to Mr. Pym that he found good inclinations with all in Scotland to own their Quarrel and declare for them only the Marquis with his Friends resisted it so powerfully that till he were laid aside the success of his Negotiation was to be feared Wherefore he advised to proceed against him roundly and either to summon him to the House of Peers or to send down a Warrant to pursue him in Scotland as the Incendiary betwixt the two Kingdoms and he sent threatnings of this to the Marquis but he found his firmness to the Kings Service was proof against all