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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

can befall me And for your further satisfaction know that nothing can grieve me more in this World than to be sent in any Hostile manner against my Friends Kindred and Country where at the best though I may merit something from His Majesty to whose Goodness I owe much besides the Duty of a Subject yet I shall never be called other than the Destroyer of them and what cause of Sorrow this will be to a kind-hearted Scotsh-man I leave to you to judge Therefore I assure you that if either my Industry Intreaties nay Prayers prevail no such Charge will be imposed on me my inclinations having always led me in this rather to follow your Advice and absent my self in case things come to the worst than to accept of that Employment though I must tell you it may bring along with it His Majesties Displeasure and so consequently certain Ruine Yet I do intend to put that to the hazard and if it happen I will have the Vanity to say it will neither prove advantageous to the Country nor to those in it who once did me the Honour to esteem me their Friend To conclude this point consider if a Navy come probably I must be miserable for what can I gain by it if employed a Discontented Life ever hereafter If the King should impose the Charge on me and I refuse it what the better would you be an abler would be employed in it and I need never look for His Majesties Favour thereafter after and without that in his Kingdom will I never live If I had no other Reasons but these but I could write you fourty more consider if I have not cause to endeavour Peace and believe me I will do it For the Danger that His Majesty will run if he enter into this War I do acknowledge with you it may be great but that certain Ruine must follow I cannot confess yet I must say that his Gain will be but small when he hath g●● that by Force which is his or ought to be his already but what remedy He conceiveth a Kingdom to be lost and two will be hazarded to regain that if they continue in the Course they are in For the Assistance you mention God hath provided for you elsewhere that is conceived to be used as an argument to fright us For from whence can it come From a Party in England Trust not to that nor give credit to a few Factious Spirits with whom perhaps Correspondence may be kept From France Reason and the knowledge of their Affairs make us confident that no great matter can come from thence Reason for they will not assist the Rebels for so you will be called of a King for examples sake and the necessity of their Affairs for we know they have enough to do elsewhere From Sweden Though they perhaps be willing yet it is known they have not men to do it in these Parts From Holland The Body of that Estate hath by their Publick Ministers disallowed your Actions and hath given assurance that they will be far from either giving Countenance or Assistance to you what private men may doe by way of Stealth is little regarded or to be esteemed Thus I freely write what is thought of the Assistance you are like to get from abroad of which Opinion I shall still be unless you can make it more clearly appear therefore I will use the old Proverb to you Beware that your stout Hearts make not your Heads dry a Gutter and make you neglect the receiving of His Majesties Pleasure with all thankful Obedience which for any thing I know nay I durst Swear will be no other than stands with the true Protestant Religion and the Laws of the Kingdom What pity is it then that these mistakes should continue but how much more will it be that they should encrease to a Bloody War If all amongst you would rightly consider what true Religion and Piety is and lay that only before their Eyes there are yet not only good hopes but certain assurances of a peaceable Conclusion of those unhappy Troubles and as you have advised me so let me you which perhaps may be the last time that on this Subject I shall write to you endeavour Peace which if gained the effusion of much Christian Blood will be saved the Country preserved Scotsh-men esteemed Valiant Iust and Loyal not only in this Kingdom but through all Europe and no man happier than Your now much troubled and affectionate Brother HAMILTON POSTSCRIPT For Answer to your Postscript I am not in dispair but to bring it to a good pass if your own carriage do not marre it for His Majesty is content to sign the Signature but i● is to remain in my hands and not to be delivered except your Carriage do deserve it as well as Crawfords who knows not as yet how far His Majesty hath condescended This Letter is not fit to be long keeped therefore it will not be amiss it be burnt Let me hear from you with the first occasion and thereafter I care not how seldom if matters come to the worst Since the writing of this the Letter which Rothes wrote to the Chamberlain by Dumfermline was this day publickly read at Council-board His Majesty being present it hath produced contrary effects to what I believe he expected for not only doth the Chamberlain swear that there is not one true word in it but hath beseeched His Maj●sty that Rothes may be called to an account for the traducing of him in so high a nature to use his own words nay to make him if it were in his Power appear to be a greater Traytor than himself In a word the whole Table was much scandalized with the Letter and no wayes satisfied with the Writer of it even though it had been all as he expressed I profess I have loved Rothes and am sorry when any misfortune befalls him and likewise I thought fit to mention this that you may see what those of this Country will doe when it comes to an issue therefore I hope not only he but the whole Country will take example by this and grow wise while there is time This Letter he carried to the King and at the end of that Copy he retained yet extant His Majesty with his own hand wrote I have perused this Letter and have not only permitted but commanded that it should be sent CHARLES R. Whitehall 2 March 1639. This is set down to shew what his Correspondence with his nearest Friends was and how warranted by His Majesty But that the Reader may not be wholly in the dark about the Grounds of this Confidence the Covenanters had The Grounds of the Covenanters Confidence I shall set down what I had from some Persons of great Honour who were fully informed about it When the Earls of Dumfermline and Lowdon came to London a Person of Quality of the English Nation whose Name is supprest because of the Infamy of this Action

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