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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

THE MEMOIRES OF THE LIVES and ACTIONS OF Iames 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 BVRNET In Seven Books LONDON Printed by I. Grover for R. Royston Bookseller to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty MDCLXXVII To the King May it please Your Sacred Majesty THE following History being a Relation of Your Royal Fathers Counsels and Affairs in Scotland I hope for an easy Pardon of my Presumption in offering it to Your Majesty Your Concern in a Work that relates so much to the King Your Blessed Father moved You to look on it and read some parts of it and after You had honoured it with a Character too advantageous for me to repeat You were Graciously pleased to allow me Your Royal Licence not only to Publish it but to Address it to Your Self and therefore I hope Your Majesty will favourably Accept this tribute of my Duty which with an humble Devotion I lay down at Your Feet My Zeal for Your Majesties Honour and Service engaged me first in this Work and the same Passion which I derived from my Education and still governs my Heart and Life makes me now Publish it For nothing does more clear the Prospect of what is before us than a strict Review of what is past which I have laboured to make with all possible Fidelity and Diligence I know I shall not escape Censures since few can bear a true and free History but as I have set down nothing for which I have not Authentick Vouchers so I have observed Your Majesties Acts of Oblivion and Indempnity as much as could consist with the Laws of History and have avoided the naming of Persons upon Ingrateful Occasions But no Precaution can secure one from severe Challenges that writes so near those Times while many Persons concerned are yet alive yet if Your Majesty continues to honour these Memoires with Your Royal Approbation I shall easily bear them SIR You have here a true Account of the Services and Sufferings of two of Your Subjects who dedicated themselves to Your Majesties Interests and became Sacrifices for them The Elder of these Brothers had not the honour of being known to Your Majesty yet he lost his life in Your Reign The Younger survived as long as he could serve Your Majesty but when he saw his Life like to be unprofitable to Your Service it became uneasy to himself which made him so prodigal of it in Your own sight And Your Majesty does his Memory the Honour of remembring him still with the highest expressions of Esteem and Acknowledgment which a King can bestow on a Subject They had that Unblemished Loyalty conveyed to them from their Ancestors as the Entail of their Family which has always payd an Uninterrupted Fidelity to the Crown and they have transmitted it as an Inheritance to those who have succeeded them who have already given great Demonstrations of most sincere and Loyal Duty to Your Majesty That God of his Infinite Mercy may preserve Your Majesty and bless you with Wise Counsels Obedient Subjects and Prosperous Undertakings and after a long and happy Reign on Earth may Crown You with an Incorruptible Crown of Glory is the daily Devotion of May it please your Sacred Majesty Your Majesties most faithful most humble and most loyal Subject and Servant Gilbert Burnet London the 21st of October 1673. CHARLES R. WHereas Gilbert Burnet one of Our Chaplains in Ordinary hath composed a Book entituled Memoires of the Lives and Actions of the Dukes of Hamilton which We have Seen and Approved and whereas he hath humbly desired Our Royal Licence for the Printing and Publishing of the sam● We have thought fit to condescend unto that his Request and We do accordingly hereby Grant Our Royal Licence and Priviledg unto the said Gilbert Burnet his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns for the sole Printing and Publishing of the foresaid Book for the Term of fourteen Years to be computed from the day of its being first set forth And Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby Require and Command that during the said Term of Fourteen Years no Printer Publisher or other Person whatsoever Our Subjects do presume to Imprint or cause to be Imprinted without the knowledg and consent of him the said Gilbert Burnet his Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns the foresaid Book in whole or in part or to Sell the same or to Import into Our Kingdom any Copies thereof Imprinted in Parts beyond the Seas upon pain of the Loss and Forfeiture of all Copies so Imprinted Sold or Imported contrary to the Tenour of this Our Royal Licence and of being further proceeded against as Offenders against the Act made in the Fourteenth Year of Our Reign entituled An Act for Regulating Printing and Printing-presses and suffering the Mulcts Penalties and Inflictions in the said Act particularly mentioned as the Cause shall require Given at Our Court at White-Hall the third day of November 1673. in the Five and Twentieth Year of Our Reign By His Majesties Command H. Coventry THE PREFACE HIstories are of all Books the most universally read the wiser find matter of great Speculation in them and improve their Knowledg by the Experience these give them and weaker Persons make them their Diversion and entertain Discourse with them But most Writers of History have been men that lived out of business who took many things upon trust and have committed many and palpable Errours in matters of Fact and either give no account at all of the secret Causes and Counsels of the greatest Transactions or when they do venture upon it it is all Romance and the effect of their Imagination or Interest And indeed the Authors of all the Histories that were written for near a thousand years together being for the most part Monks there is no great reason to think they were either well informed or ingenuous in what they delivered to Posterity though there is perhaps no Nation that is more beholding to their Labours than England is Of all men those who have been themselves engaged in Affairs are the fittest to write History as knowing best how matters were designed and carried on and being best able to judge what things are of that Importance to be made Publick and what were better suppressed And therefore Caesars Commentaries are the most Authentick and most generally valued pieces of History and in the next Form to these Philip de Comines Guicciardine Sleidan Thuanus and Davila are the best received and most read Histories only the last hath failed in some particulars for these men wrote of things in which they were considerable Actors and had

be expressed that will not be yielded to The settling thereof according to My Declaration will answer this 14. If it be pressed that what is now concluded concerning the High Commission be ratified in the next Parliament what Answer shall be given If I may be sure that a Parliament will doe it I shall be content 15. If they Petition for a Convention what Answer shall be given No Petition must be admitted till the Bond be broken if after you may grant it leaving the time to Me. 16. If they petition for a General Assembly that it may be once in the year what Answer shall be given I will not be tied but as I shall find cause 17. If they petition that the Ministers Oath may be no other than that which the Act of Parliament doth order them to take what Answer shall be given I and the Bishops will consider of it 18. If they petition that the Five Articles of Perth may be held as indifferent what Answer shall be given I will hear of no Petition against an Act of Parliament 19. If the Town of Edinburgh may not be dealt with apart to petition for Your Majesties Favour and if they desire that the Council Exchequer and Session may be returned them what Answer shall be given Upon their full submission and renouncing of the Bond they may have their desires 20. If the like course may not be taken with some other principal Burghs As before 21. If to gain some leading men from the Party marks of Your Majesties Favour may not be hoped for To some I to some No. 22. If particular men desire either Acts of Council or Pardons under the Great Seal what shall be done Grant their desires 23. What Service shall be used in the Chappel Royal The English 24. If the Lords of Council and Session shall at that time be pressed to receive Kneeling This is no time for a Communion but when there is they must kneel 25. If thought fit what shall be be done to them that refuse Advise of it 26. If all Acts of Council that have injoyned the use of the Service-Book Book of Canons are not to be suspended and declared of no force in time coming Yes 27. How far Your Majesty will warrant me to declare Your Pleasure to the Lords of the Clergy concerning their living within their Diocesses I shall do it My Self but you may tell any of it 28. How far I may declare Your willingness to give ear to and receive the private Complaints of Your Subjects in general and in particular against any of the Bishops Refuse none 29. If those Ministers who have been by the Multitude displaced are not again to be established They must 30. If in the Abbey-Church the use of the Organs shall be presently enjoyned Yes 31. If those Ministers formerly silenced may not for a time be connived at and permitted to preach If they preach not Sedition 32. If Your Majesty aim at more for the present than establishing the Peace of the Country No more for the present 33. If more it is humbly desired Your Majesty may be pleased to express it When time shall be fit In execution of all which or what else Your Majesty shall think fit to command it is most humbly desired that I may be so warranted that the labouring to put them in execution may not turn to my Ruine nor hazard the losing of Your Majesties Favour dearer to me than life You shall The whole Instructions were signed the 16th of May which follow taken from the Original CHARLES R. BEfore you publish the Declaration which We have signed you shall require all the Council to sign it and if you find that it may conduce to Our Service you shall make all the Council swear to give their best assistance in the execution of the same but this of putting them to their Oaths We leave to your discretion to doe as you shall find occasion but if you shall find it fit to put them to their Oaths those that refuse must be dismissed the Council till Our further Pleasure be known We give you power to cause the Council to sit in what soever place you shall find most convenient for Our Service Edinburgh onely excepted and to change the Meeting thereof as often as occasion shall require You may labour to prepare any of the refractory persons to conceive aright of Our Declaration before it be published so that it be privately and underhand You are to get an Act of Council to pass to declare that this Declaration of Ours ought to free all honest Subjects from the fears of Innovations of Religion or Laws but this you are not to propose publickly except you be sure to carry it If any Protestation be made against Our Declaration the Protesters must be reputed Rebels and you are to labour to apprehend the chiefest of them If Petitions be presented to demand further satisfaction than that We have already given by Our Declaration you are to receive them and to give them a bold Negative both in respect of the Matter and the Form as being presented from a Body which you are no ways to acknowledge If it should be objected against the High Commission that it ought not to be introduced but by Act of Parliament your Answer must be that We found it left Vs by Our Father and therefore We mean to continue it having first regulated it in such a way that it shall be no just Grievance to Our Subjects or against Our Laws and when there is a Parliament We shall be content that i● be ratified as We shall now rectifie it If after the limited time in Our Declaration a Body remain at Edinburgh or elsewhere you must raise what Force you can to di●sipate and bring them under Our Obedience As soon as the Peace of the Country will permit you are to call a General Assembly for settling of a constant and decent way for Gods Worship We having resolved to call them or to permit them to be as often as occasion shall require We likewise intending to have a Parliament to ratifie what shall be condescended on at the Assembly You may say the Bishops shall impose no other Oath upon Ministers at their Admission but what is warranted by Act of Parliament You are to give direction that the same Service be used in Our Chapel Royal that was before the enjoyning of the Service-book You must admit of no Petition against the 5 Articles of Perth but for the present you are not to press the exact execution of them Whenever the Town of Edinburgh shall depart from the Covenant and petition for Our Favour We will that you bring back the Council and Session to it You shall deny no Pardons nor Acts of Council to any particular persons that shall desire the same for their security Some marks of Favour We may be moved to give to particular persons that may deserve the same All Acts of Council that enjoyn

that the Duke was suffered to return to Scotland with the King But at His Majesties Landing one appointed by the Parliament to put him from the King required him to withdraw and when the King pressed the Commissioners with the Articles of their Treaty they said they could not oppose an Order of Parliament The King was much offended with this and was inclining to resent it both as an unworthy Usage and as a Breach of Treaty but the Duke told him that at that time Argyle was the person who was most able to render him considerable Service in Scotland therefore though he knew he designed nothing so much as his Ruin yet he advised His Majesty to use all possible means to gain him absolutely to his Party and to neglect himself as much as Argyle desired and not at all to seem much concerned in him adding that he knew when His Majesties Affairs were in a better posture he would not forget his faithful Servants This particular His Sacred Majesty vouchsafed to tell the Writer It was in vain for him to claim either the benefit of the Treaty at Sterlin or Breda Interest and Jealousy prevailing more with these who then ruled than any other Tie so the Duke was forced to retire to the Isle of Arran And goes to Arran where he stayed till the end of Ianuary 1651 nor could his Petitions with the Intercessions of his Friends prevail for allowing him the liberty of coming to fight for his King and Country so that he was forced to stay at Arran till the best half of Scotland was lost Cromwell enters Scotland But God who had suffered the Church-party to prevail long did blast their Force and Success at once for Cromwel upon the Parliament of Scotland's bringing home their King entred it with his Army The Church-party as they had no mind to invade England on the Kings account so were very careful to declare that their Arming against Cromwel was not on the Kings account which they excluded from the state of the Quarrel by an Act of their Committee and declared that they stood only to their own Defence against that Hostile Invasion which was contrary to their Covenant and Treaties They were also very careful to model their Army so that neither Malignant nor Engager that had been of the Kings Party should serve in it for though when His Majesty came to their Army at Leith the Souldiers were much animated by his Presence and with the coming of two thousand brave Gentlemen with him to the Army yet the Leaders of that Party pretended that since the Malignants were in their Army God would be provoked to give them up to the Enemy and therefore forced the King to leave the Army They also forced away all those Gentlemen who came and offered their Service I shall not pursue this account further but only add that notwithstanding all their Confidence of their Army and though they had the Enemy at great disadvantages so that he and all his Officers gavethemselves for gone yet they were with very little Opposition broken and routed near Dunbar on the third of September 1650 Dunbar-Fight and even those who two years before had insulted over the Misfortunes of the Engagement were now themselves taught how ill an Argument Success was to evince the Goodness of a Cause The King is better used in Scotland This procured a great change in the Counsels of Scotland for by that time the honester and better part of the Clergy were by the Murther of the King and the other Proceedings in England filled with distast and horrour at them and began to think how defective they had hitherto been in their Duty to the King and therefore resolved to adhere more faithfully to it in all time coming Others of the Church-party did also see that as Cromwel was setting up a Common-wealth in England so they found many of the forwarder amongst themselves very much inclined to it in Scotland This divided them from the other violent Party made them joyn more cordially with the King and be willing to receive his other faithful Servants to oppose the Common Enemy therefore it was brought under debate if the Act of Classes that excluded them from Trust should not be rescinded and all Subjects allowed to enjoy their Priviledges and suffered to resist the Common Enemy after long debate it was carried in the Affirmative yet none vvere to be received but upon particular Applications and Professions of Repentance The Church-party divided The Commission of the Kirk being also asked their Opinions declared that in such an Exigency vvhen the Enemy vvas Master of all on the South of Forth and Clide all fensible persons might be raised for the Defence of the Country This vvas called the Resolution of the Commission of the General Assembly and was ratified by the subsequent General Assembly But against this many Ministers protested and from thence arose great Heats and Divisions among those of the Kirkmen who owned the Publick Resolutions An. 1652. and those who Protested against them the one being called the Publick-Resolutioners and the other Protesters And now all Churches were full of pretended Penitents for every one that offered his Service to the King was received upon the Publick profession of his Repentance for his former Malignancy wherein all saw they were only doing it in compliance to the peremptory Humour of that time It was about the end of Ianuary that the Duke was suffered to come and wait on the King The Duke is suffered to wait on the King but at that time Cliddisdale with the other Places where his Interest lay were in the Enemies hands who had put Garrisons in Hamilton Douglas Carnwath Boghall and other Houses of that Country Yet the Duke got quickly about him a brave Troop of about an hundred Horse made up of many Noblemen and Gentlemen who rode in it among whom were divers Earls and Lords whose Lands being also possessed by the Enemy they could do no more but hazard their own Persons in his Majesties Service the rest were his Vassals and Gentlemen of his Name and they were commanded under him by a gallant Gentleman Sir Thomas Hamilton of Preston whom he sent with 18 Horse to Cliddisdale to try if the Enemy could be catched at any disadvantage and the People of the Country raised for the King The Enemy kept so good Guards and was so strong at Hamilton that he could not fall in there therefore he went to Douglas where he took about 80 Horse that belonged to the Garrison but could not surprize the House for it was too strong to be taken without Cannon He likewise took all the Horse that belonged to the Garrison at Boghall and killed twenty Souldiers This made the Enemy keep closer at Hamilton upon which the Duke resolved to raise ten Troops of Horse and appointed Sir Thomas Hamilton Lieutenant-Collonel but the Enemies Garrisons gave great interruptions to his