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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42385	A progenie, of prodiges: or, treasons arraigned, convicted: and condemned, discovered. In the many successive practises: and succesles [sic] attempts of the Hamiltons to gaine the crowne of Scotland.	Gardiner, Robert, fl. 1649.	1649 (1649)	Wing G243; ESTC R223636	36,379	68

those that ●ayde his Glorious Father low and would ●is honnor in the dust had they him in ●quall power to dispose this is too sad 〈◊〉 Truth and the Truth is I am Mad ●s I live and Breathe Mad T is not op●ression that makes the wise Man mad which puts my thoughts into this Distraction I am a Fool yet to be preferd to a Knave too much knowledge of there damnable design and Traiterous practises in Scotland makes mee thus wildly deliver my mynde in Holland and discover the naked truth to the whole world in sheets My Fears least that sonne of Goodnesse the inheritor of all his Glorious Fathers Excellencies the now King should give to much Credit to those perswasions and Counsells that would call on and hasten his Ruine and undoing Such feares disturbe mee My zeale to his service and my knowledge of there horridand dangerous subtilles transport mee knowledge of crimes laesae Maiestatis cause in mee loesum Cerebrum And my braines are crackte insteade of there Neckes I showld grow Calme on a suddaine did I see this cloud that hangs over the Kings heade dispelde and those Evill Counsellors removed that portend a storme and prognosticate fowle weather how faire so ever they seeme to pretend Reader farewell farewell for good and all I cannot expecte to live above a mouhe having spoken so much truth unless I lye in and Gallants hott in the distempers of there blouds have a ●ust excuse the spring after the fall I shall not keepe my Chamber not that I would not bee found but Toms runne out of there wits have ever the perpetuall motion and there extravigant humor at it of ram●ling a broad I goe in Danger but not feare of my life who will bee so much Bedlam as 〈◊〉 Question his Cousen yet I had rather fall by the noble hand of a Loyall Pretender then suffer an unluckie Death by the common and rude hand of a Rebel Trooper in a Croud that I shal not know to whome to owe the Favor of my Death The Kings Glorious Martyrdom hath made mee ambitious of suffering the Murthering of him makes mee in love with Deathe when I see ye deadly hart I shall imagine it Cupids fall in love with Death and court it as my Mistris I cannot live and lye fallow if I lye fallow I am deade when I produce no fruits of my obedience Till my sword shall bee rendred usefull I must imploy my penknife my Blade at the best can strike but a single Rebell at one blowe destroy but a Melancholly Trooper one stroke of my Pen can put a ragged Begiment of Rogues to a Route a second cut of a whole Brigade one dashe more of the Quill discomfit and put to winge an hoaste of disloyall Traitors when they see there Treasons bee trayde if I fall in this happy service I bequeathe all his Maiesties subiects Loyalty for a Legacie R. G. IN this exigencie of tyme and pressure of affaires when a general sadnes and Kynde of despaire óreclouds shaddows the face of things as well as Men I know nothing so necessarilie conducing to his Maiesties concernments as information which must not come lamely creeping forth as if it were affrayde ●o view the light or bee seene by any and unawares bee disco●ered but appeare in bold naked and iustifiable Truthes the King is in no cōdition to bee flattered when hee is in so greate 〈◊〉 hazard and visible danger of beeing beetrayde and by com●ination of those factions who gave that fatall and cursed ●…owe to his Glorious Father of euer belssed memorie And ●resentlie threaten appairent ruine to his Royall Posteritie Without Counsell no highe undertaking can bee succefull or attaine to its wished period Without information ●ounsell is at a stand and fixeth the Pillars of Hercules bee ●…re wee have performed the least of his labors The end of ●ounsell is action execution The end of this designed action 〈◊〉 restore the King beefore the King can settle and establish 〈◊〉 Throne hee must settle and confirme his Counsell Which ●hile it continues in this unhappy distraction his wauering ●●…d unfixt resolutions will bee so divided that hee shall but 〈◊〉 certainlie know to which with best aduantages he should ●●…line when Faction professing the same ends with the Royall party labors in there pursuite to arriue at them by other and most indirect means and by the way endeauor to exclude them I shall communicate freelie what either the undoubted information of others or my owne apprehension and certaine knowledge hath suggested to my sense and iudgement And since most men are ledd and seduced by opinion lett every one it is an uncontrolable libertie that all men wil take frame what Arguments and censure hee pleaseth from what hee finds most faythfully asserted I hold myselfe obliged to the whole world to render a du● and stricte account of my observation and knowledge and wi● entirelie endeavor to vindicate truth so excellinglie pretious and absolutelie to rectifie misinformed and erring iudgements I shall doe it with such impartialitie and so sincerelie tha● nota Person liuing of what faction soever whithersoever hi● particular interests and Relations leade him wil bee able t● disprove There are diverse papers exhibited to the world in prin● which beecause they are obuious to every common eye purposely omitt They discover the manifold Practises and A●tempts of the Hamiltons for the obtaining of the Crown● and Governement of the Kingdome of Scotland at which the have aymed more then one hundred and twenty yeares in constant proseqution of there disloyal designes If wee examine seriouslie the whole tracte of the Dukes life and reflect on the series of all his actions wee shall discov● no less designe of usurpation and fierie ambition of rule in hi● then in his Predecessors Encouraged by several Prediction and Astrologies to which that Familie is much addicted shall beeginne with but not insist on his desyres to the King 〈◊〉 Sweden for his assistance to his uniust pretence to who● David Ramsey was sent a Commissioner who imagining h● Master already King and himselfe his Embassador stood n● upon bare ceremonies but readilie putt on his hatt in the presence of the King The most material things worthy our observation and strict survey are the Dukes Actions and deportments after the pu●lishing of Mr Meldrumes scandalous traiterous booke which declaring him to have the onely iust righte to the crowne of Scotland cherished in him such an insatiate and implacable ●mbition of Reigne that deathe onelie was able to extinguish the one with the other The booke was burned by the Hang●an but the Author was entertained by the Duke and relea●ed after three yeares imprisonment in the fleete notwith●anding the base aspersions of so inglorious a libeller Touching the Dukes next designe I referre the Reader to the depositions of the Lord Rhe Lord Ocholtrie Maior ●arstwike with diuerse others extant upon Record and sin●● published in Printe His pretexte

and well beeing the preservation and securitie of three Kingdomes did alone consist Hee repaires to London joynes himselfe to the Scotch Commissioners for which hee will never bee able to repaire his weatherbeaten reputation and blasted honnor The Commissioners welcome ●s revolte and congratulate his dishonorable retreate from ●s Masters Cause and Service They dispatche him away to ●ere Army by sea with Letters of Commendations From ●e Army hee beetakes himselfe to Scotland where in a sol●●ne meeting in there Parliament he not onely protested that ●e was penitent for his former carriage in adhering to the ●●ing but that hee would not have deserted his Master untill ●s Master had deserted God well sayd thou good and ●thful servant he declared publiklie that it he did see visiblie 〈◊〉 Religion destroyed and the Mass openly mantained and ●●ofessed both in the Army and at Oxford a zealous convert ●at speakes more then the Truth hee hath no sooner given ●idence of his penitent and Contrite heart but they are mer●full to the Sinner they receive him into there honorable ●●cietie and adorne him with the reverent title of a Cove●nter a holy and blessed order Thus qualified they admitt ●●e sanctifide Brother to there Religious Counsells and on ●m immediately conferre the command of forces against the ●●ngs Majestie which hee like a gratefull and Loyall Subject ●ost thankfully receivesly how vigorous and stirring he proved 〈◊〉 all his undertakings with the Rebells all men that know ●●y thing of that Kingdome perfectie know hee did showe ●●ch rare feats of his Activitie in there Combination that ●●th quicke and nimble motion hee skipps into the place of a ●eading Member hee appeared like a Ruling Elder nothing ●s done or indeed could bee done without him at that ●eate Battaile of Kilsythe where sixe thousand Rebells were ●yne under the well managed Conduct of the Noble Munt●s hee had drawne together one thousand foote and five ●ndred Horse of his freinds and Followers which were on ●ere Marche within seven miles to have joyned with the ●●bells not with standing all the intreaties and sollicitations perswasions and promises Loyall Montros did use to make him joyne with him in the Kings service against which hee stubbornly persisted and continued in Armes and opposition till Montros by the Kings express commands had disbanded his Forces the Royall Party When the King was at Newcastle hee was crediblie informed that upon a serious consultation amongst the Covenanters what instructions they should send to the Scotch Commissioners residing at London concerning the King who as they sayde was the Author of so much bloushed the Generous Earle of Lannericke gave out these words VVee can never have Peace so long as this King or any of his Race remaines A worthy position but wee deny his Major and his mino●… and pray against his Conclusion touching the race of the King an Argument hee may chance to runne himselfe out of breath● in upon another occasion hee delivered his mynde in these words VVee can have no difference of Monarchical Governement all the Difference will bee who shall bee King His scrupilous conscience needed not have raisde so dangerous a doubt it may bee hee expects the accomplishment of his horoscope wherein as himselfe since related hee had so grea● confidence that when hee was thought to bee in danger before his Escape from Oxford hee was heard to say Hee was sure hee was not neere his Deathe for it was promised him that beefore hee dyed hee should bee greater man then was safe for him to mention Would hee be more then a Duke if his Ambition cannot ●●e satisfied with his Brothers title God send him his Place ●●o hee may bee an Angell in heaven but must not a King up●● Earthe unless hee designes to rule some new Plantation the ●●d Brittaines preferre the Stewarts to the Hamiltons Some old wives in Scotland affirme that the Midwife at his ●●tivitie out of the strengthe of all inspird did Prophesie most ●wrefully and lett some odde and strange things droppe from ●er they say with all that hee was an eminent witche When the Duke was set at libertie from imprisonment and ●●e to London he was heard say VVherfore shonld he go to the King then at ●ewcastele how could hee ever trust that man who ●●en hee was in power împrisond him I wonder hee did not doe it sooner and that hee had trusted 〈◊〉 so long this unhansome expression discovered the re●●ment hee had of his imprisonment When hee came to Neu●astele he and his Brother Lannericke did undertake to the ●●ng to carry him into Scotland which if they had performed ●●cording to promise it had beene very easy for ye king to have ●●gaged that Kingdome and there Army for restoring his Maje●●e to his just Rights in England But his comming into Scot●●d and there designes were incompatible his presence there ●ould have to much Ecclipsed there Greatnes and have clipte to ●ort the wings of there too highe-soaring Ambition they divert 〈◊〉 from his resolutions with faire pretences leading him along 〈◊〉 a strict Guarde was sett upon his Person Withi● some few ●yes after he was delivered being sold to the Parliament brokers the Parliament of Scotland they made a faire semblance of reasoning for the King had a pretty flourish a skirmishing in words but when it came to the pushe of a Vote conceruing his deliveri● the two Brethren in iniquitie were in the Negative themselves but al there freinds and dependants whose voices they vsed t●● command with the same freedome they did there own were a●●together in the Arffirmative for selling the King contrary to the aforsayde Brethrens promise asseurance to his Majesty Tho● greedy Merchants that so fierclie voted for selling the King we●● as violent in there debates for making the Duke General in ther● late engagement for when not onelie the lawfulnes but the unavoidable necessitie of ingageing in a warre against the Bre●●kers of that Covenant of ever cursed memorie with Englan● was made manifestie to appeare and had received the stampe an● authoritie of the convened States Duke Hamilton by the contrivance of his complices and the connivence of is competitors is Elected Generall A Person 〈◊〉 of the most eminent Titles so of the greatest Activitie and vigo● amoungst them hee having had the command of an Army h● retofore in Germany and for some few other intricate Reason it thought Fittest to command the present designed to go● against the common Ennemie of the confederate Kingdome● They procede to levie men which are lifted with that unwilli●gnes and so slowlie that they seeme to be too heauy a Burthe● for the Country and the cause too light whatsover is so spe●●ouslie pretended by thes new undertakers it is suspected 〈◊〉 most Men and beeleeved by many the Good and happie beei●● of the King and his Royal Posteritie is the least in there intention● This was the Reason why this new Model of a cause mett