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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47020	A continuation of the secret history of White-hall from the abdication of the late K. James in 1688 to the year 1696 writ at the request of a noble lord ... : the whole consisting of secret memoirs ... : published from the original papers : together with The tragical history of the Stuarts ... / by D. Jones ...	Jones, D. (David), fl. 1676-1720.	1697 (1697)	Wing J929; ESTC R34484	221,732	493

and taking occasion to send her other Companions about frivolous Errands was secretly by him conveyed out of the Lough where she was kept Her escape being told those who were then at Dinner in the Castle they made a great stir but to little purpose for all the Boats were haled ashore and their loop holes to put out their Oars were all stopped up that so no speedy pursuit might be made She was no sooner got out of the Lough but that there were Horsemen ready on the other side to receive her who carried her to the several Houses of the Partisans in the Design and the day after to Hamilton a Town 8 miles distant from Glasgow and and at the noise thereof many resorted to her and in a short time she gathered an Army of about 6500 men In the mean time the Regent was not idle but got together what force he could at Glasgow yet not enough to equal their number however understanding that the Enemy designed to march by Glasgow and to leave the Queen in Dunbarton Castle and so either to fight or lengthen out the War as they pleased or if they found him to be so bold as to stop their passage which they believed he durst not do they resolved then to Fight and were confident they should beat him and the Regent I say understanding this resolved to be before hand with them and to urge them to Fight as soon as ever he could and to that end drew out his Men into the open Field before the Town the way that he thought the Enemy would march and there for some hours waited for them in Battle Array but when he saw their Troops pass by on the other side of the River he presently understood their design and commanded his Foot to pass over the Bridge and his Horse to Ford over the River which they might do it being low Water and so to march to Langside which was a Village by the River Carth where the Enemy were to pass situated at the foot of a Hill to the South-West the passage on the East and North was steep but on the other side there was a gentle descent into a plain thither the Regent and his Army hasted with such speeed that they had near possest the Hill before the Enemy who aimed at the same place understood their design tho' they marched thither by a nearer cut but there were two things that did very much contribute to the advantage of the Regent and his Party as they were no less a disadvantage to the Queen and her Followers for the Earl of Argyle who on the Queen's part commanded in chief fell suddenly down from his Horse sick and by his fall much retarded the march of his Party the other was that their Forces being placed here and there in little Vallies could never see all their Enemies at once whose paucity as indeed they were not many made the other despise them and the disadvantage of the place to At last when the Queen's Forces drew nigh and saw the Ground they aimed at taken up by the Enemy they advanced to another little Hill over against them and there divided their Party into two Bodies so did the other Party into two Wings placing their Musketeers in the Village and Gardens below near the Highway Both Armies being thus Marshalled in Battle Array the Queen 's Cannoneers and Foot were driven from their Posts by the Regents Forces on the other hand the Regents Horse being fewer in number were beat back by the Enemy and when they had performed that Service they endeavoured also to break the Battalions of Foot in order whereunto they charged directly up the Hill but were beat back by the Archers placed there and by some of those who after their rout had rallied again and joyned with the rest of their Body In the mean time the Left Wing of the Enemy marched by the Highway where there was a rising Ground lower down into the Valley where tho' they were gall'd by the Regents Musketeers yet passing by those straits they opened and rang'd their Body There it was the two Battalions held out a thick stand of Pikes as a Breast-work before them and fought desperately for half an hour without giving ground on either side insomuch that they whose long Pikes were broke threw Daggers Stands pieces of Pikes or Launces yea whatever they could come at into their Enemies Faces but some of the hindermost Ranks of the Regents Forces beginning to fly away whither for fear or treachery is uncertain no doubt their flight had much disordered those who stood to it unless the Ranks had been so thick that the foremost did not well know what the hindmost did then they which were in the second Battalion taking notice of the danger and perceiving no Enemy coming to Charge them sent some whole Troops to wheel to the Right and to joyn with the first whereupon the adverse Party could not bear their Charge but were wholly routed and put to flight but the Regent upon the pursuit forbid the Execution The Queen stood about a mile from the place to behold the Battle and after the discomfiture fled with some Horsemen of her Party who had escaped out of the Battle towards England from whence she shall never return to see her Native Country more being arrived at a place called Workinton in the County of Cumberland she dispatched away a Letter to Queen Elizabeth full of Complaints of hard usage in Scotland and craving her Assistance and Protection and leave to come to her but the Queen denied her access and ordered her to be conveyed to Carlisle from whence she wrote again to the Queen which brought her case under the Deliberation of the English Council who at last resolved to detain her in England till such time as she should give satisfaction for Usurping the English Arms and answered for the Death of the Lord Darnley her Husband for Darnley's Mother the Countess of Lennox had of late grievously complained to Queen Elizabeth about it and earnestly besought her to call her to a Tryal for the Murder of her Son as Mr. Cambd●n in his History of Queen Elizabeth has it But because her Detention in England might appear to be just in all Foreign Courts Secretary Cecil and others of the Council prevailed with Murray the Scots Regent to come into England to accuse her before such Commissioners as Queen Elizabeth should appoint and the place of meeting was to be York and to that end the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Sussex with several other Councellors went to York to hear the Regents accusation It was observed the Duke delay'd to receive the Accusation but at last speaks to Secretary Lidington that before that time he had ever esteemed him a Wise Man until that time he came before Strangers to accuse the Queen his Mistress as if England were Judge over the Princes of Scotland but continued the Duke how could you find in our

was so put to it that he was forced to flee out of Edenburg to save his own life whereupon he enters into a Confederacy with his Friends for his own security which together with some Depredations made in the Lord Ferres Lands by some of the Earls Tenants without redress from him upon Complaint made thereof enraged the King to an high degree against him But sore disorders still increasing through the Earls not punishing of the offenders at last Ferres makes an inroad by way of reprisal into his Lands was taken and by the Earls command was put to Death tho' the King by an Herault commanded the contrary so that upon serious Deliberation the King finding his power unsufficient for curbing him had no other way left than to send to him in a most Courteous manner to come to him who was then in Sterling Castle The Earl apprehensive of some design upon his Person refused without he had an assurance of safe Conduct under the Kings great Seal which being Granted he came and was received with a great semblance of good Will by the King who to●k him into a Room by themselves and there after some other Admonitions expostulated with him about the Confeder●cy he had entred into with the Earl of Crawford and others and would have urged him to forsake the same Alledging it was no ways Honourable for him but hurtfull and tho' he took it very ill at his hands yet he allowed him the Liberty to dis●null it tho' himself had full power to command it Dowglass was very obsequious in all things 'till this business of the League came in Question whereunto he did not Answer distinctly but would have put it off 'till he had discoursed with his Confederates thereupon neither could he well see at present what could be in that League which could be offensive to the King that he should insist so much upon his breaking of it whereupon the King who it's likely had already determined to commit the perjur'd Fact tho' his flattering Courtiers would have his displeasure only to arise from the Earls present stubborness said if you will not I will break it and without any more ado struck him with his Dagger in his breast those that stood at the Door hearing the bustle rushed in and dispatched him by many wounds His Brethren and Kindred being at first surprized and then exasperated at the horridness of the Fact and the faithless proceedings of the King towards the Earl flew to their Arms and made no less than a Civil War of it which was waged between the King and them with various Fortunes at last the King prevailed which brought great Destruction and Calamity upon that Noble Family of the Dowglasses And then it was that King James began to Reign as the Historian says their greatness having been hitherto a Check upon him But his Civil broils were scarce ended when he was brought to engage in the fatal controversy which happened in England between the Houses of York and Lancaster He at first sided with King Henry VI against Richard Duke of York but afterward faced about Upon the Duke's promise that Cumberland and other Lands should be restored unto him that had been in the possession of his Ancestors if the Duke prevailed and so assisted the Yorkians having therefore raised an Army as he was entering into England he was for a time diverted cunningly by an English Gentleman who took upon him to be the Pope's Nuncio His Speech Habit and Retinue were perfectly Italian and to make the matter more plausible with the Cloak of Religion he had a Monk along with him and so with the Popes Counterfeit Letters they approached to the King and charged him to proceed on no farther and threatned him if he did to curse him For that the Pope to the end the War might be carried on against the Common Enemy of Christianity with greater vigor having now Composed all differences in Europe was set upon Accommodating this matter in Britain That they indeed were sent before to preadmonish him but that another Legate would quickly follow with an Ample power to Compose the Civils Discords in England and to procure satisfaction for the injuries sustained by the Scots This bait took him and so he Disbanded his Army But alas nothing could divert this Prince's now impending Fate for being soon after advertised of the trick put upon him by the foresaid Counterfeit Nuncio he re-assembles his Army and because he could not directly Joyn with York's Forces He marches to the Siege of Roxborough and having quickly master'd the Town lays close Seige to the Castle which made a brave defence The Duke and his Companions having in the mean time prevailed sent to give King James thanks for his Assistance desire him now things were amicably terminated to return home least the English being incensed they should be forced to march against the Scotch Army The King having received the Message asked those that brought it whether the Duke of York and his Friends said any thing in relation to the promises they had made when he came into their Assistance but finding no satisfaction in that point he proceeds with great Fury to assault the Castle and Batters the Walls with Cannon which began then to be much used as they were much dreaded and being very forward and intent upon his work one of his Guns being over-charged burst and a slice thereof struck the King dead to the ground and hurt no other besides himself a strang fatality that brought him to his end when he had lived twenty nine Years and of them Reigned twenty four Anno. 146● He left three Sons behind him James that Succeeded him Alexander Duke of Albany and John Earl of Mar who were a plague to one another while alive and not one of them died a natural death as we shall shew in its proper place James III. a Minor of seven Years old as his Father before him came to the Crown and at first fell under the Care and Regency of his Mother as did the whole Kingdom a Woman after the decease of her Husband James II. that lead a Scandalous life keeping one Adam Hepborn who was himself a Married Man for her Gallant but death put an end to her Lewdness and Government together about three Years after Then he came into the hands of the Boyds who Ruled the roast for a long time but at last made a fatal Catastrophe he took to Wife Margaret Daughter to the King of Denmark and Norway Anno. 1469. And about this time began to Exercise the Royal power himself He involved himself at first with the Affairs of the Church and not long after became miserably enslaved with the predictions of Astrologers and Witches to which he was strangely addicted and which brought not only destruction upon his kindred but also at last upon himself which we shall now prosecute as they fell out in order He was on a time it seems informed by some