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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45373	Some farther matter of fact relating to the administration of affairs in Scotland, under the Duke of Lauderdale. Humbly offered to His Majesties consideration, in obedience to his royal commands. That the Duke of Lauderdale was concerned in the designe of bringing in of popery and arbitrary government, may appear by these following particulars, &c.	Hamilton, William Douglas, Duke of, 1635-1694.	1679 (1679)	Wing S4502A; Wing H483; ESTC R231	4,324	4

Some farther Matter of Fact Relating to the Administration of Affairs IN SCOTLAND Under the Duke of Lauderdale Humbly offered to His MAJESTIES Consideration in Obedience to His Royal Commands That the Duke of Lauderdale was concerned in the Designe of Bringing in of Popery and Arbitrary Government may appear by these following Particulars c. I. FIrst in Anno 1669 when he knew that the Duke had changed his Religion he procured an Act in Scotland for Asserting the Kings Supremacy which he made the Presbyterian-party believe was to empower the King to put down Episcopacy and set up Presbytery the very words of it The disposal of the External Government of the Church is put absolutely in the Kings Power as also all Ecclesiastical Meetings and Meeters are to be ordered by the King Now the acknowledgment of the Pope is a great part of the Ecclesiastical Government besides the other words are so comprehensive that all Popery may be brought in at that door Soon after this he entered into a firm Friendship with the Head of the Popish party II. At his next Session of Parliament which was after Madam's being at Dover in 1670 to shew his farther Kindness to that Religion he put in words in the 7 o Act of that Session against Withdrawers from publick Worship which secured Papists from all troubles for the Act runs onely against his Majesties Subjects of the Reformed Religion for that Papists are expressly Excepted and the words he put in with his own hand in the draught of that Act. III. Whereas he first procured the Act that was past Anno 1667 that offerred the King an Army of 22000 men to be brought into England for any Cause in which his Majesties Honour Power and Greatness was concerned which was generally passed as a Complement and continued so till the year 1669 that other designe being projected in England by the Papists He to be ready to second that raised this Army and procured another Act which is the second in the first Session of the Parliament held by him by which the former Act was not onely confirmed but it was ordered that this Army should obey the Order of the Council without naming the King at all which as he has managed it is upon the matter himself And of late before the discovery of the Plot he designed to convert the 22000 men to a standing Army as an Addition to the new Forces raised last Summer to be constantly maintained by all Subjects contrary to the true meaning of the first or second Acts of Parliament relating to that purpose and directly against the Fundamental Constitutions of the Nation to impose Burthens upon it without consent of Parliament IV. When he went down Anno 1673 to see if he could draw down this Army to England finding he could not effect it that Nation not being able to support this Tyranny longer he first wearied the Members of Parliament with often Adjournments and finding in the end that Artifice and other tricks would not do he dissolved the Parliament that he might proceed there consonant to the Councel he gave here and set up a Bare-fac'd Arbitrary Power there which he has so much advised and pressed here and has ever since taken all the ways he could fall on to force the Nation to a Rebellion by illegal Imprisonments unjust Accusations false Reports made to the King taking away from the Subjects the right of Propriety their limitable Jurisdictions by the Councils order grounded upon Letters procured by him from the King and put in execution by his brother Halton by wrongful turning out Bishops Ministers of State Magistrates and others by cruel and illegal Sentences Banishments and Fines some whereof he disposed to Pensioners Relations of his own by Grants obtained from the King here which bear date before the Fines were judicially imposed in Scotland And likewise by bringing a man to die whom he had perswaded to confess upon hopes of Life and afterwards forswore that he had promised though it stands yet registered upon the Councils Book By sending Shipfuls to be Slaves in English Plantations which he justified here at Council-board in Whitehal By imposing Bonds against Law And above all by sending an Army of 9 or 10000 men most of them Highlanders to lie upon Free quarter and rob and spoil a Country that was in no Rebellion nor could any colour of saying they intended any be ever found now or since This he did last year thinking that would certainly make them rebel and so give a just Cause for keeping up a standing Army both there and here And that being at the time when the Papists thought the Plot so neer perfection was certainly in conjunction with them having prepared above 8000 Horse and Foot with Officers of his own stamp to execute his designe It is more than probable that it was for the Intelligence his Lady gave of this that the Cardinal of Norfolk sent his thanks to her V. Whereas there are but few Papists in Scotland he hath given these all the Incouragements he could The Earl of Aboins who was oft complained of to the Council by the Bishops for keeping many Priests in his house and being a main Stickler for Popery he made a Privy-Counsellor and gave him a Pension though he has never since gone to Church nor received the Sacrament The Earl of Northdale another furious Papist in Command of the new Forces he raised and so is Lord and King and both those two were last year employed by him in the plundering of the West of Scotland c. And there being in Scotland but five Noblemen that are Papists four of them have been supported and maintained by him c. VI. He was a principal Instrument in procuring the Toleration of Popery and courted them into sworn Friendship with the Lord Clifford and preferred the Declaration and other the Kings Edicts at the Council-board to Law c. He pressed the King to break with his Parliament and maintain the Declaration and to take the Great Seal from the Earl of Shaftsbury for giving him better Councel of which he has often boasted He became also an Enemy to the Earl of Arlington upon the same account and has ever since had an intire friendship with the Lord Treasurer for promoting those ends he supported the last year against the just Complaints the Scotch Lords made for Free Quarter and other barbarous usages which they met with c. VII He became a Pensioner to France from whom he received rich Presents and great Sums out of one of the Jewels which Monsieur Colbert gave him he made his rich George He always helped on the French Levies in Scotland against the Treaties the King had made and gave the French Officers the publick Prisons yea and the Kings own Castle of Edenburgh of which he is Governour to keep their Leavies in till the Ships are ready for their Transportation he gave order to his Brother to set the Levies