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A89885	The manifold practises and attempts of the Hamiltons, and particularly the present Duke of Hamilton now generall of the Scottish Army to get the crown of Scotland. Discovered in an intercepted letter written from a malignant here in London to his friend in Scotland. The letter is directed thus on the back, For the much honoured, 21.53.7.10.19.72.67.40.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678, attributed name.	1648 (1648)	Wing N396; Thomason E446_4; ESTC R202962	12,327	23

The manifold PRACTISES And Attempts of the Hamiltons And particularly of the present Duke of Hamilton Now Generall of the Scottish Army To get the Crown of SCOTLAND Discovered in an intercepted LETTER WRITTEN From a Malignant here in London to his friend in SCOTLAND The Letter is directed thus on the back For the much Honoured 21. 53. 7. 10. 19. 72. 67. 40. Printed at LONDON in the year 1648. The Practises and Attempts of the Hamiltons particularly of Duke Hamilton now Generall of the Scottish Army SIR THe newes of suppressing those Covenanters which were the first movers and chief Authors of all our troubles these ten yeers past the taking of Barwick and Carlisle the forward proceedings of your Parliament and the readinesse of an Army to advance into England for the Kings service give great encouragement to all our friends here But the report of Duke Hamiltons being made Generall is like water to our wine and afflicts us with fears It is a wonder how the Kings friends have been induced to consent unto it or what necessity could drive them to make use of so desperate a remedy which for my own part I fear wil prove a means to increase the disease and if God prevent not fatall to the King and his posterity For now the Hamiltons have not only the pen and the purse of Scotland the Dukes brother Lanerick being Secretary and his brother in law Treasurer both which have great influence upon the Subject But they have the sword setled in their hands by authority and so whom favour will not draw power will force to go along with their designes for obtaining the Crown and Government of that Kingdome which they have aimed at for one hundreth and twenty years and upward as may be clearly instanced in many particulars sufficiently known to all such as are acquainted with the State of affairs of Scotland in latter times I shall briefly put you in minde of some and leave the rest to your own observation After the death of King Iames the fourth Iohn Duke of Albany being chosen to governe the King in his minority The Hamiltons made a conspiracy to thrust the Duke out of authority and to take the custody of the King and Governement of the Kingdome into their own hands the better to accomplish their ends In pursuance whereof they took the Castle of Glasgow and made an Assembly of their faction But the Duke of Albanies speedy comming with an Army surprised them dissolved that Assembly and made the Earle of Arran chiefe of that designe to flee away But here they rested not For Sir Iames Hamilton bastard sonne to the Earle of Arran conspired the death of the King in his owne house at Holy-rude House For which and other crimes after mentioned divers years after when the Plot was revealed he was executed When this failed they used their endeavours that the King should not marry that so he wanting issue Hamilton might succeed to the Crown They hindred the Kings meeting with his Vncle the King of England who was willing to have married his only daughter to him and made him King of England as well as Scotland after his death The King going by sea to France Sir Iames Hamilton went with him to hinder his marriage and the King being asleep in the ship Sir Iames without any necessity from wind or weather caused the mariners to turne saile from the West Coast of England and to land in Galloway which gave the King such cause of discontent against Sir Iames as he began to understand his unfaithfull dealing and at last he was executed for Treason These practices discovered made the King more hasty to marry that his succession might put the Hamiltons out of hope and himselfe out of danger of their further plots The King dying and leaving issue only one daughter of six dayes old The Hamiltons thought all their own For they got the Earle of Arran to be named Governour by a private faction But the Estates soone weary of his Government discharged him of his office wherefore his designe to marry his sonne upon the Queen whom he keeped rather like a prisoner then a Princesse was disappointed though in the opinion of divers it was once farre advanced the Duke of Lenox and Earle of Angus his principall opposer one of them being by him banished and the other imprisoned After the Queen and her mother were rescued out of his hands in hopes to gaine their favour and so his ends he abjured his religion in Sterling but without successe When neither he could get the Queen out of the way nor married as he desired he consented to expose her to the stormes of the sea and danger of enemies and sold her to France for which he was made Duke of Chastle-rault Having in manner thus sold their pretence to the Title of the Crown yet the Hamiltons were not quiet but used many meanes during the Queens being in France and after her return to get the Crown In order whereunto they conspired with the Earle of Bothuel to kill the Earle of Murray and when the Queen married to the house of Lennox which to this day they esteemed alwayes as their great enemy they conspired with the Earle of Bothuel to murther the King wherein particularly Bishop Hamilton Duke Hamilton of Chastle-rault brother was very instrumentall When the King was thus removed and so the Crown brought a degree nearer to the house of Hamilton it seemed to them very probable as it was indeed that Bothuel should destroy the young King and not suffer him to live to revenge his fathers death and prejudge the children of Bothuel with the Queen in the succession to the Crown and if the King were destroyed they hoped that the Queen and Bothuel would be so hatefull to the people for the murther of her husband and her sonne that they would have easie accesse to the Crown or otherwise then that they might kil Bothuel in which case they were in hope the Queen should marry John Hamilton the Dukes sonne whom she entertained often with merry looks and chearfull countenance But the King being preserved and the Queen keeped in Loch-herm by command of the Parliament the Hamiltons took another course which was to relieve the Queen and employ all their power to suppresse the King and the nobilitie that adhered to him I might here make a large discourse of their base murthering the Regent the Earle of Murray their joyning in conspiracy with the Duke of Norfolk and others in England against Queen Elizabeth their pretending to have the Queen brought out of England when they knew it was impossible without the Queen of Englands favour which they never sought but rejected to the end they might in the meane time have the better opportunity to follow out their designes against the King and hinder him from being setled in the Government as now they pretend the rescuing of the King out of the Isle of Wight and yet by

lupanar 2. Reginam esse omnium mulierum salacissimam 3. Flagellum dei inhaerere universae familiae stirpi Jacobi Regis The next attempt of the Marquesse to get power into his hands was in the beginning of the troubles of Scotland upon occasion whereof he procured to himselfe to go to that Kingdome to settle all differences there but if we may judge of his intentions by his actions and the issue that was not his errand to Scotland but to increase the differences for when after many juglings between King and subject he put all over to the determination of the Nationall Synod at Glasgow then within seven or eight dayes dissolved it and returned to the King whom he incensed against his Subjects of Scotland as he had done them against their King hoping to fish in muddy waters A war followed and the Marquesse purchased to himselfe the command of the Navy that whatsoever danger the King should be in the Marquesse himselfe might be in safety and look on as a spectator When he came to the fir●h of Scotland he acted his part at sea as he had done in the land None could discerne whether he was for the King or the Countrey he did weare the Kings colours but was very sparing of his men and ammunition neither indeed was it safe for him to do otherwise for the Covenanters sent some into the ships to him to let him know that if he did any harme they would discover and make good all the businesse of which he was accused by the Lord Reay and Ochiltry which no question they could very well have done Master Meldrum being then a forward Covenanter When a pacification was made betwixt the King and his subjects of Scotland and the Scots entred this Kingdome the year following the Marquesse still kept correspondence with the chiefe Covenanters and if some of the Scots Commissioners had not for Court ends stood his friends in the beginning of this Parliament he had suffered for his abusing both King and people for some Articles were once in preparation by the House of Commons for his counselling the King to the breach of pacification for betraying the Kingdome to the Scots for the multitude of his Monopolies his advising the King to wracke Master Trew a member of the House of Commons after the dissolution of the former Parliament and diverse other things But that accusation was laid aside upou promise to perswade the King to passe an act for a trienniall Parliament and not to dissolve this present Parliament without their own consent and the like good services to be done to the House of Commons When the King went to Scotland in Anno 1641. the Marquesse to ingratiate himselfe with the Countrey joyned with the Earle of Argile and that faction and upon pretence of a Plot against him by some Courtiers and souldiers went from the Parliament of Edinburgh to the Countrey with Argile at which time the King declared publickly in Parliament that however now he seemed to comply with them he was the only man that incensed him against that Kingdome and upon the other part it is well knowne that Hamilt on even when he was his Majesties Commissioner often said in private to the chief Covenanters that nothing would prevaile with the King but force and necessity In the yeare 1643. when the King had very neer subdued all his opposers in England and reduced the whole Kingdome to his obedience except London and three or foure Garrisons and there was no probable meanes left for those few members who stiled themselves a Parliament whereby to preserve themselves or to oppose the King but the calling in of the Sects and when it was not possible at the least very difficult for the Covenanters to afford any considerable assistance to their Confederates in England if those who professed themselves to be the Kings friends in Scotland had faithfully acted their parts then Hamilton thought it time for him to passe over from the Covenanters and pretend for the King that by having accesse to his Counsels he might betray them and disappoint his designes The Kings friends finding him thus enclined procured great offers to be made to him from the King as to make him Duke and give him in marriage the Prince Electors sister the Kings Neice which he chearfully embraceth and promiseth to do great services to the King No sooner doth he heare that the Queen is landed at Berlington but with all expedition he repairs to her Majestie to congratulate her safe returne The Noble Marquesse of Montrosse had before his comming acquainted her Majestie what dangers were to be feared from the Covenanters in Scotland and that there was no way to prevent them but that by authority from his Majestie all the Kings friends should rise in Armes to oppose them But Hamilton condemnes this as a very rash counsell and undertakes by faire meanes to hinder the raising an Army in Scotland if the King would trust him with the managing of that businesse and to make it the more plausible he promised to do it without any trouble or expence to the King whereupon a good King easily cozened with the faire pretences of one so neer in bloud and so much obliged unto him gives him absolute trust When he returns to Scotland he makes as great professions at home as he had done abroad would gladly have seemed to be the most zealous man living for the King in●erest yet in al his actions crossed the advise and Resolution of the Kings friends For the King being advertised that the Covenanters had indicted a Convention of Estates without his knowledg wrote a letter to the Duke and those of the councell to discharge the Convention but he concealing the letter desired the Earle of Callendor to speak with the Earle of Broxburgh and some other Noble men best affected to his Majesty and to crave their advice they all in one voice answered that it was their Iudgement the King should disclaime the Convention and declare it illegall but the Duke sends them word by the Earle of Callendor that it was the Kings minde to approve the Convention with some limitations which though it made them to alter their advise yet as it was related by the Duke it was most false the King never having had any such things in his thoughts untill it was suggested to him by Hamilton as the advice of his friends in Scotland and that there were hopes to carry matters in the Convention for the kings advantage or at least to hinder any assistance to be sent to England against him thus the king and his faithfull servants in Scotland were deluded and by Hamiltons policy induced to countenance the Convention to the great prejudice of the kings affairs but when they came there yet the Duke and his brother Lanerks carriage in that convention and after it was no wayes according to what was promised in the conference with the Noble men that were affected to