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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

undertakings When the king had made a prosperous progres in his affaires ●nd had very neere subdued all his opposers in England when ●ee had reduced the whole Kingdome to his obedience except London and three or fowre other Garrisons and those few Members who styled themselves a Parliament had no visible meanes left to preserve themselves or oppose the King but the ●uiting in of the Scots when it was if not possible at least ●ery difficult for the Covenanters to afford or contribute ●ny considerable assistance to there confederates in England if ●hose who protested themselues the kings freinds in Scotland ●ad faythfully acted there Parts then Hamilton thought it ●ighe tyme for him to passeover from the Covenanters and ●retend for the king that having free accesse to his Counsels ●e might at pleasure betray and disappointe his designes ●●hen the incomparably noble Marquis of Montros had at ●orke informed the Queene of the Scots conspiracie and ●ad fully represented to her Maiesty the treacheries and ●mminent danger of the Covenanters had unripped there ●olicies and unmasked all there devices when hee advised 〈◊〉 mature prevention and by anticipating there designes to ●pell force with force to which more then a bare lawfulnes 〈◊〉 in evitable necessitie did vrge The Duke posted with more ●ast then good speed to Yorke with a coulor to kisse her Ma●sties hands and congratulate her safe arivall into England ●om whence he had formerly designed to send her on an Embassy but his plot was entirely to overthrow and confound the seasonable and faithfull counsells and perswasions of that truly perfectlie Loyall Soule that Man of Honnor the Marquis of Montros he possessed the Queene how rawe indisgested rashe and Dangerous the counsels of the Marquis were and altogether condemned his iudgment and in that his owne vvhich in all mens ought to bee highlie preferd to the Dukes Opinion he did more then put a remora to retard he gave check to the Marquisses high undertakings and by subtile art and cunning gott the disposing of the Men and the whole game iuto his owne hands by which meanes after hee gave checkmate to the King he offers by faire means to hinder the raising of an Army in Scotland if the too often deceived King would trust him with the managinge of that buissnes to rende 〈◊〉 it more plausible he promiseth to performe it without trouble or expence to his Majestie whose bagges hee had milkt before such easie proffers have ever a powrfull influence on princes reduced to want and irresistible necessitie but his vile an● cheape counsels which hee alwayes gave for nought cost the King deare by dissembling a danger hee had contracted o● himselfe from the Legislative Covenanters and counterfeitin● the hazards he seemed to run although hee came not withou● there privitie and allowance and abundantly furnished with there treacherous instructions hee gayned from the King a●● absolute trust Returnde to Scotland hee made greate Professions at hom● as hee had done abroade and would have gladly seemed the most joyous and most zealous person living for the Kings in●terest yet in all his proceedings hee crossed the advices an● resolutions of the Kings freinds hee betrayed the Kings tru●● and filled up the blanks committed to him with the King● approbations to that Convention of Scotland where a leavy o●● twenty thousand men for England and sixe thousand fo●●●reland were ordained The King advertisde that the Co●enanters had indicted a Convention of state without his con●●nt or knowledge did write a letter to the Duke and those of ●●e counsel to discharge the Convention the Duke concea●ng the letter desired the Earle of Kallender to conferre with ●●e Earle of Roxbroug and some others best affected to his ●ajestie to aske ther aduise they all unammously concluded ●●e King should disclayme the Convention and declare it ●●egall but the Duke who without the Kings knowledge ●●d consent and contrary to ye lawes of the Kingdome inter●●sing the Kings name and Authoritie had invited and com●lled the Covenanting Lords to frequent Assemblies ac●●aints them by the Earle of Callander that it was the Kings ●●tention and purpose to approve the Convention with some ●●w restrictions and limitations this false suggestion of the ●uke made them to alter there aduice the King never having ●rboured such a thought untill it was insinuated to him by ●●milton as the advice of a freind from Scotland that there ●●ere probable conjectures and posible hopes to overpowre 〈◊〉 Covenanters And carry the matters in the Convention 〈◊〉 the Kings advantage or at least to impede and obstruct any ●●stance to bee sent into England against him Thus the ●●ngs expectation was deluded and the hopes of his faithfull ●bjects in Scotland frustrated while both were induced by ●●e Dukes Policie to approve and countenance the Convention ●●d the Kings affaires suffered an infinite prejudice when at that ●●me it was very feosible to have supprest there confederacie 〈◊〉 its infancy or growing Estate ere it had aspirde to that ●●ighte and perfection since Scotland wanted not rather a●unded with Men Loyall trusty and valiant those men wan●●d neither power or those necessarie accomodations for ●●rre the sinewes the ligaments that Causa sine qua non ●oney onely the Kings Commission by which they should have power to act was deficient with which once inspired they would have attempted any thing might present danger and administer any occasion to express there honorable reguard to the Kings most inestimable life and Royall dignities Delay in affaires of greate importance ever dangerous and to bee avoyded could onely destroy there hopefull designes then a● our just feares are it will doe at present there are too many sa●… witnesses of the Dukes and his Brother the earle of Lannerick● Deportments in that Convention and afterwards there Actions were in no wise answerable to there promises in there conference with the Noble men that were well affected to the King they refused to joyne with them in a course of oppositi on or to give there approbation that they should actuate without his Personal appearance in the buisines these that would have aduentured there Fortunes there lives whatsoever wa●… Deare unto them for his Majesties preservation were ignominiouslie betrayde When the Duke for his heinous Crymes and Treasonabl● Practises was justlie committed Prisoner to Pendennis Cast●… his Brother the Earle of Lannericke deserted his Majestie● service at Oxford and secretlie conveyed himselfe away having no excusable pretence unless the Dukes deserved imprisonment can justifie his Defection from so Deare and Bounteou● a Master that to the Duke had ever given more then hee could deserve and no more in this then what hee deserved Lanne ricke preferrs the safetie of a Brother to the preservation of hi● Countryes Father to save one on whose beeing some particular Freinds and Followers had dependance hee leaves as much as in him lay the King to the mercy of his ennemies to bee destroyed in whose life

England amongst ●orty Collonels of Horse and thirty nine Collonels of foote ●here were very few that went not upon there owne scor to ser●e the Kings interest and amoungst them very many who were ●ver averse to the Hamilton Faction the Duke sufferd but few of his F●iends to take charge in the Army some few that desyred ●t cowld never have his countenance after Turne your eye and beeholde Arguile the Boatman the Ferriman of Scotland see how all his purblinde Actions looke a ●quinte on the Kings service I shhowld bee sorry to see him ingaged in his Majesties service hee is so unblest in all his underta●ings hee never broughte men to fighte as hee hath done very ●ften but never stayde to fighte himselfe which came not ●lwayes by the worst They are weary to followe so unpros●erous a Commander withso unlucky and ill a visage They ●ay that when hee having lost all is men at Sterline went to in●vite Cromwell into Scotland which hee did the same night Cromwel stood upon his Guarde add durst not suffer him to ●ome within the poynte of his nose though hee knew him to ●e an admirable coward Cromwel might have kept him at that dista●ce and be in no danger of his poysonous lookes His eyes ●re not more prodigious then the others nose which serves for 〈◊〉 kinds of an head peece to his face Would both there headpeices were off once These are the two heading Factions of Scotland the Hamiltons and the Camels Touching the cheife of the Hamiltons I see nothing but that hee goes into Scotland unless he hath under wrought his peace on the ●ame termes that the Marquis doth I mean in relatiō to Scotland 〈◊〉 know other wise there is a greate difference the one having ser●ed the King the other the State And both proclaymed Trai●ors unlesse there bee craft in the dawbing Lannerick can●ot return in to Scotland but upon the Kings account The King must doe his buisines now and not hee the Kings when hee is in disgrace with the State And how wil hee doe the kings buisines in tyme to come that heretofore at Sterline ne●glected and wilfully lost so faire an opportunitie I will not Quarrell fate and dispute the necessitie of contingencies but I cowld almost Mathematically demonstrate that had the Earle of Lannerike a● Sterline improude his time or usde but his meanest faculties to the advantage of his Majesties service the Kings heade had beene upon his showlders at this very day if the crowne had not beene upon his heade although he was pleasde to say he might keepe Sterline and have the full command of all Scotland on that syde the Forthe which is the most considerable parte of the Kingdome but it would contribute nothing to the Kings service I thinke so to if the sequell vvas the service hee intended onely it would undoe and destroy a poore Kingdome of which it may be he dream● te to be a King hee had good reason then to preserve it to his power when he was demanded why he would not rather fight then condiscend to so dishonorable conditions he answered He would not bee a Traytor to his Country for no man alive The King was then in being albeit in a bad one it being replyde that no such aspertion cowld be throwne on him so long as hee owned his Maiesties interest he answered that Hee never iutended to acte the second part to Montroses Scaeue If by it hee meant the Loyall Subiect all men will readily beleeve his words at volley he chooseth rather as Secretary to write after the Dukes fowle Coppy Then as Generall to set before him the noble Example and wondrous Actions of so inimitable a Marquisse We may trust him to raise fresh supplies that disbanded a force might have helde of the confederacie beetweene A●guile and Cromwell if not utterly have broke it have beaten Lesley before Cromwells advance into Scotland I shall not condemne so much Arguiles league vvith Cromwell when the Duke before his going into England helde a Correspondency with the Earle of Denbighe a Gratefull ser●ant of the Late King of sacred Memorie and an Archeinde●endent Traitors one letter was intercepted from Denbighe 〈◊〉 the Duke wherin he entreated him to make all hast and dis●atche his comming into England for every thing was in a ●ght way and to his wishes how much the Duke intended the Kings service and happines is easilie collected out of his ●wne speeche on the Scaffolde T is no time to dissemble How willing I was to have ●rved this nation in any thing that was in my Power 〈◊〉 known to very many pious honest and Religious men ●nd how ready I would have beene to have done what I ●wld to have served them if it had pleased them to ●ave preserved my life in whose hands there was a Po●er they have not thought it fitt and so I am become ●nusefull in that which willingly I would have done I never acted to the preiudice of the Parliament I ●ore no Armes I medled not with it These are the words of a dying Man and they alwayes carry ●ith them weight and often times Credit I wish that all men ●f his opinion were in the same condition yet his Death sig●ifies nothing it is a hard Fate when his suffering cannot acquitt him from the facte for which hee dyed yett hee dyed not so much For the fact for which hee stood condemned as to satisfie particular splene and faction vvherin truly Arguile did out vvit him Who was neither safe nor confident of his owne life while the other was in beeing Cromwell having shaken hands with Arguile and they beeing mutuallie resolved thought it not so proper to suffer Hamilton to live of whome hee cowld make little or nouse in subseiviencie to his purposes first that hee was Politique as himselfe next as Treacherous Of which hee had the experiencie and therfore judged it as indiscreete as unnecessarie to tr●st him Thus Machiavill like hee hugges the Treason but hee hates the Traitor and having battelde awhile in the treason he strikes off the Traitors head having done his worke I would not have his Tragedie made the Argumēt to trust the Hamilton Faction of whome the King must the more diligently beeware and walke with greater circumspection for upon this grounde there are those that will not ●aile to insinuate with his Mje●y whisper in his Eare the Dukes Loyalty and integrity ho●● treacherous so ever the whole Tracte of his life hath appeared to the vvorld ●harity bids me bury the rest with him in his Grave hee hath satisfied the world But many in the world are very much unsatisfied while Persons of so neer Relations to him are so conversant with his Majestie being no whit inferior to the Duke in Court Arts of Matchivilian Practises if they doe not farre excell Now lett all the world iudge vvhat the King can expect● from these men or vvhat trust hee may repose in Factions vvill