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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93523	Some reasons why Archibald Campbell, sometime Lord Lorne, ought not to be restored to the honour or estate of his late father Archibald sometime Marquess of Argyle		1661 (1661)	Wing S4581A; ESTC R233468	3,186	9

Some REASONS WHY ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL Sometime Lord Lorne ought not to be restored to the Honour or Estate of his late Father Archibald sometime Marquess of ARGYLE 1. BEcause it hath been alwaies held very dangerous both for the Interest of the Prince and peace of the people to restore the children of powerfull Traitors to their Fathers Honours or Estates which experience demonstrated to be too true in the Gowries 2. The restoring of this Family is in a special manner most dangerous by reason of the scituation and vast bounds of the Estate of Argyle in the High-lands the great Claim many Vassals and Tenants that depend on it all or for the much greater part ill principled and inured to Rebellion these last 20 years who blindly follow their Masters commands without any regard of their duty to God or the King So that it is a most fit place to be the Nest and Seminary of Rebellion as it proved in the late Argyle's time to the great prejudice of his Majesties service ruine of many loyal Subjects And this same very reason was brought by the late Argyle against the Marquess of Antrum to dispossesse him of the Lordship of Kentyre which he had purchased with the consent of his late Majesty For he pretended that it was dangerous to suffer the said Marquess of Antrum to enjoy these Lands by reason of the great power of the Family of the Macdonalds and of the bad consequences that usually follow the restoring of persons to an Estate which they had formerly lost by forfeiture But it 's evident to all men that this Reason is much more forcible against Argyle himself and his Posterity 3. It 's directly against the Council and advice of the Modern Solomon K. James his Majesties Grandfather of blessed memory who in his Basilicon doron speaks thus to his Son Basil dor Book 2. As for the matter of Forfeitures which are also done in Parliaments My advice is you forfeit none but for such odious crimes as may make them unworthy ever to be restored again And in the same Book speaking of the High-landers and their Oppressions he subjoyns this good counsel to his Son Put in Execution the Laws made against the Over-Lords and Chieffs of their Claims and it will be no difficulty to daunton them 4. The restoring of this Family would prove a dangerous President to encourage rebellious and Traiterous spirits to perpetrate such horrid crimes as the late Argyle did upon hopes that whatsoever Treasons they commit their Families and Posterity may still stand Whereas upon the contrary the exemplary punishment and eradicating of this Family especially at this first happy appearance of his Majesties justice will be a Scar-crow to all others and serve as a Beacon to make them shun the rocks of Rebellion which they know will undoubtedly ship wrack not only themselves but also their posterity In confirmation whereof it was observed that the late Argyle when he received his sentence was more moved at that part which touched the ruine of his Posterity and Family then for what concerned his own person 5. The restoring of the Son would be prejudicial to many of his Majesties loyal Subjects of the best quality and to divers Orphans and Widows who have been opprest and almost ruined by the Father and can expect no other reparation of their losses but from the forfeiture of the said estate unlesse his Majesty would put himself to unnecessary charges to repair them some other way 6. The restoring of this Family is not only dangerous and inconvenient for the aforesaid general reasons but also for the said Archibald his particular faults and Misdemeanors For besides that Vice runs much in a bloud as King James hath observed it 's well known that both he and his Brother Neil are of the same Principles with their Father who died impenitent asserting the Covenant and sowing the seeds of Sedition and Rebellion and as it were entailing it upon his Children as appears by his last Speech which bad principles were instill'd in them both with their milk and to make the elder more compleat he was sent abroad to be bred at Geneva with Recommendations from his Father to that Kirk and to the Presbyterians of France where he kept correspondence between his Father and them And the younger was lately proved to have been privy and consenting to all his Fathers treacherous complyances with the English in Scotland and to have been actually in Arms with them 7. The bad principles and inclinations of the elder appeared when his Majesty retired from St. Johnstons with intention to go to some of his loyal Subjects in the Northern parts of Scotland For immediatly upon that news he rifled his Majesties Cabinets and after his Majesties return he being Captain of the Guard put a Padlock on his Majesties door keeping him as a Prisoner Which sufficiently shews that he is his Fathers Son 8. To evidence further his bad inclinations and aversion from his Majesties service he never raised Regiment or Company all the time the King was in Scotland to joyn with the Royal Army But a little before his Majesty was to march into England he eagerly urged that some Parties might be drawn out of every Regiment to make up one for himself under pretence of the Kings Guard And though he knew that would be undoubtedly denied him yet he still persisted to presse the same on purpose to have some pretence of discontent that so he might avoid marching into Engl. with his Majesty Which shal be testified by some who were then privy to his Fathers and his own designs 9. Though it be pretended for expiation of these misdemeanours that he appeared thereafter in his Majesties service in the High-lands under the Earls of Glencairne Middleton his Majesties Generals yet that doth no waies evince his Loyalty and cannot expiate the least of his faults for divers Reasons 1. Because when he was there in his usual discourses be eagerly asserted the Covenant and justified the barbarous death of the renowned Marquess of Montross his Majesties General as he had barbarously and scandalously insulted over him at his Carting and Execution 2. Because even then he combind with the late Lord Balcarras to divide his Majesties Forces by endeavouring to renew and set up that fatal and rebellious Covenant 3. Because he endeavoured also another way to destroy those Forces by using all possible perswasions with the Viscount of Kenmure to make him usurp the Generals place not only without but against the Kings Order And fearing this unsuccessefull treachery would come out to shun his deserved punishment he immediatly fled away to his Fathers bounds from whence he wrote Letters to make some chief Gentlemen desert his Majesties General and so break his Forces And this is all the great Loyalty that ever he shewed which is so much brag'd of by his friends and intercessours 10. And that he persisted still in the same bad inclinations divers years after appeared lately For when General Monck now Duke of Albemarle was upon his last March into England and had made some transactions with his Majesties loyal Subjects of Scotland for promoting his Majesties happy Restoration the said Archibald then dwelling in one of the Marquesse of Huntlyes houses did not only divert all those under his power but also dealt with divers others to enter into a Combination with him and to sign Bonds to oppose the said Generals Noble and Immortal designs 11. The restoring of the said Archibald will be also dangerous for the great store of money that in all probability is left him by his Father who received great summes from the pretended States of Scotland for all his treacherous and cruel Expeditions against his Majesties loyal Subjects there and also from the Parliament of England particularly 40 thousand pound Sterling at the delivering up of the King at Newcastle besides a good summe he had thereafter from Cromwell and what he made up by the revenues of two Bishopricks these 20 years by seizing the Marquesse of Huntlyes estate and a part of the Marquesse of Montrosses by exacting divers of his Majesties few Duties payable to the Exchequer by oppressing of many Gentlemen his neighbours and dispossessing them of their Estates All which cannot amount to lesse then a hundred and fifty thousand pound Sterling which summe must remain entire or little diminished since it s known he lived sparingly and these last 20 years he would pay none of his Debts neither Principals nor Profits So that his Son having such store of money is as powerfull as his Father to do mischief if he be restored 12. Lastly As the restoring of this Family would be a notable prejudice to many who have been opprest by it and no small grief to his Majesties loyal Subjects who justly apprehend the dangers that may thence ensue to his Majesties prejudice and disturbance of the Nation and would strengthen the hands of his Majesties enemies and weaken his friends so it is the only hopes and desire of those who have been enemies to his Majesties Father of blessed memory or who by this means expect the Resurrection of the rebellious Covenant so destructive to Monarchy And therefore that Family in prudence ought not to be restored FINIS