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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

without limits that the Marquesse did raise warre in Britaine for if the King of sweden had a designe on Denmarke the King of Britain should not be able to help his Unckle Whereunto the Secretary replyed that they feared not the King of Britain for he that would not help his owne Sister would never helpe his Unckle The Lord Reay asked Master Meldrum what they intended to do with the Queene and Prince he answered that they would shut up the child with his father and send the Queen to her Mother to be put into a Monastery Mr. Meldrum further acquainted the Lord Reay that the Marquesse would take pledges of all in Scotland who would not joyne with him or make them prisoners and that he the said Master Meldrum was to be Secretary of State When the Lord Reay came to Holland in March 1631 he met with David Ramsey who delivered him a Letter from the Marquesse of complement and thanks and told him that all went right with the Marquesse that he had gotten from the King ten thousand pounds in England and the Wine customes in Scotland for divers yeeres which he would sell and that all things proceeded without obstacle only the stay was for Armes and Ammunition afterwards he said he had ill newes to tell the Lord Reay which was that the Marquesse his wife was brought to bed of a child but for the busines of Orkney that the Lord Reay might have it cheaper then to pay the duties of it and that when the Lord Reay met with the Marquesse he would infuse that into him which he the said David Ramsey durst not He said further that the King had made a Peace with Spaine very prejudiciall to Holland and that the Treasurer Cottington and others had muffled the King to bar the Hollanders from the fishing which might fall out happily for them When the Lord Reay came to England the Lord Hamilton did give him many thanks assuring him he would not want him that he should have what conditions he desired and that he had written to the king of Sweden with Elphingstonn and Meldrum that he would detaine him and if he would hazard with him the said Marquesse in this businesse that it should be a tye for ever upon him and his posterity In the beginning of May 1631 the Lord Reay meeting with the Lord Ochiltry at the Beare of the Bridge-foot he said to the Lord Ochiltry your Lordship is better acquainted with the Lawes of the Land then I who am a souldier and have lived abroad I do therefore desire to know what danger it is if a man should heare abroad any Plot against the king and state and not reveale it The Lord Ochiltry answered that it was the losse of life and estate and within eight or ten days after upon promise of secrecy not to divulge it without his advise and direction the Lord Reay communicated the whole businesse to the Lord Ochiltry After revealing of it they resolved first to acquaint the Lord Treasurer of England therewith that he might impart it to the king and accordingly the Lord Ochiltry did acquaint the Lord Treasurer with it and afterward upon the 18 of May the Lord Reay delivered in a relation of all the particulars before mentioned under his hand which he offered likewise to seale with his blood The Marquesse of Hamilton being then in Scotland upon secret advertisement from a friend at Court came speedily to the king who at first entertained him not with that familiarity he was wont but by his cunning policy and subtile insinuations he prevailed over the kings good nature perswading him to beleeve that all was done out of malice and that these were aspersions and calumnies invented by the Lord Ochiltry whom he caused the King to send to Scotland to be there tryed and censured well knowing that at such a distance from the King he could order the matter as he pleased It is to be observed that the Lord Ochiltry conferring with the Treasurer of England who was desirous to be informed of the Marquesse of Hamiltons power and strength in Scotland with more forwardnesse and affection then due consideration did give in a list of the names of the friends of the Marquesse whom he apprehended would be most ready to joyne with the Marquesse and that when the Marquesse returned from Scotland to Court he suggested to the King that there might be present danger to his person by suffering the Marquesse who was the prime Agent to come neer him In these particulars it is true that the Lord Ochiltry had no warrant from the Lord Reay to deliver in a list of names to the Treasurer nor to say to the King that he was in present danger by the returne of the Marquesse from Scotland But all the rest of the particulars the Lord Reay did acknowledge and deliver in subscribed with his hand yet the Lord Reay was not at all challenged for any information he had given nor the Lord Ochiltry for any thing he had said by warrant from the Lord Reay but such was the power of the Marquesse as the Lord Ochiltry was arraigned for delivering in that list of names and suggesting to the king his feares of his Majesties danger upon the Marquesse his returne and his friends perceiving after Ochiltry had pleaded for his own innocency that the matter relished otherwise then was expected found wayes to put off further Tryal and to imprison him first in Edinburgh there after in the blacknesse that he might be out of the way and at further distance from the King who was then comming to Scotland in which prison he lyeth still the matter never yet being put to any legall tryal nor he declared guilty or not guilty notwithstanding his frequent petitions for the same The Lord Reay in the meane time who was the chiefe informer not at all to this day troubled or accused which no question if the Marquesse had not been conscious to his own guiltinesse could not have come to passe however it is well known to some at Court what power David Ramsey had over the Marquesse all his life and that when he was reduced to any strait or want if the Marquesse furnished him not readily or obtained such suits from the King as he desired he would vow and sweare to discover that the Marquesse was a Traitor after which he hath been secretly brought into the Marquesse his lodging his desires granted and they reconciled And it is likewise well known that Master Meldrum hath a pension from the Marquesse yearly I might here adde the examinations touching Master Meldrum and others about this businesse but because I promised to be brief I shall only adde the Deposition of one Master l. Borthwick which he delivered to the King signed with his hand that you may understand what sort of people these be the words which he deposeth Meldrum to have said are these 1. Domum Regis esse profluvium iniquitatis foetidum

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

the king of the truth whereof the Earle of Callendor and Mr. Murrey can particularly informe you and how he would neither joyne with the kings friends in a course of opposition nor give his approbation that they should do it themselves without his personall appearance in the businesse but on the contrary discouraged those who were willing and ready to take their lives in their hands and to adventure all that was dearest unto them for his Majesty When he had thus disappointed the kings service then he and his brother Lanerk wrote letters to the king to advertise him that very speedily an Army was to come into England and according to their promise they had hindred them all summer but could not hinder them any longer shortly after these letters the two brethren began their Journey to Court where they found their Juglings discovered to the King and a processe drawne against the Duke wherein it was offered to be proved that he was the occasion of all the troubles and evils that have befallen these Kingdomes in particular that he enticed the king to begin the War against Scotland and in an underhand way stirred up the people against the king by advising them not to yield and bidding them insist and they would get their will for he was a very coward and that if he got his will he would prove a greater Tyrant then N●ro that he had mannaged all businesses wherewith the king had trusted him to his Majesties disservice particularly that he had given way to the present raising of an Army in Scotland against the king There are divers other articles in that charge some of them are coincident with what I have already written though more largely expressed and therefore I trust you will excuse me that I have not sent you a Copy thereof The king upon consideration of so hainous crimes and treasonable practices committed the Duke Prisoner to Pendennis and shortly after his brother Lanerk escaped away from Oxford to London where he was welcomed by the Scots Commissioners and dispatched away to their Army by sea with letters of Recommendation and from the Army to Scotland where he was instantly received to their Covenant and admitted to their Counsels and likewise to the Command of forces The Duke being prisoner was not able though willing enough to practice more against his Majesty yet Lanerk was not discouraged from prosecuting the old designe for I do very well remember that when the king was at New-castle he was credibly informed that upon a serious Consultation amongst the Covenanters what instructions to send to the Scots Commissioners at London concerning the king who as they said had been the Author of so much blood-shed in both kingdomes the Earle of Lanerick dropped these words We can never have peace as long as this king or any of his race remains and upon another occasion we can have no difference about Monarchicall Government all the difference will be who shall be king It may be he expects the accomplishment of his horoscope whereof as himselfe since related he had so great confidence when he was thought to be in danger before his escaping from Oxford saying that he was sure he was not neere his death for it was promised of him that before he dyed he should be a greater man then it was safe for him to mention When the Duke was relieved from his imprisonment and come to London as I am informed he had some expressions which discovered his resenting his imprisonment one expression so far as I remember was to this purpose wherefore should he go to the king then at New-castle for how could he ever trust that man who when he was in power imprisoned him When he came to New-castle he and Lanerick did undertake to the king to bring him to Scotland which if they had done it had been an easie matter for the king to have engaged this kingdome and their Army for restoring his Majesty to his just rights in England but it stood not with their designes to have his Majesty personally present in Scotland that would too much eclipse their greatnesse and disappoint their ends and therefore they kept of the king with faire pretences from coming to Scotland and all other resolutions till a strict Guard was put about him And within a few dayes he was delivered over to the Parliaments Commissioners I cannot forget also to mention how in the Parliament of Scotland they made a faire show in reasoning for the king but when it came to the Vote concerning his delivery the two brethren were in the negative themselves but all their neerest friends and dependers whose voice they use to command as much as their owne were in the affirmative It may be remembred likewise how they kept correspondence with the Sectaries for little good to his Majesty I suppose if all the truth were known However I perceive that they have juggled so betwixt the king and his people as they have got into their hands the Government of one Kingdome though they dare not take off the maske you will see that they will manage both peace and war so as to keep power in their own hands they will agree with any party to obtaine their ends and let them pretend what they will for restoring the king they will really obstruct it For let any rationall man judge whether he that durst take the boldnesse in the dayes of his Majesties prosperity to aspire to the Crowne will not in his Majesties low condition be ready to take the opportunity to prosecute the same designe In the late declaration which you say is drawne by Lanerk I see they pretend as faire for the Presbyterian Religion as for the king when in reality they are no further friends or enemies to any Religion then may serve for their ends and strengthen their interest against the king and his posterity whereof there is no mention in that declaration and let the Presbyterians think of them what they will I make no question but if the Duke could be king of Scotland his tender conscience might without the help of Divines be perswaded to digest with a moderate Episcopacie though we love not to buy it at that rate How Absalom like do they court the people with pretences for the good of Religion king and Kingdomes as if they intended nothing but to performe their vows in Hebron I conjure you by the dutie you owe to God and the love you bear to the king and his posterity that you carefully take heed to their serpentine wayes and give no beleefe even to their sacrest professions or greatest oaths for then least of all are they to be trusted as I could easily cleare unto you from experience of their former dealings But I will not further weary you and those doubting friends to whom you are to communicate this letter for whose cause I have been much larger then I intended when I put pen to paper yesternight Touching the State of affairs here and what course shall be taken in relation to Hamilton and his party so as the kings affairs may suffer least prejudice I refer you to a letter from 123. and another from 271. And so rest Your Faithfull Servant London May 23. 1648. Postscript I forgot to mention that one of Hamiltons predecessors in king Iames the sixth his time was forfeited by act of Parliament for his aspiring to the Crowne FINIS