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A50890	A true and plain account of the discoveries made in Scotland, of the late conspiracies against His Majesty and the government extracted from the proofs lying in the records of His Majesties Privy Council, and the high justice court of the nation : together with an authentick extract of the criminal process and sentence against Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood / extracted by command of His Majesties most honourable Privy Council of Scotland ...	Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.; Baillie, Robert, d. 1684.; England and Wales. Privy Council.	1685 (1685)	Wing M210; ESTC R19774	71,866	68

Donatives to those whom he and his Father had formerly rob'd and destroy'd for their Fidelity and Loyalty to their King And the Super-plus if any were was intended for his Lady and Children which was the hight of Clemency there being indeed more Debt upon the Estate then the whole of its value Yet being more conscious of his own Guilt then his Prince did apprehend he dar'd not rely upon that Clemency whereof he had tasted so plentifully but abusing the favour of his open Imprisonment for verifying of his other Crimes he added this one of breaking the Prison and flying from the Laws No King but ours could after all this think of favouring his Family but His Majesty will not only favour but restore and before it was known that the late Argile had more Debt then Estate in a Royal Largese He gifts more to his Children by thrice then their Father could lawfully give them had he never been Forsault Could it have been thought that any Christian or Gentleman could have been guilty of Ungratitude to so benign and bountiful a Prince and yet that the late Earl of Argile did after the receiving so many Favours and the profession and boasting of so much Loyalty not only enter in a horrid Conspiracy for rising in Arms but gave at least courage by his bold Undertakings to those who conspir'd the murther of His Sacred Majesty and his Royal Highness and this Conspiracy does demonstrate what was his meaning in that Paraphrase upon the Test which Fools and Knaves have justified as very Loyal and Orthodox But with what forwardness Argile and others did enter into a Conspiracy for overturning the Monarchical Government destroying the sacred Person of the King and of his only Brother and for pulling Ruine upon the three Kingdoms by a Civil War the evident Proofs of unsuspect Witnesses and the concurrence of many authentick Papers and Documents with these Depositions will not only sufficiently prove but amount to the quality of a Demonstration all the pieces being considered together and with what earnestness he acted doth evidently appear from these following Evidences For shortly after Argiles escape information was given from the West that he had caused secure the Militia Arms of Argile and Tarbet Shires as also a considerable quantity of the Kings Arms were given to him in Trust besides a little Magazine which he had of his own and some pieces of Cannon and that he had employed some Merchants to bring Arms from abroad to be landed securely in some of his remote High-land Castles And upon inquiry one William Campbel Master of a Ship at Newport-Glasgow was found to be conduc'd for this end as his Deposition taken before some of the Officers of State doth clearly evince Edinburgh the last day of August 1682. IN presence of the Lords Chancellor and Advocat William Campbel Skipper at Newport-Glasgow being examined upon Oath Depons That in March last he was fraughted by Iohn Campbel Merchant in Glasgow for Norway France or elsewhere for three Months certain conform to a Charter-party produc'd by him and about that same day he having desired to know what could be his prospect of his Voyage to Norway with so small a Ship and Loading he refused to tell him till he were at Sea and being at the back of the Lews a day or two after they set off the said Iohn Campbel then said now Skipper I will tell you the design of our Voyage which is to go to Norway and loaden Dails and out of that to Amsterdam and buy Arms and to take in the same to Cairnbulg and the Deponent having asked him what he would do with these Arms there he answered may not my Lord come to his own again and have use for them and the Deponent understanding these Arms were to be made use of against the King the Deponent answered that when he was made Burgess of Dunbartoun there was an Oath taken of him to be true to the King and the present Government as it is established and upon the Deponents refusal to comply with him in the said Voyage he got the Ships Company upon his side who beat and abused the Deponent and having gone from that to Norway he behoved to suffer all the Voyage there being no Justice in these remote Places where he came to from which being upon their Voyage to Holland the Ship was by Providence cast away for which they blam'd the Deponent as having done the same wilfully And this is the Truth as he shall answer to God Sic subscribitur Will. Campbell G. GORDON Cancell Edinburgh the 14 of Ianuary 1685. IN presence of the Secret Committee the said William Campbel being re-examined adheres to his former Deposition and further Declares that he offered to the then Lord Chancellor to apprehend the said Iohn Campbel but the Chancellor made no answer to him but whispered the General in the ear and he heard afterwards that the said Campbel had escaped And this is the Truth as he shall answer to God Sic subscribitur Will. Campbel At the same time Surmises were heard from amongst the Fanaticks from all parts of Argiles intention to land in the West with Arms and to raise that Countrey and to joyn with the Western Shires and in Summer 1683 Gordon of Earlston being apprehended at Newcastle the Papers taken with him and his own Depositions made upon Oath in Scotland did give good grounds for suspition of some imminent Design which apprehensions were raised by a little accident which happened at the time for upon the first noise of the discovery of the Conspiracy in England Earlston being in Prison in Edinburgh Tolbooth the Keeper came in to visit him who found him asleep but he awakening at the time the Keeper told him that now the Conspiracy was broke out How says Earlston is Argile then Landed of which expression the Keeper having given notice to some Councellers Earlston was examined upon the meaning of the expression who plainly confess'd that both in England and Holland he had information of Argiles buying of Arms with intention to land in Scotland and that at the same time he was informed that the English were to rise in several places of England Alexander Gordon of Earlston his Deposition before a Committee of His Majesties Privy Council and two of the Iustices Edinburg the 25 of September 1683. Sederunt Privy Counsellors The Earl of Linlithgow Lord Livingston Lord President of the Session Lord Collington Lord Castlehill Justices Lord Pitmedden Lord Harcarss The Earl of Linlithgow elected Praeses ALexander Gordon being further interrogate upon the Interrogators given in anent the Conspiracy in England Declares That the first time he heard of any design of rising in Arms was at the time when the competition was anent the Sheriffs at Midsummer was a year and then he heard the Duke of Monmonth was to head the Rebels and this he had from Iohn Nisbet and one Mr. Murray a Scots man then at

A True and Plain ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERIES Made in SCOTLAND Of the Late CONSPIRACIES Against His Majesty and the Government Extracted from the Proofs lying in the Records of His Majesties Privy Council and the High Justice Court of the Nation TOGETHER With an Authentick Extract of the Criminal Process and Sentence against Mr. Robert Baillie of Ierviswood Extracted by Command of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council of Scotland And Published by His Majesties Command Reprinted at London by Thomas Newcomb for Susanna Forrester in Kings-Street Westminster 1685. A true and plain Account of the Discoveries made in Scotland of the late Conspiracies against His Majesty and the Government THE King's Majestie having on certain great considerations indicted a Parliament to hold at Edinburgh 28 of Iuly 1681. Did render that Meeting the more illustrious by nominating His Royal Brother Commissioner to represent His Majesty in it The Fanatical Party who let no occasion slip to promove their Designs and to disturb the settled Government did at this time use all their endeavours to have as many of those infected with their principles elected Commissioners for the Parliament as the little power and Interest they had in the Nation could procure and even where they could not hope to succeed they had the insolence to attempt thereby pursuing closly what they constantly design that is pertinaciously to disturb where they cannot alter and to found a Reputation to their Party by much noise though to little purpose At the time of meeting of the Parliament their first consult was to strick at the Head and by invading the Right of the Monarchy to pull it down so far as to have the King in the Person of His Commissioner subjected to the same Rules and Inquisitions with other subordinat Members The King by His Laws having prescribed Rules to those who Serve Him in that Great Court and Council They according to the Laws of their Leagues and Covenants propose that the Parliament should prescribe the same to the King consonant enough to their beloved Design of Co ordination in Power Had this succeeded they with this one Blow had overthrown the Parliament by laying the Commissioner aside But as men oft-times design bold Treasons with abundance of Resolution yet are frighted from the Execution by the danger as well as ugliness of the Crime So this insolent Resolution dar'd not shew its Face being strangl'd by their own Fears And seeing they could not dissolve the Parliament they in the next place resolv'd to disappoint the Design of it and indeed if the maintaining of an unjust Interest could warrand the action they had reason so to do For the Fanatical-Party having by their own great industry and the supine negligent● to say no worse of these Trusted by the King to suppress them not only kept up but encreased their pernicious Brood So that they began to appear formidable both to the King and the Countrey and one of their great Hopes whereby their Party increased being founded on the short continuance of the Supply granted by the Nation for maintaining the Forces they could little doubt but that all Loyal Subjects would not only continue but also further augment them rather then leave the Seditious in a capacity to disturb the Government Therefore as a necessary expedient to preserve Fanaticism they resolved by all possible means to hinder any continuation of the Supplie But they soon found that the Votes of their Party had neither number nor weight These well-natur'd Subjects finding that they could not disappoint thought it convenient to perplex and since they could not do what they would they resolv'd to do all they could And albeit the late Earl of Argile and some others who were under too great obligations to the King's Majesty and His Royal-Highness to appear on the side of their Friends in the good old Cause whilst the opposition was so bare-fac'd and the hope of success so little Yet lest their little Flock should be discouraged they began then to animat them the more close and as they thought undiscern'd methods And now the Cause being in an apparent decay they labour'd to refresh it with its first milk the Pretence of Religion Wherefore a new Security for Religion was proposed And albeit our Laws had formerly provided what was necessary for this yet it could not be expected that those who aimed at debate for Religion should rest-satisfied with what settled it So the Doctrine of the Church the Canons of Councils and the Laws of the Kingdom being all lookt upon as nothing Argyle Sir Iohn Cochran Salton the Earl of Tarras Philiphaugh Stairs Gallowsheils and others of that Crew would needs provide a greater security than these afforded and indeed it was congruous for those who were tainted with new Doctrines to desire new Sanctions For this end they pressed a Committee for drawing an Act to secure the Protestant Religion which was no sooner proposed then granted accordingly a Committee was appointed consisting for the most part of West-countrey men who upon short deliberation prepared a long Act which at its first appearance in the Articles was soon discerned to be an Invasion upon the Prerogative under the name of a Defence for Religion and not to have many more Lines than Incroatchments upon the Royal Right whereupon it was rejected and in place of it a general and plain Ratification of all the former good Laws which had past for security of the Protestant Religion was drawn approven and acquiesced in by the Parliament But Fanaticks are not of a temper to give over for notwithstanding of this good Law Murmurings were heard Clamors were raised and open Protestations were made for f●rther security in Religion Wherefore a new Committee was appointed for preparing an Act to be drawn from the proposals for that end The Party which clamored for the Protestant Religion but in effect intending good Offices to the Fanatical party did seek after what conduc'd to their by-ends which as they were easily discovered were as soon rejected Argyle Sir Iohn Cochran the Earl of Tarras Stairs Philiphaugh Gallowshiels and their adherents fall at last on an expedient as they thought insuperable by the Kings Servants and which would force them on the Dilemma of opposing Religion or the Soveraignity In the first Year and Parliament of King Iames the sixth when the differences betwixt Queen Mary and many of the Nobility were in their greatest hight and she forc'd to resign her Government being a Prisoner there were several Acts past in that and some subsequent Parliaments which incroached on the Prerogatives of the Crown the King being then an Infant and amongst others that wherein the Confession of Faith was insert had in it several Clauses altogether extrinsick to a Confession of Faith for which that Act by its Title was chiefly design'd And tho these Acts and Clauses which derogated from the Rights of the Crown were often rescinded or corrected and the Prerogative fully