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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 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

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