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The crimes and treasons of Archibald Johnston, Laird Wariston. One of the grandees of the Scotch rebels and president of the late Committee of Safety under Lambert now condemned, and to be executed at Edenburgh Wednesday July 22.
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1663
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Cromwell by his fellow Traytor Dundasse the Governour thereof who had Articled for the Transportation and secure conveyance of all the Records and writings belonging to the Kingdom which were deposited there to Sterling or some other place in the Kings possession which were contrary to the said Articles detained for a while with some other precious Goods and Moveables Warrieston as it was belonging to his office was sent to Edenburgh to dispute the matter and to gain and recover the said Rolls This advantage of nearer converse with Cromwell proffering it selfe when as before it was very dangerous he omitted net to prosecute for being with a safe conduct admitted into that City in stead of contesting for his Soveraignty and his Countries right he underhand agreed with those Money Masters to do them what service he could in facilitating their war which being like to prove cold and frosty work in that Northern clymate did sadden their premature thoughts and over credulous and hasty hopes of a full and plenary Conquest of that Nation In the mean time the Western Remonstrants growing more Malapart several of them were called to answer their bold impudent Contumelies of the Kings Authority and that under pain of Excommunication by the better taught Kirk and among those this Gentleman theÌ„ practising the civil jugle at Edenburgh with some others of that Tribe was summoned but upon some consideration while the whole cabat of this trayterous faction should be better and more fully elucidated the writings if possibly as the earnest and gloze of his Treason recovered he was respited a while but according to expectation the said writings being come to Sterling he with Abernethy the Lord Swinton and the rest before mentioned were soon after declared Excommunicates and reserved for the future justice of the Laws But Warieston escaped that by the wonderfull and successful progresse of the English Armies in whose quarters he resolved after a suddden short appearance at Sterling to communicate his practises with his Gang and learn the Kings Councels from them to continue for the future whose invasion he seemed to quarrel from Christian grounds and to desire an amicable debate according to the Scriptures and the Covenant professing with great shews of devotion his renuntiation of the Kings Interest for which all these Evils he said had befallen them By which means he kept and intended to foment the former divisions according to the instructions of his Treason by Cromwell in that Nation The consequence of which scelerate practise being reduced by a neer conquest to a lesser and particular designe which was to keep the Scots now subdued in perpetual discords and misunderstandings on a religious as formerly on a civil account Warreston was the only fit man resolved on to prosecute the Cabel and to hold sides with the Remonstrants who had annulled by their assumed pretended Authority all that the Kirk had done and ratified in their conclusion with the King at Bredah and by the same magisterial power Fasts and Humiliations upon that Treasonable occasion were thereby enjoyned and this promoted on purpose to make easie work for the English Usurpers who by this though partial renunciation of the King by the Scots themselves in that quality as the supreme power had the lesse work to do towards their total abolition of it in which this Conspirator was mainly instrumental in all the changes and vicissitudes afterwards In the year 1652. the Juncto at Westminster having made in a manner a total Conquest of Scotland by their Commissioners deputed on that behalf proceeded to the Union of that with this Kingdome which having been a frustraneous enterprise in the Reigne of King James and proving but a meer politick notion and speculation was now in a kind effected By which means they intended to assure that Kingdom by the specious shews of liberty now made a Commonwealth from ever returning to its ancient Regal and Legal Government Against this Warreston with all the Remonstrants who liked not their total devestiture of power directly opposed themselves but Warreston as employed by our States to dive into the secrets of all that party which he seemed to Head and to reveal all the Machinations as well theirs or others which might be intended to the recovery of his Country from the slavery they suffered from those Usurpers That same Union being at last accomplished by Oliver no man was more reâ—dy to comply with the constitution of it to that purpose getting himself returned a Member for the Parliament of the Three Common-wealths as the establishment then was Thirty being allotted respectively for Scotland and Ireland and in these Assemblies and Conventions which were very frequent in these times he was sure to make one of the chief for his Nation where he learned the knack of catering for himself by complying with the most destructive Councels and Designes of the prevailing party therewith insinuating into their familiarity and confidence by most vile Parasitical officers and demerencies of their respects and notice of him insomuch that he grasped most of the important transactions of the Scotch affairs here which he prostituted to the will of the Usurper into his own management and disposal But the greatest remarque of these his wicked Acts here was manifestin the broyl betwixt Lambert and the Rump wherein he was so great a Favorite of that Commander that upon the erection of his Committe of Safety this man was made President thereof pro tempore which place he discharged chiefly in serving himselfe and the pleasure and will of that Dictator but the story of his fawning and most abject sordidnesse herein is so largely described in a Play called the Rump that there needs not any additional brand infamous note from this Bead roll of his impieties All that shall be said further of him on that account is that his Devices to make insurrections and new Troubles in Scotland by his labouring the Remonstrants and that party to a defection from General Monck then advancing against Lambert were such ranck and pestilent Treasons that the discovery of them shewed the desperate wickednesse of his Heart and made the Noble General be his remembrancer for his due reward to the Rump in his speech to them at Westminster but that providence was pleased to reserve to a juster hand and more due infliction afterwards that his original and principal guilt against the King might finally be punished and aâ—enged by his Royal Justice Which hoping to avoid he secretly fled out of Scotland whether he sneaked from his greatnesse at Westminster over into France hoping to find shelter in that populous Kingdome being pursued with a Proclamation and an Act of Attainder and Confiscation together with the abovementioned Col. Dundass and others and Condemned for his most notorious and evident Treasons There he lurked a while till his just destiny discovered him to some of his own Nation who made inquest after him an account wherof hath been already given sent him with a guard over to Dover whence he was conveyed to the Tower by His Majesties Order and not long after shipped for Edenburgh in one of the Kings Frigots in order to his Execution At his Arrival he was committed prisoner to Edenburgh Castle where the low spirited wretch kept such a Howling and Whining Lamentation affrighted with the monstrous shame of his crimes or Fear of Death that he lookt almost like a Changeling by which means his Friends of whom he hath very few and Relations procured a short respit for his Life that he might be the fitter for his death Upon his appearance at the Bar of the Parliament and demanded what he had to say for himself why the sentence should not be excuted he in a miserable strange posture fell a denying any intention of evil to the King and that over and over again to the trouble and Din of the Judges and Hearers then he desired a Copy of his sentence which was likewise denyed him as derogating from the Authority of the Parliament whose wisedome and justice would not admit any debate of it and so he was commanded to prepare a final answer to the point of Execution which yet remained to be done and which will assuredly overtake him to the magnifying the Divine Justice and the expiation of those many pollutions this mans iniquity brought upon this Land and to the Terrour of all evil Doers and such pernicious obstinate Traytors for the time to come FINIS
THE CRIMES AND TREASONS OF ARCHIBALD JOHNSTON Laird WARISTON One of the Grandees of the SCOTCH REBELS And President of the late Committee of SAFETY under LAMBERT Now condemned and to be executed at Edenburgh Wednesday July 22. Rarò antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo Horat. London Printed for T. R. 1663. THE CRIMES TREASONS OF ARCHIBALD JOHNSTON Laird Wariston c. THe Deserved Fate of this Disloyal and perfidious Politicians which hath such an aspect upon the late Usurpation and the justice and happinesse of these Times doth so well deserve a Memorial though in a summary and short account and that for the Honour also of his Country which doth hereby expiate the remaining guilt of that Religious and pious Rebellion begun and fostred by the rest of this mans Complices that it is a requisite duty to the publick to particularize the practises of this puny Matchiavil during our late and horrible Confusions following the method and traces of divine Vengeance that hath singled him so remarkably out and delivered him tot the Laws that the world may know and fear and tremble at the unevitable and righteous recompence of wicked men Of all persons who according to Scripture phrase may be said to have Sold themselves to work wickednesse there is none but two in the 3 Kingdomes that can be compared to him and those were Bradshaw and Cooke who set a price on their Villany and had their reward and are gone without perplexing our Charity to their own places This Laird Wariston was one of the same Robe an Eminent Lawyer in this Kingdome and preferred by the Committee of Estates At the instance and presentment of the Kirk during the late Interregnum to be the Custos or Magister Rotutorum or Lord Roguster or Keeper of the Rolls having given specious proofs of his zealous fondnesse to the Presbyterian most Rigid and Severest Discipline He was a great Confident and Privado likewise of the Marquesse of Argyles under whose clientele and Patronage he listed himself and proffered and performed his most officious services to that mans designes he being the Chieftain and sole supreme Head of those who ran-counter to the interest of the King in this Nation and which is not to be omitted a most violent Enemy of the glorious and immortal Marquesse of Montrosse Nor did he faile of any obsequious insinuations and endearments therby to carve himself a part in those his projected spoyls of Loyal and Dutiful Subjects and the Crown it self But Providence altering the management of the Government in this Kingdome and taking it from a cunning by devolving it to a violent Usurpation the Kirk Committee of Estates with the General Assembly being altogether abolished by the English conquest which justly punished their most Tyrannical insolence upon the Conscience Estates of their fellow Subjects by bringing upon their heads an Evil adaequate to their Crimes and Treasons for what was formerly infflicted upon the Jewes who made their Argument of Venient Romani the Romans will come a pretence to their Murder of the Messiah was anew Executed upon these Scots who having made the Venient Ritus Anglicani the Rites of the Church of England will come in among us and destroy the Kirk a pretence and mask to the Rebellion against the Kings Authority were now retaliated and punished with the victorious Arms Venient exercitus Anglicani of the new founded English Commonwealth which these very men had helped to raise to this formidable greatnesse I say when this grand mutation was brought about then did Wariston consult and look out for a better and surer interest where he might bestow his perfidious endeavours with the greatest profit and advantage For whereas he had mancipated himself to Argile and linkt himself in a manner to him by most scelerate and strange combinations he now estranged himself from him but suffering him to continue the most notable and greatest of the Kirks party he set up for himself here with these Grandees of England mounting in Degree Trust above his former Master as Mr. Thurloe did to St. John's and became afterwards there Olivers Scotch Secretary of State and continued in it all along to the very time of the Restitution and therefore to discover all his villany it will be necessary to deduce him in a brief History through the following times He appeared a main stickler first with that party who opposed the agreement with the King at Bredah and would have had his Majesty tyed and obliged to more undutiful and disloyal Conditions though those were unparalleld before his returne into that Kingdome in 1650. like some of our States men in 1659. upon a more happy and grand Revolution and when that could not be hindred the more numerous party of the Parliament proving so honest as to come to the intended conclusion of that affair yet did he and his faction so oppose the power of the Kirk to the Kings Authority and to cry it up as supreme to such a diminution of Majesty that the King was no more then a meer shadow of their brightnesse and greatnesse nor could exercise any part of the Royal Dignity without their approbation and allowance And to this tenor of deportment did the Faction continue even after the English Army were advanced into Scotland by which means such misunderstandings and divisions were arisen among the Nobility and fomented by Cromwell that there was little hopes of escaping that ruine which soon after ensued This very fellow some few more such as Col. Ker and Straughan Sir John Cheisly and some Ministers stiled the Western Remonstrants running out into such treasonable Declaratory Expressions that they would not own the Kings Quarrel and Interest and that it was the cause of all the Evill and Troubles that at present afflicted the Nation and that the King had been called in without confession and satisfaction and the like sawcy Dictates and Penance-Injunctions of this worse then Roman Kirk To this treasonable sense to avoid a defection of such a considerable strength who would by no means admit of other way nor would joyn with the Loyal party at any rate an Answer was sent to Cromwell by way of a Declaration and thereupon ensued their lamentable and just defeat at Dunbar which notwithstanding that it did clearly indigitate point at this their undutifulnesse yet did this same party continue in the same impious practises even to the conspiring the seizure of the King who upon some such obscure intimation did for a while withdraw himself out of their Clutches and betraying and delivering him as they had done his Blessed Father into the hands of the English for another rounder sum of money which Treason they would have vailed still by the Covenant to their interpretation whereof the King must be submitted And in this damnable Intrigue this Laird Warrieston had a principal hand as by his succeeding actions plainly appeared For Edenburgh Castle being surrendred to