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A92567	The last proceedings of the Parliament in Scotland, against the Marquesse of Argyle. Together, with the speech and defence of the said Marquesse, in vindication of himself from the aspersions of his having a hand in the deaths of His late Majesty, James Duke Hamilton, Marquesse Huntley, Marquesse of Montross. And of his dealing with the English after Worcester fight.	Scotland. Parliament.; Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Marquis of, 1598-1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing S1251; Thomason E1086_5; ESTC R203476	8,686	16

having as yet unfolded the processe By reason those Advocates your Lordships was pleased to allow me have not yet all embraced and the excuses of my ordinary Advocates in whom I had confidence being admitted as relievant And this Gentleman that hath been pleased in obedience to your Lordships commands to come here with me not being much acquainted with matters of this weight and not having embraced till within these two or three dayes so that they are strangers altogether to my case I shall therefore my Lord humbly desire that a competent time may be allowed me that I may prepare my defences and I shall God willing abundantly clear every particular in the Libell And also my Lord I humbly desire that those other Advocates who were ordained by your Lordships to assist me after the Honourable Lords of the Articles rejected their excuses they may be now Ordained by your Lordships to consult and appear for me The Marquesse his Advocates entred a Protestation that what should happen to escape them in pleading either by Word or Write for the Life Honour and Estate of the said Noble Marquesse their Client might not thereafter be obtruded to them as Treasonable whereupon they took Instruments The Marquesse assured my Lord Chancellour that he knew not of any such protestation to be presented and that it flowed simply of themselves and not of him Whereupon my Lord Chancellour desired the Marquess and his Advocates to remove till the House should consider of both my Lord Marquesses desire and the Advocates Protestation The Marquesse and his Advocates being removed The House after some small debates Resolved as to my Lord Marquesses desire his Lordship should have till the 26 of March to give in his Defenses in Write and ordained Mr. Andrew Ker to be one of his Advocates As to the Advocates Protestation The House Resolved That they could not be allowed to speak any Treason either by Word or Write but upon their perill only allowed them in the generall as much as ever in such cases was indulged to any The Marquess and his Advocates being called in my Lord Chancellour intimates the foresaid Resolutions of the House both in reference to my Lord Marquesses desires and to the Advocates in relation to their Protestation When my Lord Chancellour had done the Marquesse spake as followeth My Lord Chancellour There is one thing that had almost escaped me anent that Opposition at Striveling 1648. that my Lord Advocate was speaking of that it may not stick with any of this Honourable Meeting I shall ingenuously declare that after the Defeat at Preston I was desired to come and meet with the Committee of Estates meaning those who were not in the then Engagement I came with some of my Friends to Striveling fearing no harm nor suspecting nothing I was invaded by Sir George Monro where several of my Friends were killed and my self hardly Escaped which is all that can be said I acted in Armes which many here knowes to be most true My Lord not that I am any wayes Diffident but I shall in due time clear every particular in that Libell yet I am not a little troubled That some who have heard the Calumnies therein may let them have such an Impression being asserted with such confidence as to conceive a possibility if not a probability of their being true I shall therefore humbly desire so much Charity from this Honourable Meeting that there may be no hard thoughts entertained by any till I be fully heard The Marquesse thereafter with joint Concurrence of his Advocates humbly desired That his Bill containing many pungent Reasons for a precognition of his Business given in to the Honourable Lords of the Articles may be considered in plain Parliament To which my Lord Chancellour Replyed That it had been formerly refused at the Articles and that it would not be granted FINIS a * 2 Sam. 19. 30. * Psal 139. 22. * Acts 24. 14 15 16. a Sir Walt. Rauleighs Preface to the Hist of the World c Speed in his History * Psal 130. v. 3.

THE LAST Proceedings OF THE PARLIAMENT in SCOTLAND Against the MARQUESSE of ARGYLE TOGETHER With the SPEECH and DEFENCE of the said Marquesse In Vindication of himself from the Aspersions of his having a hand in the DEATHS Of His late MAJESTY James Duke Hamilton Marquesse Huntley Marquesse of Montross And of his Dealing with the ENGLISH after WORCESTER Fight London Printed by T. M. for T. J. 1661. AT THE Parliament House in Edenburgh March 13. 1661. The Parliament being all Convened THe Marquess of Argyle being Accused with High Treason at the Instance of Sir J. Fletcher His Majesties Advocate for his Interest was brought to the Bar his Lordship desired to speak but a few words before Reading the Inditement assuring to speak Nothing in the Cause it self Whereupon his Lordship was Removed a little and after some small Debate the House Resolved that the Inditement should be first Read Then his Lordship desired that a bill which he had caused his Advocates give in to the Lords of the Articles desiring a Precognition with many Reasons urging the Necessity of it to which he had Received no Answer might be Read before the Inditement which being likewise Refused the Inditement was Immediately Read after Reading thereof The Marquess being put off his first Thoughts made this Extemporarie Discourse following May it Please your Grace c. MY Lord Chancellor Before I speak any thing I shall Humble Protest my words may not be Wrested but that I may have Charity to be Believed and I shall with Gods assistance speak Truth from a Heart I shall my Lord Resume Mephibosheths answer to David after a great Rebellion and himself evil Reported of Sayeth he Yea let him take all since my Lord the King is come again in peace to his own House So say I since it hath pleased God Almighty Gratiously to Return his SACRED MAJESTY to the Royal Excercise of his Government over these Nations to which he hath indoubted Right and most Unjustly and Violently thrust therefrom by the late Tyrannizing Usurpers It is my Lord exceeding matter of Joy to us all that that Iron Yoak of Usurpation under which we have these many years sadly Groaned is now broke and with such Freedome this High and Honourable Court of Parliament are meeting together under the Refreshing Warm Beams of his MAJESTIES ROYAL GOVERNMENT so much longed for by our almost starved Expectations and I do earnestly wish his ROYAL Presence upon his Throne amongst us but since at this time that great happiness cannot be probably expected I am glad that his Majesties Prudency hath singled out such a Qualified and Worthy Person as my Lord Commissioners Grace to Represent himself whose Unspotted Loyalty to his Majesty we can all Witnesse I cannot my Lords but acknowledge that there are two Grand Mercies which comfortably attend my present condition One is the High Thoughts I deservedly Entertain of that Transcendent and Princely Clemency wherewith his SACRED MAJESTIE is so admirably Delighted abundantly Evindenced by many Noted and Singular Testimonies in all the Steps of his Majesties Carriage as those most Gratious Letters Declarations and that Free and most Ample Act of Indempnitie c. Granted to all his Majesties Subjects to Eradicate any Time●ous Jealousie of his Majesties Gratious Pardon which might happily arise by serous Reflectings convincing them Forcibly of their own Miscarriages in these most unhapy times of Distraction The Effects my Lords of which Princely Deportment I am confidently hopeful his Majestie hath already Experimentally and shall futurely find prove an effectual cement to conciliate the most Antimonarchich and Disaffected Persons excepting some those Barbarous Phanaticks in all his Majesties Dominions most willingly to the Subjection of his MAJESTIES ROYAL SCEPTER and with a perfect Hatred Abominate all Disloyal Practises in themselves or others in all times coming The second is my Lords when I consider that my Judges are not such as we had of late strangers but my own Country men both which joyntly together with the Royal Sence and Solid Convictions I had of my Innocency of these Calumnies most Unjustly charged upon me Encourages my hopes rather to expect such dealing as will most Sympathize with that Clement Humour to which his SACRED MAJESTY hath such a Natural Propensitie and such equal Administrate Justice void of all byassing prejudices as will be most sutable for such a High and Honourable Meeting I shall therefore my Lord desire to use Pauls answer for himself being accused of his Countrymen I desire not to be mistaken having a learned Orator Tertullius accusing him as I have my Lord Advocate Pauls was Heresie mine of another nature but I must say with him That the things they all laid against me cannot be proved But this I confesse in the way allowed by Solemn Oaths and Covenants I have served God my King and my Countrie as he said which they themselves allow Therefore I shall my Lord Remember not with Repining but for Information my hard usage never having had any hearing nor allowance of Pen Ink or Paper until I received this Summons which was in Effect a load above a burden Enemies both Scots and English out of malice Calumniating me for all the same things excepting what relates to his Majesties most Royall Father of ever Glorious Memory Therefore My Lord I beg Charity and Patient hearing not doubting but the Wisdom and Goodness of the Parliament will be so favourable and not as the inconsiderate multitude as a learned able man writes sayes he As we see in experience that Dogs they alwayes bark at those they know not And that it is their nature to accompany one another in those Clamours So it is with the inconsiderate multitude who wanting that vertue which we call Honesty in all men and that speciall gift of God which we call Charity in Christian Men Condemn without Hearing and wound without Offence given led thereunto by uncertain report only which his Majesty King James only acknowledgeth to be the Father of Lies I shall not desire to be in the least mistaken by any that hear me But sure I am it is pertinently applicable to my Case I intreat likewise your Lordships seriously to consider the words of another Notable Man who sayes d As the Tongues of Parasites are ill Ballances to weigh the vertues of Princes great Men so neither ought theirs nor other Mens Blemishes be looked upon as they are drawn with the deformed Pencill of Envy or Canker which do alwayes attend Eminency whether in Place or Virtue I shall not My Lord be so presumptuous as to Arrogate any thing to my self in this only I want not the two Companions for I am but a weak Man Subject to many Failings and Infirmities whereof I do not purge my self for as we must all confesse to God Almighty if he should mark Iniquities who can stand Neither shall I say that there cannot an hole be discovered as the

Proverb is in my Coat and it cannot but be so with any specially such as have laboured in such times and businesses but I blesse the Lord that in these things which hath been and are here cast upon me I am able to make the falshood and misconstructions of them palpably appear My Lord before I mention any thing in particular I must shew this Honourable Meeting of Parliament all that hear me who doubtless have various Apprehensions of my being present in this condition that I am here rather upon the account of Misfortune than Injury wherein I desire to explain the differences as Plato and Aristotle do very well Calling Injuries such things as are done purposely and with a wicked mind And misfortunes such things as are done with a good mind though the events prove bad yet we could not foresee them So My Lord I shall take God to Record who must judge me one day upon my Conscience that what I did flowed not from any Injurious Pinciples to any though I acknowledge the events were not still successefull which was my misfortune indeed But it has been my lot often in these times wherein I and many others were inevitably involved by the malicious tongues of my Calumniating Enemies to be misconstrued for the worst yea even in many which the Lord was pleased to make successefull For the truth of this I may I hope safely appeal to many in this Honourable House who can abundantly witnesse my Faithfull and Loyall Endeavours for both My King and Native Country whereof I should be very sparing to be a Herald my self were not the contrary so impudently affirmed There are five main Calumnies that I desire My Lord to satisfie all that hear me a little in to the end that the rest of less moment may be likewise in its own due time heard afterward abstracting more from personal prejudice The first Calumny is My Lord concerning that Horrid and Unparaleld Murder of his late ROYAL MAJESTY of Eternall blessed Memory I do here publickly declare That I neither desire nor deserve the least Countenance or Favour if I was either accessary to it or on the Councell or Knowledge of it which to make clearly appear is under Oath in the Parliament Books 1649. whereof I was the first Startour my self to the intent we might both Vindicate our selves and Endeavour a Discovery if any amongst us had any accession to that Horrid and Villanous Crime As also in my latter Will which I made going to England in Anno 1655. or 1656. fearing what possibly might hereafter be obtruded by any upon me or my family upon that account I set it down to clear me to posterity that I was altogether free of that detestable and execrable Crime or of any prejudice at his Majesty in either Person or Government I left this with a very worthy Gentleman I believe well known to your Lordships all and never saw it since So your Lordships may be pleased if ye will to call for it and try the truth Whatsoever other thing may be in it I hope My Lord this Opportunity is a mercy to me to have that Vile Calumny among many others against me to be cleared And My Lord to make this particular yet more evident I did still and do positively assert That I never saw that monstruous Usurper Oliver Cromwell in the face nor never had the least Correspondence with him or any of that Sectarian Army untill the Commands of the Committee of Estates sent me with some other Noble Men and Gentlemen to the Borders in Anno 1648. to stop his march into Scotland after those who returned from Preston fight Neither after he left the Borders in the Year 1648. did I ever Correspond with him or any of that Sectarian Army So unsatisfied was I with their way after the wicked and sinistrous courses he and they were upon afforded evident Presumptions for us to apprehend That he and they intended prejudice to his Royall Majesty onely one Letter I received from Sir Arthur Haslerig to which I returned Answer That he might have spared his pains in writing to me For I blessed the Lord who had taught me by his Word To Fear God and Honour the King and not to meddle with them that were gi●en to Change Though Sir Arthur be now dead yet he acknowledged to severall in the Tower that my Letter he still had and when I was there I often desired he might be posed and examined upon it which I can presently instruct And during my Lord my being in England neither at London nor Newcastle in Anno 1647. there was not any thing so much as mentioned concerning his late Majesties person All that ever I heard of it was in publick Parliament 1647. The Commissioners papers at London and Committee-Books at Newcastle will clear this fully The second Calumny is Anent the inhumane murther of Duke James Hamilton My Lord it s well known my great respect to that truly Noble and Worthy person whereof upon all occasions I gave ample testimonies and can yet convince any of his Friends with the Reality of it and evidenced my true Sorrow for the wicked cruelty commited on him But indeed I cannot deny I refused to Complement Cromwell on his behalf he having my Lord been immediately Proceeding so Instrumental and so very Active in that most Horrid and Lamentable Murder of his late SACRED MAJESTY And if I had done otherwayes undoubtedly it had been a more Black Article in that Lybil now Read then any that 's in it The third Calumny is that which breeds a great part of these groundless Clamours though it be not in the Inditement i● my Lord Marquess of Huntly his death wherein I may truly say I was earnest to preserve him as possible I could which is very well known to many in this Honourable House And my not prevailing may sufficiently evidence I had not so great a stroak nor power in the Parliament as is Lybelled And my Lord for his Estate I had nothing in that but for my own absolute necessary Releif and was even most willing to part with any Interest I had therein getting his friends who professed Zeal for the standing of the Familie engaged for warrandise to me for any proportion that should happen to fall for my satisfaction And to Evidence that I was no means to harm the Familie I stood with my Right betwixt all Fines and Forfeitures of lands and accompted for any thing I did receive and to manifest yet further that the burden of that Family was not from any Extrinsick cause to themselves I have under the old Marquesses own hand and his Son George Lord Gordoun who was a very worthy young Nobleman the just Inventory of their debts amounting to about one Million of Mark Scots in Anno 1640. It would I fear my Lord consume too much of the Parliaments pretious time to hear many other circumstances to make this particular more clear which I