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A47831	A compendious history of the most remarkable passages of the last fourteen years with an account of the plot, as it was carried on both before and after the fire of London, to this present time.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing L1228; ESTC R12176	103,587	213

were not sufficient to oblige them to new resolutions to which the Minister made a brisk return desiring his Grace to take a view of the Covenanted Army assuring him that every man he saw there would dye in the place where he stood in defence of the Covenant His Grace gave no farther answer but that a few minutes would shew the Truth of that if they refus'd his offer The other Gentleman who appear'd to be the more moderate desir'd a Cessation of Arms for one day but being told that it was not to be expected that the Kings Forces should grant that to Rebels he press'd it for a quarter of an hour only His Grace told them if they would go and consider what he had said and send him their proposals in writing he would at any time when he heard their Drum make a stand to receive their papers though the fight should be begun and so dismist them Immediately after that he order'd the Cannon to advance which was brought to the height opposite to the Bridge and while preparation was making to fire upon them they beat a second Parley Whereupon Major Maine was sent to know what it was they desir'd who brought back a Letter to this effect That they had consider'd what had been said but could agree to nothing less than what was in their Declaration That they understood his Grace had brought with him from England some Terms of Accommodation which if he would please to communicate to them he should have their Answer if they were such as they could accept Major Maine was sent back to acquaint them that a more satisfactory Answer was expected therefore they would do well to look to themselves and that their Officers might if they pleas'd retire from the Bridge who were come thither upon the accompt of the Parley for that they should hear from his Grace in another manner As soon as they were retir'd orders were given for the Cannon to fire which they return'd with so smart a Volley from the Bridge that all the Gunners quitted the Guns but soon return'd to them again Major Oglethorp also was order'd to make a Trench on the edge of the Hill to cover his men but before it was finish'd upon firing the Cannon against the Bridge the Rebels began to run from it Whereupon his Grace commanded Major Oglethorp to possess himself of the Bridge but to advance no farther However his men perceiving the Rebels to retire before them could not be hinder'd from passing the Bridge and following them up some part of the rising ground But then the Rebels observing their small number advanc'd upon them and forc'd them to retire to the Houses at the foot of the Bridge Thereupon his Grace sent three hundred foot to second them commanded by the Lord Leviston son to the Earl of Linlithgow who behav'd themselves so well and fir'd so briskly upon the Rebels that the Dragoons and they forc'd the Rebels up the Hill again They were immediately seconded by the Regiment of Guards and by the Troop of Guards led by his Grace No sooner were those Troops pass'd the Bridge but the Rebels fell to running though they rallied again upon Hamilton Heath about a quarter of a mile off so that his Grace advanc'd with the Troops that were already pass'd to the top of the Hill and there made a halt to give time to so many of the rest of the Forces to come over as would suffice to make the first Line In the mean while the Rebels were drawing up in Battle directly opposite to the Duke at what time his Grace observing that they were strengthening their left wing with a design to take the advantage of a hollow ground he order'd his own right to be strengthen'd and commanded a hundred Highlanders of the Marquis of Athol's Regiment to post themselves in that hollow and the five Troops of English Dragoons to second them which was no sooner done but they advanc'd upon his Grace as he was forming the second Line The Dukes Highlanders and their foot began the fight in the hollow ground but the Highlanders advancing too far were forced to retreat to the Dragoons At the same time the Cannon fir'd upon their left wing where their strength lay but they had not fir'd above twice before their Horse began to run Whereupon his Grace order'd Major Oglethorp with the Dragoons Major Maine and Captain Claveres with their Troops of Horse and the Earl of Eglington with his Troop of Volunteers to pursue while he follow'd himself with the rest of the Army to the end of the Heath which was about a mile observing such a pace as might not put his men into any disorder The others pursu'd the Rebels so close that there were between seven and eight hundred slain and above twelve hundred taken Prisoners So that the heat of the business was over by one of the Clock Many of the Prisoners were sorely wounded whom his Grace caus'd to be dress'd by his own Chirurgion The Prisoners of note were John Kidd a Minister and one of the most factious among them John King another Minister and one Mr. Carthcart A Captain of Foot was also taken and old Gorden the Laird of Earlston slain The Prisoners were sent to Edinburgh where they were secur'd by the Magistrates of that City July 1679. This growing Rebellion being thus nipt in the bud by the fortunate conduct of his Grace the Duke of Bucclugh and Monmouth His Majesty was pleas'd to publish a Proclamation commanding the Judges and all Magistrates to apprehend and punish all such as should frequent any field Conventicles those Rendezvouses of Rebellion according to the prescript of the Law as also to prosecute with all legal rigour the execrable Murtherers of the late Archbishop of St. Andrews declaring withal that his Majesty being desirous to reclaim all such as had been misled through ignorance or blind zeal had according to the power reserv'd to his Majesty by the fifth Act in the second Session of the second Parliament suspended the execution of all Laws and Acts against such as frequent House-Conventicles in the Low-Countries on the South side of the River Tay excepting the Town of Edinburgh and 2 miles round the same with the Lordships of Musselborough Dalkeith the Cities of St. Andrews Glasgow and Sterling and a mile about each of them But that none under the colour of this favour might presume to preach Rebellion all such as should be suffer'd to preach should give in their Names and find Sureties to the privy Council for their good and peaceable behaviour that but one Preacher should be allow'd to a Parish and none to be allow'd that had appear'd against his Majesty in the late Rebellion nor none that should be admitted by the non-conforming Ministers in any time hereafter This forbearance to continue during his Majesties pleasure and as the Dissenters shall deserve the same Things being thus compos'd in Scotland His Grace the Duke

confest there that he did not know Sir George Wakemans hand and only knew the Letter in question to be his Letter by being subscrib'd G. Wakeman Concluding from thence that the Witness would have told more at that examination had he known more To which the Dr. reply'd that he had been so over-toyl'd with watching and searching after persons detected that he was not able to make good his charge Which was also confirm'd by the testimony of Sr. Thomas Doleman But Sir Philip Floyd one of the Clerks of the Council was more express in behalf of the Prisoner who acknowledg'd indeed that Dr. Oates did make mention of Sir Georges undertaking to poyson the King as he had understood by a Letter from Whitebread to Harcourt and that he was inform'd by the same Letter that Coleman had pay'd him five thousand pound of the fifteen thousand pound agreed upon But that being demanded of his own personal knowledge what he could tax Sir George withal he solemnly deny'd that he had any thing more against him To which the Doctor gave the same answer of his extreme weakness and indisposition as before After that Sir George recommended one obser vation more to the Court That in the Doctors Narrative there was not one Letter which came from beyond Sea to which he did not swear positively both as to the date and as to the receipt yet that in the case of life he would not be confin'd to a Month. Concluding with a solemn Imprecation and disclaiming all the Crime in this Matter that had been charg'd against him Corker Rumley and Marshall were charg'd of being privy to the Consult for killing the King and to the carrying on the rest of the grand design toward which they had undertaken the raising and payment of 6000 l. by the Benedictine Monks As to Corker Dr. Oates swore him to be a Benedictine Monk and privy to the promise of the 6000 l. which was to be rais'd for carrying on the design That he gave Le Chaise and the English Monks at Paris an accompt of the Jesuites proceedings in England and that he had a Patent to be Bishop of London which the Witness had seen in his hand and that he dispos'd of several parcels of money for advancing the design That he was privy to the Grand Consult in April and excepted against Pickerings being made choice of for killing the King in regard that he being engag'd to say High Mass an opportunity might be lost in the mean time Mr. Bedlow depos'd against Corker that he had been with him in the Company of others at Somerset-house where he heard him discourse in general concerning the Plot of Letters of intelligence and raising an Army what Agitators the Conspirators had in the Country and what Interests they had made As for Marshall he was charg'd by Dr. Oates with being present when the six thousand pound was agreed upon and that he made the same exceptions against Pickering that Corker had done Mr. Bedlow depos'd against him that he had carry'd several Letters to the Catholick party that were in the design and particularly one to Sir Francis Ratcliff And that he had sent Letters of his own twice to others concerning the subverting of the Government and introducing Popery Rumley was accus'd by Dr. Oates of being privy to the Consult for the raising the six thousand pound and that he pray'd for the success of the Design Corker offer'd in his defence that not knowing his accusations he could not come with Evidences to support his Plea That there was nothing more easie than to accuse an innocent person and that the Circumstances ought to be as credible as the Witnesses of which there was neither to be found in his case using many flourishes to move the Court and the Jury raising his Arguments from Improbability of Witnesses to maintain his Allegations and the more to invalidate the Dr.'s testimony he brought witnesses to testifie that one Stapleton was President of the Benedictines and not himself and that the said Stapleton had so been for many years Marshall threw himself upon the Court whom he besought to manage his cause for him as having had so much Tryal of their Candour and Ingenuity After which he made some flight reflections upon the Kings Evidence and desir'd the Court to consider how little concern'd he was at his being apprehended which was no small sign of his Innocency But the main of his defence lay upon this Stress that Dr. Oates was a stranger to him and had mistaken him for some other person which was evidently made out to the contrary and beside that the Prisoner brought no proof of what he affirm'd in that particular At length the Conclusion of his defence was a smooth harangue ad captandum populum and in justification of the Crimes of them that had already suffer'd which because it was look'd upon as an affront done to the Justice of the Court he was desir'd to forbear his Flowers of Rhetorick which were all to no purpose As for Rumley there being but one Witness against him he did not think it needful to trouble the Court with a defence and indeed it was the opinion of the Court deliver'd to the Jury that they ought to discharge him Upon the whole it was the opinion of the Court that the Defences of the Prisoners were very weak of which the Jury could not choose but take notice The main thing wherein the Court were dissatisfy'd was Dr. Oates's excuse of his own weakness and infirmity for not giving his full charge against Sir George Wakeman at the Council Board Since he might have charg'd him in the same breath that he denied that he had any thing more against him Whether this or any other more prevailing argument over-rul'd them certain it is that the Jury found them all Not Guilty and so contrary to expectation they were all acquitted All this while his Majesty kept his Court at Windsor where in consideration of the many and faithful services perform'd unto him by the Right Honourable George Lord Viscount Hallifax John Lord Roberts and Charles Lord Gerrard of Brandon he was pleas'd to confer upon them the Titles of Earls of this Kingdom creating the Lord Viscount Hallifax Earl of Hallifax the Lord Gerrard Earl of Newberry Viscount Brandon which title was afterward chang'd into that of Macclesfeld and the Lord Roberts Earl of Falmouth Viscount Bodmin And to shew that he took the same care of his Dominions abroad as at home His Majesty order'd recruits to be forthwith rais'd under the commands of Captain George Wingfeild Captain Charles Wingfeild Captain William Langley and Captain William Matthews to reinforce the Garrison of Tangier At home the Fort of Sheerness and the Garrison of Portsmouth had both the Honour to be survey'd by the King himself who to that intent departed upon the 30th of July from Windsor to Hampton-Court attended by the Duke of Albemarle and several of the Nobility