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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

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

shall at this time forbear The fourth Calumny is The Death of the Marquess of Montrose There are many in this House my Lord who know very well I refused to meddle either in the matter or manner of it and so far were we from having any particular quarrells at one another that in Anno 1645. he and I was fully agreed upon Articles and Conditions contained in a Treaty past betwixt us and it was neither his fault nor mine that business did not end at that time which its known to all proved very Obnoxious to the Kingdom thereafter The fifth Calumny is concerning my dealing with the English after Worceter fight it s well known my Lord to many that my self and the Gentlemen of Argyle-shire my Kinsmen Vassalls and Tennants Endeavoured Cordially to engage all their Neighbours about them on all hands against the English which they did not prevail in but was most unhappily made known to the English Commanders for the time which they caused immediately to publish as a very notable discory in their Newes Books which occasioned two sad Disadvantages to us for they not only crushed our attempts in the infantry but also determined the severer Resolutions against us whereby two strong Regiments of Foot Overtons and Reads and very neer the number of one of Horse under the Command of one Blackmore were sent to Argyle-shire and when Dean came there it pleased God to visit me with a great distemper of sicknesse as Dr. Cunningham and many others who were with me can witness What my Lord I was pressed unto when I was violently in their hands may be instructed by the paper it self written by Deanes mans own hand yet extant to show which I did absolutely refuse upon all the hazard of the uttermost of their malice as also what I was necessitated to do is likewise ready to be shown whereby I was still detained their Prisoner upon demand I shall my Lord add one Reason more to clear this besides many other weighty publick Reasons and Considerations which I shall forbear to mention at this time it being more naturall to bring them by way of defences afterwards my own interest and of all Noblemen and Superiours in Scotland it may be rationally presumed that I had been a very senseless fool if ever I had been for promoting such and such Authoritie or interest over me as levelled all and was so totally destructive to all that differenced my self and other Noble-men from their own Vassals which many sayes they were too earnest in yea it being likewise so absurdly derogatory to all true Nobilitie and my Ancestors and I as is said in that Lybell have had so many titles of Honour Dignitie and Eminent Places of Trust conferred upon us by his Majesties Royal Predecessors and Himself all for our constant Loyalty and adherence to the Crown at all Occasions as the Records and Histories of this ancient Kingdom holds forth besides the narrative of all our grants and asserting the just Priviledges thereof against Opposers I did my Lord ever even when the Englishs were at the intollerable height of Usurpation declare my abhorrence to a Common-wealth Government which was well known to them all I was not indeed my Lord very dissatified when there were Rumors current of Cromwells being made a King as some here can witness for I told them it was the most probable way for his Majesties advantage therefore the less it were opposed and the more it were encouraged it would tend to Cromwells and their deformed Common-wealths Governments ruine and promote his Majesties just interest the more My Lord I shall not much blame my Lord Advocate for doing his Endeavour it being in Essentiall part of his function to accuse but I must say that its very hard measure that so able a man hath neer as many moneths in taking paines to promp as many Enemies as his perswasions could possibly invite to bend upon the highest notes of their malice and laying out search by them for and collecting all the Bad Reports or rather to give them their genuine term I may call them a confused mass of the Common Classis of the Countrie thereby to devise misconstructions of all the publick actings of both Parliaments or Committees during the late Troubles and with strange and remote Inferences and to adduce all those to the channell of my particular Actings as many I say my Lord moneths as I have dayes to Answer them being an exceeding disadvantage But my Lord that 's not all I am likewise extreamly gauled that he labours in that Libell all along to draw an obscure vail of perpetuall Oblivion over all my Good Services and specially my Faithfull and Royall Endeavours in Restoring his Sacred Majesty to the Crown of his this most Ancient Kingdom of Scotland and the excercise of his Majesties Royall Authority therein with my cordiall Endeavours for his Majesties Restitution to the rest of his Dominions also which his Majesty both knows and has been pleased often to acknowledge it to have been Good Service and yea many present in this Honourable House knows that I extended both my Zeal and Affection to the uttermost of my power for his Majesties Service in that particular which I willingly acknowledge nothing my Lord but my Duty whereunto I was Tied both by Natural Civil and Christian Bonds to my Soveraign and especially such a Deserving KING of whom I may now as I have often Affirme That he is a King in whom the Lord has taken such pleasure as to possesse his Majesty with so many Superlative Degrees of Excellency that any of his Princely perfections may be a Characteristick Distinction sufficient to Exalt his Majesties Fame both in our Age and to the subsequent Posterity above all the Monarchs in the World So My Lord we may consequently discover a high Demonstration of the Lords singular Kindness and speciall providentiall Care for us his Majesties Subjects in preserving such a Rich Blessing as his SACRED MAJESTY in whom the happiness of these Nations is wrapped up under the safe wings of his Divine Protection I may say even when the extravagant malice of men would have swallowed him up After his Lordship had ended this discourse being heard very attentively by all without any interruption my Lords Advocate sayes to my Lord Chancellor thus My Lord Chancellour but what can the Marquess of Argyle say to the opposition at Striveling in Anno 1648 The Marquess replyed that he found my Lord Advocate endeavoured to bring him to debate the particulars which he hoped should be cleared at a more convenient time and waved it answering nothing to the thing it self but insisted thus My Lord Chancellour I have Informativè only hinted at the main things which I am often charged with my memory cannot fully reach all neither will time permit to Circumstantiate these particulars which I have onely touched in the generall nor is my purpose at present to fall on the debate of that Libell not