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lord_n	king_n	prince_n	son_n	15,353	5	5.1440	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

their actions I am afraid shall render it impossible But I leave these and other remarkeable passages that I may come nearer our own times to speak of the designes of this Marquesse whom cunning policie and jugling carriage seconded with the Craft and Courage of his brother Lanerick seemes to have fitted for such an enterprise and who began very early to insist in the steps of his predecessors encouraged perhaps with that old Scotch Prophesie When Kaidyow shall be King Meikle woeshall be bring His first Plot to get power into his hands was under pretext of that levie for Germanie about seventeene or eighteene yeeres agoe whereof that you may have a true narration I shall give you the chief heads of the depositions of the Lord Reay Lord Ochilcree and others as their examinations were taken by the Lord Coventry then keeper of this kingdome treasurer VVeston the Earles of Morton and Carlisle by the Kings direction In anno 1630 three or foure considerable persons of the name of Hamilton of neere relation to the Marquesse of Hamilton not having served the King of Sweden one yeere cashiered themselves from service without any known cause to such as were their fellow souldiers the Lord Reay being in Stockholme at the same time was informed by his Lievtenant Colonel one Lindsey who lodged in the same house with Sir James Hamilton that the reason was their chiefe the Marquesse of Hamilton intended to be a souldier and they resolved to take a share of his fortune whatsoever it should be and that they had assigned their estates to others before their engagement that they had offered him the said Lindsey a Regiment whereof he did accept and that they shortly expected David Ramsey from England who accordingly not many dayes after came to Sweden In company one night as the Lord Reay Colonel Alexander Hamilton Sir James Hamilton and David Ramsey were drinking they did drinke the Marquesse of Hamiltons health by the name of James by the grace of God King of Scotland and in discourse David Ramsey complained to him of the great abuses in the Court and that Popery and Arminianisme exceedingly prevailed to which the Lord Reay replying that there was no remedy but patience nay sayes David Ramsey with a great oath to use your own words my Lord VVe must help God to amend it Further said that the Marquesse was a good Protestant and before it were long he would let the world see his designe was for the defence of his Religion the Lord Reay answered that it would be small advantage to us to procure a free passage of the Gospel in Germany if we lost it at home to which David Ramsey said there were many honest men at home and that the Marquesse would make use of his Army to protect them and that this was his onely aym Whereupon the Lord Reay offered his service in that quarrell David Ramsey said it was not needfull to impart any more to him of the businesse he must keepe his masters secret but if there was any thing the Lord Reay desired to be done for him in England he could do his Lordship service Colonell Hamilton and Sir James being to go for England the Lord Reay desired to have the reversion of Orkney saying it were for the advantage of the Marquesse his ends to have a friend in that place and on the morrow Colonel Alexander Hamilton and David Ramsey having given him great assurance of true friendship from their master the Marquesse if he would continue constant in resolution they desired him to write a generall Letter to the Marquesse with the two Colonels which he did and so they parted In the Moneth of July Master Robert Meldrum being come from the Marquesse in pursuance of that same designe the Lord Reay met with him in Pomerland and asked newes from England to which Master Meldrum answered that matters became worse and worse and the King did give greater way to Papists and Arminians then before then he asked the Lord Reay where his Cosen David Ramsey was and what he had done and the Lord Reay told him that he was gone for Holland and all things were done according to his mind and particularly that he had taken care for Armes and Ammunition to be sent to the Marquesse from Sweden at which newes Master Meldrum did throw his cap to the ground and jumped up calling aloud good newes good newes I am a happy man I am happy and made up for ever I thanke God my five yeeres paines are not lost my good Lord Reay is this true To which the Lord Reay replying that it was true and that he had a duplicat of the contract and was engaged in the busines to David Ramsey and the two Colonels and to the Marquesse by Writ Master Meldrum said O my Lord that was the worke of God and not man to inspire your Lordship to joyne with us Further Master Meldrum told to Lindsay my Lord Reays Lieutenant Colonel that six thousand trayned souldiers with their own Faction in the Countrey would be able to do the businesse The day following at Colonel Leslies Tent Master Meldrum told the Lord Reay that King Charles was created for nothing but for desolation and undoing of kingdomes Religion and people and there was no way left but to take him and immure him within a wall or Dungeon for ever The Lord Reay demanded how that could be got done Master Meldrum answered that the way was easie for after the men were levyed in Scotland they might take one moneth to traine them at Leith without any suspition then they might seise on the Castles of Edinburgh Sterling and Dumbartan and the Town of Barwick in one night and having fortifyed Leith then to enter England by open force Further he told that the Lord Reay that he was writing a Declaration concerning the Marquesse his just and cleere title to the Crown and touching the tyrannicall usage and sufferings of the Church under King James in his last dayes and now worse groaning under his Son Within a few dayes there came newes of the birth of the Prince and the Lord Reay asked M. Meldrum whether this would coole the Marques his intentions to which master Meldrum sighing said not If the King and Queen of Bohemia would give their daughter to the Marquesse as they had promised making no question or difficulty about the Marquesse his divorcing from his present wife which as David Ramsey had affirmed was a very beast and the King had forced him to marry her Also Master Meldrum being in company drinking with Lieutenant Colonel Lindsay and on Henry Muschamp an English Gentleman he did discover so much of that businesse as the morrow after the Lieutenant Colonel told the Lord Reay he thought Master Meldrum the worst Secretary in the world Master Meldrum in discourse one day with the King of Swedens Secretary said it were greatly for the advantage of the King of Sweden whose ambition was

without limits that the Marquesse did raise warre in Britaine for if the King of sweden had a designe on Denmarke the King of Britain should not be able to help his Unckle Whereunto the Secretary replyed that they feared not the King of Britain for he that would not help his owne Sister would never helpe his Unckle The Lord Reay asked Master Meldrum what they intended to do with the Queene and Prince he answered that they would shut up the child with his father and send the Queen to her Mother to be put into a Monastery Mr. Meldrum further acquainted the Lord Reay that the Marquesse would take pledges of all in Scotland who would not joyne with him or make them prisoners and that he the said Master Meldrum was to be Secretary of State When the Lord Reay came to Holland in March 1631 he met with David Ramsey who delivered him a Letter from the Marquesse of complement and thanks and told him that all went right with the Marquesse that he had gotten from the King ten thousand pounds in England and the Wine customes in Scotland for divers yeeres which he would sell and that all things proceeded without obstacle only the stay was for Armes and Ammunition afterwards he said he had ill newes to tell the Lord Reay which was that the Marquesse his wife was brought to bed of a child but for the busines of Orkney that the Lord Reay might have it cheaper then to pay the duties of it and that when the Lord Reay met with the Marquesse he would infuse that into him which he the said David Ramsey durst not He said further that the King had made a Peace with Spaine very prejudiciall to Holland and that the Treasurer Cottington and others had muffled the King to bar the Hollanders from the fishing which might fall out happily for them When the Lord Reay came to England the Lord Hamilton did give him many thanks assuring him he would not want him that he should have what conditions he desired and that he had written to the king of Sweden with Elphingstonn and Meldrum that he would detaine him and if he would hazard with him the said Marquesse in this businesse that it should be a tye for ever upon him and his posterity In the beginning of May 1631 the Lord Reay meeting with the Lord Ochiltry at the Beare of the Bridge-foot he said to the Lord Ochiltry your Lordship is better acquainted with the Lawes of the Land then I who am a souldier and have lived abroad I do therefore desire to know what danger it is if a man should heare abroad any Plot against the king and state and not reveale it The Lord Ochiltry answered that it was the losse of life and estate and within eight or ten days after upon promise of secrecy not to divulge it without his advise and direction the Lord Reay communicated the whole businesse to the Lord Ochiltry After revealing of it they resolved first to acquaint the Lord Treasurer of England therewith that he might impart it to the king and accordingly the Lord Ochiltry did acquaint the Lord Treasurer with it and afterward upon the 18 of May the Lord Reay delivered in a relation of all the particulars before mentioned under his hand which he offered likewise to seale with his blood The Marquesse of Hamilton being then in Scotland upon secret advertisement from a friend at Court came speedily to the king who at first entertained him not with that familiarity he was wont but by his cunning policy and subtile insinuations he prevailed over the kings good nature perswading him to beleeve that all was done out of malice and that these were aspersions and calumnies invented by the Lord Ochiltry whom he caused the King to send to Scotland to be there tryed and censured well knowing that at such a distance from the King he could order the matter as he pleased It is to be observed that the Lord Ochiltry conferring with the Treasurer of England who was desirous to be informed of the Marquesse of Hamiltons power and strength in Scotland with more forwardnesse and affection then due consideration did give in a list of the names of the friends of the Marquesse whom he apprehended would be most ready to joyne with the Marquesse and that when the Marquesse returned from Scotland to Court he suggested to the King that there might be present danger to his person by suffering the Marquesse who was the prime Agent to come neer him In these particulars it is true that the Lord Ochiltry had no warrant from the Lord Reay to deliver in a list of names to the Treasurer nor to say to the King that he was in present danger by the returne of the Marquesse from Scotland But all the rest of the particulars the Lord Reay did acknowledge and deliver in subscribed with his hand yet the Lord Reay was not at all challenged for any information he had given nor the Lord Ochiltry for any thing he had said by warrant from the Lord Reay but such was the power of the Marquesse as the Lord Ochiltry was arraigned for delivering in that list of names and suggesting to the king his feares of his Majesties danger upon the Marquesse his returne and his friends perceiving after Ochiltry had pleaded for his own innocency that the matter relished otherwise then was expected found wayes to put off further Tryal and to imprison him first in Edinburgh there after in the blacknesse that he might be out of the way and at further distance from the King who was then comming to Scotland in which prison he lyeth still the matter never yet being put to any legall tryal nor he declared guilty or not guilty notwithstanding his frequent petitions for the same The Lord Reay in the meane time who was the chiefe informer not at all to this day troubled or accused which no question if the Marquesse had not been conscious to his own guiltinesse could not have come to passe however it is well known to some at Court what power David Ramsey had over the Marquesse all his life and that when he was reduced to any strait or want if the Marquesse furnished him not readily or obtained such suits from the King as he desired he would vow and sweare to discover that the Marquesse was a Traitor after which he hath been secretly brought into the Marquesse his lodging his desires granted and they reconciled And it is likewise well known that Master Meldrum hath a pension from the Marquesse yearly I might here adde the examinations touching Master Meldrum and others about this businesse but because I promised to be brief I shall only adde the Deposition of one Master l. Borthwick which he delivered to the King signed with his hand that you may understand what sort of people these be the words which he deposeth Meldrum to have said are these 1. Domum Regis esse profluvium iniquitatis foetidum