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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

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