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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96730	Montrose redivivus, or The portraicture of James late Marquess of Montrose, Earl of Kincardin, &c. 1. In his actions, in the years 1644. 1645. and 1646. for Charles the First. 2. In his passions, in the years 1649. 1650. for Charles the Second K. of Scots.	Wishart, George, 1599-1671.; Pontius, Paulus, 1603-1658, engraver.	1652 (1652)	Wing W3124; Thomason E1309_1; ESTC R204080	129,846	209

and the Law of Nature and Nations and I have not sinned against man but against God and with him there is Mercie which is the ground of my drawing neer unto him It is objected against me by many even good People That I am under the Censure of the Church This is not my fault since it is only for doing my Dutit by obeying my Princes most just Commands for Religion His Sacred Person and Authoritie Yet I am sorry they did Excommunicate me and in that which is according to Gods Lawes without wronging my conscience or Allegeance I desire to be relaxed if they will not thus do it I appeal to God who is the righteous Judge of the world and who must and will I hope be my Judge and Saviour It is spoken of me that I should blame the King God forbid For the late King he lived a Saint and died a Martyr I pray God I may so end as He did If ever I would wish my soul in another mans stead it should be in his For his Majestie now living never people I believe might be more happy in a King His Commands to me were most just in nothing that he promiseth will he fail He deals justly with all men I pray God he be so dealt withall that he be not betrayed under trust as His Father was I desire not to be mistaken as if my carriage at this time in Relation to your waies were stubborn I doe but follow the Light of my own conscience which is seconded by the working of the Good Spirit of God that is within me I thank him I goe to Heavens throue with joy If He enable me against the fear of Death and furnish me with courage and confidence to embrace it even in its most ugly shape Let God be glorified in my end though it were in my damnation Yet I say not this out of any fear or distrust but out of my duty to God and Love to his People I have no more to say but that I desire your Charity and Prayers I shall pray for you all I leave my Soul to God my Service to my Prince my Good will to my Friends and my Name and Charity to you all And thus briefly 〈◊〉 have exonerated my Conscience Being desired to pray apart He said I have already powred out my soule before the Lord who knows my heart and into whose hands I have commended my Spirit and he hath been graciously pleased to return to me a full assurance of peace in Jesus Christ my Redeemer And therefore if you will not Joyn with me in prayer my reiterating again will be both Scandalous to you and me So closing his eyes and holding up his hands he stood a good space at his inward devotions being perceived to be inwardly moved all the while when he had done he cal'd for the Executioner and gave him money then having brought unto him hanging in a cord his Declaration and Historie he hanged them about his neck saying Though it hath pleased His Sacred Majestie that now is to make him one of the Knights of the most Honourable Order of the Garter yet he did not think himself more Honoured by the Garter than by that cord with the Books which he would embrace about his neck with as much joy and content as ever he did the Garter or a chain of gold and therefore desired them to be tied unto him as they pleased When this was done and his arms tied he asked the Officers If they had any more Dishonour as they conceived it to put upon him he was ready to accept it And so with an Undaunted Courage and Gravitie suffered according to the Sentence past upon him THe death of the noble Marquesse was not bewailed as a private losse but rather as a publique calamitie The greatest Princes in Europe expressed no small sorrow for his unhappy end And indeed wee have not had in this latter Age a man of more eminent parts either of body or of mind He was a man not very tall nor much exceeding a middle stature but of exceeding strong composition of body and incredible force with excellent proportion and feature Dark brown hayr'd sanguine complexion a swist and piercing gray eye with a high nose somewhat like the antient signe of the Persian Kings Magnanimitie He was of a most resolute and undaunted spirit which began to appear in him to the wonder and expectation of all men even in his childhood Whom would it not have startled to attempt as he did at his first entrie into Scotland a journey wherein he could not almost escape discovery all passes being so layd for him but even when he was known and almost made publike he proceeded in his intention He was a man of a very Princely courage and excellent addresses which made him for the most part be us'd by all Princes with extraordinarie familiaritie A compleat Horseman and had a singular grace in ryding Nor is it lesse wonderfull how in so great scarcity of all things when warre in that Country is but tedious with the greatest plentie it can afford he could patiently endure so much distresse Nor is it lesse to be wondred at how he could win so much upon those Irish who had no tye to him either of Countrie Language or Religion as he did More especially when they wanted not all manner of temptation that either their own miseries and intollerable duty could suggest or the wit and sagacitie of the enemie could invent to make them leave him and abandon the service Besides the many examples shown upon them and their continuall want of Pay either of which accidents in an Armie is ground enough and has been many times the occasion of mutiny and desertion Nor had he only an excellent and mature judgement for providing and forecasting of businesse but a prompt and readie spirit likewise in matters of present dange and sudden caramitie and these things which might have confused another mans understanding as such sudden chances often doe were a whetting to his wit There are many stratagems in severall Histories related which in the heat of action have been put in practice for the regaining of a day already lost or in danger to be so As that of Jugurtha a politick and valiant Prince who in the heat of a battell betwixt him and Marius the Roman Consull rode up and down in the head of the Armie showing his bloudie sword and affirming that he had slain Marius with his own hand which word did so encourage the Numedians and amaze the Romans that had not Marius in time appeared that day had been in hazard It is likewise reported of one of the Roman Captains that he flung his Standard amongst the middle of the enemie that his own souldiers by pressing forward to rescue it might break and disorder the enemie Likewise of another that took the bridles off the horse-heads that every man might be alike valiant and charge as we say without

restrain the unrulinesse of the souldier lest they should wrong the poor inhabitants and in their sury reduce that cursed City which had been the cause and somenter of all the Rebellion into ashes which Montrose gave them especially in charge by all means to prevent as also to preserve the Army safe from the plague which was hot in the City and places adjacent and whereof very many dyed every day Assoon as ever the news of their approach was brought unto the Town they all began to tremble and despair of their lives and to raise a cry as if the swords were already at their throats or their houses in a flame Not a few of them being pricked in their guilty constiences freely and openly accus'd themselves for the most ungratefull traiterous sactilegious and perjured persons in the world and unworthy of any mercy Then applying themselves unto the prisoners they had both calling unto them a far off and sending private messengers they implored their assistance and besought them in compassiou of the poore silly people who were almost wasted with a great mortality to pacifie the anger of the conquerous whom they had most justly incensed told them all their hopes lay in them and they were utterly undone without their help Protested moreover that if they found mercy but that one time they would redeeme their former revolt with more religious fidelity and constant Allegiance ever after The prisoners whom but the other day the basest of the people bitterly abused and reviled cursing and bequeathing them to the gallowes and worse for getting all injuries receiv'd and more troubled with the sense than revenge of their sufferings first rendred hearty thanks to Almighty God who of his mercy shewed unto them that liberty and safety which they little expected and then turning unto their deadly enemies bad them be of good chear for the most gracious King and his Lieutenant Montrose desired the safetp and happinesse of his repenting Subjects and not their extirpation and ruine Therefore they advised them immediately to send some delegates to Montrose humbly to beg his pardon for nothing could better appease the rage of a Conquerour than a speedy submission For their parts they would not be backward to mediate with him for their safety and doubted not but his high and noble spirit which could not be vanquished with their armes would yet suffer it self to be overcome with the prayers and lamentations of men in misery The Edinburgians being comforted with these hopes and assisted with this good advice immediately call a Hall to consult of sending Delegates There were among the prisoners of those that were most high in birth and favour with Montrose Lodowick Earl of Crawford Chief of the most antient and noble family of the Lindseys a man famous for Military service in forraign Nations amongst the Swedes Imperialists and Spaniards This man by the power and cunning of his cosen the Earl of Lindsey who because he was greedy of the honour and title of the Earl of Crawford was greedy also of his life was designed by the Covenanters to be put to death Nor was it for any other crime but for being a Souldier and an expert man and one that had done faithfull service for his Master the King and it was feared he would doe so again if he should be suffered to live There was also James Lord Ogleby Son to the Earl of Airley one singularly beloved by Montrose who was formidable both for his fathers and his own vertue and authority He also being an enemy to Argyle both upon old fewds and some fresher wrongs was just as deep in sin and danger as Crawford These therefore the Common Councell of Edinburgh chose out of the rest of the prisoners and immediately setting them at liberty they earnestly pray and beseech them to assist their Delegates to the uttermost of the power they had with the Lord Governour and to labour to hold his hands off that miserable City upon which the hand of God himself lay so heavy already And they curse themselves and their posterity to the pit of hell if they should ever prove unmindfull of so great a favour or unthankfull to them that did it They were not backward to undertake a business which was so universally desired but taking the Delegates along with them went forth to Napier He having by the way delivered his dear father his wife his brother-in-Law Sir Sterling Keer and his sisters out of the prison at Limnuch whither the Covenanters had removed them from Edinburgh Castle marched back unto his Uncle with his Forces and those prisoners now at libety and the Delegates of the City as having done his businesse Montrose embracing Crawford and Ogleby his dearest friends whom he had long longed for and rejoycing to see them safe and sound used them with all honour and accommodation after their long restraint and they on the other side magnified their deliveter and avenger with high praises and thanks as became them to doe on both sides affording a spectacle of great joy to the beholders Afterwards the Delegates of Edinburgh were admitted to audience and delivered their Message from the Provost and City The sum was They would freely surrender the Town unto the Governour humbly desired his pardon promised to be more dutifull and loyall for the time to come committed themselves and all that they had to his patronage and protection for which they earnestly besongbt him Moreover they undertook forthwith to set the rest of the prisoners at liberty according to his appointment and to doe any thing else that he should enjoyn them And although the City was so wasted with a grievous contagion that no men could be raised out of it yet they were ready as far as their share came to pay contribution to such as should be raised in other places And above all things they humbly begged at his hands that he would labour to mitigate the anger of their most gracious Lord the King that he might not be too severe with that City which by the cunning authority and example of a seditions and prevailing party had been engaged in Rebellion Montrose bad them be confident of the rest and required no more at their hands than to be hereafter more observant of their loyalty to the King and faithfully to renounce all correspondence with the Rebells in armes against him either without or within the Kingdome To restore the Castle of Edinburgh which it was evident was in their custody at that time unto the King and his Officers Lastly assoon as the Delegates came home to set the prisoners at liberty and send them to him And truly as for the prisoners they sent them away upon their return but as to other Articles they were perfidious and perjured and if they doe not repent must one day give an account unto God the assertor of truth and justice for their high ingratitude and reiterated disloyalty Whiles these things passed concerning

boxes made for the purpose the rest of his body was by three or four Porters carried out to the publique place of execution call'd the Borrow moore answerable to that of Tyborn by London but wall'd about and and there was it thrown into a hole where afterwards it was digg'd up by night and the linnen in which it was folded stoln away His head was fix'd upon the Toll-booth over against the Earl of Gowries with an Iron Crosse over it lest by any of his friends it should have been taken down the rest of his parts were dispatch'd to the most eminent places of the kingdome to Sterling Dundee Glasgow Aberdene which were all taken down afterwards by the English or their permission But the Tragedie was not yet full for Hurrie was the next in that bloody roll who pleading the benefit of quarter and a great charge of children thought to have tasted of the Parliaments mercy But he was condemn'd notwithstanding to lose his head in the same place Jealous they were of him before when he was engaged in their service against Montrose but could not produce any sufficient evidence The chief accusations wherewith he was charg'd the last Invasion with the Marquesse and his former carrying Arms against them under Prince Rupert at Marston Moore With him suffer'd young Spotswood of Daersie a compleat young Gentleman and very worthy of pitty if any had been shown being very young but an excellent spirit and a good Scholar The next couple was Sir Francis Hay of Dalgesie and Collonel Sibbalds then which two the Nation could not afford two more accomplish'd for person and parts The first being a Catholick and therefore not comming under the compasse of the Ministers Prayers without speaking a word to any body but throwing some Papers out of his pocket took off his doublet kiss'd the fatall Instrument kneel'd down and receiv'd the blow The other with a little more vigour smil'd a while and talk'd to the disorderly rabble that was about him then with such an heroick gesture march'd to the block as if he had been to act a gallant in a Play The end of the last man was somewhat Comicall though the poor Gentleman lost his life His name was Captain Charters of an honourable and antient Familie in that kingdome The Ministers having dealt with him to acknowledge his fault publikely and dehort all others from it which from no other of his companions they could ever extort he though resolute enough and a good Scholar yet partly by the perswasion of his friends and partly by weaknesse which was occasion'd by his wounds agreed to their desire and was content to make a publique Manifesto in hopes his life might be saved With this conquest of conscience the Ministers to produce their great work to the Common people came vaunting upon the Scaffold Hee all this while suspecting nothing lesse then death made a long and tedious Harangue to the people wherein he acknowledged his Apostacie from the Covenant and other things which he had vented in auricular confession before to the Ministers which very energetically they had pend for him In leiu of granting his life which he expected lest he should fall off from his principles which he had openly professed as some of their converts had done before fairly they cutt off his head and seal'd his confession with his blood The rest being for the most part strangers or such as had spent most part of their time in service abroad were dismiss'd after bond given not to enter the kingdome again in a hostile manner A true and perfect Relation of all the passages concerning the Examination Tryall and Death of the most Honourable James Marquesse of Montrose Earl of Kincardin Lord Graeme Baron of Montdieu c. Knight of the most Honourable Order of St. George Lieutenant Governour and Captain Generall for his Majestie in the Kingdome of Scotland THe Parliament of Scotland being inforformed that the Marquesse of Montrose was taken and fore-seeing that his countenance and carriage might gain him some favour amongst the People thought fit to give out their sentence against him before he should come to Edenburgh And therefore upon the 17. of May anno 1650. in the morning they appointed a Committee to prepare and give in their opinions what was fittest to be done with him where the same forenoon they gave in their report in writing to this effect That so soon as he should come to the Town he should be met at the Gate by the Magistrates and Hangman That he should be tyed with cords upon a Cart bareheaded and the Hangman to ride upon the horse that drew the Cart covered before him and so to be brought through the Town That he should be hanged on a gibbet at the Crosse of Edenburgh untill he died his Historie and Declaration hanging about his neck and so hang three hours in publike view of all the people after which he should be beheaded and quartered His head to be fixt upon the Prison house of Edenburgh and his leggs and arms over the gates of the Cities of Sterling Glascowe Ferth alias Saint Johns-Town and Aberdeine And in case he repented not whereby the Sentence of Excommunication may be taken off by the Church the bulk of his body should be buried in the Gray-friers if not to be buried in the Boromoore Upon the 18. day about four a clock in the afternoon he was brought in at the Water-gate and according to the Sentence was met by the Magistrates the guards and the Hangman of the Citie the rest of the Prisoners being tyed two and two together going bareheaded before him So soon as he came within the gate the Magistrates shewed him the Sentence which when he had read and perceived the Cart and Hangman there ready he said Hee would willingly obey he was only sorry that through him hu Majestie whose person he presented should be so dishonoured Then going cheerfully into the Cart he being uncovered was by the Hangman tyed thereunto with ropes and the Hangman on the horse rid covered thus was he carried to the Prison and in all the way there appeared in him such a Majestie Courage and Modestie no way Daunted That his very Enemies nay common women who as it was beleeved by divers would have stoned him in the Cart as he passed were upon the sight of him so astonished and moved that their intended curses were turned into tears and Prayers for him Insomuch as the next day being Sunday the Ministers preached against them for not reviling and stoning of him as he passed along When he was taken from the Cart he gave the Hangman gold telling him That was a reward for driving the Cart It was seven a clock at night before he was entered into the Prison and immediatly the Parliament met and sent some of their Members and some Ministers to examine him but he refused to answer any thing to them untill he was satisfied upon what tearms they