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<P>THE CHARGE OF HIGH TREASON, MURDERS, OPPRESSIONS, And other CRIMES, EXHIBITED To the Parliament of <HI>SCOTLAND</HI> AGAINST THE Marque&s;s of Argyle And his COMPLICES, <HI>January</HI> 23. 1661.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Richard L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">des,</HI> at the White Lion in St. <HI>Pauls</HI> Church yard, near the little North doore. 1661.</P>
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<P>_CHARLES by the grace of God. King of Great <HI>Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defen|der of the Faith, To <GAP DESC="blank"> Heralds, Pur&s;i|vants, and Me&s;&s;engers of armes, <HI>re&s;pective,</HI> conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titu|ted, Greeting. For&s;omuch as it is humbly mean'd and com|plain'd to US, by our tru&s;ty and well-beloved Coun&s;eller, Sir <HI>John Fletcher</HI> Knight, our Advocate for our intere&s;t, in the a|ction under-written; and by Sir <HI>James Lamount</HI> of <HI>Inneryue</HI> Knight, for him&s;elf and in the behalf of his kindred, friends, Va&s;&s;als, Tennants and Servants, <GAP DESC="blank"> parties grieved and damni&s;yed in manner after &s;pecified, upon <HI>Archibald</HI> Marque&s;s of <HI>Ar|gyle; George Campbell</HI> his Ju&s;tice and Sheriff Deputy: <HI>James Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardkinglar</HI> Officer under the &s;aid Marque&s;s his command; <HI>Colin Campbell</HI> of <HI>Stra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">uhir, Duncan Campbell</HI> of <HI>E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">angreg.</HI> Officer under the command of the &s;aid Marque&s;s; <HI>John Campbell</HI> Fiare of <HI>Dunstafneich,</HI> Officer al&s;o under the &s;aid Marque&s;s's command; <HI>Dongal Campbell,</HI> alias <HI>Mackcon|nichie</HI> of <HI>Innerram.</HI> Officer under the &s;aid Marque&s;s's com|mand; <HI>Du<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">can Campbell,</HI> Uncle to the Laird of <HI>Lochnell,</HI> Officer under the &s;aid Marque&s;s's command; <HI>Robert Campbell</HI> of <HI>Auchimwilling, John Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardtariche, Hew Campbell</HI> his Son; <HI>Colin Campbell</HI> of <HI>Otter, Patrick Campbell</HI> his Bro|ther; <GAP DESC="blank"> <HI>Campbell</HI> of <HI>Derburgh, Charles Campbell</HI> of
<PB N="2" REF="3"><HI>Ballach<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ll, E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">er Campbell</HI> of <HI>Kilbryd</HI> his Brother; <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Gla&s;ie,</HI> alias <HI>Campbell</HI> in <HI>Glead<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ell, John Ger Campbell</HI> there: <HI>John Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">k<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI> Officer to the &s;aid <HI>George Campbell, D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nald <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> of <HI>Glen&s;el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ech. Andrew Macklaneidan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> Uncle to <HI>Archibald Marklanchlant</HI> of <HI>Lethimetre, A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">gus Mack<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">er|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">k</HI> Son to <HI>E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">r Mackener<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ek</HI> of <HI>Obb, James Campbell</HI> of <HI>Orm&s;ay, D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">gald Mackleriehe</HI> of <HI>Bralycha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">, D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ncan Mack|nil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">r</HI> in <HI>E&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">g, Archibald Campbell</HI> in <HI>Evinn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">cha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e,</HI> Son-in-Law to the &s;aid Land of <HI>Otter,</HI> Mr. <HI>Colin Mackla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">chlan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> Mi|n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ayli&s;heid;</HI> All or the mo&s;t part of them, being the &s;aid <HI>Marqur&s;s of Argyle</HI> his Friends, Followers, or Com|plicer under his command, and &s;uch as he might have &s;topt or let.</P>
<P>That where notwith&s;tanding by the 129. Act of the eight Parliament of Our deare&s;t Grand-father, King <HI>James</HI> the &s;ixth of ble&s;&s;ed Memory. His Maje&s;ty and His three E&s;tates then A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, ratifyed and approved the Royal Power and Authority, over all E&s;tates: As well Spirituall as Temporall, within this Realm, in the per&s;on of. His Maje&s;ty. His Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors: and did Statute and Ordinance, that his Highne&s;&s;e and his Succe&s;&s;ors by them&s;elves, and their Coun&s;els, were and &s;hould be Judges Competent to all per|&s;ons, his Highne&s;s's Subjects of what&s;oever degree, &s;unction, e&s;tate, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> condition they &s;hould be of, in all matters wherein they, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> any of them &s;hould be apprehended, &s;ummoned or charged to an&s;wer: And that none &s;hould pre&s;ume, not take upon hand, to decline the judgement of his Highne&s;&s;e, his I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eites and Succe&s;&s;ors, or their Councell, in the premi&s;es un|der the pain of Trea&s;on. And &s;icklike, by the fir&s;t Act of the eight Parliament, of our &s;aid deare&s;t Grand-father, King <HI>James</HI> the &s;ixth. His Maje&s;ties Soveraign Authority, Princely Power. Royal Prerogative and Priviledge of his Crown, over all E&s;tates, Petions, and Cau&s;es what&s;oever. And the whole E&s;tates then conveen'd in Parliament for them, and their Succe&s;&s;on, faithfully promi&s;ed, perpetually to acknowledg, obey, maintain, defend and advance the Life, Honour, Safety, Dignity. Soveraign Authority and Prerogative Royal of Our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">id deate&s;t Grand-father, his Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors, and
<PB N="3" REF="3">Priviledge of the Crown, with their Lives, Lands and Goods; And to with&s;tand all Per&s;ons, Powers and E&s;tates, who &s;hould pre&s;ume any waies to impugne, or prejudge the &s;ame. Which Act is ratifyed, by the third Act by the fir&s;t Parlia|ment of King <HI>Charles</HI> the fir&s;t, of ble&s;&s;ed Memory our deare&s;t Father.</P>
<P>Likeas, by the third and forth Acts of King <HI>James</HI> the fir&s;t, his fir&s;t Parliament, and by the 37. Act of the &s;econd Parlia|liament of King <HI>James</HI> the fir&s;t, and &s;everall other Acts, His Statute, that none rebell again&s;t the Kings Per&s;on or Authority; or if they do in the contrary, or make War again&s;t his Liedges, or re&s;et any &s;uch Traitots, or &s;upplie them in red or coun&s;ill, or doe favours to Rebells, or any waye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> a&s;&s;i&s;t them, or doe not ri&s;e at His Maje&s;ties command, being required; they being con|victed thereof, are puni&s;hable as Traitors. Likeas by the 134. Act Parl. 8. the 10. Act of the 10. Parl. of King <HI>James</HI> the 6. All depravers of His Maje&s;ties Lawes, and medlars in His Maje&s;ties affaires, or Mi&s;con&s;truers of His Proceedings, whereby any mi&s;take may be moved between His Maje&s;ty and his loving &s;ubjects, are puni&s;hable by death. Likeas by the 1. Act of King <HI>James</HI> the fift his 3. Parliament, and by the 51. Act of the 11. Parl. of King <HI>James</HI> the 6. All burners of folks in their hou&s;es, all burners of hou&s;es and Cornes, and wilfull fire-fai&s;ing; As al&s;o all murder or &s;laughter of His Maje&s;ties Liedges, where the party &s;lain is under tru&s;t, credit, a&s;&s;urance and power of the flayer, the &s;ame is declared Trea|&s;on and Lae&s;e-Maje&s;ty. Likeas by the 75. Act of Queen <HI>Ma|ries</HI> Parliament 9. and divers other Acts, it is Statute, that no manner of per&s;on of per&s;ons, of what&s;oever Quality, E|&s;tate, Condition or Degree they be, Liedges of this Realm, Attempt to rai&s;e any bands of men of War, on hor&s;e, or foot, without &s;pecial <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">icence in Writ, had and obtain'd of the Queens Maje&s;ty for the time, and Her Succe&s;&s;ors under the pain of death, to be executed upon the rai&s;ers, and ri&s;ers in Arms. As al&s;o, by the 50. Act of the 11. Parliament of King <HI>Iames</HI> the 6. it is Statute and Ordain'd that in ca&s;e it &s;hall happen, any landed man to be convicted of the crime of common the&s;t, re&s;et of theft, or &s;tealth, reift in time com|ming.
<PB N="4" REF="4">They &s;hall incur the caime and poine of Trea&s;on; That is to &s;ay. Tin&s;ell and forfeiture of Life, Lands, and Goods. Likeat, by the common Law and practice of this Nation, all Committers of Murder, Man-&s;laughter; Robbery, Rapine, or Reiff, is puni&s;hable by death; and who are Act or Part of any &s;uch crimes. As al&s;o by the &s;ame Lawes, all private Impri&s;oners, Keepers of private Pritions, and fal&s;e Im|p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;oners, and all Oppre&s;&s;ion what&s;oever are puni&s;hable in the like manner.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;s the Per&s;ons above named complain'd upon, having laid a&s;ide all Fear of God, Loyalty and Obedience to their Soveraign Lord and King, natural affection and recipro|cal duty to their Countreymen and &s;ellow Subjects, Have mo&s;t traicesou&s;ly, trecherou&s;ly, perfidiou&s;ly and cruelly committed the crime; of high Trea&s;on, and other crimes, Murders, Op|pre&s;&s;ions, Robbeties, Mi&s;doods and Malver&s;ations underwrit|ten, contrary to out &s;aid Laws and Acts of Partiament; and thereby have incurred the te&s;pective pains and puni&s;hments therein contained. In &s;o fatas the &s;aid Per&s;ons above written. De&s;endants, porticularly the &s;aid Marque&s;s of <HI>Argyle, George Campbell</HI> his Servant, and Ju&s;tice, and Sheriff-deputy; <HI>James Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardkinglas, Colin Campbell</HI> of <HI>Straquhir, Robers Campbell</HI> of <HI>Anchi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">willing, John Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardrariche, Ma|&s;ter Calin Macklan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hane, D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">can Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ela<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">greg, John Campbell Fiare</HI> of <HI>Dun&s;tafaiche, Dargall Campbell, alias Mack|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">chie of I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">etram:</HI> Having from the beginning of the In|&s;urrections and troubles in the year of God 1639, 1640, 1641. and 1642. both &s;ecretly and avowedly, appeared in con&s;tant oppo&s;ition to Our deate&s;t Father, his Royal Coun&s;els and com|mand<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">: And after His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t gracious Conde&s;cen|dencies to all the de&s;ires of his Liedges, how untea&s;onable &s;o|ever; He having depatted to his Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> a cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> ented Prince from a contented people. Neverthele&s;s the afore&s;aid per&s;ons continuing in their trea&s;onable malice again&s;t their own Sovereign, did in the moneths of <HI>Ianuary, February, March, April, May, Iune, Iuly, Augu&s;t, September, October, November, December,</HI> or one or other of them, in the year of God 1641. mo&s;t traite rou&s;ly without their Sovereigns at tho|rity
<PB N="5" REF="4">or &s;icence, and expre&s;ly again&s;t his will, plea&s;ure and &s;er|vice, at their own hand and by their own power, cau&s;ed call, and convocate a prerended Committee and Convocation of His Maje&s;ties Lieges; wherein they them&s;elves, or one or o|ther of them, did per&s;onally convene and meet; and in the &s;aid trea&s;onable and unlawful Convocation did act and appoint trea&s;onable leavies of His Maje&s;ties own Subjects, in oppo&s;ition to His Maje&s;ties per&s;on, authority and expre&s;s command. And thereafter did actually invade and enter within His Maje&s;ties Kingdom of <HI>Engl.</HI> in open ho&s;tility, taking His Maje&s;ties Towns, killing his Subjects, wa&s;ting and de&s;troying their E&s;tates and fortunes, joyning with his rebellious Subjects in <HI>Eng.</HI> and an Ar|my of Sectaries there, for de&s;truction of His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, Royal Family, authority and government of the&s;e Nations, &s;o far as in them lay. And thereafter in the moneths above writ|ten, or one or other of them, in <HI>anno</HI> 1646. the &s;aid <HI>Archibald</HI> Marque&s;s of <HI>Argyle,</HI> and the remnant per&s;ons above named Defendants, or one or other of them, in an unheard of way of trechery and trea&s;on, delivered His Maje&s;ties &s;acred Per&s;on into the hands of the &s;aid Rebels, who thereafter mo&s;t treche|rou&s;ly murdered him. For e&s;chewing and preventing whereof, the whole E&s;tates of this Nation finding it nece&s;&s;ary and in|cumbent to them, for the relief of their Sovereign Lord from his captivity, to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ai&s;e an Army for that effect. The &s;aid per|&s;ons complained upon, or one or other of them, not onely by &s;ubtile and clande&s;tine means, by Declamations and familiar Con&s;erences, and openly by Declarations and publick Spee|ches in face of Parliament, opened the &s;ame; but al&s;o the &s;ame being pa&s;t into an Act in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> 1648. years, publickly entered their <HI>di&s;a&s;&s;ent</HI> or <HI>Prote&s;tation</HI> again&s;t the &s;ame, mo&s;t trea&s;onably and trecherou&s;ly again&s;t the authority of the King, our deare&s;t Father, and the E&s;tates of Parliament. And yet their malice not te&s;ting &s;atisfied, they did by them&s;elves, their friends and adherents, in <HI>October</HI> 1648. years, or thereby, convocate or rai&s;e in arms great num|bers of His Maje&s;ties Lieges, without any Warrant from King or Parliament; and did in open ho&s;tility march to His Maje|&s;ties Burghs Royal of <HI>Edenburgh</HI> and <HI>Sterling,</HI> pro&s;ecuting his
<PB N="6" REF="5">&s;aid Army, killing His Maje&s;ties good Subjects, wa&s;ting and de&s;troying their lands and hou&s;es. And thereafter mo&s;t ba&s;ely and traite<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ou&s;ly invited the late Tyrant and U&s;urper <HI>Oliver Crom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ell</HI> to enter His Maje&s;ties Kingdom of <HI>Sc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">land,</HI> with an Army of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">angers, Traitors and Secta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ies; &s;u&s;tain'd him and his trea&s;onable Army with all &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ts of provi&s;ion, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ea&s;ting and countenancing him&s;elf and prime Officers in the metropoly<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">an City of Our Kingdom, and within His Maje&s;ties <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ort and &s;trength there of the Caille of <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> where the mo&s;t con|&s;iderable &s;trength of the Kingdom was for the time: By the&s;e mean<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ing the &s;ecre&s;ies of His Maje&s;ties Kingdom and Forts thereof upon to the view of tho&s;e &s;trangers and tray|to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> Which, by the laws of this and all Nations, is high trea|&s;on: and in all probability was the Kingdoms bane and ruine, and was the act immediately preceding the cruel Regicide and murther of their &s;acred Sovereign Our Royal Father. At lea&s;t they, or one o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> other of them, were either aiders, abe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">tors, a&s;|&s;i&s;tants, promo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ers, divi&s;ers, or act and part, and particularly the &s;aid <HI>Marqar&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Argyle,</HI> of the afore&s;aid trea&s;onable crimes and others above libelled.</P>
<P>Secondly, the afore&s;aid per&s;ons, and particularly the &s;aid <HI>Archibald Marque&s;s of A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">,</HI> not having yet &s;atisfied hit ma|lice, trea&s;onable attempts and purpo&s;es, not con&s;idering the duty either be owed to God, his Prince, Countrey, Nobility of his Family, nor his own honour or reputation, after multi|plicity of Honours and Offices graciou&s;ly conferred upon him by Our &s;acred Father, and the dignity vouch&s;afed to him by Our Self, in allowing him the tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t and honour of &s;etting Our Imperial Crown upon Our head upon the day of Our Corona|tion in <HI>Scotland,</HI> which was the fir&s;t of <HI>Ianuary</HI> 1651. years, in pre&s;ence of Our whole Nobility and E&s;tates of Our &s;aid an|cient Kingdom, putting the Crown upon Our head, with bow|ed down knees and up li&s;ted hands, in pre&s;ence of God, An|gels and men &s;wore as &s;ollows. <HI>By the Eternal God, who liveth and reig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">eth for ever, I &s;hall &s;upp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">s thee to my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">termo&s;t: And I &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ar to be a loyal and true &s;ubject, and faithful to the Crown.</HI> And thereafter al&s;o kneeling, and holding his hands betwixt Our hands, did &s;wear the&s;e words, <HI>By the Eternal and Almighty
<PB N="7" REF="5">God, who liveth and reigneth for ever, I became Your Liege, and truth and faith &s;hal bear to you and live and die with you, again&s;t all manner of folk what&s;oever in Your &s;ervice.</HI> Notwith&s;tanding of all which, after the &s;aid <HI>Archibald Marque&s;s of Argile</HI> had di&s;&s;oyally and ba&s;ely de&s;erted Out Per&s;on and Army at <HI>Sterling,</HI> when We were on Our match to <HI>Engl.</HI> in the year 1651. did in the moneths above written, or one or other of them, <HI>anao</HI> 1652. at the de|&s;ire of General <HI>Dean</HI> and Colonel <HI>Overton,</HI> Our known and publick enemies, they having come to <HI>In<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">rrarey</HI> with a Regi|ment of Souldiers, and there the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> had confe|rence and con&s;ultation with them, and did &s;wear, at lea&s;t &s;ub|&s;cribed and acknowledged the government of Our Domini|ons, as it was then e&s;tabli&s;hed by the &s;aid wicked Tyrant and U&s;urper <HI>Oliver Cromwel</HI> and his &s;aid adherents, in a Common|wealth, without King or Hou&s;e of Lords; and obliged him&s;elf to live under it, and be obedient thereto. And conform there|to mo&s;t perjur'dly and infamou&s;ly the &s;aid <HI>Archibald Marque&s;s of Argile,</HI> after the &s;aid Army of Rebels and Sectaries under the command of the &s;aid General Major <HI>Dean</HI> and <HI>Overton,</HI> were drawn to &s;uch a &s;treit in their return from <HI>Innerarey,</HI> they being in the power of certain of the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> his friends, and divers others of His Maje&s;ties loyal Subjects then in arms, &s;tanding in oppo&s;ition again&s;t them; and they having taken in all Pa&s;&s;es, the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> being then Our Ju&s;tici|ary in the&s;e bounds, and Sheriff of <HI>Argyle,</HI> mo&s;t traiterou&s;ly and infamou&s;ly again&s;t his &s;aid Oath and duty, did interpo&s;e him&s;elf in favours of the enemy, commanding and coun&s;el|ling Our &s;aid faithful Subjects, who &s;tood in oppo&s;ition to the &s;aid enemy, did &s;uffer them &s;afely to pa&s;s without oppo&s;ition: and by the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> his in&s;inuation there was a &s;afe pa&s;s given to the &s;aid enemy from the fore&s;aid danger. Like as further to evince the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> his trea&s;onable compliance and affection to the &s;aid wicked Tyrant and U&s;urper <HI>Oliver Cromwell</HI> in all his wicked and trea&s;onable cour&s;es and at|tempts, he in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> a thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and fifty <GAP DESC="blank"> years, upon a pretended call from the &s;aid Tyrant and U&s;urper, to convene a pretended Parlia|ment, without any coaction or nece&s;&s;ity, did engyre him&s;elf in
<PB N="8" REF="6">favour of &s;ome Shires, and dealt with them to elect him for their Commi&s;&s;ioner; at lea&s;t being elected he voluntarily ac|cepted thereof; and upon their &s;aid pretended Commi&s;&s;ion he went to the &s;aid pretended Parliament at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and there mo&s;t <HI>perfidiou&s;ly and perjuredly, t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">cherou&s;ly, trea&s;onably and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ribily,</HI> contrary to his own dignity and degree, &s;ate and acted by Voting and other wayes, in the &s;aid pretended Parliament, as a Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons, for e&s;ta|bli&s;hing the &s;aid Tyrant his u&s;urped authority, and aboli&s;hing of Us and Our Royal Race from Our ju&s;t right and title to Our Crowns of <HI>Scotland, England</HI> and <HI>Ireland.</HI> And al&s;o the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;t</HI> in further pro&s;ecution of his trea&s;onable rebellious coune and de&s;igns, in the moneths above written, or one or other of them, in the year 1653. or 1654. or either of them, &s;old and delivered &s;everal mu&s;quets and other ammunition to the &s;aid Rebels, to the number of &s;eventeen Cannon, and &s;e|ven hundred mu&s;quets, or there abouts.</P>
<P>Thirdly, in the year 1654. &s;everall of Our loyal &s;ubjects having for Vindication of Our Authority, and revenge of Our Royal Father of ble&s;&s;ed Memory. His Murder, Taken arms under the command of Our. Tru&s;ly and right well-beloved Cou&s;ins and Coun&s;ellouts, <HI>William</HI> Earl of <HI>Glencairn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and <HI>John</HI> Earl of <HI>Middlettes,</HI> then Our Commi&s;&s;ioners for that effect. Again&s;t whom, and Our forcer under their command, the &s;aid Enemies being about to tran&s;port eight hundred men to the North, under the command of Col. <HI>Gebber,</HI> and being driven to the I&s;le of <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">le,</HI> and &s;hi: broken in their way, and &s;o ready to peri&s;h: The &s;aid <HI>Archibald</HI> Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Argyle</HI> and the remanent per&s;ons above complain'd upon, or one or other of them, in the moneths above-written, or one or other of them, in the year 1654. or 1655. did gather together all their own Boars and others, and therein did &s;afely tran&s;port them to <HI>Dunburten,</HI> from the &s;aid I&s;le of <HI>Mule,</HI> and to other &s;afe places. At lea&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Archibald</HI> Marque&s;, of <HI>Argyle,</HI> and remanent per&s;ons above complain'd upon, or one of other of them were authors, aiddes, abettors, a&s;&s;i&s;ters, advi&s;ers, or ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> and part, of the fore&s;aid trea&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r, and other crimes and mi&s;|deeds above libelled.</P>
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<P>Fourthly, the &s;aid <HI>Marques</HI> and remanent per&s;ons above complain'd upon, or one or other of them in the moneths above written, or one or other of them in the yeare 1654. 1655. mo&s;t perfidiou&s;ly, treacherou&s;ly, and traiterou&s;ly, went into the &s;aid Engli&s;h <HI>Rebels,</HI> without any coaction or nece&s;&s;ity to the High|lands in <HI>Lochquhaber,</HI> and &s;everall other places; and joyned with the &s;aid Rebells, for &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of the &s;aid Parles of <HI>Glen|cairne</HI> and <HI>Middleton,</HI> then our Commi&s;&s;ioners, and our For|ces under their command; and countenanced, coun&s;elled, and conveyed the &s;aid <HI>Rebells,</HI> through divers places in the Highlands, in their expedition again&s;t our Forces. At lea&s;t the &s;aid per&s;ons defendents, and particularly the &s;aid <HI>Archi|bald</HI> Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Argyle,</HI> were Authors, Actors, Aiders, A|bettors, A&s;&s;i&s;ters, and Countenancers of the &s;aid trea&s;onable crimes, and others above &s;pecifyed.</P>
<P>Fifthly, when the &s;aid Arch-Traitor and Regicide dyed, <HI>Richard Cromwell</HI> his Son, was by order of his Fathets trai|terous Council, &s;itting at <HI>London</HI> Proclaimed Protector of our three Kingdoms, at the Market Cro&s;&s;e of <HI>Edinburgh;</HI> which was done accordingly by a pretended Councill &s;itting at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> for the time. At the doing whereof, the &s;aid <HI>Ar|chibald</HI> Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Argyle</HI> mo&s;t <HI>traiterou&s;ly, treacherou&s;ly,</HI> and <HI>per&s;idiou&s;ly</HI> in the moneths of <GAP DESC="blank"> a thou|&s;aid &s;ix hundred fifty <GAP DESC="blank"> year, went up to the &s;aid Cro&s;&s;e of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> at the time of the &s;aid Proclamation, and did countenance and a&s;&s;i&s;t the &s;ame; by which our authority was altogether aboli&s;hed. And moreover, to further evidence the &s;aid Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Argyle,</HI> his willingne&s;&s;e to &s;erve the &s;aid U&s;urper in the accompli&s;hing of all his trea&s;onable de&s;igns, and to extirpate us from our Royal authority and Govern|ment, he endeavour'd by all means po&s;&s;ible, when the fore|&s;aid Tyrant and U&s;urper had commanded Commi&s;&s;ioners from &s;hires in <HI>Scotland,</HI> to appear at <HI>London</HI> in his pretended Par|liament, for E&s;tabli&s;hing his U&s;urped authority, and aboli&s;h|ing of Us and Our Royal race from our ju&s;t Right and Title to our Crownes of <HI>Scotland, England,</HI> and <HI>Ireland;</HI> and for &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of the Priviledges, Lawes and Liberties of this our ancient Kingdom of <HI>Scotland.</HI> The &s;aid Marque&s;&s;e did in obe|dience
<PB N="10" REF="7">of the &s;aid Traiterous command, obtain him&s;elf to be Elected Commi&s;&s;ioner for the Sheriffdom of <HI>Ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">f:</HI> and there|after went up to <HI>England,</HI> and there &s;at as a Member of that Traiterous Correction and meeting at <HI>London,</HI> wherein De|claration was made again&s;t Us and our Succe&s;&s;ors, debaring us for ever, from our Ju&s;t and lawful Right and Title, to the Crownes of the&s;e our three Kingdoms. Likeas thereafter the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> did embrace the Office of Sheriff-&s;hip of <HI>Argi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> from the enemy, and exerci&s;ed the &s;ame under them for his own ends; and did &s;everal times &s;wear, at lea&s;t &s;ub&s;cribe, in their favours again&s;t U<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, Our Succe&s;&s;ors, Crown, Government and Sovereignty; and to be obedient and live peaceably under their Government of Our Kingdoms in form of a Common|wealth, at it was then e&s;tabli&s;hed by the &s;aid Traitor and U|&s;urper. Of the which trea&s;onable deeds and acts, and others afore&s;aid, the &s;aid Defenders, and particularly the &s;aid <HI>Archi|bad Marque&s;i of Argyle,</HI> or one or other of them, were an|thory, aiders, abettors, a&s;&s;i&s;ters, contrivers, promoters and coun|tenancers.</P>
<P>Sixthly, to further manife&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s of Argyle</HI> his trea&s;onable deeds, acts and intentions again&s;t Us, contrary to his oath and duty, the &s;ame evidently appears by his trea&s;ona|ble &s;peeches following; in &s;o far as he being pre&s;ent in a Pro|vincial a&s;&s;embly at <HI>Innerarcy</HI> in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> one or other of the moneths above written, in the year 1652. or 1653. or one or other of them, &s;ome Mini&s;ters being then pre&s;ent, praying for His Maje&s;ties happine&s;s and welfare, the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> did openly &s;ay and declare before them, <HI>That they were has fools to pray for that wicked, fal&s;e, malignant King, whom God had ca&s;ten off, and would never re&s;tore again,</HI> and cer|tain <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ber words to this purpo&s;e and meaning; the &s;aid <HI>Mar|que&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> having uttered the like trea&s;onable &s;peeches at <HI>London</HI> and el&s;ewhere. And al&s;o in one or other of the &s;aid two years above written, in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> or one or o|ther of the &s;aid moneths, the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> being within a Chamber of his man&s;ion hou&s;e at <HI>Lochhead</HI> in <HI>Ke<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tyre,</HI> &s;tamp|ing with his foot did vaunt him&s;elf, &s;aying, That he was the onely man that plotted the ri&s;ing of the Forces in the We&s;t,
<PB N="11" REF="7">terming the &s;ame the <HI>Whig-rode,</HI> which proved the main cau&s;e of our ruine. Moreover his corre&s;pondence, joyning, acting and con&s;ulting with the Enemy for Our ruine is more mani|fe&s;t, in &s;o far as he did receive precepts from the &s;aid Tyrant and U&s;urper <HI>Oliver Cromwell,</HI> directed to his Council at <HI>Eden|burgh,</HI> for payment of the &s;umme of Twelve thou&s;and pounds &s;terling, for good and thankful &s;ervice done by the &s;aid <HI>Mar|que&s;s.</HI> Likeas he did keep corre&s;pondence with the U&s;urper <HI>Richard Cromwell,</HI> and <HI>Charles Fleetwood</HI> in the year 1658. and 1659. by mi&s;&s;ive Letters and other wayes. As al&s;o with Sir <HI>Archibald Iohn&s;ton</HI> of <HI>Wari&s;ton,</HI> his fellow traitor, in the &s;aid year 1659. when he &s;ate in that traiterous meeting or Coun|cil of the Rebels at <HI>London,</HI> called the Committee of Safety, wherein the &s;aid <HI>Wari&s;ton</HI> &s;ate as Pre&s;ident: and did of new emit Declarations for aboli&s;hing of Us and Our Succe&s;&s;ors, from Our ju&s;t right and title to the Crowns of the&s;e Our &s;aid Kingdoms. Of all which trea&s;onable acts and deeds afore&s;aid. intended or committed in one or other of the moneths of the re&s;pective years above written, contrary to Our &s;aid Laws and Acts of Parliament, and &s;everal other Laws, the &s;aid Defen|dants, and particularly the &s;aid <HI>Archibald Marque&s;e of Argyle,</HI> at lea&s;t they, or one or other of them, were authors, aiders, a|bettors, a&s;&s;i&s;ters, promoters, countenancers, contrivers, or act and part.</P>
<P>Seventhly, Our &s;aid deceas'd Soveraign Lord and deare&s;t Father, having granted Commi&s;&s;ion upon the <GAP DESC="blank"> day of <HI>March</HI> 1643. years under His &s;aid Maje&s;ties hand, autho|rizing and giving expre&s;s order to the &s;aid Sir <HI>James Lamond</HI> to pro&s;ecute a War, and levie Forces in His Maje&s;ties name, a|gain&s;t tho&s;e in Rebellion, and particularly again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle,</HI> and to invade his Bounds and Lands, as he was the principall Promoter of the&s;e odious and rebelli|ons practi&s;es again&s;t His Maje&s;ties authority, as the &s;aid Com|mi&s;&s;ion by way of a mi&s;&s;ive Letter directed to the &s;aid Sir <HI>James</HI> at more length bears. In obedience whereunto the &s;aid Sir <HI>James,</HI> according to his alleagiance and bound duty, levy|ed all his friends and followers, and accordingly acted as be|came a good Subject in His Maje&s;ties &s;ervice. For promoting
<PB N="12" REF="8">whereof till the year 1646. That after His Maje&s;ties comeing to <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">,</HI> and ca&s;ting him&s;elf upon the tru&s;t of his Army lying there, the &s;aid Sir <HI>James</HI> did then lay down arms, and with his friends reteared in a peaceable manner, to his own hou&s;es of <HI>Temart</HI> and <HI>E&s;oog;</HI> there being no other hou&s;es for the &s;helter of his friends, the Countrey having been former|ly wa&s;ted and burnt. After which in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> or thereabout, in the &s;ame year, the &s;aid defendents, or one or other of them, being commanded by the &s;aid <HI>James Camphell</HI> of <HI>Arakingla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, Dr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">gall Campbell</HI> of <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">raw,</HI> and others their Officers, and others under the &s;aid <HI>Marqui&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> his command, old in a ho&s;tile manner lay &s;iege to the &s;aid two hou&s;es, u&s;ing all manner of violence. And the &s;aid Sir <HI>Tames,</HI> after all le|gal meant u&s;ed for his own defence, did bring them to a treaty, where in by articles of capitulation, they did grant to him, and has &s;aid friends and followers indempnity in their per&s;ons and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, with power to pa&s;&s;e freely where they, lea&s;ed; as the &s;aid articles, &s;ub&s;cribed by the hands of the &s;aid <HI>James Camp|bell</HI> of <HI>Ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="5 letters">las, Colin Campbell</HI> of <HI>Str<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">quhir, John Camp|bell</HI> Fire of <HI>Dan&s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ich, D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">can Campbell</HI> of <HI>Elangreg, Deu|gall Campbell</HI> of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, Duncan Campbell</HI> Uncle to the Laird of <HI>Lorbinell,</HI> and <HI>Iohn M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ckl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"></HI> F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">are of <HI>Craigintareiff</HI> of the date the third day of <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e</HI> at more length bear<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> neverthe|le&s;&s;e the afore&s;aid per&s;ons complain'd upon, or one or other of them, did mo&s;t per&s;idiou&s;ly, treacherou&s;ly, and trea&s;onably, &s;hortly after the &s;aid capitulation, plunder the &s;aid hou&s;es of their whole furniture and goods therein; and did tob and take away from the per&s;ons within the &s;ame, their whole money and cloaths, did drive their whole Cattell of all &s;orts, which together with the wallations formerly done by them, to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames,</HI> his Friends, Va&s;&s;als and Tenants, did exceed the &s;umme of <HI>fifty thou&s;and pound Seerling.</HI> And in a mo&s;t cruell and bath<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rous way, win<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;ome of his poor friends were re&s;cuing their own goods, they bacharou&s;ly murdered and ma&s;&s;acred a member of innocent women, as namely. <HI>Marie Gila<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">, Marione Macklei&s;h</HI> a young maide, <HI>Cale<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ch Breid|machfoyne, Margne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s Crawforde,</HI> and certain others; and in|humanly left their bodies, as a prey to ravenous bea&s;ts and
<PB N="13" REF="8">foules. At the lea&s;t, the &s;aid per&s;ons or one or other of them, and particularly the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle,</HI> were authors, actors, aiders, abetters, a&s;&s;i&s;ters, contrivers, and art and part of the &s;aid cruell bloudy murders, robberies, oppre&s;&s;ions, and other deeds and malver&s;ations above lybelled.</P>
<P>Eightly, the &s;aid per&s;ons defendants, &s;hortly after the &s;aid capitulation, and contrary to the &s;ame, or one or other of them, and &s;pecially the &s;aid <HI>Iames Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardkinglas, Dougall Campbell</HI> of <HI>Iauerra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, Colin Campbell</HI> of <HI>Straquhir, Duncan Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ellangreg, Dancan Campbell,</HI> Uncle to the Laird of <HI>Lochnell, Iohn Campbell</HI> Flare of <HI>Dan&s;tafneiche,</HI> did mo&s;t treacherou&s;ly, perfidiou&s;ly, and traiterou&s;ly felter and bind the hands of near two hundred per&s;ons, of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> his friends and followers, who were comprehended within the &s;aid capitulation; detaining them pri&s;oners with a guard, their hands being bound behind their backs like theeves, within the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames's</HI> hou&s;e and yards of <HI>Towart,</HI> for the &s;pace of &s;e|verall dayes in great torment and mi&s;ery, they being <HI>His Ma|je&s;ties</HI> free Lieges and people. Likeas mo&s;t traiterou&s;ly and per&s;idiou&s;ly, contrary to the &s;aid capitulation, they did carry the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Lamond</HI> pri&s;oner to the &s;aid hou&s;e and ca&s;tle of <HI>E&s;cog,</HI> and by that means, and for fear of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> his life, the keepers of the &s;aid Ca&s;tle, being the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames's</HI> Friends and Va&s;&s;als, they did &s;urrender the &s;aid hou&s;e, upon capitulation of life, fortune and goods: which capitulation was mo&s;t traiterou&s;ly and per&s;idiou&s;ly broken. And in pur&s;u|ing of their further villanie, after plundering and robbing of all that was within and about the &s;aid hou&s;e, they mo&s;t barba|rou&s;ly, cruelly and inhumanly, murdered &s;everall young and old, yea &s;ucking children, &s;ome of them not one moneth old. And further the &s;aid defendents or one or other of them, and particularly the fore&s;aid &s;ub&s;cryvers of the &s;aid capitulations in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> 1646. years, did mo&s;t traite|rou&s;ly and perfidiou&s;ly carry the whole people that was within the &s;aid hou&s;e of <HI>E&s;cog</HI> pri&s;oners with a guard to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> his hou&s;e of <HI>Towars,</HI> and &s;hortly after their removall from the &s;aid hou&s;e of <HI>E&s;cog,</HI> the &s;aid defendents, or one or o|ther of them, cau&s;ed burn the &s;ame, de&s;troying the whole Or|chards
<PB N="14" REF="9">and Plantings about the &s;aid hou&s;e of <HI>E&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ng.</HI> And not being content with their former cruelties, they &s;hortly there|after carryed all the &s;aid per&s;on, who were pri&s;oners in both the &s;aid hou&s;es of <HI>E&s;cog</HI> and <HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ars,</HI> bound pri&s;oners (being <HI>His Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ell<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Lieges) to &s;everall boa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s, &s;ending the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ind,</HI> his two brethren <HI>Robert Lamond</HI> of <HI>E&s;cog, Patrick Lamond</HI> his onely Son, <HI>Dancan L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">mand</HI> his Brother, and <HI>Iohn Lamond</HI> of <HI>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">chingylie,</HI> pri&s;oners to the &s;aid <HI>George Campbell</HI> Sheriff. Deputy to the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> his hou&s;e of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">,</HI> at which time the &s;aid per&s;ons or one or other of them, mo&s;t Villanou&s;ly, contrary to the &s;aid capitulation, lawes and acts of Parliament afore&s;aid, burnt the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Lamonds</HI> man&s;ion hou&s;e of <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e:</HI> Of the which cruell crimes of trea&s;on, murders, fire rai&s;ings, burnings, oppre&s;&s;ions, robberies and other crimes above mentioned, committed contrary to our &s;aid lawes and acts of Parliament, and the capitulation above|written, the &s;aid defendents, and particularly the &s;aid <HI>Mar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ne&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle,</HI> at lea&s;t one or other of them were aiders, abet|ters, a&s;&s;i&s;ters, commenancers, contrivers, promoters and coun|tellers of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Ninethly, the &s;aid Per&s;ons Defendants, or one or other of them, contrary to the afore&s;aid Capitulations, Our Laws and Acts of Parliament, upon the <GAP DESC="blank"> day of <HI>Inac</HI> 1646. mo&s;t traiterou&s;ly and perfidiou&s;ly did carry the whole people, who were in the &s;aid hou&s;es of <HI>E&s;cog</HI> and <HI>Towars,</HI> in the &s;aid Boats, to the Village of <HI>Den<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">e,</HI> and there mo&s;t <HI>cruelly, traiterou&s;ly and per&s;idiou&s;ly</HI> cau&s;ed hang <HI>upon one tree</HI> near the number of <HI>thirty &s;ix per&s;ons,</HI> mo&s;t of them being <HI>&s;pecial Gentlemen</HI> of the name of <HI>Lamond,</HI> and Va&s;&s;als to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames,</HI> viz. <HI>Neill M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">parrick</HI> altas <HI>Lamond, Archibald Lamond</HI> &s;on to <HI>Baron Mach pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rick</HI> of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">er&s;to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ne, Robert Lamond</HI> his brother, <HI>Duncan Lamond</HI> brother to the &s;aid <HI>Robert,</HI> and <HI>Hugh Lamond</HI> their other brother. <HI>Dancan Gerlamend</HI> in <HI>Kil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">sarneck, Gocie</HI> and <HI>Iohn L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">ds</HI> his &s;om<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, <HI>Ew<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n Lamond</HI> in <HI>Midtowars, Gilbert Lamond, D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">can Lamond, Iohn Mackqutin</HI> alias <HI>Lamond, Ar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hibald Mack<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">in</HI> alias <HI>Lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">nd</HI> his brother. <HI>Donald Mack|qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">in</HI> alias <HI>Lamond, Duncan</HI> and <HI>Iohn Lamonds</HI> &s;ons to <HI>Walter <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">am<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d</HI> brother Germane to the Laird of <HI>E&s;cog, Hugh La|mond</HI>
<PB N="15" REF="9">in <HI>Corrs</HI> of the <HI>Carris, Robert Lamond</HI> in the <HI>Carris, Du<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|can Lamond</HI> there, <HI>Augus Lamond</HI> there, <HI>Donald Lamond</HI> there, <HI>Walter Lamond</HI> there, <HI>Duncan Lamond</HI> called <HI>Mack|walter</HI> there, <HI>Alexander Lamond</HI> in <HI>Ardyne</HI> of <HI>Nethercowall, William Lamond, Iohn Mackqutin</HI> younger alias <HI>Lamond, Patrick Brigle</HI> &s;on to the decea&s;ed Mr. <HI>Iohn Beigle</HI> Mini&s;ter at <HI>Rulie&s;ay, Dovgall Haerper</HI> alias <HI>Mackala&s;ter</HI> &s;ervant to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Lamond, Iohn <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ond</HI> &s;on to <HI>Gilbert Lamond</HI> of <HI>Knockour, Gilbert Macklay</HI> in <HI>Glendarewall, Iames Lamond</HI> in <HI>Ardyne, Donald Lamond, Iames Mackquein</HI> alias <HI>Lamond</HI> in <HI>Netherconall, Iames Lamond</HI> his &s;on, and <HI>Iohn Mackpatrick</HI> alias <HI>Lamond</HI> in <HI>Ardyne.</HI> And al&s;o the &s;aid Per&s;ons Defen|dants, or one or other of them upon the fore&s;aid <GAP DESC="blank"> day of <HI>Iune</HI> 1646. mo&s;t cruelly, barbarou&s;ly, inhumanely and un|chri&s;tianly murdered with durks, and cut down with &s;words and Pi&s;tols the per&s;ons following, viz. <HI>Iohn Lamond</HI> in <HI>Au|chin&s;hallech,</HI> who being about the age of four&s;core years, having a Flux upon him, and being al&s;o pin'd away with hunger and thir&s;t, they mo&s;t cruelly and barbarou&s;ly &s;tobb'd him with durks and skanes at the Ladder-foot: and did al&s;o mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly murder &s;tob and cut down the per&s;ons following, viz. <HI>Thomas Brown, Neill Mankneill, Meldonich Mackman, Iohn Mack|man</HI> his Brother, <HI>Archibald Hamilton, Meldonick Mackilmi|chael, Robert Michael, Iohn Mackinlay, Iohn Hendry, Alexan|der Hundry, Patrick Hendry, Iohn Lamond, Angus Mackil|m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">, Iohn Mackyunes, Iohn Macekdongall, Iohn Henry, Wil|liam Mackwilliam</HI> alias <HI>Wil&s;on, Hew Mackcrow, Iohn Mack|cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">w</HI> his Brother, <HI>Iohn Mackper&s;on, Donald Mackper&s;on, Duncan Mackper&s;on, Donald Mackilbreid Lamond, Duncan Lamond, Duncan Mackala&s;ter, Thomas Mem|bryd, Iohn Michael&s;on, Iohn Moodie,</HI> and <HI>Iohn Iami&s;on</HI> then Provo&s;t of <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">be&s;ay,</HI> who being &s;hot thrice through the body, finding &s;ome life in him, did thru&s;t &s;everall durks and skanes in him, and at la&s;t did cut his throat with a long durk; The &s;aid <HI>Iohn Iami&s;on,</HI> not only repre&s;enting <HI>His Maje&s;ties</HI> autho|rity, as a prime magi&s;trate of his burgh Royal, was &s;o cruelly murchered in contempt thereof, and of the Statutes made in that behalf. And to manife&s;t their further cruelty, they did
<PB N="16" REF="10">ca&s;t &s;ome of the afore&s;aid per&s;ons into holes made for them, who were &s;purning and wre&s;tling, whil&s;t they were &s;uffocated, with earth; having denyed to them any time to recommend them&s;elves to God; albeit earne&s;tly de&s;ired and begg'd by the &s;aid murthered per&s;ons. In&s;omuch that the Lord from Hea|ven did declare his wrath and di&s;plea&s;ure again&s;t the fore&s;aid inhumane cruelty, by &s;tricting the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ree whereon they were hanged, in the &s;aid moneth o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>June,</HI> being a lively fre&s;h growing a&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">tree, at the Kirk-yard of <HI>Demer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">c,</HI> among&s;t many other fre&s;h trees with leaves, the Lord &s;truck the &s;aid tree im|mediately thereafter; &s;o that the whole leaves fell from it, and the tree withered never bearing leaf there after, temain|ing &s;o for the &s;pace of two years: Which being cut down, there &s;pring out of the very heart of the roote thereof a &s;pring like unto bloud popling up, running in &s;everall &s;treames, all over the roote, and that for &s;everall years thereafter: Till the &s;aid murthere<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> or their &s;avourers, perceiving that it was remarked by per&s;ons of all ranks (reforming there to &s;ee the miracle) they did cau&s;e boock out the roote, covering the whole with earth, which was full of the &s;aid matter like bloud. Of the which cruell murthers, the &s;aid per&s;ons, and &s;pecially the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle,</HI> or one or other of them, were authors, actors, aiders, abetters, a&s;&s;i&s;ters, contrivers, countenancers and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, many of the &s;aid per&s;ons defendents, being Offi|cers under the command of the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle.</HI></P>
<P>Tenthly, Upon the Month of <GAP DESC="blank"> 1646. the &s;aid Sir <HI>James Lamond,</HI> his &s;aid brethren and friends, being detained pri&s;oners at the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> his hou&s;e of <HI>Iunerary,</HI> the &s;aid <HI>George Campbel</HI> Sheriff, and Ju&s;tice deputy to the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s, James Campbel of Ardkenglas</HI> Collunder thecommand of the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;t, Dougall Campbell alias Mackconnachie of En|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rran</HI> Ma&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> under the command of the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s,</HI> and certain other per&s;ons being met in a kind of Conventicle, who did enquire of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames,</HI> whether he would &s;ubmit his life and &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> tune to them, or not? who an&s;wer'd, That he would not pleading upon His Maje&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ion, the Capitulation given to him, and that he being the Kings Baron could not be judged by them, none of them being &s;uch. Whereunto the
<PB N="17" REF="10">&s;aid <HI>George Campbell</HI> replied, that the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> was a fal&s;e Knave, and that he would judge him whether he would or not, and hang him as Ju&s;tice-deputy of the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s of Ar|gyle;</HI> at which time the &s;aid <HI>George Campbell</HI> did rob and &s;eize upon the &s;umme of 1000 <HI>l.</HI> belonging to <HI>Archibald Lamond</HI> Brother to the &s;aid Sir <HI>James,</HI> and having within a little time hereafter, &s;earched the &s;aid Sir <HI>James</HI> for the &s;aid Capitulation, finding that he had it not, and they con&s;idering the prejudice that might follow to them thereby, they cau&s;ed the &s;aid Sir <HI>James</HI> to &s;ub&s;cribe a paper penned by the &s;aid <HI>George,</HI> decla|ring therein that his quarrell was unju&s;t, and that he repented thereof, as al&s;o that he did pa&s;s from the Capitulation; which paper with certain other Articles therein, was &s;ub&s;cribed by the &s;aid Sir <HI>James,</HI> he being compelled thereto for fear of death, having gotten notice at that &s;ame very time, that his &s;aid friends and follows were cruelly Murthered by them at <HI>Denron,</HI> as is above mentioned, after &s;ub&s;cribing of the which Paper, two days after the &s;aid Sir <HI>James,</HI> his two brethren, and four friends afore&s;aid were committed pri&s;oners, in &s;everal hou&s;es, appertaining to the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle,</HI> the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> remaining pri&s;oner in the hou&s;e of <HI>Dun&s;tuffnagh,</HI> for the &s;pace of four years, thereafter being carried to the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Ineheoneill,</HI> where he remained pri&s;oner for the &s;pace of two years or thereabout, untill he was carried from thence to <HI>Ster|ling,</HI> by vertue of an Order from Us and Our E&s;tates of Parlia|ment, they having not time to take tryall of the matter at that time, by rea&s;on of our Marching into <HI>England,</HI> &s;ending the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> up to the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Sterling,</HI> for fear of the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> his cruelty; in regard he often threatned, that if ever the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> came in his power, the World &s;hould not &s;ave his life, and that he repented nothing more, then that he took not that bloody knave his life, whil&s;t he had him in his power; &s;aying likewi&s;e, that all was but one fault: the which cruell crimes of oppre&s;&s;ion and others above &s;pecified, the &s;aid De&s;endants, particularly the <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle,</HI> one or other of them, were Actors, Aiders, Abettors, Contrivers, Counte|nancers or Promoters.</P>
<P>Eleventhly, The &s;aid per&s;ons Defendants, their cruelty
<PB N="18" REF="11">again&s;t the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> is manife&s;t, in &s;o far as the &s;aid Month of <GAP DESC="blank"> 1651. <HI>Donald Campbell</HI> &s;ent <HI>Iohn Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ard|tarich</HI> of their &s;peciall cau&s;ing, bounding out and or under their command o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> direction, came accompanied with 30. men, all armed with Guns, Swords, Pi&s;tols, and other Weapons, inva|&s;ive to the Coa&s;t &s;ide of the Sheriffdomes of <HI>Ayre</HI> and <HI>Ran|frew,</HI> where they heard that the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> had his re&s;i|dence, and did &s;earch the hou&s;e of <HI>Southern</HI> belonging to my Lord <HI>Sempell,</HI> and the hou&s;e of <HI>Corsby</HI> belonging to the Layrd o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Auchnames,</HI> where the &s;aid per&s;ons did make &s;earch for the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames,</HI> two of them coming early in the morning to the &s;aid hou&s;e of <HI>Auchnames,</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Donald</HI> running up &s;taries, with a drawn Durk and benden Pi&s;toll, in either hand, making &s;earch through the whole hou&s;e and beds, to have Murthered the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames,</HI> who by providence was in the Wood, not knowing any thing of the intended Murther. And the &s;aid per&s;ons being di&s;appointed of their intentions, did retire to their boats, the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> flying at that time to the <HI>I&s;le of A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> to &s;helter him&s;elf under the Protection of the now Duche&s;s of <HI>Hamilton,</HI> who did re&s;ide there for the time. Like as immediatly thereafter the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle</HI> and his accomplices, failing of their &s;aid intended Mur|ther, the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> did de&s;ire a Warrant from the Com|mittee of Parliament, in the &s;aid year 165<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">. for apprehending the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Lamond,</HI> intending thereby to pro&s;ecute the afore&s;aid Murther; which warrant was then refu&s;ed to be granted to him, as lea&s;t the &s;aid Defendants, &amp; particularly the &s;aid <HI>Mar|que&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle</HI> or one or other of them, were Authors, Actors, Aiders, Abettors, A&s;&s;i&s;tors, Contrivers, Countenancers, of the afore&s;aid crimes of Murder and oppre&s;&s;ion, and others afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>Twelfthly, And further to evidence the afore&s;aid per&s;ons De|fendants, and particularly the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle,</HI> their cruelty and oppre&s;&s;ion again&s;t the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames,</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Mar|que&s;s</HI> in the Month of <GAP DESC="blank"> 1647, or thereabouts, came to our hou&s;e of <HI>Dun&s;ta&s;neiche,</HI> where the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> had been kept mo&s;t unju&s;tly and unwarrantably pri&s;oner &s;everal years be|fore, and &s;ending to him the late decea&s;ed <HI>Archibald Campbell</HI> keeper of our &s;aid Ca&s;tle under the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s, C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">in Camp|bell</HI>
<PB N="19" REF="11">of <HI>Loch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ell,</HI> and <HI>Do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">gall Campbell alias Mack<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="5 letters">chie</HI> of <HI>Inner<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">,</HI> as Commi&s;&s;ioners, with certain propo&s;alls following, <HI>viz.</HI> Fir&s;t, that the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> &s;hould renounce and for ever overgive all right, title and intere&s;t, he had to his own pro|perty, and his va&s;&s;alls &s;uperiority. And upon condition al&s;o, that the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames,</HI> &s;hould under his own hand abjure <HI>Scot|land,</HI> and never to be &s;een therein: which being done the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> &s;aid he would give to Sir <HI>Iames</HI> a con&s;iderable &s;um, threatning al&s;o that if the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> would refu&s;e the &s;aid offer, &s;o long as the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> had an hou&s;e in the World, the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> &s;hould be pri&s;oner therein, and &s;hould tor|ment him with pain and mi&s;ery, till the marrow &s;hould <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ot within his bones. The &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> declaring al&s;o, that he hath already po&s;&s;e&s;s'd him&s;elf of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames,</HI> and his Va&s;&s;als e&s;tates, which he &s;aid he and his &s;hould po&s;&s;e&s;s, in di&s;pight of tho&s;e who would or would not. Whereupon the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames,</HI> con&s;idering with him&s;elf, within &s;ome few Months thereafter, that what a pri&s;oner did was Null in Law, and being mo&s;t de&s;irous of his liberty, from &s;o mi&s;erable and &s;o long impri&s;onment, profe&s;s'd to be willing to grant &s;ome of the former de&s;ires; the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> hearing thereof, cau&s;ed carry the &s;aid Sir <HI>James</HI> with a guard, to the Town of <HI>Innerarey,</HI> where the &s;aid Sir <HI>James</HI> did write &s;ome few lines, the &s;ub&s;tance whereof contained the mo&s;t part of the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s's</HI> de|&s;ires. Notwith&s;tanding whereof, and the &s;aid paper was deli|livered to the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s,</HI> he per&s;i&s;ting in his former cruel|ty and oppre&s;&s;ion, did &s;end back the &s;aid Sir <HI>James</HI> to pri&s;on, where he remain'd at Our &s;aid hou&s;e of <HI>Dunsta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">neich,</HI> &s;o that the &s;aid papers &s;o &s;ub&s;cribed and delivered to the &s;aid <HI>Mar|que&s;s</HI> and <HI>George Campbell</HI> his Ju&s;tice and Sheriff Deputy (for which they and their complices ought to be puni&s;hed as oppre&s;&s;ors and as actors and art and part of the afore&s;aid crimes) and all following upon the &s;aid writings and papers ought to be declared void and null.</P>
<P>Thirteenthly, the &s;aid per&s;ons defendents, and particularly the &s;aid <HI>Archibald Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle</HI> his Friends, and Complice, per&s;evering in their further oppre&s;&s;ion, in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> 1649. years, cau&s;ed the &s;aid decea&s;ed <HI>Archibald Camp|bell,</HI>
<PB N="20" REF="12">then keeper of our &s;aid ca&s;tle of <HI>Dun&s;ta&s;neich,</HI> under command of the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s,</HI> compell the &s;aid Sir <HI>James</HI> to grant a band to the &s;aid <HI>Archibald,</HI> his heires, executors and a&s;&s;ignes, for payment of the &s;umme of four thou&s;and four hun|dred Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">s of thereabouts, for alleadging 4. years entertain|ment in our &s;aid Ca&s;tle, where the &s;aid Sir <HI>James Lamond</HI> was violently, trai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ou&s;ly and illegally detain'd pri&s;oner: Unto the which Band the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> be a&s;&s;ign'd, he did intend action thereupon before the Engli&s;h Judges, and for that and certain other pretended debts, which were payed, the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> tooke forth caption again&s;t the &s;aid Sir <HI>James,</HI> intend|ing thereby to pro&s;ecute his forethought cruelties and oppre&s;&s;i|ons, and to incarcerat him, for obtaining his former de&s;igns. And &s;o the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> by acceptation of the &s;aid a&s;&s;ignati|on, pur&s;ued thereupon his impri&s;onments, threatnings and o|thers above and after &s;pecifyed.</P>
<P>Fourteenthly, the &s;aid <HI>George Campbell</HI> Ju&s;tice under the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s,</HI> &s;till continuing in his former cruelties and op|pre&s;&s;ion, in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> 1647, years or thereabouts, not onely contrary to his &s;aid Maje&s;ties Com|mi&s;&s;ion, but al&s;o contrary to the Articles of Capitulation, our Laws and Acts of Parliament, having taken <HI>Patrick Lamond</HI> F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">are of <HI>E&s;cog,</HI> and <HI>John Lamond</HI> of <HI>Auchingylle</HI> out of the &s;aid Ca&s;tle of <HI>E&s;cog,</HI> after they had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">endred the &s;aid Ca&s;tle upon the Capitulation above-mentioned, having detain'd them pri&s;oners, the one in the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Car<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ick,</HI> and the other in the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Inchc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ntill,</HI> for the &s;pace of a year and three quarters, till the <GAP DESC="blank"> day of <HI>January</HI> 1648. years. At the which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">e the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s,</HI> and the &s;aid <HI>George</HI> his Deputy, cau&s;ed call a pretended Court of Ju&s;tice at the &s;aid Town of <HI>Innerra|rey;</HI> where having conv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">en'd the &s;aid <HI>Patrick Lamond</HI> Flate of <HI>E&s;cog.</HI> and <HI>John Lamond</HI> of <HI>Auchingyll,</HI> at the &s;aid Town did call an A&s;&s;ize, con&s;i&s;ting of High-land-men, under power of the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s,</HI> and his Deputy their Ju&s;ticiarie, being al&s;o their dependents and followers, and of the &s;aid <HI>George</HI> his making u&s;e of, for the mo&s;t part, for murthers and oppre&s;&s;ions. Which A&s;&s;ize having convicted the &s;aid <HI>Patrick Lamond</HI> Fiare of <HI>E&s;cog,</HI> and having ab&s;olved the &s;aid <HI>John Lamond,</HI> in re&s;pect
<PB N="21" REF="12">of &s;ome favours done to them, the &s;aid <HI>George Campbell</HI> never|thele&s;&s;e cau&s;ed the &s;aid pretended inque&s;t thereafter to meet, contrary to the expre&s;&s;e Law and Act of Parliament; the &s;aid <HI>George</HI> &s;aying, that it was not fit that one young-man &s;hould die alone: Conform to the which unju&s;t and illegal command and direction, the afore&s;aid per&s;ons of the A&s;&s;ize did meet a|gain, and did convict the &s;aid <HI>John Lamond</HI> al&s;o, who by vertue of the &s;aid <HI>George</HI> his unju&s;t and unlawfull &s;entence, the &s;aid two <HI>Gentlemen</HI> were hanged to death at <HI>Innerarey.</HI> Like as the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle</HI> his concur&s;e, countenancing and promoting of the &s;aid cruell murthers and oppre&s;&s;ions, the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> by him&s;elf, <HI>Iames Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardkinglas,</HI> and their Complices have &s;till po&s;&s;e&s;s'd the Lands of <HI>E&s;cog,</HI> and <HI>Auchin|gyll,</HI> belonging to the &s;aid two murthered Gentlemen; where|of they are yet &s;till in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion to this &s;ame very hour: the &s;aid <HI>John Lamond</HI> leaving two Children behind him, the Elde&s;t of them not two years old, to whom the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> refu&s;ed to give any &s;upply or entertainment; they living &s;till as yet upon the charity of the people. Likeas the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle</HI> doth mo&s;t violently, illegally and unju&s;tly, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the lands belonging to <HI>Iohn Lamond</HI> of <HI>Auchin&s;helloch,</HI> who for age and infirmity, as &s;aid is, was cruelly murthered at the ladder foot in manner above-written. At lea&s;t the &s;aid per&s;ons defendents; and particularly the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle, George Campbell</HI> his Ju&s;tice and Sheriff-Deputy, <HI>Iames Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardkinglas,</HI> or one or other of them were Authors, Aiders, Abettors, A&s;&s;i|&s;ters, Promoters, Coun&s;ellers, Contrivers and Art and Part of the &s;aid wicked murthers, oppre&s;&s;ions, burnings, robberie, and other Deeds, and malvers actions above-written. And fur|ther, to manife&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle, George Camp|bell</HI> his &s;aid Ju&s;tice and Sheriff-Deputy, and their Complices, their cruelty and oppre&s;&s;ion, they or one or other of them in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> 1648. years, having at that time murthered the &s;aid <HI>Patrick Lamond</HI> younger of <HI>E&s;cog</HI> as afore|&s;aid, they cau&s;ed immediately thereafter bring before them, <HI>Duncan Lamond</HI> of <HI>Str<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nalbanoch</HI> his Uncle and old man, being then pri&s;oner at Ca&s;tle <HI>Lanchlane,</HI> to the Town of <HI>Innerrarey:</HI> threatning him, that if he would not renounce and di&s;po&s;e his
<PB N="22" REF="13">Right of the who&s;e Lands of <HI>Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">es,</HI> which he bold of the Land of <HI>Lamond,</HI> then they would cau&s;e hang him, as his N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">hew was immediately before. Likeas for &s;afety of his life, the &s;aid <HI>Duncan Lamond</HI> did grant a di&s;po&s;ition of his &s;aid Lands of <HI>Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">res,</HI> to the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle,</HI> and did deliver to him the whole writings thereof, conform whereunto the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;till in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>And in like manner the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s of Argyle, George Campbell</HI> his Ju&s;tice and Sheriff-deputy, and their &s;aid Com|plices, by their power and warrant have po&s;&s;e&s;t and do po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the Lands belonging to the &s;aid <HI>Iames Lamond, viz.</HI> The Lands called <HI>Archibald Rey-Stewart,</HI> the Sixt-mark land of <HI>Ochre|rhe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">,</HI> the lands of <HI>Craignifr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">che:</HI> on which lands of <HI>Craigni|fr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">che</HI> the &s;aid Marque&s;s had his own Bow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">en and Heards, keeping thereon a number of his own proper goods &s;everall years: The &s;aid Marque&s;s po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing al&s;o &s;everal other lands both in property and &s;uperiority belonging to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames,</HI> the Marque&s;s having no right thereto, but po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing the &s;ame by meer oppo&s;ition. Of the which crimes of Oppre&s;&s;ion and others above &s;pecified, the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s of Argyle, George Campbell</HI> Ju&s;tice and Sheriff-deputy to the &s;aid Marque&s;s, <HI>Iames Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardkinglas,</HI> Officer under the &s;aid Marque&s;s's com|mand, and remanent Defendents, were authors, actors, aiders, abettors, a&s;&s;i&s;ters, contrivers, promoters, and art and part. And fu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ther, the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s of Argyle, George Campbell</HI> his Ju&s;tice and Sheriff-deputy, and their Complices and remanent Defendants above named, or one or other of them, in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> 1648. years, of thereabout, did &s;ei&s;e and apprehend the per&s;on of <HI>Dongall Mackl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">gall</HI> of <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ch,</HI> after he had &s;urrendred the hou&s;e of <HI>Dru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">lick,</HI> upon a &s;ub|&s;eryv'd Capitulation under the hands of Lieutenant General <HI>David Le&s;ley</HI> for his life, liberty and e&s;tate. Notwith&s;tanding whereof the &s;aid Marque&s;s and his &s;aid &s;ervant, or either of them and their Complices, cau&s;ed incarcerate the &s;aid <HI>Dongall Mackl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">gall</HI> in the hou&s;e of <HI>Inche<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ill,</HI> laying Irons upon him; who being in mi&s;erable torment for the &s;pace of a year and a half and above, was enforced at the &s;aid Marque&s;s's de&s;ire to be free of the woful Impri&s;onment and torture, to grant to him
<PB N="23" REF="13">a di&s;po&s;ition and renunciation of the &s;aid <HI>Dongall's</HI> lands of <HI>Barninggarr;</HI> whereof the &s;aid Marque&s;s is &s;till in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion &s;ince the &s;aid year 1648. Of the which cruel acts of Oppre&s;&s;i|on, particularly the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s of Argyle</HI> and <HI>George Camp|bell</HI> his &s;ervant, or one or other of them, were authors, aiders, abettors, a&s;&s;i&s;ters, countenancers, promoters, and art and part. And in like manner, <HI>Duncan Campbell of Elangreg</HI> mo&s;t treche|rou&s;ly, traiterou&s;ly and perfidiou&s;ly, after &s;ub&s;cryving of the Capitulation by him granted to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames,</HI> his friends and followers, being a member of the Conventicle, and meet|ing at the fore&s;aid cruel and wicked murders committed at <HI>De|no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">,</HI> was a main author, actor, abettor, a&s;&s;i&s;ter, contriver and promoter of the &s;aid wicked murder committed there. Likeas thereafter the &s;aid <HI>Duncan Campbell</HI> did take unlawful po&s;&s;e&s;&s;i|on of <HI>Leymont Lamond of Cow&s;ton's lands</HI> of <HI>Str<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">an</HI> and <HI>Cow&s;ton,</HI> and al&s;o the lands of <HI>Trow&s;tonne</HI> and <HI>Ardbeg,</HI> belonging to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> and <HI>Leymount.</HI> And al&s;o the &s;aid <HI>Duncan Camp|bell</HI> with certain of his Complices, in the moneth of <HI>March</HI> 1646. years, came from his own hou&s;e to the &s;aid lands of <HI>Co&s;toun</HI> and <HI>Str<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">an,</HI> and there murdered early in the morning of men and children to the number of forty per&s;ons, viz. <HI>Ar|chibald Lamond in Auchinf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">re, Iohn Lamond there, <GAP DESC="blank"> L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">mond</HI> &s;on to <HI>Ewen Lamond</HI> there a child, <HI>Archibald Lamond</HI> of <HI>Rive, C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ll Lamond</HI> his onely &s;on a child, <HI>Ewen Lamond</HI> in <HI>Midtowars, Duncan Lamond</HI> his brother, <HI>Donald Mack<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eill</HI> &s;ervant to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Lamond, Donald Macklanchlane</HI> in <HI>Kilmichael, Finlay Mackilbreid, Donald Makilbreid</HI> his bro|ther, two of the name of <HI>Mackala&s;ters</HI> &s;ons to <HI>Archibald Mackala&s;ter</HI> in <HI>Killer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ane; <GAP DESC="blank"> Macklelland</HI> in <HI>Knock|millie, Robert Moodie</HI> in Ca&s;tle <HI>Towart, Iohn Mackiller</HI> &s;ervant to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames, Harry Lamond, Archibald Mackper&s;on, Iohn Mitchel&s;on, Iohn Leith, Dongall Leith,</HI> and &s;everal others. As al&s;o the &s;aid <HI>Duncan Campbell</HI> mo&s;t traiterou&s;ly, treche|rou&s;ly and perfidiou&s;ly, with the &s;aid Defendents his Compli|ces, were main actors, abettors, a&s;&s;i&s;ters, and art and part of the burning of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> his hou&s;e of <HI>Towart,</HI> taking away the goods and pleni&s;hing therein, de&s;troying of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> his own men, Tenancs, Va&s;&s;als and Servants; robbing
<PB N="24" REF="14">and taking away of their goods the for&s;aid years 1645, and 1546, in one or other of the moneths thereof. Of the which trea&s;onable deeds, murders, fire-rai&s;ings, oppre&s;&s;ions, robbe|ries, and other cruel acts and malver&s;ations above mentioned, the &s;aid per&s;ons Defendants, and particularly the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s of Argyle</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Duncan Campbell,</HI> an Officer under the &s;aid Marque&s;&s;e's command, <HI>George Campbell</HI> Sheriff and Ju&s;tice-deputy, of one of them, were authors, actors, aiders, abetters, a&s;&s;i&s;ters, contrivers and promoters of the &s;ame. And in like manner <HI>Robert Campbell</HI> of <HI>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">ng,</HI> and remanent de|fendents afore&s;aid, or one or other of them, mo&s;t ba&s;ely and perfidiou&s;ly, after the &s;aid Capitulation, and contrary thereto and Our &s;aid Lawes and Acts of Parliament above-written, in moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> or one or other of the moneths above &s;pecified, in the year of God, 1646. 1647. 1648. 1649. 1650. 1651. 1652. 1653. 1654. or one or other of the &s;aid years, did violently reave and carry away, &s;everall of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames's</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> pleni&s;hing, and did de&s;troy and cut down the whole plantings in and about the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> his hou&s;e of <HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="5 letters">,</HI> Orchards, Parks and Walks thereof; and did &s;ell, u&s;e and di&s;po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e thereupon, burning &s;pailes and branches of the &s;aid Trees, &s;ocurred upon the roots of the &s;ame, that they might never grow thereafter, demoli&s;hing the walls of the &s;aid hou&s;e, taking away the great hewed &s;tones thereof, and build|ing therewith hou&s;es to him&s;elf. And al&s;o being pre&s;ent at the &s;aid bloudy and cruel murders committed at <HI>De<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters">e,</HI> and a main actor, aider, abettor, a&s;&s;i&s;ter, coun&s;ellor and promoter thereof; as al&s;o was a main actor, aider, abettor, a&s;&s;i&s;ter, and a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> and part of the great burnings, hair&s;hips, and tyffs commit|ted by the &s;aid Defendants, or one or other of them, of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> his own men, tenants, Va&s;&s;als and &s;ervants hou&s;es, in the year of God 1645. and 1646. in one or other of the moneths thereof. Of the which cruel crimes, deeds and mal|ver&s;ations above written the &s;aid <HI>Robert Campbell</HI> of <HI>Auchin|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">illing,</HI> and the &s;aid defendents, or one or other of them were main Actors, Aiders, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And al&s;o the &s;aid <HI>John Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardtariche</HI> and remanent defendents above written, or one or other of them, in the &s;aid moneth of <HI>Iune</HI> 1646. years, mo&s;t
<PB N="25" REF="14">villanou&s;ly contrary to the &s;aid Capitulation, was acce&s;&s;ory to the burning of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> his hou&s;e of <HI>Towart,</HI> and in the &s;aid moneth was pre&s;ent at the meeting, and a main Coun|&s;eller, Aider, Abetter or A&s;&s;i&s;ter of the &s;aid Cruell and Bloudy Murthers, committed at the Village of <HI>Dencone.</HI> And to make the Premi&s;es manife&s;tly appear, the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Campbell,</HI> by meet Oppre&s;&s;ion having po&s;&s;e&s;t the Lands belonging to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e|ceas'd <HI>Dancan Lamond</HI> a Murthered per&s;on, particularly the Lands of <HI>Knockdaw, Innerchellane,</HI> the Lands of <HI>Lettingall</HI> and <HI>Towart fleeming:</HI> And in like manner having by Oppre&s;&s;ion al&s;o po&s;&s;e&s;t him&s;elf of the Lands of <HI>Gortamlesk, Kilmarnock</HI> and <HI>Brackleys,</HI> pertaining to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames;</HI> Taking away al&s;o before the burning of his &s;aid hou&s;e, &s;everall of the hou&s;hold|&s;tuff and pleni&s;hing therein. Of the which Deeds and other Crimes above written, the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardtariche,</HI> and remanent Defendents afore&s;aid, or one or other of them were Authors, Aiders, &amp;c.</P>
<P>And further Mr. <HI>Colin Macklanchlane,</HI> Mini&s;ter at <HI>Lochgo|li&s;heed,</HI> being pre&s;ent at the meeting in the &s;aid Village of <HI>De|n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">one,</HI> in the &s;aid moneth of <HI>Iune</HI> 1646. mo&s;t Villanou&s;ly and Treacherou&s;ly contrary to the &s;aid Capitulation, was a main Coun&s;eller, Actor, Author, Aides, A&s;&s;i&s;ter, Abettor, Promo|ter and Art and Part of the fore&s;aid cruell murthers, commit|ted at the &s;aid Village of <HI>Dencone.</HI> And further the &s;aid <HI>James Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardkinglas</HI> Officer under the &s;aid <HI>Mar|que&s;s's</HI> command accompanied with his Regiment in the Low|lands, at the Village of the <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rgis,</HI> in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> 1645. adding to his former <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">uelties, one <GAP DESC="blank"> <HI>La|mond</HI> a begger comming to the &s;aid <HI>James Campbell,</HI> and cra|ving his charity, the &s;aid <HI>James</HI> cau&s;ed apprehend the &s;aid begger, and mo&s;t cruelly cau&s;ed <HI>murther and hang him,</HI> without any ground or warrant. Of the which cruell Crime of Murther the &s;aid <HI>Iames Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardkinglas,</HI> and the &s;aid Defendents, or one or other of them were Authors, Actors, Abettors, &amp;c. And moreover the &s;aid <HI>Iames Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardkinglas,</HI> Officer under the &s;aid Marque&s;s his command, and remanent per&s;ons Defendents afore&s;aid, intending never to put a period to th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> cruelty, &s;o long as any of the name of <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">mond,</HI> and their friends
<PB N="26" REF="15">and followers were left in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> 1646. the &s;aid <HI>Iames Campbell</HI> being accompanied with his &s;aid Regi|ment in the Lovelands, there being brought to him by <HI>Ang<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> Mackil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ck, Der<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> Campbell,</HI> and the deceas'd <HI>Francis Campbell</HI> his Brother, one <HI>Iohn Machpatrick</HI> alias <HI>Lamond,</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Iames Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardkinglas,</HI> and remanent Defendents afore&s;aid, or one or other of them, cau&s;ed cruelly murther and hang the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Machp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">trick</HI> alias <HI>Lamond,</HI> and that without any ground or warrant. Of the which crime of murther, the &s;aid Defendants, or one or other of them, and particularly the &s;aid <HI>Iames Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ardkinglas,</HI> were authors, actors, aiders, abettors, a&s;&s;i&s;ters, or art and part.</P>
<P>And al&s;o, <HI>Alexander Campbell</HI> of <HI>Penny<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ir,</HI> with certain of his followers and complices, upon the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> 1645. years, did cea&s;e and apprehend, in the I&s;le of <HI>Comeraw,</HI> one <HI>Robert Lamond</HI> Merchant re&s;identer in <HI>Ireland,</HI> from whence having come about his lawful occa&s;ions, to the &s;aid I&s;le of <HI>Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">raw,</HI> the &s;aids per&s;ons did mo&s;t cruelly and villainou&s;ly murther and &s;hoot the &s;aid <HI>Robert Lamond</HI> to death, at the &s;aid I&s;le: of the which cruell murther the &s;aids Defendents, or one of other of them, and particularly the &s;aid <HI>Alexander Campbell</HI> of <HI>Pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ir,</HI> were authors, actors, aiders, abettors, a&s;&s;i&s;ters, or art and part. And likewi&s;e the &s;aid <HI>George Campbell,</HI> Ju&s;tice and Sheriff-Deputy to the &s;aid Marque&s;s of <HI>Argyle,</HI> &s;till per&s;i&s;ting in his wonted cruelties and murthers, in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> 1645. years, cau&s;ed murther and hang one <HI>Iohn Don Maclanch|lan</HI> of <HI>Ard<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">,</HI> at the &s;aid Town of <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">rary,</HI> and that with|out any ground o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> warrant. Of the which cruell murther, the &s;aids Defendents, or one or other of them, and particularly the &s;aid <HI>George Campbell,</HI> were authors actors, aiders, abetters, a&s;|&s;i&s;ters, of art and part.</P>
<P>And further, the &s;aid <HI>Archibald Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle,</HI> and <HI>George Campbell</HI> his Ju&s;tice and Sheriff-Deputy, likely never to make <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n end of their cruelty, in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> 1647. years, or thereby, did mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly, cruelly, and un|ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nly, murther and cut off <HI>Hector Macalla&s;ter</HI> of <GAP DESC="blank"> and his two Sons, at <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">chhead</HI> in <HI>Ki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">yre,</HI> they being His Maje&s;ties free Lieges, having received Capitulation from the
<PB N="27" REF="15">&s;aid Lieutenant General <HI>David Le&s;ley,</HI> for life, lands, e&s;tate and goods; who according to the &s;aid Capitulation did go home to their dwelling hou&s;e, living peaceably: Notwith&s;tanding where|of the &s;aid <HI>Archibald Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle</HI> and the &s;aid <HI>George Campbell</HI> his &s;aid Ju&s;tice and Sheriff-Deputy, &s;ending &s;o the &s;aid <HI>Hector Macalla&s;ter</HI> and his &s;aid two Sons, comming and fear|ing nothing, they mo&s;t traiterou&s;ly and villainou&s;ly, contrary to the &s;aid Capitulation, cau&s;ed to murthe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> and hang the &s;aids per|&s;ons at <HI>Lochhead</HI> in <HI>Kintyre.</HI> Of the which cruell murders the &s;aids Defendents, or one or other of them, and particularly the &s;aid <HI>Archibald Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle</HI> and <HI>George Campbell</HI> his Ju|&s;tice and Sheriff-Deputy were authors, actors, aiders, abetters, contrivers, a&s;&s;i&s;ters, and promoters or art and part thereof. As al&s;o <HI>Archibald Campbell Evinnochan,</HI> Son-in-Law to the Laird of <HI>Otter</HI> in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> or one or other of the moneths re&s;pective above written, in the year 1646. was ac|ce&s;&s;ory, art and part, and aider, abetter, and a&s;&s;i&s;ter of the fore|&s;aids cruell and wicked murders, committed at the lands of <HI>Stroane,</HI> and at the fore&s;aid village of <HI>Den<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">on,</HI> being acce&s;&s;ory al&s;o to the robbing and taking away of the hou&s;hold-&s;tuff and pleni&s;hing of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames</HI> his &s;aid hou&s;e of <HI>Towart,</HI> and of the burning of the &s;ame. Of the which cruell acts of murders, robberies, and fire-rai&s;ing, the &s;aid <HI>Archibald Campbell</HI> was actor, author, abetter, a&s;&s;i&s;ter, contriver, coun&s;ellour, promoter, and art and part thereof.</P>
<P>And likewi&s;e the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle</HI> and <HI>George Camp|bell</HI> his Ju&s;tice and Sheriff-Deputy, or one or other of them, in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> or one or other of the &s;aids moneths above written, in the year of God 1639. or thereby, cau&s;ed &s;ea&s;e upon and apprehend Col. <HI>Mac Gillespy,</HI> alias <HI>Mac Donnald,</HI> he being then His Maje&s;ties free Liege, incarcecate him in our &s;aid hou&s;e of <HI>Dun&s;tafneich,</HI> where he remained pri|&s;oner till the year 1645. at which time being excambet after the battell of <HI>Inverlochie,</HI> he was taken pri&s;oner in <HI>Ila</HI> in the year 1647. being then in His Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, and within few days or weeks thereafter, the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> and the &s;aid <HI>George</HI> cau|&s;ed mo&s;t cruelly hang the &s;aid Col. <HI>Mac Gillespy,</HI> at our &s;aid hou&s;e of <HI>Dun&s;tafneich.</HI> And further, the &s;aids <HI>Archibald Mar|que&s;s</HI>
<PB N="28" REF="16">of <HI>Argyle</HI> and <HI>George Campbell</HI> his Sheriff and Ju&s;tice De|puty, or one or other of them upon the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> or one or other of the moneths above written, in the year 1647. or 1648. cau&s;ed cruelly murther and hang <HI>Ronnald Macdon|nald</HI> Son to the &s;aid Col. at <HI>In<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">rary.</HI></P>
<P>And al&s;o the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle</HI> and <HI>George Campbell</HI> his Ju&s;tice and Sheriff-Deputy, mo&s;t treacherou&s;ly, tra&s;terou&s;ly, and perfidiou&s;ly cau&s;ed cruelly murther and hang, in the moneth of <GAP DESC="blank"> or one or other of the moneths above written, in the year of God 1647. <HI>Alexander Maccoll Vick<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">nald</HI> alias <HI>Mackalla&s;ter</HI> in <HI>K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">ichell</HI> of <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">rgy,</HI> notwith&s;tanding of a Capi|tulation granted by the &s;aid <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle</HI> and Lieutenant Generall <HI>Le&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">y,</HI> or one or other of them: Of the which three cruell murders immediately preceding, committed at <HI>Inverary</HI> and <HI>Dun&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">eich</HI> the &s;aid Defendents, or one or other of them, and particularly the &s;aids <HI>Archibald Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Argyle,</HI> and <HI>George Campbell,</HI> his Ju&s;tice and Sheriff-Deputy, were authors, actors, aiders, abettors, a&s;&s;i&s;ters, advi&s;ers, countenancers, and pro|moters, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> art and part.</P>
<P>Of the which trea&s;onable crimes, Murders, Robberies, Op|pre&s;&s;ions, and all other crimes, mi&s;deeds, and malver&s;ations above mentioned, or one or other of them, the forenamed per&s;ons above complained upon, and every one of them, at lea&s;t one or other of them, were Actors, Authors, Abetters, A&s;&s;i&s;ters, Countrivers, Devi&s;ers, Con&s;ulters, Advi&s;ers, or Art and Part. And thereby they and each one of them, at lea&s;t one or other of them, have incurred the re&s;pective pains and puni&s;hments, pre&s;cribed by our &s;aid Laws, and Acts of Parliament, <HI>viz.</HI> the forfeiture of Life, Lands, Dignity, E&s;tates, and Goods, and the benefit thereof to be applyed to our u&s;e, or &s;uch u&s;e as we and our &s;aid E&s;tates of Parliament, or the&s;e impowered by us for that effect &s;hall appoint; at the lea&s;t have incurred &s;uch other cen&s;ure and puni&s;hment, in their Bodies, Names, Fames, E&s;tate, and Goods, as we and our &s;aid E&s;tates of Parliament, or tho&s;e impowered or authorized by us for that effect, &s;hall think fit, to be applyed, as &s;aid is, according to the nature and quality of their &s;everall crimes, mi&s;deeds and malver&s;ations, done and committed by them, which ought and &s;hould be
<PB N="29" REF="16">inflicted upon them with all rigour, in example of others.</P>
<P>Our Will is herefore, and we Charge you that you law|fully Summon, Warne, and Charge, the whole forenamed per&s;ons, Defendents, above named as followeth, <HI>viz.</HI> &s;o many of them as are within this our Realme of <HI>Scotland,</HI> per&s;onally, if they can be apprehended, and failing thereof, at their dwel|ling places, and by open Proclamation at the Market Cro&s;&s;es of the head Borroughs of our Sheriffdomes, or other Jurisdi|ctions within the which they dwell; and &s;o many of them as are without the &s;ame, by open Proclamation at the Market Cro&s;&s;e of our Burgh of <HI>Edinbargh,</HI> peir and &s;hore of <HI>Leith,</HI> upon three&s;core days warning, to appear per&s;onally before us and our E&s;tates of Parliament, or tho&s;e impowered or authorized by us for that effect, at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> or where it &s;hall happen them to be for the time, the <GAP DESC="blank"> day of <GAP DESC="blank"> with continuation of days to an&s;wer at the in&s;tance of our &s;aid Advocat, for our intere&s;t, and at the in&s;tance of the &s;aid Sir <HI>James Lamount,</HI> for him&s;elf, and in name and behalf fore&s;aid for his intere&s;t above written. That is to &s;ay, the &s;aids Defendents, to h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">r and &s;ee it found and declared, verified and proved, in pre&s;ence of our &s;aids E&s;tates of Parliament, or &s;uch as &s;hall be autho|rized by us and them, that the &s;aids Defendents, and every one of them, at lea&s;t one or other of them, have committed, and are guilty of, the crimes of <HI>High Trea&s;on,</HI> and other crimes, <HI>Mur|ders, Robberies, Oppre&s;&s;ions, Mi&s;deeds,</HI> and <HI>Malver&s;ations,</HI> re|&s;pective above &s;pecified, or one or other of them; at lea&s;t they and every one of them, or one or other of them, were Au|thors, Abetters, Contrivers, Devi&s;ers, or Art and Part thereof: and the &s;ame being &s;o verified and proved, to hear and &s;ee it found and declared, by us and our &s;aid E&s;tates of Parliament, or tho&s;e impowered or authorized by us for that effect, that the forenamed per&s;ons, and every one of them, have thereby in|curred the re&s;pective pains and puni&s;hments, pre&s;cribed by our &s;aid Laws and Acts of Parliament; and to hear and &s;ee the &s;entence and doom of forfeiture pronunced again&s;t them for the &s;ame, <HI>viz.</HI> the forfeiture and lo&s;&s;e of <HI>Life, Lands, Dig|nities, E&s;tates</HI> and <HI>Goods,</HI> and the benefit thereof to be apply|ed to our u&s;e, or &s;uch as we or our &s;aid E&s;tates of Parliament,
<PB N="30" REF="17">or tho&s;e authorized by us for that effect &s;hall appoint; at lea&s;t to hear and &s;ee them&s;elves adjudged to be cen&s;ured in their <HI>Per&s;ons, Nature, F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">es, E&s;tates</HI> and <HI>Goods,</HI> as we and out &s;aids E&s;tates of Parliament of tho&s;e impowered or authorized by as for that effect, &s;hall think fit, according to the nature and quality of their &s;everall Crimes, Mi&s;deeds and Malver&s;ations, committed and done by them; and to hear and &s;ee the fore|&s;aid pains and puni&s;hments decerned to be executed, and in|flicted upon them, with all rigour, in example of others, at the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">bitt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ent and determination of us and our &s;aid E&s;tates of Parliament, or tho&s;e impowered and authorized by us for that effect: With certification to the di&s;obeyers, if they be con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">um<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">cious and appear not, we and our &s;aid E&s;tates of Par|liament, or tho&s;e empowered and authorized by us, for that effect, will then in&s;tantly proceed again&s;t the &s;aids Defendants, and every one of them, who does not appear, as <HI>Rebells</HI> and <HI>Traitors,</HI> and guilty of <HI>High Trea&s;on</HI> again&s;t Us and our Crown, and the E&s;tates of this our antient Kingdome; to the forfeiting of their <HI>Lives, Lands, E&s;tates</HI> and <HI>Goods,</HI> to be ap|plyed, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;aid is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> and that their ab&s;ence and contumacy &s;hall be holden, as a manife&s;t probation of their guiltine&s;s, without nece&s;&s;ary of any further probation. But if they appear and remaine pre&s;ent at the whole dyets of the procedure, that then we and our &s;aid E&s;tates of Parliament, or tho&s;e impowered and authorized by us for that effect, will proceed again&s;t the &s;aid Defenders upon lawful probation, to the forfeiting of their &s;aid Lives, Lands, E&s;tates, and Goods, to be applyed as &s;aid is; Or otherwi&s;e by puni&s;hing and cen&s;uring of them, according to the nature and quality of their Crimes, Mi&s;deeds and Malver|&s;ations, in their Per&s;ons, E&s;tates, Goods, Name and Fame, or &s;ome other manner of way, as we and our &s;aid E&s;tates of Parliament, or tho&s;e impowered or authorized by us for that effect, &s;hall think fit and appoint, conforme to our &s;entence, decree and determination to be given and pronounced by us again&s;t the &s;aid Defenders therein, according to ju&s;tice, to be called &s;ummarly without diet, table or continuation of other &s;ummons; becau&s;e the fore&s;aid action is for crimes of <HI>High Trea&s;on,</HI> and other Acts, Mi&s;deeds and Malver&s;ations, com|mitted
<PB N="31" REF="17">and done by the forenamed per&s;ons again&s;t us, and the E&s;tates, of this our antient Kingdome, and the publick good and peace of the &s;ame; at lea&s;t, whereof the forenamed per|&s;ons Defendents were Aiders, Abetters, A&s;&s;i&s;ters, Con&s;ulters, Devi&s;ers, Advi&s;ers, or Art and Part. And therefore merits &s;ummary proce&s;s, conforme to daily practique, u&s;ed in the like ca&s;es, and an deliverance granted by our Committee of E&s;tates theranent. Moreover, that you lawfully Summon, Warne and Charge, to appear before Us, and Our E&s;tates of Parliament, or tho&s;e impowered or authorized by us, for that effect, the &s;aids day and place with continuation of days to bear &s;eill and &s;oothfa&s;t witne&s;&s;ing, in &s;o far as they know, or &s;hall be asked at them, in the &s;aid matter, under all highe&s;t pain and charge that after may follow: As you will an&s;wer to us thereupon. The which to do we commit to you, conjunctly and &s;everally, our full power by the&s;e our letters, delivering them by you duly executed, and indor&s;ed again to the bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the twenty eighth day of <HI>December,</HI> and of our reign the twelfth year, 1660.</DATE></DATELINE>
<DATELINE>Edingburgh <DATE><HI>January</HI> 23. 1661.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Ex deliberatione commi&s;&s;ionis Parlia|menti &s;ic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ub&s;cribitur.</HI> Jo. Cunynghame.</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>Signed by warrant from the Parliament. <HI>Sic &s;ub&s;cribitur,</HI> W. Sharp.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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