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<P>The Compleat HISTORY OF THE WARRS IN SCOTLAND Under the Conduct of the Illu&s;trious and truly-valiant IAMES Marque&s;&s;e OF MONTROSE, General for his Maje&s;tie CHARLS 1&s;t. in that Kingdome, TOGETHER VVith a brief Character of Him, AS ALSO A True Relation of his Forein Negotiations, Land|ing, Defeat, Apprehen&s;ion, Tryal, and deplo|rable Death in the time of CHARLS 2d.</P>
<P>Now newly Corrected and Enlarged by an Eye-witne&s;&s;e of all the fore-mentioned pa&s;&s;ages.</P>
<P>Printed in the Year: 1660.</P>
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<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>portrait of Jaques Marquis deMontrose</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>Iaques Marquis deMontrose, Counte de Kingcairne Seigneir de Graeme, Baron du Mount dieus etc: A Paris</HEAD>
<BYLINE> P: Pontius &s;culpsit</BYLINE>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P><HI>THere are a few things of which I would not have them ignorant who &s;hall chance to peru&s;e this &s;hort Hi&s;tory; whereof &s;ome concern the Lord Marque&s;&s;e of</HI> Montro&s;e, <HI>who&s;e Actions in his Country for two years &s;pace are here publi&s;hed; and others have relation to the Author of this work. And fir&s;t of all I de&s;ire thee to take notice, that</HI> Montro&s;e <HI>is the Chief of that antient and famous Family of the</HI> Grahams, <HI>and is called in old Scoti&s;h</HI> Graham-more, <HI>the great</HI> Gra|ham. <HI>He derives his Pedegree from that famous</HI> Gra|ham, <HI>in the Hi&s;tories of</HI> Scotland, <HI>who was Son-in-law to</HI> Fergus <HI>the &s;econd King of the</HI> Scots; <HI>and was the fir&s;t (that with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of his Father-in law) ca&s;t down that Trench which</HI> Severus <HI>had made, and &s;et out for the utmo&s;t limit of the Roman Empire, between the Scoti&s;h</HI> Frith <HI>and the River of</HI> Cluid, <HI>at &s;uch a place where Great</HI> Brittain <HI>was narrowe&s;t; and by that means cut the power of the</HI> Romans <HI>&s;horter. Whence it happens, that &s;ome evident remains of that Trench retain his name among&s;t the Inhabitants to this day, who call it</HI> Greme&s;|dike. <HI>The &s;ame</HI> Graham, <HI>from whom this noble Family took its ri&s;e, &s;urviving his Father-in-law</HI> Fer|gus,
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<HI>and being a man as able for Civil as Military em|ployment, was made Protector unto his Nephew, and Regent of the Kingdome; and after he had fetched back the Doctors of the Chri&s;tian Faith, who had been bani&s;hed by the late Wars, and &s;ettled as well the Church as State with excellent Laws, freely re&s;igned the Government into the hands of his Nephew when he came to age. He flou|ri&s;hed in the time of the Emperours</HI> Arcadius <HI>and</HI> Hono|rius, <HI>about the year of our Lord CCCC. From whom hath de&s;cended in a fair and &s;traight line, a long and noble row of Po&s;terity, who, imitating the virtue of their An|ce&s;tors, have been famous in the &s;ucceeding generations. Among&s;t whom that valiant</HI> Graham <HI>was eminent, who with the help of</HI> Dumbarre, <HI>&s;o &s;ea&s;onably re&s;cued his Coun|try from the</HI> Danes <HI>who were then Ma&s;ters of</HI> England; <HI>and had frequently, but with little &s;ucce&s;s, invaded</HI> Scotland <HI>with mighty Armies. And in after times that noble</HI> Iohn Graham <HI>came nothing behind his Ance&s;tors in virtue and honour, who after the death of Alexander the Third, in that vacation of the Kingdome, while</HI> Bruce <HI>and</HI> Bailiol <HI>di&s;puted their Titles, was (with that renowned Vice-roy</HI> Wil|liam Walley) <HI>a &s;tout maintainer of his Countries Liberty again&s;t the unju&s;t oppre&s;&s;ion and tyranny of</HI> Edward <HI>King of</HI> England, <HI>and after many heroical exploits, fighting valiantly for his Nation, dyed in the bed of Honour. His Tomb is yet to be &s;een in a Chapel which hath the name of</HI> Falkirk, <HI>from the afore&s;aid</HI> Greme&s;dike <HI>by which it &s;tands. Adjoyning unto which the Marque&s;&s;e of</HI> Montro&s;e <HI>hath large and plentifull po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, de&s;cended by inheritance unto him from that fir&s;t</HI> Graham.</P>
<P><HI>But le&s;t I &s;hould &s;eem to derive the Nobility of &s;o illu|&s;trious
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a Worthies extraction only out of the rubbi&s;h of du&s;ty and ob&s;cure Antiquity; I mu&s;t not omit that his Grand|father, the Earl of</HI> Montro&s;e, <HI>was advanced unto places of the greate&s;t honour in that Kingdome, and di&s;charged them mo&s;t happily. For, being Lord Chancellour of</HI> Scot|land <HI>at &s;uch time as King</HI> James <HI>the Sixth of ble&s;&s;ed me|mory came to the Crown of England, he was created by him Vice-roy of</HI> Scotland, <HI>and enjoyed that highe&s;t Ho|nour which a Subject is capable of, with the love and good affection both of King and People to the day of his, death. And his Father was a man of &s;ingular endowments both of body and mind, and &s;o known to be both in forein Coun|tries and at home: who after he had performed many mo&s;t honourable Emba&s;&s;ages for King</HI> James, <HI>was called to be Lord Pre&s;ident of the Se&s;&s;ion by King</HI> Charles; <HI>and being &s;natched away from his Country and all good men by an un|timely death, was extremely lamented and mi&s;&s;ed. And what we may think or hope of the Grand child, I leave unto thee to judge by what he hath done already, &s;eeing he is yet (now a year and a half after his employment in his Country) &s;carce entred upon the 36. year of his age.</HI></P>
<P><HI>One thing more I mu&s;t add, three Periods already have been very dangerous and almo&s;t fatal to the Kingdome of</HI> Scotland: <HI>the fir&s;t by the oppre&s;&s;ion of the</HI> Romans, <HI>who&s;e yoke our Ance&s;tors ca&s;t off by the Conduct of that fir&s;t</HI> Graham <HI>de&s;cended of the noble</HI> Briti&s;h <HI>Family of the</HI> Ful|gentii. <HI>The &s;econd by the</HI> Danes, <HI>the repul&s;e of whom is owing e&s;pecially to the prowe&s;&s;e of the &s;econd</HI> Graham <HI>afore|&s;aid. And the third by the</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>and</HI> Normans, <HI>whom the third</HI> Graham <HI>twice expelled. out of</HI> Scotland, <HI>and gave them many and great defeats. So that (as it was of old &s;poken of the</HI> Scipioes <HI>in</HI> Africk) <HI>it &s;eems the name of</HI>
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Graham <HI>is &s;omething fatal to their enemies, and lucky to their Country at a dead lift; and that it was not without the special provideuce of God Almighty, that in the&s;e wor&s;t times One &s;tood up who did his be&s;t endeavours to maintain the Kings ju&s;t Rights and Authority, the Peace, Safety, and Liberty of the Subjects, and the Honour and antient &s;plendor of his Hou&s;e. And this is all I thought good at this time to premi&s;e concerning the Lord Marque&s;s of</HI> Montro&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>For the Author of the Book, take it briefly thus. He profe&s;&s;eth him&s;elf to have been but little conver&s;ant in the&s;e &s;ort of &s;tudies, and expecteth neither credit or commen|dation for the &s;trength of his wit (which he acknowledgeth to be little or none) nor reward or profit for his pains; which two things are the chiefe&s;t incentives to mo&s;t to wet their pen; but that he undertook the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e meerly out of a de&s;ire to propagate the truth to other Nations, and to po&s;te|rity. For he &s;aw by late and lamentable experience, in &s;uch a cau&s;e as this, that pro&s;perous Villany can find more Advo|cates than down-ca&s;t Truth and Goodne&s;&s;e. For when the &s;ame Confederates in both Kingdomes had by their own arts (that is, by lying and &s;landering) ruined the Church, to fill their bags with its Revenews &s;o &s;acrilegiou&s;ly purloy|ned, and enrich their po&s;terity with plentifull</HI> Anathemaes <HI>and accur&s;ed things; there wanted no &s;tore of men that ex|tolled them for it to the skies, as men de&s;erving highly from their Country, from the Church it &s;elf, and from all mankind: and reviled with all &s;ort of reproaches and contumelies the mo&s;t religious &s;ervants of God, holy Mar|tyrs and Confe&s;&s;ors, for with&s;tanding them. And there|fore he might well imagine, that the&s;e men, who by the &s;ame devi&s;es laboured to render his Maje&s;ty him&s;elf odi|ous,
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and &s;o to de&s;troy Him, to enjoy his Honours and Re|venues &s;o traiterou&s;ly and perfidiou&s;ly purloyned, would ea&s;ily find men who &s;hould out of the like railing humor be|&s;patter as much as in them lay this mo&s;t excellent man, and all his honourable atchievments; and (as it is &s;aid of wa&s;ps) poy&s;on with their tongues or pens the juice of mo&s;t &s;weet and whole&s;ome flowers, and leave the le&s;&s;e knowing, or le&s;&s;e wary, to &s;uck it up. He was therefore plea&s;ed to of|fer this &s;hort and faithful Narrative, as a &s;ea&s;onable an|tidote again&s;t that evill, to all that loved truth and plain de aling: of which he would needs be &s;o ob&s;tinate a maintain|re, that although he &s;aw well enough how much envy and hatred it would derive upon him&s;elf, he re&s;olved he would neither ba&s;ely flatter any one, nor lap up that truth which they would not like to bear in ob&s;cure and doubtfull. Expre&s;|&s;ions. For he profe&s;&s;es, that as he is a Free-man born and bred, &s;o he will never part with his Freedome till with his life. And although he be ambitious of no other commen|dable quality of a good Hi&s;torian, neither of wit, nor art, nor eloquence, yet he &s;eems to challenge in his own right the ho|nour of &s;incere and exact truth: for the defence and propa|gation whereof he hath &s;et at nought all that was dear in this world, having been thrice plundered of all that he had, thrice impri&s;oned in a na&s;ty and filthy Fail, and now the third time lives in bani&s;hment for the Truths &s;ake. Yet he is merry and chearfull, that being con&s;cious to him&s;elf of no wrong as towards men, he is counted worthy of the Lord to &s;uffer the&s;e things for Truths and Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;ake. And thou (good Reader) make much of him at lea&s;t for his truths &s;ake; excu&s;e him for other things, and Farewell.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>ON THE Death of the Noble and Valiant <HI>Marque&s;s</HI> of <HI>Montro&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
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<L>NOr &s;hall <HI>He</HI> &s;leep; nor can <HI>His</HI> valour lie</L>
<L>Rak'd in <HI>His</HI> a&s;hes to Eternity:</L>
<L><HI>His</HI> glories &s;hall out-blaze each puny plot</L>
<L>Of th' accur&s;t <HI>Rebel,</HI> and the perjur'd <HI>Scot;</HI></L>
<L>That <HI>Slavi&s;h Kirk,</HI> too late, now wi&s;h indeed</L>
<L>Their <HI>guilt</HI> wa&s;h'd off, with their high-&s;welling <HI>Tweed;</HI></L>
<L>Too late alas! <HI>that generous blood</HI> &s;hall be</L>
<L>A <HI>brand</HI> on their de&s;pis'd Po&s;terity.</L>
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<L><HI>Brave Soul!</HI> who&s;e <HI>learn'd &s;word's point</HI> could &s;train</L>
<L><HI>Rare lines upon thy murther'd Soveraign;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy</HI> &s;elf ha&s;t <HI>grav'd</HI> thine <HI>Epitaph,</HI> beyond</L>
<L>Th' impre&s;&s;ions of a <HI>pointed Diamond.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy</HI> prowe&s;s, and <HI>Thy</HI> Loyalty &s;hall burn</L>
<L>In pure bright flames from <HI>Thy</HI> renowned Um,</L>
<L>Clear as the beams of Heav'n: <HI>Thy</HI> cruel Fare,</L>
<L><HI>Scaffold,</HI> and <HI>Gibbet</HI> &s;hall <HI>Thy</HI> Fame dilate;</L>
<L>That when in after ages <HI>Death</HI> &s;hall bid</L>
<L>A man <HI>go home and die upon his Bed:</HI></L>
<L>He &s;hall reply to <HI>Death [I &s;corn't, be gone;</HI></L>
<L><HI>"Meet me at th' Place of Execution;</HI></L>
<L><HI>"Ther's glory in the Scandal of the Cro&s;s,</HI></L>
<L><HI>"Let me be Hang'd; for &s;o fell &s;tout MOMTROSS.</HI></L>
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<SIGNED>T. F</SIGNED>
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<HEAD>The affairs of the King in SCOTLAND, under the Conduct of the mo&s;t Honourable <HI>James,</HI> Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> Earl of <HI>Kin|kardin,</HI> &amp;c. And General Governour for His Maje&s;ty in that Kingdome,</HEAD>
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<HEAD>In the Years 1644, 1645, &amp; 1646.</HEAD>
<P>_SOmetime <HI>James</HI> Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> &s;ided with the Covenanters in <HI>Scotland,</HI> and very forwardly be&s;tow|ed his unhappily happy endeavours in their behoof. They pretended to no|thing then, le&s;&s;e than the pre&s;ervation of Religion, the Honour and Dignity of the King, the Laws of the Land, and the freedome of that antient Realm, &s;o happily, &s;o valiantly defended in time of yore from &s;uch powerfull enemies, as the <HI>Romans, Saxons, Danes, Normans,</HI> by the &s;weat and bloud, with the lives and e&s;tates of their Ance&s;tours. And the tales they made, they never wanted fitting in&s;truments to tell and &s;pread among the people. It was given out, that there was nothing more in the aim of the Court
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of <HI>England,</HI> than that that free people being reduced to a kind of Province, &s;hould be eternally enflaved un|der the power of their old enemies. Yet all this while they engaged them&s;elves by their publique atte&s;tati|ons, and even a &s;olemn Oath, that they would ne|ver go to work by force and armes, nor &s;ollicite the King any other way than by Petition, That he would be plea&s;ed graciou&s;ly to accept the &s;up|plications of his humble&s;t Subjects, and to take order that his deare&s;t Country &s;hould &s;uffer no|thing in matter of Religion or the Liberty of the Subject.</P>
<P>But at la&s;t in the year 1639. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> found out that the&s;e fair tales were coyn'd of purpo&s;e to &s;teal the hearts of the &s;illy and &s;uper&s;titious mul|titude, and to alienate them from the King, as an enemy to Religion and Liberty. For the Co|venanters did not di&s;&s;emble to him, but &s;poke out, that <HI>Scotland</HI> had been too long governed by Kings, nor could it ever be well with them as long as one <HI>Stuart</HI> (that's the &s;irname of the Kings family in <HI>Scotland)</HI> was alive: and in the extirpation of them, they were fir&s;t to &s;trike at the head: &s;o that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> ea&s;ily perceived the Kings Maje&s;ty and Per&s;on was levelled at. Therefore vehemently dete&s;ting &s;o hor|rible a crime, he re&s;olved to de&s;ert the Con&s;pirators &s;ide, to fru&s;trate their coun&s;els, to impoveri&s;h their &s;tore, to weaken their &s;trength, and with all his might to pre&s;erve His Maje&s;ty and His Authority entire and inviolate. But becau&s;e between force and craft the Covenanters had drawn in almo&s;t all the Kingdom
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to their &s;ide, he &s;aw him&s;elf alone too weak to check their power, and therefore thought not good to o|pen him&s;elf too &s;uddainly or ra&s;hly. Among&s;t them he had many friends, men very con&s;iderable, as well in regard of their numerous retinues and clients, as of their wealth and authority: the&s;e he had a mind to draw off from them, and bring them with him to the King; and by this means conceived he &s;hould be able to gather no &s;mall power, which would conduce much both to the Kings &s;afety and his own.</P>
<P>Mean time the Covenanters rai&s;e a &s;trong Army again&s;t the King, and in a &s;olemn Convention at <HI>Duns,</HI> they determine to invade <HI>England: Montro&s;e</HI> was ab&s;ent then. Which re&s;olution of theirs, the chief of the Covenanters had taken up in their cabinet coun&s;els more than &s;ix weeks before; and to that pur|po&s;e had been bu&s;ie in divulging through all Great Britain their Apologetical Pamphlets, whereby they laboured to &s;et a good glo&s;&s;e upon the rea&s;ons of their Expedition. This re&s;olution of theirs, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> be|ing returned, &s;eeing he could not binder, would not &s;eem to di&s;approve: <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> commanded in this Ar|my two thou&s;and foot and five hundred hor&s;e, his friends (who were mo&s;t obliged unto him, and had religiou&s;ly promi&s;ed their be&s;t endeavours in the Kings &s;ervice) had the command of five thou&s;and more. And truly if a great part of them had not been wor&s;e than their words, they had either brought the whole Army along with them to the King, or at lea&s;t had broken the neck of the Covenanters de&s;igns. When the Army came to the river of <HI>Tweed</HI> (which
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is the border of the two Kingdomes) dice were ca&s;t among&s;t the Noblemen and Commanders, and it was <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s chance to pa&s;&s;e fir&s;t over the ri|ver; which he cheerfully performed on his feet, his own foot Souldiers following him, that he might more ea&s;ily conceal his own re&s;olution, and take off all occa&s;ion of &s;u&s;pition. For as well his authority in the Army, as the integrity of his noble &s;pirit began to be looked on with a jealous eye by the guilty|con&s;cienced Rebels, &s;o that they diligently ob&s;erved all his behaviour, words and deeds.</P>
<P>After this, marching over the river of <HI>Tine</HI> four miles above <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> by the treachery of the Engli&s;h Commanders who had retreated to <HI>York</HI> with a po|tent Army of the Kings, the Scots po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them&s;elves of that Town: and thereupon, Commi&s;&s;ioners be|ing appointed on either &s;ide to treat of a Peace, a Truce was pre&s;ently made. In the time of this Truce, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had &s;ent Letters unto the King, profe&s;&s;ing his fidelity, and mo&s;t dutifull, and ready obedience to his Maje&s;ty; Nor did the Letters contain any thing el&s;e. The&s;e being &s;toln away in the night, and cop|pied out by the Kings own Bed-chambermen, men mo&s;t endeared to the King of all the world, were &s;ent back by them to the Covenanters at <HI>Newca&s;tle:</HI> and it was the fa&s;hion with tho&s;e very men to com|municate unto the Covenanters from day to day the Kings mo&s;t &s;ecret coun&s;els, of which they them&s;elves only were either authors or partakers. And &s;ome of the forwarder &s;ort of the Rebels were not a&s;hamed to tax <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> bitterly enough with tho&s;e Letters;
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and although they dur&s;t not make an open quarrel of it, or call him publiquely to account, becau&s;e he was &s;o powerfull and well-beloved in the Army, yet they loaded him with backbitings and &s;landers among the people. For they had obliged unto them&s;elves mo&s;t of the Preachers throughout the Kingdome, who&s;e mercenary tongues they made u&s;e of to wind and turn the minds of the people which way they would. Nor did they promote their Rebellion more effectual|ly any other way, nor do yet, than this, to have tho&s;e doughty Orators in their popular preachments to rail bittorly again&s;t the King and all his Loyal Subjects, as the <HI>enemies of Chri&s;t</HI> (as they love to &s;peak) being them&s;elves the while the very &s;hame and &s;candal of Chri&s;tianity.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> returning into <HI>Scotland,</HI> and thinking of nothing but how to pre&s;erve his Maje&s;ty from that &s;torm of Rebellion hanging over his head, at la&s;t re|&s;olved of this cour&s;e. He joyns many of the prime men for Nobility and Power, in a League with him|&s;elf, in which they vowed to defend the Kings Ma|je&s;ty, and all his royal privileges, and antient and lawful Prerogatives, with the hazard of their lives and e&s;tates, again&s;t all his enemies, as well home-bred, as forein, unto the la&s;t breath in their bodies. And truly it came to that pa&s;&s;e, that there had been an o|pen divi&s;ion in the Army (which was his aim) had not &s;ome for fear, levity, or cowardi&s;e (which are bad keepers of coun&s;el) betrayed the whole bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to the Covenanters. Hence aro&s;e no, &s;mall &s;tirs and brauls, but were pacified again in a while; for nei|ther
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yet dur&s;t they offer any open violence to <HI>Mon|tro&s;e.</HI> But afterward the confederates having given a new oath, made &s;ure the Army at their devotion; and joyning them&s;elves to the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> in a &s;trict Covenant, although they &s;aw them&s;elves &s;ecure enough from the &s;ubtile&s;t de&s;igns of any private man, yet they &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ult how they &s;hould take <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> out of the way, who&s;e heroick &s;pirit, be|ing fixt on high and honourable (how&s;oever difficult) atchievements, they could not endure.</P>
<P>To make their way therefore unto &s;o villanous an act, by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of &s;ome Courtiers whom with gifts and promi&s;es they had corrupted, they under|&s;tood that the King had written Letters to <HI>Mon|tro&s;e,</HI> and that they were quilted in the &s;addle of the bearer, one <HI>Stuart,</HI> belonging to the Earl of <HI>Tra|quair.</HI> The bearer was &s;carce entered the borders of <HI>Scotland,</HI> but they apprehended him, rip his &s;addle, and find the Letters. There was nothing at all written in them, which did not become the be&s;t of Kings to command the be&s;t of Subjects to obey. Neverthe|le&s;&s;e tho&s;e mo&s;t exact crafts-ma&s;ters in the arts of Ly|ing and Slandering, &s;ent about horrible and tragical reports by their apt Mini&s;ters, that at la&s;t all the Kings plots with <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> for the overthrow of Religion, and the ruine of the Kingdome were found out and di&s;covered. Nor yet neither dur&s;t they af|ford him a publique tryal, but on a &s;uddain when he &s;u&s;pected nothing, thru&s;t him (with <HI>Napier</HI> Lord of <HI>Marthi&s;t&s;ten,</HI> and Sir <HI>Sterling Keir</HI> Knight, two both of his neer kindred and intimate familars) into the ca&s;tle of <HI>Edinburgh.</HI></P>
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At length a Pacification being made between the people of both Kingdomes, (between whom there had been no War, only they laid their heads together again&s;t their mo&s;t ju&s;t and gracious King) a Parlia|ment was called at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> where the King in per&s;on was pre&s;ent. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> de&s;ires mo&s;t earne&s;t|ly to be tryed before the King and that &s;olemn A&s;|&s;embly; but to no purpo&s;e, for the Covenanters be|ing con&s;cious enough of his innocency and their own guilt, applyed their &s;pecial endeavours to detain the Gentleman in pri&s;on unheard, untill &s;uch time as the King was got out of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and they had conclu|ded all things with the King in Parliament according to their hearts de&s;ire. And certainly they were much afraid, le&s;t by his wi&s;dome, and courage, and the e|&s;teem he was in, as well with his Peers of the No|bility as with the people, he &s;hould have fetch'd off the greate&s;t number of either &s;ort to his own re&s;o|lution for the pre&s;ervation of his Maje&s;ties Power and Authority. At la&s;t the King returning into <HI>Eng|land, Montro&s;e</HI> and his friends are &s;et at liberty: and becau&s;e it was ordered in Parliament that he &s;hould not come into conference with the King, he &s;at &s;till a while at his own hou&s;e. This was towards the end of the year 1641.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. II.</HEAD>
<P>IN the year 1642. the Covenanters of both King|domes began to unmask them&s;elves, and let us &s;ee more plainly what they meant to do. The Re|bels
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in <HI>England</HI> began to vex the King with unju&s;t, unrea&s;onable, un&s;ea&s;onable Petitions and Complaints, be&s;patter him with malicious &s;landers, prophane his &s;acred Name in &s;currilous Songs and Ballads, vi|lifie him in infamous Libels, Pa&s;quils, or Pamphlets, rai&s;e Tumults, arm great numbers of the &s;cum and ra&s;cally &s;ort of the people, and engage them upon the Kings palace; in a word, threaten all ex|tremity to him and his: whom although he might have ju&s;tly puni&s;hed him&s;elf, yet he cho&s;e rather to refer them to the Parliament, that he might the more oblige it unto him&s;elf. But it was to no end for &s;o gracious a King to gratifie that and many things more, to &s;o ungracious, &s;o ingrateful men, who were the very Authors and Abettors of the&s;e villanies. For he had already granted more and greater Graces to his Subjects, for the ca&s;e of their grievances (which they pretended) and the &s;ecurity of their per&s;ons and e&s;tates, than all his Ance&s;tors the Kings of <HI>England</HI> together, from <HI>William</HI> the Conqueror downward. Therefore at la&s;t, that he might withdraw him&s;elf and his family from pre&s;ent danger, he is forced &s;ore again&s;t his mind to depart <HI>London:</HI> He &s;ends the Queen out of the way into <HI>Holland</HI> for the &s;afety of her life, and betakes him&s;elf to <HI>York.</HI> The States of Parliament (as they call them&s;elves) forthwith, and before the King, take up arms, and divert tho&s;e very Forces which the King had appointed for <HI>Ire|land,</HI> which were then in a readine&s;&s;e, and who&s;e Officers had been of the Parliaments chu&s;ing, ho|ping by them to overthrow the King him&s;elf.</P>
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The Rebels in <HI>Scotland,</HI> who knew well enough the King would have &s;trength &s;ufficient to deal with the Engli&s;h Rebels, re&s;olved upon no terms to be wanting to their confederates in &s;o apparent danger as they were. And although our mo&s;t gracious King had given them &s;atisfaction (as much as ever they could de&s;ire) in that Parliament at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> afore|&s;aid, which al&s;o they have recorded among their publique Acts, neverthele&s;&s;e they provide them&s;elves for a march into <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Now that they might the better &s;ecure their af|fairs at home, they labour tooth and nail to draw <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> (of whom almo&s;t only they were afraid) again to their &s;ide. They offer him of their own accord the office of Lieutenant General in the Ar|my, and what ever el&s;e he could de&s;ire, and they be|&s;tow. He &s;eeing a mighty &s;torm hovering over the Kings head, that he might give him an account of it, whereby it might be timely prevented, undertakes a journey into <HI>England,</HI> taking the Lord <HI>Ogilby</HI> into his coun&s;el and company.</P>
<P>At <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> he receives news that the Queen being newly returned out of <HI>Holland</HI> was landed at <HI>Birdlington</HI> in <HI>Yorke&s;hire:</HI> thither he makes ha&s;te, and relates unto the Queen all things in order. She, having had a rough pa&s;&s;age, and being not well re|covered from the di&s;tempers at Sea, told him &s;hee would advi&s;e further with him about that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e after they came to <HI>York.</HI> Thither being come, the Queen of her own accord calls for <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> he o|pens the whole &s;tory over again, and makes it ap|pear,
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that there was no le&s;&s;e danger from the Scotch than from the Engli&s;h Covenanters, if they were not timely &s;uppre&s;&s;ed. And being asked his opinion what was be&s;t to be done, an&s;wered, <HI>To re&s;i&s;t force with force;</HI> told her, <HI>the King wanted not Subjects in</HI> Scot|land, <HI>faithful men, and &s;tout; nor did they want hearts, or wealth, or power to oppo&s;e again&s;t the Covenanters if they dur&s;t enterpri&s;e any thing again&s;t the King: all that they wanted was the Kings Commi&s;&s;ion, with|out which they dur&s;t doe nothing, with which any thing; and all the danger that was, was in delay: That the Covenanters, when they had once got their Army on foot would be able to grind any one to pieces that &s;hould offer to &s;tir; therefore the beginnings of &s;o great an evill were to be with&s;tood, and the cockatrice brui&s;ed in the egg; that Phy&s;ick being too late that comes when the di&s;|ea&s;e hath over-ran the whole body.</HI></P>
<P>Whole&s;ome coun&s;el it was, and &s;ea&s;onable, which doubtle&s;&s;e the mo&s;t prudent Queen had approved of. But while things were going on in &s;o good a po&s;ture, all things were qua&s;h'd by the comming of the Duke <HI>Hamilton</HI> out of <HI>Scotland,</HI> upon pretence of ki&s;&s;ing the Queens hand, and gratulating her happy return, but in very deed that he might overthrow <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> his coun&s;els; for he had po&s;ted thither with the knowledge and con&s;ent of the Covenanters. Nor did he him&s;elf di&s;&s;emble that there was &s;ome danger from the Scoti&s;h Covenanters, but he laboured to extenuate it; and condemned the Coun&s;ell of <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> as ra&s;h, unadvi&s;ed, and un&s;ea&s;onable. <HI>That &s;tout and Warlike Nation was not to be reduced with force and
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arms, but with gentlene&s;&s;e and courte&s;ies: Warr, e&s;|pecially Civil Warr, &s;hould be the la&s;t remedy, and u&s;ed many times to be repented of even by the Conque|rours. The fortune of Warr was uncertain; if the King &s;hould get the be&s;t, it would be but a &s;orry tri|umph he could enjoy over his own Subjects; but if he had the wor&s;t on't, he mu&s;t expect what his &s;oul</HI> (good man) <HI>abhorred to &s;peak. All means were to be try|ed to pre&s;erve peace with that Nation, nor were things yet come to that pa&s;&s;e, that the King &s;hould de&s;pair of amity and reconciliation with them: He would be ready to take the whole bu&s;ine&s;&s;e upon him&s;elf, if the King plea&s;ed to commit it to his pains and tru&s;t, and to authori&s;e him &s;u&s;&s;iciently thereunto.</HI> Montro&s;e re|plyed, <HI>Nothing would come of that but the delay of time, untill the Traitors having rai&s;ed an Army &s;hould prevent the King of any means to deliver him&s;elf and his party from their tyranny.</HI> The &s;ad event pro|ved all this to be too true; but in this debate <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> was fain to &s;uffer him&s;elf to be overborn, being not &s;o great a Courtier as the other; nor were tho&s;e vertues which the world now admires, di&s;covered then unto the Queen. <HI>Hamilton</HI> returning into <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;eemed to be as Active for the King as was po&s;&s;ible.</P>
<P>The Covenanters mean while by their own au|thority (contrary to the known Laws of the King|dome) &s;ummon a Parliament at <HI>Edinburgh;</HI> which all under&s;tanding men that wi&s;hed well unto the King fore&s;aw would be of very dangerous con&s;e|quence to his affairs, and therefore abhorred it &s;o much, that they intended not to honour it with their
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pre&s;ence. But <HI>Hamilton</HI> interpo&s;ing the name and authority of the King, invited them by his Letters that they would not fail to be all there; and that they &s;hould not doubt but they would be able to out-vote the Covenanters, if at this time they were not wanting to the Kings cau&s;e. And if it &s;hould hap|pen otherwi&s;e, he would be ready with his friends, to prote&s;t again&s;t the Covenanters, and immediately to leave them. Abundance of the Nobility incited by the name of the King, and tho&s;e hopes, were pre|&s;ent at that Parliament, only <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> and a few of his adherents &s;taid away. And with <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> too the Duke had dealt by his friends, that as he loved and honoured the King he would joyn him&s;elf unto them. But he (who had rea&s;on to &s;u&s;pect all motions that came that way) an&s;wered, That he was ready to grapple with any difficulty, e&s;pecially under his command who had &s;o great an honour as to be the Kings &s;upreme Commi&s;&s;ioner; only on this condi|tion, that the Duke &s;hould engage his honour, that if they could not bring up that Parliament to righ|teous things, he would endeavour to inforce them by the dint of the &s;word. He an&s;wered, He would pro|te&s;t, he would not fight. Which pa&s;&s;age con&s;idered, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> to pre&s;erve his integrity, expecting the i&s;|&s;ue, betook him&s;elf to his own home.</P>
<P>In that Parliament, the Covenanters out-voted the Loyal party by &s;eventy voices or thereabouts, trampled upon the Royal authority, arrogated un|to them&s;elves the power of calling of Parliaments, pre&s;&s;ing Souldiers, &s;ending Emba&s;&s;adours, and other
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things hitherto unattempted, without the Kings knowledge or con&s;ent. And to make up the mea&s;ure of their pre&s;umption and trea&s;on, ordain that a pow|erfull Army &s;hall be rai&s;ed again&s;t the King, and in the aid of their confederates of <HI>England.</HI> To which purpo&s;e they tax the people with new Sub&s;idies and Levies, much heavier, than if all the Impo&s;itions which upon never &s;o much nece&s;&s;ity for two thou|&s;and years &s;pace by one hundred and nine Kings have been charged upon them, were put together.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> therefore, who &s;aw the King was like to be ruined by his own authority, and &s;aw too that he was too weak to oppo&s;e him&s;elf both again&s;t the &s;trength of the Covenanters and the Kings abu|&s;ed Commi&s;&s;ion, in a melancholy mood made as if he took no notice of any thing. And the Covenan|ters, &s;uppo&s;ing he had received &s;ome di&s;ta&s;te from the King, by rea&s;on of the affront he received at <HI>York,</HI> and <HI>Hamiltons</HI> over-powring him, they &s;et upon him yet again, privately and by friends, to &s;ee if by intreaty or intere&s;t they could draw him to their &s;ide; offering him Authority and wealth, even the greate&s;t honour Civil and Military. Which of|fers he did not &s;eem much to &s;light, that by that means he might have an ea&s;ier way to dive into their coun&s;els. The Covenanters, that this growing friend|&s;hip might be the better cemented and &s;anctified (God ble&s;&s;e us) &s;end unto him that great Apo&s;tle of their Covenant, <HI>Alexander Hender&s;on,</HI> who &s;hould give him full &s;atisfaction in all his &s;cruples. <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> heartily de&s;ired to &s;peak with that fellow, out
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of whom he doubted not to pump all the &s;ecrets of the Covenanters: and le&s;t a private meeting with &s;uch a man &s;hould give a &s;candal to the Kings friends, he took the Lords <HI>Napier</HI> and <HI>Ogilby,</HI> and Sir <HI>Ster|ling Keer</HI> to be witne&s;&s;es of the di&s;cour&s;e, and on the bank of the river <HI>Forth,</HI> not far from <HI>Sterling,</HI> they met.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> made as though he accounted him&s;elf very happy, and much honoured in the vi&s;it of &s;o worthy a man, upon who&s;e faith, hone&s;ty, and judge|ment, he &s;o much relyed. Told him, <HI>That to give the ill opinion of his Enemies leave to breath it &s;elf after &s;ome late mi&s;takes, he was content to &s;tay at home; that he knew nothing of what was done in Parliament; that he was almo&s;t at a lo&s;&s;e how to behave him&s;elf in that tickli&s;h condition the Commonwealth &s;tood; and therefore be&s;eeched him for old acquaintance &s;ake to let him freely knew what they intended. Hender&s;on</HI> taking it for granted by the&s;e expre&s;&s;ions, that he was wheeling about towards the Covenanters, that he might the more oblige the Marque&s;&s;e unto him, an|&s;wered him flatly and without more adoe, <HI>That it was re&s;olved to &s;end as &s;trong an Army as they could rai&s;e, in aid of their brethren of</HI> England <HI>again&s;t the Kings forces; that the Covenanters of both Kingdomes had unanimou&s;ly agreed upon this, either to dye or bring the King to their lure; that nothing could fall out more happily, than that he &s;hould renew his friend&s;hip with his Peers of the Nobility, and the re&s;t of the Kingdome; that &s;o doing he would give great content to all men, be&s;ides the honour and profit that would redound to
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him&s;elf; that by his example others (if others there were that idolized the empty &s;hadow of the Kings name) would joyn them&s;elves unto the Covenanters; and for his own part he would give mo&s;t hearty thanks unto his Lord God, that he had vouch&s;afed to make u&s;e of him as the Mini&s;ter and ever Mediatour of &s;o great a work;</HI> and at la&s;t entreated him <HI>to &s;peak out his mind, and commit all &s;uch things to his care and indu&s;try as he &s;hould de&s;ire from the Parliament, either in relation to his honour or profit; a&s;&s;uring him he &s;hould be &s;atisfied to his hearts de&s;ire.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> having gotten out the knowledge of tho&s;e things which he eagerly &s;ought for, now be|thought him&s;elf how he &s;hould keep <HI>Hender&s;on</HI> and his party in &s;u&s;pence a while, that they &s;hould not get within him. For what an&s;wer could he give them? If he &s;hould profe&s;&s;e him&s;elf to be a|gain&s;t their cour&s;es, that would doe the King no good, and might bring a great deal of danger upon him&s;elf: and on the other &s;ide, to put them in grea|ter hopes of him, by promi&s;ing tho&s;e things he ne|ver meant to perform, he &s;corned, as being a &s;tain unto his honour. Therefore he takes this cour&s;e; there was pre&s;ent at that conference with <HI>Hender&s;on</HI> one Sir <HI>Iames Rollock,</HI> Chief of a very antient and flouri&s;hing family: his former wife had been <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> his Si&s;ter, after who&s;e death he married the Si|&s;ter of the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Argyle,</HI> the ring-leader of the Covenanters in <HI>Scotland:</HI> thus being allied unto them both, he &s;eemed to be a very fit mediator of friend&s;hip between them. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> askes him whe|ther
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tho&s;e things which had pa&s;&s;ed between them proceeded from the direction of the Parliament, or out of their own good wills? He an&s;wered, He con|ceived that Ma&s;ter <HI>Hender&s;on</HI> had received Commi&s;|&s;ion from the Parliament to that purpo&s;e; But <HI>Hen|der&s;on</HI> &s;aid no; but he made no que&s;tion but the Par|liament would make good any thing that he promi|&s;ed. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> told them, he could re&s;olve upon nothing except he had the Publique faith to build upon, e&s;pecially the me&s;&s;engers di&s;agreeing between them&s;elves. Whereupon (as the fa&s;hion is on &s;uch occa&s;ions) one of them layes the blame upon the o|ther, when both of them ought rather to have con|demned their own carele&s;ne&s;&s;e and negligence. The conference being thus ended, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> having ob|tained his ends, and they being no wi&s;er than they came thither, every own went his own way.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. III</HEAD>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> being returned from this Conference, re|lated all things as they had pa&s;&s;ed unto &s;ome &s;elect friends whom he could &s;afely tru&s;t; and with|all entreated them, that (for the greater confirmati|on of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e) they would all go along with him to the King; that his Maje&s;ty receiving a full account of all things, might lend his ear to &s;ound coun&s;ell, and (yet if it was po&s;&s;ible) provide a remedy again&s;t &s;o threatning evills. Mo&s;t of them were of opinion, <HI>That the King and his authority were ut|terly ruined and irrecoverable; that it was a thing
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pa&s;&s;ing the power of man to reduce that Kingdom to o|bediance that for their parts they had acquitted them|&s;elves before God, and the World, and their own con&s;cien|ces; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> with the di&s;grace of their per&s;ons, the lo&s;&s;e of their e&s;tates, and the hazard of their lives they had continued in their allegiance; hereafter they would be only brokers on, and Petitioners unto Almighty God for better times. Montro&s;e</HI> who could by no means be removed from &s;o hone&s;t a re&s;olution, communica|ting his coun&s;ell to the Lord <HI>Ogilby,</HI> (whom of all men he e&s;pecially loved) goes &s;traight to <HI>Oxford.</HI> The King was ab&s;ent thence, being gone to the &s;iege of <HI>Gloce&s;ter,</HI> he imparts unto the Queen what de&s;igns the Scoti&s;h Covenanters had again&s;t his Maje&s;ty; but he had as good have &s;aid nothing, for &s;he had determined not to believe a word, by rea&s;on of the far greater confidence &s;he repo&s;ed in <HI>Hamilton</HI> and his brother.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> &s;eeing no good was to be done with the Queen, goes to <HI>Gloce&s;ter,</HI> and declares all things to the King him&s;elf: How <HI>there was a powerfull Ar|my to be rai&s;ed in</HI> Scotland, <HI>and a day appointed on which it &s;hould be brought into</HI> England; <HI>how their coun&s;els were manife&s;tly known unto him, and how to fetch him over to their &s;ide, they had offered him very honourable commands in the Army; but that he hear|tily dete&s;ting &s;o horrid an employment had &s;led to his Maje&s;ty; that he having notice thereof, if he were not able to provide &s;o timely and powerful a remedy as could be wi&s;hed, at lea&s;t might ca&s;t &s;ome blocks and rubs in their way, untill &s;uch time as he had &s;etled his
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affairs in</HI> England; <HI>that the Traitours of either King|dome might be ea&s;ily dealt withall by them&s;elves, but if they came once to joyn their forces, they would be hardly &s;uppre&s;t; that there were very many in</HI> Scot|land <HI>who would &s;acrifice them&s;elves and all that they had for their deare&s;t King, who&s;e good will would be of no u&s;e unto his Maje&s;ty after the Covenanters had rai&s;ed their Army, but de&s;tructive unto them&s;elves; that the haughty &s;pirits of the Traitors were to be &s;neap't in time, and their &s;trength broken before it grew too big, le&s;t the beginnings being neglected, repentance &s;hould prove the only oppo&s;ition that could be made af|terward.</HI> The&s;e things, and to this effect, did <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> continually pre&s;&s;e unto the King, but in vain, for he had not only the &s;trong and deeply-rooted con|fidence his Maje&s;ty had of the <HI>Hamiltons</HI> to &s;truggle with, but the devices of a &s;et of de&s;perate Courtiers be&s;ide, who daily buzzed in the Kings eares <HI>Montro|&s;e's</HI> youth, his ra&s;hne&s;&s;e, his ambition, the envy and hatred he bare unto the <HI>Hamiltons,</HI> and what not; and on the other &s;ide, the <HI>Hamiltons</HI> fidelity, their hone&s;ty, their di&s;cretion, their power. Thus <HI>Mon|ro&s;e</HI> nothing prevails, and the King returns to his winter-quarters at <HI>Oxford.</HI> And although his Maje|&s;ty &s;aw very well (reports comming thick and three|fold of the Scoti&s;h Army) that all was true that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had told him, yet the mo&s;t religious King determined upon no terms to give any occa&s;ion of quarrell to the Scots till fir&s;t they entered <HI>England;</HI> re&s;olving, that he for his part would perfectly ob&s;erve the articles of Pacification he had made with them,
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which if they &s;hould violate, he doubted not but they &s;hould highly an&s;wer it both to God and him. While the&s;e things were di&s;cu&s;&s;ed at <HI>Oxford,</HI> the Covenan|ters in <HI>Scotland</HI> bring their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e about according to their de&s;ires, no one oppo&s;ing them. They rai&s;e as big an Army as they can, which con&s;i&s;ted of eighteen thou&s;and Foot and two thou&s;and Hor&s;e; and at la&s;t when they had marched unto the very borders, the <HI>Hamiltons</HI> were not a&s;hamed to give the King no|tice by Letters of the approach of that formidable Army; making this their excu&s;e, that according to their engagement, they had prevented an inva&s;ion the &s;ummer before, but now that winter was come on, they were able to keep them out no longer, but they would come in immediately with a powerfull Ar|my. The King, when he &s;aw him&s;elf thus gro&s;ly abu&s;ed, &s;ends for <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> &s;hews him the <HI>Hamiltons</HI> Let|ters, and at la&s;t (when it was even too late) askes his advice what was be&s;t to be done.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> tells him, that his Maje&s;try might now &s;ee, that what he had before given him notice of, had neither proceeded from ambition, nor malice, nor any &s;elf-ends, but from his bounden duty and allegiance; that for above a twelve-month he had been continu|ally pre&s;&s;ing both their Maje&s;ties to prevent this; that he accounted him&s;elf very unhappy, that all that while &s;o faithfull a &s;ervant could not be credited by &s;o good a Ma&s;ter; that the ca&s;e &s;eemed now de&s;perate, but if the King had a mind he might tru&s;t them a|gain who by pretence of his authority had bound &s;ome of his friends hands that they could not a&s;&s;i&s;t
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him, and drawn in others, who intended nothing le&s;&s;e, under colour of Loyalty to fight again&s;t him, and given up unto the Rebells, now that they had got an Army, all that they had, without &s;triking a &s;troke. The King complaining that he was mo&s;t abomina|bly betrayed by them with whom he had entru&s;ted his Crown, his Honour, his Secrets, his Life, ear|ne&s;tly demanded his advice. He repeating again the lamentablene&s;&s;e of the condition in which things now &s;tood, neverthele&s;&s;e offered, that if his Maje&s;ty &s;o thought good, he would either lo&s;e his life, which if he did, he would be &s;ure it &s;hould &s;eem rather &s;old then lo&s;t, or el&s;e (which he did only not de&s;|pair) he would reduce his Country-men, and bring the Rebels there into &s;ubjection. The King being no little plea&s;ed with the confidence, undauntedne&s;&s;e, and gallantry of the man, that he might more ad|vi&s;edly contrive his de&s;ign, de&s;ired him to take two or three dayes to con&s;ider of it, and &s;o di&s;mi&s;t him.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> returning at the time appointed, &s;hews his Maje&s;ty how de&s;perate an adventure he was un|dertaking; that all <HI>Scotland</HI> was under the Cove|nanters command, that they had Garri&s;oned all places of &s;trength, that they were plentifully provi|ded both of men, and mony, and armes, and ammu|nition, and victuall, and all things nece&s;&s;ary for a Warr; that the Engli&s;h Rebells were joyned with them in a mo&s;t &s;trict Covenant to defend one ano|ther again&s;t all the world. But for his own part he had nothing to &s;et up with, neither men nor arms, or pay; yet he would not di&s;tru&s;t Gods A&s;&s;i&s;tance
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in a righteous cau&s;e, and if the King would lay his Commands upon him, he would undertake to do his be&s;t. The King &s;hould be in no wor&s;e ca&s;e than he was, He him&s;elf would take what malice, envy, or danger &s;hould fail, upon him&s;elf, &s;o that his Maje&s;ty were graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to conde&s;cend to a few rea|&s;onable reque&s;ts. And fir&s;t, that the bu&s;ine&s;s might go on more &s;ucce&s;&s;ively, it &s;eemed to him very ne|ce&s;&s;ary, that the King &s;hould &s;end &s;ome Souldiers out of <HI>Ireland</HI> into the We&s;t of <HI>Scotland.</HI> Next, that he &s;hould give order to the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> (who was the General of the Kings forces towards <HI>Scotland)</HI> that he &s;hould a&s;&s;i&s;t <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> with a par|ty of hor&s;e to enter the South of <HI>Scotland,</HI> by which means he might convey him&s;elf into the heart of the Kingdome. Then, that he &s;hould deal with the King of <HI>Denmark</HI> for &s;ome troops of <HI>German</HI> hor&s;e. And la&s;tly, that his Maje&s;ty &s;hould take &s;ome cour&s;e to procure and tran&s;port &s;ome arms out of &s;ome fo|rein country into <HI>Scotland:</HI> nothing needed more but humane indu&s;try, the &s;ucce&s;s was Gods part, and to be referred to his providence. The King commending his coun&s;el, and giving him thanks that he appre|hended &s;ome life in the bu&s;ine&s;s, encourageth him to fit him&s;elf cheerfully for &s;o great a work, and wi|&s;hed him to leave the care of tho&s;e things he had re|que&s;ted, unto him.</P>
<P>And truly, for the matter of aid out of <HI>Ireland,</HI> the King &s;ends for the Earl of <HI>Antrim,</HI> and acquaints him with <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s de&s;ign. This <HI>Antrim</HI> is of Sco|ti&s;h extraction, de&s;cended of the noble and antient
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Family of the <HI>Mac-Donalds,</HI> a man of great e&s;tate and power in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and allyed to the prime No|bility of <HI>England,</HI> by matching with the Dutche&s;s of <HI>Buckingham.</HI> He being driven out of his own country lived at <HI>Oxford,</HI> and cheerfu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ly undertook the negotiation with the Iri&s;h upon him&s;elf, and en|gaged him&s;elf al&s;o voluntarily unto <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> that he would be in <HI>Argyle</HI> (a part of <HI>Scotland</HI> borde|ring upon <HI>Ireland)</HI> with ten thou&s;and men by the fir&s;t of <HI>April</HI> 1644. this pa&s;&s;ed in <HI>December</HI> 1643. And as for forein aids and arms, the King &s;ent Sir <HI>Iohn Cockeram</HI> his Emba&s;&s;adour about it with his Commi&s;&s;ion and In&s;tructions. And directions unto the Marque&s;s of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> were carried by &s;ome of <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s own company. Who receiving the Kings Letters and Commi&s;&s;ion to be Governour of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and General of the Army there, made him&s;elf ready for his journey. In the interim news came on a &s;uddain that Duke <HI>Hamilton</HI> with his brother the Earl of <HI>Lannerick</HI> were po&s;ting up to <HI>Oxford.</HI> They, that they might make their acce&s;s ea&s;ier to the King, who had hitherto given ear unto their coun&s;els, and to continue or recover the good opinion the King had of them, gave out all the way as they came, e&s;peci|ally unto Governours of Shires and Towns, and Commanders of the Army, that they were bani&s;hed their Country, that they had been plundered of their e&s;tates by the Covenanters for their loyalty to the King, and that for &s;afety of their lives, with which they had hardly e&s;caped, they fled to <HI>Oxford.</HI> But <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> and tho&s;e of his mind &s;aw plainly that
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the&s;e were but tales of their own making, of purpo&s;e to wipe off the &s;u&s;pition of this new guilt; and that by this means, they in confidence of that e&s;teem they had lately with the King, and of a &s;trong faction they drove at Court, doubted not but they &s;hould &s;tand as fair in his opinion as ever, if they were but once admitted into the Kings pre&s;ence; and that the only bu&s;ine&s;s they had thither, was by defeating <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> again, clearly to extingui&s;h that little &s;park of Loyalty that was not yet quite out in <HI>Scotland.</HI> And <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> delivered him&s;elf freely, that for his part he would never &s;tand by to be witne&s;s of &s;o great an over&s;ight: and therefore humbly be&s;ought the King, that he would give him leave to &s;eek his for|tune in &s;ome forein Country, if the&s;e men that had deceived him &s;o oft &s;hould be received again into favour, not that he de&s;ired any &s;everity &s;hould be u&s;ed again&s;t them, only he wi&s;hed the King might have a care that they &s;hould do him no more harm. The King was drawn with much adoe that they &s;hould be forbidden the Court, yet for all that he &s;uffered the Earl of <HI>Lannerick</HI> to live in the City. But he (by who&s;e in&s;tigations I cannot tell) betakes him&s;elf from <HI>Oxford</HI> to <HI>London</HI> to the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> and not long after to the Scotch Army, which had now entered <HI>England,</HI> and never &s;ince hath failed to do them the be&s;t &s;ervice he could. The e&s;cape of his brother &s;o much moved the King, that he &s;aw it high time to &s;ecure the Duke him&s;elf.</P>
<P>There were &s;everal Scots in the Kings Court and
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Army who were &s;u&s;pected (and perhaps not with|out rea&s;on) to favour the Covenanters too much, and to give intelligence unto them of the Kings Coun&s;els. <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> that he might put the&s;e to the touch, took this cour&s;e; He got a prote&s;tation to be drawn up by the Kings authority, unto which all Scots who would have the reputation of hone&s;t men were to &s;et their hands: Wherein <HI>they profe&s;&s;ed them&s;elves heartily to dete&s;t the cour&s;es of the Covenanters, con|demned e&s;pecially the bringing in of an Army into</HI> England <HI>again&s;t the King and the Laws of the Land as an Act of high trea&s;on, promi&s;ed and vowed to acquit them&s;elves of that &s;candal, and to the utmo&s;t of their power, with the hazard of their lives and for|tunes, to oppo&s;e tho&s;e that were guilty of that crime.</HI> This Prote&s;tation all men of honour and hone&s;ty readily took; but there were two, in whom the King tru&s;ted mo&s;t of all Scotch-men next to the <HI>Ha|miltons,</HI> to wit, the Earl of <HI>Trequaire,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>William Murray</HI> of the Bed-chamber, who were difficulty brought unto it at la&s;t, with much reluctan|cy and fear of being di&s;covered traitours: yet even they engaged them&s;elves by a &s;olemn Oath at a cer|tain day to be aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting unto <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> in <HI>Scotland;</HI> which Oath of theirs afterward they mo&s;t unworthily violated.</P>
<P>This being done; and <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> on his journey from <HI>Oxford</HI> towards <HI>Scotland,</HI> tho&s;e that were the <HI>Hamiltons</HI> creatures; and other fal&s;e-hearted Cour|tiers began to bla&s;t the Honour of <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> to call him a vain and ambitious man, who had attempted
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an impo&s;&s;ible thing: to extol above mea&s;ure the power of the Covenanters, and that they might de|terr every one from engaging him&s;elf in &s;o noble an exploit, gave out every where mo&s;t maliciou&s;ly, that no good was ever to be expected from <HI>Montro&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>He being little troubled with the calumnies of un|worthy men, came forward to <HI>York,</HI> and &s;o to <HI>Dur|ham:</HI> where he &s;ees that the Kings In&s;tructions be &s;ent to the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> and the next day they met and conferred. <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> di&s;cours'd of nothing but the di&s;tre&s;&s;es and nece&s;&s;ities of his Army; how the Rebel Scots breaking in in the mid&s;t of winter, had &s;poyled his Recruits, and that now in farr grea|ter numbers than he, they quartered within five miles of him; that he could not po&s;&s;ibly &s;pare any Hor&s;e without a manife&s;t hazard to the whole Atmy. <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> urged on the other &s;ide, that nothing could doe <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> more &s;ervice than to let him have a party of Hor&s;e (in which he was very &s;trong) with him into <HI>Scotland,</HI> that &s;o he might either divert, or at lea&s;t divide the enemy, and by kindling a fire in their own hou&s;es, fetch them home again to defend them&s;elves. <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> courteou&s;ly replyed, that a&s;&s;oon as he had wound him&s;elf out of that pre&s;ent danger, he would not be wanting in any &s;ervice to <HI>Montro&s;e:</HI> which promi&s;e, there is no doubt but a per&s;on of &s;o much Honour and Loyaltie would mo&s;t &s;urely have performed, had he continued any while in the Com|mand of tho&s;e parts. In the mean time, all that he could do for the pre&s;ent was; to afford him about one hundred Hor&s;e, but lean ones, and ill accourred,
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(which was not the Generals fault, but &s;ome mens private &s;pleen) with two bra&s;&s;e Field-pieces.</P>
<P>Moreover he &s;ent his Orders unto the Kings Of|ficers and Commanders in <HI>Cumberland</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmer|land,</HI> that they &s;hould give <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> all the &s;uccour and a&s;&s;i&s;tance they could make for his journey into <HI>Scotland. Montro&s;e</HI> going towards <HI>Carli&s;le</HI> was ac|cordingly met by the <HI>Cumberland</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI> men, con&s;i&s;ting of eight hundred Foot, and three troops of Hor&s;e; who according to the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Newca&s;tles</HI> Command, were to wait upon him into <HI>Scotland. Montro&s;e</HI> him&s;elf brought with him two hundred Hor&s;e, mo&s;t of them Noblemen and Gentlemen, and &s;uch as had been Captains either in <HI>Germany, France,</HI> or <HI>England.</HI> With which &s;mall forces (not over-tru&s;ty neither) he entered <HI>Scotland</HI> on the 13 of <HI>April;</HI> for he made the more ha&s;te, le&s;t he &s;hould have been ab&s;ent at the time appointed by the Earl of <HI>Antrim.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>CHAP. IV.</HEAD>
<P><HI>MOntro&s;e</HI> having entred <HI>Scotland,</HI> had come to the river of <HI>Anan,</HI> when upon a mutiny a|mong the Engli&s;h, occa&s;ioned by <HI>Richard Grahams</HI> Souldiers, almo&s;t all of them flie their Colours, and in all ha&s;te run back to <HI>England.</HI> Notwith&s;tanding he with his own men came to <HI>Dunfri&s;e,</HI> and took the Town into protection upon &s;urrender: and there he &s;taid a while, that he might be ready to entertain <HI>Antrim</HI> and his <HI>Iri&s;h;</HI> but the day appointed being
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already pa&s;s'd, there came not &s;o much as a Me&s;&s;en|ger from them, nor the lea&s;t report of them into <HI>Scotland.</HI> And the Covenanters gathering them&s;elves together on every &s;ide, there was no &s;taying there any longer for <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> without being &s;upri&s;ed; there|fore he returns &s;afe to <HI>Carli&s;le</HI> with his men. And &s;ee|ing he could neither procure any aid from the Eng|li&s;h, nor expected any Foreiners &s;uddenly, nor had &s;carce any hopes of good from <HI>Ireland,</HI> and found that the Earl of <HI>Calendar</HI> had rai&s;ed a new Army in <HI>Scotland</HI> to &s;econd General <HI>Le&s;ley,</HI> who had by this time together with the Engli&s;h Covenanters be&s;ieged <HI>York,</HI> he re&s;olved, le&s;t he &s;hould &s;pend his time idlely, to engage him&s;elf among the Kings Forces in <HI>Nor|thumberland</HI> and the Bi&s;hoprick; nor was that re|&s;olution either unprofitable to them, or di&s;honourable to him&s;elf.</P>
<P>For having ferreted a Garri&s;on of the Covnanters out of the town of <HI>Morpet,</HI> he took in the Ca&s;tle, permitted all the pillage unto the Engli&s;h, and taking an Oath of them that had held it, that they &s;hould never more fight again&s;t the King, he &s;ent them away without any greater puni&s;hment. He took a Fort at the mouth of the river of <HI>Tine</HI> from the Covenan|ters, (who had not long before turned out an Engli&s;h Garri&s;on from thence) and di&s;mi&s;t the pri&s;oners upon the &s;ame terms with tho&s;e of <HI>Morpet.</HI> He plen|tifully victualled <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> with corn brought from <HI>Alnwick,</HI> and other places thereabouts. When this was done, he was &s;ent for by Letters from Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> Count Palatine of <HI>Rhine,</HI> who was then com|ming
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to rai&s;e the &s;iege of <HI>York.</HI> And although he made all the ha&s;te he could, yet he met not the Prince till he was upon his retreat the day after that unfor|tunate battell. And truly the Prince freely offered <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> a thou&s;and Hor&s;e to take along with him into <HI>Scotland,</HI> but &s;ome that were too powerfull with him, dealt &s;o with the good Prince, that the next day after that promi&s;e was made, there was not one hor&s;e to be had.</P>
<P>All things thus failing <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> from which he expected any a&s;&s;i&s;tance, yet his &s;pirit never &s;ailed him: therefore returning to <HI>Carli&s;le</HI> with tho&s;e few but faithfull and gallant men that &s;tuck clo&s;e to him, he &s;ends away the Lord <HI>Ogilby</HI> and Sir <HI>William Rollock</HI> into the heart of <HI>Scotland</HI> in mean di&s;gui&s;e, le&s;t they &s;hould be di&s;covered by the enemy. Within a fort|night they returned, and brought word that all things in <HI>Scotland</HI> were de&s;perate; all Pa&s;&s;es, Ca&s;tles, Towns, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with Garri&s;ons of the Covenanters, nor could they find any one &s;o hardy as to dare to &s;peak reverently or affectionately of the King. Mo&s;t of tho&s;e who had adhered to <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> all this while, being ca&s;t down with this &s;ad news, bethought them&s;elves of bending their cour&s;es &s;ome other way, e&s;pecially when they were tampered with by that hone&s;t man the Earl of <HI>Traquair</HI> to de&s;ert the &s;ervice: who for|getting all his vowes and imprecations he had made before the King, undertook in the name of the Co|venanters, not only for Indemnity to all that &s;hould fall off unto them, but rewardes and preferments too; as if he had been all this while an Agent for the Re|bels,
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and not for the King, as he pretended. And yet this man was greater in the Kings favour, and more confided in, than any one except the <HI>Hamiltons.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> calling his friends to coun&s;ell, de&s;ires them to deliver their opinions what they conceived was fitte&s;t to be done in this &s;ad face of things. Some advi&s;e him to repair to the King at <HI>Oxford,</HI> and certifie him that his Scotch Affairs were pa&s;t reco|very; that <HI>Antrim</HI> came not with his Iri&s;h for|ces, nor was there any appearance of them; that lit|tle or no a&s;&s;i&s;tance had been obtained from the Eng|li&s;h; and as for Armes or aid from Forein parts, he had not &s;o much as heard a word of them; &s;o that it was none of his fault that his &s;ervice had no bet|ter &s;ucce&s;&s;e. Others were of opinion, that it was bet|ter for him to excu&s;e him&s;elf by Letters unto the King, and to &s;end up his Commi&s;&s;ion along with them, and that he him&s;elf &s;hould &s;tep a while a&s;ide into &s;ome other Countrey, till &s;uch time as it &s;hould plea&s;e God to &s;end better opportunities. But all a|greed in this, that nothing more was to be attempted or thought of in <HI>Scotland.</HI> But he him&s;elf only en|tertained farr other thoughts in his high and un|daunted &s;pirit: He conceived him&s;elf bound never to for&s;ake his deare&s;t Lord the King though in extre|me&s;t hazards, and that it was an unworthine&s;&s;e to de&s;pair of &s;o good a cau&s;e; and if he &s;hould attempt &s;ome greater matter than came within the reach or apprehen&s;ion of common men, he conjectured it might prove much to his own Honour, and &s;ome|thing perhaps to the Kings good too. For as it was
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dubious whether it might plea&s;e God in his mercy to look upon the King with a more favourable eye, and to turn his adver&s;ity into pro&s;perity; &s;o it was mo&s;t certain, that if he &s;hould not be able to goe thorough with it, but peri&s;h in the enterpri&s;e, he &s;hould die with Honour, and his fall &s;hould be much la|mented. So re&s;olved, and commending him&s;elf and his &s;ucce&s;&s;e to the di&s;po&s;al and protection of Almigh|ty God, he performed &s;uch Adventures without men, without money, without arms, as were not only to the a&s;toni&s;hment of us that were pre&s;ent, and were eye and ear witne&s;&s;es of them, but al&s;o the example and envy both of all great Commanders hereafter. What tho&s;e were we &s;hall declare by and by.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> delivers tho&s;e few Gentlemen that had been con&s;tant unto him to the Lord <HI>Ogilby,</HI> to be conducted unto the King, (for as he had commu|nicated all his former de&s;igns unto him, &s;o he did this al&s;o) and conjureth him withall to deal earne&s;tly with his Maje&s;ty for ha&s;tening of &s;ome aid, if not of Men yet of Arms at lea&s;t, from beyond Seas; So he accompanying them two dayes on their journey, and leaving with them his Hor&s;es, his Servants, and his Carriages, conveyed him&s;elf privily away from them, and with what &s;peed he could, came back to <HI>Carli&s;le.</HI> The company &s;u&s;pecting nothing of his de|parture, becau&s;e <HI>Ogilby</HI> and other his deare&s;t friends were &s;till with them, marched on &s;traight towards <HI>Oxford;</HI> but thither they never reached, for mo&s;t of them (of whom were the Lord <HI>Ogilby</HI> him&s;elf, Sir <HI>Iohn Innes,</HI> and Colonel <HI>Henry Graham</HI> his bro|ther,
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a mo&s;t hopefull young Gentleman, <HI>Iames, Iohn,</HI> and <HI>Alexander Ogilbyes, Patrick Melvin,</HI> and o|ther gallant men, and highly e&s;teemed by <HI>Montro&s;e)</HI> fell into the enemies hands, and endured a long and na&s;ty impri&s;onment, untill they were &s;et at liberty by <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> him&s;elf the next year, after which they did him mo&s;t faithful &s;ervice. He returning to <HI>Car|li&s;le</HI> imparts his de&s;ign to the Earl of <HI>Aboine,</HI> le&s;t he &s;hould have any occa&s;ion to cavil afterwards, that a matter of that con&s;equence was done without his knowledge or advice, who might have proved able to give a great &s;troke to the advancing of it. But when he found &s;omething too much &s;icklene&s;&s;e in that young man, he was not over earne&s;t to engage him to adventure with him in &s;o perillous a journey; and therefore ea&s;ily per&s;waded him to re&s;ide at <HI>Carli&s;le</HI> till he heard further news out of <HI>Scotland,</HI> by which time it might be more &s;ea&s;onable for him to return into his Country.</P>
<P>And now being prepared for his journey, he &s;e|lected only two men for his companions and guides; one was Sir <HI>William Rollock,</HI> a Gentleman of mo&s;t known hone&s;ty, and an able man both of his head and hands. The other was one <HI>Sibbald,</HI> whom for the report of his valour and gallantry, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> did equally love and honour: but the latter afterwards de&s;erted him in his greate&s;t need. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> pa&s;&s;ing as <HI>Sibbalds</HI> man, and being di&s;guis'd in the habit of a Groom, rode along upon a lean jade, and led a|nother hor&s;e in his hand. And &s;o he came to the bor|ders, where he found all ordinary and &s;afe pa&s;&s;es guar|ded
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by the enemy. There was a chance happened which put them in a greater fright than all that, and it was this; not farr from the borders they hit by chance upon a &s;ervant of Sir <HI>Richard Grahams,</HI> who taking them for Covenanters, and to be of <HI>Le&s;ley</HI>'s Army who u&s;ed to range about tho&s;e parts, told them freely and confidently that his Ma&s;ter had made his peace with the Covenanters, and had undertaken (as if he were their Centinel) to di&s;cover unto them all &s;uch as came that way whom he &s;u&s;pected to favour the King. An unworthy act it was of a &s;hamele&s;&s;e vil|lain, of whom not only <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had a very high e&s;teem, but his Maje&s;ty al&s;o, who&s;e mi&s;taken boun|ty had rai&s;ed him out of the dunghill (to &s;ay no wor&s;e) unto the honour of Knighthood, and an e&s;tate even to the envy of his neighbours.</P>
<P>Having not pa&s;&s;ed much further, they met a Soul|dier, a Scotchman but one that had &s;erved under the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> who taking no notice of the other two Gentlemen, came to <HI>Mon|tro&s;e,</HI> and &s;aluted him by his name: <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> giving no heed unto him, as if he were no &s;uch man, the too officious &s;ouldier would not be &s;o put off, but with a voyce and countenance full of humility and duty be|gan to cry out, <HI>What? Doe not I know my Lord Mar|que&s;&s;e of</HI> Montro&s;e <HI>well enough? Goe your way, and God be with you whither&s;oever you goe.</HI> When he &s;aw it was in vain to conceal him&s;elf from the man, he gave him a few crowns, and &s;ent him away, nor did he di&s;cover him afterwards. But <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> concei|ving him&s;elf much concerned in the&s;e &s;peeches,
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thought it the be&s;t cour&s;e to make all the ha&s;te he could, and to run fa&s;ter than the news of him could flie: nor did he &s;pare any hor&s;e-fle&s;h, or &s;carce draw a bridle till after four dayes travell he came to the hou&s;e of his co&s;en <HI>Patrick Graham</HI> of <HI>Innisbrake,</HI> not far from the river of <HI>Tay,</HI> on that &s;ide of the Sherif|dome of <HI>Perth</HI> which is next the Mountains. This <HI>Pa|trick</HI> being de&s;cended of the Noble family of <HI>Mon|tro&s;e,</HI> and not unworthy of &s;o noble parentage, was de&s;ervedly in very great e&s;teem with the Marque&s;&s;e; who &s;ojourned be&s;ides him for a little while in the day time in a mean cottage, and pa&s;&s;ed the nights a|lone in the neighbouring mountains. For hee had &s;ent away his companions unto his friends, that they might inform them&s;elves exactly of the whole &s;tate of the Kingdome, and bring him word in what condi|tion they found it.</P>
<P>After a few dayes, having examined the matter with all the indu&s;try they could u&s;e, they return with nothing but &s;ad and tragical news: <HI>That all the Subjects that were hone&s;t and loyal, lay under the ty|ranny of the Rebells; and of &s;uch as had been &s;o har|dy as to endeavour to recover their freedome with their &s;words, &s;ome were put to death, others fined, others be|ing yet in pri&s;on, dayly expected the wor&s;t their enemies could doe: That the Marque&s;&s;e of</HI> Huntley <HI>had laid down the arms which too unadvi&s;edly he had taken up, at the fir&s;t &s;ummons of the enemy; that indeed he had had no contemptible number of men, but the men wanted a good Commander; that his friends and de|pendents were expo&s;ed to the implacable malice and
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revenge of their enemies, and that he him&s;elf had fled to the utmo&s;t corner of the Iland, and &s;culked upon another mans land. Montro&s;e</HI> was very much trou|bled (as he had rea&s;on) at this news, e&s;pecially at <HI>Huntley</HI>'s errour, and the ruine of the <HI>Gordons,</HI> who were men of &s;ingular loyalty and valour, and expert &s;ouldiers, therefore much lamented by him, that for no fault of theirs, they &s;hould come to &s;o great mis|fortune. And now he began to ca&s;t about how hee might draw them to him&s;elf, that they might try a|gain the fortune of War under another General in the behalf of his mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. V.</HEAD>
<P>IN the mean time there were &s;ome uncertain re|ports &s;pread abroad among the Shepheards who kept their flocks in the Mountains, of certain I|ri&s;h who were landed in the North of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and canged about the Mountains. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> conceived it not unlikely that the&s;e might be part of tho&s;e Auxiliaries which the Earl of <HI>Antrim</HI> had promi|&s;ed &s;hould have been there four months before: but he had no certainty what they were, till at la&s;t &s;ome Letters came from &s;ome intimate friends of his, High|landers, and from <HI>Alexander Mac-donald,</HI> a Scotch|man al&s;o, to whom <HI>Antrim</HI> had given the Com|mand in chief of tho&s;e few Iri&s;h, directed to <HI>Mon|tro&s;e.</HI> The&s;e they had taken care to &s;end to a certain friend of his, a &s;ure man, that he might convey them if it were po&s;&s;ible to <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> where <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was
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believed &s;till to remain. He, who never dreamed of <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s return into <HI>Scotland,</HI> though he &s;ojourned by him, by chance acquainted Ma&s;ter <HI>Patrick Gra|ham</HI> with the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, he promi&s;eth to take charge of them, and undertaketh to &s;ee them &s;afely dilive|red to <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> though be made a journey as far as <HI>Carli&s;le</HI> a purpo&s;e; and &s;o by the good providence of God they came into his hands much &s;ooner than could be expected. And he writes back, as from <HI>Car|li&s;le,</HI> that they &s;hould be of good comfort, for they &s;hould not &s;tay long either for &s;ufficient a&s;&s;i&s;tance to joyn with them, or a General to command them; and withall requires them forthwith to come down into <HI>Athole.</HI></P>
<P>The people of <HI>Athole</HI> were engaged unto <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> by many obligations, men whom he valued mo&s;t of all the Highlanders, both for their Loyalty, Piety, Con&s;tancy, and &s;ingular Valour; and truly they made good his opinion of them to the very end of the War. The Iri&s;h, with a very few Highlanders who were almo&s;t all of <HI>Badenoth,</HI> receiving <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI>'s commands, marched &s;traight into <HI>Athole.</HI> He, who was not above twenty miles from them, comes to them immediately, and ere ever they looked for him, on foot, in the habit of a Mountainer, without any man along with him &s;ave the above&s;aid <HI>Patrick Graham</HI> his guide and companion. And indeed the Iri&s;h would hardly be per&s;waded that that was <HI>Mon|tro&s;e;</HI> but when they &s;aw him &s;o &s;alured, and only not adored like &s;ome great Deity, by the men of <HI>A|thole</HI> and others that knew him well, they were over
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ver joyed: for his comming to them was in exceeding good time, they being then in extream danger to be cut off. For <HI>Argyle</HI> was in their rear with a &s;trong and well ordered Army, the champain Country were ready in Arms before them, expecting if they &s;hould make down into the Plain, to trample them to dirt with their hor&s;es hoofs; the ve&s;&s;els that brought them over were burnt by <HI>Argyle,</HI> that they might have no way to retreat; nor would the <HI>Arthole</HI> men or any other that favoured the King venture any hazard with them, becau&s;e they were &s;trangers, and came not by the Kings open and known Authority; nor had they any Commander of ancient Nobility, a thing by the Highlanders much &s;et by, who would not fight under the command of <HI>Alexander Mac-donald,</HI> a man of no account with them; la&s;tly their number was incon&s;iderable, being not above a eleven hundred, though ten thou&s;and had been promi&s;ed.</P>
<P>The next day, the <HI>Arthole</HI> men to the number of eight hundred put them&s;elves in arms, and offered their &s;ervice mo&s;t cheerfully to <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> who having got this handfull of men, and earne&s;tly commending his mo&s;t righteous Cau&s;e to the protection of Al|mighty God, now de&s;ired nothing more than to be among the thicke&s;t of the enemy. Impatient there|fore of further delay, that very day he marches through the Plains of <HI>Athole</HI> towards <HI>Ern;</HI> as well to make way for his friends and a&s;&s;i&s;tants ea&s;ier acce&s;&s;e unto him (if any &s;hould ri&s;e upon the news) as that he might fall upon and amaze the Rebels, unlook'd for, before they &s;hould be able to joyn together who lay
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at di&s;tance. Therefore pa&s;&s;ing by <HI>Weem,</HI> a ca&s;tle of the <HI>Menizies,</HI> &s;eeing they handled a Trumpetter whom he &s;ent friendly unto them unworthily, and fell hot|ly upon the rear of his Army, he wa&s;tes their fields, and cau&s;es all their hou&s;es and corn to be fired; this was at the very fir&s;t on&s;et of the War, to &s;trike ter|rour into the enemy. The &s;ame night he pa&s;&s;ed over <HI>Tay,</HI> the greate&s;t river in <HI>Scotland,</HI> with part of his Forces; the re&s;t follow him very early the next day. When they were ready to march on, he gave <HI>Patrick Graham</HI> (of whom I &s;hall have often to &s;peak, and never without honour) at their earne&s;t reque&s;t the Command of the <HI>Athole</HI> men, and &s;ent him with the nimble&s;t of them he could pick out among&s;t them to &s;cout before. He brings word he &s;aw &s;ome Soul|diers drawn up on the top of an hill at <HI>Buckinch:</HI> to|wards them <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> makes &s;traight. The&s;e pro|ved to be commanded by the Lord <HI>Kilpont</HI> &s;on to the Earl of <HI>Taith,</HI> a man of antient Nobility, and de&s;cended of the <HI>Grahams;</HI> and Sir <HI>Iohn Drummond,</HI> Son to the Earl of <HI>Perth,</HI> a kin&s;man al&s;o of <HI>Mon|tro&s;e;</HI> who were both of them &s;ummoned by the Covenanters to joyn again&s;t the Iri&s;h as the Com|mon enemy, and had with them five hundred Foot and no more; nor had they heard any certainty at all of <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s being in tho&s;e parts. He re&s;olveth with all &s;peed to &s;urpri&s;e them, and either to win them to his &s;ide, or to cru&s;h them to pieces. But they as &s;oon as they heard that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was General of tho&s;e Forces, &s;end unto him &s;ome of their chiefe&s;t friends to under&s;tand from him what he intended to
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doe. He tells them he had the Kings Authority for what he did, and was re&s;olved to a&s;&s;ert that Autho|rity to the utmo&s;t of his power, again&s;t a mo&s;t horrid Rebellion, conjuring them by all the obligations that were between them, that they would not think much to doe their be&s;t endeavours for the be&s;t of Kings. VVhich as it was much becomming their high birth, and would be very acceptable &s;ervice to the King, &s;o it would be beneficial unto them for the pre&s;ent, and much to their honour with po&s;terity and &s;tranger, if they of all others &s;hould be the fir&s;t that put to their helping hands to hold up a tottering Crown. They mo&s;t readily without any delay came in unto him, for both of them, though underhand, favoured the King exceedingly.</P>
<P>From them <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> under&s;tood that the Co|venanters were thick in arms at a Rendevouz at <HI>Perth</HI> (the &s;econd City to <HI>Edinburgh)</HI> and there wai|ted for their enemies falling down from <HI>Athole.</HI> He knowing al&s;o that <HI>Argyle</HI> with his Army was upon his back, le&s;t he &s;hould be hemm'd in on both &s;ides, determins to goe forward to <HI>Perth,</HI> that there he might either force the enemy to fight, or reduce the Town to the Kings obedience. Marching therefore three miles from <HI>Buckinch,</HI> and allowing the Soul|diers but a &s;hort time of refre&s;hment, at the break of day he draws out his men. Nor was he above three miles more from the City, when the enemy was in view in a large and open Plain (called <HI>Tipper|more)</HI> providing to fight. They were commanded by the Lord <HI>Elchoe,</HI> one that was taken for no great
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&s;ouldier: there were with him the Earl of <HI>Tullibar|din,</HI> and the Lord <HI>Drummond,</HI> but this latter (as was conceived) again&s;t his will, for he and his fathers whole family favoured the King in their hearts: Knights he had with him good &s;tore, among whom Sir <HI>James Scot</HI> (who heretofore had done good &s;er|vice under the State of <HI>Venice)</HI> was the mo&s;t noted &s;ouldier. They had &s;ix thou&s;and Foot and &s;even hundred Hor&s;e, and in confidence of their numbers, they had even devoured their enemies before they &s;aw them. It was on Sunday the fir&s;t of <HI>September,</HI> and it was given in charge to their Mini&s;ters, that in &s;et &s;peeches they &s;hould encourage the people to fight, not forgetting to mind them of their mo&s;t ho|ly Covenant for&s;ooth. And to give them their due, they plyed their lungs &s;toutly in the performance of that work; they mo&s;t freely promi&s;ed them in the name of Almighty God an ea&s;ie and unbloudy vi|ctory; my, there was one <HI>Frederick Carmichael,</HI> one very much cryed up for learning and holine&s;&s;e by the &s;illy people, who was not afraid to deliver this pa&s;|&s;age in his Sermon, <HI>If ever God &s;pake word of truth out of my mouth, I promi&s;e you in his name a&s;&s;ured victory this day.</HI></P>
<P>Gods &s;ervice being thus finely performed as they thought, they put their men in <HI>Battalia. Elchoe</HI> him|&s;elf commanded the right flank, Sir <HI>James Scot</HI> the left, and the Earl of <HI>Tullibardin</HI> the battel. To the right and left flanks were added wings of hor&s;e, with which they made no doubt on &s;o fair a Plain to hem in the enemy. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> perceiving the great
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body of the enemy, and e&s;pecially their &s;trength in Hor&s;e, (for he had not &s;o much as one Hor&s;e-man, nor more than three lean hor&s;es) and being carefull (as it concerned him) le&s;t being incompa&s;&s;ed with &s;o great a number, they &s;hould fall upon him in the Front, Rear, and Flank, he cau&s;ed his Army to be drawn out to as open order as could be po&s;&s;ible, and makes his files only three deep. He commands the Ranks all to di&s;charge at once, tho&s;e in the fir&s;t Rank kneeling, in the &s;econd &s;tooping, and in the hindmo&s;t, where he placed the talle&s;t men, upright: he chargeth them al&s;o to have a care of mi&s;-pending their pow|der, of which they had &s;o &s;mall &s;tore, and that they &s;hould not &s;o much as make a &s;hot till they came to the very teeth of their enemies; and a&s;&s;oon as they had di&s;charged their muskets once a piece, immedi|diately to break in upon the enemy with their &s;words and musket ends; which if they did, he was very confident the enemy would never endure the charge. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> undertakes the Command of the right Flank over again&s;t Sir <HI>James Scot,</HI> appoints the left to the Lord <HI>Kilpont,</HI> and the main Battel to <HI>Mac-Donald</HI> with his Iri&s;h: which was very providently ordered, le&s;t the Iri&s;h who were neither u&s;ed to fight with long Pikes, nor were furni&s;hed with &s;words, if they had been placed on either flank, &s;hould have been expo&s;ed to the fury of the Scotch-Hor&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had &s;ent unto the Commanders of the enemy, <HI>Drummond</HI> Son and Heir to the Lord <HI>Ma|derty,</HI> a noble Gentleman, and accompli&s;hed with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 line">, <HI>That</HI>
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Montro&s;e, <HI>as well as the Kings Maje&s;ty from whom he had received his Commi&s;&s;ion, was mo&s;t lender of &s;hedding his Countreys blood, and had nothing more in his devotions, than that his victories might be writ|ten without a red Letter. And &s;uch a victory they might obtain as well as he, if they &s;hould plea&s;e but to have the honour to conquer them&s;elves, and before a &s;troke were &s;truck to return unto their Allegiance. That for his part he was covetous of no mans wealth, ambitious of no mans honour, envious of no mans pre|ferment, thir&s;ty, after no mans blood; all that he de&s;i|red was, that in the name of God they would at length give ear to &s;ound coun&s;ell, and &s;ubmit them&s;elves and what belonged unto them unto the grace and protecti|on of &s;o good a King: who as he had hitherto conde|&s;cended unto all things (either for matter of Religion or any thing el&s;e) which they thought good to ask, though to the exceeding great prejudice of his Prerogatives; &s;o &s;till they might find him like an indulgent Father ready to embrace his penitent children in his arms, although he had been provoked with unspeakable in|juries. But if they &s;hould continue &s;till ob&s;tinate in their Rebellion, he called God to witne&s;&s;e, that it was their own stubborne&s;&s;e that forced him to the pre&s;ent encounter.</HI> The Commanders of the enemies an&s;we|red nothing at all to all this, but again&s;t the Law of Nations &s;ent the Me&s;&s;enger (who out of meer love to his Countrey had undertaken the employment) pri&s;oner with a company of rude Souldiers unto <HI>Perth,</HI> vowing a&s;&s;oon as they had got the victory, to cut off his head. But God was more mercifull to
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him, and provided otherwi&s;e than they intended, for the &s;afety of that gallant man.</P>
<P>They were come within musket &s;hot, when the enemies under the Command of the Lord <HI>Drum|mand</HI> &s;ent out a forlorne hope to provoke <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> to a light skirmi&s;h: he &s;ends a few to meet them, who at fir&s;t on&s;et di&s;order and rout them, &s;ending them back to their main body in no &s;mall fright. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> thought now was his opportunity, and that nothing could conduce more either to the encou|ragement of his own &s;ouldiers, or the terrour of the e|nemy, than immediatly to fall upon them as they were di&s;ordred and a&s;toni&s;hed with that fre&s;h blow, nor would he give them time to rally or recover courage: therefore &s;etting up a great &s;hout he lets loo&s;e his whole Army upon them. The enemy fir&s;t at di&s;tance di&s;charge their Ordnance, which made more noi&s;e than they did harm, afterwards marching forward, their Hor&s;e labour to break in upon <HI>Montro&s;es</HI> Soul|diers; tho&s;e, when their powder was &s;pent, and ma|ny of them had neither Pikes nor &s;carce Swords, they &s;toutly entertain with &s;uch weapons as the place would afford, good &s;tones; of which they poured in &s;uch numbers among&s;t them, with &s;o great&s;trength and courage, that they forced them to retreat, and to trouble them no more. For the Iri&s;h and Highlanders &s;triving bravely whether &s;hould outvie the other in valour, bore up &s;o eagerly when they gave ground, that at la&s;t they betook them&s;elves to the nimble|ne&s;&s;e of their Hor&s;es heels. There was &s;omething more to do a little while longer in the right Flank.
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Sir <HI>Iames Scot</HI> di&s;puted &s;ome time for the higher ground, but <HI>Montro&s;es</HI> men being &s;tronger bodied, and e&s;pecially &s;wifter footmen, obtained the Hill; from thence the <HI>Athole</HI> men ru&s;hed down with their drawn &s;words upon the enemy, and making little account of the mu&s;quetiers, who &s;ent their bullets a|mong&s;t them as thick as hail, clo&s;ing with them (as they lik'd be&s;t to fight) they &s;la&s;h'd and beat them down. At la&s;t the enemy not able to abide their fu|ry, fairly ran away. Mo&s;t of the Hor&s;e made &s;o good &s;peed as to &s;ave them&s;elves; but there was a great &s;laughter of the Foot, whom they pur&s;ued for &s;ix or &s;eaven miles. There were conceived to be two thou|&s;and of the Covenanters &s;lain, and more were taken pri&s;oners: of whom &s;ome taking a Military Oath, took up arms again with the Conquerour; but per|fidiou&s;ly, for almo&s;t all for&s;ook him afterwards. The re&s;t taking a Solemn Prote&s;tation that they would never after bear arms again&s;t the King, he &s;et at liberty. He took in <HI>Perth</HI> the &s;ame day, without doing the lea&s;t harm unto the City, although mo&s;t of the Citizens had fought again&s;t him in this bat|tell; thinking by &s;o great clemency to turn the hearts of the people towards their King, which was the only end to which he directed all his defigns.</P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>CHAP. VI.</HEAD>
<P>HE &s;taid three dayes at <HI>Perth,</HI> for there he ex|ected many in tho&s;e parts to come in with their friends and clients armed, who upon the noi&s;e of the
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late victory profe&s;&s;ed them&s;elves mo&s;t faithfull to the King; but none came but the Earl of <HI>Kinowl</HI> with a few gentlemen of <HI>Gowry,</HI> nor did they con|tinue very con&s;tant unto him neither. And by this time <HI>Argyle</HI> was at haud with a great Army of Foot of his own, and &s;upplies of Hor&s;e were joyned with him out of the South parts; therefore <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> pa&s;&s;ing over the <HI>Tay</HI> took up his Quarters in the field (for other quarters he &s;eldome had) near <HI>Cou|per</HI> a little village in <HI>Angus,</HI> where a famous Mona|&s;tery once &s;tood, but now lies on the ground. Here a brave young gentleman Sir <HI>Thomas Ogilby</HI> Son to the Earl of <HI>Airley,</HI> with others of the Gentry of <HI>Angus,</HI> met him, and readily offered him their &s;er|vice; whom he curteou&s;ly entertained, and &s;ent them a way with thanks, they pretending they only went to fit them&s;elves for a march, neverthele&s;&s;e few of them returned be&s;ides the <HI>Ogilbies.</HI></P>
<P>Next morning by break of-day before the <HI>Revel|lier</HI> was beat, there was a great tumult in the Camp, the Souldiers ran to their armes, and &s;ell to be wild and raging; <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> gue&s;&s;ing that it was &s;ome falling out between the Highlanders and the Iri&s;h, thru&s;t him&s;elf among&s;t the thicke&s;t of them: there he finds a horrible murther newly committed, for the noble Lord <HI>Kilpont</HI> lay there ba&s;ely &s;lain. The murtherer was a retainer of his own, one <HI>Stu|art,</HI> whom he had treated with much friend&s;hip and familiarity, in &s;omuch that that &s;ame night they lay both in a bed. It is reported that the ba&s;e &s;lave bad a plot to di&s;patch <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> and in regard of the
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great power he had with <HI>Kilpontin,</HI> he conceived he might draw him in to be acce&s;&s;ary to the villany, therefore taking him a&s;ide into a private place, he had di&s;covered unto him his intentions; which the Nobleman highly dete&s;ted, as was meet; whereupon the murtherer fearing he would di&s;cover him, a&s;&s;aul|ted him unawares, and &s;tabbed him with many wounds, who little &s;u&s;pected any harm from his friend and creature. The treacherous a&s;&s;a&s;&s;ine by kil|ling a Centinel e&s;caped, none being able to pur&s;ue him, it being &s;o dark that they could &s;carce &s;ee the ends of their Pikes. Some &s;ay the traitor was hired by the Covenanters to do this, others only that he was promi&s;ed a reward if he did it. How&s;oever it was, this is mo&s;t certain, that he is very high in their favour unto this very day, and that <HI>Argyle</HI> imme|diately advanced him (though he was no &s;ouldier) to great commands in his Army. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was very much troubled with the lo&s;&s;e of this Nobleman, his dear friend, and one that had de&s;erved very well both from the King and him&s;elf, a man famous for Arts and arms, and hone&s;ty; being a good Philo&s;opher, a good Divine, a good Lawyer, a good Souldier, a good Subject, and a good man: And embracing the breath|le&s;&s;e body again and again with &s;ighes and teares, he delivers it to his &s;orrowfull friends and &s;ervants to be carried to his parents to receive its funeral Ob|&s;equies as became the &s;plendor of that honourable Family.</P>
<P>With the re&s;t of his Forces <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> marcheth to <HI>Dundee:</HI> the Town being proud of the number of
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its inhabitants, and having a Garri&s;on out of <HI>Eife</HI> be|&s;ide, refu&s;ed to &s;ubmit. And he, thinking it no wi&s;|dome to hazard the honour he had gotten by his late victory upon the doubtful &s;ucce&s;&s;e of a &s;iege, turns away toward <HI>Esk;</HI> for he hoped that many of his friends and kindred, being men of greate&s;t note in tho&s;e parts, and who u&s;ed to talk as highly what they would do for the King as any others, would be rea|dy to joyn with him. But they having news of his approach withdrew them&s;elves: only the Lord <HI>Ogil|by</HI> Earl of <HI>Airley,</HI> a man of three&s;core years old, (with his two Sons, Sir <HI>Thomas,</HI> and Sir <HI>David,</HI> and &s;ome of his friends and clients, men of experienced re&s;olutions) joyned him&s;elf unto him: and with ad|mirable con&s;tancy he went along with him through all fortunes unto the very end of the War; being in that almo&s;t univer&s;al defection, the other honour and ornament of the Nobility of <HI>Scotland</HI> be&s;ides <HI>Montro&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>While <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was hereabouts, he receives in|telligence, that &s;ome Commi&s;&s;ioners from the Cove|nanters (of whom the Lord <HI>Burghly</HI> was the princi|pal) lay at <HI>Aberdene</HI> with an Army, and laboured to a&s;&s;ure unto them&s;elves the Northern parts, upon which <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> e&s;pecially relyed, either by fair means or foul. He determines to fight the&s;e im|mediately before <HI>Argyle</HI> could come up to them, therefore with long marches he hies thither: and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing him&s;elf of the bridge upon the river of <HI>Dee,</HI> and drawing near the City, he found the enemy drawn up clo&s;e be&s;ide it. <HI>Burghley</HI> commanded two
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thou&s;and Foot, and five hundred Hor&s;e, whom he pla|ced in wings; and having cho&s;en his ground, and planted his great Guns before his men, he expected battel. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had fifteen hundred Foot (for the Lord <HI>Kilponts</HI> &s;ouldiers were gone to convey their Lords dead body to his parents, and mo&s;t of the <HI>Athole-</HI>men after the victory of <HI>Perth</HI> were gone home, from whence they were not farr, laden with &s;poil) and ju&s;t four and forty Hor&s;e, of whom he made two divi&s;ions, and mixing among&s;t them the be&s;t fire-men and Archers that he had (who in nimble|ne&s;&s;e and &s;wiftne&s;&s;e of body were almo&s;t as good as Hor&s;emen) placed them on either wing, to prevent the falling of the enimies hor&s;e upon his rear; which they performed mo&s;t gallantly beyond the opinion or perhaps the belief of many. He gave the com|mand of the right flank to <HI>James Hay</HI> and <HI>Natha|niel Gordon,</HI> and of the left to Sir <HI>William Rollock,</HI> all valiant men. The left wing of the enemy was commanded by <HI>Lewis Gordon,</HI> Son to the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Huntley,</HI> a bold young man and hot &s;pirited, but hair brain'd, and one that had forced out his fa|thers friends and clients to fight with <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> again&s;t their wills. He having gotten the plain and mo&s;t commodious ground for fighting on hor&s;e-back, char|ged <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s right flank: which when he percei|ved, he commanded <HI>Rollock</HI> with his twenty Hor&s;e to their aid; and they, being backed with the gal|lantry of their Commanders, and the activity and &s;toutne&s;&s;e of the Foot among&s;t them, received the charge with &s;o much hardine&s;&s;e, that they four and
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forty, beat back full three hundred of the enemy, rou|ting all and killing very many. But becau&s;e they were &s;o few they dur&s;t not follow the cha&s;e which was for|born by the great prudence of the Commanders, and proved to be of great con&s;equence towards the ob|taining of the victory: for the enemy charged <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI>'s left Flank (which had no Hor&s;e) with their right Wing of Hor&s;e. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> therefore in a trice (now that <HI>Lewis Gordon</HI> and his men were fled) conveighs the &s;ame Hor&s;e to the left Flank; who &s;eeing they were not able to draw them&s;elves into a Body like the enemies, fetch'd a compa&s;&s;e about, and &s;o e&s;caped their fir&s;t charge; then neatly wheeling a|bout they fell upon the Flank of the enemy, and with their naked &s;words, beat, and cut, and vanqui&s;ht, and put them to flight. They took pri&s;oners one <HI>Forbes</HI> of <HI>Kragevar</HI> a Knight of great e&s;teem with the e|nemy, and another <HI>Forbes</HI> of <HI>Boindle.</HI> Tho&s;e that re|treated got &s;afe away, becau&s;e that &s;o few could not &s;afely pur&s;ue them. They that commanded the enemies Hor&s;e were not &s;o much frighted with their lo&s;&s;e, as vexed with the di&s;grace of a double repul&s;e, therfore imputing their defeat to tho&s;e light fire|locks that were mixed with <HI>Montro&s;es</HI> Hor&s;e, they them&s;elves call for Foot-men out of their main Bo|dy, intending to return with greater courage. <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> &s;u&s;pected that, and was loath to engage tho&s;e few gallant men again, (who&s;e Hor&s;es were &s;pent al|ready in two &s;harp &s;ervices,) with the enemy who was reinforced with fre&s;h Foot. Therefore ob&s;erving the enemies Hor&s;e not yet rallied &s;ince their new rout,
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and &s;tanding at a &s;ufficient di&s;tance from their Foot; he rode about among his own Foot, (who had been &s;ore galled already with the enemies Ordnance) and be&s;peaks them to this effect: <HI>We do no good my (fel|low &s;ouldiers) while we di&s;pute the matter at thus much di&s;tance, except we cloze up with them how &s;hall we know an able man from a weak, a valiant man from a coward? If ye would a&s;&s;ail the&s;e timorous and brawnele&s;&s;e &s;hrimps with handy-blows, they will never be able to &s;tand you. Goe to therefore, fall about them with your &s;words and but-ends of your muskets, beat them down, drive them back, and make them pay what is ju&s;tly due for their trea&s;on and rebellion.</HI> It was no &s;ooner &s;aid, than they fall to work, break in upon the enemy, defeat them, rout them. Their Hor&s;e who expected Foot to come and line them, &s;eeing them all run away, ran fa&s;ter than they: whom the Conquerours were not able to follow, much le&s;&s;e to overtake, &s;o they &s;cap'd &s;cot-free; but the Foot paid for all, few of which e&s;caped the Victors hands. For having no other place to fly unto but into the City, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s men came in thronging among&s;t them through the gates and po&s;terns, and laid them on heaps all over the &s;treets. They fought four hours upon &s;uch equal terms, that it was an even lay whether had the odds. At this Battell <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had &s;ome great Guns, but they were un&s;erviceable, becau&s;e all advantages of ground were po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by the enemy; but, the enemies Guns made no &s;mall ha|vock of his men. Among others, there was an Iri&s;h|man that had his legg &s;hot off with a Cannon bul|let,
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only it hung by a little skin; he &s;eeing his fel|low-&s;ouldiers &s;omething &s;ad at his mi&s;chance, with a loud and cheerfull voyce cryes out, <HI>Come on, my Comrades, this is but the fortune of Warr, and nei|ther you nor I have rea&s;on to be &s;orry for it. Do you &s;tand to it as becomes you, and as for me, I am &s;ure my Lord Marque&s;&s;e, &s;eeing I can no longer &s;erve on foot, will mount me on hor&s;e-back:</HI> So drawing out his knife, being nothing altered nor troubled, he cut a|&s;under the skin with his own hand, and gave his legg to one of his fellow &s;ouldiers to bury. And truly, when he was well again, and made a Trooper, he often did very faithfull and gallant &s;ervice. This bat|tell was fought at <HI>Aberdeen</HI> on the twelfth day of <HI>September,</HI> 1644. Then <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> calling his &s;oul|diers back to their Colours entred the City, and al|lowed them two dayes re&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>CHAP. VII.</HEAD>
<P>IN the mean time news was brought that <HI>Argyle</HI> was hard by with much greater forces than tho&s;e they dealt with la&s;t, the Earle of <HI>Lothian</HI> accom|panying him with fifteen hundred Hor&s;e. Therefore <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> removes from <HI>Aberdeen</HI> to <HI>Kintor</HI> a Vil|lage ten miles off, that he might make an ea&s;ier ac|ce&s;&s;e unto him for the <HI>Gordons</HI> (the friends and de|pendents of the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Huntley)</HI> and others that were &s;uppo&s;ed much to favour the Kings cau&s;e. From thence he &s;ends Sir <HI>William Rollock</HI> to <HI>Oxford,</HI> to acquaint his Maje&s;ty with the good &s;ucce&s;&s;e he
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had hitherto obtained, and to de&s;ire &s;upplies out of <HI>England,</HI> or &s;ome place el&s;e. <HI>That he had fought twice indeed very pro&s;perou&s;ly, but it could not be expected, that &s;eeing he was &s;o be&s;et on all &s;ides, with great and numerous Armies, he &s;hould be able to hold out al|wayes without timely relief.</HI> Still nothing troubled <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> more, than that none of the <HI>Gordons,</HI> of whom he conceived great hopes, came in unto him. And there wanted not &s;ome of them, who te&s;tified their great affection to the &s;ervice, but that <HI>Huntley</HI> the chief of the Family, being a back-friend to <HI>Mon|tro&s;e,</HI> had with-held them all, either by his own ex|ample, or private directions; and that him&s;elf being forced ro &s;culk in the utmo&s;t border of the Kingdome, envied that honour to another of which he had mi&s;|&s;ed him&s;elf, and had forbidden, even with threats, all tho&s;e with whom he had any power, to have any thing to do with <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> or to a&s;&s;i&s;t him either with their power or coun&s;ell. Which when he under&s;tood, he re&s;olved to withdraw his Forces into the Moun|tains and Fa&s;tne&s;&s;es, where he knew the enemies hor&s;e (wherein their great &s;trength con&s;i&s;ted) could do them little &s;ervice; and of their Foot (if they were never &s;o many) relying upon the ju&s;tice of his cau&s;e, and the valour of his &s;ouldiers, he made but little reckoning. Therefore he hid his Ordnance in a bogg, and quit|ted all his trouble&s;ome and heavy carriages; And comming to the &s;ide of the river <HI>Spey,</HI> not farr from an old ca&s;tle called <HI>Rothmurk,</HI> he incamped there: with an Army, if one re&s;pect the number, but very &s;mall, but it was an expert and cheerfull one, and now
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al&s;o &s;omething accquainted with victory.</P>
<P>On the other &s;ide of the <HI>Spey,</HI> he finds the men of <HI>Cathnes,</HI> and <HI>Suderland,</HI> and <HI>Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Murray,</HI> and others to the number of five thou&s;and up in arms to hinder his pa&s;&s;age over the &s;wifte&s;t River in all <HI>Scotland,</HI> till &s;uch time as <HI>Argyle</HI> who marched af|ter him was upon his back. Being oppre&s;&s;ed, and as it were be&s;ieged with &s;o many enemies on every &s;ide, that at lea&s;t he might &s;ave him&s;elf from their Hor&s;e, the turned into <HI>Badenoth,</HI> a rocky and mountainous Countrey, and &s;carce pa&s;&s;able for Hor&s;e. There, for certain dayes he was very &s;ick, which occa&s;ioned &s;o immoderate joy to the Covenanters, that they doub|ted not to give out he was quite dead, and to ordain a day of publique Thanke&s;giving to Almighty God for that great deliverance. Nor were their Levites you may be &s;ure backward in that employment in their Pulpits; for as if they had been of coun&s;ell at the Decree, and &s;tood by at the execution, they a&s;&s;ured the people, that it was as true as Go&s;pel, that the Lord of Ho&s;tes had &s;lain <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> with his own hands. But this joy did not la&s;t them long, for he re|covered in a &s;hort &s;pace; and as if he had been ri|&s;en from the dead, he frighted his enemies much more than he had done before. For a&s;&s;oon as his di&s;ea&s;e would give him leave, he returned into <HI>Athole,</HI> and &s;ent away <HI>Mac-donald</HI> with a party unto the High|landers, to invite them to take up arms with him; and if they would not be invited, to force them. He him&s;elf goes into <HI>Angus,</HI> hoping it might happen that he &s;hould either force <HI>Argyle</HI> with his tyred
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Hor&s;e unto his Winter quarters, or at lea&s;t leave him far enough behind him. For <HI>Argyle</HI> had pur&s;ued him &s;lowly, and at &s;uch di&s;tance, that it was apparent he thought of nothing le&s;&s;e than of giving him battail. Therefore going through <HI>Angus,</HI> and getting over the <HI>Grainsbain</HI> (which going along with a continu|ed ridge from Ea&s;t to We&s;t, divideth <HI>Scotland</HI> in|to two equal parts) he returned into the North of the Kingdome. And now that he had left <HI>Argyle</HI> &s;o far behind him, that he might &s;afely take &s;ome time to recruit, he went to <HI>Strathbogy,</HI> that he might meet with the <HI>Gordons,</HI> and per&s;wade them to engage with him. But he lo&s;t his labour, for they were fore|&s;talled by <HI>Huntley,</HI> and after his example plaid lea&s;t in &s;ight. For &s;uch as were generous and daring &s;pirits, though they were loath to provoke the indignation of their Chief, yet they could not but be a&s;hamed, that at a time when there might be &s;o much u&s;e of them, they did nothing. Be&s;ides, the Lord <HI>Gordon, Huntley</HI>'s elde&s;t Son (a man of &s;ingular worth and accompli&s;h|ment) was detained by <HI>Argyle</HI> his Uncle by the Mo|thers &s;ide: the Earl of <HI>Alboin</HI> the &s;econd Son was inclo&s;ed within the &s;iege of <HI>Carli&s;le;</HI> and <HI>Lewis</HI> a|nother Son was of the enemies &s;ide; &s;o that there was no one of <HI>Huntley</HI>'s family under who&s;e authority they &s;hould take up Armes.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> quartered there a great while; in which time almo&s;t every other night marching, &s;even, or eight, or ten miles with a party of light Foot (for Hor&s;e he had few or none) he u&s;ed to give alarms to the enemy, beat up their quarters
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put them to flight, and frequently to bring home hor&s;e and men pri&s;oners. And becau&s;e he alwayes brought his men &s;afe off, it was &s;trange to &s;ee how cheerfull and daring his &s;ouldiers were; &s;o that though their number was not great, there was nothing that he would lead them on unto, that &s;eemed great to them. At la&s;t when he de&s;paired of any good to be done with the <HI>Gordons,</HI> at the end of <HI>October</HI> he re|moved from <HI>Strathbogy,</HI> and came to <HI>Faivy</HI> Ca&s;tle and po&s;&s;e&s;t it. There he was like to have been ut|terly undone by the bad and fal&s;e intelligence his Scouts, in whom he put great confidence, brought un|to him concerning the enemy: for tho&s;e whom they per&s;waded him were &s;carce got over <HI>Grainsbain,</HI> were on a &s;udden encamped within two miles of him. <HI>Argyle</HI> and <HI>Lothian</HI> had there two thou&s;and five hundred Foot, and twelve hundred Hor&s;e: <HI>Mon|tro&s;e,</HI> now when <HI>Mac-donald</HI> was ab&s;ent with a party, had fifteen hundred Foot and about fifty Hor&s;e. If he &s;hould have de&s;cended into the Plain with &s;o &s;mall &s;trength, it had been madne&s;&s;e; and to keep a Ca&s;tle (and no &s;trong one neither) he thought di&s;honourable and derogatory to the credit of his late victories. Therefore he bethought him&s;elf of ano|ther cour&s;e, he drawes his men up unto a higher hill which over-look'd the Ca&s;tle. The &s;oil of the hill was rough, and there were hedges al&s;o and ditches ca&s;t up there by the Husbandmen for the fences of their fields, which were almo&s;t as u&s;efull as Bre&s;t|works. But before he had appointed every one his ground to draw up in, tho&s;e few of <HI>Huntley</HI>'s depen|dents
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which accompanied <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> from <HI>Strath|bogy,</HI> in the &s;ight of all people fairly betook them to their heels. And on the other &s;ide, the enemy driving fiercely up the hill, made them&s;elves ma&s;ters of no &s;mall part of it; which if they had been able to maintain with the &s;ame vigour that they had ob|tained it, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had been a lo&s;t man: who&s;e Souldiers, di&s;couraged both by the timorous flight of &s;ome of their own, and the multitude of their e|nemies forces, were well near ready to turn their backs; them <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> pre&s;ently put life and courage into by his own example and pre&s;ence, by putting them in mind of their former atchievements, and their own &s;en&s;e of their wonted prowe&s;&s;e. Moreover, he thus be&s;pake a young Iri&s;h Gentleman, one Col|lonel <HI>O Kyan, Go thy way, O Kyan, with &s;uch men as thou ha&s;t at hand, and drive me tho&s;e fellows out of yonder ditches, that we may no more be troubled with them.</HI> The gallantry of <HI>O Kyan Montro&s;e</HI> had of|ten &s;een and commended, nor did that truly valiant man deceive the Generals opinion of him, for he quickly firretted the enemy out of the ditches, though they much out-numbred his men, and were &s;econded with a party of Hor&s;e. And not only &s;o, but gained &s;ome baggs of powder which the enemy had left be|hind them for ha&s;te, a very &s;ea&s;onable prey, of which they had great need. Nor doth a notable example of the forwardne&s;&s;e of the Souldiers &s;eem to me un|worthy in this place to be remembred; for one of them looking upon the baggs of powder, <HI>What</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>have they given us no bullets? Marry but wee
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mu&s;t fetch bullets too from tho&s;e &s;paring distributors of Ammunition.</HI> As if it had been altogether the enemies duty to provide them nece&s;&s;aries for the Warr.</P>
<P>In the mean time his Hor&s;e (which were but fif|ty) being di&s;po&s;ed in a place of danger, he timely &s;ecured them by lining them with musketiers. For <HI>Lo|thian</HI> charged them with five whole troops, who be|fore they had cro&s;&s;ed over half a field that lay be|tween them, being &s;cared with our &s;hot, wheel'd about, and returned to the place from whence they came. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s men being encouraged with the&s;e two &s;ucce&s;&s;es, could hardly be kept off from falling on with a &s;hout upon the whole body of the enemy: whom <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> refrains rather with a kind of commendation of them (as was meet) than reproof, only bids every one know his own duty, and wait his commands. Towards night, <HI>Argyle</HI> having done nothing to any purpo&s;e, retreats two miles off, and &s;lept not that night. But the next day, when he was told that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s &s;ouldiers had great &s;carcity of powder and bullet, drawing his men into the &s;ame ground again, he made as though he would have charged up the Hill, and beaten <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> out of his hold. But when his heart failed him in that enter|pri&s;e, be&s;ides &s;ome skirmi&s;hes between &s;mall parties while the main bodies kept their ground, there was nothing done that day neither. All this while <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> &s;ends for all di&s;hes, and flaggons, and chamber|pots, and what other pewter ve&s;&s;els could be had, and cau&s;ed them to be melted into bullet; yet when
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that was done the &s;ouldiers had not enough. With which great inconvenience the &s;ouldiers were &s;o lit|tle troubled, that one as often as he made a &s;hot (which he pre&s;umed never mi&s;&s;ed) he would &s;ay mer|rily to his Comerades, <HI>As &s;ure as can be I have bro|ken one Traytors face with a chamber-pot.</HI> Nor wil any one wonder if <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s men were oft in want of powder and other nece&s;&s;aries for War, when he con&s;iders they had no other way to &s;upply them&s;elves with them, but out of their enemies &s;tock. And now the &s;econd day being almo&s;t &s;pent, <HI>Argyle</HI> withdraws his men over the river, the way that they came, three Scotch miles (which make one Dutch mile) off. The time was thus &s;pent at <HI>Faivy</HI> for &s;everal dayes, <HI>Ar|gyle</HI> carrying nothing away with that great Army, but di&s;grace among his friends, and contempt among his enemies; for it was wholly imputed to his cow|ardi&s;e that there he had not made an ab&s;olute con|que&s;t.</P>
<P>At la&s;t <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> (le&s;t by marching away in the day time he might have &s;ome of his Rear cut off by the enemies Hor&s;e) takes the advantage of the night to return to <HI>Strathbogy:</HI> where he intended to make &s;ome &s;tay, both becau&s;e the craggine&s;&s;e of the Coun|trey was a good &s;ecurity to his Souldiers again&s;t the incur&s;ions of the enemies Hor&s;e; and becau&s;e it was near tho&s;e places from whence he dayly expected <HI>Mac-donald,</HI> with what Highlanders he could rai&s;e. The next day the enemy pur&s;ues him with an inten|tion to force him to fight with them in the open field: and truly a&s;&s;oon as they came in &s;ight of them, draw|ing
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up their men they made ready to battel, as if they would have fallen on with all their power. But a forlorn hope of Highlanders was &s;ent before by <HI>Argyle</HI> to engage <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> in a light skirmi&s;h, who were manfully entertained and repul&s;ed. Then <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> having po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed him&s;elf of the highe&s;t ground, <HI>Argyle</HI> alters his re&s;olution, and thinks upon that which was more &s;afe and le&s;&s;e honourable. He de&s;ires a Ce&s;&s;ation, propo&s;es that engagements may be given on both &s;ides for a Conference and Treaty; yet at the &s;ame time, he did not only tempt the Souldiers to for&s;ake <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> by promi&s;ing them indempnity and rewards to boot; but (which is a &s;hame to &s;ay even of an enemy) &s;et a great price upon <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s head, to be paid unto any a&s;&s;a&s;&s;ine or murtherer that &s;hould bring it in. Of which, when <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was well a&s;&s;ured, (who well knew the di&s;po&s;ition of the man to be more bent to over-reach and betray, than to fight with his enemy) he thought nothing concerned him more, than with all &s;peed to bring off tho&s;e &s;mall Forces he had, as far as he could, both from <HI>Argyle</HI>'s Hor&s;e and knavery.</P>
<P>Therefore calling a councill of War, he declares his opinion; they all approve his wi&s;dome, and pro|mi&s;e to continue their fidelity and their be&s;t endea|vours to &s;erve him. Therefore he re&s;olveth upon a long march the next night, as far as <HI>Badenoth;</HI> and that the Souldiers might be lighter for &s;o great a journey, he &s;ent the Carriages before with a guard, and bid the Souldiers make them&s;elves ready again&s;t the next day, as if they were to fight. And now the
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Carriages were on the way, when on a &s;uddain news came that <HI>Forbes</HI> of <HI>Craigevar,</HI> a pri&s;oner, (to whom upon the engagement of his Honour for his true im|pri&s;onment <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had given the liberty of the Camp) and that <HI>Sibbalds,</HI> who be&s;ides <HI>Rollock</HI> was only of his coun&s;ell and company when he came out of <HI>England,</HI> and &s;ome others, had made an e&s;cape and run away to the enemy. He was troubled at the perfidiou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the men, and ju&s;tly &s;u&s;pected that they, to ingratiate them&s;elves with the enemy, would betray his coun&s;els. Therefore he &s;traight called back the Convoy with the Carriages, and &s;eemed as if he had wholly altered his re&s;olutions. But indeed he al|tered them not, but thought it fit to delay them for a time, that the intelligence which the enemy recei|ved from his fugitives might appear unto them idle and uncertain. But after four dayes he &s;ent the Car|riages away again before him, and making fires through all the Camp, he placed all the Hor&s;e he had within view of the enemy, as if they kept their guard there, till &s;uch time as the Foot were marched far e|nough from danger, and then brought the Hor&s;e al|&s;o &s;afe off, and all by break of day came to <HI>Balve|ny.</HI> And now being &s;afe from having their quarters beaten up by the enemies Hor&s;e, and they no further pur&s;uing, it being al&s;o the very deep of winter, he al|lowed a few dayes unto the refre&s;hment of his Soul|diers. And at this time e&s;pecially <HI>Argyle</HI> began to appear in his own colours, and his &s;ubtilties were manife&s;ted. For mo&s;t of the Noblemen, Gentlemen, and prime Souldiers that were with <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> (who
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&s;etting a&s;ide Iri&s;h men and Highlanders, had more Commanders than private Souldiers in his army) de|&s;erted him, and fell off to <HI>Argyle.</HI> Some of them pre|tended &s;ickne&s;&s;e, others di&s;ability to make &s;uch long marches in winter time over mountains uninhabited; unpa&s;&s;able, full of nothing but &s;tones and bryars, for the mo&s;t part deep in &s;now, and never travelled over by any man alive. And therefore &s;ore again&s;t their wills, as they &s;aid, and being compelled to depart by an extream nece&s;&s;ity, they de&s;ired his Pa&s;&s;e: which he denyed to none that ask'd; but yet look'd upon them rather with a kind of indignation and &s;corn, than approbation or compa&s;&s;ion. Nor can one ea&s;ily &s;ay how much the example of &s;uch men weakened his Forces, and how much it di&s;heartened many that intended to have li&s;ted them&s;elves under his Com|mand. But the old Lord <HI>Ogilby</HI> the Earl of <HI>Airley,</HI> a man of three&s;core years old, and not very healthy neither, together with two of his Sons mo&s;t worthy of &s;uch a Father, Sir <HI>Thomas</HI> and Sir <HI>David,</HI> could never be per&s;waded, even in the extreme&s;t hazard of their lives, to depart from him.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. VIII.</HEAD>
<P><HI>MOntro&s;e</HI> returning from <HI>Balveny</HI> to <HI>Badenoth</HI> net a very faithful intelligencer, who gave him notice that <HI>Argyle</HI> with his Foot (for his Hor&s;e were gone to their winter-quarters) lay at <HI>Dunkeldon,</HI> and that from thence he u&s;ed all his indu&s;try to per|&s;wade the <HI>Athole</HI> men to revolt. He, although he
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was a&s;&s;ured of their loyalty, neverthele&s;&s;e with in|credible ha&s;te goes down into <HI>Athole.</HI> For in one night he marched with his Forces four and twenty miles, through wayes untrodden, untilled, full of &s;now, wa&s;te, and never inhabited by mortal man, to the intent he might fall upon <HI>Argyle,</HI> whiles he had not his Hor&s;e about him. But he being frighted with the re|port of his coming, when <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was yet &s;ixteen miles off, bid his men &s;hift for them&s;elves, and he him&s;elf fled as fa&s;t as he could into <HI>Perth,</HI> wherein the Covenanters had a &s;trong garri&s;on. <HI>Mac-donald</HI> was by this time returned, and brought along with him the Chief of the <HI>Mac-renalds</HI> with his men to the number of five hundred: and <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> him&s;elf ad|ded to that number <HI>Patrick Graham</HI> with &s;ome choice men of <HI>Athole.</HI> Being recruited with the&s;e, he marcheth to the lake out of which the river of <HI>Tay</HI> breaks forth, to pa&s;&s;e from thence through <HI>Bre|dalbin</HI> into the Country of <HI>Argyle;</HI> for he thought an enemy could never be &s;o happily overthrown as in his own Countrey. And truly he had many &s;trong rea&s;ons for that re&s;olution. <HI>In the fir&s;t place</HI> Argyle'<HI>s power and authority among&s;t the Highlanders rende|red him formidable to his Peers and Neighbours, and &s;o conduced much both to rai&s;e and foment the whole Rebellion; For a&s;&s;oon as any one adventured to op|po&s;e the Covenanters, or di&s;pute their Command, pre|&s;ently</HI> Argyle <HI>gathering a tumultuous army of five or &s;ix thou&s;and Highlanders (who for all that &s;erved him again&s;t their wills) cru&s;h'd him in pieces; and therefore he had all the rea&s;on in the world to bring
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down the power of &s;o &s;editious, and covetous, and cru|ell a man. Moreover, tho&s;e Highlanders who did not only favour the Kings cau&s;e, but hated</HI> Argyle <HI>heartily, as having had a &s;ufficient experience of his Tyranny, dur&s;t not appear as they would, till he was fir&s;t &s;ubdued. And la&s;tly the Low-lands of the King|dome were maintained by the Covenanters with &s;trong Garri&s;ons, and great bodies of Hor&s;e: &s;o that except he had a mind utterly to undoe his friends, he had no other place to winter his Souldiers in but that.</HI> And <HI>being pre&s;&s;ed with the&s;e rea&s;ons, with long and foul journeys, and incredible &s;peed, he commeth into</HI> Ar|gyle.</P>
<P>The Earl at that time was li&s;ting &s;ouldiers in his Country, and had appointed the day and place for a Rendezvouz, He lived &s;ecurely in the ca&s;tle of <HI>Inncra|re,</HI> &s;uppo&s;ing no enemie to be within a hundred miles of him. For he could never before be brought to be|leeve that an Army could get into <HI>Argyle</HI> on foot in the mid&s;t of &s;ummer, and many times heretofore he has been heard to bragge, that he had rather lo&s;e a hundred thou&s;and Crowns, than any mortal man &s;hould know the way by which an Army could en|ter into his Country. When he therefore &s;u&s;pected nothing le&s;&s;e, the trembling Cow-herds came down from the hills, and told him the enemy was within two miles. He not knowing what to do, and almo&s;t be&s;ides him&s;elf for fear, at la&s;t commits him&s;elf to a fi&s;her-boat, and flies away; leaving his friends, and &s;ervants, and the whole Countrey to their fortunes, and the mercy of an enemy. It is a rough and moun|tainous
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countrey, barren of corn, for little or none is &s;own there, but very commodious for pa&s;ture, the chief riches of the inhabitants con&s;i&s;ting in cattell. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> divides his Army into three Brigades, and &s;ends them about the countrey; one Brigade was commanded by the chief of the <HI>Mac-renalds,</HI> ano|ther by <HI>Mac-donald,</HI> and the third by him&s;elf. They range about all the country, and lay it wa&s;te; as ma|ny as they find in arms going to the Rendezvouz appointed by their Lord, they &s;lay, and &s;pare no man that was fit for War: nor do they give over till they had driven all &s;erviceable men out of that Territory, or at lea&s;t into holes known to none but them&s;elves. Then they fire the villages and Cottes, and lay them levell with the ground: in that retaliating <HI>Arygle</HI> with the &s;ame mea&s;ure he had meted unto others, who was the fir&s;t in all the Kingdome that pro&s;ecu|ted his Country-men with fire and &s;word. La&s;tly, they drive their cattell. Nor did they deal more gently with others who lived in <HI>Lorn,</HI> and the neigh|bour parts, that acknowledged <HI>Argyle</HI>'s power. The&s;e things la&s;ted from the 13. of <HI>December</HI> 1644. to the 28. or 29. of <HI>January</HI> following.</P>
<P>And indeed, he u&s;ed never more to acknowledge the &s;ingular providence and fatherly mercy of Al|mighty God, than in bringing him and his men &s;afe out of tho&s;e places; for if but two hundred Soul|diers had hand&s;omly kept tho&s;e Pa&s;&s;es, they might ea&s;ily either have cut off, or at lea&s;t driven back all his Forces. Be&s;ide, if the Cow-herds had but dri|ven away their cattell (which they might ea&s;ily have
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done) in tho&s;e barren places, he mu&s;t have &s;tarved for hunger. Or thirdly if it had been a &s;harp and &s;tormy winter, (and it &s;eldome chances to be other|wi&s;e there) they had either been drowned in &s;now|drifts, or &s;tarv'd and benumb'd with cold. But mer|ciful God took away both courage from the ene|my, and its ordinary temper from the air; and &s;up|plyed their want of bread with great abundance of fle&s;h. At length departing out of <HI>Argyle,</HI> and pa&s;&s;ing through <HI>Lorn, Glencow,</HI> and <HI>Logh-Aber,</HI> he came to <HI>Logh-Ne&s;&s;e.</HI> And now he expected that all the Highlanders, being either frighted with the example of <HI>Argyle,</HI> or freed from the fear of him, &s;hould be ready to a&s;&s;i&s;t the Kings mo&s;t righteous cau&s;e, and vindicate it with their arms again&s;t the Rebells.</P>
<P>But now le&s;t <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s heroical &s;pirit &s;hould ever want matter to work upon, he is adverti&s;ed that the Earl of <HI>Seaforth,</HI> a very powerfull man in tho&s;e parts (and one of whom he had entertained a better opinion) with the Garri&s;on of <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e</HI> which were old &s;ouldiers, and the whole &s;trength of <HI>Murray, Ro&s;&s;e, Sutherland, Cathnes,</HI> and the &s;ept of the <HI>Fra|&s;ers,</HI> were ready to meet him with a de&s;perate army of five thou&s;and Hor&s;e and Foot. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had only fifteen hundred, for tho&s;e of <HI>Clanrenald,</HI> and mo&s;t of the <HI>Athole-</HI>men, &s;u&s;pecting no &s;uch need of them, and being laden with the &s;poils of <HI>Argyle,</HI> had got leave to go home, on condition they &s;hould return when they were &s;ent for. But for all that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was not afraid to give battell to that di&s;orderly Army: for although he knew tho&s;e of the
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Garri&s;on to be old &s;ouldiers, yet he accounted of the re&s;t of the multitude (which were newly rai&s;ed out of Husbandmen, Cow-herds, Pedees, Tavern|boyes, and Kitchin-boyes) to be altogether raw and un&s;erviceable.</P>
<P>And now while he thought of nothing but fight|ing the&s;e, a tru&s;ty Me&s;&s;enger overtakes him, and in|forms him, that <HI>Argyle</HI> having gathered forces out of the lower parts of the Kingdom, and joyned unto them &s;uch Highlanders as yet adhered unto him, had come down into <HI>Logh-Aber</HI> with three thou&s;and Foot, and &s;taid at an old Ca&s;tle called <HI>Innerlogh,</HI> upon the bank of <HI>Logh-Aber. Montro&s;e</HI> who well under&s;tood the crafty and cowardly di&s;po&s;ition of <HI>Argyle,</HI> by that had a good gue&s;&s;e at his de&s;igne; which was to fol|low after him at a good di&s;tance, that he might be fir&s;t engaged with tho&s;e Northern-men, and then to make his own advantage of the event of that battell; but by no means to fight him&s;elf, if he could help it. Therefore <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> con&s;idered that it would be a matter of greater concernment, and of le&s;&s;e danger, to let men &s;ee that <HI>Argyle</HI> was not invincible, even in the Highlands, where he was adored by the &s;imple people like &s;ome great-little god: and as for the Nor|thern Army, he conceived that upon the report of a Victory obtained again&s;t <HI>Argyle,</HI> it would moulder away, and ea&s;ily be brought into order. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was thirty miles ab&s;ent from <HI>Innerlogh,</HI> neither would he go the high way thither (though he pla|ced guards in it, le&s;t the enemy &s;hould have any in|telligence of his moving) but &s;treight over <HI>Logh-Aber</HI>
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hills, in untroden paths, and only known to Cow|herds and Hunt&s;-men, (for in tho&s;e mountains there are great herds of Deer) by a way that never man led an Army before; and killing their Scouts, was upon the back of the enemy ere he was aware. They being but little affrighted with &s;o unexpected an accident, run to their arms, and immediatly prepare them&s;elves for battell. When <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> perceived them to be in a po&s;ture &s;o quickly, he &s;tood &s;till a little while till his Rear being tired with &s;o hard a march could come up unto his Front. It was night, but the Moon &s;hone &s;o cleerly that it was almo&s;t as light as day; all night they &s;tood to their arms, and making frequent &s;al|lies and skirmi&s;hes one with another, neither gave the other leave to re&s;t or retreat. All others earne&s;t|ly expected day, only <HI>Argyle</HI> being more advi&s;ed than the re&s;t conveyed him&s;elf away at dead of the night; and this &s;econd time taking boat &s;aved him&s;elf from the perill of battell, as if he intended to be Umpire between the two Armies, and being him&s;elf out of gun-&s;hot &s;tand &s;pectatour of other mens valour, and well too. At the break of day, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> ordered his men as he intended to fight, and the enemy were as forward to doe the like. For they did not yet think that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was there (as &s;ome pri&s;oners after|wards confe&s;&s;ed) but &s;ome Collonel or Captain of his with a party only of his forces.</P>
<P>When the Sun was up, on the &s;econd of <HI>February</HI> (which is <HI>Candelma&s;s</HI> day) a trumpet &s;ounding &s;truck no &s;mall terrour into the enemy. For be&s;ides that attumpet &s;hewed they had Hor&s;e with them,
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and therefore was a &s;ound with which tho&s;e parts were little acquainted, it di&s;covered al&s;o that <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> him&s;elf was there Neverthele&s;&s;e the prime of the <HI>Campbells</HI> (that's the &s;irname of <HI>Argyle</HI>'s fa|mily) being gallant men and &s;tout, and de&s;erving to fight under a better Chieftain in a better cau&s;e, cheer|fully begin the battell. But their &s;ouldiers that were in the Front having only once di&s;charged their mu&s;|kets, and <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s men pre&s;&s;ing on fiercely to come to the dint of &s;word, began to run. Whom they, rai&s;ing a great &s;hout, &s;o eagerly pur&s;ued, that as it were at one a&s;&s;ault they routed them all; and had the killing of them with a mo&s;t horrible &s;laughter for nine miles together. Of the enemy were &s;lain fifteen hundred, among whom were very many Gentlemen of the <HI>Campbells,</HI> who were chief men of the family, and of good account in their country, who fighting but too valiantly for their Chieftain, had deaths an&s;werable to their names, and fell in <HI>Campobelli,</HI> in the Field of War, <HI>(I cannot &s;ay the bed of Honour.)</HI> Their for|tune <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> extremely lamented, and &s;aved as many of them as he was able, taking them into his protection; whiles <HI>Argyle</HI> him&s;elf being gotten in|to a boat, and rowed a little way off the &s;hore, &s;e|curely look'd on whiles his kindred and &s;ouldiers were knockt on the head. Some Colonels and Captains that <HI>Argyle</HI> had brought thither out of the Low|lands fled into the Ca&s;tle; whom when the Ca&s;tle was &s;urrendred, and quarter was given unto them, <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> u&s;ed curteou&s;ly; and after he had done them &s;everal good offices of humanity and charity, free|ly,
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let them depart. In this fight <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had ma|ny wounded, but none &s;lain &s;aving three private &s;oul|diers: but the joy of this great victory was much a|bated by the wounds of that truly honourable Sir <HI>Thomas Ogilby,</HI> Son to the Earl of <HI>Airley,</HI> of which after a few days he dyed. He was one of <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s deare&s;t friends; one who had done very good &s;ervice for the King in <HI>England</HI> under the Com|mand of his Father-in-law the Lord <HI>Ruthien</HI> Earl of <HI>Forth</HI> and <HI>Branceforde,</HI> (a man known all the world over for his noble archievements.) Nor was he le&s;&s;e a &s;cholar than a &s;ouldier, being a new ornament to the family of the <HI>Ogilbies,</HI> who&s;e honourable deaths|wounds for his King and Country had no &s;mall in|fluence upon that days victory. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> being very much afflicted with the lo&s;&s;e of him, cau&s;eth his body to be carried into <HI>Athole,</HI> where he was in|terred with as &s;umptuous a funeral as that place and tho&s;e times could afford. But the power of the <HI>Campbells</HI> in the <HI>Highlands,</HI> which for the&s;e many ages pa&s;t hath been formidable to their neighbours was by this overthrow clearly broken to pieces; and by it al&s;o a way opened unto <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> to doe his bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e the more ea&s;ily thence forward. For the High|landers being warlike men, and let loo&s;e from the hated tyranny of <HI>Argyle,</HI> now began to offer them|&s;elves willingly unto the Kings &s;ervice.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. IX.</HEAD>
<P>THe &s;ouldier who was almo&s;t &s;pent with this &s;ore travell, having refre&s;hed him&s;elf for a few dayes, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> mea&s;uring over again <HI>Logh-Aber</HI> hills, returneth to <HI>Logh-Ne&s;&s;e.</HI> And from thence viewing by the way the coa&s;ts of <HI>Harrick, Arne,</HI> and <HI>Narne,</HI> came to the river of <HI>Spey.</HI> Here he is told, that there was no &s;mall party of the enemy at <HI>Elgin,</HI> (which is the chief town of <HI>Murray,</HI> a Coun|try beyond the <HI>Spey.) Montro&s;e</HI> hies towards the&s;e, either to draw them to his &s;ide, or to &s;uppre&s;&s;e them: but the very report of his advancing blew away that cloud, for they in great amazement &s;hifted for them|&s;elves every one whither he could. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> never|thele&s;&s;e goes on his march, and takes in <HI>Elgin</HI> by &s;urrender on the fourteenth day of <HI>February.</HI> At which time the Lord <HI>Gordon,</HI> elde&s;t Sonne to the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Huntley,</HI> (a man who can never be &s;ufficiently commended for his excellent endow|ments) came off openly to the Kings &s;ide (from his Uncle by whom he had been detained again&s;t his will) and, with not many but very choi&s;e friends and cli|ents, voluntarily did his duty, and offered his &s;ervice to <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> as the Kings Deputy and Vicegerent. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> fir&s;t welcomed him with all civility, and gave him many thanks, afterwards, when he came to under&s;tand him more inwardly, joyned him unto him&s;elf in the entire&s;t bonds of friend&s;hip and af|fection. Now becau&s;e the inhabitants of <HI>Murray</HI>
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were extremely addicted to the Covenanters, they hid them&s;elves in their lurking places, nor were any &s;upplies to be expected from men &s;o maliciou&s;ly di&s;|po&s;ed; Therfore he drew his Forces to this &s;ide the <HI>Spey,</HI> to rai&s;e the Countries of <HI>Bamph</HI> and <HI>Abordeen</HI> by the pre&s;ence, example, and authority of the Lord <HI>Gordon.</HI> So having got together what forces he could in tho&s;e places, with two thou&s;and Foot and two hundred Hor&s;e, pa&s;&s;ing the river of <HI>Dee</HI> he came in|to <HI>Marne,</HI> and encamped not farre from <HI>Fether|carne.</HI></P>
<P>At <HI>Breichin</HI> &s;ome &s;even miles from thence, Sir <HI>John Hurrey</HI> a &s;tout man and an active, and famous al&s;o in forein parts for Military exploits, being General of the Hor&s;e for the Covenanters, had the Command over the whole Forces there. He came out with &s;ix hundred Hor&s;e to di&s;cover the &s;trength of <HI>Montro&s;e:</HI> he conceived <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had but ve|ry few Foot and no Hor&s;e, and if he &s;hould but de|&s;cend into the plain, he made account to make &s;hort work with him; and how&s;oever it &s;hould happen, he made no que&s;tion but to &s;ecure him&s;elf. <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> to draw him on, hid the re&s;t of his men in a bot|tome, and made &s;hew only of his two hundred Hor&s;e, but lined them (as he u&s;ed) with his nimble&s;t Mu&s;|quetiers. Which Hor&s;e when <HI>Hurrey</HI> &s;aw, and ob|&s;erved they were &s;o few, he drew up his men and charged. But when he perceived (too late) the Foot that ran clo&s;e after <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s Hor&s;e, he &s;ounded a retreat, and <HI>Hurrey</HI> him&s;elf turning his men before him behaved him&s;elf &s;toutly in the rear. When they
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turned their backs <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s &s;ouldiers drive on, let fly, and lay about them, untill being got over the river of <HI>Eske,</HI> the enemy &s;carce &s;afe under the protecti|on of Night, betook them&s;elves to &s;helter: nor did they think them&s;elves &s;ecure till after a race of four and twenty miles long they came to <HI>Dundee.</HI> Then they that had pur&s;ued them &s;o far returned to <HI>Fe|thercarne,</HI> and thence the next day to <HI>Breichin.</HI> Here <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> under&s;tood, that <HI>Baily</HI> a Commander of great account had been fetched out of <HI>England,</HI> to be General of the enemies Forces; that <HI>Hurrey</HI> with his Hor&s;e was joyned unto him, and that they had in their Army many old &s;ouldiers brought back out of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland;</HI> &s;o that now the Covenanters going about their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e in &s;o great &s;adne&s;&s;e, <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> mu&s;t expect not only other kind of &s;ouldiers, but al&s;o mo&s;t expert Commanders to deal with.</P>
<P>Therefore, le&s;t he &s;hould chance to be hemm'd in with their Hor&s;e (in which their chief &s;trength lay) he chu&s;eth his mo&s;t convenient way by the foot of <HI>Grainsbaine</HI> towards the river of <HI>Tay</HI> intending al|&s;o if it were po&s;&s;ible to get over the <HI>Forth,</HI> where he believed the King could not want a&s;&s;i&s;tance. Which de&s;igne of his was not unknown to the enemy: there|fore they &s;end the&s;e Commanders again&s;t him with a powerfull Army; who no &s;ooner came in &s;ight than <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> offered them battell. But they intended nothing le&s;&s;e than to try it out with him that way, nor would adventure &s;o much as but to fall upon the rear of <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> as he marched off. So he went to the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Innerwharity,</HI> and the next day to a village
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called <HI>Eliot.</HI> And here again leaving the mountains behind him, he de&s;cends into the plain, and by a Trumpet &s;ends a challenge unto <HI>Baily</HI> to fight. Be|tween their two Armies ran the river <HI>Ile,</HI> which nei|ther could &s;afely pa&s;&s;e over without the others con|&s;ent. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> therefore de&s;ires <HI>Baily</HI> to give him leave &s;afely to come over to that &s;ide, which motion if <HI>Baily</HI> &s;hould not like of, he offered him a &s;afe and free pa&s;&s;age, on condition, that he would engage his honour to fight without further delay. <HI>Baily</HI> an&s;wered, he would look to his own bu&s;ine&s;&s;e him&s;elf, and would not have other men teach him when to fight. Thus the two armies fac'd one another many days, neither the enemy endeavouring to pa&s;&s;e their Forces over the river again&s;t <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> nor he hoping to make good his pa&s;&s;e unto them by rea&s;on of his &s;carcity of Hor&s;e. Marching therefore to <HI>Dunkel,</HI> he thought to pa&s;&s;e the <HI>Tay,</HI> at which time by a &s;udden and unex|pected mi&s;chief he was almo&s;t utterly ruined. It was thus, <HI>Lewis Gordon</HI> Son to Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Huntley,</HI> who had born arms again&s;t <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> in the battell of <HI>Aberdeen,</HI> by the mediation of his noble Brother the Lord <HI>Gordon</HI> had been received into favour. He either by true or counterfeit letters from the old fox in the hole; his father, tempted and carried away with him almo&s;t all the <HI>Gordons,</HI> without the knowledge of his Brother; and ba&s;ely de&s;erted <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> and him, when they were ready to be engaged with the enemy. And truly it is hard to &s;ay to whether of both he bore le&s;&s;e good will.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> being &s;ore afflicted with this unexpected
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revolt, although he was of nece&s;&s;ity to return into the North to gather new Forces, yet made as if ne|verthele&s;&s;e he went &s;traight towards the <HI>Forth;</HI> and his &s;couts came all with full cry, that all the enemy were got over the <HI>Tay,</HI> that by taking the fords of the <HI>Forth</HI> they might hinder his pa&s;&s;age. He, le&s;t he &s;hould &s;eem all this while to have done nothing, thought it well worth his labour, if by the way he could take in <HI>Dundee,</HI> a mo&s;t &s;editious town, for that being the &s;ecure&s;t haunt and receptacle of the Rebels in tho&s;e parts; and a place that had contribu|ted as much as any other towards the Rebellion, was kept by no other garri&s;on but of the Town&s;men. He therfore commanded the weake&s;t and wor&s;t armed men to goe along by the bottom of the hills and to meet him at <HI>Breichin:</HI> and he taking with him what Hor&s;e he had (which were but one hundred and fif|ty in all) and &s;ix hundred nimble mu&s;quetiers, de|parting from <HI>Dunkel</HI> about twelve of the clock in the night, made &s;o great ha&s;te, that he came to <HI>Dundee</HI> by ten of the clock in the morning on the fourth day of <HI>April.</HI> He &s;ummons the Town&s;men to deliver the Town to the King, which was the on|ly way to pre&s;erve their own lives and its &s;afety; if they would not, they mu&s;t expect fire and &s;word. They began to make delayes, and fir&s;t to give no an&s;wer at all, afterward to commit the Trumpet to pri&s;on. Which affront provoked <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> &s;o highly, that hee &s;tormed the Town in three places at once: The Town&s;men &s;tood out a while and mantained their works, but they had as good have done no+thing,
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for the Iri&s;h and Highlanders would take no repul&s;e, but with a re&s;olute a&s;&s;ault &s;ome beat them out of their &s;conces, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing them&s;elves of their Ordnance turned it again&s;t the Town; others beat open the gates, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them&s;elves of the Church and Market-place, and others &s;et the Town on fire in &s;everal places. And indeed had not the common &s;ouldiers by an un&s;ea&s;onable avarice and intemperance addicted them&s;elves to pillage, that rich Town had been immediately all on fire. But as it happened, it was better both for the conquerours and the conquered that it was not, for all the intelligence that the Scouts had brought in concerning the ene|mies comming over the <HI>Tay</HI> was ab&s;olutely fal&s;e: it may be they &s;aw a few Troops (and many they did not &s;ee) pa&s;&s;e over it, which they beleeved to have been the whole body of the enemy, and by that means were like to have undone both them&s;elves and the whole party.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> &s;tood upon the top of a hill clo&s;e unto <HI>Dundee,</HI> looking upon this on&s;laught, when his al|mo&s;t breathle&s;&s;e Scouts brought him news that <HI>Bai|ly</HI> and <HI>Hurrey</HI> with three thou&s;and Foot and eight hundred Hor&s;e were &s;carce a mile off. He immedi|ately calls his men out of the Town, which he had much to doe to per&s;wade them; for the &s;ouldiers counting them&s;elves &s;ecure of the victory, and think|ing they had done a good dayes work already, and be&s;ides being a little heated in drink and much taken with &s;o rich a booty, could hardly be brought to leave the Town they had &s;o newly taken. And truly be|fore
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they could be beaten off from the &s;poil, the e|nemy was come within musket-&s;hot of them. And now (as it u&s;es to happen in great dangers) <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI>'s coun&s;ell of War were of different opinions; &s;ome per&s;waded that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> &s;hould &s;hift for him|&s;elf with the Hor&s;e he had, becau&s;e they conceived it not po&s;&s;ible that he &s;hould be able to bring off the Foot, who had been wearied with a march of above twenty miles in the morning, after that, were &s;pent in a hot fight at noon, and now were over-loaden either with drink or prey; e&s;pecially &s;eeing he was to march twenty or perhaps thirty miles from <HI>Dundee</HI> before they could re&s;t in &s;afety. That this was the fortune of War, and to be patiently under-gone, e&s;|pecially &s;ince he had given oft-times far greater o|verthrows to the enemy than this could be to him. That there was no doubt, but that as long as he was &s;afe, his Forces might be ea&s;ily recruited; and on the other &s;ide, if he mi&s;carried, the ca&s;e was de&s;perate, and they were utterly undone. Others cryed out, that all was lo&s;t already, and there was nothing left them but to die with honour; and therefore if charging couragiou&s;ly they &s;hould break in among&s;t the thick|e&s;t of the enemy, no one could &s;ay but that they fell gallantly. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> concurred with neither of the&s;e; for he could never be brought to for&s;ake &s;o good men as he had in the extreme&s;t danger, and preferred an honourable death among his &s;ouldiers, before di&s;ho|nourable &s;afety. But for all that, for men that were &s;o much out-numbred by them, to run de&s;perately upon the enemy, and as it were to da&s;h out their
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own brains again&s;t the &s;tones, was the very la&s;t re|fuge, and not ha&s;tily to be made u&s;e of; therefore as we ought not to tempt Almighty God by our own wretchle&s;ne&s;&s;e and negligence, &s;o neither ought any valiant man or good Chri&s;tian de&s;pair of his a&s;&s;i|&s;tance in a ju&s;t cau&s;e. La&s;tly, he exhorts every one to do his own part, and referre the &s;ucce&s;&s;e to God, and other things to his own care and indu&s;try.</P>
<P>Immediately he &s;ends out four hundred Foot be|fore him, and commands them, that as much as they po&s;&s;ibly could without breaking their ranks they &s;hould make all &s;peed. Then he appoints two hun|dred of the active&s;t men he had to follow them; and he with his Hor&s;e brings up the Rear. The Hor&s;e trooped on in &s;o open order, that if occa&s;ion were they might have room enough to receive light mu&s;|quetiers. He believed the enemies Foot were not a|ble to overtake them; and if their Hor&s;e only &s;hould charge them (which they would hardly adventure to do) he conceived it was no matter of extreme difficulty to make their part good again&s;t them: be|&s;ides the Sun was ready to &s;et, and the darkne&s;&s;e of the night would be commodious for their retreat. The enemy under&s;tanding the number of them that went away fir&s;t by &s;ome pri&s;oners they had taken, and after that by their own view, a&s;&s;oon as they &s;aw they were di&s;po&s;ed rather for a journey than a bat|tell, divide their Forces into two parts, and &s;o pur|&s;ue them. Wherein their intention was not only to fall upon the Rear and the Flank at once, but al&s;o to &s;ecure again&s;t them all pa&s;&s;ages up to the Highlands:
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And their Commanders the more to encourage their Souldiers to a hot pur&s;ute, propo&s;ed twenty thou&s;and Crowns to any one that could bring in <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s head. And now the Van of the enemies Hor&s;e be|gan to cloze up unto the retreaters, whereupon tho&s;e good mu&s;quetiers that lined <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s Hor&s;e wel|comed one, and another, and another of the forwar|de&s;t of them with bullets in their &s;ides; with who&s;e mi&s;chance the re&s;t becoming more wary, abated of the eagerne&s;&s;e of their pur&s;ute. And <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s &s;oul|diers when they &s;aw they had been too hard for the enemies Foot at a march, and had got before them, taking heart and courage they skirmi&s;hed &s;toutly with their Hor&s;e, untill the night parted the quarrell. And to rid them&s;elves &s;ome way of the enemy, took their way Ea&s;t-ward many miles by the &s;ea-coa&s;t. However that was not their way, but to go North|ward toward <HI>Grainsbain,</HI> and &s;o to deliver them|&s;elves from their mi&s;chievous Hor&s;e. But <HI>Baily</HI> had laid the greate&s;t part of his Army between them and <HI>Grainsbain,</HI> that there might be no place for them to retreat unto.</P>
<P>Therefore at the dead of the night when they were not far from <HI>Aberbroth, Montro&s;e</HI> commands his men to make a &s;tand a while. And long they &s;tood not, before he con&s;idering with him&s;elf that all wayes and pa&s;&s;ages &s;traight into the Mountains might be laid by the enemies Hor&s;e (and he was not mi&s;ta|ken,) commands them to face about, and march South-we&s;t. And by this art (though with intole|rable pains) he beguiled the Pur&s;uers, whom that
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&s;ame night he pa&s;&s;ed by; and then turning North|ward, by the next morning at Sunri&s;ing pa&s;&s;ed o|ver <HI>South-Eske</HI> at a place not far from <HI>Care&s;ton</HI> Ca|&s;tle: and from thence &s;ent to <HI>Breichin</HI> to fetch tho&s;e men which he had there with the Carriages. But that had not needed, for they upon the report of this ex|pedition had provided for them&s;elves better &amp; more timely, and had taken the Mountains. VVhiles he &s;taid at <HI>Care&s;ton,</HI> the Scouts brought him word on a &s;udden that the enemies Hor&s;e were in &s;ight, and their Foot being refre&s;ht with victualls and &s;leep march'd after them apace. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> him&s;elf being now within three miles of the Mountains was not much afraid of them, but his &s;ouldiers who had not &s;lept for three dayes and two nights, but had all that while been either on their march, or in fight, were over|come with &s;o dead &s;leep, that they could hardly be rai&s;ed without pricks and wounds. The enemy be|ing at la&s;t entertained with a light skirmi&s;h &s;uffered <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e him&s;elf of the bottome of the Mountains, and having done nothing to the purpo&s;e retreated from their vain pur&s;ute. So he and his men came to <HI>Gleneske.</HI></P>
<P>And this was that &s;o much talk'd-of Expedition of <HI>Dundee,</HI> infamous indeed for the mi&s;take of the Scouts, but as renowned as any for the valour, con|&s;tancy, and undaunted re&s;olution of the General: and even admirable for the hardine&s;&s;e of the Soul|dier in encountering all extremities with patience; for three&s;core miles together they had been often in fight, alwayes upon their march, without either meat,
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or &s;leep, or the lea&s;t refre&s;hment. Which whether forein Nations or after times will believe, I can|not tell, but I am &s;ure I deliver nothing but what is mo&s;t certain of mine own knowledge. And truly among&s;t expert Souldiers, and tho&s;e of eminent note both in <HI>England, Germany,</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> I have not &s;eldome heard this Expedition of his preferred be|fore <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s greate&s;t victories.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. X.</HEAD>
<P>ANd now being &s;afe beyond expectation, <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> bids the &s;ouldiers take their re&s;t, whiles he determines thus of the whole affair of the War. He &s;ends the Lord <HI>Gordon,</HI> together with tho&s;e that had continued loyal and dutifull after the re|volt of his brother <HI>Lewis,</HI> into their own Country, both that they might recall tho&s;e whom his Brother had &s;educed away, and recruit them&s;elves by levy|ing new forces. Which he cheerfully and couragi|ou&s;ly performed, and though he &s;pared none, yet he was mo&s;t &s;evere with tho&s;e that had been authors or acce&s;&s;aries to his Brothers defection: and he was the more active in that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, that he might ac|quit him&s;elf of any &s;u&s;pition. Nor indeed did <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> him&s;elf or any other more dete&s;t that villany of <HI>Lewis Gordon,</HI> than that noble Lord his Brother. As for <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> he with a &s;mall party (for he kept but five hundred Foot and fifty Hor&s;e with him) marches through <HI>Angus</HI> into <HI>Perth&s;hire,</HI> that he might di&s;tract the enemy till &s;uch time as he had made up his Army
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with recrutes from every &s;ide. Neither was he out in his aim, for the Covenanters had &s;ent <HI>Hurrey</HI> the Lieutenant General of the Hor&s;e, with a Command into the North, of a party of &s;ix hundred old Foot, and two hundred Hor&s;e; that he might &s;trengthen their own-&s;ide, and &s;uppre&s;&s;e the Lord <HI>Gordon.</HI> And <HI>Baily</HI> him&s;elf &s;taid with an Army at <HI>Perth,</HI> as in the very heart of the Kingdom, ready to wait upon all motions. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was twelve miles off at a village called <HI>Kreif,</HI> where <HI>Baily</HI> under&s;tood he quartered &s;ecurely with a very &s;mall party: who being diligent upon all occa&s;ions, &s;et out from <HI>Beth</HI> at the beginning of the night with all his Army, that by a &s;peedy march he might at break of day fall unex|pected into <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s quarters. But he found <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> carefull enough of his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and his Foot ready in arms either to march or fight; but he with his Hor&s;e came up towards the enemy to di&s;|cover their number and &s;trength. And when he found them to be two thou&s;and Foot and five hun|dred Hor&s;e, he commanded his men to march &s;pee|dily away, and following the cour&s;e of the river <HI>Erne</HI> to make good the fords thereof: he with the few Hor&s;e that he had was their Rear-guard, le&s;t they &s;hould have been troden in pieces by the enemies Ca|valry. And truly he &s;o valiantly repul&s;ed the fierce a&s;&s;ault of the enemy, that by killing &s;ome, and rou|ting others, he forced them to retreat, till at la&s;t his Foot after &s;ix miles march had made them&s;elves Ma|&s;ters of the pa&s;&s;es of <HI>Erne.</HI> So the enemy retreated with the lo&s;&s;e of their labour, and <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> that
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&s;ame night being the eighteenth of <HI>April,</HI> quartered at <HI>Logh-Erne,</HI> and came the next day to <HI>Balwider,</HI> where the Earl of <HI>Alboine</HI> met him, who with &s;ome few more had e&s;caped out of <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> and hearing tydings of <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s good &s;ucce&s;&s;e, had at la&s;t re|turned into his Country.</P>
<P>Leaving <HI>Balwidir</HI> they advanced to <HI>Logh-Catri|net,</HI> where they receive intelligence that <HI>Hurrey</HI> had rai&s;ed great forces in the North, and was ready to engage with the Lord <HI>Gordon;</HI> and therefore there was danger that he being an active Souldier and a good Commander &s;hould be able to over-ma&s;ter that gallant young Gentleman. Therefore <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> thought it nece&s;&s;ary to oppo&s;e. <HI>Hurrey</HI> a&s;&s;oon as was po&s;&s;ible, as well to &s;ecure &s;o dear a friend from im|minent danger, as to be nibbling at the enemies For|ces as he found them a&s;under, and to cut off that power by peece-meal, which he well knew if it were all in a body would be above his match. Therefore by long and continued journeys pa&s;&s;ing by <HI>Balwidir,</HI> and a Lake of four and twenty miles long, out of which the river of <HI>Tay</HI> breaks forth, through <HI>Athole</HI> and <HI>Angus,</HI> and over <HI>Grainsbain,</HI> through a vale called <HI>Glenmuck,</HI> he came to the mid&s;t of <HI>Marre.</HI> There he joyned with the Lord <HI>Gordon,</HI> who had now a thou&s;and Foot, and two Hundred Hor&s;e, and marching &s;traight to the <HI>Spey,</HI> laboured to find out and engage with the enemy. Nor was he above &s;ix miles off when <HI>Hurrey</HI> thought he had not yet got over <HI>Grainsbain:</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">for with unwearied labour and in|credible &s;peed he had over-run the very report of
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him&s;elf. <HI>Hurrey</HI> le&s;t a battell &s;hould be forced upon him whether he would or no, before he had recei|ved an addition of numerous Auxiliaries, in all ha&s;te pa&s;&s;eth over the <HI>Spey.</HI> And becau&s;e he had appoin|ted the Rendezvouz of all his freinds at <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e,</HI> hyeth to <HI>Elgin;</HI> nor did <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> pur&s;ue him lazily to <HI>Elgin.</HI> Thence with all &s;peed he pa&s;&s;eth to <HI>For|re&s;&s;e,</HI> nor did <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> make le&s;&s;e ha&s;te to follow and overtake him too at <HI>Forre&s;&s;e,</HI> and &s;at &s;o clo&s;e on his skirts for fourteen miles together, that notwith|&s;tanding he had the advantage of the night, he had much adoe to reach <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>The next day <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> incamped at a village cal|led <HI>Alderne:</HI> and <HI>Hurrey</HI> according to his hopes found the Earls of <HI>Seaforth</HI> and <HI>Suherland,</HI> the whole &s;ept of the <HI>Fra&s;ers,</HI> and mo&s;t of <HI>Murray</HI> and <HI>Cath|ne&s;&s;e,</HI> and the neighbouring parts, to have a&s;&s;embled them&s;elves to <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e</HI> well appointed. To the&s;e <HI>Hurrey</HI> ads &s;om old &s;ouldiers of the Garri&s;on of that Town, and &s;o draws up again&s;t <HI>Montro&s;e.</HI> He now commanded three thou&s;and and five hundred Foot, &amp; four hundred Hor&s;e; but <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> (who had no more but fifteen hundred Foot and two hundred Hor&s;e) had a great mind to retire. But not only <HI>Hurrey</HI> pre&s;&s;ed &s;o vehemently upon him, that it was &s;carce po&s;&s;ible for him to retreat, But <HI>Baily</HI> al&s;o with a Southern Army much &s;tronger than <HI>Hurrey</HI>'s (e&s;|pecially in Hor&s;e) was now got already a great way on that &s;ide <HI>Gransbaine,</HI> and marched in great ha&s;te towards the <HI>Spey.</HI> What &s;hould <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> doe in this condition? He mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity either give <HI>Hur|rey</HI>
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battell, or undergoe a far greater hazard of be|ing hemm'd in between two Armies. Therfore he re&s;olves to try the fortune of War without delay, to commit the &s;ucce&s;&s;e unto God, and chu&s;ing the be&s;t advantage of ground he could find, there to expect the a&s;&s;ault of the enemy. There was a litle Town that &s;tood upon the height which &s;hadowed the neighbouring valley; and &s;ome little hills that were higher than the Town behind it, that hindered the di&s;covery of any one till they were ju&s;t upon him. In this valley he drawes up his Forces out of the view of the enemy. Before the Town he places a few but expert and choice Foot with his Ordnance, who were &s;heltered with &s;uch ditches as they found there. The right wing he commits to <HI>Alexander Mac-donald</HI> with four hundred Foot, and lodged them in places fortified to their hand with banks and ditches, with &s;hrubs al&s;o and great &s;tones: and commands him to pre&s;erve him&s;elf entire that he might be a re|&s;erve upon all occa&s;ions, and not to depart from his &s;tation which had &s;o good a naturall fence, that they might lie there &s;afe enough not only from the enemies Hor&s;e but Foot al&s;o. And with the &s;ame good advice he committed to his charge that notable Standard of the Kings, which only he was wont to carry before him; expecting that the enemy upon the &s;ight of that would order the be&s;t of their Forces again&s;t that wing, which by rea&s;on of the di&s;advantage of the place would be rendred wholly unu&s;efull unto them, till &s;uch time as he on the flank &s;hould take his be&s;t advantage again&s;t them. And to that end draw|ing
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the re&s;t of his Forces to the other &s;ide, he com|mends the Hor&s;e to the Lord <HI>Gordon,</HI> and takes charge of the Foot him&s;elf. Tho&s;e few that &s;tood be|fore the Town under the &s;helter and convert of the banks and ditches &s;eemed as if they were his main battel, whereas indeed he had none. And for Re&s;erves in that &s;carcity of men they were not to be thought of.</P>
<P>The enemy (as <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> mo&s;t wi&s;ely fore-&s;aw) a&s;|&s;oon as they &s;aw the Kings Standard, ordered the mo&s;t part of their Hor&s;e and old Souldiers (where|in their chief &s;trength con&s;i&s;ted) again&s;t that. And by this time the Van of the enemy began to di&s;pute it with tho&s;e before the Town, and on the right flank, and &s;till as their Souldiers were &s;pent, drew up fre&s;h men; which <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> becau&s;e his number was but few could not &s;o ea&s;ily doe: therefore he re&s;olved with all his men that he had on the left flank to make a vio|lent a&s;&s;ault upon the enemy at once. And whiles he was thinking &s;o to do, there comes unto him one whom he knew to be tru&s;ty and di&s;creet, and whi&s;|pers him in the ear, that <HI>Mac-donald</HI> with his men on the right flank were put to flight. He being a man of a quick &s;pirit, thought it was be&s;t to fore-&s;tall the Souldiers, le&s;t their hearts &s;hould fail them upon bad news, and cryes aloud to the Lord <HI>Gordon, My Lord, what do we do?</HI> Mac-donald <HI>upon the right hand ha|ving routed and di&s;comfited the enemy is upon the execution; &s;hall we &s;tand by as idle &s;pectatours, whiles he carries away the honour of the day?</HI> And with that he commands them to charge. <HI>Hurrey</HI>'s Hor&s;e had no mind long to endure the &s;hock of
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the <HI>Gordons,</HI> but wheeling about and beginning to run, left their flanks (which they were to maintain) open to their enemies. Their Foot, although thus de&s;erted by their Hor&s;e, being both more in num|ber and better armed than <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s men, &s;tood out very &s;toutly as long as his men kept aloof; but a&s;&s;oon as he came to fall upon them hand to hand, he drove them to throw away their arms, and to &s;eek though, to little purpo&s;e, to &s;ave them&s;elves by their heels. But <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> him&s;elf, not forgetting what was &s;ignified unto him by &s;o faithfull a me&s;|&s;enger, drew off with a few of his readie&s;t men unto the right flank, where he found things in a far other condition than they were left.</P>
<P>For <HI>Mac-donald</HI> being a valiant man, but bet|ter at his hands then head, (being over-ha&s;ty in battel, and bold even to ra&s;hne&s;&s;e) di&s;daining to &s;helter him|&s;elf behind hedges and &s;hrubs whiles the enemy va|poured and provoked him with ill language, con|trary to orders, upon his own head advanceth to|wards the enemy, out of that mo&s;t defen&s;ible fa&s;t|ne&s;&s;e and &s;tation wherein he was placed. And he did it to his co&s;t, for the enemy over-powring him both in Hor&s;e and Foot, and having many old &s;ouldiers among&s;t them, routed and repul&s;ed his men. And cer|tainly if he had not timely drawn them off into a clo&s;e hard by, they had every one of them together with the Kings Standard been lo&s;t. But he made a mends for that ra&s;h mi&s;take, in his admirable courage in bringing off his men, for he was the la&s;t man that came off, and covering his body with a great target
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which he carried in his left hand, defended him&s;elf again&s;t the thicke&s;t of his enemies. Tho&s;e that came clo&s;e&s;t up unto him were Pike-men, who with ma|ny a blow had &s;truck their &s;pear-heads into his tar|get, which he cut off by three or foure at once with his &s;word, which he managed with his right hand. And tho&s;e that made him any oppo&s;ition in the clo&s;e, &s;eeing <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> come in to his aid, and their own men on the other &s;ide put to flight, &s;uch as were Hor&s;e &s;purr'd away, and the Foot (mo&s;t of which were old Souldiers out of <HI>Ireland)</HI> fighting de&s;perately, were almo&s;t all of them &s;lain upon the ground. The Conquerors pur&s;ued them that fled for &s;ome miles; &s;o that there were &s;lain about three thou|&s;and Foot of the enemy, among&s;t whom their old &s;oul|diers fought mo&s;t &s;toutly; but almo&s;t all their Hor&s;e e&s;caped by a more timely than honourable flight.</P>
<P>Nor had <HI>Hurrey</HI> him&s;elf with &s;ome of their be&s;t men which went la&s;t off the field e&s;caped the hands of the pur&s;uers, had not the Earl of <HI>Aboine,</HI> by I know not what want of heed, di&s;played &s;ome En|&s;ignes and Standards that had been taken from the enemy; and him&s;elf not following the cha&s;e but tur|ning towards his owne party, &s;eemed to have been the enemy, and to threaten a new battell. With which mi&s;take they were &s;o long deluded, untill the ene|mies Hor&s;e, though much di&s;ordered, had &s;hifted them&s;elves away into &s;uch by-paths as they knew or could light upon: only a few of them came with <HI>Hurrey</HI> before next morning to <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e.</HI> Of &s;uch of the enemy as were &s;lain, the mo&s;t notable were
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<HI>Cambell Laver</HI> a Collonel of old Souldiers, Sir <HI>Iohn</HI> and Sir <HI>Gideon Murray</HI> Knights, and o|ther &s;tout men, and perhaps not unworthy to be lamented, had they not &s;tained their otherwi&s;e commendable valour with the horrid crime of Re|bellion; nor in that did they &s;o much follow their own judgements as the humour of the times, or the ambi|tion, or a varice of their Chiefs. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> of tho&s;e that &s;erved with him on the left flank mi&s;&s;ed only one man, and him a private Souldier; and on that &s;ide where <HI>Mac-donald</HI> commanded, there were mi&s;&s;ing fourteen private Souldiers al&s;o. But he had many more wounded, the curing and &s;ecuring of whom was e&s;peci|ally provided for by <HI>Montro&s;e.</HI> Afterwards entertaining the pri&s;oners with &s;weetne&s;&s;e and courte&s;ie, he pro|mi&s;ed all &s;uch as repented of their errour, liberty or employment, and was as good as his word, and &s;uch as were ob&s;tinate in their rebellion he di&s;po&s;ed of into &s;everal pri&s;ons. In this battel at <HI>Alderne</HI> the valour of young <HI>Napier</HI> did very much di&s;cover it &s;elf; who being the Son of the Lord <HI>Napier</HI> of <HI>Marchi|&s;ton,</HI> and <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s nephew by his &s;i&s;ter, had but a little before, without the knowledge of his Father, or Wife, &s;toln away from <HI>Edinburgh</HI> to his Uncle, and did at this time give an excellent a&s;&s;ay of his valour, and laid down mo&s;t firm principles of a mo&s;t noble di&s;po&s;ition. Whereupon the chief of the Covenanters took his Father, a man almo&s;t three&s;core and ten years old (and as good a man as ever <HI>Scotland</HI> bred in this age,) and his wife, the daughter of the Earl of <HI>Marre,</HI> Sir <HI>Sterling Keer</HI> his brother-in-law (an excellent
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man al&s;o, chief of his family, and one that had &s;uf|fered very much for his Loyalty) together with his two &s;i&s;ters, the one Sir <HI>Sterlings</HI> mo&s;t vertuous Lady, the other a virgin, and ca&s;t them all into the dungeon; from whence afterward they were to be delivered by <HI>Napier</HI> him&s;elf with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of his Uncle.</P>
<P>This battell was fought at <HI>Alderne</HI> on the 4. of <HI>May,</HI> 1645.</P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XI.</HEAD>
<P><HI>MOntro&s;e</HI> allowing a few dayes of refre&s;hment to his Souldiers, marched to <HI>Elgin,</HI> which is the chief Town of the Province; where for the &s;ake of tho&s;e that were wounded, he made &s;ome long|er &s;tay, becau&s;e they had there the accommodation of good Chirurgeons and medicines, which are &s;ome times &s;carce to be had in the field. Afterward pa&s;&s;ing over the <HI>Spey</HI> he came to <HI>Keith,</HI> from thence to <HI>Frendrackt,</HI> and &s;o to <HI>Strathbogy.</HI> Here <HI>Baily</HI> meets him (unto whom <HI>Hurrey</HI> with tho&s;e that remai|ned of his broken Troops at <HI>Alderne</HI> was joyned) and provokes him to battell. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> kept back his men, who were &s;pent with great travail, and were far fewer both in Hor&s;e and Foot, though very eager to fight, till &s;uch time as he had rai&s;ed new for|ces, and recruited them. Therefore thinking it enough to maintain the ground which he had cho&s;en, as com|modiou&s;ly as he could for him&s;elf untill night, pa&s;|&s;eth to <HI>Balveny,</HI> whither al&s;o the enemy follovv|eth him: but he pa&s;&s;ing by <HI>Strath-Done,</HI> and <HI>Sprath-Spey,</HI>
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went up to <HI>Badenoth.</HI> The enemy getting to the other &s;ide of the water provokes him again to fight; but in vain, for he was very wary of giving them a &s;et battell, but neverthele&s;&s;e by frequent skirmi&s;hes, and e&s;pecially beating up quarters in the night, did &s;o much weaken their power and courage, that they that were &s;o haughtily daring but a while ago, as well Commanders as Souldiers, ha&s;tily and di&s;orderly betook them&s;elves by night to <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e</HI> when none pur&s;ued them. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was not much di&s;|plea&s;ed that he was &s;o rid of his enemy, e&s;peci|ally for this rea&s;on; the Earl of <HI>Lind&s;ey,</HI> the prime ringleader of the Covenanters next unto <HI>Argyle,</HI> and his rivall too (as being brother-in-law to Duke <HI>Hamilton)</HI> u&s;ed to give out, that <HI>Argyle</HI> wanted either care or courage; and how&s;oever it came to pa&s;&s;e, was &s;till unfortunate. And therefore he took upon him&s;elf the command of that Army which was newly rai&s;ed, as if he would a&s;&s;ay to manage the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e with better conduct. And now he had pa&s;&s;ed over with his forces into <HI>Angus,</HI> intending to be a Re&s;erve unto <HI>Baily;</HI> and if any thing &s;hould happen othewi&s;e than well, at the wor&s;t he was ready to hinder <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s pa&s;&s;age over <HI>Forth.</HI> For they were alwayes very jealous le&s;t <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> &s;hould remove the &s;ent of Warr to this &s;ide the <HI>Forth,</HI> and nearer <HI>Edinburgh.</HI> Therefore he re&s;olved with all &s;peed to quell <HI>Lind&s;ey</HI> (who lay yet in <HI>Angus</HI> at a Ca&s;tle called <HI>Newtill)</HI> both becau&s;e the General was no &s;ouldier, and the &s;ouldiers raw, and unac|quainted with the hard&s;hip of Warr.</P>
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In pur&s;ute of which de&s;ign, departing from <HI>Ba|denoth,</HI> he marcheth through the plains of <HI>Marre</HI> over <HI>Gransbain,</HI> and came by long and painfull jour|nies unto the coa&s;t of the river of <HI>Airley,</HI> intending to &s;urpri&s;e the enemy on a &s;udden: which was ea&s;ie to be done, for he had made &s;uch ha&s;te, that the news of his approach was not &s;o &s;wift as him&s;elf. And now <HI>Lind|&s;ey</HI> was not above &s;even miles from him, and all things were ready for an a&s;&s;ault, when (upon what occa&s;ion it is uncertain) almo&s;t all the Northern men privatly ran away from their colours, and go|ing back the way that they came, return into their Country. The Lord <HI>Gordon</HI> was in the Camp, and there was none there that dete&s;ted that villany with greater indignation than he, in &s;o much that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had much adoe to with-hold him from putting &s;uch of the fugitives to death as had any dependence upon him. Some &s;tick not to &s;ay, that the&s;e men were in|veigled away by the private directions of his father the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Huntley</HI> to the Earl of <HI>Aboine,</HI> who by rea&s;on of his &s;ickne&s;&s;e was ab&s;ent. For it vext <HI>Huntley,</HI> a haughty and envious man, to hear of the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of <HI>Montro&s;e;</HI> nor could he endure that in|ward friend&s;hip which was between his elde&s;t &s;on and him. However it was, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> being ca&s;t down with this unexpected mi&s;fortune, was forced to put off that Expedition again&s;t <HI>Lind&s;ey,</HI> and to &s;uffer patiently &s;o great and ea&s;ie a victory to be taken out of his hands.</P>
<P>Therfore taking up new re&s;olutions, he follow|eth after Collonel <HI>Nathaniel Gordon,</HI> a valiant man and a tru&s;ty, and welbeloved in his Country, whom
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he had &s;ent before. And by this time <HI>Baily</HI> and <HI>Hur|rey</HI> had returned from <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e,</HI> and quartered in lower <HI>Marre</HI> by the &s;ide of <HI>Dee.</HI> And <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> came by the coa&s;ts of <HI>Eske,</HI> and the plains of <HI>Marre</HI> into the heart of that Country, commonly called <HI>Cromarre.</HI> And whiles he pa&s;&s;ed through tho&s;e plains afore&s;aid, he di&s;patched <HI>Mac-donald</HI> with a party into the furthe&s;t part of the Highlands, to con|duct &s;uch Forces as were there rai&s;ed, with all &s;peed unto the Army. Afterward he &s;ent away the Lord <HI>Gordon</HI> him&s;elf, to ha&s;ten and promote that levy of men which <HI>Nathaniel Gordon</HI> was li&s;ting, by all the power and intere&s;ts he had in tho&s;e parts. Which he mo&s;t diligently performed, and among&s;t others, brought his Brother the Earl of <HI>Aboine</HI> back with him. While&s;t the&s;e things pa&s;&s;ed in <HI>Cromarre, Lind|&s;ey</HI> joynes his Forces with <HI>Baily</HI> in lower <HI>Marre,</HI> with whom <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> finding him&s;elf unable to deal, (the mo&s;t part of his Forces being gone along with the Lord <HI>Gordon</HI> and <HI>Mac-donald)</HI> he &s;tept a&s;ide to the ruinated Ca&s;tle of <HI>Kargarf,</HI> le&s;t the enemy &s;hould overlay him on the champain grounds with their multitudes both of Hor&s;e and Foot; but when he was clo&s;e unto the Mountains he feared them not. From hence <HI>Aboine</HI> falling &s;ick again betook him&s;elf to <HI>Strathbogy;</HI> and upon pretence of a guard, carried along with him a con&s;iderable number of Hor&s;e, whom his Brother the Lord <HI>Gordon</HI> had much adoe afterward to draw back to their colours. In the mean time <HI>Lind&s;ey</HI> took a thou&s;and old Souldiers from <HI>Baily,</HI> and gave him as many raw and new rais'd
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men for them; and as if he intended to doe &s;ome famous exploit, returning through <HI>Merne</HI> into <HI>An|gus,</HI> with all the pains he took he did only this, he ranged with his Army up and down <HI>Athole,</HI> and after he had robbed and &s;poiled all the Country, he &s;et it on fire. In this imitating <HI>Argyle,</HI> who was the fir&s;t that in this age introduced that cruel and dreadful pre&s;ident of de&s;troying hou&s;es and corn <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> being bet|ter at fire than &s;word, when they came into empty fields and towns unmann'd.</P>
<P><HI>Baily</HI> at that time went to <HI>Bogy,</HI> to be&s;iege the faire&s;t ca&s;tle that belonged to the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Huntley,</HI> and indeed of all the North; and in ca&s;e he failed to take it in, to wa&s;te and fire all the Country of the <HI>Gordons</HI> there-abouts. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> (although <HI>Mac-donald</HI> was ab&s;ent with a great party) thought it nece&s;&s;ary to relieve <HI>Huntley</HI> and his friends, whom he laboured to a&s;&s;ure unto him&s;elf by all good of|fices, and hied thither. Where having notice that <HI>Baily</HI>'s &s;ouldiers, though not all, yet a great part, were new rais'd men (for he had parted with &s;o many old &s;ouldiers to <HI>Lind&s;ey)</HI> de&s;ired nothing more than without delay to fight him, and marcheth &s;traight towards him. He had not gone above three miles before he di&s;covered the enemies Scouts: He there|fore &s;ent, before &s;ome of his readie&s;t men that knew the wayes, to view the &s;trength, the rendezvouz, and the order of the enemy. They immediately bring word that the Foot &s;tood on the top of a hill &s;ome two miles off; and the Hor&s;e had po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed them|&s;elves of a narrow and trouble&s;ome pa&s;&s;e which lay
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almo&s;t in the middle between the two Armies, and were come on this &s;ide it. Again&s;t them <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> &s;ent &s;uch Hor&s;e as he had in a readine&s;&s;e, with &s;ome nimble Firelocks, whom they fir&s;t entertained with light skirmi&s;hes afarre off, and after retreated behind the pa&s;&s;e, which they had &s;trongly mann'd with Mu&s;|quetiers. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> &s;ends for the Foot, that if it were po&s;&s;ible they might di&s;lodge the enemy from thence; but it could not be done, for they were par|ted by the fall of the night, which both &s;ides pa&s;&s;ed over, waking and in their arms. The next day <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> &s;ends a Trumpet to offer a &s;et battell, but <HI>Bai|ly</HI> an&s;wers, he would not receive order to fight from an enemy. He therefore &s;eeing he could not drive the enemy from tho&s;e pa&s;&s;es without manife&s;t lo&s;&s;e and danger, that he might draw him out thence in &s;ome time, marcheth off to <HI>Pitlurge,</HI> and from thence to a Ca&s;tle of the Lord <HI>Forbe&s;es</HI> called <HI>Druminore,</HI> where he &s;taid two dayes. And at la&s;t he under&s;tands the enemy had quitted the pa&s;&s;es, and was marching toward <HI>Strathbogy;</HI> &s;o he at break of day &s;ets forth towards a village called <HI>Alford.</HI> But <HI>Baily</HI> when he had gotten certain notice that <HI>Mac-donald,</HI> with a con&s;iderable part of tho&s;e Forces, was ab&s;ent in the Highlands, he voluntarily pur&s;ues <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> concei|ving him to be &s;tealing away, and about noon be|gan to face him. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> determines to wait for the enemy (who as &s;eemed to him came towards him) upon the higher ground: but <HI>Baily</HI> turning a&s;ide &s;ome three miles to the left hand, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> holds on his intended march to <HI>Alford,</HI> where he &s;taid that night,
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the enemy lying about four miles off.</P>
<P>The next day after, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> commands his men very early in the morning to &s;tand to their arms, and make ready to battell, and placed them on a hill that &s;tands over <HI>Alford.</HI> And as he with a Troop of Hor&s;e was ob&s;erving the motion and order of the enemy, and viewing the fords of the <HI>Done,</HI> a river which runs by <HI>Alford,</HI> it was told him, that the ene|my, Hor&s;e and Foot, were making unto a ford which lay a mile from <HI>Alford,</HI> to the intent that they might cut off the Rear of their flying enemy; for &s;o tho&s;e excellent Diviners prophe&s;ied to their own de|&s;truction. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> leaving that Troop of Hor&s;e not farre from the Ford, together with &s;ome &s;elect and under&s;tanding men, who &s;hould give him per|fect intelligence of all things, he returneth alone to order the battel. And above all things he po&s;&s;e&s;&s;es him&s;elf of <HI>Alford</HI> hill, where he might receive the charge of the enemy if they fell on de&s;perately. Be|hind him was a moori&s;h place full of ditches and pits, which would prevent Hor&s;e falling upon his Rear: befote him was a &s;teep hill, which kept his men from the enemies view, &s;o that they could hard|ly perceive the formo&s;t ranks. He had &s;carce given order for the right managing of all things, when tho&s;e Hor&s;e, whom he had left at the Ford, returned with a full cariere, and bring word that the enemy had pa&s;&s;ed the River. And novv it vvas no more &s;afe for either of them to retreat vvithout the apparent ruine of their party. It is reported, that <HI>Baily</HI> like a skilful and vvary Commander, vvas &s;ore again&s;t his
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will drawn unto this battel; nor had engaged, had he not been nece&s;&s;itated unto it by the ra&s;hne&s;&s;e of the Lord <HI>Balcari&s;e,</HI> a Collonel of Hor&s;e; who pre|cipitated him&s;elf and the Hor&s;e under his command into that danger, whether <HI>Baily</HI> would or no, as that he could not be brought off without the hazard of the whole Army.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> gave the command of his right wing (on which &s;ide the enemies Hor&s;e were mo&s;t &s;trong) unto the Lord <HI>Gordon;</HI> and appointed <HI>Nathaniel Gordon,</HI> an old Commander to his a&s;&s;i&s;tance. The command of the left wing was given to the Earl of <HI>Aboine,</HI> to whom al&s;o was joyned Sir <HI>William Rollock:</HI> And of the main battel to two valiant men, <HI>Glen|gar,</HI> and <HI>Drumond</HI> of <HI>Ball</HI> the younger, unto whom he added <HI>George Graham</HI> Ma&s;ter of the Camp, an expert Souldier al&s;o. The Re&s;erve, which was al|together hid behind the hill, was commanded by his Nephew <HI>Napier.</HI> And for a while, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> kept him&s;elf upon the height, and the enemy in the valley being fortified with pits and ditches; for it was nei|ther &s;afe for the latter to charge up the hill, nor for the former to fall upon them that were &s;urrounded with mar&s;hes and pooles. The numbers of the Foot were in a manner even, either &s;ide had about two thou&s;and: but <HI>Baily</HI> was much &s;tronger in Hor&s;e, for he had &s;ix hundred, and <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> but two hun|dred and fifty. Only <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had this advantage, that the enemy were for the mo&s;t part hirelings rai|&s;ed from dunghils, but tho&s;e that &s;erved the King, Gentlemen, who fought for a good Cau&s;e and
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Honour, <HI>gratis,</HI> and not for gain; and &s;uch as e|&s;teem'd it more becoming to die than to be overcome. Be&s;ides, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> knew that the greate&s;t part of the old Souldiers were gone with <HI>Lind&s;ey,</HI> and the new ones would be &s;o frighted with the &s;houts of the Ar|mies, and the noi&s;e of Trumpets, that they would &s;carce &s;tand the fir&s;t charge. Therefore in confidence of &s;o ju&s;t a cau&s;e, and &s;o valiant a&s;&s;ertors of it, he fir&s;t drew down his men, and immediately the Lord <HI>Gor|don</HI> giving a &s;mart charge upon them, was courage|ou&s;ly receiv'd by the enemy, who tru&s;ted to the mul|titude of their Hor&s;e: and now being clos'd, and come to handy-blows, no one could advance a foot but over his vanqui&s;hed enemy; nor retreat by rea|&s;on of the pre&s;&s;ing on of tho&s;e in the Rear. The fir&s;t that made way for them&s;elves and their men by a great &s;laughter of their enemies were the two <HI>Gordons,</HI> the Lord, and the Collonel; and Collonel <HI>Natha|niel</HI> called out unto tho&s;e expert Firelocks who now lin'd the Hor&s;e as they were wont, <HI>Come on, my fel|low &s;ouldiers, throw down your now u&s;ele&s;s guns, draw your &s;words, and &s;heath them in the Rebels Hor&s;e, or ham&s;tring them.</HI> They in&s;tantly took the word of command, and at the &s;ame time <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> drawes up <HI>Napier</HI> with his Re&s;erve, which lay out of &s;ight on the other &s;ide of the hill; at who&s;e &s;udden and un|expected coming, the enemy affrighted betook him|&s;elf to his heels. <HI>Aboine</HI> with the left wing kept off, nor did he attempt the enemy but by light skirmi&s;hes in &s;mall parties: who when they &s;aw their own men on their left wing routed and put to flight, made
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their retreat with little lo&s;&s;e. There Foot being de|&s;erted by their Hor&s;e, after they had de&s;perately &s;tood out a while, and re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;ed quarter, were almo&s;t all cut off. The fall of the Lord <HI>Gordon</HI> was no little ad|vantage to the e&s;cape of their Hor&s;e, who after the battel was won, ru&s;hing fiercely into the thicke&s;t of them, received a &s;hot thorow his body by the con|quered and flying enemy, and fell down dead. Whom al&s;o <HI>Aboine</HI> did not hotly pur&s;ue, being much trou|bled with the lo&s;&s;e of his brother.</P>
<P>In this battel, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> did not lo&s;e &s;o much as one common Souldier, and of Gentlemen, one <HI>Cul|chol,</HI> and one <HI>Melton;</HI> who&s;e names and families I &s;hould mo&s;t willingly have in&s;erted, had I been &s;o hap|py as to have knowledge of them, becau&s;e they died gallantly in the bed of Honour; fighting for their King, their Liberty, and the Laws. Nor are &s;ome Pedees, as well Scotch as Iri&s;h, to be forgotten, boyes &s;carce fourteen yeares of age apiece, who throwing down their Ma&s;ters luggage, and mounting upon their Nags and Sumpter-hor&s;es, did not only make a fair appearance of a body of Hor&s;e, but (as if they had been Corrivals in valour with their Ma&s;ters) beyond what might be expected from their years and &s;trength, fell in among the thicke&s;t of their enemies. Of whom &s;ome, but very few, were &s;lain; nor did they &s;ell their lives for nothing; and by that they gave an ample te&s;timony of their towardne&s;&s;e, and of &s;o manly a &s;pirit in children as might pre&s;cribe to riper years. But the lo&s;&s;e of the Lord <HI>Gordon</HI> had &s;o deep an impre&s;&s;ion upon all mens affections, that they
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had the face rather of a defeated than victorious Ar|my. The fir&s;t &s;cene of their &s;orrow was acted in a dull &s;ilence; in the next, the floud-gates were broke open, and the Army was full of &s;ighes, and &s;obs, and wailing, and lamentation; and then with bedewed cheeks, as &s;oon as their grief could get a tongue, they blam'd Heaven, and Earth, and Fortune, and every thing, for depriving the King, the King|dome, the Age, them&s;elves, and their po&s;terity of &s;uch a man. Thus forgetting their victory, and the &s;poil, they fixt their eyes upon the lifele&s;s body, ki&s;&s;ed his face, and hands, commended the &s;ingular beauty of the Corps, compared the Nobility of his de&s;cent, and the plentifulne&s;&s;e of his fortune, with the hopefulne&s;&s;e of his parts; and counted that an unfortunate victory that had &s;tood them in &s;o much. And truly, it was like to have happened, that their exce&s;&s;ive &s;orrow for the lo&s;&s;e of this noble Gentleman had conquer'd the Conquerors, had they not comfort|ed them&s;elves with the pre&s;ence and &s;afety of <HI>Mon|tro&s;e.</HI> Nor could he him&s;elf refrain him&s;elf from be|wailing with &s;alt tears the &s;ad and bitter fate of his mo&s;t dear and only friend, but lamented much that the honour of his Nation, the ornament of the Scoti&s;h Nobility, the able&s;t a&s;&s;ertor of the Royal Authority in the North, and &s;o intimate a friend unto him&s;elf, &s;hould be thus cut off in the flower of his age. In the mean time, hoping that rea&s;on and time between them would a&s;&s;wage that grief, he commands Phy&s;i|cians to embalm his noble Corps, which afterwards being removed to <HI>Aberdeen,</HI> he &s;aw brought forth
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with a &s;umptuous and Souldier-like F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">eral, and in|terr'd in the Monument of his Ance&s;tors in the Ca|thedral Church. This battel was fought at <HI>Alford</HI> on the 2. of <HI>July,</HI> 1645.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XII.</HEAD>
<P><HI>MOntro&s;e</HI> that &s;ame afternoon that he had got this victory at <HI>Alford,</HI> marching to <HI>Clunie</HI> Ca&s;tle, allowed only two or three hours to his Soul|diers for their refre&s;hment. And going from thence to the bank of the river <HI>Dee,</HI> &s;ent away the Earl of <HI>Aboine,</HI> who &s;ucceeded his decea&s;ed Brother, into <HI>Buchan&s;hire,</HI> and the places adjacent for recruits; for many of them who were at the fight being Highlan|ders, and not farre from their own habitations, had dropt home with their pillage. And becau&s;e <HI>Mac-donald</HI> was not yet returned, he kept his quarters at <HI>Crag&s;ton,</HI> expecting both him and <HI>Aboine.</HI> But when he perceived tho&s;e Auxiliaries were di&s;patched unto him with le&s;&s;e &s;peed than he hoped, and finding his expectation deluded, impatient of &s;o long and di&s;ad|vantageous delay; after he had got over the <HI>Dee</HI> and <HI>Gransbaine,</HI> fell down into <HI>Merne,</HI> and lay at <HI>Ford&oacute;n</HI> Chapel, once famous for the See and Sepulchre of St. <HI>Palladius.</HI> Thence he &s;ends to the Earle of <HI>A|boine</HI> (who was now come to <HI>Aberdeen)</HI> to ha&s;ten unto him into <HI>Merne</HI> with &s;uch Forces as he heard he had rai&s;ed, <HI>Alboine</HI> came indeed, but brought no great &s;tore of Forces along with him; therefore he &s;ends him back into the North to rai&s;e as many men as he
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could po&s;&s;ibly, and bring them with all &s;peed unto the Camp. He him&s;elf going through <HI>Angus</HI> met his Co&s;en <HI>Patrick Graham</HI> with his <HI>Athole-</HI>men ready to live and die under his command, and <HI>Mac-donald</HI> with a great power of Highlanders: with him was <HI>Macklen</HI> the chief of his &s;ept, a valiant man, and &s;ingularly loy|al, who brought &s;ome &s;even hundred choice Foot of his Friends and Clients. Al&s;o the chief of the <HI>Mac-renolds</HI> a great man in the Highlands, and one that entirely lov'd the King, who had above five hun|dred men at his heels. The <HI>Mac-gregors</HI> al&s;o, and the <HI>Macknab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> men inferiour to none in valour and hardne&s;s, after the fa&s;hion of the Countrey followed their Commanders and Chiefs of their Families, who&s;e certain number I cannot ea&s;ily a&s;&s;igne. And <HI>Glengar,</HI> a man never &s;ufficiently to be commended for his valour, and loyalty to the King, and &s;ervicea|blene&s;s and affection to <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> (&s;eeing he in per|&s;on almo&s;t from the Expedition into <HI>Argyle</HI> had ne|ver departed from him) by his Uncles &amp; others whom he imployed brought in about five hundred more. Be|&s;ides out of the plains of <HI>Marre</HI> came a great number of the <HI>Ferchar&s;ons,</HI> gallant men, and of approved va|lour. And &s;ome too out of <HI>Badenoth,</HI> not many indeed, but &s;tout and able men of their hands.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> being reinforced with &s;uch an Army, re&s;olves to make way into the heart of the Kingdome; as well to &s;poil the enemies levying of men in <HI>Fife|&s;hire,</HI> and the Country on this &s;ide the <HI>Forth,</HI> as al|&s;o to break up the Parliament which the Cove|nanters had not without &s;olemnity and o&s;tentation
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&s;ummoned at Saint <HI>Johns-town.</HI> Nor did any thing hinder him but want of Hor&s;e, of which alwaies he had &s;uch &s;carcity, that it was never o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> very &s;eldome &s;afe for him to fall down into the plain Countrey. But becau&s;e he dayly expected <HI>Aboine</HI> and <HI>Airley</HI> to come unto him with a con&s;iderable party of Hor&s;e, he pa&s;|&s;ed over the <HI>Tay</HI> at <HI>Dunkel,</HI> and lying near <HI>A|munde,</HI> &s;truck no &s;mall terrour into the enemy who held Saint <HI>Johns-town;</HI> and from thence approach|ing nearer unto them, he encamped in <HI>Methfyn</HI> Fore&s;t.</P>
<P>The enemies Foot (all but the Garri&s;on Souldiers in the Town) lay on the South of the River <HI>Erne.</HI> The Hor&s;e which were de&s;igned for the guard of the Town and Parliament, as &s;oon as they di&s;covered <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s Scouts, bring in a hot alarm that he was there, and come already clo&s;e to the gates, and no que&s;tion but he meant pre&s;ently to &s;cale the walls, and make an a&s;&s;ault upon the Town: therefore they were earne&s;t with the Nobility and the whole Par|liament to &s;ecure them&s;elves by a &s;peedy flight: when all this while <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had &s;carce a hundred Hor&s;e, and they were four hundred. But he the next day the more to encrea&s;e thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> terrour, drew near un|to the Town with tho&s;e Hor&s;e he had, and about the &s;ame number of ready Fire-locks whom he mounted upon pack-hor&s;es; and &s;et out his men in their view &s;o much to his advantage, that they appeared a con&s;i|derable body of Hor&s;e. And becau&s;e the enemy kept them&s;elves within the gates, forthwith turning to|wards <HI>Duplin,</HI> he diligently view'd this &s;ide of
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the River <HI>Erne</HI> and all that coa&s;t, as if he had Hor&s;e enough to keep all that Countrey in &s;ubjection. And truly thus much he got by it, that the enemy took him to be exceeding &s;trong as well in Hor&s;e as Foot. Therefore they draw together as many Forces from all &s;ides as they could make, whom they intended to fight with <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> if he &s;hould offer to pa&s;&s;e over the <HI>Forth.</HI> But he finding it not &s;afe for him&s;elf nei|ther to de&s;cend into the Champain Countrey, they both kept their &s;tations for many dayes, the enemy expecting Auxiliaries out of <HI>Fife,</HI> and the Country on this &s;ide of the <HI>Forth,</HI> and out of the We&s;t; and <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> looking for the like out of the North; And waiting impatiently for <HI>Aboine,</HI> who was too &s;low with his men, he &s;ent &s;ome to ha&s;ten him, le&s;t they &s;hould lo&s;e the opportunity of doing their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. He al&s;o complained, but in a &s;oft and gentle manner, as before a faithfull friend, that <HI>Aboine</HI>'s lingring and delay was in the fault, that a brave victory, by which he conceived the Rebells might have been utterly &s;ub|dued had &s;lipt out of his hands; which misfortune no man doubted but his &s;peed and diligence might have prevented.</P>
<P>The enemy when they under&s;tood that he onely cheated them with a fal&s;e Mu&s;ter of Hor&s;e, having gotten aid from all parts, and by this time over|numbring him even in Foot, labour'd not onely to pro|voke, but even compell him to-fight. Whereupon he concluded to &s;tep a&s;ide a little into the neighbouring Mountains, whither he knew either the enemy would not advance, or if they did, it would be to their
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lo&s;&s;e. Therefore the enemy drawing near with all their Army to <HI>Methfyn,</HI> he gives a private com|mand for the Carriages to drive fa&s;t up the hills, whiles he, as if he intended to fight, orders the battell, makes good the pa&s;&s;es with &s;trong guards, and draws up the Hor&s;e into the Front. Nor did the enemy expect any other than to try it out by battail, which he made as if he would give, till &s;uch time as the Carriages were got &s;o far before, that he conceiv'd them out of danger: and then he commands the Army in one body at their clo&s;e order to march a|way apace: He gave charge unto &s;uch Hor&s;e as he had, and his able&s;t Fire-locks to bring up the Rear, and to &s;ecure them from the enemies Hor&s;e. The enemy providing for a pre&s;ent charge, as they expected, when they &s;aw <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> retreating, fir&s;t pur&s;ued eagerly, though to no purpo&s;e; for he making good all pa&s;|&s;es as he went, ea&s;ily repul&s;ed them, and without lo&s;&s;e of &s;o much as one private Souldier, came chearfully off into the heights and &s;teep places that were unac|ce&s;&s;ible unto the enemies Hor&s;e, and for their Foot they fear'd no a&s;&s;ault from them. It is remarkable, that when <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s Hor&s;e were come up into the pa&s;|&s;es, and the enemy knew very well they were not able to per&s;ue any further; le&s;t with all that pains they &s;hould &s;eem to have done nothing at all, they &s;ent out three hundred of their able&s;t and readie&s;t Hor&s;e to follow after them with a great &s;hout and ba&s;e language; whom when <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> &s;aw, he call'd for onely twenty active bodied men of the Highlan|ders that were u&s;ed to hunting, and very good marks|men,
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and commanded them to check their in&s;olence; and they fir&s;t of all creeping hither and thither, and hiding their Guns, took their aimes &s;o well, that they knockt down &s;ome of the forwarde&s;t of tho&s;e men; who being men of the better &s;ort, by their example made the re&s;t more wary, &s;o that they were all con|tented to retreat. But tho&s;e good hunt&s;men being encouraged with their good &s;ucce&s;&s;e, as &s;oon as they &s;aw their enemies di&s;order'd, came into the open plain, and re&s;olutely charged their Hor&s;e: who, in as much fear as Bucks or Does cha&s;ed by the Hunters, &s;et &s;purs to their Hor&s;es and fled back to their main body as if the Devill were in them.</P>
<P>The enemy upon their retreat cho&s;e that place for their Rendezvouz from whence <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> departed <HI>Methfyns</HI> Fore&s;t: after they had done nothing wor|thy to be remembred in all that expedition, but that when they found them&s;elves unable to cope with men, they exerci&s;ed their cruelry upon women: for all the wives of the Iri&s;h and Highlanders that they light of (who followed the Camp for the love of their Hus|bans) mo&s;t ba&s;ely and &s;hamele&s;ly they hew'd in pieces. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> kept his quarters at little <HI>Dun|kel,</HI> both becau&s;e the place was cumber&s;ome and unpa&s;&s;able for Hor&s;e, and lay very conveniently for receiving &s;uch aids as he dayly expected with <HI>Aboine</HI> out of the North. All which time the two &s;pleena|tive Armies lying clo&s;e together, rather &s;tood upon their guards than offered any affront one to the other.</P>
<P>And now at length <HI>Aboine</HI> and Collonel <HI>Na|thaniel
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Gordon</HI> brought up their men out of the North to <HI>Dunkel;</HI> men for their number indeed fewer than was expected, but for their &s;tourne&s;&s;e and true valour farre above their number. The Hor&s;e they brought were only two hundred, and &s;ome &s;ix|&s;core Firelocks whom they had mounted and made Dragoons: other Foot they brought none. Along with them came tht Earl of <HI>Airley</HI> and Sir <HI>David</HI> his Sonne with four&s;core Hor&s;e, mo&s;t of them of the noble family of the <HI>Ogilbies;</HI> among&s;t whom <HI>A|lexander</HI> Son and heir of Sir <HI>John Ogilby</HI> of <HI>Innar|wharatie</HI> was mo&s;t eminent, not only for the rare ac|compli&s;hments of his per&s;on, and the &s;plendor of his Ance&s;tors, but for the honour of his valiant and happy atchievements, much above what his age could promi&s;e. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> being thus well recruited, thought it not good to lo&s;e anytime, but marched &s;traight towards the enemy. But as &s;oon as he came to <HI>Amonde,</HI> he thought it be&s;t to &s;ee in what con|dition the enemy was, and to find out whether that was true which he had receiv'd a flying report of; that was, that very many of their Auxiliaries had de&s;erted their colours and run home. Therefore lea|ving his Foot to take their re&s;t, a little before night he fac'd the enemy with his Hor&s;e; with which &s;ight being &s;omething affrighted, they kept within their trenches. And next morning early <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> riding about to di&s;cover, was informed that they had &s;tol|len away at the dead of the night to <HI>Methfyn,</HI> and in di&s;order had got over a Bridge upon the <HI>Erne.</HI> He in&s;tantly cau&s;es his men to march, and pa&s;&s;ing the
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river at a &s;tone-bridge about &s;ix miles off, lay that night in <HI>Strath-Erne.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XIII.</HEAD>
<P><HI>FIfe</HI> is the mo&s;t populous, the mo&s;t rich, the thick|e&s;t Country Towns and Villages in all <HI>Scotland.</HI> Its Inhabitants are little martial, con&s;i&s;ting mo&s;t of Merchants, Shopkeepers, Mariners, and Husband|men: But &s;o new-fangled in their Religion, and &s;o bewitched both by the example and authority of the Nobility, and by the Sermons of their &s;editi|ous Mini&s;ters, that all of them upon the matter were extremely addicted to the Covenanters. The Country it &s;elf is almo&s;t an I&s;land, being inviron'd towards the South with the Scoti&s;h <HI>Fyrth,</HI> on the North with the <HI>Tay,</HI> which carrieth &s;hips of great burden all along; on the Ea&s;t with the main Sea. No entrance thither by land but on the We&s;t, in the &s;traights of which both Armies lay. The whole Country was in a di&s;traction, &s;ome (e&s;pecially their much admired Preachers) that thundered nothing but Excommunications, inciting and compelling all of every e&s;tate and age to take up armes; others flock|ing in great numbers unto them, others running hi|ther and thither to hide them&s;elves, as every one was led by his own &s;uper&s;tition, confidence, or fear. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was very de&s;irous to a&s;&s;ault the enemy, and try the fortune of a b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ttel with them before they in|creas'd their Forces with addition of the <HI>Fife-</HI>men; but it would not be. For they had &s;o fortified them|&s;elves
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by the advantage of the ground, and the nar|rowne&s;s of the pa&s;&s;ages, that he could by no means either make his way unto them, or draw them out into plainer ground. Having therefore made them &s;everal fruitle&s;&s;e offers of battell, he re&s;olved to march into the heart of the Country, and came to <HI>Kinro&s;&s;e,</HI> as well to hinder the ri&s;ing of that Country, as to train the enemy at la&s;t out of their fa&s;tne&s;s to come in unto the aid of their di&s;tre&s;&s;ed friends. They not &s;o much as daring to fall upon his Rear, turn'd another way, and keeping clo&s;e to the bank, fir&s;t of the <HI>Erne,</HI> afterwards of the <HI>Tay,</HI> made &s;peed towards the Ea&s;t-&s;ide of the Country. As <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> pa&s;&s;ed along, he &s;ent Collonel <HI>Nathaniel Gordon,</HI> and Sir <HI>William Rollock</HI> before him with a &s;mall party. The&s;e &s;end|ing the re&s;t of their party up and down to &s;cout, kept only ten men in their company; on a &s;udden they happened upon two hundred of the enemy, who were rai&s;ing men in tho&s;e parts, and being not able to retreat, they twelve encountred the two hundred, put them to flight, kill'd &s;ome, and took other &s;ome pri&s;oners.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> that night came to <HI>Kinro&s;&s;e,</HI> not doubt|ting but they of <HI>Fife,</HI> who were exceedingly out of love with the King, mo&s;t firm to the Covenanters, and wholly given to the new &s;uper&s;tition, were ge|nerally up in armes. Therefore thinking it not &s;afe ra&s;hly to engage with &s;o great a multitude of Hor&s;e and Foot, he determin'd to pa&s;&s;e over the <HI>Forth;</HI> and that upon this ground, that he having wearied out the <HI>Fife-men</HI> (whom he believ'd would not be ea|&s;ily
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per&s;waded to follow the Army further than their own borders) with long marches, might vanqui&s;h them without a blow. For he accounted that mo&s;t of them being born or brought up in &s;hops, or &s;hips, or taverns, and not acquainted with the hard&s;hip of Souldiers, would pre&s;ently give out and be weary. Be&s;ides, &s;uch of the Nobility as were in rebellion (after they &s;aw with &s;orrow that the &s;eat of the War was drawn &s;o near them as the <HI>Forth)</HI> were rai|&s;ing men with more eagerne&s;s than ever before up|on the Borders, and in the We&s;t; of whom the chief were the Earls of <HI>Lanerick, Ca&s;&s;ils,</HI> and <HI>Eglington.</HI> Who&s;e levies <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> laboured either to hinder, or draw them&s;elves to his &s;ide before they came up to <HI>Baily</HI> and the <HI>Fife-men;</HI> therefore he marched from <HI>Kinro&s;&s;e</HI> towards <HI>Sterling,</HI> and lay that night &s;ome three miles from the City. The next day &s;ending the Foot before, he followed &s;oftly after with the Hor&s;e, becau&s;e he &s;u&s;pected that the enemy pur&s;ued him in the Rear.</P>
<P>Nor was he deceived in that &s;u&s;pition, for &s;ome E&s;pyals whom he left behind him, brought word that <HI>Baily</HI> was hard by with the greate&s;t Army that ever he had. And immediately the enemies Scouts came within view, one of whom, having been too forward, was brought pri&s;oner to <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> by &s;ome of his Hor&s;e. He being examined, told them free and con|fidently, that he believed <HI>Baily</HI> and his party were re&s;olved to march all that night to engage him to fight as &s;oon as was po&s;&s;ible, before they di&s;mi&s;t the <HI>Fife-men,</HI> who being already tir'd, he hardly believ'd
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would be drawn over the <HI>Forth;</HI> accounting their, work at an end as &s;oon as the enemy was gone out of their own Country. Therefore <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> that he might get &s;peedily over the <HI>Forth,</HI> bids his men march apace, and going on the other &s;ide of <HI>Sterling</HI> (a good Town, and one of the Kings &s;tronge&s;t Ca&s;tles, in which the enemy had now a great Garri&s;on) that &s;ame night pa&s;&s;ed over the river at a Ford about four miles above the Town. And at break of day next morning made a halt a while about &s;ix miles from <HI>Sterling:</HI> where he had intelligence, that the enemy the night before had not come over the <HI>Forth,</HI> but quartered three miles from <HI>Sterling</HI> on the other &s;ide of the river. Therefore <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> holding on his intended journey, encamped him&s;elf in that fatal place, the Field of <HI>Kil&s;ythe.</HI> He bids the Souldiers to refre&s;h them&s;elves, but however to be in a readi|ne&s;&s;e either to fight or march, as occa&s;ion &s;hould &s;erve. The enemy the mean while by an ea&s;ier and &s;horter cut got over the <HI>Forth</HI> at <HI>Sterling-bridge,</HI> and encamped at night &s;ome three miles from <HI>Kil|&s;ythe.</HI></P>
<P>In the interim, the Earl of <HI>Lanerick</HI> Duke <HI>Ha|milton</HI>'s brother had rais'd a thou&s;and Foot and five hundred Hor&s;e of the friends and clients of the <HI>Ha|miltons,</HI> in <HI>Cluid&s;dale</HI> and the places adjacent, and was not at pre&s;ent above twelve miles from <HI>Kil|&s;ythe.</HI> And the Earls of <HI>Ca&s;&s;ils, Eglington,</HI> and <HI>Glen|carne,</HI> with others of the Covenanting Nobility, were engaging the We&s;t unto the &s;ame impious <HI>Militia;</HI> who were &s;o much the readier to take up armes, by
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how much they had le&s;&s;e felt the mi&s;eries of Warre. Which things being well con&s;idered, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> thought it be&s;t to fight with tho&s;e Forces which <HI>Bai|ly</HI> had at pre&s;ent. For although they were more nu|merous than his own, yet the danger was like to be greater of his &s;ide, if he &s;hould be put to engage with them when <HI>Lanericks</HI> and other parties were come up. But moreover he was either obliged to take this cour&s;e, or do nothing, and return back into the High|lands with the blemi&s;h of that Honour which by &s;o many victories he had atchiev'd. The enemy on the other &s;ide being arrogant, and confiding in the mul|titude of their men, believ'd that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had but made a running march the dayes before, and had pa&s;|&s;ed the <HI>Forth</HI> more out of fear than de&s;ign, &s;o that they counted it nothing to a&s;&s;ault him in that ground and entrenchment which he had cho&s;en to his be&s;t ad|vantage. And above all, their proud hopes were mo&s;t carefull of this, to block up all wayes of his e&s;cape, and to prevent his return into the Mountains. But there are &s;ome that &s;ay, <HI>Baily</HI> him&s;elf thought it not be&s;t to give him battel, but was over-&s;way'd by the authority and votes of the Earl of <HI>Lind&s;ey</HI> e&s;peci|ally, and &s;ome other of the Nobility that were pre|&s;ent in the Army, which forc'd him much again&s;t &s;to|mack to draw up his men, and order the battel as be could. However it was, early in the morning they led their men &s;traight upon <HI>Montro&s;e:</HI> which when he &s;aw, he told the &s;tanders by, that that was happened which he mo&s;t de&s;ired, for now he could &s;upply his want of men by the advantage of the ground; and
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therefore he made ha&s;te to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e him&s;elf of the fa&s;tne&s;&s;es before them. Moreover he commands all his men, as well Hor&s;e as Foot, to throw off their doub|lets, and to affront the enemy all in white, being naked unto the wa&s;te all but their &s;hirts: which when they had chearfully performed, they &s;tood there provided and ready to fight, re&s;olved certainly either to con|quer or die.</P>
<P>In the field where they intended to fight there were &s;ome Cottages and Country-gardens, where <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> had conveniently lodg'd &s;ome few men; and the fir&s;t de&s;ign of the enemy was to di&s;lodge them. But it took not; for making a fierce a&s;&s;ault, and being as &s;toutly receiv'd, as &s;oon as they were ob&s;erv'd to cool &s;omething of their fir&s;t heat, tho&s;e that mann'd the places beat them off, drave them away, and &s;lew them without re&s;i&s;tance. The Highlanders being a|nimated with this happy &s;ucce&s;s, tho&s;e that were next tho&s;e places, not expecting the word of Command, ran ra&s;hly up the hill, which lay open to the whole &s;trength of the enemy. <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> although he was &s;omething troubled at the un&s;ea&s;onable boldne&s;&s;e of his men, yet thought it not good to leave them enga|ged, nor was it ea&s;ie to &s;ay, whether the quickne&s;s of his relief, or the cowardline&s;s of the enemy, conduc'd more to their &s;afety. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had in all four thou|&s;and four hundred Foot, and five hundred Hor&s;e; a thou&s;and of his Foot or more had now by their own fault &s;o engaged them&s;elves with the enemy, that they could not come off, for the enemy encounter'd them with &s;ix thou&s;and Foot, and eight hundred Hor&s;e. But
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the enemies Rear came up but &s;lowly, and while the Van made a &s;tand, expecting their advance, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had opportunity to bring timely aid to his engaged men. But at la&s;t they &s;end out three troops of Hor&s;e, and after them two thou&s;and Foot, again&s;t tho&s;e ra&s;h and almo&s;t lo&s;t men of <HI>Montro&s;e.</HI> Which when <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> &s;aw (after others had too di&s;honourably &s;hifted off that &s;ervice) he thus be&s;peaks the Earle of <HI>Airley, You &s;ee</HI> (my noble Loid) <HI>how yonder men of ours by their unadvi&s;edne&s;s have brought them&s;elves into a mo&s;t de&s;perate hazard, and will pre&s;ently be trampled to dirt by the enemies Hor&s;e, except we relieve them with all &s;peed. Now all mens eyes and hearts are fixt upon your Lord&s;hip, they think you only worthy &s;o great an honour, as to repell the enemy, and bring off our fel|low Souldiers. Be&s;ides, it &s;eemes mo&s;t proper for you, that the errour which hath been committed by the fool hardine&s;&s;e of youth, may be corrected by your Lord|&s;hips grave and di&s;creet valour.</HI> And he undertook the &s;ervice (as dangerous as it was) with all his heart, and being guarded with a troop of Hor&s;e, (in which rode <HI>John Ogilby</HI> of <HI>Baldeby,</HI> who had formerly been a Collonel in <HI>Swethland,</HI> a &s;tout man, and a skilfull &s;ouldier) led them on &s;traight upon the enemy. And they giving the charge upon the <HI>Ogilbies,</HI> di&s;puted it &s;harply with them for a while, but at la&s;t being no longer able to with&s;tand their courage, fac'd about: whom the <HI>Ogilbies</HI> pur&s;ued &s;o hotly, that they made them fall foul upon their own Foot; and (charging them furiou&s;ly thorow and thorow) routed them, and trode them under foot. By this gallant example
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of <HI>Airley</HI> and the <HI>Ogilbies, Montro&s;e</HI>'s Souldiers, being enraged more and more, could no longer be kept back from rai&s;ing a great &s;hout (as if they had already got the day) and falling on upon the enemy. Nor would the Rebels Hor&s;e long abide their charge, but de&s;erting their Foot, fell a running as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;t as ever they could: Nor did their Foot after they were &s;o de&s;erted &s;tand it out long, but throwing down their arms &s;ought to &s;ave their lives by flight. Which proved un&s;erviceable, for the victorious pur&s;uers had the killing of them for fourteen miles: So that of all the enemies Foot that were pre&s;ent at that battell, it is thought there did not an hundred come off. Nor did their Hor&s;e e&s;cape very well, of whom &s;ome were killed, &s;ome taken, the re&s;t di&s;per&s;t. Their Ordnance, their Arms, their Spoils, came clearly to the Conquerours, who lo&s;t only &s;ix of their &s;ide; whereof three were <HI>Ogilbies,</HI> valiant Gentlemen, who fighting like them&s;elvs, &s;ealed the victory with their own bloud. The rebellious &s;ort of the Nobility (of whom many were in the fight) &s;ome of them by their timous running, and &s;wiftne&s;s of their Hor&s;es, got to the Town and &s;trong Ca&s;tle of <HI>Sterling;</HI> o|thers e&s;caping to the <HI>Scoti&s;h Fyrth</HI> &s;hipt them&s;elvs in &s;ome ve&s;&s;els that lay at anchor near the &s;hoar, among&s;t whom <HI>Argyle</HI> (having now this third time been fortunate to a boat) e&s;caped into a &s;hip; and thought him&s;elf &s;carce &s;afe enough &s;o, till weighing anchor he got into the main. Or pri&s;oners, the chief were, Sir <HI>William Murray</HI> of <HI>Blebo, James Arnot</HI> brother to the Lord <HI>Burghley,</HI> one Collonel <HI>Diee,</HI>
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and Collonel <HI>Wallace,</HI> be&s;ides many more, whom <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> after quarter given u&s;ed courteou&s;ly, and upon the engagement of their Honours &s;et at liberry. And this is that famous victory of <HI>Kil&s;ythe,</HI> ob|tained on the 15 day of <HI>September</HI> 1645. in which it is beleev'd no fewer then &s;ix thou&s;and Rebells were &s;lain.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XIV.</HEAD>
<P>THere was a great alteration all the Kingdome o|ver after this battell at <HI>Kil&s;ythe;</HI> tho&s;e of the Re|bell-Nobility were all of them &s;ore affrighted, &s;ome of them fled to <HI>Baywick,</HI> &s;ome to <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> &s;ome to <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> others into <HI>Ireland.</HI> And &s;uch as before only privately wi&s;ht well unto the King, now did no longer fear to &s;hew them&s;elves to expre&s;&s;e their loy|alty, to pray openly for his pro&s;perity, and to offer their &s;ervice. But tho&s;e that before had &s;ided with the Covenanters began to ask forgivene&s;&s;e, to plead they were con&s;train'd to take up Arms by the vio|lence and tyranny of the Rebells, to &s;ubmit their per&s;ons and e&s;tates to the Conquerour, humbly to be&s;eech his protection, and to implore his wonted cle|mency. And Cities and Countries that were furthe&s;t off began to di&s;patch their Commi&s;&s;ioners to pro|fe&s;&s;e in their names their Allegiance to their King, their duty and &s;ervice to his Vicegerent, and freely to offer him Men, Arms, Provi&s;ion, and other nece&s;|&s;aries of War. The Nobility of the Realm and the Chiefs of Septs came in thick unto the Lord Gover|nour,
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welcomed him, tendred their &s;ervice unto him, extoll'd his high and honourable atchievements, and thank'd him for them. All whom he pardoned for what was pa&s;t, receiv'd them with liberty and in|dempnity into his protection, and encouraged them to be of good chear. <HI>Nor did he lay any greater bur|den upon them, than to change that covetous and cru|ell &s;lavery which they were manacled with by the Re|bells, for the &s;weet and gentle government and prote|ction of a mo&s;t gracious Prince; and by laying a&s;ide all former grudges and fewds, hereafter more religiou&s;ly to ob&s;erve their duty and loyalty to the good King; and thence forward never more to have to doe with the coun|&s;ells of &s;editious men, who by endeavouring to &s;atisfie their own <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;ts, had engaged King, and Subject, one again&s;t the other, and upon the matter ruin'd both. For his part he never had any other intention, than to re|&s;tore their Religion, their King, their Liberty, his Peers and Countrymen, by Arms (when no other means was left) out of the tyranny of Rebells, unto their antient peace, happine&s;&s;e, and glory. Which if he &s;hould effect, he would give Almighty God the authour of all good things, everla&s;ting prai&s;e; but if he fail|ed, however he &s;hould by the&s;e his hone&s;t endeavours acquit him&s;elf before God, and Gods Vicegerent his Ma|je&s;ty, before all good men, and his po&s;terity, his ho|nour and his con&s;cience.</HI></P>
<P>At this time the whole Kingdome &s;ounded nothing but <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s prai&s;e. Men of all &s;orts every where extolling the ingenuity of his di&s;po&s;ition in which he out-went all his Equals; the gallantry of his per&s;on
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in Warr, his patience in travells, his evenne&s;&s;e of &s;pi|rit in dangers, his wi&s;dom in coun&s;ells, his faithful|ne&s;&s;e to &s;uch as &s;ubmitted, his quickne&s;&s;e in di&s;pat|ches, his courte&s;ie to &s;uch as he took pri&s;oners, in a word, his truly heroick virtue in all things, and towards all men. And this honour mo&s;t men gave him in good earne&s;t, and out of a &s;incere affection, but &s;ome in craft and di&s;&s;imulation; and as every one had wit or skill they &s;et forth his <HI>Encomiums</HI> or <HI>Pane|gyricks</HI> in Ver&s;e or Pro&s;e. Yea &s;uch is the volubility of humane things, and the incon&s;tancy of the whir|ling multitude, that they were not affraid openly to cur&s;e and rail at the ringleaders and prime men of the Covenanters Faction, &s;uch as <HI>Argyle, Lind&s;ey, Loudon,</HI> and others, (whom a while agoe they ho|noured and adored for Saints) as authours of all the mi&s;chiefs that had befaln them.</P>
<P>All things going on thus happily, the Northern parts of the Kingdome being &s;ecured on his back, the way being opened unto him into the South, the pow|er of the Rebells every where qua&s;h'd, their chief lea|ders (who in con&s;cience of their guilt de&s;paired of mercy) driven out of the Kingdome, and no con&s;i|derable party remaining in arms; yet in the We&s;t their were &s;ome &s;tirrs. For the Earls of <HI>Ca&s;&s;ils</HI> and <HI>Eglington,</HI> and &s;ome other promoters of the Cove|nanters Cau&s;e laboured to engage the Countries in a new Warr, and were &s;aid to have rais'd in a tumultu|ary way the number of four thou&s;and men. There|fore <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> the next day after the Battell of <HI>Kil|&s;ythe,</HI> drew his men into <HI>Cluid&s;dale,</HI> from whence the
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Earl of <HI>Lanerick,</HI> being &s;truck with the news of their late overthrow, disbanding tho&s;e men that he had rais'd, was fled. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> cho&s;e that quarter as lying mo&s;t commodiou&s;ly for his affairs in the South and We&s;t, and marched to <HI>Gla&s;cow,</HI> which is the princi|pal City of that Countrey. He receiv'd the Town into his protection, and entring into it with the joyfull acclamations of the people, fir&s;t of all he re&s;trained his Souldiers from plunder, and then being &s;evere a|gain&s;t the delinquents, for the terrour of others, he put &s;ome of the chiefe&s;t incendiaries of them to death. After that, in favour of the Citizens, the next day af|ter he came, he departed the Town, and quartered at <HI>Bothwell.</HI> Where becau&s;e it was but &s;ix miles from the City, le&s;t the Citizens &s;hould be prejudiced by the in&s;olence of the Souldiers, he gave them leave to &s;tand upon their guard, and defend the City with a Garri&s;on of the inhabitants. Hoping with &s;uch acts of clemency to engage not only the men of <HI>Gla&s;cow</HI> unto him&s;elf, but the inhabitants of other Cities al&s;o, by good offices more than by force and Arms.</P>
<P>At <HI>Bothwell</HI> he &s;taid many daies, where he received the per&s;onal addre&s;&s;es of &s;ome of the Nobility, and of others by their Tru&s;tees, Friends, and Me&s;&s;engers; and &s;etled the peace of Towns and Countries therea|bouts, who all willingly &s;ubmitted them&s;elvs. The chief of the inhabitants of tho&s;e parts who came to welcome him, and offer their &s;ervice were, the Mar|que&s;&s;e of <HI>Dougla&s;&s;e,</HI> a man of mo&s;t noble family and chief of the <HI>Dougla&s;&s;es,</HI> the Earl of <HI>Lithgow, Anandale,</HI> and <HI>Hartfield;</HI> the Lord Barons of <HI>Seton, Drummond, Fleming, Maderty, Carnegy,</HI> and <HI>Jon&s;ton; Hamilton</HI>
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of <HI>Orbe&s;ton, Charter</HI> of <HI>Hemps-field, Toures</HI> of <HI>Inner|leith,</HI> a mo&s;t de&s;erving man (who afterwards lo&s;t his life gallantly in battell) <HI>Stuart</HI> of <HI>Re&s;yth, Dalyel</HI> a bro|ther of the Earl of <HI>Carnwarth,</HI> Knights: and many more who&s;e names I can either not rightly call to mind, or el&s;e think fit to forbear at pre&s;ent, le&s;t by giving them an un&s;ea&s;onable and thankle&s;&s;e commen|dation now whiles they lie under intolerable tyranny, I &s;hould doe them more harm than honour.</P>
<P>After the victory of <HI>Kil&s;ythe</HI> no thoughts had higher place in <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s noble brea&s;t, than the en|largement of &s;uch Pri&s;oners as for no other fault but the &s;in of Loyalty had been mo&s;t ba&s;ely u&s;ed, and &s;till expected death, in the grievous and filthy Gaol of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> Therefore he &s;ends his Nephew <HI>Napier</HI> with Collonel <HI>Nathaniel Gordon</HI> and a comman|ded party of Hor&s;e to <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> to &s;ummon the Ci|ty, and receive it upon &s;urrender, to &s;et the Pri&s;oners at liberty, and to &s;ettle the Town in peace and loyalty; but in ca&s;e they &s;tood out and refu&s;ed to &s;ubmit, to threaten them with fire and &s;word. They, as &s;oon as they came within four miles of the Town, made a &s;tand, (and intended to come no nearer, unle&s;&s;e they chanced to be forced unto it by the ob&s;tinacy of the Citizens,) as well that at that di&s;tance they might the more ea&s;ily re&s;train the unruline&s;&s;e of the Souldiers, le&s;t they &s;hould wrong the poor inhabitants, and in their fury reduce that cur&s;ed City, which had been the cau&s;e and fomenter of all the Rebellion, into a&s;hes, which <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> gave them e&s;pecially in charge by all cleans to prevent; as al&s;o to pre&s;erve the Army &s;afe
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from the plague, which was hot in the City and pla|ces adjacent, and whereof very many dyed every day. A&s;&s;oon as ever the news of their approach was brought unto the Town, they all began to tremble, and de&s;pair of their lives; and to rai&s;e a cry as if the &s;words were already at their throats, or their hou&s;es in a flame. Not a few of them being pricked in their guilty con&s;ciences, freely and openly accus'd them|&s;elves for the mo&s;t ungrateful, traiterous, &s;acrilegious and perjured per&s;ons in the world, and unworthy of any mercy. Then applying them&s;elves unto the Pri|&s;oners they had, both calling unto them a far off, and &s;ending private me&s;&s;engers, they implored their a&s;&s;i&s;t|ance; and <HI>be&s;ought them in compa&s;&s;ion of the poor &s;illy people, who were almo&s;t wa&s;ted with a great mortality, to pacifie the anger of the Conquerours, whom they had mo&s;t ju&s;tly incen&s;ed:</HI> told them, <HI>all their hopes lay in them, and they were utterly undone without their help.</HI> Prote&s;ted moreover, <HI>that if they found mercy but that one time, they would redeem their former revolt with more religious fidelity, and con&s;tant Allegiance ever af|ter.</HI> The Pri&s;oners (whom but the other day the ba|&s;e&s;t of the people bitterly abu&s;ed and reviled, cur&s;ing and bequeathing them to the gallows and wor&s;e) for|getting all injuries receiv'd, and more troubled with the &s;en&s;e than revenge of their &s;ufferings, fir&s;t ren|dred hearty thanks to Almighty God, who of his mer|cy &s;hewed unto them that liberty and &s;afety which they little expected; and then turning unto their dead|ly enemies, bade them <HI>be of good chear, for the mo&s;t gracious King (and his Lieutenant</HI> Montro&s;e) <HI>de&s;ired
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the &s;afety and happine&s;&s;e of his repenting Subjects, and not their extirpation and ruine. Therefore they advi&s;ed them immediately to &s;end &s;ome Delegates to</HI> Montro&s;e, <HI>humbly to beg his pardon; for nothing could better ap|pea&s;e the rage of a Conquerour than a &s;peedy &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion. For their parts they would not be backward to mediate with him for their &s;afety, and doubted not but his high and noble &s;pirit, which could not be vanqui&s;hed with their arms, would yet &s;uffer it &s;elf to be overcome with the prayers and lamentations of men in mi&s;ery.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Edinburgians</HI> being comforted with the&s;e hopes, and a&s;&s;i&s;ted with this good advice, immediately call a Hall to con&s;ult of &s;ending Delegates. There were among the pri&s;oners of tho&s;e that were mo&s;t high in birth, and favour with <HI>Montro&s;e, Lodowick</HI> Earl of <HI>Crawford,</HI> Chief of the mo&s;t antient and no|ble family of the <HI>Lind&s;eys,</HI> a man famous for Military &s;ervice in forein Nations, among&s;t the <HI>Swedes, Im|periali&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Spaniards.</HI> This man by the power and cunning of his co&s;en the Earl of <HI>Lind&s;ey</HI> (who becau&s;e he was greedy of the honour and title of the Earl of <HI>Crawford,</HI> was greedy al&s;o of his life) was de&s;igned by the Covenanters to be put to death. Nor was it for any other crime but for being a Souldier, and an expert man, and one that had done faithful &s;ervice for his Ma&s;ter the King, and it was feared he would do &s;o again if he &s;hould be &s;uffered to live. There was al&s;o <HI>James</HI> Lord <HI>Ogilby,</HI> Son to the Earl of <HI>Airley,</HI> one &s;ingularly beloved by <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> who was formidable both for his Fathers and his own virtue and authority. He al&s;o being an enemy to <HI>Argyle,</HI>
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both upon old fewds and &s;ome fre&s;her wrongs, was ju&s;t as deep in &s;in and danger as <HI>Crawford.</HI> The&s;e therefore the Common Councill of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> cho&s;e out of the re&s;t of the pri&s;oners, and immediately &s;et|ting them at liberty, they earne&s;tly pray and be&s;eech them to a&s;&s;i&s;t their Delegates to the uttermo&s;t of the power they had with the Lord Governour, and to la|bour to hold his hands off that mi&s;erable City, upon which the hand of God him&s;elf lay &s;o heavy already. And they cur&s;e them&s;elvs and their po&s;terity to the pit of Hell, if they &s;hould ever prove unmindful of &s;o great a favour, or unthankful to them that did it. They were not backward to undertake a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e which was &s;o univer&s;ally de&s;ired, but taking the De|legates along with them went forth to <HI>Napier.</HI> He having by the way delivered his dear Father, his Wife, his Brother-in-law Sir <HI>Sterling Keer,</HI> and his Si&s;ters out of the pri&s;on at <HI>Limnuch,</HI> whither the Covenan|ters had removed them from <HI>Edinburgh</HI> Ca&s;tle, marched back unto his Uncle with his Forces, and tho&s;e pri&s;oners now at liberty, and the Delegates of the City, as having done his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> embracing <HI>Crawford</HI> and <HI>Ogilby,</HI> his deare&s;t friend, whom he had long longed for, and rejoycing to &s;ee them &s;afe and &s;ound, u&s;ed them with all honour and accommodation after their long re&s;traint, and they on the other &s;ide magnified their deliverer and a|venger with high prai&s;es and thanks, (as became them to do,) on both &s;ides affording a &s;pectacle of great joy to the beholders.</P>
<P>Afterwards the Delegates of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> were ad|mitted
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to audience, and delivered their Me&s;&s;age from the Provo&s;t and City. The &s;um was, <HI>They would freely &s;urrender the Town unto the Governour, humbly de&s;ired his pardon, promi&s;ed to be more dutiful and loyal for the time to come; committed them&s;elves and all that they had to his patronage and protection, for which they earne&s;tly be&s;ought him. Moreover they undertook forthwith to &s;et the re&s;t of the pri&s;oners at liberty, accor|ding to his appointment, and to do any thing el&s;e that he &s;hould enjoyn them. And although the City was &s;o wa&s;ted with a grievous contagion that no men could be rai&s;ed of it, yet they were ready as far as their &s;hare came, to pay contribution to &s;uch as &s;hould be rai&s;ed in other places. And above all things they humbly begged at his hands, that he would labour to mitigate the anger of their mo&s;t gracious Lord the King, that he might not be too &s;evere with that City, which by the cunning, authority, and example of a &s;editious and prevailing party had been engaged in Rebellion.</HI> Montro&s;e bade them <HI>be confident of the re&s;t, and required no more at their hands, than to be hereafter more ob&s;ervant of their loyalty to the King, and faithfully to renounce all corre|spondence with the Rebells in arms again&s;t him, either without or within the Kingdome; To re&s;tore the Ca&s;tle of</HI> Edinburgh <HI>(which it was evident was in their cu&s;tody at that time) unto the King and his Officers. La&s;tly, a&s;&s;oon as the Delegates came home, to &s;et the Pri&s;oners at liberty, and &s;end them to him.</HI> And truly as for the Pri&s;oners they &s;ent them away upon their return: but as to other Articles they were perfidious, and perju|red; and if they do not repent, mu&s;t one day give an
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account unto God the a&s;&s;ertor of truth and ju&s;tice, for their high ingratitude, and reiterated di&s;loyalty.</P>
<P>Whiles the&s;e things pa&s;&s;ed concerning <HI>Edinburgh, Montro&s;e</HI> &s;ent away <HI>Alexander Mac-donald</HI> (to whom he joyned <HI>Iohn Drummond</HI> of <HI>Ball,</HI> a &s;tout Gentle|man) into the We&s;tern coa&s;ts to allay the tumults there, and to &s;poil the de&s;igns of <HI>Ca&s;&s;ils</HI> and <HI>Eglington.</HI> But they receiving the alarm of <HI>Mac-donalds</HI> approach, were immediately di&s;per&s;t in a great fright. Some of the Earls and other Nobles made &s;traight into <HI>Ireland,</HI> others plaid lea&s;t in &s;ight, in I know not what lurking places. All the We&s;tern Countries, the Towns of <HI>Aire, Irwin</HI> and others &s;trove which &s;hould fir&s;t &s;ub|mit, freely offering their fidelity and &s;ervice. Neither (which was more than he expected) did <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> e|ver find men better affected to the King than in tho&s;e We&s;tern parts: For mo&s;t of the Gentry, Knights, and Chiefs of Families, and &s;ome al&s;o of the prime Nobility, came off chearfully to his &s;ide. VVho&s;e names, which otherwi&s;e ought to have been regi&s;tred with honour, at the pre&s;ent I &s;hall pa&s;&s;e by (if not in an acceptable perhaps, yet certainly in an advan|tageous &s;ilence,) for I &s;hould be loath &s;o hone&s;t and loyal &s;ouls &s;hould be que&s;tioned by their cruel ene|mies, for their good affections, upon my information.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XV.</HEAD>
<P><HI>MOntro&s;e</HI> had now taken into his thoughts the &s;etling of the South-borders, and &s;ent unto the Earls of <HI>Hume, Rosburough,</HI> and <HI>Trequair</HI> to in|vite
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them to a&s;&s;ociate with him for matter of Peace and VVar, and all things that were to be done in the name and by the authority of the King. The&s;e wete not only the powerfulle&s;t men in tho&s;e parts, by rea|&s;on of the multitude of their friends, and their great retinue, but al&s;o made as though they were mo&s;t cor|dial a&s;&s;ertors of the Kings authority. For be&s;ides the bond of Allegiance, which was common to them with others, they were engaged unto him by extraor|dinary benefits. Not were they only advanced unto great Honours by him, as being rai&s;ed from the or|der of Knighthood, to a high pitch of Nobility, but were made Governours of the mo&s;t gainful Coun|tries, and by that means being inriched above their equals and their own condition, heaped up wealth indeed unto them&s;elves, but envy and hatred upon the King. They again di&s;patch &s;ome of their friends of the be&s;t quality, to a&s;&s;ure him, <HI>That they were rea|dy to undergo any hazard under his conduct and com|mand in the behalf of their mo&s;t bountifull King, They promi&s;e moreover to rai&s;e a world of men, and nothing hindered their comming up unto the Camp, if he would but be plea&s;ed to draw that way with never &s;o &s;mall a party of his forces. And &s;o it would come to pa&s;&s;e, that not only their friends and clients, but the whole Country being animated with his pre&s;ence and authority, would cheerfully take up armes as one man; and if they &s;tood out, they might be compelled, or a cour&s;e taken with them. Therefore they earne&s;tly be&s;ought him to afford them his a&s;&s;i&s;tance in this, and in all the re&s;t he &s;hould find them his mo&s;t faithfull and ready &s;ervants.</HI> The&s;e were fair
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words, and at fir&s;t hearing, &s;eemed to carry an ho|ne&s;t meaning along with them; but were promi&s;ed with that kind of faith that the Creatures and Favou|rites of the too indulgent King are u&s;ed to keep. And perhaps upon that &s;core the Earl of <HI>Lanerick</HI> (Duke <HI>Hamiltons</HI> Brother) is more to be commended, whom <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> having earne&s;tly &s;ollicited by friends to come off to the Kings &s;ide, although that way he might very likely expect his pardon for what was pa&s;t, and the relea&s;ement of his Brother, yet without any di&s;&s;imulation he gave this peremptory an&s;wer, <HI>That he would have nothing to do with that &s;ide, and that he would never pretend that friend&s;hip which he intended not to pre&s;erve.</HI> And I would to God all they on whom the good King has too much relied, had delivered them&s;elves with the &s;ame candor and plain dealing ever &s;ince the beginning of the&s;e troubles.</P>
<P>About the &s;ame time <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> &s;ent the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Dougla&s;&s;e</HI> and the Lord <HI>Ogilby</HI> over into <HI>Anandale</HI> and <HI>Niddi&s;dale,</HI> that there with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Earls of <HI>Anandale</HI> and <HI>Hartfield,</HI> they might li&s;t as many Souldiers, Hor&s;e e&s;pecially, as they could. And gives them orders withall to march with &s;uch as they &s;hould &s;o rai&s;e, towards <HI>Trequaire, Roxbo|rough,</HI> and <HI>Hume;</HI> that they might engage them without any further put-offs in an a&s;&s;ociation with them: For <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> under&s;tood a little what Court|holy-water meant, and therefore was &s;omething &s;u&s;|pitious of the delayes which they fram'd, the rather, having had &s;ome experience of their cunning and &s;lipperyne&s;&s;e, e&s;pecially of <HI>Trequaires.</HI> And truly
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<HI>Dougla&s;&s;e</HI> by the chearful endeavours of the Earls of <HI>Anandale</HI> and <HI>Hartfield,</HI> had quickly rai&s;ed a con&s;iderable party, if one count them by the head; but they were new men, taken from their plows and flocks, and but raw Souldiers: forward enough at the fir&s;t charge, but by and by their hearts fail them, and they can by no means be kept to their colours. When <HI>Dougla&s;&s;e</HI> and the re&s;t of the Commanders con&s;idered this, they write again and again to <HI>Mon|tro&s;e,</HI> that he would make ha&s;te after them with his old Souldiers towards <HI>Tweed;</HI> for by his pre&s;ence and authority, and the company and example of the old Souldiers, they might be brought either willingly, or whether they would or no, to know their duties. In the mean time according to his command they goe on to <HI>Strathgale,</HI> freely offering an opportunity, and their &s;ervice if it needed to <HI>Roxborough</HI> and <HI>Trequair,</HI> to draw out their men more ea&s;ily and timely. But they (good men) who well enough under&s;tood the &s;ecrete&s;t coun&s;els of the Covenanters, and knew that all their Hor&s;e would be there immediately out of <HI>England</HI> under the command of <HI>David Le&s;ley,</HI> in|tended nothing more than to over-reach the King with their old tricks, and to deliver <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> (who&s;e glory they envied) into the hands of his enemies, though not by arms (for that they could not) yet by treachery. To that end they in&s;inuate again and a|gain, not only unto <HI>Dougla&s;&s;e</HI> and his party, but to <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> him&s;elf by their friends and frequent me&s;&s;engers, that for their parts they were ready to expo&s;e their per&s;ons to the utmo&s;t hazard, but they
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could never be able to draw together their friends, clients, and Trained bands, except they were anima|ted and encouraged with <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> his pre&s;ence. And that they might be the better believed, they cur&s;e them&s;elves to the pit of Hell if they did not &s;tand &s;tif|ly and unalterably to their promi&s;e. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> not|with&s;tanding was not taken with all this, but &s;taid &s;till at <HI>Bothwell,</HI> conceiving, that if there were any truth or hone&s;ty in their words, <HI>Dougla&s;&s;e</HI> and his party who &s;till lay in the Countrey adjacent, would be &s;uffi|cient for the ra&s;ing and encouraging of their friends and dependents.</P>
<P>At length when <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had quartered a great while at <HI>Bothwell,</HI> mo&s;t of the Highlanders being loa|den with &s;poil ran privily away from their colours and returned home. Pre&s;ently after their very Com|manders de&s;ired Furloghs for a little while, preten|ding that the enemy had not an Army in the field within the borders of that Kingdome, and therefore their &s;ervice for the pre&s;ent might well be &s;pared; be&s;ides, they complained that their Hou&s;es and Corn, in and with which their parents, wives, children, were to be &s;u&s;tained that winter, were fired by the enemy, and no provi&s;ion made for them, &s;o that they hum|bly de&s;ired to be excu&s;ed for a few weeks, in which they might take care to &s;ecure their families from hunger and cold. Al&s;o they &s;olemnly and volunta|rily engaged their words, that they would return many more than they went, and much refre&s;hed, within forty dayes. The&s;e <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> &s;eeing he could not hold them, as being Voluntiers, and fighting
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without pay, that he might the more engage them, thought fit to di&s;mi&s;&s;e them, not only with Licences but Commi&s;&s;ions. And giving publick commenda|tions to the Souldiers, and thanks in his Maje&s;ties name to the Commanders, exhorting them to fol|low their bu&s;ine&s;s clo&s;ely and vigorou&s;ly, he appoints <HI>Alexander Mac-donald,</HI> their Countryman and Kin&s;|man (who was but too ambitious of that employ|ment) to be their Companion and Guide, who &s;hould bring them back to the Camp by the day appointed. Who in a &s;et &s;peech gave thanks in all their names to the Lord Governour for his &s;o noble favour, and as if he had been their Bail or Surety, with a &s;olemn Oath undertook for their &s;udden return: yet he ne|ver &s;aw <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> after. Nor was he contented to carry away with him the whole Forces of the High|landers, (who were more than three thou&s;and &s;tout men) but he privily drew away &s;ix&s;core of the be&s;t Iri&s;h, as if (for&s;ooth) he had pick'd them out for his Life-guard.</P>
<P>About this very time many me&s;&s;engers came &s;e|veral wayes to <HI>Bothwell</HI> from the King at <HI>Oxford.</HI> Among&s;t whom one was <HI>Andrew Sandilands,</HI> a Scotch-man, but bred in <HI>England,</HI> and entred into holy Orders there, a very upright man, faithful to the King, and much re&s;pected by <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> who con|tinued con&s;tantly with him unto the end of the War. Another was Sir <HI>Robert Spot&s;wood,</HI> once the mo&s;t de|&s;erving Pre&s;ident of the highe&s;t Court in <HI>Scotland,</HI> and now his Maje&s;ties Secretary for that Kingdom, who pa&s;&s;ed from <HI>Oxford</HI> through <HI>Wales</HI> into <HI>Angle&s;ey,</HI>
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and thence getting a pa&s;&s;age into <HI>Loghaber,</HI> came into <HI>Athole,</HI> and was conducted by the men of <HI>A|thole</HI> unto <HI>Montro&s;e.</HI> Almo&s;t all the Agents that came brought this In&s;truction among&s;t the re&s;t, <HI>That it was his Maje&s;ties plea&s;ure, that he &s;hould joyn un|to him&s;elf the Earls of</HI> Roxburgh <HI>and</HI> Trequaire, <HI>and confide in their advice and endeavours; of who&s;e fidelity and indu&s;try no que&s;tion was to be made.</HI> More|over, <HI>that he &s;hould make ha&s;te towards the</HI> Tweed, <HI>where he &s;hould meet a party of Hor&s;e which the King would in&s;tantly di&s;patch out of</HI> England <HI>to be comman|ded by him, with whom he might &s;afely give battel to</HI> David Le&s;ley, <HI>if (as was &s;u&s;pected) he marched that way with the Covenanters Hor&s;e.</HI> All this the re|&s;pective bearers unanimou&s;ly delivered, and his mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty being over-credulous &s;ignified by his Expre&s;&s;es. And <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> being now over-born with the Kings ab&s;olute Commands, takes up his re&s;olution to march to the &s;ide of <HI>Tweed.</HI> But the day before he went, the Souldiers being drawn up to a Rendezvouz, (before that <HI>Mac-donald</HI> and the Highlanders were gone) Sir <HI>Robert &s;pot&s;wood</HI> making an humble obey&s;ance under the Kings Standard, de|livered his Maje&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ion under the Great Seal unto <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> which he again gave unto <HI>Archibald Primro&s;e</HI> Clerk of the Supreme Councill to be read aloud. That being ended, in a &s;hort but &s;tately Oration, he commended the valour and Loy|alty of the Souldiers, and the great affection he bore them. And for <HI>Mac-donald,</HI> he not only extoll'd his gallantry in the head of the Army, but by vertue of,
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that authority that he had received from the King, gave him the honour of Knighthood. For not only <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> but all the Kings friends were confident of the integrity of the man; who&s;e good opinion he deceiv'd, not only to the undoing of the Kings cau&s;e, but the utter ruine of him&s;elf and his friend.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> following his intended journey, came the &s;econd night to <HI>Calder</HI> Ca&s;tle; at which time the Earl of <HI>Aboine</HI> (whether the Lord Governour would or no) carried away with him not only his own men, but all the re&s;t of the Northern Forces, whom he had inveighled to de&s;ert the &s;ervice. Nor would he be per&s;waded either by rea&s;on, or the intreaty of his friends (who heartily dete&s;ted that &s;hameful act) to &s;tay but &s;o much as one week, and then he might depart, not only with the Generals licence, but with honour, and the good e&s;teem of hone&s;t men. Seeing it would be no better, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> pa&s;&s;ing by <HI>Edin|burgh,</HI> led his &s;mall Army through <HI>Lothian&s;hire,</HI> and in <HI>Strathgale</HI> joyned with <HI>Dougla&s;&s;e</HI> and the other Commanders, who&s;e Forces being much dimini&s;hed, were dayly mouldring more and more. In that coa&s;t <HI>Traquaire</HI> him&s;elf came unto him, more chearful and merry than he u&s;ed to be; who pretended him|&s;elf to be a mo&s;t faithful Servant, not only to his Ma|je&s;ty, but al&s;o to <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> and the next day &s;ent him his Son the Lord <HI>Linton,</HI> with a gallant party of Hor&s;e, as if they were to be under his command, that by &s;o likely a pledge he might make <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> more &s;ecure, and &s;o more ea&s;ily ruine him. For this was not the fir&s;t time that <HI>Traquaire</HI> plaid the Covenanters
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Scout-Ma&s;ter: that ungratefulle&s;t piece of mankind intending to betray unto them <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> and in him the King him&s;elf.</P>
<P>Now when he was not above twelve miles from the Lords <HI>Hume</HI> and <HI>Roxburgh,</HI> and they &s;ent not &s;o much as a Me&s;&s;enger to him, nor offered him the &s;malle&s;t courte&s;ie, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> being much troubled at it, re&s;olved to march into their Territories, and to bring them in either by fair means or foul. But they prevented him by a &s;ingular device; They &s;ent unto <HI>David Le&s;ley,</HI> whom they well knew by that time was come to <HI>Berwick</HI> with all the Scotch Hor&s;e, and many Engli&s;h Voluntiers (for they were privy to all their coun&s;els) and intreated him to &s;end a party and carry them away in the condition of pri|&s;oners; which he did the day before <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> came thither. For by this means that crafty old fox <HI>Rox|burgh</HI> (who had <HI>Hume</HI> under his girdle) conceiv'd that they might both ingratiate them&s;elves with the Covenanters, as freely committing them&s;elves into their Protection, and yet keep in the Kings favour, whiles they made as if they fell into <HI>Le&s;ley</HI>'s hands &s;ore again&s;t their wills. And this being <HI>Le&s;ley</HI>'s fir&s;t noble exploit, he pa&s;&s;ed over <HI>Tweed,</HI> and marched into the Ea&s;t-&s;ide of <HI>Lothian. Montro&s;e</HI> a&s;&s;oon as he perceived the King and him&s;elf betray'd by the&s;e men, and &s;aw no hopes of that party of Hor&s;e which was come from the King, and that the too powerful e|nemy would block up his pa&s;&s;age into the North and Highlands, re&s;olved to march with tho&s;e few men he had into <HI>Niddi&s;dale</HI> and <HI>Anandale,</HI> and the Coun|trey
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of <HI>Ayre,</HI> that he might there rai&s;e what Hor&s;e he could. For although he had no certain intelli|gence concerning the &s;trength of the enemy, yet he conjectured that it con&s;i&s;ted e&s;pecially in Hor&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XVI.</HEAD>
<P><HI>MOntro&s;e</HI> ari&s;ing from <HI>Kel&s;oe</HI> marched to <HI>Jed|burgh,</HI> and &s;o to <HI>Selkirk;</HI> where he quartered his Hor&s;e in a Village, and his Foot in a wood clo&s;e by. For he was re&s;olved to make &s;ure of all advan|tages of ground, le&s;t he &s;hould be forced to fight with an enemy, of who&s;e &s;trength he knew nothing, upon uneven terms. Then he commands the Captains of Hor&s;e to &s;et out good &s;tore of faithful and active Scouts, and to place Hor&s;e-guards in convenient pla|ces on every &s;ide, and look well to their watch. All which he in per&s;on (as he u&s;ed to do) could not &s;ee done at pre&s;ent, becau&s;e that night he was di&s;patch|ing letters to the King, and to &s;end away a tru&s;ty me&s;&s;enger that he had light upon, before break of day: therefore he was earre&s;t with them to have the more care, le&s;t the enemy, who were very &s;trong in Hor&s;e, &s;hould &s;urpri&s;e them unawares. And the Com|manders promi&s;ing all care and diligence, he was &s;o taken up with writing of Letters, that he &s;lept not all that night. And &s;ending ever and anon to the Captains of Guards (men that were skilful Soul|diers, and &s;o known to be in Forein Countries) &s;uch uncertain noi&s;es as were brought unto him of the enemies approach, they being deceiv'd either by
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the negligence of their Scouts or their own mi&s;for|tune, very confidently &s;ent him back word there was no enemy in tho&s;e parts, nor in the Country there|abouts. At the break of day &s;ome of the be&s;t Hor&s;e, and mo&s;t accquainted with the Country, were &s;ent out again to Scout; they al&s;o brought word they had been ten miles about, and diligently examined all by-ways, and ra&s;hly wi&s;ht damnation to them&s;elvs if they could find an enemy in arms within ten miles. But afterward it appeared when it was too late, that the enemy with all their Forces were then &s;carce four miles from <HI>Selkirk,</HI> and had lain there all that night in their arms.</P>
<P><HI>Le&s;ley</HI> that day that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> departed from <HI>Jed|burgh,</HI> mu&s;tered his men upon <HI>Glade&s;more</HI> a plain in <HI>Lothian&s;hire;</HI> where holding a councill of War with the chief of the Covenanters, the re&s;ult was, that he &s;hould march to <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and &s;o to the <HI>Forth,</HI> that he might hinder <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s retreat into the North, and force him to fight, whether he would or no, before he joyned with his Highlanders. But <HI>Le&s;ley,</HI> contrary to that re&s;olution, gives order on a &s;udden to his whole Forces to wheel to the left hand, and to march away apace; every one wonde|ring that knew not the my&s;tery of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, what &s;hould be the meaning of that change of his re&s;olu|tion, and his intention in that &s;udden expedition, for they marched &s;traight to <HI>Strathgale.</HI> But the mat|ter was, (as they afterward gathered from the ene|mies them&s;elvs) he had received letters, by which he had perfect notice, that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> being attended
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only with five hundred Foot, and tho&s;e Iri&s;h, and a very weak party of new-rais'd Hor&s;e, might very ea|&s;ily be &s;urpri&s;ed on the borders of <HI>Tweed,</HI> if <HI>Le&s;ley</HI> would make u&s;e of that opportunity was offered him to do his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. Therefore <HI>Le&s;ley</HI> upon this in|telligence made ha&s;te thither, and (as I &s;aid) lodg'd within four miles of <HI>Selkirk.</HI> That <HI>Traquaire</HI> &s;ent tho&s;e letters unto <HI>Le&s;ley,</HI> although it was the gene|rall report, I cannot certainly affirm; but it cannot be denied that that &s;ame night he &s;ent his Commands to his &s;on the Lord <HI>Linton,</HI> that he &s;hould immedi|ately withdraw him&s;elf from the Royal party, which with much jo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">lity he did. This was like them&s;elves, being the ungratefulle&s;t of all men, de&s;erting their King of whom none had better de&s;erved, and &s;taining their po&s;terity. And truly, that morning being very mi&s;ty gave no &s;mall advantage to the treachery of the enemy; whom at la&s;t <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s frighted Scouts di&s;covered to march towards him in a full body, at &s;uch time as they were not above half a mile off.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> mounting the fir&s;t Hor&s;e he could light on, gallops into the field appointed for the Rendez|vouz that morning; where he finds a great deal of noi&s;e, but no order. The Cavalry being little ac|quainted with their duty, and lying already di&s;per&s;t in their quarters, where they dream'd more of bai|ring their hor&s;es than maintaining their lives and ho|nours, upon the fir&s;t alarm which they received from the enemies Trumpet, ran di&s;orderly up and down they knew not whither, but never came in the fight. Yet there were a few, and tho&s;e were for the
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mo&s;t part Noble men or Knights, who made all &s;peed thither, and gallantly undertook to make good the right wing: and they were not above &s;ix &s;cored <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n all. Nor did the Foot (who were about five hundred) make a good appearance, for many of them looking about their private bu&s;ine&s;&s;es among the Carriages, by that un&s;ea&s;onable care of &s;aving; lo&s;t them&s;elves and all they had&punc; And, which &s;poiled the matter which was bad enough before, mo&s;t of the Comman|ders were ab&s;ent, and never came in the field. Be&s;ides, the enemy comming on &s;peedily left them no time for deliberation. The enemy therefore who were &s;ix thou&s;and (whereof mo&s;t were Hor&s;e out of <HI>Eng|land)</HI> furiou&s;ly charging <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s right wing were twice gallantly received and repul&s;ed with no &s;mall lo&s;&s;e; Nor could they make that noble Troop give any ground, or break thorow it, untill at la&s;t laying along tho&s;e few foot that with&s;tood them they broke in upon the left flank where ther was no hor&s;e. By this, two thou&s;and Hor&s;e whom the enemy had &s;ent over to the other &s;ide of the river, were gotten on the Rear of tho&s;e noble Gentlemen, who, le&s;t being hemm'd in on every &s;ide, and gall'd with the enemies &s;hot at di&s;tance, they &s;hould fall for nothing, and unreveng'd, withdrew them&s;elves every one the be&s;t way he could. But the Foot, who could have little &s;ecurity by flight, fighting a good while &s;toutly and re&s;olutely, at la&s;t upon quarter ask'd and given for their lives, threw down their arms, and yeelded them&s;elvs pri&s;o|ners. Every one of whom being naked and unarm'd without any regard to quarter given, <HI>Le&s;ley</HI> cau&s;ed
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to be mo&s;t unhumanely butcher'd. The &s;tain of which perfidious cruelty (by which he hath &s;o fil|thily blurr'd his honour, if eany he got in forein &s;ervice) he &s;hall never be abl to wipe away. As for tho&s;e that e&s;caped out of the battell, the enemy pur|&s;ued them no further, being bu&s;ie in plundring the Carriages, where they made a lamentable &s;laughter of Women, Pedees, and Cook-boys: no pitty was &s;hown to &s;ex nor age, they went to the pot all toge|ther. The number of the &s;lain is not ea&s;ie to be gi|ven, almo&s;t no Hor&s;e, and very few Foot (be&s;ides tho&s;e that yeelded them&s;elvs and had quarter) fell in that battell: which may appear by this, that they were no more then five hundred in all, and before the next day two hundred and fifty of them came &s;afe to <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> all of them with their &s;words by their &s;ides, &s;o that there could not be as many more mi&s;&s;ing: and very few were taken pri&s;oners, and not until their hor&s;es being tired, and them&s;elvs ig|norant of the way, they became a prey to the coun|try people. Whom they, forgetting all the benefits and protection they had but newly received from <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> to do the Covenanters a favour, delive|red up unto their cruell enemies, to be made by them acceptable &s;acrifices to <HI>Baal-Berith,</HI> the god of the Covenant.</P>
<P>For all that, the Rebell conquerours mi&s;&s;ed of the Kings Standards. The one of them (which was car|ried before the Foot) was pre&s;erved by an Iri&s;h &s;oul|dier, a &s;tout man, and of a pre&s;ent &s;pirit, when others were almo&s;t be&s;ide them&s;elves; who when he &s;aw
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that the enemy had got the day, &s;tript it off the &s;taff, and wrapped it about his body: and being oherwi&s;e naked, made his way with his drawn &s;word through the thicke&s;t of the enemy, and brought it to <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> at night. Whom he received into his Lifeguard, and gave it him to carry in token of his valour and loyalty. And the other of them <HI>William Hie</HI> bro|ther to the Earl of <HI>Kinoule,</HI> a hopefull young Gen|tleman (who &s;ucceeded his Uncle by the mothers &s;ide, <HI>Dougla&s;&s;e</HI> Son to the Earl of <HI>Morton,</HI> who having receiv'd many and grievous wounds at the battell of <HI>Alford,</HI> was rendred unable for that burden) &s;tript from off the &s;taff too, and carried it away with him. And conveighing him&s;elf into the borders of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> skulked there a while, till the coa&s;t was a lit|tle clearer about <HI>Tweed,</HI> and then through by-ways and night-journeys for the mo&s;t part (being accom|panied and conducted by his faithfull friend <HI>Robert Toures,</HI> a &s;tout man and a good &s;ouldier, who had been a Captain in <HI>France</HI> a good while agoe) retur|ned in the North, and pre&s;ented that &s;ame Royal Standard unto the General.</P>
<P>And now at la&s;t <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> when he &s;aw his men totally routed and put to flight (which he never &s;aw before) thought of nothing more for a good &s;pace than to die honourably, and not unrevenged; there|fore rallying about thirty Hor&s;e whom he had gathe|red up in that confu&s;ion, he re&s;olved by fair and ho|nourable death to prevent his falling alive into the enemies hands. And &s;eeing he was not able to break thorow the enemies Troops (who &s;tood thick round
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about him) he gall'd them on the Front, and Rear, and Flanks, and of &s;uch as were &s;o hardy as to ad|venture out of their ranks, many he &s;lew, others he beat back. But when all that he could do would not do his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, as God would have it, this con&s;ide|ration po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed his re&s;olute and noble &s;pirit; That <HI>the lo&s;&s;e of that day was but &s;mall and ea&s;ily regained, becau&s;e but an incon&s;iderable part of his Forces were there. That the Highlanders were the very Nerves and &s;inewes of the Kingdome, and all the North was &s;ound and untouch'd. That many of the prime Nobility and men of power, many Knights too and Chiefs of their Septs had entred into an a&s;&s;ociation with him; who if he &s;hould mi&s;carry would be &s;uddenly ruined or cor|rupted, and by that means the Kings party in</HI> Scot|land <HI>utterly &s;ubdued. Therefore he thought him&s;elf bound never to de&s;pair of a good cau&s;e, and the ra|ther, le&s;t the King his Ma&s;ter &s;hould apprehend the lo&s;&s;e of him to be greater than the lo&s;&s;e of the battell.</HI> And while the&s;e thoughts were in his head, by good hap came in the Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Dougla&s;&s;e</HI> and Sir <HI>Iohn Dal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ell,</HI> with &s;ome other friends (not many but faith|full and gallant men) who with tears in their eyes (out of the abundance of their affection) be&s;eech, in|treat, implore him <HI>for the honour of his former at|chievements, for his friends &s;akes, for his Ance&s;tors, for his &s;weet wife and childrens &s;akes, nay for his Kings, his Countries, and the Churches peace and &s;afeties &s;ake, that he would look to the pre&s;ervation of his per&s;on; con&s;idering that all their hopes depen|ded on him alone under God, and that their lives were
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&s;o bound up with his, that they mu&s;t all live or die together.</HI> At la&s;t <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> overcome with their in|treaties, charging thorow the enemy (who were by this time more taken up with ran&s;acking the Car|riages than following the cha&s;e) made his e&s;cape; of tho&s;e that were &s;o hardy to pur&s;ue him, &s;ome he &s;lew, others (among whom was one <HI>Bruce</HI> a Cap|tain of Hor&s;e, and two Cornets with their Stan|dards) he carried away pri&s;oners. Whom he enter|tained curteou&s;ly, and after a few dayes di&s;mi&s;t them upon their <HI>Parole,</HI> that they &s;hould exchange as ma|ny Officers of his of the like quality, which <HI>Parole</HI> they did not over-punctually perform.</P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was gotten &s;carce three miles from <HI>Selkirk</HI> when he having overtaken a great number of his own men that went that way, he made a pret|ty con&s;iderable party, &s;o that being now &s;ecure from being fallen upon by the Country people, he march'd away by lei&s;ure. And as he went by the Earl of <HI>Traquaires</HI> Ca&s;tle (by who&s;e di&s;hone&s;ty he did not yet know that he had been betray'd) he &s;ent one be|fore him to call forth him and his Son, that he might &s;peak with them, but his &s;ervants bring word that they were both from home. Notwith&s;tanding there are Gentlemen of credit that te&s;tifie, that they were both within; nor did that gallant Courtier only bid the Rebells joy of their victory, but was not a&s;ha|med to tell abroad (not without profu&s;e and ill be|coming laughter) that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> and the Kings for|ces in <HI>Scotland</HI> were at la&s;t totally routed; his own daughter the Counte&s;&s;e of <HI>Queensbrig,</HI> as far as
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mode&s;tly &s;he might, blaming him for it. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> after he had made a holt a while near a Town cal|led <HI>Plebis,</HI> untill the &s;ouldiers had refre&s;h'd them&s;elvs and were fit to march, many flocking to them from every &s;ide, at Sun &s;et they all &s;toutly entered the Town; and by break of day next morning (by the conduct of Sir <HI>Iohn Dalyel</HI> e&s;pecially) pa&s;&s;ed over <HI>Cluid</HI> at a ford. Where the Earls of <HI>Crawford</HI> and <HI>Airley</HI> having e&s;caped another way met with him, making nothing of the lo&s;&s;e of the battell a&s;&s;oon as they &s;aw him out of danger. Nor was he le&s;&s;e joy|full at the &s;afety of his friends, than that he had &s;av'd and pick'd up by the way almo&s;t two hundred Hor&s;e. But although he was already &s;ecure enough from the pur&s;ute of the enemy, neverthele&s;&s;e he re&s;olved to make what ha&s;te he could into <HI>Athole;</HI> that taking his ri&s;e there, he might draw what forces he could rai&s;e of the Highlanders, and other friends into the North. Therefore pa&s;&s;ing fir&s;t over the <HI>Forth,</HI> and then the <HI>Ern,</HI> having marched through the Sherifdome of <HI>Perth</HI> by the foot of the Mountains, he came thither. As he was on his way, he had &s;ent before him <HI>Dougla&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>Airley</HI> with a party of Hor&s;e into <HI>Angus,</HI> and the Lord <HI>Areskin</HI> into <HI>Marre,</HI> that they might &s;pee|dily rai&s;e their friends and dependents in tho&s;e parts; and had al&s;o &s;ent Sir <HI>Iohn Dalyel</HI> unto the Lord <HI>Car|negy</HI> (with whom he had lately contracted affinity) with Commi&s;&s;ions to that purpo&s;e. Moreover he &s;ent Letters to <HI>Mac-donald,</HI> to require him according to his promi&s;e to return with the Highlanders by the day appointed. But above all he &s;ollicited <HI>Aboine</HI>
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both by Letters and &s;pecial me&s;&s;engers, that he would bring back his friends and clients, who were willing enough of them&s;elves, and wanted no other encou|ragement than his authority and example.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XVII.</HEAD>
<P>IT was towards the latter end of Harve&s;t, nor was he corn reap'd in that cold Country, nor their hou|&s;es and cottages, which the enemy had butnt, repaired again&s;t the approaching winter (which is for the mo&s;t part very &s;harp thereabouts) which made the <HI>A|thole</HI> men to abate &s;omething of their wonted for|wardne&s;&s;e. Yet <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> prevailed &s;o far with them, that they furni&s;hed him with four hundred good Foot, to wait upon him into the North, where there was le&s;&s;e danger; and faithfully promi&s;ed him upon his return, when he was to march South-ward, he &s;hould command the whole power of the Country.</P>
<P>Mean time frequent expre&s;&s;es came from <HI>Aboine,</HI> that he would wait upon him immediately with his Forces; and <HI>Mac-donald</HI> promi&s;ed no le&s;&s;e for him|&s;elf and &s;ome other Highlanders. <HI>Areskin</HI> &s;ignified al&s;o unto him that his men were in readine&s;&s;e, and waited for nothing but either <HI>Aboines</HI> company (who was not far off) or <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s commands. A|bout this time there were very hot but uncertain re|ports of a &s;trong party of Hor&s;e that were &s;ent him from the King, whom many conceived not to be far from the South borders. But other news they had which was too certain, to wit, that there was a mo&s;t
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cruel butchery of what pri&s;oners the Rebels had, without any di&s;tinction of &s;ex or age: &s;ome falling into the hands of the Country people, were ba&s;ely murthered by them; others who e&s;cap'd them (and found &s;ome pity in them that had &s;o little) being ga|thered together, were by order from the Rebel Lords thrown head-long from off a high bridge, and the men, together with their wives and &s;ucking children, drown'd in the River beneath; and if any chanced to &s;wim towards the &s;ide, they were beaten off with pikes and &s;taves, and thru&s;t down again into the wa|ter. The Noble-men and Knights were kept up in na&s;ty pri&s;ons, to be expo&s;ed to the &s;corn of the vul|gar, and certainly doom'd at la&s;t to lo&s;e their heads. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was never &s;o much troubled, as at this &s;ad news.</P>
<P>Therefore to the end he might &s;ome way relieve his di&s;tre&s;&s;ed friends, being impatient of all delay, with wonderfull &s;peed he climbs over <HI>Gransbaine,</HI> and pa&s;&s;ing through the plains of <HI>Marre</HI> and <HI>Strath|done,</HI> maketh unto the Lord of <HI>Aboine,</HI> that he might encourage him by his pre&s;ence to make more ha&s;te into the South. For his de&s;ign was, as &s;oon as he had joyned his forces with <HI>Areskins</HI> and <HI>Airleys,</HI> and &s;ent for <HI>Mac-donald</HI> and other Highlanders, and ta|ken up the <HI>Athole-</HI>men by the way, to march in a great body &s;traight over the <HI>Forth,</HI> and &s;o both to meet the Kings Hor&s;e, and to fright the enemy, upon their apprehen&s;ion of an imminent danger to them|&s;elves, from putting the pri&s;oners to death. For he conceived they dnr&s;t not be &s;o bold as to execute
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their malice upon men of Nobility and Eminency, as long as they had an enemy in the Field, and the vi|ctory was uncertain. And truly, they being doubt|full and &s;olicitous what might be the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of &s;o great warlike preparations as they knew were in pro|viding, did deferre the execution of the pri&s;oners. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> upon his journey found the Lord <HI>Areskin</HI> very &s;ick, but his clients (who&s;e fidelity and valour he had &s;undry experiences of, even in the ab&s;ence of their Lord) all in a readine&s;&s;e if <HI>Aboine</HI> did but doe his part; for they depended much upon his example and authority. And now the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Huntley,</HI> after he had playd lea&s;t in &s;ight for a year and &s;ome months, (it is hard to &s;ay, whether awaken'd with the news of &s;o many victories obtained by <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> and the reducing of the Kingdome, or by the deceit|full influence of &s;ome bad &s;tarr) was returned home. An unfortunate man and unadvi&s;ed, who how&s;oever he would &s;eeme mo&s;t affectionate unto the Kings Cau&s;e (and perhaps was &s;o) yet he endeavoured by a clo&s;e and di&s;honourable envy, rather to extenuate <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s glory than out-vie it. Which &s;eeing it was not for his credit openly to profe&s;&s;e even before his own men (who were &s;ufficient witne&s;&s;es of <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI>'s admirable vertues) le&s;t by that he &s;hould di&s;|cover &s;ome &s;ymptomes of a heart alienated from the King: yet he gave out that for the time to come he would take upon him&s;elf the conduct of the Warr again&s;t the Rebells; therefore he commanded his Tenants, and advi&s;ed his friends and neighbours, &s;carce without threats, to fight under no command
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but his own. And then they replyed, <HI>What &s;hall we then an&s;wer to the Commands of the Marque&s;&s;e of</HI> Montro&s;e, <HI>whom the King hath declared General Governour of the Kingdome, and General of the Ar|my?</HI> He made an&s;wer, <HI>That he him&s;elf would not be wanting to the Kings &s;ervice; but however, it con|cerned much both his and their honour, that the King and all his men &s;hould know what a&s;&s;i&s;tance they had gi|ven him, which could not otherwi&s;e be done than by &s;erving in a body by them&s;elves.</HI> Moreover he fell to magnifie his own power, and to undervalue <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI>'s; to extoll unto the skies the noble Acts of his Ance&s;tors, (men indeed worthy of all honour) to tell them, <HI>That the</HI> Gordons <HI>power had been formida|ble to their neighbours for many ages by-gone, and was &s;o yet; That it was mo&s;t unju&s;t that the atchievements gotten with their blood and prowe&s;&s;e, &s;hould be ac|counted upon another mans</HI> (meaning Montro&s;e's) <HI>&s;core: but for the future he would take a cour&s;e, that neither the King &s;hould be defrauded of the &s;ervice of the</HI> Gordons, <HI>nor</HI> the Gordons <HI>of their de&s;erved ho|nour, favour, and reward.</HI></P>
<P>All the&s;e things the &s;impler &s;ort took to be &s;po|ken upon all the grounds of equity and honour in the world; but as many as were under&s;tanding men, and knew better the di&s;po&s;ition of the per&s;on, &s;aw through tho&s;e expre&s;&s;ions a mind too rancorous and altoge|ther indi&s;pos'd towards <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> and that his aim was to fetch off as many as he could from him, not only to the utter ruine of the King and Kingdom, but even to his own de&s;truction: which God knows)
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the &s;ad event made too manife&s;t. Nor were there wanting among&s;t them de&s;perate men, and of good fore-&s;ight, who condemned this coun&s;ell of his as un|wi&s;e, un&s;ea&s;onable, and pernicious even to him&s;elf. For they con&s;idered with them&s;elvs, that <HI>he never had any de&s;ign that did not mi&s;carry either by bad play, or bad luck. That bu&s;ine&s;&s;es were better carried by</HI> Montro&s;e, <HI>and it was ill to make a faction upon the poor pretence of his carrying away the honour of it. For if</HI> Huntley <HI>joyned his Forces, and communicated his coun&s;els unto</HI> Montro&s;e, <HI>he &s;hould not be only able to defend him&s;elf, but &s;ubdue his enemies, and gain unto him&s;elf the everla&s;ting honour of being one of the Kings Champions; but if he &s;hould make a breach in that manner, it would prove not only di&s;honourable but de&s;tructive unto him. That</HI> Montro&s;e <HI>(it could not be denyed) had got many and eminent victories with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the</HI> Huntleys, <HI>but they had done no|thing of note without him.</HI> Therefore they earne&s;tly de&s;ired him, <HI>con&s;tantly to adhere unto the Kings Lieu|tenant, which as it would be both acceptable and ad|vantageous to the King, &s;o it would be well taken with good men, and honourable to him&s;elf.</HI> Nor did &s;ome of them fear to profe&s;&s;e openly, that they would yeeld their duty and &s;ervice to <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> if <HI>Huntley</HI> &s;hould &s;tand out in his humour; and they were as good as their words. But he refu&s;ing the advice of his friends, re&s;olved, what ever came on't, to run counter to <HI>Montro&s;e;</HI> nor did <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> ever propo&s;e any thing, though never &s;o ju&s;t, or honourable, or advan|tageous, which he would not cro&s;&s;e or reject. And if
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at any time <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> conde&s;cended to his opinion (which he did often and of purpo&s;e) he would pre|&s;ently turn his mind; &s;eeming to comply with him &s;ometimes before his face, but alwayes aver&s;e unto him behind his back, and indeed &s;carce well agreeing with his own &s;elf.</P>
<P>For all this, <HI>Aboine</HI> being at that time &s;olicited by many expre&s;&s;es from <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> and the impor|tunity of his own friends (that he might be &s;ome way as good as his word) met him with a con&s;iderable party at <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">minore,</HI> a Ca&s;tle of the Lord <HI>Forbe&s;es.</HI> He brought with him fifteen hundred Foot and three hundred Hor&s;e, all cheerfulI and ready to un|dergo any hazard under the command of <HI>Mon|tro&s;e.</HI> And truly a&s;&s;oon as ever they met, <HI>Aboine</HI> freely prote&s;ted he would carry tho&s;e men that he had whither&s;oever the Lord Governour &s;hould lead him; but there were many more behind (which for his &s;cantne&s;&s;e of time he had not got together) which his brother <HI>Lewis</HI> would bring him. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> ex|tolling highly his fidelity and pains, turned back a|gain almo&s;t the &s;ame way he came; that taking up the Lord <HI>Areskins,</HI> and the <HI>Marre</HI> Forces by the way, and climbing over <HI>Grainsbaine,</HI> he might fall down into <HI>Athole</HI> and <HI>Angus,</HI> not doubting with|in a fortnight to be able to pa&s;&s;e over the <HI>Forth</HI> with a great Army. The fir&s;t dayes journey <HI>Aboine</HI> and his men marched with a good will, but the next night his brother <HI>Lewis</HI> (whom <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had placed un|der the command of the Earl of <HI>Crawford)</HI> conveigh|ed him&s;elf homewards with a &s;trong party of Hor&s;e,
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making as if he meant to encounter &s;ome Troops of the enemy, and carryed along with him as many &s;oul|diers as he could get, upon pretence of a guard. <HI>Craw|ford</HI> returning brought word that <HI>Lewis</HI> was gone home, but would be back again next day, for &s;o he had made him believe, though he intended nothing le&s;&s;e than to come back, a Youth liable to cen&s;ure for more feats than that. But when upon the third day they came to <HI>Alford,</HI> it was ob&s;erved that <HI>Aboines</HI> men were &s;low to &s;tand to their colours, that they loy|tered in their march, that their ranks were thin and di&s;ordered, and that they ran away by whole compani|es almo&s;t every night: and at la&s;t their Commander <HI>A|boine</HI> him&s;elf was not a&s;hamed to de&s;ire to be excu&s;ed, and to have leave to depart. When all men wondered, and de&s;ired to know what might be the rea&s;on of that &s;udden alteration of his re&s;olution, he pleaded <HI>his fa|thers Commands, which he was oblig'din no ca&s;e to di&s;obey; and that his father had not &s;ent him &s;uch directions with|out ju&s;t occa&s;ion, for the enemies Forces lay in lower</HI> Marre, <HI>and would be pre&s;ently upon their backs, if they were deprived of the protection of their own men: and that it was unexcu&s;able folly for him to carry his men another way, when his own Country was in &s;o much danger.</HI> Montro&s;e reply'd, <HI>That it was mo&s;t certain, that only a few Troops of Hor&s;e kept with|in</HI> Aberdeen, <HI>that they had no Foot at all, and tho&s;e few Hor&s;e nor dur&s;t nor could doe the Country any harm; and there was no doubt but upon the fir&s;t a|larm of his approach, their Commanders would &s;end for tho&s;e al&s;o to &s;ecure the Low-lands. Be&s;ides,
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that it would be much more to the Marque&s;&s;e of</HI> Huntleys <HI>advantage, if the &s;eat of Warr were re|moved into the enemies Country, than be kept up in his own: and upon that &s;core there was more need to make ha&s;te into the South, that they might &s;ave the North from the burden of the Armies.</HI> He added moreover, <HI>That he daily expected aids out of</HI> England, <HI>which could by no means joyn with them except they met them on the South-&s;ide the</HI> Forth. And at la&s;t, with much re&s;entment he repre&s;ented unto him <HI>the condition of the pri&s;oners (who were many of them</HI> Huntley's <HI>own kindred, allies, or friends) who would all be unhumanly murthered except they timely prevented it.</HI> To all this when <HI>Aboine</HI> had nothing to an&s;wer he de&s;ired his father might be acquainted with the whole matter, and 'twas granted. Such were made choice of to treat with <HI>Huntley,</HI> as were conceived to be highe&s;t in his favour, to wit, <HI>Donald</HI> Lord <HI>Re&s;e,</HI> in who&s;e Country he had &s;ojourned, and <HI>Alexander Irwin</HI> the younger of <HI>Drumme,</HI> who had but the other day married <HI>Huntleys</HI> daughter: and both of them were al&s;o much obliged to <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> for their new|ly recovered liberties. <HI>Re&s;e</HI> being a&s;hamed of re|ceiving the repul&s;e, had not the confidence to re|turn; and <HI>Irwin</HI> (a Noble young Gentleman and a &s;tout, who &s;tuck to <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> to the la&s;t) brought no an&s;wer but his father-in-laws ambiguous Letters, of which no hold could be taken. Being de&s;ired to deliver what he conceived his father-in-laws re&s;olu|tion was, he profe&s;&s;ed ingenuou&s;ly, he knew not what to make of him, he could get no certain an&s;wer but
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doubted he was ob&s;tinate in his fond conceit. <HI>Ahoine,</HI> fir&s;t declaring how &s;ore again&s;t his will it was to part from <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> urged how nece&s;&s;ary it was for him to plea&s;e his dear Father, who was &s;ickly too; and there|fore more earne&s;tly de&s;ired the Lord Governor to di&s;pence with him for a few dayes, till he could paci|fie his Father: and made an ab&s;olute promi&s;e, that within a fortnight he would follow him with much &s;tronger Forces. And when he had often and freely en|gaged his honour to do as he &s;aid, he extorted with much ado a Furlogh from <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> &s;ore again&s;t his Stomach, to be ab&s;ent for the time afore&s;aid.</P>
<P><HI>Aboine</HI> being returned home, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> mar|ched over the plains of <HI>Marre</HI> and <HI>Schar&s;chioch,</HI> and came down into <HI>Athole;</HI> and thence (having a little increa&s;ed his Army) into the Sherifdom of <HI>Perth,</HI> where receiving an expre&s;s out of the North, he is put into new hopes, <HI>Aboine</HI> having &s;ent him word he would be with him with his men before the day appointed. At the &s;ame time came unto him by &s;everal wayes Captain <HI>Thomas Ogilby</HI> of <HI>Pourie</HI> the younger, and Captain <HI>Robert Nesbit,</HI> both of them &s;ent unto him from His Maje&s;ty, with Commands, that if he could po&s;&s;ibly, he &s;hould make all &s;peed towards the Borders, to meet the Lord <HI>George Digby</HI> Son to the Earl of <HI>Bri&s;tol,</HI> who was &s;ent unto him with a party of Hor&s;e. The &s;ame Bearers <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> di&s;pat|cheth to <HI>Huntley</HI> and <HI>Aboine,</HI> to communicate unto them tho&s;e In&s;tructions from the King, hoping by that means, being quickned with His Maje&s;ties au|thority, and the approach of aid, they would make
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more ha&s;te with their Forces, in the vain expectation of whom, he had trifled away too much time in <HI>Strath-Erne.</HI></P>
<P>About this time the Lord <HI>Napier</HI> of <HI>Marchi&s;ton</HI> departed this life in <HI>Athole,</HI> a man of a mo&s;t inno|cent life, and happy parts, a truly Noble Gentleman, and Chief of an Antient Family; one who equalled his Father and Grandfather <HI>Napiers</HI> (Philo&s;ophers and Mathematicians famous through all the world) in o|ther things, but far exceeded them in his dexterity in civil bu&s;ine&s;s; a man as faithful unto, as highly e&s;tee|med by King <HI>James</HI> and King <HI>Charles:</HI> &s;ometime he was Lord Trea&s;urer, and was de&s;ervedly advanced into the rank of the higher Nobility; and &s;ince the&s;e times had expre&s;&s;ed &s;o much loyalty and love to the King, that he was a large partaker of the rewards which Rebels be&s;tow upon Vertue, often Impri&s;on|ment, Seque&s;tration, and Plunder. This man <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> when he was a Boy, look'd upon as a more ten|der Father; when he was a youth, as a mo&s;t Sage Ad|monitor; when he was Man, as a mo&s;t faithful Friend; and now that he died, was no otherwi&s;e af|fected with his death, than as if it had been his Fa|thers. Who&s;e mo&s;t elaborate Di&s;cour&s;es <HI>Of the Right of Kings,</HI> and <HI>Of the original of the turmoils of Great Britain,</HI> I heartily wi&s;h may &s;ome time come to light.</P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XVIII.</HEAD>
<P><HI>MOntro&s;e,</HI> when he had waited for <HI>Aboine</HI> with his forces out of the North now three weeks,
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either on his march, or in <HI>Strath-Erne,</HI> and percei|ved that the Rebels began to grow more out rageous towards the pri&s;oners, being impatient of further de|lay cro&s;&s;eth over the <HI>Forth,</HI> and came into <HI>Leven;</HI> and he encamped upon the land of Sir <HI>John Buchanan</HI> the Ring-leader of the Covenanters in tho&s;e parts, ex|pecting that by that means, lying &s;o near <HI>Gla&s;cow,</HI> he might fright the Rebels (who then kept a Con|vention of E&s;tates there) from the murther of the pri&s;oners. To which end facing the City every day with his hor&s;e, he wa&s;ted the enemies Country with|out any re&s;i&s;tance: although at that time for the guard of the E&s;tates and City, they had three thou|&s;and Hor&s;e in their quarters, and he not full three hundred, and twelve hundred foot. Notwith&s;tanding before his coming down into <HI>Leven,</HI> the Covenan|ters as &s;oon as they under&s;tood that <HI>Huntley</HI> and <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> agreed not, and that <HI>Aboine</HI> and his men had de&s;erted him in upper <HI>Marre,</HI> as a Prologue to the en&s;uing Tragedy, had beheaded three &s;tout and gallant Gentlemen.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t was Sir <HI>William Rollock,</HI> one of whom we have had often occa&s;ion to make honourable men|tion; a valiant and expert man, dear unto <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> from a Child, and faithful unto him to his la&s;t breath. The chief of his Crimes was, That he would not pollute his hands with a mo&s;t abominable mur|der. For being &s;ent from <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> with an expre&s;s to the King after the battel of <HI>Aberdeen,</HI> he was ta|ken pri&s;oner by the Enemy, and was condemned unto death, which he had not e&s;caped, except for fear of
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death he had harkened unto <HI>Argyle</HI> (who mo&s;t un|worthily &s;et a price upon <HI>Montro&s;es</HI> head, and promi|&s;ed great rewards, honours, and preferments to whom|&s;oever &s;hould bring it in) and had taken upon him&s;elf to commit that Trea&s;on, which he abhorred with all his &s;oul. By which &s;hift having his life and liberty gi|ven him, he returned &s;traight to <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> and di&s;co|vered all unto him, be&s;eeching him to be more care|ful of him&s;elf, for not he only who heartily dete&s;ted &s;o high a villany) but many more, had been offered great matters, mo&s;t of whom would u&s;e their be&s;t en|deavours to di&s;patch him.</P>
<P>The next was <HI>Alexander Ogilby,</HI> of whom we al|&s;o &s;pake before, elde&s;t Son to Sir <HI>John Ogilby</HI> of <HI>In|nerwharite,</HI> de&s;cended of an antient Family, and much renowned in the Scoti&s;h Chronicles. He was but yet a youth (&s;carce twenty) but valiant above his age, and of a pre&s;ent and daring &s;pirit. Nor can I hear, or &s;o much as conjecture what they had to lay to his charge, but that new and unheard-of Trea&s;on, to wit, his bounden duty and loyalty to his King. But there was no help for't, but <HI>Argyle</HI> mu&s;t needs &s;acri|fice that hopeful youth, if it had been for nothing but his names &s;ake; for he bare an implacable fewd to the <HI>Ogilbies.</HI> The third was Sir <HI>Philip Nesbit,</HI> of on antient Family al&s;o, and chief of it next his Father; who had done honourable &s;ervice in the Kings Army in <HI>England,</HI> and had the command of a Regiment there. Nor can I di&s;cover any rea&s;on they had to put him to death neither (be&s;ides that which is u&s;ed when they have nothing el&s;e to &s;ay, that mad charge of the
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new High Trea&s;on) except it was, that their guilty con|&s;ciences &s;ugge&s;ted unto them, that that couragious and vigilant man might take occa&s;ion &s;ome time here|after to be even with them, for the horrid injuries they had done his Father and his Family. However, the&s;e men &s;uffered a Noble death with patience and con&s;tancy, as became hone&s;t men and good Chri&s;tians. And unto the&s;e there are two brave Iri&s;h Gentlemen that de&s;erve to be joined, Colonel <HI>O-Chaen,</HI> and Colonel <HI>Laghlin,</HI> odious unto the Rebels only for this impardonable crime, that they had had many ex|periments of their courage and gallantry. The&s;e Iri&s;h Gentlemen were murdered indeed at <HI>Edinbourgh,</HI> but many more were doom'd to the like execution at <HI>Gla&s;cow,</HI> had not <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s unexpected approch within a few miles of the City had &s;o much influence, that it repriev'd them till another time. The Lord Governor was very much perplexed with the news of the&s;e mens death, and it was a que&s;tion whether he was more vext at the cruelty of the Rebels, or the negligence, if not treachery of his friends. For be&s;ides <HI>Huntley,</HI> who&s;e Forces he had &s;o long in vain expe|cted to come with his Son <HI>Aboine, Mac-donald</HI> al&s;o him&s;elf (of whom he entertained an exceeding good opinion) being often &s;ent unto, and invited al&s;o by the nearne&s;s of the place, although the time appoin|ted by him&s;elf was already pa&s;t and gone, made no appearance of his approach. Six weeks had now pa&s;|&s;ed &s;ince <HI>Aboine</HI> had engaged him&s;elf for the Nor|thern Forces, and the Winter (than which our age never &s;aw &s;harper) was already deeply entred. Be|&s;ides,
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the aids that the King had &s;ent under the Com|mand of the Lord <HI>Digby</HI> were defeated: all which might ea&s;ily have been &s;alved, and the Kingdom re|duced again, if tho&s;e great Profe&s;&s;ors of Loyalty had not plaid fa&s;t and loo&s;e in that good Cau&s;e. There|fore at la&s;t on the 20. of <HI>November, Montro&s;e</HI> de|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">arting from <HI>Levin,</HI> and pa&s;&s;ing over the Mountains of <HI>Taich,</HI> now covered with deep &s;now, through woods and loghes, who&s;e names I do not at this time well remember, cro&s;&s;ing al&s;o through <HI>Strath-Erne</HI> and over the <HI>Tay,</HI> returned into <HI>Athole.</HI> There he met Captain <HI>Ogilby</HI> and Captain <HI>Nesbit,</HI> whom he had formerly &s;ent with the Kings in&s;tructions unto <HI>Hunt|ley.</HI> And they bring word the man was ob&s;tinate and inflexible, who would believe nothing that they &s;aid; and when they unfolded unto him the Kings Com|mands, an&s;wered &s;cornfully, <HI>That he under&s;tood all the Kings bu&s;ine&s;s better than they, or the Governor him|&s;elf; and neither he nor any of his children &s;hould have any thing to do with him.</HI> Moreover, he &s;harply and threatningly reproved his friends and clients, who had willingly a&s;&s;i&s;ted <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> and dealt wor&s;e with them than with Rebels. Neverthele&s;s, the Lord Governor thought be&s;t to take no notice of any of the&s;e things, but bear with them; and whiles he treats with the <HI>Athole-</HI>men for the &s;etling of the <HI>Militia</HI> of that Country, he &s;ends again unto <HI>Huntley</HI> by Sir <HI>John Dalyel,</HI> as a more fit Mediator of friend&s;hip; Who was to inform him of <HI>the danger the King and King|dom was in, and &s;o of the pre&s;ent mi&s;ery that hung over his, and all faithful Subjects heads; and to make it ap|pear
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unto him, that it was no ones but his and his &s;ons fault, both that they had not brought in the &s;upplies into</HI> Scotland <HI>which the King had &s;ent, and that the pri&s;o|ners who were gallant and faithful men, had been &s;o cru|elly butchered; and that yet there were many more re|maining that had near relations to</HI> Huntley <HI>him&s;elf, and &s;ome al&s;o of the prime Nobility, whom the Rebels would cut off after the &s;ame fa&s;hion, unle&s;s they were now at la&s;t relieved.</HI> And la&s;tly, <HI>to pray and be&s;eech him that at lea&s;t he would grant the Kings Governor the favour of a friendly conference, promi&s;ing he would give him abun|dant &s;atisfaction.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Huntley,</HI> although he an&s;wered <HI>Dalyel</HI> in all things according ro his wonted peevi&s;hne&s;s, yet he was mo&s;t of all aver&s;e to a Conference; as fearing (&s;eeing he &s;hould have nothing to an&s;wer to his Arguments and Rea&s;ons) the Pre&s;ence, the Confidence, and the Wi&s;|dom of &s;o excellent a Man. But <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> as &s;oon as things were &s;etled in <HI>Athole,</HI> that he might leave no|thing unattempted that might po&s;&s;ibly bring him to better thoughts, re&s;olved, di&s;&s;embling all injuries, and obliging him by all good offices, to &s;urprize him, and be friends with him whether he would or no; and to treat with him concerning all things that concerned His Maje&s;ties &s;ervice. Therefore in the month of <HI>De|cember</HI> he forced his way very hardly thorow Rivers and Brooks that were frozen indeed, but not &s;o hard as to bear mens weight, over the tops of Hills and craggy Rocks, in a deep Snow: and pa&s;&s;ing through <HI>Angus,</HI> and over <HI>Gransbaine,</HI> drew his Forces into the North; and almo&s;t before he was, di&s;covered march|ed
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with a few men into <HI>Strathbogy,</HI> where <HI>Huntley</HI> then lived: But he being &s;truck with his unexpected approach, upon the fir&s;t news he heard of him, le&s;t he &s;hould be forced to a Conference again&s;t his will, im|mediately fled to <HI>Bogie,</HI> a Ca&s;tle of his, &s;ituate upon the mouth of the <HI>Spey,</HI> as if he intended to ferry over the River, and to wage warre again&s;t the Rebels in <HI>Murray.</HI></P>
<P>And now it comes into my mind briefly to enquire what might be the rea&s;on why <HI>Huntley</HI> bore &s;uch a &s;pleen again&s;t <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> who had never given him any di&s;ta&s;te, but had obliged him with curte&s;ies ma|ny times unde&s;erved. Nor could I ever hear, nor &s;o much as gue&s;&s;e at any other cau&s;e but a weak and impotent (emulation I cannot call it, but) envy of his &s;urpa&s;&s;ing worth and honour. For I &s;hould be loath to &s;ay that his mind was ever alienated from the King, but only aver&s;e unto <HI>Montro&s;e;</HI> with the unju&s;t hatred of whom he was &s;o po&s;&s;e&s;t, that he pre|cipitated him&s;elf into many unexcu&s;able mi&s;takes; in&s;omuch as he de&s;ired rather all things were lo&s;t, than that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> &s;hould have the honour of &s;aving them. And now being already puffed up with an un|be&s;eeming conceit of him&s;elf, he was the more excee|dingly enraged again&s;t him upon the remembrance of tho&s;e injuries and di&s;graces he had heretofore thrown upon him; and that was the chief rea&s;on (as I take it) that he &s;o often avoided the &s;ight of him. For be|&s;ides what we have occa&s;ionally delivered, both the father and the &s;ons had put neither few nor &s;mall af|fronts upno the Kings Vicegerent; &s;ome few of which
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it will not be out of our way to relate.</P>
<P>The great guns which we told you <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had hid in the ground the la&s;t year, they digging them up without his knowledge, carried away in a kind of triumph, and di&s;po&s;ed of them in their own Ca&s;tles, as if they had been &s;poils taken from the enemy, and would not re&s;tore them upon demand. But tho&s;e <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had got in the fights at Saint <HI>Johns-town</HI> and at <HI>Aberdeen;</HI> in the former of which there was never a man pre&s;ent of that Family, and in the other <HI>Lewis Gordon</HI> and his men fought on the enemies &s;ide. Be&s;ides, they &s;o converted unto their own u&s;e the Gunpowder, and Arms, and other nece&s;&s;aries of War, which were gained from the enemy, and only depo&s;i|ted in their Ca&s;tles as in &s;afe and convenient &s;tore|hou&s;es, that they would never make any re&s;titution of the lea&s;t part of them when they were de&s;ired. More|over, <HI>Aboine</HI> upon his return home after the victory of <HI>Kil&s;ythe,</HI> &s;et at liberty the Earl of <HI>Keith</HI> Lord Mar&s;hal of <HI>Scotland,</HI> the Lord Vi&s;count <HI>Arbuthnot,</HI> and other men of quality of the enemies &s;ide who were within his cu&s;tody, without acquainting the Go|vernour of the Kingdome: and his brother-in-law young <HI>Drumme</HI> (who by chance was pre&s;ent) earne&s;t|ly declaring his di&s;like of it. Upon what terms he did it, it is uncertain, but this is evident, that (be&s;ides the affront done to the Lord Governour, and the lo&s;&s;e of <HI>Dunotter</HI> Ca&s;tle, which was of great &s;trength and concernment in that War, and other Military advan|tages they got by it) the Rebells would never have had the boldne&s;&s;e to fall &s;o cruelly upon the Pri&s;oners,
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if he had but kept them in &s;afe cu&s;tody. Yet more, by his own private authority, he exacted tributes, and Cu&s;tomes and Taxes, (which the Governour him&s;elf had never done) upon pretence indeed of maintain|ing the War, but in truth to far other u&s;e, and to the grievous prejudice of the Kings Cau&s;e. La&s;t of al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> (which is mo&s;t to be lamented) either at the entreat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> of the enemy, or for &s;mall &s;ums of money, they had enlarged the Pri&s;oners that had been taken in the for|mer battells in the North, and committed to cu&s;tody in their Ca&s;tles. Nor would they permit them to <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s di&s;po&s;all, though being Pri&s;oners of War he had re&s;erved them for that only purpo&s;e, by ex|changing them to &s;ave the lives of gallant and de&s;er|ving men. <HI>Huntley</HI> being pricked in his con&s;cience about all the&s;e things, was alwayes as afraid of <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI>'s pre&s;ence as of a Pe&s;t-hou&s;e.</P>
<P>But <HI>Monrro&s;e</HI> for all that, pa&s;&s;ing by injuries, and laying a&s;ide all other matters, be&s;towed his whole en|deavours in promoting of the Kings &s;ervice. And to that end he was re&s;olved to intrude him&s;elf into his company though never &s;o unwelcome, to in&s;inuate into his friend&s;hip upon any conditions, to yeeld un|to him in all things, and to deny nothing, &s;o that he might qualifie <HI>Huntley</HI>'s imbittered &s;pirit. Therefore leaving his Forces in their quarters, he po&s;ted early in the morning with a few Hor&s;e unto <HI>Bogie,</HI> and by his undream'd of approach prevented <HI>Huntley</HI> of any opportunity of flying or hiding him&s;elf. A&s;&s;oon as they met, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> &s;o getting all that was pa&s;t, in|vited him in &s;mooth and gentle language to a&s;&s;ociate
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with him in the War for the &s;afety of the King and Kingdome: and gave him &s;o full &s;atisfaction in all things, that being at la&s;t overcome he &s;eem'd to give him his hand, and promi&s;ed, that not only all his men, but he him&s;elf would come in per&s;on in the head of them, and be with him with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed. Afterward they laid their heads together concerning the manner of managing the War, and agreed, that <HI>Huntley</HI> wafting over the <HI>Spey,</HI> &s;hould make his way on the right hand by the &s;ea-coa&s;t of <HI>Murrey,</HI> and <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was to go round about on the left hand through <HI>Strath-Spey,</HI> which was at that time of the year, a very tedious and difficult march; and &s;o the de&s;ign was to be&s;iege <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e,</HI> a Garri&s;on of the enemies, on both &s;ides: and in the mean time to draw the Earl of <HI>Seaford</HI> either by fair means or foul to their &s;ide. That Garri&s;on, however it might appear to be otherwi&s;e &s;trong and well fortified, yet was ve|ry ill provided for victuall and other requi&s;ites, which in that &s;harp Winter and tempe&s;tuous Sea could hardly be had. And &s;o now they &s;eem'd to be agreed in all things, &s;o that <HI>Aboine</HI> and his brother <HI>Lewis</HI> wi&s;h'd damnation to them&s;elves if they did not con|tinue con&s;tant in their fidelity and &s;ervice to <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> to their utmo&s;t breath. And the re&s;t of the <HI>Gor|dons,</HI> the Marque&s;&s;es friends, were &s;urpri&s;ed with in|credible joy, and made as much of their Lord and Chief, as if he had been returned from the dead.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XIX.</HEAD>
<P><HI>MOntro&s;e</HI> &s;uppo&s;ing <HI>Huntley</HI>'s &s;pirit at la&s;t pacifi|ed, and &s;eriou&s;ly inclined to joyn with him in the pro&s;ecution of the Warre, marched with his For|ces through <HI>Strath-Spey</HI> towards <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e.</HI> And the more to amu&s;e the enemy on every &s;ide, he &s;ent his cozen <HI>Patrick Graham</HI> (of who&s;e worth I have had often occa&s;ion to &s;peak) and <HI>John Drummond</HI> of <HI>Ball</HI> the younger (a gentleman of approved tru&s;t and va|lour, who had often done excellent &s;ervice) with au|thority and Commi&s;&s;ions unto the <HI>Athole-</HI>men, that if any &s;hould offer to &s;tirre in tho&s;e parts, they &s;hould neglect no opportunity to &s;uppre&s;&s;e them. The <HI>A|thole-</HI>men being encouraged by their authority and example, &s;hewed them&s;elves very ready and chear|full: And they wanted not long an occa&s;ion to &s;hew it, for the remainder of the <HI>Argylian</HI> party (either by rea&s;on of a general &s;carcity of all things in their own Country, or being driven out of their Country for fear of <HI>Mac-donald,</HI> who was very &s;trong, and threatned their ruine) fell upon the <HI>Mac-gregories</HI> and <HI>Mac|nabies</HI> who &s;ided with <HI>Montro&s;e.</HI> And afterward joyning unto them&s;elves the <HI>Stuarts</HI> which inhabit <HI>Balwidder,</HI> and the <HI>Meni&s;es,</HI> and other Highlanders who &s;till followed <HI>Argyles</HI> fortune, were reported to make up &s;ome fifteen hundred men; and were ready to invade <HI>At hole</HI> unle&s;&s;e timely oppo&s;ed. And truly they had already fired an Iland in <HI>Logh-Torchet</HI> af|ter they had taken it by force and pillaged it, and had
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be&s;ieged <HI>Ample</HI> Ca&s;tle which lyeth on the &s;ide of the river of that name. Which a&s;&s;oon as they had intelli|gence of, the <HI>Athole-</HI>men, being only &s;even hundred in all, under the Command of the afore&s;aid <HI>Graham</HI> and <HI>Drummond,</HI> thought be&s;t to oppo&s;e them before they brake in into their Country. They upon the a|larm of the advance of the <HI>Athole-</HI>men rai&s;ed the &s;iege of <HI>Ample,</HI> and retreated toward <HI>Taich.</HI> The <HI>Athole-</HI>men pur&s;ued them hotly, and find them in battell-arry not far from <HI>Kalandar</HI> a Ca&s;tle of <HI>Taich,</HI> For they had po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed a ford, and manned the bank on the other &s;ide (which was fortified with a &s;teep hill) with a number of Mu&s;quetiers. Which when the <HI>Athole-</HI>men &s;aw, and perceived that their Forces were not &s;o &s;trong as was reported (for they had not aboue twelve hundred men) although they them&s;elves were &s;carce &s;even hundred &s;trong, yet be|ing heartned by the gallantry and encouragement of their Commanders, they were re&s;olved not to &s;tay to receive the enemies charge, but to charge them. Therefore they place a hundred good &s;ouldiers over a|gain&s;t the enemy, as it were to make good the Ford on the other &s;ide, and the re&s;t marched away unto ano|ther Ford near the Ca&s;tle, that they might get over the river there. The <HI>Argylians,</HI> when they perceived the <HI>Athole</HI> men &s;o re&s;olute, retreat &s;traight towards <HI>Sterling.</HI> Then fir&s;t of all tho&s;e <HI>Athole-</HI>men that were left below at the Ford, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them&s;elves of the bank which the enemy had quit, after that they fall upon the Rear of the retreaters, cut off &s;ome, &s;catter others, drive others forward; and the re&s;t of
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the <HI>Athole-</HI>men following hard after, put them all to flight. Four&s;core of them were &s;lain, the re&s;t e&s;ca|ped by flight: who fared the better, becau&s;e that &s;ame morning the <HI>Athole-</HI>men had had a foul and tedi|ous march of ten miles long, and had no Hor&s;e at all to help them&s;elves. So they having come off with cre|dit returned home.</P>
<P>At that time the Rebells held their Convention of E&s;tates at Saint <HI>Andrews,</HI> which they polluted with the Innocent, and I fear crying blood of men, never &s;ufficiently to be commended. They had among&s;t their pri&s;oners &s;ome very eminent men, as appeared by the hatred the Rebells bare them, (for they &s;carce &s;ought the blood of any but the be&s;t of men, but for others of whom they were not &s;o much affraid, they &s;atisfied them&s;elves only with their Seque&s;tration and Plun|der) amon&s;t whom were the Lord <HI>Ogilby,</HI> Sir <HI>Wil|liam Spot&s;wood, William Murray</HI> a noble young Gentleman, and <HI>Andrew Guthery</HI> a &s;tout Gentle|man and active, whom they determined to put to death in that City, to appea&s;e the Gho&s;ts of the men of that Province with their blood, of whom it is re|ported above five thou&s;and had been &s;lain in &s;eve|rall battells. Now, becau&s;e they intended not to pro|ceed again&s;t them by Law, but according to their own lu&s;ts, they have recour&s;e to their old &s;hifts, and make Religion draw the curtain over their cruelty. To which purpo&s;e they &s;et up their Prophets <HI>Kant</HI> and <HI>Blair,</HI> and others that were po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with the &s;ame &s;pirit, who roar'd out their Pulpits bloody O|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters">es before the people; <HI>That God required the blood
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of tho&s;e men, nor could the &s;ins of the Nation be other|wi&s;e expiated, or the revenge of heaven diverted.</HI> And by this art e&s;pecially they provoked the hearts of the people (otherwi&s;e inclined to pitty) to think upon them as accur&s;ed things, and own'd and devoted to de&s;truction; per&s;wading them, that they ought to have no protection of humane Laws, nor any Advo|cate to plead for them, whom God him&s;elf indited and accus'd. Nor did tho&s;e excellent interpreters and deciders of Gods &s;ecret will, make any &s;cruple to &s;en|tence the &s;ouls, and bodies, and all of &s;o great De|linquents unto hell and damnation. And having by this means blinded the people, it was ea&s;ie for them who were their acu&s;ers and judges both, to condemn the innocent men who were de&s;titute of all Patronage and protection.</P>
<P>But <HI>Ogilby,</HI> who was not only the mo&s;t eminent of them for Nobility and power, but al&s;o was a <HI>Ha|milton</HI> by his mothers &s;ide, and cozen-german to <HI>Lind&s;ey,</HI> pretending him&s;elf &s;ick, with much adoe got &s;o much favour as to have his mother, wife, and &s;i&s;ters &s;uffered to vi&s;it him in pri&s;on. Which when he had obtain'd, whil&s;t the Keepers in reverence to the honourable Ladies, withdrew out of his chamber, he immediately puts on his &s;i&s;ters gown which &s;he had put off, and was dre&s;&s;ed in all her attire. She al&s;o put on his cap in which he u&s;ed to lie &s;ick in bed, and lay down in&s;tead of her brother. At la&s;t many &s;alutations and &s;ome tears pa&s;&s;ing on both &s;ides, at eight of the clock in the night, in the habit and likene&s;&s;e of his &s;i&s;ter he deceived his Keepers, who lighted him out
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with candles and torches. And immediately depar|ting the City, he took hor&s;e (which he had laid for him) with two of his followers, and before morning was got out of danger. But when the next day his ob|&s;ervant Keepers had found out their mi&s;take, <HI>Argyle</HI> was &s;o unable to contain his wrath and revenge, that he would needs have the noble Ladies (and the more noble for this their compa&s;&s;ion and adventure) brought in que&s;tion for it. But he could not effect it, for by rea&s;on of the equity of their cau&s;e, they found much &s;tronger friends than he could, of the <HI>Hamil|tons</HI> and <HI>Lind&s;ey;</HI> by who&s;e connivence it is concei|ved by many that all this Comedy was acted; but in a thing that is uncertain, I &s;hall determine nothing.</P>
<P>This cleanly conveighance of <HI>Ogilby</HI> out of their hands vext the Rebels exceedingly, and made them almo&s;t wild, whence it happened that they made a quick di&s;patch of the re&s;t. And the fir&s;t that &s;uffered was Colonel <HI>Nathaniel Gordon,</HI> a man of excellent endowments both of body and mind. Who being near unto his death, bitterly lamented with many tears, that the carriage of his youth had been much otherwi&s;e than it ought to have been. And when be|ing ready to die, they offered him an In&s;trument to &s;igne, wherein he was to te&s;tifie his repentance, he &s;ub|&s;ctibed it without any more ado; and withall call'd God, and his Angels, and the men there pre&s;ent to witne&s;s, that if any thing was contained in that pa|per which was contrary to the King, his Crown or Authority, he utterly di&s;avowed it. Then being ab|&s;olved from the &s;entence of Excommunication under
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which he lay for Adultery long &s;ince committed, to the great grief of the beholders, he laid down his neck upon the block. A man &s;ubject indeed to that fault, but famous for his valour and &s;ouldier&s;hip, both in fo|rein Countries and at home.</P>
<P>The next that was brought upon the Scaffold, yet reeking with the blood of Colonel <HI>Gordon,</HI> was a man worthy of everla&s;ting memory, Sir <HI>Robert Spot&s;|wood,</HI> one rais'd by the favour of King <HI>James</HI> and King <HI>Charls</HI> unto great honours, as his &s;ingular vir|tues did merit. King <HI>James</HI> made him a Knight, and a privy Coun&s;ellor: King <HI>Charls</HI> advanced him to be Lord Pre&s;ident of the Se&s;&s;ion, and now but of late Principal Secretary of <HI>Scotland.</HI> This excellent man (although his very enemies had nothing to lay to his charge through all his life) they found guilty of high Trea&s;on; which is yet the more to be lamented, be|cau&s;e he never bore arms again&s;t them; for his emi|nency lay in the way of peace, not knowing what be|longed to drawing of a &s;word. This was therefore the only charge that they laid again&s;t him; That by the Kings command he brought his Letters Patents unto <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> whereby he was made Vice-Roy of the Kingdom, and General of the Army. Neverthe|le&s;s he proved at large, that he had done nothing in that, but according to the cu&s;tom of their Ance&s;tors, and the Laws of the Land. And truly he &s;eemed in his mo&s;t elegant Defence to have given &s;atisfaction to all men except his Judges (whom the Rebels had pick'd out from among&s;t his mo&s;t malicious enemies that &s;ought his death) &s;o that que&s;tionle&s;s they
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would never have pronounc'd that doleful &s;entence, if they had but the lea&s;t tincture of ju&s;tice or hone&s;ty. But to &s;peak the truth, a more powerful envy than his innocency was able to &s;truggle with, undid the good man; for the Earl of <HI>Lanerick</HI> having been heretofore Principal Secretary of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> by his revolt unto the Rebels, forced the mo&s;t gracious and bountiful King to the whole Fa|mily of the <HI>Hamiltons,</HI> to take that Office from &s;o unthankful a man, and be&s;tow it on another: nor was there any one found more worthy than <HI>Spot&s;wood</HI> to be advanced to &s;o high an honour. And hence hapned that great weight of envy and revenge to be thrown upon him, which &s;eeing he was not able to bear out, he was forced to fall under.</P>
<P>And now <HI>Spot&s;wood</HI> being about to die, abating no|thing of his wonted con&s;tancy and gravity, according to the cu&s;tom of the Country, made a Speech unto the people: But that Sacrilegious thief <HI>Blair,</HI> who &s;tood by him upon the Scaffold again&s;t his will fearing the eloquence and undauntedne&s;s of &s;o gallant a man, le&s;t the my&s;teries of Rebellion &s;hould be di&s;covered (by one of his gravity and authority) unto the people, (who u&s;e mo&s;t attentively to hear, and tenaciou&s;ly to remember the words of dying men) procured the Pro|vo&s;t of the City (who had been once a &s;ervant to <HI>Spot&s;woods</HI> Father) to &s;top his mouth. Which in&s;o|lent, and more than ordinary di&s;courte&s;ie, he took no notice of; but letting his &s;peech unto the people a|lone, he wholly be&s;towed him&s;elfe in devotions and prayers to Almighty God. Being interrupted again,
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and that very importunately, by that bu&s;ie and trou|ble&s;ome fellow <HI>Blair,</HI> and asked, <HI>Whether he would not have him and the people to pray for the &s;alvation of his &s;oul?</HI> He made an&s;wer, <HI>That he de&s;ired the Pray|ers of the people, but for his impious Prayers, which were abominable unto God, he de&s;ired not to trouble him.</HI> And added moreover, <HI>That of all the Plagues with which the offended Maje&s;ty of God had &s;courged that Nation, this was much the greate&s;t (greater than the Sword, or Fire, or Pe&s;tilence) that for the &s;ins of the people, God hath &s;ent a lying &s;pirit into the mouth of the Prophets.</HI> With which free and undeniable &s;aying, <HI>Blair</HI> finding him&s;elf galled, grew &s;o extremely in pa&s;&s;ion, that he could not hold from &s;currilous and contumelious language again&s;t his Father, who had been long dead, and again&s;t him&s;elf who was now a dying; approving him&s;elf a fine Preacher of Chri&s;ti|an Patience and Longanimity the while. But all the&s;e things <HI>Spot&s;wood</HI> having his mind fixed upon higher matters, pa&s;&s;ed by with &s;ilence and unmoved. At la&s;t being undaunted, and &s;hewing no alteration, neither in his voice nor countenance, when he laid down his neck to the fatal &s;troke, the&s;e were his la&s;t words, <HI>Merciful Je&s;u, gather my &s;oul unto thy Saints and Martyrs who have run before me in this race.</HI> And cer|tainly &s;eeing Martyrdom may be undergone, not only for the Confe&s;&s;ion of our Faith, but for any ver|tue by which holy Men make their Faith Mani|fe&s;t, there is no doubt but he hath received that Crown.</P>
<P>And this was the end (a doleful end indeed, in
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regard of us, but a joyful and honourable one in him;) of a man admirable for his knowledge of things Divine and Humane; for his skill in the tongues, <HI>Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriack, Arabick,</HI> be&s;ides the We&s;tern Languages; for his knowledge in Hi&s;tory, Law, and Politiques; the Honour and Ornament of his Country and our Age for the integrity of his life, for his Fidelity, for his Ju&s;tice, for his Con&s;tancy; a man of an even temper, and ever agreeing with him|&s;elf; who&s;e youth had no need to be a&s;hamed of his child-hood, nor his riper years of his youth; a &s;evere ob&s;erver of the old-fa&s;hion'd piety with all his &s;oul, and yet one that was no vain and &s;uper&s;titious Pro|fe&s;&s;or of it before others; a man ea&s;ie to be made a friend, and very hard to be made an enemy; and who being now dead, was exceedingly lamented, even by many Covenanters. His breathle&s;s body <HI>Hugh Scri|miger</HI> once his Fathers &s;ervant, took care to bring forth, as the times would permit, with a private fu|neral. Nor was he long able to bear &s;o great a &s;orrow and lo&s;s, for after a few days e&s;pying that bloody Scaffold not yet removed out of the place, immedi|ately he fell into a &s;woond, and being carried home by his &s;ervants and neighbours, died at his very door.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, they give unto <HI>Spot&s;wood</HI> another compa|nion in death, <HI>Andrew Gutherey,</HI> Son unto the mo&s;t de&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">ing Bi&s;hop of <HI>Murray,</HI> and hated the more by the Rebels for that. A youth, as well valiant in bat|tel, as con&s;tant in &s;uffering and contemning death. He al&s;o was threatned and railed at by the &s;ame <HI>Elaire,</HI> but an&s;wered. That <HI>no greater honour could
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have been done him, than to be put to an hone&s;t death in the behalf of &s;o good a King, and &s;o ju&s;t a Cau&s;e; which tho&s;e that were pre&s;ent &s;hould &s;ee he embraced without fear, and perhaps another generation would not report without prai&s;e. For his &s;ins he humbly beg|ged mercy and forgivene&s;&s;e at the hands of his mo&s;t gracious Lord God; but for that which he &s;tood there condemned he was not much troubled.</HI> After this man|ner died with con&s;tancy and courage a man who if Almighty god had &s;o thought fit had been worthy of a longer life.</P>
<P>And that now they might put the la&s;t Scene to a Tragedy of which mo&s;t part was acted, after two days breathing they brought forth <HI>William Murray,</HI> bro|ther to the Earl of <HI>Tullibardin,</HI> a young Gentle|man, to the &s;ame place. And truly every man much admired, that his brother being in great favour and e&s;teem among&s;t the Covenanters, had not interceded for the life and &s;afety of his own only brother. Some imputed it to his &s;loth, others to his covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e as gaping after his brothers e&s;tate, others to his &s;tupid and &s;uper&s;titious zeal to the Cau&s;e; but even all, the very Covenanters them&s;elves, condemned his &s;ilence in &s;uch a ca&s;e as di&s;honourable, and mi&s;-becoming a Noble &s;pirit. But the Youth him&s;elf, being not above nineteen years old, purcha&s;ed unto him&s;elf everla|&s;ting renown with po&s;terity for &s;o hone&s;t and honou|rable an end. Among&s;t tho&s;e few things which he &s;pake to the people, tho&s;e that heard him told me the&s;e words, which he &s;pake with a higher voyce than the re&s;t; <HI>Account</HI> (O my Countrymen) <HI>that a new
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and high addition of honour is this day atchieved to the hou&s;e of</HI> Tullibardin <HI>and the whole Nation of the</HI> Murrays, <HI>that a young man de&s;cended of that antient &s;tock, willingly and chearfully delivered up his inno|cent &s;oul (as unto men) in the vsry flower of his youth, for his King, the Father of his Country, and the mo&s;t munificent Patron of our Family. Nor let my mo&s;t honoured mother, my dear &s;i&s;ters, my kindred, or any of my friends be &s;orry for the &s;hortne&s;&s;e of my life which is abundantly recompenced with the honourablene&s;&s;e of my death. Pray for my &s;oul, and God be with you.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XX.</HEAD>
<P>THe death of his friends rroubled <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> excee|dingly, as it had rea&s;on; but yet it was not able to break or &s;hake his firm and &s;ettled re&s;olution. Nor did his noble and more than ordinarily elevated &s;pi|rit ever give greater evidences of it &s;elf than now. For there were many who being enraged with the un|worthy murther of their friends, egg'd him on, being already &s;ufficiently di&s;contented, to a pre&s;ent revenge. And whiles they too much &s;avoured their grief (al|though it was ju&s;t) and &s;eem'd to de&s;ire nothing but what was fit, to wit, to render them like for like, they wearied out the General with their many, and trouble&s;ome, and un&s;ea&s;onable complaints. For they mu&s;t needs be argry, that their companions, their friends, their kindred, noble and gallant Gentlemen, well de&s;erving of their King, their Country, and the General him&s;elf, &s;hould be murther'd contrary to their faith promi&s;ed them, the cu&s;tome of War, the
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Law of the Land, of Nations, and of Nature, and all unreveng'd: and on the other &s;ide, &s;uch Rebells as had been taken by him to be kept rather as in their friends hou&s;es than in pri&s;ons, to rejoyce, to triumph, to laugh at their &s;orrow: And therefore they humbly de&s;ired &s;uch pri&s;oners might be tryed as Malefactors; nor would the enemy be otherwi&s;e frighted from their unheard-of cruelty, nor the minds of his own men othermi&s;e &s;atisfied and rai&s;ed up. Whom he en|tertained with a curteous Speech, commended them for the love they bare their friends, and told them, <HI>That the blood of tho&s;e honourable and innocent Sub|jects ought to be reveng'd indeed, by &s;uch a way as became hone&s;t and valiant men, not by ba&s;ene&s;&s;e and mi&s;chief, as the Rebells do, but by true valour, in a &s;ouldier-like way. It concerned them &s;o to tame, as not to imitate the wickedne&s;&s;e of their enemies. Nor, if they con&s;idered matters well, was it con&s;cience, that tho&s;e that were pri&s;oners with them, and &s;o could not be acce&s;&s;ary unto the murther of their friends, &s;hould &s;uf|fer for tho&s;e &s;ins of which they were innocent. The faith that they had pa&s;&s;ed unto them was a mo&s;t &s;acred thing, and to be kept inviolate even by enemies. Why &s;hould they make them&s;elves guilty of that which they &s;o much abhorred in their enemies? The time would come when they mu&s;t give a &s;evere account of it unto the mo&s;t righteous God, and to his Vice-gerent the King. In the mean time</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>let them &s;et a price upon our heads, let them hire A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ines, let them &s;erd in their In&s;truments among&s;t us to murther us, let them make promi&s;es and break them, yet they &s;hall
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never effect, that we &s;hall contend with them in an e|mulation which &s;hall be wor&s;e, or any otherwi&s;e than upon honourable and vertuous terms.</HI></P>
<P>Now <HI>Huntley,</HI> who intended nothing le&s;&s;e than what he promi&s;ed <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> before his face, having pa&s;&s;ed over the <HI>Spey,</HI> and entered into <HI>Murray,</HI> tri|fled away his time, and wa&s;ted his &s;trength without either honour or profit, a good way off <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e.</HI> For giving his mind too much to prey and &s;poil, after he had wa&s;ted the Country, he heard a flying report that the inhabitants had hid their gold and &s;ilver, and the be&s;t of their &s;tuff, in certain turrets and ob&s;cure Ca|&s;tles. Which whiles he a&s;&s;aults in vain, and could neither by commands nor entreaties be taken off from his re&s;olution, the enemy &s;ending in provi&s;ion on that &s;ide which he had undertaken to block up, relieved <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e</HI> with all things that they wanted. Which if he had hindred, as he undertook unto <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> the Garri&s;on would have been &s;hortly forced to yeeld. And <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> having now received intelligence that Major General <HI>Middleton</HI> was come with &s;ix hun|dred Hor&s;e and eight hundred Foot as far as <HI>Aber|deen,</HI> and was like to lay wa&s;te <HI>Huntleys</HI> and the <HI>Gordons</HI> Country, &s;ent Collonel <HI>William Stuart</HI> un|to <HI>Huntley,</HI> to entreat him to return again unto the &s;iege of <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e</HI> according to his engagement: Or if he did not approve &s;o well of that, becau&s;e the ene|my was advanced &s;o near his Territories, he &s;hould per&s;wade him to joyn his Forces with his, and to march immediately towards the enemy, whom the doubted not with an ea&s;ie hazard to overthrow. To
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which he an&s;wered &s;cornfully, that he would look to his own bu&s;ine&s;&s;e him&s;elf, nor did he need the help and a&s;&s;i&s;tance of <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> to drive the enemy out of his borders. At la&s;t, after ten weeks &s;pent in the &s;iege of a &s;mall incon&s;iderable Ca&s;tle, and the lo&s;&s;e of all the forwarde&s;t of his men, he was forced with di&s;ho|nour to raife the &s;iege, when he was never the nearer. And in contempt, not &s;o much of <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> as of the Kings Maje&s;ty, he retreated to the <HI>Spey</HI> without the con&s;ent or Knowledge of the Vice-roy: giving there|by a very bad example to all men, who began to come in thick and threefold with great eagerne&s;&s;e unto the Kings party.</P>
<P>Among&s;t whom the chiefe&s;t for wealth and power, and multitudes of followers and dependents, were the Earl of <HI>Seafoth,</HI> the Lord <HI>Re&s;e,</HI> &amp; from the furthe&s;t I|lands Sir <HI>James Mac-donald,</HI> Chief of a mo&s;t power|full and ancient family in the Highlands; <HI>Macklen</HI> al&s;o and <HI>Glengar</HI> the Captain of the <HI>Mac-renalds,</HI> (and many more) who were &s;ome of them already in <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI>'s. Army with their Forces, others had &s;ent for theirs. And by this means before the end of <HI>March, Montro&s;e</HI> might have fallen down into the Low-lands with a far greater Army than ever the Scots produc'd in the memory of man. But the unexpected revolt of &s;o great a per&s;onage did not le&s;&s;e encourage the Re|bells to per&s;evere in their cour&s;e, than &s;candalize and di&s;courage hone&s;t and loyal hearts. Whence it happe|ned, that tho&s;e who&s;e men were already come up to the Army, began to draw off, and &s;teal away privately, and others to make excu&s;es for their delay. All which
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put together made <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> to ca&s;t about another way. For he re&s;olved (&s;eeing he could do no good with vain, light, wavering and incon&s;tant men by gentlene&s;&s;e and good Offices) to reduce them to his obedience by his authority, backed with the &s;trength of arms and &s;evere penalties; and to that end to force all the Highlanders and North-country-men, to take up arms, by march|ing in among&s;t them with a confiding party of good &s;ouldiers. For he well knew that many Governours and leading men in their re&s;pective Countries, and Chiefs of Septs were on his &s;ide, unto whom this cour&s;e would be very acceptable. Nor did he que&s;tion but the chief and mo&s;t powerfull of the <HI>Gordons</HI> being weary of their Lords mi&s;carriage, would do him the be&s;t &s;ervice they could if need was, though it ran coun|ter unto <HI>Huntleys</HI> de&s;ign. However he was re&s;olved to u&s;e all fair means, if that would do, before he would put them to the co&s;t of that la&s;t and &s;harpe&s;t remedy.</P>
<P>But becau&s;e <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e</HI> was the mo&s;t con&s;iderable ga|ri&s;on of all the North, and the haven there mo&s;t com|modious for entertaining forein Forces, he de&s;ired nothing more than to reduce that: therefore he &s;ur|rounded it with the Forces he had. For the enemies Army under the Command of <HI>Middleton</HI> was above &s;our&s;core miles off, and <HI>Huntley</HI> and the <HI>Gordons</HI> lay half way between them in a body. Therefore <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> dealt again with <HI>Huntley</HI> to per&s;wade him not to lo&s;e his time, but (as they had agreed) to joyn with him in the &s;iege of <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e;</HI> or at lea&s;t to hover a|bout the <HI>Spey,</HI> over which the enemy was to pa&s;&s;e, and to hinder their pa&s;&s;age if they advanced to rai&s;e the
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fiege; and if they chanced to get over to joyn their Forces together and fight them. To all which he an|&s;wered &s;o di&s;dainfully, that the Viceroy thought it high time to de&s;pair of any good from him, and con|ceived him&s;elf engaged to look better to him&s;elf, le&s;t at la&s;t he &s;hould betray him. So that putting no confi|dence in <HI>Huntley,</HI> he &s;ent back three Troops of Hor&s;e to lie at the Fords of the <HI>Spey,</HI> to ob&s;erve the motion of the enemy: and if they came to &s;end him often and certain intelligence. And they, quartering them&s;elvs in the mo&s;t advantageous places for &s;couting, were carefull enough to ob&s;erve his commands; untill <HI>Lew|is Gordon, Huntleys</HI> &s;on, who then commanded the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Rothes,</HI> plaid a more &s;hamefull prank than any he ever did before. He a&s;&s;ured tho&s;e Captains of Hor&s;e whom <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had &s;ent to guard the Fords of the <HI>Spey,</HI> that the enemy lay very far off, and intended nothing le&s;&s;e than to pa&s;&s;e that river and rai&s;e the &s;iege; &amp; therefore he per&s;waded them (who took him for a mo&s;t faithfull friend) to let alone their needle&s;&s;e guards (to which they had been appointed) &amp; to come to his Ca&s;tle to refre&s;h them&s;elvs, and with many comple|ments invited them to a fea&s;t which he had provided for them: and they had no more wit than to tru&s;t him, and go. He entertain'd them with a huge deal of cur|te&s;ie, and be&s;ides very dainty chear, plyed them with good &s;tore of wine and &s;trong waters. And with a great deal of jollity and ceremonious curte&s;ie, detain|ed them &s;o long till <HI>Middleton</HI> with a great Army of Hor&s;e and Foot had got over the <HI>Spey,</HI> and had gotten footing in <HI>Murray.</HI> Which a&s;&s;oon as he had notice of
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he at length di&s;mi&s;t them, and that with the&s;e jeering terms; <HI>Go now to your General</HI> Montro&s;e, <HI>who will have a &s;harper bout now than he had at</HI> Selkirk. Mean time the enemy marcht &s;traight and eagerly towards <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> and tho&s;e Hor&s;e getting pa&s;t them with much ado, came not much before them to <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e,</HI> in&s;omuch as they &s;eem'd to be but the Van of the e|nemy, and <HI>Middletons</HI> whole Army followed within Cannon-&s;hor. But, as the providence of God would have it, <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had notice of their approach ano|ther way, and having drawn off his Forces a little way from the Town, had got them all into a body. And when he perceiv'd the enemy to be much too &s;trong for him in Hor&s;e, avoiding the plain, he retreated with his men beyond the <HI>Ne&s;&s;e.</HI> The enemy falling upon his Rear, and being hand&s;omly repuls'd, kept them|&s;elvs al&s;o clo&s;e. The lo&s;&s;e on both &s;ides was very lit|tle, and almo&s;t equal. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> pa&s;&s;ed by <HI>Bewly</HI> into <HI>Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> whither the enemy pur&s;u'd him, that taking him in the champain ground which was di&s;advantageous to him, they might compell him to fight whether he would or no. But be&s;ides that the enemy was much &s;tronger than he, the Country people being faithle&s;&s;e and rotten, and <HI>Seafoths</HI> new rai&s;ed men running a|way by companies from their colours, moved him with all the &s;peed he could to &s;ave him&s;elf from the e|nemies Hor&s;e. Therefore pa&s;&s;ing by <HI>Logh-Ne&s;&s;e,</HI> and through <HI>Strath-Gla&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Harrage,</HI> he advanced un|to the bank of the <HI>Spey.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was re&s;olved to proceed again&s;t <HI>Huntley</HI> as a publick enemy, unle&s;&s;e he repented, but would try
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all fair means fir&s;t, to &s;ee whether it was po&s;&s;ible to bring him into a better mind. To which end, taking with him only one Troop of Hor&s;e for his lifeguard, in all &s;peed he rid twenty miles unto him to his Ca&s;tle at <HI>Bogy.</HI> And as he was on his way, he &s;ent one before to give him notice of his approach; and to tell him, that he came thither alone, and without his For|ces, to no other end than to ki&s;&s;e his hand, and to be advi&s;ed by him concerning &s;uch things as concerned the Kings &s;ervice, and he was the more earne&s;t to &s;peak with him, becau&s;e he had newly received Letters from the King from <HI>Oxford,</HI> which he would let him &s;ee. But <HI>Huntley</HI> being affrighted with the fir&s;t news of <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s approach, was &s;o aver&s;e from the pre&s;ence of &s;o gallant a man, that in a trice he leapt on Hor&s;e|back, and with one man along with him, ran away any way he car'd not whither; nor vouch&s;afed the Kings Vice-roy the favour of a conference or entertainment. Which a&s;&s;oon as <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> under&s;tood, he returned back tho&s;e twenty miles the &s;ame day, being the 27. of <HI>May;</HI> and was as carefull as he could po&s;&s;ibly to con|ceal this frowardne&s;&s;e and unruline&s;&s;e of <HI>Huntleys,</HI> le&s;t it &s;hould be a bad pre&s;ident. But all would not do, for the <HI>Gordons</HI> them&s;elvs, and others of <HI>Huntleys</HI> friends, being mo&s;t of them very hone&s;t men, &amp; com|pleat Gentlemen, told all with a great deal of indigna|tion, and dete&s;tation of <HI>Huntley;</HI> that by that means they might accquit them&s;elvs from the a&s;per&s;ion of &s;o unworthy an act.</P>
<P>Nor can one ea&s;ily &s;ay how great influence that mans example had upon other Northern men: The
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Earl of <HI>Seaforth,</HI> who had been but lately, and with much adoe reconciled to the Kings &s;ide, was conceived to begin to falter; and &s;ome &s;ay, that being &s;till un&s;et|led, he had then underhand dealings for the making of his peace with the Covenanters, which truly I can hardly believe. And <HI>Alexander Mac-donald</HI> him&s;elf, pretending I know not what, although he had had of|ten and &s;erious invitations, made nothing but &s;leeve|le&s;&s;e excu&s;es and put-offs from day to day. Which carriage of his gave occa&s;ion of &s;trange reports of him, as if he, although he was a bitter enemy to <HI>Argyle,</HI> yet had great corre&s;pondence with and relations unto the <HI>Hamiltons;</HI> and therefore &s;taid at home, and look|ed only upon the pre&s;ervation of the <HI>Mac-donalds,</HI> not medling with publique affairs. Which when <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> con&s;idered, he re&s;olved without further delay to make his progre&s;&s;e over all the North-country and Highlands with a con&s;iderable party, to li&s;t &s;ouldiers, to encourage the well-di&s;po&s;ed, to reduce tho&s;e that were refractory, by the &s;everity of the Laws and con|dign puni&s;hment, and to deal with them as men u&s;e to do with &s;ick children, make them take phy&s;ick whether they will or no. And he wanted not fit|ing in&s;truments to promote this de&s;igh, who had ear|ne&s;tly laboured with him to take that cour&s;e.</P>
<P>While the&s;e things pa&s;&s;ed at <HI>Innerne&s;&s;e, Huntley,</HI> le&s;t he &s;hould be thought never to have done any thing by his own conduct without the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> be&s;ieged and took in <HI>Aberdeen,</HI> (which <HI>Middleton</HI> kept with five hundred men) but with more lo&s;&s;e to <HI>Huntley</HI> him&s;elf than to the enemy. For
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be&s;ides the lo&s;&s;e of many valiant &s;ouldiers, he gave his Highlanders leave to pillage the City. But what fault tho&s;e poor innocent <HI>Aberdeen-</HI>men had made either again&s;t the King or <HI>Huntley,</HI> let them judge, who know that almo&s;t all of them were eminent and ob|&s;erved for their loyalty. But for the enemy whom he took in Armes, who were both many and of very good account among&s;t their own party, hee di&s;mi&s;t them freely without any conditions, and look'd fawn|ingly upon them, rather like a Petitioner than a Con|querour. Nor when he had many Collonels, Knights, and others of quality (who by chance were found in <HI>Aberdeen)</HI> in his hands, did he &s;o much as think of exchanging any one of his own friends for them, ma|ny of whom were pri&s;oners either in <HI>Scotland</HI> or <HI>Eng|land.</HI> But this was his humour, being alwayes more ready to doe good for his enemies than his friends.</P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXI.</HEAD>
<P><HI>MOntro&s;e</HI> being bu&s;ie about his de&s;ign, on the la&s;t of <HI>May</HI> there came unto him a Herald with Commands from the King, (who by I know not what misfortune had ca&s;t him&s;elf upon the Scotch Covenanters Army at <HI>Newca&s;tle)</HI> wherby he was re|quired forthwith to lay down his arms and disband, and to depart into <HI>France,</HI> and there to wait his Ma|je&s;ties further plea&s;ure. He being a&s;toni&s;hed with this unexpected me&s;&s;age, bitterly bewailed the &s;ad condition of the King, that had forced him to ca&s;t him|&s;elf upon the mercy of his mo&s;t deadly enemies.
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And doubted not but that that command which was given him for disbanding, was extorted from him by the craft, or force, or threats of the Rebels into who&s;e hands he had fallen. But what &s;hould he do in that ca&s;e? If he obeyed, he mu&s;t give over the e&s;tates of his friends to plunder, and their lives to death; and if he &s;tood in arms again&s;t the Kings command, he &s;hould be guilty of that crime he undertook to &s;courge in others, Rebellion. And e&s;pecially he was afraid le&s;t the Rebells &s;hould put his actions upon the Kings account, and u&s;e him the wor&s;e for them, &s;eeing they had him in their power: of which the King had gi|ven him a fair hint in his Letter.</P>
<P>Therefore <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> re&s;olved to call together all the Noblemen, and Chiefs of Septs, and Knights, and others of quality that were of his &s;ide; that a matter of that con&s;equence, which concern'd them all, might be di&s;cu&s;t by general con&s;ent. To which end, after he had received &s;o many injuries from him, he di&s;patch|eth Sir <HI>John Hurrey,</HI> &amp; Sir <HI>John Innes,</HI> being men of greate&s;t account in his Army, and (as he conceived) mo&s;t in <HI>Huntleys</HI> favour, unto him, to de&s;ire him to be pre&s;ent at that &s;o &s;erious Con&s;ultation, and deferr'd unto him the appointment of the time and place. And to tell him moreover, that <HI>Montro&s;e was willing to come to his Ca&s;tle if he thought fit.</HI> Huntley an&s;wer'd, <HI>That the King had &s;ent him Letters al&s;o to the &s;ame effect, which he was re&s;olved to obey; that the Kings commands were of that nature as not to admit of &s;e|cond thoughts, and after them nothing was left for con&s;ul|tation.</HI> When they replyed, that <HI>that likely was</HI> Mon|tro&s;es
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<HI>opinion too, and that he was as ready as any other to give obedience to the Kings Commands, if they were not forced; however it concern'd them all to provide in time for the &s;afety of them and theirs.</HI> And that <HI>the cre|dit and authority of what they re&s;olved upon would be greater, even in the opinion of the enemies them&s;elvs, if they made a joynt and unanimous re&s;olution.</HI> He made no other an&s;wer, than that <HI>he had re&s;olved for him&s;elf, and would have nothing to do with any body el&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Montro&s;e</HI> therefore &s;ends his an&s;wer to the King by Letters, wherin he was very inqui&s;itive of the condi|tion he was in among&s;t the Covenanters, and whether he conceiv'd him&s;elf &s;afe in their hands? and al&s;o whether his &s;ervice could be beneficial unto him any further? And, if he was fully determin'd to have that Army disbanded which fought for him (whiles the enemy in both Kingdomes were in a military po&s;|ture, and crow'd over them more and more) what cour&s;e &s;hould be taken for the &s;ecurity of the lives and fortunes of his mo&s;t gallant and faithfull Sub|jects, who had &s;pent their blood, and all that was dear unto them, for his &s;ake? For it was a lamentable ca&s;e if &s;o excellnet men &s;hould be left to the mercy of them that had none, not only to be undone, but to be murthered. To this he received no open an&s;wer, be|&s;ides &s;ome Articles which the me&s;&s;enger brought, which were &s;igned by the Rebells, with which <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> was to be content. But he in great anger rejected tho&s;e conditions which the enemy had made, being &s;o uncon&s;cionable as they were; and not vouch&s;afing &s;o much as to treat with the enemy, &s;ent back the bearer
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to the King, profe&s;&s;ing, that as he had not taken arms up but by the King Commi&s;&s;ion, &s;o he would have no condition pre&s;cribed him to lay them down by any mortal man but the Kings him&s;elf. Therefore he hum|bly be&s;ought the King (if he thought it fit that he &s;hould disband his Army) that he would not think much to make and &s;igne the conditions him&s;elf; to which, though they prov'd perhaps very har&s;h, he pro|mi&s;ed ab&s;olutely to &s;ubmit, but he &s;corn'd the com|mands of any one el&s;e who&s;oever they were.</P>
<P>The me&s;&s;enger returning, at la&s;t brought with him Articles &s;igned by the Kings hand, with Injunctions now the third time, wherein he was required to dis|band without further delay; and the &s;ame me&s;&s;enger charged him in the Kings name, under pain of high Trea&s;on, to give obedience forthwith to the Kings Command. And be&s;ides his Maje&s;ties plea&s;ure, there was another thing which ha&s;tened him, which was, that tho&s;e that had engaged with him had mo&s;t of them privately and by their friends laboured to make their peace with the Rebels, which was evidently known by good tokens of the Earl of <HI>Seaforth</HI> and others. As for <HI>Huntley</HI> and <HI>Aboine</HI> they did not only profe&s;&s;e them&s;elvs open enemies to <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> but al&s;o threat|ned to fall upon him by force of arms, if he did not immediately &s;ubmit to the Kings authority. And <HI>An|trim</HI> being newly arrived out of <HI>Ireland</HI> in the High|lands, without either men or arms, bu&s;ied him&s;elf to draw away all the Highlanders, as his kindred &amp; allies, to him&s;elf from <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s Army, whom in &s;corn he call'd the <HI>Governour of the Low-lands,</HI> making by this
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means an un&s;ea&s;onable fraction, and a pernitious one to his friends in tho&s;e parts. All which <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> ha|ving well con&s;idered, he was forced according to the Kings command to disband his Army.</P>
<P>And truly that was a mo&s;t &s;ad day, in which ha|ving &s;ollemnly prais'd and encourag'd his &s;ouldiers (as well as the occa&s;ion permitted) he took his leave of them. For althuogh he bid them to be of good com|fort however, and told them he &s;aw &s;ome day-light of a ble&s;&s;ed peace, and that he did as much &s;ervice to the King by his pre&s;ent &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion, as he had done be|fore by his Martial atchievements; Yet notwith&s;tand|ing they all conceiv'd that that was the la&s;t day of the Kings authority in <HI>Scotland,</HI> and all of them beleeved for certain, that tho&s;e Commands from the King were wre&s;ted from him upon the apprehen&s;ion of greater dangers to his per&s;on if he had not given them. And although &s;ome provi&s;ion had been made by Ar|ticles in writing for their Indemnity, yet they had ra|her have undergone the wor&s;t that could fall, than &s;ur|vive idle and un&s;erviceable &s;pectators of the mi&s;erable dition of their deare&s;t King. And it was no little vex|conation to tho&s;e generous &s;pirits, to think what an unworthy opinion forein Nations and their own po&s;te|rity mu&s;t needs have of them, as if the Scoti&s;h Nation had been unanimou&s;ly guilty of Rebellion and de&s;er|tion of &s;o good a King. Be&s;ides, their &s;orow was much augmented with the con&s;ideration that their General, who was mo&s;t valiant, mo&s;t &s;ucce&s;sfull, and therefore mo&s;t beloved, &s;hould be taken off &s;o unhappily from the King, from his Country, from them&s;elvs, and all
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good men. So that his &s;ouldiers falling down at his feet, entreated him with tears in their eyes, that &s;ee|ing the &s;afety of the Kings per&s;on depended &s;o much upon it, and he mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity depart the Kingdome, he would be plea&s;ed to take them along with him in|to what part of the world &s;oever he went. Profe&s;&s;ing their readine&s;&s;e to live and fight any where under his command, and (if God would have it &s;o) to die too. And truly many of them were re&s;olved, though to the certain hazard of their lives and e&s;tates, to follow him even again&s;t his will and knowledge, and to offer him that &s;ervice in an unknown land, that they were able to afford him no longer in their mi&s;erable Country.</P>
<P>By the Articles to which the King had con&s;ented according to the de&s;ires of the Covenanters, it was e&s;|pecially provided, that <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> &s;hould depart <HI>Scot|land</HI> before the fir&s;t of <HI>September,</HI> and that they &s;hould find him &s;hipping, with provi&s;ion and all things nece&s;|&s;ary when he went. The&s;e things were tran&s;acted the fir&s;t of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and a Port in <HI>Angus</HI> de&s;igned for <HI>Mon|ro&s;e,</HI> whither they were to &s;end &s;hipping from whence <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> was to imbark. And <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> to prevent and re|move all occa&s;ions of exception or &s;u&s;pition, being ac|companied only with his own &s;ervants and a very few friends, betook him&s;elf thither, and waited for the &s;hipping. About this time his mo&s;t implacable ene|mies &s;et abroad crafty and feigned reports by their fit in&s;truments, wherein they confidently averted, that <HI>the States of the Kingdome</HI> (as they call'd them&s;elvs) <HI>would by no means &s;uffer that &s;o gallant a Subject &s;hould be bani&s;hed the Country: For they knew not how great
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need they might have of a man of his worth, e&s;pecially if the King who had ca&s;t him&s;elf freely upon the affections of the</HI> Scots <HI>could not get any right of the</HI> Engli&s;h, <HI>but &s;hould be put to &s;eek it by force and arms; and if it came to that, no age had afforded a better General than</HI> Mon|tro&s;e. And truly, that was the earne&s;t de&s;ire and ex|pectation of mo&s;t men, who were not able to dive in|to the bottome of the Rebells plots: but they had far other de&s;igns in hand, and another game to play. For what their thoughts were towards the King, the &s;ad event made too manife&s;t; and for <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> they laid very uncon&s;cionable and unworthy traps to catch him. For they did this, that if they could flatter him up with &s;uch vain hopes, and entice him to &s;tay in the King|dome beyond his time appointed, they might take hold of him upon the Articles, and cut him off with more credit.</P>
<P><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> was almo&s;t &s;pent, and no news at all was to be had about the &s;hipping or &s;afe conduct: therefore <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> (although he was re&s;olved to be gon by the day the King had limited) that he might more fully grope the intentions of the Covenanters, gave leave to &s;ome of his friends to deal with them for further time. But when they brought him nought but uncertain and doubtfull an&s;wers, he had rea&s;on to think they inten|ded nothing but to delude and intrap him. Be&s;ides (which made his &s;u&s;pition &s;o much the greater) there came a &s;hip upon the very la&s;t day allowed for his &s;tay (to wit, on the la&s;t of <HI>Augu&s;t)</HI> into the haven of <HI>Mon|tro&s;e.</HI> The ma&s;ter of it was not only a &s;tranger to him, but a mo&s;t rude and violent abettor of the Rebells;
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the Seamen and Souldiers men of the &s;ame temper, malicious, dogged, and ill-condition'd, the &s;hip it &s;elf neither victualled, not fit to go to Sea. So that when <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> &s;hew'd him&s;elf ready to depart, and bad them hoi&s;e their &s;ailes a&s;&s;oon as they could, the Ma&s;t|er of the &s;hip told him, that he mu&s;t have &s;ome dayes allowed him to pitch and rigge his &s;hip, before he dur&s;t adventure him&s;elf to the wind and waves. And then making great brags of him&s;elf and his &s;hip, he drew forth a Commi&s;&s;ion which the Covenanters had given him, wherein he was required to tran&s;port the pa&s;&s;engers to certain places a&s;&s;igned by them&s;elvs, and to carry no body el&s;e. Moreover there lay great Eng|li&s;h &s;hips and men of War every day in &s;ight about the mouth of the river <HI>Eske</HI> (which makes the haven of <HI>Montro&s;e)</HI> attending there in favour of the Rebells for their much-de&s;ired booty, that by no means he might e&s;cape their hands</P>
<P>But <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> had &s;ufficient notice of their treache|ries, and wanted not &s;ome friends of the Covenan|ters them&s;elvs, who informed him by frequent me&s;&s;a|ges that the Sea was &s;ore pe&s;ter'd with the Engli&s;h Navy, and he could not e&s;cape &s;afely either into <HI>France</HI> or the <HI>Low-Conntries;</HI> that the haven was up|on the matter block'd up, in which he was to take &s;hipping, and therefore it was very perillous for him to go to Sea; that his enemies look'd for nothing el&s;e, than that either by making too long &s;tay in his own Country he &s;hould &s;all into the hands of the Scoti&s;h Covenanters, or by going &s;hould be &s;urpri&s;ed unarm'd and unawares by the Engli&s;h Rebells. <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s
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friends that were with him were of opinion, that it was be&s;t for him in &s;o apparent a danger to return in|to the Highlands, and draw his men together again, conceiving that he had better tru&s;t the fortune of War than &s;o perfidious a peace. But he forbore to take that cour&s;e, e&s;pecially becau&s;e of his mo&s;t ardent af|fection to the King: For he was a&s;&s;ured, if the War brake forth again it would be laid upon the King though unde&s;ervedly, and &s;o he &s;hould bring his Per|&s;on into pre&s;ent danger, perhaps as much as his life was worth. Therefore being &s;traightned on every &s;ide, one way with treachery plotted again&s;t his own, an|other again&s;t the Kings anointed head, he determined with an unalterable re&s;olution to bear all the burden upon his own &s;houlders. And therefore he withdrew him&s;elf, not out of ra&s;hne&s;&s;e as if he de&s;pair'd of &s;afe|ty at the wor&s;t, but out of &s;age and di&s;creet delibera|tion.</P>
<P>For when he had &s;melt out the plots of the Rebels before-hand, he had &s;ent &s;ome a good while ago to &s;earch diligently the havens in the North, and if they chanced to find any outlandi&s;h ve&s;&s;ell, to agree with the Ma&s;ter for the fraught, and to appoint him to be ready to put to &s;ea at &s;uch a day, and to tran&s;port the pa&s;&s;engers (which &s;hould be ready with him) by the help of God into <HI>Norway.</HI> By good fortune there was found in the haven of <HI>Stanhyve</HI> a &s;mall bark of <HI>Bergen</HI> in <HI>Norway,</HI> and the Ma&s;ter was &s;oon agreed with for he was very glad of the opportunity, having hopes of getting. Thithet <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> &s;ent away Sir <HI>John Hur|rey, John Drummond</HI> of <HI>Ball, Henery Graham</HI> his bro|ther,
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<HI>John Spot&s;wood</HI> nephew to that great Sir <HI>Robert, John Lilly</HI> a Captain of approved skill and coruage, <HI>Patrick Melvin</HI> &s;uch another, <HI>George Wi&s;e heart</HI> Doct|or, of Divinity, <HI>David Gutherey</HI> a &s;tout young Gentle|man, <HI>Pardus La&s;ound</HI> a French-man, once a &s;ervant to the noble Lord <HI>Gordon,</HI> afterwards entertained for his Ma&s;ters &s;ake by <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> him&s;elf, one <HI>Rodolph</HI> a Ger|man, an hone&s;t and tru&s;ty young man; and a few &s;er|vants more. And the&s;e he had pick'd out to carry a|long with him whither&s;oever he went, for this rea&s;on e&s;pecially, becau&s;e he knew the Rebels to be &s;o mali|ciou&s;ly bent again&s;t mo&s;t of them, that they could not be &s;afe for never &s;o little a while in that Country. And they on the third of <HI>September</HI> having a good wind put forth to Sea for <HI>Norway;</HI> and the &s;ame eve|ning <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> him&s;elf, accompanied only with one <HI>James Wood</HI> a worthy Preacher, by a &s;mall cock-boat got into a bark which lay at anchor without the haven of <HI>Montro&s;e;</HI> and being clad in a coar&s;e &s;uit, the Lord and Patron pa&s;&s;ed for his Chaplains &s;ervant. This was in the year of our Lord 1646. and the 34. year of his age.</P>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="part">
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<HEAD>The Continuation of <HI>Montro&s;e's</HI> Hi&s;torie</HEAD>
<P>_IT is not our purpo&s;e in this addition to the Hi&s;torie of the famous Mar|que&s;&s;e, to deliver his &s;everal Nego|tiations with forein Princes further than in the general. For how&s;oe|ver they were in order to the Cau&s;e he had in hand, and did add a great deal of lu&s;tre and &s;plendour to his worth, in the eyes of &s;trangers, who were indifferent in the ca&s;e; As likewi&s;e it mu&s;t be confe&s;&s;ed, that no &s;ubject of that Kingdome ever re|ceived higher favours abroad, or procur'd greater re&s;pect to the addre&s;&s;es made in his Ma&s;ters name; Yet the&s;e things being but ob&s;curely known in the Te|nour of them, except only to tho&s;e that were employ'd and indeed not &s;o proper for our intention in this brief narration, which is to &s;atisfie the curio&s;ity of all, in the manner of his la&s;t entrie, his defeat, death, and buriall, if (it may be &s;o call'd) Things for ought I know as yet, &s;et down in no certain relation: We &s;hall therefore &s;etting a&s;ide his Forein endeavours, bring him upon the &s;ame &s;tage where his Tragedie had both its beginning and ending. Only that you may
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have a more lively repre&s;entation of his per&s;onal ver|tues, we &s;hall give you to under&s;tand in what high e&s;timation the Marque&s;&s;e was with Forein Princes, as well as with tho&s;e of <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Scotland;</HI> and point at tho&s;e honours which did &s;eem to court his magnanimitie beyond Seas. In <HI>France,</HI> with the ge|neral con&s;ent of the Princes of the blood, and the re&s;t of the Nobility, he was de&s;ign'd Chaptain Gene|ral of all the &s;trangers in that Kingdome; A tru&s;t (which tho&s;e know that are acquainted with the Warrs of <HI>France)</HI> of very high con&s;equence, for in them con&s;i&s;ts the whole &s;trength of the Kingdome. But this advancement of the Marque&s;&s;es, was by Cardinall <HI>Mazarine</HI> cro&s;&s;ed or delayd, (who was al|wayes a profe&s;&s;ed enemy to Scots in that Kingdome.) From thence he took his journey to <HI>Holland,</HI> where the Prince then was, in pur&s;ute of his former intenti|ons; but there he met with as great cro&s;&s;es and impedi|ments as he had done in the bowels of his own Coun|try. Duke <HI>Hamilton</HI> who was his irreconcilable ene|my was now his competitor, and being then at the <HI>Hague</HI> labour'd by all means po&s;&s;ible to undermine or prevent the Marque&s;&s;es de&s;igns. With him were the Earl of <HI>Lautherdale,</HI> and the Earl of <HI>Calender,</HI> men both of eminent parts, whom the Duke by &s;everal engagements had made firm to his purpo&s;es; They were both very earne&s;t for a Commi&s;&s;ion. The Duke having intere&s;t in the Prince by blood, could not think that any in that tru&s;t, could ju&s;tly be preferred before him; alleging likewi&s;e that he might be more able to perform any de&s;ign in that Kingdome, his kindred
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and allies, and tho&s;e of his Name being very power|full, and in the very heart of the kingdome. Where|as <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s &s;ouldiers, whom he tru&s;ted mo&s;t, and employed in his former action, were either kill'd or di&s;per&s;ed; And tho&s;e whom he had left, &s;o terrified, and &s;queezed in their e&s;tates, that they were utterly unable to help him. On the other part the Marque&s;|&s;es fidelity pleaded much for him, his notable at|chievements, his poor and &s;lender beginnings, which made him &s;o much the more capable for that underta|king, it being requi&s;ite the Prince &s;hould employ &s;uch an in&s;trument (as the ca&s;e then &s;tood) being de|&s;titute of all means to help him. The Prince who knew how needfull it was to reconcile two &s;uch emi|nent Per&s;ons, who being joyn'd might draw the greate&s;t part of that kingdome after them (fayling of which either of them was &s;ure to oppo&s;e the other that &s;hould be employd,) made it his main drift to unite them. Several meetings were appointed to this purpo&s;e, but all in vain, neither could any in|du&s;try prevail to make an agreement, &s;o inveterate was their malice each to other, &s;o jealous were they one of anothers proceedings. This variance made a long demur in that expedition, which was far &s;ooner intended. The cau&s;es of which were partly &s;et down in the beginning of the Hi&s;torie, and partly hatched by the Duke him&s;elf, who looking, as he was a man very ambitious of honour, upon all the Marque&s;&s;es actions with a &s;quint eye, fretted much that there was any within the &s;ame kingdome, who &s;o farr &s;urpa&s;&s;ed him in gallantrie and e&s;teem: nor could he brook that
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any one &s;hould po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the Kings ear &s;o much as he, and for the&s;e rea&s;ons he employed his utmo&s;t endea|vours in defeating all <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s enterpri&s;es. But his Brothers known di&s;&s;ervices, and bad &s;ucce&s;&s;e, toge|ther with his own neglect, or ill managing of bu&s;ine&s;&s;e at <HI>Strivling</HI> bridge, much retarded and ob&s;cured his claym to the Kings favour, in the particular he &s;ought for. And to &s;peak impartially, the Marque&s;&s;es worth and experience was &s;uch, that it did ea&s;ily &s;way the ballance in an indifferent mans judgement, even though the other two had been thrown in to make up the weight. The Marque&s;&s;e having again&s;t his will &s;pent a great deal of time in the&s;e di&s;putes, de|parted at la&s;t from <HI>Holland,</HI> and travell'd up into <HI>Germanie,</HI> and &s;o to <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI> The Emperour, who in his late warrs again&s;t the <HI>Swede,</HI> hath been very un|&s;ucce&s;sfull, hearing of his arrivall, invited him to his Court, and among&s;t many other honours conferr'd upon him, freely proferr'd him the Command of ten thou&s;and men; which &s;hould be a &s;tanding Army, con&s;tantly to be recruited; With free power to en|gage at his own di&s;cretion, without receiving orders from any but the Empero<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">r him&s;elf. Which charge the Marque&s;&s;e being willing to accept, and about to receive, (yet rather that he might if it were po&s;&s;ible advance that cau&s;e which he had in hand, than for any de&s;ire of honour) he was prevented by that happy peace concluded betwixt the Emperour &amp; the <HI>Swedes,</HI> which all who love the Common good of Chri&s;ten|dome, wi&s;h to be la&s;ting and perpetual. Being from thence very honourably di&s;mi&s;s'd, he addre&s;&s;es him&s;elf
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to the Dukes of <HI>Brandeburg</HI> and <HI>Hol&s;teyn;</HI> from the la&s;t of which, he receiv'd tho&s;e &s;hips which were kept a great while at <HI>Am&s;terdam</HI> to no purpo&s;e, being three or four very fair ve&s;&s;els and well mann'd. Which Prince would have willingly contributed more to that &s;ervice, but that he perceiv'd that which he had be|fore given, to be &s;o mi&s;employed; wherein both he and the Marque&s;&s;e were gro&s;sly abus'd, as in the en&s;u|ing relation &s;hall appear. Great were the promi&s;es which had been made to the Marque&s;&s;e by many o|ther Princes, but they proved very &s;lack in the perfor|mance, &s;o that the a&s;&s;i&s;tance which was &s;o generally expected, proved nothing el&s;e but a meer formalitie &amp; complement. But the &s;ea&s;on of the year being now fit for action, he re&s;olves with what &s;peed he can to call together tho&s;e he could get, and to that pur|po&s;e removes to <HI>Hamburgh,</HI> from whence he might have a convenient pa&s;&s;age to the Northern I&s;les of <HI>Scotland.</HI> But ere we further proceed, it will not be imperrinent to our purpo&s;e, to take a &s;lender view of that kingdom, whither this expedition was intended, and of the condition wherin it then was. <HI>Scotland</HI> was then in a rea&s;onable po&s;ture of quiet, for the old grud|ges by taking away the heads of factions (wherof &s;ome had &s;uffer'd after <HI>Philip Haugh,</HI> and others were detai|ned Pri&s;oners in <HI>England)</HI> were tak'd up for a while. And a certain number of Hor&s;e and Foot modell'd into an Army, was mu&s;ter'd and di&s;pos'd of in &s;everal places of the Kingdom, to prevent any forein inva|&s;ion, or homebred in&s;urrection which might happen. The&s;e were commanded by <HI>David Le&s;ley,</HI> Colonel
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<HI>Mountgomery,</HI> Colonel <HI>Straughan,</HI> &amp;c. being in all fifteen hundred Hor&s;e, and three thou&s;and Foot, com|manded by Lieut. General <HI>Holborn.</HI> This handful did at that time over-awe and keep under the di&s;conten|ted party, though far more powerful. For be&s;ides tho&s;e which had been disbanded by the Earl of <HI>Lane|rick,</HI> and Major General <HI>Munroe,</HI> at the bridge of <HI>Striveling,</HI> there flock'd dayly out of <HI>England</HI> great companies of tho&s;e who had e&s;caped out of pri&s;on; who finding their e&s;tates Seque&s;tered, and feiz'd up|on, and withall mo&s;t tyrannically proceeded again&s;t by the hot-&s;pirited Mini&s;tery, de&s;ired nothing more than an oportunity of revenge. Be&s;ides the&s;e he had a con&s;iderable number of his own name and faction in the North. The <HI>Gordons,</HI> the <HI>Athole-</HI>men, who (if he had not been cru&s;h'd at his fir&s;t entry) would cer|tainly have a&s;&s;i&s;ted him. This condition of the King|dom, made the Marque&s;s appear like a prodigious Mereor hanging over their heads, which awak'd tho&s;e who &s;at at the helm of the State (whom it did indeed mo&s;t concern) to endeavour the defeating of his at|tempts, both at home and abroad. For this purpo&s;e was there a &s;olemn Me&s;&s;age di&s;patch'd to the Prince, then Re&s;ident at the <HI>Hague,</HI> whom pre&s;ently upon the news of his Fathers death they proclam'd King, inviting him home upon certain conditions which were publi&s;h'd in this Kingdom, and need not therefore be in&s;erted. In the mean time the Mar|que&s;s who had now gathered together a company of gallant Gentlemen as well Engli&s;h as Scots, makes all po&s;&s;ible ha&s;te di&s;patches Colonel <HI>John Ogilby</HI> to
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<HI>Am&s;terdam,</HI> to entertain &s;uch &s;trangers as might be for his purpo&s;e; But he forgeting his Commi&s;&s;ion, be&s;towed both moneys and pains in entertaining him|&s;elf, &s;uffering tho&s;e, who upon any terms would have engaged, to &s;hift for them&s;elves. There being a great number who had fled out of <HI>England,</HI> and more who had lately de&s;erted the <HI>French,</HI> or been ca&s;hier'd from the <HI>Hollanders</HI> &s;ervice. Thus were the&s;e goodly Ve&s;|&s;els &s;ufficiently provided for &s;ervice, lo&s;t by his neg|lect, and a limb of the de&s;ign broken. There hapned about this time another bu&s;ine&s;s, which did much re|tard the Marque&s;&s;es affairs. Colonel <HI>Cochran</HI> who had been di&s;patched Commi&s;&s;ioner into <HI>Poland</HI> to the Scoti&s;h Merchants, there to require their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, having procured very con&s;iderable &s;ums of money up|on that &s;core, and other provi&s;ion for the furthering of that expedition, di&s;pos'd of the mony for his own u&s;es, made &s;ale of the corn and provi&s;ion, together with the Ve&s;&s;el which was provided for the tran&s;por|tation of it, and did him&s;elf turn tail to the quarrel. This was another di&s;appointment. General <HI>King</HI> likewi&s;e (whom the Marque&s;s expected out of <HI>Swe|den,</HI> with a con&s;iderable party of Hor&s;e) either could not be ready &s;o &s;oon as was expected, or el&s;e delayed the time of purpo&s;e. But the Marque&s;s (as is &s;up|po&s;ed) feating le&s;t he &s;hould have an expre&s;s com|mand to de&s;i&s;t from his purpo&s;e, becau&s;e the Treaty betwixt the Prince and the Scoti&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners was now very near a conclu&s;ion, did precipitate him|&s;elf, &amp; tho&s;e that were with him, into a mo&s;t inevita|ble ruine. Now all tho&s;e great leavies, and aydes;
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Tho&s;e mighty preparations for the inva&s;ion of a king|dome &s;ettled in a po&s;ture of war, and well forwarn'd of his imentions, amounted not above the number of &s;ix or &s;even hundred at the mo&s;t, &s;trangers and all. The Common &s;ouldiers which adventur'd over with him, mo&s;t of them <HI>Hol&s;teyners</HI> or <HI>Hamburgers.</HI> He had &s;ent him by the Queen of <HI>Sweden,</HI> for the arming of &s;uch Gentle-men as &s;hould upon his arrivall betake them&s;elves to his party, fifteen hundred arms, com|pleat for Hor&s;e, back, bre&s;t, head-piece, Carbines, Pi&s;tolls, and Swords, all which, (after his defeat in <HI>Cathanes)</HI> were taken untouch'd. With this &s;mall preparation it was a de&s;perate action to attempt &s;o mighty a bu&s;ine&s;s. And although his touching fir&s;t upon the I&s;lands, did encrea&s;e his number, and gave him almo&s;t the beginning of an Army; Yet were tho&s;e barbarous people &s;o raw and unacquainted with di&s;cipline, that they proved in a manner u&s;ele&s;&s;e and un&s;erviceable. 'Tis true, the Inhabitants of tho&s;e I&s;les, were a people in former times, very fierce, and warlike, and have under their own Captains made ma|ny great Impre&s;&s;ions, into the very heart of the king|dome. But whether it was the Policie of the late Kings, to leave them untrain'd, of purpo&s;e to break then natural fiercene&s;s, or becau&s;e their own Cap|tains being quell'd or cut off, they car'd not much to engage under any other, certain it is, That kingdome for two hundred years la&s;t pa&s;t, hath not made le&s;&s;e u&s;e of any they had under their juri&s;diction, nor have they at this pre&s;ent le&s;&s;e opinion of any Scots, for Military courage and valour. And this may be alleg|ed,
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as a great cau&s;e of their remi&s;sne&s;&s;e and unwieldi|ne&s;&s;e whil&s;t they were in the Marque&s;&s;es &s;ervice. I told you a little before of <HI>Montro&s;e</HI>'s whole Strength, which did accompany him from <HI>Germany,</HI> whereof two &s;hips, with neer upon a third part were &s;ent be|fore, but by &s;torm of weather (which is both frequent and dangerous) among&s;t tho&s;e Northern I&s;lands, they were lo&s;t, with all the men and arms, nothing &s;av'd. This was another check, and as it were a war|ning and a fore-runner of the &s;ad event which follow|ed. But the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e being fatal, he mu&s;t needs con|tribute his own endeavours towards that de&s;truction which his cruell fortune had provided for him. For he nothing terrified with this &s;ucce&s;&s;e, &s;ends out a &s;e|cond party, which making a more pro&s;perous voyage, landed at <HI>Orkney,</HI> and enter'd the I&s;land without any re&s;i&s;tance. There being at that time no Garri&s;on or defence placed in any of tho&s;e I&s;lands, by the States of <HI>Scotland;</HI> Together with the&s;e he &s;ent &s;everal com|mi&s;&s;ions for levying of Hor&s;e and Foot. Immediate|ly there were &s;everal di&s;patch'd to <HI>Scotland,</HI> and the I&s;lands adjacent for that purpo&s;e. The people of the Country being in no condition to re&s;i&s;t the&s;e offi|cers, endeavoured in hopes of favour as much as they could to further the de&s;ign. A od tho&s;e who were not &s;o earne&s;t, were by their own neighbours, favour|ers of the cau&s;e, and the&s;e violent Commi&s;&s;ioners, forc'd to take up Arms. Not long after landed the Marque&s;s him&s;elf with the re&s;t of his company, toge|ther with tho&s;e Gentlemen which were re&s;olv'd ro par|take of his fortune: Among&s;t whom were &s;everal per|&s;ons of note. Colonel <HI>Hurrey</HI> was there, a man who
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had engaged in all quarrells, but never pro&s;per'd in any. The Lord <HI>Frenderick,</HI> for his kin&s;man the Lord <HI>Napier,</HI> was left in <HI>Holland.</HI> Colonel <HI>John&s;on,</HI> a re&s;o|lute man, and an old &s;ouldier, Colonel <HI>Gray,</HI> a Ger|man &s;ouldier, <HI>Harry Graham,</HI> his own natural bro|ther, Colonel <HI>James Hay</HI> of <HI>Naughton,</HI> Sir <HI>Francis Hay</HI> of <HI>Dalgetie, George Drummond</HI> of <HI>Ballach.</HI> For he had employed as was thought, Colonel <HI>Sibbalds</HI> his companion heretofore, as his Agent in <HI>Scotland;</HI> But he was apprehended at <HI>Mu&s;&s;elburgh,</HI> and did accom|pany his General in death upon the &s;ame Scaffold. The Marque&s;s continued a con&s;iderable time in <HI>Ork|ney,</HI> rai&s;ing of Forces, and &s;trengthning him&s;elf with &s;uch recruits, as the place would afford. Neither was there any preparation at all made in <HI>Scotland,</HI> to di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;s him of the&s;e I&s;lands, either becau&s;e it might be thought a difficult bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to a&s;&s;ail him within tho&s;e places naturally guarded with a rough and dangerous &s;ea; Or becau&s;e they knowing his &s;trength, expected a better opportunitie of him, as they found indeed within the Country.</P>
<P>After this poor rabble of &s;illy creatures was amaz'd, He re&s;olves at la&s;t to embarque, and to that purpo&s;e gathers all the boats he could find, &s;hips his men, and in a &s;hort &s;pace lands them all upon the point of <HI>Cathanes,</HI> which is the farthe&s;t land to the North-we&s;t of <HI>Scotland.</HI> The people having &s;ome experience of the carriage of his former &s;ouldierie, and now far more dreading the name of Foreiners, partly by the terrible reports which were con&s;tantly given out of him, fled away in heaps, many of them not &s;topping till they
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came to the chief City <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and there gave the terrible Alarm to the Parliament then &s;itting. The Commanders were immediately &s;ummon'd, and charg'd with all po&s;&s;ible ha&s;te, to get the &s;tanding Forces in readine&s;&s;e, and a Rendezvouz in order to the States command was hereupon pre&s;ently enjoyn'd at <HI>Breithen</HI> Northward. Colonel <HI>Stranghan,</HI> who was then in high e&s;teem with the great ones for his valour lately expre&s;&s;ed in the Engli&s;h &s;ervice, and his zeal to the Presbyterian cau&s;e much extoll'd at that time, had an ample, and a particular. Commi&s;&s;ion granted to him by the Parliament, to command a choice party of Hor&s;e, which &s;hould not be &s;ubject to <HI>David Le&s;leys</HI> orders, but might engage and fight with the enemy at his be&s;t advantage. With the&s;e, being not above three hundred, he advanced before the Army; <HI>David Le&s;ley</HI> with the re&s;t of the Hor&s;e, and <HI>Holborn</HI> with the Foot marching after him. In the mean time the Marque&s;s advanc'd but very &s;lowly, and that he might not be mi&s;taken, (&s;ince all the world was much a&s;tomi&s;hed at this Inva&s;ion now whil&s;t the King was upon a Treatie) he publi&s;hed a Declaration; Wherein he labour'd to clear him&s;elf of any a&s;per&s;ion of &s;ini&s;ter ends. That his intention was only again&s;t &s;ome particular per&s;ons, who had again&s;t the Laws of the Kingdome, rais'd and maintain'd a war again&s;t the Kings Father, and did now by their &s;ubtile practices endeavour to de&s;troy the Son al&s;o. That he intended nothing again&s;t the Generalitie of the Kingdom. La&s;tly, exhorting all &s;ub|jects of that Nation to endeavour to free them&s;elves from the Tyranny of tho&s;e who for the pre&s;ent ruled
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the State, and the oppre&s;&s;ion of the Mini&s;trie. But the Country for &s;everal cau&s;es did not come to &s;econd him as he expected. For the Earl of <HI>Sunder and,</HI> a po|tent man in tho&s;e parts, his lands being next to the place where the Marque&s;&s;e then was, rais'd a great power of his tenants and friends, and did his be&s;t to terrific and hinder all that were willing to joyn with him. And though he found him&s;elf unable to deal with the Marque&s;&s;es Forces, yet did he &s;top all enter|cour&s;e betwixt him and his friends. And tho&s;e Gen|tlemen who had heretofore followed him, and yet en|clined to a&s;&s;i&s;t him, knowing the danger of the enter|pri&s;e, con&s;idering the fewne&s;&s;e of his number, and that his &s;ouldiers were much undi&s;ciplin'd, and unlike to the former with whom he had done &s;o great things, began to be aver&s;e, and have a &s;u&s;picion of the event. Yet have I heard &s;ome &s;ay, which knew well enough the &s;ituation of that Country, that if he had not been oppre&s;&s;ed in the nick, he might have gain'd &s;uch &s;trengths among&s;t the hills, as might have given him lei&s;ure enough to have &s;trengthned his own party, and tyred out the enemy. How&s;oever he was not altoge|ther unmindfull of a retreat; there is in that Country a Ca&s;tle call'd <HI>Dumbath,</HI> the Lord, or Laird thereof, is the head of a very antient Family, but no friend of the Marque&s;&s;es. This Gentleman having left his hou&s;e in the keeping of his Lady and &s;ome &s;ervants, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ed to <HI>Edinburgh.</HI> The Lady, though the place were naturally fortified, yet upon &s;ummons delivered it to Colonel <HI>Hurry,</HI> who was &s;ent thither by the Marque&s;s with a party of Foot to reduce it, upon condition her
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goods and e&s;tate might be &s;ecur'd, and &s;he with her &s;ervants &s;uffer'd to march away. <HI>Hurrey</HI> having plac'd a Governour, and a Garri&s;on as he thought &s;ufficient for the defence of the place, return'd to the Marque&s;s, who was now advanc'd to the place, or neer it, where he was to lo&s;e at one throw both his life and fortune. The Marque&s;&s;e hearing of the enemies approach, made his whole Forces march at a great trot to recover a pa&s;&s;e, which they were not very far from, when he him&s;elf in the vanguard di&s;cover'd the fir&s;t party, which was <HI>Straughans</HI> Forlorn hope, advancing very fa&s;t upon him. So that the&s;e with their ha&s;te and the &s;ouldiers running, found them both out of breath and order. The &s;econd Party was commanded by <HI>Straughan</HI> him|&s;elf, and the Rear-guard, as I remember, by Colonel <HI>Ker,</HI> for he had divided them in three bodies. But now the fir&s;t party being very near, there was a For|lorn hope of a hundred Foot drawn out to meet them, who giving fire upon them, put them to a di&s;orderly retreat, but being immediately &s;econded by <HI>Straugh|ans</HI> party, they made good their charge, and &s;o terrifi|ed the I&s;landers with that breach, that mo&s;t of them threw down their Arms, and called for quarter. Only the Dutch Companies, after they had be&s;towed a vol|ley or two among&s;t the Hor&s;e, retreated into &s;ome &s;hrubbs hard by, and there very valiantly defended them&s;elvs awhile, but were all taken at la&s;t. There were kill'd in this bu&s;ine&s;s to the number of two hun|dred, twelve hundred taken, very few e&s;caped. For the whole Country being in Arms, e&s;pecially <HI>Sunder|lands</HI> men (who came not to the fight, but to the ex|ecution)
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they kill'd or took Pri&s;oners all &s;uch as fled. In that skirmi&s;h was taken the Standard which he had caus'd to be made of purpo&s;e to move the affections of the people, with this Motto, <HI>Judge and revenge my cau&s;e, O Lord;</HI> and the portraict of the late King be|headed, exactly well done. The Standard-bearer, a very gallant young Gentleman, was kill'd, after he had &s;everal times refu&s;ed quarter. There was Colonel <HI>Hurrey</HI> taken, the Lord <HI>Frenderick,</HI> Sir <HI>Francis Hay</HI> of <HI>Dalgetie,</HI> Colonel <HI>Hay</HI> of <HI>Naughton,</HI> Colonel <HI>Gray,</HI> and mo&s;t of the Officers, and two Mini&s;ters.</P>
<P>The Marque&s;s, after he &s;aw the day was ab&s;olutely lo&s;t, threw away his cloak, which had the Star on it, (having receiv'd the order of the Garter a little while before) his Sword was likewi&s;e found, and not very far off his hor&s;e which he had for&s;aken. For &s;o &s;oon as he had got clear off that ground where the skirmi&s;h was, he betook him&s;elf to foot, and lighting upon one of that Country, or one of his own &s;ouldiers (I know not whether) took his Highland apparel from him, and &s;o in that habit conveighed him&s;elf away. But &s;uch narrow &s;earch being made for him, he could not long e&s;cape, yet he continued in the open fields three or four days without any notice gotten of him. At la&s;t the Lord of <HI>A&s;ton,</HI> being in arms with &s;ome of his Tenants, &amp; aboard in that &s;earch, happned on him. He had been one of his followers before. In that place he had continued three or four dayes, without meat or drink, with one only man in his company. The Marque&s;&s;e knowing him, and believing to find friend&s;hip at his hands, willingly di&s;cover'd him&s;elf.
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But <HI>A&s;ton</HI> not daring to conceal him, and being gree|dy of the reward which was promi&s;ed to the appre|hender by the Councel of State, &s;eiz'd upon him, and di&s;arm'd him; 'tis &s;aid he profered great &s;umms for his liberty, which being in vain, he de&s;ired to dye by the hands of tho&s;e who took him, rather than be made an object of mi&s;ery and &s;hame (as he knew very well he &s;hould) by his enraged enemies. But neither of his de&s;ires was granted, but in place of them, a &s;trong guard &s;et over him, and &s;o conveyed to <HI>David Le&s;ley. Sraughan</HI> having atchieved his bu&s;ine&s;s with great ex|pedition, and freed the State from this much-fear'd danger, returned to <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> leaving the re&s;t of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to <HI>Le&s;ley</HI> and <HI>Holborn,</HI> where he receiv'd great rewards and thanks for his eminent &s;ervice; not without the great heart-burning of <HI>David Le&s;ley,</HI> who &s;eeing a rivall ri&s;en up to his honour, and one whom he lookt upon as an up&s;tart &s;ouldier, have &s;o great &s;ucce&s;&s;e, fretted not a little. How&s;oever for|wards he moves to accompli&s;h the re&s;t of the work, which was now of no great con&s;equence, for there re&s;ted nothing within the Country, but only the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dumbath,</HI> which being out of all hopes of relief af|ter the defeat, &s;o &s;oon as they were perfectly a&s;&s;ur'd by &s;ome Pri&s;oners whom they knew, yielded the Gar|ri&s;on. The Governour was Pri&s;oner at mercy; The &s;ouldiers being Dutch, were upon terms to return homewards. There was nothing el&s;e to be done &s;ave the reducing of the I&s;lands, and the town of <HI>Kirkwall</HI> in <HI>Orkney,</HI> where Colonel <HI>John&s;on</HI> and Colo|nel <HI>Harry Graham</HI> were left, when the Marque&s;&s;e
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pa&s;s'd over to <HI>Cathanes;</HI> but <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> either becau&s;e he could not &s;pare any &s;ouldiers, or becau&s;e he expect|ed better &s;ucce&s;&s;e, had left them almo&s;t naked; though there were &s;everal places in tho&s;e I&s;les which might have been made very renable. Colonel <HI>John|&s;on</HI> having under&s;too&s;t of the defeat, with tho&s;e that were with him, took &s;hipping and returned from whence he came, &s;o did <HI>Harry Graham</HI> likewi&s;e, el&s;e both of them had ca&s;ted of the &s;ame &s;awce, which their General did. Thus <HI>Le&s;teys</HI> Forces entred with|out any re&s;i&s;tance, &s;eiz'd upon the Arms which <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> had brought thither, together with two pieces of Ordnance. The Queen of <HI>Sweden</HI> had given him a little Friggot of &s;ixteen Guns which lay in the Harbour, the Ma&s;ter of which being gone a&s;hore into one of the I&s;lands, the Company &s;eeing the event of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, revolted, and brought in that likewi&s;e. The victorie being now compleat, there was a &s;olemn day of thank&s;giving appointed through the whole Kingdome, Bonfires, &s;hooting of Ordnance, and other te&s;timo|nies of joy. But many of the Gentry who had been under his command before, having now engaged with him again, were no partakers in this joy. For &s;ome of his papers being taken, many of them were after|wards di&s;covered, and &s;uffer'd in their e&s;tates. The Marque&s;&s;e being now in the Cu&s;todie of his mortal e|nemies, from whom he could not expect the lea&s;t fa|vour, Yet expre&s;t a &s;ingular con&s;tancie, and in a man|ner a carele&s;ene&s;&s;e of his own condition. Comming to his Father-in-laws hou&s;e, the Earl of <HI>Southesks,</HI> where two of his children were, he procur'd liberty
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from his Guard to &s;ee them: but neither at meeting, or parting, could any change of his former counte|nance be di&s;cern'd, or the lea&s;t expre&s;&s;ion heard, which was not &s;uitable to the greatne&s;&s;e of his &s;pirit, and the &s;ame of his former actions. Tis memorable of the Town of <HI>Dundee,</HI> where he lodg'd one night, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">hough it had &s;uffer'd more by his Army than any el&s;e within that kingdome, yet were they among&s;t all the re&s;t &s;o far from in&s;ulting over him, that the whole Town te&s;ti|fied a great deal of &s;orrow for his wofull condition; and there was he likewi&s;e furni&s;hed with cloaths fair|able to his birth and per&s;on. Being come to <HI>Leith,</HI> he was received by the Magi&s;trates of the City of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and &s;taying a while there to refre&s;h him|&s;elf, he was afterward led towards the City, by that way which goes betwixt <HI>Leith,</HI> and the water-gate of the Abbey. And with him all the Pri&s;oners of quali|tie on foot, betwixt thirty and fourty: but he him|&s;elf had the favour to be mounted on a cart-hor&s;e. Having ended this part of his journey with as much &s;tate as in triumphs is accu&s;tomed to be, he was not at the end of the Cannon-Gate by &s;ome other Officers, and the Executioner in his Liverie Coat. Into who&s;e hands he was delivered. There was fram'd for him a high &s;eat in fa&s;hion of a Chariot, upon each &s;ide of which were holes, through which a cord being drawn, and cro&s;&s;ing his bre&s;t and arms, bound him fa&s;t down in the Chayr. The Executioner (being commanded &s;o to do) took off the Marque&s;&s;es hat, put on his own b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nnet, and the Chariot being drawn by four hor&s;es, he mounted one of the fir&s;t, and very &s;olemnly began
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to drive along towards the Tol-booth. The people who were a&s;&s;embled in great multitudes, and were many of them heretofore very de&s;irous to &s;ee this &s;pectacle, could not now refrain from tears, and tho&s;e who had heretofore wi&s;hed him all misfortune, began to be &s;haken with the fir&s;t &s;cene of his Tragedy. But the implacable Mini&s;trie having him now at their mercie, could never be &s;atisfied with his calamities; They reviled him with all po&s;&s;ible &s;pite, objected fre|quently to him his former condition, and his pre&s;ent mi&s;erie, and pronounced heavy judgments again&s;t him: being come to the Toll-booth, he was very clo&s;ely &s;hut up, and &s;trong guards &s;et upon him, all acce&s;&s;e denyed to him; no, not his Father-in-law, or any of his friends &s;uffer'd to come nigh him. There he was a con&s;iderable time, all which the Mini&s;ters never cea&s;|ed to exacerbate his mi&s;ery. Of whom one being asked why they could not otherwi&s;e be &s;atisfied, but by &s;o ignominious handling of him? He an&s;wered, They knew no other way to humble him, and bring him home to God.</P>
<P>Certain it was, that all the&s;e di&s;graces which were put upon him, were the only inventions of the A&s;&s;em|bly then &s;itting, to who&s;e wi&s;domes the devi&s;ing of his puni&s;hment was referr'd by the Councill of State. All this while the holy Covenant was pre&s;s'd upon him with much vehemencie, which when he with much rea&s;on and conviction to them refus'd, they had re|cour&s;e to their ordinary way of rayling, and maledicti|on, and one of them was &s;o bold to tell him, he was a faggot of hell, and he &s;aw him burning there already.
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They urged al&s;o upon him as the price of his relea&s;|ment from excommunication, an open confe&s;&s;ion of his faults, and an acknowledgment of the guilt of blood which had been &s;hed the years pa&s;t in which he had been in arms; but all to no purpo&s;e. But more particularly (becau&s;e the battell of <HI>Kil&s;yth</HI> had been lo&s;t upon &s;o great odds) he was much &s;olicited to di&s;cover the Con&s;piratours in the overthrow of that Army, but that took no effect; nor is it yet (&s;ince he left it undi&s;cover'd) known to any Scoti&s;h man a|live, whether there were any connivance in't or no. He was very frequent in his devotions, whil&s;t he was in pri&s;on, and expre&s;t much more cheerfulne&s;&s;e than he had done at any time before &s;ince his being taken pri&s;oner. After he had endur'd the&s;e private batteries and a&s;&s;aults, with a great deal of con&s;tancy, he was at la&s;t brought before a publick auditorie to be &s;i&s;ted. The Parliament had a little while before been called, for proclaming the King, and ordering the affairs of the Kingdome: whither he was brought, and did ap|pear with a very undi&s;mayd countenance, in a rich Mantle layd over with ma&s;&s;ie lace. His chief adver|&s;aries were, the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Argyle,</HI> his known and invetetate enemy; Earl of <HI>Lowdon,</HI> the Chancellour of <HI>Scotland,</HI> of the &s;ame name &amp; faction, <HI>Lowdon Ker,</HI> a violent and high &s;pirited man; <HI>Ca&s;&s;ells,</HI> another of his adver&s;aries, was gone in Commi&s;&s;ion to the King. The&s;e of the Nobility were mo&s;t again&s;t him; Of the Gentry, the Laird of <HI>Swinton,</HI> a potent man in that Parliament: Sir <HI>James Stuart,</HI> Provo&s;t of the City of
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<HI>Edinburgh,</HI> a man likewi&s;e in great e&s;teem; the Lord <HI>Hopton,</HI> a Lord of the Se&s;&s;ion, and Pre&s;ident of the Committee for Examinations, and &s;everal others. But the whole A&s;&s;embly was violent again&s;t him, neither could he be admitted to any place there, that was not publickely invective again&s;t him. But among&s;t them all the Mini&s;ters of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> in this &s;trife carried the honour, and of them Mr. <HI>Ro|bert Trayle,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Mungo Law,</HI> two &s;uch vene|mous Preachers, as no man that knows them can mention their names without dete&s;t. The fir&s;t of the two, had been Chaplain before to the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Argyle,</HI> and was his companion in his flight from the battel of <HI>Ennerlochie,</HI> and now Pri&s;oner to the States of <HI>England.</HI> Many and grievous were the accu&s;ati|ous laid to his charge. Fir&s;t, that he had by his per|nicious in&s;inuation diverted the King from the Coun|&s;ells of his well-wi&s;hing Subjects. The introducing the Iri&s;h into the bowells of the Kingdome. The murther of &s;ome particular per&s;ons, the utter &s;poyl and deva&s;tation of the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Argyles</HI> lands, and the killing and de&s;troying of divers well-affected people, and that in cold blood. The cruel u&s;age of &s;ome mini&s;ters at his la&s;t landing. The Complai|ners were there pre&s;ent, but could allege nothing, &s;ave only that he had re&s;train'd them from rayling. His tran&s;acting with forein States for the inva&s;ion of his Native Country, and bringing in of Foreiners now the &s;econd time, and that without any known Commi&s;&s;ion. His ob&s;tinate per&s;ecution of all Cove|nanters, again&s;t his own oath and engagement, and
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his Apo&s;tacie from his fir&s;t principles. The Marque&s;s knowing how much his defences would avail him, did not much labour to clear him&s;elf, but an&s;wer'd all in general. For his Inva&s;ion they knew partly what au|thority he had, for the re&s;t he was &s;ufficiently per|&s;waded in his con&s;cience, that he had done nothing, which he might not be an&s;werable to God for, as be|ing in order to his Ma&s;ters Commands, and to men too, &s;o he might have but an even and an unprejudic'd judicatory. Thus having been called once or twice before that high Court of judgement, where he an&s;wer'd &s;o vigorou&s;ly as was admirable to all, he did at la&s;t receive his doleful Sentence, which was ac|cordingly executed upon him two daye after, with all the &s;everity and bitterne&s;&s;e that could he devi&s;ed. There was erected in the middle of the Market-place a large Scaffold, bre&s;t-high, in the mid&s;t of which, was planted a Gibbet of extraordinary height. The Marque&s;&s;e having taken his re&s;t very kindly that night, next morning recommending him&s;elf unto God once or twice, took his breakfa&s;t very cheerfully. The Bay|liffs waited on him to the Scaffold, where the whole people of the City attended his comming at lea&s;t two hours before. He came uncovered all the way be|twixt the Scaffold and the Toll-booth, and in the &s;ame rich Mantle he had worn before. Being come thither, he was much detayn'd with a great many frivolous que&s;tions, of which, partly the Mini&s;ters, partly tho&s;e whom the States &s;uffer'd to be about him, de&s;ir'd to be &s;atisfied. Hee made a &s;hort Speech, in which he was often interrupted, the Tenour of which was,
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that he was &s;atisfied in his con&s;cience for ought he had done in relation to warr. That for his own par|ticular &s;ins (which were infinite) he had begg'd par|don earne&s;tly of God, and had an inward hope to ob|tain it; He freely forgave all tho&s;e who had &s;ought his overthrow, and intreated the Charity of all the people, to pray both for him and them. The Mini|&s;ters, becau&s;e he was under the &s;entence of Excom|munication, refus'd to pray for him, and even on the very Scaffold, were very bitter again&s;t him. Af|ter he had about a quarter of an hour prayed with his hat before his eyes, he was ready to goe to his &s;uffe|ring, when his Book and Declaration, and all o|ther Papers which he had publi&s;h'd in his life, being tyed in a &s;tring together, were hang'd about his neck. He was very earne&s;t that he might have the liberty to keep on his hat, it was denyed; he reque&s;ted he might have the privilege to keep his cloak about him, neither could that be granted. Then with a mo&s;t undaunted courage he went up to the top of that prodigious gibbet, where having freely pardon'd the Executioner, he gave him three or four pieces of gold, and enquir'd of him how long he &s;hould hang there, he told him three hours, then commanding him at the uplifting of his hands, to tumble him over, he was accordingly thru&s;t off by the weeping Executio|ner. The whole people gave a general groan, and it was very ob&s;ervable, that even tho&s;e who at his fir&s;t appearance had bitterly inveigh'd again&s;t him, could not now ab&s;tain from tears. 'Tis &s;aid, that <HI>Ar|gyles</HI> expre&s;&s;ions had &s;omething of grief in them, and
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did likewi&s;e weep at the rehear&s;al of his death, (for he was not pre&s;ent at the Execution.) How&s;oever they were by many call'd Crocodiles tears, how wor|thily I leave to others Judgement. But I am &s;ure there did in his &s;on, the Lord of <HI>Lorn,</HI> ap|pear no &s;uch &s;ign, who neither had &s;o much ten|derne&s;&s;e of heart to be &s;orry, nor &s;o much pater|nal wit as to di&s;&s;emble; who entertaining his new Bride, (the Earl of <HI>Murrays</HI> Daughter) with this &s;pectacle, mock'd and laugh'd in the mid&s;t of that weeping A&s;&s;embly: And &s;taying af|terwards to &s;ee him hewen in pieces, triumph'd at every &s;troak which was be&s;tow'd upon his mangled body. Thus ended the life of the Re|nowned Marque&s;&s;e, though not his puni&s;hment, (if that can propetly be call'd a puni&s;hment which mens bodies &s;uffer after death.) For being cut down, without &s;o much as any to receive his falling Corps, his Head was &s;mitten off, his arms by the &s;houlders, and his leggs by the knees, and &s;o put into &s;everal boxes, made for the purpo&s;e; the re&s;t of his body was by three or four Porters, carryed out to the pub|lique place of Execution, call'd the <HI>Borrow moor,</HI> an&s;werable to that of <HI>Tyborn</HI> by <HI>London,</HI> but wall'd about, and there was it thrown into a hole, where afterwards it was digg'd up by night, and the linnen in which it was folded &s;toln away. His Head was fix'd upon the Toll|booth, over again&s;t the Earl of <HI>Gowries,</HI> with an Iron Cro&s;&s;e over it, le&s;t by any of his
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friends it &s;hould have been taken down; the re&s;t of his parts were di&s;patch'd to the mo&s;t e|minent places of the Kingdome, to <HI>Sterling, Dundee, Gla&s;gow, Aberdeen,</HI> which were all taken down afterwards by the Engli&s;h, or their permi&s;&s;ion. But the Tragedie was not yet full, for <HI>Hurrie</HI> was the next in that bloody roll, who pleading the benefit of quarter, and a great charge of Children, thought to have ta&s;ted of the Parliaments mercy. But he was condemn'd notwith&s;tanding, to lo&s;e his head in the &s;ame place, Jealous they were of him before, when he was engaged in their &s;ervice again&s;t <HI>Mon|tro&s;e,</HI> but could not produce any &s;ufficient e|vidence. The chief accu&s;ations wherewith he was charg'd, the la&s;t Inva&s;ion with the Mar|que&s;&s;e, and his former carrying Arms again&s;t them under Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> at <HI>Mar&s;ton Moor.</HI> VVith him &s;uffer'd young <HI>Spot&s;wood</HI> of <HI>Daer&s;ie,</HI> a compleat young Gentleman, and very wor|thy of pitty, (if any had been &s;hown) being ve|ry young, but an excellent &s;pirit, and a good Scholar. The next couple was Sir <HI>Francis Hay</HI> of <HI>Dalge&s;ie,</HI> and Collonel <HI>Sibbalds:</HI> than which two the Nation could not afford two more accompli&s;hed for per&s;on, and parts. The fir&s;t being a Catholick, (and therefore not com|ming under the Compa&s;&s;e of the Mini&s;ters Pray|ers) without &s;peaking a word to any body, but throwing &s;ome Papers out of his pocket, took off his doublet, ki&s;s'd the fatal in&s;tru|ment,
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kneeled down, and receiv'd the blow. The other, with a little more vigour, &s;mil'd a while, and talk'd to the di&s;orderly rabble that was about him: then with &s;uch an Heroick ge&s;ture march'd to the block, as if he had been to act a gallant in a Play. The end of the la&s;t man was &s;omewhat Comical, though the poor Gentleman lo&s;t his life. His name was Captain <HI>Charters,</HI> of an honourable and an|tient Familie in that Kingdome. The Mini|&s;ters having dealt with him to acknowledge his fault publikely, and dehort all others from it (which from no other of his Companions they could ever extort) he, though re&s;olute enough, and a good Scholar, yet partly by the per&s;wa|&s;ion of his Friends, and partly by weakne&s;&s;e which was occa&s;ion'd by his wounds, agreed to their de&s;ire, and was content to make a pub|like Manife&s;to, in hopes his life might be &s;a|ved. With this conque&s;t of Con&s;cience, the Mi|ni&s;ters (to produce their great work to the Common people) came vaunting upon the Scaf|fold. Hee all this while &s;u&s;pecting nothing le&s;&s;e than death, made a long and tedious <HI>Harangue</HI> to the people, wherein he acknowledged his A|po&s;tacie from the Covenant, and other things which he had vented in auricular confe&s;&s;ion be|fore to the Mini&s;ters; which very energetically they had pend for him. In lieu of granting his life which he expected, (le&s;t he &s;hould fall off from his principles which he had openly pro&s;e&s;|&s;ed
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as &s;ome of their converts had done before) fairly they cut off his Head, and &s;ealed his con|fe&s;&s;ion with his blood. The re&s;t being for the mo&s;t part &s;trangers, or &s;uch as had &s;pent mo&s;t part of their time in &s;ervice abroad, were di&s;|mi&s;s'd, after Bond given not to enter the King|dome again, in a ho&s;tile manner.</P>
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<HEAD>A true and perfect Relation, of all the pa&s;&s;ages concerning the Exa|mination, Tryal and Death of the mo&s;t Ho|nourable <HI>James</HI> Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Montro&s;e,</HI> Earl of <HI>Kin|cardin,</HI> Lord <HI>Graeme,</HI> Baron of <HI>Montdieu, &amp;c.</HI> Knight of the mo&s;t Honourable order of St. <HI>George,</HI> Lieutenant Governour, and Captain Ge|neral for his Maje&s;tie in the King|dome of <HI>Scotland.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Parliament of <HI>Scotland</HI> being informed that the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Montro&s;e</HI> was taken, and fore-&s;eeing that his countenance and carriage might gain him &s;ome favour among&s;t the People, though fit to give out their &s;entence again&s;t him be|fore he &s;hould come to <HI>Edinburgh.</HI> And therefore upon the 17. of <HI>May anno</HI> 1650. in the morning, they appointed a Committee to prepare and give in their opinions what was fitte&s;t to be done with him, where the &s;ame fore-noon they gave in their report in writing to this effect: That &s;o &s;oon as he &s;hould come to the Town, he &s;hould be met at the Gate by the Magi&s;trates, and Hangman; That he &s;hould be tyed with cords upon a Cart bareheaded, and the
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Hangman to ride upon the hor&s;e that drew the Cart, covered before him, and &s;o to be brought through the Town. That he &s;hould be hanged on a Gibbet at the Cro&s;&s;e of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> untill he died, his Hi&s;torie, and Declaration hanging about his neck, and &s;o hang three hours in publick view of all the people: after which he &s;hould be behended, and quartered. His head to be fixt upon the Pri&s;on hou&s;e of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and his legs and arms over the gates of the Cities of <HI>Sterling, Gla&s;cow, Perth,</HI> alias Saint <HI>Johns-Town,</HI> and <HI>Aberdeen.</HI> And in ca&s;e he repented, (whereby the Sentence of Excommunication may be taken off by the Church); the bulck of his body &s;hould be buried in the <HI>Gray-Fryers;</HI> if not, to be buried in the <HI>Borrow|moor.</HI></P>
<P>Upon the 18. day about four a clock in the after|noon, he was brought in at the Water-gate, and accor|ding to the Sentence, was met by the Magi&s;trates, the guards, and the Hangman of the Citie, the re&s;t of the Pri&s;oners being tyed two and two together, going bare-headed before him. So &s;oon as he came within the gate, the Magi&s;trates &s;hewed him the Sentence, which when he had read, and perceived the Cart, and the Hangman there ready, he &s;aid; <HI>He would willing|ly obey, he was only &s;orry that through him, his Maje&s;ty who&s;e per&s;on he pre&s;ented, &s;hould be &s;o di&s;honoured.</HI> Then going cheerfully into the Cart, he being unco|vered, was by the Hangman tyed thereunto with ropes, and the Hangman on the hor&s;e rid covered; thus was he carried to the Pri&s;on, and in all the way, there ap|peared in him &s;uch a <HI>Maje&s;ty, Courage,</HI> and <HI>Mode&s;ty,</HI>
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no way <HI>Daunted,</HI> That his very Enemies, nay common women, who as it was believed by divers, would have &s;toned him in the Cart as he pa&s;&s;ed, were upon the &s;ight of him &s;o a&s;toni&s;hed, and moved, that their intended cur&s;es were turned into tears and Prayers for him; In&s;omuch as the next day (being Sunday,) the Mini|&s;ters preached again&s;t them for not reviling and &s;toning of him as he pa&s;&s;ed along.</P>
<P>When he was taken from the Cart, he gave the Hangman gold, telling him, <HI>That was a reward for driving the Cart.</HI> It was &s;even a clock at night before he was entered into the Pri&s;on, and immediately the Parliament met, and &s;ent &s;ome of their Members, and &s;ome Mini&s;ters to examine him; but he refu&s;ed to an&s;wer any thing to them, untill he was &s;atisfied upon what tearms they &s;tood with the King, his Roy|al Ma&s;ter; Which being reported unto the Parlia|ment, they cea&s;ed proceeding again&s;t him until <HI>Mon|day,</HI> and allowed their Commi&s;&s;ioners to tell him, that the King and they were agreed: He de&s;ired to be at re&s;t, for he was weary with a long journey, and he &s;aid, <HI>The Complement they had put upon him that day was &s;omewhat tedious.</HI></P>
<P>The next day being <HI>Sunday,</HI> he was con&s;tantly at|tended by Mini&s;ters and Parliament men, who &s;till pur&s;ued him with threatnings, but they got no ad|vantage of him; he told them, <HI>they thought they had affronted him the day before by carrying him in a Cart, but they were much mi&s;taken; For he thought it the mo&s;t Honourable and joyfull'&s;t journey that ever he made, God having all the while mo&s;t comfortably manife&s;ted his pre|&s;ence
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to him, and furni&s;hing him with re&s;olution to o|ver-look the reproches of men, and to behold him, for who&s;E cau&s;e he &s;ufered.</HI></P>
<P>Upon <HI>Monday</HI> in the forenoon, he was brought before the Parliament, and after the delivery of a long penned di&s;cour&s;e by the Chancellour, wherein he was plea&s;ed to take notice of <HI>his mi&s;cariages again&s;T the fir&s;t Covenant, the League and Covenant, his Inva|&s;ion, and joyning with the Iri&s;h Rebels, and blood|g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters">ine&s;s; and that now, how God had brought him to ju&s;t puni&s;hment:</HI> He de&s;ired to know if he might be allowed to &s;peak for him&s;elf, which being granted, he &s;aid, <HI>Since you have declared unto me, that you have agreed with the King, I look upon you, as if his Majesty were &s;itting among&s;t you; and in that Relation I appear with this reverence, bare-headed: My care hath been alwayes to walk as became a good Chri&s;tian, and a loyal Subject; I engaged in the fir&s;t Covenant, and was faithfull to it, untill I perceived &s;ome private per&s;ons un|der colour of Religion intended to wring the Authority from the King, and to &s;eize on it for them&s;elves; and when it was thought fit, for the clearing of hone&s;t men, that a bond &s;hould be &s;ub&s;cribed, wherein the &s;ecurity of Re|ligion was &s;ufficiently provided for, I &s;ub&s;cribed. For the League and Covenant, I thank God I was never in it, and &s;o could not break it; but how farr Religion hath been advanced by it, and the &s;ad con&s;equences that have followed on it, the&s;e poor di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Kingdoms can witne&s;&s;e; for when his late Maje&s;ty had by the ble&s;&s;ing of God almo&s;t &s;ubdued tho&s;e enemies that ro&s;e again&s;t him in</HI> England, <HI>and that a faction of this Kingdome went
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in to the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of them; His Maje&s;ty gave Com|mi&s;&s;ion to me, to come into this Kingdom, and to make a diver&s;ion of tho&s;e forces that were going from hence a|gain&s;t Him. I acknowledged the command mo&s;t ju&s;t, and I conceiv'd my &s;elf bound in con&s;cience and duty to obey it. What my carriage was in this Country, many of you may bear witne&s;&s;e; Di&s;orders in any Army can|not be prevented, but they were no &s;ooner known, than puni&s;hed; never was any blood &s;pilt but in battel, and even then many thou&s;and lives have I pre&s;erved; and as I came in upon his Maje&s;ties Warrant, So upon his Letters did I lay a&s;ide all intere&s;t, and retreated.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And for my comming in at this time, it was by his Maje&s;ties command, in order to the accelerating of the Treaty betwixt him and you; His Maje&s;tie knowing, that when ever he had ended with you, I was ready to retire upon his call. I may ju&s;tly &s;ay, that never &s;ub|ject acted upon more Honourable grounds, nor by a more lawful power, than I did in this &s;ervice; and there|fore I de&s;ire you to lay a&s;ide prejudice, and con&s;ider me as a Chri&s;tian in relation to the ju&s;tice of the quarrel; as a Subject in relation to my Royal Ma&s;ters commands; and as your Neighbour in relation to the many of your lives I have pre&s;erved in battel; and be not too ra&s;h, but let me be judged by the Laws of God, the Laws of Nature, and Nations, and the Laws of this Land; if you do otherwi&s;e, I do hear appeal from you, to the Righteous judge of the world, who one day mu&s;t be both your judge and mine, and who alwayes gives Righteous judgement.</HI></P>
<P>This he delivered with &s;uch Gravity, and without
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Pa&s;&s;ion, as was much admired even of his enemies. After which, the Chancellour commanded the Sen|tence to be read, which he heard with a &s;etled and an unmoved countenance, and de&s;iring to be further heard, was pre&s;ently &s;topt by the Chancellour, who commanded he &s;hould be pre&s;ently removed back a|gain to pri&s;on; where being no &s;ooner come, but the Mini&s;ters a&s;&s;ault him afre&s;h, aggravating the ter|rour of the Sentence, thereby to affright him. He acknowledged him&s;elf much beholding to the Parlia|ment for the Honour they put upon him, &s;aying, <HI>He took it for a greater honour to have his head &s;tand upon the Pri&s;on Gate for this quarrel, than to have his picture in the Kings Bed-chamber. And (le&s;t his Loyaltie &s;hould be forgotten) they had highly honoured him, in de&s;igning la&s;ting monuments to four of the chiefe&s;t Cities, to bear up his memorial to all po&s;terity; Wi&s;hing he had had fle&s;h enough, to have &s;ent a piece to every City in Chri&s;tendome, to witne&s;&s;e his loyalty to his King and Country.</HI></P>
<P>His Friends were not &s;uffered to come near him, but a guard was alwayes in the Chamber with him, in|&s;omuch as he had neither time, nor place for his pri|vate devotions, but in their hearing.</P>
<P>The next day being the 21. Cloathed in a Scarlet cloak richly laced with Gold lace, he was brought to the Scaffold: He came along the Streets with &s;o great &s;tate, and there appeared in his countenance &s;o much Beauty, Maje&s;ty and Gravity, as amazed the beholders; and many even of his Enemies did ac|knowledge him to be the gallante&s;t &s;ubject in the
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World: but becau&s;e all his Friends and well-willers were debar'd from comming near him, there was a boy de&s;igned for that purpo&s;e on the Scaffold, who took his la&s;t Speech, Which was to this effect.</P>
<P><HI>I am &s;orry if this manner of my End be &s;candalous to any good Chri&s;tian. Doth it not often happen to the righteous according to the wayes of the wicked, and to the wicked, according to the wayes of the righteous? doth not &s;ometime a ju&s;t man peri&s;h in his righteou&s;ne&s;s, and a wicked man pro&s;per in his malice? They who know me, &s;hould not di&s;e&s;teem me for this; many greater than I have been dealt with in this kind; yet I mu&s;t not &s;ay, but that all Gods Judgements are Ju&s;t; For my pri|vate &s;ins, I acknowledge this to be ju&s;t with God, I &s;ub|mit my &s;elf to him: but in regard of man, I may &s;ay, they are but in&s;truments, God forgive them, I forgive them, they have oppre&s;&s;ed the poor, and violently per|verted Judgement and Ju&s;tice, but he that is higher than they, will reward them.</HI></P>
<P><HI>What I did in this Kingdome, was in obedience to the mo&s;t ju&s;t Commands of my Soveraign, for his de|fence in the day of his di&s;tre&s;&s;e, again&s;t tho&s;e that ro&s;e up again&s;t him. I acknowledge nothing, but fear God and Honour the King, according to the commande|ments of God, and the Law of Nature, and Nations, and I have not &s;inned again&s;t man, but again&s;t God, and with him there is Mercy, which is the ground of my drawing neer unto him.</HI></P>
<P><HI>It is objected again&s;t me by many, (even good Peo|ple,) That I am under the Cen&s;ure of the Church; This is not my fault, &s;ince it is only for doing my Duty, by
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obeying my Prince's mo&s;t ju&s;t Commands, for Religion, His Sacred Per&s;on, and Authority. Yet I am &s;orry they did Excommunicate me, &amp; in that which is according to Gods Laws, without wronging my Con&s;cience or Al|legeance. I de&s;ire to be relaxed; if they will not do it, I appeal to God who is the righteous Judge of the world, and who mu&s;t, and will, I hope, be my Judge and Svi|our.</HI></P>
<P><HI>It is &s;poken of me, that I &s;hould blame the King (God forbid,) For the late King, he lived a Saint, and dyed a Martyr; I pray God, I may &s;o end as He did; If ever I &s;hould wi&s;h my Soul in another mans &s;tead, it &s;hould be in his. For his Maje&s;ty now living, never people I believe might be more happy in a King: His Commands to me were mo&s;t ju&s;t; in nothing that he promi&s;eth will he fail. He deals ju&s;tly with all men, I pray God he be &s;o dealt withall, that he be not betrayed under tru&s;t, as His Father was.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I de&s;ire not to be mi&s;taken, as if my carriage at this time in Relation to your waies were &s;tubborn; I do but follow the light of my own Con&s;cience, which is &s;econd|ed by the working of the good Spirit of God that is with|in me, I thank him, I go to Heavens Throne with joy. If He enable me again&s;t the fear of Death, and furni&s;h me with courage, and con&s;idence to imbrace it even in its mo&s;t ugly &s;hape, Let God be glorified in my end, though it were in my damnation. Yet I &s;ay not this out of any fear or di&s;tru&s;t, but out of my duty to God, and Love to his people.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I have no more to &s;ay, but that I de&s;ire your Charity and Prayers. I &s;hall pray for you all. I leave my
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Soul to God, my Service to my Prince, my Good will to my Friends, and my Na<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">e, and Charity to you all. And thus briefly I have exonerated my Con&s;cience.</HI></P>
<P>Being de&s;ired to pray apart, He &s;aid, <HI>I have al|ready powred out my Soul before the Lord who knows my heart, and into who&s;e hands I have commended my Spi|rit, and he hath been graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to return to me a full a&s;&s;urance of peace in Je&s;us Chri&s;t my Redeemer, and therefore if you will not joyn with me in prayer, my rei|terating again will be both Scandalous to you, and me.</HI> So clo&s;ing his eyes, and holding up his hands, he &s;tood a good &s;pace at his inward devotions, being perceived to be inwardly moved all the while; When he had done, he call'd for the Executioner, and gave him mony. Then having brought unto him (hanging in a cord) his Declaration, and Hi&s;tory, he hanged them about his neck, &s;aying, <HI>Thongh it hath plea|&s;ed His Sacred Maje&s;ty that now is, to make him one of the Knights of the mo&s;t Honourable Order of the Gar|ter, yet he did not think him&s;elf more Honoured by the Garter, than by that cord with the Books, which he would embrace about his neck with as much joy and content, as ever he did the Garter, or a chain of gold,</HI> and there|fore de&s;ired them to be tied unto him as they plea|&s;ed.</P>
<P>When this was done, and his ams tyed, he asked the Officers, <HI>If they had any more Di&s;honour, as they conceived it, to put upon him, he was ready to accept it.</HI> And &s;o with an undaunted Courage and Gravi|tie &s;uffered, according to the Sentence pa&s;t upon him.</P>
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THe death of the noble Marque&s;&s;e was not bewai|led as a private lo&s;&s;e, but rather as a publique ca|lamitie. The greate&s;t Princes in <HI>Europe</HI> expre&s;&s;ed no &s;mall &s;orrow for his unhappy end. And indeed we have not had in this latter Age a man of more emi|nent parts either of body or of mind. He was a man not very tall, nor much exceeding a middle &s;tature, but of exceeding &s;trong compo&s;ition of body, and in|credible force, with excellent proportion and fea|ture; Dark brown hayr'd, &s;anguine complexion, a &s;wift and peircing gray eye, with a high no&s;e, &s;ome|what like the antient &s;igne of the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Kings Mag|namity. He was of a mo&s;t re&s;olute and undaunted &s;pirit, which began to appear in him, to the won|der and expectation of all men, even in his childhood. Whom would it not have &s;tartled to attempt as he did at his fir&s;t entry into <HI>Scotland,</HI> a journey where|in he could not almo&s;t e&s;cape di&s;covery, all pa&s;&s;es being &s;o laid for him, but even when he was known, and almo&s;t made publike, he proceeded in his inten|tion? He was a man of a very Princely courage, and excellent addre&s;&s;es, which made him for the mo&s;t part be us'd by all Princes with extraordinary familia|rity; A compleat Hor&s;eman, and had a &s;ingular grace in riding. Nor is it le&s;&s;e wonderful, how in &s;o great &s;carcity of all things, when warre in that Coun|try is but tedious with the greate&s;t plenty it can af|ford, he could patiently endure &s;o much di&s;tre&s;&s;e. Nor is it le&s;&s;e to be wondred at, how he could win &s;o much upon tho&s;e Iri&s;h, who had no tie to him either
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of Country, Language or Religion, as he did. More e&s;pecially when they wanted not all manner of temp|tation, that either their own mi&s;eries and intollera|ble duty could &s;ugge&s;t, or the wit and &s;agacity of the enemy could invent to make them leave him, and a|bandon the &s;ervice. Be&s;ides, the many examples &s;hown upon them, and their continual want of Pay, either of which accidents in an Army is ground e|nough, and has been many times the occa&s;ion of mu|tiny and de&s;ertion. Nor had he only an excellent and mature judgement for providing and foreca&s;ting of bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, but a prompt and ready &s;pirit likewi&s;e in matters of pre&s;ent danger and &s;udden calamity, and the&s;e things which might have confu&s;ed another another mans under&s;tanding, as &s;uch &s;udden chances often doe, were a whetting to his wit. There are many &s;tratagems in &s;everal Hi&s;tories related, which in the heat of action have been put in practice for the regaining of a day already lo&s;t, or in danger to be &s;o. As that of <HI>Jugurtha,</HI> a politick and valiant Prince, who in the heat of a battel betwixt him and <HI>Marius</HI> the Roman Con&s;ul, rode up and down in the head of the Army, &s;howing his bloody &s;word, and affirm|ing that he had &s;lain <HI>Marius</HI> with his own hand, which word did &s;o encourage the <HI>Numidians,</HI> and a|maze the <HI>Romans,</HI> that had not <HI>Marius</HI> in time ap|peared, that day had been in hazard. It is likewi&s;e reported of one of the <HI>Roman</HI> Captains, that he flung his Standard among&s;t the middle of the enemie, that his own Souldiers by pre&s;&s;ing forward to re&s;cue it, might break and di&s;order the enemy. Likewi&s;e
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of another that took the bridles off the hor&s;e-heads, that every man might be a like valiant, and charge, as we &s;ay, without fear or wit. But beyond all the&s;e, in my opinion, was that device of the Marque&s;&s;es, who at <HI>Alderne</HI> being in a great &s;traight, one wing of his Ar|my being routed, and the other in a very &s;taggering condition, he did &s;o incen&s;e that which was yet whole, with the feigned &s;ucce&s;s of the other, that they valiant|ly charged the enemy, and put the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e again into an even ballance. And very like was it to that device of <HI>Tullus Ho&s;tilius,</HI> who being de&s;erted by <HI>Metius</HI> King of the <HI>Albans,</HI> told his &s;ouldiers he had don't of purpo&s;e to try them, and by that means turned their fear into indignation. He was exceeding con&s;tant and loving to tho&s;e that did adhere to him, and to tho&s;e he knew, very affable, though his carriage, which indeed was not ordinary, did make him &s;eem proud; Nor can his enemies lay any greater fault to his charge, than his in&s;atiable de&s;ire of honour, which he did pur&s;ue with as hand&s;ome and heroick actions as ever any did, and &s;uch as had neither admixtion of avarice or &s;elf-ends, though he was therewith by &s;ome mo&s;t unworthily branded. For the&s;e and the like vertues of which he was the rich po&s;&s;e&s;&s;our, he was lamented all Chri&s;tendom over, by all &s;orts of men, &amp; &s;ince his death too by tho&s;e who had the greate&s;t hand in't, though their &s;ucce&s;&s;e at that time did animate their cruelty.</P>
<Q><L><HI>Ne&s;cia mens hominum fati &s;orti&s;que futureae,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Et &s;ervare modum rebus &s;ublata &s;ecundis.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>The Speech of Collonel <HI>William Sybbald</HI> intended by him to have been &s;poken on the Scaffold at the time of his Execution at <HI>Edinborough, Jan.</HI> 7. 1650. but hearing that Liberty would not be given him to &s;peak &s;o freely, he gave a Copie of it to a &s;pecial friend.</HEAD>
<P>GEntlemen, I am brought this day to this place, to pay a debt to Nature before it be due; and by the malice and cruelty of my mercyle&s;&s;e enemies, I am &s;entenced to dye as a Traytor to my Country, for endeavouring to do &s;ervice for my King, on who&s;e happine&s;&s;e and wel-fare does depend the wel-fare of the&s;e Kingdoms; and to whom I am bound both by the Law of God and man to perform all faithful and loyal &s;ervice: And as the cau&s;e for which I &s;uffer pro|clames my loyalty, &s;o their Sentence does declare to all the world their di&s;loyalty, and their intentions a|gain&s;t the King.</P>
<P>Their &s;elf-guiltine&s;&s;e makes cowardly &s;pirits cruel; and &s;uch was their proceedings again&s;t me, as that I could not obtain an Advocate to plead for me, nor any man skilful in the Laws, either to advi&s;e with me, or to write my Defence, though they knew me to be ignorant of the Laws. Thus is my innocencie and integrity betrayed, partly by their malice, and my own ignorance.</P>
<P>The truth is, they did profer to do me any courte|&s;ie or favour, if I would make an ingenuous confe&s;&s;i|on;
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that is, accu&s;e &s;ome Noblemen and Gentlemen of keeping corre&s;pondency with his Maje&s;ty, or with the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Montro&s;e;</HI> which if I had done, I de&s;erved to have been branded with perpetual infamy, for I never knew any man in this Kingdome that did keep corre&s;pondency with them: neither had I Com|mi&s;&s;ion from his Maje&s;ty, or the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Mon|tro&s;e</HI> to treat with any, I did indeed &s;peak with &s;ome Noblemen and Gentlemen, becau&s;e I was formerly obliged unto them for their love to me, and did ex|pect from them &s;ome &s;mall a&s;&s;i&s;tance to furni&s;h, me in my journey; but I never &s;pake with them concer|ning the publike Affairs, no further than the weekly <HI>Gazets</HI> made known to all the world; if the&s;e great Fi&s;h could have been taken in our State&s;mens Nets, it might have been that &s;uch a Minim as I, &s;hould have e&s;caped the Bayliff of the Fi&s;h-markets hand this day.</P>
<P>I have been from my youth a Souldier; and though that Calling in it &s;elf be honourable, yet men in that Calling have greater occa&s;ions and provocations to &s;in than in any private Calling. Be&s;ides naturally my youth led me to &s;ome abominable &s;ins, and cu&s;tom in them did for many years detain me captive unto them; &s;o that I cannot but confe&s;&s;e, that to me ap|pertaineth &s;hame and confu&s;ion in this life, and dam|nation of &s;oul and body eternally in Hell fire, if God &s;hould deal with me according to my de&s;ert; my comfort is, that the blood of my Saviour cries lowder in his ears for mercy, than my &s;ins doe for venge|ance; and that he who hath promi&s;ed a free pardon and remi&s;&s;ion unto all penitent &s;inners through faith
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in Je&s;us Chri&s;t, will purge and clean&s;e my Soul from all uncleane&s;&s;e, and deliver me from all blood-guilti|ne&s;&s;e by the blood of his Son our Saviour. The true &s;orrow that I find in my Soul for my former &s;ins, and that godly re&s;olution and &s;tedfa&s;t purpo&s;e I have to lead a new life if it plea&s;e God to continue it, toge|ther with the joy, the patience, and the courage I have to &s;uffer, gives me &s;ome a&s;&s;urance of this ble&s;|&s;ed hope, that through faith in Chri&s;t Je&s;us my Savi|our, my penitent Soul though &s;inful &s;hall be &s;aved.</P>
<P>And as for my Religion, I die, as I lived, a true Prote&s;tant; this Religion, I thank God, as it pre|&s;erved me from Popi&s;h Super&s;tition, &s;o it kept me from being &s;educed by the Novelties of the times, and from being deluded with the wicked Doctrine which is now taught by the Reformers of the Kirk. It was this Religion which did keep my hand from your Covenant: of which in the &s;pace of &s;ome five years you gave two interpretations, quite contradi|ctory; for in the year 1639. the A&s;&s;embly did affirm (as appears by our Acts of Parliament and A&s;&s;em|bly) that in all cau&s;es what&s;oever you were to defend and maintain the per&s;on and dignity of your King; but in the year 1644. you limit your obedience to your King, to your Religion, Laws, and Liberty; and make your &s;elves in all differences between the King and you, both Judge and Party. The Religion in which I was bred, taught me to give both to God, and my King their due; it taught me to honour and wor&s;hip God, and to expect Salvation through Chri&s;t; and to live &s;oberly, and to deal ju&s;tly with
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all men. I ever hated that Religion which made Saints or Angels &s;harers with God in his wor&s;hip; or men partakers with my Redeemer in the work of my Redemption, or that made our Chri&s;tian liberty a cloak of maliciou&s;ne&s;&s;e; and though naturally I incli|ned to evill, and wicked company drew me to mo&s;t hainous and filthy &s;ins; yet I thank God I hated that Religion that taught impiety and wickedne&s;&s;e, Rebel|lion, Murther and Inju&s;tice, or that approved the kil|ling of Kings and their loyal Subjects for their loyal|ty, as having its original rather from the Devill, who was a murtherer from the beginning, than from God; and I did ever e&s;teem it more aggreable to mans &s;infull and corrupted nature, than to Gods holy Word. I have heard a learned man &s;ay, that it were better to deny God to be, than to believe him to be &s;uch an one who delights in the bloody &s;acrifices of men and women, or to think that he is &s;uch an one who delights in cruelty and murther; the God whom we &s;erve and wor&s;hip, is the Savior of the world, the pe&s;erver of man, the Redeemer of Man-kind, the a|venger of his blood. I have been taught from Gods word, that he hath no plea&s;ure in wickedne&s;&s;e, neither &s;hall any evil dwell with him; undoubtedly &s;uch bloody Sacrifices cannot be plea&s;ing or acceptable to him, for they are repugnant to his nature, and con|tradictory to the Ju&s;tice and equity of his holy Law.</P>
<P>It is my greate&s;t grief at this time, I did not walk according to the purity of my Religion, and the ho|line&s;&s;e of God, who hath called us to the knowledge of his truth. Therefore let me entreat you to pray
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unto God with me, and for me, that he would be plea&s;ed to pardon my many and great &s;ins; that he would purge my &s;oul with the blood of his Son, from the guilt and pollution of all my &s;ins; that I may be pre&s;ented unto my heavenly Father without &s;pot or wrinkle, holy, without blemi&s;h; that he would re|ceive me through the merits of my Saviour into e|verla&s;ting peace, and into the glorious e&s;tate of his cho&s;en Saints in heaven. O Lord into thy hands I commend my &s;oul; Lord Je&s;u receive my &s;pirit; O merciful Father forgive my Enemies, and lay not this &s;in to their charge, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<HEAD>Upon the Death of King Charls the Fir&s;t.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>GReat! Good! and Ju&s;t! could I but Rate</HI></L>
<L><HI>My Griefs, and Thy too Rigid fate,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I'de weep the world to &s;uch a &s;train,</HI></L>
<L><HI>As it &s;hould Deluge once again.</HI></L>
<L><HI>But Since Thy loud-tongu'd blood demands &s;upplys,</HI></L>
<L><HI>More from</HI> Briareus <HI>Hands, than</HI> Argus <HI>eys,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ile &s;ing Thy Ob&s;equies with trumpet Sounds,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And write Thy</HI> Epitaph <HI>with</HI> Blood <HI>and</HI> Wounds.</L>
</LG>
<SIGNED>MONTROSE,</SIGNED>
<TAILNOTE>
<P>Written with the point of his Sword.</P>
</TAILNOTE>
</DIV1>
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