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<P>THE CRIMES AND TREASONS OF <HI>ARCHIBALD JOHNSTON,</HI> Laird <HI>WARISTON.</HI></P>
<P>One of the Grandees of the SCOTCH REBELS And Pre&s;ident of the late Committee of SAFETY under LAMBERT Now condemned, and to be executed at <HI>Eden+burgh</HI> Wedne&s;day <HI>July</HI> 22.</P>
<Q LANG="lat"><L>Rar&ograve; antecedentem &s;cele&s;tum</L>
<L>De&s;eruit pede poena claudo.</L>
<BIBL>Horat.</BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>T. R.</HI> 1663.</P>
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<HEAD>THE CRIMES <HI>&amp;</HI> TREASONS OF <HI>ARCHIBALD JOHNSTON, Laird Wari&s;ton,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>THe De&s;erved Fate of this Di&s;loyal and perfidious Politicians, which hath &s;uch an a&s;pect upon the late U&s;urpati|on, and the ju&s;tice and happine&s;&s;e of the&s;e Times, doth &s;o well de&s;erve a Memorial, though in a &s;ummary and &s;hort account, (and that for the Honour al&s;o of his Country, which doth hereby expiate the remaining guilt of that Re|ligious and pious Rebellion, begun and fo&s;tred by the re&s;t of this mans Complices) that it is a requi|&s;ite duty to the publick to particularize the practi&s;es of this puny <HI>Matchiavil,</HI> during our late and horri|ble Confu&s;ions; following the method and traces of divine Vengeance, that hath &s;ingled him &s;o remark|ably out, and delivered him tot the Laws, that the
<PB N="4" REF="4">world may know, and fear, and tremble, at the un|evitable and righteous recompence of wicked men.</P>
<P>Of all per&s;ons, who according to Scripture phra&s;e, may be &s;aid to have <HI>Sold them&s;elves</HI> to work wickedne&s;&s;e; there is none but two in the 3 King|domes that can be compared to him: and tho&s;e were <HI>Brad&s;haw</HI> and <HI>Cooke,</HI> who &s;et a price on their Villany, and had their reward, and are gone with|out perplexing our Charity, to their own places; This <HI>Laird Wari&s;ton</HI> was one of the &s;ame Robe, an Eminent Lawyer in this Kingdome, and preferred by the <HI>Committee of E&s;tates,</HI> At the in&s;tance and pre|&s;entment of the Kirk, during the late <HI>Interregnum,</HI> to be the <HI>Cu&s;tos</HI> or <HI>Magi&s;ter Rotutorum,</HI> or Lord Rogu|&s;ter or Keeper of the Rolls: having given &s;pecious proofs of his zealous fondne&s;&s;e to the Presbyterian mo&s;t Rigid and Severe&s;t Di&s;cipline.</P>
<P>He was a great Confident and Privado likewi&s;e of the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Argyles,</HI> under who&s;e clientele and Patronage, he li&s;ted him&s;elf, and proffered and performed his mo&s;t officious &s;ervices to that mans de&s;ignes; he being the Chieftain and &s;ole &s;upreme Head of tho&s;e, who ran-counter to the intere&s;t of the King in this Nation; and which is not to be o|mitted, a mo&s;t violent Enemy of the glorious and immortal Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Montro&s;&s;e;</HI> Nor did he faile of any ob&s;equious in&s;inuations and endearments therby to carve him&s;elf a part in tho&s;e his projected &s;poyls of Loyal and Dutiful Subjects, and the <HI>Crown</HI> it &s;elf.</P>
<P>But Providence altering the management of the
<PB N="5" REF="4">Government in this Kingdome, and taking it from a cunning by devolving it to a violent U&s;urpation; the Kirk &amp; Committee of E&s;tates, with the General A&s;&s;embly, being altogether aboli&s;hed by the Eng|li&s;h conque&s;t, which ju&s;tly puni&s;hed their mo&s;t Ty|rannical in&s;olence upon the Con&s;cience &amp; E&s;tates of their fellow Subjects, by bringing upon their heads an <HI>Evil adaequate</HI> to their Crimes and Trea&s;ons; (for what was formerly infflicted upon the <HI>Jewes,</HI> who made their Argument of <HI>Venient Romani,</HI> the Ro|mans will come, a pretence to their Murder of the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah;</HI> was anew Executed upon the&s;e Scots, who having made the <HI>Venient Ritus Anglicani,</HI> the Rites of the Church of <HI>England</HI> will come in among us and de&s;troy the Kirk, a pretence and mask to the Rebellion again&s;t the Kings Authority, were now retaliated and puni&s;hed with the victorious Arms <HI>(Venient exercitus Anglicani)</HI> of the new founded Eng|li&s;h Commonwealth, which the&s;e very men had helped to rai&s;e to this formidable greatne&s;&s;e.) I &s;ay when this grand mutation was brought about, then did <HI>Wari&s;ton</HI> con&s;ult and look out for a better and &s;urer intere&s;t, where he might be&s;tow his perfidious endeavours, with the greate&s;t profit and advantage.</P>
<P>For whereas he had mancipated him&s;elf to <HI>Argile,</HI> and linkt him&s;elf in a manner to him by mo&s;t &s;cele|rate and &s;trange combinations, he now e&s;tranged him&s;elf from him; but &s;uffering him to continue the mo&s;t notable and greate&s;t of the Kirks party he &s;et up for him&s;elf here, with the&s;e Grandees of <HI>Eng|land</HI> mounting in Degree &amp; Tru&s;t above his former Ma&s;ter, as Mr. <HI>Thurloe</HI> did to St. <HI>John</HI>'s, and became
<PB N="6" REF="5">afterwards there, <HI>Olivers</HI> Scotch Secretary of State, and continued in it all along to the very time of the Re&s;titution; and therefore to di&s;cover all his vil|lany, it will be nece&s;&s;ary to deduce him in a brief Hi&s;tory, through the following times.</P>
<P>He appeared a main &s;tickler fir&s;t with that party, who oppo&s;ed the agreement with the King at <HI>Bre|dah,</HI> and would have had his Maje&s;ty tyed and ob|liged to more undutiful and di&s;loyal Conditions (though tho&s;e were unparalleld) before his returne into that Kingdome, in 1650. (like &s;ome of our States men in 1659. upon a more happy and grand Revolution:) and when that could not be hindred, the more numerous party of the Parliament pro|ving &s;o hone&s;t, as to come to the intended conclu|&s;ion of that affair; yet did he and his faction &s;o op|po&s;e the power of the Kirk to the Kings Authority, and to cry it up as &s;upreme, to &s;uch a diminution of Maje&s;ty, that the King was no more then a meer &s;hadow of their brightne&s;&s;e and greatne&s;&s;e, nor could exerci&s;e any part of the Royal Dignity with|out their approbation and allowance.</P>
<P>And to this tenor of deportment did the Faction continue, even after the Engli&s;h Army were advan|ced into <HI>Scotland,</HI> by which means &s;uch mi&s;under|&s;tandings and divi&s;ions were ari&s;en among the Nobility, and fomented by <HI>Cromwell,</HI> that there was little hopes of e&s;caping that ruine which &s;oon after en&s;ued. This very fellow &amp; &s;ome few more, &s;uch as Col. <HI>Ker,</HI> and <HI>Straughan,</HI> Sir <HI>John Chei&s;ly,</HI> and &s;ome Mini&s;ters, &s;tiled the We&s;tern Remon&s;trants, running out into &s;uch trea&s;onable Declaratory Expre&s;&s;ions, that they would not own the Kings Quarrel and In|tere&s;t,
<PB N="7" REF="5">and that it was the cau&s;e of all the Evill and Troubles that at pre&s;ent afflicted the Nation, and that the King had been called in without confe&s;&s;ion and &s;atisfaction, and the like &s;awcy Dictates, and Penance-Injunctions of this wor&s;e then Roman Kirk.</P>
<P>To this trea&s;onable &s;en&s;e, to avoid a defection of &s;uch a con&s;iderable &s;trength, who would by no means ad|mit of other way, nor would joyn with the Loyal par|ty at any rate, an An&s;wer was &s;ent to <HI>Cromwell</HI> by way of a Declaration; and thereupon en&s;ued their lamentable and ju&s;t defeat at <HI>Dunbar,</HI> which notwith|&s;tanding that it did clearly indigitate &amp; point at this their undutifulne&s;&s;e, yet did this &s;ame party conti|nue in the &s;ame impious practi&s;es, even to the con&s;pi|ring the &s;eizure of the King, (who upon &s;ome &s;uch ob|&s;cure intimation, did for a while withdraw him&s;elf out of their Clutches) and betraying and delivering him, as they had done his Ble&s;&s;ed Father, into the hands of the Engli&s;h, for another rounder &s;um of mo|ney, which Trea&s;on they would have vailed &s;till by the Covenant, to their interpretation whereof the King mu&s;t be &s;ubmitted. And in this damnable In|trigue, this Laird <HI>Warrie&s;ton</HI> had a principal hand, as by his &s;ucceeding actions plainly appeared.</P>
<P>For <HI>Edenburgh</HI> Ca&s;tle being &s;urrendred to <HI>Cromwell</HI> by his fellow Traytor <HI>Dunda&s;&s;e</HI> the Governour there|of, who had Articled for the Tran&s;portation and &s;e|cure conveyance of all the Records and writings be|longing to the Kingdom) which were depo&s;ited there) to <HI>Sterling,</HI> or &s;ome other place in the Kings po&s;&s;e&s;&s;i|on, which were contrary to the &s;aid Articles detained for a while, with &s;ome other precious Goods and Moveables; <HI>Warrie&s;ton,</HI> as it was belonging to his of|fice,
<PB N="8" REF="6">was &s;ent to <HI>Edenburgh</HI> to di&s;pute the matter, and to gain and recover the &s;aid Rolls.</P>
<P>This advantage of nearer conver&s;e with <HI>Cromwell</HI> proffering it &s;elfe, when as before it was very dange|rous, he omitted net to pro&s;ecute; for being with a &s;afe conduct admitted into that City, in &s;tead of con|te&s;ting for his Soveraignty, and his Countries right; he underhand agreed with tho&s;e <HI>Money Ma&s;ters,</HI> to do them what &s;ervice he could in facilitating their war, which being like to prove cold and fro&s;ty work in that Northern clymate, did &s;adden their premature thoughts, and over credulous and ha&s;ty hopes of a full and plenary Conque&s;t of that Nation.</P>
<P>In the mean time the We&s;tern Remon&s;trants grow|ing more Malapart, &s;everal of them were called to an|&s;wer their bold &amp; impudent Contumelies of the Kings Authority, and that under pain of Excommunication by the better taught Kirk; and among tho&s;e this Gen|tleman the~ practi&s;ing the civil jugle at <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> with &s;ome others of that Tribe was &s;ummoned, but upon &s;ome con&s;ideration, while the whole cabat of this tray|terous faction &s;hould be better and more fully elucida|ted, &amp; the writings if po&s;&s;ibly, as the earne&s;t and gloze of his Trea&s;on recovered; he was re&s;pited a while: but according to expectation, the &s;aid writings being come to <HI>Sterling,</HI> he with <HI>Abernethy,</HI> the Lord <HI>Swinton</HI> and the re&s;t before mentioned, were &s;oon after decla|red Excommunicates, and re&s;erved for the future ju|&s;tice of the Laws.</P>
<P>But <HI>Warie&s;ton</HI> e&s;caped that by the wonderfull and &s;ucce&s;sful progre&s;&s;e of the Engli&s;h Armies (in who&s;e quarters he re&s;olved after a &s;uddden &s;hort appearance at <HI>Sterling,</HI> to communicate his practi&s;es with his
<PB N="9" REF="6">Gang, and learn the Kings Councels from them, to con|tinue for the future) who&s;e invasion he &s;eemed to quar|rel from Chri&s;tian grounds, and to de&s;ire an amicable debate according to the Scriptures and the Covenant, profe&s;&s;ing with great &s;hews of devotion his renuntiati|on of the Kings Intere&s;t, for which all the&s;e Evils, he &s;aid, had befallen them. By which means he kept and intended to foment the former divi&s;ions according to the in&s;tructions of his Trea&s;on by <HI>Cromwell,</HI> in that Nation.</P>
<P>The con&s;equence of which &s;celerate practi&s;e, being reduced by a neer conque&s;t to a le&s;&s;er and particular de&s;igne, which was to keep the Scots now &s;ubdued in perpetual di&s;cords and mi&s;under&s;tandings, on a religi|ous, as formerly on a civil account; <HI>Warre&s;ton</HI> was the only fit man re&s;olved on to pro&s;ecute the Cabel, and to hold &s;ides with the Remon&s;trants, who had annul|led by their a&s;&s;umed pretended Authority, all that the Kirk had done and ratified in their conclu&s;ion with the King at <HI>Bredah;</HI> and by the &s;ame magi&s;terial power, Fa&s;ts and Humiliations upon that Trea&s;onable occa&s;i|on were thereby enjoyned; and this promoted on pur|po&s;e to make ea&s;ie work for the Engli&s;h U&s;urpers, who by this though partial renunciation of the King by the Scots them&s;elves in that quality as the &s;upreme power, had the le&s;&s;e work to do towards their total abolition of it, in which this Con&s;pirator was mainly in&s;trumen|tal in all the changes and vici&s;&s;itudes afterwards.</P>
<P>In the year 1652. the <HI>Juncto</HI> at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> having made in a manner a total Conque&s;t of <HI>Scotland,</HI> by their Commi&s;&s;ioners deputed on that behalf, proceeded to the Union of that with this Kingdome, which having been a fru&s;traneous enterpri&s;e in the Reigne of King <HI>James,</HI> and proving but a meer politick notion and &s;pe|culation
<PB N="10" REF="7">was now in a kind effected. By which means they intended to a&s;&s;ure that Kingdom by the &s;pecious &s;hews of liberty, now made a Commonwealth, from e|ver returning to its ancient Regal and Legal Govern|ment. Again&s;t this <HI>Warre&s;ton,</HI> with all the Remon|&s;trants, who liked not their total deve&s;titure of power, directly oppo&s;ed them&s;elves; but <HI>Warre&s;ton</HI> as employ|ed by our States to dive into the &s;ecrets of all that par|ty which he &s;eemed to Head, and to reveal all the Ma|chinations, as well theirs or others which might be in|tended to the recovery of his Country from the &s;lavery they &s;uffered from tho&s;e U&s;urpers.</P>
<P>That &s;ame Union being at la&s;t accompli&s;hed by <HI>Oli|ver,</HI> no man was more re<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">dy to comply with the con|&s;titution of it, to that purpo&s;e getting him&s;elf returned a Member for the Parliament of the Three Common|wealths, as the e&s;tabli&s;hment then was; Thirty being allotted re&s;pectively for <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland;</HI> and in the&s;e A&s;&s;emblies and Conventions, which were very frequent in the&s;e times, he was &s;ure to make one of the chief for his Nation, where he learned the knack of ca|tering for him&s;elf, by complying with the mo&s;t de&s;tru|ctive Councels and De&s;ignes of the prevailing party, therewith in&s;inuating into their familiarity and confi|dence, by mo&s;t vile Para&s;itical officers and demerencies of their re&s;pects and notice of him; in&s;omuch that he gra&s;ped mo&s;t of the important tran&s;actions of the Scotch affairs here, which he pro&s;tituted to the will of the U&s;urper, into his own management, and di&s;po&s;al.</P>
<P>But the greate&s;t remarque of the&s;e his wicked Acts here, was manife&s;tin the broyl betwixt <HI>Lambert</HI> and the <HI>Rump,</HI> wherein he was &s;o great a Favorite of that Com|mander, that upon the erection of his Committe of Safety, this man was made Pre&s;ident thereof <HI>pro tempore,</HI>
<PB N="11" REF="7">which place he di&s;charged chiefly in &s;erving him&s;elfe, and the plea&s;ure and will of that Dictator: but the &s;tory of his fawning and mo&s;t abject &s;ordidne&s;&s;e herein, is &s;o largely de&s;cribed in a Play called <HI>the Rump,</HI> that there needs not any additional brand infamous note from this Bead roll of his impieties.</P>
<P>All that &s;hall be &s;aid further of him on that account, is, that his Devices to make in&s;urrections and new Troubles in <HI>Scot|land</HI> by his labouring the Remon&s;trants and that party to a defection from General <HI>Monck</HI> then advancing again&s;t <HI>Lambert,</HI> were &s;uch ranck and pe&s;tilent Trea&s;ons, that the di&s;covery of them &s;hewed the de&s;perate wickedne&s;&s;e of his Heart, and made the Noble General be his remembrancer for his due reward, to the Rump, in his &s;peech to them at <HI>We&s;tminster;</HI> but that, provi|dence was plea&s;ed to re&s;erve to a ju&s;ter hand, and more due in|fliction afterwards; that his original and principal guilt again&s;t the King might finally be puni&s;hed and a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">enged by his Royal Ju&s;tice.</P>
<P>Which hoping to avoid, he &s;ecretly fled out of <HI>Scotland</HI> (whe|ther he &s;neaked from his greatne&s;&s;e at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI>) over into <HI>France,</HI> hoping to find &s;helter in that populous Kingdome; be|ing pur&s;ued with a Proclamation and an Act of Attainder and Confi&s;cation, together with the abovementioned Col. <HI>Dunda&s;s</HI> and others, and Condemned for his mo&s;t notorious and evident Trea&s;ons.</P>
<P>There he lurked a while till his ju&s;t de&s;tiny di&s;covered him to &s;ome of his own Nation, who made inque&s;t after him, (an ac|count wherof hath been already given) &amp; &s;ent him with a guard over to <HI>Dover,</HI> whence he was conveyed to the <HI>Tower</HI> by His Maje&s;ties Order, and not long after &s;hipped for <HI>Edenburgh</HI> in one of the Kings <HI>Frigots</HI> in order to his Execution. At his Ar|rival he was committed pri&s;oner to <HI>Edenburgh</HI> Ca&s;tle, where the low &s;pirited wretch kept &s;uch a Howling and Whining La|mentation, affrighted with the mon&s;trous &s;hame of his crimes, or Fear of Death, that he lookt almo&s;t like a Changeling, by which means his Friends (of whom he hath very few) and Relations procured a &s;hort re&s;pit for his Life, that he might be the fitter for his death.</P>
<P>Upon his appearance at the Bar of the Parliament, and de|manded
<PB N="12" REF="8">what he had to &s;ay for him&s;elf why the &s;entence &s;hould not be excuted; he in a mi&s;erable &s;trange po&s;ture fell a deny|ing any intention of evil to the King, and that over and over again to the trouble and Din of the Judges and Hearers; then he de&s;ired a Copy of his &s;entence, which was likewi&s;e denyed him, as derogating from the Authority of the Parliament, who&s;e wi&s;edome and ju&s;tice would not admit any debate of it, and &s;o he was commanded to prepare a final an&s;wer to the point of Execution, which yet remained to be done; and which will a&s;|&s;uredly overtake him, to the magnifying the Divine Ju&s;tice, and the expiation of tho&s;e many pollutions this mans iniquity brought upon this Land, and to the Terrour of all evil Doers, and &s;uch pernicious ob&s;tinate Traytors for the time to come.</P>
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