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A39622	Five letters from a gentleman in Scotland to his friend in London being a true account of what remarkable passages have happened since the Prince's landing, the manner of the taking of the Chancellor, and his lady in mans apparel, the burning of the Pope, demolishing of the popish chapels, &c. with the total overthrow of the Roman Catholicks : Edinburgh, Decemb. 3. 1688.	Gentleman in Scotland.	1689 (1689)	Wing F1108; ESTC R177089	4,652	6

FIVE LETTERS From a GENTLEMAN in SCOTLAND TO His Friend in London Being a True Account Of what Remarkable Passages have happened since the Prince's Landing the manner of the taking of the Chancellor and his Lady in Mans Apparel the burning of the Pope Demolishing of the Popish Chapels c. with the total overthrow of the Roman Catholicks Edinburgh Decemb. 3. 1688. THE Students of the University here designed some time ago to burn the Pope's Effigies but that was not more zealously desired to be prevented by some than to be done by others notwithstanding all the imaginable care taken to prevent it yet it was done about Ten Days ago after day-light gone at the Cross and blown up with art that seems to have been beyond their invention above Four Stories high Two days thereafter they went to the Parliament-House at mid-day passing by the Guards crying No Pope No Papist and being got into the Parliament-House after they had required the Guards to be present at the Sentence and having got upon the Bench they Arraigned his Holiness before his Judges and gave the Jury their Commission who brought him in Guilty whereupon he was sentenced to be burnt publickly at the Cross the Twenty Fifth of this instant and withal declared and protested for a Free Parliament On Sunday last advertisement was giving by a Papist to a Gentlewoman to remove her self out of this City and to carry out her Husbands papers forthwith because that Night there should be here a hot wakening such as had not been heretofore and advised her to give the same advice to any of her friends she pleased Your friend Mr. M. being acquainted with this he revealed the same to several of our Magistrates which as is alledged was not regarded he went thereafter and acquainted the Guard of our Trained-bands therewith whereupon Captain Patrick Johnstone Hilton's Brother caused to beat the Drums and the noise having gone abroad and several persons having ordered their Arms and people flocking together to consider what was fit to be done the Magistrates with the Council convened for the same purpose A great many Boys met also and went through the whole Town crying aloud No Pope No Papist No Popish Chancellor No Melfort No Father Petres But the Gates were shut the Magistrates went along the streets for the keeping of the peace and nothing more was done that night except the breaking of three or four Glass-windows of Papists Houses and that some of the Boys got up to the Cross and Proclaimed a Free-Parliament and offered Two Thousand Pounds for Melfort's Head so that Night past over when all people here were in fear of some ill designs and the rather because of their certain knowledge that there were lying in the Suburbs a great many Hundreds of Highland men or rather Thousands and that all that day the Abbey Gates were exactly kept by Souldiers Commanded by Captain Wallace a Papist and none admitted to enter except Papists or Highland-men On Monday about mid-day the Chancellor parted thence and went towards the Highlands by advice of several of the Privy Council and his friends and took a good Guard with him At Night the Students went without Arms to the Abbey to condemn the Pope and to Proclaim a Free Parliament and perhaps to burn what was contained in the Chapel but without asking questions were repulsed by a shower of Ball whereby several were wounded and some since dead of their wounds which coming to the Privy Councils knowledge which was then fitting they called the Town Council then also met and Captain Grahame desired them to see to the preservance of the peace and sent Six Heralds with an order to Captain Wallace and his men to lay down their Arms render themselves Prisoners and deliver their Guards to the Magistrates but they were answer'd by Ball which being reported to the Privy Council they forthwith ordered Captain Grahame and his Company Trained-bands and Militia to fall upon them which they did Wallace and his men fled several of them were taken and some wounded as were some of Captain Grahame's men The Rabble were so incensed upon the firing and supposition that it was Boys were killed that they burnt all that was contained in the Chapels the Jesuits Colledge the Popish Printing-house the Abbey Church the Chancellors Lodgings and generally all that was contained in the Houses of Papists in the Town and Cannon-gate excepting what was taken away by some people who designed plunder They had fires in the Abbey-Court and at the Cross all the Night and spared nothing they got in Papists Houses Some few Houses were spared at the intercession of some Protestants their friends and after true enquiry I heard the loss is called greater than it is None of the Papists themselves were killed or wounded They met with few of them those they got they carried into the Guard. In some of the Popish Houses they found Arms and Barrels of Powder which provoked to a more narrow search All this time the Castle never fired one Gun which is more attributed to the Duke of Gordon than to any other inferior Officer I am told the Council sent and discharged an Execution from the Castle Some of the Boys are dead of their wounds Traquair a Popish Lord and several others went to and continue in the Castle for their security The Council ordered the searching for Ammunition and Arms in some Popish Houses in the Country and this day committed a Warrant for the restoring of what was plundred out of the Papists Houses I had forgot to tell you that on Monday last the Privy Council disbanded Six Hundred Men taken on the Friday before and commanded all the Highlanders forthwith to depart upon pain of death and yesterday ordered all Gentlemen to depart out of the Town excepting such as should give account of their business to some of the Privy Council I am credibly informed that this day in the Privy Council was voted an Address to be made to his Majesty for a Free Parliament there are several Noblemen and Gentlemen gone from hence into England and more to follow but it s suspected they are going to the Prince of Orange Edinburgh Decemb. 20. WHen the Chancellor went away privately from the Abbey for Castle Drummond he gave strict command to Captain Wallace to preserve the Chapel c. The Rabble having gathered and procured Links without any Fire-Arms about Six at Night went to the Abbey and were denied access whereupon some pressing forward Wallace commanded his Souldiers to Fire which they did and killed and wounded about Twenty whereof one half died shortly after The Rabble retired to the City with a great noise towards the Entry to the Court of the Parliament-House where some of the Lords of the Privy-Council were sitting There some West-Country Gentlemen encouraged them to prosecute a Revenge and got the Provost of the City to go to the House of Lords and told them if they would not give

a Warrant to Assault Wallace and force him from the Abbey they would do it without it The Lords being alarm'd with the slaughter and a report that several Gentlemens Sons were killed and some of their own they ordered a Herald at Arms with sound of Trumpet to command Wallace in the Kings Name to give up his Guard at the Abbey to the City And the Company under the Cities Pay marched first commanded by Captain Grahame and after them all the Train'd-bands and Militia to force him in case of refusal several Gentlemen accompanying Grahame and the Magistrates attending Wallace refused the Herald and fired upon Grahame and the rest behind wounded some Gentlemen and a few Souldiers But Grahame Marched quickly down a Lane on the South-side of the Porch of the Abbey-Court where Wallace was Posted and by a back way entered the Court came upon Wallace's Reer and the Town Companies Fronting him after the first Fire he and all his Men fled only a few of them were taken the most part escaping under the darkness of the Night The City being thus Master of the Abbey the Rabble immediately without opposition went first to the Chapel forced the Doors broke all to pieces and carried several parcels in Triumph up to the Cross and burnt them there The next day strong Guards were set through the whole City and Suburbs in convenient places to repress any farther Tumult and so all was quiet and continues so This Morning there was coming into Leith a Boat from Burnt-Island with Eighty Men a-board being a part of Two or Three Hundred which had been sent for by the Duke of Gordon from the North to inforce the Castle the rest were to follow But the Bailiff of Leith having notice beforehand of their coming sent on Board and discharged their coming into the Harbor and desired to speak with their Commander who came ashore and owned the design being believed to be all Papists He was seized and the Men commanded back to the other shoar under the highest pains The Lords of the Treasury have called in all Commissions given to Papists for Collecting His Majesty's Revenue Edinburgh Decemb. 22. THE Chancellor thinking as Affairs stood he was not secure at home resolved for France and with all the privacy imaginable he in Womans and his Lady in Mans Clothes got a-board a Vessel bound from this Firth the 20th instant being Thursday which set Sail the Wind being fair But a certain person on Horseback Riding by Kircaldie where the Seamen use to walk called to them and told them there was a good Prize in that Ship under Sail namely the Chancellor of Scotland Whereupon about Thirty Six common Seamen Commanded by one Wilson that had been a Bucaneer in America which had Guns or Muskets mann'd a light Boat and with out any Provisions save a little Brandy or any Order from a Magistrate set Sail immediately and came up with the Ship that Night Boarded her inquired for the Chancellor whom they denied to be a-board but after search found him and his Lady cloathed as aforesaid brought the Ship back and carried the Prisoners with Mr. Nicolson a Priest late Regent in the College of Glasgow ashore to Kircaldie Talbooth or Prison The Chancellor wrote Letters yesterday to several of the Privy Council complaning of the injury done him The Council have ordered him to be carried by the Earl of Marr and a Company of the Militia to Stirling Castle The Duke of Gordon has been desired by the Council to lay down his Charge of Governour of the Castle but he still declines it alledging that seeing he has his Commission immediately from the King and to be accountable to none else he cannot in honour lay it down till he has His Majesty's command for it and says he had sent a Gentleman expresly to know His Majesty's pleasure upon that point fourteen days ago and expects his return every day And in the mean time has assured the Council by Letters and this day the Provost and Magistrates of the City whom he sent for to speak with that he will upon his Word of Honour be a good Neighbour and not do them or the City any prejudice Two days a-go his Captain put an Oath to the Souldiers whereby they bound themselves to be faithful to His Majesty and their Superior Officers and to defend the Protestant Religion which being refused by Twenty or Thirty whereof Five were Papists they were turned out There was a Pink Arrived at Leith on Thursday sent by his Majesty The Searchers feized Two Boxes in it directed to the Chancellor c. and being brought to the Council there were found in them several Precepts upon the Treasury for payment of certain Sums to Papists and some Commissions in particular a Commission to one Peter Winste a Papist to be Major of the Gates of the Castle and have power of all the Keys without being accountable to the Lieutenant who is a Protestant but only to the Duke and his Deputy who is a Papist too Edinburgh Decemb. 25. THis day the Students burnt the Pope solemnly at the Cross before Thousands of Spectators our Privy Councellors and Magistrates were Spectators and no inconveniences followed The Students were divided according to their Classes that is their years of standing each Class with its Captain They advanced orderly with Swords in their hands and Hoitboys before them the College Mass was carried before them by the under Janitor in his Gown and bare We have many reports here of the Landing of Irish-men but false the whole Country is in Arms and Apprehends the Papists and at Drumfreise they have taken and imprisoned the Provost with some other Papists and Priests and guard their Town with Six Companies a-Night and have planted Cannon taken from their Ships at the Cross and Ports and recovered their Ammunition which was sent to Carlavorock Castle Edinburgh Decemb. 27. OUR Council has sent an Address to the Prince of Orange at least it may go hence on Saturday next At Glalgow the Prince of Orange was Proclaimed the Protestant Protector The whole Country is up for the Prince or at least under pretence for the safety against Papists but there is no fear of them in this Kingdom unless it be in Nithisdale and Galloway and I think neither there However there were some long Knives or Bagonets of a strange shape taken at Kirkubright LONDON Printed in the Year 1689.