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A30389	The memoires of the lives and actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, &c. in which an account is given of the rise and progress of the civil wars of Scotland, with other great transactions both in England and Germany, from the year 1625, to the year 1652 : together with many letters, instructions, and other papers, written by King Charles the I : never before published : all drawn out of, or copied from the originals / by Gilbert Burnet ; in seven books.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Selections. 1677.	1677 (1677)	Wing B5832; ESTC R15331	511,397	467

the following Passages of his Life William Duke of Hamilton was born at Hamilton on the 14th of December in the year 1616. being ten years younger than his Brother The Character of William Duke of Hamilton and of the same Parents He was of a middle Stature his Complexion black but very agreeable and his whole Air and Meen was noble and sprightful his Youth discovered with an extraordinary Capacity so much Ingenuity that Candor seemed in him not so much the effect of vertue as nature since from a Child he could never upon any tentation be made to lye When his Father died he left him very young to the care of his Mother and the kindness of his Brother with a very small Provision but he confessed he never missed a Father in his Brother who kept him not only at the University of Glasgow where he was educated but likewise in his Travels at a rate and with an Equipage suitable to his Quality He travelled some years in France where he was very much esteemed and invited to stay in that Court with very honourable Offers He had a good foundation of Literature though he was no great Scholar and what he once acquired was rather improved than lost by him His appearance at Court He returned from his Travels when he was one and twenty years of Age and was look'd on both by the King Queen as a rare and highly promising Gentleman and now that he was of an Age capable of it his Brother and he entred into an entire Friendship And finding him so rarely accomplished and fitted for the greatest Affairs he kept him with himself at Court and though he depended wholly upon his Brothers Generosity for his Subsistence yet he was far from making him feel that either by upbraiding him with his Favours or by disparaging him with any neglect Faults too commonly incident to Elder Broth●rs when the Younger are obliged to stoop to them But as Lord William was too high-minded to have endured the least appearance of those so his Brother was not capable of giving him any such hard Usage but allowed him all things suitable to his rank and carried towards him with Respect as well as Affection He continued in the Court some years being much esteemed by all sorts there for as his Address was becoming so his Converse was full of Life and Wit and he was a great Master in all his Exercises But his Brother was more careful to think of a Fortune for him than himself was and therefore provided a Marriage for him that had the expectation of a vast Fortune Lady Elizabeth Maxwel eldest Daughter to the Earl of Dirleton who had no Sons and but one other Daughter It was not without reluctancy that he was engaged that way but his Brothers Authority over him was absolute so he was married to her in the year 1638 and continued still at Court He had by her four Daughters that survived him L Ann L. Elizabeth L. Mary and L. Margaret Afterwards he pretended to be made Master of the Horse to the Queen He is made Secretary of State but Her Majesty was engaged to another which was much resented by him and made him resolve on leaving the Court and going into France This grieved his Brother extremely and both the King and Queen sent him a promise that if he would give over thoughts of that Journey he should be preferred to what-ever Place fell that were fit for him And a little after that the Earl of Sterlin died who was Secretary of State for Scotland and the Queen moved the King to advance him to that Trust to which his Majesty did willingly consent for as he was glad of all opportunities of expressing his kindness to his Brother so he saw in himself that which made him judge him both worthy and capable of any Imployment and thereupon he made him Secretary and created him Earl of Lanerick He had every thing but years to recommend him to the highest Trust being Witty Considerate Brave Generous and resolute to the highest Degree He saw his Engagement in Affairs fell to be in such a disordered time that he could not have appeared on the Scene with more disadvantage He had no experience at all in Scotish Affairs but for that he resolved to trust to his Brothers Informations and Advices which did not only continue till he came to understand Persons and Affairs better The Friendship betwixt his Brother and him but that Noble Pair were all their lives united with bonds of Friendship straiter than those of their Blood Calumny got no access to their Ears nor Emulation and Jealousie room in their Hearts and as their Friendship was never broke off with a Discord so it was not so much as marred by a Mistake They had both Interests Friends and Quarrels in common they were pleasant in their Lives nor was their Friendship divided in their Deaths as appeared from the interchanged Preferences they gave one anothers Children in their Last Wills Both of them had peculiar Excellencies yet even in those things wherein the one was excelled by the other there remained enough to term them both eminent The Elder had the greater Temper and Command of his Passions but this made him sometimes fall short of that Acrimony and Authority which such Times and Services required The Younger was more forward and resolute yet sometimes this left his Temper behind it The Elder as he had the advantage of Years and Experience so he had the deeper Apprehensions and the greater Foresight but the Younger had more Vivacity of Spirit and Readiness of Apprehension The Elder was readier to forsee a Danger and invent Objections and the Younger quicker at Answering them and finding Salvoes for all Difficulties The Elders Converse was smoother but more reserved the Younger as he was the brisker so he was the more frank and was no less beloved and in fine the Elder spoke more gracefully but the other had the better Pen. He was most assiduous in his Imployment His diligence in his Imployment to procure not only favourable Answers but speedy Dispatches to all those who made their Addresses by him to the King He frankly told every one whether he would serve them or not for where he meant no Assistance he never disguised it with general Assurances but where he promised Service he needed no new Applications either to refresh his Memory or quicken his Diligence and he was wont to say he was sure there was no Person whose sight His Majesty had so little reason to desire as his since he never saw him when there was any possibility of speaking to him apart but he moved him in one Suit or another But his Confidence was grounded on this that he gave the King no trouble with any desires of his own his Reality this way obliged his Friends exceedingly who used to complain that though his Brother as far as his own Kindness could go was most obliging

sometimes in raillery since he was now to seal it with his Blood then he kneeled down and prayed in these words His Prayer MOst blessed Lord I thy poor and most unworthy Servant come unto thee presuming in thy infinite Mercy and the Merits of Iesus Christ who sits upon thy Throne I come flying from that of Iustice to that of Mercy and Tenderness for his sake who shed his Blood for Sinners that he would take Compassion upon me that he would look upon me as one that graciously hears me that he would look upon me as one that hath Redeemed me that he would look upon me as one that hath shed his Blood for me that he would look upon me as one who now calls and hopes to be saved by his all-sufficient Merits for his sake Glorious God have Compassion upon me in the freeness of thy infinite Mercy that when this sinful Soul of mine shall depart out of this frail Carcase of Clay I may be carried unto thy everlasting Glory O Lord by thy free Grace and out of thy infinite Mercy hear me and look down and have Compassion upon me and thou Lord Iesus thou my Lord thou my God and thou my Redeemer hear me take pity upon me O Glorious God and so deal with my Soul that by thy precious Merits I may attain to thy Ioy and bliss O Lord remember me so miserable and sinful a Creature Now thou O Lord thou O Lord who died for me receive me receive me into thy own bound of Mercy O Lord I trust in thee suffer me not now to be confounded Satan hath too long had possession of this Soul O let him not now prevail against it but let me O Lord from hence-forth dwell with thee for evermore Now O Lord it is thy time to hear me hear me Gracious Iesus even for thine own Goodness Mercy and Truth O Glorious God O blessed Father O holy Redeemer O Gracious Comforter O holy and blessed Trinity I do render up my Soul into thy hands and commit it to the Mediation of my Redeemer praising thee for all thy Dispensations that it hath pleased thee to confer upon me and even for this Praise and Honour and Thanks be to thee from this time forth and for evermore His Death and Burial After this Doctor Sibbald entertained him with some pious Discourses and then the Duke prayed a short Prayer by himself After which he with a cheerful and smiling Countenance imbraced the Doctor and said Truly I bless God I do not fear I have an assurance that is grounded here laying his hand on his Heart that gives me more true Ioy than ever I had I pass out of a miserable World to go to an eternal and glorious Kingdom and though I have been a most sinful Creature yet I know Gods Mercy is infinite and I bless my God I go with so clear a Conscience that I know not the man I have personally injured Then embracing his Servants that were there present he said to every one of them you have been very faithful to me the Lord bless you He turned next to the Executioner and after he had observed how he should lay his Body he told him he was to say a short Prayer to his God while he lay all along and should give a Sign by stretching out his right Hand and then he was to do his Duty whom he freely forgave as he did all the World And then he stretched himself out on the Ground and having placed his Head aright he lay a little while praying with great appearance of Devotion within himself and then gave the Sign upon which the Executioner at one blow severed his Head from his Body which was received in a Crimson-taffety skarf by two of his Servants kneeling by him and was together with his Body immediately put in a Coffin which was ready on the Scaffold and from thence conveyed to a House in the Mews from whence it was according to the Orders he had given sent down by Sea to Scotland and interred in the Burial-place of his Family where it lies in the hopes of a Blessed Resurrection to eternal Life THE CHARACTER OF James Duke of Hamilton c. THus lived and died IAMES Duke of Hamilton who was born at Hamilton the 19th of Iune His Birth and Parents 1606. His Parents were Iames Marquis of Hamilton and Lady Anne Cunningham Daughter to the Earl of Glencairn He was of a middle Stature his Body well-shaped His Person and Constitution of Health and his Limbs proportioned and straight in his last years he enclined to fatness his Complection and hair were black but his Countenance was pleasant and full of Life and shewed a great Sweetness of Disposition his Health was regular suitable to his Diet and free of sickness or pain only in his last years he was a little subject to the Stone But when his Body was opened all his Inwards were found sound and entire so that had not that fatal stroak brought his days to a too early Period he might probably have been very long lived His Education At the time of his Fathers coming to Court the Duke of Buckingham being then in great favour with King Iames and desiring to strengthen his Family with Noble Alliances agreed a Marriage betwixt him the Lady Mary Feilding Daughter to William Earl of Denbigh and the Lady Susanna Villiers Sister to the Duke of Buckingham upon which his Father sent for him to Court to be married when he himself was fourteen years of age and the Lady designed for him but seven This broke off the Course of Studies in which he had been educated till then in Scotland and though he was sent afterwards to the University of Oxford yet the interruption that his stay at Court put to his Education in Letters was such that he never recovered it After the years of Consummating the intended Marriage were come he was forced to it not without great Aversion occasioned partly by the disproportion of their ages and partly by some other secret Considerations His Marriage He lived with his Lady for some years in no good terms and that concurring with other Motives made him leave the Court upon his Fathers death but her excellent qualities did afterwards overcome that Aversion into as much Affection as he was capable of and it was no wonder for she was a Lady of great and singular worth and her Person was noble and graceful like the handsome Race of the Villiers's But to such as knew her well the vertues of her mind were far more shining She was educated from a Child in the Court and esteemed and honoured by all in it and by none more than the late King who as he was one of the Chastest men not to say Princes so he was a perfect honourer of all vertuous Ladies She was Lady of the Queens Bedchamber and admitted by her Majesty into an entire Confidence and Friendship and not