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A45373	Some farther matter of fact relating to the administration of affairs in Scotland, under the Duke of Lauderdale. Humbly offered to His Majesties consideration, in obedience to his royal commands. That the Duke of Lauderdale was concerned in the designe of bringing in of popery and arbitrary government, may appear by these following particulars, &c.	Hamilton, William Douglas, Duke of, 1635-1694.	1679 (1679)	Wing S4502A; Wing H483; ESTC R231	4,324	4

forward and to press men by force into their service which being informed to the House of Commons he corrupted one of the Witnesses by Money to forswear it and this he did after the House of Commons had Voted that any who assisted those Leavies should be lookt upon as publick Enemies to the Nation So much did he contribute to serve the French Kings designes and particularly in the year 1667. when complaints were made to the King by Spanish Ministers that Scotland Leavies for France were a breach of Treaty His Majesties Commissioners ordered a Proclamation to be sent down immediately for the discharging of them but the Duke of Lauderdaile dispatcht an Express to his Brother Halton secretly to acquaint him that the Proclamation was coming and that it should be kept up until the Leavied Souldiers should be shipt and sent away and then published which was accordingly performed But for all the hast they made to sayl the wind detained some of their Vessels in the Road after the Proclamation and did drive others back which had been a good way gone yet none durst stop or trouble them for fear of Halton who had always promoted those Leavies and had signed particular Warrants to several Prison-keepers for delivering their Prisons to the French Officers He lived at that time in such intimacy with the French Embassadour that they were never asunder He sent his Nephew to make Campaigne in the French Army and wrote to the English Embassadour to present him to the King and tell him That he had sent the dearest thing he had to his service and if he had anything dearer he would have sent it VIII He hath upon all occasions spoken of the House of Commons with the greatest contempt and scorn possible calling it commonly Bellua multorum Capitum and usually said if they would Address against him he would fart against them and that he would put a dog in his Arse and bark at them And after boasted among his Creatures That he had risen by their Addresses For after one he got himself made an Earl of England after the other he had a Pension of 3000 l. per annum in England though he had above 9000 l. per annum in Scotland of the King and his usual word about the Commons is Let them bark and he will bite IX Not long ago he carried a person known to be of a very mercenary quality before the King and its like suborned him to accuse some of the Nobility of Scotland and say They had inticed him to complain upon his Grace to the Commons in Parliament thereby thinking not onely to put those Noblemen out of the Kings favour but also to beget in His Majesty an ill Opinion of the House but the parties being convened before the King His Majesty discovered the Forgery and Ordered the cheating Rogue to custody where he yet lyes under restraint X. At his last being in Seotland he forced all the Officers of State and others in both Civil and Military Employments to hold their Commissions of the King durante beneplacito which was never practised in that Nation before the consequence thereof tends so much to Arbitrary Power that they need not be particularilized he put in and put out Members of the Kings Council according as they suted his secret Designs In a word he so packt all the Judicatures that Justice and Equity have been Administred according to his pleasure under colour of the good of the Kingdom XI When the Treaty for the Union of both Kingdoms was set on foot which had been a great happiness to both Nations perceiving he should thereby loose that absolute Power he had in Scotland and not be able to prosecute his Arbitrary Defigns set himself to a breach for which this was his Argument That it was rather the Kings Interest to keep the Kingdoms distant and to hold England under the fear of the Scotch Army which then he was Raising and Modelling XII He has lived in that Correspondence with the Papists and Priests that the Cardinal of Norfolk before he left England was perpetually at his House he has kept constant Correspondence with Conyers and some Jesuites and at Rome he was called by one of the Popes Bed-chamber a great friend of the Catholicks and in all his concerns the Papists were still of his side So that his late Proclamation against Papists in Scotland hath been onely a Mockery Now since the Plot is discovered to disguise his Traiterous Conspiracies which then though upon Mr. Oates his Discovery he talked at the Board like one that believed it yet he went strait to the Duke and spoke of it with all possible scorn and called it a Ridiculous Contrivance XIII First That Colemans Letters were discharged to be made publick in Scotland And next his Tryal being Reprinted at Edenbourgh the Books were by a peremptory Order in Council stopt at the Press when finished almost to the last sheet not onely to the Printers great dammage but to a manifest suppression of the Discovery of that horrid Plot from the good people of that Nation who were longing for the Particulars thereof For is it not known that Charles Milford of Hatton Treasurer Deputy of Scotland managed all the Affairs and Councels there exactly as he received Instructions from his Brother the Duke of Lauderdail here according to which those in that Country which these Creatures talk now of the discovered Plot to be onely a Malicious Forgery of two Rogues Oates and Bedlow FINIS

Some farther Matter of Fact Relating to the Administration of Affairs IN SCOTLAND Under the Duke of Lauderdale Humbly offered to His MAJESTIES Consideration in Obedience to His Royal Commands That the Duke of Lauderdale was concerned in the Designe of Bringing in of Popery and Arbitrary Government may appear by these following Particulars c. I. FIrst in Anno 1669 when he knew that the Duke had changed his Religion he procured an Act in Scotland for Asserting the Kings Supremacy which he made the Presbyterian-party believe was to empower the King to put down Episcopacy and set up Presbytery the very words of it The disposal of the External Government of the Church is put absolutely in the Kings Power as also all Ecclesiastical Meetings and Meeters are to be ordered by the King Now the acknowledgment of the Pope is a great part of the Ecclesiastical Government besides the other words are so comprehensive that all Popery may be brought in at that door Soon after this he entered into a firm Friendship with the Head of the Popish party II. At his next Session of Parliament which was after Madam's being at Dover in 1670 to shew his farther Kindness to that Religion he put in words in the 7 o Act of that Session against Withdrawers from publick Worship which secured Papists from all troubles for the Act runs onely against his Majesties Subjects of the Reformed Religion for that Papists are expressly Excepted and the words he put in with his own hand in the draught of that Act. III. Whereas he first procured the Act that was past Anno 1667 that offerred the King an Army of 22000 men to be brought into England for any Cause in which his Majesties Honour Power and Greatness was concerned which was generally passed as a Complement and continued so till the year 1669 that other designe being projected in England by the Papists He to be ready to second that raised this Army and procured another Act which is the second in the first Session of the Parliament held by him by which the former Act was not onely confirmed but it was ordered that this Army should obey the Order of the Council without naming the King at all which as he has managed it is upon the matter himself And of late before the discovery of the Plot he designed to convert the 22000 men to a standing Army as an Addition to the new Forces raised last Summer to be constantly maintained by all Subjects contrary to the true meaning of the first or second Acts of Parliament relating to that purpose and directly against the Fundamental Constitutions of the Nation to impose Burthens upon it without consent of Parliament IV. When he went down Anno 1673 to see if he could draw down this Army to England finding he could not effect it that Nation not being able to support this Tyranny longer he first wearied the Members of Parliament with often Adjournments and finding in the end that Artifice and other tricks would not do he dissolved the Parliament that he might proceed there consonant to the Councel he gave here and set up a Bare-fac'd Arbitrary Power there which he has so much advised and pressed here and has ever since taken all the ways he could fall on to force the Nation to a Rebellion by illegal Imprisonments unjust Accusations false Reports made to the King taking away from the Subjects the right of Propriety their limitable Jurisdictions by the Councils order grounded upon Letters procured by him from the King and put in execution by his brother Halton by wrongful turning out Bishops Ministers of State Magistrates and others by cruel and illegal Sentences Banishments and Fines some whereof he disposed to Pensioners Relations of his own by Grants obtained from the King here which bear date before the Fines were judicially imposed in Scotland And likewise by bringing a man to die whom he had perswaded to confess upon hopes of Life and afterwards forswore that he had promised though it stands yet registered upon the Councils Book By sending Shipfuls to be Slaves in English Plantations which he justified here at Council-board in Whitehal By imposing Bonds against Law And above all by sending an Army of 9 or 10000 men most of them Highlanders to lie upon Free quarter and rob and spoil a Country that was in no Rebellion nor could any colour of saying they intended any be ever found now or since This he did last year thinking that would certainly make them rebel and so give a just Cause for keeping up a standing Army both there and here And that being at the time when the Papists thought the Plot so neer perfection was certainly in conjunction with them having prepared above 8000 Horse and Foot with Officers of his own stamp to execute his designe It is more than probable that it was for the Intelligence his Lady gave of this that the Cardinal of Norfolk sent his thanks to her V. Whereas there are but few Papists in Scotland he hath given these all the Incouragements he could The Earl of Aboins who was oft complained of to the Council by the Bishops for keeping many Priests in his house and being a main Stickler for Popery he made a Privy-Counsellor and gave him a Pension though he has never since gone to Church nor received the Sacrament The Earl of Northdale another furious Papist in Command of the new Forces he raised and so is Lord and King and both those two were last year employed by him in the plundering of the West of Scotland c. And there being in Scotland but five Noblemen that are Papists four of them have been supported and maintained by him c. VI. He was a principal Instrument in procuring the Toleration of Popery and courted them into sworn Friendship with the Lord Clifford and preferred the Declaration and other the Kings Edicts at the Council-board to Law c. He pressed the King to break with his Parliament and maintain the Declaration and to take the Great Seal from the Earl of Shaftsbury for giving him better Councel of which he has often boasted He became also an Enemy to the Earl of Arlington upon the same account and has ever since had an intire friendship with the Lord Treasurer for promoting those ends he supported the last year against the just Complaints the Scotch Lords made for Free Quarter and other barbarous usages which they met with c. VII He became a Pensioner to France from whom he received rich Presents and great Sums out of one of the Jewels which Monsieur Colbert gave him he made his rich George He always helped on the French Levies in Scotland against the Treaties the King had made and gave the French Officers the publick Prisons yea and the Kings own Castle of Edenburgh of which he is Governour to keep their Leavies in till the Ships are ready for their Transportation he gave order to his Brother to set the Levies