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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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