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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25786	The Marques of Argyll his defences against the grand indytement of high treason, exhibited against him to the Parliament in Scotland; Defences against the grand indytement of high treason, exhibited against him to the Parliament in Scotland	Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Marquis of, 1598-1661.; Scotland. Parliament.	1661 (1661)	Wing A3652; ESTC R15529	63,628	100

what was the ground and occasion of that Act and the reasons inducing the Defender and the Parliament at that time to go along therein and how little ground there is for challenging him thereon it would be considered That when the late King came to the Army before Newcastle the Defender was in Ireland by Commission from the Parliament 1646. and that His Majesties Declarations anent the grounds of His resolution in coming to the Scots was sent both to the Committee of Estates in Scotland and to the Parliament of England so that the same being printed before the Defender came to Newcastle he neither did not could know any other ground of his coming nor what was contained in His Declaration viz. His gracious Resolution to comply with His Parliaments in both Nations and those entrusted by them in every thing for setling of truth and peace and that he would totally commit himself to their counsels and advises Upon which terms both the Committee of Scotland and Officers of the Army declared to His Majestie and to the Parliament of England that they received him And all this before the Defender came from Ireland to Newcastle from whence His Majestie sent him with Instructions to the Commissioners at London of which Commissioners the Defender was one also to hasten the Propositions and privately commanded the Defenders to take the advice of the Duke of Richmond and Marqueis of Hertford anent what might concern His Majestie and particularly if it was fit that the Scots Army should declare for His Majestie whose judgement and opinion was which they conjured him to tell his Majestie that such a course was the onely way at present to mine his Majestie for that he himself knew That neither the Nobility or Gentry of England who attended him at Oxford wished him to prevail over his Parliament by the sword and much less would they indure the Scots Army to do it and that it would make all England as one man against him And that it was their earnest request to His Majestie by any means to give way to the Propositions Which advice he not onely faithfully told to His Majestie at Newscastle and many others there and to our gracious Soveraign who now is when he was in Scotland but also being in the Tower he intreated the Lieutenant thereof to propose for him that the Marquess of Hertford who was then alive might be examined in this matter which was put off from time to time because of His Majesties great affairs And as it is most certain that as neither Independent nor Sectary was able to carry one vote in the House at that time so it is notior that they who tendred His Majesty most in England were for disbanding the Scots Army and His Majesties 〈◊〉 in England wherein the Defender appeals to the particular knowledge of the Earl of Landerdale London Sir Charle Erskin and the rest of the Commissioners then there and it is of truth which all know that so little fear suspicion and jealousie there was of what followed That the great fear of His Majesties friends in both Kingdoms was That if he fixed on his Subjects in Scotland all England would be against him and probably cast off His Government and Interest forever So that under what representation soever the matter may now appear because of the sad sequels 〈◊〉 to them who know the matter as it was there shared what Declarations and Assurances there were from the Parliament of England and how little fear of the prevalency of Sectaries it did appear to be an act if not of necessity at least an act very expedient and convenient for the time other ways many who did assent thereto which never have condescended and consequently the defendors concurring therein upon such probable grounds can be no such crime as is libelled nor is it releivant to answer the conclusion of the Dittay To the second member of this Article bearing that under present for satisfaction for the arrears of the Army he went to London and there treasonably gave up at least condescended to the upgiving of his dread Soveraign and Master as being impowered so to do by the Kingdom of Scotland It is answered 〈◊〉 member is not relevant because neither the time of this going to London 〈◊〉 of his being these the persons to whom he condescended to give up are not particularly mentioned and set down By which generally he is precluded from several defences 〈◊〉 arise to him if the Ditay were clear and it is a principle in Common Law and of constant practice That non et vagandum in crimin●e sed debet certum speciatim dici for that dolus error 〈◊〉 in generalibus 2. No ways acknowledging the relievancy of the subsumption herein upon any of the Acts of the Proposition till the same be clearly condescended on and craving the same may be first done Oppones the Act of Parliament and the truth is while the Defendor was at London there was nothing spoken at all by him of leaving his Majesty in England except what he was expresly commanded by his Majesty to speak to Richmond and Hertford as aforesaid To the third Member of the eighth Article bearing That in a joynt Committee of both Kingdoms where the English questioned whether the Scots Army would concur with them in their said Treason and Treachery the Defendor after many arguments used in their favour earnestly requested them to have patience for a little time and that it would appear how far they intended to concur And that within few days thereafter there was a Declaration and Vindication emitted in name of the said Army holding forth That in case his Majesty did not condescend to all the desires of both Kingdoms which were no less then divesting himself of all Regal Power Civil Ecclesiastical and Military they would deliver him up which immediately upon the receit of Two hundred thousand pounds the Defendor and they did It is Answered That adhering to the former defences anent the subsumption and repeating it here This member although it were rightly subsumed as it is not is most irreleivant and general in time place person and speeches mention being made of many arguments and never one produced and of a Question and Answer out of which even as libelled Treason cannot be inferred viz. That the Defendor requested them to have patience a while and it would appear how far the Army intended to concur but within few days after the Army declared themselves in manner as aforesaid Seeing these alledged words of the Defendor as they are indefinite and general so the most they could infer is That in a short time it would appear whether the Army would concur or not and what can from thence be infered as to any thing the Army did if they have outshot their duty as it was in regard of him with the speaking of these words a future contingent wherein the Defendor had no causualty so they must answer for

and his desire to have come and lived in Scotland till all differences in both Kingdoms had been setled an act of Parliament was made for abandoning his Majesty to the mercy of his inveterate enemies the said army of Sectaries It is answered that as he must continually acknowledge the late King and his present Majesties acts of favour honour and trust so must be still deny as he safly may in the presence of God who is the searcher of all hearts and of all men that he never intertained any dis-loyall thought or contrived any treasonable plot or machination against the sacred persons dignity or authority of his late soveraign or of his present most sacred Majesty and therefore with a clear conscience may answer this dittay 1. That the same is not special not clear but very obscure and general how and in what manner he was chief Ringleader of any factious partie 2. Who that factious partie were nor 3. By what deeds and how he swayed the state of affairs nor 4. These means by which and upon whom the procured his influence to prevail 5. The alledged offers made by his Majesty are not exprest And therefore the said articles are altogether general and inept 2. The act of Parliament which the defender is alledged to have procured to have been made is not produced no indicat by number or Rubrick nor does the Defender know any act of the tenour and title lybelled And the Defender in humidity conceives that it is not consistent with the act libelled on in the opposition of the Dittay discharging persons to impugn the authority of the Estates of Parliament to term the members thereof especially in making an act which being carried by plurality of voices as the deed on the whole and specially such an act as is mentioned in the Libel where there were none or very few of a contrary judgement A factious party 13. The cause of the first member of the said eight Article anent the pretended act of Parliament as is libelled for abandoning and leaving his Majestie to the disposal and mercy of his enemies the Sectarian Army does debond from the Acts of Parliament as clearly appears and can be subsumed on under none of the Acts of Parliament libelled For if the tenth Act of Parliament 1647. be understood and meaned as the Act libelled that being an Act of Parliament the Defender humbly alledges That an Act of an acknowledged lawful Parliament should be made a crime of accession whereunto a Member of Parliament shall be indicted especially for so high a crime as Treason is without ground of Law of practice and is hoped the honorable Parliament will no ways sustain it and therefore that he needs say no more now in confirmation hereof 14. Likewise all that is in that Act and substance thereof being the Estates of Parliament there declaring their concurrence for His Majesties going to Homeby-house or some other of his Houses in and about London and that expresly to satisfie the desire both of His Majestie himself and of His two Houses of Parliament in England And there to remain not under the power of Sectaries but with such attendance about him as both Houses should think fit to appoint with respect also had to the safety and preservation of his Royal Person And the Estates therein do also declare against all harm and prejudice violence or injury to be done to the same as indeed it was horrid to think that any on earth should have done or prejudice to His Majesties Posterity But thereafter it is clear from the fourth and seventh Acts of the Parliament 1648. that the Sectarian Army disobeyed and threatened the Houses of Parliament imprisoned and banished faithful Members and by a sudden surprizing violently seized upon the Person of the Kings Majestie carried Him from His House at Homeby against His own will and declared Resolutions of both Kingdoms and kept him under their guards till at length by their Power and Prevalency He was committed and kept close Prisoner at the Isle of Wight this being the true case out of the express words of the Acts before cited As to that Declaration Act. 10. Parl. 1647. The Defender alledges 1. The Act bears express That it was to satisfie His Majesties own desire 2. That it is homologat and approven by the Parliament 1648. in so far as by their fourth Act institulate Anext their Resolutions concerning the breaches of Covenant and Treaties betwixt the Kingdom of Scotland and England and demands for reparation thereof findes the violent seising on his Sacred Majesties Person and taking Him away from Homeby-house as appears by Act 7. by that Army against the resolutions of both Kingdoms a breach And amongst the Reparations they desire expresly that conform to the former desires of this Kingdom the Kings Majestie may come with Honour Freedom and Safety to some of his Houses in or near London that the Parliaments of both Kingdoms may make applications to him And in their seventh Act intituled A Declaration of the Parliament of Scotland to all His Majesties good Subjects of this Kingdom concerning their resolutions for Religion King and Kingdom c. After they declare That violent seizing on His Majesties Person and carrying Him away by that Army against the resolutions of both Kingdoms so be a breach And they declare they intend to send to the two Houses of the Parliament of England the Desires following which they call Necessary and just Desires for Religion His Majesties good and Peace of these Kingdoms whereof this is one That conform to the former desires of this Kingdom The Kings Majestie may come with Honor Freedom and Safety to some of His Houses in or near London and declares that thereafter they will endeavour it and Act 8. in their desires to both Houses Parliament in England the same desire is repeated Conform to the former desires of this Kingdom By all which it is clear That the seizing upon His Sacred Majesties Person was the violent deed of that wicked-Army done with a violent surprisal against the declared resolutions of both Kingdoms And that His Majesties coming to some of His Houses in or about London where both Kingdoms might make applications to Him conform to His Kingdoms desire which is that wherein the the Estates declares their concurrence with His Majestie and both Houses of Parliament in Englands desire in the said tenth Act is approven as a just and necessary desire for His Majestie and accordingly enacted among that Parliament 1648. their desires to the said Houses and declare it should be endeavoured if refused so highly is it approven by the said Parliament In respect whereof specially of the standing Acts of Parliaments 1648. the Defender humbly craves That albeit the Article was relievantly distinctly and clearly libelled and subsumed on some of the Acts of Parliament in the Proposition condescended on as he humbly conceives is not yet he ought to be assolized therefrom And for further clearing