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A66797	An appendix to The history of independency being a brief description of some few of Argyle's proceedings, before and since he joyned in confederacy with the independent junto in England : with a parallel betwixt him and Cromwell, and a caveat to all his seduced adherents.; History of independency. Appendix	Walker, Clement, 1595-1651.; Walker, Clement, 1595-1651. Relations and observations, historical and politick, upon the Parliament.	1661 (1661)	Wing W321; ESTC R205122	14,075	26

AN APPENDIX TO The History of Independency BEING A brief description of some few of ARGYLE'S proceedings before and since he joyned in Confederacy with the Independent Junto in ENGLAND With a Parallel betwixt him and Cromwell AND A Caveat to all his seduced Adherents CICERO Totius injustitiae nulla capitalior est quam eorum qui cum maximè fallunt id tamen agunt ut viri boni esse videantur LONDON Printed for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivie-lane 1661. AN APPENDIX TO The History of Independency BEING A brief description of some few of Argyle's proceedings before and since he joyned in confederacy with the Independent Junto in ENGLAND With a Parallel betwixt him and Cromwell AND A Caveat to all his seduced Adherents THe Covenant being at the first taking held to be the true Touchstone whereby the Religious Royal Subjects were discerned from all those who were unwilling to submit to the yoke of Christ in matters of Religion or to the just and lawfull Government of our dread Soveraign his Vicegerent now a subtil generation of men or rather Vipers in both Kingdomes who did take the Covenant and did magnifie it so long as it could serve them for a Ladder to mount to their intended Greatness being now at the top have kick'd away the Ladder and standing as it were on the pinacle look with disdain on all their old friends who out of the integrity of their hearts did for the good of Religion and His Majesties honour joyn in that solemn engagement it being far from their thoughts that their modest and humble desires for the Reformation of some abuses both in Church and State all which His Majesty in the respective Kingdoms did or was willing to cure should have struck so deep as to endeavour the overthrow of all lawfull Governments Civil and Ecclesiastical bringing instead of a promised Reformation in Religion a cursed Toleration of the most damnable Sects Errors and Heresies that ever Hell did send forth and for the Civil State instead of a well-setled Monarchy a most confused tyrannical Anarchy quite contrary to the words and meaning of the Covenant and the honest intentions of all true-hearted Religious and loyal Subjects in the three Kingdoms who did take that solemn Covenant with a purpose to keep it and of very many thousands who did never take the Covenant yet very good Protestants and loyal Subjects being more affrighted with the compulsory way of enforcing it on all then unsatisfied in the matter being introduced in a legal way none of these deserving the name of Malignants or to be so cruelly dealt with either for their persons or Estates as hath been too too common in both Kingdoms but the Covenant it self doth best decypher who are Incendiaries Malignants and evil Instruments viz. those who hinder the reformation of Religion who divide the King from His People or one Kingdom from another or make any Faction or Parties amongst the people contrary to the League and Covenant Yet by our new tenets none must be called Malignants but those that have loyal hearts towards their Soveraign though otherwise never so Religious and all of them with Master Martin would gladly make the Covenant an old Almanack that they might be rid of that tie of preserving His Majesties Person and Authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms that the world may bear witness with their consciences of their loyalties and that they have no thoughts or intentions to diminish His Majesties just Power and Greatnesse As the History of Independency hath discovered the practices of the Independent Junto so this Appendix will discover their chief Confederate in Scotland namely the Marquess of Argyle whose dealing with his Kindred Friends and Confederates mentioned in the following discourse will be a warning to all religious Protestants how they trust such an Apostate Covenanter whose ambition and avarice hath ruined the KING Church and State or three flourishing Kingdoms Although it may seem a paradox to many I dare boldly aver that Argile and his Faction in Scotlaud have been and are the chief Malignants Incendiaries and evil Instruments who have been the Ruiners of these three flourishing Kingdoms and the Authors of the blood shed in all of them as I hope by this following Discourse will be made appear to every impartial and unprejudicate Reader who hath or may have the certain knowledge of every particular when time shall serve This Argile's Father after the marriage of his English Lady having turned Roman Catholique and this his only Son by his first Lady being carefully educated by the Earl of Morton by whose means he obtained the possession of his Fathers whole Estate for a smal Pension and by his Majesties special favour for out-quitting his pretended Title of Justice Generall of the Kingdom of Scotland did obtain an Heritable Justiciary of Argile Lorn Kintyre and many of the Western Isles which power he did execute with that cruelty that he disgusted all the Islanders and Highlands of Scotland who were never so tyrannized over by any of their Kings till his Fathers death still fearing his return he kept himself somewhat moderate for the engaging for the Covenant or keeping company sometimes with those that were against it but his Father being dead finding himself idolized by those who had taken the managing of all affairs into their hands and that by his power and policy he could prevail with them in any thing to indear himself the more to that party he did seem exceeding zealous for the Covenant and pretending great fears from Ireland which the then Lord Deputy Strafford his Greatnesse and known aversenesse from the Covenant did make the more easily to be believed whereas the true cause of his fears was for the loss of Kintyre whereof he cosened his Brother long before his death Isla and divers considerable Isles which were and ought to be the possessions of the Macdonalds and his indiscreet provoking of Strafford who in revenge of him did use very hardly all the Scots in Ireland who would not renounce the National Covenant of Scotland he dis-arming them did Arm and Train many Irish who after his Head was off shed so much bloud in Ireland and upon pretence of diverse of the Macdonalds Argile's own Tenants for the time were accessary to the Plot fearing his Judiciary power where he was both Judge and Party they were inforced to flie to Ireland till their peace should be made to prevent which he sent their Wives and Children after them took possession of all their moveables and placed other Tenants in their Room but being grieved that Culkettough and his Sons who had goodly Possessions were not gone with the rest he caused cite them before the Council as accessary to an Invasion to be made by Antrim and some of their friends which citation as legal men and not guilty in the least they did obey and after some dayes stay in

his Majesty which God knows he was not able at that time to hinder his intentions being still for Peace and such a Peace as might consist with the safety of Religion and His Majesties honour whereof he was very hopeful being confident of His Majesties propensnesse to Peace and the interest he had in His Majesties favour but the watchfull malice of his enemies and the enemies of Peace did cunningly prevent his going about so good a work making him Prisoner without His Majesties knowledge hindring by all means a meeting betwixt them knowing that his Majesties justice and the Dukes innocency would quickly make their calumnies to vanish what a sad imprisonment did he indure much heightned by the then impossibility of clearing his innocency to his Soveraign the losse of whose favour would be more bitter then a thousand deaths and his real intentions for the good of his Country for whose cause he hazarded and suffered so much misery and imprisonment Yet this noble Dukes implacable and malitious enemies do further asperse him as a man of no Religion a meer Polititian and one that seeketh the ruine of his Soveraign by the aspiring to the Crown of Scotland It would trouble the best Polititian and the most Religious upon earth in these distracting and distracted times to distinguish rightly betwixt the duty we owe to Religion and the duty we owe to our Prince supposing them enemies but the falsity of this supposition which hath misled many thousands and been the ground of all our miseries being evident to the Duke who had the honour to be educated and intimate with his Majesty from his youth knowing his Majesty to be a lover and honourer of the true Protestant Religion a lover of justice and mercy and a practiser of all Christian and moral virtues and with a most munificent hand a royal Benefactor to himself and his Family It may be asked if it had been either piety or policy in the Duke to have kick'd off so loving and so liberal a Lord and Master although he had not been his Soveraign or to have ingaged against his Country with any Party that for their own ends more then the good of their Soveraigns were disturbers of all moderate Counsels so long as he had any hopes of Peace especially seeing so many sad presidents in both Kingdoms where many powerfull Subjects lovers of the true Protestant Religion not joyning prudence with their loyalty and innocence have crush'd them under the Load nothing easeth his Majesties burthen but rather increaseth the same all their wealth and power being now made instrumental to enslave both KING and Kingdoms the Duke's prudence having vindicated him from the ruine intended against him by his enemies and reserved him through Gods blessing to vindicate his Loyalty by re-enthroning his Majesty so soon as God hath enabled him with any power to do it As for his Religion it is known he is neither Popishly affected nor a Sectary but who hath ever been a professor of the true Protestant Religion a loler and Patron of all Godly men and honest Ministers even in the time of Episcopacy when few or none but himself durst appear for them if his judgement had not been overswayed in some Star-Chamber sentences before he had that wisdom and experience which he now hath and long before he did take the Covenant if he had been ambitious of popular applause he had been more renown'd for his Religion then for his Princes royall bounty but wishing rather to be religious then seem so his favours were given in secret to many godly Ministers and his Majesties honour and good chiefly aimed at in the bestowing of them and that you may take a short view of his proceedings as you have done of Argile's by comparing them you will find who doth deserve the Title of the most Religious Duke Hamilton suffered his worthy Mother to enjoy besides her own Joynture all his Estate whereby indeed he lost nothing she improving it much to his advantage hath helpt his Brother to a great estate with Titles and Places of Honour and profit suitable to his birth and worth his Sisters and now some of his Neices matched in the Noblest and best Families of the Kingdom The Duke had no quarrel with any save Montrosse the ground you heard for crossing his first intention for the Invasion of Scotland to prevent the misery and bloudshed that he did foresee was like to follow The Duke had no spoyls nor gifts given him since ever he signed the Covenant save the Title of DUKE but hath been spoyled both himself and friends by those that followed Montrosse The Duke stands firm to his Covenant for the established religion loyal to his Prince for Monarchical Government faithfull to his Country against all forein Invasion The Duke acts nothing but according to the Laws established according to the Covenant and the the duty of every good Subject Duke Hamilton hath been of that temper to mediate for a wel-grounded Peace his Majesties deliverance and the Personal Treaty being the only probable ways for setling the three Kingdoms and setling the power where it ought to be for the Honour and safety both of King and Subjects The Duke hath used and is using all endeavours to Vindicate the oppressed Subjects in both Kingdoms never changing Interests being always faithfull to all those to whom he did profess love and friendship 1. Whereas Argile did in his Fathers life time b●ing him to a Pension outed his Brother of his Estate Kintyre and ruined his Sisters by cheating them of their portions and so enforcing them to go to Cloysters 2. Argile for private quarrels betwixt him and Montrosse Culkettough and the Athol men the Earl of Airely and other hath drawn much misery and bloudshed upon the Kingdom whom he enforced to espouse his quarrels 3. Argile had enrich'd his Country with the spoyls of the Kingdom and himself with the great treasure bestowed on him both by Scotland and England which is well secured without the reach of an Impeachment 4. Argile hath contrary to his Covenant Duty and Allegiance conspired to extirpate Monarchical Government to introduce foreinforces of Sectaries to the utter overthrow of the established Religion 5. Argile hath overthrown all Laws tyrannizing over the Lives Liberties and Estates of the Subjects 6. Argile opposeth all ways of the Peace setlement of the three Kingdoms His Majesties deliverance and being brought to a Personal Treaty lest the power should be taken out of his and his Confederates hands whereby they oppress and ruine both King and Subject 7. Lastly Argile hath betrayed his old friends the Presbyterian party in both Kingdoms especially the Presbyterians in the Parliament of England and City of London not only suffering them to be made a prey to their enemies but ostructing their relief Let the impartial Reader now judge which of the two is most religious As this opposition betwixt Duke Hamilton and Argile makes them both to

appear what they are so this following Parallel betwixt the Argathelian Faction and the Independent Junto will serve for an eye-salve to cure the eye-sight of both Kingdoms and let them see clearly how near they are to the brink of an intolerable and perpetual slavery Argile and his Faction stiled by the Independents the Godly party in Scotland the rest all Malignants The like in England by the Army of Sectaries and Independent Junto above twenty millions shared amongst them whereof the Kingdom can never get accompt all places of Honour and Trust of England still in the hands of those that are engaged for and with the Army of Sectaries Cromwell and the army for the King in their first ingagements but having inslaved the City inforced the Parliament to the dethroning Votes and as not formerly acquainted therewith gave thanks for them and sent their Emissaries to some seduced Counties and Corporations to do the like Cromwell contributes a Passe to His Guides slacking the guards as he did the second time when he frighted him with a Plot from Hampton-Court to the Isle of Wight where he remains close Prisoner The blood shed in England under colour of justice in cold blood calls aloud for vengeance and the perfidious breaches of the Army of their promises to King Parliament and Country is too too evident What the insolent Army did comming with Bayes in their hats when they inslaved the Parliament and riding in triumph through the City by whose bounty they were made and maintained an Army will to their perpetual infamy be registred to all posterity The Army and some others by their instigation petition that the Kingdome may be setled without the King and that Army continued to enslave the Kingdom especially the Presbyterian party their Army being for Toleration Cromwell was ready to comply but got some other work for the time and if God prevent it not will now speedily be able to obey Argile's desires but if that fail Argile shall have money and send David Lesley to levy Forces abroad to work Argile's ends 1. The Army of Sectaries in England however formerly Preached and wrote against now called by Argile's faction the hope of their safety 2. The heavy Taxes imposed and continued upon Scotland by Argile and his Faction and all the benefit thereof and most part of the monies got from England shared amongst them and no satisfactory accompt given to the Kingdom thereof 3. All places of Honour and trust usurped by Argathelians till of late and the Army modelled to maintain their Interest 4. Argile formerly yet but seemingly for Monarchy now really against it and all that desire to assert it 5. That Faction first betrays the King to come to the Scots Army promising protection and then most perfidiously delivered Him up to the mercy of His most cruel Enemies 6. Argile and his Faction have been most cruel to those they call their Enemies especially in cold bloud and perfidious to their friends deserting and betraying them 7. Argile when he had done mischief must have both thanks and reward and like a Conquerour march through the Kingdom in triumph a thing never granted amongst the noble Romans to triumph for a Victory in a Civil War 8. Argile's Faction petitions That the Army intended for His Majesties inlargement and the relief of our Presbyterian Brethren shall not come in 9. Argile and his Faction desires but five thousand Horse to assist them to subdue Scotland which must be turned a Province to the Kingdom of the Saints Let this serve for a Caveat to the mis-led and deluded Protestants of the three Kingdoms not to trust the fair promises or pretences of these seeming Saints who have made the solemn League and Covenaat intended for preservation of Religion His Majesties Honour and the just Liberties of the Subject to be the ruine of Religion the dishonour so far as in them lieth of His Majesty and the most absolute enslaving of all free Subjects not to Kings or Princes to Great men or Good men but to the very scum and off-scouring of both Kingdoms it being no small grief to all that truly feared God that so many of the reputed honest Presbyterian party should out of base fear or other by-respects comply so long with these State-Juglers the Clergy being most active hastning thereby their own and the Kingdoms misery for they may be well assured if these Saints prevail they must as some of them have done already turn their Coats once more and become the Hirelings and tongue-tied Tenants at will to their Brethren of the Independency or be kicked out of their fat Benefices and possibly out of the Kingdom to prevent new Insurrections against them which they are cunning to procure having the power in their hand to repress all that dare appear against them may be ruined others by their example terrified and their Saints may enjoy the fatness of England but I would ask these violent Clergy-men of the Presbyterian Party that are unwilling His Majesty should be brought speedily to a Personal Treaty what their Assemblies of Divines have been doing for if that Confession of Faith set out in England approved of in Scotland be agreeable to the truth of Gods word as I know nothing to the contrary why should the chief Magistrate our dread Soveraign be any longer debar'd of his just dues is He worse then Infidel that you will assist those that deny His sacred Majesty that which they allow to Infidel Magistrates blush for shame and repent in time lest as they change their Votes every day according as the tide of their power ebbs and flows so they may soon force you to repeal that Article concerning the chief Magistrate or like the gloss of Orleans put an exposition upon it which destroyeth the text God send us peace and truth and preserve His sacred Majesty and his Posterity and confound the wicked counsels of all such as are enemies to Peace Truth and Monarchy Si quid novistirectius istis Candidus imperti Si non his utere mecum THE END

that sufficient Surety should be given that the Will of the Dead should be truly performed by payment of their respective portions when they were Married and sufficient maintenance until they were Married the Elder whose Portion was Five thousand pound sterlin is presently sent for and one thousand pound or thereby given to a Gentleman for his second Wife the rest there being a clause that if any of them should enter into Nunneries they should only have 300 l. sterlin for all being kept so scarce of their due maintenance the Gentleman who was surety having advanced of his own above 1000 l. whereof he is not as yet repaid were seduced to go to Monasteries all save one who is now ready to enter through his neglect so this 12000 l. of his Sisters Portions with the ruine of their Souls to boot is a part of Argile's wel-made purchase The great care taken by the Earl of Morton for Argile's education and preservation both of his life from the crafty designs of a Step-mother and recovery of his almost ruined Estate was so well requited that notwithstanding he hath the Earl of Morton's Daughter in his bed in open Parliament he spake what became him not both of that noble Lords Person and Estate only as he pretended out of his zeal to the welfare of the Kingdom whereas the truth is it was meerly out of his ambition to have that Honourable place conferred upon himself which was intended by his Majesty upon that noble Lord but finding His Majesty not inclinable that way the next assault was for one of his own name a man truly well deserving for to say better deserving than himself is no great praise and if his two much favouring of him do not stain his reputation worthy to be beloved Thus having shortly viewed Argile's religious carriage towards his Vassals and Tenants Parents Friends and Allyes Brother and Sisters Neighbours and fellow-Patriots let us take a short view of his Loyal carriage towards his Soveraign and his due observation of the Solemn League and Covenant with his covenanted Brethren of England and then let the impartial reader judge whether he be not such as is affirmed in the proposition the greatest incendiary in the three Kingdoms It cannot be denied but His Majesty as is mentioned before did confer many great and Princely favours upon him at the Earl of Morton's desire when he was Lord of Lorn such whereof as required confirmation were approved and ratified in Parliament His Majesty being present anno 1641. with the addition of the honour and title of Marquesse and a full Pension well paid ever since whoever want together with not only an Act of oblivion but approbation of all his tyrannical proceedings against the Athol men the Earl of Aireley and others though not particularly mentioned yet as done in obedience of Orders from the Committee of estates obtained by his own procurement therefore to be no further questioned The first endeavour in requital of these and many other Royal favours was the entring in conspiracy with certain his Confederates whom I forbear to name to transform the Kingdom of Scotland into a free State like the Estates of Holland and because some truly noble Lords did abhor such a disloyal motion after so many Acts of favour witnessing to all Posterity his Royal bounty both to Church and State whereof these chief Conspirators tasted not a little he did at that time forbear not so much to prosecute his design as to conceal their Counsel from all these that had thoughts of Loyalty though most faithfull to the true Religion and their Countrey according to the Covenant The Irish Rebellion breaking out fearing his own stake if Antrim should grow strong he procured one Regiment for himself another for his Cozen Lawers a third with the place of L. General for that most ungrate Gentleman the Earl of Lothian who was married to his neece and one of his Confidents who was once heard say That the 3 Kingdoms would never have peace so long as King CHARLES his head was on his shoulders And yet it is only King CHARLES his favour that hath made him and Father exceed the estate of Gentlemen with many other places to divers of their friends intending a ful Conquest of Ireland at least to banish Antrim and the Mackdonalds from thence as he and his Predecessors had done many of them out of Scotland taking a gift from the Parliament of England of some of the Earl of Anerims Lands in Ireland especially the Island of Rachera to the which one of the forementioned Regiments was sent and kept there a long time so that all the three Kingdomes must be at the charge to maintain Armies and Garrisons for inlarging the Dominions of Argile His next project having begun his Confederacy in England by shewing them the wayes to get money by Taxes and Excise 10. and 20. part bringing in of Plate voluntary Contributious borrowing on the Publique Faith tyrannizing over the Persons and Estates of all that durst be so bold as speak against the illegal Orders and all this Money in both Kingdoms to be imployed against His Majestie whom their renewed Covenant did oblige them to defend having good opportunity to traffique betwixt under the pretence of Commissioners for the Kingdom of Scotland the rest for the most part either his Creatures or Confidents so that he ruled all the Council at home and abroad sending Lothian to France to have them brought in a Confederacy abusing his Majesty by procuring His Commission for Treating concerning the keeping and preservation of that ancient League betwixt France and Scotland begun in Charles the great 's time with Achaius King of Scotland but the effect of the Treaty was to bring money to Argile who at that time when the Kingdom stood in much need of men sold five thousand to the French to be under his Brother from whom he had as formerly the Estate so now the title of Kintire and he must be Earl of Irwin all the Interest be had there being by his quondum Tutor now Slave Barcley his being sometime Provost thereof and the Chancellors Brother Lundie sur France and Irwin had bad peny worths although Argile made a good market for the men like money trusted in a Juglers hand were gone with a puff thus you see how much both KING and Kingdome were obliged to him in this particular But to come to the main point of the Conspiracy finding Scotland although he had all the power of the Persons and Estates in his hand not pliable as yet to cast off Monarchy and imbrace Aristocracy of whom as affairs stood none could be the chief Ruler but himself he did imploy the Zealots of the Clergy to asperse those who did oppose him especially some most faithfull and religious Noble men as if they were fallen from their first love turn enemies to the cause of Christ had with Demas imbraced ●is present world and that Argile was the only