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.
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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.
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Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
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London :: Printed by J. Grover for R. Royston ...,
1677.
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Hamilton, James Hamilton, -- Duke of, 1606-1649.
Hamilton, William Hamilton, -- Duke of, 1616-1651.
Scotland -- History -- 17th century.
Scotland -- Church history -- 17th century.
Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30389.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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Answer.
To the first branch of the second Article the Defendant says,* 1.1 he appeals to His Majesty how false it is, who knows well that the Com∣motions of Scotland were begun a year before he was imployed in Sco∣tish Affairs,* 1.2 which had been before that trusted to other Persons of Honour in that Kingdom; and that the Covenant was generally taken, the Courts of Justice removed from Edinburgh, the Tables formed, Protestations used against His Majesties Proclamations before he was engaged. His Majesty also knows well, that he had never advised these Innovations which gave the rise to these Commotions, nor engaged in the Affairs of that Kingdom but upon His Majesties particular Command, without which he had designed to avoid all meddling in them;* 1.3 so that nothing can be more notoriously false than that part of this Article is, That the Defendant did exasperate His Majesty against that Kingdom, or advised Him to conquer them before they fell from their Obedienee. It is true, after His Majesty had thought fit to imploy the Defendant in those Af∣fairs, he did give him clear advertisements of the state of Affairs in that Kingdom, not sparing his nearest Friends, as His Majesty well knows; but gave no advice, but what he thought agreed both with the Duty of a good Subject and Patriot. He never advised His Majesty to conquer or subdue that Kingdom, or to govern it as a Province; for he takes the suppressing of a Party in Arms against the King, or who were reject∣ing his Authority, to be very different from conquering the Kingdom: and therefore as he simply denies the first branch of this Article, so he refers the clearing of his Innocency in this to His Majesty, (who cannot but know best what he advised him) and to the Letters he wrote to His Majesty if they be yet remaining.
The next branch of the Article is of a piece with the former as to falshood. He hath often seen eminent Proofs both of His Majesties Cou∣rage and Clemency, and never entertained a dishonourable thought of His Person; and he is able by many Compurgators to prove, that his Discourses of His Sacred Person have been always such as became a dutiful Subject, and an infinitely obliged Servant. It is not to be ima∣gined he could have used such expressions before Witnesses, and if any single Persons say they heard them from him, he asserts they are Lyars, and dare not say so if he have a sword in his hand.