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A Preacher being at a loss what to say of a party deceased, conclu••••d his Sermon with these words; There is one good quality in this man, viz. That he was born, and that God made him: And another, viz. That he is dead, and we must speak no••hing but good of the dead.
I may say of this Noble-man, that I have two reasons to speak well of him•• 1. That good King Charles honoured him 3 and 2. That his wicked Subjects beheaded him,—otherwise I must leave these Queries as I finde them.
Quaere 1. Why should Duke Hamilton post without leave into Scotland, when the Parliament was discontented, and the Duke of Buckingham murthered in England?
Qu. 2. Why should Ramsey the Dukes Mes∣senger to the King of Sweden, play the Embassa∣dour in Germany, and take place of all other per∣sons there?
Qu. 3. What design was that which Elphyston, Borthrick, Meldrum, Uchiltry, &c. discovered one to another?
Qu. 4. What did Ramsey with the Pedigree of Hamilton derived from Iames I. King of Scots in Foreign parts?
Qu. 5. Why private Instructions had Meldrum to Scottish Officers in the Swedish Army?
Qu. 6. What was Meldrum, Alexander Ha∣milton, and other his Dependants, so preferred in the Scots Army?
Qu. 7. Why were there such Fears and Jealou∣sies whispered in Germany of the English Govern∣ment?
Qu. 8. Why was not Ramsey able to give a po∣sitive Answer at the Tryal by combate? And why did the Marquess take him off before the Contro∣versie was decided?
Qu. 9. Why is Huntley put by, and Hamilton made high Comm••ssioner? Why is discontented
Balcanquel employed to pen Declarations? And why are the King's Papers, Letters, &c. taken out of his pocket, and betrayed to the Scots? And why did the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury (writing to the King) wish him not to trust his own pockets with the Letter?
Qu. 10. Why doth his Mother ride with pistols at her Saddle-bow, leading all her Kindred and Vassals for the Covenant?
Qu. 11. Why is that time spent in posting to and fro to patch up a base Pacification with the Re∣bels, that might have been employed in suppres∣sing them?
Q. 12. Why did the Bishops of Rosse and Bre∣••en, Sir Robert Spotswood, Sir Iohn Hay, the Earl of Sterling, ride post to England to intreat the King not to trust the Marquess?
Qu. 13. Why was there so much granted to the Covenanters in Scotland—yea and time given them to do their business?
Q. 14. Why did he forbear the Common-prayer at Dalkieth, and neglect to protest the Kings gracious Declaration; the justice and clemency whereof had without doubt allayed the commoti∣ons?
Q. 15. Why did he not set out the King's last Declaration before the Covenanters Protestation was our against it?
Qu. 16. Why was there nothing done with the Ships sent upon the coasts of Scotland?
Qu. 17. Why did he so caress his covenanting Mother, that the Scots could say; The son of so ge••d a Mother could do them no harm?
Qu. 18. Why had he a hand in most of the Mo∣nopolies and Projects of England?
Q. 19. Why did he refuse to contribute as o∣thers had done to the Scots Wars?
Q. 20. Why did he intercede for Lowndon's ••elease, notwithstanding the trait••rous Letter to the French King was his hand?
Qu. 21. How comes Montross to be flighted by the gracious King at first? And when he offered his service again, how came his Letters into the Covenanters hands at Newcastle?
Qu. 22. Why did he and Argyle raise such Fears and Jealou••ies in Scotland and England by withdrawing suddenly from the Court, under pre∣••ence forsooth of danger to their persons?
Qu. 23. Why could not the King hear of the Scots design to invade England, 1643. before Mon∣tross posted first to Oxford, and then to Glo••cester to tell him of it, though the Marquess was all the while in Scotland?
Qu. 24. And yet why was that noble person mi∣strusted till the Kings interest was lost in that Country?
Qu. 25. Why was he and his brother imprison∣ed at Oxford? And why did the King say, Nay, if Hamilton leads them, there is no good to be done for me?
Qu. 26. Why did the King say, That he must dispose of the Master of the Horse place to the Earl of N. That my Lord Cottington was the fittest man for the Treasury, and that Sir Edward Hyde was the onely man he could trust with the Secretaries affairs? Being loth that D. H. should return to an oppo••tu••ity of recozening them: Questions these, that shew, After-ages can scan great mens lives with the same liberty that they live them.