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 and IMPART! A L 
 
 RELATION 
 
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 PERS,EeUT ED FRrESRYtE RIANS 
 
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 Them rifing in Arms, and at Bothwell- 
 
 ’•IVh: «e : .r. the lUaUer, for hu Satisfi^p^' hath the true 
 Actoant, 
 
 ). Of the Cmfe and Occ3finn of 
 - ihat A»nvy’s riling in Arms, 
 ti. Of jlaeir publiihing'of their 
 
 Tcftimony at fiuthtrgtw&r*.^ 
 
 HI. Of the Rencounter ' at-' 
 
 Drum^fog. , - 
 
 IV. Of the moil nf.ttcrtai things 
 
 that happened in jh&t Arn:y j v Hce LcErc' fhetr. -Enemies* 
 
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 written by Perfons of prtf->$tftit<,£ri!y, v-ho v-erc OfltCer.s in 
 the Amy, end Members or the Coji.JAl of'War: itvli :*ify 
 ? T r. A .birf Hemi’tc:, Mr. Daisftdihd'chjkk Jstry' 
 
 J falter Smith, and f veral others. \ . 
 
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 *The true and impartial REL 10 N of the 
 perfecuted Presbyterians in Scotland, there 
 appearance in */Lrms, and defeat at Bothwell- 
 Bridge, June 2 2d, 1679. 
 
 T HEappearence of theLord’speoplein arms, 
 and their defeat at Bothwell Bridge, June 
 22d, 1679. is a thing lo well known; and that 
 which hath been fo much fpoken oifthefe feven- 
 ty two years by gone, that it were altogether un- 
 neceffary for me, to write any thing concerning 
 the (ante; (at fuch a diilance of time) if it were 
 not, that no true relation thereof, hath ever been 
 publifhed to the world, (fo far as I know.) And 
 therefore very few, to this day, arc truly infor¬ 
 med, concerning the true matters of fa£t, which 
 fell out in that army,and proved their overthrow 
 in the end. I (hall therefore,in this relation give 
 fuch a true reprefentation of the truth, as will, in 
 a great meafure,remove the reproach, from fuch, 
 as hitherto have born the blame ol that arm v’s 
 fall and ruin: and will make it evident to all 
 fuch, as are not filled with prejudice at the 
 truth it felf, who were the chief inftruments of 
 that army’s fall and ruin. The method that I 
 propofe in doing of this, is to give a true Ac¬ 
 count, 
 
 1. Of the cau fe and. occafion of that array’s ri- 
 fing in arms. 2. Of their pablifliing of their te- 
 flimony at Rutherglen. 3. Of the rencounter 
 at ‘Dntmclog , Of the mod material things, 
 
 A 2 that 
 
that happnetl in that army, and their counfel of 
 war, from the rencounter at Drumcjog, to their 
 defeat" at Bothwell Bridge, y. Of the chief cau* 
 fes of the Lord’s anger againlt that army, which 
 provoked him to give them over to the fierce 
 rage of their enemies, to fill and flee before them. 
 
 I. The only caufe and occafion of that army’s 
 rifiiig was, the unparalcled fevereties of the ene¬ 
 mies, in adding to their former cruelties, the rai¬ 
 ling of newtroops ofhorfe,and companies of foot, 
 placing of garrifons of foldiers at Lanark, jiir, 
 'Dumfries, Kircubright , and Glajgow ; and giv¬ 
 ing thefe wicked foldiers feveie orders and com- 
 millions, to fearcli the country for field-meetings, 
 fir preaching of the gofpel, and to affault and 
 purihe thefe meetings with the fword, and to kill 
 all that offered to refill. In profecuting of thefe 
 orders, a party of foldiers did afiaull a field-meet¬ 
 ing, and fired their carabines among the People, 
 while they were at the divine worfhip of God, 
 whereby they killed and wounded fomc of them. 
 This put the people to confider what to do undei 
 fuch feverities: fo, after prayer and confultation, 
 they refolved to continue in their duty, and 
 to defend themlclves and the gofpel, (which was 
 their greateft privilege) upon all hazards. And 
 in order thereto, the meetings which lay betwixt 
 Lanark and Air, contracted themfelves into one 
 •meeting, that thereby they might be in better 
 capacity, to alhfl and encourage one another, 
 in keeping up a tellimony for the truth and 
 caufe of God, againft all defections: which re- 
 
 folution 
 
folution was followed,and keeped up, fome time 
 at one place, and fome time at another. And 
 feveral times when the wicked loldiers attempt¬ 
 ed to approach to their meeting, to profecute 
 their hellilh orders, when they perceived that 
 the people were ready to defend themfelves, 
 they did withdraw, without giving any further 
 difturbance. And fometimes, when they ven¬ 
 tured to fire their carabines among the people, 
 they were repulled, and fome of them taken and 
 difarmed, and detained till fermon was over, and 
 then let go. And notwithftandingofthe frequent 
 aflaiilts, that they met with from the enemy, 
 this contracted meeting increafed, and was due- 
 ly keeped up, for the fpccc of twenty fubbaths 
 together. In wh ch time they perceived, by 
 the cruelties of their enemies, that no lefs than 
 their deftruflion, and the utter ruin of the work 
 of God was defigned: for the preventing of 
 which, they judged it their duty, in this their 
 prefent circumflance, both to let certain time, 
 apart for faffing, prayer, and confutation; and 
 alfo to take arms to their meetings, for defence 
 of themfelves and the gofpel; in all which, they 
 were much countenanced of the Lord, and en¬ 
 couraged not to defert his caufe but continue 
 at their dut}^. As to their teftimony at Rather - 
 glen,< the account of it is this, 
 
 II. Upon the 25 th of May', being the fab- 
 bath, Mr. Thomas 'Douglas preached upon 
 a moor in Evandale. To this meeting from Fife 
 came the famous and valiant champion David 
 
 HackjloK 
 
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Hackflon,cfiRathillet\ John Balfour, of Kinloch\ 
 JVilliain, Dingtuall, and fome other valiant men. 
 Several who were at the preaching quartered 
 near that place all night. Next day, May 2 6th, 
 Mr. Robert Hamilton ,(afterwards Sir Robert Ha¬ 
 milton , of Preflon ) David Hackflon, of Rat billet, 
 and John Balfour , of Ktnloch , went to Mr. 'Do¬ 
 nald Cargill, to confult and advife with him con¬ 
 cerning the publifhing of a teftimony againft the 
 mod principal defections of the time. In this 
 they ioon agreed; and confidering that ever fince 
 the year 1661, the blafphemous enemies of God, 
 who had ufurped his prerogative, had inftituted 
 the 2^9 th of May to be kept as a holy anniverfary 
 day, for the birth and reftoration of that bloody 
 perjur’d tyrant, Charles II. It was judged nc- 
 ceffary, in deteftation of the idolatrous abufe of 
 that day, that they fhould publifh their teftimo- 
 n.y againft this, and the other finful a<fts there- 
 in mentioned, upQn that day. This being agreed 
 •upon;another meeting wasappointeduponThurf- 
 day. May 29th: and betwixt and that Mr. Doit- 
 fas, Mr. Hamilton , and Rathillet drew up the 
 teftimony. So May 29th, they met, and after 
 a fermon preach’d by Mr. Douglas, and confer¬ 
 ring upon, and agreeing unto the teftimony,they 
 difmifTed the foot, Mr. Hamilton with 50 horfe- 
 men. And Mr. Douglas , went to the market 
 crofs of Rutherqlen, (which is a royal burgh, two 
 miles from Glafgow ,) and there, after linging 
 part of a pfalm, and prayer, by Air. Douglas ; 
 and one fpeech made by Mr. Douglas, and ano- 
 v ' • ther 
 
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 therby Mr. Hamilton, they read their tcdimony 
 againd all that had been done publickly to the 
 intered ofChrid, from thebeginningof the work 
 of reformation: particularly, the afts recejfo- 
 ry, which overturned the whole work of refor¬ 
 mation; the aft for ereftin^ of abjured prelacy, 
 the declaration, which condemned and abjured 
 the covenants; the aft, and declaration at Glaf- 
 gow, for calling out the faithful miniders, who 
 would not comply with prelacy; the prefumptu- 
 ous aft, for appointing May 29th for a holy anni- 
 c cerfary day; the explanatory aft, 1669, and fa- 
 criityous fupremacy enafted thereby; and, the 
 aft of counfel, their warrands and inflruftion for 
 indulgences. And as the enemy had mod per¬ 
 fidiously and blafphemoufly burnt our holy Co¬ 
 venants, in feveral cities of thele covenanted 
 nations. So their they did mod: judly burn the 
 above mentioned wicked ads; and did extinguifh 
 the bone-fires, which was a part of the unholy 
 foie inn ity of the enemies anniverfary day. And 
 having afixed a copy oftheir tedimonyupon the 
 market crofs; by prayer, and finging another part 
 of a pfalm, they concluded what they had done; 
 and then went out of the town, with the Lord’s 
 countenance and approbation,in that which they 
 had done. 
 
 III. As to the rencounter at ‘Drumclog, the 
 true account of it is this. June ill, being the 
 labbath. the perfecuted people of God met at 
 Glefterlazv, in the paridi 0 ifcoudon, for the pub- 
 lick worfhip of God, h ither late the night be¬ 
 fore, 
 
fore, or verv early this fame morning; bloody 
 Graham of Cldverhoufe came from the new gar- 
 rifon at Glafrow, with three troop of horfe and 
 dragoons, in great fury, vowing and (wearing, 
 that whatever number were of them (meaning 
 the honed people) he fhould be out thro’ them; ' 
 and according to his defign, gave for his word, 
 no quarters : and by the way, as he was plunde¬ 
 ring and fpoiling houfes, he took out of their 
 beds,Mr. 'JohnKing, and,! 7 honed; country-men, 1 
 whom he bound feverely, two and two together, 
 and drove them before him like beads, and fo , 
 marched towards Loudon-hill. Immediately after 
 divine wordlip was begun, by Mr. c Thorr\as ‘Dou¬ 
 glas ; the meeting was allarmed with the news of 
 Claver.koufe , his coming from Strathaven to fur- 
 prize them; and that he had taken Mr. King, 
 and others v>f their friends prifoners; whereup¬ 
 on, after a diort confultation, they refolvcd; 
 that for the relief of the prifoners, their own de¬ 
 fence, and the defence of the gofpel, they would r 
 put their life in venture, and, thro’ the Lord’s 
 allidance, go and meet that cruel raging enemy; 
 and, to the uttermod of their power, oppofe his 
 hellifh fury; and then drawing out all the men, 
 who had any arms, and were willing to fight fyr 
 the Lord’s caufc, from the red of the meeting; 
 who were 50 horfemen, ill provided in arms, 
 
 50 foot-men with guns, and 150 with halberts 
 and forks. Mr. Hamilton was called to the chief 
 command, and uncler him Havid Hackflon, of 
 Rathillet ; Henry Hail, of Haughhead; John 
 
 Balfour, 
 
Balfour , of ILinloch; Robert Fleemlng , JFilUq.m 
 Cleland, John Loudon, John Brown-. Mr. fin* 
 milton gave out the word,that no quarters fhouUl 
 be given to the enemy: and.then, with courage 
 and zeal, they marched forward, till they met 
 with Claverhoufe, and his bloody company, near. 
 Driimclog , in the pari'fh of Lvov.dale, about a 
 mile call from Loudon-hill. The enemy fired 
 firft on them, which they bravely withdood, 
 and fired back on them with much gallantry; 
 and after a iliort, but very warm engagement 
 with the enemy, while the enemy were drawing 
 near to them (a flank being betwixt them) John 
 Balfour, with fome horfe, and dFilliam Cleland , 
 with fome foot, and after them the red, mod 
 refolutely brake thro’ that paffage, with courage 
 and valour, upon the enemy; and, by the good 
 hand of God upon them, they did indantly de¬ 
 feat, and put Claverhoufe, and his bloody crew 
 to flight. They killed about thirty fix or forty 
 of them, wounded others, fhot Claverhoufe 1 s 
 horfe under him, and he narrowly efcapcd,' 
 They relieved Mr. King, and the red of the 
 prifoners, whom Claverhoufe had commanded 
 the guard to {hoot if he lod: but they were all 
 Jo hoty handled at this time, that the guard 
 got another thing to mind, than to put this 
 part of their orders in execution. They pur- 
 hied the enemy about two miles, who, ,in great 
 terror, lied back to Glafow. Mr. Hamilton 
 di (covered a great deal of bravery and valour, 
 Inch in the condidl with ajid P.urfuit of the ene- 
 
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 my: but when he and Tome others were purfuing 
 the enemy, others flew too greedily upon the e- 
 nemies fpoil, fmallasit was, inftead of purfuing 
 the victory: and fome without Mr. Hamilton's 
 knowledge, and directly contrary to his exprefs 
 command, gave five of thefe bloody enemies 
 quarters, and then let them go: this greatly grie¬ 
 ved Mr. Hamilton, when he faw fome of Babel's 
 Brates fpared, after that the Lord had delivered 
 them to their hands, that they might dafli them 
 againlt the ftones, Pfal. 137. 9. In his own. 
 account of this, he reckons the fparing of thefe 
 enemies, and letting them go, to be among their 
 firft fteppingafide; for which he feared that the 
 Lord would not honour them to do much more 
 for him; and fays, that he was neither for taking 
 favours from, nor giving favours to the Lord’s 
 enemies. 
 
 In this rencounter there was killed only 
 one man, John Morton in Broomhill in Nezv- 
 fuills a Loudon man, and five deadly wound¬ 
 ed, who dyed of their wounds, viz. Thomas 
 tFeir, in CumbcrheH; TVillram T)ingzvall, a 
 Fife-man; James Thomfon a Stenhoufeman; 
 John Gabby in Fitch and James T)yks } Loud- 
 on-men, who belonged to the perfecuted party. 
 After they returned from purfuing the enemy, 
 they refolved to continue together, till they 
 faw what the Lord would do with them. This 
 might they went to Hamilton. The report of 
 thejr victory over Claverhoufe, and relieving 
 of Mr. King, and the reft of the prifoners, 
 
 encouraged 
 
encouraged feverals to join with them by the 
 way: and great pity it was, that they had not 
 purfued the enemy hotly to Glafgow, con¬ 
 sidering the terror that was upon them, t'heir 
 defeat in all feeming probability had been eafy. 
 But being weary that night, they refolved to 
 refreih themfeives a little, and to furprize >■ 
 the enemy then in Glafgow, early next morn¬ 
 ing, which delay proved to be a lofs to them¬ 
 feives, and an advantage to the enemy, as the 
 following account makes evident. 
 
 IV. And fo in the fourth place, I fhall give 
 a true account of the moft material things that 
 happened in that army, and their council of 
 war, from this rencounter at "D runic log, to 
 their defeat at Bothwel bridae . 
 
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 June 2d, they were refolved to make an 
 early attack upon the enemy lying in Glafgow; 
 but, by the carnal counfcl of lome who joined 
 with them at Hamilton, they were adviled not 
 to march to Glafgow, until a greater number 
 of their friends came to their afiiflance by hark- 
 ning to this counfel they delayed and lingered 
 by the way too long, till the enemy fortified 
 themfeives flrongly again!! their aflault. At 
 laid they marched to Glafgow , and feveral of 
 their friends came to them at Hamilton, and by 
 the way as they went to Glafgow, fo that their 
 army'was doubled in number to what it was 
 the day before, but it was near the middle of 
 the day when they came there. Before they 
 entredthe town, they divided themfeives into 
 
 two 
 
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 two bodies; the one under the command of 
 Mr. Hamilton came up the ftrcet called the 
 G allow gate : the other came in at the other 
 (end of the town,by the JVyndhead and College; 
 
 1 am at a lofs that X cannot tell who com¬ 
 manded them.) The enemy being advertifed 
 of their coming, had fortified thcmfelves ftrong- 
 ly with barricadoes about the crofs; yet the 
 final 1 perlecuted army fliewed abundance of 
 courage, and made fuch a brifk attack upon 
 the enemy that fome of the loldiers gave way; 
 and iome of their officers retired behind the 
 Tolbooth-fiair: but the loldiers being covered 
 from their fire, by lying behind the rails and 
 barricadoes, and they being on the openfireet, 
 and the enemy firing upon them fiorn cloffes 
 and houfes, and from behind the rails and bar- 
 ricadocs, at lah they were put to a retreat. In - 
 this attack Walter Paterfon, in Carbarns, in the 
 pnrifh of Cainbufnethan, and other five of their 
 men were killed; and fome few of the enemy. 
 Here many left them thro’ dilcouragemcnt: the 
 reft went out of the town, j*nd drew up at Tow- 
 Crofs muir, about a mile from Glafooio. The 
 enemy lent out two hundred horie-mcn after 
 them; 'whereupon they fent Rathillet and "John 
 Balfour, with a few horfe-men to meet them. 
 Thefetwo, with the few that were with them, 
 went with fuch hafte and couragetorencounter 
 the enemy, that when they came to them, the 
 enemy retired faft back to Glafgow ; and Ratinl- 
 Ut and John Balfour returned back to their own 
 
 army. 
 
army. This night they returned back to Fta - 
 milton , and keeped guards at Botbwell Bridge, 
 and other places. 
 
 June 3d, they formed thcmfelves into a camp 
 and held a council of war, (which, fo far as I 
 know, was thefirft of this kind that they had.) 
 To this council of war a paper was given in, for 
 regulating of the army; wherein it was defired, 
 that none who were diffaffe&ed to the caufe of 
 God, or fcandalous, by being guilty of any of 
 the fins of the time, fuch as, ihedding the fain's 
 blood, fwearing of falfe oaths, paying of cefs for 
 fuprefling of the preached gofpel in the fields, 
 joyning with obfcured prelacy and the indulgen- 
 cy, or any other publick fins, which were pro¬ 
 voking to the Lord, fliould be taken into the ar¬ 
 my, or into any place of office among them, 
 without evident figns of their repentance, and 
 publick acknowledgement of their publick fins. , 
 This paper was approval by the council of war. 
 And upon confideration of the difeouragement, 
 that they had met with the day before that, at 
 Glajgow , they made enquiry to find out the 
 caufe of it; and found out this as one particular 
 caufe of the Lord’s dilpleafure againft them, that 
 they had among them one Thomas Weir of Green- 
 ridge, (who had come to them, either at Hamil¬ 
 ton, or on their way to Glajgow ) who had been 
 a trooper under ‘Dalzeil, at Portland bills, and 
 was guilty offhedding of the blood of the faints 
 there. Having found out this Achan, a minifter 
 and fome ciders were fern to fpeak difcreetly to 
 
 him, 
 
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 him, to fee if he was fenfible of the evil of this 
 publick and hainous fin; and willing to acknow¬ 
 ledge and confcfs the fame publickly; bi nGreen- 
 ridge wasfo far from giving them any fatisfa&i- 
 onthis way, that he was very angry w ith them, for 
 requiring the fame; fo they juftly reje&ed him; 
 and he, and fuch as came with him, left them 
 that day, and went to luch as made them wel¬ 
 come, and brought them back. Others alfo at 
 this time leftthem; whereupon there was agreat 
 confufion in the army. In the mean time of this 
 confufion, they were alarmed with the enemies 
 approach to Botbwell Bridge: Rathillet, with 
 twenty four horfe-men were fent out to fee if it 
 was fo; when he went out, he faw a party of 
 the enemy near Bolhwell Bridge ; whereupon, 
 he fent back to the army lor advice and afliftance, 
 and they fent him ’John Balfour , with twelve 
 horfe-men-: and, thefe two valiant captains with 
 their final 1 party of 3 6 horfe-men fet forward to¬ 
 ward the enemy with great hazard,&ftoodoppofite 
 to the enemies face halfa day,till at lafla mill falling 
 down,theenemy fled to Glafgow. Thatnightthey 
 marched to, and quartered in Stratkaven. 
 
 June qth they went to Kyperidge, where 
 they rendezvoufed; and that night they returned 
 and quartered betwixt Strathaven and Kilbride. 
 
 June 5-th, they rendezvouled and went to 
 commiffar Fleeminfs park in the parifh of Kil¬ 
 bride; where, and there about, they quartered 
 till next day. By this time captain John Baton 
 in Meadowhead , with a body of horfe-men from 
 Finnick , Idewmills, Galjion, and many others 
 
 ' . joyned 
 
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 joyncd with them, fo that the army was great¬ 
 ly increafed: here they held a council of war, 
 and did choole feveral officers, and a clerk, 
 which as after account fignifies, was Mr. Wal¬ 
 ter Smith. 
 
 June 6th, they rendezvoufed; and hearing 
 that the enemy had deferted Glafgow, they did 
 choofe eighty horfe-men, and a hundred and 
 fixty foot*men, under command of one captain 
 Brown, to go to Glafgow and fearch for arms, 
 which they w-erein great need of; but thele be¬ 
 ing alarmed with the news, that the enemy was 
 but a little eaft from Glafgow, and ready to 
 enter again to the town. Brown was lo dil- 
 couraged, that he would not go forward to 
 Glafgow ; whereupon fix young men, (of whom 
 five were Fifennen ) of their own accord, went 
 alone through Glafgow, and then fent back 
 word to the army, and they all came to, and 
 entred the town of Glafgow , where they met 
 with no difturbance. After they had fearched 
 for, and found fome arms, over the tolbooili- 
 ftair theypublifficd the following fhort declarati¬ 
 on. 
 
 The < DecU ration publijhedat Glafgow June 6th, 
 
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 "W e who arc here providentially conveened 
 tc in our own defence, for preventing and re- 
 “ moving of the miflakesand mifapprehenlions 
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 and hope are friends; do declare onr prefent 
 purpofes, and endeavours to be, only in vin¬ 
 dication and defence of the true Reformed 
 Religion, in its ProfeJJion and DoHrine, as 
 we (land obliged thereunto, by our Nation¬ 
 al and Solemn League and Covenant, and 
 that folemn Acknowledgment of Sins, and 
 Engagement to Duties made and taken in the 
 year, 1648. Declaring againfi: Popery, 
 Prelacy, Eraflianifm, and all things depend¬ 
 ing thereupon. J? By Eraflianifm, and all 
 thing's depending thereupon, they mean, the Pe¬ 
 el efi a (lick Supremacy and Indulgency , which 
 flowed from the fame. After the proclaiming 
 of their declaration,- they marched three or 
 lour miles fouth from Glafgow, where they 
 quartered that night. 
 
 fane 7th, they rendezvoufed and marched 
 within a mile to Glafgow , where they held a 
 Council of war,and renewed their refolution for¬ 
 merly agreed unto, that none guilty of the pub¬ 
 lic fi ns and defe&ions of the time, fhould be tak¬ 
 en into the army or council of war, without 
 public confeflion thereof; and agreed, that no¬ 
 thing which concerned the whole army, fhould 
 be done, until it fhould be agreed upon by a 
 council of war. To this council of war came 
 -Andrew Tfurnbul , and Mr. jfohn ‘Dick, with the 
 ill news that Mr. "John Welch was coming to 
 them. This day, before Mr. Welch came ro 
 the army, by feveral accounts before me, (one 
 of which was written by faithful Da'vidHackfon , 
 
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 of Ralhillet) I find that the army, at this tifrig, 
 were in number betwixt five and fix th’oufand 
 horfe-men and foot-men, who were all unani¬ 
 mous for owning Rutherglen tejlimony , and Glaf 
 gow declaration ; and were for profecuting the 
 covenanted caufe of Chrilt in Scotland, in oppo¬ 
 sition to all its enemies, according to their de* 
 ferts: and were for declaring againfVall the fins 
 and defe&ions, whereby God was difhono tired, 
 and his caufe wronged; and were refoived, that 
 after fabbath’s reft, they would purfue their ene¬ 
 mies upon Monday, and profecute their defigii 
 againft all God’s publick enemies, to the utter- 
 molt of their power. Their leaders ac this time 
 of greatell: account, were Me. Hamilton, Gene¬ 
 ral; David Hackjlon, of Jlathiilet ; Henry HR! > 
 of Haugh-head; 'John Pa ton, in Meadow-h eu i ; 
 John Balfour of KinUch ; Mr. TV alter Smith ; 
 PHtllidm Carmichael, JKMiara Cleland, James 
 Henderfon and Robert Fleemiig their miuifters, 
 Mr. Donald Caraill, Mr. Hh omas Douglas, Mr.' 
 John King, and Mr. John Kid, (Mr. Richard 
 Cameron was, at this time, in Holland .) Hither¬ 
 to they were- of one accord, and of one mind, 
 in what concerned the caufe and teftimony of 
 Jehus Chrift, that they were appearing for, 
 this there was great harmony among them, but 
 now, aiasl their fweet and pleafant union, con¬ 
 cord, and harmony, was near an end; for this 
 day, in the evening, a fad Company cf Ac hr. ns 
 came into their camp,which grievoufly troubled 
 
 the Lord’s ho if, mix'. Mr. 
 
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 brought with him, about 140 horfe men from 
 Carrick , and young Blachan upon their head, 
 abour 300 foot-men, fome corrupt miniders of 
 his own (tamp , and 'Thomas Weir of Green- 
 ridge, and a troop of horfe men under him, tho’ 
 juftly rejected by the council of war the Teufday 
 before this, all thefe were enemies to the true 
 date of the caufe that that army was appearing 
 for; and, as faithful Rathillet obferves, that* 
 now they had one among them, viz. Green- 
 ridge , that was guilty of (hedding the blood of 
 the faints, and fome who were pode fling the 
 eftates of the godly fufferers, who had not come 
 that length in repentance, that Judasczxne when 
 he brought back the price of blood, and gave 
 it again. Now came on the honed men’s for- 
 row and vexation ; for, from the time that Mr. 
 Welch came among them, till they were bro¬ 
 ken by the enemy, they were vexed with de¬ 
 bates, drifes, contentions, prejudices, divifions, 
 confufions, and diforders; and at lad the ut¬ 
 ter overthrow of that once plcafant army: for 
 ever after that there were two parties in that 
 army, draggling with other; the one for truth, 
 the other for defection, like Jacob and Efau 
 drugglingin Rebekah’s womb, Gen: 25. 22. there 
 was Mr. Hamilton, and the honed party with 
 him; and Mr. Welch with the new in-comers, 
 with others who came in afterward; and fuch 
 as were drawn from the right date of the tefli- 
 mony to their corrupt ways which made up a new, 
 and very corrupt party. (Here I mud in¬ 
 form the reader concerning Mr. Welch, that 
 
 for 
 
for a long time, he was a man in great account 
 with the faithful fufferers in this land, belt, be¬ 
 fore this time, he was fallen from his ftedfaflnefs; 
 and turned a great advocate for, and defender of 
 the indulgence and indulged, and a bitter op- 
 pofer, profecuter, and perfecuter of faithful Mr. 
 Richard Cameron , for his faithfulnefs in preach¬ 
 ing freely againll: the indulgence, etc. And 
 after that he was never faithful in the Lord’s 
 caufe, nor in efleem with faithful fufFerers.) 
 And becaufe the laft party fuelled rankly of 
 Eraftianifm, I fhall, in fpeaking of thefe two 
 parties defign them by the names of, 'The honejl 
 party, and the Eraftian party. This evening 
 the honeft party fhewed the Eraflian party Ru - 
 therglen tejlimony, and Glafgow declaration , with 
 which they were not well pleafed; but their 
 greateft qua'rrel was at the laft claufe of Glafgow 
 declaration, viz. Eraftianifm, and all things de¬ 
 pending there upon : for from this they under- 
 flood, that a teftimony againll: the indulgency 
 was intended, and therefore they would have 
 this claufe fcored out; but to this the honeft 
 party would not yield, fo it was .fhut up for 
 that night. I am not lure how many minifters 
 of the Eraitian party came unto the army, nor 
 yet the particular times of their in-coming, (for 
 they did not all come at once;) but the names » 
 of fo many of them, as are in the accounts come 
 to my hand, are thefe, Mr. John IVelch, Mr 
 Tavid Hume, Mr. Gabriel Semple, Mr, John 
 Rae, Mr. Samuel Hr not, Mr. Andrew Morton, 
 
 Mr* 
 
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 Mr. Thigh Kinnidy, Mr. John Blackkader, Mr, 
 
 Archibald Rid del,Mu -- LanibJAr. Thomas 
 
 Black Mr.- Forr after Mr. Robert Muir , 
 
 and Mr. Ge:>ge Barclay : but the chiefed of all 
 thefe, in managing their corrupt courfes, were 
 Mr. IVe'ck, and Mr. Hume. Thefe two were 
 like Simeon and Levi, with inflruments of cru¬ 
 elty in their hands, againft the right Hate of the 
 Lord’s Caufe, Gen. 49. 5. This night the army 
 quartered in and about Rutherglen. 
 
 June dih, being the iabbath, in the rooming, 
 iti any of the officers of the honed; party met; and 
 did jdyntly refolve, not to join with Mr. John 
 JJ'Jlch , and thefe with him, but ro oppole the 
 &jrmi£sjoining with them, until they fhould de¬ 
 clare themfelvcS for God, and his covenanted 
 Caufe; and againfi all.the defections and apoda- 
 Cics of the time: but before they had time to 
 make their mind fully known to the army, and 
 to Mr. IFclch, and the red; of the Eradian party 
 with him, a way was contrived by fome, to be 
 free, for a time, of fomc fuch of the officers, as 
 they feared greated oppofition from; for orders 
 were given to llathillet, Ha ugh head, William 
 Carmichael, and Mr. JT alter Smith, to go to 
 Glafgozv and meet with Mr. John Kingand John 
 pat on. which accordingly were obeyed, when 
 at GU/govj with their men. Mr. King and John 
 Patou led them out of the town; and they ap¬ 
 prehending that Mr. King had been to preach to 
 them fome place,- without the town: but at lad, 
 when they enquired where they were going, it 
 
 was 
 
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 was anfwered, (according to the orders that were 
 privately lent to Mr. King and John Paion .) that 
 they were ordered to go and difperfe a meeting 
 of Malitia at Cavipfie. ~Thefe faithful officers 
 did not relilh thefe orders well; out being en¬ 
 couraged by Mr. King, they marched forward 
 to Campfie-, and then leeing no Malitia-men, nor 
 no other men in arms, to their great grief they 
 underftood, that it was only a ftratagem contri¬ 
 ved and brought about by l’ome of the hraflian 
 party, to be free of Mr. King in the time he 
 fhoiild have preached, and of thefe five faithful 
 officers in the time of preaching, left they ftiould 
 have oppofed Mr. Welch from preaching. But 
 to return; after thefe officers were lent out of 
 the way, others of the honeft 'fficers were de- 
 lired to go, and order the army as conveniently 
 as they could for preaching; fo tlaey divided the 
 army into three companies, (fome place in o-r 
 about Rutherglen ,) defigning that Mr. ‘Donald 
 Cargill , Mr. Thomas Douglas, and Mr .John 
 King ftiould preach at three feveral places, but 
 before the preaching began, Mr. Donald Cargill 
 had a private conference with Mtffurs, Welch, 
 Race, Lamb, and Black ; what paft in this con¬ 
 ference I know not, but Mr. Welch , and the 
 Eraftian party, got their dfcfign accomplifhed in 
 this, that Mr. Welch preached in ftead of Mr. 
 King , and he, to the great grief of all honeft 
 fufferers, who heardhim,preached up the King's 
 authority , the fukjefts allcgyn.ee, the receiving in¬ 
 to the army all who offered themfelves , without 
 
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 diflinclion of honejly or /candal, and in favours 
 of the indulgence, that flowed from the tyr rants 
 ecclefiafick Jupreinacy. Ke part by all the wrongs 
 done to Chrift; all the cattles of God’s anger 
 againft the land ; and all the national defections, 
 except Prelacy. The report of what he preach¬ 
 ed being noiled thro’ the army, gave great 
 offence to all who were honeft in the Lord’s 
 caule, and was the occafion of much If rife and 
 debate thro’ the army Mr. ‘Donald Cargill , and 
 Mr. Douglas preached direCtly contrary to what 
 Mr. JVelch preached; and, as the account of 
 that day bears, m millers preached and prayed 
 contrary one to another, and fuch as contended 
 for the truth, and witnelled againft Mr. JVelche's 
 corrupt courfes, were, by the Eraftian party, 
 called by the name, of The Cameronian FaJlion. 
 
 June 9th, they held a council of war at Glaf 
 gow, to which Mr. JVelch , and levcral of the 
 Eraflian party were admitted, which greatly 
 increafed ftrifes and* debates among them, for 
 Mr. Hamilton, and the honeft party, let up 
 for the regulating of the army according to the 
 word ofGod,our Covenant National and Solemn 
 League; and acts of our belt reforming Parlia¬ 
 ments, and general Alfemblies, which were 
 for purging of the army, of all fuch as were 
 malignant, dilfafcfted to the caufe of Chrift, or 
 fcandalous in their converfation: for they were 
 for keeping in, nor receiving none into the ar¬ 
 my, or to have an}^ office in it, or vote in the 
 council of war, who were known to be guilty 
 ■ , of 
 
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 of any publick fins, withoutmakingapublickcon- 
 feifion and acknowledgment thereof, which was 
 the way they had hitherto ufed, in which they 
 had the Lords countenance and affiftance: hut 
 Mr. TVelch, and the Eraftian party, fet up for 
 the courfe andcaufeof the publick refoktioners, 
 (who were the firft renters and ruiners, of our 
 covenanted conftitution in church, (late, and 
 army,) by bringing of malignants, etc. into 
 places of power and trufl, in judicatories and 
 armies: for they were for taking in, and keep¬ 
 ing in, all into the army that offered themfelves, 
 whatever publick fins they were guilty of, with¬ 
 out any confeffionor acknowledgment at all; and 
 faid, that their joining with the army, and ap¬ 
 pearing for the caufe in arms, was fufficient 
 fatisfa&ion, without any conefeffion or ac¬ 
 knowledgment of their publick fins. This day 
 j Henry Hall, of Haugh-bead , and Mr. JValter 
 Smith, protefted againft the Eraftian party, for 
 their being againft purging of the army: and 
 Mr. Hamilton, and the reft of the honeft offer¬ 
 ers alfo protefted, that they were for declaring 
 publicklyagainft all the publick fins & defections 
 of the time. After long debating both parties 
 were for fating the cafe by a declaration; 
 whereupon one draught of a declaration was 
 produced by Mr. Cargill, and another was pro¬ 
 duced by Mr. Welch but neither of them was 
 agreed unto: for the Eraftian party rcje&ed Mr. 
 CargitPs, and the honeft party rcjc&ed Mn 
 Welch's, The node of this days de¬ 
 bates 
 
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 bates going through the army, fadly difcourag¬ 
 ed many of the godly among them,who hitherto 
 had been helping forward theHvork; and made 
 feverals of them, with fore hearts, to withdraw: 
 and fuch as continued were made to fear, that 
 for joining with fuch as were continuing in thefe 
 publick fins, that the Lord was contending with 
 the land for, without repenting for, and con- 
 feffing, and forfaking the fame would provoke 
 God to leave them, and give them up to the will 
 of their enemies at the laft; which fadly came 
 to pafs. After that Mr. Welch and the Era- 
 llian party had opened a door for all forts to en¬ 
 ter in at; a number of idle vagabonds, and felf* 
 locking plunderers entred in among them, to 
 the great difhonour of God, and lcandal and 
 reproach of the arm} 7 . This night the foot 
 quartered in Glafgow, and the horfe went to 
 the. country. 
 
 yune 10th, the council of war did meet a- 
 gain. at Glajgozu; this day the two parties had a 
 hot dilnutation , particularly concerning the m- 
 duiaence: and becaufe this was one of the chief 
 
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 things wherein thefe two parties did differ the 
 whole time that they were together, X fhali 
 here give the reader a fnort view of this mylXry 
 ol iniquity,. called, the the indulgence: and it 
 was this; after Charles II. ufurped an ccclefia- 
 ftick fupremacy, as head of the church, he, 
 b) r virtue of the blafphemous fupremacy, and 
 Eraltian power, did give and grant, to fo many 
 of the outed Miniflers as he plcafed, a lintul 
 
 Eraftian 
 
£ra(lian liberty, to preach in fuch places as he 
 pleafed, and according to the rules, directions* 
 reftriCtions, limitations, that he was pleafed to 
 preferibe to them; which rules and reftriCtions* 
 etc. They, by his authority, as head of the 
 church, received in write, from his Ccclefiaftick 
 deputes, the lords of his bloody privy council, 
 which they were to obey under pain of depri¬ 
 vation. And to thefe his privy counfellors in 
 this were thele indulged Minifters countable for 
 the exercife of their miniftry, according to this 
 their new Eraftian holding, which they had 
 wholly of man, and from which they were to 
 be deprived by thefe men, (viz. The bloody 
 council,) which gave them the fame, in cafe of 
 tranfgrdlion. By all which the accepters there¬ 
 of, declared themfclves to be lervants of men z 
 being properly the tyrrant and councils of Era¬ 
 ftian miniflers. This day (as accounts bears) the 
 officers of the honefl party proved, that the in- 
 durgency Was a homologating of the ecclefia- 
 ftick fupremacy, in the hands of thefe that had. 
 ufurped it from the Lord Jefus Chrift; and that 
 it was founded upon the fupremacy, granted and 
 accepted by virtue thereof, and that it was of. 
 the fame nature and (lamp with Eraftianifm; 
 and, to all intelligent petfons, wa9 a man’ll eft 
 deletion, fince Eraftianifm was equally abjured 
 by the church of Scotland, with Popery and 
 Prelacy; particulary in the engagement to 'duties. 
 made at the renew ing of the Solemn League and 
 Covenant, in the year 16 ^ 8 * Mr * Welch, 
 
 D thcr 
 
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 the Eraftian party's great plea for the indul¬ 
 gence was, that it was not declared finful nor 
 Eraftian by a general Aflembly: they might 
 upon the fame ‘reafon, juftffied that wicked, 
 and heaven-daring a£t, which refcinded the 
 whole covenanted work of reformation, and 
 the wicked laws which eftablifhed prelacy, per¬ 
 jury, and tyrrany; for thefe had not been de¬ 
 clared finful by a general Aflembly. This day 
 the Eraftian gentlemen cried out, in the coun¬ 
 cil of war, againft the faithful officers who were 
 contending for truth, laying, O! would they 
 caff off Mr. Welch , and the reft of the mini¬ 
 sters that followed him, fuch as Mr. Hume , 
 Mr. Kae, Mr. Barclay , Mr. Lamb, and Mr. 
 Forrefler , etc. And follow no minifters, but 
 Air. Cargill, Mr. Douglas, Mr. King, and 
 Air. Kid. This day Mr. William Dunlop , 
 brought the draught of ^declaration from fome 
 indulged minifters to the army, (which they in¬ 
 tended fhould be the ftate of the army’s quar¬ 
 rel: ) it was very acceptable to the Eraftian 
 party, and fhown to the council of war by Mr. 
 Hume: but becaufe it owned the tyrrant’s in- 
 tereft; favoured the defign of the Supremacy; 
 and was inconfftant with Rutherglen teflimony , 
 and Glafgozv declaration, and the true ftate of 
 the cauie that the honelt party were appearing 
 for, they pofitively refufed it, whereupon fome 
 of the Eraftian party in difplealure, declared, that 
 they would come no more to the honeft party’s 
 councils: and that fame day did fpeak to fever* 
 »1 of the officers, to engage a parry for them- 
 
 felves 
 
felves, to oppofe and out-vote thefe who de¬ 
 clared againft the indulgence, fignifying to them 
 that within few days, they would eafily prevail 
 by number. "James Ure, of Shargartan ; T’bo- 
 mas fVeir, of Greenridge, and young Blachan, 
 were chief men for the indulgence, and every 
 corrupt courfe that was moved among them. 
 This day Mr. JVelch, and others of the Erafti- 
 an minifters, wrote letters to feveral indulged 
 gentlemen through the country. Some of which 
 were fuch ftrengtheners of the fupremacy, and 
 approvers of the indulgence, and fuch enemies 
 to the purely preached gofpel in the fields, that 
 they had written to the bloody council, for in¬ 
 dulged minifters to preach to them, and pro- 
 mifed to them, that they fhould root out field- 
 meetings, inviting them to come to the army, 
 and when fome of rhe honeft officers found 
 fault with them for this; becaufe it was a fal¬ 
 ling back to that fin of the indulgence, that God 
 had once feperated them from, and had given 
 his countenance unto fuch as had declared faith¬ 
 fully againft it; they anfwered, thefe officers, 
 that if they would not yield to them, they 
 would take the leading of that army off their 
 hands, and get fitter perions to lead it; and 
 this indeed appeared plainly to be their defign, 
 to have fuch a multitude of lax, loofe, indul- 
 ed gentlemen, and others, brought unto the 
 army, and to vote in the council of war, as 
 might vote all the honeft officers out of their 
 offices, that fo they might lead the army at 
 
 their 
 
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 their own pleafure. This day the army buried 
 honourably the heads of the martyrs; who fuf* 
 fered martyrdom at Glafgow, .dir, and Irvin 
 after the defeat at Pentland-bills. This night 
 the army marched to Hczvcrofs , .the foot lay iii 
 the park, and the horfe in places thereabout. 
 The minifters were all left at Glafgoxu, except 
 Mr, 2)(?/^/«i-,toconfultandadvifehow to remove 
 differences; in which nothing at all was done: 
 
 June 11 th, fome of the officers went back 
 to Glafgozv to fee what was done; and having 
 brought back the news to the army, that the 
 indulgence was dill approvenof by the Eradi- 
 an party; the door opened wider and wider, 
 --for receiving greater numbers of perfons who 
 tfcere defiled with the abominations of the time; 
 and fuch invited them to come to the 
 army; it lo difeouraged the godly in the army, 
 that it caufed many of them to withdraw, and 
 leave them. This night the army went back to 
 I lamiltan. 
 
 June 1 2 th, a council of war held on Hamilton- 
 Vintr : the chief thing that they had under con¬ 
 sideration this day was, the dating of the caufe 
 for w'hich they were to fight. The honed 
 party were refolute for adhering to Rutbcrglen 
 iejlcmony, and Glafgozv declaration ; and to ex¬ 
 tend the fame in a more full and ample declara¬ 
 tion, which fiiould condemn all the lands pub- 
 lick fins, and defections, Mr. Hume prefented 
 a declaration to the council of war, in name of 
 the Eradian party, in which they liad in- 
 
 ferted 
 
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 • farted the third article ofthe Solemn Leagiie and 
 Covenant; and did pofitiyely declare that the 
 fecond reafon of their continuing together in 
 arms, was, the preferving and defending rhe- 
 King’s majedy.’s perlon. and authority, etc. The 
 honed party refilled this declaration as the date 
 of their quarrel; becaufe it took in the tyrrants 
 malignant intered which they had waved in Ru - 
 tberglen teflimony, and Glafgow declaration; 
 and did not make mention ol the acknowledg¬ 
 ment of fins, and engagment to duties, nor of 
 all the publick fins and dcfe&ions of the time ? . 
 and did proted, that they could not, in confid¬ 
 ence, declare for the King, fince he was now 
 in a dated oppofition to the caufe and intered of 
 Jeflis Ohrid, which they were fwom o main¬ 
 tain and defend, and were now aderting, a- 
 gaind which he and all his followers had declar¬ 
 ed war, for all the cruelties, prelent prefecu- 
 tion, and opprclfion ofthe time in Scotland, (for 
 the redrefs whereot they were now appearing,) 
 were profecute in his name, and by his autho¬ 
 rity. And therefore the aderting, and pleading 
 for having that article of the covenant, with ap¬ 
 plication to him, in their declaration, could not 
 confid with the meaning, intentions, and prac¬ 
 tice, of the framers of the Solemn League and 
 Covenant, which bound the land drd to God, 
 then to one another, and, in the lad place, to 
 the King’s lawful authority, in the prefervation 
 and defence of the true religion ; which, fince 
 the prefent King had overturned and ruined the 
 
 ' cove- 
 
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 covenanted work of reformation, and liberties 
 of the nation and perfecuted to the death the 
 owners of both, had erefted abjured prelacy 
 and Eraftianifm, and exercifed great oppreflion 
 and cruelties againft all the faithful owners of 
 the covenanted work of refo - mation ; had pub- 
 lickly burnt the folmn league and covenant, by 
 the hand of the common hang-man; and had 
 plainly broken all the conditions of govern¬ 
 ment, (worn at his coronation to the people, 
 upon which his right of authority to rule over 
 them, and their alledgencetohim were founded: 
 by all which it followed that the fubjefts tyes, 
 and obligations that they were under, to him 
 by vertue of that article of the covenant, were 
 loofed: and therefore that article, taking in his 
 intereft, ought not to be infert in the declara¬ 
 tion with application to him, but his intereft 
 rnuft be put out of the declaration, before they 
 Could own it. Yet notwithftanding of all that 
 was (aid, the Eraftian party refufed abfolutely, 
 to take that article that averted the tyrrant’s 
 intereft out ofthe declaration; for Mr. IVelch, and 
 Mr. Hume , (aid, that by that time, the decla¬ 
 ration was very near as far off as London, and 
 that their credit was fo far engaged in it; that 
 they could not confent to have it in any thing 
 altered: by this the honeft parry came to under- 
 ftand, that they had fpread it among their own 
 friends, without their knowledge or confcnt. 
 Then the honeft party delired, that fince they 
 would keep in the third article of the covenanr, 
 
 .v, that 
 
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 that bound to the King, they would alfo infert 
 the fourth article, which oblidgeth every one, in 
 thefe three covenanted nations, to difcover, and 
 to bring to condign punifliments, all Malig- 
 nants, incendiaries, and evil inftruments, that 
 hinders reformation; but this they refufea alfo. 
 Then, after long pploning about this declara¬ 
 tion, in which they could not agree, it was put 
 to a vote in the council of war,, and by a plu¬ 
 rality of votes, it did carry, that, that declara¬ 
 tion fhould be reje&ed ; and that in the declara- 
 to be owned by the army, all the land’s pub- 
 lick fins, and particularly the indulgence, name 
 and thing, fhould be declared againft; and that 
 Mr. Cargill fhould draw upthe declaration. The 
 Eraflian party being out-voted, by the honeft 
 party, in the council of war, in great fury, Mr. 
 JVelch, and Mr. Hume, went through Hamil- 
 ton, and the Duke’s park, where the army lay, 
 and cried out againft the oppofers of their declara¬ 
 tion, faying to the army, that they were againft 
 any declaration, and that thereby they keeped 
 their friends, through the land, from joyning 
 with them for their help and affiftance, for they 
 would not come and join with them for their 
 help, till once they ftated the caufe they were 
 to fight for by a declaration, and that they 
 would murder thearmy anataketheir blood upon 
 them, by keeping back their friends from their 
 help, by oppofing their declaration, and all that 
 they were feeking by this, was to perfwade the 
 army to be for their malignant declaration, that 
 
 opened 
 
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 opened a wide door for malignants, and all that 
 pleafed, to joyn with them, that fo, by the 
 arm of flefh, they might be able to overcome 
 their enemies; which as it was a doing of evil, 
 that good might come of it, fo it brought them 
 under that wrathful threatning, Jer. ly. 5, 6» 
 '‘Thus faith the Lord, Cur fed be the mau that trujl- 
 eth in man, and maketh fef his arm, and.whofe 
 heart departeth from the Lord. For be fall be 
 like the heath in the defect, and fall not fee when 
 good cometh . I am lure the way that the honed 
 party was endeavouring after, to have the caufe 
 rightly dated, the army duely purged, and 
 days appointed for fading and mourning befote 
 the Lord, for their own and the land’s abomi¬ 
 nations; to confefs and forfake the evil 
 of their doings, by puting away the drange 
 Gods from among them, and keeping the 
 accurfed thing out of their camp, was a far 
 better way to have had the Lord’s aid and af- 
 
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 ddauce, who could have faved as well by few 
 as by many, and one, to chafe a thoufand, and 
 two to put ten thoufand to f ight, 1 Sam. 14. 6. 
 VOeut. 32. 30. 
 
 fune 13th, about the break of clay, there 
 came a fudden alarm to the camp, that a party of 
 the enemy had befet a party of the army, who 
 were keeping guard at Bothwell-bridge, where¬ 
 upon the mod part of the officers ol the honed: 
 party went out upon fervice: and Mr. Hamil¬ 
 ton, in all had, mounted his horle to go with 
 the red, at that very indant of time as he was go¬ 
 ing 
 
ing out of quarters, which was in the Duke’s 
 park, old Major Carmichael, came to him, and 
 -told him, that Mr. Hume was going to read their 
 declaration in his ablence to the army: Mr. 
 Hamilton charged Major Carmichael, upon his 
 higheft peril, to return and Hop Mr. Hume from 
 what he was defigning. The Major acordingly 
 returned, and, with great difficulty, got Mr. 
 Hume hindred from proclaiming their declarati¬ 
 on; for he was neceffitate to drive Mr. Hume 
 away with his Sword, from the place where he 
 was going to proclaim it. In the mean time 
 Mr. JVelch, and Mr. Hume, and their part}?' 
 improved this occafion of the honeft officers ah- 
 fence, to get their unhappy defign accompliffi- 
 ed. Mr. Hamilton returned before the reft of 
 the honeft officers, that were gone upon fervice; 
 and whenever he returned, Mr. JVeleh, and o- 
 thers of the Eraftian party went to him, and 
 fome few officers, who were with him; and, 
 with a great deal of intreaty, they urged the 
 publication of their declaration. Mr. Hamilton , 
 in the name of the honeft party, pofitivcly re- 
 fufed to yield to their defirc; and told them plain¬ 
 ly, that they could not, nor would not own 
 rheir declaration, becaufe it owned the'tyrranfs 
 intereft; and did not mention fully the publick 
 fins and defeflions of the time. When Mr. 
 Hamilton was oppofing them in their defign, 
 three or four old gray headed men, (influenced 
 by Mr: JVelch, etc.) belbught Mr. Haimlton with 
 tears, that they would luffer their declaration 
 
 E" . to 
 
to be publiffied: then Mr. ffietch and Hume , 
 promifed to Mr. Hamilton, and the few officers 
 that were with him, that if they would allow 
 their declaration to be read to the army that day, 
 that they Ihould be faithful in all time coming, 
 in preaching againft the indulgence, and all the 
 reft of the land’s defections: and gave their 
 faith and promile, that it Ihould be changed and 
 enlarged at Mr. Hamilton, and the reft of the 
 honeft parties pleafures; and what was ambigu¬ 
 ous in it explained; and what was wrong Ihould 
 be left out; and what was wantingffiould be ftip- 
 pli^d; before it fhould be either printed, or any 
 otherwife publiffied, fave only the reading of it 
 that day, which they earnestly defired might 
 be done, only with a defign to pleafc fome, 
 who (as they (aid) would not join in the army, 
 till once their caufe was ftated by a declaration: 
 and promifed that Mr. Houghs, and Mr. King 
 ihould, at the reading of it, give publick inti- >. 
 nation to the army what they had promiled, 
 and that thefe things which they had promifed 
 ffiould, for their latisfaftion, be done: at laft, 
 by their treacherous dealing, they prevailed 
 with Mr. Hamilton, and fome few officers with 
 him, to confent to the publication of their de¬ 
 claration, upon condition that all thefe things, 
 which they had promifed, ffiould be performed: 
 but in the mean time, that they gave their con¬ 
 fent to this, faithful and valiant ‘David Hackflon, 
 of Rathillet , protefted againft it. Mr. Hamil¬ 
 ton in giving the account of this fays, ' That 
 
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 f inthishewa$lamentablyenfnared;&:adds,'That 
 # it was fad, O fad to him afterwards.’ Whenever 
 that confent was given, Mr. Welch and Mr. 
 Hume, etc. went to the market crofs of Hamil¬ 
 ton, and proclaimed that fmful declaration, with¬ 
 out obferving that condition promifed, viz. 
 That Mr. Douglas, and Mr. King Ihould give 
 intimation above mentioned; for Mr, Douglas 
 and Mr. King were not fuffered to fpeak one 
 word at that time: for whenever the declarati¬ 
 on was proclaimed, Mr. Welch, Mr. Hume, 
 and Mr. Rae, each of them after another, made 
 a fpeech, (to fuch of the army and others that 
 heard them) wherein they confirmed all that 
 was in it, concerning the owning of the tyrrant’s 
 intereft, etc. B37 this declaration the caufe and 
 quarrel of the army wasbafely mis-ftated; and 
 the unjuft right of one of the greateft ot Chrift’s 
 avowed enemies cryed up, and proclaimed. 
 When Mr. Hamilton heard it proclaimed, and 
 the condition they had promifed at the procla¬ 
 mation not obferved, he fays it ftruck him fo 
 dead, that he knew not well what he was do¬ 
 ing : and after it was over, he ran to a houfe 
 where Mr Welch, and others of the Eraftian 
 minifters. were, and there fell down upon a bed, 
 as one diftrafted; and a little after, he told 
 Mr. Welch, and the reft of them, that they had 
 dealt treachcroufly with them; and had murdc- 
 rcdtheLord’scauleandthe poorarmy. This fm¬ 
 ful deed greatly increafed the divifions and con- 
 fufions in the army, and occasioned the with¬ 
 drawing 
 
drawing of many of the godly from them, and 
 fadly difcouraged the faithful, who continued 
 with them, when they faw their former faith¬ 
 ful teftimonies contradi&ed and cdndemned; 
 the flate of their quarrel changed; and the in- 
 tereft of one of God’s greatefl: enemies efpoufed; 
 which they faw would, as it proved, provoke 
 God to leave them. After Mr. Hamilton had 
 told his mind to Mr. Welch, and thele with 
 him, he went out from them, and called a 
 council of war, to annul that finful declaration: 
 after that the council of war met, the honeft 
 officers, who were out upon fcrvice all the 
 time of that {inful action, and had no hand in 
 it, were exceedingly grieved in fpirit, and 
 highly offended at what was done; both be- 
 caufe the thing it fclf was contrary to the true 
 fate of their teftimony; and the doing of it con¬ 
 trary to what they had agreed upon, that no¬ 
 thing which concerned the whole army fhould 
 be done,until it was agreed upon by a council of 
 war. The Eraftian party fent their defirc in 
 write to the council of war, which was to know 
 if they would adhere to their now publifhed de¬ 
 claration. The council of war returned anfwer 
 in write, that they would not adhere to their 
 declaration: and then the council of war did an¬ 
 nul Hamilton declaration,fo that it was to them as 
 ii it had never been: and did conclude, that 
 immediately the caules of the Lord’s wrath a- 
 gairffi the land fhould be drawn up, and that 
 Hamilton declaration fhould be mentioned, as 
 
 one 
 
one ofthelaft canfes thereof: and that Mr. "Donald 
 Cargill, with the affiftance of Henry Hall , of 
 Haughhcad, and Mr. Walter Smith, fhould be 
 employed to do it. And that in all hafte they 
 fhould alio make ready the new declaration 
 which Mr. Cargill was to draw up, and give 
 them unto the council of war, that both thefe 
 might be proclaimed together immediately. 
 Mr. Hamilton fays, that altho’ both thefe were 
 undertaken; yet the Lord did not honour 
 them to perform the fame. And the truth is, 
 the Lord never gave them fuch countenance 
 and fuccefs in any way of their undertaking, af¬ 
 ter they received the Eraflian party among 
 them, as he had done before. In the mean 
 time Mr. Welch and Mr. Hufrie , and the reft of 
 the Eraftian managers, without the knowledge 
 andconfcnt of the honeft party; and without 
 making any alteration in it dire&ly contrary to 
 their faith, and promife, went in hafte to Glas¬ 
 gow, and printed Hamilton declaration, and 
 publifhed it at the market erodes of Glafgozv, 
 Lanark, Hir, Irvin, etc. (with a God fave the 
 King in the end of it,) as the declaration of the 
 whole army. In this thefe treacherous dealers 
 dealt very treacheroufly. This night the army 
 went to the parifti of old Munkland. 
 
 June 14th, they called a council of war at 
 Hags ; the honeft officers fent one of their num¬ 
 ber to Mr. Welch and Mr. Ilumc, etc . to in¬ 
 treat them, in their name, that, according to 
 their promife, they might preach againft all the 
 
 publick 
 
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 publick fins and defections of the time; parti¬ 
 cularly againft the indulgence, without which 
 they could not be fatisfied. This meffage was 
 very ill taken, and they returned this anfwer to 
 the council of war, that they were contending 
 againft one lupremacy, and fetting up another 
 in their own perfon, which was worfe than the 
 other; by laying reftriCtions upon minifters. 
 
 June 15th, being the fabbath, the army and 
 country people, met at Shawheadn^iir , in the 
 parifh of old Munkland for preaching, where 
 the debates and conlufions were very great. 
 HhisdayMr.Hamilton, and the reftofthehoneft 
 officers, protefted, before the people, that none 
 fhould preach there that day, but fuch as ffiould 
 declare the whole counfel ofGod to the people; 
 at this Mr. Welch Mr. Hume , and the red of 
 the Eraffian minifters, cryed out, and faid, that 
 they were encroaching upon minifterial liberty, 
 and giving minifters inftruCtions, but tho’ this 
 be an ordinary reflexion, with which time-fer- 
 ving minifters, who will not apply their doc¬ 
 trine faithfully againft the publick fins and de¬ 
 fections of their own time, ufe to baffle poor 
 people to filence with, where they complain 
 for wantof due and neceflary application in their 
 fermons; yet the reflection is very groundlefs.; 
 for fince the Lord hath allowed the common 
 peoplea judgmentof difcretion,to try the fpirits, 
 whither they are ofGod ; to prove their doCtrine 
 to know if it be agreeable to the word God;, 
 and given them a command to Jay. to Archippus, 
 
 (that 
 
(that is, any minifter of the Gofpel) Take heed 
 to the minijlery , 'which thou hajl received in the 
 Lord, that thou fulfil it, i John 4. 1. Acts, 17. 
 11. Col. 4. 17. which they cannot do, unlefs 
 they declare the whole counfel of God, *Acls 
 20. 27. they may lawfully put corrupt or ne¬ 
 gligent minifters in mind of their duty, which 
 the word of God obligeth them to, without 
 being guilty of incroaching upon minifterial 
 freedom, or giving minifters inftru&ions. This 
 day the Lord was grievoufly dilhonoured, and 
 his people fadly difeouraged with the unchri- 
 ftian carriage and corrupt doctrine of Mr. Hume: 
 for, 
 
 1. When Mr. John Kid was going to preach, 
 Mr. Hume , in a great rage, had the impudence 
 to come where he was, and commanded him to 
 be gone out of his fight, and called him a troubler 
 ofthe church for no reafon that Iknow of, but 
 becaufe he had preached faithfully againft their 
 idol, the indulgence. 
 
 2. After Mr. Hume had driven away Mr. Kid , 
 he went, in great fury, to the place where Mr. 
 Douglas was going to preach to a meeting of 
 the honeft party, who had called him to preach 
 to them ; and after Mr. Douglas had opened 
 his book to flng a pfalm, Mr. Hume thrift! him 
 away by violence, and then, by ufurpation, 
 ftepped in himfclf, in his place, arul faid, whi¬ 
 ther fhall I turn my face; whereupon Mr. 
 Douglas, and the people he was to.preach to, 
 
 went 
 

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 went to another place, where he preached to 
 them. 
 
 3. Then Tome of Mr. Hume's own fort gather¬ 
 ed to him; and he went on and preached up, 
 to the confufion of his hearers, the owning of 
 the King’s lawful authority ; and the law r fulnefs 
 of receiving, all perfons into the army whom- 
 foever, that offered themfelves, whatever their 
 principles or former practices had been, without 
 any publick confefiion or acknowledgment of 
 their publick fins, and faid, their offering of 
 themfelves to the army, was fufficent fatisfaCti'oii 
 for their former fcandalous practices. Some of 
 his hearers w r erc fo humbled at his carriage, and 
 doCtrine,that they went & left him,and the people 
 did plead for the power and priviledge of calling 
 fuch minifters to preach to them, as they could 
 with freedom hear. So after the day was far 
 fpent, minifters, (as they were called) preached 
 in feveral places, w'here it was obferved, that 
 they preached and prayed direCtly contrary one 
 to another. « 
 
 This day Major Jofeph Lermount and a con- 
 fiderable number of horfe-men and foot-men 
 came to the army. Many of the godly in the 
 army, who in the hour, and under the power 
 of temptations,had fallen into many of the publick 
 fins and defections of the time, were longing and 
 crying for a day, or days of humiliation and 
 fading, wherein they might afftiCt their fouls be¬ 
 fore the Lord, for thefe publick fins they were 
 guilty off; and might, for the glory of God, and 
 
 peace 
 
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 peace of'their own confidence, mr I. e z free pub- 
 
 lickconfeffionand acknowledgment of their pub- 
 lick fins, before God and his people. And Mr. 
 Hamilton, and all the honed officers, were very 
 forward for this; that, according to the practice 
 of the godly in former times, the eaufes of God’s 
 wrath againft the land ffiould be enquired into; 
 and all publick known fins publickly confeffied 
 and mourned over, and mercy and pardon, 
 fought for from the Lord; and his counfei, con 
 duffi, and bleffiing intreated for, before they 
 Jhould engage with the enemy: and that this 
 duty might be prefently condefcended upon, a 
 >council of war did meet that evening at Hags. 
 The minifters met in one room, and the officers 
 in another: all the officers prefent did unaiffi 
 moufly vote for a day of humiliation and fading, 
 for the lands publick fins; but no harmony.in 
 this could be obtained among the minifters; for 
 tho’ the faithful minifters were very forward 
 for it, the Eraftian minifters except Mr. George 
 Barclay , to the utmoft of their power oppoled 
 it. So after feme reafoning among them con¬ 
 cerning it, the minifters came in to the room, 
 where the officers were fitting: Mr. ‘Donald 
 Cargill (poke firft: and before the council of 
 war and the reft of the minifters, he laid. 
 Gentlemen, it feems now that we muft part, 
 *' and I take you all to witnefs, and here 1 pro- 
 “ teft and take inftruments in the clerk’s hand, 
 “ that the caufe of our parting is, that thereft of 
 ’** the minifters will not content to a day of 
 
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 “ humili^on and fading, for the lands publick 
 “ fins.” I.- d faid to the clerks “ Let this be re- | 
 corded for our vindication to poftcrity, that 
 “ it may be a witnefs before the Lord for us, to 
 tl after generations, and againft them: that 
 “ thereby any may fee, where this fin lyes, of 
 tl forbearing fo great, and fo necefiary; a duty 
 “ fo much fought for by almoft all in the army, 
 except thefe minifters, and a few that have 
 u taken part with them. 51 O! how fad and la- 
 .table was it, that when the people offered 
 themfelves willingly to the Lord, to faff and 
 mourn for their own, and the land’s abomina¬ 
 tions, and to jeopard their lives upon the high 
 places of the fields, for his caufe and intereft, 
 that they were thus keeped back from their duty, 
 by minifters, who, according to their ftation, 
 office, and charge, fhouid have been chief en- 
 couragcrs of them in this, and all other duties? 
 After that Mr. Cargill had taken inftruments 
 againft them, the faithful officers were intend¬ 
 ed, immediatly to have gone and intimate this 
 to their brethren in the army, and then to have 
 feparatcd themfelves from the Eraftian party, 
 but when the Eraftian party perceived this, they 
 intanglcdthem again, and defired that they might 
 give them another day to confult the Lord con¬ 
 cerning this, and they would report their mind . 
 to the council of war upon T'uefday. 
 
 June i 6th, the council of war met at Shaw -, 
 head Muir, but becaufe of the abfence of all 
 
 the 
 
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 the minifters, and many of the officers, nothing 
 that I know of was done this day. 
 
 June 17th, the council of war did meet again 
 at Shawhead Muir ; the minitters were all ab- 
 fent; the officers of the council of war did choole 
 fix men for general officers in the army, viz. 
 Major James Lermount, Major TVilliam Car¬ 
 michael, Jahn Pat on, in Meadowhead, Robert 
 Fleeming, James Henderfon , and TVilliam Cle- 
 land. What the general offices of the lad four 
 were, the accounts I have feen clears not: I fup- 
 pofe they were chofen to be Colonels of regi¬ 
 ments. This day they had a general rendez¬ 
 vous. 
 
 June 18th, the council of war met in a barn 
 near Shawhead Muir, where were the mod part 
 of all the officers of the army, and the minifters 
 after mentioned, where the neceffity of a day 
 of fading and humiliation was again propofed, 
 reafoned upon, and then put to a vote. All 
 the officers in the council of war (except Shar- 
 garton , and James Carmichael, who wereagainft 
 it, and two young gentlemen, who declined to 
 give their vote in this, in Mr. JVelch' and Humes 
 abfence,) unanimoudy voted, that the next day, 
 being Jhurfday, June 19th, ffiould be a folemn 
 day of fading and humiliation in the army, to 
 confefs and acknowledge all their publick fins, 
 and to mourn for all the publick defe&ions 
 of the land. And for that edecl, they did 
 choofe tour miniders, viz . Mr. "DonaldCargill, 
 Mr. Thomas Douglas, Mr. John Ring, and Mr. 
 
 ■ Georne 
 
 ■ . . \ » 
 
r 4* 3.; 
 
 George Barclay (who at that time pretended to 
 he more for the honed parties caufe, than the 
 red; of the Eradian miniders were,) and four of 
 the officers of the army, who were elders of 
 the church of Scotland, viz. Henry Hall, of 
 Haughhead . John Paton, in 1 \Peadowhead, Wil-. 
 liam Carmichael , and Andrew T'urnbul , to draw 
 up the caufes of the Lord’s wrath againd the 
 land, which were to be the caufes of their fad. 
 And then the council of war went to confult 
 concerning the mod convenient place, thatmey 
 could think upon, where the fad diould behold¬ 
 en: and the four miniders, and four elders 
 went to a barn, by themfelvcs, to draw up the 
 caufes of the fad: but, in the mean time, that 
 the council of war, miniders and elders, were 
 thus imployed, Mr. THelch came to the council 
 of war to dop their defign, when he came in¬ 
 to them, he told them how careful he had been, 
 and what pains he had been at to engage many 
 to join with them, but now finding them un¬ 
 worthy to be confulted with, becaufe they were 
 out of the old troden paths, and were antimo- 
 narchical and anarchical, therefore he was fent 
 to them, by a committee of differing miniders, 
 to exoner and free himfelf of the blood of that 
 army, by withdrawing from them, and taking 
 all his friends that would follow him, with him ; 
 and go to others who were more worthy to be' 
 confulted with than they were: the officers laid 
 his meffage was very acceptable. 
 
 When, in a great tranfport of wrath, he op- 
 
 pofcd 
 
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 pofed their defign of keeping the intended fail 
 day; and faid, if they would have a day of hu¬ 
 miliation and failing gone about, let it be infert 
 as one of the chief caufes thereof, that minifters 
 (particularly Mr. Richard Cameron ,) had preach¬ 
 ed againil the indulgence, and people heard 
 them, and others declared againil it, before the 
 (in thereof was declared by a general affembly. 
 Then the officers aiked at him. if they fhould 
 mourn for the teilimonies of fuch as witnefled 
 againil the indulgence, when fealing their tefti- 
 mony with their blood, particularly Thomas 
 JFeir, in Cumberhead, and JVilliam ‘Dingzval, 
 in Fife , who, when dying of their wounds, at 
 T)rumclog, bleiled the Lord that he had honour¬ 
 ed them to feal a tcilimony with their blood, a.- 
 gainft that indulgence. He anfwered, yes: and 
 for all that hath been preached, ipoken, or 
 written againil it, by Mr. Cameron Cargill, King, 
 Kid, T>ickfon, etc. And for all the Holland 
 miniilers teilimonies againil it; (by Holland 
 minifters he chiefly meant Mr. Brown, and Mr. 
 JM‘ TVard, who were then in Holland, and wrote 
 faithfully againil the indulgence,) many of the 
 faithful officers, who were prefent, had great 
 joy; and bleiled the Lord for the great diicove- 
 ry that Mr. JVelch had given of himfelf, and 
 took one another to witnefs> what they had 
 heard and feeii; for they hoped that thereby 
 they would be made free from him and his 
 Eraftian party, then Mr. TFelch left the coun¬ 
 cil of war, and went to the barn where the mi¬ 
 nifters 
 
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 nifters and elders were drawing up the caufes 
 of the faft, and did after the fame manner, mod: 
 vehemently oppofe the fame, till at laft he got 
 them broken up, from doing any more in this 
 great and neceffary duty, fo the keeping of the 
 faft was (by his means) altogether ftopt and 
 hindred, to thegreat grief of many godly men in 
 thearmy, who werefenfibleoftheir guilt, offome 
 one or other of the then abominations of the 
 time; and had their confciences burdened there¬ 
 with; which they were relolved for the glory 
 of God, and peace of their own confcience, free¬ 
 ly toconfefs and acknowledge to God, and his 
 people* Thus, when the godly were rejoyc- 
 ing, in hope of a fealonable occafion to confeis 
 their publick fins publickly to the Lord, and 
 his people, they were fadly difappointed of their 
 hope, and grievoufly troubled and difeouraged 
 thereby. 
 
 The caufes of the Lord’s wrath, fo far as the 
 clerk had written them; before Mr. JVelcb 
 broke them up from the fame were as follows: 
 * f Lnnumcration of publick defe&ions, June 
 41 18th, 1679. As to thefe before the reftora- 
 “ tion, we referr to the caufes of God’s wrath, 
 41 fince the year t6 6o. We reckon, (1.) The 
 41 univerfal rejoicings, bone-fires, and riotings, 
 41 that were almoft every where throughout the 
 41 land, at the King’s return, and yearly fince, 
 (< the many publick abufes then committed, and 
 “ frequent profaning of the Lord’s name. (2.) 
 The eftablifhing of, and complying with ab- 
 
 (( jured 
 
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 “ jured prelacy. (3.) The negle&ing of publick 
 * ( tefti monies and proteftations, againft the e- 
 “ renting of that tyrannical, abjured herarchy, 
 “ and againft the defacing of the Lord’s glorious 
 “ work, and overturning the right government 
 “ of his houfe. (4.) The great and publick fin 
 “ of many in taking unlawful bonds, called 
 bonds of peace , etc. which are contrary to our 
 “ folemn oaths and covenants. (5.) The paying 
 * l of unlawful cefs and taxations, impofed and 
 levied, for keeping up the lacrilegious fupre- 
 u macy, and for maintaining foldiers to fupprefs 
 “ the gofpel. ( 6 .) The complying with abjured 
 “ Eraftianifm; minifters appearing at the courts 
 “ of ulurping rulers, and their accepting from 
 u them warrants and inftru&ions (founded upon 
 “ the facrilegious fupremacy) to admit them to, 
 “ and regulate them in the exercife of their mi- 
 “ niftry; their leading blindfold alongft with 
 “ them, many of the godly in that abjured 
 “ courfe: their indulgence becoming a publick 
 “ fin and fnare, both to themfelves and others.” 
 As thefe were juft and weighty caufes of falling, 
 fo, there is no doubt but that the enumera¬ 
 tion thereof, had been more diftinft: and much 
 larger, if they had not been flopped therein, 
 by that unhappy inftrument of their ruin, Mr. 
 fi^elcb, and the men of his confederacy, for 
 whom he afted in this. 
 
 The great rcafon of theEraftian party, their 
 vigorous oppofing of the fall, was, for fear the 
 granting and accepting of the indulgence had 
 
 been 
 

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 been made a caufe thereof. Oi this Mr. Walter 
 Smithy in his Jleps of defection, j uflly complains: 
 “ Sept. 14th, we were oppreft by a number of 
 <{ indulged minifters and gentlemen, that fill 
 te oppofed the keeping of a day of humiliation, 
 “ left we fhould make mention of their idol the 
 “ indulgence , as one of the caufes of the Lord’s 
 controverfy againfl the land.” This day, 
 after that Mr. Welch had wickedly flopped the 
 keeping of the much defired fall: day, the army 
 was in a great confufion and diforder thereby : 
 and had a clear call, from his unaccountable 
 and unchriflian carriage towards them, to have 
 feparated thcmfelves from him, and his corrupt 
 Eraflian party, and were fo far refolved upon it, 
 that the faithful ininilters and officers gave inti¬ 
 mation to the army, that they would feparate 
 themfelves from all the Eraflian party; but they 
 were prevented in this, by the carnal counfels 
 of a corrupt fort of men among them, called 
 peacemakers ; who, (becaufe they had a greater 
 regard to peace than to truth ,)flill interceededfor 
 peace and union with, and againft feparation 
 from the Eraflian party; which proved very 
 hurtful to truth, andto the fincereowners there¬ 
 of. This night the army marched in great difi 
 order, from the Shawhead-nuir , towards .Air- 
 dry ; but becaufe they thought not that a con¬ 
 venient place to quarter in, they returned and 
 marched in the night time, the way by Botbwell 
 Bridge to Hamilton-muir, where they continued ' 
 till they were defeat and broken: 
 
 June? 
 
yi'tne 19th, the army being weary, they refh 
 fcd in the forenoon. This day the principal of¬ 
 ficers of the honed party, went through the 
 troops and regiments of the army (Specially 
 fuch as had corrupt Eradian officers,) and gave 
 them a true account of the right date of the 
 Lord’s caufe, which our fathers had walked in, 
 in the time of our bed reformation, while they 
 keeped the Lord’s way, and he was with them: 
 and of their own endeavours to walk in a confor¬ 
 mity thereunto, at * Drumclog , and ever before 
 the Eradian party came among them. After 
 this Mr. Hamilton , and the red of the faithful 
 officers of the honed party, met, .and were 
 refolving toemmit a faithful declaration, which 
 might feparate them and the Eradian party, but 
 while they were confultingabout this, they were 
 dopped in their defign, by reafon of an alarm, 
 that the enemy was approaching towards them: 
 whereupon they fent out John Balfour, *An- 
 clrezo *Turnbul, and Mr. IValter Smith, with 
 their three troops of horfe; and Robert Hick, 
 and fome volunteers, who all did rencounter 
 with a party of the enemy, till the enemy fled; 
 and when this was over, the army was grie- 
 voudy difquieted with the fade lies, and re¬ 
 proachful calumnies, wherewith their ears 
 were filled, which Mr. JVelch , and his afloci- 
 ates fpread through the army of Mr. Hamilton, 
 wherewith the honed party were aflaulted, 
 namely, that, Mr. Hamilton had a defign to 
 fet up himfelf another Cromzvel; to be their pro- 
 1 G te&or 
 
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 teclor, againft all monarchical government, and 
 that he designed to fell the army to the enemy, 
 etc . fo one thing after another dill frudrated 
 their defign, of publidiing a faithful declaration, 
 to feparate them from that corrupt party, who 
 were hadning on their overthrow. 
 
 June 20th, a large augmentation of corrupt 
 Eradian gentlemen, and others, from Gallo¬ 
 way, and other places, (whom Mr. Welch etc. 
 had written for,) came this day to the army. 
 After they had confulted with MefT. Wdch and 
 Hume, and the reft of their Eradian brethren, 
 the Eraftian party drew up, and fent to Mr. 
 Hamilton, and the reft of the faithful officers 
 of the honed party, the following paper, which 
 they defired them to fubferibe: 
 
 “ We the officers of the presbyterian, army, 
 “ adhering to the declaration publiffied at Ha- 
 <e milton the 13th, of June indant 1679, do 
 “ hereby declare, that we have no intention, 
 “ nor defign to overturn the government, civil 
 “ or ecdefiadick, whereunto we are folemnly 
 “ fworn, in our National and Solemn League 
 “ and Covenants; and that it isour judgment and 
 “ opinion, that all matters nowin controverfy 
 ,l be forborn, and referred to be determined, by 
 “ their proper judicatories, viz. a free and unlimi- 
 i( ted parliament, and alawful general adembly.” 
 The faithful officers judly reje&ed this paper; 
 tor if they had fubferibed it, the Eradian party 
 would have had, all that they were feeking of 
 them, viz, the owning of the malignant intered, 
 
 , * of 
 
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 of that perjured tyrrant, Charles II. in the (late 
 of there quarrel, which Hamilton declaration 
 fully owned: and binding themfelves up, from 
 condemning, mourning for, preaching,praying, 
 or any other way witnefling againft the indul¬ 
 gence, and fupporting of the facrilegious fupre- 
 macy, and o wning and upholding of the bloody 
 tyrrant on the throne of iniquity etc. untill an 
 unlimited parliament and lawful general Afletn- 
 bly fhould declare thefc things to be linful al- 
 tho’ there was no parliament nor general Af- 
 fembly then in Scotland : but fuch as were open 
 avowed enemies to Jefus Chrift, his caafe, in- 
 tereft, and people, when the faithful officers re¬ 
 turned their paper, they fent back word to them 
 that fent it, that before they fubferibed that pa¬ 
 per, they behoved to be informed, what thele 
 things were, which were to be forborn in preach¬ 
 ing and praying, etc. until determined by a law* 
 ful parliament and Aflembly. To this the Era- 
 (lian party gave them no anfwer and fo far as I 
 know the paper was no more infilled upon, on¬ 
 ly thefe who fent it, did moft falfly aflert, that 
 thele that refufed tofubferibd it; were anarchi¬ 
 cal and antimonarchical. This nieffit there was 
 
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 one guard at Bothzvell Bridge , and another at 
 the ford eaft from Hamilton. At the ford, eigh¬ 
 teen of the enemy aflaultcd four of the guard, 
 and killed one of them, named James Clelandi 
 the other three with great rcfolution f red upon, 
 put to flight, and did purfue thefe eighteen, till 
 they fled away from them. 
 
 June 
 
C ] 
 
 7 „»e * I ft,a council of war was called to meet 
 upon Hamilton-muir, to determine of new, that 
 none fhould be admitted into the army, or 
 council of war, but fuch as fhould be found 
 ftraight in the Lord’s caufe, by owning Ruthcr- 
 glen tedimony, and Glafgozu declaration ; and dif- 
 owning Hamilton declaration; and all the reft 
 of the land’s publick fins. Before the council 
 of war met, the Eraftian party propoled, that 
 minifters fhould fit and vote in the council of 
 war, (for many of their minifters were there 
 prefent; but none of the faithful minifters, fave 
 only Mr. Honald Cargil) the honeft party op* 
 pofed this; but when it was further urged by 
 the Eraftian party, the honeft party laid, if mi¬ 
 nifters fat in the council of war, elders fhould 
 fit their alfo; (for they had many faithful el¬ 
 ders with them) the Eraftian party replyed to 
 this, no ciders fhould fit . there, unlefs, 
 they were of their choofing. After fometime 
 of fruitlefs rcafoning upon this, the council of 
 war did meet; and then the Eraftian gentlemen, 
 who came to the army the day before, with 
 their minifters came into the council of war, 
 uncalled and undefired: after they were come 
 all in, Mr. Hamilton being preces to the coun¬ 
 cil of war, (as he had formerly been) he did in 
 their name, give them an account of their refo- 
 lution, as to the flate of the caufe- that they 
 were to fight for, which was the owning of Ru~ 
 ttcrglen tejlimony , and Glafgozv declaration ; and 
 diiowning Hamilton declaration, and all the 
 
 land’s 
 
 \ 
 
C ft 3. 
 
 land’s publick (ms and defe&ions. The. Gallo¬ 
 way gentlemen, their minifters, and the reft of 
 the Eraftian party, told them plainly and pofi- 
 tively, that they would n6t own fuch a caufe, 
 nor join with the army in it. Then thefe gen¬ 
 tlemen and minifters, let themlelves down in 
 the council of war, by intrufion, and began to 
 reafon in their matters, as if they had been 
 members thereof. Then Mr. Hamilton told 
 them, that none were to reafon or vote in the 
 council of war, but fuch as were officers of 
 the army. To which ‘Thomas JVeir of Green - 
 ridge, and the reft of the Eraftian gentlemen 
 anfwered, tljat they difowned all that had been 
 officers in that army formerly, and that they 
 would own none for officers, but fuch as Ihould 
 be chofen of new by the gentry. Then with a 
 defign to turn out all the faithful officers of the 
 honeft party, and to have all their places filled 
 with men of their own denomination; they pre¬ 
 tended that many of the prefent officers were 
 unfit, to be trufted with any command or of 
 fice in the army; and therefore they urged, 
 that all the places of office in the army fiiould 
 be declared vacant; and, that new officers, 
 that were more capable and fit, for the com¬ 
 mand and‘leading of the army, fhould be cho¬ 
 fen by the gentry; and that all bygones fhould 
 be bygones; and that a way might be laid down, 
 to admit into the army, all that would join 
 with them. Whereupon, Mr. Hamilton rofe, 
 and in his own name, and the name of all who 
 
 * - were 
 
■. , . c ,j*. i . , 1 
 
 were faithful in the army, entered his protefla- 
 tion againft them; and declared, that he durft 
 not' venture his own life, and the life of the 
 Lord’s people, with fuch a company, and in 
 fuch a caufe, as they were for owning: which 
 proteftation, the reft of the faithful officers ad¬ 
 hered unto: and then anfwered, and laid, that 
 as for the officers, of vvhofe unfitnefs they com¬ 
 plained, they were judged to be the moft capa¬ 
 ble of any in the army when they were chofen: 
 and, if they would condefcend to ftate the 
 Lord’s caufe right, and profecute it againft all 
 its enemies; and keep days of fading and hu¬ 
 miliation for all the land’s publick fins, they 
 would willingly demit their offices, and ride as 
 volunteers: and if while doing fo, they died in 
 battle, their caufe fealed with their blood, might 
 be publifhed to the world, and tranfmitted to 
 pofterity: to this, the Eraftian party anfwered 
 nothing, but only this, they would own none 
 for officers, but fuch as fhould be chofen of 
 new, by the gentry. Then fome of the honeft 
 officers role up, and protefted againft admitting 
 any to vote in the council of war, who were 
 for maintaining and defending that publick de¬ 
 fection, the indulgence. And Mr. Hamilton 
 faid, that fince the fword was drawn, he thought 
 it a duty to appear againft all publick fins, and 
 againft the indulgence, as well as againft prela¬ 
 cy; God being difhonoured, and the fuprema- 
 cy ftrengthned, as much by the one, as by the 
 the other. This was very ill taken by all the 
 
 Eraftian 
 
xc 
 
 *c 
 
 r 53 3 
 
 Eraftian party, who were fo greatly increased 
 in the council of war, by ufurping gentlemen 
 and minifters, that they were three times as 
 many as the honeft officers in the council of 
 war, at this time. And being now numerous, 
 they declared their mind plainly and freely, and 
 faid, that they adhered to the indulgence; and 
 would both own it, and all that had accepted 
 of it. Upon this, Mr. Hamilton rofe again, and 
 the reft of the faithful officers, who were then 
 in the council of war with him, and faid, “ Gen¬ 
 tlemen,we have been owning the work again!!: 
 all the wrongs done to Jefus Chrift: ithd now, 
 t( ye are for eftablifhing and defending that abo- 
 lt mination, that we are witneffing againft; if 
 lc ye continue in this, I will go away; for I dare 
 “ not continue any longer with you, nor ven- 
 “ ture’my blood in battle with you.” Then 
 Mr, Samuel *Arnot faid, that Mr. Hamilton ffiould 
 be thruft out of the council of war, as one that 
 would fet fire to a nation: Mr. Hamilton replied, 
 I blefs God, I have given a teftimony againft 
 you, and what you are about: and fo he went 
 out and left them; and the reft of the faithful 
 officers, who were then in the council of war, 
 went out with him: the names of fo many of 
 them, as went out with him, that are in the ac¬ 
 counts before me, were ‘David Hackjlon, of 
 Rat billet, Henry Hall, of Haltgh head, John Pa- 
 ton, in Meadozuhead, "John Balfour, of Iiinloch, 
 Mr. IVliter Smith, William Carmichael, James 
 Henry, jin drew Tfurnhul, John Haddovj, Wil- 
 . . - ' Ham 
 
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 US4 1 
 
 Ham Cleland, .Alexander Rofs , James Foul is, 
 
 !David Caldwell, John Loudon, Bewly, Fxueedy, 
 John Hamilton, James Johnjlon , Andrew Toun jr, 
 James Henderjon, John Fowler , and others; 
 Mr. Donald Cargill alfo went out with them, 
 and they were refolved to join no more with 
 the EralVian party. Whenever the faithful of¬ 
 ficers went out from the Eraftian party, the E- 
 raftian party did choofe JVilliam Fergufon , of 
 Kaitlock for their preces, and Mr. John Dick 
 for their clerk; and prefently, by vote of their 
 liew pretended council of war: they concluded 
 (without the knowledge or confent of the ho¬ 
 ned party,) that a fupplication fhould be agreed 
 unto, and, in the armies name, fhould be fent 
 to the Duke of Monmouth, the tyrrant Charles 
 Stuart's baftard fon, and general of his army. 
 After the fupplication was fully agreed upon, 
 and made ready for fending to the Duke of 
 Monmouth : the Eraftian party fent two of their 
 number, viz. * Alexander Gordon younger, of 4 
 Farljlon, and the laird of Bankland to Mr. Ha¬ 
 milton , and the reft of the faithful officers with 
 him, (who were confulting what courfe to take, 
 in order to feparate themfelves from the Erafti¬ 
 an party) to defire them to come back, and to 
 give them aftiirance, that they fhould have all 
 fatisfa&ion they' could defire; upon this condi¬ 
 tion, the honeft officers returned. When they 
 came back to the Eraftian party, they protc- 
 (led, that they adhered to their former princi¬ 
 ples, and to all they had fpoken before they 
 
 went 
 
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 went out. The Eraftian party took no no* 
 tice of what they laid: but very fubtily laid they 
 had fomething to propofe to them, which great¬ 
 ly concerned the army: and when they were 
 defired to fay on; they laid, that it was their 
 defire that a {application might be drawn up, 
 and fent to the Duke of Monmouth\ Mr Ha¬ 
 milton (not knowing that it was already conclud¬ 
 ed among them,) in his own name and in the 
 name of the honed party, proteded againd any 
 fuch motion, as the fupplicating of Monmouth, 
 or any other ofChrid’sopen avowed enemies, as a 
 thing unlawful and unbecoming,and who were 
 witnefiing againd the wrongs done to the Lord 
 Jc(us Chrid, by his open enemies: by their 
 .perjury, periecution and fupremacy, etc. Then 
 Mr. ‘Dick their clerk unadviiedly laid, it was alrea¬ 
 dy concluded, and Oiould be fent to Monmouth, 
 tho’ they would not confent to it: others of them 
 contradicted Mr. Dick, and faid, it was not 
 done: Mr. Hamilton faid, if it was done, ic 
 was not their deed; and then reafoned againd 
 it, fliewed the finfulnefs of it. The Eradian 
 party contradicted him in this, and reafoned 
 for the lawfulnefs of it. Mr. JVelch and Mr. 
 Hume and others of them were at great pains 
 to perfwade, not only the officers, but the 
 whole army, that Monmouth and his bloody 
 army had a favour and good will to them; and 
 in the mean time of their reafoning about it, 
 (tho’ they fpakc as if it had been to do, and not 
 yet done) Mr. Dick broughtit out and read it be- 
 
 H , fore 
 
fore all prefent, and then their treachery was 
 fairly difeovered. Upon this, Mr. Hamilton 
 in his own name, and in the name of the honeft 
 party, protefted againft them, and what they 
 had done; and then he and the reft of the faith¬ 
 ful officers went out and left them again: not 
 fearing that they would be any more troubled 
 with them. But after they were gone out from 
 them, theEt:aftian party fent after them, and 
 defired another hearing. When they were 
 come back, fome that were for peace and union 
 amongft thenv propofed, that two gentlemen, 
 and one minifter of each party fliould be cho- 
 fen to make a decifion therein. This propo- 
 fal was gone unto; and the honeft party did 
 choofc Mr. Hamilton, ‘David Hackjlon, of Ra~ 
 thillet, and Mr. Donald Cargill : and the E- 
 raIlian party did choofe TVilliam Fergufon of 
 Kaitlocb, ‘John Cunningham of JBedland, and 
 Mr. Andrew Morton. When thefe fix were 
 gone together Mr. Hamilton protefted againft - 
 any fupplication to be fent to the Duke of 
 Monmouth ; but after fometime debating about 
 it, which they could not agree. Mr. Hamilton 
 laid, if they were willing to have the Duke of 
 Monmouth informed; of his fathers, his own, 
 and his affociates rebellion againft God, by 
 their blafphemy, perfecution and ufurpationof 
 church and ftate, etc. and to defire him to 
 lay down his weapons that he had taken up a- 
 gainft the Lord and his people, to that they f 
 
 would 
 
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 would content, but to no other thing; Mr* 
 
 Morton (if not really, yet feignedly) consent¬ 
 ed to this, and faid, that was all they were 
 wanting. The two gentlemen who were with 
 him faid nothing againft it; fb, they. all con¬ 
 cluded, that Mr. Cargill and Mr. Morton lliould 
 draw up the information; which they were de- 
 fired to do faithfully; and to be fure to have no¬ 
 thing in it, like fupplicating or owning of them, 
 who had by ufurpation cloathed themfelves 
 with the Mediator’s power: which Mr .Cargill 
 for his part cheerfully undertook. But when 
 Mr. Morton and the two gentlemen with him* 
 returned to the reft of their Eraftian friends, 
 they raged againft Mr. Morton , for that which 
 he had condefcended unto; and were fo far 
 from allowing him to alTift Mr. Cargill, in the 
 drawing up the information, that they were 
 refolute for fending their fupplication to the 
 Duke of Monmouth, and contrived a way how 
 to infnare Mr. Hamilton to lubfcribe it. This* 
 was late on Saturday night; and before .Mr. * 
 Cargill had time to draw up the information, 
 Mr. Hamilton wasinfnarcd by the Eraftian party, 
 in fubfcribing their malignant fupplication, as- 
 the.next days account make evident, by rei- 
 fon of therconfeffion that they had through the 
 day; it was very late before the officers went 
 t o'* their charges in the army. This night John 
 Balfour ‘of Kinloch and his troop, went four 
 mites from the camp where they quartcr&l: 
 next morning he returnd to the army, and his 
 
 troop 
 
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 troop was to have followed him: hut before 
 they returned the army was broken, lo his 
 troop was not in the army the time of the de¬ 
 feat. This night Ratbillet, Haugbbead, and 
 Jindtezv ‘T’urnbul, with their three troops kept 
 a flr-on g guard zi Bothzvell Bridge. 
 
 June 22d, being the fabbath, thefe three 
 faithful and valiant captains, who flood all night 
 with their troops at the Bridge , had their fcouts 
 out watching for the enemy; and after the break 
 of day that morning, fome of thefe fcouts return¬ 
 ed to the Bridge with the news, that they had a ‘ 
 rencounter with a confiderable party of the ene¬ 
 my: whereupon, thefe three captains with their 
 rroops, and lome mufkateers (who were come 
 down from the body of the army to them,) 
 marched alongft Bsthiuell Bridge, and fent 
 fome to Bothzvell town: and when there, they 
 eifeovered the enemy lighting their matches, 
 and marching towards them, they returned to 
 ' their former pofture at the Bridge. About this ’ 
 very time that morning, as Mr. Ha?nilton Was 
 riding through the army, one of the Carrick 
 captains of horfe, through the inadvertancy of 
 pne of his own men, had received a fliot in the 
 breafl, but with little harm to his perfon: the 
 captain was riding after the man with a drawn 
 fvvord to have killed him; but Mr. Hamiltonby 
 interceeding with the captain for the man’s life, 
 with fome difficulty got him flopped. In the 
 mean time. Major Lermount feeing the troops 
 at the Bridge, engaged with fome of the ene¬ 
 my, - 
 
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 my. Tent an exprefs to Mr. Hamilton, to com$ 
 in perfon to the Bridge with three troops of 
 horfe, or, three companies of fo_ot, for the re¬ 
 lief of their friends at the Bridge. At that very 
 inflant, Mr. Blakkader came in great hafte tp 
 Mr. Hamilton, with a paper in one hand, (viz. 
 the Eraftian parties fupplication, to be lent to 
 the Duke of Monmouth,) and pen and ink in the 
 other, and a very falfe lie in his mouth; anc( 
 faid, he was come from Mr. Cargill with this in¬ 
 formation to Monmouth, which he faid, Mr. 
 Cargill begged he might fubferibe in all hade, 
 that it might be fent to Monmouth. Mr Ha - 
 mil ton afked if it was Mr. Cargill's work; Mr. 
 Blakkader anfwered, yes; (whereas Mr. Car¬ 
 gill knew nothing of it;) Mr. Hamilton being 
 in a confufed hade, thinking that it had been true 
 that Mr. Blakkader faid, and having no doubt 
 concerning Mr ; Cargill's faithfulnefs therein, 
 without reading of it, did fubferibe it ; returned 
 it to Mr .Blakkader, and defired him to deliver it 
 to two of the faithful officers at the Bridge, that 
 
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 they might deliver it to the Duke of Monmouth ; 
 and thus by his prefent confufion, and too 
 great fimplicity, in believing Mr. Blakkader '$ 
 word; and not reading that paper before he 
 fubferibed it: he was bafely abufed, treache- 
 roufly betrayed, and fadly infnared by the E- 
 raftian party, to fubferibe their Tupplicarion 
 with his hand, (befide his intention) wbichche 
 had feveral times protefl^d againfl with his 
 mouth. For, according to his. own account 
 of it, he knew not that it was any other thing, 
 
 than 
 
a *> : 
 
 than the information to be drawn up by Mr. 
 Cargill , and Mr. Morton till afterward. The 
 fupplication being thus fubfcribed, it was car¬ 
 ried back in hade to the authors, and owners 
 thereof, and they did choofe Laird Murdoch , 
 a Galloway gentleman, and Mr. Hume, to pre- 
 fent their fupplica'tion to the Duke of Mon• 
 mouth. Then in hade, Mr. Hamilton fent Bar- 
 fcoh and James Carmichael, and with them two 
 troops ofhorfe, and two companies of foot: all 
 under the command of Barfcob, with commif- 
 don to him, to go over the river, and to be 
 fure to give charge to the fronteers of the ene¬ 
 my, before they returned: but after that Bar¬ 
 fcob and that party were gone from the body of 
 the army, and the officers were fetting the red 
 of the army in order to engage the enemy: Mr. 
 Hume in great hade rode up after them, and de- 
 fired Barfcob to dop, till the fupplication fhould 
 be fent before them, to the Duke o£ Monmouth: 
 fo Barfcob doped, and orders were given to a 
 drummer, to beat a parley; and drick orders 
 given to the army, to fire none Upon the ene¬ 
 my the time of the parley, till the enemy fliould 
 fire upon them. Then the Drummer beat the 
 parley, as he was ordered; and they getting 
 accefs, demanded a hearing, which w r as granted; 
 u'hereupon, Laird Murdoch and Mr. Hume, pad 
 fed along Bothwell Bridge, and went to the 
 Duke of Monmouth, to whom they prefented 
 their humble, and very loyal fupplication: the 
 fcope of which, was, after giving a declaration 
 
 of 
 
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 of tlicir malignant loyalty to their King, etc . 
 they defired, that the Duke would grant them 
 a cedation of arms, till they treated with him 
 concerning the redrefs of their injuries, wrongs 
 and oppreffions: and fome accounts bear, that 
 it was chiefly for a new indulgence: but, be this 
 as it will, it was furely a capitulating and com¬ 
 ing in terms of agreement, with Chrift’s ftated 
 Handing enemies. I know no further, what 
 part betwixt the Duke and them, but only this, 
 that he defired to know, if they owned Rather - 
 glen tejlmony ? and Mr. Hume anfwered, God 
 forbid. So they difowned it; and owned Ha¬ 
 milton declaration. The Duke would not grant 
 a cedation of arms, according to their defire, nor 
 be pleafed with any other condition, nor fo 
 much as come in terms with them,-till they laid 
 down their arms, and come in his mercy. So 
 difpatching them back to their friends, and or¬ 
 dering them to bring him information in half 
 an hour’s time atfurthed; if they would accept 
 of quarters upon thele terms. 
 
 When thefe Eradian commiflioners came back 
 to the army with this report from the Duke, 
 they could not agree to fend any anfwer back 
 to him. Mr. Hamilton and the honed party be¬ 
 ing dill againd all capitulating and treating with 
 him, fo, there was no anfwer fent back to him, 
 neither did he wait upon any: for all the time 
 of the parley, the enemy were making prepa¬ 
 rations, by viewing the ground, placing their 
 Cannons, ordering their men, etc. which might 
 
 have 
 
 i 
 
•have "been much hindred, and execution done 
 againft them, by a party of the army, lying op- 
 pofite to the enemy; if it had not been, that'the 
 Eraftian prevailed, to get a parley beat, and all 
 ■firing at the enemy flrickly forbidden the time 
 ■of the parley, until the enemy fhould fire at 
 them; for by this, affion was hindred, and li¬ 
 berty given to the enemy to advance upon them, 
 without interruption; for whenever Eaird Mur - 
 <doch and Mr. Hume, came from the Duke, he 
 gave orders to his army to advance towards 
 Botbwell Bridge , which accordingly they did; 
 tmd came up with their cannon to force the 
 Bridge, and fired over upon the army. RatbiU 
 let, Hauabbead, and Andrew \Turnbul with their 
 three troops, (who had Hood there all night,) 
 with a company of foot from Glafgove, who 
 were then come down from the army with a . 
 brazen cannon: all thefe Hie wed abundance of 
 bravery; and with much valour and gallantry 
 defended the palfage of the Bridge , killed lome 
 of the enemy, and made them defert their can¬ 
 non: when the enemy deferted their cannon,the 
 Council of officers fent down Barfcob and James 
 Carmichael , with their two troops of horie, and 
 two companies of Stirling/hire- men, command¬ 
 ed by Shargarton, and captain Lennox , all under 
 command of Barfcob , with orders to go alongft 
 the Bridge, and purfue thefe of the enemy, 
 who had delertcd their cannon. But when 
 'Barfcob came to the Bridge he would not ven¬ 
 ture over with his party-to purfue the enemy; 
 
 but 
 
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 but he and his party did moll bafely return to 
 the army, without any thing done for their 
 down coming. When the enemy perceived 
 that they were not purfucd, they returned to 
 the cannons, and a new frefh regiment was fent 
 down'from their army, for their affiftance, who 
 fired very fiercely upon thefe at the Bridge , and 
 killed two or three of them. Yet notwithftand- 
 ing of this, thefe three troops of horfe and two 
 companies at the Bridge, made a very briik re- 
 fiftance, untill all their ammunition was entirely 
 fpent: and then they fent to the general for a 
 new fupply of ammunition, or elfe, a frefhbody 
 of troops of horfe well provided, for their af- 
 fiflance: but it feems that the general had no 
 more ammunition to fend them: whereupon,after 
 confultation among the officers; all who were 
 at the Bridge, were called up to Hamiton-rnuir, 
 to the body of the army : fo thefe three faithful 
 and valiant captains, ‘David Hackjl on, Henry 
 Hall, and ^Andrew ‘Turnbul, and their troops 
 of horfe: who (except what the Glafgow com¬ 
 pany of foot, with the brazen cannon did) had 
 done all that was done againft the enemy to pur- 
 pofe, were forced to leave the Bridge, (as fome 
 lay) with fore hearts, when they were com¬ 
 manded to do fo; and could neither get more 
 ammunition nor more alfiftance: fo far as I can 
 underhand, the calling of them from the Bridge 
 was fuch a piece of ill conduct, that nothing can 
 excufe it: except what I fee in one of the-ac¬ 
 counts before me, which is; That they were not 
 , ■ I furnifhed 
 
C <4 3 . ... ■ 
 
 furniftied with ammunition, neither for the can¬ 
 non, nor for other guns: and therefore they 
 thought, that it would be beft to fight the ene¬ 
 my with hand ftrokes in the plain muir. 
 
 But after the Bridge was deferted, (fo far 
 as my information bears) none in that army 
 fought one ftroak: for, when ever the Bridge 
 was deferted, the Duke ordered about fix hun¬ 
 dred foot and dragoons, with three cannons, to 
 pafs alongft the Bridge* before the reft of his 
 army, which they did, and planted their can¬ 
 nons oppofite to the presbyterian army: the 
 reft of his army followed very (lowly. When 
 Rathillet, and the reft who had been at the 
 Bridge went up to the muir, (as Rathillet fays) 
 the army was formed, and very well drawn 
 up upon the muir, and feemed very hearty, 
 and all ready to march down in a body upon 
 the enemy: and every one feemed to encourage 
 another thereunto, (o jt was concluded, to fall 
 down upon the enemy prefently; but juft as they 
 were begun to move towards the enemy, upon 
 a fudden the cry rofe from troops and companies 
 upon all hands, -•and went through the army, 
 that their leaders were gone: thefe leaders who 
 deferted their charge, in the day of battle, were 
 all of the Eraftian party, and were then either 
 dying or feeking a new parley with the enemy. 
 This (topped their advancing any further to¬ 
 wards the enemy, till new officers were pro¬ 
 vided, to fupply the places of thefe bafe cow* 
 '-rdice unworthy, Eraftian deferters. But in 
 • • ' the 
 
 
[ # ] 
 
 the mean time that the general, and the reft of 
 the general officers, viz. Major Lermount, Major 
 Carmichael , "John Paton , TVtlliam Cleland, James 
 Henderfon, and Robert Fleeming-, were provid¬ 
 ing officers in their place; the enemy got time 
 to plant their cannon. And at that very inflant 
 of time, "Thomas JVeir, of Greer.ridge (who 
 had been a fad *Achan in that camp) and with 
 him James Carmichael, (another of the Eraftian 
 party) rode out of the midft of the army, where 
 they had been placed, and marched to the left 
 hand of all, and took up their ground in the 
 front thereof, where they did ftand a little; for 
 which they were fharply reproved by the gene¬ 
 ral; who begged them for the Lord’s fake, to 
 draw about, and gather up their troops; to pre¬ 
 vent the fad effeft that was like to follow, if 
 they did not: but they would not obey him: 
 but cried out that they were placed there of 
 purpofe, to be cut off'. And then, as men who 
 defigned the whole armies utter overthrow, 
 they wheeled about, and drew off their men, 
 four men in rank, and then returned to the face 
 of the left body of the foot, and the foremoil 
 going out, and opening to the right hand there¬ 
 of, on a fudden their whole two troops, confid¬ 
 ing of one hundred ,and forty horte, four in 
 rank at their full length wheeled towards the 
 body of the foot handing their entire; rode 
 through them, trode them down, and forced 
 the reft to flee; who with themfelves, brake 
 down all the troops drawn up for a referye: and 
 
 then 
 
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 then rode off, and fled with their troopsof horfe 
 in all hafte; and by this was the whole left 
 -hand broken, which occafioned the irrevo¬ 
 cable ruin of the whole army, the army being 
 thus difordered and broken, bythefe bafe trai¬ 
 tors, and not by the open enemy, the enemies 
 cannon began to play upon them at that very 
 Inftant of time, when the general was fpeak- 
 ing with ‘Thomas JVeir , of Greenridgey and 
 ‘James Carmichael . 
 
 Whenever the enemy faw them begin to 
 flee, they advanced upon them with great fu¬ 
 ry; and they were fo far left of the Lord, that 
 they had no power nor courage to refill, or in 
 the leall to withlland their enemies: but were 
 in the holy over-ruling providence of God, dil- 
 countenanced of God; deprived of all courage 
 and conduct; develled of all prote&ion, and 
 laid open to the raging fword, and to fly fhame- 
 1 Lilly before their enemies; the juft punifli- 
 rnent of owning the malignant intereft, of that 
 bloody tyrrant Charles Stwart , in Hamilton 
 declaration. The neglefting to purge the army • 
 o{ fcandalous perfons, who were dilfafedcd to 
 the caiiic of God; and to humble themlelves 
 by failing and prayer, for their own, and the 
 land’s publick fins and defections': and capitu¬ 
 lating with Chrift’s dated open enemies, by 
 the iupplication fent to the Duke of Monmouth; 
 etc. So that the blood of all that fell by 
 the fword that, day, and thofe of them, that 
 afterward periftied in fhipvvrack: might juft- 
 
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 ly have been charged upon all the Eraftian 
 pafty in general, and upon 'Thomas JVeir of 
 Greenridge , and James Carmichael in particular, 
 who were the inftruments of thtir overthrow, 
 as vVell as upon the open enemy. The horfe- 
 men fled, and generally efcaped. Worthy 
 and valiant ‘David Hackjlon of Rathillet , and 
 his troop, were the laft horfe-men upon the field. 
 The foot-men who fled, were hotly purfued, 
 and cruely murdered without any mercy, itp 
 and down the fields, banks and woods, where 
 ever the bloody foldiers overtook them. The 
 certain account of their number the day of 
 their defeat, I have not feen in any account 
 come to my hand. But Confidering that they 
 w’ere betwixt five and fix thoufand June 7th; 
 before the Eraftian party came to them; and 
 that theEraftian party, who came to them June 
 7th, and June 20th, were confiderably many: 
 befides thefe who came to them with Major 
 Lermount, June 1 5th, etc. altho’feveralthrough 
 difcouragment went and left them, at feveral 
 times before their defeat; yet their is reafon to 
 believe, that their number would have been a- 
 bove five thoufand at the fevveft, the day of 
 their defeat, the certain number of the fiain, I 
 fuppofe was never perfectly known, tho’ feme 
 have computed them to be about four hundred, 
 ofwhich there were but about fifteen killed on 
 the field where they flood; for they fled fo foon, 
 that they were generally killed in the flight. 
 The foldiers brought in very few prifoners, 
 
 but 
 
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 but cut off all (aim oft) that they overtook, only 
 Mr. 'John Kid, was taken, after that he was 
 purfued about three miles, I have no account 
 of any other pe'rlbn of diftinftion, that was ei¬ 
 ther killed or taken priloner, for they were 
 generally, if not all common people, who were 
 killed and taken. 
 
 That worhty religious gentleman, JVilliam 
 Gordon older of Ear lft on, was killed by the way, 
 coming to the army, near Glafsford about five 
 miles from Bothwell Bridge, by fome of the 
 Englijh dragoons, either the night before or 
 that morning. There was twelve hundred who 
 furrendred themfelves prifoners of war; and 
 thefe were difarmed, ftriped naked almoft to 
 the ikin, and commanded to lye down flat upon 
 theground, in the muir, withftrick orders not to 
 ftir out of that pofture; andaftrong guard fet up¬ 
 on them. One of them for turning himfelf to 
 a more eafy pofture, and fetting up his head 
 a little, was for that, inftantly Ihot dead. Af¬ 
 ter they were for fometime keeped in that con* 
 dition, they were tied two and two together, 
 and driven like ftieep by their enemies to E~ 
 dinburgh ; where they were keeped a long time 
 prifoners in Gray Frier s-Church-Yard\ where, 
 by the unhappy and finful counfels and per- 
 fvvafions, of fome indulged Eraftian minifters 
 there, particularly Mr. Edward Jamifon , and 
 Mr. George Job nit on (who prefted them to re¬ 
 deem their lives, by the lofs of their integrity,) 
 many of them took that finful infnaring bond, 
 
 ■ . called 
 
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 called the bond of peace, which condemned 
 their appearance in arms at Bothwell Bridge 
 for rebellion; and bound them up from lifting 
 of arms againit the bloody tyrrant Charles 
 Stwart in time coming. At laft many of them 
 who refufed, and fome of them that took that 
 finful bond, were fcntenced with banijfhment; 
 and fent to America. But by the way, the great-* 
 eft part of them periftied in lhipwreck. 
 
 Thus I havegiven as true and impartial an ac¬ 
 count ofthis riling, appearance, and defeat, aspoft 
 fibly I could do, from twelve feveral^accounts 
 in my hands, which I judge to be as true, as 
 any in the nation. And I am firmly per(wad¬ 
 ed, thatnoparty in Scotland,be who they will; no 
 never fo many in number, never fo great in power, 
 ftation and wifdom; never lo religious in pro- 
 feftion and practice, that fhall profels to appear , 
 in defence, or for relief of the covenanted world 
 of reformation in Scotland, fhall ever be blefted 
 of the Lord, with fuccefs and viiftory, if they 
 have the malignant intereft: in the ftate of their 
 quarrel: for fince we are fworn in the Solemn 
 League and Covenant, to bring malignants to 
 condign punifhment; owning of the malignant 
 intereft, brings Scotfwen under the guilt of nati¬ 
 onal perjury; no Scotfman can rationally expefty 
 to be blefted of the Lord, with fuccefs and vic¬ 
 tory, when they have this accurfed things 
 the malignant intereft hid among their own 
 
 fluff. 
 
 V. The fifth thing is, to give an account of 
 
 the 
 
the caufes of the Lord’s anger again ft that ar- * 
 my, which provoked him to make them fall \ 
 and fly ftiamefully before their enemies: and 
 they are thefe following: 
 
 ift, After the vifrory over bloody Graham 
 of Glaverhoufe at ‘ Drumclog , (inftead of purfuing 
 the enemy) fome ran too haftily and greedily 
 upon the enemies fpoil; which diverted and 
 hindred them that did fo, from doing any fur¬ 
 ther execution upon the enemy: and giving 
 fome of thefe enemies of God, his cayfe and 
 people, whom he had appointed to utter deftruc- 
 tion, quarters, and letting them go free; which 
 made them liable to that curfe, Jer. 48. 10. 
 Curfed is h* that doth the zvork of the Lord de¬ 
 ceitfully: and curfed be he that keepeth back his 
 f word from blood. And provoked the Lord to 
 make the lives of many go, for unjuft (paring 
 of their lives, 1 Kings 20. 42. 
 
 -idly, The admitting of Thomas TVeir , of 
 Greenridge into the army and council of war, 
 rvho was guilty of fhedding the blood of the 
 Lord’s people, at pentlandhills; and that after 
 h$-'refuted to give evidence of his repentance, 
 
 'It') r the lame: and therefore, as it was juft with 
 the Lord, to make the children of Ifraei to fall 
 and flee before their enemies, for the fin of an 
 unknown Achan in their camp; it was much 
 more juft in him, to make this army to fall and 
 flee before their enemies, for the fin of this 
 known Achan , whom they had in their camp: 
 fee the feventh chapter AJofiua. 
 
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 %dfy, The admitting the Eraflian party, and 
 fandalous perfons, who were diflafe&ed to the 
 caufe of God, and to the army and council of 
 war; when the army had power to keep them 
 out, which was dire&ly contrary to Deut. 
 23. 9. When the hojl goeth forth again(I: 
 thine enemies , then keep thee from every wicked 
 thing , and to other fcriptures which condemns 
 finful confederacy with fuch as are guilty of the 
 publick abominations of any evil and finning 
 times, as, I fa. 8. 12. Ezra 9. 14. 
 
 4 tly, The pleadingfor, and defending of the 
 indulgence (by the Eraflian party) which was 
 an approbation of tlie tyrrants facrelegious fu- 
 premacy, whereby 'Jefiis Chrift was robbed 
 and fpoiled of his crown rights, and royal pre¬ 
 rogatives, ashe is King and Head ol his Church, 
 contrary to Pfal. 2. 6. I fa. 9. 6, 7. Luke 2 3. 
 23. John 18. 33, 36, 37. Eph. 1. 22. 
 
 Ktly, The Eraflian party, their taking in the 
 malignant interefl in the flatc ol their quarrel, 
 in Hamilton declaration, (and publifhing the 
 lame as the declaration of the whole army) 
 which was a helping of the ungodly, and lov¬ 
 ing of them that hated the Lord; for which it 
 was juft with the Lord to bring wrath upon 
 the whole arm) 7 , 2 Chron. 19- 2. Since it 
 was not faithfully oppofed, and the owners of 
 i: timeoufly rejected. 
 
 | , 6thly, The violent oppofition that was made 
 /by the Eraflian party, (to the hindering of the 
 fame) to that necellary (and by the faithful in 
 
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 the army) much defired duty, oi keeping a 
 day of faffing and humilation, to confefs and 
 mourn for, their own, and the lands publick 
 lins and defe&ions, with a defign to hide and 
 conceal the grievous fin of the indulgence: for 
 which the Lord did juflly make out that threat- 
 ning upon the whole army: that fuch as covers 
 their fins Ihall not profper, Pro. 28. 13. 
 
 7 thly, The capitulating with the Duke of 
 Monmouth : by a(loyal lupplication, which was. 
 carried on by force and fraud, by the Erafti- 
 an party: which was a coming in terms of agree- < 
 rnent with, and feeking the favour of the hated 
 ftandingenemies of Jefus Chrift, with whom the 
 people of God fhould have war from generati¬ 
 on to generation, Exod. 17. 16. And was 
 dire&ly contrary to thefe fcriptures, Exod. 23, 
 
 32. Exod. 34. 12, 18. *Dhil. 7. 2. Judges 
 2. 2. And a trufting in the fhadow of thofe 
 heaven-daring enemies, who had trampled all 
 the precious interefts of Jefus Chrift under 
 their feet; and fhed the blood of his faints 
 like water. Therefore it was juft with 
 the Lord, to withdraw his favourable afhftance, 
 and protection from that army, when they 
 fought the favour of his open avowed enemies. 
 
 8 thly, That the general, and the reft of the 
 officers of the honeft party, did not (after fuf- 
 ficicnt difcoveriesof the Eraftian party; their 
 being againft the right date of the Lord’s caufe) 
 call all who were on the Lord’s fide together 
 Exod. 32. 2 6. and feparate from that corrupt 
 
 party, 
 
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 party, who dill fought, and at lad; brought on 
 
 their overthrow. Faithful Rathillet was fully 
 convinced that this was their fin,as is clear from 
 his letter to Shargartoun, where he fays, “ J. 
 “ think they, viz. The honed party) may 
 be forrowful while they live, that^ever they 
 “ fhould have joined with fuch, as dealt fo 
 
 “ unfaithfully as they had done.-—-They 
 
 u can never be excufed in thii;.' , Ahd adds, O 
 u lei: all wonder and admire the long .fuffering 
 <{ patience of God, that made not the earth to 
 “ fwallow up that army, that for all this (viz. 
 “ Oppofing the fading day) did not feparate 
 * l from fuch men.” And Mr. Hamilton in a 
 letter from Holland to the fuffering remnant of 
 the church of Scotland dated ‘December 7th, 
 1685% When fpeaking of his being treacherouf 
 ly betrayed, and jnfnared to give his confent 
 to the publication of Hamilton declaration , and 
 to fubfcribe the fupplication to the Duke of 
 Monmouth, he lays, “ I would have coveted the 
 “ greated of torture to have but once had, the 
 ** occafion of an open and free tedimony, a- 
 “ gaind thefe two particulars, and an Allenv 
 <e bly of my old companions, the Lord’s peo< 
 u pie in that land, to have acknowledged my 
 li fin, fhame, forrow and grief unto them. 
 ie And I think it my glory to acknowledge it 
 i( unto you: and to give you what fatisfaftioti 
 *' ye or the church of Scotland ever judged re- 
 quifite, according to the degree of my of¬ 
 fence.” From, theie two inftances it is evi- 
 . dent 
 
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 how grieved thefe godly men were,l 
 for their aflociating etc. with that corrupt 
 Eradian party. And many who were mod 
 found, dedfad, and faithful in owning of the 
 Lord’s caufe, were fo convinced of the fmful- 
 nefs' of Hamilton declaration, that they fealed a 
 tedirnony with their blood againd the lame. 
 I vvidi the fhameful fall of that army, lor their 
 fin of owning the malignant intered ofChrid’s 
 avowed enemies, and feeking their favour, 
 etc. may be a warning to the world’s end, to 
 all the true owners of the covenanted work of 
 reformation in this nation, that none of them 
 ever again, fplit on this dangerous rock, of 
 owning the malignant intered of fuch as we are 
 fworn againd m o*ir folemn covenants, or join¬ 
 ing in finful adbeiation with fuch as are, or 
 fllall be owners of the lame, led their fin be 
 written in their judgment, asvifibly as theirs at 
 Bothwcl Bridge was. 
 
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 July" i 2, > 
 
 William Wilson. 
 
 POSTSCRIPT. 
 
 A FTER the defeat at Bothzvel Bridge, the 
 Eradian partydid what they couldb, norrid 
 lies etc. to make JVlr. Hamilton odious and hateful 
 to the world, elpecially to liich as had any of 
 their friends or relations killed or taken prifon- 
 

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 crs there; by giving out,that he had fold the army 
 for money to the enemy, etc. And their lying re¬ 
 proaches were foimprelfed upon people’s minds, 
 and fo induftroufly handed down from father to 
 fon among the enemiesof truth; that to this very 
 day his name and memory is fuffering, by almofl 
 every body that fpeaksof that defeat. 
 
 1 have told the reader already, how he was 
 betrayed, and infnared by the Eraftian party, 
 in the matters of Hamilton declaration and the 
 fupplication fentto the Duke of Monmouth, and 
 of his continuing too long with the Eraftian party; 
 which were all to him caufesofgrief and borrow: 
 but as for any other thing that he was accufed 
 off; it had no better foundation, thanthemalice 
 of the Eraftian party, who hated him; becaufe 
 their own ways were wicked, and his righteous. 
 For under all his reproaches, he had this ad¬ 
 vantage of his enemies; that when the Lord 
 . buffered them to go from evil to worfe in de. 
 feftion; he honoured him with the grace of 
 liability to own his caufe faithfully to the end. 
 I could fay much in commendation, and for the 
 vindication of this worthy religious gentleman, 
 which I mull refer to another oCcafion; and at 
 this time only acquaint the reader with thefc 
 few particulars concerning him. 
 
 i ft. He had the honour to be employed as 
 the commiffioner of the perfecuted, true pref- 
 byterians of the church of Chrift in Scotland ; 
 to reprefent their cafe to, and crave the lym- 
 pathy of foreign churches, and it was by his 
 
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 fkill and faithfulnefs in profecuting this commiffion, 
 that he prevailed with the prefbytery of Groningen to 
 ordain the famous and faithful Mr. James Renwick , 
 a minifter of the gofpel for the perfecuted true pref- 
 byterian church of Chrift in Scotland , and with the 
 prefbytery of Ernden to ordain Mr. Thomas Linen a 
 minifter of the gofpel, for the fame church 
 
 idly , About the time of the revolution his brother 
 Sir Wi Ilian Hamilton of Pre/lon died, and he then 
 fell heir to his brother’s honours and eftate; but al¬ 
 though after that he was ever defigned, by the name 
 of Sir Robert Hamilton , yet becaufe he could not en¬ 
 ter into, poffefs and enjoy that eftate, unlefs he had 
 owned the unjuft tittle of the prince and princefs of 
 Orange , as king and queen of thefe three covenanted 
 nations; and in confequence thereof, owned the pre- 
 latick government, as then unhappily eftablifhed, up¬ 
 on the ruins of the work of God in thefe nations, he 
 never entered into, nor intrometted with his brother’s 
 eftate any manner of way : but with Mofes he made 
 that noble choice, to fuffer affliction with the people 
 of God, rather than to enjoy the pleafures of fin for a 
 feafon; and did eftcem a ftedfaft adherance to the 
 caufe of Chrift (and all the reproaches that followed 
 thereupon ) greater riches than all his brother’s eftate, 
 Heb. n. 25, 26. For out of true love to Jefus Chrift, 
 his covenanted caufe, intereft and people, he laid his 
 worldy honour in the duft} and continued a compani¬ 
 on in the faith, patience, afflictions and tribulations, 
 of the poor mean defpifed ones in-this Land, whoftill 
 owned the true ftate of the Lord’s covenanted caufe. 
 
 3 dly, After his return from Holland , when Mr. 
 Thomas Linen , Mr. Alexander Shields , Mr. William 
 Boyd , were drawing and driving, all who had been 
 formerly faithful, in owning of, and fuftering for the 
 Lord’s covenanted caufe, into a finful confederacy, 
 and full conformity with all the defections of the time, 
 in a genaal meeting at Douglas , Novem. 6th, 1689. 
 
 . He 
 
He gave a faithful proteftation againft thefinful courfea 
 they were then carrying on, particularly, their own¬ 
 ing of the prince and princefs of Orange , as king and 
 queen of thefe covenanted nations; becaufe they were 
 fworn to prelacy, in oppofition to our covenanted work' 
 of reformation; againft raifing of the Angus regiment, 
 which was a finful and fcandalous aflociation with ma* 
 lignants; and againft joyning with the Eraftian mint- 
 fters, which they had formerly, juftly withdrawn from, 
 without any figns or evidences of repentance in them, 
 for the many defections that they were guilty off. 
 
 4 tbfyy After thefe three notable backfliders, Mr. 
 Thomas Linen^Ax. Alexander Shields ^and Mr. lEi^ip m 
 Boyd , had treacheroufly betrayed the Lord’s caufe, arid 
 drawn the mod part of the former owners thereof into 
 the fame excefs of defe£tion with themfelves, to own 
 all the defeftions of the time, he was the chief inftru- 
 ment in the Lord’s hand, of gathering together out of 
 their difperfions, fuch of the old fufferers, as had efca- 
 ped that deluge of defe£tion, that the reft were fallen 
 into; and bringing them again into an unite party, 
 and general Correfpondence, upon the former honeft 
 ftate of the teftimony. 
 
 5 tbly t He had a chief hand in that faithful declara¬ 
 tion, which was publiflied at Sanquhair , Aug. 10th, 
 1692; for which he was apprehended, by fomeof the 
 old perfecutingfoldiers, at j Earljlon^ Sepi. 10th, 1692; 
 and carried by them to Edinburgh ; and there, and 
 elfewhere, he was keeped prifoner, till the 4th of May % 
 1693. When he was brought before the pretended 
 council at Edinburgh , to be examined concerning that, 
 declaration,he declined them,and all upon whom they 
 depended ; becaufe they were not qualified, according 
 to the word of God, and our Solemn Covenants. All 
 the time of his imprifonment, he continued faithful and 
 ftedfaft in the Lord’s caufe, and was fet at Liberty, 
 without any complyance whatfomever. 
 
 6 tbly i From his liberation to the day cf his death. 
 
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 he contfntfed faithful in contending CameiHy for t 
 faith cnce deliver .d to tbe*foii ns,"Jude ver. 3. Ami < 1 : 
 greatly {Lengthen and encourage the reft of the fufFe- 
 ring Remnant, with whom he continued in chriftian 
 communion, both by his pious and godly example, and 
 Ic’-ubuaUe counfel and advice, in what concerned the 
 .faivsti'.n of their fouls, and the right carrying on of 
 the teilimony, for thccasSe they were owning. 
 
 Some years before his ; xhoath, he was taken ift with 
 the ftone, of which he endured a very fore and iharp.’ 
 aftiiciion, with a great deal of chriftian .patience*, -and. 
 holy fubmifnbn to the will of God. He died -mpr* 
 rcivdcnefs, OtJab. 21ft, 1701; being then 51 yet rs of 
 And'Ieft a faithful teftimony behind him, to the 
 Cord’s noble and honourable caufe, which he had long 
 gowned and fullered for.;,, wherein, he blefTeth Godp. 
 that it was many years fince his intereft was feemed in 
 him ; and tho’ I never had. the honour ofperforiai ac- ' 
 quaintance vt^th him; )et, from the.fweetand fn oury 
 «cc-tints, that] have h »u frO-m fetch as were perfcnally 
 acquaint-with'him; Snd, from what I have in my. 
 
 hands 
 
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 ds< In. write concerning him; I bel'evc, he was.a | 
 
 i!i who (for found nets in the ffttii, true pie- -j 
 
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 ^-he-rc-a] exercifeof.godiin. 
 
 iin.fs, a gofpil converfatior., , 
 tire, true undertianding of the ritrht ftate of the Lprd’^H 
 
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 .caufe,. in every part thereof, accompanied ,wif' 
 frtye and alTe<^ioh to, anti zeal according to kyO rledgc^- 
 fbf the fame, ^domtirtu'd m with uecifaftnefs and 
 •ity to the-end of his time) was pieferable to ail of hi? 
 ftation, in this nation, ..in his own. time, lines, 
 he appeared publicJdy for the Lord’s caufe.- And 
 therefore, he was a great honour to the name of Ramil- ] 
 ton , and an honour to his nation. . 
 
 I wiihi that what I have Lid concerning him, rria.y j 
 he r. mean to hop the mouth of reproachers,wbo‘hhiier- :f 
 
 lOyfcave endeavoured to make b' 3name ar -d Toemcd,* 
 And in this I am their friend. 
 
 
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