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 The account of the Siege of the Castle of Edinbui'gh, now pre- 
 sented to the Members of the Bannatyne Club, has been printed 
 from a MS. formerly the property of Robert Mylne, writer in 
 Edinburgh, and now preserved in the Library of the Faculty of 
 Advocates. It contains, under the quaint title of the Pourtra'it of 
 True Loyalty, a genealogical account of the family of Gordon to 
 the time of George, first Duke of that name, and concludes with a 
 Diary of the Siege of the Castle, tlien under his command. A si- 
 milar narrative, apparently derived from the same soiu-ce, was print- 
 ed by Grose in his Antiquities of Scotland ; but the history in the 
 " Pourtrait of True Loyalty" is considerably more minute in its de- 
 tails ; and as its acciu'aey seemed to be sufficiently established by 
 the documents in the Appendix, it appeared not to be inconsistent 
 with the objects for which the Club was established, to take this 
 opportunity of preserving the fullest account which probably now 
 remains of an event, not altogether devoid of interest, though not 
 l)erhaps of much historical importance. 
 
 The narrative affords sufficient internal evidence, that it was 
 written by a jierson who was in the Castle at the time of the 
 events which it records. It is not known who the author was.
 
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 He does not himself say any thing which can lead to a satisfactory 
 conjectui-e on the subject ; but in the History of the Family of Gor- 
 don, published by Mr Wm. Gordon, of Old Aberdeen, in the begin- 
 ning of the last century, it is stated that he was supposed to have 
 been a INIearns gentleman, of the name of Biirnet, and a Priest of 
 the Romish Church ; and in that history, as also in another short 
 accoimt of the family, published in London about the same time, 
 reference is freqiiently made to the work imder the name of the 
 Burnet MS. There is some reason, however, to doubt the accu- 
 racy of Mr Gordon's information ; for the dedication of the history 
 to the Eai'l of Himtly, which is printed in the Appendix, is sub- 
 scribed with the initials W. R., and the author himself says there 
 was not one Popish Priest in the Castle dm'ing the siege. But 
 even this is not conclusive against the supposition of his having 
 been a Priest, or that his name was Burnet. He mentions by name 
 and surname a large projiortion of the Garrison, and other persons 
 who were in the Castle, and no clear notice occurs of any one who 
 could have borne the initials W. R. It was a general custom with 
 Roman Catholic clergymen to change their names on entering into 
 orders, and it might not have been convenient for any of them to 
 acknowledge having been in the Castle at that tune, as many of 
 the Gai'rison and other friends of the cause, including the Duke of 
 Gordon himself, were apprehended in the following month, on ac- 
 count of alleged designs against the government. There are pas- 
 sages in the work, from which it might be infeiTcd that the author 
 Avas an Episcopalian ; but, at all events, it is plain that he was not
 
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 a Preshyterian, against which class of the reformed religion he ap- 
 pears, from many passages in the " Pourtrait," to have entertained 
 great antipathy. 
 
 The whole of the narrative, as given by the author, is now print- 
 ed ; and as the account by Grose contains certain passages which 
 are omitted in the " Poiu'trait," it has been thought proper to insert 
 these in the text between brackets ; wliile a few paragraphs, which 
 could not be introduced in that manner without injiuy to the conti- 
 nuity of the narrative, are added in foot-notes. 
 
 It is believed that no ground plan of the Castle exists nearer to 
 the time of the Siege, than those of Gordon in 1647, and Edgar in 
 ITiS, both of them at periods too remote to convey any accurate 
 idea of the state or appearance of the works and buildings dm-ing 
 the siege. The frontispiece and vignette are taken from the accu- 
 rate and nearly contemporaneous jiublication of Slezer. 
 
 The Appendix consists of a miscellaneous collection of documents, 
 which support the general correctness and fidelity of the narrative. 
 The extracts from the news-letter, containing the account by the be- 
 siegers of some particulars which occurred during the month of May, 
 and the author's evident access to public documents, with the fair use 
 which he has made of them, as evinced by the passages taken from 
 the minutes of the Convention of Estates, are, in so far, proofs of this 
 fact. The letter from the Duke of Gordon and Captain Dunbar is 
 curious, as coming from the party who had the charge of defending 
 the Castle. The excerpts from the account of the Affairs of Scot- 
 land by Lord BalcaiTas, supply a few particulars, which appear to be
 
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 of some value, from showing the spirit in which the Duke of Gor- 
 don's exertions were received and considered by the friends of the 
 abdicated family. The short passage from Gordon's History, with 
 the two letters from King James II., also taken from the same work, 
 are given on account of the evidence they afford, that the " ene- 
 mies," who are frequently alluded to in the " Pourtrait," must have 
 used undue means to intercept or obstruct his Grace's communica- 
 tions, as he certainly had frequent opportunities of corresponding 
 
 with his friends during the time of the Siege. 
 
 R. B. 
 
 27 Ik June 1S2S.
 
 SIEGE 
 
 OF 
 
 THE CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 
 
 James, the seventh of that name in Scotland, and second in Eng- 
 land, succeided to his royall brother, is no sooner seated on the 
 throne of Great Brittaine, then he lets the world sie to its amaz- 
 ment, a rare proofe of the candour and ingenuitie of his soule, by 
 publickly professing, what he inteiiourly beleived ; to witt, the Ro- 
 man Catholick Religion ; against which he knew, by veiy late ex- 
 perience of the attempted Bill of exclusion, the farr greater part of 
 his subjects were most violently bent ; and that the very shadowes 
 and apprehensions of its prevailing in his dominions, had, ever since 
 it was abolished by Acts of Parliament, rendered the reignes of his
 
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 royal predicessoi'S unquiet, and molested with seditious plots and re- 
 bellions. Yet so deeply engraven on his soule were the impressions 
 of the lyfe to come, and so clear the conviction of that religion to 
 be the only true one, and, consequently, the undoubted way to fu- 
 ture happiness, that he thought it required not long deliberation 
 whither he should hazard to losse earth for heaven, and temporall 
 kingdomes for one that is eternaU ; a resolution, even then admired 
 by the greatest amongst Christians, and which, in after ages, will 
 be, in the esteem of all those who look beyond tyme as he did, more 
 glorious to him than the conquest of as many more kingdomes as 
 those he so generously resolved to hazard when put in competition 
 with the kingdom of heaven. 
 
 Very shortly after he had declaired his sentiments as to I'eligion, 
 he is invaded by forces from Holland, both in England and Scot- 
 land, conducted by the Duke of Monmouth, his nephew naturall 
 into the former, and by the Earle of Argyle (whom his brother had 
 restored to the Earledom and fortunes of that family, after all the 
 treasons of his father, and his suffering death on a scaffold for the 
 same,) into the latter, both expecting a generall revolt in the king- 
 domes they invade. But being frustrate of their expectation, their 
 rebellious, unnatural, and ingrate attempt, was easily and in short 
 tyme crushed. Argyle, not finding the Scots to ryse with him see 
 cordially and so numerously as he had hoped they would, wes forced 
 to linger in that corner of the country where he landed, on the west 
 of Scotland called Couwell, betwixt Lochfyne and Lochloung ; and 
 in the meantyme, the king's modelled forces, conducted by the Earle
 
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 of Diinibartan, are ordered to march against him : Another party of 
 soldiers, under the command of the Marquis of Athole, is appointed 
 to retard his progress untill the Earle of Dunabartan should draw 
 nearer ; and untill the Duke of Gordon (appointed Liuetennant of 
 the North by a speciall commission daittedat Wliitehall the 10th of 
 June 1685), conducting the northern forces, should come to block 
 him up on the other syde; in whose fidelitie the King declaired (to 
 one who told it to me) to have a very particular confidence. 
 
 Nor could any person doubt of his eagerness in this expedition, 
 considering he wes a yoimg nobleman who had, without any obliga- 
 tion off duty, given sufficient proofTe of his courage in forraigne 
 countryes, and would be glad now to make it appear for the service 
 of his own Prince at this tyme when it required it ; and his allead- 
 gance obliged him to it, and his predicessors had always done : and 
 that the streame of his families glory might not be interi'upted in his 
 person. And, moreover, that in so just and honourable ane occasion, 
 he coiild have the more liberty to I'esent the unjust oppression of his 
 family by the Earle of Argyle, who had soe many years possessed 
 its revenues, as the reward of his own and his fathei-'s treacliery 
 and rebellion agaiast King Charles the First and Second, whilst he, 
 his mother and sisters had scarce decent food and rayment allowed 
 them. These things, I say, being considered, non coiUd rationallie 
 doubt of his forwardness in the execution of the orders given him 
 in the expedition against Argyle. 
 
 Argyle himselfe seemed to be sufficiently convinced of it, since 
 finding the Duke of Gordon was drawen near to him, he thought it
 
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 not expedient to wait his comeing, and encounter ana adversary so 
 animated with resentments of his Prince's and his own particular 
 injuries ; but rather to march away and try his fortime against 
 the regular forces, conducted by Dumbartan ; the sight of whom 
 did so quell the courage of his rebellious crew, that they took the 
 darkness of the night to cloak their retreat, leaving himselfe to fall 
 into the hands of a covmtry cloime, by whom he wes made prisoner 
 and brought to the Earl of Dumbartan; from him sent to Edinbui'gh, 
 where he suffered the punishment of liis perfdiousness, by having 
 his head severed from his body on a publick scaffold ; as Monmouth 
 had his cut of in England after his party was defeat, in as miracu- 
 lous maner, with the same facility as that of the Earle of Argyle. 
 
 After this, it was most reasonable that the King should put some 
 of his own profession in publick emplojTnents of the state and army, 
 that, as ther principles led them to be faithfull to him, so these offi- 
 ces might enable them to be more usefull and serviceable to him : 
 Yet in this he used great moderation, employing but very few, not 
 to give occasion of murmiire and sedition to the Protestants, who 
 lookt upon Roman Catholics in publick emplojTnent as usurpers, 
 becaus excluded from them by the standing lawes, made, at and 
 after the change of religion, that the nimaber of competitors for thos 
 offices by that exclusion reduced to a lesser nimiber, the greater 
 might be ther own shaire of them : which very probably was no less, 
 if not more, the motive for making thes lawes, and the so pertina- 
 cious repugnance to have them repealled, as the caire and zeale of 
 the Protestant religion.
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 5 
 
 Amongst thes few who were put in publick offices in Scotland, 
 the Diike of Gordon was one, to whom the King entrusts the Castle 
 of Edinburgh, the strongest fortress, and of greatest importance in 
 the kingdome, where were keeped theRegalias or badges of the Sove- 
 raignitie, the public registers or records of the nation, and the 
 magazine of armes and ammunition for warr ; ane employment of 
 more honour than profit, and by which one of his quality could, in 
 occassions of warr, better testifye their courage and loyalty, than 
 augment their revenues or better their fortune in tyme of peace : 
 And, at the same tpne, his Majestic made the same Duke of Gor- 
 don one of his Privy Counsellors, and one of the Lords of the 
 Treasury. 
 
 Much about that tyme, ther being others of the nobility compe- 
 ting for more important and more lucrative offices of the state, and 
 each competitor endeavouring to make a party at court to assist 
 him to obtaine his pretension, the Duke of Gordon is solicited by 
 thes who thought they could, with better ground, crave and lay 
 clame to his assistance. But he, regairding more the publick good 
 of the country, and the peace and prosperity of the King's affairs, 
 declyned to joyne with those who claimed his assistance upon pri- 
 vate reasons, against the other competitor, of whose capacity and 
 good intentions to serve the King he had sufficiently knowledge of; 
 and particularly, that he would not let himselfe be reduced to fol- 
 low such methods as the others did, which afterwards notably pre- 
 judged the King's affairs. 
 
 This, so rationall, conduct of the Duke of Gordon in this compe-
 
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 tition, did so disoblidge the other competitors that jjretended 
 right to his assistance, that they, coming to be preferred by the 
 King to those offices, ceassed not, while they continued in them to 
 oppose the Duke's concerns in all occasions where any matter 
 that regairded him came in their way ; and more particularly in 
 these of some of the lands of Lochaber, wherof the King had given 
 him the gifts, and they made them be retrenched. 
 
 But this was not of so great importance, if they had not lyke- 
 wise endeavovired to blast his honoiir, by misrepresenting him to 
 his Prince, not as having any disloyall thoughts or inclinations 
 tending to his Majestie's prejudice, but as not being endued with 
 those qualifications required to render him such signall ser\aces as 
 that family had always rendered to his royall ancestors. 
 
 En\'y, detractions, and back bytings are the ordinary guests that 
 frequent coiu*ts ; and jirinces, as they cannot in prudence shut 
 their eares against all ill rejjorts of ther subjects' inclinations and 
 designes, least they might come to be surprysed with some treache- 
 rous contryvances, so they neid more than ane ordinary prudence 
 to discerne those insinuations that are made to them out of private 
 animosities, jealousies, and interests, from those which proceid 
 pm'ely from the informer's care of the safety of ther person and 
 authority, and the peace and prosperity of ther kingdomes. 
 
 Ther is non amongst thos kings of whom histories give particular 
 accompt, who, with better groimd, can be judged to have been indued 
 with this extraordinary prudence of discerning true and disinterest- 
 ed informations from slanders and cahunnies, then Da^^id, King of
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. t 
 
 Israeli, a prince so eminently furnished with all vertues, so much 
 commended for the clearness of his judgement, the sharpness of his 
 witt, the straightness of his justice, and a declared enemy to detrac- 
 tors (iletra/icntem secreto jwoximo suo hinc persequehar, psal. 101, 
 V. 5. ;) yet the sacred history bears, that he was imposed on in this 
 point, and gave credit to a servant calumniating his master : He 
 beleived Siba slandering Mephiboseth, the son of his faitlxfull and 
 dearest friend Jonathan, and laying no less guilt to his charge then 
 the affecting of the crown of Israeli, who had never a disloyall 
 thought ; and all he grounds his accusation upon, is his master's 
 not accompanying the King in his flight from Absalom, who had 
 revolted the kingdom against him : And, in the meantime, this 
 treacherous servant has rendered his master incapable to wait on 
 the King in that occassion, by taking away his asse, which should 
 have carryed him ; not being able to go a foot as the King did, by 
 reason he M'as lame : And for reward of this his pei-fidie to his master, 
 and making his prince beleive a lye, he gets all the goods and pos- 
 sessions that belonged to Mephiboseth gifted to him to be possessed 
 as his own : And even after IVIephiboseth had discovered his kna- 
 very and justifyed himselfe, instead of being punished, the King, by 
 a new sentence, only takes back the halfe of the goods for the be- 
 hoofe of Mephiboseth, and confirms the other halfe to Siba : which 
 sentence, I find, interpreters sti-ive not to excuse, because it seemes 
 too palpably unjust. 
 
 Tliis example lets us sie that the most just and most prudent of 
 kings may be imposed wpon, and faile in discerning Avhither the in-
 
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 sinuations made to them of ther subjects fidelity and capacity to doe 
 them service, or prejudice, proceids from the care of the publick 
 good, or from private interest, or animosity of those who makes them. 
 
 How farr the King gave credit to those misrepresentations made 
 to him of the Duke of Gordon, I cannot determine it ; but certane it 
 is, they made some impression upon him, which the Duke found 
 when he went from Scotland to com-t, in March 1688, by his being 
 less noticed by the King, and not admitted so frequently to discourse 
 in private with his Majestie as he used to be formerly ; which was 
 so much the more painfull and troublesome to him as that he could 
 not oflfer to justify himselfe, as not being accused for doeing or de- 
 signeing to doe any iU, but for not doeing the good services he had 
 not yet the opportunity to doe. "Wlierefore, he was necessitate to 
 bear the coldness of his prince with patience, and remaine constant 
 in liis fidelity to him (as a subject truly loyall is bound to doe,) con- 
 tent with the testimony of his own conscience. 
 
 But those who had given so disadvantagious a character of him, 
 judged ther credit concerned to endeavoiu* to make it prove a true 
 one, least they might be lookt upon as backbyters if it should prove 
 false ; and haveing represented him as less capable to doe the King 
 service, to take away as much as they could from him, the meanes 
 and opportunities to do it, as Siba did his master's asse, that he 
 might not attend the King in his flight, becaus he had designed to 
 accuse him for his absence as treasonable. 
 
 To this purpose ane order is prociu'ed from court, to lodge the 
 artillary company in the Castle, where the magazine of armes and
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 9 
 
 ammunition of the kingdome were keept ; and to dislodge the subal- 
 terne officers of the garison, to give the best accommodation to those 
 of the artillery, who were many of them strangers and Hollanders. 
 And the master of the artillary, Lieutennant-Generall Douglas (no 
 friend to the Duke of Gordon, and whose loyalty was even upon 
 good grounds suspected by many to be such as it jiroved shortly 
 afterwards) appointed to have frie access to the magazine, (beiiig 
 conmiander in chiefe of the standing forces,) at any horn- he pleased 
 to demand it, by day or night. 
 
 The Duke having turned out of office one Forbess, the master 
 gimiier of the garison, as a person whose fidelity he doubted of, 
 and whose treacherj^ afterwards shew the dovibt was not groimd- 
 less ; and having put a Frenchman, a Roman Catholick, in his place, 
 a particular order comes doim from com-t, to turne out the Catho- 
 lick and repou the Protestant, and to dislodge Ensigne Wincester, 
 another Roman Catholick, (afterwards killed in the King's service 
 at the Water of Boynd, in Ireland,) to give Forbess the better ac- 
 commodation. 
 
 Before the Diike's time, the custome being introduced into the 
 
 Castle, to let the soldiers touch no money of ther pay till the month's 
 
 end, and in the meantyme to have as much bread, ale, brandy, 
 
 wyne, as they neided, furnished to them by the lieutennant govern- 
 
 oui', who keept cellares and servants for that purpose, and at the 
 
 month's end to give them of their pay what remained over the 
 
 pryce of the bread or drink they had called for ; or, if they exceided 
 
 far, calling for more than ther month's allowance amounted to, it was 
 
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 rebated oflf the fost end of the following month's pay. This acco- 
 nomy the soldiers repyned much at, but being a custome, they were 
 forced to be content with it. IMajor ^Miyte, the liuetennant go- 
 vernour, happening to die, the Duke, to oblidge the soldiers, bracke 
 off that custome, and gives the halfe of ther pay weikly to manage 
 at ther own pleasure, reserving the other halfe to defi'ay the expences 
 of the bread and drink they might call for from the cellar. 
 
 How soon another liuetennant governom- is named to sueceid, 
 ane order is sent from court recalling that method the Duke had 
 taken, and re-establishing the former acconomy, which did let them 
 sie how litle the methods he used to winne his soldiers hearts, and 
 to oblidge them to stand by him in tyme of neid, were approved at 
 court, and how myndfuU his enemies were to endeavour to verifie 
 the character they had given of him. 
 
 But this was not all. ^Miether it was upon the emitting of the 
 order concerning the lodging of the artillary company in the Castle, 
 that the Duke did remonstrate he could not be accomptable for its 
 seciu'ity, while the master of the artillery could command patent gates 
 at his pleasure, and his company lodged within it ; or whether it 
 was to make the world suspect the Duke's loyalty, or if there wer 
 any worse designe at the bottome of it, I shall not judge, but a new 
 order comes from court, while the Duke was yet present at it, to 
 remove most of the armes and ammimition from the magazine in the 
 Castle of Edinburgh, and transport the same by water to the Castle 
 of Stirling ; which being siurendered at the very beginning of the 
 Revolution, in the month of December 1688, the armes and ammu-
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. H 
 
 nition so transported, were employed against the King, both in Scot- 
 land and Ireland, and against the Castle of Edinburgh itselfe. 
 
 The Duke nieitting thus dayly at court with new effects of his 
 enemies spyte, and finding all endeavours used to recover the good 
 esteem of his Prince, wherof ther malicious insinuations had robbed 
 him, to have no success, he offers to resigne his charge of the Castle 
 of Edinburgh, and begs lea\'e to retire beyond seas, since he was 
 thought so little capable to do his Majestie any noticeable service 
 at home. 
 
 In the meantyme the Prince of Orange, having made great pre- 
 parations in Holland, of horse, foot, provisions for warr, and ships 
 to transport them, — about the beginning of October, the report is 
 spread that his intention was to land in Brittain, and his designe 
 was to reforme the disorders of the government, and redress the 
 grievances of the people on pretext of religion ; they were noe more 
 restrained, but had full liberty allowed them by the govermuent to 
 frequent meittings for ther devotions throughout the whole king- 
 dome. Thes things being so obvious to every one's consideration, 
 rendered the Prince of Orange's designe against Brittain incredible. 
 
 However, the Duke of Gordon, having so small satisfaction at 
 court, and the Earle of Melfort, secretary of state for Scotland, 
 telling him exjjressly the King would not permitt him to goe beyond 
 seas, thought fitt to retm-n to Scotland and attend his charge, wher- 
 of the offer of resignation was neather accepted of, nor did he judge 
 it suteable and consistent with his duty and loyalty to his prince, 
 notwithstanding of his coldness towards him, to be wilfull in giving
 
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 over his charge of the castle, and retiring abroad in a tyme when 
 his Majestie might have most use for his faithfull servants. 
 
 He retnrnes, therefoire, to Scotland in the moneth of October ; and 
 though such a formidable tempest threatened both king and king- 
 doms, yet this did not hinder his enemies to be myndful to find out 
 new occasions of testifying their ill will against him. For, that his 
 ad\yce and vote myght not be needed in the affairs of the treasiuy, 
 of which the king had formerly made him one of the number com- 
 missionatted to manage them, ane order comes from coiu*t, impower- 
 ing the Lord Chancellour, together with any two he should think 
 fitt to call to his assistance, to determine all matters regairding the 
 treasury, and to dispose of the publick money as they three shoidd 
 find expedient for the Government. 
 
 After a person being apprehended as suspected, and a most un- 
 necessary question being askt him by the Chancellour, and he either 
 too timorous, or too scrupulous to answer the same, he is ordered to 
 be sent prisoner to the Castle, without sufficient reason for restraint. 
 The Duke of Gordon is ordered to shut him up. He, considering the 
 man seazed to be but of mean rank, and the Castle prisons being 
 only for persons of quality that are found to be delinquents against 
 the state, and this man being neather such delinquent, nor of qua- 
 lity, makes some demurre to admitt of him, aUeadging, as was true, 
 that he had his commission independent from the Couusall, and con- 
 sequently, was not boimd to obey their and the Chaucellom-s orders 
 only, as to prisoners, unless they were presented to him by way 
 of request, as they were wont to be to the governom-s of that Castle
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. IS 
 
 who had preceided him ; and immediately desires they should cause 
 conduct him thither, and delyver him to any of the officers that 
 should be present within the Castle ; which was instantly done. And 
 within few houres therafter, ther comes ane order againe from the 
 Chaucellour to set him at liberty, for fear the Presbyterians should 
 raise a tumult in the city, the person seazed being a zealot of that 
 sect, lately come from Holland, and his name Charles Gordon. 
 ^Vitliin a foiuluight after this comes ane order fi'om coiu't, enjoyn- 
 ing all the governours of forts and castles in the kingdom to obey 
 thenceforth the orders of the Privy Council, or of a Committie of 
 the Councill, or the Chancellour's own order, as to prisoners, not- 
 withstanding of ther commissions from the king independent of 
 them. 
 
 About the tyme this order is sent from court, the Prince of Orange 
 is set to seas in prosecution of his designe, which now was no more 
 doubted of to be against Brittaiu and Ireland. And, the 5th of No- 
 vember, he lands at Torbay in Devonshire, in England, with ane 
 army of about 1300 horse and foot, being long before assured of the 
 generall revolt of both kingdomes, how soon he should api)ear with 
 a small army on British ground ; which happened accordingly, the 
 whole ua\y and chiefe leaders of King James his army forsaiking 
 him most ungratefully and treachearously, to their eternall infamy. 
 And those officers and soldiers of the English, Scots, and Irisli, who 
 found themselves surprysed with this unexpected treachery, were in 
 very sad circumstances amidst so many enemies. 
 
 The King finding himselfe thus abbandoned by his na\y and ar-
 
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 mies, and knowing what barbarous dealling his royall father, of 
 happy menioiy, had mett with from his rebellious subjects, thought 
 prudence oblidged him to send away the Queen and Prince of Wales, 
 a chyld not full six months old, and afterwards to mak his own 
 escape, iu the maner known to every one. 
 
 Upon the King's retiring, and the Prince of Orange his approach 
 to London, England lookt lyke the sea in a mighty tempest, wher 
 the waves, raised to a prodigious height and agitation, tlireatned 
 present wrack to all that floated on them. Or it seemed the whole 
 nation was become madd. The rable, in rage and tiunult, in city 
 and country, rush fiu-iously on all persons they thought favoured 
 Popery or loyalty, ransacking ther houses, pillaging ther goods, 
 destrojnng and burning what they could not carry away : A tem- 
 pest in the state, so black and dismal lyke, that it frightned all the 
 governours of strengths and castles in England to shrink from and 
 abandon ther charges, and submitt to whatever kind of government 
 was next to succeid. 
 
 [Upon the King's first retirement from AMiitehall, the English 
 affairs seemed to be in a state of depraved nature ; for not only mo- 
 narchy, but all law and order appeared to be dead ; and the rabble 
 became executors in trust for his Highness the Prince of Orange. 
 However, under this auspicious government, the nobility at that 
 time in and about London, with the mayor and aldermen thereof, 
 being convened, had the Tower of London (the magazine of England), 
 with the crown and other relics of royalty, delivered into their hands, 
 upon the first summons ; and all the other forts in England, that had
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 15 
 
 not before declared for the Prince of Orange, ingloriously submitted 
 without a blow : so that, when he came to St James's, his consulta- 
 tions might be rather how to keep than take garrisons : and then 
 peaceably ended the turbulent reign of the English Gentlemen Rab- 
 bility, as they were pleased to term themselves. 
 
 As for this kingdome, not only the rabble, but many persons of 
 quality and interest, exactly followed the English example ; and 
 there wanted little to complete the parallel, when the siege com- 
 menced, but the sun-ender of Edinburgh Castle ; for the Viscount 
 of Dundee had not then got together any body of forces for his 
 Majesty's service.] 
 
 The Duke of Gordon, notwithstanding the harsh usage he had 
 met with from court, and the disadvantageous impressions his ene- 
 mies had made of him upon his Prince's minde, would let the world 
 sie he inherited from his ancestors a glory which no malicious mis- 
 representation could rob him of ; that is, a loyalty which no dis- 
 oblidgments from his Prince or country could extinguish, and ther- 
 foir he resolves to signalize his fidelity, in so generall a revolt and 
 deficiency of his subjects. 
 
 Upon this resolution, he advyses the Chancellour and Councill to 
 have the Castle provyded with necessaries for the entertainment of 
 the garison, consisting of 120 persons ; and three months provisions 
 is ordered for that efiect (besydes 200 bolls of meall and 100 bolls 
 of malt in the Castle before). But this order was so litle exactly 
 obeyed, that ther was not a 5th part of the bisket, and not the 20th 
 part of the beer appoynted, brought into the Castle.
 
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 As to ammimitions, ther was no more left after the transporta- 
 tion of tlie magazine to Stirling, except so much as was judged ne- 
 cessaiy for defence of the Castle three months ; ther were but 17 
 bombs left ; and besides many of the arraes were embazelled by a 
 private hand. 
 
 It being justly feared that Scotland would follow the example of 
 England, and trace its footsteps in the overturning of the govern- 
 ment, beginning with the timiults of the rabble, the Duke of Gor- 
 don, accompanyed with Coll. Winram, the King's liuetennant imder 
 him in the Castle, went to the Lord Chancelloiu*, (to whom the King 
 had entnisted the chiefe caire of the government of the kingdom,) 
 deliberate with him upon the measiu-es were to be taken in the 
 present circumstances of aflfaires ; and at the same tjTne instruc- 
 tions were given to Captaine Wallace how to carry in caise he sould 
 be attacqued by the rable, viz. That it was most fitt he should place 
 his men in the chappell windows, and in the windows of Duke 
 Hamilton's apairtment, on each hand of the pallace gate, for barring 
 them the entry into the same. This Captaine Wallace, a man of in- 
 flexible loyalty and courage, conmianded a company of foot of the 
 regular forces that was left behind foolishly to guard the King's pal- 
 lace, after all the rest were called up to England, upon the certane 
 notice had of the Prince of Orange his designe upon Brittaine and 
 Ireland. 
 
 Upon Simday the 9th December, the Duke being infonned there 
 was a tiunult and uproare in the city, retired into the castle that he 
 might not be surprj^sed, from thence he sent to advertize the Chan-
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 17 
 
 celloiir of the tiimult, and that the town guards made no opposition 
 to the seditious. But the provost had, sooner than was useuall, 
 caused lock the citie gates, and put the keyes out of the way, so that 
 the rable could not get out that night to attack the King's pallace, 
 and the Roman Catholics, who lodged, for the most part, in the 
 suburbs called the Cannongate. 
 
 Upon Mundaye, 10th December, the Duke of Gordon went doun 
 from the castle to the pallace at the east end of the same suburbs 
 where the Chancellour lodged, and advysed him to retire with him 
 to the castle ; but the Chancellour told him lie had resolved to retire 
 to his own dwelling in the country, fourty myles distant, finding he 
 was not able to support the charge of the administration of affairs, 
 in such a violent commotion of the subjects. But before he parted, 
 he signed ane order to pay to the Duke 2000 crownes, to be em- 
 ployed as he should think fitt for the King's service ; yet the recea- 
 vers of the King's I'ents refused to pay the said soume, pretending 
 they had no money at present in their hands. 
 
 The same day, some houres after the Chancelloiu' was parted from 
 Edinburgh, towards the evening, a multitude of young i)eople as- 
 sembling upon the feild without the city ; that they might meit 
 with no hinderance at the gates as the night preceiding, came with- 
 out the walls, entred the Cannongate, marcht from that to the King's 
 l)allace, and set upon the guard at the King's pallace, commanded 
 by Captaine ^Vallace, who had not followed the advyce given him 
 the day before in posting his men in the windows within, but placed 
 them on the piazza without the gate. The rable comeing forward, 
 
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 he gives orders to fire, and throw some hand grenades amongst 
 them ; which was done with so good success, that some of them being 
 killed, and others woimded, they retired againe to the city with no 
 less dilligence than they came doun : And this, very probably, had put 
 ane end to the timiults of the rable, had not a quonmi of the Privy 
 Coimcil, being at the tyme in Blah-'s hous, the chiefe inn of the city, 
 immediately sent ane order in write to Captaine Graharae, com- 
 mander of the company which keept guard in the city, to goe doun 
 with his company and with the trained bands of the town, and beate 
 off Captaine Wallace from guarding the pallace, that the rable might 
 get their zeale against Popery contented, by destrojing the orna- 
 ments of the tuo chapells the King had set up there at a great ex- 
 pence ; which order was put in execution by Grahame and the 
 trained bands, whose munber Wallace, though he behaved as gal- 
 lantly as a man could doe, could not long withstand, they being up- 
 wards of seven himdreth against his fyfty, besides many himdi-eths 
 of the rable. 
 
 In the meane tjTne of this, the Duke of Gordon sends one to the 
 Provost of the toun, with a letter, desyreing to know the occasion of 
 this tiunult, and exorting him to repress it ; offering his assistance 
 to tills effect if he thought it neidfull. The Provost returned answer 
 that ther was indeed a timiult, but that he was hopefull to quiet it 
 without the assistance of the castle. 
 
 At the same tyme he sent one to tell Captaine Wallace, that if he 
 could not hold out against the multitude, he myght retire to the 
 castle, and that he would send thence a detachment of his garrison
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 19 
 
 to receave and conduct him on the way. But it was not possible 
 for this messenger to come near Wallace, who being so surrounded 
 with a multitude of enemies, was overpowered and forced to flie. 
 After which, very shortly, he was ajiprehended and shut up in pri- 
 son, where he continues to this day, for lia\'ing done his duty in 
 seiking to defend his master's hous and goods, which the rable and 
 toun guard and trained bands enter, pillage, breake doun all the or- 
 naments of the chapells of the Chancellor's lodging, not spareing the 
 King's own gardrobb, robbing, and biu-ning, and breaking, to the 
 value of ten thowsand crounes and upwards ; off all which tumult 
 and insolence, the Duke of Gordon sent a particular accompt to the 
 King. 
 
 The day following, being informed the rable were pillaging the 
 Roman Catholics' houses, after they spoiled the chappells and pal- 
 lace, he writes to the President of the Councill, (to whom joyntly 
 with the Council belonged the care of the govei'nment in the Chan- 
 cellor's absence), asking the Councill's advyce, what was incimibent 
 to be done by him in so troublesome a conjuncture. To which the 
 President returned answer, that he had no more to doe ])ut to keep 
 himselfe upon the defensive part within the castle. 
 
 The same night thereafter, the Duke discovered, that most part of 
 his garrison, being influenced with the humour of the tymes, were 
 designeing a revolt, the secureing of his person, and the keeping of 
 the castle for the government that was to be establisht ; wherefor, 
 he calls the Roman Catholick officers to consult upon measui-es to 
 frustrate this designe. Coll. Winram undertook to watch all tliat
 
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 night, and to give notice if any thing shoiilcl happen that lookt ill. 
 He made a part of the souldiers goe to bed in due tyme, and thought 
 all was calme. Bot about midnight, one comes to advertise the 
 Duke that a part of the garrison were come in tumult to the guard 
 hall, and were dragging out of ther beds those who had lyen doun 
 to rest. Thither he goes in all haist ; and speaking with awthority 
 to them, he calms their mutiny, makes them goe to bed in his pre- 
 sence, both in the guard hall and in the hall near it, and made 
 them put out all the lights. 
 
 The day thereafter he assembled the whole gaiTison, of which the 
 soldiers were most part Protestants ; and having understood that 
 what inclined them to revolt, was ther apprehension that he would 
 oblidge them by oath to maintaine the Catholick Religion, he as- 
 sured them he had no such intention, and that he required no other 
 oath of them than to maintaine the religion establisht by the lawes, 
 and to be obedient to the King and their superior officers. The most 
 part of the garrison renewed this oath, and those who refused it 
 were disbanded and turned out of the castle. Some gave it for a 
 month only, imtill ther should come orders from the King, from 
 whom the governour had receaved none since the landing of the 
 Prince of Orange in England. 
 
 The Duke having, as is said before, resolved to hold out the castle 
 to the last, and not doubting what came to pass, that many of his 
 garrison would desert, he had ordered Francis Gardin of Midstrath 
 (a gentleman of merit who gave sufficient proofs thereof diu-ing the 
 siege), to leavy fo;irty-five men of his own dependents in the north.
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 21 
 
 to serve for a reciiiit. But their arryvall at Leith made so great a 
 noise, and filled the people's heads with such apprehensions of his 
 bringing doun the Highlanders and Papists upon them, that he, 
 being desireous to remove all jealousies that might arise amongst 
 them, or from his conduct, commanded them to be sent home again. 
 Some dayes after the garrison had taken the oath, a catholick 
 centinell gives a stroke with a bagonet to his comrad, being over- 
 taken with drink, and his comrad lying a bed ; which accident al- 
 larumed the Protestant soldiers, saying, they would not hazard to 
 ly doun to sleep least their throats should be cutt before they awak- 
 ened. The governour made incontinently secure the delinquent, to 
 be severely inmished. Bot the protestant begged pardon for him, 
 and he was casheered. 
 
 A person of quality who was intending to goe to London, came 
 to the castle to give notice to the Duke, that it was proposed in 
 Councill, to smmnone him to render the castle as being a Roman 
 Catholick ; wherfoire, he writes againe to the King, by one who was 
 to accompany this person of quality to London, and gives him ane 
 accoinjjt of the state of affaires, begging to know his Majestie's will 
 concerning his depoi'tment in this juncture. 
 
 About the 20th of December, the Councill sent one to tell the 
 Duke they were to depute some of their number to speak with him. 
 And the same day the President and thrie Councellors came to the 
 castle, and told the Duke that the Councill desired he would delyver 
 the castle into their hands. To whom he returned answer, that he 
 was boimd to obey the King only, and justified the same by the
 
 22 SIEGE OF THE 
 
 reading of his commission ; that he was not ambitious of keeping it 
 for any other end than to doe his IMajestie's service ; and that he 
 thought himselfe oblidged in conscience and honoiu- to be faithful! 
 to the trust reposed in him by the King, and knew no other way to 
 exonerate him of it, but the commands of his IVIajestie, by whose 
 commission he acted, and who in justice might require a strict ac- 
 compt of his procedm*e : Therefore, desired they would first give 
 him tyme to i-eceave his IMajestie's commands, to whom he had 
 written for that effect, and should doe accordingly ; that as yit, he 
 lookt upon himselfe as a friend, and though he were ane enemy, 
 this wes the least they could doe. 
 
 Very few dayes after, a clerk of the Councill comes with ane 
 order signed by the severall Councellors, by which the Councill or- 
 dered the Governovu- to delyver the castle to them ; alleadging, they 
 had made no step as yet, contrary to their obedience due to the 
 King, in acknowledging the Prince of Orange. The Governour 
 having, as yet, receaved no commands from his Majestic, and stryv- 
 ing to put of tyme in hopes of them ; and, moreover, suspecting 
 their intentions, by their authorizing Captaine Gx-ahame and the 
 trained bands to force Captaine A\'allace from defending the King's 
 pallace, that the rable might ransack it as they did ; and by their 
 having ordered to intercept the Chancellor, as he was goeing beyond 
 seas, and shutting him up in prison (where he remaines as yet), 
 he tells them nixt, that he hoped, they would, for his justification, 
 signe what they required of him, which, after a litle deliberation, 
 they did, and sent it to him. He, seing this, told them ther was yet
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 23 
 
 something wanting ; which was, that they should warrant! him for 
 so doing at his master's hands. This they refused, or coiild not doe, 
 but still persisted in what they required. Then he desyi-ed to know 
 by what authority, or to what end, they required the castle. If I)y 
 the King's, he desired to sie it. If they had a mynde to complement 
 the Prince of Orange, he could doe that as weil as they. 
 
 \\''hile this is in agitation betwixt the Councill and the Duke, se- 
 verall jiersons who called themselves the King's friends, and even 
 some Catholicks, advysed him to yeild ; yea, tliere were some who 
 insinuated to him, that he might permit the garrison to mutiny, to 
 the end it might seem he was forced to yeild, according as it had 
 happened in England to severall Catholick officers ; bot he rejected 
 both those advyces with equal dislyke, as being full of weakness 
 and voyd of sincerity. 
 
 After this, ther was a report raised, as if in the Duke's garrison 
 ther were a company of Highlanders, papists, that were to fyre the 
 city with bombs, and beat it doun with cannons ; which report was 
 raised of ])urpose to incence the people, and make them concurre 
 more vigorously to force him to yeild the castle ; which how soon 
 he is informed of, he sends immediately for the provost and chiefe 
 baillzies, and told them he heard ther were such reports raised, but 
 assured them ther wes no such thing in reality ; that they might re- 
 member he had alwayes bein a friend to the toun, and should be 
 such still ; so long as they behaved themselves kyndly, they should 
 find nothing but civility from him. Upon which wyne was called 
 for, and they di'unk heartily, owneing the Duke's favours, and that
 
 24 SIEGE OF THE 
 
 they no M^ayes doubted the continuance of them. Nixt he sent for 
 the toun officers of the trained bands, and did in lyke manner ; so 
 that when they were called for by some of the Councellors to have 
 represented to them, and be made sensible of the danger they were 
 in by a popish Governour in the castle, they declared they feared 
 no such danger, and were as weell content with him as with any 
 other. 
 
 Heire it may be I'emai'ked, that notwithstanding all this clamoiu" 
 about popery, ther was not the tenth man of that persuasion in the 
 gan'ison ; whereas a great many of those the Prince of Orange 
 brought along with him, were publickly known for such ; that 
 Prince being not so bigot as piiident, since he trusted those he had 
 
 ' Dec. 11. But by this time the noise of plots was spread abroad witli such art and 
 application (for ends best known to the promoters), that it bred an universal phrenzie 
 in the heads of the inconstant and unruly mob. They could discern nothing tnily ; 
 but implicitly beliered, and readily acted, as tliey were taught ; and thus (amongst 
 other absurdities), when their teachers had represented to them a prodigious number 
 of Irish incendiaries and cut-throats, actually burning and butchering without distinc- 
 tion of age or sex, and brought them the length of Dumfries, it was an easy matter for 
 them to assign our Governor and ganison a part in the plot, namely, the burning the 
 city of Edinburgh : And though a very short time cleaily discovered the imposture of 
 the Irish project, yet they endeavoured with great diligence to keep up the repute of 
 their impudent forgeries, concerning his Grace and the garrison, though without great 
 success ; for many of the representatives of the good town declared to the Privy Coim- 
 cU their satisfaction in both, and would not sign any address against him. And here 
 it is very remaikable, that, notwithstanding the clamour against popery, there was not 
 at any time above the tenth man of that persuasion among our soldiers, nor one popish 
 priest, during the siege ; whereas thousands of those that the Prince of Orange brought 
 over, out of a wonderful care of the protestant interest, would not have been questioned 
 by a Spanish inquisition.
 
 ■ CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 25 
 
 found faithful! to him, and M'ho had given him no ground to distmst 
 them formerly. And he knew and experienced that ther principles 
 or persuasion did not lead them to swear voluntarly fidelity to him, 
 and then betray or desert him on pretext of religion. 
 
 After all this, news comeing from London that the Prince of 
 Orange was absolute master of that kingdom ; after the King had 
 made his escape in the begining of January 1689, the Didce dis- 
 patcht ane express to Loudon, with letters to the Dutches of Gor- 
 don, and others his friends, to know whether his Majestie had left 
 any orders for him, not having receaved any from him since he re- 
 turned from court to Edinburgh. To which he received answer, 
 that the King had left no orders at all concerning him ; only that 
 they heard the King had said at his pairting from London to seve- 
 ralls of those who were in employments, that^ they might look to 
 ther own safety. This oblidged the Duke to ^vrite againe to his 
 Majestie, entreating to have his pleasure made known to him con- 
 cerning himselfe ; and he was informed this letter came to the 
 King's hands. 
 
 There happened nothing considerable in the castle for some weeks, 
 xuitill some of the Scots who were at London, about twenty noble- 
 men, and severall knights and gentlemen, to the number off about 
 a hundred persons in all, many of whom had bein in King Cliarles' 
 and King James' tyme forfeited for rebellion, many of them per- 
 sons of no fortunes, but ther sword or ther pen, who by the lawes of 
 the countiy could not have bein admitted to give ther vote for the 
 election of a commissioner to Parliament in a shyre or county ; — these, 
 
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 26 SIEGE OF THE 
 
 I say, taking upon them to represent the whole nation, meet togither 
 and form ane addresse to the Prince of Orange, offering to him the 
 government of Scotland, and supplicating him to conveen the estates 
 thereof as he had done those in England ; which he accepted of, and 
 emitted forthwith a proclamation in generall, ordaining all Catho- 
 licks to quite ther charges, and surrender ther commission to the 
 next subalteme protestant officer under them. This so puft up John 
 Auchmutie, Liuetennant of the company that was in the castle, that 
 he refused to obey any fui'der the Duke's and the Liuetennant-Go- 
 vernour's orders ; yea, he was councelled to surpryse both, and se- 
 cure ther persons. But the Duke did so prudentlie manage the 
 humours of his soldiers, that this Liuetennant retiu-ned to his duty. 
 After this proclamation of the Prince of Orange, the Governour 
 was exposed to new dangers of being betx'ayed by a part of his gar- 
 rison, and he had neid of all his courage and prudence to keep them 
 in obedience. Severalls of the King's friends renewed ther advyces 
 to him, perswading him to render the castle, which they judged he 
 could not keep against the whole isle of Brittaine ; and certanely 
 none but a person of more than ordinary loyalty could have resolved 
 to doe it, having so many within the garrison of whom he had 
 greater fear to be betrayed, then hope to be assisted from without ; 
 none in the two kingdomes appearing publickly to stand for the 
 King. And besides having his garrison so ill provj^ded with neces- 
 saries for its entertainment and defence. But above all, it seming 
 that the King had generall thoughts of bussiness in Scotland ; but 
 he sends out a part of the furnitm-e of his house, (at London then,)
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 27 
 
 as lykewise the Lieueterinant-Governour sent out a part of his fur- 
 niture. This gave occasion to a runioiu* that he was to render the 
 castle ; and dui'eing its being the amusement of the toun, he went 
 out of the castle to sie his friends, after he had been two whole 
 months shut up into it, as weil to keep his gan-ison from revolting 
 within, as to keep himselfe from being surprysed and secm*ed in the 
 toune without. 
 
 Some days after this, he heares ther was one come from the King 
 with his Majesties commands, whereat he was much rejoyced, not 
 ha^^ug had the. honour of any orders from his Majestie since the 
 Ijeffinniuff of the troubles. Tliis man told the Governour, that he had 
 sein the King part from Paris for Brest, and that his Majestie had 
 commanded him to show his Grace the Duke of Gordon it was his 
 pleasure he should leave the Castle in seciu-ity, in the hands of the 
 lieuetennant governour. Coll. Winram, and retire himselfe to the 
 north of Scotland, and there wait for new orders from his Majestie. 
 The Governour answers the man who brought this message by word 
 of mouth only, (whose name was Braddy,) that not having the good 
 fortune to know him, he desired to sie something in write, which 
 might authorize his message, and i-ender it credible to him. To 
 which Braddy replyed, that he was indeed to have brought a letter, 
 but that the Secretaiy of State was in such haist to follow his Ma- 
 jestie to Brest, that the letter was lost. In which reply he was in- 
 genuous, for the letter was indeed sent, but by another person, who 
 told to me since, that at London, on his way to Scotland, he was 
 forced to bunie the letter for fear of being discovered. But how-
 
 28 SIEGE OF THE 
 
 ever it was, certane it is that diu'ing the sex months the Duke of 
 Gordon keept the Castle, after the Revohition, he receaved neather 
 from the King, nor from any in his name, any order. 
 
 The Duke did not judge it prudent to give credit to a verball 
 order, in a matter of such importance, brought by a person unknowen 
 to him, considering besids he could not leave the Castle in security 
 in the hands of the lieuetennant governor Winram ; not for any 
 distrust of him, whom he and all the nation knew to be a person 
 of unstained loyalty, of undaunted courage, and who had been for 
 many years shut up in severall prisons, at severaU tymes, for his 
 fidelity to his Prince ; but because he knew the garrison had a great 
 aversion against him, being, they judged him to have procured from 
 Court the order by which the Governour was inliibited to give them 
 weekly any of ther ])ay in hand, in detriement of the sutlery, (which 
 order the lieuetennant governour protested he had no hand in pro- 
 cureing it,) and they had given severall evidences of ther dislike of 
 his govermnent. 
 
 Moreover, the Governour was very sensible of the ill offices his 
 enemies had done him with his Majestie, and of the disadvantage- 
 ous character they had given of him ; wherefore, he might weel think 
 they would not faile to improve all those malicious misrepresenta- 
 tions, if he should have left the charge of the Castle to the lieueten- 
 nant governoiu", without ane order in write from his Majestie, or 
 from his Secretary of State. 
 
 Some days befoir the first session of the Convention of Estates in 
 Scotland, the Governour discovers a new conspiracy forming in his
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 29 
 
 garrison, whicli oblidged him to require a new oath of his soldiers : 
 And forseeing severalls of them woukl refuse it, he appoynted Henry 
 Gordon to engadge other soldiers for supplying tlier places, espe- 
 cially those who had laid down armes since the Revolution, in and 
 about the toun, and to choyce out amongst them, those for whose 
 fidelity he could be answerable. 
 
 Then conveineing the garison, and conceilling what he knew of 
 ther bad intentions, he commended much ther fidelity, notwith- 
 staudeing the ill example both nations had given them. Nixt he 
 teUs them he was certanely informed, ther were designes and en- 
 deavours useing to seduce them. A\'herfore, that he might be with- 
 out fear, he desired that all his soldiers would renew the oath they 
 had already given, by laying ther hand on the Evangell, which was 
 presented to them by Master Forrester, ther Protestant minister, 
 who gave prooffes of his loyalty dm'eing the whole siege. Many of 
 the soldiers refused to renew this oath ; and amongst others, a ser- 
 jaiit, the master canonier, two under canoniers, asked tyme to deli- 
 berate on the matter. The chirurgeon, who was gone out of the 
 Castle, returned no more. The Governor made disarme those who 
 refused to give the oath, and caused delyver ther armes to the new 
 soldiers which Henry Gordon had engadged, turning those out of the 
 Castle who refused the oath, having payed them all ther arriers, and 
 made seure the master cannonier, untill he sould render accompt of 
 the money he had receaved in the Duke's absence for service of the 
 cannons. 
 
 The Governour haveing foirsein the straits he would be in by cash-
 
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 eering the disloyall cannoniers, had some dayes before called in to 
 the Castle, one Robert Dimibar, formerly a captaine of a ship, expert 
 in artillery, very loyall, and who generously abandoned his wyfe and 
 childi-en to the fury of the rable, and proved most steadable after- 
 wards in the defence of the Castle. 
 
 The Convention being assembled, the first thing resolved on was, 
 that the Governour should be ordered in ther name to render up the 
 Castle, and that he, with the officers of his profession, should with- 
 draw themselves. Two members of the Convention came to inti- 
 mate to him this order, bearing that he was to give his answear im- 
 mediatly, and to obey the order within twenty-four hours. He ask- 
 ed time to give his answear, and thes deputed members returned 
 without granting him tj'me. 
 
 The same day, the Earle of Dumfermleing (who had the Gover- 
 noui''s sister to wyfe) came and told him that he foresaw the King's 
 enemies would be masters in the Convention ; and that he was re- 
 solved to leave it and retire himselfe. And after some measures 
 concerted betwixt them for his Majesties service, he retm'ned home 
 to the North, where he ordinarily resided. The Governour liaving 
 given him a writing, wherby he entreated all his friends, and com- 
 manded all his vassalls, to joyne and obey liis brother-in-law, in all 
 occasions he should judge proper for the King's service, and keep- 
 ing the country imder his obedience. He lykewise gave him ane 
 order to Master Innes, his Master of Horses, to deliver to the 
 Earle of Dumfermling all the horses he should have neid of ; which 
 order Mr Innes obeyed, and followed the Earle, in company with
 
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 the Earle of Dundie, togithei* with about thirtie other gentlemen of 
 the Duke of Gordon's vassals. 
 
 After this, the Duke had notice, by severall billets sent him, that 
 the Convention was resolved to set a pryce upon his head, if he re- 
 fused to obey them ; and the nixt day tuo Earles came deputed 
 from it to the Castle, to know the Governour's last answer concer- 
 ning the delyvery of it. 
 
 He thought it best for his Majesties service to enter upon terms 
 of agriement with them, and drew up some articles to be presented 
 to them ; and amongst others, a generall indemnity for himselfe and 
 his friends, both Papists and Protestants, with liberty to goe where 
 they jileased, without being called in question for what was past ; 
 and that all those who would go beyond seas should have pasports. 
 The deputies carryed thes articles to the Convention, and shortly 
 returned to the Castle to know who were the friends the Governour 
 spoke of in his articles ; who told he should name them when the 
 Convention had signed ther consent to his proposalls. After severall 
 messages betwixt the Convention and the Castle, the Duke named 
 all the clans of the Highlands, without specifying who were his 
 friends or foes. This proposal did so offend one of the deputies, 
 that he became very angry ; and being returned to the Convention, 
 would scarcely give accompt of his negociation to the president and 
 others of the assembly.^ 
 
 * March 14. This day the Convention of Estates met, and the Earls of Lotliian 
 and Tweeddale came to the garrison, and required tlie Duke to deliver up the castle, 
 upon an act of the Convention, to exoner his Grace, and other Papists there, as to 
 all bygones.
 
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 Those very clans thereafter obtained more than the Duke desyred 
 for them, though they had done a great daile of prejudyce to the 
 kingdom in their marches and coiintermarches, which shews how 
 little the Convention understood their bussiness, and yet they durst 
 forfeit their King. 
 
 The Duke desired the message might be put in writing, and time allowed to ad- 
 vise ; which being denied, his Grace sent the following answer to tlie Convention: 
 
 March 15. 1 am willing to comply with the commission I received by tlie Earls 
 of Lothian and Tweeddale, as to my removal from the Castle of Edinburgh : though 
 I cannot do it as a Papist, that being dangerous, and I not convicted ; for I hope 
 being in employment without taking the test (contrary to an Act of Parliament), is 
 no conviction of Popery. I received, not long ago, a letter from the then Prince of 
 Orange, desiring that I would leave the Castle of Edinburgh ; which I promised to do, 
 but expected certain reasonable time to be first granted to myself and gaixison. 
 hope I have not merited so ill of my country, as that I may not be trusted with the 
 castle, until a return come to tliis letter, which I expect every hour. But if that can- 
 not be granted, barely on my promising not to molest or hai'm any person, especially 
 those of this illustrious assembly, I proffer hostages, or bail to the value of L.20,000 
 Sterling, for my peaceable deportment : Otherwise I expect, before my removal, 
 
 I. A general indemnity for myself and friends, both Protestant and Papist, as also 
 absolute security for our lives and fortunes in time coming ; with assurance that the 
 same shall be ratified in the next ensuing Parliament. 
 
 II. A security for all Protestants of the garrison, who incline to stay in it, to continue 
 in their employments ; and for those who shall go out with me, either Protestants or 
 Papists, to go beyond seas, or remain within the kingdom, as our occasion shall lead us. 
 
 III. That the garrison be completely paid off all bygone arrears, and have liberty to 
 dispose of their goods witliin the castle as they please. 
 
 To which the Duke had this return : 
 
 The meeting of the Estates having considered llie paper given in, and subscribed 
 by the Duke of Gordon, in answer to their order do declare, — It is not the mind of 
 this meeting, that the Duke, his ofliciatmg as governor of the castle, or of any other 
 employment, or his quitting of his command at this time, shall import any acknow- 
 ledgement or conviction against liim, or those under him, of his" or their being Papists.
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 33 
 
 Incontinently after, the Viscount of Dundie, did, by Cockburne 
 younger of Lanton, a gentleman of quality and merit, advertize the 
 Duke, that the Convention were instantly to give him a solemne 
 and formall sumonds, by the heraulds with ther coats of armes : And 
 the same hour came tuo heraulds, tuo pursevants, and tuo trum- 
 peters sounding ther trumpets, and approaching to the walls, read 
 with a loud voyce the simionds, by which the Governour is ordain- 
 ed, with all other Papists in the garrison, to remove themselves 
 
 It is also resolved, that the meeting of the Estates will not allow the Duke his 
 keeping the government of the castle, either upon promise, bail, or hostages, for his 
 peaceable deportment, until he get a return of the letter written by him to the then 
 Prince of Orange. 
 
 It is likewise resolved, that the indemnity offered by the meeting of Estates, shall 
 only extend to those belonging to the garrison, and their servants, either Protestants 
 or Papists ; and the persons who are to have the benefit of the said indemnity shall 
 be expressly named, if the Duke desire it ; and that the indemnity to be granted by 
 this meeting shall contain a clause, that it shall be ratified in the next Parliament. 
 
 As to the last article of the paper, that those of the garrison who please to retire 
 with the Duke, shall have liberty either to go out of the kingdom or stay in it, as they 
 tliiiik fit ; and shall have liberty to dispose of their goods, and have safe conduct 
 granted to them for that effect, the same being desired before the dissolution of the 
 meeting of the Estates ; but that they may not take out with them any arms, ammu- 
 nition, or store, but what they shall instruct properly to belong to them. And, 
 
 Lastly, it is agreed, that the officei's and soldiers of the garrison shall have payment 
 of their bygone arrears ; but refuse to give them assurance of their being continued in 
 employment. 
 
 It had been moved, and agreed to in the Convention, that the Duke should have safe 
 conduct to come there in person, but he went not ; and refused to give up the castle 
 upon the terms offered ; however, he sent a letter to the Viscount of Dundee to be 
 communicated to the Convention, in which he condescended to resign his command 
 to tlie Earl of Airly, his father-in-law, but the overture was rejected, 
 
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 thence immediatly, upon paine of treason. At the same tyme was 
 read a proclamation, discharging the subjects to con vers with or 
 assist the Duke, or any under his command, that should remaine in 
 the garison after that proclamation, whether Papists or Protestants ; 
 and jiromising a reward of sex months' pay, with ane indemnitie, 
 to the Protestants in gax'rison, on condition they sould seaze the 
 Duke and Papists persons, and delyver them up with the Castle into 
 the hands of the Convention. The Duke spoke to the heraulds, 
 and bid them tell the Convention from him, that he keept the Castle 
 by commission from ther common master, and that he was resolved 
 to defend it to the last extreamitie. In end, he gave some guinies to 
 the lieraulds to di'ink the King's good health, and all honest men's 
 in the Convention, which they promised to doe ; and he ad\ysed 
 them, in drollery, not to proclame men traittors to the State with 
 the King's coats on ther backs ; or at least they might turne them. 
 After the heraulds were gone, the Duke called the garrison togi- 
 ther, and caused the Ensigne publickly read the summonds to them, 
 and then told them, they saw the danger they were to nm ; that for 
 his own part, he would not be threatned fi'om his duty to God and 
 his Prince, and wes resolved to keep the Castle for his Majestie's 
 service ; that those who were not willing to hazard themselves with 
 him might goe where they pleased, and have ther full arrears payed 
 them, which he did. Wherupon WiU Cahoune and Andrew Ford, 
 gunniers, went away, having refused to obey in general! all ther 
 superiour officers, though they were content to swear obedience to 
 the Duke's commands ; which was not accepted of, because of the
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 35 
 
 bad example it might give. And the day following, John Auch- 
 mouty liiietennant of the company, Arthur Forbess master gimnier, 
 John Scot cliirurgeon, John Crichton and Thomas Hume Serjeants, 
 Alexander Kelman and John Cahoune corporalls, Oliver St Clair 
 sutler, tuo drummers, and betwixt sixty and seavinty private cen- 
 tinells, left the gan-ison, notwithstanding ther oath few dayes be- 
 foir. They being gone, the Governour caused shut all the gates 
 of the Castle, and disposed all things for defence. 
 
 The same day a gentleman out of Ireland came to the Castle, 
 pretending to bring a letter from his Majestic, and assurances from 
 the Duke of Tyi'econnell to the Governom*, that if he could keep the 
 Castle six weeks, he should have ane army of 20,000 men at his 
 command, ^^lien the Governour saw the letter, he found it was 
 not directed to himselfe, bot to the Chancellour, and in his absence 
 to the Archbishop, and in his absence to another ; whereupon he 
 made scrouple to open it. Bot one less scroupulous standing by, 
 opened and read it, but saw no orders at all in it concerning the 
 Castle. The gentleman who brought it was asked, if his Majestie 
 was in Ireland when he came from thence, and he answered he 
 was not. TTien the Governoiu* sent him ^vith the letter to the 
 Earle of Balcarras and the Viscount of Dundie. 
 
 Dureingthes transactions, John Gordon of Edintore was frequent- 
 ly employed to advertize friends of the circumstances of the garrison, 
 and what necessaries were wanting, and especially Sir James Grant 
 of Davey, advocat, whose predecessors had still followed the familly 
 of Huntly in the King's service, during the civill warr in King
 
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 Charles the ftrst tyme, and shared with the same in sufferings on 
 that accompt. Thir two gentlemen made it ther work to supply 
 the Castle from tyme to tyme with those things they were adver- 
 tised it stood most in need of ; and though they did all was in ther 
 power, yet any provisions came into the Castle during the siege 
 were very inconsiderable. Francis Gairdin of Midstrath, John Innes, 
 Henry Gordon, Andi-ew Ross, gentlemen, with some others, came 
 into the Castle to remaine for its defence. And Sir James Grant, 
 finding ane English lawyer, and afterwards Captain WiUiam M'ln- 
 tosh of Borlum, goeing for Ireland, he gave instructions to each of 
 them, representing exactly the condition of the Castle, and reasons 
 why it could not be maintained longer than the beginning of June. 
 
 The garrison at that tyme consisted of the Grovemour, the liue- 
 tennant govemoiu*, the ensigne, foiu' Serjeants, of whom one was 
 sick, and about six score centinells, but without cannoniers and 
 enginier, or chirurgeon, or drogues, or carpenter, or money. The 
 garrison was formerly divyded into three squadrons, viz. The Go- 
 vernour's, the liuetennant's, and the ensigne's ; but now the Duke 
 cast them into two divisions, — one was commanded by the ensigne, 
 and the other by IMr Gardin [of Midstrath, under his Grace]. The 
 principle posts were the high guard house, the low guard, and sally 
 port. One entire squade mounted each night, consisting of the 
 captaine of the guard, tuo Serjeants, tuo corporalls, and about 40 
 centinells, besides the gentlemen voluntiers. Ther wer 8 centinell 
 posts in the day tyme, and 17 by night. 
 
 March 16. The Duke sent a line to the Earle of Twedale, entreat-
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 37 
 
 ing him to call at the gan*ison, hopeing what he had to communi- 
 cate to him should not be disagrieable ; but he came not. 
 
 The 17th day of March, one of the garrison deserted. 
 
 The 18tli, the Convention made place guards about the Castle, to 
 hinder the entry of any provisions, and to intercept any person that 
 should come forth of it with any message. The same day the Go- 
 vernour sent out his horses with his coachman, who was appre- 
 hended and imprisoned. 
 
 The Governour went and visited the magazine of the Castle, and 
 found only 8 score barrells of powder, in very ill order, and many 
 of them not full ; the generall or master of the artillery having re- 
 moved all the rest, as is said above, and many of his company ta- 
 king service under the enemies, (for himselfe did shortlie after- 
 wards,) made known to them the small quantity of ammunition 
 left in the Castle, with which it could no longer hold out. 
 
 This day the Cameronians, to the number of about 7000, lately 
 come to Edinburgh to take the guarding of the Convention, tlrew 
 up in the publick great streets of the city. Thes Cameronians (so 
 called from one Cameron, a preacher, or famous ringleader among 
 them) are the worst kynd of Presbyterians, who confyne the church 
 to a few of the western shyres of the kingdome of Scotland ; dis- 
 claime all Kings (save King Jesus) who will not worship God after 
 ther way ; thirUc it ther duty to murder all who are out of the state 
 of grace, that is, not of ther communion ; in a word, who take away 
 the second table of the Decalogue, upon pretence of keeping the first ; 
 and who are only for sacrifice, but for no mercy at all.
 
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 The same day Donald IM'Donald, and tuo gentlemen of the name 
 of Grant, came into the Castle, and brought a letter to the Gover- 
 nour, shewing ther were severall conspiracies forming against him, 
 and that the King had wrote a letter to the Convention, which was 
 read, hot no regaird had to it. 
 
 The day following, the Governoiu-, with a telescoi)e, perceaved 
 some horsemen appearing on the noi'th side of the toun, and draw- 
 ing towards the castle. It was the Viscount of Dundie, who, seing 
 the convention had resolved to renunce all alledgiance to their 
 lawfull soveraigne, and laid asyde all kind of respect for him ; he 
 abandoned ther assemblie, and comeing to the foot of the rock, the 
 Governour spoke to him from the top of the waU, and then went 
 out and discoursed with him. Hee told what had passed in the 
 convention at the receaving of the King's letter, and the small im- 
 pression it made upon the members of that assembly. The Gover- 
 nom- askit a sight of the letter ; but Dimdie had no copy, and the 
 Governoiu" never saw it. Then Dundie parted from the Governour 
 and retm-ued to his own pairty of about thirty or fovu-ty horse, and 
 went away with them towards his own dwelling beside Dundie. 
 After that tyme, the Governour never receaved any letters from him. 
 
 [March 19. The Duke having procured safe conduct for oiu" en- 
 sign, sent him out this day with the following instructions : 
 
 I. You are to advise with Sir James Grant and IVIr Thomas Gor- 
 don, my ordinary counsellor at law, and any other lawyer they shall 
 think fit to call, how the officers and others in garrison can be se- 
 ciu'ed in law, as to their hves and fortunes
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 39 
 
 II. It being altogether dangerous for me and my garrison to re- 
 move out of the castle, whilst the town is so crowded with vast 
 numbers of strangers, who have already taken possession of posts 
 formerly guarded by the town of Edinburgh, I desire the posts 
 may be returned to the town, and the strangers removed. 
 
 III. Since so much aversion was expressed against some of the 
 Highland clans being comprehended within the mmiber of my 
 friends, I am content to restrict it to twenty Protestants and twenty 
 Papists, who are, or have been, in public emi)lojnnent ; and this, 
 besides those within the garrison. 
 
 IV. Since he was absolutely refused, that such Protestants as 
 might incline to stay in the Castle, should be secured in their em- 
 ployments, I desire that such of them as are still here, shall have 
 six months pay, besides what shall be due to them, for defraying 
 their charges to any place, off or within the kingdom, whither their 
 occasions shall lead them. 
 
 V. That after the place is given up, the Lieutenant-Governor 
 may have the use of his lodgings for eight or ten days, for clearing 
 accounts with the garrison ; and that my servants and others may 
 have a competent time for dispatching affairs within the Castle. 
 
 VI. That the officers and othei's may have liberty for themselves 
 and servants to carry their swords within the town, and make use 
 of horses and ordinary travelling arms in the country ; and so 
 long as I shall stay within the kingdom, that they may have their 
 abode in any place of it, according to their interest and conveni- 
 ence.
 
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 VII. That my officers and soldiers may have the disposal of the 
 stores, or a competent gi-atuity on that head. 
 
 VIII. That I may have a pass to wait on his Majesty any time 
 within three months, to give him reason for putting this place into 
 the Estates hands, and to return safely. 
 
 IX. That I have a guard of forty horse, of my own chusing, to 
 attend me home ; and that I may keep them together while I am 
 in the kingdom : the like being granted to my grandfather at the 
 pacification of 1645 or 1646. This, with the first and last articles 
 of my former propositions, wliich were granted. The Ensign re- 
 turned with this answer : 
 
 March 19. The meeting of the Estates ha\'ing considered the in- 
 structions given in and subscribed by the Duke of Gordon to Ensign 
 Wincester, annent the surrender of the Castle of Edinbiu-gh, they 
 do agi'ee to the following articles. 
 
 I. That the Duke's officiating in the government of the Castle of 
 Edinburgh, or in any other employment, or his quitting of his com- 
 mand at this time, shall not import any acknowledgement or con- 
 viction against him, or any person under his command, of their 
 being papists ; but that the Duke, and those persons that are at 
 present in the garrison with him, and their servants, as well Papists 
 as Protestants, shall have a full indemnity from the Estates for any 
 thing done by them at any time against the laws of the kingdom ; 
 and that the same indemnity shall contain the names of ilk ane of 
 the said persons, if they desire the same ; and a clause, that it shall 
 be ratified in the next Parliament.
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 4] 
 
 II. The Estates do allow that Mr Wincester do consult Sir James 
 Grant and Mr Thomas Gordon, or any other lawyers they shall 
 please to call, annent the security to be given to the Duke and his 
 officers, soldiers, and others within the garrison, as to their lives 
 and fortimes ; the same being always done in presence of one of the 
 members of the meeting. 
 
 III. That the Duke and those of the garrison that shall please to 
 retire with him, shall have fuU liberty to go out of the kingdom, or 
 to stay in it : and to dispose of their goods, which they shall instniet 
 to belong to themselves, not being arms or ammunition, as they 
 shall think fit ; and they shall have safe conduct for that effect, the 
 same being desired before the dissolution of the meeting of the 
 Estates. 
 
 IV. That all the officers and soldiers of the garrison shall have 
 punctual payment of their bygone arrears ; and the Lieutenant-Go- 
 vernor shall have a secure place with a guard appointed for him to 
 stay in the town for eight days after the siu-render, for clearing ac- 
 counts with the garrison ; and that the Duke's servants, not exceed- 
 ing three at a time, shall be allowed the liberty to go up to the castle 
 and retiu'n as they please, for the said space of eight days, for car- 
 rying away their goods and dispatching their affairs in the Castle. 
 
 V. That the Duke, and those who are presently with him in the 
 garrison, shall be allowed, during their abode in the town of f^din- 
 burgli, to carry their swords, and to keep their horses and ordinary 
 arms, as any of the rest of the lieges are allowed to do by law. 
 
 VI. That the Duke shall have the guard of forty horsemen, to be 
 
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 named and commanded as the Estates shall be pleased to order ; who 
 shall be maintained upon the public charge, and shall have orders 
 to carry the Duke home to the place of his ordinary residence in the 
 country, and immediately to return ; the Duke finding caution, that 
 the said guard shall not be any way hindered or molested in their 
 return. 
 
 VII. The estates do agree to give a gratification to the officers and 
 soldiers in the garrison, according to the condition they shall find 
 the stores in, at the time of surrendering the Castle. 
 
 The Cameronians had now blocked up the Castle, and begun a 
 small entrenchment in widow Livingston's yard, westward, very 
 near the Castle ; and taken up for posts the Weigh-house, the West 
 Port, and St Cuthbert's Chiu-ch. 
 
 This night another of our men deserted. 
 
 March 21. The Ensign (having safe conduct) was this day again 
 sent to manage the treaty with the Convention ; and brought back 
 an account, that they agreed that the forty horse attend his Grace 
 for fourteen days, to go home, and the Didie to name them, including 
 his servants ; but that they disperse within twenty-four hours after 
 his homegoing. That they meet him on the other side of the Burnt 
 Island Ferry, whether the Estates would conduct him. That they 
 shall not join the Lord Dundee, &c. and the Duke to find surety for 
 that effect. That, at the surrender of the Castle, the avenues thereof 
 be guarded with the town guards, together with such of the Earl of 
 Levin's Regiment as he shall appoint. That Gordons of Auchintoule 
 and Glasturin be indemnified for acting in public employments ;
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 43 
 
 and five priests, now in prison, to be named by the Duke, to have 
 passes, they finding caution to remove out of the kingdom within 
 twenty days. That the commissionate officers carry their ordinary 
 fire-arms, beside their swords ; and the soldiers to be paid for their 
 fii'e-arms by the Estates, &c.] 
 
 Sometyme after this, the Governour desyreing speach of some 
 without. Captain Lawder, who commanded the blockade, was sent 
 to him to know what his pleasure was. By him, he sent a lyne to 
 the magistrates of the toun, intimating his desire to continow a good 
 understanding with them ; and that the Captaine sould show the 
 convention, he desired a safe conduct to be granted for MrWincester, 
 Ensigne of the Castle, a young gentleman of wit and courage, which 
 being granted, he sent him to propose some articles of treaty with 
 the Convention ; and with him he writes a letter to the President 
 Duke Hamiltoun, in these tei'mes : — 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 The singular prooftes your Grace and the States have bein pleased 
 to give me of yoiu* kindness, would highten (if possible) the concerne 
 I have alwayes had for the good of my country and coiuitrymen 
 Permit me, then, [most humbly,] to lay before your Grace and the 
 States, the imminent danger to which this poor kingdom is exposed, 
 to become very soon the theatre of the most bloody and irreconceall- 
 able warre that hes bein in Europe this age, if not prevented by ex- 
 traordinary prudence. Permitt me likewise to represent, that of all the 
 ancient nobilitie and gentry of which this illustrious assembly is com- 
 posed, perhaps ther is not one whose selfe or predicessors hes not re-
 
 44 SIEGE OF THE 
 
 ceaved reiterated marks of his Majestie's or ancestours bounties and 
 clemency. Should we then, for the misfortunes of a four years reigne, 
 forget the benefites we have receaved from one hundreth and ten 
 Kings and Queins. For my oun pairt, it's known to severalls of the 
 Estates, and particularly to your Grace, the severe usage I have had 
 thes three years from the court, yet, I wold lay doun my lyfe to pro- 
 cure a good imderstanding between his Majestic and his subjects, 
 as I most sincerely and affectionatly offer my endeavours for procure- 
 ing it. And if the Estates sail think fit I shall wait on his Majestie, 
 who is now in Ireland. I hope, as all Scotland will most dutifully 
 assert the just prerogatives of the crowne, the King will be pleased 
 to setle the property, religion, and liberties of the subject on such 
 sui-e foundations, that they shall never be shaken by the avarice and 
 ambition of evill ministers. May it please your Grace, I thought 
 myselfe bound in conscience to represent to you and the Estates 
 what this paper containes ; and it is with much respect that I am 
 yom* Grace's most obedient and most humble servant. 
 
 The Duke desired this letter might be recorded by the Conven- 
 tion, but it was refused ; and not finding any rationall correspond- 
 ence from them to his proposalls, he breaks of all farder negotiation 
 with them, and makes bonfires in the Castle for the King's arry\'eall 
 in Ireland, dischargeing all the cannons thryce, in token of rejoyceing 
 on that accompt. 
 
 [About this time the Cameronians had broken ground a little 
 southward of their other trench. 
 
 We beat a parley ; and a cessation for sometime was agreed to.
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 45 
 
 which gave an opportunity to our men to cast up a work at the 
 sally port, to secure them from the enemies' small shot, to which 
 they had been greatly exposed.] 
 
 The 25th March, the Cameronians were releived by General 
 Major Mackayes men, sent from England, being three regiments, 
 twelve companyes in each regiment. The Cameronians had the 
 thanks of the Estates, and a publick act passed acknowledging their 
 good service. 
 
 With Mackay came cannons, provisions, armes, and ammunition, 
 and he caused furnish store of packs of wooll, to make his ai)proaches 
 in order to the siege of the Castle. He had formerly served in the 
 King's army, and had a pension of his Majestic before the Prince of 
 Orange's coming to England ; but some months before, he declared to 
 the King that he could serve him no longer, wherupon his pension 
 was stopped ; yet thes of his clan or trybe had given good proofTe 
 of ther loyalty during the troubles of the Covenant. He had bein 
 formerly the Duke of Gordon's friend, and therefoir the Duke wi'ote 
 to him, shortly after his arryveall, proposeing a conference with him, 
 to try if he could induce him to returne to his Prince's alledgeance. 
 To which Mackay answered, that he could not accept of that con- 
 ference without tuo privy co\mcellours were present at it. The 
 Governour replyed, he would discoiu'se with him alone only, and 
 that he might judge his party did not confide in him, since they 
 would have him accompanyed with tuo witnesses. 
 
 [John Gordon having been sent out of the gaiTison to bring in a 
 surgeon and carpenter (for as yet we had neither) one Tliomas, an
 
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 Euglish surgeon, did undertake ; but approaching the Castle, in 
 order to be received at the sally port, his courage failed him, and so 
 he returned back to the town.] 
 
 The penult of March, the Governour being advertised that the 
 enemies were casting up ground on the west side of the Castle, came 
 with officers in the night tyme upon the rampart that lookt that 
 way ; and by the light of some squibs tlurowne perceaved ther ap- 
 proach e : ^^'herfore he made place the cannon in battery, and dis- 
 charge upon the works to destroy them, which had good effect. He 
 continued fireing upon them the nights following, which retarded 
 ther laboui- ; but this continuall fire did consume much of his ammu- 
 nition. The Castle was so ill furnished of things necessaiy, that the 
 Governour was oblidged to send out seaven men under Mr Gardin's 
 command to make some provisions ; upon which a partj^ of the be- 
 siegers deserted their posts in the trenches, and Mr Gardin returned 
 safe with his men, bringing with them some loads of straw, wherof 
 ther was need, to charge the cannon ; wherfore the besiegers would 
 thenceforth perniitt no kind of proA'isions to pass near the Castle 
 into the city. 
 
 [A parley was beat to send in some packs of cards, but denied. 
 
 They now began to play upon us with bombs they had brought 
 from Stirling Castle, but we received no great damage by them.] 
 
 Upon the 3d of Apryll some of the besiegers were perceaved to 
 be lodged about the old towre of Cottis on the west ; and severall 
 great guus were fired upon them, which beat doun ane old wall, 
 and did execution. About this tyme, John Gordon brought in n
 
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 brewar, and tuo Irish gentlemen, and lykewise on John M'Pher- 
 on, son to Kylyhuntlie, one of the Diike's vassalls in Badenoch, a 
 very smart, ingenuous, and darring young man, who rendered good 
 and faithful service in this siege. [As we perceived them coming, 
 we fired warmly upon the besiegers' guards at the west port, and 
 freed them from that post. 
 
 Sir George Lockliart, Lord President of the Session, having been 
 barbarously assassinated on Easter Sunday, by one Cheesly of Dairy, 
 a parley was this day beat by the besiegers, for a cessation during 
 his interment in the Greyfriar's church, and readily granted.] 
 
 6th of Apryll. The besiegers had now, with the losse of men, 
 finished a battery at the Castle of CoUops, ane old ruined tower 
 south of the garison, and planted thereon two cannon, 18 pounders ; 
 but in a few hours they were both dismounted. Captaine Dumbarr 
 fired tuo of the seaventein bombs upon the besiegers' battery, but 
 without success. 
 
 [This day we had an account that John Gordon (who had been 
 sent out with letters) was made prisoner, but that he had dropt the 
 letters he had in custody, and so they fell not into the enemy's 
 hands. 
 
 His Grace caused cut a part of the bridge at the entry to the gar- 
 rison.] 
 
 11th day. On Mr Scott went in publickly to the garrison in this 
 maner ; he brought the besiegers' advanced centinell along the Castle- 
 hill with him upon pretence of speaking to a gentleman in garison 
 about important bussiness, and to returne immediatly. ^\^len tliey
 
 48 SIEGE OF THE 
 
 were come near the Castle gate, Mr Scott called for the Ensigne, and 
 before they tuo had exchanged many words, he bid the centinell 
 fairweell, and was receaved in at the gate. The centinell was invi- 
 ted to follow him because of his danger in returning, but the poor 
 fellow, being drunk, went to his post, where he was immediatly 
 seazed, and hang'd tuo dayes after. 
 
 [A carpenter having undertaken to serve in the garison this day, 
 we perceived him coming with five Irishmen, and put ourselves in 
 a posture to secure them, in case any of the besiegers appeared ; but 
 the carpenter, treacherously or timorously, went back, and delivered 
 himself prisoner, discovering those who had engaged him : upon 
 which some were secured and others fled.] 
 
 The same day the garrison heard a great noise in the toun, mixt 
 with the sound of trimipets, and thought the heralds were coming 
 with a new summonds to the Govern our to render the Castle ; but 
 afterwards it was found to be on the accompt of the proclamation 
 of the Prince of Orange, in quality of Jung of Scotland. 
 
 Some persons, who have no good will to the Governom-, took 
 occasion to blame him for not fyreing upon the toun, att the tyme 
 of this proclamation, but it is easy with reason to refute this objec- 
 tion, though envy and malice will still be barking : 
 
 Imo. Neatlier the Governour, nor officers of the Castle, knew cer- 
 tainely before, what was the ground of this solemnity. 
 
 2do. The place of the toun, at the cross, where the proclamation 
 was made, was out of sight of the Castle, and covered from it by the 
 Tolbooth, or coimnon prison ; and a great many other buildings
 
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 stand in a right lyne betwixt tlie Castle and the Cross, so that the 
 cannon bullets could not touch any person about the cross. 
 
 3tio. The Governoiu''s duty being to defend the Castle the King- 
 had entrusted to him, he could not judge it prudent to consume to 
 no purpose the powder, wherof he had so small quantity. 
 
 4to. Although he had known what wes the occassion of the so- 
 lemnity, he might have judged he could not be blamed in following 
 the example of Generall Ruthven, who had formerly defended the 
 Castle of Edinburgh, dureing the Rebellion against Chai'les the First, 
 and was made Earle of Forth and Brentford for his good and faith- 
 full service. He sustained the siege a whole year against the toune, 
 and yet did not fyre upon the buildings, nor upon the Parliament 
 House, dureing the siege ; and his conduct in this was approved 
 severall years afterwards by the Duke of Lawderdale, then High 
 Commissioner for the King in Scotland. 
 
 5to. His fyreing on the toun could not hinder the proclamation, 
 much less the occassion of it, and it might have done prejudice to 
 those who were no less soriy at it than he was ; for the rable had 
 threatned from the beginning of ther commotion, that if the Popish 
 Duke, should fire on the city, dui'ing ther insolencies against Papists, 
 they should leave non of that profession alyve in and about the 
 toun ; which was a very easy matter for them to execute : And the 
 pillaging of ther goods and houses, and insolencies, upon the per- 
 sons of those that had misfortune to fall in ther way, gave too much 
 ground to beleeve they would have made good their threatnings 
 upon such a provocation. 
 
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 Soe that those who blame the Duke of Gordon for not fyreing on 
 the toun at this occassion, would be puzled to assigne any rationall 
 motive that might have oblidged him so to do, or exeemed him from 
 the censures of prudent men if he had done it : All they could alledge 
 would be, that he should have showen his just indignation and hor- 
 rour at the Convention's procedure in prejudice of his Soveraigne ; 
 but could that demonstration of his displeasure have brought any 
 advantage to his prince's cause or affaires ; or could any judicious 
 person have thought it of such weight, as to be put in the ballance 
 with the prejudice and trouble, many of the Bang's weil-wishers 
 would have sustained ; and might not the Convention justly have 
 flouted at him with the poet's words, vana sine viribus ira. 
 
 [The passage by the sally port, that we had formerly made use 
 of for sending out and receiving intelligence, being now closely 
 blocked up by the besiegers, we shut up the entry, and filled it with 
 earth ; and we had by this time discovered a new passage, more 
 safe, from the gate of the Castle over the north loch. "WTien any 
 person was to come in to us (of which we generally got exact infor- 
 mation, sometime before, by a sign in a window of the city from 
 Mrs Ann Smith, grandchild to Dr. Atkins, late Lord Bishop of 
 Galloway), or went out, we sent a party of six men, commanded by 
 a gentleman, to conduct them over the loch ; and when got in safe 
 to the garrison, we gave the signal to Mrs Smith, by firing a mus- 
 ket off the half-moon,] 
 
 About the 20th of Apryll, Mr Smith, the Duke's chinu-geon at 
 Gordon Castle, being sent for by his Grace, came into the Castle of
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 51 
 
 Edinburgh to the great comfort of the garrisone, being a man Weill 
 skilled in surgery, in artillery, and both very loyall and courageous.' 
 
 The 29th, Hemy Gordon having beiu sent out for intelligence, re- 
 turned after two dayes with Liuetennant James Hay, John Macky, 
 and one Launders ane Irishman ; having by reason of the darknes 
 of the night, lost other thi'ie of their company, who had designed to 
 serve in the garrison. The besiegers drained the Loch on the north 
 side of the Castle and toun, to divert the springs from the wells in 
 the Castle ; but their designe took no effect. 
 
 The 9th of May, the Castle fired some great gims upon a hous 
 near the enemies battery, having discovered soldiers in it ; and, ar- 
 tillery we were informed killed severalls in it. The enemies began 
 to cast up a battery noi-thward of the garrison, at the Multrasie-hill. 
 
 [This was the day they had appointed for a public thanksgiving ; 
 but we could perceive no great demonstrations of joy amongst them 
 by bells or bonfires.] 
 
 The 11th of May, William Urquhart came into the garison and 
 went out againe for some necessaries, and returned after four dayes 
 with John Falconer, bringing with them, by Sir James Grant his 
 moyen, a rope for mounting the cannon, which came very season- 
 ably, for they had been necessitate to make use of the well rope ; 
 so ill was the garrison provydit of things necessary for its defence. 
 
 ■' Some (lays after, John Gordon obtained bis liberty, there being no proof against 
 him, and returned to the garrison witli tliree Irisliinen and Mr Smith (the Duke's sur- 
 geon), to the great comfort of all therein ; for though providence liad hitherto protect- 
 ed our men from wounds, tliey did not fancy themselves invulnerable ; and many of 
 them had sickened by this time.
 
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 They informed that the beseigers' great bombs were anyved from 
 England, and that ther shells weighed above a himder weight. 
 That Sir James Grant above mentioned, was made close prisoner, 
 for corresponding with the castle. The said W". Urquhart was killed 
 with Ensigne AVincester afterwards, at the water of Boyn in Ire- 
 land, in their Prince's service. 
 
 ^Miile the enemies carryed on ther works and ther approaches, 
 the Governour beat doun the parapets, which were but tuo foot 
 high, that he might pnt his batteries in security against the ene- 
 mies cannon. And having no cannoniers, he choysed twelve of the 
 most vigorous of the soldiers to be employed in the service of the 
 cannon, imder the direction of Captaine Dumbar, who knew most of 
 artillery of any in the Castle. 
 
 All the artillery the Castle had, was a peice of 42 poimd ball, one 
 of 36 poimd, four of 24 poimd, one of 18, and tuo of 12 ; all these 
 of brass, and besides them, severall of iron, of 24, of 16, of 12 pound 
 balls, but not much worth. Ther were lykewise some litle feeld 
 peices, and a morter peice of 14 inches of calibre, and 15 bombs. 
 The Castle was not in a condition to make a sally, by reason of the 
 small number of soldiers, a part of whom had no inclination for the 
 service, and would have laid hold on that occasion to desert ; and 
 [those] that were faithfid happening to be killed, the Governour 
 would have been left to the discretion of mutiniers, who, finding 
 themselves the stronger party, would have imdoubtedly betrayed 
 him. 
 
 About this tyme the Governour receaved letters from the Earle of
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 58 
 
 Diinifermling, who was in the north with the Viscoimt of Dimdie, 
 showeing they had about 100"' gentlemen on horse with them ; and 
 that at St Johnstone, they had surprysed, and seazed the Lairds of 
 Blair and Pollock, witli some otlier officers of the enemies, while 
 they were making their levies ; and had got also some litle money 
 in hands of the collector of the publick impositiones ; and were, with 
 the prissoners and the horses they took, retiu'ned againe to the monn- 
 taines, where they had neid of some orders from the Governoiir ; 
 who gave a returne to the Earle of Dmnfennline's letters, and satis- 
 fied all his desires, to the end they might be in a condition to send 
 releefe to the Castle before the first of June, judgeing he could hold 
 out no longer without he got suecoiu"S. He gave the same adver- 
 tisement to the rest of his friends who adhered to the King's interest, 
 and all this with ad\'yce and concurrance of the Lieutennent Gover- 
 uour. 
 
 The 17th of May the Governour caused sound the wells, and 
 found the high well only 10 foot deej), and the other wells were dry. 
 
 [May 18. This night IVIr Maci)herson and one of the Duke's 
 footmen wei-e sent out. 'We now kept no men at the high guard 
 house, which had been hitherto our main guai'd ; for all were posted 
 at the sally port and low guard.] 
 
 On Sunday 19th, the enemy haveing got their new artillery 
 planted, about 10 a'doack at night they began to fyre upon the 
 Castle with their great bombs, from a battery they had raised from 
 the west corner of the toun wall. They had planted tuo morter 
 peices, and threw the bombs in pairs ; but all of them went over the
 
 54 SIEGE OF THE 
 
 Castle, or fell short of it at the West Port, not without dammage 
 to the houses of the toun ; or splite upon the top of the wall of the 
 Castle, where ther was a centinell, who brought some fragments of 
 it to his coini-ades. [I cannot say whose work the besiegers were 
 about, but they never failed to ply it hard on the Lord's day : 
 upon which one of our Highlanders observed, that, though he was 
 apt to forget the days of the week, yet he well knew Sunday, by 
 some mischief or other, begvm or hotly carried on by oui* reform- 
 ers.] 
 
 Upon ther fireing, the Castle gave them several! great guns point- 
 ed to ther bomb battery, but without success, the morter peices 
 standing very low, and not requyreiug ports, wherupon the garri- 
 son thought best to spaire ther powder on that occassion. 
 
 The Governour ordered all in the garrison to remove ther lodg- 
 ings to the vaults, and took himselfe to one lykewise ; and about 
 the same tyme he became sickly, and continued so for some days : 
 Notwithstanding wherof, the same night, when the besiegers began 
 to play with their bombs, he went with Captaine Diunbar and others 
 to the sally port, where he discoursed over the wall with one of the 
 enemies centineUs, but could learne Utle from him. [However, 
 som of our men would daily divert themselves in drolling the be- 
 siegers ; and there were amongst them those that seemed to favour 
 the King's interest, and would often begin discourses to that pur- 
 pose, in Irish, with some of the Highlanders, but frequently were 
 interrupted by their commanders.] 
 
 20th May. About one a'clock in the morning, when they had
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 55 
 
 ceased from fireing ther bombs, ther fell much snow, which, not- 
 withstanding the season of the year, did ly a great part of the day 
 tuo foot high. The soldiers gathered the snow, and put it into vesh- 
 ells, which served them for water, the very unwholsome, for fear 
 the wells would faile. [Thus nature seemed to suffer at this unna- 
 tural bombarding of his Majesty's fort with his own bombs, and by 
 his natiu-al subjects too. 
 
 This day they fired no bombs by reason of the storm. 
 
 This night Mr Macpherson and the Duke's servant returned.] 
 
 21st May. About 10 a'clock at night the besiegers fell to work 
 againe with ther bombs, and continued till after 12 a'clock, having 
 fii-ed about 16. One of them ruined the stair of the church ; another 
 falling on the rock at the back of the lower guard hous, tumbled 
 doun whole on the soldiers upon duty, and one Duncan Grant 
 thinking the danger past, went near to look to it. It broke beside 
 him, but he sustained no more prejudice by it save a litle of his 
 hearing for 24 houres. 
 
 After this the soldiers became better acqiiainted with the bombs, 
 and could judge by ther elevation wherabouts they would fall : 
 Some of them did break in the aire, others were smothered in the 
 earth, wherewith the parapets were only backt, six of which they 
 digged for and found whole. The Governour appointed a centinell 
 on the Hauke hill, to give notice so soon as he saw the mortar peice 
 fyred, and before the bomb was at its elevation, the word, viz. a 
 bomb, would be thorough the garison, one takeing it instantly from 
 another, so that every one might be on his guard before it fell.
 
 56 SIEGE OF THE 
 
 22d May. Some of the besiegers from the Castle hill, the West 
 Port, and other advanced posts, as also from the windows in the 
 toun, fired upon the soldiers in the garrison, which provocked them 
 to fyi-e at the besiegers, when they perceaved them in the streets ; 
 killing a centinell at the Castle hill, and casually wounding some 
 persons not concerned. The Duke had alwise given strict orders 
 not to fyi-e towards any part of the toun, but only at the batteries, 
 trenches, and guards, without the toun, wherby the Castle was 
 block up ; and at such as were perceaved going to or comeing from 
 the said batteries, guards, or trenches. Yet contraiy to his know- 
 ledge, these his orders were sometymes transgressed, especially 
 meetting with provocatione of fyi-eing from the streets and win- 
 dows of the town. 
 
 By this tyme ther was much timber work in the Castle brocken 
 by the bombs, and many of the soldiers being halfe naked, it fell 
 out veiy seasonably, to be fire[wood.] The Governour had caused 
 gather the splinters of the bombs to returne upon the besiegers 
 in caice of ane assault. 
 
 23 May. A gunner's wife falling in laboiu', the Govemoiu" caused 
 beat a parley to send in a midvpyfe, which was refused ; [but the 
 gentlemen authorised to treat, proposed to send the woman out, to 
 be taken care of. But this being so nearly related to the known jest 
 of one, who finding himself too near a warm fire, proposed to re- 
 move the chimney, we did not suspect them to be in earnest. How- 
 ever, the poor woman was safely brought to bed.] 
 
 The Governour having observed a work cast up the mght befoir
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 57 
 
 on the street about the weigh hous, proposed a parley to speak about 
 the reraovall of it. The besiegers pretend it was done by the touns- 
 men to secui'e them from shott. His Grace demonstrated, that 
 any defence ther could not save the toun, though it were sex story 
 high, and declaired he knew not of any fireing that way ; and pro- 
 mised, that upon removeing ther work, ther should be no ground of 
 complaint thenceforth upon that head ; otherwayes, not knowing the 
 designe in it, he would be oblidged, in defence of the gai'rison, to 
 fire at any work were cast up' within the reach of his cannon; so 
 that by ther fault the toim might suffer against his inclination. But 
 the besiegers wei'e so little concerned for the toun, that they would 
 not condescend to demolish it, nor permitt the toune major to speake 
 with the Duke, though he was seen comeing up the Castle hill for 
 that purpose. After they had gone and returned severall tymes, 
 and nothing concluded on, ther were people perceaved throwing it 
 doun, and ther was no fuilher trouble about it. 
 
 Whilst the Duke and ther officers were treating about this at the 
 Castle gate, the besiegers fyred thrie bombs towards the low guard 
 at the same gate ; wherupon a gentleman in garx'ison said to some 
 without, I judge we qre in greater danger by your faith (broken by 
 fyreing imder parley) than by youi* works, (alluding to the work 
 cast up, then under debate.) Att this parley, they told the Duke 
 they had ane engineer could throw 100th bombs at once upon the 
 garrison. Wherimto he replyed. He should be very glad it were 
 put in practice, for at that rate he should be soon rid of them. 
 
 This night they fyred about 20 bombs, some falling within the 
 
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 58 SIEGE OF THE 
 
 court, and one within the great magazine ; two upon a brasse gun, 
 which only broke her wheile. 
 
 [About eleven this night a soldier's wife in garrison was sent out.] 
 
 24th May. The besiegers began fii'st to fire their bombs in the 
 day time, when they were the more dangerous, because not so easily 
 perceaved as in the night. About 8 a'clock at night, a bomb split 
 in the low halfe moon, amongst the soldiers, rankt in order to be 
 releeved, but without any hurt. 
 
 [This night the soldier's wife returned.] 
 
 25th day. They had now got the elevation of the Castle exact- 
 ly, and severall bombs were throwne into the place, which defaced 
 most of the upper roumes, as also the chiu-ch, magazine, &c., and 
 severall small armes were broken. 
 
 [This afternoon we discovered a fleet of Dutch doggers making 
 up the Frith, and concluded they were chased by the French fleet, 
 but it proved a mistake. 
 
 About eleven at night Henry Gordon was sent out.] 
 
 Sunday 26th day. The besiegers ha\'ing finished their new bat- 
 tery northwards of the Castle, began early this morning to fire with 
 three cannon (two of them 24-pounders) upon the pallace and gun- 
 ports of the high halfe moon. They beat down the balcony of the 
 top of the wall : Most of the balls split in pieces ; nor were they spa- 
 ring of ther bombes on the Lord's day, especially in tyme of divyne 
 service, as much bent to doe ill, as the Scribes and Pharisees were 
 to hinder the doeing good on the Sabbath. But the chiu-ch in the 
 garrison being ruin'd by the bombes, the soldiers heard sermon in
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 59 
 
 a vault, [under the room which was the powder magazine before the 
 siege.] 
 
 27th day. They fjTed briskly both from the north and south 
 batteries with ther cannon, but threw no bombes ; and the garrison 
 burned very litle powder in exchange, designed to save some bar- 
 rells for the solemnity of the 29th. 
 
 About this tyme the Governour had communicated to him the 
 contents of a letter, from a persone worthy of credit, from Ireland, 
 which deprived him of all hopes of succours from thence ; att which 
 he was so much the more siu-prysed that the French fleet had beat 
 that of England at Bantry Bay ; which victory made the King's 
 friends in Scotland hope for a speedy supply. 
 
 28th day. Tuo bombs fell thorow the leads, and split in the 
 store-house, where thrie or foui* soldiers were receaving ther al- 
 lowance off drink, but did no other damage, save the losse of the 
 ale, which oblidged the garrison to di'ink water for some dayes, till 
 more ale was brewed. The same afternoon, a bomb haveing fallen 
 into the roume where the publick records were keipt, occassioned 
 the beatting of a parley in the garrison. And the Duke sent a let- 
 ter to the Lord Ross, giveing him ane accompt of the accident that 
 had happened, threatning losse to the kingdome in generall, and de- 
 syred to speak with his lordship about the matter. The Lord Ross 
 would not come, but a Captaine was sent from Duke Hamilton, to 
 whom the Governour proposed the removeing of the records to an- 
 otlier roume, at the sight of some commissionated by the Estates. 
 He told the Captaine lykewise, that he was to put out the royall
 
 60 SIEGE OF THE 
 
 flag, but hoped no body would be sui-piysed at it, being only on 
 accompt of the solemnity enjoyned that day, by a standing Act of 
 Parliament, for the restoration of the royaU lyue after Cromwell's 
 usui'pation. 
 
 Inmiediatly after the captaine wes gone for the 2d tyme about 
 the matter of the records, the enemy fyred tuo cannons from the 
 north batterie. The Duke a litle befoii' had caused draw out the 
 ball from most of the great gims, and had fired them with powder 
 only for the solemnity. But upon the unexpected breaking of the 
 parley, the balls were put in again and discharged at the besie- 
 gers batteries : So the publick records of the nation lay stiU where 
 they were, att the ^vilfuU hazard of the besiegers bombes, notwith- 
 standing all ther pretensions for the publick good. 
 
 [This night Henry Gordon returned, and brought an accoimt, 
 that one of the besiegers mortar-pieces had split ; and that the great 
 leaders in the Reformation, upon appearance of the Dutch doggers, 
 got together horses, attendants, arms, &c., and made vast prepara- 
 tions, as if they had been to fly to, or for the King's host.] 
 
 29th May. The garrison observed the solemnity of the day with 
 bonfjTes and some fyre works ; when the besiegers threw bombes, 
 the Castle retiuTied them squibs, and chearfully drank .a health to 
 the King, Quein, and Prince of Walles, in a mortifyeing liquor. The 
 besiegers with their bombes aymed cheifely at the bonfires of the 
 Castle, which seemed to them a publick upbraiding of their dis- 
 loyalty. But at other occassions they aymed at the paUace, which 
 gave occassion to the Govemour to say, they medled too litle with
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 61 
 
 the walls, if they resolved to take the Castle by assault, and too 
 much with the lodgings, if they intended to get and keep it long 
 upon capitulation. 
 
 [Lieutenant Hay, being under some indisposition, had leave to 
 go out this night ; and the soldiers wife, (who had been sent out a 
 few days before, and returned) was to have gone after him upon 
 some message from the Duke ; but she deferred her journey on pre- 
 tence she was afraid of the bombs, of which they fired many this 
 night. 
 
 May 30. This night the soldiers wife was again ordered out, 
 but would not stir, pretending the night was too clear.] 
 
 May 31. About one a'clock in the morning, some of thes on the 
 low guard heard the besiegers at work on the south syde of the 
 Castlehill, and shortly after they could perceave groimd broken 
 at a small distance from the low halfe moon : Upon which it was 
 resolved to send out a party of fom'tein men to beat the enemy 
 from it. But a debate happening betwixt the gentlemen of the tuo 
 squades, each pretending a right to be of the party, the Governour 
 discharged the intended sally. 
 
 This night, Mr Ross went out, and with him Ochterloiuiie's wife 
 (who was [ordei'ed] out tuo severall nights before, but both tymes 
 deferred to goe, upon frivolous excuse). And at the same tyme one 
 Joannet Cunniughame went upon some message from the Ensigne ; 
 and as the soldiers were bussied in seing them over the North Loch, 
 one Robison a serjeant, a Papist, and Irishman borne, who had bein 
 Serjeant in the King's sei'vice, had refused to serve under the Prince
 
 62 SIEGE OF THE 
 
 of Orange, and begged through all England to be quite of that ser- 
 vice, and had come into the Castle on hazard of his lyfe ; one Pater- 
 son, a corporall ; one Ochterlouny, the woman's husband that was 
 sent out, and tuo centinells, deserted. She had got 12 or 14. crounes 
 to bring in drogues for the use of the garrison, who now perceaved 
 she had bein accessory to the treachery, and that her delayes from 
 one night to another, on frivolous pretences, were only to watch ane 
 opportunity till the deserters sould have the low guard ; (for the soul- 
 diers changed posts every tyme they mounted,) and, consequently, 
 all advantages of ane escape : For the corporall had altered the mus- 
 ter roll of centineUs, to get the knaves packt together for ther game, 
 and they could easily get over the wall wher ther post was, [and 
 Robison had the custody of the key of the wicket of the outer gate, 
 and actually carried it with him.] 
 
 This desertion did much discoui'age the garrison ; for, besides the 
 discovering of the secreit passages, correspondence, and weaknesses, 
 it proved a great stmnbling block to those who understood litle, or 
 had but a superficial! conceme in the cause or Govemoiir. ^Mier- 
 fore, immediatly after the desertion, one Rimcyman, the Gover- 
 nour's footman, was dispatcht to the toun, to give aU correspondents 
 notice, that they might abscond, and had orders to retume by the 
 North Loch passage, against tuo or thrie nixt afternoon. 
 
 The 1. June, about four in the afternoon, he was perceaved re- 
 turning that way with his sword drawen ; and the garison having 
 planted some gi-eat gimes towards the besiegers guards, did with 
 them and small shot fix'e so warmely, that they thought it most fit
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 63 
 
 to let the footman retiu-ne safe into the Castle. He gave acconipt 
 that he had bein arreistecl the night before be the besiegers' guards, 
 and before he could get liberty, centinells were planted at the lodg- 
 ings of Mistress Ann Smith, (grand chyld to the late Dr Atkins Bi- 
 shop of Galloway), who corresponded with the garrison by signes, 
 from a window looking towards it from the city ; that Mr Hay was 
 seazed in his chamber, in the meane tyme he was there to advertise 
 him of the danger ; l)ot the footman passed for Mr Hay's servant, 
 and escaped under that pretext ; that the Governour's letters, and 
 others from the garrison, were in the enemyes hands, bot most of 
 them were written obsciu-ely, and had fained or no subscriptions. 
 
 The footman returning safe to the Castle in sight of the enemies, 
 [and they fancying he had some extraordinary message in charge,] 
 did so picque them, that they fired incessently from four to 8 a'clock ; 
 and in that space did tlu-ow upwards of foiu-ty bombs into the gar- 
 rison. The gentlemen of the garrison had delayed ther dinner, ex- 
 pecting the footman's retm-ne ; and after his arryveall, the cloath 
 being laid in a closet one pair of stairs up in the pallace, (where most 
 of them had dyetted hitherto,) it was by meer accident removed to 
 a vault ; and before dinner was weell begim, a bomb burst in the 
 closet, and tore to peices every thing therin. Another biurst in the 
 kitchen among the servants, without hurting any. One split on the 
 top of the pallace, and broke the firelock in a centinell's hand, but 
 himselfe suffered noe dammage ; and another, falling through the 
 leads into the roumes of the pallace, broke a door ; and John Stew- 
 art of Bogs, a very stout and honest gentleman of the Dul<e's fa-
 
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 raily, was sore wounded in the face, and lost ane eye by the splin- 
 ter of it. 
 
 Before this, ther had bein no creature wounded in the garrison 
 with all the enemyes cannons and bombs, save only a cow of the 
 Liuetennant Govemour's by a musquet shot, which was great part 
 of the fresh provision they had dureing the siege, whatever report 
 went abroad about it. 
 
 The besiegers set up a flag of orange colour on their north bat- 
 tery as a signe of joy, conceaved, fi'om the notice given them by the 
 late deserters of the weak condition of the garison.* 
 
 The Convention seazed aU those in toun, who had keept correspon- 
 dence with, and given intelligence of the garrison ; men and women ; 
 the Lady Largo ; Mistres Ogilvy ; Joannet Cunninghame ; biit they 
 were most cruelly bent against Mistres Smith and Mr Hay. This 
 depriveaU of correspondence with the toun did discourage the gar- 
 rison extreamly. 
 
 Att releeving the guards at night, the Govemour spoke to the 
 tuo squades severally to this purpose : That his enemyes most ac- 
 knowledge he had imdertaken the defence of this place, and declared 
 for the King, when all Brittaine seemed to have abandoned his inte- 
 rest ; and had done so, only upon a princijjle of conscience and loy- 
 alty : And as conscience determined him then to one act of justice, so 
 
 * ^\^lilst the besiegers were at the height of their fury, we perceired a large clout, 
 of an orange colour, mounted on their north battery ; and rationally concluded it to be 
 the frolic of some young spark- errant, who had procured an old petticoat from his lady 
 mistress, and kept in view to inspire him with courage to commence hero for her sake ; 
 rather than any emblem of terror to ns, or right on the besiegers' side.
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 65 
 
 it oblidged him now to study the preservation of all those in gar- 
 rison, which he reckoned another ; and then addit, Gentlemen, let 
 me assure you, I doe not use to breake promises to you ; if we be 
 not releeved in a competent tyme, I will cajiitulate, and every one 
 of you shall have as good termes as myselfe. 
 
 [The whole garrison unanimously declared their abhoiTence of 
 the desertion, though they could not be ill pleased to get rid of the 
 company of rogues and cowards ; and that they were firmly resolved 
 to live and die with his Grace in defence of this place, for liis Ma- 
 jesty's service. 
 
 There were now some alterations made in posting oui* men. The 
 main guard was kept at the sally-port ; and six centinells, command- 
 ed by a gentleman, were posted a little eastward. At the low guard 
 we had two gentlemen, with a serjeant, corjioral, gunner, and nine 
 soldiers ; one part of which were posted in the lower half moon, and 
 the other in Crichton's yard ; besides five centinels, commanded by 
 a gentleman, at the portcullis.] 
 
 The beseigers discharged all further treating but by the white 
 flag. About eleven at night Mr Ross returned safe, notwithstand- 
 ing the search made for him upon the deserters' information. As he 
 came towards the North Loch he perceaved a small party of the 
 besiegers, on the other syde, advancing towards the garrison to in- 
 tercept him (the nights being then neir the shortest at the summer 
 solstice, and the twilight continueing all night) ; but tuo of the 
 garrison appearing on Wallace Tower, they retired to ther guards. 
 
 [We beat a parley, and his Grace seemed to entreat for favour to 
 
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 Robison and the other deserters, as if they had been sent out by 
 order, and occasionally fallen into the besiegers hands, on pm-pose 
 to jirociire them the harder measure ; but it took no effect. And 
 now they discharged all further treating except by the white flag.] 
 
 2d of June. Sunday, [between 11 and 12] at night, the garrison 
 wes allaiiimed, some hunckeds of the besiegers being discovered in 
 the corn feilds very near the Castle northwards ; and upon misin- 
 formation of a boy in the gamson, that they had begun ane assatdt, 
 the di'imis beate, upon which all the soldiers not upon guard ran to- 
 wards the sally-port halfe naked, with ther arines, but without any 
 command. INIr Gardine, being captaine of the guard, sent to adver- 
 tise the Duke that ther was no danger : Bot he was abroad before 
 the messenger arry\'ed ; and such was his care of the garrison, that 
 he could not be perswaded for some tyme to returne to his lodging. 
 The souldiers that were not upon duty, were ordered to attend in a 
 vault imtil farther orders. The Lieuetennant-Governor took a hal- 
 bert, and with the Ensigne went the roimds till morning ; and Mr 
 Gardine used such dilligence, that he wes not above halfe ane hour 
 togither from any post ; and the very women appeared at the walls 
 to defend them. The garrison fired very wannely on thes men of 
 the besiegers with great and small shot, and they quickly retired. 
 
 3d day. Airly in the morning, they were perceaved to have brock- 
 en ground, where the garison fii'st discovered them ; yet stayed not 
 to make any lodgement ; and .ther disorder could be conjectiu'ed by 
 the great niunber of faggots which lay scattered, as if they had been 
 sowen, along the corn feilds, where they had marched, or rather run 
 away.
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 67 
 
 The same day the besiegers took up a post on north syde of the 
 Castlehill, to obstnict all communication betwixt the garrison and 
 its friends in the toiui ; and the garrison dismounted both ther can- 
 non on the south battery ; and the 4th day, shot grenades out of a 
 hand morter peice at ther new post, on the north syde of the Castle- 
 hiU. The Lieutennant-Governoiu* proposed to send out a party of 
 sex men to beat them from it, but the Duke had all along declared 
 his aversione of hazarding any of the few men he had, except upon 
 more lu-gent occassions. 
 
 The garrison dismounted one of the besiegers' great gims on the 
 north battery. They [kept a guard betwixt a wall, within pistol 
 shott of the new post ;] had broken ground in 13 or 14 places round 
 the garrison, and fired this day 24 bombs and many cannon. [The 
 same day Captain Dunbar dismounted three of their cannon.] 
 
 5th day. The garrison perceaved some of the besiegers posted 
 behind a wall near the West Church ; and fyred severall great guns 
 upon them, which made a large breach in the wall ; wherupon they 
 fled, and as was thought, left severalls dead and woimded. Ther- 
 after they were perceaved throwing up earth at the back of the 
 West Chm'ch, (one of ther posts,) and the garrison called to them to 
 make the hole large, supposing they had not a few to bury in it. 
 This day they threw no bombs. 
 
 6th day. [At this time we had taken notice of a more than or- 
 dinary concourse of people coming from the west, and flattered our- 
 selves with hopes that his Majesty had landed some forces there, 
 and the rebells were running upon the noise ; but this only aug-
 
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 mented the number of our disappointments.] They threw one 
 bomb into the gan-ison, about tuo a'clock in the morning, [which 
 was matter of conjecture to us,] and the garrison fired severall can- 
 non upon their guards at the West Church, and at the back of the 
 tomi, near the North Loch, which did execvition ; as also, whilst the 
 Governour wes at denner, some great guns were fyred, without his 
 knowledge, upon ther guards at the West Port. 
 
 7th day. [Colin Sutherland] a private centinell in the garrison, 
 after a tedious sickness, dyed, and 8th day was buryed, with thrie 
 volleys of small shott. 
 
 9th day. Now the garrison had no maner of information from 
 the toim, and [our provisions being very near spent, and gi-eat part 
 of the garrison sickly,] were longing much for intelligence. [But 
 the besiegers, having understood from our deserters, the particular 
 places by which our men got safe out and into the Castle, and ha- 
 ving accordingly posted guards to interrupt them, it was reckoned 
 a very difficult task. However] severall gentlemen and others of- 
 fered to adventure out ; and one John Grant being pitched iipon, 
 was conveyed over the wall opposite to the West Port. He promised 
 to informe himselfe dilligently if ther were any hopes of releefe for 
 the Castle, and to give a signe at a place agried upon, a mile dis- 
 tant, in caice ther were any hopes ; and if ther were none, he sould 
 give another different signe, and should retire himselfe to the north 
 of Scotland, least he might be apprehended. 
 
 10th day. [Mr Grant gave us on this day a sign from the Long 
 Gate that he was got safe out, and would return the next day.]
 
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 The gan-ison observed the solemnity of the day for the bii'th of the 
 Priuce of 'Walles ; and a litle after midnight,' the besiegers began 
 again to play with ther bombes, haveing remained peaceable neigh- 
 boiu's from the 4th day, save one they fired on the sixth. 
 
 The same night Mr Gardine, with six men, sallyed out without 
 the Didie's order, and chaced ther enemies from ther posts on the 
 Castle-hill. 
 
 11th day. John Grant appeared at the place appointed, and gave 
 the signall, by which the Governom* and the officers understood 
 ther was no hopes of succom-s. ^Mierfore not haveing receaved any 
 letter from tlie King, or any that appeared for his Majestie, except 
 that from Tyrconnell, when the garrison was first blocked up, and 
 that not directed to him, nor any order at all in it regarding the 
 Castle; and the messenger (jirobably out of his own head,) said 
 only, that within sex weeks Tyi'connell would send releefe ; and it 
 was now thrie months since that promise, which, in reality, was 
 never made : for when Tyrconnell went to St Germans, after the 
 battell at the Boyn Water in Ireland, he denyed to the Duke of Gor- 
 don himselfe that ever he promised any such thing, nor wes he 
 truely in a condition to send him such forces as could releeve him. 
 And it was about a month afterwards that only 500 Irish, instead 
 of the pretended 20,000 landed in the Highlands, of whom the gar- 
 rison knew nothing at this tyme, they not being yet embarqued at 
 Knockfergus. 
 
 2do. Att the conference with the Viscount of Dimdie, the Duke 
 
 ^ About ten at night.
 
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 did not condescend how long he could keep out the Castle, tho its 
 said Duudie promised releife within 20 days ; and now after thrie 
 months, nether he nor others who stood for the King were in a 
 condition to give any releife at all. 
 
 3tio. The soldiers deserting so frequently, leaping over the walls ; 
 and the last deserters having given information to the enemies of 
 the condition of the Castle, and of its scarcity of provisions and 
 ammunition, which made them set up the Orange flag, and stop all 
 correspondence from friends in the toun. 
 
 4to. There were more as twenty men sick in the garrison, and 
 ther number was daylie encreassing, and scarse fourty healthfull to 
 doe duty. From the fii'st tyme the besiegers began to play with 
 their bombs, there were not men sufficient upon duty to releeve the 
 night centinells, so that some were best able to endui'e hardship, 
 stood from 10 at night to tuo or thrie in the morning ; and besides 
 ther were often men constantly employed in ditching, scoui'eing, 
 raiseing, or removing batteries, as was thought neidfuU. 
 
 5to. The water of the garrison was very bad, and a great part 
 of the cause of so many sick men, which in short tyme would have 
 disabled the rest, reduced to drink therof for want of better liquor. 
 
 6to. There were not victuaUs for 10 days, save bread and salt 
 herrings. 
 
 7mo. The ammunitions were near spent. 
 
 8vo. All other things necessary were wanting ; no coalls nor 
 wood, save the wrack of buildings brocken doun by the bombes. 
 
 Upon thes considerations it was judged fitt to beat a pai-Iey, in
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 71 
 
 order to capitulate/' About 6 a'clock the white flag was put out, 
 aud Major Somervell, with another of the besiegers officers, came 
 to the draw-bridge befoir the Castle gate, but made some scrouple 
 to advance further. So the Duke stood at one end of the bridge 
 with the Lieuetennant-Governour, and Major Somervell with ther 
 officers at the other. 
 
 The first thing proposed was as to the person with whom the 
 Governour might safely treate, and who could give security for 
 performance of articles. Duke Hamilton, commissioner for the 
 Parliament (made uj) of the Convention, or of Ihe Convention 
 transfigiu-ed into a Parliament, after the example of England) wes 
 named. But the Governour desired to sie his commission, he not 
 being oblidged to know of that transfigm-ation. So the Major went 
 for further insti'uctions, and in a short tyme retui-ned with Major- 
 General Lanier, the Lord Colchester ane English nobleman, and 
 CoUonell Balfour. Then the exchange of hostages was under con- 
 sideratione. They demanded the Lieuetennant-Governour, and 
 ofiered Major Somervell, which the Duke would not condescend 
 to, but offered Mr Gairdin for a gentleman of lyke quality and for- 
 time. 
 
 Whilst this was under debate, came a message from Duke Hamil- 
 ton, nether to give nor to take hostages, but to treat without that 
 
 * About four this afternoon, we saw Mr Grant several times at the \\'est Port, and 
 were in readiness to receive liim ; IdU he did not offer to approach, and thereby occa- 
 sioned vaiious conjectures. Whereupon it was tliought fit to beat a parley, expect- 
 ing therel)y to learn some intelligence how affairs went ; but all treating without the 
 white flag being denied us, about six o'clock at night the white flag was put out.
 
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 formality. So the treaty ended this night, and lykewise the cessa- 
 tion ; for incontinently the besiegers fyred thrie great guns on the 
 Castle, which answered them with as many, and afterwards ther 
 was warm fireing on both sides. 
 
 12th day. — This morning the treatty began againe [and before 
 they entered upon any terms of siuTender, the besiegers went for 
 fiu'ther instructions upon preliminaries]. But John Grant, takeing 
 the opportunity of the cessation, came imprudently, contrary to his 
 instnictions, into the gan-ison, which made the Govemoui* think 
 he had gott some good newes since the tyme he gave the signall ; 
 but upon examination he could say no more than that ther were 
 noe hopes of releeflfe. 
 
 Major-Generall Lanier, knowing of his entry, and pretending it 
 was a breach of the treaty, declared he would break off the same 
 unless he were delivered up to him, which the Governoiu* refused ; 
 and the treaty was brocken off, which made those of the garrison 
 understand they should have but a very bad composition with the 
 enemies. 
 
 Major Sommervell insisted, that the Duke ought to meet Sir 
 John Lanier halfe way betwixt the tovn and castle ; but the gen- 
 tlemen in garrison opposed it ; and somewhat too hotly reflecting 
 on the treachery of ther centinells. Major Somervell said, that La- 
 nier would not break his word for sex tymes the value of the castle ; 
 and the Ensigne of the gaiTison replyed, that he had brocken his 
 word, and oath too, to a much better man than any upon the place 
 (viz. the King), [and, for any thing he knew, for a less reward].
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 73 
 
 Then the major threatning man and child with the sword in caice 
 the treaty held not, Mr Gairdin replyed, that tlier men must have 
 greater courage, and those of the garrison less, befoir it came to 
 that. Severall other tairt expressions were used, and then they 
 parted ; and shortly therafter one of ther Ensignes came up and 
 discharged any further treating. Then they condemned Lieueten- 
 nant Hay and Joannet Cunniughame to be put to death, for cor- 
 responding with the Castle, and haveing bein in the same.' 
 
 The Governour, with Captaine Dimibar, proposed to Collonell 
 Winram Lieuetennant-Governour, to Mr "Wincester Ensigne, and 
 Mr Gairdin Volunteer, a meane to eschew the cruelty of the ene- 
 myes ; which was, to put themselves on head of thes soldiers in the 
 garrison, who were vigorous and had courage to hazard ; and, in the 
 night tyme, to force ther passage to the sea side, not tuo myles distant, 
 and ther to seaze some boat, and get over to the other side. For the 
 example of Sir "William Kirkaldy of Grange was not of so old date 
 as it could not be remembered. This gentleman was Governour of 
 the Castle of Edinburgh for Queen Mary, after her rebellious sub- 
 jects had forced her to renunce the government, and threatned her 
 with death and infamy, while they keept her prissoner in the Castle 
 of Lochleven ; and, having bravely defended it for the space of 33 
 days, against the continuall battery of 30 brass cannons, and fre- 
 quent assaults of the besiegers, was at last forced to render the 
 
 ■^ In the mean time we were informed that Lieutenant Hay and Janet Cuningham 
 were both condemned, in a conncill of war, to be lianged, by a new Dutch mode of 
 military discipline. 
 
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 same and themselves to the mercy of ther enemyes, and of Queen 
 Elizabeth of England, who willed Grange, his brother, and two 
 citizens of Edinburgh, to be publickly hanged on the mercat place. 
 However, that proposall of the Duke's to escape by the sea seemed 
 too dangerous, and not to be put in practice unless the enemies re- 
 fused to grant the safety of lyves. 
 
 About eight a'clock at night, the Govemour having called the 
 garrison togither, told them, that according to his promise, he had 
 begun a treaty of capitulation, which was unexpectedly brocken of ; 
 and desu-ed, if any man's heart failled him, he might declare it, and 
 he should have liberty to be gone : He put them in mynd how fyve 
 rogues had lately deserted (last of May), and gone over the walls, 
 when they might have had patent gates, and how infamous they 
 were even with the enemy. 
 
 AVlierupon all the gari'ison unanimously declaired ther resolutions 
 of liveing upon bread and water with his Grace. Then he added. 
 Perhaps some may be ashamed to own ther fears before a company 
 of resolute men ; but if soe, let any man who hes ane inclination to 
 leave the garrison tell me in private, and I will find out a passage 
 for him ; and, gentlemen, for you that will live with me, I shall be 
 ready to dy Avith you, if it come to that, you may take my word 
 on't ; which was answered with huzzas. 
 
 The besiegers had, ever since the treaty was brocken of, fyred 
 smartly on the garrison from all ther batteries and posts about it ; 
 and about eleven at night a body of them were perceaved advanceing 
 towards it on the north syde of the Castle-hill ; and when they were 
 
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 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 75 
 
 come near the ditch, thos from the Castle fired on them so smart- 
 ly as that they were forced to a disorderly retreat. Their officers 
 were heard calling out, Advance, dogs ; and the garrison mocked 
 them, saying, Ye dogs, will not you obey yoiu* officers ? Then they 
 were perceaved rolling packs of wool up the Castle-hill, with inten- 
 tion to place a battery midway betwixt the toun and Castle ; and the 
 garrison directed their shot to that place. All upon duty behaved 
 themselves with great courage. Ther were but 19 men, command- 
 ers and commanded, upon the low giiard, and they would have no 
 reinforcement ; and so litle was their fear of the enemies bombes, 
 that they still retiu-ned them great and small shot while those ma- 
 chines of terrour were flyeing above their heads, and sung aloud at 
 all posts, When the King shall enjoy his oun againe. Mr Gardine 
 was Captaine of the guard this night ; Henry Gordon commandit 
 a post in the low halfe moon ; Jolm Falconer another at the centi- 
 nell's box near the low guard-house ; a Serjeant and corporall within 
 Creichton's yeard, and John [James] Gordon of Edintore at the 
 portcullice. The mutuall fireing continued from 12 a'clock at night 
 till i>ast tuo a'clock in the morning, and one of the gunners of the 
 Castle was killed by a musquet shott thorow a gun-port. 
 
 13th day. Tlie gamson fii'ed warmly at the besiegers' men posted 
 behind the wool! packs on the Castle-hill, till about sex a'clock, that 
 they relented to menadge ther powder, having spent last night 
 and the morneing 12 or 13 barrells of powder ; at which rate in sex 
 dayes they would not have had one barrell remaining. 
 
 One of the Governoux-'s cooks was shot thorow the body, but yet
 
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 not mortally wounded. The Governoiir, though indisposed, omitted 
 not to Aasit the posts with all solicitude, and to observe what the 
 enemies had done ; and found ther lodgments advanced on the Castle- 
 hill. Coll. Winram said to him, It were fitt to write a line to desire 
 the enemies to renew the treaty. He answered, the nixt session of 
 the Convention was to be expected, and that he would not beginne 
 againe to treat tiU John Grant, who had been the occassion of the 
 internii)tion, should be gone out of the Castle, least he should be 
 oblidged to delyver him up. A short tyme after, the Governour is 
 advertised that he was gone, and CoUonell Winram renewes the in- 
 stance of wi-iting, and offers to carry the letter. The Governour 
 writes to ]Major-Generall Lanier ; and CoUonell Winram gives the 
 letter to Captaine Moody, who commanded the besiegers' guards, 
 and desired to speak with the Governour. He, after some difficulty, 
 condescends, and the Captaine brings with him the Lord Colches- 
 ter, at which the Governour was surprysed, finding them employ a 
 stranger, wher they had so many countreymen. 
 
 To them he gave the articles, which were drawn up the day be- 
 foi'e, with consent of all the officers, in the following termes. 
 
 The Duke of Gordon hath so much respect for all the Princes of 
 King James the Sexth's line, as not to make conditions with any 
 of them for his own particular interest : so he renders himselfe en- 
 tirely on King William's discretion. 
 
 Imo. That CoUonell Winram, Lieutennant-Governour of the 
 Castle, shall submitt himselfe to King AVilliam's pleasure, his lyfe 
 being secured ; and all the rest of the garison shall have ther ly ves,
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 77 
 
 libertyes, and fortunes secured ; and lykewise passports shall be 
 granted to those who will take oaths not to bear armes against 
 the present government. 
 
 2do. The garrison shall be allowed to march out with ther swords 
 and bagage belonging properly to themselves. 
 
 3tio. That all the gentlemen, voluntiers, servants, and others 
 within the garrison, shall have the same capitulation with the rest 
 of the garrison. 
 
 4to. That all raaner of persons shall have the benefite of the first 
 article, who have keept correspondence with the Castle, and who 
 have not been in armes ; and being at present in Edinburgh, or 
 in the same county, shall be indemnifyed, and have the benefite of 
 this capitulation. 
 
 5to. That sick soldiers shall have liberty to dispose of themselves 
 as they shall thinke best, they behaveing themselves as becometh. 
 
 6to. That all officers, gentlemen, servants, and others, shall have 
 the same benefite which other lieges have, they living peaceably. 
 
 7to. A considerable post within the Castle shall be iminediatly, 
 after security is granted to the garrison for the above written ar- 
 ticles, put in possession of the forces imder Major-General Lanier. 
 
 That the garrison should march out with drmns beating, and dis- 
 played banners, which is ane ordinary article in capitulation, the 
 Duke thought not fit to require it ; that being only used in comitries 
 where the soldiers of the capitulating garrison may marcli with a 
 guard of tlier enemies to another garrison of ther own Prince ; whicli 
 could not hold in this caice. And, besides, it had happened in former
 
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 tyines at the surrendering of this Castle, that the garrison therof 
 marching doiin the streits in that maner, the rable insulted over 
 them, and this occasions slaughter and effusion of blood, which was 
 to be e\-ited. 
 
 He professed a particular respect for King James the Sext of 
 Scotland and First of England, because of the particular affection 
 that King had for his family. For although the Kings before and 
 after him had still lookt upon it as the most faithfull and steadable 
 friend to the Crovm, yet the affection King James had towards it 
 was more than ordinaiy, and most endearing. For finding the re- 
 fonners of religion too imperial! and impertinent pedagogues for a 
 King, he made use of the Marquis of Huntly to keep them within 
 some boimds, whose power and following could help much to coim- 
 terpoise theirs ; and whose zeale for the royall interest would spare 
 nether lyfe nor fortune to obey his commands, which were intimate 
 to him by private letters, written with the King's own hand in 
 a most oblidging straine. 
 
 About thrie a'clock in the afternoon, the Lord Colchester returnes 
 to the Castle gate, where the Duke and the Lieutennant-Governor 
 receaved him. He rendered to the Govemour the articles he had 
 receaved from him in the morning, and at the same tyme delyvered 
 to him other articles drawen up by Major-Generall Lanier, which 
 were very disadvantageous, and by which he would have the Go- 
 vernour and Lieuetennant-Governour to remaine prissoners of warr. 
 Colchester went away after he had given these new articles to the 
 Governour ; and within a short tyme therafter returned, and brought
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 79 
 
 word, that all the voliinteers and soldiers of the garrison should not 
 losse a penny, and might retire themselves to any place of the king- 
 dome they pleased ; that the Lieuetennant-Governoiir soiild have 
 lyfe and fortune safe ; and as to the Governoui*, since he would make 
 no conditions for himselfe, he sould remaine prissoner of warr at 
 the discretion of the Pi'ince of Orange. 
 
 The garrison had difficulty to part with the Castle upon any terms, 
 much like onewho losses a suite at law by the sentence of the supreame 
 judicatory : Although the evidences and groimds of the sentence con- 
 vince all unconcerned persons of the justice therof, yet he cannot 
 hinder himselfe from regrateing the losse of what he wes desireous 
 and hopeful! to retaine ; so, these stout and loyall gentlemen and 
 soldiers found the surrender of ther Castle very unpleasant to ther 
 spirits, and ther frettings and regrates gave occassion to some of the 
 Duke of Goi'don's enemies, to blame him for the surrender of it ; 
 and not knowing why he would not make any conditions for him- 
 selfe, to suspect his loyalty. But all impartial and equitable per- 
 sons will easily justify him, if they consider, that although he and 
 his garrison might have for a short tyme keept in their lyves with 
 water instead of drink, and coarse oatmeale for bread, and old salt 
 herrings for all kynd of kitchin ; and even therof they had no quan- 
 tity to last long ; yet not having powder for 8 dayes of so hott ser- 
 vice as the last day, wherin they spent betwixt 12 and 13 barrels ; 
 and not having men sufficient to fui'nish all the posts, nor sure of 
 the fidelity of a great part of thes they had ; when that jjowder 
 should have bein spent, which the enemies nearer approaches
 
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 and constant fireing would have made be very soon, they might 
 have remained incapable to hinder the besiegers from comeing 
 over ther walls, and ther persons and lyves had been at the dis- 
 poseall of ther mercy. 
 
 Common pinidence, therfoire, not allowing the Governour to let 
 matters come to this extremity, he thought fitt to accept of the con- 
 ditions brought by the Lord Colchester, and so all acts of hostility 
 ceassed. 
 
 These articles being signed by both parties, the Privy Couneill 
 ratifyes them by ane authentick act in thes termes — 
 
 His Majestie's High Commissioner, and the Lords of his Ma- 
 
 jestie's Privy Counsall, having seen and considered the articles of 
 
 agriement and capitulation betwixt the Duke of Gordon, Governour 
 
 of the Castle of Edinbm'gh, and Sir John Lanier, Major-Generall of 
 
 his Majestie's forces, agried and condescended to anent the surrender 
 
 of the said Castle ; his Majestie's High Commissioner and the saids 
 
 Lords of his Majestie's Privy Couneill do hei'eby ratify and approve 
 
 of the said capitulation, in the haill heads and articles therof ; and 
 
 declares that they will interpose with his Majestie to be favoiu-able, 
 
 and shew that kyndness to the said Duke of Gordon as to indemnify, 
 
 and secure him for his lyfe and fortune, and the fortune of his 
 
 Liuetennant-Governom-, which they have entirely submitted to his 
 
 Majestie by the said capitulation ; and will also himibly intreat his 
 
 Majestie to allow the saids articles and capitulation to be ratifyed 
 
 in this present Parliament. This act was signed by Duke Hamilton 
 
 and the Earle of Crawfurd.
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 81 
 
 The garrison having now a frie cominunication with the besie- 
 gers' forces, these acknowledged to have sustained a considerable 
 loss the night preceiding, and that many of ther men had deserted 
 upon that accompt. 
 
 About 10 a'clock at niglit, Major Somervell marched with 200"* 
 men into the Castle, and had all the posts therin delyvered to him, 
 except the high guard hall, and great court, which those of the gar- 
 rison keept. Afterwards, the Governour haveing drawen them up in 
 the court, he told them that he must oun they had served him faith- 
 fully, and he knew not wherin he had been unkynd to them ; but, 
 if he had wronged an}', he desired them to speak, and they should 
 have rei)aration ; and entreated them not to make any distiu-bance 
 with the other soldiers now come into the garrison, for they were 
 too few k) conquer, and too many to be made a sacrifice. He gave 
 each of the centinells some money to bear their charges liome. This 
 night Captaine Dumbar, Mr Scot, and some others who had more 
 particularly incurred the displeasure of the rable, went privatlie to 
 the toun. 
 
 14 June. Three full months after the siege began, the garrison 
 marched out, but not in a body, that they might be the less noticed ; 
 yet some of them were very ill treated by the rable ; and Major- 
 General Lanier took possession of the gates of the Castle, which the 
 Duke of Gordon had keept, in obedience to his lawful Soveraigne, 
 after all Gi'eat Brittaine had renunced it, save a few that appeared 
 for him with the Viscount of Dundie. 
 
 There were left in garrison 59 barrells of powder, but ther were 
 
 L
 
 82 SIEGE OF THE 
 
 only fyve of them entire, and all the powder together would not 
 have exceided foiirty full barrells, whereof a great part was useles, 
 being spoilled with water ; sex bolls of malt, which would have scarce 
 given drink for sex dayes ; one barrell of salt beife entu'e ; about 
 tuo stone weight of cheise, tuo stone weight of butter, with meale, 
 some bisket, and salt herrings, which being very bad, had alreadie 
 wronged much the soldiers' health, so that in four or fyve dayes 
 tyme they would have been reduced to live upon meale and water.^ 
 
 It has been objected to the Governour, that he should have given 
 lesser portions to the soldiers from the beginning of the siege, to 
 have made his provisions last the longer ; to which its answered, 
 
 1. That he could not keep his garrison in its obedience to the 
 King, but by the hope he gave them of his Majestie's speedy retiuTie 
 to Scotland, which could not be made agrie with that sparing oeco- 
 nomy of ^•ictualls, whereby they would have judged his retui'ne was 
 not to be lookt for so soon. 
 
 * Here the narrative printed by Grose mentions that " the surrender at this time was 
 loudly talked of, to the Duke's disadvantage. But it were very hard measure (it is 
 added) to condemn his Grace ;" and then, after adverting to the reasons assigned at pages 
 69 71, it concludes with assigning this further motive, " That by reason of that un- 
 happy accident of Grant's coming in to ns in time of treaty, they had declared, they 
 thought not themselves obliged at any time thereafter to keep faith with us ; and we 
 had but too just grounds to believe them. And this last (upon the strictest observa- 
 tion) appeared to the Relater the main argument of our sudden sturender, after his 
 Grace had resolved to undergo the last extremity. 
 
 " Now this being jointly considered, with our want of provisions of all sorts for ten 
 days' defence, which was well enough known to our enemies, and the other circum- 
 stances before represented, the whole is left to the censure of the tmbiassed world.''
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 83 
 
 2. The Governour and other faithful! servants of the King ex- 
 pected lykewise this returne, and that liis Majestic would not make 
 long stay iu Ireland. 
 
 3. The Governour not having a farthing of the PCing's money, 
 and very litle of his own, which he had spent upon his garrison, and 
 upon otlier urgent occassions, it hade been very dangerous to have 
 diminislied the soldiers portions while they got no pay, and while 
 he was oblidged to give them frequently money to drink for their 
 encouragement, and to strengthen them against the continuall toyle 
 and labour they endured. 
 
 To those may be added, that in soe generall a defection of sub- 
 jects from their duty to tlieir Prince, as was in Brittaine at that 
 tyme, it could hardly be expected that comon soldiers would have 
 so much honour, or so vigorous a loyalty, as for the repute of them 
 to suffer to be so long pinched in their bodyes, exposed to constant 
 duty and fatigue, with so small prospect of releefe or recompence 
 for their sufferings. 
 
 After the surrender of the Castle, there happening some passionat 
 words betwixt the Lieuetennant-Governour CoUonell Winram, and 
 some of Lanier's officers, he was not permitted to goe out, but de- 
 tained prissoner in the Castle. Sir John Lanier and the Lord Col- 
 chester conducted the Governour to Duke Hamilton, President of 
 the Convention, who keept him to dinner, and told him that he might 
 come out of the Castle, upon condition he would give his parole not 
 to goe out of Edinburgh without permission, which the Duke con- 
 sented to and gave him. At night he was had back to the Castle,
 
 84 SIEGE OF THE 
 
 and upon the morning thereafter he went to the toun to lodge, and fell 
 sick. 
 
 About the beginning of July, the President of the Convention 
 susjjecting the Duke of Gordon had some thoughts of making his 
 escape, made place ane officer in his chamber all night, and centi- 
 nells at the door and windows. And upon the morrow therafter 
 sent him prissoner to the Castle, where he had the liberty to be at- 
 tended by his own servants, and idsited by his fi-iends. But this li- 
 berty wes taken from him, upon the news of the Convention's forces 
 being defeat in Athole by the Viscount of Dundie, who wes killed 
 at that occassion. The Duke of Gordon proposed to Major-General 
 Mackay to be exchanged with prissoners made in that encoimter ; 
 but it was refused him. 
 
 Sometime after, a part of the prisoners were set at liberty upon 
 surety, and others remained still in prison, amongst whom were the 
 Duke of Gordon, the Earle of Dumnore, the son to the Marquis of 
 Athole, the Viscoimt of Oxford, the CoUonells "Wim'am and Wil- 
 son; thes were detained still prisoners, but a little more liberty. 
 
 Shortly after this the Duke wrote to his friends at London, en- 
 treating them to know of King William how he intended to dispose 
 of him his prisoner of waiT ; and they answered, that he would very 
 shortly declaire his will concerning him. And accordingly, after some 
 tyine, he sent order to the Councill of Scotland to set the Duke of 
 Gt)rdon at liberty on his word of honoiu*. The Duke hearing of this 
 order, entreated that it might not be presented to the Coimcill till 
 he should have tyme to write once to London, to obtaine from King
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 85 
 
 William ane order to release him upon caution, as they had done 
 to other prisoners. But this favour wes refused him, and so he wes 
 oblidged to come out ujwn his word of honour, or remaine still pris- 
 soner in the Castle. 
 
 WTierefore, upon the 24.th of Januarii I69O, he was conducted 
 to the Councill, where the President having intimate to him King 
 ^Villiam's order, told him that he would accept of his word of honour, 
 (without oblidgeing him to give any thing in write,) bearing promise 
 to act nothing against the government, nor against King AVilliam, 
 untill he should present himselfe personallie before him. Tlie Duke 
 thanked the President, and told him that a person of honoiu" would 
 never promise any thing which he would not give in write, and that 
 for himselfe, he loved rather to give in write what he promised, 
 then to give word, because its not so easy to add to or diminish 
 from the one as the other. To which the President having given no 
 reply, the Duke promised to doe nothing against the present govern- 
 ment, nor against King William, till he shoiild present himselfe to 
 him, which satisfyed the Coimcill, and he returned in liberty to the 
 Castle, where he set doun in writting what he had promised to the 
 Coimcill, and shew it to severalls of his friends, and to some of the 
 prisoners in the Castle, who might bear witness of it afterwards. 
 He remained some dayes therafter in toun, though pressed dayly to 
 goe to London to present himselfe to King ^Villiam. 
 
 Wherefore, towards the beginning of February, he began his 
 voyage thither, haveing before written to his friends in the coun- 
 trey at home, to whom his surrender of the Castle upon no condi-
 
 86 SIEGE OF THE 
 
 tions for himselfe, and the bad constructions his enemies had put, 
 upon what accompt they at a distance could not know ; to whom, 
 I say, all thes had bred no litle anxiety concerning him, he writes 
 that they might be assured, that one who acted upon those principles 
 he conducted himselfe by, would not let himselfe be tempted to change 
 or to faile in his loyalty. Being come to London, he wes necessitate 
 to put himselfe in the phisitian's hands, because of the indisposition 
 he had contracted during the siege of the Castle, which had not left 
 him since, but was augmented by the fatigue of the joiu-ney. 
 
 Being recovered, he was conducted and presented, without a 
 sword, to Pviug William, as being his prissoner, and as such, kissed 
 his hand, not as liis subject, never having acknowledged him in qua- 
 lity of his soveraigne, though the civilities he had mett with former- 
 ly from this Prince while he wes in his travels, oblidged him to show 
 him all respect which was not contrary to his duty to his master. 
 Upon the day following, the Duke appeared with his sword, because 
 he was dissengadged from his word of honour, having done nothing 
 till that day against the present government or King "\^'illiam. 
 Thencefox'th he designed to get over into France, of piu-pose to goe 
 from thence to Ireland, where his lawfull soveraigne was for the tjTne, 
 and to give him new prooffes of his fidelity and zeale for his service. 
 
 ^Miilst he is waiting and tryeing for ane opportunity in execution 
 of this designe, which piiidence oblidged him to conceale under the 
 greatest secrecy, least the court should suspect him to have any 
 thoughts of the lyke project, he goes, as the custome is, and attends 
 sometymes at court ; he waits, perhaps twyce or thiyce, on the
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 87 
 
 Prince of Orange his ryseing from bed in the morning. The Scots 
 ministers about court being earnest to have the Prince his determi- 
 nation concerning him, knowing he would be solicited to side with 
 his Highness ; which if he should refuse, measui'es would be taken to 
 keep him from acting any thing against him. 
 
 This attendance of his on the Prince, (which his present circum- 
 stances, and the civilities he had many years before met with from 
 him, oblidged him to, according to the rule of comon prudence and 
 gratitude,) joyned Avith the surrender of the Castle upon no condi- 
 tions for himselfe, but with ane entire submission to the Prince's 
 discretion, and the bad construction his enemies had put upon it, as 
 if he designed to make his court to his Highness, by complement- 
 ing him with the Castle, gave occasion to his enemies at home and 
 abroad, to proclaime him to all as a person not only disloyall, but 
 who was not ashamed to ai)pear so to the world ; so unrelenting 
 was their revenge and malice against him, and so much were they 
 galled with so singular evidence of his duty to his master, to whom 
 they had represented him as unfitt to doe him any service.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 M
 
 I. 
 
 TITLE AND DEDICATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT CONTAINING 
 
 THE FOREGOING ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF THE 
 
 CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 
 
 THE POURTKAIT 
 
 OF 
 
 TRUE LOYALTY EXPOSED, 
 
 IN THE 
 
 FAMILY OF GORDON; 
 
 U'lTHOrT INTERRrPTION TO THIS PRESENT VEAK. 
 
 1691: 
 
 WITH A RELATION OF THE 
 
 SIEGE OF THE CASTLE OF EDINBURGH ; 
 
 IN THE VEAR 
 1689. 
 
 Justum et teiuicem propositi virum. 
 Nan civium ardor pravajiibentium, 
 Non vulhis mxtdiitis h/rarmi 
 Menu qiuUU solidu. 
 
 Ilor. 0<!. 3, lib..!.
 
 92 APPENDIX. 
 
 To THE Right Honourable the Earle of Huntly. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I heire present to your Lordship the Pourtrait of True Loyalty, drawne from the best 
 copy I could cast mine eye upon in the Isle of Brittaine. That is from the family 
 yow are descendit of in a right l)Tie, and which yow may come one day to represent, 
 if God think fit for his glory and your salvation to give yow lenth of dayes. I say the 
 best copy I could cast mine eye upon in the Isle of Brittaine, for I may give any per- 
 son the defyance to find out and pitch upon a family so eminent in rank and power as 
 yours hes been, that can boast of so constant and uninterrupted, so unstained and dis- 
 interested loyalty, as yours can doe ; — a family of more as six hundreth years old, in 
 which there is not one of the representatives or heads can be said to have carryed 
 armes against his prince, or to have syded with any party or faction that opposed his 
 royal authority. 
 
 What moved me to attempt, though unskilful, the draught of this Pourtrait, was 
 first the love of truth and justice, finding your noble and loyall father the Duke of 
 Gordon (whom God long preserve) so unjustly dealt with, by the ignorant and mali- 
 cious aspersions cast upon him, not only in Brittaine, but in all the countries about it 
 where I had occasion to travell ; as if he had degenerated from his ancestora loyalty 
 by his surrendering the Castle of Edinburgh in the month of June 1689, when he had 
 keept it sex months in obedience to his lawful soveraigne, after all Great Brittaine had 
 disouned his authority, and when he could not, without the censure of impi-udence or 
 madness, have keept it a month longer, having no other provisions to preseiTe his sol- 
 diers' lives, nor ammunition to defend the walls from being leapt over by the enemies. 
 Wherefore I have, for his vindication, set doune the particulars of that siege at greater 
 length then my purpose otherwayes required ; which was 
 
 The second motive that inclined me to the forsaid draught, that is, to sett before 
 your Lordship, now in your tender years, the patteme yow are to imitate, the steps 
 yow are to trace, and the place or roume yow are to fill up when the Divine Provi- 
 dence shall think fitt to rank yow in the same. 
 
 The tuo first principles your noble father caused yow imprint on your memory (so 
 soon as your tongue could pronounce the words that expresses them) were : Aymez 
 Diew, Honorez le Roy — Love God, Honour tlie King ; or be a good Christian and a
 
 APPENDIX. 93 
 
 good subject. The words I conceave yow will never forget ; and as to the practice 
 and performance of what they siguifye, those wlio ai'e entrusted with your education 
 will take caire of the first, that you be a good Christian, and will make it their chiefe 
 work to bring to maturity those early blossomes of piety which appear so fresh and 
 fragrant in this spring tyme of your age. 
 
 Tor tlie second, of honouring the king, I tliought their could be none more effiea- 
 tious incitement to yow than the setting before yow the examples of your predecessors, 
 who have honoured their kings with their blood, lives, fortunes, valour, learning, pru- 
 dence, labours, patience, — in a word, with all what nature, education, and prudence 
 bad bestowed on them, that your Lordship, reflecting attentively on their loyalty, 
 might conceave a noble and generous resolution to come short of none of them in that 
 duty. 
 
 These were tlie motives induced me to look into such histories and manuscripts as 
 I could find, and collect from them the following sheets. They containe matters of 
 fact, attested by the best historians that hes write of the tymes and countries they were 
 acted in. If the style be rude and unpolisht, I may be excused, it being the best I 
 could frame ; if meate be wholesome and savoury, some like it better without sauce ; 
 if truth be clear and uncontroverted, some love it better in its native beauty, than in 
 the extrinsick ornaments of phrases and language, which oftymes rather blunts than 
 Lightens the pleasure and delight the mynde does relish in it. However the stile be 
 not suitable to the subject, the subject may seem for matter capable and worthy of a 
 better forme and dresse to be put upon it by one who is more expert in the language, 
 and has no less zeale for the honour of your Lordship's family than I Jiave. And I 
 Iiope your Lordship will look upon my endeavours, in collecting those sheets, as a 
 testimony of the sincerity of my respect and affection to yow and your family. Its 
 all the acknowledgement I pretend for ray paines ; and I subscribe myself, 
 My Lord, 
 
 your Lordship's most humble and 
 
 most obedient servant, 
 
 W. R. 
 Penult of September, 1001.
 
 94 APPENDIX. 
 
 II. 
 
 CONCLUSION OF THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE HISTORY OF THE 
 FAMILY OF GORDON. 
 
 Heire is then the Pourtrait oflF True Loyalty compleet, such as I described it in the 
 beginning of thes sheets. Heire is a truely loyall person, who hes few or none to 
 bear witness of his loyalty but his own conscience, who finds himselfe on its accorapt, 
 exposed to all kinds of ill in his person, fortune, and reputation. In his person and 
 fortune, from his Soveraignes enemies, who was both at their mercy ; and in his reputa- 
 tion from those whom his Soveraigne lookt upon as his friends, (though by their unfor- 
 tunate counsels they had brought his person and dignity to the condition they are in 
 at present) who with the flatterers of their ambition and revenge endeavour to blast it 
 most maliciously and calumniously. 
 
 But his loyalty is true, not counterfit, grounded upon conscience, not interest ; and 
 therefore prooffe against all thes ills and temptations. Ah honesto nulla re deterribi- 
 tur ad turpia nulla spe irritabitur. He satisfies himselfe with the testimony of his 
 oun conscience. Ipsa quidem virtus sibimet pulcherrima merces, as the poet has it ; 
 and exposes his fortune to the will of those enemies, when his complyance with them 
 could have secured it, if not bettered it to a great degree of advantage, and which 
 complyance were it excusable in any, much more were it in him who had met \vith 
 such disoblidgments. He suS'ers as passengers doe the bawling of currs, the asper- 
 sions on his reputation, by those who durst not venture to spread them abroad, unless 
 they were in some manner or other sheltered from being made accountable for what 
 they say, imtil he should find out ane occasion, to put his person out of the enemies 
 power, and be in fredome to make those envyous detractors ashamed by letting the 
 world sie new proofiFs of his unchangeable loyalty. 
 
 He niett with many difficulties and dangers before be got passadge, and was oblid- 
 ged to disguise himselfe and remaine lurking sometymes in the countrey, somet)Tnes 
 in the city for more as tuo months, till at last he happened upon a favourable occa- 
 sion of goeing to Flanders, from whence he went to Paris, their to receave the Queen's 
 orders, designing to have gone to Ireland to wait upon the King, who not long after him 
 came from Ireland (after the defeat of the Boj-ne Water) to St Germans, where he 
 now attends his Majestic, waiting for his commands. This penult of September I69I.
 
 APPENDIX. 96 
 
 III. 
 
 NARRATIVE OF THE STORMING OF THE TALLAGE OF HOLYROOD- 
 
 HOUSE, FROM THE EARL OF BALCARRAS'S ACCOUNT OF THE 
 
 AFFAIRS OF SCOTLAND. 
 
 Before he (the Chancellor) went away, the rabble began to meet in companies upon 
 the street, being enconraged by these Lords and Gentlemen I have already named : 
 George Stii-ling and William Menzies, so soon as they saw them begin, made drums 
 to beat througli all the town, and when the inhabitants came running out to see what 
 was the matter of so sudden an alarum, they had their friends posted in all quarters to 
 tell them, that all the townsmen that were protestants, should immediately gather to- 
 gether for their own defence, for they were certainly informed, that a great number of 
 Papists liad got into the town and designed to bum it that night. This made an alarum 
 through all the town, and few stayed in their houses. When they were all gathered 
 together, and saw no appearance of any such thing, some who were called there of 
 purpose proposed, that since there were so many honest men got together, it would 
 be a pity they should part without doing something, and that they could not pre- 
 pare a more wortliy action, than to go down to the Abbey and pull down the Chapel. 
 It was no sooner proposed, but immediately all cried Agreed, and in a tumultuous 
 manner, men and boys marched away ; Captain John Wallace, who was then in the 
 house with six score men, raised a little before by the Council on that design, so soon 
 as he heard they were coming, sent a Serjeant to desire them not to come near, other- 
 ways he would be obliged to do his <iuty and fire ; but, notwthstanding of his firing, 
 tJiey pressed on, and he gave them a volley of firelocks amongst them, which killed 
 about a dozen, and wounded thrice as many. On tlie first fire they immediately run ; 
 and the noise was industriously spread by the gentlemen and lords sitting at the same 
 time at their meetings, as if Wallace had made a butchery of the inhabitants ; and, to 
 make it infiame the more, there were few burgesses or people in town of any consider- 
 ation, but was said to have children killed. The first meeting was but the meaner 
 sort and boys ; but after this, the whole inhabitants got to arms, and the discontented 
 meetings came out to the streets and offered their service to head them, which was 
 gladly received. But as tliey were again going against Captain W'allace, one of them 
 proposed, that what they were a going about might some time 01° other be challenged ;
 
 96 APPENDIX. 
 
 therefore he advised them, that, Buice they were sure of the Marquess of Atholle and 
 some others of the Counsellors, he might be desired bysome of their number to give them 
 a public warrant for what they were to do, and likewise might order the concurrence of 
 the magistrates. The advice was thought very reasonable, and deputies were sent to 
 the Marquess ; he immediately sent for the Earl of Breadalbane, Viscount of Tai-bat, 
 and Sir John Dalrymple : These four signed a warrant to the magistrates, that they 
 should go down in their robes, and with the help of their trained bands, militia regi- 
 ment, and town company, should assist the rabble against Captain Wallace, and force 
 him to deliver up the house ; and likewise, that they should carry down your Majesty's 
 Heralds and Trumpets in their coats, to summon Captain Wallace in the King's name 
 to give up the house. 
 
 The Provost of Edinburgh, Sir Magnus Prince, a timorous poor man, though very 
 honest, obeyed their order, and went down, so soon as their affairs could be in readi- 
 ness : First marched the town company, commanded by Captain Grahame, who a day 
 before this was turned out of his imployment, but on his offer of service on that oc- 
 casion, he was restored ; next the discontented gentlemen, the chief of these were Sir 
 James Montgomery, Houston, Greenock, INIochmm, Mr W'illiam Lockhart, Riccar- 
 toun, Drummond, William Drummond Clerk to the Artillery, Murray of Livingstonn, 
 Swinton Lord Mersington the fanatick judge, with a halbert in his hand, as drunk as 
 \ ale and brandy could make him ; next the Provost and Magistrates, with a mob of two or 
 three thousand men. When they came within distance of shot, the trumpets and he- 
 ralds were sent before to command liim to render : Captain Wallace told them, he 
 was put in by the Council, and would never deliver it up without the King or Coun- 
 cil's command ; that the order they produced was not by a quorum of the Council, so be 
 absolutely refused to obey ; at which they began to fire straggling shots at one another, 
 which made all the Magistrates and others draw behind stairs and down lanes, and left 
 Major Grahame, the trained bands, and his company, with the rabble, to dispute themat- 
 ter. Captain Wallace had certainly been able to defend the house, if he had kept his 
 men within the court and fired out at the windows ; but he left the house, and posted 
 himself in the outer court ; which when Captain Grahame perceived, he marched out 
 at the town port with his company, and came in by the back court, and so got behmd 
 them ; which when Captain Wallace heard, he slipped aside without telling his oflScers 
 and soldiers, and left them to shift for themselves. \\'hen they knew he was gone, 
 they laid down their arms, and begged quarter. The gentlemen and rabble, when they
 
 APPENDIX. 97 
 
 saw all hazard over, ran in upon them, killed sonip, and made the rest prisoners, and 
 sent them to prison, where severals of them died for want and of their wounds ; then 
 all the rabble rushed into the house, pulled down every thing they could find in the pri- 
 vate chappcll and in the abbey, which was but furnished some days before ; next they 
 fell upon the house where the Jesuits lived, and almost pulled it down ; then they 
 broke into the Earl of Perth's cellars and myne, and made themselves as drunk with 
 wine as they were before with zeal ; for two or three days thereafter they rambled 
 up and down the town, searched and plundered what Roman Catholicks houses they 
 could find, which were very few, except some Catholick ladies whom they used villain- 
 ously, nor did the Council any thing to hinder these disorders. 
 
 IV. 
 
 I.ETTKH rllOM THE DUKE OF GORDON AND CAPTAIN DUNBAR, 
 
 llTH DEC\ 1688. 
 
 Edinbr: Castle, 11 Deer. 88. 
 My Lord, 
 I would not liave omitted to vreat to yr Lo: by the servant you had last in toune, 
 but y' he never did cum neir me, notwithstanding 1 had called for him several tyms; 
 now you will certainly have your Elms from this bearer, I halving delivered it to the 
 gardiner in a seald paper, and backt for your Lo: which I vish you may receive in 
 mor saiiftie, as your friends ar for the present in this toune. Sundays night last, there 
 begud a tumult in toune, about five a clock at night, (after sume litle gatherings, with- 
 out hurt, for two or three days before,) which lasted till after 12 at night ; but the 
 ports being shut, few off the rable could cum that night to the Cannegat or Abay ; so, 
 save sume tumultuous crys, ther was no hurt donne. INIy Lord Cliancr: being frighted 
 therby, went away for Drummond yesterday, at 12 of the clock, on hors back, accom- 
 panyed by a troupe of the militia hors and sume gentlemen, and my Ladie Perth and 
 Ladie Marie an hour after, in ther owin coich, accompanyed by sume hors : but in 
 such heast as that the hous was left as usuall. Yesternight, the tumult begoud againe, 
 at five a clock, and befor seven of the clock at night they possest the Nather Bow, and 
 went doune to the Cannegat, breaking several houses, plundering and spoyling ; and 
 
 N
 
 98 APPENDIX. 
 
 after went in a great crud, not of boys, as formerly, but off all sort of men, armed with 
 staves, swords, e:uns, pistels, and all sort of arms. Capt". Wallace, who had the galrd 
 of the Abay, after having desyred and intretted they might retir, did fyir upon them, 
 whereby, its said, 3 or 4 ar killed, and mor wounded ; which mad them retir to be rein- 
 forsed, as it is said they war by the toune militia, and Capt". Gram's companie, who, 
 as they say, attack the gaird back and for, so y* the Capt". and his men wer forst to 
 flie. After which the tumult entred the Abay, destroyed all that was in the Abay 
 Church and Chappel], and brak up all doirs in the wholl Abay ; and plundered and de- 
 stroyed all that was within the Chanc": hous, uppe and doune, without, as they say, 
 living any thing ; beds, hingins, books, picters, cabinets, and all other things rifled and 
 brunt ; but I believe mor, that his silver plate is gone. And as for my Ladie Huntly, 
 I blis God they did her no harme, nor any thing of hers, though they entred her hous, 
 from whence I came to the Castle 3 hours before. Yesternight the tumult lasted till 
 tuo in the morning ; and this morning, by 8 of the clock, its said they war gone, at 
 lest a great manie, to Wright hous and Netlirie. This is abundance of the goodness ; 
 God knows what will cum after. Time permits no mor, but that I am^ 
 
 (What follows is in the Duke of Gordon's hand.) 
 Mr Dombar's newes is literally trew, and mutcli off this by the Chancelor going 
 outt off town, and not calling the judicatorys after him to Stirling. I send yow his 
 ]VIaj: letter to the cunsell. Melford, his Ladey, and Craige, ar gon beyond seas. I 
 cannot guess what things may com too ; but pray advertis mee iff anny thing extra- 
 ordinary falls out, and I'll order my frinds to veatt off yow. Adieu, my dear Lord. 
 My deuttys to the Coimtess. 
 
 Gordon. 
 (In another hand.) 
 My blisslns to my Dr. Ladie. This most serve in answer to her letter ; wee have 
 keept the bearer to to long, till this day at on of the clock.' 
 
 ' From the Leven BISS This letter, which has no direction, in all probability had been intercepted, 
 
 and put into the possession of Lord Melville. The Elms mentioned at the beginning seems to be a 
 term used for concealment.
 
 APPENDIX. 99 
 
 V. 
 
 LORD BALCARRAS'S ACCOUNT OF THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE 
 SIEGE OF THE CASTLE. 
 
 The first that came down of either parties was the Viscount of Dundee and myself: 
 When we came to Edinburgh about tlie end of February, we found that city very quiet, 
 and generally well affected. 
 
 The College of Justice, to free themselves, after the Marquess of Atholle left his 
 government, armed themselves, and made up a battalion of very good men, which 
 kept all the disaffected in greate awe ; but Uuke Hamilton believing they would not 
 be for liis purpose, got an order sent down with Commissary Monro to disband them. 
 On our first coming, we waited on the Duke of Gordone, who was capitulating to ren- 
 der up the Castle of Edinburgh. At our entry to the Castle, we met the Duke's fur- 
 niture coming out, which gave us small hopes of his keeping it; but we had the good 
 fortune to convince him, that it would be so much for your Majesty's interest, and his 
 own honour, that he promised to keep it out until he saw what the Convention ivould 
 do. I say not tliis in the least to disparage any tiling that he did, for I saw him have 
 very great inclinations to do for your interest ; but his never having orders from you, 
 and his hearing all other forts and places had given up, discouraged him extremely. He 
 had likewise a great temptation ; for the Prince of Orange, wrote to him a very obli- 
 ging letter, with full assurance of indemnity and protection ; but notwithstanding of that, 
 and of severals advices of such as he believed wished him well, and who haimted him 
 constantly to get him to deliver up the Castle, yet he resolved to hold out. But the 
 great error he committed, (tho' several others were laid to his charge which were not 
 true), was, after he had resolved it, that he did not get it provided ; for then the City 
 of Edinburgh would not have denied him any thing, or if they had, he could easily have 
 compelled them.
 
 100 APPENDIX. 
 
 YI. 
 
 LORD BALCARIIAS'S ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST SUMMONS TO THE 
 
 DUKE OF GORDON. 
 
 The first thing they (the meeting of the Estates) took into their consideration, after 
 the house was thus constitute, was the getting the Castle of Eilinhurgh into thei>' 
 hands. That which pressed them most to it, there was two pretending to have the 
 government of it, the Earl of Lothian and the Earl of Leven ; likewise it being the 
 first of any consideration in Britain holding out, the Prince of Orange was very desirous 
 to have it reduced. The Eail of Tweedale and the Earl of Lothian were sent up to 
 capitulate with the Duke of Gordon, who promised them he would comply with their 
 desire, and give it up next day at ten a'clock. So soon as the Viscount of Dundee and 
 I heard them give this answer to the Convention, we were mightily allarmed, and sent 
 up one immediately to remember his Grace of his engagement to us, and to lay before 
 him the ruin of your affairs, if once they got the Castle into their hands. As irreso- 
 lution was the cause of his promise to them, so what arguments were used to him on 
 our side, meeting with his desire to serve you, brought him about again. His greatest 
 obstacle then was how to come fairly off : The Earl of Tweedale, with his flattery and 
 insinuating way, had got him to go too great a length ; for that it was advised that nest 
 day, when they came to demand the Castle, he should tell he would willingly give it 
 up ; but he could not see how he could be safe himself from the rabble of the town, 
 and those that were brought into it. But to free them from all fear he should give 
 the Convention any disturbance, to offer them bail for twenty thousand pound to live 
 peaceably in it ; but, though he was very well satisfied with this advice, yet that night 
 he grew again irresolute, and sent to tell us, that except we came immediately to him, 
 he would not keep his word. This was impossible to do, for they having placed the town 
 companies of Edinburgh upon the Castle Hill, suffered none they suspected to go up ; yet 
 one ventured to him to know what he had to say to us. He sent us word that, notwith- 
 standing of all was past, he would deliver it up, except we both gave it under our hands, 
 that it was of absolute necessity for your affairs that he should not delyver it up, which 
 we both did that night ; and next morning the Viscount of Dundee got into the Castle, 
 and confirmed liim absolutely in his resolution of keeping it out, by telling him the
 
 APPENDIX. 101 
 
 resolutions were taken by your friends of leaving Edinburgh and setting up at Ster« 
 l-ing ; so tlie next day, when they expected to have the Castle at the Lour appointed, 
 be refused again, and hostilities went on. 
 
 VII. 
 
 EXTRACTS FROM PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION OF 
 ESTATES, 14th AND 15TH MARCH 1689. 
 
 Edinr. 14 March 1689. 
 
 The meeting of the Estates of this kingdome, considering tliat the Duke of Gordoun 
 and some others of the Popish religion under him, intrusted with the keeping of the 
 Castle of Edinburgh, are not qualified by the law of this Kingdome, they grant war- 
 rand to the Earles of Loutliian and Tweeddale, to repair immediately to the Castle of 
 Edinburgh, and to require him and others of liis persuasion ther, in name of the Estates 
 of this Kingdonu" to remove out of the said Castle, within twenty-four hours after this 
 intimatione, and to leave the charge therof to the nixt commanding oflScer, being a 
 Protestant. And he and they doeing the same, the Estates give assurance that he and 
 they are, and shall be, exonered and secured as to any thing they have acted in that or 
 any other statione, coutrair to law as being Papists. 
 
 The Earles of Lothian and Tweeddale haveing made report that they had intimate 
 to the Duke of Gordoune the forsaid wan-and of the Estates, it was ordered that he 
 should give liis answer in tvrite to-nionow against ten a'elock. 
 
 Edinr. 13 March 1689. 
 
 Tlie Earles of Loutliian and Tweeddale did produce a paper signed by the Duke 
 of Gordone, in answer to the order granted yesterday by the meeting of tlie Estates, 
 wiierof the tenor foUowes : — 
 
 I am willing to com])ly witli the commission I received by the Earles of Lothian 
 and Tweeddale, as to my removeall from the Castle of Edinburgh, though I cannot 
 doc so as a Papist, that being dangerous, and I not a convict ; for 1 hope being in im- 
 ployment without taking tlie Test, contrair to ane act of Pailiament, is no conviction 
 of Poperie.
 
 102 APPENDIX. 
 
 I received a letter not long agoe from the then Prince of Orange, desyring that I 
 wonid leave the Castle, which I promised to doe, hut expected certain rcasonahle 
 things to be first granted to myself and garrison. 
 
 I hope I have not merited so ill of my country, as that I may not be trusted vyilh the 
 Castle, untill a return come to this letter, which I expect every hour, but if that 
 cannot be granted, barely on my promise, not to molest or harme any persone, espe- 
 cially those of this illustrious assembly, I proffer hostages or bail to the value of twenty 
 thousand pound sterling for my peaceable deportment. 
 
 Otherwise I expect befor my removeall, (1°) A general indemnity for myself and my 
 friends, both Protestant and Papist, as alwayes absolute securitie for our lives and for- 
 tunes in tyme comeing, with assurance that the same shall be ratified in the nixt en- 
 sueing Parliament. (2") A securitie for all Protestants in the garrisone, who incline to 
 stay in it to continovv in ther imployments, and for my selfe, and those who shall goe 
 out with me, either Protestants or Papists, to goe beyond seas, or remaine within the 
 Kingdome, as our occasions shall lead us. (3") That the gaixisone be compleitlie 
 payed of all bygone arrears, and have liberty to dispose of ther goods within the Castle 
 as they please. 
 
 Gordon. 
 
 The meeting of the Estates haveing considered the paper given in and subscryved 
 by the Duke of Gordoune, in answer to ther order doe declair. It is not the mind of 
 this meeting that the Duke his officiateing as Govemour of the Castle, or in any other 
 imployment, or bis quiting his command at this tyme shall import any acknowledge- 
 ment or conviction against him, or those under his command of his or ther being Pa- 
 pists. 
 
 It is also resolved, that the meeting of the Estates will not allow of the Duke his 
 keeping the Government of the Castle, either upon promise, baile, or hostages for his 
 peaceable desportment, until he get a returae of the letter, written by him to the then 
 Prince of Orange. 
 
 It is likewayes resolved, that the indemnity offered by the meeting of the Estates 
 shall only extend to these belonging to the garrison, and ther servants, either Protes- 
 tants or Papists, and that the persones who ai'e to have the benefite of the said indem- 
 nitie shall be expressly named, if the Duke desyre it, and that the indemnity to be 
 granted by this meeting shall contame a clause, that it shall be ratified in tlie next Par-
 
 APPENDIX. 103 
 
 liament. As to the last article of the paper, it is agreed that these of the foresaid gar- 
 rison who please to retire with the forsaid Duke, shall have libertie either to goe out 
 of the Kingdome, or to stay in it as they think fitt, and shall have libertie to dispose 
 of ther goods, and have safe conduct gi-anted to them for that efTect, the same being 
 desired befor dissolutione of this meeting of the Estates, but that they may not take out 
 with them any armes, amnnition, or store, but what they shall instruct to belong pro- 
 perly to them. And lastly. It is agreed, that the officers and souldiers of the garisone 
 shall have payment of ther by gone an'ears, but refuises to give them assurance of ther 
 being continowed in iniployinent. 
 
 Which resolves of the Estates being signed by the Lord President, were delyvered 
 to the saids two Earles to be intimate to the Duke of Gordon, and warrand was given 
 to them, to ofler him safe conduct to come doune to the Parliament house, or some 
 house near the same, for facilitating the treaty with liiin incaice he acquiesce to tlie re- 
 solutiones of the meeting. 
 
 The Earles of Louthian and Tweeddale having reported that the Duke of Gordon 
 refuised to obey the order sent liini, and to acquiesce to tlie resolutiones of the Estates, 
 upon the paper given in by him they granted the order following. 
 
 The meeting of the Estates of this Kingdome doe hereby give order and command 
 to two Heralds with ther coates of armes displayed, and two Pursevants with two 
 Trumpeters to repair to the Castle of Edinburgh, and after sound of trumpet to require 
 the Duke of Gordoun, and any officers and souldiers under him of the popish religion 
 to remove immediately out of the Castle of Edinburgh, and to leave the charge therof 
 to the nixt commanding officer, being a Protestant, under the paine of treason. And 
 incaice of his refuiseall, they require the Protestant officers and souldiers in the Cas- 
 tle to endeavour to secure the garrison, and grants assurance to them in that caice of six 
 raoneths pay as a reward for ther service, and incaice they cannot secure the garrisone, 
 that they remove tlicmselves out of the Castle, under the foresaid paine of treason. 
 
 The Estates did lykwayes eniitt the Proclamation following. 
 
 Forasmuch as the Estates of this Kingdome have, by the heraulds, pursevants, and 
 trumpets, in the ordinary forme, required George Duke of Gordone and other Papists 
 within the Castle of Edinburgh, to remove out of the said Castle, which he and they do 
 now possess against law: They have therfor found it necessar, iikas they have direct- 
 ed these presents to the Lyon and his brethren heralds and pursevants, &c., to pass to 
 the mercat cross of Edinburgh, and ther in the ordinary way, after sound of trumpets.
 
 104 APPENDIX. 
 
 to discbarge and prohibite all the subjects of this Kingdome, to conrerse with, aB- 
 bette, or assist the said Duke, or any remaining with him within the said Castle, at 
 any tyme after the proclamation herof, under the pain of treasone, and ordaines the 
 heralds and pursevants to make publication hereof accordingly, for the which these 
 presents shall be their warrand. 
 
 The meeting of the Estates doe give order, and warrand to the magistrates of Edin- 
 burgh, to sett guards to the avenues leading to the Castle of Edinburgh, and posteme 
 gates tlierof, that no persones may go into the said Castle. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 ORDER OF THE COXVENTIOX ON LORD DUNDIES INTERCOM- 
 MUNIXG WITH THE DUKE OF GORDON. 
 
 18 March 1689. 
 
 Information being given of the Lord Bundles being at the head of a pairtie of sLxtie 
 horse, and of his intercommuneing with the Duke of Gordonne over the Castle wall, 
 the following order was given. 
 
 The meeting of the Estates of the Kingdome of Scotland doe order and warrand the 
 Earle of Levine to cause beat dmms, and call together all pereones, who will assisst 
 him and joyn with the train bands, to secnre that no men be put into the Castle of 
 Edinburgh, and no persone be suffered to sallie out therof, and to dissipat any persones 
 who may be together in armes, without warrand of the Estates, and to secure the peace 
 of the toune. 
 
 IX. 
 
 EXTRACTS FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION OF 
 ESTATES, 19th AND 20TH MARCH 1689. 
 
 19 March 1689. 
 Ordered that upon the Duke of Gordoun's desire a safe guard be given to James 
 Wincester, ensigne of the Castle Company, for speaking with Sir James Grant, and
 
 APPENDIX. 105 
 
 Mr Thomas Gordoun in the Session House this day, in presence of one of the mem- 
 bers of the meeting. But to be safely sent back once this night, and ane warrand given 
 to the Earle of Leven and Captain Lawder for tliat effect, and the warrand formerly 
 given by tiie Lord President to Siierraorlie, Captain Lawder, and Captain Marshall, to 
 speak with the Duke of Gordon was approven by the meeting. 
 
 Mr Wincester being called, gave in the instructiones he had from the Duke of Gor- 
 doun anent the surrender of the Castle of Edinburgh in writ, as followes : — 
 
 1. You are to advyse with Sir James Grant and Mr Thomas Gordon, my ordinary 
 counsellors in law, and any other lawiers they shall think fit to call, how the officers, 
 souldiers, and others within the garison, can be secured in law, as to their lives and 
 fortunes. 
 
 2. It being altogether dangerous for me and my garisone to remove out of the 
 Castle, wliilst the toun is so crouded, with such numbers of strangers, who have already 
 taken possession of posts formerly guarded by the toune of Edinburgh, I desyre the 
 saids posts may be returned to the toune, and these strangers removed out of it. 
 
 3. Since so much aversione was expressed against some of the Highland clanns being 
 comprehended in the number of my friends, I'm satisfied to restrict it to the number 
 of tuenty Protestants and tuenty Papists, who are or have bein in publick imploy- 
 ment, either at my desire or procurement, without taking the test or other oaths, es- 
 tablishcd by act of Parliament, and this besydes those within the garison. 
 
 4. Since it was absolutly refuised that such Protestants as might incline to stay in 
 the Castle after my departure, should be secured in their imployments, I desire that 
 such of them as are still here may have six monetlis pay, besydes what shall be due 
 to them, for defraying tlieir charges to any place ofl' or within the kingdome, whither 
 their occasiones may lead them. 
 
 5. That, after the place is given up, the Lieut.-Govemour may Iiave the use of his 
 lotlgeings for eight or ten dayes for clearing accomits with the garison, and that my 
 servants and others may have a competent tyme for dispatching their affairs within 
 the Castle. 
 
 6. That the officers and others may have liberty for themselves and servants to carry 
 ther swords within tounes, and to make use of horses and ordinary travelling armes 
 in the countrey, and so long as they shall stay within the Kingdome, that they may 
 have their abode in any place of it, according to their interest or conreniency. 
 
 O
 
 106 APPENDIX. 
 
 7. That my officers and souldiers may have the disposall of the stores, or a com- 
 petent gratitude on that head. 
 
 8. That I may have a pass to waitt on his Majestie any tyme within these three 
 moneths, to give him account of my reasones for putting this place in the States hands, 
 and to return safely. 
 
 Lastly, That I may have a guard of fourty horse, with officers conforme, of my oime 
 choseing, to attend me north, and that I may keep them together whilst I am within- 
 the Kingdome, the lyke being granted to my grandfather at tl>e paeificatione 1645 or 
 1646. 
 
 This, with the first and last articles of my former propositiones, which were granted. 
 
 Gordon. 
 
 To which the Meeting of Estates returned answer as foUowes : ; 
 
 1. That the Duke's officiating in the government of the Castle of Edinburgh, or in 
 any other iniployment, or his quitting of his command at this tyme, shall not import 
 any acknowledgment or conviction against him, or any persone under his command, 
 of their being Papists ; but the Duke, and these persones that are at present in the 
 garison with him, and the servants, alsweill Papists as Protestants, shall have a full 
 indemnity from the Estates for any thing done be them, or either of them, at any tyme 
 against the lawes of the Kingdome ; and that the said indemnity shall containe the 
 names of illv one of the saids persons, if they desyi-e the same, and a clause, that it 
 shall be ratified in the nlxt Parliament. 
 
 2. The Estates doe allow, that Mr Wincester consult Sir James Grant and ^Mr 
 Thomas Gordoun, or any other lawiers they shall please to call, anent the securetie to 
 be given to the Duke, and his officers and souldiers, and others within the garrisone, 
 as to their lives and fortunes, the same being ahvayes done in presence of one of the 
 members of the meeting. 
 
 3. That the Duke, and these of the garisone who shall please to retire with him, 
 shall have full libertie to goe out of the Kingdome, or to stay in it, and to dispose of 
 their goods, which they shall instruct to belong to themselves, not being armes or 
 amnnition, as they shall think fitt, and shall have safe conduct for that eflfect, the 
 same being desired befor dissolutione of the meeting of the Estates. 
 
 4. That all the officers and souldiers of the garison shall have ponctuall payment
 
 APPENDIX. 107 
 
 of their bygone arrears ; and the Livetennant-govemor shall have a secure place, with 
 a guard appointed for him, to stay in the toune for eight dayes after the surrender, for 
 cleiring compts with the garisoiie. And that the Duke's servants, not exceeding 
 three at a tynie, shall be allowed the liberty to goe into the Castle, and to return as 
 oft as they please, for the said space of eight dayes, for carrying away their goods 
 and dispatching their affairs in the castle. 
 
 5. That the Duke, and these who are presently with him in garisone, shall be 
 allowed, dureing their abode in the toune of Edinburgh, to carry their swords, and to 
 keep their horses and ordinary armes, as any of the rest of the leitlges are allowed 
 to doe by law. 
 
 G. That the Duke shall have the guard of fourty horsemen, to be named and com- 
 manded as the Estates shall be pleased to order, wlio shall be maintained upon the 
 publick charge, and shall have orders to convey the Duke home to the place of his 
 ordinary residence in the conntrey, and immediatly to retume ; the Duke finding cau- 
 tione, that the said guard shall not be any way hindered or molested in the retume. 
 
 7. The Estates agree to give a gratification to the officers and souldiers in the ga- 
 risone, according to the condition they shall find the stores in at the tyme of surren- 
 dering of the castle. 
 
 20th March, 1689. — A warrand given for a safe conduct to Ensign Wincester to 
 come furth of the Castle of Edinburgh at 10 a clock to-morrow, and to rettime befor 
 night in the termes of the former warrand. 
 
 X. 
 
 ANSWER OF THE ESTATES TO THE PROPOSAI,S OF THE 
 DUKE OF GORDON. 
 
 21st March, 1689. 
 The meeting of the Estates having considered tlie proposals made this day from the 
 Duke of Gordon. As to the first proposall, anent the remitting the posts and ave- 
 nues unto the tonne's guards, the Estates doe agree, that the posts and avenues be 
 remitted to the tonne's guardes, and the Earl of Levine's regiment that day, wheron 
 he shall come out of the Castle.
 
 108 APPENDIX. 
 
 To the second, anent his retinew, the Estates agree, that the Duke shall have what 
 retinew he pleases, to attend him for fourteen dayes after he goes from this toune, not 
 exceeding foiirtie in number, he finding baile, that he and his retinew shall demeane 
 themselves peaceably in their journey homeward ; and that he shall dissmiss those who 
 are not his servants, within tuenty-four houres after he comes to his oune house. 
 
 As to the third, anent the indemnitie, the Estates doe agree, that Gor- 
 
 don of Auchintoule, and Gordone of Clostirran, shall be indemnified as to 
 
 ther acting in publict employment, being Papists. As also they declair, that they 
 will grant passes to any Papists, being churchmen, that he shall condescend upon to 
 remove out of the kingdome, they finding cautione that they shall remove within 
 twenty dayes. 
 
 The Estates doe allow the Duke of Gordon, and all the Papists in the garisone 
 under his command, not prohibited by law, to live wher ther estates are, or their occa- 
 siones necessarily call them, they behaveing themselves peaceably. 
 
 The Estates doe agree, that those of the garisone may take their goods out of the 
 castle, they doeing the same in the day tyme ; and that the garisone shall not be bur- 
 dened with instructing what goods were tbers. But if other persones shall challenge 
 any of the goods as belonging to them, and instruct the same, they must part with 
 them. 
 
 The Estates doe allow the Livetenant-governour and ane servant to remaine eight 
 dayes in his lodgeings of the Castle, after surrendering it, for clearing his affairs. 
 
 As to ther carieing out armes properly belonging to themselves, the Estates doe 
 alow the commissionat Officers and Gentlemen to carrie out ther own ordinary fyre- 
 armes ; but as to others in the garisone, the Estates will not allow it, bot will pay 
 them for the fyre-armes properly belonging to them. And declairs, that the Duke 
 may cany his oun wearing armes, as others of the leidges. 
 
 Incaice the Duke of Gordoun acquiesce to thir articles, the Estates nominate and 
 appoynt Sir James Montgomery of Skelmorly, Sir John Dalrymple, and Mr William 
 Hamiltoune, to meet with Sir James Grant and Mr Thomas Gordoune, to see the 
 articles extended, and the treaty to be at an end to-morrow bee ten a clock in the 
 forenoon. 
 
 Ordered, that upon the Duke of Gordoun's giving up the Castle to the Estates, the 
 inter-communing against him and the garisone be taken away.
 
 APPENDIX. 109 
 
 XI. 
 
 EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES OF CONVENTION. 
 
 22d ]Harch 1689. — The Lord President did intimate to the meeting, that the Duke 
 of Gordoun had returned his answer, that he would not give up the castle upon the 
 terms offered to liim by the meeting of Estates. 
 
 27th March, 1689. — It is ordered by the meeting of the Estates, that upon the 
 Duke of Gordoune's beating of a parley, Major-General M'Ky give warrand to par- 
 ley with him from tyrae to tyme, as he shall see cause, and to report to the meeting. 
 
 XII. 
 
 LORD BALCARRAS'S ACCOUNT OF THE DUKE OF GORDON HAVING 
 REFUSED TO FIRE UPON THE TOWN, [APRIL 4, 1689-] 
 
 I have given this account the more full, because it was insinuated, after my Lord 
 Dundie went to the Highlands, that severall of your friends broke their ingagements 
 to him, and did not go along, but was so far from being in any such ingagements, that 
 they would have disobeyed you if they had gone ; for your positive commands were 
 sent with George Hay, that if we saw there could be nothing done in the conventions, 
 then we should quit it, and keep as quiet as we could till farther orders, and until 
 you could send us assistance from Ireland ; but the design of going to Sterling made 
 the one go for the other ; so when that was ruined by the faint-liearteduess of the Mar- 
 quiss of AlhoUe and some others, all that knew your commands endeavoured to re- 
 tire home and save themselves ; nor did even the Viscount of Dundie resolve to meddle 
 until he had your orders, except he had been obliged to save himself from a party that 
 came to apprehend him. Notwithstanding of the difficulties your friends had met 
 with, some of them did not give over hopes of breaking the designs of the Conven- 
 tion, and get another to meet in some safe place. That which gave rise to this was the 
 coming down of tlie Duke of Queensberry and the Earl of Dunmore. The Duke, 
 from the noise of the invasion, liad appeared sincerely in your interest, and 1 must do
 
 no APPENDIX. 
 
 him justice to say, I never saw any man more concerned than he was for the steps his 
 son had made in England after your Majesty was gone. He joyned in all the meet- 
 ings we )iad for your service, and employed what interest he could to get commis- 
 sioners for tlie shires he was concerned in chosen as we wished ; nor could anything 
 be complained of him but his too long stay at London ; for if all your friends had ap- 
 peared (as they promised) the first day of the Conyention, they had by far been the 
 strongest ; and if Scotland had then declared for you, when you was almost master of 
 Ireland, the Prince of Orange liad but passed his time ill in England, considering he 
 had France to deal with on the other side. Tliis made us extremely concerned, since 
 that we could do no more in that Convention, either to get another to counteract 
 them, or to get them forced from Edinburgh, which would have made a great delay 
 before the time they could have had another Convention established, and which they 
 intended to have set up at Glasgow, if they had been forced from Edinburgh. The 
 only way could be thought of by all your friends to get this done, was to engage the 
 Duke of Gordon to fire upon the town, which certainly would have broke the Con- 
 vention, for they always expected some design of forcing them from Edinburgh. In 
 this resolution, no man seemed so forward as the Marquiss of AthoUe ; for it was of 
 great concern to have him so ; for after the Earl of Mai- had entirely quitted us, and 
 by that they had got Sterling in their hands, there was no man in the nation (consi- 
 dering how well affected his Hygldanders were) could be so useful, if your friends had 
 retu-ed northwards, as was intended, till they had received youi- orders from Ireland ; 
 and that which made us depend on him (for all the escapes he had made) was the 
 great influence the Earle of Dunmore had with him ; and he applied all his endea- 
 vours to keep him to his duty, and acted in all your concerns with as mucli zeal and 
 affection (till he was made prisoner) as any ever served you. 
 
 The Countess of Erroll, who had kept intelligence with Duke Gordon, from the 
 time the Castle was blocked up, undertook to let him know our advice, which ac- 
 cordingly she did ; but he absolutely refused to do any thing but defend himself until 
 he had your Majesty's orders ; so our whole designe was broke, for since there was 
 no way found out to make them leave Edinburgh, all of us seeing that there was no 
 more to be expected either from the Convention or from those that pretended to be 
 our friends, left the town and returned home.
 
 APPENDIX. Ill 
 
 XIII. 
 
 ORDER OF ESTATES DENOUNCIXG THE DUKE OF GORDON AXD 
 THE GARRISON OF THE CASTLE REBELS, MAY 15, 1689. 
 
 The Committee of Estates, considering that tlie Duke of Gordoune, and the officers 
 and souldiers wnder hira, of tlie Popish Religion, being charged by Heraulds and Piirse- 
 vants, after sound of trumpet, to remove out of the Castle of Edinburgh, and to leave 
 the charge thereof to the next corauianding officer, being a Protestant, wnder the 
 paine of treasone, conforuie to a warrand granted be the Estates of tliis kingdome, of 
 the ffyfteenth of March last, they have most contemptuously disobeyed the said charge. 
 Therefor the Committee of Estates doe declaire tiie said Duke of Gordoune, and other 
 persones aforesaid, rebells and fugitives, and grants order and warrand to Heraulds and 
 Pursevants to passe to the Market Croce of Edinburgh, and other places needfull ; and 
 there, after sound of trumpet, to denunce the said Duke of Gordoune, and other per- 
 sones foresaid, rebells, and put them to the home, and ordaine ther goods to be escheate 
 and inbrought to his Majesties nse, and alse that they prohibite and discharge all per- 
 sones whatsoever to converse or correspond any wayes with the said Duke of Gor- 
 doune, or those remaineing with him in tlie said Castle of Edinburgh, wnder the paine 
 of treasone. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 EXTRACTS FROM A NEWS-LETTER PRINTED AT LONDON, JUNE 
 7, 1689, ENTITLED AN ACCOUNT FROM SCOTLAND AND LON- 
 DONDERRY, OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST THE DUKE 
 OF GORDON IN THE CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. 
 
 On Tuesday the 21st May, there were a great many bombs thrown from the south 
 battery ; seven of which fell into the Castle ; one fell at the guard-liall ; another on 
 the half-moon ; a third dismounted a cannon ; all the rest fell within the Castle : but 
 as yet we cannot give any account what loss they had by them. All this was done be- 
 twixt ten and twelve at night.
 
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 The same night the Castle hath shot very many shots against the batteries, and 
 they against them. 
 
 Wednesday, 22. — The Castle, about three a'clock in the morning, put out two flaggs, 
 and a little after that fired three canon ; two of which were towards the south bat- 
 tery ; one of which broke through a house that is next to the batter)', and a centinel 
 that was standing near to that house had only liis hands a little hurt by the broken 
 glass that came from the windows. The other was shot toward the north-east bat- 
 tery, which did no harm. 
 
 The same day, in the forenoon, the Castle fired many small shot down to the Town, 
 which only killed one woman, two men, two horses, and a dogg ; upon which the citi- 
 zens were very much irritat, and in the night time they did make up a battery of 
 woolpacks, dung, and many other things necessary for that use ; and it was from one 
 side of the street to the other, above a man's sight, in one night's time ; which being 
 seen by the Duke next morning, he caused two parleys to be beat ; at the second, the 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Mackay and one of the Magistrates went to know his meaning ; 
 which was, that they should remove that battery that was made in the street, and he 
 would not shoot any more down upon the town. So they asked him, Why he shot 
 yesterday ? He answered. That as lie had got no sleep this two nights before, he be- 
 ing sleepy went to rest, and it was unknown, and without order of him, that any shot 
 should have been sent down upon the town. Upon which the Magistrate and the 
 Colonel took his word of honour, and so pulled down the battery. 
 
 Yesterday there were several bombs thrown against the Castle, five of which went 
 into the Castle ; one of them fell into the top of the big house, which sunk down 
 through three storys ; another fell into their well. If it had not been for the greatness 
 of the rains and snow, I could have given you a greater account, for there can be 
 no canon placed near to the batteries, by reason of the sappiness of the gi'ound. 
 
 Thursday, 23. — At 12 o'clock at night, the south battery went in agitation against 
 the Castle, which was performed extraordinary well, to wit, the battery sent in seven 
 bombs within the wall, five of which fell upon the principal house ; some of them are 
 asserted to have fallen into the crowTi chamber, the fire being seen to come plaiidy out 
 of the windows ; but what damage at that time was more done, we cannot give an 
 exact account of. They continued playing yesternight till 12 a'clock, which mightily 
 allarms the besieged ; and it is confidently reported, that there has one made his escape 
 out of the Castle, who says, since the first night of their casting their bombs there are
 
 APPENDIX. US 
 
 fifteen or sixteen killed ; and there are several of theii- houses demolished, that they 
 were forced to retire to their vaults. 
 
 Tliis day, about three a'clock in the morning, tlie bombs fell a playing again, and 
 after they had done some damage, by breaking down their balcony, with the stance of 
 the centry, they gave over ; and soon after that, the great guns that are upon the north 
 battery fell a playing upon the Castle, and the Castle back upon them, which continued 
 for the space of four hours ; no liurt being done all this time to the battery, but they 
 disabled several of the guns in the castle. 
 
 On Sunday, 26th, the batteries play'd upon the Castle the whole day, and hath done 
 a great deal of damage by their battering of the walls, but more particularly by the 
 bombs, there being a great many shot, and many of them fell into the principal house, 
 and dismounted several of their guns ; but they fired little out of the Castle, which 
 makes us believe that he hath spent most part of his ammunition. There are several 
 of his men come out, and amongst them there are one Dumbar, a pretended gunner, 
 and Mr Charles Foster, their minister, who did as much execution as any of them ; 
 and their report is, that the most part of them left behind would be content to be out 
 too, saving only some of the Duke's friends and servants, who waits upon him now, 
 be being very ill, and in great sickness, for he is forced to ly in vaults, for the princi- 
 pal bouse is sadly beat down on some parts with the bombs and the great canon on 
 tlie north battery, which does fire both night and day upon him. 
 
 Just now, since the writing of the last line, I was an eye-witness, within the bat- 
 tery, where there was fourteen bombs cast in two hours time, four of which fell into 
 tl)e principal house, and broke down the flag-staff; all the rest, excepting one that fell 
 short, were all within the Castle. Tlie execution must needs be great. 
 
 May 29. — The Duke of Gordon kept King Charles's birth-day, and put out his 
 fiagg and fired many of his great guns, and made a great bonfire in the Castle, and they 
 all seemed to be very merry and joyful, and they solemnized the whole day very 
 heartily, with great acclamations and drinking of healths. 
 
 Ditto. — There were one or two bonfires made in the streets here, where several 
 disaffected persons gathered together, who had the impudence to drink the healtlis of 
 King James, the Duke of Gordon, and the Viscount of Dundee, and wished them 
 prosperity in all their actions ; upon which the Magistrates ordered the guards to dis- 
 perse them ; but a great rabble getting together, they could not till a greater company 
 come down, where were several of the rabble taken and put in prison, who continue 
 
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 114 APPENDIX. 
 
 there as yet, and it is thought they will be severely punished ; but they are not yet 
 called in to give their reassons why they did it. 
 
 There is another new battery made on the north side of the Castle, which by all 
 appearance will do more hurt than all the rest, it being the nighest, and as well forti- 
 fied as any of them. 
 
 May 30. — The batteries this night hath play'd very hard upon the Castle, and the 
 Castle upon them. The loss of the persons that are in the battery is nothing, as none 
 being killed ; but what is in the Castle we cannot give an account. 
 
 XV. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM WILLIAM GORDON'S HISTORY OF THE FAMILY 
 OF GORDON, vol. ii. p. 604. 
 
 On the 7th of June, John Grant appeared at the place appointed, and gave the 
 signal that there was no hopes of succour ; wherefore the Dnke, having never received 
 a letter nor orders from the King ever since he went into the Castle, though he had 
 written often to his jNIajesty ; and this I know, ex certa scientkt, to be true, that there 
 came from the King when in Ireland, either five or six letters, and were safely deli- 
 vered to a Lady of quality at Edinburgh, all of them superscribed by the King, and 
 subscribed by Melfort. The Lady had many occasions to have sent to the Duke, yet she 
 kept all of them up ; whether out of ill-will she bore to the Duke, or out of obedience 
 to some secret orders she might have received from the secretary, I shall not deter- 
 mine ; but one of them it must be, since she had so many opportunities of delivering 
 them : Nay, they were concealed from him after he came out of the Castle, and he never 
 heard a word of them to his dying hour, nor did ever his son, this present Duke of 
 Gordon, hear of them until the year 1724, that I was in a person of quality's, and he 
 told me of them, and that he yet had two of them by him ; and that the rest were lost 
 or fallen by hand in the year 1725, when the papers of that noble family were in some 
 disorder ; and these two letters yet extant did Mr William Fraser of Fraserfield and 
 myself see delivered to this present Duke of Gordon, by that person of quality, in the 
 Duke's garden at Gordon Castle, in the latter end of October 1724 ; and till that 
 time, none of the family of Gordon ever heard of them.
 
 APPENDIX. 115 
 
 There were some, and still are, who blame the Duke of Gordon for staying in the 
 Castle at that time, and not going to the north and raising his friends, vassals, and 
 followers there, for the King's service : But tliese men must be of very scanty know- 
 ledge, who think that he either in honour or safety could leave such an important place, 
 committed to his trust, without tlie King's express orders for so doing : And the King, 
 in the last of these letters, heartily thanks him for the resolute defence he had made 
 of that Castle ; desires him to stay there, and appoint such deputy-lieutenants in the 
 north as he should be answerable for ; renews his Commission of Lieutenancy ; and 
 promises him relief in a short time. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 COPIES OF THE TWO LETTERS ABOVE-MENTIONED FROM KING 
 
 JAMES THE SEVENTH TO THE DUKE OF GORDON 
 
 WHEN IN EDINBURGH CASTLE, 1689. 
 
 James R. 
 
 Right trusty and right entirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor, We greet you well. 
 Upon the informations we have had of your excellent deportment in our service. We 
 sent you our royal thanks from St Germans some time ago ; but now since oxir arri- 
 val into this our kingdom, we have been again informed of the continuance of your 
 zeal for Us, and your despising the malicious threats of that illegal Convention, and 
 their wicked and unjust attempts against you, that yet you are resolved to stand firm 
 to our Royal interest ; which, as it is an action worthy of your Family, so eminent in 
 their constant services to and sufferings for the Crown, so it is worthy of our Royal 
 esteem and most hearty thanks at present : And whenever it shall please Almighty 
 God to put us in a condition, bhall oblige us to make our rewards equal yovir services, 
 of which you may rest most assured. 
 
 We think it fit for our service, that our Castle of Edinburgh be kept from the power 
 of the rebels as long as may be ; and we assure you, we shall not be very long of 
 bringing sucii a force into that Kingdom, as shall quickly retrieve it ; but wc leave ab- 
 solutely to you to stay there, or to go to the north to your interest, to put them in 
 arms for our interest ; whicli that ye may the better do. We are resolved to send you
 
 116 APPENDIX. 
 
 our commission of Lieutenant, as you had it before, so soon as We have a safe con- 
 veyance for it. In the meantime, it is our express will and pleasure, that the last com- 
 mission of Lieutenancy you had be revived, to all intents and purposes, during our royal 
 pleasure, with express orders to all whom it concerns, to obey you as our Lieutenant 
 aforesaid. And you are hereby empowered, to act according to the tenor thereof, and 
 powers therein contained, to suppress all who shall rise in arms against our authority, 
 within the limits of your jurisdiction ; and to send such troops as you shall think fit 
 for our service, to the assistance of others. 
 
 We do nowise doubt, of your acting for us in this conjimcture, as becomes yourself ; 
 and therefore We shall add no more to this, but to require you to send us your advice, 
 what you think may be best for our service, in all the branches thereof. And so as- 
 suring you of our royal favour, and declaring this to be a sufficient warrant for what 
 ye shall do in our service, we bid you heartily farewell. Given at our Court at Dub- 
 lin Castle, the 29th day of March, 1689, and the fifth year of our reign. 
 
 By his Majesty's command, 
 
 Melfort. 
 
 Directed, To our right trusty and right entirely beloved Cousin and Cotinsellor, 
 George Duke of Gordon. 
 
 James R. 
 
 Right trusty and right entirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor, We greet you well. 
 Sometime ago we wrote a letter to you, a duplicate whereof is here inclosed ; but that 
 we are informed fell into the hands of our enemies, together with the oflScer that car- 
 ried it to you. We do still find more and more reason, to approve of your exemplary 
 loyalty and service to us, shown in the defence of that our Castle, of which, whenever 
 it shall please God to put it in our power, you shall reap the benefit due to your 
 merit. 
 
 And since we do not now think it fit, that you should leave our said Castle, (where 
 your presence is so necessary for our service,) so long as you are in a condition to de- 
 fend it, we do hereby empower you, to make choice of one or more persons, such as 
 you shall think fit, to be your depnte-lieutenants, within the whole botmds of your last 
 Commission of Lieutenancy, with power to them to act, as if you yourself were present.
 
 APPENDIX. 117 
 
 that thereby our service may sufier as little prejudice as possibly can in your absence. 
 And for doing all that is above said, this shall be to you and all others a sufficient 
 warrant and authority. So hoping that you shall have good success in all that is re- 
 lating to our service, we bid you heartily farewell. Given at our Court at Dublin 
 Castle, the 17th of May, 1689, and in the fifth year of our reign. 
 
 By his Majesty's command, 
 
 Melfort. 
 
 Directed, To our right tnisty, and right entirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor, 
 George Duke of Gordon.
 
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