The History Of Scotland Volume 9: From The Restoration To The Death Of Dundee by Andrew Lang

Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
ISBN: 9783849604691
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2013-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

Explanations and attempts at reconciling contradictories were made by the Bishop of Edinburgh, and admitted by an Act of Council. Argyll took the test with a qualification, " as far as it is consistent with itself, and with the Protestant religion." On November 8 the Council wrote to the king, accusing the earl of " gross and scandalous reflections, . depraving your Majesty's laws, misrepresenting your Parliament . teaching your subjects to disappoint all laws and securities," and so forth. The perjured Haltoun, with Sir George Mackenzie, and Airlie, keeping up the Ogilvy feud, were among the writers of the letter. Argyll was indicted of "leasing -making" that elastic offence, of treason, and other crimes, and sent before a jury. Montrose, Claverhouse, and Airlie were among the fifteen jurors, Ogilvies and Grahams had a Campbell at their mercy, and an unanimously voted verdict brought the earl in guilty. The king's pleasure in the matter had to be waited for; and Argyll, perhaps rashly, escaped in the dress of a footman, holding up the train of Lady Sophia Lindsay, who had visited him in prison. Every one has heard how he dropped the train in the mud, and how the quickwitted lady slashed him across the face with the wet and dirty garment.

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