Gallienus Redivivus, OR, Murder Will Out. etc. Being a True Account of the DE-WITTING OF Glencoe, Gaffney, etc.  
They gave out that the design of their Coming was to introduce Liberty, and depose Tyrants: But having gained the Power, They did so Tyrannize Themselves, That the Reign of Former Oppressors seemed a Golden Age, if compared with the Arbitrariness and Ex●ction of these pretended DELIVERERS; which made the Sicilians think them much more happy, who Expired in Servitude, than those who lived to see such a DISMAL FREEDOM.  Plutarch. Life of Timoleon. 
Printed at EDINBURGH, in the Year 1695.   

A LETTER from a Gentleman in SCOTLAND to his Friend at LONDON, who desired a Particular Account of the Business of GLENCO.  
Edinburgh, April. 20th 1692. SIR,  
THE Account you desired of that strange and surprising Massacre of Glenco, take as follows.  
Mac-jan Mac-donald, Laird of Glenco, a Branch of the Mackdonalds, one of the greatest Clans (or Tribes) in the North of Scotland, came with the most Considerable Men of his Clan to Coll. Hill, Governor of Fort William at Inverlochy, some few days before the Expiring of the time for receiving the Indemnity appointed by Proclamation, which as I take it, was the First of January last, entreating he would administer unto him the Oaths which the foresaid Proclamation required to be taken; that so submitting himself to the Government, he might have its Protection. The Colonel received him with all Expressions of Kindness; nevertheless shifted the administering the Oaths to him, alleging that by the Proclamation it did not belong to him, but to the Sheriffs, Bailyffs of Regalities, and Magistrates of burgh's, to administer them. Mac-jan Complaining that by this Disappointment he might be wronged, the Time being now near the Expiring, and the Wether so extreme, and the Ways so very bad, that it was not possible for him so soon to reach any Sheriff, etc. got from Coll. Hill, under his Hand, his Protection; and withal he was assured, that no Orders from the Government against him should be put in Execution, until he were first advertised, and had time allowed him to apply himself to King or Council for his own Safety. But the better to make all sure, (tho' this might have seemed Security enough for that time) with all dispatch imaginable he posted to Inverary, the Chief Town of Argylashire, there he found Sir Collen Camphel of Ardkinlis, Sherriff of that Shire, and craved of him the Benefit of the Indemnity, according to the Proclamation, he being willing to perform all the Conditions required. Sir Collen at first scrupled to admit him to the Oaths, the Time which the Proclamation did appoint being elapsed by one day, alleging it would be of no use to him then to take them: But Mac-jan represented that it was not his Fault, he having come in time enough to Colonel Hill, not doubting but he could have administered the Oaths to him, and that upon his refusal he had made such haste to Inverary, that he might have come in time enough, had not the extremity of the Wether hindered him; and even as it was, he was but one day after the Time appointed; and that would be very unbecoming the Government to take Advantage of a Man's coming late by one Day, especially when he had done his utmost to have come in time. Upon this, and his threatening to protest against the Sheriff for the Severity of this Usage, he administered to him and his Attendants the Oaths, Mac-jan depending upon the Indemnity granted to those who should take them; and having so done, he went home, and lived quietly and peaceably under the Government, till the day of his Death.  
In January last, a Party of the Earl of Argile's Regiment came to that Country, the Design of their coming was then suspected to be to take course with those who should stand out, and not submit, and take the Oaths. The Garrison of Inverlochy being thronged, and Glenco being Commodious for Quartering, as being near that Garrison, those Soldiers were sent thither to Quarter; they pretended they came to exact Arrears of Cess and Hearth-Money, (a Tax never known in Scotland, until laid on by the Parliament, 1690, after the Parliament of England had eased themselves of it;) e oer they entered Glenco, that Laird, or his Sons, came out to meet them, and asked them if they came as Friends, or as Enemies? The Officers answered, as Friends; and gave their Paroll of Honour, that they would do neither him nor his Concerns any harm; upon which he welcomed them, promising them the best Entertainment the Place could afford. This he really performed, as all the Soldiers confess. He and they lived together in mutual Kindness and Friendship fifteen days, or thereabouts; so far was he from fearing any Hurt from them. And the very last Day of his Life he spent in keeping Company with the Commander of that Party, Capt. campbel of Glenlyon, playing at Cards with him till 6 or 7 at Night, and at their parting mutual Protestations of Kindness were renewed. Some time that very day, but whether before or after their parting, I know not, Capt. campbel had these Orders sent him from Major Duncanson, a Copy whereof I here send you.  
Ballacholis, Feb. 12. 1692. SIR,  
YOU are hereby ordered to fall upon the Rebels the Mac-Donalds of Glenco, and put all to the Sword under 70. You are to have especial Care, that the Old Fox and his Sons do upon no account escape your Hands; You are to secure all the Avenues, that no Man escape: This you are to put in Execution at five a Clock in the Morning precisely, and by that time, or very shortly after it, I'll strive to be at you with a stronger Party. If I do not come to you at five, you are not to tarry for me, but to fall on. This is by the King's SPECIAL COMMAND, for the Good and Safety of the Country, that these Miscreants may be cut off, Root and Branch. See that this be put in Execution without Feud or Favour, else you may expect to be Treated as not true to the King or Government, nor a Man fit to carry Commission in the King's Service. Expecting you will not fail in the fulfilling hereof, as you love yourself. I subscribe these with my Hand,  
Robert Duncanson.  
For Their Majesty's Service, to Capt. Robert campbel of Glenlyon.  
Duncanson had received Orders from Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton, which were as follows.  
Ballacholis, Feb. 12. 1692. SIR,  
PER Second to the Commander in Chief, and my colonel's Orders to me, for putting in Execution the Service commanded against the Rebels in Glenco, wherein you, with the Party of the Earl of Argyles Regiment under your Command are to be concerned: You are therefore forthwith to order your Affairs so, as that the several Posts already assigned you, be by you and your several Detachments fallen in Action with, precisely by five a Clock to morrow Morning, being Saturday; at which time I will endeavour the same with those appointed from this Regiment for the other Places. It will be most necessary you secure those Avenues on the South side, that the Old Fox, nor none of his Cubs get away. The Orders are that none be spared, from 70, of the Sword, nor the Government troubled with Prisoners. This is all, until I see you. From  
Your humble Servant. James Hamilton.  
Please to order a Guard to secure the Ferry, and the Boats there; and the Boats must be all on this side the Ferry, after your Men are over.  
For their Majesty's Service, for Major Robert Duncanson, of the Earl of Arg●le's Regiment.  
THE Soldiers being disposed five or three in a House, according to the Number of the Family they were to Assassinate, had their Orders given them secretly. They had been all received as Friends by those poor People, who intending no Evil themselves, little suspected that their Guests were designed to be their Murderers. At 5 a Clock in the Morning they began their bloody Work, Surprised and Butchered 38 Persons, who had kindly received them under their Roofs. Mac-jan himself was Murdered, and is much bemoaned; He was a stately well-favoured Man, and of good Courage and Sense: As also the Laird Archintrikin, a Gentleman of more than ordinary Judgement and Understanding, who had submitted to the Government, and had Coll. Hill's Protection in his Pocket, which he had got three Months before. I cannot without Horror represent how that a Boy about Eight Years of Age was murdered; he seeing what was done to others in the House with him, in a terrible Fright run out of the House, and espying Capt. campbel, grasped him about the Legs, crying for Mercy, and offering to be his Servant all his Life. I am informed Capt. campbel inclined to spare him; but one Drummond, an Officer, barbarously run his Dagger through him, whereof he died immediately. The rehearsal of several Particulars and Circumstances of this Tragical Story, makes it appear most doleful; as that Mac-jan was killed as he was drawing on his Breeches, standing before his Bed, and giving Orders to his Servants for the good Entertainment of those who murdered him; While he was speaking the Words, he was shot through the Head, and fell dead in his Lady's Arms, who through the Grief of this and other bad Usages she met with, died the next day. It is not to be omitted, that most of those poor People were killed when they were asleep, and none was allowed to pray to God for Mercy. Providence ordered it so, that that Night was most boisterous; so as a Party of 400 Men, who should have come to the other End of the Glen, and begun the like Work there at the same Hour, (intending that the poor Inhabitants should be enclosed, and none of them escape) could not march at length, until it was 9 a Clock, and this afforded to many an Opportunity of escaping, and none were killed but those in whose Houses campbel and Glenlyon's Men were Quartered, otherwise all the Male under 70 Years of Age, to the Number of 200, had been cut off, for that was the Order; and it might have been easily executed, especially considering that the Inhabitants had no Arms at that time; for upon the first hearing that the Soldiers were coming to the Glen, they had conveyed them all out of the way; For though they relied on the promises which were made them for their Safety; yet they thought it not improbable that they might be disarmed. I know not whether to impute it to difficulty of distinguishing the Difference of a few Years, or to the Fury of the Soldiers, who being once glutted with Blood, stand at nothing, that even some above Seventy Years of Age were destroyed. They set all the Houses on Fire, drove off all the Cattle to the Garrison of Inverlochy, viz. 900 Cows, 200 Horses, and a great many Sheep and Goats, and there they were divided amongst the Officers And how dismal may you imagine the Case of the poor Women and Children was then! It was lamentable, past expression; their Husbands and Fathers, and near Relations were forced to flee for their Live●; they themselves almost stripped, and nothing left them, and their Houses being burnt, and not one House nearer than six Miles; and to get thither they were to pass over Mountains, and Wreaths of Snow, in a vehement Storm, wherein the greatest part of them perished through Hunger and Cold. It fills me with horror to think of poor stripped Children and Women, some with Child, and some giving Suck, wrestling against a Storm in Mountains, and heaps of Snow, and at length to be overcome, and give over, and fall down, and die miserably.  
You see in Hamilton's Order to Duncanson, there's a special Caution, That the Old Fox nor none of his Cubs should escape; and in Duncanson's Order to Capt. campbel of Glenlyon, That the old Fox nor none of his Sons escape; but notwithstanding all this wicked Caution, it pleased God that the two young Gentlemen, Mac-jan's Sons escaped. For it happened that the younger of these Gentlemen trusted little to the fair Promises of campbel, and had a more watchful Eye over him than his Father or Brother, who suffered themselves by his reiterated Oaths to be deluded into a belief of his Integrity: He having a strong Impression on his Spirit, that some mischievous Design was hidden under Campbell's specious Pretences, it made him, after the rest were in Bed, remain in a retired Corner, where he had an advantageous Prospect into their Guard. About midnight perceiving several Soldiers to enter it, this increased his Jealousy; so he went and communicated his Fears to his Brother, who could not for a long time be persuaded there was any bad Design against them, and Asserted, That what he had seen, was not a doubling their Guards in order to any ill design, but that being in a strange place, and at a distance from the Garrison, they were to send our Sentinels far from the Guard, and because of the Extremity of the Wether relieved them often, and that the Men he saw could be no more but these. Yet he presisting to say, That they were not so secure, but that it was fit to acquaint their Father with what he had seen, he prevailed with his Brother to rise, and go with him to his Father, who lay in a Room contiguous to that they were in. Though what the younger Son alleged made no great Impression on his Father, yet he allowed his Sons to try what they could discover. They well knowing all Skulking places there, went and hid themselves near to a Centinel's Post, where instead of one they discovered eight or ten Men; this made them more inquisitive, so they crept as near as they could without being discovered, so near that they could hear one say to his Fellows, That he liked not this Work, and that had he known of it he would have been very unwilling to have come there; but that none, except their Commanders, knew of it till within a quarter of an hour. The Soldier added, That he was willing to fight against the Men of the Glen, but it was base to murder them. But to all this was answered, All the blame be on such as gave the Orders; we are free, being bound to obey our Officers. Upon hearing of these words, the young Gentlemen retired as quickly and quietly as they could towards the House, to inform their Father of what they had heard; but as they came nigh to it they perceived it surrounded, and heard Guns discharged, and the People shrieking; whereupon, being unarmed, and totally unable to rescue their Father, they preserved their own Lives in hopes yet to serve their King and Country, and see Justice done upon those Hellhounds, treacherous Murderers, the Shame of their Country, and Disgrace of Mankind.  
I must not forget to tell you, That there were two of these Officers who had given their Paroll of Honour to Mac-jan, who refused to be concerned in that Brutal Tragedy, for which they were sent Prisoners to Glasco, where if they remain not still, I am sure they were some Weeks ago.  
Thus, Sir, in obedience to your Commands, I have sent you such Account as I could get of that monstrous and most inhuman Massacre of the Laird of Glenco, and others of his Clan. You desire some Proofs of the truth of the Story; for you say there are many in England who cannot believe such a thing could be done, and public Justice not executed upon the Ruffians: For they take it for granted, that no such Order could be given by the Government; and you say they will never believe it without a downright Demonstration. Sir, As to the Government, I will not meddle with it; or whether these Officers who murdered Glenco, had such Orders as they pretended from the Government; the Government knows that best, and how to vindicate their own Honour, and punish the Murderers who pretended their Authority, and still stand upon it. But as to the Matter of Fact of the Murder of Glenco, you may depend upon it, as certain and undeniable: It would be thought as strange a thing in Scotland for any Man to doubt of it, as of the death of my Lord Dundee, or with you that the Duke of Monmouth lost his Head. But to put you out of all doubt, you will e'er long have my Lord Argyles Regiment with you in London, and there you may speak with Glenlyon himself, with Drummond and the rest of the Actors in that dismal Tragedy; and on my Life, there is never a one of them will deny it to you; for they know that it is notoriously known all over Scotland, and it is an Admiration to us that there should be any one in England who makes the least doubt of it. Nay, Glenlyon is so far from denying it, that he brags of it, and justifies the Action publicly: He said in the Royal Coffeehouse in Edinburgh, that he would do it again; nay, That he would stab any Man in Scotland or in England, without ask the Cause, if the King gave him Orders, and that it was every good Subject's duty so to do; and I am credibly informed, that Glenlyon and the rest of them have addressed themselves to the Council for a Reward for their good Service, in destroying Glenco, pursuant to their Orders.  
There is enough of this mournful Subject: If what I have said satisfy you not, you may have what farther Proof, and in what manner you please to ask it.  
Sir, Your humble Servant, etc.  
N. B. That the Gentleman to whom this Letter was sent, did on Thursday, June 30. 1692. when the Lord Argyle 's Regiment was quartered as Brentford, go thither, and had this Story of the Massacre of Glenco from the very Men who were the Actors in it: Glenlyon and Drummond were both there. The Highlander who told him the Story, expressing Gild which was visible in Glenlyon, said, Glenco hangs about Glenlyon Night and Day, and you may see him in his Face. I am told likewise that Sir John Lowther refused to accept of the Place of Lord Advocate of Scotland, unless he might have liberty to prosecute Glenlyon, and the rest of the Murderers of Glenco, which not being granted, James Stuart (who was ferfeited for Treason by K. C. 2. and since Knighted by K. W.) has now the Place.   

Gallienus Redivivus: OR, Murder Will Out, etc.  
THE foregoing Account of the Barbarous Massacre of Glenco, was Printed in the year 1692. in the Answer to Dr. King's Book of the State of the Protestants in Ireland: And all the Reception it met with among many here in England, was, That it was a Jacobite Story, on purpose to Reflect upon the Government, and that there was no such thing: But this is now Confuted by the Proceed of the Parliament in Scotland, this Summer Session, 1695. Wherein they have Voted the Killing of the Glenco-men to be a Murthrr; and yet have Acquitted Sir Thomas Levingston, and Colonel Hill, who gave the Orders for Killing of them. Why? Because their Orders were but pursuant to the Instructions they had from Court. Where will this Lodge the Murder? The Design, it is well enough known, is to put it upon Sir John Dalrymple, commonly called Master of Stair, one of the Secretaries for Scotland, because he is not so Fiery a Presbyterian as the other Secretary, James Johnston, who hath it by Inheritance to love Crown and Mitre alike; and to have a just Reward for it. But Dalrymple is only a Libertine, or Latitudinarian, One of the Modern No-Religion, who are indifferent to All, so they be troubled with none. Therefore he cares not whether Episcopacy or Presbytery, or what else is set up, provided the People be easy with it.  
NOW it being known to all the World, That the Pretence of the Inclinations of the People in Scotland, which was made the Groundwork for abolishing Episcopacy, and setting up Presbytery there, was a mere Shame, contrived by this Johnston, and the BIGOT Presbyterian Party in Scotland; who were all put in Power, in the beginning of this Revolution; and set on the Barbarous Rabbling of the Episcopal Clergy in the West of Scotland, that they might Cry out, The Inclinations of the People were against Episcopacy: And having, by these and other Arts (which are fully related in Print) Packed, and then surprised the first Convention, or meeting of Estates, to Abolish Episcopacy: They dare not have a New Parliament 
* See Quercla Temporum. p. 8 and 9  (as in England) but keep on the same Convention (only Changing the Name into that of a Parliament) to this day: Because no Free Parliament can be had in Scotland, which would not the first day, spew out Presbytery, and Re-Establish their much more beloved Episcopacy. And the People showing great Un-easiness under their present Establishment (which hath been tricked and forced upon them.) All the Craft and Violence of the Regnant Presbytery, assisted by Acts of Parliament, and all the Countenance of the Government, having not yet been able to Oust the Episcopal Clergy in the North, and other parts of Scotland, or prevail with the People to admit of, or almost give Civil Treatment to the Presbyterian Ministers sent to them, tho' Established by Law. The Presbyterian Interest standing there upon so slender a bottom, their Juncto think it not safe to have a Man of Dalrymple's Latitude in Religion, in so eminent a Post, and near their King; lest he should follow the Inclinations of the People, in GOOD EARNEST, and Call a New Parliament there, which would ruin all their Measures: Therefore ways and means must be used to Remove him; and leave Johnston and the Presbyterian Faction in the sole Possession of the Court. At length, this of Glenco was pitched upon; which was so Odious, They knew their King durst not own it: And therefore they would throw it upon Dalrymple, who was Secretary, and attended when the Instructions were sent for that Bloody Murder. And thereby too, They would seem to take off the Odium from their King; This was their pretence; and they had proof enough against Dalrymple: But how that Cleared his Master will be seen.  
THEY produced Nine Letters of Dalrymple's (of which I have Copies) concerning the Massacre of Glenco. And I shall have occasion to mention them hereafter; I will now set down their several Dates, and Directions; and quote them to save Repetition, only by their Number, Letter i two. three etc. The two first are directed to Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton, and bear Date, on the 1st. and the other the 3d. Decemb. 1691. the 4 next are to Sir Thomas Levingston, of these several Dates, 7, 9, 11 and 16 of January 1691/2;. Then follow two more to Colonel Hill, of the 16th and 30th of the same Month; And lastly one of the 30th Ditto, to Sir Thomas Levingston. It seems very strange that K. W. would suffer these Letters to be exposed to the Parliament in Scotland, being most of them wrote by his Order, enlarging upon, and enforcing the Execution of Instructions, sent with them for the Massacre of Glenco, etc. and the Regard which his Dear Presbyterians, and his Favourite Johnston, in particular, had to his Honour, was very slender, when, to compass their Ends, they load him so foully, that they might load Dalrymple too. Johnston says, No, But that he foreseeing (because some say of his own Contriving) that the Parliament (who are most of them his Creatures, to their Honour be it spoken) would fall upon the business of Glenco; and that they must be, at least seemingly Gratified in it, otherwise that it might obstruct the Money-Bills, did therefore, advise his Master to send down a Commission to men of his own choosing, to inquire into the Affair of Glenco; but withal, to give secret Instructions to his Commissioner, to keep up the said Commission, unless the Parliament should enter upon that business. And if they did, then to produce the said Commission, to show his Majesty's Innocence, by his Care to have it Examined; and withal, it would take the Examination of it out of the hands of Parliament Committees, who might not manage so dextrously, as those of his own naming.  
THINGS being thus stated, and the necessary Orders given it is vilely suspected, that Johnston procured the Matter to be 〈◊〉 in Parliament, whereby, at once, to get rid of his Rival Secretary, and Root up the interest of any, who had but an indifferency towards Episcopacy at Court; though to the utter Shipwreck of his Master's Honour, to be Recorded for all Posterities (as if it were inseparable from some Constitutions to betray those they serve, even tho' they wish them well, and must stand and fall with them.) For considering the inflence Johnston had in that Parliament, and that they have never yet opposed his Will in any thing; and that he has been able to suppress the least Murmur, or Hint, that looked, towards Glenco, when the Fact was New Committed; and the Horror of it fresh and Bleeding; and now for three years after. I say, It is not supposed by men who understand that Parliament, that it could have been brought upon the Stage, when it was almost dead and forgotten, if the hand of Joab had not been in it: but let him look to that— I have only to add, as a Completion of the foregoing Narative, that I can from unquestionable Vouchers, give the Reader an Account of the Orders from Court to Sir Thomas Levingston, and Colonel Hill, which are not in the Letter that goes before; and when the Reader is told that Hamilton (whose Order to Duncanson is inserted) had his Order from Levingston, and Colonel Hill; Then he has the whole thread, viz. W. R's Order to Levinston, and Hill; Levingston and Hill to Hamilton; Hamilton to Duncanson; and Dunson to Glenlyon, who was the Butcher:  
and subscribed by Himself.— And to show how pleasing a thing Mercy was to them, and with what reluctancy they Prosecuted those who had not taken the Oaths, he says in the same Letter; Just now Argyle tells me, That Glenco hath not taken the Oaths, at which I Rejoice. It's a great work of Charity to be exact in Rooting out that Damnable Sect. And to show how great this Charity was, and whence it proceeded, The Wise Secretary Blurts out these words; I have no great kindness for Keppoch, nor Glenco, and it's well these People are in mercy. Well indeed! They were in merciful hands! Who can say they ought not to Die, for whom such a Secretary hath no CREATE Kindness! But who are they must die? ALL! ALL! Man, Woman, and Child! Massacre the Men, and Drive the Women and Children to Perish more cruelly in the Mountains. To which purpose, that extreme Cold Season was chosen for the Execution. 
a Letter i.  The Winter is the only Season (says the Secretary) in which we are sure the High-Landers cannot escape us, nor carry their Wives, Bairns, and Cattle to the Mountains. 
b Letter two.  It's the only time that they cannot Escape you; for Human Constitution cannot endure to be long out of Houses— This is the proper Season to maul them in the cold long Nights. This was expressed with the Gusto of a Vulture, in expectation of a Glorious Massacre! And then how easy it would be! 
c Letter iv.  I expect (says he) you will find little Resistance but from the season. And than what through work they would make! 
d Letter iii.  To destroy entirely the Country of Lochaber, Lochells, laud's, Keppoch's, Glengaries, Appin, and Glenco. Here was a plentiful Feast provided! It was a Ravishing Prospect!  
BUT O how these Lions were Enraged when any of their desired Prey was delivered out of their Jaws. It was in a mournful strain the Secretary tells the sad News. 
e Letter iv.  We have an Account (says he) that Lochart, and Mac-naghton, Appin and Glenco took the benefit of the Indemnity at Inverary; and Keppoch, and others at Inverness: But after this, when Argyle told him that Glenco had not taken the Oaths; How did he Rejoice! as above Quoted. 
f Letter ix.  I am glad (says he) that Glenco did not come in within the time prescribed. 
g Letter i  I am content that CLAN except itself. 
h Letter iv.  For my part, I could have wished the Macdonalds had not divided, (that is, That they had all excluded themselves from mercy) and I am sorry that Keppoch, and Mac-jan of Glenco are safe. But it seems they were not safe. Some must be made a Sacrifice; And Glenco was pitched upon for the Victim. And the implacable Fury, which was shown against that Clan, expressed the Rage they felt, that so many had escaped them. And therefore that Clan was to be destroyed entirely. 
i Letter iii.  I assure you (says the Secretary to his Officers) your Power shall be full enough, and I hope the Soldiers will not trouble the Government with Prisoners. 
k Letter ●ii.  For a just Example of Vengeance, I entreat that the Thieving Tribe in Glenco may may be Rooted out in earnest. 
a Letter seven.  I shall entreat you that for a just Vengeance, and public Example, the Thieving Tribe of Glenco may be Rooted out to purpose. The Earl of Argyle and Broadalban have promised they shall have no Retreat in their Bounds; the Passes to Rannach would be secured, and the Hazard certified to the Laird of— to Retreat: Then in that Case Argyles Detachment, with a Party that may be Posted in Island Stalker, must cut them off. 
b Letter viij.  Pray when any thing concerning Glenco is resolved, let it be secret and sudden, otherwise the Men will shift you, and better not meddle with them than not to do it to puropose, to cut off that Nest of Robbers, who are fallen in the mercy of Law. 
c Letter ix.  I am glad Glenco did not come in within the time Prescribed. I hope what is done there may be in earnest, since the rest are not in a Condition to draw together to help. I think to herry their Cattle, or burn their Houses, is but to render them Desperate Lawless Men, to Rob their Neighbours: But I believe you will be satisfied it were a great Advantage to the Nation, That that Thieving Tribe were Rooted out, and Cut off. It must be Quietly done, otherwise they will make shift for both the Men and their Cattle. Argyles Detachment lies in Keppoch well, to assist the Garrison to do all ON A SUDDEN. Was ever so greedy a Hunt after the Lives of a Company of Secure and Vn armed People, who slept fearless, and suspecting no danger; under the Protection of those who were thus Contriving to Massacre them, in the most Savage and Treacherous manner!  
The Secretary tells Colonel Hill, that 
d Letter viij.  The Oaths are Indispensable. This was a fearful Method of Imposing the Oaths upon these High Lander, that none must live who would not take them! But were All admitted to take them? One would think so; when they were made Indispensable. Yet notwithstanding, in that same Letter, He gives these Directions to Coll Hill. Till we see what is done by the CHIEFS, it is not time to Receive their Tenants, or Admitting them to take the Oaths, or hoping for Pardon, till they give Evidence that they are willing to pay their Rents to you, and to take Tacks for their former Duties; who will not do so, and were in the Rebellion, must feel the dismal Consequences of it.  
THUS Naboth's Vineyard made him a Blasphemer! If the Tenants would betray the Rights of their Landlords to Atturn and Pay their Rents to the Secretary, or his Governor, then, and not otherwise, They should be Admitted to take the Oaths: And yet they must not live, if they did not take the Oaths; But Glenco took the Oaths; yet that saved not his Life, nor his Clan.  
IT were reasonable here to presume that K. W. did not know that they had taken the Oaths. First, If it had been so, This manner of Massacre, in Cold Blood had been a Cruelty without Precedent Secondly, It was taking Advantage of the Time, with the Greatest Rigour. For the Time limited by the Indemnity expired but the 1st of January 1691/2. And the Instructions for a General Massacre were dated the 11th of the same Month, at London, which was hardly time enough to know whether they had taken the Oaths or not. But Thirdly, Here is no room left to surmise, that K. W. did not know it; because Secretary Dalrymple (in his Letter to Sir Thomas Levingston, before Quoted, which is dated at London the 9th of January, 1691/2) tells him 
a Letter iv.  That they had an Account that Glenco had taken the Oaths, at Inverary; which was the Place where he did take them, as is told in the foregoing Narrative. And he tells Sir Thomas, in the same Letter; I have been with the King. He says your Instructions shall be dispatched on Monday. And they were so For that Monday was the 11th of January, 1691/2. which day the Instructions do bear Date. And this Letter of the Secretary's was Dated the 9th of January, 1691/2. which was the Saturday before. And then he tells Sir Thomas, That he had the Account of Glenco's having taken the Oaths with several others; and that he had been with the King concerning it, and Instructions should be sent, etc. 'Tis true, his Letter of the 11th, which went with the Instructions, says. 
b Letter v.  That Argyle told him Glenco had not taken the Oaths. But this was no more than Hearsay; and it was not true. For Glenco had taken the Oaths before that time; according to to the Account which the Secretary owned was sent to him: And Argyle was an Enemy to Glenco, as appears by what is above quoted out of Letter 7. But this saying of Argyles to the Secretary in London, could not be of Argyles own Knowledge. And one would think that the Secretary of State should have as good Intelligence as he.  
BUT, to make the most of it, this could amount to no more than a Doubt. And to Suspend his further Resolution, till he might have the Certainty from Scotland. But they did not stay for this. For the particular Instructions to Massacre Glencoe, bore Date the 16th of January 1691/2 Betwixt which time and the 11th. when Argyle told the Secretary, as above, They could not send to Scotland, and have any Answer back. Now these Instructions of the 16th were no way Conditional. To cut off Glencoe, if he had not taken the Oaths. But Positive, and without more ado. When it is certain that K. W. Must, at least, Doubt whether he had taken the Oaths, or not. But it is apparent that Colonel Hill, who had Given Glencoe his Protection, and to whom Glencoe came to take the Oaths, I say it is certain that he, and the other Officers there upon the Place, knew very well that Glenco had taken the Oaths, and submitted to the Government. Those Officers whom he received into his House, and quartered their Soldiers among his Tenants, upon his laying down his Arms; These must know that he had Submitted. But if notwithstanding they must Obey their Orders (as they did) if it be not Permitted to Officers, so much as Rescribere, to acquaint the King with any mistake may be in his Orders; but to Execute them blindfold, and without Ask Questions, then let me lie out of the Reach of a Soldier.  
THE Reader must likewise know, that none of these Foresaid Instructions were Communicated to the Privy Council of Scotland; to whom by the Constitution of that Kingdom, and Continual Custom, all the King's Orders are directed. They knew nothing of this Matter, It was contrived to be Carried in such a Manner, as not to be prevented. And when Gallienus his Thirst of Blood is once Satisfied, then let Slaves Grumble, and make Inquiry! We know how to Manage them. Johnston hath undertaken it. Nay he hath done it. Done it! More effectually than ever was heard, or I believe, Imagined, in these Nations, before this Happy Revolution: For here is a Precedent made, and that by P— t, That the King may send his Guards, and Cut any Man's Throat in the Nation in Cold Blood; Nay, he may Massacre the whole P— t, as they are there Sitting, by the Rule that they have given; That is, To acquit Levingston and Hill; and to justify them for pursuing the King's Orders to Massacre a whole Clan, which is no more Just, or Law, than to Massacre a P— t.  
LET us Banter the World, or ourselves no more with Liberty and Laws! And when P— 'tis can be brought to Approve, and Justify All this— Well! Johnston! Thou hast Managed Nobly. Thou art fit to Serve a Monarch! But not unless you bring your Monarch cleverly off in this Business; For what if you can place it upon Dalrymple; And if Dalrymple should be Hanged for Daring to send such an Order, tho' he refused to Counter-sign it, What will become of Him, who both Signed it, and Countersigned it, and Commanded it to be Sent?  
If the Man such Praises have,  
What must He Employs the K—?  
WHY! did his Master never Inquire into this Matter before? Never before the Parliament Clamoured! And what was the Meaning of a Commission to Examine into what himself had Ordered— But Mes James!— And have you even brought your Master into this Noose! What can you expect from him, but to be Glencoed for your pains? Qui Glencoat, Glencoabitur— You have brought all his Sins to Remembrance. The Dewitting in Holland was almost forgot.— You have pretty good Experience of his Temper, or you may have. But if he suffer you to live to see another Revolution, you may plead Merit: For all his Enemies have not rendered him so Black; so effectually Proved, and Demonstrated it to the World, as your Management has done. He is happy in his Ministers! at least very Justly served by them!  
HE wants but a good Historian, that he may not lose his Character to after Ages. And Secretary, you cannot do better than to recommend your Uncle to that Office. He'll do it Deliciously; he'll either find or make Parallels to him out of Ancient Histories (for he'll find none among the Modern, especially in these Countries.) And make him (I'll warrant you) Excel them all. And among the rest, I would recommend one to him, that fits the present Case so exactly, that you would think one was Copied out of the other, and it is as follows.  Gallienus, ut erat Nequam & Perditus; ita etiam, ubi necessitas coegisset, velox, furibundus, ferus, vehemens, Crudelis.— In omnes Mesiacos tam Milites quam Cives asperime Ceviit: Nec quemquam suae Crudelitatis exortem reliquit: Usque adeo Asper & Truculentus ut plerasque Civitates vacuas a virili sexu relinqueret. Extat sane Epistola Galieni quam ad Celerem Verianum Scripsit, qua ejus Nimietas crudelitatis ostenditur: quam Ego idcirco interposui, ut omnes intelligerent, hominem Luxuriosum crudelissimum esse, si necessitas Postulet. 
GALLIENUS VERIANO. Non mihi satisfacies, si tantum Armatos occideris, quos & sors Belli interimere potuisset. Perimendus est omnis sexus Virilis, si & senes atque Impuberes sine Reprehensione nostra occidi possent. Occidendus est quicunque malevoluit. Occidendus est quicumque male dixit contra me, contra Valeriani filium, contra tot Principum Patrem & Fratrem. Ingenuus factus est Imperator. Lacera Occide, concide: Animum meum intelligere potes, mea Mente irascere qui haec Manu mea scripsi. Treble. Pollion. Trigint. Tyrant. de Ingenuo.  
THIS is the Description of Gallienus, a Cruel, and a Bloody Tyrant: And here is the Copy of some Instructions he sent to Verianus, an Officer of his, about just such another Massacre as Glenco, which he Wrote, or Signed with his own Hand: Wherein he Commands him, to put all to the Sword, All that durst Speak or Think against him, as well Old as Young; He bid him Plunder, Kill, Tear; and that it would not please him if he Killed only those in Arms against him, but All of the Masculine Sex.  
HERE was a Great deal of Do, and many Words about it! But our Milder Order, bid only EXTIRPATE, and that not this or that Body, or making Distinctions of Old or Young, Men or Women— What need all that Cookery! But only The Whole TRIBE. That was all! He Scorned to Except the pitiful Women, as Gallienus did. What need They be Excepted? Why! He Excepted no Body! Short Work's best— and Few Words— And as the Answer to Great Britain's Just Complaint, Published by Authority, 1692. Says, p. 37. in Vindication of W. R. as to this of Glenco. A milder Order was never given. And he says that his Majesty has Expressed a High Displeasure at it. It was High indeed: For we never heard of it before. Nor are we like to hear of it, that I can see: For all the Officers who Commanded, or who Executed it, are still in their Respective Posts, unless Advanced. Nor have we heard that so much as an ill Word has been said by Him to any one of them.  
BUT this we know, by that Answer to Great Britain's Just Complaint, that W. R. cannot plead Ignorance, that there was a great Clamour about the Massacre of Glenco, Three Years ago: And that He has taken no Notice of it all this time; nor Now, tiil it was first Started in Parliament; And that then, what he did, was, as much as he could, to take it out of the hands of the Parliament, and by all his Might and Main, to Stifle, or at least to Baffle it. And that it has been Baffled. And this horrible Addition is thereby made to the Gild of that Murder; That whereas none were answerable for it before, except only Gallienus and his Verianus', with their Accomplices, it is now become a National Gild (so far as the Parliament are the Representatives of the People) by the Parliament's making Gallienvs' Instructions sufficient to Justify Verianus in his Execution of them: Whereby they justify the whole Murder and bring it upon their own Heads, and upon the Heads of their Children. For if Gallienus had no Power by Law, to send such Instructions, they could be no Justification to Verianus: But now That Parliament has Voted that such Instructions are a Justification of Verianus; and therefore they have yielded that Gallienus has, by Law, a Power to send such Instructions. And that they ought to be Obeyed. And then, Lord have mercy upon us!  
NOR has our Parliament in England been behind that of Scotland in Sacrificing our Laws, Lives, and Liberties to an Arbitrary and Despotic Power; and that not only to Orders Signed by Gallienus himself, but by Verianus, of his own head. Making us Double Distilled Vassals; Slaves of Slaves!  
AND the instance which (among many others) I have to give of this, Exceeds even that of Glenco, in its having less Pretence, and acted with the greater face of Authority, and Solemnity. I mean the Prodigious unprecedented Manner of the Murder of Gaffney in Ireland by the Command of the Lord Coningsby; For which he was impeached before the House of Commons in England, by Protestants of Ireland, Gentlemen of Quality and Estates; and of Public and generous Spirits; whose noble Resentment to see their Laws so vilely trampled under foot by those whom they had Invited thither to protect them, brought them hither in Person, to demand Justice from our House of Commons, against Coningsby, who was one of their Members. And that there could be nothing of Revenge in the Case, in behalf of the Person who was Murdered, it's notorious; that Gaffney being a poor Fellow, a Servant to Sweetman (hereafter mentioned) and wholly unknown, I believe, to every one of the Gentlemen who prosecuted Coningsby; Besides, He was a Roman Catholic, and one of the Native Irish, upon both of which Accounts he could have the less share of Interest with the British, and Irish Protestants, who were then not wholly come out of a most bloody War against them; for Limerick as yet held out. And therefore these worthy Patriots, who came over from Ireland hither to prosecute Coningsby, could have no other Incitement, but Love of their Country, and the Preservation of the Laws: But the Return they had, after a long and Expensive Attendance as it was, Mortifying to themselves, and sadly Instructive to others will remain an Instance of Arbitrary Government not to be equalled in former Ages, nor easily credible to the future. The Story, one would think should not need being told in England, because it was brought upon the Stage, before the House of Commons, and is in their Printed Votes.  
YET, all that, is not, it seems, sufficient to Publish it, at this time; not one in twenty of some sort of People that I meet with, having ever heard of it, or have forgot it: And (as I have told of the Story of Glenco) they call it a Jacobite Invention; and will hear no more of it.  
I will therefore present the Reader with the very Words of the Article concerning Gaffney, which (with several others of other Instances of High Arbitrary Government) was exhibited by the Earl of Ballimont, and other Protestants of Ireland, against the Lords Justices of Ireland (viz. The said Lord Coningsby, and Sir Charles Porter, both Members of the House of Commons in England) before the House of Commons in the Winter Session 1693. The Article concerning Gaffney is the 4th, and follows in these Words.  
That the Lords Jussices did, in Council, by word of mouth, Order one Gaffney to be Hanged, without Trial, the Courts of Justice being then open, and who was at that time an Evidence against one Sweetman for the murder of Colonel Foulk's soldiers: But the said Sweetman (giving all his real Estate to the value of about 200 l. per Annum, to Mr. Culliford, besides the sum of about 500 l. to Mr. Fielding, the said Lords Justices Secretary, for being his Bail) was never prosecuted for the said murder; and the said Gaffney was immediately Executed, according to the said verbal Order.  
NOW the Reader must know that every Tittle of the said Charge was proved fully, and past all Contradiction. Captain Fitz-Gerald, who is a Member of the Privy Council in Ireland, Declared that he was then sitting at the Board; and that the Council were not advised with at all in it. That Sweetman's Estate, valued at 3000 l. was offered to him [Captain Fitz Gerald] on Condition that he would make interest to save Sweetmas' Life. That Lord Coningsby, who gave the Orders for Executing of Gaffney, was in so great haste to have him dispatched out of the way (for he was an Evidence against Sweetman) That he ordered a Provo, instead of any Legal Officer, to be Called into the Council-Chamber where Gaffney was Examined; And after having asked Gaffney three or four Questions, and that he positively denied his having any Accession to the said Murder; Commanded the Provo to take him out and hang him up IMMEDIATELY: And the Provo making Answer, That it would take some time to make a Gallows; Coningsby answered sharply, Hang him upon the Carriage of a Gun; which was done IMMEDIATELY.  
OF all this Coningsby could not deny One Word before the House of Commons: And all he said in his own Vindication was, That if he had not hanged Gaffney so, he could not have hanged him at all. Which was true: For there was no Evidence against him, and therefore they would give him no Trial. But why must Gaffney then be Hanged? Because forsooth! Some Officers in the Army would have some body Hanged for the Murder of Foulk's Soldiers: And Sweetman (in whose Backside the Soldiers were buried, and their Coats found in his House) had given 500 l. to the Lords Justices Secretary, and his Estate to another man in Power; but Gaffney was a Poor Rogue, and had nothing to give, and therefore it was fit he should be hanged. And Hanged as he was, or not at all. As CONINGSBY honestly, but Impudently Confessed.  
BUT now comes the Astonishing Wonder. After all these things so plainly Proved and Confessed, that the House of Commons could not frame any manner of excuse for Coningsby; but were forced to Vote the Execution of Gaffney without Trial, to be Arbitrary and Illegal; Yet that considering the state of Affairs, They did not think fit to ground an Impeachment against the Lord Coningsby for the same. This is in the Printed Votes of the 29th of January, 1693. And it is an Original. What! Vote a Man guilty, and yet that he shall not be prosecuted! Why pray? Because of the state of Affairs. This is very general: And such a pretence will never be wanting. But what was this State of Affairs, at that time? It was in the Winter 1690, When all Ireland, except only Limerick, was in the Obedience of K. W. when the Courts of Justice were open (as in the bovesaid Article against Coningsby is expressed) and the Lords Justices and Council sitting in Peace and Grandeur in Dublin. And what was it then could or ought to have hindered giving that Poor Fellow a fair Trial? Other Criminals were then Tried, in the usual form, and why not Gaffney? How came the State of Affairs to reach him, more than any other? Unless you will say, that it did reach to many others: For it is expessed in the Printed Address of the Lords, Presented to K. W. 9 March 1692. That not only Gaffney, but several others were Executed, without any Trial whatsoever; And that there were Exorbitant Abuses, great Mismanagement, and many Arbitrary and Illegal Proceed there, within these four Years last passed, as well since the determination of the War as before, which includes the whole Government since the Revolution, as well dureing the Administration of Gallienus in Person, while he was there, as of his several Verianus' in his Absence. One of whom did, in Almanzor strain, set up the High Prerogative, and Hector their Parliament in a manner unknown to former Ages: And without Precedent from any Lawful King that ever sat upon the English Throne in that Kingdom. Which they have given us an Account of in Print; to try whether there was so much of the Spirit of English Liberty left in an English Parliament as to Vindicate their own Privileges, in that Breach which was made upon them, through the sides of the Parliament in Ireland, a Province of their own, and may be reckoned a branch of the English Empire. But all in Vain! They had drunk so deep in the Cup of Slavery at Home, that they could take no notice of it Abroad. They have stopped their Ears close against all Charmers upon that Subject, Charm they never so wisely. They Call their Slavery, Liberty! And where then is the Remedy!  
Thus poor Ireland was left without all hopes of Redress, to feed upon the Melancholy Reflection; that their Liberties have been much more notoriously violated by their Deliverers, than by all the instances which were so much as alleged against their Lawful King; And thence to learn for the future, how much Rebellion is a worse Remedy, than the Disease of Tyranny (even when it is not made a pretence) and that it always Ends in a Heavier Tyranny: Because there must go more Force to keep under New Acquisitions, than Old Hereditary Rights. And if all the Sacred Bonds of Natural Allegiance, Fortified with the Religious Sanction of Oaths, and Taught and Inculcated upon Us, from our Infancy, as a Condition indispensable to our Salvation; if all this, and all the Honour and Reputation which the World has justly affixed to Loyalty, with the Horror, and eternal Stain, upon the Name and Memory of Traitors and Rebels, and all the Terrors of the Laws against Treason. If none (I say) Nor all of these Considerations, have weight enough to keep us in our Obedience to those whom God, and the Constitution of our Country, have placed over Us, by a Divine as well as a Legal Right: How should an Usurper secure our Duty, who has none of these Ties, on his side; but All, and every One of them against Him? How should, How can He do it, but by Corrupting our Representatives in Parliament, so as to pass all his Arbitrary Designs upon Us, in their Names; and when that fails him, by open Force? How otherwise as any one of them ever yet secured himself? Have we forgot our late Deliverers in Forty One? Will no Experience serve to make us Wise! No. Not when the time of our Destruction is come! We shall then, as the Jews did before their Final Destruction by the Romans, we do now as they did then, Obstinately Refuse all Offers of Mercy, for our Rebellion? and continue to provoke a Power, which we know too strong for Us; and which we Confess, must, without a Miracle, be our Ruin: Yet we run on, trusting only to our Dispair! And we have not only Delivered up our Money and our Lives, without Account; but what used to be Dearer to English Men, The Honour of England! Of which take this short Instance instead of many more.  
THE House of Lords made (and printed) an Address, dated the 18th of February 1692. Wherein They mind their King of the Capitulation made in the Year 1678, by which it was agreed, That the English Commander and Officer, in every Degree is to Command any other Confederate Officer of the same Rank (except those of Crowned Heads) without any regard to the Date of their respective Commissions. And that the contrary Practice in this last War was, to the Diminution of the Honour that belongeth to the Crown of England, and to the general Dissatisfaction of his Majesty's Subjects. And desire, That the Chief Commander of the English Forces under his Majesty, should be a Subject born in his Majesty's Dominions: That no Foreigner should be of the Board of Ordnance, or Keeper of the Stores in the Tower of London: That, for the Encouragement, of the English, there should not be so many strangers Employed in the Office of the Ordnance. That there hath been many Abuses under Pretence of Pressing Men for the Fleet; And therefore They humbly Advice, That the Offenders should be immediately Cashiered, and Prosecuted with the utmost Rigour of the Law.  
HIS Gracious Answer was, That He would consider of it. And we may suppose, That he is considering of it still: For he hath not performed one word of it; But on the Contrary, to show the regard he has for all the Peers of England; and for the Honour of England; He has acted quite contrary to this Address, more since, than before: For not only Abroad, in Flanders, and in Savoy, are the English every where under Foreign Commanders in Chief: But, to use them as they deserve, He has now this last time, made a Foreigner [Scomberge] Commander in Chief of all the Forces left in England Let the Lords Address again! They would if they were English Men! Or if he were an Hereditary King! But some will bear more Insults from a Mistress than a Wife. And a King of our own making, Costs us more than Twenty of God's sending, We think ourselves bound to Acquiesce in our own Act and Deed!  
If any of the Cursed and Rebel Parliaments could have found a Gaffney or Glenco against King Charles the 1st, or any of his Sons, what a Noise would they have made! How had all the World been filled with Apologies and Remonstrances! What a Dismal Idea would have been Raised of Tyranny and Arbitrary Government! In the former Reigns, how was the Nation Alarmed with what was Whispered; and not Whispered, or ever so much as thought of, in the King's Bedchamber; in his Closet! Of Secret Leagues, and Private Assassinations of Men that Murdered themselves; where there was not the least Umbrage or Colour of Pretence! How Industrious was it spread and imbibed by the Mob of this Nation, That King Charles the 2d. and the Earl of Essex were both, Murdered by the Procurement of one they had a mind to Blacken! And Forty Protestant Witnesses of the Greatest Quality and Reputation, were not sufficient to make them believe a P. of Wales; Tho' not one Man, or Woman in the Nation ever Deposed any thing to the Contrary: Nor was there any other Argument against it, besides a few Drunken Songs. But that was enough, because it was against a Lawful King! And on the other hand, tho' they see their Fellow Subjects Gaffneyed and Glenco'd before their Faces; Tho' it be Printed in the Gazettes, and Public Votes of the House of Commons, and that the House of Lords Print their Addresses, contrary to their usual Custom, on purpose to let the Nation see— Yet they will not see. No. All this is not NOW sufficient to imprint it one half hour in their Memories, after Reading of the Public Papers; They neglect it, They forget it, as not concerning them! Non Persuadebis, etiamsi Persuaseris, is their Resolution. And Quos Perdere vult Jupiter, Dementat, I wish may not be their Fate.  
BUT to bring our Story to an End: There is One Noble Stroke of of Secretary Johnston's behind, Whereby he thinks he has wiped his Master clean, from all Imputation of the Massacre of Glenco; And that is, He has persuaded Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton (whose Order to Duncanson is in the foresaid Natrative) to Abscond for some time; and then to slip over to K. W. in Flanders; which he has done. This shows as if he were more Guilty than the rest. He is made the Scape-goal, and all this Sin laid upon his Head. But if Hill gave his Orders to his Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton (which he Avers in his Order to Duncanson) Why was it more Criminal in Hamilton to hand down his colonel's Orders to the next Subaltern?  
AND why must Glen-Lyon, and the others who actually Committed that Horrid Massacre, and are now in their Respective Commands in Flanders, Why should these be Excused?  
O! No! They are not excused, for as in the Gazette 18th July 1695. The Parliament in Scotland has made a fierce Vote against them, viz. That his Majesty be Addressed to send them home to be prosecuted for the same, Or Not? As his Majesty shall think fit.— OR NOT! This is as Civil as Heart could wish! And whether this Address was sent, or Not; whether it was trusted to Secretary Johnston to send it, or Not, is all One: For instead of sending them Home to be Tried, Hamilton is sent to them; And in Justice we are to suppose that Due Care will be taken, That in this Campaign, They shall either be Killed, Taken, or Desert. And then if we had them again, How we would Hang the Rogues.  
BUT our English Parliament was much more Complaysant to their Verianus'; they did not put them to the trouble so much as of a Shame Absconding for a little time; No, nor of suffering the least Disgrace for their more Solemn and Judicial Murder: But Commanded them to take their Places again in their Senate-House; Thus doing them Honour, for their Noble Breach of our Laws; And signifying to the Nation what Qualifications are Expected in those whom they Choose to Represent them; and in whose hands they have Deposited the Absolute and Vnaccountable Disposal of their Estates, Lives, and Liberties! At least, it is so understood. And the Silence of the People, in this Case, is taken for Consent.  
FINIS.