A LIVELY CHARACTER OF SOME Pretending Grandees OF SCOTLAND TO THE good old cause.  
LONDON, Printed in the Year, 1659.   

A Lively CHARACTER of some Pretending Grandees of Scotland, to the Good Old Cause. Digested into Eight Queries.  
I. WHether he be not fitly qualified to be a counsellor of State, who whiles the Parliament and Army were streight with God, and vigorous in carrying on the Good old Cause, not only would not join with them, but in presence of many godly Christians in edinburgh, imprecated wraths and curses from heaven against them, as Sectaries, Murtherers, and Covenant-breakers? Who dissuaded godly and well-affected persons in Scotland from joining with them, under the hazard of being guilty of all the blood  shed at Dunbar, Dundee, Worcester, and Innerkeithing: Who would not suffer his cause to be pleaded before their Judges in his own Name, but borrowed his neighbours for that effect: Who being called thereto, refused to bear witness in an action where they were Judges: And yet forgetting his former prayers, and swallowing the pretended conscience, joined with the late usurping Protector, in the height of the now acknowledged apostasy, receiving from him at once three honourable places; whereof one( albeit useless, except for upholding the pomp of the injoyer) hath depending on it about forty or fifty inferior officers, and about two thousand pound Sterling per Annum, to make his kitchen smoke well: Who since his entry thereto never deduced a process against any of the number for purgi●g out the corrupt, except one who was known to be a person of the greatest integrity and honesty of the whole body: Who since his entry to that place, hath raised the pr●ces of Decreets, Acts, bills, and other Writs, whereof he makes gain, not only beyond what they were before his entry, but far above what they were in the late Kings time; to enrich himself upon the ruins of a poor fainting people, almost utterly broken before: Who in Anno 1649. albeit with many others a short space before, he had sworn to purge Judicatories and places of Trust of Malignants, gave under his own hand Commissions for Clerks who were notorious & known Malignants, receiving large sums of money therefore: Who these eight years by-gone, never pleaded one Cause for the Kirk of Scotland, and yet by order of the late Protector, sacrilegiously did take up his yearly salary as Advoca●e for the same: Who not only accepted to be a member of the Other House, but being there, manifested himself zealous for enterprising the Lord Protector, and preached ad nauseam against that toleration and liberty of conscience which Gods Word doth allow, and for which as a peculiar jewel and principal part of the Good old Cause, the godly in these Nations are contending against Antichrist and his Impostors: Hath not such a person pure hands fitted for carrying on a glorious work of Reformation? Or hath he written on his forehead the character of the murmuring Spies, that he shall never enter into the promised Land? Be not deceived, God is not mocked, evil company corrupteth good manners.  
II. Whether he be not furnished with sufficient endowments to be governor of Scotland, who is qualified as follows, viz.  
Who in the first place for enriching himself, banished and begge●ed his father and brother, and by bought pleas and legerdemain obtai●ed the Estate of the marquis of Huntley united to his own; whereby for magnitude he possesses near the fifth part of Scotland for his inheritance; and for freeing the same of encumbrances, obtained two Acts of Parliament discharging him of his few duties: And order for 30000 pound sterling of the money given to the Scots Army when they marched out of Newcastle: a thousand pound sterling per Annum of yearly pension from the late King; and a general contribution from persons of all ranks throughout the Nation of Scotland. Principem oportet esse divitem.  
Secondly, Who hath the goodly confidence and resolute audacity to deny himself to have been one of the promovers of Charles Stuart his coming home to Scotland; albeit he cannot but look upon it as his duty to have been one of that number, in regard about a year and an half since he moved publicly of the Exchequer, his pension granted by the late King might be allowed by way of compensation for the few duties resting by him to the public( which he could not demand, but for service done to the King) and albeit his missive letters can be produced in London at this present time, directed to Sir Thomas Cunningham( then Conservator) for furnishing whatsoever money was necessary for bringing home the Kings Horses or otherwise.  
Thirdly, Who had the pious zeal to cause to be killed hundreds of persons in could blood at Dinnaverke near the point of Kyntyre, after they had yielded to his mercy, by pardies, when souldiers refused the fact, as unworthy of military hands, for the good cause; and about forty more at Kilminisce and elsewhere, contrary to his express Articles and Capitulation, preferring the public good to his own Conscience and Credit?  
Fourthly, Who was so wise as to out-wit Duke Hamilton, by deserting his master handsomely,( albeit his pensioner) when he saw the Duke was preferred to him, and join with the English cordially so long as the heart of power is in their hands; keeping his eldest son for a reserve, to show the ●eality of his hypocrisy, if ever hereafter the King shall become Master. Riches, Zeal, Courage and wit, seems for ever hereafter to command silence to all who shall dare to reproach such a Champion.  
III. Whether he be rather to be looked upon as a Protectorian Trapanner, or as a person fit to be General of the English Army in a foreign Nation, to whom his late Highnesse gave his Niece in Marriage, with a larger Portion than King Henry the Seventh did to his Daughter; albeit a Scots Laird of two or three hundreth a year, which his Father and Mother life-rents, and wherein his Eldest son of the first Marriage stands infeofft; notwithstanding he had been active against him in anno 1648 at Preston, and elsewhere since, viz. The Palace and Park of Falkland, and Lordship of Kelso, worth two or three thousand per annum; the keeping of the Signet as Secretary in Scotland, worth two thousand per annum; a Salary or allowance as Privy counsellor, ambassador, and General of the Army; the Office of Advocate General in Scotland to his Brother George, lately come from Schools, before he had ever born the burden of one private action for manifesting his ability; the places of a Bed-Chamberman, Commissary of Glascow, and Writer to the Privy Seal, to his other Brother Mr. John?  
IV. Whether my Lord General Lockart ought to be enrolled among the Penitents for the apostasy of the times? who having put out of their places Mr. Hope and Mr. Moseley, to make way for himself; Mr. Pittilloh, and Mr. Scot, to make empty places for his two Brothers; as yet hears not the cries of their Families ascending up to Heaven against him, nor restores to them their losses; albeit he cannot be so ignorant in Divinity, as not to know, non tollitur peccatum, nisi restituatur ablatum?  
V. Whether he be fitter to be a Judge and privy-councillor in Scotland, or a Stage-player at White-Hall, who in anno 1650 attended the one day the English council of war at Barwick, the other, the Scottish at edinburgh: He who before installing of the late Protector, walked humbly and contentedly under his excommunication, was a friend to persons of integrity and honesty, kept sober and honest servants in his Family, walked Christianly in his apparel, and seemed a lover of those that fea●ed the Lord; who so soon as his Master was lift up to a Throne, obtained his sentence of excommunication taken off by the Presbyterians, shewed himself zealous in propping this tottering Throne, choosed the most eminent and notorious Malignants for his intimate companions; looking upon honest Christians( if not as great as good) with a supercilious eye, who kept the places of Privy-Councellour and Judge in causes civil and criminal, having been equally bread in the knowledge of all; beside about 800 pound per annum out of my Lord Landerdails estate, under the name of 400, albeit many of his Creditors be like to perish for want of bread; who has been active and instrumental in putting known Malignants in places of trust; who scandalously feasted an English Lady in his house for several daies, then pessimae fidei, and since justly deserted by her husband, when his own was at London: Who with his stately Lady swaggered with the best of the Court in gallant apparel and powdered periwigs while it lasted: But now amongst the first of Reformers hath thrown off his false head, gotten shoes cut round over in the foreparts, and speaks nothing but shibboleth, to the great satisfaction of all the off-spring of James, turning not only Round-head but Round-Scot? Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare.  
VI. Whether three petty Gentlemen of mean estates, and meaner wits, taking upon them without commission or warrant to act in name of the Nation of Scotland, are to be accounted meddlers, or fools?  
VII. Whether he be not an accomplished individual to make up the number, who having attained to the degree of a Colonel rather through penury of Valiants, than his own worth, albeit in anno 1648 he shewed h mself zealous against the English in Duke Hamilton's engagement, is now so desirous to spend himself in their highest services, that to render himself capable of some eminent place, without fear of the hazard of Sesse, he va●ues himself at a great Land-estate; which in truth stands all upon invisible stones, in the Ondemian street of Eutopia, except a redeemable wood-set of a part of the barony of Ganvock, under re●uction by Sr. John Scot, which was honourably purchased b● the Law of the sw●rd, and pillaging the people in annis 1646 & 1647, when he was Deputy governor to David Lesly of Straboyre and Bogiegight, where to this day he is remembered in the prayers of the Inhabitants?  
VIII. Whether in a time of Reformation it be the duty of the Parliament to call in to the public Treasury, the revenue which belonged to the Chancellor, Secretary, Clerk, Register, and Privy Seal in Scotland,( which will entertain Fifteen able Judges there) or to confer it on some Minions, for upholding their pomps, lest it should offend Lord Richard, to take any thing away which his Father conferred on these who were only useful in these places to uphold his grandeur and magnificence?  Fiat Justitia, ruat Coelum. 
FINIS.