Ay.U imii li\rUialtnu^- ^tciUmi.UH'/. €mi> imminm uf iltc.li.UiUS31. #» /* *• iL!l«^.*s RY \f^^\^^j_fr^ v2^U PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. '^D°»-ttrT!:5C-C0^3»xtl-ry^r«SIS^^ PRINTED AT EDINBURGH; M.DCCC.XXIX. •J I Sbr PRESENTED TO THE BANNATYNE CLUB, BY WILLIAM BELL. THE BANNATYNE CLUB. M.DCCC.XXIX. SIR WALTER SCOTT, Baronet, [PRESIDENT.] THE EARL OF ABERDEEN, K.T. RIGHT HON. WILLIAM ADAM, LORD CHIEF COMMIS- SIONER OF THE JURY COURT. SIR WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT, BART. 5 JAMES BALLANTYNE, ESQ. SIR WILLIAM MACLEOD BANNATYNE. LORD BELHAVEN AND STENTON. GEORGE JOSEPH BELL, ESQ. ROBERT BELL, ESQ. 10 AVILLIAM BELL, ESQ. JOHN BORTHWICK, ESQ. WILLIAM BLAIR, ESQ. REV. PHILIP BLISS, D.C.L. GEORGE BRODIE, ESQ. 15 THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENSBERRY. JOHN CALEY, ESQ. JAMES CAMPBELL, ESQ. HON. JOHN CLERK, LORD ELDIN. WILLIAM CLERK, ESQ. THE BANNATYNE CLUB. 20 HENRY COCKBURN, ESQ. DAVID CONSTABLE, ESQ. ANDREW COVENTRY, ESQ. JAMES T. GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ. WILLIAM GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ. '25 HON. GEORGE CRANSTOUN, LORD COREHOUSE. THE EARL OF DALHOUSIE. JAMES DENNISTON, ESQ. ROBERT DUNDAS, ESQ. RIGHT HON. WILLIAM DUNDAS, LORD CLERK REGISTER. 30 HENRY ELLIS, ESQ. CHARLES FERGUSSON, ESQ. ROBERT FERGUSON, ESQ. LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR RONALD C. FERGUSON. THE COUNT DE FLAHAULT. 3.5 HON. JOHN FULLERTON, LORD FULLERTON. LORD GLENORCHY. THE DUKE OF GORDON. WILLIAM GOTT, ESQ. SIR JAMES R. G. GRAHAM, BART. 40 ROBERT GRAHAM, ESQ. LORD GRAY. RIGHT HON. THOMAS GRENVILLE. THE EARL OF HADDINGTON. THE DUKE OF HAMILTON AND BRANDON. 45 E. W. A. DRUMMOND HAY, ESQ. JAMES M. HOG, ESQ. THE BANNATYNE CLUB, JOHN HOPE, ESQ. SOLICITOR-GENERAL. COSMO JNNES, ESQ. DAVID IRVING, LL.D. 50 JAMES IVORY, ESQ. REV. .lOHN JAMIESON, D.D. ROBERT JAMESON, ESQ. SIR HENRY JARDINE. FRANCIS JEFFREY, ESQ. 55 JAMES KEAY, ESQ. JOHN 6. KINNEAR, ESQ. THOMAS KINNEAR, ESQ. [TREASURER.] THE EARL OF KINNOULL. DAVID LAING, ESQ. [SECRETARY.] 60 THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE, K.T. REV. JOHN LEE, D.D. THE MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN. COLIN MACKENZIE, ESQ. HON. J. H. MACKENZIE, LORD MACKENZIE. 65 JAMES MACKENZIE, ESQ. JAMES MAIDiMENT, ESQ. THOMAS MAITLAND, ESQ. GILBERT LAING MEASON, ESQ. THE VISCOUNT MELVILLE, K.T. 70 WILLIAM HENRY MILLER, ESQ. THE EARL OF MINTO. SIR JAMES W. MONCREIFF, BART. JOHN ARCHIBALD MURRAY, ESQ. WILLIAM MURRAY, ESQ. THE BANNATYNE CLUB. 75 JAMES NAIRNE, ESQ. MACVEY NAPIER, ESQ. FRANCIS PALGRAVE, ESQ. HENRY PETRIE, ESQ. ROBERT PITCAIRN, ESQ. 80 JOHN RICHARDSON, ESQ. THE EARL OF ROSSLYN. ANDREW RUTHERFURD, ESQ. THE EARL OF SELKIRK. RIGHT HON. SIR SAMUEL SHEPHERD, LORD CHIEF BARON OF SCOTLAND. 85 ANDREW SKENE, ESQ. JAMES SKENE, ESQ. GEORGE SMYTHE, ESQ. THE EARL SPENCER, K.G. JOHN SPOTTISWOODE, ESQ. 90 THE MARQUIS OF STAFFORD, K.G. MAJOR-GENERAL STRATON. SIR JOHN ARCHIBALD STEWART, BART. HON. CHARLES FRANCIS STUART. ALEXANDER THOMSON, ESQ. 95 THOMAS THOMSON, ESQ. [VICE-PRESIDENT.] W. C. TREVELYAN, ESQ. PATRICK ERASER TYTLER, ESQ. ADAM URQUHART, ESQ. RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE WARRENDER, BART. 100 THE VENERABLE ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM. CONTENTS. Warrant for opening the Chest deposited in the Crown-Room of the Castle of Edin- burgh, supposed to contain the Regalia of Scotland, 28th Oct. 1817, P. 1. Report of the Commissioners appointed to open the Chest deposited in the Crown- Room of the Castle of Edinburgh, containing the Regalia of Scotland, 2l8t Feb. 1818, P. 7 Observations on the History of the Regalia of Scotland, P. 15. Engraving of the Crown, P. 17. Engraving of the Sceptre, P. 22. Engraving of the Sword, P. 23. Fac-simile of a Letter from King Charles II., addressed to the Governor and Gen- tlemen in the Castle of Dunnotter, P. 38. Engraving of the Belt of the Sword, P. 44. APPENDIX. I. Extracts from the Registers of the Privy Council of Scotland, respecting the State of the Regalia, July 1621, P, 55. II. Letters and other original Papers relative to the Siege and Surrender of the Castle of Dunnotter, 1651— 1652, P. 59. VI CONTENTS. III. Proceedings of the Coinmittee of Estates, and of the Parliament of Scotland, in favour of Mr James Granger, minister of Kinneth, and Christian Fletcher, his wife, 1660, 1661, P. 73. IV. Proceedings of the Privy Council of Scotland in the cause, John Earl of Kintore, against Sir William Ogilvy of Barras, Knight, 1702, touching the Pamphlet entitled, " A True Account," &c. P. 76. V. Instruments relative to the Delivery of the Regalia, and their Depositation in the Crown-Room of the Castle of Edinburgh, 1707, P. 89. VI. Royal Warrant for Opening the Crown-Room in the Castle, and Report of the Commissioners thereupon, 1794, P. 99. Fac-simile of " A True Account of the Preservation of the Regalia of Scotland, viz. Crown, Sword, and Scepter, from falling into the hands of the English usurpers. By Sir George Ogilvie of Barras, Knight and Barronet. With the Blazon of that Family. Edinhurgli, Printed in the Year mdcci." ^i "^^ '^-5 ^^ "^^ <^5?J) .£fj '■XS {as ostquam qwedam coronella aurea, de qua Robertus de Bras, inimicus et rebellis noster, in ten'a nostra Scotise, nuper se coronari fecit, ad manus ejusdem Galfridi deveuit ; Coronellam illam retinendo et concelando, unde idem Galfridus coi*ain nobis et concilio nostro occasionatus extitit et cou- victus. Nolentes quod dictus Galfridus per nos, vel hjpredes nostros, seu ministros nostros quoscumque, inde occasiouetur in aliquo seu gravetur. In cujus, &c. Teste Rege apud Kai'liolum xx die IVIartii. Per ipsum Regem nunciante thesaui-ario. + Tiiere is in the possession of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, a "writ under the Privy Seal of Edward III. dated at Bordesley, in July 1328, directed to the .\bbot and Convent of Westminster ; in which, after reciting that his council had, in his Pailiament holden at Northampton, agreed that the Stone whereupon the Kings of Scotland used to sit at the time of their coronation, and which was then in the keeping of that Abbot and Convent, should be sent to Scotland, and that he had ordered the Sheriffs of London to receive the same fi-om them by indenture, and cause it to be carried to the Queen Mother ; he commands the Abbot and Convent to deliver up the said Stone to those Sheriffs as soon as they should come to them for that purpose. — Calendars of Ancient Charters, Sfc. Introd. p. 58. t The different parts of what has been denominated the Treaty of Northampton, from the place of its final ratification by Edward III. and his parliament, were contained in various instniments and indentures, dated, some of them at York, others at Edinburgh. Of these, the principal are now known to be preserved in the Public Archives of Scotland ; but in none of them is there any stipulation either respecting the Scottish Regalia, or the Stone of Scone..— See the new Edition of Rtjizr's Fcedera. so OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY rendere it highly probable that the diadem now presei-ved was made by Bmce's orders, to replace " the golden round and top of sovereignty," which was the visible emblem of the national independence, recovered by the wisdom and valour of the Scottish deliverer. At the death of Robert Bruce, such a crown was in existence, for his son, David II., held his coronation with unusual solemnity ; and it is particularly noticed, that, by the special directions of the Pope, the ceremony of unction was then, for the first time, used in the inaugwation of a Scottish monaixh. Where new ceremonies were added, the ancient rights were doubtless CcU-efully observed ; and it cannot be doubted, therefore, that David was regiilai'ly crowned, and wilh a diadem suited to his dignity, which crown must have been fabricated betwixt the date of the battle of Bannockbum in ISI^, and that of David II.'s coronation in 1329. The workmanship of the ancient portion of the present crown, and, in particular, the mode in which the gems are set, betokens gi'eat antiquity, and appears at least as early as the fourteenth century, which corresponds with the date of Bmce's reign. After this period, precious stones were usually polished and cut into facets, whereas those of the Scottish crown are set rough, and in their natural state, without any at- tempts to relieve or improve their appeai'ance by the ai-t of the lapidary. To these observations it may be added, that such representations as exist of the Scottish crown previous 1o the time of Robert, whether on coins or on the seals of monarcbs, are, as far as the iiideness of flie delineation enables us to judge, of a differ- ent form from that which we are now treating of, and represent a diadem oi-namentcd with Jlofrs-c/e-lis only, whereas, from the time of Robert Bmce downwards, thejleurs- de-lis ai'e interchanged with crosses, as on the present crown. The head of David I. at Melrose Abbey, is, in like manner, environed with a crown bearing Jieurs-de-lis only ; whereas that supposed to represent Robert Bruce, in the Abbey of Dunferm- line, where that gi-eat deliverer lies buried, beai-s the crosses also. Tliese circiun- stances afford strong indications in support of the hypothesis, which assigns the date of the present crown to the happy reign of that great monarch. There occurs only one argument affecting this hypothesis, namely, that it is possible the crown used at David's coronation may have been again carried off during the brief usurpation of Edward Baliol in 1332. But although it is certain, that in that year Baliol went tlu-ough the ceremony of a coronation at Scone, and therefore was in possession of the Regalia, yet there is nothing in any of the historians which can lead OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. 21 as to suppose that any dilapidation took place on that occasion. Neither could Ba- liol, whose ambition it was, under the protection of England, to establish himself as King of Scotland, have had the slightest motive for offering such a gratvutous insult to the feelings of Ms subjects. To which it may be added, that his expulsion from Scotland was so sudden and so precipitate, that, far from having time to carry with him any part of the national jewels, Baliol escaped from Annan with scarce a single attendant, and very nearly in a state of nakedness. In the long wars and distmbances which followed, Scotland was indeed repeatedly oven-un, but never subjugated ; Dum- baiton, Dunbar, and other sirongliolds, were usually in possession of the patriots, who had therefore the means of securing the Regalia. We cannot suppose that they neglected thLs ; for the silence both of English and Scottish historians, whose exulta- tion or giief would have been sufficiently clamorous, seems to assure us that the crown of Bruce did not again fall into the hands of the enemy. We ought also to mention, that, as far as the rudeness of the coinage enables us to determine, the coins of Scotland, dovm to the reign of James IV., exhibit a diadem or circle, relieved with JJeurs-de-Iis and crosses, exactly resembling the original and more ancient part of the present Scottish crown. In the end of the fifteenth centmy, the sovereigns of the independent states of Europe began to alter the shape of their crowns, and to close them with arches at the top, in imitation of those which ai-e called imperial. This distinction was formerly proper to emperors. " The crown of the emperor," we translate from Honorius of Augsburg, " represents the circle of the globe. Augustus, therefore, bears it in evidence that lie possesses the sovereignty of the world. An arch is bended over the diadem, in order to represent the ocean, by which the world is divided." * But although this mystical explanation seems to render the arched crown peculiar to the imperial dignity, the distinction was soon afterwards assumed by the kings of Europe, in order to esta- blish a suitable distinction between independent monarchs and the petty sovereigns of every description, all of whom assumed the diadem, or open crown. Chailes VIII. of France took an arched crown in the year 1493. There is some doubt with regard to the time when the close crown was assumed in England; but the best authorities refer it to the reign of Henry VII. and the year 1485. The practice at length became so general, that the French phrase, fermer la couronne, signifies the effort of a prince to shake himself clear of vassalage to a superior, * Gemsia AvvsiM, Lib. I. cap. 884 22 OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY The Scottish monarchs had more reason than most others to maintain in every way their title to that independence, which they had heen so often obliged to assert against the encroaching pretensions of their neighbours. Accordingly, on James IV.'s second coinage in the year 1483, he is represented with bushy hair, and a close or arched crown, which, as Snelling remarks, is as early, if not an earlier assumption of this mark of supremacy, as any that appears in the English series.* But although this badge of sovereignty was represented as arched upon the Scottish coinage, as a public intimation of independent sovereignty, it is probable that the ac- tual cro«Ti itself underwent no change until the reign of James V. who added the two concentric circles, surmoiuited at the point of intersection with a momid of gold en- amelled, and a large cross patee, ii]ioii which are the characters J. R. V. We have already stated, tliat it is evident that these arches are of a date nmch posterior to the original crown, from the follo\\ing circumstances : 1st, They have not originally made a part of the diadem, but are attached to it by tacks of gold. 2dly, The workman- ship of the arches is of a different and inferior description. 3dly, The metal differs in quality, the gold of the arches being inferior in purity to that wliich forms the dia- dem. Wlien, therefore, we find in the Manuscript Diary of Lord Fountainhall, pre- seiTed in the Advocates' Library, a memorandum, stating that " the crown of Scot- land is not the ancient one, but was casten of new by James V." we must understand it in the limited sense of an alteration of the form by the addition of tlie arches, not an actual re-moulding of the whole substance of the crown. The Sceptre was also made in the reign of James V., as appears by the characters J. R. V. engraved imder the figures of the tlu-ee saints, which are placed upon the top of it. It may be presumed that the sceptre was made at the same time when the crown was altered ; most probably during the king's visit to Paris in 1536. James, when preparing for his intimate alliance with France by marrying one of her prin- cesses, might bo naturally induced to repair and augment the splendour of the national Regalia ; and the advanced state of the arts at Paris afforded him the best opportunity of doing so.-|- • View of the SUver Coinage of Scotland, 1774, p. 10, 11. + The only part of the Sceptre which seems of a different age from that of James V. is the large glohular mass ot" rock crystal, aiul its jieculiar inctiillic settingfr, which surmount the sculi>turcd figures near the top, and which indicate a degree of rudeness in the arts that ill accords with tlir either parts of the workmanship. It seems by no means improbable that this stone (which in the wardrobe in- ventories is dignified with the name of a great beryU) was an amulet which had made jiai't of the more ancient Sceptre of the Scottish Kings, IK o I 3 "t^i^ A-aai(l. Tl-os Rod ^ras foxm d. in. tlie Cliesi alnno- Av-ith. Oie ReoraUa. ^(SHIFTllilE ©IF ^(g®TlLAHin)o z^Ci 4N^ K J>hout 33 luches fai Lenglh: and a Rod ^Ih „ Glass Wobe at tie Top. ^^•h,eh ,vas 1he Staff of Offtce of thf J.ord Hig-h Treaswer of Sco11h^-L. This Rod ^as foimd U, tin- Chest alnni.- ^nti. lb.- Kroalia iW®]^® '©IF gTATu @w ^(^©TJLAmrn Amm ^(SaibibaieDo Tlie Sword is aliout 5 Feet in Length, of wTiicli the Hancae t- I'lunincJ occupy 13 Jnclies. OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. 23 The Sword of State bas an earlier date than the Sceptre. Tliis beautiful speci- men of early art was presented to King James IV. by the warlike Pope Julius II. in the year 1507. It was accompanied by a consecrated hat ; and both, as we are made acquainted by Lesly,* were delivered with great solemnity in the Church of Holy- rood by the Papal Legate and tlie Abbot of Dunfermline.f This article of the Re- galia is not interesting to the antiquary alone ; the beautiful and fanciful style of the sculpture upon the handle, and the filigree work with which the sheath is covered, carry back the admirer of the arts to the period when they revived in their splendour. The various devices wliich are interwoven with the chasing represent the Papal Tiara and the Keys of St Peter, — ornaments appropriate to the See of Rome ; and the fo- liage of oak-leaves and acoi-ns, the personal device of Pope Julius, with which they are intermingled, forms a most beautiful example of the style of ornament commonly termed grotesque, which is thus described by Benvenuto Cellini. " In Italy there is a variety of tastes, and we cut foliages in many different forms ; the Lombards make the most beautiful wreaths, representmg ivy leaves, and others of the same sort, with agreeable twinings highly pleasing to the eye. The Romans and Tuscans have a much better notion in this respect, for they represent acanthus leaves, with all then- festoons and flowers, winding in a variety of forms, and amongst these leaves they insert birds and animals of several sorts, with great ingenuity and elegance in the arrangement. They in part likewise have recourse to wild flowers, such as those called lyon's mouths, accompanied with other fine inventions of imagination, which are termed grotesque by the ignorant.";}: Having thus given some account of the external appearance of these Regalia, and of the date to which each article may be ascribed, it remains to notice the use which • De Rebus Gestis Scotonim, Edit. 1578, p. 330. fin confirmation of tliis, tlie following curious notices of payments to the Embassador of this Pon- tiff occiu- in the account of James Abbot of Dunfei-mling, Lord High Trcasuier of ScotUuid. 1507.— Item, the xj day of Aprile, to the Papis Embassat, quhilk brocht the Sword and Hat, j m. (1000) fianch crownis. ........ vii c. lib. Item, to him ane gret gilt cowp, with the caise, brocht hame be the Bischope of Ross of the new copbuid. Item, to him twa stopes, with ther caises, brocht hame be Maister James Merchauestoun. Item, to ane man quhilk couvoyit and gydit the Embassat to Loudon. . , . v li. xij s. Item, to the Papis Embassatis servand that sang to the King. .... vij li. Item, to ane Scottis man that com with the said Embassat. . ... Ivi s. J Life of Ben. Cellini, London, 1771, Vol. I. p. 110. 24 OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY was made of them upon public occasions of solemnity, together with such partictilan as can be collected respecting their historj'. The chief use of these ornaments, unquestionably, was at the Cohoxation of each new monarch. It happens that the Scottish writers, seldom very full in recording matters of mere ceremonial, have left us no particular account respecting the rites of coronation. One remarkable part of the ceremonial, as practised in the early monarchy, seems to have derived its origin from the ancient Celtic ceremony of placing the new Chief, or Tanist, upon a stone or rock, when assuming for the fii'st time the command of his tribe. Indeed, the stone itself, termed in the G:elic Liafail, (the fated grey-stone,) is said to have been originally brought from Ireland by Fergus, and (according to the Book of Howth) was vocal in heathen times, like (be pulpit of Mahomet or statue of Memnon, and emitted a sound when the lawful heir of the crown first Wiis placed upon it.* The priests, with the art which they so frequently practised, seem to have adopted, and, after their own manner, sanctified this custom ; and hence the usage of placing the new-made monai'ch of Scotland upon the fated stone, which now altered its character without losing its sanctity, and was credulouj-ly believed to hare been the pillow of the Patriarch Jacob, when he beheld his vi.-iou in the field of Bethel. This part of the ceremonial, the only one very peculiar to Scotland, was aboUshed by the transference of the Fatal Stom to Westminster, it being of course impossible to find any substitute for so venerable a relic. This loss was su-laiued several years before any part of the present Regalia had an existence, and the sight of the Scottish palladium in the Abbey of Westminster is still an affliction to the eyes of the more zealous Scotsman. Respecting other parts of the Scottish coronation ceremony, our chief guide must be the account of the ill-omoued coronation of Charles II. as it was perfornjpd in the church of Scone on the 1st of January, 1651, when he was called to the throne by the Presbyterian interest, less out of a sense of i cturning loyalty, than from their sti'ong indignation against their late brethren, the English Independents. Upon that occasion, the King, clad in a prince's robe, walked in procession from the hall of the palace to the church, the sptirs, sword of state, sceptre, and crown, being carried before him by the principal nobility. It was remarkable, that upon this " Ware's Antiquities of Irdand, p. 17. OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. 25 occasion the crown was borne by the unhappy ^larquis of Argj'le, who was put to death in no very legal manner immediately after the Restoration, using upon the scaf- fold these remarkable words, " I placed the crown on the King's head, and in reward he brings mine to the block." Upon entering the church, the King ascended an elevated throne, and listened to a sermon by Mr Robert Douglas, minister of Edinburgh, in which, with more zeal than decency and discretion, the preacher insisted upon the sins of the royal house, not forgetting those of the King himself. King Charles then solemnly swore to the Co- venant, which, doubtless, in the opinion of many present, was the most substantial and important part of the ceremony. He then took the Coronation Oath, as contained in the 8th Act of the first Parliament of James VI. This oath was so much altered upon the change of religion, that it no longer resembles the ancient coronation oath of Scotland, which we have reason to believe was far more special in its description of the civil duties of the sovereign to the subject. There exists an unpublished act of a General Council of the Nation in the reign of Robert III. from which the sab- stance of t!ie ancient oath may be collected ; and its terms, as adjusted in one of the Parliaments of King James II., may be still more exactly ascertained.* Charles was then invested with the royal robes by the High Chamberlain, girded with the sword of state, and crowned by the Marquis of Argyle with the royal crown. Each of these actions was accompanied by a suitable exhortation. When the King was thus adorned with all the ensigns of his high dignity, Lyon King-at-Arms caused a herald to call the nobility before their sovereign, one by one, according to their rank. Each as he passed before the King knelt down, and, with his hand touching the crown on the King's head, swore these words ; " By the Eter- * The Act here alluded to is that of a Council- General, holden at Perth, January 27, 1398, appoint- ing David Dulse of Rothesay to be the King's Lieutenant throughout the realm ; and, besides a special oath, peculiarly applicable to this delegated office, rcj s. " This crowne deliverit to the Kingis grace in the palice of Halyrudehous, the xiij day of Fcbruar following. " Item, gevin to Johne Patersone fur ane case to the King's crowne . xxxiiij s. " Item, deliverit to Thomas Arthme, to be ane bonat to the Kingis crowne, half ane elne purpur velvet, price . • . xxxij s. vj d. " Item, deliverit to him to lyne the samyn, half ane elne purpur sating . xxxv s. OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. 31 surer during the period when the Parliament was not sitting. Upon the death of Sir Gideon Murray of Elibank, Treasurer Depute of Scotland, his son, Sir Patrick Mur- ray, presented a supplication to the Privy Council, setting forth that it had pleased " Item^ gevin to him for making of the samln bonat . . vs. " Item, the yj day of Februar, gevin to Johne Mosman to gilt the Quenis septur, iiij rois nobillis X li. xij s. ** Item, deliverit to him to be the samin septur, xxxj unces halfimcc of silver xxiiij li. xviij s. ix d. ** Item, for the fassoun of the samyn septur, ilk imce vs. . , vij li. xv s. *' Item, gevin to Johne Fatersoun for ane caise to the Quenis septor • xlilj s. 154£. *' Item, gevin to the Capitane of Cravrfurd for five score xij unce quarter unce immolting gold of mjiTid, price of the unce \] li. viij s., qtihitk wes deliverit to Johnue Mosman, and disponit upone the King and Quenis graces crownis ; weyand, the Kingis crowne x^-j unce quarter unce, the Quenis crowne xxxv unce, and to eyk ane grete chenze to his grace, svij unce ; and ane belt to the Queue, weyand xix unce half unce ; as the said Johnes compt at mai*e lenth proportis vij c xviij li. viij s. 1571. '* Item, the said day (xvij August) be my Lord R^entLs grace speeiaie command to Mungo Bradie, goldsmith, ane pund ane unce wecht and ane halif of silver to be ane crown of honour and sceptour ; price of the unce xxvj s. viij d. ... xxiij li. vj s. viij d. " Item, to gilt the foirsaid werk, ^^ rois nobillis; price of the pece iiij li. xiiij s, xxviij li. iiij s. " Item, xij unce of quik silver to gilt the said werk . , , xxx s. " Item, to ane cutlar for gUting of the ]dumet and hiltis . . xx s. •* Item, to the said 3Iungo for the fassone and gilting of the said werk , x\-ij li. " Item, be my Lord Kegentis grace spcciale command for the fraucht of ane bote of Ijcithe with the honouris to Bruntiland . , . xx s. ** Item, for the hire of twa careage horsis, ane to the honoxuis, and the uther to the goldsmyth, to Striviling , . , xxiiij s. " Item, to the said IVIungo and his servand for thair expensls remauand in Stri^'iling, be the space of IV dayis, ilk day xiij s. iiij d. . . x li, " Item, for the hire of ace horse to turse him hame • , xi j s, " Item, the xx\j day of August, be my Lord Regeutis grace speciale command to be the Kingis rob- royale aganc the Parliament, and gevin to James IngUs, tailyeour, twa ehiis of quhite armosing tatfeteis iij li. X s. " Item, twa imce of purpoui* silk to be ane string to the said robroyale, &c. . xxxij s. ** Item, ane quarter of blew taffeteis to lyne the bonet within the crowne . x s. " Item, for silk to the same . . . ■\i s, " Item, for caddes , , . i j s. " Item, for making of the same bonat . . xxiiij s. " Item, ane elne ane quaiter of black velvet to be ane skabert to the swerd of honoor yj li. iij s. ix d. " Item, for ane swerd to be the swerd of honour , . v li. " Item, the swerd slipper for making and grathing of the skabert thairto . xxx & " Item, for weving and making of thre dosane of buttonis of gold and silver to the Kingis 3Jajesteis oottis XXXVJ s. " Item, to the pure folk at the Kingis IVIajesteis furthcuming of the Castell of Striveling vj li. 32 OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY tlie King's Majesty to commit to lits deceased father, the keeping of his Majesty's Honojirs, to wit, liis Majesty's crown, sceptre, and sword, witli his Majesty's whole silver plate of the kingdom of Scotland, and the mace called the Treasurer's mace of the said kingdom, from the charge of which valuable articles the said Sir Patrick Miin-ay prayed to be relieved. The Lords of Privy Council ordered the Honours, with the great oak chest in which they were usually kept, to be delivered up to the Earl of Mar, then Lord High Treasurer. At a meeting of the Privy Councill, five days afterwards, the Lords pronounced an order discharging Sir Patrick Murray of the custody of the Regalia, as having been, after exact inspection, delivered in their Lordships' presence to the Earl of Mar. The original proceedings, which may be seen in the Appendix, contain an accurate description of the crown and its jewels, real and counterfeited, mentioning also, that ten of the small challoms or spaces were filled with blue enamel instead of stones ; that there were two challoms totally empty, and two filled with flat white stones ; all which imperfections exist at the present day. The same accurate description takes notice, that the top of the sceptre has been bro- ken and pieced ; and also that the handle and scabbard of the sword of state had sus- tained some damage ; which injuries may be still observed. There is a constant tradition, for which we are not able to produce a distinct or ■written authority, that Charles I. desired to have the crown of Scotland sent np to London to be used in his coronation there ; but that this having been declined by the Scottish Privy Council, as contrary to the laws of the kingdom, he was induced to undertake a journey to Scotland, in order to be there crowned King. Upon this oc- ca.sion Clarendon informs us, that the King appeared with no less lustre at Edinburgh than at Whitehall ; and that the pomp of his coronation passed with all the solemnity and evidence of public joy which could be expected or imagined, — a glimpse of sun- shine soon to be overcast by the approaching tempest. Nor did it escape that gi'eat historian, that the lavish expense of the Scottish nobility, emulous to support their dignity upon such an occasion, involved their estates in debt, which finally rendered them discontented, and ripe for desperate counsels. In the beginning of the Scottish civil wars in 1637, while the Marquis of Hamilton was residing at Dalkeith, he appears to have meditated the removal of the Regalia, not perhaps conceiving them very safe in the hands of the Earl of Mar, then governor of Edinburgh castle. But as no defence was ultimately made, the Royal Insignia fell into the hands of the Covenanters in 1638, as appears from the following passage in OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. 33 Baillie's Letters : — " Dalkeith, in the Treasurer's sight, was taken, with the munition that so much din was of, seized on. The Crown, Sceptre, and Sword, which (I know not how) had been transported there, were, with all reverence, brought back by our nobles to their proper place in the Castle of Edinburgh."* In the year 1650, Charles II. recalled from abroad by the Presbj^erian party in Scotland, was crowned at Scone, and we have already noticed the ceremonies which were observed upon that occasion. The subsequent national misfortunes, and the defeat at Worcester, laid Scotland open to the invading army. The Regalia had hitherto, according to ancient usage, been regularly delivered to the Earl 3Iareshall, to be by lum kept during the sitting of ParUament, and again re-delivered to the Commissioners of the Treasury upon the rising or adjournment of that assembly, and instruments were asked and taken upon all these occasions, in evidence that the offi- cers on either side had discharged their duty, and acquitted themselves faithfully of the responsibility aimexed to it. Several examples of this formality are here given from the Acts of the ParUament of Scotland, f But the time now approached ra- pidly when it became highly desirable to find a more remote and secure place, in • Baillie's Letters, &c vol. i. p. 158. t In the Parliament held at Edinburgh, Mail 15, 1650. " IssTROiEN'Tis takin be the L. M. of Argyll, wpoan the productione of the Honouris in fece of Parliament, and delj-ierie thairoff to the Laird of Scottiscraig, in name of the Erie Marchall. " July 5, 1650. " Ikstrcmentis takin be Sr Charles Krskein, vpon redelyrerie of the Honours to be keeped or transported, as the Committee of Estates shall give ordour. " In the Parliament held at Perth, Nov. 26, 1650. " The L. M. of Ar^le, askit instrumentis wpoun the productione of the Honouris, viz. the Crown, scepter, and sword, in face of Parliament, whiche wes delyrered to the Laird of Scottiscraig, in name of the Erie of Marischell. " Dec. 30, 1650. " ScoTTSCBAiG, in name of the Earle ^Marshall, tooke instrumentis vpoun the production of the Honours, quhich the King and Estates ordaues to be delivered to the Marques of Argyle, in name of the Commissioners of the Thesaurarie, and if any danger be in keiping of thame, to be rewled be the advyse of the Committee of the Estaittis." In the Parliament held at Perth, Mar. 13, 1651. " The L. M. of Argyll, for himselflf and in name of the remanent Commissioneris of the Thesaura- rie, did exhibeitt in face of Parliament, the Honouris, viz. the cromi, scepter, and sword, and thair- upon askit instrumentis, whiche wer delyvered to the L. of Scottiscraig, in name of the E. Marcheil. to be keepit by him dui'ing this Sessione of Parliament." E 34 OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY which to deposit these national treasures, than any which remained in the power of the Lords of the Treasury. Edinburgh Castle, and all the strongholds south of the Forth, were already in the hands of the English, so that on the 6th day of June, 1651, being the last on which the Scottish Parliament sat, they ordered the Earl Mareshall to transport the Regalia to his castle of Dunnotter, to be kept there until further orders. Dimnotter Castle, the ancient baronial castle of the Mareshall family, is situated near Stonehaven, in Forfarshii-e, upon a perpendicular rock, the top of which forms a space of several acres, walled around the verge of the precipice, and covered with buildings. Tlie rock projects into the German Ocean on the one side ; and on the other is separated from the mainland by a chasm of tremendous depth, only accessible by one very steep and narrow path, leading to the castle gate, which opens into a long and intricate covered way. The strength of Dunnotter is, however, greater in appearance than reality ; for though impregnable before the use of artillery, the castle is now commanded from several of the neighbouring heights. The defence of this place was intrusted to George Ogilvy of Barras, a soldier of experience, trained in the wars in Germany, to whom the Earl Mareshall, with the title of Lieutenant-Governor, committed the full command of the castle and the gar- rison, and whose appointment as such appears to have been directly sanctioned by the King. The ganison amounted only to about one hundred men, a number quite in- Mar. 31, 1651. *' The L. Mongomrie, in name of the E. Marchell, askit instrumentis wpoun the reproductione of the Honouris, >iz. the Crown, scepter, and sword, in face of Parliament, and protestit for exonera- tione thairof, quhiUds were thane delyvered to the M. of Argyll, in name of the Commiasioners of the Thesaurarie." In a Parliament held at Stirling on the 23d of May, 1651, at which the King was present, there is the following entry. *' The L. M. of Argyll, for himsellf and in name of the remanent Commissioneris for the Thesau- rarie, askit instrumentis upoun the productione of the Honouris, viz. the Crown, scepter, and sword, for his and thair exoneratione, and thairupoun askit instnimentis, Lykas thairefter the Honouris wer by his Majesties and the Parliamentis ordour deljTered to .Sr W™* Keath of Ludquhaim, in name of the E. Marchell, to be keepit during this Sessione of Parliament." And on the Uist day of this Parliament, (June 6, lf)51,) there are " Instrumentis takin be the E. Marchell, upon the production of the Honouria with his desjTe represented to the Parliament That the same might be putt in sum pairt of securitie. His Majestic and Parliament ordanes the said Erie of M.irchell to caus transport the saidis Honouris to the hous of Dunnotter, thair to be keepit by him till farther ordouris." OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. 35 sufficient to man the walls of a castle so extensive ; but it was probably thought that the natural strengtli of the place secured it against eveiy mode of attack but surprise or regular approaches. The only remaining authority then existing in Scotland, opposed to the English, • was that of a Committee of Estates appointed by the King and Parliament in June 1651 ; and so limited had their means become, in consequence of the rapid advances of the English army, that the supplies of ammunition and provisions to the Castle of Dunnotter appear to have depended almost entirely on the private exertions of the Lieutenant Governor,* whose resources were drawn chiefly from the neighbouring estates of the Earl Mareshall, himself by this time a prisoner in the Tower of Lon- don. • There is a local tradition, that along with some other artillei->' sent to Dunnotter Castle, was the lelebrated piece of ancient ordnance familiaily known by the name of JIons-Meg. Tlie lied she is believed to have occupied during the siege is still shown, upon a battery projecting over the sea, of a size far exceeding that of the other embrasures, and ftom which she still gets the credit of having dis- masted an English vessel steering for the haibour of Stonehaven, at the distance of a mile and a half. These traditions, however agreeable to our national prejudici's, and in harmony with the popular re- spect which MoNs appears alw.ays to have commanded, are unhappily fidsitied by the otficial documents respecting the surrender of the Castle of Ediubmgh in December 1630, published by order of the Par- liament of England. Among these is a list of the ordnance taken in the Cjustle on the a4th December, 1650 ; in which a conspicuous place is given to " the gi-eat iron murderer called Muckle Megg." In another list, she is denominated " the Great JNIag." Having been thus compelled to deprive " Muckle Meg" of a part of her traditionary honours, we shall beg leave to make I'amende lionurable to this redoubted /"cm a/c, by here recording some of the ge- nuine evidence of that special consideration in which she was held at a still earlier period of her historj-. In the accounts of the Higli Treasuier iluring the reign of James IV. the following entries are to be found, relative chiefly to her transpoitatiim from Edinbiu-gh Castle to the Abbey of Holyrood, ajifa- rently on some occasion of national festivity. " Item, to the pyonouris to gang to the CasteU to help with Mons doun . x s. " Item, to the menstrallis that playit befoir Mons doun the gait . . xiv s. " Item, giffin for xiii stane of irne to mak grath to Mons new cradill, and gavillokkis to ga with hir for ilk stane xxviii d. . . . xxx s. iv d. " Item, to vii wrichtis for ii dayis and ane half, that maid Afons cradill, to ilk man on the day xvi d. " Item, for walkuig of Mons the xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, xxix dayis of Julij, and the gunnis in the Abbay ilk nycht . . . ii» «• " Item, the last day of August giffini to Robyn Ker, to fee 100 workmen to pas with Mons, sic like as the laif wai* feit, to ilk man vi s. . . xxx li. " Item, for xxiv lib. of talloun for Mons . . vj s. *' Item, for \-^ galloun of lai* . . ii s. " Item, viii elle of canvas to be .Vtiiis a claith to cover hir . . ix s. iiii d. " Item, for mair t^dloun to ^^ons . . i' s. " Item, giifen to John Wawar ami ii wrychtis to pas with Mons for thair oukis wage xxx s. " Item, to tua smytliis to pass with hir, for ane oukis wage to ilk ane of thame ix s. iiii d. " Item, 200 spikin nalis to turse with Mons . • • '" *• 36 OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY The Regalia had not heen long lodged in the fortress of Dnnnotter, before the hazard of their falling into the hands of the enemy appeared so imminent, that the Committee of Estates, now returned to Aberdeen, applied to Lieutenant-Governor Ogihy by letter, directing the Honours to be removed from that castle. Upon a further retreat to the western end of Loch Tay, the Committee resumed the subject, Iw/' *"*^ addiessed an order to the Earl of Balcarras, authorizing him to receive the Re- galia from Lieutenant-Governor Ogilvy, whom they directed to deliver them up to his Lordship. The Lieutenant-Governor declined to comply with either of these requisitions, not considering Balcarras as properly authorized to relieve him from the responsil)ility which had been imposed on him by the ordinance of Parliament. In a personal interview with Lord Balcarras, he renewed this refusal, and expressed his reasons in a letter to the Earl of Loudoun, the Lord Chancellor, declaring his readi- ness to surrender the Regalia, upon being discharged from his responsibility ; or his willingness to defend his charge to the last in the castle of Dunnotter, if he were sup- plied with men, provisions, and ammunition, of the want of all which he complained heavily. The Eai-1 of Loudoun returned an answer, which we quote, in order to show the desperate circumstances in which Lieutenant-Governor Ogilvy was supposed to be placed by those best qualified to judge of his situation, as well as the deep per- sonal responsibility at which he undertook to defend the Honours of Scotland, — a task from which he had so fair an opportunity of escaping, had he been disposed to shelter himself under the opinion of others. " I conceive," says the Chancellor in his letter, " that the trust committed to you, and the safe custody of the things under your charge, did require that victual, a com- petent number of honest and stout soldiers, and all other necessaries, should have been provided and put in the castle before you had been in any hazard ; and if you be in good condition, or that you can timely supply yourself with all necessaries, and the place be tenable against all attempts of the enemie, I doubt not but you will hold out. But if you want provisions, sogers, and ammunition, and cannot hold out at the " Item, (the xij day of August) giffin to Sir Thomas Galbreth, for paynting of Mons claith xiiij s. In the festivities celebrated at Edinburgh by tlie Queen Dowager, Mary of Guise, on the occasion of her daugliter's marriage to the Daupliin of J'rancc in 1558, Mons Meg was, of course, not allowed to remain silent or inactive. lu the Treasurer's accounts there is the following article: — " Item, the third day of Julii [1558,] By the Queais precept and speciale command, to certane pyonaris for thair lauboris in the mounting of Mons i'urth of hir lair to be schote, and for the finding & carying of hir buUet efter scho wes schot fra Weirdie Miu-e to the Castell of Edinburgh, x s, viij d. OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. 37 assaultis of the enemie, which is feared and thought you cannot doe ; if you be hardlye persewed, I know no better expedient than that the Honours of the Crowne be speed- ilye and saiflie transported to some remote and strong castle or hold in the High- lands ; and I wish you had delivered them to the Lord Ballcarras, as was desired by the Committee of Estates ; nor do I know any better way for preservatione of the thingis, and your exoneration ; and it will be an inexpressible lose and shame if these thingis shall be taken by the enemie, and very dishonourable for yourself. So having granted you the best advice I can at present, I trust you will with all care and faith- fulness be answerable, according to the trust committed to you." The country being now overrun by the English, the Castle of Dunnotter was sum- moned to surrender, with promise of fair terms, by Lieutenant-General Overtoun ; Nov. 8. and shortly aftei-ward the Governor received a similar summons from Lieutenant-Co« Nov. 22. lonel Dutton, warning him of the inutility of resistance when almost all the other na- tional fortresses had surrendered. To botli these summonses OgUvy returned a de- termined answer, expressing his resolution to defend the castle to the last. But in a letter to the King, the Lieutenant-Governor gives the following melancholy Dec. 20. statement of his condition, and, as is usual in a time of general disaster, not without imputing some blame to his companions in misfortune. " Wheras your Majesty committed the rule of this kingdom to those noblemen who are now in the enemie's hand, among whom is Lord Mareshall, who, if he had been at liberty, would have done for this place ; and those who remained in this kingdom (as Huntly, Balcarras, and others,) from whom some help was expected, have laid down their arms and sub- mitted themselves to the enemy ; and those forts which might have been preserved for your Majesty's service, are given up to them, Dumbarton and this of Dunnotter only excepted, which is more looked upon by the enemy than any place of the king- dom, the Honours of this kingdom, that wliich is preserved of your Majesty's stuffs, and other things of concernment, being here ; which, although some noblemen (who now have submitted themselves) have required from me, yet I have retained them, being persuaded that they could not be so safe in any other place of this kingdom, if those noblemen had done their duty, and the event declaring that they should have been in the same condition \\'ith themselves. Your Majesty will be pleased to take this to your consideration, and see how this place (which, by the Lord's assistance, shall not be delivered into their hands by my default) may be provided with ammu- nition and other necessars ; for I have received nothing from the publick, (as your 38 OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY Majesty ordained,) but have maintained the same upon the small rent my Lord Mare- shall hath in this place ; and now am so environed with the enemy on all hands, that none will come in hither with provisions, only the sea patent if I had friends. Where- fore your Majesty will be pleased timeonsly to send your royal commandments hither (if it be possible) with a sure hand, in a small vessel, which may come to the foot of the house (although the enemy were in leaguer about it,) and deliver the same without any danger. Your Majesty will be pleased also to look upon an account of my fide- lity in relation to the enemy, although they have spread papers to the contrary, which maketh many to have sinistrous opinions of me ; but, by the Lord's help, your Ma- jesty shall find me faithful, do what they please, until I either hear from your Majesty, or see you in such condition as those rebells may be forced to submit themselves, which shall ever be the earnest desire and hearty prayer of your Majesty's most loyal and faithful subject — George Ogilvy." The plan proposed for sending off the Regalia by sea was either not adopted, or proved unsuccessful. Meantime the danger darkened on every hand ; the whole king- dom was subdued by the English, excepting the remote glens, where Glengary, Loch- iel, and other Highland Chiefs, maintained a desultory resistance, more honourable to themselves than useful to the royal cause. Yet, in defiance of the murmurs of his little garrison, whose numbers were totally insufficient for the defence of so large a fortress, in spite also of every deficiency of provisions and ammunition, and of constant attacks from the enemy, the gallant Ogilvy continued to hold out the Castle of Dun- notter. His only encouragement seems to have been a letter from the King, written on a small piece of paper for the purpose of concealment, and sent by a special mes- senger, who succeeded in delivering it. It is addressed, — " For the Governor and Gentlemen in the Castle of Dunnotter," and is of the following tenor : — " Gentlemen, Assure yourselves I am very carefull of you, and sensible of your affection to me. Give credit to what this bearer shall say to you, and observe the di- rections you shall receive from Lieutenant-General Middleton. You shall shortly heare againe from me ; and I would have you find some way frequently to advertise me of your condition, which I will take all possible care to relieve. — Paris, March 26th, 1652. " CHARLES R. ' y^u, ji.a/^ fh rr-f^ ,{g.ay^ ct.gt-i.ne. p'Om. m-A undj^ UnH-l^ . OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. 39 General Middleton wrote by the same conveyance, in terms highly flattering to the Lieutenant-Governor ; he uses these strong expressions. " My dear friend — I am overjoyed to hear that you in this time doe behave yourselfe so gallantlie, that I shall be most desirous to doe you a service. The particulars I remit to the bearer, my co- zen and yoTU's, to whom give trust, since he is particularlie instructed from him who shall rather perish than be wanting to his friend, and who in all condition is, and shall be yours, J. M." Notwithstanding the encouragement contained in these letters, it was too plain that the castle could not long hold out. Since the beginning of May it had been closely blockaded, battered from the heights, and harassed by frequent assaults, and the gar- rison was exhausted with fatigue and by privations. The Governor's anxiety about the safety of the Regalia rose to the highest pitch. If they fell into the hands of the English, they probably would be destroyed, like objects of ordinary plunder, — unless, like the fated stone, they had been carried to London, as trophies of Scotland's dis- grace, or that Colonel Overtoun, a fanatical expectant of the fifth monarchy, had thought proper to reserve them to grace the second advent. In this emergency female ingenuity and courage found a resource. The Earl Ma- reshall was a prisoner in England, but his mother, the Countess Dowager, by birth Lady Margaret Erskine, a daughter of the Earl of Mar, a woman of masculine cou- rage and prudence, was not disposed to forget that the charge of the Regalia was one of the honourable duties imposed upon her son as his birth-right inheritance. This lady, in concert with the Governor's wife, and with Christian Fletcher, wife of the Rev. James Granger, minister of Kinneff, contrived a daring scheme for extricating the Honours of Scotland out of their present precarious situation. In prosecution of their plan, Mrs Granger went to the Castle of Dunnotter, having obtained permission from the English General to visit the Governor's lady. In her charge Mrs Ogilvy placed the Regalia. This was done without the Lieutenant-Governor's knowledge, in order that when obliged to surrender the castle, he might with truth declare he knew nothing of the time and manner of their removal. They were delivered by Mrs Ogilvy to her intrepid confidante, who concealed the crown in her lap, while the sceptre and sword, wrapt up in luirds or bundles of flax, were placed upon the back of a female domestic. Mrs Granger's horse had been left in the English camp ; for so precipitous is the chasm which divides Dunnotter from the mainland, that the castle gate can neither be approached nor entered by a person on horseback. She returned 40 OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY through the English camp unsuspected, the load of her attendant passing for a quantity of flax, which Mrs Ogilt'y, according to the economy of Scottish matrons, destined for the spinning-wheel and loom, and had taken this opportunity to send thither to be manufactured. The English General himself is said courteously to have placed Mrs Granger in her saddle, little dreaming, of course, of the treasure which she had con- cealed about her person, and alarming her much from the hazard of discovery. She kept her composure, however, and so preserved her secret. The Regalia were thus transported in safety to the manse of KinnefF, and there placed imder the charge of the Rev. James Granger, husband of the dauntless matron who had brought them from Dunnotter at so much personal risk. They are said to have been concealed for a time in a double-bottomed bed, until Mr Granger had a safe opportunity of interring them in the church. Meantime Mr Granger granted to the Countess of Mareshall the following authentic account of their secret depositation, ^^fes^^' " ^' ^'" J*™^^ Granger, minister at KinnefF, grant me to have in my custody the Honoiu^ of the kingdom, viz. the Crown, Sceptre, and Sword. For the Crown and Sceptre I raised the pavement-stone just before the pulpit, in the night tyme, and digged under it ane hole, and put them in there, and filled up the hole, and layed down the stone just as it was before, and removed the mould that remained, that none would have discerned the stone to have been raised at all. The Sword again, at the west end of the church, amongst some common salts that stand there, I digged down in the ground betwixt the twa foremost of these saits, and laid it down within the case of it, and covered it up, as that removing the superfluous mould it could not be dis- cerned by any body ; and if it shall please God to call me by death before they be called for, your ladyship will find them in that place." Dimnotter Castle continued to hold out for some time after the removal of the Re- May 10. galia. Wliitelock, in his Memorials, notices the preparations for reducing it ; and _S1. again, twenty days afterwards, he mentions the progress of the siege, and the high terms demanded by the Governor. Shortly afterwai'ds he records its surrender in the Jun. 4. following terms : — " That the English forces before Dunnotter Castle in Scotland, playing with their guns at it, and having shot in about twelve granadoes, which broke into their tower and killed seven men ; those in the castle, notwithstanding their high terms before, yielded upon conditions, only to march out half a mile -mxh their arms, and then lay them down. That this was the last garrison in Scotland reduced."* • Whitlock's Memoir of English Afiidrs in the Year 1652, p. 510. OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLA^■D. 41 Besides having every motive which could vindicate a man of honour in the surren- der of a fortified place, Lieutenant-Governor Ogilvy received a warrant from the Earl Mareshall, the proprietor of the castle, stating, that he had resolved " to submit his person, fortune, house, and property into the hands of the existing government, that he might peaceably enjoy himself and what belonged to him under protection of the Commonwealth of England ; and in order thereto, as conducing to his good," his Lordship required " his assured friend the Governor to deliver up his house of Dnn- notter to Major-General Deane, who was to receive the same from him in name of his Excellencie the Lord General Cromwell, for the use of the Commonwealth of England, wherein he must not fail, and for doing which tliis should be his warrant." Not^vithstanding the injunctions of the lord of the castle, and the straits to which the fortress was reduced, the Governor continued to hold out until General Deane granted him terms so advantageous, that they seem to have been dictated by the general's anxiety to possess himself of the Regalia. One of the leading articles of the capitulation stipulated, " That the crown and sceptre of Scotland, together with all other ensigns of Regalia, should be delivered to the English general, or a good account given thereof, for the use of the Parliament." It was further agreed, " That upon the true performance of the forenientioned articles. Captain George Ogihy, with the offi- cers and soldiers under his command, should have liberty to march forth of the said castle with the usual honours of war," and " to have passes to go to their own homes, and there to live without molestation, &c. ; and that the said Captain should, free from sequestration, enjoy all the personal estate which he had, with the castle of Dun- notter, and all household stuff of his own within the castle," &c. On these honourable conditions the last Scottish fortress surrendered to the enemy : but the disappointment of General Deane was extreme, upon finding that the Regalia had been removed, and to what place could by no means be discovered. Letters were received by the English government, stating " that great riches were in Dunnotter Castle, the sword, sceptre, and crown, but they could not be found." * The repub- lican eeneral wreaked his disappointment upon Governor Ogilvy, whom he held to have violated the meaning of the capitulation. Heavy fines and rigorous imprison- ment were resorted to, to extort from Ogilvy and his lady the secret intrusted to them ; but they remained determined to conceal from the public enemy all informa- • Whitlock's Memorial, p. 510. F 42 OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY tion upon tlie subject. The healtli of Mrs Ogih'y sunk under close confinement, but her courage did not give way ; and in the spirit of the house of Douglas, to which she belonged, she exhorted her husband with her dying breath to preserve inviolable the secret intrusted to him. The worthy clergyman and his wife did not escape suspicion and strict examination. Tlie tradition even bears, probably with exaggeration, that Mrs Granger, whose visit to the castle was now remembered, was actually put to the torture. They retained their faith with the same firmness as Mrs Ogilvy and her husband, nor could any thing be extorted from them concerning the fate of the treasure under their charge. In the meanwhile the inventive genius of the Countess of Mareshall had devised a scheme for diverting the suspicions of the enemy into a false channel. Her younger son, the Honourable Sir John Keith, had gone abroad about the time that the Regalia were removed ; and a report was circulated by his mother, that he had carried the Regalia with him beyond seas. To sustain tliis nimour, the young gentleman wrote liome to Scotland, claiming the congi-atulations of his friends on the safety of those Honours of the Crown ; and shortly after, returning from abroad, and being impri- soned and examined, he took on himself the guilt of having cairied the croivn, sceptre and sword, abroad, and delivered them to Charles II. at Paris.* This well-contrived story deceived the English rulers, and farther search after the Scottish Regalia was relinquished. While they were thus the objects of search, the Honours of Scotland remained safe in their place of concealment at Kinneff, undisturbed save by the pious care of the clergyman, who occasionally visited them at night, and with the utmost secrecy, in order to change the cloths in which they were wrapt, and secure them, as far as pos- sible, from the risk of injxuy by damp or otherwise. Upon the Restoration, the Countess of Mareshall and Lieutenant Ogilvy hastened to anticipate each other in commimicating the important secret to Charles II., and appear to have entered into an acrimonious controversy, which it is unnecessary to revive, upon the degree of merit which each might claim in the course of the transac- tion. Charles II. seems to have distributed his rewards with more regard to rank and influence than to justice. The Honourable Sir Jolm Keith, in virtue of his mother's * Wood's edition of Douglas's Peerage, article Earl of Kintore. OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. 48 merits and his own, was created Earl of Kintore and Knight Mareshall of Scotland, with a salary of four hundred pounds yearly. The office was made hereditary in his family, but was taken from the second Earl of Kintore on account of his accession to the insurrection of 1715. It has been recently bestowed upon Sir Alexander Keith, of Dunnotter and Ravelston, descended from, and claiming the representation of, the ancient Earls Mareshall. The Earl of Kintore, also, obtained a coat of augmentation, to be quartered with the arms of Keith, being gules, a sceptre and sword in saltire, with an imperial crown in chief, within an orle of eight thistles, Or, with the motto, QtUB amissa salva. The rewards of the gallant Lieutenant-Governor of Dunnotter were purely hono- rary, although his patrimonial estate, never a large one, had been impoverished by the fines and sequestration imposed during the usurpation. He was created a baronet by a diploma, which bears the following testimony to his faithful services : — " Sciatis quaiido-quidem nos considerantes preclara servitia a dilecto et Jiddi nostro Georgia Ogilvie de Barras nobis prestita etperacta, (utpote qui auxiliarius fuit in conserva- tione nostre Regie Corone, Sceplri, et gladii, antiquorum insignium et momimentorum hujus regni nostri) ac gravia detrimenta que hanc ob causam diu pertidit et suhiit ; ax: satis compertum habentes ejus constantem fidelitatem et amorem erga nostrum ser- vitium ; cum que toto tempore non ita pridem usurpate dominaiionis spretis omnibus Illecebris et minis quibus tunc temporis obnoxius fuit tarn candide et ingenue semetip- sum gessisse, ut merito symbolum Regii nostri favoris et respectus in eum ejusqucfa- miliam in perpetuum conferendum et collocandum censeamus." The feudal tenure of Sir George Ogilvie's estate of Barras was at the same time changed from ward-holding to that of blanch. In justice to that gallant man, we can- not but record this second acknowledgment of his merit by pubUc instrument, more especially as these empty honours, with an augmented blazon of arms,* were the only rewards which he received for his many sufferings and distinguished services. The new charter states, that it is granted in respect of Sir George Ogilvie's high services, " In that he wes instrumentall in the preservatione of his Highness crown, • Viz. — " The said Worshipful Sir George Ogilvie of Barras, Knight Baronet, for his atchievement and ensign armoriall, bears Urgent a lyon passant guardant, holding betwixt his pawes a sword crested in pale. Gules, and therewith defending a thistle placed in the dexter chiefe lert, crowned, or with the badge of Nova Scotia as being Baronet. Above the shield an helmet befitting his degree, mantled, Gules double ^irgent. Next is placed on aue forse for the crest, a denii-man issuing out of a forse armed at all points proper. The motto in ane escroll, Praclarum Regi et Regno servitium." 44 OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY sceptre, and sword, the ancient Honours of tliis Ids kingdome of Scotland, and tlie damadge sustained be tlie same Sir George Ogilvy theirthrow from the beginning of the usurpation, during whicli tyme, notwithstanding of all temptationes and threaten- ings used against him by the usurperis, he carryed himself with so much integrity that his jNIajestie wes graciously pleased to conceave he deserved ane marke of his High- ness favour putt upon him and his family, upon wliich considerationes his Majestie did, by the foresaid charter, change the holding of his lands of BaiTas, and of new gave, granted, and disponed to the said Sir George Ogilvy and his foresaids for evir, all and Jiail the said lands of Wester Barras, with all and sundry the pertinents thairof men- tioned in the said chartour, to be halden of his Majestie and his Highnes successores ill free blanch ferme for yearlie payment of ane penny," &c. VV'e ought to mention, that the belt belonging to the sword of state was not deli- vered up to Mrs Granger, but continued in the possession of Governor Ogilvy, who perhaps retained it as a piece of real evidence of his having had the Honours in his <-u8tody. It was long afterwards discovered carefully packed up and concealed in the wall of the house of Bairas. The belt was easily recognised, being adorned with the same fanciful ciphers and emblems, executed in silver gilt, which appear on the scab- bard of the sword. An accurate drawing was taken from the original, in possession of the present Sir George Ogilvy, and it forms one of the engravings prefixed to this volume. While rewards and titles were distributed to those of family and interest concerned in this great piece of national service, we are happy to find room to correct a tradi- tional statement, which has found its way into the statistical account of the parish of Kinneff, that the services of the trusty clergyman and his intrepid wife were passed over without notice or reward. On the contrary, the Committee of Estates of the Kingdom, on the 19th September, 1660, appointed Sir Gilbert Ramsay of Balmane, and James Peadie, bailie of Montrose, to repair to Mr Granger, and to return him thanks for his conduct in preserving the Honours of the Kingdom, and to intimate that they would recommend him to the Parliament, which was soon to meet. Ac- cordingly, an early act of the Scottish Parliament,* after the Restoration, endowed Christian Fletcher, otherwise Granger, with the sum of two thousand marks Scottish, as a reward of her courageous loyalty, — a sum considerable in those times, though no • See Appendix, No. III. jyyUBM^'*' ©F ^©©TILAHin). i for safety" duriacr the T" s ui-tj ation of CROMWELI ^Z urp; mmiLT '©F TIHIIE %W®mm ®W ^TATIEMIF g®®T]LAHlD), Til lh(> posspssiou of the Descpndaaits of ilie Drfendpr of Dmiottai' Castle, irhere Ihe Rep'aJia liad lieen removed fni- safety dm-mcr tlip Fs tu-p riu.m of C ROMWELI- i J OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. 45 doubt this Ligh-spirited woman thought herself best remunerated by the successful diseliarge of her duty to her country, m saving the emblems of its dignity from the irritated grasp of an invading enemy. From the Restoration to the period of the Union, the Regalia of Scotland continued as formerly to be kept in the Cromi-room of the Castle, under the charge of the Trea- surer or his deputy, during the intervals of the sessions of Parliament. At the begin- ning of each session they were delivered to the Earl Mareshall or his deputy, in whose custody they remained while Parliament continued sittbg, and were then again for- mally restored to the charge of the Treasurer. A few extracts from the Records of Exchequer, describing the manner of this transference, are given below.* At the period of the Union, every reader must remember the strong agitation whicli pervaded the minds of the Scottish nation, who could not, for many years, be per- suaded to consider this incorporating treaty in any other view than as a wanton sur- render of their national independence. So deep was this sentiment, that a popular preacher in the south of Scotland, who died about the middle of last century, confessed Edinburgh, 9th June, 1702. • The Lord Thesfiirer Deput went in his own coach with Moncrief and Mr James M'Kenzie, to the Castle of Edinburgh, and carried down, in one of the Commissioner's coaches, the Honours, betwixt 11 and 12 of the cloclt, viz. — His Lordship the Crown, Bloncrief the Scepter, and Mr Mackenzie the Sword. The Erie of Kintor was with them m the coach, and the Honours were delivered by them to Mr Wilson, one of the imder Clerks of Session, at the table whereon they ly at the meetings of the Sessions of Parliament ; and Deacon Lethan, smith, gott the keyes of the vault and chest quhair the honors lay, from Moncrief, to help some defect in the locks, and has not returned them. Edinburgh, 1st July, 1702, being the day after the Parliament did rise, betwixt 11 and 12 oftlie clock. The Honors were carried up to the Castle, and were laj'ed up in the chest -within the vaidt. The Thesaurer Deput IMoncrief, and Mr Ja. M'Kenzie, receiving them as above, in the Commissioner's coach ; the Erie of Kintor being with them. Edinburgh, 5 Afay, about 8 o' Clock at night, 1703. The Honors were carried from the Castle to the Abay ; the Crown by Moncrieff ; the Schepter by Mr Ja. M'Kenzie ; and the Sword by Forglan, in the Commissioner's coach. And the Lord Boyll, Thesaurer Deput cam there in his own coach, and retui'ned to the Abay, where the Honours were laid down on a table in the Commissioner's presence. Edinburgh, 17 Septr. 1703, about 5 of the clock at night. The Honors wer carried up to the Castle, hot were not put in the chest that stands in the vaults until the next morning, at the sight of the Thesaurer Deput. X. B. — MoncriefTe, mentioned in the foregoing Minutes, was Sir Thomas Moncrieffe of Moncrieffe, and who was, with Mr James Mackenzie, Joint Clerk of the Treasury Exchequer. 46 OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY to his friends, that he was never able to deliver a sermon, upon whatever subject, with- out introducing a hit at the Union. ^Vhile the public mind was in such an inflammatory state, and watching as it were for subjects of offence and suspicion, the fate of the Regalia, the visible mark and type of Scotland's independence, excited deep interest. The opposers of the Union, avail- ing themselves of this feeling, industriously circulated a report that the Honours of the kingdom were to be transported to England, as a token of the complete humiliation of her ancient rival. This surmise was circulated in lampoons too coarse for quota- tion, and it served to animate one of Lord Belhaven's eloquent invectives against tlie projected Union. " Hannibal," he exclaimed, calling on the Scottish nobles and com- mons to unite against the public danger, — " Hannibal is come within our gates : Han- nibal is come within the length of this table ; he is at the foot of the tlu-one. He will seize upon these Regalia ; he will take them as his spolia opima. He will whip us out of this house, never to return again." As if to show that these apprehensions were not entertained without grounds, and that the surreptitious removal of the Regalia was an evil to be guarded against, it was moved by the opposers of the Union, when the twenty-fourth article of the treaty was under discussion, " That the crown, sceptre, and sword of state, Records of Parlia- ment, &c. continue to be kept as they are within that part of the united kingdom now called Scotland ; and that they shall so remain in all times coming, notwithstanding the Union." The amendment was readily adopted by the framers and managers of the treaty, sufficiently willing, in their turn, to show that they meditated no such gra- tuitous insult upon their country as was imputed to them. The clause passed unani- mously, and forms part of the great national treaty. The sceptre of Scotland performed its last grand legislative office, by ratifying the Treaty of Union, on the 16th of Januarj', 1707. The Earl of Seafield, then Chan- cellor, on returaing it to the clerk, is reported to have brutally and scornfully applied the vulgar phrase, " There is an end of an anld sang ;" — an insult for which he de- served to have been destroyed on the spot by his indignant countrymen. The rest of the session was employed chiefly in passing private bills ; on the 25th of March it was adjourned, — never to meet again ; — and on the 28th of April, 1707, the Parliament of Scotland was finally dissolved by proclamation. From this period the charge of the Regalia, which devolved on the Earl Mareshall during the sessions of the Scottish Parliament, terminated for ever ; and in surrender- OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. 47 ing them, for the last time, to the Earl of Glasgow, Treasurer-Depute of Scotland, William, the ninth Earl Mareshall, displayed a feeling extremely different from that evinced by Lord Seafield. That noble person having opposed the Union in all its stages, declined witnessing in person the final consummation, by the surrender of the Regalia to dust and oblivion. He appeared, however, by his procurator, William Wilson, one of the depute-clerks of Session, who took a long protest, which has been often piinted, describing the Regalia in terms which lead to an exaggerated idea of their value ; protesting that they should not be removed fi'om the Castle of Edinburgh, without warning given to him, or to the successor in his title and office. A numerous body of respectable witnesses placed their names to this instrument. One copy was deposited in the chest, and many others were distributed by the Eai'l Mareshall to the universities and other public bodies throughout the kingdom.* • This Instrument will be found printed in the Appendix. One of these, finely ornamented, alon^ with answers from the Universities of Aberdeen, St Andrews, and Glasgow, fi'om the Eai'ls Mareshall, Erroll, and Strathmore, and from the Royal College of Physicians and Faculty of Advocates, on re- ceipt of their respective copies, are preserved in the archives of the Antiquaries of Scotland. The lat- ter shall here be quoted ; it is, like all the rest, addressed to Mr WiUiam Wilson, one of the under clerks of the Session, and is as follows : — " Edinburgh, 31 December 1709 — Woithie Sir, — Of all the Societies whom you have been pleas'd to complement with autheutick Instruments taken by you upon the Lodgement of the Regalia within the Crown roum of the Castle of Edinburgh, as Deput to the Right Honourable the Earl Marischall after the Union of the two Kingdoms, this of the Faculty of Advo- cates judge themselves under the greatest obligation to give this publict testimony of their gratitude and thankfulness ; For that you have not only favoured them with the most curious of these Instru- ments, but fui'der with the hopes of a singular compliment concerning the same, after your decease by a particular letter of yours to the Faculty, in July last, read in theii' presence with great satisfaction, £md ordered to be recorded. *' This Instrument has been fram'd after so much labour and pains, and is so very curious in deci- phering these Regalia, both with respect to their antiquity, and likeways their value and magnificence, that in their esteem they caimot but justly be reckoned amongst one of these monuments which will give greatest light to tlie antiquity, soveraignty, and independence of Scotland, as a separat Kingdom befor the Union, to future ages. " Your constant fidelity and generous care of these Regalia, for the long time they were imder your trust and inspection, together with your great pains and labour in making and composing such a hand- some and proper Instrument upon the giving them otf your hands, and lodgeing them in the proper and secure repository aforsaid, cannot misse of makeing your memory respected by posterity, as that of a faithful and generous friend and lover of your native coujitry. " And by how much the nearer tye and relation you have ti> this Society, in vertue of your office, so much the deeper they desire you may esteem their grateful resentment of the above, and your former donatives, tending very much to adorn the other monuments of antiquity in their Librarj-. " This signed in name, presence, and by warrand of the said Faculty, by, Sir, your most humble servant, " Rob. Bennet, I. p. f." 48 OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY The Regalia of Scotland, with the Treasiirer's mace, were deposited in the great oak cliest with three keys, which is often mentioned in the Records as a place wherein they were kept. Tiie chest was left in the Crown-room of Edinburgh Castle, a vault- ed apartment in the square, having the window defended by strong iron gratings, and the entrance secured by a strong grated door of iron, and an outward door of oak, thick studded with iron nails, both fastened with strong locks and bars. It does not appear to whom the keys of the Crown-room and chest were intnisted, nor have they ever since been found. Tlie government of the day were, no doubt, glad to have these objects removed from the sight of the Scottish public, connected as they now were with feelings, irri- table, and hostile in a high degree to the union, and to the existing state of things. But when the people observed that the Regalia were no longer made visible to the subjects, they fell into the error of concluding that they were either no longer in ex- istence, or had been secretly transferred to England. The gi'atuitous absurdity of so useless a breach of the Union was, in the opinion of many, no reason for disbelieving this injurious surmise. They said such insults were often committed in the mere wantonness of power, or from the desire to mortify a proud people. Mons-Meg, it was remarked, though regarded then as a national palladium, and though totally use- less except as a curiosity, had been removed to the Tower of London, in the pragma- tical wantonness of official authority, and to the great scandal of the Scottish populace. It was argued, that a similar senseless exertion of power might have removed the Re- galia, or that they might have been withdrawn on mere political grounds, lest they should have fallen into the hands of the Jacobites, wlio more than once tlireatened to sm-prise Edinburgh Castle. These suspicions were strengthened by the recollection, that, from some circumstance which has never been explained, a crowTi has been al- ways shown in the Jewel Office of the Tower, said to be that of Scotland. Whether the royal ornament be the crown of the Scottish Queen, mentioned in Tenand's In- ventory, which may have been carried by James VI. to England, or whether it be the crown made for Mary of Modena, consort of James II.. or some other diadem, is a question we have no means of deciding. That it is not the royal crown of Scotland, is now evident. But it was long suspected to be so ; and even Amot, the historian of Edinburgh, influenced perhaps by certain political prejudices, gives currency to the surmise that the Regalia had been secretly removed from the kingdom. " Since the Regalia," says that author, " were deposited, no governor of the Castle, upon his ad- OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. 49 mission, has made inquiry if they were left secure by his predecessor. No mortal has been known to have seen them. Whether it was, that the government entertained a jealousy that the Scots, in their fickleness or disgust, would repent themselves of the Union, or that they dreaded the Regalia might, upon an invasion, fall into the hands of the House of Stuart, it appears probable that the Regalia have been privately re- moved, by a secret order from the Court ; for it is impossible that any governor of the Castle would abstract them without authority. If, after this general surmise, so pub- licly thrown out, the officers of state and governor of Edinburgh Castle will not make personal inquiry, whether the Regalia of Scotland be in the Castle, the public will be entitled to conclude, tlmt they are not there, and that they have been earned off by private orders from Court." * These feelings, however, passed away ; the memory of the RegaUa became like that of a tale whicli had been told, and their dubious existence was altogether forgotten, excepting when the superstitious sentinel looked up with some feelings of awe at the window of the mysterious chamber which had not been opened for a century ; or when some national bard apostrophized *' The steep and iron-belted rock, ^Vhe^e trusted lie tlie monarcliy's last gems, The sceptre, sword, and crown, that graced the brows, Since father Fergus, of an hundred kings." Albania, a Poem. In the year 1794, the Crown-room was opened by special waiTant under the Royal Sign Manual to search for certain records which it was supposed might possibly have been deposited there. The dust of a century was upon the floor ; the ashes of the last fire remained still in the chimney ; no object was to be seen, excepting the great oak- chest so often mentioned, wliich the Commissioners had no authority to open, their warrant having no relation to the Regalia.-]- The Crown-room was secured with addi- tional fastenings, and was again left to solitude and silence ; the fate of the Honours of Scotland remaining thus as uncertain as ever. At length, in 1817, his Royal Higlmess the Prince Regent, now King George the Fourth, influenced by that regard for the history and antiquities of his kingdom which * Arnot's History of Edinburgh, p. 258. I This Wan-ant, with the Report of the Commissioners thereupon, dated 23 Dec. 1794, will be found in the Appendix. 50 OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY well becomes his high station, and not uninterested, we may presume, in the develope- ment of the nij'stery which had so long hung over these insignia of royalty, was plea-sed to issue his warrant to the Scottish officers of state, and other public officers therein named, directing them to open the Crown-room and search for the Regalia, in order that their existence might be ascertained, and measures taken for their preservation. In virtue of this new warrant, many of the Commissioners being detained by absence from Edinburgh, the gentlemen under-named assembled in the Governor's house, for the puqjose of executing the duty intrusted to them, viz. the Lord President of the Court of Session, the Lord Justice-Clerk, the Lord Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court, Major-General John Hope, the Solicitor-General, the Lord Provost of Edin- burgh, Sir Walter Scott, one of the Principal Clerks of Session, William Clerk, Esq. Principal Clerk to the Jm-y Court, Sir Henry Jardine, King's Remembrancer in Ex- chequer, and Thomas Thomson, Esq. Deputy Clerk Register of Scotland. It was with feelings of no common anxiety that the Commissioners, having read their wairant, proceeded to the Crown-room ; and having found all there in the state in which it had been left in 1794, commanded the King's Smith, who was in attend- ance, to force open the great chest, the keys of which had been sought for in vain. The general persuasion that the Regalia had been secretly removed, weighed heavy on the mind of all while the labour proceeded. The chest seemed to return a hollow and empty sound to the strokes of the hammer ; and even those whose expectations had been most sanguine, felt at the moment the probability of disappointment, and could not but be sensible, that, should the result of the research confirm these forebodings, it wotdd only serve to show that a national affront and injury had been sustained, for which it might be difficult, or rather impossible, to obtain any redress. The joy was therefore extreme, when, the ponderous lid of the chest being forced open, at the expense of some time and labour, the Regalia were discovered lying at the bottom covered with linen cloths, exactly as they had been left in the year 1707, being about a hundred and ten years since they had been surrendered by William the ninth Earl Mareshall to the custody of the Earl of Glasgow, Treasurer-Depute of Scotland. The relics were passed from hand to hand, and greeted with the affectionate reve- rence which emblems so venerable, restored to public view after the slumber of more than a hundred years, were so peculiarly calculated to excite. The discovery was instantly communicated to the public by the display of the royal standard from the Castle, and was greeted by the shouts of the soldiers in garrison, and of a multitude OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. 51 of persons assembled on the Castle-hill ; indeed, the rejoicing was so general and sin- cere, as plainly to show, that, however altered in other respects, the people of Scot- land had lost nothing of that national enthusiasm which formerly had displayed itself in grief for the loss of these emblematic Honours, and now was expressed in joy for their recovery. Tliere was foimd in the chest with the Regalia a silver rod or mace, topped with a globe, apparently deposited there by the Earl of Glasgow, and which proves to be the mace of office peculiar to the Treasurer of Scotland. It is mentioned in the discharge granted by the Privy Council to Sir Patrick Murray, in 1621. In order to gratify a curiosity which has something in it so generous, his Roya Highness the Prince Regent, to whom these proceedings were reported, was pleased to commit the charge of the Regalia to the officers of state, that they might be exhi- bited to the public under proper precautions for their preservation. In consequence of the powers intrusted to them, the officers of state named Cap- tain Adam Ferguson, son of the celebrated Historian, and long an officer of the Penin- sular army, to be the Deputy Keeper of the Regalia. With equal propriety of selec- tion, two Yeomen Keepers have been chosen, veteran non-commissioned officers of excellent character, who shared the dangers and fate of Waterloo. The room in which the Regalia are now exhibited to the curiosity of the public is handsomely fitted up in the form of a tent, and where they are properly protected from the risk of injxu-y. The dress of the attendants, being that of the ancient yeomen of the guards, as represented in a curious picture of the Duke of Albany and Queen Margaret, preserved at Luton, joined to the military medals which the men themselves have gained, has an antique and imposing appearance, weU corresponding with the character of the relics of ancient monarchy intrusted to their charge. APPENDIX. APPENDIX, No. I. EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTERS OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL OF SCOTLAND, RESPECTING THE STATE OF THE REGALIA— A.D. M.DC.XXL Jpud Edinburgh, quinto Julii 1621. SEDERUNT. Chancellair. B. Dunblane. Aduocat. Fostersait. Thesaurair. L. Erskine. Kilsaithe. Craigtoun. LoTHEANE. L. Carnegye. Brintyland. S' Andro Ker. Tullibairdine. M'^of Elphinstoun. MARcnmsTouN. S"^ P. Young. Melros. Preuie Seale. Inuerteill. M'' P. Rollok. Lauderdaill. Justice Clark. Ridhous. Conservatour. Warrand to Sr Patrick Murray for deliverie of his Majesties Honnauris and Silver Plaitt Anent the supplicatioun presentit to the Lordis of Secreit Counsaill be Sr Patrick Murray of EUbank, Knight, inakaiid mentioun, that quhair the Kingis Majestic being pleasit to committ to umquhile S"^ Geileone Munay, fader to the said S' Patrick, the keeping of his Majesties Honnouris, to witt the Crown, sceptour, and sword, with his Majesties whoU silver plaitt of the kingdome of Scotland, and the maise callit the Thesaurai-is maise of the said kingdome. The said umquhile S"^ Gedeone, in his tyme, deliverit the said maise to Johnne, Earl of Mar, Lord Heich Thesaurair of this king- dome, to whose charge the keeping of the same apperteyned, and the Honnouris and silver plaitt he retenit in his awne keeping. And now it being the goode pleasour of Ivi DESCRIPTION Appendix. God to call the said umquLile S"^ Gedeoiie to liis mercie from tins mortall lyfTe, sua that the burdyne and charge of the saidis Honnouris, silver plaitt, and niaise lyia upoun the said S' Patrick, humelie desyring thairfou- the saidis Lordis to tak some ordour quhaii'by the saidis Honnouiis and silver plaitt may be tane af his hand, and that he may be fred, exonerit, and releued of thame, and of the said maise formarlie delyuerit be his said umquhile fader to the said Lord Thesaurair, and that anc formall discharge may be gevin to him thairupoun, lyke as at mair lenthe is contenit in the said suppli- catioun. Quhilk being red, hai'd and considderit be the saidis Lordis, and thay find- ing the said S"^ Patrick his desire to be most just, lauglifull, necessair and reasounable ; Thairfoir the saidis Lordis Ordanis the said S' Patrick To delyver his Majesties saidis Honnotiris, to witt, the Crown, sword, and sceptour, togidder with his Majesties whole silver plaitt, quhairof liis said umquhile fader had the charge and keeping, to the said Johnne Earle of Mar, Lord Heigh Thesaurair of tliis kingdome, to the effect thay may be put in his Majesties Castell of Edmburgh, and thaii- to be keepit be the said Lord Thesauraii- to his Majesties use, and that the said S' Patrili delyver the same with the grite aik-kist, quhairin the honnouris ar presentlie keepit, upon inventair in pre- sence of S"^ Richard Cokbume of Clerkintoun Knight Lord Privie Seill ; S' George Hay of Kinfawnis Knight Clerk of Register ; S"' Robert Melvill of Bruntylaud Knight, Sir Andro Hamiltoun of Redhous, and Mr Johne Weymis of Craigtoun, or ony three of thame ; the said Clerk of Register being alwayis one whome the saids Lordis hes noininat and appointit to sie the said inventair to be cleirlie and perfytlie maid, conteining the particular nomber and soirtis of the said silver plaitt, and weyght of the same. Anent the delyverie of the quhilkes honnouris and silver plaitt, with the aik-kyst quhairin the lionnouris lyis, now appointit to be delyverit to the said Lord Thesaurair, and anent the delyverie of the maise foirsaid forraerlie delyverit into him in manner foirsaid, the extract of this present act with the said Lord Thesaui'air his acquittance, &c. salbe unto the said S' Patrick a sufficient warrant. At Edinburgh the Tent Day of July, 1621. Act infavouris ofSr Patrick Murray of Elibank, anent his Majesties Honnouris and Silver Plaitt. The quliilk day, in presence of the Lordis of secreit counsaill, compeirit personallie S' Richard Cokburnp of Clerkintoun, Lord Prive Scale ; S' George Hay of Kinfawnis, No. I. OF THE REGALIA, 1621. Ivu Clerk of Register ; S' Robert Melvill of Biimtislaiid ; S' Andro Hamilton of Ridhous ; and Mr Johnne Weymis of Craigtoun, and reportit and declaiiit tliat they, according to the commissioun and wan'ant given be the saidis Lordis to thanie, Convenit and mett within his Majesties Cunyeehous, within the burgh of Edinburgh, with John Erie of Mar, Lord Higii Thesaurair of tliis kingdonie, upoun the sevinth day of July instant quhair S' Patiiiv Mm-ray of Elibank, knight, eldest laughfull sone to umquhile S' Ge- deone MuiTay of Elibank, knight, late Thesaurair Depute of the said kingdome, pro- duceit and exhibeit befoir thame his Majesties honnouris, to witt, his Crowne, Sceptour and Swerd, togidder witli his Majesties silver plaitt, quhairof the said umquhill S'' Ge- deone had the charge and keeping ; and that thay sighted the saidis hounoui-is, and re- markit the same verie nai'rowlie, and fand that the Crowne had in the neder circle thair- of nyne gamittes, foure jasintis, three counterfeite eraeraulds, four amatystis, and twen- tie-twa pearlis. Abone the neder Circle sax small thine triangle diainontis, ten small triangle challoms, filled with blew amalyne in steade of stones, tua small eniptie chal- loms, haveing no thing in thame hot the blak tent, and tua challoms with tua flatt quhyte stones with the boddum upmost, nixt abone the small challoms nyntene grite and small rag pearle, and within the roise, betuix the flour de Luce, threttie-fyve pearle sum les sum more, with ten quhyte stonis in the middis thairof. In the foure quartaris of the bonnett of the Crowne foure pearle sett in foure peris of garniseene of gold enamaled, and in the croce abone the Crowne, ane amatist and aught perils. And that the scep- toui' wes in three peeceis, haveing ane perle in the top, and ane cristell globe benethe, the heade quhairof hes beene brokin, and mendit with wyre. And that the swerd bad the plumbett birsit and brokine, with ane voyde place in everie syde thairof, and the scabart thairof riven, birsit, and brokine, wanting some peeceis out of it. And thay declairit that thay causit confer all the particulars concerning thir Honnouris, with the Act of Counsaill quhairby the said umquhile S'' Gedeone ressaved tlie saidis Honnouris fra umquhile S' Johne Amott, and fand thame to be conforme to the said Act in every point, and that nothing was inlaiking that wes contenit in the said Act. And siclyke thay declairit that thay causit nomber the particular soirtis of the said silver plaitt, and wey the same, &c. &c. That the said S"^ Patrick, immediatelie after the sighting of the saidis Honnouris, and after that tlie said silver plaitt was nomberit, weyed and inven- tarit as said is, delyverit the said Honnouris and silver plaitt to the said John Erie of Mar, in thair presence, quho causit pak and put up the silver plaitt in tua cloisse cof- feris ; the keyis quhairof wer delyverit to the said Jolm Erie of Mar himself, lyke as Iviii DESCRIPTION, &c. Appekdix. the said Joluie Earl of Mar being personallie present grsuitit the ressctt of the saidis Hon- nouris, and of ane grite aik-kist, quhairin thay ar keepit, and of the silver plaitf, and maise, called the Thesauraris inaise, whilk wes delyverit to liim be the said iiuiquhiln S' Gedeone in his awne tyme. Quhilk report and declaratioun maid be the said Coni- niissioneris, and grant foirsaid maid be the said Erie of Mar in maner foirsaid, being liard and considerit be the said Lordis, and they rj'pelie ad^-ysit tliairwitli, The Lordis of Secreit Counsaill findis and declairis, that the said uraquhile S"' Gedeone hes most faitlifullie, cairfuUie and honnestlie preservit and keepit his Majesties Honnouris an-i et subscripsi In fidem robur et testi- monium veritatis omnium et singulorum premissorum rogatus et requisitus Manet post funera virtus John Corss Nottar Publict. Et ego vero Gulielmus Brown clericus S'' Andree diocesis notarius publicus authori- tate regali ac per Dominos Concilij secundum tenorem acti parliamenti admissus Quia premissis omnibus et singulis dum sic ut pramittitur dicerenter agerentur et fierent una cum prenominatis testibus presens personaliter interfui eaque omnia et singula prsemissa sic fieri vidi scivi et audivi ac in notam cepi ideoque hoc presens publicum instrumentum (manu predict! Magistri Alexandri Baillie fideliter scriptum) exinde confeci Et in banc publicam instrumenti formam redegi signoque nomine et cogno- No. V. IN THE CASTLE OF EDINBURGH, 1707. xcvii mine meis solitis et consuetis signavi et subscripsi In fidem robur et testimonium veritatis omnium et singulonim premissornm rogatus et requisitus Dominus provi- debit W. B. N. P. Et ego vero Georgius Cockbume clericus Edinburgensis diocesis notarius publicus autlioritate regali ac per Dominos Concilii et Sessionis secundum tenorem acti parlia- menti admissus Quia premissis omnibus et singulis dum sic ut premittitur dicerentur agerentur et fierent una cum prenominatis testibus presens personaliter interfui eaque omnia et singula preraissa sic fieri vidi scivi et audivi ac in notam cepi ideoque hoc presens publicum instramentum manu predicti magistri Alexandri Baillie fideliter scriptum exinde confeci Et in banc publicam instrumenti formam redegi signoque nomine et cognomine meis solitis et consuetis signavi et subscripsi In fidem robur et testimonium veritatis omnium et siDgulorum premissornm rogatus et requisitus. Deus mihi est omnia G. C. N. P. Et ego vero Alex' Alisone clericus Dunkeldensis diocesis notarius publicus authori- tate regali ac per Dominos Concilij et Sessionis secundum tenorem acti parliamenti admissus Quia premissis omnibus et singulis dum sic ut premittitur dicerentur ageren- tur et fierent una cum prenominatis testibus presens personaliter interfui eaque omnia et singula premissa sic fieri vidi scivi et audiH ac in notam cepi ideoque hoc presens publicum instrumentum (manu predicti magistri Alexandri Baillie fideliter scriptum) exinde cum conotariis confeci et in banc publici instrumenti formam redegi signoque nomine et cognomine meis solitis et consuetis signavi et subscripsi In fidem robur et testimonium veritatis omnium et singulorum premissorum rogatus et requisitus Ve- ritas vincit Alex' Alisone N. P. Et ego vero Robertus Bannatyne clericus Edinburgensis diocesis notarius publicus authoritate regali ac per Dominos Concilij et Sessionis secundum tenorem acti parlia- menti admissus Quia premissis omnibus et singulis dum sic ut premittitur agerentur Solicitor General for Scotland ; to whom the Lord Advocate presented and read a warrant su- perscribed by his Majesty, subscribed by the Duke of Portland, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, and sealed with his Majesty's cachet, dated at S' James's the fifth of November in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, intitled at the bottom of its first page and on its back, " Warrant for opening Crown Room in the Castle of Edinbui-gh ;" of the following tenor, viz. [Here follows the Wan-ant.] Which commission having been read, and ordered by the Commissioners present to be lodged in the General Register House for preservation, the said Commissioners, in humble obedience to his Majesty's commands, resolved immediately to put the same in execution, by proceeding to the castle, attended by M'' William Robertson, one of the Lord Register's Deputies for keeping the Records ; M' Hugh Wan-ander, Crown Agent in Scotland ; John Young, liis Majesty's wright ; Andrew Wilson, his Majes- ty's blacksmith ; and Robert Wilson, his Majesty's mason ; and having accordingly done so, they found the Crowii Room, which was pointed out to them by the Deputy Governor of the castle, secured by a strong outer door of oak wood and two strong locks, the keys of whicii were not to be found ; and the only window of the said room banicadoed on the outside by cross bars of iron, and a wooden frame within : They then gave orders to the tradesmen above named to force open the locks of the wooden door ; which being done, they found another door within it made of strong iron bars, and secured by a padlock, whicli it was necessary to force open, as the key was not to be found. Th(r Commissioners having then entered the room, and caused the wooden frame of the window, whicli was much decayed, to be taken down, they had an opportunity of surveying attentively the whole I'oom and what was contained in it, and tliey humbly report the state of it to be as follows ; cu PROCEEDINGS RELATIVE TO Appendix. The paveuieut walls and ceiling are all of stone, arched both above and below, with a vent and fire-place ; and upon examining the said vent, it was found to be likewise secured by strong iron bars across, near the level of the floor of the room above. In the room itself they found no papers, presses, repositories, or articles of any kind ; except that at the end of the room opposite to the window, they observed a large chest made of oak wood, fastened by two iron locks, of which no keys were to be found ; and as the Commissioners had no reason to suppose that the said chest contained any papers or records, though probably it might contain the regalia of Scot- land, they were doubtful of the propriety of causing the same to be forced open ; and therefore have in the mean time left it shut as before, till his Majesty's farther plea- sure be known. The said chest, upon being measured, was found to be six foot and three inches long, two foot and six inches and half an inch wide, and two foot and six inches and half an inch deep : The room measures two and twenty foot foiu- inches in length, and eighteen foot eight inches in breadth ; the side walls are five foot three inches higii from the floor to the spring of the arch, and the centre of the arch is eleven foot three inches above the floor. This room is situated in the centre of the east side of the square of the castle ; the entry to which is by a turnpike stair, which gives access to several other apartments for the accommodation of the garrison : The window of the said crown room looks westward into the square of the castle, and the sole of it is about thirteen foot above the level of the pavement of the square. The grounds upon which the Commissioners think it probable that the said chest contains the regalia of Scotland are these : The 24th aiticle of the Treaty of Union bears, inter alia, " that the Crown, Sceptre, and Sword of State continue to be kept as they are, within that part of the United Kingdom now called Scotland, and that they shall so remain in all times coming, not- withstanding the union :" And there was produced to the Commissioners, by the Lord Clerk Register's Deputies for keeping the records, a publick and solemn instrument. No. Vr. THE REGALIA, 1794. ciii of which an authentick copy is herewith transmitted, bearing date within the castle of Edinburgh, on the twenty-sixth of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seven ; and which instrument in substance states, that the said regalia were lodged in the crown room, having been delivered by the Deputy of the then Earl Mariscbal, in presence of the Lord Treasurer Depute, for the pui-pose of being lodged in the said crown room ; which from the instrument appears to have been done accordingly. The Commissioners having thus ascertained the state of the said crown room, and having left the chest unopened, as before mentioned, they caused the window and the two doors to be again secured in their presence in manner following, viz. 1st, by nail- ing up new wooden boards within the iron bars of the windows ; and 2dly, by procu ring two new padlocks to the inner iron door, both of which they saw locked, and one of them labelled and sealed with his giace the duke of Buccleugh's seal ; and a new lock to the other door, which they also saw locked ; and the keys of all the three locks having been brought away by them, are inclosed in a paper parcel, sealed by the Lord President's and Lord Advocate's seals, labelled on the back, of the date hereof as follows : '•' Keys of the Crown-room in the Castle of Edinburgh sealed up in this " paper ;" which paper, with its contents, are left in the General Register House, un- der the care of the Lord Clerk Register's Deputies, till his Majesty's further pleasure be known : the old padlock by which the inner iron door was secui-ed, is left within the crown-room upon the top of the chest. The Commissioners have desired that one duplicate of this report may be transmit- ted by the Lord Advocate to the Lord Clerk Register, now in London, to be deliver- ed by him to his Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department ; and that another shall be lodged in the General Register House, along with the original war- rant ; both duplicates being signed by a quorum of the Commissioners. BuCCLEUCH. Ad. Gordon. Ilay Campbell. • R. DUNDAS. James Stirling. \ TRUE ACCOUNT O F Til? ruP.se RV AT I ON oF fhe REGALIA SCOTLAND, ^J^v CKOWN, SWORD ind SCEPTER, Trom falling Into the Ban/s of fhe En %l\ih Vfur/t ers. Be Sit QtO^Gl OGILVIE afhdiTr^s, Kr. andBavronot Widi r]ie Blazon of (Kat: FAMILY. IDINBURGH, JPrioicd in the Year HDCCX. ,, ^r^rr }i'Oj?:7& Umn^i^jS'^ ITCQ [ 3 ] THE ATCHIEVEMENT O F Sir GEORGE OGILVIE of BARRAS, Knight and Barronet, sometime Governour of the Castle of DUNNOTTOR, and Preserver of the REGALIA. ARgent a Lion passant, Guardant, Gules, Crowned with an Imperial Crown, holding in his Dexter paw a Sword, Gules, in Pale, Hiked and Pomelled Or, in the Dexter chief point a Thistle proper, Ensign'd with a Crown of the last, and in the sinister the Badge of Nova Scotia^ as a Knight Barronet ; Which Shield is Timbered with Helmet and Chachements befit- ting his degree, on a Wreath of his Tinctures, for Crest a Demi- man arm'd at all points, pointing furth his Right Hand towards the Motto on an Escroll, Praclariim Regi Sf Regno Servitium ; Which Blason is thus Matriculat 2'jtb of December 1673. This Family carries the Lyon passant, Guardant, for the Pater- nal coat of Ogi/vie, The Sword, Crown and Thistle, as aditional Figures of Honour granted to him by Authority, for special and eminent Service done to his King and Country, in preserving the Honours of SCOTLAND from falling into the hands of the English (intimat by his Motto, Preclarum Regi Sf Regno Servitium) as is evident from the following account instructed by principal Papers and Evidents. For 'tis more Satisfactory to Man to know the truth of things as they were Really design'd and Acted from the Testimony of Original Papers and Docu- A 2 ments. [ 4 ] ments, then from the Allegations and bare Assertions of Preten- ders, without proof or Instruction. When the Rebels in Brittain under Oliver Cromwel the Usurp- er, had Triumphed over the best of Men, and Justest of Kings, Charles the first, and those that persisted in their Loyalty to him in these Lamentable times of Confusion, The Regalia or Hon- ours of SCOTLAND were delivered to the Custody of the Earl Marischal^ and were Lodged in the strong Castle of Diinnottor^ within the Shyre of Mearns, as a place of Greatest security and distance from the Enemie. The said Earl being obliged to be in the Filds to defend his King and Country against the Usurper, he made choise oi George Ogilvie of Barras, as the fittest man for his Valour, Prudence and Loyalty, to intrust the keeping of the said Casde of Dufi/iotior with the Honours, Viz. the CROWN, SCEPTER and SWORD, and other Monuments of the Kingdom therein, makes him his Lieutenant, and gives him the Commission, Following. Forasmuch as the Kings Majesty and Committee of Estates, have intrusted the care and keeping of the House and Castle (5/*Dunnottor to Us William Earl Marischal, and have allowed Fouriy Men, a Lieuten- nant, and two Serjeants to be entertained within it upon the publick Charge : Therefore we do hereby Nominate George Ogilvie o/"Barras to be our Lieutennant for keeping of the said House and Castle, and gives unto him the sole and full Power of the Command thereof, and of the Men that are to be Entertained therein for keeping thereof under us, with power to him to Bruick, enjoy, and keep the said place, with all Fies, Dues and Allowances belonging thereto, as fully in all Respects as any other Lieu- tennant in such a case may do. in Witness whereof we have Subscrived these presents at Stirling the Eight day^ of inly 1651. Sic Subscribitur, ISIarishaU. Archibald Primrose Witness. William Keith Witness. Alexander Lindsay Witness. The The Earl Marishall having intrusted as said is the Government of the said Castle, and the Honours therein to George Ogilvie : He accompany's the King to England^ and after the Batde of Worcester^ was taken by the English and carryed to London^ where he was detain'd Prisoner in the Tower for a long time. George Ogilvie of Barras being sole Keeper of the Honours, and Governour of the said Castle, which he found not sufficiently provided with Men, Ammunition, and other Provisions, to hold out against a long Siege, as the King had Ordered, Acquaints John Campbell Earl of Loudon then Chancellour, who return'd him the following Answer. Sir, YOur Letter of the last of October, came to my hands the 9th of November instant, and the Parliament being appointed to meet here upon the 12 day, I stafd the bearer, in Expectation that I might return you the Parliaments Answer and Orders ; But the Parliament not having met, and there being no meeting of the Committee of Estates, I can giie you no positive Advice nor Order : But I Conceive that the Trust committed to you, and the safe Custody of these things under your Charge, did Require that provisions, a competent number of Honest Stout Souldters, and other Necessaries should have been provided and put in the Castle, before you had been in any hazard ; And if you be in a good Condition, or that you can supply your self with all Neces- saries, and that the Place be Tenable against all attempts cf the Enemy, I doubt not but you will hold out : But if you want provisions, Souldiers and AnwiU7iition, and cannot hold out against all the Assaults of the Enemy, which is feared you cannot do, if hard put to it, I know no better Expedient than that the Honours be speedily and safely Trans- ported to some Remote and strong Castle in the Highlands ; And I wish you had delivered them to the Lord Balcarras, as was desired by the Committee of Estates, nor do I know any better way for the preservation of of these things and your Exoneration. Arid it will be an Irreparable loss and shame, if these things shall be taken by the Enemy, and very Dishonourable for your self I have here Retained your Letter to the Lord Balcarras, hearing he is still in the North, and not come to this Countrey. I have -written to Sir John Smith, to Furnish you the Re- mainder of the Victuals you wrote he should have given you ; If he be in the North you will send it to him, and if he be gone home to Edinburgh, / cannot help it. So having given you the best Advice I can at present, I Trust you will with all Care and Faithfulness be answerable according to the Trust committed to you, and I shall continue your Assured and Reall Friend, Sic Subscribitur, Loudon Cancel: Dated at Finlarge 13th November. Direct thus, For my much Respected Friend George Ogilvie Governour ofDUNNOTTOR. The Governour George Ogilvie being disappointed of suffi- cient Force and Provisions, to hold out a long Siege, And obser- ving the advances the English made daily in reducing the Nation, was exceedingly perplext, how to prevent the Enemies getting the Honours of this Kingdom in their hands. He Advises vnth his "Wife, (a Lady of great Prudence and Undaunted Courage.) She therefore Formes a very happy Contriveance, that she should Convey the Honours privately out of the Castle, and secure them, without her Husbands Knowledge, that when he should be put to it, and Tortured by the Enemy, he might freely Declare he knew not where thev were. In order thereto, this Lady sends for Mr James Granger Minister of Kinneff, his Wife, in whom she had great Confidence, and imparts to her the design, she promising to be Faithful ; They privately carried the Hon- ours out of the said Castle to ]VIr James Granger the Minister,^ (the [ 7 ] (the other Trustee,) and put them under Ground within the Church of Kliineff ; And the manner how the Honours were Transported from the Castle thither, was on a Servant- Womans back, in a Sack amongst Hards of Lint. George Ogilvie the Governour, not being able to hold Out the Castle against so powerfuU an Enemy, that then besieged him so closs, and expecting no Relief, and all other Forts and Castles in the Kingdom being in the Enemies possession. Enters into Capitulation with Colonel Thoinas Morgan^ and Surrenders on Honourable Terms, the Garrison being permitted to March out of the said Castle with Drums Beating, and Colours Flying, which were carried by the present Sir William Ogilvie of Barras^ Son to the said Capt. George^ (who was the last Person who carryed Colours at that time in SCOTLAND for the King) And one of the Articles of Capitulation being to deliver up the Honours, (for the English were certainly inform'd they were in the Castle) or give a Rational Account of them ; These are the very Words of Capitulation, which the present Sir William^ (the said Captain George his Son) hath in his Custody. After the Surrender, the English demanded the Honours, or an Account of them : The Governour declared he knew not where they were, for his Wife had privately taken them away, without acquainting him. Upon which he was put into closs Prison in the said Castle ; His Lady being Examined and Threat- ned with Torture, she boldly affirm'd by way of Evasion for her own Safety, that she had delivered the Honours to John Kieth, (now Earl of Kintore) who carryed them Abroad to the King. But the English distrusting her, put her in closs Prison also, and sent out a Party to the House of Barras^ to apprehend the said Sir William Ogilvie^ (their only Son and Child) that they might Torture him in sight of his Parents, to extort a Confession from them, but he by Providence made a timely escape, and Under- went .[ 8 ] went much Toil and Fatigue, by Travelling Night and Day, till he came to his Friends in Angus^ where he Remained in- cognito. After the said Capt. George and his Lady had been closs Pris- oners for a Year, in which time they suffered much inhumane Usage, by the Cruelty of the EfigUsh^ who caus'd a Sentinel stand at the Prison Door, and another at the Prisoners beside, that they should not Commune about the Honours ; And after all, the said Capt. George and his Lady adhearing to their former Declarations, that the Honours were carried Abroad by the now Earl of Kintorc^ had such an Appearance of Truth, that upon Mediation of Friends, Major-General Dean was prevail'd upon to grant them Liberty to go to their own House of Barrasy upon such Conditions as here follows, conform to the principal Warrand. Whereas in the Capitulation made upon the Surrender of the Castle of Dunnottor, between Collonell Thomas Morgan and Captain George Ogilvie the then Governour, It was among other things agreed that the said Captain George Ogilvie should deliver up the Crown, Sword, and Scepter of the late King of SCOTS, which were in his Custody, or give a good account thereof: And forasmuch as, I have caused the said Captain Ogilvie ever since that time to be Retained a Prisoner in the said Castle, for not delivering the said Crown, Sword, and Scepter, or giving a good account thereof. Now in Regard he makes diverse pretences that the saids Crown, Sword and Scepter were taken away out 0/ Dunnottor without his Knowledge. And lastly his Wife Conveyed the same to a Gentleman that carried them to Forraign parts ; I am willing that in case he shall procure good Security of 2000 or 1500 Lib: Starlj that he shall Render himself a true Prisoner to you upon demand ; As also that his Wife shall do the like, he shall have his Liberty out of the Castle unto his own House, being Seated with- in four Miles of the same, providing he do not at all go from the House above three Miles ; And I do hereby Authorize you to receive such Bond J 9 ] Bond of him as said is, for his and his Wifes furthcomming, and there' upon to give him the Liberty abovementioned, for which this shall be your warrandt dated the Third of December 1 652. Sic Subscribitur, Ri: Dean. Direct to Captain Gamor, the present Governour of Dunnottor. Upon this Warrand Captain George and his Lady were set at Liberty, and George Grahame of Morphie became Cautioner for them, as by the following Bond : WHereas the Right Honourable Major General Richard Dean, hath issued an Order unto Captain John Garnor noiv Governor o/" Dunnottor, that he grants Liberty to Captain George Ogilvie, to- gether with his Wife (they being both Prisoners in the said Garrison^ to repair to their Dwelling House, pi'oviding they give sufficient Secu- rity, that they depart not above three Miles from Barras, being their Habitation, and that they or either of them act nothing that is or may be prejudicial to the Parliament of the Common Wealth o/" Eng- land ; And likewise on Advertisement or Warning given, they present themselves true Prisoners at Dunnottor Castle, to the Governour thereof or his Depute, and that the said Capt. Ogilvie and his Wife shall perform the abovesaid Articles. I whose Name is Underwritten; do Bind my self, my Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, under the Penalty and Forfaidtitre of 2000 Lib. of Lawfull current English Money, in case of failzying to present, enter again, and make furth- coming the saids Prisoners, when the Governour shall send for them ; In Witness whereof, I have hereunto put my Hand and Seall, the 10th o/" January 1652. Sic Subscribitur, George Grahame of Morphie, Testes, Rich: Hugkes, John Turner. Sometime after this, the said Captain George and his Lady were necessitat and enforced by the Rigidity and Strictness of the English^ to find Security of new, as the following Bond doth evince. B [ lo ] Whereas upon Solicitation for Capt. George Ogilvie and his Wives Further enlargement, the Honourable Colonel Lilburn Commander in Chief of all the Forces in SCOTLAND, hath ordered Captain Garnor (9/"Dunnottor Castle upon security given, to give them six weeks time to go about their Laufull Affairs. I do therefore engage my self, my Heirs, Executors, Administrators, Ass'gnies in the su?n of five hundred pounds of good and Laufull English Money, for their Personal Appear- ance into the former Obligation of Confinement, six weeks after the date hereof ; In witness hereof, I have put my hand and Seall, the \st of February 1653. Sic Subscribitur, James Anderson, Attested by John Barkley Richard Hugkes. Under this restraint Captain Ogilvies Lady dyed, and he re- main'd therein till the Restauration of King Charles the id. and all that time had a Special care of the Honours, by sending mon- ethly clean Linnen to Mr. James Granger the Minister, and his Wife, with instructions to take them out of the Ground, and wrap them in the same least they should be spoiled or tarnished, which the Minister of Kimieff and his Wife punctually observed, and were faithfull in their secresie, till the Kings Restauration, (for which they had a yearly Pension pay'd them all their Life- time), and then delivered them to the said Capt. George, who according to the Kings Order, did Redeliver them to the Earl Marischal in as good condition as he at first received them, as is Evident by the follow' ng Receipt, which will Demonstra- tively and undeniably prove, that the foresaid Capt. George and his Lady were the principal keepers and preservers of the Ho- nours of SCOTLAND, (whatever others pretend,) and the only sufferers therefore ; Which honourable Piece of Service, so Faith- fully perform'd, should never be forgot by King or Country, in saving of the Honours, which prevented both the disgrace of the Kingdom, and the Irreparable Loss of our Antient Regalia. But notwithstanding of this Noble and good Service done by the said Capt. George and his Lady, yet at King Charles the the 2d. his Restauration, the then old Countess Marishall wrote to [ " ] to His Majesty, that her Son John Keith, now Earl of Kintore^ (who was then Abroad upon his Travels, and knew nothing of the matter) had preserved the Honours, being that the said Capt. George had unvarrily imparted to the said Countess where they were hid, and how by that contrivance of his Wife in affirming that she had delivered them to the said lohn Keith, they had saved themselves and conceal'd the Honours from the English : And His Majesty knowing nothing of Captain George Ogilvie and his Lady's special service in preserving of the Hon- ours (in respect they did not timely apply) did upon the said Countess her misrepresentation, creat her said Son, first Knight Marischall of SCOTLAND, and then Earl of Kifitore, and or- dered him a pension of 400 Lib: Star/: a year, which he enjoy- ed all King Charles the id. his life time, and is as yet continued to him with the said place and Dignity, for his pretended preser- vation of the Honours. Captain George Ogilvie, then in the mean time in SCOTLAND, being inform'd that the foresaid Countess and others had misre- presented to his JNIajesty his faithful service, in preserving of the Honours, by which he was like to lose the Honour and INIerit cf so Noble and eminent an Action, perform'd with the hazard of his own and his Lady's life, with the Ruine of his Fortune ; He sends to London his Son, the said Sir William Ogilvie of Bar- ras, to give a true Relation of the preservation of the Honours, who Addresses his Majesty with the following PETITION. To the king's most Excellent MAJESTT. The Humble Petition of William Ogilvie, Son to George Ogilvie of Barras, T Sheiceth, Hat whereas your Petitioner is sent up here by his Father, to give Your Majesty Notice, that his said Father hath bad., and still preserves the Crown, Scepter and Sword B2 of [ 12 ] o/" SCOTLAND in bis Custody^ long before the English ^oj-j^j-j'^/ the Castle o/'Dunnottor, with the great hazard of his Lfe, and long and strait Imprisonment y "which occasioned the Death of his Wife. And in Respect of your Petitioners Father his great In- terest with these Honours ^ he could not desert that great Charge^ to come here and attend Your Majesty himself Wherefore he hath sent your Petitioner to have Your Majesty's particular Order, in Relation to the foresaids Honours. The Answer to the Petition was as follows, Whitehall, 28 September 1660: HIS Majesty ordains the Petitioners Father to deliver his Crowny Scepter and Sivordy to the Earl Marischal of SCOTLAND, and to get his Receipt of them. Sic Subscribitur Lauderdaill. This order was by the then Earl of Lauderdails advice, who said if John Keith had keept the Honours, then the said George Ogilvie was not able to deliver them ; But if the said George had the keeping of them, 'twou'd evidently and undenyably appear who was the true Preserver. At this time the then old Countess Marischall being informed that the Honours were hid in the Church of Kinneff; She endea- vours by all means to perswade Mr. James Granger the Minister to deliver them to her, but Capt. George getting a Surmeize there- of, goes to the said Church, and takes out the SCEPTER, and carries it to his House of Barras, and takes also an obligement from the said Minister to make the Rest of the Honours furth- coming to him, as appears by his obligement, whereof the Tenor follows. Whereas I have received a Discharge from George Ogilvie of Barras of the Honours of this Kimdotn, and he hath zot no more but the Scepter : There- [ 13 ]. Therefore I oblige my self, that the rest, viz: The Crown and Sword, shall be furthcoming at Demand, by this my Ticket, written and subscri' ved this same day I received the Discharge, 28th September 1660. Sic Subscribitur M. J. Granger. Within few Days thereafter, Capt. George gets the KING's Order to deliver up to the Earl Marishall the CROWN, SCEP- TER, and SWORD, which readily he Obeys, and gets the Earls following Receipt, all Written with his own Hand. At Dunnottor the ^th day o/" October 1660, /William EarlMz- rischal, Grants me to have received from George Ogilvie o/'Barras, the Crown, Sword ^«^ Scepter, the Ancient Monuments of this KJNGDOM, Entire and Compleat, in the same Condition they were Entrusted by me to him, and discharges the foresaid George Ogilvie of his Receipt thereof, by this my Siibscription. Day and place foresaid. Sic Subscribitur Marischal. Capt. George Ogillvie not only preserved by his Prudence, Fi- delity, and diligent Care, the Honours as said is, but also consi- derable Writs and Monuments intrusted to him when Governour of Dmitiottor, (the way and manner too Tedious to insert,) such as the king's Papers, the Receipt whereof follows. We William Earl Marischal grant us to have received from George Ogilvie, sometime Governour of our Castle of Dunnottor, some Papers belonging to the King's Majesty, which was in Dunnottor the time of his being Governour there, in two little Coffers, which Papers consisting to the number of eight score sixteen several pieces, whereof there is four Packets Sealed, and one broke open, of which Papers I grant the Receipt, and obliges me to Warrand the said George at His Majestfs Hands, and all others whatsomever, by this my Warrand, Sign'd, Seal'd, and Subscrived at London, the first of December 1655. Sic Subscribitur Marischal. The said Capt. George also preserv'd the Registers and Papers of the Kirk of SCOTLAND, which is evident by a Receipt there- [ H ] thereof, granted to him by the Lord Balcarras^ by Order of a Commission from the Kirk. Also the Monuments and Char- ters of the University of St. Andrews^ which he delivered to Robert Zull, upon the Order of Robert Honnyman^ Clerk to the University, and got his Receipt thereof. And siclike, the prin- cipal Papers and Charters belonging to the Family of HAMIL- TON, which he delivered to James Hamilton^ then Servant to the present Dutchess Dowager of Hamilton^ and got his Receipt thereof, Written on the end of my Lady Dutchess her Letter, brought by him to the said Capt. George. All which principal Receipts and Documents are Registrat (for Preservation) in the Books of Council and Session, being the General Register of this Kingdom. Captain George Ogilvie having Faithfully Exonered himself of the foresaids Trusts, takes Journey for London, to wait upon the King, by whom he was kindly Received, and delivered to his Majestie the Earl Marischals Receit of the Honours, which the King having Read, Captain George humbly Requested it back, that it might be keept in his Family as an evident of his and his Wifes Loyalty and good Service done to the King and Kingdom of SCOTLAND, which his Majestie granted, and was gracious- ly pleased to conferr a deserv'd mark of his Highness Favour upon him and his Family, by making him a Knight Barronat, by a patent dated at Whitehall 5th March 1661, and gave him a new Charter of the Lands of Barras, Changing the holding thereof, to hold thereafter Blench of his Majestie and his Suc- cessors, 3d March 1662 : Which is Ratified in Parliament nth August 1 679. In which Patent, Charter and Ratification, is nar- rated the Eminent Service done and performed by Sir George Ogilvie oi Barras, and that he was the preserver of his ]\Iajesties Crown, Sword and Scepter, the Antient Honours of the Kingdom of SCOTLAND, and the Damnages sustained by the said Sir George and his Lady there through, from the beginning of the Usurpation, during which time (Notwithstanding of all Tempta- tions tions and Threatnings used against them by the Usurper) they carried themselves with the greatest Integrity and Constancy un- der all their sufferings. This Sir George Ogilvie of Barras was descended of the Ho- nourable Family oi Ogilvie Earl oi Air lie ; He Married Elizabeth Dowglass, Daughter of Mr: John Dowglass of Barras, Brother German to William Earl of Angus, Grand-Father to the late Duke of Hamilton. By this Lady he had the present Sir William Ogilvie, who Married Isabel Ogilvie Daughter to Sir John Ogilvie of Inverearity, by whom he hath very hopefull Children. r I ] A CLEAR VINDICATION AND JUST DEFENCE For Publishing of the Foregoing A C C O V N T. WITH Other Remarkable Instances, and Observable Passages, Relating to, and Confirming the Truth of it. For Truth seeks tio Corners^ fears no Discovery^ and Justice is no Respecter of Persons. THAT the Publishing an Account of the Preservation of Crown, Sword, and Scepter of Scotland, from falling into the Hands of the English Usurpers, by Sir George Ogilvy of Barras (then Governor of Dunnottor Castle) and Dam Elizabeth Douglass his Lady, was not done of design to Offend, or Derogate from the Just Honour of any, far less those of the Family of Marischal (for whom the said Sir George Ogilvy did on all occasions evidence, and his Posterity do yet continue a grand Veneration and due Regard.) But there being an Account of the Earl of Kintore's Family given to be insert in Mr. Alexander Nisbet his Book of Herauldry ; in which Account, the Sole and Chief Preservation of the Ho?iours is ascrib'd to the now Earl of Kintore, and the then Countess-Dowager Ma- rischal his Mother ; and not only makes mendon of the said Sir George in a Dishonourable manner, but doth also smother (and might in process of Time have totally Obliterat) the Good service. Loyalty, and Sufferings of the said Sir George his well-deserving Lady : And it being credibly Reported, That at the same Juncture the said Earl's Account was given to Mr. Nisbet at Edinburgh, the like Ac- A count count was sent to London, to be insert in Morerefs Dictionary (and that a long time before the Printing and Publishing Sir George's Ac- count). What less could have been done ! than, in self-Defence, to Vindicate the Fame and Good-name, and to perpetuat the Sufferings of the said Sir George, and his Lady : For the Consideration, that the Good-name and Reputation of the Righteous shall be Vindicated and Secur'd after Death, is, to a Generous Nature, sensible of True Honour, a great Spur and Encouragement to V^orthy and Virtuous Deeds ; and the earnest Desire that People, of old, had of leaving a Good-name behind them, and of perpetuating the Fame and Glory of their Actions to after-Ages, did animate their Brave Spirits in the pursuit of Virtue, and, with the Hazard of their Lives, to do Great and Glorious Exploits for their Country : And as it is the Argu- ment of a Great Mind to be moved by this Consideration ; so it's a Sign of a low and base Spirit to neglect it : Besides, there's a certain Civility in Human Nature, which will not suffer Men to wrong the Dead, and to deny them the just Commendation of their Worth. . I say. What less could have been done, than to Vindicate the Good- name and Reputation, and to perpetuat the Sufferings of the deceast Sir George Ogihy and his Lady, by publishing to the World the True Matter of Fact, in the whole Contrivance and Procedure, from the evident Instructions and Documents left by the said Sir George, and the Account of the Transactions, and pregnant Circumstances clearly by him narrated ? which it's presumed will abundantly satisfy all Unprejudic'd and Unbyass'd Persons, That the said Sir George and his Lady were the only Sufferers for, and Preservers of the Honours ; but particularly his Lady, being of an Heroick and Mas- culine Spirit, like the Brave old Douglass, was Eminently and Main- ly Instrumental (by the Divine Aid) in Preserving of the Honours, as anon will more fully appear : For Sir George's Lady not only Convey'd the Honours out of the said Castle, by her special Care and Contrivance, without her Husband's Privity and Knowledge ; but gave out and mantain'd, both for Concealing of the Honours in a feasible way, and as a mean of her own and her Husband's Safety, and exemption from Torture, That she had deliver'd the Honours to the now Earl of Kintore, who had carry'd 'em abroad to the King : And to confirm the English that 'twas so. Sir George's Lady (being of a Ready and Accurate Wit) contriv'd a Missive- Letter, as if from the now Earl of Kintore, giving her an Account, That the Crown, Sword and Scepter of Scotland, were safely deliver'd by him to the King ; t 3 ] King ; which Letter the English intercepting, she having so orderM the Matter that it should fall into their Hands, did thereafter almost believe it to be true ; but before that was done, the English Menac'd and Mal-treated Sir George (and his Lady in particular) to the high- est degree of Cruelty, in so far as Colonel Morgan was upon the point to expose her to an exquisite Torment, by putting her in the Boots ; and he said. She was the most Resolute and Undaunted Woman e're he spoke to : For she bid him do his utmost, she'd give him no further Account of the Honours. And that the English were intending to have wreak d their Fury on Sir George and his Lady, may be shrewdly guess'd, by their causing a Sentinel stand at the Prison door, and another at the Prisoners Bed-side all Night, that they (Sir George and his Lady) should not Commune nor Converse anent the Securing and Concealing of the Honours. And because Sir George's Lady bravely and constantly maintain'd, That she had deli- ver'd the Honours to the now Earl of Kiniore, as aforesaid, they to Disgrace and Affront her the more, caused their Provost- Martial to attend her, when she obtained the Liberty and Favour to take the Air for some Hours within the Precinct of the Castle, she being then almost stifled by a closs and squalid Imprisonment, which certainly hasten d, if not procur'd her Death, being a Woman of a High and Fine Spirit, that would rather (like a piece of true Steel) break than yield ; _ for, in a little time after Sir Robert Grahame of Morphie's becoming Bail for her and her said Husband's rendering themselves Prisoners again to the English Governour of Dunnottor Castle upon Demand, she became Hectick, being then almost worn-out, both by her former long and strait Imirisonment, and by the deep Impres- sions the immoderat Care of Preserving the Honours had made on her ; to which being added, the thoughts of her remaining still un- der Restraint, and the continual Damps of Re-entring to Closs- Prison ; No wonder that her High and Noble Spirit, being as un- conquerable as she had then made the Honours, broke the Prison of her Body by a happy and peaceable Death, to enjoy, as there's good Reason to hope, a Crown of Glory, being the promised Reward of the Righteous. And as this Lady excell'd in Piety and Virtue, so there's one very remarkable Instance of her steddy Integrity, (which should Eternize her Name) That when she was on her Death bed, she then, and not till then, did impart to Sir George her Husband, how, and where the Honours were hid and reposited, and took his Hand upon Oath, that altho' he should be brought to the Scaffold to be execute, he [ 4 ] , he should never betray his Trust, nor deliver up the Honours to the English. So by what is above narrated, 'twill unquestionably appear. That neither the now Earl of Kintore, nor his Mother, were either privy to, or had a Hand in conveying the Honours out of the said Castle, nor in securing and hiding of 'em ; But after the thing was providentially and happily done, for Sir George's Lady to make use of the now Earl of Kintore his Name, was a very lawful Stratagem in her, and that which no Generous Man then abroad would have de- clin'd to own, but wou'd not have reap'd the Fruits of Sir George and his Lady's Labours, nor taken the whole Reward due for their Sufferings. And that Lady might have made use of Sir John Strachan his Name (if Providence had suggested it), who was wont to come from King Charles the Second, then in Exile, to get Account of the Posture the Castle and Garrison of Dunnottor was in, and likewise to know how Matters then stood in this Kingdom : And for Instance that Sir John Strachan did so, he brought a Letter writ with King Charles's own Hand, under Cover of one from the then Lieutenant- General Middleton, Directed thus. To the Governour and Gentlemen in the Castle o/"Dunnottor ; Which Letters are yet extant, packt up, and folded in the most Secret and Compendious Manner. The Tenor of the King's Letter is verbatim as follows. Gentlemen, Assure your selves lam very careful of you, and sensible of your Affection to me ; give Credit to what this Bearer shall say to you, and observe any Directions you shall receive from Lieuteiiant-General Middleton ; you shall shortly hear again from me, and I would have you find some way frequently to advertise me of your Condition, which I will take all possible Care to relieve. Paris, March 26th. 1652. CHARLES R. The tenor of Midleton's Letter to the Governour is verbatim as follows : My Dear Friend, / am so overjoyed to hear, that you in this time do behave your self so gallantly, that I shall be most desirous to do you Ser- vice, the Particulars I remit to the Bearer my Cousin and yours, to whom give Trust, since he is particularly instructed from him, who shall rather perish, than be wanting to his Friend, and who, in all Conditions, is, and shall be. Yours, J. M. The Bearer, as is said before, was Sir John Strachan. By [ 5 ] By these Letters it doth further appear. That Sir George Ogilvy (then Govemour of Dunnottor Castle) could not have carried himself with more Loyalty and Gallantry than he did. And altho' it be ac- knowledged in one part of the now Earl of Kintore's Account, given to Mr. Nisbet, That there could be (then) no Hopes of Succour, nor the said Castle able to hold out long, if once attack'd ; yet, in an other part of the Earl's Account, it's alledg'd. That after Colonel Morgan had laid Siege to Dunnottor Castle, and that the Cannon had play'd against it Two Days, the Govemour Capitu- lated for himself alone, and made the English Masters of the Place, by which they got all the Furniture, Plate, Pictures, Books, and Ancient Papers belonging to the Family of Marischal : To which it's Answer'd, That there being no Relief given, and all Hopes thereof being then cut off, and but Thirty Six Men in the Garison, (a meer Handful in Comparison of the Number then requisit to defend the Place) and all of them Day and Night upon Duty, were extreamly fatigu'd and over-wak'd, yet they maintain'd their respec- tive Posts valorously, for the Space of Ten Days, during which time the said Castle was Bombarded, and also Batter'd by the Cannon of the English ; And when the Governour found. That the Gari- son was not able to hold out longer, and all other Forts within the Kingdom being then reduced, and under Command of the English, and the main Chance being secured, and preserv'd by his Lady, viz. The Honours, and the King's Papers, the said Sir George (the Governour) made an Honourable Capitulation, the Garison being permitted to March out of the said Castle with Colours flying, Drums beating, and kindl'd Matches, for the space of a Mile from the place ; and the English were astonish'd to Ad- miration, to see such a small Force make so long and vigorous Re- sistance against such a prevailing Army : And the English expressly told, that if the Castle had not been that day Surrender d, they were resolv'd to have storm'd it the very next day following, which easily they might have done, considering (as aforesaid) the bad Posture the Garrison was in. And that which did (some- time before) mightily Incommode and Perplex Sir George the Go- vemour, was a Mutiny raised and fomented by one David Lighton, who had been a Colonel Abroad, yet by the said Governour's Pru- dence, Diligence and Conduct, the Mutiny was supprest and crush'd in the Bud, by causing train-out Colonel Lighton, and ne- ver allowed him to re-enter the Castle ; whereby the Soldiers were Quash'd and Compos'd, and the direful effects of that Mutiny pre- vented. [ 6 ] vented, which was to have Sacrificd the Governour, and all under his Charge, to the merciless cruelty of the English. And 'twas a signal Act of Providence the Design was discovered : For there be- ing several veteran Soldiers in the Garrison, who had served in France and other places, most of them Strangers to the Governour, and getting no Pay from the Publick, made the Governour's Post uneasie, and also brought him to a deal of Charges, he being Necessitat to give Pay to the said Colonel l.igbton ; and also, to the Surgeon, Engineer and Cannoneer, all out of his own Pocket, he having got no pay either to himself or them, from the Publick. The manner how the King's Papers was conveyed out of the Castle was thus. The Governour's Lady made a Girdle of Linnen, and packt 'em up, and sue'd 'em in so dextrously, that no part of the Girdle appear'd more bulkish then t'other, and were happily carried out about a Young Gentle- Womans middle, whom the said Governour's Lady had keept in the said Castle as a Friend ffor a while before) on that Design. And after the Castle was Surrender d, as aforesaid, and that Sir George (the Governour) and his Lady were cast in Prison by the English^ their own private Estate was not only mismanag'd and neglected, but the genrality of the Countrey and Neighbourhood look't upon Sir George and his Lady as Forlorn Persons, and upon their Fortune as Ruin d, in so much that those to whom they were endebted did instantly distress them ; and the English did Harasse them by seising upon and away taking of the Horses which laboured their own Mains of Barras ; and Sir George and his Lady were not only en- forced to suffer all this, but were also necessitate to be at great Charges, during the time of their Imprisonment, in Complementing and Treating the Officers and Soldiers of the English Garrison, out of their private Estate, and the doing whereof was the great mean (under the Divine Protection) of Sir George and his Lady's preser- vation from the extream Cruelty and Torture they were threaten'd with by the English. And after Sir George his Lady had, by her Resolution and Constancy, baffled all the Threats and bad Usage of the English, they (the English) proferr'd her and her said Husband a vast Sum of Money for the Honours, but that Bait, tho' very prevalent with a great part of Mankind, did not in the least stagger Sir George nor his Lady"s Resolutions of Integrity and Loy- alty, which was as firm, as the Rock on which they were then im- prisoned, and remained untainted to the end, If^ jinis coronat opus. So t 7 ] So that Bribes was not able to allure them, nor Threats to frighten them into a Discovery of these notable Regalia, the Ancient Monu. ments of this Kingdom. And the said Sir George was so Cautious and Circumspect as to keep and leave to his Posterity, as an evidence of his and his Lady's Loyalty, not only all the most material papers relative to the Preservation of the Honours, but also, all the Missive Letters sent him theranent, with the Doubles of his own Returns and Answers, and all the Passes granted by the English to him and his Lady (from time to time) during their Restraint and Confinement to the House of Barras. And the said Sir George did also leave to Posterity Memoirs of the most remarkable instances, and observable passages that occur'd and fell out anent his and his Lady's Sufferings and Losses in Preserving of the Honours ; without which Adminicles, 'twas not possible to have Writ truely on this Subject : But there's as much sure evidence, fairly Exhibited, for proving the truth of what's asserted, as can be reasonably expected, or the Nature of the Thing can bear, or require ; and doth so Irrefragably convince all, as to leave them nothing to say against it, unless there be any who will obstinatly say, we will not believe it, nor yet our owTi Eyes, nor the Verdict of our Reason. And that the now Earl of Kintore and his Mother did ascribe to themselves the Chief and Sole Preservation of the Honours, and did so Inform King Charles IL at his Restauration (before Sir George Ogilvy was able to apply, having then the Honours under his Care), is evident both by the Narrative of the said Earl's Account given to Mr. Nisbet, and also by the Answer given by King Charles to the then Earl of Strafford, when the late Earl of Airly (then Lord Ogilvy) did solicit Strafford to represent to His Majesty the Eminent Service done by the said Sir George Ogilvy and his Lady in Preserving the Honours of Scotland. By my Lord Ogilvy's good leave, said the King, it must not be so ; for my Lady Marischal wrote to me, that she and her Son John had preservd the Honours : Tfiis the late Airlie did aver to be the King's Answer. And that the said Countess endeavour'd to procure Mr. James Granger, then Minister of Kinnff', to deliver up the Honours to her, is evident by her sending of Robert Keith of Whiteriggs (then Sheriff- deput of the Mearns) to perswade him thereto ; but Sir George get- ting a Surmise of the Design, did expostulat with the said Minister thereanent, who the more to ascertain the said Sir George, wrote him a Letter, wherein he expresly says, I'll break my Neck before I break to you. r 8 ] you. These are Mr. Granger's own Words ; yet Sir George to prevent such Endeavours, went and took up the Scepter to his House of Bar- ras, and at the same time got an Obligement from the Minister, to make the Crown and Sword forthcoming to him upon Demand ; and Sir George after he had taken up the Scepter, said to the Minister, The Piper plays the worse that wants the Nether Chafls (being an old Scottish Maxim) intimating thereby. That the said Countess her Design was render'd Abortive. And altho the said Minister's Wife got a Pecu- nial Reward for her and her Husband's Fidelity and Secrecy, (who were imploy'd by Sir George's Lady as Trustees for hiding of the Honours) yet notwithstanding of all the Good and Loyal Service so well Contriv'd, Prudently Manag'd, and Faithfully Perform'd by Sir George and his Lady, (who were under GOD the prime Actors, the only Sufferers for, and main Preservers of the Honours) neither he the said Sir George, nor his Son Sir William, got either Place, Pension, or any Pecunial Reward ; but when Sir George, after the King's Restauration, and that he had delivered the Honours to the Earl Ma- rischal, and gotten the Earl's Receipt of them, went to London, and was kindly received by the King, and was made a Knight-barronet, and got the change of the Holding of his Lands, and the promise of a Pension, how soon the King's Revenues were settled. And sometime thereafter, the present Sir William went up to Court (a Second time) in expectation of the Pension promis'd his Father Sir George : And altho King Charles the IL was Gra- ciously pleased to say, from his own Mouth, to the present Sir William, (upon his re-minding the King of Sir George and his Lady's Losses and Sufferings in preserving of the Honours,') Be you Confident, I'll see to the Standing of your Family ; Yet the then Lauderdale, who was sole Secretary, postpon'd and wearied out the said Sir William with Dilators and Shifts, to the great Loss of his Money and Time at Court : And after Sir William had long waited, he was at last so slighted and neglected by Lauderdale, (then become his Enemy,) That he was necessitat to return Home, without Place or Pension ; Altho' his Father and he computed their Losses to be then {per Lucrum Cessans, y Damnum Emergens) a 1000 Pounds Stcrlin, the Interest of which, by this time, would have amounted to a considerable Sum. Now let the World judge, if it be not consonant to Equity and Rea- son, That the Family of Barras (being the Posterity of the said Sir George Ogilvy and his Lady) should have a Real Reward, according to the Merit of such an Heroick and Noble Action, and a full Re- com- [ 9 ] compense of the Damnage they sustain'd thereby. And by what is above- narrated, Truth doth appear in its Naked Colours, without Fear or Favour of any ; for the God of Truth will not suffer it to be smother'd, nor pass without its due Commendation, and deserv'd Reward. And such a Singular Piece of Loyalty, so prudently and faithfully perform'd, should be a Motive to induce all Honest-Hearted Scots- Men, and good Patriots in this, and succeeding Ages, not only to pay a Grateful Acknowledgment to the Memory of these Renown'd Persons Sir George Ogihy of Barras, and Dame Elizabeth Douglas his Lady, but also to look upon their Posterity, as the Representatives of those, to whom Scotland owes its Unconquer'd Crown. ERRATA in the ACCOUNT. ^Age 9 Line 8. for George Grahame, Read Sir Robert Grabame, and in the same Page /. 27 for George, Read Sir Robert, Page 10 /. W.for, had a Yearly Pension pay'd them all their Life- time, Read got a Pecunial Reward. f^ 1H- THE LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara "this book is due on the last date THIS B""»^^^^j,ipED BELOW. jiii^NL Series9482 3 1205 00489 8902 D 000 743 836