The speech of the Earl of Argyle at his trial on the 12th of December, 1681
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Earl of, 1629-1685.
1682
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The speech of the Earl of Argyle at his trial on the 12th of December, 1681
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Earl of, 1629-1685.
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THE
SPEECH
OF
THE
Earl
of
ARGYLE
AT
HIS
TRIAL
On
the
12th
.
of
December
1681.
My
Lord
Iustice
General
and
Remanent
Honourable
Lords
of
Iusticiary
I
Look
upon
it
as
the
undoubted
Privilege
of
the
meanest
,
Subject
,
to
explain
his
own
words
in
the
most
benign
Sense
.
And
even
when
Persons
are
under
an
evil
Character
,
the
misconstruction
of
words
,
in
themselves
not
ill
,
can
only
amount
to
Presumption
or
Aggravation
,
and
not
a
Crime
.
But
it
is
strangely
alledged
(
as
well
as
impossible
to
make
any
that
knows
me
believe
)
that
I
could
intend
anything
,
but
what
was
honest
and
honourable
,
suitable
to
the
Principles
of
my
Religion
and
Loyalty
,
though
I
did
not
explain
my self
at
all
.
My
Lord
,
pray
be
not
offended
,
that
I
take
up
a
little
of
your
time
to
tell
you
,
I
have
from
my
youth
made
it
my
business
to
serve
his
Majesty
faithfully
;
and
have
constantly
to
my
power
,
appeared
in
his
service
,
especially
in
all
times
of
difficulty
;
and
have
never
joyned
,
nor
complied
with
any
Interest
or
Party
,
contrary
to
his
Majesties
Authority
,
but
have
all
along
served
him
in
his
own
way
,
without
a
frown
from
his
Majesty
these
thirty
years
.
As
soon
as
I
passed
the
Schools
and
Colledges
,
I
went
to
travel
to
France
and
Italy
in
the
beginning
of
the
year
1647
and
continued
abroad
till
the
end
of
the
year
1649.
My
first
appearance
in
the
World
,
was
to
serve
his
Majesty
,
as
Collonel
of
his
Foot-guard
;
and
though
at
that
time
all
the
Commissions
were
given
by
the
then
Parliament
,
yet
I
would
not
serve
without
a
Commission
from
his
Majesty
,
which
I
have
still
the
Honour
to
have
by
me
.
After
the
misfortune
of
Worcester
,
I
continued
in
Arms
for
his
Majesties
service
,
when
Scotland
was
overrun
with
the
Usurpers
,
and
was
alone
with
some
of
my
Friends
in
Arms
,
in
the
year
1652.
and
did
then
keep
up
some
appearance
of
Opposition
to
them
by
taking
several
of
the
Castles
they
had
garisoned
in
Argyle-shire
;
and
taking
and
killing
three
hundred
of
them
in
one
day
.
After
which
,
I
joyned
with
those
his
Majesty
had
Commissioned
,
and
stood
out
to
the
last
,
till
the
Earl
of
Middleton
his
Majesties
Liuetenent
General
gave
me
order
to
capitulate
,
which
I
did
without
any
other
engagement
to
the
Rebels
,
but
bail
to
live
peaceably
;
and
did
at
my
capitulating
,
relieve
several
Prisoners
by
exchange
,
whereof
my
Lord
Granard
out
of
the
Castle
of
Edenborough
was
one
.
It
is
not
well
known
that
I
was
imprisoned
by
the
Usurpers
,
who
was
so
jealous
of
me
,
that
contrary
to
their
faith
,
they
seized
on
me
,
and
kept
me
from
Prison
to
Prison
,
till
his
Majesties
happy
Restauration
,
only
because
I
would
not
engage
not
to
serve
him
,
though
there
was
no
Oath
required
?
I
do
with
all
Gratitude
acknowledge
his
Majesties
Bounty
and
Royal
Favours
to
me
when
I
was
pursued
before
the
Parliament
in
the
year
1662.
His
Majesty
was
graciously
pleased
not
to
send
me
down
in
any
opprobrious
way
,
but
upon
a
bare
verbal
Bail
,
upon
which
I
came
down
Post
,
and
presented
my self
a
fortnight
before
the
time
;
and
having
satisfied
his
Majesty
at
that
time
,
of
my
entire
Loyalty
,
I
did
not
offer
to
plead
by
Advocates
,
and
his
Majesty
was
not
only
pleased
to
pardon
my
life
,
and
to
restore
me
to
a
Title
and
Fortune
,
but
to
put
me
in
trust
in
his
Service
in
the
most
eminent
Judicatories
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
to
heap
Favours
upon
me
beyond
whatever
I
did
,
or
can
deserve
,
though
I
hope
his
Majesty
hath
always
found
me
faithful
and
thankful
,
and
ready
to
bestow
all
I
have
,
or
can
have
,
for
his
Service
;
and
I
hope
he
never
had
,
nor
never
shall
have
ground
to
repent
any
Favour
he
hath
done
me
:
If
I
were
now
guilty
of
the
four
Crimes
libelled
,
I
should
think
my self
a
great
Villian
.
In
the
Prosecution
of
the
Story
of
my
Life
in
the
year
1666
,
when
the
Rebellion
broke
out
,
that
was
repressed
at
Pentland
Hills
,
upon
a
bare
Advertisement
from
the
now
Lord
Archbishop
St.
Andrews
,
without
any
order
either
from
the
Council
or
General
,
the
intercourse
being
stopped
,
did
I
not
bring
together
about
two
thousand
men
,
and
sent
a
Gentleman
to
General
Dailyel
,
offering
to
joyn
with
him
,
if
the
Rebellion
had
not
presently
been
happily
crushed
?
And
when
I
met
with
considerable
trouble
from
my
Neighbours
rebelliously
in
Arms
,
and
had
Commissions
both
in
publick
and
private
accounts
,
have
I
not
carried
dutifully
to
his
Majesty
,
and
done
what
was
commanded
with
a
just
Moderation
,
which
I
can
prove
under
the
Hands
of
mine
Enemies
,
and
by
many
infallible
Demonstrations
?
Pardon
me
yet
a
few
words
.
Did
I
not
in
this
present
Parliament
shew
my
readiness
to
serve
His
Majesty
and
the
Royal
Family
in
asserting
vigorously
the
Lineal
Legal
Succession
of
the
Crown
,
and
had
a
care
to
have
it
expressed
in
the
Commissions
of
the
Shires
and
Boroughs
in
which
I
had
interest
?
Was
I
not
for
offering
proper
supplies
to
His
Majesty
and
his
Successor
?
And
did
I
not
concur
to
bind
the
Landlords
for
their
Tenants
,
though
I
was
mainly
concerned
?
And
have
I
not
always
keep'd
my
Tenants
in
obedience
to
His
Majesty
?
I
say
all
this
,
not
to
arrogate
any
thing
to
my self
for
doing
what
I
was
in
Honour
and
Duty
bound
to
his
Majesty
;
But
if
after
all
this
,
upon
no
other
ground
,
but
words
that
were
spoken
in
absolute
Innocence
,
and
without
the
least
design
,
except
for
clearing
my
own
Conscience
,
and
that
are
not
capable
of
the
ill
sense
wrested
from
them
by
the
Libel
,
I
should
be
further
troubled
,
what
assurance
can
any
of
the
greatest
Quality
,
Trust
,
or
Innocence
have
,
that
they
are
secure
,
especially
considering
,
that
so
many
scruples
have
been
started
,
as
all
know
,
not
only
by
many
of
the
Orthodox
Clergy
,
but
by
whole
Presbyteries
,
Synods
,
and
some
Bishops
,
which
were
thought
so
considerable
,
that
an
eminent
Bishop
did
take
the
pains
to
write
a
Treatise
(
which
was
read
in
Council
,
and
allowed
to
be
Printed
,
and
a
Copy
given
to
me
)
,
which
contains
expressions
that
may
be
stretched
to
a
worse
sense
than
I
am
charged
for
.
Have
I
not
shewed
my
Zeal
to
all
the
ends
of
the
Test
?
How
then
can
it
be
imagined
,
that
I
have
any
sinister
design
in
any
thing
that
I
have
said
?
If
I
had
done
any
thing
contrary
to
the
whole
course
of
my
Life
,
which
I
hope
shall
not
be
found
,
yet
one
Act
might
pretend
to
be
excused
by
a
Habit.
But
nothing
being
questioned
but
the
sense
of
words
misconstrued
to
the
greatest
beight
,
and
stretched
to
imaginary
inclinations
,
quite
contrary
to
my
scope
and
design
;
and
so
far
contrary
,
not
only
to
my
Sense
,
but
Principles
,
Interest
and
Duty
,
that
I
hope
my
Lord
Advocate
will
think
he
hath
gone
too
far
in
this
Process
,
and
say
plainly
what
he
knows
to
be
true
by
his
acquaintance
with
me
,
both
in
publick
and
private
,
that
I
am
neither
Papist
nor
Phanatick
,
but
am
truly
Loyal
in
my
Principles
and
Practice
.
The
hearing
of
this
Libel
would
trouble
me
beyond
most
of
the
Sufferings
of
my
Life
,
if
my
Innocence
did
not
support
me
,
and
the
hopes
of
being
vindicated
of
this
and
other
calumnies
before
this
publick
and
Noble
Auditory
.
I
leave
my
Defences
to
these
Gentlemen
that
plead
for
me
:
They
know
my
Innocence
,
and
how
groundless
that
Libel
is
.
I
shall
only
say
,
As
my
Life
has
been
most
of
it
spent
in
serving
and
suffering
for
his
Majesty
,
so
whatever
be
the
event
of
this
process
,
I
resolve
,
while
I
breathe
,
to
be
loyal
and
faithful
to
his
Majesty
;
and
whether
I
live
publickly
or
in
obscurity
,
my
head
,
my
heart
,
nor
my
hand
,
shall
never
be
wanting
where
I
can
be
useful
to
his
Majesties
service
,
and
while
I
live
,
and
when
I
die
,
I
shall
pray
,
that
God
Almighty
would
bless
His
Majesty
with
a
long
,
happy
and
prosperous
Reign
,
and
that
the
Lineal
Legal
Successors
of
the
Crown
,
may
continue
Monarchs
over
all
His
Majesties
Dominions
,
and
be
Defenders
of
the
true
Primitive
Christian
Apostolick
Catholick
Protestant
Religion
,
while
Sun
and
Moon
endure
.
LONDON
:
Printed
for
Richard
Ianeway
,
in
Queens-head-Alley
in
Pater-noster-Row
.
1682