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Memorials and Letters Illustrative of the Life and Times of John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee (2)
Memorials and Letters Illustrative of the Life and Times of John Graham of Claverhouse Viscount Dundee - 2 Author:Mark Napier Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Original Publisher: T.G. Stevenson Subjects: Scotland History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you bu... more »y the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Section VI. -- Sir John Dalrymple's Campaign against Clover- house, how it came about, and how it ended. The commission to Claverhouse, as Sheriff-principal of Wig- ton, combined with a special commission of Justiciary, and his occupation of Galloway with the King's forces, was a terrible thorn in the side of the family of Stair, or Stairs. Sir James Dalrymple was a considerable proprietor in the district, and his son, the notorious Sir John, was heritable Bailie of the regality of Glenluce, of which the Bishop of Galloway was Lord. From the commencement of his mission, Claverhouse had his eye upon this plotting and cunning family. There can be no doubt that the various allusions in his dispatches to the necessity of making some example among the rich and influential, rather than the misguided people, and particularly that paragraph, occurring in his dispatch from Wigton, 5th March 1682, -- " Here in the shire I find the lairds all following the example of a late great man, and still a considerable heritor here among them, which is, to live regularly themselves, but have thek houses constant haunts of rebels and intercommuned persons, and have their children baptized by the same, and then lay all the blame on their wives, condemning them, and swearing they cannot help what is done in their absence," -- pointed directlyat the recently deposed President, and his son. Sir James Dalrymple's finessing and cunning failed to save him. It is trite history, how he cooked the Test ...« less