I. Account for Clothes to Lord Graham, when 11 and 12 years of age II. John fourth Earl of Montrose to the Factor of Mugdock, 9th July III. Lady Elphinston to the Factor of Mugdock, 21st July 1625 IV. Master William Forrett to the Factor of Mugdock, 12th July 1625 . V. Lady Elphinston to the Factor of Mugdock, 7th June 1627 VI. Inventory of some of Montrose's effects in Glasgow, 1627 . VII. List of Montrose's effects in the hands of his Pedagogue, Master Wil- IX. Montrose to James Duncan, Factor of Mugdock, 26th December 1627 X. Montrose to James Duncan, Factor of Mugdock, 27th December 1627 XI. Account of Montrose's expenses in Drumfad, 28th October 1628 XII. Sir John Colquhoun of Luss to Mr James Gillespie, Minister at Kil- III. Account of the Personal Expenditure of Montrose while a student at IV. Extracts from the Accounts of Robert Graham, one of Montrose's PART III. INTRODUCTION ORIGINAL PAPERS ILLUSTRATING THE PRINCIPLES UPON WHICH MONTROSE Page 156 202 207 1638-1642. I. Montrose and others to Lennox, Hamilton, and Morton, 13th March 245 IV. King Charles I. to the Earl of Airth, 27th July 1639 250 251 254 VII. Argyle to Sir John Ogilvy of Inverquharity, 7th July 1640 256 257 IX. Interrogatories by the Committee of Estates in 1641 to Lord Ogilvy 264 X. Sir Thomas Stewart's Information to Montrose, 1640 266 XI. Montrose to King Charles I., 1641 268 XII. King Charles I. to Archibald first Lord Napier, 20th May 1641 272 ib. XIV. Commencement of Argyle's Process against Montrose, May 1641 273 XV. Sir Thomas Hope of Kerse to Archibald Johnston of Warriston, 7th 279 XVI. King Charles I. to Argyle, 12 June 1641 282 XVII. Deposition of Mr John Robertson, 12 June 1641 283 Page XVIII. Archibald first Lord Napier's Account of the Plot, 1641 285 XIX. Montrose, Napier, and Sir George Stirling of Keir, before the Com mittee of Estates, June 1641 288 XX. Lord Napier's Examination by the Committee of Estates, 23 June 1641 291 XXIV. Montrose's Declaration before the Committee of Estates, August 1641 306 310 XXVI. Montrose to the King and Parliament, 21st August 1641 311 312 314 315 317 APPENDIX TO PART III. I. The Libel against Montrose in 1641 319 II. Answers of Montrose and his Friends to the Libels against them in 352 III. Interrogatories proposed by Montrose and his Friends to be put to 363 IV. Protestatioun 364 V. Draft of the Royal Signature commanding Letters of Exoneration 368 MEMORIALS OF MONTROSE AND HIS TIMES. PART I. THE papers composing this Preliminary Part of the Memorials of Montrose and his Times are chiefly derived from the manuscripts of Archibald first Lord Napier. The connexion of this nobleman with Montrose was close and constant, and is thus curiously and elaborately recorded by the accomplished Wishart, their devoted adherent and chaplain, who eventually became Bishop of Edinburgh :— 'Naperius de Marchistona Regulus, integerrimæ vitæ et felicissimi ingenii vir, generosus et verè nobilis, ac familiæ suæ perantiquæ princeps, patri avoque Naperiis (toto terrarum orbe celeberrimis philosophis et mathematicis) in aliis par, civili verò prudentiâ longè superior,— regibus Jacobo Caroloque gratus juxta ac fidus, Ærario olim præfectus, et ad primæ nobilitatis evectus gradum,—fidei in Regem charitatisque ergo a conjuratis carcerem sæpius cum bonorum jactura passus,—hisce diebus in Atholia fatis cessit. Quem Montisrosanus, puer, quasi indul A |