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Their prisoners, Sir Robert Spotiswood, secretary of state, and son to the late primate, Sir Philip Nisbet, Sir William Hollo, Colonel Nathaniel Gordon, Andrew Guthry, son of the bishop of Murray, William Murray, son of the earl of Tullibardine, were condemned and executed.
Though neither the king's temper nor plan of administration led him to severity, some examples, after such a bloody and triumphant rebellion, seemed necessary; and the marquis of Argyle and one Guthry were pitched on as the victims.
Representations were made to the king against these enormities. * Burnet, p 202. * Burnet, p. 213 This lenity of the king's came too late to remedy the disorders. The people, inflamed with bigotry, and irritated by ill usage, rose in arms. They were instigated by Guthry, Semple, and other preachers.
Lord Lorne, son of Argyle, having ever preserved his loyalty, obtained a gift of the forfeiture. Guthry was a seditious preacher, and had personally affronted the king: his punishment gave surprise to nobody. Sir Archibald Johnstone of Warriston was attainted and fled; but was seized in France about two years after, brought over, and executed.
* A presbytery in Scotland is an inferior ecclesiastical court, the same that was afterwards called a classis in England, and is composed of the clergy of the neighboring parishes, to the number commonly of between twelve and twenty. King's Decl. p. 190, 191, 290. Guthry, p. 39, etc. * King's Decl. p. 218. Rush. vol. ii p. 787. May, p. 44.
And none but rebels to God, and traitors to their country, it was thought, would withdraw themselves from so salutary and so pious a combination. * King's Decl. p. 47, 48, etc. Guthry, p. 28. May, p. 37. Clarendon, vol. i. p. 111. Rush. vol. ii. p. 734. * King's Decl. p. 57, 58. Rush. vol. ii. p. 734. May, p. 38.
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