hemes for
overturning that covenanted interest that he had so solemnly bound
himself to defend and maintain, proving abortive, he fell at last into
the hands of Cromwel and the Independent faction, who never surceased,
till they brought him to the block, Jan. 30. 1649. At his death,
notwithstanding his religious pretences, (being always a devotee of the
church of England) he was so far from repentance, that he seemed to
justify the most part of his former conduct[276]--_Civil wars of Gr.
Br._, _Bailie's let._, _Bennet, Welwood and Guthrie's memoirs_, &c.

JAMES, Duke of Hamilton, though none of the most violent prosecutors of
the malignant interest against the reformation, yet was always one who
conformed to his master Charles 1st's measures, and was by him sent down
commissioner to the assembly 1630, which he commanded to dissolve
(though they did not obey) and left it. He published the king's
declaration against the covenants and covenanters. And though none of
the most rigid, yet he may be justly accounted the head of the malignant
faction in Scotland, from 1638 to 1648, since he, contrary to the
solemn league and covenant, raised a large army in Scotland and went to
England in behalf of the king. But he was shamefully defeated by
Cromwel, and taken prisoner to London. After some time's confinement he
was executed.--_Bailie's Letters_, _Civil Wars_, &c.

JAMES GRAHAM, Earl, afterwards Marquis, of Montrose, in the year 1638,
took the covenanters side, was a prime presser of the covenants, was one
of the commissioners sent to Aberdeen 1638 for that purpose, and in
1639, was sent north to suppress the malignant faction of the Huntleys.
The same year he was ordered north again to quell Aboyn and the Gordons,
which he routed at the bridge of Dee. He commanded two regiments of the
covenanters under general Lesly for England 1640, and led the van of the
army for England. But shifting sides 1643, he offered to raise forces
for the king, came from court, and set up the king's standard at
Dumfries. From thence he went to the north and joined M'Donald with a
number of bloody Irishes, where they plundered and wasted the country of
Argyle, marched southward and gained six battles over the covenanters,
_viz._ at Trippermoor, Aberdeen, Inverlochy, Alfoord, Aldearn and
Kilsyth, where many, some say, thirty thousand of the Covenanters were
killed. But at last was defeated at Philiphaugh by Lesly 1645. For this
conduct he was excommu