334 [The reader will find a very interesting account of the negociations
at Breda, in "A Brief Historical Relation of the Life of Mr. John
Livingston, Minister at Ancrum in Scotland, and last at Rotterdam in
Holland," who was one of the commissioners sent from Scotland to
Breda (pp. 39-52. Glasgow, 1754). Dr. Cook, who quotes from the MS.,
does not seem to have been aware that the Life of Livingston was
ever printed. See his "History of the Church of Scotland," vol. iii.
p. 177, _note_.--_Ed._]

335 ["Immediately after the Scots army had marched in to England to the
parliament's assistance, did the King commissionate Montrose to
raise a war in Scotland, by which he made account either to oblige
the covenanters to recall their army out of England, or at least to
make that nation smart for their boldness. And this indeed he did
effectually, for landing in the West Highlands, with a party of
bloody Irish papists, who had been but a little before clashed in
the cruel massacre of the innocent protestants he overran the whole
country and beat the covenanters forces in six bloody conflicts. His
war, I believe, was the most cruel in the world." (Kirkton's
History, p. 43) "Montrose's History is written in good Latin
(supposed to be by Bishop Wishart), but with as little truth as most
in the world." Id. p. 122.--_Ed._]

336 [Sir James Turner and Colonel Urrey were sent to the west of
Scotland with their respective regiments, in 1648 to overawe and
reduce to obedience, those who were averse to Hamilton's Engagement.
(Guthry's Memoirs, p. 272 second edition). This service seems to
have been perfectly congenial to the habits and taste of Sir James
Turner, who appears, says Sir Walter Scott, ("Tales of a
Grandfather," vol. ii. p. 211. Edin. 1829), by the account he gives
of himself in his Memoirs to have been an unscrupulous plunderer,
and other authorities describe him as a fierce and dissolute
character. On coming to Glasgow, the way he took, as he himself
tells us with considerable _gusto_, "to make the hardest headed
Covenanter in the toune to forsake the kirk and side with the
Parliament," was to quarter on suspected persons "two or three
troopers and halfe a dozen musketeers." In the same heartless strain
he proceeds to say--