Historical memoir of the family of Eglinton and Winton

EGLINTON AND WINTOX. 45
more love and honour in all Scotland, for your zeal
andhappie paines in the good cause, than any of your
age, are now clean changed. . . My lord, the
remainder of old kindness forces me to beseech
your lordship that the great honour and sweet con-
tentment of a good name is worth verie much ; that
the changing from the partie which you, alse much
as anie, proclaimed to be for nought but the honour
of God, the real good of the King, the weil of the
countrie, to syde with a faction which you know
sought nothing, but by anie possible means, to set
the feet of the King on the neck both of the Church
and State of all his dominions, and that not for anie
love they carried to the prince, but alone for the
satisfaction of their own ambition, revenge, and
greed. . . Such a change in your lordship can-
not be verie gracious, whatever be the pretext ; yet
evidently to the sense of all reasonable men, these
counsels must be of the devil, which cannot fail to
trouble with great confusion our poor land, newly
settled with so much travell and hazard."
That Hew, Lord Montgomerie, from the first
was of decided royalist sentiments can hardly admit
of a do\ibt ; but that he had, for a time acted in
concert with his father on the opposite side seems
conclusive from Baillie's distinct allusion to his
" change of party." Some confusion, consequently,
has arisen out of these circumstances. Crawfurd,
and others, have asserted that Lord Montgomerie
" was a man of perfect loyality in the time of our
civil troubles. . . In the year 1643, he raised a