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4G THE C ROM ARTIE CORRESPONDENCE.
ships tier then on the contrarie syd of Kintyr to Lochfyn, uherby it was saif
enouch for Balechan to mak his escape by sea, as his sone hes done be land
through Argyllshyr and this cuntree, and is now in Atholl.
I continow still of the opinion I uas of, that the rebells uill not stay on
the coast of Argyll, for fear of the King's ships, but uill heast to ther
apoynted port ; and may be Mr. Charles Campbell, and such as he can get to
joyn him, uill en devour to stay in that shyre so long as they may, uhich I
trust uill not be long. I can giv no information as yit if that shyr, or any
considerable person therin, hes joynd or not ; but I sent thither ane express
from Stirling yesterday, uho the morow will bring me trew and late intelli-
gence of the state of that effair, uhich shall therafter be immediatly trans-
mitted to your Grace. In caice your Grace and tbe councill think fitt to
comand my men in the south to come home, I hav sent the inclosed order to
ther officers, to be pervsed by your Grace, to allow, or disalow, as it consists
uith your missurs of the King's service ; and I humbly offer if they may not
now be mor vsfull in Argyllshyr then with the standing forces, which I
altogather do uith dew submission to your Grace's judgment. I am hopfull,
if I wer once in Argyllshyr, to keep the gentrie, and even manj r of the
comons, from joyning uith rebells, or else they ar farr changed vpon me ;
for I hav made them lasie to ryse when that late Earle had a mor legall
cause then now he hes, and less dangerous to them. I pray God send us
good neus from England, and I am not at all affrayd of the success of rebells
in this kingdome.
I humbly offer it to your Grace's consideration, if it \ier not fitt that some
able pen should draw a proclamation against the rebells, narating that treason-
able declaration of the late Earl of Argyll, and vndeceaving the simple, jealous,
zealous, comon people, of that sham trick of mentioning the quarrell to be
the danger of popry, a trick that began all our rnischeif in King Charles the