Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...than fifteen hundred thousand pounds bore to the mcome of Lord Bedford or Lord Devonshire. The sum was ample; but the King was not fortunate in the choice of an agent 1 Life of James Ii 468, 469. John Earl of Breadalbane, the head of a younger Bmdalbane branch of the great house of Campbell, ranked iigiiiiiiiialw high among the petty princes of the moun i;iiii1ici ue. tains. He could bring seventeen hundred claymores into the field; and, ten years before the Revolution, he had actually marched into the Lowlands with this great force for the purpose of supporting the prelatical tyranny." In those days he had affected zeal for monarchy and episcopacy: but in truth he cared for no government and no religion. He seems to have united two different sets of vices, the growth of two ditferent regions, and of two different stages in the progress of society. In his castle among the hills he had learned the barbarian pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. In the Council Chamber at Edinburgh he had contracted the deep taint of treachery and corruption. After the Revolution he had, like too many of his fellow nobles, joined and betrayed every party in turn, had sworn fealty to William and Mary, and had plotted against them. To trace all the turns and doublings of his course, during the year 1689 and the earlier part of 1690, would be wearisome.3 That course became somewhat less tortuous when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jacrbites. It now seemed probable that the Earl would be a loyal subject of their Majesties, till some great 1 Burner, ii. 88.; Master of Stair to Breadalbane, Dec. 2. 1691. 2 Burnet, i. 418. 3 Crawford to Melville, July 23. 1689; The Master of Stair to Melville Aug. 16. 1689; Cardross to Melville, ..."
