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HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

CHAP.

XX.

1U93.

Feelingof theJacobites.Com-pounders.

kindness "which he could give to heretics who had resignedwealth, country, family, for his sake, was to suffer them to bebeset, on their dying beds, by his priests. If some sick man,helpless in body and in mind, and deafened by the din of badlogic and bad rhetoric, suffered a wafer to be thrust into hismouth, a great work of grace was triumphantly announced tothe Court; and the neophyte was buried with all the pomp ofreligion. But if a royalist, of the highest rank and most stain-less character, died professing firm attachment to the Churchof England, a hole was dug in the fields; and, at dead ofnight, he "was flung into it and covered up like a mass of car-rion. Such were the obsequies of the Earl of Dunfermline, whohad served the House of Stuart with the hazard of his life and tothe utter ruin of his fortunes, who had fought at Ivilliecrankie,and who had, after the victory, lifted from the earth the stillbreathing remains of Dundee. While living he had beentreated with contumely. The Scottish officers who had longserved under him had in vain entreated that, when they wereformed into a company, he might still be their commander.His religion had been thought a fatal disqualification. A worth-less adventurer, whose only recommendation was that he was aPapist, was preferred. Dunfermline continued, during a shorttime, to make his appearance in the circle which surroundedthe Prince whom he had served too well; but it was to no pur-pose. The bigots who ruled the Court refused to the ruinedand expatriated Protestant Lord the means of subsistence:he died of a broken heart; and they refused him even agrave.*

The insults daily offered at Saint Germains to the Protestantreligion produced a great effect in England. The Whigs

* View of the Court of Saint Germains from 3600 to 1605. ThatDunfermline was grossly ill used is plain even from the Memoirs of Dundee,37H.