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HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

CHAP.

V.

1685 .

Prepara-tionsmade bygovern-ment forthe de-fence ofScotland.

Conver-sation ofJameswith theDutchambas-sadors.

resorted to violent methods of redress. But he was not to heblinded by personal resentment: he augured no good fromthe schemes of those who had assembled at Amsterdam; andhe quietly repaired to Utrecht, where, while his partners inmisfortune were planning their own destruction, he employedhimself in writing his celebrated Letter on Toleration. *

TheEnglish government was early apprised that somethingwas in agitation among the outlaws. An invasion of Englandseems not to have been at first expected; but it was ap-prehended that Argyle would shortly appear in arms amonghis clansmen. A proclamation was accordingly issued direct-ing that Scotland should be but into a state of defence. Themilitia was ordered to be in readiness. All the clans hostileto the name of Campbell were set in motion. John Murray,Marquess of Athol, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ar-gyleshire, and, at the head of a great body of his followers,occupied the castle of Inverary. Some suspected personswere arrested. Others were compelled to give hostages.Ships of war were sent to cruise near the isle of Bute; andpart of the army of Ireland was moved to the coast of Ulster.**

While these preparations were making in Scotland, Jamescalled into his closet Arnold Van Citters, who had long re-sided in England as Ambassador from the United Provinces,and Everard Van Dykvelt, who, after the death of Charles,had been sent by the States General on a special mission ofcondolence and congratulation. The King said that he had

* Le Clerc’s Life of Locke; Lord King’s Life of Locke; Lord Gren-ville’s Oxford and Locke. Locke must not be confounded with the Ana-baptist Nicholas Look, whose name is spelt Locke in Grey’s Confession,and who is mentioned in the Lansdowne MS. 1152 , and in the Bucclcuchnarrative appended to Mr. Rose’s dissertation. I should hardly think itnecessary to make this remark, but that the similarity of the two namesappears to have misled a man so well acquainted with the history of thosetimes as Speaker Onslow. See his note on Burnet, i. 629 .

** Wodrow, book iii. chap. ix.; London Gazette, May 11 . 1685 ; Ba-rillon, May 4{-