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HIS LIFE SVARED BY THE MARQUIS OF ARGYLL. cxcix
first to suffer, aiiJ were nppoinled to be executed ou Gth January followiug.
The sentence, liowevcr, was never carried out. The night before the day
named for the execution. Lord Ogilvie, with the a.ssistance of his sister, who
lent him lier clothes, and took his place in bed, made his escape out of the
castle of St. Andrews; and, says Guthrie, Argyll, conceiving this to be done
b}' the means of the Hamiltons, in whom Ogilvie had special interest, his
mother being daughter of Thomas, Earl of Haddington, and himself being
thereby cousin-germau to Crawford Lindsay, therefore to pay it home, he
would needs have the Earl of Hartfcll spared, whose death they were thought
to thirst after as earnestly as Argyll did Ogilvie's.^ In this vray Argyll was
induced to procure the pardon of the Earl of Hartfell.
The imprisonment of the Earl of Hartfell lasted a year, during which time
he was confined in the castles of Dumbarton, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and St.
Andrews, '"'
with quhat accomodatioune and hardschip," he says, " I ncid not
express." Meantime his bond for £100,000 Scots for his good behaviour was
forfeited, and he was called on to pay the sum. For this sum James, Earl of
Home, James, Earl of Annandale, Sir William Eaillie of Lamington, and Sir
Uobert Grierson of Lag were cautioners.^ The sum was to be em]Dloyed
partly in paying arrears of the Earl of Lanark's regiment. The Earl of
Lanark himself, Sir Adam Hepbiirne of Ilurnbie, treasurer, and the procu-
rators of. the estates petitioned parliament to have the fine exacted. Where-
upon parliament summoned Sir William Eaillie and Sir Eobcrt Grierson to
satisfy their cautionry.^ The earl, in a petition to parliarac.t for mitigation
of the fime, explains that the committee of processes would give him no benefit
of the Act of Classes, but required payment of the whole £100,000 Scots;
that being in ''
firmance," he could not raise the sum, and that on this account
his lands were quartered upon, the loss from whicli he estimates at £100,000
Scots. On his supplication, the committee of processes, on 1st August IC-IG,
' Guthrie's Memoirs, p. 16S.
' Acts of the l'arliaiuent.s of Scotland, vol. vi. part i. p. 539. ' JOid.