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124 ARGYLL. the fields. Pun. certif. at the Coll. of Ams, Lumlou.( b ) He d. ia London 1C3S aged about 62. Will dat. 9 Oct. ISA'S, pr. 2U Nov 1638, iu the Commissary Court of London. VIII. 1638. 8. Archibald (Campbell), Earl ov Argyll, && [g.]. -M-o,n„t><i«Kl 3 - ttnd h -> bein S onlys. b y n' ,l!t wife > *• In ISIS, his father maiquesSLr, ' J having left the kingdom, the care of the Western Highlands devolved I. 1G11 BO him, and to him, being a Protestant, his father was directed to t 0 make over all Ids estates, fn 1625 the office of Justice Gen. [8,1 Wit 1G61 conferred on him and his successors, Earls of Argyll, but, in 1628 it was resigned by him to the King. P.C. in J 626. On 14 Jan.' 1634 he was (under the sti/le of " Lord Lorn ") one of the Ei- traordiuary Lords of Session. On his accession to the Earldom he subscribed the "Covenant"; in 1630 he sent 500 Highlanders to swell the covenanting force at Aberdeen, and in 1040, in tho cause of the " Covenant," he carried fire and sword through Athole, Radenach and Angus. But when Charles I came to Scotland in Aug. 1641 he made his peace with him and was cr. 15 Nov. 1611 MARQUESS OF ARGYLL [S.]. a pension of £1000 a year being, at the same time, settled upon him. Soon afterwarils lie again joined the Covenanters, but was signally defeated at Inverlochy, 2 Feb. 1644-5, and at Kilsyth, 15 Aug. 1645, by Montrose. In Oct. 1648 he conducted Cromwell to Edinburgh, where the "Covenant " was renewed. He assisted, however, in bringing Charles II to Scotland in June 1650, and placed the Crown on his head at Scone 1 Jan. 1650-1, having obtained a promise to be made a Duke and K.G. Subsequently, however, he was present at tile proclamation of Cromwell as Lord Protector, aud signed a promise to live peaceably under that Government. He was M.P. for co. Aberdeen 1658-59, Shortly before the restoration, on the death of his br. James, Earl of Irvine [Sj, who it. s.p., he inherited the title of LORD OF KINTYRE [S.], cr. 22 Feb. 1626.( c ) In July 1660 he went to Loudon to wait on the newly arrived King, but this, the last of his many tergi ve r sa tions, availed him nothing, as he was ordered to the Tower and thence taken to Edinburgh Castle. He was tried for high treason and sentence pronounced against him 25 Nlay 1661. He d. 27 May 1661, being exeeuted(d) at the Cross of Edinburgh, his bead being exposed (where Montrose's had been) on the top of the tolbooth till S June, when it was iur. with his body at Kilmain. He had m. his cousin Margaret, 2nd da. of William (Douglas), 9th Eari. ok Morton [SJ, by Anne, 1st da. of George ^Keith), 5th Emu. Ma-iuschal [S.] She survived him. Earls [S.] 0. Archibald Campbell, dyltul Lord Lobxe and IV 1 fifi'3 Master ok Argyll in his father's lifetime and for some period after to 1685. his death, s. and k, b. about 1625. He, was appointed Col. of the Foot Guards and fought at Dunbar, 3 Sep. 1650, and at Worcester, 3 Sep. 1651, on behalf of Charles II, and being then Lieut. Gen. was excepted out of Cromwell's Act of Grace 1654. He afterwards, hoir- ever, submitted but was compelled to find £5000 security. At the restoration he was not Dukes) was recognized in Pari, in 1592, and by charter of 1599. On public occasions, when Angus bore the Crown, Argyi.e, who also held the hereditary office of Justiciary, bore the sceptre; and, by contemporary evidence, Cu.ovfoud's privilege of bearing the sword was equally acknowledged. As the Constable [i.e. the Earl of Erroll] and [the Earl] Mahlscilvl, were both Commissioners [iu the decreet of ranking, in 1606], it would have been strange if their official precedence, often alluded toll the records, had been unrecognised. It was the clashing of the new ideas with the old that had caused tho unseemly scenes in Pari., and that led to the appointment of the Commission of 1606." See a most able article on " Jurisdiction in Scottish Peerages," which appeared in May 1883 in the "Journal of Jurisprudence, Sc., vol. 27 (No. 317), p. 241 aud note thereto. (>>) James Campbell, her 1st a., was (v.p.), on 22 Feb. 1626, cr. Lord ok Ktntvms [SJ "to him, his heirs male and successors in that Lordship." Fie was afterwards, 1642, cr. Earl of Irvine and Lord ok Lvxdik [S.J, with rem. to the heirs male of his body. He a!, s.p. before 1660, when the title of "Lord ok Kintyre" [S.] was inherited, under the spec, rem., by his br. the Marquess of Argyll [S.] ( c ) See note " b," above. ( d ) See N. and Q., 3rd s., ii, 260, &c. Lord Clarendon describes him as " a person of extraordinary cunning," one', who " carried himself so, that they, who hated h'B most, were willing to compound with hini,"