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 204 COMPLETE PEERAGE argyll having obtained a promise to be made a Duke and K.G. Subsequently, however, he was present at the proclamation of Cromwell as Lord Protector, and signed a promise to live peaceably under that Government. He was M.P. for CO. Aberdeen 1658-59. (") On the death of his half br. James, Earl of Irvine [S.], s.p., in Sep. 1645, ^^ inherited the title of LORD OF KINTYRE [S.], cr. 22 Feb. 1626. In July 1660 he went to London, to wait on the newly arrived King, but this, the last of his many tergiversations, avaded 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 May 1661, when, having been attainted, all his honours hecTimc forfeited. He d. 27 May 1661, being executed (") at the Cross of Edinburgh ; his head was exposed (where Montrose's had been) on the top of the Tolbooth till 8 June, when it was bur. with his body at Kilmun. (") He OT., in 1626, shortly before 6 Aug., his cousin, Margaret, 2nd da. of William (Douglas), 9th Earl of Morton [S.], by Anne, ist da. of George (Keith), 5th Earl Marischal [S.]. His widow, who was b. 1610, d. 13 Mar. 1677/8. EARLDOM [S.] 9. Archibald Campbell, styled Lord Lorne and jY z-/r Master of Argyll in his father's lifetime, and for ^ some period after his death, s. and h., b. 26 Feb. f-f- 1628/9, at Dalkeith. 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 from Cromwell's Act of Grace 1654. He afterwards, however, submitted, but was compelled to find X5000 security. At the Restoration he was imprisoned and sentenced to death, 26 Aug. 1662, but was released 4 June 1663, and, by patent, 16 Oct. 1663, wherein he is styled " Dominus de Lome, " was restored to the titles of Earl of Argyll, Lord Campbell, Lorne and Kintyre[S.]. C) F.R.S. 28 Oct. 1663; nom. P.C. Apr. and sworn 9 June 1664. On 15 Oct. 1667, he received a new charter of all his lands and offices. (') From 1 1 July 1674 to Nov. 1681, C) Though a peer of Scotland, he sat in the House of Commons, as did the and, 4th, and 5th Viscounts Falkland. C') See N. is' 0., 3rd Ser., vol. ii, p. 260, i?c. Lord Clarendon describes him as- " a person of extraordinary cunning," one, who "carried himself so, that they, who hated him most, were willing to compound with him, " and as having " no martial qualities, nor the reputation of more courage than violent and imperious persons, whilst they meet with no opposition, are used to have. " f) He was a small, wiry, squinting, blue eyed, red haired man, with a high forehead and hooked nose. V.G. C) See note " a " on previous page. f^) The office of Justice gen. of Scotland was not included, as it had ceased to be in the family. It was not, strictly speaking, hereditary, excepting from 1625 to 1628 ; but it was virtually so, having been held by the 2nd down to the 8th inclusive. In 1561, in the confirmation thereof to the 5th Earl, the moving cause is said to be