1793.  jfketch of the life of lord Cardrofs. 3 
ing the famous Mr Hugh Mackail and other 
preachers to officiate in his chapel at Cardrofs, he 
was confiscated, and forced to pay another fine of a 
thousand pounds sterling. 
His whole estate of Cardrofs was wasted, and his 
house occupied by a garrison for-eight years toge- 
ther, during the life time of his father § and now in 
the year 1679, it was again garrisoned, and him- 
‘self committed a close prisoner to the castle of E- 
dinburgh, until he fhould pay a fine of three thou- 
sand pounds, immoderately laid beyond his power 
of present performance, that his person might be 
secured. 
In June of this year the king’s forces, on their 
march to the west, (the day before the duke of 
Monmouth came to them,) wheeled, and went out of 
their route, that they might quarter upon lord 
Cardrofs’s estate of Strathbroke, where they plun- 
dered and destroyed the corns and cattle of his 
tenants, and made. as great havock as the time 
would permit. 
After this, lord Gardrofs finding it impofsible for 
_ him.to live with safety or honour in his own coun- 
try, compounded for his fines, and engaged with 
those who settled on Charlestown neck in South 
Carolina, where he establifhed a plantation. From 
‘thence a few years afterwards he and his people 
were driven by the Spaniards, many of the colonists 
being killed, and almost all their effects destroyed. 
Forced to return again to Europe, he took up 
his abode at the Hague,gwith his persecuted coun- 
