Royalist father and Roundhead son; being the memoirs of the first and second earls of Denbigh, 1600-1675 . there inserted. Hamilton was beheaded in the New Palace Yard onMarch 9, 1649. Whitlock and others, in relating hisend, tell us of his execution, that Hamilton, being first,seemed to have some hopes of a reprieve, and madesome stay in the hall, till Lord Denbigh came to himand, after a short whisper in which he found no hopeof reprieve, he calmly remarked, Theres no remedy,then, and ascending the scaffold, laid his head uponthe block. Hamilton has been severely criticized by Clarendonand o
Royalist father and Roundhead son; being the memoirs of the first and second earls of Denbigh, 1600-1675 . there inserted. Hamilton was beheaded in the New Palace Yard onMarch 9, 1649. Whitlock and others, in relating hisend, tell us of his execution, that Hamilton, being first,seemed to have some hopes of a reprieve, and madesome stay in the hall, till Lord Denbigh came to himand, after a short whisper in which he found no hopeof reprieve, he calmly remarked, Theres no remedy,then, and ascending the scaffold, laid his head uponthe block. Hamilton has been severely criticized by Clarendonand others. But the worst that can be said againsthim is that, as a hot partisan, he not infrequentlysacrificed the exactness of honour and truth to his ownpersonal affection for the King and his zeal for theroyal cause. It may help us to judge him less harshlyif we remember that years before when his enemies,by means of forged documents, endeavoured to per-suade the King that Hamilton had plotted his murderin order to make himself King of Scotland, Charlesrefused to listen to any such accusation. When the. JAMES, 1st duke OF HAMILTON FROM THE PAINTING BY VANDYKE THE COMMONWEALTH 273 Marquis subsequently came to Court the King welcomedhim with an air of kindness beyond what he ordinarilygave, and, with a truly royal generosity, commandedhim to lie in the royal bedchamber that night, express-ing his confidence and affection in such a strain thatHamilton frequently said, never were his resent-ments for any usage he afterwards received so great,but that the remembrance of that night stifled themquite. What became of his beloved pictures it is hard tosay. There is a list of them amongst Basils papers atNewnham, and a copy of a petition from theParliament of Scotland sitting in Edinburgh, March 20,1648, to the Lords and Commons of England, prayingthat certain pictures and other property of the Dukeof Hamilton, which, by the order of the House ofCommons, were committed to the custody of L
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