ultimately to be dominant in Scotland, there ensued for straitlaced clerical individuals who would cling too desperately to the opposite Resolutioner or Quasi-Malignant side, very bad times. There ensued in the first place, very naturally, this, That the straitlaced individual, who would not cease to pray publicly against the now Governing Powers, was put out of his living: this; and if he grew still more desperate, worse than this. Of both which destinies our poor straitlaced Waugh may serve to us as an emblem here. Some three years hence we find that the Cromwellean Government has, in Waugh's, as in various other cases, ejected the straitlaced Resolutioner, and inducted a looselaced Protester into his Kirk ;-leaving poor Waugh the straitlaced to preach 'in a barn hard by.' And though the looselaced have but fifteen,' and the straitlaced all the Parish,' it matters not; the stipend and the Kirk go with him whose lacing is loose one has nothing but one's barn left, and sad reflections. Nay in Waugh's case, the very barn, proving as is likely an arena of too vehement discourse, was taken away from him; and he, Waugh, was lodged in Prison, in the Castle of Edinburgh.2 For Waugh 'named the King in his prayers,' he and Mr. Robert Knox' even went that length! In Baillie, under date 11th November 1653, is a most doleful inflexible Letter from Waugh's own hand: "brought to the top of this rock," as his ultimate lodging-place; "having my habitation among the owls of the desert, "because of my very great uselessness and fruitlessness among "the sons of men.' "3 Yet he is right well satisfied, conscience yielding him a good &c. &c.-Poor Waugh, I wish he would reconsider himself. Whether it be absolutely indispensable to Christ's Kirk to have a Nell-Gwynn Defender set over it, even though descended from Elizabeth Muir; and if no other, not the bravest and devoutest of all British men, will do for that? O Waugh, it is a strange camera-obscura, the head of man!— 1[It was not Waugh but one Mr. Archibald Inglish of Douglas, who was left, with his whole congregation, including the Marquis of Douglas and the Earl of Angus, "in the fields or a barn," whilst an interloper (with his "twelve or sixteen followers"), enjoyed the Church and the stipend.] 2 Baillie, iii. 248, 253, 228. [What Waugh says is that he had desired to lurk among the owls of the desert, but that he had been so far from attaining to this his "desire of lurking" that he had been brought, &c.] LETTER CLXIV We have heard of many Mosstroopers: we heard once of a certain Watt, a Tenant of the Earl of Tweedale's, who being ruinedout by the War, distinguished himself in this new course; and contemporary with him, of 'one Augustin a High-German. which latter some more special momentary notice now falls due. Read Balfour's record, and then Cromwell's Letter. 'One 'Augustin, a High-German, being purged out of the Army before 'Dunbar Drove, but a stout and resolute young man, and lover 'of the Scots Nation,-imitating Watt,-in October and November 'this year, annoyed the Enemy very much; killing many of his 'stragglers; and made nightly infalls upon their quarters, taking 'and killing sometimes twenty, and sometimes thirty, and more 'or less of them: whereby he both enriched himself and his 'followers, and greatly damnified the Enemy. His chief abode 'was about and in the Mountains of Pentland and Soutra.'-And again, from Perth, 19th December 1650: Memorandum, That 'Augustin departed from Fife with a party of Six-score horse; 'crossed at Blackness on Friday the 13 of December; forced 'Cromwell's guards; killed eighty men to the Enemy; put-in 'thirty-six men to Edinburgh Castle, with all sorts of spices, and 'some other things; took thirty-five horses and five prisoners, 'which he sent to Perth the 19th1 of this instant.' Which feat, with the spices and thirty-six men, could not indeed save Edinburgh Castle from surrendering, as we saw, next week; but did procure Captain Augustin thanks from the Lord Chancellor and Parliament in his Majesty's name, and good outlooks for promotion in that quarter.2 For the Right Honourable the Committee of Estates of the MY LORDS, Edinburgh, 17th January 1650. Having been informed of divers barbarous murders and inhumane acts, perpetrated upon our men by one Augustine, a German in employment under you, and one Ross, a [Carlyle printed 14th, but Balfour says 19th, and mentions the warrant to the magistrates of Perth for their committal as issued on this day.] 2 Balfour, iv. 165, 209, 214. Lieutenant, I did send to Lieutenant-General David Lesley, desiring justice against the said persons. And to the end I might make good the fact upon them, I was either willing by commissioners on both parts, or in any other equal way, to have the charge proved. The Lieutenant-General was pleased to allege a want of power from public authority to enable him herein, which occasions me to desire your Lordships that this business may be put into such a way as may give satisfaction; whereby I may understand what rules your Lordships will hold during this sad contest between the two nations, which may evidence the war to stand upon other pretences at least than the allowing of such actions will suppose. Desiring your Lordships' answer, I rest, My Lords, Your humble servant, OLIVER CROMWELL.* No effect whatever seems to have been produced by this Letter. The Scotch Quasi-Malignant Authorities have 'thanked' Augustin, and are determined to have all the benefit they can of him,—which cannot be much, one would think! In the following June accordingly we find him become 'Colonel Augustin,' probably Major or Lieutenant-Colonel; quartered with Robin Montgomery 'at Dumfries;' giving an alarm to Carlisle,' but by no means taking it ;— 'falling in,' on another occasion, 'with Two-hundred picked men,' but very glad to fall out again, 'nearly all cut off.' In strong practical Remonstrance against which, the learned Bulstrode has Letters in November, vague but satisfactory, 'That the Scots 'themselves rose against Augustin, killed some of his men, and 'drove away the rest;' entirely disapproving of such courses and personages. And then finally in January following, 'Letters that Augustin the great robber in Scotland,-upon disbanding of the 'Marquis of Huntly's forces,' the last remnant of Scotch Malignancy for the present,' went into the Orcades, and their took 'ship for Norway.' Fair wind and full sea to him! Thurloe, i. 171. Laigh Parliament House. 1 Newspapers (in Cromwelliana, p. 104); Whitlocke, 23d November 1651; ib. 14th January 1651-2. LETTER CLXV AN Official Medallist has arrived from London to take the Effigies of the Lord General, for a Medal commemorative of the Victory at Dunbar. The Effigies, Portrait, or 'Statue' as they sometimes call it, of the Lord General appears to be in a state of forwardness; but he would fain waive such a piece of vanity. The Gratuity to the Army' is a solid thing: but this of the Effigies, or Stamp of my poor transient unbeautiful Face-?— However, the Authorities, as we may surmise, have made up their mind. For the Honourable the Committee of the Army at London:' These Edinburgh, 4th February 1650. GENTLEMEN, It was not a little wonder to me to see that you should send Mr. Symonds so great a journey, about a business importing so little, as far as it relates to me; whereas, if my poor opinion may not be rejected by you, I have to offer to that which I think the most noble end, to wit, the commemoration of that great mercy at Dunbar, and the gratuity to the army, which might better be expressed upon the medal, by engraving, as on the one side the Parliament, which I hear was intended and will do singularly well, so on the other side an army, with this inscription over the head of it, The Lord of Hosts, which was our Word that day. Wherefore, if I may beg it as a favour from you, I most earnestly beseech you, if I may do it without offence, that it may be so. And if you think not fit to have it as I offer, you may alter it as you see cause; only I do think I may truly say, it will be very thankfully acknowledged by me, if you will spare the having my effigies in it. The Gentleman's pains and trouble hither have been very great; and I shall make it my second suit unto you that you will please to confer upon him that employment in your service which Nicholas Briot had before him: indeed the man is ingenious, and 1 I should vote exclusively for that. worthy of encouragement. I may not presume much, but if, at my request, and for my sake, he may obtain this favour, I shall put it upon the account of my obligations, which are not a few; and, I hope, shall be found ready to acknowledge it,' and to approve myself, Gentlemen, Your most real servant, OLIVER CROMWELL.* Of 'Nicholas Briot' and 'Mr. Symonds,' since they have the honour of a passing relation to the Lord General, and still enjoy, or suffer, a kind of ghost-existence in the Dilettante memory, we may subjoin, rather than cancel, the following authentic particulars. In the Commons Journals of 20th August 1642, it is: 'Ordered, That the Earl of Warwick,' now Admiral of our Fleet, 'be desired that Monsieur Bryatt may have delivery of his wear'ing apparel; and all his other goods stayed at Scarborough, not 'belonging to Minting and Coining of Moneys.'-This Nicholas Bryatt, or Briot, then, must have been Chief Engraver for the Mint at the beginning of the Civil Wars. We perceive, he has gone to the King northward; but is here stopt at Scarborough, with all his baggage, by Warwick the Lord High Admiral: and is to get away. What became of him afterwards, or what was his history before, no man and hardly any Dilettante knows.1 *Harris, p. 519. [Stated by him to be in the possession of James Lamb, Esq., of Fairford in Gloucestershire. It is also printed from the original by Gough (in his edition of Vertue's Works of Thomas Simon, ed. 1780, p. 74*), who states that the name of Nicholas Briot has been inserted by another hand. There is a full explanation of the matter in Mr. Henfrey's Numismata Cromwelliana. Mr. Henfrey says that Cromwell's suggestions were all carried out, with the exception that the Parliament were resolved to have his bust upon the medal. "The House of Commons sitting, a view of the army in the battle, with the word of the day, The Lord of Hosts, are all there, in addition to a life-like portrait of the General. His recommendation of Simon to the place of Briot was also adopted." Mr. Henfrey gives engravings of the three varieties of the medal, with a list of other books in which they may be found. There are specimens in the British Museum.] 1 [Nicholas Briot, according to his own statement, came to England about 1624, and in 1626 was employed "to make the great seal of England in silver, according to a model presented him by the King." He proposed many new schemes concerning the coinage, and in 1630 the King ordered that he should have lodgings in the Tower, for himself, his instruments and his workmen. The officers of the Mint objected, on the ground that he was not of their "body or corporation," but steps were taken to remedy this, and in 1633, if not earlier, he was made one of the King's chief engravers, Sir Robert Harley being then Master of the Mint. In 1638 he urged the employment of mills and presses, instead of the "ancient way of the hammer" for |