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Under the identically-titled Act of indemnity and oblivion passed by the Scottish Parliament on 9 September 1662, the conditions were similar to that in England: most were pardoned and their crimes forgotten, but a few members of the previous regime were tried and found guilty of treason.
| Name | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Archibald Campbell (8th Earl of Argyll) | Beheaded 27 May 1661.[1] | At his trial in Edinburgh Argyll was acquitted of complicity in the death of Charles I, and his escape from the whole charge seemed imminent, but the arrival of a packet of letters written by Argyll to Monck showed conclusively his collaboration with Cromwell's government, particularly in the suppression of Glencairn's Royalist rising in 1652. He was immediately sentenced to death.[2] |
| James Guthrie | Hanged 1 June 1661. | On 20 February 1661 Guthrie was arraigned for high treason before the parliament, with Earl of Middleton presiding as commissioner. The indictment had six counts; the contriving of the "Western Remonstrance" and the rejection of the king's ecclesiastical authority were, from a legal point of view, the most formidable charges. The trial was not concluded until 11 April. On 28 May parliament, having found him guilty of treason, ordered him to be hanged.[3] |
| Captain William Govan | Hanged 1 June 1661 (after Guthrie).[1] | |
| Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston | hanged 22 July 1663[1] | At the Restoration Warriston fled to Holland and thence to Hamburg in Germany. He was condemned to death (and stripped of his properties and title) in absentia on 15 May 1661.[4] In 1663, having ventured into France, he was discovered at Rouen, and with the consent of Louis XIV was brought to England and imprisoned in the Tower of London. In June he was taken to Edinburgh and confined in the Tolbooth, and was hanged on 22 July 1663.[5] |
| John Swinton (1621?–1679) | Imprisoned | Swinton was condemned to forfeiture and imprisonment in Edinburgh Castle, where he remained for some years before being released.[6] |
| John Home of Kelloe | Estates sequestrated | In 1661 Home had his estates sequestrated for being with the English Parliamentary army against the King Charles II's army at the Battle of Worcester in 1651.[7][8] After the Glorious Revolution of 1688 the estates were restored to his son George.[9] |
- ^ a b c Harris 2005, p. 111; Aikman 1842, pp. 50–51Howie & M'Gavin 1830, pp. 73–75; and Crooks.
- ^ Yorke & Chisholm 1911, p. 484.
- ^ Gordon 1890, p. 378.
- ^ Lawson 1844, p. 713.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 333.
- ^ Swinton 1898, pp. 237–239.
- ^ Brown 2012.
- ^ Morison 1803, p. 42.
- ^ Edinburgh Magazine staff 1819, p. 582.