ARGYLL, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, ninth Earl of ( ?-16S5). Eldest son of the preceding. He was early distinguished by personal accomplish ments, and exhibited great bravery on the dis astrous day of Dunbar, where he commanded a regiment on the Royalist side. After Worcester, he continued, like his father, in arms, and made himself so obnoxious to the Parliamentary lead ers that he was specially excepted by Cromwell from the Act of Grace in 1654. After much harassing persecution, he submitted to the Par liament, hut continued to be closely watched. On the restoration of Charles II., he was received into high favor (as a balance to the execution of his father), and, unfortunately for his own fame, participated in some of the iniquitous acts of the Scottish Legislature. lie had, however, numer ous and active enemies; and, on the ground of an intercepted letter, in which he had complained of neglect, he was tried and condemned to death by the Scottish Parliament for the imaginary crime of (wax majestas. The influence of Claren
don restored him to liberty and favor; even the King himself was prejudiced in his favor, but in taking the test oath framed by the Scottish Parliament in 1681, his added reservation, "So far as consistent with the Protestant faith," was declared treasonable, and he was again eon demned to death. The devotion of his wife en abled him to escape from Edinburgh Castle in the disguise of a page, and, after remaining con cealed some time, he fled to Holland. On the accession of James IL, he landed in the north of Scotland, in Slay, 1685, with an armed force, to in the revolt of Monmouth. but after a series of misfortunes, was taken prisoner, hastily condemned, and beheaded, June 30, 1685. His son Archibald, one of the deputation sent by the Scottish Convention to present the crown to the Prince of Orange, was in 1701 created Duke of Argyll.