Status Updates From The Rivals: Montrose and Ar...

David Dickson roused the assembly to continue '[Hamilton] was very much to be commended for his zeal and faithfulness to his master the King, and sticking close by what he thought for his credit and interest…they had a better master, Christ the King of Kings, to serve; and his credit and honour to look after…therefore he moved that, having this in their eye, they might sit still and do their Master's work faithfully.

2nd time thru, for a fuller perspective of the time having just finished “The Protector.”
We live is such different times as this:
“Marriage, and the birth of heirs, were encouraged for young noblemen at an early age to ensure the continuation of the family line, and as Montrose was an only son it was particularly important that this vital matter was attended to before he set out into the wider world.”