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Monument of the Marquis of Argyll at Inverary, [Scotland], 1871. 'Our Illustration shows the monument erected in honour of Archibald, the eighth Earl and first Marquis of Argyll, who was beheaded at Edinburgh in 1660, upon the restoration of the Stuarts, because he had submitted to Oliver Cromwell, as all the chief nobility of Scotland did, after the battle of Worcester. He was a zealous Covenanter, but still a Royalist, and had with his own hands put the crown on the head of Charles II. His son, another Archibald, the ninth Earl of Argyll, was likewise beheaded, in 1685, for aiding the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth, though he, more constant to the Royal cause than his father, had laboured zealously for Charles II. till the Restoration'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.