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General pardon and exceptions
Unlike in England, where there was a generalised Indemnity and Oblivion Act, that excluded only 33 persons, including the 13 regicides, there was no general indemnity in Scotland. This was used vindictively and politically by Middleton and Glencairn. A number of Covenanter and Protester figures were pursued to death, including Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, who was executed in 1661 for his alleged compliance with the Cromwellian regime. James Guthrie was executed for his publication of Causes of the King's Wrath. Samuel Rutherford died in prison awaiting trial for his publication of Lex Rex. Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston, who had drafted the Solemn League and Covenant, was executed in July 1663. Captain William Govan was hanged in June 1661. When an Act of Indemnity was eventually passed by the Scottish parliament in 1662, some 700 persons were excluded, and threatened with execution if they did not pay fines that ranged from £200 to £1,800 Scots.