ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the study of the activities of the king's agents has shown the important part played by overlapping clientage networks in the structure and operations of the royalist party. It was nothing else, but the restless and invincible spirit of the royal party, that by keeping the Usurpers in a perpetual distraction and Alarm, hindered them from proceeding to a final Establishment of their Power. The chapter presents the two of the most prominent Scottish agents in the 1640s, John Cochrane and Will Murray, was gradually discredited, lost royal favour in the early 1650s and withdrew from the court. It talks about many royal servants who worked as agents, envoys, messengers, conspirators, spies and intelligencers in the Stuart cause, and few were as long-serving, as resourceful or eventually as well rewarded as the 'Infallible Subtle' Daniel O'Neill.
