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A62398	A true history of the several honourable families of the right honourable name of Scot in the shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk, and others adjacent. Gathered out of ancient chronicles, histories, and traditions of our fathers. By Captain Walter Scot, an old souldier, and no scholler, and one that can write nane, but just the letters of his name.	Scot, Walter, ca. 1614-ca. 1694.	1688 (1688)	Wing S948; ESTC R219942	82,296	178

obedience to the Crown of Scotland yet they were never under sole obedience till the Reign of Malcolm the third surnamed Canmor he dispatch'd them all and gave their Lands and Inheritance to others which were Loyal Subjects ANd now with sleep my Muse hath eas'd her brain I 'le turn my Stile to Rhyming Verse again King Kenneth the second that Prince of high renown He vanquish'd the Picts and Conquer'd their Crown In revenge of his Fathers death which basely they murther'd For which victorious Kenneth mow'd them down And annexed their Realm under Scotlands Crown The year of Grace he did their Crown annex Was in the eight hundred and thirty six Or in the fourty six I know not whether The Kingdoms they were joyn'd together Being the fourth or fourteenth year of his reign And ere the twentieth he did return To his Mother Earth from whence he came His Soul and Hope doth reach the sky His Fame to Titans rise did fly Donald the fifth succeeded his Brother then And lost as much as King Kenneth won A vitious odious King he play'd at swig Whilst he lost Scotland all to Striviling Bridge Yet at 's beginning he did come speed And vanquish'd his Enemies on the South-side Tweed The Picts that fled amongst the English-men Requested Osbridge and Ella two great Princes of England To move War against their Enemies in Scotland Both English Brittans Picts these Princes brought Which Donald vanquish'd at Iedburgh He was so insolent after his victory To the River of Tweed he came with his Army And two ships he took with Wine and Victuals rare And order'd every Souldier for to have their share King Donald was given to variosity and greed With lust of Body he could ne're be satisfied The whole Camp they had their Paramours And was full of Taverns of Bordels and Whoors They followed Carding Dycing and contentious trouble That each of them they did kill one another King Osbridge having Advertisement anone Rais'd a new Army and to the Scots he came And kill'd twenty thousand Men compleat Without Armour and all fast asleep That vile King was tane as has been said And in derision through the Countrey led At which time King Osbridge Conquer'd much land And that the South-parts of Scotland fand Assisted by the Brittans so that he Cauf'd Stirling Bridge the Marches for to be For Saxons Brittans and English-men In three Kings reigns they kept that Garison In Stirling Castle Osbridge did money coyn From which the Sterling Money had it's first name The Scots valu'd not the Land did belong to the Pict But the Lands of Albion Osbridge did afflict Ther 's Galloway and the Isle of Man Was Lands of Scotland since the first King Fergus came So was Kyle and Carrick all in haill Arron through Lennox with the netherward of Clidsdail The Mers and Tiviot-dail was Picts Lands And so was all the three Louthians So was Peebles Selkirk and Over-ward of Clidsdail Nithsdail and Annandail with the five Kirks of Eskdail Drunken Donald all these Lands did tyne But Gregorius Magnus recover'd them again From Gregories death to Kenneth the thirds reign The Borders obey'd neither God nor King Kenneth the third lov'd Deer both Red and Fellow Above all Princes since King Dornadilla Hunting was the Sport he liked best For all our South-parts was Wood and Forrest Except here and there a Summering Plain Into which his Keepers did remain MY Muse has been astray a certain time But now in case for to return again With the Name of Scot she 's minded to contain Because they are her worthy Noble Friends The year of Grace sixteen hundred and twenty nine Carlaverock was a Garison in that time Collonel Monro a German Souldier he Blockt up the Castle both by Land and Sea Into that Leigure I did remain In Cockburns Company I was a Souldier then And my chance was with my Command to pass To the English-side call'd Burgh under Bowness By fortune I fell in a Gentlemans companie Call'd Lancelot Scot who was most kind to me He shew'd me his Ancestors hail Did live into that Spot Since Carliste Walls were re-built By David King of Scots A Book he gave to me call'd Mr. Michaels Creed But never a word at that time I could read What he read to me I have it not forgot It was th' original of our South-countrey Scots He said that Book which he gave me Was of Mr. Michael Scots Historie Which History was never yet read through Nor never will for no Man dare it do Young Scholars have pickt out some thing From the Contents that dare not read within He carried me along into the Castle then And shew his written Book hanging on an Iron-pin His writing Pen did seem to me to be Of harden'd Mettal like Steil or Accumie The volumn of it did seem so large to me As the Book of Martyrs and Turks Historie Then in the Church he let me see A Stone where Mr. Michael Scot did ly I ask'd at him how that could appear Mr. Michael had been dead above five hundred year He shew'd me none durst bury under that Stone More than he had been dead few years agone For Mr. Michaels name does terrisie each one That vulgar people dare scarce look on the Stone And more it us'd to pay the Saxons a Fee For Strangers are desirous that Stone to see That Lancelot Scot he wearied not To shew me every thing And then incontinent to the Ale-house did return Where we had the other Cup and the other Can There was no cause of Feed Lancelot he said I was not a Gentleman That was not bred to read But to proceed he wearied not To shew the Original of the Border Scot He said that Book did let him understand How the Scots of Buckcleugh gain'd both Name and Land He said Gentlemen in Galloway by fate Had fallen at odds and a Riot did commit For in these days as he did say It was call'd Brigants that's now call'd Galloway Two valiant Lads of these Brigants Were censured to be gone Then to the South they took their way And arrived at Rankelburn At Rankelburn where they did come The Keeper was call'd Brydine They humbly then did him intreat For Meat Drink and Lodging The Keeper stood and then did look And saw them pretty men Immediatly grants their Request And to his House they came To wind a Horn they did not scorn In the loftiest degroe Which made the Forrester conceive They were better Keepers than he In Ettrick-forrest Meggets-head Meucra and Rankelburn-grain There was no Keepers in the South That could compare with them These Gentlemen were Brethren born If Histories be not amiss The one of them called Iohn Scot And the other of them call'd Wat English. KIng Kenneth then a Hunting came To the Cacra-cross did resort And all the Nobles of his Court They hither came to see the sport Of Ettrick's-hew he took a view Then to the lest hand did turn Where

To instruct the Christian Religion And there a Colledge they did frame Which doth remain unto this very time And he that doth not believe me Must read Buchannan and he shall see Some other Authors I could give in But these are sufficient to them that 's not blind Some says they were not Scots to their Name But only Scots by Nation Yet Monks of Melross they were known Which then was in the Picts Kingdom Iohn Earl of Channerth sirnamed Scot To die without Succession was his unfortunate lot Brave Alexander the first a King both stout and good Iohn Earl of Channerth married with his royal blood Before Alexander the first his Brother Edgar did reign The first that was anointed os Scotland King Reverend Iohn Scot he did surmount Who was Bishop Dumblane and did the King anoint Mr. Michael Scot that read the Epistle at Rome He was in King Alexander the second 's Reign Thomas Lermont was first his man That was called the Rymer ever since then And if my Author doeth speak truth Mr. Michael was descended from Buckcleugh And if my Author ye would know Bishop Spotswoods Book these Scots do show How can these randy Liars then Make the Scots to be a start-up Clan Sure new start-ups themselves must be For ancient Families scorns to lie But for the Antiquity of the Scot There 's one thing I have almost sorgot Which is not worthy of nomination Yet to mark Antiquity life make relation In the second Session of King Davids Parliament There was a Statute made which is yet extant That no man should presume to buy or sell With Highland men or Scots of Ewsdale Yet Ewsdale was not near the Forrest Where brave Buckcleugh did dwell According to the old Proyerb They but fell from the Wains tail But when these Scots did bear that stile King David resided in Carlisle Without and infang they disturb'd his Court Which caus'd the King that Act set out Here I speak nought but truth all Men may note The very true Antiquity of the Name of Scot And now my versing Muse craves some repose And while she sleeps I 'le spout a little prose KEnneth the second King of Scots Son to King Alpin who was Son to brave King Achaius forsaid who made the League with Charles the Great Emperour of Germany and King of France the year seven hundreth eighty seven This King Kenneth called the Great conquered the Kingdom of the Picts about the year of Grace eight hundred and thirty nine and joyn'd the Kingdom of Picts unto the antient Nation of Scotland This victorious King Kenneth the second dyed in the twenty year of His Reign The Kingdom not being well settled in obedience to the Crown his brother Donald the fifth succeeded him a very infamous King and a great Tyrant he lost all Scotland to Striviling bridge by the Brittains and Saxons the which time King Osbridge conquered great Lands in Scotland assisted by the Brittans so that Striviling-bridge was made Marc hes betwixt Scots Brittans and Englishmen King Osbridge coyned Money in the Castle of Striviling by that the Starling Money had first beginning and died in the fifth year of His Reign King Constantin the second the Conquerors Son a valiant King in whose time Heger and Hoba with a great Fleet of Danes landing in Fyse used great cruelty King Constantin the second came with a great Army against Hoba and vanquished him the Scots being proud of that victory and neglecting themselves there followed a cruel and desperat battle at last the Scots were vanquished and King Constantin with his Nobles and ten thousand of his Army kill'd in the fifteen year of his reign AEthus surnamed the Swift succeeded his Father King Constantin He died in the second year of his reign Gregorius magnus Dongallus Son a worthy stout and valiant King he freed Scotland all again from Osbridge Saxons and English-men and enlarged his Empire to the County and Shire of Northumberland Westmurland and Cumberland and confederat with Elewrad King of Brittans and after went to Ireland and vanquished Braenus and Cornelius after beseiged Dublin wherein was their young King Duncan to whom he was made Protector during the Kings Minority then returned to Scotland with a victorious Army and brought threescore Pledges of the Irish Nobility and Gentry under the Age of thirty years he died in the eighteen year of his Reign Donald the sixth was Son to Constantin the second a good religious valiant King he succeeded King Gregory in his time the Murrays and Rosses envading each other with cruel killing two thousand were killed in either Parties the King came upon them with a great Army and punished the principal of this rebellion to the death he died in the eleventh year of his reign Constantin the third AEthus son succeeded him a valiant Prince not fortunat in Wars he being vexed with War in the time of King Edward surnamed Sinar of the Saxons kind and Edlston his bastard son he became a Canon in St. Andrews and ded in the fourty year of his reign Malcolm the first Donald the sixth's son a valiant Prince and a good Iustitiar in his time a confederacy was made that Cumberland and Westmuireland should be annexed to the Kingdom of Scotland and should be perpetually holden by the Prince of Scotland of Fee from the King of England by vertue whereof Indolphus son to Constantin the third Prince of Scotland took possession in both Cumberland and Westmuireland The King died the ninth year of his reign Indolphus Constantin the thirds son succeeded King Malcolm the first a noble valiant Prince he vanquished Athagen Prince of Norway and Theodorick Prince of Denmark he died in the ninth year of his reign Duffus Malcolm the first son succeeded King Indolphus a good Prince and a severe Iustitiar he died in the fifth year of his reign Colonus Indolphus son succeeded King Duffus he died in the fourth year of his reign Kenneth the third son to Malcolm the first a brave King and a good Iustitiar from the death of Kenneth the second which conquered the Picts to the reign of Kenneth the third we had nine Kings in Scotland I have set down particularly how long every Kings reign was in cumulo they reigned a hundred and nine years most of them although I have not expressed they were most of them killed in the Field being so possest with War on every side what by Denmark and Norway on the one side the Brittans and Saxons on the other side poor little Scotland had much to do to get her feet holden among them For in all that time of an hundred and nine years there was but one victorious Conquering Ptince which was King Gregory So that the Borders in these Lands in England aforesaid being sometimes under the command of the Scots and sometime of the English they became so Rude and Insolent that they would never be governed before Kenneth the third brought them under

express To be her Father Labans Shepherdess Meek Moses whom the Lord of Hosts did call To lead his People out of AEgypts thrall Whose power was so much as none before Or since his time hath any mans been more Within the Sacred Text it plainly appears That he was Iethroes Shepherd twenty years Heroick David Iesses youngest Son Whose Acts immortal memory hath won Whose valiant vigour did in pieces tear A furious Lyon and a ravenous Bear Who arm'd with faith and fortitude alone Slew great Goliath with a slinging stone Whose Victories the People sang most plain Saul hath a thousand he ten thousand slain He from the Sheep-fold came to be a King Whose Fan e for ever through the VVorld shall ring He was another Type of that most High That was and is and evermore shall be For our protection and his mercies sake Those that will read the sacred Text and look With diligence throughout that heavenly Book Shall find the Ministers have Epithets And named Angels Stewards VVatch-men Lights All Builders Husband-men and Stars that shine Inflamed with the Light that is Divine And with these Names within that Book compil'd They with the stile of Shepherds are instil'd Thus God the Seer and Son the Scriptures call Both Shepherds Mystical and Literal And by similitudes comparing do All Kings and Church-men bear that title too Wise and unscruteable Omniscient Eternal Gracious and Omnipotent In love in justice mercy and in might In honour power and glory Insinite In works in words in every attribute Almighty All commanding Absolute For whoso notes the Letters of the Name Iehovah shall perceive within the same The vowels of all tongues included be So hath no name that e're was named but He. And I have heard some Scholars make relation That H is but a breathing aspiration A Letter that may be left out and spared Whereby is clearly to our sight declared That great Iehovah may be written true With only vowels a e i o u. And that there is no word but this That hath them alone but only this So that the Heaven with all the mighty host Of Creatures there Earth Sea or any Coast Or Climat any Fish or Fowl or Beast Or any of his VVorks the most and least Or thoughts or words or writing with the pen Or deeds that are accomplished by men But have some of these Letters in them all And God alone hath all in general By which we see according to his will He is in all things and does all things fill And all things said or done he hath ordain'd Some part of his great Name 's therein contain'd All future present and all past things seing In Him we live and move and have our being Almighty All and all in every where Eternal in whom change cannot appear Immortal who made all things mortal else Omnipotent whose Power all power excels United three in one and one in three Iehovah unto whom all glory be Besides the learned Poets of all times Have chanted out their Praises in pleasant Rhimes The harmless lives of rural Shepherd Swains And beauteous Shepherdesses on the Plains In Odes in Roundelays and Madrigals In Sonnets and in well penn'd Post'rals They have recorded most delightfully Their Loves their Fortunes and Felicity And sure it in this low terrestrial round Plain honest Happiness is to be found It with the Shepherds is remaining still Because they have least power to do ill And whilst they on their Feeding flocks attend They have the least occasions to offend Ambition Pomp and Hell-begotten Pride And damned Adulation they deride The complemental-slatt'ry of Kings Courts Is never intermix'd amids their sports They seldom envy at each others state Their love and fear is Gods the Devil 's their hate In weighty Business they not mar or make And cursed Bribes they neither give nor take They are not guilty as some great men are To un lo their Merchant and Embroiderer Nor is 't a Shepherds Trade by night or day To swear themselves and never pay He 's no State-plotting Matchivilian Or Project-Monger Monopolitan He hath no Tricks or Wiles to circumvent Nor fears he when there comes a Parliament He never wears Cap nor bends his Knee To feed Contention with an Advocats Fee He wants the Art to Cog Cheat Swear and ly Nor fears the Gallows nor the Pillory Nor cares he if great men be Fools or Wise If Honour fall and base dishonour rise Let Fortunes mounted Minions sink or swim He never breaks his Brains all 's one to him He 's free from fearful Curses of the Poor And lives and dies content with less or more He doth not waste the time as many use His good Creators creatures to abuse In drinking such ungodly Healths to some The veriest Canker-worms of Christen dome My Lord Ambition and my Lady Pride Shall with his quaffing not be magnified Nor for their sikes will he carouse and feast Until from Man he turn worst than a Beast Whereby he 'scapes vain Oaths and Blasphemy And Surfeits Fruits of drunken Gluttony He 'scapes occasion unto Lusts pretonde And so escapes the Pox by consequence Thus doth he hate the Parator and Proctor The Apothecary Chirurgeon and Doctor Whereby he this Prerogative may have To hold while he be laid into his Grave Whilst many that his betters far have been Will very hardly hold the laying in Crook Blanket Terkit Tarriur-tike call'd Crouse Shall breed no Iars into the Parliament House Thus Shepherds live and thus they end their lives Adorn'd and Grac'd with those Prerogatives And when he dies he leaves no wrangling Heirs To Law till all be spent and nothing theirs Peace and Tranquillity was all his life And dead his Goods shall breed no cause of strife Thus Shepherds have no Places Means or Times To fall into these Hell-deserving Crimes Which Courtiers Lawyers Tradesmen men of Arms Commit unto their Souls and Bodies harms And from the Shepherds now I turn my Stile To ' sundry sort of Sheep another while The Lambs that in the Iews Passover died Were Figures of the Lamb that 's crucified And Esay doth compare our heavenly Food To a Sheep which dumb before the Shearer stood Whose death and merits did this title win The Lamb of God which freed the World from sin The Anagram of Lamb is blame and blame And Christ the Lamb upon him took our blame His precious Blood God's heavy Wrath did calm 'T was the only balme for sin to cure the same All Power and Praise and Glory be therefore Ascribed to the Lamb for evermore And in the fourscore Psalm we read That like a Sheep our God doth Ioseph lead Again of us he such account doth keep That of his Pasture we are called Sheep And every day we do confess almost That we have err'd and stray'd like Sheep that 's lost Our Saviour that hath bought our Souls so dear Hath said his Sheep his Voice will only hear And thrice did Christ unto

night water earth herbs trees Let there be sun moon stars fish fowl that flies Beast of the field he said let there be All things were created as we may see Thus every sensible and sensless thing The high Creators VVord to pass did bring And as in viewing of his Works he stood He said that all things were exceeding good Thus having finish'd Seas and Earth and Skyes Aboundantly with all Varieties Like a magnificent and sumptuous Feast To th'intertainment of some welcome Guest When Beasts and Birds and every living Creature And the Earths fruits did multiply by Nature Then did the Eternal Trinity betake It self to council and said let us make Not let there be as unto all things else But let us make man that the rest excells According to our Image let us make Man and then the Almighty red earth did take With which he formed Adam every Limb And having made him breathed life in him Lo thus the first man never was a Child No way with sin original defil'd But with high Super-natural understanding He over all the Word had sole commanding Yet though to him the Regency was given As Earths Leivetennant to the God of Heaven Though he commanded all created things As Deputy under the King of kings Though he so highly here was dignified To humble him not to be puft with pride He could not brag nor boast of high born birth For he was formed out of slime and earth No beast fish worm fowl herb wood stone tree But are of a more antient house than he For they were made before him which prove this That their Antiquity is more than his Thus both himself and his beloved Spouse Are by creation of the younger house And whilst they liv'd in perfect holiness Their richest Garments were bare Nakedness True Innocence were their chiefest Weeds For Righteousness no Mask or Vizard needs The Royalist Robes that our first Parents had Was a free Conscience with uprightness clade They needed not to shift the Cloaths they wore Was Nakedness and they desir'd no more Until at last that Hell-polluting Sin With Disobedience sold their Soul within And having lost their Holiest perfection They held their nakedness in imperfection Then being both asham'd they both did frame Garments as Weeds of their deserved shame Thus when as sin had brought Gods curse on Man Then shame to make Apparel first began E're men had said most plain it does appear He neither did nor needed cause menswear For his Apparel did at first begin To be the Robs of pennance for his Sin Thus all the brood of Adam and of Eve The true use of Apparel may perceive That they are Liveries Badges unto all Of our Sins and our Parents woful fall Then more than mad the Mad-brain'd people be Or else they see and will not seem to see The same Robs of Pride that makes them swell Are tokens that our best deserts are Hell Much like unto a Traitor to his King Which would his Countrey into destruction bring Whose treacheries being prov'd apparently He by the Law is justly Iudg'd to die And when the Books for his deserved Death A Pardon comes and gives him longer Breath I think this man most madly would appear That would a Halter in a Glory wear Of Life to be quite dis-inherited But if he should vain gloriously persist To make a Rop of Silk or Golden Twist And wear it 's a more honourable show Of his Rebellion than course Hemp or Tow Might not men justly say he were an Ass Triumphing that he once a Villan was And that wears an halter for the nonce In pride that he deserv'd a hanging once Such with our Heavenly Father is the case Of our first Parents and their fruitful Race Apparel is the miserable Sign That we are Traitors to our Lord Divine And we like Rebels still most pride do take In that which still most humble should us make Apparel is the Prison for our Sin Which most should shame yet most we glory in Apparel is the sheet of shame as it were For man apparel never did receive Till he Eternal Death deserv'd to have How vain is it for Man a clod of Earth To boast of his Progeny or Birth Because perhaps his Ancestors were good And sprung from Royal or from Noble Blood Where Vertues worth did in their minds inherit They enjoy'd their Honour by Desert and Merit Great Alexander King of Macedon Dislain'd to be his Father Philips Son But he from Iupiter would be descended And as a god be honour'd and attended Yet when at Babylon he prov'd but a Man His god-head ended foolish as 't began There was in Cicily a proud Physician Menecrates and he through high ambition To be a god himself would needs prefer And would forsooth be deemed Iupiter King Dionysius making a great Feast The Fool god disguis'd to be a great Beast Who by himself was at a Table plac'd Because as god he should the more be grac'd The other Guests themselves did feed and sill He at an empty table still sat still At last with humble low Sir Reverence A fellow came with sire and frankincense And offered to his god-ship saying then Persumes were fit for gods and meat for men The god in anger raise incontinent Who laughed and in hunger homeward went. The Roman Emperor Domitian Would be a god was murdered by a man. Calligola would be a god of wonders And counterfit the Lightning and the thunders Yet every real heavenly thunder crack This cateif in such fear and terrour strake That he would quake and shake and hide his head In any hole or underneath his bed And when this godless god had many slain A Preband dasht out his ungodly brain And thus the Almighty still against pride doth frown And casts ambition head-long tumbling down Great Pompey would be all the Worlds Superior And Cesar unto none would be Inferior But as they both did live ambitiously So both of them untimeous deaths did die The one in AEgypt had his final fall The other murdered in the Capital A number more examples are beside Which shows the miserable fall of Pride For Pride of State Birth Wisdom Beauty Strength And Pride in any thing will fall at length But to be proud of Garments that we wear Is the most foolish Pride a Heart can bear Know that of thine own thou doth possess Nothing but Sin and woful Wretchedness A Christian's Pride should only be in this When he can say that God his Father is When Grace and Mercy well apply'd afford To make him Brother unto Christ his Lord When he unto the Holy Ghost can say Thou art my School-master whom I will obey When he can call the Saints his Fellows and Say to the Angels for my Guard you stand This is a laudable and Christian-Pride To know Christ and to know him Crucified This is that meek Ambition low Aspiring Which all Men should be earnest in desiring Thus to be proudly