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A95749	Ekskybalauron: or, The discovery of a most exquisite jewel, more precious then diamonds inchased in gold, the like whereof was never seen in any age; found in the kennel of Worcester-streets, the day after the fight, and six before the autumnal æquinox, anno 1651. Serving in this place, to frontal a vindication of the honour of Scotland, from that infamy, whereinto the rigid Presbyterian party of that nation, out of their coveteousness and ambition, most dissembledly hath involved it.	Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.	1652 (1652)	Wing U134; Thomason E1506_1; ESTC R203867	122,679	328

been famous abroad be not for uncontrollable truths received in other countries by those that have been eye-witnesses to their actions I appeal to Sir Oliver Fleemin master of the Ceremonies and to Master Dury who as they are both men of good judgement and have been travelers in other States and Kingdoms so am I certainly perswaded that they cannot be altogether estranged from the report of the good reputation of those their compatriots in the places through which they passed which I believe the rather for that most of them do know Sir Oliver Fleemin to be a man of excellent good parts wise in counsel experienced in affaires of State true to his trust and in six or seven of the chief Languages of Christendome the ablest liveliest and most pertinent spokes-man of this age and that also they are not ignorant of the most eminent endowments wherewith Master John Dury in Germany and France where his learning is highly extolled intituled Duraeus hath his minde qualified and imbellished in Reason he is strongly principled and alloweth prudence to be a directress of his actions he doth not subordinate his faith to the affaires of the world although it agree not with his faith to gainestand an established authority he holds it more lawful to yeeld obedience to a power set up above us then to the hazard of the ruine of a Country to erect another he loveth an honest peace and the wayes that tend to it and with thankfulness payeth the favours of protection he reverenceth the all-seeing providence in the change of government and where it commandeth there he yeelds Allegiance But if the Reader would have a more genuine Character of his worth and that which shall represent him with a greater liveliness his best course will be to have recourse to the perusal of the several Treatises composed by him whereof he hath emitted good store Notwithstanding all I have written in praise of Sir Oliver Fleemin and Master John Dury I would expatiate my pen a little more at large upon this encomiastick straine in behalf of them both but that I hope ere long to extoll them againe by way of duty when they shall be pleased out of their love and respect to Sir Thomas Vrquhart who is the only man for whom this book is intended for whether he be the Author or some other that is but a friend or servant of his it is not material seeing the furtherance of his weal and credit of his country is the meer scope thereof and end whereat it buts to interpone their favour with the members of the Parliament and Councel of State seeing they are the only two of the Scotish Nation that as yet have any kind of intimacy with either of these high Courts and second him in his just demands to the obtaining of what in this Tractate is desired in his name And although nothing of those kinde of good offices hath by them hitherto been performed to him lest perhaps their offering to open their mouth for any in whom there was suspicion of malignancy might breed dislike and diminution of trust yet must I needs desire them now to lay aside those needless fears and groundless apprehensions and like real friends indeed bestir themselves to do that Gentleman a courtesie which cannot chuse though per impossibile he were unthankful but carry along with it like all other actions of vertue it s own remuneration and reward and if by mischance which I hope shall not occur their forwardness in sollicitation procure a reprehensory check then let them lay the blame upon this page which I shall take upon my shoulder and bear the burthen of all there is no inchantment there But that Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur was a saying of King James of whom to make no mention amongst the literate men of the Scotish Nation that have flourished since 1600. would argue in me no less debility of memory then Massala Corvinus was subject to who forgot his own name for besides that he was a King history can hardly afford us amongst all the kings that ever were Solomon and Alfonso of Aragon being laid aside any one that was neer so learned as he as is apparent by that book in folio intituled King James his works and several other learned Treatises of his which in that book are not contained In this list of armes and arts-men King James obtaines a rank amongst the Scholars because the souldiery did repute him no favourer of their faculty His Majesty is placed last as in a Parliamentary procession and bringeth up the reer as General Ruven Leads on the Van for as Ruven was such a meer souldier that he could neither read nor write so King James was such a meer scholar that he could neither fight by sea nor land He thought James the peaceable a more Royal stile then William the Conqueror and would not have changed his Motto of Beati pacifici for the title of Sylla felix although it had been accompanyed with the victory over a thousand Mariuses yet in his dayes were the Scots in good repute and their gallantry over almost all countries did deserve it Then was it that the name of a Scot was honorable over all the world and that the glory of their ancestors was a pass-port and safe-conduct sufficient for any traveler of that country In confirmation whereof I have heard it related of him who is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of his discourse and to whose weal it is subordinated that after his peragration of France Spaine and Italy and that for speaking some of those languages with the liveliness of the country accent they would have had him pass for a Native he plainly told them without making bones thereof that truly he thought he had as much honour by his own country which did contrevalue the riches and fertility of those Nations by the valour learning and honesty wherein it did parallel if not surpass them Which assertion of his was with pregnant reasons so well backed by him that he was not much gainesaid therein by any in all those kingdoms But should he offer now to stand upon such high terms and enter the lists with a spirit of competition it fears me that in stead of Laudatives and panegyricks which formerly he used he would be constrained to have recourse to vindications and apologies The toyle whereof in saying one and the same thing over and over again with the misfortune of being the less believed the more they spoke hath proved of late almost insupportable to the favourers of that Nation whose inhabitants in forraign peregrinations must now altogether in their greatest difficulties depend upon the meer stock of their own merit with an abatement of more then the half of its value by reason of the national imputation whilst in former times men of meaner endowments would in sharper extremities at the hands of stranger-people have carryed thorow with more specious advantages by the only vertue

caeteris paribus should be preferred before any other This any rational man would think reasonable nor was it truly much controverted for the space of fourteen or fifteen yeers together after the making of the Legacy at which time his Nephew on the brothers side being a childe and but then initiated to the rude elements of Latine one Doctor William Jhonstoun was preferred to the place because there was none at that time of Doctor Liddels consanguinity able to discharge it a reason verily relevant enough But by your leave good Reader when Doctor William Jhonstoun dyed and that Doctor Liddels Nephew Master Duncan Liddel by name was then of that maturity of Age and provection of skil in most of the disciplines Mathematical as was sufficient for the exercise of that duty and the meriting of his uncles benefice did the good men rulers at the helme there make any conscience of the honest Doctors latter will no forsooth the oracle must be first consulted with The Ministerian Philoplutaries my tongue forks it I have mistaken it seems one word for another I should have said Philosophers thought fit otherwayes to dispose thereof for say they Master Duncan Liddel hath committed the hainous sin of fornication and begot a young Lass with childe therefore his uncles Testament must be made voide in what relates to his enjoyment of that dotation O brave Logick and curious commentary upon a later Will for the better explication of the mind of the defunct Which Presbyterian doctrine had it bin in request in the daies of Socrates what fine pass would the world have been brought to ever since that time by that ignorance which should have over-clouded us through our being destitute of the works of Plato Aristotle and Euclid with all the Scholiasts that have glossed on them these two thousand yeers past for by all appearance those three prime Grecians would have been forced in their younger yeers to betake themselves to some other profession then Philosophy for want of a master to instruct them in the principles thereof for the Presbytery of Athens no doubt would have pearched up poor Socrates upon a penitentiary Pew and outed him of his place for having two wives at once neither whereof whether Xantippe or Myrto was either so handsome or good as Master Liddels concubine and in lieu of that trespasser supplyed the Academical chaire with the breech of a more sanctified brother whose zealous jobernolisme would never have affected the Antipresbyterian spirits of Plato Euclid or Aristotle nor gained to his schoole any disciples who should have been able from such a muddy fountain to derive any clear springs of learning to after-ages nor benefit posterity with any other kind of literate works then such as the pretended holy men and accusers of Socrates Anitus Lycon and Melitus by name did set forth which to the eyes of both body and minde have ever since their time been of the colour of the Duke of Vandomes cloak invisible But if one durst make bold to speak to those great professors of piety I would advise them out of the Evangile to take the beam out of their own eye before they meddle with the moat that is in their neighbors and to consider that the sin of theft which they committed in robbing Master Liddel of his due is a far more hainous transgression then that single fornication for which besides the forfeiture of what was mortified to him he was by them for a long time together most rigorously persecuted Nor do I think their fault can be better expiated then by fulfilling the contents of the legacy and investing Liddal in his own right which that I may seem to avouch with the better ground of reason I dare almost perswade my self that there is not any within the Isle of Britain with whom taking in all the Mathematical Arts and Sciences together practical and theoretick he will not be well pleased upon occasion to adventure a dispute for superiority in the most and that with a willingness to forego and renounce any claim title or priviledge he can or may pretend to for the chaire of Mathematical professor in new Aberdeen in case of non-prevalency This is more some will say then his outside doth promise and that to look to him one would not think he had such abilities What then do not we see in Apothecaries shops pots of the same worth and fashion containe drugs of a different value and sometimes the most precious oyntment put in the coursest box so may a little and plaine man in outward shape inclose a minde high and sublime enough a giant like spirit in a low stature being able to overtop a Colossus with Pygmaean endowments But were there no other Remora or obstruction to retard his intended progress in Mathematical designes the inward qualifications of his minde to the advancement of those Sciences would quickly raise his person to a greater estimation yet truly as he is in London for the present I can no better compare him then to an Automatary engine wherein there are many several springs resorts and wheels which though when once put into a motion would produce most admirable effects are nevertheless forced for want of a convenient Agent to give them the due brangle to lye immobile and without efficacy Such an Agent is a Mecaenas a Patron a promover of learning a favorer of the Muses and protector of Sholars in the production of which kind of worthy men were this land a lone but a little more fertil not only great Britain but the whole world besides would be the better for it As for such of the Scotish Nation as of late have been famous for English Poesie the first that occurs is Sir William Alexander afterwards created Earle of Sterlin he made an insertion to Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia and composed several Tragedies Comedies and other kind of Poems which are extant in a book of his in folio intituled Sterlins works The purity of this Gentlemans vein was quite spoiled by the corruptness of his courtiership and so much the greater pity for by all appearance had he been contented with that mediocrity of fortune he was born unto and not aspired to those grandeurs of the Court which could not without pride be prosecuted nor maintained without covetousness he might have made a far better account of himself It did not satisfie his ambition to have a laurel from the Muses and be esteemed a King amongst Poets but he must be King of some new-found-land and like another Alexander indeed searching after new worlds have the soveraignty of Nova Scotia He was born a Poet and aimed to be a King therefore would he have his royal title from King James who was born a King and aimed to be a Poet. Had the stopped there it had been well but the flame of his honour must have some oyle wherewith to nourish it Like another King Arthur he must have his Knights though nothing limited to so small

off likewise by the convenient situation of the west of Scotland towards the north of Ireland where the sore was which we see being suddenly closed by meanes of this salve so that as now there are no parts of the State exposed to danger to be a temptation to the ambition of Forrainers but their approaches and avenues are taken away for I do little doubt but these Forrainers who had so little success when they had those advanvantages will have much less comfort now that they be taken from them And so much for surety He goes on For greatness Master Speaker I think a man may speak it soberly and without bravery that this Kingdom of England having Scotland united Ireland reduced and shipping maintained is one of the greatest Monarchies in forces truely esteemed that hath been in the world for certainly the kingdoms here on earth have a resemblance with the kingdom of heaven which our Saviour compareth not to any great kernel or nut but to a very small graine yet such a one as is apt to grow and spread and such do I take to be the constitution of this kingdom if indeed our country be referred to greatness and power and not quenched too much with the consideration of utility and wealth For Master Speaker was it not think you a true answer that Solon of Greece made to rich King Croesus of Lydia when he shewed unto him a great quantity of gold that he had gathered together in ostentation of his greatness and might but Solon said to him contrary to his expectation Why sir if another come that hath better iron then you he will be Lord of all your gold Neither is the authority of Machiavel to be despised who scorneth that proverb of State taken first from a speech of Mucianus Thatmoneys are the sinews of war and saith there are no true sinews of war but the very armes of valiant men Nay more Master Speaker whosoever shall look into the seminary and beginning of the Monarchies of the world he shall finde them founded in poverty Persia a country barren and poor in respect of Media which they reduced Macedon a kingdome ignoble and mercenary untill the time of Philip ofAmintas Rome had a poor and pastoral beginning The Turks a band of Sarmachian Scyths that in a vagabond manner made incursion upon that part of Asia calledTurcomania out of which after much variety of fortune sprung the Ottoman family now the terrour of the world So we know the Goths Vandals Alans Huns Lombards Normans theRoman Empire and came not at rovers to carry away prey and be gone againe but planted themselves in a number of rich and fruitful provinces where not only their generations but their names remaine to this day witness Lombardy Catalonia a word composed of Goth and Alan Andaluzia a name corrupted from Vandalitia Hungaria Normandy and others nay the fortune of the Swisses of late yeers which are bred in a barren and mountanous country is not to be forgotten who first ruined the Duke of Burgundy the same who had almost ruined the kingdom of France what time after the battel near Granson the rich Jewel of Burgundy commonSwisse that knew no more what a jewel meant then did Aesops cock and again the same nation in revenge of a scorn was the ruine of the French kings affaires in Italy Lowis the twelfth for that king when he was pressed somewhat rudely by an agent of the Swissers to raise their pensions broke into words of choler What saith he will those villains of the mountaines put a task upon me which words lost him his Dutchy of Milan ofItaly All which examples Master Speaker do well prove Solons opinion of the Authority and majesty that iron hath over gold For confirmation hereof a little after he says Seeing the nation of Spaine which of ancient time served many ages first under Carthage then under Rome after under Saracens Goths and others should of late yeers take unto them that spirit as to dream of a Monarchy in the West only because they have raised from some wild and unarmed people mines and store of gold and on the other side that this Island of Britain seated and named as it is and that hath I make no question the best iron in the world that is the best souldiers of the world shall think of nothing but accompts and audits meum and tuum and I cannot tell what is truly very strange Finally he closeth that his speech with this period I have spoken Master Speaker out of the fountaine of my heart Credidi propter quod loquutus sum I believed therefore I spake So my duty is performed the judgement is yours God direct it for the best In another speech again used by the said Sir Francis Bacon in the lower house of Parliament by occasion of a motion concerning the union of Laws he spoke thus And it please you Master Speaker were it now a time to wish as it is to advise no man should be more forward or more earnest then my self in this wish that his Majesties subjects of England and Scotland were governed by one law and that for many reasons First Because it will be an infallible assurance that there will never be any relapse in succeeding ages to a separation Secondly Dulcis tractus pari jugo if the draught lie most upon us and the yoak lie least on them or inverse-wise it is not equal Thirdly The qualities and as I may terme it the elements of their Laws and ours are such as do promise an excellent temperature in the compounded body for if the prerogative here be too indefinite it may be the liberty there is too unbounded if our laws and proceedings be too prolix and formal it may be theirs are too informal and summary Fourthly I do discern to my understanding there will be no great difficulty in this work for their Laws by that I can learn compared with ours are like their Language for as their Language hath the same roots that ours hath but hath a little more mixture of Latine and French so their Laws and customs have the like grounds that ours have with a little more mixture of the civil Law and French customs Lastly The mean to this work seemeth to me no less excellent then the work it self for if both Laws shall be united it is of necessity for preparation and inducement thereunto that our own laws be renewed and recompiled then the which I think there cannot be a work more politick● more honorable nor more beneficial to the subjects of the land for all ages for this continual heaping up of Laws without digesting them maketh but a Chaos and confusion and turneth the Laws many times to become but snares to the people and therefore this work I esteem to be indeed a work rightly to terme it Heroical and that which if I might live to see I would not desire to live after So that for this good wish of union of