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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

could not stand the Castle being lost The vulgar being amazed in such a sort It was bright day or he durst open the Port They had left the Ladder standing at the VVall But in haste they were returned to Scotland all VVherefore in sign and token of my Loyalty I here complain of Scotlands villany And especially of that desperat youth The Scots VVarden he 's call'd Lord of Buckcleugh The Queen caused her Council to conveen And shew them how Carlisles Garison Late by the Scots she was affronted For they on her Castle were high mounted And broke in at the very top And reliev'd Kinment from the Pit The Queen and her Council did command A Messenger to pass into Scotland To ask King Iames what was his reason In a hostile way to assault the Garison VVith such an host of men of war And fetcht away her Prisoner The King the Message soon did understand And shew his Cusin the Queen of England He then desired her Majesty She would be pleased and satisfied And understand how things are come and gone VVhich of the Nations hath done other wrong To make her self the Iudge He was content And according to their merits she should give out Iudgement For on his Royal VVord he did explain Scroup was first faulter to the Scots Nation Lord Scroup he did begin to that effect To invade our Land and imprison our Subjects VVith three hundred horse to come into our Land VVithout leave of Our VVarden or any of our command A very insolent act against our Crown and Dignity By the Law of Arms he doth deserve to dy Our stout Lord VVarden not being in place Though Scroup much wrong'd our Nation and did him disgrace It seems he did appeal him privatly to fight But like a Coward he did his Challenge slight And so without Our order he went out To be reveng'd upon the base Lord Scroup No more but sixteen men to Carlisle came And gave alarm to Castle and the Town VVherein a thousand did remain Your Majesty may think he was a stout Captain Our Prisoner he did but relieve again And none of your Subjects either hurt or slain VVe think his valour merits some reward That of your Towers and Castles no way was afraid VVe think your Governour deserves both lack and shame That suffered sixteen men your Prisoner to gain That Governour is not a Souldier stout Who being a thousand strong and durst not ventur out VVith Letters to such purpose the Messenger did return And expresly shew the Queen she being at London Her Council did conveen and the Decree gave out That Scroup was all the blame of the passage went about The English Council call'd Buckcleugh a man compleat VVhich did merit honour he must be of a Heroick Spirit Both King and Council sounded his Commendation VVishing for many such within their English Nation Such praises made the Queen her Royal Majesty Be most desirous that bold Buckcleugh to see The Queen wrot to King Iames All the whole and sole truth VVith a fervent desire to see the Lord Buckcleugh The King sent for Buckcleugh and to him did unfold Shewing him he must go see His Cusin Queen of England Buckcleugh did yeeld to venture Life and Land And do whatever the King did him command A certain time the King did him confer And shew he was a Free-man and no Prisoner You with your Servants had best go there by Land For all you have to do it 's to kiss our Cusins hand The fixed day when that my Lord should go Was in the Month of March when husband men corn sow A rumor rose and spread through the whole Country How the Lord Buckcleugh he must at London dy Upon the fixed day his Honour went Which caused many hundreds to lament Which said alas they were undone And fear'd my Lord should ne're return again The whole Name of Scot and all his Friends about Maxwel and Iohnston conveyed him out The Humes came from the Merss And in Ednem-Haugh did bide A thousand Gentlemen conveyed him over Tweed They put him to Flowden Field The length of Scotlands ground And there took leave and back again return'd Toward London Rode they did themselves apply Thirlston Sir Robert Scot bear his Honour company No more there past with his Honor along But three Domestick Servants and Sir Robert Scot had one The day being Tuesday twenty four myle they wan And lodged in Morpeth into Northumberland On Wedensday twenty four myles they came Into the Principality of Durham On Thursday they their Course did steer Thirty four myles to Borrow-bridge in York-shire On Friday to Duncaster his Honor bade Twenty eight myle that day he no less rade To view the Town his Honor did desire It being within the County of York-shire For as men pass along the Road York-shire is sixty six myles broad On Saturnday twenty eight myle he went To New-wark Town that stands upon Trent And all the Sabbath his Honor did remain The Town lyes in the County of Notingham On Munday he his Course did steer Twenty six myles to Stenfoord in Lincoln-shire On Tuesday twenty short myle he came To the Town and Shire called Huntingtoun On Wednesday his Honor did fare Twenty nine myles to Ware in Hartford-shire On Thursday he did go betwixt Ware and Troynovent in Middlesex Troynovent was the antient Name King Lud brought it to be call'd London He did not sooner London gain Till it was noised among the English-men They run in flocks and did on 's Honor gaze As he had been the Monster slain by Hercules The People to their Neighbours did cry out Come let us go and see that valiant Scot Which out of Carlisle stoutly took Kinment in spight of our Lord Scroup In Carlisle Kinment did remain Whilst this Scot fetcht him out and had but sixteen men At London Kinment Willy his name was better known Nor it was in the Border-side where his Fore-fathers were born But now for to conclude within a little time The good Lord of Buckcleugh to the English Court did win That valiant Cavalier he came with such a Grace The English Wardens usher'd him to the Presence Notice came to the Queen that bold Buckcleugh was there Then she left her Privat Chamber and in Presence did appear The Queen in modesty a Complement did frame Desiring to know the health of his Master Her. Cousin good King Iames A sign of War to me appears and makes great variance Amongst such Blades who do invade And become League-breakers Since ye intrude within Our Border And did assault Our Garison And Kinment reliev'd without order Ye make but a scar-crow of Englands Queen I thought my Cusin Iames yet King Should never done his Friend such wrong But this I leave to another time He may repent or it be long Buckcleughs Speech THen bold Buckcleugh spoke forth the Truth And to the Queen he did declare His Master Scotlands King was free of every thing It

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

he did see that Forrest hie Which then was called Rankelburn The Keepers and the Strouse-men came With Shouts from Hill to Hill With Hound and Horn they raisd the Deer But little Blood did spill A Buck did come that was so run Hard by the Cacra-cross He mean'd to be at Rankelburn Finding himself at loss The Hill was steep the Bogs were deep With Woods and Heather strong By a Mile of Ground there none came near it But Footmen that did run Then one of these two Gentlemen Which from Galloway did come Both Hounds and Deer he keeped near To the Water in Rankelburn And then the Buck being spent and gone He on the Hounds did turn That Gentleman came first along And catch'd him by the Horn Alive he cast him on his back Or any man came there And to the Cacra-cross did trot Against the Hill a Mile and mair The King saw him a pretty man And ask'd his Name from whence he came He said from Galloway he came Is 't please your Grace my Name is Iohn The Deer being curied in that place At his Majesties demand Then Iohn of Galloway ran apace And setch'd Water to his Hands The King did wash into a Dish And Galloway Iohn he wot He said thy Name now after this Shall e're be call'd Iohn Scot The Forrest and the Deer therein We commit to thy hand For thou shalt sure the Ranger be If thou obey Command And for the Buck thou stoutly brought To Us up that steep Heugh Thy Designation ever shall By Iohn Scot in Buckscleugh By strength of Limb and youthful Spring Fortune may favour still And if thou prove obedient We 'll mend thee when We will Iohn humbly then thanked the King And promis'd to be Loyal And earnestly beg'd His Majestie That he would make a tryal My name is Iohn and I 'm alone Into this strange Countrie Except one Brother with me came To bear me Companie What is his name then said the King He answer'd his name is Wat Ye are very well met then said the King He shall be English and ye are Scot At Bellanden let him remain Fast by the Forrest side Where he may do Us Service too And assist you with his Aid I do believe as my Author did declare How the original of Buckcleugh was a valiant Forrester It 's most like to be true which I have plainly shown The old Families of Buckcleugh did carry a Hunting-horn Buckcleugh if that my Author doth speak truth It 's long since he began In the third King Kenneth's Reign He to the Forrest came The first of their Genealogie Though Chronicles be rent and torn And made their ends upon the Sea Of late into the Usurper's time Our Registers away were tane Many of them perish'd in the Main And never came ashore again In Queen Maries Reign they had bad handling Sometimes Fortune favour'd and sometimes frown'd Twixt Stools if men do miss their mark Then their Bottom sure goes to the Ground In Edward Longshank's time king of England Our Monuments were lost and gone Our Chronicles and Registers to London went Yet not returned again In the Reign of the third Constantine All Substance from this Land was tane By that Saxon King Edward sirnamed Cinar And Edleston his Bastard son Since these Hurli-burlies tops-a-turvies So oft this Land they have undone That a Native durst not show himself Except on the tops of the Mountains When our Records were sent away The Vulgar sort they were not free Therefore there was particular acts For to be Cloaks to their Knavery The Chronicle may err some men may be preferr'd In every Science there is some Cheatry For if an Inferior man to a Clerk shall come And possess him of such Gallantry Then he 'l take a word alone And so reward him with his Coyn Which will cause the Clerk blaze him to the sky Within two hundred year may be it do appear If the World shall stand so long That the late made Purves Act Which he obtained to cover his fact Will raise his needy Friends to be Gentlemen That bold Buckcleugh was none of them That ever bought his honor with Coyn His Valour did it gain in Holland and in Swain And against the Saxons Seed they oft did honour gain From the Family of Buckcleugh There has sprung many a Man Four hundred years ago Hassinden he was one Descended of that Line and still he doth remain And Evident's speaks truth the same the truth proclaims Though Chronicles be lost from many a Familie These Characters that remains the truth they let us see Sir Alexander Scot of Hassinden was Knight With good KingIames the fourth he was kill'd at Flowdon fight From Hassinden did spring before that time The Families of Wall Delorian and Haining The South-countrey Gentry is known for truth VVas exercised in Arms into their youth None other Education they did apply But Iack and Spear against their Enemy And because it was their dayly exercise They never sought to be Chronicliz'd But when a Courtier did any valiant fate He was cry'd up to th' stars and made Lord of State But now advance my Muse and declare the truth Of brave Iohn Scot the Original of Buckoleugh And because thou art weary as I suppose I 'le refrain Verse and turn my self to Prose Good Lancelot Scot I think his Book be true Old Rankelburn is design'd Buckcleugh now Yet in his Book no Balls read he It was Buckscleugh he read to me He told me the Name the Place the Coat Came all by the hunting of the Buck In Scotland no Buckcleugh was then Before the Buck in the Cleugh was slain Nights-men at first they did appear Because Moon and Stars to their Arms they bear Their Crest supporters and hunting-horn Showes their beginning from hunting came Their Name and Stile the Book did say Iohn gain'd them both into one day The very place where that the Buck was slain He built a Stone-house and there he did remain He built a Church into that Forrest hie There was no man to come to it but his own Familie The Houses Ground-work yet is to be seen And at that Church I many times have been A burial place it yet keeps out For any poor folk that lyes round about To the Paroch Church it 's long fix mile Therefore they bury yet to save travel My Guid-sir Satchells I heard him declare There was nine Lairds of Buckcleugh buried there But now with rubish and earth it 's fill'd up so high That no man can the Through-stones see But nine Tomb-stones he saw with both his eyne But knew not who was buried under them Also they built a Miln on that same burn To grind Dogs-bran though there there grew no Corn For in my own time Corn little there hath been There was neither Rig nor Fur for to be seen But Hills and Mountains on every side The Haugh below scarce a hundred foot wide Yet there 's a Miln-steed in

There ne're a man but he 's a free-booter Where fainting fazard dare not show their face And calls their off-spring Thieves to their disgrace These are Serpents Spirits and vulgar Slaves That slanders Worthies sleeping in their Graves But if fourty Countrey-men had such rascalls in bogs They 'd make them run like feltered foals from dogs The Scot and Ker the mid Border did possess The Humes possest the East and the Iohnstons the West With their adjacent neighbours put the English to more pains Nor half the North and all three Louthians Yet with the Free-booters I have not done I must have another sling at h● Because to all men it may appear The Free-booter he is a Volunteer In the Muster-rolls he has no desire to stay He lives by Purchase he gets no Pay King Richard the second of England sent A great Army well arm'd into Scotland Through Cumberland they came by his Command And ordain'd to cross the River at Solway Sand. In Scotland King Robert Stuart the first did reign Yet had no intelligence of their coming The Free-booters there they did conveen To the number of four or sive hundred Men In ambush these Volunteers lay down And waited whilst the Army came At a closs strait place there they did stay Where they knew the English could not get by-way And when they came the ambush nigh They rose with clamours and shouting high Which terrified the English-men That they drown'd most part in Solway-Sand It 's most clear a Free-booter doth live in hazards train A Free-booters a Caveleer that ventures Life for Gain But since King Iames the sixt to England went There has been no cause of grief And he that hath transgressed since then Is no Free-booter but a Thief In Queen Elizabeths reign she kept a strong Garison At Carlile that Sink-port Of Horse and Foot a thousand men compleat The Governour was the Lord Scroup It fell about the Martinmass when Kine was in the prime Then Kinment Willy and his Friends they did to England run Oxen and Kine they brought a Prey out of Northumberland Five and fiftie in a drift to Canninbie in Scotland The Owners pitifully cry'd out they were undone Then to the Governour they came and seriously did complain The Lord Scroup heard their whole complaint And bade them go home again and no more lament For before the Sun did rise or set He should be reveng'd on Kinment Anone he charged the Trumpeters they should sound Booty-sadle Iust at that time the Moon was in her prime He needed no Torch-light Lord Scroup he did to Scotland come Took Kinment the self same night If he had had but ten men more that had been as stout as he Lord Scroup had not the Kinment tane with all his Company But Kinment being Prisoner Lord Scroup he had him tane In Carlile Castle he him laid in irons and fetters strong Then scornfully Lord Scroup did say In this Castle thou must ly Before thou goest away thou must Even take thy leave of me He mean'd that he should suffer death before he went away By the Cross of my Sword says Willy then I 'le take my leave of thee Before e're I go away whether I live or die These News came furth to bold Buckcleugh Lord Warden at that time How Lord Scroup Carlisles Governour Had Kinment Willy tane Is it that way Buckcleugh did say Lord Scroup must understand That he has not only done me wrong But my Soveraign Iames of Scotland My Soveraign Lord King of Scotland Thinks not his Cousin Queen Will osser to Invade his Land Without leave asked and given Thou stole into my Masters Land Which is within my Command And in a plundering hostile way I 'le let thee understand Besore Day-light came thou stole a man And like a Thief thou run away This Letter came to Lord Scroups hand Which from Buckcleugh was sent Charging him then to release Kinment Or else he should repent Scotland is not a sitting part I suppose England is the same But if thou carry a valiant heart I 'le fight thee in Holland There thou and I may both be free which of us wins the day And be no cause of Mutiny nor Invasions prey Our Princes rare will not compare for dignity and fame It nothing doth transgress their Laws what we do in Holland This Message by a Drummer sent To the Governour Lord Scroup A frivolous Answer he returned Which made bold Buckcleugh to doubt That he must into Carlisle ride And fetch the Kinment out The Armstrong was a hardy Name Into their own Country But like Clim of the Cleugh and little Iohn On England they did prey Kinments sirname was Armstrong He from Giltknocky sprang But Mengertoun he was the chief Of the Name of Armstrong It was not for their own respects That Buckcleugh turned their Guardian It was for the honour of Scotland By reason he was Lord Warden He stormed that any should presume To enter the Scots border Either Cornish Irish English Welch Unless they had his Order If he had known when Lord Scroup did appear To enter the Scots-ground he had call'd up his Rear But since he mist him in all Scotlands bounds In England he gave him sowre Pears for Plums Here follows how the Lord Buckcleugh affronts the Lord Scroup first by Letters and then by taking him prisoner out of the Castle of Carlisle by a Stratagem THus being vext he shew the Friends of the Name How the Lord Scroup had Willy Kinment tane And said if they would but take part with him He knew a way to bring him back again To which Demand they presently did conclude They would serve his Honour to the last drop of their blood For certainty did prov'd to be a truth He 'll still be call'd the good Lord of Buckcleugh His Friends advice that he desir'd to know Was Howpasly Thirlstone Bonnitoun and Tushilaw And Gaudilands his Uncles son With Whitslade Headshaw and Sinton And Gilbert Elliot he was not of his Name But was his Honours Cousin-german Those Gentlemen in Vote did all agree Five hundred to march in his Honours Company He thank'd them for their Vote and said that must not be Pick me out chosen men no more but thirty three At Thirlston his Brethren they did begin They being the first Cousin-german Both Walter and William was there in brief And presented their Service unto their Chief Then Tushilaw did follow them And sent his two sons Iames and Iohn With Mr. Arthur Scot of Newburgh And Robert Scot of Gilmarscleugh Bowhill his brother William did thither come And Iohn Scot brother to Bonnitoun So did William of Haining a valiant Squire And William Scot of Hartwoodmire And William of Midgap came theretill He was Grandsir to this Laird of Horslyhill Walter of Diphope a Mettal-mah And Iohn of Middlestead together came Robert of Huntly he did not fail He came with the Scots of the Water of Ail So did Walter of Todrig that well