longer then his Fathers His sonne was the third of that name a boy of eight years old whose Minority was infested with the turbulent Cumins who at riper age being called to accompt not onely refused but surprized him at Sterling governing him at their pleasure but soon after he was awaked by a furious Invasion of Acho King of Norway under the pretence of some Islands given him by Mackbeth whom he forced to accept a Peace and spent the latter part amidst the turbulencies of the Priests drunk at that time with their wealth and ease and at last having seen the continued funerals of his Sons David Alexander his wife and his daughter he himself with a fall from his horse broke his neck leaving of all his race onely a Grand-childe by his daughter which dyed soon after This mans family being extinguished they were forced to run to to another Line which that we may see how happy expedient immediate Succession is for the Peace of the Kingdom and what miseries it prevents I shall as briefly and as pertinently as I can set down David brother to King William had three daughters Margaret marryed to Allan Lord of Galloway Isabell marryed to Robert Bruce Lord of Annadale and Cleveland Ada marryed to Henry Hastings Earl of Huntington now Allan begot on his wife Dornadilla married to John Baliall after King of Scotland and other two daughters Bruce on his wife Robert Bruce Earle of Carick having married the heretrix thereof as for Huntington he desisted his claime The question is whether Balial in right of the eldest daughter or Bruce being come of the second but a man should have the Crown he being in the same degree and of the more worthy sex the Controversie being tost up and down at last was referred to Edward the first of that name of England he thinking to fish in these troubled waters stirs up eight other Competitors the more to entangle the business and with twenty four Councellors half English half Scots and abundance of Lawyers fit enough to perplex the matter so handled the business after cunning delayes that at length he secretly tampers with Bruce who was then conceived to have the better right of the businesse that if he would acknowledge the Crown of him he would adjudge it for him but he generously answering that he valued a Crown at a less rate then for it to put his Countrey under a Forraign yoke he made the same motion to Baliall who accepted it and so we have a King again by what right we all see but it is good reason to think that Kings come they by their power never so unjustly may justly keep it Baliall having thus got a Crown as unhappily kept it for no sooner was he Crowned and had done honage to Edward but the Abernethys having slain Macduffe Earl of Fife he not onely pardoned them but gave them a peice of land in controversie whereupon Macduffs brother complainis against him to Edward who makes him rise from his seat at Parliament and go to the bar he hereupon enraged denyes Edward assistance against the French and renounses his homage Edward hereupon comes to Berwick takes and kils seaven thosand most of the Nobility of Fife and Lowthian and after gave them a great defeat at Dunbar whose Castle instantly surrendred After this he marched to Montrosse where Baliall resined himself and Crown all the Nobility giving Homage to Edward Baliall is sent prisoner to London and from thence after a years detention into France Whilest Edward was possest of all Scotland one William Wallace arose who being a private man bestirred himself in the Calamity of his Countrey and gave the English severall notable foyles Edward coming again with an Army beat him that was overcome with envy and emulation as well as power upon which he laid by his Command and never acted after but slight Incursions but the English being beaten at Roslin Edward comes in again takes Sterling and makes them all render homage but at length Bruce seeing all his promises nothing but smoak enters into League with Cumen to get the Kingdome but being betrayed by him to Edward he stabbed Cumen at Drumfreis and made himself King This man though he came with disadvantage yet wanted neither patience courage nor conduct so that after he had miserably lurk'd in the mountains he came down and gathering together some force gave our Edward the second such a defeat near Sterling as Scotland never gave the like to our Nation and continued war with various fortune with the Third till at last age and Leprosie brought him to his grave His son David a Boy of eight years inherited that which he with so much danger obtained and wisdom kept In his minority he was governed by Thomas Randolf Earl of Murray whose severity in punishing was no lesse dreaded then His valor had been honoured but he soon after dying of poyson and Edward Balial son of John coming with a Fleet and strengthend with the assistance of the English and some Robbers the Governour the Earl of Mar was put to the rout so that Balial makes himself King and David was glad to retire into France Amidst these parties Edward the third backing Balial was Scotland pitifully torn and the Bruces in a manner extinguished till Robert after King with them of Argyle and his own Familie and Friends begin to renew the Claim and bring it into a War again which was carried on by Andrew Murray the Governour and after by himself that David after nine years banishment durst return where making often Incursions he at length in the fourth year of his return march'd into England and in the Bishoprick of Durham was routed fled to an obscure Bridge shewed to this day by the Inhabitants where he was by Iohn Copland taken prisoner where he continued nine years and in the thirty ninth yeare of his Reigne died Robert his sisters son whom he had intended to put by succeeds and first brought the Stewarts which at this day are a plague to the Nation into play This man after he was King whether it were age or sloth did little but his Lieutenants and the English were perpetually in Action he left his Kingdom to John his Bastard Son by the Lady More his Concubine whom he married either to Legittimate the three Children as the manner was then he had by her or else for old acquaintance his Wife and her Husband dying much about a time this John would be Crowned by the name of Robert his own they say being unhappie for Kings a wretched unactive Prince lame and onely governed by his brother Walter who having David the Prince upon the complaint of some exorbitancies delivered to him to take care of made him to be starv'd upon which the King intending to send his Son James into France the Boy was taken at Flamburgh and kept by our Henry the Fourth upon the hearing of which his Father swounded and soon after died His reign
was memorable for nothing but his breaking with George Earl of March to whose daughter upon the payment of a great part of her portion which he never would repay he had promised his Son David for an husband to take the Daughter of Douglas who had a greater which occasioned the Earl of March to make many in-rodes with our Henry Hot-spur and a famous Duel of three hundred men a piece whereof of the one side ten remained and of the other one which was the onely way to appease the deadly Feuds of two Families The Inter-reign was governed by Robert who enjoying the power he had too much coveted little minded the libertie of his Nephew onely he sent some Auxiliaries into France who they say behaved themselves worthily and his slothfull Son Mordac who making his Sons so bold with indulgence that one of them kill'd a Faulcon on his fist which he denied to give him he in revenge procured the Parliament to ransom the King who had been eighteen years prisoner This James was the first of that Name and though he was an excellent Prince yet had a troublesom Reign first in regard of a great Pension raised for his Ransome next for Domestick Commotions and lastly for raising of money which though the Revenue was exhausted was called Covetousnesse which having offended Robert Graham he conspired with the Earl of Athol slew him in his Chamber his Wife receiving two wounds endeavouring to defend him This James left the second a boy of six years whose infancy by the mis-guidance of the Governour made a miserable People and betrayed the Earl Douglas to death and almost all that great Family to ruine but being supplanted by another Earl Douglas the King in his just age suffered minority under him who upon displeasure rebelled and was kill'd by the Kings own hand afterwards having his middle years perpetually molested with Civill broils yet going to assist the Duke of York against Henry the Sixth he was diverted by an English Gentleman that counterfeited himself a Nuncio which I mention out of a Manuscript because I do not remember it in our Stories and broke up his Army soon after besieging Roxburgh he was slain by the bursting of a Cannon in the twenty ninth year of his Age James the Third left a Boy of seven years governed by his Mothe afterwards the Boyds through the perswasions of Astrologers and Witches to whom he was strongly addicted he declined to Cruelty which so inraged the Nobility that headed by his son they conspired against him routing his Forces near Sterling wherein he flying to a Mill and asking for a Confessor a Priest came who told him that though he was no good Priest yet he was a good Leech and with that stabb'd him to the heart A Parliament approved his death and ordered Indemnities to all that had sought against him James the Fourth a Boy of fifteen years is made King Governed by the murtherers of his Father a prodigall vain-glorious Prince slain at Floddon Field or as some suppose at Kelsey by the Humes which as the Manuscript alledges seems more probability in regard that the Iron Belt a Ring to which he added every year which he wore in repentance for the death of his Father was never found and there were many the day of the Battell habited like him His Successor was his son James the Fifth of that Name a Boy of not above two years of age under whose minority what by the Mis-government of Tutors what by the factions of the Nobility Scotland was wasted almost into famine and solitude yet in his just age he proved an industrious Prince but could not so satisfie the Nobility but he and they continued in a mutuall hate till that barbarous execution of young Hamilton so fill'd him with remorse he dream-that Hamilton came and cut off his Arms and threatned after to cut off his Head and displeased the people that he could not make his Army fight with the English then in Scotland whereupon he dyed of grief having heard the death of his two sons who dyed at the instant of his Dream and leaving a Daughter of five dayes old whom he never saw This was that Mary under whose minority by the weaknesse of the Governour and ambition of the Cardinall the Kingdome felt all those woes that are threatned to them whose King is a Child Till at length the prevalency of the English Arms awakes for her Cause brought the great designe of sending her into France to perfection so at five years old she was tâ—ansported and at fifteen married to the Daulphin Francis after King whilest her mother daughter of the Guise in her Regency exercised all Rage against the Professours of the pure Religion then in the dawn who after two years left her a childlesse Widow so that at eighteen she returned into Scotland to succeed her Mother then newly dead in her exorbitoncies This young Couple in the transport of their Nuptiall solemnities took the Arms and Title of England which indiscreet Ambition we may suppose first quickned the jealousie of Elizabeth against her which after kindled so great a flame In Scotland she shewed what a strange influence loose education hath upon youth and that weaker Sex all the French effeminacies came over with her the Court lost that little severity which was left David Rize was the onely Favourite and it too much feared had those enjoyments which no woman can give but she that gives away her honour and chastity But a little after Henry Lord Darnly coming with Matthew Earl of Lenox his father into Scotland she cast an eye upon him and married him Whether it were to strengthen her pretension to England he being come of Henry the Sevenths Daughter as we shall tell anon or for to colour her Adulteries and hide the shame of an impregnation though some have whispered that she never conceived and that the son was supposititious or some Phrenzy of affection drew her that way certain it is she soon declined her affection to her husband and encreased it to David he being her perpetuall Companion at Board and managing all Affairs whilst the King with a contemptible train was sent away insomuch that some of the Nobility that could not digest this entred a Conspiracy which the king headed and slew him in her Chamber This turn'd all the neglect of her Husband into rage so that her chiefest businesse was to appease her Favorites Ghost with the slaughter of her Husband poyson was first attempted but it being it seems too weak or his youth overcoming it that expectation failed But the Devil and Bothwel furnish'd her with another that succeeded she intices him being so sick that they were forc'd to bring him in an horse-litter to Edenburgh where she cherisht him extreemly till the credulous young man began to lay aside suspition and hope better so she puts him in a ruinous House near the Palace from whence no news can be had brings in her
fit to build up his Kingdom which is never earthly nor known of men of earth in meeknes and obedience to civill powers which are perpetually changed and hurried at the will of the first mover otherwise he would never have concerned himself so much in giving dues to Caesar and to God what is Gods intimating the distinct obediences owing by all men as Christians and Citizens when granting Monarchy the most and the onely Lawfull Government yet every one knoweth that knoweth any thing of the Roman story that Augustus had no more Title to that Government then any of those over whom he usurped and that his accesse to Government was as fraudulent and violent as could be Another is the mistaking of the Powers {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} when its clear the Scripture speaketh of it in a latitude as extending it to all established Governments Now men have falsly assumed that those powers were only meant of Kings and what by an indiscreet collation of the places of the old and violent restings of others of the new they perfected the other grand mistake which since it hath been already cleared up and as we said is but collaterall with us for the present we shall no further mention As for the alleadged examples and and speeches of primitive times I see not much in them considerable for through insurrections against Princes cannot be produced or rather much is said against them we are to consider that the Gospel of Christ which was at that time not much defiled by the world ingages not to any Domination but wholly taken up with its own extasies spiritual delights and expectations neglects all other affairs as strange and dangerous And more over though I know what hath been said to the contrary I cannot finde after consideration of those Ages any probable ground how if they would have risen they could have Bodied They were indeed numerous but then they had Legionaries among them and who knows not what an ineffectual thing a People is be it never so desirous when overawed by the Soldatesque And they were a People as greatness to God and man is different not for their wordly power for how few considerable Commanders were Converted in the first Ages but out of his own choice so that it was not strange if they could not do much For God as he chose the weakest means in the planting of the Gospel Fishermen So in the Primitive propagation he called the weaker men though Christianity afterwards grew ample and August and Kings were proud to give their names unto it As for the Fathers granting them fâ—ee of their many Bastardizations interpolations and all those Errors and uncertainties which the process of time and fraud of men hath foysted into them they are to be accepted as Witnesses not as Judges that is to say they may prove matter of Fact but none of their words matter of Right especially if we consider their writings either Homilies Commentaries or controversies which are ever directed to another end then this is and they themselves men secluded from Business are so much more unable to judge and resolve Civill controversies as this is in regard the unhappiness of the latter Times hath produced many controversies not know or thought of in their days which falling directly under their profession cannot receive any light or Authority from them Having considered Kingship how well it hath appeared through the false lights of understanding we shall now consider whether taking it by it self its foundations be laid upon a Cylender or upon a Cube and this me thinks we are the likeliest to do if we consider them in their rights and uses or to speak plainer in their Legality and policy so that if we finde that none of the wayes of the retaining of their Crowns can be Authenticall save one and that one make against them we shall finde we have no such just causes of blinde adoration or implicite enforcement to truckle under any of their Commands And if again we discover that the Government it self is not so profitable as to the end of Civil happiness but rather Diametrically opposite to it we may suppose that men are either strangely obstinate or else they might eradicate an error which not onely offers so many prejudices to their understanding but hath such an evil influence upon their outward well being We have then to consider that for One man to rule over Many there must necessarily be some right though it be but colourable for either he must be chosen by the people as their Arbitrator and Supream Judge or else he must by force of Arms invade them and bring them to obedience which he by force preserving for his Sons of Successors makes way for a third claim which is Inheritance A fourth some have invented though were it real it is but a difference of the last and I therefore shall mention it under that head But to the Consideration First therefore Election supposing the people either finding themselves unable to weyld their own happiness or for preventing of disorder make choice of one to be set over them it here instantly followeth that Authority is in the people and flowing from them for choice argues a power and being chosen elected a subordination to it in the end I mean though not in every Act Now there is none chosen but for some end or for some intentions reciprocall betwixt both partyes for otherwise such a choice were but dotage and consequently invalid Now thus it will follow that those who pretend to King it upon this Topick must either shew a formal Election which I think many Kings are not able to do or if he can shew one the Conditions and ends for which he was chosen Now all parts being either implicite or explained let him produce the Covenant that it may be known whether he govern according to it or not for if he transgresseth he forfeits and the other are disobliged If the agreement be unwritten or intentional either party is relatively tyed and then if he do any thing against the welfare of the people that Soveraing Law and end of all Governments The people may not onely justly suppose the form capitulation broken but even endeavour by what possible means they can to restore themselves to their former rights for why should the making of a Compact prejudice any when it is once broken And here cometh in another fallacy which the Assertors of Royalty have so flourished with That an agreement between a people and one man should inure as the English Lawyers terme it to his Descendants when as it is to be considered that the people choosing of one man is commonly in consideration of his person and personal merit which not being the same in his Son as commonly Families in the Horizon are in the Meridian the Founders being braver then any that follow after them that very intent is frustrated and ceaseth and the People providing for the happiness of a
Writer till Four hundred years after Christ No we shall no more envy these old Heroes unto them then their placing the red Lion in the Dexter point of their Eschutcheon But though we might in justice reject them as Fabulous and Monkish yet since themselves acknowledge them and they equally make against them we shall run them over like veritable History The first of this blessed race was Fergus first Generall and afterward got himself made King but no sooner cast away on the coast of Ireland but a contention arises about the validity of their Oath to him and Uncles are appointed to succeed which argues it Elective so Feritharis Brother to Fergus is King but his Nephew enters a Conspiracy against him forces him to resigne and flie to the Isles where he died Foritharis dying soon after was suspected to be poisoned after him comes in Main Fergus second sonne who with his sonne Dornadilla reigned quietly fifty seven years But Reuther his sonne not being of age the people make his Uncle Nothat take the Government but he misruling Reuther by the help of one Doualus raised a party against him and beheads him makes himself King with the indignation of the People that he was not elected so that by the kindred of Nothat he is fought with taken and displaced but afterward makes a party and regains His son Thereus was too young so that his Brother Rhoutha succeeded but after seventeen years was glad to resigne Well Thereus reigns but after six years declines to such lewdnesse that they force him to flie and govern by a Prorex after his death Josina his Brother and his Son Finan are Kings and quietly die so But then comes Durst one who slaies all the Nobility at a Banquet and is by the People slain after his death the validity of the Oath to Fergus is called in question and the elective power vindicated but at length Even his brother is admitted who though he ruled valiantly and well yet he had Gillus a bastard Son Vaser Regni Cupidus The next of the line are two Twins Docham and Dorgall sons of Durst they while they disputed of priority of age are by the artifice of Gillus slain in a tumult who makes a strong party and seizing of a Hold sayes he was made Supervisor by his Father and so becomes King cuts off all the race of Durst but is after forc'd out of the Kingdom and taken by Even the second his Successor who was chosen by the People and by him put to death in Ireland after Even comes Eder after Eder his son Even the third who for making a Law that the Nobility should have the enjoyment of all new married women before they were touched by their husbands was doomed to prison during his life there strangled his Successor was his Kinsman Metellan after whom was elected Caratac whom his brother Corbret succeeded but then came Dardan whom the Lords made take on him the Government by reason of the nonage of Corbrets son who for his lewdness was taken by the People and beheaded After him Corbret the second whose Son Luctac for his lewdness was by the People put to death then was elected Mogald who following his vitious Predecessors steps found his death like theirs violent His Son Conar one of the Conspirators against him succeeded but mis-governing was clapt in Prison and there dyed Ethodius his Sisters son succeded who was slain in the night in his Chamber by his Piper His Son being a Minor Satrael his brother was accepted who seeking to place the succession in his own line grew so hatefull to the People that not daring to come abroad he was strangled in the night by his own servants which made way for the youngest Brother Donald who out-did the others vices by contrary vertues and had a happy raign of one and twenty years Ethodiis the second Son of the first of that name was next a dull un-active Prince Familiarum tumultu occisus His Son Athirco promised fair but deceived their expectations with most horrid lewdness and at length vitiated the daughters of Nathaloc a Nobleman and caused them to be whipt before his eyes but seeing himself surrounded by Conspirators eluded their fury with his own sword his Brother and Children being forced to flie to the Picts Nathaloc turning his injury into ambition made himself King and governed answerably for he made most of the Nobility to be strangled under the pretence of calling them to Councell and was after slain by his own servants After his death Athirco's children were called back and Findor his son being of excellent hopes accepted who made good what his youth promised he beat in sundry Battels Donald the Islander who seeing he could not prevail by force sent two as Renegadoes to the King who being not accepted conspire with his Brother by whose means one of them slew him with a hunting spear when he was a hunting His brother Donald succeeds the youngest of the three who about to revenge his Brothers death hears the Islander is entred Murray whom he encountring with unequal forces is taken prisoner with thirty of the Nobility and whether of grief or his wounds dyes in Prison The Islander that had before assumed the name now assumed the power the Nobles by reason of their kindred prisoners being overawed this man wanting nothing of an exquisite Tyrant was after twelve years Butcheries slain by Cratherinth son of Findor who under a disguise found address and opportunity The brave Tyrannicide was universally accepted and gave no cause of repentance his Raign is famous for a War begun between the Scots and Picts about a Dog as that between the Trojans and Italians for a white Hart and the defect on of Carausius from Dioclesian which happened in his time His Kinsman Fyncormach succeeded worthy of memory for little but the piety of the Culdys an order of Religious men of that time overborn by others succeeding hee being dead three sonnes of his three brothers contended Romach as the eldest strengthned by his alliance with the Picts with their assistance seized on it forcing others to fly but proving cruell the Nobility conspired and slew him Angusian another pretender succeeds who being assailed by Nectam King of the Picts who came to revenge Romach routed his Army in a pitcht battel but Nectham coming again he was routed and both he and Nectham slaine Tethelmac the third pretender came next who beating the Picts and wasting their fields Hergust when he saw there could be no advantage by the sword suborned two Picts to murther him who drawing to conspiracy the Piper that lay in his Chamber as the manner was then he at the appointed time admitted them and there slew him The next was Even son of Fincormac who was slain in a Battell with the Picts to the almost extirpation and banishment of the Scots but at the last the Picts taking distaste at the Romans entred into a secret League with the
and he made up two factions which tore the Kingdome till at length Milcoms Bastard Brother himself being in Englaend assisting the Danes fought him routed his Army and with the losse of his own life took away his they dying of mutuall wounds Grime of whose birth they do not certainly agree was chosen by the Constantinians who made a good party but at intercession of Forard an accounted Rabbi of the times they at last agreed Grime being to enjoy the Kingdome for his life after which Milcolumb should succeed his fathers Law standing in force but he after declining into lewdnesse cruelty and spoil as Princes drunk with greatnesse and prosperity use to do the people called back Milcolumb who rather receiving battel then giving it for it was upon Ascention day his principall Holy-day routed his Forces wounded himself took him pulled out his eyes which altogether made an end of his life all factions and humours being reconciled Milcolumb who with various Fortune fought many signall Battels with the Danes who under their King Sueno had invaded in his latter end he grew to such Covetousness and Oppression that all Authours agree he was murthered though they disagree of the manner some say by Confederacy with his servants some by his Kinsmen and Competitours some by the friends of a maid whom he had ravished Donald his Grandchild succeeded a good natur'd and unactive Prince who with a stratagem of sleepy drink destroyed a Danish Army that had invaded and distressed him but at last being insnared by his Kinsman Mackbeth who was pricked forward by Ambition and a former vision of three women of a Sour-humane shape whereof one saluted him Thane of Angus another of Murray the third King he was beheaded The severity and cruelty of Mackbeth was so known that both the sons of the murthered King were forced to retire and yield to the times whilest he courted the Nobility with largesses The first ten years he spent virtuously but the remainder was so savage and Tyrannicall that Macduff Thone of Fife fled into England to Milcolm son of Donald who by his perswasions and the assistance of the King of England enterd Scotland where he found such great accessions to his party that Mackbeth was forced to fly his death is hid in a such a mist of Fables that it is not certainly known Milcolumb the third of that name now being quietly seated was the first that brought in those gay inventions and distinctions of Honours Dukes Marquesses that now are become so ayery that some carry them from places to which they have as little relation as any as Island in America and other from Cottages and Dovecoats his first trouble was Forfar Mackbeths son who claimed the Crown but was soon after cut off some war he had with that William whom we call falsly the Conquerour some with his own People which by the Intercession of the Bishops were taken up At length quarrelling with our William the second he laid Siege to Alnwick Castle which being forced to extremity a Knight came out with the Keys on a Spear as to present them to him and yield the Castle but he not with due heed receving them was runne through the eye and slain some from hence derive the name of Piercy how truly I know not his sonne and Successour Edward following his revenge too hotly received some wounds of which within a few dayes he died Donald Bane that is white who had fled into the Isles for fear of Mackbeth promised them to the Kings of Norway if he would procure him to be King which was done with ease as the times then stood but this Usurper being hated by the People who generally loved the memory of Milcomb they set Duncan Milcombs Bastard against him who forced him to retire to his Isles Duncan a Military man shewed himself unfit for Government so Donald waiting all advantages caused him to be beheaded and restored himself but his Reign was so turbulent the Islanders and English invading on both sides that they called in Edgar sonne of Milcolmb then in England who with small assistances possest himself all men deserting Donald who being taken and brought to the King died in Prison Edgar secure by his virtues and strengthened by the English alliance spent nine years virtuously and peaceably and gave the People leave to breathe and rest after so much trouble and bloudshed His Brother Alexander sirnamed Acer or the fierce succeeded the beginning of whose Reign being disturbed by a Rebellion he speedily met them at the Spay which being a swift River and the Enemy on the other side he offered himself to foard on horse-back but Alexander Car taking the imployment from him foarded the River with such courage that the Enemy fled and were quiet The rest of his Reign some say he had the name of Acer for that some Conspiratours being by the fraud of Chamberlain admitted into his Chamber he casually waking first slew the Chamberlain and after six of the Conspiratours not ceasing to pursue the rest till he had slain most of them with his own hands this with the building of some Abbeys and seventeen years Reign is all we know of him His Brother David succeeded one whose profuse prodigality upon the Abbeys brought the revenew of the Crown so prevalent was the superstition of those dayes almost to nothing he had many battels with our Stephen about the title of Maud the Empresse and having lost his excellent wife and hopefull Sonne in the flower of their dayes he left the Kingdome to his Grandchildren the eldest whereof was David a simple King baffled and led up and down into France by our Henry the second which brought them to such contempt that he was vext by frequent Insurrections especially them of Murray whom he almost extirpated the latter part of his Reign was spent in building of Monasteries he himself tyed by a Vow of Chastity would never marry but left his Successor his brother William who expostulating for the Earldom of Northumberland gave occasion for a War in which he was surprized and taken but afterwards releast upon his doing Homage for the Kingdom of Scotland to King Henry of whom he acknowledged to hold it and puting in Caution the Castles of Roxborough once strong now nothing but ruins Barwick Edinburgh Sterling all which notwithstanding was after released by Richard Ceur de Lyon who was then upon an expedition to the Holy War from whence returning both he and David Earl of Huntington brother to the King of Scots were taken Prisoners the rest of his Reign saving the rebuilding of Saint Johnstone which had been destroyed by the waters whereby he lost his eldest Son and some Treaties with our King John was little worth the memory only you will wonder that a Scottish King could Reign fourty nine years and dye in peace Alexander his sonne succeeded famous for little save some Expeditions against our King John some Insurrections and a Reign two years