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A02833	An aduertiseme[nt] to the subjects of Scotland of the fearfull dangers threatned to Christian states; and namely, to Great Britane, by the ambition of Spayne: with a contemplation, of the truest meanes, to oppose it. Also, diverse other treatises, touching the present estate of the kingdome of Scotland; verie necessarie to bee knowne, and considered, in this tyme: called, The first blast of the trumpet. Written by Peter Hay, of Naughton, in North-Britane.	Hay, Peter, gentleman of North-Britaine.	1627 (1627)	STC 12971; ESTC S118431	133,365	164

let them see the right Addresses of their Effaires this doeth import a necessarie Over-watching of their Treasures and Receivers vvhich maketh them Frugallie and Thriftilie to conferre their Necessarie Debursements with their Present Means and to make Tymous Provision for what is wanting it teacheth them wherefore Pensions and Donatiues are bestowed and to measure them according to the Proportion of Mens Services that some haue not too much whylst others get nothing Your Maiestie may reade of Philip of Valoys that he did revoke all Pensions which did not beare Speciall Mention of the Service done for them to him or his Predecessors And of Charls the eight who did annull all Pensions exceeding a very smal sum wherof I do not in particular remember This kynd of Diligence will teach your Maiestie to avoyde Great and Greedie Numbers of the Receivers of your Rents who doe devour so much of them before they can come to your Maiesties Coffers even as burnt and sandie Groundes drinke in the Waters that passe through them To Charls the fift of France were presented Complaints in Publicke Parliamēt by the whole Estates because he had fiue Treasurers wheras before there were but two and a World of Receivers whereas before there was but one resident in Paris And by Francis the first it was ordayned that there should be foure Keyes of the Treasure House whereof the King should haue one himselfe without the which no other should enter nor no Summes given foorth but in his Personall Presence The fourth and last thing Sir which I finde most speciallie observed in the Politicke Wisdome of Augustus was his Indulgence towardes that People and his Fatherlie Care of them in procuring Dispatch of their Actions without Longsome Processes of Law the Censurall Inquisition over the Magistrates his Personall Audidnce of their Causes and Frequent Going Abroad for that Effects the Exemplar Practize of his Personall Equitie wherinto he did so much delight that having once by sound of Trūpet made Offer of 25000 Crowns to any who would bring to him Crocatas a Captayne of certayne Voleurs in Spayne who did greatlie molest that Countrey whereof Crocatas being advertized he came willinglie presented himselfe before the Emperour demaunding Payment of the Crownes which hee caused to bee given him in Argeht Content together with his Pardon lest hee should bee thought to take his Lyfe for the sake of the Money These Sir made him to bee loved as a Father and feared as a Prince whilst hee lived and adored as a God after hee died In ende of all Sir I will conclude with a most Humble Supplication to your Majestie in Favours of vs who bee your Subjects of Scotland where-vnto I am the more encowraged because this Paraneticall Discourse hath beene intended by mee for no other vse but to comfort them to your M. Service and Obedience in everie thing which I haue preassed to doe by the pitthiest Perswasions that I could bring from the best Wits of the best Wryters Wee reade Sir of Alexander the Great that when hee was readie to lift his Armie from Macedone to goe into the Levant his Master Aristotle did counsell him to rule over the Greekes as a Father but over the Nations whom hee should happen to conquer as a Lord and Emperoar Where-vnto hee answered That not so but that hee would bee over all People who should bee his in common as a Father because it was his Purpose to reduce the whole World vnto the Vnitie of one Citie as Plutarch doeth report his Speach Vnaut sit vita perinde ut mundus unus veluti unius Armenti compascuo in agro compascentis Sir we are not onlie no new Conquest of your Ms but we are your First most Natiue Subjects There is no thing which is Vnnaturall or Extravagant in Nature that doth long endure therfore amongst States Kingdomes that which is most Ancient must be most Naturall that is the Reason why we are your Ms most Naturall People Here are to be seene vpon the Ports of your Ms Towns vpon the Frontespieces of your Pallaces that Scepter Crowne where-of your Blessed Father said Nobis haec invicta miserunt centum sex Proavi The like to which no King that we know vnder Heaven may brag of Here standeth that Noble Order of the Thistle whose Honour hath hitherto remained Vnviolable and Vnstained with Disgrace witnessed by that Cowragious Superscription Nemo me impune lacess●i Here standeth that Generous red Lyon whō the Mightie Bellicose Romans were never sufficient to daunt Here were founded the Sober Beginninges of that Crowne which hath by Progresse of so many Ages risen into this Height of a Monarchicall Diademe Here is the Ground wherin was sown that small Seed that hath shot vp to this Strong Staselie Tree whose Boughes doe over-shadowthis whole Yle whose Branches extend themselues beyond Seas whervnto Forraigne Nations haue Recourse in time of Tempests to be refreshed vnder the Vmbrage therof Here Sir is the Ground which your Majestie should haue in a Sacred Account that doeth conserue the Royall-Bodies of so many of your Predecessours and keepeth about them the Ashes of so manie thousands of Noble Gentle-men as haue frō the beginning of your M. Race so valourouslie laid down their Lyues in fierce Battels presence of their Kings for Propagation of the same And here Sir is your Mother Ground which gaue to your M. the first Light and did nowrish your tender Infancie The Fowls of the Aire Fishes of the Seas by a Naturall Instinct do affect the Places wherin they were hatched so farre that some of them wil come frō the most Longinque Regions to make yearlie Visits of their Natiue Soyle Therefore Sir although we be most remote from the Seat of your M. Court yet let it please your M. that we enjoy our Priviledges to be your M. most naturall Subjects and to haue your M. our King not by Conquest but by Nature Remember Sir how wel it was sayde by him who spake so that The Kingdome was happie where the Subjects did obey the Law of the Prince and the Prince obey the Law of Nature If your M. will looke vpon the Historie of your Predecessors ye will find that it is Naturall to vs most of anie Nation to sacrifice our Lyues Goods for the Preservation of our Prince and Countrie when there is Necessitie to doe so Consider Sir a little our Decayes since the Transportation of the Royall Court to London partlie by Introduction of Prodigalitie and Forraigne Manners vvhich commonlie doeth accompanie the Dilation of Empyre partlie by too much reparing of our Countrey-men of best sorte there and spending of Moneyes in England vvhich were wont to entertain our Merchand Traffick at Home now by that Means so farre decayed partlie by the great Malheure of these last bad and vnfruitfull Years And when your M. hath pondered these then doe lay vpon vs