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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

vvas a braue Embleme for Kings vvhich Cyrus had of putting his foote vpon the midst of a hard and dry hyde vvhere-by he kept it close at earth for if he had set his foot vpō the borders or extremities thereof the vvhole should haue revolted to note the Golden Rule of the Mid-way in Governament forbearing of Extremities and to shovv that Kingdoms are never sure to Princes vntill they be in the middest of the Hearts of their People and guarded round about vvith their Affections Your Majestie seeth hovv the example of David is a perspicuous Mirrour for Kings to looke vnto of vvhom vve reade 2. Sam. 7. When the king sate in his house and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies he said vnto Nathan the Prophet Beholde Idwell in a house of Cedar trees the Arke of God remaineth within the Curtaines Hee resolved to provide for building of the Lord's House Therefore can vvee not deny Sir that the Orient of Your Majesties Reigne doeth breake vp in just holy Actions in favours of the House of GOD by setting out a Navie against the mightie Enemies of Christian Peace and true Religion and by vvhom the over-throvv there-of hath bene so directly sought in these Your Majesties Kingdomes that numbers of vs yet liue vvho did see their proude Armada put even to the parts of our Countrey for that ende Your Majesties Intentions at Home to restore the Mayntaynance and Splendor of God's Worship doe argue the like zeale and vvho doubteth but God vvill grant to Your Majestie the same spirit of wisdome vvith David rightly to choose your tymes for offices of Peace offices of warres The prudence and happie successes of Actions doe consist in discret sure application of Circumstances With a little Tyme Patience your M. vvill get your good Subjects not only to contribute after your desires to the House of the Lord to the Cōmon-wealth vvorks of Pietie but to doe it vvillingly as those Israelits did vnto David 1. Chron. 29. Then the people rejoyced for that they offered willingly because with a perfect heart they offered willinglie to the Lord. And David the king also rejoyced with great joye And then Sir their Sacrifices shall bee savorie vnto God vvhen they come not from Hearts dyed into Murmuration Grudge or Blacknesse like vnto the Swan vvhich for the same cause vvas anciently forbidden to bee sacrificed to the gods I doe most humbly recōmend these my Christian Endevours to your M. patronage protection If they be acceptable to your M. I hope they shall displease none of your faithful Subjects If they doe not fully correspond the judicious quicknesse of your M. great spirit it is not my fault my smal Vessell could hold no more The Lord vvho is the giver of all good thinges and vvho hath sovven into your M. Heart these Seedes of Royall Pietie and Vertue Hee may be pleased to nourish them vvith the daylie influence of His Grace vntill they grovv to that glorious and fruitfull Harvest vvhich they doe novv prognosticate and promise in their Spring That God vvho hath set your M. over a great and mightie People Hee may blesse your M. vvith the true vvisdome of Governament the trustinesse of faythfull Counsellers the vpright loue of your Subjects and a prosperous fortunate Reigne vnto the ende Your M. most humble faythfull and affectionate Subject and Serviture PETER HAY. TO THE READER COurteous Reader I speake to as manie as bee vpright Subjects of this Kingdome of which number I am sure there is not one to whome the principall scope of this Discourse will not bee gracious and plausible If some Passages doe perhaps displease it is for too narrow compting in your Particulars And if I haue toutched these points moderatelie and haue in them also my interesse equall with yours it doeth absolue mee from anie meaning to wrong you and sheweth that the acting hereof hath not beene intended for you or mee or for another but for the Common-wealth Wee haue spent our whole Yeares gone to our Private Studies Pleasures or Emolument without the meanest distraction by anie sort of Tyrannie or State-Calamitie Our dayes haue beene like vnto that jubilant age of the Romane Empyre vnder Augustus of whom sayeth the Po●t Ille meos errare boves ut cernis ipsum Ludere quae vellem calamo permisit agresti Ille erit ille mihi semper DEVS But now this Tyme doeth require vs to carrie publicke and not private Mynds which is the reason why I doe finde my selfe in this action pene th●m quam antea There is sayeth SALOMON a tyme for Peace and a tyme for Warre a tyme to gather and keepe and a tyme to cast away and GOD doeth these things that men should feare before Him The golden tyme of Peace and collection that wee haue enjoyed vnder our late King of blessed memorie hath so besotted our Myndes with Securitie that wee are even Ignorants of the ordinarie vicissitude of the World so farre that the verie first threatnings of change doe confound vs where as by the contrarie they should make vs turne to our GOD and feare before Him resolving to accept at His Hands patientlie and thankfullie after so long Prosperitie the Corrections for our sinnes proper to vs and in the nature of thinges common with vs to all People I haue presented before you in this Treatise as vpon a Board a summarie Portract of the estate of this tyme and of the dangers where-of wee are so much affrayde which if yee shall diligentlie contemplate it will helpe both your knowledge and your resolution As for some few particulars that for the first face may bee some-what disagreeable with you yee shall finde here also conjoyned with them their soveraigne remeadies and solaces If yee will but ascende a while with mee vpon this Stage to agitate the cause of your Prince your Countrey your Common-wealth and Religion when wee shall looke backe vpon the invincible couerage of our Predecessours against so manie mightie Nations for the standing of this Kingdome before they were Christians and that more than humane magnanimitie of the Heathen Codrus of Athens and others lyke to him the Bruti of Rome deciosque caput fatale voventes and these heroicke Decij how in sacred extasies of resolution they did devote and sacrifice their lyues for safetie of the States where-of they were members such speculations shall make vs ashamed of some of our discontentments and languishing amidst so great exigence and appearance of publicke distresses I know there is no generose spirit but will bee much delighted with this subject nor anie wise-hearted man who will not esteeme it a vertuous and laudable part to bee fore-seeing of so capitall dangers With-in these three or foure Yeares the Palatinate did lesse dread the Spanyard than wee doe now Tum tua res agitur paries dum proximus ardet If wee doe feare the LORD obey our

easilie prooved in this manner Al-be-it it bee so that onelie GOD can multiplie the Earth yet it is of veritie that wee since the dayes of our Predecessours haue multiplied the Fruites of the Earth so farre that for everie three Plough gate of Land as wee doe call it manured which was in Scotland an hundreth Yeares by-gone there are foure now And if yee answere that the People are multiplied proportionallie to that so that I should not esteeme it to be encrease of Ritches which doeth bring with it encrease of People to consume them I will reply to you that is the point I intende to prooue for Multitudes of People industrious are both the Ritches and Strength of a Countrey and that vvee doe exceede our Antecessours both for numbers of People and of Moneyes yee shall vnderstand it this way They wanted first the two Seminaries for breeding of People which wee haue everie one knoweth that the Multiplication of Ground-Labourers and Husband-men as wee call them haue peopled the Land-warts of Scotland farre aboue that it was ancientlie for wee see now vpon a Maines that of olde was laboured by a Barron him-selfe twentie or thirtie severall Families of those Retite Husband-men vvhere-of everie one hath a good number of Children Next againe it is well knowne to bee the Sea Trade which hath peopled our Maritine Townes and that also our Predecessours wanted so farre that I may say there bee now twentie Ships of Trafficke amongst vs for everie one that was in their dayes Then who doeth not know that by the Trafficke of the Sea● our Countrey hath twentie times more Moneyes than was an hundreth yeares by-gone or if yee doe doubt of it yee may soone learne that our Grand-Fathers could haue bought as much Land for one thousand Marks as wee can doe for twentie thousands and farre more Farther our Predecessours had a meanes for stopping the growing of Multitudes and encrease of People that wee want and it was by the great numbers of Men and Women who tooke them-selues to the Caelibate and Monasticke lyfe of whom there was no Off-spring And if yee would know of what great importance that was doe but consider how manie Bishoprickes Abbacies Pri●ries Nunueries with the number of their Convents Arch-deanries Deanries Personages and places of cure for secular Priests was into Scotland in time of P●perie and when yee haue taken vp their number doe conferre them with the 70 of the house of Iacob who went into Aegypt and how in the fourth Age there-after there came foorth 600000 fighting Men besides Women and Children all descended of them Which vvhen yee haue consideratelie done I thinke yee shall bee affrayed of the hudge Multitudes that before now should haue issued from the professed religious of Scotland if they had followed the Matrimoniall life If yee will yet insist to object the Povertie of our Countrey by reason of the broken Estates of Noble-men and Gentle-men who haue our Lands morgadged for great Debts of Money I answere to you that by the contrarie it is an Argument of the Ritches of our Countrey for if the Noble-mans Grand-father by Predigalitie Pryde wilfull pleying in Law or anie other such Misgovernment had brought him-selfe to neede the like Summes of Money twentie Lords could not haue gotten so much then as one can get now And I will finde now a base-borne Man advance to a Noble-man in prest 30 40 or 50000 Pounds whose Grandfather and all his Parentage was not valiant of the twentie part there-of Ergo the personall Distresses of Noble-men and Gentlemen doeth not argue the Povertie of the Countrey in generall Wee see into Nature that her severall Members as of Plantes Beasts and Men doe daylie decay and die and others doe shoot vp in their Rowmes vvhilst Nature it selfe remaineth in entire and full strength In the dayes of our Predecessours there were in Scotland but Victuall Rents where-as now by the vertuous Trades vvhich haue beene since introduced a great part of Men doe liue by Silver Rents Things being manifestlie so shall wee refuse to furnish out and mayntayne two or three thousand Souldiours to so just and necessarie Warres Certaynlie it cānot be heard abroad without our great Ignominie which is worse adding of Cowrage to our Enemies when they shall know vs to be so base and degenerose Well let vs not be vngrate towardes GOD. It is true indeed that Nature and Ty●●e doe favour the growing of Monarchies namelie vvhere they are just and temperate as being the vi●e Image of GOD for Governament of the World But it is also true that vnthankfull People doe procure short Periods of great Kingdomes The Throne of Israell was established in the person of David after manie toylsome and laborious years of the preceeding Rulers of that People and great sheeding of Blood and so much in David his owne tyme that GOD would not suffer his bloodie Hand to be put to the building of the Temple but the Glorie Peace and Prosperitie there-of did expyre with the death of Salomon his Sonne There-after the LORD did set manie wicked Kings over that wicked People The greatest Punishment that GOD threatneth to inflict vpon a rebellious Nation is to giue them evill Kings vvhere-vpon the Divines doe note that it is the highest Transgression vvhereof a People can be guiltie before GOD When by their Ingratitude they make Princes of their nature perhaps seren● and temperate to turne to tyrannous Governament and to lay vpon their Neckes the Yoake of perpetuall Grudge and Murmuration and so not onlie them-selues transgresse agaynst GOD but make their Kings also to doe the lyke who most of all Men should obey feare the LORD so that often tymes a wicked People maketh a wicked King But to returne If wee doe question for small thinges now vvhat would we doe si Hannibal astaret portis if our Enemies were at the Ports of our Countrey or within the Bowels of it We would be forced to doe even as the Romanes did against Hannibal to run and offer all our Moneyes and our Iewels and our Eare-rings for safetie there-of Wee would vndoubtedlie say as that famous VVarriour did the late King of France vvho after the recoverie of Cain from the Spanyard by transaction after hee had spended a great part of his lyfe in VVarres hee saide they were not wyse who would not make a Bridge of Gold for their Enemies to passe out vpon But as we say It is better to hold out than to put out Durius ejicitur quam non admittitur hostis Haue wee not seene our Kinges vse all possible Practises for procuring of Peace all this tyme by-gone by toyling of Ambassadors to and froe by super-spending their Rentes exhausting their Coffers and indebting of them-selues Are vve not naturall Members as they are naturall Heads Are they more bound to doe for vs than we for our selues Al-be-it the Kings Spheare hee higher and greater than ours yet

our Eyes a short way even to the beginning of Charls the fift the Grandsire of this present King there wee shall see the swift march of that Ambition so farre that if they had brooked that which they gripped since then they had matched the Romanes for dilatation of Empyre in the lyke tract of tyme. The generous Romanes did not found their Empyre vpon Oppression and Spoyle nor rayse it by Artes of Tyrannie They were a just and magnanin ious People concitate by GOD to deliver the Oppressed and purge the Worlde from prowde Tyrants to introduce Communitie of Conversation amongst Countreys Common Lawes of Iustice Civill Policie and Learning for the which sayeth one of the Fathers that GOD did favour their Empyre and the growing ther●-of Donec eo tandem deventum esset sayth he ut sieret totus terrarum orbis quasi unum cultissim●m imperiirus That it came to passe that the whole Worlde was as a well manured Husbandrie or Fame of that Empyre Where by the contrarie these late Kings of Spayne haue not onelie interverted the moste laudable and vertuous Ambition begun and prosequuted manie yeeres by their Predecessours for plantation of Religion and Policie amongst the Insidels of Africke of the Levantine Indies and diverse Yles of the Mayne Occean but they haue turned vp-syde downe this Christian Ambition as fayre Lucifer did change himselfe into a Devill and haue converted the Edge there-of to the confusion of the fayrest Countreys of Europe so sufficientlie adorned with Pietie Iustice and Policie that they might haue beene called The Gemmes of the Worlde And if the Moneyes and Forces of Armes which haue beene spent to the sackage of these within an hundreth yeares gone had beene employed against Barbarians and Ignorants of GOD then the best part of Africke of the Easterne and Westerne ●dies might haue beene at this day vnder the peaceable Domini● of that King and hee by that Conquest more justlie called a Catholicke King as may bee easilie vnderstoode by the Stories extant of the prosperous and happie beginninges of his Antecessours against the Infidels of those Nations vvhich because it doeth most clearlie paint out the vglie and odious Face of his detestable and execrable Ambition I thinke it not amisse to make a short Relation there-of out of their owne Histories About some more than 800 yeares by-gone Roderico a Christian King of the Gothes in Spayne having ravished and deflored the Daughter of the Earle Iuliano his owne Subject was casten out from his Kingdome slayne by Tariffio a Barbarian king brought from Africke by meanes of the sayde Iuliano for just revenge of the ignominie done to him Those Barbarians did possesse the whole Countrey few Cities excepted of Spayne with the vtter exterminion of the Gothicke Empyre and were begun to spreade them-selues over the Perenees when Pelagius sonne of the Duke of Biscaglia of vvhome is descended this present King of Spayne by succession not yet interrupted having a Sister of rare beautie in lyke sort violented and raped by a Cosin of this Barbarian King and beeing a great spirit full of Valour and Pietie both hee did plot some Stratagems for the revenge of this injurie where-in his cowrage and good fortune were so conspicuous that the Gothes now oppressed by the Barbarian servitude did comfort him to publicke Armes for restitution of their Christian Libertie where-in hee made so good progresse that they did elect and erect him to their Kingdome The Ravishment of the Daughter of Iuliano was the introduction of the Moores in Spayne and the dejection of the Gothicke Dominion The Rape of the Sister of Pelagius did procure the restitution of the same and the ejection of that Barbarian King There is not certainlie a Vyce which hath procured greater ruine to mightie Princes than this of raging and voluptuous Lust. Tyrannie hath throwne out manie from their Crownes but moe yet haue beene cast out by Immunditie Be-lyke as beeing a g●osse lo●rde and sensuall Vice the LORD doth more punish it i● Princes than private men who are set vp aboue their People to spreade abroad the Rayes of their exemplarie Pietie and Vertue This Pelagius did spende the rest of his dayes against those Infidels whom hee swept out of diverse corners of that Countrey although they were so numerous at that tyme that there were found of them in one Battell in Aquitane 400000 which made the VVorld adore in a sort his Name because hee was the first Prince who with extraordinarie zeale did enterpryse holie and heroicke VVarres against those impious Barbarians who were begun to treade over all Christian People Vertuous beginnings if with length of tyme they grow to large extent of Prosperitie they are much honoured by after-comming Ages and great reason for why the Tree how tall soever it bee in the Fielde yet it was once all in the Seede This is the just Rewarde of Vertue past and the chiefe Spurre of that which is to come This Pelagius is most renowned in the Histories Buchanan amongst others in his Iure regni apud Scotos doeth introduce him for the Image of a most vertuous and temperate Prince The second of these Kings memorable in Histories was Ferdinando called Magno who no lesse than Pelagius to the glorie of GOD and his immortall fame did pacifie his Controversies with some Christian Neighbours to his great disadvantage to manage Warres against the Moores of whom hee over-threw and banished the King of Toledo and the King of Siviglia with all their People This Prince is so honoured by their Wryters for a wonderfull temperament that was in him of fiercenesse against the Barbarians and religious humilitie of carriage and conversation with his Subjects that they doe equall him vnto that perfect Cavalliere that Virgill descrybeth in the person of Aeneas For the third I will remember Ferdinando called Santo who did holilie bend him-selfe to cleanse the Countrey of Spayne from the remnant of that Vermine with such zeale and fervour that hee was noted thus to speake of the Ambition of Princes that in their Warres they had diverse ends some Vindication some Extention of Dominions some Glorie of the World and loue of Popular Ayre and all these sayde hee were vaine as David speaketh of them Periit memoria illorum cum sonitu Their m●morie passeth away with that same sound which doeth so much inveagle them for the tyme. Others sayde hee haue for the scope of their Warres Iustice and the Peace of People and these doe not willinglie moue Warres but for succouring of the Oppressed and extinction of Pryde and Tyrannie And lastlie others for propogation of the Fayth and that sayde hee is the top of all Glorie to bee purchased by Warres Although hee saide that seldome were Christian Princes happie in that sort to haue their designes in Warre simple and incommixed vvith Ambition Pride or Avar●ce vvhich● saide hee vvas the true reason vvhy Christian Empyres

are Cormorants and wicked Dionysians they doe yearne after the Prey and would there-by to their vtter confusion purchase a Fielde of Blood they consume their Goods with Sacrilegious Impudence Boldnesse in Courtlie Braverie Herein any Man may see how the one sort of them doe vrge vs with the Church Policie which say they was vnder the Apostles Presbyterian but they would haue the Livings of our latter tymes The other sort concurre with them in Policie but vpon Condition That for Mayntaynance they will embrace the Apostolicke Povertie to the ende that they may enjoye the Church Patrimonie themselues Therefore may it not be justlie sayd to the Laycie Factious That they oght eyther to denude themselues of Ecclesiasticke Goods or provide themselues of other Teachers than such as daylie condemn thē to their Fact that they shold not be so shamelesse as to vtter one worde agaynst the present Governament of the Church or the Repetitiō of Tythes to the Church vntill they haue done eyther the one or the other lest otherwyse they bee despysed as Men vvho make some little show of Religion but haue none at all Now if anie Man doe hold sincerelie that Tythes are not due to GOD I am sure that he will yet grant that a Competent Portion vnder some other Number must be for the Worship of GOD and Works of Pietie And if the Retention of Tythes be Sacriledge there is a fearful Curse pronounced against it Malach. 3. A Curse of the Devourer Because sayth the LORD yee haue robbed my Tythes and left no Meat in my Store-house And is this the only Meat of Priests that is robbed heere No but this is also the Store-house of the People Non ex solo pane vivit homo sayeth the Spirit of GOD Man doeth not onely liue vpon Bread but on everie Word that doeth proceed from the Mouth of GOD. There must be into the House of GOD store of the Bread of Lyfe of that Heavenlie Manna which feedeth our Soules and this cannot be without sufficient Provision of Temporall Bread to the Preachers of the Word Labia Sacerdotis custod●●n● legam DEI in pectore ejus conduntur or acula divina Certaynlie the Pover●ie of the Church doeth make a scarce vnlearned Ministerie Amongst the Persecutions of the Christian Religion recorded in Histories there are two most remarkable one vnder Dio●lesian another vnder Iulian called the Apostate The first of them did slay the Priests not the lesse wherof the Christian Fayth did so greatlie flowrish as it was thence forth sayd Sanguis Marty●● 〈◊〉 Ecclesiae The Blood of the Martyrs was the Semmarie of the Church But the second did supplant Religion in a more pitthie and pernicious sort albeit it was not bloodie he robbed the Church Revenewes where-thorow both Preaching and Christian Schooles did decay Occidere Presbyteros parum erat To slay the Priests it was a small thing which Dioclesian did compared with the insidious Opposition of Iulian Ipse enim occidit Presbyterium He cutted the Throat of the Presbyt●riall Possession Wherethorow great Ignorance did shortlie after ensue for as Theodore● wryteth Who would go to spend their Youth in the Studie of Theologie to haue no Mayntaynance in their Age And here vpon this faire Occasion I must remember the Neglect of that moste Royall and Necessarie Policie of Plantation of a Sufficient Ministerie Schooles of Learning and Burgall Societies in our Northerne Yles and Hie-Landes of Scotland for Exterminion of Berbaritie and Incorporation of that People to the Bodie of this Kingdome vvho for the present haue no Markes to bee Natiue Members there-of neyther by their Manners their Habite nor their Language the three speciall Evidences of Naturall Vnion For as for RELIGION that doeth moste vnite of anie thing I thinke they know none The Necessitie and Mayne Importance of this Policie is verie soone seene For in the Assurednesse and Strength of Borders doeth chiefelie consist the Suretie of a great State Agayne everie one knoweth howe there is not a better Meanes to reduce a People naturallie fierce and rebellions to Obedience than by infusing into the Heartes of them the Loue of Knowledge and of Civill Carriage vvhere-of vvee haue a most proper Example and most pertinent heere of the Romanes vvho by that kynde of Artes did goe about to breake and addouce the Bellicose Cowrage of our owne Predecessours in BRITANE as wee reade of AGRICOLA vvho vvas Generall heere of the Romane Legions vnder the Emperour DOMITIAN sayeth Taci●us I am vero Principum filios liberalibus artibus erudire ingenia BRITANNORUM studiis GALLORUM anteferre ut qui modo lingaam Roman abnuebaent eloquentiam concupiscerent ●ude etiam h●bitus nostri honor frequens tog● pa●latimque discessum ad delinimenta ● vitiorum porticus balnea conviviorum elegantiam idqu● apud imperit●s huma●itas vocabatur cum pars servitutis esset The luchantment in some of the Romane Schooles then made the Britans 〈◊〉 despyse piece and piece their owne Manners and roughnesse of their owne Language and brought them to Admiration of the Romane Tongue and loue of their Apparrell and at length to Softnesse and Delicacie of Lyfe by which thinges they did for the tyme greatlie effeminate their Myndes That our Yles and Hie-Landes haue nowe great neede to bee tamed by the lyke Artes beeing a Dangerous Rebellious and Vncivill People it is verie easilie proved for our Scottish Historie is full of it That those Yles and Northerne partes haue not onelie beene Portes and Receptacles of Forraigne Armies invading our Countrey and a Sanctuarie for Domesticke Rebelles but the Lordes of the Yles haue manie tymes threatned the Crowne of SCOTLAND and haue foughten Bloodie and Desperate Battels for it VVe reade in our Historie that our King Findocus after hee had bene afflicted with the mightie Rebellions of Donaldus vvho styled himselfe King of the Yles hee was in ende murdered by his Insidi●tion and the King succeeding to him called also Donaldus vvas slayne by the same Man in open Battell after the vvhich he did vsurpe the Crowne of SCOTLAND and exercised most bloodie Tyrannies for the Extinction of the greatest part of the Nobilitie Againe vnder King Eth●inus another Donaldus of the Yles did so boldlie revolt that hee came vvith displayed Banners to the Countrie of GALLOWAY and all-to-gether spoyled it The thirde Donaldus of the Yles in the tyme of KING IAMES the first his beeing in ENGLAND hee did oppresse and subdue our vvhole Northerne partes yea even to the Honourable Citie of ABERDENE vvhich hee intended to destroy if he had not bene diverted and drawne to that famous Battell of HAR●-LAW vvhere so manie Barones Knights Honourable Gentle-Men and Burgesses of best sort did lose their Lyues These serue for sufficient Documents to after-comming Princes for there is nought that hath beene vvhich may not come to passe agayne Tyme it selfe beeing but a Circulation of the same things These Examples did

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