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A26656	Medulla historiæ Scoticæ being a comprehensive history of the lives and reigns of the kings of Scotland, from Fergus the First, to Our Gracious Sovereign Charles the Second : containing the most remarkable transactions, and observable passages, ecclesiastical, civil, and military, with other observations proper for a chronicle, faithfully collected out of authors ancient and modern : to which is added, a brief account of the present state of Scotland, the names of the nobility, and principal ministers of church and state, the laws criminal : a description of that engine with which malefactors are tortured, called the boot.	Alexander, William, fl. 1685-1704.	1685 (1685)	Wing A917; ESTC R21197	93,143	254

of all his Majesties most loving subjects to eternal happiness for our sun-set ensued no night by arising of the day star of our Britain CHARLES our hope who long may raign over us His Majesty being possest with a longing desire to see his Ancient native Kingdom made Progress in Anno 1617. and did so much by easie journey till he came to Berwick upon Tweed where he reposed himself two or three dayes From thence he came to the Bound-Rod The Earle Hume hereditary Sheriff of the Mers welcomed his Majesty with a gallant train of Gentlemen being three thousand well mounted His Majesty alighted at the Rod and received the Dukes of Lennox and Buckingham the Earls of Arundale Rutland Pembroke Southampton Montgomery and Carlile with many others of his Court very Royally making them welcome and mounted his Horse again He rode to Dunglasse the Earl of Hume his residence where he was bountifully entertained The next day he removed to Seaton the residence of the Earl Winton where he was most Royally entertained The next day he rode forward towards Edinburgh where compassing the Town riding the way of the Long-gate he entred the West Port where the Provost Bayliffs and Counsel attended him in their bounds where Mr. John Hay in name of the town made an eloquent Oration welcoming His Majesty and was delivered to him a fair Bason with a thousand Pieces of Gold Riding along to the high Church being conducted by the Trained Bands of the Town being clad in Velvet and Satin with Partizados in their hands and entring there he heard a Learned Sermon by the Right Reverend Father in God the Arch-bishop of St. Andrews where after Sermon he mounted his Horse and going toward the Abby where at St. Johns Cross the Provost taking leave of him his Majesty Knighted him And within few dayes his Majesty rode to his Parliament with his Peers Prelats Barons and Burgesses and thereafter was most sumptuously feasted by the Town of Edinburgh It is needless to set down in particulars what was done because I intend Brevity His Majesty removed to Linlithgow and so to Striviling where he was feasted by the Earl of Marre Thereafter he went to Dunfermling Faulkland Scone c. Where by the way he was feasted at Dearcie the Arch-Bishops residence It were tedious to rehearse the Learned Orations Poetical Poems which were presented to His Majesty and are extant in a Book called The Muses Welcome His Majesty crossing Tay to Angus had every where most Royal Entertainment and returning the same way to Sterling and so to Glasgow where he was received by the Town Thereafter he went to Lochlowmount where he hunted and slew many Deer and crossing the River of Clyde to Pasiey where he was Entertained three dayes together by the Earl of Abercorne From thence to Hamilton Pallace where he was Honourably Entertained by the Marquess From thence to Sanquihair and so to Dumfries Thereafter crossing the River of Eske he went to Carlile where he kept his fifth Day of August And so taking along the West Sea Bank through the Countries of Cumber Westmerland Lancashire and Cheshire and so crossing through the middle of England he returned to London in health with great joy and content of His Majesties loving Subjects where he lived a long time after in great Tranquillity and Peace with the Christian Princes his Neighbours ballancing the affaires of Europe and labouring the peace and quiet of all Christendom His Piety Religion Learning Bounty and Mercy would of it self take a Volume but every one of these lives after him and speaks for him as may appear by many excellent Poems he writ as some part of Davids Psalmes some part of Du Bartus Divine weeks Lepanto his Basilicon doron his Book of Demonology his premonition to Christian Princes his Book against Conradus Vorstius c. are all sufficient of themselves to testify of him and need no other blazing He went to England the 36. of his Age and brought with him his Queen with a Goodly and Royal Progeny bringing with him Kingdoms Unity Peace and Plenty and ending his Pilgrimage being full of dayes at his House in Theobalds the 59th Year of his Raigne upon the Sabbath to the everlasting Sabbath where he rests He was buried at Westminster This Illustrious Monarch having dyed in a good old Age left the Diadem of Three Kingdoms in Succession to his Son Charles the first of that Name who was immediately Proclaimed being on a Sunday morning when Doctor Laud then Bishop of St. Davids was in the Pulpit at White-Hall and broke off his Sermon upon the first Notion of the Fathers Death He was set upon the Throne A. M. 5682. Anno Dom. 1624. He Married Henrietta-Maria Daughter to the French King Henry the Fourth and Sister to Lewes the Thirteenth of the Family of the B●urbones whom he had formerly seen as he passed through France into Spain Having gone to meet her at Dover his first Complement to her was That he desired to be no longer Master of himself than he was Servant to her which he made good to the full He called his first Parliament at Westminster which Assembled the Fifteenth of June following Anno Dom. 1624 wherein the King declared his want of Money and the great Charge he was like to be put to upon several Accounts both at Home and Abroad especially to maintain the Army which was listed for recovering the Palatinate The Parliament having several Petitions which were presented to King James a little before his Death un-answered Petitioned his Majesty to Redress those Grievances which concerned Religion and Priviledge without which they could come to no Conclusions for raising of Money whereupon the King gave them full Assurance of all their Demands so they immediately Granted two Subsidies from Protestants four from Papists and three from the Clergy After this the Parliament did not Sit long for the last Subsidies not being enough to defray the King's necessary Charges he urges the Parliament for more but they instead of answering his Just Demands fall foul upon his Servants who managed his Revenues especially the great Duke of Buckingham This came to such a Height in the Houses that they came to the Canvasing his Commings in his great Revenues of Crown Demeans which they would Revoke and Resume to supply the King's Wants which made the King in great Regret resolve to give an end to their Sitting and accordingly the next day Dissolved them The City of London was at this time much wasted with a long Plague which was the occasion of removing Michaelmas Term to Redding There was another Parliament called soon after but they began where the former left present Grievances and impeach Buckingham Upon May the Nineteenth 1630. The Queen was Delivered of a Son at Saint James's who was Christened Charles and Preserved by Providence to Succeed his Father to the Royal Scepters of Three Kingdoms the King of France and the Prince Elector Palatine represented

pressed mightily for Money alledging that his Revenues was not answerable to his Charges but his Nobles answered his demands in another manner then he expected for they presently degraded and imprisoned him Ardgad Captain of Argyle made Governor He dyed in Prison the fourteenth year of his Reign and was buried in Dunstaffage 25. After him Ethod the first Sisters Son to Mogad began to Reign A. D. 163. He highly applauded Ardgad his Government keeping him still in great Trust with himself He sent him to the Isles to allay some Tumults that were beginning to stir which he did as he thought effectually but he was not long gone then they became worse than before wherefore the King sent him thither again where he was unfortunately killed this so inraged the King that he went thither himself in Person and made them soundly smoke for their Insolency Having composed his Affairs at home and abroad he began to give himself to ease but soon after he was killed in his Chamber by an Irish Harper whom he kept to make Musick to him the thirty third year of his Reign 26. Ethod having no Sons ripe for the Government his Brother Satrael succeeded him A. D. 199. He was so cruel that he made it his Work to cut off all the antient Nobility but was at length stabbed by one of his Courtiers the fourth year of his Reign and was buried in Dunstaffage 27. His Brother Donald the first succeeded him A. D. 199. A Prince famous for Princely Endowments but especially in that he was the first King that imbraced Christianity in Scotland and gave it his Royal Sanction tho' for several years before his time the Gospel had it's Professors tho' not publickly owned he with the Concurrence of his Nobles made what Reformation he could yet could he not during his Life get the People weaned from their old Heathenish Superstitions In his time Sevesus the Emperor came into Brittain with a Prodigious Army intending no less than to Conquer the whole Island The Scots and Picts at his coming betake them to the Hills and draws him after them but his Army suffered grievously having as one Writes lost 50000. Men in that expedition at length they came to a Peace with him after which he built a great Wall reaching from Forth to Clyde Peace being concluded abroad Donald returned home and passed the rest of his days in Peace he dyed the eighteenth year of his Reign and was buried in Dunstaffage 28. Ethodius the second Son to Ethodius the first succeeded Donald A. D. 216. A man of a foolish and cross Temper unfit to Govern that fierce People but his Nobles managed the Government prudently he at last was killed in a Tumult made by his Domesticks the sixteenth year of his Reign and was buried in Dunstaffage 29. His Son Athircus is made King A. D. 231. At first he gave great grounds of hope that he should prove an accomplished Prince but it proved quite contrary he turned extreamly profligate prostituting Noble mens Daughters to his Companions Upon which account one Hotholocus a Noble man conspired against him which he perceiving that there was no way to escape killed himself the twelfth year of his Reign 30. Athircus being Dead Hatholocus procured himself to be chosen King A. D. 242. A cruel and lascivious Tyrant being acquainted that Ethircus his Children were with the Picts he called the chief of the Nobility whom he knew to have been Athircus his Friends pretending he wanted their Advice in some matters of State whent he had got them convened in one place he caused them to be thrown in Prison and soon after executed Whereupon their Friends rebelled and the King going about to gather an Army to subdue them was killed by one of his Courtiers the eleventh year of his Reign 31. Hathalocus being thus dead Athircus his children are called home and Findochus the eldest of them set upon the Throne A. D. 253. a wise and valiant Prince his first Expedition was against Donald of the Isles who under pretence of revenging the late Kings death had raised an Army him he subdued forcing him to flee to his Ships where being hotly pursued he got into a small Boat which being over loaden immediately sunk and he perished yet his Son whose name was Donald keept up the quarrel against him Hindoch went with an Army entering the Islands wasted them so that they were left almost quite desolate Donald finding his weakness betakes him to treacherous courses and striking in with Carance the Kings brother they instigated two Ruffians to Murther him both which were tormented to death The 11 th year of his Reign he was buried in Dunstaffage 32. To him succeeded his youngest Brother Donald the 2 d A. D. 264. An excellent Prince while he was preparing to reveng his Brothers death he heard that Donald of the Isles had made an inroad upon Murray not in the quality of a Robber but of a King Where upon commanding the strength of the Kingdom to follow him he went against him with those forces he had in readiness which Donald hearing of took such tedious marches that he was close upon the Kings Camp before any was a ware which obliged the King to fight but the inequality of their number was such that the King was defeated most of his men killed himself being wounded with several of his Nobles were taken He dyed the third day after partly of his wounds and partly of Melancholy the first year of his Reign he was buried in Dunstaffage 33 Donald Lord of the Isles usurped the Crown A. D. 265. excercising much cruelty none dared to oppose him having so many of the Nobility his prisoners whom he threatned upon every provocation to kill At length Crathelinth Son to King Findochus who having lurked long with his Nurse and was believed to be dead having gathered a few subtil men together went directly to Donalds Court who dissembling both his name and quality became in a short time very intimate with him but when he found his opportunity he put an end to the Tyrants days the 12 th year of his Reign conveying himself and his followers away undiscovered There was all this time a sore Persecution of the Christians under the Emperor Decius 34. Crathelinth was set upon his Fathers Throne A. D. 277. A Valiant and religious King He first caused all the late Tyrants Race to be Razed to the foundation for preventing the mischief might follow he also purged the Land of Superstitions planting the true Christian Religion This King having peace on all sides he addicted himself much to hunting one day as he was at his sport one of the Picts stole away a Dog in which he greatly delighted but the keeper of the Kings dogs being informed where he was kept went to take him and striving to take him by force was killed in the place which was the beginning of a sad war that lasted a long time but at last by

sent to bring home the Queen he was no sooner gone then his Interest at Court began to fall for a Parliament being called the Lord Boyd and his Brother Sir Alexander are summoned to appear thereupon he distrusting this Case fled to England but his Brother was taken and Arraigned the Earl of Arran also though absent is declared a Rebel The Queen arriving with her fleet arriving in the Ferth My Lady Arran went aboard in disguise and informed her Husband of the calamity of his House perswaded him to do for himself whereupon he hoisted Sails and returned with his Lady to Denmark The King sendeth Letters full of promises and threatnings to move his sister to return to Scotland which when she did she was constrained to be divorced from her Husband and to Marry James Lord Hamilton not long after the Earl of Arran dyed in great misery at Antwerp Queen Margaret the third year after her Marriage brought forth a Son who was named James the King of Denmark to Congratulate the happy delivery of his Daughter released all his claims to the Isles of Orkney and Sherland but in the midst of this calm a cloud begins to overcast the Kings Splendor for his Brothers being Princes of unquiet and restless spirits they set themselves altogether to study Novelties and to bring him into contempt with his Subjects to this end they had drawn away many of the young Nobility and Gentry to follow them The King was Naturally Superstitious giving much head to divinations which gave also his Brothers occasion to vilifie him and incense his people against him yea the Earl of Marre became so Insolent that in the Kings own presence he began to raile against the Government of the state and Court which the King highly resenting caused to Imprison him where he fell in a high Fever whereof he dyed The Duke of Albany imputed the death of his Brother to the Court party but while he was keeping his Cabals in order to an Insurrection he was surprised and Imprisoned in the Castle of Edenburgh out of which he soon after made his escape to France thence he came to England and began to tamper with King Edward revealing to him the weakness of the Kingdom of Scotland and how easily it might be subdued the Nobility not respecting the King but much affecting a change in the Government which by his assistance might easily be effected he promised also to settle a corespondence with the Nobles of Scotland which he did then that they might get their design wrought gives way for the breaking loose of the Borders fierce incursions are made by the English upon Scotland and by the Scots upon the English and the discontented Nobility blame the King for all thereupon pretending the necessity of the times and the danger the Kingdom was in they entered into a Bond of association after which they enter the Kings bed chamber where they seized some of his Servants in his presence and put them to death as incendiaries in the state About this time the Duke of Gloucester set forward toward Scotland with two and twenty thousand men finding Berwick two strong for him he marches directly to Edenburgh there by publick writings at the Market places he gave out high demands all which King James being shut up in Edenburgh Castle answered with silence the disatisfied Lords having obtained what they chiefly aimed at wished the English at home again therefore they desire a peace with them which the Duke of Gloucester granted upon condition that all his demands were satisfied one of which was to reinstall the Duke of Albany which after much debate was granted and he with his Army returned home The Duke of Albany having recovered his Estate and Honours his first work was to restore the King to his Prerogatives reconciling him to his discontented Lords but he himself stood not long in his favour for by the advice of some of his Enemies about the King a Plot is resolved upon to bring the Duke within compass of Law which he being aware of fled to England to present to King Edward and the Duke of Gloucester his grievancies in his absence he is convinced of many points of Treason whereupon he and the Lord Crightton his Associate are both forfeited which when he heard he presently caused to give up the Castle of Dunbar whereof he was Lieutenant to King Edward who immediately put a Garison in it Not long after the said King Edward dyed and his Brother Richard Duke of Gloucester Succeeded The Duke of Albany obtains five hundred Horse from King Richard with which he came with the old Earl of Douglass to Lochmabban to surprise a Fair which was held there whereupon the Laird of Johnston who was warden dispatched Posts about for supply of men with which he Encountred the Duke here it is most Couragously fought on both sides but at last the English are quite routed the Duke hardly by swiftness of his Horse escaped but the Earl of Dowglass is taken and brought in Triumph to Edenburgh where the King adjudged him to perpetual confinement soon after followed a Truce with England for three years but before the time was expired Henry Earl of Richmond came with some Companies out of France of which that Famous warriour Bernard Stewart Lord Albany Brother to the Lord Darnly had the leading which by the resort of his Country men turned into an Army and Rencountred Richard at Bosworth where he was killed and Henry Proclaimed King of England King James taking advantage of this change besieged Dunbar which was soon surrendred upon Articles After this King Henry sent Embassadors to King James to agree if possible upon a lasting and firm Peace between the two Crowns at length after some difficulty they agree upon a Truce for seven years The King having settled a Peace with England betakes himself to the Exercise of Religion having founded a Colledge for divine Service in the Castle of Sterling he endeavoured to annex the Priory of Goldingham to it The Priors of this Convent having for many years been of the Name of Humealedged that they were wronged of their Right First they began to Petition but finding this uneffectual they began to associate with their Neighbours giving it out that the King was a meer Tyrant not to be trusted by which means many of the Hearts of the Subjects were alienated from the King The King understanding how things stood he made choice of a Guard to defend his Person resolving to live beyond the River Ferth of which when the Lords of the Insurrection were certified they surprize the Castle Dunbar and tumultuously over-run the Countries besouth the Ferth Thus coming to Lithgow they resolved to make the Duke of Rothesay the Kings own Son their Head whom having corrupted his Keepers with Bribes they constrained to go with them But the King loosing neither Courage nor Councel passeth the Ferth near Blackness with his Forces before his arrival at this place

his Ambassage was That the two Kings must have an interview at York this so startled the Church-men fearing that his Uncle might infect the King with the Opinions of the new Reformers that they opposed it with all their might Yet the King and his Council proposed that the Meeting might be at New-Castle which the Lord Howard would in no wise hear of but departed in a chafe King James having so many great Matches in his offer now resolves to accept of some one or other wherefore Sailing from Kirkaldie in ten days he arrived at Diep in Normandy and from thence to Vandosme where the Lady Mary of Burbon was but upon some considerations he setled not his Affections upon her though a great Beauty but went to Paris where he fell in Love with Magdalen Daughter to King Francis with her he was Married in the Church of Nostradam with great Solemnity and soon after Returned with her to Scotland but to his great Grief she Dyed within a few Months after and was Buried at Holyrood-House Not long after the King desirous of Succession sendeth David Beaton and the Lord Maxwel to France to propose Marriage in his Name to Mary of Lorrain In the mean time two Plots against his Life are discovered at Court one by John Eldest Son to the Lord Forbes who thereupon was put to Death yet the King was much Grieved afterward finding great probability that he was accused through Malice The other was Jane Doughlass with her Husband Archbald Campbel of Keepneeth who in the thoughts of many were as groundlesly Accused as the first yet both were found Guilty and Dyed for it The King's Marriage with the foresaid Lady being Concluded they are Married by Proxie and she Arrived in Scotland A. D. 1538. Soon after the Queen Dowager Dyed at Methwen and was Buried in the Charter-House of Perth Now began the Kingdom to be divided in Matters of Religion the Reformation breaking in upon them which perplexed the King exceedingly not knowing what course to take His Council was against violent Courses to be followed but the Prelates who had most his Ear gave him a quite contrary Advice after which most vigorous Inquisitions are established and Punishments denounced against all such as departed from Popery whereupon some are Burnt alive others Banished and many Imprisoned amongst which was that famous Poet and Historian Master George Buchanan who whilst his Keepers Slept escaped by a Window of the Prison the Muses holding the Rope The King of England having by this time so Irritated the Pope that he was Excommunicated sendeth again to his Nephew King James desiring an Interview at York the Nobility were clearly for it but the Church-men fearing their Bacon was as much against it pretending the hazard that his Person and Kingdom would be lyable to After long reasoning upon both sides it was agreed That the King should not altogether refuse to meet his Uncle but adhere to the first offer proposed to his Ambassador concerning this Interview which the King of England rather than his Sute should take no effect accepts But an Incursion which hapened upon the Borders made him that he lost all heart to the Interview hereupon he sendeth many Letters excusing his stay also representing his many Grievances and Wrongs thus were the Seeds of Discord again sown amongst them The reformed Religion by this time begins to be professed by many for the curbing of which the Prelates presents Sir James Hamilton natural Son to the Earl of Arran to be Supream Judge of the Inquisition which turned to his own Ruine for while he is vigorously Persecuting all such as were suspected of the reformed Religion having many in Jayles and multitudes in Scrolls to bring within the Labyrinth of a Process the Supream Providence Arresteth himself For having a Process against James Hamilton Sheriff of Lithgow his own Couzen the said James Accuses him of High Treason for which notwithstanding all that the Prelates could do in his Favour he was Tryed Condemned and put to Death Not long after divers of the Nobility became to Favor the Protestant Religion which so perplexed the King that he knew not what to do he became very sullen and retired that he would scarce suffer his own Domesticks to come near to add to his perplexity as he lay in the Palace of Lithgow in the midst of the Night he leaped out of his Bed and called for Lights commandeth his Servants to search for Thomas Scot his Justice Clerk who he said stood by his Bed-side loaden with great Weights cursing the time that ever he Served him for by too much Obedience to him he was by the Justice of God condemned to everlasting Torments Soon after News came That the said Thomas Scot Dyed at Edenburgh much about the same Hour of the Night Another Instance of the same nature was Sir James Hamilton a little after his Death seemed to the King to have appeared to him in a gastly manner with a Sword in his hand with which he thought he cut off both his Arms advertising him he would come again shortly and be more fully revenged The next day after the Vision word came that both his Sons were departed this Life almost in one hour King Henry finding himself disappointed by his Nephew of their Meeting and understanding the Church-men to have been the occasion of it maketh Prizes of all the Scottish Ships that his Fleet could meet with by Sea and Incursions with his garrisoned Souldiers by Land King James directeth James Lermonth of Darsie to his Uncle to give sufficient Reasons for his not meeting him at New-Castle and to demand Restitution of his Ships King Henry not only refuseth to restore the Ships but also delaying the Answer of the Scottish Ambassador to gain time sendeth Sir Robert B●wes seconded with the Earl of Angus and Sir George Douglass in hasty manner to invade Scotland These to the number of Three Thousand Burn and Destroy all before them till at last the Earl of Huntly with some Borderers meeting them at a Place called Valldanrigg quite routed them Killed many and took some Prisoners The next Summer King Henry sent the Earl of Norfolk towards Scotland with an Army of Forty Thousand Men accompanied with a great many of the English Nobility King James advertised of their coming Mustered an Army of Thirty Thousand Men on Falla-moor to Oppose them When the Duke of Norfolk understood that he was resolved to give him Battel choosing rather to make an honourable Retreat than give a doubtful Charge he retireth off the Scottish ground Whereupon King James encouraged his Nobility and Army to follow them and revenge old Quarrels The Nobles answered That to defend their Prince and Country they would hazzard their Lives or whatever was dear to them If the Enemy had stayed upon Scottish Ground they would either make them retire or Dung the Field with their Carcasses But to Invade England they did not think their Quarrel just

enough neither had they Ammunition enough to Engage with so strong an Enemy in his own Country that they thought it enough that upon their approaching they made the English retire if not fly for whether they did fly or retire they had suffered as much Wrong as they had done The King finding them thus obstinate returneth with his Army to Edenburgh where he immediately Disbanded them he begins most bitterly to reflect upon the Noble mens refusing to Invade England which was aggravated and abetted by Cardinal Beat●n Oliver Sinclave and others The Lord Maxnel seeing the King so highly Offended desired His Majesty to give him Ten Thousand men and he would ingage his Honour to effect something to the King's Satisfaction the King thanketh him for his Offer appointeth a Rendezvous upon the West Marches No Proclamations are divulged for the levies of Men but close Letters sent The Cardinal and the Earl of Arran March towards Haddingtoun and the East Borders and several Earls Lords and Barons accompanied with the King 's Domestick Servants ride to the West Borders The Night before they rode the King himself came to Lochmabban to attend the Event Sir Thomas Wharton Warden of the Marches much troubled at such a frequent Assembly of the Scottish Riders raising the Power of the Country placeth them by a Hill where he might take a view of the Forces The Scottish Lords beholding the English putting themselves in a Fighting posture desire to know the King's Lieutenant-General whereupon Oliver Sinclave is mounted upon crossed Pikes and the Commission read wherein he is designed to be Lieutenant and all Commanded in the King's Name to follow him No sooner began the Commission to be read but such a Tumult and confused Clamour arose in the Army that there was no Order kept every thing running in Confusion The English taking advantage of the Disorder brake in among them while they stand in Amaze doubting whether to Fly or Stand. Here is a general Surprize most part willingly rendering themselves to the English without any shew of Defence many of the Nobility and Gentry were taken and carried Prisoners to London where they remained till after the King's Death The certainty of this voluntary Defeat coming to the King at Lockmabban so Stupified and Astonished him that he had neither Council nor Resolution what to follow apprehending by this and their former Actions that the Nobility had Conspired his overthrow After which he came to Faulkland where he gave himself over to Sorrow Now are his Thoughts busied with Revenge as also with rage against his Nobility Long Watchings continual Cares and Passions abstinence from Food and Recreation had so extenuated his Body that pierced with Grief Anguish Impatience Despair he remained affixed to his Bed To Comfort him Letters came from Lithgow to him That his Queen was delivered of a Daughter when he heard it was a Daughter he turned his Face from them that read the Letter and Sighing a Farewel to the World It will end as it began sayes he the Crown came by a Woman and it will go with one The Cardinal put some blank Papers in his hand of which they Composed a Letter-Will which whether he Subscribed or not is uncertain After which he spoke not many Words that could be understood he Dyed the Thirteenth of December Anno Dom. 1542. in the Thirty-Third Year of his Age and Thirty-Second of his Reign not without Suspition of having got an Italian Posset by the Cardinal's means The King was no sooner Dead leaving his young Daughter who was afterward called Mary to Succeed then the Cardinal proclaimed his Last Will wherein were expressed four Protectors or Regents of whom himself was the First and Principal and with him were joyned the Earls of Huntly Argyle and Murry But within a Week after the Chase was turned For the Earl of Arran being advised by the Lord of Grange who was Treasurer and Master Henry Balneaves with some others caused to Assemble the Peers of the Realm representing to them his undoubted Title to the Government of the Kingdom during the Minority of her to whom by Line he should Succeed if she want Succession of her own body The Cardinal opposed himself and all his Interest against Arran but it was carried by many Voices whereupon Arran was declared Governor and with publick Proclamation invested in his Office A Parliament soon followed wherein the Clergy most violently pressed That severe Edicts might be Published against those they called Hereticks But others Propounding in Parliament whether such of the People as could not speak Latine might not have the Word of their Salvation in the Language they understood as Lawfully as they that understood Latine must have it in that Language it was Voted Affirmative and at last after much debating it passed into an Act That it was free for all Men and Women to Read the Scripture in their own vulgar Tongue and all Acts made to the contrary were rescinded King Henry before the Parliament was ended sent an Ambassador to Scotland whose Embassage was to Contract a perpetual League and Amity between the Two Kingdoms and that all Occasions of Wars might be taken away a Match was proposed by the Ambassador between young Prince Edward and the Queen of Scotland which was by the Governour and Parliament Accepted whereupon they sent their Ambassadors to England where things came so far that both Partyes declared their Agreement in all Particulars except the time when the young Queen should be delivered to the English The Papists foreseeing what would probably follow if the Queen should be put in their Enemy the King of England's hand begin with all their might to Oppose it about this time the Governors base Brother John Hamilton came from France who was very helpful to his brethren the Papists in carrying on all their Affairs At last partly by few promises of great Things and partly by Threatning to declare him an Enemy to Holy-Church if he complied not they make him Condescend to break with England whereupon ensued great and bloody Wars between the Two Kingdoms for King Henry immediately sent a strong Army to Scotland who came as far as Edenburgh committing great Hostilities In compensation of which the Scots enter England Burning and Destroying all before them returning again with great Spoil Mr. George Wishart being by Cardinal Beaton burnt Alive for the Protestant Religion the said Cardinal was surprized by Norman Loslie Master of Rothes William Kirkaldie of Grange and John Loslie of Park-Hill in his Castle of St. Andrews and put to Death Possessing themselves of the Castle for their Security knowing that now they were to have many and powerful Enemies which accordingly fell out for the Papists procure an Army from France under the conduct of Monsieur Deosel who besieged the Castle and soon after took it King Henry being now Dead his Son King Edward sent an Army of Ten Thousand Men to Scotland The Popish Party there procures the

by the Duke of Lennox and the Marquess of Hamilton were his God-Fathers and the Queen-Mother of France represented by the Dutchess of Richmond his God-Mother The King in the Year 1633. made a Journey to Scotland attended with a splend●d Train of the Nobility of both Kingdoms and upon June the Eighteenth was solemnly Crowned King at Edinburgh which Solemnity being over his Majesty called a Parliament and in which he passed an Act for Ratification of the old Acts some suspecting that the Confirmation of Episcopacy was by it intended with all their Strength opposed it but in vain Not long before his Majesty went to Scotland being desirous if possible to have it prevented he Writ to a Lord who had the Trust of the Crown to bring it to England that he might be Crowned there But the Lord answered That he durst not for his Life do it but if his Majesty would be pleased to accept of it in its proper place he should find his People there ready to yield him the highest Honour but if he should put it off much longer it might tend to his Majesties and their great Loss neither could they be long without some to Govern them In the Year 1633. October the Thirteenth the Queen brought forth her second Son who was Baptized James and entituled Duke of York Much about this time the Discontents in Scotland began to increase some of the Nobility siding with the Male-contents of which the Lord Balmirreno the chief Secretary of State was one who was thereupon Arraigned by his Peers and found Guilty but obtained the King's Pardon December the Twenty-Eighth 1635. the Lady Elizabeth was Born and now great Differences arose about Church-matters chiefly occasioned by Arch-Bishop Laud's zealous injoyning of Ceremonies as placing the Communion-Table at the East end of the Church upon an Ascent with Rails Altar-wayes with many other things not formerly insisted on by the Church but now obstinately opposed by many which brought things into great confusion His Majesty earnestly desiring an Uniformity in Religion in Scotland a thing attempted before by King James enjoyned the Scots the use of the Liturgy and Surplice with all the English Ceremonies and began first in his own Chappel Proclamation being made That the same Order should be kept in all Churches The Bishops were satisfied with it but the Ministers and People was so discontented that when the Dean of Edinburgh began to read the Common-Prayer the Women began to grumble upon which the Bishop of Edinburgh steps up into the Pulpit to command Silence but this did but augment their Fury to such a height that they Assaulted him some with Cudgels others with Stones and others for want of better Weapons were forced to pelt him with the Stools upon which they sat to the great hazard of his Life The Arch-Bishop of of St. Andrews being then Lord Chancellor interposing was like to have been served with the same sawce The like Disturbance happened in several other places whereupon the Council emitted Proclamations to prevent Tumults which was so little regarded by the multitude that the Bishop of Galloway going the next day to the Council was by them pursued to the Council Chamber They Seized also the City Magistrates that they might not joyn with the Council to curb them The Lords of the Council having at length with fair words in some measure pacified them they presently emit Proclamations to keep the Peace but produced no such Effect for they stifly petitioned against the service-book which incensed the King extreamly Thus matters went in the Year 1637. The next Year the Scots hearing That the King was making preparations in England to reduce them by force they entred into a Covenant to defend the Religion they profest whereupon they sent for General Lesly and other Officers from beyond Sea putting themselves in a posture of Defence But the Duke of Hamilton obtained a Declaration from the King discharging the use of the service-book the five Articles of Perth for a time consenting also that Church-matters may be ordered by general Assemblies This Declaration being published and a general Assembly convened at Glasgow the Bishops are summoned to appear there as Guilty persons but in answer to the Summons the Bishops sent in a Protestation against their Assembly which the Covenanters for a while would not vouchsafe to Read until they had dispatched what business they pleased The King having notice of their Proceedings against the Bishops ordered their Assembly to be dissolved which accordingly was done but the Covenanters presently emit a Protestation against it In this Assembly they quite abolished Episcopacy Whereupon the King raises an Army in England with which he marched in Person against the Scots but while his Majesty stayed at York by the mediation of some persons a Treaty of Peace was agreed upon wherein it was agreed That the King should publish a Declaration ratifying what his Commissioners had promised in his name That a general Assembly and a Parliament be held at Edinburgh within a short time And lastly That upon disbanding their Forces and restoring the King to his Forts and Castles the King was to recall his Fleet and Forces and make Restitution of their Goods since the Breach The King not finding the Scots punctual to their Articles returned to England and Nullified the agreement resolving now to try other courses Whereupon the Scots apprehending their danger prepared for their own defence The King resolves upon a War and with some difficulty compleateth his Army whereof himself was Generalissimo He began his march to the North July the Twentieth 1640. by which time the Scottish Army was upon the Border Wherefore the King sent the Lord Conway with Twelve Hundred Horse and Three Thousand Foot to secure the Passes upon the River Tyne General Lesly being advanced thither desired Leave to pass to the King with their Grievances which was denied whereupon he commands his Horse to take the Water the Foot to their no small hazard following and force their Passage which they did and put the Lord Conway to a disorderly Retreat Soon after they took New-Castle and then Durham At last His Majesty condescends to Treat with them and to that end receives a Petition from them containing their Grievances for redressing of which it was agreed That sixteen English Lords should meet with as many Scots Rippon was a place appointed for the Treaty here they appointed another Treaty to be held at London for composing all differences Much about this time Montross fell off from the Covenanters having by several private Letters tendered his service to the King which came all to be discovered by the means of some that were about His Majesty However the Treaty went on at London and at last was concluded Whereupon the Scots after five months abode in England returned home By this time a Parliament was called at Westminster wherein the breach was so far from being healed that it was made wider Divers of the