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<P>Bella Scot-Anglica.</P>
<P>A BRIEF
OF ALL THE
Battells, and Martiall
Encounters which have hap|pened
'twixt <HI>ENGLAND</HI> and
<HI>SCOTLAND,</HI> from all
times to this pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>VVherunto is annexed a Corolla|ry,
Declaring the cau&s;es whereby the Scot is
come of late years to be &s;o hight|ned
in his &s;pirits;
With &s;ome <HI>Prophecies</HI> which are much cryed
up, as reflecting upon the fate of
<HI>both Nations.</HI></P>
<P>Printed in the Yeare 1648.</P>
</DIV1>
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<DIV1 TYPE="treatise">
<PB REF="2">
<PB N="1" REF="2">
<HEAD>Bella Scot-Anglica.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A Briefe of all the Battels and
Martiall Encounters, which have happen'd
'twixt England and Scotland, from all
times to this pre&s;ent, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="proem">
<HEAD>The Proeme.</HEAD>
<P>THe De&s;ign of this &s;hort Di&s;cour&s;e, is to relate the
Quarrels, and &s;undry traver&s;es of Warre, which
have pa&s;&s;ed from time to time between <HI>England</HI> and
<HI>Scotland,</HI> Extracted out of the mo&s;t approved and
impartiall Hi&s;torians, as well Scotti&s;h, as Engli&s;h, French,
and others.</P>
<P>Out of which premi&s;&s;es are deduced the&s;e Conclu&s;ions;</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, That <HI>Scotland</HI> hath been alwayes apt and forward to
apprehend any occa&s;ion to invade and vi&s;it her Neighbour
<HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, That when &s;he was at the highe&s;t pitch of &s;trength,
and had the greate&s;t advantages again&s;t her, when &s;he had a|ctive
and martiall Kings for her Generalls, and the French for
her firm Confederates, with other Coadjutors and Auxilia|ries,
&s;he could never be a match no, not by many degrees, for
<HI>England,</HI> whether you re&s;pect the int<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">in&s;ick <HI>power</HI> of the <HI>Coun|try,</HI>
or the innated <HI>prowe&s;&s;e</HI> of the <HI>people:</HI> All which will
clearly appeare by the circum&s;tances and &s;ucce&s;&s;e of divers
Battells and interchangeable Exploits, which being indiffe|rently
ballanc'd it will be found&punc; that if <HI>Scotland</HI> did &s;ome|times
beat <HI>England</HI> with the <HI>&s;cabbard, England</HI> may bee truly
&s;ayd to have beaten her more often with the <HI>blade.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="2" REF="3">
I Will not look back and rake the a&s;hes of antiquity &s;o far,
as to &s;peak of the <HI>&s;ociall</HI> warre they entred into with the
ancient <HI>Brittaines</HI> and <HI>Picts</HI> again&s;t the Engli&s;h, when they
began to take fir&s;t firme footing in <HI>England.</HI> Nor, of that &s;o
famous battell 'twixt <HI>Athel&s;tan</HI> and them, at which time
they had a great Army of <HI>Danes</HI> joyned with them; when
being above twice more in number then the Engli&s;h, King
<HI>Athel&s;tan</HI> carried away a compleat victory by a kind of back|blow
(<HI>Parthian</HI> like) For the two Armies being ready to
joyne, the Engli&s;h made &s;emblance to fly away, leaving all
their baggage behinde, and much matter for booty, which as
the Scots and Danes were &s;haring, the Engli&s;h &s;uddenly
wheeled about by the advantage of a woody hill, and finding
them in di&s;array, and the Souldiers laden with pillage, they
ru&s;hed upon them with that re&s;olution, that above fourty
thou&s;and of them fell, and as <HI>Buchanan</HI> their Prime Chrono|loger
recordeth, the flower of their Nobility peri&s;hed that
day.</P>
<P>But I intend not to involve my di&s;cour&s;e in the&s;e mi&s;tie
times, but will take my ri&s;e from the Norman Conque&s;t, for
indeed the Hi&s;torie of great <HI>Brittaine</HI> being over clouded with
&s;o many incertainties, ca&s;teth but a dim light before tho&s;e
times, whereas &s;ince, &s;he &s;hines with &s;uch a lu&s;tre, that what
&s;tands upon Record may be a&s;&s;erted for cleere and undenia|ble
truth.</P>
<P>At that time, I mean the time of the Conque&s;t, <HI>Scotland</HI>
did <HI>England</HI> a very good office by pre&s;erving the Engli&s;h
blood-royall (which not long after returned to the Crowne
in <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;econd) but it was ca&s;ually: For Prince <HI>Edgar</HI>
and his Mother, with his two Si&s;ters, intending to goe for
<HI>Denmarke,</HI> (&s;ome &s;ay for <HI>Hungarie</HI>) and being by di&s;tre&s;&s;e of
weather driven upon the Scotti&s;h coa&s;ts, they were ho&s;pita|bly
received by <HI>Malcoline,</HI> then King of <HI>Scotland;</HI> At which
time civility with the Engli&s;h tongue took fir&s;t footing in
the Scotti&s;h Court, as the French did among&s;t the Engli&s;h.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="3" REF="3">
<HEAD>WILL. the &s;econd.</HEAD>
<P>THe fir&s;t dart of War that was thrown 'twixt <HI>England</HI> and
<HI>Scotland</HI> after the Conque&s;t was in <HI>Will. Rufus</HI> his raign,
when the Scots having made divers incur&s;ions into the Eng|li&s;h
Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">e, <HI>Moubray</HI> Earle of <HI>Northumberland</HI> was &s;ent again&s;t
them, who Encountring their King <HI>Malcoline</HI> with his elde&s;t
&s;on in the field, they were both &s;lain, and the whole Army
overthrown. Afterwards the Scots choo&s;ing the dead Kings
brother, King <HI>William</HI> went in per&s;on and depos'd him, cau|&s;ing
<HI>Edward</HI> the &s;econd, &s;on of the &s;lain King, to be crowned,
and making him to &s;weare fealty and homage to <HI>England;</HI>
But the Scots obtain'd the favour of King <HI>William,</HI> that nei|ther
<HI>Engli&s;h</HI> or <HI>Norman</HI> &s;hould beare any office of State in
<HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>King STEPHEN.</HEAD>
<P>KIng <HI>Stephen</HI> having oblig'd the Scots by many high fa|vours,
by giving <HI>Cumberland</HI> to <HI>David</HI> their King, and
making his elde&s;t &s;on Earle of <HI>Huntington;</HI> Yet &s;o ingratefull
did they prove that they provok'd him to &s;end <HI>Thur&s;ton</HI> then
Archb. of <HI>Yorke</HI> with &s;uch an Army, that meeting with the
King him&s;elfe in the head of his Forces, he utterly di&s;comfi|ted
him, with the death of 10000. of his men.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>HENRY the &s;econd.</HEAD>
<P><HI>HEnry</HI> the &s;econd, though the pul&s;e of tho&s;e times did
beat high, and that he was di&s;tracted with a world of
con<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="3 letters">ions yet employing the <HI>York</HI>-&s;hire Knights, <HI>Humphrey
Vile; Scutvill</HI> and <HI>Ve&s;cy,</HI> they with their victorious Armes
tooke the Scots King in the field and tendred him pri&s;oner
at <HI>Northampton,</HI> whence King <HI>Henry</HI> carried him along to at|tend
him in his warres in <HI>France.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>RICHARD the fir&s;t.</HEAD>
<P><HI>RIchard coeur de Lion</HI> cau&s;ed <HI>William</HI> King of <HI>Scotland</HI> to
carry the Sword before him at his &s;econd Coronation
at his return from the holy Land: At which time King <HI>Rich.</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="4">
pa&s;&s;ed a Royall Charter, that when&s;oever the King of <HI>Scot|land</HI>
was &s;ummond to the Engli&s;h Court, the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Dur|ham,</HI>
and Sheriffe of <HI>Northumberland,</HI> &s;hould receive him at
<HI>Tweede,</HI> and accompany him to <HI>Teis,</HI> from <HI>Teis</HI> the Arch|bi&s;hop
of <HI>Yorke</HI> &s;hould attend him to the borders of that
County, and &s;o the Bi&s;h. and Sheriffs of other Counties,
untill he came to the Engli&s;h Court.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>King JOHN.</HEAD>
<P>KIng <HI>Iohn</HI> one of the weake&s;t Princes, and the mo&s;t for|lorne
that ever <HI>England</HI> had con&s;idering how the Pope
and all the world did bandy again&s;t him, and what fearefull
exigents he was reduced unto, yet finding <HI>Alexander</HI> the
&s;econd then King of <HI>Scotland</HI> to give &s;anctuary to his fugi|tive
clergy, and foment others again&s;t him, made an expe|dition
thither him&s;elfe but the two armies being ready to
buckle, the Scot &s;eing fire and &s;word to gape upon him, &s;ub|mitted
him&s;elfe, and &s;ub&s;cribed to &s;uch termes as the Con|queror
propounded.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>EDVVARD the Fir&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>NOw come I to the &s;courge, or, as his Tombe in <HI>We&s;tmin|&s;ter</HI>
tells me, the hammer of the Scotts-men.</P>
<Q><P>Edwardus primus Scotorum malleus hic e&s;t.</P></Q>
<P>He cau&s;eth <HI>Balioll</HI> to come to <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> to &s;weare Fealty
and homage to him, who after flying to the French King,
<HI>Edward</HI> was &s;o netled for this his defection, that though he
had a farre greater arrand in <HI>France,</HI> yet he cho&s;e rather to
employ <HI>Edmund</HI> Earle of <HI>Lanca&s;ter</HI> thither, and to march
him&s;elfe to <HI>Scotland</HI> in the front of a pui&s;&s;ant army; where
the Scots in farre greater numbers &s;hewed their teeth only
but dur&s;t not bite. King <HI>Edward</HI> &s;ummons <HI>Balioll</HI> to <HI>Ber|wicke</HI>
when he re&s;ubmitted him&s;elf with all the Nobles in o|pen
Parliament which he held there; And for caution brought
the King him&s;elfe along with him, leaving the Earle of <HI>Sur|rey</HI>
Warden of <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<P>Not long after the Scots revolted againe notwith&s;tanding
<PB N="5" REF="4">
their King was in <HI>England,</HI> having one <HI>Wallie</HI> for their ring|leader,
who did much mi&s;chiefe on the frontiers. And their
in&s;olency grew to that hight, that be&s;ides their inrodes, they
began to rhime upon him.</P>
<P>What this <HI>Edward</HI> with his land &s;hanks? But he payed
them for their rhiming with a vengeance; He goeth againe
in per&s;on and at <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="2 letters">nkirk</HI> battaile kild out right 200. of their
Nobles and Gentry, with 40. thou&s;and common Souldiers.</P>
<P>Then he &s;ummons a Parliament at <HI>Edenburgh</HI> where all
the Nobles &s;weare him fealty againe; He carrieth away the
Ragman roll, the blacke cro&s;&s;e, and the &s;tone wherein they
&s;ay the fate of their Kingdome is fixed.</P>
<P>Then was there offer'd a third provocation, when le <HI>Bruce</HI>
was crowned King of <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<P>The Earle of <HI>Pembrooke</HI> was &s;ent again&s;t him, who utterly
defeated him at <HI>Iohn&s;ton.</HI></P>
<P>Hereupon <HI>le Bruce</HI> flyeth to the Popes pantofle making
him Lord <HI>Paramount</HI> of <HI>Scotland,</HI> which moved King <HI>Ed|ward</HI>
notwith&s;tanding the menaces and fulminations of the
Pope who wi&s;hed him to forbeare the Scots (becau&s;e they
were an exempt nation belonging to the Roman Chap|pell)
to make a fourth expedition thither where he con&s;trai|ned
<HI>le Bruce</HI> to fly to <HI>Norway,</HI> where he blew on his nayles
while K. <HI>Edward</HI> lived. And&punc; &s;o eager was this great King in
pur&s;uite of this action, that falling &s;ickly upon the way, He
&s;aid, If I die before I enter <HI>Scotland,</HI> I charge you to go on
couragiou&s;ly, and carry my body round about the Country;
but it plea&s;ed God to reprieve him untill he had done his bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e
him&s;elfe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>EDVVARD the &s;econd.</HEAD>
<P>BUt here comes a cooling-card for the Engli&s;h, <HI>Edward</HI>
the &s;econd&punc; who&s;e greate&s;t honor was to be &s;on to a Peer|les
father, and father to an incomparable &s;on, <HI>Ro&s;a &s;pinam,
&s;pina ro&s;am genuit.</HI> In his time all went to wrack e&s;pecially
in <HI>Scotland.</HI> At <HI>Bannocks</HI> battaile <HI>Gilbert de clare</HI> Earle of
<HI>Gloce&s;ter,</HI> and 40 Barons more, with 700 Knights and Gentle|men,
<PB N="6" REF="5">
and as &s;ome &s;tories record above 40000. more were
&s;laine. Which defeat was imputed principally to the ill
choice of ground the Engli&s;h had taken. The Scots had be|hind
them rocks, hills, and woods to fly into if nece&s;&s;ity re|quired,
before them loughs, and moores, that the a&s;&s;ailant
could not march further. Adde hereunto the pu&s;illanimity
of the King (and the &s;pirits of men are much ray&s;ed by their
leader) who was &s;ayd to fly fir&s;t: and better it is for a lion
to lead &s;heepe, then for a &s;heepe to lead a company of lions.</P>
<P>The Scots hereupon were &s;o agog that they enter <HI>Ire|land</HI>
with an Army under the conduct of <HI>Edward Bruce</HI> the
Kings brother, who landing at <HI>Karig Fergus</HI> ran&s;ack'd all the
North parts, where he tooke &s;uch firme footing, that he pro|claym'd
him&s;elfe King of <HI>Ireland,</HI> though he had onely over|ranne
<HI>Ul&s;ter.</HI> At which time there was &s;uch a direfull famine,
that in &s;ome places of <HI>Ireland</HI> dead bodies were digged up,
and their fle&s;h boyled in their &s;culls to be eaten, as the &s;to|ry
tells.</P>
<P>But two yeares after, Sir <HI>Io. Bremingham</HI> then chiefe Ju|&s;tice,
with the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Armagh,</HI> went with &s;uch a pow|er
again&s;t this up&s;tart King, that at <HI>Dundalke</HI> they got a mo&s;t
compleat victory, one <HI>Manpas</HI> as it &s;eemed having kild the
King hand to hand, for both their dead bodies were found
together, and <HI>Manpas</HI> covering the Kings body.</P>
<P>In <HI>England</HI> another Army was &s;ent again&s;t the Scots, cal|led
the <HI>Yorke</HI> Army, which was al&s;o overthrowne at <HI>Milton</HI>
upon <HI>Swayle.</HI> Nevertheles the King would venture once more
in Per&s;on, and with a numerous Army invaded <HI>Scotland;</HI> The
Scots fly into the woods, and places of fa&s;tnes; And for want
of provi&s;ion in that hungry country, the Engli&s;h were for|ced
to retire, but in the retraict they were &s;o pur&s;ued that
they lo&s;t all their ammunition, which was attributed to the
trea&s;on of Sir <HI>Andrew Harkley.</HI> But your criticall Anna|li&s;ts
a&s;cribe it to the poverty of &s;pirit in the royall head, who
being become hatefull to God, and man fir&s;t for perjury, by
infringing the oath he made to his Barons; then by di&s;obedi|ence
to his father who in his death bed charged him upon his
<PB N="7" REF="5">
ble&s;&s;ing to abandon <HI>Piers Gave&s;ton,</HI> whom neverthele&s;s he &s;till
doted upon with the <HI>Spencers,</HI> by who&s;e coun&s;els hee guided
him&s;elfe, And it was alwaies &s;een that Princes of an ill de&s;ti|ny
follow the wor&s;t coun&s;ells.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>EDVVARD the third.</HEAD>
<P>BUt here comes a &s;pirit who will &s;oundly vindicate his fa|thers
affronts. <HI>Edward</HI> the third, a Prince that was the
&s;oone&s;t a man, and the longe&s;t that la&s;ted &s;o of any in the whole
catalogue of Engli&s;h Kings; yet being but young when the
Diadem fir&s;t begirt his temples, after an encounter at <HI>Stan|hope</HI>
Park, where great multitudes of Scots appeared, but va|ni&s;hed
away like meteors, skulking in woods and mountains.</P>
<P>In the Parliament held at <HI>Northampton,</HI> the King of <HI>Scotland</HI>
was relea&s;ed of his homage; But &s;ome years after, when the
young King began to under&s;tand him&s;elf, hee &s;ent an army
with <HI>Balioll,</HI> whom he cau&s;ed to be crowned at <HI>Scone;</HI> And af|terwards
there was a Battell fought at Hallidowne, where
the Engli&s;h made the Scots a bridge of gold to fly over, for
they betook them&s;elves all to their heeles.</P>
<P>King <HI>Balioll</HI> being thus re&s;tored, <HI>Scotland</HI> became feudita|ry
to <HI>England</HI> againe.</P>
<P>But a few years after king <HI>Ed.</HI> being deeply engag'd in his
French wars, and thinking <HI>Hoc agere,</HI> the Scots pre&s;uming his
ab&s;ence would prove advantagious to them, make cur&s;orie
&s;allies out of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and plunder all before them in the
North, by the in&s;tigation of the French.</P>
<P>But the Queen and the Lords of the North make &s;uch a
levy of Martiall forces, that they entred <HI>Scotland</HI> like thun|der,
and at a mighty battell one <HI>Copland</HI> takes the King pri&s;o|ner,
whom, pleading the law of arms he would not deliver the
Queen, untill the King had &s;ent order from <HI>France.</HI></P>
<P>This overthrow was given upon Saturday, and upon Satur|day
&s;ix weeks before the battell of <HI>Cre&s;&s;y</HI> had bin fought, with
another again&s;t the Duke of <HI>Brittain;</HI> in all which king <HI>Edward</HI>
prov'd victorious. And being triumphantly return'd from
<HI>France,</HI> with the Flower-de-luces upon his &s;word, and redoub|ted
now by all the Princes of the Chri&s;tian world having a
triumverate of kings his pri&s;oners, one would think the Scot
would have bin quiet but they &s;till provoked him &s;o far, that
<PB N="8" REF="6">
in the dead of Winter (and King <HI>Ed.</HI> was a Prince for all wea|thers)
he went thither in Per&s;on him&s;elf, tooke <HI>Berwick,</HI> and
had all <HI>Scotlond</HI> re&s;ign'd unto him, by the King him&s;elfe, and
the Nobles who joyntly &s;wore fealty and homage to him.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>RICHARD the &s;econd.</HEAD>
<P>NOw the grand-childe of this great King (who turn'd
the wheele of his times every where up and downe the
Chri&s;tian world as he plea&s;ed) mounts the &s;tage. The Scots
begin to infe&s;t the borders, and doe other acts of ho&s;tility
being actually a&s;&s;i&s;ted by the French king, who &s;ent thither
his Admirall with a 1000. men at armes, and 60. &s;ayle with
furniture to arme 10000. men more.</P>
<P>King <HI>Richard</HI> mu&s;ters up an Army worthy of a King, and
ru&s;heth into Scotland like a whirle-wind as farre as <HI>Dondee,</HI>
and neither Scot or French appeared to make oppo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">tion.</P>
<P>The Scots (as the French annales &s;ay) not &s;ymbolizing
with the humour of the French grew weary of them, and ca|&s;heered
them, but they kept <HI>Jean de Viene,</HI> the great Admi|rall
pri&s;oner in a manner, untill the French king had payed
his ran&s;ome, which he did, otherwi&s;e his Admirall might
have laine at dead anchor there all his life-time.</P>
<P>But being returned to <HI>France,</HI> le&s;t he &s;hould &s;eem to &s;hew
no fruits at all of his voyage, he informs the King, that hee
had pried into the uttermo&s;t intrin&s;ique &s;trength, both of
<HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>England,</HI> and found that <HI>Scotland</HI> was able to put
in the field about 30000 men, and 5000. hor&s;e, and <HI>England</HI>
60000.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Charles <HI>the 6. of</HI> France, <HI>cal|led</HI> le phrea|tique.</NOTE> foot, and 8000. hor&s;e, This relation induced <HI>Charles</HI>
the frantique to attempt the inva&s;ion of <HI>England</HI> the yeare
following, with a formidable Army, and Fleet, which was to
make &s;ayle from the Sluce, and for Land-forces far exceeded
the invincible Armada of the yeare 88. But the Admirals ac|count
was found fal&s;e, and to have reckoned much without
his ho&s;t, for as the French Hi&s;torians report. King <HI>Richard</HI>
had levied neere upon 100000. Foot and 20000. Hor&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>HENRY the fourth.</HEAD>
<P>IN <HI>Hen.</HI> the fourth's time the tumultuous Scot &s;tirs againe,
and pillers about the Marches at la&s;t he compo&s;eth the bo|dy
of an Army, whom <HI>Hen. Hot&s;purre</HI> encountred, and kil'd
more enemies then he had men in his own Army.</P>
<P><PB N="9" REF="6">
Sir <HI>Robert Umphreyvile</HI> being Vice-Admirall, takes 14. great &s;hips
laden with corn, together with the great Galeon of <HI>Scotland,</HI> hard
by <HI>Lith,</HI> which &s;o abated the price of corn, that hee was commonly
called Sir <HI>Rob. Mend market.</HI></P>
<P>A little after the young Prince of <HI>Wales</HI> hurld him&s;elfe &s;even daies
march into <HI>Scotland,</HI> and did what he would.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>HENRY the fift.</HEAD>
<P><HI>HEnry</HI> the fift that man of men, and mirrour of chivalrie (and
the &s;trange&s;t Convert that ever was) being come to the
Crown, he falls like a Politician to worke in erecting Forts on the
frontiers of <HI>Scotland,</HI> which he did without controule.</P>
<P>After he took the young King <HI>James</HI> the fir&s;t, pri&s;oner, in a very
hot incounter, and carried him up and down with him in the French
warres.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>HENRY the &s;ixt.</HEAD>
<P><HI>HEnry</HI> the &s;ixt for &s;ome gallant parts in the afore&s;aid young
King <HI>James</HI> the fir&s;t of <HI>Scotland,</HI> married him to the Lady
<HI>lane,</HI> Daughter to the Earle of <HI>Somer&s;et</HI> his Neece; But he proved
afterwards hatefully ingratefull, and perfidious to King <HI>Henry,</HI>
banding all his main forces again&s;t him but he was &s;hamefully re|pell'd
and beaten by Sir <HI>Ralph Gray,</HI> and the Knights of the North.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>EDVVARD the fourth.</HEAD>
<P>ANd no le&s;&s;e ingratefull and treacherous was <HI>Iames</HI> the third
in <HI>Edward</HI> the fourths time who de&s;iring in mariage <HI>Cicilia</HI>
the Kings daughter, it was conde&s;cended unto &s;o farre that he had
part of her portion advanc'd him; yet he fell to acts of ho&s;tility and
frames an Army, which the Duke of <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> with 15000 men ill
favourdly beat (though they were twice more in number) and got
<HI>Berwicke</HI> againe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>HENRY the &s;eventh.</HEAD>
<P>NOw come I to that great <HI>Magus</HI> of his dayes <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;e|venth
who was &s;aid to be hanted with walking &s;pirits <HI>Simuell
Warbecke,</HI> and <HI>Perkins,</HI> whom hee cha&s;ed away by &s;prinkling of bloud.</P>
<P>The Scots entertained <HI>Warbecke,</HI> though they knew him to be an
Impo&s;tor, and rai&s;ed an Army for him.</P>
<P>The Earle of <HI>Surry</HI> and Bi&s;hop <HI>Foxe,</HI> were &s;ent again&s;t it, who
drive the King and <HI>Warbecke</HI> with the whole Army before them &s;ix
dayes march into the Country, at la&s;t the Scots King &s;ent a de|fiance
for a battell, which being to be fought the next day, the Scot
&s;teales away the night before in a &s;ilent march.</P>
<P>Hereupon a Peace was concluded, provided that <HI>Warbecke</HI>
<PB N="10" REF="7">
&s;hould bee bani&s;hed <HI>Scotland,</HI> whom notwith&s;tonding they furni|&s;hed
with &s;hips, to goe to try his fortune with the Corni&s;h Rebels.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>HENRY the eight.</HEAD>
<P>ANd now come I to the glory of his dayes (e&s;pecially two
thirds of them) <HI>Henry</HI> the 8. for never did Prince ri&s;e with a
greater lu&s;tre in <HI>Englands</HI> hemi&s;pheare, and &s;et in a darker clowd.
And being extreamly bu&s;ied in the warres of <HI>France,</HI> who &s;hould
di&s;turb him but his own brothervin-law, <HI>Iames</HI> the fourth, excited
by the French, who contributed great &s;ummes of money towards
the &s;upport of the warre; The King &s;ends pre&s;ently from <HI>France</HI>
to the Earle of <HI>Surry</HI> to make head again&s;t them; At fir&s;t the Earle
&s;ent Sir <HI>VVilliam Bullmer</HI> with 200. Archers upon the borders to
ob&s;erve their motion.</P>
<P>The Lord <HI>Humes,</HI> entreth with 8000. men, and as he thought to
returne with his booty, Sir <HI>VVilliam Bulmer</HI> having reinforced his
200, to 1000. fell upon the 8000. Scots, with that fury, that he kil'd
500. took &s;o many pri&s;oners, and intercepted the whole booty.
This made the young Kings blood boyle within him for revenge,
and compo&s;ing a royall Army of the utmo&s;t &s;trength of <HI>Scotland</HI>
went in the head thereof him&s;elfe.</P>
<P>The Earle of <HI>Surry</HI> was not idle, but rai&s;ed an Army of 26000
men, and his &s;on then Admirall came to him from <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> with
1000. old Sea &s;ouldiers. The two Amies met in <HI>Flodden,</HI> where af|ter
many hot incounters victory fluttered a long while with doubt|full
wings, at la&s;t the King him&s;elfe, with the Archb. of St. <HI>Andrews</HI>
his brother, were &s;lain, with 12. Earles, and 14. Barrons, and 12000
Gentlemen and others, and there fell of the Engli&s;h but 1500. only,
nor could the Scots re&s;cue the body of their King, but to mend the
matter a little, gave out it was not the Kings body, but one <HI>Elfin&s;ton</HI>
attired like to him, to encourage the Army.</P>
<P>But afterwards, though they acknowledged it was his body, yet
would not <HI>Henry</HI> the 8, permit him to have the due rites of Prince|ly
buriall, becau&s;e he had &s;o perjuriou&s;ly violated his faith with him.</P>
<P>Some few years after the Duke of <HI>Albany</HI> rays'd an Army, but he
was prevented to do any hurt by the Lord <HI>Roos</HI> and <HI>Dacres,</HI> who
made Bonefires of above 80. Villages without &s;eeing the face of an
enemy, No &s;ooner were they returned, but newes came, that the
Duke of <HI>Albany</HI> had by this time in perfect equipage an Army of
30000. men.</P>
<P><PB N="11" REF="7">
Hereupon the Lord Trea&s;urer and Admirall, were &s;ent to finde
him out, but both Armies being come to &s;ight of each other, the
Scots not enduring well the countenance of the Engli&s;h Forces, ran
away and &s;hamefully disbanded, &s;o that if the Lord Generall had
had then commi&s;&s;ion ample enough, they might have given a fatall
blow to <HI>Scotland,</HI> as they them&s;elves confe&s;&s;ed, but by the interce&s;|&s;ion
of the Queen Dowager, <HI>Hen.</HI> the eights &s;i&s;ter, they obtained
truce.</P>
<P>After this King <HI>Hen.</HI> condi&s;cended to meet <HI>Iames</HI> the fift at <HI>York,</HI>
but he fayled, &s;ending certain Commi&s;&s;ioners, and &s;o cunning was
the Scot, that their Commi&s;&s;ion, and private in&s;tructions looked
two wayes, and as they were treating, tydings came, that the Scots
had ru&s;hed into, and rifled the Marches mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly.</P>
<P>Hereupon the Earl of <HI>Norfolke</HI> was &s;ent with 20000. men, who for
8. daies did what he would within the bowels of the Country.</P>
<P>Anothor Army was &s;ent undet the Command of the Lord <HI>Dacres</HI>
and <HI>Wharton,</HI> who gave them &s;uch a mortall blow, that eight Earls
were taken pri&s;oners, and 200. Gentlemen, and 800. more, and the
&s;tories concurre, that there was &s;carce a &s;ouldier, but had at lea&s;t
his two pri&s;oners, this was <HI>Solmemo&s;&s;e</HI> battell.</P>
<P>Yet for all this &s;uch is the inclination of the Engli&s;h to bee at
peace with their neighbours, that a match was concluded, and ra|tified
by act of Parliament, with a &s;peciall in&s;trument under the
Scots Noble-mens hands between Prince <HI>Edward,</HI> and the young
Queen <HI>Mary,</HI> yet by the cunning negotiation of the French, the
Scot fell off. Hereupon old king <HI>Henry,</HI> who could dige&s;t no indig|nities,
&s;ent 200. &s;hips laden with &s;ouldiers to the <HI>Frith,</HI> under the
Earl of <HI>Hereford,</HI> who marched as far as <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> burnt the town,
and part of the ca&s;tle, returning with revenge and rich bootie. A
while after the Scots under&s;tanding the King was gone to <HI>France,</HI>
thought to &s;erve them&s;elves of that advantage, and to fall upon the
borders, but the Earl of <HI>Hereford</HI> repelled them,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>EDVVARD the &s;ixt.</HEAD>
<P><HI>EDward</HI> the &s;ixt, though yet in his minority, &s;eemed to be &s;en&s;ible
of the affront the Scot had put upon him for a wife, though his
Father had vindicated it pritty well, but as the ca&s;e &s;tood, nothing
could concerne <HI>England</HI> more, then to hinder that the French of
any in the world &s;hould have her.</P>
<P>And now am I come to the la&s;t true battell that was fought 'twixt
<PB N="12" REF="8">
<HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;ince the Conque&s;t. The Duke of <HI>Sommer&s;et</HI>
was appointed Generall, the Earle of <HI>VVarwicke</HI> his Lieutenant
Generall, the Lord <HI>Clinton</HI> Admirall had 60. &s;hipps of warre,
which were to hold cour&s;e with the Land-forces. So from <HI>Barwicke,</HI>
with a &s;ober Army they entred <HI>Scotland,</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of about 13000.
foot and 1200. men at arms, 2500. light hor&s;e, 16. peeces of Ordnance,
every peece having a guard of Pioners, who came in all to 1400.
They had marched as far as <HI>Mu&s;&s;elborough,</HI> far within the Country,
and with infinite pains did they &s;urmount the naturall and arti|ficiall
difficulties of the wayes, three &s;mall Ca&s;tles they &s;eized upon
in their march without offering any act of violence to &s;mall or great.</P>
<P>They under&s;tood the Regent of <HI>Scotland</HI> did far exceed them in
number and there came Recruits hourely to him, for the fire cro&s;&s;e
was carried about by the Heralds through all parts, which is two
firebrands upon the point of a Spear, that all above 16. and under 60
&s;hould re&s;ort to the Generall rendezvous &s;o that the Hi&s;torians on
both &s;ides leave the number of them indefinite to this day, but they
all agree, that they were at lea&s;t twice as many and they had twice
as many Ordnance, yet notwith&s;tanding many other advantage it
plea&s;ed God to give the Engli&s;h a compleat victory (and victories
are the decrees of Heaven, when there is no tribunall on earth to
determine the quarrell. This hapned preci&s;ely the &s;ame day that
<HI>Flodden</HI> field battell was fought 34. years before. There were 14000.
&s;lain out-right, whereof there were 3000. Kirk-men; Fryars and
Monks, above 1500. taken pri&s;oners, whereof young <HI>Huntly,</HI> and
other great Lords were of the number; the &s;poiles of the field 30000
jacks and 30. peeces of Ordnance were &s;hipped for <HI>England,</HI> and the
Engli&s;h plundred the Country up and down 5. daies march further.</P>
<P>To the&s;e exploits at home may be added a &s;mart blow the Engli&s;h
gave the Scots in <HI>Ireland,</HI> in Sir <HI>Io. Perrots</HI> government, for &s;ome
2000. Red&s;hanks being come over by the <HI>Burks</HI> means, like a &s;warm
of Catterpillers they proll'd and pill'd up and down, Sir <HI>Ri. Bing|ham</HI>
then Governour of <HI>Connaught,</HI> made head again&s;t them, with
a &s;mall contemptible number, and at the river of Earne neer <HI>Slego,</HI>
&s;lew them all out-right, &s;o that not one &s;oule e&s;caped, to return to
<HI>Scotland</HI> with newes what became of the re&s;t.</P>
<P>Touching the&s;e late traver&s;es of warre 'twixt <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scot|land</HI>
'tis true that infortunate <HI>England</HI> hath drawne upon her &s;elfe
a great deale of di&s;honour in the opinion of the world abroad, &s;pe|cially
<PB N="13" REF="8">
among tho&s;e who under&s;tand not the true carriage of things;
For the&s;e late ru&s;hings in of the Scot cannot be &s;o properly call'd
<HI>inva&s;ions</HI> a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>invitations,</HI> by &s;ome &s;purious and mo&s;t unworthy de|generous
Engli&s;hmen, who from a long time had plotted the
bringing of them in, and it was the mo&s;t pernicious and ba&s;e&s;t
trea&s;on that ever was practis'd again&s;t poore <HI>England:</HI> But to give
a full and &s;atisfactory relation of this Warre, I will deduce the bu|&s;ines
from the beginning.</P>
<P>Before this unlucky &s;torme fell 'twixt <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> there
were certain <HI>clowds</HI> i&s;&s;uing from the vapors of divers di&s;contented
braines, plainly di&s;cern'd to hover up and downe a long time in
both Kingdomes &s;pecially in that Northerne Region: The fir&s;t
which appeard was, when &s;ome yeers after his Maje&s;ties acce&s;&s;e
to the crowne, there was an act of revocation pa&s;&s;ed, where &s;ome
things which had in&s;en&s;ibly &s;lipped away from the crowne, and o|ther
things which were illegally &s;natch'd from the church were re|&s;um'd,
and reannex'd to both; which lighting upon &s;ome of the great
ones, they were over heard to murmure though this was done with
as much moderation as po&s;&s;ibly could be, and by the mature advice
of the Coun&s;ell of &s;tate there, with the free opinion of the appro|ved'&s;t
Lawyers of that Kingdome, and from hence i&s;&s;ued the fir&s;t
&s;ymptome of di&s;contentment.</P>
<P>Not long after his Maje&s;ty being inform'd of the meane and &s;er|vile
condition of the Mini&s;ters of that Kingdome, which have the
charge of the con&s;cience, and &s;ervice of God, and make up a con|&s;iderable
part of the free borne &s;ubjects; his Maje&s;ty under&s;tanding
what poore pittances they receiv'd for their &s;ub&s;i&s;tence, and for
tho&s;e &s;mall &s;tipends al&s;o, or rather almes of benevolence, they de|pended
upon the plea&s;ure of the Laiks, His Maje&s;ty by a &s;peciall
Commi&s;&s;ion to that end found away to augment and acertain that
allowance, and free them from that &s;lavi&s;h kind of clientele and de|pendency
they had upon the &s;eculars; Whence may bee inferr'd
what mon&s;ters of ingratitude tho&s;e men &s;hew'd them&s;elves to be af|terwards,
by exa&s;perating and poy&s;oning the hearts of the people a|gain&s;t
their &s;overaigne in their virulent and &s;editious preachments, and
inviting them to armes. Not long after, when the poore husbandman
and owners of corn were bound to pay tithes to lay per&s;ons call'd
there the Lords of the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">rection, were much incommodated by them, be+cau&s;e
they could not take in their corn till the Par&s;on had fetch'd away
his tithe, who &s;ometimes to &s;hew his power or &s;pleen peradventure
<PB N="14" REF="9">
would defer of purpo&s;e the taking in thereof, whereby the whole crop,
by not taking advantage of the weather, would oftimes &s;uffer: His
Maje&s;ty for the redre&s;&s;e of this grievance, appointed Commi&s;&s;ioners
who found a way to purcha&s;e tho&s;e tiths, and bring the impropriators
to take a pecuniary certain rent counterveylable unto them: Hereupon
the Laie Lords and Gentlemen finding that the re&s;pect and dependen|cy
wherby the Mini&s;ters and owners of corn were formerly oblig'd unto
them to be hereby le&s;&s;en'd did tacitly di&s;cover much animo&s;ity and di&s;|plea&s;ure:
Moreover his Maje&s;tie when he went thither to be crown'd
having conferr'd honours upon &s;ome whom he had found indu&s;trious
to promote his &s;ervice, envie (which is alwayes the canker of honour)
began to raign among divers of them which did turne vi&s;ibly after|wards
to di&s;contentments.</P>
<P>The&s;e were the conceal'd and private grounds, now the open and a|vowed
cau&s;es were the introduction of our Liturgy, the booke of Ca|nons,
Ordination and Con&s;ecration with the high Commi&s;&s;ion Court
among them: and it hath bin found &s;ince that tho&s;e things were in|troduc'd
by the cunning of tho&s;e di&s;contented &s;pirits, that thereby there
might be &s;ome grounds to &s;u&s;citat the people to ri&s;e, which plot of
theirs tooke effect.</P>
<P>Adde hereunto that after the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> death divers Scots
Commanders came over, and made a flori&s;h in our Engli&s;h Court, but
being Souldiers of fortune, and finding no trading here, they went to
<HI>Scotland</HI> and joyn'd coun&s;ells with tho&s;e di&s;contented &s;pirits to beget
a warre that they might be in action.</P>
<P>The only pretence they tooke for their ri&s;ing then, was our Com|mon
Prayer Booke, hereupon his Maje&s;ty &s;ent a Proclamation to be
publi&s;hed wherein he declar'd that 'twas not his purpo&s;e to pre&s;&s;e the
practi&s;e of that book upon any ones con&s;cience, therefore he was wil|ling
to di&s;charge them from the u&s;e and exerci&s;e of it, and to aboli&s;h
all acts that tended to that end and that all things &s;hould be in <HI>&s;tatu
quo prius.</HI> But this would not &s;uffice, for they went on to fi&s;h in the&s;e
troubled waters, having a de&s;igne to drayne all the Epi&s;copall <HI>&s;ees</HI> in
the Kingdome, and turn them to laic land: Hereupon they entred
into a holy league which they term'd Covenant, without his
Maje&s;ties privity, and this was point blank again&s;t an Act of
Parliament 1585. which utterly prohibits all leagues, covenants
or bands what&s;oever without the Kings con&s;ent: Hereupon the bo|dy
of an Army was rai&s;ed, and one <HI>Le&s;ley</HI> was made Generall,
&s;o they marched to <HI>Dunce</HI> Hill within five miles of <HI>Berwicke</HI>
<PB N="15" REF="9">
Where the rendevouz was: They gave out they came with
a petition to his Maje&s;ty, though they brought it upon the
pikes point. There were many noble Engli&s;h hearts which
&s;well'd high at this in&s;olency of the <HI>Scot,</HI> and therefore went
with wonderfull alacrity to attend his Maje&s;ty to <HI>Barwick,</HI> but
there were others who were luke-warme in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and
tho&s;e of the greate&s;t Ones, which the <HI>Scots</HI> knew wel enough,
for there was nothing tran&s;-acted or &s;aid in the Kings Cabinet
Coun&s;ell or Bed-chamber, but there was intelligence given
them: Hereupon a pacification was &s;huffled up, and &s;o both
the Armyes were di&s;per&s;ed. The King being returned to
<HI>London,</HI> grew more and more &s;en&s;ible of the&s;e indignities of
his Subjects of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and having called a Parliament ex|pre&s;ly
for that purpo&s;e in <HI>England,</HI> &s;ome of the cheife Mem|bers
thereof were &s;o intoxicated by the <HI>Scot,</HI> that they did not
only not re&s;ent this bravado he had done to <HI>England,</HI> but &s;eem|ed
to approve of his actions. His Maje&s;ty finding the pul&s;e of
his Parliament beat &s;o faintly for enabling him to vindicate
the&s;e indignities upon the <HI>Scot,</HI> di&s;&s;olv'd it, and propos'd the
bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to his privy Coun&s;ell, who not only advis'd him, but
&s;upplyed him with noble &s;ummes to repaire his honour by
War; hereupon the former Forces were rallied, and made up
into the body of an Army: The <HI>Scot</HI> was not idle all this while,
but reunited his former Army, whereof there was a good part
undisbanded (contrary to Article) and choo&s;ing rather to
make another Country the theater of the War then his own,
he got over the <HI>Tweed,</HI> and found all pa&s;&s;ages open, and as it
were made for him al the way til he came to the <HI>Tine,</HI> &amp; though
there were con&s;iderable Troupes of Hor&s;e and Foot at <HI>New|ca&s;tle,</HI>
yet they never offer'd as much as to face him all the way;
at <HI>Nea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">burg</HI> there was a &s;mall di&s;pute, but the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Infantry
would not fight, &s;o <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> gates flew open to her inve|terate
Enemy, without any re&s;i&s;tance at all, where he had more
Freinds than Foes, and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Generals rather then to be
put to unworthy compo&s;itions retired in di&s;order: Whither
this happened either by &s;ecret faction, or want of affection in
in the Souldier, or by the faults of the Generall, I will not
<PB N="16" REF="10">
determine; but &s;ure I am it was di&s;honourable enough to poor
<HI>England,</HI> who was bought and &s;old in this expedition. This
was the fir&s;t entrance the <HI>Scot</HI> made into <HI>England</HI> &s;ince the&s;e un|happy
Wars; but this invitation was private, the la&s;t was pub|lick,
being voted by the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Commons, and they ru&s;h'd in,
in the dead of Winter; notwith&s;tanding that his Maje&s;ty had
taken a toyl&s;ome journey not long before to &s;it among&s;t them
him&s;elfe in Parliament, where he conde&s;cended to every thing
they could imaginably de&s;ire, and they acknowledging his
unparaleld Grace, de&s;ired that Act to be reviv'd whereby it was
Trea&s;on in the highe&s;t degree that could be, for any of the Sub|jects
of <HI>Scotland</HI> of what degree or condition foever to levy a|ny
Mlitary Forces without his Maje&s;ties expre&s;&s;e Commi&s;&s;i|on,
and this they did to expre&s;&s;e their gratitude: as they &s;aid.
But the yeare came &s;carce about before they had moulded ano|ther
Army, not only without, but expre&s;ly again&s;t his Royall
Commi&s;&s;ion, and Counter-command, and would intrude
them&s;elves to be Vmpires twixt him and his <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Subjects
whither he would or no; &s;o in they ru&s;h'd againe in dead of
Winter, and for Martiall exployts, the little credit they got
by &s;torming of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> was nothing countervaylable to
that which they lo&s;t before <HI>Hereford,</HI> where the <HI>Wel&s;h-men</HI>
bang'd them to &s;ome purpo&s;e from before the town, and made
their Generall to tru&s;&s;e up his pack and away, &s;ending him a
fat Sow with Pigs after her, and a blew bonnet upon her head
for his break-fa&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="corollary">
<PB N="17" REF="10">
<HEAD>COROLLARIE.</HEAD>
<P>THus have I run over, and faithfull related by collation of
many Authors, with their concurrent te&s;timonies, tho&s;e
trave<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">es of warre which have pa&s;&s;ed betwixt the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and
<HI>Scots</HI> &s;ince the Conque&s;t, having omitted many circum&s;tances
which might have tended further to the glory of <HI>England,</HI> to
avoyd prolixity, for I intended at fir&s;t that this Di&s;cour&s;e
&s;hould be like a skein of Silke wound up clo&s;e upon a &s;mall bot|tome,
which a freer hand might put upon the loom and draw
to a large peice.</P>
<P>Any man of a clear and unpa&s;&s;ionate judgement will hence
inferre that the <HI>Scots</HI> have been alwayes farre inferiour to the
<HI>Engli&s;h</HI> (except in the&s;e latter unlucky Inva&s;ions) in poynt of
true prowe&s;&s;e, and National Power: In &s;ome examples you may
finde how the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> carryed away more Captives then they
were Souldiers of them&s;elves, driving them as &s;heep before
them mo&s;t of the Battails they fought were in <HI>Scotland</HI> her&s;elf,
when the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> had been tir'd with long marches, over un|couth,
and &s;trange places, being ignorant of the advenues, and
advantages of them.</P>
<P>Indeed in <HI>Edward</HI> the Seconds reign they got three battails,
and one at the fag end of <HI>Hen.</HI> the 8. wherein Sir <HI>Ralph Evers</HI>
was &s;laine, but it was more by &s;tratagem than &s;trength, and
be&s;ides the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> might have been &s;aid to have fought rather
again&s;t the Heaven and Elements then men, having Wind and
Sun in their faces, but that might have been tearmed more pro|perly
a petty defeat then Victory, for there fell not above 200.
But what u&s;e did the <HI>Scot</HI> ever make of tho&s;e Victories, though
the North parts have many places of fa&s;tne&s;&s;e, and tenable, yet
I reade not of any place they kept except <HI>Barwick;</HI> all the re&s;t
of their Warres were but tumultuary &s;allies, and predatory
deva&s;tations, and pilfrings. But the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> have taken foure
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of their Kings captives, killed two of them in the Field, car|ried
away their Crown (which they give out to be greater and
more weighty than that of <HI>England</HI>) their <HI>Ragman-Roll,</HI> the
<HI>Blacke Cro&s;&s;e,</HI> with other in&s;truments of Soveraignty, and did
&s;undry acts equivalent to a Conque&s;t. They pierced the very
heart of the Kingdom, and the <HI>Scot</HI> may be &s;aid to have onely
trod upon <HI>Englands</HI> toe, for they never came farther than the
Walls of <HI>Yorke,</HI> till the reigne of this thing that cals it &s;elfe
Parliament. But if one &s;hould aske me why the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> ha|ving
made &s;uch firme Inva&s;ions from time to time into the
very bowels of <HI>Scotland,</HI> did not reduce it to a va&s;&s;allage and
perfect provincial obedience, as well as to make their Kings
fuedetary in which &s;tate they continued towards <HI>England</HI> near
upon five hundred yeares?</P>
<P>My An&s;wer &s;hall be the &s;ame that <HI>Suetonius</HI> gives in behalfe
of the <HI>Romans,</HI> who notwith&s;tanding they lorded over the
re&s;t of <HI>Brittany</HI> four hundred and odde yeares, yet they never
went about to conquer <HI>Scotland,</HI> becau&s;e they knew the prize
would not have countervail'd the paines, by rea&s;on of the
craggine&s;&s;e of the Countrey and incommodity of habitation,
therefore they thought it enough that <HI>Adrians</HI> Wall which
extended from <HI>Tinmouth</HI> to <HI>Solway Frith,</HI> near upon four&s;core
miles &s;hould be the We&s;terne Bounds of their Empire.</P>
<P>Out of the precedent Examples we may al&s;o gather, that
the <HI>Scot</HI> hath been alwayes of a genius apt and forward to &s;tir
again&s;t <HI>England</HI> upon any the lea&s;t occa&s;ion. For of tho&s;e
five and twenty Kings and Queens that have been &s;ince the
Conque&s;t, onely five have been free of their in&s;olencies: yet
did <HI>England</HI> never begin with them till &s;he was ju&s;tly provo|ked
thereunto, nor could Alliances nor Leagues, or any tyes
of Treaty confirmed by Solemne Oathes (which are tho&s;e re|ligious
Bonds that pa&s;&s;e 'twixt God and the Soul) detain the
<HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Kings from puzling and di&s;turbing <HI>England,</HI> when her
Kings were mo&s;t di&s;tracted in Warres with <HI>France,</HI> and the
better halfe of her &s;trength imployed abroad, &s;o that the <HI>Scots</HI>
may be &s;aid to have been from time to time as goads in <HI>Eng|lands</HI>
&s;ides, or a thorne in her toe; and <HI>France</HI> leaguing meerly
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for his own advantage with them, may be &s;aid to have made
u&s;e of <HI>Scotland</HI> as the Fox did of the Cats foot to pull the
Apple out of the Fire for his own eating: yet for all the&s;e
eager and irrefragable Combinations 'twixt the <HI>French</HI> and
Her again&s;t <HI>England, England</HI> ever bore up, and made her
party good, and that in a victorious way again&s;t both, and for
<HI>Scotland</HI> &s;he may be &s;aid to have given Her blowes for phil|lips.</P>
<P>But it &s;eemes that <HI>Italian</HI> was well ver&s;ed in the <HI>Scoti&s;hmens</HI>
humours, who under&s;tanding of the late Vnion between the
two Kingdomes, &s;aid that <HI>England</HI> had got no great catch by
the addition of <HI>Scotland,</HI> &s;he had onely got a Wolfe by the
eares, who mu&s;t be held very fa&s;t, el&s;e he will run away to
<HI>France.</HI></P>
<P>Some there are who much magnifie and cry up the <HI>Scots</HI> of
late yeares, for great Souldiers, tacitly derogating thereby
from the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> as if they &s;hould &s;tand in &s;ome apprehen&s;ion
of fear of them; but I cannot imagine upon what grounds
they &s;hould do it; true it is, that &s;ince the Revolt of the <HI>Hol|lander,</HI>
and the&s;e &s;eventy yeares Tumults in the Netherlands,
&s;ome of them are much improved in the Art of Warre, and
knowledge of Armes from what they were; they have al&s;o
pu&s;hed on their Fortunes in the Warres of <HI>Denmarke, Sweden,
Ru&s;&s;ia, Germany;</HI> and <HI>France;</HI> for <HI>Poland,</HI> their Profe&s;&s;ion
there is to tru&s;&s;e Packes rather than traile Pikes. By rea&s;on of
the quality of the Soile and Clime they have tough and hardy
bodies, and it may adde to their courage that they venture
for a better Countrey, in regard they cannot go to a wor&s;e
than their own. Now it mu&s;t be granted that the greate&s;t ad|vantage
wherewith Nature doth recompence a mountainous
and &s;terile Soile above a luxurious and ea&s;ie, is, to make it
produce &s;uffering bodies; which made the <HI>Romans</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">e nine|&s;core
yeares conquering of <HI>Spain,</HI> when they were but nine
conquering of <HI>France.</HI></P>
<P>For the fir&s;t, 'tis an&s;wered, that if the <HI>Scot</HI> hath made
&s;al&s;ies abroad into other Countries of late yeares, the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI>
al&s;o have done the like, and are in &s;ome places in greater num|bers,
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as in the Low-countries, where at this day they treble
the number of the <HI>Scots,</HI> &s;o that the <HI>Netherlands</HI> may be &s;aid
to be a Military Yard for the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> as well: and he that is
never &s;o little ver&s;ed in the Moderne Stories will finde that
the Foundation of that State hath been chiefly cimented with
<HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Bloud.</P>
<P>For the Ea&s;t countrey, 'tis true, there are many able <HI>Scots</HI>
Leaders, and there are al&s;o many <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> of abilities and fame.</P>
<P>To the &s;econd, if the <HI>Scots</HI> are a hardy People becau&s;e of their
cragges and mountaines: I an&s;wer that the <HI>Welch</HI> and <HI>Corni&s;h</HI>
with them that dwell about the Northerne Alpes in <HI>England,</HI>
are as mountainous as they, and I believe have as &s;uffering
and &s;turdy bodies; which makes the world yield it for a Ma|xime,
that no Prince of Chri&s;tendom hath a better choice to
make Souldiers of than the King of Great <HI>Britain.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I will conclude with certain Prophe&s;ies the</HI> Scots <HI>do much
&s;peak of. The fir&s;t is out of</HI> Polychronicon, <HI>where the Authour</HI>
Ranulphus Cistren&s;is <HI>relates the words of a certain Anchorite
who lived in King</HI> Egelbert <HI>his time, now near upon</HI> 900.
<HI>yeares ago, and the words are the&s;e,</HI> Angli, quia proditioni,
ebrietati, &amp; negligentiae domus Dei dedit<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;unt, primum per D<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">|nos,
deinde per Normanos, terti&ugrave;m per Scotos, quos vili&s;&s;imos ha|bent,
conterentur: varium erit &s;aeculum, &amp; varietas mentium,
de&s;ignabitur varietate vestium. 1. The <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> for that they
wonneth them&s;elves to trea&s;on, to drunkenne&s;&s;e, and wretchle&s;ne&s;&s;e
of Gods Hou&s;e; fir&s;t by the <HI>Danes,</HI> then by the <HI>Normans,</HI> and
la&s;tly by the <HI>Scots,</HI> whom they holden lea&s;t in e&s;teem, &s;hallen be
overthrown, 'twill be an in&s;table Age, and the variablene&s;&s;e of
mens mindes &s;hall appear by the variablene&s;&s;e of their ve&s;tments.</P>
<P>The <HI>Dani&s;h</HI> and <HI>Norman</HI> Conque&s;t have happened &s;ince,
and the third is to follow in the &s;ame manner, &s;ay they, not
by Succe&s;&s;ion, but by the Sword.</P>
<P>2. The &s;econd are tho&s;e Prophe&s;ies of <HI>Merlin,</HI> who much
tampers with the &s;ingle Lion, and of the Feats that he &s;hould
do, which they &s;ay, is meant of their Lion within a double
Trea&s;ure Rampant, <HI>Mars</HI> counterflowred.</P>
<P>3. Then come they to the Stone wherein they &s;ay, the Fortune
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of their Kingdom is fixed, which hath lain in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI>
now near upon five hundred yeares.</P>
<Q><L>Ni fallat fatum, Scoti quocunque locatum</L>
<L>Invenient Lapidem regnare tenentur ibidem.</L></Q>
<Q><L>If Fate failes not, the <HI>Scots,</HI> where ere they finde</L>
<L>This Stone, there they &s;hall reigne and rule man-kinde.</L></Q>
<P>Which they interpret al&s;o mu&s;t be by the Sword not by Suc|ce&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>4. Then do they apply to them&s;elves a Prophe&s;ie that the
<HI>Iri&s;h</HI> have very frequent among&s;t them, which is, <HI>That the day
will come, when the</HI> Iri&s;h <HI>&s;hall weep over the</HI> Engli&s;hmens
<HI>graves.</HI></P>
<P>5. La&s;tly, that which is &s;o common in the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> mens
monthes. [Lincolne <HI>was,</HI> London <HI>is, and</HI> Yorke <HI>&s;hall be</HI>]
which they &s;ay, &s;hall be at la&s;t the Seat of the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Empire,
to be erected there by them.</P>
<P>But I am none of tho&s;e that afford much faith to rambling
Prophe&s;ies, but will conclude with a late much cried up
Wi&s;e-man, (Sir <HI>W. R.</HI>) that <HI>Prophe&s;ies are as &s;eeds &s;own in the
va&s;t field of time, whereof not one grain of a thou&s;and comes to
grow up:</HI> yet the&s;e Prophe&s;ies may &s;erve as &s;o many Pro&s;pe|ctives
for <HI>England,</HI> to behold, though a far off in a mi&s;t, the
danger and de&s;tiny which may befall her, from this <HI>growing</HI>
Nation if not timely prevented.</P>
<P>6. Hereunto may be added another very old and il-favoured
one, which &s;hall fore run her fall.</P>
<Q><L>Gens tua te <HI>prodit,</HI> proh Anglia, Scotia <HI>rodit&punc;</HI></L>
<L>&mdash;O England,</L>
<L>Thine own People thee betray,</L>
<L>And <HI>Scotland</HI> makes of thee a prey.</L></Q>
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