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A02726	An exhortacion to the Scottes to conforme them selfes to the honorable, expedie[n]t, and godly vnion, betwene the twoo realmes of Englande and Scotlande.	Harrison, James, fl. 1547.	1547 (1547)	STC 12857; ESTC S103818	29,237	128

preceptes Godly examples and sincere educacion as he shall proue a Kyng equal with those whom old histories do moste commend Wherein your graces laude cannot wante beyng so worthie a gouernor of so noble a kyng and muche more if by your pollicie diligēce and circumspeccion he shal at his perfect yeres bee restaured to the whole isle of Britayn wherunto as he is iustely entitled So God the protector of al iust causes shal bryng your attēptes therin to good successe For the furtheraunce whereof I haue declared myne opinion in writyng whiche with humble harte I offre and dedicate vnto your good grace not as a gyfte worthie so greate an estate but yet not vnmete for my purpose ne for the tyme occasion present wherin though I neither perswade my cause so pithihely ne open it so liuely as to so weightie a matter is requisite Yet it maie serue either for a testimonye of myne honest meanyng or minister occasion to better learned men to dilate this argument more largely whereby all warre and hostilitie maie cease and peace and concord take place GOD the verie aucthor of peace euer preserue your grace to the increase of the same and furtheran̄ce of all Godlinesse and graunte to the Kynges Maiestie of England his righteous possession of the whole monarchie of Britayn to thaduauncemēt of Gods glory cōfort to his lieges and confusion of his enemies DIEV ET MON DROVT AN EXHORTACION The cause wher of I treate beeyng so weightie the discourse so large my witte and cunnyng so small to set it furthe I might well be discoraged to entre so greate a ground but that loue to my countrey on the one side and desire of concorde and quietnes on the other side moue me to speake hopyng that the honesty of the matter shall supplie the rude handelyng and the plain veritie to stand in stede of eloquēce and cunnyng For like as in an euill cause muche arte and conueyaunce must be vsed afore it can appere good euen so in a cause true honest and righteous there needeth no subtile perswasions or finesse of woordes but how muche the plainer so muche the better and how muche the more eloquent somuch the more suspicious For truthe is sufficient of her selfe and needeth no colours no more then natural beawty nedeth of paintyng Taking this for my foundacion I maie the more boldely procede without feare of offence seeyng my cause is suche as all good men will further all wise men fauor and all Godly men defende as that whiche beeyng enbraced shall doo good to many and hurt to none and beyng neglected shall hurte a multitude and auayle no man tendyng no lesse to the commoditie of the aduersaries then of the fauorers Thus the ground beyng so true the occasion so honest and the querell so righteous there wanteth nothyng but one that could set the same furth accordyngly And seeyng suche as canne best liste not and that ought moste will not and that wold faynest dare not take this vniuersall cause in hande I beyng simple vnlearned and most barayn of all orators arte and perswasiō yet armed with truth moued with honestie and prouoked by loue towardes God and my countrey as Dauid against Golias entre the felde against the mightie Giauntes enemies of concorde and vnitie desiryng all my countreymen of Scottande whose cause I now specially entreat to geue me pacient hearyng whilest I suade theim to that whiche shal be acceptable to God commendable to the world ioyfull to their frēdes hatefull to their enemies profitable to all parties and to none so muche as to themselfes TO groūd my cause vpō truth as I promised I will sette my foundacion vpon the infallible truthe of Gods woorde takyng this texte for my purpose Omne regnū in se diuisum desolabitur that is to saie euery kyngdō diuided in it self shal be brought to desolacion If this sentence bee well marked and the persone of the speaker considered I shall not nede to bee long in perswadyng you to beleue it The wordes be true for he that spake them cannot lye whiche is Christ himself the aucthor of al truth and veritie But though Christ had not spokē them let vs se whether comon reason dooth not affirme theim and the experience of all realmes and countreis in al tymes and ages hath not approued theim And to fet our examples not out of straunge countreys loke well vpon the Chronicles of this island of Britain and consider the estate thereof from the beginnyng and compare theim with the histories of other nacions and you shal not lightly heare or read of any one countrey sithe the worldes creacion more inuaded wasted and destroyed then this I stande ne of people more often ne more curelly spoyled exiled or afflicted then the inhabiters thereof and all by diuision and discord the sedes wherof beyng laied in by the deuil as pouder vnder a walle after it once toke fire did so terribly shake the foūdaciōs of their common weale that it riued a sunder their Kyngdome and monarchie and diuidyng it into partes broughte the whole at last to ruyne and desolacion which hath not been fully recouered to this daie nor in my iud gement like to be so long as the islande is diuided into two partes and knowen by two names that is to saie England Scotlande and vnder twoo seuerall gouernours The cause whereof though it maie chiefly bee ascribed to the iuste vengeaunce of God prouoked with the synnes of the people as Gildas witnesseth yet is it clere that the onely meane thereof was discord and diuision emong the Insulanes wherby it came to passe whylest euery one striued all were ouer comen and made an easy prey to straūge nacions For althoughe outward enemies vpon tiranny and conquest as the Romayns or els expulsed from their countreys and driuen to seke newe dwellynges as the Pictes or allured with the fertilitie of the soyle as the Scottes inhabityng the north partes of Irelande inuaded this islande Yet could those people neuer haue kepte quiete possession ne reigne so long as thei did but through diuision and discord emong the Britaynes whiche beeyng stiffe necked against God and ingrate eche to other as the said aucthor writeth by their demerites wer not onely ouercome with outwarde inuasions but finally lost their name and Empire whereby the inhabitauntes beyng mixt with straungers haue euer sithe been vexed with intestine warres and ciuill discorde to the irremediable ruine and desolacion therof vntil it shal please Gods goodnesse to haue mercie on the people and to reduce the islande to the firste estate to one Monarchy vnder one kyng and gouernor as it was in the Britons tyme. But if God of his goodnesse without our desertes hath in these latter daies prouided that blessed meane and remedy for the glorie of his name and for our wealth and commoditie and wee for our parte either of stubburnesse will not or of wilfulnesse liste not thankefully to receiue

An EXHORTATION TO THE SCOTTS to conforme themselves to the honourable expedient and godly union betwene the two realmes of Englande and Scotland dedicated to Edward duke of Somerset by James Harryson LONDON PRINTED by Rich. Grafton 1547. ¶ TO the right high and mightie prince Edward Duke of Somerset Etle of Hertford Viscount Beauchamp lorde Seymour Gouernor of the persone of the Kynges Maiestie of Englande and Protector of all his Realmes Dominions and Subiectes his lieuetenaunt generall of all his armies bothe by lande and by sea Tresore● and Erle Marshall of Englande Gouernor of the Isles of Gernsey and Gersey and knight of the moste noble ordre of the Garter Iames Harryson Scottisheman wisheth healthe honor and felicitie CAllyng to mynde as I do oft moste excellent Prince the ciuill discencion and mortal enemitie betwene the twoo Realmes of Englande and Scotlande it bryngeth me in muche marueill how betwene so nere neighbors dwellyng with in one land compassed within one sea alied in bloude and knitte in Christes faithe suche vnnaturall discorde should so long continue Vnnaturall I maie wel call it or rather a Ciuill warre where brethren kynsmen or countreymen be diuided and seke the bloud of eche other a thyng detestable before God horrible to the worlde and pernicious to the parties and no lesse straunge in the iyes of reasonable men then if the lymmes and membres of mannes body should fall out within them selfes as the hand to hurte the foote or the fote the hande If any vtilitie or gain should growe thereby it were the lesse maruail but when there doth nothyng ensue but suche fruite as warre bryngeth furthe whiche is fackyng of tounes subuersion of holdes murder of men rauishinēt of women slaughter of olde folke and infantes burnyng of houses and corne with hunger and pestilence twoo buddes of thesame tre and finally the vtter ruyne of the whole kyngdom I wonder that eemōgest so many pollitique rulers as be and haue been in both realmes the nuschief so long spied the remedy hath not yet bee sought Who is so blynd that doth not see it or who so harde harted that doth not pitie it I omitte here to speake of the greate afflicciōs and miserie whiche Scotlande hath susteined by warres in tymes passed a matter ouer lōg to be rehersed and yet to great to be forgotten But to come to later tyme what hath been doen within these sixe yeres sithe the warres wer reuined how the coūtrey hath been ouer runne spoyled and heried by Englishemen on the one side and by our awne warremen or rather robbers on the other side to speke nothyng of the plague of God it would greue any harte to thinke If this miserie fell onely vpō the mouers and mainteiners of suche mischief it were lesse to be lamented but thei sitte safe at home and kepe holy daie when the feldes lie ful of their bodies whose deathes thei moste cruelly and vuchristiāly haue procured If Edēbrough Lieth Louthian Mers or Tiuidale had tongues to speake their loude complainte would perse the deafe eares But what nedeth spethe when their iyes maie se plain enough what their deuillish hartes haue deuised This miserie is muche to be sorowed and more to be sorowed then their wickednes to be detesied whiche haue kyndled the fire and still late on brandes to feede thesame In whom if either respect of Religion whiche thei professe or zeale of Iustice whereunto thei are sworne either feare of God or loue to their countrey did any thyng woorke thei would refuse no trauaill nor torment of body nor mynde no nor death if it wer offered for the sauegarde of theim whose distruccion thei haue wrought And these bee onely twoo sortes the one is of suche as either for feare of their Hypocrisy to bee reueled or euill gotten possessions to be transiated would haue no peace nor cōcord the other bee suche as for a lawelesse libertie and doyng wrōg vnpunished would pull out their heddes from all lawe and obedience Such and none other be aduersaries to our cause If these if sortes I saie should fele but half the miserie whiche the poore people be driuen to suffre thei would not be halfe so hastie to ryng alarmes These be thei whiche professyng knowledge abuse the ignoraunce of the nobilitie and commonaltie to the destrucciō of bothe hauyng peace in their mouthes and all rancor and vengeaunce in their hartes pretendyng religion perswade rebellion preachyng obedience procure al disobedience semyng to forsake all thyng possesse all thyng callyng themselfes spirituall are in deede moste carnall and reputed heddes of the Churche bee the onely shame and slaunder of the Churche If these people would as earnesty trauail for the concord of bothe realmes as thei indeuour with toothe and naill to the contrary these mischeues aforesaied should either not haue happened or els at the least not so long haue continued by whose lure so long as the nobles and cōmons of Scotlande be led I am in dispaire of any amitie or frendship betwene these two realmes GOD bryng their falsehed once to light and turne their iniquitie vpon their awne heddes BVT to my purpose seyng the mischief so greate the aucthors so many the mainteinaunce so strōg and so few that seke amendement in declaraciō of mine earnest zeale and vnfained affeccion towardes my coūtrey I in default of other put my self in prease And though least able yet moste willyng and desirous of the honor and quiet of bothe realmes whiche cause seing it correspondeth to vertue godlinesse me thought it conuenient to seke for the same a patrone vertuous and Godly whereby your grace entered my remembraunce whose procedynges hetherto haue made manifest to the worlde what an ardent zeale ye beare to thaduauncement of all veritie truth So that all men conceiue certain hope that by your high wisedom pollicie and other Princely vertues the stormes of this tempestious worlde shall shortely come to a calme And seyng God hath not onely called you to the height of this estate but so prospered your grace in all affaires bothe of war and peace as your actes bee comparable to theirs whiche beare moste fame your grace cānot merite more towardes GOD or the worlde then to put your helpyng hande to the furtheraunce of this cause Hereby shall you declare an incōparable seruice to the kynges Maiestie of England whiche beyng young of yeres is yet ripe in vertue to gouerne any kyngdom whose excellent giftes of nature and inclinacion to all Godlinesse considered the world is in opiniō that he shal bee nothyng inferior to the greate honor and glorie of his father whose praises I ouer passe fyndyng my selfe vnable to expresse them in any degree But sith your grace as a person moste electe is called to the gouernan̄ce and tuiciō of his persone and proteccion of his realmes and dominions all mennes expectacion is that hauyng so apte a moulde to worke vpō you shall so frame his you the with verteous