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A95749	Ekskybalauron: or, The discovery of a most exquisite jewel, more precious then diamonds inchased in gold, the like whereof was never seen in any age; found in the kennel of Worcester-streets, the day after the fight, and six before the autumnal æquinox, anno 1651. Serving in this place, to frontal a vindication of the honour of Scotland, from that infamy, whereinto the rigid Presbyterian party of that nation, out of their coveteousness and ambition, most dissembledly hath involved it.	Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.	1652 (1652)	Wing U134; Thomason E1506_1; ESTC R203867	122,679	328

had overthrown all those of any Nation that ever coped with him having repaired to the great City of Vienne to accresce his reputation in some more degrees by the subjection of any proud spirit there eager in that sort of contestation whereof he heard there were many and notice being given to him of this Sinclair who had a perfect sympathy with him in that kind of adventuring humour they very quickly met with one another and had no sooner exchanged three words when time and place being assigned for debating the combate they determined to take nothing in hand till first it were made known who should to the very hazard of their lives bear clear away the palme and reap the credit of the bravest Champion but the news thereof being carryed to the Emperor who being unwilling that the victor should terminate the concertation in the blood of the vanquished and yet desirous for his own sport that by them somewhat might be done before him in matter of tryal which of them should prove most skilful in the handling of his armes he enjoyned them at a perfixed time in his own presence to decide the controversie with Foyles and for the better animating them thereto assured them that which of them soever should give the other the first three free bouts should for his salary or epinicion have a paire of Spurs of beaten Gold set with Diamonds The combatants very heartily embraced the condition and were glad to turn the sharp to blunt to gaine the Gold Spurs by which means their hope of overcoming on both sides having cheerfully brought them to the appointed place and time designed for the purpose they had no sooner adjusted themselves in equal termes for Foyles and every thing else befitting that jeopardless monomachy but Sinclair at first before he came within full distance to try the manner of his adversaries play made a flourish or two of very nimble and most exquisite falsifyings whereat the other conceiving them for really-intended thrusts was so disordred in his motion that offering to ward where he needed not and taking the Alarm too hot Sinclair was so confident of his own sufficiency against that High-Dutchman that when he had askt the Emperor for how many Franch bouts his Majesty would adjudge the Spurs to be gained and that the Emperor's answer was For the first three Sinclair replied If he did not give him five on end he should be content to forfeit the Spurs and two hundred Crowns besides whereupon immediately facing his adversary to let him know that many ward without a cause that cannot pary when they should with the coinstantanean swiftness of hand and foot gave him de pie-forme a terrible slap on the breast wherewith the German Lord did so stagger that before he could fully recover himself the blow was doubled and redoubled with a sound thwack on the back of those seconded with another bounce not leaving him till with a push and a thump again he had hit him seven several times and that with the same confidence facility that the usher of a fencinghall useth to alonge against his Masters plastron The Emperour by the thud of each stroak which farthered his counting having reckoned beyond the number of the five promised bouts and unwilling Sinclair should lack of his due or the other have his ribs broken cryed aloud Hola forbear enough whereupon the duellists desisting the Emperor required them both to stand before him who seeing the seven marks which the button of Sinclairs foyle whitened with chalk had imprinted in the others black Sattin doublet and how they lay in order after the manner of the situation of the seven Stars of the little Bear laughed heartily for he was a peece of an Astronomer and a great favourer of Mathematicians then addressing his speech to Sinclair who had so much natural Arithmetick as to know that seven included five asked him why in livering in of his thrusts he exceeded the promised number seeing five was susficient for gaining of the prize and why being pleased to make them seven he had fixed them in their stations after the fashion of a Charlewaine Sinclair to whom though Astronomy might have signified somewhat to eat for any thing he knew of the Science had nevertheless the perspicacity to make the word Charlewaine serviceable to his present purpose very promptly answered Sir I did so place them in honour of my master CHARLES King of great Britain and gave in two venees more then I was obliged to to give your Caesarean Majesty to understand that in the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland whereof that Isle consists there are many thousands more expert then I in matter of Martial feats At which answer the Emperor was so well pleased that he gave him the Spurs as his due for the first five and a gold chaine for the other two In the mean while for the Emperors better diversion a certain Spanish Hidalgo of the Leopoldo's Court made bold to relate to his Imperial Majesty how the said Francis Sinclair had in the City of Madrid performed a more notable exploit and of far greater adventure which was this Eight Spanish Gentlemen being suspicious of Sinclair's too intimate familiarity with a kinswoman of theirs whom they called Prima that is to say a she-cozen did all together set upon him at one time with their swords drawn which unexpected assault moved him to say Gentlemen I doubt not but you are valiant men therefore if you would have your desire of me my intreaty is only that you would take it as it becòmes men of valour and that by trying your fortune against mine at the swords point one after another The Spaniards pretending to be men of honour not only promised to do what he required but the better to assure him that they would prove faithful to him in their promise swore all of them upon a cross which they made with their swords that they would not faile therein should it cost them all their lives In the extremity that Sinclair was this kind of unhoped-for honest dealing did very much incourage him especially he knowing that he and they all had but Toledo-blades whose fashion was then to be all of one length and size in a word conforme to paction they fell to it and that most cleverly though with such fatality on the Spanish side that in less then the space of half an hour he killed seven of them Epassyterotically that is one after another gratifying the eighth to testifie he had done no wrong to the rest with the enjoyment of his life who rather then to undergoe the hazard of the destiny of his fore-runners chused to abandon his vindicative humour and leave unrevenged the blood and honour of his male and female cosens Much more may be said of him but that I will not now supererogate in magnifying the fulfilment of the Readers expectation by the performance of more then I promised being resolved for brevities

the honour of the day Sir Andrew Gray Sir Iohn Seatoun Sir Iohn Fulerton the Earl of Irwin Sir Patrick Morray Colonel Erskin Colonel Andrew Linsay Colonel Mouat Colonel Morison Colonel Thomas Hume Colonel John Forbas Colonel Liviston Colonel Iohn Leslie besides a great many other Scots of their charge condition and quality were all Colonels under the pay of Lewis the thirteenth of France Some of those also though not listed in the former Roll had before they engaged themselves in the French employment standing Regiments under the command of the Swedish King The interest of France Swedland and Denmark not being able to bound the valour of the Scotish nation within the limits of their Territories the several Expeditions into Hungary Dalmatia and Croatia against the Turks into Transylvania against Bethleem Gabor to Italy against the Venetians and in Germany against Count Mansfield and the confederate Princes can testifie the many Martial exploits of Colonel Sir John Henderson Colonel William Johnston who shortly thereafter did excellent service to this King of Portugal and is a man of an upright minde and a most undaunted courage Colonel Lithco Colonel Wedderburne Colonel Bruce and of many other Colonels of that Country whose names I know not but above all the two eminent ones Colonel Leslie and Colonel Gordon the first whereof is made an hereditary Marquess of the Empire and Colonel-General of the whole Infantry of all the Imperial Forces and the other gratified with the priviledge of the Golden Key as a cognizance of his being raised to the dignity of High Chamberlain of the Emperours Court which splendid and illustrious places of so sublime honour and preeminence were deservedly conferred on them for such extraordinary great services done by them for the weal and grandeur of the Caesarean Majesty as did by far surpass the performance of any to the Austrian family now living in this Age. But lest the Emperour should brag too much of the gallantry of those Scots above others of that Nation his cousin the King of Spaine is able to outvie him in the person of the ever-renowned Earl of Bodwel whose unparallel'd valour so frequently tried in Scotland France Germany the Low-Countries Spain Italy and other parts in a very short time began to be so redoubtable that at last he became a terrour to all the most desperate Duellists and Bravo's of Europe and a queller of the fury of the proudest Champions of his Age for all the innumerable Combats which he fought against both Turks and Christians hoth on horse and foot closed always with the death or subjection of the adversary of what degree or condition soever he might be that was so bold as to cope with and encounter him in that kinde of Hostility the Gasconads of France Rodomontads of Spain Fanfaronads of Italy and Bragadochio brags of all other Countries could no more astonish his invincible heart then would the cheeping of a Mouse a Bear robbed of her whelps That warlike and strong Mahometan who dared like another Goliah and appealled the stoutest and most valiant of the Christian faith to enter the Lists with him and fight in the defence of their Religion was after many hundreds of galliant Christians had been foyled by him thrown dead to the ground by the vigour and dexterity of his hand He would very often in the presence of Ladies whose intimate favourite he was to give some proof of the undantedness of his courage by the meer activity of his body with the help of a single sword set upon a Lyon in his greatest fierceness and kil'd him dead upon the place For running vaulting jumping throwing of the barr and other such-like feats of nimbleness strength and agility he was the only paragon of the world and unmatched by any Whilst in Madrid Genua Milan Venice Florence Naples Paris Bruxelles Vienna and other great and magnificent Cities for the defence of the honour and reputation of the Ladies whom he affected he had in such measure incurred the hatred and indignation of some great and potent Princes that to affront him they had sent numbers of Spadassins and Acuchilladores to surprise him at their best advantage he would often times all alone buckle with ten or twelve of them and lay such load and so thick and threesold upon them that he would quickly make them for their safeties betake themselves to their heels with a vengeance at their back by which meanes he gave such evidence of his greatness of resolution strenuitie of person excellency in conduct and incomparable magnanity of spirt that being comfortable to his friends formidable to his foes and admirable to all such as formerly had been his cruellest enemies and most deeply had plotted and projected his ruine were at last content out of a remorse of conscience to acknowledge the ascendent of his worth above theirs and to sue in all humility to be reconciled to him To this demand of theirs out of his wonted generosity which was never wanting when either goodness or mercie required the making use thereof having fully condescended he past the whole remainder of his days in great security and with all ease desirable in the City of Naples where in a vigorous old age environed with his friends and enjoying the benefit of all his senses till the last hour he dyed in full peace and quietness and there I leave him For should I undertake condignly to set down all the Martial atchievements and acts of prowess performed by him in Turnaments Duels Battels Skirmishes and fortuite encounters against Scots French Dutch Polonians Hungarians Spaniards Italians and others were it not that there are above ten thousand as yet living who as eye-witnesses can verifie the truth of what I have related of him the History thereof to succeeding ages would seem so incredible that they would but look upon it at best but as on a Romance stuft with deeds of Chivalrie like those of Amades de Gaule Esplandian and Don Sylves de la Selve Next to the renowned Count Bodwel in the service of that great Don Philippe tetrarch of the world upon whose subjects the sun never sets are to be recorded besides a great many other Colonels of Scotland those valorous and worthy Scots Colonel William Sempil Colonel Boyd and Colonel Lodowick Lindsay Earl of Crawford there is yet another Scotish Colonel that served this King of Spain whose name is upon my tongues end and yet I cannot hit upon it he was not a Souldier bred yet for many yeers together bore charge in Flanders under the command of Spinola In his youth-hood he was so strong and stiff a Presbyterian that he was the onely man in Scotland made choice of and relied upon for the establishment and upholding of that Government as the arch-prop and main pillar thereof but as his judgement increased and that he ripened in knowledge declining from that Neoterick faith and waining in his love to Presbytery as he waxed in experience of the

Escrime and Fencing-masters of Italy which in matter of choice professors in that faculty needed never as yet to yeild to any Nation in the world were by him beaten to their good behaviour and by blows and thrusts given in which they could not avoid enforced to acknowledge him their over commer bethinking himself how after so great a conquest of reputation he might by such means be very suddenly enriched he projected a course of exchanging the blunt to sharp and the foiles into tucks and in his resolution providing a purse full of gold worth neer upon four hundred pounds English money traveled alongst the most especial and considetable parts of Spaine France the Low-countryes Germany Pole Hungary Greece Italy and other places where ever there was greatest probability of encountring with the eagerest most atrocious duellists and immediately after his arrival to any City or Town that gave apparent likelihood of some one or other champion that would enter the lists and cope with him he boldly challenged them with sound of Trumpet in the chief market-place to adventure an equal sum of money against that of his to be disputed at the swords point who should have both There failed not several brave men almost of all Nations who accepting of his cartels were not afraid to hazard both their person and coine against him but till he midled with this Crichtoun so maine was the Ascendent he had above all his Antagonists and so unlucky the fate of such as offered to scuffle with him that all his opposing combatants of what State or Dominion soever they were who had not lost both their life and gold were glad for the preservation of their person though sometimes with a great expence of blood to leave both their reputation mony behind them At last returning homewards to his own country loaded with honor and wealth or rather the spoile of the reputation of those forraginers whom the Italians call Tramontani he by the way after his accustomed manner of abording other places repaired to the City of Mantua where the Duke according to the courtesie usually bestowed on him by other Princes vouchsafed him a protection and savegard for his person he as formerly he was wont to do by beat of Drum sound of Trumpet and several printed papers disclosing his designe battered on all the chief gates posts and pillars of the Town gave all men to understand that his purpose was to challenge at the single Rapier any whosoever of that City or country that durst be so bold as to fight with him provided he would deposite a a bag of five hundred Spanish Pistols over-against another of the same value which himself should lay down upon this condition that the enjoyment of both should be the conquerors due His challenge was not long unanswered for it happened at the same time that three of the most notable cutters in the world and so highly cryed up for valour that all the Bravo's of the Land were content to give way to their domineering how insolent soever they should prove because of their former constantly-obtained victories in the field were all three together at the court of Mantua who hearing of such a harvest of five hundred Pistols to be reaped as they expected very soon and with ease had almost contested amongst themselves for the priority of the first encounterer but that one of my Lord Dukes Courtiers moved them to cast lots for who should be first second and third in case none of the former two should prove victorious Without more adoe he whose chance it was to answer the cattel with the first defiance presented himself within the barriers or place appointed for the fight where his adversary attending him as soon as the Trumpet sounded a charge they jointly fel to work and because I am not now to amplifie the particulars of a combat although the dispute was very hot for a while yet whose fortune it was to he the first of the three in the field had the disaster to be the first of the three that was foyled for at last with a thrust in the throat he was killed dead upon the ground This nevertheless not a whit dismayed the other two for the nixt day he that was second in the roll gave his appearance after the same manner as the first had done but with no better success for he likewise was laid flat dead upon the place by means of a thrust he received in the heart The last of the three finding that he was as sure of being engaged in the fight as if he had been the first in order pluckt up his heart knit his spirits together and on the day after the death of the second most couragiously entering the Lists demeaned himself for a while with great activity and skill but at last his luck being the same with those that preceded him by a thrust in the belly he within four and twenty hours after gave up the ghost These you may imagine were lamentable spectacles to the Duke and Citie of Mantua who casting down their faces for shame knew not what course to take for reparation of their honour The conquering Duellist proud of a victory so highly tending to both his honour and profit for the space of a whole fortnight or two weeks together marched daily along the streets of Mantua without any opposition or controulment like another Romulus or Marcellus in triumph which the never-too-much-to-be-admired Crichtoun perceiving to wipe off the imputation of cowardise lying upon the Court of Mantua to which he had but even then arrived although formerly he had been a domestick thereof he could neither eat nor drink till he had first sent a Challenge to the conqueror appelling him to repair with his best sword in his hand by nine of the clock in the morning of the next day in presence of the whole Court and in the same place where he had killed the other three to fight with him upon this quarrel that in the Court of Mantua there were as valiant men as he and for his better encouragement to the desired undertaking he assured him that to the aforesaid five hundred pistols he would adjoyn a thousand more wishing him to do the like that the Victor upon the point of his sword might carry away the richer booty The Challenge with all its conditions is no sooner accepted of the time and place mutually condescended upon kept accordingly and the fifteen hundred pistols hinc inde deposited but of the two Rapiers of equal weight length and goodness each taking one in presence of the Duke Dutchess with all the Noble-men Ladies Magnifico's and all the choicest of both men women and maids of that citie as soon as the signal for the Duel was given by the shot of a great Piece of Ordnance of threescore and four pound ball the two combatants with a lion-like animosity made their approach to one another and being within distance the valiant Crichtoun to make

Scotish Nation likewise wrote a great Latin book in folio of Chronology which is exceeding useful for such as in a short time would attaine to the knowledge of many histories Another Gordon also beyond sea penned several books of divinity in an excellent stile of Latin Of which kinde of books but more profoundly couched another Scot named Turneboll wrote a great many These four eminent Scots I have put together because they were societaries by the name of Jesus vulgarly called Jesuits some whereof are living as yet and none of those that are not dyed above fourteen yeers ago Methinks I were to blame should I in this nomenclature leave out Dempster who for his learning was famous over all Italy had made a learned addition to Rossinus and written several other excellent books in Lat in amongst which that which doth most highly recommend him to posterity is the work which he penned of five thousand illustrious Scots the last liver whereof as is related in the 64. page of this book dyed above fifty yeers since for which together with the other good parts wherewith he was endowed himself was truly illustrious Balfour a professor of Philosophy in Bourdeaux wrote an excellent book in Latine upon the morals so did another of the Scotish Nation named Donaldson upon the same very subject and that very accurately Primrose a Scotish man who was a preacher in French at Bourdeaux and afterwards became one of the three that preached in the French Church at London wrote several good books both in Latin and French Doctor Liddel penned an exquisite book of Physick and so did Doctor William Gordon and both in the Latine tongue which two Doctors were for their learning renownedover all Germany Pontaeus a Scotish man though bred most of his time in France by several writings of his obvious to the curious Reader gave no small testimony of his learning There was a professor of the Scotish Nation within these sixteen yeers in Somure who spoke Greek with as great ease as ever Cicero did Latine and could have expressed himself in it as well and as promptly as in any other Language yet the most of the Scotish Nation never having astricked themselves so much to the propriety of words as to the knowledge of things where there was one preceptor of Languages amongst them there were above forty professors of Philosophy nay to so high a pitch did the glory of the Scotish Nation attaine over all the parts of France and for so long time together continue in that obtained hight by vertue of an ascendant the French conceived the Scots to have above all Nations in matter of their subtlety in Philosophical disceptations that there hath not been till of late for these several ages together any Lord Gentleman or other in all that Country who being desirous to have his son instructed in the principles of Philosophy would intrust him to the discipline of any other then a Scotish Master of whom they were no less proud then Philip was of Aristotle or Tullius of Cratippus And if it occurred as very often it did that a pretender to a place in any French University having in his tenderer yeers been subferulary to some other kind of schooling should enter in competition with another aiming at the same charge and dignity whose learning flowed from a Caledonian source commonly the first was rejected and the other preferred education of youth in all grounds of literature under teachers of the Scotish nation being then held by all the inhabitants of France to have been attended caeteris paribus with greater proficiency then any other manner of breeding subordinate to the documents of those of another Country Nor are the French the only men have harboured this good opinion of the Scots in behalf of their inward abilitles but many times the Spaniards Italians Flemins Dutch Hungarians Sweds and Polonians have testified their being of the same mind by the promotions whereunto for their learning they in all those Nations at several times have attained Here nevertheless it is to be understood that neither these dispersedly-preferred Scots were all of one and the same Religion nor yet any one of them a Presbyterian Some of them were and are as yet Popish Prelates such as the Bishop of Vezon and Chalmers Bishop of Neems and Signor Georgio Con who wrote likewise some books in Latine was by his intimacy with Pope Vrban's Nephew Don Francesco Don Antonio and Don Tadaeo Barbarini and for his endeavoring to advance the Catholico-pontificial interest in great Britain to have been dignified with a Cardinals hat which by all appearance immediately after his departure from London he would have obtained as soon as he had come to Rome had death not prevented him by the way in the City of Genua but had he returned to this Island with it I doubt it would have proved ere now as fatal to him as another such like cap in Queen Maries time had done to his compatriot Cardinal Betoun By this as it is perceivable that all Scots are not Presbyterians nor yet all Scots Papists so would not I have the reputation of any learned man of the Scotish Nation to be buryed in oblivion because of his being of this or this or that or you or of that other Religion no more then if we should cease to give learning and moral vertues their due in the behalfe of pregnant and good spirits born and bred in several climates which to withhold from them whether Perisians Heteroscians or Amphiscians would prove very absurd to the humane ingenuity or ingenuous humanity of a true Cosmopolite For we see how the various aspect of the heavens in their asteristick and planetary influences according to the diversity of our sublunary situations disposeth the inclinations of the earths respective inhabitants differently whence as is said in the 56. page of this book The Spaniards are proud the French inconstant the Italians lascivious c. and every Nation almost in their humour not only discrepant from one another but each having some disorderly motion which another hath not makes the other to be possessed with some irregularity which the former wants We know the Hollanders are more penurious then the high Germans and they more intemperate then the Spaniards who againe are more lecherous then the Hollanders Now seeing ex malis moribus bonae oriuntur leges and that vices like diseases of the body must be cured by contraries it will cleerly follow there being vices contrary to other as well as vice to vertue that the Laws curbing thoses vices in the opposite extreams must needs be very dissonant from one another Do not we see that in Holland to play the Merchant is accounted honorable although it be thought disgraceful in high Germany for a gentleman to use anykind of traffick The Spaniard holds him worse then a beast that is at any time drunk yet the Dutch-man esteems him no good fellow that sometimes is not The

a number for how many soever that could have looked out but for one day like gentlemen and given him but one hundred and fifty pounds Sterlin without any need of a key●or opening the gate to enter through the Temple of Vertue which in former times was the only way to honour they had a scale from him whereby to ascend unto the platformes of Vertue which they treading underfoot did slight the ordinary passages and to take the more sudden possession of the Temple of honour went upon obscure by-paths of their own towards some secret Angiports and dark posterndoors which were so narrow that few of them could get in till they had left all their gallantry behind them yet such being their resolution that in they would and be worshipful upon any tearms they misregarded all formerly-used steps of promotion accounting them but unnecessary and most rudely rushing in unto the very Sanctuary they immediately hung out the Orange colours to testifie their conquest of the honour of Knight-Baronet Their King nevertheless not to staine his Royal dignity or to seem to merit the imputation of selling honor to his subjects did for their money give them land and that in so ample a measure that every one of his Knight-Baronets had for his hundred fifty pounds Sterlin heritably disponed unto him six thousand good and sufficient Acres of Nova Scotia ground which being but at the rate of six pence an Acre could not be thought very dear considering how prettily in the respective parchments of disposition they were bounded and designed fruitful corne-land watered with pleasant rivers running alongst most excellent and spacious Meadows nor did there want abundance of Oaken groves in the midst of very fertil plaines for if they wanted any thing it was the Scrivener or Writers fault for he gave order as soon as he received the three thousand Scots marks that there should be no defect of quantity or quality in measure or goodness of land and here and there most delicious gardens and orchards with whatever else could in matter of delightful-ground best content their fancies as if they had made purchase amongst them of the Elysian fieldes or Mahumets Paradise After this manner my Lord Sterlin for a while was very noble according to the rate of Sterlin money was as twelve other Lords in the matter of that frankness of disposition which not permitting him to dodge it upon inches ells better and worse made him not stand to give to each of his champions territories of the best and the most and although there should have happened a thousand Acres more to be put in the Charter or writing of disposition then was agreed upon at first he cared not half a piece to the Clerk was able to make him dispense with that But at last when he had inrolled some two or three hundred Knights who for their hundred and fifty peeces each had purchased amongst them several millions of Neocaledonian Acres confirmed to them and theirs for ever under the great seal the affixing whereof was to cost each of them but thirty peeces more finding that the society was not like to become any more numerous and that the ancient gentry of Scotland esteemed of such a whimsical dignity as of a disparagement rather then addition to their former honor he bethought himself of a course more profitable for himself and the future establishment of his own state in prosecuting whereof without the advice of his Knights who represented both his Houses of Parliament Clergy and all like an absolute King indeed disponed heritably to the French for a matter of five or six thousand pounds English money both the dominion and propriety of the whole continent of that kingdom of Nova Scotia leaving the new Baronets to search for land amongst the Selenits in the Moon or turn Knights of the Sun so dearly have they bought their Orange Riban which all circumstances considered is and will be no more honorable to them or their posterity then it is or hath been profitable to either What I have said here is not by way of digression but to very good purpose and pertinent to the subject in hand for as armes and arts commonly are paralleled and that Pallas goes armes with a Helmet I held it expedient lest the list of the Scholars set down in this place should in matter of preeminence be too far over-peered by the roll of the souldiers above recited that my Lord Sterlin should here represent the place of a King for the literatory part as well as there did the great uncircumcised Garne for the military and bring nova Scotia in competition with Bucharia Besides this Lord Alexander Drummon and Wishart have published very good Poems in English Nor is Master Ogilvy to be forgot whose translation of Virgil and of the fables of Aesop in very excellent English verses most evidently manifesteth that the perfection of the English tongue is not so narrowly confined but that it may extend it self beyond the natives on this side of Barwick I might have named some more Scotish Poets both in English and Latine but that besides as I often told I intend not to make a compleat enumeration of all there is a Latin book extant which passeth by the name of Deliciae poetarum Scotorum wherein the Reader may finde many even of those that have lived of late yeers whom I have here ommitted as I have done several other able men of the Scotish Nation in other faculties such as Master David Chalmers who in Italy penned a very good book and that in neat Latine treating of the Antiquities of Scotland and had it printed at Paris as also one Simson who wrote in Latine four exquisite books of Hieroglyphicks and one Hart in the City of London at this present who wrote the Fort royal of Scripture c. The excellency of Doctor William Davison in Alchymy above all the men now living in the world whereof by his wonderful experiments he giveth daily proof although his learned books published in the Latine tongue did not evidence it meriteth well to have his name recorded in this place and after him Doctor Leeth though in time before him designed in Paris where he lived by the name of Letu who as in the practise and theory of Medicine he excelled all the Doctors of France so in testimony of the approbation he had for his exquisiteness in that faculty he left behinde him the greatest estate of any of that profession then as the vast means possest by his sons and daughters there as yet can testifie Amongst those eminent Doctors of Physick I ought not to forget Doctor Fraser who was made Doctor at Toulouse with the universal approbation and applause of that famous University and afterwards succeeded to Doctor Jhonstoun's place of Physician in ordinary to the late King There is another Scotish gentleman likewise of the name of Wallace in France called Devalois who enjoyeth and hath so done these

many yeers the dignity of a prime counsellor of the Parlament of Grenoble the capital City of the Province of Dauphiné and is withal the chief favourite and the only trustee of the grand Mareshal de Criky Now as in this Heterogenean miscellany we have proceeded from the body to the purse that is Metonymically from the Physician to the Lawyer so after the same desultory method which may be well excused in this unpremeditated and almost extemporanean Treatise we may for the souls sake which in this later age so far as metaphors may with proper significations enter in competition hath been no less subject to poverty and diseases than any of the former two have another hint at some of our late Scotish Divines the first whereof and that prioritate dignitatis that to my memory presenteth himself is Doctor William Forbas principal once of the Colledge of New Aberdeen and afterwards made Bishop of Edenburgh who was so able a scholar that since the daies of Scotus subtiles there was never any that professed either Divinity or Philosophy in Scotland that in either of those faculties did parallel him He left Manuscripts of great learning behind him which as I am informed were bought at a good rate by Doctor Laud late Archbishop of Canterbury and primate of England Whose spiritual brother Spotteswood late Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Chancellor of Scotland was likewise endowed with a great deal of learning by means whereof although he wrote many good books yet that wherein he bestowed most pains was a large book in folio intituled The history of the Church of Scotland which I believe was never printed yet the Manuscript thereof written with Spotteswod's own hand I saw presented at Whitehall in the Lobby betwixt the little gallery and Privy Chamber now called the Admiralty Court by Maxwel late Bishop of Rosse to the late King who even then delivered it to his Secretary of State for Scotland William Earl of Lanerick by name who was the same Duke Hamiltouu of Hamiltoun that was killed at Worcester and only brother to James Duke by the same aforesaid title who two yeers before that lost his head at Westminster in the Palace-yard but what became of that Manuscript afterwards I cannot tell but this I know that the tenderer thereof upon his knees to his late Majesty as the gift of a deceased man for the Author dyed but the very day before Master John Maxwel by name was a very learned man and Author of some good books Yet lest the Readers humour should be inflamed with the mentioning of these three malignant prelates I must afford him for Antidote another Trinity of a contraryoperation all in one dose the ingredients wherof are Henderson Gillespick and Rutherford named Alexander George and Samuel all Masters truly and have been so to my knowledge these twelve yeers past which three have been or are for the first two of them are dead very able and learned men whose books nevertheless for they were all Authors I will in some things no otherwayes commend then Andraeas Rivetus professor of Leyden did the doctrine of Buchanan and Knox whose rashness in apologizing for them he ascribed prae fervido Scotorum ingenio ad audendum prompto Truly and without flattery be it spoken for I believe none that knows me will twit me with that vice the Nation of Scotland hath besides those I have here nominated produced several excellent spirits and that of late too whose abilities by the Presbyterian persecution and the indigence it hath brought upon them have been quite smothered and hid as a candle under a bushel Many learned books written in Scotland for want of able and skillful Printers and other necessaries requisite for works of such liberal undertaking have perished and sometimes after they are ready for the press if the Author in the interim happen to dy the wife and children for the most part like rats and mice that preferr the chest where the bread and cheese is kept to the coffer wherein is the silver and gold to save a little money make use of the aforesaid papers without any regard to the precious things contained in them to fold perhaps their butter and cheese into or to other less honorable employments So unfortunate a thing it is that either good spirits should be struck with penury or that their writings should fall into the hands of ignorants That poverty is an enemy to the exercise of vertue and that non facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat res angusta domi is not unknown to any acquainted with Plutocracy or the soveraign power of mony but if the great men of the land would be pleased to salve that sore which possibly would not be so expensive to them as either their hawks or hounds then peradventure would these ingenious blades sing out aloud and cheerfully with Martial Sunt Mecaenates non deerunt flacce Marones and it might very probably be and that in a short space that by such gallant incitements through a vertuous emulation who should most excell other Scotland would produce for Philosophy Astronomy Natural Magick Poesie and other such like faculties as able men as ever were Duns-Scotus Sacroboscus Reginaldus Scotus and other compatriots of these three Scots whose names I would not insert in the roll of the rest because they flourished before the yeer 1600. Now as I have not mentioned any Scotish man to praise him for eminent actions done by him either in the field or schoole preceding the yeer 1600. which if I had had a minde to do I would not have omitted the naming of the several Constables of France Admirals and Generals of Armies that have been of the Scotish Nation in the French service neither would I have forgot the high and honorable employments the Scots had of Charlemaine the first occidental Emperor nor the great exploits performed by the Scots under the conduct of Godfrey de Bullion in the Conquest of Jerusalem and afterwards under his successors in the kingdoms of Syria Antiochia and Egypt against the Saracens nor what was done by the Scots in defence of the territories of Spaine against the Moores and Aethiopians as also I would have spoken a little of the Dukes of Chasteau le roy and Dukes of Aubigny that were Scots and of Count Betun and Count de Mongomery who killed the King of France in tilting so is it that of all those I have named whether for Milice or Literature so far short I have faln in the number of the whole that not only hath the greatest part of them all been natives of the North of Scotland but hardly have both the South and West of that country produced the fifth part of them Such a fruitful Seminary hath that otherwayes obscure climate of the world proved in the affording of excellent spirits both sor armes and arts Whether what I have related here of the warriors and Scholars of the Scotish Nation that have