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

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

all means to have gotten Robert Stewart in his hands for he knew that next to King David his Title was best to the Crown Soon after King Edward prepared an Army both by Sea and Land to enter into Scotland but the most part of his Ships Perished in Forth The King returning with Balliol into England left Cumin Earle of Athol Governour who seized upon all the Lands pertaining to Robert Stewart and his Friends but Robert Stewart took the Castle of Dunne and killed all the Englishmen therein at this time the Earle of Murray came from France who together with Robert reduced much of the Country to the obedience of King David chasing the Governour and his Followers to the Mountains but the English entred with a great Army and though a great part of their Army was routed took Perth but their Fleet being harrast at Sea were forced to retreat and the rather in design of a French War but some of the Nobles still standing out the English landed in Murray and reduced all and leaving Balliol returned home the next year the English beseiged Dunbar and sent in two Parties under Talbot and Monford who were both routed yet the seige continued at last they were forced to raise the seige also having received great loss by the Valour of Robert Stewart Murray in the mean time dying Stewart was created Viceroy till Davids returne who having the first year gained some Victories did the next year take Perth Sterling and the Castle of Edenburgh the Scots gaining all their ground except Berwick In the year 1336. David resolves upon an expedition into England though much disswaded by his council Making John Randolph General himself going disguised Soon after a peace for two years was treated of which David would not accept without the consent of France whereupon marching as far as the County of Durham had his Army quite routed and himself taken Prisoner his Kingdom also in a manner Depopulated with the Plague by this time John of France was also made Prisoner in England the Scots after eleven years Captivity ransomed their King who at his returne punished some of those who had deserted him at Durham and endeavoured to remove the Succession of the Crown from Robert Stewart to whom he was some years after reconciled he spent the last five years of his Reign in composing Domestick feuds Queen Jane daughter to Edward the second of England dying he Marryed Margaret Logy Daughter to Sir John Logy then he purposed to have past to Jerusalem having provided all necessarys for his Voyage but he fell sick of a Feavour in the Castle of Edinburgh whereof he dyed in the fortyth year of his Reign without Succession and was buried in Holyrood-house 100. Robert Stewart the first King of that Name succeeded his mothers Brother A. D. 1378. A Valiant and worthy Prince he Married Eupham Daughter to the Earl of Ross who bare to him David Earl of Strathern Walter Earl of Athol Alexander Earl of Marr with several Daughters After her Death he marries Elizabeth Moor his own Concubine the better to Legitimate Children he had by her he honoured them with Titles and declared them his Successors two years after an Attempt is made upon Berwick and Sir John Lilbourn and 〈…〉 grave Captains of it taken 〈…〉 After this the Earl of Douglass came with twenty thousand Men to the Fair of Pennire within England spoiling all the Goods there but carried away the Pestilence with him whereof many dyed To revenge this the English came with a great Army over Solway destroying all before them mean while the Scots gathered together about five hundred Men. and lay in Ambush till the English returned back then with a sudden noise and Clamour as they passed by they set upon them forcing them back till many were drowned in Solway Not long after Edward King of England dyed whereupon the Duke of Lancaster came into Scotland intreating to have a Peace for three years which Peace being expired My Lord of Galloway laid siege to the Castle of Lochmaban and made himself Master of it defeating a strong party of English who were coming from Carlyle to it's relief King Richard fearing of it sent the Baron of Gray-stock with a Body of Men to fortifie Roxburgh who being within a mile of it he was taken by the Earl of March and carried to Dunbar the same year the strengths of Teviotdale were by the Earl of Douglas recovered out of the English hands soon after which he dyed His Son James succeeding to him went by the Kings Order with an Army into England whence he was presently after Counter-manded home where he found the Admiral of France with two hundred and forty Ships well Man'd come to their Assistance with them they passed into England and took the Castles of Warkford and Corwal And laying siege to Roxburgh and Carlyle the Scots and French could not agree in whose Names the strengths should be kept if they were won which brought the business to nothing Whereupon King Richard in revenge enters Scotland with a great Army and marching through the Mers and Louthian did much hurt But the Earls of Fife Douglas and Galloway followed him into England and secretly passing the Water of Solway came to Cokermouth where in three days time they spoiled the whole Country about and returned safely with great Booty In the year 1388. The King past again into England with an Army at which time the Irish taking their advantage entered Galloway destroying all before them Whereupon William the Lord of Galloways Son pursued them to Ireland and burnt the Town of Carlingfoord and finding sixty Ships in several Harbors loaded fifteen of them with the spoil of the Town and burnt the rest Returning home he spoiled the Isles of Man The next year the King of England sent an Army into Scotland which did much hurt in the Mers revenging this affront King Robert sent two Armies into England the one under the Command of the Earl of Fife entred Cumberland the other led by the Earls of Douglass and March entred Northumberland the two Armies met within two miles of Newcastle The Earl of Douglass chose out ten thousand Men to besiege Newcastle wherein was the Earl of Northumberland with his two Sons Henry Hotspur and Ralph Henry Challenged the Earl of Douglass to fight with him which Douglass accepted off so being mounted upon two starely Horses they assaulted one another desperately at last Douglass beat Peircy out of his Saddle but he was presently rescued and brought into the Town Immediately Douglass assaulted the Town but it was so well defended by the English that he was forced to retire and encamp at Otterburn whither Henry Peircy immediately followed there they fought a bloody Battel until the darkness of the Night parted them but when the Moon began to appear they joyned again with more Fierceness than before Victory inclining sometime to one side and sometimes to another till at last Patrick