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A45001	The grounds & reasons of monarchy considered in a review of the Scotch story, gathered out their best authours and records / by J.H.	Hall, John, 1627-1656.	1650 (1650)	Wing H346; ESTC R16160	36,146	138

is the intrinsical value and expediency of this Government and some little comparison with others but herein we shall be short and onely so far as concerns this And indeed it is a businesse so ticklish that even Mr. Hobs in his de Cive though he assured himself that the rest of his Book which is principally erected to the assertion of Monarchy is demonstrated yet he doubts whether the Arguments which he brings to this businesse be so firm or no And Malvezzi contrarily remonstrates in his discourses upon Tacitus that Optimacies are clearly better then Monarchies as to all advantages And indeed if we look on their Arguments they are either Flourishes or meerly Conceptions such are the reference and perfection of an Unity which must needs work better and more naturally as one simple cause besides that it stills and restrains all other claims then many co-ordinate whereas they never consider that though among many joynt Causes there may be some jarring yet like crosse wheels in an Engine they tend to the regulation of the whole What violent mischiefs are brought in by the contentions of Pretenders Ambiguities of Titles and lawlesse ambition of Aspirers whereas in a setled Republick all this is clear and in case any particular man aspire they know whom to joyn against and punish as a Common Enemy As for that which alledges the advantage of secresie in businesse it carries not much with it in regard that under that even most pernicious designs may be carryed on and for wholsome counsels Bating some more nice Transactions it matters not how much they be tost among those who are so much entrusted and concerned in them all crosse Designs being never in probability so feeble and ineffectuall as when there are many eyes to over look them and voyces to decry them As for that expedition in which they say Monarchs are so happy it may as well further a bad intention as give effect to a just Councell it depending on the judgement of a single man to whose will and ends all must refer whereas a select number of Entrusted persons may hasten every opportunity with a just slownesse as well as they though indeed unlesse it be in some Military Criticall minuts I see not such an excellency in the swiftnesse of heady dispatch precipitation in Councels being so dangerous and Ominous As for what concerns private Suitors they may as if not more speedily and effectually be answered in staid Re-publicks as in the Court of a King where Bribery and unworthy Favourites do not what is just but what is desired With these and many others as considerable which partly willingly and partly in this penury of Books forgettingly I passe do they intend to strengthen this fantasticall and airie building but as sly Controverters many times leave out the principall Text or Argument because should it be produced it could not be so easily answered so these men tell us all the advantages of Monarchy supposing them still well setled and under men virtuous but you shall never hear them talk of it in Statu corrupto under lewd Kings and unsetled Laws they never let fall a word of the dangers of Inter-reigns the minorities and vices of Princes Misgovernments evil Councels Ambitions Ambiguities of Titles and the Animosities and Calamities that follow them the necessary Injustices and Oppressions by which Monarchs using the peoples wealth and bloud against them hold them fast in their seats and by some suspension of Divine Justice die not violently Whereas other Governments established against all these evils being ever of vigour and just age setled in their own right freed from pretences served by experienced and engaged Councels and as nothing under the Moon is perfect sometimes gaining and advantag'd in their Controversies which have not seldome as we may see in old Rome brought forth good Laws and Augmentations of Freedome whereas once declining from their purity and vigour and which is the effect of that ravisht by an Invader they languish in a brutish servitude Monarchy being truly a disease of Government and like Slaves stupid with harshnesse and continuance of Slavery wax old under it till they either arrive at that period which God prescribes to all people and Governments or else better Stars and Nephews awaken them out of that Lethargy and restore them to their Pristine Liberty and its Daughter happinesse But this is but to converse in Notions wandring and ill abstract from things let us now descend into practicall observation and clearly manifest out of the whole Series of Time and Actions what circumstances and events have either ushered or dog'd one race of Kings That if there were all the justice in the world that the Government of a Nation should be entailed upon one Family yet certainly we could not grant it to such an one whose Criminall lives and formidable deaths have been evidences of Gods wrath upon it for so many Generations And since no Countrey that I know yields such an illustrious example of this as Scotland does and it may be a charity to bring into the way such as are misled I have pitched upon the Scottish History wherein as I have onely consulted their own Authours as my fittest witnesses in this case So have I not as a just History but as far as concerns this purpose faithfully and as far as the thing would permit without glosses represented it so that any calm understanding may deduce that the vengeance which at the present is levell'd against the Nation is but an attendant of this new introduc'd Person and that he himself though for the present he seems a Clog among his Frogs and suffer them to play about him yet God will suffer him if the English Army prevent not to turn Stork and devour them while their cries shall not be heard as those that in dispight of the warning of Providence and light of their own reasons for their own corrupt Interest greedy Ambition brought these miseries upon themselves THE INSTANCE Out of the Scottish History Which is the Second Part. ANd now we come to our main businesse which is the review of Story wherein we may find such a direct and uninterrupted Series such mutuall Endearments between Prince and People and so many of them crowned with happy Reigns and quiet Deaths two together scarce dying naturally that we may conclude that they have not onely the most reason but a great deal of excellent Interest who Espouse the Person and Quarrell of the hopefull descendant of such a Family nor shall we be so injurious to the glory of a Nation proud with a Catalogue of Names and Kings as to expunge a great part of their number though some who have done it affirm There can be no probability that they had any other being then what Hector Boyes and the black Book of Pasley out of which Buchanan had most of his materials bestow on them there being no mention of the name of Scot in any Authentick

Scots and agreed that Fergus whose Uncle the last King was being then in banishment and of a Militari breeding and inclination should be chosen King with him the Danes maintained a long War with the Romanes and pulled down the Picts wall at last he and the King of Picts were in one day slain in a battell against them This mans access to Government was strange ignotus Rex ab ignoto populo accersitus and may be thought temerarious he having no Land for his People and the Roman Name inimicall yet founded he a Monarchy there having been Kings ever since and we are to note this is the first man that the sounder writers will allow to be reall and not fabulous Him succeded his son Engenius whose Grandfather Grahame had all the power a Warlike Prince whom some say slain some dead of a disease After him his Brother Dongard who after the spending of five superstitious years left the Crown as they call it to his youngest Brother Constantine who from a good private man turned a lew Prince and was slain by a Nobleman whose daughter he had ravished he was succeeded by Congall Constantines son who came a tolerable good Prince to a loose people and having spent some two and twenty years in slight excursions against the Saxons left the rule to his Brother Goran who notwithstanding he made a good League against the Brittains which much conduced to his and the Peoples settlement yet they in requital after thirty four years made away with him which brought in Eugenius the third of that name the son of Congall who was strongly suspected to have a hand in his death insomuch that Gorans widow was forced to flie into Ireland with her children This man in thirty three years time did nothing but Reign and make short incursions upon the Borders he left the rule to his Brother Congall a Monastical Superstitious and unactive Prince who Reigned ten years Kynnatell his Brother was designed for Successor but Aydan the son of Goran laid his claime but was content to suspend in respect of the age and diseases of Kynnatell which after fourteen moneths took him out of the world and cleared the Controversie and Aydan by the consent of Columba a Priest that Governed all in those dayes came to be King a man that after thirty four years turbulently spent being beaten by the Saxons and struck with the death of Columba dyed of grief After him was chosen Kenneth who hath left nothing behinde him but his name Then came Eugenius the fourth son of Aydan so irregular is the Scots succession that we see it inverted by usurpation or cross elections in every two or three Generations this man left an ambiguous fame for Hector sayes he was peaceable the Manuscript implacably severe he Reigned sixteen years and left his sonne Ferchard Successour who endeavouring to heighten the Prerogative by the dissentions of the Nobility was on the contrary impeached by them and called to an account which he denying was clapt in Prison where he himself saved the Executioner a labour So that his Brother Donald succeeded who being taken up with the Piety of those dayes left nothing memorable save that he in Person interpreted Scots Sermons unto the Saxons He was followed by his Nephew Ferchard sonne of the first of that name a thing like a King in nothing but his exorbitancies who in hunting was wounded by a Wolf which cast him into a Feaver wherein he not observing the imposed Temperance brought upon himself the lowsie disease upon which discomforted he was by the perswasion of Colman a Religious man brought out in his bed covered with Hair-cloth where he made a publick acknowledgement to the People and soon after died Maldwin Donalds son followed who after a twenty years ignoble Reign was strangled by his Wife Eugenius the Fift succeed son they say of King Dongard though the Chronologie seem to refute it This man spent five years in slight incursions and was succeeded by Eugenius the Sixt son of Ferchard This man is famous for a little learning as the times went and the prodigie of raining of bloud seven dayes all Lacticinia turning into bloud Amberkelleth nephew to Eugenius the Fift succeeded this rude Prince while he was discharging the burden of Nature was slain by an arrow from an unknown hand Eugenius the Seventh followed who being attempted by Conspiratours had his new-married Wife slain in bed beside him for which he being accused produced the murderers before his triall and was acquitted and so ended the rest of his 17. years in peace recommending unto the People Mordack son of Amberkelleth who continuing a blank raigne or it may be a happy one in regard it was peaceable left it to Etfyn son of Eugenius the seventh the first part of his reigne was peaceable but Age obliging him to put the Government into the hands of four of his servants it hapned to him as it doth to other Princes whose fortunes decay commonly with their strength that it was very unhappy and turbulent Which miseries Eugenius the Eighth son of Mordack restrained but he it seems having a nature fitter to appease tumults then to enjoy rest at the first enjoyment of peace broke into such lewdnesse that the Nobility at a meeting stabb'd him and made way for Fergus the sonne of Etfyn one like his Predecessour in manner death and continuance of reigne which was three years the onely dissimilitude was that the latter's Wife brought his death for which others being impeached she stept in and confessed it and to elude punishment punished her self with a knife Soluath son of Eugenius the Eighth followed him who though his gout made him of lesse Action yet it made his prudence more visible and himself not illaudable his death brought in Achaius the son of Etfyn whose reign was innobled with an Irish War and many learned men besides the assistance lent Hungus to fight against the Northumbrians whom he beat in famous battell which if I may mention the matter was presignified to Hungus in a dream Saint Andrew appearing to him and assuring him of it and in the time of the battell a white Crosse that which the Heraulds call a Saltier and we see commonly in the Scots Banners appeared in the Sky and this I think to have been the occasion of that bearing and an order of Knights of Saint Andrew sometimes in reputation in Scotland but extinguished for ought I can perceive before the time of James the Sixth though the Collar and Pendent of it are at this day worn about the Scots Arms To this man Congal his Cousin succeeded who left nothing behind him but five years to stretch out the account of time Dongal the son of Soluath came next who being of a nature fierce and insupportable there was an endeavour to set up Alpine son of Achaius which designe by Alpine himself was frustrated which made the King willinger to assist Alpine in his pretension to the Kingdome