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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75479	The antiquity of Englands superiority over Scotland. And the equity of incorporating Scotland, or other conquered nation, into the Commonwealth of England. With parallels to our former transactions with Wales, and Ireland. And illustrations out of the Scottish, English, Jewish, Grecian, Assyrian, and Roman histories. / By a well-wisher to this commonwealth.	Well-wisher to this commonwealth.	1652 (1652)	Wing A3508; Thomason E668_17; ESTC R206979	3,067	8

THE ANTIQUITY OF ENGLANDS Superiority over SCOTLAND AND The Equity of Incorporating Scotland or other Conquered Nation into the Commonwealth of ENGLAND WITH Parallels to our former Transactions with WALES and IRELAND AND Illustrations out of the Scottish English Jewish Grecian Assyrian and Roman Histories By a Well-wisher to this Commonwealth LONDON Printed by R. Ibbitson 1652. June .28 The Antiquity of the Superiority of England over Scotland THat Scotland was anciently an Appendix Province or subjected state to England appeareth thus 1 Wee finde in Marianus a Scotch Writer his History that before the Conquest Edward the sonne of King Alured had the King of Scots under his obedience as the said Marianus confesseth 2 After him Athelstan King of England disposed of the Crowne of Scotland to one Constantine 3 Some foure and twenty years after King Eldred tooke homage of the King of Scots 4 After thirty yeers more King Edgar received homage from Kinabe King of Scots 5 About the yeer of our Lord Christ 1018. Malcolm King of Scotland did homage to King Canutus 6 About the yeer 1056. King Edward the Confessor deposed the said Malcolm King of Scots and put his sonne Malcolm into his fathers Throne from whom the said King Edward received homage 7 There was another Malcolm that did homage to William the Conquerour 8 As also the same Malcolm did the like homage to William Rufus 9 About seven yeers after Edgar King of Scotland did homage to our Henry the first 10 The like did David King of Scots to our King Stephen 11 Also William King of Scots did homage to our Henry the second 12 And after the same William came into England as far as Canterbury to doe homage to Richard the first 13 And after that neer to Lincoln to performe homage to King John 14 Homage was done to our Henry the third by Alexander King of Scots 15 And Alexander the sonne of the said Alexander did homage to our Edward the first 16 After him John Baliol King of Scots did homage to the same Edward the first 17 In Edward the seconds time it was omitted by reason of the civill broyles and infirmities of Edward the second but to Edward the third was homage againe paid by Edward Baliol King of Scots upon whom he bestowed the Kingdome of Scotland as a gift After him the Civil wars of England coming on and our Nation being taken up with contests about Title at home it had little list or leasure to make good the homage due from Scotland and our Title to it And thus you see what right wee have had of old to Scotland which right now descends to the people of England in whose right alone our Kings held all they possessed and is now more firme then ever being recovered againe by a totall conquest of the sword The Equity of Incorporating Scotland or other Conquered Nation into the Commonwealth of England HAving seen the right of England to their Superiority over Scotland And having now attained jus inre as well as jus ad rem a full possession of what wee have a right to the next Vertue to our Valour is our prudence to keep what we have won There are but two wayes chiefly of holding and maintaining of a Conquest over a neighbour Nation 1 Either by a powerfull restraint and constraint under the Superiority of the Conquerour the said conquered as a distinct Nation 2 Or by an amicable invitation of the conquered unto an Integration and Incorporation into the Respublick of the Conqueror so as to sit and vote with that conquering Commonweale in their Law-making and paramount Assemblies or Representatives Some have conceived that by reason it is generally suspected that the Scots have been formerly for many generations complexionated and as it were naturalized into an inveterate and strong Antipathy against the English the onely way were to retaine them under force as a subjugated people to England But first against this wee must ballance two great attempt that must necessarily concur to that course which though very feisable for the power of England yet too unbecoming and unseemly if not unrighteous and irreligious in the eyes of so ingenuous candid and pious a Conquerour as England is and have all along shewed themselves For wee cannot well hold a conquered people under force as a distinct Nation unlesse wee should first drive away their contrary minded Ministers Secondly Extirpate their Grandees in interest with the people The non-doing of which two hath made it so difficult as some have conceived for England formerly to hold Scotland as a distinct Nation in subjection to England and so troublesome and chargeable to hold Ireland to their duty to England And therefore this course did the harsh Heathen Assyrian conquerours take with the Jewes in their severall captivities carrying away all their Ministers and secular men of note for the generall quite from their own Country Secondly if a Conquerour should dare to doe both those yet would it bee almost impossible without infinite expence and labour to retaine a conquered Nation under force because as long as you so keep them as a separate and distinct Nation severed in point of common interest and priviledge so long also occasion is represented and ministred unto them as before their eyes freshly and affectionately to remember their old condition and to revive their Antipathy either to an anti-acting to the utmost as oft as opportunity opens it self or to a sluggish non-acting for the peace and welfare of the Mistresse Commonweale The Greeks found this true of the Jews in the wars of the Maccabees And so did the Romans in the oft insurrections of the Jews in the time of Vespasian and Adrian and Constantine the Roman Emperours The Romans therefore learning this experience of the Jewes as also of their neerer neighbours whom they subdued namely the Albans Vosscians Tusculans Urians Sabins and Hernicaus after they had subdcued the said neer neighbours in Civitatem saith Cicero receperun● t●at is they admitted them into the Roman priviledge as if they had been all one and the same City By which meanes onely they immediately enlarged at once the bounds of their Territory and Government which at first reaching but fifteen miles beyond their wals in so short a space fixt were at to great a distance enlarged as to comprise all that which we now call Italy All Historians especially Livy and his Commentatours applaud this as a most prudent course of the Romans to be imitated by all the world upon the same occasion of Conquest made upon a neighbour inhabiting the same terra firma or continent lying next the Conquerour without a maine sea subdividing them at an inconvenient distance For instance even at home almost at our doors in Wales though all the great ones were extinct yet wee had much adoe to hold it yea we could not hold it with peace or profit against the common people till they were incorporated with us For though Edward the first was so kinde to them as to summon them to our Parliament where they had liberty to vote so as it was onely in order to the interest of their owne Country yet because their votes extended no further they never tooke it as a courtesie but contrariwise that liberty of voting upon a separate and distinct interest gave in●o their mindes still to remember they were once a distinct Nation upon which score they ever flew out into ●ebellion till it quitted the notion of a distinct Nation or Province and was incorporated with us by Henry the eight made a member and brought under the same fundamentall Law with England Since which time all Antipathies and Emulations have by this meanes been buried in oblivion But yet it may be that the incorporating of a conquered neighbour Nation may not bee done hastily if wee will have it solid And therefore these two rules are to be observed 1 After the example of the Romans thus far to extinguish the great families as to their interest and power in and over the common people The reason is plaine because these are the onely available incendiaries of the common sort and will be the last that will sorget their old condition 2 According to the patterne of the Romans to admit the conquered by degrees unto an incorporation as a triall whether the Commonalty will meetly settle if so well But if the great spirits meane while grow impatient and draw parties into fresh commotions they will give new occasion of laying them lower more stript of power and estate and to further punish their adherents Which additional smart being uneasier then the former and sinking them into deeper despaire of delivering themselves they will with open armes and thankfull hearts imbrace so high a favour as to be received into a participation of interest and immunities with their Conquerours and will as Wales did soon forget those deadly feudes and sodder into amity as if all of one blood FINIS