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A50442	The antiquity of the royal line of Scotland farther cleared and defended, against the exceptions lately offer'd by Dr. Stillingfleet, in his vindication of the Bishop of St. Asaph by Sir George Mackenzie ...	Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.	1686 (1686)	Wing M150; ESTC R11636	78,633	233

THE ANTIQUITY OF THE Royal Line OF SCOTLAND Farther Cleared and Defended Against the Exceptions lately offer'd by Dr. STILLINGFLEET In his Vindication of the Bishop of St. ASAPH By Sir George Mackenzie His Majesty's Advocate for the Kingdom of SCOTLAND LICENSED Nov. 2. 1685. Ro. L'Estrange LONDON Printed for Ioseph Hindmarsh at the Golden-Ball against the Royal Exchange 1686. TO THE KING SIR IT is not my practice to plead any thing for your Majesty with zeal untill I find it a matter of some importance and my self likewise convinced that I cannot answer my own Arguments By this rule when I first saw the Bishop of St. Asaph's Book I took some pains to persuade my self that it contain'd nothing prejudicial to that right of precedency which is due to your Royal Race as the most Ancient Monarchy which we know But finding that there was no way to secure this precedency to the Royal Family against those consequences which necessarily arose from his Positions I thought it my duty at that time to answer his Lordship's Book as I do now Dr. Stillingfleet's especially since they in overturning the ancient settlement of the Royal Line in Scotland destroy one of the great Foundations whereby your Majesty's Grandfather your Father and your Last Parliament have farther engag'd and encourag'd the Loyalty of this your Ancient Kingdom Wherefore Sir these Reverend Divines will now I hope hold me excus'd in regard that I pleaded first for them with my self before I pleaded against them for your Majesty And if I could have found any man to have satisfied me as to the inconveniences arising to the Crown in these Points I had never printed that Book in defence of the Royal Family and of my Native Country But now humbly to satisfy your Majesty as to the dangerousness of these Positions even supposing the Authours innocent of any ill design as I am apt to think they are and to convince them how impartial I am upon any National Account I beg leave to mind your Sacred Majesty that some of our Own Historians having erred with as little ill design as they touching the Succession of King Robert the Second An Argument was drawn from it in favour of Bastards and was much boasted of by the Enemies of the true Royal Line and thereupon I did to the satisfaction of all indifferent men refute our own Historians in that Point as I hope I do now these Gentlemen in the Points controverted Scarce any thing Sir can be thought inconsiderable wherein a Crown is concern'd or any consequence so remote but should be adverted to in a Season when a long Rebellion has so far debaucht the Inclinations of too many of your Majesty's Subjects But certainly nothing can be thought inconsiderable which Kings and Parliaments have judg'd so usefull for establishing the precedence of the Sovereign and for confirming the Affection and Loyalty of the Subject And the Doctor 's way of telling us in place of all other defence that the Irish carry up the Royal Line within six degrees of Japhet and so we shorten it is not serious enough in a Subject we ought to treat of with veneration since the Doctor in the same Book does but make himself merry with Offlahertie the Assertor of this pretended Antiquity Sir the agreement of Men of different Professions almost at the same time against the Royal Line is very remarkable some endeavouring by their Swords to cut it short at that end which lay next to them Whilst others by their Pens have undertaken what derogates from its glory by lopping off its remoter end which I 'm sure lay far out of their way And I wish that as your Majesty has most successfully defeated the one by your Victorious Arms so I may be so happy in your prudent Reign as to contribute somewhat to disappoint the other by what I have said in vindication of its Antiquity Sir The dutifull inclination I have to serve your Majesty is I confess much heightned by the Royal Obligations you have been pleased to lay upon our Nation not onely in your gratious protection of it but in the glory you have added to that Royal Family under which we have been so long happy Your Majesty owes your success next to that mercifull and miraculous providence which still attends your Sacred Person and Family to your own wise Conduct and to the great Iustice of your Cause and not to your Councils or Servants though it is your Majesty's goodness to be as kind to them as if you did And therefore Sir I am so far from valuing my self upon any success I may or can pretend to have in pleading for your Majesty either in Print or at the Bar that I shall still ascribe whatever advantages I may gain that way to the Iustice of your Majesty's Cause without arrogating any part of it to my own Skill or Eloquence And now your Majesty having by your own Royal Influence and the Prudence of your proper Conduct overturn'd in so short a time all the Designs of a Rebellion so deeply rooted And by your gentleness and clemency overcome the obstinacy of your most inveterate Enemies which is by far the more wonderfull Victory thereby contracting into one year the glories of a long Reign I can never have the vanity to imagine your Majesty should yet any way need the mean assistence of Sir Your Majesty's most Dutifull Loyal and Obedient Subject and Servant George Mackenzie THE CONTENTS CHAP. I. THE King's Advocat in duty bound to defend the Antiquity of the Royal Line This debate as it was unnecessarily started so it 's unwarrantably continued The Authour's Answers to Buchanan's Jus Regni clear'd and defended CHAP. II. That the Scots were placed here before the Tear 503. CHAP. III. What the Bishop of St. Asaph and Dr. Stillingfleet say against our Histories from Fergus the First examined CHAP. IV. Our Authours vindicated in the accounts they give of the Genealogy of our Kings CHAP. V. The Irish Genealogy of our Kings compared with the Accounts given by the Chronicle of Melross and both compared with the Genealogies contained in our Histories with a full proof that our Historians are to be preferred to the Irish Annals as to this point Ogygia examin'd The Antiquity of the Royal Line of Scotland farther cleared and defended against the Exceptions lately offered by Dr. Stillingfleet in his Vindication of the Bishop of St. Asaph CHAP. I. KING Iames having in his Basilicon Doron p. 201. founded his Royal Prerogative upon King Fergus's having made himself King and Lord as well of the whole Lands as of the Inhabitants of Scotland and King Charles the First having in a Letter to his Parliament An. 1641. founded that kindness which he expected from the Scots upon this that they and their Predecessours were Sworn to maintain that Race of their Kings which he now represented after 108 Descents I leave it to all indifferent men if I as King's