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A86615	Bella Scot-Anglica. A brief of all the battells, and martiall encounters which have happened 'twixt England and Scotland, from all times to the present. VVherunto is annexed a corollary, declaring the causes whereby the Scot is come of late years to be so heightned in his spirits; with some prophecies which are much cryed up, as reflecting upon the fate of both nations.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing H3056; Thomason E435_25; ESTC R15335	15,099	23

and 60. sayle with furniture to arme 10000. men more King Richard musters up an Army worthy of a King and rusheth into Scotland like a whirle-wind as farre as Dondee and neither Scot or French appeared to make oppos●tion The Scots as the French annales say not symbolizing with the humour of the French grew weary of them and casheered them but they kept Jean de Viene the great Admirall prisoner in a manner untill the French king had payed his ransome which he did otherwise his Admirall might have laine at dead anchor there all his life-time But being returned to France lest he should seem to shew no fruits at all of his voyage he informs the King that hee had pried into the uttermost intrinsique strength both of Scotland and England and found that Scotland was able to put in the field about 30000 men and 5000. horse and England 60000. foot and 8000. horse This relation induced Charles the frantique to attempt the invasion of England the yeare following with a formidable Army and Fleet which was to make sayle from the Sluce and for Land-forces far exceeded the invincible Armada of the yeare 88. But the Admirals account was found false and to have reckoned much without his host for as the French Historians report King Richard had levied neere upon 100000. Foot and 20000. Horse HENRY the fourth IN Hen. the fourth's time the tumultuous Scot stirs againe and pillers about the Marches at last he composeth the body of an Army whom Hen. Hotspurre encountred and kil'd more enemies then he had men in his own Army Sir Robert Umphreyvile being Vice-Admirall takes 14. great ships laden with corn together with the great Galeon of Scotland hard by Lith which so abated the price of corn that hee was commonly called Sir Rob. Mend market A little after the young Prince of Wales hurld himselfe seven daies march into Scotland and did what he would HENRY the fift HEnry the fift that man of men and mirrour of chivalrie and the strangest Convert that ever was being come to the Crown he falls like a Politician to worke in erecting Forts on the frontiers of Scotland which he did without controule After he took the young King James the first prisoner in a very hot incounter and carried him up and down with him in the French warres HENRY the sixt HEnry the sixt for some gallant parts in the aforesaid young King James the first of Scotland married him to the Lady lane Daughter to the Earle of Somerset his Neece But he proved afterwards hatefully ingratefull and perfidious to King Henry banding all his main forces against him but he was shamefully repell'd and beaten by Sir Ralph Gray and the Knights of the North EDVVARD the fourth ANd no lesse ingratefull and treacherous was Iames the third in Edward the fourths time who desiring in mariage Cicilia the Kings daughter it was condescended unto so farre that he had part of her portion advanc'd him yet he fell to acts of hostility and frames an Army which the Duke of Glocester with 15000 men ill favourdly beat though they were twice more in number and got Berwicke againe HENRY the seventh NOw come I to that great Magus of his dayes Henry the seventh who was said to be hanted with walking spirits Simuell Warbecke and Perkins whom hee chased away by sprinkling of bloud The Scots entertained Warbecke though they knew him to be an Impostor and raised an Army for him The Earle of Surry and Bishop Foxe were sent against it who drive the King and Warbecke with the whole Army before them six dayes march into the Country at last the Scots King sent a defiance for a battell which being to be fought the next day the Scot steales away the night before in a silent march Hereupon a Peace was concluded provided that Warbecke should bee banished Scotland whom notwithstonding they furnished with ships to goe to try his fortune with the Cornish Rebels HENRY the eight ANd now come I to the glory of his dayes especially two thirds of them Henry the 8. for never did Prince rise with a greater lustre in Englands hemispheare and set in a darker clowd And being extreamly busied in the warres of France who should disturb him but his own brothervin-law Iames the fourth excited by the French who contributed great summes of money towards the support of the warre The King sends presently from France to the Earle of Surry to make head against them At first the Earle sent Sir VVilliam Bullmer with 200. Archers upon the borders to observe their motion The Lord Humes entreth with 8000. men and as he thought to returne with his booty Sir VVilliam Bulmer having reinforced his 200 to 1000. fell upon the 8000. Scots with that fury that he kil'd 500. took so many prisoners and intercepted the whole booty This made the young Kings blood boyle within him for revenge and composing a royall Army of the utmost strength of Scotland went in the head thereof himselfe The Earle of Surry was not idle but raised an Army of 26000 men and his son then Admirall came to him from Newcastle with 1000. old Sea souldiers The two Amies met in Flodden where after many hot incounters victory fluttered a long while with doubtfull wings at last the King himselfe with the Archb. of St. Andrews his brother were slain with 12. Earles and 14. Barrons and 12000 Gentlemen and others and there fell of the English but 1500. only nor could the Scots rescue the body of their King but to mend the matter a little gave out it was not the Kings body but one Elfinston attired like to him to encourage the Army But afterwards though they acknowledged it was his body yet would not Henry the 8 permit him to have the due rites of Princely buriall because he had so perjuriously violated his faith with him Some few years after the Duke of Albany rays'd an Army but he was prevented to do any hurt by the Lord Roos and Dacres who made Bonefires of above 80. Villages without seeing the face of an enemy No sooner were they returned but newes came that the Duke of Albany had by this time in perfect equipage an Army of 30000. men Hereupon the Lord Treasurer and Admirall were sent to finde him out but both Armies being come to sight of each other the Scots not enduring well the countenance of the English Forces ran away and shamefully disbanded so that if the Lord Generall had had then commission ample enough they might have given a fatall blow to Scotland as they themselves confessed but by the intercession of the Queen Dowager Hen. the eights sister they obtained truce After this King Hen. condiscended to meet Iames the fift at York but he fayled sending certain Commissioners and so cunning was the Scot that their Commission and private instructions looked two wayes and as they were treating tydings came that the Scots had rushed into and rifled the Marches most barbarously Hereupon

he held there And for caution brought the King himselfe along with him leaving the Earle of Surrey Warden of Scotland Not long after the Scots revolted againe notwithstanding their King was in England having one Wallie for their ring-leader who did much mischiefe on the frontiers And their insolency grew to that hight that besides their inrodes they began to rhime upon him What this Edward with his land shanks But he payed them for their rhiming with a vengeance He goeth againe in person and at ●●nkirk battaile kild out right 200. of their Nobles and Gentry with 40. thousand common Souldiers Then he summons a Parliament at Edenburgh where all the Nobles sweare him fealty againe He carrieth away the Ragman roll the blacke crosse and the stone wherein they say the fate of their Kingdome is fixed Then was there offer'd a third provocation when le Bruce was crowned King of Scotland The Earle of Pembrooke was sent against him who utterly defeated him at Iohnston Hereupon le Bruce flyeth to the Popes pantofle making him Lord Paramount of Scotland which moved King Edward notwithstanding the menaces and fulminations of the Pope who wished him to forbeare the Scots because they were an exempt nation belonging to the Roman Chappell to make a fourth expedition thither where he constrained le Bruce to fly to Norway where he blew on his nayles while K. Edward lived And so eager was this great King in pursuite of this action that falling sickly upon the way He said If I die before I enter Scotland I charge you to go on couragiously and carry my body round about the Country but it pleased God to reprieve him untill he had done his businesse himselfe EDVVARD the second BUt here comes a cooling-card for the English Edward the second whose greatest honor was to be son to a Peerles father and father to an incomparable son Rosa spinam spina rosam genuit In his time all went to wrack especially in Scotland At Bannocks battaile Gilbert de clare Earle of Glocester and 40 Barons more with 700 Knights and Gentlemen and as some stories record above 40000. more were slaine Which defeat was imputed principally to the ill choice of ground the English had taken The Scots had behind them rocks hills and woods to fly into if necessity required before them loughs and moores that the assailant could not march further Adde hereunto the pusillanimity of the King and the spirits of men are much raysed by their leader who was sayd to fly first and better it is for a lion to lead sheepe then for a sheepe to lead a company of lions The Scots hereupon were so agog that they enter Ireland with an Army under the conduct of Edward Bruce the Kings brother who landing at Karig Fergus ransack'd all the North parts where he tooke such firme footing that he proclaym'd himselfe King of Ireland though he had onely over-ranne Ulster At which time there was such a direfull famine that in some places of Ireland dead bodies were digged up and their flesh boyled in their sculls to be eaten as the story tells But two yeares after Sir Io. Bremingham then chiefe Justice with the Archbishop of Armagh went with such a power against this upstart King that at Dundalke they got a most compleat victory one Manpas as it seemed having kild the King hand to hand for both their dead bodies were found together and Manpas covering the Kings body In England another Army was sent against the Scots called the Yorke Army which was also overthrowne at Milton upon Swayle Nevertheles the King would venture once more in Person and with a numerous Army invaded Scotland The Scots fly into the woods and places of fastnes And for want of provision in that hungry country the English were forced to retire but in the retraict they were so pursued that they lost all their ammunition which was attributed to the treason of Sir Andrew Harkley But your criticall Annalists ascribe it to the poverty of spirit in the royall head who being become hatefull to God and man first for perjury by infringing the oath he made to his Barons then by disobedience to his father who in his death bed charged him upon his blessing to abandon Piers Gaveston whom nevertheless he still doted upon with the Spencers by whose counsels hee guided himselfe And it was alwaies seen that Princes of an ill destiny follow the worst counsells EDVVARD the third BUt here comes a spirit who will soundly vindicate his fathers affronts Edward the third a Prince that was the soonest a man and the longest that lasted so of any in the whole catalogue of English Kings yet being but young when the Diadem first begirt his temples after an encounter at Stanhope Park where great multitudes of Scots appeared but vanished away like meteors skulking in woods and mountains In the Parliament held at Northampton the King of Scotland was released of his homage But some years after when the young King began to understand himself hee sent an army with Balioll whom he caused to be crowned at Scone And afterwards there was a Battell fought at Hallidowne where the English made the Scots a bridge of gold to fly over for they betook themselves all to their heeles King Balioll being thus restored Scotland became feuditary to England againe But a few years after king Ed. being deeply engag'd in his French wars and thinking Hoc agere the Scots presuming his absence would prove advantagious to them make cursorie sallies out of Scotland and plunder all before them in the North by the instigation of the French But the Queen and the Lords of the North make such a levy of Martiall forces that they entred Scotland like thunder and at a mighty battell one Copland takes the King prisoner whom pleading the law of arms he would not deliver the Queen untill the King had sent order from France This overthrow was given upon Saturday and upon Saturday six weeks before the battell of Cressy had bin fought with another against the Duke of Brittain in all which king Edward prov'd victorious And being triumphantly return'd from France with the Flower-de-luces upon his sword and redoubted now by all the Princes of the Christian world having a triumverate of kings his prisoners one would think the Scot would have bin quiet but they still provoked him so far that in the dead of Winter and King Ed. was a Prince for all weathers he went thither in Person himself tooke Berwick and had all Scotlond resign'd unto him by the King himselfe and the Nobles who joyntly swore fealty and homage to him RICHARD the second NOw the grand-childe of this great King who turn'd the wheele of his times every where up and downe the Christian world as he pleased mounts the stage The Scots begin to infest the borders and doe other acts of hostility being actually assisted by the French king who sent thither his Admirall with a 1000. men at armes

the Earl of Norfolke was sent with 20000. men who for 8. daies did what he would within the bowels of the Country Anothor Army was sent undet the Command of the Lord Dacres and Wharton who gave them such a mortall blow that eight Earls were taken prisoners and 200. Gentlemen and 800. more and the stories concurre that there was scarce a souldier but had at least his two prisoners this was Solmemosse battell Yet for all this such is the inclination of the English to bee at peace with their neighbours that a match was concluded and ratified by act of Parliament with a speciall instrument under the Scots Noble-mens hands between Prince Edward and the young Queen Mary yet by the cunning negotiation of the French the Scot fell off Hereupon old king Henry who could digest no indignities sent 200. ships laden with souldiers to the Frith under the Earl of Hereford who marched as far as Edinburgh burnt the town and part of the castle returning with revenge and rich bootie A while after the Scots understanding the King was gone to France thought to serve themselves of that advantage and to fall upon the borders but the Earl of Hereford repelled them EDVVARD the sixt EDward the sixt though yet in his minority seemed to be sensible of the affront the Scot had put upon him for a wife though his Father had vindicated it pritty well but as the case stood nothing could concerne England more then to hinder that the French of any in the world should have her And now am I come to the last true battell that was fought 'twixt England and Scotland since the Conquest The Duke of Sommerset was appointed Generall the Earle of VVarwicke his Lieutenant Generall the Lord Clinton Admirall had 60. shipps of warre which were to hold course with the Land-forces So from Barwicke with a sober Army they entred Scotland consisting of about 13000. foot and 1200. men at arms 2500. light horse 16. peeces of Ordnance every peece having a guard of Pioners who came in all to 1400. They had marched as far as Musselborough far within the Country and with infinite pains did they surmount the naturall and artificiall difficulties of the wayes three small Castles they seized upon in their march without offering any act of violence to small or great They understood the Regent of Scotland did far exceed them in number and there came Recruits hourely to him for the fire crosse was carried about by the Heralds through all parts which is two firebrands upon the point of a Spear that all above 16. and under 60 should resort to the Generall rendezvous so that the Historians on both sides leave the number of them indefinite to this day but they all agree that they were at least twice as many and they had twice as many Ordnance yet notwithstanding many other advantage it pleased God to give the English a compleat victory and victories are the decrees of Heaven when there is no tribunall on earth to determine the quarrell This hapned precisely the same day that Flodden field battell was fought 34. years before There were 14000. slain out-right whereof there were 3000. Kirk-men Fryars and Monks above 1500. taken prisoners whereof young Huntly and other great Lords were of the number the spoiles of the field 30000 jacks and 30. peeces of Ordnance were shipped for England and the English plundred the Country up and down 5. daies march further To these exploits at home may be added a smart blow the English gave the Scots in Ireland in Sir Io. Perrots government for some 2000. Redshanks being come over by the Burks means like a swarm of Catterpillers they proll'd and pill'd up and down Sir Ri. Bingham then Governour of Connaught made head against them with a small contemptible number and at the river of Earne neer Slego slew them all out-right so that not one soule escaped to return to Scotland with newes what became of the rest Touching these late traverses of warre 'twixt England and Scotland 't is true that infortunate England hath drawne upon her selfe a great deale of dishonour in the opinion of the world abroad specially among those who understand not the true carriage of things For these late rushings in of the Scot cannot be so properly call'd invasions a●invitations by some spurious and most unworthy degenerous Englishmen who from a long time had plotted the bringing of them in and it was the most pernicious and basest treason that ever was practis'd against poore England But to give a full and satisfactory relation of this Warre I will deduce the busines from the beginning Before this unlucky storme fell 'twixt England and Scotland there were certain clowds issuing from the vapors of divers discontented braines plainly discern'd to hover up and downe a long time in both Kingdomes specially in that Northerne Region The first which appeard was when some yeers after his Majesties accesse to the crowne there was an act of revocation passed where some things which had insensibly slipped away from the crowne and other things which were illegally snatch'd from the church were resum'd and reannex'd to both which lighting upon some of the great ones they were over heard to murmure though this was done with as much moderation as possibly could be and by the mature advice of the Counsell of state there with the free opinion of the approved'st Lawyers of that Kingdome and from hence issued the first symptome of discontentment Not long after his Majesty being inform'd of the meane and servile condition of the Ministers of that Kingdome which have the charge of the conscience and service of God and make up a considerable part of the free borne subjects his Majesty understanding what poore pittances they receiv'd for their subsistence and for those small stipends also or rather almes of benevolence they depended upon the pleasure of the Laiks His Majesty by a speciall Commission to that end found away to augment and acertain that allowance and free them from that slavish kind of clientele and dependency they had upon the seculars Whence may bee inferr'd what monsters of ingratitude those men shew'd themselves to be afterwards by exasperating and poysoning the hearts of the people against their soveraigne in their virulent and seditious preachments and inviting them to armes Not long after when the poore husbandman and owners of corn were bound to pay tithes to lay persons call'd there the Lords of the ●rection were much incommodated by them because they could not take in their corn till the Parson had fetch'd away his tithe who sometimes to shew his power or spleen peradventure would defer of purpose the taking in thereof whereby the whole crop by not taking advantage of the weather would oftimes suffer His Majesty for the redresse of this grievance appointed Commissioners who found a way to purchase those tiths and bring the impropriators to take a pecuniary certain rent counterveylable unto them Hereupon the Laie