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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95749	Ekskybalauron: or, The discovery of a most exquisite jewel, more precious then diamonds inchased in gold, the like whereof was never seen in any age; found in the kennel of Worcester-streets, the day after the fight, and six before the autumnal æquinox, anno 1651. Serving in this place, to frontal a vindication of the honour of Scotland, from that infamy, whereinto the rigid Presbyterian party of that nation, out of their coveteousness and ambition, most dissembledly hath involved it.	Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.	1652 (1652)	Wing U134; Thomason E1506_1; ESTC R203867	122,679	328

been famous abroad be not for uncontrollable truths received in other countries by those that have been eye-witnesses to their actions I appeal to Sir Oliver Fleemin master of the Ceremonies and to Master Dury who as they are both men of good judgement and have been travelers in other States and Kingdoms so am I certainly perswaded that they cannot be altogether estranged from the report of the good reputation of those their compatriots in the places through which they passed which I believe the rather for that most of them do know Sir Oliver Fleemin to be a man of excellent good parts wise in counsel experienced in affaires of State true to his trust and in six or seven of the chief Languages of Christendome the ablest liveliest and most pertinent spokes-man of this age and that also they are not ignorant of the most eminent endowments wherewith Master John Dury in Germany and France where his learning is highly extolled intituled Duraeus hath his minde qualified and imbellished in Reason he is strongly principled and alloweth prudence to be a directress of his actions he doth not subordinate his faith to the affaires of the world although it agree not with his faith to gainestand an established authority he holds it more lawful to yeeld obedience to a power set up above us then to the hazard of the ruine of a Country to erect another he loveth an honest peace and the wayes that tend to it and with thankfulness payeth the favours of protection he reverenceth the all-seeing providence in the change of government and where it commandeth there he yeelds Allegiance But if the Reader would have a more genuine Character of his worth and that which shall represent him with a greater liveliness his best course will be to have recourse to the perusal of the several Treatises composed by him whereof he hath emitted good store Notwithstanding all I have written in praise of Sir Oliver Fleemin and Master John Dury I would expatiate my pen a little more at large upon this encomiastick straine in behalf of them both but that I hope ere long to extoll them againe by way of duty when they shall be pleased out of their love and respect to Sir Thomas Vrquhart who is the only man for whom this book is intended for whether he be the Author or some other that is but a friend or servant of his it is not material seeing the furtherance of his weal and credit of his country is the meer scope thereof and end whereat it buts to interpone their favour with the members of the Parliament and Councel of State seeing they are the only two of the Scotish Nation that as yet have any kind of intimacy with either of these high Courts and second him in his just demands to the obtaining of what in this Tractate is desired in his name And although nothing of those kinde of good offices hath by them hitherto been performed to him lest perhaps their offering to open their mouth for any in whom there was suspicion of malignancy might breed dislike and diminution of trust yet must I needs desire them now to lay aside those needless fears and groundless apprehensions and like real friends indeed bestir themselves to do that Gentleman a courtesie which cannot chuse though per impossibile he were unthankful but carry along with it like all other actions of vertue it s own remuneration and reward and if by mischance which I hope shall not occur their forwardness in sollicitation procure a reprehensory check then let them lay the blame upon this page which I shall take upon my shoulder and bear the burthen of all there is no inchantment there But that Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur was a saying of King James of whom to make no mention amongst the literate men of the Scotish Nation that have flourished since 1600. would argue in me no less debility of memory then Massala Corvinus was subject to who forgot his own name for besides that he was a King history can hardly afford us amongst all the kings that ever were Solomon and Alfonso of Aragon being laid aside any one that was neer so learned as he as is apparent by that book in folio intituled King James his works and several other learned Treatises of his which in that book are not contained In this list of armes and arts-men King James obtaines a rank amongst the Scholars because the souldiery did repute him no favourer of their faculty His Majesty is placed last as in a Parliamentary procession and bringeth up the reer as General Ruven Leads on the Van for as Ruven was such a meer souldier that he could neither read nor write so King James was such a meer scholar that he could neither fight by sea nor land He thought James the peaceable a more Royal stile then William the Conqueror and would not have changed his Motto of Beati pacifici for the title of Sylla felix although it had been accompanyed with the victory over a thousand Mariuses yet in his dayes were the Scots in good repute and their gallantry over almost all countries did deserve it Then was it that the name of a Scot was honorable over all the world and that the glory of their ancestors was a pass-port and safe-conduct sufficient for any traveler of that country In confirmation whereof I have heard it related of him who is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of his discourse and to whose weal it is subordinated that after his peragration of France Spaine and Italy and that for speaking some of those languages with the liveliness of the country accent they would have had him pass for a Native he plainly told them without making bones thereof that truly he thought he had as much honour by his own country which did contrevalue the riches and fertility of those Nations by the valour learning and honesty wherein it did parallel if not surpass them Which assertion of his was with pregnant reasons so well backed by him that he was not much gainesaid therein by any in all those kingdoms But should he offer now to stand upon such high terms and enter the lists with a spirit of competition it fears me that in stead of Laudatives and panegyricks which formerly he used he would be constrained to have recourse to vindications and apologies The toyle whereof in saying one and the same thing over and over again with the misfortune of being the less believed the more they spoke hath proved of late almost insupportable to the favourers of that Nation whose inhabitants in forraign peregrinations must now altogether in their greatest difficulties depend upon the meer stock of their own merit with an abatement of more then the half of its value by reason of the national imputation whilst in former times men of meaner endowments would in sharper extremities at the hands of stranger-people have carryed thorow with more specious advantages by the only vertue