nothing agreed upon nor concluded they resolve at last to decide the cause by their swords The Earl of Crawâ—ord then remaining at Dundee advertized of the present danger of his friends posteth in all haste to Arbroth and cometh at the very chock of the skirmish and when they were to enter the fight Here intending by his wisdom to take up the Quarrel and presuming upon the respect due to his place and person he rashly rusheth forwards before his Companies to demand a parly of Alxander Ogleby with his Son but ere he could be known or was heard he is encountred by a common Souldier who thrust him in the mouth with a Spear and prostrate him dead upon the ground This sudden accident joyned the Parties who fought with great courage and resolution The Victory after much blood inclined to the Master of Crawford Alexanderâ—Ogleby sore wounded was taken and brought to the Castle of Finelvin where he died the Lord Huntley escaped by the swiftness of his Horse Iohn Forbess of Pitsligow Alexander Barkley of Garteley Robert Maxwell of Tillen William Gordoun of Borrowfield Sir Iohn Oliphant of Aberdaguy with others fell on the Oglebies side 1445. they fought the 24. of Ianuary 1445. Now by attending opportunities to increase publick disorders turn the times dangerous and troublesome and confound the State the Earl of Dowglass kept himself in the absolute Government by umbragious ways he nourished discontentments in all parts of the Country amongst the Nobility Gentry Commons of the Realm Alexander Earl of Crawford put to death Iohn Lynton of Dundee Robert Boyd of Duchal and Alexander Lyle â—lew Iames Stuart of Auchenmintee Patrick Hepburn of Haills surprised the Castle of Dumbar Archembald Dumbar as if he would but change places with him taketh the Castle of Haills where he was besieged by the Earl of Dowglass and with conditions of safety rendred it Sir William Creighton all this time kept the Castle of Edenburgh and when by intreaties nor power he could not be induced to render it to the King his Castle of Creighton is plundered a garrison placed in it and the Castle of Edinburgh by the Earl of Dowglass is besieged and blocked up Nine moneths the Assailers lie about it but it proveth impregnable and without loss of many Subjects cannot be taken about the end of which time mens courages waxing colder conditions are offered and received which were that the Chancellor should be restored to grace place and whatsoever hâ—d been withheld from him by his enemies at Court an abolition and abrogation of all former discontentments should be granted the besieged should pass out bag and baggage free At a Parliament holden at Perth the Chancellor was purged by an Assise of his Peers of what was laid against him his lands and goods seized upon by the King or Dowglasses are decreed to be restored as well to his followers as himself he is established in his dignities and places of honour notwithstanding of all Edicts Proclamation Confiscation before which were declared null all matters past put in oblivion as not done This considering the credit of the Earl of Dowglass was thought very strange but Iames Kennedie Bishop of St. Andrews whose respect and authority was great with the Church-men perfected this Master-piece of State and the Earl of Dowglass knew though the Chancellor was unbound he had not yet escaped During these Garboyls in Scotland Margaret Sister to King Iames and wife to the Daulphin of France Lewis died at Chalones in Champaigne a vertuous and worthy Lady beloved of all France but most of Charles the seventh her Father in Law who for her respect matched her three Sisters who remained at his Court honourably Hâ—lenora with Sigismond Arch-duke of Austria Elizabeth to the Duke of Bretaigne Mary with the Earl of Camphire She was buried in the great Church of Chalones but after when the Daulphine came to be King he caused transport and bury her in the Abbey Church of Laon in Poittow Many Elegies were published upon her death which are yet extant Sir Iames Stuart the Black Knight husband to the Queen at this time died also He had turned a voluntary exile to shun the dangers and envy of the Factions of the Country which he incurr'd by his free speeches against the misgovernment and miseries of the time and as he was bound â—owards Flanders by the Flemings was taken upon the Seas The Queen out-lived not long her Daughter and Husband â—he was buried the fifteenth of Iuly in the Charter-house of Perth near her first husband Iames the year 1446. She brought forth to the black Knight of Lorn three sons Iohn Eâ—rl of Athole Iames Earl of Buchane Andrew Bishop of Mâ—rray The Chancellor having recovered his honours and State to the disadvantage of the Earl of Dowglass though of good years and tyred with the troubles of publike life yet findeth not any desired rest A Marriage being designed for the King with Mary daughter of the Duke of Guilders by the instructions of Charls the seventh the French Kings but secretly by the procurement of the Earl of Dowglass the Chancellor as a Man grave great in plâ—ce and experimented with the Bishop of Dunkel and Nicholas Otterburn is sent over the Seas in Embassie This troublesom and unprofitable honor abroad is laid upon him that he might be separate from the King and suspended from opposing to the private designs of the Earl at home This obstacle of his ambition removed which had neither moderation nor limits the Earl may excluded such Officers in State or Court who were not agreeable to him and substitute others of his Creation after his pleasure he hath now room and opportunity for his greatest designs His kindred are without pausing preferred to Offices of State his brothers to new honours Archembald is made Earl of Murray by the Marriage of a Lady of the house of Dumbar who was Heir of the Lands and the Kings Ward George is created Earl of Ormond Iohn made Lord of Balvenie and hath his Donation ratified in an Assembly of three Estates who were convented at Edinburgh for matters concerning the Marriage of the King but in effect that the Earl might pursue his old enemies The Commissioners are chosen after his pleasure are prepared and instructed by him prelimitated and to combine power with craft he entreth in an offensive and defensive League with many Noblemen Barons and Gentlemen of the Kingdom All the wheels and vices of his Clock being right set Alexander Levingston late Governor Alexander his eldest son Robert Levingston Treasurer David Levingston Iames Dundes Robert Bruce of Clackmannan Knights for Peculate and converting the Princes Treasure to their private use are forfeited taken and committed to sundry Prisons in December 1447. at which time they were brought to Edinburgh Alexander the Governor Iames Dundas and Robert Bruce after Fines laid upon them were permitted back to Dumbarton there to be kept Prisoners during the Kings pleasure Alexander
and unto whom victory appertained Many brave Scots did here fall esteemed to above five thousand of the noblest and worthiest Families of the kingdom who choosed rather to dy than out-live their friends and Compatriots The Kings natural Son Alexander Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews the Bishop of the Isles the Abbots of Inchjefray and Kill Winny The Earls of Crawfoord Mortoun Arguyl Lennox Arrel Catâ—ness Bothwel Athol the Lords Elphinstoun Aerskin Forbes Ross Lovet Saintclare Maxwell with his three Brothers Simple Borthick Numbers of Gentlemen Balgowny Blacka-Towre Borchard Sir Alexander Seatoun Makenny with Macklean George Master of Anguss and Sir William Dowglass of Glenbervy with some two hundred Gentlemen of their name and Vassals were here slain The English left few less upon the place but most part of them being of the common sort of Souldiers and men of no great mark compared with so many Nobles killed and a King lost the number was not esteemed nor the loss thought any thing of The Companies of the Lord Hume had reserved themselvs all the time of the fight keeping their first order and when by the Earl of Huntley he was required to relieve the Battallion where the King fought he is said to have answered That that man did well that day who stood and saved himself After the retreat his Followers gathered a great bootie of the spoils of the slaughtered This fight began Sept. 9. about four of the clock after Noon and continued three houres the year 1513. About the dawning of the next Morning the Lord Daâ—res vvith his Horse-Troops taking a view of the Field and seeing the brazen Ordnance of the Scots not transported with most part of the faln bodies not rifled sendeth speedy advertisement to the Howards and the pensive Army inviting all to the setting up of Trophees Spoil and transporting of their great Ordnance to Berwick amongst which were seven Culverins of like size and making called the Seven Sisters Divers diversly report of the Fortune of the King We without affirming any thing for certain shall onely set down what Fame hath published a false Witness often of human accidents and which many times by malignant brains is forged and by more malignant ears received and believed The English hold that he was killed in this Battail the Scots that many in like Arms with the like Guards were killed every one of which was held for the King Amongst others Alexander Lord Elphinstoun his Favourite who had marryed Elizabeth Barley one of the Dames of Honour of Queen Margarite He was a man not unlike to the King in face and stature and representing him in arms in the field with the valiantest and most couragious of the Army fought it out and acting heroically his part as a King was killed heaps of slaughtered bodies environing his In the search where the fight was the number taleness furniture of the dead bodies being observed their faces and wounds viewed his body as if it breathed yet majesty was amidst the others selected acknowledged for his Maisters brought to Berwick and embalmed That it was not the body of the King the girdle of Iron which heever wore and then was not found about him gave some though not certain testimony Some have recorded that the fortune of the day inclining to the English four tall men mounted upon lusty Horses wearing upon the points of their Launces for coignoscances Streamers of Straw mounting the King on a Sorrel Hackney convoyed him far from the place of fight and that he was seen beyond the Tweed between Kâ—lso and Dunce After which what became of him was uncertain Many hold he was killed in the Castle of Hume either by the intelligence between the English and the Lord Humes kinred or out of fear for they were at the slaughter of the Kings Father and the most violent in that fight or of hopes of great fortunes which would follow innovations and the confusion of the State being men who liv'd best in a troubl'd Common wealth and upon the Borders One Carra follower of the Lord Humes that same night the Battail was fought thrust the Abbot of Kelso out of his Abbacy which he never durst attempt the King being alive Another David carbreath in the time of Iohn the Governour vaunted that however Iohn wronged the Humes he was one of fix who had abated the insolency of King Iames and brought him to know he was a Mortal To these is added that the Governour Iohn not long hereafter cut off the heads of the Lord Hume and his Brother without any known great cause The Common people ever more addicted to superstition than verity believed he was living and had passed over the Seas and according to his promise visited the holy Sepulchre in Palestine Therefor his other offences and the bearing of Arms against his Father in prayers and Pennance he spent the remainder of His tedious daies That he would return again when he found opportunity and the necessity of Europe requird him This report was of as great truth as that which the Burgundians have of the Return of their Duke Charles after the Battle of Nancy most of them believing he escaped from the conflict He was lost the twenty and five year of his Reign the thirty and ninth of his age the ninth of September 1513. This King was of a vigorous body his stature being neither too tall nor too low of a pleasant countenance of a pregnant wit but by the faults of the times in which he lived not polished with Letters He excelled in horse-manship fencing and shooting By much watching slender diet and use he was enabled to enduâ—e all extremities of weather scarcity or want of rest with good health of body He was just in giving judgement in punishing malefactors severe yet tractable and moderate With the peril of some few he restrained vices and rather shook the Sword than struck with it He knew there were some things though Princes might yet they ought not to do He was easie of access most courteous in speech and meek in answering every man He was so far from being over taken with anger or other violent perturbations that he was never observed to have given an evil or disobliging word to any or that the colour of his face changed by any offence offered him or informations given him relying without passion upon his own magnanimity He was of a free and liberal disposition far from any ostentation As he understood well the Art of giving so to acquire and purchase he was not sufficient of himself but made use of men who drew more hatred upon their own heads than moneys into their Princes coffers Though he delighted more in War than the Arts he was a great admirer and advancer of learned men William Elphinstoun Bishop of Aberdeen builded by his Liberality the College of Aberdeen and named it The Kings College by reason of those Privileges and Rents the King bestowed upon it His Generosity did shew it self in not
claim made by Alexander Stuart the elder brother of the Governour who was begotten on a Daughter of the Earl of Orkenay to whom the Duke of Albany their Father had been lawfully joined in marriage before his coming to France and thus before the marrying of the Earl of Bulloignes daughter the Mother of Iohâ— the Governour upon which ground Alexander had grea reason to make his claim and protestation as heir to his Father Notwithstanding of his challenge and bravado Alexander being more fit for a Cowl than a Crown in open Parlament gave over all title he had to the Crown in his brothers favour Whereupon to deprive him ever hereafter of lawfull Succession they turned him Priest being made Bishop of Murray and Abbot of Skoon A truce being sincerely kept with England tumults within the Countrey appeased particular deadly fewds and jarres of private persons eithâ—r curbed or smothered up the Governour giveth himself soâ—e weeks to his Courtly recreations at Faulk-land with what pastime soever he be delighted or beguile the hours all the day long in the might he is often haunted by his old familiar the Priour of St. Andrews whom ambition spight malice never suffered to take any rest This man put in the Governours head and made him beliâ—ve that his endeavours and pains heretofore would prove but vain in settling the Government and that the peace of the Kingdom should never be lasting firm and permanent if so dangerous a Subject as the Lord Chamberlain remained alive whom neither rewards could soften nor honours and preferment oblige and make constant How many times had he been pardoned How often and without a cause had he returned again to his foâ—mer Conspiracies Should the Governour of his own free-will or of necessity be moved to return to France what would not the boldness of this man attmept in his absence which his authority and presence could never curb and keep within compass the life of this man would be the death and total ruin of the Peace of the concord and harmony of the State bring forth nothing 〈◊〉 dangerous and wicked effects the violence of ambition having pulled him from his own judgement Should he be challenged and put to a tryal of hiâ— Peers He could not shun the blow of Justice the cry of his oppression and wrongs having reached heaven A member so often in vain cured and still gangrened should be cut off The Governour whose Brains the Priour had now embrued with jealousies thought it no great matter upon the inâ—ormations he had received to put the Chamberlain to a Tryal for if he proved not guilty it would be but to leave him in that state and case he was found in and calumnies though they do not burn yet black Being come to Edinburgh he appointed a convention of the Nobility all which time he earnestly trâ—fficked with the Friends of the Lord Chamberlain that he should not be absent the matters to be determined in Counsel concerniâ—g him nearly and he had need of his advice and counsel The Court and City being full of whisperings and expectation of some sudden change many disswadeth the Chamberlain from appearing if he appeared that he would leave his Brother Master William a man equal in judgement and courage to himself behind He trained into false hopes by the blâ—â—dishments of the Governour towards his friends and inveigled by presumption with his Brother and Sir Andrew called by the Countrey Lord David Car of Farnehast commeth to Court where they were with many ceremonies welcomed by the Governour with more than ordinary favours enâ—ertained and shortly after all three imprisoned produced in judgment to answer to such things as should be objected against them according to the Lawes of the Kingdom and submitted to the Sentence of a Jury No new criâ—e was laid to their charge Iames Earl of Murray the natural Son of the late King accused the Chamberlain of the death of his Father who by many witnesses was proved alive and seen to come from the Battel of Flowden This by pregnant evidences not being proved he was indicted of divers other points of Treason and his private faults are found out and laid against him they renew the memory of the late stirs of State and these disorders of which he was eithâ—r the Author or accessary to them He had favoured and maintained the Factions Thefts and Robberies of wicked Malâ—fâ—ctours on the Borders he had not honourably nor honestly carryed himself at the Battel of Flowden performing neither the duty of a Souldier nor Commander He had suffered the English to repair and of new fortifie the Castle of Norham which without either trouble to himself or danger of his Friends he might have hindred Of every of which points and particularities he not clearly justifying himself the Judges prepared and directed by the Governor whom they record to have given information of a hainous crime comitted by the Chamberlain and his brother for the odiousness of it not to be revealed to the people pronounce him and his Brother guilty and condemn them to have their Heads cut off The day following the sentence was put in execution and their heads fixt on the most eminent part of the Town of Edenburgh David Car of Farnhast either by the Jury being declared not guilty as some have recorded or by the Corrupting of his Keepers as others or by the permission of the Governor escap'd this danger which brought the People to believe the Chamberlain was by his means entrapped To sinck whom he put himself in hazzard of drowning This Calamity of the Family of the Humes being so antient potent and couragious brâ—d terrour and astonishment in many of the other Noblemen of the Kingdom and estranged their Hearts from the Governour his ears began to be after attentive to every rumour and his eyes pryed into each accident at lâ—st as if he were wearyed with wrastling with the many disorders and cumbersome Factions of the Countrey he sought how by some fair way he might for a while return to France Embassadours being sent from King Francis to Scotland to renew the antient League between the two Nations when the Nobles assembled to make choice of the man on whom they should transfer the honour of the accomplishment of so solem an action and pass to France the Governour carryed the matter so by means of the French that it was conferred on himself but with his condition to entertain them with hopes of his Return that he should not stay above six Moneths out of the Countrey Having obtained this privileged absence of them his next care was to preserve the State from any alterations till his Return and to find the Government as he left it Hereupon to preserve the Person of the King he is conveyed from Sterlin to the Castle of Edinburgh and trusted to the custody of the Earl of Marshall the Lords Ruthen and Borthick two of which should be alwaies resident with him and accompany and assist
Sheriff falling so far short of his expectation that he findeth himself the first subject of his Cousins justice and highly resenting his Kinsmans cruelty whom he knew under pretext of Piety ready to execute his own Revenges resolveth to prevent his mischief He had sometime been familiar with Sir Iames had known his by-paths his secret Plots and ayrie brags had not escaped his observation some alike in kindred to them both were emissaries suborned to mark not onely his actions but words and behaviour by which one way or other he might be intrapt He knew Sir Iames stood in some umbrage with the King and that some suspitions by no Innocency could be taken away When at last he had found his hot-spur Cousin who threatned him with Death and Fire within the circle of his conjurations he directeth his Son to the King who at that time was ready to pass the Forth in his Barge this bashful Messenger giveth advertisement from his Father that the King should make his person sure from his foes at home for Sir Iames Hamiltoun had secret intelligence and Plots with the Earl of Angus and Dowglasses and that he attended onely the occasion when he might surprise him either alone or with a mean retinue and the or openly he would invade him or breaking up his Chamber-doors assâ—ssinate him The King giving attentive ear to a business which concerned him no less than the safety of his Person the accusation being given by a Cousin of the suspect against a family which a little disorder in the State might turn Successors to the Crown directeth the young man to Edenburgh and beyond his private instructions giveth him a Ring well known by the chief Officers to be a taken of power and seâ—recie to assemble so many of the Counsel as were resident Sir Thomas Arseken Secretary Sir Iames Lermound Master of the Houshold William Kirkcaldie Treasurer and others meet fear consult upon the Treason labour how to prevent it come to Sir Iames his Lodgeing make sure his Person in the Castle of Edenbrough and at that same time proceed according to the Kings direction to instruct his Process Sir Iames passionately resenting his imprisonment by his friends imploreth the ayd of the Church-men upon his innocency They apprehending his accusation to be a stratagem of State forg'd by these of the Reformed Religion for the stopping any further progress of the Inquisition already so furiously begun interpose their credit with the King for his Liberty to the discharging of his Commission against Hereticks If the Kiâ—g should hearken to every Informer against a man in State and Office he should never have an end for thus no man is so innocent who may not be detracted and calumniated Sir Iames was known to be a man rash and insolent in words his brains having been a little giddy like one looking from a great height by his advancement in honours and place in Court but sincere in the service of his Prince and loyal If he was arrogant in boldness of termes that was to acquire some more credit with the Commons that he might doe better service to his Prince They who committed Sir Iames Hamiltoun knowing the King facile and easie to be wrought upon by the Clergy some of them too professing or giving way to the reform'd Religion resolve if he should escape free of this accusation that an imminent ruin hung over their persons and estates Necessity and fear combining the distracted powers of their minds they come prostrate before the King beseech him not so much to look to the quality and circumstances of the crime as to the evil inclination of the man who powerful factious and naturally vindicative would never forgive nor forget the danger he was driven unto that His Majesty would consider his pass'd life terrible and cruel against all whome he could over-reach That to give him liberty and relieve him of his imprisonment before the crimes of which he was accus'd were clearly proved or not would be their and the accusers overthrow whom they esteemed loyal Subjects and except upon evident probabilities and never given informations against him That he was a man perfectly hated of the People and a more acceptable sacrifice could not be â—ffer'd unto their fury if he prov'd guilty At their Supplications the King gave the Judges full power to proceed against him and administer justice according to their consciences and the Laws of the Kingdom The pannall being found guilty of such points of the Inditement as was laid against him was condemned to die and thereafter accordingly beheaded his Quarters being set aloft on the Town gates his Lands annex'd to the Crown The Crimes of which he was found guilty as from those who lived near that time have by tradition been received were he had intelligence with the Earl of Angus and Dowglasses whom he laboured to have restored though with the Kings death he had a plot to have broken up the Kings Chamber-doors and killed him divolving the title of the Crown or at least Government of the Kingdom to his kinred Being ditected to have repared a Castle in Bute and to this effect receiving three thousand Crowns in April he went not thither attending some change in the State which was to be accomplished by treason against the Kings person He kept still with him men of disperate minds and fortunes who at his direction durst enterprize any mischief Where he had repaired some of the Kings houses he had placed a Statue resembling himself or which to some he had named his Statue what Mole-hills are turned into Mountains when a Prince will pry into the actions of a disgraced Subject above the Kings arms He had detracted from his Master naming him the king of Clowns and Priests and Scourge of the antient Nobility He had laboured to hinder the Kings marriage at his being in France To these points the people who rejoiced in his ruin added he had slain cruelly the Earl of Lennox at the battell of Lithgow after he was Prisoner to Purdowye he had wayâ—laid Gilbert Earl of Cassiles who was killed by his direction and Counsel This back-blow of Fortune proveth that it is dangerous once highly to offend a Prince and after remain in his service for Princes put old offences up as neglected and when the occasion serveth them surprize long after the Delinquents for some faults of which they are scarce guilty Sundry of the Nobility appall'd at this sudden fall of Sir Iames Hamiltoun for though they loved not the Man they hated the example of such strict Justice left the Court retiring to their own dwelling Houses which made the King suspitious of them and believe they favoured the reformed Religion and preferred the friendship of King Henry his Vncle to his Neither was he herein far Mistaken for some feared not to send him word that they had learned the Church-men had set him on work to extirpate his antient Nobility as if it were an easie matter
gentle disposition and mild nature and confidence in his generosity or of the trust they had in their own power and Faction they bewrayed no signs of fear nor attempted ought against the common peace and tranquility some records bear that they forewarned him by the example of his Father not to take any violent course against them or which might irritate the people against him and every thing to embrace their counsels and that finding him repining and stubborn beyond mediocrity giving himself over to Sorrow and pensiveness they thâ—eaâ—ned him with a Coronation of one of his Brothers telling him it was in their power to make any of the race of his 〈◊〉 their King if he were Head-strong and refractory to oppose to their wholsom directions and grave Counsâ—ls Amidst this Grief of the King and overweening of his supercilions Governours Andrew Forman Secretary to Alexander the sixth Bishop of Rome arrived in Scotland with instrutions for the Clergy and Letters from his Master to the King and the Nobles The Kings were full of ordinary consolations to asswage his passions and reduce his mind to a more calm temper for the accident of his Fathers death The most glorious victory a Prince could acquire was sometimes to overcome himself and triumph over his disordered passions In all perturbations to which we are subject we should endeavour to practise that precept No thing too much but chiefly in our passions of sorrow and wrath which not being restrained overwhelm the greatest and most generous Minds that by passion the fewest actions and by reason the most do prosper Though a King he must not imagine himself exempt from things casual to all mankind especially in Seditions and civil tumults from which no kingdom nor State hath been free There being no City which hath not sometimes wicked Citezens and alwaies and ever an headstrong and mad multitude he should take what had befaln him from the hand of his Maker who chastiseth those he loveth What comes from heaven be should bear necessarily what proceedeth from Men couragiously there was no man so safe excellent and transcendent who by an insolent Nobility and ravaging Populacy might not be compell'd to perpetrate many things against his heart and intentions The will being both the beginning and subject of all sin and the consenting to and allowing the action being the only and main point to be considered and look into of which he was free the sin committed was not his nor could the punishment which by the divine Iustice might follow belong unto him Sith he had done nothing of himself but as a bound man had been carryed away by mutinous Subjects these that lead transgress not alwaies they that follow To these men remorse and torture of conscience belong'd it was they should lament and mourn who under false pretences had abused the people maskt their Ambition and malice with a reformation of errours in the State whose rage could not be quencht but by the bloud of ther Soveraign It was these should bewail their in justice and cruelty the sin shame and judgement for so hainous a fact followed these men He should not impute the wrongs and wickedness of others by which he had been a sufferer with his disastered Father to himself Revenge belonged to the Almighty to whose Tribunal he should submit his quarrel He should not decree the worst against his mutinous Subjects nor turn them desperate as if there were no place to repent Great offenccs ordinarily were seldom punisht in a State that it was proâ—itable for a Prince sometime to put up voluntarily an injury the way to be invincible was never to contend and to stand out of danger was the benefit of peace that he should apply soft Medicine where it was dangerous to use violent That following his Maker he should endeavour to draw Good out of evil As he was for that disaster of his Father pittyed by Men upon Earth so assuredly he would be pardoned in Heaven If his Subjects returned to their crooked Byas and did revolt again he would make the danger his own use his Ecclestastical censures and spiritual power against thâ—m till they became obedient and submitted themselves to the sway of his Scepter In the Letters to the Nobles he exhorted them to obedience Ambition was the cause of Sedition which had no limits and which was the bane and wrack of States Kingdoms of which they should beware of Kingdoms subsisting upon the reputation of a Prince and that respect his Subjects carryed towards him He was the Eye and Sun of Iustice the Prince weakned or taken away or his authority contemned the Common-wealth would not only fall into a Decadence but suffer an Earth-quake and perish Either after by Forrainers be invaded or by intestine dissentions rent asunder Confusions followed where obedience ceased and left Contempt deposed Kings as well as death and Kings are no longer Kings when their Subjects refuse to obey them That good people made good Kings which he requested them to endeavour to be as they would answer to God whose Lientenants Princes were and by whose power they ruled After this time the Lord Evaindale being dead the Earl of Anguss was made Chancelour and the Lord Hume obtained the place of great Chamberlain of Scotland the Countrey enjoyed a great calm of peace the grounds of dissention seeming to be taken away The King in the strength and vigour of his Youth remembring that to live in Idleness was to live to be contemned by the world by change of Objects to expell his present sadness and to enable himself for wars when they should burst forth gave himself to recreations by Games and with a decent Pomp entertained all Knightly exercies keeping an open and magnificent Court When time and Exercise had enabled him and he thought he had attained to some perfection in marital Sports Tilting and Barriers proclaimed Rewards propounded and promised to the Victors Challenges are sent abroad unto Strangers either to be Umpiers or Actors of Feats of Arms. Charles the eight the French King having an Ambition to reannex the Dutchy of French Bretaign to the Crown of France either by arms or the Marriage of Anne the apparent heir under the pretext and shadow of those painted Justings sendeth to Scotland some of the bravest Gentlemen of his Court desiring privily the assistance of King Iames against the English if it should fall forth that the King of England troubled his Designs Not long after well and honorably accompanied arriveth in Scotland a young man naming himself Richard Duke of York son to Edward the fourth true Inheritour of the Crown of England divers Neighbor Princes testifying the same by the Letters which contained That Edward the eldest son of Edward the fourth who succeeded his Father in the Crown by the Name of Edward the fifth was murthered by Richard Duke of Gloucester their unnatural Vncle but Richard the younger Son his Brother by the Man who was employed to