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A26656	Medulla historiæ Scoticæ being a comprehensive history of the lives and reigns of the kings of Scotland, from Fergus the First, to Our Gracious Sovereign Charles the Second : containing the most remarkable transactions, and observable passages, ecclesiastical, civil, and military, with other observations proper for a chronicle, faithfully collected out of authors ancient and modern : to which is added, a brief account of the present state of Scotland, the names of the nobility, and principal ministers of church and state, the laws criminal : a description of that engine with which malefactors are tortured, called the boot.	Alexander, William, fl. 1685-1704.	1685 (1685)	Wing A917; ESTC R21197	93,143	254

the next of the Womans blood should succeed the Scots gave their Daughters in Marriage to them But the Brittons who inhabited the South parts of the Island suspecting that this affinity between the Scots and the Picts might tend to their prejudice sent Ambassadors to the Picts perswading them to break with the Scots by this means the Scots suffered extreamly many of their People who dwelt among the Picts being surprized and cut off in Compensation of which they cut off as many of the Picts as they could catch thus they for a long time wasted one anothers Country with continual Incursions at last they resolved to put it to the hazard of a General Battle The Scots assembling in Argyle consulted what was fit to be done and considering that they had not only to do with the Picts but with the Brittons also therefore it was agreed to send Ambassadors to Ireland to have the Advice and Assistance of their old Friends and Progenitors in this Affair and finding that by having many supreme Captains Sedition and Division increased amongst them they resolve to elect one to have the supreem Government over the rest Their Ambassadors arriving in Ireland and representing their condition to Ferchard King of Scots he was much concerned at the wrongs done them therefore he sent his Son Fergus a wise and valiant Prince accompanied with many gallant Soldiers sending with him also the fatal Marble Chair for his incouragement Upon his arrival he called a Councel in Argyle where having made an elegant Oration he was by Unanimous Consent elected King of the Scots 1. Thus Fergus the first King of Scots was Crowned in the fatal Marble Chair which he brought with him from Ireland in the year from the Creation 3641. before the coming of Christ 330. about the beginning of the fourth Monarchy when Alexander the Great vanquished Darius the last Persian Monarch Soon after the Picts assisted by the Brittons invaded the Country against them the King most valiantly took the Field with his fierce Scots when the two Armies approached one another the Brittons stood off in Battle Array resolving that when the Scots and Picts had sufficiently weakened one another in Battle to break in upon them and destroy them both this by a Fugitive Britton was discovered to Fergus whereupon he desired an interview with the King of Picts wherein representing the eminent hazard that both of them were in by the Treachery of the Brittons after mature Deliberation it was determined that they both should convert their Arms against the Brittons this resolution was most pleasing no doubt to the Picts Wives to see their Husbands and their Fathers agreed The Brittons seeing this disappointment of their hopes break upon the Picts pillaging and spoiling at their Pleasure which when Fergus heard of he went against them and with the Assistance of the Picts he totally routed them killing their King his Name was Coil with many of his Nobles Upon this Victory the Nobles and Subjects agreed that Fergus and his Posterity should inherit the Crown of Scotland for ever whereupon Charters and Evidences were granted to them ratifying the same The Kingdom of Scotland being thus confirmed to Fergus and his Successors he with Advice and Consent of his Councel divided the whole Land then inhabited by the Scots among his Nobles and Captains making many Laws to repress Vice and Disorders Not long after he was chosen Arbitrator to determine some high Controversies amongst his Friends in Ireland whereupon he went thither accompanied with many of his Nobles and setled all their Debates But returning home he was by a tempestuous Storm driven upon a Rock in the Sea where he and all the Nobles in his Company perished this Rock is called after his Name Carrib-Fergus Thus dyed this brave and valiant Prince in the five and twentieth Year of his Raign to the unspeakable Grief and loss of his Subjects 2. Fergus being dead left two Sons behind him Ferlegus and Atainus neither of which were capable presently to manage the Government because of their tender years Whereupon a Convention was holden by the Nobles for electing of a King wherein some were for choosing one of the late Kings Children alledging that they were bound by Oath to continue the Crown in Fergus his Succession others aggravated the Danger both at home and abroad under the Government of a Child At length after a long Debate it was enacted that when it happened their King should dye the Heirs begotten of his Body being Children the nearest of the Royal Blood being the best qualified for doing of Justice should succeed and possess the Crown for his time and after his Death the former Kings Son to succeed without any impediment if he is found fit for Government This Law was in Force till the Reign of King Malcom the third Thus by this Law Feritharis Brother to Fergus the late King was chosen who begun his Reign in the Year of the World 3666. before the coming of Christ 305 Years from the beginning of the Reign of Scotland 26. Feritharis Reigned fifteen years with such Equity and Modesty that his Subjects found him an excellent King and his Nephews an excellent Tutor but at length Ferlegus having an itching after the Government and having got some loose young Men upon his side went to his Uncle and boldly demanded the Kingdom from him alledging that he enjoyed it only by way of trust during his Minority Feritharis upon this called a Convention of the Nobles where he willingly offered to resign the Kingdom in Favours of his Nephew but they being sensible how happy they had hitherto lived under his Government and knowing that the other was of a rude untractable disposition by no means would hear of it soon after there was a Conspiracy discovered against the Kings Person managed by Ferlegus and some others Whereupon he was presently arraigned and found Guilty but his Fathers memory his Uncles desire to the Parliament prevailed to have him pardoned and committed only to the keeping of some who were commanded to take special notice of all his Actions but he found a way to deceive his Keepers and make his escape he first fled to the Picts then to the Brittons where he spent the rest of his days in great Misery within a Month after Feritharis dyed not without Suspicion of being poysoned by some of his Nephews Accomplices which so inraged the Nation against him that his very Memory was hateful 3. Mainus Fergus his second Son succeeded in the Year of the World 3680. before Christ 291. After the beginning of the Reign forty one He was a noble Prince and a severe Justitiary he renewed the old League with Crinus King of Picts he dyed peaceably the 29th Year of his Reign 4. His Son Dornadill succeeded him in the Government in the Year of the World 3079. before Christ 262. after the beginning of the Reign seventy he followed his Fathers Foot-steps in Equity and Justice but was more

to account but were disswaded by one Colmar a Religious Monk who told them that Gods hand would soon be upon him which accordingly fell out For being at Hunting he was Bitten by a Wolfe which caused a dangerous Feavour of which he dyed declaring his sorrow for his former Life the eighteenth year of his Reign 55. To him Succeeded Malduin Donald the fourths Son A. D. 664. A wise and Religious Prince the Argyle and Lenox men much infested the Country by their Animosities between themselves the Leaders of the Sedition he put to death at this time the Plague had over spread all Europe whereof infinite multitudes dyed every where but the Scots and Picts were preserved from it This good King was strangled by his Queen upon suspicion of Adultery the twentyth year of his Reign She and her Servants were the next day burnt alive 56. Ewin The first Malduins Brothers Son Succeeded A. D. 684. Edfried King of Northumberland Invaded Scotland having the assistance of the Picts but they deserting him he was routed and ten Thousand of his men killed The next year Edfried Invaded the Picts they pretending to fly drew him upon an Ambush where he and all his Army were cut off The Scots and Britains also entering Northumberland so afflicted that King that he was never able to recover his losses Ewin dyed the fourth year of his Reign 57. Ewin the sixth Ferchard the seconds Son Succeeded A. D. 688. A Religious and Learned King he had neither certain Peace nor certain War with his Neighbours He dyed the ninth year of his Reign It is said that in his time it rained Blood for seven days over all Britan that also the Milk Butter and Cheese was turned into Blood 58. Amberkelleth Succeeded A. D. 697. At first he appeared a Sober Prince but he soon put of the Mask turning to all kinds of wickedness he was killed by the Shot of an Arrow in the night time the second year of his Reign 59 To him Succeeded Ewin the seventh his Brother A. D. 699. He made peace with the King of Picts and Marryed his Daughter who within a year after being with Child was Murthered in her Bed instead of the King by two Brothers of Athols who had Conspired the Kings death He was a good and Religious King he dyed the sixteenth year of his Reign 60. Ewin A little before his death recommended to the Nobles Mordach Amberkeleths Son who was chosen A. D. 715. An Excellent Prince he procured Peace over all Britain he repaired many decayed Churches and built the Monastery of Whitehorne He dyed the sixteenth year of his Reign 61. To him Succeeded Etfin Ewin the sevenths Son A. D. 730. A Religious King and severe Justitiar being aged after that he had Reigned 30 years he elected four Regents viz. the Thanes of Argyle Athole Gallaway and Murray to govern his Subjects but their Government was greivous He dyed the thirty first year of his Reign 62. Ewin the Eighth Mordachs Son Succeeded A. D. 761. His first work was to put to death Donald Lord of the Isles and the Earle of Galloway for their cruelty in the Late Kings latter days But he himself afterward degenerating into all Vices was killed by his Nobles the third year of his Reign 63. Fergus the third Etfins Son Succeeded A. D. 764. He Married Ethiolia Daughter to the King of Picts who having several times admonished him of his adulteries at last with the help of some of his familiar Servants strangled him and being accused thereupon confessed the fact and presently stabbed her self to the Heart with a Dagger The King was buried in Icolmkill the third year of his Reign 64. Solwath Ewin the Eighths Son Succeeded A. D. 767 A Valiant Prince He was much troubled with the Gout of which Donald a Bane Captain of the Isles taking advantage proclaimed himself King of the Isles breaking also in upon the Continent made great Havock but at length was by Duchal Captain of Argyle and Duchal Captain of Athol beset in a Wood where their was no way to Escape their he and all his followers were cut to pieces This good King dyed of the Gout the twentith year of his Reign 65. Acaius Etfins Son Succeeded A.D. 787. He made a new peace with the English and Picts finding that the Irish intended to make war against him because of a slaughter that was committed in Kintire upon some Irish Robbers yet he sent Ambassadors to Ireland shewing how little ground they had to denounce war and how little it would tend to their Honour to revenge the quarrel of a pack of Thieves but they not giving ear to his peaceable message presently Rigged out a Fleet which was not two Nights at Sea when it was utterly ruined by a storme which made the Irish now supplicate for a peace upon any terms which the King readily granted He soon after made a League with Charles the great King of France and Emperor of Germany which continues inviolated to this day For the corroboration of which Achaius sent his Brother William with Forty thousand Valiant warriours to assist the aforesaid Charles in his Wars against the Infidels where he purchased great Fame being commonly called by the Princes of France The Knight without Reproach Before this time also some Learned Men passed from Scotland unto France among which Johannes Scotus who was Charles's Tutor was singular for his Learning who together with Clemens another of his Country men Founded the University of Paris Achaius Marryed Fergusian Sister to Hungus King of the Picts who bore to him one Son called Alpine who afterward Succeeded to be King of Scotland and Heir to the King of Picts King Achaius dyed the thirty second year of his Reign 66. To him Succeeded Congal his Cousin German A. D. 819. He Governed peaceably for five years 67. Dongal Salvatius's Son Succeeded A. D. 824. who having settled the peace at home sent his Embassadors to the Picts demanding the right of Succession in the name of Alpin Son to King Achaius being there own King dyed without Succession which they refusing to do Dongal denounced war against them but he Unfortunatly Perished in a Boat as he was passing over the river of Spey in the seventh year of his Reign 68. Alpin Acaius's Son succeeded A-D. 831. A Valiant Prince he led the Army which was raised by Dongall against the Picts to assert his Title to their Crown wherein a most bloody Battel he with his own hand slew Feredech their King then they Elected Brudus his Son who was killed the first year of his Reign in a Tumult raised by his Subjects His Brother Kenneth succeeded to him who coming with an Army against the Scots rent off his Coat of Armour and fled to the Mountains where he was shamefully killed by a Country man not knowing who he was whereupon the Picts Elected Brudus a fierce and valiant Prince to be their King who sent his Ambassadors to Alpine desiring

going through France he spent it all and told his Holiness when he came to Rome that he had been robb'd by the way Whereupon presently another Legat was sent to Britain But the People hearing how they were cheated of their Money by the last procured an Order discharging this not to enter the Kingdom King Alexander dyed in Peace the thirty fifth year of his Reign and was buried at Melross 95. Alexander the third succeeded his Father A. D. 249. Being nine years of Age at his Coronation Ambassadors were sent to England demanding Margaret King Henry the third's Daughter in Marriage for King Alexander which was granted the next year the two Kings had a meeting at York where the Marriage was Solemnized During his Minority the Realm was well Governed by his Nobles taking the Government upon himself his first work was to summon the Earls of Monterth Athole and Buchan and the Lord Strabogy who were all of the Name of Cumings they not daring to appear were denounced Rebels They being now afraid thought nothing so much for their safety as the having the King in their Power which they got and confined him in the Castle of Sterling but the Earl of Athel who was the head of the Party dying their Hearts failed them and every one of them getting his Remission they set the King at Liberty soon after the Danes with a great Army invaded the Country the King with his Forces went against them and routed them killing twenty four Thousand of them the King returned to Norway with only four Ships which was all that was left of his whole Fleet. At this time Alexander Earl of Carrick passed to the Holy-Land having a Daughter who succeeded to his Estate she Married Robert Rance Lord of Annaudale and bare to him that noble and invincible Champion Robert Bruce King of Scotland King Alexander had two Sons by his Queen viz. Prince Alexander and David and one Daughter Margaret who was married to the King of Norway she bare to him Margaret called the Maiden of Norway The King and Queen going to London to the Coronation of King Edward the first David the second Son dyed in their absence within a few years after the Prince dyed at Lundores to the great Grief of the Nation and not long after the King dyed by a fall from over a Rock at Kinghorn the thirty seventh year of his Reign Leaving none of his own direct Line to succeed him The Nobility having met upon this so important occasion they put the Kingdom into the hands of six Regents for the South side Robert Arch-Bishop of Glasgow John Cumine and John the great Steward of Scotland For the North the Arch-Bishop of S. Andrews Macdiff Earl of Fife and Cumine Earl of Buchan Edward of England sends to demand the Daughter Grand-Child in marriage as next Heir to the Crown which was agreed too but the Death of the Lady frustrated all that Negotiation by which means great contention arose between Bourn and John Baliol. Baliol managing the English and Bruce the French interest Baliol being in the second degree of relation and Bruce in the third the one being David Earle of Huntingtons Grand Child the other his great Grand Child matters standing thus the whole was referred to King Edward who coming to Berwick and calling Lawyers to his assistance pretends all equity but raised up eight other Competitors the better to weaken the claim of the other two and so handled the business that Bruce having refused the Crown in Homage to England upon his aceptance of these conditions 96. John Balliol was declared King A. D. 1293. In the fourth year of his Reign an Appeal being made against him to King Edward by Mac-Duff and he refusing to rise from his Seat to answer it King Edward enters Scotland masters the Country takes Baliol and sends him Prisoner to London and afterward to France where he dyed long after in Exile About this time Sir William Walace arose who to his Honour did so Heroically defend his Country in its low condition as made it easily appear that if he had had as happy a fortune to advance as he had to relieve he might have been Commemorated for as great a man as ever was in any age for having upon a quarrel Slain a Young English Gentleman and enforced to lurk in the Hills for safety of his life he became inured to such hardness that awaking his natural Courage he be came the Head of all the Malecontents and filled both the Kingdomes with his terror so that having gleaned up to a tumultuary Army he became Baliols Viceroy thus after some little skirmishes he reduced all beyond the Forts after which he went to England and Ranged up and down for some time and returned without opposition after which the English enters Scotland with a great Army and finding the Scots disposed under three Leaders who disputed among themselves for Priority quite routed them but soon after they made a general insurrection to oppose which King Edward sent Ralph Conniers with a great army who a by tripple Victory were defeated at Kolkin All this while Robert Bruce continued with King Edward who weary of the Kings delays and offputs at last strikes in with John Cumin Baliols Cousin german they agreed that Bruce should have the Kingdom and Cumine all Bruces Lands Cumine notwithstanding communicates this agreement to King Edward Bruce hath notice and by shooing his Horse backward escapes to Lockambban there he finds Cumines Letters advising to cut him off upon which he hastens to Dumforess where he heard that Cumin was and after his exprobrating his infidelity Stabs him dead in the Franciscan Monastery About the same time Walace was traiterously Betrayed by Sir John Monteits at Glasgow and delivered to the English and being brought to London was Cruelly executed in Smithfield and his Limbs hung up in the most Eminent places 97. Robert Bruce was after he had stayed for the Popes absolution for defiling the Monastery with the murder of Cumine Crowned at Scone 1306. a Valiant and Heroick Prince he had many Enemies both at home and abroad which Edward taking advantage off with the assistance of the Cumines quite Routed him forcing him to the Hills where he endured great Misery to the great ruine and Slaughter both of his Family and Friends but making to gether some little force he took Carrick and Innerness by surprisal and by this means augmented his Train so that he was in case to withstand Edward having obtained a considerable Victory though sick and forced to be held on horse back this gave him time to take in the remaining strength but they were within a year retaken from him which incouraged Edward the second to enter with a great Army to Scotland but had a great defeat at Bannokburn which occasioned the loss of Berwick and Bruces confirmation in Parliament some few years after were spent in light Skirmishes and Incursions Robert having some rest

upon him the Title of Great Britain to take away every thing that might be occasion of discord amongst the Subjects of the two Kingdoms and to that effect were sundry of his Majesties Chief Officers of Estate sent for to England by Commission viz. The Earl of Mo●●rose Great Chancellour of Scotland Francis Earl of Errol Lord great Constable Alexander Lord Urquhart and Fyve President Sir Thomas Hamilton Advocate the Lords Lithgow and Roxburgh with sundry others of the Nobility with Sir John Sharp and Sir Thomas Craig Learned Lawyers These meeting with the Chancellour Treasurer Secretary had many Learned Orations Conferences and Speeches wherein the King assisted himself sometime in person This great meeting was dissolved without any great business done At this time came to England Don John de Velasco great Constable of Castile and Extraordinary Ambassador from the King of Spain to take Oath of the King for observation of the Articles of Peace concluded between these two Kings Like as Baron Howard of Essingham and Earl of Nottingham and High Admiral of England was sent into Spain to take the King of Spain's Oath for observation of Peace Like as Edward Baron of Beauchamp and Earl of Hartford were sent into the low Countries for the same purpose The Earl of Rutland was sent into Denmark and sundry Noblemen and Gentlemen to sundry Kings and Princes and Common-wealths his Confederates and Allyances Thomas Percie Robert Catesbee Thomas Winter by the instigation of some Jesuits having intended to Overthrow the King His Queen and Posterity at one blow intended that most inhumane and barbarous Treason called The Powder-Plot and to that effect associating themselves with Sir Edward Dick●ee Ambrose Rockwood John Grant the two Wrights with sundry others fell to digging of the Vault where after long travail hearing that the Cellers were to Let Hyring the Cellers which were under the Parliament House to the use of Mr. Thomas Piercie one of the Kings Gentlemen Pensioners and one of the chief Plotters where conveying in the said Cellers under the Parliament-House a great quantity of Gun-Powder with Billets and Faggots with sundry other combustible stuff the principle Plotters removed themselves to Warwickshire under pretence of a Match Hunting and at that time to surprise Lady Elizabeth then in the custody of the Lord Hadington whom they meant to proclaim Queen and in her Name to enter into Arms. But there is an eye in Heaven that seeth mens actions and lays them open to the view of the World by weak means and weak instruments All things succeeding thus happily as they thought and leaving Faukes alias Johnstoun to give Fire to the Train in the Night time by Torch The Lord Monteagle going along in his Coach an unknown Fellow presents him with a Letter The tenor whereof was to withdraw his Lordship from that session of parliament wherein there was something to be done against the Catholicks but there was a terrible blow to be given and no man should know who should be the giver of it and when the Letter was burnt the Peril was ended My Lord Monteagle in Religion Popish notwithstanding delivereth the Letter to Salisbury who acquainting my Lord Chamberlain and after my Lord Admiral and the Earls of Worster and Northampton who not finding out the meaning of the Letter and knowing that the KING was well seen in such hid misteries present it to his MAJESTY in the privy Gallery The King Reading it over and over again Salisbury told him that he thought some Mad Fellow had written it his Majesty asking the reason of Salisbury He replyed because he writ there was a terrible blow to be given and no man should know who should be the giver His Majestie answered that the last sentence made the other more clear That the Letter being burnt the Peril was ended which the burning of the Letter could make to no purpose to hinder the Peril The King assured him that is was some blowing up of powder and therefore desired that his houses might be surveyed After examination Wh●ngard keeper of the Parliament House told that he had let the House to Mr. Thomas Perci● after some pains taken that same night by the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Knevet Mr. Doublede found the foresaid Faukes with a Dark Lanthorn ready to enter the House but he being apprehended the Blow was prevented where swift fame carrying it down to the Country the principal Plotters knew not where to flee to hide their heads They surprize Warwick Castle where being affrighted with drying of Gun-Powder and other strange Dreams seeing Castles and Towers blown up in the Air they were at last besieged in the Castle of Warwick where Percie and Catesbee were both Shot with one Musquet shot back to back the rest were apprehended and brought to London where after the Confession of all for the most part and penitence and contrition in some craving pardon of his Majestie and Countrie for such an horrible and inhumane Fact Catesbee Grant Winter and Bates were Executed at the West of Pauls as also Winter the two Wrights and Faukes and Ambrose Rockwood at Westminster So here we see the God of light brought the deed of Darkness to light and as they said by their Confession to cast the aspersion and Guilt of the Action upon the Puritanes so the God of Heaven would have it to fall upon the Plotters themselves After this followed the Nuptial of that Noble Lady Lady Elizabeth matched with the Prince Palatine of the Rhyne At which time that Noble Prince Prince Henry a prince so compleat of all Vertues that Europe could not shew his second a Prince so Mars-like and so beloved of all military men and so beloved of them that true Moecenas of Vertue and Learning as appeared by his Valiant his Active and his Princely prise wherein he intituled himself by the Name Moeliades Lord of the Isles challenging the Gentrie of Great Britain which was performed in the Hall of Whitehall by Torch Light the challengers were with him the Duke of Lennox the Earls of Arundal Southampton Pembr●ke Sir Thomas Somerset and Sir Richard Preston where before the King the Queen the Peers of the whole Island with the concurrence of all Forraign Ambassadors where he gave testimony of his Activeness Agility and Quickness which cannot be expressed to the Life how every thing was done in the Action and performed and the prises given to the defendants where the challengers and defendants were most Royally Feasted the next day as the prise and reward of their Vertue and Valour given by the Noblest Lady of Britain according to the Tennor of the challenge and was given by Lady Elizabeth his sister viz. 1. Philip Earl of Montgomerie 2. Thomas Dearsie son to the Lord Dearsie 3. Sir Robert Gordon of Lochinvar This Triumph being ended to his no small Honour Much more might be said of this great Prince who was taken away in the prime of his Years to the great grief

D. 420. A Valiant and Victorious Prince he managed the Government by the help of the Valiant Grame whose father was banished out of Scotland with Ethod Brother to King Eugenius the first who married a Virgin of the Blood Royal of Denmark She brought forth a daughter to him which was married to Fergus the second Eugenius his Father this Grame being the Kings Grandfather was mighty helpful to him against the Romans for he pulled down the wall of Abercorn built by the Romans called afterward Grames Dick as also Adrians Wall over against the Irish Seas By his help the Kings of Scots and Picts past with Fire and Sword through all the bounds between Tyne and Humber here they fought a most bloody Battel in which there were 15000. Britains killed together with most of their Princes and Nobles but few of the Scots by which means they totally expelled the Romans out of Britain and brought the Britains under Contribution reserving also to themselves the whole Land lying between Tyne and Humber This Prince dyed the one and thirtyth year of his Reign having the seventh year delivered his Country from the Romish Yoke 496 years after that Julius Caesar brought them first under Tribute 42. To him his Brother Dongard Succeeded A. D. 451 A Prince fitted both for war and peace in his time the Pelagian Heresie infested the Church for curing of which Celestine Bishop of Rome sent one Paladius into Scotland he is said to have been the first who Instituted Bishops there for untill that time the Church was governed by Monks this King dyed the fifth year of his Reign 43. Constantine the first Succeeded to Dongard A. D. 457. A man full of bad qualities cruel to his Subjects but fearful of his Enemies given up also to all kind of Lasciviousness the Picts seeing his unworthiness broke with him his Subjects also were at the very nick of Rebellion He was slain in the two and twentyth year of his Reign by a Noble man of the Isles whose Daughter he had defloured 44. To him Succeeded Congall the first A. D. 479. His first work was to reduce his Subjects from the sottish and base customs to which his Father had inured them The Britains seeing him inclin'd to peace perswaded Aurelius Ambrosius to demand restitution of Westmorland from him which he denying to do they draw to Arms on both sides but being better advised they again agreed that things should stand as Constantine left them During the Reign of Congall he had Wars with the Saxons but no great action In his time lived those two famous Prophets Merlin and Gildas He dyed the two and twentyth year of his Reign 45. His Brother Govan Succeeded him A. D. 501. who governed the Kingdom with great discretion In his time arrived in Britain Occa and Passentius the Sons of Hengist with an Army of German Souldiers against whom came King Ambrose and fought and routed them but with small reason to boast of his Victory for he lost the prime of his Nobility in that ingagement he thereupon sent for the King of Scots and Picts to come to his assistance finding himself so much weakened Occa being advertised thereof sent his Brother Passentius to Germany for assistance who by contrary winds being driven upon the coast of Ireland gathered a considerable number of Souldiers of fortune and returned home In the mean time Ambrosius was Poysoned by Occaes means to him Succeeded the Valiant King Arthur who by assistance of the Scots and Picts obtained several great Victories against the Saxons Govan having made peace with all his Neighbours returned home He dyed the thirty fourth year of his Reign not without suspicion of Treacherie in which Donald Captain of Athlo had no small hand 46. Eugenius or Ewen the third Congallus the firsts Son Succeeded A. D. 535. a wise and prudent Prince he consulted with some of his Nobles about revenging the late Kings death but found by their Coldness and Unconcernedness in the matter ground of suspicion that they themselves were not Inocent of it which made him dread their designes against Himself Yet he managed the Government so wisely that he dyed in Peace the twenty third year of his Reign 47. To him Succeeded Congal the second his Brother A.D. 558. A Prince of a very strict Life contending even with the Monks themselves for Piety he made many excellent Laws relating to Churches and Churchmen In his time lived these two Famous Men S. Colm and S. Mungo He dyed in peace the eleventh year of his Reign 48. Kinnatill Succeeded his Brother Congall A. D. 569. At which time Aidan Govans Son come to Scotland who being ntroduced to the King by S. Colm was Graciously received with assurance that he should be the man who should Succeed to the Crown He dyed in peace the first year of his Reign 49. Aidan Accordingly Succeeds A. D. 570. Soon after a Conspiracy being discovered which some of his servants intended against his Person the Conspirators fled to the Picts who refusing to deliver them up to Justice when demanded he quite broke with them and Confederated with the Britains against them and the Saxons routing them in several Battels about this time his good Friend S. Colm dyed to his great grief Soon after Augustine the Monk came into Britain being sent by Pope Gregory who created much trouble by his innovations in matters of Religion This Prince dyed in peace the thirty fifth year of his Reign 50. Kenneth the first Congalls second Son Succeeded A. D. 605. We have nothing Recorded of him worth noting He dyed in peace the first year of his Reign 51. Ewen The fourth Aidans second Son Succeeded A. D 606. He was Educated by S. Colm but slighted his Injunctions in one thing for that he preferred War to peace his hand was heavy upon the Rebellious and Stubborn but yet a modest Conqueror he dyed in peace the fifteenth year of his Reign 52. To him Succeeded his Son Ferchard the first A. D. 621. A Vitious Tyrant which his Nobility not being able to endure called him to an account but he refusing to submit was compelled having laid before him how injurious he had been to his Country and what an Enemy to Religion abetting the Pelagian Heresie with many such things they degraded him and put him in Prison where soon after he killed himself 53. To him Succeeded his Son Donald the fourth A. D. 632. He studied nothing more then to preserve and advance the Christian Faith at home and among his Neighbours he sent some Learned Divines to Northumberland to restore the Christian Faith which was much decayed He perished as some write in Lochtay being there at fishing the fourteenth year of his Reign but others affirm he dyed in his Bed 54. His Brother Ferchard the second Succeeded A. D. 646. A wicked Tyrant Impious toward God and cruel towards Man having strangled his Wife and Deflowred his Daughters his Nobles resolved to call him

where at his Landing he overthrew Brennius and Cornellius who were Guardians to the young King of Ireland with their Nobles taking several Forts and Castles at last he laid Seige to Dublin where their young King was which after some resistance yeilded The King returning Conqueror from Ireland dyed the eighteenth year of his Reign by him the City of Aberdeen was built 74. Donald the sixth Constantine the seconds Son succeeded A. D. 894. He was a Religious and good King fit for either War or Peace he had some Ingagments with the Danes and sent Assistance to the King of England against them toward the latter part of his days he was troubled with Intestine broils for the Murrays and Rosses invading one another committed great Insolencies to quench this Fire the King came upon them with a great Army and taking the Leaders of the Faction put them to Death for an Example to others He dyed the eleventh year of his Reign 75. To him succeeded Constantine the third Ethus's Son A. D. 905. A Valiant but unfortunate Prince the perfidious Danes having broken their League with him joyned with the English but within four years they met with such measures as made them glad to return to the Scots Whereupon followed a hot and cruel War wherein Constantine found himself so unsuccessful that he resigned his Crown and betook himself to a Monastery where he dyed the fortieth year of his Reign 76. Malcolm the first Donald the sixths Son succeeded A. D. 943. A valiant Prince and severe Justitiar A Peace being made with England wherein Cumberland and Westmorland were annexed to the Crown of Scotland to be holden in Fee of the Kings of England this Prince passed the rest of his days in executing of Justice which he did with such strictness that some Villains in Murray-Land conspired against him where he was Traiterously killed the ninth year of his Reign 77. Indulf Constantine the thirds Son succeeded A. D. 952. A brave Warrior the Danes Landing in the North with a huge Army he went against them there in a pitch'd Battel he routed them but dyed himself in the Battel the ninth year of his Reign 78. To him succeeded Duff Malcolm the first 's Son A. D. 961. A Prince who much studied the Peace of his Country he went about his Northern Circuits where he kept his Courts severely punishing Malefactors coming at last to the Castle of Forress suspecting no harm was Traiterously murdered by the Captain and his Wife who were afterwards apprehended and put to a cruel Death 79. To him succeeded Culen Indulfs Son A. D. 966. Who having revenged the late Kings Death soon after became a most Flagitious and wicked Prince deflowring his own Daughters and Sisters He was killed by Rodard a Noble man at Meffen this Daughter he had deflowred the fourth year of his Reign 80. Keneth the third Duffs Brother succeeded A. D. 970. The beginning of his Reign was good executing of Justice severely finding his Nobles averse to deliver up ther Friends and Vassals who troubled the Peace to Justice he called a Convention of the States at Scone where having Clandestinely conveyed some Men in Arms where the Nobles were convened made them all Prisoners telling them that so it would be untill they did give up those Rebels to Justice they finding themselves thus hooked sent to their Friends to perform the Terms of their Liberation thus in a short time he had five hundred notable Thieves delivered up them he caused to be every one hanged upon Gibbets close by the Castle of Berth The Danes with a great Fleet of Ships Landing in Angus destroyed all before them till they came to Berth where the King and his Army ran-countered with them there followed a most bloody Battel the Scots beginning to give Ground were made to Rally by the means of one Hay and his two Sons who hearing as they were at Plowing not far from the Field that the Scots fled came each of them with a Club in his hand and renewed the Battel putting the Danes to flight there they were all cut off the King amply rewarded him giving him so much of the best Land in Scotland as a Faulcon off a Mans hand flew over which was six miles in length and four in breadth this was the Original of the Noble and Ancient Surname of Hay But that which darkned all this Noble Kings Acts was his causing Malcolm Prince of Scotland to be Poisoned making a Law that the Eldest Son or Nephew of the deceased Prince of what age soever he be shall succeed to the Crown with divers others Laws of the like Nature At last coming to the Castle of Felercarne the Lady Grof had the Kings Image in Brass in the midst of the House with a Golden Apple in his hand the King upon the Ladies desire pulling the Apple out of the Images hand was shot through the Body with an Engine that was made in it for the purpose He dyed the twenty fourth year of his Reign 81. To him succeeded Constantine the fourth Surnamed the Balde A. D. 994. He came to the Crown by Usurpation he was killed in Battel at Cramond in Lonthian the second year of his Reign 82. Grimus Duffs Son Usurped the Crown A.D. 996. Malcolm whose Right it was sent to the Nobles acquainting them how far he was wronged which Grimus hearing of caused the Messengers to be cast into Prison which was like to have been the beginning of a War yet they were seemingly agreed for that time by one Horthadus a Bishop but not long after his Vices being intolerable Malcolm was brought home from England who killed him in Battel the eighteenth year of his Reign 83. Malcolm succeeded to the Crown A. D. 1004. A Noble and Valiant Prince in his time Sweno King of the Danes being banished his Country and coming to Scotland was converted to Christianity and supplyed with Men for reducing his Kingdom yet to his great loss he soon after made War against Malcolm who utterly routed his Army several times This Prince was killed by a Conspiracy of some of his Nobles in the Castle of Glames the thirtieth year of his Reign the Conspirators flying in the Night chanced to pass over the Pool of Forfar upon the Ice where the Ice breaking they all miserably perished 84. Duncan the first Malcolm the seconds Grand-son by his Daughter Beatrix succeeded A. D. 1034. He was thought to be of too indulgent a Spirit for Governing that fierce and untractable People Bancho of whom are descended the Ancient and Royal name of Stewarts was in his time Thane or Earl of Lochaber He was Traiterously murdered by his Cousin Makbeth the sixth year of his Reign 85. To him succeeded Mackbeth Malcolm the seconds Daughters Son A. D. 1040. Altho' he came to the Crown by Treachery and Blood-shed yet he Governed for a time pretty moderately but at last brake out into all kind of Tyranny and Cruelty forcing his Nobles