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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45001	The grounds & reasons of monarchy considered in a review of the Scotch story, gathered out their best authours and records / by J.H.	Hall, John, 1627-1656.	1650 (1650)	Wing H346; ESTC R16160	36,146	138

and he made up two factions which tore the Kingdome till at length Milcoms Bastard Brother himself being in Englaend assisting the Danes fought him routed his Army and with the losse of his own life took away his they dying of mutuall wounds Grime of whose birth they do not certainly agree was chosen by the Constantinians who made a good party but at intercession of Forard an accounted Rabbi of the times they at last agreed Grime being to enjoy the Kingdome for his life after which Milcolumb should succeed his fathers Law standing in force but he after declining into lewdnesse cruelty and spoil as Princes drunk with greatnesse and prosperity use to do the people called back Milcolumb who rather receiving battel then giving it for it was upon Ascention day his principall Holy-day routed his Forces wounded himself took him pulled out his eyes which altogether made an end of his life all factions and humours being reconciled Milcolumb who with various Fortune fought many signall Battels with the Danes who under their King Sueno had invaded in his latter end he grew to such Covetousness and Oppression that all Authours agree he was murthered though they disagree of the manner some say by Confederacy with his servants some by his Kinsmen and Competitours some by the friends of a maid whom he had ravished Donald his Grandchild succeeded a good natur'd and unactive Prince who with a stratagem of sleepy drink destroyed a Danish Army that had invaded and distressed him but at last being insnared by his Kinsman Mackbeth who was pricked forward by Ambition and a former vision of three women of a Sour-humane shape whereof one saluted him Thane of Angus another of Murray the third King he was beheaded The severity and cruelty of Mackbeth was so known that both the sons of the murthered King were forced to retire and yield to the times whilest he courted the Nobility with largesses The first ten years he spent virtuously but the remainder was so savage and Tyrannicall that Macduff Thone of Fife fled into England to Milcolm son of Donald who by his perswasions and the assistance of the King of England enterd Scotland where he found such great accessions to his party that Mackbeth was forced to fly his death is hid in a such a mist of Fables that it is not certainly known Milcolumb the third of that name now being quietly seated was the first that brought in those gay inventions and distinctions of Honours Dukes Marquesses that now are become so ayery that some carry them from places to which they have as little relation as any as Island in America and other from Cottages and Dovecoats his first trouble was Forfar Mackbeths son who claimed the Crown but was soon after cut off some war he had with that William whom we call falsly the Conquerour some with his own People which by the Intercession of the Bishops were taken up At length quarrelling with our William the second he laid Siege to Alnwick Castle which being forced to extremity a Knight came out with the Keys on a Spear as to present them to him and yield the Castle but he not with due heed receving them was runne through the eye and slain some from hence derive the name of Piercy how truly I know not his sonne and Successour Edward following his revenge too hotly received some wounds of which within a few dayes he died Donald Bane that is white who had fled into the Isles for fear of Mackbeth promised them to the Kings of Norway if he would procure him to be King which was done with ease as the times then stood but this Usurper being hated by the People who generally loved the memory of Milcomb they set Duncan Milcombs Bastard against him who forced him to retire to his Isles Duncan a Military man shewed himself unfit for Government so Donald waiting all advantages caused him to be beheaded and restored himself but his Reign was so turbulent the Islanders and English invading on both sides that they called in Edgar sonne of Milcolmb then in England who with small assistances possest himself all men deserting Donald who being taken and brought to the King died in Prison Edgar secure by his virtues and strengthened by the English alliance spent nine years virtuously and peaceably and gave the People leave to breathe and rest after so much trouble and bloudshed His Brother Alexander sirnamed Acer or the fierce succeeded the beginning of whose Reign being disturbed by a Rebellion he speedily met them at the Spay which being a swift River and the Enemy on the other side he offered himself to foard on horse-back but Alexander Car taking the imployment from him foarded the River with such courage that the Enemy fled and were quiet The rest of his Reign some say he had the name of Acer for that some Conspiratours being by the fraud of Chamberlain admitted into his Chamber he casually waking first slew the Chamberlain and after six of the Conspiratours not ceasing to pursue the rest till he had slain most of them with his own hands this with the building of some Abbeys and seventeen years Reign is all we know of him His Brother David succeeded one whose profuse prodigality upon the Abbeys brought the revenew of the Crown so prevalent was the superstition of those dayes almost to nothing he had many battels with our Stephen about the title of Maud the Empresse and having lost his excellent wife and hopefull Sonne in the flower of their dayes he left the Kingdome to his Grandchildren the eldest whereof was David a simple King baffled and led up and down into France by our Henry the second which brought them to such contempt that he was vext by frequent Insurrections especially them of Murray whom he almost extirpated the latter part of his Reign was spent in building of Monasteries he himself tyed by a Vow of Chastity would never marry but left his Successor his brother William who expostulating for the Earldom of Northumberland gave occasion for a War in which he was surprized and taken but afterwards releast upon his doing Homage for the Kingdom of Scotland to King Henry of whom he acknowledged to hold it and puting in Caution the Castles of Roxborough once strong now nothing but ruins Barwick Edinburgh Sterling all which notwithstanding was after released by Richard Ceur de Lyon who was then upon an expedition to the Holy War from whence returning both he and David Earl of Huntington brother to the King of Scots were taken Prisoners the rest of his Reign saving the rebuilding of Saint Johnstone which had been destroyed by the waters whereby he lost his eldest Son and some Treaties with our King John was little worth the memory only you will wonder that a Scottish King could Reign fourty nine years and dye in peace Alexander his sonne succeeded famous for little save some Expeditions against our King John some Insurrections and a Reign two years

Writer till Four hundred years after Christ No we shall no more envy these old Heroes unto them then their placing the red Lion in the Dexter point of their Eschutcheon But though we might in justice reject them as Fabulous and Monkish yet since themselves acknowledge them and they equally make against them we shall run them over like veritable History The first of this blessed race was Fergus first Generall and afterward got himself made King but no sooner cast away on the coast of Ireland but a contention arises about the validity of their Oath to him and Uncles are appointed to succeed which argues it Elective so Feritharis Brother to Fergus is King but his Nephew enters a Conspiracy against him forces him to resigne and flie to the Isles where he died Foritharis dying soon after was suspected to be poisoned after him comes in Main Fergus second sonne who with his sonne Dornadilla reigned quietly fifty seven years But Reuther his sonne not being of age the people make his Uncle Nothat take the Government but he misruling Reuther by the help of one Doualus raised a party against him and beheads him makes himself King with the indignation of the People that he was not elected so that by the kindred of Nothat he is fought with taken and displaced but afterward makes a party and regains His son Thereus was too young so that his Brother Rhoutha succeeded but after seventeen years was glad to resigne Well Thereus reigns but after six years declines to such lewdnesse that they force him to flie and govern by a Prorex after his death Josina his Brother and his Son Finan are Kings and quietly die so But then comes Durst one who slaies all the Nobility at a Banquet and is by the People slain after his death the validity of the Oath to Fergus is called in question and the elective power vindicated but at length Even his brother is admitted who though he ruled valiantly and well yet he had Gillus a bastard Son Vaser Regni Cupidus The next of the line are two Twins Docham and Dorgall sons of Durst they while they disputed of priority of age are by the artifice of Gillus slain in a tumult who makes a strong party and seizing of a Hold sayes he was made Supervisor by his Father and so becomes King cuts off all the race of Durst but is after forc'd out of the Kingdom and taken by Even the second his Successor who was chosen by the People and by him put to death in Ireland after Even comes Eder after Eder his son Even the third who for making a Law that the Nobility should have the enjoyment of all new married women before they were touched by their husbands was doomed to prison during his life there strangled his Successor was his Kinsman Metellan after whom was elected Caratac whom his brother Corbret succeeded but then came Dardan whom the Lords made take on him the Government by reason of the nonage of Corbrets son who for his lewdness was taken by the People and beheaded After him Corbret the second whose Son Luctac for his lewdness was by the People put to death then was elected Mogald who following his vitious Predecessors steps found his death like theirs violent His Son Conar one of the Conspirators against him succeeded but mis-governing was clapt in Prison and there dyed Ethodius his Sisters son succeded who was slain in the night in his Chamber by his Piper His Son being a Minor Satrael his brother was accepted who seeking to place the succession in his own line grew so hatefull to the People that not daring to come abroad he was strangled in the night by his own servants which made way for the youngest Brother Donald who out-did the others vices by contrary vertues and had a happy raign of one and twenty years Ethodiis the second Son of the first of that name was next a dull un-active Prince Familiarum tumultu occisus His Son Athirco promised fair but deceived their expectations with most horrid lewdness and at length vitiated the daughters of Nathaloc a Nobleman and caused them to be whipt before his eyes but seeing himself surrounded by Conspirators eluded their fury with his own sword his Brother and Children being forced to flie to the Picts Nathaloc turning his injury into ambition made himself King and governed answerably for he made most of the Nobility to be strangled under the pretence of calling them to Councell and was after slain by his own servants After his death Athirco's children were called back and Findor his son being of excellent hopes accepted who made good what his youth promised he beat in sundry Battels Donald the Islander who seeing he could not prevail by force sent two as Renegadoes to the King who being not accepted conspire with his Brother by whose means one of them slew him with a hunting spear when he was a hunting His brother Donald succeeds the youngest of the three who about to revenge his Brothers death hears the Islander is entred Murray whom he encountring with unequal forces is taken prisoner with thirty of the Nobility and whether of grief or his wounds dyes in Prison The Islander that had before assumed the name now assumed the power the Nobles by reason of their kindred prisoners being overawed this man wanting nothing of an exquisite Tyrant was after twelve years Butcheries slain by Cratherinth son of Findor who under a disguise found address and opportunity The brave Tyrannicide was universally accepted and gave no cause of repentance his Raign is famous for a War begun between the Scots and Picts about a Dog as that between the Trojans and Italians for a white Hart and the defect on of Carausius from Dioclesian which happened in his time His Kinsman Fyncormach succeeded worthy of memory for little but the piety of the Culdys an order of Religious men of that time overborn by others succeeding hee being dead three sonnes of his three brothers contended Romach as the eldest strengthned by his alliance with the Picts with their assistance seized on it forcing others to fly but proving cruell the Nobility conspired and slew him Angusian another pretender succeeds who being assailed by Nectam King of the Picts who came to revenge Romach routed his Army in a pitcht battel but Nectham coming again he was routed and both he and Nectham slaine Tethelmac the third pretender came next who beating the Picts and wasting their fields Hergust when he saw there could be no advantage by the sword suborned two Picts to murther him who drawing to conspiracy the Piper that lay in his Chamber as the manner was then he at the appointed time admitted them and there slew him The next was Even son of Fincormac who was slain in a Battell with the Picts to the almost extirpation and banishment of the Scots but at the last the Picts taking distaste at the Romans entred into a secret League with the