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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

given to Pastimes especially Hunting he is said to have made several Laws about Hunting which the Ancient Scots observe to this day he dyed peaceably the 28. year of his Reign 5. Dornadilles eldest Son being yet a Child and not fit to Govern the People set Hothat his Brother upon the Throne in the year of the World 3738. before Christ 233 after the beginning of the Reign 98. He proved a monstrous Tyrant taking Pleasure in nothing more than in murthering his Nobility and destroying his People by all the means that he could devise till at last one Dowall a Gallaway man having gathered together a Company of disaffected Persons came boldly to the King telling him how grievous his Government was to the People because of his Oppression and therefore desired him to resign the Crown which he was unfit to wear to such as had a better Title to it the King tho' surprized by his Enemy yet no ways daunted told him that whatever was done by him during his Government was done by Royal Authority and if it was grievous to the Subjects they had their own obstinacy to blame for it hereupon Dowall presently fell upon and killed him after he had Reigned twenty years 6. Rewther the Son of Dornadilles was by Dowals Faction made King without the Peoples Consent in the year of the World 3758. before Christ 213. after the Reign 118. the Nobles took this very ill And as for Hothat tho' they knew that he deserved the worst kind of Death yet they did not approve of this Fact as being of bad Example they knew also that what Dowal did was for his own ends as afterward appeared Hothat's Relations taking the advantage of the Peoples dissatisfaction stirred them up by all means to make War upon Dowall at length they draw to Arms under the Command of Ferguhort Hothat's Son-in-Law and Captain of Kintire and Lorn Dowall came against them with great Power accompanied with the young King the King of Picts and many others of his Friends There followed a most cruel Battel where after two several Engagements in one day Dowall was utterly defeated himself the King of Picts together with all the chief of the Claws were killed upon the place Reuther the young King was pursued and taken at the Castle of Callender but very civilly used The consequences of this unhappy day were most fatal both to Scots and Picts not having Men enough left alive to inhabit the Realm or to withstand their Enemies upon which the Brittons took occasion to invade them but they no wise being in Case to resist them after several bloody Skirmishes were forced to betake them to the Mountains the King of Scots went into Ireland and the King of Picts to Orkney whereafter twelve years Misery they resolved once more to try their Fortune and returning home the one from Ireland the other from Orkney they joyned Battle with their old Enemies the conflict was so terrible that none of the parties could boast much of the Victory However the up-shot of the matter was a Peace was concluded and the Scots and Picts re-installed in their old Possessions This King dyed in the twenty six year of his Reign having left one Son begotten by Gethus the King of Picts his Daughter 7. But he being young and not fit to Reign being scarcely ten years of age Reutha his Fathers Brother succeeded in the year of the World 3784. before Christ 187. after the beginning of the Reign 144. he instituted divers Laws which are in Force among the old Inhabitants to this day and having Reigned seventeen years with great applause either for his want of Health or Love of Solitariness or for fear of Thereus Reuthers Son whom he knew to have an itching after the Crown he resigned 8. Thereus succeeded in the year of the World 3799. before Christ 171. after the Reign 158. The first six months he Governed pretty moderately but he suddenly brake loose giving reins to all kinds of of wickedness causing Slanders and Calumnies to be raised against his Nobles and under this pretence cruelly Murthering them but at last the people not able to endure his Tyranny degraded him of all his Honours Covan Captain of the Brigants was made Governor who Governed very wisely about the space of eleven years at which time being informed that Thereus had dyed at York he resigned the Government 9. Josina the Kings Brother succeeded to the Crown the year of the World 3818. before Christ 161. after the Reign 170. He was a peacable and good King it is observed of him that he highly esteemed Physitians being himself very expert in that Science whence it came to pass that for many Ages after the Heads of Families and Men of worth were for the most part excellent Physitians He dyed in a good Age after he had Reigned twenty four years 10. To him succeeded his Son Finnan in the year of the World 3834. before Christ 137. after the Reign 194. This Prince followed his Fathers Foot-steps he studied nothing more than to gain the Hearts of his Subjects and to maintain his Royal Dignity more with Clemency than Force That he might prove an effectual Enemy to Tyranny he made a Law that Kings should command nothing of great weight in the state without Advice of their Parliament he dyed the thirtieth year of his Reign 11. Durstius his Son succeeded Finnan A. M. 3864. before Christ 107. after the Reign 224. A Flagitious and wicked Tyrant he banished his Fathers Friends from the presence because they advised him to leave off his lewd Courses Having prostituted his Wife who was Daughter to the King of the Brittons to his Companions he repudeated her But soon after it was discovered that he was carrying on a Conspiracy against his Nobles and knowing that he could have no shelter either at home or abroad having been so cruel he feigned a sincere Repentance of his former wickedness calling home his Queen promising by Oath to his Nobles that he would no longer follow his Irregular Courses which they readily believing forgot all former Injuries but not long after having invited them to make them merry with him when he got them all together he caused a Company of Ruffians to fall upon them and Murther them The noise of this heinous Act going all abroad stirred all the People to revenge who killed him in Battle after that he had Reigned nine years 12. It was hotly debated among the Nobles whether the next in Blood to Durstius should succeed some were against it fearing lest the Successor if he were in kin to him might be tempted to revenge the Death Others were for keeping up his ancient Custom according to the Oath sworn to Fergus at length they Condesended upon Ewen Brother to Durstius him they Crowned A. M. 3873. before Christ 98. He is thought to have been the first who caused his Subjects to give him their Oath of fidelity He went with the Picts against the Brittons where

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

the Earls of Montross Gleancan Lords Maxwel Ruthwen with others being advertised by Letters came to him they of the Association having the Prince with them to add Authority to their Quarrel Gathered from all Quarters the two Armies being in readiness to decide their Quarrel by Battel the Earl of Athole the Kings Uncle so travelled between the Lords of either Party that the King had a Suspension of Arms agreed on The Earl rendring himself a pledge for the Accomplishment of the Kings part of the Reconcilement to Lord Hails Thus the King lost a good opportunity the like of which was never again in his offer for the Lords notwithstanding that was agreed upon continued very troublesome to the Country the Town of Edenburgh is pestered with Troops of armed Men. The King warned of his danger fortifies the Castle of Edenburgh for his defence then he sent to the Lords to understand their Intentions and what they meant they finding their offences flew higher than hope of pardon could reach answered that nothing could secure them nor the Kingdom until he had divested himself of all the Government of the Kingdom and resigned the Crown in Favour of his Son But he resolving to hazard all rather then condescend to this was advised by some of his Friends to retire to the Castle of Sterling where his Forces might have more easie Access to him but this proved a a fatal advice for coming thither the Treacherous Constable denyed him entrance in the mean time News came to him that the Confederates were within six miles of him at Falkirk The King to make a Vertue of necessity resoves to put all upon the hazard of a Battel the Confederates were incamped near the Torwood The King set forward with his Army upon the other side of the Torwood Both drew up in a plain field near Bannock-burn and engaged most desperately The first Charge is valiantly given and Lance meeting with Lance the Vant-Guard of the Lords began to yield ground But the next Charge being given by Anandale Men the middle of the Kings Army is beat back to the main Battel notwithstanding of which it is fought a while with great obstinacy on both sides until the Standard Royal was beaten down then began the Kings Army to bow the Horsemen obeying no Orders begun to turn their backs In this rout and Confusion of Horse and Foot the King seeking to retire towards the River Ferth by the fall of his Horse in leaping a Ditch being sore bruised was carried by such who knew him not to a Well at Bannock-burn where he was killed in cold Blood by Borthwick a Priest with some others the twenty ninth year of his Reign and was buried at Kambush-Kenneth 105. To him succeeded his Son James the fourth who was Crowned at Edenburgh A. D. 1489. Being about sixteen years of age a noble and Couragious Prince and Godly the beginning of his Government was most uneasie the Death of the late King being yet recent his followers resolve to have it revenged In the North Alexander Lord Forbs displayed the Bloody shirt of the murthered King upon a Lance in Aberdeen and other places of the North inviting the Country as by an Herald to the revenge of his Murther In the West the Earl of Lennox hath the same resolution also the Earl of Marshad Lords Goodore and Lyle with the Confederates in other parts of the Kingdom But the Lord Drumond routed the Earl of Lennox at Telliemoss and also Sir Andrew Wood obtained a considerable Victory over the English who pretended to revenge the late Kings death at the mouth of Ferth The Rumor of these Victories so amazed Forbs and his Confederates that they laid down their Arms and put themselves into the Kings mercy and were all received into Favour The Lords rejoyced greatly that they had brought things to this pass but the King gave no sign of Joy yea upon the contrary to give a Testimony to the World of the Agony of his mind for the Death of his Father and that Remorse and Anguish he suffered for the Faults of those who brought him to the Field against him he girded himself with an Iron Chain to which every third year thereafter he added some Rings and weight so long as he lived and though this might threaten no good to some yet they pass it by not daring to Attempt ought against the common Peace Amidst this Grief and Sorrow of the Kings Andrew Forman Secretary to Alexander the sixth Bishop of Rome arrived in Scotland with Instructions to the Clergy in a Letter from his Master to the King and Nobles exhorting them to the mutual Duties of their Stations after this some Head-strong Nobility dying the Country enjoyed a great calm of Peace the Seeds of Dissention seeming to be quite taken away But the Borders keeping up their old fewds by new Accessions make daily Incursions one upon another which came at last to open Hostility Whereupon King James enters England and spoils all the North parts and returns home without any considerable Action not long after Ambassadors came from England desiring a Peace which is granted and the Commissioners for both sides met at Edenburgh where many Articles and conditions of the peace were hotly disputed one of the Englishe's demands was an Interview between the two Kings at Newcastle which being referred to King James his own arbitrement he answered that he meant to treat of a Peace but not to go a Begging for it Much being said at last they conclude upon a Peace for some Months following after which followed a match between King James of Scotland with Lady Margaret the King of Englands Eldest Daughter which was consummated at Edenburgh King Henry bringeth his Daughter as far as Cokebiston in the way and then resigning her to the Earl of Northumberland who with a great train of Lords and Ladys brought her to Edenburgh to the King her Husband where they for some days were taken up with nothing but Banqueting masks and Tilting with such other exercises by this means the King wasted his Treasures greatly then some of them set their wits awork to squeeze the Subjects for Money which occasioned great murmurings among the Poor A. D. 1507. James Prince of Scotland and the Isles was born at Holy-Rood-house the one and twentyth of January but he soon after dyed at Sterling the year following the Queen brought forth another Son named Arthur but he dyed also in the Castle of Edenburgh Then she brought forth her third Son at Linlithgow who Succeeded to the Crown and was named James About the same time Bernard Stewart came to Scotland intreating that King James would make War with King Henry of England to keep him from molesting France which at last he obtained then began they to go to their old work of making incursions one upon another till at last it breaks out to an open War Whilst King James staied at Linlithgow attending the gathering of an Army now ready