The
first
Part.
I
Have
often
thought
it
strange
that
among
all
the
Governments
,
either
past
or
being
,
the
Monarchicall
should
so
far
in
extent
and
number
exceed
the
Popular
,
as
that
they
could
never
yet
come
into
comparison
.
I
could
never
be
perswaded
,
but
it
was
more
happy
for
a
people
to
be
disposed
of
by
a
number
of
persons
jointly
interested
and
concerned
with
them
,
then
to
be
numbred
as
the
herd
and
Inheritance
of
One
to
whose
lust
and
madnesse
they
were
absolutely
subject
;
and
that
any
man
of
the
weakest
reason
and
generosity
would
not
rather
choose
for
his
habitation
that
piece
of
earth
,
whereon
there
were
accesse
to
honour
by
virtue
and
no
worth
could
be
excluded
;
rather
then
that
where
all
advancement
should
proceed
from
the
will
of
one
scarcely
hearing
and
seeing
with
his
own
Organs
,
and
gain'd
for
the
most
part
by
means
lewd
and
indirect
,
and
that
in
the
end
to
amount
to
nothing
else
but
a
more
splendid
and
dangerous
slavery
.
To
satisfie
this
,
I
considered
how
inscrutably
Providence
carryes
on
the
turns
and
stops
of
all
Governments
,
so
that
most
people
rather
found
them
then
made
them
;
the
constitutions
of
men
,
some
not
fit
to
be
masters
of
their
Liberty
,
some
not
capable
,
some
not
willing
:
the
Ambition
of
setled
Tyrants
,
who
breaking
their
own
bounds
have
brought
in
violent
alterations
,
and
lastly
,
civill
discord
,
which
have
either
corrupted
or
altered
better
settlements
.
But
these
are
observations
,
rather
then
Arguments
,
and
relate
to
fact
,
rather
then
reason
.
That
which
astonished
me
most
was
to
see
this
Heroick
learned
Age
,
not
onely
not
rising
to
thoughts
of
Liberty
,
but
in
stead
thereof
foolishly
turning
their
wits
and
swords
against
themselves
in
the
maintenance
of
Them
,
whose
slaves
they
are
,
and
indeed
they
can
be
no
weak
causes
that
produce
so
long
and
settled
a
distemper
though
some
of
them
I
supposed
,
if
not
most
of
them
,
are
these
.
He
knoweth
nothing
that
knoweth
not
how
superstitiously
the
generality
of
mankind
is
given
to
hold
up
traditions
,
and
how
pertinatious
it
is
in
the
maintenance
of
its
first
prejudices
,
insomuch
that
a
discovery
or
more
refind
reason
is
as
insupportable
to
them
,
as
the
Sunne
is
to
an
eye
newly
brought
cut
of
darknesse
;
hence
opiniatritrie
(
which
is
commonly
proportioned
to
their
ignorance
)
and
a
generous
obstinacy
sometimes
to
death
and
ruine
:
So
that
it
is
no
marvell
if
we
see
many
Gentlemen
whose
education
enabled
them
onely
to
use
their
senses
and
first
thoughts
,
so
dazled
with
the
splendor
of
a
Court
,
prepossessed
with
the
affection
of
a
Prince
,
or
bewitched
with
some
subdolous
favour
,
That
he
chooseth
rather
any
hazard
then
enchantment
should
be
broke
up
.
Others
perhaps
a
degree
above
these
,
yet
in
respect
of
some
Title
stuck
upon
the
Family
(
which
hath
been
as
fortunate
a
mysterie
of
Kingship
as
any
other
)
or
in
rereverence
to
some
glorious
former
atchievements
(
minding
not
that
in
all
these
cases
the
people
are
the
onely
effective
means
,
and
the
King
onely
imaginary
)
they
think
they
should
degenerate
from
bravery
in
bringing
on
a
change
.
Others
are
with-held
by
sloth
and
timerousnesse
,
either
not
daring
or
unwilling
to
be
happy
;
some
looking
no
further
then
their
private
welfare
,
indifferent
for
the
multiplication
of
publick
evils
.
Others
(
and
these
the
worst
of
all
)
out
of
pravity
of
nature
sacrificing
to
their
ambition
and
avarice
,
and
in
order
to
that
,
following
any
power
concurring
with
any
Machinations
,
and
upholding
their
Authours
:
whilst
Princes
themselves
,
(
trained
up
in
these
Arts
,
or
receiving
them
in
Tradition
)
know
how
to
wind
all
their
humours
to
their
own
advantage
,
now
foisting
in
the
Divinity
of
their
Titles
into
Pulpits
,
now
amuzing
the
People
with
magnificencies
and
inter-ludes
,
now
diverting
their
hot
Spirits
to
some
unprofitable
forrain
War
(
making
way
to
their
accursed
ends
of
revenge
or
glory
,
with
the
effusion
of
that
bloud
which
should
be
as
dear
to
them
as
their
own
:
)
Now
stroaking
the
People
with
some
feeble
but
enforced
Law
(
for
which
notwithstanding
they
will
be
paid
;
)
and
't
is
observed
,
the
most
notorious
Tyrants
have
taken
this
course
;
Now
giving
up
the
eminentest
of
their
Ministers
(
which
they
part
with
as
indifferently
as
their
Robes
)
unto
the
rage
and
fury
of
the
People
,
so
that
they
are
commanded
and
condemned
by
the
same
mouth
,
and
the
credulous
and
ignorant
believing
their
King
set
over
them
,
sit
still
,
and
by
degrees
grow
into
quiet
and
admiration
,
especially
if
lulled
a
sleep
with-some
small
continuance
of
peace
(
be
it
never
so
unjust
,
unsound
,
or
dangerous
)
as
if
the
body
politick
could
not
languish
of
an
internall
disease
,
whilst
its
complexion
is
fresh
and
chearfull
.
Those
are
the
Reasons
,
which
(
if
I
conceive
aright
)
have
stupified
the
lesse
knowing
part
of
mankind
,
Now
how
the
more
searching
part
hath
so
odly
miscarried
,
will
fall
under
consideration
.
First
,
then
,
we
need
not
take
the
pains
to
demonstrate
how
easie
a
thing
it
is
for
men
of
acutenesse
,
not
conversant
in
Civil
things
not
onely
to
miscarry
in
the
apprehension
,
but
even
in
the
judgement
of
them
;
for
they
instead
of
bringing
the
series
and
reason
of
affairs
into
rule
and
method
,
use
contrariwise
to
measure
them
by
their
own
presupposed
speculation
;
and
by
that
means
become
incapable
of
weighing
rightly
the
various
incidences
and
circumstances
of
businesses
:
For
it
is
to
be
observed
,
that
the
Theorems
of
no
Art
or
Profession
are
more
easily
found
,
or
of
difficulter
practice
,
then
those
of
Policy
;
so
that
it
is
no
wonder
if
men
meerly
contemplative
,
fail
so
oft
in
the
very
laying
of
grounds
,
as
we
shall
anon
instance
:
now
how
fruitfull
dainties
are
Errour
and
Absurdity
,
we
all
know
.
But
more
especially
the
contentions
of
contemplative
men
are
most
numerous
,
various
and
endlesse
;
for
wrangling
is
with
them
an
Art
,
and
they
are
endued
with
that
ungenerous
shame
never
to
acknowledge
:
Besides
their
principles
are
most
times
ill
rivetted
,
and
it
is
to
be
feared
,
that
in
their
superstructions
,
they
as
often
call
in
their
imaginations
,
as
their
judgement
to
frame
arguments
.
Besides
,
these
men
fighting
onely
with
Pen
,
Ink
,
and
Paper
,
seldome
arrive
at
a
means
to
decide
the
Quarrell
,
by
which
he
that
gains
the
last
word
is
supposed
Conquerour
.
Or
the
other
leaves
almost
as
inglorious
a
conquest
to
the
Victor
as
if
he
had
been
overthrown
That
which
I
would
say
from
all
this
,
is
,
that
the
generality
of
speculative
men
,
for
the
most
part
guiding
their
understandings
by
those
notions
which
they
find
in
Books
:
fall
not
seldome
by
this
means
into
considerable
Errours
:
For
all
Books
,
those
I
mean
that
are
humane
,
and
fall
directly
under
consideration
,
either
lay
down
Practicall
things
,
and
observations
of
King-ship
,
or
some
generall
and
universall
Notions
,
or
else
controversially
Assert
Monarchy
against
some
opposers
.
Now
in
the
two
latter
there
are
generally
found
two
grand
and
insupportable
fallacies
,
the
first
whereof
is
,
that
they
fraudulently
converse
in
generals
,
and
(
to
borrow
the
School-term
)
speak
of
that
in
the
Abstract
,
which
they
should
do
in
the
Concret
:
As
for
example
,
where
they
should
assert
the
particular
right
of
this
or
that
Prince
,
they
cunningly
or
ignorantly
lay
out
most
of
their
discourse
in
generall
about
Monarchy
,
and
not
seldome
weary
and
amaze
the
dispute
,
before
they
come
to
the
true
Ground
and
stating
of
the
Quarrel
,
whereby
the
Readers
diverted
by
such
prepossession
,
and
entangled
by
generall
Notions
of
Authority
,
Power
and
Government
,
seldome
descend
into
the
consideration
of
particulars
;
where
the
great
scruple
and
difficultie
for
the
most
part
lies
.
So
that
any
King
(
be
his
accesse
to
the
Government
never
so
fraudulent
and
unjustifiable
)
becomes
to
be
look'd
on
as
sacred
Authoritative
,
and
by
degrees
begins
to
blush
at
the
Attributes
of
Sacred
Majesty
,
Grace
,
and
Highnesse
;
or
any
other
Terms
that
the
servile
flattery
and
witty
Barbarity
of
Courtiers
can
give
unto
them
;
nay
some
even
of
the
wicked
Roman
Emperours
,
could
be
content
to
be
saluted
with
Perennities
and
Divinities
,
whereas
if
men
would
call
their
reasons
into
Councel
,
they
might
find
that
these
blazing
Stars
were
opake
Bodies
,
and
shone
onely
by
reflection
:
These
men
having
no
more
then
either
the
Cabal
of
their
own
state
and
distance
.
or
the
wretched
Imposition
upon
the
People
cast
on
them
;
For
would
men
divest
the
Authority
from
the
Person
,
and
then
commonly
find
it
inconsiderable
,
if
not
positively
evil
.
And
again
,
consider
Authority
in
it self
as
a
thing
fixt
,
veritable
,
immutable
,
and
(
when
justly
administred
)
sacred
,
they
might
find
,
that
granting
a
Prince
to
be
the
most
Regular
Just
person
in
all
the
World
,
yet
many
men
as
good
,
joyned
with
him
,
and
intrusted
,
and
concurring
to
the
same
end
,
might
do
much
more
good
;
and
that
to
deny
this
,
were
to
be
as
irrationall
,
as
to
deny
that
one
Person
could
do
no
good
at
all
.
But
however
,
this
I
take
to
be
certain
and
demonstrable
out
of
their
own
Principles
,
that
Kings
being
onely
to
be
considered
in
respect
of
the
trust
and
power
that
lies
on
them
,
a
number
of
men
by
as
just
means
(
to
say
not
better
)
invested
with
the
same
trust
and
power
,
are
every
jot
as
sacred
,
and
of
as
much
divine
right
as
any
Monarch
is
(
the
power
being
essentially
the
same
united
or
divided
,
as
if
a
Commission
be
to
one
or
three
)
it
will
then
result
,
that
republicks
may
be
as
Just
and
Authoritative
,
as
King-ships
,
and
then
their
radicall
Argument
of
the
Jure
Divino
of
King-ship
is
wholly
enfeebled
,
and
the
other
rendred
equally
as
Soveraign
.
And
I
am
to
note
(
but
this
is
but
transiently
)
the
poornesse
,
or
to
say
better
,
the
Blasphemy
of
that
Argument
,
that
flourishes
out
Kings
as
the
Eclypes
of
Divinity
,
and
vainly
lavishes
some
Metaphysicks
,
to
prove
that
all
things
have
a
naturall
Tendencie
to
an
Onenesse
;
nay
,
the
itch
of
some
merry
wits
,
have
carried
them
to
run
over
most
of
the
Attribuies
(
as
some
English
Lawyers
have
talkt
of
the
Legal
,
I
must
say
phantasticall
ubiquity
and
omniscience
of
our
Kings
,
though
we
see
the
contrary
,
and
some
Civilians
about
the
Emperour
,
have
gone
before
them
)
whereas
they
should
consider
,
that
the
immense
simplicity
of
God
flows
out
in
its
severall
workings
,
with
ineffable
variety
,
God
being
every-where
and
the
same
,
or
as
the
Platonists
say
,
a
Center
in
every
part
of
his
Circle
,
a
Spirit
without
Quantity
,
Distance
and
Comprehension
;
whereas
man
is
a
determinate
narrow
thing
,
who
doing
one
thing
,
ceaseth
to
do
another
;
and
thinking
of
one
thing
,
is
forc'd
to
quit
his
former
thought
.
Now
how
fit
he
is
to
be
a
shade
of
this
Archytipe
,
let
any
judge
,
unlesse
he
could
be
refined
from
his
corporeity
,
and
inlarged
into
a
proportionable
immensity
.
Besides
,
I
know
not
whether
it
be
safe
to
think
or
no
,
That
as
God
,
who
for
the
most
part
,
suits
men
with
gifts
sutable
to
the
places
to
which
he
calls
them
,
would
in
some
measure
poure
out
his
Spirit
proportionate
to
these
men
,
whereas
as
most
commonly
we
find
them
,
notwithstanding
their
extraordinary
Advantages
,
of
society
,
education
and
Business
,
as
weak
men
as
any
other
,
and
good
Princes
being
swayed
by
the
advice
of
men
,
good
and
wise
,
and
the
bad
seduced
by
men
of
their
own
inclinations
;
what
else
are
all
Monarchies
,
but
in
reallity
Optimaces
for
a
few
only
essentially
govern
,
under
the
name
of
one
who
is
utterly
as
unable
as
the
meanest
of
those
over
whom
hee
claimes
superiority
.
The
second
Fallacy
or
paralogism
is
this
,
That
men
,
while
they
Labour
thus
to
support
Monarchy
tell
us
not
what
kind
of
Monarchy
it
is
,
and
consequently
gain
nothing
,
although
we
should
grant
,
them
the
former
proposition
to
be
true
;
For
what
does
it
avail
to
acertain
me
of
the
Title
of
such
a
Prince
,
if
I
know
not
by
what
Title
he
holds
,
grant
it
were
visible
to
me
that
such
a
man
was
markt
out
by
providence
to
be
my
Governour
,
yet
if
I
cannot
tell
what
kinde
of
one
,
whether
absolute
,
mixt
,
limited
,
meerly
Law-Executive
,
or
first
in
order
,
how
shall
I
know
to
direct
my
Obedience
?
if
he
be
absolute
,
my
very
naturall
liberty
is
taken
away
from
me
,
nor
doe
I
know
any
power
can
make
any
man
such
;
The
Scripture
holding
out
just
Limitations
and
restrictions
to
all
Governours
.
If
mixt
and
limited
,
I
must
know
the
due
temperature
and
bounds
,
or
else
he
may
usurpe
or
be
mistaken
,
and
I
oppressed
or
injured
.
If
Law-Executive
,
the
power
fundamentally
resides
not
in
him
,
but
in
the
great
Counsell
,
or
them
intrusted
by
the
people
,
then
I
adore
onely
a
shadow
:
Now
if
any
Prince
of
Europe
can
really
clear
up
these
mistes
,
and
shew
the
lines
of
his
Government
drawn
fairly
,
and
his
Charter
whole
and
Authentick
,
like
that
of
Venice
and
the
first
Rome
:
For
my
part
,
I
le
be
the
first
man
shall
sweare
him
Allegiance
,
and
the
last
that
will
preserve
him
.
But
you
will
finde
that
they
will
tell
you
in
generall
about
their
office
,
and
in
particular
of
their
claimes
of
Succession
,
Inheritance
and
Ancestors
,
when
look
but
three
or
foure
stories
back
,
and
you
will
meet
either
some
savage
unnaturall
Intrusion
(
disguiz'd
under
some
forc'd
Title
or
inexistent
Cognation
)
or
else
some
violent
alteration
,
or
possibly
some
slender
Oath
or
Articles
hardly
extorted
and
imperrfectly
kept
.
Now
if
any
man
thawill
but
run
over
these
rules
,
and
apply
them
to
any
History
whatever
(
as
we
shall
exemplify
in
that
which
for
the
present
we
have
pitcht
upon
)
and
not
finde
most
Titles
Ambiguous
,
the
effects
of
former
Monarchies
(
for
where
,
in
a
Catalogue
of
forty
Kings
,
can
you
almost
shew
me
three
good
ones
,
but
things
meerly
strugling
to
maintain
their
Titles
and
domestick
Interest
)
ruinous
to
the
people
(
who
,
for
the
most
part
,
considering
them
no
otherwise
then
as
to
be
Rescued
from
violent
Confusion
,
not
as
they
conduce
to
the
positive
happinesse
of
a
civil
life
)
my
small
conversation
in
Books
is
extreamely
false
:
And
truly
I
conceive
it
may
be
the
rationallest
course
to
set
any
judgement
aright
,
because
it
instructs
by
experience
and
effects
,
and
grounds
the
judgement
upon
materiall
observation
,
and
not
blindly
gropes
after
notions
and
causes
,
which
to
him
are
Tantum
non
inscrutable
,
But
of
that
anon
:
A
main
mistake
under
this
Topick
,
hath
been
an
erroneous
Comparison
and
application
of
matters
Civil
and
Military
;
for
men
observing
that
mixt
Councels
about
Generals
,
Plurality
,
equality
of
Commands
,
often
and
sudden
Military
alterations
,
have
brought
on
no
small
distempers
and
dangers
to
severall
Governments
and
attempts
;
Therefore
they
presently
collect
,
that
in
Civils
also
it
is
the
safest
to
continue
a
Command
in
one-hand
for
the
preventing
of
the
like
disturbances
:
But
here
they
are
deceived
,
Civill
matters
consist
in
long
debate
,
great
consideration
,
patient
expectation
and
wary
foresight
,
which
is
better
to
be
found
in
a
number
of
choice
experienced
heads
,
then
in
one
single
one
,
whose
youth
and
vigor
of
Spirit
innables
him
rather
to
Action
,
and
fils
him
with
that
noble
Temerity
,
which
is
commonly
so
happy
in
Martial
things
,
which
must
be
guided
alwayes
to
prevent
occasions
(
which
are
seldom
to
be
found
again
,
and
which
,
mistaken
,
are
to
scarcely
amended
)
Besides
the
ferocity
of
daring
spirits
,
can
hardly
be
bounded
while
they
stand
levell
,
so
that
it
is
no
wonder
if
they
extinguish
all
emulations
,
by
putting
the
power
into
the
hands
of
one
,
whereas
in
the
Citty
,
it
is
quite
otherwise
;
and
Factions
(
unless
they
be
Cruelly
exorbitant
)
doe
but
poyse
and
ballance
one
another
,
and
many
times
like
the
discord
of
humors
upon
the
naturall
Body
,
produce
reall
good
to
the
Politicks
.
That
slender
conception
,
that
nature
seems
to
dress
out
a
principality
in
most
of
her
works
,
as
among
Birds
,
Bees
,
&c.
is
so
slender
(
in
regard
they
are
no
more
chiefs
then
what
they
fancy
them
,
but
all
their
prepotency
is
meerly
predatory
or
oppressive
,
and
even
Lyons
,
Elephants
,
Crocodiles
and
Eagles
,
have
small
inconsiderabe
enemies
,
of
which
they
stand
in
fear
,
and
by
which
they
are
often
ruined
)
that
the
Recitall
confutes
it
;
and
if
it
were
so
,
yet
unless
they
could
prove
their
One
man
to
be
as
much
more
excellent
as
those
are
,
and
that
solely
,
I
see
not
what
it
would
advantage
them
,
since
to
comply
with
the
designe
of
Nature
in
one
,
they
would
contrary
it
in
others
,
where
shee
were
equally
concerned
.
But
these
Phylologicall
and
Rhetoricall
Arguments
,
have
not
a
little
hindered
the
severer
disquisition
of
reason
and
proposessed
the
more
easy
mindes
with
notions
so
much
harder
to
be
layd
aside
,
as
they
are
more
erronious
and
pleasing
.
These
are
the
fundamentall
errours
that
have
misled
the
judgement
;
now
those
which
have
misguided
the
conscience
,
have
principally
proceeded
from
the
mis-interpretation
of
Scripture
,
and
therefore
seeming
Sacred
,
have
been
less
examined
and
doubted
,
as
carrying
the
most
authority
.
Thus
in
the
old
Testament
,
there
being
such
frequent
mention
of
Kings
,
which
notwithstanding
,
were
Given
in
wrath
,
they
superstitiously
hold
forth
,
not
only
the
necessity
,
but
the
impunity
of
Kings
,
whereas
wee
know
not
their
powers
and
limitations
,
and
it
is
in
consequentiall
to
argue
,
That
because
Judea
was
so
governed
,
wee
should
follow
the
paterne
,
when
we
find
neither
precept
consequence
,
nor
necessity
convincing
.
And
it
is
mad
to
think
that
while
the
Spirit
of
God
so
freely
and
vehemently
exclaimes
against
the
iniquiries
of
men
,
that
God
would
authorize
it
so
far
as
to
leave
it
in
them
unpunishable
.
As
for
the
antiquity
from
Adam
it
is
true
,
before
his
fall
his
dominion
was
large
and
wide
,
but
it
was
over
the
Beasts
(
that
after
his
fall
learned
to
rebel
against
him
)
and
aconomically
not
despotically
over
his
wife
and
children
,
But
what
is
this
to
Civil
Government
?
In
the
new
Testament
(
for
I
the
brieflyer
pass
over
this
head
,
in
regard
it
hath
been
so
copiously
treated
upon
by
those
under
whose
profession
it
falles
,
and
that
it
doth
not
immediatly
conduce
to
my
designe
)
the
principall
hath
been
the
meeknesse
of
Christ
and
his
complyance
with
Civill
powers
,
which
certainly
if
he
had
been
disposed
to
have
resisted
,
he
could
as
easily
have
overthrown
,
as
with
a
few
cords
whip
the
buyers
and
sellers
out
of
the
Temple
.
But
hee
that
was
the
wisdome
of
his
Father
,
rather
thought
fit
to
build
up
his
Kingdom
,
which
is
never
earthly
,
nor
known
of
men
of
earth
,
in
meeknes
and
obedience
to
civill
powers
,
which
are
perpetually
changed
and
hurried
at
the
will
of
the
first
mover
,
otherwise
he
would
never
have
concerned
himself
so
much
in
giving
dues
to
Caesar
,
and
to
God
,
what
is
Gods
;
intimating
the
distinct
obediences
owing
by
all
men
,
as
Christians
,
and
Citizens
,
when
granting
Monarchy
,
the
most
and
the
onely
Lawfull
Government
,
yet
every
one
knoweth
,
that
knoweth
any
thing
of
the
Roman
story
,
that
Augustus
had
no
more
Title
to
that
Government
,
then
any
of
those
over
whom
he
usurped
,
and
that
his
accesse
to
Government
was
as
fraudulent
and
violent
as
could
be
.
Another
is
the
mistaking
of
the
Powers
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
,
when
its
clear
,
the
Scripture
speaketh
of
it
in
a
latitude
,
as
extending
it
to
all
established
Governments
.
Now
men
have
falsly
assumed
that
those
powers
were
only
meant
of
Kings
;
and
what
by
an
indiscreet
collation
of
the
places
of
the
old
,
and
violent
restings
of
others
of
the
new
,
they
perfected
the
other
grand
mistake
,
which
since
it
hath
been
already
cleared
up
(
and
as
we
said
is
but
collaterall
with
us
for
the
present
)
we
shall
no
further
mention
.
As
for
the
alleadged
examples
and
and
speeches
of
primitive
times
,
I
see
not
much
in
them
considerable
,
for
through
insurrections
against
Princes
cannot
be
produced
,
or
rather
much
is
said
against
them
;
we
are
to
consider
,
that
the
Gospel
of
Christ
(
which
was
at
that
time
not
much
defiled
by
the
world
)
ingages
not
to
any
Domination
,
but
wholly
taken
up
with
its
own
extasies
,
spiritual
delights
and
expectations
,
neglects
all
other
affairs
as
strange
and
dangerous
.
And
more
over
(
though
I
know
what
hath
been
said
to
the
contrary
)
I
cannot
finde
(
after
consideration
of
those
Ages
)
any
probable
ground
how
,
if
they
would
have
risen
,
they
could
have
Bodied
.
They
were
indeed
numerous
,
but
then
they
had
Legionaries
among
them
,
and
who
knows
not
what
an
ineffectual
thing
a
People
is
(
be
it
never
so
desirous
)
when
overawed
by
the
Soldatesque
:
And
they
were
a
People
(
as
greatness
to
God
and
man
is
different
)
not
for
their
wordly
power
(
for
how
few
considerable
Commanders
were
Converted
in
the
first
Ages
?
)
but
out
of
his
own
choice
,
so
that
it
was
not
strange
,
if
they
could
not
do
much
.
For
God
as
he
chose
the
weakest
means
in
the
planting
of
the
Gospel
,
Fishermen
;
So
,
in
the
Primitive
propagation
he
called
the
weaker
men
,
though
Christianity
afterwards
grew
ample
and
August
,
and
Kings
were
proud
to
give
their
names
unto
it
.
As
for
the
Fathers
(
granting
them
f●ee
of
their
many
Bastardizations
,
interpolations
,
and
all
those
Errors
and
uncertainties
which
the
process
of
time
and
fraud
of
men
hath
foysted
into
them
)
they
are
to
be
accepted
as
Witnesses
,
not
as
Judges
,
that
is
to
say
,
they
may
prove
matter
of
Fact
,
but
none
of
their
words
matter
of
Right
,
especially
if
we
consider
their
writings
either
Homilies
,
Commentaries
,
or
controversies
,
which
are
ever
directed
to
another
end
then
this
is
,
and
they
themselves
(
men
secluded
from
Business
)
are
so
much
more
unable
to
judge
and
resolve
Civill
controversies
(
as
this
is
)
in
regard
the
unhappiness
of
the
latter
Times
hath
produced
many
controversies
:
not
know
or
thought
of
in
their
days
,
which
falling
directly
under
their
profession
,
cannot
receive
any
light
or
Authority
from
them
.
Having
considered
Kingship
,
how
well
it
hath
appeared
through
the
false
lights
of
understanding
,
we
shall
now
consider
,
whether
(
taking
it
by
it self
)
its
foundations
be
laid
upon
a
Cylender
or
upon
a
Cube
,
and
this
me thinks
we
are
the
likeliest
to
do
,
if
we
consider
them
in
their
rights
and
uses
,
or
to
speak
plainer
;
in
their
Legality
and
policy
,
so
that
if
we
finde
that
none
of
the
wayes
of
the
retaining
of
their
Crowns
can
be
Authenticall
save
one
,
and
that
one
make
against
them
,
we
shall
finde
we
have
no
such
just
causes
of
blinde
adoration
or
implicite
enforcement
to
truckle
under
any
of
their
Commands
.
And
if
again
we
discover
that
the
Government
it self
is
not
so
profitable
as
to
the
end
of
Civil
happiness
,
but
rather
Diametrically
opposite
to
it
,
we
may
suppose
that
men
are
either
strangely
obstinate
,
or
else
they
might
eradicate
an
error
,
which
not
onely
offers
so
many
prejudices
to
their
understanding
,
but
hath
such
an
evil
influence
upon
their
outward
well
being
.
We
have
then
to
consider
,
that
for
One
man
to
rule
over
Many
,
there
must
necessarily
be
some
right
,
though
it
be
but
colourable
;
for
either
he
must
be
chosen
by
the
people
as
their
Arbitrator
and
Supream
Judge
,
or
else
he
must
by
force
of
Arms
invade
them
,
and
bring
them
to
obedience
,
which
he
by
force
preserving
for
his
Sons
of
Successors
,
makes
way
for
a
third
claim
,
which
is
Inheritance
.
A
fourth
,
some
have
invented
,
though
were
it
real
,
it
is
but
a
difference
of
the
last
,
and
I
therefore
shall
mention
it
under
that
head
.
But
to
the
Consideration
.
First
therefore
Election
,
supposing
the
people
either
finding
themselves
unable
to
weyld
their
own
happiness
,
or
for
preventing
of
disorder
,
make
choice
of
one
to
be
set
over
them
,
it
here
instantly
followeth
,
that
Authority
is
in
the
people
,
and
flowing
from
them
;
for
choice
argues
a
power
,
and
being
chosen
elected
a
subordination
to
it
,
in
the
end
,
I
mean
,
though
not
in
every
Act
:
Now
there
is
none
chosen
but
for
some
,
end
,
or
for
some
intentions
reciprocall
betwixt
both
partyes
,
for
otherwise
such
a
choice
were
but
dotage
,
and
consequently
invalid
:
Now
thus
it
will
follow
that
those
who
pretend
to
King
it
upon
this
Topick
,
must
either
shew
a
formal
Election
,
which
I
think
many
Kings
are
not
able
to
do
,
or
if
he
can
shew
one
,
the
Conditions
and
ends
for
which
he
was
chosen
.
Now
all
parts
being
either
implicite
or
explained
,
let
him
produce
the
Covenant
,
that
it
may
be
known
whether
he
govern
according
to
it
or
not
,
for
if
he
transgresseth
,
he
forfeits
,
and
the
other
are
disobliged
.
If
the
agreement
be
unwritten
or
intentional
,
either
party
is
relatively
tyed
,
and
then
if
he
do
any
thing
against
the
welfare
of
the
people
(
that
Soveraing
Law
and
end
of
all
Governments
:
)
The
people
may
not
onely
justly
suppose
the
form
capitulation
broken
,
but
even
endeavour
,
by
what
possible
means
they
can
,
to
restore
themselves
to
their
former
rights
:
for
why
should
the
making
of
a
Compact
prejudice
any
when
it
is
once
broken
;
And
here
cometh
in
another
fallacy
,
which
the
Assertors
of
Royalty
have
so
flourished
with
,
That
an
agreement
between
a
people
and
one
man
,
should
inure
,
as
the
English
Lawyers
terme
it
,
to
his
Descendants
,
when
as
it
is
to
be
considered
,
that
the
people
choosing
of
one
man
,
is
commonly
in
consideration
of
his
person
and
personal
merit
,
which
not
being
the
same
in
his
Son
(
as
commonly
Families
in
the
Horizon
are
in
the
Meridian
,
the
Founders
being
braver
then
any
that
follow
after
them
)
that
very
intent
is
frustrated
and
ceaseth
,
and
the
People
providing
for
the
happiness
of
a
few
years
,
which
are
determinable
with
uncertainty
of
the
latter
part
of
the
life
of
one
man
,
run
themselves
and
their
posterity
into
an
eternal
inconvenience
(
for
any
thing
they
know
)
of
bad
Governours
;
neither
if
the
people
would
never
so
formally
agree
with
him
that
in
regard
of
his
merits
or
felicity
of
actions
,
his
Son
should
be
received
in
that
place
,
yet
would
they
not
do
it
,
that
very
pact
expiring
with
the
life
of
either
:
For
my
Father
may
leave
me
notionally
a
slave
in
a
Tenure
(
a
thing
frequently
with
our
Ancestors
)
or
as
Civilians
term
it
,
it
a
Feodary
,
which
I
ā
content
with
,
in
respect
of
the
advantage
it
brings
me
,
or
because
my
own
estate
is
to
little
to
be
independent
,
and
therefore
I
think
it
good
prudence
to
be
sheltered
under
the
protection
of
the
greater
,
but
my
naturall
Liberty
,
that
is
to
say
,
to
make
my
life
as
justly
happy
and
advantagious
to
me
as
I
can
,
he
can
no
more
give
away
from
me
then
my
understanding
or
eye-sight
,
for
these
are
priviledges
which
God
and
Nature
hath
endued
me
with
,
and
these
I
cannot
be
denyed
,
but
by
him
that
will
deny
me
a
being
.
But
to
go
on
,
Suppose
a
second
Generation
should
accept
the
Son
,
and
a
third
a
Grandsire
,
yet
this
confirms
not
a
fourth
,
and
they
very
impolitickly
strengthen
,
and
confirm
the
power
by
continuance
,
and
in
a
manner
with
their
own
hands
lay
the
Foundation
of
absoluteness
;
their
Governours
themselves
growing
in
Interests
,
increasing
in
Aliances
and
gleaning
Forces
,
so
it
is
very
improbable
but
within
a
little
they
grow
to
big
and
formidable
,
and
leave
nothing
of
the
Liberty
save
the
name
and
(
if
they
be
less
cunning
)
not
that
.
A
pertinent
example
of
this
,
it
is
so
near
us
,
that
I
cannot
pass
it
,
we
see
in
young
Orange
and
the
Low
Countries
at
this
day
,
who
continuing
his
Progenitors
for
their
signall
services
,
and
him
for
theirs
,
are
now
punished
for
their
generous
and
indiscreet
rewarding
of
vertue
,
that
their
Liberty
was
lately
blown
up
before
they
well
perceived
it
to
be
undermined
,
and
they
are
at
charge
to
maintain
their
own
oppression
.
As
for
that
formall
election
and
stipulation
,
who
sees
not
what
a
vain
and
ridiculous
cheat
it
is
,
they
coming
with
swords
in
their
hands
to
demand
the
Scepter
of
a
weak
and
stupid
multitude
that
appears
onely
to
gaze
upon
the
Ceremonies
,
and
whose
refusal
were
ineffectual
;
but
it
is
a
gracious
piece
of
the
Caball
of
Tyrannie
to
deceive
the
People
with
Shadows
,
Fantasmes
,
and
names
of
Liberty
.
As
for
those
that
intrude
in
by
force
,
they
cannot
certainly
have
a
Fore-head
to
infer
a
right
,
they
being
but
as
the
Pyrat
said
to
Alexander
,
publique
and
more
magnificent
Robbers
:
certainly
these
are
the
Nimrods
,
the
great
Hunters
,
Gods
scourges
,
and
the
burdens
of
the
Earth
;
and
whether
they
be
Founders
of
Empires
,
or
great
Captains
(
as
Boccalini
distinguisheth
them
)
ought
rather
to
be
remembred
with
horror
and
detestation
,
then
that
undue
reverence
which
they
commonly
meet
with
.
But
these
are
they
that
lay
the
the
foundations
of
Succession
,
and
from
these
do
the
Successors
claim
,
and
enjoy
with
the
lesse
reluctance
,
Because
the
Regret
of
the
violences
and
hate
of
the
first
,
dayly
weares
out
;
whether
it
be
by
the
continuance
of
Peace
,
that
charmes
men
into
a
love
of
ease
,
or
that
the
continuance
of
slavery
enfeebles
their
mindes
,
that
they
rather
chose
to
look
at
their
present
enjoyment
,
then
reall
happinesse
,
so
that
it
is
not
strange
if
the
Person
of
their
oppressour
become
in
time
adorable
,
and
he
himself
think
that
confirmed
and
justified
to
him
in
the
processe
of
time
,
which
in
the
beginning
he
had
no
right
to
.
But
if
he
will
consider
the
businesse
a
little
higher
,
we
might
find
that
since
neither
the
People
(
as
we
have
proved
before
)
have
power
to
make
themselves
Vassals
,
nor
the
Intruders
themselves
cannot
pretend
any
just
title
;
their
Domination
is
meerly
illegall
,
and
apt
to
be
shaked
off
with
the
first
conveniencie
,
it
being
every
whit
as
equitable
,
that
these
men
should
be
judged
Enemies
of
mankind
,
and
condemned
to
die
the
death
of
Parricides
for
usurping
a
power
,
as
Nero
for
mis-using
it
.
But
I
would
fain
ask
the
Regions
Defenders
,
by
what
Law
they
can
maintain
Governments
,
to
be
inherent
in
one
,
and
to
be
transmitted
to
his
Off
spring
?
If
they
say
by
the
Law
of
God
I
would
again
demand
how
they
can
make
this
Law
appear
to
me
?
If
they
say
that
the
Scripture
holds
forth
the
right
and
sacreity
of
Kings
,
I
ask
them
again
,
How
they
know
that
God
extends
that
Priviledge
and
authority
to
this
King
;
if
they
say
,
that
he
is
involved
in
the
generall
right
,
they
do
but
run
into
the
Circle
;
unlesse
they
can
show
me
,
that
all
his
approches
to
Government
were
regular
,
and
such
as
God
was
pleased
with
,
or
else
God
had
by
some
signe
and
wonder
declared
his
approbation
of
him
;
for
without
these
two
,
they
must
make
God
an
Authour
of
evil
,
which
is
impious
,
and
pretend
Commission
for
an
unlawfull
Act
;
and
by
the
same
right
,
any
other
may
to
an
action
never
so
unjust
,
it
being
no
unusuall
thing
to
borrow
the
face
of
Divinity
,
even
upon
some
foul
impostures
,
(
as
to
forbear
further
instances
)
Numa
his
conference
with
Aegeria
,
Scipio's
retirement
into
the
Capitol
,
and
Sertorius
his
white
Hart.
Now
,
if
they
pretend
the
Law
of
Nature
,
they
must
demonstrate
unto
us
,
both
that
she
endowed
men
with
unequall
freedome
,
and
that
she
shaped
out
such
a
man
to
rule
,
whereas
it
appears
on
the
contrary
,
that
all
men
naturally
are
equall
:
for
though
Nature
with
a
Noble
variety
hath
made
different
the
Features
and
Lineaments
of
men
,
yet
as
to
freedome
,
till
it
be
lost
by
some
externall
means
,
she
hath
made
every
one
alike
,
and
given
them
the
same
desires
.
But
suppose
she
had
intended
such
a
Family
for
Government
,
and
had
given
them
some
illustrious
marks
,
as
we
read
of
some
had
(
whether
by
the
imagination
of
their
mothers
,
or
by
deceit
yet
then
would
Nature
fall
into
a
double
irregularity
;
first
in
deserting
her
method
in
making
all
free
;
and
secondly
in
making
her
generall
work
meerly
subservient
,
and
secondary
to
her
particular
,
which
how
contrary
it
is
to
that
beautifull
harmony
of
hers
,
I
need
not
much
insist
.
Now
if
they
say
,
they
are
Fathers
of
the
People
;
as
for
that
which
they
call
themselves
the
Heads
,
inferring
the
People
no
more
then
a
trunk
,
it
's
onely
Metaphoricall
,
and
proves
nothing
:
for
they
must
remember
,
that
since
Father
hath
a
Correllative
upon
which
it
depends
,
&
upon
whose
removall
it
vanisheth
,
they
themselves
cannot
bring
any
such
;
for
by
Physicall
procreation
they
will
not
offer
it
.
And
for
Metaphoricall
dependence
it
will
come
to
nothing
,
we
seeing
People
languish
when
their
Princes
are
fullest
,
and
like
Leeches
,
rather
willing
to
burst
then
to
fall
off
.
And
on
the
contrary
the
People
upon
the
removall
of
a
Prince
,
cheerfull
and
relieved
.
Now
if
there
were
such
a
strict
union
between
these
two
,
such
a
contrariety
and
antipathy
could
never
appear
:
for
certainly
when
any
two
persons
endeavour
to
gain
one
upon
another
,
there
is
an
enmity
what
ever
is
pretended
;
besides
,
if
these
men
would
be
Fathers
,
it
were
then
their
duty
to
do
like
Fathers
,
which
is
,
to
provide
for
,
defend
and
cherish
,
whereas
on
the
contrary
,
it
is
themselves
that
eat
the
bread
out
of
the
mouths
of
their
Children
,
and
through
the
groans
of
the
poor
.
And
whereas
flattery
hath
said
,
that
what
they
draw
up
in
vapours
they
send
down
in
showres
,
yet
are
we
sure
,
such
are
for
the
most
part
unfruitfull
,
if
not
ominous
and
infectious
:
If
they
pretend
the
Law
of
Nations
,
it
were
well
,
they
would
declare
unto
us
at
first
what
this
Law
is
,
and
whether
generally
agreed
on
or
no
by
Nations
:
if
they
say
,
yes
,
they
must
resolve
whether
explicitely
or
implicitely
;
if
they
say
the
former
,
let
them
produce
them
;
if
the
latter
,
they
must
demonstrate
,
that
all
Nations
are
agreed
in
such
and
such
Notions
;
now
if
all
men
of
these
Nations
since
every
one
must
be
of
equall
capacity
;
when
on
the
contrary
,
though
the
understandings
of
most
men
whom
we
know
or
have
conversed
with
,
seem
to
flee
to
some
generall
Maximes
(
yet
unpolished
,
unnumbered
,
and
unmethodixed
)
yet
we
see
many
Nations
differing
from
us
in
many
things
,
which
we
think
clearly
,
fundamentally
and
naturally
true
,
neither
do
climate
and
education
onely
so
diversitie
the
minds
of
men
,
but
even
their
understandings
,
and
the
different
wayes
of
thinking
so
distinguish
them
,
though
of
one
Countrey
,
that
though
we
may
please
our selves
in
thinking
that
all
mens
thoughts
follow
the
Fantasticall
method
of
ours
,
yet
we
might
find
,
if
we
were
perfectly
conversant
with
all
men
of
the
world
,
and
well
read
in
their
wits
(
as
we
are
not
with
half
of
them
,
no
,
nor
any
one
man
with
the
twentieth
part
)
that
there
are
scarce
four
or
five
axioms
would
be
universally
received
.
Now
(
for
I
have
been
the
longer
in
this
,
by
reason
that
this
imaginary
Law
hath
been
so
held
up
by
the
Civilians
,
and
made
the
subterfuge
of
so
many
considerable
disputes
)
if
it
be
so
weak
as
that
we
can
scarce
tell
whether
it
be
or
no
,
for
even
that
which
we
account
the
most
sacred
piece
of
it
,
the
violation
of
publick
Messengers
,
the
Taertar
and
Muscovite
,
unlesse
withheld
by
fear
,
break
it
every
day
)
What
are
the
Arguments
deducted
from
it
?
or
if
there
were
such
a
Law
,
what
would
it
avail
such
a
particular
man
,
for
why
should
other
Nations
impose
a
Governour
were
they
are
not
concerned
;
and
if
they
pretend
this
Law
,
as
to
the
preservations
and
impunity
of
their
persons
,
the
same
Answer
will
serve
again
,
with
this
addition
,
That
they
make
an
offender
uncapable
of
punishment
,
it
is
but
to
give
them
a
Commission
to
offend
:
Now
if
they
run
upon
that
distinction
of
Suspending
onely
,
and
not
punishing
(
as
if
forsooth
this
kind
of
people
must
be
preserved
,
though
by
the
ruine
of
mankind
,
to
immediate
vengeance
)
Now
,
I
say
,
That
Suspension
is
really
a
punishment
,
and
if
his
demerits
can
deserve
that
,
I
see
not
but
that
upon
a
proportionable
increase
,
they
may
deserve
Dethronization
or
Death
,
as
clearly
as
two
and
two
make
four
,
and
four
make
eight
.
If
they
alledge
Positive
or
municipall
Laws
,
and
number
Homages
,
they
are
not
much
the
nearer
,
since
that
all
such
Laws
are
but
Rivulets
and
Branches
of
those
we
before
examined
;
and
since
we
found
that
those
speak
so
little
in
their
favour
,
that
which
these
do
,
cannot
signifie
much
,
especially
since
Princes
,
who
are
ever
watchfull
to
prevail
themselves
of
all
occasions
of
this
nature
,
can
either
by
terrour
or
artifice
draw
assemblies
or
the
major
part
,
to
their
own
Lure
;
nay
,
even
the
worst
of
them
have
not
forgot
to
be
solicitous
in
this
case
:
but
it
must
be
set
down
,
That
whatsoever
positive
Laws
are
repugnant
to
those
generall
,
they
are
injurious
,
and
ought
to
be
repealed
:
And
truly
it
is
a
sad
observation
,
that
as
Monarchs
grow
,
either
out
of
the
weaknesse
of
Government
,
and
(
as
I
may
say
)
pupillage
,
as
Romulus
and
Theseus
did
at
Rome
and
Athens
,
or
else
out
of
the
disease
or
depravation
of
them
,
as
Caesar
again
invaded
Rome
,
so
have
the
people
been
never
more
enamoured
of
them
,
then
when
manners
were
at
the
highest
corruption
,
which
ever
gave
accesse
of
strength
to
them
;
nor
have
they
more
distasted
them
,
then
when
their
Spirits
and
Discipline
were
the
most
brave
and
healthfull
;
so
fatally
disagreeing
are
true
Liberty
,
which
is
the
very
source
of
Virtue
and
Generosity
,
and
the
impotent
Domination
of
a
Single
Tyrant
,
who
commonly
Raign
by
no
other
means
,
then
the
discords
of
braver
Citizens
,
who
can
neither
indure
Equality
or
Superiority
among
themselves
,
and
rather
admit
a
generall
Vassalage
,
then
just
equality
,
or
the
vices
of
the
baser
,
which
reconcile
them
and
concern
them
in
a
bad
example
.
But
suppose
Succession
a
thing
sacred
and
inviolable
,
yet
once
break
and
interrupt
it
,
it
is
little
worth
,
either
the
Usurper
being
to
be
acknowledged
regular
,
or
the
whole
Series
dash'd
out
of
order
:
Nay
,
we
see
Aspirers
themselves
,
either
so
blinded
with
their
pretences
,
or
with
animosity
,
so
crying
their
own
up
,
that
it
is
almost
impossible
for
any
private
judgement
to
do
right
in
this
case
,
themselves
thwarting
one
another
,
and
it
not
being
in
the
power
of
nature
that
both
should
be
right
:
But
who
can
instance
one
Monarch
,
whose
Crown
is
come
to
him
by
untainted
Succession
?
and
what
History
will
not
confirm
the
Example
,
I
shall
anon
bring
:
Certainly
though
Succession
were
a
thing
that
had
not
so
little
reason
or
being
,
yet
I
see
not
why
men
should
with
such
a
strange
pertinacy
defend
it
:
Matters
of
Government
ought
to
be
governed
by
prudence
,
but
this
is
to
put
them
into
the
hands
of
Fortune
,
when
a
Child
uncapable
or
infirm
,
under
the
Regiment
of
a
Nurse
,
must
(
possibly
)
be
Supreme
Governour
,
and
those
whom
either
their
Abilities
or
vertues
fit
for
it
,
Subordinate
or
laid
aside
:
But
what
if
the
person
whom
Necessity
hath
set
at
the
Stern
,
be
uncapable
,
Lunatick
,
Weak
or
Vicious
,
is
not
this
a
good
way
to
prevent
Controversies
?
with
all
this
enervates
all
good
Councel
,
when
a
King
should
have
need
of
Tutours
,
and
that
a
masse
of
people
should
be
commanded
by
one
who
commands
not
himself
,
and
when
we
scarce
obey
even
excellent
Princes
,
to
adore
shadows
and
weak
ones
.
As
for
Boxhornius
distinction
of
successive
,
wherein
the
next
Heir
must
necessarily
succeed
out
of
the
Originall
right
of
the
former
,
I
would
ask
him
,
whether
the
Predecessour
were
a
Possessour
or
usufructuary
;
if
the
former
,
all
our
former
Arguments
fall
on
him
;
if
the
latter
,
it
makes
not
for
his
Successour
,
the
people
being
owners
;
and
besides
,
the
distinction
is
one
of
his
own
Coyning
,
never
pretended
before
,
upon
the
first
controversie
it
is
invalid
,
although
the
first
founder
had
a
right
,
as
we
have
proved
the
contrary
.
Having
with
what
brevity
I
could
,
brought
to
an
end
my
first
intention
.
I
shall
now
fall
upon
the
second
,
which
is
the
intrinsical
value
and
expediency
of
this
Government
,
and
some
little
comparison
with
others
;
but
herein
we
shall
be
short
,
and
onely
so
far
as
concerns
this
:
And
indeed
it
is
a
businesse
so
ticklish
,
that
even
Mr.
Hobs
in
his
de
Cive
,
though
he
assured
himself
that
the
rest
of
his
Book
(
which
is
principally
erected
to
the
assertion
of
Monarchy
)
is
demonstrated
,
yet
he
doubts
whether
the
Arguments
which
he
brings
to
this
businesse
be
so
firm
or
no
;
And
Malvezzi
contrarily
remonstrates
(
in
his
discourses
upon
Tacitus
)
that
Optimacies
are
clearly
better
then
Monarchies
,
as
to
all
advantages
.
And
indeed
if
we
look
on
their
Arguments
,
they
are
either
Flourishes
,
or
meerly
Conceptions
,
such
are
the
reference
and
perfection
of
an
Unity
,
which
must
needs
work
better
and
more
naturally
,
as
one
simple
cause
(
besides
that
it
stills
and
restrains
all
other
claims
)
then
many
co-ordinate
,
whereas
they
never
consider
that
though
among
many
joynt
Causes
,
there
may
be
some
jarring
,
yet
like
crosse
wheels
in
an
Engine
,
they
tend
to
the
regulation
of
the
whole
;
What
violent
mischiefs
are
brought
in
by
the
contentions
of
Pretenders
,
Ambiguities
of
Titles
,
and
lawlesse
ambition
of
Aspirers
,
whereas
in
a
setled
Republick
all
this
is
clear
;
and
in
case
any
particular
man
aspire
,
they
know
whom
to
joyn
against
and
punish
as
a
Common
Enemy
.
As
for
that
which
alledges
the
advantage
of
secresie
in
businesse
,
it
carries
not
much
with
it
,
in
regard
that
under
that
even
most
pernicious
designs
may
be
carryed
on
;
and
for
wholsome
counsels
(
Bating
some
more
nice
Transactions
)
it
matters
not
how
much
they
be
tost
,
among
those
who
are
so
much
entrusted
and
concerned
in
them
,
all
crosse
Designs
being
never
in
probability
so
feeble
and
ineffectuall
,
as
when
there
are
many
eyes
to
over
look
them
,
and
voyces
to
decry
them
.
As
for
that
expedition
in
which
they
say
Monarchs
are
so
happy
,
it
may
as
well
further
a
bad
intention
,
as
give
effect
to
a
just
Councell
,
it
depending
on
the
judgement
of
a
single
man
,
to
whose
will
and
ends
all
must
refer
;
whereas
a
select
number
of
Entrusted
persons
may
hasten
every
opportunity
with
a
just
slownesse
as
well
as
they
,
though
indeed
(
unlesse
it
be
in
some
Military
Criticall
minuts
)
I
see
not
such
an
excellency
in
the
swiftnesse
of
heady
dispatch
,
precipitation
in
Councels
being
so
dangerous
and
Ominous
.
As
for
what
concerns
private
Suitors
,
they
may
as
(
if
not
more
)
speedily
and
effectually
be
answered
in
staid
Re-publicks
,
as
in
the
Court
of
a
King
,
where
Bribery
and
unworthy
Favourites
do
not
what
is
just
,
but
what
is
desired
.
With
these
and
many
others
as
considerable
,
which
partly
willingly
,
and
partly
in
this
penury
of
Books
,
forgettingly
I
passe
,
do
they
intend
to
strengthen
this
fantasticall
and
airie
building
;
but
as
sly
Controverters
,
many
times
leave
out
the
principall
Text
or
Argument
,
because
should
it
be
produced
it
could
not
be
so
easily
answered
;
so
these
men
tell
us
all
the
advantages
of
Monarchy
,
supposing
them
still
well
setled
,
and
under
men
virtuous
,
but
you
shall
never
hear
them
talk
of
it
,
in
Statu
corrupto
,
under
lewd
Kings
and
unsetled
Laws
;
they
never
let
fall
a
word
of
the
dangers
of
Inter-reigns
,
the
minorities
and
vices
of
Princes
,
Misgovernments
,
evil
Councels
,
Ambitions
,
Ambiguities
of
Titles
,
and
the
Animosities
and
Calamities
that
follow
them
,
the
necessary
Injustices
and
Oppressions
by
which
Monarchs
(
using
the
peoples
wealth
and
bloud
against
them
)
hold
them
fast
in
their
seats
,
and
by
some
suspension
of
Divine
Justice
die
not
violently
.
Whereas
,
other
Governments
established
against
all
these
evils
,
being
ever
of
vigour
and
just
age
setled
in
their
own
right
,
freed
from
pretences
,
served
by
experienced
and
engaged
Councels
,
and
(
as
nothing
under
the
Moon
is
perfect
)
sometimes
gaining
and
advantag'd
in
their
Controversies
,
which
have
not
seldome
(
as
we
may
see
in
old
Rome
)
brought
forth
good
Laws
and
Augmentations
of
Freedome
,
whereas
once
declining
from
their
purity
and
vigour
;
and
(
which
is
the
effect
of
that
)
ravisht
by
an
Invader
,
they
languish
in
a
brutish
servitude
(
Monarchy
being
truly
a
disease
of
Government
)
and
like
Slaves
,
stupid
with
harshnesse
and
continuance
of
Slavery
,
wax
old
under
it
,
till
they
either
arrive
at
that
period
which
God
prescribes
to
all
people
and
Governments
,
or
else
better
Stars
and
Nephews
awaken
them
out
of
that
Lethargy
,
and
restore
them
to
their
Pristine
Liberty
,
and
its
Daughter
happinesse
.
But
this
is
but
to
converse
in
Notions
,
wandring
,
and
ill
abstract
from
things
,
let
us
now
descend
into
practicall
observation
and
clearly
manifest
out
of
the
whole
Series
of
Time
and
Actions
,
what
circumstances
and
events
have
either
ushered
or
dog'd
one
race
of
Kings
,
That
if
there
were
all
the
justice
in
the
world
,
that
the
Government
of
a
Nation
should
be
entailed
upon
one
Family
,
yet
certainly
we
could
not
grant
it
to
such
an
one
,
whose
Criminall
lives
and
formidable
deaths
,
have
been
evidences
of
Gods
wrath
upon
it
for
so
many
Generations
.
And
since
no
Countrey
that
I
know
,
yields
such
an
illustrious
example
of
this
as
Scotland
does
,
and
it
may
be
a
charity
to
bring
into
the
way
such
as
are
misled
,
I
have
pitched
upon
the
Scottish
History
,
wherein
as
I
have
onely
consulted
their
own
Authours
,
as
my
fittest
witnesses
in
this
case
;
So
have
I
(
not
as
a
just
History
,
but
as
far
as
concerns
this
purpose
)
faithfully
and
as
far
as
the
thing
would
permit
,
without
glosses
represented
it
,
so
that
any
calm
understanding
may
deduce
,
that
the
vengeance
which
at
the
present
is
levell'd
against
the
Nation
,
is
but
an
attendant
of
this
new
introduc'd
Person
,
and
that
he
himself
,
though
for
the
present
he
seems
a
Clog
among
his
Frogs
,
and
suffer
them
to
play
about
him
,
yet
God
will
suffer
him
(
if
the
English
Army
prevent
not
)
to
turn
Stork
and
devour
them
,
while
their
cries
shall
not
be
heard
,
as
those
that
(
in
dispight
of
the
warning
of
Providence
,
and
light
of
their
own
reasons
,
for
their
own
corrupt
Interest
&
greedy
Ambition
)
brought
these
miseries
upon
themselves
.
THE
INSTANCE
Out
of
the
Scottish
History
,
Which
is
the
Second
Part.
ANd
now
we
come
to
our
main
businesse
,
which
is
the
review
of
Story
,
wherein
we
may
find
such
a
direct
and
uninterrupted
Series
,
such
mutuall
Endearments
between
Prince
and
People
,
and
so
many
of
them
crowned
with
happy
Reigns
and
quiet
Deaths
(
two
together
scarce
dying
naturally
)
that
we
may
conclude
,
that
they
have
not
onely
the
most
reason
,
but
a
great
deal
of
excellent
Interest
,
who
Espouse
the
Person
and
Quarrell
of
the
hopefull
descendant
of
such
a
Family
;
nor
shall
we
be
so
injurious
to
the
glory
of
a
Nation
,
proud
with
a
Catalogue
of
Names
and
Kings
,
as
to
expunge
a
great
part
of
their
number
;
though
some
who
have
done
it
affirm
,
There
can
be
no
probability
that
they
had
any
other
being
then
what
Hector
Boyes
,
and
the
black
Book
of
Pasley
(
out
of
which
Buchanan
had
most
of
his
materials
)
bestow
on
them
,
there
being
no
mention
of
the
name
of
Scot
in
any
Authentick
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
Scots
,
and
agreed
that
Fergus
,
(
whose
,
Uncle
the
last
King
was
)
being
then
in
banishment
,
and
of
a
Militari
breeding
and
inclination
should
be
chosen
King
:
with
him
the
Danes
maintained
a
long
War
with
the
Romanes
,
and
pulled
down
the
Picts
wall
,
at
last
he
and
the
King
of
Picts
were
in
one
day
slain
in
a
battell
against
them
;
This
mans
access
to
Government
was
strange
,
ignotus
Rex
ab
ignoto
populo
accersitus
,
and
may
be
thought
temerarious
;
he
having
no
Land
for
his
People
,
and
the
Roman
Name
inimicall
,
yet
founded
he
a
Monarchy
,
there
having
been
Kings
ever
since
;
and
we
are
to
note
,
this
is
the
first
man
that
the
sounder
writers
will
allow
to
be
reall
and
not
fabulous
.
Him
succeded
his
son
Engenius
(
whose
Grandfather
Grahame
had
all
the
power
)
a
Warlike
Prince
whom
some
say
slain
,
some
dead
of
a
disease
.
After
him
his
Brother
Dongard
,
who
after
the
spending
of
five
superstitious
years
,
left
the
Crown
(
as
they
call
it
)
to
his
youngest
Brother
Constantine
;
who
from
a
good
private
man
turned
a
lew
Prince
,
and
was
slain
by
a
Nobleman
,
whose
daughter
he
had
ravished
;
he
was
succeeded
by
Congall
Constantines
son
,
who
came
a
tolerable
good
Prince
to
a
loose
people
,
and
having
spent
some
two
and
twenty
years
in
slight
excursions
against
the
Saxons
,
left
the
rule
to
his
Brother
Goran
,
who
notwithstanding
he
made
a
good
League
against
the
Brittains
,
which
much
conduced
to
his
and
the
Peoples
settlement
,
yet
they
in
requital
,
after
thirty
four
years
,
made
away
with
him
;
which
brought
in
Eugenius
the
third
of
that
name
,
the
son
of
Congall
,
who
was
strongly
suspected
to
have
a
hand
in
his
death
,
insomuch
that
Gorans
widow
was
forced
to
flie
into
Ireland
with
her
children
:
This
man
in
thirty
three
years
time
did
nothing
but
Reign
,
and
make
short
incursions
upon
the
Borders
;
he
left
the
rule
to
his
Brother
Congall
,
a
Monastical
,
Superstitious
and
unactive
Prince
,
who
Reigned
ten
years
.
Kynnatell
his
Brother
was
designed
for
Successor
,
but
Aydan
the
son
of
Goran
laid
his
claime
,
but
was
content
to
suspend
in
respect
of
the
age
and
diseases
of
Kynnatell
,
which
after
fourteen
moneths
took
him
out
of
the
world
and
cleared
the
Controversie
,
and
Aydan
by
the
consent
of
Columba
(
a
Priest
that
Governed
all
in
those
dayes
)
came
to
be
King
;
a
man
that
after
thirty
four
years
turbulently
spent
,
being
beaten
by
the
Saxons
and
struck
with
the
death
of
Columba
dyed
of
grief
.
After
him
was
chosen
Kenneth
,
who
hath
left
nothing
behinde
him
but
his
name
.
Then
came
Eugenius
the
fourth
,
son
of
Aydan
(
so
irregular
is
the
Scots
succession
that
we
see
it
inverted
by
usurpation
or
cross
elections
in
every
two
or
three
Generations
)
this
man
left
an
ambiguous
fame
,
for
Hector
,
sayes
he
was
peaceable
,
the
Manuscript
implacably
severe
,
he
Reigned
sixteen
years
,
and
left
his
sonne
Ferchard
Successour
,
who
endeavouring
to
heighten
the
Prerogative
by
the
dissentions
of
the
Nobility
,
was
on
the
contrary
impeached
by
them
,
and
called
to
an
account
,
which
he
denying
was
clapt
in
Prison
,
where
he
himself
saved
the
Executioner
a
labour
:
So
that
his
Brother
Donald
succeeded
,
who
being
taken
up
with
the
Piety
of
those
dayes
,
left
nothing
memorable
,
save
that
he
in
Person
interpreted
Scots
Sermons
unto
the
Saxons
:
He
was
followed
by
his
Nephew
Ferchard
,
sonne
of
the
first
of
that
name
,
a
thing
like
a
King
in
nothing
but
his
exorbitancies
,
who
in
hunting
was
wounded
by
a
Wolf
,
which
cast
him
into
a
Feaver
,
wherein
he
not
observing
the
imposed
Temperance
,
brought
upon
himself
the
lowsie
disease
,
upon
which
discomforted
,
he
was
by
the
perswasion
of
Colman
(
a
Religious
man
)
brought
out
in
his
bed
covered
with
Hair-cloth
,
where
he
made
a
publick
acknowledgement
to
the
People
,
and
soon
after
died
.
Maldwin
,
Donalds
son
followed
,
who
after
a
twenty
years
ignoble
Reign
was
strangled
by
his
Wife
.
Eugenius
the
Fift
succeed
,
son
(
they
say
)
of
King
Dongard
,
though
the
Chronologie
seem
to
refute
it
:
This
man
spent
five
years
in
slight
incursions
,
and
was
succeeded
by
Eugenius
the
Sixt
,
son
of
Ferchard
:
This
man
is
famous
for
a
little
learning
,
as
the
times
went
;
and
the
prodigie
of
raining
of
bloud
seven
dayes
,
all
Lacticinia
turning
into
bloud
.
Amberkelleth
nephew
to
Eugenius
the
Fift
,
succeeded
this
rude
Prince
,
while
he
was
discharging
the
burden
of
Nature
,
was
slain
by
an
arrow
from
an
unknown
hand
.
Eugenius
the
Seventh
followed
,
who
being
attempted
by
Conspiratours
,
had
his
new-married
Wife
slain
in
bed
beside
him
;
for
which
he
being
accused
produced
the
murderers
before
his
triall
,
and
was
acquitted
,
and
so
ended
the
rest
of
his
17.
years
in
peace
,
recommending
unto
the
People
Mordack
,
son
of
Amberkelleth
,
who
continuing
a
blank
raigne
,
or
it
may
be
a
happy
one
,
in
regard
it
was
peaceable
,
left
it
to
Etfyn
,
son
of
Eugenius
the
seventh
;
the
first
part
of
his
reigne
was
peaceable
;
but
Age
obliging
him
to
put
the
Government
into
the
hands
of
four
of
his
servants
,
it
hapned
to
him
,
as
it
doth
to
other
Princes
,
whose
fortunes
decay
commonly
with
their
strength
,
that
it
was
very
unhappy
and
turbulent
:
Which
miseries
,
Eugenius
the
Eighth
,
son
of
Mordack
restrained
;
but
he
it
seems
,
having
a
nature
fitter
to
appease
tumults
,
then
to
enjoy
rest
,
at
the
first
enjoyment
of
peace
,
broke
into
such
lewdnesse
,
that
the
Nobility
at
a
meeting
stabb'd
him
,
and
made
way
for
Fergus
the
sonne
of
Etfyn
,
one
like
his
Predecessour
in
manner
,
death
,
and
continuance
of
reigne
,
which
was
three
years
;
the
onely
dissimilitude
was
,
that
the
latter's
Wife
brought
his
death
;
for
which
,
others
being
impeached
,
she
stept
in
and
confessed
it
,
and
to
elude
punishment
,
punished
her self
with
a
knife
.
Soluath
,
son
of
Eugenius
the
Eighth
,
followed
him
,
who
though
his
gout
made
him
of
lesse
Action
,
yet
it
made
his
prudence
more
visible
,
and
himself
not
illaudable
,
his
death
brought
in
Achaius
the
son
of
Etfyn
,
whose
reign
was
innobled
with
an
Irish
War
,
and
many
learned
men
,
besides
the
assistance
,
lent
Hungus
to
fight
against
the
Northumbrians
,
whom
he
beat
in
famous
battell
,
which
(
if
I
may
mention
the
matter
)
was
presignified
to
Hungus
in
a
dream
;
Saint
Andrew
appearing
to
him
,
and
assuring
him
of
it
,
and
in
the
time
of
the
battell
,
a
white
Crosse
,
(
that
which
the
Heraulds
call
a
Saltier
,
and
we
see
commonly
in
the
Scots
Banners
)
appeared
in
the
Sky
;
and
this
I
think
to
have
been
the
occasion
of
that
bearing
,
and
an
order
of
Knights
of
Saint
Andrew
,
sometimes
in
reputation
in
Scotland
,
but
extinguished
for
ought
I
can
perceive
,
before
the
time
of
James
the
Sixth
,
though
the
Collar
and
Pendent
of
it
are
at
this
day
worn
about
the
Scots
Arms
.
To
this
man
Congal
his
Cousin
succeeded
,
who
left
nothing
behind
him
but
five
years
to
stretch
out
the
account
of
time
.
Dongal
the
son
of
Soluath
came
next
,
who
being
of
a
nature
fierce
and
insupportable
,
there
was
an
endeavour
to
set
up
Alpine
son
of
Achaius
,
which
designe
by
Alpine
himself
was
frustrated
,
which
made
the
King
willinger
to
assist
Alpine
in
his
pretension
to
the
Kingdome
of
Picts
,
in
the
which
attempt
he
was
drowned
,
and
left
unto
Alpine
that
which
he
before
had
so
nobly
refused
,
who
making
use
of
the
former
raised
an
Army
,
beat
the
Picts
in
many
signall
Victories
;
but
at
last
was
slain
by
them
,
leaving
his
name
to
the
place
of
his
death
,
and
the
Kingdome
to
his
son
Kenneth
.
This
man
seeing
the
People
broken
with
the
late
War
,
and
unwilling
to
fight
,
drew
on
by
this
subtilty
,
invites
the
Nobility
to
dinner
,
and
after
plying
them
with
drink
till
midnight
,
leaves
them
sleeping
on
the
floor
(
as
the
manner
was
)
and
then
hanging
Fish-skins
about
the
wals
of
the
Chamber
,
and
making
one
speak
through
a
trunk
,
and
call
them
to
Warre
:
they
waking
,
and
half
asleep
,
supposed
something
of
Divinity
to
be
in
it
,
and
the
next
morning
not
onely
consented
to
War
,
but
(
so
strange
is
deluded
imagination
,
)
with
unspeakable
courage
fell
upon
the
Enemy
,
and
put
them
to
the
rout
:
which
being
confirmed
by
other
great
Victories
,
utterly
ruined
the
Pictish
Name
.
This
man
may
be
added
to
the
two
Ferguses
,
and
truly
may
be
said
to
be
the
Founder
of
the
Scots
Empire
,
not
onely
in
making
that
the
middle
of
his
Dominion
,
which
was
once
the
bounds
:
But
in
confirming
his
acquests
with
good
Laws
,
having
opportunitie
of
a
long
peace
which
was
Sixteen
years
,
his
whole
time
of
Government
being
Twenty
.
This
was
he
that
placed
that
Stone
,
famous
for
that
illusory
Prophesie
,
Ni
fallat
fatum
&c.
(
which
first
was
brought
our
of
Spain
and
Ireland
,
and
from
thence
to
Argyle
)
at
Scown
;
where
he
put
it
in
a
Chair
,
in
which
all
his
Successours
(
till
Edward
the
First
brought
it
away
)
were
crowned
,
and
since
that
,
all
the
Kings
of
England
,
till
the
happinesse
of
our
Common-wealth
made
it
uselesse
.
His
Brother
Donald
was
his
Successour
,
a
man
made
up
of
extreamities
of
virtues
and
vices
,
no
man
had
more
bravery
in
the
field
,
nor
more
vice
at
home
,
which
increasing
with
his
years
,
the
Nobility
put
him
in
prison
,
where
either
for
fear
or
scorn
,
he
put
an
end
to
his
dayes
,
leaving
behind
him
his
brother
Constantine
,
a
man
wanting
nothing
of
him
but
his
vices
,
who
struggling
with
a
potent
Enemy
,
(
for
the
Picts
had
called
in
the
Danes
)
and
driving
them
much
into
despair
(
a
bravery
that
hath
not
seldome
ruin'd
many
excellent
Captains
)
was
taken
by
them
,
put
into
a
little
Cave
,
and
there
slain
.
He
was
succeeded
by
Ethus
his
brother
,
who
had
all
his
eldest
brothers
vices
,
and
none
of
his
seconds
virtues
;
Nature
it
seems
,
making
two
extremes
,
and
a
middle
in
the
three
Brethren
:
This
man
voluptuous
and
cowardly
,
was
forced
to
resigne
;
or
,
as
others
say
,
died
of
wounds
received
in
a
Duell
from
his
Successour
,
who
was
Gregory
son
of
Dongal
,
who
was
not
onely
an
excellent
man
,
but
an
excellent
Prince
,
that
both
recovered
what
the
others
had
lost
,
and
victoriously
traversed
the
Nothern
Counties
of
England
,
and
a
great
part
of
Ireland
,
whose
King
a
Minor
,
and
in
his
power
,
he
generously
made
no
advantage
of
,
but
setled
his
Countrey
,
and
provided
faithfull
and
able
Guardians
for
him
.
These
things
justly
yield
him
the
name
of
Great
:
Donald
son
of
Constantine
the
second
by
his
recommendation
,
succeeded
in
his
power
and
virtues
,
notwithstanding
some
say
he
was
removed
by
poyson
:
Next
was
Constantine
the
third
,
son
of
Ethus
,
an
unstable
person
,
who
assisted
the
Danes
,
which
none
of
his
Predecessours
would
do
,
and
after
they
had
deserted
him
basely
,
yet
yielded
them
succours
,
consisting
of
the
chief
of
the
Scots
Nobility
,
which
with
the
whole
Danish
Army
were
routed
by
the
Saxons
;
this
struck
him
so
,
that
he
retired
amongst
the
Culdys
(
which
were
as
the
Greek
Caloyers
,
or
Romish
Monks
at
this
day
)
and
there
buried
himself
alive
:
After
him
was
Milcom
,
son
of
Donald
the
third
,
who
though
a
good
Prince
,
and
well
skill'd
in
the
arts
of
peace
,
was
slain
by
a
Conspiracy
of
those
to
whom
his
virtue
was
burthensome
:
His
Successour
was
Judulf
(
by
what
title
I
find
not
)
who
fighting
with
the
Danes
,
that
with
a
Navy
unexpectedly
came
into
the
Frith
,
was
slain
:
Duffe
his
son
succeeds
,
famous
for
an
accident
,
which
if
it
be
true
,
seems
nearly
distant
from
a
fable
;
He
was
suddenly
afflicted
by
a
sweating
disease
,
by
which
he
painfully
languish'd
,
yet
no body
could
find
the
cause
,
till
at
last
a
Girl
,
that
had
scattered
some
words
after
torments
,
confessed
that
her
mother
and
some
other
women
,
had
made
an
Image
of
wax
,
which
,
as
it
wasted
,
the
King
should
waste
,
by
sweating
much
;
the
place
being
diligently
searched
,
it
was
found
accordingly
;
so
the
Image
being
broke
,
he
instantly
recovered
:
That
which
disturbed
his
five
years
Reign
,
was
the
turbulency
of
the
Northern
people
,
whom
,
when
he
had
reduced
and
taken
,
with
intent
to
make
exemplary
punishment
,
Donald
the
Commander
of
the
Castle
of
Forresse
,
where
he
then
lay
,
interceded
for
some
of
them
,
but
being
repulst
,
and
exasperated
by
his
wife
,
after
he
had
made
all
his
servants
drunken
,
flew
him
in
his
bed
,
and
buried
him
under
a
little
bridge
,
(
lest
the
cutting
of
turfs
might
bewray
a
grave
)
near
Kilross
Abbey
;
though
others
say
,
he
turned
aside
a
River
,
and
after
he
had
buried
him
,
suffered
it
to
take
its
former
Channel
:
Culen
the
son
of
Induffe
,
by
the
Election
of
Parliament
,
or
Convention
of
People
succeeded
,
good
onely
in
this
one
Action
of
inquiring
and
punishing
his
Predecessours
death
,
but
after
,
by
the
neglect
of
Discipline
,
and
the
exquisitnesse
of
his
vices
,
became
a
monster
,
and
so
continued
three
years
,
till
being
weakned
and
exhausted
in
his
body
,
and
vext
with
perpetuall
diseases
he
was
summoned
by
the
Parliament
,
and
in
the
way
,
was
slain
by
a
Thane
(
so
they
then
called
Lieutenants
of
Counties
)
whose
daughter
he
had
ravished
.
Then
came
Kenneth
,
brother
to
Duff
(
though
the
forepart
of
his
Keign
was
totally
unlike
his
)
who
being
invaded
by
the
Danes
,
beat
them
in
that
famous
battel
,
which
was
won
by
three
Hays
,
husbandmen
(
from
whom
all
the
Hays
now
give
three
shields
gules
)
who
with
their
Sythes
reinforced
the
lost
battel
,
but
in
his
latter
time
he
lost
this
reputation
,
by
poysoning
Milcolm
sonne
of
Duff
,
to
preserve
the
Crown
for
a
son
of
his
name
,
though
of
lesse
merit
(
for
sayes
Bucanan
,
They
use
to
choose
the
fittest
,
not
the
nearest
)
which
being
done
,
he
got
ordained
in
a
Parliament
,
that
the
Succession
should
be
lineall
,
the
Son
should
inherit
,
and
be
called
Prince
of
Scots
;
and
if
he
were
a
minor
,
be
governed
by
some
wise
man
(
here
comes
the
pretence
of
Succession
,
whereas
before
it
was
clearly
Elective
)
and
at
fifteen
,
he
should
choose
his
Guardian
himself
;
But
the
Divine
vengeance
,
which
seldome
,
even
in
this
life
,
passes
by
murther
,
overtook
him
;
for
he
was
insnared
by
a
Lady
,
whose
son
he
had
caused
to
be
executed
,
and
slain
by
an
arrow
out
of
an
ambush
she
had
laid
.
Constantine
the
son
of
Culen
,
notwithstanding
all
the
artifice
of
Kenneth
,
by
his
reasoning
against
the
Act
,
perswaded
most
of
the
Nobility
to
make
him
King
,
to
that
Milcolm
the
son
of
Kenneth
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
longer
then
his
Fathers
.
His
sonne
was
the
third
of
that
name
,
a
boy
of
eight
years
old
,
whose
Minority
was
infested
with
the
turbulent
Cumins
,
who
at
riper
age
,
being
called
to
accompt
,
not
onely
refused
,
but
surprized
him
at
Sterling
,
governing
him
at
their
pleasure
;
but
soon
after
he
was
awaked
by
a
furious
Invasion
of
Acho
King
of
Norway
(
under
the
pretence
of
some
Islands
given
him
by
Mackbeth
)
whom
he
forced
to
accept
a
Peace
and
spent
the
latter
part
amidst
the
turbulencies
of
the
Priests
(
drunk
at
that
time
with
their
wealth
and
ease
)
and
at
last
having
seen
the
continued
funerals
of
his
Sons
,
David
,
Alexander
,
his
wife
,
and
his
daughter
,
he
himself
with
a
fall
from
his
horse
broke
his
neck
,
leaving
of
all
his
race
,
onely
a
Grand-childe
by
his
daughter
,
which
dyed
soon
after
.
This
mans
family
being
extinguished
,
they
were
forced
to
run
to
to
another
Line
,
which
that
we
may
see
how
happy
,
expedient
,
immediate
Succession
is
for
the
Peace
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
what
miseries
it
prevents
;
I
shall
as
briefly
and
as
pertinently
as
I
can
,
set
down
.
David
,
brother
to
King
William
,
had
three
daughters
.
Margaret
marryed
to
Allan
,
Lord
of
Galloway
,
Isabell
marryed
to
Robert
Bruce
,
Lord
of
Annadale
and
Cleveland
;
Ada
marryed
to
Henry
Hastings
,
Earl
of
Huntington
now
Allan
begot
on
his
wife
Dornadilla
married
to
John
Baliall
after
King
of
Scotland
,
and
other
two
daughters
,
Bruce
on
his
wife
Robert
Bruce
,
Earle
of
Carick
,
(
having
married
the
heretrix
thereof
,
)
as
for
Huntington
he
desisted
his
claime
;
The
question
is
,
whether
Balial
in
right
of
the
eldest
daughter
,
or
Bruce
being
come
of
the
second
(
but
a
man
)
should
have
the
Crown
,
he
being
in
the
same
degree
,
and
of
the
more
worthy
sex
;
the
Controversie
being
tost
up
and
down
,
at
last
was
referred
to
Edward
the
first
of
that
name
of
England
he
thinking
to
fish
in
these
troubled
waters
,
stirs
up
eight
other
Competitors
,
the
more
to
entangle
the
business
,
and
with
twenty
four
Councellors
,
half
English
,
half
Scots
,
and
abundance
of
Lawyers
,
fit
enough
to
perplex
the
matter
,
so
handled
the
business
,
after
cunning
delayes
,
that
at
length
he
secretly
tampers
with
Bruce
(
who
was
then
conceived
to
have
the
better
right
of
the
businesse
)
that
if
he
would
acknowledge
the
Crown
of
him
,
he
would
adjudge
it
for
him
,
but
he
generously
answering
that
he
valued
a
Crown
at
a
less
rate
,
then
for
it
to
put
his
Countrey
under
a
Forraign
yoke
;
he
made
the
same
motion
to
Baliall
,
who
accepted
it
;
and
so
we
have
a
King
again
,
by
what
right
we
all
see
,
but
it
is
good
reason
to
think
that
Kings
,
come
they
by
their
power
never
so
unjustly
,
may
justly
keep
it
.
Baliall
having
thus
got
a
Crown
as
unhappily
kept
it
,
for
no
sooner
was
he
Crowned
,
and
had
done
honage
to
Edward
,
but
the
Abernethys
having
slain
Macduffe
Earl
of
Fife
,
he
not
onely
pardoned
them
,
but
gave
them
a
peice
of
land
in
controversie
,
whereupon
Macduffs
brother
complainis
against
him
to
Edward
,
who
makes
him
rise
from
his
seat
at
Parliament
and
go
to
the
bar
,
he
hereupon
enraged
,
denyes
Edward
assistance
against
the
French
,
and
renounses
his
homage
,
Edward
hereupon
comes
to
Berwick
takes
and
kils
seaven
thosand
,
most
of
the
Nobility
of
Fife
and
Lowthian
,
and
after
gave
them
a
great
defeat
at
Dunbar
,
whose
Castle
instantly
surrendred
:
After
this
,
he
marched
to
Montrosse
,
where
Baliall
resined
himself
and
Crown
,
all
the
Nobility
giving
Homage
to
Edward
,
Baliall
is
sent
prisoner
to
London
,
and
from
thence
after
a
years
detention
into
France
.
Whilest
Edward
was
possest
of
all
Scotland
,
one
William
Wallace
arose
,
who
being
a
private
man
,
bestirred
himself
in
the
Calamity
of
his
Countrey
,
and
gave
the
English
severall
notable
foyles
.
Edward
coming
again
with
an
Army
,
beat
him
(
that
was
overcome
with
envy
and
emulation
as
well
as
power
,
upon
which
he
laid
by
his
Command
,
and
never
acted
after
,
but
slight
Incursions
)
but
the
English
being
beaten
at
Roslin
,
Edward
comes
in
again
,
takes
Sterling
,
and
makes
them
all
render
homage
;
but
at
length
Bruce
,
seeing
all
his
promises
nothing
but
smoak
,
enters
into
League
with
Cumen
to
get
the
Kingdome
;
but
being
betrayed
by
him
to
Edward
,
he
stabbed
Cumen
at
Drumfreis
,
and
made
himself
King
.
This
man
though
he
came
with
disadvantage
,
yet
wanted
neither
patience
,
courage
,
nor
conduct
;
so
that
after
he
had
miserably
lurk'd
in
the
mountains
,
he
came
down
,
and
gathering
together
some
force
,
gave
our
Edward
the
second
such
a
defeat
near
Sterling
,
as
Scotland
never
gave
the
like
to
our
Nation
,
and
continued
war
with
various
fortune
with
the
Third
,
till
at
last
,
age
and
Leprosie
brought
him
to
his
grave
.
His
son
David
a
Boy
of
eight
years
,
inherited
that
which
he
with
so
much
danger
obtained
,
and
wisdom
kept
;
In
his
minority
he
was
governed
by
Thomas
Randolf
Earl
of
Murray
,
whose
severity
in
punishing
was
no
lesse
dreaded
then
His
valor
had
been
honoured
,
but
he
soon
after
dying
of
poyson
,
and
Edward
Balial
,
son
of
John
,
coming
with
a
Fleet
,
and
strengthend
with
the
assistance
of
the
English
,
and
some
Robbers
,
the
Governour
the
Earl
of
Mar
was
put
to
the
rout
,
so
that
Balial
makes
himself
King
,
and
David
was
glad
to
retire
into
France
;
Amidst
these
parties
(
Edward
the
third
backing
Balial
)
was
Scotland
pitifully
torn
,
and
the
Bruces
in
a
manner
extinguished
,
till
Robert
(
after
King
)
with
them
of
Argyle
and
his
own
Familie
and
Friends
,
begin
to
renew
the
Claim
,
and
bring
it
into
a
War
again
,
which
was
carried
on
by
Andrew
Murray
the
Governour
,
and
after
by
himself
;
that
David
after
nine
years
banishment
durst
return
,
where
making
often
Incursions
,
he
at
length
in
the
fourth
year
of
his
return
,
march'd
into
England
,
and
in
the
Bishoprick
of
Durham
was
routed
,
fled
to
an
obscure
Bridge
,
shewed
to
this
day
by
the
Inhabitants
,
where
he
was
by
Iohn
Copland
taken
prisoner
,
where
he
continued
nine
years
,
and
in
the
thirty
ninth
yeare
of
his
Reigne
died
.
Robert
his
sisters
son
,
whom
he
had
intended
to
put
by
,
succeeds
,
and
first
brought
the
Stewarts
(
which
at
this
day
are
a
plague
to
the
Nation
)
into
play
:
This
man
after
he
was
King
,
whether
it
were
age
or
sloth
,
did
little
;
but
his
Lieutenants
and
the
English
were
perpetually
in
Action
;
he
left
his
Kingdom
to
John
his
Bastard
Son
by
the
Lady
More
his
Concubine
,
whom
he
married
,
either
to
Legittimate
the
three
Children
(
as
the
manner
was
then
)
he
had
by
her
,
or
else
for
old
acquaintance
(
his
Wife
and
her
Husband
dying
much
about
a
time
)
this
John
would
be
Crowned
by
the
name
of
Robert
(
his
own
they
say
,
being
unhappie
for
Kings
)
a
wretched
unactive
Prince
,
lame
,
and
onely
governed
by
his
brother
Walter
,
who
having
David
the
Prince
,
upon
the
complaint
of
some
exorbitancies
,
delivered
to
him
to
take
care
of
,
made
him
to
be
starv'd
;
upon
which
the
King
intending
to
send
his
Son
James
into
France
,
the
Boy
was
taken
at
Flamburgh
,
and
kept
by
our
Henry
the
Fourth
;
upon
the
hearing
of
which
,
his
Father
swounded
,
and
soon
after
died
:
His
reign
was
memorable
for
nothing
,
but
his
breaking
with
George
Earl
of
March
,
to
whose
daughter
,
upon
the
payment
of
a
great
part
of
her
portion
(
which
he
never
would
repay
)
he
had
promised
his
Son
David
for
an
husband
:
to
take
the
Daughter
of
Douglas
who
had
a
greater
,
which
occasioned
the
Earl
of
March
to
make
many
in-rodes
with
our
Henry
Hot-spur
;
and
a
famous
Duel
of
three
hundred
men
a
piece
,
whereof
of
the
one
side
ten
remained
,
and
of
the
other
one
,
which
was
the
onely
way
to
appease
the
deadly
Feuds
of
two
Families
:
The
Inter-reign
was
governed
by
Robert
,
who
enjoying
the
power
,
he
had
too
much
coveted
,
little
minded
the
libertie
of
his
Nephew
,
onely
he
sent
some
Auxiliaries
into
France
,
who
,
they
say
,
behaved
themselves
worthily
;
and
his
slothfull
Son
Mordac
,
who
making
his
Sons
so
bold
with
indulgence
,
that
one
of
them
kill'd
a
Faulcon
on
his
fist
,
which
he
denied
to
give
him
;
he
in
revenge
procured
the
Parliament
to
ransom
the
King
,
who
had
been
eighteen
years
prisoner
.
This
James
was
the
first
of
that
Name
,
and
though
he
was
an
excellent
Prince
,
yet
had
a
troublesom
Reign
;
first
in
regard
of
a
great
Pension
raised
for
his
Ransome
,
next
for
Domestick
Commotions
,
and
lastly
for
raising
of
money
,
which
though
the
Revenue
was
exhausted
,
was
called
Covetousnesse
,
which
having
offended
Robert
Graham
,
he
conspired
with
the
Earl
of
Athol
,
slew
him
in
his
Chamber
,
his
Wife
receiving
two
wounds
,
endeavouring
to
defend
him
.
This
James
left
the
second
,
a
boy
of
six
years
,
whose
infancy
by
the
mis-guidance
of
the
Governour
,
made
a
miserable
People
,
and
betrayed
the
Earl
Douglas
to
death
,
and
almost
all
that
great
Family
to
ruine
;
but
being
supplanted
by
another
Earl
Douglas
,
the
King
in
his
just
age
suffered
minority
under
him
,
who
upon
displeasure
rebelled
,
and
was
kill'd
by
the
Kings
own
hand
;
afterwards
having
his
middle
years
perpetually
molested
with
Civill
broils
,
yet
going
to
assist
the
Duke
of
York
against
Henry
the
Sixth
,
he
was
diverted
by
an
English
Gentleman
,
that
counterfeited
himself
a
Nuncio
(
which
I
mention
out
of
a
Manuscript
,
because
I
do
not
remember
it
in
our
Stories
)
and
broke
up
his
Army
:
soon
after
besieging
Roxburgh
,
he
was
slain
by
the
bursting
of
a
Cannon
in
the
twenty
ninth
year
of
his
Age
.
James
the
Third
left
a
Boy
of
seven
years
,
governed
by
his
Mothe
,
afterwards
the
Boyds
through
the
perswasions
of
Astrologers
and
Witches
to
whom
he
was
strongly
addicted
,
he
declined
to
Cruelty
,
which
so
inraged
the
Nobility
,
that
headed
by
his
son
,
they
conspired
against
him
,
routing
his
Forces
near
Sterling
,
wherein
he
flying
to
a
Mill
,
and
asking
for
a
Confessor
,
a
Priest
came
,
who
told
him
,
that
though
he
was
no
good
Priest
,
yet
he
was
a
good
Leech
,
and
with
that
stabb'd
him
to
the
heart
:
A
Parliament
approved
his
death
,
and
ordered
Indemnities
to
all
that
had
sought
against
him
.
James
the
Fourth
,
a
Boy
of
fifteen
years
,
is
made
King
,
Governed
by
the
murtherers
of
his
Father
,
a
prodigall
vain-glorious
Prince
slain
at
Floddon
Field
or
as
some
suppose
at
Kelsey
,
by
the
Humes
,
which
(
as
the
Manuscript
alledges
)
seems
more
probability
,
in
regard
that
the
Iron
Belt
(
a
Ring
to
which
he
added
every
year
)
which
he
wore
in
repentance
for
the
death
of
his
Father
,
was
never
found
,
and
there
were
many
the
day
of
the
Battell
habited
like
him
.
His
Successor
was
his
son
,
James
the
Fifth
of
that
Name
,
a
Boy
of
not
above
two
years
of
age
;
under
whose
minority
,
what
by
the
Mis-government
of
Tutors
,
what
by
the
factions
of
the
Nobility
,
Scotland
was
wasted
almost
into
famine
and
solitude
,
yet
in
his
just
age
,
he
proved
an
industrious
Prince
,
but
could
not
so
satisfie
the
Nobility
but
he
and
they
continued
in
a
mutuall
hate
,
till
that
barbarous
execution
of
young
Hamilton
,
so
fill'd
him
with
remorse
,
(
he
dream-that
Hamilton
came
and
cut
off
his
Arms
,
and
threatned
after
to
cut
off
his
Head
)
and
displeased
the
people
.
that
he
could
not
make
his
Army
fight
with
the
English
then
in
Scotland
,
whereupon
he
dyed
of
grief
,
having
heard
the
death
of
his
two
sons
,
who
dyed
at
the
instant
of
his
Dream
,
and
leaving
a
Daughter
of
five
dayes
old
,
whom
he
never
saw
.
This
was
that
Mary
,
under
whose
minority
(
by
the
weaknesse
of
the
Governour
,
and
ambition
of
the
Cardinall
)
the
Kingdome
felt
all
those
woes
that
are
threatned
to
them
whose
King
is
a
Child
.
Till
at
length
the
prevalency
of
the
English
Arms
(
awakes
for
her
Cause
)
brought
the
great
designe
of
sending
her
into
France
to
perfection
,
so
at
five
years
old
she
was
t●ansported
,
and
at
fifteen
married
to
the
Daulphin
Francis
,
after
King
,
(
whilest
her
mother
,
daughter
of
the
Guise
,
in
her
Regency
,
exercised
all
Rage
against
the
Professours
of
the
pure
Religion
then
in
the
dawn
)
who
after
two
years
,
left
her
a
childlesse
Widow
,
so
that
at
eighteen
she
returned
into
Scotland
to
succeed
her
Mother
(
then
newly
dead
)
in
her
exorbitoncies
.
This
young
Couple
in
the
transport
of
their
Nuptiall
solemnities
,
took
the
Arms
and
Title
of
England
;
which
indiscreet
Ambition
we
may
suppose
first
quickned
the
jealousie
of
Elizabeth
against
her
,
which
after
kindled
so
great
a
flame
.
In
Scotland
she
shewed
what
a
strange
influence
loose
education
hath
upon
youth
,
and
that
weaker
Sex
,
all
the
French
effeminacies
came
over
with
her
,
the
Court
lost
that
little
severity
which
was
left
.
David
Rize
was
the
onely
Favourite
,
and
it
too
much
feared
,
had
those
enjoyments
which
no
woman
can
give
,
but
she
that
gives
away
her
honour
and
chastity
.
But
a
little
after
,
Henry
Lord
Darnly
,
coming
with
Matthew
Earl
of
Lenox
his
father
into
Scotland
,
she
cast
an
eye
upon
him
,
and
married
him
.
Whether
it
were
to
strengthen
her
pretension
to
England
,
he
being
come
of
Henry
the
Sevenths
Daughter
,
as
we
shall
tell
anon
,
or
for
to
colour
her
Adulteries
,
and
hide
the
shame
of
an
impregnation
,
(
though
some
have
whispered
,
that
she
never
conceived
,
and
that
the
son
was
supposititious
)
or
some
Phrenzy
of
affection
drew
her
that
way
;
certain
it
is
she
soon
declined
her
affection
to
her
husband
,
and
encreased
it
to
David
(
he
being
her
perpetuall
Companion
at
Board
,
and
managing
all
Affairs
,
whilst
the
King
with
a
contemptible
train
was
sent
away
)
insomuch
that
some
of
the
Nobility
that
could
not
digest
this
,
entred
a
Conspiracy
,
which
the
king
headed
,
and
slew
him
in
her
Chamber
.
This
turn'd
all
the
neglect
of
her
Husband
into
rage
,
so
that
her
chiefest
businesse
was
to
appease
her
Favorites
Ghost
with
the
slaughter
of
her
Husband
;
poyson
was
first
attempted
,
but
it
being
(
it
seems
)
too
weak
,
or
his
youth
overcoming
it
,
that
expectation
failed
.
But
the
Devil
and
Bothwel
furnish'd
her
with
another
that
succeeded
,
she
intices
him
being
so
sick
,
that
they
were
forc'd
to
bring
him
in
an
horse-litter
to
Edenburgh
,
where
she
cherisht
him
extreemly
,
till
the
credulous
young
man
began
to
lay
aside
suspition
,
and
hope
better
;
so
she
puts
him
in
a
ruinous
House
near
the
Palace
,
from
whence
no
news
can
be
had
,
brings
in
her
own
bed
,
and
lyes
in
the
House
with
him
;
and
at
length
when
the
Designe
was
ripe
,
causes
him
one
Sunday
night
,
with
his
servant
,
to
be
strangled
,
thrown
out
of
the
window
,
and
the
House
blown
up
with
Gun-powder
,
her
own
rich
bed
having
been
before
secretly
conveyed
away
.
This
and
other
performances
made
her
favour
upon
Bothwel
so
hot
,
that
she
must
marry
him
,
the
onely
obstacle
was
,
he
had
a
Wife
already
;
but
she
was
compell'd
to
sue
for
a
Divorce
,
which
(
so
great
Persons
being
concern'd
)
it
was
a
wonder
,
was
in
granting
so
long
as
ten
dayes
.
Well
,
she
marries
but
the
more
honest
nobilitie
amazed
at
those
exorbitances
,
gather
together
,
and
with
arms
in
hands
begin
to
expostulate
:
The
new-married
people
are
forc'd
to
make
back
Southwards
,
where
finding
but
slender
assistances
,
and
the
Queen
foolishly
coming
from
Dunbar
to
Leith
,
was
glad
at
last
to
delay
a
parley
till
her
Dear
was
escaped
and
then
(
clad
in
an
old
tottered
coat
)
to
yield
her self
a
prisoner
.
Being
brought
to
Edenburgh
,
and
used
rather
with
hate
of
her
former
enormities
,
then
pity
of
her
fortune
,
she
received
a
message
,
that
she
must
either
resign
the
Crown
to
her
son
James
(
that
was
born
in
the
time
of
her
marriage
with
Darnby
)
or
else
they
would
proceed
to
another
Election
,
and
was
forc'd
to
obey
:
So
the
Child
then
in
his
Cradle
was
acknowledged
James
the
Sixth
,
better
known
afterwards
by
the
Title
of
Great
Brittain
.
The
wretched
mother
flying
after
into
England
,
was
entertained
(
though
with
a
Guard
)
by
Queen
Elizabeth
,
but
after
that
being
suborned
by
the
Papists
,
and
exasperated
by
the
Guizes
,
she
entered
into
plots
and
machinations
,
so
inconsistent
with
the
safety
of
England
,
that
by
an
Act
of
Parliament
she
was
condemned
to
death
,
which
she
after
received
by
an
hatchet
at
Fothering-gay
Castle
.
The
infancy
of
her
son
was
attended
with
those
Domestick
evils
that
accompany
minority
of
Kings
:
In
his
youth
he
took
to
wife
the
Daughter
of
Denmark
(
a
woman
I
hear
little
of
,
saving
that
Character
Salust
gives
Sempronia
,
she
could
saltare
elegantius
quam
necesse
est
probae
)
with
whom
he
supposing
the
Earl
Gowry
too
much
in
League
,
caused
him
and
his
brother
to
be
slain
at
their
own
House
whither
he
was
invited
,
he
giving
out
,
that
they
had
an
intent
to
murther
him
,
and
that
by
miracle
,
and
the
assistance
of
some
men
(
whom
he
had
instructed
for
that
purpose
,
and
taught
their
tale
)
he
escap'd
.
For
this
Deliverance
(
or
to
say
better
assasination
)
he
Blasphemed
God
with
a
solemne
Thanksgiving
once
a
year
all
the
remainder
of
his
life
.
Happy
had
it
been
for
us
,
if
our
fore
fathers
had
laid
hold
of
that
happy
opportunity
of
Elizabeths
death
(
in
which
the
Teuthors
took
a
period
)
to
have
performed
that
which
(
perchance
in
due
punishment
)
hath
cost
us
so
much
blood
and
sweat
,
and
not
have
bowed
under
the
sway
of
a
Stranger
,
(
disdained
by
the
most
generous
and
wise
at
that
time
,
and
onely
supported
by
the
Faction
of
some
and
sloth
of
others
)
who
brought
but
a
slender
title
,
and
(
however
the
assentation
of
the
times
cryed
him
up
a
Solomo
)
weak
commendations
for
such
an
advancement
.
The
Former
stood
thus
,
Margaret
,
eldest
daughter
to
Henry
the
Seventh
,
was
married
to
James
the
Fourth
,
whole
Son
,
James
the
Fifth
,
had
Mary
the
Mother
of
James
the
Sixth
.
Margaret
after
her
first
Husbands
death
,
martyrs
Archibald
Douglas
,
Earl
of
Angus
,
who
upon
her
begot
Margaret
,
wife
of
Matthew
Earl
of
Lenox
,
and
Mother
of
that
Henry
Darnly
,
whose
Tragical
end
we
just
now
mentioned
.
Now
upon
this
slender
Title
,
and
our
internal
dissentions
(
for
the
Cecilians
and
Essezians
,
for
several
ends
,
made
perpetual
applications
)
got
Jammy
from
a
Revenew
of
30000.
li.
to
one
of
almost
two
Millions
,
though
there
were
others
that
had
as
fair
pretences
(
what
else
can
any
of
them
make
)
the
Statute
of
25.
Ed.
3
expresly
excluding
Forreigners
from
the
Crown
?
and
so
the
Children
of
Charls
Brandon
by
Mary
the
Second
Daughter
,
Dowager
of
France
,
being
next
to
come
in
.
And
the
Lady
Arbella
,
being
sprung
from
a
third
Husband
,
(
the
Lord
Stewart
)
of
the
said
Margaret
,
and
by
a
Male
Lyne
,
carried
surely
a
formidable
pretention
(
it
should
seem
)
that
even
that
iniquitie
which
was
personally
inherent
to
her
,
made
her
dayes
very
unhappy
and
most
part
captive
,
and
her
death
(
't
is
thought
)
somewhat
too
early
,
so
cruel
are
the
Persecutions
of
cowardly
minds
,
even
against
the
weakest
and
most
unprotected
innocence
.
And
indeed
his
right
to
the
Crown
was
so
satisfactorie
even
to
the
most
judicious
of
those
days
;
that
Tobie
Matthew
having
a
suit
about
some
priviledges
which
he
claimed
to
his
Bishoprick
(
which
was
then
Durham
)
wherein
the
King
opposed
him
;
having
one
day
stated
the
Case
before
some
of
his
friends
,
and
they
seeming
to
approve
of
it
;
yes
,
sayes
he
,
I
could
wish
he
had
but
half
so
good
a
Title
to
the
Crown
;
and
't
is
known
that
some
speeches
of
Sir
Walter
Rawley
,
too
generous
and
English
for
the
times
,
was
that
which
brought
him
to
Trial
and
Condemnation
for
a
feigned
crime
,
and
afterwards
so
facilitated
that
barbarous
design
of
Gundamar
,
to
cut
of
his
head
for
a
crime
,
for
which
he
was
condemned
fourteen
years
before
,
and
which
by
the
Commissions
he
after
received
(
according
to
the
opinion
of
the
then
Lord
Chancellour
,
and
the
greatest
Lawyars
)
was
in
Law
pardoned
.
This
may
besides
our
purpose
,
but
we
could
not
sever
this
Consideration
,
unless
we
would
draw
him
with
an
half
face
,
and
leave
as
much
in
umbrage
as
we
expressed
.
That
which
most
solemnized
his
Person
,
was
,
first
the
consideration
of
his
adhering
to
the
Protestant
Religion
,
whereas
we
are
to
consider
that
those
slieght
velitations
he
had
with
Bellarmine
and
the
Romanists
,
tended
rather
to
make
his
own
Authoritie
more
intrinsecally
intense
,
and
venerable
,
then
to
confute
any
thing
they
said
,
for
he
had
before
shakt
them
off
,
as
to
Forreign
Jurisdiction
,
and
for
matter
of
Poperie
,
it
appeared
in
his
latter
time
that
he
was
no
such
enemie
to
it
,
both
by
his
own
Compliances
with
the
Spanish
Ambassadours
,
the
design
of
the
Spanish
Match
(
in
which
his
Son
was
personally
imbarkt
)
and
the
slow
assistances
sent
to
his
Daughter
,
in
whose
safetie
and
protectiod
Protestantism
was
at
that
time
so
much
concerned
.
For
his
knowledge
,
he
had
some
glancings
and
niblings
,
which
the
severitie
of
the
excellent
Buchanan
,
forc'd
into
him
in
his
younger
time
,
and
after
conversatian
somewhat
polisht
,
but
though
I
bear
not
so
great
a
contempt
to
his
other
works
,
as
Ben.
Johnson
did
to
his
Poetrie
,
yet
if
they
among
many
others
were
a going
to
the
fire
,
they
would
not
be
one
of
the
first
I
should
rescue
,
as
possibly
expecting
more
severe
and
refin'd
judgement
in
many
other
.
And
knowing
that
he
that
had
so
many
able
Wits
at
command
,
might
easily
give
their
their
Oracles
through
his
mouth
:
but
suppose
the
things
generous
and
fit
to
live
(
as
I
am
not
yet
convinced
)
yet
what
commendations
is
this
to
a
King
(
who
should
have
other
ausinesse
then
spinning
and
weaving
fine
Theories
,
and
engaging
in
School
Ciquaneries
)
which
was
well
understood
by
Henry
the
fourth
,
who
hearing
some
men
celebrate
him
with
these
Attributes
;
yea
(
answers
he
very
tartly
)
He
is
a
fine
King
,
and
writes
little
Books
.
'T
is
true
,
he
was
a
good
droll
,
and
possibly
after
Greek
Wine
somewhat
factious
.
But
for
substantiall
and
Heroick
Wisdome
,
I
have
not
heard
any
great
instances
;
he
himself
used
to
brag
of
his
kingcraft
,
which
was
not
to
felicifie
his
People
,
and
prosecute
the
ends
of
a
good
King
;
but
to
scrue
up
the
Prerogative
,
divert
Parliaments
from
the
due
disquisition
and
prosecution
of
their
freedoms
,
and
to
break
them
up
at
pleasure
,
and
indeed
his
rendition
of
the
Cautionary
Towns
of
the
Low
Countreys
,
and
that
for
so
small
a
sum
,
shewed
him
a
person
not
so
quick-sighted
,
and
unfit
to
be
overreach'd
.
For
his
peaceable
Reigne
,
Honourable
and
just
Quarrels
he
wanted
not
,
but
sloth
and
cowardize
withheld
him
,
and
indeed
the
ease
and
luxury
of
those
times
,
fomented
and
nourished
those
lurking
and
pestilent
humours
,
which
afterwards
so
dangerously
broke
out
in
his
Sons
Reign
.
We
shall
not
trouble
his
ashes
with
the
mention
of
his
Personall
faults
,
onely
,
if
we
may
compare
Gods
Judgements
with
apparant
sinnes
;
we
may
find
the
latter
end
of
his
life
,
neither
fortunate
nor
comfortable
unto
him
,
His
wife
distasted
by
him
,
and
some
say
,
languishing
of
a
foul
disease
;
his
eldest
son
dying
,
Nimis
apertis
indiciis
,
of
Poyson
,
and
that
as
is
feared
by
a
hand
too
much
allied
:
His
second
(
with
whom
he
ever
had
a
secret
Antipathy
)
scarce
returned
from
a
mad
and
dangerous
voyage
;
His
daughter
(
all
that
was
left
of
that
sex
)
banish'd
,
with
her
numerous
issue
,
out
of
her
husbands
Dominion
,
and
living
in
miserable
exile
;
and
lastly
,
himself
dying
of
a
violent
death
(
by
poyson
)
in
which
his
Son
was
more
then
suspected
to
have
an
hand
,
as
may
be
infer'd
by
Buckinghams
Plea
,
that
he
did
it
by
the
Command
of
the
then
Prince
;
his
own
dissolution
of
the
Parliament
that
took
in
hand
to
examine
it
;
and
lastly
,
his
indifferency
at
Buckinghams
death
(
though
he
pretended
all
love
to
him
alive
)
as
glad
to
be
rid
of
so
dangerous
and
so
considerable
a
Partner
of
his
guilt
;
yet
the
Mitred
Parasites
of
those
times
,
could
say
,
one
went
to
Heaven
in
Noahs
Ark
,
the
other
in
Elisha's
chariot
,
he
dying
of
a
pretended
Feaver
,
she
(
as
they
said
)
of
a
dropsie
.
Charles
having
now
obtain'd
his
Brothers
inheritance
,
carried
himself
in
managing
of
it
,
like
one
that
gain'd
it
as
he
did
.
The
first
of
his
Acts
,
was
that
glorious
attempt
upon
the
Isle
of
Rhee
.
The
next
that
Noble
and
Christianly
betraying
of
Rochell
,
and
consequently
in
a
manner
the
whole
Protestant
interest
in
France
.
The
middle
of
his
Reign
was
heightening
of
Prerogative
and
Prelacy
,
and
conforming
our
Churches
to
the
pattern
of
Rome
;
till
at
last
just
indignation
brought
in
his
Subjects
of
Scotland
into
England
,
and
so
forc'd
him
to
call
a
Parliament
;
which
though
he
shamelesly
say
in
the
first
line
of
the
Book
(
call'd
his
)
was
out
of
his
own
inclination
to
Parliaments
,
yet
how
well
he
lik'd
them
may
appear
by
his
first
tampering
with
his
own
Army
in
the
North
,
to
surprize
and
dissolve
them
,
then
the
Scots
(
who
at
that
time
were
Court-proof
)
then
raising
up
the
Irish
Rebellion
,
which
hath
wasted
Millions
of
lives
;
and
lastly
,
open
secession
from
Westminster
,
and
hostility
against
the
two
Houses
,
which
maintain'd
a
first
and
second
sharp
War
,
which
had
almost
ruined
the
Nation
,
had
not
Providence
in
a
manner
immediately
interposed
and
rescued
us
to
liberty
,
and
made
us
such
signall
Instruments
of
his
vengeance
,
that
all
wicked
Kings
may
tremble
at
the
example
.
In
a
word
never
was
man
so
resolute
and
obstinate
in
a
Tyrannie
,
never
people
more
strangely
besotted
with
it
,
to
paint
the
Image
of
David
with
his
face
,
and
Blasphemously
paralel
him
with
Christ
,
would
make
one
at
first
thought
think
him
a
Saint
:
But
to
compare
his
Protestations
and
actions
;
his
actions
of
the
day
,
his
actions
of
the
night
,
his
Protestant
Religion
,
and
his
Courting
of
Pope
,
and
obedience
to
his
wife
,
we
may
justly
say
,
he
was
one
of
the
most
consummate
in
the
Arts
of
Tyranny
that
ever
was
.
And
it
could
be
no
other
then
Gods
hand
that
arrested
him
in
the
heighth
of
his
Designs
and
greatnesse
,
and
cut
off
him
and
his
Familie
,
making
good
his
own
Imprecations
upon
his
own
head
.
Our
Scene
is
again
in
Scotland
,
who
hath
accepted
his
Son
,
whom
for
distinction
sake
,
we
will
be
content
to
call
Charls
the
Second
.
Certainly
these
People
were
strangely
blind
as
to
Gods
judgement
perpetually
poured
out
upon
a
Familie
,
or
else
to
their
own
interest
,
to
admit
the
spray
of
such
a
stock
;
one
that
hath
so
little
to
commend
him
,
and
so
great
improbabilitie
for
their
designs
and
happiness
,
a
Popish
(
or
very
near
it
)
education
,
if
not
Religion
too
(
however
for
the
present
he
may
seem
to
dissemble
it
,
France
,
the
Jesuites
and
his
Mother
good
means
of
such
improvement
)
the
dangerous
Maxims
of
his
Father
,
(
besides
the
revenge
he
ows
his
death
,
of
which
he
will
never
totally
acquit
the
Scots
)
his
hate
to
the
whole
Nation
,
his
sence
of
Montrosse
his
death
;
his
backwardnesse
to
come
to
them
till
all
other
means
failed
(
both
his
Forreign
begg'd
Assistances
,
his
Propositions
to
the
Pope
,
and
Commissions
to
Montrosse
)
and
lastly
,
his
late
running
away
to
his
old
friends
in
the
North
;
so
that
any
man
may
see
this
his
Compliance
to
be
but
Histrionical
and
forc'd
,
and
that
as
soon
as
he
hath
led
them
into
the
snare
,
and
got
power
into
his
own
hands
,
so
as
he
may
appear
in
his
own
visage
;
he
will
be
a
scourge
upon
them
for
their
gross
hypocrisie
,
and
leave
them
a
sad
instance
to
all
Nations
,
how
dangerous
it
is
to
espouse
such
an
interest
,
which
God
with
so
visible
and
severe
a
hand
fights
against
,
carried
on
by
,
and
for
the
support
of
a
Tyrannizing
Nobilitie
and
Clergie
,
and
wherein
the
poor
People
are
blindly
led
on
by
those
affrighting
(
but
false
and
ungrounded
)
pretensions
of
perfidy
and
perjury
,
and
made
instrumentall
with
their
own
estates
and
bloud
,
for
the
enslaving
and
ruining
themselves
.