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Show The Preface. Now, ifthou which art the reader, thinke that ] ( vnacquainted with mattets of (tate, « {peciallic in another countrie,better hnowne to all anen than to my felic) ani far vnable to breake the dangerous fee of fuch matters and fo more vnmectto enter into the bofomeof ptinces(whofe harts as Salomon faith are v1 fearchable ‘theuld for ny ynaduifednefie feetne worthie the punifhment of Prometheus, that flale the fier from lupiter, znd eatied ix abode into the world,bicaule the affaires of princes are not to be made common, to be tubn itted to the ceyis ture of their fubieets nor to be written vntillthe afhes ofall thofe whome the thines concerne were vtterlie con. fumed : thou mutt yet remember that men haue elc aped punifhment in dealing with higher mattersthan with things of chronicles , or of {uch like which oneli¢ touch the life of the bodie. And thereforein punifhing theres of ypon Prometheus, lupiter went beyond himfelfe . For ifthe greater, that is for matters tc uching thefoule, went not onélie free from punifhment, but receiued cternall reward , as after fhall appeare, how mudi more fhould Prometheus haue beenc {pared,that but onelie medled with the bodie ? Nowit is manifeft thatin diuinitic and matters ofthe foule(a thingthatfofar exceedeth the bodie as the funne dooth the moone,as angels dao interior creatures,andas light deoth darkencfle) there be manie which haue lept into héauen, ‘T HE CO NT IN : "of theann ONE and by.contem- plation placedtheir pen amoneft the fonnes of Godin writing , andlaiehg abtode to the World(as'muchasin themlaic)the ynfearchable works of the Almightie, whereof we cannot comprehendthe leaftc aufe, order or pettection,andhaue therefore not onclie not rccciued punifhment,bur¢ satfee ard both in bodie andfoule; as Enoch was tranflated to paradife; Elias takcn yp ina fierie chariot; Paule rapt yp into the third heauen, LEE ERGRai ales of Scodlan ( y the death ofthe regent Marthew earle ofLenesupes:« hand,bad not(as beforeI faid)the commandcment offudvas I durft not gainfaie,interponed it felfe as a fhieldto receiue and beat backe thefharpe darts of enuious toongs.For which caulefith I was bound to him bydefart,and that he had better opinion of me thanthere was caufe Whie; 1 feared not ( though I deemed it the part ofhim which doubtedthe iudgement and reproch ofthe wifer fort, not to haue hazardedhis credit ) to enter into this. 5d 58 17.2 onclie for great councellors and men prime of mattersofeftate;as thoughthere were noplace for Greeke poets Lifltus lib, 10. 43.387, Buchanlib.r0, but onclie to Homer and Sophocles; and for Latine poets,but to Virgil, Ouid,and Horace ? Didthe Gngularitie and ampleneffe of Platos knowledge in philofophic feare Ariftotle to writein the like argument ? Orhath Ari{torle {taied the penofothers ? Shall no manbe painters but Appelles or Zeuxis , or caruers or grauers but Phidias and Lyfias ? Shall no manbe orators but Cicero, Quintilian , aud Demofthenes ? Shall none write hiftories sbburied ea linge Cas theffatéof gyi at Came GS] troblfome A fine told ro permit) the noble: 3 : that wienthey haue {pent all their wit,eloquence,and art, there is yet {omewhatto be defired inthem,as well as in me the meaneft writer, am contentto bearcall {peeches,and defire thee to thinke what I would doo , and not whatIfhoulddoo;to excufe me by others,and not to condemne mewith others; to accept this in that fort as I haue meant it,andrather with mildnefle to pardon myimperfections than with malice to barke at my well meaning. Belides which,ifthou fhalt deeme this worke and continuation of mine for Scotland, ought to haue been confecrated to the tauourable acceptance,and honourable protection ofhimto whom thefirtt yolume was dedicated; Lanfiver(befides that 1 amto him aneftranger,and not to beg yndeferuedfauour of anieperfon,an that the firlt patroneofthis Scotifh hiftorie isnowin the lowcountries beyondthefeas) this is a thing by mefo flendetlic deone,thatit meriteth not his honourable iudgement,orthe learned viewor patronageofanie other Ben(gisrer out of the bighctt tote af fhe cattell)they there eatilic Warited to recoite ann ozatb ometnarh tn conncnient time, AR obKh hoftelOtand ity,they once felt the finart oF she ehitnte, dherall the Hoste and fintmentueve come out of the totwite to inters septa part of the kings armie, Fo. the kitge fisted (hating Grflatoa ambuth in the Wallicy nfo with Bu ahbarh then Ghich the reficome before the cattell, fm hope to traine the moby the -_totprie inetethere péelent of -defente, thich their etpectation tas Not decetaed, 3Fo2 the fain Coenburgers made halt ont of the fhat faction, faking part folth the king, alfemblea themfelues fo: the creating of a nein tegent,tofbich funnaion thep named theer,and thole fir bp othcoms hiftorie of Scotland, thanthat which Ihaue fet downe.Whereforeif the beft writers be {ubieét to thefe faults, he deceits of their cniuntes + Dicatte bp‘a vetute tos boRous, "at Steak: but Cefar, LiuieSabellicus,Paulus Iouius,Comineus,Guicciardine,or fuch like ? Orfhall none deliver their tra- ucll tothe world bicaufe they cannotwrite in Englifhas didfir Thomas Moore,fir John Cheeke , Roger Askam, Geiferie Fenton,or JohnLilic? Yes trulie,for whenthey haue doonetheir beft, and written what they can,aimaa thayyet imagine a far more excellentthing, cuen of and inthat whercin they hate beft trauelled, written, pain= ted, or graued,and that euenbythe felfe fame thing whichthey haue doone: And more goodreader thoucanft not doo cither vponthe bafenesofmy {tile,the diforder ofthe matter ,or the barrenneflé of {upplieng of things requilit for the furnifhing and maicftie ofan hiftorie,thanto #p ofe and faie thata better forme and methodof waniting,a more ample difcourfe for the matter, and a{weeter {tile forthe manner might haue beenc hadforthe Susris part at the caumtriz ) ‘fo Ybsouahe, that the queenes faction fyeulo nelther come ta binbftrol'y; Setemi teg maz pet(beingbitpsonioed) Gould be fnitrapen weg et Coen: gj Sf Lines ape faite him,and to fhewthe hope I conceiued at the well acceptance thereofbythee . In which difcourfe I had rather gedreader thou fhouldeit complaine ofwant offufficiencie in meto performe fo harda thing : than thathe ihould miflike ofmy goodwill in anfwering his defire.And fhould I feare to enter heereinto , being a thing meet Uprar ve with manic others . For which caufeJ faic,ifthey which lepped into matters farre beyondthe reacof men,toexc in the meaneft degree of perfection , wére not punithedfor medling thercin,andwriting thereof; mudh efleought I to be unifhed with Prometheus in medling with the difcourfe ofmatters yponthe earth, and {udh as concernethe aftions ofmortall crcatures,as bartels, mutations of kingdoms, death ofprinces,andfuch other carthlic accidents . Into which yct I would not haue fo rafhlie defcended , or taken fo harda prouince in dangerous fea,being notfo much furnifhed with hope toperforme it well,as defirous todifchar ge the requeftof hn : garrffort bpon themont ofthe tals of thetr Pure ones -_totwne, to purfue the tard part of the kings armic, -abich feined a fpeote fight, to deaty the other part furtherfrom vefenfe of the cattell, 15y ineang fibers pelled to peeld to the boices of the nobilitic, We thee of , thep of the totone dffo egerli¢ parfae themfa Appointed by thent toere Gillpee Cambell carte of 20 flicia,that tn the end thep went (0 far after their ents Coten, Ataile, james Dolvglatte carte of Bourton, znd mies , that thep orewineere the enfignes ofthe other confaltation tbich of thefe for moff canfes( both be neficfall and bonojablefo the realme and Bing)ivere -tefrue their fellowes put to this feined flight. Wht Che qnrecrieg hing being fwell percetued bp the watch of the caffel] part warnen office 5 in the endit twasJaid tpon the Moulvers of -_figtte,therebp thofe onthe queenes part before that 2 beattit At the firentrance tnto abich place, this Aretkine, Obote Hight tas the more tvoublefome th them, bis Thorneof Fob Arehkinecarle of War. ‘But in the end, bon Dar mape Sto‘lanp, meted to weld fo trenbletome and dangerons an ofthe nobilitic.For ifit had,I would then haue beftowed the fame yponthofe to whom ane alreadie confecra- ted myfelfe,whatfocuer 1am, hauinglong before this couenanted withmy bodic, onelie to tie it ynto their the lak of the thze, to home (they aholie inclin ing) Haite full anthozitic to erecute the office of a regent, good commandement. For hauing but one heart,] cannotdilate it to ferue and offer it felfe to manie perfons, confidering thatwhere is but one heart,there muftneeds be but one waie: and he that will beftowe one heart ypon mani¢pcrions, mutt diuide the fameinto manic portions, and fo difmemberit, thatin the end it will be no art at all; or clshe muft goto the fhambles to prouide manie fheepeshearts,to beftow ypon thofe manieto Ambulh,now hewing themfclues ont ofthe yaltie to of Coenberongh , foxthtwith it gane the appointen >? the wate thep came nevre to the placetn fhich they twere latn for) beqranfearfullic to recotle fox thetbetécrfa (etic; a Hating nothing moze deere 02 defired to and of bin, 36 caufe they knew thep were in banger,could trot thanthe befieging and recourrie of the caffe and -fufpect fromtbenfe o2 bolthelr hurt fhoulo come, Ttotun of Coenbscugh(cut ofthe harids of the ques -_althotigh thep kreve before Wwarited therof by the fate fadion)to the ble of his matter and prpill (thera watch of the tolvze. Jn Which recolle of the qucencs fo the laff calevidz of Dasher je Was apointed,with part,the fetv basemenwhich han befine feed the a fufficient ermie bythe latt beceffed regent bis pre, Allg bt (to dratwon the offer) re D, ahd made Chep whet Decelloz)he twas nov hinderedtherof by fudden(aw -_‘fuch baffon the backe of the fotinen, that the fot, ae mambnily whomhewill bind his manie feruices:for which caufes I mayneither choofe a newpatrone, nordedicate thisto the old,but onelie to thee the fauourable reader. Nowbefore I knit ypthis exordium(which may feeme to thee in refpect ofthe follow ing hiftoric,to belike the towne,the gates and entrance Whereinto being Verie ae OT cafioned Diogenesto will the inhabitants to fhut thofe great gates,leaft thatlittle townedid runout therea ercat ) 4 am to admoniththee good reader,that in all my former additionsto the hiftorie ofScotland,have neither wor for word,nor fentence for fentence , fet downethe writings of Lefleus or Buchanan, but haue chofenout the matter as I thought beft and apt to mydefire . After which fort I hatie likewifein this my continuation ofthe a bnioked for) tarmotles of the effateg of the realme. nales ofthat countrie , not fet downeor deliuered things to the. worldinthat fort and {tile as I haue rec sa: intelligence thereof,but onelie culled foorth fuch matter as both the time wherein weliue , the matter - intreat,and the method required therefore,may well beare and chalenge. ‘Thus hauing laid before thee,that he witeth beft that trulie writeth publike affaires , that I was commanded by mydeere treendsto enter into this "Gere byonfo: that iniflant, the fame twas projoged tothe ites of the fato moneth of Datcber, Whit) de. men Wwete inforccd ( tutth all the peed Hat aight be) tae came l parce fo flic buto the citie,the ert tuaie that cnerte man tazthto fee could find for hig bett vofenfe : at uhat (ime pet ma, bys the kings late tas afteroccaficn of great impediment for the 40 nie of them were wounded, animate taken prifos Pa Tecoucrie thercof ,bicaule it mintireo time, polwer, ners,as well capteing and gentlemenof Armes, ag fabG@arice, mn {ucco2 fo the citizens andcapteins,fo others. mure aud Frengthen the caffell and totone, then the Chile thele things tocre thus fotlie performen, tharpe winter, the long nights, the bard carriage fos tin that the totwrte of Coennough was With no moze fand : that I cannotdifcourfe of this hiftorie as 1 willinglie would :that I oughtnotto forbeareto write bicaufe Icannotin ftile and matter equall the beft : that they are to be pardoned that attempt highthings : that] haue purpelche in generall dedicated this labour to the Commonreader, and notinparticular to anie pease aa perfon : and hopingthat thou wilt pardonall imperfections , I aringlie enter into the continuationofthe a! nales ofScotland (being fudi as thou. maift be contentto teatand Iam contented to write)in this fort as heere tolloweth,making my firft entrance thereinto with the death ofthe earle ofLennox, withwhome Holinfhedfinifhed his chronicle,andfo to the matterafter this long and tedious deteining ofthee fromthe fame. the wars,p2cparation,ann the want of fufficientfars eat ought to be recoucred , a miferable miffostune iiture therefore(at the fante time tofth the fatdturmotles) occafioncd departure from thenfe, without happened in an other partof Scotlano : fo, a great flaug ter twas in the nozth er of the realme occa; fianeoby thismeans. Zhere were in that countrie = conajce tos Francis Thin, re fome feto and {mall dD among them, the art, Ho2 the free fight : ¢ Watch ® out of the cafell of Gocubozougs(towards iter two fantlies of great potwer and anthoziti¢, both tmene the taliant and toife, both harboring eadlie for of long @ordoum anti rated betwetie them. hele tivo tereof the fers eHrboilew names of Oordon,ann of Forbotic, thereof the firk liuca folth great concoz3 mo amitic amongit theay Bp. felued, |