"The word of a king. This phrase is repeated some hundred times; but is ever foolish, and too often false." S.

PREFACE.

P. v. "We might give instances of those points-which have brought the prince under the disadvantageous suspicion of being inclined to the love of arbitrary power."-What king doth not love, and endeavour at it?

"The people may not always be restrained from attempting by force to do themselves right, though they ought not."-They ought. S.

BOOK I.

P. 9. "All men being inhibited, by the proclamation at the dissolution of the parliament in the fourth year, so much as to mention or speak as if a parliament should be called."-Great weakS.

ness.

P. 15. Spain would no longer think themselves obliged by these articles."-Think themselves! S.

P. 47" He (the Earl of Montgomery) had not sat many years in that sunshine, when a new comet appeared in court, Robert Carr, a Scots man; quickly after declared favourite."-A Scottish king makes a Scottish favourite. S.

P. 48. The Earl of Carlisle "wrought himself into greater affection and esteem with the whole English nation, than any other of that country, by choosing their friendships and conversation, and really preferring it to any of his own."-A miracle in a Scot! S.

P. 58. " During the whole time that these pressures were exercised, and those new and extraordinary ways were run, that is, from the dissolution of the parliament, in the fourth year, to the beginning of this parliament, which was above twelve years, this kingdom-enjoyed the greatest calm, and the fullest measure of felicity, that any people, in any age, for so long time together, have been blessed with." Partial.

P. 59. "The kingdoms we now lament were alone looked upon as the garden of the world; Scotland, which was but the wilderness of that garden," &c. The dunghill.

Ibid." Those rough courses which made the king perhaps less loved at home, made him more feared abroad; by how much the power of kingdoms is more reverenced than their justice by their neighbours; and it may be this consideration might not be the least motive, and may not be the worst excuse for those counsels." Too arbitrary.

Book II.

P. 88. "There was so little curiosity, either in the court or the country, to know any thing of Scotland, or what was done there, that when the whole nation was solicitous to know what passed weekly in Germany and Poland, and all other parts of Europe, no man ever enquired what was doing in Scotland, nor had that kingdom a place or mention in one page of any gazette. Should bridewell news be in any gazette?

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"The people, (the Scotch), after they had once begun, pursued the business vigorously, with all imaginable contempt of government." Scottish Scoundrel!

VOL, X.

P. 94. In the address of the Scots to the king, "lamenting their ill fortune, that their enemies had so great credit with the king, as to persuade him to believe that they were or could be disobedient to him, a thing that could never enter into their loyal hearts." Scottish dogs.

P. 95. "The covenanters-were very reasonably exalted with this success, (the retreat of the Earl of Holland from Dunse), and scattered their letters abroad amongst the noblemen at court, according to the humours of the ment to whom they writ." Cursed Scots for ever.

P. 96. Speaking of the Marquis of Hamilton. A cursed true Scot.

P. 100." The Scots got so much benefit and advantage (by the treaty of pacification), that they brought all their other mischievous devices to pass with ease." Confounded Scots.

P. 101. Marginal note of Clarendon: "The Earl of Argyle joins with the covenanters, notwithstanding his great obligations to the king." All Argyles, cursed Scottish hell-hounds for ever.

P. 103. On the letter from the Scotch nobility to the French king, which was intercepted, and upon Lord Lowden, in his examination, "refusing to give any other answer, than that it was writ before the agreement, and never sent; that if he had committed any offence, he ought to be questioned for it in Scotland, and not in England." Scottish traitors.

Ibid. "The opinion of the prejudice and general aversion over the whole kingdom to the Scots, and the indignation they had at their presumption in their design of invading England, made it believed that a parliament would express a very sharp sense of their insolence and carriage towards the king." Cursed hellish Scots for ever.

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P. 104. On the calling together of the parliament in 1640. "The king-directed the lordkeeper to issue out writs for the meeting of a parliament upon the 3d day of April next ensuing." April 3d for knaves; the 1st for fools.

P. 116. "The convocation-house (the regular and legal assembling of the clergy,) customarily beginning and ending with parliaments, was, after the determination of the fast, by a new writ continued." Convocations of the clergy are as legal and as necessary as those of the laity.

P. 122. On the commissioners who met at Rippon. "When the commissioners from the king arrived at Rippon, there came others from the Scots army, of a quality much inferior." A cursed

committee.

P. 124. "Three of the commissioners, and no more, were of the king's council, the earls of Pembroke, Salisbury, and Holland." Bad counsellors.

P. 125. "The commissioners at Rippon quickly agreed upon the cessation, and were not unwilling to have allowed fifty thousand pounds a month for the support of the Scots army, when they did assign but thirty thousand pounds a month for the payment of the king's." Greedy Scotch rebellious dogs.

P. 129." It must not be doubted that there were many particular persons of honour in that nation, who abhorred the outrages which were committed." I doubt it; for they were Scots.

P. 130. "It can hardly be conceived with what entire confidence in each other, the numerous and not very rich nobility of Scotland-concurred in the carrying on this rebellion." Beggarly.

Book III..

P. 151. "The earl of Rothes--was a man very

well bred, and of good parts and great address." A Scotch freethinker.

P. 152. On the order of the houses of parlia ment, to use the appellation of " our brethren of Scotland" towards the Scotch commissioners.Cursed Scots, brethren in iniquity.

P. 153. "The allegation was, That the charge against the earl of Strafford was of an extraordinary nature, being to make a treason evident out of a complication of several ill acts; that he must be traced through many dark paths," &c. As a boy.

Ibid. "It was alleged, that, at his coming from Ireland, the earl had said in council there, That if ever he returned to that sword again, he would not leave a Scotchman in that kingdom." And it was a good resolution.

Ibid." And at his arrival in this kingdom, the lord mayor and some aldermen of London, attending the board about the loan of money, and not giving that satisfaction, was expected that he should pull a letter out of his pocket, and shew what course the king of France then took for the raising of money." At worst, only a rash expression.

P. 155. "Hereupon, in one day, were sworn public counsellors, much to the public joy, the earl of Hertford, (whom the king afterwards made marquis,) the earl of Bedford, the earl of Essex, the earl of Bristol, the lord Say, the lord Saville, and the lord Kimbolton; and within two or three days after, the earl of Warwick." All [rogues, perhaps,] but the first.

P. 161. On the method of procuring signatures to one petition, and then cutting them off, and affixing them to a petition of quite a different tendency. Dogs, villains; almost as bad as the cursed

Scots.