His M. came from Berwik to Dun­glasse the xiij of May, where this speach following was deliuered by Alex ^r. Hume.

SALVE, REX regum illustrissime, ho­mo hominum suavissime, & rerum optabilium tuis optatissime. Tuis (in­quam) non quòd alii non sint etiam tui; sed quòd nos debemus, & volu­mus esse (ut ita dicam) tuissimi. Et ta­men, ne verum dolorem taceamus; dolemus sanè ullos praeter nos esse tu­os, aut te esse ullorum. Sed hunc do­lorem malumus aequis animis ferre; quàm ut non sint etiam tui, quicun (que) te verè & ex animo amare velint; non sit tuum quicquid nomen ornet, diti­onem augeat, opes amplificet. Priami fertur quinquaginta fuisse filios: Ad hos ille communi, ad illum hi suo quis (que) jure pertinebant. Unde [Page 2] studuisle unumquem (que), ut ipse esset patris, pater esset ipsius; ne (que) con­tra naturam, ne (que) ab aequo & bono alienum fuit. Quis unquam Hectori vitio vertit, quòd pro patre, & patria plus sudavit, aut pugnavit fortiùs? Tu nobis Priamus: nos tibi Priamidae: Hectorem, quàm Paridem imitari quantò magis pium, tantò Priamidis laudabilius, Priamo gratius, & sa­lutarius. Si quibus ergo placet certare, utri amemus sincerius, obsequamur paratiùs, hostes oderimus infestiùs; facilè patimur; sed non ut facilè vin camur. Unum est nostrum proprium, quòd licet omnes omnia agant, nunquam efficient, ut non sit nostrum. Nos hactenus per duo ferè millia annorum soli fuimus majorum tuorum; illi (que) nos respiciebant solos. Si labores & sudores; si frigus & famem; si incommoda, & pericula, quae illi pro nobis, nos pro illis hausimus, enumerare velim; dies me, quid di­em dico? imò annus, imò & aetas deficiet priùs quàm oratio. Hoc sum­matim dicam, ac verè dicam, nullam esse gentem in qua illustriora exempla videas, in REGIBUS virtutis & confilij, in populo pietatis & officij. Ita in principio convenerat; ita à duobus ferè millibus annorum pactis & conventis statum est; Quod haud scio, an ulla gens, ex Europaeis, scio, nulla gloriaripotest. Cùm SCOTI in vacuum hujus insulae ex Hibernia & AE­budis primas colonias deduxerunt; Picti qui adeos maternum genus re­ferebant, imprimis laeti excipiebant. Deinde crescente sobole, sive metu, sive invidia, indignari, queri, fremere. Brittones utris (que) aequè infensi, quòd in sua invasisse existimârunt (quamvis multitudo nondum eò cre­verat, ut angulum aliquem insulae plenis colonis occupare possent) flam mam incendio addunt, & auxilia pollicentur. Hîc SCOTI, quitum si­ne Rege, sine Lege vivebant, oportuni injuriis ad rem desperatam ex Hi­bernia gentilem suum Ferchardi Regis filium accersunt. Ille convocato voluntario milite, ut suis succurreret, continuò advolat. Ut venit, quà fuit solertia, totum hoc quod fuit periculi à fraude Brittonum ortum esse comperit, & Pictis aperit. Non SCOTO stantùm peti: pulsis SCOTIS eos esse solos: alteros in alteros incendere: ut hos victos, illos fractos, ambos possent perdere. Brittones hacspe dejecti ex Pictorum agris per fur­tum praedas agunt: repetentibus respondent, aequiùs esse a SCOTIS qui latrociniis vivebant (ita convitiari placuit) quod furtum factum erat, re­poscere. Hinc illi, alteri damno, alteri convitioirritati, conjunctis copiis fines Brittonum invadunt, & quicquid ferri, aut agi posset, distrahunt. Isti ut vicem redderent, collecta manu in fines SCOTORUM incurrunt. SCOTI convocatis etiam sociis de consilio FERGUSII (id Regi nomé fuit) servato tempore, castra hostium de nocte invadunt; & Regem ( Coilo fuit nomen) cum magna parte militum occidunt. Ergo ab auspi­cato principio Regem creant, jurant (que) Se nullum unquam REGEM, ni [...]i [Page 3] exillius stirpe toleraturos. Hoc foedus DEUS divino nutu ita proba­vit; ut nullis armis, ne (que) Brittonum, ne (que) Saxonum, ne (que) Pictorum, ne (que) Danorum, ne (que) Normanorum, ne (que) Romanorum, qui reliquam Europam domuerunt, rescindi posset. Primus Romanorum impetus in CORBRE­DUM GALDUM circa centum post CHRISTUM annos fuit, duce Agri­cola, viro non minùs manu, quàm consilio prompto. Ille genere armo­rum & militiae aliquot praeliis inferior, locorum difficultate se suosque tuebatur. Sed revocato Agricola, dici non potest, quanta celeritate amissa recuperârit, & damna rependerit. Ab hoc principio per trecentos ampli­ùs annos contra tantum hostem sua defenderunt, & mala illata retulerūt; ut, quod nusquam alibi leguntur fecisse, imprimis Adrianus, deinde Se­verus, muro, cujus vestigia adhuc visuntur, se suos (que) ab indomiti hostis pertinacia separârint. Simile fuit Danorum odium; sed eventus dissimilis. Nam post octo infelices excensiones ducum fortissimorum, militis (ut ipsi putabant) invicti: jurârunt se nunquam iterum infestis animis, & armis SCOTIAM ingressuros. Pictorum amicitia, nunquam satis firma, saepe in bellum, bis in exitium nostrum exarsit. Quod semel Romanorum, iterum Saxonum copiis freti, tantùm non perfecerunt. Cum Romanis no­men SCOTICUM tota insula viginti septem annos exegerunt. Cum Saxonibus ALPINUM Regem, ad quem jure haere dis illorum sceptrum pertinebat, occidunt; & Abernethi, quod caput gentis fuit, caput illius conto ad ludibrium exponunt. Hac clade perculsos Proceres KENNE­THUS secundus, qui patri successit, cum nec precibus, nec argumentis in ultionem posset accendere; personato tanquam ex coelis nuncio, tantam spem victoriae injecit, uttotam gentem praeter paucos, qui ad Osbrethum & Ellam potentissimos eo tempore Anglorum Reges fugerunt, radicitus extirpârit. Sed haec ut mittam (ne (que) enim animus est, ne (que) tempus patitur omnia persequi) Normanorum odium, an spem dicam, non possum prae te [...]ire. Nam Guilielmus, qui à devicta Anglia nomen sortitus est, rebus succedentibus feliciùs, quàm sperare, aut penè optare posset; MILCO­LUMBO (istum rerum in SCOTIA potiebatur, vir sanctissimus, & for tissimus) bellum denunciat, ratus armis suis nil posse resistere. Causa prae tendebatur, ni Edgarum redderet. Is erat Edwardi ex Agatha Hungari fi­lius; Edmundi Anglorum Regis nepos; ad quem regnum illud jure per­tinebat; quemque Normanorum vim fugientem, & tempestate in SCO­TIAM actum MILCOLUMBUS hospitio acceperat, & conjugio Mar­garitae sororis in affinitatem etiam adsumpserat. Verùm tribus exerciti­bus fusis, & rebus Anglicis nondum satis confirmatis, veritus ne illi arma, & animos resumerent; pacem fecit. Edgaro ex pacto in Anglia amplissi­mos agros; & Voldo [...]io Sibardi Northumbri filio sororem suam uxorem [Page 4] dedit: unde nata Mathildis DAVIDIS Regis conjunx, cujus jure Nor­thumbria SCOTORUM facta fuit, quae res multorum, & inagnorum bellorum causa exstitit. Ita tum ressopita. Sed spes ad suam diti­onem addendi SCOTIAM non tum deleta. Haec non semel refulsit: Sed Edwardo primo penè emicuit. Omnes enim iste SCOTOS, praeter Vallam, & paucos privatos homines, qui à Regis fide nulla vi possent co­gi, armis, & minis, & malis domuit. Nam Ioannem Balliolum regni quā honoris cupidiorem spe regni in verba sua adegit: & deinde contumeliâ à se alienatum armis vicit, Londinum traxit, & regno exuit. Quis jam pu­taret unquam fore, ut sceptrum SCOTIAE ad legitimas manus rediret?

Nam ROBERTUS BRUSIUS, quicum Baliolo regnum petebat, Ed­wardi sententia, cui communi competitorum voluntate judicium per­missum est, victus, omnem spem regni abjecerat, & Edwardi partes con­tra Baliolum summo studio sequebatur. Sed hîc divinae voluntatis consi­lium, sicubi unquam, luculenter apparuit. Nam primùm à Valla moni­tus, & post à Cuminio in fraudem illectus, coactus est Edwardum relinque re. Sed contra tantum hostem adeò infirmus, ut primis aliquot annis ad eas redactus esset miserias, unde nemo crederet emersurum; in sylvis sa­lutem quaereret, & tandem apud nescio quem amicum sepultus lateret, us (que) dum amici simul sperare, & inimici metuere desinerent; penitus pe­riisse putaretur. Hinc tanquam ex nebula [...]rumpens, aliquot arces secu­riores, quàm tutiores occupavit: & ad famam rei confluente populo, Cuminio, quem Anglus rebus Scoticis praefecerat, tantum terroris injecit, ut non auderet fortunam experiri. Ad hos motus reprimendos dum Ed­wardus se parat, moritur. Reliquit Edwardum filium, & regni & belli haeredem. Hîc per Angliam, Galliam, Flandriam, quàcunque ejus nomen patebat, edicit se SCOTORUM nomen deleturum, & sequentibus se eo­rum agros, & opes daturum. Unde ingens ad eum tanquam ad prae­dam, non ad praelium, multitudo undique confluit. ROBERTUS provi­ribus se contrà comparat. Infirmitatis conscientia cautum facit. Locum ne circumveniatur deligit; adeoque foeliciter pugnat ut ingentem illam multitudinem funderet, Regem fugaret, cogeretque, qui tantas copias duxerat, in cymba piscatoria salutem petere; SCOTIS pristinam liber­tatem restituere, & omnijure, quod pater in eos arrogaverat, cedere.

Haec ego non ideò tantùm commemoro, ut homines videant, quàm ratum DEO fuerit foedus nostrum cum majoribustuis: sed etiam, ut, si qui volunt nobiscum de pietate inte contendere, intelligant, nos, qui tanta fortitudine majoribus tuis operam navavimus, non minorem tibi, cui majorem debemus, navaturos. Illi bella fortissimè gesserunt, & ma­la minantia optimo consilio, pertinacilabore, & foelici eventu propule­runt. [Page 5] Tu bona pro quibus illi bella gesserunt, sine bello impertiris. Quan­tò paxbello, otium negotio, quies labore gratior; tantò plus tibi, quàm majores majoribus debemus. Duae sunt Regum summorum summae lau­des; altera à belli, altera à pacis artibus; utraque necessaria. Pax sine bel­lo injuriis opportuna; bellum sine pace nullo malo non importunum. Qui nisi pacem colit, ut bellum caveat; bellum gerit, ut pacem gignat; non­dum didicit quid sit REGEM esse. Nam pax perse est bona, bellum prop­ter pacem. Pax cujus causa bellum bonum, tua (REX illustrissime) est pro­pria. Tecum nata, & educata unà cum aetate accrevit simul. Quo primo tempore ex ephebis excessisti, belli incendium (nam bello intestino tum flagrabat SCOTIA) extinxisti; odiorum semina extirpasti; gratiam con­ciliasti; & (ut verbo dicam) pacem publicè & privatim, domi & foris, etiam invitis obtrusisti. Vicinos, quibuscum nobis antè continenter bella, conjunxisti. Quibus coelum, solum, vita, lingua, fides communis; quo­rum mores conveniunt, quorum commercia penitus toto divisit orbe O­ceanus, tu (ea nascendi sors fuit) etiam sceptro conjunxisti. Quod Xeno­phon de Cyro praedicat, [...], si verum est, post Cyrum ante te nondum verum fuit. At te ipsi vidimus ita vitam in­stituisse, ita sceptri auctoritatem temperasse; ut Angli, gens non minus opibus florens, quàm numeroso & invicto milite potens, Regem sibi etsi tuo jure, tamen summa sua voluntate libentes & laetantes adoptâ­rint. Antè nihil quidquam cuiquam erat proprium. De nocte latrones, de die hostes agebant, & ferebant omnia. Nunc licet per quietem somnū capere: nunc licet suo cuique frui: ut qui haec tibi non accepta ferat, indig­nus sit te, indignus sit bono tuo. Nos, si qui volunt his officiis nobiscum contendere, non committemus, ut qui olim fuimus tui soli, nunc inter a­lios non simus tuissimi. Gratus ergo tuis omnibus reditus tuus, Humiis gra­tissimus. Quorum gens, quàm laetis animis oculos tuos intueatur; coro­na, quam vides, monstrat. Quorum Princeps, quàm arctis ulnis Majesta­tem tuam accipiat, non opus dicto, facto ipse clariùs quàm dici potest, ostendit. In quo si quid aut votis suis, aut Majestati tuae non responderit, veniam rogat.

Illam tibi summam habet gratiam, quòd ultimò abiens, primò redi­ens, aedes suas praesentiâ tuâ dignaris illustrare. Qua fide & constantia sceptri tui Majestatem coluerit: quibus officiis, quibus periculis fuis & suorum ab occulta fraude, & aperta viperfidorum defenderit; non est opus teste ut probem; tu ipse testis probus. Dixi.

THE ANCIENT NA­tion of the SCOTS, descended of the victorious Greeks and learned AEgypti­ans (RIGHT HIGH and MIGHTIE PRINCE) was in the chyldhood of her rysing Empyre greatlie oblished to the goodnesse of GOD. For (what no na­tion may say) the kingdome of SCOT­LAND (notwithstanding the whole na­tions about, like the lines of a mariners compasse direct from the circumference to the Center, had conspyred her ouerthrow) yet to her infinite glorie hath shee continued these two thousand and thrittie yeeres bypast vnder the governement of a hundreth and seaven Kings, all lineallie sprung from FERGUS the first, free and vntributarie to any forraine Prince vnto this day. The Romanes by Scapula and Caius threatned the SCOTS with thraldom; and Hadrian reared à mightie Wall for saiftie of his Province in south-Britane, but the one found before him King GALDUS, for­cing the remaines of his vnslaine armie, vpon their knees with their hands to heaven, to beg their lyfes; and the other he might heare tell of FERGUS the second, not onlie to haue payed home to the outmost farthing Maximianus bloodshed here, with the sac­king of Rome there; but lyke-wayes to haue leveld his rampeir with the low earth. The Danes from the north renewed eight di­verse battels vpon the SCOTS: but the heaps of their witherd bones left in diverse corners of this Countrye, lyke the tale Cedars cut doune in mont Libanus, may shew what mightie Iosuaes, destroy­ing such sonnes of Anak, haue sweyed this Kingdomes Scepter heirtofore. The Irish on the west dreamed of ane easie conquest here: and even so the Picts on the east praesumed to enlarge their bounds after king ALPINS death; but the one found the worth of king GREGORIES valor, and the other felt the weght of king KENNETHS wreath, sweeping them for their crueltie with [Page 138] the besome of destruction. Nor was the river of the Lords boun­tie to this people (MOST CHRISTIAN MONARCH) dryed vp in this one benefite: for GOD having determined fiftie yeeres ago to deliver his Kirk in this Kingdome, from the palpable dark­nes of Papisticall errors (wherein shee had lyen miserablie plun­ged seaven hundreth and fiftie yeeres) to the trew knowledge of GOD; wherein of before from the midst of CHRISTS first centurie (at which tyme the candlestick of the gospell was convey­ed to this cuntrie) shee had continewed with puritie full eight hundreth yeeres: Even when God had determined to vindicat his Kirk here from Antichrist to her ancient puritie and bewtie, Then, even then, of his gracious goodnes Hee ordained your M. our gracious Soveraine to be borne. And the heavens, appoin­ting for your most happie birth that remarkable poynt of tyme, seme to haue poynted out vnto the world to what end yee was borne, even to be that which in no small measure your M. hes prooved alreadie; to wit à sheild of the trew word preached; â de­fender of the trew faith professed; à second Constantine to support Sions second daughter; the Lyon comming out of the forrest, to deplume the Eagle; to darken the Starr in the Croscents bosome, and to strype the strumpet of Rome stark naked, that of à two hor­ned Lambe shee may appeare to the world, as shee is indeed, à ten horned Devill. And why, except for this, hes the Almightie endowed you with such rare and incomparable gifts, als weal of bodye as of mynd? for not onlie is your M. for princelie vertue repute more liberall than Alexander, because more discreit; more just than Trajan, because more wyse; and more gracious than Caesar, because more myld: but also in spirituall disposition à faith­full David, for your burning zeal to Gods glorie, yea and more than David, because more continent than hee; ane other Salomon, for your heavenlie wisedome in governing Gods Kirk, and more than Salomon also, because more constant than hee; and ane vpright Iosia, for your great affection to the puritie of GODS worship, and more than Iosia lykwayes, because more con­siderat than hee. And is it not for these great things that the Al­mightie hes made your M. to parallel the thrie Gentile Nobles in heroicall vertue, to aequall the thrie Jewish worthies in constant standing to the cause of God, and to excell the thrie Christiane Peires in christian meiknes? The earth may sie that the heavens hes fitted your M. for great things, when it beholds your fiftie and [Page 139] fourtein yeeres reigne more peceable than that of Augustus, your governement more happie than that of Croesus your yok more ea­sie than that of Salomon, and your retinew more royall than that of Ashuerus, maugré all his hundreth and seaven and tuentie Provinces. The comfortable frutes of these your rare and royall vertues all the Kingdomes about hes tasted S ^r, but your owne hes enjoyed the sweitnes therof to the full; and amongst your owne, none more than this your kyndlie Kingdome of SCOTLAND. Whose fourtein yeeres dririe winter, caused be absence, is now tur ned in à joyfull Summer, by this livelie and lightsome presence of your M. (the bright Sunne of oure firmament) in this your Nor therne ascention. Whilst your M. was absent, her feares wer many, her desyres vehement, her hopes either few, or none at all. And how could shee not but be ever fearing, since the least endange­ring of your sacred person was her her totall ruyne? And if the providence of GOD had not otherwayes disponed, then the ma­lice of man proponed, her losse had bein beyond the losse of any cuntrie in the world; because none had so rare à Jewell to be taken from them. What is there beneath the cope of heaven shee could haue desyred to this so glorious and triumphing à returne? not lyk to that of King Philips, from that selfe-same cuntrie to Spaine, or lyk to that of Henrie the thrid from Pole; but aequaling yea aboue the returnes of the most valiant and fortunate Emperours in the world. for what they all affected (yet never obtained) here is fullie effected. Could ever this poore cuntrie hope, nay dreame of what shee now enjoyeth? especiallie at such à tyme when the weigetie affaires of the neighbour Kingdomes require both the eye and the aide of so great and wyse à Prince. France yet smar­ting for the blow of her last king: the Alpes (though frozen) in flam'd with the choler of Spaine: The Low-cuntries making Re ligion serving their disordered factions: what was there in ws of such importance as to draw you here? when wee advyse well, of our selfes wee shall find nothing, but when wee think on you S ^r. wee shall find that, even that, which is the greatest and most po­werfull thing in the world, by which deformitie often appeareth pleasant, LOVE, was in you Sr. which as it is excellentlie rare and great, in so rare and great à Prince, to the whole Kingdome of SCOTLAND, and all the cities thereof, so it hath bein most sin­gulare to Perth. J will not speak of your M. Noble Ancestors WILLIAM the Lyon, and ROBERT the BRUCE, of which the first [Page 140] (to the example of the Conquering Greek who builded Alexandria in AEgypt on the brink of Nilus) did found the Towne of Perth, after the overthrow of old Berth by inundation, in the midst of this plaine; The other for the great delight hee had in her situation, standing lyk Seleucus palace betuix the two famous rivers of Asia, and for the pleasure hee tuik in her valleyes and river lyk PO smy­ling alongs the gardings of Lombardie, dowried her with als manie privileges as did Numa Rome, or Cecrops Athens: But to passe with silence the loue your M. hes kythed to Perth from tyme to tyme, it wer a token of sensles ingratitude: for may not your beneficé­ce toward her compair with Ptolemé his vindicating of Memphis liberties vsurped by Thebe Ogygia? To Alexander his ratifeing of Babylons privileges granted to her by the two preceding Monar­chies? and to Cyrus his liberall remembrance of Ierusalem in his absence from her? But chieflie hath your M. vnfenzeit affection to Perth manifested it selfe in this point; that being now returnd home againe to your ancient Kingdome and cradle STOTLAND, and not being vnmyndfull of that miraculous delyverie which the Lord, the GOD of your H. saiftiie did giue you out of the bloo­die hands of these two vnnaturall traitours within this Towne, your M. hes resolved with that great Patriarch from whom yee haue your name, to rear ane altar in that place where yee did find GODS presence in mercie with yow, and to paye these vowes your M. promised to performe; namlie to continew a gracious King and a faithfull protector to Perth for euer.

FOR all which most memorable benefits, RIGHT HIGH, and MIGHTIE PRINCE, but most of all for your Maiesties presence and most benigne aspect this day, by which Wee, who these many yeeres bypast in absence of your M. (the sun-shyne of our bewtye) did sitt lyke so manie Gyrasoles languishing in the shads of darknes, May now againe lyke als manie Lizards delyte our selfes in the sight of your gracious countenance, Wee your Maiesties euer-loyall subjects, the citizens of Perth, as heretofore wee haue bein alwayes readie to serve your Highnes to the last gasp, being earnest with GOD for your owne long, and your seeds ever­lasting reigne over ws in peace; so now praying Almightie GOD, that your Majestie may shyne in the firmament of these King­domes lyke Iosuas Sunne in Gibeon, there to dowble the naturall dye [...]t of mans abode vpon Earth, with the citizens of Ierusalem, who gaue a shoute to the heaven for joy of King David his re­turne [Page 141] home unto the Citie after his long absence, Wee bid your Majestie most hartlie welcome home againe to your ancient king dome and cradle SCOTLAND, and to this the hart thereof, your Maiesties Peniel PERTH.

God saue the King.