PRO ME
Nation: Betwixt pole and tropicks there has been no great engagement wherein Scotsmen have not (by valiantly slaughtering each other on behalf of all the greatest Christian states in Europe) made their nation as renowned for its martialists as have its promovers of learning for their literatory endeavour. I here set down the greatest names on all sides since the jubilee of 1600, instellarating thus * such as creep in from an earlier age, since it is not my custom to maintain a rank by excluding an excellence. CONTRA ME
Nation: I will not enlist opposite the flaming sparks of their country’s fame those coclimatory wasps of the Covenanting crue whose swarms eclipse it. I will discourse but generally, or by ensample, of those viper colonels who do not stick to gnaw the womb of the Mother who bears them, and of those ligger-headed Mammoniferous ministers, those pristinary lobcock hypocritick Presbyters (press-biters rather) who abuse learning in the name of God, as if distinct truths could oppose THE TRUTH.
PRO SCOTIA ARMS
FOR THE KING OF SWEDLAND GUST AVUS CAESER-OMASTIX AGAINST DANE, POLE, MUSCOVITE AND HOLY EMPEROR.
General James Spence (created Earl of Orcholm), Sir Alexander Leslie (governor of the cities of the Baltick coast), Marquis James Hamilton (General over 6,000 English in the Swedish Sevice) with these Scottish colonels:
Sir George Cunningham
Sir John Ruven
Sir John Hamilton
Sir John Meldrum
Sir Arthur Forbas
Sir Frederick Hamilton
Sir Francis Ruven
Sir William Ballantine with (to be rapid) these colonels: Armstrong, Balfour, another Balfour, Bucliugh, Crichton, Cock-burn, Culen, Edmistoun, Gun, Hamiltoun, Henderson, Johnston, another Johnston, Kinninmond, another Kinninmond, Leckie, Leslie, Liddel, Livistoun, Sandilands, Scot, Seaton, another Seaton, Sinclair, Spence, Stuart.
FOR THE KING OF POLE AGAINST SWEDE, MUS-COVITER AND TURK
Colonel Lermon
Colonel Wilson
Colonel Hunter
Colonel Robert
Colonel Scot
Colonel Gordon
Colonel Wood
Colonel Spang
Colonel Gun
Colonel Robertson
Colonel Rower
FOR THE GRAND DUKE OF MUSCOVY AGAINST THE SWEDE, TURK AND TARTAR
Sir Alexander Leslie generalissimo of all forces of the whole empire of Russia with
Colonel Crawford
Colonel Gordon
Colonel Keith
Colonel Mathuson
Colonel Kinninmond
Colonel Game (agnamed the Sclavonian, who for the height and grossenes of his person, being greater in compass than any within six kingdoms of him, was elected King of Bucharia, and only refused the sovereign crown, sword and sceptre belonging to the supreme majesty of that nation, because he had no stomach to be circumsized).
FOR THE HOLY ROMAN EMPEROUR OF GERMANY AGAINST THE SWEDES, DUTCH AND VENETIAN
Colonel Henderson
Colonel Johnston
Colonel Lithco
Colonel Wedderburne
Colonel Bruce
Colonel Gordon (now high Chamberlain to the Emperour’s Court)
Colonel Leslie (who is made hereditary marquess and colonel-general of the whole infantry of the imperial forces.)
FOR THE DUTCH WILLIAM OF ORANGE AGAINST SPAIN AND FRANCE
These colonels:
Robert Munro of Fowls
Obstol Munro
Assen Munro
Hector Munro (who wrote a book in folio called Munroe’s expedition)
George Leslie
Robert Leslie
John Leslie (agnamed the omnipotent)
Alexander Leslie
Alexander Hamilton (agnamed dear Sandy)
William Cunningham
Alexander Cunningham Finess Forbas
Alexander Forbas (agnamed the Bauld)
Alexander Forbas (another)
Borg (who took a Spanish General in the field upon the head of his army)
Edmund (who took the valiant Count de Buccoy twice prisoner in the field)
Urchart (who is a valiant soldier, expert commander and learned scholar) and
Dowglas the ingenious engineer general, and many more who became colonels and general persons under Gustavus Adolphus.
FOR THAT TETRARARCH OF THE WORLD ON WHOSE SUBJECTS THE SUN NEVER SETS, THE GREAT DON PHILIP OF SPAIN, AGAINST THE DUTCH AND THE FRENCH
the thrice renowned
Earl of Bodwel
Colonel Sempill
Colonel Boyd
Colonel Lodowick Lindsay Earl Crauford, also a Scottish Colonel whose name is upon my tonge’s end and yet I cannot hit at it; he was not a souldier bred yet for many years he bore charge in Flanders under Spinola. In his youthood he was so strong and stiff a Presbyterian, that he was the onely man Scotland made choice of, to be the archprop and main pillar of that government; but waining in his love of the Presbytery as he waxed in knowledge of the world, from a strict Puritan he became the most obstinate rigid Papist that ever there was on this earth. It is strange that I cannot remember his title; he was a lord I know, nay more, he was an earle, aye that he was, and one of the first of them. Ho now! Peascods on it, Crauford Lodi Lindsay puts me in mind of him; it was the old Earle of Argile, this present Marquis of Argile’s father; that was he. That was the man.