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126613841.23.Pdf 514 scs. sv\^ (.0 PUBLICATIONS OF THE SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME LX DE UNIONS REGNORUM BRITANNIA TRACTATES November 1909 'OsLn- bf . DE UNIONE REGNORUM BRITANNIA TRACTATES BY SIR THOMAS CRAIG Edited from the Manuscript in the Advocates’ Library, with a Translation and Notes, by C. SANFORD TERRY, M.A. BURNETT-FBETCHER PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN EDINBURGH Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society 1909 Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Prir His Majesty NOTE It was originally arranged that the late Professor Masson should edit Craig’s De Unkme Regnorum, and he was greatly interested in the work. Although the editing passed eventually into another hand, the Council were of opinion that the insertion of a portrait of Professor Masson, who had been Chair- man of Council of the Scottish History Society from its inception to his death, would be welcomed by the Members. PREFACE It is curious that Sir Thomas Craig’s De Unwne Regnorum Britannice Tractatus should have waited until after the three hundredth anniversary of its author’s death before appearing in print. The manuscript of the Tractatus is in the Advocates’ Library; but the Catalogue throws no light on the history of the work, the description of which is very brief, and, as the Keeper tells me, apparently in Cosmo Innes’s hand. On the last page of the manuscript, however, the following note appears : ‘ Kal: Januarii MDCXC. Hunc libellum propria manu correxit et multis in Locis supplevit ex Autographo & Exemplar! MS. Christophori Irvini M.D. cujus autor est D. Thomas Craig Advocatus, qui ipse union! interfuit, quod mihi Legenti patet. W. A., J. C.’ Christopher Irvine was a well-known physician and antiquary in Edinburgh in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, and his copy of Craig’s work supplied the corrections and additions made by W. A., J. C. in 1690, shortly after Irvine’s death. From the Roll of Advocates, Dr. Maitland Thomson has been able to identify W. A., J. C., as William Aikman of Cairnie, who was admitted Advocate in 1672 and died in 1699. The Tractatus, or the major part of it, was written by Craig in 1605. On June 11, 1604, he had been appointed one of the Scottish Commissioners to discuss in London with those of England the closer political union which James’s recent accession to the English throne encouraged him to press. Craig signed the Articles of Union agreed upon by the Commissioners on December 6, 1604, and must vi DE UNIONE REGNORUM have begun to write, or possibly to continue, the Tractcdus immediately after his return to Scotland. The importance of the work consists in the fact that it is the only detailed argument which we possess for union from the Scottish side. At the same time, it must no more be regarded as an index to the convictions of the average Scotsman of the period than were the views of Bacon typical of English sentiment on the matter. Indeed Craig’s statement of the reason which impelled him to undertake the work is eloquent of Scotland’s indifference or disinclination to a union for which public opinion neither in England nor in Scotland was then educated. While I can but be gratified that a work originally entrusted to the riper learning of the late Historiographer- Royal should have been committed to me after his lamented death, I regret that the volume is inevitably robbed of much of its interest and value. Professor Masson was unable even to make a beginning on the treatise. I cannot adequately express my obligation to Dr. Maitland Thomson. He has minutely collated the Latin text with the manuscript in the Advocates’ Library, and has indicated by a [sic] inaccuracies in the original. To him the minute accuracy of the Latin text is entirely due, and I have to thank him further for his ready assent to my request that he would contribute a note on the manuscript. I also gratefully express my acknowledgments to Mr. J. T. Clark for much labour expended in revising the transcript of the Tractatus, originally made for Professor Masson; to my colleague, Professor Mercer Irvine, K.C., for reading the proof-sheets of Chapter vi.; to Mr. John Fraser, of this University, who has read the proof-sheets of my translation; and to Miss Eleanor Arnott, who has prepared the Index. C. SANFORD TERRY. King’s College, Old Aberdeen, May 9th, 1909. NOTE ON THE MANUSCRIPT By J. Maitland Thomson, LL.D. The only known manuscript of Craig’s De Unione is in the Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh (Press Mark 25.4.3). It measures Ilf by 7f inches, and consists of 264 pages, written in a copperplate hand. Cap. 1 begins with an ornamental capital. The exemplar must have been sometimes difficult to decipher; many words and passages are left blank, and clerical errors abound. Some words, mostly proper names, are filled in, and the more obvious mistakes obelized and sometimes corrected, by the original scribe or in a hand closely resembling his. Most of the remaining omissions are supplied, and the references and other marginal notes added, by the author of the docquet printed in the Preface. The supplied passages are sometimes cramped and full of contractions owing to the space left for them having been insufficient; and the standard of correctness is certainly not higher in these additions—a list of which is appended to this Note—than in the body of the manuscript. The writer of the docquet, and therefore of the additions, signs himself ‘ W. A., J. C.’ Obviously ‘ J. C.’ stands for Juris Consultus; and on 1 January 1690 the only member of the Faculty of Advocates bearing the initials W. A. was William Aikman of Cairnie near Arbroath, Sheriff- Depute of Forfarshire, admitted Advocate 1672, died 1699, father of the celebrated portrait - painter. For further particulars see Nisbet's Heraldic Plates, p. 22. It would have been more satisfactory if the handwriting could by vii DE UNIONE REGNORUM comparison have been identified as his. For this purpose— Aikman’s second wife having been Margaret Clerk, sister of the first baronet of Penicuik—I by Sir George Clerk’s kind permission made a search among the Penicuik papers, but found only a single signature, not sufficiently characterised to be decisive on the point. Lists of Words and Passages supplied by W. A. ob summum—perpetra- proinde cum—insere- tum. bant, nam. 17-8. Scotorum—opera, et proinde—conjecture 6-7. quae tandem — erumpe- erit. rant. sed hos omnes—tradu- 47. Diva Elizabetha. cebamj. 47. Divae Elizabethae. sive invidie sive. Divae Elizabethae. et justa—spes est, et. Quod secundum—nihil 10-3. si locus—enumeratos. • opus, 14-5. (W. A. gives a differ- penitig. ent reading of the Diva Elizabetha. Hebrew.) Divse Elizabethae. preterquam — acata- Rex Franciae—inaugu- lecticus. ratus fuit. deutissime Legiones. Divae Elizabethae. geminum—sepissime. Gavelkynd. etiam efferunt. in Lib.—Angliae. Silures. voluerit—habet. aculeatis. Disrationari, Essoniare. to 122, line 12. In hac Fullerus. Scotorum — colligi- in tertia—macrorum tur. Incrementum. exarserant orta. 24. questui. Scoti sane — primi 28-32. sane cum equitate— nominis. incomodum. Scoti duobus—imbuti. 107. 32-4. Piggitus — sterilis- Servanus. simam. Ternanus. 110. 10-2 of cap. 8. lancinant— pius docuit. etiam videamj. Luxouiense. 16-7. licet plerisque—virtute Exinde. cederent. Hydosa. 22. fortunis. Fursei. NOTE ON THE MANUSCRIPT ix 127. 9. Lindisfarnensi. 143. usque adeo. 127. 14. Lindisfarnensis. 144. Oruiseldam ; and Fra- 127. 23. in Patres. sila. 128. 11. Lindisfarnensi. et gravissimis—oneras- 128. 31. quam—introducere. sent. 131. 4. Lamina Divorum. 147. Caredocus—scriptor. 131. 5. unus. 147. usq adeo. 132. 13-4. plerique etiam—desig- 152. sartae. narents. 157. 25-8. Scotiam omnium—in- 132. 21-30. mir7 sane — Laudare fertilior. videar. 28. usque adeo. 133. 13-25. in universum—asper- 11-25. nemo cordatus— sege- gere. tesque virorum. 134. 2. Zozimo. 11-9. Simile humanitatis— 134. 36-8. quod nomen—Hieroni- Longius Distaret. 31-2. sed recurre—Namurci. 136. 2-4. ante annos—humanis- 171. 1. vosmet. simam Septem. 172. 35-8. Nulla salus—salutem. 136. 19-22. Cesarem — Carnium 173. to 174, line 10. quale neminem. spectaculum —t^Xf- 136. 26. Critognati. yovrai. 137. 7. Prolatione. anuona—Idiomate. 137- 9. Hieromiam. Livinio. 137. 27. neque—adhuc. Octavo. 138. 22. sugillat. Avignione. 138. 26. Genti—diluerem. Privernatum. 138. 31. Nsevos. Volumnius. 140. 10. Procerum. et Britonibus—Intacta. 141. 26. collimanti. CONTENTS Page Preface, Note on the Manuscript. By J. Maitland Thomson, LL.D., vii Capot. Text i. Omnium calamitatum qua; unquam Britanniae acci- derant occasionem ex TroXvKoipavia sive plurium in ea imperio natam, ....... 1 ii. Monarchiam praestantissimam fuisse et esse Reip: administrandae formam et Britanniae Commodis et Saluti necessariam,....... 14 [in. Laudatissimos Angliae Reges, omni cura, et studio, enixos, ut ex duobus Regnis unum potentissimum efficeretur, ........ 25 iv. Continuatio Sanctissimi Regis propositi, et de Con- ventu Procerum utriusque Regni Londini dudum habito, ......... 42 v. De Fcederum generibus, et Unione in genere, et quae ad earn requirantur, ...... 55 vi. An ad banc Unionem perficiendam necessaria sit Legum utriusque Regni consonantia, et nonnulla de lure quo Angli et Scoti hodie utuntur, . 68 vii. An munerum, dignitatum et immunitatum Communio requiratur in hac Unione, ..... 90 viii. De origine Scotorum, Gentis, dignitate et praestantia tam in Literis quam in Virtute Militari, . 110 ix. An nominis praesentis mutatio et prisci assumptio sit ex necessitate Unionis, 139 x. Ad Dolomanni duas Objectiones responsio, quibus conjunctionem hanc ut Violentam nec firmam futuram colligit, ....... 155 xi. De utilitatibus hujus Unionis, et praecipue de eis, quae Angliae accedent, commodis, ....
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