The True Manner of the Crowning of Charles the Second King of Scotland, on the First day of January, 1650. Together with a Description of his Life, and Throne; And a clear view of his Court and Counsel.  

The Manner of Crowning CHARLES the Second King of Scotland.  
THe Crown, Sword and Sceptre, being brought to Scoon, by the Estates of Parliament, their King sitting in his Chair of State, and the Nobility, Barons and Burgesses of Parliament about him, in the Presence Chamber.  
The marquis of Arguile made a Speech, advertising the King, that the Parliament of Scotland were come to present his Majesty with the Crown, Sword, and Sceptre; But that before he received it, he was to take an Oath, and swear as his former predecessors had done before him, which Oath was tendered to the King and he swore to it as followeth.  

The Oath sworn by CHARLES the Second, King of Scotland, at his Coronation, 1 Jan. 1650.  
I Do Promise and Vow in the presence of the Eternal God, that I will maintain the true Kirke of God, Religion, right Preaching, and administration of the Sacraments, now Received and Preached within this Realm in purity.  
And shall abolish and gain-stand all false Religions and Sects contrary to the same.  
And shall rule the people committed to my charge according to the will of God, and laudable Laws and Constitutions of the Realm; causing justice and Equity to be ministered without partiality.   

A Speech made by CHARLES the Second, King of Scotland at his Coronation on 1 January 1650.  
I Will by God's assistance bestow my life for your Defence, wishing to live no longer, then that I may see this kingdom flourish in happiness.   
Then the Scots King stood upon a place where he might show himself to the people and made protestations of great love and affection to them; and the Crown being tendered to the King, by three Ministers of the Assembly, one of them spoke as followeth.  

The Minister's Speech at the tendering of the Crown to the King.  
SIR,  
I Do present unto you King Charles the Second, the right Descended Inheritor, the Crown and Dignity of this Realm, (then turning his face towards the people, the Minister said further) Are ye not willing to have him for your king, and become subject to him?   
At which time the Crown was held before the King three Ministers of the Assembly being present, than the King turned himself to be seen of the people, who cried with a great noise, God save King Charles the Second. And then he had the Crown put upon his head, by the marquis of Arguile, and he took the Sceptre in his hand, and the Sword he gave to a Lord of Scotland to bear it before him.   

A Description of the Life and Throne, and a ●…e view of the Court and Council of CHARLES the Second King of Scotland.  
This glittering Comet is not to be numbered amongst the fixed Stars, his Crown carrieth no lustre, but what assumes a feigned aspect to the purblind Jockeys, between Fife and Orkney, who deal with him, as their predecessors did with their simple ignorant King Ethodius the second, whom they Crowned for reverence to the Race of Fergus, to carry the name of a King, but the Estates governed him by a guard of Tutors, yet he himself acts his designs like Nathalocus, their thirtieth King, who corrupting their Grandees with buds of fair promises, obtained the Regal power.  
This Artificial Meteor, is only a Scottish vapour, exhaled by French distillation, and with cleansing thunder shaken out of the English horizon, fallen into the bosom of the Kirke of Scotland, and made their Baby in the Stool of repentance, swearing as once Galdus did in the same Throne, Se majorum consiliis acquieturum.  
They having poured the oil of the Presbytery upon him, and given him the Crown and Sceptre to wear for them (though Arguile had not power to hold it right and easily, on his disturbed and a king head) whilst they divide the rags of his tattered Throne between the Kirke and Cavaliers, whose actings towards their new Sovereign, puts him into a worse condition in the Charles-wain, they make him draw, than an honest English Carter that hath a Team of Horses to pull for him.  
His unhappiness in his fatal Progenitors, he may read in Capitals, engraven even on the Throne he sits in, where is legible to his eyes, the ecodemical disasters of the Family out of which he sprang, His Father was beheaded, His Grandfather (as some Physicians have declared) poisoned, His great Grandfather, and so on to several assents before, successively cut off, by disastrous deaths.  
And for himself, His niger hair, and swarthy complexion is a visible heroglifix of his gloomy motions, in which he follows the dictates of his mother's counsels and the Scots commands, resolved into politics, as furiously as his obstinate Father did the humour of ●is own will.  
He hath designed popularity from a child, and even in his tender years expressed passion against his maidens, that disturbed those boys that came to play with him.  
And he did often in the City of London (the metropolis of his father's Teritoryes) to draw the people's affections to be as fixed on him as their eyes, scatter many handfuls of silver in small coin, from several Windows and Belconyes in Cheapside and other places, amongst the vulgar, and (as if he had Roman Royalty bred in his visage) forced himself to triumph in this liberality without any visible change in his countenance. But the words of Augustine contain the Encomium of charity: Charitas est amor rerum quas non nisi volentes amittemus.  
In his father's presence, he seemed to admire his Throne, and before his mother, her Idols, yet to persons popular, he had many glances against the Archbishop of Canterbury and others, whom the people's discontents struck at; as if Absolom-like, he chiefly studied the Preparation to his Father's Kingdoms.  
But herein, he did but delude those poor dreamers, (as he doth now the Scotch Presbyters) who being rich only whilst they sleep lose all as soon as they awake, their dreams enrich them, but when they awake they are plundered of all, and reduced to their former poverty.  
During the late bloody wars of his Father's waging, against the Parliament of England, he was either with him actually, or (in his absence) carried on by the advice of Cottington, Barkley, Culpepper, and others by his Father appointed for his absolute Counsellors, and after his Fathes' death, he wholly prostrated himself to the fortune of his mothers and the Jesuits, and Popish Priests resolutions, as Culenus did to the Monastery of St. Andrews.  
And after a foundation to act his designs upon, which were laid with great consultations by power and policy to subdue England, Scotland, and Ireland to his obedience which gave him some seeming promises (but no conclusion) at Jersey. His brother of Orange was thought to have more sublime wings to give influence to those cockatrice eggs; who brooded so effectually that the Treaty at Breda patched up a public agreement with Scotland, as well as a private one with Ireland (though the Dutch Prince so wasted his spirits in it, that he soon died after) and Charles Stuart (upon his ill success against England) being forced to keep beyond Fife, and the Scots cooped up with him, they are like Pilate and the Jews, (though averse to each other) joined in combination against England. And in this fury he hath snatched up the Crown of Scotland.  
And with great difficulty doth he divide himself to play his part that he may sit fast on that frozen Throne, To the Kirk he bequeathes his Tongue, to the Cavaliers his Arms, to the English Courtiers his Back, and to the pure Malignants his Breast; which makes me remember him that said, All the good Princes may be engraven in a ring.  
The Commonwealth of Scotland find fault with many unnecessary pleasures of his yourh, the Nobility censure his too much abasing both himself and them, the Kirke peirceth even his very thoughts, which they take upon them to divine and judge of; and yet none deals so plainly with him as the horse he rides on, who gives warning by careering, that (being neither flatterer nor Courtier) he will cast him to the ground, as well as the poorest Groom of his Stable; and as for the common people (especially the women,) as well as the Ladies, though not with so near reception, they are daily and hourly soliciting, visiting, or (at least) gazing upon him, so that he may say with King Alphonsus, that the Estate of an Ass, is better than his condition,  
And for the better advancement of their cause, as pure Covenanters (they being a dissembling people (from whence ariseth the proverb, as false as a Scot,) they suffer him not truly to know the state affairs, themselves not acknowledging the truth though never so transparent, which made them before their rout at Musleborough, to sit in consultation what conditions it was fit they should offer to the English, (then in Scotland which they said were flying away homeward) whether or no, quarter was to be allowed to any for their lives, and to whom only, and upon what terms.  
But this dispute was ended for that time, by the defeat given to the Scots by the English, who slew about 4000 took above 10000 private Soldiers prisoners, 2000 of their Horse killed, spoilt and taken 290 Colonels and other Commission Officers. And two of their Committee of Estates, the Lord Liberton and Sir James Lumsden (Lieut. General of the Foot) and some of their Ministers taken prisoners, and there was taken besides 15000 Arms, 200 Colours 32 piece of Ordnance, and all their Ammunition Bag and Baggage. And this was done but a day or two before their intention to have received him into their Army.  
And now since they have Crowned him, and made him Generalissimo, as well as Rex, they carry him on as hoodwinked as before, Massey, and the rest of the English (in hopes to find their own subsistence in his fortunes) pretend a great interest and power in England to concur with his designs, by which they squeeze some favour from him (by the leave of the Kirk, upon the Presbyterian account) for employment and maintenance in the interim. Arguile and the Scots they promise him greater things to be revealed to them, to be accomplished in the influence of St. Patrick, than any of St. George's hobby horses.  
But the Gourdons and Papists tell him that it is most conducing to make him great and glorious, to satisfy the Irish, and all other Romish Catholics in the three Nations, and speedily to dismiss the two Irish Lords Ormond and Inchequeen, with ample returns full of satisfaction to the Assembly, that so they being capable to reduce Ireland, they may, having accomplished it, come over and go on helping to carry on the work effectiuè in the three Nations.  
But why do the Papists rage, and the Kirke imagine a vain thing the King of Scotland set himself, and the Estates take council together, after so great appeals, and such evident manifestations of the Lords so visibly owning of his cause against them? He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision.  
If so many Emperors after Pompey the great, and Caesar, could not but fall when the decree was gone out, if the Queen Mary of Scotland, if his own Father the late King, their heads were both cut off with the Executioners hatchets, how can the son think to escape? What are the great fruitless boastings of English Malignants the vain hopes of Irish Papists, and the Royal Musters in the North of Scotland (for the South of Fife and Sterling they dare not attempt) since even Henry the third (one of the Predecessors of his mother's Family) of France, was murdered wilfully by a little Monk in the midst of 40000 armed men.  
FINIS.    

Published by Authority.  
London Printed by Robert Ibbitson, 1651.