^4 ^ Defence of the Scots 



Cruelty ; for the whole time of their Lives un- 

 der that miferable Servitude, isbucD:ath pro- 

 long'd, or making his attacks upon 'em by in- 

 tolerable Labor, and continual Hunger, the 

 moft infupportable of all Plagues ; thofe poor 

 Creatures that toil in the Mines, and are im- 

 ploy'd in Pearl-fifhing, &c. having no more 

 Suftenance allovi^'d them, and that too of the 

 coarleft fort, than is juft enough to keep Soul 

 and Body together, in order to prolong their 

 Mifery. Then let any man, who has but the 

 leaft remains of Humanity left him, judg whe- 

 ther the Scots could be criminal, if they fhould 

 have aSually landed upon a Spamjh Settlement, 

 and have feiz'd the fame, in order to deliver 

 their Brethren the Sons of Jdam^ from fuch 

 hellifli Servitude and Oppreffion as the above 

 inention'd BiQiop defcribes; and if no man 

 that has any bowels of Compaflion within 

 him can lay they could, what (liadow of rea- 

 fbn is there to blame the Scou for erefting a 

 Colony where the Spamards never had any foot- 

 ing? 



The next thing to be confider'd is, whe- 

 ther the Scots without the afliftance of E/^g- 

 hndyXm^ probably maintain their footing there, 

 which there's no doubt may very well be de- 

 termin'd in the aiRrmative. 



I. Becaufe the whole Kingdom of ,S'^^//4;?^ 

 being more zealous for it, and unanimous in it 

 than they have been in anjr other thing for for- 

 ty or fifty years paft, it is not to be doubted, 



but 



