598 ARTILLERY UNDER THE STUART KING3, 1424-1625. 
had succeeded eacli other in power, had not troubled themselves to 
import, or manufacture, fresh cannon. This accounts for the royalist 
forces, under the Earl of Argyle, taking the field, in 1594, without any 
artillery and for their defeat by the Earl of Huntly’s little force at the 
battle of Glenlivat. 1 2 In this sanguinary engagement Argyle’s force 
numbered 6000 fighting men while Huntly’s was scarce a third of 
that number. But Huntly was able to bring a small train of artillery 
into action under the command of Captain (afterwards Sir) Andrew 
Gray, who commanded the English and Scottish auxiliaries in Bohemia 
in 1620. Making all due allowance for the youth of James VI., his 
ignorance of warfare and his exhausted treasury, one still cannot 
refrain from surprise at his making no effort to provide his army with 
artillery when he attempted to crush the powerful Roman Catholic 
faction in Scotland by force of arms. History tells us that when 
James Y. went in person to reduce Tantallon Castle, “he borrowed 
from the castle of Dunbar, then belonging to the Duke of Albany, two 
great cannon, two great botcards and two moyans, two double-falcons 
and four quarter-falcons, for the safe-guiding and re-delivery of which 
three lords were laid in pawn at Dunbar.” 3 But James YI. of Scotland 
and I. of England had no taste for the music of war and left the artillery 
in the state he found it. We are told by one of his English courtiers 
that this monarch “ naturally loved not the sight of a soldier nor of 
any valiant man.” The Prince of Wales, however, had all the martial 
tastes and instincts of the early Stuart Kings, and it was to him that 
the English army looked as a future upholder of the national honour. 
In 1610, James grudgingly sent a British contingent of 4000 men, 
under Sir Edward Cecil, to help Maurice of Nassau in the reduction 
of Juliers. There are still extant three letters from General Cecil to 
Henry Prince of Wales, describing the siege and capture of Juliers 
wherein the British gained great renown. The Prince evinced the 
most lively interest in the details sent him of this siege, and at the 
time of his death, in 1612, a set of artillery models, made by a Dutch 
artillerist in Holland, were to have been purchased for the Prince of 
Wales. These models were brought to the Prince’s notice by Sir 
Edward Cecil, who undertook to purchase them for £1000. The death 
of Prince Henry temporarily stopped negotiations, but on 21 October, 
1615, we find Cecil writing from Utrecht to Mr. Thomas Murray, tutor 
to Prince Charles, as follows :— 
“ The devotion I did bear to the service of the late Prince hath 
continually applyed me (according to my duty) to the study of 
what may be profitable to this .... I have found in the 
hands of an officer of this Army (who is very cunning) certain 
models of all Instruments and Engines necessary to an Army, 
especially concerning all manner of Artillery that Prince Maurice 
hath by long experience found fittest .... which in my 
opinion would be a fit object for his Highness to bestow some of 
his time upon.” 3 
1 Known in ballad literature as the battle of Balrinnes. 
2 “ Marmion,” note 15 to Canto 6: 
3 “ Idfe of Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon,” by Charles Dalton, Vol. I., p. 235, 
