To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
AFter his Death, the People placed Nothatus, his Brother, on the Throne, his own Son Reutherus being yet Immature, in point of Age, for the Government. This a Nothatus changed the Govern∣ment, which, till then, had been moderate, and bounded with Laws, into an Arbitrary Domination; and, as if his Subjects had
been given him to Prey upon, not to Defend, he punished High and Low, promiscuously, with Forfeiture of Goods, Banishment, Death; and all sort of Miseries, so that scarce any addition could be made to his Cruelty. By these Severities, most of the People were cow'd out, only one Dovalus of Galway, an Ambitious Man, thinking it a seasonable opportunity for him to advance himself, by reason of the Peoples Hatred against their King; and knowing also, that his own Life was insidiously aim'd at by the King, he resolves to prevent him. And accordingly, all things being in a readiness, and being accom∣panied with a great number of his Vassals and Friends, away goes he to the King, and openly upbraids him with the Slaughter of the Nobility, with the seizure of their Goods and Estates, and with his Enslaving the Commonalty; and demands of him, to restore the Kingdom, which he was not able to manage, to the Right Heir. Nothatus, being thus Bearded and Affronted, contrary to his Expe∣ctation, yet remitted nothing of his former Stoutness, but answered peremptorily, That he would maintain what he had done, by his Kingly Prerogative; and, if he had carried it somewhat Despoti∣cally, it was to be imputed not to his own Disposition, but to the Contumacy of the Subject, who had enforced him thereto. These Taunts increased the Animosities between them, so that at last it came to Blows, and b Nothatus was Slain by Dovalus and his Par∣tisans, after he had Reigned, Cruelly and Avariciously, Twenty Years.
Nothatus, the First of the Scotish Kings, that set up Arbitrary Go∣vernment.
He is Slain by Dova••us.