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A47110 The genealogies of the high-born Prince & Princess, George and Anne of Denmark, &c. shewing the lineal descent of these two noble and illustrious families : with their matches, issue, times of death, places of sepulchre, impresses, devices, &c. from the year of grace M. to this present year, MDCLXXXIV ... H. K. (Henry Keepe), 1652-1688. 1684 (1684) Wing K124A; ESTC R8240 35,035 128

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England Which Lady Anne Daughter of his Royal Highness is Neece to his present Majesty of Great Britain King Charles the Second Sister and Cousin German to their Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Orange Cousin to Charles Count Palatine of the Rhyne Duke of Babaria Cup-bearer and Great Steward of the Empire and to the Lady Charlotte his Sister Dutchess of Orleans Ualois and Chartres Countess of Blois and Mountargis Wife of Philip only Brother to Lewis the Fourteenth now King of France and Navarr c. She is Grand-Daughter to King Charles the Martyr Great-Grand-Daughter to King James of England and Henry the Fourth of France And Great-Great-Grand-Daughter to Frederick the Magnanimous King of Denmark Norway Sweden Goths and Uandals Duke of Sleswick Holstein Stormar Wageia and Ditzmarch Earl of Oldenburgh and Dalmenhorst her present Husband Prince George's Great-Grand-Father THE GENEALOGY OF THE MOST Illustrious and High-born PRINCESS ANNE OF DENMARK c. BANQUO one of the chief Nobility in the Kingdom of Scotland about the year of Grace one thousand was in the time of Duncan who began his reign in the year one thousand thirty and five made Thane of Loquhaber and his Principal Receiver or prime Steward of his Revenues unto whose Care and Conduct together with that of Macbeth Cousin-German to the King the most weighty Affairs of the Kingdom were committed By whose prudent Councel and Advice Scotland became the Envy of her Neighbours for her Tranquility and Happiness until such time as through the Ambition of Macbeth prompted thereto by certain Prophetick Speeches intimating that he should be King and spurr'd on by the restless desires of his more Ambitious Wife unfortunately became the im pious Rigicide himself by imbrewing his hands in the Blood of his Prince and then usurp'd the Crown And as Tyranny is always attended with Cruelty and distrust so fearing the Interest of Banquo might give disturbance to his ill-gotten Diadem commanded that Banquo and all his Posterity should be slain and the rather for that the same Fore-tellers of his assuming the Crown had likewise assur'd him that altho' Banquo should not be King himself yet from his Loins should proceed a Generation of Kings to Rule the Scepter of Scotland for ever Accordingly Banquo was most Inhumanely made away by Treachery and none of his Posterity left to survive except FLEANCE one of his Sons who escasped the hands of his Fathers Murtherers and fled into North Wales where after he had stay'd some time and being a youth bred up in all the Accomplishments belonging to Greatness he so far prevailed upon the affections of the Lady Nesta Daughter of Griffith ap Lewellin Prince of the Country that he gain'd her to his Embraces on whom he begat a Son that was called WALTER Fleance being dead this Walter continued in the Court of his Grand-Father 'till he came to mans Estate when hearing the Usurper Macbeth was slain and that Malcome Sirnamed Cammoir the right Heir of Scotland was Invested in the Throne he privately conveyed himself from Wales and came to the Court of Scotland where making his Lineage and Extraction known he was not only restor'd to all the Honours and Estate of his Ancestors Thanes of Loquhaber but preferr'd to the Stewardship of the Kingdom about the year one thousand sixty and seven The Name of Stuart or Steward growing from hence Hereditary to his Posterity and from whom his present Majesty of Great Brittain and his Royal Highness James Duke of York and Albany the Princes of Orange and the Princess of Denmark are Lineally Descended He had likewise given him for the signal Services performed for his King in reducing the Enemies of his Prince in Galloway and the Isles to his obedience the Lordships of Stragis Coil and Stuarts-land This Walter had a Son named ALAN who with Godfrey of Boloigne Duke of Lorrain and Robert Duke of Normandy Eldest Son of King William the Conqueror of England went into the Holy-land in the year one thousand ninety and nine where he behaved himself with much Valour for the recovery of Jerusalem leaving Issue ALEXANDER his Son and Heir who Founded the Abbey of Paseley for Monks of the Order of Saint Benedict who likewise had a Son named Walter Stuart 1. Walter II. High Steward of Scotland WALTER STUART of Daundonald the second of that Name but first in descent from and only Son of Alexander who Founded the Monastery of Paseley was a famous Commander in the Scots Wars who with the Earl of March overcame the Bastard of Galloway in the year one thousand two hundred thirty and eight He is said to have gone with Lewis the French King into the Holy-land but returning before the Battel of Largis he there particularly signaliz'd himself which was Fought against the Danes on the third day of August in the year one thousand two hundred sixty and three He was likewise Great Seneschal or Hereditary Lord High Steward of Scotland or he who had the chief Charge of the Kings Revenues He left two Sons ALEXANDER the Eldest who succeeded him in the Stewardship and ROBERT who having the Lands of Tourbouton assigned him for his Appennage and that he Married the Daughter and Heir of Robert Crux or Cross of Crurstone became Lord of most ample Possessions who going with Lewis the French King in the Expedition against the Sarazens in the year one thousand two hundred and seventy died in Indea From whom the late Earls and Dukes of Lenor in Scotland and Richmond in England the Earls of March the Lords Darley d'Aubigny or ' Obigny in Auvergne in France with several other Noble Families of the Sirname of Stuart in both Kingdoms derived their Original 2. Alexander II. high-High-Steward of Scotland ALEXANDER STUART of Paseley of that Christian-name the second eldest Son of Walter and chief Seneschal of Scotland was at that remarkable Battle of Largis with his Father Being then but a Knight he led the right Wing of the King's Army against the Danes who were overthrown and finally routed The year following he was joyned in Commission with John Commin and recovered the Isle of Man then in possession of the Danes and afterwards with the Earl of Lenos help'd to subdue the other Isles where he performed the part of a most wise and experienced Souldier who had Issue JAMES his eldest Son who died young and JOHN who succeeded him in the Seneschalship with many more who changing their names of Stuart assumed others according to the appellation of those Lands which were assigned them for their Inheritance 3. John High-Steward of Scotland JOHN STUART of Bute eldest Son living of Alexander of Paseley was one of the six Governours of the Kingdom of Scotland during the Controversie between Robert Bruce and John Baliol with the rest of the Candidates for the Crown Anno Domini One thousand two hundred ninety two He lost his life in the Battle of Falkirk on St. Mary Magdalens day viz. 22 Junii
Honourable Order of the Garter JOHN the youngest Son was Duke of Sleswick and Holstein born on the twenty sixth of July in the year one thousand five hundred eighty and three ELIZABETH the eldest Daughter born at Koldingen on the one and twentieth day of August in the year one thousand five hundred seventy and three and was Married at Cronenburgh to Henry-Julio Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh on Easter-day in the year one thousand five hundred and ninety ANNE second Daughter born at Scanderberg on the twelfth day of October in the year one thousand five hundred seventy and four and was Married to James the sixth King of Scotland afterwards of England France and Ireland where she was Crowned Queen Great-Grand-Mother to her Highness the Princess Anne and Great-Aunt to Prince George of Denmark her Husband of whose Death and Funeral see more in the Paragraph of King James AUGUSTA third Daughter born on the eighth of April in the year one thousand five hundred and eighty was the Wife of John-Adolph Duke of Holstein And HEDWISE born at Hadersleu on the twenty sixth of July in the year one thousand five hundred eighty and three Married Christian the second of that Name Elector of Sarony 14 Christian IV. King of Denmark c. CHRISTIAN eldest Son of Frederick the second King of Denmark born at Fridersburgh on the twelfth day of April in the year one thousand five hundred seventy and seven at three minuets past four in the Afternoon and Elected King of Denmark in the twelfth year of his Age but not Crowned so until the eighth day of July in the year one thousand five hundred ninety and eight when he was Stiled Christian the Fourth King of Denmark Norway Gothes and Uandals Duke of Sleswick Holstein Stormar Wagria and Ditzmarsh Earl of Oldenburgh and Dalmenhorst and coming into England in the year one thousand six hundred and six to Visit his Brother-in-Law King James and his Sister the Queen was Installed Knight of the most Honourable Order of the Garter In the year one thousand six hundred and ten he was again in England and in the year one thousand six hundred twenty and five made Head of the League in Germany against the Emperour Ferdinand and Warred often with the Swedes until in the year one thousand six hundred fourty and eight he fell Sick and Died having had Issue by Anna-Catharina Daughter of Joachim-Frederick Elector of Brandenburgh CHRISTIAN his eldest Son who being only King Elect liv'd not to possess the Crown departed this life before his Father FREDERICK the second Son after the death of his Father was King of Denmark They had several other Children who dying young no other Memorial is left concerning them 15. Frederick the III. King of Denmark FREDERICK second Son of Christian the fourth was during his Fathers Life-time Archbishop of Bremen after whose decease he was Crowned King of Denmark Norway Goths and Uandals c. The first part of whose Reign was very troublesome and uneasie as being not only oppressed with Forraign Enemies and Invaders but Domestick and Intestine Factions arose which almost overthrew the State And that at a time when the Royal Family of Great Britain could not possibly assist him who lay under a more severe pressure by the unjust Tyranny and Usurpation of the worst of men and Villains the Fanaticks Yet this benefit accrued to his Posterity thereby That whereas the Ancient Kingdom of Denmark had hitherto been Elective and in the choice of the Nobility to approve their King upon the healing of these differences it was by the unanimous consent of the Estates of this Kingdom constituted Hereditary as an Argument of their Sincere intentions and Faithful returning to their Obedience His present Majesty of Denmark being the first who by virtue of this setlement hath succeeded as Heir to his Father King Frederick married whilst as yet he was but Arch-bishop Sophia-Aemilia of Lunenburgh on the eighteenth day of October in the year one thousand six hundred fourty and three And dying of a Feaver in the year one thousand six hundred sixty and nine left Issue by her CHRISTIERN his Eldest Son now King of Denmark viz. 1683. He was born on the eighteenth day of April in the year one thousand six hundred fourty and six and Crowned on the twelfth of June in the year one thousand six hundred and seventy by the Name of Christiern the Fifth He took to Wife the Lady Charlotta-Aemilia Daughter to William the sixth Landtgrave of Hessecastle by Hedwig-Sophia Electoral Princess of Brandenburgh on the tenth of May in the year one thousand six hundred sixty and seven by whom he hath had Issue Frederick his eldest Son Prince of Denmark c. born the one and twenteth of October in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and one Christiern-William second Son born the one and twenteth of November in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and two and died the twenty fifth day of January following A second Christiern born on the twenty fifth day of March in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and five Charles youngest Son born on the twenty eighth day of August in the year one thousand six hundred eighty and two And one Daughter the Princess Sophia-Hedwig born the twenty eighth day of August in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and seven ANNA-SOPHIA eldstest Daughter of King Frederick the Third born on the first day of September in the year one thousand six hundred forty and seven and Wedded to John-George the Third of that Name Prince Elector of Sarony in the month of September in the year one thousand six hundred sixty three but the Marriage was not Consummated until the sixteenth day of October in the year one thousand six hundred sixty and six FREDERICA-AEMILIA the second Daughter born in the year one thousand six hundred fourty and eight and Married on the third day of November in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and seven at Gluckstadt to Christian-Adolph Duke of Holstein Sunderburgh WILHELMINA or GUILLIEMETTA-ERNESTINA third Daughter born on the twentieh day of June in the year one thousand six hundred and fifty and given in Marriage to Charles now Prince Elector Palatine of the Rhine in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and one ULRICA ELEONORASABINA youngest Daughter the present Queen of Sweden who in the year one thousand six hundred and eighty was Wedded to Charles the Fourth King of Swedes c. Prince GEORGE of Denmark second and youngest Son of King Frederick the Third was born in the year one thousand six hundred fifty and three He is only Brother to his present Majesty of Denmark and Knight of the Noble Order of the Elephant who hath taken to Wife the Lady Anne Stuart second Daughter of his Royal Highness James Duke of York and Albany c. by the Princess Anne his first Wife Daughter of Edward Earl of Clarenden and Lord High Chancellour of
troubled and dissatisfied that he fell sick and died for grief thereof on the 13 th day of December Anno Domini One thousand five hundred forty two being buried in the Monastery of St. Cross by the Lady Magdalen his first Wif Daughter to Francis the French King by whom he had no Children wherefore five months after her death he espoused the Laday Mary of Lorrain Sister to Francis and Daughter of Rhene Duke of Gnise and Widow of the Duke of Longeville viz. on the 7 th of July Anno Domini One thousand five hundred thirty nine by whom he had JAMES Prince of Scotland and of the Isles born in the month of February Anno Domini One thousand five hundred thirty nine and died at St. Andrews the year following ARTHUR a second Son who deceased within a month and MARY a Daughter afterwards Queen of Scotland This Mary of Lorrain was a Lady of excellent Perfections who being quite tir'd and wearied out after the death of her Husband with Foreign Wars and Domestick Differences during the minority of her Daughter at length resigned up her Soul to Him who gave it on the 10 th day of June in the Castle of Edinburgh Anno Domini One thousand five hundred and sixty Impress or Device King James the fifth in the beginning of his Reign took for his Impress or Device A Whale swimming from the shoar into the Sea and looking back on the Sword-fish following just at her back The word URGET MAJORA Afterwards his Device was A sharp-pointed Pyramis standing on three Globes whose base was fixed in the midst of a most turbulent and tempestious Sea on the very point of the Pyramis was placed a Coronet Winds Hail Rain Thunder Lightening and a violent Storm darting themselves against the Crown The word ADHUC STAT Mary of Lorrain his Queen had for Device A Phaenix burning her self in a Nest of Spices The word EN MA FINGIT MON COMMENCEMENT 12. Mary Queen of Scotland MARY STUART sole Daughter and Heir to her Father James the fifth King of Scotland born on the 7 th day of December Anno Domini One thousand five hundred forty two whilst as yet an Infant was proclaimed Queen of Scotland and James Earl of Arran constituted Governour during her minority But upon the unfortunate loss of the day at that fatal Battle of Mussleburgh Anno Domini One thousand five hundred forty seven she was conveyed into France to prevent her falling into the hands of the English where after some time she was married to the Dauphin afterwards King by the name of Francis the second both of them being crowned King and Queen of France and Scotland Anno Domini One thousand five hundred fifty nine and laying claim to the Crown of England quartered the Arms thereof which Fact was never forgiven her by Queen Elizabeth altho' she disused them afterwards But King Francis dying the year following without Issue gave her the Freedom of returning to her own Countrey where she consummated her second Nuptials with the Lord Henry Darnley her Cousin-german eldest Son of Matthew Stuart Earl of Lenor that had been Governour and Margaret Douglas his Wife Daughter and sole Heir of Archibald Douglas Earl of Angus by Margaret Queen of Scots his Wife eldest Daughter to King Henry the seventh of England He was the Son of John Stuart Earl of Lenor and Brother to Robert that was Bishop of Cathuess Earl of March John Stuart Lord d' Aubigny which John Earl of Lenor was Son of another Matthew Earl of Lenor who married the Daughter of James Hamilton Earl of Arran which he had by the Lady Marion Daughter to King James the second He was the Son of John Stuart Earl of Lenor that was elder Brother to Robert Stuart Captain of those Scotch-men who made themselves so renowned under the French-King Charles the sixth both in his Wars in Italy and else-where and in recompence whereof the said King bestowed on him such large possessions in France and gave him the Seigniory or Lordship of d'Audigny in Avergne whose Successor Robert Stuart Lord d'Aubigny and Marshal of France in the time of King Lewis XI in commemoration thereof bare the Royal Arms of France with Buckles or in a Bordure Gules and quartered them with his paternal Coat viz. or a fes cheque Ar. B. within a Bordure ingrailed Gules and which the House of Lenor have ever since continued This John and Robert were the Sons of Allan the first of the sirname of Stuart Earl of Lenor who having married one of the Daughters of Duncan Earl of Lenor who lost his head in the time of King James the first had that Earldom bestowed on him which Allan was descended from that Robert Stuart who married the Daughter and Heir of Cross or Crux younger Brother to Alexander Stuart of Pascley Great-grand-father to Robert the second King of Scots Henry Lord Darnley and King of Scotland in right of his Wife enjoy'd not that Title long being most barbarously murthered his Body flung out at a window and the House blown up with Gun-powder by the practice and contrivance of James Stuart Earl of Murray the Queens base Brother and of James Hepburn Earl of Bothwell whom the Queen out of fear was forced afterwards to marry upon which a defection of her Subjects immediately followed and an open Rebellion commenced Bothwel flies the Kingdom and she endeavours to pacifie the Mutineers but all in vain they growing so powerful and strong that nothing less than the life of their Queen or the resignation of the Government will quiet them Having got her young Son which she had by the Lord Darnley into their power they proclaim crown and declare him King depose the Queen and drive her by force to seek protection in England where alas she became the sport of Fortune by changing her Diadem for a nauceous Prison and was made a Sacrifice to the Ambition and Revenge of One who would never admit a Competitor or forget so as to forgive an imagin'd Injury and therefore after she had undergone the severity of an eighteen years Confinement her Royal Head was seperated from her Body by the stroak of an Ax on the 8 th day of February Anno Domini One thousand five hundred eighty seven at Fotheringay-Castle in Northamptonshire to the great dishonour of the English and her Corps out of a Policy of State that the odium of so inhospitable a fact might be blown off from the Authors as being done by surprize were conveyed with all the outward solemnity befitting the Funeral of so great a Queen to the Cathedral-Church of Peterborough where she was buried Afterwards when her Son King James came to the Crown of England he commanded that her Body should be removed and carried to the Abbey-Church of St. Peters Westminster where it was deposited in a new Vault on the South-side the Chappel of the B. Virgin under a most Magnificent and Splendid Monument Impress
Tears and Sighs than Prayers and Ceremonies in the Vault with King Henry the Eighth of England Impress or Device This Excellent King had divers Impresses or Devices according to the several Alterations and Vicissitudes of his Affairs When he came first to the Crown he bare an Arm and Hand Armed issuing out of the Clouds and brandishing a naked Sword The Word DONEC PAX REDITA TERRIS For at that time almost all the Princes in Christendom were at Variance among Themselves or Subjects when he went into Scotland and was Crowned there in the year one thousand six hundred thirty and three He had for Device on the reverse of his Medals A spreading Branch of Thistles in their Bud with one full blown on the top The word HINC NOSTRAE CREVERE ROSAE alluding to his present possession of England but that his Original was derived from Scotland In the beginning of his Troubles he took a Palm-tree pressed down with might Weights and Mill-stones and the common word CRESCIT SUB PONDERE VIRTUS Afterwards a Ship labouring to break through a most tempestuous Sea The word ECELO SALUS And when the pretended Parliament offered base and unworthy Conditions destructive to the Fundamental Laws of the Land and his Kingly Dignity He had a Ship with the Mast broken and fallen into the Sea The word NUNQUAM NISI RECTUM But when the Rebels had Confin'd him and grew Insolent with the success His Emblem was a Lyon surpriz'd in a Net Hares and Leverets wantonly passing over him The word ET LEPORES DEVICTO INSULTANT LEONE This King Charles the first Wedded Mary de Bourbon youngest Daughter of Henry the Fourth Sir-named the Great King of France and Navarre c. by whom he had Issue CHARLES his Eldest Son who was Born Christened and Died on the same day viz. on the eighteenth day of March in the year one thousand six hundred twenty and eight A second CHARLES born on the twenty ninth of May in the year one thousand six hundred and thirty upon the death of his Glorious Father was King of England Scotland France and Ireland but not so declared publickly till some time after the niniquity of the times not permitting it nor Crowned 'till the twenty third day of April viz. St. George's-day in the year one thousand six hundred sixty and one when withgreat Pomp and Splendor he was Solemnly Inaugurated and Annointed in the Abby Church of St. Peters Westminster by the Name of King Charles the Second Whose miraculous Protection Restitution and Preservation together with his Royal Highness and the rest of the Children of that Excellent King through an Ocean of Miseries and Afflictions were sufficient to convince all men of Piety or Reason how much they have been the peculiar care of Heaven And to deter the most Nefarious Conspirators from attempting any violence against them for the future from whose Bloody and Sanguinary Hands as of late so may they ever be Defended and Protected The Designs of their Enemies laid open to the Light and all Abhorrers of Monarchy and Kingly Government brought to Condign punishment His present Majesty King Charles the Second hath Married Donna Catharina Infanta of Portugal Daughter of John the Fourth King of Portugal and Sister to Alphonso the Sixth late Deceased and Don Pedro the present King of Portugal by whom as yet he hath no Issue Impress or Device His Majesty King Charles the Second bare divers Impresses In his Exile The Sun in an Eclipse The word MEDIO OCCIDIT DIE. Vpon hopes and sometime before the Restauration his Mother Queen Mary bare a Yew-tree planted in a Church-yard and encompassed round with dead mens Bones The word PIETAS REVOCABIT AB ORCO Vpon making the Peace with the Hollanders in the year one thousand six hundred sixty and six The Effigies of the King Apparelled and Garnitured altogether like a Roman-Caesar with Lawrells Mantel and Commanders Trenchen placed on a Pedestal by the Sea-shoar the Sea it self spread all over with a mighty Navy or Fleet of Ships The word REDEANT COMMERCIA FLANDRIS And in the year one thousand six hundred and seventy I have seen this Device on the reverse of his Medals A Terrestial Globe with the word DEFUSUS IN ORBE BRITANNUS JAMES Duke of York and Albany Earl of Ulster and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and third Son of King Charles the First Born at St. Iawes's on the fourteenth day of October in the year one thousand six hundred thirty and three who hath Espoused for his second Wife the Lady Mary D'Este Sister of Francis and Daughter of Alphonso D'Este both Dukes of Modena born the twenty fifth day of September in the year one thousand six hundred fifty and eight and Married on the one and twentieth day of November in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and three by whom he hath had four Children Charles Duke of Cambridge Catharina-Laura Isabella and Charlotte-Maria who all died young and were buried at Westminster By his first Nuptials with the Lady Anne Hide Eldest Daughter of Edward Earl of Clarendon c. and Lord Chancellor of England who dying on the thirty first day of March in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and one in the thirty fourth year of her Age was buried at Westminster he had four Sons and as many Daughters viz. Charles Duke of Cambridge James Duke of Cambridge Charles Duke of Kendal and Edgar Duke of Cambridge all dying young and were Interred at Westminster The Lady Mary Eldest Daughter was born on the thirtieth day of April in the year one thousand six hundred sixty and two and is at present the Wife of William-Henry of Nassau Prince of Orange whose Nuptials were Celebrated at Whitehall on the fourteenth day of November in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and seven The Lady Anne second Daughter was born on the sixth day of February in the year one thousand six hundred sixty and four and is now Wedded to Prince George of Denmark second Son of Frederick the Third and only Brother to Christian the Fifth his present Majesty of Denmark and Norway c. The Marriage being Solemniz'd on the twenty eighth day of July in the year one thousand six hundred eighty and three Two other Daughters likewise had his Royal Highness Henrietta and Catharine who dying in their Infancies were buried with their Mother and Brothers in the Sepulchre of our Kings at Westminster HENRY fourth Son of King Charles the first was Duke of Gloucester Earl of Cambridge c. and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter born on the eighth day of July in the year one thousand six hundred and forty and departed this life on the thirteenth day of September following the Restauration in the year one thousand six hundred and sixty but was never Married he was buried at Westminster MARY Eldest Daughter of King Charles the First born at St. Iames's on the fourth day
Terrestrial Globe The word VANITAS VANITATUM OMNIA VANITAS 6. Robert III. King of Scotland JOHN STUART eldest Son of King Robert by his second Wife was Earl of Carri●… and High-Steward of Scotland and upon the death of his Father Crowned King on the Assumption of the blessed Virgin the fifteenth day of August in the year one thousand three hundred and ninety according to the establishment made in Parliament in the life time of his Father On the day of his Inauguration or Anointing he was Importun'd by his Nobles to alter his Name wherefore he was Crowned by the Name of King Robert the Third The reason given is For that it was observed how unfortunate the Name of John had been not only to several of the Blood-Royal of Scotland but likewise to John King of England and to John the French King This Robert after he had ruled the Kingdom with great Integrity for the space of sixteen years having lost one of his Sons by the wicked contrivance of his Brother Robert whilst he was Governour and his second Son continuing a Captive in England took it so to heart that he died for grief thereof at Rothsay on the first day of April in the year one thousand four hundred and six and was buried at Paseley having had Issue by his Queen Annabella Drummond Besides these two Sons as many Daughters the one Married to the Earl of Angus by whom she had William Earl of Augus The other was twice Married first to Kennedy by whom she had Sir James Kennedy Knight and another James who was Bishop of St. Andrews who built a Church and erected the famous Colledge of Phylosophy in the said City Her second Husband Graham and her Son by him Patrick Graham who was the first Arch-bishop of St. Andrews and who died in Prison at Lockleven DAVID eldest Son of King Robert and his Queen Annabella Drummond born in the year one thousand three hundred seventy and eight was created Duke of Rothsay but being delivered to the Tuition of his Uncle the Duke of Albany that he might reclaim his Extravagancies was by him inclosed in the Castle of Falkland and there Starv'd to death he Married Mary the Daughter of Archibald Duglas but left no Issue so that his Brother JAMES succeeded his Father in the Throne of Scotland The Character bestowed on King Robert the Third is this That he was a Prince of wonderful Innocency of Life and unspotted Manners deficient in nothing that might make a private man excellent and that it was most truly said him that he was a much better Man than King Impress or Device King Robert the Third bare for his Impress or Device A Sword and Scepter passing through a Coronet and placed in Saltire over a Mond or Globe with an Aveline cross thereon The Word HIS ORNARI AUT MORI 7. James I King of Scotland JAMES STUART second Son of King Robert the Third as yet a Youth was sent into France to prevent the Butchery of his Uncle Robert who had already destroy'd his Elder Brother but being cast by Storm on the Coast of England was taken Prisoner and sent to the Court where by the care of King Henry the Fifth and his Son King Henry the Sixth Noble Provision was made for his Education so that by the time he came to mans Estate he was excellently accomplished in all sorts of Learning and good Literature And having lived thus a Captive and a Stranger to his own Country for near Eighteen years was upon the Death of his Father King Robert soon after set at Liberty and returning into Scotland with his Wife Joan Eldest Daughter of John Beaufort Earl of Somerset and Marquess of Dorset whom he Married in England He was Crowned King thereof on the one and twentieth day of May next following in the year one thousand four hundred twenty and four This King James ruled the Scepter of Scotland in great Tranquility for some years making divers wholesom and good Laws especially to restrain the force of Thieves and Robbers and was the first who ordain'd that Organs should be used in the Churches of Scotland But a Confederacy and Association of mutinous Outlaws and Male-contents being entred into to take away the Life of this King they Bloodily perpetrated their Villany by assaulting his Person and giving him no less than twenty eight Mortal Wounds of which he immediately expired on the one and twentieth day of February in the year one thousand four hundred thirty and six after he had reigned thirteen years ten months and odd days in the forty and fourth year of his Age and was buried in the House of the Carthusians in the Suburbs of Berth of his own Foundation not far from the Sepulchre of his Wife Joan by whom he had two Sons and six Daughters JAMES the Eldest was King of Scotland and ALEXANDER born on the same day with his Brother a Twin who died young MARGARET Eldest Daughter given in Marriage to Lewis the Dauphin afterwards King of France by the Name of Lewis the Eleventh Son of Charles the Seventh she died in the life-time of her Father in Law at Chalones in Champagne where she was first Buried in the great Church there But after when her Husband came to the Crown he caused her Body to be Translated and Interred in the Abbey-Church of Laon in Poictou ELIZABETH Wife to Francis the first Duke of Brittany JANE first Married to the Earl of Angus and after to George Earl of Huntley ELEANOR Wedded to Sigismond of Cyroll Arch-Duke of Austria MARY Espoused to the Prince of Uerense or Lord of Camp-veer in France ANNABELLA sixth and youngest Daughter celebrated her Nuptials with the Earl of Morton Queen Jane lived many years after the death of her first Husband King James and was afterwards Married to James Stuart Son to the Lord of Lorne commonly called the Black-Knight of Lorne who being taken Prisoner by the Flemings died in Durance The Queen not long surviving him who died on the fifteenth day of July following in the year one thousand four hundred forty and six and was buried in the Charter-house at Perth by her Husband leaving Issue by the aforesaid Black-Knight John Stuart Earl of Athol James Earl of Buchane and Andrew Bishop of Murrey Impress or Device This King James bare for his Impress or Device a branch of Thistles with a Sprig of Rue The word POUR MA DEFENCE Which was first taken up by Achaius King of Scotland when he made that strict League with the Emperour Carlemain A. D. 787. giving intimation by the Motto That he feared not the Power of any Foraign Prince seeing he lean'd on the Succour and Alliance of the French 8. James II King of Scotland JAMES STUART Eldest Son of King James the First of Scotland was born together with his Brother Alexander on the fourteenth day of October in the year one thousand four hundred and thirty And being scarce seven years of Age when his
or Device Mary Queen of Scotland bare for her Impress or Device in the beginning of her Reign A Lionness with a young Lion beside her the word UNUM QUIDEM SED LEONEM meaning her Son King James Afterwards when she was driven by force from her Kingdom A wheel rowled from a Mountain into the Sea The word PIENA DI DOLOR VODA DA SPERANZA And reflecting on the inconstancy of Fortne and Queen Elizabeth she had Two Women placed on the wheel of Fortune the one holding a Lance whereby she meant her self ready for the War the other a Cornucopia shewing the Plenty of Qu. Elizabeth The word FORTUNAE COMITES As soon as she was confined in England and began to relish afflictions Camomile with the Flowers pressed hard down in a Garden The word FRUCTUS CALCATADAT AMPLUS Contemplating the vanity of Greatness she took Wings and Feathers of Birds dispersed here and there The word MAGNATUM VICINITAS But when she saw she must die contrary to the promise of Q. Elizabeth her Device was Brenno's Ballances with a Sword cast in to weigh Gold The word QUID NISI VICTIS DOLOR And a little before her death Eclipses of the Sun and Moon The word IPSA SIBI LUMEN QUOD INVIDET AUFERT reflecting on Queen Elizabeth Bernard Stuart descended from Robert Lord D'aubigny who was Marshal of France Temp. Lewis the Eleventh used for his Impress or Device a Lyon between two Buckles The word DISTANTIA JUNGIT Intimating That although France and Scotland were in distance so far asunder yet by a strict League of Friendship and Alliance they were Conjoyned 13. James the VI. King of Scotland c. JAMES STUART Sirnamed the Peaceable only Son and Heir of Henry and Mary King and Queen of Scotland was born on the nineteenth day of June in the year one thousand five hundred sixty and six in the Castle of Edenburgh and was Proclaimed Annointed and Crowned King when he was scarce thirteen Months Old coming to the Age of Twenty and four years he took to Wife the Princess Anne second Daughter of Frederick the Second King of Denmark whom he Married in Person at Cronenburgh on the twentieth day of August in the year one thousand five hundred and ninety and conveyed her to be Crowned in Scotland Upon the Death of Elizabeth Queen of England viz. on the twenty fourth day of March in the year one thousand six hundred and two He was proclaimed by the Nobility and Gentry of both Nations King of England Scotland France and Ireland and on the twenty fourth of June following was together with his Queen Solemnly Crown'd at Westminster And thus these two Kingdoms that for so many Ages had been at Variance became United in King James whose Title was so Indisputable that his greatest Opposers otherwise did acquiesce and rest satisfied in this Queen Anne departed this Life on the second day of March in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen And the King her Husband on the twenty seventh of the same Month seven years after viz. in the year one thousand six hundred twenty and five who were both Interred at Westminster on the North-side the Tomb of King Henry the Seventh They had Issue HENRY-FREDERICK Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall Rothsay Earl of Chester and Knight of the most Honourable Order of the Garter he was born in Scotland on the nineteenth day of February in the year one thousand five hundred ninety and three and died at St. James's the sixth of November in the year one thousand six hundred and twelve and lyes in the same Vault with his Grandmother Mary Queen of Scots he was never married ROBERT second Son died an Infant in Scotland CHARLES third and youngest Son was King of England c. ELIZABETH Eldest Daughter born in Scotland the nineteenth day of August in the year one thousand five hundred ninety and six and joyned in Wedlock with Frederick the Fifth Count Palatine of the Rhyne Duke of Babaria Silesia Elector c. And King of Bohemia on the fourteenth of February in the year one thousand six hundred and twelve She lived till she saw the Miraculous Restoration of her Nephew King Charles the Second and then departing this life on the thirteenth day of February in the year one thousand six hundred sixty and one was Inhumed at Westminster having had Issue by her aforesaid Husband seven Sons and five Daughters Frederick Charles Rupert Maurice Edward Philip and Gustavus Elizabeth Lovisa Henrietta Charlotta and Sophia MARGARET second Daughter of King James died an Infant in Scotland MARY and SOPHIA born died and were buried in England in the Chappel of King Henry the Seventh when they were Children Impress or Device King James the Sixth of Scotland bare on one side of his Meddals for an Impress A Sword erect in Pale the Point Ensign'd with a Regal Crown And from the Sinister side an Hand pointing with the Fore-finger to the same Crown The word PRO ME SI ME REOR IN ME. A second Impress of King James when he was under the Faction was an Apple-tree growing in a Thorne The word PER VINCULA CRESCIT But when he gained his Liberty and had settled all things in Peace he bare a Regale of Arms and War-like Trophies as Helms Croslets Lances Pikes Colours Standards Drums Fifes Trumpets Muskets Cannon and Bullets The word DABIT DEUS HIS QUOQUE FINEM And after the Conference at Hampton-Court where so many various points of Religion were discussed and as many Clamours stop'd he took a Mercury charming Argus with his hundred Eyes expressed by his Caduceus two Flutes and a Peacok The word ELOQUIUM TOT LUMINA CLAUSIT 14. Charles the I. King of Great-Britain c. CHARLES STUART sirnamed the Martyr was born in Scotland on the nineteenth day of November in the year one thousand six hundred and after he came into England created Duke of York and Albany Marquess of Ormond Earl of Ross and Ardmanoch and upon the death of his Father Crowned King of England Scotland France and Ireland on the second day of February in the year one thousand six hundred twenty and five Who when he had reigned twenty and three years strugling with an Impetuous Resisting and Stubborn Faction became at length a Sacrifice to their Malice and Revenge who having gotten him under their power first Restrained him and after made a Solemnity of the Horridest Murther that ever was perpetrated under the Sun and Gloried in the Cruel Action by making his own Pallace the place of his Execution and ten thousand Spectators a witness of their Savage Impiety where the common Executioner struck off his Princely Head on the thirtieth day of January in the year one thousand six hundred forty and eight and with That the Laws Liberties Lives and Estates of all True and Loyal Hearted Englishmen The Martyrd Trunk was afterwards conveyed to Windsor where it was deposited according to the Exigency of the times with more