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A35066	A vindication of Robert III, King of Scotland from the imputation of bastardy, by the clear proof of Elizabeth Mure (daughter to Sir Adam Mure of Rowallan) her being the first lawful wife of Robert the II, then Stewart of Scotland and Earl of Strathern by George, Viscount of Tarbat, &c. ...	Cromarty, George Mackenzie, Earl of, 1630-1714.	1695 (1695)	Wing C7027; ESTC R6005	24,829	54

whence he and many Writers since have imposed this Comment as a Truth But if I prove that Eupheme Ross died not in the 2 d. year of King Robert's Reign but lived many years thereafter that will falsifie the first Assertion of the foresaid Paragraph If Elizabeth Mure whom he calls the Daughter of Adam Mure did not only bear two Daughters to Robert but six then our Historians have not been well informed of the State and Concerns of that Family If John Elizabeths eldest Son was Earl of Carrick Robert Earl of Menteith and Alexander Earl of Badinoch in the first year of King Roberts Reign then it is false that these Honours and Estates were bestowed upon them by their Father after the 3 d. year of his Reign If they were bestowed upon them in Eupheme Ross's Lifetime then it is false that they were bestowed upon them sometime after her Death If the Convention of Estates or Parliament who declared John the eldest Son of Robert by Elizabeth Mure to be his Successor in the Crown was kept and did so declare in the first year of King Roberts Reign and whilst Queen Eupheme was alive then it is false that this Convention was kept and did give this Declaration after her death and after the 3 d. year of King Roberts Reign And if it appear plainly that Robert Stuart of Scotland and Earl of Stratherne did whilst he was in these Stations and long before he was King own John his eldest Son by Elizabeth Mure to be his eldest Son and Heir and did share his Fortune and Honours with him and that he was so owned in all publick Writings by his Father by his Fathers Vassals and by those who contracted with his Father and him both Laicks and Ecclesiasticks and that by many reiterated Acts If he was so owned openly by King David Bruce before his Death then it is a sure Truth that he was so nor could his Right of Legitimacy and Filiation be taken from him no not by his Father And if it be true that not only his Father but the whole Estates of the Kingdom in Parliament conveen'd immediatly upon Robert the 2 ds coming to the Crown and in the first year of his Reign did owne John as the undoubted Heir and Successor to Robert and if at that time he was so owned by Queen Eupheme and all her Relations And if Elizabeth Mure was dead before the year 1364 then it is false that her Children were advanced by her being married to the King in the year 1373 or after Eupheme Rosses death And John the eldest Son's Right and Title is beyond all Controversie tho' not beyond all Calumny And lastly If Elizabeth Mure was so far from being a mean Person or a Concubine that she was a Person of such Quality and near Relation to Robert her Husband that he was at the Trouble to procure a Dispensation from the Pope and that at considerable Expenses for Allowance to marry her before he obtained her And if this Dispensation was granted several years before he was King and many years before Euphame Ross's death Then the Insinuation of her Meanness the Imputation of her being a Concubine the Untruth of her being married three years at least after King Robert was KING and indeed the whole of this Comment and false Relation appears to be a scandalous Libel But all these Positions in favours of JOHN appear from what follows 1. Fordon says that Queen Eupheme and Bishop Wardlaw died about the same time in the year 1387 King David Bruce died on the 7 th of May 1370 and Robert did hold his first Parliament on the 27 th day of March 1371 at Scoon and was then Crown'd as an authentick Record verifies to which also Buchanan and all the other Historians agree so that Queen Eupheme died not till the 17 th year of King Roberts Regin There is a Charter granted by King Robert the 2 d. of the Earldom of Murray excepting Lochquhaber Badinoch Castle and Barony of Vrquhart on the 9 th of March Anno Regni 2 do dilecto filio nostro Joanni de Dumbar Mariotae Sponsae ejus filiae nostre charissimae There is a Charter by Robert the 2 d. Apud Scoon tempore Parliamenti Anno Regni 2 d. Dilecto filio nostro Joanni de Yla of the Lands of Moydart Morvarn and many others And there are two other Charters in the Rolls of the Great-Seal to the said John of Yla Margaretae ejus Sponsae filiae nostrae charissimae Anno Regni 6 to of the Lands of Lochaber and Knoydart There is a Charter granted by Kobert the 2 d. Anno Regni nono to Thomas Hay Constable of Scotland filio nostro charissimo There is another Charter in the Rolls to him under the same Designation Anno Regni secundo And another to him Elizabethae ejus sponsae nostrae filiae on the eighteen Merks Sterling of Inchtuthill A Charter in the Rolls by Robert the 3 d. Anno Regni primo of 200 lib. Sterling of the Customs of Aberdeen to David Lindsay of Glenesk Dilecto nostro Fratri and John Dumbar Earl of Murray and David Lindsay of Glenesk are designed in several of King Robert the third's Charters Fratres nostri There is a Charter in the Rolls granted by King Robert the second to William Douglas Son to the Earl of Galloway Aegidae filiae nostrae charissimae of the Earldom of Nithsdale Anno Kegni Nota they had only one Daughter who was called the Fair Maid of Nithsdale who married Henry de sancto claro with whom he had the Earledom of Nithsdale but his Successors exchanged it with King James the second for the Earldom of Caithness John Lyon of Glames did marry another Daughter of King Robert's the second with whom he got the Lordship of Glames and the Original Charter granted to the said John and to his Daughter is yet in the Custody of the Earl of Strathmore his Successor Both the Historians and several Charters in the Rolls do instruct that the Douglas married King Roberts Daughter by Eupheme Ross. These authentick Records of King Robert's having seven Daughters do sufficiently shew how ill acquainted our Historians were with the State and Condition of the King's Children who say that he had but one Daughter by Eupheme Ross and two by Elizabeth Mure. There is in the Rolls a Charter by Robert the second in June Anno Regni primo to his Son Alexander of the sixty Davachs of Badinoch One the 13 of June and the first year of King Roberts Reign in a Charter granted to Allan Lawder of the Lands of Whitsled and others Testibus Willielm and Patric Episcopis sancti Andrae Brechen Joanne filio nostro natu maximo Comite de Carrick Roberto Comite de Menteith which Buchannan calls Taichiae Alexandero Senescallo filiis nostris Gulielmo Comite de Douglas c. On the 28 of May Anno Regni primo there is a

Marriage for Eupheme Ross was but a Widow when he married her and Widow to the Earl of Murray as a Charter granted by David Bruce anno 1341. to Robert SENESCALLVS his Nephew and Eupheme Countess of Murray his Wife of the Lands of Methven does prove and is extant in the Records And to evince further that there is certainty enough of Elisabeth Mures being Rowallans Daughter there are in Rowallans Charter-chest these following Writings Rex we charge you to gife seizing till Muir the Son and Aire to of the Lands Reservand to us the Ward and Releif of ye saids Landis reservand also the frank tenendry to Dame Iannet Mure whyleom wife to Adam Mure Knight halding yir our Lers for your Warrand Gifen under Our Signet at Dumfermling last day of Feb. and of Our Reign the 23. yheir Which Precept of Seasin is directed thus at the end thereof Dilectis fidel nostris vicec de Aire Beliv de Cunninghame Nota Where Blanks are left in this Precept the Words are worn out in the Original the Paper being torn in several Places It is likewise to be Noted that in the Circumference of the Seal appended to this Precept there appears yet visibly DAVID REX in plain characters RObertus Dei gratia Rex Scotorum Omnibus probis Hominibus totius terrae suae Clericis laicis salutem sciatis nos dedisse concessisse hac praesenti Carta nostra confirmasse Dilecto Consanguineo nostro Adae Mure de Rowallane Militi pro Homagio servitio suo nobis impensis impendendis omnes terras de Rowallane cum pertinen jacen in Baronia de Conyghame infra Vice-comitatum de Aire Quaequidem terrae cum pertinentiis fuerunt dicti Adae quas dictus Adam non vi aut metu ductus nec errore lapsus sed mera spontanea voluntate sua in propria persona sua in praesentia plurium Regni nostri procerum fidelium nobis per fustem Baculum sursum reddidit purèque simpliciter Resignavit ac totum jus Clameum quae in dictis terris cum pertinentiis habuit vel habere potuit pro si haeredibus suis die Confectionis praesentium in manus nostras omnino quietem clamavit in perpetuum Tenendas Habendas dictas terras de Rowallane cum pertinentiis dicto Adae haeredibus suis de nobis haeredibus nostris in feodo hereditate per omnes rectas metas divisas suas in unam integram liberam Baroniam in boscis planis pratis pascuis pasturis moris maresiis aquis stagnis vinariis viis semitis molendinis multuris earum sequelis aucupationibus venationibus piscariis brasinis fabrinis cum furca fossa sok sak Tholl Theam Infang-thief out-fang-thief cum servitiis liberè tenentium earundem Terrarum de Rowallane cum curiis earum exitibus nec non cum omnibus aliis singulis Libertatibus Commoditatibus asiamentis ac justis pertinentiis quibuscunque tam non nominatis quam nominatis tam sub terra quamsupra terram prope procul ad dictas terras cum pertinen Spe●●antibus seu quovismodo just● spectare valentibus in futurum libere quiete plenariè integre honorifice bene in pace Faciendo inde nobis haeredibus nostris dictus Adam haeredes sui tres sectas ad tria placita nostra Capitalia Baroniae nostrae de Cuninghame quolibet anno apud Irwin tenend In cujus rei testimonium praesenti Cartae nostrum magnum praecipimus apponi sigillum testibus venerabilibus in Christo patribus Mattheo Gilberto Glasguen Abredonen Eclesiarum Episcopis Roberto de Fife de Menteth fratre nostro dilecto Archibaldo de Douglass Domino Galawidiae consanguineo nostro Comitibus Jacobo de Duglass Domino de Dalkeith Thoma de Erskin consanguineis nostris dilectis militibus Alexandro de Cockburne de Langtoune Custode magni sigilli nostri apud Irwing undecimo die Novembris Anno Regni nostri secundo ROBERT Duke of Albany Earl of Fife and of Menteith and Governour of Scotland til al and sundry to quhais Knawladge yir presents Letters shall to come Greeting for quhy that is meritable thing to bere Witness to the suthfastness and yarefore it is yat we do Witness by thir our Letters yat in our last general Counsale halden at Perth with Dliverance of the three Estates yair beand assemblit we lete to Borch til Dame JOHANNE of Danyelstoun wife to Quhileme our Cousin Adam Muir of Rowallan Knight alle and sundry his Lands of the Barony of Polkelly and alle uthurs hir Lands pertenand til hir by way of hir Terce or otherways of Right and of Law the whilks were recognist of lang time in our hands of before and this til alle and sundry that it efferis or may effere we make it kend by thir our presents Letters to the quhilks we have gart set our Sele at Down in Menteth the penultim day of August the yheir of our Lord mill cccc and fifteen and of our Governal the tend year BY which Evidents t' is clear that in the time of David the 2 d. there was a Sir Adam Muir of Rowallan that he was also in the time of Robert the 2 d. that he had a Son called also Sir Adam who in K. ROBERT the 3 ds time is designed in the Charter CONSANGVINEVS Noster and was indeed his Cousin German by Elizabeth Mure. AND for further proof Mr. David Chalmers one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice a man of Learning and Probity in an Abridgement writ by him of all the Popes Emperors Kings of FRANCE SCOTLAND and ENGLAND which was Printed at Paris and dedicated to King HENRY the 3 d of France and grounding his Proofs as to Scots matters on Turgot and Bishop Elphinston who indeed only transcribed and gave some Addition to Veremudus and on the Collections of John Swinton and John Campbel two Church-men in Relation to this Subject hath these words Ce Roy de Escosse viz. ROBERT the 2 d meurant laissa de Elizabeth fille d' Adam Mure Baron de Rowallan trois fils deux filles c. And Mr. John Lermond Chaplain to Alexander Bishop of St. Andrews in his Collection of the Scots Antiquities asserts that he saw a Testificat under the hand of Roger Mcadam a Priest bearing that he the said Roger did marry Robert the great STEWART of SCOTLAND to Elisabeth Mure Daughter to Rowallan These Testimonies are Proofs as much as is ordinarly required for Historical Narrations But the forementioned Writs bearing the first Sir Adam of Rowallan and Polkelly to have been co-temporary with King David Bruce and consequently when Robert the Great STEWART was a Youth and that the 2 d. Sir Adam is alwise designed CONSANGVINEVS by King Robert the 3 d. and by his Brother Robert Duke of Albany Earl of Fife