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-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
Successors and is the Stile of His present Majesty of Denmark King Christian the Fifth At the same time that he was at Rome Pope Sixtus the fourth among other Honours Invested him with the Knightly Order of the Elephant in memory of the Passion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ That Magnificent Chappel of the three Kings in the Cathedral Church of Roschilt was erected by this King who dying at Copenhagen on the two and twentieth day of May in the year of Grace one thousand four hundred eighty and two in the fifty sixth year of his Age was buried there by Dorothea his Wife By whom he had Issue four Sons and a Daughter OLAUS the Eldest who died of the Plague in the year one thousand four hundred fifty and one an Infant CANUTUS born Anno Dom. one thousand four hundred fifty and one and died the same year JOHN who succeeded his Father and was King of Denmark FREDERICK who was likewise King of Denmark And MARGARET their only Daughter Married to James the Third King of Scotland Impress or Device Christian the First King of Denmark c. Bare for his Impress or Device a Scepter and Sword plac'd in Saltire between four Coronets under that in Chief a Mond or Globe with a Cross thereon The word VIGILANTIBUS JOHN third Son of Christian the first born in the year one thousand four hundred fifty and five was King of Denmark Norway Sweden Goths and Uandals Duke of Sleswick c. and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter he took to Wife Christiana the Daughter of Ernest Elector of Sarony and dying at Elburgh on the twentieth day of February in the year of Grace one thousand five hundred and thirteen and of his Age sixty and two was buried with his Wife at Ottenwaldt who likewise died in the sixtieth year of her Age and of our Lord one thousand five hundred twenty and one leaving Issue Christian his Son and Successor Francis who died in his Childhood and Elizabeth married to James the second Marquess of Brandenburgh who liv'd to see threescore and ten Princes that were descended from her Loines Christian eldest Son of King John was born at Niburgh on the second day of July sixteen minuits after three of the Clock in the Morning in the year of Grace one thousand four hundred eighty and one after the death of his Father chosen King of Denmark by the name of Christian the second c. But by reason of his Severity to the Conquer'd Swedes and his Cruelty to many of the Danes he was depos'd and his Uncle Frederick elected in his stead He was joyn'd in Matrimony to Isabella the Daughter of Philip King of Spain and Sister to Charles the fifth and Ferdinand Emperors of Germany by whom he had first Philip secondly Maximilian who both died young his third and youngest Son was John Duke of Holstein who had his Education at the Court of the Emperour Charles the fifth his Uncle but attending him in that Expedition towards Hungary in the year one thousand five hundred thirty and two he fell Sick and Died at Steinburgh on the same day that his Father became a Prisoner in Denmark leaving no Issue Dorothea his Eldest Daughter was Wife to Frederick Elector Palatine of the Rhyne she died at Neagon in Norway in the year one thousand five hundred and eighty And Christiana the youngest was first married to Francis Sforza Duke of Milan and after to Francis Duke of Lorrain This King Christian died under Confinement at Callingburgh on the one and twentieth day of January in the year one thousand five hundred fifty and nine and was buried at Ottenwaldt by his Father His Queen Isabella departed this Life on the nineteenth day of January in the year one thousand five hundred twenty and and five and lyes Interred at Gant Impress or Device Christian the Second King of Denmark c. Bare for Impress or Device An Eagle display'd treading upon a Serpent and wounding her in the Belly The word DIMICANDUM 11 Frederick I. King of Denmark c. AFter the Deposition of Christian the second King of Denmark c. FREDERICK Sirnamed the Pcaceable his Uncle fourth Son of Christian the first was Elected into the Kingdoms of Denmark Norway c. and Crowned King by the Name of Frederick the First who gave way for Establishing the Doctrines and Principles of Martin Luther in those Countries about the year one thousand five hundred thirty and three which were settled and confirmed in his Sons reign And the Ecclesiastical Government of those Kingdoms continues to this day according to that Exemplar After he had ruled his Subjects in great peace and quietness for well nigh ten years he departed this Life at his Palace of Gottorp in Juitland on the tenth day of April in the year of Grace one thousand five hundred thirty and three and in the fifty sixth year of his Age and was Buried at Sleswick in the Cathedral-Church there under a Noble Monument of Alabaster He married two Wives first Ann the Daughter of John Elector and Marquess of Brandenburgh in the year one thousand five hundred who dying on the third day of May one thousand five hundred and fourteen was buried in the Abbey of Borsholme under a Curious Monument of various colour'd Marble by whom he had CHRISTIAN the Third King of Denmark c. and DOROTHEA married to Albert the first Duke of Prussia in the year one thousand five hundred twenty and five and died on the tenth day of April one thousand five hundred fourty and seven The second Wife of King Frederick was Sophia the Daughter of Bugslajus the tenth Duke of Stetin in Pomemerania in the year one thousand five hundred and eighteen who dying at Kilo in the year one thousand five hundred sixty and eight and of her Age seventy was buried at Stenburgh leaving Issue by her said Husband JOHN the Elder Heir of Norway Duke of Sleswick Holstein Stormar and Ditzmarsh c. He was a great encourager of Learning and Learned men and died unmarried at Hadersleve on the 30 day of September in the year one thousand five hundred and eighty in the fifty ninth year of his Age And after he had lain Magnificently in State for ten Weeks was buried at Sleswick in the Royal Sepulchre ADOLPHE her second Son Heir of Norway Duke of Sleswick Holstein Stormar Ditzmarsh born at Flensburg on the six and twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred twenty and six thirteen minutes past eleven of the Clock at night who was one of the Knights Companions of the most Honourable Order of the Garter in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and sixty He died at Gottorp on the first day of October in the year one thousand five hundred eighty and six and of his Age sixty He Wedded Christiana the Daughter of Philip Landtgrave of Hesse in the year one thousand five hundred
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
Colen and Bremen CHRISTIAN third Son succeeded his Brother Otho in the Earldom and CUNEGUNDA their Daughter was married into the Family of the Bronckhursts 5. Christian II. Earl of Oldenburgh CHRISTIAN youngest Son of Maurice Earl of Oldenburgh after the death of his Brothers Otho and Maurice was Earl of Oldenburgh He took to Wife Mathilda or Maud Countess of Stetin and Harcinia and by her had Issue JOHN OTHO and THEODORE JOHN continued the descent OTHO founded a Colledge at Dalmenhorst and died in the year 1265. THEODORE was great Master of the Teutonick-Order in Prussia 6. John Earl of Oldenburgh JOHN eldest Son of Christian was Earl of Oldenburgh who with the help and assistance of his Kindred built a stately Church at Aurich in Broickmerland He married Anne Countess of Hoien and had by her three Sons John Christian and Otho JOHN succeeded his Father in the Earldom of Oldenburgh CHRISTIAN second Son was a Pious Affable Learned and Eloquent Prince and having studied at Paris became the Moecenas of his Age The County of Dalmenhorst was allotted him for his Inheritance which he left to his Posterity that he gat on Gertrude of Mercana his Wife viz. Christian his eldest Son joyned in Matrimony to Luitgardis Countess of Bronckhorst and Otho married to Margaret Countess of Bentheme both living in the year 1360. OTHO youngest Son of John and Anne was a Canon in the Cathedral Church of Bremeu 7. John II. Earl of Oldenburgh JOHN eldest Son of John and Anne of Hoien was Earl of Oldenburgh and Dalmenhorst in the year of Grace 1300. He greatly assisted his Nephews by his Brother Christian against Gilbert Bronkhurst Archbishop of Bremen In his youth he was so lavish and profuse in his expences that he became extremely poor which in his more mature years he recovered and gave himself to acts of Piety and Devotion He was joyned in Wedlock to Margaret Countess of Lippien who bare to him CONRADE afterwards Earl of Oldenburgh and JUDITH who was affianced to Rudolph Earl of Diepholitan 8. Conrade Earl of Oldenburgh CONRADE only Son of John and Margaret was Earl of Oldenburgh and Dalmenhorst who enlarged the Priviledges of the Burghers of Oldenburgh for some signal Services performed by them in his Domestick wars in the year 1345. But going into Butiarenland to quell the Tumults and Insurrections raised there he lost his life in Battel A. D. 1366. This Character is given him That he was an experienced Souldier Eloquent Beautiful ready in action Pious Liberal and Bounteous to Sacred Structures He had two Wives The first was the Countess of Hoien on whom he begat MAURICE his eldest Son who was Earl of Oldenburgh Dalmenhorst joyned in Matrimony to Anne Daughter of Magnus sirnamed Torquatus Duke of Lunenburgh by whom he had only two Daughters Anne the Wife of Otho Count Waldeck and Ingleburgh married to Occo a Captain in Aurich This Maurice died in the year 1410. and was buried at Rastede by his Wife JOHN second Son of Conrade by his first Wife died in his youth The second Lady of this Earl Conrade was Cunegunda Countess of Diepholitan by whom he had likewise two Sons THEODORICK who was Earl of Oldenburgh after the decease of his half Brother Maurice and CHRISTIAN 9. Theodorick Earl of Oldenburgh THEODORICK sirnamed the Fortunate eldest Son of Conrade by his second Nuptials succeeded his half-Brother Maurice in the Earldom of Oldenburgh and Dalmenhorst He married twice First Adelheda Dalmenhorst Sister to Nicholas Archbishop of Bremen in the year 1401. but by her had no Issue He took to his second Wife in the year 1423. Hedvigen the Widow of Balthasar of Meckleburgh and Sister to Gerard and Adolph both Dukes of Sleswick and Holstein whose Inheritance after their decease without Issue came to this Hedvigen whose eldest Son CHRISTIAN the first King of Denmark in Right of his Mother had the Titles of Duke of Sleswick and Earl of Holstein remaining in him which hath continued to his Successors Kings of Denmark to this day The second Son of Theodorick and this Hedvigen was GERARD sirnamed the Warrior a man of a turbulent and restless Spirit Being banish'd he died in France in the year of our Lord 1500. He married Adelheda the Daughter of Nicholas Earl of Tecleburgh and had Issue Gerard Theodorick and Christian who all died of untimely deaths Adolph fourth Son and Otho that was a Canon of Bremen both slain on the 16 th of February in the year 1500 And John the youngest who married Ann Daughter of George the elder Prince of Hannault dying in the year 1526. Adelhede eldest Daughter was the Wife of the Lord Plessian Irmengard of Hero Ommake in the year 1491. Helwise third Daughter to Edo Wimecken Lord of Jevera in the year of Grace 1498. Anne and Elizabeth died of the Plague in their Virginities A. D. 1505. The third and youngest Son of Theodorick and Helwise was MAURICE who married Catharine the Daughter of Otho Earl of Hoien who bare to him three Children James Hedwise and Adelhede who died young ADELHEDE only Daughter of Theodorick and Hedwise was first married to Ernest Honsstein and afterwards to Gebhard Mansfield This Teodorick died at his Castle of Dalmenhorst in the year 1440. 10. Christian I. King of Denmark c. CHRISTIAN sirnamed the Rich eldest Son of Theodorick the Fortunate Earl of Oldenburgh and Dalmenhorst was by the procurement of his Uncle Adolph Duke of Sleswick and Holstein his Mothers Brother who had declin'd the offer by reason of his age chosen King of Denmark by the Estates of that Kindom and crown'd in the year of Grace 1448. by the Name of Christian the first to which Kingdom upon the death of his Uncle Adolph aforesaid whose Heir he was he added that great Dukedom of Sleswick and Earldom of Holstein and in the year 1457. the Kingdom of Sweden by Conquest For the better support of these Honours and to strengthen his Interest in these new Acquisitions he took to Wife Dorothea of Brandenburgh Widow of Christopher the third and the last King of Denmark of that Family and bought out the Claim which his Brother Gerard and Otho Earl of Schaumberg pretended to have in the aforesaid Dukedom of Sleswick and Earldom of Holstein according to the custom of Germany giving to Otho 43000 Florins of Gold besides divers small Towns and to Gerard 50000 Marks of Silver as likewise his Interest in the Earldom of Oldenburgh reserving only the Title thereof After this upon the account of Devotion he went to Rome in the year 1474. where he procured from the Emperour Frederick the third that his Earldoms of Holstein Stormer Wagria and Ditzmarch of which he stood then possessed should be erected into a Dutchy and Incorporated with that of Sleswick So that his Titles were King of Denmark Norway Sweden Goths and Uandals Duke of Sleswick Holstein Stormar Wagria and Ditchmarch Earl of Oldenburgh and Dalmenhorst which he left to his
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 Carriâ—… 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
Father Died was Crowned King of Scotland at the Monastery of St. Cross Vulgo Holy-rood-house in Edenburgh by the Name of James the Second The first part of whose Reign was spent in composing the Domestick jarrs and differences amongst his Nobles afterwards he wholly bent his mind to War against the English and was himself at the head of the Army that sat down before the Castle of Rorbourgh at that time in possession of the English where being unhappily upon one of the Batteries at the discharge of a great Ordnance which fatally burst in pieces he was therewith slain on the thitd day of August in the year one thousand four hundred and sixty in the Thirteth year of his Age being Interred in the Abbey of St. Cross at Edenburgh He Married Mary the Daughter of Arnold Egmont Duke of Gelderland in the year one thousand four hundred forty and eight a Lady of singular Modesty who likewise departed this Life on the sixteenth day of November in the year one thousand four hundred sixty and six and found Sepulcher in the Colledge of the Holy Trinity of her own Foundation at Edenburgh by whom he left Issue JAMES his Eldest Son who was King of Scotland ALEXANDER second Son was created Duke of Albany and Earl of March a man sufficiently experienced in the strange unconstancy of Fortune who having been thrice banished return'd twice into his Country again esteemed and in reputation but the third time being in Exile in France as he was running at Tilt with Lewis Duke of Orleans received his Mortal wound in the year one thousand four hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Celestines at Paris he was twice Married his first Wife was the Earl of Orkneys Daughter by whom he had a Son named Alexander that was Bishop of Murrey and Abbot of Scoone his second Lady whom he Married when he went first into France was Anne Daughter to Bertrand Earl of Bulloign who dying the year before her Husband in the year one thousand four Hundred eighty and two left Issue only one Son named John who upon the resignation of his Half-Brother Alexander when he entered into Religion was Duke of Albany and Earl of March as likewise Governour of the Realm and Tutor to King James the Fifth his Kinsman being slain by the Faction of the Hamiltons JOHN youngest Son of King James the Second for speaking words derogating from the Honour of his Brother James when he was King was confined to the Castle of Craig-miller where growing distemper'd in his mind the King pittying his Condition order'd him to be remov'd to the Cannons-gate in Edenburgh for Cure where whether through the Unskillfulness or Negligence of the Chirurgions who let him Blood or through his own obstinacy or wilfulness he bled to death in the month of December in the year one thousand four hundred and eighty having no Issue MARGARET alias MARIAN was first Marrried to Thomas Eldest Son of Robert Boyd who was Governour of Scotland created Earl of Arran he fled together with his Lady into Burgundy where he died an Exul and was buried at Antwarp under a Noble Tomb erected there for him by Charles Duke of Burgundy tho others say he died at Florence of an untimely death He had two Children by his Wife in his Banishment both born at Antwarp James Boyd who returning into Scotland was killed by Hugh Montgomery of Eglington And Grecile Boyd first Married to the Earl of Cassiles and after to the Lord Forbes but by them had no Issue After the return of the Lady Margaret before the death of her Husband into Scotland her Brother King James Confined her caused her to Sue out a Divorce and Re-married her to James Hamilton and gave him the Earldom of Arran whose Posterity are living at this day CECILY youngest Daughter of King James died unmarried Impress or Device King James the seccond bare for his Impress or Device A Coronet placed on a Mount of Earth a Sword the point downward and Crucifix placed in the form of a Roman Capital V issuing therefrom The word PRO LEGE ET GREGE James III. King of Scotland JAMES STUART eldest Son of King James the second was crowned King of Scotland at Kelsoe in the year year 1460. being then but seven years of age by the name of James the third The first part of whose Reign was very peaceable and quiet but afterwards what with the divisions of his Nobles and divers Factions of the common people who setting up his own Son against him was driven to take up Arms in his defence when seeking to chastise the Insolence of those Rebels he was at the unfortunate Battle of Bannocksbourn slain on St. Barnabies day viz. June 11. Anno Domini 1488. when he had reigned 29 years in the thirty sixth year of his age He was buried in the Monastery of Cambuskenneth not far from Sterling and having married Margaret the only Daughter of Christian the first King of Denmark and Norway c. at Edinburgh on the tenth day of July Anno Domini One thousand four hundred sixty nine who was then but twelve years of age had three years after upon the Birth of their first Child all the Right Title Claim and Interest which the aforesaid Christian pretended to have in the Isles of Orkney and Schetland resigned to him She died Anno Domini One thousand four hundred eighty seven and was buried by her Husband the 29 th of February in the same year in the Monastery of Cambus-kenneth leaving Issue JAMES her eldest Son who was King of Scotland ALEXANDER second Son who was Archbishop of St. Andrews slain with his Brother King James in the Battle of Flodden fought against the English Anno Domini One thousand three hundred and eighteen And a third Son named JOHN who was Earl of Mart. Impress or Device James the third King of Scotland bare for Impress or Device An Hen sheltring her young ones under the cover of her wings The word NON DORMIT His second Device was Two well-spread Rocks placed in the midst of a most tempestuous Sea The word DURABO And when he saw his Son in Arms against him A large growing Vine-tree water'd with Wine which instead of causing it to sprout and grow makes it fade and wither The word MEA SIC MIHI PROSUNT 10. James IV. King of Scotland JAMES STU TAR eldest Son of James the third was born on the tenth day of March Anno Domini One thousand four hundred seventy two and created Duke of Rothsay and upon the death of his Father crowned King of Scotland on the twenty fourth day of June Anno Domini One thousand four hundred eighty eight by the name of James the fourth After he had ruled the Kingdom of Scotland for the space of twenty five years he together with the chief of the Gentry and flower of the Nobility of the Realm was slain in that most unfortunate and fatal Battle of Flodden-field on