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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

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. Clerk to His MAJESTIES Councils Registers and Rolls To be Sold at Thomas Carruthers's Shop in the Parliament-Closs EDINBURGH Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson Printers to His most Excellent MAJESTIE Anno Dom. 1695. At Edinburgh the Twenty third day of July 1695 years THE Lords of His Majesties Privy Council having Considered a Petition given in to them by Charles Chalmers Shewing that the Viscount of Tarbat Lord Register having from the Authentick Records of the Kingdom wrote a Vindication of Robert the third King of Scotland from the Imputation of Bastardy c. and given the Benefit of Printing the same to the Petitioner which he hath caused do well but at Considerable Expenses And therefore Humbly Craving to the Effect under-written as the said Petition bears They hereby Discharge any to Print the said Book within this Kingdom or to Import or Vend the same for the space of Twentie One years after the date hereof without the Petitioners Licence under the Penalty of Confiscating the Books so Printed Imported or Vended to the said Petitioner his use Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Consilii GILB ELIOT Cls. Sti. Consilii To the KING Sir ALbeit all the Crown'd Heads of Europe who are so by Inheritance be concerned in the Vindication of the Marriage of Robert the 2 d. King of Scotland with Elizabeth Mure yet Your Majesty hath the greatest interest therein the Collection of the Proofs now Published was made by me many years ago and Presented formerly in Write to Your Majesty I did likewise Communicat them to others who have Printed imperfect Accounts thereof and some English-men having lately Endeavoured by their scandalous Pasquels to cast Reproach on the Series of all the English Kings and Queens and desirous to pull those of Scotland into the Contagion Alleadge this only Tash of the Bastardy of K. Robert the 3 d. Son to Elisabeth Mure. If any English-man zealous of the Honour of their Crown and Kingdom shall Vindicat their Royal Family from the Libels as clearly as I have done ours his Book may have a due Reception this Vindication was the Design of my Travel and if with that it be Acceptable to Your Majesty all that 's wish't to it is then attained by May it please Your Majesty Your Majesties most Humble most Faithful and most obedient Subject and Servant TARBAT A VINDICATION OF ROBERT the 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 to ROBERT the II. then STEWART of SCOTLAND and Earl of Strathern THe Excellence of History is so well writ of by some few that it were Indiscretion to repeat and vanity to add to what they have said yet it is allowable enough to regrate the frequent Error even of great Historians in writing what they too easily believe without sufficient A vouchers and thereby imposeing Falshoods for Truth If these Errors fall on Things and Actions they oft-times cause at least occasion great Mischeifs Thus our Scots Writers tho' justly placed in the first Rank have injured the Nation whilst on Design to give a Frame to our Ius Regni some of them have screwed the Soveraignity up to Precipices Others with as little Truth and less Civility depressing it to unsufferable Lowness whence the great evil of Civil War hath too oft Sprung At other times they have cast dirt on persons either by their Supine Ignorance in not searching Records before they publish their Collections or upon malitious Designs to avenge some Disappointments Amongst others our Historians have foully fail'd in relating what concerned King Robert the seconds Marriage and the Legitimacy of his Succession and the fairest Excuse that can be made for them is to cover their fault with the shade of others who tho' prior to them yet did writ at a great distance from the Actions and Persons of whom they wrote and rushed into Falshoods because they did writ without proof and choosed rather to make a Criminal Noise than to keep Innocent Silence For had our Historians been at the trouble to look into our Records before they wrote our History they had saved mine in vindicating our Royal Line and all the Hereditary CROWN'D HEADS in Europe from the Tash of Bastardie in their Descent from Robert the second King of Scotland and from Elizabeth Mure or More his Wife who in their Relations is falsly stated a Concubine whereas what hereafter follows will prove near to a Demonstration that She was his lawfull Wife so well secured in that Title that her Husband could not be allowed to quarrel it tho' he had inclined to do so as indeed he never did Our four Historians Major Boetius Lesly and Buchanan have followed one another in relating that Robert the STUART of SCOTLAND Grand-child by a Daughter to Robert the first Nephew to David the second whilst he was STUART of SCOTLAND Earl of Strathern had several Children by Elizabeth Mure who was not his Wife and since it were needless to repeat the words of all the four I shall take Buchanans as the last and of greatest credit who speaking of the beginning of King Robert the 2 ds Reign page 318 in the Francfort Edition of his History in Octavo gives this account Rebus ita primo biennio feliciter succedentibus tertio ab inito Regno anno Euphemia Regina Hugonis Comitis Rosiae filia moritur Ex ea ternos Liberos genuer at Walterum posterius Jerniae Davidem Atholiae Comites Euphemiam quam Jacobo Douglassio nupsisse à nobis ante commemoratum est Robertus non tam impatientiâ caelibatus quam amore filiorum ex Elizabetha Mora prius gentorum ipsam Vxorem duxit Hanc enim eleganti formà Adami Mori illustris equitis filiam adhuc adolescens vehementer amaverat ex eaquae tres filios ac duas filias susceperat eamq Giffardo viro nobili in Lothianam curaverat collocandam verum sub idemfere tempus Euphemiâ Reginâ Giffardo Elizabethae marito defunctis Rex sive consuetudine vetere Morae inductus sive quod à multis traditur ut filios quos ex eagenuerat legitimos faceret matrem eorum sibi matrimonio conjunxit filios statim divitiis honoribus auxit Johannes natu maximus Carrictae Robertus Taichiae Alexander Buchaniae Comites sunt facti adjecta etiam Badinacha nec hac munificentia contentus Comitis ad Sconam indictis obtinuit ut praeteritis Euphemiae liberis in Rege creando gradus aetatis observarentur Quae res postea tam numerosam Familiam prope extinxit From

volente Deo habiturierant post mortem patris sui ipsumque juvabunt atque defendent de toto posse contra quoscunque mortales Quibus sic actis praefati Praelati Comites Barones ibidem existentes sigilla sua huic scripto apposuerunt ad perpetuam futuram memoriam in testimonium omnium praemissorum una cum signo subscriptione publici tabellionis subscripti Acta fuerunt haec apud Abatiam de Sconae Mense die annis supradictis Et ego Joannes Rollo Clericus Moravien Diocaesis publicus auctoritate Apostolica Notarius praedictis indicationi Declarationi Affirmationi nec non Promissioni manuum levationi ac Magistri Joannis de Peebles populo publicationi una cum venerabilibus in Christo patribus Dominis Wilielmo Waltero Patricio sancti Andreae Glasguen Brechen Ecclesiarum Episcopis ac discretis viris Dominis Joanne de Carrick Canonico Glasguen Wilielmo de Biggar Rectore Ecclesiae de Errol Cancellario Camerario Scotiae nobilibus viris potentibus Dominis Thoma de Marr Gulielmo de Douglas Roberto senescal Comitibus Thoma de Hay Gulielmo de Keith Constabulario Mariscallo Scotiae Archibaldo de Douglass Jacobo de Douglass Roberto de Erskin Alexandro de Lindsay Thoma de Erskin Duncano Wallace Baronibus ac Militib Magistro Joanne de Peebles supradicto multis aliis praesentibus ad praemissa vocatis pariter rogatis primo in secreta camera praedicti Domini nostri Regisin suo secreto Concilio post in Camera ut dictum in publicum coram populi multitudine hoc approbante factum Anno Die Mense locis supradictis indictione nonâ pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris Gregorii undecimi divina providentia Papae quia presens interfui itaque omnia singula superius expressa dum sic agerentur scivi vidi audivi praesens Instrumentum manu alterius scriptum signo meo consueto ad instantiam predicti Domini Joannis Domini Regis primo-geniti Comitis de Carrick SCOTIAE SENESCALI I signavi mea propria manu subscribens vocatus pariter rogatus in testimonium omnium praemissorum The Names of the Subscribers whose Names and Seals are at this day extant and appended to the Declaration and Act above insert Bishops St. Andreae Glasguen Dunkelden Aberdonen Moravien Rossen Dumblanen Caitenen Brechenen Ergaden Gallovidien Cancellarius Comerarius Dumfermling Aberbroth Melros Sconen Prior Sti. Andreae E. Marr E. Marchiae E. Strathern E. Menteith E. Levenax Dominus Jacobus de Lindsay Constabular Mariscall D. Jacobus de Douglass Walterus de Lesly D.R. de Erskin D. Alexander de Lindsay D. Walterus de Halyburtoun D. Wilielmus de Cuninghame D. Jac de Danielstoun D.H. de Eglintoun Prior St Crucis Kelcho Jedworth Kilwyning Cambustionel Couper Lindors Newbottle Driburgh D. Alexander de Gordon D. filius Walthi D. Pat. de Heburn D. de Dinisdeer The said Act and Declaration rendred in English IN the Name of the Blessed and undivided TRINITY of the Father Son and Holy Spirit Amen Upon the 27 th day of the Moneth of March and year from the Incarnation of Christ 1371 according to the Custom and Computation of the Church of SCOTLAND The most Renowned Prince ROEBRT KING of SCOTS at Scoon the time of his Highness Coronation the Bishops Earls Barons and others of the Clergy and People of his Kingdom standing by and there present after the sacred Solemnities of His Anointment and Coronation were ended and the Declaration of his Right by which the said Illustrious PRINCE did succeed and ought to succeed to David KING of SCOTLAND his Uncle and Predecessor as well by propinquity of Bloud as upon the Account and by Reason and by vertue of certain instruments made in the time of ROBERT KING of SCOTLAND his Goodsir and Predecessor of worthy Memory then opened up and publickly read And the usual Oaths of Homage and Fidelity being taken by the said Prelats Earls Barons and others of the Clergy and People there present used and wont of old to be exacted at the Coronation of the KINGS of SCOTLAND Being desirous after the Custom and Example of the foresaid Good KING ROBERT his Grand-father of blessed Memory to declare before the Clergy and People his Successor and true Heir tho' the same did clearly appear and might abundantly be known by the unanimous Consent and Assent of the said Prelats Earls Lords and Barons His Sacred Majesty did Declare Assert Acknowledge Manifest and Will that whenever it should happen his Highness at the pleasure of Almighty GOD to depart from this Life Lord JOHN his Majesties eldest Son Earl of Carrick and STEWART of of SCOTLAND should and ought to be his lawful Heir and after his Highness Death should succeed to him in the Kingdom of SCOTLAND by the providence of GOD And that after him he should sit and ought to sit upon the THRONE of the Kingdom Which Declaration being so emitted by our Soveraign Lord the KING himself concerning his said eldest Son and Heir Every one of the said Prelats Earls Lords Barons and others there present with a full Voice one by one for himself Heirs and Successors did Assert Affirm Acknowledge Declare and Will that the said Lord JOHN after the death of his said Father being to the sore and on Life by the grace of GOD should be KING of SCOTLAND as lawful Heir of his said Father Promising each of them bona fide and having their Hands lifted up to Heaven in token of their Sincerity that he should be had and esteemed as their KING and lawful Heir of his said Father And that they should Assist and Defend him against all Mortals As also that they should Append and put their Seal to the Act or Statute to be made thereupon in token of their Consent and Promise of these things whenever they should be required thereto Which Acknowledgment Promise and Oath given by them in the Council of our Soveraign Lord the King's Majesty did cause the Right Venerable Mr. John Peebles Clerk of the Records of the Diocess of Glasgow to Insert and Record in publick Register That forasmuch as he had sufficiently declared the said Lord JOHN his eldest Son to be now his true Heir and that by Law he ought after his death at the Disposal of GOD to be KING of the Kingdom of SCOTLAND And that forasmuch as the said Earls Lords and others of the Council did Affirm Acknowledge Consent and by Oath as said is Promise And that his Highness had called the People with the Clergy to the effect in their presence and by their unanimous Consent the same might be Decreed and Published least any should pretend Ignorance of this any manner of way in time-coming The whole Multitude of Prelats Earls and Barons and others as well of the Clergy as People with one accord unanimous Consent and Will none at all gainsaying Did Affirm Acknowledge and Will That the said Lord JOHN as eldest

before he was KING longer before Eupheme Rosses death yea in the whole tract of her Lifetime and likeways by Eupheme Ross her self and by her Children who did take all their Charters either with the said John's Consent or admitting him as Witness in their Writings under the Designation of the King 's eldest Son and Heir It is also clear that he was owned under that Designation by his Fathers Vassals who did take their Charters from the Father always with His Consent with the solemnity of his Seal as well as his Fathers and always under the Designation of his eldest Son and Heir The Bishops Lords and Gentlemen of the best Quality in the adjacent Countrey owned him as such in being Witnesses with him under that Designation But if such a Cloud of Witnesses and Writings do leave any doubt then that of a whole Kingdom can leave none And this we have also For the Bishops of Scotland had no Right to dispose of their Moveables by Testament King Robert the Bruce had promised ta give them this Priviledge yet had not performed it before his death King David Bruce his son in one of his last Parliaments passes a Deed by way of Act narrating his Fathers Promise and Resolution And therefore he ratifies the said Promise and of new grants and confirms to all the Bishops in Scotland Power and Priviledge to dispone their Moveables by Testament Which authentick Act and Deed stands recorded in the Records of the Great-Seal and is as follows DAVID Deigratia Rex Scotorum notum facimus universis quod licet ex consuetudine ab antiquis introducta temporibus continuata usque praesens per nos praedecessores nostros extitit tanquam pro privilegio speciali servatum quod bona quecunque mobilia Episcopis Regni nostri temporemortis ipsorum Regiis sic applicata sunt usibus quod ab ipsis Episcopis in suis testamentibus condendis super bonis disponen hujusmodi omnino fuerit hactenus adempta facultas Quia tamen tam per cleri nostri quam aliorum de nostro Consilio prudentiam sumus cum veris lucidis rationibus informati quod consuctudo hujusmodi cessit hactenus in posterum cedere demonstratur in indecentiam honestatis Ecclesiae in opprobrum status cleri Nos ob reverentiam divini Nominis ad instantiam Praelatorum super hoc nobis instanter supplicantium de consensu assensu Roberti SENESCALLI Scotiae nepotis nostri liberorum suorum nec non aliorum Baronum procerum ac communi Comitatuum Regni nostri in pleno nostro Parliamento tento apud Perth pro nobis nostrisque haeredibus successoribus de gratia nostra speciali concedimus praesentium literarum serie confirmamus quod omnes singuli Episcopi Regni nostri tam postea quam praesentes de quibuscunque Mobilibus suis tempore mortis suae sua testamenta condere valeant pro sua voluntate disponere sine aliquo objectu contradictione vel impedimento dicta consuetudine sive usu longaevi temporis in contrarium non obstante terris tamen redditibus dominiis servitiis quibuscunque ipsorum episcopatuum cum pertinentiis nec non juribus patronanum ecclesiarum quae ad regaliam nostram pertinere consueverint adhuc pertinent sede vacante omnibus singulis aliis praeter expressa superius juri regio voluntatique dispositioni nostri haredum ac successorum nostrorum in omnibus per omnia reservatis Et si contigerit aliquem ipsorum Episcoporum Regninostri aliquo unquam tempore quod absit ab intestato decedere volumus tenore praesentium concedimus pro nobis nostris haeredibus successoribus in perpetuum quod Amici propinquiores dictorum Episcoporum de universis suis bonis Mobilibus absque quocunque impedimento per nos aut Ministros nostros faciendo disponere pro suae libito volunta t is prout pro salute animarum ipsorum Episcoporum melius videat expedire Et propter praefatam gratiam ipsis Episcopis praesentibus futuris concessam ipsi eorum singuli ac successores eorundem pro nobis in vita nostra post mortem pro anima nostra anima recolendae memoriae Domini patris nostri nec non pro salubri statu cujuslibet haeredum successorum nostrorum dum vixerint pro animabus eorundem cum ab hac luce migraverint in Cathredralibus Ecclesiis continuo unam Capellam perpetuam qualibet cathedrali Ecclesia constituend unam missam facient in perpetuum specialiter celebrari praeter mifsas alia orationum suffragia ad quae antecessoribus successoribns nostris ex debito jam tenentur In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras ad perpetuam rei memoriam duraturas sigilli nostri authentici fecimus appensione muniri testibus Roberto SENESCALLO Comite de Stratherne Nepote nostro supradicto Ioanne SENESCALLO comite de Carrick filio suo primogenito haerede Thoma Comite de Marr Georgio de Dumbar Comite Marchiae Willelmo Comite de By this notable Charter verbatim Extracted from the authentick Records it is evident that JOHN afterwards called Robert the 3 d. was eldest Son and Heir to Robert the 2 d. not after the third year of Robert the 2 ds Reign nor after Eupheme Ross's Death but in King David Bruces Reign 37. years before Eupheme Ross's Death Now if King David Bruce and the whole States of the Kingdom do solemnly Recognize and owne JOHN eldest Son and Heir to Robert Earl of Strathern before Robert was KING and whilst he was married on Eupheme Ross and if all his Vassals and Neighbours did own him also as such and his Father likewise doing always so And if his Father Queen Eupheme Queen Euphem's Children did own him as such after he was KING And if the whole Estates of the Kingdom have by the most solemn and authentick Document that is extant in all our Records or perhaps in Christendom and sealed it with their Seals which is as yet extant in publick Custody then our Historians Assertion of Elizabeth Mure's being a Concubine and of her Children's being Bastards until they were forsooth legitimat by a Marriage after Eupheme Rosses death And which Marriage was many years after Elizabeth Mur's death since in an autentick Document after adduced she is spoke of as dead anno 1364 and her eldest Son is Witness in that Document which had been both fraudulent and without Fond in Law is false and the whole Superstructure against the Honour of that Lady and her Children and against the lawful Succession and just Rights of the Crown do fall as founded on groundless Assertions and Untruths Since the aforementioned Papers do prove that Elizabeth Mure was lawful Wife and her Children lawful and eldest Children to Robert the second and that the Right of Succession was due to them thereby and not by any