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A Brief account of His Sacred Majesties descent in a true line male from King Ethodius the First who began to reign Anno Christi, 162 / written in a letter to a friend, anno 1681.
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Wing B4502; ESTC R41275
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Aidanus K. 49. 35 12 Eugenius the 4. K. 51. 34 13 Donald the 4. second Son to Eugenius the 4. K. 53. 33 14 Dongardus second Son to Donald the 4. 32 15 Eugenius the 5. K. 56. Tritavus 5. 31 16 Eugenius the 7. K. 59. 30 17 Ethsinus K. 61. 29 18 Achaius K. 65. 28 19 Alpinus K. 68. 27 20 Kenneth the 2. K. 69. 26 21 Ethus second Son to Kenneth the 2. K. 72. Tritavus 4 25 22 Dorus second Son to K. Ethus 24 23 Murdocus second Son to Dorus. 23 24 Pheachar or Ferquhard second Son to Murdocus 22 25 Kenneth 21 26 Bancho Thane of Loquhaber 20 27 Fleance Tritavus 3. 19 28 Walter the 1. who gave to his Posterity the Sirname of Stewart 18 29 Allan the 1. in the Holy Wars with Godfroy Bulloigne 17 30 Walter the 2. Magnus scenescallus Scotiae 16 31 Alexander the 1. Builder and founder of the Abbacy of Paisley 15 32 Allan the 2. 14 33 Walter the 3. commonly called of Dundonald Tritavus 2. 13 34 Robert Lord Turboultown 2 Sonto Walter of Dundonald 12 35 John Lord Darnly 11 36 Robert Lord Darnly 10 37 John Lord Darnly 9 38 Allan Lord Darnly Married to the Daughter of Duke Murdoch Oy to the Earl of Lennox 8 39 John L. Darnly created Earl of Lennox 1482. or thereby Tritavus 1. 7 40 Matthew Earl of Lennox killed at Flowdon 6 41 John Earl of Lennox killed at Linlithgow 5 42 Matthew Earl of Lennox Regent to his Oy K. James the 6th 4 43 Henry Lord Darnly Duke of Rothesay 3 44 KING JAMES the 6. K. 108. 2 45 KING CHARLES the 1. K. 109. 1 46 KING CHARLES the 2. K. 110. JAMES Duke of Albany and York And now you see Sir my assertion made good by this Grand Jurie of His Majesties fourty five Progenitors aforenamed all of them of the Stem and Line Royal lawfully descended And that I may in this Criticall and censorious Age be as free of mistakes as possible Suffer me good Sir yet once again to repeat what I have formerly insinuat that I do not here by this Descent-Male intend to obsfuscat or in the least prejudge or diminish His Sacred Majesty of his contingency of blood and cognation to all or any of His hundred and nine Crowned Predecessors in either their streight descendant or Collateral degrees For that the Crown of Scotland hath contained in one certain Family from K. Fergus the first contemporary with the Grecian Monarch Alexander the Great is by all our Histories put beyond any dispute And to suggest any defence against the ignorance of such who may here mistake the figuring of our Kings in the degrees from Father to Son as if the one immediatly succeeded the other would but impose upon your better knowledge who does sufficiently understand that the elder Collaterials secluded the Descendants as was then also customary in other Northern Nations untill King Kenneth the 3. Civiliz'd it to a just succession in the true and immediat Descent But should this Sir ever go further then your Closet I little doubt but some will be apt to say magno conatu nugas and that all men are descended in a Line Male from Adam which truly a little Rhetorick could perswade me to believe but that all are come or yet so come of Kings and true Royal Cadets will require more Oratory before I be proselyted a Leveller Have I not salv'd His Majesties Descent from His Crowned Predecessors even to our King Fergus the 1. and sufficiently obviat what objections can be rais'd against me there having here only but singled out the Descent-Male which as it hath the Preachers blessing our King even in this branch being in all its steps still the Son of Nobles so if the mourning Prophet meant in that his 35. chap. any good to Jonadab the son of Rhehab is it not worth the considering that God hath been pleased to continue the Lawful Posterity of even our last Heathenish King in a true Line Male to this very day especially now when His Majesty is so frequently Addressed to Seclude his only Brother who equally enjoys the same blessing with himself But the Men of Shaftsburie with Gallio will care for none of those things it matters the less if His Sacred Majesty should who might graciously perhaps allow it to add one grain of weight to his fixed royal kindness for the fourty fifth man child from the Loyns of the first Ethodius without any Female interruption for beyond fifteen hundred years Yet seing even in this Branch of His Majesties Pedegree above represented I do not in all things agree with the more constant tradition I beg your leave Sir to mark where I differ intreating you would but patiently hear my reasons wherein I shall endeavour to be as brief as the clearing of the matter will permit But as I am writing One tells me it will be thought arrogant presumption in me to alter the received Opinion or to controvert with Buchanan Boes or Skeen Good Lord shall we live in an Age wherein there is so much noise for the liberty of the Subject and yet be denyed the liberty of reason or reasoning in the enquiry of truth I hope there be many good Protestants who will not presse me to believe all the legendary tales in Boes and I am perswaded there be many Loyal Subjects who will not advise me to assent to all that Buchanan wrote and I hope common reason will convince any man that in Antiquities which consists in matter of fact it is safer to pin our faith upon old Charters truly expede by the Granters and in the times to which they relate then upon the looser sheets of private Historians writing but some Centuries after who belike if they kept the general threed of the story did not much either examine or notice the particularities or Genealogies of Families yea and in some things here controverted our Antiquaries do not agree with our Historians and should you and I Sir to gratifie their mistaken opinions Mahomet-like hang between But to the matter in hand Boes sayes Fincormachus was the Son of Cormachus and here I place him son to Donald 2. well we agree however in the main assertion For if Cormachus was Cousin-german to Crathilinthus and Brother to Findocus for Boes calls him Patruus Athirco the Grandfather behooved to be the common Stipes and so is yet salved the descent in a Line Male But if Cormachus was son of Athirco which he behoved to be if he was Patruus to Crathilinthus why might not Boes have made his Uncle Dorus carry him also away from the cruelty of Natholocus with his three Brothers Findocus Carantius and Donaldus But alace Boes himself except in this present case doth with all our other Historians give Athirco no moe sons then the three I have just now named But the truth is That our King who immediatly succeeded Crathilinthus should not have been named Fincormachus but Cormachus only