Daughter of Iohn Earle Warren and Surrey was wife vnto this Iohn Balliol King of Scotland Their Issue Edward de Balliol who after the death of Robert Brus entred his fathers inheritance and tooke vpon him the supreame authority of the kingdome of Scotland An. Dom. 1306. RObert le Brus Earle of Carict the sonne of Robert Earle of Carict great Nephew of Isabell the second Daughter of Dauid Earle of Huntington great Vnckle vnto Alexander the third hauing now put Balliol to flight assumed the kingdome of Scotland from which he held himselfe so long vniustly debarred And so vpon the feast day of the Annunciation of our blessed Lady he was crowned King in the Monastery of Scone in the year of Grace 1306. But Edward the first king of England desirous to represse his actions for his own aduantage leuied a puissant army against him vnder the direction Lieutenancy of Aumary de Valence Earle of Pembroke at that time Deputy gouernor of the kingdom of Scotland who at Methwen encouÌ„tred the sayd K. Robert wherein the said Robert was ouerthrowne and put to flight the 19. of Iune 1306. But reinforcing his strength he oftentimes renewed the war with Edward the first second and third Kings of England and was the mirrour of Chiualry in those dayes This valiant King after he had raigned 24. yeares being stroken with a Leprosie dyed at Cardros 1328. the 7. of Iune the 2. of Edward the third and lieth buried in the Monastery at Dunfermeling King Robert being dead Thomas Ranulph Earle of Murrey was made Gouernour of the kingdome but hee was poysoned at Musselburg the 13. of August 1332. It is reported that Robert vpon his death-bed willed three things in his Testament First that the Kings of Scotland should neuer alienate the Scottish Islands nor bestow them on great personages Secondly that the Scottes should neuer giue a long nor determinate day vnto the English to fight on Thirdly he willed his heart to be deliuered vnto some woorthy knight that had vowed himselfe to the warres in the Holy-Land to carry it into the field with him whensoeuer he shold fight against the Infidels which accordingly he bequeathed vnto that NoblemaÌ„ Iames Douglas for that he had heertofore made a Vow that in proper person he would vndertake to fight against the Infidels aforesaide The first wife ISabell the daughter of Doneuald Earle of Mar the sister of Wartheâ—… Earle of Mar was wife of Robert Earle of Carict who dyed before he had fully gotten the kingdome Robert her husband beeing the second time ouerthrowne at Dalry And as shee fled into Ros was taken and brought into England vnto King Edward the first and in England remained vntill the battell of Bannock commonly called the battell of Bannocks Bâ—rne fought in the time of King Edward the 2. The second wife ELizabeth the daughter of Hanmer de Burgo Earl of Vlster in Ireland was the second wife of Robert Brus King of Scotland who dyed the 26. of October Anno Dom. 1327. His Issue by his first wife Marioria married to that Nobleman VValter Steward the sonne of Iames Steward who dyed the seauenteenth of the Calends of August 1309. great Seneschall of Scotland vnto whom she brought foorth Robert Steward who succeeded Dauid le Brus in the Kingdome of Scotland It was couenanted at Aire 1315. by the Nobles of the kingdome that if King Robert deceased without heire male that then his Brother Edward Brus should be King And if the sayde Edward also dyed without male that then this Marioria and so others of the kings Daughters should succeede in case they married to the good liking of the King and the Realme His Issue by the second wife Dauid who succeeded his Father in the kingdome Margaret married to the Earle of Sutherland who dyed in bringing forth of Iohn her sonne Which Iohn dyed a pledge in England for his father Dauid And according to the intaile had succeeded as descended from the eldest sonne if he had liued Maud married to Thomas Isaac by whom he had two daughters Ioane Katherine that dyed at Striueling by whom hee had this Maud it appeareth not EDward Balliol the onely sonne of Iohn Balliol King of Scotland came into Scotland after the decease of Robert Brus affirming that the kingdome appertained vnto him And at Duplin obtaining a great victory against the Guardians of Dauid Brus and of the kingdome of Scotland by the assistance of Edward the thirde King of England by the sword he made good way to his foresaid claime to the kingdome of Scotland and accordingly tooke vpon him the regall Dignity in the Monastery of Scone the foure and twentith day of September Anno. Dom. 1332. With whom tooke part Dauid Earle of Atholl Henry de Beaumont Earle of Bucquhane Gilbert de Vmfrauille Earl of Angus Raph Baron of Stafford Richard Talbot and many others the Nobles of England who had Title vnto Lands in the same kingdome in right of their wiues The second yeare after this Edward King of Scots did his homage vnto Edward the third at New-Castle vpon Tyne for the whole kingdome of Scotland and the adiacent Isles vpon the Feast day of Saint Geruais and Prothasius the fourteenth Calends of Iuly in the yeare of grace 1333. Vpon occasion of which homage the Commons of Scotland rose against both the kings in diuers parts of the kingdome Whereupon Balliol was inforced for a time to make his abode in England In the Interim whereof Dauid the son of Robert Brus as yet a Child and in the custody of Thomas Randolph Earl of Murrey Protector is crowned King who afterwards growing vnto mans estate proued a Prince of no lesse spirit then his Father but not so fortunate For Edward Balliol Dauid as yet being yong and Thomas Randolph deceased inuaded the kingdome and put Dauid to flight who together with his Wife the Sister of Edward the third was inforced to flye into France where he lay obscurely eight yeares and more But at last Dauid preparing for his returne hee was receyued with the generall applause of the people and Balliol reiected necessity inforcing him to flye into England vnto King Edward Where weighing with himselfe his manifolde eiections at last freely released vnto Edward the third King of England his intire right vnto the kingdome of Scotland for the sum of 2000. pound yeares for his maintainance as appeareth by good record Breuia directa Baronibus 38. Edward 3. in Scaccario viz. Termino Michaelis An. 38. Ed. 3. Rex concessit Edwardo de Baliolo nuper Regi Scotiae ex custuma portuuÌ„ Kingeston Sancti Botolphi 2000. li. singulis Annuis ad sustentationeÌ„ secunduÌ„ conuencionem factuÌ„ inter dictum Eduardum Regem Angliae praedictum Edwardum de Baliole de concessione corone iuris regni sui Scotiae An. Dom. 1329. DAuid Brus the sonne of Robert Brus after the eiection of Balliol in the yeare of our Lord 1329. was
cald out of France wherein hee had now liued to mans estate to take on him the gouerment and rule of the Realm of Scotland as King thereof and vppon the 24. day of Nouember in the yeare of Christ 1331. in the eight yeare of his age and the thrid of his raign in the Parliament at Scone hee receiued the order of Kinght-hood at the hands of that Noble-gentlemā Tho. Randolph Earl of Murry The day following hee was Crowned and annointed with great honor before whom neuer was there any King of Scotland Crowned or annointed Vpon the sameday was also crowned and annointed Iohan his Q. Against this Dauid Edward Balioll waging war besiedged Barwicke to whose aide also came that victorious Prince King Edward the third In the yeare of our Lord 1333. the 19. of Iuly in the battaile at Halidon-Hill where were slayne 7. Earles of Barons and Knights 900. Esquires 400. and 3000. common Souldiers Barwick was taken by the said King Edward the third the day after being the 20. of Iuly In this Dauids time also Edward the 3. besiedged Calis which was then in the possession of Phillip of Valois the French King Whereupnn this Phillip sent his ambassadors into Scotland vnto King Dauid that according to their league he should enter England so to diuert his enemy Edward from the said siedge of Calis Who condiscending vnto the French King aduentured to inuade England with a right puissant army of Scotsh-men presuming that Edward had left behind him none but church-men husband-men and that the flower of the soldierie of England had been ouer sea with the King their Soueraign Whereupon he Marched as far as Durham where he was fought withal and ouerthrowen by the inhabitants of Yorkeshire some few others He himselfe with william Douglas and many others of the Nobles taken prisoners by Iohn Coupland an Esquier of the North and commited to safe custody vpon the vigil of Saint Luke the Euangelist in the yeare of Grace 1346. Those that fought the said victorious battaile were william Le-Zouch Arch-Byshop of Yorke with the Clergy of his Dioces Gilbert de Vmfrauill Earle of Anegos Henry Percy Ralph Neuill william D'eyncourt and Henry Le-Scrope with a very small Army of English-men such as they could assemble in such a penurious season The tenth yeare after being ransomed hee shewed himselfe a very modest Prince to the end of his life which was at Edenburg in the 47. yeare of his age and the 39. of his raigne in the yeare of our Lord 1370. leauing no yssue behind him to succeed him He lieth buried in the Monastery of Saint Crosse before the great Alter there The first wife Iohan surnamed of the Tower the daughter of king Edward the second King of England and Sister vnto King Edward the third was the first wife of Dauid King of Scots who iornying into England to see her Brother there dyed without issue and lieth buried at London in the Church of the Friers Minorits Hee Married her at Barwicke the 17. of Iuly 1238. The second wife MArgaret Logi the Daughter of Iohn Logi Knight a Virgin excelling all other of that time for beauty was the second Wife of King Dauid whom as hee himselfe boasted he married rather for her form then in desire of yssue Notwithstanding when hee perceiued that shee had accomplished the age of foure and twentie yeares and grew hopeles of Issue he forsooke her Wherevpon shee appealed vnto the court of Rome and after the expence of much Treasure to no purpose she dyed An. Dom. 1371. RObert Stewart sur-named the Hunter the Nephewe of Dauid Brus by his Sister he was son of walter Stewart begotten vppon the body of Margery the sister of King Dauid by the generall agreement of the whole Scottish Nation is nominated king in stead of his deceased vncle vpon the feast day of the Anunciation of our blessed Lady in the year of our Lord 1371. Against whom in the very beginning william Douglas opposed himselfe affirming that the right of that kingdome accrued vnto him by the aliance with the Balliols and Comyns But perceiuing that George of Dunbarre Earle of March and his Brother the Earle of Murrey and the Lord Erskine who had three of the strongest fortresses of the kingdome in their custodies viz the Castle of Maydens Striueling and Dunbreton did strongly oppose against him whereupon he renounced his pretension And at last the daughter of King Robert borne in lawfull wedlocke was giuen in marriage to Iames son and heire of the saide william Douglas This Robert amongest the Scots was the second King of that name and the first of the Stewarts vnder which Sur-name and vnder nine Kings of the name for the space of two hundred yeares and more euen vnto this day haue the Scottes bin happily gouerned and the famous Jsle of Great Brittaine in our dayes into one Gouernment vnited by our dread Soueraigne Lord King Iames that now is Vnto any of whom this Robert was nothing inferiour in happinesse as the man whom during the whole time of his raigne neuer felt the affliction of any aduerse fortune He dyed with age and not with sicknesse the 13. of the Calends of May in the yeare of our Lord 1390. and in the 19. yeare of his raigne in his Castle of Deidon being full of dayes viz. in the 74. yeare of his age and lyeth buried in the Monastery of Scone The first wife EVfemia the daughter of Hugh Earle of Ros was the first lawfull wife of this Robert King of Scotland who not long after hir husband Robert was crowned in solemne maner 1372. She died in the third year of his raigne and in the year of our Lord 1387. The second wife ELizabeth the Daughter of Adam Moore knight was the second wife vnto this King ROBERT By whom he hadde three Sonnes His Issue by his first wife VValter Stewart Earle of Atholl beheaded for plotting Treason against Iames the first Dauid Stewart Earle of Stratherne Eufemia married vnto Iames the sonne of william Dowglas His Issue by the second wife Iohn afterward named Robert and succeeded his Father in the kingdome Robert Stewart Duke of Albany Gouernor of Scotland and Earle of Fife in right of his wife and was Father of Mordac Duke of Albany and Gouernour of Scotland Alexander Stewart Earl of Bucquhane father of Duncan A daughter married to Iohn of Dunbarre the Brother of George Earle of March A second daughter married vnto Iohn Lyon Lord Glammys but of what name or by what woman these two were appeareth not in record RObert Steward the third of that name King of Scottes Earle of Carict whose name was first Iohn succeeded his deceased Parent Robert the second in the yeare of our Lord 1390. He chaunged his name as I conceiue for that he deemed the name of Iohn ominous vnfortunate as first being hatefull in the Balliols and secondly vpon animaduersion that a king of France of that name was in
his latter time by aduerse fortune the most part of his Nobility conspired against him He dyed at Sterling in the yeare of our redemption 1488. the xi of Iune in the 28. yeare of his raigne MArgaret Daughter of Christian King of Denmarke and Norway was wife to the saide Iames the third King of Scots Their Issue Iames the fourth King of Scots after the death of his Father Iohn Steward Earle of Marre who dyed without issue Alexander Steward Byshop of Saint Andrewes and Duke of Albany died without issue IAmes the fourth after the death of his father Iames the third got vnto himselfe great power amongst the Scots which for some yeares he very directly administred Iustice by the same and brought the kingdom vnto much quietnesse by his good gouernment Insomuch that the great thefts robberies slaughters and such like villanies which had beene commonly vsed in Scotland about the borders especially were euery where almost vtterly left off But Lewes the French King vsed great and many perswasions vnto King Iames that he should not desist in these bloudy enterprises but rather increase theÌ„ and the rather thereby to offend Henry King of England whose Sister the sayde Iames had married and with whom hee had great league At length through many hard perswasions and faire promises from the French King hee leuyed a great power and at a time vnexpected inuaded England although presently after it was knowne he was admonished by King Henry that although he were not ashamed of his deed at least hee should feare the iudgement of Almighty God who is wont to be reuenged on the perturbers of peace and the breakers of leagues For that warre being taken in hand against all faith and league sworne had like euent for by the English they were ouerthrowne and King Iames himselfe was slaine in that battel with him one Arch-Byshop two Byshops foure Abbots Noblemen Knights 34. besides 8000. common souldiers and almost all the rest taken Captiues also all their Ensignes and 22. great peeces of Ordinance This battaile was fought at Floddon-Hill neere Branxton a Towne in Northumberland the 9. day of September Anno. Dom. 1513. MAgaret the daughter of king Henry the seuenth and Sister to the most Noble King Henry the eight was wife vnto this K. Iames the fourth who after the death of the saide King her husbande was againe married to Archibald Dowglas earl of Angus hauing by him a daughter called Margaret borne at Hare-bottel Castle in England Anno. 1516. who was wife vnto Matthew Stewart Earle of Lenox Mother of Henry which maried Mary Queene of Scotland and who were Father Mother to our most dread Soueraigne Lord Iames King of Great Brittaine France and Jreland defender of the Faith c. whom God long preserue Their Issue Arthur first sonne dyed the 14. of Iuly 1510 in the life time of his Father Iames the fifth King of Scotland Alexander born 1514. after his fathers death D. of Rothsay IAmes the fift his Father being slaine in England was k. of Scotland in the yeare of our Lord 1513. being but a childe of a yeare olde when his father dyed and was crowned Anno Dom. 1515. at Scone at which place the Kings of Scotland haue beene vsually inaugurated Vnder this King there was diuers conflicts as wel by land as by Sea betweene both Nations Iohn Duke of Albany Nephew to the deceased King by the graue Counsell of the Realm was sent for home out of France to protect the young King and to gouerne his land and when he had assumed the gouernment presently after he with the French began to make warre against the English and all those great Lordes whom he thought to haue forsaken the King in his warre hee put to death for which cause much distrusting his owne safety he returned into France and King Iames now comming vnto mans estate he tooke to wife Magdalen eldest daughter to Francis the French king who liued not aboue one yeare with him After whose death hee married Mary daughter to the Duke of Guise by whom hee left one onely daughter liuing King Iames dyed with griefe of mind in the Castle of Falkeland the xiiij of December Anno. 1542. after whose death Iames Earle of Arran Lord of Hamilton his Kinsman was constituted Gouernour to the young Queene and also her Tutor The first wife MAgdalen Daughter to Francis K. of France the first wife to Iames King of Scots who dyed without issue The second wife MAry of Lorayn daughter to Claudius Duke of Guise and Sister vnto Duke Francis and Widdowe of Longuevill was the second wife to James the fift which Mary died Anno. 1560. His Issue by his second wife IAMES ARTHVR Both died Infants Mary Queene of Scots borne the seauenth day of December on the vigil of the Conception of our blessed Lady the Virgin Anno. 1542. MAry onely daughter of Iames the fift King of Scotland being an infant at the time of her Fathers death was declared heire to the kingdome of Scotland Anno. 1542. her Gouernour in her tender yeares was Iames Earle of Arran Lorde of Hamilton her Kinsman who was also her Tutor He for the saide Queene Mary waged war with the English denying to giue her in marriage to Edward the sixt King of England notwithstanding it was so agreed vppon by the chiefe Peeres of both kingdomes which caused the battell at Musselborough field where the English were Victors The Duke of Somerset Vnckle Protector to the King and Iohn Earle of Warwicke after made Duke of Northumberland being Generals at first the battell grewe doubtfull on which side it would fall but at length it happily fell on the English side in the moneth of August 1547. Queene Mary now comming to her prime yeares was first married to Francis Dolphin of France the fourth of December 1566. after whose death she was secondly married to Henry Steward Lorde Darnley eldest Sonne to Mathew Earle of Lenox by Margaret Dowglas who begot of the saide Mary a Childe of an excellent wit and great hope 1566. was christened Elizabeth Queene of England of famous memory Charles King of France and Philebert Duke of Sauoy being God-fathers and God-mother and named Charles-Iames who now by true right of descent is Ki. of Great Brittaine France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. whome God long preserue IAMES King of Great Brittaine France and Ireland Defender of the Faith was sonne of Mary Queene of Scots and of Henrie Stewart her second husband was borne at Edinburgh in the castle of Maydens the 19. of Iune 1566. first crowned and annointed King of Scotland at Sterling the 29. day of Iuly Anno. 1567. in the second year of his age and in the year of our Lord 1603. hee was most happily crowned and annointed King of England France and Ireland ANna Daughter to Fredericke the second King of Denmarke and Norway and Sister of Christiern the fourth now King was married to King Iames the â—0 of August after the vsuall manner of marrying such persons the Kings themselues not beeing there This marriage was solemnized at Gonemburgh a Citty in Denmark being there efpoused to George Keith Earl Marshall Gouernour of the North parts of Scotland and of Marre then Embassador for the saide King This Queene Anne was borne at Scanderburg the twelfe day of December 1574. Their Issue Henry Prince of VVales Duke of Cornwall Rothsay and Earle of Chester was borne on Tuesday the 19. of February 1593. Iames dyed young Charles Duke of Yorke and Albany Earle of Ros and Lorde of Ardmanoch Lady Elizabeth borne the 19. of August 1596. Margaret borne the 24. of December 1598. dyed in Scotland Mary Sophia Both dyed young and lieth buryed at Westminster