The genealogies of the high-born Prince & Princess, George and Anne of Denmark, &c. shewing the lineal descent of these two noble and illustrious families : with their matches, issue, times of death, places of sepulchre, impresses, devices, &c. from the year of grace M. to this present year, MDCLXXXIV ...

The genealogies of the high-born Prince & Princess, George and Anne of Denmark, &c. shewing the lineal descent of these two noble and illustrious families : with their matches, issue, times of death, places of sepulchre, impresses, devices, &c. from the year of grace M. to this present year, MDCLXXXIV ...

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Title page

TO Her Highness The PRINCES ANNE, &c.

THE PREFACE

THE GENEALOGY OF THE MOST Illustrious and High-born PRINCE, GEORGE, OF DENMARK, &c.

1. Elimarus I. Earl of Oldenburgh.

2. Elimarus II. Earl of Oldenburgh.

3. Christian Earl of Oldenburgh.

4. Maurice Earl of Oldenburgh.

5. Christian II. Earl of Oldenburgh.

6. John Earl of Oldenburgh.

7. John II. Earl of Oldenburgh.

8. Conrade Earl of Oldenburgh.

9. Theodorick Earl of Oldenburgh.

10. Christian I. King of Denmark, &c.

Impress or Device.

Impress or Device.

11, Frederick I. King of Denmark, &c.

Impress or Device.

12. Christian the III. King of Denmark, &c.

Impress or Device.

13. Frederick the II. King of Denmark.

14 Christian IV. King of Denmark, &c.

15. Frederick the III. King of Denmark.

THE GENEALOGY OF THE MOST Illustrious and High-born PRINCESS, ANNE, OF DENMARK, &c.

1. Walter II. High Steward of Scotland.

2. Alexander II. High-Steward of Scotland.

3. John High-Steward of Scotland.

4. Walter III. High-Steward of Scotland.

5. Robert II. King of Scotland.

Impress or Device.

6. Robert III. King of Scotland.

Impress or Device.

7. James I King of Scotland▪

Impress or Device.

8. James II▪ King of Scotland.

Impress or Device▪

James III. King of Scotland.

Impress or Device.

10. James IV. King of Scotland.

Impress or Device.

11. James V. King of Scotland.

Impress or Device.

12. Mary Queen of Scotland.

Impress or Device.

13. James the VI. King of Scotland, &c.

Impress or Device.

14. Charles the I. King of Great-Britain, &c.

Impress or Device.

Impress or Device.

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THE GENEALOGIES Of the High-born PRINCE & PRINCESS, GEORGE AND ANNE, OF DENMARK, &c, SHEWING; The Lineal Descent of these two Noble and Illustrious FAMILIES: With Their Matches, Issue, Times of Death, Places of Sepulchre, Impresses, Devices, &c. From the Year of Grace M. to this present Year, MDCLXXXIV.

Extracted from the most Authentick Testimonies of the best Historians and Antiquaries of their Times.

Printed by N. Thompson at the Entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden near Charing-Cross, MDCLXXXIV.

TO Her Highness The PRINCES ANNE, &c.

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Madam,

GReatness, so Eminent as that of Your Highness, plac'd in a Sphere beyond the level of the Ordinary Noble, becomes never so Attractive and Illustrious, then when it is attended [Page] with those Excellencies of Affability, Benignity, and a constant Charity: Virtues so masterly and commanding, that Piety and Religion were but shadows without some one of them: The least whereof being sufficient to intitle a lesser Greatness to Perfection, which are all by Accumulation con-center'd in Your Highness: And I may safely say, he must be a Foreigner indeed to this our Country of Great Britain, at least to Whitehall and St. James's, who is a stranger and unacquainted with your Highness's worth▪ Those early Blossomes in Your tender years gave Us hopes, that the succeeding Fruit would answer their appearances [Page] which we now find Happily accomplish'd even to our admiration: And what in other Princes hath been the result of a sudden thought only, or some motion of Virtue by surprize, hath in Your Highness been an Habitual Practice from your Infancy: Your Birth at the same time adorning this our Island with Greatness and Goodness.

In assurance therefore of your Gracious Pardon, this small Treatise is humbly offer'd at Your Highness's Feet, containing the Origin and Succession of those two August and Royal Families of Great Britain and Denmark, and the present Union in Your Highness [Page] and Prince George: At whose Auspitious Arrival (like a second Patron to the English,) all the Plots and Conspiracies of Yours and the Nations Enemies became Blasted and Abortive. The Noble Brightness of Your most Excellent Father His Royal Highness, (so long and so unjustly clouded by Faction and the Unthinking Vulgar,) restored, all good men (who were in pain for His Majesty's and His Safety) Comforted; and the whole Monarchy receiving at once both Deliverance, Strength and Secucurity from this Alliance. The continuance of which Happiness for the present, and the joyful expectation of Establishing it for [Page] the future in Your Royal Progeny, are the constant Wishes and Desires of,

Madam

Your Highness's Most Humble, most Faithful, and most Obedient Servant, HENRY KEEPE.

THE PREFACE

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TWo Objections have been offered against the appearance of this small Treatise in this form (which hath occasion'd this Preface:) The one, That as a Genealogist I have been too Prolix, as an Historian too short in this my Discourse. The other, That my intention being to deduce the Pedegrees of these Illustrious persons from the Male-line only; I have inverted that order, by running up an Ascent for at least six Generations in the first; and in the second, by descending Ten: The one beginning, and the other terminating, in a Female.

[Page] To the first of these I Answer; I do not think a Genealogist (even in the strictest sense) ought so to be confined, as to be oblig'd to Register nothing but the Nativities, Days of Marriage, Issue, Times of Death, Funerals, and Place of Sepulchre, of those he intends to speak of: (as some have taught) But that he may, by a Pertinent Digression, here and there set down some one, or more Memorable Action or Acquisition of Honour, or by a short Encomium, or pithy Character, Illustrate any Deserving Person in his Descent; provided that he do not confuse and break the contexture of his Genealogical Discourse by over-long and tedious Harangues: For then he is rather to be esteem'd a Genealogical Historian, [Page] than a Genealogist in its strict acceptance, (such is the Learned and Elaborate Sir William Dugdale in his three Tomes of the Barronage of England; And Mr. Sandford, (Lancaster-Herald) hath Judiciously and Truly stil'd his Book of the Kings of England, a Genealogical History. So likewise you have Monsieur Rosieres (in his Stemmat: Lotharingiae & Bari ducum.) And the Famous Antiquary And: du Chesne, (in his Histoire Genealogique des duces de Bourgongne, &c▪) for the French▪ Scipio Amiratus (in his Famiglie Nobile Napolitane) for the Italians. And Johannes Orlerius (in his Genealog. Comitum Nassovi,) for the Dutch. But in case the matter treated of [Page] shall so far inlarge it self, that it exceed the rules observ'd by the afore-cited Authorities, the Title of Genealogist becomes wholly swallowed up, and is lost in that of the Historian: And the Work to be esteem'd no longer a Genealogy, or Genealogical History; but an History it self of such and such particular Persons and Things: And therefore I have on purpose avoided both these, that this little Treatise might answer its Apellation, by being no more than a Genealogy, and that properly so called; although I have made some slight excursions corresponding to the Principles before laid down; and herein I am not without President (even of those who have had the Reputation of excellent Genealogists▪) [Page] For Hieronimus Henninges, in his Theatro Genealogico, (Printed at Magdenburg in the year one thousand five hundred ninety and eight, and set out in four large Volumes) takes this course; as he hath occasion to Record the Pedegrees of the Chiefest Princes and Potentates in Christendom. The Learned Reusnerus treading the same steps, though with much more diligence and exactness (in his Basilicon Genealogici, published in the year one thousand six hundred and twelve) all along adornes his Principal Branch with some Historical Memorial: And that Ingenious Noble Florentine Antonius Albicius esteem'd his Curious Engraven Tables de Stemmat. Christianorum Principum (put forth [Page] in the year one thousand six hundred and seventeen) Deficient and Imperfect, till such time as he had added some small Remarks to his Sculptures; so that I see little of weight in this first Objection.

To the second, what I have to say will be this: First, That whereas the present Kings of Denmark are vulgarly reported to have continued the Descent of the House of Oldenburgh from the first Institution; I have bestowed the labour of running up the Pedegree to the Original of that Honour; as likewise shewn by what means it came United and Descendable to the present Kings, which could not so coveniently be done by an other method; and which I did to gratify the Curiosity of some who had [Page] a desire to be satisfied therein. And lastly, it was my choice to continue the Genealogie of the Stuarts in the first Line, 'till it Terminated in Mary Queen of Scots, and that for several Reasons.

First, That so Noble a Branch of His Majesties Predecessors should not lye dormant from the time of Alexander, the second of that Name, High Steward of Scotland, viz. from the year one thousand two hundred and sixty, until the year one thousand five hundred fifty and nine, 'till the uniting thereof in the Lord Henry Darnley by the Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots. Secondly, That the Paragraphs or Sections might in some proportion answer those of the House of Oldenburgh; which the [Page] House of Lenox alone could not supply▪ Thirdly, that at the Union of the Families a sufficient opportunity might be found to trace the Pedegree of this younger Branch to its Fountain, without much interruption or disorder. And lastly, to inform those who have been misled, or are ignorant upon what warrantable grounds this Royal Family of the Stuarts came first to be Kings of Scotland; and how the Succession hath continued from Robert the Third in an Uninterrupted Line till this day; And I Pray God may so continue 'till time shall be no more, against all Factious Opposers whatsoever, which ought to be the repeated Prayers of every Loyal, Honest, Good and Faithful, Christian-Subject.

H. K.

THE GENEALOGY OF THE MOST Illustrious and High-born PRINCE, GEORGE, OF DENMARK, &c.

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HAIO the Frisian, (Great-grand-son to Regenbert Duke of Angria and Westphalia, and Earl of Regelshem, who valiantly defended his Countrey-men from the Incursions of the Danes, A. D. 918.) having married Rixa the Daughter of John Earl of Oldenburgh, Sister of Huno, and Aunt to Frederick her Brothers [Page] Son, (both Earls of Oldenburgh) who became Heir to her aforesaid Brother and Nephew, they dying without Issue, was in Right of this his Wife entitled to the Earldom of Oldenburgh; altho' the possession thereof came not to Him, but was transferred to his Son, as we shall see hereafter. JOHN, Father of Huno and Rixa, (living A. D. 1007.) was the eldest Son of OTHO, fourth Son of THEODORICK, the second Earl of Ringelshem and Oldenburgh, only Son of WALPERTUS, who was Duke of Sarony, Angria, Westphalia, and Nordalbingia, and the first Earl of Ringelshem, A. D. 850. who, in memory of his Wife Alteburga, sole Daughter to the Earl of Lesmone, built a strong Castle not far from Breme, and called it Alteburgh, from whence the whole County adjoyning hath taken the denomination, and is at this day called by the Latines Alteburgia, and by the Inhabitants Oldenborch. This Walpertus finished the Monastery begun by his Father [Page] WIGBERT at Wildeshusen, and lies there interred with his aforesaid Father, who was the Son of WITIKIND the Pagan, (King of Sarony, Prince of Rugea, and Duke of Angria) by Geva his first Wife, the Daughter of Gotrick King of Denmark. This Witikind wag'd War with Charles the Great Emperour, for the space of 30 years, with various success; 'till at length, being totally overcome, and his Forces defeated, he surrendred Himself and Countreys to the Conquerour, by whose means he was likewise converted to the Christian Faith, about the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 785. After which, he became wholly devoted to the Service and Interest of the Emperour, and was by him, from a King, created the first great Duke of Sarony; in commemoration whereof, he altered the Insignia, or Arms of the Kingdom, by changing the Sable Horse, bridl'd and sadl'd, in a Field Silver, into Gules, an Horse without Equipments, Rampant Argent. From this [Page] Witikind are descended (besides the present Kings of Denmark) all the Kings of France since Hugh Capet, the ancient Dukes of Burgundy and Savoy, the Marquesses of Montferrat, the Earls of Oldenburgh, with several other Illustrious Families in Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, and Sweden. He died (couragiously fighting in behalf of the Emperour against Gerard Duke of Suevia) A. D. 807. and was buried in the Church of Angria, whose Body was afterwards translated by his great Nephew Henry, sirnamed the Fowler, Emperour, and Duke of Sarony, A. D. 916. and reinterr'd at Padeborne.

1. Elimarus I. Earl of Oldenburgh.

EILMARUS, or ELIMARUS, the first in descent from Haio, and his only Son by his Wife Rixa, was (after the death of his Cousin-german Frederick) Earl of Oldenburgh, in whose [Page] behalf he had often shewed himself faithful and valiant against the Prisons his Enemies. He married Rixa the Daughter of Dedo Earl of Stetin and Ditz-march, by whom he had two Sons and one Daughter; ELIMARUS his eldest, who was Earl of Oldenburgh; JOHN his second Son; and BEATRICE, a Daughter, married to Frederick Earl of Antwert.

2. Elimarus II. Earl of Oldenburgh.

ELIMARUS the second of that Name, succeeded his Father in the Earldom of Oldenburgh, in the year of Grace 1120. He married Helice, or Alice, the Daughter of Otho Earl of Cappenburgh, by whom she had three Sons. CHRISTIAN, his eldest, who succeeded him; HENRY, second Son, who married Salome Sister to Henry Earl of Gelderland, by whom he had, first Henry, who died [Page] valiantly fighting for the defence of his Father, on the 27th. day of July in the year of onr Lord God 1234. Gerard his second entred into Religion, and was shaved a Monk. He had likewise one Daughter, who became the Wife of Witikind Stumpenhusan; OTHO, youngest Son of Elimarus, was President of Bremen.

3. Christian Earl of Oldenburgh.

CHRISTIAN, the eldest Son of Elimarus the second, succeeded his Father, and was Earl of Oldenburgh; who being powerful, and indefatigable in carrying on the fatigue of War, joyned himself with the Princes of the Empire, to oppose the Interest of Henry, sirnamed the Lyon, Elector of Sarony; and by the assistance of the Frisians, demolish'd the Castle of Weige, and took Bremen: But afterwards, inclosing himself in his Castle of Oldenburgh, he was surrounded [Page] by Duke Henry with a great Army, and besieged; where he fell sick, and died; giving order before his death, that with all privacy they should keep his departure secret, which they did, 'till the Leaguer broke up, and the Town was relieved. He left behind him, by the last Countess of Loken, two Sons; CHRISTIAN his eldest, who succeeded him, and was Earl of Oldenburgh; who, as he was travelling towards Jerusalem, was basely murther'd, having no Issue; and MAURICE after the death of his Brother (to which some say he was privy) Earl of Oldenburgh.

4. Maurice Earl of Oldenburgh.

MAURICE, younger Son of Christian Earl of Oldenburgh, took part with Adolph the third Earl of Holstein, against Knute King of Denmark, in the year of Grace 1201. by lending him many Auxiliary Souldiers; [Page] and with Simon de Tecleburgh, and Bernard de Walpen, adhered to Otho King of the Romans against Philip. He lived to be very ancient, and leaving his Inheritance to be divided amongst his Children in his life-time, betook himself to Devotion, retired into a Monastery, and there ended his days in peace. He had to Wife the Countess of Schualenburgh, by whom he had three Sons and a Daughter. OTHO, the eldest, was Earl of Oldenburgh: He built the strong Castle of Dalmenhorst, so called from its scituation on the Banks of the River Dalme, in the year of our Lord 1247. and having married the Countess of Ritburgh, died without Issue. MAURICE, second Son, entred into Orders, and was a Canon at 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.

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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 [Page] 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 [Page] (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 [Page] 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.

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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 [Page] 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 16th. 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 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 [Page] 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.

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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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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.

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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, [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 sixty and four, by whom he had five Sons, Frederick, Philip, John-Adolph, Christian, John-Frederick: And as many Daughters, Sophia, Christiana, Elizabeth, Ann and Agnes. FREDERICK third Son of King Frederick and Sophia of Stetin, was Bishop of Hildesheim and Sleswick, who dying at Kilo on the twenty seventh day of October, in the year one thousand five hundred fifty and six, in the twenty fifth year of his Age, was buried at Sleswick in the Monument of his Ancestors. ELIZABETH a Daughter, first married to Magnus, after to Ʋlrick both Dukes of Meckleburgh, who dying on the four and twentieth day of October, in the year of Grace, one thousand five hundred [Page] eighty and six, (it being the same day of the month whereon she was born) and of her Age sixty two, found Sepulchre at Gustrow in Germany▪ ANN a second Daughter, who dyed of the Plague at Flensburgh, and was Inhum'd at Sleswick. DOROTHEA the third and youngest Daughter, was the second Wife of Christopher Duke of Meckleburgh, who departed this Life on the eleventh day of November, in year of our Lord, one thousand five hundred seventy and five, was buried by her Sister at Gustrow in the Sepulchre of the Princes of Meckleburgh, on the eight day of December following.

Impress or Device.

Frederick the First King of Denmark, &c. Bare for his Impress or Device: Fortune naked, standing on a Globe in the midst of the Sea, and catching the small Wind that seems gently to breath on the Surface of the Waters. The word FIDELTA E COSA RARA.

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12. Christian the III. King of Denmark, &c.

CHRISTIAN the third, Sirnamed the Pious King of Denmark, &c. succeeded his Father Frederick in all his Dominions, He was born on the twelth day of August, in the year of Grace, one thousand five hundred and three, fifty six minuites past three in the Afternoon: And bred up in his youth under the Elector of Brandenburgh his Uncle, where he profited in all sorts of Exercises and Studies becoming the Ingenuity of a Magnanimous Prince: He was Solemnly Crowned by the Hands of John Bugenhage a Divine of Pomerain on the twelfth of the Kalends of July, that is, on the twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand five hundred thirty and seven. From which time he wholly applyed himself to benefit the Commonwealth, by [Page] Instituting wholesome and good Laws, restoring publick Edifices, and raised the University of Coppenhagen (almost destroyed) to its former Splendor and Magnificence, doing many other Acts of Piety and Justice: Wherefore this is recorded to his Glory; that his House was the Temple of the Holy-Ghost, the Eye of Prudence, the Pattern of Honesty, the Fountain of the Graces, the Choir of the Muses, the School of Learned men, and the Temple of Divines; the Table of the Poor, the Refuge of Innocence, and the Protection of the Miserable. He departed this Life, (not without (as is reported) a Heavenly Revelation by an Angel) on the first day of January, in the year one thousand five hundred fifty and nine, at Koldingen (in Cimbria-chersonesus) after he had lived fifty and five years four months and twenty days. His body was first Interr'd at Ottenwaldt in the house of St. Canute, but afterwards by his Son translated to Roschilt, where he lyes [Page] Nobly Intom'd under a stately Monument of Alablaster and Marble. He took to Wife Dorothea the Daughter of Magnus Duke of Lower-Sarony, Angria and Westphalia; who dying on the seventh day of October, in the year one thousand five hundred seventy and one, and of her Age sixty, was first buried at Scanderburg in Denmark, but afterwards remov'd to Roschilt, where she lyes with her Husband. Children by Christian the Third and this Dorothea, were first FREDERICK, who was King of Denmark. MAGNUS the second Son, Heir of Norway, Duke of Holstein and Sleswick, born at Coppenhagen on St. Bartholomew-day, in the year one thousand five hundred and fourty, fourty minutes past ten in the morning; he married the great Duke of Muscovy's Neece, and was made Bishop of Orpen in Livonia, where he died, in the year one thousand five hundred and eighty. JOHN the youngest, Duke of Holstein, Stormar, and [Page] Ditzmarch, &c. was born at Koldingen on the one and twentieth day of March, in the year one thousand five hundred fourty and five, at half an hour after seven at night. He married first Elizabeth the Daughter of Ernest Duke of Lunenburgh, in the year one thousand five hundred sixty and seven, who died on the twelfth of February, nineteen years after, without Issue; so that in the year one thousand five hundred eighty and eight, he took to his second Wife Agnes-Hedwise the Daughter of Joachim Ernest Prince of Anhault, and Relict of Augustus Elector of Sarony, by whom he had seven Sons and six Daughters. Christian his Eldest Stiled Heir of Norway, Duke of Sleswick and Holstein, Ernest second Son, Duke of Sleswick and Holstein, Alexander Duke of Holstein, Augustus Duke of Sleswick and Holstein, John-Adolph Duke of Sleswick and Holstein, Frederick and Philip Dukes of Holstein; Dorothea eldest Daughter, Mary, Ann, [Page] Sophia, Elizabeth and Margaret. ANN Eldest Daughter of Christian the Third was Wedded to Augustus Elector of Sarony, who died at Dresden in the Palace of her Husband on the Kalends of October in the year one thousand five hundred eighty and five. DOROTHEA the youngest, was the Wife of William the younger Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh.

Impress or Device.

Christian the Third King of Denmark, &c. Bare for his Impress or Deviee: On the Revers of his Coins▪ the Letter S. twining and enterlacing it self about the Body of the Letter F. both Roman Capitals, Ensign'd above with a Coronet: The word REGNA FIRMAT PIETAS.

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13. Frederick the II. King of Denmark.

FREDERICK, (the Eldest Son of Christian the Third,) Sirnamed the Magnanimous for his great Courage: After the Death of his Father was chosen King of Denmark, Norway, &c. Goths and Uandals, &c. Born on the first day of May at Hadersleben in Denmark, in the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, one thousand five hundred thirty and four, at half an hour after nine in the Morning. And died at Andersoe in Zealand on the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand five hundred eighty and eight, at four of the Clock in the Afternoon, being Aged fifty three years, eight months, three days and seven hours. He was one of the Knights Companions of the most Honourable Order of the Garter, and was buried at Roschilt. His Wife [Page] was Sophia the Daughter of Ʋlrick Prince of Meckleburgh, joyned in Matrimony on the twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand five hundred seventy and two, by whom he had Issue CHRISTIAN, who was King of Denmark, &c. ULRICK his second Son, Heir of Norway, Duke of Sleswick and Holstein, born on the thirtieth day of December, in the year one thousand five hundred seventy and eight, and was one of the Knights Companions of the most Honourable Order of the Garter. JOHN the youngest Son, was Duke of Sleswick and Holstein, born on the twenty sixth of July, in the year one thousand five hundred eighty and three. ELIZABETH the eldest Daughter, born at Koldingen, on the one and twentieth day of August, in the year one thousand five hundred seventy and three, and was Married at Cronenburgh to Henry-Julio Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh on Easter-day, in the year one thousand [Page] five hundred and ninety. ANNE second Daughter, born at Scanderberg, on the twelfth day of October, in the year one thousand five hundred seventy and four, and was Married to James the sixth King of Scotland, afterwards of England, France and Ireland, where she was Crowned Queen, Great-Grand-Mother to her Highness the Princess Anne, and Great-Aunt to Prince George of Denmark her Husband; of whose Death and Funeral see more in the Paragraph of King James. AUGUSTA third Daughter, born on the eighth of April, in the year one thousand five hundred and eighty, was the Wife of John-Adolph Duke of Holstein. And HEDWISE, born at Hadersleu on the twenty sixth of July, in the year one thousand five hundred eighty and three, Married Christian, the second of that Name, Elector of Sarony.

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14 Christian IV. King of Denmark, &c.

CHRISTIAN eldest Son of Frederick the second King of Denmark, born at Fridersburgh, on the twelfth day of April, in the year one thousand five hundred seventy and seven, at three minuets past four in the Afternoon, and Elected King of Denmark in the twelfth year of his Age, but not Crowned so, until the eighth day of July, in the year one thousand five hundred ninety and eight, when he was Stiled Christian the Fourth King of Denmark, Norway, Gothes and Uandals, Duke of Sleswick, Holstein, Stormar, Wagria, and Ditzmarsh, Earl of Oldenburgh and Dalmenhorst; and coming into England, in the year one thousand six hundred and six, (to Visit his Brother-in-Law King James, and his Sister the Queen,) was Installed Knight of the [Page] most Honourable Order of the Garter: In the year one thousand six hundred and ten, he was again in England; and in the year one thousand six hundred twenty and five, made Head of the League in Germany against the Emperour Ferdinand, and Warred often with the Swedes, until in the year one thousand six hundred fourty and eight, he fell Sick and Died, having had Issue by Anna-Catharina (Daughter of Joachim-Frederick Elector of Brandenburgh) CHRISTIAN his eldest Son, who (being only King Elect, liv'd not to possess the Crown,) departed this life before his Father. FREDERICK the second Son, after the death of his Father was King of Denmark. They had several other Children, who dying young, no other Memorial is left concerning them.

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15. Frederick the III. King of Denmark.

FREDERICK second Son of Christian the fourth, was (during his Fathers Life-time) Archbishop of Bremen, after whose decease he was Crowned King of Denmark, Norway, Goths and Uandals, &c. The first part of whose Reign was very troublesome and uneasie; as being not only oppressed with Forraign Enemies and Invaders, but Domestick and Intestine Factions arose, which almost overthrew the State. And that at a time when the Royal Family of Great Britain could not possibly assist him; (who lay under a more severe pressure, by the unjust Tyranny and Usurpation of the worst of men and Villains the Fanaticks.) Yet this benefit accrued to his Posterity thereby; That whereas the Ancient Kingdom of Denmark had hitherto been [Page] Elective and in the choice of the Nobility to approve their King; upon the healing of these differences, it was by the unanimous consent of the Estates of this Kingdom constituted Hereditary, as an Argument of their Sincere intentions and Faithful returning to their Obedience. His present Majesty of Denmark being the first who by virtue of this setlement hath succeeded as Heir to his Father. King Frederick married (whilst as yet he was but Arch-bishop) Sophia-Aemilia of Lunenburgh on the eighteenth day of October, in the year one thousand six hundred fourty and three: And dying of a Feaver in the year one thousand six hundred sixty and nine, left Issue by her,

CHRISTIERN his Eldest Son, now King of Denmark, viz. 1683. He was born on the eighteenth day of April, in the year one thousand six hundred fourty and six, and Crowned on the twelfth of June, in the year one thousand six hundred and seventy, [Page] by the Name of Christiern the Fifth▪ He took to Wife the Lady Charlotta-Aemilia, (Daughter to William the sixth Landtgrave of Hessecastle, by Hedwig-Sophia Electoral Princess of Brandenburgh,) on the tenth of May, in the year one thousand six hundred sixty and seven, by whom he hath had Issue, Frederick his eldest Son, Prince of Denmark, &c. born the one and twenteth of October, in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and one. Christiern-William second Son, born the one and twenteth of November, in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and two, and died the twenty fifth day of January following. A second Christiern born on the twenty fifth day of March, in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and five. Charles youngest Son, born on the twenty eighth day of August, in the year one thousand six hundred eighty and two. And one Daughter, the Princess Sophia-Hedwig, born the twenty eighth day of August, in [Page] the year one thousand six hundred seventy and seven.

ANNA-SOPHIA eldstest Daughter of King Frederick the Third, born on the first day of September, in the year one thousand six hundred forty and seven, and Wedded to John-George, the Third of that Name, Prince Elector of Sarony in the month of September, in the year one thousand six hundred sixty three, but the Marriage was not Consummated until the sixteenth day of October, in the year one thousand six hundred sixty and six. FREDERICA-AEMILIA the second Daughter, born in the year one thousand six hundred fourty and eight, and Married on the third day of November, in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and seven at Gluckstadt, to Christian-Adolph Duke of Holstein, Sunderburgh WILHELMINA or GUILLIEMETTA-ERNESTINA third Daughter, born on the twentieh day of June, in the year one thousand six hundred and fifty, and given [Page] in Marriage to Charles (now) Prince Elector Palatine of the Rhine, in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and one. ULRICA▪ELEONORASABINA youngest Daughter, (the present Queen of Sweden,) who in the year one thousand six hundred and eighty, was Wedded to Charles the Fourth King of Swedes, &c.

Prince GEORGE of Denmark, second and youngest Son of King Frederick the Third, was born in the year one thousand six hundred fifty and three: He is only Brother to his present Majesty of Denmark, and Knight of the Noble Order of the Elephant; who hath taken to Wife the Lady Anne Stuart, second Daughter of his Royal Highness James Duke of York and Albany, &c. by the Princess Anne his first Wife, Daughter of Edward Earl of Clarenden, and Lord High Chancellour of England. Which Lady Anne Daughter of his Royal Highness, is Neece to his present Majesty of Great Britain [Page] 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.

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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, [Page] 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 [Page] 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; [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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) Anno Domini One thousand two hundred ninety eight; and having married the Daughter and Heir of Bonkill, had these large Possessio ns of Bonkill, Ransrew, Rothsay, [Page] and Bute, made over to him▪ whose only Son WALTER inherited them.

4. Walter III. High-Steward of Scotland.

WALTER STUART, the third of that Christian-name, was the only Son of John: As Heir to his Father, was High-Steward of Scotland, and Lord of Stragis, Coil, and Stuarts-land; and to his Mother, Lord of Bonkill, Ransrew, Rothsay and Bute. He married Margery the eldest Daughter (which he had by his first Wife, the Lady Isabel Daughter to the Earl of Marr) of Robert Bruce King of Scotland, and that by the advice and approbation of the Nobility of that Kingdom: which King Robert, Anno Domini One thousand three hundred and fourteen, procured an Act of Parliament for the Entailment of the Crown on Himself, and the Heirs [Page] male of his Body lawfully begotten; and for want of such Issue, then to his Brother Robert Bruce, and his Heirs male; who dying without such Heirs, then to this Margery his eldest Daughter, and to the Heirs general of her Body, &c. By virtue of which Establishment, her eldest Son ROBERT (after the death of his Grand-father, Mother, and Cousin King David Bruce) was crowned King of Scotland. She had likewise three other Sons by the aforesaid Walter; JAMES, JOHN, and ALLAN, all slain in the Field before Berwick on St. Mary Magdalens day, Anno Domini One thousand three hundred thirty three, thirty seven years before their Brother Robert was crowned King. The Lady Margery died in the year One thousand three hundred and nineteen, and her Husband Anno Domini One thousand three hundred twenty six.

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5. Robert II. King of Scotland.

ROBERT STUART, only Son and Heir living of Walter great Seneschal of Scotland, and Margary his Wife, being born Anno Domini One thousand three hundred and thirteen, was in the fifty seventh year of his age (viz. on the 25th. day of March, Anno Domini One thousand three hundred and seventy) crowned King of Scotland, at Scoon in the Sheriffdom of Perth, by the name of Robert the second; soon after which, being in years, and having many Children, he got the succession of the Crown established and ratified in Parliament: all the Nobility and chief Gentry taking their corporal Oaths to perform the same, viz. That his eldest Son JOHN, (which he had by his second Wife, Elizabeth Moor) should succeed him, and the Heirs male of his Body lawfully begotten; and for want of such Issue, then to his Son ROBERT; [Page] who dying without Issue male, to his younger Son ALEXANDER, (both begotten on the aforesaid Elizabeth Moor;) which Alexander dying likewise without such lawful Heirs, then to his eldest Son David, (which he had by his first Nuptials) and for want of such Issue, to his younger Son by the same Venter, viz. WALTER; who likewise departing this life without lawful Issue male, then the Crown to devolve to the next of Kin. He took to Wife, before his coming to the Crown, Euphemia, Daughter of Hugh Earl of Ross, who lived to be Queen of Scotland, but dying three years after, (viz. Anno Domini One thousand three hundred seventy three) left DAVID her eldest Son, who was created Earl of Strathern, and died without Issue male, leaving behind him one sole Daughter his Heir, viz. Euphemia, the Wife of Patrick Graham, younger Brother to the Lord Graham, by whom she had Milo Graham, that was made Earl of Monteith by King [Page] James the first. WALTER her younger Son was created Earl of Athol; but being the principal of the Conspirators that took away the life of King James the first his Nephew, and for that he was the chief instigator of Robert the Governour to murder David Duke of Rothsay, the King's Uncle: he, together with all his Family, were destroyed, his Honours and Revenues reverting to the Crown, then in the possession of James the second. She had a Daughter likewise, named EUPHEMIA, married to James eldest Son to Earl Douglas. King Robert, after the death of his first Wife, married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Adam Moor Knight, and Widow of Gifford▪ of Louth, by whom he had JOHN, his eldest Son, afterwards King of Scotland; ROBERT, Earl of Mentith, Fife, and Duke of Albany, constituted Governour of the Realm, by reason of the great Age and Infirmities of his Father, weakness of his elder Brother, and Captivity of his Nephew. He [Page] married, and had Issue Mordack Stuart, Duke of Albany after the decease of his Father, (which happened on the third of September, Anno Domini One thousand four hundred and nineteen;) which Mordack was likewise Governour of Scotland, Anno Domini One thousand four hundred and twenty; who, together with two of his Sons, Walter and Alexander, and his Son Walter's Father-in-law, Duncan Earl of Lenos, suffered death in the time of King James the first, for being in the Conspiracy to promote Walter Earl of Atholl to the Crown. The Earldoms of Monteth, Fife and Lenos reverting to the King, the first was bestowed on Milo Graham, his Cousingerman, and the last on Allan Stuart, who had married one of the Daughters of the aforesaid Duncan. This Mordack Duke of Albany had likewise another Son, named James, who having treacherously slain John Stuart the King's Uncle, fled into Ireland, where he died without Issue; with him likewise [Page] his Brother Walter's two Sons, Andrew and Alexander, and their Mother (another Daughter of Duncan Earl of Lenos) liv'd, till King James the third came to the Crown. ALEXANDER, another Son of King Robert by Elizabeth Moor, was created Earl of Buchquan, and Lord of Bradzenoch, who married, and had Issue Duncan or Dajeth Stuart, who died young. JOHN Stuart of Dondonald was his youngest Son, slain by James third Son of Mordack Duke of Albany. His eldest Daughter by his last Wife was given in marriage to John Dunbar, and he created Earl of Murray, (being the younger Brother to George Earl of March) by whom she had a Son, who likewise married, and left Issue one sole Daughter and Heir, married into the Family of the Douglas, and by which they came by the said Earldom of Murray. ELIZABETH, a second Daughter, wedded to John Lyon the King's Favourite, made Chancellor of Scotland, and Earl of Glamis, [Page] and killed by James Lindsey Earl of Crawford, Anno Domini One thousand three hundred seventy and five. GILIS, or EGIDEA, the youngest, was Wife of William Hamilton, natural Son to Archibald Lord of Galloway, by whom she had only a Daughter, married to the Earl of Orkney. King Robert Stuart departed this life on the 19th. day of April One thousand three hundred and ninety, at his Castle of Dondonald in the seventy seventh year of his age, and was buried at Scoon before the high Altar.

Impress or Device.

About the latter end of his Reign, King Robert the first took for his Impress or Device, A Coronet pointed, with two Rows of glistering Stars, and placed over a Terrestrial Globe. The word, VANITAS VANITATUM, & OMNIA VANITAS.

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6. Robert III. King of Scotland.

JOHN STUART, eldest Son of King Robert by his second Wife, was Earl of Carri [...], 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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, [Page] 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, [Page] 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, [Page] 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.

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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, [Page] (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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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, [Page] 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. [Page] 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) [Page] 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 29th of February in the same year, in the Monastery of [Page] 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 wellspread 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.

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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 Floddenfield, on the borders of Northumberland, fought against the English, on the 9th. day of September, Anno Domini One thousand five hundred and thirteen. Yet various have been the opinions concerning the loss of this [Page] King: Some will have it, That he fell in the Battle on that fatal day; others, That he made his escape. The English say, (with greatest likelyhood) That he was slain in the field; that they found his Body (well known to several of their Officers) conveyed it to Berwick, embowelled, seared, and wrapped it in Lead, carried it to London, and from thence to the Monastery of Shein in the County of Surrey, where it was buried. And John Stow assures us, (both in his Survey of London, and his Chronicle) That after the spoil of that House, (to wit, in the time of King Edward the sixth) he saw the aforesaid Leaden Chest, and the reputed head of the said King; the hair both of the Head and Beard being red. To this the Scotch Annalists make answer, That on the day of the fight several men of renowned Valour, resembling the King in stature and proportion▪ were apparelled like him, had peculiar Guards and Followers appointed them, in all appearance as the King himself, that in case the King should be killed, [Page] it might not be justly known to either party until after the Battle; whose fall might encourage the one, and dishearten the other; and that the person so taken by the English, was one of those mock-Kings, viz. Alexander Lord Elphinstone, the King's Favourite, who resembled him both in Face and Shape; who couragiously fighting that day, and many of his Friends and Followers of the Nobility falling on each side of him, was at length himself slain; which number of Nobles, the courage and resistance of the person, and the resemblance he had of the King, gave the English occasion to believe it was himself.

A second reason they give (why the Body found by the English was not their King's) is, For that he had been accustomed to wear next to his skin an Iron Girdle of a considerable weight, (a severity imposed upon himself ever since his being in arms against his Father when he was killed at Bannocksbourn) and that no such Girdle or Chain of Iron (unto which he usually every three years added [Page] more links) was found on the Corps that was carried to Berwick. They further say, That he was seen soon after the Battle between Kelsoe and Dunce, and supposed to be carried to the Castle of Humes, where he was privately murdered, and for which the Lord Humes was afterwards accused, tryed in Parliament, but acquitted because there was no positive evidence that could make it appear that they had seen the King after the fight. But the more common and vulgar report was, That he was still living; who seeing the Victory incline to the Enemy, and that so many brave men perished through his own wilfulness in not declining the Encounter, (according to the advice of his Nobles) the shame thereof made him timely withdraw himself, and forsaking the Kingdom went to the Holy-Land, where he spent the remaining part of his days in tears and repentance: And this they grounded upon some former resolutions he had made to visit the holy Sepulchre; but being prevented by the death of Bishop [Page] Blacktour, (and other occurrences intervening) who had been sent before to prepare his way, took this opportunity to accomplish it.

Much like the story of Charles Duke of Burgundy; who having lost the Battle at Nancy, was never heard of more; and therefore his Subjects for many years would not believe but that he was alive, and at Ierusalem. Be it which way it will, we are certain of this, that neither the one nor the other ever afterwards appeared on the Stage of the World, to act either as Princes or private persons.

This King James took to Wife the Lady Margaret, eldest Daughter of King Henry VII. of England, by whom he had four Sons, and two Daughters; JAMES, Prince of Scotland, and of the Isles, born at Holyrood-house on the 21st. day of January, Anno One thousand five hundred and seven, and died the 17th. of February next following at Sterling. ARTHUR, Prince of Scotland, and of [Page] the Isles, born on the 20th▪ day of October, Anno Domini One thousand five hundred and nine, at Holyroodhouse, and died on the 14th. of July the next year, at the Castle of Edinburgh. JAMES, third Son, was King of Scotland; and ALEXANDER, a Posthume, born six months after the death of his Father, (viz. on the 30th. of April, Anno Domini One thousand five hundred and fourteen) and was created Duke of Rothsay, but died young at Sterling, and was buried at Cambus-kenneth. The Daughters (one born on the 15th. of July, Anno Domini One thousand five hundred & eight; the other Anno Domini One thousand five hundred and thirteen) died soon after Baptism. The Queen, after the death of her Husband, married again, and took to Husband Archibald Douglas Earl of Angus, by whom she had one sole Daughter and Heir, born at the Castle of Hathottel in Northumberland, and named Margaret, given in marriage to Matthew [Page] Stuart Earl of Lenox, Governour of Scotland, Father and Mother of Henry Lord Darnley, who wedded Mary Queen of Scots. She was afterwards divorced from the Earl of Angus, and married a third Husband, viz. Henry Stuart, (Son to the Lord Evendale) who was created (by his Son-in-law King James the fifth) Lord Meffan; but dying in the year One thousand five hundred thirty nine, at Methven, was buried in the Charterhouse of St. Johnston, near the Tomb of King James the first, her Husbands Great-grand-father.

Impress or Device.

King James the fourth bare for his Impress or Device, these Hebrew Characters within a wreath of Lawrel, [...]: The word, IN VIRTUTE TUA. A second Impress he had, viz. An high Rock in the midst of a calm Sea, between two Promontories, or Necks of Land; on the Rock was placed a Column, or Pillar, on whose [Page] Capital stood two Caesars Heads endorsed, and crowned with Garlands of Lawrel, respecting or looking towards the said Promontories. The word, UTRUNQUE.

11. James V. King of Scotland.

JAMES STUART, eldest Son living of King James the fourth, was born on the 11th. day of April, Anno Domini One thousand five hundred and twelve, in the King's Palace at Luithgo, and crown'd on the 21st. of September the year following, by the name of James the fifth King of Scotland. In his minority He and the Realm were governed by his Mother the Queen-Dowager, during her Widowhood, according to the will of K. James the Fourth; Afterwards his Grand-father's Brother's Son, John Duke of Albany, was both his Tutor and Governour until he came to mature age: and then perceiving a powerful Faction arising [Page] amongst his Nobles, he endeavoured to divert their minds by waging War with the English; when coming to his Castle of Falkland, and hearing the ill success his Forces had on the Borders, grew so troubled and dissatisfied, that he fell sick and died for grief thereof, on the 13th. day of December, Anno Domini One thousand five hundred forty two, being buried in the Monastery of St. Cross by the Lady Magdalen his first Wif▪ Daughter to Francis the French King, by whom he had no Children; wherefore, five months after her death, he espoused the Laday Mary of Lorrain, (Sister to Francis, and Daughter of Rhene Duke of Gnise, and Widow of the Duke of Longeville) viz. on the 7th. of July, Anno Domini One thousand five hundred thirty nine, by whom he had JAMES, Prince of Scotland and of the Isles, born in the month of February, Anno Domini One thousand five hundred thirty nine, and died at St. Andrews the year following; ARTHUR, [Page] a second Son, who deceased within a month; and MARY, a Daughter, afterwards Queen of Scotland. This Mary of Lorrain was a Lady of excellent Perfections, who being quite tir'd and wearied out (after the death of her Husband) with Foreign Wars and Domestick Differences, during the minority of her Daughter, at length resigned up her Soul to Him who gave it, on the 10th. day of June, in the Castle of Edinburgh, Anno Domini One thousand five hundred and sixty.

Impress or Device.

King James the fifth in the beginning of his Reign took for his Impress or Device, A Whale swimming from the shoar into the Sea, and looking back on the Sword-fish following just at her back: The word, URGET MAJORA. Afterwards his Device was, A sharp-pointed Pyramis standing on three Globes, whose base was fixed in the midst of a most turbulent and tempestious Sea; on the very point of the Pyramis was placed a Coronet, Winds, Hail, Rain, [Page] Thunder, Lightening, and a violent Storm, darting themselves against the Crown▪ The word, ADHUC STAT.

Mary of Lorrain his Queen had for Device, A Phaenix burning her self in a Nest of Spices: The word, EN MA FINGIT MON COMMENCEMENT.

12. Mary Queen of Scotland.

MARY STUART, sole Daughter and Heir to her Father James the fifth King of Scotland, born on the 7th. day of December, Anno Domini One thousand five hundred forty two, whilst as yet an Infant was proclaimed Queen of Scotland, and James Earl of Arran constituted Governour during her minority: But upon the unfortunate loss of the day at that fatal Battle of Mussleburgh, Anno Domini One thousand five hundred forty seven, she was conveyed into France, (to prevent her falling into the hands of the English) where after some time she was married to the Dauphin, [Page] afterwards King, by the name of Francis the second, both of them being crowned King and Queen of France and Scotland, Anno Domini One thousand five hundred fifty nine, and laying claim to the Crown of England, quartered the Arms thereof, (which Fact was never forgiven her by Queen Elizabeth, altho' she disused them afterwards:) But King Francis dying the year following without Issue, gave her the Freedom of returning to her own Countrey, where she consummated her second Nuptials with the Lord Henry Darnley her Cousin-german, eldest Son of Matthew Stuart Earl of Lenor, that had been Governour, and Margaret Douglas his Wife, (Daughter and sole Heir of Archibald Douglas Earl of Angus, by Margaret Queen of Scots his Wife, eldest Daughter to King Henry the seventh of England.) He was the Son of John Stuart Earl of Lenor, and Brother to Robert that was Bishop of Cathuess & Earl of March, & John Stuart Lord d' Aubigny; which [Page] John Earl of Lenor was Son of another Matthew Earl of Lenor, (who married the Daughter of James Hamilton Earl of Arran, which he had by the Lady Marion Daughter to King James the second.) He was the Son of John Stuart Earl of Lenor, that was elder Brother to Robert Stuart, (Captain of those Scotch-men who made themselves so renowned under the French-King Charles the sixth, both in his Wars in Italy and else-where, and in recompence whereof the said King bestowed on him such large possessions in France, and gave him the Seigniory or Lordship of d'Audigny in Avergne, whose Successor Robert Stuart Lord d'Aubigny, (and Marshal of France in the time of King Lewis XI.) in commemoration thereof bare the Royal Arms of France with Buckles; or in a Bordure Gules, and quartered them with his paternal Coat, viz. or a fes cheque Ar. & B. within a Bordure ingrailed Gules, and which the House of Lenor have ever since continued.) This John [Page] and Robert were the Sons of Allan, (the first of the sirname of Stuart) Earl of Lenor, who having married one of the Daughters of Duncan Earl of Lenor, (who lost his head in the time of King James the first) had that Earldom bestowed on him; which Allan was descended from that Robert Stuart who married the Daughter and Heir of Cross or Crux, younger Brother to Alexander Stuart of Pascley, Great-grand-father to Robert the second King of Scots.

Henry Lord Darnley, and King of Scotland in right of his Wife, enjoy'd not that Title long, being most barbarously murthered, his Body flung out at a window, and the House blown up with Gun-powder, by the practice and contrivance of James Stuart Earl of Murray, the Queens base Brother, and of James Hepburn Earl of Bothwell, whom the Queen out of fear was forced afterwards to marry; upon which a defection of her Subjects immediately followed, and an open Rebellion commenced; Bothwel flies [Page] the Kingdom, and she endeavours to pacifie the Mutineers, but all in vain: they growing so powerful and strong, that nothing less than the life of their Queen, or the resignation of the Government, will quiet them: Having got her young Son (which she had by the Lord Darnley) into their power, they proclaim, crown and declare him King, depose the Queen, and drive her by force to seek protection in England; where, alas! she became the sport of Fortune, by changing her Diadem for a nauceous Prison, and was made a Sacrifice to the Ambition and Revenge of One who would never admit a Competitor, or forget so as to forgive an imagin'd Injury; and therefore, after she had undergone the severity of an eighteen years Confinement, her Royal Head was seperated from her Body by the stroak of an Ax, on the 8th. day of February, Anno Domini One thousand five hundred eighty seven, at Fotheringay-Castle in Northamptonshire, to the great dishonour [Page] of the English, and her Corps (out of a Policy of State, that the odium of so inhospitable a fact might be blown off from the Authors, as being done by surprize) were conveyed with all the outward solemnity befitting the Funeral of so great a Queen, to the Cathedral-Church of Peterborough, where she was buried; Afterwards, when her Son King James came to the Crown of England, he commanded that her Body should be removed, and carried to the Abbey-Church of St. Peters Westminster, where it was deposited in a new Vault on the South-side the Chappel of the B. Virgin, under a most Magnificent and Splendid Monument.

Impress 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, [Page] 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.

[Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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.

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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.

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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 [Page] 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 Tears and Sighs than Prayers and Ceremonies,) in the Vault with King Henry the Eighth of England.

Impress or Device.

This Excellent King had divers Impresses or Devices, according to the several Alterations and Vicissitudes of his Affairs. When he came first to the Crown he bare an Arm and Hand Armed issuing out of [Page] the Clouds, and brandishing a naked Sword. The Word DONEC PAX REDITA TERRIS. (For at that time almost all the Princes in Christendom were at Variance among Themselves or Subjects,) when he went into Scotland and was Crowned there, in the year one thousand six hundred thirty and three. He had for Device on the reverse of his Medals: A spreading Branch of Thistles in their Bud, with one full blown on the top. The word, HINC NOSTRAE CREVERE ROSAE, (alluding to his present possession of England, but that his Original was derived from Scotland.) In the beginning of his Troubles he took a Palm-tree pressed down with might, Weights and Mill-stones; and the common word, CRESCIT SUB PONDERE VIRTUS. Afterwards a Ship labouring to break through a most tempestuous Sea. The word ECELO SALUS. And when the pretended Parliament offered base and unworthy Conditions, destructive to the Fundamental Laws of the Land, and his Kingly Dignity. He had a Ship with the Mast broken and fallen into the Sea: The word, NUNQUAM NISI RECTUM. But when the Rebels had Confin'd him, and grew Insolent with the success. [Page] His Emblem was a Lyon surpriz'd in a Net, Hares and Leverets wantonly passing over him. The word ET LEPORES DEVICTO INSULTANT LEONE.

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This King Charles the first Wedded Mary de Bourbon youngest Daughter of Henry the Fourth, Sir-named the Great King of France and Navarre, &c. by whom he had Issue CHARLES his Eldest Son, who was Born, Christened, and Died on the same day, viz. on the eighteenth day of March, in the year one thousand six hundred twenty and eight. A second CHARLES born on the twenty ninth of May, in the year one thousand six hundred and thirty, upon the death of his Glorious Father, was King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, but not so declared publickly till some time after (the niniquity of the times not permitting it) nor Crowned 'till the twenty third day of April (viz. St. George's-day) in the year one thousand [Page] six hundred sixty and one; when withgreat Pomp and Splendor, he was Solemnly Inaugurated and Annointed in the Abby Church of St. Peters Westminster, by the Name of King Charles the Second: Whose miraculous Protection, Restitution and Preservation, (together with his Royal Highness and the rest of the Children of that Excellent King) through an Ocean of Miseries and Afflictions, were sufficient to convince all men of Piety or Reason, how much they have been the peculiar care of Heaven: And to deter the most Nefarious Conspirators from attempting any violence against them for the future; from whose Bloody and Sanguinary Hands, (as of late) so may they ever be Defended and Protected, The Designs of their Enemies laid open to the Light, and all Abhorrers of Monarchy and Kingly Government, brought to Condign punishment.

His present Majesty King Charles the Second, hath Married Donna Catharina [Page] Infanta of Portugal, Daughter of John the Fourth King of Portugal, and Sister to Alphonso the Sixth (late Deceased) and Don Pedro the present King of Portugal; by whom as yet he hath no Issue.

Impress or Device.

His Majesty King Charles the Second bare divers Impresses. In his Exile, The Sun in an Eclipse. The word MEDIO OCCIDIT DIE. Ʋpon hopes and sometime before the Restauration his Mother Queen Mary bare a Yew-tree planted in a Church-yard, and encompassed round with dead mens Bones. The word, PIETAS REVOCABIT AB ORCO. Ʋpon making the Peace with the Hollanders, in the year one thousand six hundred sixty and six: The Effigies of the King, Apparelled and Garnitured, altogether like a Roman-Caesar, with Lawrells, Mantel and Commanders Trenchen, placed on a Pedestal by the Sea-shoar; the Sea it self spread all over with a mighty Navy or Fleet of Ships. The word REDEANT COMMERCIA FLANDRIS▪ And in the [Page] year one thousand six hundred and seventy, I have seen this Device on the reverse of his Medals; A Terrestial Globe, with the word DEFUSUS IN ORBE BRITANNUS.

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JAMES Duke of York and Albany Earl of Ulster, and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter, and third Son of King Charles the First, Born at St. Iawes's on the fourteenth day of October, in the year one thousand six hundred thirty and three; who hath Espoused for his second Wife the Lady Mary D'Este (Sister of Francis, and Daughter of Alphonso D'Este, both Dukes of Modena) born the twenty fifth day of September, in the year one thousand six hundred fifty and eight, and Married on the one and twentieth day of November, in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and three, by whom he hath had four Children, Charles Duke of Cambridge, Catharina-Laura, Isabella and Charlotte-Maria, who all died young and were buried at Westminster. By his [Page] first Nuptials with the Lady Anne Hide, Eldest Daughter of Edward Earl of Clarendon, &c. and Lord Chancellor of England, (who dying on the thirty first day of March, in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and one, in the thirty fourth year of her Age, was buried at Westminster) he had four Sons and as many Daughters, viz. Charles Duke of Cambridge, James Duke of Cambridge, Charles Duke of Kendal and Edgar Duke of Cambridge, all dying young, and were Interred at Westminster. The Lady Mary Eldest Daughter was born on the thirtieth day of April, in the year one thousand six hundred sixty and two, and is at present the Wife of William-Henry of Nassau, Prince of Orange, whose Nuptials were Celebrated at Whitehall on the fourteenth day of November, in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and seven. The Lady Anne second Daughter, was born on the sixth day of February, in the year one thousand six [Page] hundred sixty and four, and is now Wedded to Prince George of Denmark, second Son of Frederick the Third, and only Brother to Christian the Fifth his present Majesty of Denmark and Norway, &c. The Marriage being Solemniz'd on the twenty eighth day of July, in the year one thousand six hundred eighty and three. Two other Daughters likewise had his Royal Highness, Henrietta and Catharine, who dying in their Infancies, were buried with their Mother and Brothers in the Sepulchre of our Kings at Westminster.

HENRY fourth Son of King Charles the first, was Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Cambridge, &c. and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter, born on the eighth day of July, in the year one thousand six hundred and forty, and departed this life on the thirteenth day of September following the Restauration, in the year one thousand six hundred and sixty, but was never Married; he was buried [Page] at Westminster. MARY Eldest Daughter of King Charles the First, born at St. Iames's on the fourth day of November, in the year one thousand six hundred thirty and one, was joyned in Wedlock to William of Nassau Prince of Orange, on the second day of May, in the year one thousand six hundred forty and one, by whom she had an only Son William-Henry the present Prince of Orange, (a Posthumus, and born eight days after the death of his Father, viz. on the fourteenth day of November, in the year one thousand six hundred and fifty, Stilo Novo.) And being a Widdow came over with her Brothers at the Restauration into England, where she died on the twenty fourth day of December following, and was Interred at Westminster. ELIZABETH second Daughter, born on the twenty eighth day of December, in the year one thousaud six hundred thirty and five, who being in Custody of the Regicides at Newport in the Isle of [Page] Wight, departed this Life on the eighth day of September, in the year one thousand six hundred and fifty, and was buried there. ANNE third Daughter, born the seventeenth day of March, in the year one thousand six hundred thirty and six, and died on the eighth of December four years after. HENRIETTA-MARIA fourth and youngest Daughter of King Charles the First, was born at Creter on the sixteenth day of June, in the year one thousand six hundred forty and four, Married to Philip Duke of Anjou, afterwards Duke of Orleans, &c. only Brother now living to Lewis the Fourteenth King of France and Navarr; by whom she had a Son who died in his Infancy, and two Daughters. She died in the month of June, in the year one thouthousand six hundred and seventy, and was buried at St. Dennis in the Sepulchre of the French Kings.

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The genealogies of the high-born Prince & Princess, George and Anne of Denmark, &c. shewing the lineal descent of these two noble and illustrious families : with their matches, issue, times of death, places of sepulchre, impresses, devices, &c. from the year of grace M. to this present year, MDCLXXXIV ...

H. K. (Henry Keepe), 1652-1688.

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1684

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— The genealogies of the high-born Prince & Princess, George and Anne of Denmark, &c. shewing the lineal descent of these two noble and illustrious families : with their matches, issue, times of death, places of sepulchre, impresses, devices, &c. from the year of grace M. to this present year, MDCLXXXIV ..., H. K. (Henry Keepe), 1652-1688..

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Printed by N. Thompson ...,. [London] :: 1684.. (Dedication to Princess (later Queen) Anne signed: Henry Keepe.) (Place of publication from Wing.) (Advertisements: p. [4] at end.) (Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.)

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