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A catalogue of the kings of Scotland Together with their seuerall armes, wiues, and issue.
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Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?
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cald out of France wherein hee had now liued to mans estate to take on him the gouerment and rule of the Realm of Scotland as King thereof and vppon the 24. day of Nouember in the yeare of Christ 1331. in the eight yeare of his age and the thrid of his raign in the Parliament at Scone hee receiued the order of Kinght-hood at the hands of that Noble-gentlemā Tho. Randolph Earl of Murry The day following hee was Crowned and annointed with great honor before whom neuer was there any King of Scotland Crowned or annointed Vpon the sameday was also crowned and annointed Iohan his Q. Against this Dauid Edward Balioll waging war besiedged Barwicke to whose aide also came that victorious Prince King Edward the third In the yeare of our Lord 1333. the 19. of Iuly in the battaile at Halidon-Hill where were slayne 7. Earles of Barons and Knights 900. Esquires 400. and 3000. common Souldiers Barwick was taken by the said King Edward the third the day after being the 20. of Iuly In this Dauids time also Edward the 3. besiedged Calis which was then in the possession of Phillip of Valois the French King Whereupnn this Phillip sent his ambassadors into Scotland vnto King Dauid that according to their league he should enter England so to diuert his enemy Edward from the said siedge of Calis Who condiscending vnto the French King aduentured to inuade England with a right puissant army of Scotsh-men presuming that Edward had left behind him none but church-men husband-men and that the flower of the soldierie of England had been ouer sea with the King their Soueraign Whereupon he Marched as far as Durham where he was fought withal and ouerthrowen by the inhabitants of Yorkeshire some few others He himselfe with william Douglas and many others of the Nobles taken prisoners by Iohn Coupland an Esquier of the North and commited to safe custody vpon the vigil of Saint Luke the Euangelist in the yeare of Grace 1346. Those that fought the said victorious battaile were william Le-Zouch Arch-Byshop of Yorke with the Clergy of his Dioces Gilbert de Vmfrauill Earle of Anegos Henry Percy Ralph Neuill william D'eyncourt and Henry Le-Scrope with a very small Army of English-men such as they could assemble in such a penurious season The tenth yeare after being ransomed hee shewed himselfe a very modest Prince to the end of his life which was at Edenburg in the 47. yeare of his age and the 39. of his raigne in the yeare of our Lord 1370. leauing no yssue behind him to succeed him He lieth buried in the Monastery of Saint Crosse before the great Alter there The first wife Iohan surnamed of the Tower the daughter of king Edward the second King of England and Sister vnto King Edward the third was the first wife of Dauid King of Scots who iornying into England to see her Brother there dyed without issue and lieth buried at London in the Church of the Friers Minorits Hee Married her at Barwicke the 17. of Iuly 1238. The second wife MArgaret Logi the Daughter of Iohn Logi Knight a Virgin excelling all other of that time for beauty was the second Wife of King Dauid whom as hee himselfe boasted he married rather for her form then in desire of yssue Notwithstanding when hee perceiued that shee had accomplished the age of foure and twentie yeares and grew hopeles of Issue he forsooke her Wherevpon shee appealed vnto the court of Rome and after the expence of much Treasure to no purpose she dyed An. Dom. 1371. RObert Stewart sur-named the Hunter the Nephewe of Dauid Brus by his Sister he was son of walter Stewart begotten vppon the body of Margery the sister of King Dauid by the generall agreement of the whole Scottish Nation is nominated king in stead of his deceased vncle vpon the feast day of the Anunciation of our blessed Lady in the year of our Lord 1371. Against whom in the very beginning william Douglas opposed himselfe affirming that the right of that kingdome accrued vnto him by the aliance with the Balliols and Comyns But perceiuing that George of Dunbarre Earle of March and his Brother the Earle of Murrey and the Lord Erskine who had three of the strongest fortresses of the kingdome in their custodies viz the Castle of Maydens Striueling and Dunbreton did strongly oppose against him whereupon he renounced his pretension And at last the daughter of King Robert borne in lawfull wedlocke was giuen in marriage to Iames son and heire of the saide william Douglas This Robert amongest the Scots was the second King of that name and the first of the Stewarts vnder which Sur-name and vnder nine Kings of the name for the space of two hundred yeares and more euen vnto this day haue the Scottes bin happily gouerned and the famous Jsle of Great Brittaine in our dayes into one Gouernment vnited by our dread Soueraigne Lord King Iames that now is Vnto any of whom this Robert was nothing inferiour in happinesse as the man whom during the whole time of his raigne neuer felt the affliction of any aduerse fortune He dyed with age and not with sicknesse the 13. of the Calends of May in the yeare of our Lord 1390. and in the 19. yeare of his raigne in his Castle of Deidon being full of dayes viz. in the 74. yeare of his age and lyeth buried in the Monastery of Scone The first wife EVfemia the daughter of Hugh Earle of Ros was the first lawfull wife of this Robert King of Scotland who not long after hir husband Robert was crowned in solemne maner 1372. She died in the third year of his raigne and in the year of our Lord 1387. The second wife ELizabeth the Daughter of Adam Moore knight was the second wife vnto this King ROBERT By whom he hadde three Sonnes His Issue by his first wife VValter Stewart Earle of Atholl beheaded for plotting Treason against Iames the first Dauid Stewart Earle of Stratherne Eufemia married vnto Iames the sonne of william Dowglas His Issue by the second wife Iohn afterward named Robert and succeeded his Father in the kingdome Robert Stewart Duke of Albany Gouernor of Scotland and Earle of Fife in right of his wife and was Father of Mordac Duke of Albany and Gouernour of Scotland Alexander Stewart Earl of Bucquhane father of Duncan A daughter married to Iohn of Dunbarre the Brother of George Earle of March A second daughter married vnto Iohn Lyon Lord Glammys but of what name or by what woman these two were appeareth not in record RObert Steward the third of that name King of Scottes Earle of Carict whose name was first Iohn succeeded his deceased Parent Robert the second in the yeare of our Lord 1390. He chaunged his name as I conceiue for that he deemed the name of Iohn ominous vnfortunate as first being hatefull in the Balliols and secondly vpon animaduersion that a king of France of that name was in
North-side of Forth were appointed Macduff Earle of Fife Iohn Cumin Earle of Buckquhane and William Frazer Arch-Byshop of S. Andrewes who being al worn out at last by the iudgement of Edward the first King of England Iohn Balliol tooke vpon him the supreame authority ouer that kingdome The first wife MArgaret the daughter of Henry the third King of England and Sister vnto Edward the first was wife vnto Alexander the third King of Scotland Shee vvas married vnto him at York vpon the feast day of the Natiuity of our Lo. 1251. and dyed 1274. at Cupsum the fourth of the calends of March and lieth buried hard by King Dauid commonly called Saint Dauid The second wife IOletta Daughter of the Earle of Dreux in France second vvife vnto Alexander the third King of Scottes whom he married as hauing good hope to leaue yssue by her to succeede him She vvas maried vnto him in the yeare of our Lord 1286. by whom hee left no successor The third wife MArgaret the Daughter of Guy de Dampier Earle of Flanders was third wife vnto this Alexander the thirde by whom she had no issue Shee was afterwarde againe married to the Earle of Guelders Children by his first wife Alexander who dyed an vntimely death in the life time of his father vvas borne at Iedworth the 12. calends of Ianuary 1264. Dauid vvho also dyed in the life time of his Father Margaret married to Eric of Norway sonne of Magnus King of Norway Of vvhom vvas borne another Margaret the onely future heire of the kingdome of Scotland Who being promised in marriage to Prince Edward the sonne of Edward the first King of England comming out of Norway to be married in her iourny about the Orchades being very young dyed Whereupon great contentions arising concerning the succession of the kingdome Edward the first King of England in the 18. yeare of his raigne summoned the Scottish Nobility to a Parlament at Norham there declaring vnto them his right of Soueraignty Paramount ouer the kingdome of Scotland Which being acknovvledged by the said Scottish Nobility and seisin and possession of the Land and the Castles of the kingdom being deliuered to him by the Competitors he caused diuers Instruments Duplicats thereof to be sealed by them vvhich to most of the chiefest Monasteries of his realme he sent to be preserued for posterity He then receiued in the claimes of the seueral Competitors Of vvhich the greatest right and only discent of title seemed to bee betweene Robert de Brus and Iohn de Balioll both being discended from Dauid Earle of Anguse and Huntington Brother to Malcolme and William and Vnckle to Alexander the last King to whom he was next heire he suruiued the issue of his Nephew Robert de Brus the eldest son of Isabell the daughter of the foresaid Dauid claimed a presedency of right as being by a degree nearer in blood then Balioll to the last King which was consonant to the law of Nations the fittest rule to square out the interest of Kings But either wearied as seemeth with the trouble of Competitor or willing to shew a rare example of moderation in his election of a priuate life hee resigned vp his claime and interrest of that kingdome to his sonne The Original deed still remaining with Sir Robert Cotton the heire of Bernard de Brus his second Brother and is in these words OMnibê° Christi fidelibê° hoc praesens scriptuÌ„ visuris vel audituris Robertê° de Brus Dominus de valle Anandia saluteÌ„ in domino Nouerit vniuersitas vestra nos concessisse omnino remisisse karissimo filio nostro domino Roberto de Brus Comiti Karrik haeredibus suis totuÌ„ ius clamium quod habuimus vel habere potuimus ad petendum regnum Scotiae Ita quod nos nihil Iuris aut clamij ad praedictum regnum nomine nostro petendum de caetero vendicare aut exigere possumus damus insuper spontanea voluntate concedimus praedicto filio nostro heredibus suis plenam liberam potestatem dictum regnum petendi ius quod sibi competit in hac parte nomine suo prosequends prove voluntate sui melius nouerit conuenire omnia faciendi que per nos ante tenorem confectionis praesentium poterunt expediri In cuius rei testimonium praesenti scripto sigillum nostrum apposuimus et in Maius testimonium sigillum Nobilis viri Domini Gilberti de Clare Comitis glouerniae Hertford presentibus apponi procurauimus Datum apud Berwic die veneris in Crastino sancti Leonardi Anno. gratiae 1292. But in conclusion Edward the first finding Balliol an easier instrument apter to lean to his desire either of reducing that kingdom to his immediate obedience or at least for retaining it within the reach of his soueraignty preferred him for King being the sonne of Deruergilla the Daughter of Margaret the first begotten daughter of Dauid Earle of Huntington great Vnckle vnto this Alexander the third He was crowned the last day of Nouember at Scone vpon Saint Stephens day following IOhn Balliol the sonne of Iohn Balliol and of Deruerguld his wife the Daughter of Margaret the eldest Daughter of Dauid Earl of Huntington great Vnckle vnto Alexander the third who dyed without issue by the suffrage of Edward the first King of England was aduanced vnto the Royall Throne of the kingdome of Scotland and did the accustomed homage and swore allegiance vnto the sayde King Edward at the Towne of New-Castle vpon Tine in the yeare of our redemption 1292. M. seâ—… ter C. sed ab illis octo câ—herce Hoc anno Domini tradidit dâ—…ma Iohanni For three yeares and somewhat aboue this Balliol gouerned the state of Scotland But for that he prooued slouthfull and negligent the Scots deposed him as an vnprofitable member in the yeare of our Lorde 1292. Sâ—… Chron. lib. 1â— Cap. â—6 From whence he fled into France and there dyed Whereupon Edward King of England for ten yeares space miserably afflicted the Scottish Nation and by force entred the kingdome as farre as the Riuer Forna where is the passage to Ros. Heere by the way it is to be noted * Some say it was this mans father that this Iohn Balliol founded that Colledge in Oxford 1263. which to this day beareth his owne name there whose Grand father by the Father side Alexander Balliol in like manner as others his predecessors were owners of Bernard Castle in the Byshoppricke of Durham which sayde Castle it is reported that one Bernard Balliol presently after the Conquest of England by the Normans erected and named it after his owne name Betweene the raigne of this Iohn and Robert Brus William Walleys with some others opposed themselues against Edward k of EnglaÌ„d The which Walleys being afterwarde taken Edw. the 1. did hang at London caused his quarters to be fixed vpon poles in many places in Scotland Anno. 1305. ISabell the