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CHARLES, the third Son of James the sixth King of the Scots, and of Anne his Wife, Daughter of Frede∣rick the second, and Sister of Christiern the fourth, Kings of Denmark, was born at Dunfermeling (one of the principall towns of Fife) in Scotland, on the nine∣teenth
day of November Anno 1600. derived by a long descent of Royall An∣cestors from Malcolm Conmor King of the Scots, and the Lady Margaret his Wife, Sister and sole Heir of Edgar A∣theling, the last surviving Prince of the English Saxons. So that his Title had been good to the Crown of England, though he had borrowed no part of his Claim from the Norman Conquerour.
Which I observe the better to en∣counter the extravagant follies of some men in the book called Antinormanisme, and some other Pamphlets of that time: in which it is affirmed that this King had no other Right to the Crown, then what he claimed from that Conquest; and therefore that the English Nation having got the better of him by the Sword, might lawfully free themselves from that subjection, which by no other Title then the Sword of the Normans had been laid upon them.
At his first coming into the world he was so weak and unlike to live, that his
Christening was dispatcht in haste, with∣out attending the performance of those solemnities which are accustomably used at the Baptisme of such Princely infants. And as the name of Henry was given to the Prince, his Elder Brother, with re∣ference to Henry Lord Darnlie, the Fa∣ther of King James by Mary Queen of Scots; so was this younger Son called Charles, in relation to Charles Earle of Lenox, the younger Brother of that Hen∣ry, and by consequence Uncle to King James.