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 ...

7. James I King of Scotland▪

JAMES STUART second Son of King Robert the Third, as yet a Youth, was sent into France (to pre∣vent 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 Edu∣cation; 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 Fa∣ther King Robert soon after set at Li∣berty,

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 Crow∣ned 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, espe∣cially 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 Con∣federacy and Association of mutinous Outlaws and Male-contents being en∣tred 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 immedi∣ately expired on the one and twenti∣eth day of February, in the year one thousand four hundred thirty and six,

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 Foun∣dation, 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 cau∣sed her Body to be Translated and In∣terred in the Abbey-Church of Laon in Poictou. ELIZABETH Wife to Francis the first Duke of Brittany. JANE first Married to the Earl of An∣gus,

and after to George Earl of Hunt∣ley. ELEANOR Wedded to Sigis∣mond of Cyroll Arch-Duke of Austria. MARY Espoused to the Prince of Ue∣rense, 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.

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 Em∣perour Carlemain, A. D. 787. giving in∣timation 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.