to King Duncan, who had fled to England from Mackbeth't Cruelty, and kill'd the Tyrant in Battle in the 6th Year of his Reign. 86. Malcolm fucceeded in 1061, was a gallant and good Prince, married Margaret, Sifter to Edgar Atheling, the Heir of the English Crown, was fuccefsful againft William the Nor man, brought him to Terms for Edgar and his Friends; but was fraudulently kill'd in the 36th Year of his Reign, at the Siege of Alnwick-Caffle, by the English Governour, who pretending to furrender the Keys to him, ftab'd him with a Spear, on which he held them out. 87. Donald VI. his Brother, ufarp'd the Throne during the Minority of Malcolm's Son, by the Affiftance of the King of Norway, to whom he made over all the Islands; but the Nobility being against him, Duncan, Baftard Son to Malcolm, who had acquir'd great Fame in France and England by military Atchievements, was fent for, and bringing Troops with him from England, Donald's Soldiers deserted, and the Tyrant fled in the 18th Month of his Reign. 89. Duncan II. was for his good Service advanc'd to the Throne in 1999, but proving Tyrannical, Donald, who fled to the Weftern Islands, got one to murther him, and reassum'd the Throne; but the Nobility hating him, they fent to England for Edgar, Malcolm's fourth Son, who defeated Donald, and put him in Prifon, where he died in the fourth Year of his Ufurpation. S9. Edgar afcended the Throne in 1103. was a pious and excellent Prince, and died in the ninth Year of his Reign. 90. Alexander I. his Brother, fucceeded, was a pious and just Prince, and died in the 17th Year of his Reign, without Iffue. 91. David I. his Brother, fucceeded, was one of the braveft and most religious Princes of his Time, and died in the 10th Year of his Reign. 92. Malcolm IV. his Grandfon fucceeded in 1151. He had War with Henry II. King of England, who took Northumber land from him, but allow'd him Cumberland and Huntingdenfhire. He died in 1160, without Children. 93. William, his Brother, fucceeded in 1160. and for his fevere Justice and Valour, was called the Lion. He was taken in Battle against the English, redeem'd, and died in the 49th Year of his Reign. 94. Alexander II. his Son, fucceeded in 1214. He took part with Lewis of France, against King John of England, and died in the 35th Year of his Reign. 95. Alexander III. his Son, fucceeded in 1249, married the Daughter of Henry III. King of England, affitted him againft his Rebels, as he did St. Lewis of France with Troops for the Holy War; and died by a fall from his Horfe in the 34th Year of his Reign, without Iflue, except a Grand-Daughter by the the King of Norway, whom Edward 1. King of England, fought in Marriage for his Son, but fhe died before it was confummated. 96. John Baliol fucceeded in 1283. He was Great Grandfon to David Earl of Huntingdon, Grandfon to David King of Scotland. His Competitor was Robert Bruce, who was Grandfon to the aforesaid David Earl of Huntingdon, by a fecond Daughter; fo that being a Male, and as nearly related to Davia Earl of Huntingdon, as Baliol's Mother, he pleaded feveral Precedents for being prefer'd to her in the Succeffion of the Crown: But Baliol being defcended of the eldest Sifter, and fupported by Edward I. King of England, on Condition that he would hold the Crown of Scotland in Fee of him, he carried it; but being hated by the Nation, and quarrelling with Edward, who defeated and took him Prifoner, he refign'd in the fourth Year of his Reign, to his Son Edward, and retired to an Estate he had in Normandy. After a long War maintain'd by Wallace, and others against Edward I, 97. Robert Bruce, Son to the Competitor, then dead, was fent for out of England privately by his Friends, and crown'd by the Nobility in 1306, exclufive of Baliol and his Pofterity for ever, because he had betray'd the Sovereignty of the Crown. which was fettled on Bruce and his Pofterity, but with prefe rence to his Brother, and his Male Iffue, before his own Daughter and hers; and in Cafe of any future Controverfy about the Succeflion, it was to be determin'd by Parliament, to prevent the like Competition in Time to come. Robert was one of the greateft Captains of his Time, drove the English quite out of the Kingdom, extended his Boundaries as far as Stanmore, and died in the 24th Year of his Reign. 98. David II. his Son, fucceeded in 1329, and being a weak Prince, 99. Edward Baliol, Son to John, affilled by the English, invaded him, and put him to Flight, was crown'd by those of his Father's Faction in 1332, but was defeated and drove out again by the Friends of King David, who had retired to France; he return'd upon this Victory, but was taken Pritoner by the English at the Battle of Durham, redeem'd again, and died in the 39th Year of his Reign. 100. Robert II. Grandion to Robert 1. by his Daughter Margery, fucceeded in 1370, and was the filt of the Stuarts. He was an honeft Prince, though no great Warrior, yet was fuccefsful against the English by his Generals, and died in the 19th Year of his Reign. 101. Robert III. his Son, fucceeded. He was a Prince of mean Spirit, fo that his Brother, the Earl of Fife and Menteith, govern'd the Nation; who defigning to fettle the Crown an on his own Pofterity, got his Brother's eldeit Son murther'd, for which King Robert died of Grief in the 14th Year of his Reign. 102. James I. his Son, who was drove afhore, and detain'd Prifoner in England, as bound to France to avoid the Cruelty of his Uncle, fucceeded in 1424. He was a learned, virtuous and Juft Prince. He married Jane, Daughter to John Duke of Semerset, Son to John of Gaunt, by whom his Pofterity had the Title of the Family of Lancaster. He was murther'd by Walter Earl of Athol, who pretended a Title to the Crown, which was ieverely reveng'd upon that Earl and his Confederates. 103. James II. his Son, fucceeded in 1437. He married Mary, Daughter to Arnold Duke of Guelderland, Niece to Charles the Hardy, the great Duke of Burgundy, and was kill'd by the bursting of a Gun at the Siege of Roxburgh, in the 24th Year of his Reign. 104. James III. his Son, fucceeded in 1460. He married Margaret, Daughter to Chriftian I. King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden; and being tyrannical, the nobility took Arms against him, and kill'd him in Battle at Banockborn, in the 29th Year of his Reign. 105. James IV. his Son, fucceeded in 1489. He married Margaret, eldest Daughter to Henry VII. King of England, was a valiant Prince, and kill'd at the Battle of Flodden in Northum berland, in the 25th Year of his Reign. 106. James V. fucceeded in 1514. He was a brave Prince, and a good Juftitiary. He married first Magdalen, Daughter to Francis I. King of France, but fhe died without Iffue. Then he married Mary of Lorrain, and died in the 29th Year of his Reign. 107. Mary, his Daughter, fucceeded in 1543. She married first the Dauphin of France, afterwards Francis II. by whom fhe had no iffue. After his Death fhe married Henry Stuart, Duke of Albany, Lord Darnley, &c. Son to the Earl of Lenox, and, by his Mother the Lady Margaret Douglass, Great Grandfon to Henry VII. King of England; fo that he was the firft Prince of the English Blood Royal. She was a Princess of great Beauty and Parts. She was educated in France, which made her fo fond of Popery and arbitrary Power, that the Nobility took Arms against and dethron'd her; fhe was afterwards put to Death in England in 1586. for being in a Plot against Queen Elizabeth, whofe Legitimacy being queftion'd by the Popish Faction, the Queen of Scots was by them reckon'd the true Heiress of the Crown. 108. James VI. her Son fucceeded upon her Dethronement in 1567. He married Anne, Daughter to Frederick II. King of Denmark, by Sophia of Mecklemburgh, who brought him the Lady Elizabeth, an incomparable Princefs, married to the Elector Palatine, afterwards King of Bohemia, as already mention'd, by by whom the had the Princefs Sophia, Grandmother to his prefent Majefty King GEORGE II. To fum up the Matter, it appears by the Hiftories and Genealogies above mention'd, that his Majefty's Family is defcended from, and intermarried with moft, if not all of the Sovereign Princes of Europe: That his Majefty is the twenty-first Sovereign of the Family of Brunswick by Leinal Defcent, ace cording to undoubted Hiftory, fince Azo or Albert of Efte, who died in 1081, befides what Hiftorians fay of a long Race of Princes in the Family before that Time. It is alfo to be obferv'd, that there have been two Emperors of Germany, and an Emprefs of Conftantinople of this Family, befides one Emprefs Dowager, and an Emprefs Confort of Germany now living; That the Elector's of Bavaria and the Palatinate, and the Dukes of Modena, are defcended from this Family by the Male Line; and that by Daughters, the Kings of Sweden, Denmark, Pruffia, and Poland, the Families of Heffe, Baden, Mecklemburg, and feveral Princes of the House of Saxony, are also descended of this Family. There has been alfo one Cardinal, eighteen Archbishops and Bishops, all Princes of the Empire, of the House of Brunswick. But what adds the greatest Luftre to all is, that his Majefty is the fifty-firft Sovereign of England, and has the Blood of all thofe Princes in his Veins, fince the Heptarchy was united in the Perfon of Egbert, till the Reign of Charles I. and that he is the hundred and fifteenth King of Scotland, as appears by the Hiftory and Genealogy of thofe Kings; by whom he has allo the Blood Royal of France, of the House of Burgundy, and of the antient Kings of the British, Pictish, Danish, Saxon, and Norman Race, with whom they married, centred in him; fo that he exceeds all the Sovereigns on Earth for the Antiquity of royal Defcent: And what adds to our Bleffing, as well as to bis Majesty's Honour and Satisfaction, he has a numerous royal Iffue, which gives him a fairer Profpect of having the Succeffion continue in his Family, than any other Prince in Europe can pretend to. CON |