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ANCIENT 
 
 HERALDIC AND ANTIQUARIAN 
 
 TRACTS, 
 
 SIR JAMES BALFOUR, 
 
 OF DENMYLNE AND KINNAIRD, KNIGHT AND BARONET, 
 LORD LYON KING AT ARMS. 
 
 EDINBURGH: 
 
 THOMAS a. STEVENSON, 
 
 87, PRINCES STREET, 
 M.DCCC.XXXVII. 
 
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 EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY ALEX, LAWHIE & CO. 
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 
 Introductory Notice, . . . . v 
 Appendix I. — The Method and Manner of 
 ,Ryding the Parliament, with the Orders and 
 Rules appointed tliereanent, 1703, . xvii 
 
 x^ppENDix II. — Claim of the Duke of Ha- 
 milton and Lord Douglas, to bear the Im- 
 perial Crown of Scotland at Royal Processions, 
 1823, ..... xxviii 
 
 I. Treatise on Nobility, ... 1 
 
 II. Coronatio Alexandri Tertii Scotorum Regis, 
 
 Sconse, Tertio die Idus Julii 1249, 32 
 
 III. Coronatio Roberti Secundi Scotorum Regis 
 
 apud IMonasterium Sanctae Crucis. 23 
 Maij 1371, 36 
 
 IV. The Form and Maner of the Coronatione 
 
 of King James the Sext, being a chylde 
 of one zeir olde ; after that the Queene's 
 Majestie, his Mother, had demitted the 
 Croune in hir sone's fauors, in luo seue- 
 rall Conventions of the Estaits of the 
 Kingdome at Edinburgh and Strevelinge, 
 1567, .... 42 
 
 206 
 
1 CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 V. Ceremonial at Royal Christenings, 51 
 
 VI. Rydings of the Parliament, &c. . f)0 
 
 VII. List of Knights, &c. . 68 
 
 VIII. Register of Interments and Funeralls of 
 
 Englische Kings, Queins, and Duckes. 
 
 1. The Interment of Richard Duke of 
 
 Yorke, father to Kinge Edward 
 Fourte, . 71 
 
 2. The Interment and Buriall of King 
 
 Edwarde the Fourte, . 75 
 
 3. At the Interment of Queeine Elizabeth, 
 
 Wyffe to King Henrey the vijth, for 
 black cloth, as it appeirs in the 
 Booke of the Grate Vardrope, . 86 
 
 4. A Breiue relatione of the Solemnitie 
 
 usedatthe Interment of King Henrey 
 the vijth, the prociding from Rich- 
 mond to London, . . 89 
 
 5. The Painter's Charges at the Inter- 
 
 ment of the said Nobill Kinge Hen- 
 rey the vijth, . 93 
 IX. Register of Interments and Funeralls of 
 Scotish Nobility. 
 1 . The Funerall Ceremony of James Mar- 
 quess of Hamilton, Earle of Arran, 
 Cambridge, Lord Auon and Inner- 
 daill, Stuarte of the Household of 
 James King of Grate Brittane, France, 
 and Ireland, <S:c. one of his Heighness 
 Priuey Counseill in both Kingdomes, 
 
CONTENTS. VU 
 
 Page 
 
 and Knight of the Order of the Garter, 
 Performed at Hamiltone, 2 Sept. 
 1625, lOJ 
 
 2. The Funerall Ceremony of Walter Earle 
 
 of Balcleuch, Lord Scote of Branks- 
 home, &c. one of the Lords of the 
 Priuey Counsaill to K. James and K. 
 Charles, in the Kingdome of Scot- 
 land, quho dyed at London, the 20 
 ofNouemher 1633, • - 106 
 
 3. The Funerall Ceremony performed at 
 
 the Interment of George Earle of 
 Kinnoule, Viscount Dupline, Lord 
 Hay of Kinfauns, Grate Chancelour 
 of Scotland, &c. at Perth, 19th Au- 
 gusti 1635, ... Ill 
 
 4. The Particular Charges of the Earle of 
 
 Kinnoules funeralls, exceptand hang- 
 ings of black, mourning weids and 
 clockes, Leuerys of Seruants, charges 
 of intertaning of Noblemen and Gen- 
 tlemen, making of Varflfes one the 
 river, and hyring of boatts, &c. 115 
 
 5. The Funerall Ceremony performed at 
 
 the interring of the Countess of Wig- 
 tone, quha wes first maried to the 
 Laird of Johnstone, and had issew 
 this Lord Johnstone, now lining, 
 lastly to the Earl of Wigtone, and 
 then to the Viscount of Airds, in Ir- 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 
 land, at Holyruidhouse, 29th Martij 
 1636, . . . . 122 
 
 6. The Funerall Ceremony performed at 
 the interring of the Countesse of Nid- 
 disdaill from St. Geill's Church in 
 Edinburgh, to the Abbey Church of 
 Holyrudehouse, on Mononday, the 
 twenty eth day of Marche 1637, 126 
 
 X. Kings of Armes and Heraulds in England, 
 
 1628, . . .131 
 
 XI. De Gubernatione et Reformatione Officiar- 
 
 iorum Armorum, • . • 141 
 
 XII. Memorial of Margaret Countess of Leuenax, 1 43 
 
 « 
 
INTEODUCTORY NOTICE. 
 
 
 HE MSS. in possession of the 
 Faculty of Advocates, relative to 
 Scotish History, Literature, and 
 Antiquities, are extensive and 
 valuable, and had the same spirit which ani- 
 mated the founders of this National Library 
 influenced their successors, a collection might 
 have been formed, which it would have been 
 difficult to rival.* 
 
 * Many opportunities have been lost of enriching the 
 Library, owing to the unaccountable stupidity of those 
 having the management. Thus, Principal Robertson's 
 xmique collection of books on America, which he had 
 formed while writing his history, including various 
 important Manuscripts, was allowed to leave the coun- 
 try, because, as was sapiently observed, " why should 
 the Faculty, having got the book, buy the materials 
 from which it was formed. It would," continued the 
 amiable Twaddler, " be similar to persons, who, after 
 eating a delicious pudding, fell to devouring the shells 
 
X INTHODUCTORY NOTICE. 
 
 The Balfour MSS. both for their extent 
 and historical importance, form not the least 
 interesting portion of the collection.* They 
 were acquired, as would appear by the en- 
 suing extract from the Minutes of the Fa- 
 culty of Advocates, so far back as the year 
 1698 ; as, upon the 19th of the month of 
 November of that year, there is the follow- 
 ing entry : — 
 
 " Nov. 19th, 1698. 
 " It being also represented by the Cura- 
 tors of the Library, and the Library-Keeper, 
 
 of the eggs of which it had been composed." The 
 learned body listened to this profound observation, and 
 apposite illustration, with great satisfaction, — the rea- 
 soning was unanswerable^ — and the, books were lost ! 
 
 * In 1712, the Earl of Baloarras presented to the Fa- 
 culty, a singularly valuable collection of IMS. papers, 
 chiefly formed by his Ancestor John Lindsay of IMen- 
 muir. Secretary of State, including original letters of 
 Henry the II, of France, — James V, — IMary Queen of 
 Scots, — Catharine de Medicis, — The Constable Mont- 
 niorencey. — For about one hundred and thirty years, 
 they were locked up in drawers, and seen by no one, 
 and it was not until the appointment of the present 
 accomplished and zealous librarian, that they were dis- 
 interred and made available to the public. 
 
INTRODUCTOKY NOTICE. XI 
 
 that there was a curious collectione of Manu- 
 scripts concerning the publick and privat 
 affairs of the Kingdome, collected by Sir 
 James Balfour of Denmilne, sometime Kmg- 
 at-Arms, and which were to be exposed to 
 sale by his heirs, and that a purchase there- 
 of was very proper to enrich their Library, 
 it was thought that the printed catalogue 
 of the samyne Manuscripts should be de- 
 lyvered to each of the Faculty, and that free 
 inspectione may be granted to any who de- 
 syred against next meeting to speak anent 
 the said purchase, and such of Denmilne's 
 friends as were INIembers of the Faculty were 
 desyred to cause the printed Catalogue be 
 distributed accordingly." 
 
 Upon the 10th of December following, 
 " The Dean of Faculty of Advocats haveing 
 met in their Library to consider the pur- 
 chase of Sir James Balfour's Manuscripts, 
 which is recommended as a curious collec- 
 tione, and very proper to enrich their Lib- 
 rary, and haveing heard the opinions and 
 reports of sundry of the Members who had 
 taken inspectione and considered the books 
 
XU INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 
 
 themselves, they unanimously agreed that 
 the said purchase should be made, and for 
 that effect did nominat and appoint the Dean 
 of Faculty, Mr. William Aikman, Mr. 
 Charles Gray, Mr. William Calderwood, 
 the Curators of the Library, Thesaurer and 
 Clerk, or any three of them, a Committee to 
 consider the value of the said books, and to 
 take the opinion of Sir James Dalrymple,* 
 and of the principall Clerks of Sessione, who 
 hes knowledge in the antiquities of the king- 
 dome, with power to the said Committee to 
 treat and agree with the proprietor of the 
 saids books, or any other haveing warrant 
 to sell the same, for such a pryce as shall be 
 thought reasonable to be given, and grant 
 warrant to their Thesaurer, to make ready 
 payment of the pryce which the Committee 
 shall aggree to, conform to their precepts, to 
 be drawn upon him." 
 
 Upon the 14th of the said month, the Com- 
 mittee, " haveing first consulted amongst 
 
 * The Author of the well-known " Collections con- 
 cerning the Scotish History preceeding 1153.'' Edin- 
 burgh 1705, 8vo. 
 
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. XUl 
 
 themselves upon the matter anent the just 
 and equall piyce, and the true vahie of the 
 manuscripts, they thereafter mett with my 
 Lord Rankeillor, who had the power of sell- 
 ing the same, in the which treaty there be- 
 ing some differences, the Lord President of 
 the Session was pleased to come and inter- 
 pose himselfe in the said matter, and after 
 some conferences thereupon, the Committee, 
 at sight of the Lord President, did buy the 
 saids books at the pryce of ane hundred and 
 fifty pounds sterling, which they, for them- 
 selves, and in name and behalf of the Facul- 
 ty, ordained their Thesaurer to pay to the 
 said Lord Rankeillor, or any other having 
 Denmiln's order, upon delyvering the saids 
 manuscripts to the Library-Keeper, and his 
 receipt of the same." 
 
 Lord Hailes has chiefly formed his " Me- 
 morials of the Reign of James VI." from the 
 papers contained in the Balfour Collection. 
 The Annals by Sir James were, with his Me- 
 morials of State, published by the late Mr. 
 James Haig of the Advocates' Library, in 4 
 
XIV INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 
 
 vols. Ediii. 1824, 8vo.* Many of the docu- 
 ments have been printed in the " Analecta 
 ScoTiCA."! The Letters and State Papers of 
 the well-known Earl of Melross, afterwards 
 Earl of Haddington, thegreaterpartof which 
 occur there, have very recently been present- 
 ed by John Hope, Esq. Dean of Faculty, 
 as his contribution to the Abbotsford Club,; 
 but a great proportion still remains in ma- 
 nuscript. 
 
 In the present collection many minor pieces 
 hitherto unpublished are preserved. It was 
 thought that by bringing the more import- 
 ant together, they would collectively form 
 a curious volume. A few evident errors 
 have been corrected, but with this excep- 
 tion the text has been scrupulously adhered 
 to, and even the variations in spelling pre- 
 served- In the accounts of furnishings for 
 the different funerals there are one or two 
 
 * An account of Sir James Balfour is prefixed to this 
 vfork, to which the Reader is referred, 
 t Two vols. Edin. Stevenson, 1834-1837, 8vo. 
 + Two vols. Edin. 1837, 4to. 
 
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. XV 
 
 evident inaccuracies ; these have not been 
 corrected, as it is not easy to say whether 
 the error lay in the price charged for the 
 article or in the general summation. 
 
 As illustrative of the matter contained in 
 the text, the Editor subjoins to this Notice 
 an Account of the Ryding of the Scotish 
 Parliament from an original copy. This is 
 followed by a detail of the Proceedings be- 
 fore the Privy Council on the dispute between 
 the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Douglas as 
 heir-general of the House of Angus, relative 
 to the right of bearing the Scotish Crown 
 at Royal Processions. 
 
 The Impression of the present work is 
 limited to Fifty Copies on small, and 
 Twenty on large paper. 
 
 10, Forres Street, 
 July 1837. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 I. 
 
 ^f^t i^ttiftotr antr fanner of l^gtring 
 
 antr intuits appointttr ti^txt- 
 anent. 
 
 I. The Lord Register is to call the Rolls of the 
 Parliament at the Palace of Holy-rood-house, as 
 the samen were called the last Parliament, and if 
 any of the Members think themselves prejudged, 
 they may protest to save their Rights, and apply 
 themselves to the Parliament if they think fit. 
 
 I I . In the Shires where there are double Elections, 
 none of the Members contraverted are to Ride ; but 
 in such Shires where there is one or more chosen 
 
 c 
 
XVIU RYDING OF THE PARLIAMENT. 
 
 undoubtedly by both Parties contraverting, they 
 are to Ride. 
 
 III. The Magistrats of Edinburgh are to cause 
 cleanse the Streets of all Stones, Timber, or Rub- 
 bish from the Weigh-house to the Nether-bow ; 
 and the Baillies of the Cannongate are to take 
 care the same be done from the Nether-bow to the 
 Palace, and the Magistrats of Edmhurgh are to 
 cause Rail the Streets from the Parliament-Closs 
 to the Nether-bow on both sides ofthe Street. 
 
 IV. The Magistrats of Edinburgh are ordained 
 to make a Lane of their Citizens in Arms and best 
 Order, from the Lady-steps to the Nether-bow, the 
 Captains, Lieutenants and Ensigns being within 
 the Rails, and the rest without : Her Majesties 
 Foot-Guards are to make the Lane from the Nether- 
 bow to the Palace, 
 
 V. The saids Magistrats are appointed to Order, 
 that there be no Shooting, or any disj^laying of 
 Ensigns, nor beating of Drums during the Caval- 
 cade ; nor any Coaches, Carts, Slades, or Coal- 
 horses, to be seen within the Ports of Edinburgh 
 after Ten in the morning, till the whole Solemnity 
 be over, under all highest pains ; And that the 
 Magistrats of the Cannongate and Officers of Her 
 Majesties Foot-Guards take care, that no Coaches, 
 
RYDING OF THE PARLIAMENT. XIX 
 
 Carts, Slades, or Coal-horses, be seen or suffered 
 to be on the Streets from the Nether-bow to the 
 Abbay, or in the Abbay Closs after Ten of the 
 Clock in the IMorning that day the Parliament is 
 ridden : The saids Magistrats of Edi7iburgh are 
 to cause make, and place two Banks of Timber 
 within the Abbay-closs, for mounting on Horse- 
 back, and two at the Lady-steps for mounting on 
 Horse-back, and dismounting. 
 
 VI. The Constable and Marishal Guards of 
 Partizans, are to make a Lane from the Lady-steps, 
 these of the Constables without and these of the 
 Marishals within the House, allowing the Con- 
 stable six of his Guards within doors, conform to 
 the former practice. 
 
 VII. Every Member of Parliament must Ryde, 
 and the Absents incur fining, conform to the Acts 
 of Parliament. 
 
 VIII. Where there are double Elections of Com- 
 missioners, none of these contraverted are to RydeJ 
 
 IX. The Nobility are to Ryde in their Robes 
 and with Foot-mantles. 
 
 X. The Officers of State who are not Noble- 
 men, and who have Gowns peculiar to their Offices, 
 
XX RYDING OF THE PARLIAMENT. 
 
 are to Ryde in their Gowns, and with Foot- 
 mantles. 
 
 XI. The whole Members are to Ryde covered, 
 except these who carry the Honours. 
 
 XII. The Lyon, Heraulds, Pursevants and 
 Trumpets, Ryde immediately before the Honours ; 
 The Lyon in his Coat and Robe, Chain and Batton 
 alone, and immediately before the Sword : The 
 rest in their Coats and Foot-mantles bareheaded, 
 in their accustomed Order. 
 
 XIII. The two Macers of Council, and four 
 Macers of Session Ryde on each side of the Honours 
 bareheaded with Foot-mantles, the two Macers of 
 Council attending the Crown, and the four Macers 
 of Session the Scepter and Sword. 
 
 XIV. The higher degree, and most Honour- 
 able of that Degree, is to Ryde always last. 
 
 XV. Every Duke is to have eight Lackies, 
 every Marquess six, every Earl four, every Vis- 
 count three, every Lord three, every Commissioner 
 for a Shire two, and every Commissioner from 
 Burghs one ; And every Noble-man is to have a 
 Gentleman bareheaded to bear up his Train, and 
 
RYDING OF THE PARLIAMENT. XXI 
 
 these Gentlemen are at their Entry to the House 
 to stand without the Bar. 
 
 XVI. The Noblemens Lackies may have over 
 their Liveries Velvet Coats with their Badges, i. e. 
 Their Crests and Motto's done on Plate, or Em- 
 broidered on their Back and Breast, conform to 
 ancient Custom ; or their ordinary Liveries. 
 
 XVII. The Constable and Marishal are in the 
 Morning to wait on Her Majesties High Commis- 
 sioner at the Palace, and to receive his Orders, and 
 from thence, Returning privatly, the Constable is 
 to come out of his Lodgings on Foot, and having 
 viewed the Roomes under and above the Parlia- 
 ment House, puts on his Robes, and having his 
 Batton in his hand, sets himself in a Chair at the 
 Entry of the Closs, at the Lady-Steps by the out- 
 most of his Guards, and from which he is to arise 
 and salute the Members as they alight from their 
 Horses, and to recommend them to the Gentlemen 
 of his Guards, to be conducted to the Marishal 
 Guards. 
 
 XVIII. The Marishal is also to attend in his 
 Robes being set in a Chair at the head of his 
 Guards, and to receive the Members (having his 
 Batton in his hand) as they enter the Door. 
 
XXll KYDING OF THE PARLIAMENT. 
 
 XIX. The Officers of State who are Noblemen, 
 so many of them as are in the Kingdom, are to 
 Ryde up from the Abbay in their Robes about half 
 an Hour before the Cavalcade, and to %yait in the 
 Parliament House, until the high Commissioner 
 come, and then the High Chancellour is to take 
 his own Purse in his hand, and to Usher him be- 
 twixt the Bar and the Throne. 
 
 XX. The whole Members of Parliament are to 
 wait upon Her Majesties high Commissioner in the 
 Guard Hall at Ten in the Morning, the Nobility 
 being in their Robes, and the Servants and Horses 
 are to attend in the Outter-Closs. 
 
 XXI. The Lyon King at Arms in his Coat, 
 Robe, Chain and Batton (to whose charge the 
 Order of the Ryding is committed) with six He- 
 raulds, six Pursevants, and six trumpets, in their 
 Coates attend likeways. 
 
 XXII. When Her Majesties high Commissioner 
 is ready ; The Lord Register, or such as he shall 
 appoint, and Lyon standing together, each of them 
 having a Roll in his hand, and the Rolls being 
 Read, the Lyon is to call the Names of such of 
 them as are to Ride according to their Order, 
 and an Herauld is to call aloud at one of the win- 
 
RYDING OF THE PARLIAMENT. XXIU 
 
 doTTs, and another Heraidd is to stand at the Gate 
 and see them do accordingly. 
 
 XXIII. The Members are to Ryde two and 
 two, each degree by itself, at some distance, with- 
 out mixing with any other Degree, so that if there 
 fall to be one odd Member of one degree, he must 
 Ryde alone. 
 
 XXIV. The Lord Register is to make up the 
 Rolls of Parliament, both for the Ryding and Call- 
 ing in the Parliament house, conform to the Rolls 
 of the last Parliament, whereof he is to give the 
 Lyon a just duplicat, except where there is just 
 ground to alter the same ; and the Members are 
 to Ryde as they are called ; But if they think 
 themselves prejudged, they may protest in the same 
 manner, as at the calling of the Rolls in the House, 
 and may afterwards, as they think fit, apply them- 
 selves to the Parliament for a remedy. 
 
 XXV. The Honours are to be carried immedi- 
 ately before the high Commissioner, the Crown by 
 the Earl of Forfar^ because of the Marquiss of 
 Douglass his Minority ; the Scepter next to it by 
 the eldest Earl present, and the Sword before it by 
 the Earl next in order, and the Bearers are to Ryde 
 one by one bare-headed. 
 
XXIV RYDING OF THE PARLIAMENT. 
 
 XXVI. The Dukes and Marquisses are to Ryde 
 after the high Commissioner at some distance, con- 
 form to the former custom. 
 
 XXVII. When Her Majesties High Commis- 
 sioner alights from his Horse, the Lord Constable 
 is to receive him, and to attend him to the Marishal 
 Guards, and then both Constable and Marishal are 
 to convoy him bare-headed to the Throne, and are 
 in the same manner to attend Him in His return 
 to his Horse. 
 
 XXVIII. When the Members alight, the Ser- 
 vants and Horses are to remove and stand in the 
 Land-mercat betTtdxt the Tolbooth and the Weigh- 
 house, until the High Commissioner be upon his 
 return to the Palace, and the Members are again 
 to be called two by two, and the Servants with the 
 Horses to be called accordingly from the Land- 
 mercat, for their orderly mounting and returning 
 to the Palace. 
 
 XXIX. The return to the Palace is to be in 
 the same manner, with these two Alterations, vix. 
 First, The Constable and Marishal Ryde on the 
 High Commissioners Right and Left hand, with 
 Capes of Permission, the Constable on the Right, 
 and the Marishal on the Left. Secondly, The 
 Officers of State who are Noblemen, are not to take 
 
RYDING OF THE PARLIAMENT. XXV 
 
 Horse until the High Commissioner be gone, and 
 then are to Ryde at some distance after the Guards. 
 
 Order of Proceeding on Horse-back, to be per- 
 formed the first day of the ensuing Parliament, 
 by all the Members of Parliament, in convoying 
 his Grace Her Majesties High Commissioner, 
 from the Abhay of Holy-rood-hoiise to the Par- 
 liament-Closs, and back again to the Palace, the 
 sixth of May 1703. 
 
 About the space of half an hour before the Ryd- 
 ing begin, the Lord High Chancellor, with the 
 other Officers of State who are Noblemen, are 
 to Ryde up in their Robes. The Lord High 
 Chancellor having the Purse and Mace before 
 him, and for this Time and Vice, the Lord 
 President of the Privy Council on his Right 
 Hand, and the Lord Privy Seal on his Left 
 Hand. 
 
 Before the Commissioners from Burrows, the 
 Troop of Horse Grenadeers are to Ryde up. 
 
 Two Trumpets, in their Coats and Banners, 
 bare-headed. 
 
 Two Pursevants in their Coats and Footmantles, 
 bare-headed. 
 
 The Commissioners of Burrows, two and two. 
 
 d 
 
XXVI RYDING OF THE PARLIAMENT. 
 
 The Commissioners for Shires, two and two. 
 
 The Officers of State who are not Noblemen, 
 two and two. 
 
 The Lords or Barrons of Parliament, two and 
 two. 
 
 The Viscounts, two and two. 
 
 The Earls, two and two. 
 
 Four Trumpets, in their Coats and Banners, 
 bare-headed, two and two. 
 
 Four Pursevants, in their Coats and Foot- 
 mantles, bare-headed, two and two. 
 
 Six Heraulds, in their Coats and Footmantles, 
 bare-headed, two and two. 
 
 The Lyon King at Arms, in his Coat, Robe, 
 Collar, Batton and Footmantle, bare-headed. 
 
 Three IMacers, 
 with their 
 Maces and 
 Footmantles, 
 bare-headed. 
 
 'The Sword of State, Born by the 
 
 Earl of [iVfar], bare-headed. 
 
 The Sceptre Born by the Earl of 
 
 [^Crawfur(f}, bare-headed. 
 The Crown, carried by the Earl of 
 Forfar bareheaded, because of the 
 Marquiss of Douglas his Minority. 
 
 Three Macers, 
 with their 
 - Maces and 
 Footmantles, 
 bare-headed. 
 
 [Earl of Morton]^ Bearing the Purse, with His 
 Grace's Commission. 
 
 His Grace, [the Duke of Queensberry], Her 
 Majesties High Commissioner, attended with 
 his Servants, Pages and Footmen, and in the 
 Return to the Palace, having the High Con- 
 
RYDING OF THE PARLIAMENT. XXVH 
 
 stable on His Right Hand, and the Marishal 
 on His Left, with Capes of Permission, and 
 their Robes. 
 
 The Dukes and Marquisses attending Her Ma- 
 jesties High Commissioner in their Robes. 
 
 The Captain of Her Majesties Guards on the 
 Head of the Troop of Guards. 
 
 EDINBURGH: 
 
 Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew 
 
 Atiderso7i, Printer to the Q U E E N ' S most 
 
 Excellent Majesty, An7io Dom. 1703.* 
 
 * From the Original Folio Broadside, contained in a Volume of 
 very Curious Papers relative to the Scots Parliament 1703-7, 
 which was formerly in the possession of Patrick Gkant, Lord 
 Elchies. 
 
 ^ 
 
XXVlll RIGHT OF BEARING THE IMPERIAL 
 
 II. 
 
 €lmn of ^t I3ttltt of ^umilton antr 
 
 Hovtr Souglas to iJtat fi)t (Bxoij^n 
 
 of Scotlantr. 
 
 RIGHT OF BEARING THE IMPERIAL CROWN OF 
 SCOTLAND AT ROYAL PROCESSIONS. 
 
 In the Privy Council, June 14, 1823. 
 The Claim of Archibald Lord Douglas to 
 perform the above service, and the Counter Claim 
 of His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, came before 
 the Privy Council, by special appointment to day. 
 Mr. Warren and Mr. Brougham, assisted by INIr. 
 Riddel of the Scotch Bar, appeared as Counsel for 
 Lord Douglas ; and Mr. Adam and iVIr. Aber- 
 cromby for the Duke of Hamilton. 
 
 Mr. Warren commenced by stating the nature 
 of Lord Douglas' claim, which was the right of 
 carrying the Crown of Scotland before the King 
 in all solemn pi'ocessions in Edinburgh. On the 
 occasion of His Majesty's recent visit to Scotland, 
 the Claimant presented a Petition to the King in 
 
CROWN OF SCOTLAND AT ROYAL PROCESSIONS. XXIX 
 
 Council, stating that this hereditary office M'as now 
 v^ested in him, as the heir and representative of the 
 Family of Douglas, by virtue of his feudal titles 
 confirmed by Parliament ; and he therefore claimed 
 as his sole and undoubted right, to bear the Im- 
 perial Crown of Scotland at royal processions, with- 
 in the City of Edinburgh, and especially at the then 
 approaching royal procession of His Majesty from 
 the Palace of Holyrood to the Castle of Edinburgh. 
 When this Petition was presented, the Duke of 
 Hamilton had also put in a claim to the privilege, 
 and the King then allowed the Duke to carry the 
 Crown ; but reserved the question of right for 
 future decision. It was not at all affected, there- 
 fore, by the judgment upon that occasion. There 
 were various kinds of processions in which the 
 Crown was borne ; one was the royal procession, 
 called " the Riding of Parliament ;''' another was 
 the royal Coronation ; and several others, for which 
 there was no particular denomination. One of these 
 was his Majesty's procession from Holyrood-house, 
 when he lately visited Scotland. Lord Douglas 
 claimed the right in all these cases, — at the Riding 
 of Parliament, at the Coronation, and on all other 
 occasions. This application was general ; and their 
 Lordships (the Council) would have to decide 
 whether or not he had established his right to the 
 privilege in question upon all those occasions ; and 
 if not to all, then to any, and to what extent. The 
 
XXX RIGHT OF BEARING THE IMPERIAL 
 
 Counter Claim of the Duke of Hamilton was 
 equally extensive. He stated that the privilege 
 was originally granted to the Earl of Angus, from 
 whom it descended to him as personally and here- 
 ditary honour ; and, therefore, he alone had the 
 right to exercise it. Lord Douglas denied that it 
 was granted to the Earl of Angus, as Earl of 
 Angus ; but that it was an heritable office attached 
 to the Lands of which William Earl of Angus and 
 Lord Douglas obtained a Charter from the Crown 
 in ] 602. Now, as the Duke of Hamilton claimed 
 as the Earl of Angus, their Lordships would require 
 that he proved himself to be the Earl of Angus. 
 
 Sir W. Grant. — Why so, he only opposes you. 
 
 Lord Redesdale. — It is sufficient for you, if he 
 disproves your title. 
 
 Mr. Brougham.— It comes to the same ques- 
 tion; for this mode of excluding our title is by 
 setting up his own. 
 
 Lord Redesdale. — This is one mode. 
 
 Mr. Warren. — He is bound to show what right 
 he has to controvert ours. 
 
 Lord Redesdale.— That principle is contrary 
 
CRO\VN OF SCOTLAND AT ROYAL PROCESSIONS. XXXI 
 
 to every day's practice in claims of Peerage ; for 
 many who conceive they have a claim, may oppose 
 the claim of another. 
 
 Mr. Warren. — Well, then, at all events, when 
 his Grace advances his own claim, he will have to 
 prove that he is, as he alleges, the Earl of Angus. 
 The learned Counsel then proceeded to state the 
 facts of Lord Douglas' case. In 160S, William 
 Earl of Angus and Lord Douglas obtained, upon 
 his resignation, a Royal Charter of the estates of 
 Douglas and Angus, along with the heritable offices 
 and privileges of the family, held or possessed by 
 himself or his Ancestors, which were therein men- 
 tioned, viz. — that of giving the first vote, and hav- 
 ing the first seat in Parliament ; of leading the 
 Vanguard of the Army in the day of battle ; and 
 of bearing the Crown in Parliament ; to himself in 
 liferent, and to William Lord Douglas, his eldest 
 son, in fee. 
 
 Lord Redesdale observed, that it would be ne- 
 cessary to read the whole of the charter. As there 
 were two estates passed by it, it was requisite to 
 know what heritable offices appertained to each. 
 Leading the Vanguard of the Army was a Military 
 Service. 
 
XXXll RIGHT OF BEARING THE IMPERIAL 
 
 Mr. Brougham. — We only claim the right of 
 carrying the Cro\yn. 
 
 Lord Redesdale. — What is meant by carrying 
 the Crown ? There is now no Imperial Crown of 
 Scotland. The King could not be crowned with 
 the Crown of Scotland, although the Crown may 
 be in existence. 
 
 Mr. Brougham. — With great submission, my 
 Lord, the Crown of Scotland was not merged, but 
 united with the English Crown, at the union of 
 the two kingdoms. The King might be crowned 
 in Scotland now, as King Charles was. 
 
 Lord Redesdale. — I apprehend he could not 
 be crowned with the Crown of Scotland. 
 
 Mr. Brougham apprehended he could ; but sug- 
 gested that his friend, Mr. Warren, had better 
 proceed with the general opening of the case. 
 
 Mr. Warren resumed. After reading the 
 charter of 1602, he added, that upon this charter 
 feoffment followed, which was confirmed by Par- 
 liament 1606. Previous to the Coronation of 
 Charles the First at Edinburgh in 1633, his Ma- 
 jesty, by a warrant dated at Theobald's, the 13th 
 of May, authorised the Lords of the Privy Coun- 
 
CROWN OF SCOTLAND AT ROYAL PROCESSIONS. XXXUl 
 
 cil to consider of claims of privileges at the ap- 
 proaching Coronation. In consequence of this war- 
 rant, the Privy Council proceeded to investigate 
 the several claims presented to them, and on the 
 31st of May, the Earl of Angus came before them 
 and produced his infeftmeut. On the 12th of 
 June, the Privy Council reported that the honours 
 should be carried by the same person at the Coro- 
 nation, who carried them at the Parliament. Ac- 
 cordingly the King granted his warrant to the Earl 
 of Angus to carry the Crown at the Coronation, 
 and on the 18th of June 1633, the Crown was car- 
 ried by the Earl of Angus immediately before the 
 person of the King, the Earl of Errol, Great Con- 
 stable, riding on his right hand, and on his left 
 hand the Duke of Lennox, Great Chamberlain, 
 who had the Earl Marischal riding on his left hand. 
 After them followed in their order the Peers, who 
 carried the Sceptre, the Sword, and the Spurs, 
 ranked according to the date of their creations. 
 During the short time that Charles the Second was 
 able to remain in Scotland, after the death of 
 Charles the First, he was crowned at Scone, on the 
 1st of January 1651. It was matter of notoriety 
 that the King was then in the power of a faction 
 to which the Earl of Angus, (now created Mar- 
 quis of Douglas), was strongly opposed, and the 
 Marquis, therefore, did not attend the Coronation. 
 At a meeting of the first Parliament after the Re- 
 
XXXIV RIGHT OF BEAKING THE IMPERIAL 
 
 storation, James, second Marquis of Douglas, was 
 a minor ; but he protested, that his inability, from 
 non-age, to exercise his privilege then should be 
 without prejudice of his right to exercise the same 
 in succeeding Parliaments. In the Parliament of 
 1669, his right of carrying the Crown was allowed, 
 as of course, by a meeting of the Privy Council for 
 regulating the order of riding the Parliament. In 
 1 681 , James Duke of York, having held a Parliament 
 in Scotland, as Commissioner for the King, the 
 Crown was carried in the procession by the Mar- 
 quis of Douglas, as it was also in that of 1685. In 
 1703, when a Parliament was held by the Duke 
 of Queensberry, as Commissioner for Queen Anne, 
 Archibald third Marquis of Douglas was a minor ; 
 but on the petition of his guardians to the Privy 
 Council, his next kinsman, the Earl of Forfar, was 
 allowed to carry the Crown in the Marquis's place. 
 It was right to observe, (Mr. Warren said), that 
 in no case had his Lordship claimed the privilege 
 as a personal right, but in virtue of his infeftment. 
 At the period of the imion in 1707, the Marquis, 
 recently created a Duke, being still a minor, his 
 guardians recorded their protest, that the Treaty of 
 Union might in any sort prejudice the honours and 
 privileges, (which were before named), belonging 
 to his Grace and successors in right of his Estates. 
 At the Coronation of King George I. in 1714, the 
 Duke of Douglas was a minor, and no claim was 
 
CROWN OF SCOTLAND AT ROYAL PROCESSIONS. XXXV 
 
 made with regard to his offices. Scotland was 
 then in a state of great political agitation. At the 
 Coronation of King George II. in 1727, the Duke 
 of Douglas was prevented, by particular circum- 
 stances, from making any public appearance. His 
 Grace lay under an imputation of being concerned 
 in the death of a person* whom he suspected of hav- 
 ing formed designs prejudicial to the honour of his 
 family, and lived long afterwards in seclusion. At 
 the Coronation of his late Majesty in 1761, the 
 claimant had succeeded to the estates of his uncle, 
 the Duke of Douglas ; but he was then a minor. 
 He, however, presented his memorial to the King, 
 stating his minority, and praying that he might be 
 permitted to appoint some proper person to officiate 
 in his place at the Coronation, in the office of carry- 
 ing the Crown of Scotland. At this period the 
 claimant's right to the estates and heritable offices 
 of the family was the subject of litigation. Claims 
 were likewise given in by the Duke of Hamilton 
 and the Earl of Selkirk ; but on these conflicting 
 claims no decision was pronounced. The liti- 
 gation did not terminate until a judgment was 
 finally pronounced by the House of Lords on the 
 27th of February 1769, confirming the right of the 
 claimant to the estates and heritable offices of the 
 
 * Murder by the Duke, of a natural son of a younger brother of 
 the Marquis of Lothian, who had engaged the affections of his sister, 
 the celebrated Lady Jane Douglas. 
 
XXXVi RIGHT OF BEARING THE IMPERIAL 
 
 family of Douglas, as last vested in Archibald 
 Duke of Douglas, the claimant's uncle. Previous 
 to the Coronation of his present Majesty, Lord 
 Douglas presented his petition to the Court of 
 Claims, praying to be allowed at the then ensuing 
 Coronation to bear the Imperial Crown of Scot- 
 land. His application was opposed by the Duke 
 of Hamilton, who gave in a counter-claim. After 
 a hearing in the Court of Claims, their Lordships 
 being of opinion that neither claimants had made 
 out a right to carry the Crown of Scotland upon 
 this occasion, refused to allow either claim. The 
 right claimed in the petition now under considera- 
 tion was not then before them. The learned Coun- 
 sel then proceeded to deduce the claimanfs title 
 to the office in question from William Earl of 
 Angus, who held it in 1602, contending that it 
 was feudally carried with the lands by the differ- 
 ent title-deeds to which he referred down to 1698, 
 when a charter under the Great Seal of Scotland 
 was granted to Archibald Earl of Angus, only son 
 of the Marquis James, of the estates and offices, 
 which were specified as in the charter of 1631. 
 The destination in this charter was to Earl Archi- 
 bald and the heirs-male of his body ; whom failing, 
 to the heirs-male of the body of the Marquis's 
 father ; and failing them, to such heirs, and under 
 such conditions, as the Marquis should appoint 
 by any writing in his lifetime. Upon this char- 
 
CROWN OF SCOTLAND AT ROYAL PROCESSIONS. XXXVll 
 
 ter, Earl Angus was iiifeft on the 5th August fol- 
 lowing. On the 11th March 1699, the Marquis 
 executed a deed of nomination, appointing, on fail- 
 ure of heirs-male of his body, the eldest heir-female 
 of the body of his, Lord Angus, and the heirs ge- 
 neral of her body to succeed to the lands and 
 offices. On the 10th of April 1703, Marquis 
 James being dead, his son was created Duke of 
 Douglas, and in a charter under the Great Seal of 
 Scotland, in the year 1707, the family estates and 
 offices are said to have been united and incorpor- 
 ated. The destination in this charter was to the 
 Duke and the heirs contained in the charter of 1698, 
 in the faculty therein contained, and in the deed 
 of nomination of 1699, — which charter was ra- 
 tified in Parliament on the 25th of March 1707. 
 Before being passed, the ratification was read in Par- 
 liament, and although the Duke of Hamilton pro- 
 tested against the privilege therein confirmed, of 
 giving the first vote in Parliament, neither his 
 Grace nor any other protested against the right it 
 also conveyed of bearing the Crown, although that 
 office, as well as the estates, was limited to the heirs 
 of line, failing heirs-male, of the body of the Duke 
 of Douglas ; and the Duke of Hamilton, who was 
 an heir-male general, and as such, a preferable heir 
 under the ancient investiture, was prejudiced by the 
 grant. Only for the change of destination, they 
 would have gone to the Duke of Hamilton, as heir- 
 
XXXVIU RIGHT OF BEARING THE IMPERIAL 
 
 male general ; and the House of Lords having de- 
 cided in favour of the changed destination, by which 
 the lands descended to Lord Douglas, they (Lord 
 Douglas's Counsel) contended that these heritable 
 offices passed with them. It was well known that 
 heritable offices might be transferred as real estates, 
 and might be taken by a creditor the same as land- 
 ed property in Scotland. On the death of the Duke 
 of Douglas in 1761, the claimant was "retoured" 
 as his Grace's sister's son, and, therefore, heir of 
 provision in general to the Duke, in virtue of a 
 deed of disposition and tailzie executed by his Grace 
 in 1761 ; and his Lordship's claim to the estates 
 was established by the judgment of the House of 
 Lords, 1 769. He (Mr. Warren) insisted that the 
 bearing the Crown was an heritable office, and part 
 of the estates to which his client had succeeded. He 
 cited the case of Sir James Cockburn i'. Sir William 
 Cockburn, (23d July 1747,)* in which the Court of 
 Session decided, that the office of King's Usher, and 
 such like heritable offices, were not personal, but 
 were transferable like other estates, and were as 
 much the property of their owners as land was. 
 Now, the office of bearing the Crown being an herit- 
 able office, — all heritable offices being real estates, 
 — and all the real estates of the late Duke of 
 Douglas having been decided by the House of 
 
 • Falconer's Decisions, vol. i. p. 373. Morison, vol. i. p. 157. 
 
CROWN OF SCOTLAND AT ROYAL PROCESSIONS. XX'XIX 
 
 Lords to have passed to Lord Douglas, it was quite 
 clear that the office of bearing the Crown was now 
 indisputably his, — So much for his Lordship's claim. 
 On the part of the Duke of Hamilton, several ob- 
 jections had been raised. The first was, that the ho- 
 nours and privileges in question were personal, con- 
 ferred on the Earls of Angus, and confined to heirs- 
 male ; the grant of the honours, &c. being indepen- 
 dent of the grant of the territory, the latter might 
 be alienated, while it seemed impossible that the 
 privileges in question could be meant to be alienable 
 or transferable. He (Mr. Warren) contended that 
 it was not at all impossible. 
 
 A Member of Council, asked if he contended 
 that all the privileges might be transferred to 
 females.? That, for instance, of having the first 
 vote in Parliament. 
 
 Mr. Warren mentioned a curious note of Mr. 
 Hargrave, in which he stated, that Women, al- 
 though excluded by the Salique law from succeeding 
 to the Crown of France, might yet succeed to every 
 other privilege, and many of them had taken their 
 Seats amongst the Peers of France. His Lordship 
 had anticipated the Duke's second objection, which 
 was, that these oflfices were of such a nature as to 
 render it impossible that they could descend to 
 females. Undoubtedly it was a strange office for 
 
xl RIGHT OF BEARING THE IMPERIAL 
 
 a Lady to lead the Vanguard of the Army in the 
 day of battle ; but there was the office of the Lord 
 Great Chamberlain, which had descended to a lady, 
 and she exercised it through her Deputy. The 
 office of Standard Bearer in Scotland, had been 
 seised by creditors, and sold under a judgment of 
 the Scotch Courts ; and there was no reason why 
 a female, if she chose, might not have become the 
 purchaser. The learned Counsel referred to in- 
 stances in which, like the French ladies sitting as 
 Peers of France, some of our ladies sat in their own 
 Courts, and even presided over judicial combats. 
 In France, too, ladies were known to have assisted 
 with spears at the Coronation, and assisted with 
 other Peers in bearing the Crown of Philip the 
 Fair. At the Assizes of Appleby, the Countess 
 of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery, sat as 
 Sheriff, and assisted the Judges on the Bench. As 
 to the first objection, there was nothing in it. 
 
 Lord Redesdale observed, that Beauchamp, 
 Earl of Warwick, was, by special grant, possessed 
 of the honour of being the first Earl, and this ho- 
 nour was known to have descended to females, al- 
 though it might appear difficult to imagine how a 
 female could become the first Earl. 
 
 Mr. Warren. — The third objection was, that 
 by the law of Scotland, the succession of honours 
 
CROWN OF SCOTLAND AT ROYAL PROCESSIONS. xll 
 
 could not be altered but by a resignation to the 
 Sovereign, and a new grant under the royal sign- 
 manual. In answer to this objection, the learned 
 Counsel cited several instances of offices passing 
 out of the original families, without a resignation, 
 to the Sovereign. 
 
 Mr. Riddell remarked, that the privilege in 
 question was not an honour, but an office, and 
 therefore did not come under the objection. 
 
 Mb. Warren. — The next objection was, that it 
 was not in the power of the guardians of the infant 
 Duke of Douglas in 1 707, to change the succession 
 to the estates or honours of their pupil, or by their 
 Act, to confirm or render better the grant of 1698. 
 But it appeared that his Grace did afterwards 
 homologate ; besides that objection, as well as the 
 one which followed, was negatived by the result of 
 the case in the House of Lords. The sixth objec- 
 tion was, that the ratification in Parliament of the 
 Charter of 1707 was of no force whatever, such 
 Acts being always qualified by a general Act, salvo 
 jure cujuslibet, passed at the close of every Session 
 of the Scottish Parliament, as was the case at the 
 close of the Session in 1707. But then it shewed 
 that the Duke of Hamilton never protested against 
 the right of carrying the Crown, which it conveyed, 
 although he did against that of giving the first vote 
 
 / 
 
Xlii RIGHT OF BEARING THE IMPERIAL 
 
 in Parliament. That was the use ^vhich he (Mr. 
 Warren) made of it. The last objection was, that 
 as Lord Douglas founded his claim to the privilege 
 in question, as being the grant of an heritable 
 office annexed to the landed property he possesses, 
 and in the nature of real estate preserved to the 
 possessors by the treaty of Union, the question 
 could be competently tried only by a Court of Law, 
 if his Lordship really had any ground to stand 
 upon ; and that Court, by the treaty of Union, 
 was the Court of Session in Scotland. No English 
 Court could take cognizance of such a question. 
 " So," said Mr. Warren, " his Grace first claims 
 your decision, and ends by telling your Lordships 
 that you have no power to try the question." 
 
 Sir William Grant. — No ; he only says that 
 according to your statement, (that it is an heritable 
 office descending to you as real estate,) your claim, 
 if well-founded, can only be tried in the Court of 
 Session. That objection does not apply to his, 
 which is of a different nature. 
 
 Mr. Warren observed, that the Court of Claims 
 had taken cognizance of the question. It was but 
 a temporary Court, deriving its authority from the 
 King's pleasure. 
 
 Lord Redesdale.^You mistake the right of 
 
CROWN OF SCOTLAND AT ROYAL PROCESSIONS. xHii 
 
 the Court of Claims. They only decide who are 
 the persons entitled to perform certain services, 
 reserving to the King's pleasure whether or not 
 these services shall be received. You claim the 
 privilege as an office. 
 
 INIr. Warren. — We say we have a right to per- 
 form this sei'vice. 
 
 Lord Redesdale. — The party may be bound to 
 perform it. 
 
 Mr. Warren said that Lord Douglas insisted 
 that he was bound to perform it. In what way 
 he was to be compelled, it might be difficult to 
 say ; but as to the authority, the Scotch Privy 
 Council had exercised it. He would not say that 
 that of Great Britain had the same jurisdiction. 
 
 Lord Redesdale observed, that the Privy Coun- 
 cil of Scotland acted on the King's warrant. The 
 right of office might be tried in the ordinary Courts 
 of Justice, and not referred to the King's pleasure. 
 
 Mr. Warren said it certainly might ; but as it 
 concerned a personal service to the King, it came 
 within the principle of the Court of Claims ; and 
 accordingly, when the case was before them, no 
 question as to their jurisdiction was raised. 
 
xliv RIGHT OF BEARING THE IMPERIAL 
 
 Lord Redesdale. — Do you claim the office as 
 annexed to the lands, or as an office in gross ? 
 
 Mr. Brougham. — We claim it as an office in 
 gross conveyed with the lands, but which may be 
 separated. There was the case of Sir Patrick 
 Walker, who purchased the office of heritable 
 Usher of the White Rod, wholly disconnected 
 with lands. 
 
 Mr. Warren having concluded his statement, 
 
 Mr. Brougham said he was to follow ; but per- 
 haps it would be better now to produce the evi- 
 dence, and their Lordships might hear him after- 
 wards, taking Mr. Warren's statement as a general 
 opening. 
 
 Their Lordships assented. 
 
 Mr. RiDDELL then read the different charters^, &c. 
 referred to, which were drawn up in law-Latin. 
 After which, 
 
 Mr. Brougham addressed their Lordships, and 
 enforced the arguments of Mr. Warren. In reply 
 to the objection as to females holding the offices 
 claimed by Lord Douglas, he instanced, besides 
 those already mentioned, the office of Chief Con- 
 stable, who was the leader of the feudal cavalry. 
 
CROWN OP SCOTLAPJD AT ROYAL PROCESSIONS xlv 
 
 being held by Lord Errol, through a female ances- 
 tor, and several others ; and contended, that offices 
 of this nature were feudal, and quasi territorial, 
 and need not be connected with land. The Earls 
 of Argyll, and their ancestors, the Lords of Lorn, 
 held the office of Justice-General, by a separate in- 
 feftment ; as did the Duke of Hamilton himself, 
 the Keeper of Holyroodhouse, although he took 
 seisin of both land and office by the same symbol. 
 He argued from the Roxburgh case, that it was 
 unnecessary that a resignation should be made into 
 the hands of the King himself, — a resignation to the 
 Barons of the Exchequer, or to Commissioners 
 being sufficient. To shew that a barter of honours 
 was not unknown in feudal terms, he mentioned 
 the case of Lord Berkeley, who being then an old 
 man, agreed to surrender up his barony of Berkeley 
 to Henry VII. on condition that the King would 
 create him Marquis of Berkeley, remainder to 
 the heirs of his body, there being then, from his ad- 
 vanced age, no chance of any ; and would regrant 
 his barony to himself for life, remainder to the heirs 
 of his body, remainder to the King and his heirs- 
 male. The Marquis dying without heirs, the ba- 
 rony descended to the King, and after the entail- 
 ment was extinguished, it reverted to the heir-at- 
 law. He (Mr. Brougham) much questioned if 
 such a bargain at the present day would be looked 
 upon in the purest light, although it was common 
 
Xlvi RIGHT OF BEARING THE IMPERIAL 
 
 enough in that reign, and even in the reign of the 
 learned Monarch " of eternal memory," King 
 James I. He only mentioned this, to show that 
 this commerce of honours was not so abhorent to 
 feudal principles. With respect to the Duke's 
 claim as Earl of Angus, Lord Douglas insisted that 
 he, and not the Duke of Hamilton, was Earl of 
 Angus ; which question was now pending before a 
 Committee of the House of Lords, and Lord Dou- 
 glas had good grounds to expect that it would be 
 decided in his favour. It was, therefore, not very 
 wise in his Grace to rest his whole title to the of- 
 fice in question, on his right as Earl of Angus; but 
 even if his Grace was Earl of Angus, still he con- 
 tended, that the right of this office was in Lord 
 Douglas. Mr. Brougham then referred to the ques- 
 tion of jurisdiction. Where the Crown had refer- 
 red the Petition, it was too late to object to the 
 authority of the Council. If the Crown was wrong 
 in referring it, there might be a Petition of right, 
 as in the case of a usurpation by the Crown. 
 
 Lord Redesdale. — This is a Petition of right, 
 and if the King chooses to send it to us for our ad- 
 vice, he has a right to do so. 
 
 Mr. Brougham said that was his argument. 
 Their Lordships were only to advise the King as 
 to his decision, and if the Crown were badly ad- 
 
CROWN OF SCOTLAND AT ROYAL PROCESSIONS, xlvii 
 
 vised, the Minister would be responsible. After 
 some farther observations, Mr. Brougham conclud- 
 ed, by submitting, that on these grounds, the case 
 of Lord Douglas was made out. 
 
 The Council adjourned the farther hearing of 
 the case to Satui'day, the 21st instant. 
 
 Privy Council, Saturday, June 21. — The ar- 
 guments in this case were resumed this day. — Be- 
 fore the Duke of Hamilton's Counsel commenced, 
 
 Mr. Brougham begged to inform their Lord- 
 ships, that in consequence of a doubt which had 
 been suggested on the last day, as to the privilege 
 claimed by Lord Douglas being denominated " ho- 
 noi'es'''* in the charter, and not munera or qfficia^ 
 which would signify offices, they (Lord Douglas's 
 Counsel) had directed their attention to that point. 
 Their Lordships would find, that where these pri- 
 vileges were referred to in the charter of 1631, they 
 were called heritable offices. They were similarly 
 designated in the procuratory of resignation in 
 1699, and also in the charter by which the Duke- 
 dom was created in 1703. With respect to the ob- 
 jection raised by one of their Lordships of there 
 being no such thing in the eye of the law as a Crown 
 
 ' One or two instances were also referred to of " honores" be- 
 ing occasionally used in practice to designate petty offices. 
 
xlviii RIGHT OF BEARING THE IMPERIAL 
 
 of Scotland, it was distinctly admitted by unques- 
 tionable authority, that there was a Crown of Scot- 
 land ; for it was provided by the 24th section of 
 the Act of Union, that the Regalia, consisting of 
 the Crown, the Sceptre, the Sword, Sic. and the re- 
 cords of Scotland, should be kept in that kingdom. 
 The Crown of Scotland was, therefore, a recogniz- 
 ed subject of legislation ; and, as it seemed to him, 
 the King might be crowned with that or any of the 
 Imperial Crowns, or with all three together. But, 
 at all events, if there were a royal procession to 
 take place in Scotland, there was no reason why 
 the Crown should not form a parcel of that proces- 
 sion. 
 
 Lord Redesdale. — Recollect the words are " in 
 Parliaments."" 
 
 Mr. Brougham. — We have endeavoured to show 
 that Coronations and other processions were meant 
 as well as the Ridings of Parliament. 
 
 Mr. Adam, on behalf of the Duke of Hamilton, 
 then proceeded to answer the arguments advanced 
 on the other side. His learned friends, he said, 
 were not contending for one object ; for Mr. War- 
 ren claimed the right of carrying the Crown in all 
 royal processions, of which he enumerated several 
 kinds ; while Mr. Brougham stated, that all he 
 
CROWN OF SCOTLAND AT ROYAL PROCESSIONS, xlix 
 
 contended for was the right oiF having borne it on 
 the late occasion in Scotland. Now he, (Mr. 
 Adam), insisted, that if Mr. Brougham's statement 
 of his noble client's claim was the true one, it was 
 impossible that he could ever succeed in establish- 
 ing it ; for by the words of the King's grant, the 
 right was only given to carry the Crown in Parlia- 
 ments. The main question between the parties 
 was, whether the privilege claimed belonged to tiie 
 territorial Earldom of Angus, or to the individual 
 personally to whom the Earldom appertained as a 
 title of honour ? It must be the object of both 
 parties to establish the existence of the right claim- 
 ed ; but it was for their Lordships to say to whom 
 that right belonged. The learned gentleman then 
 proceeded to combat those arguments by which the 
 gentlemen opposed to him endeavoured to prove 
 that the right was terri^torial and not personal. In 
 the earliest instance cited, namely, the Coronation of 
 Charles I., the Privy Council decided that the ho- 
 nours should be carried by the same persons at the 
 Coronation, who were to carry the same at the Par- 
 liament, to wit, the eldest in creation ; accordingly 
 the King granted his warrant to the Earl of Angus 
 to carry the Crown at the Coronation. But this 
 decision was not made in consequence of his infeft- 
 ment, which he produced to the Council, but in 
 consequence of his being the " eldest in creation." 
 Mr. Adam then examined all the other proofs re- 
 
 iJ 
 
1 BIGHT OF BEARING THE IMPERIAL 
 
 ferred to by Lord Douglas in support of his claim, 
 and argued, that from none of them could it be in- 
 ferred that this was a feudalized office in gross, or 
 an office incorporated with the lands. It has been 
 very truly stated by Mr. Warren, that seisin of 
 offices generally took place by different symbols 
 from those used to pass land : as the delivery of a 
 key, a rod, a sword, &c. the symbols of land being 
 usually earth and stone. But in no instance had 
 he shown that the Earls of Angus had ever receiv- 
 ed possession of their property by any other sym- 
 bols than earth and stone. In the case of the he- 
 reditary office of Justice- General, that was clearly 
 a feudal grant, for it contained a tenendum clause, 
 and a reddendum ; and seisin of it was passed by 
 the delivery of a rod to the Marquis of Argyll at 
 the castle of Inverary. It was true that with re- 
 gard to the office of keeper of Holyroodhouse, pos- 
 sessed by the Duke of Hamilton, seisin was passed 
 to his Grace by the symbols of earth and stone ; 
 but the keeper had the care of the palace, the gar- 
 dens, the bowling green, and its other appurten- 
 ances ; and it had not been shown that earth and 
 stone were not, therefore, the proper symbols of the 
 keeper's office. Possession of the hereditary sheriff- 
 dom of Renfrew was passed by the delivery of a 
 sword ; and other offices were passed in like man- 
 ner ; but in the absence of all such signs of feu- 
 dalism in the case before their Lordships, he con- 
 
CROWN OF SCOTLAND AT ROYAL PROCESSIONS. li 
 
 tended that this was not a feudalized office. The 
 learned gentleman next went on to show, from au- 
 thorities, that it was only heritable offices incor- 
 porated with land and feudalized, that were alien- 
 able. The privilege in question was not an office, 
 but an honour ; and was unlike the great offices of 
 England which were held in grand sergeantcy ; 
 such, for instance, as the championship. As to the 
 claim of Lord Douglas to the title of Earl of Angus, 
 which Mr. Brougham stated was still pending be- 
 fore the House of Lords, it certainly was so ; but 
 so had it been for the last 62 years, during all 
 which period his Lordship had abstained from pro- 
 secuting his claims ; while in the meantime he had 
 sat in Parliament as a commoner ; and although he 
 was objected to as being Earl of Angus, he never- 
 theless continued to hold his seat. And when he 
 was created Lord Douglas, he was designed in the 
 patent as Archibald Douglas, Esq. The Duke of 
 Hamilton, on the other hand, had done every thing 
 to assert his claim to the title. His Grace assum- 
 ed the title of Marquis of Douglas, and. his son that 
 of Earl of Angus. It was true that the bare as- 
 sumption of a title was no proof of right to it, but 
 still it was a challenge to Lord Douglas to assert 
 his claim if he had any. 
 
 Sir W. Grant. — But the Duke of Hamilton 
 
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 also presented a petition to the House of Lords in 
 1762, which he never prosecuted. 
 
 Mr. Adam said, he certainly did ; but being in 
 possession, as Duke of Hamilton, of all the privi- 
 leges which the title could give him, he did not con- 
 sider it necessary to prosecute his claim. He, (Mr. 
 Adam), however, was not there to show that his 
 Grace was Earl of Angus ; it M^as sufficient for him 
 to prove that Lord Douglas had no right to the pri- 
 vilege in question. By prescription his Lordship 
 had certainly no title ; for the right had never been 
 exercised since the female succession. With respect 
 to the protest made by the Duke of Hamilton in 
 1707, that was merely made against Lord Douglas's 
 having the first vote in Parliament, on the ground 
 that he was the first Peer ; that, therefore, had no 
 reference to any of the considerations brought 
 before their Lordships. He, (Mr. Adam), did 
 not mean to contend that the office in question 
 could not be held by females. The office of con- 
 stable had descended to ladies, by whom a deputy 
 was appointed until they were married, and then 
 Lord Coke decided that the husband of the eldest 
 should exercise the office. But it was afterwards 
 determined, in the case of the Great Chamberlain- 
 ship, which had descended from the Duke of An- 
 caster to his daughters, that they should appoint 
 a deputy between them. But then it afforded a con- 
 
CROWN OF SCOTLAND AT ROYAL PROCESSIONS liii 
 
 striiction for the intention of the original granter, 
 Avho could not have contemplated that the offices 
 with which this was associated, namely, those of 
 giving the first vote in Parliament, and leading the 
 vanguard of the army, should descend to females. — 
 After some farther argument, the learned Counsel 
 concluded by insisting, that even supposing the of- 
 fices to be incorporated, still their Lordships were 
 not the tribunal to decide the question ; for if they 
 were heritable property, Lord Douglas ought to 
 have applied to a Court of Law. The Scotch Privy 
 Council having been abolished in the reign of Queen 
 Anne, their Lordships could not be said to repre- 
 sent the Privy Council of Scotland ; and by the act 
 which abolished the Star Chamber in Charles's 
 reign, the English Privy Council were precluded 
 from taking cognizance of questions of property. 
 He, therefore, trusted that their Lordships would 
 advise the King that this question ought to be left 
 to the decision of a Court of Law, and that his Ma- 
 jesty ought to refuse the prayer of Lord Douglas's 
 petition. 
 
 The Commissioners presented their report to the 
 King in Council, on the 8th August. It was read 
 at the Court at Carlton House on the 16th instant, 
 when his Majesty having been pleased to take the 
 same into consideration, was pleased, by and with 
 
liv RIGHT OF BEARING THE IMPERIAL, &C. 
 
 the advice of his Privy Council, to approve there- 
 of. After detailing the petition of Lord Douglas, 
 and the memorial of the Duke of Hamilton and 
 Brandon, the report so confirmed declares, that 
 their Lordships reported to his Majesty that the 
 privilege expressed in the several charters pro- 
 duced extended only to carrying the Crown of the 
 ancient kingdom of Scotland in Parliament ; and 
 that, therefore, supposing the privileges so granted 
 Can be considered as existing, the claim of the Lord 
 Douglas to an heritable right to carry such Crown 
 in the late Procession from the Palace of Holyrood 
 to the Castle of Edinburgh,* does not appear to 
 them to have been made out, — ^the bearing of such 
 Crown in such Procession not being a bearing in 
 Parliament ; and that, therefore, it rested with his 
 Majesty to appoint such person as his Majesty 
 might think fit to perform that ceremony ; but the 
 claim of the Lord Douglas of the office of carrying 
 such Crown being a claim of an heritable right, 
 their Lordships are of opinion, that the same may 
 be discussed and decided upon in a Court of Law, 
 as other claims of heritable offices have been dis- 
 cussed and decided. This, therefore, his Majesty 
 has been graciously pleased to approve of. 
 
 * This refers to the Visit of his Majesty George IV. to Scot- 
 land, when his Grace the Duke of Hamilton bore the Crown in the 
 Procession from the Palace to the Castle of Edinburgh. 
 
#tt |loliilti||< 
 
 1, — The Name of Nobility drawes its originall from 
 the Latine worde Nosco, even as Nobilis deriues it 
 selve as it were from Noscibilis, and Nobilitas from 
 Noscibilitas, one beyond wthers remarkable, per- 
 spicous, famous, illustrious, conspicous, noture, di- 
 vulged, and celebrat by the comon discoursse of all. 
 
 2. — The significatione of the noune Nobility, is 
 not one and the same, but manifold. 
 
 3. — The word being too wyde and improperly 
 takine, may be construed one ather pairt, both of 
 good and bad. 
 
 4. — Lykwayes analogically, and by a certaine 
 similitude of reasone, quhat euer is worthier then ane 
 wther, that selue same may be said to be nobler, as 
 Man is of all creatures holden to be most noble. 
 
 5. — Tiraquell, d. cap. 2, is of the oppinione that 
 the Name, Noble, is not only giuen to lining thinges, 
 bot also to thinges inanimat and woyde of reassone. 
 
 A 
 
2 TREATISE 
 
 6. — The worde Noble being strlckly takin and 
 properly, all woyde of reassone,are lykwayes woyde 
 of Nobility, Man only excepted, quha, amongset all 
 Lining, is only pertaker of Nobility. 
 
 7. — Nobility, therfor, is a thing passing ex- 
 cellent and illustrious. Nobility is a frind and fa- 
 miliar to Wertew, louing and delighting in ane 
 harmles lyffe and innocent behauiour, aiming still 
 at honest and ingenous actions; for to Man alone is 
 competent, Liberty, Wertew, and Honesty, and not 
 to brute beastes and cretures inanimate. Francis- 
 cus Picolominens in Tractat ; de Moribus Grad. 
 8, Cap. 17. 
 
 8. — Nobility especially signifies and denotes a 
 certaine praeeminent degree of dignity, dew and 
 competent to certaine persons for their Wertewss. 
 
 9. — And so amongest ws, Nobility is ather a cer- 
 taine dignity be a Man acquyred by his wertew, 
 from the Prince or King, gea, from anay Absolute 
 Potentat, not acknowledging a Superior one Earth, 
 or wtherwayes a discent in blood from worthey and 
 famous Ancestors and Parents. 
 
 10. — The fontaine and spring of Nobility is ather 
 Wertew or Authority of the Prince. 
 
ON NOBILITY. 3 
 
 11. — Werte^y alone is not sufficient to acquyre 
 Nobility Ciuill, wnles ather the authority of some 
 Supreame Prince, or Estait, hauing pouer be addit, 
 quho, by ther patent chartre, ore els by some usuall 
 Solem Ceremoney, confirmed the same. 
 
 12. — And in this, does Ciuill Nobility differ from 
 philosophicall, wich onlie wertew by it selue and 
 alone does confer Nobility therto by the Lawes of 
 Nature and Nations, competent, and therfor, more 
 properlie to be called Nobility, Comon and Gene- 
 rail then Ciuill. 
 
 13. — For quho by Wertew alone is best knowen 
 and most excells, is, by the wulgare opinione and 
 estimation of all, euer reputted and holdin to be the 
 most Illustrious and Noble, not by ciuell and poli- 
 ticle reassone, wnles the authority of the Prince 
 interweine. 
 
 14. — The prince only as the fountaine and head 
 of all dignity, as it were by a kynd of ciuill dis- 
 quisitione^ diflPerences by tokens and markes of No- 
 bility, the honest and wertewes from the churlische 
 plebeian. 1. Prasectus in fin. G. de dig. lib. 12. 
 L. fin. cap. de Legibus L. 1. cap. ut dignit. ordo 
 servetur. 
 
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TREATISE 
 
 15. — And hence it is, that Nobility politicall ore 
 ciuill becomes to be of the ciuill Law, according to 
 the oppinione of Tiraquell. d. Tract, cap. 6, N. 
 
 1. et 6. Vulteius consilh Marpurg. vol. 3, Consill. 
 34, Numb.: 167. 
 
 16. — This Ciuill Nobility by it selue is one and 
 the same, get not so stricke in degree bot that it ad- 
 mitts varietie of distinctions, such as are the gene- 
 rall steppes and degreis of dignities, L. vt gradatim. 
 ff. de Muneribus et Honoribus. 
 
 17. — Some, therfor, are simple Noble, others No- 
 bler, and a third Noblest of all. Tiraquellus de 
 Nobilit. cap. 37, N. 67. Scrader ConsiU. 23, Num. 
 
 2, et Consil. 14, Num. 89- 
 
 18. — And sua as amongest the Germaines, so 
 amongest ourselues are the difference of ty tills re- 
 ceaued to be in Vsse, so as some are called Gentile, 
 some Honorable, some Worschipfiill, others Noble. 
 Gregorius Tholassanus lib. 4, de Repub. cap. 4. 
 
 19. — Morouer, of Nobles, some are Princes, some 
 Duckes, some Marquesses, some Earles, some Vis- 
 counts and Lordes. Utheris also in ane inferior de- 
 gree of Nobility, are Knights of severall degrees 
 and Orders, according to the custom and priuilidges 
 of the places quher they liue ; and, lastly, Barrens 
 
ON NOBILITY. 5 
 
 or Esquires, and Gentlemen and Squires. Petrus 
 Hey ins, pars. 1. Quest. 2, Num. 6. 
 
 20. — Hence it M^es, that the Pope Innocent 3d 
 calls the Marques of Misnia Nobleman, and Pope 
 Innocent 4. lykwayes cittes the Earle of Pononia 
 by the tytle of a Nobleman. In Cap. Constitutus 
 Extravag. de test, et attest. In cap. Grandi in 
 pr. de Supl. Neglect, praet. : 
 
 21. — The name of Nobility is ane ample and spa- 
 tious field, comprehending therein all orders and 
 degrees of N obility, fi'om the Prince to the Plebeian. 
 Neuertheles, ther dignities are distinguished by 
 degrees, more or les. Tiraquellus, d. Tract, cap. 2. 
 
 22. — In Germany, ther is a speciall and parti- 
 culare sorte of Nobility so esteemed, get, Avnder 
 the degree of Barrons, quherof some holds imediat- 
 ly of the Emperour, and of wther Princes and free 
 Estaits. Suche are called ther free Nobles. Sex- 
 tin, in Tractat. de Regalibus, Cap. 4, Num. 95, 
 Lib. 1. 
 
 23. — Morouer, ther is a Nobility that is new, 
 and as it wer new sprung upe, ore begunne, and 
 ane wther that is ancient and hereditarey, — the 
 first degree quherof are suche as by their personall 
 wertewes and vorthy exploitts haue acquyred ther 
 
6 TREATISE 
 
 Nobility from the bounty of the Prince, and ther 
 waxe is said to be greeine, and ther Nobility new. 
 Wthers ther are, quho being themselues wertewes, 
 and discendit from a longe race of wertewes and 
 worthey parents, quhosse Nobility is said to be an- 
 cient. Petrus Gregorius, lib. 4. Repub. cap. 2, N. 4. 
 
 24. — Treulie, altho ancient Nobility be reputted 
 and holdin more perfyte then the new, get the in- 
 solency of some quho bostes of ther antiquity of 
 discent in Nobility, despysing wthers new come 
 upe, as buckes of the first head, can nowayes be 
 approuen ore commendit, as if they wer beyond all 
 beginning themselues, and had lost the fontaine 
 from quhence ther auen Rill issewed. 
 
 25. — And treulie, as in euery thing, ther is a 
 beginning and perfectione, ane infancie and virility, 
 euen so of Nobility. It is most necessary that some 
 beginning and originall limitt be fixed, since by the 
 Law of Nature all men are agquall, altho by civill 
 dispositione some are lawfully exeimed from the 
 Plebein and Vulgar Route. To this conclusione may 
 be addit that olde Rithme, — 
 
 Quhen Adam delueit and Eva span, 
 Quher wes then a Gentleman. 
 
 26. — Hence ussually is decerned a difference be- 
 
ON NOBILITY. 7 
 
 tw'ix Nobility by wertew, and Nobility by discent, 
 for, in aney may be Nobility of blood and discent, in 
 quhom perhappes no Nobility of wertew does ap- 
 peire, as sayes Kickerman : praecog: Etheci System: 
 pag. 41. 
 
 27. — Tiraquell hes ane ode distinctione of Nobi- 
 lity, viz. in Urbanos or Nobility of the citey, and 
 Rusticanos of the countrey. Of the citey he calls 
 thesse that duells in citties and tonnes ; Rustickes, 
 thesse that inhabit abroade in palaces and castells in 
 the countrey. This friuolus Italian distinctione, in 
 my oppinione, addes or diminishes little or nothing 
 from the Nobility. 
 
 28. — Lastlie, then, since Vertew is the spring 
 from quhence Glorey, Honor, and Nobility flowes, 
 and that it is ather by armes or letters, it will now 
 follow that a tuo fold Nobility constitute one that 
 is purchessed by Armes, Valor, and Skill in Militarey 
 affaires ; the wther by Knowledge and Learninge. 
 
 29. — Ather of wich tuo ennobles, prowyding the 
 authority of the supreme Magistrat interweine in a 
 formall way of Nobilitating, since Vertew by it selve 
 and alone is not sufficient to Nobilitat a Man. Ti- 
 raquell. d. cap. 5. n. 5. 
 
 30. — He is a Nobleman quhome the prince hau- 
 
8 TREATISE 
 
 ing poller, exalts from the Plebeian Crew, and ather 
 by publicke ceremoney or patent, Nobilitats. Caro- 
 lus Tap. ad Rus: ff: const: principum cap. 4. num. 
 4&n2. 
 
 31. — And so a king within his auen dominions 
 hes pouer to nobilitat, for his pouer in all poyntis 
 is als grate as is that of the Emperour within the 
 Roman Empyre, and so is it with other Princes 
 wich are free, accknouledging no Superior. 
 
 32. — Hence arryses a question, wither ore not 
 inferior princes, as Electors, Duckes, and Mar- 
 quesses, haue pouer to nobilitat, being free princes, 
 altho fewers of the Empyre, als weill as Kinges, 
 Princes, and Estaits not accknouledging a Superior. 
 Diuers hold that they can and may doe it, as Tira- 
 quell Tract: cap. 6. n. 5, and Obreschte disput: de 
 feud. 2. Uthers denayes it, as Regner Sextin. 
 Tract: de Regalibus lib. 1. cap. 5. Ferrerius Mon- 
 tanus, Tractatus de fewdis, lib. 5. cap. 7. 
 
 33. — It is certainly knowen that diuers priuat 
 men, by the Emperours grant to them during lyfFe, 
 haue had pouer to nobilitat, and to usse and ex- 
 ercisse uther kingly offices belonging to Royalty. 
 Suche are called Earles Palatyne at this day. 
 
 34. — Notwithstanding that by the forsaid grant 
 
ON NOBILITY. 
 
 to them they nobilitat, 5et the dignity is said to 
 proceid from the Emperour onlie, for it is to be 
 understood that quhat a man does by his depute or 
 substitute, he does by him selue, since the pouer 
 and authority flowes from him. Franciscus Philet : 
 respub. 197. num. 3. 
 
 35. — So the Archduckes of Austria, by especiall 
 imperiall privilidge and grant, hes not only pouer 
 to ennoble but lykwayes to creat Barrons and 
 Earles, wich preuilidge is lairgly recordit by Mun- 
 ster Cosmograph. lib. 3. cap. 416. 
 
 36. — Quho euer hes pouer and preuilidge to No- 
 bilitat, may ather priuatly or publickly take one 
 from out the Wulgar, and ennoble him. Bartolus 
 in D. L. C. de dignitat. lib. 12. 
 
 37. — Aptlie a prince is said to nobilitat one 
 quhen, ather by expresse wordes or by wreat, or 
 other wayes by some externall acte or ceremoney, he 
 manifests his princely magnificence and creatione, 
 aither by giuing of Armes or Signe Armorialls to 
 be borne by the party so honoured in Escutcheons, 
 ore by careing Helmetts with open Beuer, muche 
 ussed by the Germans. Gutier, lib. 3. et 4. quest. 
 17. num. 151. Petrus Gregorius, lib. 6. de Repub. 
 cap. 16. num. 2. 
 
10 TREATISE 
 
 38. — Euen so is Nobility by the Law or by 
 wreatt, conferred to a plebeiane woman by her 
 mariage to a noble man. L. Faeminae ff". de Senat. 
 L. cum d. & L. Vult. 
 
 39- — And shee therafter injoyes the immunities 
 and previlidges of her husband who is a nobleman. 
 Zea after his death shoe remaining a widow. L. Filii 
 § Viduse ff. ad Mancip. d. L. Faeminae. 
 
 40. — One is said to be couertly and qyetly enno- 
 bled quhen he in quhosse hands the pouer layes, 
 w^ithout aney expresse creatione, but only by a cer- 
 taine necessary consequence, ennobles. Bartol. in 
 L. cap. 1. de Dignitat. lib. 12. 
 
 41. — After this same maner are ennobled, with- 
 out aney certaine forme of nobilitatione, thesse 
 quhoin the Imperiall Courte are assumed to be 
 ather Counsellers or Senators. Tiraq. de Nobil. 
 cap. 6. n. 21. 
 
 42. — And lykwayes thesse quho by Princes are 
 preferrid to be Leaders and Generalls of ther 
 Armie, are ennobled. Lesnauderie in Tract, de 
 preuil. doctorum, p. 2. quest. 38. 
 
 43. — Thosse also quho are preferred to the Dig- 
 
ON NOBILITY. H 
 
 nity of Doctor of the Lawes, Diuinity or Medicine, 
 (for one suche maney preuilidges of Nobility at- 
 tendes,) by many Ciuilians and Canonists, are euer 
 reputted noble in their auen degree. Guido Papa 
 decis. 88 Tiraquellus, L. Loc. cap. 5. n. 5. 
 
 44. — Bot if a prince shall invest aney in a noble 
 feoffe ore feude, is he not (so invested) to be from 
 that tyme fourthe reputted Noble ? 
 
 It is answered that fees simple and off them- 
 selues, does not nobilitat, onlie in casse such a noble 
 feude be giuen by such who lies pouer to nobilitat, 
 and quhosse mynd is knouen to have been willinge 
 to honor him on quhom he had bestowed that no- 
 ble fewde. Wesembechius Consill, 135. n. 70. 
 
 45. — Quhen, as then, the donation of a fee is 
 said to nobilitat, it is euer to be prasupponned that 
 it is not the feude that ennobles, bot only the plea- 
 sure of the Prince quho is donator, for doubtles 
 it must euer be thought that the dignity of ennob- 
 linge does flow from the persone of the Prince, and 
 not from aney wther thinge. Vulteius d. Loc. n. 
 10. 
 
 46. — Nothing therfor impeds quhy a Prince may 
 not enoble his auen subjects without his auen do- 
 minions. Tiraquellus, cap. 6. n. 26. 
 
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12 TREATISE 
 
 47. — Bot the Law being narouly and strickly 
 lookit wnto, it may be said that non that is noble 
 can enjoy the praeuilidges of his nobility without 
 the terretories of that Prince who ennobled him. 
 Per L. fin. fF. de Jurisdict. 
 
 48. — Notwithstanding, it is wtherwayes, and that 
 by the mutuaal practisse of Nations, and a receved 
 custome, that who is Noble in one Natione or 
 Coiintrey, is so still reputted in ane other. For if 
 thesse that are noble Germans, Italians, Polonians, 
 Danes, Englische, Frenche, "wer not so esteemed 
 amongst us Scotts, noble, as in ther auen countries, 
 no doubt bot amongest them wee should find the 
 lyke measures, and by the law of retortione, being 
 the most asquitable of aney. Antonius Faber. lib. 
 9. c. lib. 28. defin. 12. n. 9- 
 
 49. — But if a preuilidge of Nobility be for cer- 
 taine usses conferred to aney, as for the atchiuing 
 of some noble feude, or the attening of some dignity 
 wich he can not have, wnles he be reputted Noble, 
 in such casses the praevilidge of Nobility does not 
 go ouer and beyond the borders of the giuers ter- 
 ritories. Faber. d. defin. 12. 
 
 50. — Thesse who are honoured with the dignity 
 of Patricians, altlio inhabitants of Tounes and 
 Citties, and therfor rather to be esteemed Citicens 
 
ON NOBILITY. 13 
 
 then Nobles ; neuerthelesse for the grander of the 
 Citty, and ther antiqviity of discent in the same 
 within ther auin Jurisdictions and territories, they 
 are repiitted noble. Bot not without the same. 
 Tiraquellus De Nobil. cap. 10. 
 
 51. — Who so euer is of good fame and reputa- 
 tione for lyfFe and raaners, one, quhome the gate 
 of Nobility is not shute, him may the prince freely 
 ennoble. Tiraquellus, cap. 6. n. 26. 
 
 52. — Nobility by birth belonges to thosse quho 
 are discendit of noble parents : the efFecte treulie 
 of a lawfull acquyred Nobility is perceaued by that. 
 It is to maney generations remitted to ther posteri- 
 ty — Cod. de dignitat. lib. 12. Vbi Bartol. 
 
 53. — Hence is this Nobility called of Birth and 
 Discent (of grate esteime amongest the Germanes), 
 for quho so euer is borne amongest them of noble 
 parents, is furthwith reputted to be Noble : yet if 
 that Nobility is qualified with Learning, it is more 
 sett buy. Petrus Hey. 1. 4. 2. Numb. 63. 
 
 54. — One is trewly said to be nobly borne quho 
 is descendit and procreat of a noble father and 
 mother ; at least of a noble father, for from him is 
 the Nobility deriued to the sone, altho the mother 
 
14 TREATISE 
 
 be by birth a plebeian. Tiraquellus. Cap. 18. 
 Num. 20. 
 
 55. — And altho the mother be of the wulgar 
 sorte, the Father being noble, it letts not the child- 
 ren procreat betwix them in lawfull wedlocke, to 
 be repiitted noble, since the issew by the Law fol- 
 lowes the conditione of the father. Arg. Leg. 
 Mulieres. 13. cap. de Dignit. 
 
 56. — Bot the Nobility of the children is euer 
 holdin to be the more illustrious, that it proceid af 
 the knovven Nobility of ather parent. Tiraquellus. 
 cap. 28. Num. 26. 
 
 57. — One discendit of a noble father and mother 
 is euer to be praeferred to him quho is onlie pro- 
 creat of one noble parent, of wich of the two so 
 euer it be. Cod. de Silentiariis lib. 12. L. 1. Meno- 
 chius Consill. 126. Nobilis, Num. 12. lib. 2. 
 
 58. — From quhence diuers of the Learnid holdis 
 that a Doctor procreat of a Doctor noblie descendit, 
 is to be praeferred to a doctor issewed from a citi- 
 cen not noble ; as also the sone of a doctor is to be 
 praeferred to him isscM^ed of a plebeian. Mart. 
 Landensis in Tract, de Dignitatibus. questio 17. 
 
 59. — Tuo causses ore tuo reassons in Law, ane 
 
ON NOBILITY. 15 
 
 more valide then one, as tuo Ligatours does taye 
 more firmlie and assuredly then one. Althen. de 
 Consanguineis fratribus, Cap. quiaigitur 1, § plu- 
 rima, Num. 82. 
 
 60. — So wee see the Germains to deduce usually 
 ther peedigrees of 8 discents of Nobles in ather syde 
 without a blote. 
 
 61. — Wich custome amongest in Germaney is 
 lykwayes in ther cheiffe Ecclesiasticall praefer- 
 ments punctually observit ; for if they cannot proue 
 ther eight discents of Noble in ather syde, they are 
 seldome admitted to the more eminent places in 
 Church Gouerinment. 
 
 62. — Bot by the Cannon Law ther is no re- 
 specte at all had to Nobility of Birth in such prae- 
 ferments ; for it is not the Nobility of Bloode, bot 
 of wertew and ane wnspotted lyfFe and integrity 
 that is acceptable in the sight of God, and makes 
 a fitting and apte seruant. Tiraquellus, cap. 2. 
 Num. 18. 
 
 63. — Munster in the thrid booke of his Cosmo- 
 graphie, setts doune the Laues and Constitutions 
 ussed amongest the Germans in ther Knight lyke 
 sports of Tilts and Turnaments, by wich non is 
 admitted to shew his valor without he can shew his 
 
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 discent of Nobility for foure Generations of ather 
 parent. 
 
 64. — Hence arrysses the questione wither or no 
 the Emperour may out of his supreame pouer and 
 princely praerogative, grace a Pesant or Bouer with 
 his favour, by ennobling him, so that he may be 
 capable to participat of such knightly exercisses. 
 To this questione most of the Civilians anssuer 
 affirmatively that he may doe it. 
 
 Q5, Moreouer the transmissione, and as it wer 
 
 the successione of Nobility doetli onlie flow from a 
 just and lawfull mariage bed. Bastards, therfor, 
 and illegitimat childrene of noble persons are not 
 by the Civill Law reputted thers, in respecte thesse 
 rills flowes not from the noble fontaine, hot from 
 the pudell of tainted and corrupted bloode, et sordes 
 inter prcecipuos nominari non merentur. 
 
 QQ. — It is questioned wither the father's Nobility 
 extends to his children procreat before he was no- 
 bilitat. Some Civilians are for it, as per L. Sena- 
 toris. ff de Senatoribus cap. de Dignitatibus, Duaren. 
 lib. 2. dis. anniuerss. cap. 29. 
 
 Aginst it ar thesse of most notte. Julius Pacius 
 Centur. 1. Quest. 39. Jacobus Cuiacius in explica- 
 tione. d. L. Senator. 
 
ON NOBILITY. 17 
 
 67. — The second questione that falls in our way 
 is, if ore not, a man's nobility does not extend als 
 Weill to his children ore sones adopted, as to thesse 
 lawfull procreat of his auen bodey. This ques- 
 tione is ansswered affirmative, since by addoptione 
 dignities are not in Law diminished bot rather aug- 
 mented, ff. de Adopt. L. liberos. 10. de Senatori- 
 bus L. Ex adoptivo 27. Senatoris. 5. L. Seq. de 
 Senatu. Cuiacius anssuers this questione by a dis- 
 tinction. Consult. 56. and in Coment. ad Lib. 36. 
 Questi. Papinian. 
 
 68. — Lykewayes if a Nobleman suffers himselue 
 to be addopted to a plebeian — does he so losse his 
 Nobility — yea, according to Cuiacius. d. Constit. 
 56. Bot Bocer is of the contrarey oppinione in 
 Tract, de Regalibus. cap. Num. 42. per text, in 
 L. per Adopt. 
 
 69- — The children's Nobility does not ascend to 
 the parents, wnless the King or Prince doe make 
 the father noble at the dignifieing of his sone, (for 
 to ennoble is euer thought to be in the number of 
 thesse thinges wich does cheiffly consist in the free 
 will and pleassur of the giuer,) in so far as diuers 
 against ther vills hes beine enobled. Contra L. in- 
 vito fF. de Reg. jur. Item Tiraquellus. cap. 16. N. 1. 
 
 70. — It is not to be doutted bot by the Law 
 
 c 
 
18 TREATISE 
 
 a plebeian wyffe married to a Nobleman, sho be- 
 comes copartner of his dignity. Sup. Cond. 39. 
 and 40. 
 
 71. — If a Noble woman marrey a plebeian, by 
 such a matrimoniall acte, shoe not only impairs her 
 dignity, hot losses by the Law, her Nobility, as if 
 shoe had expossed her selue to be a common strum- 
 pit. Tiraquellus, cap. 18. N. 13. Arg. L. Foeminse. 
 ff. de Senat. 
 
 72. — One the contrarey, if a plebeian woman 
 marry a Nobleman, shoe is not onlie holdin and es- 
 teimed noble so longe as he lines, hot lykwayes af- 
 ter his deathe, during her widowhed quhat som- 
 ever preevilidgis he injoyed or dignities in his lyffe 
 shoe is pertaker. d. L. Faeminse, § 1, and L. Filii, 
 § ad Municip. d. L. Mulieres. C. de Incolis. lib. 10. 
 
 73. — Bot if the Nobleman's relicke quha was 
 befor her wedding to him a plebeian, does after his 
 death marry a villan or plebeian, then does shoe 
 losse all the praeuillidges of her Nobility acquyred 
 by her first marriage, and so followes the conditione 
 of her present husband. Tiraquell. cap. 18. Num. 
 15. et seq. 
 
 74.— Ther does belong to Nobility certaine prae- 
 vilidges, praeheminences and immunities, as Armes, 
 
ON NOBILITY. 
 
 19 
 
 Distinctions, Supporters, Crests, Helmetts, with 
 open Beuers, with such lyk, by wich they are dif- 
 ferenced from the plebeian and wulgar sorte. Arg. 
 L. Sanctum. § 1. ff. Rerum divissione. 
 
 75. — The plebeians, Comons and Ignoble, can, 
 nor should not usurpe suche eseinges and markes 
 of Nobility as ar wssed by persons dignified for 
 awoydiug of confusaione. Bon. de Curtili de No- 
 bilitate p. 3. Num. 173. 
 
 76. — If by fraud or deceit, ambitione or ignor- 
 ance, aney usurpe the seinges armorialls of ane 
 wther, quho by Law and prsevilidge bears the same, 
 he is not only layable to the prohibitione, bot also 
 incurrs the plea of injurey and falsett. L. Mimae. 3. 
 C. de Epis. and Cler. ditect. vbi panormit. de Excess. 
 Clericorum. 
 
 77. — Nobles in ther habitts and vestures have 
 lykwayes praerogatives above the plebeians and vul- 
 gar. K. Ja. 6, Pari. 23. in a" 1621. Acte 25. 
 Juxta L. Observandum ff de officio pres. tot Titul. 
 Cod. de Vestibus, Holoser : et Aur. 
 
 78. — Now a dayes Men are become so luxurious 
 in ther appareU and clothing that scarsse cane aney 
 difference be perceaued betwix Nobles and the 
 Comon Rable, Basse Mechanicks and ther wyffes 
 
20 TREATISE 
 
 aequaling if not surpassing the most eminent in Dig- 
 nity in this kynd by ther excesse and ryott. Al- 
 bericus in L. 2. C. quae res vend, non poss. 
 
 79- — In publicke places, in meittings, and salu- 
 tations, and wtheris of that nature, the LavF lyk- 
 wayes attributts praevilidges to such as are ennob- 
 led, and if ther inferiors out of disdaine, denay 
 them ther dew, they are to be forced therto by the 
 Magistrat, as also for defence of ther honor. Ac- 
 tione of injurey is competent to them against such 
 dandiparts L. Injuriarum § 15. Siquis ff de injur. 
 
 80. — Nobles are distinguished and limited from 
 the Vulgar by certaine honorable stepes and de- 
 grees according to custome of the countries quher- 
 in they Hue, and the favor of ther princes, as in 
 Honorable, Worschipfull, Reverend, Noble, and 
 Most Noble. 
 
 81. — The civill Law likwayes putts difference 
 betwix retinew, house-keping, and aliment of No- 
 bles and Plebeians ; yea in ther werey ordinarey 
 expensis. L. cum vnus, § Aliment, ff de Aliment. 
 K. Ja. 6. pari. 23. Acte 25, 1621. 
 
 82. — Diuers praevilidges belonging to Nobility 
 consists also one presumptions, because it is euer 
 more to be presumid that the integrity and de- 
 
ON NOBILITY. 21 
 
 meanor of a Nobleman in all wertews actions is 
 still to be preferrid to a plebeian. Tiraquell, cap. 
 20, num. 20. 
 
 83. — The asseueratione and declaratione of a 
 Nobleman is by the Law euer to be preferred to 
 that of a Plebeian. Gl. in L. 3. Verb. pleb. ff. 
 de testibus & in cap. item testium 4. Quest. 3. 
 
 84 — By the Ciuill Law, the assertione of a No- 
 bleman is to be trusted ; and in landes, contracts, 
 and renuntiations, his promise on the faith of a No- 
 bleman is in a lyke esteeme with the corporall 
 othe of a Plebeian. Vesembechius consil. 52, Num. 
 
 85. — A Nobleman cannot be tortured by the 
 Civill Law, as a plebeian, without the Prince's 
 command, except for the crymes of Lessemajeste, 
 Falsett, and Heresie. Arg. L. Milites. 8. in pr. 
 L. decuriones 16. Zangerus de Torturis reorum. 
 cap. 1. n. 30. 
 
 86. — In inflicting censures and punishments, No- 
 blemen are more myldly to be dealt withall then 
 plebeians, as proves Tiraquell be maney forcible 
 arguments : Yea from some censueres they are al- 
 togidder exeimed. Tiraq. de Nob. cap. 20. n. 30 
 and 110. 
 
22 TREATISE 
 
 87. — Bot one the contrarey ther are some caisses 
 quherin Noblemen are to be more rigorusly and se- 
 verly punished then plebeians, if they be bothe de- 
 linquents in the selue same cryme, for exemple if 
 such a cryme be committed by a Nobleman deroga- 
 torey to the Lustoure and splendore of hes auen 
 honor and Nobility. Gaill. 1. obseruat. 110. K. 
 92. Tiraquellus cap. 20. num. 116. 
 
 88. — And generally Nobility is euer to be ho- 
 noured by all, with all the respectes and obseru- 
 ances dew to the same by Law, in sua far as it 
 does not wronge the praevilidge of the Honourer. 
 Arg. L. Sed Milites & fF de excusat. 
 
 89. — Nobility wither purchest by a man him- 
 selue, receued by discent ftom his antecesters, or 
 transmitted to him from ane wther quhosse wertew 
 did acquyre the same, must euer be cherely preseru- 
 ed and illustrat by hes auen vertew and industry. 
 Boethius, lib. 3. de Consolat. philos. 
 
 90. — Bot if Noblemen leaue the pathes of wer- 
 tew and honor, and abandon themselues to licen- 
 tioussenes and wyce, committing robries, thifts, 
 and depraedations, by wich they not onlie become 
 wyle and infamous, bot may be openly declared to 
 haue lost ther nobility, since they follow such a 
 coursse of lyffe, by wich, by the Law, Nobility is 
 
ON NOBILITY. 23 
 
 hoklin to be forfaulted. Leg. si qua Cod. de Se- 
 eiind. niipt. L. Senatoris. Filia ft' d. senat. L. 1. 
 Cod. ubi senator vel clariss. L. qiioties de Dignitat. 
 cap. Nobilis ^. Questi. 5. 
 
 91- — Bot wither or not by the Law, Brewers, 
 Ventners, Merchants, and suche tradesmen being 
 noblie borne, by thesse occupations losse ther No- 
 bility : this questione hes euer beine a coutrauersey 
 amongest the best civilians. 
 
 92. — By the Imperiall Constitutions of the Em- 
 perours Dioclesian and Maximilian, it is prohibit 
 that Nobles wsse the Trades of Marchandize in L. 
 Vine. Cod. de perfectiss, dignitat. By Honorius and 
 Theodosius, also in L. Nobiliores 3. cap. de Locat. 
 Zeno lykwayes in L. agentes. 1. cap. de Prseposs. 
 agent in Reb. ; and lastly by Justiniane tot, Tit. 
 cap. Negotiat. ne militent. 
 
 93. — If then Nobles by playing the Merchant 
 losse ther Nobility ; falling as it wer from that 
 dew reputatione wich formerly belonged to them, 
 are by the Law then to be called and holdin as 
 ignoble and vulgar persons. Schraderus consill. 
 44. n. 4. Franciscus Pseill Respon. 202. n. 34. § 
 and Nobilis. 
 
 94. — Zet this conclusione is to be takin as it ad- 
 
24 TREATISE 
 
 mitts some limitations, as in some places quher mer- 
 cature is permitted by the La\y of the Land, as in 
 Venice, Florence, Genua, yea all Italy ouer, the 
 Princes and Magnificoes playes the Merchant, and 
 yet by the Lawes losses not a jot of ther nobility, 
 altho the Germans esteeme the Italian Nobility 
 basse in respecte of ther auen. Franciss. Pseild. L. 
 N. 34 § neque hoc casu. 
 
 95. — Morouer in thesse places quher the usse of 
 Merchandizing derogatts no poynt of his Nobility 
 quho playes the Merchant, it is to be adverted to 
 wither such is a grate Merchant and Venturer, or 
 hot a poore pittefoger, chapeman, or retailler. The 
 exercisse of Mercatour with a small stocke is euer 
 reputted wyle and sordid, bot contrarey quher 
 the handlinges, adventures, and imployments are 
 grate, then is Mercature in that caisse not to be 
 vituperat in respecte they become publicke bene- 
 factors to ther countrey, as sayes Cicero in his 
 offices. 
 
 96. — Ney for all that, Noblemen of a small for- 
 tune, for the interteiniment of ther family and lyffe, 
 may lawfully without reproche usse the trade of 
 Merchandize, as sayes Lucas de penna in L. Vltm. 
 cap. de fund. Limittroph. 
 
 97. — Non will denay bot it is lawfull and de- 
 
ON NOBILITY. 
 
 25 
 
 cent too for Noblemen to buy such necessary pro- 
 uisions and merchandize for mantinence of ther 
 auen housses and families, as also to sell cattell, 
 cornes, fruitts, wooll, flaxe, iron, lead, &c, and all 
 such commodities as ther auen grounds geildes. 
 Mollerus, lib. 4. Semest. cap. 17. num. 1. 
 
 98. — Nobles can not, (with saue honor), sell 
 bread, and tape ale to passengers, since this is a 
 kynd of basse mercature. Arg. L. Milites. C. de 
 Local. 
 
 99. — Hence is it that Nobles cannot command 
 nor force ther vassalls and tenants to bay ale and 
 beire only from them and from no other. Andreas 
 Ranclilour, Questi. 27. p. 1. 
 
 100. — Nather shall a man by the Law tyne hes 
 Nobility, because it may perchance be prowin 
 against him, that he hes laboured and mannured 
 his auen Land in the sweat of his auen face. Tira- 
 quell, cap. 32, per tot. 
 
 101. — A Nobleman that pleades or procures for 
 aney, does not losse his nobility by his procura- 
 tione, in so far as by the law such procuratatione is 
 reputed noble, being performed in Souerane Courts 
 and Consistories, Faber, lib. 9, c. tit. 28, definit. 5. 
 
26 TREATISE 
 
 102. — By the same reassone, the office of Ad~ 
 vocat is reputted honorable, and by the defence of 
 clyents causes, they rather augment then diminische 
 the dignity of Nobility, in respect they defend the 
 oppressid and iniured. L. Laudabile 4. c. de Ad- 
 vocat. din. ludic. L. quisquis ubi. Glos. C. de 
 postul. L. Advocati. 
 
 103. — As for the professione of Theologie, it is 
 nowayes to be questioned bot the same is honerable, 
 and addes a grate deall of praisse and honor to the 
 professor ; for it is notor that eminent and noble 
 persons hes with grate happines preeched the word 
 of God, and none of a sound judgement can think 
 that ther laudable paines hes ever detracted aney 
 jot from ther birth. 
 
 104. — The study of the Lawes so well becomes 
 noble personages, that it is a shame and disgrace to 
 them to be ignorant of the same. Nather is Nobi- 
 lity, by such a study, obfuscat, bot rather conserued, 
 amplified, and polisched, since the most eminent 
 places of Gouerniment in Kingdomes and Realmes 
 is custumarey furnished with these. 
 
 105. — Medicine is not only ane laudable and 
 honest airte, bot a most noble. Formerly honour- 
 ed by Kinges and grate Princes, the knouledge 
 
ON NOBILITY. 
 
 27 
 
 quherof addes grately to the splendor of trew No- 
 bility. Tiraquell, cap. 31, per tot. 
 
 lOG. — Vinius, lib. 2. Comm. oppin. verb. No- 
 tarius is of the oppinione, that the office of pub- 
 licks notarey is derogatorey to the dignity and 
 honor of Nobility, and so is Tiraquell, cap. 29, 
 n. 14. Ciuido Papa? decis 89 ; hot maney of the 
 German Lawyers ar of a contrarey mynd, for say 
 they, none should be admitted Nottorey, but a man 
 of approved fidelity and honesty, for they are only 
 creat by supreame authority. Faber. d. Loc. de- 
 fin. 4. 
 
 107. — In Scotland, the clercke of Register, and 
 in England, the Master of the Rolles, are pryme 
 Notaries, and the head and comptrollers of all in- 
 ferior notaries within ther jurisdictions. They are 
 euer persons of honor and dignity, and the places 
 are amongest the prymest of the Land, rather add- 
 ing Lusture to the Nobility, and ennobling them, 
 then deminishing therfra. 
 
 108. — The professione of teaching a.id Learning 
 Liberall Sciences, much improues Nobility, and is 
 ussefull to the same, (so it be not for gaine), as of 
 drawing, and painting, musicke, poetry, architec- 
 ture, &c. Tiraquell, cap. 34, Num. 6. 
 
28 TREATISE 
 
 109- — Hunting and Hauking are bellicose, no- 
 ble, and heroicke exercisses, and most competent 
 for nobles, prowyding they doe not profussly waste 
 ther estaits, idly one the same, and incurr Cicero's 
 censure of prodigality and deboshry. 
 
 110. — It is questioned wither or not a Nobleman 
 may surrender and renunce his Nobility, to wich 
 Didacus Couarruuias anssueres by a distinctione 
 wich he explicats, Part 2. Relect. quamvis de pactis 
 in 6. Num. 17. et seq. usque ad Num. 24. 
 
 111. — Secondly, it is questioned also if a father 
 reseinge, renunce, or losse his Nobility, quither or 
 not shall that deid of his praejudge his children. 
 Antonius Faber. d. lib. 5. Cod. defin. 25, answers 
 this questione by a distinctione. If, (sayes he) the 
 father himselue did first of all accquyre his No- 
 bility, and then lossed it, then his children, by his 
 acte, are praejudged ; hot if the Father did not ac- 
 quyre it, hot it discendit to him from his ancesters, 
 then can he not doe aney legall acte that can prae- 
 judge his successors in the fruitione after him of 
 that dignity, d. Defin. 14. et defin. 25. 
 
 112. — Now, lastly, we shall speake of such re- 
 medies as the Law prowydes against detractors, de- 
 famers, and vrongers of the dignities and praevi- 
 lidges of Nobility ; and first, that ther is in Law 
 
ON NOBILITY. 
 
 29 
 
 ane actione of injurey competent to Nobles wrong- 
 ed, for reparatione of ther honor, with certaine pen- 
 alties contained in that praeuilidge. 
 
 113. — Bot against one that auers that he is als 
 noble as the other, gea more noble, ther can be no 
 actione in Law, in respecte he does accknouledge 
 the other's Nobility, and detractes nothing from it, 
 bot rather coufirmes the same. Plotus Consill. 131. 
 Num. 20,volum. 1. Criminalium and L. ubi autem. 
 75. § usque a Deo fF. de verborum obligationibus. 
 
 114. — Morouer a Nobleman, in defence of his 
 auen honor against aney calumniator, may intend 
 actione. Ex. L. defamar. Cap. de ingen, Manumiss. 
 
 115. — To one for uindicatione of his Nobility, 
 by Law, is competent also Actio Confessoria. Arg. 
 § aequq. Institut. de Action. Sueduinus N. 10. 
 Cothmannus Responsio. 1. Num. 17. Volum. 4. 
 Num. 19. 
 
 116. — In waine are the forsaid remedies in Law 
 assayed wnles the fiindatione of his Nobility in- 
 tendit be prowiu, for it is euer presumid that non 
 is noble that can not proue the same, Johannes 
 Gutiretze lib. 3. et 4. questione 14. num. 2. 
 
 1 1 7. — Quho then wold prove his Nobility, is to 
 
30 TREATISE 
 
 be articheled, first, that he is linially discendit of 
 4 discents from Nobles, at least so by all repute : 
 2dly, that his said parents in the tymes qnherin 
 they liued, did behaue and carey themselues as no 
 bles, without imbracing thesse trades and occupa- 
 tions that might derogat from their Nobility, bot 
 liued as became men of their quality andconditione : 
 Lastly, that he himselue in the countrey quher he 
 wes borne and now Hues, by all is reputted noble, 
 and liues no otherwayes then becomes a Nobleman. 
 Marcel. Cala in Tract, de modo articul. et pro- 
 band. § 2. Glos. vine. n. 256. 
 
 118. — Quho euer, by such a probatione, proues 
 his Nobility by such a constant possessione, with- 
 out interruptione, without reproche of aney, is euer 
 maugure al contradictione, to be holdin and es- 
 teemed by all, honarable and noble, and to haue a 
 publicke sentence in testimoney of his worthey pro- 
 batione. Bartolus in L. § 2 non autem N. 1. ff. 
 de Bon. poss. secund Tab. 
 
 119. — And that sentence is vssefull to all discen- 
 dit of that family euery quher, and amongest all 
 peopell, being a Law for him quho is interressed, 
 as giuen in a caisse of Stait. Faber. in d. § prae- 
 judicial. Institute, de Acte. 
 
 120. — Bot if one does not proue him selue noble 
 
ON NOBILITY. 31 
 
 by thesse lawfull wayes forsaid, then shall he be 
 reputted a plebeian and ignoble. Deficiente euim 
 qualitate in Nobilitate requisita deficit et ipsa No- 
 bilitas, sayes Tiraquell de utraque Retr. 1. p. § 26, 
 Num. 37 and 39, sub finem. 
 
 121. — Tiraquell is of the oppinione, that if one 
 of name or family be declared ignoble, that is in 
 honor, it is prsejudiciall to thesse discendit of that 
 family and stocke. d. Tract, de Nobilitate, cap. 
 37. num. 14. in fine : bot Faber manteins the con- 
 trarey oppinione in § Praejudiciales. Institut. de 
 Acte. 
 
 |. 
 
32 CORONATION OF 
 
 Cotonatto ^Itxantrri Ultttii %toitoxmn 
 Htfiis, ^tonac, ^txiio trie Ktrus 
 
 gUlii 1249. 
 
 Post obitum Regis Alexandri Secundi, cum mul- 
 titudine Procerum, Prselatorum, Baronum, et Mill- 
 turn, puer Alexander, annorum aetatis octo consti- 
 tutus venit ad Sconam. die martis proximo sequenti 
 post Patris obitum, viz. tertio Julii, Anno Mundi 
 5219, et Salutis 1249- 
 
 Interfuerunt inter Cleros, Dauid de Berhame 
 Episcopus Sancti Andreae, et Galfridus Dunkel- 
 densis Episcopus, et ecce, statim postquam omnes 
 congregati sunt, orata est dissentio inter Regni 
 Magnates. Quidam vero illorum non Regem sed 
 Militem facere voluerunt, dicentes quia dies est 
 Egyptiacus (non hoc propter diem Egyptiacum dic- 
 tum) sed quia Dominus Allanus Ostiarius Regni, 
 Justiciarius, hinc Militiae flos reputatus, Regem 
 cupiebat eo die gladio militari insignire. 
 
 Cum igitur hinc inde magna fuisset Magnatum 
 altercatio, et quasi ad partes tumultuosa seperatio, 
 Vir consilio prudens, Valterus Cumen, Miles, animo 
 satis fortis, partes ad concordiam sapienter flectere 
 
ALEXANDER THE THIRD. 33 
 
 tunc sategit, dicens se debere vocem habere in con- 
 cilio, quia ipse Comes de Menteithe experientia 
 plura providebat, vnde libera voce protestatus est, se 
 vidisse Regem consecratum nondum tamen militem, 
 sed et sepius audivisse et pro certo cognouisse 
 Reges consecrates, qui nunquam ceremonialiter or- 
 dine militari insignirentur. 
 
 Tandem post multas lites et altercationes, vt 
 omnia celerius sopirentur et ne ira in odium cres- 
 ceret, demum ad hoc, vtramque partem flexit, vt 
 Rex a Dauide Episcopo Sancti Andreae, qui offi- 
 cium Regis impleret, ipsum etiam in militem con- 
 signiret (ad [modum] Villielmi Ruffi militaribus in- 
 signiti a Lanfranco Cantuariensi Episcopo) Dauid 
 namque Episcopus Sancti Andrese ipsum Uegem 
 coram terrse magnatibus Baltheo militari precin- 
 gente et jura et vota que ad Regem spectant, prius 
 Latine postea GaUice, (ipsi exponenti) Rex omnia 
 benigne consedens et acceptans Benedictionem ab 
 Episcopo in nomine Patris, Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. 
 
 Tunc Praesules et Comites, Regem ad magnam 
 cellam juxta choram ex parte orientali Ecclessiae 
 adduxerunt, quem ibidem in Cathedra Marmorea, 
 Gatheli positum pannis sericis anno textis ornata 
 reiierenter sedere fecerunt. Et Comes de FyfFe, Re- 
 gem in Reguli cathedra locavit, coronaque capite 
 
34 CORONATION OF 
 
 imposita Regem deosculavit et statim Homagium 
 et fidelitatem juramento firmauit. 
 
 Ipso vero Rege super hanc Cathedram lapideam 
 coronam in capite habente, et sceptrum manu, pur- 
 puraque Regia induto solenniter precedente, desub 
 cuius pedibus Comites, ceterique Nobiles sedilia sua 
 pro Sermone audiendo colocantes. 
 
 Sermone finito, quidam Scotus venerabilis cani- 
 ciei senex, longo scarlatico pallio indutus, inclina- 
 to capite, genu satis morose flectens Regem ma- 
 terna lingua salutauit. 
 
 Salue Rex Albanorum, Alexander, filii Alexan- 
 der, filii Villielmi, filii Henrici, filii Dauid, filii 
 Malcolmi, filii Duncani, filii Beatricis, filiae Mal- 
 colmi, filii Kenethi, filii Alpini, filii Ethasi, filii 
 Ethafind, filii Ethdaci, filii Douenaldi Brecke, 
 filii &c.* sic pronunciando regis Geneologiam us- 
 que ad Regem Fergusium primum Hyberum et 
 Hymecum, Scotam et Gathelum ex Argo, Neolo, et 
 Cecrope, Athenorum Regibus. 
 
 Tunc Rex ex Cathedra surgens et versus mag- 
 num Altare granei cum pompa progreditur coronam 
 
 • The remainder of the genealogy will be found in Vol. 2, 
 of Fordun, (Goodall's Edition), page 82. 
 
ALEXANDER THE THIRD. 35 
 
 sceptrum et gladiiim, Deo offerens, quo tempore 
 canebat chorus " coronet eum Deus corona gloriae, 
 et ducat te Jehoua in semitis suis" cumque peroras- 
 set Episcopus supra Regem, postea surrexit et cor- 
 onam quinque aureis nummis redemit. 
 
 Postea Episcopus, Regis caput, scapulas, brachia, 
 et patenas, sacro oleo vnxit Regem variis precationi- 
 bus, benedicens. in nomine Patris, Filii, et Spiritus 
 Sancti, Amen, Chorus toto hoc tempore vnctionis 
 canens, " Vnexerunt Salamonem." 
 
 Linteolo Regis capite deterso, cum bracijs et 
 scapulis et vestibus iterum clausis, Episcopus longa 
 oratione Regem iterum benedicit. 
 
 His finitis, tunc Episcopus Regem, solenniter in 
 regali solio locat, in nomine Patris, Filii, et Spiritus 
 Sancti, et omnes nobiles et Barones cum Regni 
 liberetenentibus, Regi publicum Homagium prest- 
 ant et juramento confirmant. 
 
 His finitis. Rex, solemni pompa ad magnam au- 
 lam dicti Monasterii revertitur, vbi mensse variis 
 ciborum generibus magnifice onorantur. 
 
36 CORONATION OF 
 
 ^utonatio iJtotJttti Sccuntri Scotorum 
 
 (itxixm tit EtiuxbxoQi)t^ 23to 
 i^aij, in anno 1371. 
 
 In the morning, befor the King came in pub- 
 licke, ther came to him tuo Bischopes, tuo Abbots, 
 with twenty four other of the clergie, four noble- 
 men, the Constable and Marischall, hauing their 
 battans of office in their hand, sex commissioners 
 of the Barrons, and als maney of the Burrowes. 
 
 The King wes brought fourth with the Con- 
 stable, one hes right hand, and the Marishall one 
 hes lefte, quher he wes set wnder a clothe of stait, 
 to declaire, that as get he had not receaued the 
 croune. 
 
 The Churchmen, Nobles, Barrons, and Burgesses, 
 askit at the King if he wer lawfull successor or not, 
 and ver villing to accept the dignity of the croune, 
 wich they did now offer to his Maistie, then wes 
 his genealogie recitted. 
 
 Vpone the Kingss graunt to accept, the Bishopes 
 
ROBEKT THE SECOND. 37 
 
 and all the rest caussed the pall to be hallfe open- 
 ed. (\vicli befor is called a clothe of stait,) and they 
 said " God blisse you, Sir ;" then did the Queir 
 and all sing, " God blisse him, as he had done 
 
 HIS FATHER." 
 
 Then the Lyone King of Armes wes called one 
 by the Lord Marishall, quho attendit one by the 
 Herauldes, came in ther coates, — the Lyon satt 
 doune at the Kinges feete, and the Herauldes went 
 to ther stage prepared for them, and ther the 
 Marishall, by the mouthe of the Bishope of St. An- 
 drewes, did sueire the Lyon, quho being suorne, 
 then did he put one hes croune, ordained him to 
 weare for that solemnity. 
 
 Then did they all come fourth to the Theater, 
 quher the King wes to be crouned, the Bischopes, 
 nobles, gentrey, and Commissioners of the Bur- 
 rowes, being with him. The Marishall desyred 
 the Lyone to show the Kinge's pleasur, quho sayes 
 alloud to the People. That the King is villinge 
 TO ACCEPT the CROUNE, then all the commissioners 
 and standers bay crayes, God bliss him quho is to 
 BE OUR King, and all in one woyce, crayes, with 
 shoutts, God bliss him and us, for his caus. 
 
 Then the Lyone returned with the Bischopes, 
 Constable, and Marishall, &c. and they shew the 
 
38 CORONATION OF 
 
 King that the people would haue him crouned, and 
 call very earnestly for him. 
 
 Then does the King come fourth of hes closse 
 paill with the Croune, Suord, and Scepter borne 
 befor him, the Bisehopes being one his right and left 
 hand at his out comeing, and the Lyone going be- 
 for, crayes, heir comes the King, the people with 
 acclamations ansuer, God bliss him. 
 
 The King hath one hes ordinarey apparel for 
 that day, hauing his clothes open one the boughes 
 of the Armes and shoulders, with loupes fastened, 
 and his clocke about him, — the Grate Constable 
 and Marishall did beare his Roabes, the Grate 
 Seall and Spurs, with the honors, wer layed doune 
 one a litle table, befor the King. 
 
 Then did the Bischope make a sermone, wich 
 endit, the Lyone brought tuo vialls of sacred oyle, 
 deliuering the one to the Constable and the other 
 to the Marishall, which they deliuered to the 
 Bischope, quo therwith anoynted the King one the 
 croune of the head, boughes of his armes, shoulder 
 blades, and palmes of hes handes. 
 
 The Bisehopes said diners prayers and orations 
 at the anoynting of eache place. 
 
ROBERT THE SECOND. 39 
 
 Then did the Constable take vpe the Roabes, 
 and gaue the same to the Bischopes, who fourth- 
 with did put the same one the King, and, at euerey 
 piece they put one, they said Indue, Rex, tuni- 
 
 CAM luSTITI/E. 
 
 Then did the Lyone take off his croune from his 
 head, and layes it doune at the Kinge's feete, and 
 coming to the Marischall, sayes, I surrander and 
 
 COMMANDS the KiNG TO BE CROUNED, ICpettiug SCX 
 
 generations of his discente. 
 
 Then wes the croune put one the King's head, 
 the Bischopes craying aloud, God bliss the King, 
 the Herauldes at their stage cray, bliss the People, 
 and the Lyone, with a loud woyce, crayes, God 
 bliss the King and People. 
 
 After the Croune is one the King's head, he so- 
 lemnlie suers by othe, taken one the Euangell, by 
 the Bischopes, to be a father to the people, to do 
 justice, to manteine the religion he professt, to 
 serve God, &c. to route out all heretickes out of 
 his realme, to procure peace to the churche, to the 
 vttermost of hes pour, to preserue the rents, rights, 
 and preuiledges of his croune, and not to transfer 
 nor alienat the same, to forbid and quaushe all 
 oppressions, to defend the vidues house, and father- 
 les, &c. 
 
40 CORONATION OF 
 
 Then the Marishall hauing in his hand the obli- 
 garitie othe of the people, goeth to the foure corners 
 of the scaffold, quho crayes it out to the people, 
 they holding vpe ther hands all the tyme. 
 
 The wordes of the othe wer thesse, " I become 
 " your man, as my liege King, in Land, Lyffe, Lithe, 
 " and Lime, and varldes honer, feule and laule, 
 " against all that liue and dyie may. Your coun- 
 " saill celand that ge shaw to me, the best counsaill 
 " giueand if ge charge me. Your skaith,nadishoner 
 " to heir nor see, bot I shall lett it, at all my goodlie 
 " pouer, and varne you thereof Sa help me God. 
 " Amen." 
 
 Then the Constable tooke the Croune from oft' 
 the Kinges head, and layed it doune befor the 
 King, and the Bischope put one the Kinges hat. 
 
 The quholl noblemen came, one by one, and 
 touched the croune, saying these words. Sua mote 
 God helpe me as I shall supporte the. Wich 
 done, they all of them, againe holdeing vpe their 
 hands, — I sueare and holde vpe my hande to 
 
 MANTEINE, DEFENDE, AND SUPPORTE THE, AS I VISHE 
 
 THE Lord in my need to help me, &c. 
 
 All wich ceremonies performed, with maney 
 more not heir particularly set done, the King rysse 
 
ROBERT THE SECOND. 41 
 
 from hes chaire, and solemly accompanied with all 
 lies Bischopes, Abbotts, Nobles, and Commissioners 
 forsaids, went to the great hall of the Abey, quher 
 with the King, each estait in order, hathe their 
 deue to the King's feast, prepared for them. 
 
 I 
 
42 CORONATION OF 
 
 HLf^t forme antr ma«ev of ti^e €ovona= 
 
 tiowt of iting 3Famts tifte Stxt, 
 
 !)ting a Ciftgltrt of ane Btit oltre, 
 
 after ti^at t^t €luctin's J^ajtstte, 
 
 iftis l^otiftm i^atf tJtmtttttr t!je 
 
 Crottne in ifttr Sone's fattor^, 
 
 m ttto settcrall €on\>tn- 
 
 Horn of tiftt gEstatts ottf^t 
 
 l^ingtrome at iEtrinibttrgi& 
 
 antr ^treutlinge. 
 
 At Edinburghe, 24 of Julay 1567, in presence of 
 the Lordes of the Secret Counsaill, and vthers of 
 the Nobility, Prelats, Barrons, and Commissioners 
 of Burrowes, convyeined at Edinburghe, compeir'd 
 Patrick Lord Lindesay of the Byris, and presented 
 the commissione wnderwritten siibscriued by the 
 Queines Maiestie, our souerane Ladey, and vnder 
 the Privey Seall, desyring the samen to be openley 
 read, (Looke, Cap. 1, Part 1, Ja. 6, quher it is sett 
 doune verbatim), wich being read, the saids Lordes, 
 of Secrett Counsaill, and others of the Nobility, Pre- 
 lats, and Barrons, &c, gladly accordit therto, and 
 
JAMES THE SIXTH. 43 
 
 approuit the same, iu verificatione quherof, they 
 all subscriued the band following : — 
 
 Wee wich haue subscriued this underwritten 
 band, wnderstanding that the Quenis Maiestie 
 villing no thing more earnistly, nor that in her 
 lyffetyme, her most deire sone, our Natiue Prince, 
 be placed and inaugurat in the Kingdome of this his 
 Natiue Countrey and Realme, and be obeyit as 
 King by ws and wtheris his subiectis, and being 
 weiried of the grate pains and trawellis taken by 
 hir Maiestie in hir gouernement, hes by ther letters 
 demittit and renuncit, and giuen poure therby to 
 demitt and renounce the said gouernement of this 
 realme, leidges and subditts thereof, in fauoris of 
 her said sone, our Natiue Prince, to the effect he 
 may be inagurat therein, the Croune Royall put 
 vpon his head, and be obeyed in all things as King 
 and Natiue Prince thereof, as hir Highness letters 
 past therwpone beares : Thairfor, and because it is 
 one of the most happiest thinges that can come to 
 aney People or Country, to be gouerned and ruelled 
 by ther auen Natiue King, we, and ilk ane of ws, 
 that hes subscrivit tliir presents be the tennor 
 heirof, Promitts, Binds and Obliges ws faithfidly 
 to conveine and assemble ourselues at the Brughe 
 of Streueling, or aney other place to be ap- 
 poynted, to the effecte forsaid, and ther con- 
 
44 CORONATION OF 
 
 curre, to assist and fortifie our said natiue King 
 and Prince to the establisheing, planting, and 
 placing of him in his Kingdome, and putting the 
 Croune Royall therof wpon his head ; and in the 
 feare of our God being instructed and teached be 
 his and all wther Lawes, shall give our othe of 
 fidelity for homage and deutifuU obedience, to be 
 made be ws to him during his Heighness lyffe- 
 tyme, as it becomes faithfull subiectis and trew 
 Christians to doe to their natiue King and Prince ; 
 and further, that wee shall vith all our strenthe 
 and forces, promott, concurre, fortifie, and assist to 
 the promotione, advancement and establishing of 
 him in his Kingdome and Gouerment, as becomes 
 faithfull and trew subiects to doe to their Prince, 
 and to resist all sicke as wold oppose themselues 
 to him therein, and shall doe all vther things that 
 becomes faithfull and Christian subjectis to their 
 natiue King and Prince. In vitness quherof we 
 haue subscriuit thir presents with oiu* handis, &c. 
 
 APUD STREUELING 29 DIE MENSIS JULII ANNO DO- 
 MINI MILLESIMO QUINGENTESIMO SEXAGESIMO 
 SEPTIMO. 
 
 The quhilk day within the parochiall churche 
 of the Brucht of Streueling conveined thesse of 
 
JAMES THE SIXTH. 
 
 45 
 
 the Nobility, Gentray, and Commissioners of Bur- 
 rowes underwritten : — 
 
 James Earle of Morton, Lord Dalkeith. 
 
 Johne Earle of xVthole, Lord Balwany. 
 
 Alexander Earle of Glencairne, Lord Kilmawers. 
 
 Johne Earle of Mar, Lord Erskeine. 
 
 Villiam Earle of Menteith, Lord Kilpont. 
 
 Johne Master of Grhame. 
 
 Alexander Lord Home. 
 
 Patrick Lord Lindesay of the Byris. 
 
 Villiam Lord Ruthuen. 
 
 Eduard Lord Crightone of Sanquhare. 
 
 Robert Lord Sempill. 
 
 Johne Lord Innermeathe. 
 
 Andrew Lord Vchiltrie. 
 
 James Lord St. Jhone. 
 
 Adam, Bischope of Orknay. 
 Robert, Commendator of Dumfermling. 
 James, Commendator of St. Colums Inche. 
 Adam, Commendator of Cambuskenethe. 
 Johne, Commendator of Dryburghe. 
 Alexander, Commendator of Culrosse. 
 Robert, Minister of Faillfurde. 
 
 Mr. Robert Richesone, Commendator of St. Mary's 
 Isle, Thesaurer. 
 
46 CORONATION OF 
 
 Sir Villiam Murray of Tullibardyne, Knight, 
 Comptroller. 
 
 Villiame Maitland of Lethingtone, younger, Se- 
 cretary. 
 
 Sir John Ballendene of Achenoule, Justice-Clerk. 
 
 Commissioners for Edinburghe, 
 Mr. Jhone Prestone. Nicoll Vdwarte. 
 
 Montrosse, John Erskine of Dun, Prouest. 
 Dundee, Mr. James Halybruntone, Prouest. 
 Streueling, Sir John Steuart of Minto, Prouest. 
 Perth, Johne Craigingelte, Prouest. 
 Linlithgow, Charles Drummond, Prouest. 
 
 With a grate maney more of the Nobility, Pre- 
 lates, Gentray, and Commissioners of Burrowes, 
 Qulier the Right Highe and Mightie Prince 
 James, be the Grace of God, Prince and Steuarte 
 of Scotland, being presentit to the Lords of the 
 Nobilitie, Spirituality, Commissioners of Bar- 
 rons and Burrowis, quho after inuocatione of the 
 name of God, the said Patricke Lord Linde- 
 say of the Byris and William Lord Ruthuen at 
 command, and be wertew of the Queen's Maies- 
 ties, oure Souerainge Ladeyes commissione and let- 
 ter subscriued with her hand, and wnder her Privey 
 Seall, compeirit, and her Maiestie's name, and vpone 
 her behalfe, demittit and renuncet the government, 
 
JAMES THE SIXTH. 47 
 
 gyding, and reuling this realm, leges, aud subjects 
 thereof, all intromissione with the propertie, casu- 
 altie, or vther thinges apperteening to her heighnes 
 therby, and all right and tytle that sho has, hes, 
 ore may haue, be aney maner of way therto, in 
 fauors of the most excellent Prince, her darrest 
 sone, to the effect that he might be inaugiirat and 
 placed in this kingdome, the Croune Royall de- 
 liuered to him, and be obayed in all things con- 
 cerning the same as her Maiestie or her prsede- 
 cessors hes beine in tyme by past : and in signe 
 and token therof, the saidis Lords Lindesay and 
 Ruthuen presentit befor the said Lordes of the 
 Nobility, Spirituality, Commissioners of Barrons 
 and Burrowes, and remanent people convened, the 
 Royall Croune, Suord, and Sceptre, requyring the 
 saids letters and commissions to be read and put 
 one record, ad futuram Rei memoriam. As also 
 the vther tuo commissions following, concerning the 
 Regiment of the realme during this minoritie of the 
 said most excellent prince. The substance quher- 
 of are in the first acte of the first Parliament of 
 King James 6. 
 
 Quhilkis tuo Commissions being oppenly read, 
 the saids Earls of 
 
 Mortone, 
 Athole 
 
48 CORONATION OF 
 
 Glencairne, 
 Mar, 
 
 Menteithe, 
 Master of Grhame, 
 Lord Home, 
 Bishop of Orknay, 
 
 In name of the estates presently conuelned and 
 assembled according to the command and tenor of 
 the first commissione, received the said renuncia- 
 tione and demissione in fauor of the said most excel- 
 lent Prince, and after the receiuing therof, the said 
 James Earle of Mortone inclyning his body, and 
 layand his hand vpone the Booke of God, made 
 the othe and promisse following, viz. : — 
 
 I, James Prince and Steuart of Scotland, pro- 
 mises faithfully in the presence of the Eternall, my 
 God, that I indureing the haill coursse of my lyfFe, 
 shall serue the same Eternall, my God, to the wter- 
 most of my pouer, according as he requyrethe in 
 his most holy word reuealed and conteined in the 
 New and Old Testament, and according to the 
 same vord shall manteine the trew religione of 
 Jesus Christe, the preaching of his holy vord, and 
 right ministratione of his sacraments, nou receaued 
 and practised within this realme, and shall abolishe 
 and withstand all fals religione contrarie to the 
 same, and shall reule the people committed to my 
 
JAMES THE SIXTH. 49 
 
 charge according to the will and command of God 
 revveild in his foresaid word, and according to the 
 laudable lawes and constitutions receaued in this 
 realme na wayes repugnant to the said vord of the 
 Etarnall God, and shall procure to my wtermost to 
 the kirke of God, and haill Christian People, trew 
 and perfyte peace in all tymes cominge. The rights 
 and rents with all just preuiledges of the Croune of 
 Scotland, I shall preserue and keepe vnviolate, 
 nather shall I transfer nor alienate the same. 
 
 1 shall forbid and repres in all estaits and de- 
 grees, reifFe, oppressione, and all kynd of wronge. 
 
 I shall command and procure that justice and 
 equitie in all judgements be keipt to all creatures, 
 without exceptione, as he shall be mercifuU to me 
 and you, that is, the Lord and Father of all Mer- 
 cies. 
 
 And out of my Landis and Empyre, I shall be 
 cairfull to roote out all hereticks and enemies to the 
 true worschipe of God, that shall be conuicte by the 
 true Kirke of God of the forsaid crimes, and thir 
 thinges abovewrittin, I faithfullie affirrae be my 
 soleme othe. 
 
 The soleme othe being thus taken, the Lordes 
 and haill Estaits present, the Bishope of Orknay 
 
50 CORONATION OF JAMES THE SIXTH. 
 
 did solemly anoynte the chylde one the wsuall 
 pairts quher Kinges are anoynted. 
 
 Then did they sett him on a throne, putting the 
 croune one his head, wich wes performed by the 
 Earle of Athole, and the suord and sceptre on eache 
 hand, vith all the accustumed ceremonies. 
 
 Then did one of eache estait kisse his cheeke, 
 and, in the name of the quhole, doe him homage, 
 and sueare fealty to him. Quhervpone Sir Thomas 
 Bellendene, Justice-Clerk, in name of the saids 
 estaits, and als Jhone Knoxe, Minister, and John 
 Campbell of Kymacleuche, askit actes and instru- 
 ments. 
 
CEREMONIAL AT ROYAL CHRISTENINGS. 51 
 
 Cttcmxintal at Hogal ^!)t:isttnings. 
 
 At the Christning of King James, Athole had 
 place before Eglinton, Lord Semple before the Lord 
 Ross. 
 
 At that solemnity, the Lord Harres created 
 Lord. 
 
 At the Feist ther serued the Queene. 
 
 E. of Huntley, Caruer. 
 E. of Murray, Cupebearer. 
 E. of BothueU, Suer. 
 
 Ther seruid the French Ambassador. 
 
 E. Mar, Caruer. 
 
 E. Cassiles, Cupebearer. 
 
 E. of Athole, Suer. 
 
 Ther serued the Englische Ambassador. 
 
 E. of Rothes, Caruer. 
 
 E. of Eglinton, Cupebearer. 
 
 E. of Craufurd, Suer. 
 
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52 CEREMONIAL AT ROYAL CHRISTENINGS. 
 
 Ther serued the Sauoyan Ambassador. 
 
 Master of Maxsuel, Caruer. 
 Lord Boyd, Cupebearer. 
 Lord Leuingston, Suer. 
 
 At Queene Anne's Coronatione, 17 Maij 1592. 
 
 Esme Dueke of Lennox bure the Croune. 
 Johne Lord Hamiltone the Scepter. 
 William Earl of Angus the Suord. 
 
 At the christning of Henrey Prince of the Isles, 
 eldest sone to King James 6, 
 
 My Lord Home bore the Croune Ducall. 
 Lord Leuingstone the Touale. 
 Lord Settone the Bassin. 
 Lord Semple the Euare. 
 
 Ther serued hes Maiestie that day at dinner. 
 
 Eaiie of Montrois, Caruer. 
 Earle of Glencairne, Cupebearer. 
 Earl of Orknay, Seuar. 
 
 For the Quein's Maiestie. 
 
 Lord Setton, Caruar. 
 Lord Home, Cupebearer. 
 Lord Semple, Seuare, 
 
CEREMONIAL AT ROYAL CHRISTENINGS. 53 
 
 Vpone the 29 of Agust 1594, in the Castle of 
 Streueling at supper, sederunt solemly. 
 
 Lennox. 
 E. Glencairne. 
 E. Montrois. 
 E. of Mar. 
 E. of Menteith. 
 L. Settone. 
 L. Fleiming. 
 L. Leuingstone. 
 L. Semple. 
 L. Sinclaire. 
 L. Vrquharte. 
 
 At the Christning of his Maiesties eldest daugh- 
 ter, the Lady Elizabeth, 28 Nov. 1596. 
 
 Lord Leuingstoune bure the Basing. 
 Lord Setton the Lawarre. 
 Lord Home the Toule. 
 
 Ther wes of the Nobilitie present at the Kirke 
 at the said christening. 
 
 Duck of Lennox. 
 E. Argyle. 
 E. Craufurd. 
 E. Montrois. 
 
54 CEREMONIAL AT ROYAL CHRISTENINGS. 
 
 E. Mar. 
 Lords Home. 
 Settone. 
 Leuingstone. 
 Vrquhaxt. 
 
 At the Christning of hes Maiesties second 
 daughter, Lady Margaret, vpon the 15 day of 
 Appryle 1599. 
 
 The Master of Elphingstone bure the Bassinge. 
 Lord Neubotle the Lauarre. 
 Lord Fyuie the Touall. 
 
 Of the Nobilitie present in the Kirke at thes 
 Christening, wer, — 
 
 Lord Chancelar. 
 
 Duck of Lennox. 
 
 Hamiltone. 
 
 Huntley. 
 
 Mar. 
 
 Cathnes. 
 
 Eglintone. 
 
 Fyuie. 
 
 Neubotle. 
 
 Master of Elphingstone. 
 
CEREMONIAL AT ROYAL CHRISTENINGS. 55 
 
 At the Christning of hes Maiesties second sone, 
 Charles, 23 December 1600. 
 
 Ther attendit the chylde to churche, of the No- 
 bilitie, 
 
 Marques Huntley. 
 
 E. IVIontrois, Chanceler. 
 
 E. Cassiles. 
 
 E. Mar. 
 
 E. Vintone. 
 
 Lord Fyuie, President of the Session, bure 
 
 the Croune Ducall. 
 Lord Spynie the Euare. 
 Lord Roxbrugh the Bassinge. 
 
 At the Christning of hes Maisties third sone, 
 Robert, 2 Maij 1602. 
 
 Lord Oliphant bure the Croune Ducale. 
 Master of Angus the Euare and Toule. 
 Master of Pasley the Basinge. 
 
 Noblemen Gossopes present at the Christninge, 
 wer, — 
 
 Duck of Lennox. 
 E. of Argyle. 
 E. of Mar. 
 L. Oliphant. 
 L. Louat. 
 L. Sanquhaire. 
 
56 CEREMONIAL AT ROYAL CHRISTENINGS. 
 
 Orders subscriuet by hes Maiestie at the Christ- 
 ening of Prince Henry. 
 
 To be within the bare. 
 
 Hes Maiestie. 
 
 The Ambassadors. 
 
 The Lords that beares the Honors. 
 
 The Barons that bearis the Pale. 
 
 The Noblemen. 
 
 The Priuey Counsellers. 
 
 To stand vpone the stage about hes Maiesties 
 chair e. 
 
 The Master of the Gardrobe. 
 The Capitane of the Guarde. 
 Thomas Erskyne. 
 The Master Elemosiner. 
 
 Lords appointed to bear Honors. 
 
 Lord Home the Croune. 
 Lord Leuingstone the Touale. 
 Lord Settone the Bassinge. 
 Lord Semple the Euarre. 
 
 A nomber of the maist honest men at 
 Edinburgh to stand in Ranke, in Armes, 
 betuix the trance and the Chapell door. 
 
CEREMONIAL AT ROYAL CHRISTENINGS. 57 
 
 Barons appointed for bearing the Pale. 
 
 Sessfurd. 
 Balcleuclie. 
 Constable of Dundee. 
 Traquaire. 
 
 The actione of the Baptisme to be performed by 
 the Bischope of Aberdeine, first in Englische then 
 in Latin. 
 
 James R. 
 
 The Ambassadors placet one his Maieties right 
 hand, the Earle of Sussex for England, and Mr. 
 Boii's the Lieger, the Ambassadors of Brunswick 
 and Holland, and next them the Ducke of 
 
 Lennox. 
 Earles of Mar. 
 
 Glencairne. 
 Menteith. 
 
 Then the English Gentlemen and nixt them the 
 Lordes 
 
 Home. 
 
 Settone. 
 Semple. 
 
58 CEREMONIAL AT ROYAL CHRISTENINGS. 
 
 One his Maiesties lefte hand sate the Ambassa- 
 dors of Denmarke, Lunebrughe, and next him he 
 of Meckelbrughe. 
 
 The Pale wes sustinet by the Gentlemen bearers 
 thereof, under the quhilk the Prince with the 
 Ladeyes remained. 
 
 The sermone preached by Mr. Patrick Gallo- 
 way, his Maiesties Minister, hes text wes out of 
 the Booke of Judges. 
 
 The Bischope of Aberdeine first in English, and 
 then in Latine, performed the ceremony, quhilk 
 being endit, his Maiestie descendit from his seat 
 with the haille Ambassadors, Mr. Bouis excepted, 
 the Pale being remouit befor the pulpit, wnder wich 
 the Countesse of Mar stoode with the Prince in her 
 armes, shoe deliuered him to the Duck of Lennox, 
 and he deliuered him to the Earle of Sussex, the 
 English Ambassador quho presented him to the 
 Baptisme. 
 
 Sir Da. Lindsey. 
 
 Orders to be performed at the Christning of 
 Charles, hes Maiesties second sone, 23 December 
 1600. 
 
CEREMONIAL, AT ROYAL CHRISTENINGS. 59 
 
 To beare the Pale. 
 
 Edgell. 
 Dedope. 
 Lards of Clerkingtone. 
 Traquaire. 
 Buchanan. 
 Sir Mercke Ker. 
 
 James R 
 
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60 BYDINGS OF THE PARLIAMENT, &C. 
 
 i^gtrings of t^t parliament, $cc. 
 
 My Lofd Ducke. 
 E. of Huntley. 
 E. of Argyle. 
 E. of Arraue. 
 E. of Athole. 
 E. of Craufurde. 
 E. of Glencairne. 
 E. of Orknay. 
 E. of Montrois. 
 E. of Gourey. 
 E. of Mortone. 
 E. of Sutherlande. 
 E. of Rothes. 
 
 The king's Maiestie, with aduyce and consent 
 of the Lordes of hes Secret Counsaile, hes ap- 
 poyntit, and appoynts, the Noblemen aboue vretten 
 to keipe ranke and place in this present Parliament, 
 as they are here sett doune, without preiudice of 
 their auen deu place and honor in tyme coming. 
 
 James R. 
 
RYDINGS OP THE PARLIAMENT, &C. 61 
 
 At the Parliament halden at Edinburghe, 29 of 
 Maij 1592. 
 
 Lennox the Croune. 
 Angus the Scepter. 
 Argyle the Suord. 
 
 Sederunt. 
 
 Constable. 
 Marishall. 
 
 Lennox. 
 
 Angusse. 
 Argyle. 
 
 Settone. 
 
 Semple. 
 
 Lindesay. 
 
 Dingwall. 
 
 Spynie. 
 
 Vrquhart. 
 
 The last day of the ryding of this Parliament, 
 my Lord Lindesay sat formost, and Settone the 
 first day. 
 
62 RYDINGS OF THE PARLIAMENT, &C. 
 
 At the Parliament haldin at Edinburgh, 16 Julij 
 1593. 
 
 Lennox bore the Croune. 
 Argyle the Scepter. 
 Morton the Sword. 
 
 Sederunt one the King's left hand, 
 
 Hamiltone. 
 Argyle. 
 Earles Morton. 
 Mar. 
 
 Constable. 
 Marischall. 
 
 Home. 
 Lindesay. 
 Lordes Ochiltree. 
 Forbes. 
 Sinclare. 
 Spynie. 
 
 Lord President Fyuie wes Vice Chanceloure. 
 
 The honors borne the last day of Parliament as 
 the first, and the Nobilitie did ryde and sitt the 
 last day as they did the first, onlie the Lord Linde- 
 say was absent. 
 
 Sir Da. Lindesay. 
 
RYDINGS OF THE PARLIAMENT, &C. 63 
 
 At the Parliament holdin at Edinbiirghe, the 
 penulte of May 1594. 
 
 Lennox the Croune. 
 Mar the Scepter. 
 Sutherland the Suord. 
 
 Sederunt one King's right hand. 
 Lennox with the Bischopes. 
 
 Sederunt on his Maiesties left hand. 
 
 Constable. 
 
 Earls Marischall. 
 Hamilton. 
 Montrois. 
 Mar. 
 Home. 
 Settone. 
 
 Lords Lindesay. 
 Sinclare. 
 Vrquharte. 
 
 The Chancelour sate betuix my Lord Ducke and 
 Hamiltone. All things wer performed the last day 
 as the first, onlie my Lord Hamilton wes absent. 
 
 Sir David Lindesay. 
 
64 RYDINGS OF THE PARLIAMENT, &C. 
 
 At the Parliament haldin at Edinburghe, 14 De- 
 cembers 1597. 
 
 Honours borne the first day, 
 
 Cassiles the Croune. 
 Mar the Scepter. 
 Sutherland the Suord. 
 
 Constable. 
 Marischsll, 
 
 Home. 
 
 Settone. 
 
 Leuingstone. 
 
 Forbes. 
 
 Saltone. 
 
 Sinclaire. 
 
 Dingwall. 
 
 Spynie. 
 
 At this Parliament the banischt and forfaulted 
 Earles were restored, and the last day of this Par- 
 liament the honors were borne by thesse follow- 
 ing :— 
 
 E. of Angus the Croune. 
 E, of Huntly the Scepter. 
 E. of Casseles the Suord. 
 
 Sir Dav. Lindesay. 
 
UYDINOa OF THE PARLIAMENT, &C. ()5 
 
 At the Parliament holdin 1 1 day of November 
 1600. 
 
 The honors wer borne as followes, viz. : — 
 
 E. of Cassiles the Croune. 
 E. of Eglinton the Scepter. 
 E. of Mar the Suord. 
 
 Sederunt. 
 
 Constable. 
 Marischall. 
 
 Earles Cassiles. 
 
 Eglinton. 
 
 Mar. 
 
 Home. 
 Lordes Home. 
 
 Seytone. 
 
 Leuingstone. 
 
 Saltone. 
 
 Neubottle. 
 
 Fyuie. 
 
 Spynie. 
 
 The honors were borne the last day of the ryd- 
 ing of the Parliament by these Noblemen that did 
 beare them the first day. Sir Da. Lindesay. 
 
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66 KYDINGS OF THE PARLIAMENT, &C. 
 
 APUD PERTH, 1 JULII 1606. 
 
 The Lords of Secreit Counsale, villing that a 
 decent and comlie order shall be obseruit and keipt, 
 by the Estaites of this kingdome, in ther ryding to 
 the present Parliament, hes therfor sett doune the 
 order follouing, to be keipt by them at this tyme of 
 Parliament, viz. that the haill estaittes shall attend 
 the Lord Commissioners Grace at hes lodging, and 
 conuay him therfi'a to the Parliament Housse in 
 this order. 
 
 First the Commissioners of Biirroues to march 
 tua and tua in ranke vpone horsse back with foote- 
 mantells. Nixt them the Abbots and Priors, tua 
 and tua, in ranke. 
 
 3dly to them shall ryde the Temporall Lords of 
 Parliament tua and tua, and that euer the last 
 created shall merche togider formost. 4th ly, the 
 Bischopes and Archbischopes tua and tua in ranke 
 according to ther place and dignity, and 
 
 Immediatly after them the Earles rankit as said is 
 tua and tua, and the leatest creatione to marche 
 formost. 
 
RYDINOS OF THE PARLIAMENT, &C. 67 
 
 And then the Trumpetts. 
 
 Pursuewants. 
 
 Heralds. 
 
 Lyone King of Armes. 
 
 And then the honors immediately befor my Lord 
 Commissioners Grace, and after his Grace, the Mar- 
 quesses, and that nane of the estaits repaire to the 
 Parliament Housse till the Commissioners Grace 
 be redey, and that they attend and vait vpone him 
 and convey him in ther rankes and order aboue 
 wrettin,, as they will be ansuerable vpon their obe- 
 dience, and ordains publicatione to be made herof 
 at the mercat crosse of Perth quherthrow nane pre- 
 tend ignorance of the same. 
 
 Ja. Prymrois. 
 
 Notwithstanding of this acte, at Perthe, nather 
 Commissioners of Burrowss nor Barrens read, for 
 vant of furnitur be ressone of the vntymous var- 
 ninge. 
 
 Sir Da. Lindesay. 
 
68 LIST OF KNIGHTS, &C. 
 
 ^ list of ti^ts3st gentlemen Itnigiftt ijg mg 
 
 Hortr 13uclte, ^is iltaiesties Com= 
 
 ntissioner giuen in t^ts orlrer to 
 
 ti^e Hgone ii)ntitx ^les i^antr. 
 
 Alexander Gordon of Neuedale. 
 
 Villiam Douglas of Glenberuey. 
 
 Donald Mackoneill of Slaite. 
 
 John Steuarte of Kirkton, ShrifFe of Bute. 
 
 Alexander Menzies of Weeme. 
 
 George Forrester of Corstorphin. 
 
 Ludouick Houston of that Ilk. 
 
 Roger Gray of Southsax. 
 
 Mr. Johne Caesar of Hydehall. 
 
 Mr. Johne Sauage of Baraper. 
 
 Coyle Lamont of Innerrin. 
 
 Johne Hamiltone of Preston. 
 
 Patrick Agneu of Lochnau, Shriff of Galloway. 
 
 James Hamilton of Rosseuen. 
 
 Johne Somerwail of Carswell. 
 
 Jo. Blakeater of TuUiallen. 
 
 Robert Montgomerey of Lochransey. 
 
 Robert Scot, 50unger of Gokstone. 
 
 Jo. Mackdougal of 
 
 Macoule of Dundighe. 
 
 Lennox. 
 
Htflistev of Untnments antr jfuntralls 
 
 ? 
 
THE INTERMENT OF THE DUKE OF YORKE. 71 
 
 ^]fte Knttvmcnt of iitictiavtr i^ulte of 
 gorlte, iFattjer to l^UxQt ^Etruartr 
 
 Firsts, ther ves ordained a chaire, the hoiipis 
 couvered vithe blacke veluit, and the sydis vithe 
 blaeke clothe, the pomells painted vith hes armes, 
 drauin vith sex courseirs, trapped vithe blacke 
 clothe, vith Scoutsions of hes armes vpoune Buck- 
 roume, sett one eurey syde and forheids of horsses, 
 and of the formost horsses, and after eurey tua 
 horsses satt a yeoman, clothed in a blacke goune, 
 vith a houde oner hes face, hauing a quhipe in hes 
 hands, and a raine to gyde the aither horsses befor 
 him. 
 
 Item. The chaire ves couered vith blacke veluet, 
 vith a crosse of quhyte Satine. The geir of our Lord 
 1476, the 4 day of Julay, Dirige ves begunne by 
 the Bischope of Durhame. 
 
 Item. 'J he dean of the king's chapell, vith the 
 uther members of the chapell, vaited alvay, sauing 
 at cerimonies. And ther ves vatche all the nighte. 
 
72 THE INTERMENT OP 
 
 Item. The nixt mornon after, the said Bischope 
 did singe Masse of requiem, being present in pon- 
 tificalibus, the Bischope of Chester, the Bischope of 
 Hereford made a Sermone, vithe the bischopes of 
 Bangor and Durhame. 
 
 Item. The fryiars of the place said ther dirgie 
 and masse of requiem, at ane Altare beneth the 
 quheire. 
 
 Item. Ther vos ordained a hersse quherin lay 
 the bodey chested, and aboue the cheste ane image 
 lyke to the prince, laying upright in a Surcotte, and 
 a Mantell of Bleu veluit, furred vith Armyne, be- 
 tuene the Image, one the cheste ves sprede a bleu 
 clothe of goulde, and one hes hede ves sette a Cape 
 of Mantinence, vith ane angell standing in quhyte, 
 holding a croune ouer hes hedde, in token that he 
 wes king of righte. 
 
 Item. Ther ves rallied aboute, for the lords, 
 mourners, vich kneiled at the hed and both sydes 
 of the hersse, vithin raills, that is to say, hes sone, 
 the 
 
 DUCKE OF GlOCESTER, 
 
 And on the righte syde of the said hersse ves ther 
 the Earll of 
 
 Northumberland, 
 
RICHARD DUKE OF YORKE. 7-3 
 
 Barron of Graystocke, and 
 Lord Darcey of the Northe. 
 
 And one the lefte syde satte ther kneilling, the 
 Steuard of the kin^r's housse, the 
 
 Lord Standley, 
 Lord Velleis, 
 Lord Monioye, 
 
 All in ther habitts, that is to say, long gounes and 
 mourning hooudis, vith long Mantells, training one 
 grounde. 
 
 Item. By the rallies vithout, stoode the officiars 
 of Armes, in longe gounes, and hoodes upone ther 
 heids, hauing aboue all, ther coatts of Armes, for 
 betuene the officers of Armes, and the Lords should 
 stand no man. 
 
 The Lord's chaplen may stand by hes Lord, 
 vithoute the barres, sayuing hes service, and no 
 rther vayes. 
 
 Item. Oner the Image of the corpes, a cloth of 
 Maiestie of blacke sarsenet, vith the Image of our 
 Lord sitting one a rainboue in gould, hauing one 
 eurey syde a Scutseone of hes armes of France and 
 England, quarterlie, vithe a variance aboute the 
 
 K 
 
74 THE INTERMENT OF 
 
 hersse, also of blacke sarsenet, freynged halffe a 
 gaird deepe, vith ye frynge beattin vith iiij Angels 
 of goulde, holding hes armes vithin a garter, as is 
 aboue syde in eurey place of the hersse. 
 
 Item. The noumber of the lights of the hersse at 
 l^omfrette, ij^ and lix in all, that is to say, 5 princi- 
 pall lightts, the first standing in themidest, vith 14 
 boughes aboute him, flourished, and four branches, 
 and vpone eurey branch a Mortar, vith sex lights 
 flourished, and vther 4 staunding in the 4 corners, 
 hauing aboute them 6 lightts and 4 branches, 
 flourished, one evrey branch a mortar, furnished as 
 is aboue saide, and 24 coursse lightts aboute the 
 corpes and hersse, eurey one of them hauing a 
 boughe flourishing, as said is. 
 
 1 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. l-^ 
 
 ^Se KtttttmoTt aittr ISuriall of 
 
 Quhen the nobill Prince Eduard the 4, ves de- 
 cessed at hes pallace at Vestminster, vich ves the 6 
 day of Appryll, 24'" Anno. Regno sui. 
 
 Tilt! bodey of je First the corpes ves couered from the 
 
 king laide to be 
 
 seine by all the nauill to the kneeis and so layed iipone 
 Maiir^of Lon- ^ ^^^^^^ ^11 naked, after vich maner he 
 done and Ai- lay open X or xij houres that the lords 
 both spirituallaud temporall then leiving 
 in London, or neir therabote, might looke on him, 
 and the Maior of London and hes brethren sau him 
 so laying, and then he ves seyred and ordered. 
 
 Then after he ves brought to the church of 
 Vestminster, quher ver sung iij solemne Masses. 
 1. ViRGiNis Mari^. 2. Sanct.« Trinitatis. 3. 
 Requiem, vich ves sung by the Bischope of Che- 
 ch ester. After noune ther ves sung dergiesand com- 
 andatious, and after the seruice ves doune, the 
 quholl psalter ves said by hes chapell, and att night 
 ves veil! vatched vith nobellmen and uthers, his ser- 
 vantts, and at the masse of requiem the Lord 
 Backers, the queinis chamberlaiue, offred for the 
 
76 THE INTEKMENT OF 
 
 Queine. And the Lords temporall oftred daylie, pue 
 the said masses, the Lordes spirituall oftred also to 
 the heighe altar, bote note to the Bischope, and all 
 vthers the kings seniantts did offer also. Thisordour 
 ves keipt in the palace viij dayes, eurey day, except 
 the first, hauing hot one solemne masse, vichalwayes 
 ves sunge by a Bischope, and one Vednisday the 
 28 of the said month, hes bodey ves convayed to 
 the Abeye borne by diuers knights and esquyres, 
 that ver of hes bodey ; that is to say, 
 
 Sr. Ednard Stanley. 
 
 Sr. Jhone Sauage. 
 
 Sr. Thomas Vorcesley. 
 
 Sir Thomas Moleneux. 
 
 Johne Cheney, Master of his Maiesties Horsses. 
 
 Walter Hungerfourde. 
 
 Giiye of Volstonne. 
 
 Jhone Sabcotts. 
 
 Thomas Tirell. 
 
 Jhone Risley. 
 
 Thomas Dacre. 
 
 Jhone Norice. 
 
 Boyeis De Bartell. 
 
 Christopher Collens. 
 
 Hauing one corps a large and brode cloth of 
 goulde, aboue a rich canopey of cloth imperiall 
 frynged vith goulde and bleu silk, borne by 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOUKTH. I I 
 
 Sr. Thomas St. Clair. 
 
 Sr. Villiam Aparr, Comptroller. 
 
 Sr. Johne Ashley e. 
 
 Sr. Villiam Schouer, Knights. 
 
 And at eurey corner a Baner, the 1. of the 
 Trinitie borne by Sr. Henry Ferriers; the second 
 of our Ladey borne by Sr. James Radcliffe ; the 
 thirde Baner of St. George borne by Sr. George 
 Broune ; the fourte Baner of St. Eduarde borne 
 by Sr. Gilbert Denhame ; and the Lord Houard 
 boure the king's baner with hes armes going nixt 
 affor the corpes amongest the officiers of Armes, and 
 so in deu ordour till they came to the Abbey of 
 Vestminster, quher vnderneath the hersse as apper- 
 tineth ves a grate processione befor him, as fol- 
 loues, viz. : — 
 
 Archbischope of York, Chancelour of England, 
 
 The Bis. of London, 
 
 The Bis. of Chester, 
 
 The Bis. of Bathe, 
 
 The Bis. of Chechester, 
 
 The Bis. of Carleill, 
 
 The Bisch. of Noruiche, 
 
 The Bis. of Durheme, 
 
 The Bis. of Lincoln, 
 
 The Bis. of Eley, 
 
 The Bis. of Rochester, 
 
78 THE INTEBMENT OP 
 
 The Bis. of Exester, 
 The Bis. of Salisburey. 
 
 Next in ordoure came the corpes caried as said 
 is, after vich did follou, the 
 
 Earll of Lincolne, 
 
 Marquess Dorrsett, 
 
 Earl of Huntingdoune, 
 
 \ iscounte Barkley, 
 
 Lord Stanley, Steuard of hes M^*'*^' hoiiss, 
 
 Lord Hastings, Kings Chamberlaine, 
 
 Lord Dacre, the Queens Chamberlaine, 
 
 Lord Dudley, 
 
 Lord Bargeney, 
 
 Lord Audley, 
 
 Lord Ferreis, 
 
 Lord Morley, 
 
 Lord Cobham, 
 
 Lord Velles. 
 
 Thir aboue named Lords ver vith the corpes at 
 seruice that night, and to-morrou also. 
 
 The seruice at Vestminster wes doune by the 
 Archbischope of York, and at Masse the Abote of 
 Bansey ves Deacon, and aboue the hersse vpon the 
 cloth of gould ves the kings effigies, haueing one 
 the same robs vich the king vsed to veare, vith a 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 79 
 
 croune one hes head, and a schepter in hes one 
 hand, and a globe in the vther hand. 
 
 And after that the Lords that ver vithin the hersse, 
 and the Bischops had offred, the Maior of London 
 ofFred, and after him the cheiffe Judge, and vther 
 judges, and Knights of the Kinges Housse, vith the 
 Barrous of the Exchequer, and Aldermen of Lon- 
 don. 
 
 And quhen the Masse ves doune, and all vther 
 Solemnitie, and that the Lords ver redey to ryde, 
 ther ves ordained a royall chariote couered vith 
 blacke veluet, hauing aboue that a blacke clothe of 
 golde vith a quhyte cross of golde, and under that, 
 a Maiestque clothe of blacke sarsanet. 
 
 The chariott drauin vith sex coursers trapped vith 
 blacke veluet, vith certaine Scutseons betuin upone 
 black Sarsinet vith gold. 
 
 Upone the formost horss and tylt-horse satte tuo 
 chariote men, and one the . 4 . other horsess sate 
 four henshmen, one ather syde, vente diuerss knights 
 and Squyres for the body. 
 
 The Lord William Houard did beare the kings 
 Baner nixte befor the 4. horsses, and hes horsse 
 ves trapped vith blacke veluet vith diuerss Scut- 
 
80 THE INTERMENT OF 
 
 seons of the kings Armes, vith hes mourning hoode 
 one hes heade. 
 
 Then the corse vith the personage, as aboue 
 vith the processione, of Bischops in pontificalibus, 
 and the 4. ordour of fryars ves convayed to the 
 chaire, and in ordour as aboue, to Charing Crosse, 
 quher the Bisehope sensed him ; and after ves pute in 
 to the said chaire : and the I>ords toke ther horsses 
 and proceided to Syone that night. Quher at the 
 church dore, the Bisehope senset him, and the corps 
 vith the Image (as said is befor) ves borne to the 
 f|ueire of the said church, and ther the Bisehope of 
 Dnrheme did the seruice. 
 
 And one the morrou, in lyke ordour (as aboue) 
 he ues convayed to the chayre, and from thense to 
 Vindsore, quher at Eyton the Bisehope of Lincohie 
 and the Bisehope of Eley did meete the corps and 
 senset them, and proceided to the Castell. 
 
 And at the Bridge mette the procession of Vind- 
 sore, and at the Castell gate the Archbischope of 
 York, and Bisehope of Vinchester senset the corps, 
 being theruith the Bisehope of Noruich, the Bisehope 
 of Durheme and the Bisehope of Rochester, vith the 
 chanons of colledge and the Kings Chappell, and so 
 proceided to the Neu church, quherin wes ordained 
 a marualous neu veill vrought hersse, and fourth 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 
 
 81 
 
 vithe dirgie,aud in the eiuening they of the colledge 
 said the quholl psalter ; and ther ves a grate vatch 
 that night, by many grate Lords, knights, and 
 squyres for the body, Gentelmen Ushers, and others, 
 quhose names here follow. 
 
 First vithin the hersse the Lords of 
 
 Bargaueney, 
 
 Hauard, 
 
 Audley, 
 
 La-ware, 
 
 Lisley, 
 
 Cobhame, 
 
 Welles, 
 
 S"^ Jhone Arundell, 
 
 Fitz-heughe, 
 Morlay, 
 
 S"^ Thomas Bourser 
 
 Knights vith oute the hersse ver these that fol- 
 loues. 
 
 S*" Thomas St. Claire, 
 S*" Henrey Ferries, 
 S"" Eduard Stanley, 
 S"^ William Parker. 
 
 Sr Gilberte Denham. 
 S"^ Jhone Sauage, 
 S"" Thomas Molinex, 
 S"" Villiam Stone. 
 
 Esquyresfor the bodey ver these that follows, viz. 
 
 Jhone Cheney, Master of 
 
 the horss, 
 William Barclay, 
 Villiam Odall, 
 Robert Poyntis, 
 
 John Rysley, 
 Lois de Berclais, 
 Anthony Malauere, 
 Jhone Sabcotts, 
 
82 THE INTERMENT OF 
 
 Gentlemen Ushers ver these, heir in ordour, viz. : — 
 
 Villiam Colingburne, 
 Eduard Hargill, 
 Nicolas Cremer, 
 Christopher Colling, 
 Villiam ClifForde. 
 
 Officers of Armes ver these following, viz. : — 
 
 Garter and 7 kings at 
 Norroy, J armes. 
 Glouchester, 
 
 Rougecrosse, 
 Guysnes and 
 Harrington, pursefants. 
 
 Esquyres of the houshold ver the following, viz. : — 
 
 Thomas Mortimer, 
 George Democke, 
 William Rodewall, 
 Jhone de la Mere, 
 Edmond Gorgis. 
 
 Zeomen Vshers ver these that folloues, viz. : — 
 
 William Rider, 
 Roger Chelsate, 
 
 George Cheyny, 
 James Pembretoune. 
 
 Vith diners vthers, vith al the moste pairte of the 
 zeomen of the chalmerys and courte, vich helde 
 torches. 
 
KINO EDWARD THE FOURTH. 83 
 
 And one the morrow, after the comandationes, be- 
 gane the Masse of our Ladey sounge by the Bis- 
 chope of Durseme, at vich masse Sr. Thomas Boy- 
 uesse offered the masse penney, because ther ves no 
 grater persone of Estaite presente, and after him 
 all vther that ver in the hersse. 
 
 After that masse ves doune, then began the masse 
 of Requiem, the trinitie sunge by the Bischope of 
 Lincolne, at vich masse the Earle of Huntingdoune 
 ofFred the masse pennie, and after him other Lords 
 (as is aboue sayed). 
 
 At the beginning of the masse of Requiem vich 
 ves sounge by the Archbischope of Zorke, the of- 
 ficers of armes vent to the Vestuarey, quher they 
 receauid a rich embroidered coate of Armes, vich 
 Garter King of Armes helde vith als grate rever- 
 ence as he coulde at the head of the hersse till of- 
 fring tyme. 
 
 At vich tyme after the Earlle of Lincolne had 
 ofTred the masse pennie, the said Garter did present 
 it to the IMarquesse of Dorsette and the Earll of 
 Huntingdoune, and they ofFred it, and the said Gar- 
 ter recevid it againe from the Archbischope, and 
 helde it still at the heigh altar till the masse ves 
 doune. 
 
84 THE INTERMENT OF 
 
 In lykvayes Clarentieux and Norroy, kinges at 
 Armes did receaue the shield at ye offring, and 
 presented it to ye Lord Mattrauersse, and to the 
 Viscounte Barckley. 
 
 And Marches and Jyrland Kings of Armes re- 
 ceuid a rich sword Adch hed beine sent from the 
 Pope, and lykevayes presented it to Sr. Jhone and 
 Sr. Thomas Boursers, the king''s aunt's sonnes. 
 
 Also Chester, Leycester, heraulds, receaued a 
 Basnet vith a rich Croune of Goulde, and present- 
 ed it to the Lord Stanley, and to the LordHastinges. 
 
 And Glouchester, and Buckinghame, heraulds, 
 vith Rouge Crosse, Rose-Blanche, Callis, Guysnes, 
 Beruick, and Harringtoune, pursefants, vente vith 
 the knights and squyres of the housholde. 
 
 And for the bodey, to the church dore, to receaue 
 of Sr. Jhone Cheney, master of the horsse, the man 
 of armes vich ves Sir Villiam Aparre, armed al 
 places sauing the heade, hauing ane axe in lies 
 hand, the plomell dounvarde, and thus accompanied 
 to the queir dore, quher he did alight. And the 
 Decon toke the hersse vich ves trapped vith a rich 
 trape of the king's armes, 
 
 Quher the Lord Audley and the Lord Ferreirs 
 
KING EDWABD THE FOURTH. 85 
 
 receaued the man of armes, and vith the forsaid 
 coimpanie of knightes and squyres, heraulds and 
 pursefaunts, accompanied him to offring; vich doune 
 eueiy Lord in mourning habit offred for him selue, 
 and after the Lords, knights, and officers. 
 
 Incontinent that doune, the Lords ofFred certaine 
 clothes of goulde to the corps, eurey one after hes 
 degree and estaite ; that is to say, the Earll of Lin- 
 colne certain gairds of tisheu, the Marquesse of 
 Dorsett, vith all the vther that ver of the Bloode. 
 
 And after that doune, he ves vith the ceremonies 
 thereto appertening, interred in the same church at 
 the lefte hand of the heigh altar. 
 
 One quhose Soule the Lord haue mercey. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 I 
 
H6 THE INTERMENT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, 
 
 ^t tfjt lutttttttnt^ of €tttttine iSXi^a= 
 
 Xittift, ijglTc to iting ^tnxt^ t^t Ijtjtij 
 
 fot i>Utk tlofij, m It apptivs in t!jt 
 
 iiooitt of ge (State Ijartrvop^ 
 
 Soume ix mj^^- ccc,xxiiij gairds at diuers pryces, 
 amounting to the Soume off m^'b- ccc,xxiiiji>h- xv 
 ss. X. d. 
 
 Payed to Richard Gibsone for the pictui* makinge, 
 
 iijiib. 
 
 Payed to William Bokey for 9 gairds of Sattin 
 crimpsone, and a gaird and a quharter of blacke 
 veluite, to be a garment of the said picture, viib- 
 ijsh. ijd. 
 
 Payed for the hersse, ccclxviij^b. ijsh. x'l- 
 Auen to Elizabeth Pecke of the torches at the courte, 
 cccclxxijiib. at xlvjsh. The hunder as affor, xliib. 
 xvjsh- viij'i- 
 So rests, ccclvij'ib. xj^^. jjd- ob. 
 Payed to Jhone Bodeleine for tuo pices of black 
 
 burkrome, for the said herse, xxjsi'. 
 Payed to the Herauld paientters, for Scuttcheons, 
 Banierrs, Staues, and &c. as pereth, cclxxxviijiib. 
 xjsh. 8*^- 
 
WIFE TO KING HENRY THE SEVENTH. 87 
 
 Payed to the sadler, xxiiij'ib. Adijs'i- 8J. 
 
 Payed for blackning of the haill chairrs, xxiiij*ii- 
 
 Payed for Manteletts, Corsings and Parris and lyn- 
 
 XX 
 
 ing clothe, iiij xv^i'^- ijs. ij^i- 
 
 XX 
 
 Payed for 34palles to be offrede, iiij xiij'ib- 17**- 9'^- 
 Payed for the hersse clothe, and chyre cloth of 
 
 goulde, and black veluit and other thinges neces- 
 
 sarey, clxxxiiji'i^- x^- ij'^- ob. 
 Payed in Almesse to the pooure, ccxlii'' 
 Payed to the plumer for a coffin of Leade, vji'^^- 
 Payed to Valter Foster, tonnber and vorkmanship, 
 
 of the hairsse at Vestminster, iiiji''^- 
 Payed for expensis of Nobelmen at Westminster 
 
 at the saide Buriall, xxxvijlib. iiijs. xjs- 
 Siimma totius oneris et expensarum 
 iimiib. viijc. xlib- vijs- iij^- 
 
 Lykuayes for Nobellmen as folloues : — 
 
 The Marquess vj gairds, and 4 men xiiij gairds. 
 
 The E arils lyk quantitie also. 
 
 The Barrons vj gairds, 3 seruants x gairds. 
 
 The knights v gairds, and tuo seruants vij gairds. 
 
 Henchmen vj & viij gairds, and sex seruants xxj 
 
 gairds. 
 The Cupebearir iij gairds, and one seruant iij 
 
 gairds. 
 The Suarde iiij gairds, and 3 to lies seruant. 
 
88 THE INTERMENT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, &C. 
 
 Esquyres for the bodey iiiij gairds to 5. 3. 
 
 All other Esquyres iiij gairds to 5, 3. 
 
 Gentelmen hussers iiij gairds to 5. 3. 
 
 Seriants at Armes iiij gairds to 5. iij. 
 
 Leuars of the Chalmber a lyke vith geomen, v- 
 
 shers, and pages of the Chalmber all at iiij gairds 
 
 a peice. 
 The King's Chapleins vj gairds, and 1 seruant iij 
 
 gairds ; all other Chapleins v gairds and one ser- 
 
 uante iij gairds. 
 
 Garter, 
 
 Clarentieux, 
 
 Somersette, 
 
 Vindsore, 
 
 Lancaster, 
 
 Bleumantell, 
 
 Rouge dragonne, 
 
 Groby, 
 
 Serreshall, 
 
 All vich hed v gairds black cloth a mane, and the 
 Kinge of Armes 3 gairds for a seruante. 
 
 The total number of gairds of black clothe ex- 
 tended to 9681 gairds. 
 
 I 
 
THE INTERMENT OF KING HENRY THE SEVENTH. 89 
 
 ^ Brcittt relatione of t^t S^oltnxnitit 
 
 usrtr at tjt tntcrmtut of ittng 
 
 ^tnvtv t^t hijt^, tifte procitring 
 
 from l^vicStttontf to Hontron, 
 
 After that all things necessarie for the interment 
 and funerall pompe of the laite kinge, verey sump- 
 tuoslie prepared and doune, — 
 
 The corps of the decessid king ves brought fourth 
 of bead chalmber to the grate chalraber, quher he 
 did lay iij dayes, and ev^ery day befor the corps ther 
 ves masse and dirgie solemlie sunge, vith a prelate 
 mytred ; the nixt thre dayes therafter the corps ves 
 frome thense remoued to the hall, and frome the 
 hall, uther three dayes to the chapell vith lyk ser- 
 uice, hes morning seruants both [day] and night ofF- 
 riug ther deu attendance, and in evrey place ves 
 ther ane hersse garnished vith Baners, Scutcheons, 
 and Pincells. 
 
 And upon Vedinsday, being the 19 of May, ves 
 the bodey bot in a chaire couered vith black cloth 
 of goulde, drauin vith 5 grate coursers, couerid vith 
 black veluit, and garnished vith Scutscheons of fyne 
 
 M 
 
90 THE SOLEMNITY USED AT THE INTERMENT OF 
 
 goulde : one the corps ther ves ane Image or Re- 
 presentatione of the laite kinge, layed on cuschons 
 of gould, and apparelled in hes rich robs of estaite, 
 vith a croune one hes head, a Ball and Schepter in 
 hes hands, environed vith Baners of Armes, of al 
 hes Dominions, Tyttles, and Genealogies, and thus 
 the chaire being ordered, the chapleins and prelatts 
 vente praying, and all iither in black mourninge, 
 vith inumerabill torches, procided in good ordoure 
 from Richmond to Londone. 
 
 And at Londone Bridge ver all the preists, 
 clerkes, and religious persons vith ther crosses, in- 
 habitting in Londone or aboute, vich vent aboute 
 the said corps; and the Maior and his brethren, vith 
 many citicens al in blacke vaitted one the bodey, 
 and so passed throu the streitts vich ver besett vith 
 Torches one eurey syde, and childrin on the stalls 
 holding tapers, to the cathedrall church of St. PaulFs, 
 quher ves a sumptuos hersse made of vaxe, and 
 garnished vith baners and scutscheons. quher ves 
 sunge a solemne derge and masse, during vich tyme 
 the Kinges houshold reposed in the Bischopes 
 palace. 
 
 The nixt day was the corps remoued in lyke 
 ordour to the Monasterey of Vestminster, Sr Eduard 
 Hauarde ridyng inthe King's Coate of Armes, bear- 
 
K.IXG HENRY THE SEVENTH. 91 
 
 ing lies baner one a courser trapped vith the Armes 
 and Atchievements of the decessed Kinge. 
 
 In Vestminster church ves ther a mearvelous 
 grate hearsse, of 9 principallis full of lightts vich ves 
 lighted against the cooming of the corps, vich ves 
 taken out of the chaire vith sex Lords, and set under 
 the hersse, the effigie laying vpon the cofFen one a 
 pall of goulde, the mourners being rounde aboute 
 vithin the first raill, knights bearing baners standing 
 vithin the 2 raylle, and officers of Armes vith oute 
 the same, Garter vith a loude voice crayed, for 
 
 THE SOULE OF THE NoBILL PrINCE KiNG HeNREY 
 
 THE vijt^' King of this realme, and incontinent 
 theraftere, the queire began Placebo, and so sunge 
 dergie ; vich being endid, the mourners vithdreu 
 themselues into the palace, quher they hed a voydy, 
 and so reposed themselues that nighte. 
 
 The nixt day ther uer iij masses solemnlie sunge 
 by Bischops, and at the laste masse vere offred the 
 King's Banner, Coatte of Armes, sourd, target, 
 helme, courser. At the end of the masse the lords 
 offered vpe the pallais of Goulde, and then the 
 queire did singe Libera me, Domine. The bodey 
 ves pute into the earth, and the lords, 
 
 Grate Tresuarer of England. 
 Steuard and 
 
92 THE INTERMENT OF KING HENRY THE SEVENTH. 
 
 Chamberlain of the King's houss. 
 Tresaurer and 
 
 Compteroller of the King's houshold did break ther 
 staues and caste them into the grave. Then did Gar- 
 ter Cray vith a loude voice, Viue Le Roy Henrey, 
 Le Huitiesme Roy d'Angleter, & de France, &c. 
 and then all the mourners depairted to the palacie 
 vith all vther of the housholde, quher they had a 
 verey grate and sumptuos feste, and thus ver the 
 funeralls solemlie finished. 
 
 Grate wounder it ver vrette, quhat sorrou and la- 
 mentation ves made for this prince, by hes seruants 
 of the vysest sorte, (and the joy made by such as 
 ver troubled by the rigor of ye lau,) ^&t the houppe 
 that in all poynts appeired in the neu kinge, did 
 both reprive the heuie heartts of them who hed lost 
 so visse a prince ; and also did establish the mirth 
 of them that ver reliued by hes death, by ressoun 
 that both the father and the soune hed pardoned 
 ther offences. 
 
 ^ 
 
THE painter's CHARGE AT THE INTERMENT, &C. 93 
 
 laf^t ^aintrt's tf^m^tn at tije K«tet= 
 mtni of ti&e sattr Notiill fringe 
 
 Mr. Broune. 
 
 First ijcc. scutscheons mettall, of fyne Goulde at 
 
 iiij*- a peice, xxxviji'b- 9^- 
 Item, iiijc scuttcheons cullers atte xij apiece is 
 
 XX^ib. 
 
 Item, iij coatts of armes of fyne gould at 40s- 
 
 apiece is vi^ib. 
 Item, ij coatts in party gould at 28s. xlvj** viij^- 
 Item, 30 scutcheons, one sarsnet at iiij^- xd. is 
 
 Vijlib. ys- 
 
 Item, viij small scutscheons for horsse heads at 
 
 xvjd. apeice is xv^- iiij*^- 
 Item for a Baner of St. Eduard of fyne goulde, 
 
 fringed, xliiij^- iiij^- 
 Item, vj. c. pencells at xd. apiece is xxvii^- 
 Item, Ixxij zairds of rachnents at 18"^- a zaird is 
 
 ylib. viijs- 
 Item, xij banerolls of fyne goulde at xxs. a peice is 
 
 xijiib. 
 Item for gilting a sheilde, vithin the garter a croune 
 
 imperiall, the helme and crest, in burneshed 
 
94 THE painter's charge at the interment of 
 
 goulde, garnisheing of the Mantell, Basnette, of 
 fyne silke vith ane open vein, viji'i^- 
 Summa j<=xxijiii>- xiijs- iiijci- 
 
 To William Vhyttinge. 
 
 Item, a 100 scut, gold at iiij^ pice is xvi'b. 
 
 Item, 200 scut, in cullers at ISds. is xi''^- 
 
 Item, 10 banerolls at 20s. a piec, x^'b. 
 
 Item, 26 scut, one sarsnet at iiijs- lO''- vj'ib- v^- 
 
 viijd- 
 Item, 7 scut, for horseheads at xvjd- ixs- viij^'- 
 Item, 40 pencels apice, lOd. xxxiij*- 4<i- 
 Item for lyning 3 cotts of armes, vs- 
 Item for the chairs pryce, xliijs- iiijd. 
 Summa xlvji'b. xiijs- iiij^^- 
 
 To Jhone Volffe. 
 
 Item, 100 scut, golde, iij^- pice, xv^'b. 
 
 Item, 236 scut, collors at 12^1- xji'b. x*- 
 
 Item, 4 banerolls at 20s- is iiijiib. 
 
 Item, a baner of the Trinitie, xliij^- iiijd. 
 
 Item, 64 pencels at liij^- iiij^. 
 
 Item, 6 scut, upone sarsnet 4^- 10^- xxix^- 
 
 Item, 6 baner stauis at 8^- iiijs. 
 
 Summa xxxvji'b. xix^- viij*^- 
 
KING HENRY THE SEVENTH. 95 
 
 TO THOMAS GREINE. 
 
 Item, 1010 Scutseons in fyne gould at iiijs. apeice, 
 
 Xvjlib. xs- 
 
 Item, 1050 Scutseons in colors at xvjs- apice is 
 
 viijiib. xs- 
 Item, 2 Banerolls at xx^- xl^- 
 Item, XXX pincels at 10^- xxv*- 
 Item, 6 Scutseons one sarsnett at iiijs- apice is 
 
 XXXS- 
 
 Item, a baner of the table, xliiij^- iiij**- 
 Summa xxxl'b. xviijs- iiijd. 
 
 Item, to Villiam Vriosley of the lyke voorke, the 
 soume of 184)iib. 
 
 Item, to Jhone Vanlesse for a 100 scutseons of fyne 
 goulde, 100 and to scutseons in colours, ij Ba- 
 nerolls, 30 pincells, 8 scutseons, one sarsenett, 
 and a Coatte of Armes in fyne goulde. 
 Summa xxix^ib. xiijs- viij'^- 
 
 Item, to Richard Roundanger, herauld painter, for 
 a 100 scutseons in fyne gold, 100 and 50 scut- 
 seons in colors, ij Banerolls, 20 pincells, viij 
 scutseons one sarsenette, and a Coatte of Armes 
 in fyne goulde. 
 
 Summa xxixl'b- xiijs- viij^' 
 
96 THE painter's CHARGE AT THE INTERMENT OF 
 
 Item, to Jhone Copington, painter for 50 scutseons 
 in fyne goulde, and for 50 scutseons in colours 
 the 
 
 Summa x^ib. 
 
 Item, to Thomas Marischall for a 100 scuttseons 
 in mettal, a 100 scutseons in cullors, and ij Ban- 
 erolls, the 
 
 Summa of xxiji'b. 
 
 Item, to Roger Vilmote, painter for a 100 scutseons 
 in fyne goulde, and a 100 scutseons in colors, 
 
 the 
 
 Summa of xxi'b- 
 
 Item to Thomas Alysander, painter, for 50 scut- 
 seons in fyne gould, and for 50 scutseons in 
 colors, the 
 
 Summa of xii^. 
 
 Item, to Jhone Heth, for xxx scutseons in fynegolde 
 at iiijs- a pice, and for 30 scutseons in colors at 
 xijd- a pice, the 
 
 Summa of vjl'b. 
 
 Item, to Jhone Rolse, painter, for a 100 scutseons 
 
 in colors at xij a pice, v^'ti- 
 Item to Symon Hickford, for 60 scutseons at xijd- 
 
 a pice, iiijiib. 
 
KING HENRY THE SEVENTH. 97 
 
 Item, to Jhone Vrykell, painter, for a 100 scut- 
 
 seons in colors, the pice, xiy^ v^ib. 
 
 Item, to Henrey Oxfourde, painter, for 50 scutseons 
 
 in gold at iiij*- a pice, and 50 scutseons in collors 
 
 at xijti a pice.— xiiij- 
 Item, to Jhone Vhetgette, the turner, for keruing 
 
 and embossing of the shield vith the garter and a 
 
 croune Imperiall, and for a Lyone to be sette one 
 
 the tope therofe, xx*- 
 Item, to Claude Butter, for gilding the Basnett 
 
 and the crossings of the axe, iiiji'^. yjs- viij^i* 
 Item, for a helme al quhyte, xh- 
 Item, for Mantletts of blacke cloth of goulde, and 
 
 for lyning to the helme and croune, xxxiij^- iiijd- 
 
 Summa ixi'^- x*- 
 Summa totius oneris extendit ad vclxxxjiii^- xij^^- 
 
 First, for searing of the kings corps vith 40 ells of 
 
 lining, at xviijd- ane elle, expendit aboute the 
 
 same, iiijiib. 
 More for 40 ells of Lining clothe at viij^. ane elle, 
 
 expendit aboute the same, xxvj*- viij^i- 
 Item, for 200 vaight of vaxe expendit aboute the 
 
 same, xxxx^- 
 Item, payed to ij vaxe chandlers hauing the chairge 
 
 aboute the said corps, iij''t>. 
 
98 painter's charge at the interment of, &c. 
 
 Summa for saruing, xiiiji'b- 
 
 Item, to Jhone Burtell, plumer, for crosse of lead 
 and coffin, vith vther thinges, vji'*^- xiijs- iiijd- 
 
 1 
 
IXtQi&ttx of llntrtrntnts antr jFunetaUs 
 
 I 
 
THE FUNERAL CEREMONY, &C. 101 
 
 ^i&e iFunttall Ctrtmong of g^mta 
 
 i^atqutss of il^amtlton, ^avle of 
 
 ^tran, CanrtJntrgt, Hortr Unmx, antr 
 
 Kuntrtratn, Stuarte of t!je ?l|otts= 
 
 i^oltr of Smtt^, llUxQ of ^ratt 
 
 Brittane.iFvanct, antr3Irtlantf,$s:c, 
 
 (3nt of 5ts ^jxQi^nt^^ ^xim^ 
 
 eottnstill in lioti^ l^instromts, 
 
 antf itntgijt of t^c 0ttret of 
 
 tjc (barter, ptrformctr at 
 
 Wanxiltont, 2 StptiJttug 
 
 iFtgtfas, jxx Mo. 1625. 
 
 First the conductor of the saulies in morning, 
 with a black batton in hes hand. 
 
 Tuentie four saulies, 2 and 2, in order, the fore- 
 most of them caryiug one hes stafFe a gumpheon, 
 and all the rest the armes of the defuncte in buch- 
 rome one the one syde, and hes name and surname 
 cyphered on the other syde. 
 
102 THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF 
 
 Mr. Alexander Hamilton, a J'an de armes one 
 horsse back, armed at all poynts, cariing one the 
 poynte of a lance the colours of the House of 
 Hamilton, viz. pulee Arg. and Geuls of Taffata. 
 
 A Horsse for the feilds, led by a Lackey in 
 Liverey. 
 
 A parliament Horsse, with a rich foote matte, 
 led by a Lackey in Liverey of Scarlet and siluer 
 lace, and a mandeiU with hes Master's cognisance. 
 
 Three trumpetts. 
 
 Four pursueuants. 
 
 The grate gumpheon caried by Johne Hamil- 
 ton of Airdrie. 
 
 The pincell caried by William Hamiltone of 
 Disserffe. 
 
 The Standard caried by Johne Hamilton of 
 Vestone. 
 
 The defunct's cote caried by Johne Hamiltone of 
 
 Haggis. 
 
 The Spurs caried by Alexander Hamilton of 
 Binning. 
 
JAMES MAKQUIS OF HAMILTON. 103 
 
 The Suord caried by Gauin Hamilton of Rap- 
 louche. 
 
 The Gantelit caried by Sr. Alexander Hamilton 
 of Innerwicke. 
 
 Then followed the 8 branches in this order : — 
 
 The King's Ma*'*^ armes one the fathersyde, caried 
 by Jhone Hamiltone of Orbestone. 
 
 One hes left hand the Armes of the Lord Gray 
 of Fouills, caried by Hamiltone of Kilbrackmont. 
 
 The Armes of Betton of Creighe, caried by 
 Robert Hamiltone of Torrence. 
 
 One hes left hand the Armes of Douglass, Earll 
 of Angus, caried by Mr. William Hamiltone, 
 Torrence brother. 
 
 The Armes of Douglass Earle of Morton, caried 
 by Hamiltone of Pardoue. 
 
 One hes left hand the Armes of Keth Earle 
 Marischall, caried by Hamiltone of Milburne. 
 
 The armes of Hamilton, caried by Robert Hamil- 
 tone of Bathcate. 
 
104 THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF 
 
 One hes left hand the Armes of Lyon Earl of 
 Kingorne, caried by James Hamiltone of Lange- 
 hermistone. 
 
 Thrie trumpets. 
 
 Four heraulds, 2 and 2. 
 
 The defunct's parliament robes, caried by S^ Ro 
 bert Hamilton of Siluertounehill. 
 
 The defunct's coronett ouerlayed with crispe, 
 caried one a black velwet cuscheon by Claude 
 Hamiltone, Master of Abercorne. 
 
 The pages in Liuerey, bearing the Armes of the 
 defuncte. 
 
 S"" Jeorome Lindesay, Lyoue King of Armes, 
 bearing the defunct's cote of Honor of black wel- 
 wet. 
 
 Then the corps, caried under a pall of black 
 weluett, deckt with L'armes and Scutcheons, and 
 ciphers of the defuncte. One the coffin lay the 
 order of the Garter, with hes Batton of grate 
 Steuarte of his Majestie's housholde coured with 
 cipres. 
 
JAMES MARQUIS OF HAMILTON. 105 
 
 After the corps, folloued Lord William Hamil- 
 ton hes 2d sone, as cheifFe mourner, assisted on the 
 right hand with Sr George Hay, Lord Grate Chan- 
 celour of Scotland, and, on the lefte, with Johne, 
 Earleof Marr, Lord Heigh Thesaurer of Scotland. 
 
 Then folloued 6 Noblemen in longe mourning 
 gounes and hoods, 2 and 2 in order, viz. : — 
 
 William Earle Marshall one the right hand. 
 William Earle Morton one the left. 
 
 John Earle of Cassilis one the right hand. 
 John Earle of Kingorne one the left. 
 
 Thomas Earle of Melros one the right hand. 
 Johne Earle of Lauderdaill one the left. 
 
 And thus from the palace, through the toune, did 
 they enter the churche of Hamiltone. 
 
 The funerall Sermon wes preached by Mr. 
 James Law, Archbischope of Glasgow. 
 
106 THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF 
 
 E!jc ifuntraU (!^trcmong of Sllaltcv 
 
 3?arlt of Balclcttc^, HortJ ^cott of 
 
 ISvaufts^omt, $cc, one of tiftt Hortrs 
 
 of ti^t i^ritttg eottnsatU, to U. 
 
 games antr ^. ^iftarlts, in ti^c 
 
 iiingiJotttt of Stotlantf, qxxi)o 
 
 Ugttr at Hontrou tfjc 20 of 
 
 l^oucmtJtv 1633. 
 
 THE FUNERALL CEREMONY OF WALTER EARLE OF 
 BALCLEUCH, LORD SCOTE OF BRANKSHOME, &c. 
 ONE OF THE LORDS OF THE PRIUEY COUNSAILL, 
 TO K. JAMES AND K. CHARLES, IN THE KINGDOME 
 OF SCOTLAND, QUHO DYED AT LONDON THE 20 OF 
 NOVEMBER 1633, HES CORPES BEING EMBALMED, 
 WER SHIPPED THENCE FOR SCOTLAND IN ONE 
 JHONE SYMPSONE SHIPE OF KIRKCALDY, QUHO, 
 BY TEMPEST OF WETHER, WER ALMOST PERISHED, 
 AND DRIUEN TO THE COST OF NORRUAY ; AT LAST, 
 BY DIUYNE PROUIDENCE, LANDIT AT LEITH, QUHER 
 THE CORPS WER SETT IN THE CHURCH THER, FOR 
 THE SPACE OF 20 DAYS, AND FROM THENCE, BY 
 HES HONORABLE FRIENDS, TRANSPORTED TO HES 
 AUEN HOUS OF BRANKSHOLME, QUHER THEY RE- 
 MAINED TILL 11 DAY OF JUNII, IN ANNO 1634, FROM 
 QUHENCE THEY WER SOLEMLY CARIED TO HAUICK 
 CHURCH, AND INTERRID THER AMONGEST HES 
 ANTECESTERS IN THIS ORDER. 
 
WALTER EARL OF BUCCLEUCH. 107 
 
 Imprimis, Went a conductor (of?) ye saulies in 
 mourning, with a black stafFe in hes hand, and 
 after him ane old mane in a murning goune, 
 cariing a staffe, a Gumpheone one buckrone. 
 
 Item, 46 saulies, 2 and 2, in order, in black gouns 
 and hoods, with blacke staues in ther hands, 
 and one them the defunct's armes and ciphers in 
 Buckrone. 
 
 Item, A trumpet cled in the defunct's l^iuerey, 
 ryding one horsse back, sounding. 
 
 Nixt Robert Scot of Houeschaw, armed at al 
 pices, ryding one a fair horsse, and carriing on the 
 poynte of a lance, a litle Baner of the defuncfs cul- 
 lers, vig. agur and or. 
 
 Item, a horsse in black led by a Lackey in Murning. 
 Item, a horsse with a footemantle of crimpsone 
 
 weluet embrodered with siluer, led by a lackey 
 
 in the defunct's Liuerey and Mandeill. 
 Item, 3 trumpetts in murning one foote, sounding- 
 
 sadlie. 
 Item, the Grate Gumpheon of black tafta caried one 
 
 the pointe of Lance, sutable by Mr. James Scote, 
 
 2d sone to Laurence Scot, aduocat. 
 Item, the defunct's spurs caried by Walter Scot of 
 
 Lauchope. 
 
108 THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF 
 
 Item, the suord caried by Andrew Scot, Brand- 
 
 medowes. 
 Item, the Gantletts caried by Francis Scot of Cas- 
 
 tellsyde. 
 Item, the defunct's coate of honour caried by Mr. 
 
 Laurence Scot. 
 
 Then folloued the 8 branches of the defiincte 
 in this order, vig ; — 
 
 The Armes of Montgomerey, 2d Grandame one 
 the Mother syde, caried by Johne Scot, prouest of 
 Crighton. 
 
 One hes right hand the Armes of Hamilton of 
 Clidisdaille, 2d Grandame on the father's syde, 
 carieyd by Robert Scot of Drayvpe. 
 
 The Armes of Douglas of Drumlanricke, 2d 
 grandsyre one the mother's syde, caried by Robert 
 Scot of Bouhill. 
 
 One hes Right hand the Armes of Douglas, Earle 
 of Angus, 2d grandsyre one the father's syde, caried 
 by Johne Scot of HeidshaAV. 
 
 The Armes of Ker of Pherneyhirst, first Gran- 
 dame one the mother's syde, caried by Andre^y Scot 
 of Carschope. 
 
WALTER EARL OF BUCCLEUCH. 109 
 
 One hes Right hand the Armes of Betton of 
 Creighe, the first grandame one the father's syde, 
 caried by Rob. Scot of Hartewoodmyres. 
 
 The Armes of Ker of Cesfurd, first Grandsyre 
 one the mother's syde, caried by Robert Scot of 
 Whytefield. 
 
 One hes right hand, the Armes of Scot of Bal- 
 cleuche, first grandsyre one the father's syde, caried 
 by S"^ Robert Scot of Haning. 
 
 Item, The grate pincell of black taffata, caried one 
 a Lance poynt by Walter Scot of Gridlelands. 
 
 Item, The defunct's Standard, caried by Mr. Wil- 
 liam Scot, eldest sone to Lawrence Scot, aduo- 
 cat. 
 
 Item, The defunct's pincell and motto of colors, 
 caried by Sr James Scot of Rossie. 
 
 Item, The defunct's Armes in mettal and color, 
 and taffata, caried aloft by S^ William Scot of 
 Harden. 
 
 Item, 3 trumpetts in mourning. 
 
 Item, 3 pursueuants in murning, in ther coates. 
 
 Item, The defunct's coronett, ouerlayd with cipres, 
 caried one a veluet cusheon, by S^ John Scot of 
 Scotstaruet. 
 
110 THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF 
 
 Then, last of all, cam the corps, caried under 
 a fair parte of black veluet, deckt with Armes, 
 L'armes and Cipres of Sattin, of the defuncte, 
 knopt with gold, and one the coffin the defunct's 
 Helmett and coronett, ouerlayed with cipres, to 
 show that he wes a souldiour. And so in this or- 
 der, with the conducte of maney honorable friends, 
 marched they from Branxholme to Hawick church, 
 quher, after the funerall sermon endit, the corpes 
 wer interrid amongest hes antcestors. 
 
 S"^ Ja. Balfour, Lyone. 
 
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GEORGE EARL OP KINNOULL. Ill 
 
 ^f)t jfuneral ccttmoucg ^trfotmetr at 
 
 ff)t interment of atovse ^arlc of 
 
 l^innottlt, l^tscottnt IJiipKnc, 
 
 Hortr 3§ag of l^tnfauns, 
 
 aratc e!)ancclottr of 
 
 ^totlantr, $j:c. at 
 
 ^trtfi, 19 ^ugusti, 
 
 1635. 
 
 Conductors, 2 in murning. 
 
 Tuentie,* 25 poore in gounes and hodes, cariing 
 the defunct's escutcheons on black staues. 
 
 Ane opin trumpett, cled in Liuerey. 
 
 Item, a gentleman in compleit armour, on hors 
 backe, cariing one the poynt of a lance the colors 
 of the hous, of quhyte and read tafFata. Thomas 
 Moncur. 
 
 Seruants of frinds in clockes, 2 and 2. 
 
 The grate pinsell, caried aloft by George Hay, 
 Meginche, brother. 
 
 Item, The defunct's Standard, caried by James 
 Hay, Meginche, brother. 
 
 The defunct's Seruants, 2 and 2, in clockes. 
 
 * Sic in MS. 
 
112 THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF 
 
 The defuncf s parliament hors, deckt with hes 
 ordinarie footemantle, led by tuo lackeyes, in I^i- 
 uerey and Mandeills. 
 
 Item, 4 tnimpetts in mourning, 2 and 2, in order. 
 
 Item, The Grate Gumpheon of black tafFata, 
 caried one the poynt of a lance, by Johne Neue of 
 Methey younger. 
 
 Item, The pincell of Black taffata, caried by 
 Patrick Butter of Gormacke. 
 
 Gentellmen, the defunct's frinds, 2 and 2, in 
 mourning. 
 
 Item, The Grate Mourning Baner, caried by 
 Capitane James Hay. 
 
 Spurs borne by Patrick Venton of Strickmartine, 
 gounger. 
 
 Gauntletts, caried by George Hay of Naughtane. 
 
 The 8 Branches of the defuncte went in this 
 order, viz. : — The Arms of Maxsuoll of Telling, 
 carieyd by George Kynaird, Incheture, 2d sone. 
 
 Ogstone de eodem, caried by David Battery of 
 Craighall. 
 
 Kynaird of Inchture caried by Johne Kynaird 
 of Incheture, gounger. 
 
 Boyde of Pitkindie, caried by Patrick Boyde of 
 Pitkindie. 
 
 Oliphant of Neuton, caried by Patrick Oliphant, 
 younger of Bachilton. 
 
 Crighton of Ruthwens, caried by Johne Hay, 
 Keilor's sone. 
 
GEORGE EABL OF KINNOULL. 113 
 
 Ogiluey of Inchemartyne, caried by William 
 Kynman of Hill. 
 
 Hay of Meginche, caried by Sir Peter Hay of 
 Meginche. 
 
 The defunct's armes in black tafFata, caried by 
 Andrew Wenton of Strickmartine. 
 
 A horsse in doole, led by tuo lackayes in mourn- 
 ing. 
 
 Four trumpetts in mourning 2 and 2. 
 
 Foul' pursueuants 2 and 2. 
 
 The suord borne by James Esplyne, Merche- 
 mound Herauld. 
 
 The targe borne by Johne Malcolme, Ross Her- 
 auld. 
 
 The crest borne by Thomas Drysdaill, lylla 
 Herauld. 
 
 The helmet borne by James Law, Snadoun 
 Herauld. 
 
 The defunct's parliament robes, caried by Peiter 
 Hay of Leyes. 
 
 The defunct's coronet, caried on a veluet cus- 
 cheone ouerlayed with crispe, by Sir Andrew Hay 
 of Keilor, younger. 
 
 The measse, caried by Marcke Home. 
 
 The grate seall, caried by Mr. Dauid Sybald. 
 
 The defunct's phisitian and chaplain in mourning. 
 
 Tuo pages of honour in mourning. 
 
 The defunct's coate of armes of blacke veluett, 
 
114 THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF 
 
 careyed by Lyone King of Armes in hes coate of 
 office. 
 
 The corpes caried under a fair pale of black wel- 
 uett adorned with teares of satin, and decte with 
 escutcheons and ciphers of the defuncte, and knopt 
 with gold, supported ouer the coffin by 12 gentle- 
 naen in mourning ; one the coffin lay hes coronet 
 couered with cipres. 
 
 Then folloued the cheiffe mourner, George Earle 
 of Kinnoule, lies sone and heir, in a longe mourn- 
 ing robe and hoode, assisted by 6 Earlls, and thre 
 Lords cled in that habit, they went 3 and 3 in order 
 after the cheiflFe mourner. 
 
 Earles. — Erole, Marischall, Rothes, 
 
 Vigtone, Kingorne, Dumfermling. 
 
 Lords. — Lome, Dalkeith, Spynie. 
 
 And in this order went they through the lenth 
 of the toune of Perth, and neir the bridge crossed 
 the watter, (warffes and boates being appoynted a 
 purpois), and so marched to Kinoule Churche, 
 quher after the funerall sermon being endit, wich 
 wes preached by Mr. James Fouler, Minister of 
 Kinfauns, his text, prowerbs, cap. 16, vers 20, the 
 corps wer sett in the tombe prepared for them. 
 Sr. Ja. Balfoure, Lyone. 
 
GEORGE EARL OP KINNOULL. 115 
 
 Wtjt pavttcttlav charges of tiftc lEarlc of 
 
 ittnnottlcss iFttncvalls, ^xctptauti 
 
 l^augtngs of tilacit, l^ounxins 
 
 iuntrs antJ clocltcs, Hcutvgs of 
 
 Sctuauts, charges of mtci;= 
 
 taning of 0,oMtmcn anU 
 
 ^tutltmtn, making of 
 
 V^xftt^ ont tt^t JililJtt, 
 
 antr iftfiviug of Ijoatts, 
 
 The Painter's Compte. 
 
 Item, for painting and mounting 80 double small 
 armes, one black buckerorae to serue the saules, 
 church-dors, trumpetts, and uthers places neid- 
 ful at 33s. 4d. the pice, is 133ib. 6^- 8d- 
 
 Item, for seuing one the frangies one the opin trum- 
 pett baner, and the seuing and mounting of the 
 colors of the Jandarmes, S*- 
 
 Item, for painting the pincell of colors in oyle, 
 mounting frengeing, &c. with gold and siluer 
 
 201ib. 
 
 Item, for painting the grate Baner in colors in oyle, 
 
 40iib. 
 
116 THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF 
 
 Item, for painting the gumpheon, the defunct's 
 
 armes, and 8 branches, at 5i'b- the peice being 
 
 10 in number, lOQii^- 
 Item, for painting, fi-engeing, and mounting in 
 
 black pinsell, 51'^. 
 Item, for painting, frenseing, mounting the black 
 
 baner or momuiing standard, 9,4<^^^- 
 Item, for painting and ribbining the 2 pages coattes 
 
 at 8iib- the pice, is 16^^^- 
 Item, for dressing the black weluett coate, SO^- 
 Item, for dressing and making 16 armes lyke em- 
 
 brodrie, 12 mortheads, 10 ciphers, 5 crouns, and 
 
 tearing the morte cloth and peale, 26iit>. IS^h- 4^- 
 Item, for gilding 24 grate knopps to the paille at 
 
 lOsh. the pice is 12iib. 
 Item, for gilding the coronetts of the kist and pale, 
 
 13iib. 6sh. Sd. 
 Item, for coloiu'ing and bleckning all the spears, 
 
 lances, staues, battons, and vther worke, ISiib. 
 Item, for painting, making, and mounting the grate 
 
 armes in logenge at the for-entrey, ISi'i^- 6^^- 8^. 
 Item, for the gilded helmet, 131'^- 6sh. 8d- 
 Item, for the lend of the suord, 3iib. Qsh. gd- 
 Item, for making and gilding the targe, 26lJb- 
 Item, for making and gilding the crest, 28^^^- 13sh- 
 
 4d. 
 
 Summa totalis, 493iib. l^sh. 4d. 
 
 Sr. Ja. Balfour, Lyone. 
 
george earl of kinnoull. 117 
 
 The Merchant's particular Compte for furnish- 
 ing FuNERALL Materially. 11. Apryle 1635. 
 
 Item, 43 ells of small black buchrome, at IS^i'- the 
 elneis, 32lib. 5si>- 
 
 Item, 3 quarter crimpsone Spanische taflfta, lOi'i^- 
 
 Item, 3 quarters quliyte Spanische tafFta for the 
 Jandarmes, at 8^^^- IQsh- elne, is G^'b. 8*^. 
 
 Item, 7 elns Crimpsone Spanische taffata for the 
 streimers of colors and piucells of colors, at 8^»'^- 
 lO^h. the elne, is 591'^- lO^h. 
 
 Item, 8 elns and a halffe of black Midland Span- 
 ische tafFta for the standards black pinsells and 
 the Defunct's armes, at 61'^. G^h. gd- the elne, is 
 53iib. igsh. 8d. 
 
 Item, 4 ells of black, 2 pyle wehyett, to be the 
 
 coate, at lo'ib. IQsh. the elne, is 62>ib. 
 Item, 6 quarters of Midling Spanisch taffita for the 
 
 gumpheon, is 9^'*^- lO^h. 
 Item, 3 ells reid Sasinett for 2 branches, at 4^'^. the 
 
 elne, is 12l»b. 
 Item, 6 quarters blew Sesnett for ane branch, G'ib. 
 Item, 6 quarters Zellou Sasnett for ane branch, 6''b- 
 Item, 3 elns quhyt Sasnett for 2 branches, ISiit*. 
 Item, to the painter ane vnce of read silk, is 34sh- 
 Item, 4 ellus and a halffe of quhyte and jallovv 
 
 Sattin to for the ciphers, teires, crounes and morte 
 
 heads, at 9^'^. the elne, is 40lib. IQsh. 
 
118 THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF 
 
 Item, Ane black hate and band to the herauld di- 
 rector of the painters, IV^^- 16^^- 
 Item, 3 ellhs of reid and blew Sasnett to be tiia 
 
 branches, at 4lib. the elne, is IS^ib. 
 Item, 12 ellns of small black buckerome to the 
 
 painter more, at 15''^- the elne, is 9''^- 
 Item, 5 quarters of read and quhyte Spanish taffita, 
 
 at 8"". the elne, is 10"^- 
 Item, 2 elns midling Spanische taffata, at O"'^'- 6* 
 
 8"^. the elne, is 12^^- 13^^. 4d. 
 Item, 6 peper of prins at 13*. 4^. the paper, is 4''''. 
 Item, 12 ellns black ribands, at 8*- elne, is 41'^- 16sh. 
 Item, 12 ellns bred black ribands, at lO^h. elne, is 
 
 6iib. 
 Item, 12 elns creiping crispe, at 33sh. the elne and 
 
 4d, is 20i'b. 
 Item, ane elne of read and quhyte tafFata more, 
 
 8iib. 
 Item, 9 ellns black midling Spanish tafFata for the 
 
 pale, at 6^ib. 6^h. g^. the elne, is ST'^- 
 Item, 12 black ribanes therto, at G^h- the elne, is 
 
 31ib. 12 sh. 
 
 Item, 20 elns of broad black ribbands, at lOs^- the 
 
 elne, is IQiib. 
 Item, 2 unce black silk therto, is 3iib. 
 Item, 4 ells and halffe of Padua serge, at 58sh. the 
 
 elne, is IS^ib. Ish. 
 Item, 2 ells and a halffe black and read calico, at 
 
 32sh. the elne, is 4iib. 
 
GEORGE EARL OF KINNOULL. 119 
 
 Item, Ane elne and a halffe of blew, yellow, and 
 
 quhyte callico, at 32si>- ell, is 40sh. 
 Item, 22 iince 9 dropes of colors of silk, at 32sh. 
 
 iince, and 9 unce 2 drope black silke, at SO^''- 
 
 the unce, to be 129 elns frengeis, is 52i'h. Is. Id. 
 Item For making the frenges at 12(i- the elne, is 
 
 Glib. 9sh. 
 
 Item, 6 quarters bleu and crimpsone satin, at 9^'^'- 
 
 lOsh. elne, is 14iib. 5sh. 
 Item, A quarter crimpsone weluett to lyne the 
 
 croune for the Targe, 4i'b. lO^i'- 
 Item, Halife wnce silke, 17^^- 
 Item, 6 paper dole preins, at G^h. 8^- the paper is 
 
 40sh. 
 Item, 5 unce, 9 drope and a lialfFe of reid and 
 
 quhyte silke, at 34sh- the unce, and 2 unce and 
 
 halffe of black silk more, to be 36 ells frengeis, 
 
 ISiib. 5sh. 2d. 
 
 Item, For making thir frengeis at 12sh- elne, is 
 
 36*h- 
 Item, For 15 ellns black cloth, at 12i'i>. the elne, 
 
 is 172iib. lO^h- 
 Item, 1 vnce and halffe black silk therto, is 45sh. 
 Item, 12 ells brod ribbands, at 9*^^- the elne, is 5iib. 
 
 8sii. 
 
 Item, ane elne black bucrome therto, 15«h. 
 Item, 9 ells and a halffe of 2 pyle weluett, at 15i'b- 
 lO'i'. the elne, is 147iib. 6^^. 
 
120 THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF 
 
 Item, 8 ells black midling tafFata, for the trumpet- 
 
 ters baners, 50iib. 13sh. 
 Item, 8 ells ribands therto, at 8sh. the elne, is ¥^^'- 
 
 4sh. 
 
 Item, 3 unce read and quhyte silk, and 4 vnce 
 
 black silk, to be 28 ells frengies to the trum- 
 
 petters baners, is lli'^- 2sh. 
 For working thir frenzies at 12<i- the elue, is 28*- 
 Item, ane elne and halffe quarter of Crimpson 
 
 Sattin, to be a shapron for the head pice, at 
 
 lO''*'- the elne, is IV^- 5'^' 
 Item, ane quarter quhyt Spanische taffata therto, 
 
 at 8''''- ane elnles, is 40- 
 Item, 1 vnce 5 drope reid and quhyte silke, to be 
 
 4 fratts to the chaprone, 46^'^- 1^- 
 Item, For making thir fratts at 8*- the piece, is 
 
 32^^- 
 Item, 2 ellns grate Frenche Loupning therto, at 
 
 6^^^- the elne, is 125^- 
 Item, for the trumpetters Liuery of Sca(r)lett, 
 
 and Siluer Lace therto, TS""^- 6'^- 8^- 
 Item, ells black brod tafFta ribbons for the coffin 
 
 clothe, at 9'^- the elne, is 6""- 15'^- 
 Item, 42 drope silk therto, 25'''- 6^- 
 Item, 6 ells read and quhyte ribbands for the 
 
 trumpeter and Jandarmes, 48*- 
 Item, Ane black hate and siluer band to the trum- 
 peter, 12^'^- 
 
GEORGE EARL OF KINNOULL. 121 
 
 Item, 4 single fathers, read and quhyte, at 4 merks 
 
 the pice, is 9^'''- 13*- 4>^- 
 Item, ane puisboord therto, with 2 ells Frenche 
 
 buckrome, 38^''- 6<^- 
 
 Summa, 1125'*- jd- 
 
 Item, to Johne Scott for make the frame of the pale 
 and coffin, with 23 Ringe-spears, and uthers 
 timber workes, and for dewysing the wariFes to 
 land and boate. at 400 merks. 
 And to his men in drink siluer, 9^^^- 
 
 Item, To 9 trumpeters, to each of them 80i»b- the 
 pice, is 720iib. 
 
 Item, To 4 Heraulds, 320iib. 
 
 Item, To 4 pursuewants, 420 merks. 
 
 S"^ Ja. Balfour, Lyone. 
 
 ^ 
 
122 THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF 
 
 ^Jt iFuncran (J^trtmonj) pcvformttr at 
 
 t^t xnttxxinQ of tje (iBounttss of 
 
 mciQiont, (jui^a lutss Ktst marittr 
 
 to ti^t Hatrtr of S^S^stone, antr 
 
 Ijatr isscb t!)is Hortr S^5«= 
 
 stone, nob) Itutng, t!jtn to 
 
 t^t ^arl of asiigtour, 
 
 antr lastlg to tjc T^(s= 
 
 count of ^ivtrs in 
 
 Krlantr, at ?§ol2= 
 
 ruitri^otts, 29 
 
 i^artij 1636. 
 
 First a conductor for the poore in mourning. 
 
 Twenty four poore in gouns and hoodes, with 
 little staues quheron wes the defunct's escutcheon's, 
 loginges, and cyphers. 
 
 The horsse of stait, with a crimpsone veluet wo- 
 man's sadell, led by a lackey in the defunct's liuerey. 
 
 A trumpett, open. 
 
THE COUNTESS OF WIGTON. 123 
 
 A horsse in doole, led by a lackey in mourning. 
 
 The grate Gumpheon, caried by Johne John- 
 stone of Readhall. 
 
 The standard of 3 coattes, being of her 3 seve- 
 rall mariages, caried by Robert Johnstone of Stable- 
 toune. 
 
 The 4 branches on her father syde went or- 
 dered thus : — 
 
 Lord MaxsuoU carieyd by Johne Maxsuoll of 
 Neulands. 
 
 Douglas of Drumlanrick caried by Archibald 
 Johnstone of Clachrie. 
 
 Stewart of Garlies caried by Jo. Jhonstone, 
 Clachries sone. 
 
 Gordon of Lochinvar caried by Archbald John- 
 ston of Cartluis. 
 
 The 4 Branches one her mothers syde fol- 
 lowed thus : — 
 
 Lord Harries caried by James Balgie, Laming- 
 ton''s brother. 
 
 Blarquhane caried by Jo. Kennedy of Hallayes. 
 
124 THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF 
 
 E. of Home caried by Jo. Home, unckell to Ja. 
 E. of Home. 
 
 Murray of Cockpull by 
 
 Four trumpetts in morning, close 2 and 2 in 
 order. 
 
 Four pursuewants, 2 and 2 in order. 
 Four Heralds, 2 and 2 in order. 
 
 The coronett of the defuncte Ladey borne one a 
 cussheon of black weluett, couered with crispe, by 
 Alexander MaxsuoU, brother to the Lord Harries. 
 
 Lyone King of Armes betuix Sir Samuel John- 
 stone of Elphingstone, one hes right hand, and Sir 
 Patrick Murray of Elibank, Knights, one hes left. 
 
 The corps ouerlayed with black weluett fitted 
 with ciphers, gumpheons, and L''armes, wnder a pale 
 of black weluet, adorned with a coronett one a 
 black weluett cuscheon ouercrisped, and borne by 
 12 Gentlemen frinds to her husband and sone. 
 
 For the Right hand of the Pale. 
 
 1. Johne Montgomery of Cockilbie. 
 William Shaw of Neutone. 
 
THE COUNTESS OF WIGTON. 125 
 
 2. Thomas Niniane of Monkeding, gounger. 
 Johne Montgomery of Creboy. 
 
 3. William Montgomery of Bugend, gounger. 
 David Kennedy of Kilerny. 
 
 For the left Hand of the Pale. 
 
 1 . Robert Jhonston of Neuton. 
 
 Patrick Jhonston of Granton. 
 
 2. Ambrosse Jhonstone of Podoune. 
 
 Andrew Jhonstone of Turner. 
 
 3. Adam Jhonstone of Elchesheills. 
 
 John Jhonstone of Miltoune. 
 
 The defunct's daughter by the Earle of Wigtone, 
 cheifFe mourner foUoued, supported by tuo other 
 ladayes, ther tranes being caried by thre Maydes 
 in mourning. 
 
 After all folloued 16 Ladeyes 2 and (2) in mourn- 
 ing, and after them the multitude, from S* Geills 
 Church in Edinburgh to the Church of Holyrud 
 hous, quher she wes interred. 
 
 S"^ Ja. Balfour, Lyone. 
 
1^6 THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF 
 
 ^i^e jFuntrall (i^tr^miung |>trforntctr at 
 
 tf^t tntrtring of tf)c Cottntcssc of ^ia- 
 
 tfistiaill from Bt 6ttUs aEfjitttift in 
 
 ^tiixibixxQf^ to t!)C '^'bi)t^ Ci^urti^ 
 
 of l^olgrutrdjous, on iitonon= 
 
 trag, tiftt Stotntgtti^ trag of 
 
 jltanje 1637. 
 
 First of all went tuo conductors for the poore, in 
 mourning, with black staues. 
 
 The small Gumpheon. 
 
 Tuentie fyve poore in gounis and hoodes, with 
 staues, quheron were Loginges of the Defunct's 
 armes and ciphers. 
 
 The horsse of stait led by a grooume in the De- 
 funct's Liuery. 
 
 Seruants of the defuncts Ladey 2 and 2 in mourn- 
 ing. 
 
 Gentlemen friends in mourning. 
 
THE COUNTESS OF NITHSDALE. 127 
 
 Esquyres 2 and 2. 
 
 Knight Batchleours 2 and 2. 
 
 Knights Barronetts. 
 
 Noblemen's sons in mourning. 
 
 Lords. 
 
 Viscounts. 
 
 Earls. 
 
 Marquess of Douglas. 
 
 A mourning horsse led by a lackey in doole. 
 
 The grate Gumpheon caried by James Maxwell. 
 
 The 8 branches of the defuncte Lady went 
 ordred thus, first : — 
 
 1. The Armes of Douglas, Earls of Angus, caried 
 
 by James Maxsuoll of Conheathe. 
 
 2. The Armes of Drumond, Earle of Pearth, borne 
 
 by Robert Maxsuoll of Cauers. 
 
 3. The Armes of the hous of Pittindreich, caried 
 
 by Johne Maxsuoll of Holme. 
 
 4. The Armes of Innes, de eodem, caried by Johne 
 
 Maxsuoll, tutor of Cornseurthe. 
 
 5. The Armes of Hamilton, Marques Hamilton, 
 
 caried by Johne Maxsuoll of Milnetoune. 
 
128 THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF 
 
 6. The Armes of Lindesay, caried by Johne Max- 
 
 suoU of Couhill. 
 
 7. The Armes of Home, Earle of Home, caried by 
 
 the Laird of Preston. 
 
 8. The Armes of Borthuick, Lord Borthuick cari- 
 
 ed by Thomas Maxsuoll of 
 
 The Grate Baner or coate of the defuncte, caried 
 by a closse mourner, one of the kinred of the de- 
 functe Lady, viz. by Francis Douglass, brother to 
 my Lord Marques of Douglas. 
 
 Four trumpetts cosse, 2 and 2. 
 Two pursueuants. 
 
 Tuo Heraulds. 
 
 The Coronett of the defuncte Ladey, borne one 
 a black weluett cusheon, couered with cypres, by 
 Alexander Maxsuoll, brother to the Lord Harries. 
 
 Lyone King of Armes, in hes coate of office, 
 supported betuix tuo especiall of the defunct's 
 frinds, viz. on hes right hand, S'^ James Maxsuoll 
 of Calderwood, Knight and Barronet, one hes left 
 hand, Alex. Maxsuoll of Neuwark. 
 
THE COUNTESS OP NITHSDALE. 129 
 
 The corpes caried in a litter by four horsses, all 
 in doole, wnder a fair pale of blacke weluet, adorn- 
 ed with lozinges, ciphers, Gumpheons, and tears, 
 belonging to the defuncte. , 
 
 After the corpes foUoued her sone, the Earle of 
 Niddisdaill, and after him the Countesse of Winton, 
 as cheiffe mourner, assisted by 6 Ladeys, closse 
 mourners, and after them the multitude. 
 
 S». Ja. Balfour, Lyone. 
 
 I 
 
KINGS OF ARMS AND HERALDS IN ENGLAND. 131 
 
 l^tngs of itrmes anlr l^evaultrs 
 in ^ufllantr, 1628. 
 
 In England ther ar 3 Kings of Armes, V13 :— 
 
 1. S'- Villiam Segar Garter. 
 
 2. S"-- Richard St- George Clarencieulx. 
 
 3. S»- Jhone Brughs* Norroy : of vich 3. S'- Vii. 
 liame Segar lies the precedencie and is princi- 
 pall king of armes. 
 
 Ther is sex Heraulds, vig : — 
 
 1. S"-- Villiam Pensone, Lancaster. 
 
 2. Sr- Henrey St- George, Richmound. 
 
 3. Henrey Chetinge, Chester. 
 
 4. Jhone Philpot, Somerset. 
 
 5. Williame Le Neue, Zork. 
 
 6. Jhone Bradshau, Vindsor. 
 
 And these ar the sex heraulds according to ther 
 dignities and places of precedencie, ther admissione 
 
 • Sir John Burroughs, afterwards appointed Garter, upon the 
 death of Sir William Segar, in December 1633. Upon the demise 
 of Burroughs in April 1644, the office was conferred on Sir Henry 
 St. George, Richmond Herald, and eldest son and heir of Sir 
 Richard St. George, Clarencieux. 
 
132 KINGS OF ASMS AND 
 
 pertaining onlie to the King's Maiestie, quho, with 
 consent of the Marischall, does present them to ther 
 places by Letters pattents vnder The grate seall of 
 England. 
 
 The Pursefants Ordinarie ar 4. and one extraor- 
 dinarie, vig : — 
 
 1. Sampsone Leonard, Bleumantle. 
 
 2. Thomas Thomsone, Rougedragon. 
 
 3. Thomas Preston, Portcullis. 
 
 4. George Ouen, Rouge-crosse. 
 
 The one extraordinarie pursephaunt is, — 
 
 Robert Hamleine, Blancecross. 
 
 It is to be obserued, that none can be a Herauld 
 vnles he first be a pursefaunt for the space of 4 
 geirs, and none can attaine to the place or dignitie 
 of King of Armes, vithout he first be a heraulde for 
 sex geirs at lest. 
 
 The Kings of Armes, vith al the heraulds and 
 pursefants, at lest so many as be in Toune, does 
 meite at the office of Armes, the first day of eury 
 mounth, quher they consulte aboute matters of 
 armes and business concerning the office, and al 
 the benefits and casualities arrysing in the monnuth 
 
HERALDS IN ENGLAND. 
 
 133 
 
 preceding, is aequallie, according to ther place and 
 office, by the Thesaurer of the office, devydit 
 amongest them ; and at eiiery one of these publick 
 meetings, vich is mounthlie, they haue a feaste or 
 dinner, made by the Thesaurer of the office, and 
 payed proportionablie by the quholl members of 
 the said office. 
 
 The Heraulds is so devydit in office, according 
 to ther gifts, and as employment should offer in 
 that kynd, vig. : — 
 
 S' Henrey S* George, Kichmound Herauld, for 
 genealogie and pedigree. 
 
 Sr Villiam Pensone, Lancaster Herauld for an- 
 tiquite. 
 
 Jhone Philpot, Somerset Herauld, for eloquence, 
 oratorie, diversitie in languages, and vith him m 
 that professione is Henrey Chetting, Chester He- 
 rauld. 
 
 William Le Neue, Zorke Herauld, onlie for 
 maters of Ceremonie and Antiquitie, as Coro- 
 nations, inaugurations, funeralls, mariages, crist- 
 ninges, tylts, torneys, and triumphs, &c. 
 
 Jhone, sone, brother and unckell to kings, Duck 
 of Bedford and Anjou, Earl of Richmond and of 
 
134 KINGS OF ARMS AND 
 
 Kendal], vnto our veill belouit cusin Jhone, Duck 
 of Northfolk, Marischall of England, greeting. We 
 command and charge you, that you cause to be 
 arrested, and to come befor [us] or our Leueten- 
 ant, at Westminster, vpone the 15 of St. Hillarie 
 next coming, Villiam Cloptone of the Countie of 
 Suffolk, Esquire, then to ansuer befor ws or our 
 Leuetenant, in the courte of cheualrie to Robert 
 Eland, in the Countie of Lincolne, Esquire, to 
 that, vich he, the said Robert, sail then charge him 
 vith by the vay of armes, as hauing sett and pute 
 to the seall of hes Armes to a false and forged vret- 
 tinng done to the hurte and danger of him, the said 
 Robert, ane hundreth punds and more then that 
 he sayeth : returning befor the said day vith this 
 our mandate, all that vich you sail haue therein 
 doune. Givin vnder the seall of our office, 23 
 Nov. in Ao- 16. regni Domini nostri regis, and 
 since the conquest of England the hundrethe 
 
 The Colegiat Societie of Heraulds consist- 
 ETH of 13 persons, VIZ. 3 Kings of Armes, 
 
 AMONGST QUHOM, 
 
 Garter, quho goeth first as cheiff ringleader of 
 them all, not so much for the antiquitie of hes cre- 
 atione, (for he was first created by King Henrey 
 the 5,) as for the supereminence of the ordour of 
 the garter. 
 
HERALDS IN ENGLAND. 135 
 
 Clarentius and Norroy, both of them ver or- 
 dained by Edward the 3, and ar called provinciall 
 kinges of armes. 
 
 Sex Heraulds, vich, by the names of ther ad- 
 ditions, ar called, — 
 
 Somerset. 
 
 Chester. 
 
 Vindsor. 
 
 Richmond. 
 
 Lancaster. 
 
 Zorke. 
 
 Four pursuiphants, vich in^herauldrie you may 
 call Learners and follouars, vnto quhome other 
 Names ar givin also, vig. : — 
 
 Rougedragon. 
 Portcullis. 
 Bleu Mantell. 
 Rouge-Croix. 
 
 All these by the names of King's Heraulds, and 
 pursevants, ar by the Kings themselues imediatlie, 
 or by the Constabill of the Kingdome, or the 
 Marischall, vith the Kinges authoritie, crouned 
 vith crouns, graced vith colors, attired vith ther 
 rich cotts, named by ther names of addition, and 
 vith diuers appoynted cerimonies created, receave 
 
136 KINGS OF ARMS AND 
 
 ther ^eirlie stipends out of the King"'s exchequer, 
 to consulte and meit togider aboute Armes and 
 authenticall monuments, and helping and profitting 
 vnto the arte of Herauklrie, and they, by the 
 King's charter incorporate, ar endeued vith a pub- 
 lick housse in London, quher (besyds the imunities 
 and priuelidges quherby they live), they ar vith 
 the preheminencies of ther degrees and functions, 
 one distinguished one frome ane other. 
 
 Garter King of Armes is not onlie sett above the 
 rest as cheifFe for the supereminencie of the order of 
 the garter, as to preserue the dignitey and reputa- 
 tion of ther society, and governe the rest, quhose 
 peculiar office it is vith al deutifull seruice to at- 
 tend upone the Knights of the order, to advertiss 
 them vich ar chosen of ther neu electione, to call 
 them to be enstalled at Vindsor, and to caus ther 
 armes to be hanged up upone ther seatts, at ther 
 Berrialls to haue a care of ther funerall Rittes and 
 Ceremonies, quherfor, besyde the geirlie vagges 
 giuen him by the Knights, he is by the King him 
 selve revarded vith a salarey doubell to the reste. 
 In every neu, — 
 
 Empreour, 
 Kinge, 
 Prince, 
 Duck, 
 
HERALDS IN ENGLAND. 137 
 
 Marquiss, 
 Earll, 
 Viscounte, 
 Barrone, or 
 Knighte, 
 
 to be enstalled, he challengethe of him as his deu, 
 the uppermost garmente vich he one that day 
 verethe. He also schauethe vnto ewrey Neu Bar- 
 ron called vnto parliament the place quher he is 
 to sitt among hes peeres, and ordereth all vther 
 things concerning ther order. 
 
 Clarentius, quo is King of Armes of all the 
 East, West, and South prouinces of England one 
 this syde of the Riuer of Trent. 
 
 NoRROY, quho is also acknowledged for King of 
 Armes through the North pairt of the Kingdorae 
 beyond the River of Trent, even till Scotland. 
 
 Thir two have, by ther Charter, pouer to visit 
 the Nobelmen''s families, to sette doune ther pede- 
 grees, to distinguishe ther armes, and in the open 
 market place openlie to reproue such as falsley tak 
 upone them Nobilitie of Gentrey, and to order 
 euery man's exequies and fiineralls according to 
 ther dignitie, and to appoynt vnto them ther armes 
 
 s 
 
138 . KINGS OF ARMS AND 
 
 or enseings, &:c. and in all things governe the 
 Herald als veil as Garter. 
 
 Other some ar appoynted to obey, v\g. : — 
 
 Heraulds and 
 Pursuivants. 
 
 Qulio, in all things doe endeuor themselves for 
 the defFence of ther society, or to ther auen lawfull 
 profitte in privat, and villinglie depend of the com- 
 mandiment of the Kings. 
 
 And these onlie ar the King's Heralds, vith ws 
 so called, for that they doe receave vagges of the 
 kinges, and vith publick seruice doe serue all the 
 Nobilitie of the kingdome. 
 
 Howbeit, Nobell men and peers of this Land in 
 ancient tyme had ther Heraulds peculiar unto them- 
 selves ; for Chester the Herauld, and Falco the 
 Pursuivant, lived at the command of the prince 
 of Walles, and served him. 
 
 HuMFREY, Duck of Glocestcr, and Earl of Pen- 
 brock, had the herauld Penbrock, his domestick 
 Servaunte. 
 
 Richard, also Duck of Glocester, having obtined 
 the kingdome, vald neids have hes Herauld Glo- 
 cester to be called King of Armes for all Walles. 
 
HERALDS IN ENGLAND. 139 
 
 Charles Brandon, Duck of Suffolk, retained 
 the Herauld Suffolk and Marlcon, the purse- 
 vant to be hes servaunts. 
 
 The Marquiss of Dorcester did kepe and inter- 
 taine Grobey the Herauld. 
 
 The Earl of Northumberland did kepe the 
 Herauld Northumberland, and Esperance the 
 purse vaunt. 
 
 Arthur Plant agenet, the Viscount LTsle, 
 tooke to him selve L'isle pursevaunt, and the 
 Lord Hastinges, Hastinge the pursevaunt. These 
 it pleased me to haue, oute of maney others, re- 
 hersed, quho serued Nobellmen in ther peculiar and 
 domesticke seruices, bot the conditione of the ser- 
 vant is made better, by the conditione of hes Lord 
 and Master. So these forenamd Heraulds lived not 
 vith the lyke authoritie and previlidges as vith the 
 kings. 
 
 A Statute and Acte of Parliament, made in 
 the one and 30 geir of Henry the 8, concerning 
 placing the Lords in parliament chalmber, and 
 other assemblies and conferences of cotinsell. 
 
 Forasmuch as in al grate counsells and congre- 
 gations of men, hauing degrees and offices in the 
 Comonvealth, it is verey requisite and convenient 
 
] 40 KINGS OF ARMS AND HERALDS m ENGLAND. 
 
 that ane ordour should be taken for the placing and 
 fitting of such persons as ar bound to resorte to the 
 same. To * * * 
 
 [Cetera desunt.] 
 
 I 
 
REGULATIONS FOR OFFICERS OF ARMS. 141 
 
 31^. n. T. 
 
 Volumus et statuimus quod nulliis heraldus sua 
 propria authoritate presumere audeat conferre aut 
 concedere insignia armorum alicui sine debito con- 
 sensu et licentia et Sigillo primarii Armorum Regis, 
 sine [consensu ?] Regis Armorum ipsius provinciae 
 apud quam huiusmodi horainis titulus et insignia 
 desiderantur, &c. 
 
 Si aliqua fuerunt arma concessa alicui per ali- 
 quem inferiorem Regem Armorum tenetur ille ilia 
 exemplificare in Registro Superioris et principalis 
 regis armorum infra tempus limitatum, sub poena 
 centum solidorum, &c. Sin autem erunt niillius 
 effectus sine auctoritate, &c. Vti habetur articulo 
 5 de concessione armorum. T. D. L. 
 
 Item,Nontam cauere debeat primarius Armorum 
 Rex, quam ceteri Armorum Reges omnes in suis 
 provinciis, Vt nemini personae inhonestae (qui aut 
 infamise laboraverit, aut qui fidem Catholicam de- 
 seruerit aut qui Rebellis contra Dominum Nostrum 
 
142 REGULATIONS FOR OFFICERS OF ARMS. 
 
 regem inventus fiierit, aut qui vilis conditionis aut 
 sanguinis habitus fuerit) conferantur armorum in- 
 signia. Sed duntaxat viris probis honestis virtu- 
 tum imitatoribus et quibus abundat opes ducentarum 
 librarum, vel possessiones propriae et liberi annui 
 reditus decern lib. stilingorum ad minimum, &c. &c. 
 
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MEMORIAL OF MARGARET COUNTESS OF LENNOX. 143 
 
 ^ttmorial of i^argattt Countess 
 of 3Ltucnox** 
 
 Margareta Comitissa Leuiniae, filia Archibald! 
 Duglassij, comitis Angusiae ex Margareta dotoria 
 Scotife Regina, filia Henrici Septimi regis Anglias. 
 Vxor ante Matheij Steuarti comitis Lennoxiae, qui 
 peperit Henricum Ducem Albaniae, comitem de 
 Darnlie, &c. matrimonialem regem Scotiae et pat- 
 rem Jacobi Sexti Scottorum regis. Carolum comi- 
 tem Lennoxiae aliosqueliberos, qui primis annis obie- 
 runt. Migravit ex hac vita, Anno 1578. Conditur 
 in tumulo Magnifico ex Alabastrite cum his Epi- 
 taphiis. 
 
 3IEM0RI.B SACRUM. 
 
 Margaretae Douglasise Mathei Steuarti Leuiniae 
 comitis uxori, Henrici Septimi Angliae regis ex filia 
 Nepti, potentissimis regibus cognatione coniunctis- 
 simae. Jacobi Sexti Scottorum Regis auiae Ma- 
 
 * These entries occur in the middle of Sir James Balfour's No- 
 tices relative to the English Heralds. But it was thought better to 
 remove them from the place they occupied, and insert them at 
 the end. 
 
144 MEMORIAL OF 
 
 tronae. Sanctissimis Moribus et invicta animi pa- 
 tientia incomparabili. 
 
 Margareta potens virtute, potentior ortu, 
 Regibus ac proavis nobilitata suis. 
 Inde Caledoniis, Australibus inde Brittanis. 
 ^dita principibus principibusque parens. 
 Quae mortis fuerunt solvit letissima nocte. 
 Atqiie deum petiit ; nam fuit ante dies. 
 
 Here Lyeth the Nobill Ladey Margaret Coun- 
 tess of Lennox, daughter and sole aire of Archi- 
 bald Earll of Anguiss, by Margaret Queine of 
 Scotts, hes Vyffe, that ves eldest daughter to King 
 Henrey the seuenth, quho bouer to Matheu Earll 
 of Lennox, her husband, 4 sonns and 4 daughters. 
 
 This Lady had to her grate Grandfather, — 
 Henrey the 4. To her grandfather King Hen- 
 rey the 7. To Her Vnckell King Henrey the 8. 
 To her Cusin-German King Eduard the 6. To 
 her brother King James the 5. of Scotland. To 
 her Sonne King Henrey the 1. And to her grand- 
 chyld King James the Sext. 
 
 Hauing to her grate grandmother and grand- 
 mother tuo Queins both named Elizabeth, to her 
 mother Margaret Queine of Scotts, to her Aunte 
 Marie the french queine, to her cusin Germans 
 
MARGARET COUNTESS OF LENNOX. 145 
 
 Marie & Elizabeth Queins of England, to her 
 Neis and daughter in lau Marie Queine of Scotts. 
 
 Henrey Second Sone to this Ladey ves King 
 of Scotts, and father to James the 6, King of grate 
 Brittaine, France, and Irland. This Henrey ves 
 murdered at the age of 21 geirs. 
 
 Charles, her goungest sonne, ves Earl of Len- 
 nox, and father to Ladey Arabella, he deyed at the 
 age of 21 geirs, and layes entombed in eadem crypta 
 cum matre vith this Epitaph. — 
 
 " Hie Situs est Carolus, comes Lennoxiae, qui 
 duxit filiam Willielmi Cavendish Militis, e qua cum 
 Arabellam unicam filiam suscepisset diem obijt 
 Anno iEtatis suae 21, et Salutis Humanse 1576." 
 
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