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You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 3467 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 388)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 Sir Iames Stewarde ſurnamed the blacke knight, huſband to the Queene the kings mother,Iames Steward is baniſhed the realme. was baniſhed the realme for ſpeaking wordes a|gainſt the miſgouernment of the king & realme, wherwith he offended the Erle of Dowglas. As he paſſed the ſeas towards Flanders,He dyed. he was takẽ by the Flemings, & ſhortly after departed this life. The queen his wife being aduertiſed of his death, died alſo within a while after,

The Queene dyed.

1446

& was buried in the Charterhouſe of Perth the .xv. of Iuly in ye yeare 1446. Hir name was Iane Somerſet, daughter to the Erle of Somerſet. Iames the firſt maried hir (as before ye may reade) in England. She had by him .viij. childrẽ, two ſonnes, & .vj. daughters, which were all honourably maried, the firſt na|med Margaret, to the Dolphin of Fraunce: the ſeconde Eleanore, to the Duke of Brytayne: the thirde, to the Lorde of Terueer in Zelande: the fourth, to the Duke of Auſtrich: the fifth, to the Earle of Huntley: and the ſixth, to the Earle of Morton. And by Iames Stewarde hir ſeconde huſbande ſhe had three ſonnes: Iohn Earle of A|thole, Iames Erle of Buchquhan, and Androw Biſhop of Murrey. Soone after, ſir William Creichton, with the Biſhop of Dunkelde, & Ni|cholas Oterburn a Canon of Glaſg [...]w were ſent in ambaſſade vnto the duke of Gelderland for his daughter called Marie,King Iames maryed a daughter of Gelderland. to be ioyned in mariage with K. Iames. Their ſuite was obteyned, & the Ladie ſent into Scotland nobly accõpanied with diuerſe Lordes both ſpirituall and temporall.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 3468 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 388)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 At hir arryuall ſhee was receyued by the EEBO page image 389 king with great triumph, and the maryage ſo|lemnized by the aſſiſtaunce of all the Nobles of Scotland, with great banketting, ioyfull myrth, and all pleaſant intertainment of thoſe ſtrangers that might be.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 3469 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 389)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 1447In the yeare. 1447. ther was a Parliament holden at Edenbourgh, in the which ſir Alexan|der Leuingſton of Calender late gouernor, Ia|mes Dundas, and Robert Dundas knightes, a [...] the purſuite of the Earle of Dowglas were for|falted and condemned to perpetuall priſon in Dunbrytan, and Iames Leuingſton his eldeſt ſonne, Robert Leuingſton Treaſorer, and Da|uid Leuingſton knights, loſt their heades.

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