Issues of the exchequer; being payments made out of His Majesty's revenue during the reign of King James I / Extracted from the original records ... By Frederick Devon.

  • Great Britain. Treasury
Date:
1836
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Credit: Issues of the exchequer; being payments made out of His Majesty's revenue during the reign of King James I / Extracted from the original records ... By Frederick Devon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We find that nearly one of the first acts of this monarch on his coining to the crown of England was the discharge of the filial and pious duty of directing the remains of his mother, the ill-fated Mary Queen of Scots, to he removed from Peterborough,* and buried, with the pomp suitable to her dignity, in Westminster Abbey:')' we have here the charges for placing an elegant and a splendid tomb over her remains. It is but justice to add, that this King paid a similar mark of respect to the memory of his predecessor Queen Elizabeth,J by erecting a costly tomb§ to her honour, though himself and his mother, Mary Queen of Scots, during the former Queen’s lifetime, had certainly received no very great marks of her kindness. Plow far the haughty and imperious Elizabeth (could she have been conscious of the fact) would have approved the removal of the bones of her great rival so near her own, is a subject for specu- lation amongst the admirers of her character. The King is also here stated to have been no less kind to his ill-fated relative, the Lady Arbella Stuart, by allowing her out of his own revenue 800/. per annum.|| It appears that this lady, being of the blood royal, and nearly related to the King, had committed one of the greatest political crimes of the age, by marrying and absconding with William Seymour,^ an inferior to her in birth, for the apprehension of whom proclamations were issued. The Lady Arbella experienced the kindest treatment from King James, who committed her to the custody of Sir Thomas Parry,** to be taken to Durham, under the * Page 151. § Pages 21, 22. t Pages 35, 50, 75, 100, 168, || Page 6. 190, 320. 1 Page 140. X Page 3. ** Page 121. b 2