the Year 1673, as a Volunteer in the French Army, at the Siege of Maestricht, in the Quality of LieutenantGeneral against the Dutch, in the taking of which Place, he gave many fignal Proofs of his perfonal Valour, and gain'd the Reputation of a brave and valiant General. In the Year 1678, upon the Infurrection of the FieldConventiclers in Scotland, which commenc'd with the baibrous Murder of the Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews; he was fent with a fufficient Force, as Generaliffimo, to fupprefs the Rebels, where, giving them Battle at BothwelBridge, he entirely defeated them, and so suppress'd that Rebellion. But the following Year, having fhewn himself very zealous, in profecuting a full Discovery of the Popish Plot, and joining with thofe, who were the greatest Sticklers, at that time, against Popery, and the Fear of a Popish Succeffor, by which means he had very much gain'd the Affections of the People; fome of his chiefeft (fuppos'd) Friends began to invite him to caft an Eye upon the Crown; and the more to flatter his Hopes therewith, a Report was, about this time, very industrioufly fpread thro' the Kingdom, that the King had been lawfully married to Mrs. Lucy Walters, his Mother; which fo affected the King, that his Majefty thought himfelf oblig'd, both in Confcience and Honour, to declare to the contrary, to his Privy-Council, and thereupon caus'd the following Declaration, to be enter'd in the Council-Books. Whitehall, March 3, 1679. That to avoid any Difpute, which may happen in time te come, concerning the Succeffion to the Crown, he declares in the Prefence of Almighty God, that he never gave, nor made any Contract of Marriage, nor was ever married to any Woman whatsoever, but to his prefent Wife, Queen Catherine, now living. Sign'd CHARLES R. With which Declaration, fome People not being fatisfied, and Monmouth ftill growing more Popular; his Majefly thought fit to renew his Proteftation thus. On On the Word of a King, and the Faith of a Chriftian, that he never was married to Mrs. Lucy Barlow, alias Walters, the Duke of Monmouth's Mother, nor to any other Woman whatsoever, befides the now Queen. Which Proteftation is recorded in the Court of Chancery. Notwithstanding thefe Declarations, the Duke of York, who was then at Bruffels, grew fo jealous of his new Competitor that he prevail'd with the King, his Brother, foon after, not only to diveft him of his Commiffion of Captain-General, and of all his other great Offices and Places, which he held under the Crown, but that he should likewife depart the Kingdom; whereupon he retir'd to Utrecht, and there continu'd, till hearing of the Duke of York's fudden Return to England, he inftantly follow'd him, and arriving at London, the People fhewd their Joy upon that occafion, in a very extraordinary manner. But the Popular Rejoicing of the Citizens, for his Return, ferv'd only to enflame the Duke of York the more against him; fo that, by his prevailing Intereft with the King, Monmouth ftill remain'd in publick Difgrace with his Majefty, and, Anno 1682, having fallen anew under the King's Displeasure, he was remov'd from being Chancellor of the University. The next Year, a Proclamation was iffued out for apprehending him; as alfo, Ford Lord Grey, Sir Thomas Armstrong, and others, concerning the Rye-Houfe Confpiracy; and being taken at Stafford, in his Return to London from Walifea, he was admitted to Bail: Tis faid, he afterwards made Confeffion of the faid Confpiracy, as likewife his humble Submiffion to his Majefty, and was therefore pardon'd for the fame. But the Duke of York, who cou'd not yet forgive him, fo paffionately fomented the King's Displeasure against him, that he was once more banifh'd the Court, and retiring into Holland, continu'd at the Hague, till the Death of the King his Father. But before King James was well fettled on the Throne, Anno 1635, he invaded this Kingdom; but being foon after totally routed at Sedgemore, and taken Prifoner, he was beheaded on C4 Toner Tower-Hill, by an Attainder of Parliament, the 15th of July, Anno 1885. Ifue of the aforefaid James Duke of Monmouth, by the Lady Scot his Wife, before-mention'd. CHarles, Earl of Doncafter, eldest Son, born 1672; died an Infant. James, Earl of Doncafter, Second Son, born 1674, was, after his Father's Attainder in England, call'd Earl of Dalkeith, by which Title he was receiv'd by her prefent Majefty Queen Anne, into the moft Noble Order of (a) Vid. the Thiftle. He married the Lady Henrietta Hyde, (a) Rochefter Second Daughter of Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, and dy'd at his Houfe in Albemarle-ftreet, in Pickadilly, the 14th of March, 1704-5; having had Iffue by his faid Wife, who furviv'd him, and is yet living, four Sons and two Daughters, viz. Francis Scot, eldeft Son, now Earl of Dalkeith, born January, 1694-5. Charles Scot, Second Son, born March, 1700; died when a Fortnight old. Fames, Third Son, born January, 1702-3. Lord Henry Scot, Third Son of James, Duke of Monmouth, born Anno 1676, was, by Letters Pattents, bearing Date the 29th of March, 1706, in the fifth Year of the Reign of her prefent Majesty Queen Anne, created Earl of Deloraine, Viscount Hermitage, and Baron of Geldilands, in the Kingdom of Scotland. He married Anne, Daughter of William Duncombe of Battlefden, in the County of Bedford, Efq; and hath had Iffue by her, one Daughter, nam'd Anne, who died at about eight Days old. Lord Francis Scot, Fourth Son of James, Duke of Monmouth, born in the Year, 1678; died an Infant, Lady Charlotte Scot, eldeft Daughter of James, Duke of Monmouth, died young. Lady Anne Scot, Second Daughter, born in the Year 1675; died in the Tower of London, foon after the Death of her Father. Note Note. The aforefaid Anne, Duchefs of Monmouth and Bucclugh, married to her Second Husband, Anno 1688, Charles, late Lord Cornwallis, (to whom the was likewife Second Wife) and by him had Iffue, the Lord George Scot, and Lady Anne Scot, who both deceas'd young, and Lady fabella Scot, yet living in Scotland. The aforefaid James, Duke of Monmouth, had Ames, eldest Son, who took the Surname of Crofts, Henry Crofts, Second Son, died unmarried, 1704. Henrietta Crofts, eldest Daughter, married, Anno 1697, at Dublin in Ireland, to Charles Pawlet, the prefent Duke of Bolton, by whom the hath Iffue. (b) MAry, Natural Daughter of King Charles II. by Mrs. A Daughter of King Charles II. by Elizabeth Charlotte Femia Henrietta Maria Boyle; otherwife fur philus, b) Vid. Bolton. philus, Earl of Suffolk; by whom the had Iffue, Stuarta Howard, her only Child; fome time one of the Maids of Honour to her late Majefty, Queen Mary II. and died unmarried, Anno 1706. The faid Charlotte Femia marreid to her fecond Hufband, William Pafton, (at that time, Son and Heir to Sir Robert Pafton, Baronet, created afterwards Earl of Yarmouth) who fucceeded his Father in that Honour, and is now Earl of Yarmouth (e) Vid. whom she had Iffue, (c). Yarmouth. i by A Son and a Daughter of King Charles H. by Mrs. Charles, furnam'd Fitzcharles, born about the Year 1658; who having been brought up in Foreign Parts, was therefore commonly call'd Don Carlos, and being a Perfon of great Hopes, and well difciplin'd in the Art of War, was created in the 27th of his Father's Reign, Anno 1675, Baron of Dartmouth, Viscount Totnefs, and Earl of Plimouth; and died at the Siege of Tangier, 1680. having married the Lady Bridget, Second Daughter of Thomas, Duke of Leeds, (d) but () Vid. left no ffue. Leeds. South Natural Iffue of King Charles II. by Barbara Villiers, (afterwards created Baronefs Nonfuch, Countess of Southampton, Duchefs of Cleveland; in the 22d of Charles II. with Remainder to Charles and George Fitzroy, her Sons, and their Heirs Male refpectively) Daughter and Heir to William Villiers, Viscount Grandifon in Ireland, and Wife of Roger Palmer, who was created Earl of Castlemain. () Vid. Charles, eldeft Son of King Charles II. by the faid Barbara, Duchefs of Cleveland. (e). Henry Fitzroy, Second Son of King Charles II, and ampton. (f) Vid. Grafton. Barbara, Duchefs of Cleveland. (f). George |