100 memoirs of the earl of Marr. %r«. l8, 



On the 24th ot July 1595, the king bemg at Stir- 

 ling, committed to the earl of Marr, by a warrant, 

 his son prince Henry Frederick, to his government and 

 tuition; and with him that amiable and promifing 

 prince remained at Stirling or Alloway, during his 

 nonage, where there are many reliques of that martial 

 young prince's youthful amufcments, and, among 

 others, tlic clubs with which he played at the Scotch 

 cricket, or game of the golf f. 



In this charge of the heir of the British kingdoms, 

 Lord Marr was assifted by his mother Anabella, coun- 

 tess dowager of Marr, who was afterwards much ho- 

 noured and revered by the prince ; fhe having been 

 nurse to his father, and probably saved him from the 

 fan;^s of Bothwell. For the earl of Marr he had the 

 moft heart- felt affection and esteem j and when he 

 parted from Marr, when prince of Wales, on his 

 goiii^ to London, he burfl: into tears. 



Kmg James, who was troubled by a shrew of a wife, 

 as have been many other kings and honest men, found 

 her adverfe to Marr, in the tuition of his son, and en- 

 crnared v/ith chancellor Thirlestone, and other nobles 

 of her party, in attempting, by means of the council of 

 state, to supersede him in this important charge ; but 

 the king with a fortitude above his general character, 

 came suddenly from his huntings at Falkland, and 



- sufil'er from the fear of disappointment. The king visited Marr, and 



i : t'j Marr," hy v . d ye Ihanne die Jock for ony lafs in a the land". 



f Prince Henry_ was born on the 19th of February 1594, and 



.'.liiienedon the ist of September, being presented in the cliappel first by 

 ■ couiitefs of Marr to the Eiiglifli ambafsador, by him to Lodowick 



- .':.c of Lennox, lady Marr's brother, and by him again to the coun- 

 ' .J of Marr, who held his royal highnefs till the time of baptism. 



