«792« memoirs of the earl of Marr. loi 



taught the queen to apply more to her needle work 

 and lefs to state affairsy writing on that occasion, the 

 warrant to Marr, not to deHver the prince up, either 

 to the queen, or to the estates of parliament, until he 

 fhould attain the full years of majority at eighteen. 

 Mr Adam Newton, a native of Scotland, afterwards 

 dean of Durham :f, was the prince's tutor §. 

 On the accefsion of James to the throne of England, 

 and before he set out for England, on the 4th of 

 April 1603, he gave orders for prince Henry's remain- 

 ing at Stirling with the earl of Marr •, but the queen, 

 impatient to have the prince in her own power, went 

 to Stirling in order to bring him away from thence, 

 and carry him with her to England ; but the trustees 

 appointed by Mar, who was himself gone to London 

 with the king, refused, without the royal warrant, to 

 deliver him into her majesty's hands, which threw her 

 into such an agony of grief,or rather of indignation, that 

 ihe miscarried of the child with which {he was preg- 



f Anno l<5o5, which he resigned i6zo, and was created a baro net. 

 Newton was a good man, and an excellent scholar. 



§ In the year 1699, '^'"g James presented to his friend the earl of 



, Murr, for the future use of his pupil, tbe BASILICON DORON, 



which contains many excellent advices to a prentice king of Britain, and 



among others one, that if it had been remembered, would have saved 



the royal family from exile and destruction. " I would have you rather 



to marry one that were fully of your own religion, her rank and other 



■qualities being agreeable to your estate. For though, to my great regret, 



the number of princes of any power or account profefsing our religion 



'be but very small, and that therefore this advice seems to be the more 



■•trait and difficile; yet yc have deeply to weigh and consider upon those 



'doubts, how you, and your wife can be of one flefh, and keep unitie 



betwixt you being members of two opposite churches. Remember 



t>rhat deceived Solomon, the wisest king that ever was, and that the 



cc of perseverance is not a £owcr that grovvcth in our garden' '. 



