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    The last king wha visited that country before Gfeorge IV . was his collateral ancestor Charles II . In June , 1650 , the wandering Stuart , then only 20 years of age , though he had ajready commenced , his career of profligacy ,

    landed in Scotland , in search of a crown , or , according to a sarcastic republican , like Saul , "to seek his father ' asses . " The circumstances which followed this earlier royal visit , gave occasion to a publication , in 4 to ., bearing the following title :

    " The Forme and Order of the Coronation of Charles the Second , King of Scotland , England , France and Ireland ; as it was acted and done at Scoone , the First Day of January ,

    1651 . " Aberdeene . Imprinted by James Brown . 1651 /' On the title-page , as mottoes , are the contents of T Chron . xxix . 23 , Prov . xx . 8 , xxv . 5 . Charles , in a declaration , " dated at Dumfermline , August 16 , 1650 , " had

    described himself as " deeply humbled and afflicted in spirit before God , because of his father ' s hearkening to and following evil councils—ana his opposition to the solemn league and covenant—and for the idolatry of his mother . " On the assurance of this

    declaration it was determined to dignify his brows with the crown of Scotland ; being , according to the " Tabula Regum Scotiae Chronologia , " her 110 th King from Fergus I ., contemporary of Alexander the Great ! Thus , as Dr . Harris ( Lives , IV . 67 ) well remarks of the Scots , though " the Stuart race had made sad work

    from time to time among them , it never entered into their heads to shake oft' the yoke , by changing families , or establishing a commonwealth , which would have been , in the circumstances of their country , most beneficial ; though it deprived the enreat men of tae

    power of oppressing their vassals . j hey had got little benefit from Charles *¦ - * yet for him they involved themselves in broils with their best benefactors , the English Parliament . From Charles

    II . they reasonably could expect ; less , and yet they must have him tor king , though war with a superior nation and an ail-victorious army was ine known consequence . " th \ i ne * near ** erth > the « cene of wua . last ceremony of a Coronation in xvii

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    Scotland , was . an ancient palace , of which the glory had departed since 1302 , When the successful injustice of Edward I . of England removed to Westminster the far-famed chair and marble stone , which for almost five

    centuries had assisted , like the miraculous oil of Rheims , to make it believed by a credulous people that some €€ divinity doth hedge a king . " Buchipnan has not judged it below the dignity of history to preserve the

    following account of the transportations and final settlement of this marvellous relic . Speaking of Kenneth II ., the 69 th king , whose reign commenced in 834 , he says ( Hist . L . vi . S . in . ) , armis et

    regno amphficato , legibus composito , in rebus usque ad superstitionem levibus auctoritatein regum confirmare laborans , saxum marmorevim quod ex Hispania in Hiberniam transtulisse dicitur Simon Breccus in Scotiam Albinensem

    Fergusius Ferchardi filius , atque in Arfathelia collocasse y ex Argathelia conam ad Taum amnem translatum Kennethus et in cathedram ligneam inclusum ibi posuit . Ea in sede Reges Scotorum et nomen , et regum insignia accipere soiebaiit usque ad Edvardum Priinum Anglum . " *

    Under the reign of Baliol , the ninety-sixth king , Buchanan relates ( Lu viii . S . xxvi . ) the cruel destruction of the monuments of Scottish history by Edward I ., adding , i ( Lapidem marmore urn rudem , in quo fa turn regni contineri vulgo persuasum erat Londinum misit . ^ + On the stone is said

    to have been engraven this inscription : * " Having enlarged his kingdom , and settled wholesome laws for the good administration of the government , he endeavoured farther to confirm his royal authority by mean and trivial things , even bordering upon superstition itself . There

    was a marble stone , which Simon Breccus is reported to have brought into Ireland out of Spain , which Fergus , the son of Ferchard , is also said to have brought over iuto Scottish Albion , and to have placed it in Argyle . This stone Kenneth removed out of Argyle to Scone , by the

    river Tay , and placed it there , inclosed in a chair of wood . The kings of Scdtland were wont to receive both the kingly name and the royal robes , siting in that chair , till the daya of Edward I * King of England . " History , 1768 , J . 229 , 230 . ¦ f " He seut also to London an unpolish-

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    Book + Worm . No .-XXX / 529 ^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1822, page 529, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2516/page/9/