Historical notes on the Lennox or Darnley jewel, the property of the Queen

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of Scots. This unfortunate young nobleman, who
was acknowledged by Queen Elizabeth as first prince
of the blood,' was murdered by Both well in 1567, but
he left a son as is well known, James VI. of Scotland,
in whose person the claims of his mother Queen Mary,
and of his father Lord Damley, combined. The claim
of Mary to the English CroT\Ti, failing Queen Elizabeth,
arose through her father James V. who was the son of
James IV. and the Lady Margaret Tudor, afterwards
the wife of the Earl of Angus, and this title was at
last in 1603 acknowledged by Elizabeth, when, on
her death bed, she, by a sign not to be mistaken, de-
clared James her successor, putting her hand to her
head when his name was mentioned by Cecil." The
' In 1564, Sir James Melvil saw Lord Damley bear the sword of
honour before the Queen when she made Lord Robert Dudley Earl
of Leicester — " he," says Melvil, " sitting on his knees before hir,
keping a great gi-avity and discreet behaviour, but she could not
refrain from putting her hand in his neck to kittle (tickle) him
smilingly, the French Ambassador and I standing beside her." Me-
moirs of Sir James Melvil, Edit. Bann. p. 120.
" Edward VI., Mary and Ehzabeth. Turner, p. 701.