Genealogy of the most noble and ancient House of Drummond

76 THE GENEALOGIE OF
Of Queen Annabella Drummond, the eldest daughter of Sir
John Drummond, begotten upon his Lady Marie Monte-
fix, AND THESE COME OF HER ;
b U u ei T) Auna Haveing given ane accompt of the offpring of William Drummond
mond. of Eremore, firft laird of Carnock, youngeft fone of Sir John, feventh
thane of Lennox, knight of Stobfhal, and the feverall branches fprung
from Sir John Drummond's daughters ; leaveing the accompt of the
tuo eldeft fones, Malcolm and John, who fucceeded one another to
be heads of the family to the next Partition.
Queen Annabella wes the eldeft, of whom one obferves well, that
fhe wes a lady born under a moft happie conjunction of ftarrs ; for
Robert, the Third of that name, King of Scots, enamoured with the
perfections of her vertues and Angular rare beautie, tooke her to wife
when he was Earle of Carrick, Senefcal of Scotland, and apparent
heir of the Crown. Upon this marriage a certaine Poet wryttes —
Ecce autera quaerenda fuit, quae ventre beato,
Ederet haeredem fceptri ; jam certa per omnes,
Ut mos, Europae difcurrit cera potentes,
Nuncia famofi vultus, tabulaeque loquaces
Nativum exhibuere decus ; fed principis ardor,
Non ultra Oceani fines, fua regna, vagatur.
Digna Annabella thoris legitur regalibus una,
Olim Fergufio magnos paritura nepotes.
King Robert, and his Queen Annabella Drummond, were both
1390. crowned at Scoone in one day, in the moneth of September 1390.
She is reckned amongft the beft of our Queens; and her death,
1401. about the year 1401, wes confidered as a common lofs to the Nation