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 370 CORNWALL. 1537, at Hampton Court, Midx., and was bop. there on the 14th, the day of his mother'B death. He was about to be er. Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester at the time of his father's death, 2S Jan. 1546/7,( a ) at which date he ascended the throne aa Edward VI (post conquestum), when the Dukedom merged in the Crown. XLV. 1603, Henry Frederick (Stuart), Duke of KoTnsAY,( b ) &c. to [S.J, became, on 24 March 1602/3, DUKE OF CORNWALL at the 1612. accession of his father to the throne of England. He was s. and h. ap. of Kiug James I (James VI [S.]), by Anne, da, of Frederick II, King of Denmark, and was 4. 19 Feb. 1593/4, at Stilling, and bap. there with great state, Elizabeth, Queen of England, being one of his sponsors. EL K.G., 14 June and inst. 9 July 1603. On 4 June 1610 he was a: in Pari. Prince Of Wales and EARL OF CHESTER, which dignities by patent of even date were con- firmed " sibi et hteredibus suis, Regibus Angliie." He was deservedly most popular, not only for his sense of honour and justice, but for his accomplishments in all martial exercises, being the " Marccllns " of Ins age. He d. vmtn. and v.p., not without strong suspicion of poison, ( c ) iu his 19th year, at St. James Palace, 6 Nov. 1612, when his peerage dignities lapsed to the Orovm. He was bur. 8 Dec. following, in Westm. Abbey, under the monument of his grandmother, Mary, Queen of Scotland, whose remains had been brought there from Peterborough Cathedral the 11th Oct. previous. XV. 1612, Charles (Siuart), Duke of York, as also Duke of to Albany, &c. [S.], next surv. br. to the abovenamed Henry Frederick, 1625. Duke of Cornwall, &c, becoming, 6 Nov. 1612, on his said brother's death s.p., the 1st surv. s. and h. ap. of the King of England and Scotland, became, as such, DUKE OF CORNWALL,( d ) as also (") " He was christned the Munday following [the Friday of his birth] with great magnificence, &c Garter King of Arms proclaiming the name of the Prince, whence possibly Grafton supposed him created Prince of Wales, as he hath it, six days sifter his birth, which he never wus, for in the 9th year of his age, when all things were prepared and in readiness for his creation, his father dy'd." See Sandford, p. 497. (*>) Since the Act of Pari. [S.], 27 Nov. 1469, enacting "that the Lordship of Bute, with the Castle of Rothsay, &c," should be settled upon the eldest born sons of the Kings of Scotland, each of those Princes has held the style of " Duke of Rothsay, Earl of Carrick, and Baron of Renfrew " as a Peerage dignity, together with that of " Prince and Steward of Scotland and Lord of the Isles," which last seem in no way connected with the said act, which act, indeed, appears more to allude to territorial possessions than to personal honours, though, doubtless, by Beizin and investiture, the latter would follow the former. Accordingly, since the accession of the Kings of Scotland to the throne of England (1603) the Dukedom of Rothsay, &c. [S.] has been held by the same Prince and on the same tenure as the Dukedom of Cornwall. In 1751, on the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, the heir apparent, the devolution of the Scotch dignities was dealt with as that of the Dukedom of Cornwall. See, infra, p. 373, note li f." It might be doubted whether a dignity, so called into existence, continued to be a the heir ap. (afterwards George II) was added, aa the first Duke to the list of the Scotch Peers, as Duke of Rothsay, and exercised his privilege as such by voting at the election of Scotch Rep. Peers, both in 1715 and 1716, an example which was followed by his great grandson, afterwards King George IV. In the return to the House of Lords, of the Roll of Scotch Peers, 27 Feb. 1740, by the Lords of Session they stated particularly that the title of Duke of Rothsay had been added to the Union Roll. (') This matter is ably discussed in Jesse's " Court of England during the Stuarts," Vol. i, pp. 167-175. Edit. 1840. ( J ) The like event had happened in 1502, when Henry (afterwards King Henry VIII) became, bv the death of his eldest br., Arthur, the 1st surv. s. and h. ap. of the King, and was, accordingly (though not " primogenilus "), styled Duke of Cornwall under the Great Seal. Notwithstanding this precedent, "the case of the Duchy of Cornwall " was fully discussed at this time (as if it were unprecedented), and Prince Charles' right thereto was declared by the King, with the assent of the Privy Council, Sc., and published 1613. See Collins' " Precedents," pp. 148-161.