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 444 CORNWALL XI. 1 5 14. [Henry?] (Tudor), DUKE OF CORNWALL, was, at his birth, entitled to the abovenamed dignity, being 2nd but (at his birth) ist surv. s. and h. ap. of Henry VIII,(^) by his ist wife, Katherine, abovenamed. He was i>. Nov. 15 14, and d. the same day, when the Dukedom lapsed to the Crown. Xn. 1537 Edward (Tudor), DUKE OF CORNWALL, was, at to his birth, entitled to the abovenamed dignity, being 1547. 3rd but (at his birth) ist surv. s. and h. ap. of Henry VIII, (=■) and only child by his 3rd wife, Jane, da. of Sir John Seymour. He was i. at Hampton Court, Midx., 12, and i>ap. there 15 Oct. 1537, the day of his mother's death. He was about to be cr. Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester at the time of his father's death, 28 Jan. i546/7,('') at which date he ascended the throne as Edward VI, when the Dukedom merged in the Crown. XIII. 1603 Henry Frederick. (Stuart), Duke of Rothsay,("') to &c. [S.], became, on 24 Mar. 1602/3, DUKE OF 1 6 12. CORNWALL at the accession of his father to the throne of England. ("*) He was s. and h. ap. of James I (^) See ante, p. 442, note " c." C") " 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 after his birth, which he never was, for in the 9th year of his age, when all things were prepared and in readiness for his creation, his father d)''d." {Sandford, p. 497). [^) Since the Act of Pari. [S.], 27 No. 1469, enacting "that the Lordship of Bute, with the Castle of Rothsay, ^'c," should be settled upon the eldest born princes [presumably 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 refer to territorial possessions than to personal honours, though, doubtless, by seizin 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, yc. [S.] has been held by the same person and on the same tenure as the Dukedom of Cornwall. In 1 751, on the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, the heir apparent, the devolution of the Scottish dignities was dealt with as that of the Dukedom of Cornwall. See post, p. 449, note " f." It might be doubted whether a dignity, so called into existence, continued to be a bona fide Scottish Peerage after the Union [S.]. On the accession, however, of George I, the heir ap. (afterwards George II) was added, as the first Duke to the list of the Scottish Peers, as Duke of Rothsay, and exercised his privilege as such by voting at the election of Scottish Rep. Peers, both in 171 5 and 17 16, an example which was followed by his great-grandson, afterwards George IV. In the return to the House of Lords, of the Roll of Scottish Peers, 27 Feb. 1739/40, by the Lords of Session, they stated particularly that the title of Duke of Rothsay had been added to the Union Roll. (^) The famous Prince's Case (8 Coke's Reports, p. i), in 3 Jac. I, turned upon