JAMES THE FIRST OF SCOTLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 1838, 11 February 1887, Page 34

JAMES THE FIRST OF SCOTLAND.

The story of James I. is a rom;uiHc ami melancholy one. He w.is the second son of Robert 111., *>y Arabella, daughter of Sir John Drurninond of Stobhall— his elder brother being that unlucky Duke of Rothesay who, if the story is true, was starved to death by his uncle at Falkland. Burn in 1394, he was barely 12 years old when, on his way to Franco, he was captured by the English cruisers. During his ciptiviry in England, which lasted till 1424, he resided successively at London, No'tingham, and Windsor ; and it was during this period that, the Lady Jane Beaufort-, daughter of the Earl of Somerset, granddaughter of the Duke of Lancaster, and so connected with the blood-royal of Kngland, excited the romantic love which is described in "The Kingis Q mir." James returned home with an English bride, and was crowned at Scone on the 21st of M;iy, 1424. A more accomplished Prince never governed Sc >tland. He had studied philosophy and jurisprudence ; he wis a painter, a musician, and a poet — a keen hunter and a dexterous swordsman. Many of these accomplishments were rare in his native land, and were not probably regarded with any partic'ilar favour by an illiterate society ; but the mild and graceful scholar quickly convinced his turbulent subjects that liberal studies had not incapacitated him for vigorous rale. He kept the nobles in order, and he reformod the clergy. He founded the University of St. Andrews, and he diligently encouraged commerce, literature, and the arts. His reign is an oasis in the desert of Scottish history. It was unfortunately cut short. The King was assassinated on the night of the 20th February, H37,in the monastery of the Domini can friars at Perth, by a party of conspirators who were in league with his uncle, the Earl of Athole. The evening before his death was spen.t in the usnal way—" In reading of romane, in eyngyng and pypyHg, in harpyng, and in other honest, solaces of grete pleasure and disport."— John Skelton, in Blackwood.

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