Excerpt from A Vindication of Elizabeth More: From the Imputation of Being a Concubine; And Her Children, from the Tache of Bastardy; Confuting the Critical Observations of the Publishers of the Carta Authentica, and of Some Other Late Writers In the one and the other, the private marriage is condemned, as null and unlawful; and the child procreate, constante occulto et clandestino matrimonio, is declared spurious. Upon which ground, Alexander Stuart, Abbot of Scoon and Inchaffray, son to Alexander, Duke of Albany, brother to King James III. and Lady Katharine Saintclair, daughter to William, Earl of Orknay and Cathness, Lord High Chancellor, Chamberlain, Admiral and Pannetier of Scotland; was declared bastard, in a Parliament held at Edinburgh, the 13th of November 1516, and secluded from the succession and dignities of Duke Alexander, his father; who had been divorced from Orknay's daughter by John Otterburn, official of Lothian, in March 1477, because the Duke and Lady Katharine were in the forbidden degrees, intra gradus a jure prohibitos, and had been joined quietly and privately in marriage, sine trina denunciatione, solemniter in ecclesia praemissa, ante conjunctionem; without any proclamations or solemnities; against the canons and decrees of the church, and the laws, customs, and constitutions of the realm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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