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Excerpt from Lives of the Queens of Scotland, Vol. 8: And English Princesses; Connected With the Regal Succession of Great Britain
In the course of a few months after her baptism, Eliza beth's mural godmother made herself heard in angry tones touching the creed of the Lady Livingstone, ' although that lady had no charge about the person of the Princess, but King James had made her husband, Lord Livingstone, captain of her guard. His Scottish Majesty was very poor, but at the same time willing to show grateful remem brance to those who had been faithful to his mother; for he never forgot her friends when he had a modicum of cash or a household appointment to bestow. Lord Livingstone was a Protestant, and the son of a Protestant; his wife had turned Roman Catholic. It was in vain the King affirmed that Lady Livingstone had nought to do with the defence of his girl, and that she could not interfere with her husband's office to watch all egress and regress to the Princess's tower at Dunfermline, were she twenty times a Papist. The guid town's preachers were not satisfied, although, as the baby could not speak, her theological prin ciples were not liable to be tampered with. At last the heart-burning was appeased by the appointment of Lady Ochiltree to the chief office in the princess-royal's nursery; - reminiscences of the connection of the Ochiltree family with John Knox being popular, Auld Reekie relaxed from her wrath and anxieties. Some tri?ing entries in James vi.'s Compotus show that he expended cash to buy brushes to straik the Princess's hair withal likewise to dress babies to play her, which, in English, means dolls for her' to play with.
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