Note 16 — Chapter I · SUMMARY.

All the Scottish historians mention this circumstance—Buchanan, vol. ii. p. 112. Lindsay of Pitscottie quotes documents relating to it. The English historians say, the disputed legacy was left by Henry VII., who, in fact, had detained it in his possession after his son’s death;—there is no such notation in his will; but he had probably ordered Margaret’s legacy to be given up to her on his death-bed. That there was a legacy claimed by Margaret is testified beyond dispute by Dr. West’s dispatches.