Note 61 — Chapter IV

“James was an alien.”“Supposing that on such principles King James was rejected, who would come next? The Lady Arabella Stuart, descended from Margaret, daughter of Henry VII. in the same manner as King James, save that her father was a second son, and King James’s father was the eldest. But she had the fact of her birth and domiciliation within the kingdom of England as a counter-poise to her father’s want of primogeniture.”“Without openly professing Roman Catholicism, she was thought to be inclined that way, and to be certainly willing to make favourable terms with the Roman Catholics.”Introduction by J. Bruce to Correspondence of King James VI. of Scotland with Cecil and others.