. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, ou, un arrangement systématique et description des plantes de l'Amérique du Nord [ressource électronique] : contenant, outre ce qu'ont été décrits par les auteurs précédents, de nombreuses nouvelles et les espèces rares, recueillies pendant douze ans voyages et de séjour dans ce pays. La botanique. Mathilde de l'Écosse. 107 qu'elle possède non seulement les grandes qualités et sliining calculée pour ajouter de l'éclat à un trône, mais qu'elle employée à promouvoir le bonheur de toutes les classes de ses sujets, offrant en même temps un bel exemple de la belle et attachante attributs wh

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. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. MATILDA OF SCOTLAND. 107 that she possessed not only the great and sliining qualities calculated to add lustre to a throne, but that she employed them in promoting the happiness of all classes of her subjects, affording at the same time a bright example of the lovely and endearing attributes which should adorn the female character. Some historians call this princess MatUda Atheling, and by , these she is almost invested with the dignity of a queen- regnant, as the heiress of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs. In the same spirit, her grandson and representative, Henry II., is > designated ' the restorer of the English royal line.' This is, however, as Blackstone jw:Jy observes, " a great error, for the rights of Margaret AtheJing to the English succession were vested in her sons, and not in her daughter."^ James I., on his accession to the throne of England, failed not to set forth that important leaf in his pedigree, and laid due stress on the circumstance of his descent from the ancient line of EngUsh sovereigns by the elder blood. Alexander, the arch- deacon of Salisbury, (who wrote tl 3 Tracts of the Exchequer, quoted by Gervase of Tilbury in his celebrated Dialogues of the Exchequer, ) has gravely set forth, in his red-book, a pedigree of Matilda of Scotland, tracing her descent in an unbroken line up to Adam. There is a strange medley of Christian kings and pagan sinners, such as Woden and Balder, nth the Jewish patriarchs of holy wltt, in this royal genealogy.^ Matilda is the only princess of Scotland who ever shared / the throne of a king of England. It is, however, from her ⢠maternal ancestry that she derives her great interest as con- nected with the

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