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Excerpt from The Spaewife, Vol. 1 of 2: A Tale of the Scottish Chronicles
John, the Lord of Kyle and Earl of Carrick, the first-born son of Elizabeth Mure, was, ac cording to the before-mentioned settlement of the order of succession, acknowledged as the heir of the kingdom. But at that era strange and dis mal presages having become rife amongst the people, and it appearing that they were too deep ly impressed and far-spread for the government to treat as fantastical, he was advised to allow himself to be proclaimed king by the style and title of Robert the Third, in the hope of thereby dispersing those gloomy bodements, - the name of Robert, from the renown and glories of the Bruce's time, and from the peaceful prosperity of his father's reign, being deemed singularly auspi cions. The devices of statesmen, however, could prove of no avail against the decrees of Fate. Sentence had been pronounced on High against the race and generations of the Stuarts, and the revolutions of time have but served to bring to pass the necessary consequences of their direful and irremediable 'doom.
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