As the result of these two Royal Wills, the principal claimants to the Crown on Elizabeth’s death were, therefore, at the beginning of her reign, the following: firstly, Mary Queen of Scots, and her son, afterwards James I, who may be described as the legitimate pretenders; secondly, the Lady Margaret Lennox, step-sister to the Queen of Scots, and her two sons Darnley and Charles Lennox, and, eventually, the latter’s daughter, Arabella Stuart; thirdly, the Lady Katherine Grey and her two sons, and finally, in the event of their deaths, their aunt, the Lady Mary Grey. In case of all these princes and princesses leaving no issue, there remained the children and grandchildren of the Lady Frances’s sister, the Lady Eleanor Brandon, Countess of Cumberland, one of whom, at least, Fernando Strange, rendered himself and his claims distinctly troublesome to Elizabeth. The queen had, moreover, to contend with the heirs of the Plantagenets, the members of the royal house of Pole, who, in the person of the Earl of Huntingdon, hoped, at one time, to dethrone the queen, and, with the assistance of the ultra-Protestant party, reign in her stead. * * * * * TABLE showing the heirs female, in remainder to the Crown, named in the Will of Henry VIII and the “Devise” of Edward VI:— King Henry the Seventh and Queen Elizabeth of York had issue | | +————————————+————————————+ | | | | | | King Henry VIII, Margaret, Queen of Scots, Mary, Queen of France, father of, grandmother of Mary Stuart, mother of, by by by and great-grandmother of Charles Brandon, Katherine Anne King James the First. Duke of Suffolk, of Aragon, Boleyn, | | | | | | +————————————+ | | | | | | | | The Lady The Lady The Lady Frances, The Lady Eleanor, Mary. Elizabeth. Marchioness of Dorset, Countess of Duchess of Suffolk, Cumberland. | | | | +———————-+——————-+—+ | | | | | | | | | The Lady The Lady The Lady The Lady Jane Grey, Katherine Grey, Mary Grey, Margaret, _m._ to _m._ to _m._ to Countess of Clifford,